_Plate 45_ [Illustration: MRS. ELIZABETH (CLARKE) FREAKE AND DAUGHTER MARY Painted in Boston in 1674 Courtesy of Mrs. William B. Scofield] _Plate 46_ [Illustration: MARGARET GIBBS Daughter of Robert and Elizabeth (Sheaffe) Gibbs of Boston Dated 1670. Courtesy of Mrs. Alexander Quarrier Smith] _Plate 47_ [Illustration: ALICE MASON Painted in 1670, aged two years Daughter of Arthur and Joanna (Parker) Mason of Boston Courtesy of the Adams Memorial] _Plate 48_ [Illustration: DAVID, JOANNA AND ABIGAIL MASON Children of Arthur and Joanna (Parker) Mason of Boston Painted in 1670. Courtesy of Mr. Paul M. Hamlen] _Plate 49_ [Illustration: CAPTAIN THOMAS SMITH A self portrait May have painted the portraits of Major Savage and Capt. George Corwin Courtesy of the American Antiquarian Society] _Plate 50_ [Illustration: MAJOR THOMAS SAVAGE 1640-1705 Born and died in Boston Courtesy of Mr. Henry L. Shattuck] _Plate 51_ [Illustration: EDWARD RAWSON 1615-1693 Secretary of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. From the painting by an unknown artist, now owned by the New England Historic Genealogical Society] _Plate 52_ [Illustration: REBECCA RAWSON 1656-1692 From the painting by an unknown artist, now owned by the New England Historic Genealogical Society] _Plate 53_ [Illustration: SAMUEL SEWALL 1652-1730 Chief Justice of the Superior Court in Massachusetts, 1718-1728 From an original painting in possession of the Massachusetts Historical Society] _Plate 54_ [Illustration: REV. COTTON MATHER 1663-1728 Pastor of the Second (North) Church, Boston, 1685-1728 From a mezzotint by Peter Pelham after a portrait painted in 1728] _Plate 55_ [Illustration: NATHAN FESSENDEN AND HIS SISTER CAROLINE From a photograph taken about 1885 in Lexington, Mass. Showing costume of a much earlier date] _Plate 56_ [Illustration: WELLCURB AT THE JOHN WARD HOUSE, SALEM, MASS. Showing wellsweep, wooden bucket and girl dressed in the costume of the late seventeenth century] _Plate 57_ [Illustration: THE SOWER From a photograph by Miss Emma L. Coleman] _Plate 58_ [Illustration: TRACING SEED CORN IN A FARMER'S BARN From a photograph by Miss Emma L. Coleman] _Plate 59_ [Illustration: A FARMYARD SCENE AT DEERFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS From a photograph by Miss Emma L. Coleman] _Plate 60_ [Illustration: HORSES AND A RAIL FENCE From a photograph by Miss Emma L. Coleman] _Plate 61_ [Illustration: LOADING HAY ON AN OXCART From a photograph by Miss Emma L. Coleman] _Plate 62_ [Illustration: GUNDALOW LOADED WITH SALT HAY From a photograph made by Miss Emma L. Coleman, about 1880, on Parker River, Newbury, Mass. Similar craft were early used in Boston harbor and with a stump mast and lateen sail carried cargo up the Merrimack River] _Plate 63_ [Illustration: BRUSHING UP THE HEARTH. NIMS HOUSE, DEERFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS From a photograph by Miss Emma L. Coleman] _Plate 64_ [Illustration: THE OLD HAND LOOM