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this rude inscription, on taking leave of the ancestral birth- 

 place. The homestead had a ganibrel roof, luthcran win- 

 dows and a porch-chamber. It was a dignified old house ; 

 a rather good type of the better class of colonial or pro- 

 vincial architecture, and seemed worthy, when it disap- 

 peared, of a longer life.^ 



From an observatory on the modern house, with the aid 

 of a i)owerful glass, always kept mounted on a swivel and 

 ready for use, a magnificent panorama of inland and ocean 

 scenery is disclosed which, together with the interesting 

 traditions of the place and the ready welcome of its genial 

 host, made Cherry Hill a favorite resort with all his in- 

 timates. Salmon P. Chase, while Secretary of the Treasury 

 and afterwards Chief Justice, rarely allowed a summer to 

 go by without passing some weeks of it under this hospit- 

 able roof, and was visiting Mr. Waters on July 27, 1864, 

 when a Field meeting of the Institute occurred on a part of 

 the grounds near Wenham Pond, and sent a message of re- 

 gret that his engagements did not permit him to be present 

 at the meeting.^ 



Mr. Waters was open-hearted, courageous, public spir- 

 ited and patriotic. His sympathies were broad and warm, 

 his charities were unstinted, and it has been well said of 

 him that where his heart was, head, hand and purse went 

 along with it. He conducted a voluminous and world-wide 

 correspondence with all sorts and conditions of men. On 

 Jan. 6, 1860, he presided at Mechanic Hall in Salem over 

 a mass-meeting of citizens interested in the relief of the 

 surviving members of the family of John Brown, which 

 was addressed by James Freeman Clarke, Ralph Waldo 



1 See will of llenvy, Ipswich County Court Records, 166(3-1082, pp. 136-8; will 

 of Joseph, Essex Probate Records, Book iU, LeiU 172-4; will of Rulus, Ibid, Book 

 328, Leaf 260-4; Essex Deeds, Lib. 87, fol. 42. 



2 Proceedings Essex Inst., Vol. IV, pp. 47-9, and Hist. Coll. Essex lust., Vol. vr, 

 p. 151. 



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