18. Finished the bargain of the sale of the Stock in the Portland bookstore, to Joseph Johnson, and Thomas Lancaster, & also the debts due me from business of that store for 6450 dollars, payable by Installments, all by the 1st of December 1821. Took their notes without other security.

19. Went to Boston in the Coachee. Met Mrs. Bradish1 and Mrs. Trumbull, Sen'. at Framingham-dined there with them. Lodged, &c. with Mr. E. T. Andrews.

holden on the 16th inst. be excused from any further consideration thereof, and that the same report and the subject on which the same was made be committed to a new Committee to consist of

Levi Lincoln, Jun. and
Rejoice Newton.

No other reference is made to the building until 5 August, 1819, when it was "Voted, That, at the request of the President, a Committee be appointed to superintend the building, now erecting by him for the use of the Society.-Levi Lincoln, Jun., Nathaniel Macarty & Rejoice Newton, Esqs. chosen."

At the annual meeting of the society, 23 October, 1819, at Foster's Hotel, in Boston, the report of a committee on the general progress and state of the society, says: "Within the last year our venerable and enterprising President, in praise of whose munificence too much cannot be said, has erected at great expense a handsome, commodious and substantial building for the use and benefit of the Society; and it will probably be ready for the reception of the library and cabinet at some time during the next season. It is sufficiently large to answer all the purposes of the Society for many years, and is so constructed that whenever more room shall be wanted additions may be made without disfiguring but would rather increase the elegance of the edifice."

No deed of the land or building ever passed from Mr. Thomas to the society, however, but he made the following devise in his will;

"I give to said Society, (provided I shall not before my death execute a deed thereof,) and their successors forever, that tract of land in Worcester whereon is now erected a building for the use of said Society, which land I purchased of Samuel Chandler's heirs, containing about one acre near the Second Parish, with the said building thereon; which building is to be forever sacredly appropriated as long as said Society shall exist, for the library, cabinet, &c., of said Society; and the house and building are accordingly devised upon this express condition. And in case said Society shall at any time cease to use said building for said purpose, then the whole of this estate is to revert to my grandchildren generally and their heirs."

Hannah, daughter of Timothy and Sarahs Chandler Paine,

The Massachusetts Spy, (Boston), Oct., 1772, contains the notice:"This day, Ebenezer Bradish, Esq., of Cambridge, was united in the most agreable state of human life to Miss Hannah Paine, daughter of the Hon. Timothy Paine,

20. Rode with Miss Weld, to Dorchester-drank tea there with my Son's family, and returned to Boston with Miss. Hannah Weld and my son's wife. Saw Mrs. Lawrence.

21. Sent Parker home with the Horses. Left the Coachee in Boston to be repaired & varnished. Parker stopped by the way, & did not get home till next morning. Dined at Mr. Samuel Armstrong's with Mrs. Rebecca Armstrong and two young Clergymen.

22. Returned to Worcester in the Mail Stage. 6 hours on the passage.

23. Went to Church twice.

25. Finished sewing in the Garden, and all the Alleys cleaned and fixed, &c.

27. Sent 200 dollars to Benja. Butman of Dixmont to pay Taxes, yesterday.

28. Built a new Hog pen engaged last Summer by Mrs. Thomas-it cost more than 60 dollars; a very needless expense. This was owing to my neglect in not giving directions to the Carpenters. Fifty dollars might have been saved.

29. Mr. Professor Shurtliff1 of Dartmouth College called on me.1 Parker went to Princeton on his own business

tarried all Night and all the next day.

Esq., of this place,- -of whom it may not be told her acquaintance, that she is one of the most deserving of her sex.

So shall each pair and fond companion bless,

Where sense and virtue dwell in beauty's dress."

Mrs. Bradish lived for some years in the old Bradish house, which was afterwards the old Porter's tavern, in North Cambridge; then in Natchez, Miss.; and finally in Worcester.

[Born, Worcester, 22 July, 1755.

Died, Worcester, 3 April, 1841.]

1 Roswell Shurtleff, the son of William and Hannah Cady Shurtleff, of Ellington, Conn., was graduated from Dartmouth in 1799; was tutor in that college from 1800 to 1804; professor of theology, from 1804 to 1827; pastor of the Congregational Church at Dartmouth from 1810 to 1835; college librarian from 1810

30. Went to Church twice.

31. This day the workmen broke ground to lay the foundation of a building for the Library of the American Antiquarian Society, in a lot which belongs to me and which I have appropriated for that purpose.

to 1820; professor of moral philosophy and political economy from 1827 to 1838, and professor emeritus from 1838 to 1861. He received the degree of D.D. from the University of Vermont in 1834.

