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PROCEEDINGS

[?cjpsette Historical Swkljj.

Vol. III. ? Second Series.

1886-1887.

$ui>lts!)tti at tfye Ctjarge of lije ?PtaboSg Jun?.

BOSTON:

PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY. M.DCCC.LXXXVHI.

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University Press:

John Wilson and Son, Cambridge.

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PROCEEDINGS OF THE

MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

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Committee of Publication.

EDWARD J. YOUNG.

CLEMENT HUGH HILL.

ALEXANDER McKENZIE.

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CONTENTS.

PAGE

Preface. v

List of Illustrations. xv

Officers elected April, 1887. xvii

Resident Members. xviii

Honorary or Corresponding Members. xx

Members deceased. xxii

JUNE MEETING, 1886.

Remarks by the President, announcing the death of the Hon.

John R. Bartlett, and the receipt of books for the Library . 1

Virginia Records, communicated by Charles Deane .... 4

Gifts to.the Society. 8 The establishment of a National Portrait Gallery, urged by

Robert C. Winthrop. 8

Suffolk Court files from 1629 to 1729, arranged by William P. Upham.10

SPECIAL MEETING, JUNE, 1886.

Letters of Dr. Joseph Priestley, contributed by Charles Deane,

together with others from Mellen Chamberlain, Fitch

Edward Oliver, James Freeman Clarke, and Alfred

D. Foster.11

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X CONTENTS.

PAGB

Diary of Governor Hutchinson, noticed by the President . . 40

Extract from the manuscript journal of the Rev. John Pierce, D.D.,

communicated with notes, by Charles C. Smith .... 40

Former Social Meetings of the Society, recalled by Robert C. Winthrop.52

OCTOBER MEETING, 1886.

Gifts for the Library. 56 Remarks by the President, commemorative of the Rev. Samuel

K. Lothrop, D.D., Amos A. Lawrence, and Charles C.

Perkins. 56

Tribute to Dr. Lothrop, Mr. Lawrence, and Mr. Perkins, by Robert C. Winthrop. 58

Tribute to Mr. Perkins, by Samuel Eliot. 59

Tribute by Thomas W. Higginson. 61

Tribute to Dr. Lothrop, by William Everett. 62

Tribute by Henry F. Jenks .. 62

Report concerning the Winslow Papers, by Winslow Warren 64

Tables of Emigration of Loyalists from the Southern States, contributed by Edward Channing. 94

Memoir of the Hon. John Welles, by Andrew P. Peabody . . 98

NOVEMBER MEETING, 1886.

Commemoration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the founding of Harvard College, referred to by the

President.101

Journal of Henry Dearborn from July, 1776, to December, 1777, communicated by Mellen Chamberlain.102

Will of Peregrine White, communicated by Charles Deane . 133

Paper on the alleged portraits of Washington by Sharpless, read

by Arthur B. Ellis.136

Laws of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, new edition, men

tioned by Abner C. Goodell, Jr.136 Memoir of the Hon. John J. Babson, by Charles C. Smith. . 138

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CONTENTS. Xi

DECEMBER MEETING, 1886.

PAGE

Announcement of the death of the Hon. Charles Francis

Adams, and estimate of his public life and services, by the

President.144

Tribute to Mr. Adams, by E. Rock wood Hoar.146

Tribute by James Russell Lowell.149 Valuable gift from Francis Parkman.152

Stubbs's Lectures on M?dise val and Modern History, criticised

by William Everett ..153

Index to Revolutionary Documents, advocated by Francis

Parkman.159

Hallam's History, characterized by Henry W. Torrey . . . 159

Correction of a statement, by Edward Bangs.160

Memoir of the Rev. Samuel K. Lothrop, D.D., by Andrew P.

Peabody.161

JANUARY MEETING, 1887.

Report on the alleged Sharpless portraits of Washington, by Francis Parkman.179

The Non-Conformist's Oath, letters of Richard Leader, and Win

throp Papers, communicated by Robert C. Winthrop, Jr. 187

Committee to prepare a volume of Winthrop Papers .... 202

Authorship of the pretended letters of Montcalm, considered hy Justin Winsor.202

Memoir of the Hon. James M. Robbins, by Roger Wolcott . 206

FEBRUARY MEETING, 1887.

Letter from Charles Henry Hart, protesting against the misrepre sentations of the exhibitor of the alleged Sharpless portraits 215

Op'nion of Charles G. Loring and Francis Parkman in re

gard to these portraits.215 Letters read by the President.216 Reminiscences of a

night passed in the Library of Harvard Col

lege, by Robert C. Winthrop.216

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xii contents.

The Burning of the Ursuline Convent, alluded to by the Presi

dent, and by Edward J. Young. 218

German Manuscript Sources for the History of the Revolutionary

War, communicated by Edward J. Lowell. 219

Fac-similes, presented by Oliver Wendell Holmes . . . . 221

The restricting of the franchise to church-members, and its effect

upon those who voted for it, inquiry by the President . . 221

Memoir of Charles C. Perkins, by Samuel Eliot. 223

Memoir of the Hon. Francis E. Parker, by Edward Bangs . 247

MARCH MEETING, 1887.

