USA > Massachusetts > Middlesex County > Woburn > Proceedings 1892 at the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the incorporation of the town of Woburn, Massachusetts > Part 14
Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15
The latter was Capt. Robert Sedgwick, an influential citizen of Charlestown, and at that time a member of the General Court and commander of the castle. As he had come from Woburn, England, he may be supposed to have suggested the name. And his right to do so is confirmed by the fact that he was an early proprietor here, that he helped to select the present site of the village, and was chairman of the committee of thirteen appointed to set the bounds for the town.
Our fathers were glad to perpetuate the names of their homes in the mother country. It is rather remarkable that not one of the first sixty towns in the Colony received an Indian name, and only one or two were honored with Scripture names, although the Puritan element was then so strong.
Old Woburn in England has come down to us from Saxon times, although very little is known of it before the founding of the Cistercian Abbey there in the twelfth century. The name (Wóh, Wó = crooked, winding ; and burnë, burna, burn = a brook or stream) means a narrow, winding stream and was probably the original name for "Crawley Brook" (as it is now called), which rises near by and flows into the river Ouse. Like all other old English words, there have been many ways of spelling it, viz. : Woburne, Wouburne, Wooburn, Whooburn, Houburn, Ooburn, Uborn, etc., etc. Doubtless your postmaster could add a still longer list from some of the amusing addresses upon letters which find their way thither through the mails.
In 1145, Henry Abbot, of Fountains, in Yorkshire, "consecrated . to divine uses a certain little village, Wooburne by name in the diocese of Lincoln, with its adjacent lands " ; and fourteen monks with Allan their abbot moved to their new quarters near the " burn " which furnished them with mill facilities and fish ponds, two sources of income which the monks always looked after.
At the dissolution of the monasteries, in the time of Henry VIII., Woburn Abbey reverted to the crown, and its last abbot, Robert Hobbs, was hung as a traitor. Edward VI. bestowed the estate upon John Russell who had received many honors from the house of Tudor and who was now created Earl of Bedford.
192
October 7.]
The story of young Russell's rise to favor is one of the most in- teresting in the history of the origin of the great families of England. And when we remember that the founder of this famous house was a contemporary of Columbus, we must allow that his successors -four of whom have been Earls, and ten Dukes - have had a long continued as well as prosperous inheri- tance at Woburn Abbey. It is still called " Abbey," though there is no longer any trace of the religious establishment. The present mansion is an enlargement of the one built in the seven- teenth century by Inigo Jones. It stands in a park of 3,500 acres, enclosed by a high brick wall twelve miles in circuit. The old fish ponds of the monks are now beautiful sheets of water, enlivened by ducks and swans. Herds of deer are seen quietly grazing over the sloping lawns, shaded here and there by the stately oak, the Scotch fir, and the dark cedar of Lebanon.
Many famous pictures hang upon the walls of this lovely resi- dence. I remember seeing portraits of Queen Elizabeth and her treasurer, Lord Burleigh, Lady Jane Seymour, Mary, Queen of England, Sir Philip Sydney, and Oliver Cromwell. Two large historical subjects attracted my attention, as I had often seen the engravings taken from them. I refer to "The Trial of Lord Wil- liam Russell" by Hayter, and " Lady Jane Grey refusing the crown " by Leslie. The family portraits are numerous and largely illustrative of English history since the Reformation.
Among the choice treasures of the collection are paintings by Salvator Rosa, Titian, Van Dyck, Rubens, Rembrandt, Teniers, Cuyp, Murillo, Poussin, and Claude Lorraine. In response to my request a large and finely printed catalogue of these works was recently presented by the Duke of Bedford to our public libraries in Woburn, Lexington, and Bedford.
The sculpture gallery, too, is well worthy of a visit. The col- lection is widely known as " The Woburn Abbey Marbles," and has a number of classical antiques, besides several fine modern works by Canova, Westmacott, and Thorwaldsen.
I was also taken to the gardens and stables, the dairy and the aviary. A model farm is maintained within the park, and equipped with every agricultural improvement. The annual sheep-shearing festival in June has always attracted large num- bers of visitors.
193
[Friday.
Near one of the entrances to the park stands the village of Woburn, built of stone and brick, close upon the street, in irregu- lar blocks after the old European fashion. There is an air of quietness and respectability about it, very agreeable to one who had just come, as I did, from some of the noisy manufacturing towns of the north of England. The two large churches, one old and the other new, well deserve a visit. The market-house, the charity schools, and the almshouses will also attract attention. The principal inns are the Bedford Arms, the Wheatsheaf, the Magpie, and the Cock, which are always thronged on Friday the market day. There are four great fairs held here annually when the visitors pour in by every road and footpath to sell or to buy a great variety of supplies. The people are largely farmers and tenants of the Duke. Formerly the chief industry was straw braiding and thread lace.
Woburn is forty-two miles from London on the old mail coach road leading to Northampton and Leicester. The railway keeps at a respectable distance, as was the case here, the nearest station being Woburn Sands three miles away near Bletchly Junction.
There is no resemblance whatever between the two Woburns, except in name. At the beginning of this century the elder town was the larger in population, but to-day the younger has far outstripped her ancient prototype. I believe there are no other Woburns in America. I wonder at it, but the good name seems to be your peculiar inheritance, on this side the water. It is for you, fellow-citizens, who succeed to their grand munici- pal dignity to maintain the honorable character which the mother town has always borne, and so to prove yourselves worthy of the . dear old name of Woburn.
The chairman then requested the company to rise and respond to the closing sentiment by sing- ing " Our Fathers," to the tune of " America." Mr. P. Elverton Bancroft conducted, and the patriotic words ended the formal exercises of the anniversary celebration.
194
P. ELVERTON BANCROFT, Chairman of Committee on Music.
APPENDIX.
LEONARD THOMPSON, Chairman of Committee on Historic Sites.
HISTORIC SITES.
The Historic Sites Committee prepared the fol- lowing inscriptions, which were placed at the spots designated : -
On estate No. 23 Montvale Avenue : -
SITE OF FIRST HOUSE IN PRESENT CITY, THAT OF DEA. JOHN MOUSALL. 1641-1833.
On Messrs. Maloney Brothers' store, No. 473 Main Street, between Broad and Salem streets: -
HOUSE FAMOUS AS THE
FLAGG TAVERN,
ABOUT 1827.
FORMERLY THE HOUSE OF MAJOR JOHN FOWLE WHO DIED IN 1775.
BUILT, IT IS SUPPOSED, ABOUT 1730.
197
On Common, opposite Municipal Building : -- SITE OF THE
FIRST MEETING HOUSE
ON THE FIRST TRAINING FIELD. 1642-1672.
On house, No. 23 Pleasant Street, occupied by Mr. Charles H. Taylor : -
SITE OF House of Rev. Thomas Carter, FIRST MINISTER. BUILT BY THE TOWN. 1642.
On Park Street: - FIRST BURYING GROUND.
1642. IN WHICH ARE BURIED THE ANCESTORS OF PRESIDENTS
PIERCE, CLEVELAND AND HARRISON.
198
On Montvale Avenue : - SECOND BURYING GROUND. 1794.
On Common, northeast side : -
MAIN STREET
FROM THE FIRST SETTLEMENT WAS THE COUNTY ROAD OR THE
GREAT ROAD OF THE FATHERS. THE MAIN TRAVELLED ROAD.
On Common, westerly angle : -
MILITARY LANE. 1644. LEADING FROM THE TRAINING FIELD TO
UP STREET
NOW
CAMBRIDGE STREET. 199
On grounds of Unitarian Church : - SITE OF
FIRST SCHOOL HOUSE.
1713-1808.
BUILT BY SUBSCRIPTION OF THE CITIZENS.
On Main Street, in front of Post-office :- SITE OF THE
FIRST STORE.
ESTABLISHED AFTER THE REVOLUTION.
On Central House, No. 442 Main Street : - SITE OF THE
1691- FOWLE TAVERN .- 1840
ONE OF THE MOST ANCIENT AND FAMOUS IN WOBURN.
HERE THE MINUTE-MEN FIRST MET TO FORM A COMPANY ON Jan. 4, 1775. 200
DANIEL W. BOND, Of the Executive Committee.
On Independent Baptist Church, 446 Main Street : -
POWDER HOUSE, 1812. HILL CALLED MOUNT SEIR, 1675. AND SITE OF FIRST BELL TOWER IN REAR OF THIS SPOT. 1678.
On Mr. Thomas Salmon's store, No. 480 Main Street : - HOUSE CALLED THE ACADEMY HOUSE OR HALL IN 1808.
USED AT THAT PERIOD AS A PLACE FOR PUBLIC WORSHIP, AND AS A PRIVATE SCHOOL FOR YOUNG LADIES. THE HOUSE BUILT BY THOMAS HENSHAW ON FOWLE LAND BEFORE 1740.
At late Daniel Richardson's Place, 616 Main Street : -
SITE OF THE ARK TAVERN IN WOBURN. 1674-1828. 201
On house occupied by Mrs. M. A. Briggs at No. 649 Main Street, corner of Clinton Street : - HOUSE OF
DANIEL THOMPSON
WHO WAS
" SLAIN IN CONCORD BATTLE" APRIL 19, 1775.
On tree near S. H. Church's store, No. 2 Lowell Street : -
SITE OF
FIRST TANNERY. 1642. THE VATS ARE BURIED IN THE VALLEY IN REAR. THE PROP. ERTY OF FRANCIS AND JOHN WYMAN, BROTHERS.
Elm Street, on Baldwin Mansion : - BALDWIN MANSION.
ERECTED 1661.
THE HOUSE OF Col. LOAMMI BALDWIN. 1745-1807.
FROM HIM THE BALDWIN APPLE WAS NAMED,
202
On Elm Street, near Rumford birthplace : - The Cleveland Homelands. 1648-1724. ON THIS SPOT AND IN THIS VICINITY THE ANCESTORS OF EX-PRESIDENT CLEVELAND LIVED.
On Montvale Avenue, southerly side, Mont- vale : -
SITE OF THE GRAVES FARM, 1638. ALSO OF THE SILK FARM, 1835.
At house of Mr. Sewall D. Samson, No. 280 Montvale Avenue : -
IN THIS HOUSE DWELT
CHARLES GOODYEAR,
WHO DISCOVERED HIS INVENTION OF PRODUCING A SOLID ELASTIC MATERIAL FROM INDIA RUBBER IN WOBURN, A. D. 1839.
203
4
At Hon. E. W. Hudson's house, No. 74 Canal Street : -
HORN POND HOUSE,
ONCE A FAMOUS RESORT.
ORIGINALLY A HOUSE FOR THE BOATMEN ON THE MIDDLESEX CANAL.
OPENED, 1803.
204
PARKER L. CONVERSE,
Chairman of Committee on Loan Collection.
LOAN COLLECTION.
The Loan Committee gave much time and labor to its work, and its endeavors were met by prompt and hearty responses from every side. In the arrangement below are printed, first, the donor's name, and following it a brief notice of the articles donated.
Mary A. Leathe. - Two ancient oil portraits, painted in 1824.
Abijah Thompson, Winchester. - Fifteen frames of old Woburn deeds. Collection of ancient beads.
Miss Caroline Buck, Wilmington. - A pair of antlers ; the deer to whom these antlers belonged was captured in Vermont many years ago and pur- chased by ten men in Wilmington for one dollar each. He was presented to Col. Jaques, of Charles- town, for a hunt. The colonel appointed a day for the hunt, and at the appointed time the eleven men met on horseback on Arlington Heights, the colonel bringing with him fifty-two hounds. Fifteen minutes' start was allowed the deer, after which the hounds were let loose, when bedlam reigned. At the first wall all the horses stopped, refusing to jump, except that of the colonel who cleared it with ease. The deer went through Burlington, Wilmington, Read- ing, Wakefield, Stoneham, and was finally captured unhurt in a barn near house of Hon. J. G. Pollard,
205
Woburn. He was kept afterwards, by the colonel, ten years in Charlestown. Old flintlock gun. This gun is said to have killed the last deer ever killed in Wilmington.
Mrs. S. L. Leonard. - Ancient Chinese teapot.
Mrs. John S. True. - Old portrait. Large col- lection of Masonic badges. Shell from India. Ancient silver porringer, more than one hundred years old. Gravy dish and saucer, 1775. Medal match safe in shape of a shoe.
Samuel Cook. - Two salts and two wine glasses, 1775. Abalona shells; very rare. Silver spoon, one hundred and fifty years old. A sheet over one hundred years old. A picture of the Man in the Moon.
Parker L. Converse. - Shirt and collars, made by Polly E. Converse, of seventy-two pieces of linen, all more than one hundred years old, without seam, all faggoted together ; this work has received a medal from the Massachusetts Charitable Association. A painted Masonic apron, worn by Ichabod Parker, once landlord of the old Mishawum Hotel. Ma- sonic white gloves belonging to the same. Two decanters of Ichabod Parker's, one hundred and fifty years old, used to treat the minister and doctor when they called. Paintings : " First Baptist Church and horses," by Albert Thompson, and " Indians in Forest," by Benj. Champney. Land- scape executed in silk floss in cathedral work, made by Polly E. Parker in 1845. Porcelain mug, over two hundred years old, the oldest piece of pottery
206
in the collection. Exact pattern of man's foot in Sonora, Tuolumne County, Cal., measuring seven- teen and three-fourths inches long. Exact pattern of a Michigan man's foot, sixteen inches long, five and one half broad, the man being only twenty years old. Pen and ink drawing, "Setting for Pigeons in Woburn in 1840," by C. A. Burdett; from this, and the two oil paintings by Champney and Thompson, were made plates for Converse's " Legends of Woburn."
Mrs. Marshall Tidd. - East Indian basket. Sing- ing book, 1775.
Mr. Marshall Tidd, North Woburn. - Case con- taining first and last rifle made by him, and one sharpshooters' rifle.
S. R. French. - Large agate from Arizona. Indian tobacco pouch worn by Rattlesnake, an Apache chief, at time of capture. An Apache water-bowl made of straw.
Alice F. Symmes, Winchester. - Iron-framed spectacles, over one hundred years old, once the property of Dea. Jeduthun Richardson. Copy of Cumberland Gazette, 1790. Ship compass, 1765.
W. H. Winn, Burlington. - The Winn coat-of- arms.
J. Fred. Leslie. - One of the eighty-five coffee- pots sent out to the front during the late Rebellion as a gift by Hon. John Cummings ; only four of these are known to be in existence. Spoons used in the army. Both of these exhibits went through the war and did service in rebel prisons.
207
Joseph Symmes, Winchester. - Silver breast-pin engraved by Paul Revere.
Winchester Historical Society. - Painting by R. U. Piper, showing church and village of South Woburn (now Winchester), and location of first house. The first, or Edward Converse, house in South Woburn. Printed description of the Edward Converse Mill where he was killed.
N. W. Eaton. - Copy of charges against Rev. Edward Jackson of Woburn. Revolver and bowie knife given Capt. S. I. Thompson by Mrs. Ran- dall when he went to war in 1861. Two railroad books and railroad tickets of the Confederate States. A Confederate soldier's pipe. Wineglass belong- ing to the rebel General Macgruder. Stone from the State Department Building, Washington, D. C., 1812. Ancient tooth puller. Candle snuffer and tray, 1765. A fork once owned and used by Hon. Charles Sumner. A wooden cup made from a tree near the Rumford House. Japanese inkstand. Collection of war buttons from soldiers' clothing. Bill once paid by Woburn for care of pauper who had the itch. Ancient Massachusetts money in frame. A soldier's express package ; a relic of the late war. Three cases of old Continental money. Copy of Vol. I, No. I, of the Boston Evening Transcript. . Two volumes, " History of Reformed Churches," 1692. Old blue ware teapot, punch mug, and link sleeve-buttons belonging to John Adams. Fac-simile of ancient New England primer. Bill against town of Woburn for boarding
208
PUBLIC LIBRARY BUILDING.
Sally Priest in 1792. Bills of fare, Faneuil Hall, 1811-1828. Picture of Gen. Thompson's bark mill, 1815, run by horse power. Bill of salary of Parson Fox, 1754. Specimens of old Massachu- setts money. Old bills for silver money, 1781. Woburn petition to put down the Quakers, 1781. Woburn petition to look after idle people, 1781. Jack Rand papers. Old marriage papers. Original subscription list to found a library in 1789. Origi- nal record of vote for secession in Virginia.
William R. Cutter. - Chair of Sir William Pep- perell. Pewter flagon and copper teakettle of the eighteenth century. A trunk brought from Eng- land in 1640.
Lucy J. Cole. Chair made by the late Francis K. Cragin from wood of the old Burbeen House.
Susan C. Simonds. - Ancient cup, saucer, and spoon. Portrait of Gen. Foster.
S. F. Hathaway. - Decanter, tumbler, and wine- glasses, English, 1765. Ancient vase, two blue plates, and coffee-pot.
Mrs. D. Fraser McIntosh. - Ancient comb, 1775. Teapot, sugar, and creamer. Pumpkin hood once worn by Mrs. Geo. W. Reed.
C. G. Foster, Burlington. - Cannon ball fired from the British man-of-war " Somerset " at the bat- tle of Bunker Hill. History of the battles of the Jews, 1760; very rare.
Marshall M. Tidd. - Paintings of Horn Pond and Pierce's Cove, 1849.
S. A. Tidd. - Tea set from Canton, China.
209
Comb, 1775. Large Canton jar. Silk quilt made by a lady at the age of seventy-nine years.
Mary F. Wyman. - Handkerchief, hand-worked. Ancient sampler. Silver-bowed spectacles, one hundred and fifty years old.
Mabel Dickson. - Ancient sampler. Old alcohol stove and teakettle. Pair of ancient English slip- pers.
Albert Thompson. - Painting.
Grace M. Bryant. - Fine collection of decorated china ; her handiwork. Painting: Study of Pinks.
Eliza Eager. - Revolutionary knee-buckles. Cof- fee mill, 1775.
Mrs. Cyrus Cummings. - Two brass candlesticks,
1775. Pair of brass andirons.
B. F. Flagg. - A lieutenant's commission under George III.
George F. Fosdick .- Metal picture of the Cradock House, Medford, the oldest house in the United States. Two Chinese musical instruments, one being the prototype of the modern banjo, and the other smaller and covered with snake skin.
Jane F. Davis .- Revolutionary teapot ; used in secret about the time of the Boston Tea Party.
Harriet S. Smith. - Ancient mariner's compass. Ancient punch tumbler ; English. Three silver teaspoons ; very old. Old almanac, 1788. Old deed, 1710. Will of Jacob Wright, 1746. Copy of "New England Covenant." Largest newspaper ever published in the United States, Universal Yankee Nation. Fine hand-embroidered quilt.
210
Miss Clarabel D. Flinn. - List collected by her of one hundred and twenty-three different ways of spelling Woburn and Massachusetts, as found on letters received at the Woburn postoffice.
Auburn
Wolinn
Wrabrins
Auoburn
Wokers
Wobering
Boburn
Woburien
Woberrn
Hobern
Wobourne
Wobeouern
Hoben
Wobean
Woorbie
Moburn
Wooburning
Wehoen
Mabburn
Woborne
Wahern
Morbrean
Wooburn
Whoborn
Naborn
Worbun
Waburs
Oban
Woeburn
Woeaburn
Oburn
Woberne
Wodurm
Oburon
Woborn
Wouchern
Obern
Wobborn
Whoban
Obean
Wofan
Woeboen
Owbourn
Wouban
Wobron
Oborn
Wohoburn
Woburin
Oben
Weyburn
Wowben
Obewrn
Wobur
Woodburne
Obben
Wovebreon
Wourlen
Roburn
Wobuen
Yowbourn
Thoburn
Woboron
Yobeun
Uban
Wobowrin
Yoman
Wobrey
Worlion
Yeobourn
Worbin
Womber
Yoburn
Wobrun
Wobyrus
Yobrun
Whobon
Wobarn
Massatusage
Woebeyrne
Womlen
Massetuses
Wobon
Whearwan
Massattuties
Woboen
Wowbrn
Masscusses
Woubern
Whoburn
Massacute
Woman
Woburen
Masstael
Woutun
Worborn
Massatuces
Wobearin
Washburn
Massetutisces
Woaburan
Wowbyone
Massitutes
21I
Wofurn
Woburen
Massetusion
Woveburn
Woboyrn
Macisets
Welen
Wooping
Maccufsin
Woobun
Wooberum
Masetusic
Woterx
Woughburn
Mativetts
Wourbourn
Wobron
Massisuches
Woborin
Whobourn
Maschutis
P. L. Eaton. - Three Bo-peep plates.
W. R. McIntosh .- Wood hatchet (said to be made from the cherry tree which the immortal George chopped down).
Alice G. Bryant. - Chinese carving in bone, and in wood. Inlaid panel work, Chinese. Embroidered Japanese scarf. Cane of reindeer's backbone. Tom- ahawk from Canadian Indians. Six Chinese nap- kin rings. Chinese Josses. Chinese jade bracket. Esquimaux bag made at North Cape, Norway. Spanish coin, 1620. Satsuma vase. Cloissonée placque. Collection of Chinese and Japanese curios.
L. Waldo Thompson. - Primer of the Totting- ham family. Copper wine measure once belonging to Zeb. Wyman. Pocket-book made from a drumhead used by Joshua Reed, a Revolutionary drummer.
Mary C. Blanchard. - Painting, forest scene. Collection of hand-decorated ware, including speci- mens of new underglaze.
Oliver F. Bryant. - Two samplers, one, one hun- dred and eighty-three, and one, one hundred and eighty-five years old. Two punch tumblers, one hundred years old.
Sherman Converse. - The original Little Brown
212
VIEW OF KITCHEN, LIBRARY BUILDING.
Jug, found a foot and a half below the cellar of a house built in 1675. A black-strap barrel, one hundred and fifty years old, six inches long, used to carry spirits to workmen in the fields. Cane of Mr. Tay, a Revolutionary soldier, who killed two British soldiers and took another prisoner at the same time. East India gourd, a drinking vessel over one hundred years old. Trunk, formerly the prop- erty of Count Rumford. Portrait of Joshua Con- verse, the centenarian.
Mrs. Warren P. Fox. - An old-time Britannia teapot. Teapot, sugar bowl, and cup and saucer, one hundred years old. Blue sugar bowl, plate, water bottle, and creamer, the very ancient blue pattern. Vase from India.
Sophia B. Wyman. - Very ancient lignum vitæ mortar and pestle. Ancient silver spoon, antique pattern.
Mrs. Abigail M. Winn. - Two finely embroidered tray cloths.
Mrs. Alonzo T. Young. - Very fine hand-painted sea shell.
Mrs. E. W. Champney. - A finely embroidered dress of a native Guatemala woman.
Alva S. Wood. - Masonic apron and sash of 1824. Masonic pitcher, very old. Canteen from late Civil War. Copy of " The War," 1861-65. Pestle for Indian stone mortar, and collection of Indian implements in stone. Very ancient sugar bowl, and cup and saucer. Sugar bowl, cup and saucer, belonging to Sylvanus Wood, and used in
213
the Rev. Thomas Carter's house (first parsonage in Woburn). Ancient sword, and old cavalry car- bine. Portrait of Count Rumford. Ancient pic- ture of Rumford's birthplace. Exact pattern of a South Carolina negro preacher's foot, twenty-three inches long.
J. W. Hammond. - Ancient teapot and tea caddy made in India. The Hammond coat of arms.
Warren N. Blake. - Ancient bread toaster of iron.
Simeon Weymouth. - Shoemaker's hammer brought from England over one hundred years ago. Very large East India nut shell. Trunk brought from England two hundred years ago. Copy of New England Gazetteer, 1839.
Samuel Sewall, Burlington. - Sword of Rev. John Marrett, who preached in Woburn Precinct in 1774. Large Bible, first one used in first church in Woburn Precinct. Child's rattle of novel con- struction made by Ishmael Munroe. Silver Sugar Tongs used by Rev. Mr. Marrett and Rev. Samuel Sewall. Silver teapot, ditto. Ancient silver candle- holder used by Rev. Samuel Sewall when writing the History of Woburn. Two candlesticks, very old. Collection of thirteen Indian arrowheads and implements found in Burlington.
Mrs. Charles A. Burdett. - Finely embroidered quilt.
G. E. Parkhurst. - Very ancient brass hall clock.
Fannie S. Carswell. - Collection of hand-deco- rated china.
214
Mrs. Ada Hammond. - Collection of hand-deco- rated china.
Mrs. S. L. Simonds. - Sampler, eighty years old. - Collection of portraits of Woburn people. - Collection of Japanese articles. Old salt cellar used in ye olden time. - A piece of salt from Salt Lake. - Ancient embroidered scarf and two holders.
Samuel Skelton. - Ancient mirror, said to have come over in the " Mayflower."
Henry Sheldon, Wilmington. Old iron wagon axle, made for Asa G. Sheldon by Marshall Symmes of Winchester, in 1810, and said to be the first of its kind used in Woburn.
Mrs. Chas. H. Taylor. - A sampler seventy-five years old. Bead bag, one hundred years old. Highly embroidered worsted bag.
Mrs. Lucy J. Carswell. - Specimen of embroid- ery in frame.
Mrs. James N. Page. - Ancient foot stove used in church.
Anna L. Pollard. - Ancient embroidered quilt. Turkish table cover, highly embroidered. Very fine silk veil, very old. China cup, saucer, and plate, one hundred years old.
William R. Putnam - Crayon portrait of Mrs. Emma Putnam Kelly, by Thompson; Mrs. Kelly was the founder and first president of the Woburn Woman's Club, and that organization's charter and constitution hung beside the above portrait.
Dr. Frank W. Graves. - Indian spearhead made
215
of very fine flint, the work nicely executed. Ancient cane.
Charles G. Grammer. - Two specimens of ancient needle work.
Mrs. George H. Conn .- Fire warden's pole. Before engineers were known this pole (black with red ends) was carried by a fire warden as an emblem of authority. Silver spoons, sugar tongs, and China plate, all very ancient heirlooms. Bottle with reel built inside.
Benjamin Champney. - A crayon drawing, " Ideal head," by Rowse.
Mrs. Lydia Choate. - Oil paintings : " Apples," by Benj. Champney. Forest scene by same.
Mrs. Preston Pollard. - Two very large elabor- ate paper butterflies. A paper banjo. An elegant bon-bon basket. Plaster of Paris image of the " Farmer Boy."
Jacob Ames. - Knapsack, home-made, used at the battle of Lexington.
W. H. Slater. - Very ancient English engraving. Scissors with silver handles, English, two hundred years old. Old English trunk of oak.
Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.