Pearce, etc., queries by F. C. Pierce; Deacon Richard Prince, of Salem, and ESSEX INSTITUTE. Historical Collections. Vol. XV. 1878. Salem, 1879. (2253 Svo, pp. 332. Portrait. Contents: Notice of the Perkin's Arms in England, communicated by Aug. T. Perkins; Record of deaths from gravestones in Rowley, including all before 1800, communicated by George B. Blodgette; Memorial of John Clarke Lee, by E. B. Willson; Copy of a fragment of an account book kept by Gibson Clough, 1773-80, communicated by William G. Barton; Notes and extracts from the records of the First Church of Salem, 1629-1736, communicated by James A. Emmerton; Parish list of deaths begun 1785, recorded by Rev. William Bentley, of the East Church, Salem, communicated by Ira J. Patch; An account of the commemoration, by the Essex Institute, of the fifth half-century of the landing of John Endicott in Salem, Sept. 18, 1878. Index of names. ESSEX INSTITUTE. Historical Collections. 8vo, pp. iv, 328. Vol. XVI. Salem, 1879. (2254 Contents: The first glass factory-where? by James Kimball; Notes and extracts from the Records of the First Church" of Salem, 1629 to 1736, communicated by James A. Emmerton; Parish list of deaths, begun 1785, recorded by Rev. William Bentley, of the East Church, Salem; Some old estates, by E. Stanley Waters; Records of the first church at Salisbury, Mass., 1687-1754, communicated by Wm. P. Upham; Inscriptions from the old Fairfield burial ground in Wenham, communicated by Wellington Pool, 1878; The first book of the intentions of marriage of the city of Lynn, copied by John T. Moulton; Biographical notice of James Upton, communicated by R. C. Mills; Genealogical notes: Ashby, Blaney, Bowers, Blythe, Chapman, Cook, Derby, Dynn, Haskett, Eastie or Estes, Flint, by Edward Stanley Waters; Notes on the Richardson and Russell families, by James Kimball; Children and grandchildren of William and Dorothy King of Salem, by Wm. P. Upham; Notice of portrait of Washington, by Charles Henry Hart; Historical sketch of the Salem Female Employment Society, by Lucy P. Johnson; Webb family, by E. S. Waters; Baptisms at church in Salem village, now North Parish, Danvers, communicated by Henry Wheatland. The Gedney and Clarke families of Salem, Mass., by Henry F. Waters; Index of names. ESSEX INSTITUTE. Historical Collections. Vol. XVII. Salem, 1880. 8vo, pp. iv, 350. (2255 Contents: Gleanings from the English records about New England families, communicated by James A. Emmerton and Henry F. Waters; Index. Reminiscences of distinguished men of Essex county, by Nathan Crosby; Genealogical notes-Ward family, by E. S. Waters; Leslie's retreat," communicated by E. S. Waters; An account of the commemoration by the Essex Institute of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the arrival of John Winthrop at SalemAddress, by Robert S. Rantoul. Tribute to the memory of William Bentley, D. D., by Stanley Waters: A genealogical account of Henry Silsbee, and some of his descendants, by James A. Emmerton; Index of names; Memoir of Lewis N. Tappan; Special providences-written by Rev. George Curwen of Salem, în 1714. Matthias Corwin of Southold, L. I.-his parentage and his relationship to George Corwin of Salem, by Henry F. Waters. Index of names. (2256 ESSEX INSTITUTE. Historical Collections. Salem, 1881. Vol. XVIII. 8vo, pp. IV, 316. Contents: The Newhall family of Lynn; Baptisms at Church in Salem village, now North Parish, Danvers, communicated by Henry Wheatland; Jonathan Fabens and some of his descendants, by George A. Perkins; Parish list of deaths begun 1785, recorded by Rev. William Bentley, of the East Church, Salem; The journal of Dr. Caleb Rea, written during the expedition against Ticonderoga in 1758, edited by his great grandson, F. M. Ray; A notice of James Kimball, by Robert S. Rantoul; Early memorials of the dead, by Sidney Perley; Memoir of Benjamin Peirce, by Robert S. Rantoul; Sketches of Saugus, by E. P. Robinson; A circular letter for establishing a county lyceum, 1829; Notes and queries; Index of names. (2257 ESSEX INSTITUTE. Historical Collections. Vol. XIX. Salem, 1882. 