Class Book- CATALOGUE of the COLLECTIONS BOSTONIAN SOCIETY MEMORIAL HALLS OLD STATE HOUSE. BOSTON, FEB. i, 1893. preparp:d liY SAMUEL ARTHUR BENT, Clerk of the Society, BY AUTHORITY OF THE DIRECTORS. BOSTON, 1893. CATALOGUE OF ARTICLES IN THE COLLECTIONS or THE BOSTONIAN SOCIETY N. B. — The names of donors and lenders are piinted in italics. Articles not accredited were in most cases purchased by the Committee on the Rooms. THE REPRESENTATIVES' HALL. 1 Laying the Corner Stone of the Beacon Hill Reservoir, Nov. 2 2, 1847 > oil painting by iVIoses U'ight, with key, con- taining portraits of the Mayor, Josiah Quincy, Jr.; Ex- Mayors, Josiah Quincy, Sr. and S. T. Armstrong; Nathan Hale, T. B. Curtis and J. F. Baldwin, water commis- sioners; City Marshal Tukey, and members of the City Council and Government. Loan : City of Boston. laPnoTOGRAPH of the Reservoir, which was demolished in 1883; from the Curtis Collection. Henry P. Curtis. 2 Samuel Phillips Savage, of Weston, 171S-97 ; Member of the Provincial Congress; President of the Massachusetts Board of War during the Revolution ; Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for Middlesex County; presided at the meeting in the Old South Meetinghouse, Dec. 14, 1773, to protest against the landing of the taxed tea ; photograph after Copley. Alexander Cochrane. 3 Rev. Daniel Sharp, D. D, born in England 1783, died 1853; Pastor of the Charles Street Baptist Church, 1812-1853; lithograph by Thayer, after a daguerreotype. 3aTHE Same; steel engraving by Sartain, after Harding. William H. Whitmore. 4 Edward Thompson Taylor (" Father Taylor "), 1794-1871 ; a sailor in his youth, became a Methodist Preacher in 18 19 ; for many years at the Seamen's Bethel ; photograph. Janus IV. Black. 2 BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. 5 Harrison Gray Otis, 1765-1848; U. S, Senator, 1817-22; Mayor, 1829-32; colored crayon by Dubourjal, 1845. Loan : Frederick O. Prince^ Executor. 6 Rev, Lyman Beecher, D. D., 1775-1863; Pastor of Hanover Street Church, afterward Bowdoin Street, 1826-32 ; litho- graph by Chandler & Bro., after Grozelier. 7 Rev. Jonathan Mayhew, D. D., 1720-66; copperplate en- graving portrait bust, executed in London by Cipriani for one of the Hollis Family ; within a wreath are the words : "Remarks on an anon, tract. P. LXXXIL I am indeed a poor man;" hanging therefrom are a bishop's mitre, re- versed, and a crozier, referring to his controversy with the Episcopal missionary Apthorp in 1763; underneath is the inscription : "Jonathan Mayhew, D. D., Pastor of the West Church in Boston, in New England [1747-1766], an assertor of the Civil and Religious Liberty of his country and mankind, who, over plied by Public energies, died of a nervous fever, Ivly VIIH, MDCCLXVI, aged XXXXV. 8 Rev. Joseph Sewall, D. D., 1688-1769 ; Pastor of the Old South Church, 1713-69; copper-plate engraving with fac- simile autograph. William H. Whitmore. 9 Rev. Cotton Mather, D. D., 1663-1728 ; Minister of the North Church, 1684-1728 ; heliotype reproduction in India ink of a portrait in Harvard College Library by Sarah Moorhead. jfustin Winsor. 10 Daniel Webster, 1782-1852 ; steel engraving by Cheney and Dodson after Staigg. Moses W. Weld, M. D. 11 James Jackson, M. D., 1777-1867 ; engraving by WagstafI and Andrews. Moses W. Weld, M. D. 12 Rev. John Sylvester John Gardiner, D. D., 1765-1830; Rector of Trinity Church, 1805-30 ; President of the literary club which conducted the Anthology and Monthly Revietu ; lithograph by Mary M. Maguire. 13 Rev. Baron Stow, D. D., 1801-1869 ; Pastor of the Baldwin Place Baptist Church, 1832-48 ; of the Rowe Street Church, 1848-67 ; engraving by Sartain after Alexander. William H. Whitmore. 14 Alexander Parris, i 780-1852 ; Architect of the Quincy Market and St. Paul's Church ; crayon portrait by Chicker- ing. Mrs. B. F. Chandler. 15 Rev. Sebastian Streeter, D. D., Pastor of the First Univer- salist Church, 1824-64; Rev. Thomas W. Sulloway, Asso- ciate Pastor, 1861 to 1864, when the Society was dissolved ; double photograph. Thomas W. Sulloway. REPRESENTATIVES' HALL. 3 x6 Crocker and Brewster, full length photograph of Uriel Crocker and Osmyn Brewster, inscribed : " This pic- ture was taken on Mr. Crocker's ninetieth birthday, and is presented to the Bostonian Society by Uriel Crocker, Feb. 2, 1887." 17 Rev. Thomas Baldwin, D. D., Pastor of the Second Baptist Church from lygo to 1825; engraving by Hoogland after Miss Margaret B. Doyle. 18 Captain John Linzee, R. N., Commander of H. B. M. Ship "Falcon" at the Battle of Bunker Hill. He married the daughter of Ralph Inman of Cambridge, and was the grandfather of Mrs. Piescott, wife of the historian ; etching by Miss Annie T. Pratt. ig Thomas Smith Webb, 1771-1819; engraved portrait bust by Annin and Smith, after Penniman, commemorative of his services as one of the founders and first president of the Handel & Haydn Society; dedicated to the Masonic Fra- ternity and to the H. & H. and Philharmonic Societies, by the painter and engravers, th : bust resting on Handel's " Messiah " open, and other musical and masonic works, behind, an organ and masonic emblems. 20 Benjamin Franklin, 1706-go; copper-plate engraving by Tanner after Cochin (in fur cap), 1777. Hamilton A. Hill.. 21 William Emmons, an actor known as "Pop" Emmons, a familiar character forty years ago ; lithograph by Pendleton after Johnston. 22 Nathaniel Shepard Prentiss, M. I)., 1766-1853; for thirty years town clerk of Roxbury ; oil portrait by Bass Otis. Rev. Joseph Banvard, D. D. 23 Rev. John Thornton Kirkland, D. D., i 770-1840 ; President of Harvard College, 1810-28 ; lithograph by Pendleton after Stuart, 1 8 10. Kev. Samuel May. 24 Rev. Ezra Stiles Gannett, D. D., 1801-71 ; Pastor of Fed- eral St. and Arlington St. Churches, 1S24-71 ; photograph. Sanmel M. Bedlington. 25 Rev. Edward Dork Griffin, D. D., 1770-1837 ; first Pastor of Park St. Church, 1811-15; engraving by Sartain after Waldo. Mrs. 2/io?nas A. Eincrson. 26 Rev. William Ellery Channing, D. D., i 780-1842, pastor of Federal St. Church, 1803-1842 ; Engraving by Hoogland after Harding. E. G. Lnras. 27 Rev. Jonathan Mavhew, D. D., v. No. 9 ; steel engriiving by Wright Smith. Matthew A. Mayhew. 28 Rev. James Davis Knowles, 1798-1838 ; Pastor of the Baldwin Place Baptist Church, 1825-32 ; engraving by Chorley after Doyle, 1829. E. G. Lucas. 4 BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. 29 Rev. Sebastian Streeter, D. D., z^. No. 15; lithograph by Bouvd after Rowse. William H. Whitmore. 30 Daniel Simpson, 1790-1886; Drummer in the war of 1812; in the 24th .Massachusetts Volunteers in the Rebellion ; for the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company over seventy years, and for the New England Guards over fifty years; oil portrait by Darius Cobb, life-size, two thirds' length, seated, holding his drum, (No. 31). Daniel Simpson. 31 Snare-drum beaten at the Battle of Bunker Hill by John Rob- bins, having on its side the date " 177 i," wiih motto: "■Aut vincere aut mori^ Daniel Simpson. 32 Jonas Chicicering, 179S-1853 ; Manufacturer of the first piano- forte in the United Stales; lithograph by Chandler after Grozelier, George H. Chickering. 33 Edward Kendall. 1808-1862; Bugler to the New England Guards; took the first prize at Covent Garden. London, 1846 ; lithograph by Fabronius. Samuel IV. Clifford. 35 Francis I., Duke of Lorraine, 1708-1765 ; married Maria Theresa, 1736; elected Emperor of Germany 1745. Arnifn Mil Her. 36 Maria Theresa, 171 7-1780, Empress of Germany, succeeded Charles VL 1740; two colored engravings from life, by Engelbrechc. Arnim Miiller. 37 Parsonage of Brattle Square Church, formerly standing in Court Street, on the site of the building now occupied by Adams Express Co.; water-color by Fuller, 1855. Samuel H. Russell. 38 Rev. John Gorham Palfrey, D. D., 1796-1881 ; Pastor of Brattle Square Church, 1818-1830; Member of Congress, 1847-9; Postmaster, 1861-6; relief bust in plaster, Samuel M. Bedlington. 39 Brattle Square Church, 1772-1871; photograph. D. Waldo Salisbury. 40 Boston Harbor, from Fort Hill; oil painting by J. W. A. Scott, 1853. 41 Four Silk Ensigns of the New England Guards (Chartered 181 2), specified as follows: A State Flag inscribed : "4th Battalion, ist Brigade, ist Division, New England Guards." A Battalion Color of white silk, inscribed : " New Eng- land Guards, instituted September 22, 1812. Presented by S. Abbott Lawrence, October 30, 1837." REPRESENTATIVES' HALL. 5 Four Silk Ensigns of the New England Guards — Continued. An Ensign of blue silk, displaying on its respective sides the shields of the states of New York and Massachusetts, and bearing upon the pole a silver plate engraved as fol- lows : " Presented to the New England Guards on the oc- casion of their first visit to New York, July 31, 1844, by the ex-members of the Corps residing in the city at the time." A National Ensign, lettered as follows : " 4th Battalion, M. V. M." Above them, a blue silk company guidon, inscribed : *' N. E. G, 18 1 2," The Nezv England Guards' Association. 42 John Wilkes, Serjeant Glyn and Rev. John Horne ; colored mezzotint, engraving by Houston, published in London, 1769. Loan: Samuel H. Russell. 43 Boston from Dorchester Heights ; oil painting by Seeman. A. C. Baldwin. 44 Clock, owned by the Hon. William Sullivan (1774-1839); made by Aaron Willard of Roxbury. Loan : Mrs. Elizabeth A. Tenney. 45 Jean Cheverus, 176S-1836; first Roman Catholic Bishop of Boston, 1810-1823 ; Bishop of Montauban, 1823 ; Arch- bishop of Bordeaux, 1826 ; Cardinal, 1835 ; lithograph by Moore after Stuart, 1826. yohn C. Flynn. 46 Rev. William Mattocks Rogers, born in Alderney, 1806, died 185 1 ; Pastor of Central Church, 1835-51 ; colored litho- graph. Mrs. Charles P. Strong. 47 The New England Guards, in camp on Savin Hill, under command of Capt. CJeorge W. Lyman ; oil painting upon a mahogany panel, inscribed : "September 11, 18(9. Painted by B B. Curtis." J. Putnam Bradlee. 48-49 Two Six-pound Brass Field Pieces, with engraved inscrip- tion : "Cast and Mounted by order of the Board of War, for the New England Guards, 1814," with sponge rod and ram- mer. One of the cannon was fired by Lafayette on his visit to the encampment of the Guards at Savin Hill in 1824. 2he New England Guards' Association. 50 John Jeffries, M. D., 1745-1819; in his costume as an aeronaut, with barometer, etc., in his balloon, copper-plate engraving ; his portrait at a later period, lithograph by Pendleton, after Greenwood; the column erected to com- memorate the spot in the forest of Guines, France, where Dr. Jeffries and Blanchard, the aeronaut, landed after their balloon voyage from England to France, Jan. 7, 1785 ; copper-plate engraving by Johnson after Greenwood ; framed together. Loan: B. Joy jfeffries, M. D. 6 BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. 51 Rev. Ephraim Peabody, 1807-1856; Pastor of King's Chapel, 1846-56 ; photograph. Nathan Appkton. 52 James Madison, 1751-1836; President of the United States, 1809-1817 ; oil portrait, after Stuart. Loan : A Republican Institution. 53 Joshua Bates, born in Weymouth, Mass., 1788, died 1864; of the firm of Baring Brothers & Co., London ; bene- factor of the Boston Public Library ; photograph of a bust. Loan : City of Boston, 54 Peleg Whitman Chandler, 1816-89; lawyer, city solicitor of Boston ; engraving by Buttre from a daguerreotype. Edwin F. Waters 55 William Abrams, merchant of Middle (now Hanover) Street ; born Jan. 16, 1742 ; died Sept. 27, 1843, aged loi years, 8 months, ii days; lithograph. George W. Sargent. 56 Alfred Charles Hobbs, 1812-1891; inventor; picked Braham locks at the World's Fair, London, 1851 ; steel en. graving by Hales' Sons. Alfred C. Hobbs, 57 A View of the Year, 1765 ; copper-plate caricature print, engraved, printed and sold by Paul Revere. A note upon the margin says that this print was found among the papers of William Mackay, grandfather of the donor, (died 1800), one of the " Sons of Liberty," and owner of the silver punch bowl made for the " Sons " in Boston. Robert C. Mackay. 58 "The Oldest House in America," 1634, the Craddock House, Medford ; bas-relief on metal, with inscription. WiiHatn T, Leggett. 59 Benjamin Lincoln, 1733-1810; Major-General in the Revo- lutionary Army; Secretary of War, 1781-4; Lieutenant- Governor, 1788; first Collector of the Port, 1789-1808; a framed policy of insurance for ;^iooo upon his life, un- derwritten by various persons. Loan : Samuel T. Crosby. 60 The Same; mezzotint engraving by Smith after Sargent's por- trait, in possession of the Massachusetts Historical Society, to which the plate is dedicated. Charles E. Clark, M. ID. 61 Rev. Joseph Stevens Buckminster, 1784-1812 ; Pastor of Brattle Square Church, 1805-12 ; framed miniature on ivory. Airs. Nathaniel Walker. 62 David Francis, 1779-1853 ; Boston bookseller, of the firm " Munroe & Francis ;" 'Irustee and Secretary of the M. C. M. A., 1814-26; Vice-President, 1827; Commander of the Rifle Rangers ; oil portrait by Clark. David G. Francis. 63 John Collins Warren, M. D., 1778-1856 ; one of the founders of the Massachusetts General Hospital ; Professor in Harvard College, 1806-46; engraving by Smith after a daguerreotype by Whipple. Moses W. Weld, M. D. REPRESENTATIVES' HALL. 7 64 Thomas Cokfin Amory, Jr., 1812-89; Chief Engineer of the Fire Department, 1829 ; Alderman and Member of the School Committee ; one of the charter members of the Bostonian Society ; photograph. Moses W. Weld, M. D. 65 Rev. Samuel Francis Smith, D. D., born in Boston, 1808 ; Baptist Clergyman and Professor ; author of "My Country, 'tis of Thee;" photograph. Samuel F. Smith. 66 Rev. Chandler Robbins, D. D., 1810-82; Pastor of the Second Church, 1833-75 ; engraving by WagstafT and Andrews, after a daguerreotype. Mrs. F. B. Mums. 67 Rev. Cotton Mather, D. D., v. No. 9 ; engraving by Wag- staff and Andrews, after Pelham. Mrs. F. B. Minns. 68 Rev. Henry Ware, Jr., D. D., 1794-1843; Pastor of the Second Church, 1817-1830; Professor in Harvard College, 1829-42 ; engraving by Wagstaff and Andrews after Froth- ingham. Mrs. F. B. Minns. 69 Rev. Increase Mather, D. D., 1639-1723 ; Pastor of the Second Church, 1664-1723 ; President of Harvard College, 1685-1701 ; engraving by Wagstaff and Andrews, after Vanneck. Mrs. F. B. Minns. 70 John Adams, 1735-1826 ; President of the United States, 1797-1801 ; engraving after Stuart. 71 The Same; copper plate engraving, half length, seated ; under- neath, the American Eagle with thunderbolts; drawn and engraved by Houston, inscribed : " His Kxcellency John Adams, President of the United States of America. Re- spectfully dedicated to the lovers of tiieir country and firm supporters of their Constitution;" published by Kennedy, in Philadelphia. Willnnn H. Whitmore. 72 William Perkins, Merchant, 1773-1818 ; oil portrait on panel by Greenwood, 18 18. Mrs. Richard Perkins. 73 Rev. Charles Francis Barnard, 1806-84 ! Pastor of the War- ren St. Chapel, 1834-1866 ; photograph. Warren St. Chapel. 74 Rev. Mather Byles, D. D., 1706-1788 ; Pastor of Hollis St. Church, 1733-1776; a Loyalist during the Revolution; en- graving by Harris. 75 Rev. John Lathrop, D. D., 1740-1816 ; Pastor of the Second Church; 1768-1816; Engraving by Wagstaff and Andrews, after Stuart. Mrs. F. B. Minns. 76 Rev. John Clarke, D. D., born in Portsmouth, N. H., 1755, died April i, 1798, delivering a benediction in the First Church, of which he was pastor from 1778. Engraving by Graham after Lovett. Theodore H. Bell. 77 Rev. Charles Lowell, D. D., 1782-1861 ; Pastor of the West Church, 1806-61 ; engraving by Sartain, after Harding. Grenville H. Norcross. 