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Historic leaves, volume 2, April, 1903 - January, 1904, Historical Sketch of the old Middlesex Canal. (search)
h boats taking the products of the country to a market and the New England metropolis, and returning loaded with salt, lime, cement, plaster, hardware, leather, liquors, iron, glass, grindstones, cordage, paints, oils and all the infinite variety of merchandise required by country merchants formerly classed under the general terms of ‘Dry West India goods.’ The construction of these canals was a great undertaking in that day. Boston was a town of only about 20,000. Neither Lowell nor Manchester had been commenced, and Nashua was a small place without manufacturing, and Concord was a country village. The Merrimac Canals were blotted out by the railroad. The opening of the Lowell road in 1835, to Nashua in 1838, and to Concord in 1842, were successive steps of destruction to the whole system of river navigation, and culminated in the total abandonment of the canal soon after the Concord railroad was put in operation. A hardy race of boatmen, pilots, and raftsmen—men of uncom<
ne13 Macon, Ga.23 Maidstone, Kent, England 16 Makerwhit, Elizabeth13 Malden, Mass.15, 64, 79, 81 Mallet, Andrew, Son of Andrew14 Mallet, Elizabeth, Daughter of Andrew14, 15 Mallet, Ephraim14 Mallet, Ephraim, Son of Ephraim15 Mallet Family, Gravestones of14 Mallet, Isaac, Son of Andrew14 Mallet, Jean, Legacies of14 Mallet, Martha, Daughter of Andrew14 Mallet, Mary, Daughter of Andrew14 Mallet, Michael, Son of Andrew15 Mallet, Phoebe, Daughter of Andrew.14 Manakin, Va.11 Manchester, N. H.50, 51 Mandell, John42 Mansfield, Col.94 Mansfield,—, Schoolmaster21 Marshall Street, Somerville44 Maryland, Riflemen of80 Massachusetts Bay Colony81 Massachusetts Senate22 M. V. M. 5th Regiment, Company B22 M. V. M. 24th Regiment, Company D23 Mather, Dr. Cotton20, 33 Mather, Samuel34 May Pole, The, Charlestown38 McKay, Eliza J.104 McKay, George104 McKay, George E.104 McKay, Jane104 McKay, Mary M., Death of104 Medford Bridge54 Medford, Mass.15, 53, 55, 56 Medford Riv