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AMESBURY , a township of See also:

Essex See also:county, in N.E. See also:Massachusetts, U.S.A., situated on the See also:Merrimac See also:river, about 6 m. above its mouth. Pop. (189o) 9798; (1900) 9473, of whom 2448 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (191o, U. S. See also:census), 9894. Amesbury is served by two divisions of the See also:Boston & See also:Maine railway, and is connected by electric See also:line with See also:Haverhill and See also:Newburyport, See also:Mass., and with See also:Hampton See also:Beach, New See also:Hampshire, and See also:Salisbury Beach, Mass., two summer resorts. The township covers a See also:land See also:area of about 13 sq. m. The See also:surface is hilly. The Powow river, a small stream, passes through the centre of the township. There is a public library. Among Amesbury's manufactures are hats, See also:cotton goods, carriages, automobile bodies, See also:carriage and auto-See also:mobile lamps, thermometers, See also:brass castings and motor boats. In 1905 the factory products were valued at $3,614,692.

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Ames-See also:bury was settled about 1644 as a See also:separate See also:part of Salisbury, and in 1654, by mutual agreement of the old and new " towns," became practically See also:independent, although not legally a township until 1666 (named Amesbury, from the See also:English See also:town in Wilts, in 1667). It suffered repeatedly in the course of the colonial See also:Indian See also:wars. See also:Quakers settled here as See also:early as 1701. See also:Josiah See also:Bartlett (1729–1795), a signer of the See also:Declaration of See also:Independence, was born here, and is commemorated by a statue (1888) by Karl See also:Gerhardt. See also:Shipbuilding was an important See also:industry in the 18th and especially the first See also:quarter of the 19th See also:century, and the U.S. See also:frigate " See also:Alliance " was built at Salisburypoint in 1778. A See also:nail factory, one of the earliest in the See also:country, was built on the Powow in 1796. The manufacture of See also:iron began about 1710, of hats in 1769, of carriages in 1800 and of cotton goods in 18 t 2. See also:Paul See also:Moody, who with F. C. See also:Lowell constructed in 1814 at See also:Waltham the first successful See also:power-See also:loom in. See also:America, was engaged in the manufacture of cotton goods in Amesbury. The township was the See also:home of See also:John G.

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Whittier from 1836 to 1892; here were written most of the poems of his See also:middle and later See also:life, many of which describe the surrounding country. In 1876 Merrimac township was created out of the territory of Amesbury; in 1886 the See also:west part of the old township of Salisbury was See also:united to Amesbury. See See also:Joseph See also:Merrill, See also:History of Amesbury (Haverhill, 188o) ; S. T. Pickard, Whittier-land, A Handbook of See also:North Essex (Boston, New See also:York, 1904).

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