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BULLETIN OF THE ESSEX INSTITUTE. 



of the leading institution of learning in the land, President 



Eliot of Harvard. 



President Eliot, after a few complimentary phrases 



and a word of pleasantry about the choice of names and 



of locations as between Scruggs 

 and Harvard, spoke substan- 

 tially as follows : 



It is fitting that a represen- 

 tative of Harvard University 

 should take part in this celebra- 

 tion. As I listened to the com- 

 memorative address of the 

 President of the Institute I 

 thought of the many Salem 

 families to which Harvard Uni- 

 versity and the Essex Institute 



had been alike indebted. I recalled the names of Holyoke, 



Bowditch, Story, Wheatland, 



Saltonstall, Pickering, Endicott 



and White, all of which are 



great Harvard names as well as 



great Essex names. In succes- 

 sive generations Harvard and 



Salem have both incurred a 



great debt to these eminent and TfiTKcK^^ ° Fi'TTbtl 



durable families. 



The working of the Essex Institute is extraordinarily 



varied. By its collections it illustrates many widely 



"7^"' ditch 

 nesii ana 

 Quadrant. 



[ed] acres beyond Basse River, The — Cp. Traske frely relinquishing his farme of 

 tooe hundred acres, It was granted vnto m'' Thomas Scrugs, and he there vpon 

 frely relinquished his farme of three hundred acres that soe m"" Humphryes might 

 the better be accomodated. 



See Records of Massachusetts, Vol. I, passim. 



Felt's Annals of Salem, Vol. I, pp. 172, 427; Vol. II, pp. 564, 575; Ist edition, 

 pp. 98, 527. 



Savage's New England Genealogical Dictionary, Vol. IV, p. 42. 



Uphnm's Witchcraft, Vol. I, pp. 64-6, 130. 



Salem Town Records; see Historical Collections, Vol. IX, passim. 



