Stephen,son of Benj. Woodman,and Stephen, son of Jonathan Thurston, Feb. 23. Stephen, son of William Adams, Mar.16. John, son of Joseph Nelson, Mar. 23. 1729.

David, son of Nicholas Cheney, Mar. 30. Jonah,son of Jonathan Spafford, Apr. 20. John, son of John Lull, jr., May 4.Sarah, dau. of Moses Gerrish, June 22. Sarah, dau. of Joseph Danford, June 29. Susanna, dau. of Joseph Noyes, July 13. Hannah, dau. of Jonathan Pearson, July 20, 1729.

David, son of Nathan Wheeler, jr., Aug. 3, 1729.

Samuell, son of Samuell Moody, Sept.28.
Stephen, son of Nath" Danford, Oct. 5.
Susanna, dau. of Amos Pilsbury, Dec. 18.
1729-30.

Nathan, son of Moses Hale, Jan. 25. Aphia, dau. of Samuell Dole, Daniell, son of Daniell Plumer, and John, son of Elkana Lunt, Feb. 1, 1729-30.

Mark, son of John Plumer, Mar. 1. Nero, a negro servant of John Plumer, Mar. 15, 1729-30.

1730-1.

Lydia, dau. of John Lull, and Moses, son of Moses Wheeler, Jan. 3, 1730-1. Martha, dau. of Abner Todd, and Joseph, son of Moses Gerrish, Jan. 17.

Moses, son of Jonathan Spafford, Jan.24. Benjamin, son of David Woodman, Elizabeth, dau. of Nathaniel Dumer, and Mary, dau. of Sam" Moodey, Feb. 21, 1730-1.

A child each of Jonathan Pearson, Joshua Noyes and Sam" Herreman, Mar. —. 1731.

Sarah, dau. of Samuell Hazen, Apr. 11. Eliza, dau. of William Adams, and Eunice, dau. of Elkanah Lunt, Apr. 25.

Katharine, dau. of John Dumer, esq., May 9, 1731.

Oliver, son of Benjamin Pearson, and David, son of Andrew Stickney, May 16. Eliza, dau. of Nathaniell Clark, May 23. Rebecka, dau. of Nathan Wheeler, jr., July 23, 1731.

William, son of Jonathan Wheeler, and Joseph, son of Richard Stewart, Aug. 8. John, son of Edmund Cheney, Francis, son of Francis Brocklebank, Hannah, dau.

1730.

Sarah, dau. of Bartholomew Pearson, and Lydia, dau. of Jonathan Thirston, Apr. 5, 1730.

William, son of William Searl, Apr. 12. Ann, dau. of Benj. Plumer, and Samuell, son of Sam" Emmerson, May 10.

Aaron, son of Aaron Plumer, and Eunice, dau. of Wm. Tenney, May 24.

Moses, son of Thomas Lull, and Hannah, dau. of Joseph Russell, June 7.

Nathan, son of Thomas Burpe, July 26. Bethya, dau. of Joseph Goodridge, jr., Aug. 23, 1730.

Abel, son of Nathan Plumer, Sept. 6. William, son of Lt.Jno. Spafford, Oct.18. Miriam, dau. of John Stevens, Oct. 11. Jemima, dau. of Samuell Jewett, Nov. 8. William, son of Thomas Wicom, Nov.15. Moses, son of John Adams, Nov. 22. Mary, dau. of John Boynton, Ammiruhamah, son of Jonathan Mores, and Joseph, son of Joseph Noyes, Dec. 6.

Samuell Poor, Aug. 15, 1731.

Abigail, dau. of John Wheeler, and Mary, dau. of Timo. Jackman, Aug. 29. 1731-2.

Beamsly, son of John Plumer, Jan. 2. Mehitabel, dau. of Joshua Boynton, jr., Jan. 9, 1731-2.

William, son of Jonathan Stickney, Jan. 22, 1731-2.

Mary, dau. of Jonathan Thurston, and Moses, son of Moses Hale, Mar. 5. 1732.

Mary, dau. of Samuell Wallingford, Apr. 16, 1732.

Sarah, dau. of Dea. Samuell Moodey, June 11, 1732.

Hannah, dau. of William Tenney, June 18, 1732.

