The Australian trade was commenced in 1832, by the Salem ship Tybee, Charles Millett, master, at Sydney, and that was the first American vessel to enter Australian ports. The trade came to an end in 1837.

Considerable trade was carried on with Nova Scotia from about 1840 to 1857. Since that time there has been but little. For about ten years, from 1837 to 1847, Salem was engaged in the whale fisheries.

The whole aspect of the old maritime section of Salem is now changed. Many of the old shops on Derby street remain, dingy and worn, and ware-houses have been transformed into coal-houses, coal being now the principal article of importation. Mansions of the old merchants are to be found around Washington square, many of them elegant and large, but those that remain in the old commercial section are dilapidated and changed. The influence of the energy, enterprise, fearlessness and far-sightedness of the old-time merchants will, however, remain for centuries.

The engraving at the beginning of this sketch is that of the ship Mindoro, the only survivor of the full-rigged merchant ships of Salem, lying at the historic Derby wharf in Salem harbor. It was built in Boston in 1864 by John Taylor for Messrs. Pickman & Silsbee, merchants of Salem, by whom it has always been owned. It measures one hundred and sixty-seven feet in length, thirty-five feet in breadth, and twenty-three and one-half feet in depth. Its gross tonnage measurement is one thousand and twenty-one and ninetyfive one-hundredths tons, and the net, nine hundred and seventy and fifty-seven one-hundredths tons. Its first commander was Capt. Charles H. Allen, jr., and his successors, Captains Reynolds, Bray, Gardner, Beadle, Hutchinson, Powers,

for a year, having in all probability made its last port.

NOTES.

Philip Godfrid Kast kept an apothecary at "the Sign of the Lyon and Mortar" in Salem in 1768.

Edward Griffiths, "taylor and habitmaker from London, " resided "next door to Major Read's" in Marblehead in 1768.

William Vans kept a country store on "the Corner leading from the main Street to the North-River Bridge" in Salem in 1768.

William Jones kept the King's-Head tavern "in Danvers, on the road from Boston to Salem," in 1768.- Essex Gazette, Aug. 2, 1768.

Salem, Aug. 9, 1768. "On Thursday Evening laft, Mr. JOSEPH CABOT, of this town, was married to Mifs REBECCA ORNE, eldeft Daughter of Mr. TIMOTHY ORNE, late an eminent Merchant of this Place.' -Essex Gazette, Aug. 9, 1768.

The following persons, from Essex county, settled in Henniker, N. H. :

Capt. Aaron Adams, from Rowley, about 1772, and his brother Israel about 1775. Stephen Adams, from Rowley, about

1772.

David Clough (born in Salem, 1752), in 1778.

Eliphalet Colby, from Amesbury, about 1770.

Moses Duston, from Haverhill, about 1771.

George Hoyt (a native of Salisbury), about 1783.

Jedediah Kilburn (a native of Rowley), about 1768.

William Mirrick (a native of Newbury), about 1778.

Samuel Paige, from Haverhill, about

1795.

has sailed in many waters, carrying cargoes to and from China and the East Indies, Australia, Cape Town, San Francisco, It has now been lying at the wharf

etc.

1798.

Simeon Rogers, from Newbury, in 1780.

-History of Henniker, N. H.

NEW ENGLAND'S DEAD.

New England's dead! New England's dead!

On every hill they lie;

On every field of strife, made red

By bloody victory.

Each valley, where the battle poured

Its red and awful tide,

Beheld the brave New England sword
With slaughter deeply dyed.
Their bones are on the northern hill,
And on the southern plain,

By brook and river, lake and rill,

And by the roaring main.

The land is holy where they fought,

And holy where they fell;

For by their blood that land was bought, The land they loved so well.

Then glory to that valiant band,

The honored saviors of the land.
J. McLellan, Jr.

SOLDIERS AND SAILORS OF THE REVOLUTION.

The following list is made up from the official records of the State, and contains the names of all soldiers and sailors of the Revolution that are given as belonging to Essex county. There are doubtless

names of others on the official lists who belonged in the county, but the records do not state their residence.

