The manufacture of Straw-braid is carried on very extensively by the Females.

   There are three Public Houses and eight stores in the town.

   North Bridgewater is a very level township of land, having no hills of consequence.   The North-west corner, called the West Shares, is the highest land in town.   The soil is various—the northern part is stony, and contains a deep rich loam, and is very productive;—the southern part, particularly Salisbury Plain, is very suitable for tillage, being of a light mould.   There are considerable quantities of fresh meadows adjoining the rivers and brooks, which afford large crops of hay and of a pretty good quality.

   The farms are generally fenced with stone wall.   The wood of the upland consists of the several kinds of Oak and Walnut;—that in the swamps of Maple, Birch, Ash, and Elm.

   Large quantities of plank, and ship-timber, have been, and are still, carried to the shore markets; also considerable quantities of wood and coal, are annually carried to Boston and other towns.

   The town is divided into eleven School Districts, and there is a School House in every District.

   The town raises six hundred dollars annually for schooling, which is divided in the several Districts.

   There is a social Library in the town which contains about two hundred volumes, and is increasing by annual instalments.

   A Discourse was delivered by the Rev. Mr. Huntington, in the meeting house, in the North Parish, December 22d, 1820, it being the second centennial anniversary of the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth.   Text Psalm xliv. 1—3.

   Ordained at North Bridgewater, on the 31st of October, 1821, Messrs. Daniel Temple and Isaac Bird, as Missionaries to the Heathen.   Sermon by the Rev. Richard Storrs of Braintree.

   November 13th, 1823, David Brown, a native of the Cherokee tribe of Indians, delivered an Address in the meeting-house, in North Bridgewater; after which a collection was made, for the purpose of supporting schools in his nation.

North Bridgewater, January 1, 1824.