people, called The Story of the Pilgrims, published in 1894, which had a successful sale. His election to this Society in 1895 may be described as another outcome of his new line of study; and later incidental by-products were the papers contributed to our Proceedings on Alleged Facts as to the Pilgrims, in 1895, and The Members of the Pilgrim Company in Leyden, in 1903.

He was active, also, in the behalf of other kindred societies, and especially in that of the Mayflower Descendants, serving for two years (1902-1904) as the Governor of the Massachusetts Society, and furnishing several valuable communications to their publications.

He made frequent and prolonged visits to Europe for the re-investigation and verification of the facts on which his father's unfinished manuscript was based; and the volume, when it appeared in the autumn of 1905, was not only an adequate presentation of its theme, but a striking tribute to the author's patient and accurate habits of historical research, as well as to his devotion to his father's memory. As one who had carefully read Dr. Dexter's unrevised and incomplete manuscript, the present writer can bear witness that the work as published was in fact substantially new, based indeed on the original draft, but recast in a less cumbrous form and made into a homogeneous whole; yet the changes wrought were thoroughly in the spirit of the original plan.

Mr. Dexter was elected a Resident Member of this Society in March, 1895. He served for three years (1898-1901) as a member of the Council, and on one occasion (1902) on the committee to examine the library. He was also at the time of his death one of the Committee on the publication of the Bradford papers.

Besides the two papers in our Proceedings which are mentioned above, he presented memoirs of Edward Griffin Porter (1901) and of his father-in-law, John Elliot Sanford (1909); and was otherwise always a useful and interested participant in our meetings.

He was the efficient secretary and treasurer of the Committee of the National Council of the Congregational Churches of the United States, which placed a memorial tablet in bronze to John Robinson in Leyden, dedicated in July, 1891.

His health had been declining for several months; and on returning from a short European visit in June, 1910, he went to Edgartown, on Martha's Vineyard, where he had often found recreation. He died there suddenly on October 29, in his sixty-fifth year, and was buried in Forest Hills Cemetery on November 2. His wife survives him, with their two daughters.

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MARCH MEETING

HE stated meeting was held on Thursday, the 9th instant, at three o'clock, P. M.; the first VICE-PRESIDENT, in the absence of the President, in the chair.

The record of the last meeting was read and approved; and the Librarian read the usual list of donors to the Library.

The Corresponding Secretary reported the receipt of a letter from the Recording Secretary of the New England Historic Genealogical Society relating to the death of Mr. J. J. Musket and a work by him on Suffolk Manorial Families; also a letter from the same Society suggesting co-operation by various societies, by the appointment of delegates, in the movement for the preservation of ancient names of streets, places, etc. By a vote of the Council the Society joins in the movement; and Mr. MEAD was appointed the delegate,

The Editor reported the gift of a certificate, under the Quaker form, of the marriage at Salem, Massachusetts, November 18, 1819, of Stephen Bowen, of Newport, Rhode Island, and Esther Shove, of Danvers, Massachusetts, containing the signatures of fifty-nine witnesses. It was received from Mrs. Charles F. Withington, of Boston.

Mr. RANTOUL submitted a memoir of John Noble.

George Hubbard Blakeslee, of Worcester, was elected a Resident Member of the Society, and Andrew Dickson White, of Ithaca, New York, a Corresponding Member, was transferred to the roll of Honorary Members.

The Vice-President reported the appointment by the Council of the following Committees, in preparation for the Annual Meeting in April:

To nominate Officers for the ensuing year,

Messrs. JOHN D. LONG, ARNOLD A. RAND and
CHARLES P. GREENOUGH.

To examine the Treasurer's accounts,

Messrs. THOMAS MINNS and HAROLD MURDOCK.

To examine the Library and Cabinet,

Messrs. FREDERICK J. TURNER, HENRY M. LOVERING and GARDNER W. ALLEN.

Mr. NORCROSS exhibited a copy of the second issue of "Poor Richard, 1734. An Almanack . . . Philadelphia: printed and sold by Benjamin Franklin at the new printing office, near the market."

The Recording Secretary announced that the Society has been asked to co-operate in a movement for the preparation and publication of a Dictionary of American Biography on the plan of the English Dictionary of Biography; and that the Council has expressed its cordial approval of the movement and sympathy with it, and has appointed Mr. THAYER as delegate to meet with delegates from other societies to promote the enterprise.

The first VICE-PRESIDENT then said:

It is my sad duty this afternoon to announce the death of Francis Cabot Lowell, a Resident Member, which took place in Boston three days ago, on March 6. He was an only son of George Gardner and Mary Ellen (Parker) Lowell, of this city, where he was born on January 7, 1855. While of distinguished ancestry, he needed no family influence to place him in the various high positions which he held with much credit to himself and with honor to the community. From his scholarly habits, and by his mental training together with his high sense of justice, he was singularly fitted to follow a judicial career, in which he achieved so much distinction. In this line of legal learning he seems to have inherited a natural taste for the work, as other members of his family had occupied similar positions in the same Court of the United States.

His connection with the government of Harvard College had been both close and important; and at the time of his death he was one of the Corporation as other members of his family had been in previous years. He had served, also, in the State Legislature, where his ability and integrity had left their mark on the public mind and had foreshadowed for him a life of honor and usefulness.

Judge Lowell was chosen a member of the Society on January 9, 1896, but the duties of the Court have prevented his

frequent attendance at these meetings. Agreeably to long usage on such occasions, at the next meeting Mr. Moorfield Storey, who is unavoidably absent this afternoon, will pay the customary tribute to his worth and character.

I would remind the members that it is just twelve years ago to-day since the Society first met in this room. During this interval of time a good majority of the membership has been chosen, so that somewhat more than one half of our present roll does not have any associations whatever with No. 30 Tremont Street. To them the old building is a mere tradition, while to the others it is a pleasant memory.

Mr. JONATHAN SMITH read the following paper on

TWO WILLIAM SCOTTS OF PETERBOROUGH, N. H.

In the Revolutionary War there served to the credit of Peterborough, New Hampshire, two William Scotts. They were first cousins and both were residents of the town. Each was a captain, and one of them rose to the rank of major and subsequently to lieutenant-colonel by brevet. One served in the First New Hampshire regiment of the Continental line, the other in Colonel Jackson's Massachusetts regiment of the Continental line. In all local, regimental and other histories the records of these men both during and subsequent to the war are very much mixed; the services of the one being often accredited to the other, and vice versa. Both were in the army through the entire war and rendered honorable and even brilliant service. In the interest of historical truth the tangle should be straightened out.

The first of these William Scotts, hereinafter to be called "Major Scott," was born in the province of Ulster, probably in or near Coleraine, Ireland, in 1744, and was the son of Archibald Scott, who never came to this country. When his family went on board ship for America, the father declared he would "not go anywhere where he could not touch bottom with his stick." The son arrived in this country in 1760, and went immediately to Peterborough. November 17, 1760, he enlisted into Captain Silas Brown's company of Colonel regiment and served five months and seven days. Upon his discharge he returned to Peterborough, where he resided until 1775. At