PROCEEDINGS u 9 ■^ f JLiMr<> BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. VOLUME I. 1882-1887. BOSTON: old state house. Published by the Society. ^73 ■ ' PROCEEDINGS BOSTONIAN SOCIETY, ANNUAL MEETING, JANUARY 10. 1S8'2. Tnf C • ■'^ i-t F^ "//c/c' the child huhpciidciicc 'vas horn.'" — John Adams. PROCEEDI NGS BOSTONIAN SOCIETY Annual Meeting, January io, 1882. Boston: OLD STATE HOUSE. PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE DIRECTORS, , f BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. FIRST ANNUAL MEETING. Boston, January lo, 1882. Pursuant to notice, duly issued by the Clerk, the first annual meeting was this day held in the hall of the New England Historic-Genealogical Society, 18 Somerset Street, Boston, at 3.30 P.M., President Curtis Guild in the chair. The records of the last meeting were read by the clerk and approved, as were also the lease executed at that meeting, and the records of the last and final meeting of the Boston Antiquarian Club, at which that society voted to disband and to transfer all of its property to this corporation. The committee on increased membership reported that they had caused to be prepared a list of names of gentlemen who were thought to favor the purposes of this Society, and to whom it was proposed to send a circular stating its objects, and the committee asked for further time to make a full report. The same committee also reported the following list of candi- dates for officers for the year 1882 : — For Directors. Curtis Guild, William S. Appleton, Abbott Lawrence, Thomas Minns, Robert R. Bishop, John T. Hassam, Samuel H. Russell. For Clerk and Treasurer. Samuel M. Quincy. A ballot was then taken, and the foregoing list of candidates declared to be duly elected officers of the Society for the ensuing year. At the expiration of a recess of five minutes, the meeting was again called to order, and the Clerk announced that at a meeting of the newly elected Board of Directors, Curtis Guild had been re-elected President of the Society. President Guild then addressed the Society. At the conclusion of the President's address, ninety candidates for membership, who had been members of the Boston Antiqua- rian Club, were admitted without ballot, in accordance with the provisions of Article VII of the By-Laws, and four candidates for membership were elected by ballot. Adjourned. Samuei, M. Ouincy, Clerk. MEMBERS Thomas C. Amory, Nathan Appleton, William S. Appleton, Robert E. Apthorp, Howard P. Arnold, Edward Atkinson, Timothy Bigelow, Robert R. Bishop, Joshua P. Bodfish, Charles P. Bowditch, Martin L. Bradford, Caleb D. Bradlee, Charles Rollin Brainard, Peter C. Brooks, Buckminster Brown, J. C. J. Brown, Alvah A. Burrage, Edwin L, Bynner, B. S. Calef, Horace P. Chandler, George B. Chase, Dudley R. Child, Botsford R. Clarke, Dorus Clarke, S. W. Creech, jr., Samuel T. Cushing, John Ward Dean, M. F. Dickinson, jr., John H. Dix, Jacob A. Dresser, Loren G. DuBois, H. H. Edes, William Endicott, jr., A. C. Fearing, jr., A. A. Folsom, H. W. Foote, Edward J. Forster, Charles E. French, Frederick W. French, Henry W. French. B. A. G. Fuller, Isaac P. Gragg, Charles P. Greenough, F. B. Greenough, Curtis Guild, E. E. Hale, George W. Hammond, Charles Harris, John T. Hassam, Henry W. Haynes, Hamilton A. Hill, Henry W. Holland, C. D. Homans, George H. Homans, George D. Howe, Richard C. Humphreys. James F. Hunnewell, Charles E. Inches, George Abbott James, Henry F. Jenks, Leonard A. Jones, John Lathrop, Abbott Lawrence, William H. Lee, F. W. Lincoln, S. K. Lothrop, T. K. Lothrop, Henry Lyon, Thomas Mair, Fred. W. G. May, Thomas Minns, Francis Minot, H. A. Morse, John Noble, Grenville H. Norcross, Otis Norcross, Frederick R. Nourse, James R. Osgood, R. T. Paine, jr., F. W. Palfrey, John C. Palfrey, Aug. T. Perkins, Alex. S. Porter, Edward Ellerton Pratt, Samuel M. Quincy, John C. Ropes, Samuel H. Russell, D. W. Salisbury, George D. Sargent, Samuel E. Sewall. Charles C. Smith, Samuel G. Snelling, Henry H. Sprague, W. W. Swan, Geo. A. Thayer, Arthur W. Tufts, Job A. Turner, jr., Francis H. Underwood, G. Washington Warren, Winslow Warren, iVIoses W. Weld, Otis Everett Weld, Samuel Wells, J. Gardner White, William H. Whitmore, Arthur W. Willard, R. Willard, Levi L. Willcutt, Jacob L. Williams, Erving Winslow, William Elliot Woodward. BOSTON IAN SOCIETY. OBJECTS. TO PROMOTE THE STUDY OF THE HISTORY OF BOSTON, AND THE PRESERVATION OF ITS ANTIQUITIES. BY-IiAWS. I. DIRECTORS. The number of Directors shall not exceed seven. II. MEMBERS. The members of the Bostonian Society shall be such persons, either resident or non-resident in Boston, who shall, after being proposed as candidates at any regular monthly meeting of the Society, be elected by the votes of two-thirds of the mem- bers present and voting, and shall subscribe the By-Laws of the Society. III. MEETINGS. The annual meeting of the Society shall be held on the second Tuesday in Januarj', and regular meetings shall be held on the second Tuesday of each month, excepting July, August, and September, at such time and place as the Directors shall appoint. Special meetings shall be called by the Clerk, under the instruction of the Directors. IV. MEETINGS OV DIRECTORS. Meetings of the Directors shall be held in such manner as they may appoint. ANNUAL ASSESSMENTS. Every member of the Society shall pay such annual assessments as shall be pro- vided for by the Society from time to time, and any failure to comply with the By- Laws of the Society shall work a forfeiture of membership. VI. AI1MISS10N FEK AND ASSESSMENTS. I'iacli ineml)(.r sliall pay an admission fee of five dollars {#5.00), and after the calendar year of his admission, an annual assessment of five dollars ($5.00), payable in the month of January. Any member who shall neglect to pay his admission fee or assessment for three months after the same is due, shall be liable to forfeit his mem- Ijership at any time when IJie Directors shall so order. VII. ACl'IUN (IN MEMBERS OF THE BOSTON ANTIQUARIAN CLUB. The action of Article 2 is hereby suspended in respect to all the present members of the lioston Antitpiarian Club, who, until July i, 1882, shall be admitted to mem- bership without a ballot on application and subscribing the By-Laws. VIII. DUTIES OF TREASURER. The Treasurer shall givt bond in the sum of one dollar, with one surety, for the discharge of his duties. IX. VACANCIES. Any vacancy in the Hoard of Directors may be filled for the remainder of the term, at any regular meeting of tiie Society, by the votes of two-thirds of the members ])resent and voting. X. AMENDMENTS TO BY-LAWS. Amendments to the I!y-I,aws may be made at the first meeting or any annual meeting, by tlie vole of Iwotliircls o{ tlie mendjers present and voting. They may also be made by the like vote at any regular meeting, provided notice of the same be contained in a call for such meeting issued by the Clerk, and sent to every member. PROCEEDINGS BOSTONIAN SOCIETY ANNUAL MEETING, JANUARY 9, 1883. PROCEEDINGS BOSTONIAN SOCIETY, Annual Meeting, January 9, 1883. Boston: OLD STATE HOUSE. PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE SOCIETY. MDCCCL XXXIII. Press of CONANT AND NEWHALL, 33 Hawley Street, Boston. BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. SECOND ANNUAL MEETING. Boston, January 9, 1883. Pursuant to notice duly issued by the clerk the second annual meeting was this day held in the Council Chamber, Old State House, at three P.M., President Curtis Guild in the chair. The records of the last meeting were read and approved. After bal- loting for and election of new members the President addressed the meeting as follows : — PRESIDENT GUILD'S ADDRESS. Getttlemen of the Bostonian Society: — I congratulate you upon the progress that our Society has made thus far. The Directors' report will give in detail the transactions of the Society since its last annual meeting, and the Treasurer's report show to you that, although not a rich organization, yet we close the present year entirely free from debts of any description, and with a balance on the right side of the account. Taking possession of these memorial halls of the Old State House in the summer season, at a time when a large proportion of our members were absent from the city, and necessarily being obliged to incur considerable expense in the setting up of house- keeping, it may be understood that it has not been possible to devote ourselves to the carrying out the objects of the Society so thoroughly as can be done when we have the advantage of age, an increased membership, and a more thorough appreciation of our aim and objects. Since taking possession of these memorial halls the officers of the Society have found themselves somewhat embarrassed from the lack of certain committees which should be appointed for the performance of certain duties ; such as the care and arrangement of rooms, reception of mementos, increasing membership, the providing of papers to be read, and other exercises at the Society- meetings, etc., which duties have been performed by the officers and through the kindness of members interested in the Society. This embarrassment will be remedied by votes taken at this meeting. The Directors, as you will learn, however, have found a remark- able degree of interest manifested in the history of this building, and in the comparatively few historical mementos that have as yet been brought together here for exhibition. Visitors from all parts of the country, as well as many from foreign nations, have seemed to derive pleasure and satisfaction from treading these floors and walking within these walls that have rung with the elo- quence of some of the noblest of American patriots. And the warm terms of gratification expressed by American citizens from every part of the country who have visited our memorial halls that this historic building has been restored, are a guarantee that its preservation is most heartily approved by all patriotic citizens. But, while we congratulate ourselves upon having become thor- oughly domiciled in our new home, there remains something more for us to do. The objects of the Society are " to promote the study of the history of Boston and the preservation of its antiqui- ties." To carry out these objects, even in a moderate degree, requires a society of strength in numbers and influence, and that it be well organized, and the duties of its several departments faithfully performed by those who will have enthusiasm in their work. The arrangement of some committees and the performance of certain duties, the necessity of which has arisen since taking pos- session of these rooms, have been deferred until this meeting, be- cause the appointment of such committees could be made for a year's time, and our necessities would by this time have come to be more thoroughly understood. First, an increased membership is desirable, in order that the Society may be in sufficient funds for its necessary expenses, and indeed it is to be hoped the number may be increased, so that the annual assessment can be diminished in amount. Secondly, the providing of working committees that will so divide the duties that they will be efficiently performed without pressing heavily upon any. Thirdly, the keeping in mind by every member the objects of the Society, and that upon each one of us in some slight degree rests a responsibility of carrying them out satisfac- torily. As I have remarked at a previous meeting, the members of this Society are in no way the foes of progress, but the friends of genu- ine enterprise, and as such believe that lessons for the future may often be learned from the past; and also that there are in this earliest of American cities monuments, records, and mementos of the past the preservation of which will be acknowledged with gratitude by those who are to come after us as bequests of historic value, of instruction, and of interest. Had such a Society as this been in existence at the time, it is doubtful if the old Hancock Mansion would have been demolished. An organized body with our object would have learned in good season of the move upon that noble monument of the past, and might have, with its combined effort and influence, brought about what individuals labored industriously, but ineffectuall}^, to accom- plish. Now that it has disappeared, the City Government are to place a bronze plate in front of the spot where the Mansion once stood to inform the present and future generations of "what here once was," — about as satisfactory to the visitor as the " once upon a time " of the story-teller. Ah, but if the original could have been preserved ! And look- ing at it with a purely utilitarian eye, it seems that it could have been with so little cost, that it was but little short of sacrilege to cause its destruction. What have we upon its site to-day? Two grand and stately brick houses close to the paved walk, — mansions that command but a glance from the passer-by among their ambitious com- petitors. Let those who remember the Hancock Mansion recall that picturesque old specimen of Colonial architecture of stone, — its hue mellowed with age, perched upon a platform above a series of green terraces ; there was the broad old portal, with the balcony above it upon Avhich the Governor might stand forth to address the people ; the broad series of stone steps that led up to the great front door; the antique fence at the sidewalk from whence they began ; the quaint trimmings of doorways and windows ; the brown roof and dormer windows; the admirable placing of the building in an open space upon a raised platform, with the lilac bushes, flowers, and green slopes in summer, — making the whole one of the most beautiful and picturesque objects in the metropo- lis. It might have been preserved and converted into a memorial building like this ; and if the demands of the Assessors called for it, the public pilgrims to this shrine of American patriotism would, I think, have left patriotic pence enough per annum for fees of admission to equal what is now realized from the modern palaces that occupy its site. (Applause.) And what would have been saved? The residence of one of Boston's earliest and most patriotic merchants ; the home of the first signer of the Declaration of Independence ; a name known to every school-boy in the world by a signature that has firmness, resolution, and determination in every stroke of every written letter that composes it ; the home of the first Governor of Massachusetts. But no ; the residence of him who delivered the oration of 1774 condemning the Boston Massacre ; who was President of Congress, and the first to affix his name to the instrument second only to Magna Charta in its importance ; who for eleven years was the honored chief magis- trate of Massachusetts, — this memorial of a great man, and of a great period of a nation's history, is ruthlessly swept away when it ought to have been religiously and sacredly preserved as one of the precious historical mementos of the country. This picturesque old mansion, which, to the rising generation, would have pointed a paragraph, emphasized a lesson, illustrated history, and excited interest in its study, is to be represented by a bronze plate, a brazen apology for its destruction and an imper- fect indicator of its real position. It is the prevention of similar results to this that the Bostonian Society is to address itself, and in properly doing so it will receive the hearty support of all true and patriotic citizens. It is said that familiarity breeds contempt, and perhaps the im- mediate presence of memorials of great historic interest may beget indifference. Certain it is that since the organization of this Society the necessity of organized effort to rescue from destruction important mementos of our city's history has seemed to have been more generally recognized by our own citizens than ever before. Our countrymen in the great and newer cities of the West, — citizens who are as proud of their country as the most patriotic of us here ; who have learned its early history in their text-books in the common schools ; who have sympathized with the struggles of our forefathers in the founding of the Republic, — they can scarcely understand the spirit that would sweep every visible relic of those days away and sacrifice all upon the altar of utilitarianism. They, as citizens of the United States, are beginning to look to those of Boston as the custodians of mementos of the early history of the country which should be considered as national property. Faneuil Hall, the Old State House, the Old South Church, Bunker Hill, — why, to possess such memorials as these, with all the memories and reminiscences that cluster around them, some of our newer municipalities would, as an orator has remarked in this hall, pay down their very weight in gold. But as we gain in years as a city, those who have no sentiment to urge them to preserve these mementos may, perhaps, come to recognize their commercial value as attractions to call visitors to the metropolis ; indeed, this recognition is already palpable to us all. In referring to our present quarters we cannot be too grateful to the City Government that has shown so large a degree of confi- dence in us as to make us the custodians of these memorial halls ; nor to the untiring zeal of our fellow-member, Mr. VV. H. Whit- more, for his successful efforts in bringing about the restoration of this building to its original condition as far as possible in these modern days. In this building, as would have been the case in the Hancock Mansion, we desire to show to our children an actual relic of what was, — that they as well as we may enjoy the sight in reality of what otherwise would only exist in the dry records of history. It is something to stand within the very walls that have rung with the voices of Adams, Otis, Bowdoin, Hancock, and Quincy; the building in which Independence was born, before which the stamped clearances of the Stamp Act were burned ; to stand in yonder window, from which George Washington looked down as the troops and procession of welcome passed before him after American Independence had been won ; or at this other window, that looks down upon the scene of the Boston Massacre ; within these ancient walls that heard the rattling reveille that roused the British soldiers on the morning of the 17th of June, 1775, and shook with the thunder of British cannon u^Don the rude breastwork of Bunker Hill. From this very balcony, within a single step of where I now stand, was read the Declaration of Independence, July 25, 1776; here in this hall the Constitution of Massachusetts was planned. Where in the whole country can such an historic monument be found? And we were asked to raze this grand old memento of the past to the ground, to brush this visible record of the past into obscurity ! It is gratifying to know that such base ingratitude received its rebuke; that enough of the spirit of the fathers remained in their descendants to say to the grasping spirit of gain, " Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further ; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed." (Applause.) There should be some visible evidence of our gratitude to the fathers; perhaps they may have builded better than they knew; but they had trials, they made sacrifices, and suffered to establish great principles the advantage of which we now enjoy; so it is well that we sacrifice a little to preserve as long as possible relics of their times that may help to stamp indelibly upon the minds of ourselves and our children the memory of the founders of a great nation and of a grand step in the march of civil and religious liberty. (Applause.) Gentlemen, the Directors' report will give you the general transactions of the Society for the year. I have to thank you for the kindness with which my own efforts as your presiding officer have been received, sometimes performed under many disad- vantages, and also to commend to your grateful acknowledgment the services of General Quincy, your Treasurer and Clerk, and the gentlemen who have so kindly and ably served on the Board of Directors. The annual report of the Board of Directors was then read, as follows, by Mr. Thomas Minns : — FIRST ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTORS. The Directors respectfully present the following report : — The first annual report naturally commences with a brief account of the Boston Antiquarian Club, from which this Society sprung. The first suggestion for the formation of a club, to arouse an in- terest in the past history of our city, came from a circular sent May 24, 1879, by Mr. William H. Whitmore to gentlemen of antiquarian tastes, requesting their cooperation, and the first pre- liminary meeting was held in the Wesleyan Building, Bromfield street, June 13, 1879. By the politeness of the New England Historic and Genealogical Society subsequent meetings were held in the hall of that Society, in Somerset street, and at the first annual meeting, January 13, 1880, Gen. Samuel M. Quincy was chosen the first President, Mr. F. B. Perkins the first Secretary and Treasurer, and Messrs, Samuel H. Russell, William H. Whitmore, and John T. Hassam, members of the first Council. President Ouincy delivered a stirring inaugural address, and the club being now firmly established, Secretary Perkins pushed its objects with unremitting zeal, until, to the great and continuing regret of all connected with the Society, he was obliged to resign, having been chosen Superintendent of the Public Library of San Francisco. During this time a room had been taken at No. 16 Pemberton square, and the nucleus of a valuable and interesting collection of books, pictures, and maps, relating to older Boston, was already formed. As if premonitory of coming events, at the meeting of February 10, 1880, a vote was passed, ''That the President is instructed to appear at any legislative hearing respecting the Old State House, in order to act for the preservation of the same, and to call upon any members of the club to assist him in such action." And, as a subject still awaiting the attention of this Society, we are glad to recall that, at the meeting November 9, 1880, after hearing an instructive and valuable paper upon William Blackstone 10 by Hon. Thomas C. Amory, it was voted, ''Resolved, That in the opinion of this club, in the progress of the ornamentation of the city, some statue or other memorial of William Blackstone, to be placed on Boston Common, ought not to be forgotten." The first step towards the organization of this Society was taken at the meeting of the Boston Antiquarian Club, held November 8, i88i, when Mr. William H. Whitmore resigned the office of Presi- dent. The President stated that an excellent opportunity for en- larging the usefulness of the club existed in a possible arrangement with the city, by which the club might obtain, at a nominal rent, a lease of the Memorial Halls in the Old State House, in considera- tion of assuming the care thereof and the regulation of the access of the public thereto. It was also suggested that an incorporated Society would meet a much better reception from the City Council than a voluntary club of gentlemen, and accordingly ten gentlemen (the number required by the statute) — Messrs. Thomas C. Amory, Curtis Guild, John Ward Dean, Dorus Clark, Samuel M. Ouincy, Thomas Minns, William S. Appleton, Henry F. Jenks, John T. Hassam, and Dudley R. Child — were constituted a committee to form a corporation. The name "The Bostonian Society" was happily chosen as exceedingly appropriate, and as having nothing in it which might in any way excite the jealousy or interfere with the objects of any existing society, — a position which it has always maintained in its actions, — and its objects were concisely stated in the sentence "to promote the study of the history of Boston and the preservation of its antiquities." After passing through the necessary formalities required by the law, the Charter of the Bostonian Society was finally issued under the broad seal of the Commonwealth, attested by the Secretary of State, December 2, i88i. All the members of the Boston Antiquarian Club were entitled to membership in the new Society, and, at a final meeting of the club, December 27, 1881, it was voted to transfer all its property to the new Society, and the Club ceased to exist. Prosperous breezes followed the course of the new Society. The City Government has approved of its action by granting it a lease of the Historical Halls in the Old State House for ten years from December 14, 1881, and the public has smiled upon it by large accessions to its membership from our best citizens. 11 Before the Society entered into actual occupation of the Memo- rial Halls, and as soon as the work of reconstruction was finished, they were rededicated by formal transfer to the Mayor of the city on a beautiful summer's day, July ii, last. Portraits of Governors Winthrop, Endicott, Bellingham, Burnet, Belcher, Dudley, and Hutchinson, engravings of Governors Pow- nall and Andros, and a caricature of Governor Gage, hung upon the walls. In the west hall were the superb portraits by Copley of Samuel Adams and John Hancock, and Stuart's portrait of Josiah Ouincy, jr., the patriot. In the absence of Alderman William Woolley, Chairman of the Committee on Public Buildings, Alderman Hersey called the meeting to order, and invited Rev. Dr. Rufus Ellis, minister of the First Church, established in 1630, to offer prayer. Alderman Hersey then introduced the orator of the day in the following terms : " Ladies and Gentlemen, — Perhaps to one member of the City Government more than all others is due the credit of what- ever success has attended the restoration of this building — I allude to the member whose duty and pleasure it will be to ad- dress you on this occasion. It gives me great pleasure to intro- duce to you William H. Whitmore, member of the Common Council from Ward 12." Mr. Whitmore then delivered a most instructive historical address, giving evidence of extensive and laborious research, and tracing the history of the building from the earliest times to the present, and recapitulating in glowing language the memo- rable events that have happened in and around it. At the close of his address Mayor Green accepted the building, on behalf of the city, in a short speech, and, after a few brief remarks from Colonel Marshall P. Wilder, the exercises were concluded by an informal but delightful social gathering in the hall below. This Society gave up its quarters at 16 Pemberton square and removed to the Old State House on the first of July, 1882. The formal dedication by the Society of the Memorial Halls was appointed for the regular meeting, which was held in the Representatives' Hall, October 10, Special cards of admission were issued to members, and a large audience assembled to take part in the proceedings. 12 President Guild welcomed the company to their new quarters in a felicitous speech. Mr. Josiah Ouincy, jr., in an occasional address of great interest, recalled the history of the past. Dr. William Everett, Rev. Dr. E. E. Hale, Hon. Hamilton A. Hill, and Rev. Dr. S. K. Lothrop presented, in eloquent language, the great lessons which the past teaches to the present, and Rev. Thomas Timmins, of Portsmouth, England, related some interesting revolutionary anecdotes. During the year interesting and valuable historical addresses have been delivered before the Society by the following gentle- men : — Rev. Henry W. Foote, ''On the Church of England in the Old Town House"; Mr. Samuel Adams Drake, "On Taverns and Tavern Life under the King," introducing the old-time inns and their customers; and Rev. C C. Beaman, "Recollections of Boston," describing in detail old Summer, Franklin, Pearl, and Federal streets, and old Fort Hill, and their residents. Death has dealt gently with the members of this Society during the past year, and we rejoice that so many are spared to meet with us to-day ; but we mourn the loss of Robert East Apthorp, Samuel Thaxter Gushing, Hon. Otis Norcross, Mayor of Boston in 1867, and George C. Van Benthuysen, each of whom filled an important place in the daily life of the city, and their respective memoirs will fill appropriate places in the archives of the Society. The whole number of names added to the rolls of the Society from the beginning to December 31st is . . . 350 Removed by death ....... 4 Resigned ......... i — 5 Leaving the present number of members . . . 345 On the 28th of August a register of visitors to the Halls was opened, and up to December 31st the names of 3,905 persons are recorded thereon, coming from all parts of the United States. The custodians report that many persons visit the rooms fre- quently, but are, of course, registered only once. Gifts and loans of books, pictures, engravings, maps and plans, etc., have been made to the Bostonian Society, and received through the Boston Antiquarian Club, from : — 13 The City of Boston, Boston Public Library, Massachusetts Historical Society, New England Historic and Gene- alogical Society, Boston Board of Trade, Miss E. S. Quincy, Hon. Josiah Quincy, Jeremiah Colburn, William H. Whitniore, W. W. Greenough, Samuel M. Quincy, Thomas Minns, William Parsons Lunt, Alexander S. Porter, John T. Hassam, F. B. Perkins, Samuel H. Russell, Dr. F. H. Brown, Mrs. M. J. Peabody, W. T. R. Marvin, Hon. Francis Brinley, Josiah Quincy, jr., A. C. Baldwin, James Alexander, W. W. Wheildon, Daniel J. Courteney, Munroe Chickering, Herman B. Tewksbury, Herbert W. Kimball, John S. Damrell, Dudley R. Child, Charles E. French, C. Henry Adams, Edward J. Howard, Thomas E. Collins, Charles Rollin Brainard. Special committees have been appointed to prepare a code of By-Laws, to attend to the increase of the membership of the Society, and to superintend the removal to the Old State House, who have carefully attended to the duties intrusted to them. In conclusion, the Directors would congratulate the members on a prosperous year closed, which only makes more visible the broad fields of usefulness open before the Society. The roll of members, though large, is yet far from the thousand contemplated in the By-Laws, and if each member would take the pains, now in the spring-time of the Society's existence, to add the name of a kindred spirit to the list, it will do much to increase its power and influence, — a conservative, and yet progressive force, in the heart of a great city. The collections on our walls serve to remind us that there is ample space for more ; and if every one will add something from his stores, and persuade his friends to give or lend some interest- ing memento of the past, we shall soon offer to the public an his- torical museum, the delight of our citizens, and one which strangers will place first on their list to be visited ; and we note, as an inter- 14 esting fact, that already, in one of the anterooms, hang the various maps made of the city at different periods of its history, which gives one a more complete idea of the great changes that have taken place from time to time since the first settlement than could be obtained by hours' search in any of our great libraries. Necrology for 1882. [The fig-ures at the left indicate the year of admission to the Society.] 1882. Samuel Thaxtcr Gushing, of Boston. Born in Boston, August 24, 1821 ; died in Boston, January 26, 1882. 1882. Robert East Apthorp, of Boston. Born in Boston, June 20, 181 1 ; died in Boston, February 10, 1882. 1882. George Christie Van Benthuysen, of Boston. Born in Spencer, Van Buren County, Tennessee, May 23, 1858; died in Boston, June 24, 1882. 1882. The Hon. Otis Norcross, of Boston. Born in Boston, November 2, 181 1 ; died in Boston, September 5, 1882. All of which is respectfully submitted, CURTIS GUILD, ABBOTT LAWRENCE, ROBERT R. BISHOP, WILLIAM S. APPLETON, THOMAS MINNS, JOHN T. HASSAM, SAMUEL H. RUSSELL, Directors. The. Treasurer then presented his annual report, as follows: — TREASURER'S REPORT. Receipts. Balance from Antiquarian Cltib $28 26 Osgood, for books returned 18 75 Admission fees. ........... 1,605 00 Overcharge printers' bill, repaid I 00 $1,653 01 15 EXTENDITURES. Sundries, as per ledger, approved and authorized by Directors . . $878 91 Balance in bank Jan. i, 1883 773 1° Cash on hand i 00 $1,653 01 S. M. QUINCY, Trecisurer. Certificate of Auditing Committee. Boston, January 6, 1SS3. The undersigned have examined the Treasurer's accounts to January i, 1883, and find the same to be correctly cast and properly vouched, and showing a balance on hand, in the Old Boston National Bank, of $773.10, and cash in hand one dollar. CURTIS GUILD, THOMAS MINNS, SAM'L H. RUSSELL, Finance Committee. Mr. Thomas C. Amory then addressed the meethig as fol- lows : — Mr. President : You expressed your regret that the Society had not been organized twenty years earlier, before 1863, when the abode of Governor Hancock was demolished to give place to the dwellings erected upon its site by Messrs. James M. Beebe and Gard- ner Brewer. What took place at that time with a view of saving the Mansion and the estate for the City, or, in case it should prove too late for that, to preserve the Mansion somewhere else, may be interesting to this meeting. In the spring of the year above-mentioned, 1863, Mr. Charles Hancock, great-nephew of Governor Hancock, and one of the then proprietors of the estate, informed me, at the time an alder- man of the city, that his family felt constrained to sell the estate, and that Messrs. Beebe and Brewer, desirous of purchasing it, had offered them the sum of one hundred and twenty thousand dollars for the property ; but that they would prefer to have it bought by the City to be preserved. They had already offered it to the State for a less sum, but without effect. I lost no time in submitting an order to the Board of Alder- men, concurred in without delay by the Council, for a joint special committee to take the subject into consideration and to negotiate- 16 Meanwhile, Messrs. Beebe and Brewer pressed the Hancock family, who were many in number, for an answer to their offer, proposing to withdraw it if not at once accepted. Not wishing to lose the sale, the family yielded ; and when the committee organized, though no time had been lost, it was too late. I went, as in- structed by the committee, of which I was the chairman, to en- deavor to persuade the purchasers to give it up ; but both, I remember, said that their plans had been drawn, that their families were unwilling to relinquish it, and that their arrangements were such that they would be put to extreme inconvenience if there should be any change. Mr. Charles Hancock then offered the building to the City for removal, and the committee procured an offer from the Land Commissioners of the ground on the corner of Clarendon and New- bury streets, subject to approval by the Legislature when it met, the City taking the chance, and to remove the_ building, or its parts, from the lot, if so ordered, Mr. David Sears offered a lot on one side of Berners square, at Longwood, and expressed the wish that the building, duly fitted up for the purpose, should be dedicated to the commemoration of historical personages of the Revolution and others entitled to be so honored. He subscribed two thou- sand dollars towards the expense of removal, and the subscription list soon amounted to thrice that sum. It was also under consideration in committee if some site al- ready belonging to the city might not be judiciously selected, to be used, in part, for the purpose proposed by Mr. Sears. Among others, a corner of the Public Garden was suggested, the building to be used for that object, but near it a tool-house for the gardener and shelter for the garden police. The vote of the committee decided upon the Clarendon-street site, corner of Dart- mouth square, and an order was submitted to the City Council to appropriate six thousand dollars, a sum equal to that promised by the subscription-list for the removal. When the order was before the Board, one of its members stated he had that day consulted with an experienced builder, in whose judgment the removal pro- posed was not practicable, for the reason that the cement was harder than the stones, which could not be separated; and that the removal would cost more than the committee's estimate. Due effort was made to combat this view, but without success. 17 Portions of the building were used in other structures. The stone lodge of Mr. Lawrence, overlooking the reservoir, at Brighton, was built of the stone from the Hancock House. It will be seen by the report of the committee herewith presented to the Society that Mr. Charles Hancock, in behalf of his brothers and sisters, proposed to give to the public, in case of the removal, portraits of their great-uncle, Thomas, who built the house in 1735, and of Governor John Hancock, the signer of the Declaration as Presi- dent of the Continental Congress, with many other historical relics. It should be borne in mind that before the war, when Governor Banks was Governor, an attempt was made to secure the estate for the Commonwealth upon an offer made to sell it for one hundred thousand dollars. A resolve authorized its purchase, if approved by certain officials of the State Government. As they did not concur in recommending it, that opportunity was lost for securing what the State Government has since greatly needed, for many uses consistent with its dedication as a monument to Hancock, and its preservation as an historic edifice of our great struggle for independence. • I shall leave with the Society a copy of the report of our com- mittee, — City Document No. 56, 1863, — relating more at length what was done or left undone by the City Council. Amendments to the By-Laws were then adopted, providing for life-memberships, the appointment of standing committees, and increasing the number of Directors to nine. The Committee on the Nomination of Officers for the ensuing year reported as follows : — For Directors. Curtis Guild, Thomas Minns, Abbott Lawrence, John T. Hassam, Robert R. Bishop, Samuel H. Russell, William S. Appleton, William H. Whitmore, Hamilton A. Hill. For Clerk a?td Treasurer. Samuel M, Quincy. 18 A ballot was then taken, and the foregoing list of candidates declared to be duly elected officers of the Society for the ensuing year. Adjourned. S. M. QuiNCY, Clerk. DIRECTORS' MEETING. Boston, Jan. 13, 1883. Pursuant to notice duly issued by the Clerk, a meeting of the newly elected Board of Directors was this day held in the Clerk's Office, Old State House, at i P.M. Present, Messrs. Guild, Appleton, Minns, Hassam, Russell, and Hill. The meeting was called to order by the Clerk. On motion of Mr. Minns, the Board proceeded to ballot for President of the corporation for the ensuing year with the follow- ing result: — Whole number of ballots ....... 6 Necessary for a choice ........ 4 Curtis Guild had ......... 5 Hamilton A. Hill i Curtis Guild was declared elected, and took the chair. Voted, That the By-Laws as amended, with a list of the officers and members of the Society, be added to the forthcoming report of the annual meeting, and that Messrs. Hill, Minns, and the Clerk be a committee in charge of printing the same. Voted, That regular meetings of the Board be held on the day previous to the regular meetings of the Society, at an hour to be fixed by the President. Adjoiir'ued. S. M. QUINCY, Clerk of the Board. BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. OBJECTS TO PROMOTE THE STUDY OF THE HISTORY OF BOSTON, AND THE PRESERVATION OF ITS ANTIQUITIES. BY-LAWS. OBJECTS. It shall be the duty of members to carry out the objects of the Society, by collect- ing, by gift, loan, or purchase, books, manuscripts, and pictures, and by such other suitable means as may, from time to time, seem expedient. II. MEMBERS. The members of the Bostonian Society shall be such persons, either resident or non-resident in Boston, as shall, after being proposed as candidates at any regular monthly meeting of the Society, be elected by ballot by votes of two-thirds of the members present and voting at said meeting. All the former members of the Boston Antiquarian Club, however, shall, until July i, 1S82, on application, be admitted to membership without a ballot. The limit of membership of the Society shall be one thousand. , III. HONORARY AND CORRESPONDING MEMBERS. Honorary and Corresponding members shall be nominated by the Directors, and shall be elected by ballot by two-thirds of the members present and voting. They may take part in the meetings of the Society, but shall not be entitled to vote. IV. ADMISSION FEE AND ASSESSMENTS. Each member shall pay five dollars at the time of his admission, and five dol- lars each first of January afterwards, into the treasury of the Society for its gen- eral purposes; but if any member shall neglect to pay his admission fee, or annual assessment, for three months after the same is due, he shall be liable to forfeit his membership at any time when the Directors shall so order. The payment of the sum of fifty dollars at any one time by any member of the Society shall constitute such member a life member of the Society. The money received for such life memberships shall constitute a permanent fund, the income of which shall be devoted to the genei-al uses of the Society. 20 V. CERTIFICATES. Certificates signed by the President, and countersigned by the Treasurer, shall be issued to all persons who have become members of the Society. VI. MEETINGS. The annual meeting of the Society shall be held on the second Tuesday in Jan- uary, and regular meetings shall be held on the second Tuesday of every month, excepting July, August, and September, at such time and place as the Directors shall appoint. Special meetings shall be called by the Clerk, under the instruc- tion of the Directors. At all meetings ten members shall be a quorum for business. All Committees shall be nominated by the Chair unless otherwise ordered. VII. OFFICERS. The officers of the Society shall be nine Directors, a President, a Clerk, and a Treasurer. The Directors, Clerk, and Treasurer shall be chosen by ballot at the annual meeting in January, and shall hold office for one year, and until others are duly chosen and qualified in their stead. The President shall be chosen by the Board of Directors, from their number, at their first meeting after election, or at any adjournment thereof. The offices of Clerk and Treasurer may be held by the same person. VIII. VACANCIES, Any vacancy in the Board of Directors, or the office of Clerk or Treasurer, may be filled for the remainder of the term at any regular meeting of the Society, by the votes of two-thirds of the members present and voting. In the absence of the Clerk at any meeting of the Society, a Clerk _^;-tf tempore shall be chosen. IX. NOMINATING COMMITTEE. At the monthly meeting in December, a Nominating Committee of three persons shall be appointed, who shall report at the annual meeting a list of candidates for the places to be filled. X. PRESIDING OFFICER. The President shall preside at all meetings of the Society when present, and when absent, one of the Directors. In the absence of all these ofiicers, a Presi- dent ^r645 71 $2,859 66 S. M. QUINCY, Treasurer. Boston, Jan. 7, 1SS4. The undersigned have examined the Treasurer's accounts to Jan. i, 1SS4, and find the same to be correctly cast and properly vouched, and showing a balance of sixteen hundred and forty-five (1645 71) dollars and seventy-one cents, in the New England Trust Co. CURTIS GUILD, (Signed,) SAMUEL H. RUSSELL, THOMAS MINNS, Finance Committee. 14 Mr. James Rindge Stanwood then read the first annual report of the Committee on the Rooms, as follows : REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE ROOMS. Mr. Chainnan : — The Committee on the Rooms, appointed by you at the last annual meeting, in accordance with Article XVI, Section II, of the amended by-laws, respectfully tenders the following report con- cerning the duties which have devolved upon it : PROGRESS OF THE SOCIETY. In reviewing the record of the past year, it becomes the agree- able duty of your committee to congratulate the Society upon a marked and most undoubted progression towards the accom- plishment of the objects for which it was chartered. Evidence has not been wanting to impress upon us the fact that a growing inclin- ation exists in this community to favor the preservation from de- struction of such landmarks of the early history of the Province and the State as yet remain within the limits of the municipality. This spirit is undoubtedly capable of exerting a most beneficial influence towards the formation of a strong public sentiment in sympathy with the field of work which the Society has under- taken to glean. Did time and space allow, it would be interesting to detail some of the many indications of the increased approval with which the purposes of our Society are generally regarded. It will, how- ever, suffice to say, that during the past twelve months a very large number of persons have manifested their disposition to actively co-operate with us in forming within these walls the nucleus of an historical collection, which, we trust, may be brought in time to embrace many interesting memorials of Boston and New England. Open constantly to the public, these rooms are continually visited by a very large number of persons, many of whom are residents of other portions of the country. Were, indeed, anything lacking to assure the corporation of Boston as to the wisdom of the policy which it has most happily adopted in the restoration of this ven- erable building, abundant and most conclusive proof of the public approbation could be readily afforded. Many of our fellow-citizens, not numbered among our members, who have, from a desire to see 15 what has been accomplished, examined the collections which have thus far been made, have without exception commended warmly the aim of the Society. Upon the other hand, the custodians report that that portion of the general public which comes to our city from the South and West, and is led to visit this building as a structure of national interest, has expressed much gratification at the privileges afforded it in these halls. EVIDENCES OF PUBLIC INTEREST. The community at large has the past year exhibited practical evidence of its willingness to co-operate with us through the con- tribution of many objects of interest to swell our collections, and in the opinion of your committee, this disposition is sure to increase. Among the oil paintings which have been placed in our custody we mention a portrait of Peter Pelham, the early Boston engraver, by Copley, lent by Mr. William H. Whitmore ; a fine portrait by Copley, of the Hon. John Codman, a Boston merchant of the Revolutionary period, lent by Captain John Codman ; a painting by J. W. A. Scott, giving a fine view of Boston Harbor, from Fort Hill to Foster's wharf, in 1853, from Mr. John Gray ; a portrait of Hannah Adams, the authoress, from Mr. George K. Daniell, of Wellesley Hills, and a portrait of Major Daniel Simpson, the vet- eran musician, by Darius Cobb, given by Major Simpson, accom- panied by a drum which descended to his possession from John Robbins, and which was beaten at the battle of Bunker Hill. We have likewise received an excellent portrait of Major Thomas Melvill, painted by Alexander, and lent by his daughter, Mrs. Nancy M, Downer, of this city, to whom, jointly with Mr. John L. D'Wolf, we are likewise indebted for the possession of an interesting his- torical painting by Salmon, entitled: "A Representation of the late Thomas Melvill, Esq"^^ House." This picture is valuable as af- fording an excellent view of Green Street, fifty years ago. Several of the buildings shown are yet standing, the most noticeable being the structure then known as the Advent Church, which, slightly changed, is at present occupied by Dickerman's Box Factory. The large wooden building in the foreground represents the house of Major Melvill, an estimable citizen well known to Bostonians fifty years ago. A pastel of this gentleman, attributed to John Single- ton Copley, together with his staff of office as fire-ward of Boston, from 1779 to 1825, and the antique cocked hat which he is said 16 to have worn at the Boston Massacre, have been confided to the custody of the Society, through the courtesy of Mr. John S. Damrell, trustee. ENGRAVINGS AND PHOTOGRAPHS. In the department of engravings, the Society has reason to con- gratulate itself upon the addition of a large number to its collec- tions. Your committee expresses its gratification at the interest shown in this direction by our members, which it trusts may not be allowed to flag. Among the gentlemen who have contributed arti- cles of this class may be mentioned Mr. James A. Dupee, Mr. Ed- ward Ellerton Pratt, Rev. Joseph May, of Leicester, Mr. F. W. G. May, Mr. William H. Whitmore, Mr. William Woolley, Fitch Ed- ward Oliver, M. D., Mr. Robert C. Mackay, Mr. Hamilton A. Hill, and others whose names will be found in the list of acknowledg- ments. Your committee reports a number of accessions to the Society's collection of photographic prints, during the year, a large majority of which relate to points of interest in the past history of our city, and are most acceptable. And here we would state that we are especially desirous of securing as many engravings and photographs commemorative of buildings and localities in early Boston, as it may be possible to bring together in this building, and we respect- fully solicit all members of this Society who may be enabled to use their influence towards the direction of any such, not already repre- sented upon our walls, to exert it in our favor. SKETCHES AND COLORED PRINTS. Among the objects of interest which have lately been placed in our custody your committee takes pleasure in calling attention to a valuable and interesting water-color sketch of the present State House upoji Beacon Hill, taken in 1805, for Benjamin Gleason, and presented to our Society by Mrs. W. W. Wheildcjn, of Concord, Massachusetts, It is believed to be the earliest sketch of the building now extant. From the Hon. Samuel A. Green, M. D., we take pleasure in acknowledging the receipt of two hand-colored prints of early date; one a portrait of John Hancock; the other a specimen of the curious and well-known copper-plate engraving of Paul Revere, portraying the arrival of the British fleet from Hali- fax, and the landing of the troops at Long Wharf, Oct. i, 1768. A water-color sketch of much interest, representing the old parsonage 17 ' of Brattle Square Church, formerly standin<:^ on Cf)urt Street, upon the present site of the building occupied by the Adams Express Company, has been temporarily placed in our care by Mr. Samuel H. Russell. Nor must we omit to mention here some most inter- esting India ink sketches of localities in the town of Quincy, contributed by Miss Eliza Susan Ouincy, of Quincy, which were taken by herself in the year 1823. An accompanying photograph of another sketch represents Mos-wachusett, or Arrowhead Hill, in the town of Quincy. Concerning this locality, historical authorities of the period state as follows: "In 1630 the Sachem who gov- " erned the country around Boston, had his seat on a bilinear " Squantum. It lies in the shape of an Indian arrow-head, which " was called in their language, Mos. A hill in the Indian tongue is " wachusett, hence the great Sachem's seat was called MoszvacJuisctt, " from whence the province received the name of Massachusetts "* THE GIFT FROM BOSTON, ENGLAND. In the month of June last, a communication was received by your committee from His Worship William Bedford, the Mayor of Boston, Lincolnshire, England, in behalf of the corporation of that borough. It contained advices of the despatch of a box from the corporation addressed to this Society, containing certain gifts. The package was duly received, and presented by your committee to the Society, at the October meeting. Within the box was con- tained a most interesting collection of engravings and photographs, representative of prominent buildings and localities in English Boston, and also several valuable volumes illustrative of the history of the borough, and of the county of Lincoln. Of these we specially mention a large folio edition of Pishey Thompson's admirable work entitled: "The History and Antiquities of Boston" ; bound in full russet calf, and bearing the arms of the borough, a personal gift from His Worship William Bedford, Mayor. It is illustrated by one hundred engravings on steel and copper, and -forms with the accompanying volumes, a most valuable addition to the collec- tions for our library. Among the other books sent, your commit- tee notes with gratification a copy of Smith's translation of that portion of Domesday Book which refers to Lincolnshire and Rut- landshire, presented by John Morton, Esq., a burgess of the * Neal's Histor>' of New England, vol. i. Hutchinson's History of the Province of Massachusetts-Bay, vol. i. p. 402 borough of Boston. A special feature of the present consists of thirty-five photographs of different carvings in bas-relief as represented upon the ancient stalls or choir seats in Boston Church.* These are of great antiquity, being attributed to the monks in the thirteenth century, while in the records of the corporation under date of 1558, they are styled " Our Ladye's quere " and "St. Peter's quere." We have caused the views sent, which will well repay a close examination, to be suitably framed and placed upon our walls in one collection, where they have been viewed with great interest by many. At the stated meeting for October the presentation of the gifts from Boston, England, was acknowledged by a formal resolution of thanks, moved by Hamilton J\.. Hill, Esq., and seconded by the Reverend Samuel K. Lothrop, D. D., which was unanimously adopted. The return box authorized by vote of the Society at the above meeting to be sent to the Mayor and Corporation of Boston, England, was despatched on December 8, of the past year. It contained a number of gifts from the Society and individuals connected with it, together with the resolutions,! which were duly engrossed on parchment, and witnessed by the seal of the Society. * The ancient stalls in Boston Church are seventy-seven in number, and are arranged in two rows on each side, from the west end of the chancel to the north and south doors. Most probably the brethren and sisters of the Guilds of the Blessed Mary and of Sts. Peter and Paul, occupied these stalls during the ceremony of high mass and other portions of the Roman Catholic ritual. The stalls on the north side of the chancel are now occupied during divine service by the Mayor and Town Council, and those on the south side by the members of the choir. — //isi. atid Antiquities of Boston, Lincolnshire. The small shelving stool which the seat of the stalls formed when turned up in its proper position, is called a ' miserere.' On these the monks and canons of ancient times, with the assistance of their elbows on the upper parts of the stalls, half supported themselves during certain portions of their long offices, not to be obliged always to stand or kneel. This stool, however, is so contrived, that if the body became supine, it naturally fell down, and the person who rested upon it was thrown forward into the middle of the choir. — Uliincr's Winchester, vol. ii. p. 36. t At the regular meeting of the Bostonian Society, held in the Council Chamber of the Old State House, Boston, upon Tuesday, the gth of October, 1SS3, the following resolutions, moved by Hamilton A. Hill, Esq., and seconded by the Reverend Samuel K. Lothrop, D.D., were unanimously adopted: — IVhereas, During the summer recess, the present of books, engravings and photographs announced at the last meeting of the Society, as having been forwarded, and then being on the way from the Mayor and Corporation of Boston, England, has been received and deposited on the shelves and walls of the Society, and IVhereas, It seems fitting to make a more formal acknowledgment of the present than that which was made in advance before its receipt — Resolved, That the hearty thanks of the Bostonian Society be and they hereby are tendered to His Worship the Mayor and the Honorable Corporation of Boston, Lincolnshire, for the very valuable and acceptable gift of books and pictures illustrating the history and architecture of their ancient borough with which they have favored the Society. Resolved, That the thanks of the Society be cordially tendered to His Worship, William Bedford, the Mayor of Boston, for the valuable presents sent by him personally to the Society ; also to John Morton, 19 RESEARCHES AT THE STATE HOUSE. Early in the present year an act was passed by the General Court of Massachusetts, authorizing the Governor and Council to give to the City of Boston, to be placed in the Old State House, any antique furniture belonging to the Commonwealth formerly used in that building. Under the provisions of this act, your committee, duly authorized by the proper authorities of the city, has made frequent searches in various parts of the present State House for such articles as are comprehended within the act, and these in- vestigations have been well repaid, resulting in the acquisition among other things, of the old table of the Executive Council be- fore the Revolution, formerly in this building, and a sufficient number of the old Senate mahogany arm-chairs to allow both the Council Chamber and Representatives' Hall to be duly furnished. Upon the twenty-first of December, your committee received from His Excellency the Governor, an official attestation from the archives of the Executive Department, witnessed by the seal of the Commonwealth, as to the verity of the old Council table sent by the Governor and Council to be placed in this building. This document, together with the table, we have caused to be deposited in the Council Cliamber. Esq., a burgess of the borough, for a copy of Smith's translatiou of that portion of Domesday Book which relates to Lincolnshire and Rutlandshire, presented by him. Resolved, That the Directors of the Society are hereby authorized and requested to preparejand send a box to the Mayor and Corporation of Boston, containing such books and photographs as will convey suit- able information to them in relation to this city. Boston, Massachusetts, October gth, A.D., 18S3. A true copy of the record. I L. s. } Witness the Seal of the Bostonian Society. ^ ^ SAMUEL M. QUINCY, C/^r/t. The box despatched to the Mayor and Corporation, per ss. Catalonia, upon Saturday, Dec. 8, 1S83, con- tained the following volumes and photographs: Twenty-ninth annual report of the Boston Board of Trade ; Two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Planting of the First Church in Boston ; Memoir of Abbott Lawrence; History of the Bunker Hill Monument Association: Sentry or Beacon Hill ; the Monument of 1635 and 1790; Historical Catalogue of the Old South Church; Old State House Memo- rial ; Landmarks of Boston; Hand-book of Boston; Eight volumes of tlie Reports of the Boston Record Commissioners; Leaflet containing the inscriptions on the bronze tablets recently placed on the older burial-grounds of Boston; Figures of the past, from the leaves of old journals; Bibliography of Charles- town, Massachusetts; Over the Ocean; Abroad Again; Records of the First Church in Charlestown, Massachusetts, 1632-1789; Manual for the use of the General Court of Massachusetts, 1SS3 ; unmounted photographic views as follows : Large view of the Old State House ; Quincy Market ; City Hall ; Franklin Statue ; Custom House; Faneuil Hall; Hancock House; Old Elm on Boston Common ; Sol- diers' and Sailors' Monument; Equestrian Statue of Washington ; Bunker Hill Monument; Ether Monument; Bridge in Public Garden; Trinity Church; City Hospital; Post Office; The Old South Meeting-House; Present edifice of the Old South Church ; two views of the Public Garden; the Museum of Fine Arts; Commonwealth Avenue; Lincoln Monument in Park Square. 20 An old broadside containing the warrant for the last Town Meet- ing held in Boston, called in Faneuil Hall, for Monday, March 4, 1822, has been presented to the Society by Mr. Moses Grant Daniell, and is of much historical importance. It is given over the signature of Thomas Clark, Town Clerk, and contains the entire text of the City Charter granted by the General Court, entitled : "An Act to es- tablish the City of Boston," which was to be submitted to the citi- zens, for adoption. In referring to this interesting paper we would call attention to the fact that accessions of this class constitute a most valuable element in our collections, and that there doubtless yet re- main in our midst many articles of this nature, closely connected with the past of this community, which have been laid away from time to time among old papers. We trust that others, reading of this acquisition, may be stimulated to search among their files for like interesting souvenirs, which, if placed in our possession, we should appreciate most highly, and ensure careful guardianship. For much assistance furnished to your committee while pursu- ing its quest at the State House, it is indebted to the courtesy of the late Executive, Ex-Governor I^utler, to Capt. Oreb F. Mitchell, Sergeant-at-arms, and Mr. Joseph C. Tucker, the Superintendent of Public Buildings. THE ISAAC ROYALL CHANDKLIER. In the pursuance of the above researches your committee was advised by Mr. W. F. Durfee, a member of the General Court of 1861, that when in that year he was serving upon a committee for the collection of the instruments used for the survey of the State, he discovered in one of the vaults of the present State House, an ancient chandelier, taken in pieces and packed in a box. The central portion consisted of a brass sphere, bearing around it the following inscription : " A Gift to the Great and General Court of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay, from Isaac Royall, of Charlestown, 1748." Within the box lay the twisted branches or arms of glass, which fitted into the central piece and held the brass lamps. The chandelier was accompanied with a rod and chain of antique pattern, evidently intended to connect it with the ceiling. As may be imagined, the record of this most interesting relic, well known from the attestation of early documents, to have hung in the Representatives' Hall of this building in the Provincial day, stimulated a most persevering search, in the hope that, as it had been seen carefully preserved at the State House at so com- 21 paratively recent a date, it might be eventually recovered and replaced in the ancient hall where it hung for over ninety years. Your committee regrets, however, to be obliged to state that despite every effort, its investigations have as yet led to no further result than the discovery of the old rod and chain mentioned above, which it has added to the collections of the Society for preservation. Although a thorough search has been had in all accessible portions of the State House, we are yet in hopes that some further trace may be found of this most interesting and curious relic of the past, especially as one of the present watchmen there employed testifies that he saw it lying in the box as described by Mr. Durfee, as late as the year 1875. OBJECTS OF HISTORICAL VALUE. Among other accessions which are recorded, is the antique hall clock of the Rev. Mather Byles, the noted wit and loyalist of the Revolutionary period, and first pastor of the Hollis Street Church, in Boston.* It comes from our fellow member, Mr. Thomas O. H. P. Burnham, the well-known antiquary, and is an object of great curiosity to many visitors to the Council Chamber. It was made by Gawen Brown,t the maker of the Old South clock, in his shop on State Street, in 1750, then occupying the site of the present Merchants' Bank building, and is still in excellent running order. We have also received during the past month, from Mr. Thomas Sherman, of Chelsea, the gift of an old engrossed parch- ment, dated at Boston, April 4, 1693, being a true copy, duly attested under the signature of Isaac Addington, Register of Probate, of the " last Will and Testament of George Worthilake, * The Rev. Mather Byles, founder of Hollis Street Church, was ordained in 1732, and held that pastorate until 1777 He was a man of talent, an eloquent speaker, and a ready wit. His residence was on Common (ihe present Tremont) Street, corner of Hollis Street. The late Delano A. Goddard says of him in Vol m. Chap. iii. of the Memorial History of Boston : " Alone of the Congregational clergy, he stood against the Revolution. He tried, with undoubted sincerity to avoid politics in the pulpit, but his opinions were too notorious, and his sharp tongue too free, to make his position long an agreeable one to his people or to himself. He left his congregation in 1776, and the following year was denounced in town meeting, and tried by a special court for remainnig in Boston during the siege, and praying for the King. He was sentenced to be conveyed on board a guard ship and sent to England, but the sentence was not en- forced. The last twelve years of his life were spent in retirement, and the favor of the community was never restored to him.'' t Gawen Brown, the maker of the Old South clock, came to Boston from England. He was a prosper- ous artisan, and at his death left a handsome estate. He married Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Rev. Mather Byles, and his grand-daughter, Mrs. Rebecca V. Thompson, is yet living in this city. This lady possesses a statement in the handwriting of her grandfather, concerning the Old South clock, which he considered as his masterpiece. It is dated in 1756, and says: " My time-piece goes so well that it went twenty-six weeks, and varied only, according to the most accurate observation, about two minutes of time." 4 22 " of the island commonly called and known by the name of Pem- " berton's Island, within the Township of Boston, in the Massa- " thusetts Colony in New England." This curious document is in excellent preservation, and will, we doubt not, be regarded with much interest by our members. SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF THIS BUILDING. In the month of September last, your committee, to meet the convenience of the many visitors to this building who are com- paratively unacquainted with its history, prepared a brief histori- cal sketch of matters incidental to the period in connection with which it became famous, contained in an i8mo. leaflet of twelve pages. Of this it caused to be printed an edition of five hundred copies. These were placed by your committee in the charge of the custodians, upon the 8th of October last, to be furnished at a nominal figure, covering the cost of printing, to those who might desire to obtain such information as it contained. The book appears to answer a desirable purpose. Within the period em- braced between Oct. 8th and January i, of the present year, the custodians report the number of copies sold as one hundred and twenty-five. Your committee views the work done by this little publication, in the dissemination throughout the community through the medium of purchasers from all portions of the country, of a knowledge of the building, and the aims of our Society, as by no means unimportant. EARLY MAPS OF BOSTON AND VICINITY. Since the last Annual Meeting the upper portion of this build- ing has been duly finished by the city of Boston, and now awaits the reception of a portion of the Society's collections. Your committee contemplates the establishment here of as complete a set of maps and plans of this city, showing the successive periods of its growth, as it may be possible to secure. It has already been able to make some progress in this direction, and soon trusts to place that portion of accessions which it has acquired in position. Some of the most valuable maps of this community are to be found in the Boston Directories and guide-books of early date, and we would solicit such of our fellow-members as may chance to find among their books any of the above, containing these maps, es- pecially at a period ante-dating the year 1835, to bear in mind that such would be most acceptable, especially should they prove of 28 dates which we have not already obtained. Ample space exists in the upper story for the location of the Society's library, to the collections for which your committee reports some accessions, but it respectfully calls attention to the fact that there is room for large additions to this department. PLATES FROM BOWEN's " PICTURE OF BOSTON." Your committee, among the purchases which it has made during the past year for account of the Society, specially refers to a set of valuable copper-plates, which appeared in the third edition of Bow- en's well known volume, published Jan. 2, 1838, entitled: "A Pic- ture of Boston." These plates represent most of the churches and public buildings of this city standing at that time, and bear signs of careful execution. They are very little worn, the outlines being sharp and clear. Your committee, realizing that it had secured a valuable acquisition to the Society's collections, reported its purchase to that body at the stated meeting for November, ac- companying its action with proof-sheets from the plates for the in- spection of its fellow-members. The action of your committee was duly approved by the Society, which adopted the following resolution : Ordered^ " That the Committee on the Rooms be authorized to " issue an edition of the plates from Bowen's Picture of Bostoti, " with suitable letter-press, and that a copy be given to each mem- " ber for the year 1884." Your committee informs the Society that it has complied with the above instructions, and that the work is now in press, while the edition will probably be ready for delivery before the next monthly meeting. ACCESSIONS TO THE SOCIETY'S COLLECTIONS. Since the last Annual Meeting your committee reports the number of accessions to the Society's collections in these halls as two hundred and forty-six, and the number of loans as fifty-seven, the whole aggregating a total of three hundred and three. This does not include the accessions to the collections for the library, which foot up fifty-seven volumes and one hundred and thirty-three pamphlets. The register for the inscription of the names of visit- ors to the rooms shows the total number of autographs there record- ed during the period between January i, 1883, and January i, 1884, to be five thousand, three hundred and forty-two, and the aggregate number recorded since the opening of the register. 