The Merrimack River: its source and its tributaries. Embracing a history of manufactures, and of the towns along its course; their geography, topography, and products, with a description of the magnificent natural scenery about its upper waters./ By J. W. Meader.

ITS SOURCE ANI) ITS TPIBUTARIES.
mills; and, in 1835, they succeeded in securing the most of the
lands upon the east side of the Merrimack that by any possible
contingency might be necessary for them.
"WAillard Sayles was born in the town of Franklin, County of
Norfolk, Mass., in April, 1792. While yet a child his father re moved to Wrenthamrn. In 1821, Mr. Sayles moved to Boston, and
entered upon commercial pursuits in company with Lyman Tiffany,
Esq. They soon became extensively engag,ed in manufacturing.
Ilis first investments in manufacturing were in aledway and WVal pole, Mlass. At last, as his business extended, he became connected
with other establishments, and, among them, with the mills at
Amoskeag and at Hiooksett. In the latter, he became the largest
owner' having, at the time of its being merged with the Amoskeag
MIanufacturing Company in 1835, twenty-four out of seventy-two
shares in that corporation. From this time until the time of his
death, MAIr. Sayles became largely identified with the operations of
the companies in this place. He was a director in the Amoskeag
MIanufacturing Company, and one of the committee to purchase the
lands belonging, to that company in this neighborhood. Shrewd in
management, and of great tact in driving a bargain, it is probable
that few persons could have done the business to better advantage
for the Amoskleag Manufacturing Conmpany than he. Many anecdotes are told of his negotiating for the lands, that show his
shrewdness in bargaining, if they do not add to his reputation as a
man' His operations as manufacturer added to his business as a
merchant, and few houses in Boston did a more extensive business
in domestics than that of Sayles & Merriam, or to greater advantage. Mr. Sayles died in 1847, at the age of fifty-five, leaving a
large property, gained by a life of energy and enterprise.
"William Amory was born April 15, 1804, in Boston. His
father, Thomas C. Amory, Esq., an eminent merchant of that city,
died in 1812, much lamented. William, his son, entered Harvard
University, in 1819, at the early age of fifteen years, and left at
the end of three years to finish,his education in Europe. He was a
student at the University at Gottingen, in GCermnany, for a year and
a half, and at the University of Berlin, for nine months, pursuing
the study of the civil law and of general literature. Ile then
spent some two years and a half in travel, retulrning, to Bostonil May
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