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ADDRESS,

DELIVERED AT

TOPSFIELD

IN MASSACHUSETTS,

AUGUST 28, 1850:

THE TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY

OF THE

INCORPORATION

OF THE TOWN.,

BY NEHEMIAH CLEAVELAND.

"So many grateful altars I would rear
Of grassy turf, and pile up every stone
Of lustre from the brook, in memory,
Or monument to ages."

MILTON.

NEW YORK.

PUDNEY & RUSSELL, PRINTERS.

....

1851.

Certain portions of the Address here published, were, on account of its length, omitted in the delivery. The preparation of the appendix, and other causes, have delayed its appearance, but not, it is believed, without a compensatory advantage. For the means of giving a likeness of GOVERNOR BRADSTReet, now for the first time copied and published, I am indebted to SOLOMON WILDES, Esq., of Boston, and others of the Governor's descendants. I acknowledge simi

lar obligations to ASAHEL HUNTINGTON, Esq., of Salem, and to JOHN CLEAVELAND, Esq., of New-York. Mr. C. M. ENDICOTT lent the use of his engraved steel plate.

BROOKLYN, N. Y., Dec. 12th, 1850.