24 August 28, 1882, to be nine thousand two hundred and forty- seven, of which three thousand two hundred and sixty-nine are residents of Boston. Among the recent accessions your committee calls the attention of the Society to a very interesting and curious copy, executed in London in 1833, of an original Dutch map, engraved at Amster- dam, in 1659. It gives a view of the territory constituting the ancient Dutch province of New Netherland, (the present site of the states of New York, New Jersey and Delaware), with that of New England and part of New France, or Virginia, as then known to the Dutch. As it is a matter of record that the early Dutch navi- gators who visited these shores, according to the historian Van der Donck* claimed the whole country along the coast, and set up the escutcheon of the States-General of Holland on Cape Cod, or, as they called it, Staatcn Hocck, it will readily be realized that this curiously illustrated map, which is the gift of our fellow member, Hon. Jonathan Preston, forms an accession of material value. As we look back on the record of the past year we find that much has been effected in the way of progress, but that much yet remains to be achieved. The walls of these historic halls are, it is true, well covered with pictures, but it should be recol- lected that a proportion of these have been contributed as loans merely, and that at any time, we are likely to be called upon to de- liver such as may be desired by their owners. In view of this, your committee respectfully suggests to the members of the So- ciety that there is plenty of room for any additional prints or paint- ings which any one may feel inclined to present us, and that any such accessions will be most cordially welcomed. Your committee is especially desirous that the Society should possess some portraits in oil of those illustrious magistrates, who in the early days of the Town and Province, officiated in the Council Chamber, and we recommend for the consideration of * The Province of New Netherland is situate on the North side of America, in the latitude of thirty- eight and one-half degrees, or thereabouts. It is bounded on the North-east by New England ; on the South-west by English Virginia. The coast extends mostly South-west and North-east, and is sandy alongside the Ocean. The North-west region is still partly unexplored. The South Bay and South River, (the present Delaware), called by many the second great river of New Netherland, lies in the latitude of 38° 15'. It has two heights or capes, the Northern, called Cape May, the Southern, Cape Cornelis, and the Bay itself is called now Port Mey, now Godyn Bay. In the beginning, before any mention was made of the English, after our people had first discovered and explored the most northerly part of New Nether- land, they erected an Escutcheon on Cape Cod, and took possession. The Boundaries as we understand extend from thence to Cape Hinlopen. — Bcschryvinge van Nieiiiu Ncderlandt. Adricrn I'an dcr Donck, Amsterdam: 1649. 25 the Society the subject of ascertaining what action should be taken in this direction. We have made some inquiry, and have dis- covered that good copies by a competent artist could probably be secured at an average price of about one hundred dollars a picture, and should any of our members see fit to present to our Society one or more such portraits, we know of no gift that would be more acceptable or appropriate. It has been thought best by your committee to annex to this, its First Annual Report, a descriptive list of all the articles which have been placed in the Society's possession by gift or loan, since it occupied these halls. An exception, however, has been made in the case of the collections for the library, to which only the ac- cessions for the past year are given. All of which is respectfully submitted. Mr. John Lathrop then presented the report of the Committee to nominate Officers for the ensuing year, as follows : — For Directors: CURTIS GUILD, WILLIAM S. APPLETON, THOMAS MINNS, JOHN T. HASSAM, SAMUEL H. RUSSELL, WILLIAM H. WHITMORE, HAMILTON A. HILL, WILLIAM H. BALDWIN. THOMAS C. AMORY. For Clerk and Treasurer: JAMES M. HUBBARD. A ballot was then taken and the foregoing list of candidates declared to be duly elected Officers of the Society for the ensuing year, and the Clerk duly sworn. The following vote, offered bv Mr. Samuel H. Russell, was unanimously passed : — 26 Votcd^ That the thanks of the Rostonian Society be presented to General Samuel M. Quincy, who to-day retires from the offices of Clerk and Treasurer, for his valuable services which have been largely instrumental in bringing it to its present state of prosperity and usefulness, and entitle him to the warmest gratitude of its officers and members. Mr. Hamilton A. Hill asked the attention of the members to the value of the heliotype process for perpetuating and multiplying copies of old and rare papers, and broadsides such as almost every one has in his possession ; documents of a personal character, or of family interest, or of an historical character, may be rescued from the possibility of loss, by this simple and exact method of reproduction. Mr. Hill presented to the Society, as illus- trations of his remarks, three heliotype documents, as follows : First, a proclamation issued by Louis Philippe, July 29, 1830, ad- dressed to the citizens of Paris, on his arrival among them to lead the revolution of July. This waif was picked up in the streets of Paris, and has been preserved, by a gentleman still living in Boston. Second, a letter from the Church at Plymouth, recom- mending John and Mary Winslow, (Mary Chilton of the May- flozucr), and their children, to the fellowship of the Third Church, now the Old South Church of Boston. The letter is dated June 26, 1671, and the original is in the Prince Library, belonging to the Old South Church. Third, the result of an ecclesiastical council, called to settle the questions at issue between the First and Third Churches, dated May 28, 1674, and signed by Samuel Whiting, John p:iiot, Peter Hobart, John Higginson, Samuel Phillips, Seaborne Cot- ton, and others. Adjourned. JAMES M. HUBBARD, Clerk. ACCESSIONS TO THE LIBRARY COLLECTIONS.— 1883. Volumes. Pamph-J LETS. Hon. Thomas C. Amory I William Bedford, Mayor of Boston, England 5 I Boston Park Commissioners ..... 2 Boston Record Commissioners, .... 8 Bostonian Society, — purchased by Committee on the Rooms, ........ 10 I Charles Rollin Brainard ..... Hon. Francis Brinley, of Newport, R. I. . James A. Dupee ....... James Lane Gorham, {^\t N. E. Palladium, 1804) Hon. Samuel A. Green, M.D. .... John T. Hassam ...... Hamilton A. Hill Samuel Dean Horton ..... E. J. Howard, Secretary Boston Board of Trade, James F. Hunnewell ..... Long Island Historical Society George W. Maunder ..... Thomas Minns ....... John Morton, Boston, England New England Historic, Genealogical Society . Grenville H. Norcross ..... Francis Winthrop Palfrey ..... Hon. James L. Quigley .... General Samuel M. Quincy .... Daniel Rollins ...... c 1 ij r. 11 J file Bo.:ton Gazette 1805 Samuel H. Russell j ^^^ Columbian Centinel 1809 Joseph Simes, South Plymouth, Massachusetts . William H. Whitmore Hon. Marshall P. Wilder 2 I 6 57 7 I ^11 ACCESSIONS TO THE SOCIETY'S COLLECTIONS. James Alexander. Lithographic view, by Mayer, entitled: " Steamship Brittania cut out of ice in Boston Harbor, Feb. 3, 1844." George II. Allan. A fragment of masonry taken from tlie ancient tower of St. Botolph's Church, Boston, Lincolnshire, England. Nathan Appletun. A photographic portrait of the late Nathan Appleton, born in New Ipswich, N. H., Oct, 6, 1779: died at Boston, July 14, 1861. after the painting by G. P. A. Healy. A. C. Baldwin. Painting in oil of Boston, from Dorchester, by Seeman. Map of Milton and Dorchester. Copper-plate engraving entitled : " Sacred to Patriotism." dedicated to Con- gress, Charles Smith, sc. Sylvester B.\xter. Photographic view of the late Beacon Hill Reservoir, erected 1S47, removed in 18S3. His WohsiiipWilll\m Bedford, Mayor of Boston, Lincolnshire, England. A photographic portrait of William Bedford, Esq., Mayor of Boston, Eng- land, 1S83, in regalia, as official head of the Corporation of the Borough. City of Boston. Large photographic view of the Old .State House, as restored in 1881. Boston Antiql'arian Club. View of Toy's Building, formerly standing on Washington Street, upon the site of the present Rogers' Building. Heliotype reproduction of FranqncUn s Carte de la ville, bayc ct environs dc Bast OH, 1693. Unfinished plan of Boston, found among the papers of A. Bowen, collected in 1827-28. Map of " The Town of Boston in New-England," no date given. Two electrotype views upon one sheet, showing the Old State House in 1770 and in 1876. Plan of Boston, 1722. A. Bowet!, sc. Reproduction, made in 1878, of a plan of Boston, dated 1800. Reproduction, made in 1869, of "A Plan of Boston in New-England," dated 1729, dedicated to Governor Burnet. Thomas Johnson, sc. 29 Steel-plate portrait of Judge Samuel Sewall. after an original painting. F. T. Sfiiart, $c. Electrotype reproduction of an old print, entitled: " A Prospect of the Colledges in Cambridge, in New England." BosTONiAN Society. Purchased by the Committee on the Rooms. Thirty-two copper-plate views of various churches and public buildings in Boston, A. Bo-ven, sc, which appeared in the third edition of the volume entitled : " A Picture of Boston," published January 2, 1S38. Steel-plate view of Boston from Boston Bay, C. l^Iottram, sc, 1857, after the painting by J. W. Hill. Plans and Maps of Boston for the years 1814, 1832, 1833, 1835, 1836, 1837, I83S, 1844, 1846, 1848, 1849, 1S51: 1852, 1853, 1855, 1858, 1859; Plan of Boston, with parts of the adjacent towns, published by the Boston Bewick Company, 1835. Two electrotype reproductions : one being of a copper-plate portrait of Abel Bowen ; the other of a frontispiece used by that author in the volume entitled : " A Picture of Boston." Map of Boston from the Guide Book, 1864; Map of the "Environs of Boston," 184S ; Map of Boston from Boston Almanac, 1849; Map of New England, 1850, showing telegraphic and railroad communications ; Plan, showing the proposed improvement of the Back Bay, 1879. Copper-plate portrait of the Rev. Mather Byles, pastor of Hollis Street Church, 1732-1777 5. Ham's, sc. Copper-plate portrait of "The Hon"'* Samuel Adams, Esq'- first Delegate to Congress from Massachusetts." J^. Norman, sc. Copper-plate engraving entitled: View of Bunker's \Y\\\, {Genilemaii's Afag- azine, Feb., 1790.) Lithographic portrait of General Warren, bj- Pendleton, after the painting by Alexander. Electrotype view of the Coliseum, erected for the Peace Jubilee in Boston, in 1869. Steel-plate engraving of Faneuil Hall. John G. AIcRae, sc. A fac-simile of the original Speaker's Desk, formerly in the Representatives' Hall of the Old State House. A lithographic view by Fabrontns, after the painting by Ames, entitled : " Webster at Marshfield." A certificate of membership in the Boston Sea Fencibles, 1819, engraved on copper, showing in back-ground a view of Boston Light as it appeared at that date. Annin it French, sc. Permit of safe passage granted the ship O'Cai'n, of Boston, dated January 11, 1803. Issued by Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States, and coun- tersigned by James Madison, Secretary' of State, and showing in foreground a copper-plate view of Boston Light as it appeared at that time. Fifteen cuts (wood and copper), being illustrations used by Abel Bowen, in his volume entitled : " A Picture of Boston." Copper-plate engraving commemorative of the services of Tho. S. Webb, one of the founders of the Handel and Haydn Society, Annin & Smith, sc. A metal Sun-dial, bearing date 1762. Diagram illustrative of the figures represented in the oil painting by Wight, entitled : " Laying the Corner Stone of the Reservoir in Derne Street, 1847." 5 30 Steel-plate portrait of Lafayette; a proof by Lcroux from the painting in oil, by Ary Schaeffer, 1S22. His Worship the Mayor and the Honorable Corporation of Boston, Lincolnshire, England. Thirty-five photographic representations of bas relief carvings upon the an- cient stalls, or choir seats of Boston Church, attributed to the monks in the thir- teenth century; specified as follows : The early English Rose; a couchant Buck ; a double-headed Eagle; an Eagle with its head turned; the Grifiin; Clowns playing with Kittens; a foliated de- sign; a Bear Bait; Eagles picking their claws: Head with curled beard; a man devoured by wolves; a Lion and Dragon fighting; a Man attacking a Lion ; Killing the Grifiin; Bust of a Qiieen ; The Schoolmaster; A Man and Woman fighting; a Mermaid piping to a boat's crew; a Fox running away with the Geese; a Monster with cloven feet and the head of a man; the Portcullis of the Castle; a tiltim;- helm in profile; Grotesque Head ; a Winged Dragon ; a Dra- gon and Grifiin in amiable converse; Killing the Unicorn ; a foliated design ; a Wolf as priest, Reynard peeping in; Monkey with bottle; a Knight fully armed, charging a Wyvern with his lance; two Swans, the heads forminga ducal coronet; a feat of Horsemanship — bending behind to pick up the horse shoe; the Pillar of Flagellation ; a Hunt with Bow and Arrow ; a Burlesque upon organ playing. Unmounted photographs specified as follows, relating to Boston, England : View of Boston Church from the West; the Church from the Cattle Market; general view showing Lincoln and Lindsay Bank, White Hart Hotel, and build- ing of the Liberal Club; the Pulpit in Boston Church, from which Rev. John Cotton preached; the Memorial in Boston Church to the late Professor Coning- ton ; the Church, and Herbert Ingram Monument; Inscription upon the Me- morial Brass in Boston Church, commemorative of the Rev. John Cotton; South Porch and Cotton Chapel of Boston Church; the Sessions House; View of old Wind, Corn and Flour Mills; the Ingelow House; the Church House; the Cottage Hospital; Old Flemish House after its restoration; Old Flemish House before its restoration; the Baptist Chapel; another view of the Cottage Hospital ; Burton Hall ; the Grammar School ; View of the site of the new Dock; View of Skirbeck Church, Lincolnshire. Steel and copper-plate prints specified as follows : Steel-plate engraving, entitled: "Boston, Lincolnshire," choice proof, C. H. yeems, sc. Steel-plate engraving entitled : "Boston, Lincolnshire," published by J. Morton. Copper-plate engraving, entitled : "Guildhall, Boston," 7?. Pollard, sc, 1S19. Copper-plate engraving entitled : ' ' North-east view of Tattershall Castle, Lin- colnshire," B. Hoivlctt, sc. iSoo. Copper-plate view of Tattershall Castle from another point, B. Hoiulett, sc. 1799. Boston Safe Deposit Company. Plan of the Burnt District, as it appeared after the great fire of Nov. 9-10, 1872. F. E. Bryant. The swing Sign of the old Pembroke Inn, formerly standing upon the Plymouth turnpike, upon the outskirts of the township of Pembroke. 31 Dudley R. Child. Tvvo copper-plate engravings containing a series of copper-plate views illustrative of various localities and public buildings. Jekemiah Colburn. Lithographic view by Pendleton., entitled : Entrance to Cornhill from Wash- ington Street, 1S27. Two views of State Street, eng. by J. Mayer. A. O. Crane. Two heliotjpe reproductions of Maps, entitled respectively: "A New and Accurate Plan of the Town of Boston in New-England, 1774, ' and " General Washington's Revolutionary War Map, after a survey ordered by him, showing the position of his army in defence of Boston, 1776." George K. Daniell, of Wellesley Hills. Portrait in oil of Hannah Adams, the authoress; born 1755; died 1S31- Henry W. Daniell. A photographic view after the engraving entitled : " View of Boston in 1S48." Moses Grant Daniell. Broadside, containing the printed call for the last Town Meeting held in Boston, convened in Faneuil Hall, on Monday March 4, 1822, to act upon the adoption of a City Charter. Dr. John H. Dix. Photographic view of the raising of the Hotel Pelham, August, 1869. John Dodge, of Charlestown. Cannon-ball fired by the British against Washington's intrenchments on Dorchester Heights, in 1775. Nancy M. Downer. A photographic view of the house of Major Thomas Melvill, taken in 1832, showing a portion of Green Street as it appeared at that time. Printed sketch of the life of Major Melvill, as published in Columbian Centinel, Oct. 30, 1S32. James A. Dupee. Copper-plate portrait of John Qiiincy Adams, published in 1826. A. B. Du- rand, sc, after the painting by Sully. Charles E. French. The iron Fire-back of the chimney-piece of the Blue Room in the old Hancock house, cast in 1737, also the lightning-rod from that building, which was put up by Benjamin Franklin. Ward Brooks Frothingham. An electrotype reproduction of an imaginative sketch, entitled: "A View of the First Meeting-House in Boston, 1632." Hon. Samuel A. Green, M.D. A heliotype portrait of Hon. Samuel A. Green, M.D., Mayor of Boston, 1882. W. W. Greenough. Heliotype reproduction of J^ranyueli'/i's "Carie de la vt'lle, baye et environs de Bastou" 1693. 32 Curtis Guild. Twelve heliotjpe engravings of old Boston buildings, after sketches made by George R. Tolman. Panoramic view of the ruins after the great fire in Boston, (Nov. 9-10, 1872), from a point opposite Trinity Church, in Summer Street. David Green IIaskins, jun., of Cambridge. Heliotype reproduction of a sketch entitled: " Residence of Ralph Inman, Cambridge, Mass." T. T. Hauffer. Bill of Lading of the sloop Greyhound, from Boston to Newberne, N. C, un- der date of Jan. 20, 1709. The Boston Herald. Fragment of Masonry from the old Roman wall of London. Charles R. Hildebourn, of Philadelphia, Penn. Etching of Ralph Inman, the loyalist of Cambridge during the Revolutionary period. Hamilton A. Hill. A copper-plate portrait of " Thomas Hollis, Esq., a liberal benefactor of Harvard College in New England, died 1731." A copper-plate portrait of Benjamin Franklin, engraved by B. Tanner, after the oil painting by Cochin in 1777. Heliotype reproductions as follows : A proclamation issued by Louis Phillipe, July 29, 1S30, addressed to the citi- zens of Paris, upon his arrival among them to lead the revolution of July. A letter from the Church at Plymouth, dated June 26, 1671, recommending John and Mary Winslow, (Mary Chilton of the Mayflovjer). and their children, to the fellowship of the Third Church, now the Old South Church of Boston. The result of an ecclesiastical council, called to settle the questions at issue between the First and Third Churches, dated May 28, 1674. Samuel Dean Horton. Copper-plate portrait of Washington, Sartain^ sc. Autograph letter of Paul Revere. W. P. LUNT. Lamb's Reproduction of Pelham's Military Map, entitled: "A Plan of Bos- ton in New-England, with its Environs," 1775-76. Robert C. ^NIackay. A copper-plate engraving entitled: "A View of the Year 1765, Boston: engraved, printed and sold by Paul Revere." A reproduction and fac-simile of the Boston Gazette and Country journal, of March 12, 1770, giving a detailed account of the Boston Massacre. George W. M.\uxder, of Charlestown. Electrotype reproduction of a cut entitled: "South view of the old F'eather Store in Dock Square," erected 16S0, razed i860. F. W. G. May. Lithographic view, by Bn/ford, of the residence of the late Jeffrey Richard- son, formerly standing at the corner of Pearl and High Streets in Boston. 33 Rev. Joseph May, of Leicester. Lithographic portrait bj Pendleton, of the Rev. John P. Kirkland. D.D., LL.D., after the painting in oil by Gilbert Stuart. Mrs. Elizabeth L. Means. Two Holland Tiles taken from the old mansion formerly occupied bv John Majo and Cotton Mather, erected in 1656; also the fan-light of the front door of that building, with one of the pilasters which supported the stoop. Thomas Minns. Photographic view of the present edifice of the "First Church of Christ in Boston." Captain Oreb F. Mitchell, Sergeant-at-arms of the Commonwealth. Two brass oil lamps of Doric pattern ; two pewter ditto. Three wooden inkstands ; one slate inkstand. Rod and Chain of the Isaac Rojall chandelier, which formerly hung in the Representatives' Hall of the Old State House. An old Book Case, inscribed: "The Gift of Isaac Rojall, Esq'' of Charles- town.'' Grenville H. Norcross. Photographic views, as follows : Mayor and Boai-d of Aldermen, 1862 and 1867; Committee on Accounts, 1S67 ; raising eight hundred feet Cochituate water pipe on Tremont Street, 1S67 ; Board of Trade and Western Visitors, 1S65. Heliotype portrait of Samuel A. Green, M.D., Mayor of Boston, 1882. Photographic portrait of the late Hon. Otis Norcross, Mayor of Boston, 1S67. Fitch Edward Oliver, M.D. A heliotype reproduction of a portrait by " N. Emmons, Dec, 172S," entitled : " Mr. Andrew Oliver, Nat. March 29, 1706." Miss Abby L. Pierce, of Brookline. A photographic portrait of the late Rey. John Pierce, D.D., born in Dorches- ter, July 14, 1773; died August 24, 1S49. Edward Ellerton Pratt. Heliotype portrait of the late Rufus Choate, born in 1799 ; died 1859, ^fter the engraying in Browfi's Life of Choate. Rebecca DeCarteret Pratt, of Chelsea. Copper-plate view of the Hancock House, after a drawing by J. Davis. T, Diman, sc. A stone bullet-mold of Reyolutionary period, bearing the initials E. P., \yith date, 1783. Hon. Jonathan Preston, A correct copy, executed by T/iomas Starling; in London, in 1833, of an original Dutch Map, engraved in Amsterdam, in 1659, entitled " Novi Belgii novaeque Angliae nee non partis Virginiac tabula, vinltis in locis cmendata a Nicolao Joannis Vissc/iero.'' William G. Preston. Photographic views taken from the tovver of the Somerset Street (First Baptist) Church, razed in 1882; including the Church edifice (exterior and inte- rior), and the new building erected on that site. 34 Miss Eliza Susan Qltinxy, of Qiiincy. A Sketch in india ink, bv herself, taken in 1823, entitled : "A view of the " village of Qiiincy, and the Congregational Meeting-house, built in 1732, and " taken down in 1S2S; and of the monument to Josiah Qiiincj, jr., erected by " his son in 1S04." Also a sketch in india ink, taken at the same time, entitled : "A view of the house of President John Adams, with a view of Dorchester " Heights and the city of Boston, and in the middle distance Arrow-head Hill " and the planting-ground of the Sachem, marked by the house of Josiah " Qiiincy, erected upon it in 1770." Photograph of a sketch made by Miss Qiiincy, in 1S23, of Mos-wachusett or Arrow Head Hill, in the town of Qiiincy. A photographic portrait of Edward Bromfield, senior, taken from the paint- ing in oil, attributed to Smibcrr. Two copper-plate engravings of Battles of Qiiebec and Bunker Hill, with key to each, published in London, in 179S. Original copper-plate print, entitled: "The Bloody Massacre perpetrated in King-street, Boston, March 5, 1770, by a party of the 29th Regt". Engraved, printed and sold by Paul Revere. Five colored lithographs of Beacon Hill and vicinity, from drawings by /. /v*. Siiiif/i, in iSii. Southack's Reduction of Bonner's Map of Boston, 1733. Plan of Boston, with intrenchments of His Majesty's forces in 1775, by Lieut. Page, of His Majesty's Corps of Engineers, engraved and printed for William Fadden, Charing Cross, Oct. 1, 1777. General Gage's Fortifications on Boston Neck, in 1775, reproduced from Pennsylvania Magazine. Hon. Josiah Quincy, of Qiiincy. Reproduction of " Price's Southeast View of ye Great Town of Boston, in New England, 1743." Lithographic view, by Pendleton, of projected improvements in the South Cove, after the drawing by P. P. F. DeGrand, in 1S35. Daguerreotype view of the laying the corner-stone of the Derne street Reser- voir, Nov, 22, 1847, "^^'ith Mayor Qiiincy in the foreground. Reproduction of Burgess's Map of Boston, 1729. Josiah Quincv, jun. Representation of great elm on Boston Common, on veneer from the same. General Samuel M. Quincy. A heliotype reproduction of the oil painting by Salmon, entitled: "Old State House in flames, 1832." Samuel H. Russell. Copper-plate portrait of Benjamin Franklin, by Tanner, after the painting by CoeJiin, in 1777. D. W. S.VLISIUJRY. Photographic view of the second edifice of the " First Church of Christ in Boston," formerly standing on the site of the present Rogers' Building. Photographic view of Brattle Square Church, erected 1772, razed 1S71. Thomas Sherim.\x, of Chelsea. An engrossed parchment, dated at Boston, April 4, 1693, being an attested 35 copy before the Hon. Isaac Addington, Register of Probate, of the " last Will " and Testament of George Worthilake, of the island commonly called and " known by the name of Pemberton's Island, within the Township of Boston, " in the Massathusetts Colony in New England." Hexry C. Short. A policy issued by the Massachusetts Fire and Marine Insurance Company, dated Boston, Nov 2, 1S02, signed by Arnold Welles as President, countersigned by William Scollay as Secretary, with engraved frontispiece, /. R. Smith, sc, showing a view of State Street at an early period. D.\NiEL Simpson. Portrait in oil, by Cobb, of Daniel Simpson, the veteran drummer of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company. Drum, beaten by John Robbins, at the Battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775- Henry S. Smith, Specimen of the first Star Badge worn by the Boston Police, adopted in the mayoralty of Benjamin Seaver, 1853. James Rindge Stanwood. Commission of Cutting Lunt, as ensign of the foot company in the Essex Regiment of Militia. Given at the Council Chamber in Boston, May 2, 1751, by "William Shirley, Esq., Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief, in and over His Majesty's Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England." James H. Stark Electrotype view of the mansion formerly the residence of John Mayo and Cotton Mather, erected in 1656. Electrotype reproduction of a copper-plate print, showing State Street at an early period. W. W. Wheildon, of Concord. Fragment of one of the Paddock elms, formerly standing on Tremont street, in front of the Granary Burial-ground. Piece of the Post to which Washington tied his horse at fortifications on Boston Neck, when entering this city in 1789. Mrs. W. W. Wheildon, of Concord. A water-color sketch of the present State House, Beacon Hill, taken in 1805, for Benjamin Gleason, the father of the donor. William H. Whitmore. Diagram entitled : "Old State House, State Street, Boston; plan of second floor, showing circular staircase, hall, and the four ante-rooms adjoining, with representation in dotted lines of the original oak framing around the staircase opening. All indications shown found in the restoration of iSSi." Electrotype view of the Boston City Hospital. Steel-plate portrait of Benjamin Franklin, after the painting by Duplessis, R, L. Babson & y. Andrews, sc. Bartlett's illustrated map of Boston, C. H. Bartlett, lith., i^'ji. Wood engraving, entitled : " The Mayor and Aldermen of Boston, 1853. Copper-plate portrait of Rev. Joseph Sewall, for fifty-six years pastor of the Old South Church, died 1769. 36 Lithographic portrait by Borer, of Rev. Sebastian Streeter, pastor of the First Universalist Church in Boston, 1S24-1S67. Electrotype reproduction of an engraving on copper, by Paul Revere, entitled : " A View of the Obelisk erected under Liberty Tree in Boston, on the rejoic- ings for the repeal of the Stamp act, 1766." Badges used by Committee of the Boston City Government at Washington, Sept. 23, iSSi ; Badges used at the Garfield Memorial service held in Tremont Temple, Boston; two copies of resolution passed by the Honorable Artillery Company of London, on receipt of the tidings of the death of President Gar- field ; copy of invitation of the City Government of Boston, to attend the ceremony of rededication of the Old State House, July 11, 18S2. Photographic view, showing front of old City Hall, with Franklin Statue in foreground. Plans of Boston from actual .survey by Osgood Carleton, for 1796 and 1803; another plan of Boston, no date given ; Plan of Boston, engraved for the United States Hotel, no date given; Plan of Boston for the year 1S34; View of the City of Bo.ston, 1879 ; Map of the business portion of Boston, 1S83. Plan of Back Bay, showing its proposed improvement, Feb. 8, 1877. Heliotype engraving showing State House and Park Street Church from the Common, with the Old Elm in foreground. Copies of inscriptions on the bronze tablets placed on the older Burial- grounds in Boston. Woodcut entitled : Views on Boston Common. Heliotype reproduction, reduced, of the First Charter of Massachusetts, granted by King Charles the First, March 4, 1629. Lithographic portrait hy Boitz'c, oi' Thomas A. Davis, Mayor of Boston, 1845. Lithographic view of Minot's Light, destroyed in the gale of April i6, 185 1. Lithographic view of Boston Harbor, 1854, by Bufford. Copper-plate portrait of John Adams, second President of the United States. H. Houston, del ct sr. Arthur W. Willard. Photographic portrait of John Hancock, after a painting in oil by John Single- ton Copley, in the possession of the Hancock family. Charles Henry Wise. Steel-plate view of Bunker Hill Monument, E. A. Fozvle. sc. Lithographic portrait of General Warren, by Pendleton. Lithographic view of birth-places of John and John Quincy Adams. Copper-plate portrait of Caleb Strong, LL.D., Governor of Massachusetts, 1 813, I. R. Smith, sc. William Woolley. Heliotype engravings, specifi.ed as follows : Two views of Post-office, City Hall, etc., (then located in Old State House), taken from the southwest in Washington Street, in 1835. Eight views of Old State House about 1850. Six different views of the Old State House, 1S14-1SS0. Eight views State Street in iSoi, after the painting by J. B. Marston. Seven views of Old State House from Washington Street, following the cut in Massachusetts Magazine, 1 791. LOAN COLLECTION. C. Henry Adams. Arms of the Painters' Guild, of England, Ireland and Scotland, 1755, brought to this country by Christopher Gore, for his brother Samuel Gore, a painter, and which at one time hung upon a building in the locality of the present Scollay Square. City of Boston. An oil painting entitled: "Laying the corner-stone of the Beacon-Hill Reservoir, Boston, November 22, 1S47." ^^- Wight-, pinxt. Deed of transfer of the Commonwealth's share in the ownership of the Old State House, dated April 28, 1803, signed by Enoch Titcomb, Aaron Hill and Nicholas Tillinghast, the committee appointed by the General Court to execute the transfer. Resolution of sympathy passed by the borough of Birmingham, England, upon receipt of the news of the great fire in Boston, Nov. 9-10, 1S72. " Plan of Boston Common, showing the kind and position of each tree, and every other object of importance, from actual survey made under the di- rection of the Chief Engineer, December, 1851." H. W. Nicoll, del. Lithograph entitled " View of Boston, July 4, 1870." F. Fuc/is, del. et lith. Imp. New En£r. Lith. Co. Published by John Weik, 605 Sansom Street, Philadelphia Lithograph entitled : " View of Boston, Massachusetts, iSSo," Beck & Pauli, lith., Milwaukee, Wis., showing the proposed Charles River and Back Bay Park, an open area of over 700 acres, after a drawing by H. H. Rowley & Co. , Hartford, Conn. Lithograph entitled : " Bird's Eye View of Boston," published by B. B. Russell & Co., Boston, 1856. y. Mayer & Co., lith., after a drawing by B. F. Nutting. Lithograph entitled : "The City of Boston," published by Currier & Ives, in New York, 1873. Parsons <& Atwater, del. Reproduction, made in 1849, ^^^ Frothingham's " Siege of Boston," of a map, entitled : "A Plan of the Town of Boston with the Intrenchments, etc., of His Majesty's Forces in 1775, from the observations of Lieut. Page, of His Majesty's Corps of Engineers, and from the plans of other gentlemen. En- graved and printed for W^ Faden, Charing Cross, as the Act directs, ist October, 1777.'' Reproduction, made in 1S79, °f "^ map entitled " Map of Boston, in the State of Massachusetts, surveyed by J. G. Hales, Geog''- and Surveyor, 1814." Lithograph entitled : " View of the New Jail for Suffolk County in the State of Massachusetts, erecting by the City of Boston, upon Charles and North Grove Streets, 1848." Gridley J. F. Bryaut, architect. Bufford, lith., after a drawing by H. Billings. 6 88 Water-color sketch entitled : " Design for an enlargement of Suffolk County Registry of Deeds and Probate offices, to afford additional accommodation for the offices and an additional story for the occupation of the Chief Engineer. Gridley J. F. Bryant, architect, February, 1S59." Photographic reproduction of a copper-plate portrait of John Phillips, first Mayor of Boston, 1S22. Steel-plate portrait ofjosiah Qiiincy, Mayor, 1S23-2S. — //. IP'- Smith, sc, after a painting by Stuart. Photographic reproduction of a copper-plate portrait of Josiah Q^iincy, Mayor, 1S23-28. Photographic portrait of Harrison Gray Otis, Mayor, 1829-31. Photographic portrait of Charles Wells, Mayor, 1832-33. Photographic portrait of Samuel Turell Armstrong. Mayor, 1836. Photographic portrait of Martin Brimmer, Mayor, 1S43-44. Photographic portrait of Joshua Bates, a benefactor of the Public Library. Photographic portrait of Charles Sumner, born 181 1 ; died 1874. Photographic view of Monument on Public Garden, commemorative of the discovery of Ether. Steel-plate engraving of the statue of Benjamin Franklin, in front of City Hall. Smith, Knight & Tappan, sc, after a drawing by H. Billings. Reproduction of an old copper-plate print, entitled: " A South-east view of y' Great Town of Boston, in New-England, America, 1743. Dedicated to Peter Faneuil, by William Price." Published for E. Whitefield bj' A. Tomp- kins, 38 Cornhill, Boston. Photographic view, taken on Boston Common, representing the officers and sailors of the Russian Naval Squadron which visited Boston in 1864, during the mayoralty of Frederic W. Lincoln. A carved representation of the Seal of the Province of Massachusetts-Bay. A carved representation of the Arms of the State of Massachusetts. George Brown. A Tinder-box, with Flint and Steel. A lantern of perforated tin, Paul Revere pattern. A tin candlestick with box of same material in which to keep spare candles, all of the articles named having been used in Boston in 1S17. Seth Bryant, of Wollaston. Clearance of the schooner Nezvbury from the port of Boston under date of April 25, 1765. Thomas O. H. P. Burnham. The old hall clock of the Rev. Mather Byles, first pastor of Hollis Street Church, made by Ga-Me7i Brown, Boston, upon King, (the present State) street, in 1750. Capt. John Codman. A portrait in oil of the Hon. John Codman, a Boston merchant of the Revo- lutionary period, born 1755, died 1S03. John Singleton Copley, pinxt. Daniel J. Courtney. An oil painting, after the original by Salmon, representing the Old State House in flames, in 1S32. 39 John S. Damrell, Trustee. Pastel of Major Thomas Melvill, attributed to Johti Shtgleton Copley, Official staff of Major Melvill as Fire-ward of Boston, 1779-1825. The three-cornered hat said to have been worn bj Major Melvill at the Boston Massacre, March 5, 1770. Stephen G. Deblois. An attested copy of the depositions of William Trevour, William Blackstone, the Sachem of Agawam,and Miles Standish, relative to Trevour's, now Thomp- son's Island in Boston harbor, deposed before the whole Court, 25th October, 1650, by Edward Rawson, Secretary of the Massachusetts Colony. John L. D'Wolf and Nancy M. Downer. An oil painting bj Salmon, entitled : "The late Thomas Melville, Esq''* House, June 20, 1832." Mrs. Nancy M. Downer. A portrait in oil of Major Thomas Melvill, born Jan. 16, 1751 ; died Sept. 16, 1832. Alexander, pinxt. A. A. FoLSOM. A photographic view after an engraving by A. Willard and J. W. Barber, from an original drawing by J. W. Barber, made in 1839, entitled "Boston: The above shows the appearance of Boston as seen from the south-west, near the intersection of the Providence and Worcester railroads." Ward Brooks Frothingiiam, A photographic view of the fourth edifice of the " First Church of Christ in Boston," erected in Chauncy Place, 1S07, razed 1S71. His Excellency the Governor. An engrossed parchment, being an attestation from the archives of the Executive Department, and the office of the Secretary of State, as to the verity of the table of the Executive Council before the Revolution, sent by His Ex- cellency Benjamin F. Butler, Governor, with advice and consent of the Coun- cil, to be preserved in the Old State House. His Excellency the Governor and the Honorable the Council of the Commonwealth. The table of the Executive Council before the Revolution, removed from the Old State House to the new structure upon Beacon Hill in 1798. Twenty-four of the old Senate arm-chairs. John Gray. An oil painting by y. W. A. Scott, entitled, "View of Boston harbor, 1S53." Hon. Samuel A. Green, M.D. A hand-colored copper-plate portrait entitled: "The Hon*"'' John Han- cock, Esq., late President of the Continental Congress." Born 1737, died 1793. A hand-colored copper-plate print engraved by Paul Revere, entitled : " A view of part of the Town of Boston in New-England, and Brittish Ships of War landing their Troops, 176S."' Luther L. Jenkins. Lithographic view by Prang, of the Old Warehouse in Dock Square, later known as the Old Feather Store. Erected 16S0, razed 1S60. 40 Herbert W. Kimball. A portrait in oil of Daniel Webster, born 1782 ; died 1852. Charles Libbey. A lithographic view by Biifford, published in 1854, with accompanying key, after the sketch by Freeman Richardson, entitled : " En\ irons of Boston, from Corey's Hill, Brookline." H. A. May. A copper-plate engraving embracing vignette portraits of Washington, Ad- ams, Jeflferson, and Madison, " printed by Shelton and Kensett, Cheshire, Conn. Thomas Gimbrcdc, sc. New York, January 30, 1812." Thomas Minns. A coppei'-plate portrait entitled: "The Hon*''^ John Hancock, of Boston, in New-England; President of the American Congress.'' Done from an original picture, painted by Littleford. London : Published as the Act directs. 25th October, 1775, by C. Shepherd. A copper-plate portrait of " The Right Hon. Isaac Barre, from an original picture hy A. G. Stuart, in the possession of the Earl of St. Vincent." W. T. Frye, sc, after a drawing by W. Evans. Published Feb. i, 1S17, by T. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand, London. New England Historic, Genealogical Society. A portrait in oil of Judge Samuel Sewall, born 1652, died 1730. A portrait in oil of Hon. Isaac Addington, born 1644-5, died 1715. A portrait in oil of Col. William Tyler, born 1687, died 175S. Miss Eliza Susan Qltincy, of Qiiincy. A portrait in oil of George Washington, born 1732. died 1799. Gilbert Stuart, pinxt. Hon. Josiah Quincy. A portrait in oil of Josiah Qj.iincy, junior, the patriot, born 1744: died 1775. Gilbert Stuart , pinxt. Daguerreotype view of the Mayor and Aldermen of Boston, 1848. Warren G. Roby, of Wayland. One of the old arm-chairs formerly in the Council Chamber of the Old State House. Samuel H. Russell. A water-color sketch of the old parsonage of Brattle-Square Church, formerly standing upon Court Street, on th ' site of the building at present occupied b}- the Adams Express Company. J. F. Fuller, del., 1855. The Commission of Nathaniel P. Russell of Boston, as Ensign in the sub-legion of Light Infantry, M. V. M., signed by Gov. Caleb Strong, under date of March 31, 1807. A copper-plate portrait of Benjamin Franklin, Li. Tanner, sc., following the painting by Cocltiii in 1777. Herman B. Tewksbury, of Winthrop. A notification of the rejoicings ordered by the Town of Boston, for Monday, May 19, 1766, in honor of the repeal of the Stamp Act by the British Parlia- ment. Dated May 16, 1766, and signed by William Cooper, Town Clerk. 41 A Broadside announcing the surrender of Lord Cornwallis and his army, printed at Boston, Oct. 26^ 1781, bj N. Willis. A Warrant from Harrison Gray, Treasurer of the Province of Massachusetts- Bay, to John Tewksbury, as Constable and Collector of Chelsea, Dec. 31, 1772. A notification to the citizens of Boston, to meet in Faneiiil Hall, to fill the Town quota for the Continental Army, April 25, 17S1. Signed by William Cooper, Town Clerk. John Wild, of South Braintree. A quadrant made by Samuel Thaxter, at the corner of Broad and State Streets, Boston, in 1792. William H. Whitmore. A copper-plate portrait of King George the Second, (born 16S3 ; died 1760,; entitled: " Georgius, D. G. Mag: Brit: Fran: cf Hib: Rex F. D. Brnn : et Lunen : Dux S.R.I. Arch: Thcsaur : et Prinrcp$ Elector etc. Tnauguratus 20 die Octobris, J714." G. Kneller, baronet, pinx. 1719. P. Pcliiam, fecit, cum privilegio regis. Sold by E. Cooper, at the 3 pigeons in Bedford Street. A copper-plate portrait entitled : " The true Effigies of the Most Illustrious Princess Anna Sophia of Hanover, declared by a late Act of Parliament for settling the Succession in ye Protestant line to succeed to the Crozvn of Eng- la?td after Her Alatie ^ueen Ann and her Royal Issue. Done from ye origittal brought from Hanover by ye Right Hon^^e Tho: L^ Raby, and dedicated to his Lordshipp by his most humble servant I. B." Sold by lohn Bowles, opposite to Stocks Markt. etc., and at Mercers Hall, Cheapside. /. Simon, fecit, cum privilegio. A copper-plate view entitled : "A Prospective Plan of tlie Battle fought near Lake George upon the Sth September, 1755, etc." Thotnas Johnston, sc, after the sketch by S. Blodget, dedicated to Governor Shirley. A copper-plate portrait entitled : '' Thomas Pownall, Esq''- Member of Par- liament, late Governor, Captain General and Commander-in-Chief and Vice Admiral of His Majesty's Provinces Massachusetts-Bay and South Carolina, and Lieut. Governor of New-Jersey." Earlom, fecit, after the painting by Coles. London : Printed for R. Sayer and J. Bennett, 53 Fleet Street, as the Act directs, 5th June, 1777. A steel-plate portrait of Sir Edmund Andros, Governor of the Province of Mas- sachusetts-Bay, 1686-1688, from the original picture in the possession of Annas Charles Andros, Esq., of London. A water-color view of Fort Hill. JV. T. B. Dobbins, del.. 1S07. A sepia drawing of the Jonathan Phillips estate, now Tremont Street and Pemberton Square. G. L. Brovjn, del., 1836. A photographic view of the residence of the late Gardiner Greene, formerly standing upon Pemberton Hill. A lithographic view by/. H. Bradford, entitled: ''Beacon Street, Boston, 1S43," showing the residences of Thomas Dixon and B. P. Homer, Electrotype reproductions as follows : View from Fort Hill, after the water-color sketch by W. T. B. Dobbins. View of Jonathan Phillips estate, after the sepia drawing made by G. H. Brown, 1. 1836. Pemberton Hill from the late Gardiner Greene's garden, about 1826. State Street in 1804, after the painting by J. B. Marston. 42 A steel-plate engraving entitled: Boston and its Environs." y. Poppel, sc. Munich, 1859. A paper found in the Faneuil Hall Grasshopper vane, when it fell, November iS, 1753. Two copper-plate membership certificates of the artillery organization known as His Majesty's Inlisted Montrosses, with views of the North and South Batte- ries in foreground. P. Revere, sc. A heliotvpe reproduction entitled : "St. Botolph's Church, Boston, England, from an original engraving, presented to Mrs. Watson by J. Noble, Major of Boston, Old England." A heliotjpe reproduction of a sketch by George F. Loring, entitled: "Old State House as it was and as it is." Published in 1S76, before the restoration. Broadside entitled : '"A Few Lines on occasion of the untimely End of Mark and Phyllis, vjho -were executed, at Cambridge, September jSth, {i7SS)i f'^^ Poyso7iing their Master, Capt. John Codman, of Charlestown." A copper-plate portrait entitled: "Jonathan Mayhevj, D.D .: pastor of the West Chvrch, in Boston, in Neiv-England, {/■/^y-ijdd'), an assertor of the Civil and religiovs Liberties of his covntrv and mankind, tvho, overplied by pvblic energies, died of a Nervovs Fever, Ivly VIII, MDCCLXVI, aged XXXXV." I. B. Cipriani, sc, MDCCLXVI I. A copper-plate portrait of Rev. Cotton Mather, pastor of the North Church, 16S4-1728. " Cottofius Matherus, S. Thcologice Doctor Regia; Societaiis Lon- dinensis Socius. et EcclesiiE apud Bostomitn Nov-Angloruin nuper Prcepositus." .^tatis sii(P LAV, MDCCXXVII. P. Pclham ad vivutn pin.xit ab origin Fecit ct cxcud. A copper-plate portrait of Rev. Thomas Prince, pastor of the Old South Church, 1718-1758. '■'■Thomas Prince, A.M., ^uintus EcclesicE Australis Bos- tonii Nov-Anglorum, Pastor, e Collegii Harvardini Cajitabrigice Curatoribus, Satnuelis Armigeri Filius et Thomw A.M., denati Pater." P. Pelhani, fecit, after a painting by John Greenwood. Printed for and sold by J. Buck, at ye Spectacles in Qj.ieen-Street, Boston, 1750. A copper plate portrait of " The Reverend Timothy Cutler, D.D., of Christ Church, Boston, N. E.'' 1723-1765. P. Pelham, pinxt. et fecit, I'JS'^- A Copper-plate portrait of ''The Rev't. Mr. William Cooper, of Boston in Nezv England, ^-Et. 50, 1743," pastor of Brattle-Square Church, 17 16-1743. P. Pclha7n, fecit, after the painting by Smibert. Printed for and sold by Step" Whiting, at ye Rose and Crown in Union Street, Boston. A copper-plate portrait of " The Reverend John Moor head, Minister of a Church of Presbyterian Strangers at Boston in Nexv-England,'''' 1730-1773. P. Pclham, pinx. ct fecit, 1731. A copper-plate portrait of " The Reverend Bcnjainin Colman, D-D.'' first pastor of Brattle-Square Church, 1699-1747. P. Pclham, fecit, 1733, after a painting by Smibert. A copper-plate portrait of " The Rev^ M>'- William Welsteed, of Boston in Nexv-England, ^-Et. 38, 1733.'' Pastor of the New Brick Church, 172S-1753. y. S. Copley, pinxt. et fecit. Printed for and sold by Step" Whiting, at ye Rose and Crown, in Union-Street, Boston. A copper-plate portrait of " The Rezost, B. A. G. Fuller, Charles E. Fuller, C. W. Galloupe, George A. Gardner, ' John Gardner, John L. Gardner, John L. Gardner, jr. , Henry Gassett, Jos. M. Gibbens, Daniel A. Gleason, J. M. Glidden, William T. Glidden, William Goddard, Charles B. Gookin, James L. Gorham, i^. A. Gould, John C. Gray. J. Converse Gray, Joseph H. Gray, George H. Green. F. B. Greenough, W. W. Greenough, W. O. Grover, Curtis Guild, George K. Guild, E. E. Hale, Edward R. Hall, John R. Hall, Thomas B. Hall, Richard P. Hallowell, N. P. Hamlen, George W. Hammond. Charles L. Harding, Charles Harris, William T. Hart, John T. Hassam, Francis B. Hayes, Henry W. Haynes, 48 George Hayward, Charles Head, J- Theodore Heard. Jacob H. Hecht, Alfred Hemenway, Brooke Herford, Alfred H. Hersej. A. F. Hervej, Waldo Higginson, Clement Hugh Hill, Hamilton A. Hill, William Hilton, John Hogg, Alfred D. Hoitt, Edward H. Holbrook, Henry W. Holland, Charles H. Holman, C. D. Honians, George H. Homans, R. W. Hooper, William H. Horton, Henry O. Houghton, George D. Howe, Osborn Howes, jr., * Aaron D. Hubbard, C. E. Hubbard, James M. Hubbard. Richard C. Humphreys, H. H. Hunnewell, James F. Hunnewell, William V. Hutchings, Joseph A. lasigi, Charles Inches, Charles E. Inches, Francis Jacques, George Abbot James, George F. Jelly, Henry F.Jenks, Thomas L. Jenks, Bernard Jenney, C. E. Johnson, Edward C. Johnson, Samuel Johnson, D. W. Jones, Leonard A. Jones, Charles S. Kendall, M. P. Kennard, W. H. Kennard, George G. Kennedy, H. P. Kidder, Benjamin Kimball, Babson S. Ladd, Nathaniel W. Ladd, William H. Ladd, George Lamb, Thomas Lamb, Thomas R. Lambert, John Lathrop, Abbott Lawrence, William H. Lee, John A. Lewis, Weston Lewis, Arthur Lincoln, F. W. Lincoln, Solomon Lincoln. Samuel Little, Hartley Lord, John A. Loring, S. K. Lothrop, T. K. Lothrop, Joseph S. Lovering, George G. Lowell, Matthew Luce, Henry Lyon, Robert C. Mackay, Thomas Mair, Francis H. Manning, Fred. G. May, Fred. W. G. May, John Joseph May, Samuel May, Edward R. Mayo, William G. Means, Ebenezer C. Milliken, Henry F. Mills, William N. Mills, Thomas Minns, Francis Minot, Frederick H. Moore, H. A. Morse, Alexander Moseley, Thomas S. Newell, Andrew Nickerson, Thomas Niles, John Noble, Grenville H. Norcross, *Otis Norcross, C. B. Norton, B. F. Nourse, Frederic R. Nourse, 49 Edward L. Osgood, James R. Osgood, Edward Page, John C Paige, J. S. Paine, R. T. Paine, jr., F. W. Palfrey, John C. Palfrey, Charles W. Parker, Edgar Parker, Harvey D. Parker, F. Parkman, Albert S. Parsons, Eugene E. Patridge, Charles B. Peabody, Henry \V. Peabody, Pearce W. Penhallow, Augustus T. Perkins, C. C. Perkins, Thomas H. Perkins, William Perkins, Charles F. Perry, Jacob PfafF, John C. Phillips, George F. Pierce, N. W. Pierce, Phineas Pierce, Charles Lawrence Pierson, William T. Piper, Albert C. Pond, Alex. S. Porter, Edward G. Porter, John W. Porter, Louis Prang, Edward Ellerton Pratt, John C. Pratt, Laban Pratt, George H. Preble, Jonathan Preston, William G. Preston, George F. Putnam, George Henry Quincy, Josiah Quincy, Samuel M. Quincy, Henry R. Reed, James Reed, Henry C. Richards, Augustus Richardson, F. L. Richardson, George C. Richardson, Thomas O. Richardson, Spencer W. Richardson, Henry A. Rice, George Ripley, Nathan D. Robinson, Alfred P. Rockwell, Henry B. Rogers, John C Ropes, William Rotch, Augustus Russ, Samuel H. Russell, Nathaniel J. Rust, William Appleton Rust, D. W. Salisbury, Edwin H. Sampson. George D. Sargent, Lucius M. Sargent, Joseph Sawyer, Samuel E. Sawyer, Geo. W. Searle, J.j^Henry Sears, J. Montgomery Sears, K. W. Sears, Philip H. Sears, Samuel E. Sewall, George O. Shattuck, Henry L. Shaw, H. S. Shaw, (Life Member.) Lemuel Shaw, William G. Shillaber, Lucius Slade, E. F. Slafter, Andrew C Slater, Jacob Sleeper, William H. Slocum, Charles C. Smith, Elbridge Smith, George H. Snelling, Samuel G. Snelling, S. T. Snow, Henry Souther, A. J. C. Sowdon, M. D. Spaulding, A. W. Spencer, Henry H. Sprague, L. Miles Standish, James Rindge Stanwood, Edward Stearns, George Stedman, Amos W. Stetson, 50 Oliver Crocker Stevens, J. Henry Stickney, C. W. Stone, W. Brandt Storer, Franklin H. Story, Edward A. Strong, Richard Sullivan, W. W. Swan, B. W. Taggard, I. T. Talbot, William H. Talbot, Thomas F. Temple, W. F. Temple, Henry C. Thacher, Edward F. Thayer, George Qiiincy Thorndike, S. Lothrop Thorndike. Walter E. Thwing, Benjamin B. Torrey, Charles R. Train, W. B. Trask, Arthur W. Tufts, Job A. Turner, jr., George B. Upton, *George Christie Van Benthuysen, Fred H. Viaux, J. Thomas Vose, Thomas B. Vose, Alex. F. Wadsworth. George W. Wales, Nathaniel Walker, Henshaw B. Walley, Francis J. Ward, *G. Washington Warren, Joseph W. Warren, S. D. Warren, William Wilkins Warren. Winslow Warren, Andrew G. Weeks, James H. Weeks. Charles A. Welch, A. Davis Weld, jr., Moses W. Weld, Otis Everett W^eUl (Life Member), Samuel Wells, :^,Jark R. Wendell, Arioch Wentworth, Andrew C. Wheelwright, Edward Wheelwright, W. W. Wheildon, J. Gardner White, Charles T. White, Henry Whitman, Charles J. Whitmore, C. O. Whitmore, (Life Member), William H. Whitmore, D. R. Whitney, Edward Whitney, James L. Whitney, Henry Whittemore, Arthur W. Willard, R. Willard, Levi L. Willcutt. S. D. G. Willcutt, Alexander Williams, Henry W. Williams, Jacob L. Williams, C. B. Wilson, Thomas B. Winchester, Erving Winslow, William C. Winslow, R. C. Winthrop, jr. (Life Member), J. Huntington Wolcott, J. W. Wolcott. William B. Wood, Arthur Stanley Woodward, William Woolley, John Worster. BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. ORGAl^IZED TO PROMOTE THE STUDY OF THE HISTORY OF BOSTON AND THE PRESERVATION OF ITS ANTIQUITIES. BY-LAWS. I. OBJECTS. It shall be the duty of members, so far as it may be in their power, to carry out the objects of the Society, by collecting, by gift, loan, or purchase, books, manuscripts, and pictures, and by such other suitable means as may, from time to time, seem expedient. II. MEMBERS. The members of the Bostonian Society shall be such persons, either resident or non-resident in Boston, as shall, after having been proposed and accepted as candidates at any regular monthly meeting by the Directors, be elected by the votes of a majority of the members present and voting. III. HONORARY AND CORRESPONDING MEMBERS. Honorary and Corresponding members shall^be nominated by the Directors, and shall be elected by ballot by two-thirds of the members present and voting. They may take part in the meetings of the Society, but shall not be entitled to vote. IV. ADMISSION FEE AND ASSESSMENTS. Each member shall pay five dollars at the time of his admission, and five dol- lars each first of January afterwards, into the treasury of the Society for its general purposes; but if any member shall neglect to pay his admission fee, or annual assessment, for three months after the same is due, he shall be liable to forfeit his membership at any time when the Directors shall so order. The payment of the sum of twenty-five dollars in any one year by any member of the Society shall constitute him a life member of the Society ; life members shall be free from assessments, and entitled to all the rights and privileges of annual members. The money received for such life memberships shall constitute a fund, of which not more than twenty per cent, together with the annual income shall be spent in any one year. V. CERTIFICATES. Certificates signed hy the President, and countersigned by the Treasurer, shall be issued to all persons who have become lite members of the Society. VI. MEETIN(;s. The annual meeting of" the Society shall be held on the second Tuesday in January, and regular meetings shall be held on the second Tuesday of every month, excepting July, August, and September, at such time and place as the Directors shall appoint. Special meetings shall be called by the Clerk, under the instruction of the Directors. At all meetings ten members shall be a quorum for business. All Committees shall be nominated by the Chair unless otherwise ordered. VII. OP'FICERS. The officers of the Society shall be nine Directors, a President, a Clerk, and a Treasurer. The Directors, Clerk, and Treasurer shall be chosen by ballot at the annual meeting in January, and shall hold office for one year, and until others are duly chosen and qualified in their stead. The President shall be chosen by the Board of Directors, from their number, at their first meeting after election, or at any adjournment thereof. The offices of Clerk and Treasurer may be held by the same person. VIII. VACANCIES. Any vacancy in the Board of Directors, or the oflice of Clerk or Treasurer, may be filled for the remainder of the term at any regular meeting of the So- ciety, by the votes of two-thirds of the members present and voting. In the absence of the Clerk at any meeting of the Society, a Clerk />ro tempore shall be chosen. IX. NOMINATING COMMITTEE. At the monthly meeting in December, a Nominating Committee of three persons shall be appointed, who shall report at the annual meeting a list of candidates for the places to be filled. X. PRESIDING OFFICER. The President, or in his absence one of the Directors, shall preside at all meetings of the Society. In the absence of all these officers, a President /r<7 tempore shall be chosen. XI. DUTIES OF CLERK. The Clerk shall be sworn to the faithful discharge of his duties. lie shall notify all meetings of the Society. He shall keep an exact record of all the proceedings of the Society at its meetings. 53 He shall conduct the general correspondence of the Society, and place on file all letters received. He shall enter the names of members systematically in books kept for the purpose, and issue certificates of life membership. The Clerk shall have such charge of ;ill property in the possession of the Society as may from time to time be delegated to him by the Board of Directors. He shall acknowledge each loan or gift that may l)e made to and accepted in behalf of the Society. xn. DUTIES OF TREASURER. The Treasurer shall collect all monies due to the Society, and pa\^ all bills against the Society, when approved by the Board of Directors. Pie shall keep a full account of receipts and expenditures in a book belonging to the Society, which shall always be open to the inspection of the Directors; and, at the annual meeting in January, he shall make a written report of all his doings for the year preceding. The Treasurer shall give bond in the sum of one hundred dollars, with one surety, for the faithful discharge of his duties. XIII. DUTIES AND POWERS OF DIRECTORS. The Directors shall superintend and conduct the prudential and executive business of the Society; shall authorize all expenditures of money ; fix all salaries; provide a common seal; receive and act upon all resignations and for- feitures of membership, and see that the By-Laws are duly complied with. The Directors shall have full power to comply with the terms of the lease of the rooms in the Old State House made with the City of Boston, and to make all necessary rules and regulations required in the premises. They shall annually, in the month of April, make a careful comparison of the articles in the possession of the Society with the list to be returned to the City of Boston under the terms of the lease, and certify to its correctness. They shall make a report of their doings at the annual meeting of the Society. The Directors may, from time to time, appoint such sub-committees as they deem expedient. In case of a vacancy in the office of Clerk or Treasurer, they shall have power to choose a Clerk or Treasurer ^;-i the Rooms. A committee of five members, to be styled the Committee on the Rooms, who shall have charge of all the arrangements of the Rooms, including the acceptance or rejection of all articles, (except books, manuscripts, and other objects appropriate to the Library), oftered as gifts or loans, the hanging of pictures, and the general arrangement of the Society's collections in their de- partment ; also, the employment and compensation of custodians. Cot)nn{ffcc on Papers. A committee of three members, to be stj'led the Committee on Papers, who shall have charge of the subject of papers to be read, or other exercises of a like nature, at the monthly meetings of the Society. Commiffce on Memhership. A committee of five or more members, to be styled the Committee on Membership, whose duty it shall be to give information in relation to the purposes of the Society, and increase its membership. Committee on the Library. A committee of five members, to be styled the Committee on the Library, who shall have charge of all the arrangements of the Library, including the acceptance or rejection of all books, manuscripts, and other objects appro- priate to the Library, offered as gifts or loans, and the general arrangement of the Society's collections in their department. These four committees shall perform the duties above set forth, under the general supervision of the Directors. Vacancies, which may occur in any of these Committees during their term of service shall be filled by the President. XVIL AMENDMENTS TO BY-LAWS. Amendments to the By-Laws may be made, at any annual meeting, by the vote of two-thirds of the members present and voting. They may also be made by the like vote at any regular meeting, provided notice of the same be contained in a call for such meeting issued by the Clerk, and sent to every member. PROCEEDINGS BOSTONIAN SOCIETY ANNUAL MEETING, JANUARY \H, ISSf). SSiOQ^ PROCEEDI N GS OF THE BOSTON IAN SOCIETY Annual Meeting, January 13, 1885. §0slon: OLD STATE HOUSE. PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF THE SOCIETY M.DCCC.LXXXV. Press of CON ANT & NEW HALL, 32 Hawlev Stkeet, Boston. CONTENTS. Illustrations : — View of the Old State House, . Frontispiece. Seal of the Bostonian Society, . . . Page 23 Old Swedish Inscription on Bell, ... 27 I. President's Address, ...... 5 II. Directors' Report, . . . . . • n III. Report of the Treasurer. ..... 14 IV. Report of the Committee on the Rooms, . 15 V. Report of the Committee on the Library, . -35 VI. Report of the Nominating Committee, . . 36 VII. Accessions to the Society's Collections, . . 38 VIII. Loan Collection, ....... 64 IX. Topographical Collection 74 X. Accessions to the Lif.rary Collections, . . 79 XI. Officers for 1885, 80 XII. Roll of Membership, 81 XIII, By-Laws, ^7 BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING. Boston, January 13, 1885. Pursuant to notice duly issued by the clerk, the fourth annual meeting was this day held in the Council Chamber, Old State House, at 3 P. M. In the absence of the President on account of illness, Mr. Hamilton A. Hill, a member of the Board of Directors, by their request occupied the Chair. The records of the last meet- ing were read and approved. After the election of new members, the President's address was presented as follows: — PRESIDENT GUILD'S ADDRESS. Fellow Aiembers: The swift flight of time once more brings round the annual meeting of our Society, and I have to congratulate you on the progress it has made the past year, notwithstanding the distract- ing feature of a hotly contested political campaign. Progress has been made in making the public better acquainted with the objects of our Society, and, as it has seemed to me in some degree converting the opinion of many who, if not directly hostile were, to say the least, indifferent to the work we have in hand, its importance and influence. It may be mentioned that the warmest enthusiasm that is expressed in our favor, and that this venerable and historic building has been preserved and these Memorial Halls filled with so many precious mementoes of the past, comes not alone from our own citizens, but from those of other cities and towns; often from those from far distant points who visit old Bos- ton as the Mecca of American history. 