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Beaman Oak, Lancaster, marks the place where Gamaliel Beaman, 

 an early settler, built his house in 1659 (83, pp. 124-125; Wo, p. 78). 



Keel Oak. not far from the town square in Grafton, bears on a cop- 

 per tablet, the following inscription: "Under this tree before the Old 

 Tavern, patriots of the community gathered to pledge their services 

 in the cause of American Independence." 



Endicott Pear, Danvers. John Endicott, the earliest pioneer of 

 the Massachusetts settlement under patent, planted this pear tree 

 about 1632. 



Abolition Grove, a stand of white pine at Abington, held to be the 

 place where the War between the States began, because in its shade 

 speeches in the cause of abolition were delivered. 



Charlemont Button wood (PJatanus Occident alts L.) Charlemont, 

 not far from where the first pioneer settler of the town perished at 

 the hands of Indians. 



Deerfield Buttonwood {PJatanus occidentalis L.) near which "in 

 the Stebbins House, seven men, besides women and children, held at 

 bay one hundred and forty Indians under a French officer of the line, 

 for three hours." (According to an inscription on a marker.) 



MICHIGAN 



Treaty Basswood of Grosse lie, under whose branches, on July 6, 

 1776, a treaty was signed, conveying the island to two merchants of 

 Detroit, who purchased it for a little money, some blankets, and some 

 tobacco. Tecumseh, "the Torch of the Northwest", Avas one of the 

 chiefs who signed the document. 



Republican Party Oaks, at Jackson. According to a History of 

 the United States from the Compromise of 1850 (vol. 2, p. 48), by 

 James Ford Rhodes : 



"In response to a call signed by several thousand leading citizens of Michigan, 

 for a State mass meeting of all opposed to slavery extension, a large body of 

 earnest, intelligent, and moral men came together at Jackson, Mich., on the 6th 

 day of July (1854). The largest hall was not sufficient to accommodate the 

 people, and, the day being bright, the convention was held in a stately grove 

 in the outskirts of the village." The story goes on to tell that among other 

 momentous recommendations and resolutions, the members of this convention 

 decided to be known as "Republicans." 



Royal Oak (a white oak), on what was the Indian trail leading 

 from Detroit to the village of Pontiac. It is a tradition that beneath 

 this oak Chief Pontiac and representatives of another tribe had an 

 unfriendly meeting. This oak has figured also as a boundary tree. 



Twin Oaks, on the western end of Juniper Hill in Walter J. Hayes 

 State Park near Jackson, were probably Indian trail markers. They 

 can be seen for some miles to the west and east and south, and from 

 beneath their shade one sees much of the surrounding country. 



MINNESOTA 



Beech of Great (loud Island, called by the Indians "medicine 

 vvood," signifying "simply miraculous or' wonderful tree." Men- 

 tioned in a journal of the "Leavenworth expedition of 1819 to estab- 

 lish Fort Snelling. This is the only known beech tree within the 

 borders of Minnesota. 



