Ashby, Massachusetts
This is a pleasant town, in the county of Middlesex on the line of N.H. It is 25 miles N.W. from Concord, 42 W.N.W. from Boston and 8 S.E. from New Ipswich, N.H. Population, 1837, 1,201. It has some manufactures of palm-leaf hats, boots, shoes, chairs, wooden ware, and curled hair.