Word: essex
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...liquor stores from losing the business. However, the law allows towns with so much as a sliver of land within 10 miles of New Hampshire to be covered by the exemption. Store owners in Ipswich, Mass. are allowed to sell on Sundays, while owners in its more northerly neighbor Essex are not, because a sliver of Ipswich stretches up within the ten mile zone. In response to the liquor store owners' complaints, the state Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission (ABCC) has promised to review this mishmash of laws...
DIED. GLYNN ("Scotty") WOLFE, 88, Bible-thumping minister who took the holy out of matrimony, marrying 29 times; in Redlands, Calif. After reportedly divorcing one wife for eating sunflower seeds in bed and another for using his toothbrush, Wolfe met his match in No. 29, Linda Essex, the world's most frequently married woman (her trip to the altar with Wolfe was her 23rd...
John Perkins arrived in New England in 1631 on the ship Lyon. He and his wife are recorded first in Boston. They settled in Ipswich by 1634 and he represented Ipswich at the General Court in 1636. He never lived in Salem. His descendants are prominent throughout Essex County, but he has no Salem connection. See The Great Migration Begins 1620-1633 (NEHGS, 1995) by Robert Charles Anderson...
Mary (Perkins) Bradury was accused and convicted of witchcraft in 1692. Her husband, Thomas Bradury, did not testify against her. His testimony can be read in the court files in the Essex County Archives as follows...
...polypeptide was discovered by two professors at the School of Public Health, Lasker Professor of Health Sciences Myron E. Essex and Associate Professor of Virology...