6 THE HISTORY OF THE 



The following officers were chosen : 



President, 

 Hon. Timothy Pickering. 



Vice-Presidents, 



William Bartlett, Esq. 



Hon. Thomas Kittredge. 



Hon. John Heard. 



Ichabod Tucker, Esq. 



Recording Secretary, 

 Benjamin R. Nichols, Esq. 



Corresponding Secretary, 

 Hon. Leverett Saltonstall. 



Treasurer, 

 Hon. Nehemiah Cleaveland. 



Voted that the proceedings of this meeting be pub- 

 lished in all the Newspapers printed in the County of 

 Essex and in such Boston papers as the Secretary of 

 this meeting may direct. 



The Salem Gazette of February 20th made compli- 

 mentary editorial comment: 



It will give pleasure to the friends of the country to 

 observe that a Society is formed in the County of Essex 

 for the promotion and improvement of Agriculture, the 

 real basis of individual and national wealth and pros- 

 perity, and that that scientific and practical farmer, the 

 Hon. Timothy Pickering, (who assisted many years ago 

 in the formation of the Agricultural Society of Phila- 

 delphia and of which he is still a member) has been 

 elected its first President. It will be recollected that at 

 Brighton the exhibitions of our Essex farmers have made 

 no mean figure and in some instances borne away the 

 prizes. The celebrated Oakes Cow of Danvers has been 

 commemorated by the art of the engraver. 



