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The PRESIDENT then made a few preliminary remarks, 

 describing the excursion from Newburyport to this place, 

 and -the historical localities visited. He also gave a brief 

 biographical sketch of the Sewall family, on whose an- 

 cient domain at the factory they made a halt. He called 

 upon Hon. William D. Northend of Salem, who was 

 born in Byfield, and there had spent his early years, to 

 give some account of Byfield, of Dummer Academy, the 

 founder, the teachers and the alumni. 



Hon. WILLIAM D. NORTHEND, in response, gave a very 

 interesting sketch of Byfield and Dummer Academy. He 

 remarked that the parish is a religious one, and at no 

 time during the last century has it numbered over one 

 hundred families ; probably no place of its size, in the 

 United States, can present .such a record of notable men. 

 Regarding them and the Academy he said : 



