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Excerpt from Arguments of Fred H. Williams, and Testimony of Petitioners and Remonstrants Presented Before the Committee on Towns of the Massachusetts Legislature, Relative to the Incorporation of the Town of "Beverly Farms," Jan; 20 to Feb; 8, 1886
The two villages are separated by a tract of wood and marsh land, which in no probability will be settled for years to come, and toward which neither settlement is reaching out. While in ye olden time there may have been, and prob ably was, a certain community of interest between the two villages, by reason of the fact that nearly all the people in the town engaged in fishing during the summer months and in hand shoemaking during the winter season - to-day there is a marked diversity of interests. The fisheries have practically died out. The industries of Beverly proper are almost wholly confined to the manufacture of shoes by machinery, and the people of Beverly Farms are engaged in farming, rural occupations, and as mechanics. To illustrate: in 1845, the earliest date from which I could gather any statistics, - and these statistics are taken from the United States census, by the way, - there were employed in the manufacture of boots and shoes, and of course at that time at hand work, 736 individuals, and the yearly value of the product was There were forty-six vessels engaged in mackerel and cod fishing and the capital invested was In 1880 we find no statistics whatever about fisheries, and from information I have received I am told that the few statistics that were gathered were grouped with those of Salem. Practically there are no fisheries to-day.
The value of the product of boots and shoes was 831, and the number employed was This industry, of course, is almost wholly confined to Beverly town.
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