Excerpt from The Essex Institute Historical Collections, 1922, Vol. 58: Issued Quarterly No single circumstance of the day seems to have been more pleasurably noticed than the plain and hearty man ner in which Chairman Northey of the Selectmen received the President. This gentleman was of the Society of Friends; and when the President was presented to the Selectmen, Mr. Northey took him by the hand, remaining covered, and said, Friend Washington, we are glad to see thee, and, in behalf of the inhabitants, bid thee a hearty welcome to Salem 1 Salem had been persecuting Quakers only a century before, but Washington had put on record his high estimate of the sect. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.