BULLETIN 



ESSEX! INSTITUTE. 



Vol. 13. Salem, Jan., Feb., March, 1881. Nos. 1, 2, 3. 



Tuesday, Dec. 14, 1880. 

 MEMORIAL TO JONES VERY. 



The memorial meeting to commemorate the life and 

 services to literature of our distinguished townsman, Rev. 

 Jones Very, the poet, was held in the rooms of the Essex 

 Institute this evening. The meeting was called to order 

 by the President, Dr. Henry Wheatland., who said : 



This is a special meeting, called at the request of 

 several members. The object was stated in the call. 



A visitor to Ship Rock in Peabody, the famous bowlder 

 now owned by the Essex Institute, should he extend his 

 ramble, on some pleasant summer's day, farther along the 

 brook, half a mile or so, to Cedar Pond, he will observe 

 the ruins of an old cellar with stones scattered around 

 covered with vines, a few moss-covered apple trees in the 

 midst of a growth of oaks and pines, the old well now 

 covered with a stone, and the road long discontinued and 

 overgrown with woods and shrubbery, scarcely discernible. 

 Here Bridget Very, at an early period in our history, 

 with her two sons and a daughter settled, and with strong 

 hands and brave hearts cleared the land and made for 



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