My good friend, John Lord, octogenarian and retired Foreign Service officer, spent his boyhood summers on South Pond at the place of his father, Arthur Lord, at the north end of the Pond. His father had obtained the land in 1879, Book 1464, Page 247, which had been part of the Isaac Barnes property, and was held until his death in 1925. John Lord remembers his father pulling him, in a dory, through the connecting brook leading into Boot Pond. This brook, sometimes dry, varies in height with that of the water level of the ponds. Lord’s Point had been known earlier as Kamesit, which was the Indian name. After his father purchased the point, he joined with a group of men to form the Kamesit Club. The members of the club were William Hedge, Dr. Morris Richardson, William M. Bullivant, Arthur Lincoln of Hingham, Winslow Warren of Dedham, William V. Kellen, and Arthur Lord. Arthur Lord bought the property from the two surviving members, Lincoln and Warren, on Dec. 30, 1899, the last day of the century and recorded in Book 1498, Page 499. John Lord has told me that he remembers that over the living room fireplace was a large unfinished painting by Winslow Homer of an ocean beach with a bonfire. Apparently it was sold with the house, which has been taken down and the land belongs to the Plymouth water supply system. John Lord spent pleasant summers there with his brothers and sister and family until he was fourteen. It is said that Grover Cleveland, during his presidency and while summering at Buzzard’s Bay, would come to South Pond with friends and enjoy the fishing. John Lord has told me that just west of the present aqueduct from Great South Pond to Little South Pond there was before 1900 property belonging to the John Darling Churchill family. It contained a two story residence and a bowling alley of wooden construction nearer the Pond. At one time, inspired by the Civil War, it was called the _Union House_ and was used as a tavern. By 1900 it had fallen apart in disuse. Arthur Lord was an able and distinguished man. He was a resident of North Street in Plymouth, and commuted to Boston. In this family house John Lord was born. His father was a lawyer, historian, and public speaker. On his mother’s side he is descended from Rev. James Kendall, 1769-1859, pastor of the Plymouth Church for 59 years until his death, and during his ministry the new meeting house was built in 1831. He was a distinguished incumbent and much loved by all who knew him. John Lord’s great great uncle was Nathan Lord, president of Dartmouth College in the years before the Civil War. Arthur Lord was a bookman and collector. He was president of the Massachusetts Bar Association and the Massachusetts Historical Society. He gave in 1925 his library to Pilgrim Hall, described in a publication of the Pilgrim Society, Plymouth, 1971, entitled _The Arthur Lord Collection_, prepared by L. D. Geller, Director of the Pilgrim Society.