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Sewall and Richard Saltonstall. It appears that for sev- 

 eral years afterwards attention was given to the raising 

 of sheep in this phice. 



The people living in this territory, part of which is in 

 the township of old Newbury and part in that of old 

 Rowley, being lit a distance from the churches of the two 

 towns, in 1702 built a church and established a parish 

 under the name of "Rowlberry." In November, 1706, it 

 was organized as the "Falls Parish," and Rev. Moses 

 Hale was settled as. the first minister. In 1710 it was 

 incorporated as that of Byfield in honor to Nathaniel By- 

 iield,^ a liberal benefactor to the parish. 



To visit this place the members of the Institute and 

 their friends took the cars of the Eastern Railroad, the 

 principal portion at Salem, the others at the several sta- 

 tions on the route, for Newl)ur3'port and thence pro- 

 ceeded to Byfield, six miles distant, in barges furnished 

 by Mr. Enoch T. Northend, proprietor of the Newbury- 

 port and Amesbury Horse Raih'oad. The route taken 

 was somewhat circuitous in order to fiwor the party with 

 an inspection of the mining region and other notable 

 places in the vicinity. A halt was made near the High- 

 field mines, where- an hour was pleasantly passed in 

 examining the grounds and witnessing the mining opera- 

 tions, by the courtesy of Messrs. Patterson, Chipman and 

 Boynton. 



At the Boynton Mine., in charge of Mr. Robertson, the 

 shaft is the deepest in the whole district. The ore last 

 taken out is the best. The Chipman works, under the 

 care of Mr. Patterson, have assumed an orderly and pros- 



^Col. Nathaniel ByfleM, son of Rev. Richard Byfield of LongDutton in Sussex, 

 came to New England in 1074. He was speake • of the House of Ueprescntatives 

 in 1093; a colonel, Judge of Probate and Common Pleas for the new county of 

 Bristol, atterwards of Suffolk, also of Ids Majesty's Councd, etc. He died June 6, 

 1733. 



