A BOOK FOR MASSACHUSETTS CHILDREN, IN FAMILIAR LETTERS FROM A FATHER, FOR THE USE OF FAMILIES AND SCHOOLS. SECOND EDITION. By Bosea Hildreth. BOSTON: HILLIARD, GRAY, LITTLE AND WILKINS. 1831. 1873, May 26. Sam'l A. Green, M.I. 1 DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO WIT: District Clerk's Office. BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the nineteenth day of October, A. D. 1829, in the fiftyfourth year of the Independence of the United States of America, Hosea Hildreth, of the the said district, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit: 'A Book for Massachusetts Children, in Familiar Letters from a Father, for the use of Families and Schools.' In conformity to an act of the Congress of the United States, entitled 'An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned; and also to an act, entitled 'An act supplementary to an act, entitled "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned;" and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving and etching historical and other prints." JNO. W DAVIS, Clerk of the District of Massachusetts. PRINTED BY I. R. BUTTS....BOSTON. CONTENTS. V. The Counties - Size and Shape, &c. VI. The Counties - Court-houses, Jails, &c. VII. The Seaport Towns -Commerce and Navigation. VIII. The Cod and Mackerel Fisheries. The Whale Fisheries. IX. The Country Towns - Farming and other Employments. X. Almshouses, Schools, Meeting-houses. XII. Capes and Bays of Massachusetts. An Account of the Principal Towns in each County. XVIII. Essex County - Newburyport, Ipswich. XX. Andover, Bradford, Haverhill, Gloucester, &c. Middlesex - Charlestown. The State Prison. XXI. XXII. 66 The Insane Hospital. The Navy Yard. XXXIV. Norfolk - Brookline, Roxbury, Dorchester, Milton, Dedham, Quincy. XXXV. Plymouth - Plymouth. The Pilgrims. Middleborough, &c. XXXVI. Barnstable Barnstable, Provincetown. XXXVII. Bristol - Taunton, Troy, New Bedford, &c. XXXVIII. Worcester - Worcester. Blackstone Canal, &c. XXXIX. Franklin-Northfield, Deerfield, Greenfield. XL. Hampshire - Northampton. Farmington Canal. Amherst. XLI. Hampden - Springfield. United States Armory. XLII. Berkshire - Lenox, Pittsfield, Williamstown. XLIII. Remarks. State of the Country before the White People came. XLIV. Indians-Appearance, Dress, Dwellings, Employments, &c. XLV. Wild Animals - Moose, Deer, Bear. XLVI. Wild Animals - Wolf, Catamount, Beaver. XLVII. Some account of the first settlement of Massachusetts. XLVIII. Intercourse between Indians and White People. Wars. Destruction of Indians. XLIX. Reflections upon it. L. Conclusion. Advice. |