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396 and a Half Essex Street Date 7St;amp- CE. l�� j SAY 212 7 NIDE IT O F PLANNING & Salem Historical C ommassrofl COMM TYDEVELOPMEN-1 120 WASHING'rON STREET.SALEM.WSSACHUSETTS G1970 For Office Use Only (976)619 5685 FAX(975)740.0404 APPLICATION FOR A CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS Pursuant to the Historic District's Act (M.G.L. Chapter 40C) and the Salem Historical Commission Ordinance, application is hereby made for issuance of a Certificate of Appropriateness for: ❑ New Construction ❑ Moving ❑ Reconstruction ❑ Alteration ❑ Demolition ❑ Painting ❑✓ Sign ❑ Other District: ❑Derby Street ❑Lafayette Street ❑✓ McIntire ❑Washington Square Address of Property: 396 112 Essex Street-Friends Cemetery Name of Record Owner(s): City of Salem-Cemetery Commission Owner Mailing Address: 93 Washington Street,Salem MA Description of Work Proposed Please type orx ut clearly.Attach additional sheets,as necessary Install new interpretive sign in Friends Cemetery. Sign to replace existing sign at existing location. Proposed sign design/text attached. Name of Applicant: Ronald Harrison,Chair ❑Owner❑Contractor❑Tenant00ther:Cemetery Comm Signature: Date: 5/22/19 Tel. #: E-mail Address: rarrison@Salem.com Certificate will be mailed to the owner unless otherwise indicated here: Certificate should be mailed to: Name Ronald Harriqon_chakL=etejX Commission Mailing address:93 Washington Street City:Salem State:MA Zip: 01970 s f _ 4 1_ �J The Friends Bury.,g Ground Is Salem's Third Oldest And Smallest Cemetery. Its Earliest Gravestone Dated 1 702 's That Of Crestofor Foster. The Second Quaker Meeting House Built On This Site In 1 716 Was Used For Approximately 100 Years. Salem's Earliest Quakers Arrived In The Early 1650s, Suffered Persecution And Exile Under The Laws Of The Massachusetts Bay Colony`s General Courl. Members Of The Local Well-Known Southwick Family Are Buried Here. The Peaceful And Simple Landscape Of The Cemetery Reflects Its Quaker Heritage. ESTABLISHED 1702 lip Salem Historical Commission 98 WASHINGTON STREET, SALEM,MASSACHUSETTS 01970 (978)619-5685 NOTICE OF HEARING The Salem Historical Commission will give a public hearing to all persons interested in the application of: City of Salem —Cemetery Commission on the property at: 396%Essex Street- Friends Cemetery concerning: New interpretive sign Date of Hearing: June Su', 2019 Time of Hearing: 7.00 p.m. Location of Hearing: 98 Washington Street,First Floor Conference Room By Order of the Salem Historical Commission Patti Kelleher Preservation Planner To view the entire meeting agenda which is posted 5-7 days before the meeting,please visit h€t )://www.salem.com/Pa<,es/SalemMA HistoricalAgendas/ Persons with special needs should contact the Clerk of the Commission at 978-619-5685 to arrange for reasonable accommodation. Please allow ample time for us to arrange for your request. The Friends Burying Ground Is Salem's Third Oldest And Smallest Cemetery. Its Earliest Gravestone Dated 1702 Is That Of Crestofor Foster. The Second Quaker Meeting House Built On This Site In 1716 Was Used For Approximately 100 Years. Salern's Earliest Quakers Arrived In The Early 1650s, Suffered Persecution And Exile Under The Laws Of The Massachusetts Bay Colony's General Court. Members Of The Local Well-Known Southwick Family Are Buried Here, The Peaceful And Simple Landscape Of The Cemetery Reflects Its Quaker Heritage. ESTABLISHED 1702 Friends Cemetery Established 1702 The Friends Burying Ground is Salem's third oldest and its smallest cemetery. The earliest existing gravestone is dated 1702 for Crestofor Foster and members of the locally well-known Southwick family are also buried here. On this site in 1718,the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) constructed their second meeting house to replace an earlier meeting house constructed further east on Essex Street. The second meeting house was removed about 1832. During the 17th & 18th centuries,Salem was a center of New England Quakerism. The earliest Quakers arrived in Salem in the 1650s, suffered persecution and were exiled under the laws of the Massachusetts Bay Colony's General Court. The simple headstones and peaceful landscape of the cemetery reflect its Quaker heritage. v oQ �X J �� 0 0 Patricia Kelleher From: Patricia Kelleher Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2019 9:33 AM To: 'Murphy, Emily'; Donna Seger Cc: Emerson Baker, Elizabeth Peterson Subject: RE: [EXTERNAL] RE: New interpretive sign for Friends Cemetery Thank you all for reviewing the narrative for the sign! I will make the recommended revisions and will forward to the Cemetery Commission for their final approval. I did see in Perley's book that burials from a Quaker cemetery in Peabody were relocated to the Salem cemetery—I wonder if the 1702 Foster stone was once in the Peabody cemetery. Best, Patti From: Murphy, Emily<emily_murphy@nps.gov> Sent:Wednesday, May 29,2019 9:10 AM To: Donna Seger<dseger@salemstate.edu> Cc: Emerson Baker<ebaker@salemstate.edu>; Patricia Kelleher<pkelleher@Salem.com>; Elizabeth Peterson <director@witchhouse.info> Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] RE: New interpretive sign for Friends Cemetery We could always quote one of the local 17th century ministers and say that Salem was"A nest of Quakers." :)Salem was