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J\\n=^3:a^\\n-r 3 ;sr!:j6\\n3* 3 3e\\n315\\nao\u00c2\u00bb3-3: jQ\\nOy^ :3P\u00c2\u00bb3 3:30\\n;2\u00c2\u00bb3 3:3r:3\\n3 _ ;\u00c2\u00bbi30\u00c2\u00bb3 yZM~^\\n^J -V530\u00c2\u00bb3 3\\n::3il3\\no\\nj\\n^3\u00c2\u00bb- Z\\n2 ^e?\u00c2\u00ae T\\n3 ^3\u00c2\u00bb\\n3f", "height": "3177", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "orationdelivered00sawt_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "o S\\ny~y\\n3\\nt.\\n^5\\nL-\\nr ;t ~:j\\nr^\\n)t\\nD:g\\nj:)\\nr x\\n^__\\nyry\\n:)_^\\n^gi?\\n5\u00c2\u00a73.\\nTO\\nM\\ni\u00c2\u00bb-:y^\\n:5:35:\\nif\\nJfy\u00c2\u00bb\\n^-^i^\\nI\u00c2\u00bb\\nX^\\nD\\nJ)\\nv-\\nJ\\nS\\nJ\\ngs\\n3\\n5i\\nT3\u00c2\u00bb\\n3\\niB^\\n.^asj\\nt T3\\nZ :5 I^\\nZZB*\\nX\u00c2\u00bb Z :za\\nr\\nx*\\no\u00c2\u00bb\\n:x z j\\n2\u00c2\u00bb\\ni\u00c2\u00bb\\nT\u00c2\u00bb-\\n2\\n73", "height": "3177", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "orationdelivered00sawt_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3167", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "orationdelivered00sawt_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3167", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "orationdelivered00sawt_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3162", "width": "2055", "jp2-path": "orationdelivered00sawt_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3162", "width": "2055", "jp2-path": "orationdelivered00sawt_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3172", "width": "2009", "jp2-path": "orationdelivered00sawt_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "RATI N\\nDELIVERED AT THE\\nittnmlal ieteiratitm,\\nIN BROOKLINE, N. H.,\\nSEPTEMBEE 8, 1869.\\nBy I, B. SA.\\\\^TE1L,IL.E.\\nFITCHBURG, MASS:\\nFEINTED AT THE FITCHBURG REVEILLE OFFICE.\\n1869.", "height": "3172", "width": "2009", "jp2-path": "orationdelivered00sawt_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 18G9,\\nBy I. B. SAWTELLE,\\nIn the Clerk s Office of the District Court of the United States for the District of\\nMassachusetts.\\nHi", "height": "3172", "width": "2009", "jp2-path": "orationdelivered00sawt_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "ttttlil \u00e2\u0080\u00a2^Itlttfkt\\nOF THE INCORPORATION OF THE\\nf \u00c2\u00aeWB \u00c2\u00a9f Irttkli\\nSEPTEMBER 8, 1869,\\nThe Procession will be formed at 9 o clock A. M-, near the\\nStore of J. A, Hall Brother.\\nORDER OF PROCESSION,\\nChief Marshal and Aids.\\nBrookliDe Band.\\nCommittee of Arrangements.\\nThe President of the Day, Orator, Poet, Chronicler and Chaplain,\\nVice Presidents.\\nThe Rev. Clergy, Invited Guests, Representatives of the Press, and\\nothers.\\nThe Choir.\\nCitizens of Brookline.\\nCitizens at Large.\\nThe Procession will be escorted l)y the To-wu s Soldiers in the late war to the Groye\\nwhere the Order of Exercises will be as follows", "height": "3172", "width": "2009", "jp2-path": "orationdelivered00sawt_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "I.\\nMUSIC.\\nBY THE BAND.\\nn.\\nPRAYER.\\nTil.\\nODE.\\nby miss fannie d. parker.\\nTune America.\\nHail I Brookline, home to thee,\\nThy sons with joy we see\\nReturn to-day.\\nFrom far and near they throng,\\nFriends who ve been parted long,\\nChanting thy praise with song\\nAnd joyful lay.\\nOne hundred years have fled,\\nSince first our fatliers sped\\nTheir prayers to heaven\\nAsking that light sublmie\\nO er their dark paths might shine\\nGod heard the gift divine\\nTo them was given.\\nLet us, their children, now\\nIn adoration bow\\nTo God above.\\nPraising His mighty power.\\nWhose goodness deigned to shower\\nO er them, in danger s hour.\\nProtecting love.\\nAnd when an hundred years\\nAgain\u00e2\u0080\u0094 with hopes and fears.\\nHave passed away;\\nMay our descendants here.\\nOur memories revere.\\nWho greet with joy smcere,\\nThis festal day.\\nIV.\\nORATION.\\nBy 1. B. Sawtelle, Esq., a native of this town, now residing in Townsend, Mass.\\nV.\\nODE.\\nBy Mrs. Sarah D. Tarbell.\\nTune Autumn.\\nWelcome I all\u00e2\u0080\u0094 in gladness meeting.\\nHail we our Centennial day 1\\nFriends, long absent, joyful greeting\\nJoin in our exulting lay.\\nWhile our voices sweetly blending.\\nSwell the chorus loud and long,\\nMay our hearts to heaven ascending.\\nRaise our Centenary song.", "height": "3172", "width": "2009", "jp2-path": "orationdelivered00sawt_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "Hoary heads, with honors laden,\\nManhood in the llu.sh of pride,\\nAged matron, blooming maiden,\\nMeet together, side liy side.\\nCheerfully our footsteps gathering,\\nOn the soil our fathers trod.\\nPeaceful blessings now imploring.\\nFrom our God our father s God.\\nThough to-day we meet in gladness,\\nBack o er distant years to roam,\\nMany hearts are tilled with sadness.\\nLingering near the early home.\\nBut, though death full o ft hath taken\\nWell known faces, we have loved,\\nSweet the memories they awaken.\\nSweet the thought,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 they rest above.\\nVI.\\nPOEM.\\nBy Ed. E. Parker, A. B., Brookline.\\nVII.\\nMUSIC BY THE BAND.\\nVIII.\\nCHRONICLES.\\nBt Rev. T. P. SAW^N, of Manchester.\\nIX.\\nH Y M N.\\nBy Mrs. Sarah B. Lawrence.\\nTlTNE Antioch.\\nA hundred years ago to-day I\\nVVliere wild beasts i-oaraed at will,\\nThe brave man s bold and fearless stroke,\\nAs towering forests fell,\\nSilenced the Savage yell,\\nAnd on the deep grand stillness broke.\\nRude homes arose, and wildness fled\\nThe tields with plenty smiled\\nBlessings of peace distilled like dew,\\nWhile every man and child\\nWith busy hand beguiled\\nA life, so simple, free, and true.\\nSo year by year, new mercies ci-owned\\nThose quiet homes and blest.\\nSo one by one, in silence passed\\nTo find a sweeter rest.\\nWhere toil, nor care molest.\\nAnd noble life is crowned at last.\\nOur fathers memory honored be\\nWhile here from far and wide.\\nThe sons and daughters willing come\\nTo laud with honest pride.\\nAnd view on every side\\nGlad scenes that cheer our natal home.", "height": "3172", "width": "2009", "jp2-path": "orationdelivered00sawt_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "We boast a river flowing ft-ee,\\nIn busy service found\\nOf Tanapus so smooth and bright,\\nWhere festive scenes abound,\\nAnd echoing sports resound.\\nWaking the hills to life and light I\\nBehold we now the bus y streets I\\nWhere tasteful dwellirgs are I\\nAnd school-rooms rich in proffered lore I\\nWhile pealing on the air.\\nThe church bells call to prayer\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nTo worship God\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the God of yore.\\nDown, down, with swift and stealing ti-ead\\nThe circling years have run,\\nAnd strown fresh benefits around.\\nOur victories yearly won-\\nThe conquests well begun\\nWe celebrate with joyful sound 1\\nAfter the exercises at the grove, the Procession will reform and\\nproceed to the Tent to partake of the Centennial Dinner provided\\nfor the occasion by James W. Fessenden. After the Dinner, there\\nwill be short speeches by citizens and natives of the town, inter-\\nspersed with vocal and instrumental music.\\nOFFICERS OF IHE DAY.\\nALONZO BAILEY, ESQ., PRESIDENT.\\nVICE PRESIDENTS:\\nCapt. Franklin McDonald, Maj. W. W. Corey, Andi-ew Rockwood,\\nCapt. Joseph HaU, Alpheus Shattuck, Esq., James H. Hall, Esq.,\\nJoseph Smith, N. W. Colburn, Joseph Sawtelle,\\nHeni-y K. Kemp, Esq., William J. Smith, Esq., W. G. Shattuck.\\nJ. A. HALL, Esq., Chief Marshal.\\nAIDS:\\nWilliam Wright, Edward T. Hall,\\nDavid S. Fessenden, Martin Rockwood.\\nCOMMITTEE OF RECEPTION\\nBenjamin Gould, Esq., Henry B. Stiles, Esq.,\\nReuben Baldwin, Esq.\\nTOAST-MASTER J. C. Parker. SECRETARY Charles A. Priest.\\nAlonzo Bailey,\\nJajies H. Hall,\\nW. W. CORET, Town CuinmtUee.\\nHenrt K.Kemp,\\nJ.A.Hall. J", "height": "3157", "width": "1989", "jp2-path": "orationdelivered00sawt_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "The foregoing was the programme for the occasion. The man-\\nner in which it was carried out is thus described in the Union\\nDemocrat of Manchester, N. FI.\\nThe meeting had organized, and our first business was to find\\nit. We were directed to a hill overlooking the beautiful village\\nAscending this we came to one of the rarest topographical phenom-\\nena we have ever seen. This conical hill is merely the shell of a\\ncircular basin set in its top, like an old fashioned mortar, for all the\\nworld, A handsome growth of oaks shaded the inner surface, and\\nthe Brookliners had adroitly availed themselves of this natural am-\\npitheatre, as the place of their literary festivities. He^ e we found\\nupon one side a substantial and ample platform for the officers,\\nspeakers, reporters, band, choir, etc., and circling around it, within\\neasy hearing, an audience of perhaps 3000 people. Nothing could\\npossibly be more convenient and attractive.\\n-jf\\nThe orator was I. B. Sawtelle, Esq., a native of Brookline,but\\nnow residing inTownsend, Mass. We have ample notes of the last\\nhalf, but any abstract which our limits will allow, would not only be\\nunsatisfactory to the reader but unjust to the speaker. Its topics\\nwere necessarily of local interest, but they were treated with con-\\nsummate skill and ability. The address embodied what may be\\ncalled the domestic history of the town, political, religious and ma-\\nterial, and jnust have cost a great deal of plodding research, and\\npatient, unflagging industry. The ci izens of Brookline, we are sure,\\nare greatly indebted to Mr. Sawtelle for gathering up these frag-\\nmentary records and traditions and putting them in convenient f )rm\\nfor transmission to their posterity. Of course, this address will be\\npublished, and we predict that it will be accepted by the public as\\none of the very best of the current series.