Hannah Lapham Anthony was a most saintly woman and, because of her beautiful religious character was made an elder and given an exalted position on the "high seat."[1] [Illustration: HOME OF LUCY READ, ADAMS, MASS.] She was a very handsome brunette and was noted for the beauty and elegance of her Quaker attire, her bonnets always being made in New York.

Humphrey never attained the "high seat;" he was too worldly.

His ambition was constantly to add more to his broad acres, to take a bigger drove of cattle to Boston than any of his neighbors, and to get a higher price for his own than any other Berkshire cheese would bring.
He had a number of farms and a hundred cows, while his wife made the best cheese and was the finest housekeeper in all that part of the country.

The fame of her coffee and biscuits, apple dumplings and chicken dinners, spread far and wide.

Their kitchen was forty feet long.