14 THE MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY 



COTTON TUFTS (1734-1815) was born in Medford and 

 resided and practiced as a physician in Weymouth. He 

 prepared the stamp act resolutions of that town in 1765 ; 

 represented the town in the General Court and was presi- 

 dent of the Massachusetts Medical Society. 



CHARLES VAUGHAN (1759-1839) was a prominent mer- 

 chant in Boston for a considerable period. He was a 

 brother-in-law of Charles Bulfinch, shared in the Tontine 

 Building enterprise, and was an energetic and persevering 

 man in whatever he undertook. He was a trustee of the 

 Society as it was originally organized and was not absent 

 from any of the monthly meetings of the board, excepting 

 twice or thrice, until his resignation and removal from 

 Boston in 1799. He was a large land owner at Hallowell, 

 then in this State, and built wharves, warehouses, dwell- 

 ings and mills there immediately upon his removal thither, 

 .and also partly built a town on the river below Bath. 

 These enterprises proved on the whole to be unprofitable, 

 but he prospered as a farmer in the town of Hallowell 

 and is recorded as having been a promoter of schools and 

 agriculture there. 



THOMAS L. WINTHROP (1760-1841) graduated at Har- 

 vard in 1780, was state senator and lieutenant governor 

 from 1826 to 1833 and president of the Massachusetts 

 Historical Society, of the American Antiquarian Society 

 and of the Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agricul- 

 ture. 



Soon after the organization of the Society large addi- 

 tions were made to the list by admission of new members, 

 comprising names not less eminent. Among these were 

 John Hancock, John Adams, Fisher Ames, Nathaniel 

 Gorham, Robert Treat Paine, Nathan Dane, Timothy 

 Pickering, James Bowdoin, Increase Sumner, Caleb 

 Strong, Elbridge Gerry, Gen. Henry Knox, Gen. William 

 Heath, Gen. John Brooks, Gen. Artemas Ward, Rev. 

 Manasseh Cutler, Rev. J. T. Kirkland, Rev. William 

 Emerson, Rev. J. S. Buckminster, Levi Lincoln, Loammi 



