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his time to genealogical and historical studies. In 1879 

 with his college classmate and fellow soldier, and life- 

 long intimate, Henry Fitzgilbert Waters, he was searching 

 English records and collecting a large amount of valuable 

 information that has been published by the Institute in its 

 Historical Collections. He was the historian of the twenty- 

 third regiment, and prepared one of the best regimental 

 histories of the state, issued from the press. 



He compiled a genealogy of theEmmerton family in 1881, 

 privately printed at the Salem Press. 



The following communications compiled by him have 

 been printed in the Historical Collections of the Institute : 



"Deacon Richard Prince of Salem, and some of his de- 

 scendants," Vol. xiv, p. 240. 



"Notes and Extracts from the Records of the First 

 Church of Salem, 1629-1736," Vol. xv, p. 70, and Vol. 

 xvi, p. 8. 



" Gleanings from English Records about New England 

 Families." The results of a summer residence in London, 

 1879, in company with his friend H. F. Waters, VoL xvn, 

 pp. 1-147. 



" A genealogical account of Henry Silsbee and some of 

 his descendants," Vol. xvn, p. 257. 



" Dr. Bentley's East Parish deaths, some notes and cor- 

 rections," Vol. xx, p. 209. 



"Eighteenth-century Baptisms in Salem, Mass., hitherto 

 unpublished," Vols. xxn, xxm. 



These communications are a valuable contribution to our 

 local history and will be of inestimable value to the future 

 historian and a noble tribute to his memory as a faithful 

 and zealous worker in this field of labor. In addition to 

 his life's work, of which we have many illustrations, he has 

 left a fund, the income, after the lapse of a contingency, to 

 be appropriated for the printing of the old records and other 



