History of Gardner, Massachusetts, From Its Earliest Settlement to 1860

163 pp. Sabin 27557. CONTENTS: Incorporation of the Town; Situation and Extent; Family History; Town History; Notice of Daniel Shays; Power and Duty of the Overseers of the Poor; Power and Duty of the Master of the Work-house; Duty of the Inmates; List of Town Officers; Valuation, &c.; Amount of Money Raised in 1858, Exclusive of Highway Tax; List of Persons Paying Twenty Dollars and Upwards; Roads; Military; Fire Department; Music; Fires and Injuries by Lightning; Hail Storms; Casualties; Cemeteries; Justice of the Peace; Medical Practitioners; Schools; Business; Libraries; Ecclesiastical History.