History of Amesbury, Massachusetts, USA

Amesbury, Massachusetts
This town is situated on the N. side of Merrimack river in the county of Essex, 40 miles N.E. from Boston, 6 N.W. from Newburyport, and 7 N.E. from Haverhill. Population, 1837, 2,567. It was taken from Salisbury in 1668, and is separated from it by Powow river, a navigable stream for vessels of 300 tons. A pond covering about 1000 acres, back of the town, 90 feet above the sea, serves as a reservoir for a constant and extensive water power. The manufacture of flannel and satinet is very extensively pursued. The amount of those articles manufactured in the year ending April 1, 1837, was $425,000. Many vessels are built here of superior timber, and the manufacture of boots, shoes, leather, chairs, phaetons, gigs, and carryalls is very considerable. The total amount of the various manufactures of this place is about $500,000 annually. About half the population of the town is engaged in mechanical labor. Josiah Bartlett, M.D., one of the signers of the declaration ...

Amesbury was named after a town in England, and was originally a part of Salisbury.

Mills Village, a manufacturing place on both sides of Powow River, is partly in Amesbury and partly in Salisbury. The chief manufactures are of woollen goods.

Josiah Bartlett, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and afterwards Governor of New Hampshire, was born in this town.

Distance from Salem, 20 miles; from Boston, 40.

Amesbury, a post-township of Essex county, Massachusetts, on the N. side of the Merrimack river, and bordering on New Hampshire. The village, situated in the W. part, 40 miles N. of Boston, and about 7 miles N. W. from Newburyport, has 6 churches, and a flannel manufacturing company, with a capital of $200,000. Population, 8143.

AMESBURY, a town in Essex co. Massachusetts, U.S., 44 m. NE of Boston, on the N side of the Merrimac. Pop. 2,471.

Amesbury is a prosperous manufacturing town lying on the northern border of Essex County, between the Merrimack River and the New Hampshire line, and about 41 miles north of Boston, with which it is connected at Salisbury Point by a branch from the shore line of the Boston and Maine (formerly Eastern) Railroad. It is connected with Newburyport by the same line, and also by a street railroad. New Hampshire bounds it on the north ; on the northeast is Salisbury (separated by Powow River) ; on the south are Newburyport and Newbury, on the opposite side of the Merrimack ; and on the west is Merrimack. The area is 7,332 acres, of which 862 are woodland.

The villages are Salisbury Point and Amesbury, which are also post-offices; and the first is a railway station. The surface of the town is beautifully diversified with hill and dale, but without any extremities in elevation. Kimball's Pond, at the northwest corner of the town, is a fine sheet of water 408 acres in extent, and 90 feet...