nd various Boston papers I read of "black & coloured
plumes & feathers." Other hair ornaments advertised in the _Boston
News Letter_, of December, 1768, were "Long and small Tail Garnets,
Mock Garland of all sorts and Ladies Poll Combs." Steel plumes,
pompons, aigrettes, and rosettes all were worn on the head, and
artificial flowers, wreaths of gauze, and silk ribbons.

NOTE 41.

Marcasite, spelled also marcassite, marchasite, marquesett, or
marquaset, was a mineral, the crystallized form of iron pyrites. It
was largely used in the eighteenth century for various ornamental
purposes, chiefly in the decoration of the person. It took a good
polish, and when cut in facets like a rose-diamond, formed a pretty
material for shoe and knee-buckles, earrings, rings, pins, and hair
ornaments. Scarce a single advertisement of wares of milliner or
mantua maker can he found in eighteenth century newspapers that does
not contain in some form of spelling the word marcasite, and scarce
a rich gown or headdress was seen without some ornament of
marcasite.

NOTE 42.

Master Turner was William Turner, a fashionable dancing master of
Boston, who afterward resided in Salem, and married Judith, daughter
of Dr. Edward Augustus Holyoke, of Salem, who died in 1829, aged one
hundred and one years. It was recalled by an old lady that the
scholars in the school of her youth marched through Boston streets,
to the music of the fiddle played by "Black Henry," to Concert Hall,
corner Tremont and Bromfield streets, to practice dancing; and that
Mr. Turner walked at the head of the school. His advertisements may
be seen in Boston and Salem papers, thus:--

"Mr. Turner informs the Ladies and Gentlemen in Town and Country
that he has reduced his price for teaching from Six Dollars Entrance
to One Guinea, and from Four Dollars per month to Three. Those
ladies and Gentlemen who propose sending their children to be taught
will notice no books will be kept as Mr. T. has suffered much by
Booking. The pupils must pay monthly if they are desirous the School
should continue."

NOTE 43.

"Unkle Ned" was Edward Green, born September 18, 1733; died July 29,
1790. He married, on April 14, 1757, Mary Storer (sister of Ebenezer
Storer and of Hannah Storer Green). They had no children. He was, in
1780, one of the enlisting officers for Suffolk County. In a letter
of George Gre