The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-05-29

History of New York.
Des Barres charts of New England and Nova
Walfords County Families Of the United King
Hugh Finlay's journal concerning the early most
Office routes of New England.
Irumbull's Indian names of Connecticut
Wlnsors hand book OF the American Revolu-
The Evening Post Annual for 1885 of the State
of Connecticut.
Our acknowledgements are also due to DIR. Will
liam b. Lapham for his genealogy of the descend
ants OF John Webster and for his history of Paris,
10 Joseph Williamson for COPY of the rare lit
tie tract printed in 1918 entitled Sketches of the
Life OF Captain James Purrinton.
10 the Massachusetts Historical society, Rhode
Island Historical society, the N. e. H. Genealoqi-
cal society, the American Antiquarian society, the
Minnesota Historical society, the Essex Institute,
tute, Bureau of Ethnology, Chicago Historical So
ciety, New Jersey Historical society Boston Public
library, the New York State library and Howard
Divinity school. Also to the following:
Robert G. Winthrop, father and son of Boston,
G. d. R. Preble of Boston.
Q. G. Jones, Jr.,s of Savannah.
Caleb d. Bradlee of Boston,
Robert N. Gourdin of Charleston
James N. Arnold of Rhode Island.
benjamin V. French of Lynn.
M. W. Davis of Iowa.
Mellen chamberlain of Boston
Professor Morse Of Salem.
Henry Phillips, Jr. of Philadelphia.
Stephen Berry of Portland.
d. +. Harding, Halowell.
j. 5. ii. Fogg of South Boston.
G. f. Robertson of st. Louis.
e. III. Barton of Worcester
Lewis Pierce of Portland.
In the absence of the other mernbers of the com.
mittee appointed at the January meeting to receive
the bust OF Longfellow, beg leave to report that
our public meeting on the evening of the poets
birthday was an artistic and financial success and
resulted in adding the sum of one hundred and ten
dollars to the fund of the Longfelow statue assoca
ton.
AS there was general request for copies of our
pr4Geeangs on the occasion it was thought best to
Acknowledgements are due to our publisher Mr.. E.
2. hoyI lor very elegant pamphlet of % pages
from the press of Brown Thurston 3 Co. Some
copies have been reserved and can be had on appli
cation to the librarian publishers at twenty-five
cents per copy.
The bust as you will see has been placed ON the
wall OF the library. 1t has been carefully stipped
by MI. James Naylor. L think you will agree with
me its color is preferable to that of s'pale cold
MARBLE" The letter of presentation hangs beneath
the bust.
The Clifford portfolio referred to ia our last re-
port has been received from Mrs. Nathan Clifford
and her con, William II. Clifford. 1t is prefaced
with proof impression of the fine portrait of the
late Justice Clifford and it contains also photo
graph OF his birthplace IN Rumney, N. II,
A photograph album has been procured and as
requested IN the circular of the biographer of the
society members will please forward their cabinet
photographs for place in the album. Photographs
OF deceased members are also requested from their
living representatives.
The acquisitions to the cabinet are as follows:
A proof set in 81 pieces Of United States frac-
Slonal currency in frame from Philip Henry
Brown.
Cabinet photographs of Indians of New Mexico.
from Franklin Jordan of Sante Fe.
= DEED signed by General Knox and wife, from II.
The diploma on parchment from the collage of
New Jersey, l763, to Rev. Ezekiel Emerson of
Bath, from L. d. Emerson.
Broadside. Carriers address, 1909, from Prentiss
Loring.
Broadside, Peace Concluded. 1915, issued by
DANIEL Iucker OF Portland, also Broadside, Treaty
Of Peace, issued from the Argus office Feb IA
1910, a. m presented by Miss Hall daughter of
Simeon Hall.
Parcel of letters and documents concerning the
PassamaquOddy Indian school at Pleasant Point by
Bedlow. F -
Silver medal English navy 1902 and a fine Indian
pipe OF the Sioux tribe from DIR. Isaac Lsley Cum
mings.
PAR of cloth slippers with high pointed heels
worn by Mrs. Knox, wife Of General Knox, from
Mrs. j. W. Loring.
Engraved portrait of himself from Robert G.
Winthrop.
Copy of sketch of Fort Pownal made by William
Martin from Herbert G. Flanders of Hampden,
Cabinet photographs of old houses in Portland
lately demolished, from Philip Greedy Brown.
Parcel OF early Maine newspapers from Edmund
N. Barton.
Twenty New York Heralds of 1904 from S. P.
Twenty-Five coins and tokens from George M.
Brock.
Copperplate portrait of Rev. Samuel Stillman of
Boston, 1900, from 5. III. Colesworthy.
c sNG shE war Cup game baskets
and squaw's dress, Moaui sash, Navajo blanket,
trapper's suit of buekskin, all from Lieut.. William
Q. Manning U. S. A. They were collected chiefly in
Arizona and New Mexico
One of the pew doors taken out of the Oldest
church in New England at bingham, built in 1881;
presented by Miss Bertha Hobart of bingham.
descendant of the Rev. Peter Hobart who settle
at bingham in 1875 and was the first minister of
the town,
Since our meeting in February we have been
called upon to mourn the loss of friend, ADJ
miral George Henry Preble. His son has deposited
nj orand Cant in
Enoch Preble. painted by Charles o. Cole in 1912.
Also ten bound volumes of his fathers official cor
An iron collar and chain fled from the neck of a
slave in Louisiana in 1862, from Colonel Charles G.
G. Thornton through Mr.. Baxter.
AN ACCOUNT OF THE VISIT OF PRESIDENT
ADAMS TO PoWNA LBoRo IN 1765.
Hon. Joseph A. Williamson then read
paper describing the visit of John Adams,g af-
tsrwards President of the United States to the
town of Pownalboro in 1865.
Adams visited the town as a lawyer, it then being
the custom for eminent lawyers of Boston to ride
the circuit in Maine The future president met
many of the leading men Of the town and State and
was intimately associated with the Hon. Caleb
Cushing who afterwards became chief Justice of
Maine.
In these journeys the lawyers were accustomed to
ride either in sulkies or on horseback. The even
ings were spent in social with the people
met in the different places and gave the lawyers
excellent opportunity to become acquainted with
the social qualities of each other. Adams was i'm
pressed with the too great prevalence of the habit
of the people of congregatiDg in the taverns to
drink.
On motion of Mr.. Goold the thanks of the
association we're extended to Mr.. Williamson
for his able and interesting paper.
JOHN EDWARDS GODFREY.
In the absence of Mr.. Albert n. Paine of
Bangor, by whom the article had been pre-
pared, the president called on Mr.. Williamson
to read an interesting paper to the memory of
Mr.. j. e. Godfrey.
Mr., Godfrey was born in 1909 and spent most of
his life in Bangor He WIS admitted to the bar and
became successful practitioner. In politics, Mr..
Godfrey was first a Whig and upon the formation
of the Republican party became steadfast mem
Der. AS lawyer he ranked with the highest, and
his career as judge was marked for the intimate
knowledge Of Probate Law he evinced and the
soundness of his decisions. He always took a great