\\nThe Occasional Poem was by E. E. Parker, a Brooklinite just\\nfrom Dartmouth. It will be remembered that he was the Centennial\\nPoet of his Alma Mater, an honor which only rare poetic genius could\\nhope to attain. Whatever laurels he may have won on that occa-\\nsion and they were many and still green will receive a generous\\naccession here. We hardly know which most to admire the skill of\\nthe poet or the wit of the humorist.", "height": "3162", "width": "1989", "jp2-path": "orationdelivered00sawt_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "After the Poem came the Chronicles by Rev. T. P. Sawin of\\nthis city. This style of writing affords fine scope for quiet and ge-\\nnial humor, and Mr, Sawin had embodied the ecclesiastical history of\\nthe Rabians in the quaint vernacular of the Mosaic period, when the\\nfirst mishap of the occasion occurred. A cloud came up abruptly\\nand threatened to empty its contents into the little basin occupied\\nby the meeting. A few big pattering drops created an instant and\\nenormous stampede, and the bugle essayed in vain to recall the scat-\\ntered fugitives. So Mr, Sawin s ingenious and very acceptable pro-\\nduction was parted in the middle.\\nThere was a spontaneous and irrepressible movement to the\\nbig tent stand not on the order of your going, but only go.\\nHere was found one of the most elegant and appetizing spreads\\nwe ever saw. Plates were laid for some seven or eight hundred,\\nand the daintiest connoisseur could scarcely have excelled the mit\\nensemble of this physical entertainment. The long tables, eight in\\nnumber, were neatly covered, and loaded with the contributions of\\nall elements and all latitudes. The seats were clean and safe not-\\nwithstanding the suggestion of gun powder plots in the kegs upon\\nwhich they were based. We venture to say, no better dinner was\\never provided for a similar occasion, whether we regard quantity,\\nquality, or style. Mr. James VV. Fessenden of the Brookline Hotel\\nwas fhc caterer; and we cannot help saying just here, that his vi-\\nands were all the better for the skill with which they were served\\nfor his rich bouquets, and plump and luscious fruits had rivals in the\\nfitting forms that moved among them.\\nThe storm was so severe that it was impossible to hear and en-\\njoy the sentiments read by the toast master. The rain beat on the\\ntent so hard that the responses and speeches could not be heard.", "height": "3157", "width": "1989", "jp2-path": "orationdelivered00sawt_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0096\u00a0^^TJEIjOOIS/^E ^ft^IDIDI^ESS\\nOP THE\\nPRESIDENT OF THE DAY, ALONZO BAILEY, ESQ.\\nMy Townsmen and Friends It becomes my pleasant duty to\\nwelcome you to that feast of reason and flow of soul that may be\\nenjoyed on this occasion.\\nWe meet here to-day to celebrate the 100th birth day of our\\ngood old Mother Brookline. I call her old, but she bears her age\\nremarkably well and bids fair to survive the roll of time for many\\ncenturies to come.\\nIt is good for children and friends to assemble under the old\\nfamily roof to commemorate their parental birth day in social com-\\nmunion.\\nIt is with something of the same feeling that we meet here to-\\nday to looic into familiar faces, to give one and another a cordial\\nshake of the hand. It does us who live on the old familiar spot\\ngood to welcome our friends as they return from abroad, and we\\nhope it does them no less good to come and unite with us in the\\nfestivities of the day.\\nWe have no marked natural attractions, such as Mountains,\\nGrottos or Cataracts, nor any wonders of art to call our friends,\\nbut there has been to many and now are to some, objects of great\\ninterest.\\nNew York City, the great metropolis of America, has its one\\nCooper s Institute. We can show you matiy Cooper s Institutes,\\nwhere the coopers with their implements can outvie in noise the\\nclamerous tongues ot the Orators of the New York Institute.\\nThe trees of our forests compare but feebly with their gigantic\\ncousins near the Pacific coast, neither does our rough, hard soil\\ncompare with the deep, rich laden mines of the West, but it requires\\nthe energies and perseverance of the New England men to bring\\nout and develop the resources of that country. And we claim a\\nshare of those men for Brookline.\\n2", "height": "3162", "width": "1989", "jp2-path": "orationdelivered00sawt_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "10\\nIt is customary for Mechanics to exhibit a sign at their shops\\nsignifying what trade is carried on within. For instance, a shoema-\\nker hangs out a shoe, a watchmaker a watch at the window, and\\na cooper a heap of shavings at the door. And away up in Fran-\\nconia Notch the AlmiL!,hty has hung out the Man of the Mountain,\\nsignifying that in New Hampshire he makes men. Brookline, a sis-\\nter in the pleasant family of New Hampshire, claims as her most\\nvaluable production Men and Women, and she claims as healthy\\nsons and as fair daughters as any sister in the State. Do you\\ndoubt it Look around upon the audience before you and see if\\nshe is not right.\\nOne hundred years have passed since the inauguration of this\\ntown. One Imndred years, the most eventful that ever checkered\\nthe historian s page. One hundred years ago Brookline, with all\\nthe New England colonies acknowledged allegiance to King George\\nin. and proudly boasted the best government in the world. But\\nOld England in the majesty of her acknowledged power became\\noppressive to her colonial subjects. They rebelled.\\nThen came the war for Independence, and when her colonial\\nsubjects petitioned to that higher Power for aid in their struggle,\\nthey descried in the Heavens the emblem of Liberty and Equality\\nfor which they thanked G-od and took courage. And under the\\nshade of the Star Spangled Banner they fought for their rights to a\\nsuccessful issue.\\nA territory now as large as all Europe owes its allegiance to\\nthat tri colored flag and this territory resounds throughout its vast\\nextent with the industries of a Great Nation.\\nHowever small her territory, however few her people, Brook-\\nline has ever rejoiced that she did her full share in obtaining her\\nindependence and in sustaining her Country s honor and her glori-\\nous institutions. On this day we are with united hearts thanivful\\nthat peace reigns throughout this vast domain and that the future is\\nso bright for Brookline and for America.\\nOnce more in the name ot my Townsmen I extend a welcome\\nto all the sons of Brookline, whether native or adopted, and to all\\nothers assemoled here to-day, I extend a hearty welcome, hoping\\nyour anticipations will be lully realized.", "height": "3157", "width": "1989", "jp2-path": "orationdelivered00sawt_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "ORATION.\\nThe changes occasioned by the lapse of time are replete with\\ninstruction. There never were any two periods, either before or\\nsince man s creation, that even the earth itself presented the same\\nappearance. Continents have received new indentations ocean\\ncurrents have taken new directions and islands have been thrown\\nto the surface of mid ocean by those wrecking fires which wait\\nthe archangels signal to dissolve the solid earth. The dominion\\nof man ends where the ocean begins. He can erect no monument\\non its crested wave can leave no vestige to mark the spot where\\nthe armaments of angry nations contended in mortal combat. The\\nsame unbroken anthem swells onward from its deep abyss that greet-\\ned the morning stars when first they sang o er young creation s\\nbirth. But man, the mechanic, with instrument in hand has left\\nhis trace on the contour of the land by excavating hills, tunnelling\\nmountains, felling forests and building cities. What a beautiful\\nprospect there must have been from the summit of Monadnock two\\nhundred years ago. Green mountain slopes \u00e2\u0080\u0094green intervales\\ngreen forests from horizon to horizon many beautiful lakes and\\nsmall ponds glistened in the sun. Turning westward might have\\nbeen seen flowing at intervals the placid waters of the Connecticut.\\nThe smoke just descried through the tree tops near the banks of\\nthe river, indicated the spot where the squaws were cultivating corn\\nfor the red man who was far away on the revengeful war path. On\\nthe North the unexploi-ed spurs of the White mountains stood out\\nin bold relief against the sky, as though they were performing picket\\nduty for that mighty mountain range which has battled with the\\nstorms and tempests of ages. Towards the ocean this boundless\\nprospect of green forests was unbroken till perchance the eye caught\\nthe hazy wreath of vapor which hovered near the coast of Massa-", "height": "3162", "width": "1989", "jp2-path": "orationdelivered00sawt_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "12\\nchusetts bay. How beautiful the forests that then covered these\\nhills. What a panorama might have been seen at that time. Then\\nall was natural save where the Indian had made his camp fires and\\nplanted his scanty allowance of corn. Then this whole region was\\nthe hunting grounds of the Indian. His council fires burned along\\nthe frontier of our infant settlements and none but our fathers would\\nhave dared to contend with these merciless savages. More than a\\ncentury ago our ancestors penetrated the then unbroken forest and\\ncommenced a settlement in this unpromising locality. It is to com-\\nmemorate the settlement of this town and in a proper manner to\\ncelebrate the 100th anniversary of our incorporation that has caus-\\ned this assembly. Why should we not celebrate this anniversary\\nAlthough there may not be in the history of our town much that we\\ncan boast of, yet, there is as little, perhaps, as in most other places\\nof equal advantages, to be ashamed of I see those in this audi-\\nence who honor Beookline as their birth place that have made them-\\nselves homes elsewhere. Some of you are the business men of\\nother