8vo, pp. iv, 315. Contents: A sketch of the first religious society in Lynnfield. by Eben Parsons; Parish list of deaths begun 1785, recorded by William Bentley, D. D., of the East Church, Salem, Mass.; The Newhall family; Diaries kept by Lemuel Wood, of Boxford, communicated by Sidney Perley: A journal of the Canada expedition, 1759. The Beverly shore, by Robert Rantoul; A notice of Saugus Seminary, by E. P. Robinson; The Fisher plantation of Cape Anne, by Herbert B. Adams; Extracts from the town records of Wenham, Mass., communicated by Wellington Pool; Marriages in Salem, by Rev. Daniel Hopkins, 1779-1814; Essex county and the Indians, by Robert Rantoul; Origin of Salem plantation, by Herbert B. Adams; Allotments of land in Salem to men, women, and maids. by Herbert B. Adams; A field day at Dummer Academy, July 12, 1882; The family of John Perkins of Ipswich, by George A. Perkins; The Essex junto-The long embargo-and the great Topsfield caucus of 1808, by Robert S. Rantoul; Common fields in Salem, by Herbert B. Adams; The family of William Townsend, of Boston, by Henry F. Waters: The early settlers of Rowley, Mass., including all who were here before 1662, with a few generations of their de scendants, by George B. Blodgette; Index of names. ESSEX INSTITUTE. Historical Collections. Vol. xx. Salem, 1883. 8vo, pp. iv, 311. 2258 Contents: A note on the authenticity of the portraits of Gov. Endecott, by Robert S. Rantoul; The Perkins family, by George A. Perkins: Sketch of the family of Thomas Townsend, of Lynn, by Henry F. Waters; Joseph Townsend, of Boston; A few English notes relating to the name of Townsend; Salem meadows, woodland, and town neck, by Herbert B. Adams; Early settlers of Rowley, including all those who were here before 1662, with a few generations of their descendants, communicated by Geo. B. Blodgette: A notice of Charles Davis, librarian of the Essex Institute, 1865-1868; A postscript to the article on Gov. Endecott's portraits; Extracts from the town records of Wenham, Mass.: James Osborne Safford, a sketch by Robert S. Rantoul; Augustus Story, a memorial paper, by Charles T. Brooks; Lemuel Wood's journal; Dr. Bentley's East Parish deaths-some notes and corrections, by J. A. Emmerton; Inscriptions from gravestones in the old burying ground in Wenham, copied by Wellington Pool; Memoir of Oliver Carlton, by Leverett Saltonstall; Inscriptions from the old burying ground, Lynn, Mass., copied by John T. Moulton; Index of names. (2259 ESSEX INSTITUTE. Historical Collections. Vol. XXI. Salem, 1884. Svo, pp. iv, 309. Contents: Memorial of Charles T. Brooks, by E. B. Willson; His life at Newport, by Charles W. Wendte; Genealogical notes respecting Henry Brooks and some of his descendants, by Luke Brooks; Inscriptions from the old burying ground, Lynn, Mass.; The Perkins family, by George A. Perkins; Lemuel Wood's journal; Early settlers of Rowley, Mass., by Geo. B. Blodgette; Memorial of John Bertram, by Edward S. Atwood; The commission of the captain of a Salem privateer, in the Revolutionary War, by E. P. Crowell; Records of the first church at Salisbury, Mass., 1752-1805, communicated by Wm. P. Upham; Records of the fifth parish of Gloucester, now Rockport, communicated by Calvin W. Pool; Life and character of Sir William Pepperrell, by Luther Dame; A short historical sketch of Annisquam parish, by James S. Jewett; Early recollections of the upper portion of Essex street, by Oliver Thayer; Some material for a history of the name and family of RentoulRintoul-Rantoul, compiled by Robert S. Rantoul; Index of names. (2260 ESSEX INSTITUTE. Historical Collections. Vol. XXII. Salem, 1885. Svo, pp. iv, 307. (2260a ESSEX INSTITUTE. Historical Collections. Svo, pp. iv, 318. Vol. XXIII. Salem, 1886. Contents: Salem baptisms; Address before the Essex bar association, by ESSEX INSTITUTE. Historical Collections. Vol. XXIV. Salem, 1888. Svo, pp. iv, 319. Contents: A contribution to the history of the ancient family of Woodbury, by Robert S. Rantoul; Early settlers of Rowley, by George B. Blodgette; Halfmile stone, Wenham; Inscriptions