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that His Excellency Governor Woleott 4 would be with ns 

 to-day, but I have here a letter in which, after a most 



cordial acknowledg- 

 ment, His Excellency 



says : 



The occasion, I am sure, 

 "will be an interesting one 

 and it would give me much 

 pleasure to be present, but 

 the date falls upon the reg- 

 ular day of meeting of the 

 Council and I have never 

 permitted any other engage- 

 ment to interfere with my 

 presence at these Council 

 meetings. Therefore you 

 will please accept my 

 regrets, and believe me 

 Very truly yours, 

 Roger Wolcott. 



President Ran- 

 toul here present ed 

 General Appleton 

 \\ of the Governor's 

 staff', — a Vice 

 President of the 

 Eftdec oft institute ,-who 

 was in uniform, being detailed by His Excellency to 

 respond for the Commonwealth. 



General Francis H. Appleton, of Governor Wolcott's 

 staff, being introduced, said that as His Excellency was 

 unable on account of important business at the State 



■•Only two Governors of Massachusetts have ever lived in Salem. They were 

 Endecott and Bradstreet, and they happen to be the first and the last in the line 

 of colonial governors. The Cadet Armory and Plummer Hall stand on an estate 

 more or less identified with both of them. There i6 reason to think that it may 



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