towns. Some of you come from the bustle and excitement of\\ncity life, and some of you have come from distant lands where you\\nhave tried your fortunes, to look once more into the faces that were\\nfamiliar to your childhood, to grasp the hands of your former play-\\nmates. We bid you welcome to the pleasures and festivities of\\nthis occasion. May I not be permitted to say on your behalf, that,\\nduring all our wanderings, during the perplexities of business and\\nthe anxieties incident to this life, that we have turned from them all\\nwith pleasure to the sunny childhood we passed in this quiet little\\ntown Our native hills were mountains to us then. Then Tana-\\npus pond was superior to Lake Superior. Saint Peters church\\ncould not strike us with such awful solemnity as did the old meet-\\ning house on the hill, when after the invocations, the seats fell down\\nto their places with a noise like the voice of many waters. The\\ndistrict school where we struggled for the head of the class was\\nour Alma Mater. In those days the 4th of July was celebrated in\\nample form. Nothing could exceed the pleasures enjoyed on the\\nmanual thanksgiving day. Beautiful are these childhood reminis-", "height": "3157", "width": "1989", "jp2-path": "orationdelivered00sawt_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "13\\ncences. We come here once more to exchange our friendly greet-\\nings, to turn to the pleasant associations of the past, to look once\\nmore on the natural scenery towards which we first formed an at-\\ntachment, to notice the changes that time has wrought in the form\\nand faces of those who were once our school mates.\\nThe township of Buookline has been constituted, at different\\ntimes from no less than five distinct portions of territory each of\\nwhich will require a description at this point. We would natural-\\nly suppose that there was vacant land enough in one body in this\\nsterile, rockbound region from which so small a town as ours might\\nhave been carved out. But it was reserved for this place to be\\nmade up of a part of Hollis* a portion of Groton West Parish,\\nnow Pepperell the north part of Townsend, and the south end of\\nThe Mile Slip.\\nWhen the town of Raby was incorporated it was thus in part,\\ndescribed in the Charter: Heginningat a stake and stones, in the\\nsouth side line in the town of HoUis, which is also the province\\nline, which stake stands about two miles due east from the south\\nwest course of said Hollis thence running north by the needle\\nacross the said town to one other stake and stones, standing in the\\nnorth side line of said Hollis leaving the meeting house in the\\nmiddle between this side line and the east side line of Hollis.\\nHere we find a portion of territory from Hollis of a parallelogramic\\nform, the short sides of which were about two miles long and the\\nlong sides co.extensive with the entire length of Hollis equal to\\nabout ten square miles.\\nThe phraseology of the charter, entirely superfluous so far as\\ngranting a valid title is concerned, leaving the meeting house in the\\nmiddle between this side line and the east side line of said Hollis\\ngoes to show that the grantors or people who remained in the pa-\\nrent town not only had a taste for symmetry and order, but that they\\nappreciated their social and religious advantages. They felt per-\\n*HolUs was incorporated in 1746. The Indian name of Hollis was Nissitissit, which\\nmeans in the Indian language The place of two rivers. The two rivers alUidud tn were\\nprobably the Xaslma, which rnns across the soutlieast corner of tlie town, and the Ni-siiis-\\nsit, which ran through the southwest corner of the town. Tlie Xissitissit river took its\\nname from the town of Nissitissit.", "height": "3162", "width": "1989", "jp2-path": "orationdelivered00sawt_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "14\\nhaps that if these toils were unremitting, their taxes were burden-\\nsome, if the? had no goodly heritage that certainly their lines\\nhad fallen in pleasant places. Freedom of conscience and freedom\\nof speech was the priceless boon sought by the settlers of our pleas-\\nant New England. A few years after the landing of the Plymouth\\nsettlers, men of a more venturesome and avaricious spirit explored\\nthe country around, and founded new plantations. The rich lands\\nin the valley of the Merrimack then occupied by the Indians were\\nmuch coveted by the English settlers soon after its discovery by\\nChamplain. Its head lake to the Red Man was as beautiful as the\\nsmile of the Great Spirit. The aborigines were dependant on their\\nnumerous fisheries on this river for much of their living. Their\\ncornfields dotted the valleys ot the Merrimack the Nashua the\\nSouhegan, meanwhile the march of civilization pointed towards their\\npleasant valleys. In 1655, Chelmsford and Groton had settlements.\\nOn the 26th of October, 1673, in compliance with the petition of\\nThomas Brattle, Jonathan Tyng, Joseph Wheeler and twenty-three\\nothers, The General Court held in Boston granted a charter to\\nthe town of Dunstable of which Brookline was once the extreme\\nwestern part. It may be pertinent to remark that Thomas Brattle,\\nfirst grantee above, was a large laud holder in what is now Dunsta-\\nble, Mass., and ever from the settlement of the boundary line be-\\ntween New Hampshire and Massachusetts in 1741 up to 1837, the\\ntime the town of Dunstable was changed to Nashua, Dunstable,\\nMass., was commonly called Brattles End, Dunstable. Jonathan\\nTyng also furnished a name for his part of Dunstable which is now\\nTyngsboro. The Township of Dunstable contained about two hun-\\ndi ed square miles; it was in the County of Middlesex. It included\\nthe towns of Nashua, Hudson, Hollis, Dunstable and Tyngsboro, be.\\nsides parts of the towns of Amherst, Mil lord, Merrimac, Litchfield\\nLondondery, Pelham, Pepperell, Townsend and Brookline. Its\\nlines were perambulated iu 1734. The northwest corner was a\\ngreat pine near the Souhegan river on Dram Cup Hill, in the\\nnorthwest part of Milford. Its westerly line ran due south and\\npassed near the west end of Muscatanapus pond in Brookline.", "height": "3157", "width": "1989", "jp2-path": "orationdelivered00sawt_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "15\\nMuscatanapus signifies in the Indian The pond of the bears. The\\ncorner ofMethuen and Dracut was its southeast corner. The south,\\nwest corner may be found in our town in a due south direction\\nfrom Dram Cup Hill by the west end of Muscatanapus pond to a\\npoint about one mile distant from the state line. Its northeast cor-\\nner was at a great rock easterly of the mouth of the Souhegan river\\nin the town of Londonderry. The east line of Mason granted by\\nthe Masonian proprietors in 1 749 was parallel with the west line\\nof Hollis, which line was the west line of Old Dunstable and one\\nmile distant from the same. There was then a tract of land one\\nmile wide, between these towns, running from the state line to the\\nSouhegan river which had never been embraced within the limits\\nof any town. This narrow belt of land was known by the name of\\nthe Mile slip a part of which was merged in this town by the\\nact of incorporation in 1769. The north end of The Mile Slip\\nthus left out in the cold, contained some brave and hardy settlers\\nwho furnished their quota of men for the revolutionary war. From\\nthe north end of the Mile Slip, Charlestown School Farm,\\nDuxbury Farm, a part of Amherst, a portion of Holjis, and a\\nsquare mile from the northwest corner of Raby, Milford was made\\nup and incorporated in 1794. From the beginning of the last cen-\\ntury to 1740 there were many bitter controversies concerning the\\nProvince line between New Hampshire and Massachusetts. There\\nwas at this time in the Colony a clique of land speculators and po-\\nlitical intriguers. They were enemies both ol Governor Belcher\\nand the settlers their whole aim being personal aggrandisement.\\nAbout 1738 John T. Mason, a relative of Capt. John Mason, ar-\\nrived at majority. Owners of lands both in the province of New\\nHampshire and Massachusetts were exceedingly anxious about the\\nfixing of this boundary line. The validity of the titles to these lands\\nwas the exciting topic, some claiming under Mason s grant and\\nsome from the General Court at Boston. Thus great interests\\nwere at stake and strong passions excited. Mason s grant from\\nPlymouth Council in 1621 had for its northern boundary The\\nRiver Merrimack to the head waters thereof. In 1052 Massachu-", "height": "3162", "width": "1989", "jp2-path": "orationdelivered00sawt_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "16\\nsetts sent Commissioners who had a retinue of Indian guides, to-\\ngether with two surveyors, one of which was a student at Harvard\\nCollege, to find the head waters of this river. They made a report\\nto their government that the outlet of Winnepesaukie Lake in Lati-\\ntude 43deg. 40min. 12sec. was the northermost part of Merri-\\nmack river. The Colony of Massachusetts Bay by their General\\nCourt decided in 1652 that the extent of their northern line was\\nfrom the northermost part of the river Merrimack, and three miles\\nmore north, where it may be found, and thence upon a straight line,\\neast and west to either sea. This was a line more liberal than the\\ndescendants of the settlers of Massachusetts colony were able to\\nmaintain. The impression was probably of those who made this\\nboundary that the Merrimack river ran nearly east. Finally on the\\n5th of March, 1740, this whole matter was settled by His Majesty\\nin council. It was decided that the northern boundary line of the\\nprovince of Massachusetts be a line pursuing the course of the Mer-\\nmack river at three miles distant on the north side thereof, begin-\\nning at tlie Atlantic ocean and ending at a point due north of Paw-\\ntucket Falls and a straight line drawn from thence due west, till\\nit meets with His Majesty s otiier governments. This boundary\\nthus settled on the principles of good sense and sound judgment\\nwas very satisfactory to the province of New Hampshire. It gave\\nabout seven hundred and fifty square miles of land more to New\\nHampshire than was ever claimed by this province in which were\\ntwenty -eight townships already chartered and settled. In 1741\\nwhen this line was run it passed just south of their meeting house in\\nDunstable, leaving the meeting house in New Hampshire and the\\ngrave yard in Massachusetts. This was a source of much grief to\\nits inhabitants and retarded the progress of the town considerably.