6 The past year has been one of great political excitement, and the operations connected with a national election necessarily have trenched and intruded upon that portion of men's leisure, that is if the average American citizen can be said ever to have any leisure, which he devotes to the quieter and more restful affairs that belong to an institution of this kind. Societies like this are necessarily of slow growth. The purely practical and utilitarian portion of the community are apt to stand aloof until they feel assured that such organization, which they consider to be entirely based on senti- ment, has proved itself directly or indirectly of money value, or in some degree of direct commercial advantage in the community of busy men and women. There is much for us to do in the way of demonstrating and enforcing the fact that this Society is of commercial as well as sen- timental value in its efforts to promote the study of the history of Boston and the preservation of its antiquities. I scarcely need recall the familiar argument that in the guarding of Boston's anti- quities something attractive to many tastes is preserved — memen- toes that attract strangers and even delay the departure of those who visit Boston purely on business enterprises, to the commercial advantage of the city. The disturbing elements of the past year have ceased, and it is now incumbent upon this Society, more than ever, to make its use- fulness and its influence felt. We have already reached a fairly self-supporting condition; we have been favored by the reading of instructive and interesting papers; we have demonstrated to the citizens of the country that there exists in Boston a veneration and love for those who procured the rights and blessing that we now enjoy, sufficient to keep their memory green and cherish some of the visible mementoes they have left behind, and save them from the hand of the vandal or spoiler. The Society, since the occupancy of these Memorial Halls, has thrown open its collection, and even its regular meetings and dis- cussions, freely to the public. The comparatively small collection that is gathered here has proved to be of a value beyond the grati- fication of mere curiosity — it has assisted in verifying historic records; in the preparation of works which will be of value and interest to the student. We are only, as it were, now on the threshold of a career, a cer- tain amount of proper and judiciously directed effort can win for this society, in the near future, the recognition of the community as one of the most useful and important of its kind. It is an ungracious task to ask those who contribute gratuitous service to do more, but this must be done to keep the Society in its proper position before the public, and to attain the desired end above alluded to. There needs to be an organized effort to still further increase our membership, to have historical and other interesting papers pre- sented at our meetings by competent and able men, and I may also suggest occasional discussions of matters germane to the objects of the Society, in order that public interest already excited may not only be kept alive but increased. The Society will not go on with- out effort and without interruption, and that this is the fact has been practically demonstrated during the past year by an occurrence which developed such gratifying and increased public sentiment in our favor as to render the affair referred to in many respects fortunate. In May last, the Mutual District Messenger Company, a corpo- ration occupying the basement of this building, petitioned to the City Government of Boston for leave to place signs on the exterior of the premises. This petition was made because of a restriction in the lease of all tenants that no signs should be placed upon the building, as it had been restored as far as possible to its original condition as a monument and memento of the past, in deference to a general and decided expression of public opinion. The report of "leave to withdraw" by the Committee on Public Buildings, to whom the petition had been referred, was refused by the Board of Aldermen by a tie vote. The Aldermen having thus disposed of the Report of the Com- mittee on Public Buildings, assigned further consideration of the subject as to whether the request should be granted to the petition- ing company to the next meeting of the Board. When that meet- ing took place, officers of this Society had taken proper steps, as far as lay in their power, to lay before the Board good and sufficient reasons why the petition should not be granted. The following letter was addressed to the Board by the President: 8 Boston, May 17, 18S4. To fJic Jwiiorablc tlic Board of Aldermen of the City of Boston. Gentlemen: — I observed by the proceedings of the Board, as reported in the newspapers, that the consideration of a petition to place signs on the Old State House by one of the tenants of the building is to come before you. In behalf of the Bostonian Society, whom I have the honor to represent, said Society being tenants of the memorial halls and other apartments in the build- ing, I beg leave to most respectfully yet firmly protest against the granting ot such petition. It being the mutual understanding between lessor and lessees at the time the premises were leased, that no signs should be placed upon the exterior, that agreement was placed in the leases and mutually agreed to. Furthermore, the members of this Society, a list of whom I have the honor to transmit to you, I am convinced are very generally opposed to having the building again disfigured Avith signs. Since the Old State House has been restored to its present condition, I have in my official capacity had frequent opportunity of hearing universal expressions of approval from all classes of citizens upon the act of the city government in so doing. Not only has this approval come from our own citizens, bvit from those and from the press of other cities. Other weighty reasons can be presented if required, but at this time I think it will only be necessary to call the attention of your honorable body to the facts above recited. I have the honor to be, gentlemen. Yours very respectfully, CURTIS GUILD, President Bostonian Society. The following petition was also presented : "The undersigned, citizens of Boston, respectfully remonstrate against the city government granting the petition presented by the Mutual District Tele- graph Company to place signs on the Old State House, ^'/hen this building was restored and its Memorial Halls thrown open to the public, the pledge was expressly given that no sign should be affixed to the outside walls. This restric- tion was placed in the leases of tenants and we believe understood to be per- manent. Your petitioners believe that the placing of signs upon the walls will not only disfigure the building, but tend in a large degree to nullify the object for which the city expended a large sum of money in restoring it as far as pos- sible to its original appearance." This petition was signed by ninety-eight of the most prominent business men, tax payers and residents of the city, all well known as taking an active interest in its commercial prosperity, and its opinion was supported by strong expression of the public press. The Board however, voted, by a vote of seven to five, to grant the request of the Messenger Company. After the adjournment, the opponents of the measure in the Board moved a reconsideration of the question, and during the interval until the next meeting the authorized representatives of this Society prepared other petitions and provided themselves with expressions of public opinion, which it was hoped might have the desired effect ; failing in which a public hearing was to have been demanded, which, I have every reason to believe, would have thoroughly astonished some people and thoroughly gratified others, including members ot this Society. Among other measures which occurred to the officers of the Society engaged in this work was to address a letter to the peti- tioners, the managers of the Mutual District Messenger Co.. ap- pealing to their patriotism in lending their aid to preserve this old relic of Revolutionary times, and also to forego their desire in deference to the decided expression of public opinion it had elicited. We were fortunate in finding in this company a spirit of fairness and courtesy which corporations are not generally supposed to exer- cise when desiring to carry out a cherished object, for in response to our appeal, we were privately assured through the company's representatives that the petition would be withdrawn, which was done in a communication at the next meeting of the Board of Aldermen. The history of this movement reveals to us the fact that notwith- standing the increase of opinion in favor of retaining a few of those landmarks that render Boston famous all over the world, opponents will continue to exist and utilitarians to press the question — what is all this worth ? They ask it of Boston Common, they asked it when it was proposed to introduce a supply of water into Boston and opposed that measure, it is asked by them of public parks, free concerts, the opening of the public museums and libraries to the laboring man on Sunday. Free museums, public parks, public libraries, historic buildings like Faneuil Hall, the Old South, and the Old State House, their advantages and their privileges belong to the people. It is an attack on the rights of the people when a corporation petitions to cut oft' a portion of Boston Common ; it is an attack on the rights of the people when a certain sect proposes to shut up free museums and public libraries on Sunday ; it is an attack on the rights of the peo- ple to prevent part of the territory of a great and increasing me- 10 tropolis being reserved for a place of heathful recreation, and moreover it is an attack on the rights of the people to attempt, in opposition to their desire, to level with the dust the few great reminders of the early struggles of this country for independence, so that only the legend remains, to perpetuate their memory. The opportunity now enjoyed by every individual of any age, sect or nationality, to visit freely these monuments of the past and profit by the lesson which the thoughts suggested by them convey, should be sacredly guarded and preserved, for it is not alone to its own citizens, but to the whole nation, that the city of Boston is accountable for the preservation of these mementoes, known and venerated by patriotic citizens throughout the country. That this feeling prevails was evinced within a year or two at St. Louis, where a distinguished citizen of that place expressed, in presence of several well-known Boston merchants, his indignation, which was endorsed by several of his fellow citizens, that any proposition to remove the Old State House or Old South Church could for a moment be listened to in Boston, and if it were, he expressed the desire to be afforded opportunity to raise a sum by subscription in St. Louis sufficient to purchase the old materials and re-erect the buildings in that city as cherished mementoes of our country's history. But as I have remarked, public opinion has strengthened in favor of our objects, and it is now incumbent upon us to continually show by our acts that we are worthy of such support, and to this end I desire to impress upon the members of the Society the value of the effort of each individual in the methods that have been mentioned, thereby sustaining those whom you honor as your official represen- tatives in faithfully carrying out the objects of the Society. The Society now depends upon its membership fees for its run- ning expenses, but I trust it is not too ambitious a hope to express that in the near future a fund may be created by gentlemen of means who sympathize with the objects of the institution which will place it upon so solid a foundation as not to depend entirely on its pres- ent means of support. I shall leave to the Board of Directors the task of presenting to you the transactions of the Society in detail and its necrology dur- ing the past year. The Treasurer, Committee on the Rooms, and Librarian will add to these their reports in our pamphlet of annual M 11 proceedings, which will be distributed to members as soon after the annual meeting as is possible to prepare it. It is a matter of regret that our present efficient Clerk, Mr. J. M. Hubbard, finds that other engagements will compel him to resign his present position, the duties of which he has so promptly and efficiently performed and for which the Society's grateful acknowl- edgments are due to him. I improve the present opportunity to thank the Directors and officers, as well as the members of the Society, for the courtesy and kindness I have experienced at their hands, and not only to join with them in the best wishes for the future but to cordially as a fellow member unite with them in putting forth all efforts possible to advance the objects for which the institution was founded. The annual report of the Board of Directors was then presented, as follows : — THIRD ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTORS. The Directors respectfully report as follows : — Since the last annual meeting, a report of which has been pub- lished and distributed, the progress of the Society has been gener- ally satisfactory, and the monthly meetings have been interesting and largely attended. Historical papers and biographical addresses have been presented to the Society as follows : — By Rev. R. C. Waterston, on Miss Eliza Susan Quincy, a bene- factor to the Society, and one who took a deep interest in its well- fare, and by Mr. John T. Prince, "A series of personal recollections of our city seventy years ago," on February 12. By Rev. Charles W. Baird, D.D., of Rye, N.Y., on the "Hugue- nots of Boston," on April 8. By Mr. Charles K. Dillaway, on Dr. Nathaniel Shepherd Prentiss, and by Mr. Samuel H. Russell, on Mr. Thomas Gold Appleton, on May 13. By Mr. Hamilton A. Hill, on Mr. Harvey D. Parker, and by the President, Mr. Curtis Guild, on "The Boston newspaper of fifty years ago," on June 10. By Mr. James B. Gardner, on "The New England Guards," on October 14. 12 By E. L. Bynner, Esq., on "Social life in Colonial and Provincial Times," on November ii, and by Mr. J. M. Hubbard, on "The first City of Boston Election, April ii, 1822," on December 9. In the first part of the year, a desire was expressed by some of the tenants to have the restriction in the lease removed, so that signs might be placed on the exterior of this building, but after some discussion and carefid reconsideration, wiser counsels pre- vailed, and the petition was withdrawn. The whole number of names added to the rolls of the Society during the past year is ...... . 149 Died, 12 Whole number of members, ...... 461 The additions during the past year by gift and loan to the Society's collections have been numerous, interesting and valuable, regarding which detailed report will be made by the duly con- stituted authorities upon this subject. In conclusion, we regret to inform you, that Mr. James M. Hub- bard to-day retires from the position of Clerk and Treasurer. He has discharged the duties which have devolved upon him during the past year so acceptably, that the Directors feel, in expressing their regret that he cannot be longer induced to retain these offices, they express the general sentiment of the members of the Society. Necrology for 1884. [Tlie figures at the left indicate the year of admission to the Society.] 1882. Alanson Bigelow, of Boston. Born in Westminster, Mass., May 20, 1809; died in Boston, February 29, 1884. 1882. Ebenezer Collamore, of Boston. Born in Scituate, Mass., September 5, 1809 ; died in Boston, March 5, 1884. 1881. Rev. Dorus Clarke, D. D., of Boston. Born in West Hamp. ton, Mass., January 2, 1797; died in Boston, March 8, 1884. 1882. William Franklin Temple, of Boston. Born in Dorchester, Mass., April 8, 1810; Died in Boston, ?darch 23, 1884. 1884. Thomas Gold Appleton, of Boston. Born in Boston, March 31, 1812; died in New York, N. Y., April 17, 1884. \ai 13 1 882. Lemuel Shaw, of Boston. Born in Boston, July 15, 1828 ; died in Boston, May 6, 1884. 1882. Harvey Drury Parker, of Boston. Born in Temple, Me., May 10, 1805 ; died in Boston, May 31, 1884. 1884. John Lowell Gardner, of Brookline. Born in Boston, Feb- ruary 8, 1804; died in Brookline, Mass., July 23, 1884. 1882. John Homer Dix, of Boston. Born in Newton, Mass., 1813; died at Appledore, Isles of Shoals, N.H., August 25, 1884. 1884. Francis Brown Hayes, of Boston. Born in South Berwick, Me., October 12, 1819; died in Lexington, Mass., Sep- tember 20, 1884. 1882. William Brandt Storer, of Cambridge. Born in Boston, April 2, 1838; Died in Cambridge, Mass., October 14, 1884. 1884. Francis Jaques, of Boston. Born in Charlestown, Mass., March 5, 1828 ; died in Boston, December 17, 1884. All of which is respectfully submitted, CURTIS GUILD, THOMAS C. AMORY, WILLIAM S. APPLETON, WILLIAM. H. BALDWIN, JOHN T. HASSAM, HAMILTON A. HILL, THOMAS MINNS, SAMUEL H. RUSSELL, WILLIAM H. WHITMORE, Dircctois. 14 The Treasurer then presented his annual report, as follows : — TREASURER'S REPORT. Receipts. Balance in Bank, January I, 1S84 Life Memberships ... . . Admission Fees and Assessments Intei-est on deposit in N. E. Trust Co., Sales of Historical Sketch of Old State House, Sales of Bowen Pamphlet, $1,645 71 350 00 2,020 00 61 50 21 50 6 GO $4,104 71 Expenditures. City Rent .... Compensation of Custodians Printing Postage Clerical Work Frames . Stationery Pictures, Antiquities, etc. Labor, Expressing, etc. Office Furniture, Case, etc Balance $100 00 492 GO 607 GO 86 So 43 52 96 80 43 10 126 70 142 G5 159 13 $1,897 10 2,207 61 $4,104 71 JAMES M. HUBBARD, Treasurer. Boston, January 12, 18S5. The undersigned have examined the Treasurer's account to January ist, 1885. and find the same to be correctly cast and properly vouched, and showing a bal- ance on hand ot Twenty-two hundred and seven (2207) dollars and sixty-one (6i) cents, in the New England Trust Company. SAMUEL H. RUSSELL, THOMAS MINNS, Finance Committee. 15 Mr. James Rindge Stanwood then presented the second annual report of the Committee on the Rooms, as follows : — REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE ROOMS. Mr. Chairman : — The Committee on the Rooms has the honor to offer the follow- ing report to the Bostonian Society, convened at the annual meeting : ADVANCEMENT OF THE SOCIETY'S OBJECTS. During the year that has elapsed since your committee submitted its last annual report, much of interest has transpired in the departments which have been entrusted to our care. We note with pleasure the steady growth in the community of a popular senti- ment sympathetic with our objects, which, although plainly mani- fest from the inception of our work, has nevertheless exhibited a marked and most satisfactory increase within the last twelve months. Your committee is gratified to be able to announce a record of interesting and valuable additions to the Society's collections in these halls. Abundant evidence of the manner in which we have been favored in this direction, will be found in the descriptive list which we have thought fit to annex to this report, wherein the various articles which have been placed in our hands are duly noted. OIL PAINTINGS OF INTEREST. Among the objects of value which have been placed in its posses- sion, your committee specially calls attention to an excellent oil portrait of the Rev. Dr. Samuel Stillman, well known as one of the most powerful preachers of the Revolutionary period, and the worthy pastor of the First Baptist Church in Boston, from 1765 to 1807.* It is executed by Johnson, and is said to be an excel- lent likeness of this sturdy divine, who, by tongue and pen, bore so active a part in the scenes preceding and immediately subsequent * The Rev. Samuel Stillman, D. D., one of the most eloquent preachers of the Revolution. He was settled as pastor of the First Baptist Church, January 9, 1765, succeeding the Rev. Jeremiah Condy, and held that office until his decease, which occurred March 12, 1S07. 16 to the eventful struggle which culminated in American Independ- ence. For this most acceptable accession, we are indebted to the liberality of the Rev. Joseph Banvard, D.D., formerly of Neponset, but now of Kansas City, Missouri, to whom our thanks are likewise given for an additional portrait, — that of the late Nathaniel Shep- herd Prentiss, M. D., * an estimable citizen of Roxbury, and for thirty years, Town Clerk of that place. A very good likeness of George Reed, the well-known Constable of Boston during the entire period between 1809 and 1839, '^vith an intermission of only two years, familiarly known to Bostonians of the time as an exceed- ingly capable and zealous police ofBcial, the terror of evil doers, has been placed in our custody by Mr. Gustavus Andrews, of Lynn, while a fine painting, executed by DeGrailly, exhibiting a very effective view of Boston, from the Chelsea Naval Hospital, has been contributed to the Loan Collection by Mr. William H. Whit- more. Mr. Robert Cary Stearns has likewise placed in this depart- ment, a painting of much historical interest, representing the well- known Tea Party f punch-bowl, from which some of the zealous patriots composing the "Long Room Club," | who, in the disguise of Indians, boarded the ships of the East India Company, lying at Griffin's Wharf, upon the evening of December 16, 1773, and threw the detested tea into the waters of Boston Harbor, drank success to their daring undertaking, at their place of assembly, over the * Nathaniel Shepherd Prentiss, M.D., was born in Cambridge, August 7, 1766, and graduated at Har- vard College, in 1787. He settled in 17S9, in INIarlboro, acquiring there an extensive practice, but removed in iSoi, to Roxbury, where he resided for over fifty years, and held many positions of respon- sibility and trust. He died November 7, 1853, at the residence of his son-in-law, the Rev. Joseph Ban. yard, D.D., in Cambridge, in his eighty-eighth year. t Upon the evening of December 16, 1773, three hundred and forty-two chests of tea, belonging to the East India Company, which had arrived at Boston by the ships Dartmouth and Eleanor, and the brig Beaver, lying at Griffin's Wharf, were broken open and thrown into the waters of Boston Harbor. This was done by citizens of Boston, to prevent the tea from being duly entered at the Custom House, and the duty paid thereon. Though an act of lawless violence, the spirit of liberty which is supposed to have dictated it, and the success which subsequently attended the revolutionary struggles of our fathers, in which this is allowed to hold a place, have hallowed the deed in the memory of the nation. The site of Griffin's Wharf is now occupied by Liverpool Wharf. I The destruction of the tea is said to have been planned in the "Long Room,'' which was situated in the second story of the building occupied by the Boston Gazette and Country Jourjial, at the corner of Queen (now Court) Street, and Basset's Alley, (the present Franklin Avenue.) In the back of the oflice, some of the "Tea Party,"it is said, assumed their Indian disguise upon the evening of December 16, 1773. Among the members of the "Long Room Club," as those who met here were styled, were Samuel Adams, Hancock, Warren, Otis, Church, Roy.al Tyler, Paul Revere, Thomas Fleet, John Winthrop, William Montineux, and Thomas Melvill. The " Long Room Club," like the well-known "North End Caucus," was a local organization, owning allegiance to the "Sons of Liberty." Tea Leaves. 17 printing-office of his ancestor, Benjamin Edes, * before sallying forth upon their errand of destruction. A fine picture, delineated in oil colors upon one of the panels from the wainscotting of the mansion of John Hancock, after the painting by Sully, represent- ing the Beacon Hill Monument, erected in 1790, and taken down in 181 1, which has been placed temporarily in our care, through the courtesy of Mrs. T. Quincy Browne, is also deserving of special mention. STEEL AND COPPER-PLATE ENGRAVINGS. During the year, the Society has been favored by most accepta- ble additions to its collection of steel and copper-plate engravings, to the enlargement of which department your committee is espec- ially desirous of calling the attention of our members, as it wishes to accumulate as many prints of this class as possible, which may in any way relate to the history of our city. Under this head, we are glad to report, amongst the valuable accessions, portraits of the late Rev. Charles Lowell, D.D., of the Hon. Richard Frothingham, and of Hon. John P. Healy, from Grenville H. Norcross, Esq.; portraits of the late John Lothrop Motley, the historian, of Mr, Thomas Gold Appleton, and several views of local interest, from Captain Nathan Appleton ; and a portrait of the Rev. Hosea Ballou, pastor of the Second Universalist Society, upon School Street, from 1817 to 1852, from Mr. Joshua H. Pitman. We are likewise indebted to Mr. John P. Reed, for portraits of the late Rev.Charles Cleveland, Winslow Lewis, and George B. Doane, M.D., while from Mr. William H. Whitmore we have received a proof impression from a steel-plate, engraved by the American Bank Note Company, in 1883, of a view representing the east end of the Old State House, which, it is claimed, is the most elaborately executed engraving of this building which has been produced up to the present time. LITHOGRAPHIC PRINTS. The Society's collection of lithographic prints and wood-engrav- ings has been favored with a number of accessions, to which your committee is gratified to call attention. We feel that we are justi- * Benjamin Edes, journalist, senior partner of the firm of Edes and Gill, publishers of the Bosten Gazette and Country Journal. He was born in Charlestown, October 14, 1732; and died in Boston, December 11, 1803. 18 fied in emphasizing in the strongest manner the demand of this department for the fullest possible representation, and we take advantage of this opportunity to place its claims before the Society. Many exceedingly valuable sketches and original drawings, of var- ious buildings and localities in this city, as they formerly existed, have fortunately been preserved for the future by the faithful, painstaking work of the Pendletons,* and their successors in the lithographic art. Examples of many of these subjects are now scarce, and we earnestly request our fellow-members, as well as all others in this community interested in forwarding the objects of the Society, to aid us in enriching this collection by additions of any appropriate specimens of this class of drawings which may yet remain unrepresented here. Your committee makes special mention, among those who have kindly contributed views and portraits to this department, of a like- ness of the Rev. John Murray, the founder of the Universalist de- nomination in America, an excellent specimen of Pendleton's work, from Mr. Samuel Bachelder, of Chelsea ; of a portrait by the same artist, of the Rev. Samuel Barrett, from Mrs. Olive S. Plympton; a fine view of the water-front of Boston, viewed from East Boston, from Mr. W. B. Sears ; an example of Pendleton's work, represent- ing the old Hanover Church,! so called, built for and occupied by the Rev. Lyman Beecher, D. D., from Mrs. Luther Barnes; a por- trait of Daniel Webster, executed in 1831, from Mr. Joseph Simes, •■ To William S. and John Pendleton belongs the credit of being the pioneers of the Lithographic art in Boston, in the years 1S25-26. At this time, William S. Pendleton was engaged as a copper-plate printer, in partnership with Abel Bowen, but in 1826 the connection was dissolved, and the brothers Pen- dleton associated themselves as copper-plate and lithographic printers, their first location being upon Har- vard Place, a few doors from Washington Street. In 1S30 the Senefelder Lithographic Company was established, and the same year the brothers moved to a site in Graphic Court, Washington Street, opposite the head of Franklin Street. Tn 1836, William S. Pendleton was located at 20S Washington Street, and in 1837 he left Boston, being succeeded in his business by Thomas Moore. Having, through fortunate investments, acquired a handsome property, he retired from active business, and took up his residence successively at New Brighton, on Staten Island, and at St. Augustine, Florida. He was born in 1795, in New York, and was the son of William Pendleton, a native of England. He died in Boston, on Thurs- day, January 23, 1879, and was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in New York City, upon the following Saturday, January 25. t This Society was organized July 18, 1825. Their church edifice, which was of stone, was built in 1S26, dedicated March ist of that year, and destroyed by fire in February, 1S30. The Society rebuilt upon a site in Bowdoin Street. The Rev. Lyman Beecher was settled as pastor, March 22, 1826, and held office until his resignation, which was offered September 26, 1832. The structure was subsequently occupied by the Church of the Advent, (Rev, William Croswell, D. D.,) and at the present time is known as the Mis- sion Church of St. John the Evangelist. 19 of South Plymouth ; and a fine view of the old Maverick House, * at East Boston, erected in the year 1835, from Mr. William W. Wheildon, of Concord. In the line of wood-engravings, we note a specially interesting view, representing the Boston Type Foundry, upon Salem Street, as it existed in 1823, adjacent to the historic Christ Church, which is also represented in the cut, from Mr. John M. Eaton. Under this head we are also pleased to acknowledge the receipt of three views of different edifices built and occupied by the First Church in Boston, with portraits of several of its former pastors, from Mr. Arthur B. Ellis, of this city. The wonderful progress made in Lithography in recent years, and the degree of perfection which has been achieved in the science of stone printing, evidenced by the results now readily accom- plished by the leading houses making a specialty of work of this description, is certainly remarkable, in comparison with the period, — by no means remote, at which it was brought to the atten- tion of the public. A glance backward to the early days of its his- tory, shows that the distinction of being the place of the original introduction of the art into America, belongs to the city of Phila- delphia. In the pages of the Analcctic Magazine, X\\q.xq. published, in the number for July, 1819, is found an impression of an original drawing, which is probably the earliest specimen of work of this class, executed upon this side of the Atlantic. Inasmuch as this reference is matter of great historical importance, we quote from the above authority as follows : "In this number we present our readers with a specimen of American Lithography. The design and execution from beginning to end, — from the drawing to the impression inclusive, is by Mr. B. Otis, who, following the suggestions of Judge Cooper and Dr. Brown, of Alabama, has, by means of their hints, and his own more successful improvements, produced the specimen now submitted. The drawing was made on a stone from Munich, presented to the American Philosophical Society, by Mr. Thomas Dobson, of this city, but the art has been successfully tried on specimens of stone * The first Maverick House was erected by an organization of citizens known as the "Maverick House Company," composed of Messrs. Stephen Locke, Guy C. Haynes, Joseph Ripley, Gardner Greenleaf and Asa Lewis. It was formally opened May 2/, 1S35, which date also marks the commencement of reg- ular ferry-boat communication between the Island and the city, by the boats "East Boston" and "Mav- erick." The hotel was placed in charge of Major Jabez W. Barton, December 3, 1835, ^ho remained connected with it until April i, i.Zi,i. ~ Sumtier^ s History of East Bostotiyp. 475. 20 from Frankfort, in Kentucky, procured by Judge Cooper, Dr. Brown and Mr. Clifford, — from Doe Run, in Kentucky, furnished by Dr. Blight, — from a quarry about two miles from Maytown, Lan- caster County, and also on some pieces of white marble from White Marsh, commonly found at the stone-cutters' in this city. Dr. Brown, in particular, has felt great interest in the progress of this trial, and has written to various places in the Western country for pieces of stone, similar as may be to the stone of Munich, which are now upon the road, so that the next print will probably be from a limestone of our own country." HELIOTYPE AND PHOTOGRAPHIC REPRODUCTIONS. Your committee records with gratification, a liberal addition to the department of reproductions, by heliotype and photographic process, of original portraits, and historical buildings and localities in this city. Among those who have contributed articles of this class, we especially mention Mr. William Lloyd Garrison, junior, and Mr. Thomas C. DeCarteret, * who have given to the Society some valuable photographs of large size, exhibiting different streets and buildings in this city as they appeared between the years 1850 to i860. As the face of these localities has since been materially transformed, while in most cases all traces of their former appearance have vanished, the importance of such representations of old Boston cannot be over-estimated. Among other views of a kindred nature, we mention fine specimens of the old Ticknor * One of the views given by Mr. DeCarteret shows the old building which formerly stood upon Washing- ton, at the south-west corner of Harvard Place, near the head of Milk Street, taken down about 1870, at which time it was occupied by the Chelsea Dye House. Concerning this building, Mr. DeCarteret furnishes the following information, taken from a newspaper article printed in the year i860 : "The Oldest Building in Boston. The ancient structure on Washington Street, opposite Milk Street, was built in the year 1656, and is consequently two hundred and four years old. It was erected twenty-four years before the feather store in Dock Square, which has often been called the oldest structure in Boston. The timber of which the old building opposite the Old South Church^is built, is of white oak, which was cut within a short distance of that spot, and is still sound. The house was occupied during the administration of the Royal Governor Hutchinson by his Secretary of State, and for many years the elite of Boston were its welcome guests. Washington has honored the mansion with his presence, and dined as the guest of the family who occupied it during the Revolution; while almost the last time that the lamented Warren was entertained in Boston before the Battle of Bunker Hill, it was in this venerable building. After the Revolution, it became noted as the most fashionable dancing hall in Boston. The Province House, on the next estate south of the above, the walls of which are standing, was built in the year 1679. " It was evidently an ancient buildine, but seme antiquaries expressed a doubt, when this aiticle appeared, whether it was built so early. 21 mansion, * at the corner of Beacon and Park Streets, from Miss Anna E. Ticknor, and Messrs. Cabot and Chandler; a number of views of Boston streets, taken after the great fire of Nov. 9-10, 1872, from Mr. John P. Reed, and Captain Nathan Appleton ; and two admirable views of the stone building formerly numbered 50 and 52 State Street, removed in 1884, from the Massachusetts Hos- pital Life Insurance Company. Mr. Robert W. Hooper has likewise given to the Society an interesting view of the old brick building once known as the King's Head Tavern, said to have been erected in the reign of Charles the First, in the year 1660, destroyed by fire in 1691, and subsequently rebuilt, which was taken down in 1870. We have also to report the receipt, from Mr. Justin Winsor, of a reproduction in fac-simile of the very valuable map of New Eng- land as known in 1634, drawn in pen and ink, perhaps by Gov. Winthrop, and discovered by H. F. Waters, during the past year, among the manuscripts in the British Museum. Mr. Henry J. Par- ker has given us a series of seven large views of buildings formerly occupied by the Masonic Fraternity in this city, while we are also indebted to Mr. Stephen Grant Deblois, for a portrait of the late Moses Grant ; f to Edward J. Forster, M, D., for a portrait of His Excellency Jonathan Belcher, Governor of the Prov- ince of Massachusetts-Bay, from 1730 to 1741 ; while we acknowl- edge further gifts of historical interest from Mr. Samuel E. Saw- yer, of Gloucester ; Mr. William W. Wheildon, of Concord, J. Foster Bush, M.D., Mr. J. W. Black, Rear Admiral George Henry Preble, U.S.N. , and Edward W. West, of New York City. * Miss Anna E. Ticknor kindly furnishes the following note relative to this subject : "In the view of the building at the head of Park Street, three-fifths of the front, on the right of the spectator, including the porch, represent the house occupied since 1829 by Mr. George Ticknor and his family. It was first inhabited by Dr. Jeffries; then by Governor Christopher Gore; and later still by Mr. Andrew Ritchie. The other part, having its entrance on Beacon Street, was once the residence of Mr. Samuel Dexter; was used at one time as a club-house, at another time as a boarding house ; and was taken for the use of Gen- eral Lafayette, during his visit to Boston in 1824. The whole building was erected for his own residence by Mr. Thomas Amory, about 1S06, but it was never occupied as one house, Mr. Amory having failed in business before it was ready for habitation." t Deacon Moses Grant, born July 29, 17S5; died July 23, 1S61. He was a prominent Boston merchant, and for a long period of years the occupant of many positions of public trust. Elected in 1835 to the Common Council, he remained a member of that body until 1842, when he entered the Board of Alder- men, where he served until 1S51. He took agreat interest in the welfare of the young, and was a Director for thirty years of the Boston Asvlum and Farm School for Indigent Boys, at Thompson's Island, Boston Harbor. 22 SKETCHES AND WATER COLOR VIEWS. In this department, your committee desires to call special atten- tion to an admirable water-color drawing of the ancient structure on South Street, Boston, England, known by the name of Shod- friars Hall. It is supposed to have been erected by Flemish mer- chants resident in Boston at an early period, and is of record as one of the oldest buildings in the borough. This sketch is given by our fellow-member, Mr. Alexander Moseley, and was executed expressly for us through his order, when visiting Lincolnshire dur- ing the past year. We will add that the gift is supplemented with several interesting photographic views, exhibiting English Boston as it existed one hundred and thirty-five years ago, and as it is to-day. The earlier view is a reproduction of a very rare copper- plate engraving, entitled : "The South-East View of Boston, in the County of Lincoln, (1750), dedicated to the Mayor and Corpora- tion, by Nathan Drake." While the greater part of this most inter- esting reproduction is remarkably clear, we regret that the lower margin is so shaded as to prevent the signature of the engraver from being deciphered. The series of views, which are four in num- ber, enclosed in one frame, contains two views of the water-side of Boston, representing its appearance at an early period, and as it looks at the present time. The above memorials of the old Eng- lish town constitute an important addition to the valuable collec- tion received in 1883, from the Mayor and Corporation of the Bor- ough, and have been placed appropriately upon the wall beside it. We accord honorable mention here to some original architect- ural drawings in India ink, given to the Society by its President, Mr. Curtis Guild. These represent, respectively, the Tremont, Revere, and American Houses, and are to be highly esteemed as exhibiting a very reliable view of those hostelries from the most competent authority. The view of the Tremont House, '\j-anies Kidder, del), displays the cupola upon the roof, which was never erected, and yet bears across its face the original lines from which the reduction was undoubtedly made for the well-known copper- plate print,* which appears as the frontispiece to the volume pub- lished by Gray and Bowen in 1830,! descriptive of that edifice. * View of TreiHont House, Isaiah Rogers, Architect. Drawn hy James Kidder. Engraved by Annin Gf Smith. t A Descriptiott of Tremont House, with Architectural UlustratioJis, Bosto7t: Published by Gray and Bowen, MDCCCXXX. ^ml af the ;^0Stani(TO J)i3cictij. Anns, — I'er jxUe, the dexter, sable, three ducal coronets in pale or ; the sinistei", azui-e, on the sea an ancient ship ar,:^^ent, on the main-sail in an escutcheon \-oi(led sable, the figures 1630 of the last ; on a chief ari^ent a tri-mountam vert. Iccjcurt.— .svr;//./, /'J/ /^osT(\\7E.vs/s soc/irri ris INS'rrn'7\E BOSTON/.E I.X XOI'A AXCLJA i88i. The spaces diapered. 23 An example of this latter view, together with Sabnoii s painting, is shown in the Representatives' Hall of this building. THE CORPORATE SEAL OF THE SOCIETY. We are gratified in recording among the accessions of the past year, the receipt from our fellow-member, Mr. John Coffin Jones l3rown, of the original inclia-ink drawing, executed by him, and offered to the Bostonian Society as a design for its Corporate Seal. Reference to the records exhibits the fact, that the design was formally adopted upon the thirteenth of February, 1883, as the seal of the Society, since which time, it has been in use. A letter which accompanied the drawing, contains some interesting state- ments relative to the reasons which influenced the conception of the design, and these we have thought it desirable to incorporate here. In designing the seal, it was the aim of the author : First, to recognize the parentage from which our city derived its name ; which was effected by taking the Arms of the Corporation of Boston, in England, which were allowed and confirmed by Robert Cook, Clarencieux, in 1568 ;* "Sable, three ducal coronets in pale, Or." Second, to indicate the date and mode of departure of our early settlers : for this purpose the "ancient ship" is copied from The Admiralty Seal of Old Boston, which used to be attached to the proceedings of the Admiralty Court there. The date of 1630 is substituted in place of the three crowns, in an escutcheon on its mainsail. Third, to give the characteristic feature of their nezv home, as it impressed the vision of our forefathers, and has become per- manently fixed in historical memory, — the tri-mountain. An exemplification of the seal, in the heraldic colors, is exhibited in the illustration on the adjoining page. MEMORIALS OF THE NEW ENGLAND GUARDS. Prominent among the articles of interest and value which have been placed in the possession of the Society since its last annual meeting, are the very acceptable memorials of the New England * See Thompson^ s History and Antiquities 0/ Boston, Lincolnshire, /. 296. 24 Guards, * — that well-known representative Boston organization, of the early days of the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia. The gift is made by the New England Guards Association, through our fellow-members. Captain J. Putnam Bradlee and Colonel William Vincent Hutchings, the trustees of the Company property. These relics consist of four silken ensigns formerly borne by the corps, two of which are State, one National, and the last a flag bearing upon its respective sides the State arms of Massachusetts and New York, which was given to the Company upon the occasion of its first visit to New York City, in 1844; fa guidon of blue silk, inscribed: "N. E. G. 1812;" its records ; |the beautifully wrought silver eagle, made in France especially for the elegant standard § presented to the Company, upon November 19, 18 12, upon the occasion of its first uniformed parade, || by General Arnold Welles ; a silver- mounted mahogany ballot-box, given by Benjamin T. Pick man, Ensign Commandant, in 1814; a medal owned by the Company ; an officers' mess-chest of mahogany, owned and used by Ensign Pickman in 1814, furnished with articles of camp equipage; a can- teen, a knapsack, and the two historic six-pound brass field-pieces, with which the Bostonians of half a century ago were familiar. These cannon, which for a long period have been disused, have been given the necessary attention, and are now in ex- * The official existence of the New England Guards dates from September 22, 1812. Upon that date "the persons named in the petition of Lemuel Blake and others, associated for the purpose of forming a Company of Light Infantry," met at Concert Hall, at six o'clock, P. M., in accordance with Brigade Orders, signed by Bryant P. Tilden, for the election of officers. The choice was as follows, by a unani- mous vote : — Samuel Swett, Esq., Captain; George Sullivan, Esq., Lieutenant; Mr. Lemuel Blake, Ensign. The Constitution of "The Company of New England Guards" was adopted September 25, 1S12. t New York City, Aug. 2, 1S44. After spending half an hour in Castle Garden, the Company pro- ceeded to the Battery, where, in line, and surrounded by an innumerable crowd, they were addressed by Col. Sullivan, who, in the name of the ex-members of the corps in the city of New York, presented to them a standard of great beauty. N . E. G. Records, vol. iv. + Four volumes of the records of the earlier part of the company's history and one of the N. E. G. Association have been turned over to the Society; the remainder were destroyed in the great fire of Nov. g-io, 1872. § Thursday , November 19, 1S12. The Company met at Faneuil Hall, at nine and a half o'clock, A.M., parading fifty-six members and the officers, in full uniform. At eleven and a half o'clock, the line of march was taken for the residence of General Arnold Welles, in Park Place, where the Guards were presented with an elegant standard. — N. E. G. Records, vol. i. For a remarkable instance of longevity in this corps, see A'ew. Eng. Hist, and Gen. Register, vol. XIII /. 364; vol.'KXVU, p. 317. II The following extract from the Company's Constitution is given : Art. 4. The uniform of the Com- pany shall be as follows, viz: "a plain dark-blue coat, double breasted, with gilt buttons; white waist- coat ; white pantaloons ; blue cloth pantaloons; half-boots, with black tassels ; round hat, with a black leather cockade, a yellow eagle in the centre, and a gold loop extending down to the band; a black silk stock; the sashes and badges of the non-commissioned officers shall be worn under the direction of the officers. The hats of the commissioned officers shall be the usual military hats without plumes." — A''. E. G, Records, vol. i. 25 cellent condition. Their weight is about seven hundred pounds apiece when dismounted, while each gun with its carriage, rep- resents a total weight of about twelve hundred pounds. Upon the breech of these pieces is exhibited a representation, in relief, of the Indian figure borne upon the shield of the Commonwealth, with an engraved inscription, as follows : "Cast and Mounted by Order of the Board of War, for the New England Guards, 1814." The car- riages upon which these guns rest are constructed of white pasture oak, and in their shape differ materially from the pattern now in use for ordnance of this description. The guns are identified, in the memories of early members of the corps, with many interest- ing associations. They mark the period when the duties of the organization, although described in the preamble of its Constitu- tion as those of "a Company of Light Infantry," were, in part at least, those of Artillery, to which branch of service it appeared, in the early years of its existence, to especially incline. Ample testimony is afforded by the records to the fact that the guns thus granted by the Government were faithfully exercised by the corps in persevering efforts to perfect itself in target practice, during frequent tours of military duty, a custom which appears to have been measurably adhered to in subsequent years, during its memor- able encampments at Woburn, and at Savin Hill. At the latter place, in the year 1824, it had the honor of welcoming, as its dis- tinguished guest. General Lafayette, then making his last visit to America, who, escorted by Governor Eustis, paid a visit to the camp.* In connection with this subject, we will state, that a painting in oil, executed upon a mahogany panel, representing the Guards in camp at Savin Hill, in the year 18 19, under the command of Cap- tain George W. Lyman, has been given to us by Captain J. Putnam Bradlee,! the last surviving commander of the Company, to be placed with the above collection. Aside from furnishing an * The visit of Lafayette to the encampment, escorted by Governor Eustis, took place August 27, 1824. Upon his arrival a salute was fired from the six-pounders. After this was paid, General Lafayette and Governor Eustis each directed a shot from the cannon. The one by the Genera] took effect just above the centre of the target.— A''. E. G. Records, vol. 11, /. 139. t Captain J. Putnam Bradlee, the last surviving commander of the New England Guards, entered the corps in 1836. He was elected Captain Mar. 20,1845, and held that position until 1852. The following is a list of those who held the commission of Captain : Samuel Swett, George Sullivan, George W. Lyman, Frank- lin Dexter, Charles G. Loring, William H. Gardiner, William F. Otis, Edward G. Loriiig, Richard S. Fay, Thomas Dwight, Alanson Tucker, H. H. W. Sigourney, George Tyler Bigelow, Charles Gordon, J. Putnam Bradlee, Joseph L. Henshaw, George T. Lyman, Harrison Ritchie. 26 excellent idea of the military encampment of sixty-five years ago, the painting,* which bears the name of B. B. Curtis as its author, obtains additional historical value, as exhibiting Savin Hill at a period when its appearance was very different from what it is to-day. We have likewise to acknowledge, as accessions to this department, the gift from Mr. Joseph B. Glover, of various portions of the uniform and equipment worn, while we have also received from Colonel William Vincent Hutchings, several swords, which were borne by members of the corps in active service upon the field. An appropriate case, wherein the smaller articles may be deposited together, has been provided through the liberality of Cap- tain Bradlee, and it is hoped that any other of our citizens hav- ing in their possession any additional souvenirs of the Company, may, after learning that a safe place has been secured for the preser- vation of such portions of its former property as may chance to remain in this community, decide to add them to this department. Your committee, regarding it as especially fortunate that these valuable relics of this early train-band, so essentially Bostonian in its history and antecedents, have been happily placed, for ward and guardianship, in the old Town-house for coming time, among the collections of a Society like our own, has caused them to be appropriately arranged at the west end of the Representatives' Hall, of which they may be said to constitute a striking feature. THE SCANDINAVIAN SHIp's BELL. Among the objects of interest which claim special notice here, is a ship's bell, which has lately been placed in our custody. It is deposited with us by the United States Government, through Major Charles W. Raymond, of the Corps of Engineers, in com- mand of Boston Harbor, in behalf of the War Department. It has been preserved upon Castle Island,! the site of the present Fort Independence, from a period antedating the memory of any person * In Camp at Savin Hill, September ii, 1S19. During the morning a painter is employed to take a sketch of the encampment, whicli is to ornament the Armory of the Corps. — iV. E. G. Records, vol. i. t Castle Island is distant about two and a third miles from Long Wharf. As early as 1635, a kind of fort was erected upon it, which consisted of earthen embankments. Shaw says its first commander was Capt. Simpkins. The island consisted of about eight acres, as estimated in the time of Capt. Edward Johnson. On this Island has always been the chief fortification of Boston. On the accession of King William, it was named, in honor of him, Castle William. After the Revolution it received its present name of I' ort Independence. 27 now living, no records pertaining either to that fortification or to its predecessor, Castle William, that can as yet be found, afford- ing any satisfactory answer to the interesting query as to when it first there appeared. A reference, however, to an early bequest, contained in the will of Captain Thomas Cromwell,* which appears upon Boston Town Records,! opens a fertile field for speculation and inquiry, which, should the statement there made be identified as referring to this curious waif, will place in the hands of this Society a relic of the Colonial period of the greatest historic value. The bell, which was in service at the fort as late as 183 1, but which has been for some time disused, was brought to this city by Major Raymond, in order that its preservation might be insured. It is of quaint form, and exceedingly clear in tone. Its crown is missing, as is also its tongue. Cast of brass, alloyed with copper, it bears around its centre an inscription, in raised letters of Swedish capital script, of which the following exact reproduction in fac-simile, considerably reduced, has been executed especially for insertion here : A literal translation may be rendered thus : Belonging to the ship the Patriot, X and the fact that the bell is first, Scandinavian, and sec- * Governor Winthrop, writing in 1646, speaks of the above-named Thomas Cromwell, who was admitted a resident of the town of Boston in 1638, as follows : "One Captain Cromwell, about ten years since a common sailor in the Massachusetts, had been out with Captain Jackson in a man-of-war, by commission from the Earl of Warwick divers years, and having a commission of deputation from his said captain, had taken four or five Spanish vessels, and in some of them great riches. Upon 'the tenth of the fourth month' (1646), he returned to Boston. He and all his men had much money, and great store of plate and jewels of great value." Captain Cromwell died here in 1649. In his will, dated August twenty-ninth of that year, appears the following clause : "lion : "I give my six Bells, being in ye custody of Henry Walton, vnto ye Towne of Boston." Suffolk Records, Lib. i, Fol.i,^. Although evidence is unfortunately lacking to show how these bells were acquired, there appears rea- sonable ground for the theory that Cromwell, in the course of his cruises, may have taken them from the ships captured by him, perchance recovering from some Spanish robber, the relic of a friendly vessel, like the Swedes'. t The following entries, relative to this gift appear in Boston Town Records : " — The gth month, 1650. At a Generall Towne meeting upon warning, it was agreed that the bells Capt. Cromwell gave the Towne should be by the Selectmen disposed of to the Best Advantage, and the produce Laid out for one Bell for a Clocke." — The Sth of the ist month, 1651. At a Generall Towne meeting upon publicke notice. ****** Jj IS Ordered that James Everill and the Neighbours which set up the Conduit by the Dock shall have on of the Bells (which were given by Capt. Cromwell), for a Clocke, and to inioy it whiles they make that use of it there. — 28: 11: 55. (Jan. 28, 1655-56.) Memoranda, that there is a greatt Bell belonging to the Towne, lent to Castle Island, to Capt. Richd. Davenport. — Boston Town Records. X The unusual use of the article may appear superfluous to the casual reader, but the fact that ct and en, annexed respectively to the nouns Skcff and Patriot, stand in this case for the Swedish article, ren- ders its use indispensable in a classical rendering of the sentence. 28 ond Swedish, as distinguished from the other countries of Scandina- via, is unmistakably shown. Your committee, being of the opinion that the establishment of its age is of much historical importance, in the view that some clue ma}^ possibly be thereby afforded to the vexed question as to the period of its arrival upon these shores, has caused inquiries to be addressed to various sources of authority in the North, where information regarding it might possibly be obtained, enclosing accurate views of the bell, with an exact impres- sion of the inscription borne upon its side. Although we have as yet received nothing definite in reply, save the assurance that the matter will receive careful investigation, we are, we believe, war- ranted in expressing the opinion, that a consultation of the marine registries cf Scandinavia may possibly furnish a clue to the identity and date of the ship Patriot, or, failing this, that the antique fashion of the letters composing the inscription, may enable Scandinavian scholars to form some theory as to the period at which the bell was cast. Finally, it may be said, that should any of the inquiries now being forwarded, result in satisfactorily establishing its claim to an age contemporary with the date named in Boston Town Records, it will give it a claim to the distinction of being one of the most ancient pieces of public property remaining in existence, to which a title may be traced back to the early days of the Massachusetts Colony, OBJECTS OF HISTORICAL VALUE. During the year, many additional articles of historical value have been deposited among the collections of the Society. Among these are a brass gorget, gold-plated, bearing an elaborately engraved representation of the Arms of George the Third, which is alleged to have been worn by one of His Britannic Majesty's officers in America at the period of the Revolution, and a frilled bosom cam- bric shirt, originally owned and worn by Governor Hancock, placed in the Loan Collection by Mrs. E.A.W. Wales, of Dorchester. VVe have also received, through our fellow-member, Mr. Andrew C. Slater, executor of the estate of the late Samuel Leeds, one of the granite balls which surmounted the towers of the ancient structure known as the Triangular Warehouse,* formerly standing at the * The great P'ire of 1679 destroyed the old buildings in the neighborhood of the Dock, and among others the warehouse belonging to Mr. Richard Wharton. Consecjuently he rebuilt it, about the year i6£o, 29 head of the Town Dock, so called, in the vicinity of Faneuil Hall. To another of our members, Mr. John Joseph May, we are indebted for an interesting memorial from the house of Lieutenant-Governor Thomas Hutchinson, in the form of three Flemish tiles, appropri- ately mounted, which were taken from one of the fire-places of the Governor's former mansion at the North End * We likewise men- tion the receipt of two interesting and valuable manuscripts, placed in our care by Mr. Curtis Guild, being respectively a request from John Endecott, Governor of the Massachusetts Col- ony, under date of May 6, 1661, to the Governor of a neighboring colony, for the delivery of the persons of the regicides Goffe and Whalley ; and the commission issued to John Brooks (afterwards Governor), as Marshal of the military district of Massachusetts, bearing the autograph signatures of George Wash- ington as President, and Thomas Jefferson as Secretary of State, dated at Philadelphia, Nov. 7, 1791. An object of great local interest has also been deposited in this department, through the kindness of Miss Caroline M. Fitch, of this city, in the form of a wooden model of the building formerly known as the Faneuil- Phillips house,! which stood upon Common, (the present Tremont,) Street, opposite King's Chapel Burial-Ground. This is of special of brick, with slated roof, according to the new requirements. The construction of the building was somewhat singular. It was built in a triangular form, according to the shape of the lot, with hexagonal towers at the angles, surmounted with pyramids, topped off with stone balls, one of which has been pre- served by Samuel Leeds, Esq., of South Boston. The roof of the centre part of the building was also of the same form, similarly top;ied off with a massive wooden ball. The whole structure was two stories in height, although each of the towers had three stories. The lower story was constructed with arches, and a singularly arched cellar was below the building. The attic was extremely high in its centre, and very rough. The property was purchased by the city May 12, 1824, and shortly aftei-wards the old building was taken down. Its measurement was forty-two feet westerly ; forty-seven feet ten inches [north-easterly, and forty feet on the southerly or wharf side, each angle or corner being eight feet wide. — A Topograph- ical and Historical Description 0/ Boston, By Natlianiel B. Shurtleff, Bostott,: 1870. Chap. LVii. * The house of Lieut. Gov. Hutchinson stood upon Garden Court Street, and its spacious grounds extended back to Hanover and Fleet Street. The buildmg was sacked by a mob, on the night of August 26, 1765, during the excitement of the Stamp Act trouble. The house was built of brick and painted, the plainness of the facade being relieved by a representation of the British Crown over every window, and by a row of Ionic pilasters. — Memorial History 0/ Boston, vol. ii, Chap. xvii. t The Faneuil mansion in Tremont Street, opposite the Stone Chapel Cemetery, was purchased by William Phillips, senior, after the Revolution, and became the residence of his son. The deep court- yard, ornamented by flowers and shrubs, was divided into an upper and lower platform, by a high glacis, surmounted by a richly wrought iron railing. The edifice was of brick, and over the entrance door was a semi-circular balcony. The hall and apartments were spacious, and elegantly furnished. The terraces, which rose from the paved court behind the house, were supported by massive walls of hewn granite, and were ascended by flights of steps of the same material. * * * * A grasshopper, similar to the vane of Faneuil Hall, yet glittered on a summer-house in the garden, which commanded a view only inferior to that from Beacon Hill,. — HUmoirs of Eliza S. M. Quincy. 30 value, as affording a fine exemplification of the mansion-house of the Provincial period, and has been awarded a position of honor in the Council Chamber. Other most acceptable contributions to this department have been received from General Samuel Andrews, Mr. George Hemenway, Mr. C. O. Pratt, of Dorchester, Mr. H. L. Narramore, of Sharon, and the Rev. Joseph Banvard, D. D., of Kansas City, Missouri. For assistance rendered it in forwarding satisfactorily its work under this head, your committee extends its cordial acknowledgments to Mr. Emerson O. Saben, Mr. James C. Tucker^ and Captain John S. Damrell. A RELIC FROM THE TOWER OF THE OLD SOUTH. In November last, we were made the recipients of a valuable relic from the tower of the Old South Meeting-House, through the Standing Committee of the Old South Church, in the form of an ancient gravestone. A few words concerning this stone, for in- formation in regard to which we are indebted to Mr. Hamilton A. Hill, a member of the parish, may be here of interest : In the autumn of 1850, workmen engaged in repairs upon the Old South Meeting-House, were I'emoving some bricks in the tower, and found it necessary to displace a flat stone, near the north dial of the clock. This proved to be a gravestone bearing the name of Joshua Scottow, one of the founders of the Third, or Old South Church, who died in 1698.* Near by, were found the gravestones of William Middleton, who died in 1699, and of Anna Quincy, 1676. When, or by whom, these stones had been placed where they were discovered, no one knows, but they undoubtedly came from King's Chapel Burial-Ground. When the Old South Society removed to their new home on the Back Bay, they brought these relics with them, as well as the old bell,t (put up in 18 16,) and * Joshua Scottow, freeman; artill. co., 1645, its ensign in 1657, and captain later; selectman; a great proprietor after Phillip's war, at Scarborough, captain of the garrison there and magistrate. Sewall records, Jan. 21, 1697-9S : " It seems Capt. Scottow died the last night. Thus the New England men drop away."— //■;>/. Catalogue Old South Church, //. 219-220. t We give below the following extract from an interesting paper, read by Mr. Hamilton A. Hill, before the Society, a short time since : The bell originally placed in the tower of the Old South Church, came from London, and bore the following inscription : "The Gift of Capt. Timothy Cunningham to the South Church in Boston ; who died at sea, Sept. 12, 1728." It was unfortunately cracked while ringing for fire dunng a tempest on Sept. 23, 1815, and had to be sold for old metal. A new uue was ordered from London, which duly arrived, and was placed in the tower in July, 1S16. 31 other objects of special interest. The gravestones of Joshua Scottow and Anna Quincy, with that of John Alden,* (second of the name, and another of the founders of the Third Church,) which had been lying for many years in a barn in the town of Randolph, have recently been erected on the wall of the portico of the new Meeting-House. William Middleton is not known to have had any direct connection with the Third Church, and his grave- stone has therefore been deposited in the custody of this Society. His name may be found mentioned several times in the early his- tory of the Town. OLD MEZZOTINT OF BOSTON LIGHT. In the course of its correspondence during the past year, your committee was so fortunate as to obtain knowledge of the existence, in the hands of the Treasury Department, (Light-House Board,) at Washington, of a rare mezzotint, representing the first Light- House built on this continent, erected upon Little Brewster Island, in Boston Harbor, in 1715, at the expense of the General Court of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay.f This valuable print, which dates from about 1730, exhibits an excellent view of the Light-House, as seen from the water, while in the foreground appears a British customs pinnace riding at anchor. | An especially * John Alden, the eldest son of John Alden, the Pilgrim of Plymouth and Duxbiu^, and Priscilla, "the Puritan maiden." He sailed for many years as a shipmaster, and seems to have been in the employ of his fellow church-member, John Hull, who records in his Diary : " 1669, nth mo. Master John Alden went for England in the ketch Frietidship, being three-fourths mine." "ibjz. I lost my ketch, three-fourths, with her lading, from Virginia, taken by the Dutch from John Alden, worth about two hundred pounds." Judge Sewall records his decease as follows : March 14, 1701-2. "Captain John Alden expired ; going to visit him, I happened to be there at the time." — Hist. Catalogtie Old South Church, pp. 223-24. t The first Light-house on this continent was built at the entrance to Boston Harbor, on Little Brewster Island, in 1715-16, at a cost of ^^385 17s. 8>'' Eylant Man/iattans.'" Rear Admiral George Henry Preble, U.S.N. Ten stereoscopic views of buildings and localities in Boston, specified as follows : Old Elm on Boston Common, looking towards Park Street Church, Statue of Edward Everett, in Public Garden. Statue of \'enus, in Public Garden. Ether Monument, in Public Garden. Old State House, showing east end decorated on the Centennial Anniversary of Battle of Lexington. The Great Procession marching down Washington Street, upon Centennial Anniversary of Battle of Bunker Hill. Panoramic \iew of Boston, looking East, from Bunker Hill Monument. Fountain in Sullivan Square, Charlestown, decorated upon Centennial Anniversary of Battle of Bunker Hill. Bunker Hill Avenue, Charlestown, decorated upon Centennial Anniversary ot Battle of Bunker Hill. St. Paul's Cliurch, Tremont Street, viewed from ^Llll. William G. Preston. A series of five photographic views enclosed in one frame, which are specified as follows : — A panoramic view taken from the tower of the Somerset Street, (First Bap- tist) Church, in 1SS2, looking towards the harbor, including the Post-Office and Mason Building. — A panoramic view, entitled : Charles River, Back Bay, and Mill-Dam, looking over State-House Cupola. — A photographic reproduction of an india-ink drawing, of the building known 55 as Jacob Sleeper Hall, erected upon the site of the Somerset-street Church, in 1883. — The interior of Somerset Street Church, taken just before its removal, in 1SS2. — Somerset Street (First Baptist) Church, looking up from Pembcrton Square. Erected 1853 ; razed 1S82. Hon. Josiah Quincy, of Qiiincj. — A reproduction of an old copper-plate print, entitled : "A South-East View of j' Great Town of Boston, in New England, in America. Exact copy of an original engraving, (executed in 1743,) in the possession of Hon. Josiah Quincy, Jr., Dedicated to Peter Faneuil, by William Price. Published for E. Whitefield, by A. Tompkins, 38 Cornhill, Boston," — Two lithographic prints enclosed within one frame, entitled respectively: "View of the Western side of Lincoln Street and of Worcester Long Wharf, and other Channel Wharves on the South Cove;" and a map of "Boston, 1835, the South Cove Territory;' Pendleto7is Lithography, after drawings by P. P.F. DeGrand. The above were designed by P. P. F. DeGrand in 1S35, who was ridi- culed for his extravagant anticipations of the space that would be required for the Depot accommodations of the Boston and Worcester and Western Railroads, (now the Boston and Albany Railroad.) Daguerreotype view of the laying of the corner stone of the Beacon-Hill Reservoir, Nov. 22, 1847, with Mayor Qiiincy in the foreground. — An electrotype reproduction, made in 1S69, of an old copper-plate print, inscribed as follows : "To His Excellency William Burnet, Esq. This Plan of Boston in New England is humbly Dedicated by His Excellency's most obedient and humble Servant, Will Burgiss." Boston, N. Eng., Planted A.D. MDCXXX. Engraven by Thos. yohnsott, Boston, 1729. Josiah Quincy, junior. Representation of Great Elm on Boston Common, on veneer from the same, bearing a reproduction of a letter written by Hon. Samuel C. Cobb, Mayor of Boston, 1S76, testifying as to its being a portion of the original tree. General Samuel M. Quincy. An electrotype reproduction of the oil painting by Salmon, entitled: "Old State House in flames, 1832". Map of "The Town of Boston in New-England," no date given, but supposed to be about 1734. Miss Eliza Susan Quincy, of Quincy. Five colored lithographic prints, representing Beacon Hill and vicinity. y.H. Bufford, lith.; after the original views, drawn and engraved by I. R. Smith, in 1811, which are specified as follows : — Beacon Hill, from Mount Vernon Street, near the head of Hancock Street. — ^^Beacon Hill, from the present site of the Reservoir, between Hancock and Temple Streets. — Beacon Hill, with Mr. (William) Thurston's house, from Bowdoin Street. — Beacon Hill, from Mount Vernon Street. — Beacon Hill, from Derne Street. — Southack's reduction of Bonner's Map of Boston, 1733, originally inserted in a large map of the New England coast in the English Pilot. London : 1737. Plan of Boston, with intrenchments of His Majesty's forces in 1775, by Lieut. 