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| | Danvers Massachusetts, 1890 |
 | | This town, in its original limits, embracing what was the village proper and the middle parishes of Salem, was incorporated as a district January 28, 1752; and as a town, June 16, 1657 [sic]. |
 | | It is supposed to have been named in honor of Sir Danvers Osborn, Bart., governor of New York in 1753. |
 | | Some of the distinguished persons who have originated in Danvers are : Moses Porter (1755-1822), a brigadier-general, U. army; George Peabody (1795-1869), an eminent banker and philanthropist; Daniel Putnam King (1801-1850), a scientific farmer, and M.C. from 1843 to 1849; Hannah O'Brien Chaplin Conant (1842-1865), an able author and editor, and an Oriental scholar. |
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