rty-six thousand volumes,
but it costs anybody five dollars a year to get books out of it, and
there are only six hundred people in the whole city who care to pay that
price for its privileges.

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OLD MARRIAGE RECORDS.

The following authentic list of marriages, by the Rev. Thomas Skinner,
second pastor of the Congregational Church in Westchester parish, in the
town of Colchester, Conn., is furnished for use in the NEW ENGLAND
MAGAZINE, by Mr. Martin L. Roberts, of New Haven, Conn.:--

1755.--Sept. 1, Caleb Loomis, Jr., and Ann Strong; Ezra Bigelow and
Hannah Strong.--Sept. 24, John Carrier and Hannah Knowlton.

1756.--Nov. 5, Rev. Ephraim Little and Mrs. Abigail Bulkley.

1758.--Jan. 4, Policarphus Smith and Dorothy Skinner; John Mitchell and
Hepzibah Shepardson.--Jan. 24, Jacob Smith and Jemima Fuller.--April,
Joshua Bailey and Ann Foot.--April 27, Samuel Brown of East Hampton and
Elizabeth Brainerd.--May 4, William Chamberlain, Jr., and Mary Day;
Bezaleel Brainerd and Hannah Brainerd.

1759.--Paul Gates and Mehitable Rogers; ----, Jehiel Fuller and Sarah
Day; ----, Daniel Shipman and Elizabeth Hartman.--July 10, John Bigelow
and Hannah Douglas.--Nov. 8, John Murray and Desire Sawyer.--Dec. 6,
Noah Day and Ann Loomis.

1760.--David Bigelow and Patience Foote.--April, Roswell Knowlton and
Ann Dutton.--May 7, Thomas Chipman and Bethiah Fuller.--May 29, Levi
Gates and Lydia Crocker.--Dec. 9, Lazarus Watrous and Lois Loomis.--Dec.
24, Hezekiah Waterman and Joanna Isham.

1764.--Jan. 8, David Bigelow and Mary Brainerd; Benjamin Morgan and
Elizabeth Isham.

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AN EARLY BELL IN SALISBURY.--The town records of Salisbury, Mass.,
under date of 3, 1st mo. 1647: "it was ordered yt Richard North shall
have fivetie shillings for ringing the bell tow yeares & a half past &
twenty shillings to ring it one yeare more, beginning att Aprill next
ensueing." A year previous it was "voated to daube the meeting house."

A. T.

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THE BOUNDARY LINE BETWEEN MASSACHUSETTS AND NEW HAMPSHIRE.--A committee
appointed by the freemen of Salisbury, Mass., in 1658, to determine the
boundary between Salisbury and Hampton (between Massachusetts and New
Hampshire), reported, "the sayed line is very darke & doubtful to us."
The same can be said in 1886, two hundred and thirty-three years later.

A. T.

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