Produced by Joshua Hutchinson, David Garcia and Distributed Proofreaders THE BAY STATE MONTHLY A Massachusetts Magazine of LITERATURE, HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, AND STATE PROGRESS VOLUME I. CONTENTS OF VOLUME I. (This table of contents alos contains listings for articles in the other issues.) Abbott, Josiah Gardner _John Hatch George_ An Incident of Sixteen Hundred and Eighty-Six _Mellen Chamberlain_ Ansart, Louis _Clara Clayton_ Arthur, Chester Alan _Ben: Perley Poore_ Beacon Hill Before the Houses _David M. Balfour_ Boston Tea-Party, The Boston, The First Schoolmaster of _Elizabeth Porter Gould_ Boston, The Siege of, Developed _Henry B. Carrington, U.S.A., LL.D._ Boston Young Men's Christian Association, The _Russell Sturgis, Jr._ Boundary Lines of Old Groton, The _Samuel Abbott Green, M.D._ British Force and the Leading Losses in the Revolution British Losses in the Revolution Bunker Hill _Henry B. Carrington, U.S.A., LL.D._ Butler, Benjamin Franklin Chelsea _William E. McClintock, C.E._ Defence of New York, 1776, The _Henry B. Carrington, U.S.A., LL.D._ Dungeon Rock, Lynn _Frank P. Harriman_ Early Harvard _Josiah Layfayette Seward, A.M._ Esoteric Buddhism.--A Review _Lucius H. Buckingham, Ph.D._ Fac-Simile Reprint of Daniel Webster's Fourth-of-July Oration, Delivered in 1800. Family Immigration to New England, The _Thomas W. Bicknell, LL.D._ First Baptist Church in Massachusetts, The _Thomas W. Bicknell, LL.D._ First Schoolmaster of Boston, The _Elizabeth Porter Gould_ From the White Horse to Little Rhody _Charles M. Barrows_ Fuller, George _Sidney Dickinson_ Gifts to Colleges and Universities _Charles F. Thwing_ Groton, The Boundary Lines of Old _Samuel Abbott Green, M.D._ Groton, The Old Stores and the Post-Offices of _Samuel Abbott Green, M.D._ Groton, The Old Taverns and Stage-Coaches of _Samuel Abbott Green, M.D._ Harvard, Early _Josiah Lafayette Seward, A.M._ Historical Notes Historic Trees: The Washington Elm; The Eliot Oak _L.L. Dame_ Lancaster in Acadie and the Acadiens in Lancaster _Henry S. Nourse_ Lovewell's War _John N. McClintock, A.M._ Lowell Loyalists of Lancaster, The _Henry S. Nourse_ Massachusetts, The First Baptist Church in _Thomas W. Bicknell, LL.D._ Massachusetts, Young Men's Christian Associations of _Russell Sturgis, Jr._ New England, The Family Immigration to _Thomas W. Bicknell, LL.D._ New England Town-House, The _J.B. Sewall_ New York, 1776, The Defence of _Henry B. Carrington, U.S.A., LL.D._ Ohio Floods, The _George E. Fencks_ Old Stores and the Post-Office of Groton, The _Samuel Abbott Green, M.D._ Old Taverns and Stage-Coaches of Groton, The _Samuel Abbott Green, M.D._ One Summer.--A Reminiscence _Annie Wentworth Baer_ Perkins, Captain George Hamilton _George E. Belknap, U.S.N._ Poet of the Bells, The _E.H. Goss_ Railway Mail Service, The _Thomas P. Cheney_ Reuben Tracy's Vacation Trips _Elizabeth Porter Gould_