S. W. from Middlebury, and 26 N. from Whitehall, N. Y. The lake here is about a mile wide. Popu- lation, 1830, 2,137. The surface of the town is level and the soil re- markably good. This is one of the best farming towns in the state. In 1837, there was 26,584 sheep in Shoreham. There are some manu- factures in the town, and a pleasant and flourishing village on the banks of the lake. Most of the waters here are impregnated with Epsom salts. See Bridport.
Shoreham was first settled in 1766, by a number of persons who adopted the plan of holding all things in common. This mode of holding property was, however, relinquish- ed about the time of the revolu- tionary war.
Shrewsbury, Vt.
Rutland co. This town lies 22 miles W. from Windsor and 9 S. E. from Rutland. Population, in 1S30, 1,239. This is amountainous township, having Shrewsbury Peak within its limits, a summit 4,034 feet above the sea. Mill and Cold riv- ers and Peal’s and Ashley’s Ponds water the town, and fall into Otter Creek. There is some good land in this mountain town, and between three and four thousand sheep graze on its surface.
Sh-rewstonry, Mass.
Worcester co. This is an agri- cultural town of a pleasing variety of surface, and good soil, 36 miles W. by S. from Boston and 6 E. from Worcester. Quinsigamond or Long Pond lies principally in this town. It is nearly four miles in length and from 40 to 250 rods in width. It empties into the Blackstone river and canal, and produces a consider- able hydraulic power. A floating bridge crosses this pond for the ac- commodation of the Worcester turn- pike, 525 feet in length, built in 1818, and cost $6,000.
The manufactures of Shrewsbury |
consist of clothing, guns, hats. chairs, straw bonnets, leather, boots, shoes, &c: the value of which, dur- ing the year ending April 1, 1837, was $211,287. The town was in- corporated, 1727. Population, 1830, 1,386; 1837, 1,507.
Levi Pease, the father of mail stages in this country, was a native of this town. He died here in 1824, aged 86. Mr. Pease was a man of great enterprise; he projected the first turnpike road in New England, and to his zeal and sacrifices the public is more indebted than to any other man for its excellent mail es- tablishment. At the* time Mr. Pease started his first line of mail stages between Boston and New York, in 1784,* the mail between those places passed only once a fort- night, on horseback, in a pair of saddlebags.
Shutesbury, Mass.
This town is on high land, 10 miles E. from Connecticut river, 9 N. by E. from Amherst, 16 S. S.E. from Greenfield, and 78 W. by N. from Boston. Incorporated, 1761. Population, 1837,816. Copper ore, and soapstone, are found here. On Swift river are three shingle mills and a wheel factory. There is a mineral spring of some note in this town, containing, in solution, iron, sulphur, &cc. There is also a pond, covering about 700 acres, with an abundance of fine fish.
Ephraim Pratt lived in this town many years, and died here in 180*4, aged 116 years. He married at the age of 21, and could count 1,500 descendants. He was a very tem- perate man, so much so that for 40 years he took no animal food. He was a farmer, and his health was so uniformly good that he was able to mow a good swath 101 years in suc- cession. He was born at Sudbury, 168-7.
Sidney, Me.
Kennebec co. Sidney is very |