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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 391 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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SOMERSWORTH , a See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city of See also:

Strafford See also:

COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county, New See also:

HAMPSHIRE (or COUNTY OF SOUTHAMPTON, abbreviated HANTS)

Hampshire, U.S.A., on the See also:

Salmon Falls See also:

RIVER

river, 5 M. N. of See also:

Dover, and opposite the See also:

TOWN

town of See also:

BERWICK, JAMES FITZJAMES

Berwick, See also:

Maine, industrially a See also:

PART

part of Somersworth. Pop. (189o) 6207; (1900) 7023 (3166 See also:

FOREIGN

foreign-See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born); (1910) 6704. Somersworth is served by the See also:

Boston & Maine railroad, and is connected by electric See also:

LINE

line with See also:

Rochester and Dover. The river furnishes See also:

GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good See also:

WATER

water See also:

POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power, and the city's See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief interests are in the manufacture of See also:

cotton and woollen goods, and boots and shoes. It has a public library. In the See also:

south-See also:

west part is Central See also:

Park, lying along the See also:

SHORE

shore of Willand's See also:

Pond. The See also:

MUNICIPALITY

municipality owns and operates the waterworks. A See also:

settlement was established here in the latter part of the 17th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, when the territory was a part of Dover. In 1729 the See also:

PARISH (Gr. irapouda, district, neighbourhood; 7r&poucos, one dwelling near or beside, from crap&, OtKOS, house; Lat. paroecur, Late Lat. parochia; cf. Fr. paroisse)

parish of Summersworth was organized; in 1754 this parish was erected into the town of Somersworth; in 1821 the first See also:

COMPANY

company was formed to develop the water-power and establish cotton and woollen See also:

mills; in 1849 the See also:

SOUTHERN

southern See also:

HALF

half of the town was set-off and incorporated as Rollinsford; and in 1893 See also:

SOMERS, JOHN SOMERS (or SOMMERS), BARON (1651–1716)

Somers-See also:

worth was chartered as a city. See W.

D. Knapp, Somersworth, an See also:

HISTORICAL

Historical See also:

SKETCH (directly adapted from Dutch schets, which was taken from Ital. schizzo, a rough draft, Lat. schedium, something hastily made, Gr. oxE&os, sudden, off-hand, axeb6v, near by; Ger. Skizze and Fr. esquisse are from the same source)

Sketch (1894).

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