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ESSEX: IIsrSTITTJTE! 



Vol. 16. Salem : Jült to Dec, 1884. Nos. 7-12. 



FiELD Day AT TopsFiELD, Wednesday, June 18, 1884. 



NoTWiTHST ANDING the cxtreme heat and dusty roads, a 

 party numbering about sixty left Salem in carriages at 9 

 A. M. for a day in Topsfield. After a pleasant drive 

 through Peabody and Danvers, the party arrived at the 

 country residence of Col. T. W. Peirce, by whose kind 

 invitation three hours were agreeably spent in rambling 

 over the estate and visiting the greenhouses, eonservato- 

 ries, gardens and other places and objects of interest. 

 This farm for some one hundred and fifty years was known 

 asthe old "Estey Place," previous to the sale, Sept. 5, 1821, 

 to Hon. Benjamin W. Crowninshield of Salem, ^ by Daniel 

 Estey of Topsfield, who inherited the same, by will, from 

 his father Aaron Estey. The heirs of Mr. Crowninshield, 

 April 21, 1852, sold to Dwight Boyden of Waltham ;2 

 Mr. Boyden, Sept. 10, 1852, to Frederick Boyden ;3 Mr. 

 F. Boyden, June 2, 1856, to William Hammond Foster of 

 Boston ;* Mr. Foster, Jan'y 6, 1857, to the present pro- 

 prietor, Thomas W. Peirce,^ who has added to the original 



» See Essex Reg. Deeds, Lib. 227, fol. 246. 2 Reg. Deeds, 460-54. 



« Reg. Deeds, 468-237. * Reg. Deeds, 532-244. ß Reg. Deeds, 644-129. 



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