The eight children mentioned were born over a period of 17 years, from 1868 to 1885, making a group of three boys and five girls. The 1880’s would be a good time in the ages of the children to enjoy their grandparents’ farm at Boot Pond. Against the usual Plymouth custom of referring to bodies of fresh water as “ponds,” Susan Burgess refers to them as “lakes.” An obvious contrast in the 100 years since then has been the growth of trees, not only in the open fields, but close to the house and barn. This fact was quite apparent to Miss Minnie Burgess and she emphasized it to me on a recent visit. She has known the Place for most of her 94 years. There are now three large white pines, many large fir trees, several deciduous trees, such as maples, beech, tamarack, catalpa and mulberry which have grown up in the intervening years since the watercolors were made. Then there were more open fields, pasture and orchard as well as a fence near the pond for keeping the cattle in bounds. The Water Colors 1. THE CROOKED ROAD This was on the curve downhill before the house could be seen. 2. THE FIRST GLIMPSE OF THE HOUSE This is about 300 feet from the front of the house, showing an open field on the left and Boot Pond beyond. 3. UNTITLED Shows a horse and covered buggy tied to a hitching post by the fence in front of the house. 4. UNTITLED Grandma Charlotte sitting by the dining room fireplace and a glimpse through the door into the sitting room beyond. 5. OH WHAT A PLACE TO PLAY Two little girls playing with costumes in the north end of the well-stocked attic. 6. UNTITLED A boy and two girls and a head of a pig behind the pig pen fence running north from the house and showing the steps up into the barn. 7. UNTITLED The interior of the barn from the front door, with a cow and horse. 8. UNTITLED Shows the lower part of the field, the big oak tree and the Pond. 9. UNTITLED A little blond girl on the swing under the big oak at pond edge. 10. LEARNING TO ROW WITH THE ANCHOR OUT WAS SAFEST The sandy shore of the curving beach with three children. One is in the boat in the water with the anchor in the dry sand. 11. UNTITLED In the rain are two children in a row boat near the pond shore. CHAPTER XIV. LORD’S POINT [37] Page 129--Miss Joan Wake, Hon. M. A. Oxon., F.S.A.F.R. Hist. S., the Hon. Secretary of the Northamptonshire Record Society, Lamport Hall, Northampton, England, writing in _Northamptonshire Past and Present_, Vol. II, No. 4, 1957, p. 184, tells of her visit to Plymouth and the _Eirenarcha_.