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“Duxbury and Its Origin ” 
Subject of a Talk by Rev. E. J. V. Huiginn Before Manchester Men’s 
Brotherhood. 
Rev. E. J. V. Huiginn of Beverly 
addressed a large gathering of men 
at the Men’s Brotherhood on Monday 
evening at the Baptist church, Man- 
chester. He spoke on “Duxbury and 
its Origin.” 
He said in part: “When I went to 
Duxbury there was very little known 
about its first settlers, its roads, or 
its churches. I was interested to 
know more concerning these things, 
and I started out in search for facts. 
First I came across an old cemetery 
over-run with weeds, with the tomb- 
stones tipped over and a great many 
missing. Looking into this matter, | 
found many of the stones reclining 
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at Morton’s hole 
of relatives of the deceased. I at 
once took steps to straighten these 
matters out and therefore founded 
the Duxbury Rural society. 
“We began at once on the cemetery 
near Hog’s Point, and looking into 
the old records we found that the 
body of Myles Standish must be bur- 
ied there. The records told us that 
the -grave was marked with triangu- 
lar stones. We dug at this place but 
did not discover the body. I then 
went into town meeting, and blew up 
everybody there until | was given the 
privilege of working out the records 
of the old town. I got permission and 
went to the town clerk and obtained 
the records: 150 years back. I found 
out where the first roads were and 
how many there were at that time, 
and by whom built. I found out the 
place of the first meeting house and 
the first minister’s house. 
“It was Brewster who put in the 
first three roads in 1632 through 
Duxbury. In 1638 Standish & Brew- 
ster tried to get the town put the roads 
in good condition, but we do not find 
any records that this was ever done. 
In 1715 the town voted to build a 
new road nearer the seashore. We 
found that the first’ meeting-house 
was west of the road. 
“The first ministers house was 
placed near the church and the land 
was granted by the town. In the rec- 
ords we found when the town was 
authorized to have a seine-net placed 
to catch fish. In 
1688 Mr. Wordsworth, the town clerk, 
died, stating that there had been 84 
deaths during his time of clerkship. 
“Standish, who had died in 1656, 
was said to have been buried in var- 
ious places, but the records pointed 
to the fact that 2 boys, 2 women and 
an old man were buried in the spot 
supposed to be the grave of Standish 
and his family. I got permission to 
dig for their graves and tried to prove 
once and for all that Standish was 
buried in Duxbury. We dug and 
found the bodies of 2 boys, 2 women, 
and an old man. We proved without 
doubt that the 2 boys were his sons as 
they were about the age of 16 years at 
their death as the records showed. 
The women were no doubt the daugh- 
ters of Standish; the body of the old 
man was without question the body 
of Myles Standish himself, for the 
construction of his head was the same 
as the descendants that stood by as 
we took their bodies up and out of 
the graves. We know Standish was 
an old man when he died, and the 
records showed that all were buried 
exactly as found. 
“We have for a certainty cleared 
up the resting place of Standish and 
his family. We built new boxes and 
replaced the bodies in the grave which 
we had dug. 
“We looked into the matters per- 
taining to the old ministers and their 
places of worship and found that 
many things had never been recorded. 
“After our work was done we had 
an attested copy made of our proofs 
and. then had the matter placed in 
book form for the coming generations 
to. read.” 
A social hour followed and a lunch 
was served. Mr. Tyler was appoint- 
ed secretary because of the resigna- 
tion of Robert M. Baker. The next 
meeting will be next Monday evening. 
“THE SONG Brrps” at B. F. Kerru’s 
THEATRE 
One of the biggest and most unique 
novelties of the season is promised 
for B. F. Keith’s Theatre next week 
in William Burress’ musical product- 
ion,” Lhe Song “Birds,” ‘This.-- 1s <.a 
splendid organization of brilliant solo- 
ists, most of whom have been identi- 
fied with the Metropolitan Opera 
Company of New York, in a series of 
impersonations of the famous operatic 
stars of the present day. All of the 
oddities and characteristics of the 
great singers are burlesqued in the 
most amusing fashion. The Thomas 
A. Edison Kinetophone will exhibit a 
brand new series of talking motion 
pictures, and another brilliant feature 
will be the Royal Kitamura Japanese 
MANCHESTER 
Joun W. CAMPBELL 
John W. Campbell, in the provis- 
ion business in Manchester for 25 
years, passed away at his home on 
School. street, Manchester, last Tues- 
day night at the age of 57 years, 11 
months, after a lingering illness for 
the past two years. 
Mr. Campbell was born in Swamp- 
scott, April 29, 1855. When a boy 
his family moved to Boston, where 
he was educated in the public schools. 
He came to Beverly Farms in 1882 
and in November, 1885, he came to 
Manchester to work for the late Clif- 
ford Goodridge, who was in the meat 
and provision business. _ He shortly 
went in business with Mr. Goodridge, 
and later with Frost Hubbard. He 
continued in the business until two. 
years ago, when he sold his interest in 
the firm of Campbell & Hinchliffe, 
to the latter and retired because of 
failing health. 
Mr. Campbell was a man highly re- 
spected in the community. In his. 
capacity as provision dealer fora 
quarter of a century, he was brought 
in touch with shore residents, many of. 
whom dealt with him for that number 
of years. ade 
He was a charter member of. the 
Manchester club, and was honored by 
his townsmen by being elected sev- 
eral years a member of the Republi- 
can Town Committee. He was also 
a member of the Pilgrim Fathers and — 
of the A.O.U.W. : 
He is survived by a widow and two: 
sisters, Mrs. William H. Nye and 
Mrs. William E. ‘Thomas, both of 
Watertown. ies 
Funeral services were held this af- 
ternoon from his late residence on 
School street. Rev. C. Arthur Lin- 
coln, formerly of Manchester, now of 
Lowell, officiated. Interment was in 
Rosedale cemetery. 
Troupe of Oriental acrobats and won- 
der workers. The Bison City Four, 
the policeman, the dago, the bar-ten- 
der, and the tramp, will blend a series 
of melodies musical numbers with a 
picture of daily life on the streets of 
New York, while Carl Henry and 
Nellie Francis, late stars at the head 
of their own company in the musical. 
comedy field, will appear in their lat-. 
est medley of foolishness and chatter. 
No matter how fanciful a man may 
be, he can’t draw on his imagination 
for money. 
Don’t jump at conclusions unless 
you know they are there. 
