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ORDER OF MEETINGS. ;'. 



Regular Meeting, Monday, October 5, 1869. The President in the 

 chair. 



Daniel Stamford, Kate Nourse, and Edward Maloon of Salem; 

 Benjamin C. Raymond of Beverly ; Stephen D. Pool of Lynn ; J. F. 

 Le Baron of Ipswich; C. Alice Baker and Susan M. Lane of Cam- 

 bridge, were elected members. 



Regular Meeting, Monday, November 1, 1869. The first of the series 

 of evening meetings. The President in the chair. <. Records of the 

 preceding meeting were read. Correspondence and donations to the 

 library and museum announced. In the absence of the Secretary, Mr. 

 F. W. Putnam was requested to act. 



The PRESIDENT mentioned that one of the donations to the Histori- 

 cal department was a Pew Door from the meeting house of the First 

 Parish in Hingham, presented by Hon. SOLOMON LINCOLN of that 

 town. The First church in Hingham was formed in 1635, and is said 

 to be the twelfth in Massachusetts proper. Rev. Peter Hobart of 

 Hingham, England, was the first minister. The present building w%s 

 erected during the ministry of the Rev. John Norton, and was opened 

 for public worship, Jan. 8, 1681-2. Additions were made in 1730 and 

 in 1755, without materially altering its external appearance. In 1755 

 pews were introduced previously benches or forms were used. 

 "This door," writes Mr. Lincoln, "belonged to the pew which was 

 owned by my grandfather, William Lincoln of Hingham, and his 

 brother Enoch Lincoln, and which was owned and occupied by their 

 descendants down to the time when the old pews were removed to 

 enable the Parish to make the repairs which became necessary for 

 the preservation of the ancient house. Enoch Lincoln was the father 

 of Levi Lincoln, Att'y Gen'l of the U. S., and grandfather of Gov. 

 Levi Lincoln of this State, and of Gov. Enoch Lincoln of Maine. All 

 three men occupied the pew when they visited Hingham. 



It occurred to me that a relic of our old meeting house might ap- 

 propriately be deposited under the frame of the first meeting house 

 in Salem." 



Mr. JAMES KIMBALL made a few remarks on the church architecture 

 of the olden times. 



The presentation of skulls of the Walrus and Polar Bear, by Capt. 

 J. W. PERKINS, called forth some appropriate remarks from Messrs. 

 A. S. Packard and F. W. 'Putnam. 



Dr. PACKARD gave an account of the occurrence of the Walrus on 

 the coast of Labrador, stating that during the 17th century, in the 

 times of the early voyagers Cartier and Charlevoix, the walrus was 

 abundant on the Magdalen Islands in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and 



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