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The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 6. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Personal Sketches and tributes (search)
of the 250th anniversary of the settlement of Newbury. My Dear Friend,—I am sorry that I cannohe 250th anniversary of the settlement of old Newbury. Although I can hardly call myself a son of uel Sewall that Christians should be found in Newbury so long as pigeons shall roost on its oaks an midst of a heated controversy between one of Newbury's painful ministers and his deacon, who (antias in consequence fined and outlawed, some of Newbury's best citizens stood bravely by him. The tow up and down stairs in his military boots. Newbury's ingenious citizen, Jacob Perkins, in drawin the other, went back and forth unmolested in Newbury, for they could make no impression on its iroainthood. William Lloyd Garrison was born in Newbury. The town must be regarded as the Alpha and tiful valley of the Merrimac, within sight of Newbury steeples, Plum Island, and Crane Neck and Pip town will unite: Joshua Coffin, historian of Newbury, teacher, scholar, and antiquarian, and one o
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 6. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Historical papers (search)
w the rumor was communicated no one could tell. It was there believed that the enemy had fallen upon Ipswich, and massacred the inhabitants without regard to age or sex. It was about the middle of the afternoon of this day that the people of Newbury, ten miles farther north, assembled in an informal meeting at the town-house to hear accounts from the Lexington fight, and to consider what action was necessary in consequence of that event. Parson Carey was about opening the meeting with praye powder plot was duly commemorated throughout New England. At that period the celebration of it was discountenanced, and in many places prohibited, on the ground that it was insulting to our Catholic allies from France. In Coffin's History of Newbury it is stated that, in 1774, the town authorities of Newburyport ordered that no effigies be carried about or exhibited only in the daytime. The last public celebration in that town was in the following year. Long before the close of the last c