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in Cummaquidj now Barnstable ; of Rev. William Loveridge, 

 with a number of families at Monomet (Sandwich,) and 

 organizing a church in 1640 ; of Mr. Matthews at Yarmouth 

 with others, nearly at the same time ; and Gov. Prince with 

 a part of the Pilgrim church at Nauset (Eastham) in 1644. 

 The progress of the Cape in improvements, the social and 

 hospitable character of its inhabitants, the number of ship- 

 masters, their skill, education and integrity were portrayed 

 The fisheries and farming, the beauty of the villages, the 

 distinguished merchants and professional men born in this 

 region, and achieving for themselves honorable distinction 

 in our great cities, and the importance of this portion of our 

 territory for the harbors on Massachusetts Bay, and for 

 raising up seamen to enrich the nation in peace and protect 

 it in war, came under consideration. 



Rev. Joseph B. Felt followed with remarks upon the 

 aboriginal inhabitants of the Cape, and the remarkable dis- 

 temper that had, a few years previous to its settlement, nearly 

 depopulated the region round about, resembling, in many 

 respects, the yellow fever. He also alluded to the idolatry 

 of the Indians and of the difficulty that the missionary Elliot 

 had to contend with on that account. 



Rev. S. M. "Worcester, who iiad been invited to prepare 

 a paper upon the early founders of the American Foreign 

 Missionary Society, declined to do so, saying that the sub- 

 ject had been already thoroughly prepared, and that any 

 questions that might arise would be fully answered by con- 

 sulting the pages of a book which he now presented to the 

 Institute, just published (1862,) in Boston " The Memo- 

 rial Volume of the First Fifty Years of the American Board 

 of Commissioners for Foreign Missions." He remarked 

 that John Elliot derived a large portion of encouragement 

 and pecuniary support from the contributions of Christian 

 friends at home in England. He also spoke of the avowed 



