Newburyport
a city, port of entry, and one of the county-seats of Essex co., Mass.; on the Merrimac river, and on the Boston and Maine railroad ; 37 miles N. E. of Boston. It contains the Putnam Free School, Anna Jacques Hospital, high school, public library, an Old Ladies' Home, Marine Museum, the house in which William Lloyd Garrison was born, the Old South Church, where the remains of Whitefield are buried, electric light and street railroad plants, daily and weekly newspapers, and National and savings banks. It has manufactories of machinery, cotton goods, boots and shoes, fiber braid, collars and cuffs, hats, and silverware. Pop. (1910) 14,949; (1920) 15,618.