John, son of John Bailey, Aug. 13. Eliz., dau. of Lieut. Longfellow, and Oliver, son of Samuell Dole, Aug. 20. Susanna, dau. of Sam" Lull, and Samuell, son of Jonathan Thurlo, Sept. 3.

Phebe, dau. of Jonathan Pearson, Oct. 8.

Mary, dau. of Bartholomew Pearson, Nov. 12, 1732.

Jacob, son of Jedidiah Pearson, Nov.26. Enoch, son of Moses Gerrish, Dec. 3. Abigail,dau. of Abraham Brown, Dec.17. 1732-3.

James, son of Josiah Smith, Jan. 21. Hannah, dau. of Nicholas Cheny, Jeremiah, son of Jonathan Stickney, and John, son of Joshua Noyes, Jan. 28, 1732-3.

1733.

John, son of Andrew Stickney, Apr. 8. Betty, dau. of Sam" Jewett, and Jane, dau. of Moses Wheeler, Apr. 29, 1733.

Judith, dau. of Eben Tenney, and Johnson, son of Jno. Stewart, July 1.

Hephsibah, dau. of Samuell Poor, July 22, 1733.

John, son of John Dumer, esq., Aug. 12. A child of Jno. Lull, July 29, 1733. Martha, dau. of Nathan Plumer, Aug.26. Judith, dau. of Benjamin Pearson, John, son of Edmund Cheney, and Benj., son of Stephen Hidden, Sept. 23, 1733

Judith, dau. of Dea. Sam" Moodey, Sept. 30, 1733

Paul, son of Jonathan Pearson, Oct. 28. Abner, son of David Woodman, and Martha, dau. of Joseph Goodridge, Nov.25. Enoch, son of Moses Hale, Dec. 2. John, son of John Plumer, jr., Dec. 9. Sarah, dau. of Samuell Adams, Dec. 23. Sarah, dau. of Joseph Pike, Dec. 30. 1733-4.

Mehitabel,dau. of Aaron Dresser, Jan.6. Rebecca, dau. of Stephen Stickney, Jan. 27, 1733-4.

Hannah, dau. of Samuell Hovey, Mar.3. William and Hannah, children of Joseph Russell, Feb. 17, 1733-4.

Samuell, son of Samuell Wallingford, Nov. 24, 1734.

Oliver, son of Samell Dickinson, jr., Dec. 29, 1734.

1734-5.

Samuell, son of John Hopkinson, Jan. 5. William,son of Nathaniel Dumer, Jan.12. Nathan, son of Lt. Stephen Longfellow, Jan. 19, 1734-5.

Benj., son of Benj. Stickney, jr., Jan. 26. Mary, dau. of Abraham Brown, and Enoch, son of John Stewartt, Feb. 16.

Sarah, dau. of Richard Lowell, jr., Mar. 9, 1734-5.

1735.

Enos, son of Joshua Noyes, Mar. 30. Henry, son of Moses Gerrish, Apr. 6. Benjamin,son of William Tenny,Apr.20. Stevens, son of Roger Chase, May 4. Abigail, dau. of Dea. Samuel Moodey, May 7, 1735.

David, son of John Boynton, and Jonathan, son of John Bayley, June 8, 1735. Bartholomew, son of Bartholomew Pearson, June 29, 1735.

Moses, son of Andrew Duty, Elizabeth, dau. of Moses Hale, and Elizabeth, dau. of James Calf, Aug. 31, 1735.

Samuel,son of Stephen Hidden,Sept.20. James, son of Andrew Stickney, William, son of Andrew Stickney, and Jonathan, son of Moses Wheeler, Sept. 28. 1735-6.

Mary, dau. of Joseph Gerrish, and Mercy, dau. of Sam" Lull, Jan. 4, 1735-6. Hepzibah,dau. of Sam" Killburn, Jan.11. Hannah,dau. of Jonathan Burpe, Feb.15. Joseph, son of David Woodman, Feb.29. Sarah, dau. of Edmund Cheney, and John, son of Elkanah Lunt, Feb. 7.

Judith,dau. of Richard Stuartt, Mar. 14.

1736.

