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Eegular Meeting, Monday, May 7, 1877. 

 Meeting this evening. The President in the chair. 

 Records read. Correspondence and donations announced. 



Eev. Henry W. Foote, of Boston, gave a very inter- 

 esting and vahiable historical lecture, descriptive of the 

 church and state untler Sir Edmund Andros. He first 

 described the chief town in the colony, Boston, in those 

 early days half a century after the first settlement of 

 Massachusetts, and pictured the every day life and some 

 characteristic manners and customs of the people. He 

 then spoke of the influence and power of the clergy, drew 

 vivid pictures of the five Boston ministers who took a 

 prominent part in the proceedings of the period, viz. : 

 James Allen and Joshua Moody of the First Church, 

 Increase and Cotton Mather of the Second, and the Rev. 

 Samuel Willard of the South Church ; also of Sir Ed- 

 mund Andros and others of the court party, as well as 

 of Judge Sewall, who was spoken of as the Pepys of 

 New England, and whose diary is soon to be published 

 by the Massachusetts Historical Society ; and closed with 

 a description of the arrest and imprisonment of Andros, 

 188 years ago on the 18th of April, and imagined one of 

 the old Puritans coming back to find the face of every- 

 thing changed. 



Annual Meeting, Monday, May 21, 1877. 

 Meeting this evening at 7.30 o'clock. The President 

 in the chair. Records read. The annual reports of the 

 Secretary, Treasurer, Curators and Standing Committees 