8 BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. 78 Rev. Samuel Barrett, D. D., i 795-1876 ; Pastor of the Twelfth Congregational Society, 1825-1858 ; lithograph by Bouvd after Bond. Mrs. Olive S. Plhnpton. 79 Rev. John Murray, D. D., born in England 1741, died in Boston 1815 ; founder of the Universalist Church in America ; lithograph by Pendleton, after Johnson. Samuel Batchelder. 80 William M. S. Doyle, Artist, proprietor of the Columbian Museum ; pastel by himself, 1828, a few days before his death. Mrs. Emily E. Mills. 81 Faneuil Hall, interior ; woodcut on India paper, by C. E. Johnson, 1888. 82 Rev. Francis William Pitt Greenwood, i 797-1843 ; Pastor of King's Chapel, from 1827 to 1843 ; engraving by Kimberly, after Hayward. C. O. Brown. 83 Mrs. Harrison Gray Otis, Jr., 1796-1873 ; assisted by a fair the completion of Bunker Hill Monument; secured $10,000 towards purchasing Mt. Vernon; persuaded the Legislature to make Washington's birthday a legal holiday ; aided sick and wounded soldiers in the Rebellion ; full length oil portrait by Healy, Paris, 1876. Harrison Gray Olis. 84 The Same; half length miniature steel engraving, by the Amer- ican Bank Note Co., for the bills of the Mt. Vernon Bank. Harrison Gray Oils. 85 Resolutions of the City Council, thanking Mrs. Otis for her services to sick and wounded soldiers during the Rebel- lion ; approved Nov. 3, 1865, F. W. Lincoln, Jr., Mayor; framed. Harrison Gray Otis. 86 House No. 41 Mt. Vernon St., residence of Mrs. Otis ; in- terior view of the Parlor, about 1845. Harrison Gray Otis. 87-88 Two Fire Buckets (over door), inscribed : " Friend and Public, 1799, Edward Oliver." 89-90 Two Cutlasses (over door), taken from a ship sunk off the Harbor of Sebastopol, during the Crimean War and raised by Col. Gowen of Lynn. G. W. Otis. 91-96 The Arms of the Foxcroft, Mountfort and Checkley fami- lies, of the Rev. Roger Price, 1734. cf Sir Francis Nich- olson, Lt.Gov., 1 7 II, and of Capt. Francis Hamilton of H. M. Ship of War •' Kingfisher ;" painted on canvas by Savory for the 2ooth anniversary. Loan : 27ie Wardens and Vestry of King's ChapH, REPRESENTATIVES' HALL. CASE "A," THE HANCOCK CASE. A Folio Bible, once owned by the Rev. John Hancock, of Lex- ington, grandfather of the Governor, and by the Gover- nor, containing the latter's autograph ; printed by James Watson, Edinburgh, 1722. Franklin Hancock. A Folio Prayer Book, printed at Oxford, 1721, once belonging to the Rev. John Hancock, of Braintree, father of the Governor, and to the Governor, with a portrait of George H. and other engravings. Franklin Hancock. A Silver Cigar Light, once belonging to Gov. Hancock. Mrs. Richard Perkins. A Decanter Stand of Gov. Hancock. Gridley J. F. Bryant. Photograph of Gov. Hancock's seal, enlarged. Mrs. Mary S. Israel. Cocoa-nut with silver mounting once belonging to Gov. Hancock, given by him to Mrs. Brackett, his housekeeper. Loan : George O. Carpenter. A French Lacquered Snulif Box with motto, " Les trois passions de I'Homme," and pictures. Mrs. Fickard Perkins. A Snuff Box given to Mrs. Brackett by Mrs. Hancock. Loan : George O. Carpenter. Two Egg Cups made from wood of the Hancock House. Fratiklin Hancock. Whist Counters with the Hancock crest, and cribbage board. Franklin Hancock. Cloth on which is printed one-half the arms of the Hancock family. A Framed Letter, written by John Hancock from London, March 2, 1 761, to his step-father. Rev. Daniel Perkins of Bridgewater. Mrs. Richard Perkins. Shoe Buckles of Gov. Hancock. The Original Deed to the Town of Boston of Gov. Hancock's pasture, the site of the State House, for 5 Shillings, April 27, '795) by Dorothy Hancock, his widow. Loan : George B. Ager. Knocker from the front door of the Hancock House, given by Charles L. Hancock to Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, and by him to the Bostonian Society. A Copper Tea-kettle made by Paul Revere, and once owned by Gov. Hancock. Franklin Hancock. Governor Hancock's Punch Bowl and Pitcher. Franklin Hancock. lo BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. Case "^," The Hancock Case — Continued, A Decorated Wine Glass Tray once owned by Gov. Hancock ; given by his widow to the Perkins family, and to the Bos- tonian Society by Mrs. Richard Perkins. Indenture of Apprenticeship of Thomas Hancock, Son of the Rev. John Hancock, Minister of Lexington, to Samuel Ger- rish, bookbinder, May 20, 17 18. Gridley jf. F. Bryant. A Tea Cup once owned by Gov, Hancock, given by his widow to the Perkins family. Mrs. Richard Perkins. Two Leather Pocket Books once belonging to Gov. Hancock. Franklift Hancock. Framed Medallion Miniature Busts of the Prince and Princess of Orange (William HL and Mary), Pope and Gay; from the Hancock House. Frankiin Hancock. St. Paul's, London ; copper plate engraving in miniature by F. Muller, 1750 ; from the Hancock House. Fraiiklin Hancock. Sonnet for Oct. 14, 1793, "when were entombed the re- mains of his Excellency, John Hancock, Esq., late Governor and Commander in-Chief of Massachusetts." Three Autographs of John Hancock. A Court Suit, consisting of a crimson velvet coat, blue satin waist-coat, embroidered with gold, and drab silk trunks, once owned and worn by Gov. Hancock. Franklin Hancock. Three Books from Gov. Hancock's pew in the Brattle Square Church. Franklin Hancock. Slippers once owned by Gov. Hancock's wife. Two Canes made from wood of the Hancock House. Loan : Mrs. Sarah B. Otis. Silver Pepper Box, 150 years old, with " L. H." on the bottom, property of Lydia Henchman, wife of Thomas Hancock, uncle of John Hancock. Franklin Hancock. CASE "B,"THE AUTOGRAPH CASE. Receipt of Henry W. Longfellow for royalties on " Evangeline," " Courtship of Miles Standish " and " Hiawatha," paid by W. D. Ticknor & Co., i860. Selectmen of Boston ; autograph agreement with Thomas Joy for payment of balance for building the Town House in 1660 ; from the Leffingwell Collection. REPRESENTATIVES' HALL. ii Case "^," The Autograph Case — Continued. Vote of Town Meeting, Feb. i6, 1669, and of the Selectmen, Jan. 30, 167 1, granting a place for a house out of the town waste to Samuel Davis. Bill of the State Eank for ten dollars, signed by William Gray, known as "Billy Gray," 181 1. John S. Brayton. Bill of Thomas Dawes against the Province of Massachusetts Bay for repairing the Town House, July, 1773. John S. H. Fogg, M. D. Petition of John Barnard, Master of the North Grammar School, for an increase of salary, 17 16; from the Leffingwell Collection. Petition of John Lovell, Master of the Latin School, for an increase of salary, about 1749 ; from the Leffingwell Collection. Lovell's Memorial to the Governor and Council for payment of services as interpreter to the French Prisoners, 1747 ; also a bill for examining a French deserter from Crown Point ; from the Leffingwell Collection. Subscription List for the engraving of Ames's picture, " The Last Days of VVebster at Marshfield," containing seven hundred autographs. Mrs. Williajn Appleton. Petition for a licence to Joseph Ballard as proprietor of the British Coffee House, Oct. 23, 1754, signed by James Bow doin and others ; from the Leffingwell Collection. Vote of the Town, May 13, 1774, on receipt of the news of the passage of the Boston Port Bill : letter of William Cooper, Town Clerk, of the same day, to the other colonies announc- ing the passage of the bill. Indictment of Capt. Preston and Soldiers for killing Samuel Maverick in the Boston Massacre, March 5, 1770; from the Leffingwell Collection. Inquest on the body of Michael Johnson (endorsed " Crispus Attucks "), March 6, 1770; from the Leffingwell Collec- tion. Power of Attorney given by Sir Isaac Coffin, Bart., to William F. Otis of Boston, March 31, 1832. Letter of Sir Isaac Coffin concerning his school at Nantucket to Gov. Lincoln, April 16, 1834, with steel engraved portrait by Ridley of London, from a miniature. yohn C. y. Brown. Commission of Samuel Parker to be deputy Naval Officer of Boston, July i, 1819 ; signed by Thomas Melville, Naval Officer, one of the " Tea Party." Hamilton A. Hill. 12 BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. Case ^'B"The Autograph Case — Continued. William Warren ; engraved portrait by Wilcox, with two auto- graphs. Letter of Paul Revere to Stephen Metcalf, July 30, 1783 ; letter of Paul Revere and Son to Enoch Horton, July 28, 1809. Autographs and autograph letters of Samuel Sewall, Josiah Quincy, Jr. (the " Patriot"), Washington Irving, R. H. Dana, Jr., Edward Everett, Theodore Parker, John Quincy Adams, Bishop Cheverus(2), Daniel Webster (2), Edwin P. Whipple, Robert C. Winthrop, George Bancroft, Edwin Booth, Mrs. M. A. Vincent, Fanny Kemble, A. Graham Bell, Joseph Story, Charles Sumner, Rufus Choate, Anson Burlingame. CASE"C," THE MISCELLANEOUS CASE. An English Brick from the Curtis house, Jamaica Plain, 1639, with a photograph of the house thereon. The house was occupied by Rhode Island Troops during the Siege of Boston, and was demolished in 1886. Fred F. Hassani. Copper bullet mould of the Revolutionary period. Stacy Hall. Mould for making spoons brought from England, in 1635. Miss Elizabeth Rockwood. Door-plate of the Holmes House, Cambridge. Door-plate from the house in which Charlotte Cushman was born, in Richmond St., July 23, 1816. Mrs. C. E. Hutchinson. Spectacles once owned by Gawen Brown, maker of the Old South Clock. John B. Callender. iRON-bound spectacles worn in Boston during the Revolution. Loan : George IV. Maunder. Two Handkerchiefs, with pictures of the Battle of Lake Erie and of George Washington. Cane from wood of the " Constitution." C. C. Barryu Cane of Irish bog-oak given to Robert B. Forbes, 1847, '" com- mand of the U. S. Sloop " Jamestown," with supplies to the Irish during the famine. Birch stick used by Charlotte Cushman, at her last representa- tion of " Meg Merrilies," at the Globe Theatre. Addison Child. Orange-wood cane owned by Wendell Phillips. Edward Watts Hammer excavated near Plymouth Rock in laying the street rail way. Washington G. Benedict REPRESENTATIVES' HALL. 13 Case " C," The Miscellaneous Case — Continued. Surgeon's Saw used by Dr. David Jones at the Battle of Bunker Hill. Knife, Fork and Spoon used during the Rebellion by J. H. Hun- neman, Jr., Co. H, 9th Regiment, Mass. Vols. Surgical Instrunsents used by Dr. Eliphalet Downer, one of the minute-men of Lexington, and Surgeon on the " Bon Homme Richard," under John Paul Jones. Mrs. Nancy M. Downer. Old instruments for extracting teeth. (2) Money Belt worn in the war of the Rebellion, by J. H. Hunneman, Jr. Carved Ivory, done by a prisoner on an American privateer. Masonic punch-bowl presented to Col. Richard Gridley, about 1765, and from which, it is said, Washington and Lafayette drank when visiting him. Loan : Samuel H. Russell. Silver Snuff-box of Thomas Miller of Charlestown, Deacon of the First Church for 45 years, with inscription. C. T. Symmes. Fan once owned by Agnes Surriage, Lady Frankland, about 1760. Miss Abby L. Alger. Chinese Porcelain Bowl, with raised figures in colors, once owned by the Rev. Roger Price, rector of King's Chapel, 1729- 1746 ; commissary of the Bishop of London. Loan : Mrs. F. I. Weston. Sauce-Pan owned by Benjamin Franklin, given by his sister Jane Franklin Mecom to Benjamin Sumner, who administered upon Franklin's estate. Loan : Mrs. y. S. Lockwood. Linen Sheet once belonging to the Hancock family, given by Mrs. Hancock to Mrs. R. B. Carpenter. Loan : George O. Carpenter, Harrison Inauguration ball in Faneuil Hall, March 4, 1841 : list of Managers ; framed card. R. E. Cochran. Police Badges used from 1701 to 1855 ; Burglars' tools, etc., door- nips, slung-shot, jimmy, false keys, etc., taken from famous criminals from 1840 to 1850. Edward H. Savage. First Day-badge of the Boston police (1836.) Loan : »S. E. Barrett. Sampler, worked by a sister of Gov. Hutchinson. iWrs. S. S. Alexander. Bullet found on Breed's Hill, when building Bunker Hill Monu- ment. H. E. Holland. Buckles worn by Nathaniel Simmons, 1800. 14 BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. Case '' C,'' The Miscellaneous Case— Continued. Tinder Box, once belonging to Prof. Popkin of Harvard College, class of 1792. Francis H. Bigelow. Sun Dial used in 1762. Ancient Dutch box with a perpetual almanac, 1497. William J. Newcomb. Leaden Box, with contents, and silver plate placed under the corner stone of the Merchants' Exchange, August 2, 1841. Francis Cabot., Secretary. Communion Cloth of old Saxon linen given to the New North Church by Deaocn Kettell in 181 2. Rev. Edward G. Porter. CASE " D," THE MILITARY CASE. The Complete Uniform and equipments of the Boston Hussars, worn by their commander, Capt. Charles Norton Phelps, 1811-1818, with the Regulations of the Company. The Phelps Family. Ancient Brass Military Ornament such as was worn on the hat by Massachusetts militiamen. Jeremiah Colburn. Brass Gorget, gold plated ; with the British arms, and initials " G. R.," said to have been worn by an English Officer in the Revolution. Non-Commissioned Officer's Sword, brought to this country with other arms by Lafayette. Louis Rondelle. SiLVER-Mounted Court Sword, worn by James Bowdoin, when minister to Spain under Jefferson, and assistant minister to France. Thomas L. Winthrop. Officer's Dress Sword ; said to have been owned by Lafayette. Loan : Mrs. A. C. Clapp. Sword of Gen. Henry Jackson, 1770. II. Jackson. Brass front piece of a British soldier's cap ; dug up on Bunker Hill in grading the ground after the completion of the monument, by Edward Carnes, and given by him to George IV. Forristall. Three Cannon Balls found at Louisburg, Cape Breton, after the capture of the fortress in 1745. Loan : Charles W. Lewis. REPRESENTATIVES' HALL. 15 CASE " E," THE TILE AND MINIATURE CASE. Seven Tiles Printed by Sadler and Green in 1756 , the first specimens of printing on earthen ware in this country ; from an old building in Dock Square. Gridley jf. F. Bryant. Three Tiles from the house on the corner of Columbia and Essex Streets, used by Lord Percy as headquarters. John M. Little. Tile from the Bishop's Room in the house on the corner of Franklin and Federal Streets, taken out Feb. 28, 1854. G. VV. Adams. Tile from the house of James Barry in Barry Court, ofif Washing- ton Street. William C. Burrage. Four Dutch Tiles from the fire-place in the house occupied by Cotton Mather on the corner of Hanover and Prince Streets. Miss Elizabeth L. Means. Bill of Damages of Experience Ingersol for articles destroyed in the burning of Charlestown in 1775 ; to have been presen- ted to the British Commander ; photograph copy, Walter Ingersol Noble. Broadside Placard ; an appeal to tar and feather (jeorge Thomp- son, the English Abolitionist, which led to the Garrison riot, Oct. 21, 1835 ; taken from a shutter on that day by B. V. French. Library of Gov. John A. Andrew in his house in Charles St., af- ter the War ; photograph. Horace P. Chandler. Miniature Photographs of George Francis Train, mounted on one card of cabinet size. Nathan Appleton. Photograph of the Woman and Lions, in Howard St., 1880. Nathan Appleton. The Old Dorchester Meeting-house, 1748-18 17 ; photograph of an engraving. Benj. Gushing. Photograph of the Arms of George III, formerly in the Council Chamber of the State House, carried to Nova Scotia on the Evacuation of Boston, March 17, 1776. The Oldest Tombstone of Copp's Hill, 1664 ; photograph. Ed7vard MacDonald. Photograph of the Tombstone of William Clark on Copp's Hill. Edward MacDonald. Col. Benjamin Pollard, the first Commander of the Independent Corps of Cadets ; photograph of a portrait. A Copy of the New England Primer, 1781 t6 bostonian society. Case " j5'," The Tile and Miniature Case — Cotitiniied. Order of Exercises, badge and invitation, at the Consecration of the Rt. Rev. Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Mass., Oct. 14, 1891, Samuel H. Rtissell. The Gov. Winslow House in Marshfield, and a secret closet in that house ; photographs. H. L. Hadlock. Illuminated Copy of an Address to H. M. Queen Victoria, by the British-American Association of Boston, June 3, 1887. Robert B. Forbes ; photograph. Moses Grant, 1745-1817 ; one of the "Tea Party; " photograph. Miss Alice Grant. Rev. Charles Cleveland, City Missionary, photograph when 99 years of age. LiBBV Prison, Richmond, Va., 1862 ; photograph. William JV. Wheildon. Benjamin Sumner, Treasurer of Boston, 1803-5 ? photograph. Loan : Mrs. J. S. Locktuood. Joseph Henderson, high sheriff; miniature painted on ivory, by Amblard in London, 1793. He proclaimed from the Bal- cony of the Old State House the Treaty of Peace, in 1783. Harrison G. Otis. Charles H. Saunders, an actor, who made his first appearance at the Warren Theatre in 1836 ; daguerreotype. Mrs. Saufiders^ Rev. Joseph Stevens Buckminster, v. No. 61 ; miniature on ivory. Eev. S. B. Cruft. Benjamin Franklin, when minister to France; framed miniature. C. S. &- H. IV. Lincoln. The Hammond Family, two silhouettes by W. M. S. Doyle, about 1807. Loan: Samuel H. Russell. Samuel Appleton, v. No. 169 ; a steel plate. Nathan Appleton. John Tileston, Master of the North Writing School, died 1826, aged 90 ; photograph from a portrait by Greenwood in the Boston Museum. jfames W. Black. Rev. William Jenks, D. D., 1778-1866; Professor in Bowdoin College, 1815-18 : Pastor of Green Street Congregational Church, 1823-1845 ; framed photograph. Washington Allston, 1779-1843 ; daguerreotype after a portrait by Staigg. Nathan Appleton. Francis Rotch, 1773, owner of the tea ships, "Beaver" and " Dartmouth," visited by the Tea Party ; silhouette by Miers of London. George W. Allan. REPRESENTATIVES' HALL. 17 Case "i?," The Tile arid Miniature Case — Continued. Joseph and Francis Rotch, autographs, 1772, 1773. Nancy, second wife of Francis Rotch, 1 776-1867 ; silhouette, " cut with scissors by Master Hubbard." House, No. 477 Harrison Avenue, struck by a cannon ball during the Siege of Boston, 1775-6 ; photograph. Last Relic of the Great Fire, 1872, a building on the corner of Congress and Purchase Streets ; removed Dec, 1889. W. F. Mclniyre. Badge worn at the 200th Celebration of the settlement of Boston, 1830, by Charles P. Curtis, The House of Daniel Webster at Marshfield ; his tomb, and the Webster lot in the cemetery; three photographs. Henry L. Hadlock. Copper-Plate block of the old State House. Jatnes S. Smith. Bit of Iron from the roof of Haarlem Cathedral, Holland, with date, 1662. A'athan Appleton. A Ticket to a military dinner given in Philadelphia to the Boston City Guards, June 14, 1831 ; framed. George P. May. A Gold Locket with two miniature portraits, picked up on the Bull Run battle-field in the Fall of 1862, by Henry W. Gore, Lieut. Co. C. 33d Reg. Mass. Vols. Henry W. Gore. CASE "F," THE CHINA CASE. Old " Wood " platter, with a view of La Grange, the chateau of Lafayette. Given by him to Elizabeth Dickson Jones, a former resident of Boston. Loan : Samuel B. Dean. Old " Ridgway " platter, once owned by Major Thomas Dean, a banker of Boston, who commanded Fort Warren in 18 12. Loan : Samuel B. Dean. Plate ; Boston Common and State House. Plate ; common white ; a relic of the Great Fire, 1872. Plate ; residence of Thomas H. Perkins in Pearl Street, after- wards occupied by the Boston Athenaeum. Pitcher, with lustre and purple decorations, figures, legend, eagle, motto, etc. Loan : W, jf. Green. Pitcher, cream-white earthen, thirteen stars on the side, one of the set first made in this country, about 1808. Loan : Mrs. Frances I. Weston. Pitcher ; earthenware, small blue, the State House on one side, the New York City Hall oa reverse. Amos A. Lawren^, i8 BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. Case " 7^," The Chma Case — Confhiued. Plate, porcelain, once belonging to Gov. Gage, with birds, flowers, etc., from the loot of the Province House, 1776, Plate ; blue earthenware ; The old hotel at Nahant. Loan : Samuel H. Russell. Platters (2) and butter-plate, " Bacon's Oyster House ;" site of Brigham's Hotel. Robert B. Brigham. Liverpool Pitcher, with Masonic emblems and portrait of Wash- ington upheld by the t.oddess of Liberty; made for Gen. John Hall, an officer of the Revolution, marked "J. and P. [his wife Persis] Hall." Loan : Mrs. Levi L. Nichols. Pitcher, earthen-ware, blue on white, made for the Bi-Centennial Celebration, at Plymouth, of the Landing of the Pilgrims, 1820. Loan : Francis H. Bigelow. Plate ; Mitchell and Freeman's glass warehouse, Chatham St. Platter ; the Court House (Court Square). Pitcher, with lustre lining and handle. Loan : Mrs. B. F. Chandler. Pitcher, earthen-ware, stamped in red on cream ground, with motto : " Success to the Crooked but interesting Town of Boston ;" on the reverse, a portion of one of Moore's poems. Pitcher; ditto, black on cream. Richard Briggs. Plate ; The Marine Hospital at Chelsea ; earthen-ware. Plate ; Landing of the Pilgrims ; made for the Bi-Centennial at Plymouth, by Enoch Wood & Sons, Burslem, England. Benjamin C. Clark. Plate ; ditto, small. Tureen, with view of Caius College, Cambridge, 200 years ago. Loan : Miss Elizabeth Rockwood. Plate ; Boston State House. Plate; New South Church, Church Green. Pitcher ; Liverpool, black on cream, with arms of the Coopers' Guild ; on the reverse, a cooper at work, with motto ; letter " F" on front. From the Fernald Family. Loan : Samuel H. Russell. Pitcher; Liverpool, stamped \\\ih shipwrights' arms, on the reverse the ship " CJonstitution ; " with masonic emblems and gilding; inscribed" Joshua Pitman," and made for him after the Revolution. Loan : Joshua H. Pitman, Pitcher ; The " Enterprise " and " Boxer." Pitcher; Ship building in Salem ship yard, 1800. Platter ; view of the Old Alms-House, Leverett Street, 1800-1825. REPRESENTATIVES' HALL. 19 Case "7^," The Chit/a Case — Continued. China Tea-caddy, with tea found in the pocket and boots of John Crane, one of the Boston Tea Party, when taken injured to his home, Dec. 16, 1773. Mrs. Richard Perkins. Plate, with Harrison log-cabin, 1840 ; glass. Miss Elizabeth Rockwood. Plate, with Bunker Hill Monument ; glass. Pepper-box, 150 years old. Miss Elizabeth Rockwood. Milk PITCHER, Chinese cat, porcelain, blue on white, from the collection of Capt. Ebenezer Eaton, of Dorchester. Loan : Ered E. Hassam. Tea-set, copper lustre, light blue earthen-ware. Loan : Mrs. Erances I. Weston. Cup and Saucer, porcelain, from a full set taken from the British at Bennington by Gen. Stark, and given to Capt. Thomas Hotchkiss of Boston. Mrs. Walker. Pitcher, earthen-ware, with purple ground and copper lustre ; letters " D. S." in front, body covered with arabesques ; made in England for Capt. Daniel Sayward. Loan : Harrison Ellery. Pitcher, English earthen-ware, cream-colored, with gilding, fluted* gilt stars on the sides. Loan : Erancis Lincoln. Pitcher, blue Liverpool earthen-ware ; State House. Loan : Sainuel H. Rttssell. CASE'*G," THE MODEL AND MEDAL CASE. Model of the "Cockerel Church," Hanover St., 1721-184.1, also called the " New Brick;" the founders placed the figure of a cock as a vane upon the steeple, says Drake, out of de- r'sion of Mr. Thacher, whose Christian name was Peter (the Pastor of the New North, from which the founders of the "New Brick" seceded ; afterwards by union with the Old North, it became the Second Church, Mrs. E. L. Wilson. Coffin-shaped box for valuables, made in 1841 from wood of the "Constitution;" owned by Mrs. Harriet A. F. Cox Lewis; ornamented with a silver coffin-plate of her mother, Sus- anna Hickling Cox, 1762 ; given by their descendants Joseph and Susanna Willard, Bronze model of the Old South Meeting-house. Bradford Kingman. House made from wood of the Old Elm, 1855. Loan : John B. Callender. 20 BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. Case "(7," The Model and Medal Case — Continued. Model of the " Old Elm," made by the donor from wood of the tree after its destruction by the gale of Feb, 15, 1876. Luke y. Page. Model of Daniel Webster's house at- Marshfield, given to the Hon. Peter Harvey by a member of the Webster family. Mrs. Peter Harvey. Urn of live oak made from wood of the frame of the frigate "Con- stitution," 1887, by James Miskelly. Model of a boat, with oars, etc., made for a member of the Per- kins family by Robert B. Forbes. Mrs. Richard Perkins. Oak Gavel used in the Board of Aldermen from the organization of the City Government to April, 1891. The Board oj Alder7nen. Brass door-knocker on wooden block, with inscription : " From the Winslow House, Marshfield, Mass.; came in Mayflower, 1620 ; presented by Hon. Daniel Webster to Dr. Winslow, Sept. 12, 1850." Loan: Rev. William C. Winslow, D. D. Medal in commemoration of Abraham Lincoln, bronze, struck in Paris, 1865. Original die in silver of the great seal of the Province of New Hampshire from 1692 to 1694, with impressions. Loan : The Misses Getchell. Photograph of the great seal of New Hampshire, granted by William HL, January, 1699, broken in Council by order of Queen Anne, under the royal warrant, October 29, 1709 yat/ies R. Stanwood. Five shillings and six-pence of the Pine-tree paper currency of Massachusetts, 1779, under glass. Henry Guild. Pine-tree shilling, 1652 ; silver. Edward Turner. Another from the box placed under the corner stone of the Mer- chants' Exchange, in 1841. Francis Cabot, Secretary. Seal of the New England Numismatic and Archajological Society, incorporated 1866 ; silvered electrotype die. Charles Chaplin. Seal of the Plymouth Colony, 1620; silvered electrotype die, Charles Chaplin. Badge of the Marshal of the Fair for the preservation of the Old South Meeting-house, Dec, 1877. Nathan Appleton, Badge of the " Carnival of Authors," held in Music Hall, Jan., 1879. Nathan Appleton Medal, bust of the Rev. John Pierpont, 1785-1866 ; pastor of Hol- lis Street Church, 1819-45 ; bronze medallion framed in wjod. Moses W. Weld, M. D. REPRESENTATIVES' HALL. 21 Case "6^," The Model and Medal Case — Continued. A Tortoise-shell work-box, inlaid with pearl, the contents gold- plated, with embossed figures of flowers, etc., having a music box attachment ; once owned by the family of Hartt, who built the " Constitution." T/ie Misses Delarid. Medal commemorating the Battle of Porto Bello, Nov. 2, 1739, by Admiral Vernon, for whom Mt. Vernon was named ; composition. Charles E. Clark, M. D. Block of the wood-cut used by the Lataplighters of Boston on their New Year's address, 1827. Medal of the Old Guard of New York, worn ia the parade in Bos- ton, on the 250th anniversary of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, June 4, 188S, gilt. William T. R. Marvin. Medal commemorative of the Columbus Celebration, and the in- auguration in Boston of a statue of the Discoverer of Amer- ica, Oct. 21, 1892 ; white metal with badge. Nathan Appleton. Rev. John Pierpont; electrotype portrait from a seal cut by Mitchell. Badges worn by Committees of the Legislature to the Centennial Celebrations, in Philadelphia, 1887 ; Columbus, Ohio, 1888 ; New York, 1889 ; gilt. H. M. Richards d^• Co. Medals of the Foreign Exhibition, in Boston, 1883. Ahithan Appleton. Lafayette Gloves buckskin, with portrait, worn at the time of his visit to Boston, in 1824. jfohn Gilbert. Badge of Boston Veteran Firemen's Association Centennial, Sept. 15, 1 88 7. William C. Lawrence. Medal of the Massachusetts Humane Society given to Geo. W. Rossiter of the Ship " New World," for rescuing many of the crew of the ship " Ocean Monarch " burned at sea, Aug. 24, 1848 ; gold. Frank E. Hatch. Latin School Medals, Franklin Medals, Town and City Medals, Medal of the Salem St. Academy; silver; gifts or loans from Mrs. Richard Perkins, William Marble, Henry Guild, Mrs. L. C. I. Towne, John T. Pierce, Wm. P. Shreve, atid others. Stone from the Tower of St. Botolph's Church, Boston, England. Medal of the Massachusetts Humane Society. Abbott Lawrence. Medal with the arms of the Bostonian Society, worn at the Cen- tennial Celebration in Philadelphia, Sept. 17, 1887, by Williatn C. Biirrage. Badge worn by the Press at the Peace Jubilee, 1872, lVillia?n W. Wheildon. 22 BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. Case " C" The Model and Medal Case — Coutinued. Medal given to Charles Sargent by Ward N. Boylston, M. D.; bronze. yoh7i JDixwell, M. D. Medal issued by the International Maritime Exhibition, 1889 ; silver. William G. Crother, Badge of the Porcellian Club, Harvard College, instituted 1791 ; belonged to the Hon. George Morey, of the class of i8[i ; silver. Mrs. J. E. Ellis. Badge-Pin, "Champions, Boston Base Ball Club. 1871 ;" gold. John P. Reed. Badge taken after the Great Fire from the store of Palmer, Batchelder & Co., 162 Washington Street; silver. Fireman's hat ; imitation in silver. William C. Lawrence. English Gold Watch, ovi^ned by William Perkins (No. 71), Mrs. Richard Perkins. Silver Watch, made in London, and given to the Rev. Peter Thacher, Minister of Milton, 1681-1727. Peter Thacher. George Peabodv, Banker and Philanthropist, 1795-1869; bronze medallion bust, struck by the Trustees of the Peabody Educational Fund. Samuel A. Green, M. D. Daniel Webster; bronze medallion bust. G. H. Smith. Theodore Parker ; mould and impressions of bust, taken in Europe, two years before his death. Charles B. d?* Bcfijamin W. Appleton. Medal commemorative of the Pilgrim Jubilee, 1870, the 250th Anniversary of the landing at Plymouth ; gilt. yohn B. Callender. Silver fac-simile of the gold medal given by the City to George William Curtis on occasion of his eulogy of Wendell Phillips, April 18, 1884. Henry Guild. Medal of the celebration of the third Centennial Anniversary of the settlement of Sante Fd, New Mexico, July, 1883. Medal commemorating the Centennial Anniversary of the Evacua- tion of New York City by the British, Nov. 28, 1783 ; head of Washington on the reverse. Medal commemorating the Centennial Celebration of Washing- ton's Headquarters at Newburgh, N. Y., Oct. 13, 18S3. Medal commemorating the Bi-Centennial of the settlement of Germantown, Penn., Oct. 6, 1883. Medal commemorating the Centennial of the Battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775 ; five medals in white metal. One Cent and half cent of Massachusetts ; copper currency, 1788. REPRESENTATIVES' HALL. 23 Case "6^," l^he Model and Medal Case — Continued. Medal Souvenir of the erection, by ihe city, of Tablets in memory of the soldiers killed at Bunker Hill, 1889, Albert A. Folsom. Medal commemorating the 250th Anniversary of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, 1888 ; bronze. Henry Guild. CASE "H," NEW ENGLAND GUARDS' CASE. A Mahogany Cabinet, bearing upon either end a representation, carved in relief, of the shield of the New England Guards, with the company motto : " Our nation's honor the bond of union." /. Putnam Bradlee. This cabinet contains : A Silver Eagle bearing the engraved inscription : " Pre- sented by General Arnold Welles, November, 18 12." A Gold Medal, presented to the New England Guards by past members of the organization resident in Australia, in- scribed with the company motto. The reverse bears the following inscription : " Presented to the New England Guards by Joshua Crane, James W. Fletcher, Moses H. Call, Charles S. Jenney. Melbourne, Australia, September, 1854." A Gold Medal, presented to the New England Guards by past members of the organization resident in California, in- scribed : "N. E. G. Instituted Sept. 22, 1812." The re- verse bears the following inscription: "To the Guard in Boston, from the Old Guard in California. B. B. Gore, A. J, Almy, N. W. Knowlton, T, H. Borden, W. E. Moody, S. H. Whitmarsh, L. J. Wilder, N. H. Brown, N. L. Ingols, G. W. Nichols." A Gold-plated Gorget, bearing the State shield of Mass- achusetts in silver, worn by the successive commanders of the New England Guards, as the badge of office. An Officer's Mess Chest, of mahogany, containing arti- cles of Camp Equipage, in use in 1812. A Mahogany Ballot-box, silver mounted, bearing the initals, " N. E. G." and the engraved inscription : " Pre- sented by B. F. Pickman, Esq., 18 14." A Knapsack, inscribed: "B. 65." A Canteen, inscribed : " N. E. G., 63." A Representation of the shield formerly borne by the Guards, painted upon cloth, with the motto of the corps : " Our Nation's Honor the Bond of Union." The Neiu England Guards' Association. 