\\nGroton and Townsend both received grants of land in considera-\\ntion for their dismemberment by the running of this new line. Hol-\\nlis then acquired from Groton and Townsend a tract of land abotit\\na mile wide, running the whole length of the town on its south side,\\nthe west end of which is now Brookline. In 1786 a portion of\\nland three-fourths of a mile wide was taken from the town of Hoi", "height": "3157", "width": "1989", "jp2-path": "orationdelivered00sawt_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "17\\nlis and added to the territorial limits of the town of Brookline.\\nThe civil history of Brookline is as \\\\aiicgatcd as the topo\\ngraphical character of the town. The earliest trace of any claim\\nof ownership in the territory and soil of the township of Brookline\\nis found in connection with that part of its territory acquired from\\nTownsend by the running: of the province line in 1741. Townsend\\nwas incorporated in 1732. The petitioners for their charter in-\\nform the General Court at Boston that the town is completely fill-\\ned with inhabitants.\\nThe )2;rantees and proprietors of that town with much shrewd-\\nness had the town accurately surveyed and plotted, public points\\ndelineated, roads laid out on paper, and everything; prof^ressinf? so\\nfar as sales of land were concerned, soon after they came in pos-\\nsession. This accounts for the sporadical character of its settle-\\nments and explains the language of the petitioners for an act of\\nincorporation the words completely filled with inhabitants,\\nmeaning that there were settlements in most parts of the town.\\nFrom the Townsend proprietor s records the facts are learned that\\nin 1734 a man by the name of Jasher Wyman purchased of the\\nabove proprietors a tract of land then in Townsend, and settled\\nnear where the old house stands on the hill, easterly of Ball\\nSmith s mill. This old house stands near the northeast corner of\\nthe land bought by this settler which is described in the titles to\\nthe land adjoining, bought soon after, as Jasher Wyman s mill lot.\\nThe travelled road now at the easterly side of the lot was laid out\\nabout five years- before Wyman settled here. Jasher Wyman was\\nthe clerk of the proprietors of Townsend for many years. His\\nchirography in the records indicates both taste and scholarship,\\nThe record of deaths in Townsend shows that he had five children,\\none of which probably was the first child of European descent born\\nin the town of Brookline. He held the most important offices of\\nTownsend, and even after the running of the province line left him\\nout of his favorite town, he still continued to hold the office of clerk\\nfor the Townsend proprietors. In the latter part of his life he\\n3", "height": "3162", "width": "1989", "jp2-path": "orationdelivered00sawt_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "18\\ndisposed of his land and mill then in Hollis, now in Brookline, and\\nmoved back to Townsend where both he and his wife departed this\\nlife at about the same time in 1757. Thus the pioneer settler of\\nthe northern part of Townsend, unintentionally became the first\\nsettler of the township of Brookline. A man by the name of Far-\\nrer and Thomas Apstin soon after bought and settled the lands\\nnear this place where Wyman lived, and when this part of Towns-\\nend became apart of Hollis, in 1741 it contained probably three\\nor four families clustered around in their log houses. The next\\nsettlement in this town was made in 1740 by three brothers by the\\nname of McDonald who were Scotch Irish people. About the time\\nthe pilgrims emigrated to Plymouth, considerable numbers of Scotch\\nPresbyterians, influenced by similar reasons, crossed the Irish sea\\nand planted themselves in the northern part of Ireland in the\\ncounties of Londonderry and Antrim. Hence the name \u00e2\u0096\u00a0Scotch Irish J^\\nTwo of these brothers had families. Their christian names were\\nRandall, Joseph and James. They were men of real masculine\\ntype, tall, well proportioned and capable of great physical endur-\\nance. Randall McDonald settled on the east road leading from\\nBrookline village to Milford, where the Hollis road forms a connec-\\ntion. His brothers owned and occupied the lands at the north and\\nnortheast of his farm. They came here ten years after the first set-\\ntlement in Hollis. The prospects of these pioneers of civilization\\nin this part of the town must have been discouraging in the extreme.\\nSurrounded by an unbroken, howling wilderness remote from their\\nneighbors at the eastward, who had settled on more genial soils\\nand eligible localities deprived of all that we consider the luxu-\\nries and almost the necessities of life we behold them leaving\\ntheir log cabins on a sabbath morning and pursuing their path des-\\nignated by marked trees, to the little meeting house in Hollis.\\nThey periled all in order to enjoy freedom of conscience by their\\nown hearth stones. They exemplified the fact that there are no\\ndiscouragements so depressing, no difficulties so perplexing, no ob-\\nstacle so great but that may all be overcome by the clear head and\\ndetermined will of man.", "height": "3157", "width": "1989", "jp2-path": "orationdelivered00sawt_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "19\\nRandall McDonald died in 1752, leaving a widow, and was\\nburied on his own land about half a mile at the southeast of his\\nhouse, where, with four or five other graves marked by the pres-\\nence of rough granite stones, the spot may still be seen. Joseph\\nMcDonald, never fully satisfied with frontier life, and grieved at\\nthe loss of his brother, sold out his estate a few years after and\\nreturned to the land of his birth, James McDonald, the progeni-\\ntor of those bearing his name here in Brookline, remained. The\\nnames of the children of James McDonald and Susanna his wife are\\nRosanna McDonald, born July 19, 1752; Randall McDonald, April\\n14, 1754; Susanna McDonald, February 18, 1756; Lucy McDon-\\nald, February 8, 1758; Mary McDonald, April 5, 1760; Elizabeth\\nMcDonald, November 20, 1762; James McDonald, January 19,\\n1764, and John McDonald, June 5, 1766. James McDonald, the\\nfather of this family of eight children, the earliest settler, died\\nApril 11, 1801, aged 84 years.\\nIn reviewing the times to which the events just described be-\\nlong, we are forcibly reminded of the worth there was in the char-\\nacter of the people. The interest of one was an interest common\\nto all. The surface of society was free from the scourge of dogmas,\\nsects and creeds, which do always engender strife. When Mr.\\nEmerson was ordained in 1743, the entire population of Hollis\\nwas aroused to the greatest .degree of excitement and interest.\\nThe religious, social, and moral nature of the whole people went\\nout to grasp the heartstrings of this enthusiastic young student who\\nwas about to become their pastor and he too seemed to compre-\\nhend the situation, as will be seen by the following, which is a part\\nof his answer to the call extended to him. I have taken that im-\\nportant matter into the most close consideration, and have asked\\nthe best advice, and am, after many and great difficulties in the\\nway, come to this conclusion, viz If you will fulfill your promise as\\nto the four hundred pound settlement, in old tenor, only that the\\none part of it be in forty acres of good land near and convenient to\\nthe meeting house, firmly and forever conveyed to me, the other", "height": "3162", "width": "1989", "jp2-path": "orationdelivered00sawt_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "20\\npart to be paid in bills of public credit, within one year from the\\ndate of this answer and that for my yearly salary you give me\\nsuch a certain sum of bills of credit, yearly, as shall be equal to\\none hundred and fifty ounces of coined silver, which is the sum you\\npropose, together with thirty cords of wood, cord wood length, de-\\nlivered at my door, and after your parish town or district shall, by\\nthe providence of God be increased to the number of one hundred\\nfamilies, (and not desired or expected by me until then,) jou make\\naddition to my yearly salary of five ounces of silver per year, until\\nthe same shall be equal to two hundred ounces of coined silver,\\nthere to abide and be no more, which is equal to seventy pounds of the\\nMassachusetts last emission, always expecting the thirty cords of\\nwood, and that these several sums or sum be continued to me so\\nlong as I remain a gospel minister over you, always and in an espec-\\nial manner expecting that you will be helpers together with me, by\\nprayer. Now if these before mentioned conditions be freely and vol-\\nuntarily acted upon and secured to me as you promised in the call,\\nthen I as freely and fully accept of the call and subscribe myself\\nyours to use in the gospel ministry during life.\\n(Signed) DANIEL EMERSON.\\nDunstable, West Precinct, Mar. 4, 1743.\\nThere were thirty-seven of the voters and tax-payers of the pre-\\ncinct, who bound themselves in the penal sum of one hundred pounds\\neach, that the terms mentioned in this answer to the call should be\\nfaithfully complied with. Among the names of the signers of this\\nbond are found those of James McDonald and Joseph McDonald.