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glass, making bricks, making iron from the ore, building 

 boats and ships from which they caught the fish, which 

 when cured they carried to other countries, returning with 

 freight for the necessities and comfort of the people. 



Essex was providing for her people in the present, and 

 commencing the foundation of those industries which have 

 made her so prosperous and wealthy. 



A short sketch will show some of the branches of busi- 

 ness and where commenced. 

 In 1633, a corn mill was established in Lynn, said to be 



the second in the country. 

 1664, a tannery was planted at Ipswich. 

 1635, a rope walk at Salem. 



1635, two shoemakers Rutland and Bridge commenced 

 shoemaking at Lynn ; which business largely in- 

 creased, many men working their farms in summer 

 and making shoes in winter. 



1639, goat skins and hides were tanned and dressed at 

 Salem. 



1640, a fulling mill was built at Rowley the first in this 

 country. 



1643, ship building was commenced at Salem, and for a 



hundred years the shipping of Salem dominated the 



commerce of the country. 

 The same year it was commenced at Gloucester, four ships 



being launched there that year. 

 The same year iron works commenced at Saugus, supplied 



with bog ore. 

 1643, glass works were started at Salem. 



The saw mill was slow of introduction here as it had 

 been in England where no saw mill was allowed by the 

 Sawyers till late in the last century ; although invent- 

 ed and used somewhat in German}^ the English 

 sawed by hand. Here some sawing was done in the 

 pit, but most of the plank, boards, clapboards and 

 shingles were rived or split and hewed; in 1631 they 

 were run in that part of Massachusetts adjoining Es- 