WOOD ABAAHAM of Marblehead; of the crew of ship Rambler, May 27, 1780, commanded by Capt. Benjamin Lovett; age, 15 yrs.; stature, 4 ft., 8 in.; complexion, light.

JOHN ABBET of Marblehead; private in Capt. Baker's co., Col. Hutchinson's reg.; in service, 1776; enl. for 12 mos.; reported, deserted.

JOBE ABBIT of Andover; priv. in Capt. Samuel Johnson's co., Col. Titcomb's reg.; enl. Apr. 27, 1777; dis. June 27, 1777; service, 2 mos., 9 dys.; marched to Providence, R. I.

ABBOT of West parish of Ipswich ; corp. in Capt. Abram How's co., which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775; service, 2 dys.

ASA ABBOT of Andover; priv. in Capt. Henry Abbot's co., which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775; service, 11⁄2 dys.

BENJAMIN ABBOT of Andover; enl. into Continental Army, from Capt. Samuel Johnson's co., before Feb 17, 1778; enl. to expire Jan. 1, 1780; joined Capt. Benjamin Farnum's co., Col. Ebenezer Francis' reg.; pay abstract for 48 days' rations from Feb. 20, 1777, the date of enl., to time of arrival at Bennington; also, in Capt. Abbott's co., Col. Tupper's reg.; Continental Army pay accounts for service from Feb. 20, 1777, to Nov. 5, 1778; reported, died Nov. 5, 1778.

BENJAMIN ABBOT of Andover; on pay roll for Andover 6 mos. men in Continental Army in 1780; marched June 26, 1780; dis. Dec. 15, 1780; service, 6 mos., I dy.; also, on list of men raised for 6 mos. service, returned by Brig.-Gen. Paterson on having passed muster in a return dated Camp Totoway Oct. 25, 1780.

BENJAMIN ABBOT, JR., of Andover; drummer in Lt. Peter Poor's co., which marched on the alarm of Apr. 19, 1775, to Cambridge; service, 31⁄2 dys. ; also, on receipt for advance pay, dated Camp at Cambridge June 22, 1775; also, in Capt. William Perley's co., Col. Frye's reg.; muster roll dated Aug. 1, 1775; enl. May 5, 1775; service, 3 mos., 4 dys.; also, on return of same co., probably in Oct., 1775; also, on coat order dated Cambridge Nov. 14, 1775; also, on return of men enl. into the Continental Army from Capt. Samuel Johnson's (1st Andover) co., Essex co. reg., dated Feb. 17, 1778; enl. to expire Jan. 1, 1780; joined Capt. Farnum's co., Col. Francis' reg.; also, on pay abstract of Capt. Benjamin Farnum's co., Col. Ebenezer Francis' reg., for 48 days rations from Feb. 20, 1777, to time of arrival at Bennington; also, drummer in Capt. Abbot's co., Col. Tupper's reg; Continental Army accounts for service from Feb. 20, 1777, to Dec. 31, 1779; also, on muster roll for March, 1779, dated at West Point; also, on Continental Army pay accounts for service from Jan. I, 1780, to Dec. 31, 1780; also, on descriptive list of enl. men from Andover; age, 18 yrs.; stature, 5 ft. 6 in.; complexion, light; hair, light; occupation, hus

bandman; enl. April 19, 1779; joined Capt. Stephen Abbott's co., 10th reg.; enl., during war, by Lt. Libby at West Point; also, on muster and pay roll in Col. Benjamin Tupper's (10th) reg.; service, 5 mos.; roll made up from Jan. 1, 1782, to Jan. 1, 1783.

BIXBY ABBOT of Andover; corp. in Capt. Benjamin Ames' Co., Col. James Frye's reg., which marched on the alarm of Apr. 19, 1775; service, 7 dys. ; also, on return of men in camp at Cambridge May 17, 1775; also, on company return dated Oct. 6, 1775; also, on coat order dated Cambridge Nov. 14, 1775.

