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Field Meetings. Two htive been held with unabated 
interest during the past season ; arrangements were made 
for holding others which were postponed on account of the 
unfjivcnable condition of the weather on the days ap- 
pointed. 
First IMeeting was held at Danvers, Thursday, June 
20, 1889. A party of about fifty persons went in barges 
from the rooms of the Institute at 9.30 a. m. and visited 
the objects of interest, according to a programme furnished 
by Mr. Alden P. White and other friends. 
First, the old Jacobs House situated on the banks of Wa- 
ters River, the home of George Jacobs executed as a 
wizard in 1692. His grave is near by. The house is 
now occupied by the family of William A. Jacobs, a lineal 
descendant. It is a well-preserved old house ; its low ceil- 
ing and the general appearance of the interior bear the mark 
of antiquity. Thence proceeded to Gov. Endicott's "or- 
chard farm" upon which are the Iron works, the Porter man- 
sion built by the Hon. Nathan Read ; the old Endicott pear 
tree ; the site of the Governor's house and the burying- 
ground ; thence by the Collins' House which was the head- 
quarters of Gen. Gage in the early days of the Revolution, 
now the residence of Francis Peabody, Esq. ; the grounds 
of the Peabody Institute ; the House of Rebecca Nurse 
executed for witchcraft ; the Nurse monument ; the home- 
stead of Judge Samuel Holten in the vicinity of the church 
of Salem village ; the present church ; the site of the First 
Meeting House where Rev. Samuel Parris preached and 
the site of the parsonage where the witchcraft delusion 
first broke out ; the common at the centre bequeathed by 
Nathaniel Ingersoll as a "Training Field" forever; the 
beautiful grounds of the farm of George Peabody of Sa- 
lem ; Hathorne Hill and the Danvers Insane Asylum. 
