MEMOIR OF DANIEL TKEADWELL. 351 



To Daniel Treadwell, Esq. 



Boston. April 22, 1830. 

 Dear Sir, — I hare the pleasure to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, and the check 

 of forty dollars in behalf of the Mcclianics' Institution which was enclosed in it. Allow mc tlic 

 favor to return tiie check, with tlie request that the Institution will be pleased to apply the 

 amount towards the increase of their apparatus. 



No man can be more sensible than myself of the deficiencies of my introductorv discourse. 

 But the kind terms in which you are pleased to express the satisfaction of the Institution with 

 my effort is truly grateful to me, and would, under every circumstance, afford me the sincerest 

 consolation. I beg to add that I shall ever esteem it a fortunate occurrence to have connected 

 my name with the admirable objects of the Institution. "Wishing it and yourself every success, 

 I have the honor to remain, with the highest respect, your obliged friend, 



Joseph Stort. 



On I'esigning the office of President, in 1881, Mr. Treadwell received the following 

 acknowledgment of his services. 



To Daniel Treadwell, Esq. 



Boston, April 26, 1831. 

 Dear Sir, — I have the honor to inform you that the following rote was passed unani- 

 mously at the annual meeting of the Boston Mechanics' Institution, held in the lecture-room of 

 the Athenaeum on Monday evening last : — 



" Voted, That the thanks of the Institution be presented to Mr. Daniel Treadwell, for the 

 valuable services which he has rendered to it during the last two years in the office of 

 President." 



Allow me, sir, to add an expression of the pleasure I feel in communicating a vote, the 

 sentiments of which are so much in accordance with my own. 



With great respect, I have the honor to be your most obedient servant, 



F. C. Whiston, 

 Becording Secretary B. M. I. 



In 1838, when the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics' Association was founded, 

 all the apparatus belonging to the Boston Mechanics' Institution was transferred to 

 it, and the latter ceased to exist. 



While still continuing the manufacture of his printing-press, and superintending 

 the nail-machines on the Mill-dam, Mr. Treadwell, on the 11th of Mai'ch, 1825, was 

 appointed by the Hon. Josiah Quincj, Mayor of Boston, acting in behalf of the 

 Board of Mayor and Aldermen, " a Commissioner to ascertain the practicability of 

 supplying the city with good water for the domestic use of the inhabitants, as well 

 as for the extinguishing of fires, and for all the general purposes of comfort and 

 cleanliness.'' 