CALEB ABBOT of Andover; priv. in Capt. Benjamin Ames' co., Col. James Frye's reg., which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775; service, 7 dys.; also, on return of men in camp at Cambridge May 17, 1775; also, on list of men returned as serving on main guard, under Lt.-Col. L. Baldwin, June 22, 1775; also, on company return dated Oct. 6, 1775; also, on coat order dated Cambridge Nov. 14, 1775; also, on return of men enl. into the Continental Army from Capt. John Abbott, Jr.'s, (2d) co., Essex co. reg., dated Andover Feb. 16, 1778; enl. 3 yrs.; joined Capt. Fox's co., Col. Hurley's reg. DANIEL ABBOT of Haverhill; on descriptive list of men raised to reinforce the Continental Army for 6 mos., agreeable to resolve of June 5, 1780; age, 22 yrs.; stature, 5 ft., 4 in.; complexion, light; arrived at Springfield Oct. 4, 1780; marched to camp Oct. 26, 1780, under command of Lt. Cary; also, on pay roll of 6 mos. men raised by Haverhill for service in the Continental Army during 1780; marched Sept. 26, 1780; dis. Apr. 3, 1781; service, 6 mos., 20 dys.

DARIOUS ABBOT of Andover; serg. in Capt. Henry Abbot's co., which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775; service, 11⁄2 dys.

DAVID ABBOT of Andover; priv. in Capt. John Robinson's co., Col. William Turner's reg.; enl. Aug. 11, 1781; dis. Nov. 11, 1781; service, 3 mos., 5 dys., at Rhode Island; 5 mos. levies.

EBENEZER ABBOT of Andover; priv. in Capt. Jonathan Foster's co., Col. Nathaniel Wade's reg.; enl. July 1, 1778; roll made up to Jan. 1, 1779; stationed at Middletown, R. I.

EPHRAIM ABBOT of Andover; serg. in Capt. Joshua Holt's co., which marched on the alarm of Apr. 19, 1775, to Cambridge; service, 11⁄2 dys.

EPHRAIM ABBOT of Andover; on descriptive list of men enl. from Essex co. for 9 mos. from the time of their arrival at Fishkill, June 20, 1778; in Capt. Abbot's co. [also given as Capt. Holt's co.], Col. Samuel Johnson's (4th Essex co.) reg.; age, 19 yrs.; stature, 5 ft., 7 in.; complexion, light; also, priv. in Capt. Stephen Abbot's co., Col. Benjamin Tupper's (15th) reg.; on muster roll for Mar., 1779, dated West Point; enl. June 19, 1778; dis. March 19, 1779; service, 9 mos.

GEORGE ABBOT of West parish of Ipswich; priv. in Capt. Abraham Howe's co., which marched on the alarm of Apr. 19, 1775; service, 2 dys.

GEORGE ABBOT of Andover; priv. in Capt. Benjamin Farnum's co., Col. James Frye's reg.; co. return dated Cambridge Oct. 6, 1775; also, in coat order dated Cambridge Nov. 13, 1775.

GEORGE ABBOT of Rowley; priv. in Capt. John Baker's co., Col. Moses Little's reg.; co. return [probably in Oct., 1775]; enl. May 2, 1775; age, 22 yrs.; also, in coat order dated Dec. 11, 1775.

HENRY ABBOT of Andover; capt. of co. which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775; service, 11⁄2 dys.

ISAAC ABBOT of Andover; 2d lt. in Capt. Benjamin Ames' co., Col. James Frye's reg., which marched on the alarm of Apr. 19, 1775 ; service, 7 dys. ; also, on return of men in camp at Cambridge, May 17, 1775; also, in company return dated Oct. 6, 1775.

JAMES ABBOT of Bradford; priv. in Capt. John Savory's co.; enl. Nov. 30, 1775; dis. Dec. 4, 1775; service, 5 dys. ; detachment from 2d Foot co. in Bradford, which marched for defence of Cape Ann.

JEDUTHAN ABBOT of Andover; serg. in Capt. Joshua Holt's co., which marched on the alarm of Apr. 19, 1775, to Cambridge; service, 12 dys.; also, in Capt. Samuel Johnson's co., Col. Johnson's reg; enl. Aug. 14, 1777; dis. Nov. 30, 1777; service, 4 mos., with Northern army.

