CONTENTS. PARTS I, II, III. Diaries Kept by Lemuel Wood, of Boxford, communicated by The Beverly Shore, An Extract from a Lecture read by ROBERT 61 The Fisher-Plantation of Cape Anne, by HERBERT B. ADAMS, Parish List of Deaths begun 1785, recorded by WILLIAM BENT- LEY, D. D., of the East Church, Salem, Mass. (continued), Extracts from the Town Records of Wenham, Mass., communi- Parish List of Deaths begun 1785, recorded by WILLIAM BENT- LEY, D. D., of the East Church, Salem, Mass. (concluded), Lemuel Wood's Journal (continued), A Field Day at Dummer Academy, The Family of John Perkins of Ipswich, by GEORGE A. PERKINS, The Essex Junto-The Long Embargo-and the Great Tops- field Caucus of 1808, read at the Field Meeting in Topsfield, PARTS X, XI, XII. HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF THE ESSEX INSTITUTE. VOL. XIX. JAN., FEB., MAR., 1882. Nos. 1, 2, 3. A SKETCH OF THE FIRST RELIGIOUS SOCIETY IN LYNNFIELD, READ BEFORE THE ESSEX UNITARIAN CONFERENCE, SEPT. 8, 1881. BY EBEN. PARSONS. It would have been gratifying to me, in the preparation of this sketch, to have found a mass of rich materials from which to draw fact and illustration, and so, to have been able to present you a well drawn and pleasing picture; but, unfortunately, unlike most histories, this has no fabulous nor poetic era. The few facts given are very definite and I fear you will think very dry. I am not sure I could not have invented some interesting and amusing incidents with which to embellish my sketch; but I remembered that Unitarians seek, first of all, the truth, and that if they are unable to compass the whole truth, they are a unit in wanting nothing but the truth. So you will see that the realm of fiction was closed against me. If for lack of more savory viands I seem to catch at HIST. COLL. XIX 1 (1) |