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BULLETIN OF THE ESSEX INSTITUTE. 



of the leading institution of learning in the land, President 



Eliot of Harvard. 



President Eliot, after a few complimentary phrases 



and a word of pleasantry about the choice of names and 



of locations as between Scruggs 

 and Harvard, spoke substan- 

 tially as follows : 



It is fitting that a represen- 

 tative of Harvard University 

 should take part in this celebra- 

 tion. As I listened to the com- 

 memorative address of the 

 President of the Institute I 

 thought of the many Salem 

 families to which Harvard Uni- 

 versity and the Essex Institute 

 I recalled the names of Holyoke, 



'BoQditch 

 nes/i and 

 Quadrant. 



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had been alike indebted 

 Bowditch, Story, Wheatland, 

 Saltonstall, Pickering, Endicott 

 and White, all of which are 

 great Harvard names as well as 

 great Essex names. In succes- 

 sive generations Harvard and 

 Salem have both incurred a 

 great debt to these eminent and 

 durable families. 



The working of the Essex Institute is extraordinarily 

 varied. By its collections it illustrates many widely 



ThePicl\evir)g F 



[ed] acres beyond Basse River, The — Cp. Traske frely relinquishing his farme of 

 tooe hundred acres, It was granted vnto m r Thomas Scrugs, and he there vpon 

 frely relinquished his farme of three hundred acres that soe m r Humphryes might 

 the better be accomodated. 



See Records of Massachusetts, Vol. I, passim. 



Felt's Annals of Salem, Vol. I, pp. 172, 427; Vol. II, pp. 661, 575; 1st edition, 

 pp. 98, 527. 



Savage's New England Genealogical Dictionary, Vol. IV, p. 42. 



Upham's Witchcraft, Vol. T, pp. 64-6, 130. 



Salem Town Records; *ee Historical Collections, Vol. IX, passim. 



