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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 place. 



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

 the township of old Newbury and part in that of old 

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

 towns, in 1702 built a churclji 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- 

 field, 1 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 Newburyport and thence pro- 

 ceeded to Byfield, six miles distant, in barges furnished 

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

 port and Ainesbury Horse Railroad. The route taken 

 was somewhat circuitous in order to favor 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, Chipmau and 

 Boyntou. 



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- 



1 Col. Nathaniel Byfield, son of Rev. Richard Byfleld of Long Button in Sussex, 

 came to New England in 1674. He was speaker of the House of Representatives 

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

 Bristol, afterwards of Suffolk, also of his Majesty's Council, etc. He died June 6, 

 1733. 



