TabsRecord DataPlace Unit Type: City or TownContaining Unit: Essex County, MA Events Life span Type 05/19/1857 Electric fire alarm is patented in Boston Science/Technology 02/03/1862 Massachusetts court orders six men to trial for the August tarring and feathering of a Haverhill editor Crime/Disasters Major Topics People Birth Place of Clarke, Timothy Cleveland, Charles Dexter Hawthorne, Nathaniel Lander, Frederick West Remond, Charles Lenox Burial Place of Armstrong, James Lander, Frederick West Remond, Charles Lenox Places Documents Subject Date Title 12/18/1858 New York Herald, “The Suspected Slavers,” December 18, 1858 08/10/1859 New York Times, “The Slave Trade,” August 10, 1859 08/11/1859 Fayetteville (NC) Observer, “The Slave Trade at the North,” August 11, 1859 08/14/1859 New York Herald, "The Underground Railroad," August 14, 1859 04/16/1861 Alexander J. Sessions to Abraham Lincoln, April 16, 1861 Images Salem, Massachusetts, 1861, artist's impression Bibliography