BULLETIN 



VOL. 13. SALEM: OCT., Nov., DEC., 1881. Nos. 10, 11, 12. 



FIELD MEETING IN BOXFORD, SATURDAY, OCT. 8, 1881. 



SEVERAL members of the Essex Institute and their 

 friends visited Boxford, this day, by invitation of the % 

 Boxford Natural History Society, 1 of which Rev. Win. P. 

 Alcott is President, and Mr. Sidney Perley, Secretary. 

 The Institute party reached the First Parish Church about 

 11.30 A. M., after a pleasant drive along the ancient roads 

 and by-ways, which are bordered here and there by the 

 loose stone walls or brush fences, with growths of bushes 

 and trees ; occasionally passing the quiet homes of the 

 farmer, consisting in many cases of an old fashioned 

 house and barn, irregularly located out-buildings, and 

 the open wll with the sweep and the oaken bucket, re- 

 calling the scenes of days long past. The inquiry is 

 suggested in passing, who were and Who now are the oc- 

 cupants and what have been their experiences in their 

 seemingly quiet lives. In some of these old homesteads of 

 the early settlers successive generations of their descend- 

 ants have passed their lives from infancy to old age. 



A delegation of the Boxford society was at the church 



l Appended to this report is a notice of this society, communicated by Mr. Sid- 

 ney Perley. 



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