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FIELD MEETINGS. Two have been held with unabated 

 interest during the past season ; arrangements were made 

 for holding others which were postponed on account of the 

 unfavorable condition of the weather on the days ap- 

 pointed. 



FIRST MEETING was held at Danvers, Thursday, June 

 20, 1889. A party of about fifty persons went in barges 

 from the rooms of the Institute at 9.30 A. M. and visited 

 the objects of interest, according to a programme furnished 

 by Mr. Alden P. White and other friends. 



First, the old Jacobs House situated on the banks of Wa- 

 ters River, the home of George Jacobs executed as a 

 wizard in 1692. His grave is near by. The house is 

 now occupied by the family of William A. Jacobs, a lineal 

 descendant. It is a well-preserved old house ; its low ceil- 

 ing and the general appearance of the interior bear the mark 

 of antiquity. Thence proceeded to Gov. Endicott's "or- 

 chard farm" upon which are the Iron works, the Porter man- 

 sion built by the Hon. Nathan Read ; the old Endicott pear 

 tree ; the site of the Governor's house and the burying- 

 ground ; thence by the Collins' House which was the head- 

 quarters of Gen. Gage in the early days of the Revolution, 

 now the residence of Francis Peabody, Esq. ; the grounds 

 of the Peabody Institute ; the House of Rebecca Nurse 

 executed for witchcraft ; the Nurse monument ; the home- 

 stead of Judge Samuel Holten in the vicinity of the church 

 of Salem village ; the present church ; the site of the First 

 Meeting House where Rev. Samuel Parris preached and 

 the site of the parsonage where the witchcraft delusion 

 first broke out ; the common at the centre bequeathed by 

 Nathaniel Ingersoll as a "Training Field" forever; the 

 beautiful grounds of the farm of George Peabody of Sa- 

 lem ; Hathorne Hill and the Danvers Insane Asylum. 



