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Luther Dame, of Newbury, who read a carefully pre- 

 pared paper on " The Life and Times of Sir William 

 Pepperell." He reviewed the life of the Eider William, 

 his early struggles and the laying of that mighty fortune 

 which made the name of Pepperell such a tower of strength 

 in the early colonial days down to the time of Sir William, 

 and the final extinction of the name in America. 



At the outbreak of the French and English war in 

 1744, the appointment of the second William by Governor 

 Shirley, to lead the expedition against Louisburg, lifted 

 him into prominence in the colonies and gave him en- 

 during fame. He advanced £5,000 out of his own for- 

 tune to defray the expenses of the war and gave himself 

 energetically to the Organization of the army . The Speaker 

 exhibited original correspondence and other memorials of 

 Sir William and other leading actors in the war, which had 

 been handed down in the family. 



This paper was referred to the publication committee to 

 be printed in the Historical Collections. 



Alfred Osgood, of Newburyport, read a paper on 

 " Archseology," illustrated by the exhibition of Indian 

 arrowheads and other rüde stone implements. His views 

 of their uses were entirely different from those of most 

 students ; instead of thinking all these arrowheads, etc., to 

 have been made and used for warlike purposes, he be- 

 lieved that many of them were of an emblematic charac- 

 ter ; some were used as drills, others for various domestic 

 purposes, and he did not consider it unlikely that many 

 were carried as Ornaments. The arrow-chipper kept the 

 art in his own family, and as he was never molested had 

 ample opportunities to indulge his tastes in the way of 

 fanciful designs. The Speaker exhibited illustrations 

 which he considered were rüde attempts to represent fly- 



