54 THE RETROSPECT OP THE YEAR. 



including an account of the singular altar mounds and the 

 interesting objects found upon the altars. The lecture 

 was illustrated by diagrams, photographs and specimens. 



Monday ) April 2, 1883. Rev. George H. Hosmer 

 read a paper on " the Jesuits." 



Monday, May 14, 1883. Mr. Robert S. Rantoul 

 read a memoir on our late associate member James O. 

 Safford. 8 Rev. Charles T. Brooks of Newport, R. I., 

 read a memoir on our late associate member, Augustus 

 Story. 9 



The following have been presented and printed in the 

 publications : 



"Essex County and the Indians," a lecture before the 

 Beverly Lyceum, Nov. 20, 1832, by Mr. Robert Rantoul, 

 sen., 10 communicated by Mr. R. S. Rantoul. 



" Origin of Salem Plantation." Allotments of Land in 

 Salem to Men, Women, and Maids," by Prof. Herbert B. 

 Adams of Johns Hopkins University. 11 



"The Family of John Perkins of Ipswich," by txeorge 

 A. Perkins, M. D. 12 



" Common Fields in Salem," by Prof. Herbert Adams. 13 



"The family of William Townsend of Boston," by 

 Henry F. Waters. 1 * 



"The Early Settlers of Rowley, Mass., including all 

 who were here before 1662, with a few generations of 

 their descendants," by George B. Blodgette, A. M., of 

 Rowley. 15 



* Hist. Coll. Essex Inst., Vol. XX, p. 81. 9 Hist. Coll. Essex Inst., Vol. XX, p. 

 115. 10 Hist. Coll. Essex Inst., Vol. XIX, p. 126. Hist. Coll. Essex Inst., Vol. 

 XIX, p. 153. "Hist. Coll. Essex Inst., Vol. XIX, p. 213. "Hist. Coll. Essex 

 Inst., Vol. XIX, p. 241. * Hist. Coll. Eesex last., Vol. XIX, p. 269. Hist. Coll . 

 Essex Inst., Vol. XIX, p. 297. 