24 BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. Case "ZT," New England Guards'' Case — Continued. Portions of uniform and equipment formerly worn by the New England Guards specified as follows : One shako, with white pompon ; One brass breast-plate ; One cartridge-box; One bayonet scabbard; One patent leather clasp-belt ; Two white cross-belts ; Two sets of epaulets. Joseph B. Glover. A Pair of Officers epaulets, of gold and bullion fringe. William C. Otis. JosiAH Putnam Bradlee, i8 11-87; Commander of the New England Guards ; framed photograph. Miss Helen C. Bradlee. A Dress Sword worn by the late Capt. J. Putnam Bradlee. Miss Helen C. Bradlee. A Sword inscribed : " S. B., Jr. from VV. V. H. 24th Reg. N. E. G." Records of the Guards and of the Guards' Association. A Pewter Mug marked : " N. E. G." Loan : John F. Ba?uhor. THE VESTIBULE. 97 Josiah Quincy, 1772-1864; Mayor, 1823-9; President of Harvard College, 1829-45 ; plaster statuette, model of the statue in front of the City Hall, by Thomas Ball. Martin Parry Kennard. 98 Lafayette, Marquis de, 1757-1834; steel-plate proof engrav- ing by Leroux from oil portrait by Ary Scheffer, 1822 ; full length in civil dress. 99 Charles Sumner, 181 1-74; U. S. Senator, 1851-74; pho- tograph by Black with fac-simile autograph. Loan : City oj Boston. 100 John Albion Andrew, 1818-1867 ; Governor, 1861-66; photograph. James IV. Black. loi John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848; President of the United States, 1825-29 ; engraving by Durand, after portrait by Sully ; full length, seated. James A. Dupee. 102 Wendell Phillips, 1811-84; photograph. Ja?nes IV. Black. 103 William Lloyd Garrison, 1804-79 ; photograph. James W. Black. THE VESTIBULE. 25 104 Miss Rosanna Black, Daughter of Andrew Black, afterward Mrs. Joseph Blake, and later Mrs. Benjamin Whitman ; died in 1848, aged about 76; half-length oil portrait of a young lady in a white satin robe, incorrectly attributed to Copley ; once owned by Mrs. Harrison Gray Otis (No. 83), and formerly exhibited in the Athenaeum. Loan : Arnim MiiUer. 105 William Church Otis, 1831-89 ; oil portrait by Harding. Loan : Harrison Gray Otis. 106 JosiAH QuiNCY, Jr., 1802-82 ; Mayor, 1845-9 \ oi^ portrait by Page. Josiah P. Quincy. 107 Fisher Ames, 1758-1808; Member of Congress, 1788-97; oil portrait by Edgar Parker, after Stuart. Mrs. Edgar Parker. 108 Nathaniel Pope Russell, i 779-1848 ; Treasurer of the Bunker Hill Monument Association, 1823-48 ; oil portrait by Stuart. Loan : Samuel H. Russell. 109 George Robert Twelves Hewes, Member of the " Boston Tea Party," died Nov. 5, 1840, aged 98 years; oil portrait painted from life in 1835 t)y J. G. Cole; purchased from Henry W. Hewes. no John Park, M. D., 1775-1852; father of the Hon. John C. Park ; oil portrait. Loan : The Park Family. 111 Edward Everett, i 794-1865 ; Member of Congress, 1825- 35; Governor, 1836-40; Minister to England, 1841-5 ; President of Harvard College, 1852-3 ; U. S. Senator, 1853-4; full length engraving by Wright Smith, after Hicks. 112 Daniel Webster, i 782-1852 ; Member of Congress from New Hampshire and Massachusetts; Senator, 1827-39, 1845-50; Secretary of State, 1840-43, 1850-52 ; full length engraving by Andrews and Smith, after Harding. 113 RuFUS Choate, 1 799-1859 ; heliotype after the engraving in Brown's " Life of Choate." EllertoJi E. Pratt. 114 Daniel Webster ; photograph of a crayon taken in the Capitol at Washington. 1845, by Eastman Johnson for the Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, and given by him to the Massa- chusetts Historical Society, i886. Robert C. Winthrop. 115 The Same; lithograph, after Ames. /. Colejuan. 116 The Columbian Museum, kept by, Doyle (No. 80), in Tremont Street ; framed broad-side advertisement of part of the con- tents, with wood-cut view of the engagement between the "Constitution" and the " Guerriere ;" engraved by Abel Bowen, D, & A. Bowen, Printers, 12 Court Street. 117 The Same : another framed broadside advertisement printed by tile Colunibinn Museum Press, " Head of the Mall." Jeremiah Co lb urn. 26 BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. ii8 Daniel Webster; photograph of an engraving. Francis H. Manning. 1 19 Daniel Webster, at Marshfield; lithograph by Bufford. Loan : Samuel H. Russell. 120 The Same; lithograph by Fabronius, after Ames, 1863. 131 A Letter of Daniel Webster to the Hon. Peter Harvey, dated Washington, Sept. 27, 1850 ; framed. J. Appleton Bailey. 122 Ticket of admission to the Columbian Museum, signed, " Mr. Mason " ; framed. Jeremiah Colburn. 123 Frame, containing letters or autographs of Washington, John Hancock, " Lord " Timothy Dexter, Gov. Wentworth and others. Loan ; Alonzo B. Wentworth. 124 Bust of "The Greek Slave," in marble by Powers. Loan : Mrs. William C. Otis. 125 Daniel Webster ; engraving. 126 The Same; lithograph by T'endleton of Johnston's drawing, after Harding's portrait, 183 1. Joseph Simes. 127 The Same ; lithograph after a miniature by Harvey. Mrs. Frances I. Weston. 128 The Same; full length engraving by WagstafT and Andrews, after portrait by Lawson. 129 The Same; engraving by Ritchie, after a daguerreotype by Whipple, 1848. Datiiel T. V. Huntoon. 130 Eulogy on the Death of James Lawrence, Commander of the U. S. Frigate "Chesapeake," killed June 4, 1813, off Boston Harbor in the tight with the " Shannon " ; framed broad- side, A. Bowen, engraver. Mrs. C. G. Butts. 131 The Same; broadside woodcut, printed on satin; framed. Loan : John F. Banchor. 132 Minot's Light-House; dravving, framed in a window washed ashore by the storm which destroyed the light-house, April 16-17, 1 85 1. Mrs. S. L. Andrews. i32aTHE Same; plans of the new Light, with a view of the old house; colored lithograph, by Burrill. Alden Frink. 133 The Merchants' Exchange, State St., 1842 ; L Rogers, archi- tect ; engraved by Thayer. Mortimer C. Ferris. 134 Suffolk County Registry of Deeds, plan of the en- largement, 1859 ' framed. Loan : The City of Boston. 135 Proposed Building for the Horticultural Society, 1864 ; framed. Grid ley J. F. Bryant. 136 Frame, containing views of i. The Facade, corner of Franklin and Devonshire Streets ; 2. Winthrop Square and Devon- shire Streets; 3. Franklin and Devonshire Streets ; destroyed by the Great Fire, 1872. Gridley J. F. Bryant. THE VESTIBULE. 27 137 Deed of Transfer to the Town of Boston of the Common- wealth's share in the Old State House, April 28, 1803, signed by the Commissioners appointed by the General Court to execute the transfer ; framed. Loan : City of Boston. 138 Beal's Photographic View of Boston, from the top of the Grand Junction elevator. East Boston, 1877 ; framed. 139 Boston from City Point, near Sea St., showing the old wind- mill ; painted and engraved by VV. J. Bennett, 1830; colored engraving. Samuel W. Clifford. 140 Certificate of Membership of Samuel W. Clifford in the In- dependent Boston Fusileers ; colored engraving by Osborn, with picture of the Company in camp, 1844. Samuel W. Clifford. 141 View of Boston from the ship-house at the West end of the Navy Yard ; colored engraving by W. J. Bennett from his painting. Samuel W. Clifford. THE COUNCIL CHAMBER. 142 Mary Allevne Otis, great granddaughter of Edward Doten of the " Mayflower ; " born at Plymouth, 1702, wife of No. 217, died about 1770; oil portrait by Copley, life size, seated, originally full length. Loan : Harrison Gray Otis. 143 Major Thomas Melville, 1751-1832; a member of the "Boston Tea Party;" fireward, r779-i825 ; Naval Officer, 1786-9, 1811-29; pastel portrait, as a young man, attribu- ted to Copley. Loan : John S. Damrell. 144 Death of Gen. Richard Montgomery in the attack on Quebec, Dec. 31, 1775 (with key); engraved by x\(iiller, London, 1798, after Trumbull; containing portraits of Gen. Mont- gomery, Major Jacob Cheeseman, Major Duncan McPher- son, and others. Miss Eliza S. Quincy. 145 Three Flemish Tiles from a fire-place in the mansion of Gov. Thomas Hutchinson, on Garden Court Street, North Square, taken down in 1832 ; framed. John J. May. 146 Invitation to attend the funeral, at St. Mary Woolnoth, London, Feb. 21, 1695, of Sir William Phipps (1651-95), first governor of Massachusetts under the second charter ; signed and sealed by "Major-General Wintrop ;" wood cut fac-simile, framed. Charles E. Clark, M. D. 147 Ancient Indenture on parchment, framed, with arms of the City of London, issued to Richard Orchard as apprentice to Richard Mill, felt maker, 1655, with endorsement of Edward Rawson, Secretary of Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1662. John S. H. Fogg, M. D. 28 BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. 148 Clearance Permit of the brigantine " Pitt " of Boston, is- sued by the Lords of the Admiralty, London, June 9, 1776, with autograph of the Earl of Egremont and others, counter- signed " A. Oliver, Secretary ; " copper-plate on parchment, framed. Robert C. Mackay. 149 John Nelson, 1654-1734; photograph after Smibert, framed. He is described in a letter of James Lloyd to Samuel Breck, 18 17, as a spirited and respected inhabitant of Bos- ton, who, in 1689, turned the guns of a battery on the gov- ernment fort, and demanded the surrender of Sir Edmund Andros, the royal governor, who had retired to the fort for security. He was afterwards imprisoned during the French war and carried to Quebec, where he heard of an expedition fitting out against the settlements on the Penob- scot and Piscataqua rivers, which, at the risk of his life, he communicated to the government of Massachusetts. Being removed to France, he sent word of a second expedition against the Colonies. He was released after the Peace of Ryswick on his parole to a French gentleman, who advanced ;^2o,ooo as security for his return. Being advised by William HL not to return, he replied: " Please God I live, I'll go !" which he did. Temple Prince. 150 The First Charter of Massachusetts, granted by Charles I, 1629 ; miniature heliotype reproduction, framed. William H. Whitmore. 151 Phillis VVheatley, born in Africa about 1753, brought to this country, i76r, died in Boston, 1784; servant of John Wheatley of this city ; she began to write verses at an early age, and her poems, dedicated to the Countess of Hunting- ton, were published in London with her portrait in 1773, and were several times reprinted ; copper-plate engraving published in that year by Archibald Bell, Aldgate, London. James M. Bugbee. 152 JosiAH QuiNCY, Jr., "the Patriot," 1744-75 ; defended in this room the soldiers arrested for the " Boston Massacre," 1770 ; oil portrait by Stuart, from a print, 1825. Loan: Estate of Josiah Quincy 153 Boston Common about 1850 ; oil sketch by Thomas G. Ap- pleton (No. 173). Nathan Appleton. 154 John Brooks, M. D., 1752-1825 ; commanded the minute- men of Reading at Lexington, April 19, 1775; an able officer in the Revolution; Governor, 1816-23; engraving after Stuart, 1820. 155 The Same, a photograph, after Stuart's portrait, reduced. 156 The Same, copper-plate engraving by Chorley, after Frothing- ham's portrait in possession of Dudley Hall, Esq. THE COUNCIL CHAMBER. 29 157 Samuel Griswold Goodrich (" Peter Parley ") 1793-1860 ; author or editor of 170 volumes, many of them for the young ; engraved by Bannister from a daguerreotype. Henry W. Bricher. 158 The Bas-reliefs on the Pilgrim Monument at Plymouth, de- signed by Hammatt Billings ; electrotyped copies in minia- ture, framed. Charles Chaplin. 159 Glass Medallions from two quart bottles, marked " C. Ap- thorp, 1751," and (Sir) "Robert Temple, 1767," found at Winter Hill, Somerville ; set in plush, framed. Job A. Turner. 160 Paul Revere, 1735-18 18 ; engraving by SchofT, after Stuart ; with fac-simile autograph. 161 Isaac Hull, 1775-1843; Lieutenant U. S. Navy, 1798; Cap- tain, 1806 ; distinguished himself in the Expedition against Algiers; in command of the " Constitution," captured the "Guerri^re," Aug. 19, 1812 ; oil portrait by Stuart, 1813, in uniform. Loan : Parker C. Chandler. 162 Boston Common in 1830, with a view of the State House ; water-color by George Harvey, an English Artist ; gift of his name-sake George Harvey Chickering. 163 Lafayette, described in French as " Deputy to the National Assembly, 1789, commander of the National Guard of Paris, 15 July ;" engraving by Fiesinger, after Guenin, published in Paris in 1830. Abbott Lawrence. 164 William Austin, 1778-1841 ; Author of " Peter Rugg, the Missing Man ;" first commissioned Chaplain of the U. S. Navy, 1799 ; photograph of a portrait by Pratt. Jonathan French. i64rtARTHUR Williams Austin, 1807-84, son of the above; Collector of the Port, 1857-60 ; engraving by Buttre for the U. S. Democratic Review from a photograph ; with fac-simile autograph. Jonathan French. 165 Autograph letter of the Rev. Cotton Mather to Mr. Ellis Kallender, Elder of a Church of Christ, Boston, Jan. i, 1714; framed. 166 Receipted itemized bill for repairs made on the Town-house (Old State House), 17 13, by John Brand; framed. 167 Autograph of Robert Keayne, who came over in 1635, fornied and was first Captain of the Artillery Company, 1638, died in 1656, aged 61 years, leaving £2^00 to build the first Town-house, on this spot ; framed. John S. H. Fogg, M. D. 168 Letter of Major Benjamin Church (1639-17 18), the celebrated Indian fighter, to Capt. Thomas Leonard of Taunton, Aug. II, 1697 ; framed. Charles E. Clark, M. D, 30 BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. 169 Samuel Appleton, Merchant, 1766-1853; full length sil- houette pasted on to a lithograph view of Tremont Street taken about 1835, Nathan Appleton. 170 The Same ; engraving by Schoff after Healy, with fac-simile autograph. Nathan Appleton. 171 Nathan Appleton, 1779-1861 ; Merchant, and writer on political economy ; one of the Founders of Lowell ; Mem- ber of Congress, 183 1-3, and 1842 ; oil portrait by Healy. Loan : Nathafi Appleton. 172 The Same; engraving by Schoff after Healy's portrait, with facsimile autograph. Nathan Appleton. 173 Thomas Gold Appleton, 1812-84; Son of No. 171; pastel by Alexander, 1852. Loan: Nathan Appleton. 174 The Same ; engraving by the Metropolitan Publishing and Engraving Co., New York ; with fac-simile autograph. Nathan Appleton. 175 Letter of Gawen Brown to the Old South Church in 1768, concerning the clock on the meeting-house made by him. Loan : The Old South Church. 176 Nathaniel Gorham, 1738-96 ; Member of the Old Congress, 1782-3, 1785-7, and President, 1786; member of the Con- stitutional Convention, 1787 ; copper-plate engraving by Rosenthal. George Gorham. 