nearly three years was exchanged and arrived in Boston on the ship "Ladies' Adventure," June 24, 1782. During his confinement in Mill Prison he taught school (by permission of the Prison Commissioners) for the instruction of American prisoners confined there. Twenty days after his arrival in Boston he again entered the naval service, and was recaptured, and this time confined in the notorious Jersey prison ship lying off New York Nov. 25, 1782.

In March, 1783, he obtained a parole for three months, and reached his home in Cambridge, Mass., where he again assumed the roll as teacher, having a few scholars in the old Richardson house, which stood on ground now owned and occupied by Harvard College. The exposures and privations experienced by Mr. Russell had completely shattered his health, and on the 7th of March, 1784, he died of consumption. His son, William Russell, Jr., born in Cambridge March 24, 1772, became a master mariner, and on June 13, 1813, while bound for France in command of the schooner Henry S. Clement, was captured by the British ship Orestes, of sixteen guns, carried to Plymouth, England, and committed to the same Old Mill Prison in which his father was confined thirty-two years before. But after a stay of three days he, with others, was transferred to Ashburton Prison, where there were then confined 102 Americans, while there were at Old Mill Prison, Plymouth, 500 to 600 more. After a few weeks Mr. Russell, with other prisoners, were exchanged, arriving in Boston on the brig "Ann Maria" about the last of August, 1813.

At the termination of the war Mr. Russell engaged in the merchant service and died at Risponga, on the coast of Africa, August, 1821.

His daughter, Elizabeth Frances Russell, was the mother of William Russell Dean, who enlisted for the preservation of the Union in July, 1861, serving under General Devens, and was discharged on account of sickness in 1862. Re

enlisted December, 1863, in the Second Massachusetts Artillery, Colonel Frankle, and saw considerable hard service; was honorably discharged in September, 1865, and for some years was connected with the Post Office Department in Worcester. It was his expressed wish that after his death this Testament should be presented to this Society. For a complete list of the additions, with names of the donors, I must refer you to the Librarian's printed report for the year 1905.

But before relinquishing our consideration of this Testament, let me add Henry Laurens was born in Charleston, South Carolina, 1724, became a prominent and successful merchant there, was chosen a delegate to the Continental Congress, and was the President of that famous body in November, 1777 and 1778. One year later he was chosen Minister to the Netherlands, taken prisoner on the voyage to that country, and confined fifteen months in the Tower of London; released in 1781. Appointed one of the commissioners with Adams, Franklin and Jay to negotiate peace, and they signed the preliminary treaty with Great Britain Nov. 30, 1782. Laurens died in Charleston Dec. 8, 1792.

During the summer months an attempt was made to realize some material benefit from our stock of duplicates, with the result that more than two hundred and thirty dollars' worth of books and pamphlets has been added to our library through the exchanges made with libraries. located in various states in the Union.

There has also been a perceptible increase in the number of visitors at the library during the present year, accounted for, perhaps, by the spreading desire among descendants of New England families to know their lineage, and learn more of the history of their ancestors— where they came from, where they settled, what they endured, and the part they enacted in the great drama that brought forth this grand republic.

Within the months of July and August the Museum was given special attention; four new cases were provided, and the entire collection of relics re-arranged under the following classes: Indian, Colonial, Revolutionary, Civil War, and Miscellaneous. An inventory has also been made of the collection, in the form of a card catalogue, that will be of service in telling what we have on hand, and in which class of the collection the article may be found.

HON. STEPHEN SALISBURY.

Within the past few weeks attention of the public has been called to the death of Worcester's great benefactor and philanthropist, and with one voice the daily press proclaimed to the world the great loss this community has sustained in his demise. As a Worcester institution, this Society shares deeply in that loss, and every individual member must personally feel that a helping hand has suddenly been called to a never-ending rest; for the late Stephen Salisbury was a sincere friend to the Worcester Society of Antiquity, as those who have for any length of time stood near the centre of the active force of the organization know full well.

Mr. Salisbury was a unique citizen; rarely, indeed, will there be found a man in the possession of so many good qualities as he. Have you seriously considered some of them? Rich; honest; charitable; generous (except to himself); public-spirited; temperate; gentlemanly; scholarly; genial; plain of speech and of dress; open, frank, cordial, social, never revengeful; always delighted with rendering service for others. Although born rich, he accumulated wealth; was void of every form of ostentation. His great wealth, with the confidence in which he was held in the community, gave him vast power and influence, yet he