BRYAN EATON/Staff photo. Dan Meader of McInnis Auctioneers shows off a dresser built in Newburyport in the late 1700's by Joseph Short. On top is a bread trough in which bread was made on the ship Mary and John, the first to come up the Parker River in 1635.

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