JEREMIAH ABBOT of Salem; priv. in Capt. Simeon Brown's co., Col. Nathaniel Wade's reg.; enl. July 30, 1778; dis. Jan. 1, 1779; service, 5 mos., 8 dys., on an alarm at Rhode Island; stationed at East Greenwich, R. I.

JOHN ABBOT of Andover; 2d It. in Capt. Henry Abbot's co., which marched on the alarm of Apr. 19, 1775; service, 11⁄2 dys.

JOHN ABBOT of Andover; priv. in Lt. Peter Poor's co., which marched on the alarm of Apr. 19, 1775, to Cambridge; service, 21⁄2 dys.

JOHN ABBOT of Andover; capt. of a co. which marched into Roxbury camp and joined Col. Samuel H. Parsons' reg. Dec. 10, 1775; also, capt., 11th co., Col. Parsons' (4th Essex co.) reg. ; list of officers of Mass. militia; commissioned Feb. 21, 1776.

JOHN ABBOT, JR., of Andover; capt., 6th co., Col. Samuel Johnson's (4th Essex co.) reg.; list of officers of Mass. militia; commissioned April 3, 1776.

JOHN LOVEJOY ABBOT of Andover ; priv., Capt. Henry Abbot's co., which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775; service, 11⁄2 days.

JONATHAN ABBOT of Andover; serg., Capt. Henry Abbot's co., which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775; service, 11⁄2 days.

JONATHAN ABBOT of Andover; ens., Capt. Joshua Holt's co., which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775, to Cambridge; service, 11⁄2 dys.; also, 2d lt., Capt. Joshua Holt's (11th) co., Col. Samuel Johnson's (4th Essex co.) reg.; list of officers of Mass. militia; commissioned April 3, 1776; also, Capt. John Abbot's co., Col. Jonathan Cogswell, Jr's., reg., Brig.-Gen. Farley's brigade; list of officers

of Mass. militia dated Ipswich Sept. 30, 1776; co. drafted from training band and alarm list of the 4th Essex co. reg., and ordered to march to Horse Neck; also, capt., 11th co., 4th Essex co. reg. ; list of officers of Mass. militia; commissioned Oct. 7, 1779.

JOSHUA ABBOT of Rowley; on list of men raised for 6 mos. service returned by Brig.-Gen. Paterson as having passed muster, in return dated Camp Totoway Oct. 25, 1780; also, priv., Capt. John Williams' co., Col. Joseph Vose's (1st) reg. ; pay roll for 6 mos. men raised by the town of Rowley for service in the Continental Army during 1780; marched Aug. 15, 1780; dis. Feb. 19, 1781; service, 6 mos., 17 dys.; also, on muster roll for Jan., 1781, dated West Point: reported, on command with Quartermaster-General.

MOSES ABBOT of Andover; clerk, Capt. Henry Abbot's co., which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775; service, 11⁄2 days.

MOSES ABBOT of Andover; 1st. It., Capt. John Abbot's (6th) co., Col. Samuel Johnson's (4th Essex co.) reg. ; list of officers, of Mass. militia; commissioned April 3, 1776.

NATHAN ABBOT of Andover; priv., Capt. Henry Abbot's co., which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775; service, 11⁄2 dys.

NATHAN ABBOT of Andover; corp., Capt. John Peabody's co., Col. Ebenezer Francis' reg. ; pay abstract for travel allowance, etc.; roll sworn to Nov. 29, 1776.

NATHAN ABBOT, JR., of Andover; priv., Capt. Henry Abbot's co., which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775; service, 11⁄2 days.

NATHANIEL ABBOT of Andover; priv., Capt. Benj. Ames' co., Col. James Frye's reg., which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775; service, 7 dys.; also, co. return dated Oct. 6, 1775; reported, dis. Aug. 20, 1775; also, on order for bounty coat money dated Camp at Boston, Dec. 13, 1775.

