4 THE HISTORY OP THE 



requested to meet at the Hotel in Topsfield on Monday, 

 the 16th day of February current at eleven o'clock A. M. 

 for the purpose of forming an AGRICULTURAL SO- 

 CIETY FOR THE COUNTY OF ESSEX, in aid of the 

 Massachusetts Agricultural Society. As the object of 

 this meeting is important, it is hoped there will be a 

 general attendance. 



Another notice appeared in the Gazette of February 

 13th: 



Those gentlemen in Salem or its Vicinity who are dis- 

 posed to organize the proposed Essex Agricultural 

 Society are requested to meet at the Essex Coffee House 

 To-MORROW (Saturday) Afternoon at 3 o'clock to de- 

 liberate on the subject previous to the general meeting 

 to be held at the Topsfield Hotel on Monday next. 



Pursuant to this invitation, a company of practical 

 farmers, about twenty in number, met at Cyrus Cum- 

 mings's tavern in Topsfield. Mr. John W. Proctor of 

 South Danvers, the Secretary of the Society for many 

 years, in his address in 1844, recalled their names: 



John Adams of Andover. 



Hobart Clark of Andover. 



Aaron Perley of Boxford. 



Amos Perley of Boxford. 



James Kimball of Bradford. 



Dr. Andrew Nichols of Danvers. 



Daniel Putnam of Danvers. 



Eleazar Putnam of Danvers. 



George Osgood of Danvers. 



Temple Cutler of Hamilton. 



Robert Dodge of Newbury. 



Paul Kent of Newbury. 



Orlando B. March of Newbury. 



Enoch Tappan of Newbury. 



Stephen Tappan of Newbury. 



Stephen Mighill of Rowley. 