Mary, dau. of John Plumer, Apr. 18. Samuell,son of the Widow Sarah Adams, and Abigail, dau. of Joseph Noyes, May 16. Samuell, son of Jonathan Stickney, May 30, 1736.

Mehitabel, dau. of Ens. Benj. Pearson, June 13, 1736.

Sarah, dau. of Sam" Jewett, and Elizabeth, dau. of Aaron Dresser, July 18.

Samuel, son of Nath" Dumer, July 25. Samuell, son of Dea. Sam" Moody, Sept. 5, 1736.

Jedidiah, son of Joseph Russell, Sept. 12. Richard, son of William Tenney, Oct. 3. Samuel, son of James Calf, and Bethya, dau. of Jno. Danford, jr., Oct. 17, 1736. Sarah, dau. of Nathan Plumer, Nov.28. John, son of Wm. Turner, Dec. 5. Hannah, dau. of Nich. Cheny, and Joshua, son of Stephen Stickney, Dec. 12. Sarah, dau. of Enoch Dole, Dec. 19. Betty,dau. of Jonathan Whitter,Dec.26. 1736-7.

John, son of Joshua Noyes, Jan. 16. Sarah, dau. of James Lacount, Jan. 23. Rebecca, dau. of Nathan Wheeler, and Mary, dau. of Timo. Jackman, Feb. 13.

Benjamin, son of Benj. Stickney, jr., Mar. 6, 1736-7.

Samuel,son of Sam" Wallingford, Apr.16. Jonathan, son of Jonathan Pearson, Feb. 27, 1736-7.

1737.

A child of Samuell Stickney, June 5. Elizabeth, dau. of Moses Hale, jr., and Sarah, dau. of John Stewart, July 17. Joseph, son of Samuell Poor, and Samuell, son of Jonathan Thurlo, July 24.

Samuell, son of David Woodman, Aug. 21, 1737.

Pheebe, dau. of Sam" Dickinson, jr., and Sarah, dau. of Sam" Hovey, Sept. 11.

Oliver, son of Aaron Dresser, Sept. 18. Elizabeth, dau. of Andrew Duty, Oct. 2. Moses, son of Humphry Pierce, and Luke, son of Caleb Burbank, Oct. 9.

Jane, dau. of Moses Wheeler, Oct. 30.
Sarah, dau. of Benj. Plumer, Nov. 6.
Elkanah, son of Elkanah Lunt, Nov. 13.
Hannah, dau. of Sam" Lull, Dec. 4.
1737-8.

Daniel, son of Joseph Noyes, Feb. 5. Elizabeth, dau. of Benjamin Poor, Feb. 12, 1737-8.

Benj., son of Richard Stewartt, Mar.12. Jane, dau. of Bartholomew Pearson, and Samuell, son of Jno. Danford, jr., Mar.19. 1738. Hephzibah, dau. of Jonathan Burpe, Apr. 2, 1738.

Ruth, dau. of Joseph Swett, and Moses, son of Jonathan Stickney, May 31. Moses, son of Josiah Smith, July 16. Solomon, son of David Pearson, Aug.6. Ann, dau. of Jonath" Pearson, Aug. 27. Paul, son of Dea. Sam" Moody, Sept. 17. William, son of William Turner, Oct.22. Ann, dau. of Enoch Dole, and Joseph, son of Sam" Danforth, Nov. 5, 1738. Ebenezer, son of Clough, Dec. 10. Daniel, son of Daniel Chapman, Dec.31. 1738-9.

Hannah, dau. of Sam" Lowell, Jan. 14. Ruth, dau. of Nathan Plumer, Feb. 4. Jacob, son of Joseph Gerrish, Feb. 11. Sarah, dau. of Eben Tenny, Feb. 18. Thomas, son of Benj. Stickney, jr., and Oliver, son of Stephen Stickney, Feb. 25. 1739.

Joshua, son of Joshua Noyes, Apr. 22. Jedidiah, son of Sam" Stickney, May 6. Eunice, dau. of Moses Hale, June 3. Benjamin, son of Sam" Wallingford, and John, son of Elkanah Lunt, June 10.

Mary, dau. of Nathan Wheeler, jr., June 17, 1739.

