0751024-43 1133.2 US 148 74.41 4874,41

US 14658.25 1888, March 23.

Bright fund.

TUTTLE, MOREHOUSE & TAYLOR,

PRINTERS,

371 State Street, New Haven, Conn.

CONTENTS.

Prefatory Note,

List of Officers,

List of Members,

PAPERS:

I. The Diary of MR. EBENEZER TOWNSEND, Jr., the Supercargo of the

Sealing Ship "Neptune," on her Voyage to the South Pacific and

Canton; with a Preface by THOMAS R. TROWBRIDGE,

II. New Haven in 1784; by Professor FRANKLIN BOWDITCH DEXTER, of

New Haven,

III. Connecticut Boroughs; by CALVIN H. CARTER, M.A., of Waterbury,

IV. The Family of Nathaniel Eaton, of Cambridge, Mass.; by Professor

DANIEL C. EATON, of New Haven,

139

185

V. A Young Man's Journal of a Hundred Years Ago; edited by Pro-

fessor SIMEON E. BALDWIN, of New Haven,

193

VI. New Haven's Adventure on the Delaware Bay; by REV. EPHER

WHITAKER, D.D., of Southhold, Long Island,

209

VII. Personal Reminiscences of the Revolutionary War, by the late

Thomas Painter, of West Haven; edited by HENRY HOWE, of Colum-

bus, Ohio,

231

VIII. Yale Graduates in Western Massachusetts; by Rev. ALPHEUS C.

HODGES, B.A., of Buckland, Mass.,

253

IX. Branford Annals; 1700-1800; by Rev. ELIJAH C. BALDWIN, of

Cheshire,

299

X. The Captives of the Amistad; by Professor SIMEON E. BALDWIN, of

New Haven,

331

XI. The Trading-House on the Paugasset; by Rev. WILLIAM G. ANDREWS,

D.D., of Guilford,

371

XII. The Past and Future of this Society, being the Annual Address of

the President for the year 1886; by Professor SIMEON E. Baldwin, of

New Haven,

397

Inscriptions on Tombstones in Guilford, erected prior to 1800,

405

Index,

452