56 Page, of His Majesty's Corps of Engineers. Engraved and printed for William Fadden, Charing Cross, Oct. i, 1777. General Gage's Fortifications on Boston Neck, in 1775, reproduced from Penji$ylvania Magazine. — A sketch in india ink, entitled: "A view of the village of Qiiincy, and the Congregational Meeting-House, built in 1732, and taken down in 1S28; and of the monument to Josiah Quincj, junior, erected by his son in 1S04. Taken by Eliza Susan Qiiincy in 1823. President John Adams attended this church, and his funeral services there took place in 1826." — A sketch in india-ink, entitled: "A view of the house of President John Adams, with a view of Dorchester Heights and the town of Boston, and in the middle distance Arrow Head Hill, and the planting-ground of the Sachem, marked by the house of Josiah Qiiincy, erected upon it in 1770. Taken from President's Hill by Eliza Susan Q_iiincy, in 1S23. — A photograph of an india-ink sketch representing Mos-wachusett, or Arrow- Head Hill, in the town of Qiiincy, taken by Eliza Susan Qiiincy in 1S23. — A photographic portrait of Edward Bromfield, taken from a drawing made by Eliza Susan Qiiincy, after an original portrait by John Smibert. Born 1723, in the first house erected in Beacon Street, Boston, and died there, Aug. 16, 1745. He graduated from Harvard College in 1742, and constructed the first organ and microscope made in America. An old copper-plate print, after the painting in oil by John Trumbull, repre- senting the Battle of Qiiebec, (1775.) with explanatory diagram. Proof: Miiller, xc. "London: Published April, 179S, by A. C. DePoggi, 91 New Bond Street." An old copper-plate print, after the painting in oil bj' John Trumbull, represent- ing the Battle of Bunker Hill, (June 17, 1775,) with explanatory diagram. Proof; Mailer, sc. "London : Published April, 179S, by A. C. DePoggi, 91 New Bond Street." An old hand-colored copper-plate print, entitled : "The Bloody Massacre per- petrated in King Street, Boston, March 5, 1770, by a party of the 29th Regt." Engraved, printed and sold by Paul Revere." Upon the back of this engraving appears the following memorandum: "Given in 1S25 to Josiah Qiiincy, Jr., (1772-1S64,) by his aunt, Mrs. Storer, sister of Josiah Qiiincy, Jr., who defended Captain Preston." John P. Reed. A steel-plate portrait of George B. Doane, M. D., born about 1793; died in Boston, Apiil 13, 1S42. y. CJwuey, se., after the painting in oil by Badger. A steel-plate portrait, entitled : "Charles Cleveland, in his 91st year." N. Wright Smith, sc, after a photograph by Black. A lithographic portrait, entitled: "Wm. M. Rogers, Central Church." In- stalled as pastor, Aug. 6, 1S35. ]V. Sharp, del., after a miniature by Samuel L. Gerry. Printed and published by W. Sharp, Boston. A colored lithographic print, after a drawing by Joseph R. Richards, entitled : "View of flie new Alms House for the City of Boston, in the State of Massachu- setts, erecting on Deer Island, in Boston Harbor, 1S49. John P- Bigelow, Mayor. Designed by Louis Dwight and Gridley J. F. Bryant." J. F. Biijford, lith. A steel-plate portrait of Winslow Lewis, M D,, born July 8th, 1799; died August 3, 1S75. //. Wright Smith, sc. Five photographic views, showing localities visited by the great Boston fire, of Nov. 9-10, 1872, specified as follows : 57 A view of Summer Street from Washington, showing the ruins of Trinity Church and the store of Shreve, Crump and Low. A view of Devonshire Street, looking towards Milk Street. A view of the ruins on Summer Street, corner of High, looking towards New York & New England R.R. Station. A view of the north side of Summer Street, opposite Kingston Street. A view of the ruins of Trinity Church, Summer Street, from corner of Haw- ley Street. Jacob Rhodes. A lithographic print, entitled : " Old Warehouse, Dock Square, Boston, built i68o; taken down iS6o. L. Prang & Co , lith., 34 Merchants Ro-m, Boston. E. S. Ritchie. Five photographic views, taken from different points, of the old building for- merly standing upon the present site of the Boston Journal estate on Washing- ton Street. Samuel H. Russell. Copper-plate portrait of Benjamin Franklin, by Tanner, after the painting by Cochin, in 1777. A photographic view, of members of the Massachusetts Humane Society, (In- corporated Feb. 23, 1791,) taken about 1857. D. Waldo Salisbury. Photographic view of the third edifice of the "First Church in Boston," other- wise known as "the old Brick," erected in 1713; removed in 1808. The site ot this structure is now occupied by Rogers Building. Photographic view of Brattle Square Church, viewed diagonally from opposite Qiiincy House. Erected 1772; razed 1S72. Samuel E. Sawyer, of Gloucester. A photographic view, entitled: "Brookbank. Residence of Samuel E. Sawyer, of Gloucester, built by his ancestor, James Sawyer, 1714. The family home for five generations." Samuel S. Shaw. A broadside, issued in Boston, March 6, 1790, signed by William Thompson, offering himself to "the i-espectable citizens of Boston," as a candidate for the office of Town Clerk. A wood-cut, entitled: "View of Boston Common, Bunker Hill Monument, and the Procession, on the 17th of June, 1843. Entered according to Act of Con- gress, by J. Cook Howe, in the year 1S43.'' Thomas Sherman, of Chelsea. An engrossed parchment, dated at Boston, April 4, 1693, being an attested copy before the Hon. Isaac Addington, Register of Probate, of the "last Will "and Testament of George Worthilake, of the island commonly called and •known by the name of Pembertons Island, within the township of Boston, "in the Massachusetts Colony in New England." George Worthilake, first keeper of Boston Light, was drowned in Boston Harbor in 171S, while sailing up U) town. His body was recovered, and buried upon Copp's Hill. 58 Henry C. Short. A policy issued by the Massachusetts Fire and Marine Insurance Company, dated Boston, Nov. 2, 1S02, signed by Arnold Welles as President, and counter- signed by William Scollay as Secretary, with copper-plate frontispiece, y. Hill, sc, after a drawing by N. Hancock, showing a view of State Street at an early period. Joseph Simes, of South Plymouth, A lithographic portrait of Daniel Webster, from a drawing hy D. C. Johnston, after the painting by C. Harding. Pendleton s Lithography, Boston. Published by D. C. Johnston, 1S31. A photographic view of the Webster mansion at Marshfield. Daniel Simpson. Portrait in oil, taken from life, of Daniel Simpson, born in 1790, and still liv- ing, (1885 ) in South Boston. Drummer since 1799: Drummer in the War of 1812 : Drummer in the 24th Massachusetts Volunteers in the War of the South- ern Rebellion : Druinmer for the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company for over seventy years, and for the New England Guards for over fifty years. Darius Cobb, finx. Andrew C. Slater, Executor of the Estate of Samuel Leeds. A granite ball, with leaden spire attached, which surmounted one of the towers of the well-known Triangular Warehouse, formerly standing at the head of what was in early times known as "the Town Dock," in the vicinity of the present Dock Squai-e. Built 16S0: taken down 1S24. Henry S. Smith. Specimen of the first Star Badge worn by the Boston Police, adopted in the mayoralty of Benjamin Seaver, in 1S53. James Rindge Stanwood. Commission of Cutting Lunt, as ensign of the foot company in the Essex Regiment of Militia. Given at the Council Chamber in Boston, May 21, 1751, under the hand and seal-at-arms of "William Shirley, Esq., Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief, in and over His Majesty's Province of the Massachusetts- Bay in New-England." A wood-cut, entitled: "View of Faneuil and Qiiincy Halls, Boston, during the Great Fair, 1S50, (Sixth Exhibition of the Massacliusetts Charitable Mechanics Association.) with small map attached, entitled: "City of Boston, with part of East and South Boston," engraved by "Qiiiz." A lithographic print, showing Qiiincy Market at about 1S3S. Moore's Lithog- raphy. James H. Stark. A photo-electrotype view of the mansion formerly standing on Middle, (the present Hanover) Street, once the residence of John Mayo and Cotton Mather, erected in 1656. A photo-electrotype reproduction of a copper-plate print, which was issued in 1799, showing State Street at an early period. W. H. Taylor. A leather fire-bucket, bearing the inscription: "John Cofiin Jones, 17S8." 59 Miss Anna E. Ticknor. A photographic view of the building Ivnown as the Ticknor Mansion, erected by Thomas Amory, at the corner of Beacon and Park Streets, about 1806. Rev. Robert C. Waterston. A photographic view of Boston Churcli, Lincolnshire, England, "R. Marsh, photographic chemist. Market Place, Boston." Joseph Weltch. A bill of carpentry dated "Boston, August y" 27, 1762, made out by John Jones against Thomas Edes, of Boston, for "Joyner Work done on Brig'teen Bristo.''' A receipt given by John S. Noble, in behalf of General H. Dearborn, Boston, to John Chaftee, military store-keeper at Springfield, Mass., under date Oct. 9, 1S14, for eleven barrels of cannon powder. Two old prices-current, dated respectively, "Charlestown, Sept. 30, 1815," and "Savannah, Dec. 31, 1818." Edward W. West, of New York City. A heliotype reproduction, considerably reduced, of an original mezzotint en- graving, inscribed as follows: "To the Merchants of Boston this View of the Light-House is humbly presented by their Humble Servant, Wm Burgis." W. Burgis, del. et fecit. William Willder Wheildon, of Concord. A lithographic plan, entitled : "Boston Water Works Extension. Map show- ing location of storage basins and proposed conduit." Charles H. Crosby & Co., 159 Dorchester Avenue, Boston. A plan, entitled: "A plan of house-lots in the vicinity of Bunker-Hill Monu- ment, to be sold at Public Auction, without reserve, on Wednesday Sept. 25, 1S39," illustrated by a lithographic engraving, showing plan of the proposed Square, with the Monument in the centre." Surveyed and drawn by S. M. Fel- ton." A series of five heliotype reproductions, reduced, of the views drawn and en- graved by /. R. Smith, illustrative of Beacon Hill, and showing the Monument, erected in 1790, and removed in 1811. A heliotype view of Christ Church, Salem Street, Boston, bearing upon its tower the memorial tablet erected by the City of Boston, October 17, 187S, with the following inscription, written by William W. Wheildon, of Concord, at the request of the city authorities : "The Signal Lanterns of Paul Revere, displayed in the steeple of this Church, April 18, 1775, warned the country of the march of the British troops to Lexington and Concord." A lithographic print by Pendleton, showing the Maverick House, at East Bos- ton, opened to the public in 1835, under the charge of Major Jabez W. Barton. A wood-cut, executed after photographs made by J. W. Black, entitled: "Pan- oramic view of the ruins after the great fire in Boston, (Nov. 9-10, 1872), from a point opposite Trinity Church, in Summer Street. A militia order of "the Infantry Company of Militarj' District No. 4, addressed to Benjamin Gleason, dated at Charlestown, April 20, 1805. A militia order of "the Infantry Company of Military District No. 4," dated Boston, September 29, 1S06. Fragment of one of the Paddock elms, formerly standing on Tremont Street, in front of the Granary Burial-ground. 60 Piece of the Post to which Washington tied his horse at fortifications on Boston Neck, when entering this city in 1789. Mrs. William Willder Wheildon, of Concord. A water color sketch of the present State House, Beacon Hill, taken in 1S05, for Benjamin Gleason, the father of the donor. This view shows the old Beacon-Hill Monument in the background, and is one of the earliest representa- tions of the State House now extant. Richard Grant White, of New York City. A wood-cut view of the Old State House, showing the east end of the build- ing, as it appears from State Street, being an impression from the cut engraved for and published in the Century Magazine^ for March, 18S4. William H. Whitmore. A parchment bearing a conveyance signed by Elizabeth Rawlings, Relict and Administratrix of the Estate of Caleb Rawlings, late of Boston. Dated "the last Tuesday of April, 1694." A lithographic print h\ Pendleton, after a drawing by F. H. Lane, in 1835, entitled : "View of the old building at the corner of Ann Street, Boston." A series of six lithographic prints, of various subjects, from original designs. Pendleton s Lithography. A j^hoto-lithographic reproduction of an architect's drawing, entitled: "Latin and English High School Building, Boston, Mass.," George A. Clough, City Architect, Samuel J. Brown, del. Bujford's Photo. Process. "Appropriation passed the City Council, May 24, 1877 ; adopted by the School Committee, June 12, 1877; approved by the Committee on Public Instruction June 22, 1877. A steel-plate print, entitled : "Custom House, Boston," C. H. Billings, del., y. Archer, sc. Published in 1850. Building finished and occupied in 1S48. A steel-plate print, entitled: "State House, Boston," A. J. Travis, del., y. Ar- cher, sc. Corner stone laid, July 4, 1795; building formally occupied by the State Authorities, in June, 179S. A lithographic print, entitled : "Gate of Mount Auburn Cemetery, (near Bos- ton, Mass.) Pendleton's Lithography, Boston. A photo-electrotype reproduction of a copper-plate engraving, entitled: "View of Boston, 178S." Callendcr, sculp., State Street, Boston. A woodcut plate from "The Naval Monument," published in Boston in 1S30, entitled: "The Wasp and Reindeer." A. Boiven, sc., after the painting by M. Corne. A wood-cut plate from "The Naval Monument," published in Boston in 1830, entitled : "Capture of the Essex." A. Bozven, sc, after the painting by M. Corne. A lithographic print, after the painting in oil bv J. W. A. Scott, entitled: "Boston Harbor, 1S53." J. '//. Bufford & Co., lith., 1834. A heliotype reproduction of a photographic view of the Council Chamber, in the Old State House, taken in 1881. A heliotype reproduction of a photographic view of the Representatives' Hall, in the Old State House, taken in 1881. An electrotype reproduction after a drawing entitled : Map of the Burnt Dis- trict, showing the area covered by the Great Fire of Nov. 9-10, 1872. "Published by Haskell & Adams, 61 Hanover Street, Boston." 61 An electrotype reproduction, after the lithographic print by Prang, entitled : "West View of the Old Feather Store." Built 1680; taken down i860. "Map of Boston, 1883, published for the Boston Directory, Sampson, Daven- port & Co., 155 Franklin Street. Forbes Co., litli. A heliotype portrait of Hon. Albert Palmer, Mayor of Boston, 1883. A lithographic print, showing the south side of the Old State House. Tappan & Bradford, lith. A framed copy of a poem, by Benjamin Drew, entitled : "The Grasshopper vane on Faneuil Hall." A steel-plate portrait, entitled: "Saml. G. Drake, ^tatis 58, An. 1857. ob. 1875." "Presented to the subscribers to the Folio Edition, (^History a?id Atittqui- ties of Boston,) by a few friends of the Author." Engraved by S. A. Sc/io/f. An impression from a copper-plate bill-head of "John Hancock, Commission Merchant, Boston." Corbould £• Hemsley, 37 Foster Lane. A copper-plate portrait, entitled : "John Winthrop, second Governor of Mas- sachusetts." Born Jan. 12, 1588; died March 26, 1649. O. Pelton, sc. A steel-plate engraving, entitled : "Old State House, Boston," American Bank Note Company, sc. A lithographic print of the present City Building, entitled : "City Hall, Bos- ton, Mass., commenced in 1862, Joseph M. Wightman, Mayor; completed in 1S65, Frederic W. Lincoln, junior, Mayor; Gridley J. F. Bryant and Arthur Oilman, Architects." y. T. Powers & Co., lith., after a drawing by Carl Fehmer. A heliotype reproduction of an architect's drawing, entitled : "City of Boston, Perspective view of Pumping Station Buildings." Samuel J. Brown, del., 1881. George A. Clough, City Architect, 1882. Electrotype reproductions as follows : View from Fort Hill, after the water-color sketch by W. T. B. Dobbins, in 1S07. View of Jonathan Phillips estate, after the sepia drawing made by G. L. Brown, in 1836. Pemberton Hill, from the late Gardner Greene's garden, about 1826. State Street in 1804, after the painting by J. B. Marston. Diagram, entitled: "Old State House, State Street, Boston; plan of second floor, showing circular staircase, hall, and the four ante-rooms adjoining, also representing in dotted lines the original oak framing around the staircase opening. All of these indications were found in the restoration of 1881." An electrotype view of the Boston City Hospital. A steel-plate portrait of Benjamin Franklin, born in Boston, Jan. 17, 1706; died in Philadelphia, April 17, 1790. R. L. Babson and J. Andrews, sc, after the painting by Duplessis. Bartlett's illustrated map of Boston, C. H. Bartlett, lith.,\S']i. A wood-cut, entitled : "The Mayor and Aldermen of Boston, 1S53." A copper-plate portrait of Rev Joseph Sewall, pastor of the Old South Church, from 1713 to 1769; died June 27, 1769. A lithographic portrait, entitled: "Rev. Sebastian Streeter : To the First Universalist Society in Boston, this porti-ait is respectfully dedicated, by the Teachers of the Sabbath School." E. W. Bouve, lith. His pastorate covered the period between 1824-1867. An electrotype reproduction of an engraving on copper, by Paul Revere, enti- tled "A view of the Obelisk erected under Liberty Tree in Boston, on the rejoic- ings for the repeal of the Stamp Act, 1766." 9 62 A badge worn by a member of tlie Committee of the Boston City Government at Washington, upon occasion of President Garfield's funeral, Sept 23, 1S81. A badge used at the Garfield Memorial service, held in Tremont Temple, Boston. A copy of the resolutions passed by the Honorable Artillery Company of Lon- don, on receipt of the tidings of the death of President Garfield. An engraved invitation from the City Government of Boston, to attend the ceremony of rededication of the Old State House, July 11, 1SS2. A photographic view, showing front of old City Hall, with Franklin Statue in foreground. Plans of Boston from actual survey by Osgood Carleton, for 1796 and 1803; another plan of Boston, no date given; Plan of Boston, engraved for the United States Hotel, no date given; Plan of Boston for the year 1S34: View of the City of Boston, 1879; Map of the business portion of Boston, 1883. Plan of Back Bay, showing its proposed improvement, Feb 8, 1877. A heliotype reproduction, showing State House and Park Street Church from the Common, with the Old Elm in foreground. A copy of the inscriptions upon the bronze tablets placed on the older Burial- grounds in Boston. A wood-cut, entitled : "Views on Boston Common." A heliotype reproduction, greatly reduced, of the First Charter of Massachu- setts, granted by King Charles the First, March 4, 1629. A lithographic portrait by Bouve, of Thomas A. Davis, Mayor of -Boston, 1845. A lithographic view of Minot's Light, destroyed in the gale of April 16, 185 1. A copper-plate portrait, entitled: "His Excellency John Adams, President of the United States of America." Dra-vn and engraved by H. Houston. Pub- lished by D. Kennedy, Philadelphia. A heliotype reproduction, entitled: "St. Botolph's Church, Boston, England from an original engraving, presented to Mrs. Watson, by J. Noble, Mayor of Boston, Old England." A composition medal, commemorative of the centennial anniversary of the the battle of Bunker Hill, upon June 17, 1775. A composition medal, commemorative of the centennial anniversary of the Signing of the Treaty of Peace between Great Britain and America, in 17S3. A Boston School medal, of silver, date of 1865. Arthur W. Willard. Photographic portrait of His Excellency, Governor John Hancock, after a painting in oil by John Singleton Copley. Justin WiNSOR, of Cambridge. A heliotype reproduction of an india-ink portrait in the possession of the Harvard College library, entitled: "The Rev. Dr. Cotton Mather, p. Sarah Moorhead." Charles Henry Wise. Steel-plate view of Bunker Hill Monument, E. A. Fowle, sc. A lithographic portrait of General Joseph Warren. A lithographic print, showing the birth-places of John and John Qj.nncy Adams. i 63 A copper-plate portrait, entitled: "His Excellency, Caleb Strong, LL.D. , elected in 1813 Governor of Massachusetts for the Ninth time, by the Free Suffrages of his fellow-citizens." /. R. Smith, sc, W. M. S. Doyle, pinx. "Boston : Published by I. R. Smith, June 7, 1S13." William Woolley. Heliotype reproductions, specified as follows : "View of the Post Office, City Hall, etc.," (then located in Old State House,) taken from the south-west in Washington Street, about 1835, after a lithographic print executed by Pendleton, from the drawing made by William Hunt, M.D. Six views of the Old State House at different periods, considerably reduced from the original prints, and struck upon one sheet, viz: Bozvcns Picture, iSt,o; Map o/"i835; "Siwiv's Geography, 1830;" '■'■Hale's Surrey, 1814;" '■^State Street riid, 18S0;" ^'Washington Street end. 1880." View of State Street as it appeared in 1S04, after the original painting by J. B. Marston. View of Old State House, showing the Washington Street end, after the original wood-cut exhibited in the Massachusetts Magazine, for 1791. 'View of Old State House, Boston, about A. D. 1S50." LOAN COLLECTION. C. Henry Adams. A carved representation of the Arms of the Painters' Guild, of Enghind, Ireland and Scotland, 1755, brought to this country by Christopher Gore, after- wards Governor, and which at one time hung upon a building in the locality of the present Scollay Square. C. S. Andrews. A promissory note of "the State of Massachusetts-Bay,'' for the amount of £15. Dated Boston, January 18, 1779, and signed by "H. Gardner, Treasurer." GusTAvus Andrews, of Lynn. A portrait in oil of Geoi'ge Reed, Constable of Boston from 1809 to 1839, "^^'^^^ the exception of two years' intermission, jfo/iiison, finx. A broadside, containing an extract from the Laws of the General Court of Massachusetts, passed Nov. 17, 17S7, relative to Articles of Excise and Import. General Samuel Andrews. A colored print, exhibiting the uniform of the military organization known as the Boston Light Infontry, as worn in 1S33, with figure in background, show- ing the first uniform adopted by the company. Boston Veteran Firemen's Association. An old leather fire-bucket formerly owned by Charles Jones, of Boston, and which was used at the Beacon Street fire, July 18. 1824. City of Boston. A settee made from the wood of the Old Elm, formerly standing on Boston Common, blown down in the gale of Feb. 15, 1876. A crayon portrait of Sir Moses Montefiore, Bart., Rayticr, del. "Presented to the City of Boston by Alfred A. and Kate Marcus, on the ninty-ninth birthday of the venerable philanthropist." An arm-chair, constructed from palmetto wood, bearing the following carved inscription : "To the City of Boston, from Mayor Courtenay, of Charleston, Boston, 1630; Charleston, 1670." An oil painting, entitled: "Laying of the corner-stone of the Beacon-Mill Reservoir, Boston, November 22, 1847." This structure was erected in the Mayoralty of Josiah Quincy, and removed in that of Hon. Albert Palmer, 1S83. M. Wight, pinx. Deed of transfer of the Commonwealth's share in the ownership of the Old State House, dated April 28, 1803, signed by Enoch Titcomb, Aaron Hill and Nicholas Tillinghast, the committee appointed by the General Court to execute the transfer. Twenty-four mahogany arm-chairs, first used by the Senate in 179S. Twenty-six mahogany arm-chairs, and six settees. 65 Resolution of sympathy with the citizens of Boston, passed by the borough of Birmingham, England, upon receipt of the news of the great fire, Nov. 9-10. 1S72. An original india-ink drawing, entitled: "Plan of Boston Common, showing the kind and position of each tree, and every other object of importance, from actual survey made under the direction of the Chief Engineer, December, 1S51." M. W. NicolU del. A lithographic print, entitled: "View of the New Jail for Suffolk County in the State of Massachusetts, erecting by the City of Boston, upon Charles and North Grove Streets, 1848." Gridley J. Y. Bryant, architect. Bufford. litli., after a drawing by H Billings. A sepia drawing, entitled: "Design for an enlargement of Suffolk County Registry of Deeds and Probate offices, to afford additional accommodation for the offices and an additional story for the occupation of the Chief Engineer. Gridley J. F. Bryant, architect, February, 1859." A photographic reproduction of a copperplate portrait of John Phillips, first Mayor of Boston, 1822. A steel-plate portrait of Josiah Qiiincy, Mayor, 1S23-2S. — //. W. Smith, sc, after a painting by Stuart. A photographic reproduction of a copper-plate portrait of Josiah Qiiincy, Mayor, 1823-28. A photographic portrait of Harrison Gray Otis, Mayor, 1829-31. A photographic portrait of Charles Wells, Mayor, 1832-33. A photographic portrait of Samuel Turell Armstrong, Mayor, 1836. A photographic portrait of Martin Brimmer, Mayor, 1843-44. A photographic portrait of Joshua Bates, a benefactor of the Public I^ibrary. A photographic portrait of Charles Sumner, born 181 1 ; died 1S74. A photographic view of the Monument on the Public Garden, commemorative of the discovery of Ether. A steel-plate print, showing the statue of Benjamin Franklin, in front of City Hall. Smith, Knight & Tap fan, sc, after a drawing by H Billings. Reproduction of an old copper-plate print, entitled: "A South-east view of y' Great Town of Boston, in New England, America, 1843. Dedicated to Peter Faneuil, by William Price." Published for E. Whitefield, by A. Tomp- kins, 38 Cornhill, Boston. A photographic view, taken on Boston Common, representing the officers and sailors of the Russian Naval Squadron which visited Boston in 1864, during the mayoralty of Frederic W. Lincoln, junior. A carved representation of the Seal of the Colony of Massachusetts-Bay, granted March 4, 1629. A carved representation of the Arms of the State of Massachusetts, adopted December 13, 1780. Abr.^iM E. Brown. A copy of "The Uhter County Gazette., published in i8oo, containing an account of the funeral of Washington at Mount Vernon. George Brown. A Tinder-box, with Flint and Steel. A lantern of perforated tin, Paul Revere pattern. 66 A tin candlestick, with box of &ame material in which to keep spare candles, all of the articles named having been used in Boston in 1817. Mrs. T. QyiNCY Browne. A painting in oil, upon one of the panels from the wainscotting of the Han- cock House, after the picture bj Sully, representing the Beacon Hill Monument, erected in 1790, and taken down in iSii. Seth Bryant, of Wollaston. Clearance of the schooner Ncxvhuiy from the port of Boston, under date of April 5, 1765, signed by William Sheafte, Deputy Collector. Thomas O. H. P. Birnham. The old hall clock of the Rev. Mather Byles, first pastor of Hollis Street Church, made by Gatvcn Broivii, Boston, upon King (the present State) Street, in 1750. John B. Callender. A miniature cottage, constructed in 1S55, from the wood of the Old Elm on Boston Common. Capt. John Codman. A portrait in oil of the Hon. John Codman, a Boston merchant of the Revolu- tionary period, born 1755; died 1S03. John Singleton Copley, pi nx. Daniel J. Courtney. An oil painting, after the original picture by Salmon, entitled: "Old State House in flames, 1832." John S. Damrell, Trustee. Pastel of Major Thomas Melvill, said to have been executed by John Singleton Copley. Official staff of Major Melvill as Fire-ward of Boston, 1779-1825. The three-cornered hat said to have been worn by Major Melvill at the Boston Massacre, March 5, 1770. A. F. Delano, of Centre Marshfield. A Qiiadrant, inscribed: Made by Benjamin Condy, in Philadelphia, 1761, for Capt. William Morton." A small volume (partially incomplete), containing several sermons, the first being entitled : "A Sermon Preach'^- in the Old Meeting House in Boston, on September, 30, 171 1, Being the last that was there delivered before that House was Burnt, Octob: 2, 171 1." A copy of "The North-American Almanack for the Year of our Lord Christ, 1776." John L. D'Wolfe and Mrs. Nancy M. Downer. An oil painting, entitled: "The late Thomas Melville, Esq^'' House, June 20, 1832." Salmon, pinx. Miss Caroline M. Fitch. A wooden model of the mansion known as the Faneuil-Phillips house, for- merly standing upon Common (the present Tremont) Street, opposite King's Chapel. 67 Ward Brooks Frothingiiam. A photographic view of the fourth edifice of the "First Church in Boston," erected in Chauncy Place, iSo8, razed 187 1. His Excellency the Governor. An engrossed parchment, dated December 8, 18S3, being an attestation from the archives of the Executive Department, and the office of the Secretary of State, as to the verity of the table of the Executive Council before the Revolu- tion, sent by His Excellency Benjamin F. Butler, Governor, with advice and consent of the Council, to be preserved in the Old State House. His Excellency the Governor and the Honorable the Council of the Commonwealth. The table of the Executive Council before the Revolution, removed from the Old State House to the new structure upon Beacon Hill in 1798. Hon. Samuel A. Green, M.D. A hand-colored copper-plate portrait, entitled: "The Hon'''" John Han- cock, Esq'., late President of the Continental Congress." Born 1738; died 1793. A hand-colored copper-plate print, engraved by Paul Revere, entitled: "A view of part of the Town of Boston in New-England, and Brittish Ships of War landing their Troops, 176S " Curtis Guild. The Commission issued to John Brooks, of Medford, (later Governor of Massachusetts, 1816-1823, ) as Marshal for the District of Massachusetts. Signed by George Washington, President of the United States, and counter- signed by Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of State. Dated at Philadelphia, Nov. 7, 1791. A letter written by John Endecott, Governor of the Colony of the Massachu- setts-Bay, to the Governor of a neighboring Colony, asking for the surrender of the persons of the regicides Goffe and Whalley. Dated Boston, 6th May, 1661. Although nothing on this manuscript states the fact, little doubt exists that this letter was addressed to Peter Stuyvesant, Governor of the then Province of New Netherland, under the States-General of Holland. In 1664, the sway of the Dutch was succeeded by the authority of the British Crown, and the major portion of this territory became the Province of New York. J. J. Enneking. A portrait in oil of the late George Fuller, y. jf. Etineking, pinx. Luther L. Jenkins. Lithographic print, by Prang, of the Old Warehouse in Dock Square, later known as the Old Feather Store. Erected 16S0; removed i860. Herbert W. Kimball. A portrait in oil of Daniel Webster, born 1782 ; died 1S52. William C. Lawrence. A pamphlet, entitled: "The Prodigal Daughter." Boston: Printed at the Bible and Heart, in Cornhill. No date given. A silver Franklin school medal, inscribed : T//e Gift of Franklifi, MDCCXC. Reverse: "Awarded to Charles C. Haven, 1S52." 68 Charles Libbev. A lithographic print, by Bufford, published in iSs4. \\ ilh accompiinying kev, after the sketch by Freeman Richardson, entitled: '"Environs of Boston, from Corey's Hill, Brookline." Mrs. JoiiN S. Lockwood. A copper saucepan once owned by Benjamin Franklin, given by his sister, fane Franklin Mecom, to Benjamin Sumner, who adminstered upon Franklin's estate. A daguerreotype portrait of Benjamin Sumner, 3d, Treasurer of the Town of Boston. 1803-1S05, taken at the age of forty. George W. Maunder, of Charlestown. A pair of iron-bowed spectacles, worn in Boston at the period of the Ameri- can Revolution. H. L. Narramore, of Sharon. An iron Fire-back, bearing a medallion likeness of King George the Third, and the trade-mark: "H. W. Stiegel, Elizabeth Furnace, 1769." C. O. Pratt, of Dorchester. An iron Fire-back from one of the chimney pieces of the Hancock House, taken from that building in 1863, bearing upon it in raised figures the date 1737, that of the house's erection. An old canvas bag, formerly used by one of the Fire-wards in Boston, for removal of property at fires, inscribed : "W.Cranch, 1792, No. i ;" "B.Willis, jr., 1794, No. I ;" "J. Thaxter, No. i." Miss Eliza Susan Qluncy, of Qiiincy. A portrait in oil of George Washington, born 1742; died 1799. Gilbert Stuart , piiix. Estate of Hon. Josiaii Qltincy. A portrait in oil of Josiah Qiiincy, junior, the patriot, born 1744; died 1775. Gilbert Stuart , piiix. Daguerreotype, representing the Mayor and Aldermen of Boston, 1848, as follows : Mayor, ]o?,\a\\ Qiiincy, junior; Aldermen, Moses Grant, Billings Briggs, Frederick Gould, William Pope, Henry B. Ropes, John Hathaway, J. H. Wilkins, John P. Ober; City Clerk, S. F. McCleary; City Marshal, Francis Tukey. Warren G. Roby, of Wayland. One of the old arm-chairs formerly in the Council Chamber of the Old State House. Samuel H. Russell. A water-color drawing of the old parsonage of Brattle Square Church, formerly standing upon Court Street, on the site of the building at present occupied by the Adams Express Company, y. F. Fuller, del., 1S55. The Commission of Nathaniel P. Russell of Boston, as Ensign in the sub-legion of Light Infantry, M. V. M., signed by Gov. Caleb Strong, under date of March 31, 1S07. A copper-plate portrait of Benjamin Franklin, B. Tauucr, sr., following the painting by Cochin in 1777. Published in Philadelphia in 1823. 69 W. B. Sears. A photographic view, entitled : "Beal's Photographic View of Boston, from the top of Grand Junction Elevator, East Boston." New York: 1S77. J. H. Beal, Photographer, 116 Beekman Street. Samuel S. Shaw. An old parchment bearing a transfer by Richard Dana, in 1652, of a large tract of land in the town of Cambridge. Daniel Simpson. A Drum beaten by John Robbins, at the Battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775, bearing upon its side the date 1771, with motto : '■'Aiit vincere aut mori." The Standing Committee of the Old South Church. A tombstone of blue Welsh slate, inscribed: "Here Lyeth y« Body of William Middle'""- Aged 74 Years; Died March y« 3d, 1699." Robert Cary Stearns. A painting in oil, representing the China punch-bowl from which punch was drank at the house of Benjamin Edes, upon the afternoon preceding the destruction of the Tea, at Griffin's Wharf, Boston, December 16, 1773, by the citizens, who, disguised as Indians, engaged in that transaction. 6". Adams, piitx. Herman B. Tewksbury, of Winthrop. A notification of the rejoicings ordered by the Town of Boston, for Monday, May 19, 1766, in honor of the repeal of the Stamp Act by the British Parlia- ment. Dated May 16, 1766, and signed by William Cooper, Town Clerk. A Broadside announcing the surrender of Lord Cornwallis and his army, printed at Boston, Oct. 26, 1781, by N. Willis. A Warrant from Harrison Gray, Treasurer of the Province of Massachusetts- Bay, to John Tewksbury, as Constable and Collector of Chelsea, Dec. 31, 1772. A notification to the citizens of Boston, to meet in Faneuil Hall, to fill the Town quota for the Continental Army, April 25, 17S1. Signed by William Cooper, Town Clerk. Amos K. Tilden. A photographic view of Christ Church, Salem Street, Boston, taken in 1863, showing the edifice before the memorial tablet was placed upon its tower. This church possesses a fine chime of bells, upon one of which appears the following inscription : "We are the first Ring of Bells cast for the British Empire in North America, A. R. 1744." The United States Government, by Major Charles W. Raymond, Engineer Corps, United States Army, in command of Boston Harbor. An old Scandinavian ship's bell, believed to have been cast in the province of Dalarnc, in Sivedoi, and bearing the inscription, in raised capital letters of Swedish script : ''Till Horig Skeppet Patrioten " The dimensions of the bell are as follows : Circumference at top, i foot 6| inches ; at centre, 2 feet; at rim, 3 feet, 7 inches. Height, 11.^ inches. Weight, 59 pounds. Mrs. E. a. W. Wales, of Dorchester. A frilled bosom shirt, originally owned and worn by His Excellency John Hancock, President of the first American Congress, and later, first Governor of 10 70 the State of Massachusetts, (1780 to 1785.) Born in 1737 or 1738; died Oct. 8, 1793- A brass gorget, gold-plated, bearing an engraved representation of the Arms of King George the Third, and which is said to have been worn by a British officer at the period of the American Revolution. John Wild, of South Braintree. A quadrant made by Samuel Thaxter, at the corner of Broad and State Streets, Boston, in 1792. Rev. William C. Winslow. The brass door-knocker from the old Winslow House at Marshfield, Massa- chusetts, formerly occupied by Governor Winslow, of the Plymouth Colony. Engraved inscription: "From the Winslow House, Marshfield, Mass: came in Mayfiovjcr, 1620; presented by Hon. Daniel Webster to Dr. G. Winslow, Sept. 12, 1850." The Marriage Intentions of Rev. Lyman Beecher and Miss Lydia Jackson, dated at Cambridge, Oct. 7, 1S36. William H. Whitmore. A map, entitled : "Boston : Bird's eye view from the North. J. H. Backmaf/, del. et liih. Copyright, 1877, by L. Prang & Co. A lithographic print, entitled: "View of Boston in 1848, from East Boston." C. Burton, del. Published by E. Whitefield. A painting in oil, entitled : View of Boston from the Chelsea Naval Hospital. DcG ra illy , f> in x . A painting in oil, entitled: "A view of the United States Navy Yard at Charlestown." George Curtis, pinx. A pitcher of blue earthen-ware, bearing upon its side a representation of the present State House. A mezzotint portrait of King George the Second, (born 16S3 ; ^i^d 1760,) entitled: ^'■Georgius, D. G. Mag: Brit: Fran: et Hib : Rex F. D. Brun: et Lunen : Dux S. R. I. Arch: Thesaur : et Princeps Elector etc. Inauguratus 20 die Octobris, 1714." G. Kneller, baronet, pinx. 1719. P. Pelliam, fecit, 1720, cum privilegio regis. Sold by E. Cooper, at the 3 pigeons, in Bedford Street. A mezzotint portrait, entitled : " The true Effigies of the Mo^t Illustrious Princess Anna Sofkia of Hanover, declared by a late Act of Parliament for settling the Succession in y^ Protestant line to succeed to the Croxvn of Eng- land, after Her Alatie ^uecn Ann and her Royal Issue. Done from ye original brought from Hanover by y' Right Honble Tho: L.," first pastor of Brattle-Square Cliurch, 1699-1747. P. Pelham, fecit, 1735, after a painting by John Smibert. A mezzotint portrait of "-The Revd Mr. William Welsteed, of Boston in New-England, yEt. jS, 17JJ." Pastor of the New Brick Church, 1728-1753. y. S. Copley, pinx. et fecit. Printed for and sold hy Step" Whiting, at je Rose and Crown, in Union-Street, Boston. A mezzotint portrait of ''The Rev. Jonathan Mayhew, D. D., pastor of the West Church in Boston," 1747-1766. Richd Jennys, junr , pinx. et fecit. Printed and sold bj Nath. Hurd, engravr. on je Exchange. A photographic portrait after the painting and mezzotint by Pelham, in 1750, entitled: " The Reverend William Hooper, A. M., Minister of Trinity Church, Boston, N-E." 1747-1767. Sold by P. Pelham, in Boston. A photographic portrait from a mezzotint by Pelham, in 1750, after a paint- ing by John Smibert, entitled: " The Reverend Henry Caner, A. M., Minister of King's Chapel, Boston," 1747-1776. A mezzotint portrait entitled: " Thomas Ilollis, late of London, Mer- chant, a most generous Benefactor to Harvard College in N. E., having founded tivo Professorships and ten Scholarships in the said College, given a fine Apparatus for Experimental Philosophy, and increased the Library with a large number of valuable books, etc., Obiit i'jji,..Et. 7/." Jos. Highmore, pinx. 1722. P. Pelham ab origin -.fecit et excud. 17 ji. A copper-plate portrait of "The Rev. Mr. Samuel Willard,'' pastor of the Old South Church, 1678-1707. G. V^r. Gncht, sc. A mezzotint portrait of the Rev. Samuel Cooper, pastor of Brattle Square Church, 1746-17S3. "Revdtis Samuel Cooper, S.T.D. Ecclcsice apud Bostonien- ses pastor amafitissimus. Natus vicesimo octavo Mart is A. D. 17^3. Ob: vices- imo nono Decenibris 17SJ. ^^t. jg. V. Green, mczzotinto engraver to His Majesty, and to the Elector Palatine, 2g Newman Street, London, 17S4. A copper-plate portrait of Rev. Daniel Sharp, D. D., pastor of the Charles Street Baptist Church, 1S12-1S53. Sartain, sc., after the painting in oil by C. Harding. A copper-plate print of the Tremont House, Isaiah Rogers, Architect, after a drawing by James Kidder, Annin d: Smith, sc. A portrait in oil of Peter Pelham, the early Boston engraver, died 1751. Johi. Singleton Copley, pinx. An oil painting, representing the Tremont House, as it appeared in 1S3:. Salmon, pinx. Heliotype reproductions as follows : View of Old State House, from the South-west, taken from Washington Street. Washington Street end of Old State House in 1791, from Massachusetts Magazine. 73 Six heliotjpe reproductions, struck upon one sheet, showing the Old State House at different periods between 1814 and iSSo. A colored print, after an oil painting, entitled : "View of the Citv of Boston from Dorchester Heights." Robert Havell, pinx. ei sc. An impression from the original copper-plate engraved by Paul Revere, entitled: " The Bloody Massacre, perpetrated in King-street, Boston, March 5, 1770, by a party of the 29th Regt." Lithographic print, entitled: "View of Boston, July 4, 1870." F. Ftic/is, del. ei lith. Imp. Nezv Eng. Ltth. Co. Published by John Weik, 605 Sansom Street, Philadelphia. Lithographic print, entitled: "View of Boston, Massachusetts, 18S0," Beck dc Pauli, lith., Milwaukee, Wis., showing the proposed Charles River and Back Bay Park, an open area of over 700 acres, after a drawing by II. H. Rowley & Co., Hartford, Conn. Lithographic prijrit, entitled : "Bird's Eye View of Boston," published by B. B. Russell & Co., Boston, 1856. y. Mayer d- Co., lith., after a drawing by B. F. Nutting. Lithographic print, entitled: "The City of Boston," published by Currier & Ives, in New Yoi-k, 1S73. Parsons d: Attvater, del. Reproduction, made in 1849, fo'" Frothingham's " Siege of Boston," of a map entitled: "A Plan of the Town of Boston, with the Intrenchments, etc., of His Majesty's Forces in 1775, from the observations of Lieut. Page, of His Majesty's Corps of Engineers, and from the plans of other gentlemen. En- graved and printed for Wm Faden, Charing Cross, as the Act directs, ist October, 1777." Reproduction, made in 1S79, of a map entitled: "Map of Boston, in the State of Massachusetts, surveyed by J. G Hales, Geog''- and Surveyor, 1S14.' TOPOGRAPPilCAL COLLECTION. A reproduction, upon one sheet, issued in 1S46, of two old maps of New England, the first of which is entitled: ''The South Part of New England, as it is Planted this Yea re, f6j./." (The above very ancient map is an exact copy of the first that was made after Massachusetts was settled. It was taken from a book published in London by William Wood, entitled : " New England's Prospect.") The second is entitled: "A Map of N'etv England, being the first that ever was here cut, and done by the best Pattern that could be had, zvhich being in some places defective, it made the other less exact; yet doth it sufficiently she-v the scituation of the Count rcy, and conveniently well the distance of Places." (The above curious map is an exact copy of one published in 1677, to accompany a work entitled : "The present State of New-England, by William Hubbard." It was the first map engraved in this country, and was highly jjraised for its elegance and accurac}'.) A photographic reproduction, somewhat reduced, of an original map found among the manuscripts in the British Museum, supposed to have been executed by Gov. John Winthrop, about 1634, showing the Plantation of Boston and the surrounding country. A reproduction, made in 1S33, by Thomas Starling, Wilmington Square, Lon- don, of an original Dutch map, entitled : JVovi Belgii Novceque Anglia; ncc non partis Virginia; Tabula mult is in locis emendata a Nicolao Joannis Visschero. Atnsterdam : ib^g. A heliotype reproduction, entitled: ''Carte de la Ville, Baye et Environs de Baston. Par leati Baptistc Louis Franquelin , Hvdrog. duRoy, ibgj. Verijiee par le S^ de la Motte.'" A reproduction entitled : "Old Boston., compiled from the Book of Possessions, bv George Eamb. Published by the Trustees of the Boston Public Library. Heliotype Printing Co., Boston." A reproduction, entitled: "An Exact Praught of Boston Harbor, with a sur- vey of most of the Islands about it, ijii." Reproduced from the original in tiie British Museum, by the Photo-Electrotype Co., Boston. A reproduction, made in 1S35, of an early map, entitled: "The Tov^'n of Boston in Ncxv England, by Capt. John Boniier, ^^tatis suce 60. Engraven and Printed by Fra. Dewing, Boston, N. E., 1722. Sold by Capt- John Bonner, and Will'"- Price against ye Town-house, where may be had all sorts of Prints, Mapps, etc." A map partially modelled upon Capt. John Bonner's "Map of "The Town of Boston in New England," 1722, entitled : "Plan of Boston in ij22." A. Bozven, sc. 75 A map entitled: '■'The Toxvn of Boston in Neiv- England." No date given, but supposed to be about 1734. A reproduction, made in 1870, of an early map showing the topography of Boston Harbor, originally published according to Act of Parliament by J. F. W. DesBarres, Esqr-i August 5, 1775. A. Mcisel, lith. A lithograph, after an old cut in the Pennsylvania Magazine, dated July 31, 1775) entitled; '■'■Exact Plan of General Gage s Lines on Boston Neck,in America." Note upon margin : "As the Transactions at Boston are at present the principal object of the attention of the whole Continent, the editor thought he could not oblige his readers more than by giving them an exact plan of General Gage's fortifications and intrenchments there. This he hath done in the annexed plate, upon so large a scale, that it will be easy to form a perfect idea of the manner in which the General hath blockaded the entrance of that city. R. Aitken." M. M. Tidd, lith., Boston. A heliotype reproduction, made for Frothingham's "Siege of Boston," in 1879, entitled: ''■Plan of the Tovj7i of Boston, %vith the Intrenchments, etc. of His Majesty's Forces in ij^/j, from the Observations oj Lieut. Page, of His Majesty's Corf s of Engineers ; and from the Plans of other gentlemen.'' Engraved and printed for William Fadden, Charing Cross, Oct. i, 1777. A heliotype reproduction, made in 1S75, of two maps upon one sheet, entitled: respectively; "yl ISferu and Accurate Plan of the Toivn of Boston in Ncxv-Eng- land, 777^;" and '■'A Nevj Plan 0/ Boston Harbor from an Actual Survey, 1774." The original plate was engraved in England, from an accurate Survey by British Engineers, just previous to the Revolutionary War. A heliotype reproduction, made in 1S75, entitled: '■'General Washington s Revolutionary Campaign War Map. after a Survey ordered by him, shoxving the posit iofi of his Army in defence of Boston, 1776, also the Fortifications and Guti Batteries, extending from Charlestoivn around to Dorchester Heigh ts.'^ A reproduction, made in 1S76, by George Lamb, of a map, entitled : "A Plan of Boston in IVezv England, -with its Environs, including Milton, Dorchester, Roxbury, Brooklin, Cambridge, Medford, Charlestotvn, Parts of Maiden a tid Chelsea, ivith the Military Works constructed in those Places in the years 177J and 177b. Dedicated to the Right Honorable Lord George Germain. ;London : Published according to Act of Parliament, June 2, 1777, by Henry Pelham. An india ink draught, inscribed as follows : "To the Selectmen of the Town of Boston, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, ever distinguished for their Zeal for the Good of their Constituents, this Plan of said Town is with due def- ference most humbly dedicated, being drawn from an Actual Survey, carefully taken by Their Most Obedient, Humble Servant, Osgood Carleton, Anooue Dom- ini MDCCXCV." Two original maps of Boston for the years 1796 and 1803, enclosed within one frame, each entitled: "-A Plan of Boston, from Actual Survey, by Osgood Carleton." Three maps of the Boston Directory for difterent years, between 1800 and iSio, each entitled : "Plan of Boston.'''' No date given. A reproduction, made in 1878, published by George B. Foster, Boston, entitled : "■'A Ne-w Piatt of Boston, from Actual Surveys by Osgood Carleton, "Mith Addi- tions, Corrections and Improvements, 1800." A reproduction, made in 1S79, ^J ^- Williams & Co., Boston, of a map, en- titled : "Map of Boston, in the State of Massachusetts, Surveyed by f. G. Hales, Geogr. and Surveyor, 1S14." 76 ^^Plan of Boston, covif rising a fart of Chariest oxvji aiid Cambridgcport" 1826. Engraved and published bj Annin & Smith and J. V. N. Throop, from Actual Survey, with corrections bj S. P. Fuller, Surveyor. Unfinished plan of Boston, from among the papers of Abel Bowen, collected in 1S27-2S. A map entitled: ''City of Boston. '' Published by the United States Hotel Com- pany, Boston. No date given. "yl Map of the Towns of Dorchester and Milton., ^Sji." Made under the direction of the Town's Committees for the use of the C'ommonwealth. From Actual Surveys made by Edmund J. Barker, Survey'- Pendleton's Lithography, Boston. ''Map of the Town of Roxhury. Surveyed by John G. Hales." Published under the Superintendence of the Selectmen, April, 1S32. "Plan of the City of Boston, iSj2." G. W. Boynton, sc. "Plan of the City of Boston, fSj./.'^ G. W. Boynton, sc. "Plan of the City oj Boston, iSjj." G. IV. Boynton, sc. "Plan of the City of Boston, iSjy." G. IF. Boynton, sc. "Plan of Boston, with parts of the Adjacent Towns." Published by the Bos- ton Bewick Company, 1S35, and dedicated to the Mayor and Aldermen of Boston. "Map of the South Cove Territory, iSjj." Pendleton" s Lithography. A lithograph, entitled: "Map of Boston and its Vicinity." No date given. ' Reduced, by permission, from the large map of Boston and its Vicinity." Eddy, del. on stone. Pendlcto>i's Lithography. A map, entitled : "Boston, iSjS." Morse d- Tuttle, sc. Published by Charles Stimpson, junior. A map, entitled : "Plan of the City of Boston, Lat. N. 42° ,21' ; Lon. E. from Washington ^^ , 5-/ ' • Population 120,000." G. W. Boynton, sc. Published by S. N. Dickinson, 1S44. A map, entitled: "Plan of Boston, comprising a part of Charlestown and Cambridge.'" Published by George G. Smith, Engraver. Boston : 1851. "A New and Complete Map of the City of Boston, and precincts, including part op Charlcstoxvn, Cambridge and Roxbtiry, from the Best Authorities." Pub- lished by Nathaniel Dearborn, Boston, 184S. Note on margin: "All the Islands in the Harbor as far as Boston Light-House belong to Ward Four." A map, entitled : "Plan of Boston, C07nprising a part of Charlestotvn and Cambridge." Published by George G. Smith, Engraver. Boston: 1846. "Map of the Environs of Boston, 1848." "Map of the Vicinity of Boston." 184^. G. W. Boynton, sc Engraved for the Boston Almanac. "Map of New England, exhibiting the Railroad and Telegraphic lines now in Operation.'" i8jo. Compiled and Engraved expressly for the Boston Al- manac. G. W. Boynton, sc. A plan entitled: "City of Boston, with part of East Boston, i8jo." Illus- trated with wood cut frontispiece showing Faneuil Hall and Qjjincy Market. "Printed by Snow & Wilder on the Adams Fast Job Press, at the Mechanics' Fair, 1850, expressly for the New England Tea Co." An original india-ink drawing, entitled : "Plan of Boston Common, showing the kind and posit iofi oJ each tree, and every other object of importance, from Actual Survey, made under the direction oJ the City Engineer, December, jSji. M. W. Nicoll, del. 77 A map, entitled: ^'Nctv Map of Boston, comprising the ivholc City., -with the New Boundaries of the Wards." Engraved expressly for the Boston Almanac^ 1S52. A map, entitled : " Nexv Map of Boston, comprising the ivhole City, with the New Boundaries of the Wards.''' Engraved expressly for the Boston Almanac, A map, entitled : "iVt'TV Map of Boston, comprising the whole City, with the New Boundaries of the Wards." Engraved expressly for the Boston Almanac, i8js. A map, entitled: "jVezt/ Map of Boston, comprising the zuhole City, with the New Boundaries of the Wards." Engraved expressly for the Boston Almanac, iSjS. A map, entitled: "TVcxi' Map of Boston, comprising the -vhole City, with the Nctv Boundaries of the Wards." Engraved expressly for the Boston Almanac, iSsg. '■Map of the City of Boston, and Immediate Neighborhood, from Original Surveys by H. Mclntyre, C. E."' Published by H. Mclntjre, 17 Doane Street, Boston, 1852. Friend d- Aiib, lith., Philadelphia. ''Map of the City of Boston, Mass., 18^2.'" Surveyed and drawn by I. Shatter and B. Callan, Civil Engineers. Engraved and printed at Ferd. Mayer's Lithog- raphy, New York. Published by L. N. Ide, Boston. "New Map of Boston, comprising the whole City, with the New Boundaries of the Wards, 1853," with a reduction of Capt- John Bonner's map, (,1722) annexed. "Plan of Boston, comprising a part of Charlestorvn and Cambridge.'''' Pub- lished by George G. Smith, Engraver, and by Ide & Dutton. Boston: 1856, with small plans of South and East Boston annexed. A colored lithograph, entitled: ''Bird's Eye View of Boston." Drawn by B. F. Nutting. 7. Mayer tf- Co., lith., Boston. Published in 1S56, by B. B. Russell & Co. "Plan of Boston, comprising a part of Charlestoxvn and Cambridge." Pub- lished by George G. Smith, Engraver, Boston: 1859. A lithograph, entitled: "Map of Boston, 1862, photographically reduced from the City Engineer's plans, with all the latest improvements : a complete Guide to Strangers.' Printed in oil colors. /,. Prang & Co., lith. "Map of the Vicinity of Boston." Engraved for the Boston Guide Book, 1S64. G. W. Boynton, sc. "Plan of Fort Hill, shotving Street Improvements as adopted by the City Council, iSbg. Thomas W. Davis, City Surveyor." A plan, entitled : "Health Districts of the City of Boston, arranged by the State Board of Health, to show the mortality in 1870." Map, entitled: "Plan of Boston and its Vicinity, prepared fro fu the Best Authorities, for the Boston Almanac, iSjo." A. Meisel, lith. A colored lithograph, entitled: '" Viezv of Boston, July 4, iSjo. F. Fuchs, del. et lith. imp. Nexv Eng. Lith. Co., Boston. Published by John Weik, 605 Sansom Street, Philadelphia. " Bartletfs Illustrated Map of Boston, or Strangers' Guide, showing the Pub- lic Buildings, etc." G. H. Bartlett, lith., New York, iSyi. 11 78 '■'■Map of Boston, from the latest Siiri^eys. Published by Sampson, Davenport & Co., Boston, Mass., /8y/." '■'Map of the Burnt District, showing' the area covered by the great Boston fire of Nov. g-io, iSj2.^' Published by Haskell and Allen, 6i Hanover Street, Boston. '■'Plan of the Burnt District, (by fire of Nov g-io, jSja,) shoiving Street Improvements as adopted by Board of Street Co}nmissioners and City Council. Thomas W. Davis, City Surveyor, /Sjj." A colored lithograph, entitled : "The City of Boston." Parsons and Attvatcr, del. New York: 1S73. Published by Currier <& Ives, 125 Nassau Street. "Map of Boston, iS-j4.'" Published expressly for the Boston Almanac and Boston Directory, by Sampson, Davenport t£- Co., Boston. "Plan of Charlcstoivn, from Fclton d- Parker s, with Additions and Correc- tions." Thomas IV. Davis, City Surz'eyor, iSj^. C. D. Barstow, del. Map of Boston, iSjj." Published expressly for the Boston Almanac and Bos- ton Directory, by Sampson, Davenport dr Co., Boston. "Map of Boston, shoxving proposed new Divisions of Wards, October, iSy^." "Map op' Boston, iSjd." Published expressly for the Boston Almanac and Boston Directory by Sampson, Davenport & Co., Boston. "Plan of Back Bay, showing Public Parks, with the System of Streets and Sewers proposed for its Improz'ement, Feb. S, iSjy." Fuller and Whatcly, Engineers. A colored lithograph, entitled : "Boston : Bird's Eye IVcTf from the North." y. Bachmann del. et lith. Copyright 1S77, by L. Prang & Co. A lithograph, entitled: "The City of Boston, iSjg." Armstrong <£■ Co., lith., Riverside Press, Cambridge, A/ass. O. H, Bailey and J. C. Hazen, publishers. Plan, entitled: "Proposed Improvement of Back Bay." Park Department, City of Boston, 1S79. Charles H. Dalton, William Gray, jun., Henry Lee, Com- missioners. A lithograph, entitled : " ]7ezu of Boston, Massachusetts, 18S0." Drawn and published by H. H. Rowley & Co., Hartford, Conn. Beck d- Pauli, lith., Mil- waukee, Wis. A heliotype reproduction, entitled : "Park Department, City of Boston. Plan op Proposed Aluddy River Improvement, showing contours, July jj, iSSi. Henry M. VVightman, City Engineer. "Map of the Business Portion of Boston, /SSj." The reverse side exhibits an impression, entitled: "Map of Boston, 1S83." Published by B. B. Russell, 57 Cornhill. "Map of Boston, /SSj. Published expressly for the Boston Directory. Samp- son, Davenport d Co., ijj; Franklin Street, Boston. "Map oj Boston, jSS.^. Published expressly for the Boston Directory. Samp- son, Davenport d Co., fjj Franklin Street, Boston. After this report had gone to press, the Society received an exact reproduction in fac-simile of an original plan, found by H. F. Waters, among the manuscripts in the British Museum, in 1SS4, entitled: "^1 Dravght of Boston-Harbor : By Capt -.Cyprian : Southake : Made by Avgvstinc Fitzhvgh, Anno ibg^," "Copied for H. F. Waters, Escf- from the original in the British Museum, 12th August, 1SS4. J. A. Burt." (This is the earliest map of Boston Harbor which has yet been found, and is executed in colors.) 79 ACCESSIONS TO THE LIBRARY COLLECTIONS,-i884. C. Stanley Andrews ...... Gen. Samuel Andrews ...... Anonymous ........ Mrs. Luther Barnes — The Congregationalist (Bostoi newspaper,) from the beginning of its issue Boston, City of ...... • Boston Children's Aid Society . . . . • Boston Public Library ...... Charles Brewer ....... James M. Bugbee ...... Cleveland Public Library . . . . ■ Hon. William A. Courtenay, Mayor of Charleston, S.C Gen. C. W. Darling, Utica, N. Y. Dana Estes ....... Albert A. Folsom Gloucester Free Library ..... Hon. Samuel A. Green, M. D. Hamilton A. Hill Col. A. S. 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Brown, William H. Baldwin, Jacob A. Dresser, Samuel M. Qijincy, William W. Warren, ERVINCi WlNSLOW. Committee on the Library. Martin Brimmer, Henry P. Curtis, Dana Estes, James L. Whitney, William C. Winslow. LIFE MEMBERS. Appleton, Nathan Bodfish, Joshua P. Bradford, Martin L. Bradford, William B. Bradlee, J. Putnam Brooks, Peter Chardon Brown, John Coffin Jones Carpenter, George O. Chase, George B. Chase, Stephen Chase, Theodore Clay, Thomas II. Crowninshield, Benjamin W. Curtis, Henry Pelham Deblois, Stephen Grant Dupee, James A. Emery, Francis F. Estes, Dana Ferris, Mortimer C. Foster, John Green, Samuel Abbott Guild, Curtis Hall, Thomas B. Hassam, John T. Head, Charles Henshaw, Samuel Ilomans, Charles D. Ladd, Nathaniel W. Minns, Thomas Norcross, Grenville II. O'Brien, Hugh (Hon. Mem.) Parker, Charles W. Perry, Charles F. Richardson. B. Ileber Russell, Samuel II. Sears, J Montgomery Shaw, Henry Southworth Shaw, Henry Southworth Jr. Slafler, Edmund F. Slater, Andrew C. Ward, Francis Jackson Weld, Otis Everett Wheelwright, Andrew C. Whitmore, Charles O. Whitmore, Charles J. Winslow, William C. Winthrop, Robert C. Jr. Winthrop, Robert Mason Woodman, Cvrus M EMBERS. Abbot, Edward A. Adams, Waldo Allen, Samuel P. Allen, Stillman B. Allen, Thomas J. Ames, Oakes Angier Ames, Oliver Ames, Samuel T. Amory, Frederic Amory, Thomas C. Andrew, John F. Angell, Henry C. *Appleton, Thomas Gold Appleton, William Appleton, William Sumner *Apthorp, Robert East Apthorp, John V. Austin, James W. Avery, Abraham Ayer, James B. Bailey, Joseph T. Baldwin, William II. Barbour, John N. Beal, James H. 82 Beal, Leandcr Bell, A. D. S. Bent, S. Arthur Bigelow, Abraham O. *Bigelo\v, Alanson Bigelow, George B. Billings, Robert C. Bishop, Robert R. Blakemore, John E. Bolles, Matthew Bouve, Thomas T. Bowditch, Charles P. Bradlee, Caleb D. Bradlee, John T. Brainard, Charles Rollin Braman. G. T. W. Bremer, John L. Briggs, Richard Brimmer, Martin Brooks, p'rancis Brooks, Ilenrj C. Brooks, Philli|)s Brooks, Shepherd Brown, Alfred S. Brown, Buckminster Brown, James Wentworth Brown, Samuel N. Browne, C. Allen Browne, T. Qj.n'ncy Bufi'um, Charles Bugbec, James M. Bullens, George S. Burdett, Horatio S. Burgess, James M. Burnham, T. O. H. P. Burrage, Alvah A. Bush, J. Foster Butler, Sigournej Calef, Benjamin S. Candler, John W. Carpenter, Prank O. Carruth, Charles Carter, Charles M. Case, James B. Chamberlain, Mellen Chandler, Francis W. Chandler, Horace P. Chandler, Thomas H. *Child, Dudley Richards Clapp, Channing Clapp, Otis Clark, Cyrus T. *Clark, D. Oakes Clark, Joseph W. Clarke, Botsford R. *Clarke. Dorus Clarke, James Freeman Clarke, Thomas W. ClilTord, Samuel W. Clifford, Samuel W. Jr. Clough, George A. Cochrane, Alexander Codman, William C. Codman, Odgen Jr. Colburn, Jeremiah *ColIamore, Ebenezer Con\-erse, Elisha S. Coolidge, Albert L. Coolidge, John T. Jr. Cordner, John Creech, Samuel ^\^. Jr. Crocker, George G. Crocker, Uriel Crosby, C. A. W. Cruft, Samuel B. Cunningham, Edward *Cushing, Samuel Thaxter, Dalton, Charles H. Damrell, John S. Dana, Francis Dana, George N. Danforth, Isaac W. Daniell, Moses Grant Davis, James C. Dean, John Ward Deblois, George L. Dexter, Morton Dexter, S. Parkman Dexter, William S. Dickinson, M. F. Jr. Ditson, Oliver *Dix, Juhn H. Dodge, Theodore A. Dresser, Jacob A. Dvvight, Edmund Dyer, Benjamin F. Eaton, Walter D. Eddy, Otis Edes, Henry H. Edes, Robert T. II 83 Endicott, Willium Jr. Euitis, W. Tracy Everett, Percival L. Fabyan, George F. Fearing, Andrew C. Jr. Fitz, Eustace C Folsom, Albert A. Foote, Henry Wilder Forbes, J. Murray Forbes, Robert B. French, Benjamin French, Charles E. French, Frederick W. French, J. D. Williams Frost, Rufus S. Fuller, B. A. G. Fuller, Charles E. Galloupe, Charles W. Gardner, George A. Gardner, John *Gardner, John L. Gardner, John L,. Jr. Gibbens, Joseph M. Gleason, Daniel A. Glidden, John M. Goddard, William Gookin, Charles B. Gorham, James Lane Gould, Benjamin Apthorp Gra}', Joseph H. Green, George H. Greenough, Francis B. Greenough, William W. Grover, \Villiam O. Guild, George K. Hale, Edward Everett Hall, Edward R. Hall, John R. Hallowell, Richard P. Hamlen, Nathaniel P. Hammond, George W. Harding, Charles L. Harris, Charles Halt, William T. *Hayes, Francis B. Haynes, Henry W. Hayward, George Heard, J. Theodore Hecht, Jacob H. Hemenway, Alfred Henchman, Nathaniel H. Herford, Brooke Hersey, Alfred H. Hervey, Abraham F. Higginson, Waldo Hill, Clement Hugh Hill, Hamilton Andrews Hilton, William Hodgkins, William E. Hogg, John Hoitt, Alfred D. Holman, Charles H. Homans, George H. * Hooper, Robert W. Horton, William H. Houghton, Henry O. Howe, George D. Howes, Osborne Jr. *Hubbard, Aaron Dean Humphreys, Richard C. Hunnewell, H. H. Hunnewell, James F. Huntoon, Daniel T. V. Hurd, Charles E. Hutchings, William Vincent lasigi, Joseph A. Inches, Charles Inches, Charles E. *Jaques, Francis James, George Abbot Jelly, George F. Jenks, Henry F. Jenks, Thomas L. Jenney, Bernard Johnson, Charles E. Johnson, Edward C. Johnson, Samuel Jones, D. Wayland Jones, Leonard A. Kendall, Charles S. Kennard, Martin Parry Kennedy, George G. Kidder, Henry P. Kurtz, Charles Carroll Ladd, Babson S. Lamb, George Lamb, Thomas Lambert, Thomas R. 84 Lathrop, John Lawrence, Abbott Lee, William H. Lewis, John A. Lewis, Weston Lincoln, Arthur Lincoln, Frederic W. Lincoln, Solomon Little, Samuel Lockwood, Rhodes Lord, Hartley Loring, John A. Lothroj-), Siunuel K. Lothrop, Thornton K. Lovering Josepii S. Lowell George G. Luce, Matthew Lyon, Henry Macdonald, Edward Mackay, Robert C. Mair, Thomas Manning, Francis II. May, Frederic Goddard May, Frederic W. G. May, John Joseph May, Samuel Ma^o, Edward R. Means, William G. Milliken, Ebenezer C. Mills, Henry F. Mills, William N. Minot, Francis Moore, P'rederic II. Morse, Henry A. Morse, L. 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Richardson, Augustus Richardson, Frederic L, Richardson, George C. Richardson, Thomas O. Richardson, Spencer W. Rice, Henry A. Rip- ley, George Robbins, George W. Robinson, Nathan D. Rogers, Henry B. Ropes, John C. Rotch, William Russ, Augustus Rust, Nathaniel J. Rust, William A. Salisbury, D. \V^aldo Sampson, Edwin H. Sargent, George D. Sargent, Lucius M. Sawyer, Joseph Sawyer, Samuel E. Searle, George W. Sears, J. Henry Sears, Kn wet W. Sears, Phillip II. Sewall, Samuel E. Shattuck, George O. Shaw, Henry L. *Shaw, Lemuel ShiUaber, William G. Slade, Lucius Sleeper, Jacob Slocum, William H. Smith, Charles C. Smith, Elbridge Snelling, George H. Snelling, Samuel G. Snow, S. T. Souther, Henry Sowdon, A. J. C. Spaulding, Mahlon D. Spencer, Aaron W. Sprague, Henry IL Standish, L. Miles Stanwood, James Rindge Stearns, Edward Stedman, George Stetson, A. W. Stevens, Benjamin F. Stevens, Oliver Crocker Stickney, J. Henry Stone, Charles W. *Storer, W. Brandt Strong, Edward A. Sullivan, Richard Swan, William W. Taggard, B. W. Talbot, L Tisdale Talbot, William H. 12 Temple, Thomas F. *Temple F. W^ 11 Ham Thacher, Henry C. Thayer, Edward F. Thorndike, George Quincy Thorndike, S. Lothrop Thwing, Weaker E. Torrey, Benjamin B. Train, Charles R. Trask, William B. Tucker, George F. Tufts, Arthur W. Turner, Job A. Jr. Upton, George B. *VanBenthuysen, George Christie Viaux, Fred H. Vose, J. Thomas *Vose, Thomas Baker Wadsworth, vVlexander F. Wales, George W. Walker, Nathaniel Walley, Ilenshaw B. *Warren, G. Washington Warren, John Collins Warren, Joseph W. Warren S. D. Warren, William Wilkins Weeks, Andrew G. *Weeks, James H. Welch, Charles A. VV^eld, Aaron Davis Jr. Weld, Moses W. Wells, Samuel Wendell, Mark Rogers Wentworth, Arioch Wheelwright, Edward Wheildon, William Wilder White, Charles T. White, J. Gardner Whitman, Henry Whitmore, William H. Whitney, D. R. Whitney, Edward Whitney, James L. Whittemore, Henry Willard, Arthur W. Willard, Robert WUcutt, Levi L. 86 Willcut, S. D. G. Williams, Alexander Williams, Henry W. Williams, Jacob L. Winchester, Thomas B. Winslovv, Erving Wolcott, J. Huntington *Wolcott, J. W. Wood, William B. Woodward, Arthur Stanley Wooley, William Worster, John * Deceased. BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. ORGANIZED TO PROMOTE THE STUDY OF THE HISTORY OF BOSTON, AND THE PRESERVATION OF ITS ANTIQUITIES. BY-LAWS OBJECTS. It shall be the duty of members, so far as it may be in their power, to carry out the objects of the Society, by collecting, by gift, loan, or purchase, books, manuscripts, and pictures, and by such other suitable means as may, from time to time, seem expedient. II. MEMBERS. The members of the Bostonian Society shall be such persons, either resident or non-resident in Boston, as shall, after having been proposed and accepted as candidates at any regular monthly meeting by the Directors, be elected by the votes of a majority of the members present and voting. III. HONOR.