Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Essex county, Mass.” in entry white-daniel-appleton of Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History:
...n in Methuen (now Lawrence), Mass., June 7, 1776; graduated at Harvard College in 1797; admitted to the bar in 1804; member of the legislature of Massachusetts in 1810-15; and was judge of probate of Essex county, Mass. , for thirty-eight years. He was the author of ; ; , etc. He died in Salem, Mass., March 30, 1861.
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