Danvers Courier, weekly newspaper (1845-1848)

Danvers Courier, April 5, 1845, p. 3/2
Temperance Exhibition at Upton's Hall on Saturday Evening, April 5^th, 1845, For one night only - The Great Western Temperance Company, comprising 11 persons, Messrs. Hough and Scoville and associates will give illustrations of the Life and Career of the Drunkard. Admission – 12 and ½ cents

Danvers Courier, May 24, 1845, p. 2/2
Frederick Douglass – This eloquent champion of the Anti-Slavery cause lectured last Sunday evening in Rev. Mr. Prince’s Church [Salem] to a crowded audience on the subject of Temperance and showed the zeal and energy in this cause that he has always exhibited in the great undertaking to which he has devoted himself. 
      He was followed by Mr. Buffum of Lynn, who gave rather a dark picture of the state of morals and temperance among the representatives of the people at Washington. Mr. B was there while Congress was in session, and acknowledged his indebtedness to our Representative, Mr. [Daniel P.} King, for facts and opportunities in relation to a knowledge of this subject.
      At this meeting, we were sorry to see a disposition among part of the audience to be noisy in their approbation of the speakers.  Such demonstrations of applause were not only repugnant to the express wishes of the speakers but inconsistent with the sacred character of the day and the place.

Danvers Courier,  September 27, 1845, p.  2/5
Abby Kelley was carried by force out of the Orthodox Quaker Meeting at Mount Pleasant, Jefferson County, Ohio, on the 7^th inst.  She endeavored to address the meeting on the subject of Slavery, and, being requested to desist, declined doing so on the ground that she felt it to be her duty to speak.  She was then removed by force.  The affair created much excitement.

Danvers Courier, September 27, 1845, p. 3/1
Anti-Slavery Meeting – Parker Pillsbury of New Hampshire will lecture on the subject of slavery , on Sunday, (To-morrow) evening at Upton’s Hall, South Danvers.  Lecture to commence at half past 6 o’clock.  The public are invited to attend. 

Danvers Courier, November 29, 1845, p. 2/1
Admission of Texas as a Slave State – Efforts are now being made all over the state to get signers to a protest against the admission of Texas as a slave state.  We are glad to see this.

Danvers Courier, December 2, 1845,  p. 3/1
Marriage of  Mr. Jesse C. Ferrin (son of James Ferrin and Sally Coombs, of Eaton, New Hampshire)  to Miss Mary Upton (daughter of Jesse Upton and Eliza Wyman Wood, of Danvers, Massachusetts) by Rev. J.W. Eaton at the Danvers Baptist Church   Two years later, the church burned to the ground and Mary found herself in a bad marriage.  She said "intemperance degraded her husband's character" and he abused her.

December 16, 1845, Danvers, Massachusetts
Marriage of Henry Augustus King (son of Samuel King, brother of Daniel P. King,  and Hannah Goodale, of Danvers, Massachusetts) to Asenath P. Ferrin (daughter of James Ferrin and Sally Coombs, of Eaton, New Hampshire; sister of Jesse C. Ferrin)