177 Thomas Sherwin, 1799-1869; Head Master of the English High School, 1838-69; engraving by Wright Smith from a daguerreotype ; with fac-simile autograph. Rev. E. R. Butler. 178 James Otis, Jr., "the Patriot," 1724-83, Son of No. 217; argued in this room against writs of assistance, 1761 ; delegate to the Colonial Congress, 1765; copy of Blackburn's original oil portrait in possession of Mrs. Rogers of Boston. Loan : Harrison Gray Otis. 179 Three Views of Boston, drawn in water-color in 1764, by Capt. Richard Byron, R. N. (1724-181 1), brother of Isabella, Lady Carlisle, and of Admiral Byron, grandfather of the poet; afterward rector of Houghton, Durham ; inscribed in the author's handwriting: i. " View of the Long Wharf and Part of the Harbor of Boston in New England, America R. Byron, ft.; 2. View of the South End of Boston in New England America and of the Neck taken from the Hill N. E. of the Common R. Byron ft : 3. View of the North End of Boston in New England America and of Charles Towne taken from the Hill westward of the Beacon R. Byron, ft." Framed together. The Earl of Carlisle. THE COUNCIL CHAMBER. 31 180 Prophetic Chronology of the reign of George III ; en- graved by Hewitt in London, 18 16; framed. George W. Maunder. 181 The Princess Anna Sophia, grand-daughter of James I., 1630-17 14 ; Electress of Hanover, mother of George I,, of England ; mezzotint engraving by Simon of a portrait painted in Hanover. Loan : William H. Whitmore. 182 Harrison Gray Otis, (v. No. 7) ; marble bust by Clevenger. Loan : Harrison Gray Otis. 183 George HI., 1738-1820; transparent colored mezzotint en- graving by Purcell after Frye, printed by John Bowles, Cornhill, London ; from the Read sale, Cambridge. 184 Charlotte, Princess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, married George HI, 1761 ; similar engraving, after Frye; from the Read sale. 185 William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, third son of George II., 1729-65 ; defeated by the French at Fontenoy, 1745 ; defeated the Pretender at Culloden, 1746; mezzotint en- graving after Faber's portrait from life. 186 Harrison Gray, 1710-94; First Treasurer and Receiver- General of Massachusetts Bay Colony; banished during the Revolution ; oil portrait by Copley, half length. Loan : Harrison Gray Otis. 187 John Gilbert, Comedian, 1810-89; made his tirst appear- ance at the Tremont Theatre, Nov. 28, 1828 ; his last at the Park Theatre, Dec. 15, 18S8; engraving by Buttre, after Sarony's photograph, with facsimile autograph, Johti Gilbert. 188 Benjamin Franklin ; copperplate engraving after Cochin by Chodowiecki, a Russian painter and engraver. William C. Burrage. 189 The Rt. Hon. Isaac Barr6, 17 26-1802 ; Adjutant-General of the Army before Quebec ; Member of Parliament, and Friend of America, for whom the Town of Barre was named; engraving by Hall, after Stuart, 1785. /. S. Wright dv Co. 190 Andrew Oliver, 1706-74; one of H. M's Council, 1746-65; Secretary of the Province, 1756-70; Lieut. -Governor, 1771; heiiotype reproduction of an oil portrait by Emmons, 1728. Fitch E. Oliver, M. D. 191 George Washington, by Edgar Parker; copy of Stuart's portrait. Miss Eliza S. Quincy. 32 BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. 192 Rev, Samuel Cooper, D. D., 1725-83 ; Pastor of Brattle Square Church, 1746-83 ; an eminent Patriot and Author ; mezzotint engraving by Green, 1754, from a portrait owned by Gov. Hancock, with motto : " Cujus etiam a lingua melle dulcior fluebat oratio ;'' ixom the J. Chaloner Smith sale, London, 1887. 193 John Adams ; copy by Edgar Parker of Stuart's portrait. Mrs. Edgar Parker. 194 Jonathan Belcher, 1682-1757 ; Member of the Council and Agent of Mass. to England ; Governor of Mass. and N. H,, 1730-41, of New Jersey, 1747 ; mezzotint engraving by Faber after Phillips ; from the Smith sale. 195 Gen. Joseph Warren, 1741-75 ; lithograph by Pendleton, after Alexander. 196 Home of Gen. Warren in Hanover St., from 1772 to '75, on the site of the American House; removed 1850; engraving. Henry B. Rice. 197 Samuel Sewall, born in England, 1652, died in Boston, J 730; Member of the Council; Judge, 1692-1711; Chief Justice to 1728 ; engraving from the " Portfolio," after an original portrait, with fac-simile autograph. 198 Edward Winslow, 1595-1655 ; Governor of Plymouth Col- ony, 1633, '36, '44 ; appointed by Cromwell one of three commissioners to superintend an expedition against the Spaniards in the West Jndies, he died at sea in that service; engraving by House, with fac-simile autograph, 1639, and coat of arms ; in antique frame. Johfi Gilbert. 199 John Paul Jones, born in Scotland, 1747, died in Paris, 1792; Lieutenant in U. S. Navy, 1775; Commanded the "Bon Homme Richard," 1779, ^^^ captured the "Serapis;" entered the Russian service, 1787. Drawn from life by Moreau in Paris, and engraved by him, 1781; with motto from Molibre. 200 Samuel Adams, 1722-1803 ; Delegate to the Continental Congress, and to the Constitutional Convention ; Lieut. - Governor, 1789-94, Governor, 1794-7; copper-plate en- graving by Norman, with inscription, " First Delegate to Congress for Mass." 201 Elizabeth Gray Otis, daughter of Harrison Gray (No. 186) born about 1745 ; wife of Samuel Alleyne Otis (No. 209) mother of Harrison Gray Otis (No. 7); died about 1785 oil portrait by Copley, originally full length, as a shepherd- ess with a crook, holding a lamb by a blue ribbon. Loan : Harrison Gray Otis. THE COUNCIL CHAMBER. 33 202 William Shirley, 1693-17 ii ; Governor, 1741-49, 1753-56; planned the Expedition against Cape Breton, 1745 ; mezzo- tint engraving by McArdell, after Hudson ; from the Smith sale. 203 Caler Strong, 1745-1819 ; U. S. Senator, 1789-97 ; Governor, 1800-7 ^"*^ i8i2-i6; copperplate engraving, by I. R. Smith, after Doyle, 18 13, with inscription: "Elected in 18 13 Governor of Mass., for the ninth time by the free suf- frages of his fellow-citizens." Charles H. Wise. 204 Gilbert Stuart, Painter, 1 754-1828 ; copper-plate proof en- graving by Edwin, after Nagle's portrait, act. 72. C. H. Hart. 205 John Singleton Copley, R. A., 1737-1815; steel engraving by Edwards, 1832, after Stuart. Loan : Samuel H. Russell. 206 Prince de Joinville ; invitation to a ball given in his honor while in Boston, Nov., 1841 ; engraved card by Hopwood, with portrait of King Louis Philippe, father of the Prince. Ho7i. John Lathrop. 207 Sir Charles Henry Frankland, 1716-68 ; Collector of Bos- ton, 1741-57; Consul-General at Lisbon, 1757-63; etching by Miss Annie S. Pratt, from a photograph obtained at Thirkelby Hall, Yorkshire, the residence of the family, by the Rev. Elias Nason. John F. Pratt, M. D. 208 Thomas Melville, (?'. No. 143); engraving electrotyped by Hopkins. O. A. Crane. 209 Samuel Alleyne Otis, 1740-18 14, Son of James Otis (No. 217) ; Member of Congress, 1788 ; first Secretary of the U. S. Senate ; father of Harrison Gray Otis (No. 7} ; oil por- trait by Stuart, 1800. Loan : Harrison Gray Otis. 210 Thomas Pownall, 1722-1805 ; Governor 1757-60; of South Carolina, 1760-61; M.P., 1768-80; mezzotint engraving by Earlom, after Cotes ; from the Smith sale. * 211 William Gushing, 1732-1810; Judge of the Superior Court, 1772; Chief Justice, 1777; Judge of the Supreme Court, 1782, and Chief Justice; Associate Justice U. S. Supreme Court, 1789; nominated by Washington Chief Justice but declined ; photograph of a portrait. Loan : Mrs. Mary S. Israel. 212 Thomas Hollis, 1659-173 i ; a Merchant of London, a liberal benefactor of Harvard College ; copperplate engraving ; bust with wreath and seated figure of Minerva. Hamilton A. Hill. 213 Act of the Colonial Legislature, April 25, 175 1, apportioning the cost of rebuilding the Town-House (Old State House), after the fire of 1747, ^^^3705, i is 4d., to the Town of Boston and the other towns of Suffolk County ; framed broadside. Heirs of D. T. V. Huntoon. 34 BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. 214 Federal St. Theatre; bill for Nov. 13 (about 1795) ; plays, " The Stranger " and a farce, " Aninaal Magnetism ; " the following was printed at the bottom : " N. B. On no ac- count a segar to be smoked in the theatre. It is hoped that no gentleman will take offence at being refused admit- tance behind the scenes." Framed. 215 The Same; bill for Oct. 12, 1796, framed; plays, "Venice Preserved," and " Oscar and Malvina." " The theatre opens at five, performance at 6." Johi F. Banchor. 216 JosiAH QuiNCY (v. No. 97) ; crayon by Furness, after Stuart, 1824. Miss Abby P. Quincy. 217 Col. James Otis, of Barnstable, 1702-78; father of James Otis, Jr. (No. 178), and of Samuel Alleyne Otis (No. 209); husband of Mary Alleyne Otis (No. 142); speaker of the Provincial Congress, 1760 ; C. J. of Court of Common Pleas, 1764; President of H. M.'s Council, 1771 and '72; oi! por- trait by Copley; originally full length, life-size, seated Loan : Harrison G/ 'sy Otis. 218 Mercury, a carved and gilded figure with outspread wings, alighting on the earth ; said to have stood before the Post Office in 1750; for fifty years in front of the store of C. C. Hutchinson, formerly that of F. W. Lincoln, 126 Commercial St. ; said to be the oldest emblematical sign in Boston. C. C. Hutchinson. 219-226 Arms of Governors William Burnet, 1728; Col. Samuel Shute, 17 16; Joseph Dudley, 1702; Earl of Bellomont, 1699; Sir Edmund Andros, 1686; Jonathan Belcher, 1730; William Shirley, 1717 ; Thomas Pownall, 1757 ; painted on canvas by Savory. The Wardens and Vestry of King's Chapel. 227 The Hall Clock of Mather Byles, First Pastor of the Hollis Street Church, made by his son-in-law, Gawen Brown, in King, now State Street, 1750; loaned by T. O. H. P. Burnham in 1883 ; purchased from his estate in 1892. 228 Lantern hung on the Liberty Tree at the illumination in honor of the repeal of the Stamp Act, 1766 ; over door. Heirs of J. H. Hiifineman. 229 Fireman's Hat, " Reliance," 17S6 ; over door. 230 John Hancock's Dining-Tab'e ; sold at auction of the Hancock tlouse. B. Joy Jeffries^ M. D. 231 Table of the Executive Council before the Revolution, sitting in the Old Stale House; removed to the State House, and used by the Council from the beginning of this century, as appears by a certificate of Gov. B. F. Butler, Dec. 8, 1883. Loan : City of Boston. THE COUNCIL CHAMBER. 35 232 Chair of wood of the ship " Resolute," sent by the British Government in 1852 in search of Sir John Franklin ; abandoned in the ice and brought to New London, Conn., by an American whaler; refitted and presented to H. M. Queen Victoria who received it at Osborne with imposing ceremony ; made from a wooden timber, when broken up, and presented to Mayor Courtenay of Charleston, S. C, and by him to the City of Boston, on the 250th anniversary celebration in 1880. Loan : City of Boston. CUSTODIANS' ROOM. 233 A Bullet (framed) shot into a room in the headquarters of Gen. Lincoln, at the Siege of Charlestown, June 17, 1775 ; " when he and I were sitting in the room" ; signed, John Barker, in pencil, 1804. Loan : Samuel T. Crosby. 234 View of the first monument on Bunker Hill, erected Nov., 1794, by King Solomon Lodge, Charlestown ; printed on satin, framed. George W. Forristall. 235 Rev. Charles Cleveland, City Missionary, in his 91st year; engraving by Wright Smith, from a photograph by Black, with fac-siraile autograph. John P. Reed. 236 Moses Grant, 1785-1861, Merchant and Philanthropist; photograph of an original portrait. Stephen G. Dtblois. 237 View of the Back Bay and Charles Street, and the Common, from a sketch taken in 1823 from the balcony of 61 Beacon Street, " by M. J. D." (Mary Jane Derby, afterward Mrs. Ephraim Peabody) ; heliotype reproduction. Nathan Appleton. 238 Christ Church, Salem Street, bearing upon its tower the memorial tablet erected by the City of Boston, Oct. 17, 1878, with an inscription written by W. W. Wheildon, 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 ;" heliotype. William W. Wheildon. 239 Rev. William Mattocks Rogers {i). No. 46) ; lithograph by Sharp, after a miniature by S. L. Gerry, with facsimile autograph. John F. Reed. 240 Rev. John Codman, D. D. 1782-1847; Minister of the Second Church, Dorchester, from 1808 ; photograph after Copley at the age of 26. Loan : William C. Codman. 36 BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. 241 Henry Pelham, half brother of J. S. Copley ; photograph after Copley's portrait known as "the Boy with a Squirrel," the exhibition of which in London led to Copley's removal to that city. Henry P. Curtis. 242 " A View of Part of the Town of Boston in New England, and British Ships of War landing their Troops, 1768 ; " hand- colored copper-plate print engraved by Paul Revere. Loan : Samtiel A. Green, M. D. 243 A Sign (over door), representing carpenter's tools, carved by John Fowle, about 1820, for John Bradford, hardware dealer, 13 Dock Square; presented by his successors Andretv E. Johonnot and George S. Saunders. 244 Rev, John Moorhead, " Pastor of the Church of Presbyterian Strangers in Boston," formed by an Irish Colony in 1727 ; engraving by Pelham after his portrait, 175 1 ; with a Latin motto. 245 Rev. William Welsteed, Pastor of the Second Church, 1728-53 ; mezzotint, after the only known engraving by J. S. Copley, executed in 1753, at the age of 16, William H. Whitmore. 245a Rev. Samuel Willard, 1640-1707 ; Pastor of the Old South, 1678-1707; engraving by Van der Gucht ; with a Latin motto. 246 Boston and Bunker Hill, from Chelsea ; engraved for the N. E. Gazetteer. 246a Charles Pelham, half-brother of Copley, engraved from his portrait, the earliest one known by the artist, he being at that time not far from fourteen years of age ; the original in possession of Charles Pelham Curtis. Henry P. Curtis. 247 John Singleton Copley, Lord Lyndhurst; Son of the Painter, born in Boston, 1772 ; taken to England, 1775 ; Lord High Chancellor, 1827-30, 1834, 1841-6 ; died 1863 ; engraving from a portrait in robes of office. Jeremiah Co lb urn. 248 House of 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 Quincy, erected upon it in 1770; a sketch in India ink from President's Hill by Eliza Susan Quincy, in 1823. Miss Eliza S. Quincy. 249 Paul Revere's House, 19 North Square, built in 1676 ; water-color by Tolman. 250 Battle of Bunker Hill (with key) ; engraving by Miiller. after Trumbull, with portraits. Miss Eliza S. Quincy. CUSTODIANS' ROOM. 37 251 The Boston Massacre, engraved by Paul Revere ; given in 1825 to Josiah Quincy by his aunt, Mrs. Storer, sister of Josiah Quincy, Jr., (No. 152.) Miss Eliza S. Quincy. 252 The Boston Type Foundry in 1823, near Christ Church, Salem Street ; wood-cut. John M. Eaton. 253 " Bold Americans ; " a Revolutionary ballad, addressed to " Bold Young Bostonians " and drinking a health to George Washington ; broadside, framed. Hamilton A. Hill. 254 Quincy Market ; lithograph by Moore. 255 Rev. John Wilson, 1588-1667 ; born in England, came to New England with Winthrop : first Pastor of the First Church in Boston, 1632 ; photo-lithograph after an oil paint- ing owned by the Massachusetts Historical Society, with fac-simile autograph Ari/iur B. Ellis. 256 Faneuil Hall in 1824; engraving by Abel Bowen. 257 Rev. John Cotton, i 585-1652 ; Vicar of St. Botolph, Boston, England; came to America, 1633; minister of the First Church, 1 633-1 65 2 ; wood-cut, with fac-simile autograph. Arthur B. Ellis. 