to the meeting of the Institute held at Kittery, Me., on 

 the other side of the Piscataqoa river, in Angust, 1867 ; 

 to visit, among other phices of interest, the mansion once 

 owned and occupied by Sir William Pepperell, the 

 wealthy and enterprising merchant of the middle of the 

 last century, who by his means and individual services 

 contributed so largely to the capture of Louisburg, and 

 was rewarded for his success and bravery with a baron- 

 etcy^ by George II. 



In many of the old towns on the New England coast, 

 the children, from the early settlement to the present 

 time, have been wont to leave the old homesteads to col- 

 onize new places, or to seek the centres of trade, com- 

 merce or manufactures. We find them scattered over 

 the vast territory extending from ocean to ocean, and 

 from the Lakes to the Gulf, actively engaged in the 

 various duties of life. Some visit the home of their an- 

 cestors and delight to examine the old records, and by 

 diligent research and careful study endeavor to clothe in 

 living forms this dead past. The collecting, arranging 

 and preserving of the old papers and other relics, that 

 will facilitate these researches, come within the province 

 of the Institute. 



Copies of extracts from some of the old documents in 

 the office of the Registry of Probate for Essex county, 

 were read to illustrate their character and the extent of 

 the valuable material for history that may therefrom be 

 gleaned. 



YiCE President F. W. Putnam was then called upon 

 and gave a brief account of the Pueblo Indians of New 

 Mexico and Arizona, illustrating his remarks by a series 

 of large photographs taken by the government expedi- 

 tions under Major Powell and Captain Wheeler. These 



