FAMOUS TREES 29 



King's Pine. A magnificent white pine near Hiram, Oxford 

 County, dates back to the Royal Charter of 1690 granted by William 

 and Mary to the Province of Massachusetts Bay, wherein were re- 

 served to their Majesties all white pine trees having a diameter of 2 

 feet or more 1 foot above the ground, not on privately owned prem- 

 ises. Similar reservations were later made by George I, Queen Anne, 

 and George II. All such trees, the cutting of which was forbidden 

 without a royal license, were marked with the King's Broad Arrow. 

 The object of this royal protection was to provide material for masts 

 and spars for the British Navy. 



MARYLAND 



Old Mulberry at Saint Marys City under whose branches, well- 

 authenticated tradition tells us, Calvert made a treaty with the 

 Yaocomicos. The first General Assembly of Maryland convened at 

 Saint Marys City on February 26, 1635, under the branches of this 

 tree. The first mass is believed to have been celebrated here by the 

 Catholics of this little community. This tree fell in 1876, but a hand- 

 some monument marks the spot where it stood. 



Royal Oak, or Tree of the Lighted Lanterns, in the little town of 

 Royal Oak, west of Easton. During the War of 1812 a British ship 

 came to anchor at night opposite the town of St. Michaels, Talbot 

 County, a few miles from this veteran oak, and opened fire. The in- 

 habitants, who w T ere unprotected, by hanging lighted lanterns in the 

 tops of the high trees, deceived the enemy into mistaking these for 

 the lights of the town, with the result that the shots passed harm- 

 lessly overhead. 



Annapolis Tuliptree — Liberty Tree — Treaty Tree, a giant tulip- 

 tree on the campus of historic St. John's College, at Annapolis. It 

 served as the canopy under which the colonists and Indians made a 

 treaty of peace, probably the treaty agreed upon with the Susque- 

 hannocks in 1652. Here, at the beginning of the Revolution, the 

 patriots of Annapolis assembled, and here also the people gathered to 

 celebrate peace. Washington visited it in 1791 and Lafayette in 

 1824 (10, v. 26, pp. 472-475; 22; 104). 



MASSACHUSETTS 



Old Liberty Elm, in Boston, planted by a schoolmaster long before 

 the Revolution and dedicated by him to the independence of the Colo- 

 nies, was a favorite meeting place of the patriots. When at last it 

 fell, the bells of all the churches of the city were tolled. An imperish- 

 able monument marks the spot. 



Elm by the Little Brown House, Deerfield, past which the Indians 

 usually led their captives to a ford in the river and thence to the 

 Mohawk Trail. 



Monroe Tavern Elm, Lexington, directly in front of the Old Mon- 

 roe Tavern, where, on the day of the Battle of Lexington, horses were 

 tied to iron spikes. One of these spikes, over which the bark has 

 not yet closed, may still be seen about iy 2 inches below the surface of 

 the tree trunk. 