258 Robert Charles Winthrop, born 1809; Member of Congress, 1840-42 and 1843-50 ; Speaker of the House of Representatives, 1847-8; U. S. Senator, 1850-1 ; photo- graph from an oil painting in the Capitol at Washington. William S. Apple to7i. 259 Residence of Jeffrey Richardson, corner of High and Pearl Streets, 1794; lithograph by BufTord. Frederick IV. G. May. 260 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 with his left hand ; in his right is a scalping knife marked G. R., and hanging from his musket a placard marked, " Reward for 16 scalps." The officer says, " Bring me the scalps, and the King our master will reward you." Colored copper-plate engraving. E. A'. Gtinnison. 261 Rev. Cotton Mather, {v. No. 9) ; a modern impression of the first mezzotint engraving executed in America, by P. Pelham, who painted the portrait from life ; with a Latin inscription. Denison R. Slade. 262 Mos-Wachusett, or Arrow Head Hill, in Quincy; photo- graph of an India ink sketch, by Miss Eliza S. Quincy in 1823. Miss Eliza S. Quincy. 263 Certificate of service in the War of the Rebellion ; steel engraving, issued to Corporal William Roland, Co. D, Fiist Reg. Mass. Vols.; signed by William Claflin. Governor, April 19, 1870; framed. Loan: Williajn C. Lawrence. 38 BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. 264 The Gardner Mansion, on Summer Street, on the site of the store of C. F. Hovey & Co. ; framed photograph. Moses H. Barnard. 265 The Revere House, Bowdoin Square ; architect's draw- ing in India ink. Curtis Guild. 266 Boston Common ; steel-plate print by Osborn. Mrs. George W. Maunder. 267 Edward Bromfield, born, 1723, in the first house erected in Beacon Street, died, 1745. He constructed the first organ and the first microscope made in America ; photograph representing him pointing to his microscope, after oil por- trait attributed to Smibert. Miss Eliza S. Quincy. 268 The United States Branch Bank, State Street, 1791-1812; then the State Bank, 1812-1836; pen and ink sketch. John T. Prince. 269 Nathaniel Hurd, 1730-1777 ; an early engraver of Boston, probably the first engraver on copper in America ; lithograph by Pendleton for the New England Magazine. 270 East View of Hollis Street Church ; steel engraving from the Mass. Magazine, 1793, framed. 271 The New England Guards, colored lithograph of an officer, by Duval, after Hubbard, dedicated to George T. Bigelow, Captain Miss Helen C. Bradlee. 2^2 Bunker Hill, 1630 ; lithograph by Pendleton, after Davis ; and Bunker Hill Monument, engraving by Fowle, after Mallory. In a single frame. 273-274 A Series of twenty-five small copper-plate prints, ar- ranged within two frames, which are specified as follow : Tremont House and Theatre ; Mt. Pleasant Classical Insti- tution ; Charter Oak, Hartford ; Nahant Hotel ; Bunker Hill Monument ; Marine Hospital, Chelsea ; Faneuil Hall Market ; State House ; City Hall, Boston ; Academy of Sciences, Philadelphia; Tremont House, Boston; Park Theatre, New York; Battle Monument, Baltimore ; Upper Bridge, Philadelphia; Old State House, Boston ; Bowling Green, New York ; Arcade, Providence ; Water Works, Philadelphia; State House, Boston ; St. Thomas's Church, New York ; Capitol, Washington ; Merchants' Exchange, Philadelphia ; Quincy Market, Boston ; City Hall, New York ; President's House, Washington. Dudley H. Child. 275 Hanover Street Church, erected, 1826, burned, 1830; Rev. Lyman Beecher, Pastor ; lithograph after a painting by Davis. Mrs. Luther Barnes. 276 Hon. Nathan Appleton {v. No. 171); photograph after Healy's full-length portrait, in Mechanics' Hall, Lowell. Nathan Appleton. CUSTODIANS' ROOM. 39 277 Samuel Gardner Drake, 1798-1875, Antiquarian and His- torian ; steel engraving by Schoff, at the age of 58. "Presented to the subscribers to the folio edition of his His- tory and Antiquities of Boston, by a few friends of the Author ;" with fac-simile autograph. William H, Whitmore. 278 John Lothrop Motlev, Historian, 1814-1877 ; Minister to Austria, 1866-7; to England, 1869-70: India-proof steel- plate engraving by Stuart ; with fac-simile autograph. Nat/ian Applet on. 2'jg Abbott Lawrence, i 792-1 S55 ; Merchant and Manufacturer, ^[inister to England, 1849-52 ; India-proof engraving ; with fac-simile autograph. A'al/ian Appleton. 280 Portion of a window from the Royall Plouse, Medford, with inscription cut by a diamond, " Isaac Royall, April 25, 1749 " ; identified as his autograph. Miss Harriott T. Ward. 281 A View of the Village of Quincy, and the Congregational Meeting-House. built in 1732, and taken down in 182S: and of the monument to Josiah Quincy, junior, erected by his son in 1804 ; sketch in India ink by Miss Quincy in 1823. Miss Eliza S. Quincy. 282 " The Striped Pig," an incident of the Dedham Muster, Sept. 13, 1S38 ; framed broadside ballad. Daniel S. Lamsofi. 283 The Maverick House, East Boston, opened in 1835 ; litho- graph by Pendleton. William W. Wheildon. 284 The State House, with the Beacon Monument: water- color taken in 1805 for Benj. Gleason, the father of the donor; one of the earliest representations of the State House. Mrs. William W. Wheildon. 285 Meeting-House of the First Baptist Society, Salem Street, 1679, after a drawing by Isaac T. Smith, 1828. Willia7n A. Bowdlear. 286 State Street in 180 | ; engraving after the painting by J. B. Marston. William H. Whitmore, 287 The Death of General Wolfe, in the attack on Quebec in 1759; engraving by Woollett of West's painting in pos- session of Lord Grosvenor; with portraits. 288 Broadside : "A new method of Macarony making as practiced in Boston " ; framed caricature. Charles H. Stearns. 289 The Green Dragon Tavern, Union Street, built in 1677, the pl;ice of meeting of Warren, Adams, and other patriots before the Revolution ; photograph of a pen and ink draw- ing. Thomas F. Temple. 290 The Custom House, 1852 ; photograph. Loan : Thomas C. Dc Carteret. 40 BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. 291 A View of Boston, the capital of New England ; engraving from a drawing on the spot by Gov. Pownall, 1757. 292 Broadside : " The Bostonians paying the excise man, or tar- ring and feathering " ; framed caricature, Charles H. Stearns. 293 Dr. PiuDSON, a notorious swindler and forger, standing in the pillory, with some well-known characters as spectators, 1762; colored copper-plate engraving by Nathaniel Hurd (No. 269). Loan : H. A. Holdeii. 294 The Old South Meeting-House, a bas-relief in plaster of paris ; framed. Nathan Appleton. 295 Notice of meeting of the " Alert Eagle Fire Society," 1828 ; framed engraving. Theodore H. Bell. 296 Bill of Ebenezer Clough, Paper-hanger, to Mr. Whitman, 1800, Boston Paper Staining Manufactorj-, Charles River Bridge, with engraved head-piece by S. Hill ; framed. George H. Whitman. 297 " .'V Prospect of the Colledges in Cambridge, New England ;" electrotype reproduction of an old engraving in possession of the Mass. Hist. Soc, 1726. 298 Proposal for the sale of the Exchange Cofifee-House ; framed broadside advertisement, about 18 12. Charles E. Clark, M.D. 299 "The Tea-tax Tempest," or, " The Anglo-American Revolu- tion;" allegorical copper-plate engraving, 1778, wiih title in English, German and French. 300 The Third Edifice of the Hollis Street Church ; framed photograph. Franklin Brown. 300czThe Only House on Noddle's Island (now East Boston), in 1824, called Woodbine Cottage, the residence of the Williams family ; photograph of a pencil drawing by John Avery, Jr. ; framed. Benjafnin W. Gilbert. 301 Bill of the last performance of the old Boston Theatre, Fed- eral St., May 7, 1852; framed, Henry Drew. 302 Jeremiah Allen, 1750-1800; High Sherifif of Suffolk ; copy in oil of Stuart's portrait. 303 Lemuel Shaw, 1781-1861 ; Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Mass., 1830-60; photograph, James W. Black. 304 Edward Everett, {z>. No. m); engraving by Sartain of a photograph, with fac-simile autograph. 305 Wendell Philipps, {v. No. 102) ; engraving by Stuart. James S. Hillard. 306 Mrs. Murray, nee Judith Sargent, 175X-1820 ; photograph of a portrait. IVilliam H. Whitmore. 307 The Old School Boys' Association ; photographed at Nan- tasket, 1889. The Association. CUSTODIANS' ROOM, 41 308 Rev. Thomas Prince, 1687-1758; Pastor of the Old South Church from 17 18; mezzotint engraving by Pelham after Greenwood, 1750 ; with Latin inscription. 309 William Wirt, 1772-1834; Attorney-General of the U. S., 1817-30 ; lithograph by BufTord after Inman's portrait "For Citizens of Boston " ; with fac-simile autograph. Mrs. Richard Perkins. 310 Professors Agassiz and Benjamin Pierce of Harvard Col- lege ; framed photograph. Loan : Frederick O. Prince. 311 Rev. Benjamin Colman, D. D., 1 673-1747 ; first Pastor of the Brattle Square Church, 1699-1747; heliotype of Smibert's portrait. J. Henry Stickney. 312 The Boston, Plymouth and Sandwich mail coach, 1810; framed advertisement with picture of coach and landscape. Mrs. M. Rand. 313 Engagement between the " Constitution " and " Guerri^re," Aug. 19, 1812 ; colored lithograph by Currier, New York. 314 Camp of the Second Company Mass. Light Artillery, Nims's Battery, at Stewarts Place, Baltimore, 186 1 ; colored litho- graph by Sachse, Baltimore. 315 Molvneaux, Lord Shuldham, Admiral of the White, visited Boston in command of a Squadron, 1776; mezzotint en- graving with autograph. THE HANCOCK ROOM, 316 John Hancock, 1737-92 ; President of the Provincial and Continental Congresses; first Major-General of the Massa- chusetts Militia; Governor, 1780-5 and 1787-92; mezzotint engraving by J. M. Will, after Littleford ; three-fourths' length, standing at a table holding a letter addressed, " Monsieur Israel Putnam, Major-General, Long Island." 317 The Same; photograph after Copley's portrait, the second one painted; an oval picture, representing him dressed in a blue coat laced with gold ; in possession of the Hancock family. Arthur W. Willard. 318 The Same; a hand-colored copper-plate engraving entitled: " The Hon'ble John Hancock, Esqr., late President of the Continental Congress." Loan : Sanmel A. Green, M. D. 319 Dorothy Quincy, 1747-1829; cousin of Josiah Quincy, "the Patriot," (No. 152); married John Hancock, at Fair- field, Conn., 1775, afterwards Capt. James Scott, 1789; photograph of Copley's portrait, three-fourths' length, seated, her hand raised to her face ; in possession of Miss Gushing, Little Harbor, N. H. Loan : Mrs. Mary S. Israel. 42 BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. 320 The Same, in old age, in cap and ruff ; lithograph of Miss Goodrich's portrait. William W. Greenough. 321 The Hancock House, 1737-1863, built by Thomas Hancock; oil painting. Loan : Mrs. Francis C. Bacon. 322 The Same ; photograph, the frame made from a moulding taken from the house. 323 The Same ; three photographs of the interior, the frame made from wood of the house. 1. Parlor: on the piano are the Bibles of Gov. Hancock's father and great-grandfather (ministers at Braintree and Lexington), to be seen in the Hancock Case ; the Gov- ernor's cane in the corner. 2. Hall, and upper landing : on the left, the Governor's room, where he died. On the right, the room occupied by Washington, Lafayette and others. 3. Reception room : portrait of Gov. Hancock by Copley, and of Thomas Hancock by the same artist. George W. Chipman. 324 The Same ; embroidery in crewels, framed, with dependent card signed " Harrison Gray Otis," saying : " A view of the Hancock House and Appendages and of the Common and vicinity, as they were in 1755-60. This embroidery (in crewels) was the boarding-school lesson of Miss Hannah Otis, daughter of the Hon. James Otis of Barnstable [No. 217], and sister of the patriot, James Otis, Jr. [No. 178,] edu- cated in Boston. It was considered a chef-d'oeuvre and made a great noise at the time. The science of perspective was not worthy of Claude Lorraine, but perhaps not behind that of some who then, and since, have had the care of the Common. The figure on horseback represents Gov. Hancock ; the person running, his servant ; the lady looking over the wall into Charles River is Dorothy Quincy, after- ward Mrs. Gov. Hancock." Loan : Harrison Gray Otis. 325 Elbridge Gerry, 1774-18 14; Member of the Continental Congress, and of the Constitutional Convention; of Congress, 1789-93 ; Governor, 1810-11 ; Vice-President of the U. S., 1813-14; mezzotint engraving by J. R. Smith, 181 1 ; half length, seated, with folded arms. W. H. Ireland. 326 Rev. Samuel Stillman, D. D., 1737-1807; delegate to the Constitutional Convention, 1788; Pastor of the First Baptist Church, 1765-1807 ; oil portrait, kit-kat size, by Johnson. Rev. jfohn Banvard, D. D. 327 Sampler, worked in 1767 by Mrs. Mary K. Frothingham, grandmother of the Hon. Richard Frothingham of Charles- town ; framed. Mrs, Mary T. Goddard. THE HANCOCK ROOM. 43 328 Presentation of the Declaration of Independence to the Continental Congress, July 4, 1776 ; engraving by Durand after Trumbull, with key. 329 The Declaration of Independence ; engraved copy by Story and Atwood, with portraits, and arms of the original States, dedicated to the people of the United States, by William Woodruff. 330 The Old Corner Bookstore, 17 12; water-color by C. E. Hollis, 1885. Loan : E. C. Hammer. 331 The Old Elm, before the first storm which injured it, June 29, i860; framed photograph. Vincent Y. Bowdiich, M.D. 332 The Same, painted on a veneered piece of the tree, Josiah Quincy, Jr. 333 State Street in 1825 ; oil painting by Salmon. 334 The Old May House, formerly on Washington Street, oppo- site Head Place, now Lucas Street ; framed photograph. Moses W. Weld, M. D. 335 The Frigate " Constitution," built in Hartt's Yard, Consti- tution Wharf, launched Oct. 21, 1797 ; framed photograph, with a piece of the frame of the captain's bed. Waldo Thompson. 336 The Same ; oil painting by Pollard, 1846. Benjamin F. Ste^tens. 337 Isaac Hull, {v. No. 161) ; copper-plate engraviiig of Stuart's portrait; underneath, a representation of the engagement be- tween the " Constitution " and " Guerriere," drawn by the order of Hull himself ; dedicated to the people of the United States by T. W. Freeman, published in Philadelphia in 1813. Be7ija7nin F. Stevens. 338 The Old State House in flames, 1832 ; copy in oil of Salmon's painting, restored and reframed by J. Henry Stickney of Baltimore. Daniel J. Courtney. 339 The Shop of Adams and Hammond, corner of Cross and Fulton Streets, 1830 ; oil painting. Loan : W. H. Adams. 340 The Conflagration at Charlestown, Aug. 25, 1835 ! water- color made during the progress of the fire from the top of a pile of lumber on the wharf in the foreground of the picture (the Fitchburg R. R. Station now covers the place); painted by R. P. Mallory. 341 The Punch Bowl of '73 ; an oil painting by S. A. Davis, representing the china punch bowl in which punch was made at the house of Samuel Edes on the afternoon pre- ceding the destruction of the tea, Dec. 16, 1773, for the citi- zens who engaged in that act. Loan : Robert S. Stearns. 44 BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. 342 The First Corps of Cadeis, M. V. M., in the procession at the Centennial Celebration of the adoption of the Constitu- tion at Philadelphia, Sept. 16, 1887 ; instantaneous photo- graph, framed. Lt.-Col. Thomas F. Edmands. 343 The House of Thomas Melville of the " Boston Tea Party " {y. No. 143 ), in Green Street, 1832 ; with a fire engine playing upon Dr. Jenks's Church ; oil painting by Salmon. Loan : Jofm D' Wolf dN Nancy M. Downer. 344 Henry Laurens, 1724-92 ; president of the Continental Congress, 1777-8; minister to Holland, 1779; signed the preliminaries of peace at Paris, 1782 ; mezzotint engraving by Green, of London, with seated Indian holding arms and motto, after portrait by Copley, '* R. A. Elect," 1782 ; pub- lished by Stockdale, London. Loan : Abram E. Cutter. 