William Minot, with a large family of sons and daughters, who have been
very prominent in the interests and development of our town. Mrs. Weld is
remembered with great respect and admiration for her character and life
work. She lived to a great age, happy in the prosperity and the loving
devotion of her children. We recall the beautiful the touching scene when
her form was carried on the bier by her noble sons, followed by the other
mourners, all walking from her house to the family tomb in the little
church cemetery, and lovingly laid at rest, without the touch of a
stranger hand.

Soon after Captain William Weld's death, the estate was purchased by a
Mr. Wilson, who resided here for a few years, Mr. Horatio Greenough, the
sculptor, also lived here when young, and it is believed that he took his
first lessons in art of Binon, the French sculptor, in this house, In
1829 Mr. Edward Peters purchased it for a summer residence, and it is
still occupied by his descendants, This house in the finest specimen of
the West Indian style in the vicinity. Stony Brook runs through the dell
back of the garden, with a line of fine old oaks and butternut-trees on
its banks. Years since, when trenching the land, the smooth bed of the
broad Stony River was reached, into which some of the large trees had
fallen and lain imbedded in the mud, well preserved. A perfect beaver dam
was also discovered there, and marks of beavers' teeth on some of the
trees. Various Indian relics have been unearthed in different parts of
the place.

About the year 1827, Mr. Stephen M. Weld, son of Captain William G. Weld,
established a boarding-school for young men on the site of the present
residence of his family, the corner of South and Centre streets, which
was very successful during thirty years, pupils coming from many of the
States and from Mexico, Cuba, and Yucatan. Weld Hall, connected with