\RY AND CORRESPONDING MEMBERS. Honorary and Corresponding members shall be nominated by the Directors, and shall be elected by ballot by two-thirds of the members present and voting. They may take part in the meetings of the Society, but shall not be entitled to vote. IV. ADMISSION FEE AND ASSESSMENTS. Each member shall pay five dollars at the time of his admission, and five dol- lars each first of January afterwards, into the treasury of the Society for its general purposes; but if any member shall neglect to pay his admission fee, or annual assessment, for three months after the same is due, he shall be liable to forfeit his membership at any time when the Directors shall so order. The payment of the sum of twenty-five dollars in any one year by any mem- ber of the Society shall constitute him a life member of the Society; life members shall be free from assessments, and entitled to all the rights and privileges of annual members. The money received for such life memberships shall constitute a fund, of which not more than twenty per cent, together with the]annual income, shall be spent in any one year. 88 V. CERTIFICATES. Certificates signed by tlie President, and countersigned bj the Treasurer, shall be issued to all persons who have become life members of the Society. VI. MEETINGS. The annual meeting of the Society shall be held on the second Tuesday in January, and regular meetings shall be held on the second Tuesday of every month, excepting July, August, and September, at such time and place as the Directors shall appoint. Special meetings shall be called by the Clerk, under the instruction of the Directors. At all meetings ten members shall be a quorum for business. All Committees shall be nominated by the Chair unless otherwise ordered. VII. OFFICERS. The officers of the Society shall be nine Directors, a President, a Clerk, and a Treasurer. The Directors, Clerk and Treasurer, shall be chosen by ballot at the annual meeting in January, and shall hold office for one year, and until others are duly chosen and qualified in their stead. The President shall be chosen by the Board of Directors, from their number at their first meeting after election, or at any adjournment thereof. The offices of Clerk and Treasurer may be held by the same person. VIII. VACANCIES. Any vacancy in the Board of Directors, or the office of Clerk or Treasurer, may be filled for the remainder of the term at any regular meeting of the Society, by the votes of two-thirds of the members present and voting. In the absence of the Cleik at any meeting of the Society, a Clerk fro tempore shall be chosen. IX. NOMINATING COMMITTEE. At the monthly meeting in December, a Nominating Committee of three persons shall be appointed, who shall report at the annual meeting a list of candidates for the places to be filled. X. PRESIDING OFFICER. The President, or in his absence, one of the Directors, shall preside at all meetings of the Society. In the absence of all these officers, a President pro tempore shall be chosen. XI. DUTIES OF THE CLERK. The Clerk shall be sworn to the faithful discharge of his duties. He shall notify all meetings of the Society. He shall keep an exact record of all the proceedings of the Society at its meetings. 89 He shall conduct the general correspondence of the Society, and place on file all letters received. He shall enter the names of members systematically in books kept for the pur- pose, and issue certificates of life membership. The Clerk shall have such charge of all property in the possession of the Society as may from time to time be delegated to him by the Board of Directors. He shall acknowledge each loan or gift that may be made to and accepted in behalf of the Society. xn. DUTIES OF TREASURER. The Treasurer shall collect all monies due to the Society, and pay all bills against the Society, when a])proved by the Board of Directors. He shall keep a full account of receipts and expenditures in a book belonging to the Society, which shall always be open to the inspection of the Directors ; and at the annual meeting in January, he shall make a written report of all his doings for the year preceding. The Treasurer shall give bond in the sum of one hundred dollars, with one surety, for the faithful discharge of his duties. xni. DUTIES AND POWERS OF DIRECTORS. The Directors shall superintend and conduct the prudential and executive business of the Society ; shall authorize all expenditures of money ; fix all salaries ; provide a common seal; receive and act upon all resignations and forfeitures of membership, and see that the By-Laws are duly complied with. The Directors shall have full power to comply with the terms of the lease of the rooms in the Old State House, made with the City of Boston, and to make all necessary rules and regulations required in the premises. They shall annually, in the month of April, make a careful comparison of the articles in the possession of the Society %vith the list to be returned to the City of Boston under the terms of the lease, and certify to its correctness. They shall make a report of their doings at the annual meeting of the Society. The Directors may, from time to time, appoint such sub-committees as they. deem expedient. In case of a vacancy in the office of Clerk or Treasurer, they shall have power to choose a clerk or Treasurer j25ro tempore till the next meeting of the Society. XIV. MEETINGS OF DIRECTORS. Regular meetings of the Directors shall be held on the day previous to the regular meetings of the Society, at an hour to be fixed by the President; special meetings of the Directors shall be held in such manner as they may appoint; and a majority shall constitute a quorum for business. XV. FINANCE COMMITTEE. The President shall annually, in the month of January, appoint two Directors, who, with the President, shall constitute the Committee on Finance, to examine 90 from time to time, the books and accounts of the Treasurer; to audit his accounts at the close of the j'car, and to report upon the expediency of proposed expenditures of money. XVI. STANDING COMMITTEES. The President shall annually, in the month of January, appoint four standing committees, as follows : — Com?niifee on the Rooms. A committee of five members, to be styled the Committee on the Rooms, who shall have charge of all the arrangements of the Rooms, including the acceptance or rejection of all articles, (except books, manuscripts, and other objects appi-opriatc to the Lil^rary), offered as gifts or loans, the hanging of pictures, and the general arrangement of the Society's collections in their depart- ment; also, the employment and compensation of custodians. Committee o/i Papers. A committee of three members, to be styled the Committee on Papers, who shall have charge of the subject of papers to be read, or other exercises of a like nature, at the monthly- meetings of the Society. Committee on ISIcmbersJiip. A committee of five or more members, to be styled the Committee on Membership, whose duty it shall be to give information in relation to the purposes of the Society, and increase its membership. Committee on tJie I^ilwary. A committee of five members, to be styled the Committee on the Library, who shall have charge of all the arrangements of the Library, including the acceptance or rejection of all books, manuscripts, and other objects appropriate to the I.,ibrary, ofiered as gifts or loans, and the general arrangement of the Society's collections in their department. These four committees shall perform the duties above set forth, under the general supervision of the Directors. Vacancies, which may occur in any of these Committees during their term of service shall be filled by the President. XVIL AMENDMENTS TO BY-LAWS. Amendments to the By-Laws may be made, at any annual meeting, by the vote of two-thirds of the members present and voting. They may also be made liy the like vote at any regular meeting, provided notice of the same be contained in a call for such meeting issued by the Clerk, and sent to every member. PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOSTONIAN SOCIETY AT THE ANNUAL MEETING, JANUARY V2, 1886. 3' ('■I'y ,K PROCEEDI NGS BOSTONIAN SOCIETY Annual Meeting, January 12, 1886. |S05t0n; : OLD STATE HOUSE. PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF THE SOCIETY, M.DCCC.LXXXVI. Press of CONANT & NEW HALL. :^2 Hawley Street, Boston. C ONTE NTS. I. President's Address, . . .5 II. Report of the Directors, . . . 12 III. Report of the Tricasurer, . . • '5 IV. Report of the Committee on the Rooms, . 16 V. Report of the Committee on the Library, . 33 VI. Accessions to the Library Collections. . 34 VII. Report of the Nominating Committee. . 36 Vlfl. Accessions to the Society's. Collections, . i"] IX. Loan Collection, . . . . -43 X. Officers for 1886. .... 45 XI. Roll of Membership, . . . . .46 XII. By-Laws, . . ... 52 BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING. Boston, January 12, il Pursuant to notice duly issued by the clerk, the fifth annual meeting of the Bostonian Society was this day held in the Council Chamber, Old State House, at 3 P. M., the President, Curtis Guild in the chair. The records of the last meeting were read and approved. After the election of new members, the President addressed the Society as follows : — PRESIDENT GUILD'S ADDRESS. Fellow Members of the Bostojtian Society : The recurrence of this anniversary reminds us that another year of the life of our society has passed, and gives many of us a realiz- ing sense of the rapid flight of time, and the importance of our making the best use of it while we have the health, strength and opportunity to do so. I speak thus from the fact that societies like ours do a work, the benefit of which is largely realized by those who are to come after them, and while it may be a source of entertainment and in- struction for us to search out, verify and make clear records of the past history of Boston for the present generation, it behooves us to-day to use our efforts to preserve the best and most indisputable records of the history of our own times, for those that are to suc- ceed us here. "Familiarity breeds contempt," says the proverb, and until within a few years the intimate acquaintance of residents of Boston with localities and mementoes of the early history of the country and with the relics which the fathers of the Republic left behind 2 6 them all around us blunted appreciation of their value and impor- tance. A THOROUGH INDEPENDENCE. This country, or a large part of it, has, however, ceased to be a new or uncivilized portion of the world. It has passed through the settlement, provincial and experimental periods ; it has won so much in science, education, art and all that goes to make up the highest order of civilization, that it has taken position, won ac- knowledgment and maintained itself among the great powers of the earth as a nation not to be patronized and instructed, but de- ferred to and respected. During its last desperate struggle to per- petuate its existence, it not only determined its power to sustain itself in its entirety but emancipated itself thoroughly from any dependence whatever upon other nationalities as regards financial, political or economical policy, — and to-day is stronger to carry out a national policy of its own, and more independent than ever be- fore. As the two great sections yearly approach more closely to advance the common interests of the whole country, the strength- ening of this sentiment of real American independence in the minds of the American people tends to increase a national pride in the breast of every American citizen. He feels more reverence for everything in the history of his country and its government that contributed to establish it in its present position or will con- tribute to advance it still higher in the rank of nations. Being to-day more self-dependent ; acting upon our own respon- sibility ; able to sustain a purely American policy ; independent of foreign dictation ; it is natural that we should take pride in the acts of those fathers of the republic which led up to the present suc- cessful result. The national pride, which we all as citizens of Boston possess, is invigorated and strengthened by our local pride, a characteristic which is an important element in the development of a town, city or commonwealth. With this comparatively new era of feeling, it is not surprising that the sentiment which holds organizations like our society together is daily strengthening, and that its objects are not to-day stigmatized as only sentimental and unworthy the attention of practical utilitarians. VALUE OF SENTIMENT. Indeed the utility and practicalvalue of sentiment, as it is called, has been repeatedly developed in the history of this country. It was the sentiment that had been implanted in the heart of every American boy, at the much-abused Fourth of July celebrations, — the sentiment spouted by orators upon the platform, emphasized by the ringing of bells, blazing of bonfires, the firing of cannon and tiie waving of the Stripes and Stars from every flag staff in the land, that caused thousands to leap to the defence of that flag, and that causes re-united millions to-day to stand by it as the only standard of their country. And there is no city where local and national sentiment should have a stronger foothold than Boston, none where it can render greater service to the common good of all. Now that the nation has attained this truly independent position, it is natural that its citizens should wish to preserve the history of the events that led to the foundation of the republic and keep green the memory of those who pledged life, property and honor to build it. Public opinion is stronger to-day in the belief that a visible relic of the past tends to emphasize and strengthen an historic fact ; and it is better, even though in the pathway of trade, commerce and money-getting, that an occasional monument of that which is good and grand in the history of the past, should stand a challenging fact, rather than all should be swept away and dependence be placed solely upon the printed pages of the historian. MEMENTOES OF THE PAST. All know that illustrated books of history or travel are the most interesting, — the study of geography would be incomplete, indeed, without the illustrated atlas. How much better, therefore, may the history of Boston be studied by such real and actual illustra- tions that her citizens are able to preserve, like the Old South Church, King's Chapel, Faneuil Hall, Boston Common and the Old State House. How many more illustrations, so to speak, are there that need retouching and pointing out, that the rising generation may see here in this good old city, the actual mementoes of the greatest events of modern times ; of the events and of the men that they have read of in every school history of the United States of America. Americans cross the Atlantic to stand upon the walls of Chester, in the tower where Charles the First looked forth upon the defeat of his army on Rowton Moor, or to tread the field of Bannockburn, where the Scottish standard flouted the breeze, and the battle was fought which raised Bruce from a hunted rebel to the rank of an independent sovereign. But here at home, almost within rifle shot, is the field where the undisciplined American rustic obstinately opposed the trained and skilled veterans of the British array ; a half hour's ride and you stand upon the spot where George Washington with undaunted courage unsheathed his sword, beneath the great elm at Cambridge, to take command of the fourteen thousand raw militia which in 1775 formed the American army. It may be said that the American citizen must have a heart as cold and unsuscep- tible as a silver dollar, that can stand unmoved here for the first time, at this very window where the Declaration of Independence was first read to the people of Boston, the crowd standing upon the same spot that a few years before was red with the blood of the Boston Massacre ; or dull indeed to regard without interest the events that have occurred in this very hall we now occupy, — the birthplace of American Independence. The Old State House of Boston is the most genuine and indis- putable relic of the Revolution now existing. The walls that are about you are the selfsame that existed at the time of the Boston Massacre ; the windows the selfsame openings ; here where the Declaration was read in 1776 and the Proclamation of Peace in 1783 ; there where Washington in 1789 reviewed the procession in his honor. Within these very walls some of the greatest events ot American history have occurred, and the greatest and most notable men who figured in those events been gathered together. In fact, the city of Boston is a focal point in the early history of the country, a central point to day from which the student of his- tory may start and trace out within the radius of a few miles the very tracks of Revolutionary history. The march to Lexington ; Paul Revere's Ride ; the Dorchester Fortifications ; Breed's Hill ; Head-quarters at Cambridge and other notable points will readily suggest themselves to all of you. These mementoes, these exist- ing relics of the glorious past — we should devote our attention and our local pride in preserving and keeping their record true, that the tourist, the patriot, the student of history may visit them with at least some portion of that interest shown for far less noteworthy but often more notable localities in the old countries. TRUE GREATNESS. Boston's local pride for its past history, its men and its institu- tions and its culture, needs no defence. The greatness of a city consists not in aggregation of territory, in volume of population, magnificence of buildings or luxuriousness of inhabitants, but rather in the character of its public men, the purity of their prin- ciples, the loftiness of their patriotism, and the cultivation of those higher arts and graces of civilization, that tend to elevate all com- munities. Rome may have laid Athens low with the sword, but Athens subjugated Rome with the stylus. Rome with all her imperial magnificence, her splendidly disci- plined legions, her wonderful executive government and her laws which have stood the models for the civilized world of later days owes to Greece whatever spirit of refinement, in art and literature crept in among that sturdy race of hard-handed peasantry, and from their descendants produced the scholars and poets who made the reign of Octavius Caesar the golden age indeed. While our local pride causes us justly to honor the lofty patriot- ism of Boston's sons of the past and to point out the examples of Otis, Adams, Hancock, Winthrop and others as worthy of emula- tion, it behooves us to look to it that the historical record that Boston is now making may be, as far as our efforts can form it, of corresponding brightness when it shall be held up to the gaze of future generations. As regards the work of our society, it must be admitted that an organization that faithfully carries out objects like ours must be beneficial to a city and of some advantage to the whole country. To promote the study of the history of Boston and preserve its antiquities is what we take upon ourselves to do as far as in us lies — an interesting and entertaining task to many of us who have grown up from youth to manhood within her limits and owe much of whatever measure of success or position we may have enjoyed, largely to the privileges of her institutions and the civic and commercial advantages she has afforded us. The city in which we have passed the largest portion of our active and business life is dear to us. We are proud of its past and solicitous for its future. The preservation of the records of the past exhibits so much that 10 we all have reason to be proud of, that it is a pleasure to recall them for the contemplation of the present and rising generation of Boston's citizens. THE society's WORK. The general active work of the society is voluntary, and, as we are still in the youthful stage of our existence, we must appeal to the public spirit of our members to aid in continuing the exercises here as interesting in character as they have been hitherto. The scope and influence of the society may be largely increased by effort in this direction. The past history of our city is rich in special features which may be brought out with information and instruction. Among them may be mentioned the topographical history of Boston, showing the many changes that have taken place during the past two centuries in its territory, as well as those that are now in progress, and indicating the possible future of the city. The municipal history would bring forward the progress of the city under her different honored chief magistrates, with anecdotes^ reminiscences and references to the past, and might develop how correct or fallacious was the judgment of those who went before us and what effect their government has had upon the progress of the city and of its institutions. The Boston merchants, from John Hancock down along the illustrious line which boasts the honored names of Appleton, Amory, Lawrence, Lowell, Gray, Otis, Bradlee, Shaw, Quincy and a host of others whose names were a synonym of honor and integ- rity and the record of whose enterprise and industry is inseparably connected with the most valued portion of the history of Boston — is in fact a portion of the chronicle of the city's advance in wealth, fame and commercial importance — forms a theme that many of their descendants could profitably present and which would be list- ened to with both profit and pleasure by an always interested audience. The story of our religious and charitable institutions, the rise and progress of our free school system, sketches of the lives of those who have but recently passed away and have contributed by their efforts and their example to place Boston among the foremost cities in this country as regards intelligence, culture, art, education and commercial prosperity, are all subjects that should claim the attention of our society. 11 HISTORICAL LOCALITIES. Notwithstanding the City Government has very properly in- dicated certain historical points of Boston, such as the Granary Burial Ground, the locality of the Hancock mansion, and a few others, the lack of knowledge respecting many celebrated and in- teresting historic localities within the city limits that exists even among those born and bred here is something surprising. It would really be a profitable and impressive method of instruction for the teachers of some of our schools, were they to visit, within easy walk of their schoolhouses, personally with their pupils the very scenes of history where the stirring events were enacted that are recorded in their text books. The visible mementoes of Boston's past history which we are enabled to exhibit in our permanent and loan collections in these Memorial Halls, small as the collections are at present, are inspect- ed with great interest and satisfaction by visitors from all parts of the country, and our thanks are due to many friends for loans of some of their most precious heir-looms that they have from time to time placed here in our custody on exhibition, affording the society and the public the privilege of inspecting them. Let me improve this opportunity to appeal to those who possess paintings, engravings, printed or written documents or any other mementoes relating to Boston's past history to afford an opportunity here for the public to view them, even if such mementoes be only loaned to the society for a few weeks. The constant care of two efficient custodians abundantly secures such relies from injury ; in fact, guardianship has been so efficient that no damage whatever has occurred to a single article in the collections here exhibited since we have occupied these halls. The reports of the directors, the treasurer, and the different com- mittees will reveal to you the present condition of the society, showing it to be in a flourishing condition, and the general interest of its members in its work and objects. To further its influence and render it still more effective I can only ask each member to endeavor in some manner to personally assist in the prosecution of the work necessary to faithfully and effectually carry out what has thus far proved to be worthy our best effort and attention. 12 REPORT OF THE DIRECTORS. Mr. Hamilton A. Hill then presented the annual report of the Board of Directors as follows : In presenting their Annual Report, the Directors are glad to be :| able to congratulate the members of the Bostonian Society upon its continued and increasing prosperity. For the year just closed, they have to report valuable accessions to the objects of interest on exhibition within these walls ; and a j larger number of visitors than in any previous year. The register shows the names of 6,732 in 1885, against 5,637 in 1884, an in- crease of 1,095. It is estimated, however, that not more than one- half of those who come here, record their names ; if this be so, the Society had from thirteen to fourteen thousand visitors in 1885. The places of residence of those who registered their names in 1884 and 1885, may be grouped as follows : 1884. 1885. Boston, 1.843 2,250 Elsewhere in the United States, 3,462 4,180 Foreign Countries, 332 302 5.637 6,732 The Society held nine monthly meetings during the year, and at six of these, interesting papers were presented, illustrating our local history. The subjects of these papers, and their authors were : April 14. "A New Chapter in the History of the Concord Fight" ; by Mr. William W. Wheildon. May 12. "Notes on the History of the Old State House" ; by George H. Moore, LL. D. June 8. "North Square and its Surroundings" ; by the Rev. Edward G. Porter. October 13. "The Life and Character of Peter Oliver, a Boston Man. The Last Chief Justice under the Crown" ; by Mr. Thomas Weston, Jr. November 10. "The Royall Place at Medford" ; by Mr. Franki E. Hatch. December 14. "George Robert Twelves Hewes, one of the Heroes of the Boston Tea Party" ; by Mr. Daniel T. V. Huntoon, J ( J c Necrology. Geo. G. Lowell, born in Boston, March 29, 1830; died in Boston, Feb. 6, 1885. iitt thi tor :>Ti :hi )ff hi )U s a( le: tl ig s< 13 The Necrology of 1885 is as follows : Benjamin Apthorp Gould Fuller, born in Augusta, Me., May 23, 1818, died in Boston, January 25, 1885. Thomas Baker Vose, born in Boston, March 25, 1805, died in Bos- ton, February 3, 1885. John Charles Phillips, born in Boston, October 2 r, 1838, died in Boston, March i, 1885 Robert William Hooper, born in Marblehead, October 25, 18 10, died in Cambridge, April 13, 1885. John Wesley Wolcott, born in Portland, Me., July 31, 1819, died in Dedham, June 4, 1885. Charles Russell Train, born in Framingham, October 18, 18 17, died in Conway, N. H., July 29, 1885. John Allen Lewis, born in Barnstable, November 19, 18 19, died in Boston, November 2, 1885. Charles Octavius Whitmore, born in Bath, Me., November 7, 1802, died in Boston, November 15, 1885. Pearce Wentworth Penhallovv, born in Portsmouth, N. H., Feb- ruary 27, 1 817, died in Boston, December 8, 1885. Samuel Parkman Dexter, born in Boston, June 13, 1824, died in Dorchester, December 18, 1885. thaniel Walker, born in South Danvers, (now Peabody,) Feb- ruary 3, 18 16, died in Boston, December 26, 1885. The membership of our Society is about five hundred. With a little effort this number might easily be doubled. The effect of this would be to increase the interest of our fellow citizens of Bos- ton in the objects of the Society, and to extend the influence of the organization. It would also add materially to our revenues ; and this would enable us to avail ourselves of the opportunities which are offering from time to time for the purchase of historical objects in the department to which we give our thought and interest, and to publish with more fulness our transactions, and such contributions as we may make to our local history. The Society has distributed each year among its members, an illustrated pamphlet of perma- nent value, containing the proceedings at the annual meeting, and other matter. It has given to each of them, also, a set of engrav- ings from the plates (now belonging to the Society) which were used to illustrate Bowen's Picture of Boston, the first edition of I which appeared in 1829 ; and, more recently, a copy of Dr. Moore's 14 PiytancuDi Bostoniensis, — the address delivered by him here last May, and a most valuable addition to the literature of the Old State House. With a larger income, the Society could do much more for its membership in this direction. A diploma has been designed by a competent artist, and has been accepted by the Directors, which will be ready for distribution early in the current year. Independently of the work which this Society may attempt as a local historical society, it has a valid claim upon the interest and regard of the people of Boston, in that it affords to both residents and strangers, an additional place of resort, already attractive and instructive, and which may be made more and more so. In this and other cities, there are buildings which are visited for the sake of themselves, — their history and their associations ; and there are exhibitions which draw attention simply for what they contain, and without reference to the halls or galleries in which they are placed. It is the privilege of the Bostonian Society to invite the public to a building, which would deserve attention and awaken emotion, if these chambers were empty ; and, also, to an exhibition, which, if not now, may yet be made altogether worthy of its setting The Directors regret to have to announce that Mr. Daniel T. V. Huntoon, who has served the Society efficiently and faithfully as its Clerk during the last year, is obliged to decline re-election and to go from home for a time because of ill health. They are sure that all the members will unite with them in the sincere hope that Mr. Huntoon will soon be able to return to Boston, and to resume those historical labors which he has prosecuted for many years with so much success. Respectfully submitted, CURTIS GUILD, THOMAS C. AMORY, WILLIAM S. APPLETON, WILLIAM H. BALDWIN, JOSHUA P. BODFISH, JOHN T. HASSAM, HAMILTON A. HILL, SAMUEL H. RUSSELL, Directors. Boston, January ii, 1886. 15 The Treasurer then presented his annual report as follows : TREASURER'S REPORT. Receipts. Balance in Bank, January i, 1SS5, Life Memberships Admission Fees and Assessments Sales of Bowen Pamphlet . Interest ..... Expenditures. City Rent .... Compensation of Custodians Treasurer Frames Pictures &c. Books . Furniture Printing Repairs Diplomas Labor, expressing, etc. Balance . $: ,207 6 1 650 00 I ,980 00 2 50 61 30 $4,901 41 $100 00 566 00 250 00 172 32 409 44 94 86 119 48 403 85 318 54 175 00 299 69 $2,909 iS $1,992 23 $4-901 41 DANIEL T. V. HUNTOON, Treasurer. Boston, January nth, 1886. I have examined the cash account of the Treasurer to date, and find tlie same correctly cast and properly vouched, showing a balance on hand January ist, i886, of nineteen hundred and ninety-two dollars and twenty-three cents, of which nineteen hundred and fifty four dollars and forty-seven cents was in the New England Trust Company's account, ($2055.06 with $100.59 in checks, unpresented) and thirty-seven dollars and seventy-six cents in money in the Treasurer's petty cash account, namely : — N. E. Trust Companj', ...... $1,954 47 Money, ......... 37 76 Balance, $1,992 23 SAMUEL H. RUSSELL, Comtnitfce. 16 Mr. James Rindge Stanwood then presented the third annual report of the Committee on the Rooms, as follows : — REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE ROOMS. Mr. Chairman : — The Committee on the Rooms begs leave to offer the following report to the annual meeting : The last year has been one of material prosperity in that depart- ment of the Society's interests which has been intrusted to the care of this committee, which was constituted at the commence- ment of the year just closed, as follows : William H. Whitmore, Chairman ; Augustus T. Perkins, William S. Appleton, Samuel H. Russell, and James Rindge Stanwood. At a meeting of the committee, held on the thirty-first day of January, 1885, Mr. Perkins announced that he was unable to give to the work incum- bent upon it the time requisite, and therefore tendered his resigna- tion, which was reluctantly accepted. At a subsequent meeting, held upon the tenth of February following, a communication was received from the President of the Society, naming General Samuel M. Quincy to fill the vacancy. General Ouincy accepted the position, and the committee, as thus constituted, continued up to the thirty-first day of December, 1885. At a meeting of the com- mittee, held on that date, Mr. Whitmore offered his resignation as its Chairman, which was reluctantly accepted, and Mr. Russell was chosen to that position for the unexpired portion of the year which closes to-day. PROSPERITY OF THE SOCIETY'S INTERESTS. In making its report regarding the record of the year, your com- mittee with gratification announces that it has been one exhibiting a high degree of progress. The public in general has continued to manifest that sympathy with the advancement of the aims and objects of the Society which has been remarked in previous years. In fact, the interest felt in this community in the growth and suc- cessful prosecution of the work which we have undertaken, forms 1 but a fractional portion of the exj^ression of public sentiment, as f made known to us from all portions of our country. The work which Boston has done, and is striving to do, in the placing of the 17 Old State House in the van of the historic buildings of America, by calling attention to the fact that she has consecrated it anew to that spirit of patrotism which is owned by every lover of his country, has been published throughout the length of the land. Every year produces additional evidence of this, in the constantly swelling roll of those who visit these halls. The City of Boston is reaping the reward of that wise spirit of foresight which actuated its legislators in rehabilitating this vener- able structure, in the grateful appreciation expressed throughout the country, as the story of its action has gone abroad, and the fame of its restored Old State House is invested by the stranger with a new interest, by the side of its Faneuil Hall. Of those who have so successfully consummated this work, we recognize as one of its foremost and most efTicient advocates, His Honor, Hugh O'Brien, Mayor of Boston, an honorary member of this Society, who may claim to have been identified with the inception of the move- ment in the City Council to undertake the work which has been so successfully accomplished. OIL PAINTINGS OF INTEREST. The list of donors to the Society's collections in the department intrusted to your committee, is a long and gratifying one, while a large number have additionally contributed to the Loan Collection, by depositing therein many articles of interest and value. Among the oil paintings which have been placed in our hands during the past year, we call attention to a fine portrait of the late Hon, Nathan Appleton,* painted by Healy, and lent by Captain Nathan Appleton, of this city ; a portrait of General Henry Dearborn,! of the • Nathan Appleton, LL. D., born in New Ipswich, N. H., October 6, 1779. In 1795 he engaged in business in Boston, and at a later perio !, became a partner with his brother Samuel. He was one of the first proprietors of the Waltham Cotton Factory, where, in 1814, the power-loom was first put in operation in this country; was one of the founders of Lowell, and was the projector and largest proprieti r of the Hamilton Company, of that city. He served repeated terms in the Legislature of Massachusetts, and was a member of Congress in 1831-33 and 1.S42. He was the author of a number of valuable pamphlets, among which maybe more immediately mentioned those upon banking and the tariff, and an account of the origin of the power-loom, and of the founding of Lowell, published in 185S. He died in Boston, July 14, 1S61. t Henry Dearborn, senior Major-General in the War of 1S12, bom in North Hampton, New Hampshire, February 23, 1751. He studied the profession of medicine with Doctor Hall Jackson, of Portsmouth, and settled in practice as a physician at Nottingham Square, in 1772. At the news of the battle of Lexington, he marched at the head of sixty volunteers for Cambridge, and upon his return was appointed first captain m the regiment of New Hampshire volunteers under command of Colonel John Stark. He participated in 18 United States Army, painted by Gilbert Stuart, and placed in our care by Miss Sarah Dearborn ; a portrait of General Joseph War- ren, * after the original by Copley, from Mrs. William Appleton ; portraits of John Adams, second President of the United States, and of Fisher Ames, LL.D., f from Mr. Edgar Parker, while we also acknowledge other favors of this description from John Lathrop, Esq., Mrs. F. E. Bacon, of Matapoisett, Mr. Henry M. Hughes of Medford, Mr. Samuel H. Russell, and others. We have also received in this department a fine vignette portrait of Benjamin Franklin, % painted on Sevres porcelain when ambassador to the court of France, and the battle of Bunker Hill, and was a member of Benedict Arnold's expedition to Canada, where he was taken prisoner in the attack on Quebec, December 31, 1775. He was exchanged in March, 1777, when he was commissioned as major of the 3rd New Hampshire Regiment, under Colonel Alexander Scanimell, and later served with distinction in the engagements of Stillwater, Saratoga and Monmouth. In 17S1 he was attached to Washington'sstaff as deputy quartermaster-general, with the rank of Colonel, in which capacity he served at the siege of Yorktown. Subsequently he served until the end of the war as Colonel of the ist New Hampshire regiment. Commissioned Brigadier General of militia in 17S7; Major-General in 1795 ; member ol Congress 1793 to 1797 : Secretary of War under President Jefferson 1801 to 1S09, and Collector of the Port of Boston from 1S09 to 1S12, when he was appointed by President Madison, January 27, 1812, senior Major General in the United States Army. He died at his home in Roxbury, Mass., June 6, 1829. * Joseph Warren, Major General in the Revolution, born in Roxbury, June 11, 1741. He was educated as a physician, and commenced practice in Boston in 1 7^2. He was made a member of the Committee of Correspondence in 1772 ; was delegate to the Massachusetts Congress of 1774; and its president after the withdrawal of John Hancock, while he was also Chairman of the Committee of Public Safety. He participated in the battle of Lexington, and upon the fourteenth of June following was Commissioned Major General by the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts. Three days later, he fell in the battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775. t Fisher Ames, born in Dedham, April 9, 1758. He was educated to the profession of the law, and commenced us practice in Boston, in 17S1. In 17S8, he was returned as a member of Congress from the Suffolk District, defeating Samuel Adams for that position. He remained in that body from 1789 to 1797, and was acknowledged to be the most eloquent debater in the House of Representatives. He drew up the address of the House to President Washington, upon the occasion of his retirement from the Presidency, and was for several years a member of the Executive Council of Massachusetts. In 1S04 he was chosen President of Harvard College, but refused to accept that position. He died in Dedham, July 4, 1S08. I Benjamin Franklin, son of Josiah and Mary Franklin, was born in Boston, January 17, 1706. He left Boston at the age of seventeen, and established himself as a printer in Philadelphia. He subsequently went to England as a journeyman printer, but remaining only about a year, returned in 1726. In 1729, re-establishing himself in Philadelphia, he became the proprietor of the Philadelphia Gazette, and soon established for himself a high reputation. In 17',! he founded the Philadelphia Library ; was aiipointed Clerk ( f the General Assembly of Pennsylvania ni 1736 ; Postmaster of Philadelphia in 173;, and deputy Postmaster-General of the British Colonies in 1753. In 1754 he was sent as delegate to the Provincial Congress at Albany, and drew up the plan of union for the common defence which was subsequently adopted by that body. He was elected to the American Congress in 1775, was one of tlie committee to prepare, and a signer of, the Declaration of Independence, and from the close of 1776 until .September, 1785, was ambassador to France. To him is due the principal credit of procuring the treaty of alliance with France, signed at Paris, February 6, 1778, which secured the independence of the American Colonies. He later took an important part in the negotiations with England, and signed the preliminary articles of peace at Paris, November 30, 1782. The definitive treaty was signed Septembers, 1783, by Franklin, Adams and Jay. He was governor of Pennsylvania from 17S6 to 1788, and delegate to the conventfon called to frame the Constitution of the United States, 1787. He died in Philadelphia, April 17, 1790. 19 given to this society by Mr. Charles S. and Miss Helen A. Lincoln, of New York City, through our fellow-member, Mr. Benjamin F. Stevens, of this city. STEEL AND COPPER-PLATE ENGRAVINGS. To the department of steel and copper-plate prints, your com- mittee reports a large and interesting list of accessions. We con- gratulate the Society upon the increasing disposition upon the part of the public to make these halls the repository of many valuable examples of this durable and exceedingly acceptable class of engrav- ings. The accessions under this head are so many and varied that we cannot adequately do justice to them here. VVe are constrained, however, to make mention of a few, to which we believe the at- tention of the Society should be especially called. Prominent among these latter, your committee notices a folio copper-plate mezzotint, deposited with us by the Clerk of this Society, Mr. Daniel T. V. Huntoon, of Canton. It is entitled : "His Excellency Samuel Adams, Esquire, Governor and Com^^-in-Chief in and over the Commonwealth of Massachusetts." It bears the name of Graham as its engraver, after a painting by Johnson, and although some- what stained, is yet in excellent condition. This print is a rare and valuable specimen, of which but very few examples are known to be extant, and was published May 17, 1797. * We have caused it to be placed in a prominent position at the end of the Representatives' Hall. We acknowledge the receipt of valuable steel-plate portraits of the late Doctor James Jackson, f and of Daniel Webster, from Moses W. Weld, M. D., of this city, whose gifts to the Society during the past year form a handsome aggregate. We further specify, among the accessions which have been received from Dr. Weld, a fine • Examples of this folio mezzotint are of great rarity ; Mr. William V. Wells, author of the Life and Public Services 0/ Samuel Adams {Boston: 1865), met, with but a single specimen, which is in the fine collection of prints owned by Mr. John W. Randall. t James Jackson, M. D., LL. D., born in Newburyport, October 3, 1777. He graduated at Harvard College in 1796, and in 1800 commenced the practice of medicine in Boston. In iSio, with Dr. J. C Warren, he proposed the establishment of a hospital in Boston, and subsequently the Massachusetts Gen- eral Hospital was established. Dr. Jackson was its first physician, and retained his connection with the institution until 1835. In iSio he was chosen professor of clinical medicine in the medical department of Hari-ard College; in 1812 professor of Theory and Practice until 1836, and professor emeritus from that time until his death, which occured in Boston, August 27, 1867. 20 medallion portrait in bronze, of the Reverend John Pierpont, D.D.,* minister of Hollis-street Church at one of the most interesting periods of its history. We acknowledge the receipt of a fine steel- plate portrait of the Reverend Benjamin Blydenburg Wisner, D. D., f pastor of the Old South Church from 1821 to 1832, from Miss M. R. Peabody ; of a steel-plate portrait of Edward Winslow.ij: Governor of the Plymouth Colony, from John Gilbert, the veteran comedian, of New York City, and of an impression upon large paper, of a fine steel-plate portrait of the late Wendell Phillips, (^F. T. Stuart, sc.) from Mr. James L. Hillard, while we report additional gifts of this class from Captain Nathan Appleton, Miss Caroline Dorr, Mr. Daniel T. V. Huntoon, of Canton, Mr. George W. Adams, Mr. William H. Whitmore, and others. LITHOGRAPHIC PRINTS. In this department of engraving, we note a most gratifying in- crease in the number of examples which have been placed in our possession. In the preceding annual report, your committee took occasion to call the attention of the members of the Society to the fact that additions to this class of prints in the Society's collections would be gratefully welcomed, and the sequence proves that the * The Reverend Jcihn Pierpont was born in Litchfield, Conn., April 6, 17S5. He was a lineal descend- ant of the Reverend James Pierpont, the second minister of New Haven. He at first adopted the profession of the law, was admitted to the Essex County bar in 1812, and practiced for a time in Newbury- port. Being compelled to relinquish this pursuit on account of ill health, after a short experience in mercantile life, he studied theology, and was ordained as pastor of Hollis-street Church in Boston, succeeding the Reverend Horace Holley, on April 14, iSig. The outspoken manner in which Doctor Pierpont insisted upon expressing his opinions upon the questions of Slavery and Temperance, finally led to the occurrence of a bitter controversy between himself and a portion of his parish, which continued for the space of seven years, at the close of which he requested a dismissal. He was subsequently settled for the term of four years over a parish in Troy, N. Y., and later (August i, 1849) over a church in Medford, Mass., which pastorate he resigned April 6, 1S56. He was a man of great natural abilities, an eloquent speaker and a ready writer. He died in Medford, August 27, 1866, at the age of eighty-one. t The Reverend Benjamin Blydenburg Wisner, D. D., pastor of the Old South Church from 1S21 to 1832. He was born in Goshen, N. Y., September 29, 1794 ; graduated at Union College, in 1813 ; later studied theology at Princeton. He was Secretary of the American Board of Missions from 1832 until his death in 1835, which occurred in Boston, on February 9, of that year. t Edward Winslow, Governor of the Plymouth Colony in 1633, 1636, and 1644. He was born in Droit- wich, Worcestershire, England, October 19, 1595. In 1617 he joined the Church of the Reverend John Robinson at Leyden, and later came to America in the liLiyJiozver, being one of five brothers who emigrat- ed to America. In 1623 and 1624 he went twice to Europe as .^gent for the Colony. In 1649 he again went to England ; was prominent in organizing the .Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in New England, while in 1655 he was constituted by Oliver Cromwell one of three commissioners, to superin- tend an expedition against the Spaniards in the West Indies. During the execution of this service, he died at sea, between St. Domingo and Jamaica, May 8, 1655. 21 suggestion thus conveyed has been answered in a practical man- ner, in the gift of many prints by which the collections in this de- partment have benefited greatly. Among the articles received, we mention especially those contributed by Miss Caroline Dorr, of this city, who has given to the Society several valuable examples executed by Pendleton and by the Sencf elder Press, of which we here mention portraits of the Reverend Thaddeus Mason Harris, D. D., * the Reverend Eliphalet Porter, D. D., f the Reverend Abiel Abbott, D. D., J and the Reverend Jotham Sewall. We have like- wise received a fine specimen of the somewhat rare print issued hy Bufford in 1848, representing the present Suffolk jail on Charles Street, § in process of construction, from Mr. William S. Appleton. Your Committee has also added several specimens of this descrip- tion of work to the Society's collections during the year, by purchase ; among which are two especially fine views of Boston, respectively from East Boston and from Telegraph Hill, in South Boston. We take this opportunity to express our acknowledg- ments to Mr. William Willder Wheildon, of Concord ; Mr. Charles Carroll Kurtz, Miss M. R. Peabody, Mr. William W. Greenough, Mr. M. C. Ferris, Moses W. Weld, M. D., Mr. A. Frink, and Mr. Daniel T. V. Huntoon, of Canton, for further accessions of this class. PHOTOGRAPHIC AND HELIOTYPE REPRODUCTIONS, We now come to this important department of our work, of which it may be truly said, that the value of having it fully repre- sented among the Society's collections is self-evident. The face of • The Reverend Thaddeus Mason Harris, D. D., born in Charlestown, Mass., July 17, 1768. He graduated at Harvard College in 17S7, via.s Librarian of that institution from 1791 to 1793; and upon October 23 of the latter year, was ordained as pastor of the First Church in Dorchester, occupying that position until 1839. He died in Boston, April 3, 1842. t The Reverend Eliphalet Porter, D. D., was born in North Bridgewater, Mass., June 11, 1758, and graduated at Harvard College in 1777. Upon October 2, 1782, he was ordained as pastor of the First Congregational Society in Roxbury, which position he retained until his death, which occurred December 7i 1S33. t The Reverend Abiel Abbott, D. D., born in Andover, Mass., August 17, 1770. He was minister of Haverhill from June 8, 1795, to June 13, 1803, and subsequently of Beverly until 1S27. He died of yellow fever, in New York harbor, June 7, 1S28, upon his return from a Southern trip made on account of impaired htalth. § View of the Neiu Jail for Suffolk CoJinty, in the State of Mussachusetis, erecting by the City of Boston, iifion Charles and North Grove streets.iS^S. GridleyJ. F. Bryant, Architect. Bufford, lith., frotn a drawing by H. Billings. 4 22 this city is constantly changing ; old buildings are being swept away, new streets are being created, entire localities are losing all features of their former identity, and the constantly advancing foot of commercial enterprise is rapidly and ruthlessly obliterating the traces of many parts of Boston, as it existed even a comparatively few years ago. It goes without saying, that the reproductive facilities furnished by the invaluable process of photography for- tunately render the chances of the preservation of the semblance of former buildings and localities possible at an expense which can be considered as merely nominal. To all to whom this report may come, we venture to call attention to the fact, that the preservation of these vanishing features of our city is one of the chief objects which we are specially privileged to compass. Let our fellow- citizens in this community bear in mind, then, that even what may appear at a casual glance as but a trifling change in a building or locality, is not too slight to be of importance in repre- senting the Boston of to-day to the eyes of those who are destined to view it half a century hence. Had our ancestors possessed the re- sources of photography, it is interesting to speculate upon what valuable early features of Boston, now forever lost, save in the comparatively rare instances where they have been preserved by the brush of the artist, or the patient and laborious work of the graver, would have enriched the present historical collections, marred by no hesitating or imperfect execution, but transferred, true to nature, to the appreciative hand of to-day, by the unerring and faithful rays of the sun. Your committee trusts that in the future, the disposition to call in the aid of photography, now being exhibited in the event of im- portant changes in our streets, may show the same proportional in- crease, and that those who may have occasion to thus photograph, will do us the favor to add a specimen to our collections. Among the accessions of the past year, we take pleasure in mentioning here the receipt of a view representing the mansion-house of the late Daniel Weld, M. D., on what was formerly called Boston Neck, at the corner of what is now Union-Park and Washington Streets, which was erected by Dr. Weld about the year 1800. This photo- graph, of great local interest, which forms a valuable addition to our collection of old Boston residences, was given us by Moses W. Weld, M. D., while it is most acceptably supplemented by a view of the old 23 Gardner mansion, which formerly stood upon Summer street, (anciently known as Seven-Star Lane) on the site of the present building occupied by Messrs C. F. Hovey and Company, which is presented to the Society by Mr. Moses H. Barnard, of Lynn. A third view, co-ordinate with these, represents the old May house, which formerly stood on Washington street, opposite Lucas Place, which is also given by Doctor Weld. The additions in this de- partment are so numerous, that it is impossible to even specify in passing, many which are richly deserving of special mention. In the descriptive list of accessions which we have annexed to this report, they will all be found noted as minutely as possible. We pause, however, to report the receipt of a fine portrait of the late Reverend Edward T. Taylor * (Father Taylor), from Mr. James Wallace Black ; a photographic reproduction of a lead-pencil sketch which was made by John Avery, junior, representing the residence of Henry Howell Williams, f erected in 1776 upon Noddle's Island, — the present East Boston, from Mr. Benjamin Williams Gilbert, • Edward Thomson Taylor, bom in Richmond Va., December 25, 1794. He was in early life a sailor, came to Boston in 181 1, and was converted that year in Bromfield-street Methodist Church, by the Reverend Elijah Hedding. In iSig, he entered the New England Conference as a travelling preacher, and until 1829 travelled circuits along "he South Shore and on Cape Cod. In the latter year he was stationed as mariners' preacher at Boston, and from that time dates the record of his wonderful labors as a preacher, continued for a long period of years with uninterrupted success. In 1S30-32, through the earnest efforts of the late N. A. Barrett and other active merchants of this city, the general interest was aroused to such a degree that the Seamen's Bethel, in North Square, was erected in 1S33, imderthe auspices of the Boston Port Society, through funds donated by public subscription, and here "Father Taylor," as he subsequently came to be universally known, officiated for fifty-nine years, formally resigning the pastorate in 186S. He died in Boston, the fifth of April, 1S71, aged seventy-seven years. t Henry Howell Williams, from whom the old building took its name, was the son of Colonel Joseph Williams, and was born on October 23, 1736. "Upon January 28, 1762," says the late William H. Sumner, in his History of East Bostoti, (Boston : 1858) "he married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Bell, one of the lessees of Noddle's Island, and the same year took up his residence there. Here was his home until his removal to Chelsea, about the year i8oo. * * * * When the town of Boston was held by the British troops, and active hostilities were going on, Mr. Williams was placed in very trying circumstances. Situated without the limits of the city, on an island, he was constantly exposed to, and suffered from, the maraud- ing expeditions of the enemy. The fine house which he originally occupied, was burned, with all the furniture, and his stock of horses and cattle given away or killed by the Americans, to prevent the British taking possession of them. In partial remuneration for his loss, General Washington gave him a building used as barracks by the troops at Cambridge. This house (the one referred to here) he removed to the Island, and erected, and it w-as occupied by him as the family mansion, (little resembling however, the one which was burned) and after him, by his son, Thomas Williams, until the tenancy of the Island was relin- quished by the family. The house was of one story, with Lutheran windows in the roof in front, a passage- way or hall from the front to the rear, on each side of which was a large room with bedrooms adjoining the west or drawing-room, and an L part, consisting of two rooms used for kitchens, etc. According to Mr Williams's bills of the expense of buildings erected in 1776-77, the whole cost was £427. is. lod., and the buildings consisted of a house, barn, corn-barn, and store on the wharf. Henry Howell Williams died in Chelsea, December 26, 1S02. A fine portrait of him, by Stitarl, is owned by John Avery, Esquire, of Lowell." 24 while from Mr. Henry J. Parker we have received, among other valuable views, a photograph, taken from a drawing in sepia, representing the old Head mansion. This building, standing upon what afterwards became the site of the present Masonic Temple, was erected about the year 1763, and was removed in August, 1840. We have also received from Mrs. George Dearborn Oxnard, acces- sions of special interest, in two photographic views showing the interior of the old edifice of Brattle-Square church, taken just before the structure was removed, in 1872. They are taken from opposite points, looking respectively towards the organ and the pulpit, and thus together afford a complete view of the church interior. We are indebted to Hon. Thomas F. Temple, Register of Deeds for Suffolk, for a photographic reproduction of a rare original manu- script, entitled, "The Death Warrant of Bridget Bishop, of Salem, sentenced to suffer death for Witchcraft.''* This curious manuscript * In connection with this subject, it has seemed to us that the following details regarding the trial and execution of Bridget Bishop, furnished by the late Reverend Charles Wentworth Upham, in his annals of the Salem Witchcraft, {Boston : 1S67) would prove of interest here : "Another notability of the village was Bridget Bishop. In 1666, — then the widow Wasselbe, — she was married to Thomas Oliver. After his death she became the wife of Edward Bishop. He had resided, for some seven years previous to the witchcraft delusion, within the limits of Salem, near the Beverly line. His wife Bridget was a singular character, not easily described. She kept a house of refreshment for travellers, and a shovel-board for the entertainment of her guests; and generally seems to have counten- anced amusements and gayeties to an extent that e.vposea her to some scandal. She is described as wearing "a black cap and a black hat, and a red paragon bodice," bordered and looped with different colors. Her freedom from the austerity of Puritan manners, and disregard of conventional decorum in her conversation and conduct, brought her into disrepute, and the tongue of gossip was generally loosened against her. She was charged with witchcraft, and actually brought to trial on the charge, in 16S0, but was acquitted, the popular mind not being quite ripe for such proceedings as took place twelve years afterwards. ***** Upon the eighteenth of April, 1692, warrants were got out against Giles ("orey and Mary Warren, both of Salem Farms; Abigail Hobbsj wife of William Hobbs, of Toijsfield, and Bridget Bishop, wife of Edward Bishop, of Salem, for witchcraft, to be brought in the next forenoon at about eight o'clock, at the house of Lieutenant Nathaniel Ingersoll, of Salem Village, and upon the next day they were duly committed to prison. The court was opened at Salem, in the first week of June, 1692. Bridget Bishop was the only person tried at its first session. She was brought through Prison Lane, up Essex Street, by the First Church, up Town-house Lane, to the Court House. Cotton Mather, writing of her passage to the Court, furnishes the following curious illustration of the power excercised by this strange superstition upon the popular mind : "There was one strange thing with which the court was newly entertained. As this woman was under a guard, passing by the great and spa- cious meeting-house, she gave a look towards ihe house ; and immediately a demon, invisibly entering the meeting-house, lore down a part of it ; so that, though there was no person to be seen there, vet the people, at the noi«e, running in, found a board, which was strongly fastened with several nails, transported into another quarter of the house." Bridget Bishop was condemned, and executid upon the tenth of June. The sheriff leems to have proceeded, immediately after the execution, to the clerk's office, and indorsed his return on the warrant. When he wrote it, he added, after the word ''dead" "and buried her on the spot." On its occurring to him that the burying of the body was not inentioned in the warrant, he drew his pen through the w'ords, as is seen in the photograph. This superfluous clause, thus partially obliterated, is the only positive evidence we have of the disposal of the bodies at the time. * * * * The descendants of Bridget Bishop are very numerous in Salem ; embracing some of our oldest and most respectable families, and branching widely from them." 25 bears the signature of Plis Excellency, Governor Stoughton, is dated the eighth of June, 1692, and is addressed to "George Corvvin, Gent"- y'^ High Sheriff of y^ County of Essex." It bears the official return endorsed upon it by the Sheriff, testifying to the execution of the said Bridget Bishop upon the tenth of June, two days later. The place of execution is not given, but it was undoubtedly Witch Hill, so called, in Salem. For many valuable additions to this department, which want of space prevents us from naming in detail here, your committee expresses its thanks to Mr. Hamilton A. Hill, Mr. Francis H. Manning, Mr. Joseph G. Cupples, Mr. H. F. Warren, of Waltham, Mr. William H. Whitmore, Mr. Edward E. Higgins, of Chelsea, Mrs. Mary Sheafe Israel, and Mr. John P. Reed. In the department of heliotype reproductions, we acknowledge most acceptable accessions from the City of Boston, through the Superintendent of Public Buildings, Mr. James C. Tucker, and from the Commissioners of Public Institutions, through Hon. Albert T. Whiting, Chairman. These latter accessions represent fine views of the City Institutions known respectively as Deer Island, Rainsford Island, Charlestown District Alms-house, Austin Farm, and the Marcella-Street Home. From Captain Nathan Appleton we have received a copy of the design adopted for the Norseman Fountain to be erected in the Back Bay Park, in commemoration of the alleged visit of Lief, the Norwegian explorer, to these shores in the eleventh century ; while we are indebted to Francis Brooks, Esq., of Medford. for a heliotype portrait of Major General John Brooks, * of Medford, afterwards Governor, taken from the painting in oil by Gilbert Stuart. THE HENRY P. CURTIS COLLECTION. Since the last annual meeting, this Society has been the recipient * John Brooks, M. D., LL. D., born in Medford, Mass., May 31, 1752. At the ouibreak of the Revolu- tion he was engaged in the practice of medicine at Reading, and commanded a company of nr'nu'e-men, with whom, upon April ig, 1775, he did good service at the battle of Lexington. Upon the reorganization of thet'ontincntal Army in February, 1776, he was commissioned major of the Nineteenth Regiment, and accompanied it to Long Island. Early in 1777 he was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel of the Kighth Regiment, and in 1778, upon the death of Col. Alden, was raised to the rank of Colonel. He especially distinguished himself at the battles of Saratoga and Monmouth At the close of the Revolution, he resumed the practice of medicine in Medford. He was for many years Major-General of the militia of his county, and as a member of the legislature actively supported the measures for supprersing Shay's Rtbel- lion. He was a delegate to the State Convention for the adoption of the Federal Constitution ; was appointed by Washington, marshal of hi^ distiict, and inspector of the revenue, in December, 1795. Dur- ing the war of 1S11-15 he was adjutant-general of Massachusetts, and governor from 1816 to 1S23. He was President of the Massachusetts Medical Society from 1817 until his death : and of the Society of the Cincinnati from 1787. He died March i, 1825. A fine portrait of him, by Gilbert Stuart, is owned by Francis Brooks, Esq., of Medford. 26 of a liberal and exceedingly valuable gift, in the form of an elabor- ate and carefully classified collection of over one hundred and eighty photographic views of buildings and localities in Boston, as they appeared between the years 1850 and 1885. Thedonor, one of our fellow members, whose name we have given to this remarkably fine collection, believing it essentially fitting thus to designate it, upon his return from abroad, in 1873, after an absence for a long- period of years, found his native city so greatly changed, that he decided upon forming a collection of photographs of all the blocks and single edifices in the so-called burnt district and elsewhere, that were to be obtained, in order to maintain fresh his memories of old Boston. This work he at once proceeded upon, leaving no means untried to render his collection as complete as possible. The result of years of unwearied, persevering effort in this direc- tion, the community has now before it. A superb collection of views of the Boston of the past, without doubt the finest and most complete in this city, has been brought together, and through the generosity of its founder, placed in the possession of this Society. Your committee, since the receipt of the collection, after careful deliberation, decided that the value of the gift could only be main- tained unimpaired through framing the views. To that end, Mr. James Rindge Stanwood was authorized, by vote, to make contract for the same, which was done in a very satisfactory manner in the early part of last June. They were placed in the western room in the third story of this building. The credit for the origination of the racks, which at present so satisfactorily accomodate the collec- tion, belongs to Mr. William H. Whitmore. These views, although they have been but a comparatively short time in position, have become one of the leading attractions of the building. SKETCHES AND WATER-COLOR DRAWINGS. Your committee announces several accessions of interest in the department of water-color drawings. Under tliis head, we call the attention of the Society to a view of Independence Hall, in Phila delphia, {E. D. Le%vis,pinx) taken in 1885, which was purchased by us at a reasonable figure. An excellent water-color drawing, representing State Street as it appeared about 1840, viewed from Merchants' Row, towards the Old State House, has been given us by Mr, C. C. Soule, while another of much interest, representing the 27 Old Corner Bookstore, executed by Miss C. E. Hollis, of this city, has been placed by her in the Loan Collection. The City of Boston, through the City Architect, Mr. A. H. Vinal, has also placed in our care a valuable original diagram in india ink, exhibit- ing the plan adopted in remodelling the Old State House for the uses of a City Hall, in 1830, as drawn by Isaiah Rogers, the architect in charge.