NATHANIEL ABBOT of Ipswich; on return of men enl. into Continental Army

from 3d Essex co. reg., dated Feb. 17, 1778; enl., 3 yrs. ; joined Capt. Whipple's co., Col. Putnam's reg. ; also, Capt. Whipple's co., Col. Rufus Putnam's reg.; Continental Army pay accounts for service from April 22, 1777, to Dec. 31, 1779.

NEHEMIAH ABBOT of Ipswich; priv., Capt. Thomas Burnham's co., which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775; service, 3 dys.

NEHEMIAH ABBOT of Andover; lt., Capt. Joshua Holt's co., which marched on the the alarm of April 19, 1775, to Cambridge; service, 11⁄2 dys.

To be continued.

THROAT DISTEMPER IN HAVER

HILL, 1735-7.

The throat distemper which prevailed throughout the County of Essex in 1735,'6 and '7 so disastrously among the children was particularly fatal in Haverhill. From Nov. 17, 1735, to Dec. 31, 1737, two hundred and fifty-six children, most of them under ten years of age, died in that town from this disease, and in the whole county the deaths of about fourteen hundred children and also a considerable number of adults are estimated to have thus resulted. This estimate is undoubtedly low, as scarcely a cemetery of that time can be visited without seeing the little gravestones bearing dates of this period, and to one accustomed to examining old burying grounds the general appearance of each stone betrays the fact that the child buried beneath it was a victim of the distemper. It would seem that some gravestone maker must have supplied the people of the county with the stones during this period, the demand for them being so great that variation in design was not to be entertained.

In the old parish in Haverhill the number that died during the period named was eighty-eight; in the west parish, sixty-two; and in the north parish one hundred and six. Two hundred and ten were under the age of ten; thirty between ten and fifteen ; eleven between fifteen and twenty;

three between twenty and thirty; one between thirty and forty; and one more than forty years. From Nov. 17 to Dec. 31, 1735, ten died; in 1736, one hundred and sixteen; and in 1737 one hundred and thirty.

The number of families bereaved was one hundred and thirty-nine, twenty-three of whom were left childless. The names of the heads of such families are given below, the names of those having thus lost all their children being printed in italics.

Families that lost one child each: Dea. P. Ayer, Rev. Mr. Bacheller, Capt. Bartlet, Nat. Bartlet, Isaac Bradley, Nehemiah Bradley, Eben. Brown, Ed. Carlton, jr., Widow Clark, Lieutenant Clement, Jonathan Clement, Moses Clement, Nat. Clement, S. Clement, John Corlis, Cothran, Reuben Curier, Samuel Davis, Lydia Dillaway, William Dillaway, James Eatton, Jonathan Eatton, Samuel Eatton, Widow Emerson, jr., Ephraim Emerson, Jo. Emerson, jr., Stephen Emerson, jr., Ed. Flynt, Benjamin Gale, Samuel G-le, Bartholomew Heath, David Heath, Josiah Heath, Sarah Heath, Abner Herriman, John Herriman, Joseph Herriman, Joshua Herriman, Cornel Jonson, Jeremiah Jonson, Stephen Jonson, Thomas Jonson, Abner Kimball, Deacon Little, N. Marble, Joseph Merrill, Nath. Merrill, Samuel Merrill, James Mitchel, Edw. Ordaway,

Otterson, Widow Page, Caleb Page, Edmund Page, Thomas Page, Captain Pecker, Jonathan Shepard, Benjamin Smith, Samuel Staples, Aaron Stevens, Benjamin Stone, Elis Thomson, Samuel Webster, W. Whitaker, jr., John White, David Whiting, John Whiting, Ezekiel Wilson, William Wilson, Wood, and N. Woodman.

Families that lost two children each: Daniel Annis, Colonel Bailey, John Black, William Blay, James Bradbury, Dan. Bradley, Jacob Chase, Moses Cop, John Currier, John Dowe, jr., David Emerson, William Hancock, Jo. Hassaltine, Sa Hassaltine, Richard Hazzen, Caleb Heath, Samuel Heath, William Heath, James