Remarks by the President on the early history of Roger Williams.253

Thanks voted to Charles Deane and George C. Lord for

their generous gift, as executors of the will of the late

Robert Waterston.254

Letters from Roger and Robert Williams to John Winthrop, Jr., with observations by Robert C. Winthrop, Jr.254

Communication respecting the place of Love well's fight with the

Indians ; the landfall of Sir Francis Drake ; and the auto

graphs and library of Elder Brewster, by Justin Winsor . 259

APRIL MEETING, 1887.

Letter from Abigail Adams after the death of Washington, con

tributed by George S. Hale.275

Portrait of Andrew P. Peabody, presented to the Society by Mrs. John Langdon Sibley.276

The original from which the alleged profile portrait of Washing ton by Sharpless may have been copied, by Abner C.

Goodell, Jr. ..277

Committee to prepare a volume from the Pickering papers . . 277

" Anonymous Fund

" given

to the Society, through Charles C.

Smith.277

Report of the Council.278

Report of the Librarian.281

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CONTENTS. X?i

PAGE

Report of the Cabinet-keeper. 282

Report of the Treasurer. 284

Report of the Auditing Committee..297 Election of Officers. 297

Memoir of the Rev. Nicholas Hoppin, D.D., by Fitch Edward

Oliver. 299

Memoir of Lucius Manlius Sargent, by Edward J. Lowell . 309

MAY MEETING, 1887.

Remarks by the President on the proposed memorial to

Crispus Attucks and others, killed on the 5th of March, 1770. 813

Remarks on the same, by John D. Washburn. 314

Remarks by Lucius R. Paige. 315

Remarks by Andrew P. Peabody. 316

Remarks by Abner C. Goodell, Jr. 316 Remarks by Charles Deane..317

Resolution offered by William Everett. 317

Committees appointed. 318

JUNE MEETING, 1887.

Eighty-fifth birthday of the President of the Maine Historical Society celebrated.319

Defence of John Brown, by Dr. Henry I. Bowditch ; and expla

nation of the opposite opinions held concerning him, by

Thomas W. Higginson.319 The personal appearance of Colonel William Prescott, described

by Samuel A. Green.320 Bill of sale of a negro girl in Worcester in 1769, presented by

Charles C. Smith.321

Report of the Committee to carry to the Governor the resolu tion of the Society in regard to the Attucks memorial, by

Andrew P. Peabody.321 Memoir of the Hon. Alexander H. Bullock, LL.D., by Charles

Devens.323

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xiv CONTENTS.

OCTOBER MEETING, 1887. PAGE

Account of the Wyoming Massacre in 1778, by Andrew McF. Davis ; and other documents, contributed by Justin Winsor 340

History of a medallion, communicated by Samuel A. Green . 348

The settlement of the Northeastern Boundary, discussed by Justin Winsor.349

Letter relating to the boundary between Canada and the United

States, submitted by Edward Channing.369

Communications respecting the Declaration of Independence, and

the Journals of the Continental Congress, from Charles J.

Hoadly, presented, with other matters, by Mellen Cham

berlain .369

Remarks of Thomas C. Amory on the Northeastern Boundary 379 Citations from the Boston News-Letter, commented upon by

Henry W. Haynes.380

Records of the Old Colony Club, communicated by William W. Goodwin, with an historical statement and notes . . 381

List of Donors to the Library.445

Index.449

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

PAGB

Group of Members of the Society, taken in 1869 Frontisp.

Will of Peregrine White ..134

Portrait of Samuel K. Lothrop.161

Portrait of Charles C. Perkins.223

Portrait of Francis E. Parker.247

Portrait of Alexander H. Bullock.322

Fac-simile of the Autographs of Members of the Old

Colony Club.389

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OFFICERS OF THE

MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

Elected April 14, 1887.

^resibenf.

Rev. GEORGE E. ELLIS, D.D., LL.D.Boston.

CHARLES DEANE, LL.D.Cambridge.

FRANCIS PARKMAN, LL.D.Boston.

glccorbmg Setxelarg.

Rev. EDWARD J. YOUNG, D.D.Cambridge.

Correspcmbmg Smetarg.

JUSTIN WINSOR, LL.D.Cambridge.

&reasnm.

CHARLES C. SMITH, A.M. Boston.

librarian.

Hon. SAMUEL A. GREEN, M.D.Boston.

Cabhtet-J?tepjer.

FITCH EDWARD OLIVER, M.D.Boston.

fecatifre Committee of % Council.

Hon. MELLEN CHAMBERLAIN, LL D.Chelsea. WILLIAM EVERETT, Ph.D.Quincy. ROBERT C. WINTHROP, Jr., A.M.Boston.

Hon. JOHN LOWELL, LL.D.Newton.

Hon. JOHN D. WASHBURN, LL.B.Worcester.

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