* HOLLIS-STREET CHURCH RELICS. The past year has witnessed the last of the old church in Hollis street, f or rather, the close of its existence in the form of a religious edifice. It was purchased of the Society, by Mr. Robert B. Brigham, upon the twelfth of June, 1883, and in the early months of 1885, measures were taken by the owner to secure its remodelling and en- * When the restoration of this building was in progress, in iSSi, no plan of any kind could be found at City Hall, but through inquiry made by Mr. William H. Whitniore, of the committee of the City Govern- ment in charge of the work, and by Mr. George A. Clough, City Architect, it was discovered that in Cin- cinnati were living the heirs of Isaiah Rogers, who was the architect of the reconstruction in 1S30. His papers were found there, and among them a plan containing evidently the design then adopted. A fac- simile of this, greatly reduced, appears in the Old State House Metnorial, {Third Edition, \%'&<^,') p. 201. It shows the first and second floors, the circular staircase, and the locations (in pencil, as represented by dotted lines) of the desks of the members of the two branches of the City Council. The original diagram, now owned by the City of Boston, is at present hung in the Old State House. t Tha Reverend George L. Chaney, pastor of Hollisstreet Church from 1862 to 1S77, delivered two interesting and valuable discourses in 1876-77, relating to its history, from which we quote here as follows : "The site upon which the first meeting-house in Hollis street was erected, was given in 173 1 to William Pain, Esquire, by His Excellency Governor Belcher, on condition that he, "with a covenant number, would associate themselves together, and build a house for the publick worship of God." This first edifice was built in 1732, and upon the eighteenth of June of that year, the first sermon within its walls was preached by the Reverend Joseph Sewall, pastor of the Third (or Old South) Church. It was he who "more imn;ediately formed" or organized, the church here. He wrote its covenant, dedicated its house of worship with prayer, gave the charge to its first pastor, and laid the hand of ordination upon his head. This first pastor was the Reverend Mather Byles, a graduate of Harvard College, in the class of 1725, a gentleman of good ministerial extraction, counting Richard Mather and John Cotton among his ancestors, of sincere attachment to his chosen calling, and more than common fitness for its duties." The first edifice ol Hollis-street Church was destroyed by the fire of 17S7, and for a time its congregation came under the care of the Old South. The second building, as shown in an old copper-plate print, now rare, {S. Hill,sc.,) dedicated Aug. 31, 1788, and identified with the remarkable pastorate of the Reverend Horace HoUey, stood undl 1810, when it was removed to give place for the third and last church edifice built by the Society in Hollis street. Henry Blaney was the mason who superintended its erection. We have searched the files of the Columbian Ceutineliox the years iSio-ii, and found the following notices of the erection of the building : lVednesday,Jan. -^o, iSii. The new meeting-house in Hollis Street will be dedicated to-morrow, services to begin at eleven o'c'ock. IVednesday, Feb. 13, 181 1. On the 31st ult., the newly-erected meeting-house at the south part of the town was dedicated to the service of Almighty God. The services were introduced, and interspersed, with sacred music, psalms and hymns. The introductory prayer and the reading of select passages from the Holy Scriptures were by the Rev. Dr. Elliot. The Rev. Dr. Lathrop made the dedicatory prayer. A sermon was then delivered by Rev. Mr. Holley, and the concluding praytr was by Rev. Dr. Porter, of Roxburj'. The services, which were solemn, and peculiarly imprefsive, were clcifd with the Hallelujah chorus. This edifice, which is an ornament of the town, does credit tc the munificence of the citizens and the artisans at whose expense and under whose directions it has been erected. 28 largement, with elaborate improvements, into what is now one of the finest theatres in our city. At the commencement of these changes, Mr. Brigham very courteously offered us various valuable relics of the old building for preservation. The several articles, which comprised the old weather-vane, the cardinal points, and the copper finial which surmounted the lofty steeple, together with the marble tablet, commemorative of the several edifices erected upon the site,* and bearing the various dates of their erection, were presented to this Society by Mr. Brigham at the stated meeting for May last, and a formal resolution of thanks to the donor was unanimously adopted. Shortly afterwards, the Society received from Mr. B. Frederick Merritt, of Newton, the hands from the south dial of the old clock in the church tower, which was the gift of John Lucas, in iSii Subsequently, a valuable lithographic diagram, showing the interior of the church, as it appeared in 1834, at the time of the ministry of the Reverend John Pierpont, D. D., together with a complete list of the ownership of the pews at that thne, was very kindly given us by Mr. James P. Gordon. This was supple- mented by two fine photographic views, exhibiting the interior and exterior of the church, at the time of its abandonment by the Society, sent to us by Mr. Franklin Brown, chairman of its standing committee. The fact will always remain associated with the clos- ing days of this old church, that after the Society had held the last regular service within its walls, it was again opened by Mr. Brigham, on the sixth day of February, 1884, for the funeral rites of the late Wendell Phillips. * The old copper vane, originally put up in iSio, twice thrown down by lightning in 1S37, and each time mended and restored to its position, was finally taken from the steeple upon Thursday, April g, 1885, and in May follownig was given by Mr. Brigham to the Bostonian Society, together with the marble tablet built ip-to the Church tower, at the time of its erection, the inscription upon which reads as follows: First House for Public Worship Erected in this place A. D. 1732. Destroyed by Fire A. D. 17S7. Rebuilt, A. D. 17SS. Taken down & Rebuilt A. D. 1810. It may be well to nota here, that the two large mural tablets, bearing respectively the Decalogue and the Lord's Prayer, given by Benjamin Bussey upon the nineteenth of February, 1S15, wliich were placed on either side of the pulpit, were, when the church was abandoned by the Society, sent to the Revfrend Mr. Chaney's Church in Atlanta, Georgia, but proving too unwieldy to be there used, were eventually returned to the North, and sent to the Reverend Theodore Parker's old church in West Roxbury, Mass. The niini^ti-y of HoUis-street Church, from its fotuidation in 1731 down to the present time, is as follows: Mather Byles, 1732-1776; Ebenezer Wight, 177S-17S8; Samuel West, 17S9-1S0S; Horace HoIIey, 1S09- iSiS ; John Pierpont, 1819-1845 ; David Fosdick, 1846-1847 ; Thomas Starr King, 1848-1861 ; George L. Chaney, 1S62-1S77; H. Bernard Carpenter, iS7S-present pastor. The present church edifice of the Society is situated at the corner of Exeter and Newbury streets. 29 OBJECTS OF INTEREST. The record of the various objects of interest and historical value which have been placed in the hands of your committee during the past year is a long one, of which it is impossible to treat in the pages of this report with that minuteness which it deserves. We shall be able to mention but a few, and for an enumeration in detail, refer our fellow members to the descriptive list herewith annexed.*A very valuable broadside has been deposited in the Loan Collection by Mr. Daniel T. V. Huntoon, being an original impression of the famous proclamation issued by His Excellency Governor Gage, at Boston, on the twelfth of June, 1775. A curious feature exhibited in this document will, upon examination, be found in the significant fact, that in the preamble, in which the King's representative is styled "Captain-General and Governour-in-Chief in and over the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England, " a pen stroke is drawn through the latter portion of the sentence, and the necessary words substituted in writing, so that the sentence reads : "His Excellency, Thomas Gage, Esquire, Captain-General and Governour-in-Chief in and over the Town of Boston." This is a recognition by the Governor of the fact that his actual authority was virtually limited to his military control of Boston, his claim to jurisdiction over the Province of Massachusetts-Bay having been repudiated by its inhabitants. Another interesting feature of this broadside is to be found in the clause in which the King's Governor urges the citizens of Boston to return to their alle- giance, promising in the name of His Majesty, a "free and full pardon to all, excepting only from the benefit of such pardon, Samuel Adams and John Hancock, whose offences are of too flagitious a nature to admit of any other than condign punish- ment." Among the valuable parchments which have been deposited in the Loan Collection, is the commission issued by His Excellency, Governor Hancock, to Henry Dearborn, appointing him Brigadier- General of the Eighth Division of the Militia of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, which was signed in the Council Chamber in this *It is proper to state, that at the annual meeting, at which this report was presented, a full list of the accessions to the Society's collections during the past year was likewise submitted. That list, after its receipt by the officers of the Society, was unfortunately mislaid, and therefore does not appear here. The list printed in the following pages is a fresh one, which has been compiled under the direction of the new committee, and a different plan for its arrangement has been adopted. 30 building, upon the twenty-sixth of November, 1787. It is the property of Mr. George H. Allan, of this city, to whom we are indebted for another interesting document placed in our care, in the form of a commission issued to Jeremiah Hill, Esquire, as "Captain in the Regiment whereof James Scammon is Colonel, raised for the defence of the Colony." The commission is issued by "The Congress of the Colony of the Massachusetts-Bay," and is signed by Major-General Joseph Warren as its President, upon the nine- teenth of May, 1775. We have received from the Reverend Edward G. Porter, of Lexington, the gift of a communion-cloth of old Saxon linen, which was given to the Old North Church, in North Square, by Deacon Joseph Kettcll, in 1812. Mr. George W. Forristall has likewise given to the Society a very interesting relic, in the form of a banneret of white silk, borne by Edward Carnes, in the Riggers' Department* of the procession which welcomed Washington to Boston, in 1789, and was reviewed by him from a temporary balcony erected in front of the middle window at the western end of the Representa- tives' Hall in this building. f Mr. C. D. Head has given us two Post- masters' notices issued in 1745, to one of which attaches special * The Riggers' Deiaitrcent was No. 31 in the order of the various trades, as represented in the pro- cession. It will be noted, upon examination of this banneret, that Mr. Carnes, who bore it at the head of his delegation, scrupulously observed the recommendation contained in the circular issued upon tlie nineteenth of October, 17S9, by the committee appointed to supervise the ceremonies, which suggested, "that the person who shall be chosen as head of each order of Artizans, Tradesmen, Manufacturers, &c., sha'l be known by displaying A WHITE FLAG, with some device thereon expressive of their several callings, and to be numbered as in the arrangement that follows, which is alphabetically disposed, in order to give gtncral satisfaction. The Artisans, &c. , to display such insignia of their craft, as they can conveniently carry in their hands. That uniformity may not be wanting, it is desired that the several Flag- staffs be SEVEN feet long, and the Flags A YARD SQUARE." Upon the occasion of Washington's visit to Boston, in 17S9, the Old State House was the centre of the pageant in his honor. The lilassachjisetts ISIagazitie for January', 1790, contains a view of much histori- cal inteiest, and an account of the decorations upon and immediately adjoining this building, entitled, " Description of the Trn.mphal Arch and Colonnade, erected at Boston, in hcnour of the President of the United States, October 24, 17S9." The Arch was erected across Washington street, just north of the State House, tut want of 100m compels us to omit the minute description of it. We print, however, the follow- ing account of the decoration of the Old State House, as prepared for the reception of its iliustrious guest: "The Colonnade (designed by Hon. Mr. Dawes,) was erected at the west end of the State House, adjacent to the Arch. It was composed of six large columns, 15 feet high, and a balustrade, hung in front with Persian carpets, on which were wrought 13 roses. The circle of the Colonnade measured 44 feet, acd projected boldly into the main street, so as to exhibit in a strong liglit, ' The 7>ian 0/ the people.'' The central west window of the State House, was the door throrgh which the President passed to the balus- trade, descending from a platform four easy steps, to the floor of the gallery, which was furnished with arm-chairs and spread with rich carpets. On this platform was a pedestal covered with gieen, supportit g the figure of Plcjity, with her Conmcopite and other emblems. As soon as the President entered this Colonnade .he was saluted by three huzzas from the citizens, and by an Ode sung by a select choir of singers, seated under tie caropy erected over the arch. The whole formed an agreeable spectacle, and heightened the pleasure of the day." 31 interest, from the fact that it bears the autograph signature of Benjamin Franklin as postmaster of Philadelphia. Mr. Charles Downer has sent to the Society, through Colonel Henry Walker, an oaken gavel made from one of the beams in the frame of Christ Church, on Salem street, and Mr. Samuel Dean Horton, of Dorchester, an autograph letter of Daniel Webster, while Mr. Charles Breck, of Milton, has given an ancient mirror which was formerly in Governor Thomas Hutchinson's country residence at Milton,* together with a cannon-ball that was fired by the British into General Washington's camp at Cambridge. For numerous articles which have been deposited in its hands, which will be found elsewhere noted, your committee expresses its thanks to Miss Caroline S. Staples, Mr. Charles Lowell Hancock, Mr. Henry Belknap, Mr. John T. Prince, Mr. Stacy Hall, Mr. J D. W. French, Mr. Joseph H. Hunneman, Captain John S. Damrell, Mr. David Piilsifer, Mr. Edward MacDonald, Mr. W. K. Watkins, Mr. Eben Dorr, Mr. W. Tracy Eustis, and others. ACCESSIONS TO THE SOCIETY'S COLLECTIONS. Your committee congratulates the Society upon the fact, that the additions to the various departments under its care aggregate the largest total for the year, ever reached in its annals. The list of accessions, inclusive of the Henry P. Curtis Collection, has risen to the handsome figure of three hundred and eightv-five. while the number of articles which have been deposited in the Loan Collection is sixty-eight. We are not unmindful of the fact, that, in face of this satisfactory exhibit, it may be supposed that the Society may lack the space for accomodating such articles as many persons in the community may from time to time be disposed to send us. To such, we would say, that of the large number of objects represented in the Loan Collection, many are withdrawn in the course of the year, so that there is always room for such new accessions as may be placed in our possession. RECORD OF THE REGISTER. The register placed in these halls for the inscription of the * "Hutchinson purchased in 1743," says Hon. James M. Robbin?, in an address delivered in Milton, in 1S62, "of Joseph Belcher's heirs, 100 acres of land on Milton Hill, built the house now occupied by the Russell family, and resided there a large part of the time for thirty years. * * * * After the mob invaded his house in Boston, in 1765, he spent most of his time here." The horse was subsequently to 1S62 taken down — a measure rendered necessary by its decayed condition, — but it was immediately rebuilt by the present owner, upon the same site, as nearly as possible in the manut r of the original. 32 names of visitors, exhibits satisfactory proof of the increasing inter- est which is manifested in the advancement of the aims of this Society. The registry is of course optional upon the part of the visitor, and cannot be accepted as an accurate index of the number of people who visit these halls during the year. The total number of autographs placed upon the book between January i, 1885, and January i, 1886, is six thousand, two hundred and thirty-two. Of these, two thousand, two hundred and fifty were residents of Boston ; four thousand, one hundred and eighty resident elsewhere in the United States, and three hundred and two from foreign countries. In the early part of the summer of 1885, these halls were closed to visitors from the second to the twenty-seventh day of July, inclusive. During this period, the rooms were painted by the City of Boston, and placed in the very satisfactory condition in which they now appear. It must be accepted as a significant fact, that despite the loss of nearly a month at the season when visitors are specially numerous, the proportion of increase has been sufficient to place one thousand, one hundred and five names on the register, in excess of the record of the previous year. Your committee, after giving the subject its attention, announces that a careful calculation allows a margin of fifty per cent, for the presence of visitors who do not elect to register, which would indicate a fair estimate of the total number of persons who have viewed the halls, to be between twelve and fifteen thousand. In closing its report, your committee returns its cordial thanks to its fellow members, and to the community in general, for the sympathy and support which has been accorded to it. The year which closes to-day has been a prosperous one in the departments which have been intrusted to us. We acknowledge gratefully the confidence reposed in us by many of our fellow-citizens, who have placed numerous articles of value in the Loan Collection, and improve this opportunity to express the hope, that the same gener- ous disposition may be shown in the future to forward the objects of the Society, which has been manifest in the past. All of which is respectfully submitted. 33 Mr. James L Whitney then reported, in behalf of the Committee on the Library. REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE LIBRARY. The Committee on the Library, in making their second annual report, wish to return thanks, in behalf of the Bostonian Society, to those persons who have given books and pamphlets to increase the Library. The additions to the Library during the past year have been one hundred and eighty-four volumes, and one hundred and twenty-six pamphlets : of these, sixty-three volumes have been pur- chased ; the remainder are gifts from sixty-three different persons. The entire collection now numbers five hundred and twenty bound volumes, and numerous pamphlets. To one wishing to study the history, the topography, or the customs of Boston, these books will give much information. It is hoped that at no distant time the Library may assume some degree of completeness. To this end the Committee invite gifts of books, pamphlets, maps and prints, illustrating the history of this city. Biographies of citizens of Boston will be especially welcome additions to the Library. The Committee respectfully submit the following list of acces- sions during the past year, [See next page.] 34 ACCESSIONS TO THE LIBRARY COLLECTIONS -1885. Volumes Pamph- lets. Academy of Natural Sciences, Davenport, Iowa 2 Hon. John F. Andrew ..... 3 George T. Angell, I William S. Appleton I John Ayres ........ I C. J. F. Binney 2 Boston Public Library ...... 3 2 Brooklyn Library ....... I Buffalo Historical Society ..... I 1 James M. Bugbee ...... I Bunker Hill Monument Association I W. C. Burrage ....... 1 Dr. &: Mrs. John S. Butler, Flartford, Conn. I Hon. Mellen Chamberlain ..... 'J Charles Chaplin ....... 2 5 City of Boston ...... I Rev. B. F. DeCosta, New York .... 3 William H. Dennet 4 3 James A. Dupee ....... Essex Institute, Salem, Mass. .... 2 Dana Estes ........ 2 Rev. William C. Gannett & Mrs. Kate Gannett Wells I 32 Georgia Historical Society 7 Curtis Guild ........ 5 6 Mrs. Nathaniel Hall, Dorchester .... I 2 John T. Hassam ....... I I Hamilton A. Hill 13 Samuel D. Horton, Dorchester .... I Mrs. Julia Ward Howe I James M. Hubbard .... . . I Daniel T. V. Huntoon 6 I Mercantile Library Association, New York I Mercantile Library Association, San Francisco . I Milwaukee Public Library 2 Minnesota Historical Society .... 2 Dr. George H. Moore, New York .... 2 45 90 35 Volumes. Pamph LETS. Number brought forward^ ...... 45 90 L. Foster Morse ....... 20 New Bedford Public Library I New England Historic Genealogical Society 6 Sereno D. Nickerson ...... 6 Numismatic and Antiquarian Society, of Philadelphia I Old Colony Historical Society .... I Nathaniel Paine, Worcester ..... 2 Rev. Edward C. Porter, Lexington I Josiah P. Quincy ....... 1 Record Commissioners of Boston 4 John P. Reed 5 5 Samuel H. Russell 5 Samuel S. Shaw ....... 5 .6 Estate of Thomas C Smith, by William S. Carter 5 3 Suffolk County Commissioners .... I Miss Anna E. Ticknor 3 Mrs. James Tolman ...... I Frederick Tuckerman I University of California I I J. Collins Warren, M. D 2 W. K. Watkins I William W. Wheildon, Concord, Mass. 2 2 James L. Whitney I 3 Hon. Robert C. Winthrop 2 Woburn Public Library I Anonymous ........ 3 Purchased 63 184 126 36 Mr. N. H. Henchman, in behalf of the Nominating Committee, reported the names of the following gentlemen for Directors for the ensuing year. THOMAS C. AMORY. THOMAS J. ALLEN. WILLIAM S. APPLETON, JOSHUA P. BODFISH, CURTIS GUILD. JOHN T. HASSAM, HAMILTON A. HILL, SAMUEL H. RUSSELL, WILLIAM WILKINS WARREN. In regard to the nomination of a gentleman for Clerk and Treas- urer, the Committee asked for further time, which was granted. A ballot was then taken and the foregoing list of candidates declared to be duly elected Directors of the Society for the ensuing year. Rev. J. P. Bodfish moved an amendment to the By-Laws, namely: — Article XVI, Section i, as printed in this Report, re- garding the Committee on the Rooms, which was adopted unani- mously. On motion of Mr. Erving Winslow, it was Voted, that the address of the President and the Reports pre- sented at the meeting be referred to the Board of Directors, with authority to print so much of them as they deem expedient in the Annual Report, and they also have authority to print one or more of the valuable papers read before the Society during the year, wholly or in part. On motion of Rev. J. P. Bodfish, it was Voted, that the thanks of the Society be extended to Mr. D. T. V. Huntoon, Mr. W. H. Whitmore, and other retiring officers. Adjourned. DANIEL T. V. HUNTOON, Clerk. ACCESSIONS TO THE SOCIETY'S COLLECTIONS, 1885* GIFTS AND PURCHASES. DONOR. DESCRIPTION. Adams, Geo. W. Appleton, Nathan Appleton, Wm. S. Eng. Photo. Photo. Eng. Eng. Eng. Photo. Pencil Drawing. Ens:. Photo. Photo Certificate of Association of Franklin Medal Scholars, Oct. 5, 1S57. Edward Everett, Presi- dent. Badge worn at the inauguration of the Franklin Statue, Sept. 17, 1S56. Thomas Gold Appleton. Sketch of the Norseman fountain for Back Baj Park. //. H. Richardson. Room of the Panama Canal Co., showing por- trait of DeLesseps at the P^oreign Exhibition, Boston, 1SS3-84. Certificate, certifying payment by T. G. Apple- ton, of one hundred dollars toward the erection of statue of Franklin, signed R. C. Winthrop, 1854. Certificate, conferring degree of B. A. to T. G. Appleton, August 31, 1831, Josiah Q^iiincy Pres. On Parchment. Passport of T. G. Appleton, from Messina, Sicily, through Catania and Syracuse to Malta, with the arms of the Prince of Cassaro, seals of various Consuls. Seven passports through Great Britain and Italy. Signing the Treatj' of Peace between United States and Great Britain, Sept. 3, 17S3. Ex- hibited at the Foreign Exhibition, in Boston, Sept. 3, 18S3. Photografihcd from a bas- relief. Interior of Boston Market. T. G. Appleton. Ticket to Dinner, given in honor of Paul Mur- phy, by the Boston Chess Club, Revere House, May 31, 1859, ^"^ ^ o'clock P. M. Mrs. Harrison Gray Otis. Robt. C. Winthrop. Original at Washington. * A Catalogue of the Books and Pamphlets in the Library, will be issued wlien the Collection is sufficiently large to warrant it. 38 DONOR. DESCRIPTION. Appleton, William S. Bostonian Society. Boston, Citv of. Depart. Public Buildings. Black, J. W. Breck, Charles. Brown, Franklin. Brigham, Robt. B. Brooks, Francis. Chase, W. Eng. Steel Eng. Transparent Mezzotint Col'd. Mezzotint. Copper- Plate Eng. Heliotvpe. Lith. Oil paint'g Water col- or paint'g. Photo. Eng. Photo. Plan of Boston, iSio. Paul Revere. Gilbert Stuart. Eftg. by S. A. Schoff. Geo. Ill, printed by John Bowles, at the Black Horse, Cornhill. Pttrcell, fecit after Frye. From the Read sale, Cambridge. Purchased by S. H. Russell. Charlotte, Qiieen of George III. Purcell, fecit after Frye. From the Read sale, Cambridge, Purchased by S. H. Russell. William Augustus Duke, of Cumberland, jf. Faber, ad Vivum dclin ct fecit. Purchased at Beverly. Tea-tax Tempest, or the American Revolution. Engraved in 177S. Purchased at Beverly Boston Light, with an English War Ship in the foreground. After W. Burgess. View of Boston, 1 84S. C. E. Whitefield. Boston, from Telegraph Hill, So. Boston. Tap- pan <£■ Bradford . George Robert Twelves Hewes, aged 100 years, member of the Boston Tea Party, 1773. J. G. Cole, Artist. Pai7ited from life, in 18^5. From Henry W. Hczves, IV. Med ford. Independence Hall, Philadelphia. E.D, Lexvis, Artist. Seven plates, one platter, representing two views of the State Mouse, one view each.Thos. H.Per- kins' house, afterwards Boston Ath^neiun, Hos- pital, Court House, Commercial Whart^ and Octagon Church. Purchased of Mrs. Isabelle yames. Made by Stephens, Rogers and others. Ten photographic views of City Institutions. Father E.T.Taylor, Pastor of the Bethel Church. Crystal Palace, Lincoln Street, demolished 1SS5, Cannon Ball, fired into the American camp, at Cambridge, during the Revolution. Mirror, formerly in residence of Gov. Thomas Hutchinson, Milton, heavily framed in antique manner. The interior and exterior of Hollis Street Church, built iSio. Vane and finials of the Hollis Street Church. Marble tablet from Hollis Street Church, marked "First House for public worship in this place, built A. D. 1732 Destroyed by ftre. 17S7. Rebuilt 17SS. Taken down and rebuilt iSio. Maj. Gen. John Brooks. Gilbert Stuart, pinx. Old Masonic Hall, afterwards U.S. Court House, 39 DONOR. DESCRIPTION. Chipman, J. C. W. Photo. Cupples, Geo. G. Photo Curtis, Henry Pelham, Dennet, William H. Dorr. Eben. Dorr, Miss Caroline. Downer, Charles. Djer, Mrs. F. W. Eustis, W. Tracy. Ferris, Mortimer C. Forristall, Geo. W. WoodEng. Eng. Lith. Eng. Lith. Enj Three interior views of the Hancock House. Parlor, on the piano are the bibles of Gov. Hancock's father and great-grandfather, ( min- isters at Braintree and Lexington), the Gov- ernor's cane in the corner. Hall, and upper landing, on the left, the Governor's room, v.'here he died. On the right, the room occupied by Washington, Lafayette and others. Reception Room : portrait of Gov. Hancock by Copley, and of Thomas Hancock by same artist. Raised from negative by J. \V. Black. Two photographs of marble groups on Post Office building. (i) Labor, Dependence and Fine Arts. (2) Science, controlling the forces of electri- city and steam. D. C. French, Sculp. G. C. Cox, Phot'r. One hundred and eighty photographs of ancient buildings and streets in Boston, as they appeared from 1850. The finest Collection in existence. Portrait of William A. Brewer, Pres. Amer- Phar. Society, 1S53. Proclamation by the Selectmen to the Citizens of Boston, that, "effectual measures be adopted to prevent the introduction of the infectious disease now prevalent in Philadelphia, into this Commonwealth." Rev. B. B. Wisner. Four portraits, Rev. Eliphalet Porter, D.D. Abiel Abbott, D. D. " T. M. Harris. " John Pierce. Certificate of Membership to Bunker Hill Monu- ment Association. John Codman, Boston Merchant. 5. Pelton, sc. Old South Church, 1848. Bufford. Oaken Gavel from frame of Old North Church, P'rom the belfry of this Church were hung the signal lanterns to Paul Revere. Badge worn at funeral of Gen. Lafayette, with his portrait in Medallion. Sword with a marlin scabbard, blade engraved with astronomical emblems, used on board of one of Perry's ships, lake Erie, 1814. View of south west side of State Street, 1S42. Volcker, Archt. Thayer, Eng. Portion of one of the original posts on Bunker Hill, when the first monument was erected, 1794. A Banneret of white silk, borne by Edw.Carnes, in the welcome to Washington, 17S9 40 DONOR. DESCRIPTION. Foi-ristall, Geo. W. Frink, Alden. Gilbert, Benj. W. Gilbert, John. Gordon, J. P. Guild. Curtis. Hall, Stacj. Hancock, Chas. L. Head, C D. Hewins, Alfred. Hemmenwaj, Geo. Hill, Hamilton A. Hillard, James L. Huntoon, D. T. V. Hunneman, Jos. W. Jones, Edw. J. Kurtz, C. Carroll. Col'dLith. Photo. Steel Eng. Eng. Photo. Steel Eni Photo. Eng. Chro.Lith View of first Bunker Hill Monument, printed on satin. Minot's Ledge Light, also showing the old light, destroyed 1S51. Aldeti Frink. Biirn'U, Lith. Woodbine Cottage, E. Boston, 1S24, known as the Williams residence. After Pencil Dra-jj- ing 1>V JuJin Avery., Jr. Portrait of John Gilbert. Comedian. After Sarony, by Butt re. Portrait of Gov. Edward Winslow in antique frame. One pair of gloves with portrait of Lafayette. Worn in jSj^, on the visit of Lafayette to Boston. Diagram showing pews and names of owners in Hollis Street Church. View of Boston Stone, 1735, Marshall Street, also the stone used to grind paint, on the same. y. A/. Falconer, del ct. sc, 1SS2. Copper bullet mould of the Revolutionary period. Steel instrument used for extracting teeth, ''air metal Shoe Buckle>. Ticket in Faneuil Hall Lottery, June, 1765, signed John Hancock. Two Post Office bills, one of July 11, 1745, signed B. Franklin, addressed to Boston, r.adge worn at New England Convention, Sept. 20, 1840. bearing a portrait of William H. Harrison. Oaken Tree Nail, taken from the Frigate Con- stitution. Two interior views of Merchant's Exchange. Interior view of Doric Hall, State House, March 15, 1S74. Body of Cliarles Sumner, lying in state. Wendell Phillips, Stuart, Eug. Daniel Webster, after Daug. by Whipple. Rit- chie, Eng. Dr. Putman's Church, Roxbury. Map of Boston, comprising part of Charlestown and Cambridgeport. Alade and Published Annin d- Smith, 1S26. An excrescence, or odd shaped knot, shaped like a nest, from one of the Paddock Elms. "Statement of the expenses of the Town of Bos- ton, from May, 17S3 to May, 17S4, $71,491 Amount of County and Town tax, $125,820." Benj. Sumner, Col. The arrival of the Boston Stage at Framingham Common. C. C Kurtz, Lith. 41 DONOR. DESCRIPTION. Macdonald, Edward, Siipt. of Copp's Hill Burial ground. Manning, Francis H. Morse, L. Foster. Oxnard, Mrs. George Dearborn. Peabody, Mrs. M. R. Porter, Rev. E. G. Prince, John T. Soule, Chas. C. Staples, Caroline S. Taylor, Wm. H. Temple, Thomas F. Thwing, Walter Eliot. Waters, H. F. Watkins, W. K. Weld, Moses W.,M.D. Photo. Steel Eng. Photo. Lith. Water color Photo. Col. draught Eng. Photo. Oldest tombstone on Copps Hill. Inscriptions : David, son of David Copp, and Obedience his wife, aged 2 — , Weeks djed Dec. 22, 1661. Thomas. Son of David Copp, and Obedience his wife, aged 2 — . years and 3 quarters. Dyed July J" 25, 167S. Tomb of Samuel Winslow with his arms, and tombstone of Wm. Clark. Crystal Palace, Lincoln Street. Winthrop House, Boston. I£. Ta/>/>an. Two views of interior of Brattle Square Church. Rev. Jotham Sewall. After Badger by Morse. John M. Mason. After Jarvis by Durant. Edw. Stiles Ely. Durafit, Brezvster, Phil. Communion cloth of old Saxon linen given to the New North Church, by Dea. Kettell, 1S12. Given to the Rev. E. G. Porter, by the Misses Lash. Whig ticket of 1840. Old State House about 1840. Leathern Fire Bucket "Isaac Stables, Aenas Fire Society, 1819." Another marked James N. Staples, Columbian No. I, 1823. Fire Bucket, John C. Jones. "Mr. Jones, in 1788, lived at 47 Hanover Street, where Rev. Lyman Beecher's church was built later. Mr. Jones died Oct. 25, 1S29. Death warrant of Bridget Bishop, June 10, 1692, with the receipt for her person, by Geoi-ge Corben, Sheriff. Two views of interior of room in house of Sted- man Williams, Walnut Ave., opp. Glen road, Roxbury ; showing the antique paper on the walls, landscapes, pictures, etc., supposed to have been put on about 1780. House recently torn down. Boston Harbor, by Capt. Cyprian Southake; made by Aug. Fitzpatrick, 1^694. Copied from original in British Museum by y. A. Burt. Bill of Pomroy & Simpson, Ann Street, show- ing view of old Feather Store. Billhead of Nathaniel Thayer & Co., 1810. Old May house, on Washington Street, opp. Lucas Street. Col. T. C. Amory. T. C. Amory^ Jr. Oval portrait of Washington, after a cameo. Daniel Weld House, formerly cor. Union Park and Washington Streets. 42 DONOR. DESCRIPTION. Weld, Moses W.,M.D. Whieldon William W. Whitmore, Wm. H. Wheelwright, A. C Wise, Charles H. Photo. Eng. Steel En< Bronze. Photo. Charles F. Barnard, Minister-at-large at Warren St. Chapel. Born April 17, 1S08; died Nov. 8, 1SS4. Dr. John C. Warren. Daug. by Whipple. Eng. J. W. Smith. Daniel Webster. After Staigg by Chaimcy and Godson. Dr. James Jackson, Born 1777; died 1S67. Wagstafii- Andrezvs. Map of Boston and the country adjacent. E. P. Dutton & Co., i860. Portrait of Rev. John Piedmont. Medallion framed in wood. Six badges worn bj different organizations at the Centennial celebration of Battle of Bunker Hill. Mrs. Murray, nee Judith Sargent, born March 5, 1751 ; died June 6, 1S20. Winslow family. Oaken gavel, made from the frame of Brattle Square Church. Plan of Beacon Hill lot, 1819. Bill of fare given for the Boston City Govern- ment, at P'aneuil Hall, July 4, i"S57, J- B. Smith, Caterer. LOAN COLLECTION, 1885. DESCRIPIION. Allan, George H. Appleton, Capt.Nath'n Bacon, Mrs. F E., Mattapoisett. Billings, Mrs. C. Boston. City of By Hon. H. O'Brien, Mayor. Boston, City ot By A. H. Vinal, Architect. Boston Veteran Fire- men's Association By \V. C. Lawrence, Tieas. Callender, Miss Nellie B. Damrell, Capt.John S. Dearborn, Miss May DeCarteret, Thos. C. Dennet, Wm. H. Green, W. J. Eng. OilPaint'g Oil Paint'g Drawing. Oil Paint'g Photo. Wood Cut. Commission of Gen. Henry Dearborn, Feb. 25, 178S; signed John Hancock. Commission, signed by Maj. Gen. Joseph War- ren, and issued to Capt. Jeremiah Russell. Medal awarded at Foreign Exhibition, Boston, 1883. Medal, commemorative of the looth anniver- sary of the Treat}' of Peace between Great Britain and U. S. of America, Paris, Sept. 3, 1783- Floor of the House of Representatives at Wash- ington, 1S32, showing the seat of Nathan Appleton. National Republican Ticket, with the name of N. Appleton for member of Congress, 1828. Certificate of membership of N. Appleton in Am. Colonization Society, 1S16, signed H. Clay. Nathan Appleton, born 1779; '^^^^ 1S61. By G. P. A. Healy. Hancock House, erected 1737, taken down 1863. Built by Thomas. Hancock. Pepperell metnorial ring, engraved A. Pepperell, Esq., obt. March, 1750.^. 26. Shovel, which removed the first earth in build- ing the Cochituate Aqueduct. Used by Hon. Josiah Qinncy, Jr., Mayor, Aug. 20, 1S46. Interior plan of the restoration of the Old State House, 1S30. Isaiah Rogers. ''Fire Bucket, marked Oliver Downing, 1812. Friendly Fire Society." Oliver Doivning., Builder. Built one wing of the Tremont House. Cottage, made of the Old Elm on Boston Com- mon, 1856. T. Ha r a den. Fire Bucket, marked "Martin Brimmer, Boston Fire Club." Maj. Gen. Henry Dearborn, born 1751 ; died 1S29. Painted at the age of 60 years. Gilbert Stuart. Boston Custom House, 1852. View of old corner book store. Liverpool Pitcher, purple decoration, with cop- per lustre on front. ''United and steady in Liberty's cause, We'll ever defend our Country and Laws." 44 DESCRIPTION. Huntoon, D. T. V. Mezzotint. Israel, Mrs. Mary Sheafe. James, Mrs. Isabella Lathrop, Capt. John Lawrence, W. C. Parker, Edgar Russell, S. H. Photo. Porcelain. Earthen- ware. Porcelain. OilPaint'^ Drawing. Oil Paint'g Silver. OilPaint'g Steel Eng Four portraits, Lady Carteret. After Dagar-, by Simmons. H. R. H. Augusta, Pi-incess of Wales. C/ias. Phillips, ad vivum, 1737. Maria, Countess of Coventry, 1750; nee Miss Gunning. Anne, Princess of Orange. After Mercier, by jf. Faber. 1734. Spinning Wheel, for flax. A Proclamation or Broadside, signed by Gen- eral Gage, with seal, etc. Judge Wm. Cushing, born 1732; died iSio. Commission to Charles Cushing, Lieut. Col. in the County of Lincoln, Sept. i, 1762. Signed Francis Bernard. Mrs. Gov. Hancock. Hot water plate, purple and gold, with Arms, bought at sale of Col. J. T. Apthorp, about 1835. Two blue plates, representing first hotel at Nahant. The Richard Gridley Punch Bowl, formerly be- belonging to him. Washington and Lafay- ette, when at the house of Mr. Gridley, were entertained by punch from this bowl. The bowl is richly decorated with Masonic em- blems, etc. Three certificates. Election, Degree of B. A. &c., Harvard Col- lege, to Rev. John Lathrop, formerly Pastor of Unitarian Church, Hanover Street. Rev. John Lathrop. No. 62 Ann St., 1812, present site of Oak Hall. Portrait of John Adams. After Stuart. By Rdar Parker. Fisher Ames, born 1758; died iSoS. After Smart. By Edgar Parker. A mug, with the arms of the Lynde family thereon, formerly owned by Hon.Benj. Lynde. Medal of the "Society of the Cincinnati." Nathaniel P. Russell, Treasurer Bunker Hill Monument Assoc'n : born 1799; died 1S48. Portrait of J. S. Copley R. A., born July 13, 1737; died 1S15, at George Street, London. After G. Stuart, by W. Edwards, 1832. OFFICERS FOR 1886. President, CURTIS GUILD. Directors, Thomas C. Amory. William S. Appleton. Joshua P. Bodfish, Curtis Guild, John T. Hassam. Hamilton A. Hill, Samuel H. Russell, William Wilkins Warren. Clerk and Treasurer, W. Clarence Burrage. Committee on the Rooms. President AND Clerk, ex-officio. William S. Appleton, I George O. Carpenter, Richard Briggs, | Samuel M. Quincy. Samuel H. Russell, Committee on Papers. Hamilton A. Hill, I James F. Hunnewell, E. G. Porter. Committee on Membership. J. C. J. Brown, I Jacob A. Dresser. Thomas J. Allen, | Thomas Minns, William W. Warren. Committee 07t the Library. Martin Brimmer. I Dana Estes, Henry P. Curtis, | James L. Whitney, William C. Winslow. Wm. Clarence Burrage, Clerk ex-offlcio. LIFE MEMBERS. Ames, Oliver Appleton, Nathan Blake, Stanton Bodfish, Joshua P. Bradford, Martin L. Bradford, William B. Bradlee, J. Putnam Brooks, Peter Chardon Brooks, Shepherd Brown, John Coffin Jones Carpenter, George O. Chase, George B. Chase, Stephen Chase, Theodore Clay, Thomas H. Crowinshield, Benjamin W. Curtis, Henry Pelham Deblois, Stephen Grant Dupee, James A. Emery, Francis F. Estes, Dana Ferris, Mortimer C. Foster, John French, Frederick W. Green, Samuel Abbott Guild, Curtis Hall, Thomas B. Hassam, John T. Head, Charles Henshaw, Samuel Homans, Charles D. James, George Abbott Jenks, Henry F. Jones, D. Waj'land Ladd, Nathaniel W. Lambert, Thomas R. Minns, Thomas Moseley, Alexander Norcross, Grenville H. O'Brien, Hugh (Hon. Mem.) Parker, Charles W. Peabody, Charles B. Perry, Charles F. Pfaff, Jacob Richardson, B. Heber Ripley, George Russell, Samuel H. Sears. J. Montgomery Shaw, Henry Southworth Shaw, Henry Southworth, Jr. Slafter, Edmund F. Slater, Andrew C. Stetson, Amos W. Thacher, Henry C. Thorndike, George Qiiincy Turner, Alfred R. Turner, Job A. Jr. Upton, George B. Ward, Francis Jackson Weld, Otis Everett Wheelwright, Andrew C. *Whitmore, Charles O. Whitmore, Charles J. Whitney, Henry Austin Williams, Henry W. Winslow William C. Winthrop, Robert C. Jr. Winthrop, Robert Mason Woodman, Cyrus MEM BERS. Abbot, Edward A. Adams, Waldo Allen, Samuel P. Allen, Stillman B. Allen, Thomas J. Ames, Oakes Angier Ames, Samuel T. Amorj, Frederic Amory, Thomas C. Andrew, John F. Angell, Henry C. *Appleton, Thomas Gold Appleton, William Appleton, William Sumner *Apthorp, Robert East Austin, James W. Avery, Abraham Ayer, James B. Bailey, Joseph T. Baldwin, William H. Barbour, John N. Beal, James H. Beal, Leander Beard, Alanson W. Beebe, J. Arthur Bent, S. Arthur Bigelow, Abraham O. *Bigelow, Alanson Bigelow, George B. Billings, Robert C. Bishop, Robert R. Blakemore, John E. Blaney, Henry Bolles, Matthew Bouve, Thomas T. Bowditch, Charles P. Bradlee, Caleb D. Bradlee, John T. Braman, G T. W. Bremer, John L. Brewer, Cyrus Briggs, Richard Brimmer, Martin Brooks, Francis Brooks, Henry C. Brooks, Phillips Brown, Alfred S. Brown, Buckininister Brown, James Wentworth Brown, Samuel N. Browne, C. Allen Browne, T. Qiiincj' Buffum, Charles Bullens, George S. Burdett, Horatio S. Burgess, James M. Burnham, T. O. H. P. Burrage, Alvah A. Bush, J. Foster Butler, Sigourney Calef, Benjamin F. Candage, R. G. F. Candler, John W. Carpenter, Frank O. Carruth, Charles Carter, Charles M. Case, James B. Chamberlain, Mellen Chandler, Francis W. Chandler, Horace P. *Child, Dudley Richards Clapp, Channing Clapp, Otis Clark, Cyrus T. ♦Clark, D. Oakes Clark, Joseph W. Clarke, Botsford R. *Clarke, Dorus Clarke, James Fieeman Clarke, Thomas W. Cliftbrd, Samuel W. Cliftord, Samuel W., Jr. Cochrane, Alexander Codman, William C. Codman, Odgen, Jr. Colburn, Jeremiah 48 *Collamore, Ebenezer Converse, Elisha S. Coolidge, Albert L. Coolidge, John T., Jr. Cordner, John Creech, Samuel W., Jr. Crocker, George G. Crocker, Uriel Crosby. C. A. W. Cruft, Samuel B. *Cushing, Samuel Thaxter Dalton, Charles H. Damrell, John S. Dana, George N. Danforth, Isaac W. Daniell, Moses, Grant Davis, James C. Deblois, George L. Dexter, Morton *Dexter, S. P.irkman Dexter, William S. Dickinson, M. F. Jr. Ditson, Oliver *Dix, John H. Dodge, Theodore A. Dresser, Jacob A. Dwight, Edmund Dyer, Benjamin F. Eaton, Walter D. Eddy, Otis Edes, Henry H. Edes, Robert T. Endicott, Geo. Munroe Endicott, W^illiam Jr. Eustis, W. Tracy Fabyan, George F. Fearing, Andrew C. Jr. Fitz, Eustis C. Flint, David B. Folsom, Albert A. Foote, Henry Wilder Forbes, J. Murray Forbes, Robert B. French, Benjamin French, J. D. Williams Frink, Alden Frost, Rufus S. ♦Fuller, B. A. G. Fuller, Charles E. Galloupe, Charles W. Gardner, George A. *Gardner, John ♦Gardner, John L. Gardner, John L. Jr. Gibbens, Joseph M. Gleason, Daniel A. Glidden, John M. Glidden, William T. Goddard, William Gookin, Charles B. Gorman, James Lane Gould, Benjamin Apthorp Gray, Joseph H. Green, George H. Greenough, Francis B. Greenough, William W. Grover, William O. Guild, George K. Hall, Edward R. Hall, John R. Hallowell, Richard P. Hamlen, Nathaniel P. Hammond, George W. Harris, Charles Hart, William T. *Hayes, Francis B. Haynes, Henry W. Hay ward, George Heard, J. Theodore Hecht, Jacob H. Hemenway, Alfred Henchman, Nathaniel H. Herford, Brooke Hersey, Alfred H. Hervey, Abraham F. Higginson, Waldo Hill, Clement Hugh Hill, Hamilton Andrews Hilton, William Hodgkins, William^E. Hogg, John Hoitt, Alfred D. Holman, Charles H. Homans, George'H. ♦Hooper, Robert W. Horton, William H. Houghton, Henry O. Howe, George D. 49 Howes, Osborne Jr. *Hubbard, Aaron Dean Hubbard, Charles E. Hunnewell, H. H. Hunnewell, James F. Huntoon, Daniel T. V. Hurd, Charles E. Hutchings, William Vincent lasigi, Joseph A. Inches, Charles *Jaques, Francis Jelly. George F. Jenks, Thomas L. Jenney, Bernard Johnson, Charles E. Johnson, Edward C. Johnson, Samuel Jones, Leonard A. Kendall, Charles S. Kennard, Martin Parry Kennedy, George G. *Kidder, Henry P. Kurtz, Charles Carroll Ladd, Babson S. Lamb, George Lamb, Thomas Lathrop, John Lawrence, Abbott Lee, William H. *Lewis, John A. Lincoln, Frederic W. Lincoln, Solomon Little, Samuel Lockwood, Rhodes Lord, Hartley Loring, John A. Lothrop, Samuel K. Lothrop, Thornton K. Lovering, Joseph S. *Lowell, George G. Luce, Matthew Lyon, Henry Macdonald, Edward Mackay, Robert C. Macleod, William A. *Mair, Thomas Manning, Francis H. May, Frederic Goddard May, Frederic W. G. May, John Joseph May, Samuel Mayo, Edward R. Means, William G. Milliken, Ebenezer C. Mills, Henry F. Mills, William N, Minot, Francis Moore, Frederic H. Morse, Henry A. Morse, L. Foster Niles, Thomas Noble, John *Norcross, Otis Norton, C. B. Nowell, Thomas S. Osgood, Edward L. Paige, John C. Paine, Robert Treat Jr. Palfrey, Francis W. Palfrey, John C. Parker, Edgar *Parker, Harvey D. Parkman, Francis Parsons, Albert S. Patridge, Eugene E. Peabody, Henry W. *Penhallow, Pearce W. Perkins, Augustus T. Perkins, Charles C. Perkins, James D. Perkins, Thomas H. Perkins, William ♦Phillips, John C. Phipps, Benjamin Pierce, George F. Pierce, Nathaniel W. Piper, William T. Porter, Alexander S. Porter, Edward G. Porter, John W. Prang, Louis Pratt, Edward Ellerton Pratt, John C Pratt, Laban *Preble, George Henry Preston, Jonathan Preston, William G. Putnam, George F. 50 Quincy, George Henry Quincy, Samuel M. Reed, Henry R. Reed, James Rice, Henry A. Richards, Henry C. Richardson, Augustus Richardson, Frederic L. Richardson, George C. Richardson. Thomas O. Richardson, Spencer W. Ritchie, John, Jr. Robbins, George W. Robinson, Nathan D. Roby, Warren Gould Rogers, Henry B. Rogers, John Kimball Ropes, John C. Rotch, William Russ, Augustus Rust, Nathaniel J. Rust, William A Salisbury, D. Waldo Sampson, Edwin H. Sargent, Geo. D. Sargent, Lucius M. Sawyer, Joseph Sawyer, Samuel E. Searle, George W. Sears, Kn_vvet W. Sears, Phillip H. Shattuck, George O. Shaw, Henry L. *Shaw, Lemuel Shillaber, William G. Slade, Lucius Sleeper, Jacob Slocum, William H. Smith, Charles C. Smith, Elbridge Snelling, George H. Snelling, Samuel G. Snow, S. T. Souther, Henry Sowdon, A. J. C. Spaulding, Mahlon D. Spencer, Aaron W. Sprague, Henry H. Standish, L. Miles Stanwood. James Rindge Stearns, Edward Stedman, George Stevens, Benjamin F. Stickney, J. Henry Stone, Charles W. *Storer, W. Brandt Strong, Edward A. Sullivan, Richard Swan, William W. Talbot, L Tisdale Talbot, William H. Temple, Thomas F. ♦Temple, F. William Thayer, Edward F. Thorndike, S. Lothrop Thwing, Walter E. Torrey, Benjamin B. *Train, Charles R. Trask, William B. Tucker, George F. Tufts, Arthur W. *VanBenthuysen, George Christie Vinal, Hammond Whiting Vose, J. Thomas *Vose, Thomas Baker Wadsworth. Alexander F. Wales, George W. "'^Walker, Nathaniel Walley, Henshaw B. *Warren, G. Washington Warren, John Collins Warren, Joseph W. Warren, S. D. Warren, William Wilkins Weeks, Andrew G. *Weeks, James H. Welch, Charles A. Weld, Aaron Davis Jr. Weld, Moses W. Wells, Samuel Wendell, Mark Rogers Wentworth, Arioch Weston, Thomas Jr. Wheelwright, Edward Whieldon, William Wilder White, Charles T. White, J. Gardner Whitman, Henry 51 Whitmore, William H. Whitney, D. R. Whitney, Edward Whitney, James L. Whittemore, Henry Willard, Arthur W. Wiilard. Robert Willcutt, Levi L. Willcut, S. D. G. Williams, Alexander Williams, Jacob L. Winchester, Thomas B. Winslow, Erving Wolcott, J. Huntington *Wolcott, J. W. Wood, William B. Woodward, Arthur Stanley Wooley. William Worster, John * Deceased. BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. ORGANIZED TO PROMOTE THE STUDY OF THE HISTORY OF BOSTON, AND THE PRESERVATION OF ITS ANTIQUITIES. BY-LAWS. OBJECTS. It shall be the duty of members, so far as it may be in their power, to carry out the objects of the Society, by collecting, by gift, loan, or purchase, books, manuscripts, and pictures, and by such other suitable means, as may, from time to time, seem expedient. II. MEMBERS. The members of the Bostonian Society shall be such persons, either resident or non-resident in Boston, as shall, after having been proposed and accepted as candidates at any regular monthly meeting by the Directors, be elected by the votes of a majority of the members present and voting. III. HONORARY AND CORRESPONDING MEMBERS. Honorary and Corresponding members shall be nominated by the Directors, and shall be elected by ballot by two-thirds of the members present and voting. They may take part in the meetings of the Society, but shall not be entitled to vote. IV. ADMISSION FEE AND ASSESSMENTS. Each member shall pay five dollars at the time of his admission, and five dol- lars each first of January afterwards, into the treasury of the Society for its general purposes; but if any member shall neglect to pay his admission fee, or annual assessment, for three months after the same is due, he shall be liable to forfeit his membership at any time when the Directors shall so order. The payment of the sum of twenty-five dollars in any one year by any member of the Society shall constitute him a life member of the Society; life members shall be free from assessments, and entitled to all the rights and privileges of annual members. The money received for such life memberships shall con- stitute a fund, of which not more than twenty per cent, together with the annual income, shall be spent in any one year. 53 V. CERTIFICATES. Certificates signed by the President and countersigned by the Treasurer, shall be issued to all persons who have become life members of the Society. VI. MEETINGS. The annual meeting of the Society shall be held on the second Tuesday in January, and regular meetings shall be held on the second Tuesday of every month, excepting July, August, and September, at such time and place as the Directors shall appoint. Special meetings shall be called by the Clerk, under the instruction of the Directors. At all meetings ten members shall be a quorum for business. AH Committees shall be nominated by the Chair, unless otherwise ordered. VII. OFFICERS. The officers of the Society shall be nine Directors, a President, a Clerk, and a Treasurer. The Directors, Clerk and Treasurer, shall be chosen by ballot at the Annual meeting in January, and shall hold office for one year, and until others are duly chosen and qualified in their stead. The President shall be chosen by the Board of Directors, from their number at their first meeting after election, or at any adjournment thereof The offices of Clerk and Treasurer may be held by the same person. VIII. VACANCIES. Any vacancy in the Board of Directors, or the office of Clerk or Treasurer, may be filled for the remainder of the term at any regular meeting of the Society, by the votes of two-thirds of the members present and voting. In the absence of the Clerk at any meeting of the Societv, a Clerk pro tempore shall be chosen. IX. NOMINATING COMMITTEE. At the monthly meeting in December, a Nominating Committee of three persons, shall be appointed, who shall report at the annual meeting a list of candidates for the places to be filled. X. PRESIDING OFFICER. The President, or in his absence, one of the Directors shall preside at all meetings of the Society. In the absence of all these officers, a President pro tempore shall be chosen. XI. DUTIES OF THE CLERK The Clerk shall be sworn to the faithful discharge of his duties. He shall notify all meetings of the Society. He shall keep an exact record of all the proceedings of the Society at its meetings. 54 He shall conduct the general correspondence of the Society, and place on file all letters received. He shall enter the names of members svstematicallv in books kept for the pur- pose, and issue certificates of life membership. The Clerk shall have such charge of all property in the possession of the Society as may from time to time be delegated to him by the Board of Directors. He shall acknowledge each loan or gift that may be made to and accepted in behalf of the Society. XII. DUTIES OF TREASURER. The Treasurer shall collect all monies due to the Society, and pay all bills against the Society, when approved by the Board of Directors. He shall keep a full account of receipts and expenditures in a book belonging to the Society, which shall always be open to the inspection of the Directors; and at the annual meeting in January, he shall make a written report of all his doings for the year preceding. The Treasurer shall give bond in the sum of one hundred dollars, with one surety, for the faithful discharge of his duties. XIII. DUTIES AND POWERS OF DIRECTORS. The Directors shall superintend and conduct the prudential and executive business of the Society ; shall authorize all expenditures of money ; fix all salaries; provide a common seal; receive and act upon all resignations and forfeitures of membership, and see that the By-Laws are duly complied with. The Directors shall have full power to comply with the terms of the lease of the rooms in the Old State House, made with the City of Boston, and to make all necessary rules and regulations required in the premises. They shall annually, in the month of April, make a careful comparison of the articles in the possession of the Society with the list to be returned to the City of Boston under the terms of the lease, and certify to its correctness. They shall make a report of their doings at the annual meeting of the Society The Directors may, from time to time, appoint such sub-committees as they deem expedient. In case of a vacancy in the office of Clerk or Treasurer, they shall have power to choose a Clerk or Treasurer /ro tempore till the next meeting of the Society. XIV. MEETINGS OF DIRECTORS. Regular meetings of the Directors shall be held on the day previous to the regular meetings of the Society, at an hour to be fixed by the President; special meetings of the Directors shall be held in such manner as they may appoint; and a majority shall constitute a quorum for business. XV. FINANCE COMMITTEE. The President shall annually, in the month of January, appoint two Directors, who, with the President, shall constitute the Committee on Finance, to examine 00 from time to time, the books and accounts of the Treasurer; to audit his accounts at the close of the jear, and to report upon the expediency of proposed expenditures of money. XVI. STANDING COMMITTEES. The President shall annuallj, in the month of January, appoint four standing committees, as follows : ■ — Committee on the Rooms. A committee of seven members, to be styled the Committee on the Rooms, of which the President and Clerk of the Society shall be members ex-officio., who shall have charge of all the arrangements of the Rooms, (except books, manu- scripts, and other objects appropriate to the Library,) offered as gifts or loans; the hanging of pictures, and the general arrangement of the Society's collec- tions in their department. Committee o?i Pafcrs. A committee of three members, to be styled the Committee on Papers, who shall have charge of the subject of papers to be read, or other exercises of a like nature, at the monthly meetings of the Society. Committee o?i Membership. A committee of five or more members, to be styled the Committee on Membership, whose duty it shall be to give information in relation to the purposes of the Society, and increase its membership. Committee on the Library. A committee of five members, to be styled the Committee on the Library-, who shall have charge of all the arrangements of the Library, including the acceptance or rejection of all books, manuscripts and other objects appropriate to the Library, offered as gifts or loans, and the general arrangement of the Society's collections in their department. These four committees shall perform the duties above set forth, under the general supervision of the Directors. Vacancies, which may occur in any of these Committees durmg their term of service shall be filled by the President. xvn. AMENDMENTS TO BY-LAWS. Amendments to the By-Laws may be made, at any annual meeting, by the vote of two-thirds of the members present and voting. They may also be made by the like vote at any regular meeting, provided notice of the same be contained in a call for such meeting issued by the Clerk, and sent to every member. PR0GEED1NGS BOSTONIAN SeeiETY (, . Annual Meeting, January 11, 1887, 304, y...^ tX/iiJTn Ox^ t^yy/i2y/^!r/j '^^^A PROCEEDINGS BOSTONIAN SOCIETY Annual Meeting, January n, 1887. BOSTON : old state house. Published by Order of the Society. M.DCCC.LXXXVII. CONTENTS I. President's Address, ..... 5 II. Report of the Directors, . . . -14 III. Report of the Nominating Committee, . ig IV. Report of the Treasurer, . . . .20 V. Report of the Committee on Membership, . 21 VI. Report of the Committee on the Rooms, . 21 VII. Report of the Committee on the Library, 29 VIII. Accessions to the Library Collection, . 30 IX. Accessions to the Society's Collections, X. Loan Collection, ..... XI. Officers for 1887, XII. Roll of Membership, .... XIII. By-Laws, 33 45 58 59 67 PLATES. Portrait of Col. Marshall, faces Title. The Clark Arms, 27 Pottery Exhibit, 48 BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. SIXTH ANNUAL MEETING. Boston, January ii, 1887. Pursuant to notice duly issued by the Clerk, the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Bostonian Society was held this day in the Council Chamber, Old State House, at 3 P. M., the President, Curtis Guild, in the chair. The records of the last meeting were read and approved. After the election of new members, the President addressed the Society as follows : — PRESIDENT GUILD'S ADDRESS. It is always pleasant to make a favorable report of any institution, to state that it is free from debt, in good condi- tion and in the enjoyment of the confidence of those imme- diately interested in its management and its work. Such really are the facts, fellow members, with regard to the Bostonian Society, on which I congratulate you at this annual meeting. This, it may be said without arrogating to ourselves too much, is owing to the fact that the Society has practically demonstrated the worth and usefulness of such an organi- zation in the city of Boston. It has endeavored to afford such advantages as it possessed, to all who desire to assist in promoting the objects for which it was formed. The freest access has been given to its historical collection and its library, both being thrown open to the public for enter- tainment and instruction, with only those necessary restraints adopted by all public institutions. The gradual growth and strengthening of public opinion in favor of the objects of the Society, — the promotion of the study of the history of Boston 6 and preservation of its antiquities, — is seen in the increased attendance at our regular monthly meetings the past year, in the number of valuable contributions and loans of memorials and relics relating to Boston's past history that have been contributed, and the largely increased number of visitors to these Memorial Halls from all parts of the United States as well i'.s from foreign countries. During the past year 10,636 names were entered upon our visitors' register, an increase of nearly four thousand over the preceding year, and as fully one-half fail to register their names, it may safely be esti- mated that the number of visitors for 1886 was over twenty thousand. Of these, many were pupils or young people in charge of teachers or friends, who were gaining instruction respecting the mementoes before them, and the events in history with which they were connected. Our list of members, although not yet reaching the num- bers we should like to see, has never been so large as at present ; our historical collection has never been so complete and interesting, the monthly meetings never more fully attended, nor the public more inclined to look with favor upon our work than now. This state of things by no means indicates that our exer- tions should be relaxed in the least ; but simply that our past efforts have inspired some degree of public confidence which it must be our aim not only to hold, but to increase, and show ourselves in all respects worthy of the trust reposed in us. WORK. OF THE SOCIETY. In performing our work it may be borne in mind that while it is in one view purely local and devoted to this city of Boston, yet in its accomplishment it is of advantage to every citizen of the country. It is impossible to write the history of these United States, of the events that led to the founda- tion of our republic, — indeed I may go further, and say it is impossible to write a history of the first settlement of the country, without mentioning this city, or events in which its inhabitants were prominent actors. The great topographical changes that have taken place even within the past half cen- tury, the different methods of transacting business, — the entire disappearance, in fact, of certain recognized lines of trade, — should incite the descendants of many of those enterprising citizens who did so much in former days for the prosperity of Boston, to encourage efforts to preserve the acts of their honored ancestors from oblivion in the dim light of the past. The growing interest respecting the good city of Boston is not entirely confined to this locality ; it exists in far distant cities at the West and South among those who at an early day left the home of their youth, but from whose hearts the love and interest in it has never been extinguished. It exists among patriotic and intelligent Americans everywhere who look to this city now as they have in the past, for examples of pure patriotism, commercial enterprise, financial strength, honor, and literary and scientific culture. Again, as I have before remarked, and it will bear repeat- ing, Boston has now attained an age when she can claim to have antiquities that will be sought by historian, student, and sentimental sight-seer, and the organization that contributes to bring these more prominently before the public and render them of greater interest to the stranger, does a work the value of which is patent even to the most exacting utilitarian. Let us hope that our efforts may also result to advantage in an educational point of view, in affording schools and students correct information, by removing doubts, correcting historical errors, rendering the study of our city's history more attrac- tive, indicating the localities where great events occurred, and by preserving historical letters, papers, books and documents which otherwise might be destroyed. boston's history. If we take but a casual glance at our civic history, we find it replete with incidents that attract the student and render her pre-eminent among the cities on this continent. The first newspaper and first free school in America were established in Boston ; the first university was founded by our legislature ; the first blood of the Revolution flowed from the veins of her sons, and the first name upon the Declaration of Independence is that of one of her merchants. 