Professor Shurtleff married, 2 September, 1810, Anua, daughter of Rev. Joseph Pope, of Spencer, Mass.

[Born, Ellington, Conn., 29 August, 1773. Died, Hanover, N. H., 4 February, 1861.]

June, 1819.

2. Attended the Funeral of Miss Brown,1 daughter of the widow Brown.

3. Opened a barrel of Flour. Went to Lecture at our Parish.

4. Went to Boston in the Stage, old North Road, 10 passengers. Very dusty. Mr. Henry Andrews and wife called to see me.

5. Went to Dorchester to see my son's family, with Mrs. Andrews, Miss Weld, &c.

6. Went to Church, the Forenoon, at the new Stone Meeting house in Summer Street;2 at the Stone Chapel in the afternoon.

7. Artillery Election. Dined with Mr. Ewer. Went to Dorchester in Mr. Andrews's Carriage, and returned, before Breakfast, with my Grandson William-Parker came from Worcester with the Horses, and arrived in Boston at 11 °Clock, forenoon.

8. Bought my son's Furniture,-Went to Jamaica Plains in the forenoon, and in the afternoon to Cambridgeport.

9. Took my Grandsons, Isaiah and William to Northborough, with their baggage, and left them with Rev. Mr. Allen, as his pupils. Breakfasted at Framingham, and returned home.

12. The Workmen began laying the Cellar Wall of the

"In this town, on Monday last, Miss Lucy Brown, daughter of the late Mr. David Brown, in the 20th year of her age.-This young woman was esteemed by all who knew her as a meek and humble follower of Jesus-a bright ornament of her Christian profession-amiable and lovely by nature, but still more so by that grace through which, they trust, she was enabled to triumph over death and the grave, and has been admitted to the glorious rest which is reserved for all those who love the Lord in sincerity and in truth.-"Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord."

Massachusetts Spy, 2 June, 1819.

2 The New South Church

intended Building for a Library, &c. for the American Antiquarian Society.

13. Went to Church twice. Mr. Puffer preached. 15. Mr. William Sheldon arrived here. He came from Jamaica, by way of New Brunswick and Newyork. White washed, papered and painted the Kitchen. 16. Bought another Cow of Jacobs for 35 dollars. Cow returned in the night, eleven miles to Sutton.

17. (Paid) Seal for Am. Antiq". Society-cost 25.00.1 Sent after the Cow which took most of the day. Painted Kitchen and little room floor. Whitewashed Garden fences. Mr. Sheldon arrived on Tuesday and went to Smithfield to see his daughter Mrs. Buffum, yesterday.

18. Bought black Silk Stockings, and Silk for small clothes afterward found two pair of good Silk small clothes in my trunk.

The original drawing of the seal of the society, which hangs in its main hall, bears upon its back the inscription, in Mr. Thomas's handwriting: --"Drawing of the seal of the American Antiquarian Society, designed by I. Thomas and drawn by John R. Penniman, Boston."

The following extracts from the records of the society, are all that is known of its history:

24 October, 1814. "Voted, that the device for the seal of the Society prepared by the Committee appointed for the purpose, be accepted, and that Messrs. Snelling and Samuel J. Prescott be a Committee to get the same engraved on steel for the use of the Society."

23 October, 1815. "The Committee on the subject of the seal reported progress. 1 January, 1817. "The Committee on the subject of the seal reported progress and had further time allowed them to comply with their direction from the Society." 15 April, 1818. "Mr. Snelling from the Committee on the subject of the Society's seal made report that it was impossible to have it executed, and at his suggestion it was voted that a copy of the device adopted by the Society be taken and transmitted to Mr. Burnside, the Corresponding Secretary at Worcester, to be sent by him to Mr. J. E. Bogert of New York, or some other member of the Society in that place, to be engraved in such manner as may be thought best, by the first artist in that city, on brass, silver or steel; the expense of which to be drawn from the Treasury of the Society."

In the records of the Sub-Council, is the entry, 20 December, 1819:-"A Seal for the society has been handsomely engraved; and presented this evening to the Society by the President."