345 Rev. Hosea Ballou, 1771-1852 ; Pastor of the Second Uni- versalist Society, 1817 ; steel engraving by Walter of Phila- delphia, after Onthank, and published by J, M. Usher, Corn- hill, Boston. yoshua H. Pitman. 346 Letter of George Washington, Mt. Vernon, Feb. 22, 1788, to the Marquis de Chartier de Lalbinibre ; framed. Frank B. Ingalls. 347 George Washington ; mezzotint engraving by Savage, 1793, from his portrait painted for Harvard College. Theodore H. Bell. 348 The Same ; steel engraving by A. Rosenthal. Moses W. Weld, M. D. 349-350-351 The Same ; engravings of portraits ; the last an oval profile from a cameo. Moses W. Weld, M. D. 352 The Triumph of Liberty ; an allegorical engraving by Ver- ger of Renault's drawing. New York, 1795. Beza Lincoln. 353 Inauguration of the Cochituate Water Works on Boston Com- mon, Oct. 25, 1848 ; lithograph, u-ith portraits of Daniel Webster and others ; with heavy carved frame of fruit, flowers, etc. Heirs of Thomas B. Curtis. 354 The Franklin Statue ; engraving after a drawing by Hammatt Billings. Loan : City of Boston. 355 Benjamin Franklin, inscribed : " LL. D., F. R. S.," seated at a table, reading; engraved and published by Savage London, 1793, after Martin. Theodore B. Bell 356 The Same ; steel engraving by Babson and Andrews, after Duplessis. William H. Whitmore. 357 The Birthplace of Franklin, in Milk St., opposite the Old South Meeting-house ; lithograph by Powers and Wellers. Mrs. Mary F. Bartlett. 358 The Arms of George Washington, so-called, in colors ; framed. William C. Burrage. THE HANCOCK ROOM 45 359 Ralph Inman, of Cambridge, 171 1-88; a Loyalist in the Revolution, arrested by the Council in '76 ; etching. C. R. Hildebourn. 360 Residence of Ralph Inman, in Cambridge ; heliotype repro- duction of a sketch. David G. Haskins, Jr. 361 The Whig Ticket in the presidential election of 1840, Harrison and Tyler; framed. John T. Prince. 362 Faneuil Hall Market, east view, 1824 ; engraving. Henry P. Curtis. 363 "Acorn's" Old Salt House, 49 Long Wharf ; water-color; "Edwin Forrest formerly spent here many a happy hour with his friend James Cakes, known to the press under the pseu- donym of ' Acorn' ; and Hawthorne is said to have written here a portion of the ' Scarlet Letter.' " William H. Spiller. 364 Boylston Market, 1809-87 ; woodcut. Samuel Johnson. 365 Mr. and Mrs. Sloman's Benefit, Boston Theatre, Jan. 30, 182S ; play-bill painted on silk ; framed. A. C. Slater. 366 Gridley Bryant, 1789-1867 ; engineer, and builder of the first railroad in the United States 1826, and inventor of the four and eight wheel railway truck ; small oil portrait, given by his son Gridley J. F. Bryant. 367 The First Meeting-House in Boston, 1632, Rev. John Wilson (No. 255), Pastor; electrotype reproduction of an imag- inary sketch. Ward Brooks Frothingham. 368 Christ Church and Charter St., 1884; oil painting, i8S>>, by G. N. Faught. 369 The Boston Outer Light, 1889 ; oil painting by Miss M. S. Goodale. 370 Benjamin Franklin Butler, 1818-1893; Major-General of Volunteers, 1861 ; Member of Congress, 1866-71 ; Governor, 1883; oil portrait, 1850. William H. Whitmore. 371 Verses on the Visit of the West Point Cadets to Boston, Aug., 182 1 ; framed broadside. Loan : D. W. Gibbs. 372 Miss Tree's last night but three ; Tremont Theatre, Nov. 28, 1837 ; framed play-bill, heading enclosed in trees. 372aA Settee made of wood of the "Old Elm" Loan : City oj Boston. 373 The Arrival at Boston of the first Cunard Steamship, the "Unicorn," June 3, 1840; the Revenue cutter "Hamilton," decorated for the occasion, in the foreground ; painted by Lane of Gloucester, for the Commander, Capt. Josiah Sturgis, and given by him to the Collector, Ex Gov. Lincoln, and to this Society by the latter's daughter Mrs. P. S. CanJUld. 46 BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. 373aENGAGEMENT of the "Constitution" and the British frigate, "Java," off the Coast of Brazil, Nov. 29, 1812 ; dedicated "to Commodore Bainbridge, the officers, seamen and marines and the sons of freedom, by an admirer of American valour and patriotism " ; copperplate engraving, hand- colored, "drawn under the direction of a witness of the action by W. G. " ; and undoubtedly nearly contempora- neous with it ; framed. Benjamin F. Stevens. THE COMMISSION ROOM. 374-405 Framed Commissions signed by Governors of Mas- sachusetts Bay or of Massachusetts : — Joseph Dudley, 1708. Levi Lincoln, 1829. Samuel Shute, 172 i. Edward Everett, 1839. Jonathan Belcher, 1738. John Davis, 1842. William Shirley, 175 i. Marcus Morton, 1843. Thomas Pownall, 1759. George N. Briggs, 1849. Francis Bernard, 1762. George S. Boutwell, 1851. James Bowdoin, 1786. Henry J. Gardner, 1855. John Hancock, 1788. Nathaniel P. Banks, 1856. Samuel Adams, 1796. John A. Andrew, 1865. Increase Sumner, 1798. Alexander H. Bullock, 1868. Moses Gill, Lt.-Gov., 1799. William B. Washburn, 1872, James Sullivan, 1808. William Gaston, 1875. Christopher Gore, 1810. Alexander H. Rice, 1876. Elbridge Gerry, 1811. Thomas Talbot, Lt.-Gov., 1874. John Brooks, 182 i. John D. Long, 1881. William Eustis, 1824. Oliver Ames. 1888. 406 Sir Henry Vane (the younger), 1612-66; emigrated, 1635; governor of Mass., 1636; returned to England, 1637 ; mem- ber of Parliament and of the Council of State ; executed after the Restoration ; order to Thomas Fauconbridge, Receiver- general of the Revenue, signed by Sir Henry Vane and other members of the Commission of the Revenue, May 15, 1644; framed, like all other commissions and other docu- ments in this room. 407 Commission of William Hewetson, to be Captain-Lieuten- ant in the 28th Regiment ; signed by George HL, and countersigned by Lord George Germain, Dec. 22, 1778. 408 Commission of Jeremiah Hill in James Scammon's Regi- ment; signed by General Joseph Warren, May 19, 1775. Loan : George W. Allen, THE COMMISSION ROOM. 47 409 Commission of Hezekiah Brod, to be Captain in the 5th Middlesex Regiment ; signed by James Otis, and a major- ity of the Council of Massachusetts Bay, March 28, 1776; the following words being erased : " In the sixteenth year of the reign of his Majesty, King George the Third, Anno Domini 1776." 410 Commission by the same of Ichabod Thayer, to be Captain of the 5th Company, 3d Worcester Regiment, Dec. 31, 1779. 411 Commission of John Crane to be Brevet- Brigadier-General, U, S. A.; signed by Elias Boudinot, President of Congress, and Benjamin Lincoln, Oct. 10, 1783. George W. Allen. 412 Autograph of William Stoughton, Chief Justice and Act- ing Governor of Mass., April 5, 1675. Heirs of D. T. V. Huntoon. 413 Commission of Colonel Benjamin Pollard, to be notary public, issued by the Archbishop of Canterbury, April 6, 1738; heliotype. William C. Burrage. 414 Broadside : Order of procession on the visit of Washington to Boston, Nov. 2, 1789. Edward R. Mayo. 415 Deed of Mary Lake to the selectmen of the town of Bos- ton, Nov. 30, 1677, of the room or cellar under the stair- case, at the north-east end of the Town House. Loan : George B. Ager. 416 Parchment conveyance to Stephen French by Elizabeth Rawlings, relict and administatrix of the estate of (Jaleb Rawlings of Boston, dated the last Tuesday of April, 1694. William H. Whit more, 417 Engrossed parchment copy of the will of George Worthi- lake of " Pemberton's Island, within the township of Boston," April 4, 1693. George Worthilake, first keeper of Boston Light, was drowned in Boston Harbor in 17 18, while sailing to town. Plis body was recovered, and buried upon Copp's Hill. Thomas Sherman. 418 Broadside : Thanksgiving proclamation of Governor Samuel Adams, Oct. 6, 1795; printed copy. 419 Broadside: "The Runaway," or "a Keen Joke," a song referrin;j; to the second visit of Edmund Kean to Bos- ton in 1S25. 420 Autograph of General Thomas Gage ; certificate to Lieut- enant John Phillips, '• a reduced officer ; " New York, Sept, 4, 1764. 421 Broadside: Monody to the memory of George III., by the late Dr. Walcot. 48 BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. 422 Programme of exercises at the meeting in commemoration of General Washington in Boston, at the Old South Meet- ing House, Jan. 6, 1800. Loan : Francis B. Gilman. 423 Certificate of membership of William Perkins as a member of the Massachusetts Humane Society, June 12, 1810. 424 Autograph of Governor John Winthrop, " a deposition taken upon oathe the Sth of the 6 : mo : 1639, Before Jo : Winthrop, Gov." Hon. Robert C. Winthrop. 425 Broadside : Bloody butchery of the British troops at Con- cord fight, April 19, 1775. J. B. Hatch, Executor. 426 Broadside : " Bloody Indian Massacre " or the battle of Miami Village, Ohio, Nov. 4, 1791, where (ien. St. Clair with 2,000 men was surprised by 5,000 Indians, and most of his force destroyed. George B. Reed. 427 Broadside: " Inhuman Cruelty" or "Villainy Detected," a wood-cut with verses. 428 The Old State House in flames, an electrotype reproduc- tion of Salmon's oil painting, representing the Old State House in flames in the fire of 1832 ; {v. no. 338}. Will /am H. Whit more. 429 Policy of Insurance of the Massachusetts Fire and Marine Insurance Company, dated Boston, Nov. 2, 1802 ; copper- plate engraving by J. Hill, after a drawing by N. Hancock, showing the Old State House and State Street at an early Period. Henry C. Short. 430 The Old State House; six heliotype reductions of views taken atdifferent times, — from Bowen's picture, 1830 ; map, 1835 ; Snow's Geography, 1830 ; Hales's Survey, 1814; the State Street end, 1880; Washington Street end, 1880. William H Whitmore, 431-443. The Old State House; engravings, lithographs and photographic views, showing this building from 1791 to the present time. William H Whitmore and others. 444 Certificate of payment of $300 by the Hon. Nathan Apple- ton to the N. E. Institute for the Education of the Blind, '833. 445 Certificate of donation of gifts by Mrs. L. Russell, to the soldiers, i85i ; signed "Mrs. Harrison Gray Otis," for the committee on military donations. 446 Sailing permit on parchment, with engraved head piece of Boston Light, etc. ; signed in blank by President Andrew Jackson ; countersigned, John Forsyth, Secretary of State ; no date. Frank B. Ingalls. THE COMMISSION ROOM. 49 447 Sailing permit of ship " O'Cain," Jan. 11, 1803, issued by Thomas Jefferson, President, and countersigned by James Madison, Secretary of State, showing in the foreground a copper-plate engraved view of Boston Light. 448 Resolutions passed on board the steamship " Britannia," on her passage from Liverpool to Boston ; signed by Charles Dickens as secretary of a meeting called Jan. 21, 1842, to subscribe to a testimonial in the form of a piece of plate to be given to the captain, John Hewitt. William IV. Wheildon. 449 Broadside : " The Figure Head of the Constitution dis- figured," with verses and wood-cut showing Samuel W. Dewey cutting off the head of the figure representing Andrew Jackson, during a thunderstorm, on the night of July 2, 1834, James B. Maynard. 450 Simon Bradstreet (Governor, 1679-86) ; autograph, depo- sition of Joseph Parker, 1682, 451 Broadside: Speeches of Lords Camden and Abingdon in the House of Lords, March 16, 1775, on American affairs. Henshaiv B. IValley. 452 Broadside announcing the surrender of Cornwallis at York- town. Published at Boston, Oct. 26, 1781. II. B. Tewksbury. 453 Broadside : printed copy of the vote of Boston in town meeting, April 21, 1706, to illuminate the town in celebra- tion of the repeal of the stamp act. H. B. Tewksbury. 454 Broadside: published at New London, Conn., Dec. 5, 1812, announcing the capture of the British frigate " Macedo- nian," Oct. 25, 1812, by the United States frigate "United States, " Commodore Decatur. F. B. Winter. 455 Certificate of membership of Thomas B. Hopkins in the Boston Sea Fenclbles, March 18, 18 19. Engraved on cop- per by Annin and French, showing in the background Boston Light. 456 Certificate of membership of Samuel Mylod in the Massa- chusetts ^[echanic Association, Sept. 18, 1800. H. Hods on. 457 Broadside : notice to assessors by Harrison Gray, Treasurer and Receiver General of Masssachusetts Bay, Dec. 31, 1772 ; with his autograph. H. B. Teivksbury. .458 Broadside : an official copy of the Declaration of Indepen- dence, printed in Bosto.o by John Gill, and Powers and Willis in Queen Street. Loan : Stillmaii P. Marsh. 50 BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. 459 Nathaniel Newdigate's " Fine," or grant of land at Rumney Marsh, June 15 ; recorded Dec. 21, 1687, "for his Majesty, James II's territory and dominion of New England ;" given by Governor Andros to replace the deed declared void after the overthrow of the first charter of the Massachusetts Bay Colony; an original deed, beginning, "Jacobus Secun- dus," written in black letter on a sheet containing the portrait of the King printed in scroll work, and a border of animals, with the written words, " sold at Clifford's Inn Lane " ; at the bottom, the signature of the King and an impression of the Great Seal in wax ; probably the only such original conveyance in existence. William W. Greenough, 460 Broadside: printed notice to freeholders of town meeting in Boston, March 4, 1822, to act upon the adoption of a city charter. Moses Grant Daniell. 461 Deposition of Richard Hunnewoll, as to the ownership of land in Scarborough, before Josh. Scottow, J. P.; framed autograph, April 30, 1686. 462 Petition of Adam Winthrop and others. May 8, 1734, to enlarge the lane at the lower end of the Common, from Mr. Sheaf's to Frog Lane ; framed autograph. 463 Notification in print to the freeholders of Boston to meet at the town hall, April 27, 1781, to supply the town's deficiency in the Continental army. 464 The Gerrymander : framed copy of the "U. S. Gazette," April 24, 1813, containing a satirical article on Governor Gerry, entitled " The funeral of the Gerrymander." Miss Abby P. Quincy. 465 Commission of the privateer brig " Abaellino," signed by James Madison, and countersigned by James Monroe, Secretary of State, Dec. 10, 1814 ; endorsed, "surrendered at the conclusion of peace, August, 18 15." Samuel Andrews. 466 Certificate of membership of the Hon. Nathan Appleton in the American Colonization Society, 1848 ; signed " H. Clay." Nathan Appleton, 467 Broadside : printed Proclamation of Fast Day, by Governor Hancock, April 3, 1783. 468 Broadside : order of arrangements for the reception of Gen- eral Lafayette, in City Council, Aug. 20, 1824. Henry P. Curtis, 469 Broadside : Thanksgiving Proclamation of Governor Pow- nall, Nov. 10, 1759; printed copy. 470 Certificate of membership of Charles Brown in the Bun- ker Hill Monument Association ; signed by Daniel Web- ster and others. Edward I, Browne. THE COMMISSION ROOM. 51 471 Certificate of membership of the Hon. Nathan Appleton in the Naval Library and Institute, April 3, 1843. William S. Appleton, 472 Assessor's List of personal property, filled out and signed by John Ballard and John Kneeland, Jr., Sept. i, 1784; framed together. Jeremiah Colburn, 473 Order of Procession at the funeral of Governor Hancock, Oct. 14, 1793. 474 Passport issued to John Bromfield, Jr., and signed by Governor Caleb Strong, Oct. 16, 1805. Josiah P. Quincy. 475 Broadside : hand-bill, calling upon the citizens of the South End to meet at Faneuil Hall to oppose building Federal Street Bridge to South Bosson, March 15, 1824. John J. May. 476 Certificate of the contribution of five dollars by Albert Betterley, as a Franklin medal scholar, to the erection of the statue to Benjamin Franklin, 1854; engraving. Albert Betterley. 477 Certificate of the election of Captain Luke Keef to the Bos- ton Marine Society, March 3, 1801. 