The Portland daily press., 1886-05-21
MAINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
Annual Spring Meeting in Portland.
Business Transacted and Papers
Read.


The annual spring meeting of the Maine
Historical Society was held in this city yes
terday afternoon and evening, the president,
Hon. j. w. Bradbury of Augusta, in the
chair.
Among those present may be mentioned
Hon. J. II. Drummond, Hon. II. H. Burgess,
Hon. William Goold, w. II. Smith, Hon.
Marshal Cram of Brunswick, ]. L. Douglass
of Bath. president of the Sagadahoc Histori-
cal Society, j. B. Ham of Lewiston, R. K.
Sewall of WiscassetsJ. Young Scammon of
Chicago, DR.. Charles Allen, and Benjamin
SWEET
sECRETARY's REPORT.
The first business was the report of the
secretary and curator, Mr. w. H. Bryant, as
follows:
have to report the following acquisitions to the
library since the meeting III December:
Wllllams's Life OF Abner Coburn. from Rev. Hen
ny s. Burrage.
Six Maine Sermons, from Joseph Williamson.
Holy Bible, printed in Edin surg 1886, from
Charles Bradbury of Boston.
-Four Maine Press Association Reports, from
Joseph Wood of Bar Harbor.
John Cab0t's Land Fall of 1897, from E. N.
Horsford.
The Coney Family Genealogy, from J. H. VIII
liams.
Twenty Miscellaneous Addresses and Reports,
from Stephen Berry.
The New Book of Chronicles, from II. o. Rob-
bins of Dexter.
The Report on the Condition OF the Massachu-
sets Archives, from c. B. Tillinghast of Boston.
The Geneaogy of the Weeks Family from Rob-
ert ID. Weeks.
An Account of General Abraham Ten Brock,
rom G. Z. B. Jackson
Sixteen CITY OF Rockland Reports, from j. P.
Cilley
Roscoe G. Greenes Grammar Portland, 1856,
from S. II. Colesworthy.
The NarrguaguS Valley and its Early Settlers,
from j. A. Milliken.
The Memoir of Cyrus Eaton from S. A. Green.
The History of Pennington, from Francis G.
Butler
stockbridge's Account of the Archives of Mary
| land, from the Maryland Historical Society.
Indian History and Genealogy of the Sachem
Massasoit, from Ebenezer w. Pierce.
The Memoir of the Edwin G. Larned, from the
Chicago Historical Society.
The Smithsonian Report for 1884, and the Third
Report OF the Bureau of Ethnology, from the
Smithsonian Institution
Seventeen volumes, including the Boston Ga
| Zstte for 1872 from the Misses Dane of Alfred.
volume of John Meals Yankee for 1929, and
| L. Banks.
From Charles E. Nash of Augusta we have re-
celyed several parcels of books and pamphlets, in
cluadl dg pound newspapers, town reports and
Stephen Berry of Portland has also been mind
Jul OF our wants, and has sent specimens of his
| imprints.
4 large number of State and City Directories
ana pound newspapers are received from Charles
M. Gore
Nineteen volumes of State documents, received
| from the Maine State library.
IL Is believed that our collection of the State
documents IS complete, so far as printed
Wlley's Anti Slavery History from Brown
| ThurSton.
By purchase and exchange We have secured for
| brakes hooks and Corners of the New Eng
land Coast; brakes Old Landmarks of Boston
| Poore's Catalogue of the Publications of the
| United States Government; Shurtlef's Topo-
graphical History of Boston; Whitmore's Copp's
| Hill Epitaphs; Putnam's journal for 1880;
| Hubbard's History of Red Jacket and His People;
History OF the Virginia Company of London
the First Volume of the Miscellaneous Genealo-
gies ct Heraldica of London; Arthur's Dictionary
| of Names; Coolidge and Mansfieds Description
OF Maine; thesnew edition of Durrie's Index to
| Maine; Portland in the Past, by William Goold
| Volume 8 of the Granite Monthly; O'Hart's
! Irish PedigreeS.
The following periodical publications are regu-
| larry received and laid on our table:
| The Magazine OF American History; The His
| torical and Genealogical Register; The Iowa His
| torical Register; The Essex Institute Publica-
tons; The Official Record of the Patent Office;
| The Pennsylvania Historical Magazine; The Pro
l ceedings of the Canadian Institutes The Proceed
| inss of the American Philosophical Society," The
| Maine Historical and Genealogical Recorder; The
| Historical Register; The American Antiquarian
| The Western Antiquary OF Plymouth, England
| Notes and Queries, published in Manchester N.
