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Then we have, in the history of New England, such 

 names as Lady Arabella Johnson, Lady Deborah Moody and 

 her neighbor (who was nobly descended and married a 

 daughter of the Earl of Lincoln,) John Humphrey of Lynn ; 

 also, the knights and baronets, Sal ton stall, Vane, Phipps, 

 Pepperell and Sir John Temple of Ten Hills farm, Maiden, 

 who was descended from the same stock as the Viscounts 

 Palmerston. Lord Chancellor Lyndhurst it will be remem- 

 bered is a Boston boy. We have, too, many old families of 

 gentry, such as the Appletons, who go clearly back to the 

 year 1414 ; the Bruens, to the year 1230 ; the Lawrences to 

 the year 1190, the Adamses and others. The Thorntons, 

 also, who are descended from two Mayors of York ; the 

 Sewalls from Henry Sewall, Mayor of Coventry ; and the 

 Salem Brownes, from the Brownes of Browne Hall, Lan- 

 cashire, England, a family, some of Avhose members removed 

 from Salem to Virginia, and one of whom married a grand- 

 daughter of Bishop Burnet. Another family which Salem 

 contributed to Virginia was that of the Fairfaxes. The 

 Hon. Col. William Fairfax was a resident of Salem before 

 he went to Virginia, in 1734. Here he married a lady, 

 born in Salem, Deborah the daughter of Francis Clarke, 

 Esquire, and from this union were Bryan, Lord Fairfax, 

 and other descendants who are considered the very cream 

 of the " F. F. V." 



Col. Fairfax was Collector of the Port and lived in the 

 house, still standing on the corner of Cambridge and Essex 

 streets, and his wife's father lived and died in the old house 

 which formerly stood on the Eastern corner of North and 

 Essex streets. Letters and souvenirs from the Fairfaxes, 

 dating from about 1750 to 1820, are still in possession of a 

 descendant of the Clarke family in this city. 



Mr. Goodell spoke also of the numerous coats of arms ex- 

 tant among members of our old families, and engraved on 

 tombstones in the old burjing-grounds and expressed the 

 hope that all persons possessing such heir-looms would make 

 their existence known to the Institute that they may be 

 copied for Mr. Whitmore's work. 