478 Bill of T. Giles to Pomeroy and Simpson (Ann Street), showing view of the old Feather Store. W. K. Watkins. 479 Faneuil Hall lottery ticket, signed by John Hancock; issued to rebuild the hall after the fire of 1765. Charles L. Hancock. 480 Broadside: bill of entertainment by Potter, a noted ventri- loquist, and his wife, colored prestidigitateurs, with verses, 1815. Heirs of D. T. V. Huntoon. THE CLERK'S OFFICE. 481 Rev. John Pierce, D. D., 1773-1849; pastor of the First Church of Brookline ; photograph. Miss Ably L. Pierce. 483 The Friday Club, Chief Justice Shaw in the chair; photo- graph. Nathan Appleton. 483 The Massachusetts Humane Society, incorporated in 1791 ; photograph of the members about 1857, the Hon. David Sears in the chair. Samuel H. Russell. 484 The Tremont Club, the nucleus of the Somerset Club, about 1840; photograph. Nathan Appleton. 485 Samuel Miller Quincy, 1832-87 ; Colonel Second Regi- ment, Massachusetts Volunteers, 1862 ; Brevet-Brigadier- General, 1865 ; one of the charter members and first sec- retary of the Bostonian Society ; photograph of a crayon portrait by Grundmann. 52 BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. 486 William Wilkins Warren, Merchant, 18 14-91 ; a director of the Bostonian Society ; photograph. Mrs. William W. Warren. 487 The Act of Incorporation of the Bostonian Society, Dec. 2, 1881, signed by Henry B. Peirce, Secretary of State; framed. 488 " Old and New Boston ;" The Old State House and the Ames and Sears Buildings, framed photograph. JoJm Hastings. 489 The Original Design for the seal of the Bostonian Society, in India ink, framed ; adopted Feb. 13, 1883 ; drawn by JoJm C.J. Brown. 490 Harvard Ballads, No. 7 : " Billy Park's," framed, with auto- graph : "with the author's compliments to Mr. Park, Lloyd McKim Garrison, May, 1889." Nathan Appkton. 491 Mirror given as a wedding present to the mother of the late Barney Cory, by her grandm.other, a direct descendant of George Soule of the " Mayflower." Loan : Charles B. Cory. 492 Thomas Gold Appleton, {v. No. 173), framed photograph ; also a daguerreotype taken in Paris about 1848, Nathan Appleton. 493 Certificate of the admission of Joseph C. Winter to the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, Sept. 28, 1857 ; signed by Thomas E. Chickering, Commander, and by the Clerk ; framed steel engraving by Lowell and Brett after Champney. Miss Mary E. Winter. 494 The Third Edifice of the First Church, which stood on the site of the present Rogers Building on Washington Street from 17 13 to 180S ; framed photograph. D. Waldo Salisbury. 495 Five Hundred War Envelopes, with patriotic and comic designs, made in 1861-2. George A. Goddard. 496 Bills of the Tremont Theatre, 1832-4, 1838-9, 1840-1 ; of the Boston Museum, 1841-56; of the Howard Athenaeum, 1845-7, ^"<^ of concerts, etc., in rolls ; also the Box book of the Tremont Theatre, 1839-41. Lucius Poole. IN PORTFOLIOS. — BROADSIDES. A Proclamation issued by Louis Philippe, July 29, 1830, ad- dressed to the citizens 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 " Mayflower"), and their children, to the fellowship of the Third Church, now the Old South Church, of Boston. THE CLERK'S OFFICE. 53 The Result of an ecclesiastical council, called to settle the ques- tions at issue between the First and Third Churches, dated May 28, 1674. An Autograph Copy of an order passed by the General Court of the Massachusetts Colony, dated May 28, 1679, in answer to a prayer of the reverend Clergy for a revisal of the plat- form of discipline agreed upon by the Churches in 1647, and appointing " the second Wednesday in September, 1679," ^^ ^^^ '^^'"^ when due consideration of such revision should be made. Written and signed by Edward Rawson, Secretary of the Massachusetts Colony. A Letter recommending Samuel Adams to the charity and fel- lowship of the Third, or Old South, Church signed by Rev, Peter Thacher, pastor of the Church in Brattle Square, June 8, 1789. A Letter Missive from the First Church to the Old South Church, 1727; of Brattle Street Church, 1785; of the Second Church of Dorchester, 1808 ; all the preceding are heliotype reproductions. Hamilton A. Hill. Bostonians Paying Excise ; a caricature ; lithograph by Pen- dleton. Certificate of Thomas Gold Appleton, a member of the Bunker Hill Monument Association, 1862. Nathan Appleton. Diploma of Bachelor of Arts, given to Thomas G. Apple- ton, by Harvard College, 1831 ; parchment. Nathan Appleton. A Passport, signed " W. H. Seward," 1866, given to Thomas G. Appleton. Nathan Appleton. Annual Address of the carriers of the Boston Gazette, dedicated to Governor Gore, Jan. i, 1810. Anthem, sung at the re-opening of the Old South Meeting House in 1783. A Brief History of the "Ancient Wreck," no date. A Letter of Governor Stoughton ; photograph. Address of carriers of " Paul Pry " and the "Times," 1829; of the "Boston Press," 1832 ; of the "Lamplighters," 1828. Six Votes of the Town of Boston, Oct. 28, 1767. Address of William Brown, a boot and shoe polisher, Jan. i, 1825. Fast Day and Thanksgiving Proclamations of Governor Bernard, 1764. Fast Day Proclamation by Jeremiah Powell and others, for the people, in 1777. Thanksgiving Proclamation by the Colonial Congress and Council in 1778. Order of Exercises at the funeral of Dr. Winslow Lewis in 1875. 54 BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. A Melancholy Account of the Western Army, Dec. 19, 1791, General St. Clair's expedition. Votes of the Town of Boston, Sept. 12, 1768, James Otis, mod- erator. Commissions (duplicate), signed by Governors Andrew, Briggs, Brooks, Boutwell, Everett, Lincoln. Strong Inscription on the plate in the corner stone of the City Hall ; one of a hundred copies printed. Regulations of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, 1801. Eulogy on George Washington, Feb. 22, iSoo; sold by E. Larkin, Cornhill. Commissions of Jeremiah Page, in the Continental army, in 1776 ; signed by a majority of the Council ; two photographs. Certificate of Cornelius Ellis in the Boston Sea Fencibles, Sept. 17, 1827. Proclamation of pardon in Shays's Rebellion, signed by Governor Bowdoin in 1787. Resolve of the Legislature, March 24, 1786, concerning collection of taxes. Deed of Mather Byles to Samuel Danforth, of land in Oxford, a part of Governor Stoughton's Niprauck land. Notice of assessment by Harrison Gray, Receiver and Treasurer, July 30, 1766, to the town of Stoughton. William Thompson's address to respectable citizens of Boston, as candidate for Town Clerk, March 6, 1790. Letters from citizens of Boston to cities and towns in Massachu- setts, ordered at a meeting at Faneuil Hall, July 26, 1774, on the passage of the Boston Port Bill. Votes of the Provincial Congress at Watertown, Nov. 18, 1775. Certificate to George W. Adams of one dollar, paid the Associa- tion of Franklin Medal Scholars for the Franklin Statue, Oct. 5, 1857, signed " E. Everett, president." Programme of the first Bunker Hill Regatta, June 17, 1859. Act to explain the act of 1 791, in reference to money at interest, June 6, 1792, "J. Hancock, Governor." Resolve for districting the Commonwealth for the choice of Fed- eral Representatives, June 30, 1792. "Wanted — a quantity of cloathing," Boston, Sept. 26, 1776; signed, " Samuel A. Otis." Certificate of Samuel Jaques as member of the Massachusetts Society for promoting Agriculture, Aaron Dexter, Presi- dent, 1817 ; with seal. THE CLERK'S OFFICE. 55 Order concerning infectious disease, Oct. 7, 1793, by a commit- tee of citizens. Eben Dorr. Address to the freeholders of Massachusetts by the Provincial Congress, Dec. 10, 1774, at Cambridge. Elder Perry's Position ; a wood-cut caricature. Thanksgiving Proclamation of Governor Hancock, Nov. 8, 1783- "The Hon. Samuel Lathrop and his quondam friends ; " politi- cal broadside. List of Patriots who voted to support Jackson, the British Min- ister, against the United States about 1813. Speech of Hon. Benjamin Austin at Faneuil Hall, Jan 30, 1792. IN PORTFOLIOS.— PORTRAITS. Engravings, lithographs, persons : — Appleton, Nathan, 1865 Andrew, John A., 2 Adams, Mrs. Hannah Austin, Arthur W. Adams, John Allen, Stephen M. Agassiz, Louis Brown, John 2. Benton, Thomas H. Billings, Hammatt Butler, Benjamin F, Bainbridge, Commodore Brooks, Governor Brooks, Peter C. Belknap, Jeremy Bates, Isaac C. Curtis, Benjamin R. Cooper, Samuel Chauncy, Charles Codman, John Cass, Lewis Clinton, DeWitt Chapman, Jonathan Cornwallis, Lord, 1805 photographs, etc., of the following Creswick, William Cushman, Charlotte Clififord, John H. Davis, John Davenport, John Devens, David Doane, George B. Douglas, Stephen A. Ericsson, John Ellis, Rufus Emerson, George B. Emerson, William Endicott, John Emerson, Ralph Waldo Ely, Edward S. Eustis, William Franklin, Benjamin Franklin, William Frothingham, Nathaniel L, Frothingham, Richard Fulton, Robert Goodrich, William W. Greenwood, Francis W. P. Green, Samuel 56 BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. In Portfolios. — Portraits Green, Samuel A, Green, Nathaniel Gannett, Ezra S. Goddard, Thomas A. Griffin, Edward D. Gerry, Elbridge Halkett, Sir Peter Healy, John P. Harris, Thaddeus M. Hancock, John Hamilton, Alexander, 2 Harrison, William H. Holmes, Oliver Wendell Jackson, Andrew Jay, John Jeffries, John Kuhn, Jacob Kirkland, John T. Lee, William Lewis, Winslow Lee, Richard Henry Longfellow, Henry W. Lowell, James R. Lafayette, May, Joseph Malcolm, Howard Mason, Lowell Minot, George R. Murray, John Murdoch, James E. Madison, James Mason, John M. Martineau, Harriet Mayhew, Jonathan McKean, Thomas Morris, Robert Mather, Cotton Norcross, Otis Oswald, Eleazar Continued. Palfrey, John G. Price, Henry Pinckney, Charles C. Pierce, John Polk, James K. Potter, Eliphalet Paul, Enoch " Pindar, Peter " Prescott, William H, Phillips, Charles A. Robinson, William S. Rogers, John Revere, Paul Ripley, Ezra Robbins, Chandler Strong, Caleb, 2 Shurtleff, Nathaniel B. Shaw, Lemuel Shaw, Robert G. Sumner, Charles, 2 Sumner, Increase Sprague, Charles Sears, David Stillman, Samuel Story, Joseph Sewall, Jonathan Summerfield, John Saturday Evening Club, 1842-54 Thornton, J. Wingate Trefethen, Benjamin Thayer, Nathaniel Trencheri, Monsieur Taylor, Edward T. Thacher, Peter Vane, Sir Henry Washington, George, as a mason Warren, Joseph Warren, John, 1783 Winthrop, Robert C, 2 In Portfolios Wakefield, Cyrus Worthington, Roland Webster Daniel, 2 Winthrop, John THE CLERK'S OFFICE. Portraits — Continued. 57 Willard, Samuel Wells, Charles Wadsworth, Benjamin IN PORTFOLIOS. — AUTOGRAPHS. Autographs of the following office : — Appleton, Nathan Appleton, Samuel Agassiz, Alexander Ames, Fisher, 2 Armstrong, Samuel T. Amory, Thomas C. Jr. Bridgman, Laura Bowdoin, James, 3 Bancroft, George Brimmer, Martin Briggs, George N. Brooks, Peter C. Bates, Joshua Bainbridge, Commodore Calhoun, John C. Clifford, John H., 2 Claflin, William Cass, Lewis Crawford, William H, Cushman, Charlotte Clark, Alvan Gushing, Thomas Gushing, Caleb Chapman, Jonathan, Jr. Dearborn, Henry A. S. Dewey, Orville, 2 Davis, John Davis, Isaac P., 2 Derby, E. Hasket Dickinson, iVIahlon Dana, Richard H., 1853 persons are on file in the clerk's Everett, Alexander H. Eliot, Samuel Eliot, Charles W. Forbes, John M. Felton, Cornelius C. Frothingham, Octavius B. Freeman, James Forbes, Robert B., 2 Gore, Christopher Gallatin, Albert Garrison, William L. Greenough, Horatio Greenough, William W. Gray, Asa Giles, Henry Hancock, John Hull, Isaac Hutchinson, Thomas Hale, Edward E. Hill, Thomas Higginson, Thomas W. Harnden, William F. Howe, Samuel G. Healy, George P. A. Ingram, Samuel D. Kendall, Amos Kemble, Fanny Kinnicutt, Thomas Loring, Charles G. Lodge, Henry C. Lincoln, Levi 58 BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. In Portfolios. — Autographs — Continued. Lowell, Charles Lawrence, Amos Lunt, George, 2 Longfellow, Henry W., 8 Lincoln, Frederick W., Jr. Lyman, Theodore, Jr. Lloyd, James Mason, John M. Morse, Leopold McLane, Louis Motley, John Lothrop Morley, Arnold Norton, Andrews Otis, Harrison Gray, 5 Peabody, Andrew P. Pierpont, John Pierce, Benjamin Pierce, Henry L. Peabody, George Palfrey, John G. Prescott, William H., 2 Quincy, Josiah Quincy, Edmund Rice, Alexander H. Rogers, William B. Rush, Richard, 2 Saltonstall, Leverett Sparks, Jared Sedgwick, Theodore Shurtleff, Nathaniel B. Stanley, Arthur P., 2 Shaw, Lemuel, 2 Sargent, Lucius M. Sumner, Charles Sprague, Peleg Savage, James Sullivan, William Thomas, Isaiah Ticknor, George, 3 Tukey, Francis Webster, Daniel Walley, Samuel H. Warren, John C, 4 Winsor, Justin Wilson, Henry Washburn, William B. Whipple, Edwin P. Winthrop, Robert C. Wisner, Benjamin B. THE UPPER STORY. 497 The Boston Massacre ; colored lithograph by Bufford, after a design by Champney. Edward H. Savage. 498 Washington's Entry into New York City, Nov. 25, 1783; printed in oil colors by Duval & Son, Philadelphia. 499 The Latin and English High School Building, designed by George A. Clough, city architect ; photo-lithograph by Bufford of the architect's plan drawn by Samuel J. Brown. William H. Whitmore. 500 ThE Boston and Charles River Basin ; colored lithograph by Bufford, made for Charles Davenport, the first projector of the Embankment. Charles Davenport. THE UPPER STORY. 59 501-3 State Street from Washington to Devonshire Streets ; Brazer's Building ; The entrance to Cornhill from Washing- ton Street ; three lithographs by Pendleton after Mayer. /eretniah Colhurn. 504 The Boston Light Infantry ; colored print of a member in the uniform of 1833, with another in the background in the original uniform of the company. Loan : Samuel Andrews. 505 Panoramic View of the "Burnt District," from a point opposite Trinity Church, Summer Street ; photograph by James W. Black for "Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper,' framed. 506 Plan of the "Burnt District," showing the improvements of streets adopted by the Street Commissioners and the City Council ; heliotype reproduction. The Boston Safe Deposit Company. 507-509 View of Fort George, with the City of New York ; A South-east view of Boston in North America ; An East Perspective view of Philadelphia in the Province of Penn- sylvania ; three engravings by Carnitham, printed in colors by Bowles and Carver, London, 1778. Charles F. Cox. 510 Articles of Co-operation in case of fire, etc., adopted by certain citizens of Boston, March 8, 1741 ; framed broad- side. Jeremiah Colburn. 511-512 Boston and Tri-mountain ; two oil paintings taken from the sides of Engine No. 15 ; framed. Mrs. Joh?i G. Low. 513 John Stanhope Damrell, born 1828; chief engineer of the Fire Department 1866-74; lithograph. John S. Da7nrell. 514 Certificate of Service for seven years in the Fire Depart- ment, given to William M. Fernald, in 1833, signed by Thomas C. Amory, chief engineer (No. 64) ; with a repre- sentation of the "Old State House in flames," after Salmon {v. No, 348) ; framed copper-plate engraving. Albert II. Fertiahl 515 A View of the Obelisk under the Liberty Tree, erected for the celebration of the Repeal of the Stamp Act. 1766 ; electrotype reproduction of a copper-plate engraving by Paul Revere. William H. Whitmore. 516 Map of the first Boston Fire Alarm Telegraph, 1852. Airs. Luther Barnes. 517 George Reed, constable from 1809 to 1839, except two years ; oil portrait by Johnson. Loan : Gustavus Andreius. 518 The Board of Health, from 1799 to 1822 ; names of members and officers ; framed broadside. George H. Whitman. 6o BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. 519 The Chiefs of Police of Boston : Francis Tukey, 1846-52 ; Gilbert Nourse, 1852-54 ; Robert Taylor, i85