“During the year a gift of $500 has been received from our associate Mr. Horace E. Ware, accompanied by a suggestion so unusual as to deserve notice in this report.  While the gift is entirely free, Mr. Ware suggests that the sum of $500 ‘together with any interest thereon and additions, if any, from other sources, be applied at some future time, perhaps in the year 1930, to or towards constructing and placing a memorial at the GoveRnor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England or to such of its officers and freemen as took part in the transfer of its charter government to its territory here in New England.’  Your Council is confident that Mr. Ware’s suggestion will prove of great interest to the Society, and ventures to lay the whole matter before you, trusting that if you are sufficiently in accord with him you will meet his initial generosity with your own, and so, in the course of years, brings this nucleus up to the amount necessary for the fulfilment of this project.”

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Transactions, Vol. 19, by the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 1918, page 2