THE HISTORIC TREES OF MASSACHUSETTS 



by Thomas Davis/ the fine old elm in front 

 of the Court House, and the huge elm on 

 North St., just below the hnden trees. There 

 is also a very old Enghsh oak near the Jack- 

 son homestead, formerly Gov. Winslow's 

 house, where Lydia Jackson, wife of Ralph 

 Waldo Emerson was born. 



The hndens all appear to be in good con- 

 dition. They have withstood the blasting 

 winds from a broad expanse of sea for a 

 century and a half, and under the same con- 

 ditions may live for another century to come. 

 The two which stand in the garden behind 

 the Hathaway house (ii North St.) are 

 seventy feet high. One measures fourteen 

 feet and three inches, and the other nine 

 feet and eight inches in circumference at 

 four and a half feet from the ground. There 

 were originally four trees, planted in a row; 

 one blew down, and one was cut by Mr. 

 Hathaway to make room for the two re- 

 maining trees. A large branch, about a 

 foot in diameter, fell from the larger tree 

 during a storm in September, 1909. The 



' Great-grandfather of W. T. Davis. 



