[Illustration: Daniel Lothrop]




THE

BAY STATE MONTHLY.

_A Massachusetts Magazine_.

VOL. II.

DECEMBER, 1884.

No. 3.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1884, by John N.
McClintock and Company, in the office of the Librarian of Congress at
Washington.

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DANIEL LOTHROP.

By JOHN N. MCCLINTOCK, A.M.


The fame, character and prosperity of a city have often depended upon
its merchants,--burghers they were once called to distinguish them from