ESSEX INSTITUTE

HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS

VOLUME XXIV

SALEM, MASS.

PRINTED FOR THE ESSEX INSTITUTE

1888

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1887

PRINTED AT
THE SALEM PRESS,

SALEM, MASS.

CONTENTS.

PARTS I, II, III.

A Contribution to the History of the Ancient Family of Wood-

bury, communicated by ROBERT S. RANTOul,

Early Settlers of Rowley (continued),

Half-mile Stone, Wenham,

1

Inscriptions from the Old Burying Ground, Wenham (contin-

ued),

PARTS IV, V, VI.

Negro Slavery in Massachusetts; portions of a paper read be-

fore the Beverly Lyceum, April, 1833, by Robert Rantoul,

Senr.,

Inscriptions from the Old Burying Ground in Dodge's Row

(North Beverly), copied by WELLINGTON POOL,

72

⚫ 81

109

Sketch of Mrs. William Jarvis of Weathersfield, Vt., by Mrs.

Mary Pepperell Sparhawk Jarvis Cutts, edited by CECIL

HAMPDEN CUTTS HOWARD,

123

140

An "Epicedium," composed in 1752 by Rev. John Cleaveland of

Chebacco (now Essex), in Ipswich, Mass., by E. P. CROW-

ELL,

Inscriptions from the Old Burying Ground at Lynnfield Centre,

copied by JOHN T. MOULTON,

(iii)

146

Pay Roll of Capt Jno Dodge's Company of Guards, found among

the papers of Enos Gallop, 1834,

157

Salem Military Company - Names of the Volunteer Artillery

Corps,

160

PARTS VII, VIII, IX.

Gleanings relative to the family of Adam Hawkes, one of the

early settlers of the third plantatlon of Massachusetts, con-

tributed by NATHAN M. HAWKES,

161

Early Records of the Church in Topsfield, communicated by

JOHN H. GOULD,

181

Sketch of Mrs. William Jarvis (continued),

206

Genealogy of the Allen Family of Manchester, Mass., from the

earliest settlement to the year 1886, by JOHN PRICE,

223

PARTS X, XI, XII.

Our New Domain,

241

A History of Methodism in Salem, by JAMES F. ALMY,

275

Allen Family (continued),

302

Notes and Queries,

313