The following authentic list of marriages, by the Rev. Thomas Skinner, second pastor of the Congregational Church in Westchester parish, in the town of Colchester, Conn., is furnished for use in the NEW ENGLAND MAGAZINE, by Mr. Martin L. Roberts, of New Haven, Conn.:--
1755.--Sept. 1, Caleb Loomis, Jr., and Ann Strong; Ezra Bigelow and Hannah Strong.--Sept. 24, John Carrier and Hannah Knowlton.
1756.--Nov. 5, Rev. Ephraim Little and Mrs. Abigail Bulkley.
1758.--Jan. 4, Policarphus Smith and Dorothy Skinner; John Mitchell and Hepzibah Shepardson.--Jan. 24, Jacob Smith and Jemima Fuller.--April, Joshua Bailey and Ann Foot.--April 27, Samuel Brown of East Hampton and Elizabeth Brainerd.--May 4, William Chamberlain, Jr., and Mary Day; Bezaleel Brainerd and Hannah Brainerd.
1759.--Paul Gates and Mehitable Rogers; ----, Jehiel Fuller and Sarah Day; ----, Daniel Shipman and Elizabeth Hartman.--July 10, John Bigelow and Hannah Douglas.--Nov. 8, John Murray and Desire Sawyer.--Dec. 6, Noah Day and Ann Loomis.
1760.--David Bigelow and Patience Foote.--April, Roswell Knowlton and Ann Dutton.--May 7, Thomas Chipman and Bethiah Fuller.--May 29, Levi Gates and Lydia Crocker.--Dec. 9, Lazarus Watrous and Lois Loomis.--Dec. 24, Hezekiah Waterman and Joanna Isham.
1764.--Jan. 8, David Bigelow and Mary Brainerd; Benjamin Morgan and Elizabeth Isham.
AN EARLY BELL IN SALISBURY.--The town records of Salisbury, Mass., under date of 3, 1st mo. 1647: "it was ordered yt Richard North shall have fivetie shillings for ringing the bell tow yeares & a half past & twenty shillings to ring it one yeare more, beginning att Aprill next ensueing." A year previous it was "voated to daube the meeting house."
THE BOUNDARY LINE BETWEEN MASSACHUSETTS AND NEW HAMPSHIRE.--A committee appointed by the freemen of Salisbury, Mass., in 1658, to determine the boundary between Salisbury and Hampton (between Massachusetts and New Hampshire), reported, "the sayed line is very darke & doubtful to us." The same can be said in 1886, two hundred and thirty-three years later.
The occasional revival of an old Indian name for an hotel, club, or street should interest every American. Indeed, such names should be more frequently revived than they are, to connect us in our history with the Indian who preceded us. They also have an educational value. For it is a fact that many, upon hearing, for the first time, of the _Mas'cono'mo_ and _Nan'nepash'emet_ hotels at Manchester-by-the-Sea and Marblehead respectively, have been led to seek for the origin of the names, and in this way have made their first acquaintance with the old Indian chiefs who held full sway where the hotels now stand. It is possible that many have been led to look up Indian history still farther since the new _Algonquin_ Club was formed in Boston.