Children of Samuel and Isabel Chamberlain :

Sarah, b. September 27, 1767.

William, b. August 14, 1769.
John, b. June 2, 1772.

Mary, b. June 13, 1774.

Elizabeth, b. January 25, 1776.

George, b. November 4, 1779.

Molly, b. January 17, 1781.

David Bailey Cowan, b. February 26, 1764.

Susanna Cowan, b. April 3, 1766.

Polly Cowan, b. March 28, 1769.
Abigail Cowan, b. August 3, 1771.

James Cowan, b. February 24, 1774.

Children of Jabez and Mary Clough:

Elizabeth, b. March 24, 1775.

Sarah, b. August 8, 1777, in Winthrop.

James Savage, b. September 3, 1779, in Winthrop.

Children of Ebenezer and Reliance Hovey:

Sarah, b. September 8, 1771.

Samuel, b. September 10, 1773.

Ebenezer, b. August 4, 1775.

Peter Clark, son of Pease and Abigail Clark, was born in Attleborough, Massachusetts, July 8, 1735. Married daughter of Samuel and Esther Sweatland, of the same town.

Children:- Phebe, b. in Cumberland, October 6, 1760.

Chloe, b. in Hallowell, June 3, 1764.

Susanna, b. October 1, 1767.

Peter, b. November, 18, 1769.

James, b. April 6, 1775.

Mr. Clark came to Hallowell with his family April 29, 1764. This place was so thinly inhabited that Mr. Clark's family were obliged to lodge several nights under the body of their cart, turned with the body upward. December 14, 1794, Mr. Clark became deranged and went from home on that day and was not found till the eighteenth. On the twelfth of July, 1796, he went from home and returned the fifteenth. On the seventh of May, 1797, he went from home and did not return. His remains were found in the woods September 11, 1803, about two miles from his home, after a fire, which had burned the leaves with which he was covered.

Children of Abia and Judith Coye:

Mary, b. September 6, 1772.

Jane, b. June 11, 1775.

Susanna, daughter of Samuel and Susanna Cony, b. Dec. 12, 1774.

Children of Abisha and Sybil Cowan.

Sarah, b. May 13, 1765.

Reuben, b. October 27, 1767.

Hannah, b. March 28, 1770.

Rebecca, b. May 30, 1773.

Levi, b. June 3, 1775.

Bathsheba, b. February 3, 1778.

Mary, b. March 5, 1782.

Children of David and Mary Thomas:

David, b. in Georgetown, August 2, 1761.

Lucy, b. August 10, 1763.

Jenet Robinson, b. in Hallowell, December 15, 1765.

Elizabeth, b. February 14, 1768.

William, b. May 17, 1770.

Huldah, b. February 8, 1773.

George, b. February 5, 1776.

Children of William and Martha Howard:

Samuel, b. January 21, 1770.

James, b. May 11, 1772.

Mary, b. July 21, 1774.

Margaret, b. April 4, 1776.

John, b. July 2, 1778.

Children of George and Elizabeth Brown:

Jonathan, b. September 21, 1776.

William, b. August 7, 1778.

Samuel, b. October 10, 1780.

Children of Edward and Abigail Allen:

Oliver, b. April 24, 1778.

Elizabeth, b. August 12, 1780.

Ephraim, son of Ephraim and Martha Ballard, b. March 30, 1779.

Children of Jabez and Sarah Cowan :

Midian, b. January 27, 1779.

Sarah, b. January 18, 1777.

John, son of George and Jennet Bolton, b. September 10, 1780. Amos, son of Amos and Miriam Pollard, b. July 16, 1779.

PROCEEDINGS, 1887.

THE spring meeting was appointed to be held on the eighty-fifth birthday of the honored president of the Society, Hon. James W. Bradbury of Augusta, June 10, 1887.

The afternoon session was called to order in the library room of the Society, in the city building, at half past two o'clock, and the librarian made his customary report of accessions to the library and cabinet since the former meeting.

The act passed by the Legislature of the state of Maine for the perpetuity of the Society, through the permanence of its funds, was read by President Bradbury, together with the following notice, which had been sent to each member of the Society:

The principal item of business at this meeting will be the consideration, and if approved the acceptance, of the act passed by the recent Legislature to provide against impairing the Society's fund by any expenditure that shall reduce it below the sum of ten thousand dollars.

A vote of acceptance was called for, and the vote was passed accepting the act. The recording secretary was instructed to make a record of the same, and to notify the secretary of state that it had been so accepted.

Mr. William Goold read a paper on the First Treaty of the United States in 1778, and how the good news was brought to this country from France.

Mr. Joseph Williamson read a paper on the Visits of the Presidents of the United States to Maine.

The Hon. Hannibal Hamlin related some incidents connected with the visit of President Grant to this state.

Mr. George F. Talbot read a paper on the Capture of the British Vessel the Margaretta at Machias, in 1775. This affair has been termed the first naval bat

tle of the Revolution.

Votes of thanks were passed for the papers read, and copies requested for the Society's archives.

The meeting then adjourned until evening at the Falmouth Hotel, where a complimentary banquet had been prepared in honor of Mr. Bradbury.

Accordingly, at six P.M. the members of the Society, with invited guests, assembled in the parlors of the hotel, and after half an hour of social intercourse sat down to a fine banquet.

Grace was said by the Reverend Dr. Dalton, and after the feast had been duly enjoyed, Professor Henry L. Chapman called the assembly to order and introduced the guests of the evening.

Upon rising to reply Mr. Bradbury was greeted with prolonged applause. In his remarks Mr. Bradbury reviewed the history of the state of Maine and the work of the Historical Society. He gave some account of the forty-nine corporate members who were named in the act of incorporation, approved February 5, 1822. They were a remarkable body of men, busily engaged in the stirring scenes of life, and are now all gone. Their average age exceeded seventy-two years. Mr.

Bradbury had a personal acquaintance with nearly all of them. He spoke particularly of Governor King, a man of great mental power, influence and ability.

Honorable John A. Peters of Bangor, was introduced as the next speaker. Judge Peters' remarks were of a congratulatory character. He expressed the hope that every member of the Society would do his part in rescuing from oblivion letters and documents which might be woven into the general text of the history of the state.

The chairman said that there was present a representative of a sister society, whom it gave him great pleasure to introduce, Doctor Charles Deane of Cambridge, Vice-president of the Massachusetts Historical Society.

Doctor Deane presented the congratulations and best wishes of the Massachusetts Society. He referred to Mr. Bradbury's classmates at Bowdoin College, to the former president of the Society, Mr. Willis, and to a memorable field day of the Society at old York and Kittery, in 1870.

Mr. Abner C. Goodell, junior, of Salem, was next introduced as the representative of the New England Historic-Genealogical Society. Mr. Goodell called attention to the fact that incumbency of the presidential chair of an historical society seems productive of longevity.

In introducing Honorable Hannibal Hamlin, Professor Chapman said that the gentleman had occupied so many positions that he hardly knew in what capac