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Trask, of Danvers, who died in 1813. This property 

 had undoubtedly been in the possession of the Trask family 

 for two or three generations. It would be an interesting 

 subject for the antiquarian to trace back the ownership to 

 the original grantee and also ascertain the origin of the 

 name "Ship Rock" and the various traditions respecting 

 the same. Some of these are more or less fanciful. 

 The President stated that among the recent donations to 

 the Society was a photograph, from Mr. W. B. Trask of 

 Boston, of the old Trask house on Boston Street, Salem,* 

 that was built by one of his ancestors about 1680. 



INDIAN RELICS FROM BEVERLY. 



Mr. F. W. PUTNAM exhibited a small but very inter- 

 esting collection of stone relics found in Indian graves in 

 Beverly in July last, and presented to the Peabody Acad- 

 emy of Science by John Lovett of Beverly, and Messrs. 

 David Moore, John Felt, C. Cooke and himself. 



These relics were of great interest, as their authenticity 

 as com ing- from graves was beyond question, Mr. Putnam 

 having taken some of them from the graves himself, and 

 having been shown the exact spot where -the others were 

 found. The only regret is that the relics from the three 

 graves were mixed together so that the collection has to 

 be spoken of as coming from three graves without being 

 able to designate the particular article from each, except 

 that one of the graves contained two pipes, a second, one 

 pipe, while the third did not contain any. The three 

 pipes were of soapstone, of the same general size, charac- 

 ter and shape, consisting of a flat base about four and 

 one-half inches in length, narrowing at each end, and 

 about two inches in width at the central and widest por- 

 tion under the bowl. This base was perforated by the 

 hole for the passage of smoke from the bowl to the mouth 



