32 3 158 4 40 33 Male polls, not taxed, not supported by the 5 Male polls, supported by the town. 225 Dwelling-houses. 1 Shops in or adjoining dwelling-houses. 39 Other shops. [town. 39 1 Fulling-mill [for hides]. 2 Saw-mills. Other mills. 226 Barns. 57 Other buildings of $20 value, and upwards. 4,800 19,800 Stock in trade. 115 1,653 Rowley Georgetown. Cows-rights in common pastures. 1,239 Acres of woodland. 128 116 388 172 219 168 1,790 covered with water. 133 Horses of one year old, and upwards. 127 Steers and heifers one year old, and upwards. STATISTICS. By a Statistical Return, made pursuant to a law of the Commonwealth, of certain articles manufactured during the year ending April 1st, 1837, it appears there were manufactured in Rowley, in said year, 32,600 pairs of boots, 300,250 pairs of shoes, valued at $315,360. Males employed, 518, females, 192. 16 tauneries in the town. Number of hides tanned, 11,600. Value of leather tanned and curried, $43,400. Hands employed, 31. Capital invested, $33,500. Value of all the boots and shoes manufactured in the State, $14,642,520; of which, Rowley manufactured about one forty-sixth part, with about one fifty-fifth part of the hands employed in the State. QUADRUPEDS. The Wolf, Bear, Deer, Moose, and other quadrupeds, were common when our ancestors first settled this country. The Wolf was the most troublesome in this town, and it was a long time before they were wholly extirpated. The Colony early gave a bounty of forty shillings per head for each wolf killed. To receive the bounty, the heads of the wolves must be brought to the constable of the town and buried. By a law of 1648, the selectmen of each town were authorzied to " purchase as many hounds as they think meet, and to impose the keeping on such as they think fittest, so that all means may be improved for the destruction of wolves." "Four Josselyn, in "New England Rarities," page 84, tells of another method of destroying these animals, viz. mackerel hookes across are bound with brown thread, and then some wool is wrapped around them, and they are dipped into melted tallow till they be as big and round as an egg. This thing, thus prepared, is laid by some dead carcase, which toles the wolves. It is swallowed by them, and is the means of their being taken. The town of Rowley for many years constantly paid a bounty for the destruction of wolves, in addition to the bounty paid by the Colony. "1661. Lieut. Samuel Brocklebank, Henry Rily, Thomas Wood, John Grant, Jachin Rainer, and John Mighill, having engaged to make a pen to catch wolves, had that privilege granted, that nobody else shall make any pen any where upon the Cow Commons during the space of three years, and they are to have for every wolf taken by their pen fifty shillings, paid by the town." 1669. The Town granted a bounty of twenty shillings per head, for each wolf killed by any inhabitant of the town. Several pens for catching wolves were built in this town. One was upon the Cow Common, as before mentioned, not far distant from the most settled part of the town. One was near the Mill River, somewhere below Symonds's Bridge. One was in Symonds's field, westerly of where Jonathan Taylor now lives, and one was upon the three thousand acres, made by John Spofford and sons. The town required the Village people to pay the bounty on those wolves caught in Spofford's pen. The town early paid a bounty for killing foxes. In 1666, two shillings and sixpence per head was paid. 1739. Dec. 25, John Hazen and John Holmes were appointed for the purpose of informing against any person or persons who shall kill any Deer, Buck, or Fawn, contrary to the law in such case provided. The law requiring towns to appoint deer reeves was continued in force till within a few years. TOWN PAUPERS. For seventy-five years from the settlement of the town, the inhabitants were at very little public expense, for the support of their poor. The first mention made upon the town records of any pauper is in 1678, when the town were at some expense for one goodwife Marble. Several letters passed between Rowley and Bradford on the subject of her maintenance. The Rowley Selectmen seem to see it quite clear, that she belonged to Bradford; the Bradford Selectmen expressed great pity for the woman, but could not see it quite so clear that she belonged to them to support. How the question was finally settled is not known. In 1699, Goodee Russell was chargeable as a pauper. In 1713, Mark Prime was appointed sole Overseer of the Poor, and John Jackson was the only pauper, who continued such to his death, Feb. 23, 1718-19. The town paid seven shillings per week for his board a part of the time, perhaps more at other times. (The price of Indian corn, as established by the town, was then two shillings and six pence per bushel.) In 1717, John Kendrick; 1726, John Shepard and wife; 1729, Widow Woodbury, and her son Ebenezer; 1732, Hannah Goodwin; 1746, Robert Martin, all became chargeable as paupers, and probably others. From 1726 to 1750, a period of twenty-five years, the average expense to the town for support to the poor, was £31 8s. 6d. per year. The funeral expenses of two individuals, who died during the period just mentioned, were as follows, viz. For Hannah Goodwin, who died in 1746: Sheet, 4s. 41d.; coffin, 6s. 3d., grave, 2s. 6d. ; tolling bell, 3d.; two quarts of rum, 2s. 6d. ; time spent, 2s. 6d. Total, 18s. 44d. For Robert Martin, who died 1750: Sheet, 5s.; coffin, 6s. 8d.; grave, 2s. 6d. ; rum and cider, 5s. ; six quarts of distilled water, 2s. 8d. Total, £1 1s. 10d. From 1751 to 1775, another period of twenty-five years, the average expense of the poor was a trifle less, it is believed, than it was the preceding twenty-five years. In 1757, Robin Mingo, a free man of color, an inhabitant of Rowley, sickened and died at the house of Joseph Noyes, in Newbury, Byfield Parish. The town of Rowley paid Noyes for ten weeks' board and nursing in last sickness, £3 4s. 11d. They also paid for four pairs of gloves to the bearers. Robin was a member of the Byfield Church. He had formerly owned and lived in a small house standing on Rowley side of Byfield Parish, upon land adjoining the road leading from Symonds's Bridge to Leighton's Corner, so called, lately owned by Joseph Searle, deceased. From 1776 to 1800, the expense of the poor was considerably increased. The average was about $262 per year. In 1776, the whole amount granted by the town for support of poor, was £ 17 6s.; in 1800, $ 448. From 1801 to 1810, the average expense was about $637 per year. From 1811 to 1818, about $ 1215 per year; for 1818, about $ 1700, exclusive of State paupers. Up to this time, the poor had been boarded with those |