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.

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CHAPTER VII.
Concord. - The Pennacooks.- First Settlement. - State Institutions. - Ex-President
Pierce. - Isaac HIill. - Count Rumford. - Bow. - Hooksett........ I 167
CHAPTER VIII.
Amoskeag Falls. - Indians. - Fisheries. - Manchester. - History of its,Ianufac tures. - The Starks. - City Institutions. - Samuel Blodgett........ 185
CHAPTER IX.
Cohas River. - MIassabesic. - Londonderry. - Scotch-Irish Settlement. - Distin guished Men. - Derry. - Piscataquog River. - Francestown. - Weare. - Goifs town. - Bedford. - Soulegan River and Towns along its Course. - Litchfield. -
Reed's Island. —ludson.- Nashua River and the Towns watered by it.- Dun stable.- The Pequauket War. - Nashua. - Tyngsboro'. - Chelmsford. - Stony
Brook. - Dracut. - Beaver River. - John Nesmith.......... 217
CHAPTER X.
Pawtucket Falls. - Indians. - Canada. - Lowell. - History of Manufactures on the
Mierrimack. -The Concord River. -Its History.- HIlistory of its Manufactue~'s.'212
CHIAPTER XI.
Pentucklet Navigation Company. - Nicholas G. Norcross. - Andover. - Methuen. -
The Spicket. -Lawen.ce. - Iiistory of its Manlufactures. - Bradford. -Little
River. — laverhill. - The Pow-Pow. - Amesbury. - Ihistory of its Manufactures.
- Newbury. - Salisbury. - Newburyport. - Plum Island. - Seabrook. - Cone] u sion.................................. 254
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