148 THE RETROSPECT OF THE YEAR. 



The second represents a scene in England about 1720, 

 with portraits of Stephen Aynsworth and wife and her 

 sister Deborah Higginson, born 1700. 



Nathaniel Higginson was son of Rev. John Higginson 

 of the First chnreh in Salem, 1660-1708. He was born 

 at Giiilford, Conu., Oct. 11, 1652, a graduate of Harvard 

 in 1670 ; went to England in 1674, and in 1683 was in the 

 company's Service at Fort St. George in the Fast Indies, 

 was a member and secretary of the conncil and aftervvards 

 governor of the factory at the fort. He niarried Eliza- 

 beth, daughter of John Richards in May, 1692, returned 

 to En^rland in 1700 and established himself as a nierchant 

 in London, where he died in 1708.^ 



[At the adjourned meeting held on Monday, Jnne 17, 

 1889, the Report of the Treasurer was read and acccptcd.] 



The committee on nominations reported the following 

 list of officers which was duly elected. 



PRESIDENT. 

 HENRY WHEATLAND. 



VICE-PRESIDENTS. 



Abner C. Goodell, Jr., Daniel B. Hagar, 



Fkederick W. Putnam, Kobekt S. Rantoul. 



SECRETARY. TREASURER. 



Henry M. Brooks. George D. Piiippen. 



AUDITOR. LIBRARIAN. 



Richard C. Manning. Charles S. Osgood. 



COUNCIL. 

 William H. Gove, S. Endicott Peabody, 



Thomas F. Hunt, David Pingree, 



David M. Little, Edmund B. Willson, 



William Mack, George M. Whipple, 



Edward S. Morse, Alden P. White. 



iSee Hißt. Coli. Essex Institute, vol. v, page 35; Higginsou's letters in Mass. 

 Hist. Soc. Coli., vol. vii, 3d series, page 19(5; N. E. Hist. Gen. Reg., vol. 1, page 34. 