\\nThe preliminaries of the settlement of this man show that both par-\\nties intended to have a perfect understanding. Nothing was to\\ncome in and disturb the harmony of their undertaking. Besides\\nhe was to become theirs to use in the gospel ministry /o/- life.\\nFrom this answer of Mr. Emerson much may be learned. It shows\\nthat he not only intended to enter upon the discharge of his duties\\nas spiritual adviser of this people in good faith, that he was not\\npnly to be their gospel minister during his life but it also proves", "height": "3157", "width": "1989", "jp2-path": "orationdelivered00sawt_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "21\\nthat he was possessed of a good share of common sense and world-\\nly wisdom. The first public building erected in this town was a\\npound. It was built of logs twenty-live feet square and it stood\\nnear where the post office now stands. This was in 1770. In\\n1783 another pound, thiriy feet square, was built near the same\\nplace. One of the greatest public trials the town had, was the\\nbuilding of the bridges across the Nissitissit Kiver, especially the one\\nat the mouth of Tanapus pond. As early as 17G0 the town of Hol-\\nlis voted to let out the road to be done, beginning at the north\\nside of Pout pond* brook on the McDonald road to the Mile Slip\\nand a bridge to be built over Douglas brookf so called, and a\\nbridge over the mouth of the pond. Take notice that this was\\ntwenty years after the McDonalds settled over on yonder hill. But\\nnotwithstanding this vote the bridge was not built at that time. In\\n1771 the town ofRaby voted to build a bridge over the river at\\nthe pond and chose Isaac Shattuck, Alexander Mcintosh, and James\\nCampbell a committee to see the work done, Also voted at the\\nsame time to have the bridge completed by the last day of June\\nnext. This looked like business. The object was then accom-\\nplished. It will be seen that there were settlements in this tovvn\\nabout thirty years before the town was able to build this bridge.\\nOwing to the scanty means of the people the two other V)ridges be-\\nlow this on the river were not made till several years later. The\\ntown of Hollis voted in 1760 to give forty shillings, sterling\\nmoney, to any Hollis man for every wolf he shall kill the present\\nyear. This shows that this disagreeable quadruped had sometime\\nbeen very annoying to the settlers, but was then almost extinct.\\nLet us consider further the condition of the people duriug this pe-\\nriod. Their simple food consisted of the produce of the farm and\\ngarden. Salt beef and pork with the few vegetables they had, con-\\nstituted the usual dinner. Potatoes:}., bean porridge, or brown bread\\nNow Rocky Pond.\\nt The brook that runs near the Post OlHce.\\ni The Potatoe was brought to tliis country in 1719 by the settlers of Loudoudwrry, N. II.\\nHence the name Trish Potatoe. The same settlers also brought the lii-st sijiuuiug wheels,\\nused in New England.", "height": "3162", "width": "1989", "jp2-path": "orationdelivered00sawt_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "22\\nand milk formed their morning and evening meals. Fresh meat they\\nhad occasionally. Sometimes it was with great difficulty that they\\ncould get salt to preserve and season their meat. The music at\\ntheir surprise parties was the music of the spinning wheel to which\\nboth mothers and daughters kept time with their hand cards.\\nThere were no drones in this society, no hired help, no consump-\\ntive young ladies who expected that their fathers wealth would be\\na passport to speedy matrimony. Their looms and their needles fur-\\nnished the fabric from which the clothing of both sexes was made.\\nWool and flax were converted by hand into garments for the old\\nand the young. The Bible, the Psalter and a few religious books\\nmade up their entire reading matter. Their means of locomotion\\nwere the ox cart, or the back of a horse furnished with saddle and\\npillion, and calculated to carry at a slow pace three or four persons.\\nLimited in their pecuniary means, with heavy, awkward todls, with-\\nout machinery, with no prospect of an improvement in their condi-\\ntion, the wrathful war-cloud of the revolution hanging over their\\nheads, they conformed to their condition with an unwavering faith\\nin the God of their fathers. One hundred years ago there were in\\nthe territory now called Brookline about thirty-five voters, some\\neight or nine of which belonged in the Mile Slip. The subject\\nof forming a new town was agitated, and after a friendly understand-\\ning by Hollis and all parties interested, on the thirtieth day of\\nMarch, 1769, the town of Raby was incorporated. The town was\\ncalled Raby from its fancied resemblance to Raby in Durham coun-\\nty, England. The river Tees takes a southeastern direction, sim-\\nilar to the Nissitissit, running at the base of prominent hills and\\nemptying into the North sea. The magnificent Baronial Castle of\\nRaby covers an acre of ground. It was one of the earliest seats of\\nthe Neville family. In one of its great halls seven hundred Knights-\\nall riitainers of that powerful family, are said to have feasted at one\\ntime. The town is now the seat of the Duke of Cleveland, or his\\nJanuary 18, 17(53, were lawfully married, Alexander Mcintosh of the Mile Strip and\\nMary Graham of Towijsend by the Rev. Samuel Dix.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 [Townsend Records.", "height": "3157", "width": "1989", "jp2-path": "orationdelivered00sawt_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "23\\nheirs. The next year after the incorporation of Raby, the town\\nvoted to raise money for the support of the gospel. For. several\\nyears the sums raised for preaching and schooling were the same.\\nIn 1775 the town record shows, that James Campbell and James\\nBadger were chosen as a committee to agree with the priest.\\nThis particular language is noticed because one of the conditions of\\nthe chai ters for the towns at that time was that the grantees of\\ntownships should each settle a learned orthodox minister. In\\nJ 781 the town voted to hire the Rev. Mr. Houston to preach. This\\nis the first instance where the name of the minister is found in the\\ntown Records. The following language we find in the Record of\\n1791. Voted and chose Esq. Shannon, Capt. James Campbell,\\nand Benjamin Farley, a committee to hire some suitable person to\\npreach out the money that was voted for preaching, and it is the\\nmind of this town that said committee give the Rev. John Wyeth\\noffer of preaching out said money and further, that said committee\\nbe empowered to agree with some suitable person to board said\\npreacher and his horse, during the time that he shall be preaching\\nhere. Here we find the word preacher. For the next year or\\ntwo, a reverend gentleman by the name of Hall acted here in the\\ndouble capacity of minister and school master. There are now\\nthose among the living, who enjoyed the moral, intollectural and\\nspiritual teachings of this man. It is to be regretted that so little\\nis known of the clergymen who ministered here from 1709 to 1791\\na period of twenty-two years. They taught and superintended the\\nschools. They joined i*i wedlock the rustic yeomanry from which\\nwe are descended. They suggested consolations at the bed side of\\nthe sick and dying. They offered the last said prayer at the house\\nof mourning and pointed the way to that celestial Redeemer who\\ni brought life and immortality to light, and although their names do\\nnot appear in your records, their hopes were undoubtedly that they\\nwould be written in the great Hook of Life. On the 7th of De-\\ncember, 1796, the town voted unanimously to give the Rev. Lemuel\\nWadsworth a call to settle as a gospel minister. He had preach-", "height": "3162", "width": "1989", "jp2-path": "orationdelivered00sawt_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "24\\ned here quite a mimber of times, and his services were very accept-\\nable to the church and people. A committee was appointed to ar-\\nrange his settlement which was mutually agreed upon between him\\nand them without any written correspondence. The conditions of\\nhis settlement were that he should receive one hundred and fifty\\npounds as a settlement to be paid in three installments, sixty pounds\\nas an annual salary for three years, and seventy pounds after that\\ntime. The meeting house which had been in process of prection\\nfor a period of two years was then about completed. When* we\\nconsider the poverty of the^e men who erected this meeting house,\\nmany of whom lived in log houses themselves scarcely able to sup-\\nport their families, we are forcibly remyided of the sacrifices they\\nwere ready to make that they might be able to enjoy the preaching of\\nthe gospel. On the Uth of Oct., 1797, Mr.Wadsworth was ordain-\\ned. Tjie town voted on the 28th of August previous -that Mr. Asher\\nSpaulding provide for the council at the ordination in the following\\nmanner, that is for the supper sixteen cents each on said ordination\\nday, and for all other meals seventeen cents each, and for horses\\neleven cents each, and for all the liquors, lemons and sugar at the\\ncommon retail price. By this vote we learn that the good people\\nof the town and also the ecclesiastical council were not only men\\nwho looked forward to good society, but that they were men also\\nfond of good cheer. They could afford to conform to this old Eng-\\nlish custom for this time. They were about to enjoy a new meet-\\ning house and an ordained minister. Besides some of them re-\\nmembered that at Mr. Emerson s ordination in Dunstable West\\nt\\nPrecinct, now Hollis, that the council at that time was entertained\\nat the expense to the parish of thirty-five pounds, eighteen shillings.