COLLECTIONS

 

 

                                                                                         OF THE

 

 

                          MASSACHUSETTS  HISTORICAL  SOCIETY.

 

 

                                                         VOL. V. -- FIFTH  SERIES.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                 BOSTON:

                                              PUBLISHED  BY  THE  SOCIETY.

                                                                              M.DCCC.LXXVIII.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                    Electronic Version Prepared by

                                                     Dr. Ted Hildebrandt  4/6/2002

                                                   Gordon College, 255 Grapevine Rd.

                                                         Wenham, MA. 01984

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                 UNIVERSITY PRESS: JOHN WILSON & SON

                                                                                             CAMBRIDGE.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                               SECOND EDITION.

                                                             OFFICERS

 

                                                                                        OF THE

 

                                          MASSACHUSETTS  HISTORICAL  SOCIETY.

 

                                                           ELECTED APRIL 10, 1878.

 

                                                                         President.

HON. ROBERT C. WINTHROP, LL.D. .         .      BOSTON.

Vice-Presidents.

HON. CHARLES F. ADAMS, LL.D.      .         .         .      BOSTON.

REV. GEORGE E. ELLIS, D.D.             .         .         .      BOSTON.

 

Recording  Secretary.

GEORGE DEXTER, A.M.  .         .         .         . CAMBRIDGE.

Corresponding  Secretary.

CHARLES DEANE, LL.D.   .         .         .         . CAMBRIDGE.

Treasurer.

CHARLES C. SMITH, ESQ.          .         .         .         .      BOSTON.

Librarian.

SAMUEL A. GREEN, M.D.           .         .         .         .      BOSTON.

Cabinet-Keeper.

WILLIAM S. APPLETON, A.M.    .         .         .       BOSTON.

Executive  Committee  of  the  Council.

RICHARD FROTHINGHAM, LL.D.      .         .         .       BOSTON.

CHARLES C. PERKINS, A.M.      .         .         .         .       BOSTON.

WINSLOW WARREN, LL.B..       .         .         .         .       DEDHAM.

CHARLES W. TUTTLE, A.M.       .         .         .         .       BOSTON.

LEVERETT SALTON STALL, A.M.      .         .         .       NEWTON.


                                          RESIDENT  MEMBERS,

 

                                  AT THE DATE OF THE PUBLICATION OF THIS VOLUME IN THE ORDER OF

                                                                                 THEIR ELECTION.

 

Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, LL.D.        Henry W. Torrey, A.M.

Hon. Charles Francis Adams, LL.D.   Williams Latham, A.B.

Rev. George E. Ellis, D.D.                  Hon. Charles Hudson, A.M.

Hon. John C. Gray, LL.D.                  Rev. Robert C. Waterston, A.M.

Hon. George S. Hillard, LL.D.            Thomas C. Amory, A.M.

Hon. Peleg W. Chandler, LL.D.          Samuel A. Green, M.D.

Rev. George W. Blagden., D.D.          Hon. James M. Robbins.

Rev. Lucius R. Paige, D.D.                 Charles Eliot Norton, A.M.

Hon. Solomon Lincoln, A.M.              Hon. John J. Babson.

Rev. Chandler Robbins, D.D.             Robert Bennett Forbes, Esq.

John Langdon Sibley, A.M.                Rev. Edward E. Hale, A.M.

Hon. Richard Frothingham,. LL.D.      Rev. Andrew P. Peabody, D.D.

Henry Wheatland, M.D.                      William G. Brooks, Esq.

Charles Deane, LL.D.                         Hon. Horace Gray, LL.D.

Francis Parkman, LL.B.                      Amos A. Lawrence, A.M.

Ellis Ames, A.B.                                 Rev. Edwards A. Park, D.D.

Rev. Samuel K. Lothrop, D.D.            Hon. Francis E. Parker, LL.B.

Rev. William Newell, D.D.                  William H. Whitmore, A.M.

John A. Lowell, LL.D.                        George B. Emerson, LL.D.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, M.D.             James Russell Lowell, LL.D.

Henry W. Longfellow, LL.D.              Rev. Nicholas Hoppin, D.D.

Jacob Bigelow, LL.D.                         Nathaniel Thayer, A.M.

Hon. Stephen Salisbury, LL.D.           Erastus B. Bigelow, LL.D.

Henry Austin Whitney, A.M.               Hon. William C. Endicott, A.B.

Rev. William S. Bartlet, A.M.              Hon. Eben. Rockwood Hoar, LL.D

Leverett Saltonstall, A.M.                    Hon. Seth Ames, A.M.

Rev. Alonzo H. Quint, D.D.                Josiah P. Quincy, A.M.

Samuel F. Haven, A.M.                      Samuel Eliot, LL.D.

Hon. Richard H. Dana, Jr., LL.D.        Henry G. Denny, A.M.

Hon. Caleb Cushing, LL.D.                Charles C. Smith, Esq.

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RESIDENT  MEMBERS.                                  vii

 

Hon. George S. Hale, A.B.                 Charles C. Perkins, A.M.

Robert M. Mason, Esq.                      Charles F. Dunbar, A.B.

William S. Appleton, A.M.                  Hon. Charles Devens, LL.D.

Rev. Henry M. Dexter, D.D.               Charles F. Adams, Jr., A.B.

Theodore Lyman, S.B.                       William P. Upham, A.M.

Ron. William T. Davis, A.B.               Hon. A. H. Bullock, LL.D.

Rev. George Punchard, A.M.              Fitch Edward Oliver, M.D.

