Mitchel, 10, II.

Mitchell, 14, 104, 181.
Moar, 37, 59, 105, 106.
Monde, 23.

Macye, 76.

Major, 101.

Mallon, 32.

Manig, 148.

Manley, 196.

Mann, 52, 68.

Mondy, 66.

Manning, 40, 82,

97, Montgomery, 77.

100, 162.

132, 195.

Marble, 10, 177.

Mondey, 147.

Moody, 52, 86.

Marian, 23, 114,
178, 180.

Marsh, 14, 16, 40,

101, 102, 109-112,
131, 156.

Marshe, 65.

172.
Morris, 17.

Marster, 132.

Marsters, 132.

"O-li-way," 146.
Olliver, 76.

Peasly, 85, 116, 179.

Peboddie, 21.

Pebodie, 21.

Pebody, 21.

Pecker, 10, 116.
Peele, 4.

Pendleton, 114, 180.

Pepperell, 70, 78.

Pericles, 175.

Perkins, 21, 49, 84, 92,

103, 107, 112.

Perley, 1, 7, 18, 25, 57,
67, 77, 86, 102, 133,
135, 173, 183.
Permit, 117.
Perry, 54, 55, 106, 112.
Peter, 101, 134, 149.

ESSEX COUNTY is the most historic county in America, and hundreds of towns and cities in various sections of the United States and British Provinces have been founded by its emigrants. Its settlement began in 1623, and all the towns and cities were settled in that century. The county comprises Amesbury, Andover, Beverly, Boxford, Bradford, Byfield, Danvers, Essex, Georgetown, Gloucester, Groveland, Hamilton, Haverhill, Ipswich, Lawrence, Lynn, Lynnfield, Manchester, Marblehead, Merrimac, Methuen, Middleton, Nahant, Newbury, Newburyport, North Andover, Peabody, Rockport, Rowley, Salem, Salisbury, Saugus, Swampscott, Topsfield, Wenham and West Newbury.

The object of this magazine is to preserve the history and genealogy of the county and to render accessible records which are unindexed and in private custody. The records include admissions to and dismissions from the churches, baptisms, births, marriages, deaths, intentions of marriages, gravestone inscriptions, old newspaper news-items, advertisements and obituary notices, parish records and tax lists, town-meeting records and tax lists, probate records and original wills and other papers on file, deeds, civil and criminal court records, proprietors' records, colonial, provincial and state records, Revolutionary and other soldiers' muster rolls, etc., Bible records, account books, old letters, commissions, interleaved almanacs, diaries, journals, etc. Seven-eighths of the public records are not indexed, and none of them have complete indexes of names. A vast amount of hidden historical and genealogical material is thus brought into ready use.

The literary portion consists of biographies, genealogies, sketches of local history, churches and old homesteads, of early commerce, education and industries, ancient customs, etc.

The illustrations consist of houses, churches, maps, portraits, autographs,

coats-of-arms, gravestones, ancient furniture, articles of domestic use, apparel, seals, etc.

The complete genealogies of the county are being published in full and in alphabetical order down to the year 1800. This forms a complete genealogical dictionary of the county, and includes the Ipswich Hammatt Papers, the Essex county portion of Savage's Genealogical Dictionary, the probate records and original papers on file, the records of deeds, etc., court records, births, marriages, intentions of marriages, and deaths from town records, baptisms, etc., from church records, gravestone inscriptions, private records, etc. This is a great and much needed work, and would be impossible but for the extensive collections of the editor made during many years from original records, with this end in view.

The early wills of the county are also being printed in full, verbatim et literatim, in the order of their probate.

The full official record of the service of the Essex county soldiers and sailors of the Revolution is also appearing in alphabetical order.

The records of old Norfolk county, which existed from 1643 to 1679, and included all towns north of the Merrimac river at that period, are being published. The records consist of births, marriages, deaths, deeds, wills, inventories, etc., and have been almost inaccessible and their existence known but to few. The conveyances are of lands in the present towns of Atkinson, Brentwood, Danville, East Kingston, Epping, Exeter, Fremont, Hampstead, Hampton, Hampton Falls, Kensington, Kingston, Newmarket, Newton, North Hampton, Plaistow, Rye, Salem, Seabrook, South Hampton, and South Newmarket, in New Hampshire, and most of the towns north of Salem in Essex county, Massachusetts.

The gravestone inscriptions in the county bearing dates prior to 1800 are also being printed, as nearly as type can reproduce them.