\\nFrom this amount it is fairly to be presumed that this council was\\nalso quite spiritually minded. Mr. Wadsworth was a native of\\nStoughton, Mass., born in 1769, graduated at Brown University in\\n1793, and died November 25th. 1817, aged forty-eight. On the\\n10 th of March, 1818, the town voted to erect a tombstone over\\nthe grave of the Rev. Lemuel Wadsworth and chose Eli Sawtelle,", "height": "3157", "width": "1989", "jp2-path": "orationdelivered00sawt_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "25\\nEleaser Gilson, and Benjamin Shattuck a committee to accomplish\\nthe object. The committee performed this duty in a very credita-\\nble manner. Agreeably to the very letter and spirit of the vote of\\nthe town, they laid a finished oblong, square block of granite over\\nhis grave, resting upon which they placed a simple slab of slate,\\non which is engraved the place and date of his birth and the time\\nof his ordination and death. Fit monument for an honest man whose\\nintegrity of character and exemplary virtues will outlive this gran-\\nitic structure erected to his memory. Their grief was too deep to\\nattempt anything like an epitaph. He was not the minister of a\\nsector a favored lew; The whole town wept at his grave, and in\\njustice let it be recorded, that he sustained a piety unalloyed with fa-\\nnaticism, a religion without bigotry and a character above reproach,\\nSince that time the Orthodox Society have had several ministers,\\nfour of whom were regularly ordained. The orthodox church had\\nat its organization in 1795, 15 members. The names ot these\\nchurch members were, Benjamin Farley, Ezekiel Proctor, Joshua\\nSeaver, Clark Brown, Ephraim Sawtelle, Eleazer Gilson, Joshua\\nSmith, Joseph Emerson, Samuel Farley, Hannah Shattuck, Abigail\\nSawtelle, Hannah Gilson, and Lydia Emerson. This church now\\nhas sixty members. The Methodist Episcopal Church was estab-\\nlished in 1852, with eleven members. It now has foi ty communi-\\ncants. At the commencement of tiie Revolutionary war Raby had\\nforty-six ratable polls and about one hundred and seventy-five in-\\nhabitants. Raby was classed with Mason in forming a constituency\\nfor representation and consequently furnished soldiers for the war\\nin a quota connected with that town. Raby chose its committee of\\nsafety in 1775 and voted to act according to the advice of Con-\\ngress. The state committee of safety reported eighty-six males\\nbetween sixteen and sixty years of age in Mason and Raby. Tliis\\ntown shared the usual excitement of those times. In 1777, the town\\nchose William Spaulding, Swallow Tucker and Isaac Shattuck a\\ncommittee to settle and see what every man has done in the town\\nof Raby since Concord fight. Thus it seems that every man was\\n4", "height": "3162", "width": "1989", "jp2-path": "orationdelivered00sawt_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "26\\nlooked after during this great struggle for constitutional liberty.\\nThe records of Mason and Raby, and the state records show that\\nthese towns furnished one hundred and fifty-three men for the land\\nand naval service of the government, during the Revolution, fifty-\\nseven of which were from Ral)y. These men went at different times\\nand in numbers not sufficient to constitute a company. Some of\\nthese soldiers were under the gallant Col. Scammel. Some of them\\nwere with Washington at Cambridge and in New York. Three of\\nthem were with Stark at Bennington, and seven of them were at.\\nTiconderoga. The patriotism of this soldiery, scantil} fed and bad-\\nly clothed, like all others who helped to gain our independence,\\nis almost without a parallel in history, and it may be said with\\ncommendable pride that Raby did its whole duty in the consumma-\\ntion of that great result wliich sent a thrill of pleasure to the heart\\nof every lover of freedom throughout the world. The nations of\\nEurope were struck with amazement when the doctrine of the di-\\nvine right of kings was proved to be a fallacy. Monarchs trem-\\nbled in their capitals and despotism read its doom in our success,\\nlike Belshazzar in the hand-writing on the wall. Liberty under the\\nrestraint of law, the idea of Samuel Adams, of Jefferson, Otis,\\nFranklin and La Fayette was forever to be enjayed by this great\\ncontinent. The first mill in town, as before stated, was built by\\nJasher Wyman, near where Ball Smith s mill now stands. The\\nnext mill, erected and owned by Benjamin Brooks, stood on the north\\nside of the river, on land now flowed by the Bailey mill-pond. The\\nruins of the old dam and one of the walls on which the building\\nstood are still plainly to be seen. What might have been mill num-\\nber three, occupied a position near where the Bailey new mill now\\nstands. It was the intentionofthe proprietor to drive this mill by\\nwater drawn in a canal from Tanapus pond. The engineering how-\\never was bad. The mill was placed too high. The water would not\\nrun up hill to accommodate any man. The civil engineer who lo-\\ncated this mill undoubtedly understood pyrotechnics better than hy-\\ndraulics. How much it is to be regretted that he could not have", "height": "3157", "width": "1989", "jp2-path": "orationdelivered00sawt_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "27\\nbeen a cotemporary with the great General who sent the powder\\nship against Fort Fisher! What the result of talent thus com-\\nbined might have been, we shall never know. It was afterwards\\nlowered down and operated successfully by Samuel Brown and his\\nsuccessors. In 1781, Benjamin Shattuck, grand-father of Alpheus\\nShattuck of this town, came from Groton and located where J. H.\\nHall s mills now are. He bought the land of Esq. Blanchard, of\\nAmherst. The trade was made in the spring when the streams\\nwere full and the travelling bad. Blanchard and Shattuck trotted\\nout their steeds on a reconiioisance for the purpose of establishing\\nboundaries. The bargain was that Shattuck should have one hun-\\ndred and sixty acres of land for which he was to pay three hundi ed\\ndollars in silvc^-, all in Spanish Pistareens. They went northerly\\nover about the same ground now used for the road from the school-\\nhouse in ihat district to Milford. Blanchard for fear of getting his\\nblack kids soiled and his knee-buckles tarnished, kept a good\\ndistance from the stream. They rode on about a mile up the hill\\nto a place where they established the northeast corner of the prem-\\nises. They then agreed on a certain land mark which they could\\nsee on the opposite side of the stream for the northwest corner of\\nthis 160 acre lot. The corners were all agreed upon without any\\nmeasurement of lines. Alter Shattuck paid his coined silver and\\nobtained his title he had a survey of the lot made and found that\\nhe had bought some more than five hundred acres. Tims it will\\nbe seen that the Plebian rather outwitted the Patrician. Shattuck\\nerected a mill on this lot on the same site where the mill now\\nstands, and built a bridge in the highway below the same. The\\nrecords of the town show that he was exempted from taxation for\\na number of years in consideration of his building and keeping this\\nbridge in repair. These were the first mills built here. This\\nplace had been settled more than thirty years before there was any\\ngrist mill in town. The people here carried what corn they had\\nto Pepperell or sometimes to Townsend, on their shoulders, to be\\nground. The mills in those days were more liable to be out of", "height": "3162", "width": "1989", "jp2-path": "orationdelivered00sawt_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "28\\norder than they are at present. It is said that at that time a man\\nby the name of Russell took a bushel of grain on his shoulder to\\nPepperell to be ground. On arriving at the mill he found that it\\nwas being repaired and that he could not get his corn ground, lie\\nthen started for Townsend where he had no better success. Should-\\nering his bag and quickening his step he arrived home near night-\\nfall, when he went to the house of Isaac Shattuck, who lived on\\nwhat was lately the town farm, where he borrowed a large cannon\\nball with which he ground a part of his grist which soon constitut-\\ned the healthy supper both for himself and his hungry children,\\nLumber mills have been made in twelve different places in this town.\\nA sash and blind shop and quite an extensive tannery were once\\nopeced and operated by the Itaileys. Cousidcrabk lumber has\\nbeen sold and carried out of the place for building purposes. Coop-\\nering, which has been carried on here lor more than eighty years\\nwas at first confined to hard wood split staves and heads. All the\\nwork was done by hand. Lately the pine forests have disappeared\\nfrom our hill sides and that timber is now extensively used in this\\nlucrative business. Machinery does most of the work. To this\\nsource of thrift and wealth, we may trace much of the prosperity\\nof the town. In the history of our schools there is nothing remark-\\nable. It is a noticeable fact that the town records from our incorpo-\\nration up to 1800, are well written and generally the words are\\nspelled correctly. The penmanship of some of the earliest town\\nclerks, of James Badger, Alexander Mcintosh, Randall McDonald\\nand others, will compare favorably with that of more recent dates.\\nThus we find men who in their youth attended school only three or\\nfour weeks in a year, and some of them none at all, competent to\\nserve as Selectmen and town clerks. We must not infer from this\\nhowever, that they were not diligent scholars. Their hours of\\nstudy were out of school, during the winter evenings in the chim-\\nney corner, where, like Benjamin Franklin, by their pine knot light,\\nthey solved their own problems and formed their own conclusions.