134 



died Nov. 23, 1684, aged sixty-nine, from whom was 

 descended John Poore, a graduate of Harvard in the class 

 of 1775, who established a Female Academy at Philadel- 

 phia and died in 1829 ; and Charles H. Poore, a rear- 

 admiral in the U. S. Navy, born in Cambridge, June 9, 

 1808, retired from service June 9, 1870. 



Major Poore descends through Samuel 2 , who married 

 Rachel Bailey ; Samuel 3 , who married Hannah Morse ; and 

 Benjamin 4 , who married Judith Noyes, a* descendant of 

 Deacon Nicholas Noyes (a brother of Rev. James Noyes, 

 the first minister of Newbury). Benjamin and Judith, 

 we learn, occupied this extensive tract of land which the 

 family have named the Indian Hill farm, and their young- 

 est son and only child who married was Daniel Noyes 

 Poor, born July 16, 1758, graduated Harvard College 

 1777, physician in Newbury, where he died July 23, 

 1837 ; married Lydia Merrill, and among their children 

 was the father of our host, Benjamin Poore. 



Major Poore is thus connected with many of the early 

 families in the northern part of the county, and as his 

 mother was a Dodge, he is consequently a kin to a large 

 number in the southern section. 



The church at West Newbury was reached in good sea- 

 son, after a pleasant drive through the woods, and by the 

 extensive nurseries of Mr. T. C. Thurlow. Hon. Haydn 

 Brown, of West Newbury, and Horace Brown, Esq., of 

 Salem, members of the Institute, here met the party, and 

 after a visit to the comb factory of Brown & Noyes, where 

 the very interesting processes in the manufacture were 

 closely examined, some of the party visited the residence 

 of Hon. Mr. Brown, where they were pleasantly enter- 

 , tained. Among other curiosities was showed a monstrous 

 pair of ox horns lately sent from Cape Town, South 

 Africa. These horns had a stretch of over two yards 



