[It was John, son of Samuel, who was of H. C. 1702, afterwards captain of a vessel, who d. 12 Nov. 1720. This is shown by deeds in Suff. Reg., especially one in Lib. 31, f. 96, in which the three sous ratify sales by their mother Eliz. Tucker, late Gore, and the will of John Gore, mariner (Suff. Wills, xxii. 53), in which he mentions his bros., sister Margaret Heley, mother Eliz. Tucker, wife Rebecca. Ilis wife was Rebecca Smith, m. 12 May, 1713; but he left no children. See Glover Memorials, p. 120.]

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Obadiah Gore (son of Samuel 2) was a carpenter in Boston, where he m. 26 Oct. 1710, Sarah Kilby. They had four daughters, Elizabeth, Miriam (wife of Daniel Bell), Sarah, and Katherine, besides a son John, b. 29 Dec. 1718. Obadiah d. in 1721.

John Gore of Boston, painter and merchant, m. 5 May, 1743, Frances, dau. of John Pinkney, by whom he had fourteen or fifteen children. He was an Addresser of Gage, went to Halifax with the British army in 1778, was banished in 1578, and was pardoned by aet of the Legislature in 1787. He d. in Jan. 1796, aged 77, and his will (Suff. Will-, 94 f. 182) mentions sons Samuel and Christopher, daus. Frances, Elizabeth, Susauna, Rebecca, and Catherine, grandson John, son of John deceased, grandson John Taylor. To each he bequeaths one ninth of his estate.

Of his children, John, who died in his father's lifetime, m. Sarah Foster 3 Mch. 1768, and had Johu, who lived in Park St., Boston. This John had two children, John C. Gore of Roxbury, whose children live in California, and Eliza I. (called Louisa), who m. Horatio Greenough, the sculptor.

Samuel Gore m. Mary Peirce 10 Mch. 1774, and had four sons and five daughters. The sons were John (whose widow m. Samuel Appleton), George (father of Capt. Samuel Gore), and Christopher. Of the daughters, Fanny and Sarah married Johu Bumstead, Rebecca was the wife of Stephen Glover, and Mary married her cousin, Dea. Moses Grant. I am indebted to Mrs. Susan (Grant) Walker, for much information in regard to the later generations of the family.

Professor BOWEN asked to be excused from writing the Memoir of the late Dr. Jeffreys Wyman, which had been assigned to him, as those so admirably prepared by our associate, Dr. Holmes, for the "Daily Advertiser" and for the "Atlantic Monthly," and by Dr. Asa Gray for another magazine, seemed to render it unnecessary that another should be written by him.

Dr. ELLIS stated the rule of the Society, that Memoirs of deceased members should be prepared by associate members; and he suggested that, if Professor Bowen felt that he must decline the appointment, he might secure the consent of Dr. Holmes to substitute his Memoir, or a new draft of it prepared by the writer. Professor Bowen concurred in this view, and the Society voted to excuse him from writing the Memoir of Professor Wyman.

The Secretary read extracts from letters of the President, Mr. Winthrop, in one of which, dated "Cannes, France, 10 Dec., 1874," he speaks of inquiries he had made respecting the picture of Washington at Versailles, which proved to be substantially a repetition of the Albemarle picture. He had been about three weeks at Cannes, and had formed the acquaintance. of the rector of a little English church there, the Rev. Neville Rolfe, a lineal descendant of the family of that name, of whom one married the celebrated Pocahontas. "His nephew," he writes, "son of an elder brother, now lives at Heacham Hall, Norfolk County, England, where there is an old portrait, probably the portrait of Pocahontas." A photograph of this picture had been promised to Mr. Winthrop, if it should be found practicable to obtain one.

FEBRUARY MEETING, 1875.

A stated monthly meeting was held on the 11th instant at 11 o'clock A.M.; Vice-President ADAMS in the chair.