\\nThey felt that prominent among the forces which help a man .to", "height": "3157", "width": "1989", "jp2-path": "orationdelivered00sawt_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "29\\nhelp himself, which pervading the body politic like leaven, uplift\\nwhole masses of men and women, giving them that divine courage,\\nwhich makes each in his or her own confidence the peer of every-\\nbody else, is education This truly and essentially popular force\\ncomes to all alike, to the poor as well as the rich and says to each,\\nyou too are an equal child of this great republic. Education\\nalone, of the most thorough character, extended by a full equip-\\nment of intellectual armor to every youth in our broad land, can\\nmake the trial of self government a complete success. This is the\\nsecret influence gaining a foothold in tlie Old World, which rend-\\ners insecure the permanence of thrones and dynasties. The last\\nrefuge of despotism is with that people whose faculties are dor-\\nmant and untrained, and upon whom Ignorance settles her inheri-\\ntance. To the careless observer, the history of a year in the life of\\nour schools would seem only a repetition of previous years. It would\\nseem the same steady current bearing on its surface lisping child-\\nhood, blooming into manhood or womanhood. It is more than all\\nthis. It is the accumulation of all the past, the combined forces of\\nintellect trained by untiring discipline, silently and faithfully work-\\ning out the mission of civilization for the oncoming generations\\nBut with all our boasted privileges of schools, reading rooms, lec-\\nture rooms, libraries, academies collegies and churches, the stand-\\nard of morality is no higher than it was in the days of the fathers.\\nThere is a great disparity between the advancement of the intellectu-\\nal and the moral. The intellect has been trained at the expense of\\nthe moral principle. A proper balance of these two principles,\\ncannot be found either in our business or professional men. The\\ncorruption of the politicians proves this proposition. The great\\nstruggle for wealth is the one interest to which all others submit,\\nand riches grasping the long arm of the lever which moves fashion-\\nable society, thrusts aside both truth and justice. Wealth is made\\na substitute for integrity of character, and honesty seems to be the\\nexception instead of the rule, among those subject to great tempta-\\ntion. When Andre was captured as a spy by three soldiers during\\nthe Revolutionary war, he tried to buy his liberty with gold. Ac-", "height": "3162", "width": "1989", "jp2-path": "orationdelivered00sawt_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "30\\ncomplished, eloquent in the extreme, prepossessing above most men,\\nhe offered them his gold watch and his purse filled with guineas,\\nonly for his liberty. Yet the honesty of these men would not al-\\nlow them to be tempted, and they spurned the glittering bribe.\\nTiie brave resistance made by Major Anderson against fearful\\nodds, when the first gun in the Rebellion was aimed at the devoted\\nFort Sumpter, will excite the admiration of mankind in all coming\\ntime. Patriotism Honesty Truth who can measure their\\nworth A good character who can estimate its value Charac-\\nter Let the young man be aroused by the thought that there is\\nno rock so firm, no fortress so strong, no panoply so impregnable\\nas an honest man s honor. At the close of the Revolutionary war\\neverything like business was prostrated. The currency was al-\\nmost worthless. Most of the New England people laying aside\\nthe implements of war returned to their pursuits in civil life in\\no ood earnest. Not so with five or six wicked men in this vicinity\\nthree of whom belonged to Raby. They were thieves. One of\\nthem by the name of McDonald, the leader of the gang, was a per-\\nfect terror to most every one. He belonged here, so that Raby re-\\nceived the maledictions for the crimes of the entire party. It was\\nalmost considered a disgrace for a man to own that he came Irom\\nRaby. This was all owing to these three ruffians. The other\\nmen of the place were of good reputation, worthy and honest.\\nThe dishonor which was brought upon the place by these three\\nmen was keenly felt by the good people of the town. About the\\ntime the excitement was at its height, McDonald died in prison, and\\nanother of the party left unexpectedly.\\nThe name of the town was altered by the state legislature from\\nRaby to Brookline, in 1798, on petition of the prominent men of\\nthe town, who seemed to forget that a rose by any other name\\nwould smell as sweet. Out of respect for the Browns, the Mcln-\\ntosnes, the Austins and others who came from the neighborhood of\\nRaby in England, and named this place, which reminded them ot\\nthe scenery they had left in the father land, the name of the town\\nshould not have been changed.", "height": "3157", "width": "1989", "jp2-path": "orationdelivered00sawt_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "31\\nThe passion for fun and amusement with our fathers showed it-\\nself at the apple parings, the huskings, the log rollings and the\\nraisings. Then the new cider was passed around. Here were the\\nwrestling matches, tlie trials in running and jumping. Then the\\nsmoking Indian puddings, the great loaves of brown bread, the\\npork and beans, the roast lamb from the same spacious oven, fol-\\nlowed by the golden pumpkin pies, made a feast, mingled with the\\njokes, the plays, the merriment and pealing laughter, which gave a\\nzest to every enjoyment. Tlie aged people of this audience re-\\nmember all this. Aye more The father and mother, the brother\\nand sister long*since gone, come before you, and what would you\\nnot give to renew but for once, these olden times But these\\nscenes cannot be renewed and we must all soon follow them far\\nbeyond this mortal life, into the dim and shadowy past, and be\\nknown here among our native hills only as a memory, more and\\nmore indistinct until it shall vanish clean out. The first painted\\nbuilding in town was the school house near the pond. This build-\\ning was finally burned. With three exceptions the dwelling houses\\nin town were all unpainted till after the temperance movement\\nin New England in 1826. This reformation did much for Brook-\\nline. A large portion of the surplus money of our citizens previ-\\nous to this was expended for ardent spirits. The same is true in\\nregard to the towns around us. -The use of alcoholic drinks was\\ncommon. It was at this time that men began to see the foolishness\\nof tippling, that the daily use of liquor was not only injurious but\\nwicked, and one by one they laid aside their kegs, decanters and\\ndrinking cups. The jieople read more and thought more than usu-\\nal. The change was soon apparent in the neat and tidy appear-\\nance of the farm houses. Comfort and good taste seemed to take\\nthe place of negligence and carelessness. In 1839 when the or-\\nthodox meeting house* was built, the names of five persons who\\nThe dedication of this house and the ordination of Rev. Daniel Goodwin, occurred\\nthe same day. Tlie bell on this edilice was once used on a Spanish convent. Afterwards\\nit was hung on the third meeting house erected in Dunstable, i. II., in 18r2. This house\\nstood about half a mile northerly from the site of the lirst meeting house in Old Dunsta-\\nble, near the state line. Tliis church building was taken down in lS-15, when money was\\nraised by sub.scrii)tiou and the bell was bought.", "height": "3162", "width": "1989", "jp2-path": "orationdelivered00sawt_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "32\\nassisted in building that church edifice might be mentioned, who\\nhad as much available wealth as was possessed by the entire\\ntown, when the old meeting house was erected on the hill. The\\nevents of the late rebellion are so recent that they are undoubtedly\\nindelibly impressed upon the minds of most persons within the\\nhearing of my voice. The eyes of those who lost their dear friends\\nduring this struggle for our very national existence, are scarcely\\nyet dry. Brookline met the responsibility presented by this crisis\\nin the spirit of commendable patriotism. Sixty-seven men exposing\\nthemselves to the trials and dangers of war, went forth at the call\\nof their country, to assist in stemming back the tide of a rebellioD,\\nrampant in fifteen states, which threatened at one time to wrest\\nfrom us the capitol of the nation. Most of these were young men,\\nsome with families, some just married, and all filled with the\\nstrength and vigor of resolute manhood. Going forth to the con-\\nflict with a firm reliance in the justice of their cause, they endured\\nthe hardships and suflerings incident to their duties, and they met\\nthe enemy on the battle fields with a bravery worthy of the highest\\npraise. And although our town did not give to the country any\\narmy or naval ofiicers of distinction, yet had it not been for our\\ntownsmen and hundreds of thousands of others like them from other\\nplaces, who offered their bosoms to the shafts of battle in many en-\\ngagements, no officer or general would have been victorious.\\nThanks to the soldiery of the nation. Of these sixty-seven men.\\nfourteen lost their lives, either by the bullet, by disease or by starva-\\ntion in rebel prisons. Only one man* survived the treatment of\\nprison life at Andersonville. He furnishes the information that he\\nand as many more prisoners as could stand up in a common freight\\nbox car, were put on board at Petersburg, Virginia, and remained\\nin that position eight days meanwhile they only had water and a\\nlittle nourishment at four different times during that awful railroad\\njourney to Andersonville, that great human or rather inhuman\\nslaughter house. What sufferings were experienced iii this dismal\\n*Perley A. Smith.", "height": "3157", "width": "1989", "jp2-path": "orationdelivered00sawt_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "33\\nenclosure, within which were about forty thousand of our soldiers\\non thirty acres of land Our informant has seen one hundred and\\ntwenty-eight dead soldiers piled up at one time near the gates\\nready to be removed as soon as two mule teams could do the work.