│ │ Menotomy │ │ Henry Putnam │70 │Menotomy │ „ │ „ Benjamin Peirce │37 │ „ │Salem │Menotomy Lieut. John │54 │ „ │Needham │ „ Bacon │ │ │ │ Sergt. Elisha │40 │ „ │ „ │Needham Mills │ │ │ │ Amos Mills │43 │ „ │ „ │Menotomy Natheniel │57 │ „ │ „ │ „ Chamberlain │ │ │ │ Jonathan Parker │28 │ „ │Dedham │ „ Elias Haven │ │ „ │Dover │ „ Abednego │25 │ „ │Lynn │ „ Ramsdell │ │ │ │ Jabez Wyman │39 │ „ │Menotomy │ „ Jason Winship │45 │ „ │ „ │ „ Moses Richardson│53 │Cambridge │Camb’dge │Cambridge John Hicks │50 │ „ │ „ │ „ William Marcy │ │ „ │ „ │ „ Isaac Gardner │49 │ „ │Brooklyn │Brooklyn James Miller │65 │Charlestown │Cha’stown│Charlestown Edward Barber │14 │Charlestown Neck │ „ │ „ ────────────────┴───┴─────────────────────┴─────────┴────────────────── THE MEMORIAL TREES AT WASHINGTON How to identify memorial trees has become an interesting question with the Washington authorities who have charge of the public grounds. While this city has no elm under which Washington took command of the army, and no oak that saved the charter of colonial liberties, it has not a few trees about which exceedingly interesting history gathers. The Russo-American oak, planted a year ago, by President Roosevelt, assisted by Secretary Hitchcock, in the lawn near the west terrace of the White House, has a novel history. It is a lineal descendant of a native American oak, which overshadowed the old tomb of Washington at Mount Vernon. Acorns from this oak were sent by Charles Sumner, while a Senator, to the Czar of Russia. Secretary Hitchcock thus tells the rest of the story: “While ambassador at the court of St. Petersburg I made inquiry with respect to the acorns that Charles Sumner, while Senator from Massachusetts, sent to the Czar, and I found that they had been planted on what is known as ‘Czarina Island,’ which is included in the superb surroundings of one of the palaces of his Majesty, near Peterhof, and there I found a beautiful oak with a tablet at its foot bearing a Russian inscription which reads: ‘The acorn planted here was taken from an oak which shades the tomb of the celebrated and never-to-be-forgotten Washington; is presented to his Imperial Majesty, the Emperor of all the Russias, as a sign of the greatest respect.—By an American.’