BULLETIN 



lESSZEIX INSTITUTE. 



Vol. 3. Salem, Mass., October, 1871. No. 10. 



One Dollar a Year in Advance. 10 Cents a Single Copy. 



Meeting near "Ship Rock" in Peabody, 

 Wednesday, August 2, 1871. 



[Continued.] 

 WIGWAM ROCK. 



This communication from Mr. Jones Very on " Wig- 

 wam Rock" received since the Rockville meeting, is here 

 inserted as an appendix to the report of that meeting. 



Dear Sir: — I wish to correct a statement of mine 

 in the first number of the second volume of the Histor- 

 ical Collections. I there stated "that Wigwam Rock was 

 probably the same as now called Ship Rock." A recent 

 ramble in that vicinity has convinced me that it is not. 



Samuel Very's farm was much farther to the west of 

 Ship Rock. It was bounded on the west by Cedar Pond. 

 A cart road runs northeastward from this pond through 

 the woods to a public road, known on the old maps as 

 Putney's road, running from Lowell Street to Newbury- 

 port turnpike. Following this cart road from the pond, 

 about a sixth of a mile, I found a large rock, half as large 

 as Ship Rock, making a corner boundary stone of two 

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