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Hamilton, Essex, MA
In June 1638, John Winthrop the Younger, son of the founder of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, bought most of present-day Essex County from Masconomet, chief of the Agawam Indians, for the sum of twenty English pounds. A memorial stone on Sagamore Hill in southeastern Hamilton marks where Mosconomet was buried with his gun and tomahawk around 1658.
Hamilton was first settled in 1638 and was originally a section of Ipswich known as "The Hamlet". The first recorded land grant in the Hamlet was Matthew Whipple’s farm, dated 1638. Three years later the new stagecoach road from Boston to Newburyport (Bay Road) was laid out through the Whipple land. Other early settlers of the Hamlet, including the Appletons, Winthrops, Lamsons, and Dodges, were attracted by countryside similar to the English farms and estates they had left behind.
The town was incorporated on June 21, 1793, and named for Alexander Hamilton, whose portrait became the town seal in 1903. hamiltonma.gov
Hamilton includes: Asbury Grove, Centennial Grove Station, Miles River Station, and Woodburys Station.
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Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates - 1793 - Hamilton is incorporated
Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates - 1845 - HAMILTON. [Pop. 818. Inc. 1793.]
Hamilton, formerly a part of Ipswich, was named after Alexander Hamilton, a distinguished statesman, and fiiend of Washington.
Agriculture ...Read MORE... - 1854 - Hamilton
Hamilton, a post-township of Essex county, Massachusetts, bordering on the Ipswich river, and intersected by the Eastern railroad, 22 miles N. by E. f...Read MORE... - 1859
HAMILTON, a township in Essex co., in Massachusetts, 22 m. NNE of Boston, on a branch of Ipswich river. Pop. 818.
A Gazetteer of the World: Or, Dictionary of Geographical Knowledge, Publisher A. Fullarton, 1859 - Hamilton Massachusetts, 1890
Hamilton is a pleasant rural town in the central part of Essex County, and is intersected by the Eastern line of the Boston and. Maine Railroad, 24 mi...Read MORE... - 1895 - Hamilton
Hamilton, a post-village and summer resort of Essex co., Mass., in Hamilton township, on the Eastern Railroad (Essex Branch), 8 miles N. of Salem. It ...Read MORE... 
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"The Hounds" Myopia Hunt Club, Hamilton, Mass.
"Myopia Hunt Club is a foxhunting and private country club, located in South Hamilton, Massachusetts...
Myopia Hunt Club was founded in 1882 by J. Murray Forbes. The golf course was designed and... Read MORE...
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1910 - GALE FANS FLAMES THAT WORK $200,000 DAMAGE IN STATE.
Conflagration at South Hamilton Sweeps Away 21 Buildings and Renders 15 Homeless - Ice Houses Burn in Essex, Seven Homes in Revere.
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Idlewood Lake Grove, Hamilton, Mass.
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Hamilton, a post-village and summer-resort of Essex co., Mass., in Hamilton township (town), on the Boston and Maine R., 8 miles N. of Salem. Pop. of ...Read MORE...
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"Myopia Hunt Club is a foxhunting and private country club, located in South Hamilton, Massachusetts...
Myopia Hunt Club was founded in 1882 by J. Murray Forbes. The golf course was designed and built by Herbert C. Leeds in 1894 and he continued working at the Club for over 30 years...
Myopia also features one of the oldest continually running polo fields in the nation. Gibney Field, formerly used as a pasture, was mowed and used for practice in the summer of 1888..." wikipedia)
"The Hounds" Myopia Hunt Club, Hamilton, Mass.
"Myopia Hunt Club is a foxhunting and private country club, located in South Hamilton, Massachusetts...
Myopia Hunt Club was founded in 1882 by J. Murray Forbes. The golf course was designed and... Read MORE...
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1638 - Hamilton is settled
Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
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1793 - Hamilton is incorporated
Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
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1845 - HAMILTON. [Pop. 818. Inc. 1793.]
Hamilton, formerly a part of Ipswich, was named after Alexander Hamilton, a distinguished statesman, and fiiend of Washington.
Agriculture ... Read MORE...
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1854 - Hamilton
Hamilton, a post-township of Essex county, Massachusetts, bordering on the Ipswich river, and intersected by the Eastern railroad, 22 miles N. by E.... Read MORE...
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1859
HAMILTON, a township in Essex co., in Massachusetts, 22 m. NNE of Boston, on a branch of Ipswich river. Pop. 818.
A Gazetteer of the World: Or, Dictionary of Geographical Knowledge, Publisher A. Fullarton, 1859
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Hamilton Massachusetts, 1890
Hamilton is a pleasant rural town in the central part of Essex County, and is intersected by the Eastern line of the Boston and. Maine Railroad, 24... Read MORE...
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1895 - Hamilton
Hamilton, a post-village and summer resort of Essex co., Mass., in Hamilton township, on the Eastern Railroad (Essex Branch), 8 miles N. of Salem. It ... Read MORE...
1910 - GALE FANS FLAMES THAT WORK $200,000 DAMAGE IN STATE.
Conflagration at South Hamilton Sweeps Away 21 Buildings and Renders 15 Homeless - Ice Houses Burn in Essex, Seven Homes in Revere.
ASHLAND IS... Read MORE...
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1916
Hamilton, a post-village and summer-resort of Essex co., Mass., in Hamilton township (town), on the Boston and Maine R., 8 miles N. of Salem. Pop. of ... Read MORE...
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