NOTE.

The following six papers have appeared in separate form, during the past two years, in the Historical Collections of the Essex Institute, which now permits this combination of scattered articles into one monograph, on the Village Communities of Cape Anne and Salem.

The very limited number of complete sets of the Studies now remaining compels the announcement that no further subscriptions for the first volume can be received at the rate of $3. Number XII, on Local Government in South Carolina, will shortly be issued, completing the First Series. Subscribers will receive a full Index to the Studies and a general title page, with the special sub-heading Local Institutions. A few complete sets will be

sold, bound in cloth, at $5 net.

The announcement of a Second Series of University Studies, to begin in January, 1884, will be made in Number XII. The Second Series will consist of monthly monographs devoted to Institutions, Economics, and Politics. It will be introduced

by a paper on "New Methods of Study in History," read by the Editor before the American Social Science Association at Saratoga, September 4, 1883.

IX-X

VILLAGE COMMUNITIES

OF

CAPE ANNE AND SALEM

"The nature of everything is best seen in its smallest portions."-Aristotle.

"The doctrine of the sovereignty of the people came out of the townships and took possession of the states. Political life had its origin in the townships; and it may almost be said that each of them formed an independent nation."- De Tocqueville.

"By Cape Anne there is a plantation a beginning by the Dorchester [England] men, which they hold of those of New Plimoth."- Captain John Smith.

"In planting the colony at Cape Ann, the stock was consumed, but a foundation was laid on which now rests one of the leading States of a great nation."-Babson, Hist. of Gloucester.

"There are in all of us, both old and new planters, about three hundred, whereof two hundred of them are settled at Nehum-kek, now called Salem, and the rest have planted themselves at Masathulets Bay, beginning to build a town there, which we do call Cherton or Charles town."- Higginson.

"Some native merchant of the East, they say,

(Whether Canton, Calcutta or Bombay),

Had in his counting-room a map, whereon
Across the field in capitals was drawn
The name of SALEM, meant to represent
That Salem was the Western Continent,
While in an upper corner was put down

A dot named Boston, SALEM'S leading town."- Rev. Charles T. Brooks.

History is past Politics and Politics present History. - Freeman