8 While we desire that every step should be an advance, that no check should arrest the march of true progress, is it not the spirit of the age to sneer at anything belonging to the past, even the opinions of those whose age and experience amply qualify them for counsel if not for action, — and with that fiery enthusiam which belongs to youth, to forget even the respect that belongs to our elders in the feverish impa- tience to be released from all restraint ? History is being made to-day as it was an hundred years ago. Let us try not to leave for those who are to come a century hence, the entire duty of according to those about passing away, whether citizens, merchants or statesmen, the acknowledgment, respect and reverence that justly belong to good men and good deeds. This Society, while it addresses itself to the preservation of the antiquities of Boston and vvhat by many are regarded as sentimental memorials of its past record, by no means ignores the importance of its continual commercial advancement or the demands of trade, and certainly recognizes the study of the commerce and business of Boston as among the most important departments of its history. I may quote to-day what was expressed many years ago by a young poet of Boston as a sentiment worthy the considera- tion of those who are just starting on the road of commercial life: " Does our pathway e'er conduct to fame ? The merchant's honor is his spotless name ; Not circumscribed, just narrowed to the rank That passes current only at the bank, — But, stamped with soul, howe'er the winds may blow, Large as the sunlight, and unstained as snow ; Do good by stealth, be just, have faith in man ; The rest to heaven, God always in the van ; — Though silent deeds may find no tongue to bless Through the loud trumpet of the public press. Time-honored city ! be it ours to stand For thy broad portals, armed with traffic's wand ; To keep undimmed and dear thy dauntless name. That beams unclouded on the rolls of fame ; And foster honor, till the world shall say, Trade hath no wortliicr home than yon bright bay." HISTORIC LOCALITIES. Appropriate work for this Society which may be performed to the satisfaction of the whole community is not far to seek. Within a score of paces from this building occurred what is known as the Boston Massacre, March 5, 1770, an event of which Daniel Webster said, " from that moment we may date the severance of the British Empire," — although the patriotic words which aroused to Independence were those uttered by James Otis in this very hall in 1761, when he delivered an eloquent speech against the arbitrary Writs of Assistance. The spot where the victims of the Boston Massacre fell has never, until within a few months past, been indicated by mark, monument, or sign. As a part of the duty of this Society, it was resolved that this historic spot should no longer remain a matter of uncertainty to those who attempted to find it without the aid of guide or antiquarian. In accord- ance with a resolve of the Society, the President waited upon the Committee on Streets of the City Government of Boston with the request that the spot, after being properly indicated by good authorities, should be marked so as to be easily found by those who might visit State Street for that purpose. The Society's wishes and suggestions were very kindly received and adopted by the Committee of the City Govern- ment, which caused a section of the street where the event took place to be made conspicuous by a peculiar arrangement of pavement, and attention was also called to the locality by a bronze tablet, prepared by the Society, bearing an inscription and affixed to one of the buildings opposite the spot. There are other historic points that might through the act of this Society be indicated in a similar manner: The old Bunch of Grapes Tavern for instance, around which are en- twined so many recollections connected with the early history of Boston. At this ancient house of entertainment Governor Burnett found comfortable quarters ; here Lafayette was entertained ; here the first meetings of the first Free Masons' Lodge in America were held, and under its roof George Washington was entertained, and the Society of the Cincin- nati held their early meetings. There is also the wharf that lO was the scene of the Boston Tea Party, Dec. 16, 1773, and the spot where stood the ancient beacon of Boston, to alarm the country in case of invasion, replaced by the monument erected to the memory of those who fell at the battle of Bunker Hill, but which was taken down in 181 1. These and other historical sites are unmarked by anything by which they may be distinguished. Besides the monuments of the past or the places they occu- pied, there are authentic records of former days which claim our attention, and these are coming to us now so liberally that we need increased accommodation for our library. At present it is a comparatively small but at the same time an exceedingly valuable collection of books, pamphlets and docu- ments relating almost exclusively to the history of Boston. The contributions and additions that have been made to it already render it of great value as a collection of historic records. PERMANENT FUND RECOMMENDED. Depending, as the Society does, upon the receipts of mem- bership to meet its annual expenses, it is often restricted from improving opportunities of obtaining by purchase very desirable historical mementoes, by the lack of funds after pro- viding for the very moderate compensation which it pays those in its employ and its other necessary running expenses. It would tend to put the institution on a firmer foundation, and in a somewhat more independent position, if it had a fund, the interest of which would be sufficient to meet the expenses mentioned ; and I take the liberty of recommending to the incoming Board of Government the matter of raising a sum of money by subscription, to be securely invested, the income of which shall be devoted to advancing the interests of the Society in such manner as the donors shall decide. There certainly ought to be patriotic Bostonians v/hose family names are honorably connected with Boston's early history, and others who have in later days won honor, wealth and renown here, to respond with material aid to those who are putting forth earnest effort to preserve the memory of so much that is dear to them and those who are to come after them. II Let a fund be raised, the investment and management oi which might be entrusted to the subscribers ; and its income, even though small, coupled with the fact of its being financial capital, would give our Society increased strength and confi- dence. I trust it is not too much to hope that twenty-five subscribers of one thousand dollars each may be found, to make up an amount whose income would be devoted to the preservation of that which has made their ancestors' names fragrant in history, as well as of the monuments and recollec- tions that are pleasant memories in their own lives. A VISIT TO OLD BOSTON. During the summer it has been my privilege to visit Old Boston, of Lincolnshire, England, a town which probably sent more than any other in England of its best and worthiest cit- izens to colonize America, — Old Boston, where the spirit of Puritanism was kept alive and flourishing through the agency of John Cotton, during the period of whose ministry Win- throp and his company took their departure for the New World. Cotton himself followed the party a short time after- wards. Interesting to us modern Bostonians is this ancient town of Lincolnshire, thus associated with the Pilgrim Fathers who laid the foundations of this country, the mightiest of Republics. The American pilgrim of to-day visits with pecu- liar interest the church where his pious forefathers worshiped, and what few other localities there are, which are connected with their trials and sufferings. St. Botolph's Church, in Old Boston, where for twenty years John Cotton promulgated his religious teachings, was indeed in striking contrast with the humble building in which he afterwards officiated in our own New Boston. This church with its nave, north and south aisles, spacious chancel, beau- tiful south porch, chapel, its lofty groined arches, gothic win- dows and its magnificent tower, three hundred feet high — the loftiest in the kingdom — is an interesting building, apart from the historical associations which attract the visitor from New Boston. St. Botolph's is 245 feet long and 98 feet wide within the walls. There are three hundred and si.xty-five steps to the top of the tower, equalling the number of days in 12 the year; twelve great columns, the number of months ; fifty- two windows, the number of weeks ; seven doors, the days in the week ; twenty-four steps to the south porch library, the hours of the day ; and sixty steps to the chancel roof, minutes in the hour. A description of Old Bostoii has been read so recently by a talented member of the Society, at one of our meetings, that I fear I should be unable to present, at best, anything but a repetition of what has already been set before you. I may be pardoned, however, for alluding to the southwest chapel of St. Botolph's Church, which was restored as a memorial of John Cotton, mainly through the efforts of our distinguished fellow citizen, Edward Everett, who raised a subscription in this country, sufficient to cleanse, repair, and thoroughly restore the entire chapel, as well as to place a beautiful window, filled with stained glass, at the west end of it, and a memorial tablet upon the wall. TABLET IN ST. BOTOLPh's CHURCH. The following is a translation of the Latin inscription, com- posed by Mr. Everett, which is upon the tablet : — " In perpetual remembrance of John Cotton, who, during the reign of James and Charles, was for many years a grave, skillful, learned, and laborious Vicar of this Church. After- wards, on account of the lamentable troubles in religious matters in his own country, he sought a new settlement in a new world, and remained, even to the end of his life, a pastor and teacher of the greatest reputation and of the greatest authority in the first church of Boston in New England, which received its venerable name in honor of Cotton : ccxxv years having passed away since his migration, his descendants antl the American citizens of Boston were invited to this pious work by their English brethren, in order that the name of an illustrious man, the love and honor of both worlds, might not longei- be banished from that noble temple in which he diligently, learnedly, and sacredly, expounded the divine ora- cles for so many years ; and they have willingly and grate- fully caused this shrine to be restored, and this tablet to be erected, in the year of our recovered salvation 1855." 13 I venture to give, also, a list of the subscribers to the fund, as being names of typical Bostonians, and standing for men who have been foremost in adding to, and upholding, those attributes which make Boston honored among its peers : — Charles Francis Adams, William Turrell Andrews, Nathan Appleton, William Appleton, George Bancroft, Martin Brim- mer, Edward Brooks, Gorham Brooks, Sidney Brooks, Peter Chardon Brooks, John P. Gushing, Edward Everett, Nathaniel Langdon Frothingham, John Chipman Gray, Abbott Law- rence, John Amory Lowell, Jonathan Phillips, William Hick- ling Prescott, David Sears, Nathaniel Bradstreet Shurtleff, Jared Sparks, John Eliot Thayer, Frederic Tudor, John Collins Warren. The citizens of Boston, England, to-day are proud of their namesake in this country, and, as your representative, I was most courteously received by the mayor, Mr. J. C. Simonds, and the ex-mayor, Mr. Wm. Bedford, to whom, it will be remembered, we are indebted for photographic views and other memorials of Old Boston. Both these gentlemen sent their best wishes to this Soci- ety, and heartily congratulated us upon the work in which we were engaged, expressing the liveliest interest in its progress, and hopes for its success. While it has been a pleasant task to congratulate you upon the flourishing state of our Society, it is mixed with sadness that we must record the deaths of some of our most valued members during the past year. Among them the names of Rev. Samuel K. Lothrop, James A. Dupee, Henry P. Kidder, Dr. C. D. Homans, Otis Clapp, Amos A. Lawrence, George C. Richardson, Charles C. Perkins, and D. T. V. Huntoon, for- merly Secretary of this Society, will recall to you those who were Bostonians distinguished in the positions they occupied. Many interesting details in reference to the Society's work, and its present condition, will be given in the annual reports that will to-day claim your attention. And now upon the threshold of another year, may the sym- pathy and encouragement we have received in the past, be an incentive for increased effort on our part for the future. H REPORT OF THE DIRECTORS. Mr. Hamilton A. Hill then presented the annual report of the Board of Directors as follows : In presenting their Annual Report, the Directors are happy to be able to congratulate the members of the Bostonian Society upon the completion of another prosperous year — the most prosperous year — in its history. Its membership has been enlarged, its meetings have been fully attended, the public interest in its proceedings and in its objects has increased, and the additions to its collections have been numerous and valuable. The Directors believe that it is taking its proper place, with every prospect of permanency, as one of the antiquarian and historical societies in the community, having its own well-defined sphere of investiga- tion and action, namely, the social, commercial and political life of Boston, from its foundation in 1630 to our own day, including the history of neighborhoods, streets and buildings, and especially when these serve to illustrate the complex life referred to. Papers have been read at every meeting during the year, except at the Annual Meeting in January, all of them bearing more or less directly upon our local history, and making inportant contributions to it, and yet sufficiently varied in their subjects to avoid any danger of monotony. The authors of the papers, and their subjects, have been as follows : February 9 : "Notes on the History of the Old State House," by George H. Moore, LL. D. March 9 : "Boston in 1710, Preparing for a Small War," by Mr. James M. Hubbard. April 13: "Changes in Values in Real Estate during the Past One Hundred Years," by Mr. Alexander S. Porter. May II : "Provincial Pictures by Brush and Pen," by Mr. Daniel Goodwin, Jun. June 8 : " North Bennet Street in the Olden Time," by the Rev. Edward G. Porter. October 12: "The Boston Fur Trade on the North-West Coast," by Mr, David Green Haskins, Jun. 15 November 9 : "A Recent Visit to Old Boston, Lincoln- shire," by Mr. James F. Hunnewell. December 14: "Notes on the Trade between Boston and China," by Captain Robert B. Forbes. Dr. Moore's instructive paper was the second with which he has favored the Society, on the history of the venerable building in which we are now assembled. It was printed in New York, and the Directors procured a sufficient number of copies to supply the members of the Society with them. Mr. William H. Whitmore, one of our associates, published a reply to some of Dr. Moore's statements, and this, also, has been circulated among the membership. Mr. Samuel Adams Drake has printed the interesting paper on " Old Boston Taverns," which he read before the Society a few years ago, and the address of Mr. Thomas Weston, Jun., on Chief Jus- tice Oliver, October, 1885, has appeared in the Historical and Genealogical Register. Mr. Daniel Goodwin, Jr., of Chicago, has brought out a handsome edition of his paper, "Provincial Portraits," and some of the other papers have been printed more or less fully. They are all worthy of preservation. A year ago, the hope was expressed that the Society would soon enter upon the work of regular and uniform publication, for the preservation of its transactions in permanent and available form, and to increase its general usefulness. The first number of what, it is believed, will prove to be an inter- esting and valuable series of papers, was issued near the close of the year, bearing the title, "Collections of the Bostonian Society, Vol. I, No. i, William Blaxton, read by Thomas Coffin Amory, November 9, 1880." This paper was read before the incorporation of the Society, and when it bore the name of the Boston Antiquarian Club. Other papers of interest are waiting their turn, and the Directors will print them as fast as the financial condition of the Society shall justify. To this end, it is very desirable that the membership be still further enlarged, and its funds increased. Diplomas of membership, which were voted at the last annual meeting, have been admirably executed by L. S. Ipsen, under the supervision of the Rev. J. P. Bodfish, one of the i6 Directors, and have been distributed to all members of record October i. The Rev. Edward G. Porter, of Lexington, has, on two occasions, addressed the Society on the history and topog- raphy of the North End. He has recently brought out a very handsome volume, entitled "Rambles in Old Boston, New England," illustrated by George R. Tolman, and has dedica- ted it to the Bostonian Society. This book will show, for all time, what architectural antiquities we had among us in the year 1886, and will preserve for coming generations, the traditions which connect them with the individual and social life of Boston. It will prove of great value as a history of that quaint and antiquated part of the city, which we call the North End ; while it contains much that is of interest relating to the Old State House, the Old South Meeting House, the Province House and King's Chapel. The Directors appre- ciate the honor which Mr. Porter has conferred upon the Society, by thus associating its name with the published result of his faithful and persevering and enthusiastic histor- ical studies. During the mayoralty of Dr. Samuel Abbott Green, the Municipal Government adopted the policy of marking impor- tant historical sites by memorial tablets. It is not always safe to leave the verification of such spots to tradition, or even to descriptions on the printed page. They should be designated in a manner that will leave no room for doubt in the future, and only a monument in some form will do this. The Society felt that the place ought to be thus marked, (almost under the shadow of this building), where the so- called Boston massacre occurred, March 5, 1770. This event was commemorated by the people of the town, by an annual oration, until the Eourth of July was made the day for pat- riotic celebration, when the observance of the earlier day ceased. A recommendation was made to the City Govern- ment, which iwas courteously received and promptly acted upon ; and under the direction of the Committee on Paving and the Superintendent of Streets, the stones in State Street, near the corner of Exchange Street, were laid, last summer, in the form of a wheel, to mark the precise spot where the 17 first blood in the Revolutionary struggle was shed. It was then suggested that the Society should erect a tablet near by, to explain the designation in the pavement ; and having obtained permission from the proprietors, it placed a bronze tablet, suitably inscribed, on the front walls of the Merchants Bank Building, in October last. In addition to the usual objects and obligations of historical societies, we bear the responsibility of the care of a most interesting historical building. If we had nothing else to show, and nothing else to do, — to keep these rooms open to the public, and to remind it continually of their historical significance, would be a most important and honorable trust. The extent to which the invitation to visit the building is responded to, illustrates the high estimate put upon it, and upon what it contains, both by our own citizens and strangers. The number of visitors who recorded their names in 1886, was nearly twice as large as that in 1884, and one-third larger than in 1885. The steady increase will be seen in the follow- ing figures : 1884, 5,637 1885, 6,732 1886, 10,636 The registered visitors in 1886 have been thus classified: From Boston, ...... 3,095 From elsewhere in the United States, . 7,050 From Foreign Countries, . . . . 491 10,636 It has been stated that 10,250 persons visited Faneuil Hall during the year 1886, about one thousand more than in 1885. If it be, as believed, that less than one half of those who visit these rooms enter their names upon our register, then, more than twice as many visitors came to the Old State House last year, as went to see the old Cradle of Liberty itself. i8 The Necrology of 1886 is as follows : Henry Purkitt Kidder, born in Cambridge, Mass., Jan. 8, 1823, died in New York, Jan. 28, 1886. John Gardner, born in Leominster, Mass., June 11, 1803, died in Boston, Feb. 2, 1886. Ezra Jackson Trull, born in Boston, Sept. 13, 1842, died in Boston, April 29, 1886. George Carter Richardson, born in Royalston, Mass., April 27, 1808, died in Boston, May 20, 1886. Francis Parsons, born in Gloucester, Mass., May 20, 1843, died in Newton, Mass., May 20, 1886. Henry C. Brooks, born in Harwich, Mass., May, 1824, died in Boston, May 29, 1886. Samuel Kirkland Lothrop, born in Utica, N. Y., Oct. 13, 1804, died in Boston, June 12, 18S6. Henry Guild, born in Roxbury, Jan. 13. 1824, died in Roxbury (Boston), July 27, 1886. Amos Adams Lawrence, born in Boston, July 31, 18 14, died in Nahant, Aug. 22, 1886. Charles Callahan Perkins, born in Boston, March i, 1823, died in Windsor, Vt., Aug. 24, 1886. Charles Dudley Homans, born in Brookfield, Mass., Dec. 6, 1826, died in Mount Desert, Me., Sept. i, 1886. Otis Clapp, born in Westhampton, Mass., March 2, 1806, died in Brookline, Sept. 18, 1886. James Alexander Dupee, born in Boston, June 22, 18 19, died in Lowell, Mass., Oct. 18, 1886. Daniel Thomas Vose Huntoon, born in Canton, Mass., Sept. 4, 1842, died in Canton, Dec. 15, 1886. George Ouincy Thorndike, born in Boston, Feb. 24, 1827, died in Boston, Dec. 27, 1886. Mr. Huntoon, whose death is mentioned in the above list, resigned his office as Clerk and Treasurer, on account of illness, at the last Annual Meeting. The vacancy was filled at the monthly meeting in February, by the election of Mr. William Clarence Burrage, the present efficient Clerk, who entered upon his duties March i. While the office was vacant, its 19 duties were kindly undertaken, at the request of the Directors, by one of their number, Mr. Bodfish, who rendered a very important service to the Society, at a critical time. Respectfully submitted, Curtis Guild, Thomas J. Allen, Thomas C. Amory, Joshua P. Bodfish, John T. Hassam, Hamilton A. Hill, John Lathrop, Samuel H. Russell, William Wilkins Warren. Boston, January lo, 1887. REPORT OF THE NOMINATING COMMITTEE. Mr. Wm. E. Hodgkins then presented the report of the Committee on Nominations : — The committee appointed to nominate officers of the Bos- tonian Society for the year 1887, respectfully submit the following names : — For Clerk and Treasurer. William Clarence Burrage. For Directors. Curtis Guild, John T. Hassam. Samuel H. Russell. Hamilton A. Hill. Thomas C. Amory. Joshua P. Bodfish. Wm. Wilkins Warren. Thomas J. Allen. John Lathrop. A ballot was then taken, and the foregoing list of candidates was declared unanimously elected. 20 The Treasurer then presented his annual report as follows : TREASURER'S REPORT. Receipts. Cash on hand, January i, 1886 Annual Assessments, December 31 Life Members .... Interest on Deposits Publications . . . . Frames, insurance, etc. $1,992 23 2,680 GO I.I 10 00 55 08 29 75 30 '5 $5,897 21 Expenditures. Rent, City of Boston $100 00 Deposited Life iMembership Fund 2,174 60 General Expenses .... 752 05 Salaries 889 19 Committee on Rooms, Purchases 440 63 *' " Library, books and binding 324 91 Publications 814 44 Diplomas ...... 322 54 Balance, Cash $57 S7 $5,818 36 In Bank ..... 20 98 78 85 Total Balances. $5,897 21 Life Fund Current account ^2,174 60 - 78 85 $2,253 45 Wm. Clarence Burrage. Treasurer. Boston, January i, 1887. The undersigned, a committee appointed to examine the accounts of the Treasurer of the Bostonian Society, recorded in the cash book of the corporation for the year ending December 31, 1886, hereby certify that said accounts are correctly kept, and properly vouched. Samuel H. Russell, Thomas J. Allen, Committee. 21 REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON MEMBERSHIP. The Committee on Membership have the pleasure of re- porting that during the past year the number of life members has increased from 69 to 107, and the annual members from 399 to 566 — a total increase of 205. Removals and death have diminished the list of membership, as will appear in the annexed list. The record of members shows the names of Boston men, not associated for personal pleasure, but for the patriotic motive of securing historic mementoes of Boston, which they hope will bring to the minds of the youthful Bostonians through all coming ages, the history of its past in men and their surroundings, marking the progress of their home city by the pictures of its varying architecture, as well as by the obselete domestic utensils of the past. J. C. J. Brown, For the Coviniittee. REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE ROOMS. In the past year we have had the honor to report that continued and increasing interest has been shown toward the Society on the part of the public, and this interest has been manifested by a great number of valuable gifts and loans, which have been enumerated and described at length by the Clerk of the Committee in the paper appended to this Report. Early in the year we were deprived, by their resignations, of the services of Mr. William H. Whitmore, who had been the Chairman of this Committee from the commencement of the Society, and of Mr. James Rindge Stanwood, who had acted as Clerk to the Committee during the same period. In May last, Mr. William S. Appleton withdrew from the Com- mittee, intending to be absent from the United States for an indefinite period. The vacancies caused by these resignations were filled by the appointment of Mr. Richard Briggs, Mr. George O. Carpenter, and Mr. John Lathrop. 22 The Cabinets have been carefully arranged from time to time, and everythinij; in charge of the Committee kept in admirable order by our efficient Clerk, Mr. Burrage. Respectfully submitted, Samuel H. Russell, Ciiainiian. REPORT OF THE CLERK OF THE COMMFFTEE ON ROOMS. It is impossible to refer to each donor amidst so much of interest ; in the descri[)tive list annexed to this report every article accepted by the Committee is duly acknowledged in detail. OIL . AIXTIX'JS AND W.VTEU COLORS MINL\TURES, SKETCHES AND DRAWINGS. The Society has been particularly fortunate in this depart- ment, as many early pictures of great value have been donated and loaned, their careful preservation being secured. Of these, the large portrait of Mrs. Harrison Gray Otis, painted in Paris by G. P. A. Healy in 1876, forms an admired object in these halls. Through Hon. Frederick O. Prince, on the divison of the Otis estate, this picture was presented by Harrison Gray Otis, one of the heirs ; as a suitable companion picture, Hon. Frederic W. Lincoln, on behalf of the Massa- chusetts Charitable Mechanic Association, loans the portrait of Harrison Gray Otis, mayor of the city, in this building in 1830. It is the v.'ork of Chester Harding, and said to be a good likeness. M. Armin Muller also deposits with us a crayon drawing of Mr. Otis, taken a few years before his death, signed Edinunde Savimer Dubouijal, 1S45. We may also mention from this estate the miniatures on ivory of Robert Oilman, and of Joseph Henderson, high sheriff, the latter signed by Jules Amblard, 1793 ; in the Council Cham- ber is also an oil copy of this work, painted by E. T. Billings. A portrait in the early style of Bostonian costume, of Miss Anna Black, said in Perkins's list to be by Copley ; a spirited copy by Miss Jane Stuart, of " Washington at Dorclicster Heights," after Gilbert Stuart, and a portrait of Harrison Gray Otis, Jr., are also loaned. By vote of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Asssociation, mentioned above, we are favored by the deposit in these halls of the faithful and beautiful picture of Paul Ixevere, the first president of that association ; it is from Stuart's painting in the possession of the family, by Miss Jane Stuart. We are also indebted to the same source for the speaking likenesses of Major Ben. Russell and Samuel T. Armstrong, copied from Harding. David Francis of New York presents a portrait, in the style of Harding, of David Francis, formerly of Munroe & Francis, Boston booksellers, 1812. Mr. Francis was commander of the Rifle Rangers, and vice president of the M. C. M. A. in 1827. Some of the most important of the early American paint- ings are the works of Smibert, Blackburn and Badger, loaned by Thomas Pitts, of Detroit. They represent James Pitts, the councillor, and his wife, in costume of the period, dated and signed James Blackburn, 1757; a portrait of Susannah Lindall, by Smibert, 1728, and a portrait of James Bowdoin, by Badger, 1747. Mr. Daniel Goodwin, Jr., who told us so interestingly of these portraits, loaned a variety of copies of other members of the Pitts family, by Copley and Stuart, including a crayon portrait by Wright, of Samuel Pitts, of the class of 1830, H. U. Mr. William H. Whitmore gave the Society a portrait of General B. F. Butler, painted about 1850. W. H. Spiller painted in water-colors and presented us with a faithful representation of the " Old Salt House," before its demolition. William S. Appleton kindly placed here one of the most interesting of the works of John Singleton Copley, as he signs in full this painting, with the date 1756 ; it represents General William Brattle, and was painted when Copley was but eighteen years of age. General J. F. B. Marshall, of Weston, loans a picture by the same artist, painted in his prime, of Colonel Thomas Marshall, com.mander of the "Boston Regi- ment," one of the selectmen of Boston, and officer-in-chief at Castle Island, before the Revolution. 24 We were fortunate, as a pendant to this, to obtain at the same time the picture, also by Copley, of Lucy Allen, wife of Colonel Thomas Marshall. It was generously sent us by Hon. John L. Hayes, of Cambridge. Amongst the captains in the Boston Regiment, Christopher Marshall commanded a company, and his pleasant features, and those of his wife, beam upon us from their quaint old frames, — the captain in the uniform of the Tenth Massachusetts. MODEL OF BRATTLE-SQUARE CHURCH. This miniature edifice, loaned by the courtesy of the Mas- sachusetts Historical Society, is all that remains to remind us of that historical building. It is exactly represented in every detail, — organ, pews, pulpit, etc. Many persons have called especially to sec this relic. ENGRAVINGS AND LITHOGRAPHS. Peter Pelham should hold the first place, Boston's first mezzotint engraver, and the first in the Colonies. He en- graved the beautiful portrait of the Rev. Cotton Mather, the year before that early author and preacher died, 1727. The Committee were enabled to purchase this rare print, and also the portraits of Rev. Thomas Prince and Rev. John Moore- head by the same hand. Of other mezzotints, the one of Gen. Benjamin Lincoln, after the picture in the Massachusetts Historical Society, is a pleasing work. It is loaned by Dr. Charles E. Clark. The collection of " Washingtoniana," deposited here by Harrison Gray Otis, formerly graced the mansion of Madam Otis. It represents several of our best engravers in some of their most known works, and reference must again be made to detailed list. The steel engravings of the portraits of the ministers of the Second Church, given by Mrs. Frances A. Minns, are fine impressions, as is also the portrait by Sartain of Rev. Daniel Sharp, given by Mr. VVhitmore. Amongst other engravings of Boston pastors we mention here, as purchased by your Committee, portraits of Bishop Cheverus, the first Roman Catholic Bishop of Boston, Rev. Baron Stow, Rev. Lyman Beecher, Rev. J. S. J. Gardner, Rev. Jonathan 25 Mayhew, Rev. John Clark and others. The lithograph por- trait of William Abrams, — one of the old-time merchants of Middle street, — is interesting. He lived to a great age, and brought up a numerous family. We have also been enabled to increase this department by handiworks of B. W. Thayer & Co., A. W. Smith, Pendleton's Lithography, Bufford, Prang, and others ; and in the early wood and copper cuts we have added works of Anderson, Bowen, Nathaniel Dearborn, J. Turner, and Nathaniel Hurd, Mr. Holden loaning us a colored plate by the latter of " Dr. Hudson, the Forger, in the Stocks," 1763. EARLY COLONIAL WARES. Barry, in his " History of Massachusetts," refers to the growing difficulty of saving the early and delicate earthen table-wares of our ancestors, and how collections should be made to preserve their beauty and history. The most enter- taining and popular exhibition ever held in the rooms of the Society was the collection of upwards of one hundred old Pro- vincial pitchers, gathered together for the summer months in the Representatives' Hall. It is the largest display of the kind ever made in America ; as much as could be, the his- tory of each piece was obtained, for which you are referred to the annexed list. The Committee wish to earnestly express their thanks to the many who have contributed to this unique display. JOHN HANCOCK AND THE HANCOCK HOUSE. There seems often a certain presence to emanate from the effects of those who leave this busy world before us, and in the rose-crimson surtout coat, long and stately, the gold- embroidered satin waistcoat and trunks, with the aid of the Copley photograph near them, we can see the courtly pres- ence of our first Governor under the constitution, John Han- cock. Mr. Franklin Hancock, of Haverhill, his grand-nephew, has kindly written us much of interest, and sent you all this costume, with other articles so full of interesting reminis- cences. Mr. William C. Otis has followed in depositing here 26 one of the most valuable historical works in existence — an embroidery in crewels of the Hancock house, built by Thomas Hancock, 1737; it was executed by Miss Otis, sister of the patriot James Otis, aunt of Harrison Gray Otis, soon after its erection, and shows the old beacon on the hill, the English powder-house on the Common, frog pond, etc. Of similar interest is an indenture,* signed by Thomas Hancock and his father, Rev. John Hancock, dated 1717. This early document is deposited by G. J. F. Bryant. AUTOGRATHS, BROADSIDES, NEWSPAPERS, ETC. Only a brief mention can be made of the letters of George Washington, Col. Benjamin Church, the Indian fighter, David Jeffreys, Town Treasurer, William Cooper, Town Clerk, Cotton Mather, ("To a minister of the Church of Christ," [COPY.] * This Indenture Witnesseth, That Tlionias Hancock Son of Jnlm Hancock of Lexington in the County of Middlesex in the Province of the Massacliusetts Bay, in New England, Clerk, of his own free and voluntary will, and with the Consent of his Father doth put himself Apprentice unto Samuel Gerrish of Boston in the County of Suffolk, in th.e Province afloresaid, and Sarah his Wife to Learn the Art or Trade of a Book-binder. After the manner of an Apprentice to dwell and Serve from the first day of July, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventeen, Until the first day of July which will be in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Twenty four, during all of which term of Seven Years the Said Apprentice his said Master and Mistress well and faithfully shall sei-ve, their Secrets keep, their Commands (LawfuU and honest) every where gladly do and perform, Hurt to his Said Master or Mistress he shall not do, nor of others see or know to be done, but he shall to his power Let, or hinder, or forthwith discover and give warning to his Said Master or Mistress of the Same. The Goods of his Said Master or Mistress he shall not lend unlawfully, nor waste. Fornication he shail not Committ, Matrimony he shall not Contract. Taverns or Alehouses he shall not frequent. At Cards, Dice, or any other unlawful Games he shall not play. From his Said Masters or Mis- tresses Service day or night he shall not unlawfully Absent himself ; but in all things as a faithfull Servant and Apprentice, Shall behave himself towards his Said Master and Mistress during the abovesaid Term. And the Said Master and Mistress in the Art wh.ich he now Useth, after the best Manner they may or can, shall teach, instruct, & inform or cause to be taught and informed the said Apprentice, finding for, and to him the said Apprentice, Meat, Drink, Washing and Lodging, as well in .Sickness as in health, during the said Term of Seven years. And to the performance of the Covenants, and Agreements above each of the said parties bindeth himself to the Other by these presents. In Witness whereof the Parties aforesaid, to these Indentures Interchangeably have set to their hands and Seals this Twentieth day of May, Anno Domini, 1717 In the fourth Year of his Maj'ties Reign. Signed Sealed & delivered Thomas Hancock & a seal in presence of Benjamin Gray John Hancock & a seal John Edwards Jun'r. -^i- t'^VS^N- I ' ■•(:i:xi-ki:-piF:<:h:.vi in ■ rnR- • ; { ; I ;-\K I\ • All ;^\.s • V- Is' ( >.n "^ F; • •( 1 AlvK ~ h'K'AXIxl ?\\1)1 1( A-.vn; 27 Boston, 1 7 14,) from Daniel Webster, and others. Bills of John Scollay, Peter Faneuil, Timothy Newell, Henry Howell Williams, of Noddle's Island, etc. The subscription agree- ment loaned by William S. Appleton, contains besides the autographs of John Hancock and Lafayette, more than two hundred well known Boston names. A volume could be filled, did space permit, with the interesting description of the various curious documents donated to the Society. It seems as if Bostonians should take more interest in these historical mementoes. THE CLARK-FRANKLAND HOUSE. Mr. Rowland Ellis, of Newton Centre, allowed the clerk to copy the original and famous inlaid centre-piece, owned by him, which, a century and a half ago, formed the chief orna- ment in the interior of the Clark-Frankland house, on Garden- Court Street. (See illustration.) This device, representing the "Arms of the Clark family," is an interesting example of the work of the old time decorators. In connection with this historical house — bought by the father of Mr. Ellis — the will containing the deed of it, to his " beloved wife. Lady Agnes," copied in England from the original of Sir Charles Henry Frankland, is of much interest.* * In the Will of Sir Charles Henry Frankland, " late of the City of Bath, in the County of Somerset, Deceased," bearing date the eleventh of November, 1765, and preserved in the Registry of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, England, among other things is the following : — I Give Devise and bequeath unto my Dear Wife Lady Agnes Frankland and her Heirs all that my Messuage or Tenement situated in or near the Town of Boston in the province of Massachusetts Bay in New England and also all Lands Tenements and Hereditaments thereunto belonging or therewith used and enjoyed Situated in or near the same Town of Boston and all my estate and Interest of in and to the same Estate and premises to have and to hold the said Messuage, Lands Tenements and Hereditaments above devised and every part thereof with the Appurts unto and to the use of my said Dear Wife Agnes-Frankland her Heirs and assigns forever — Proved at London with three Codicils on the Twenty Sixth day of Jany 176S before the Worshipful! Andrew Colter Ducaret Doctor of Laws and Surrygate by the Oath of Dame Agnes Frankland widow the Relict of the Deceased, and Sole Executrix to whom Admin — was Granted she having been first Sworn Duly to administer — signed George Goskins , _ Deputy James Tovvnlev V registers Matthew Gosking . 28 Mr. Ellis also loaned a deed, signed by Paul Revere,* and his wife Sarah, and a silver pitcher of large size, made by Revere himself ; also a contemporary subscription paper, to aid in the support of Rev. Wm. Welsteed, in the " New Brick Church," signed by Revere, Gov. Hutchinson, Thomas Lee, and many others. The collections of broadsides, commissions, proclamations, play-bills, portraits, programmes, tickets and badges, medals, -engraved billheads and circulars, have been greatly increased. Lack of space allows only a mere mention thereof, here. To Dr. J. S. H. Fogg, of South Boston, and Dr. C. E. Clark, * To all People unto whom thefe prefents (hall come, Paul Revere of Bofton in the County of Suffolk and Province of the MalTachufetts Bay in New England Goldfmith, Sends Greeting; Know Ye That I the faid Paul Revere for and in Confideration of the fum of Seventeen Pounds thirteen fhillings and four pence lawful money, to me in hand paid before the Enfealing hereof by Manaffeh Marfton of Bofton aforefaid Cooper ; the Receipt whereof I do hereby Acknowledge, Have Granted Bargained Sold Conveyed and Confirmed and by thefe prefents Do fully and abfo- lutely Grant Bargain Sell Convey and Confirm unto the laid Manaffeh Marfton, A Certain Piece or Parcel of Land lying and being near the New Brick Meeting houfe fo called at the Northerly part of Builon aforefaid butted & bounded Northwefterly on faid Marftons Land meafuring on this Hue from the Meeting houfe Wall to the Fence as the faid Land is now enclofed Twenty two feet, North- eafterly on faid Revere's Land there meafuring Thirty two feet, Southeafterly alfo on faid Revere's Land there meafuring Twenty two feet to the faid Meeting houfe Wall, and Southwefterly on the faid Meeting houfe Land there meafuring Thirty two feet Saving and Excepting out of the aforefaid meafures, all the Land that doth of nght belong to the faid Meeting houfe behind the fame, which is not to be Underilood as included in this Conveyance; With all the Rights Members and Appur- tenances to the faid granted premifes belonging or in any wife appertaining; To have and to hold the faid granted Premifes with the Appurtenances unto the faid Manaffeh Marfton his heirs and afTigns ; To his and their only proper Ufe benefit and behoof forever ; And 1 the faid Paul Revere for my Self my heirs Executors and Adminiftrators do hereby Covenant and Grant to and with the laid Manaffeh Marfton his heirs and Afligns in manner following; That is to fay. That at the time of Enfealing hereof I am the true and lawful Owner of faid granted Premifes, and ftand lawfully Seized and Poffefled of the fame in my own right as of a good Eftate of Inheritance in Fee Simple, having in my felf good right to Sell and Convey the fame in manner aforefaid, the Premifes being free and clear from all Incumbrances whatfoever; And Further That I the faid Paul Revere my heirs Executors and Adminiftrators fliall and will Warrant and Defend the faid granted Premifes with the Appurtenances unto the faid Manaffeh Marfton his heirs and Afligns forever, againft the lawful Claims and Demands of all Perfons whomfoever : In Witnefs whereof I the faid Paul Revere and Sarah my Wife, in teftimony that fhe releafes all her right of Dower in the Premifes, have hereunto fet our Hands and Seals the Sixth Day of June, Anno Domini One Thoufand Seven Hundred & Seventy one, In the Kieventh Year of His Majefty King George the Third's Reign Signed Sealed and PAUL REVERE Delivered in the prefence of Us SARAH REVERE. William Stoddard John Welfti Suffolk fs. Bofton June loth 1771. The aforenamed Paul Revere & Sarah his Wife Appeared and Acknowledged the afore written ■Inftrument to be their free Act and Deed. Before me Wii,LXAM Stoddard Juft. Pacis. 29 we are indebted for many valuable documents, to gather which has been the occupation of years. The collection of newspapers, published in Boston, which Mr. W. W. Wheildon, of Concord, has industriously brought together, must not be overlooked. The Committee beg all to use their best endeavors to pro- cure for the halls any articles of historical interest to our city, and, in conclusion, would say that the list of accessions to this department reaches the total of four hundred and seventy- five ; and two hundred and twenty-five loans, a fact which speaks for itself. Wm. Clarence Burrage, Clerk of the Committee. REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE LIBRARY. The Committee on the Library are able to report an in- creased interest in the collection of books and pamphlets which this Society is attempting to make. Several volumes recently received are rare, and many are interesting contri- butions to the history of Boston. During the past year two hundred and twenty-four volumes and two hundred and seventy-two pamphlets have been added to the library. Of these, eighty-six volumes and one hundred and fifty-seven pamphlets have been received by gift from eighty persons ; the others were purchased. The Committee urge upon members of the Society a still greater activity in furthering the effort to make a collection of books, pamphlets, prints and newspapers, which shall worthily represent the historical literature of this city. There are many books which can be obtained only by purchase. Contributions of money for this purpose are solicited. The list of accessions, with the names of donors, will be found on the following pages. James L. Whitney, Chairmaji. ;o ACCESSIONS TO THE LIBRARY COLLECTION, 1886. Donors. VOLS. Pamph- lets. Hon. Thomas C. Amory ...... I William S. Appleton .... 2 I William H. Baldwin .... I Boston, City of. Alvah Peters, messenger 16 — Record Commissioners . I — Latin School Association I William B. Brindley .... I Buffalo Historical Society . I I William Clarence Barrage . I I Edwin L. Bynner .... I Cambridge : Committee of Arrangements for 2 5otl- Celebration of the First Church I George 0. Carpenter .... 3 Horace P. Chandler . 2 Charles E. Clark, M. D. . I Jeremiah Colburn I J. G. Cupples 3 Isaac Newton Danforth, M. D. I Charles W. Darling . I James C. Davis . I Stephen Q-. Deblois 2 Mrs. Nancy Downer . I 5 Samuel Adams Drake I Mrs. Joseph L. Ellis . 3 Andrew C. Fearing, Jr. I Miss C. M. Fitch 2 Edw. Wells Foster, M. D. . I Georgia Historical Society . I Daniel Goodwin, Jr., Chicago •^ Thomas Pitts, Detroit I (Also for distribution 100 copies of Pro\ incial Pic- turcs, by Brush and Pen, by D. Goodwin, Jr., read before the Bostonian Society.) Franklin Hancock 2 35 31 Donors. Vols. Pamph- lets. Number brought fortvard, ..... 35 31 Fred. F. Hassam 3 Prof. Henry W. Haynes ..... 2 Albert H. Hoyt I L. A. S. Hubbard, San Francisco .... I Daniel T. V, Huntoon 3 Kansas Historical Society I Miss S. B. Kidder I Abbott Lawrence I Hon. F. W. Lincoln I 36 Col. Daniel L. Lamson ...... 2 I Richard C. Lichtenstein I Liverpool Free Public Library I E. Macdonald I I John Joseph May I E. J. Maunder ........ I New England Historic Genealogical Society I New Jersey Historical Society 2 I Newport Historical Society I Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia . I Hon. Hugh O'Brien ....... 2 I Augustus T. Perkins I I John F. Pratt, M. D., Chelsea 3 I Mrs. Mary Lowell Putnam I Jacob Rhoades ........ I Rhode Island Historical Society .... 2 Mrs. A. C. Richmond, Taunton ..... 2 Samuel H. Russell 7 5 Mrs. G. Shillaber I George F. Talbot ....... I Ticknor & Co. ........ 2 William H. Todd I University of California 2 68 97 32 Nu7nber carried foi'ward, George B. Upton Hammond W. Vinal . Mrs. J. Mason Warren Lucius H. Warren William Wilkins Warren Mrs. Jane Lee Weisse, New York City Thomas Weston, Jr. . William W. Wheildon, Concord George H. Whitman . William H. Whitmore (Also, copies of the Old State House distribution to members.) Hon. Marshall P. Wilder Hon. Robert C. Winthrop Woburn Board of Trade By gift . By purchase . Total . Defended, for Vols. 68 I I I I I I I 3 4 I jPami'h- ; LETS. 86 138 97 7 51 157 "5 224 272 Mr. W. W. Warren made a motion which was amended by Rev. W. C. Winslow, — which amendment was accepted, — that the Directors be empowered to print the Proceedings at this Annual Meeting and such articles as they may see fit for the " Collections." Adjourned. Wm. Clarence Burrage, Clerk. ACCESSIONS TO THE SOCIETY'S COLLECTION, 1886. GIFTS AND PURCHASES. DESCRIPTION. Bailey, J. Appleton Bell, Theo. H. Betteley, Albert Black, J. W. Bostonian Society, by Committee on Rooms. Auto. Copp'r pl'te Stipple En. Engraved Photo. Earth' we. Porcelain. Map. Ticket. Letter of Daniel Webster to Hon. Peter Har- vey, dated Washington, Sept. 27, 1850. John Clarke, D.D., A.A.S., IV. Lovell, pinx.^ G. Glover, Eng. Born Portsmouth, N.H., Ap. 13, 1755. Died deUvering a benedic- tion in the First Church, Ap. ist, 1798. Certificate issued to the donor, certifying his contribution of five dollars to the Franklin statue. N. E. Bank N'otc Co., Etig. John Tileston, schoolmaster. After a Paint- ing by Grecnivood. Plate stamped in blue ; Landing of Lafayette in New York, Aug. 16, 1824. Clews, Staf- fordshire, Maker. Plate representing landing of the Pilgrims, Dec. 20, 1620. Made for the Bi-Centen- nial at Plymouth, 1820. Enoch Wood ^^ Sons, Bitrsleni. Liverpool Pitcher, stamped in red on cream ground, "To the crooked but interesting Town of Boston." On the reverse, portion of one of Moore's poems. Purchased of Mrs. Maria K. Emerson, Waltham.\ Liverpool Pitcher, with print representing " the Salem Ship Yards, i8oo.'" Similar in design to the Derby punch-bowl in possession of "E. I. Marine Soc," Salem. Two plates in colors. Birds, flowers, insects, etc. Said to have been from the loot of the Province House, 1776. Formerly belonged to Gov. Gage. Bartlett's map of Boston, 1871. Nath'l Dearborn's map of Boston, 1847, with his photograph attached. Prang's map of Boston, with list of hotels, streets, etc., 1871. Ticket to the Boston Assemblies, 1854-55. * The bold initials in the first column refer to corresponding letters in the heliotype illustration, t A duplicate of this, black on cream, was given by Richard Briggs. 34 Bostonian Society, by Ticket. Committee on Rooms. Steel Ens:. Cop. plate Mezzotint Engrav'g. Litho. Col. Litho. Photo. Broadside. Commis"n. Mezzotint Ent^rav's- Auto. DESCRIPTION. Invitation Ticket and Programme (with helio- type of the Fairbanks House), issued to W. C. Burrage, Clerk, on the occasion of the 250th Anniversary of the Foundation of Dedham Plantation, Sept. 21, 1886. Daniel Webster. Chester Harding, pinx., J. ^ludrews and H. IV. Smith, Eng. Same. T. B. Lawson, pinx., C. E. Jl'ag- stajf and Joseph Andrews, Eng. Edward Everett. T. Hicks, N. A., pitix., H. IVright Smith, Eng. Same. Erom a Photograpli by Root, Eng., by John .Sartain, Phi la. Gov. John Brooks, 1816-23. James Eroth- ingham, pinx., drawn by James Penni/nan, engraved by John Chorley. "Original in possession of Dudley Hall, Esq." Rev. Jona. Mayhew. By Cipriani, pupil of Bartolozzi. Pastor of tlie West Church. Died July 8, 1766. Baron Stow, pastor of the Second Baptist Church 35 years. P". Alexander, pinx., J. Sartai)!, Eng. Rev. J. S. J. Gardiner, Rector of Trinity Church, 1805-30, died in England, July 29, 1830. Mary M. Maguire, Pith. Rev. Lyman Beecher, born Oct. 12, 1775, died Jan. 10, 1863. Pastor of Hanover St. Church, afterwards rebuilt on Bowdoin St., father of Henry Ward I'eecher. L. Graze- tier, del., S. JT. Chandler &^ Pro., Lith. Battle of the Const it id ion and Giierriere, Aug. 19, 1812. Baldwin Place Home. The last words and dying speech of Levi Ames, executed for burglary, Oct. 21, 1773. Issued to Reuben French, Captain, June 19, 1738. Signed, Jonathan Belcher. To John Hartwell, Ensign, Oct. 14, 1796. Signed. Samu"l Adams. To Asa Butterneld, Ensign, Dec. 27, 1786. Signed, James Bowdoin. Rev. Thomas Prince, of Old South Church. P. j\'lham, Jing., after J. Greenwood, 1750. Rev. John Moorhead, Pastor of the Church of the Strangers. P. Pelham, pinx. et fecit, 1751. Letter of Cotton M:ither to Mr. Ellis Kallen- der. Elder of a Church of Christ, Boston, Jan. I, 1714. 35 Bostonian Society, by I Theatre Committee on Rooms. Bill Litho. Brown, Charles A. Bryant, G. J. F. Bugbee, James M. Burrage, W. Clarence iChro. lith. Cop. plate Engrav'a;. Butler, Rev. Eber R. Carleton, Wm. T. Ticket. Certificate. Molten Parian. Earthen- ware. Photo. Wood. Proclama- tions. Commis'ns Photo. Water col. Photo. j Newspaper DESCRIPTION. Of the Federal St. Theatre about 1795. Cast is given of the plays, " Stranger," and "Animal Magnetism." Bishop J. Chevems, first R. C. Bishop of Boston. Dickenson, del., A. C. Smith, Lith. Eight Thanksgiving and Fast Day Proclama- tions, by Governors Pownall, Hancock, Adams, and others. Six, signed by Edw. Everett, J. Brooks, Ca- leb Strong, Elbridge Gerry. Washington St. end of the Old State House. Horticultural Hall, built by Bryant & Oilman, 1865. Marble figures by Martin Milmore. Three views, in frame, of the Beebe Block, Winthrop Sq., Cathedral building, and Re- vere Bank Building on Franklin St., taken before the fire of 1872. Hon. Frederic W. Lincoln, Mayor of Bos- ton, 1S5S to 1861 ; 1863 to 1S67. The so-called Arms of the Washington Fam- ily. Miniature Portrait of Benjamin Franklin, after Cochin. Catalogued in the Wiggin Sale as by Chodowiecki. The Mass. Gazette and Boston Weekly News Letter, Dec. 23. 1773. Account of a meet- ing at the Old South Church. " Thursday, Dec. 16, at one o'clock, just before the dis- solution of the meeting, a number of brave and resolute men dressed in the Indian manner approached the door of the Assem- bly and gave the war-whoop, which rang through the house." Ticket to Dinner at Faneuil Hall, issued to Ephraim French, June 3, 1822, by the An- cient and Honorable Art. Company. Certificate of Membership in same Company, Aug. 3, 1809, issued to Mr. French ; signed Benjamin Loring, Commander. Mr. French was grandfather of the donor. Relic of the Great Fire from the store of D. B. Stedman & Co. Lavender Tile from the house of James Barry, off Barry Court, Washington St. Charles liarnard, founder of Warren Street Chapel. Painting on a panel of a confkigration, said to be the burning of the old " Odeon," Federal Street. 36 DESCRIPTION. Carpenter, Geo. O. Chandler, H. P. Chaplin, Charles Child, Addison, Child- wold, N. Y. Clark, Chas. E. Photo. Manuscr. Cup. SnufF-box. Linen. Map. Electro. Stick. Auto. Second Eliot School, North Bennet St. Established 1713; erected 1838; cost $24,072. Average number of pupils, 366. Bird''s eye view of Boston, showing old Trinity Church and other buildings before the great fire. Taken from a balloon. King and Allen, Aeronauts; Black and Batchelder, Photo. Account of the first theatrical performance in America, Sept. 5, 1752, at Williamsburg, Va. The play was Garrick's " Lethe." Cocoanut Cup, with silver mounting, formerly belonging to Gov. John Hancock, and given to Mrs. Brackett, his housekeeper, by him. An enamelled Snuff-box, with painted figures, given to the same lady. A Linen Sheet, with letter " H " still visible. Boston, 1846, by N. Dearborn. Bass-reliefs on the Pilgrim Monument at Plymouth. Designed by Hawniat Billings. Washington Medal. Orii^i)ial engraved by Mitchell. Franklin Masonic Medal. F. Bernier, Eng. Birch Stick used by Charlotte Cushman at her last representation of "Meg Merrilies"at Globe Theatre, Boston. Charlotte Cush- man was born July 23, 1816, and died Boston, February 18, 1876. Letter to Capt. Thomas Leonard, of Taunton, August II, 1697. Signed Benjamin Church, Major. Letters of Hon. Wm. Appleton, J. Mason Wanen, Joshua Bates, T. H. Perkins, Abel Adams, Benjamin Bussey, Samuel Adams Drake, Daniel Allin (1683), Richard Wharton, Edward Proctor, one of the Tea Party (Oct. 30, 1774, receipt for a negro woman named Vine, £6 13s. 4d.), Spencer Phipps (1749), Joseph Henderson (High Sheriff), Washington Irving, Thomas Amory, Josiah Ouincy, Jr., Ebenezer Han- cock, Generals Ward and Heath, Edward Winslovv (Sheriff. 1740), Sam'l Lynde (1707), P;uil Dudley (1707). and many others. Also, a large variety of curious addresses, circulars, certificates, pro- grammes, bills of fare, bills of merchandise (many with engraved head pieces), tax warrants, apothecaries' circulars, lottery tickets, commissions, etc., etc. Zl DESCRIPTION. Clark. Chas. E. Clifford. Maj. .S. W. Colbuni, Jeremiah Cotter, James F. Court House, (Tlie) Commissioners by S. B. Stebbins, Ch'n. Crane, A. O. Cruft, Rev. Sam'l B. Curtis, Henrv Pelliam Heliotype. Litho. Printed Tax-bills. Manusc'pt. Warrant. Embossed Document. Letter. Photo. Satin. Shears. Ivory. Photo. Daniels, J. H., New^n. Photo- I Electro. Davenport, Charles, (Colored Ca?>ibridge. | Litho. Downer, Mrs. N. M. jsteel. Fac-simile of the subscription paper toward the building of the first Town-house, Bos- ton, 1656. Signed by John Endicott and others. Edward Kendall, bugler to the New England Guards. Took first prize at Covent Garden, London, 1846. Two Tax Blanks, issued to J. Kneeland, Jr., and John Bullard, for the year 1784. A written list from the Collector's office, show- ing list of taxes paid in by Paul Revere and others, said to have been found on the burning of the Court House, Queen Street. Tax warrant, July i, 1794, Thos. Davis, Treasurer and Receiver General. Original Letter of Thanks by the Irish Con- federation to Capt. Robt. B. Forbes of the Jatfiestozvn, the American Frigate sent from Boston with provisions for the starv- ing people of Ireland, April 18, 1847. Signed by the Committee. Another letter of similar tenor, signed April 24, 1847, Staunton, Lord Mayor of Dublin. The corner house, 37 Summer St., formerly occupied by Daniel Webster, Uriah Cotting and others. Badge worn by the "Veterans" of the old "Sixth."' Baltimore, April 19, 1861. Pair of Tailor's Shears. Picked up amongst the ruins of Beebe's block after the great fire of 1872. Miniature of Rev. J. .S. Buckminster, Pastor of Brattle Sq. Church, 1805-12. Harry Pelham, half-brother of Copley. After the Painting by Copley. Charles Pelham, step-brother of Copley. After Painting by Copley. Original is in possession of C. P. Curtis. Thirty-six ancient Boston buildings. (See General Catalogue of gifts and loans.) N. B. Shurtleff, Mayor of Boston, 1868. North Battery. After Paul Revere'' s Pin- graving. " New Boston and the Charles River Basin." 7. H. Bufford, Lit It. Set of Surgical Instruments used by Dr. Eli- phalet Downer, who was one of tlie Lexing- ton Minute Men and served as Surgeon under Com. John Paul Jones on the " Bon- hontine Pic/iard."' DESCRIPTION. Ellis, Mrs., Walpole. Fenno, Isaac Fernald, Albert H. Fogg, Dr. J. S. H. Badge. Broadside. Musket, etc. Copper- plate Eng. Silhouettes Silk. Auto. << << Francis, David G. Netu York. Bill. Parchment. Oil Paint'g Badge of the Harvard Porcellian Club, in- stituted 1791 ; formerly owned by George Morey, H. U., 181 1. Tax Warrant issued to Isaac Fenno, Consta- ble of Stoughton, Nov. r, 1759, signed Harrison Gray, Treas. and Receiver Gen'l. Musket, Belt and Cartridge Box, carried in the War of 18 12, by Wm. M. Fernald. Certificate of the Fire Department of the City of Boston, 1833. Signed Thomas C. Amory, Chief, issued to Wm. M. Fernald, with representation of the Old State House inflames, 1832. /ifier Salmon'' s pamtijig. Two silhouettes of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Mills, by King. Purse as used in 1800. Return of valuation of Noddle's Island, made by Henry Howell Williams, May, 1789. Personal Estate, ^149 6^-. Sc/. Real Estate, ;i^26oo. " I pay interest for 460^^." Subscription Paper for raising mone}' to carry on the war, Dec. 9, 1777, signed John Irving, John Pitts, Jeremiah Allen and others, payable to David Jeffries, Town Treasurer. Bill of John Scollay for hard-ware sold to the Town of Boston, £\ 13 -zs. 6d. O.T. Bill of Samuel Kneeland, printer, May 26, 1755. (Kneeland was printer to the Gov- ernor and publisher of the Boston Gazette, and died Dec. 14, 1769, aged y2>-) Order of the Selectmen for the establishment of Engine Co. No. 3, Dec. 1761. Signed William Cooper, Town Clerk. Proposal of Jno. Marion for the better pre- vention of desolation by fire, &c., July 26, 1714. Bill of Sale of "4 pipes of Wine and 50 jarres of Oyle and nigro woman sold by Otto to ffordinando at Long Island for the account of Mr. John Usher, August 11, 1682.'" Printed Indenture with the Arms of the City of London thereon, whereby Robert Or- chard apprentices himself to Richard Hill, Felt Maker, London, June 23, 1655. En- dorsed by Edward Rawson, Sec, Aug. 6, 1662. David Francis, Boston Bookseller, 1812; Trustee and Secretary of M. C. M. A., 1814-26; Vice-Prest., 1827; Commander of the Rifle Rancers. 39 DESCRIPTION. Goodwin, Daniel, Jr. Letter. i Guild, Curtis Eng. Satin. Gunnison, E. N., East Walpole. Colored Copper- plate Eng. Hancock, Franklin, Court Suit. Haver] till, Mass. Bibles. Hassam, F. F. Holland, H. E. Homer, C. H. Wood. Brick. Bullet. Liiho. Howard Nat. Bank. jPhoto. Hunneman, J. H., Jr. tMetal. Letter from Benjamin Faneuil to his brother Andrew, dated New York, Aug. i8, 1708. Alexander H. Rice, Mayor of Boston, 1856. After pJioto. by Notvtan. East view of Faneuil Hall. Label with engraved representation of Tri- mountain, 1630, on a badge worn at the second Centennial celebration of the settle- ment of Boston, Sept. 17, 1830. Abel Boiueii, Engraver. " The glory of children are their fathers." Representation of Indians scalping American soldiers. Inscribed: "A scene on the frontiers as practiced by the humane British and their worthy allies." At the right an English officer in full uniform. The Indian hands him a scalp witli his left hand ; in his right is a scalping knife marked G. R., and hanging from his musket a placard marked, "Reward for scalps, 1 6-." The officer says, "Bring me the scalps, and the King our master will reward you." Crimson velvet body-coat, blue satin waist- coat embroidered with gold, and drab silk trunks, formerly owned and worn by Gov. John Hancock. Two folio Bibles, (Oxford, 172 1, Edinburg, 1722,) one used by Rev. John Hancock of Braintree, father of the Governor: the other used by his grandfather, the Rev. John Hancock of Lexington, containing the autographs of the Governor. {The Library Catalogue will contain a full description of the above. ^ A Board from the Mather School-house. Dor- chester. " The first free school established by tax of the people." An English Brick from the Curtis hous-, Jamaica Plain (Boston) . Built by Willia.a Curtis, 1639 ! occupied as headquarters by a portion of the Rhode Island troops previous to the siege of Boston. On the brick has been transferred a photograph of the house. Razed 1886. Bullet found on Breed's or Bunker Hill when the Monument was erected. Mass. Senate, 1856, by Biifford after Wins- loiv Homer. Augustus P. Martin, Mayor of Boston, 18S4. Knife, fork and spoon combined, carried by the donor through the Rebellion. 40 DESCRIPTION. Hutchings, Win. V Hutchinson, C. C. Intjalls, Frank B. Jeftries, Dr. Ii. Joy Jones, Major K. J. Lamson, Col. D. .S. li'esion. Lathrop, John Lawrence, Amos A. Leach, The Misses, Charlcstown . Lincoln, F. W. Little, John Mason Lyman, Mrs. E. R. Ih'ooklitic. Marsh, Stillman P. jWood. I Oak. Commiss'n Auto. Wood. Photo. Broadside. I Cloth. I Steel Ens:. Earthenw'ej Coffee-mill.! Billet. j 2 Photos. I Eni Broadside. Piece of oak from British frigate Somerset, of 64 guns, built July 14, 1748, wrecked off Provincetown, Nov. 2, 177S. Carved and gilded figure of Mercury, with wings outspread, alighting on the earth. From the store of Mr. Hutchinson, formerly occupied by F. W. Lincoln, 126 Commer- cial St. Said to be the oldest emblematical sign in Boston. Sailing Permit on parchment, with engraved head-piece of I3oston Light, etc. : signed in blank, Andrew Jackson. Letter signed by Geo. Washington, dated Feb. 22, 1788, to the Marquis Chartier des Lalbinicre. Balluster, carved, from the gallery at the head of the stair-case of the old Hancock House. Five views of the e.xterior and interior of the State House, Doric Hall, State Library, Council Chamber, and Governors Office. "The Striped Pig," with engraving. An in- cident of the Dedham muster, Sept. 13, 1838. Ancient Fire Bag, marked John Lamson, 1816, also a Bed Key. Ball Card with portrait of Louis Philippe, given in honor of Prince de Joinville, Nov., 1 84 1. I'^n^- by Hopwood. Small Blue Pitcher, the State House on one side, and City Hall, of New York, on rev. Coffee-mill and Lock, from the old brick house. No. 23 Unity St., built about 171 1. Invitation to the ball given in honor of the Prince of Wales, Oct. i, i860. House corner of Columbia and Essex Sts., known as the .Sheafe House, and also occupied by Moses Wallach, erroneously called by Drake "the Jew."* For a time occupied by Lord Percy at the time of the battle of Lexington. Portrait of Theodore Lyman, Mayor of Boston, 1834. After bust by Dexter; Smith, Eng. Contemporary Broadside, of Independence, July John Hancock. Prest. Printed bv John Gill. The Declaration 4, 1776. Signed, "America, Boston. and Powars and Willis, in Queen Street.'" *R. W. Templeman, of Baltimore, a direct descendant of Wallach, in a letter to the Society, writes: MoL'cis given for the benefit of Mrs. Slomans. i Latch from the tap-room of the Eastern Stage- house. Ann St. 43 DESCRIPTION. SpHIer, W. H. I Water-col. Stickaey. J. Henry, iHeliotype. Baltimore. j Temple, Thomas F. | Photo. Ward, Miss Harriott T. : Glass. Wan-en, W. Wilkins j Chair. i iwood. I Weston, Alls. F. I. Litho. R ox-bury. Earthen- ware. Porcelain. Wheelwright, S. W., Cards. iVew York. Notice. Wheildon, W. VV., Concord. Wood- block. Satin. The Old Salt House, Long Wharf. Ed- win Forrest formerly spent here many a happy hour with his friend James Oakes, known to the press under the pseudonym of "Acorn ;" and Hawthorne is said to have written here a portion of the " Scarlet Letter." Rev. Benjamin Colman, D.D. After Sinibcrt. First Pastor of the Brattle Sq. (Manifesto) Ch., Aug. 4, 1699. Died, Aug. 29, 1747. Green Dragon Tavern, 1712. In all the local events previous to our Revolution, the "Green Dragon" occupied a prominent part. Portion of a window from the Royall House, Medford, inscribed by a diamond, " Isaac Royall, April 25, 1749." (Identified as his autograph.) Carved Mahogany Chair given to Mrs. Gov. Gerry on her marriage. One of a set made in 1 73 1. Pulpit door from the Second Church, Han- over St. Built 1719. Daniel Webster. After tlic iniitiaturc by Har- vey, Petidleto?!, Lith. Copper-lustre and Light Blue Tea .Set ; odd shape. Cream-white Pitcher, thirteen stars on the side, said to have been made near Phila- delphia, and purchased by an ancestor in 1792. Chinese Bowl widi raised figures in colors, formei-ly belonging to Rev. Roger Price, Rector, King's Chapel, June 25, 1729, to April II, 1747 ; Commissary of the Bishop of London, 1730-4S; born Dec. 6, 1696, died at Leigh, England, Dec. 8, 1762. Two Ball Cards to Concert Hall and Wash- ington Hall, xMar. 2, 1819, and Mar. 31, 1 8 19. N. Dearborn, Eng. Printed Call to the Independent Boston Fusileers, Aug. 31, 1822, S. Sargent, Jr., Clerk. " N. B. — You will bring your knife, fork, spoon, and blanket, and extra pair of loose white trousers." Engraving of Lamp-lighter, etc., used for printing their circulars about 1 840. Concord and Lexington Badge, worn at the Anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill. Badge worn by the Press at tht; World's Jubilee, 1872. 44 DESCRIPTION. Whitman, Geo. H. 1 Engrav'g. j I I Ticket. i I I Steelyarfls. ! Litho. ! Satin. Broadside. Whilmore, W. H. Oil Paintv Mezzo-tint Engraving .. Steel Eng. Litho. 4 Helio- types. Winslow. Rev. W. C. Wood. Winthrop, R. C. Photo. Bill of Ebenezer Cloiigh, paper-hanger, i8oo, Manufactory, Charles Ri\'er bridge. En- i^raved headpiece by S. Hill. Ticket to Alumni Dinner on the 250th Anniversarv of Harvard College, issued to Mr. W., of the Class of 1827. Only 61 graduates surviving, June 30, 1S86, of classes previous to 1828. Pair of Steelyards, with copper weights. Made by N. Dearborn, 1804. Missionary Packet Morning Star. C Drew, pin. v., J)ufford, Lit/i. Badge worn in the Clay campaign, 1840. General abstract of the Bill of Mortality for Boston for 1822. John Win.slow, Sec'y. Complete list of the members of the Board of Health of the town of Boston, from the date of organization, 1799 to 1822, when the town became a city, with the number of years' service of each member. Order of Services at the Old South Church, May 18, 1808, at the ordination of the Rev. Joshua Huntington. Gen. B. F. Butler, Gov. of Mass., 1883. Princess Anna Sophia, Electress of Hanover. Simon, Eng. Mother of George I, of Eng- land ; died xMay 28, 17x4. Rev. Daniel Sharp, D. D. ; born Hudders- field, Eng., 1783, died 1853. Pastor of Charles St. Bap. Church. J. Sartain, Eng. Gamaliel Bailey, Editor of National Ei-a. Views of the Old State House. Previously described in "Proceedings, 1885.'' Carved Bracket from the Hancock House. Daniel Webster. After the original Fainting by Eastman yoJnison. forR. C. Winthrop, in 1846. LOANS TO THE SOCIETY'S COLLECTION, 1886.* DESCRIPTION. Appletou, Wm. S. 1 Colored ]Cop. plate I Engrav\t(. Silver. Wood. Earth' we. Oil Paint'g.j Litho. [Certificate. ; Ticket. ' Ens:rav'ir- "An exact view of the late Battle at Bunker Hill, June 17. 1775." '' B. Romans in Aere iiicidit .'^ Medal worn by the first colored organization in J3oston, knov/n as the " Bucks of Amer- ica." (Engraved.) The Mass. Hist. Soc. have their flag. They were prominent at the time of Gov. Hancock. A .Sampan or Indian succotash howl, made from the root of a tree. Liverpool Pitcher. Portraits in black thereon of Capts. Pike of the Wasp, and Jones of the Macedonian . Three-quarter length portrait of Gen. William Brattle in full dress military costume of the time of the French and Indian wars, 1750- 59. At the evacuation of Boston he went to Halifax, where he died in 1776. From the Hawarth Estate, signed J. Singleton Copley, pinx. 1756. Painted by the artist when he was but 19 years of age. Subscription agreement to a map of New England, dated Boston, Oct. 4, 1784. Said map to be six feet square and to be had for the sum of eighteen shillings each (it never was published). Signatures of John Han- cock, Lafayette, Gen. Knox, Robert Treat Paine, James Lovell and 219 other promi- nent Bostonians. Certificate issued to Hon. Nathan Appleton, April 3, 1S43, as member of the "Naval Library and Institute." With representa- tion of Boston Harbor. War Ships, etc., after the painting by Salmon, by B. IV. Thayer 6-= Co. Ticket to Musical Festival at Music Hall, Sept. 25, 1 86 1, in honor of Prince Napo- leon and Princess Clothilde. Ode on the introduction of the Cochiluate water, Oct. 25, 1848. Representations of a fountain, etc. 