DANVERS, a town of Essex county, Massachusetts, 19m. N.E. of Boston, on the coast. It is served by the Boston and Maine railroad. The population was 12,957 in 193o. It is a residential suburb; has various manufactupng industries, with an output in 1927 valued at $7,088,236; and is the seat of a State hospital for the insane. Danvers was separated from Salem as a district in 1752 and incorporated as a tawn in 1757, but the act of incorporation was disallowed by the privy council. In 1775 it was again incorporated. Within its present limits was Salem vil lage, the centre of the witchcraft delusion of 1692. Danvers was the birthplace of Israel Putnam (q.v.).
See J. W. Hanson, History of the Town of Danvers 0848); and A. P. White, "History of Danvers" in History of Essex Co. (1888).