Other donors to the library since the last report
are:
Charles B. Merrill of Portland, E. NJ Barton of
| Worcester, j. +. Sprague of Monsoon, Justin Win
sor OF Cambridge, Peter Thatcher Of Boston, r.
| c. Winthrop, Jr., of Boston, Alden Chase of Bry-
| ants Pond, Francis III. Brown of Boston, Lyman
H. Low of New York, c. c. Jones, Jr, of Augusta,
Ga, Amasa N. Eaton OF Providence; r: l., Parker
| Pillsbury of Concord N. H.. Rodney Wallace of
| Fitchburg, Mass, w. M. Sargent of Portland.
Donations to the cabinet:
| MS. poem by G. f. Dunn of Litchfeld, and a
| number of official letters connected with the
State trouble of January, 1880, given by Charles
Photographs of ex-Governors of Maine, given
| by James A; Edgerly of Great Falls.
given by George W. Rich
A quadrant used before the year 1900, given by
| VIM. S. Seal.
Photographs of the Tate mansion the Broad
| tavern and the Deering mansion, all in the
| suburbs of Portland given by Philip Greedy
| Au autograph letter of Col. Samuel Thompson
OF T0psham, 1883 (whoSe over Jealous patriotism
brought about Mowatt's .bombardment of Port
| land IN 1775); document written and signed by
| Governor James Sullivan in 1899; deed to VIM.
Lyman of 100 acres in Mount Desert. 1893, signed
| by Bartholomew de Gregoire and his wife. Marie
| Therese de Cadillac. These three valuable docu-
| ments given by l.. A. Emery of Ellsworth.
| A dagnerreotype in frame of the ruins of the
| Portland Exchange after its destruction by fire
| January 8, 1854, given by Mrs. Abner Lowell.
A medal round near the site of Father Rale's
weston. - O'''N "'0A' ei''A " -A''i''' =
The original Record Book of the Portland Light
| Infantry, 1S03-1S10, is deposited by the COM
pany
Photographs in frame of the members of the
| Portland Band with their Bylaws and pair OF
Antlers are deposited by the band
A proof set of the United States postage stamps,
| given by Thomas B. Reed
A canoe from Pitcairn's Island given by Dr. Fl.
| LevenSaler.
Engraved Portrait of John Wingate Thornton,
| given by his daughter, Miss E. T. Thornton.
II fragment s OF pombshe found upon the Morse
thrown from Mowatt'S fleet in 1775, given by
john L. MCGOWAN.
| JAMES STUART HOLMES.
| Hon. josiah II. Drummond of Portland,
read paper by j. F. Sprague Esq, of Mon
son, on James Stuart Holmes, the Pioneer
Lawyer of Piscataquis county" Mr.. Holmes
was born in Oxford county, in 1892 edu-
| Gated at Hebron Academy and Brown Uni
versity, and read law at Paris Hill with
| Enoch Lincoln afterward governor of Maine.
In 1922 he opened law Office in Foxcroft,
| whittier his two brothers, Salmon and Cyrus,
| had preceded him in 1918. He soon acquired
| and long retained an extensive and profitable
| practice at the Pen0bSc0t bar FoXcroft be-
| ing then included in PenobSc0t county. After
| the organization of Piscataquis county, he
| gradually retired from business. Mr.. Holmes
| was a charter member of Mosaic Lodge of
| Freemasons, founded at FoXcroft in 1926, and
| was the first master of the lodge after its re-
organization IN 1910 In 1888 he married,
| and six sons and one daughter were born to
| him. He cast his last vote for the Republi-
can candidate in September, 1879, and died
| on the 30th of December in the same year.
THE LOST RACE.
Mr.. Rufus K. Sewall of Wiscasset, read a
| paper upon the lost race of Maine and its re-
lation to an European civilization Mr.. Sew
alPs researches have been attended with re-
I+e ioI, kIO Of
lost city to which early French and Spanish
explorers refer, and add a valuable chapter
to State history. The Wauwenocks, who
until 1916 lived along the Maine coast around
Pemaquid and Damariscotta are regarded by
the writer as distinct people and not mere
tribe. They had nomenclature of their
own, containing words of seemingly Welsh
origin and it is a good supposition that they
were descended from union of Europeans
and Indians. Early explorers describe these
people as well made, generous, quick to
learn and living under king. Five of them