Abner C. Goodell, A.M.                     William Everett, Ph.D.

William Amory, A.M.                         George B. Chase, A.M.

Edward D. Harris, Esq.                       Henry Cabot Lodge, Ph.D.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, LL.D.             John T. Morse, Jr., A.B.

Augustus T. Perkins, A.M.                 Justin Winsor, A.B.

Hon. Mellen Chamberlain, LL.B.         J. Elliot Cabot, LL.B. ,

Winslow Warren, LL.B.                      George Dexter, A.M.

Francis W. Palfrey, A.M.                    Hon. Gustavus Vasa Fox.

Charles W. Tuttle, A.M.                     Henry Lee, A.M.

Charles W. Eliot, LL.D.                      Gamaliel Bradford, A.B.

William Gray, A.M.                            Rev. Edward J. Young, A.M.

Delano A. Goddard, A.M.                  Hon. John Lowell, LL.D.

Rev. Henry W. Foote, A.M.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HONORARY AND CORRESPONDING

MEMBERS,

 

ELECTED UNDER THE ORIGINAL ACT OF INCORPORATION, 1794, IN THE ORDER OF THEIR ELECTION.

 

T. A. Moerenhout, Esq.                      James Ricker, Jr., Esq.

Rev. Luther Halsey, D.D.                    Henry Stevens, F .S.A.

Rev. Leonard Bacon, D.D.                 Frederick Griffin, Esq.

John Winthrop, Esq.                           Rev. William S. Southgate.

Rt. Rev. William B. Stevens, D.D.       Hon. Samuel G. Arnold, LL.D.

Major E. B. Jarvis.                              John Gilmary Shea, LL.D.

E. George Squier, Esq.                       James Lenox, Esq.

Hon. George Bancroft, LL.D.             Hon. John R. Bartlett, A.M.

J. Hammond Trumbull, LL.D.             G. P. Faribault, Esq. [viii]

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HONORARY AND CORRESPONDING MEMBERS,

ELECTED SINCE THE PASSAGE OF THE ACT OF 1851.

Honorary.                                                         Rev. William G. Eliot, D.D.

Francois.A.. A. Mignet.                                    Henry. B. Dawson, Esq.

Comte Adolphe de Circourt.                             Goldwin Smith, LL.D.

M. Edouard Rene Lefebre Labou-                    George T. Curtis, A.B.

laye, LL.D.                                           James Parton, Esq.

Hon. John A. Dix, LL.D.                                  Hon. John Meredith Read, A.M.

Leopold Von Ranke.                                        Joseph Jackson Howard, LL.D.

James Anthony Froude, M.A.               Brantz Mayer, Esq.

The Very Rev. Arthur Penrhyn              John Winter Jones, F.S.A.

Stanley, D.D.                                        Richard Henry Major, F.S.A.

Thomas Carlyle, D.C.L.                                    Rev. Edmond de Pressense.

Edward A. Freeman, D.C.L.                            Charles J. Stille, LL.D.

Hon. George P. Marsh, LL.D.              William W. Story, A.M.

The Right Rev. Lord Arthur Her-                      M. Jules Marcou.

vey, LL.D.                                            Thomas B. Akins, Esq.

Hon. Hugh Blair Grigsby, LL.D.                        M. Pierre Margry.

Rev. Leonard Woods, D.D., LL.D.                  Charles J. Hoadly, Esq.

Rev. Theodore Dwight Woolsey,                      John Foster Kirk, Esq.

D.D.                                                     Rev. William I. Budington, D.D.

David Masson,  LL.D.                                      Benjamin Scott, F.R.A.S.

Rev. Barnas Sears.  D.D.                                  Hon. Charles H. Bell, A.M.

Baron F. von Holtzendorff.                               Rev. William Barry.

Comte de Paris.                                                Rev. Edward D. Neill, A.B.

Prof.  William Stubbs, D.C.L.                           Rev. J. Lewis Diman, D.D.

Hon.  William M. Evarts, LL.D.                        Col. Joseph L. Chester, LL.D.

Hon.  Horatio  Seymour, LL.D.                        WillIam Gammell, LL.D.

Henri Martin                                                     Rev. Thomas Hill, D.D., LL.D.

Josiah G. Holland, M.D.

Hon. Manning F. Force, LL.B.

Corresponding.                                     Comte Achille de Rochambeau.

Rev. Samuel Osgood, D.D.                              Sir Bernard Burke, C.B., LL.D.

William Durrant Cooper, F.S.A.                       Samnel Rawson Gardiner, A.M.

Edmnnd B. O'Callaghan, LL.D.                        Hon. John Bigelow.

Benjamin F. French, Esq.                                  George William Curtis, LL.D.

William H. Trescot, Esq.                                   Henry C. Lea, Esq.

John G. Kohl, LL.D.                                         Hubert H. Bancroft, A.M.

Benjamin R. Winthrop, Esq.                              Thomas Wentworth Higginson,

J. Carson Brevoort, LL.D.                                            A.M.   

George H. Moore, LL.D.                                 Rev. John R. Green, LL.D.

W.  Noel Sainsbury, Esq.                                 Rev. Richard S. Storrs, D.D.

S. Austin Allibone, LL.D.                                  William F. Poole, A.M.

Henry T. Parker, A.M.                                     Rev. E. Edwards Beardsley, D.D.

Benson J. Lossing, LL.D.                                  John Austin Stevens, A.B.

Lyman C. Draper, LL.D.                                              Joseph F. Loubat, LL.D.

George Washington Greene, LL.D.                               Charles H. Hart, LL.B.

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