from the Old Burying Ground, Wenham; Negro slavery in Massachusetts, by Robert S. Rantoul; Inscriptions from the old burying ground in Dodge's Row (North Beverly), copied by Wellington Pool; Sketch of Mrs. William Jarvis, of Weathersfield, Vt., by Mrs. Mary Pepperrell Sparhawk Jarvis Cutts, edited by Cecil Hampden Cutts Howard; An Epicedium," composed in 1752, by Rev. John C. Cleaveland, of Chebacco (now Essex), in Ipswich, Mass., by E. P. Crowell; Inscriptions from the old burying ground at Lynnfield centre, copied by John T. Moulton; Pay roll of Capt. Jno. Dodge's company of guards, 1778; Salem military company-names of the volunteer artillery corps; Gleanings relative to the family of Adam Hawkes, one of the early settlers of the third plantation of Massachusetts, by Nathan M. Hawkes; Early records of the church in Topsfield, communicated by John H. Gould; Genealogy of the Allen family of Manchester, Mass., from the earliest settlement to the year 1886, by John Price; Our new domain; A history of Methodism in Salem, by James F. Almy; Notes and queries; Index of names. ESSEX INSTITUTE. Historical Collections. Vol. XXV. Salem, 1888. Svo, pp. iv, 317. Plate. (2262 Contents: A sketch of Tristam Dalton, by Eben F. Stone; Materials for a genealogy of the Sparhawk family in New England, compiled by Cecil Hampden Cutts Howard; Genealogy of the Allen family of Manchester, Mass., from the earliest settlement to the year 1886, by John Price; Inscriptions from the old burying ground at Saugus Centre, copied by John T. Moulton; An account of the yacht 'Cleopatra's Barge," by Benjamin W. Crowninshield; The Govr. Endecott estate; Notes: Was Governor Endecott's house the first place of worship? The settlement of Beverly; The authenticity of the Roger Williams house; The part taken by Essex county in the organization and settlement of the northwest territory; A record of interments in the old or western burying ground in Lynn, Mass., made by Benjamin H. Jacob, copied from the original record by John T. Moulton; Semihistorical rambles among the eighteenth century places along the Saugus river, by Nathan M. Hawkes; Mining and quarrying and smelting of ores in Boxford, by Sidney Perley; A strange epistle of a century ago (from Willm. Fairfield, at Cayenne, to bis mother, Rebecca Fairfield, Salem); Index of names. (2263 ESSEX INSTITUTE. Historical Collections. Vol. XXVI. Salem, 1889. Svo, pp. iii (1), 316. Portraits. Contents: Address delivered before the Essex Bar Association and the Essex Institute, by Eben F. Stone; The Sparhawk family, by Cecil Hampden Cutts Howard; Materials for genealogies of certain families of Clarks, early settled in Essex county, communicated by George K. Clarke; Interments in Old or Western burying ground in Lynn; Samuel P. Fowler; Reminiscences of the Revolution; Prison letters and sea journal of Caleb Foote, born 1750, died 1787, compiled by Caleb Foote; Dwellings of Boxford, by Sidney Perley; History of the Salem Light Infantry, by George M. Whipple; Index of names. (2264 ESSEX INSTITUTE. Historical Collections. Vol. XXVII. Salem, 1890. 8vo, pp. iii, 237. Contents: Sketch of John Albion Andrew, by Eben F. Stone; A supplement to the Allen family, collected by A. A. Galloupe, and connected by John Price with the genealogy in Vols. 24 and 25; Inscriptions in Old or Western Burying Ground in Lynn; The dwellings of Boxford, by Sidney Perley; Reminiscences of Capt. James Barr, of Salem, Mass., by James Barr Curwen; Some materials for a genealogy of the Prince family, of Danvers, by Eben Putnam; Report of committee relating to Acadians settling in the Province, 31 Jan., 1765; The first church in Salem; Essex Institute, obituary notices of members, May, 1889-May, 1890; A rough subject index to the publications of the Essex Institute; Proceedings, Vols. 1-6; Bulletin, Vols. 1-22; Historical Collections, vols. 1-27, by Gardner M. Jones; Index of names. ESSEX INSTITUTE. Historical Collections. Vol. XXVIII. 