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important branch of business.
The total value of goods annually
manufactured, is $889,000. It is
the centre of trade for the sur-
rounding towns. Tliose engaged
in agriculture find it remunera-
tive employment.
Resources. Productions of the
soil, $04,519; mechanical labor,
$ 177,000: stocks, &c., $24,500;
money at interest, $ 22,100; depos-
its in savings banks, $89,894;
stock in trade, $ 138,375; profes-
sional business, etc., $75,000.
Churches and Schools. Freewill
Baptist, Rev. DeWitt C. Durgin,
pastor: Congregational, Rev.
Isaac C. White, pastor; Metho-
dist Episcopal, Rev. A. II. Wil-
kins, pastor. Total number of
members, 465. Value of church
property. $32,000. There are two
school districts and four schools
in town. Average length of
schools for the year, twenty-four
weeks. Total amount annually
appropriated for school purposes,
$2,736.
Library. Newmarket Library
Association.
Hotels. Washington House,
Newmarket Hotel, Railroad
House.
First Settlements. Newmarket
was originally a part of Exeter,
and was separated and incorporat-
ed December 15, 1727. A large
portion of its territory was de-
tached, and the township of South
Newmarket formed June 27, 1849.
Mrs. Fanny Shnte, when thirteen
months old, was taken by a party
of Indians, carried to Canada, and
sold to the French. She was edu-
cated in a nunnery, and, after re-
maining thirteen years in captiv-
ity, was redeemed and restored to
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ed for her excellent qualities, and
very much esteemed by all who
knew her. She died here in 1819.
First Ministers. Rev. John
Moody. Congregational, ordained
in 1730, died in 1778. Rev. Na-
thaniel Ewers, settled in 1795,
died in 1832.
Boundaries. . North by Lee and
Durham, east by Great Bay, sou h
by South Newmarket, and we. t
by Epping. Area of improved
land, 4,844 acres.
Distances. Thirty-eight miles
south of east from Concord, and
eight north from Exeter.
Railroads Boston and Maine
Railroad passes through this town.
NEWPORT.
This is the shire town of Sulli-
van county. Owing to its central
location, its valuable water power,
and railroad facilities, together
with the business character of its
inhabitants, Newport has become
one of the most important and en-
terprising towns in the western
section of the State. For a number
of years it has not kept pace in
the march of improvement with
other towns in the State, inferior
in natural resources, for the lack
of railroad facilities; but that ob-
stacle has been removed by the com-
pletion of the Sugar River Rail-
road, to this town, in November,
1871, and to Claremont, in the fall
of 1872. Since the first date, bus-
iness, iri every department, has
made rapid strides, and improve-
ments are seen on every hand.
The surface of the town is gener-
ally uneven, frequently broken by
considerable elevations; but on
the box-ders of the Sugar River
and its branches are large tracts
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