tured goods. The Swamscot Ma-
chine Company, is located in this
village, and employs 175 men.
There is also one other small
machine shop, which does a line
business. There are four stores,
two hotels, two churches, one large
school house and about 100 dwell-
ings. The main street is wide,
and the buildings are neat, and
some of tjiem costly structures.

Employments. South New-Mar-
ket can justly be called a manufac-
turing town. There are annually
produced 25 engines, 1,500,000 feet
of gas pipe, 90 tons of brass and
iron fittings, 48 steam boilers, 750
tons of iron castings, and 13 tons
of brass and copper castings, be-
sides other miscellaneous machine
works, the whole being valued at
over $310,000. There are also
sawed 200,000 feet of lumber, be-
sides blacksmith and other me-
chanical work. The total value of
goods annually manufactured is
$319,000.

Resources. Agricultural prod-
ucts, $38,140; mechanical labor,
$ 109,000; stocks, and money at
interest, $ 17,934; deposits in sav-
ings banks, $46,871; stock in trade,
$ 8,400.

Churches and Schools. Metho-
dist, Rev. H. A. Mattison, pastor;
Congregational, Rev. Joseph Bart-
lett, pastor; Universalist,-;

Catholic, Father Egan, priest.
There are four schools in town,
three of which are graded. Aver-
age length of schools, for the year,
thirty-one weeks; amount of mon-
ey annually appropriated for school
purposes, $ 1,285.31.

Hotels. “ Shute House,” and
“ Elm House.”

First Settlement and First Minis-
ter. See Exeter.

Boundaries. North by New-
Market, east by Stratham, south
by Exeter, and west by Epping.
Area, about 6,000 acres; area of
improved land, 3,330 acres.

Distances. Thirty-six miles
south-east from Concord, twelve
west from Portsmouth, and four
north from Exeter.

Railroads. Boston and Maine
Railroad passes through the town
in a northerly and southerly direc-
tion, and the Portsmouth and Con-
cord in an easterly and westerly
direction.

SPRINGFIELD.

Sullivan County. The soil of
this town is strong and produces
good crops of corn, oats and po-
tatoes.

Rivers and Ponds. It is watered
by branches of Black water and
Sugar Rivers, affording some very
good water privileges. There are
several ponds, viz., Station Pond,
Cilley Pond, Star, Stony and Mor-
gan Ponds. Staticn Pond is the
largest body of water, and is 250
rods long and about 140 wide.

Employments. The people are
principally engaged in agriculture.

550,000 shingles and 350,000 feet of
boards, &c., are annually sawed.
(See tables.)

Resources. Productions of the
soil, $72,552; mechanical labor,
$1,200; stock in trade, $2,700;
deposits in savings banks, $ 19,
667.

Churches and Schools. Christian
Church, Rev. Lorenzo Bailey, pas-
tor. There are thirteen school
districts and eleven schools. Aver-
age length of schools, for the year,
sixteen weeks.

First Settlers. Israel Clifford,
Israel Clifford, jr., Nathaniel