The Recording Secretary read the records of the preceding meeting, which were approved.

The Librarian read his monthly list of donors to the Library. The Corresponding Secretary reported a letter of acceptance from Samuel Rawson Gardiner, of London, elected a Corresponding Member.

Agreeably to a vote of the Society at the last meeting, the Council now recommended, through the chairman, the transference of the following names from the Corresponding to the Honorary list: the Hon. George P. Marsh, LL.D.; the Rt. Rev. Lord Arthur Hervey, Bishop of Bath and Wells; the Rev. Theodore D. Woolsey, D.D.; and the Hon. Hugh Blair Grigsby, LL.D., Chancellor of William and Mary College.

The recommendation was unanimously adopted.

Prof. Charles F. Dunbar, of Cambridge, was elected a Resident Member.

Hon. John Bigelow, of New York, was elected a Corresponding Member.

The Chairman then said,

It becomes my painful duty to bring to your notice the losses which have befallen the Society since the day of our last meeting. Of these, three are on the list of our Corresponding

and Honorary Members, and all had attained an age beyond the average limits of life.

The first of these to whom I refer is the celebrated French geographer, Marie-Armand-Pascal D'Avezac, who died in Paris. last month. He was born at Bagnères de Bigorre, in 1799, fitted himself as an advocate in Paris, was employé of the Minister of the Marine, and became the head of that bureau. He soon after, in 1823, published Essais Historiques sur le Bigorre. This was followed in a few years by a great variety of articles contributed to the periodicals of the day, as well as published separately. He became Secretary of the Geographical Society in 1834; and the Bulletin, the official organ of the Society, gives abundant evidence of his industry and learning in the department of study to which his life has been mainly devoted. He subsequently was Honorary President of that association. Among his important publications may be named the following: Martin Hylacomylus, Waltzemüller, ses Ouvrages et ses Collaborateurs, &c., Paris, 1867; John and Sebastian Cabot, translated into English by Dr. Leonard Woods, for the Maine Historical Society; Relation Authentique du Voyage du Capitaine de Gonneville, &c., Paris, 1869.

The next person whom I am called to mention is Richard Almack, of Long Melford, in the county of Suffolk, in England, long a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, who, by his devotion to archæological pursuits, established his name as an authority in the various questions constantly springing up in his own country. Hence it very naturally followed that he formed friendly relations with such of our countrymen as were and are engaged in similar researches, to make good the thread which connects them with special memories of the mother land. To all such persons the intelligence of his decease, even at the ripe age of seventy-five, will be received with great regret.

The third individual whom I am to notice is Mr. Cyrus Eaton, of Warren, in the State of Maine, who became a Corresponding Member of our Society in 1853, now more than twenty years ago, he being then in his seventieth year. Eight years before that time he had met with the misfortune of loss of sight; but this does not seem to have impaired his zeal in historical pursuits, for after that time he prepared for the press and published not less than two thick volumes relating to the local antiquities of two of the towns with which he had been associated, Warren and Thomaston, which are still regarded as the best authorities on that subject at home.

Lastly, the name of Charles Sprague will occur to you all, even before I name him, as among the list of our Resident

Members, though not often to be seen at our meetings. His quiet yet busy life long absorbed him in other duties, involving grave responsibilities, of which he acquitted himself through a long period with the utmost fidelity. He was of the rigid old school, who could not understand or permit of the laxities in financial transactions which have of late years been designated under the specious term of irregularities. Yet, singularly enough, this man, practising constantly habits of uniform detail, which held him in perpetual bondage to arithmetic, was gifted with a brilliant imagination, which from time to time burst forth, to the surprise of all around him, in the highest flights of poesy and eloquence. He was one of the best personifications of a true Boston man which the present century has produced. May we have many such to be proud of in after years! But I am sensible that I am encroaching upon the privileges of other members who are more fully prepared to do justice to the memory of the departed.

