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2 ANTIQUE BOOKS TOPSFIELD MASSACHUSETTS PIONEERS INDIANS NEGROES CIVIL WAR
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PRESENTING FOR AUCTION: TWO ANTIQUE VOLUMES OF THE HISTORY OF TOPSFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS. INCLUDING THE RARE ANNIVERSARY EDITION.
1.) The Historical Collections of the Topsfield Historical Society. 1900. 156 pages plus 100 illustrations and photographs. Hardcover. 6″ x 9″.
This special publication commemorates the 250th Anniversary of Topsfield, Massachusetts. Includes scores of scenes from the town, portraits of prominent citizens, numerous accounts and orations covering all aspects its illustrious history. Also, accounts of the events of the celebration of the anniversary.
Condition: VERY GOOD. Embossed seal of the Long Island Historical Society on title page.
2.) The Historical Collections of the Topsfield Historical Society. Edited by George Francis Dow. 1903. Topsfield, Mass. 258 pages. Hardcover. 6″ x 9″.
Contains the Compiled Records of Topsfield, Massachusetts from its beginning through 1849. Sections for Births, Marraiges and Deaths with separate sections for Negroes.
Condition: VERY GOOD. Embossed seal of the Long Island Historical Society on title page.
TOPSFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS
The Algonquian Agawam Indian Tribe inhabited Topsfield prior to the British colonization in the early seventeenth century. The area was named Topsfield in 1648.
The Salem Witch Trials of 1692 touched Topsfield directly. Rebecca Nurse, Mary Esty, Sarah Wildes and Elizabeth How were all hanged at Gallows Hill in nearby Salem.
Minute Men from Topsfield under the command of Capt. Joseph Gould, answered the Lexington Alarm on April 19, 1775. They participated in the Battle of Bunker Hill and were part of General Washington’s Continental army throughout the remainder of the Revolutionary War.
Topsfield sent 113 soldiers to the Civil War fighting at Bull Run, Gettysburg and Port Hudson. Several men of Topsfield died in the Confederate Prison at Andersonville, Georgia.
Immigration contributed greatly to the growth of Topsfield. The Irish arrived in the 1850’s to work constructing the railroads. Italian and southern and eastern European immigrants arrived from 1890 to 1920. They built the great estates in Essex County.
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