\\nWe turn from this heart sickening spectacle hopeful that in all fu-\\nture time there will never be a repetition of this cruel and fiendish\\nrebellion. The bodies of some of our fallen sons have been re-\\nturned to us, and buried with their ancestors. Others rest far\\naway, never to mingle with kindred dust. We carefully treasure\\ntheir memories, and when decoration day com.es around, and those\\nof their comrades, who survived the conflict, march on to the strains\\nof softened music, with solemn tread, to decorate the graves of our\\nfallen heroes, who are buried in their own dear native land, our\\nhearts go forth to the far off, lonely sepulchres, in the mournful\\nwilderness, on the bleak hill sides, to the surroundings of Salis-\\nbury prison, to New Orleans and Port Hudson, and there in imag-\\nination we decorate with our affections the graves of our husbands\\nand brothers, our sons and nephews. Happily for those they leave\\nbehind, many winters and summers will succeed each other, and\\nthe flowers that grow spontaneously upon their graves will bloom\\nand wither for many seasons, before either their persons or their\\npatriotism will be forgotten.\\nThe abstract of the history of Brookline thus imperfectly pre-\\nsented would be incomplete should we not for a moment consider\\nour present condition. Striking is the contrast between the pov-\\nerty of our ancestors and the comfortable condition of our citizens\\nat present. The early settlers and their immediate successors\\nhave already been described. In 1821 forty-eight years ago,\\nthere were^ only two or three men in town who were worth as\\nmuch as five thousand dollars. Now we have over fortv tax-\\npayers who are worth five thousand dollars and upwards. We\\nhave no rich men, yet the tax of one of our citizens assessed this\\ncurrent year is more than was the whole amount of tax assessed on\\nall the inhabitants of the town in 1821. Our business men and\\n5", "height": "3162", "width": "1989", "jp2-path": "orationdelivered00sawt_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "34\\nour people generally are prosperous. The domestic animals of a\\ntown afford a good criterion whereby to judge of its wealth. Brook-\\nline can muster as many good pairs of oxen and horses as any town\\nof its size in the State. One peculiarity of this town is the great\\ninterest which all its voters take in the success of their political\\nparties. For several weeks before the election politics is the only\\nbusiness. Each party thinks of nothing but victory at the polls,\\nand sometimes in the heat and zeal of a campaign, money has been\\nused by both parties to insure success. This is wrong. It can be\\nsaid with pleasure that Brooklinc has never sent out any great men\\nin the character of politicians who are often ready to receive bribes,\\nsign the bail bond of traitors and gather up anything that may fall\\nfrom the public crib. Benjamin ShattuCk, collector for this district\\nfrom 1812 to 1815, was the only United States officer, except the\\npost-masters, we ever had. Brookline has reserved for itself and\\ngiven to other places men who are real producers, ingenious me-\\nchanics, competent engineers, and successful business men who are\\nan honor to any community. Such are the men whom we see here\\nto-day.\\nIn celebrating this day let us commemorate the fathers.\\nWe should be mindful of their laborious poverty. Their toils\\nhave resulted in our comforts. On all sides are the proofs\\nof their wisdom, their foresight, their self sacrificing exertions\\nand cares for their children. Here are the civil and relig-\\nious institutions which they founded. Here are the roads\\nthey made. Here are the cultivated fields rich with grain and\\nfruits, where once stood the forests removed by their industry.\\nHere are the foundations of their houses, and here too are their\\nhumble graves. May the places ever remain sacred where they\\nrepose\\nIt must be the duty of your historian to describe more\\nfully their virtues, to trace their genealogies, and give you\\nthe characteristics of the prominent families which have\\nlived and loved, hoped and died, during these hundred years", "height": "3157", "width": "1989", "jp2-path": "orationdelivered00sawt_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "35\\nthat have just closed. He must tell you of the Farleys,* the Doug-\\nlasses, the Seavers, the Halls, the Tuckers, the Shattucks and others\\nonce prominent in our native town.\\nAnd now standing here on the horizon between the two centu-\\nries, one of which, with all its great events has been added\\nto the mighty past, the other pressing on ready to receive\\nour first uplifted footstep, the thoughts presented are almost\\nbewildering. Looking back through the vista of years we\\nbehold incidents which are equally interesting either to the citi-\\nzen or the scholar. This year is the centeunary of the steam en-\\ngine. This is also the hundredth year since a patent was granted\\nto the spinning jenny. Dartmouth college celebrated her centenni-\\nal this year. Wellington, Humboldt and Cuvier were born just one\\nhundred years ago. In 1769 Samuel Adams and his compatriots\\nmade their celebrated appeal to the world. The same year Fred-\\nerick the Great was laying the foundation of the Prussian Kingdom,\\nthe nations of Europe having combined to crush him. In 1769\\nWarren Hastings, the most remarkable man of his time, made his\\nsecond voyage to Bengal, in the interest of that East India Company,\\nwhere nearly one hundred millions of people acknowledged him as\\nthe Governor General of British India. At the same time that\\nthe sword of Washington was drawn to ward off British oppression\\nin this western world, Hastings with all the cunning of a Jesuit was\\nremorselessly robbing the Sepoys of the rich spoils of the east.\\n1769 also gave to France the first Napoleon who was emphatically\\nand par excellance the i/reat man of modern history. One hun-\\nThe Parleys are of English descent. Samuel Farley married Hannah Brown, both of\\nDunstable,) in 1744. He was a man of culture and influence. He settled on the jjlace where\\nIsaac Sawtelle died. The people selected him an agent to procure the charter lor the\\ntown of Raby at the time of its incorporation. He died Nov. 23, 1797, m the eightieth year\\nof his age.\\nBenjamin Farley, son of the aforesaid Samuel and Hannah, was born March 10th, 1756.\\nHe inherited the good sense atd sound judgment of his father. He was the representative\\nof the town in the legistature when the name of tlie town was changed. He opened the\\nfirst store ever in town, in the buiiding now a dwelling house, on tlie same spot wliere his\\nfather settled. Twoof his sous, Benjamin M. Farley, a graduate of Harvard in 1804, and\\nGeorge F. Farley a graduate of Harvard in IsiC, became distinguislu-d iu the legal profes-\\nsion. His daughter, Mrs. Eaton, of Hollis, is Ihe only one of that gi ueratioii now liv;i;j;-.\\nTwo of his grandsons, one a substantial farmer in Lunenburg, .Mass., aiiuther a business\\nman now residing in Peabody, Mass., and their sons, it any, are all the male descendants\\nthat remain of this influential family.", "height": "3162", "width": "1989", "jp2-path": "orationdelivered00sawt_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "36\\ndred years ago all the textile fabrics in use were spun by human\\nhands. Te-day the spinning jenny performs the same work with\\nthe gi eatest exactness. In 1769 the fartherest western outpost of\\ncivilization was that of Daniel Boone of Kentucky. No white man\\nhad then ever crossed the continent in this latitude. To-day the\\nsteam engine wafts the commerce and refinement of New England\\nfrom the port of Boston onward through the grain region of North\\nAmerica and over the mountain passes, in one continuous flight to\\nthe fartherest verge of the Pacific slope. How mighty the influence\\nof these inventions of these men\\nThe events of the past are before us. They are historic.\\nA hundred years have gone. It is in vain for us to enquire\\nwhat may be the events that shall rise in the great wheel of\\nhuman life before the coming century will close. Of the\\ndiscoveries, the inventions, the great minds that will exist we\\ncan know nothing. And when a far distant generation shall\\nnext come to this elegant grotto to celebrate this day not one of us\\nwill be found among the living. Then as now the morning sun will\\nkiss the foliage on these hill tops the evening wind will ripple the\\nwaters of the beautiful Muscatanapus the Nissitisset will journey on\\nto the sea but not the least relic of all that our hands have made\\nor our hearts have loved will remain as we now behold it.\\nThese solemn thoughts suggest the necessity of performing the\\nremaining duties of life in a continued spirit of love and kindness to\\neach other j that we may exercise all the noble faculties which God\\nhas given us to transmit to our children unimpaired the great inher-\\nitance of truth, intelligence, justice, faith and liberty.", "height": "3157", "width": "1989", "jp2-path": "orationdelivered00sawt_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "37\\nTO^WN OF BROOKLIlSrE.\\nSTATISTICS FOR 1869.\\nTown Cleric,\\nHENRY B. STILES.\\nSelectmen,\\nJAMES C. PARKER,\\nPHILEMON FRENCH,\\nRUFUS G. RUSSELL.\\nRepresentative to State Legislattire,\\nJAMES H. HALL.\\nSuperintendent of Schools,\\nEDWARD E. PARKER.\\nJustices of the Peace.\\nREUBEN BALDWIN,\\nBENJAMIN GOULD,\\nWILLIAM G. SHATTUCK.\\nValuation of the town in making the State Tax, $316,000.\\nPopulation of the town in 1860, 725.", "height": "3162", "width": "1989", "jp2-path": "orationdelivered00sawt_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "38\\npq\\nV\\na.U\\n2\\n(U\\nk\\n-a\\na\\n-M\\nTS\\n!=l S\\nO. 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