Mr. EDMUND QUINCY, Mr. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, and Mr. WATERSTON joined in the tributes to Mr. Sprague. Mr. Waterston spoke as follows:

CHARLES SPRAGUE, born Oct. 26, 1791, was eighty-four years of age when he peacefully passed away. The whole of that long life was lived in this community. Year after year went by in a manner which, to many persons, would have seemed monotonous; but each successive day found him engaged in his various duties, with large responsibilities resting upon him; and, when released from these cares, he welcomed most heartily the quiet of home, and asked for no greater privilege than to participate in the affections of his kindred, and to enjoy that intellectual communion which he ever found in books.

His father, Samuel Sprague, was a mechanic, intelligent, laborious, and patriotic, of the same type with Paul Revere and others of that day, a class of men universally honored for their integrity, sound seuse, and public spirit. As a lad he helped throw the British tea into the harbor; as a man he shouldered his musket and fought for the liberties of his country; and, in an after day, with the same skilful hands he helped build the State House, in which our legislative bodies still

meet.

His son Charles, until his thirteenth year, attended our public schools, having been a student at the Franklin School, at that time in Nassau Street, on the site now occupied by the Briminer School. His teachers were Dr. Bullard and Mr. Lemuel Shaw, since so widely known as Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court. The opportunities thus granted were the utmost he enjoyed, save that which life and books, and an earnestly energetic and inquiring mind, brought within his reach. At the age of thirteen he left school, and was ap

prenticed to Messrs. Thayer & Hunt, of whom he gained his first practical knowledge of business. He would at times pleasantly narrate, what was unique in the history of the school, that, on his taking final leave of the school, the teacher gave him his hand, and, turning to the scholars, said, “Charlie has been a good boy, and you may offer him some mark of your good will and approbation." Whereupon all the boys loudly applauded, and continued their applause as he walked from the school-room and until he was beyond hearing.

While he was yet a very young man he was one of the singers in the choir of the Old South Church; and, as an indication of the primitive character of the times, he would relate how on special occasions the singers walked in procession through the streets, singing as they walked, while one, who played upon the bass-viol, carried the instrument strapped to his leg, which, after his own fashion, he would play upon, as he went limping along..

Among the singers of the choir was a young lady, Miss Elizabeth Rand, to whom Charles Sprague was engaged, and who in May, 1814, became his wife. [Mr. Waterston here called attention to a volume in manuscript containing some forty pieces of sacred music, both the musical notes, and the words, written out by Mr. Sprague's own hand, — a beautiful and perfect specimen of penmanship. This precious gift was treasured by the lady for life, and it is now equally prized by her children.]

Mr. Sprague was in business for several years in the old Scollay Buildings, near the head of Brattle Street. The lines among his poems entitled Montague" were addressed to his partner in business. The name is wholly fictitious. In 1820 he became associated with the Suffolk Bank; and when the Globe Bank was established, in 1825, he became an officer in that institution, -a connection which continued unbroken through all the active years of his life.

Such were the external surroundings out of which the intellectual acquirements and the widely extended reputation of Mr. Sprague developed themselves. His earliest literary achievement was the gaining, at six different times, prizes which had been offered for the best poems to be recited on public occasions. Among these was the famous "Shakspeare Ode,” delivered in 1823, at the exhibition of a pageant in honor of Shakspeare. The lines are full of graphic power and all aglow with the fire of genius.

This ode was written fifty-two years ago, when Mr. Sprague was thirty-two years of age. [Mr. Waterston placed before the Society the original manuscript, written by the author at that time. It was signed "Airy Nothing," under which signature it gained the prize.] In this manuscript are various alterations by the author's hand, among the most important and curious of which are the closing lines:

"Once more in thee shall Albion's sceptre wave;

And what her mighty Lion lost, her mightier Swan shall save."

Beneath the last line is written in pencil, —

"And what her MONARCH lost, her MONARCH BARD shall save."