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About 1640 a mere handful of English colonists went out from Boston, and made the first settlement in the town of Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts. They laid out their homes on the Cochichewick, a stream which flows out of the Great Pond in North Andover, and falls into the Merrimac River on the south side a few miles below Lawrence. The infant settlement was known as Cochichewick until 1646, when it was incorporated as a town under its present name, after the Andover in Hampshire, England, the birthplace of some of the settlers. Among the first who thus planted their hearthstones in the wilderness was John Stevens. His name stands fifth in an old list in the town records containing “t...
Editor Mark Argent also provides the introduction to the diaries of composer and organist R.J.S. Stevens (1757-1837), a musician who reports the warp and fabric of his society from the late Baroque through the early Romantic periods. The Stevens papers also provide a fund of information about the singing of glees in London. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR