PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

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PREFATORY NOTE.

THIS Volume contains the Proceedings of the MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY, - with the exception of

such as relate to its private business,

from the An

nual Meeting in April, 1860, to the Annual Meeting in April, 1862.

For the Portraits which accompany the Memoirs of Hon. NATHAN APPLETON, and NATHANIEL INGERSOLL BOWDITCH, Esq., the Society is indebted to the respective families of those valued members.

BOSTON, March 31, 1862.

CHANDLER ROBBINS,
GEORGE LIVERMORE,

Committee

of Publication.

HENRY AUSTIN WHITNEY,