8vo, pp. iii, 221. Salem, 1891. (2265 Contents: The dwellings of Boxford, by Sidney Perley; Genealogical gleanings in England: Extracts from marriage licenses granted by the Bishop of London, 1598 to 1639, by Henry F. Waters; The Sparhawk family, by Cecil Hampden Cutts Howard; An account of the first centennial of the settlement of Salem; Suffolk early files, communicated by William P. Upham; Copy from an account book of privateer brig "Sturdy Beggar"; Petition for a new town pump, 1794; Extract from Essex county records, 1709 (in regard to the destruction of the house of Richard Saltonstall); Index of names. (2266 ESSEX INSTITUTE. Historical Collections. Vol. XXIX. Salem, 1892. Svo, pp. iii, 224. Contents: The dwellings of Boxford, by Sidney Perley; Were the Salem witches guiltless? By Barrett Wendell; Genealogical record of the Houlton or Holton family of Danvers, by Eben Putnam; Revolutionary letters; Soldiers in the French war from Essex County, 1755-1761; Militia officers, Essex County, 1761-1771; Danvers tax list, 1775; Index. (2267 ESSEX INSTITUTE. Historical Collections, Vol. xxx. Salem, 1893. 8vo, pp. iii, 232. Contents: Columbus day in Salem, by W. A. Mowry; The building of Essex bridge, Salem; James Robinson Newhall, by N. M. Hawkes; Roll of Caleb Lowe's Company, belonging to Danvers, April 19, 1775; Memorial of Henry Wheatland; Index. (2268 ESSEX INSTITUTE. Historical Collections, Vol. XXXI. 8vo, pp. iii, 267. Salem, 1894-95. Contents; Baptismal records of the church in Topsfield, 1727-1779; Salem and the Conkling family; The Pepperell portraits, C. H. C. Howard; A historic ball room, by R. S. Rantoul; List of Salem vessels insured by Timothy Orm, John Nutting, jr., and John Higginson, December, 1757, to December, 1758; Lady Deborah Moody, by Mrs. H. W. Edwards; Some localities about Salem, by H. M. Brooks; Edmund B. Willson, by R. S. Rantoul; Notes on the ancestry of "Rear-Admiral" Thomas Graves, by Eben Putnam; Notes on the Pillsburys of Leek, England, by E. A. Getchell and Eben Putnam; Index. (2269 Vol. XXXII. Salem, 1896. ESSEX INSTITUTE. Historical Collections. Svo, pp. iii, 274. Plate. Contents: Some claims of Salem on the notice of the country, by Robert S. Rantoul How many men had Leslie at North Bridge?-a note appended to the foregoing; Baptismal records of the church in Topsfield, from the beginning of the ministry of the Rev. Daniel Breck, Nov. 17, 1779, until the dismissal, May 5, 1841, of the Rev. James F. McEwen; Salem before the Revolution, by Gilbert L. Streeter; The seventy-fifth anniversary of the founding of the Essex Historical Society, address by Robert S. Rantoul; A short account of the descendants of William Haskell, of Gloucester, Mass., by Ulysses G. Haskell; Early fisheries in the Merrimac; Trouble between the Merrimac towns and New Hampshire, 1718; Browne Hill [formerly called Long Hill and Leach's Hill] and some history connected with it, by Ezra D. Hines; Index. (2270 ESSEX INSTITUTE. Historical Collections. Vol. XXXIII. Salem, Mass., 1898. Svo, pp. iii, 315. Plate. Map. Contents: The first cotton mill in America (Beverly, Mass.), by Robert S. Rantoul; Way from Salem ferry towards Ipswich [a petition from selectmen of Beverly for the preservation of this way, Dec. ye 30th, 1698]; The early homes of the Puritans, by Thomas Franklin Waters; A muster roll of Wenham men who marched for Lexington Salem Neck and Winter Island, a story of a walk around Salem Neck and Winter Island, noting points of interest and ancient nomenclature of the natural features, by William Lewis Welch: The story of Winter Island and Salem Neck, by G. L. Streeter; Record of deaths in Topsfield, 1658-1800, by Geo. Frs. Dow; A lost letter of Col. Timothy Pickering (concerning the passage of the tariff), Salem, Oct. 20, 1820, from the records of the Essex Agricultural Society; Charles S. Osgood, librarian of the Essex Institute, 1888-1897 (an obituary); Topsfield and Rowley village men who took the oath of allegiance and fidelity, 1678, by Sidney Perley; Topsfield bill of estate, made between 1723 and 1725; Some old Ipswich houses, by Thomas Franklin Waters; Arnold's march from Cambridge to Quebec, by Ezra Dodge Hines; List of vessels employed in