Sentinels were posted at the doors. In spite of the hardship and danger, the population steadily increased in number and gradually improved its worldly condition. Being cramped for room, the settlers moved up to the upper or training green. This was in order to get tillable land and engage in commercial pursuits. This movement began in Each had been allotted half an acre for a building lot on the lower green, on the upper green each was to have four acres for a house lot.
Also on the upper green a new pond was artificially formed for watering cattle. The new town gradually extended along the Merrimack River to the mouth of the Artichoke River. It appears that all desirable land in this region was apportioned among the freeholders by October The land beyond was ordered to lie perpetually common. This tract of common land was a part of Newbury and what is now West Newbury. The Indian threat had disappeared as most of the Indians in the region had been exterminated by an epidemic.
The first record of an Indian living in Newbury is in January , when a lot was granted to "John Indian. In , Edward Rawson began the manufacture of gun powder in what was probably America's first powder mill.
Newbury had a trial for witchcraft thirteen years before the trials in Salem. In , Elizabeth Morse was accused. She was condemned three times to die, but was reprieved and spent her last years in her home, at what is now Market square in Newburyport. He practiced his trade in what is now Newburyport. Jeremiah was the father of Governor William Dummer the founder of Gov.
Dummer Academy. Jeremiah's brother-in-law, John Coney, engraved the plates for the first paper money made in America. In , when the upper Commons West Newbury were divided among the freeholders of the town of Newbury, Pipestave Hill was covered with a dense forest of oak and birch. Her angry response was to appear naked in the Meeting House. She was ordered to appear at the Salem court, and was then taken to Ipswich and severely whipped. Gathering salt marsh hay - Salt marsh hay is still gathered on the North Shore today.
The grass was stacked on staddles to raise it above the high tides, and was hauled away on sleds over the frozen marsh in mid-winter. A romantic tale from the Great Snow of Feb. In some places houses were completely buried, and paths were dug from house to house under the snow. A widow in Medford burned her furniture to keep the children warm. John Eales, Beehive Maker - The inhabitants of Newbury perceived bee-keeping as a new and profitable industry, but needed someone with experience.
John Eales, an elderly pauper who had been sent away to Ipswich, was returned by the Court to Newbury to assist them in their efforts. The Town was instructed how much to charge him for his upkeep.
William Franklin of Newbury, hanged for the death of an indentured child in - Nathaniel Sewell, a child taken from England, was with continual rigor and unmerciful correction, exposed in the winter season with diverse acts of hardship. Postcards from Newburyport - A n online collection of postcards from the early 20th Century.
Joppa Flats, Newburyport - In the late 19th Century, clam shacks proliferated along a stretch of the Merrimack River in Newburyport known as Joppa Flats, providing clams to the Boston area. The tradition was continued by English settlers in America. The Great Newburyport fire, May 31, - Nearly buildings burned, and upwards of ninety families lost their homes and the means of furnishing themselves with the necessities of life.
Newburyport and its Neighborhood in , by Harriet Prescott Spofford - "The history of Newburyport, and of her mother Newbury, much of which has become incorporated with herself, is replete with striking facts and marvels. He declared himself to be "the greatest philosopher in the known world.
Bombshell from Louisbourg - Mounted securely to a stone post at the corner of Middle and Independent Streets in Newburyport, there was for many years a large cast-iron bombshell, thrown from a mortar at the Second Siege of Louisbourg, Nova Scotia in Newburyport interactive map keeps history alive - Mary Baker, producer of the Newburyport Blog, created an interactive map telling the stories of historic places in Newburyport.
The Newburyport Tea Party - When Parliament laid a tax on tea, the British locked all the tea that had arrived in Newburyport into the powder house.
Eleazer Johnson led a group of men who shattered the door and burned the tea in Market Square. The Sham Robbery of Elijah Goodrich on his own person, tried in Ipswich - Representing the defendants, Daniel Webster appealed to the jury to say under oath whether the inconsistencies and improbabilities of the prosecution should have any weight.
Jane Hooper, the fortune-teller - Jane Hooper was in a Newburyport "school dame" but after she lost that job she found fame as a fortune-teller. When the Madame made her yearly visit to Ipswich, the young and the old called on her to learn of their fates. The tragic story of Rebecca Rawson, - Rebecca Rawson of Newbury became one of the most popular young ladies in Boston society. She married a charming but cunning young man who left her desolate in London.
On her return to America, the ship was swallowed by a tsunami. Hope you enjoy the website. Newbury started life as a Saxon settlement known as 'Ulvritone' which located south of the River Kennet, the settlement was later called New Burgh. Burgh is an old English word, originally it meant a fort or fortified settlement and then it came to mean a town. Burgh is the origin of our word borough, in time New Burgh became Newbury.
By the middle of the 11th century Newbury had become a town with no more than 1, inhabitants and had the right to hold a fair and a market. Buyers and sellers would come from all over Berkshire and North Hampshire to attend a Newbury fair, which were held only once a year for a period of days.
During the late 15th century cloth manufactured in Newbury and was highly regarded on the continent, by the 17th century this trade had virtually ceased. The most famous clothier was John Winchcombe known locally as " Jack of Newbury ". Another well-known clothier was Thomas Dolman who lived in the grand Shaw House. During the English Civil war of , Newbury was the site of two battles. The First Battle of Newbury was in when the Earl of Essex was returning to London after relieving the siege of Gloucester and found his way barred by King Charles's army.
Essex won after the King's army ran out of gunpowder. The Castle was besieged for 20 months and eventually fell to the Parliamentarians, the King's defenders known as the Royalists of the castle were allowed to withdraw before the Castle was reduced to a ruin.
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