then living in what is now Hingham, Mass., an inducement to come 

 to Newbury for the purpose of teaching the settlers how to make hives 

 and to care for bees. In August, 1G44, Eales came " to one John 

 Davis a Eenter of a farm with ye expectation of his doing service 

 which the Towne was not acquainted with." "• Apparently, however, 

 John Eales was not, financially or otherwise, a success. He was later 

 arrested and put in jail in Ipswich, according to the record, and, on 

 May 14, 1645, " It is conceived John Eales should be placed in some 

 convenient place where he may be implied in his trade of bee-hive 

 making, etc. ; & ye town of Newbury to make up what his work 

 wanteth of defraying ye charge of his livelyhoode." ^ 



There can be little doubt that John Eales is the man to whom 

 Belknap refers and to whom credit is due as the earliest bee keeper 

 in the colonies.^ 



Further convincing evidence of the very early introduction of 

 bees into New England is the date of their importation which Haydn ^ 

 gives. According to this author, " bees were introduced into Boston, 

 New England, in IGTO, and have since spread over the continent." 

 The source of his information is not given, but it is probably in some 

 of the port records and can not refer to the first importation. 



From these early times until more than a century later little or 

 nothing is known of bee keeping in the State. In fact, during this 

 ei:)Och apiculture in the Old World was not well developed. It was 

 not until the middle of the eighteenth century that writings on 

 bees began to api:)ear in Europe in any considerable number. Bees 

 were receiving some attention in Massachusetts at this time, as is 



o Massachusetts Archives, Vol. L, pp. 4-5. [Manuscripts in the State House, 

 Boston.] 



* 1853. Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in 

 New England. Boston. Vol. 2, p. 101. [Period covered, 1642-1649.] John 

 Eales was " Freeman made att the Generall Court, May 14, 1634." Ibid., Vol. 1, 

 p. 369. 



'^ See also: Adams, George W. 1906. Massachusetts Bee Keeping in 1644. 

 American Bee Keeper, Vol. XVI, pp. 2S0-2S1. 



Gerstiicker, A. 1862. Tber die geographische Yerbreitung und die Abiinder- 

 ungen der Honigbiene nebst Bemerkungen iiber die Ausliindischen Honigbieneu 

 der alten Welt. (Zur XI. Wandervei'sammlung Deutsche Bienenwirthe zu 

 Botsdam am 17, 18, und 19 September, 1862.) Potsdam. According to ^'on 

 Buttel-Reepen this paper was given as " a card of admission " to those attend- 

 ing the Potsdam meeting. It has apparently become lost, excepting one copy 

 from which Von Buttel-Reepen reprinted it as a part of his paper, "Apistica." 



Von Buttel-Reepen, Dr. H. 1906. Apistica. Beitriige zur Systematik, 

 Biologie, sowie zur geschichtlichen und geographischen ^'erbreitung der Honig- 

 biene (Apis mclUfica L.), ihrer Varietiiten und der iibrigeu Apis-arten. 

 Mittheilungen aus dem Zoologischeu Museum zu Berlin, III, Heft 2, 8 fig., pp. 

 IV-l-121-201. Issued also as a separate. 



<* Haydn, Joseph. 1904. Haydn's Dictionary of Dates and Universal Informa- 

 tion. 23d edition. New York. Also other editions. 



