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William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2, Chapter 10: Middlesex County. (search)
ntained were 196 shirts, 215 pairs of drawers, 91 dressing gowns, 357 handkerchiefs, 99 towels, etc. The money value of the contributions was nearly eighteen hundred dollars. Newton Incorporated Dec. 15, 1691. Population in 1860, 8,382; in 1865, 8,978. Valuation in 1860, $7,146,081; in 1865, $9,800,738. The selectmen of the town during the entire war were Thomas Rice, Jr., Samuel F. Dix, F. A. Collins, Orrin Whipple, J. F. C. Hyde. The town-clerk during the same period was Marshall S. Rice, and the town-treasurer was Edward J. Collins. 1861. On the day the Massachusetts Sixth Regiment (April 19th) was attacked in Baltimore, the selectmen issued a warrant for a town-meeting to be held on the 29th, to see what action the town would take in regard to the war. At that meeting D. H. Mason introduced a series of resolutions, with a preamble, setting forth the actual state of the country, and the determination of the town to do every thing in its power to support the Governm