82 MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS ON APICULTURE. 
then living in what is now Hingham, Mass., an inducement to come 
to Newbury for the purpose of teaching the settlers how to make hives 
and to care for bees. In August, 1644, Eales came " to one John 
Davis a Renter of a farm with ye expectation of his doing service 
which the Towne was not acquainted with." a Apparently, however, 
John Eales was not, financially or otherwise, a success. He was later 
arrested and put in jail in Ipswich, according to the record, and, on 
May 14, 1645, " It is conceived John Eales should be placed in some 
convenient place where he may be implied in his trade of bee-hive 
making, etc. ; & ye town of Newbury to make up what his work 
wanteth of defraying ye charge of his livelyhoode." & 
There can be little doubt that John Eales is the man to whom 
Belknap refers and to whom credit is due as the earliest bee keeper 
in the colonies. 
Further convincing evidence of the very early introduction of 
bees into New England is the date of their importation which Haydn d 
gives. According to this author, " bees were introduced into Boston, 
New England, in 1670, and have since spread over the continent." 
The source of his information is not given, but it is probably in some 
of the port records and can not refer to the first importation. 
From these early times until more than a century later little or 
nothing is known of bee keeping in the State. In fact, during this 
epoch apiculture in the Old World was not well developed. It was 
not until the middle of the eighteenth century that writings on 
bees began to appear in Europe in any considerable number. Bees 
were receiving some attention in Massachusetts at this time, as is 
a Massachusetts Archives, Vol. L, pp. 4-5. [Manuscripts in the State House, 
Boston.] 
6 1853. Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in 
New Euglaud. Boston. Vol. 2, p. 101. [Period covered, 1642-1649.] John 
Eales was " Freeman made att the Generall Court, May 14, 1634." Ibid., Vol. 1, 
p. 369. 
c See also : Adams, George W, 1906. Massachusetts Bee Keeping in 1644. 
American Bee Keeper, Vol. XVI, pp. 280-281. 
Gerstiicker, A. 1862. liber die geographische Verbreitung und die Abander- 
ungen der Honigbiene nebst Bemerkungen liber die Auslandiscken Honigbienen 
der alten Welt. (Zur XI. Wanderversammlung Deutsche Bienenwirthe zu 
Potsdam am IT, IS, und 19 September, 1862.) Potsdam. According to Von 
Buttel-Reepen this paper was given as " a card of admission " to those attend- 
ing the Potsdam meeting. It has apparently become lost, excepting one copy 
from which Von Buttel-Reepen reprinted it as a part of his paper, "Apistica." 
Von Buttel-Reepen, Dr. H. 1906. Apistica. Beitrage zur Systematik, 
Biologie, sowie zur geschichtlichen und geographischen Verbreitung der Honig- 
biene (Apis mellifica L.), ihrer Varietaten und der iibrigen Apis-arten. 
Mittheilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum zu Berlin, III, Heft 2, 8 fig., pp. 
IV+121-201. Issued also as a separate. 
d Haydn, Joseph. 1904. Haydn's Dictionary of Dates and Universal Informa- 
tion. 23d edition. New York. Also other editions. 