more tolerant about non-attendance at meeting than other communities, hence the Quaker community. One correction I would make is that the title is the Religious Society of Friends(Quakers).The "Religious" is important. Emily Emily A. Murphy, Ph.D. Curator Salem Maritime National Historic Site Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site 160 Derby St, Salem, MA 01970 C 781.248.6424 Emily Murphy nps.gov Find Us On Facebook Salem Maritime I Sau:..uslronNPS I NMSC "The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool,the truest heroism is to resist the doubt, and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted,and when to be 1 While Salem was important-especially in the 17th century, it was only one of quite a few centers,and some were larger.There were many more Quakers in Rhode Island, and indeed about half the population of Newport RI was Quaker as early as 1700.And while the Nantucket Quaker meeting did not commence until 1708, by the 1760s there were over 2,000 Quakers on the island. My two cents, Tad Emerson W. Baker Interim Dean School of Graduate Studies School of Continuing and Professional Studies Salem State University 352 Lafayette Street Salem, MA 01970 978-542-4097 ebaker@salemstate.edu www.salemstate.edu/—ebaker @EmersonWBaker From: Patricia Kelleher<pkelleher@Salem.com> Sent:Tuesday, May 28, 2019 1:21 PM 3 ----------------------------- Patti Kelleher Preservation Planner, City of Salem Department of Planning&Community Development 98 Washington Street, 2nd Floor Salem, MA 01970 Phone: 978-619-5685/ Fax: 978-740-0404 pkelleher@salem.com www.salem.com ' www.preservingsalem.com 5 5/28/2019 History of Salem t1uAKER PERSIX17TION 273 of the old house is copied from a pencil drawing of it made by Miss Date Johnson in i87o. It has been said that the first burial place of the Friends, was on the side of the hill, at the westerti corner of Boston and Good- hue streets. When Edward Wharton died, 'larch 3, 1677-8, in his nuncupative will be gave five pounds towards procuring a burying place. With this money was purchased, for this purpose, a stnall lot of land owned by Joseph Boyce,who was also a Friend, on the southerly side of 'Main Street, opposite Grove Street; in Peabody. The yard has been used ever since, the last interment having been made in or about > _>. The State legislature, in T9.24, authorized its abandonment and the removal of the remains of persons buried there to the Friends burial place on Essex Street, in Salem, and the next year the remains were so removed. r Maude erected some buildings for ethers, and probably had in his possession considerable used lumber. In the autumn of rf 88', he erected a meeting house for the Quakers ont of such lumber on the northwesterly corner of his six-acre pasture, the site being on the southeasterly side of ] ssex Street, just easterly of Grace church. Oct. 13, i6go. lie conveyed that corner of the pasture with the building thereon to Josiah and Daniel Southwick, Samuel Gaskin, Caleb Buff um, Christopher foster and Sarah Stone, all of. Salem. and Samuel Collins, of Lynn, and others of the people called Quakers, "for the use of the above named and several others of the people commonly called Quakers to worship and serve God in."= This building was the meeting house of the Quakers for twenty-five years. The high seat on which the leaders of the Cervices sat was called the gallery in this meeting house. As the Quakers were building a new house for their services, Nov. '18, M8, Daniel Southwick, Samuel Gaskill, Caleb Buffam and Samuel Collins, being the survivors of the grantees named in the deed from \Iaule, for themselves and others interested in the property, reconveyed to him the land and old building thereon. The meeting house was added to, and was a dwellincy g house until 1753, when the old meeting house part was separated from the train portion of the dwelling house and removed to Gallows' Hill pasture, where it was then used for smallpox patients. It was there until 1864, when, under a mistaken idea that it teas the first meeting house in Salmi or was a part of that meeting house, it was removed to the grounds of the Essex Institute, cohere it re- mains. because of the misinterpretation of the agreement for the 'Essex Registry of Deeds, iri)ok 8, leaf toe. 'Essex Registry of Deeds, honk 9, leaf o9. « p2-273 < > salem.lib.virginia.edu/Pedey/vol2/images/p2-273.htmi 2/3 ATTACHED DOCUMENTATION An application will not be considered complete unless all work items are thoroughly described and the application includes all information needed for the Commission to make a determination. Failure to submit a complete a> dication may result in a continuation to a future meetin . Recommended information includes: Photos of existing conditions, taken from all public ways Site plan showing location of improvements Elevation drawings of the existing conditions and proposed improvements Drawings of details and other special conditions, including profiles Description,photographs, and/or catalog cuts of proposed materials(please bring to the meeting product samples, if appropriate) Dimensions(i.e. height of fence, size of pickets and posts, etc.) Paint color samples, if applicable (no less than 2"x2") Location and size of all mechanical equipment, such as transformers, HVAC equipment, electrical service and meters, and proposed screening