foreign trade, belonging to the district of Salem and Beverly, in 1826; Index. ESSEX INSTITUTE. Historical Collections. Vol. XXXIV. Salem, 1898. (2271 Svo, pp. iii, 270. Plates. Portraits. Map. Contents: An address in memory of Thomas Franklin Hunt, by Edwin C. Bolles; Museums in Boston; Extracts from "Text Books" of Dea. Joseph Seccombe, 1756–77; Subscription to the relief of Rev. James Diman, 1748; The brig Mexican, of Salem, captured by pirates, and her escape, by Edward C. Battis; The floating bridge at Lynn, on the Salem and Boston turnpike, by C. J. H. Woodbury; Early records of Rowley, Mass.; First book of records of the First Church in Lynnfield, by Eben. Parsons; Some personal recollections of Robert Rantoul, junior, by Charles Levi Woodbury; David Larcum: deed of sale for negro; Did Winthrop land at Manchester?, map; Henry Mason Brooks, a memoir, by Edward S. Morse; First petition to the legislature for separating Beverly from Salem, May 9, 1659; Index. (2272 ESSEX INSTITUTE. Historical Collections. Vol. XXXV. 8vo, pp. (4), 350. Portraits. Salem, 1899. Contents: Biographical notes-Nathaniel Silsbee; Muster roll of Capt. Theodore Morgan's company; Parsons and the Constitutional Convention of 1788, by Eben F. Stone; Early church records of Rowley, Mass., by George B. Blodgette; Joshua Coffin papers; Reminiscences of Henry M. Brooks, by Gilbert L. Streeter; Federalist broadside, March 16, 1812; Beverly First Church records, by William P. Upham; John Woodbury and some of his descendants, a paper found among the manuscripts of the late Perley Derby; A forgotten horror (smallpox); Index. (2273 ESSEX INSTITUTE. Historical Collections. Vol. XXXVI. Salem, Mass., 1900. Svo, pp. iv, 370. Portraits. Plates. Contents: The cruise of the Quero: How we carried the news [of Concord and Lexington] to the king, May, 1775, by Robert S. Rantoul; John Woodbury and some of his descendants, a paper found among the manuscripts of the late Perley Derby, concluded from Vol. XXXV; Boxford town records, 1685-1706, copied by Sidney Perley in 1880; Call for political convention to be held at Ipswich, April 25, 1776 (broadside); Salem social life in the early nineteenth century, familiar letters written between 1812 and 1831 from friends in Salem to a Salem school girl removed to Ohio; An East India House permit, Sept. 20, 1798; Exchange of prisoners in 1813; Isaac Esty, of Topsfield, and some of his descendants, by Gay Estey Bangs; Beverly First Church records, 1698-1772 (continued from Vol. XXXV). copied by William P. Upham; Salem commoners records, 1713-1739, copied by Geo. Francis Dow: Some historie streets and colonial houses of Salem, by Gilbert L. Streeter: Essex St., Federal St., Gredney court, Sewall St., English St., Becket St., Turner St.; A contemporary letter written from Fort Sewall, in Marblehead, to the Gurnet Fort, near Plymouth, detailing the "Sandy Bay Surprise' of September 5, 1814, with other matters; The voting rights of freedmen in 1658, A petition from some of the inhabitants of Ipswich; The will of George Rea Curwen, born July 4, 1823-died March 17, 1900; A letter from Andrew Dunlap, Boston, Nov. 26, 1828; Bands and band music in Salem, by Thomas Carroll; Marine notes from a news book kept in Salem, Mass., 1812-1815, at the office of the Essex Insurance Company, Nathaniel Bowditch, president, copied by George L. Peabody; Diary of Joseph Green, of Salem village, 1714-15, Extracts made by George Francis Dow; James Jeffry's journal for the year 1724, copied by Alice G. Waters; Index. (2274 ESSEX INSTITUTE. Historical Collections. Vol. XXXVII. Salem, 1901. 8vo. pp. iv, 466. Plates. Portraits. Contents: An account of the private armed ship "America," of Salem, with appendix and five plates, by B. B. Crowninshield; List of vessels owned wholly or in part by Timothy Orne, junior, of Salem, 1740-1758; Thomas Gardner, planter, and some of his descendants, by Frank A. Gardner; Salem commoners records, 1713–1739, by George Francis Dow; Some personal reminiscences of the poet Whittier, by Robert S. Rantoul; Marine notes from a news book kept in |