Sons & Daughters Lapel Pin

1” x 1” enamel pin; 1.22mm thick with silver metal plating;
8mm post and butterfly clutch attachment.

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Evergreen Cemetery - 1786
Sue Gagnon & Jill Greenleaf

This new book was compiled by board member Sue Gagnon and her daughter Jill Greenleaf, a member of SDFSN. The book contains 36 pages of recorded inscriptions and epitaphs, plot maps, and an index. This cemetery, just down the road from the Jackman-Willett House, was also known as Doles Pasture and the Lower Green Cemetery.

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A Sketch of the History of Newbury, Newburyport, and West Newbury
Joshua Coffin

Originally published in 1845, this unusual book traces the history of Newbury and its daughter towns from the first settlement in 1635 until the year the book was originally published.  First reprinted in 1977 in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Sons and Daughters of the First Settlers of Newbury, it has been reprinted again in 1980 and most recently in 2001.

Writing with a subtle wit (uncommon in his era), Joshua Coffin, whose own ancestors were among the first settlers of the town, follows chronologically how the first arrivals established their town, parceling out the land, and how they issued permits and licenses for ferrymen, tavern owners, and keepers of town pounds.

Coffin writes about the severity of epidemics, earthquakes, and winter storms, about serious religious disagreements that periodically rocked the town, about the construction of bridges and laying out of roads, of Newbury's only Indian attack, the construction of grist and saw mills, and the comings and goings of ships.  He describes in detail how residents prepared for - and participated in - the Revolutionary War, how the people welcomed George Washington, and how a group of local abolitionists participated in the formation of the New England Anti-slavery Society in 1832.

The extensive appendix includes a catechism composed by James Noyes, teacher in the First Parish Church; genealogical information of the first settlers of the town, 1635-1700; list of college graduates from Newbury; information on the various clergymen of area churches; and more.

Samples from the book... click for a larger view...

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The Sons & Daughters of the First Settlers of Newbury, Mass.

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