'Ihu bold initials iu the first column refer to corresponding letters in the heliotype illustration. 40 DESCRIPTION. Appleton, Wm. S. 'Steel Eng. Bigelow, F. H.. Ca»ibridge. M Map. Engrnv'g. Earthen- ware . Briggs. Mrs. Henry P. Br oak line. H Bryant, G. J. F. Burra":e. \\\ Clarence Gold. Letter, Earthen- ware. Auto. Mahogany Certificate issued to Nathan Appleton by the Bunker Hill Monument Assoc. Fair, view of Bunker Hill and Boston in the distance. Map of Boston and Boston Harbor, 1744. Robert G. Shaw. Liverpool Pitcher. '• Battle between the IVasp and Reindeer'''' \ on the reverse, "Com. McDonough's victory on Lake Champlain, Sept. 11, 1814.'" Bentley, Wear & Bourne, Eng's, Shelton, Staffordshire. Blue Platter. Landing of Lafayette at Castle Garden, New York, Aug. 16, 1824. Small " Army and Navy'" Pitcher. Maroon on cream. "Pilgrim Pitcher." Blue on white. Made in 1820 to commemorate (he landing of the Pilgrims. Pin containing the hair of Geo. Washington. Copy of letter referring to the above, dated Mt. Vernon, March 12, 1800, written by Martha Washington to the Misses Bowen of Providence. Pitcher made for Jonathan Loring about 1800. This relic holds six gallons, and is said to have been made by the Wedge- woods from a design taken to them by Mr. Loring. On the front is a picture of " Rapid fire engine No. 13," putting out a fire in the country. The name of Nathaniel Ilammond, master, on same. Elaborately decorated in colors, with tulips and other flowers, grapes, etc. In a medallion is the legend, " Federal Fire Company."' Letter from Nathaniel Cotton, Francis J. Mer- rick, Jonas Meriam, Jr., Committee for the Company of Engine No. 13. Addressed to Jonathan Loring, Esq., Boston, March 7, 1827, explaining the dissolution of the Company, and referring to his gift of the above mentioned Pitcher. Indenture signed by Rev. John Hancock of Lexington and Thomas Hancock his son, 1 7 17. (See note. Report of the Committee on Rooms, p. 26.) Ancient bevelled Mirror with black panel, on which is a carved basket of fioiit and slieaf of wheat, said to have belonged to John Alden, and accompanied with the afiidavit of John W. Alden, a descendant in the eighth generation, and purchased from him in the old Alden house, Duxbury. OWNER. DESCRIPTION. Bun-a.i;e, W. Clarence Earthen- i Pair of green and gold Decanters, formerly ! ware. ! belonging to Gov. Edward Winslow, 1639. Accompanying is the affidavit of Mrs. Ruth B. Winsor, a descendant, of whom they were purchased in Duxbury, March, 1886. Silver-lustre Tea Set, as used in Provincial times ; Creamer, Sugar, and Teapot. Earth- enware, worked with ornamental decora- tions. Perfect. Bought of Cushmans, Duxbury. Copper-lustre Teapot of Provincial times ._ Perfect, fine form. Very rare. Bought ot Lelands of Holliston. Copper-lustre Pitcher, ribbed around the body, band of raised flowers on light ground. Bought of Deborah Luce of Pem- berton. Copper-lustre Pitcher, with band of flowers. Bought of Mrs. Benj. Leland of Holliston. The Bates Pitcher. Light blue decoradons, monuments and landscapes in pink, from Abigail Bates, Scituate Light, one of the famous sisters, who, by their patriotic ef- forts, frightened away the British troops, 1812. Recently deceased (March, 1886). Purchased in Scituate. Stoneware Pitcher in colors, with raised fioTu-es, fox hunt, etc., Wedgewood style. Purchased of the Wheeler family, Allston, I Mass. Faience Pitcher, with twisted handle and blue decorations. Very small. Delicate I workmanship. Brewster family, Duxbury. i Comic Pitcher, with a Frenchman skinning a j cat ; on the reverse, an Englishman and a barrel of ale, marked "October,"' with dog- gerel verses. Winsor and Moulton fam- ilies, Duxbury. Small Pitcher, with two fine prints represcnt- ' ing " Industry" and " Liberty." ' Porcelain Sauce Pitcher, blue on white and stars. Called by some, Lowestoft. I Cauohley Pitcher gilded, and with colors. A ! face of a man laughing, on the front : mark \ C on the bottom. Graceml-shaped IMtcher of very delicate ; workmanship. Medallions representing Europe, and on reverse, legend, " Peace ! and Prosperity to America." Purple, with I silver-lustre. Elegant form. Bought of , Miss Hall of South Duxbury. 4S ijkscrh'Tion. IJurrage, W. Clarence JEartlien- | Copper-lustre Pitcher, with medallions in ! ware. j colors, entitled " Charity.'' " " D " i Pitcher, with raised figures in colors, in- I scribed Gen. Hill and Lord Wellington. ; Bought of Dorrs of Sherborn. " " F " I Copper-lustre Pitcher, with Flaxman's designs 1 I in relief, in cream color. " " ! 1 " I One of the famous Washington Pitchers, known as "Apotheosis of W^ashington." See Prime's " Pottery and Porcelain,'" page 361. Formerly owned in Portland by Joshua W. Cushman. 1800. Pilgrim Pitcher, made in 1820 for the Bi- centennial Celebration of the Landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth; " the ware did not arrive in season for the banquet, and was sold at auction." Very rare. Pair of Liverpool Pitchers, with landscapes, Italian scenes, etc. Purchased from Capt. Holmes of Duxbury and Lawrence Kings- bury, of Needham. Fine prints. i2,tn. high. State House Pitcher, with a view of Beacon Street, about 1800. Large and rare. Lafayette Pitcher. "Fayette the Country's Guest." Fine port, after Scheffer (1822). " Washington his Country's Father." Good port, after an early picture. "Republics are not always ungrateflil." Made by Richard Hall & Son about 1824. Rare. Purchased of Capt. Cheever, Attleboro. Copper-lustre Pitcher, sometimes called gold- lustre, with a circlet of violets and other flowers. Goodwins, Southampton. Copper-lustre Pitcher, straight form, purple garlands, and ballet dancers in relief. Brown body. Lustre Pitcher, with raised figm^es of dogs, in colors, representing a hunting scene. Joslyns, Duxbury. Faience Pitcher, with arabesque figures of good design in blue and gold. Fullers of Wrentham. Faience Pitcher, with flowers in colors. From Dr. Dearborn, Exeter, N. H. (The Dearborn House is one of the oldest in town, and Gen. Washington is said to have been a guest there.) Liverpool Pitcher, in colors. Figme of Washington, etc. Date, 1804, with quota- tions from Thomas jefierson's speech. Pitchers in colors arc very scarce. IM *-^' K v.\ Jtf DESCRIPTION. Burrajre, W. Clarence ;Eartlien- I ware. Clark, Chas. E. Codman. Win. C. Me7,zotint Eng. Silver. I Medal. I Photo. Liverpool Pitcher, with frigate Constitution, on the reverse a Provincial family dining. Liverpool Pitcher. " Battle of t!ie Wasp and Reindeer, July 8, 1814 ;" on the reverse, the second view of Commodore McUon- ough's victory. Bought of Capt. Cheever, At'tleboro. Lord Nelson Pitcher, with portrait. Queen Victoria Pitcher. Small blue pitcher, with medallion, in pink, of Victoria and Prince Albert. Printed about 1843. Old English Blue Willow Ware Jug. Majolica Style Jug, with figures of huntsmen in colors. Octagon Jug, with light lustre decorations on light ground, band of raised flowers around the neck. Wind-mills, castles, etc. Bought of N. M. Fisher, So. Franklin. Small Flat Jug. Little Boy Blue, with his sheep. Brown Earthenware Jug, with leaves, vines, etc. Bought of Lincoln, Cohasset. Pair of Ale Mugs, one decorated in red, with patriotic legend, the other with the " Three Graces." Beautiful prints. Brown and Blue Pitcher, with serpentine decoration. Tafts, Newton, N. H. Small Cream Pitcher, octagon form, with vellow body, and ferns and leaves decorated in light brown, of good designs. Bought of Jas. S. Tha3'er, Blackstone. Small Cream, with yellow body, pebbled, blue bands. Pitcher. Figures in white, in relief on blue jasper ware. Fox hunt, etc. Imitation of Wedge wood. Pitcher. Figures in relief on fawn colored ground. Made hy Wood & Caldwell, English potters, 1790. Stamped on bottom. Gen. Benjamin Lincoln, Collector Port of Boston. Sargent, pinx., J.R.Smit/i, Kng. Medal awarded to Miss Leighton, marked " Town Medal for Females. Instituted by the School Committee, 182 1."' Admiral Vernon Medal. To commemorate the Battle of Porto Bello, Nov. 2. 1739. John Codman, D. D., Minister Second Ch., Dorchester, Mass., at age of 26. After J. S. Copley. Born Aug. 13, 1782. Died Dec. 23. 1S47. so OWNER. DKSCRIPTION. Colburn Jeremiah Steel. Die of Threepenny Stamp. Made and used by the Mass. Bay Colony, 1755. tt Writ. Warrant of attachment against the estate of John Whiton, Hingham, signed Middleton Cooke, Clerk, showing the print of the above stamp. Crosby, Stephen T., Earthen- Black Cream Pitcher, said to have been made Hing Iiafi!. ware. by Wedgewood. Silver-lustre Cream Pitcher. This pitcher and the preceding belonged to Gen. lienj. Lincoln. Leather. Pair English Child's Shoes, about 140 years old, made for Maj. Baylies, Aide to Gen. Lincoln, who later married his daughter. Cupples, Upham & Co. Water- Paul Revere's House at North Sq. George color. R. Tolman, pinx. Denison John N. Photo. Rev. Paul Dean of the First Universalist Church, cor. Hanover and North Bennet Sts., Oct., 1813, to April 6, 1823: Bul- nnch St. Ch., 1823-40. Born March 28, 1782; died Oct. i, i860. Grand Master of Masons in Massachusetts, etc. Edes. H . H. Crayon. Lydia Coffin, born Mi.v lO. 1732. Married John Leach of London, in the New North Church, July 24, 1750, died Mar. 25, 1811. " ' ' Silver. Pair Sugar Tongs. J.L.S. (John and Sarah Leacli) 1735. ' Photo. Two Views of No. Bennet St., showing the Leach house. 4. . ' Glass. Old crimson Salt-cellar with scalloped edge. os- j I ton for 80 years, f^rom the Boston Museum. I I ^t'otJiai! A. Gi'ee?riCi>0'/. pinx. Do DESCRIPTION. Lamb, Mrs. C. R. Lincoln, Francis, Cohassd. Little, John Mason Marshall, J. F. B., Weston . Earthen- ware . Leather. Earthen- ware. Oil Paintv Auto. Oil PaintV Mass. Charit. Mech. Assoc'n, by F. W. Lincoln, Treas. Liverpool Punch Bowl, I'ortrait of John Adams printed thereon, and nine other designs. Formerly belonging to Ichabod Nichols of Salem. Cream-colored English Pitcher with gilding ; octagonal form ; the sides are covered with gilt stars. A man's pointed Shoe, wooden heel, found in the old Lincoln house, Cohasset, 1775. Four blue Tiles from the so-called Percy house, now destroyed, corner of Columbia and Essex Sts. Lord Percy occupied this house at the commencement of the Revo- lution. Col. Thomas Marshall (see frontispiece). y. S. Copley, piiix. Selectman of Boston when it was occupied by British troops and invested by Washington. He was in com- mand of Castle Island in Boston Harbor when the State troops were being recruited for the war. He was Commander of the famous Boston Regiment (loth Mass.). The Muster-roll of the loth Mass. Battalion, Col. Thos. Marshall, Commander. Signed by him. West Point, Aug., 1779. Christopher Marshall, brother of Col. Mar- shall, Commander of the Fourth Company in the above Regiment (in full uniform). Mrs. Christopher Marsliall in the costume of the times, with remarkable head-dress. Portrait, full length, of Harrison Gray Otis, Mayor in this building, 1829-31 ; b. Oct. 8, 1760; d. Oct. 2S, 1848. Presented by the citizens of Boston, previous to 1842, to the M. C. M. A. Chester Harding/piiix. Paul Revere. By Miss Jane Stuart, after Gilbert Stuart. Samuel T. Armstrong, Mayor. 1836-39, and Acting Governor, 1835. iiorn April 29, 1784:' d. March 26. 1850. f. T. Spear, after Harding, 1856. Benjamin i^ussell, b. Sept. 13. 1761 ; d. Jan. 4, 1845. Editor of the Columbian Ceniinel. Copied by Moses Wight, after Chester Harding. Major Russell was twenty-four years Representative of Boston to the General Court and several years in the State Senate. Mar. 24, 1784, commenced the publication of the Federalist newspaper above named, which for a long time had a wide-spread influence. 54 DESCRIPTION. Mass. Historical Soc. Wood. Maunder, Mrs. G. W. Earlhen- j ware. Muller, Armin j Colored Crayon. Oil Painf s:. Nichols, C. C. lEarthen- i ware. Nichols, Mrs. Levi L. Cohasset. Oliver, Edw. Brattle Silver. Otis, Harrison Grav ilvorv. Oil PaintV. Ivory. iOil Paint's.-. Steel Ens;. Model of IJrattle Square Church, giving ever}- detail of interior and exterior, show- ing the l)all in place on the front. Dedi- cated, 1773. Sold and demolished, 1871. Made from tlie timbers of the old church by the foreman emplo3-ed by Jabez H. .Sears, contractor, from drawings b}' Arthur H. Vinal. Copper-lustre Pitcher. Raised fruit and flowers. Harrison (iray Otis, 1845. •^- ■^' D!(bourjal, p!)lX. Miss Rosanna Black, afterwards i\Irs. Joseph Blake, and later Mrs. Benjamin Whitman; attributed by Perkins to Copley, but doubted h\ Mrs. Whitman's son, a mem- ber of the Bostonian Society.* Formerly exhibited at the Boston Athenaeum. Tol)}- or ale jug, rich under-glaze colors. Fornierly belonged to Silas Morton of Penibroke, an officer in the Revolution. White Pitcher, colored figures in relief, repre- senting Dutch drinking scenes, etc. Liverpool Pitcher, with Masonic emblems and portrait of Washington. Made for (ien. James Hall, an officer of the Revolu- tion. Marked "J & P. ( Persis) Hall." Franklin Medal, 1S35. Miniature of High .Slierifif Joseph Henderson. J'lih'x Aiiihlard, pi>tx. April 23, 1783, he proclaimed from the lialconv of the Old State House, the Treaty of Peace with Great liritain. Cop}- of above, by /i'. 7". /l/llinos, lu'sfDii. Miniatm-e of Robert (iih-nan. He mairied Mary Boardman, v/ho after his death be- came Mrs. Jolin D. Bates. Harrison Gray Otis, Jr. Died 1827. Washington at Dorcliestcr Height.s. Gilbert Stuart, />y /i/s dam^htc} Stuart. Miniature of Wasl-iington, his tonil") at Mount Vernon, etc. Dcsiij^ncd t'v Ham mat Bil- //j/i^s. I-lin^raved by . ////. ]iank Note Co. Framed in wood from Mount Vernon. " Presented by Horace Barnes, Feb. 22, i860. E. Henderson Otis." After Jane * Her stepson, Mr. George H. Whitman, believes the ascription of this picture to Copley, by Perkins, cannot be correct ; " Rosanna Black, daughter of Andrew and Rachel Black, died Nov. or Dec. 1S4S, aged about 76; consequently she could have been but two years old when Copley went to England in 1774; the artist had no opportunity to paint her portrait in England; and by the testimony of the "familv the portrait cannot be that of Mrs. Anna Black, Miss 131ack"s mother; it must be the work of sonic other artist." 55 DESCRIPTION. Otis, Harrison Gray Otis, William C. Pitman, Joshua L. Charlestown . Pitts, Thomas, Detroit, Mich. Litho. Photo. Cop. plate Engrav'g. Litho. Cop. plate Engrav'g. Auto. Clipping. Embroid'y. Earthen- ware . Oil PaintV. George and Martha Washington. From the originals by Stuart, in the Athenaeum. L. Prang r^ te7npore till the next meeting of the Society. 70 XIV. MEETINGS OF DIRECTORS. Regular meetings of the Directors shall be held on the day previous to the regular meetings of the Society, at an hour to be fixed by the President; special meetings of the Directors shall be held in such manner as they may appoint ; and a maiorit\' shall constitute a quorum for business. XV. FINANCE COMMITTEE. The President shall annually, in the month of January, appoint two Directors, who. with the President, shall constitute the Committee of Finance, to examine, from time to time, the books and accounts of the Treasurer; to audit his accounts at the close of the year, and to report upon the expediency of proposed expenditures of money. XVI. STANDING COMMITTEES. The President shall annually, in the month of January, appoint four standing committees as follows : — Cojiunittee on the Rooms. A committee of seven members, to be styled the Committee on the Rooms, of which the President and Clerk of the Society shall be members ex officio, who shall have charge of all the arrangements of the Rooms, (except books, manuscripts, and other objects appropriate to the Library,) offered as gifts or loans ; the hanging of pictures, and tlie general aiTangement of the Society's collections in their department. Com mi t tec on Papers. A committee of three members, to be styled the Committee on Papers, who shall have charge of the subject of papers to be read, or other exercises of a like nature, at the monthly meetings of the Society. ('ojiD/tittee 0)1 Membership . A committee of live or more members, to be styled the Committee on Membership, whose duty it shall be to give information in relation to the purposes of the Society, and increase its membership. Conimittee on the Library. A committee of five members, to be styled the Committee on the Librar}', who shall have charge of all the arrangements of the Library, including the acceptance or rejection of all books, manuscripts and other objects appropriate to the Library, offered as gifts or loans, and the general arrangement of the Society's collections in their department. 71 These four committees shall perform the duties above set forth, under the general supervision of the Directors. Vacancies, which may occur in any of these committees during their term of service, shall be filled by the President. XVII. AMENDMENTS TO BY-LAWS. Amendments to the By-Laws may be made, at any annual meeting, by the vote of two-thirds of the members present and voting. They may also be made by the like vote at any regular meeting, provided notice of the same be contained in a call for such meeting issued by the Clerk, and sent to every member. PReeEEDINSS BOSrONIAN seeiEtY Special Meeting, May 24, 1887, r-L:jj^ PROSPECTUS. Original contributions relating to the history of Boston, as read before the Society, will be, from time to time, published; eaclj monograph will be complete in itself, and will also be paged continuously in the series for binding. Members of the Association will receive the publications as soon as they are issued. Other persons may obtain them, each at its retail price, on application to the Society, or Damrell, Upham & Co. EXTRACT FROM BY-LAWS, ARTICLE IV. ADMISSION FEE AND ASSESSMENTS. Each member shall pay five dollars at the time of his admission, and five dollars each first of January afterwards, into the treasury of the Society for its general ]iurposes ; but if any member shall neglect to pay Jiis acbnission fee, or annual assessment, for three months after the same is due, he shall be liable to forfeit his membership at any time when the Directors shall so order. The payment of the sum of twenty-five dollars in any one year by any member of the Society shall constitute him a life member of the Society; life merafvers shall be free from assessments, and entitled to all the rights and privileges of annual members. The money received for such life memberships shall con- stitute a fund, of which not more than twenty per cent, together with the annual income shall be spent in any one year. PROCEEDINGS BOSTONIAN SOCIETY EULOGY SAMUEL MILLER OUINCY SAMUEL ARTHUR BENT MAY 24, 1887 B O S T O N OLD STATE HOUSE 1887. SAMUEL MILLER QUINCY PROCEEDINGS The Old State House, May 24, 1887. A special meeting of the Bostonian Society was held in the Council Chamber, this day, at three o'clock, P. M. The President, Mr. Curtis Guild, called the ladies and gentlemen present to order, and said : — "The Bostonian Society and its friends have been called together to-day to pay a tribute to the memory of one whom the Society esteemed, not only as a fellow-member, but as a citizen, a patriot and a man. It was eminently fitting that the germ of this Society, the Antiquarian Club, having for its object the promotion of the study of the history of Boston and the preservation of its antiquities, should have as its first President one whose family name is identified with some of the brightest pages of Boston's past history. A graduate of Harvard University, an ardent lover of Boston and her insti- tutions, a representative in her City Councils, a good and worthy citizen, and with ready patriotism offering his valuable services and his life to his country in her hour of need, Samuel Miller Ouincy has not only proved a worthy representative of a name honored and revered in this Commonwealth, but he has shown that he possessed those characteristics of mind and heart that everywhere command admiration and respect. Animated with this feeling, this Society has felt that the death of such a man should be marked by more than mere passing- mention, and has therefore invited a gentleman amply qualified to perform the duty, to present in a fitting manner a record of our late fellow-member's life, and those traits of character that endeared him to all who enjoyed his friendship or were honored with his acquaintance. " Before inviting you to listen to this address, I will ask the committee appointed to draft resolutions on the death of General Samuel Miller Ouincy, f<:)r their report." The Rev. Joshua P. Bodfish, in responding, invited atten- tion to the beautiful crayon portrait of the General by Otto Grundmann, appropriately decorated with American flags ; to the painting by Bage of Mayor Josiah Ouincy, Jr., the father of General Quincy ; to Josiah Ouincy, the second mayor of Boston (a crayon by Furness), his grandfather ; and lastly to the great-grandfather, Josiah Ouincy (a painting by Gilbert Stuart), who defended in this Council Chamber the British troops who took part in the so-called Boston Massacre. Thus the whole family looked down from the walls to acquiesce in the words of eulogy on the first President of the Boston Antiquarian Club. Mr. Bodfish then presented the following resolutions, which were adopted by a rising vote : — Whereas, It hath pleased our Pleavenly Father to call to himself General Samuel Miller Ouincy, formerly Secretary of this Society, and first President of the Antiquarian Club ; Resolved, That the Bostonian Society sincerely mourns the loss of one who proved himself a most zealous and efficient officer of the Society, whose services at the time of its organ- ization were invaluable, and to whose labors it is indebted in a great measure for the gratifying success that has attended its work. Resolved, That in common with our fellow citizens, we desire to honor the memory of Genci"al (Juincy as the true patriot, which he proved himself by his gallant services in the hour of his country's need, and also a most worthy gentleman and friend, and the worthy bearer of an honored name. Resolved, That these resolutions be recorded on the books of the Society, and a copy of the same be forwarded to the bereaved family. (Signed,) Joshua P. Bodfish, Samuel H. Russell, Hamilton A. Hill, Committee. The President then said that those present needed no in- troduction to a talented friend of the late General Quincy, and that they would take pleasure in listening to Mr. Samuel Arthur Bent, a fellow-member of the Society. At the close of Mr. Bent's oration, a vote of thanks was unanimously given to him for his interesting address, and it was also voted that the same should be printed. William Clarence Burrage, Clerk. EULOGY Mr. President: — One of the objects of this Society, as de- clared in the By-Laws, is "to promote the study of the history of Boston." To address the members of this association in commemoration of the late Samuel Miller Quincy is an un- dertaking immediately within the scope of our Constitution, for, although he left us but yesterday, he already belongs to, and is a part of, historic Boston. The worthy inheritor of a distinguished name, he gave it the fresh lustre of martial achievement, and then entwined the soldier's laurel with the scholar's bay. That we meet here in a corporate capacity is largely due to his disinterested civic patriotism, and these memorials of the past which we have gathered and hold in trust for the community are mute orators, whose silence is more eloqiient of the dead than are any words of mine. In- troduced, however, to this organization at his invitation, and sympathizing with the purpose which unites us, I accept the task of recalling the salient features of his career, in a hall the walls of which once echoed the eloquence of his great ances- tor, — "dead ere his prime" — and in which memorials of his family surround us like the ancestral statues which the Romans bore in the funeral processions of their heroes. If I have read aright the history of our late associate, two instincts were strongly developed in him which are rarely united in the same person, the military and the antiquarian, and it is for the purpose of suggesting a lesson of patriotic duty as soldier and scholar, that I ask your attention. In this filial act of commemoration of one of its founders, this Society properly invites the presence, not only of his relatives, but of his gal- lant companions in arms, in whose congenial intercourse he 8 forgot the hardships of war, and in charge of whose tender ministrations he was laid to rest. The early life of General Quincy was like that of many a Boston boy. Born in 1832, he was prepared for college at a private school, and graduated at Harvard University in 1852. To none of his contemporaries was the prospect of life fairer at this moment than to him. He had graduated at a college over which his grandfather had presided, who was closing a career of usefulness which this city is proud to remember. Upon his father had worthily fallen the unspotted mantle of municipal authority. Under the roofs of both, the refined cul- ture of Boston met whatever was most distinguished or illus- trious from abroad. With such examples to stir his youthful ambition, he entered upon the study of the law with one of its ablest masters, now bending under the weight of years, but of undimmed intellect, who has said that he never had a more faithful or promising student than Quincy. He was admitted to practice in 1855.^ He had already joined the Independent Corps of Cadets, then known as the Divisionary Corps of Cadets. To this or- ganization, then as always composed of " the flower of Bos- ton's youth," and worthy to be reckoned among the "institu- tions" in which the city takes a maternal pride, Quincy ever maintained an affectionate loyalty. ^ It had been his military alma mater, in that it had prepared him for the real struggle of the Civil War, and it is no exaggeration to say that he would have preferred to command the Cadets than to accept their escort as Governor of the Commonwealth. Let me here anticipate mention of some later events, by quoting the words of the present Commander of the Corps concerning Quincy's 1 The first volume of " Massachusetts Reports," called " Quincy's Reports," was edited by Samuel M. Quincy, and was published in 1S65; it contains cases from the manuscripts of Josiah Quincy, Jr., (1744-75) ; Mr. Quincy also edited the "Law Reporter" with John Lowell, for the years 1859-60. 2 The dates of General Quincy's connection with the Cadets have kindly been furnished by Captain Charles E. Stevens : Joined, Dec. i, 1853 ; appointed color- sergeant. May 3, 1854 to June 19, 1855 ; elected first lieutenant (in command of a company), Aug. 26, 1858; resigned to enter the 2d Mass. Infantry, May, 1861 ; rejoined, Dec. 31, 1875, ^"<^ served three years; again rejoined, Jan. 30, 1879, and served one year. connection with it, not merely as of historic interest, but of practical example to the youth of Boston : " He was warmly interested in the corps, and never failed at all times to give proofs of his interest. For many years after the war he was not only enrolled as a private in one of the companies, but he did active duty. It was often the sub- ject of remark, that a man who had held a commission in the field as Colonel of one of the United States regiments should be willing to go through the drudgery of a private's work in the ranks of the militia. Yet such was the case of General Ouincy, and he did the work because he conscientiously be- lieved it his duty to do it. I have often talked with him on this subject. His idea was that every Boston gentleman was bound to give a certain amount of time and effort to service with the Corps of Cadets. He became very impatient when he saw scores of young fellows unable to grasp the high motive that led him to think as he did. We had also frequent talks on the methods by which the corps was conducted, and he never made a suggestion that did not receive respectful attention. " But perhaps the greatest service he ever did the corps was one that he probably never gave a thought to, so far as it af- fected the battalion. I mean the little book he wrote as a Colonel in the United States army for the use of recruits in his regiment. He called it, I believe, a Manual of Camp and Garrison Duty. So far as I have ever seen any manual relat- ing to such duty, it is the best. Since General Quincy wrote it, of course it has become obsolete in some details, but it still remains the model for all such manuals ; and, with a few alterations to suit the tactical changes and changes of army custom, it now forms the basis of the chapter on similar duties in the Massachusetts Regulations. These regulations were prepared fifteen years after General Ouincy wrote his little book, but the Corps of Cadets had then used the book for sev- eral years in the guise of standing orders for camp." It is a strange illustration of tonponi viutantur, that the man who was destined to command two regiments of United States colored troops in a war to support the Constitution and the laws carried the flag as color-sergeant of the Cadets dur- lO ing the three days that they were ordered out at the time of the capture and rendition of Anthony Burns in 1854. It was, doubtless, a disagreeable duty, but when the Rebellion broke out, it was seen that there was a virtue in obedience to the Constitution and the laws. The outbreak of the Rebellion found Ouincy, therefore, ready. Like the one hundred and fifty men whom the Cadets had trained to active service in the field, he was no raw re- cruit, but a soldier, ready to obey, iit to command. His appli- cation for assignment to duty was made May 2, 1861, and on the 20th of that month he was aj:)pointed by Colonel Gordon Captain of Co. E. 2d Mass. Infantry, then encamped at Brook ]'\arm, in West Roxbury. He was obliged, however, to lay aside the functions of a legislator in order to accept the com- mission of an officer. On the day when Lincoln was first elected to the Presidency of the United States, Ouincy had been chosen a member of the Lower House of the General Court, representing in part the ward which then contained this building, Faneuil Hall and the Old South Church. ^ The promotion from first lieutenant to captain was only a technical one, for Ouincy had already commanded a company, and the tactical skill which he had shown in the militia served him in good stead in preparing his company for the sterner duties of war. First assigned to General Patterson's command in the valley of the Shenandoah, which was afterward assumed by General Banks, the regiment received its baptism of fire during the retreat of May, 1862, and took part in the battle of Cedar Mountain in August of that year, as part of the army of Virginia under command of General Pope. In this action, so disastrous to the regiment but so fortu- nate for its reputation for gallantry, through which so many of its bravest officers and men entered the Valhalla of heroes, Captain Ouincy was wounded in two places and taken pris- oner. The wound in the foot, which was a permanent disa- I The dates of General Quincy's commissions, etc., in the 2d Mass. Regiment arc: Captain, May 24, 1S61 ; Major, Sept. 17, 1S62 ; Colonel, Nov. 9, 1S62; battle of Cedar Mountain, Aug. 9, 1862; rejoined the regiment, March 6, 1863; re- signed after battle of Chancellorsville, May, 1S63; l^revet Brig.-General, March 13, 1865. II bility, brought him to the ground, and he was led off the field and laid among a mass of wounded soldiers. He remained there all night and the next day, but was finally carried to the rebel hospital, and from there by rail to Staunton. While in the hospital it was with the utmost difficulty that he saved his leg from amputation. There was more service in it still, and his military career had only just begun. Arriving at Staunton he found in his blouse pocket, "after acute physical suffering had in a measure," as he says, "given place to the prisoner's worst enemy, the leaden vacuity of ennui," a little almanac and diary for 1862, with half a lead pencil. With these he succeeded in keeping a journal of daily events with his reflections thereon, during the whole period of his captivity, the last entry being comprised in the words, printed later in all the glory of capital letters, "A FREE MAN AT Willard's." This diary was read at a reunion of officers in Boston, May 11, 1877, and printed for private distribution. " These jottings," as he calls them, were almost his only resource, " to pass away the leaden hours. With no com- panion," he says, " to whom I can open my soul, I must soliloc|uize, if only to convince myself that I have not yet sunk to the level of my surroundings." Under date of Sep- tember 20 he wrote : " This, in my opinion, is for the country the very moment of convulsion and travail, out of which some new state of things, — the commencement of some new era, — for better or for worse, will surely come. But at this critical moment to be walled up alive, where only faint echoes and uncertain sounds from the great fields meet us, — the fields where our fellow-soldiers arc playing out the great game of the age, — is a chance of war, and nothing to com- plain of while we still live. A great battle has been fought in Maryland (Antietam), and, although they make it out that we were worsted, yet from signs and tokens we draw our own inferences." On the 28th he heard of the death of Major Wilder Dwight, after a report that Pope's officers were to be paroled, and so he writes : " Away with visions of home and ease ! Wilder Dwight has been killed, and I am major, I suppose. . 12 Now to play the man, and be prepared to go to the majority, in either sense, when God's will is." A rebel soldier, just leaving for his regiment, shakes hands all round with the prisoners, who enjoin him to take care of himself, and Ouincy writes : " I have experienced from rebel privates almost uni- form kindness, good fellowship, camaraderie ; they treat one as a fellow-soldier. All the insult, all the bitterness and ill- treatment have come from officers and citizens in high positions in society, and from women." In October the prisoners were granted the liberty of the yard, by virtue of a parole which Ouincy wrote and had signed and sent down. He was the first, he said afterward, to test the document's efficacy, "for we could hardly believe that it would really pass us out. The guard stopped me, of course, called the corporal, and finally decided that it was a genuine thing ; and I hobbled painfully down four steep flights and out, looked up and saw the rest all crowding to the window, and waving hands and hats, to see us actually emerge, like a rat, from the trap which had held us through long weary months. I find," he wrote in the diary, "that the art of crutch progression is quite a science, and has its out- side edges and its backward rolls, etc., which are not to be learned without much practice and balancing. Up and down stairs with ease, confidence, and grace, is somewhat of an attainment." In October, Ouincy and other prisoners were removed to Libby prison at Richmond. It had been reported that, by special orders of Jefferson Davis, none of Pope's officers, cap- tured at Cedar Mountain, were to be treated as prisoners of war or paroled, but kept as hostages to be hanged from time to time in retaliation for the execution of guerillas, threatened by Pope. But Ouincy had seen a Richmond paper with an official list of prisoners paroled from the Libby, among whom were several of Pope's officers, and he, therefore, claimed his rights as a prisoner of war ; and, on behalf of himself and all who were able to travel, he demanded to be sent to Rich- mond, to take his turn for parole or exchange. His claim was allowed, and they were ordered to be ready to depart at half-past four the next morning. " There wasn't much sleep 13 in No. 7 that night," he writes, "and early next morning we were off. At 2 A. JM., (the following day) we arrived, where I now write, at the Libby prison, being received with the once familiar cry of 'Corporal of the Guard. Post No. i.' The corporal came and let us in. The officer, cross and sleepy, sent us to the hospital department, up three flights — an immense room in a large tobacco warehouse, lighted with a single dip, which only made darkness visible. A ragged young nurse, with his hair on end, welcomed us to the scene of despair. We were put on cots of sacking, with nothing under or over us, and shivered ourselves into oblivion. The next morning, the familiar notes of reveille on the fife, accom- panied by the bass and snare-drum of the side-show, brought us again to consciousness. I was about to put my head out of the window, but was forcibly informed that I'd better not unless I wanted it shot off. This day, a party went off which we had hoped to join, but were disappointed." On Sunday, however, Ouincy was paroled, and he and his companions, "a wretched crew," were packed into coaches and wagons, and jolted a miserable fifteen miles to the flag- of-truce boat, whence he reached Washington, drew his pay, and replaced his ragged blouse, bullet-pierced trousers, and torn Confederate cap ("given me on the field to replace my broad-brimmed felt, which a Georgia gentleman fancied"), by the jauntiest uniform he could find, and was so transformed that the captain of the boat which had brought him to Wash- ington denied having seen him before, until convinced by his crutches and wounded foot. From the day of Cedar Mountain through all the subse- quent years of his existence, he was never again a well man. Of him, as of many another, it may be said that he gave his life for his country as truly as if he had fallen in the imminent deadly breach at Chancellorsville, or had wasted miserably away in the prison-pen of Richmond. Although commis- sioned colonel of his regiment in 1862, Ouincy did not take command until March, 1863. It was during his furlough, spent in partial recovery from w^ounds and imprisonment, that I remember seeing him, then a stranger to me, painfully limping on his crutches down Park H street, one of those gaunt figures not unfamiliar in our North- ern cities, ahiiost the only visible indication that elsewhere in our borders War was cutting the Gordian knot which Peace had failed to unloose. He might have remained at home, and posed successfully as "the broken soldier, kindly bade to stay ; " but with the same sense of duty which sent him and thousands like him to the war, his keen spirit chafed under the delay of a tedious cure, and so, when in March he assumed command of his regiment, he had not wholly recovered ; but the drills and inspections of that winter went on, which placed the 2d Mass. Infantry among the eleven regiments in the en- tire army found worthy, after a special examination, of high commendation. That the Second did its dut}' at Chancellors- ville in May, losing thirty-three /r/- av//. of its effective force, is part of its history, but here Ouincy's connection with it ceased. Originally of slender form and delicate organization, his in- domitable spirit had hitherto carried him superior to physical weakness, but he had reached the limit of successful endur- ance, and he turned reluctantly from active service to another period of recuperation, in the hope that later he might be assigned to some other field of patriotic endeavor. Accord- ingly, having found after the march of his regiment to Stafford Court House, subsequent to the battle, that he had entirely overestimated his strength, and unwilling to retain a position the duties of which he could not fully discharge, he resigned his commission, and in October of that year was appointed lieutenant-colonel of the 73d United States Colored Infantry, and detailed as acting assistant inspector-general on the staff of General Andrews, formerly of the 2d Mass. Regi- ment, who, after the reduction of Port Hudson, was assigned to the organization of Corps d'Afrjquc, in the Department of the Gulf. 1 It was a congenial position for Colonel Quincy, I The following are some approximate dates of General Quincy's commissions and appointments in the Department of the Gulf: Lieut.-Colonel 73d U. S. Col. Infantry, Oct., 1S63; Colonel, Fall of 1864; Colonel of the 96th and Sist Regi- ments from March 13, 1S65, to Nov. 30, 1866, when he was mustered out. Acting Mayor of New Orleans, May 5, to June, 1S65 ; member of the Claims Commis- sion to Sept., 1866. 15 for his scholastic as well as military education and aptitudes enabled him to compile some technical works on drill and discipline, already alluded to, which received the commenda- tion of his superior officers, and were of such assistance to the junior officers of the garrison that they gained for it the appellation of "the West Point of the Mississippi." In the fall of 1864 he was promoted to the colonelcy of the regiment, and years afterward he made a touching reference to his connection with it. In a speech in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, December 18, 1872, on the famous resolution censuring Sumner's proposition in the U. S. Sen- ate, — "that the names of battles with our fellow-citizens shall not be continued in the army register or placed upon the regimental colors of the United States," General Quincy opposed the passage of the resolution, because he did not believe that it was the province of the Legislature to rebuke or censure the representatives at Washington ; but as a citi- zen and soldier, he did not think that the time had arrived to wipe out the names, not of victories, but, of actions in which the United States troops had been engaged, and feeling that Mr. Sumner's proposition was, therefore, premature, he said: "At one time during the war I was colonel of the 73d U. S. Colored Infantry, a regiment, which, under another comman- der, had highly distinguished itself in the first bloody repulse at Port Hudson. It lost heavily; it was mentioned with high praise by the commanding general ; but yet, when a year afterward a departmental order was issued, specifying the regi- ments entitled to inscribe 'Port Hudson' on their colors, the two negro regiments were quietly ignored. I addressed a petition at once to the Secretary of War, at Washington, stating the case, and closing by a mention of the fact, that whatever might be the fate of the petition, yet that the colors of my regiment bore one honorable mark which never should be effaced, — the broad, deep stain of the life-blood of the color-sergeant who fell in the unsuccessful charge, and relin- quished his flag only with his life. I received in consequence direct authority, from the Adjutant-General at Washington, to inscribe 'Port Hudson' upon the blood-stained flag of the 73d." i6 Colonel Ouincy was president of an examining board for officers of colored troops at Baton Rouge, and later at New Orleans. As colonel of the 96th, and then, by consolidation, of the 8 1st U. S. Colored Infantry, in which Greely, afterward of Arctic fame, was an officer, he commanded the regiment during the riot in New Orleans, in July, 1866, when the rebel element attacked the members of the Constitutional Conven- tion, and in which several white and black Unionists lost their lives. His letters give a pleasing picture of his life in New Orleans. His love of foreign languages took him into a French family, and he gave his spare time to the study of French and German. There are frequent calls for German books, and even mention of that invariable adjunct of a young man's life in a foreign family, the landlady's pretty daughter. He humorously announces in one letter his appointment as acting mayor of New Orleans, saying that General Banks had that day executed "a coitp d'etat, by which the civil mayor has been decapitated and I am installed vice-regent in his place. Half the city is delighted — the other half furious, . . . but if it pleases you to have another ' Mayor Ouincy ' in the family, soyas-cii licnrciix'' The assassination of Lincoln in the previous April wrung from him a cry of anguish. When the news came the shops were closed without orders, " and it seemed as if the city had received a mortal blow, and the very sunshine looked mourn- ful as it struck down the deserted and hushed streets. Our negro troops will feel as if they had lost their father in the President. In the recent assault on Fort Blakely they led the charge, and when they went over the parapet the enemy in many instances fell on their knees, expecting Fort Pillow treatment, but by the aid of their excellent discipline the troops were restrained. If the murder of the President had then taken place and been known, they would have charged with Lear's furious cry of ' Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill ! ' and nothing human could then have saved the garrison when the black faces with gleaming eyes came swarming over their works." In August he is looking forward to a return at skating-time, and says that his lameness is all gone, "and only an occasional ^7 twinge reminds me of that bullet that went crashing through the small bones one Saturday night about sundown, in a sort of lurid fog of battle, in which gunpowder and twilight made an infernal denii-jonr, ' when the ranks were rolled in vapor, and the winds were laid with sound.' " He was, however, to remain in the city another year to serve as chairman of the Claims Commission to adjust differences between citizens and the national government. This varied and honorable career was rewarded with the brevet of Brigadier-General, which he received March 13, 1865, "for gallant and meritori- ous services during the War." After leaving the army. General Ouincy spent a year and a half in Europe, rallying in a milder climate than ours his scat- tered forces, pursuing with zest his favorite studies, and stor- ing his mind with those pictures and images of the past, of which he was to make frequent use in literary exercise. Shat- tered in health, and, therefore, unable to engage with persist- ency in a laborious profession, he might have withdrawn into the recesses of a library, and spent the succeeding years in congenial study. But he was still a man ; he had, on a wider field, shown himself an American ; he was now to adapt to himself the words of the Latin dramatist and to declare : " I am a Bostonian, and nothing that relates to Jicr is foreign to vie!' He was again called to the Legislature from the same ward which had once before entrusted her interests to his keeping, and twice the electors of the entire city (in 1873 and 1875) chose him to the honorable office of alderman of Boston. We may be sure that in these positions he gave a conscientious attention to the subject-matter of legislation, and that his opinions were formed upon independent investiga- tion and an unbiased judgment. But for that independence, not so much of party shackles as of personal prejudice and pecuniary interest, his political career might have been of longer duration but of less honor. He had an honest ambition to be of use to his fellow-citizens in whatever channels that usefulness might be directed. He had the ambition but not the arts of the politician, and a candor of thought and speech which is often incompatible with political popularity. So much the worse for his success, so much the better for his memory ! Alluding to the exemption of an ancient military organization from jury duty, he did not hesitate to say to a committee of the Board of Aldermen, "There are among us certain peculiar Bostonian institutions which are held in a manner sacred, and to whose defects or doubtful influence our eyes must be resolutely closed." But his true field of activity lay elsewhere. Had he been merely a popular alderman we should not meet to-day to de- plore his loss and raise a tribute to his memory. There is an unofficial office borne by the alert, circumspect, loyal, learned citizen of our municipal commonwealth, which depends upon the fickle smile of no constituency, is bought by no bargains, is maintained by no truckling, is harassed by no fear of defeat, is the victim of no "deals" or combinations. Turning from the debasing wrangles of political cabals, we shall find that our friend was for many years an alderman at large, an un- elected conservator of old Boston, of whose very trees and stones he felt himself to be a part. Turn over the pages of our daily newspapers for the last twenty years, and whenever any question of local interest has agitated the community, any destruction of landmarks has been threatened, any pre- servation of monuments has been suggested, you will find his familiar initials appended to stirring appeals, to ingenious satire, to eloquent denunciation. On the question of erecting a new court-house some one mentioned the Common as an available site, and Quincy replied: "This spot of verdure and foliage in the heart of your city is vacant of buildings for the simple reason that it does not belong to trade to pile bricks and granite on in order to make rich men richer ; nor can it compare with your aristocratic park out of town, over which Mr. and Mrs. Shoddy roll in their carriage : but it is the people's Common, in which the millionaire has no advantage over the poorest citizen, and which has been enjoyed by the ancestors of both ever since the days of the parson who used to ride his brindled bull over it, two centuries ago. ^ The people were driven off for a time when I William Blaxton. P''ide " Collections of the Bostonian Society," Vol. L, No. I, p. 23. 19 Gage's regiments camped there, but after Mr. Washington had made the town a little too hot for the red-coats to stay any longer, the people and their cows came back, and since then upon this spot which the red-coats could not hold, even the legions of trade and the almighty dollar have as yet made no impression." It was natural that a man who thought and spoke thus on the preservation of Boston's land-marks and public places should join those who felt as he did, and combine with them for mutual support. If Quincy did not suggest the formation of our parent club he was one of its most vigorous advocates, and the first meeting of those interested in its formation was held in his office, near the close of May, 1879. From that meeting sprang the Boston Antiquarian Club, of the preliminary meetings of which General Ouincy was chairman, until, on its final organization, he was elected President. The object of the club was declared in the con- stitution to be "to promote the knowledge of the history of Boston, by the collection of books, manuscripts, and pictures, and by other suitable means." It was intended to draw to a focus the Bostonian's love of his city, and to defend her physical integrity as others might combine to preserve intact her political organism. At the first annual meeting, January 13, 1880, the President, on taking the chair, after modestly suggesting that others had a greater right to the honor than himself, but that no one could receive it with a deeper conviction of the real value, both to present and to future generations, of the work pro- posed by it, said that " it is only by a study of the past and of its lessons that we can assure ourselves that we are making true and not false progress. And in this field of the past the antiquarian and the historian work together — the one gather- ing, collecting, and preserving the materials for the other's labor. But in addition to our work of collecting and preserv- ing the materials for its history, there is yet another direction, as it seems to me, in which our Club may be enabled to do yeoman's service in behalf of the truest and best interests of our city. Whenever in the future, as in the past, trade's dollar-worshipping hosts shall threaten the destruction of its 20 historic temples and fanes of liberty, the effacement of its characteristic features, or the invasion of the time-honored muster-field which British red-coats failed to hold, then may we not hope that our organization would serve as a rallying- point and headquarters for a united defence? Be it ours to furnish at least a Lanrick-mead, whereon the clansmen may assemble, confident that when danger threatens they will troop in like Roderick's warriors at the signal of the fiery cross." The Antiquarian Club continued to hold interesting monthly meetings during the year 1880, with a constantly increasing membership, which demanded separate and inde- pendent quarters, found in Pemberton Square. At the annual election of 1881, the retiring president congratulated the club upon its roll of 174 members, and declined a re-elec- tion, expressing his willingness to act in any other capacity. Mr. W. H. Whitmore was accordingly elected President, and General Ouincy Secretary and Treasurer. In the record of March 8, 1S81, the subject of securing for antiquarian purposes and public uses the Old State House is first mentioned by a resolution which the Secretary was in- structed to communicate to the other historical associations of the city, with the view of obtaining concert of action in its favor. In June of that year, General Ouincy addressed the committee of the city government, which heard a petition to remove this building on the expiration of existing leases, be- cause it interfered with carrying out a great public improve- ment, namely : the extension of Devonshire street from Milk street to Dock Square ; and in its place, for instance, to erect some monumental shaft or other memorial. Speaking by vote of the Club, on behalf of the remonstrants to such action. General Ouincy said that "the old familiar cry of common sense vs. sentiment is again raised, as though, for- sooth, they were the opposite poles of a magnet, and that which the one attracts the other must necessarily repel. So far from this being the case, is it not notorious that in many of the highest and most important decisions of human life, the dictates of common sense are seen to be such only because they are also the dictates of sentiment ? For instance, when 21 the thunder of Beauregard's cannonade of Sumter first reached our ears, to the question of common sense of how best to accept the challenge in a manner to arouse enthusiasm for the old flag, sentiment replied : * Run it up to the spire of the Old South Meeting-house.' This building, Mr. Chairman," he continued, "is one of the few little pieces which remain to us of the old rebel town, as they used to call us in Parliament after they had heard of our little tea-party at Griffin's wharf. Against these walls rattled the bullets of the Boston Massacre, and within the same walls the defence of the same men who fired these bullets was bravely undertaken by two of the foremost patriots and sons of liberty, John Adams and Josiah Ouincy, Jr. And in this building, accord- ing to the former, the child Independence was born. When the contemplated World's Fair shall be held in our city, if the foreigner then in our streets, on remarking our monu- ments and testimonials, shall ask in what manner the virtues of our ancestors are commemorated, we shall still, I trust, be able to reply. Si niomtmcnta quaeris, cirawispicc, and, without crossing Charlestown bridge, show him within a stone's throw from each other, the Birthplace of Independence, the Cradle of Liberty, and the Temple of Freedom — three old buildings whose unpretending walls are more eloquent of the virtues of the founders of the republic, of that people's government whose success shakes every throne, than could be all the tons of granite or marble, which we, their descendants, could ever pile together." Is it out of place, in commemorating the author of such burning words of civic eloquence, to express the hope that at no distant day this entire building, saved from trade's destruc- tion by the Antiquarian Club of Boston, may be committed to the keeping of its successor, and preserved forever as a monument of municipal loyalty ! The appeal of General Ouincy and his associates for the preservation of this building having been successful, we find that in November, 1881, a committee, of which our present President was chairman, reported in favor of the incorporation and enlargement of the Club, with a view to its occupation and supervision of the Memorial Halls, and from favorable action on that report a committee of ten members, of whom General Ouincy was one, associated themselves as a corpora- tion under the name of the Bostonian Society, for the purpose of " promoting the study of the history of Boston and the preservation of its antiquities." On the 27th of December, the Boston Antiquarian Club transferred to it all its property and disbanded. To follow from that time to the present year the intimate connection of General Ouincy with this Society would be to write its history.'' The resolutions, drawn up by those who had been intimately associated with him, speak from a knowl- edge which I do not possess of his faithful service as Clerk and Treasurer from the organization to the annual meeting of 1884, and as a member of the Committee on Rooms until his death. A resolution adopted on his retirement from the former offices attests the value of his services, which it declares to "have been largely instrumental in bringing the Society to its present state of prosperity and usefulness, and entitle him to the warmest gratitude of its officers and mem- bers." In all these offices, as in all the positions, civil and military, he ever held, he faithfully performed the duties belonging to them as far as his strength allowed, and when his strength was no longer equal to the tasks, he laid them down ; office had no charm for him unconnected with duty, to shirk which was as foreign to his nature as flattery, and as odious as hypocrisy. His work was done. Still, he did not cease to be a con- spicuous figure in the gatherings of men to whom his presence gave pleasure. So long as he stood upon the earth he was always to be counted among those who maintained the right, the fitting, the proper, against whatever was mean and un- worthy and contemptible. Especially was this true of every- thing that concerned the military in its relations to the civil power and economy. Nothing stirred his indignation more than audacious attempts to steal the uniform of the soldier to serve the politician in. Upon a proposition to exempt soldiers from the provisions of the civil service rules, he spurned what he called an insult to the self-respecting vet- erans ; "for our battles and our hardships," he said, "our 23 wounds and our prisons, we have the reward of the conscious- ness of patriotic duty done ; for the sake of our past services do not force upon the public our present services at a price which they may not be worth. I have so much confidence in the average intelligence and manliness of that class that I should be willing, were it possible, to assemble the survivors of all who at any time served under my command, during my nearly six years of army service, with the utmost confidence that they would, after I had talked with them for ten minutes, be ready to join me by an overwhelming majority in an indig- nant protest against this legislation, as an insult and a slur upon their manhood." What nobler epitaph could the self- respecting soldier wish than these manly words ? Of such a one did Wordsworth think, when he drew the character of the "Happy Warrior," — "Who, if he rise to station of command, Rises by open means ; and there will stand On honorable terms, or else retire, And in himself possess his own desire ; Who comprehends his trust, and to the same Keeps faithful with a singleness of aim ; And therefore does not stoop, nor lie in wait For wealth or honors, or for worldly state." • But the poet declares that such a soul is one "whose master-bias leans To home-felt pleasures and to gentle scenes." In such an atmosphere, rather than in one heavy with the shock of war and politics, would we contemplate the closing years of our associate's life, in those reunions where he loved to bind himself to his comrades by a common memory and the exercise of congenial tastes, never obtruding himself by aught that could smack of arrogance or the pride of birth or of high achievement ; reserved, rather, in general conversa- tion, until some word kindled his imagination or stirred his recollection. Who has not then seen him enter the contro- versial milee with visor down, resenting attacks upon what he 24 loved, striking vigorously at shams, stripping with ridicule the tatters from impostures, and then withdrawing as quietly as he came? Often assuming an air of indifference and style of persiflage, and a punctilious courtesy after the manner of the Frenchmen at Fontenoy, advancing hat in hand, and request- ing the gentlemen of England to fire first, Quincy, when the hour came, struck valiant blows that rang upon his opponent's shield and then pierced it. But those who come here to-day to recall his features snatched from oblivion by the artist's hand, and to revive the impression his life and character made upon them, will think of him as the gentleman and scholar, as the student of history and our local antiquities in the Bostonian Society, and of war records in the Military Historical Society, as the lover of German poetry and music in the Orpheus Musical Society, as the patriot soldier of the Loyal Legion, as the philanthropic successor of his father as trustee of the Perkins Institution for the Blind. Faithful to duty and to friendship in all these associations of human interest and activity, he has not found a successor — his chair is still empty. His literary powers were by no means small, and would have sustained greater public exercise than he gave them. He was fond of literary exercise, in which he forgot the ravages of disease. He loved to turn his knowledge of foreign languages to account by translations, and these efforts have a positive poetic value. How his blood must have stirred with thoughts of his own experience as he translated Heine's "Two Grenadiers," even as Sidney's at the reading of "• Chevy Chace " : — Brother, thou now must grant my latest prayer. When death arrives, of all friends still the best, My corse to our own country thou wilt bear, And in fair France's bosom let me rest. The cross of Honor with its crimson band Upon m\- heart then sacredly be placed ; My trusty musket give into m}- hand, And gird my sword-belt firm about my waist. 25 "A sentry in my grave, listening each sound, Ready for duty silent will I lie. Until his cannon booming shake the ground, And neighing squadrons charge in thunder by. "When o'er my grave my Emperor shall ride, 'Mid clashing sabres glistening in light. Armed and equipped then spring I to his side, For him, my Monarch and my Chief, to fight!" No man ever fought more bravely than Ouincy a losing battle against disease gnawing for years like the Promethean vulture. How little of that battle with its varying phases his best friends really knew, as they saw him from day to day assuming a cheerfulness he did not feel, smiling on the brink of a precipice they did not see ! He had found in these weary years of struggle and waiting, of brief hope and longer despair, the truth of Carlyle's assertion that "the blessedness of life is not in living but in working well," and when the power of working well was gone, life itself was no more worth the living. Solitary in the society of those who loved him, and silent when suffering most, he bore alone the brunt of the battle, holding high the flag as in many a former contest. One who knew him well, eminent as soldier and jurist, sums up in touching words the character of our friend and his de- termination to fight the battle to the end: "I knew General Ouincy well, both during and since the war. No more high- minded and honorable man ever lived ; no man was more actu- ated always by the great idea of duty. He was thoroughly brave, not in the battle-field only but wherever occasion called for the higher qualities of moral courage. His wide reading and fine literary taste made him delightful and attractive as a companion and friend. We were associated for several years in the Military Historical Society, of which we were respect- ively President and Secretary, and I had occasion to know how faithful he was in small things as well as great, when they came within the sphere of what he had undertaken to do. It is with infinite pain that I have seen this winter that his life was passing away, and that in great pain and suffering. 26 We dined alone together about three weeks since, and I in- duced him by inquiries to tell me somewhat fully of his health. It was a very sad and distressing story, but he ended by saying : ' I am bearing no more than other men have borne before me. I will try to do so to the end.' He then quoted some lines of Longfellow as to 'the red planet Mars,' in which the words 'suffer and be strong' occur, and added, 'that at least is what I shall endeavor to be.' " Longfellow, in " The Light of Stars," had given " the first watch of the night To the red planet Mars. " Tlie star of the unconquered will, He rises in my breast, Serene and resolute and still, And calm and self-possessed. " And thou, too, whosoe'er thou art, That readest this brief psalm, As one by one thy hopes depart. Be resolute and calm. " O fear not in a world like this, And tliou shalt know ere long. Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong." Who can forget the final scene, when all that was mortal of the dead General lay beneath the flag of his country and the draped banner of his Order, lulled to sleep, as it were, by the German songs he loved so well, and borne to the tomb of his ancestors with dirge of trumpet and organ, while strong men wept ! If from some loftier sphere his disembodied spirit looked down upon so simple yet touching a requiem, how was all the anguish of his latter years swept away as a cloud when the sun ariseth ! " Soldier, rest! thy warfare o'er, Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking ; Dream of battled fields no more. Days of danger, nights of waking. 27 No rude sound shall reach thine ear, Armor's clang, or war-steed champing. Trump nor pibroch summon here Mustering clan, or squadron tramping." Brethren of the Bostonian Society, soldiers of the Loyal Legion and of that greater army, whose guns, we hope, are forever stacked, the name of Ouincy remains to us something more than a recollection — it is already an example. LE S "09 ^hc ^ostcmiau J>ocietitj. President. CURTIS GUILD. Directors. Thomas C. Amory, Thomas J. Allen, William S. Appleton, John T. Hassam, Joshua P. Bodfish, Hamilton A. Hill, Curtis Guild, Samuel H. Russell, William Wilkins Warren. Ckrk and Treasiner. William Clarence Burrage. Committee on Publications. Hamilton Andrews Hill, John T. Hassam, William Clarence Burrage. l^ojSton antiquarian Club* Samuel M. Ouincy, Presidoit, 1880. William H. 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