Joseph, son of Joseph Sweatt, and John, son of Sam" Searl, June 24, 1739. Ezekiel, son of Sam" Northend, June 8. Silas, son of Caleb Burbank, July 29. Samuell, son of Moses Gerrish, Aug.19. Sarah, dau. of Sam" Lowell, Sept. 9. John, son of Jonathan Thurlo, Sept. 23. Dorothy, dau. of Dea. Sam" Moody, Oct. 14, 1739.

Judith, dau. of Joseph Noyes, Oct. 21. Elizabeth, dau. of Jno. Stewartt, Nov.11. Mary, dau. of Jonathan Layton, Benjamin, son of Abraham Sawyer, and Stephen, son of Eliphlet Danford, Dec. 2.

Hannah, dau. of Aaron Dresser, and Abner, son of Mark Moors, jr., Dec. 16.

1739-40.

Abijah, son of Sam" Dickinson, Jan. 13. Richard, son of Bartholomew Pearson, and Samuel, son of Sam" Jewett, Feb. 10. 1740.

Mehitabel, dau. of Sam" Hovey, and Sarah, dau. of David Boynton, Apr. 6. Daniel Boynton and wife ownd ye Covt ye Same Day.

Mary, dau. of William Tenney, May 18. Mary, dau. of Lt. Sam" Northend, July 27, 1740.

Abigail, dau. of Jonathan Pearson, Sept.

7, 1740.

Parker, son of Enoch Dole, Sept. 14. Ruth, dau. of Sam" Searl, Oct. 5. Ann, dau. of Jonathan Pearson, jr., Oct. 19, 1740.

Eunice, dau. of Jonathan Stickney, and Mary, dau. of John Danford, Oct. 26.

Rufus, son of Moses Wheeler, Nov. 23. Mary, dau. of Joseph Mooers, Dec. 28. 1740-1.

David, son of David Boynton, and John, son of Jonathan Layton, Feb. 23.

Jno. and Mary, children of Daniel Noyes, and Eliz., dau. of Ben. Stickney, Mar. 5, 1740-1.

1741.

Noyes, son of David Pearson, Lucy, dau. of Moses Hale, Isaac, son of Samuel Stickney, and Eleazer, son of Caleb Burbank, Mar. 29, 1741.

Ruth, dau. of Timothy Jackman, Apr.

12, 1741.

William, son of Moses Woodman, Apr. 26, 1741.

A child of Abraham Brown, May 17. Sarah, dau. of Nathan Wheeler, and Eunice, dau. of Joshua Noyes, May 31.

Joseph, son of Joseph Noyes, July 19. William,son of Dea. Sam" Moody, Aug.9. Edmund Tenney, son of Abenezer Tenny, and Eliz., dau. of Sam" Hovey, Sept. 27, 1741.

Sarah, dau. Sam1 Poor, Oct. 25. Martha, dau. of Joseph Gerrish, Nov. 1. Amos, son of Sam" Jewett, and Oliver, son of Sam" Dickinson, jr., Dec. 13.

1741-2.

Anne and Mehitabel, daughters of William Turner, Jan. 3, 1741-2.

Joseph, son of Joseph Hale, and Elizabeth, dau. of Sam" Lowell, Jan. 10.

Jane, dau. of Jno. Danford, jr., Jan. 17. John, son of Jno. Lull, jr., William, son of Moses Gerrish, Elias, son of Moses Cheney, and John Coarsar, jr., an adult person, Feb. 28, 1741-2.

Moses, son of Moses Ritter, Mar. 7.

Hannah, dau. of John Stewartt, May-. Enoch, son of Enoch Noyes, June 13. A child of Abia Sawyer, June, 1742. Ednah, dau. of Benj. Plumer, July 11. Abraham, son of Joseph Sweat, July 25. Edward, son of Jonathan Pearson, jr., and Abner, son of Moses Woodman, Aug. I, 1742.

William, son of Andrew Duty, Aug. 15. Abigail, dau. of Francis Wooster, and Jno., son of my son Moses Hale, Nov. 7. Samuel,son of Sam" Woodbury, Dec. 19. 1742-3.

Mark, son of Jonathan Thurlo, Jan. 2. Jonathan, son of Jonathan Layton, Jan. 16, 1742-3.

Sam", son of David Boynton, and Abigail, dau. of Jer. Adams, Feb. 6.

