26 BULLiaiN OF THE ESSEX INSTITUTE. 



House, before the Council, to be present, the Governor 

 had delegated him to represent the Commonwealth, and 

 to convey his regrets that he could not attend so notable 

 an occasion. 



General Appleton expressed his own gratification at 

 being permitted to come back to his former home, Salem, 

 in this capacity, which he esteemed 

 a high honor. 



He regretted that he must pre- 

 sent himself in a somewhat an- 

 tiquated, l)ut so historic, form of 

 uniform, which he hoped he might 

 soon have an opportunity to pre- 

 sent to the Institute, not as a relic 

 of himself but as a reminder of 

 nrodstreet ^^^ many brave officers wdio have 



fought for the Nation's unity in 

 this dress ; but General Miles has just proposed a dress of 

 new design far better adapted to the needs of the service. 

 General Appleton then said : — The value of institu- 

 tions, like this Institute, to a State and Nation cannot be 

 too highly spoken of; it advances the idea of value of 

 history and art, as a power in promoting cultivation in 

 man, and a more cultivated taste among people generally. 



have been assigned in tlie first instance to Governor Endecott. (Bulletin, Vol. I, 

 p. 79; Historical Collections, Vol. xxiv, p. 24t.) It certainly was the domicile of 

 Governor Bradstreet, for in 1676 he married the widow of Captain Joseph Gard- 

 ner, a niece of Governor Winthrop, who had it for a marriage portion, and here, 

 Bradstreet, who had landed in Salem with Winthrop in 1630, came back to pass 

 the closing twenty years of his life, and to die and be entombed in 1697. 



On this estate, from 1836 until 1867, lived Colonel Francis Peabody with his wife 

 Martha, and she was an Endicott descended, in the eighth generation, from the 

 Governor. 



Governor Wolcott married a granddaughter of William Hickling Prescott. 

 Prescott was born on this estate. She was also a granddaughter of Joseph 

 Augustus Peabody, and for him the Peabody mansion, now the Cadet Armory, 

 was built in 1819, and he lived in it until his death, when his brother Francis 

 took it. The Governor, had he been present, would have found Mmself on 

 friendly soil. 



