Excerpt from History of Andover, From Its Settlement to 1829 Andover, in the county of Essex, Mass. Situated on the south easterly side of the Merrimack, 20 miles N. Of Boston, 16 nw. Of Salem, 20 S. Westerly from Newbury port, 8 S. Of Haverhill, and 467 from Washington, is bound ed ou the nnw. 10 miles and 307 rods by the Merrimack, which separates it from Dracut and Methuen on the ne. 146 rods by Bradford, and 7 miles and 241 rods by Box ford on the se. 3 miles and 66 rods by Middleton; on the S. 4 miles by Reading, and 2 miles and 285 rods by Wilmington; and on the sw. 6 miles and I97 rods by Tewksbury. It was originally bounded by the Merrimack, Rowlr-y, Salem, Woburn, and Cambridge, which formerly included Billerica and Tewksbury. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.