David, son of Caleb Burbank, and Mary, dau. of Jeremiah Poor, Feb. 13, 1742-3. Mary, dau. of Edmund Cheney, jr., Mar. 6, 1742-3.

1743.

Reuben, son of David Pearson, Apr.10. Mehitable and Aphia, children of Jno. Duty, May 1, 1743.

Elizabeth, dau. of Moses Pearson, May 22, 1743.

Jeremy, son of Richard Stewartt, and Susanna, dau. of Jno. Lull, May 29.

Sarah, dau. of Mark Moors, jr., June 5. Lois, dau. of Sam" Danford, and Sarah, dau. of Nath' Burbank, June 26, 1743. Sarah, dau. of Benj. Stickney, July 17. Lemuel, son of Joseph Noyes, Aug. 21. Nathan, son of Moses Hale, jr., Sept.-. Mehitabel, dau. of Samuel Northend, Oct. 2, 1743.

Samuel, son of Samuel Stickney, and Mary, dau. of my son Moses Hale, Nov. 6, 1743.

Stephen, son of Stephen Stickney, and Hannah, dau. of Abram Brown, Nov. 13. Sarah, dau. of Joseph Carr, Nov. 20.

THE OLD CELLAR.

The olden home is now no more,

The house, the barn, the well-sweep old, With the old folks are things of yore, Forgotten as the years have rolled. Uncovered now the cellar walls

The tangled briers have overhung, And snow, as swiftly down it falls, Into the crevices is flung.

Upon this waste of barrenness,

Now only rocky pasture ground, The walls though every year grown less, Show where the road in old times wound.

But poplars from old Lombardy

In silence rear their heads of snow, Half dead, half living, seemingly, Survivors of the long ago.

LOMBARDY POPLARS.

The Lombardy poplar trees are remarkable for their straight trunks and the nearly vertical growth of their branches. From remote times they have been inhabitants of Kashmir, the Punjab, and Persia, and from that region they were carried to Southern Europe.

Their popular name is derived from their abundance along the banks of the Po and other rivers of Lombardy.

They were introduced into France in 1749; and from thence into the United States about 1790. While envoy to France, Thomas Jefferson noticed the unique use of these trees in marking the course of turnpike roads and was struck with the luxuriance of their foliage. He encouraged their introduction into the United States, and they soon became common as marking the sides of turnpikes and boundaries of public squares. The Salem and Boston turnpike corporation voted May 4, 1802, to set the trees on both sides of their road. The New

also had some

buryport and Boston turnpike corporation set out. When Salem common was levelled in 1802, there was a nursery adjoining thereto, in what is now Winter street, containing a large number of these trees, and they were set out along the borders of the square. The people soon discovered that they were

not trees of beauty; and the great September gale of 1815 completed the desire to have them removed. They were either uprooted or broken down by the terrific wind, and were banished from the common, the present elm and other trees being set out in their places in 1817.

If these poplars were beautiful in France and Italy, they were not found to be so in New England. They were not suitable for our rigorous climate, and soon began to show indication of decay, dead branches appearing more and more frequently.

Political feeling was so strong in the old Jeffersonian days that these poplars. were condemned by the Federalists on account of Jefferson having been instrumental in introducing them. Some of the Republicans planted these trees in front of their residences to show their allegiance to Jeffersonian principles, and the enraged Federalists were guilty of injuring and destroying them. This was true in Salem in 1801 in several instances, the mischief being of course done under cover of darkness. Capt. Samuel Very, who lived at Buffum's corner, offered a reward

of twenty dollars for the conviction of the person or persons who injured the trees before his house.

For a few years the setting out of these trees was a fad, which had its short run. Few of the old trees remain, even in decay, some being found on sections of the turnpike roads, and a few in Beverly and Groveland, and on the Pickman farm in Salem. They are sometimes found by and erect and apparently dead, standing old cellars on deserted homesteads, tall like grim sentinels in a dreary vigil.

The fancy for these trees has slightly revived during the last two or three set out in years, and they have been Beverly, Newburyport and other places.

NOTE.

Benjamin, son of Benjamin and Lydia Abbot, born in Andover June 25, 1763. -Andover town records.