CONTENTS. Page. PROCEEDINGS AT THE MEETING: Remarks of Hon. Hamilton B. 149 REMARKS OF P. EMORY ALDRICH ON THE ORDINANCE OF 1787 .. 343 PROCEEDINGS. SEMI-ANNUAL MEETING, APRIL 25, 1888, AT THE HALL OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, BOSTON. THE President, STEPHEN SALISBURY, A.M., in the chair. The following members were present (the names being arranged in order of seniority of membership): George E. Ellis, Edward E. Hale, Charles Deane, George Chandler, Nathaniel Paine, P. Emory Aldrich, Samuel A. Green, Francis Parkman, Elijah B. Stoddard, George S. Paine, Edward L. Davis, Henry M. Dexter, James F. Hunnewell, Egbert C. Smyth, John D. Washburn, Thomas W. Higginson, Edward H. Hall, Reuben A. Guild, Charles C. Smith, Hamilton B. Staples, Edmund M. Barton, Thomas L. Nelson, Lucius R. Paige, Franklin B. Dexter, John J. Bell, George H. Moore, Charles A. Chase, Samuel S. Green, Justin Winsor, Henry W. Haynes, Edward I. Thomas, Solomon Lincoln, Andrew McF. Davis, J. Evarts Greene, Henry S. Nourse, William B. Weeden, Daniel Merriman, Reuben Colton, Robert N. Toppan, Henry H. Edes, Grindall Reynolds, George E. Francis, Frank P. Goulding, James P. Baxter, Thomas Chase. The record of the last meeting was read by the Recording Secretary and approved. The PRESIDENT read a report which had been prepared by him, and adopted by the Council as part of their report. NATHANIEL PAINE, Esq., Treasurer, submitted his report in print, and EDMUND M. BARTON, Esq., Librarian, read his report. These reports, as together constituting the report of the Council, were, on motion of CHARLES DEANE, LL.D., accepted and referred to the Committee of Publication. The Council having recommended for membership in the Society, WILLIAM FRANCIS ALLEN, A.M., of Madison, Wisconsin, and AUGUSTUS GEORGE BULLOCK, A.M., of Worcester, they were, by separate ballot, elected members. GEORGE H. MOORE, LL.D., read a paper entitled "The Bibliology of American Witchcraft." Hon. HAMILTON B. STAPLES presented to the Society, in behalf of Mr. Thomas L. Winthrop of Boston, the sword of Fitz-John Winthrop. In making the presentation Mr. STAPLES said: On the 11th of December last, I received a letter from Mr. Thomas L. Winthrop of Boston, grandson of a former President of the Society, the late Hon. Thomas L. Winthrop, in which, through me, a very interesting proposition was made to the Society. I give entire this part of the letter. "Miss Winthrop has much interested me in her account of our family relics in the rooms of the Antiquarian Society, and I have thought it possible that it might be agreeable to the Society to become the depository of yet another which I have held for many years, uncertain where to bestow it. The article in question is a baskethilted Andrea Ferrara,' bearing upon its blade the name and 'punches' of that famous maker and accompanied by the following inscription, in the handwriting of Mr. Robert C. Winthrop Sword of Fitz-John Winthrop, sometime a captain in Monk's army, second in command of the expedition against WITH SCABBARD. Canada in 1690, agent for Connecticut in London, 1693-8, and afterward for nine years Gov' of Connecticut. Born Mch. 14, 1638-died Nov. 27, 1707. WINTHROP Sword, |