The New International Encyclopædia/Amesbury

AMESBURY, āmz′bĕr-ĭ. A town in Essex Co., Mass., on the Boston and Maine Railroad, 42 miles northeast of Boston (Map: Massachusetts, F 2). It has a public library of 7500 volumes, and extensive manufactures of carriages, carriage manufacturers' supplies, hats, shoes, cotton goods, and underwear. The government is administered by town meetings, held annually. Originally a part of Salisbury, Amesbury was virtually separated as New Salisbury in 1654, and was incorporated in 1606, and named (from Amesbury, England) in 1607. John Greenleaf Whittier (q.v.) lived here from 1836 until his death in 1892. Pop., 1890, 9798; 1900, 9473. Consult: J. Merrill, History of Amesbury (Haverhill, 1880).