188 THE RETROSPECT OF THE YEAR. 



pupils and incorporated as "The New England Christian 

 Academy." 1 Hon. David Pingree owned Cherry Hill 

 next, and after him Capt. John Hammond and then Capt. 

 Thomas Holmes who, in 1846, conveyed it to Mr. Waters. 2 

 The new proprietor removed every building, standing on 

 the property, save a single tool-shop, replacing them with 

 ample barns, out-buildings and offices and a modern house 

 and converting the tool-shop, placed in a new location, into 

 a dwelling house for farm-hands. Some of these build- 

 ings were the growth of recent years and of the manual 

 labor experiment, but some of them were of an interesting 

 antiquity. The house itself was standing in 1758, for in 

 demolishing it, in June, 1852, Mr. Waters found a slab of 

 board, some four feet long and nineteen inches wide, sup- 

 posed to have served as the sill or lintel of a dormer win- 

 dow, and still preserved in the family of Deacon Sarnl. P. 

 Fowler, on which were roughly carved the characters 

 "RXHX 1758." Rufus was the last of the Herricks to 

 occupy it, and 1758 was the year in which he sold the es- 

 tate out of the Herrick family perhaps a bit of sentiment, 



i Hist. Coll. Essex Inst., Vol. vr, p. 84. 



"Transfers of this property since it left the Herrick family will be found re- 

 corded in the following deeds, for citations of which the Essex Institute is 

 largely indebted to the courtesy of Hon. John I. Baker of Beverly and of Daniel 

 N. Crowley, Esq., of Danvers. See Essex Deeds, Southern District. 



DEED LIB. FOL. 



Herricks to Dodge 105 119-21 



Dodge to Conant 155 148 



Raymond to Couant 155 148 



Conant to Thorndike 155 148-9 



Dodges to Trow 137 228 



Dodges to Trow 142 210 



Trow to Thorndike 155 149 



Trow to Thorndike 156 50 



Batchelders to Thorndike 156 49 



Warren to Thorndike 158 201 



Felton to Thorndike 161 179 



Porter to Thorndike 166 174 

 Tliorndike to Safford & 



Dodge 165 240 



DEED LIB. FOL. 

 Safford & Dodge to White 170 276-7 

 Heirs of Henry to Ste- 

 phen and Joseph White 246 254 

 Heirs of Joseph to 



Stephen White 275 108-246 



Stephen White to Mclntier 275 247 



Stephen White to Mclntier 277 8-9 



Mclntier to Sheldon 285 262-4 



Shelden to Pingree 300 183 



Sheldeu to Pingree 306 21 



Shelden to Pingree 308 3 



Pingree to Hammond 318 26 



Hammond to Holmes 364 217 



Holmes to Waters 364 218 



