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NEW-ENGLAND 


|istflrical  m)i  Genealogical  '§.q\sitx. 


PUBLISHID   QUtSTBILT,   BT   THS 


FOR  THE  YEAR  1884. 


VOLUME    XXXVUI. 


BOSTON: 
PUBLI3UED  AT  THE  SOCIETY'S  HOUSE,  18  SOMERSET  STREET. 
pRiMTED  BT  David  Clapf  tk  So:(. 
1884. 


Committtt  on  |nblitatuin, 

1884. 

JOHN  WARD  DEAN,  JEREMIAH  COLBURN. 

LUCIUS  R.  PAIGE.  WILLIAM  B.  TRASK. 

EDMUND  F.  SLAFTER,  HENRY  F.  WATERS, 

HENRY  U.  EDES. 


enitnx, 

JOHN  WARD  DEAN. 


GENERAL   INDEX. 


Index  of  Names  of  Pirsons  at  the  end  of  the  Yolame. 


(See  Deeds  and  ITiUi.) 
AddRM  (aonaal)  uf  Prettdent  Wilder,  188 
ABdeDt  IroQ  Works  la  TaoDloo,  906 

▲Iks  Fftjsiljt  (|a^7«  M 

▲meriean  Newtpapera  In  1884,  Dotoi  841 

AoBCi,  AUI,  query,  84 

Aathooy,  Fmode,  genesloffloal  gfeaoioga  of,  420 

AppVttoa^  Major  Samoel,  aod  hie  men  In  King  Phi* 

HP's  war,  429 
Apeley,  Edward,  genea^ogleal  gleenlngt  of,  418 
▲nck^ary,  motiTee  of  the,  note,  210 
Anna  or  Annorial  Bearings.    (See  Coatt  ofArma,) 
Aecwood,  John,  genealogical  gleanings  of,  421 
Autln  Family,  qnery,  86 
Antographt.    (See  itluetratUnu.) 

Bacon  Faoiily,  query,  229 

Baldwin  0«Dealogy,  160,  289,  872 

B%11,  Samoel,  query.  447 

Ba[>tisms  and  Ueaths.    (See  Reeorde.} 

Bvk«r.  Augusta,  query,  447 

Barreu  Family  of  Concord,  note,  388 

B«er«,  Capt.  Eichard  and  his  men  in  King  Philip's 

war,  325 
Belcfac>r,  rtrply  to  query,  232 
Bell,  Thnnias,  genealogical  note,  02 
BeUinsham,  note,  82 
BeOs  (oVI :,  query,  227)  note,  281 
Bererly  Reocrds,  alMtracts,  81 
Blfge  Family,  genealc^cal  notes,  00,  01 
Bkigraphical  Sketches.    (See  also  Necrologf.) 

Caleb  R.  Ay er,  119 

George  Barstow,  119 

Joseph  Dane,  303 

Augustus  C.  Dodge,  119 

Sophia  U.  Dodge.  406 

Owge  T.  Dole,  405 

Alfred  L.  Elwyn.  364 

Eliadbeth  rarnsworth,  260 

John  L.  Gardner,  465 

Sarah  B.  Greely,  120 

Benry  B.  Ball,  364 

Sybella  B.  Ball,  250 

Biram  B.  flobbs,  364 

Lttcinda  F.  Boyt,  120 

William  B.  Iloyt,  120 

Andrew  A.  Buropbreys,  261 

William  S.  Johnson,  120 

Joseph  Leonard,  261 

Frederick  Lypoldt,  304 

Orsamus  B.  .Marshall,  460 

Alphens  S.  Packard,  460 

Wrndell  Pbimt>s,  261 

Eliza  Susan  Quincy,  146 

Bewail  Sargent,  460 

Baxter  P.  Smith,  261 

Michotas  Trfibner,  804 


Martha  D.  Waahbom,  804 

William  A.  Whitney,  261 

Charles  Wilson,  400 
Bonython  Family,  60 

Books  In  the  New  JBngbmd  Plantation  0fBe«  treat- 
ing of  New  England,  201 
Book  Notices— 

Albee.  Newcastle  (N.  H.).  467 

American  Pomologtoal  Society's  Nineteenth  Ad- 
dress, 246 

Antiquarian  Magaslnft  and  BibUographer(1888), 
240 

Banks's  Bonython  Family,  247 

Bftrber's  Allee  Family,  860 

Bay  State  Monthly,  240 

Binney's  Prentice  Family,  112 

Boston  Inscriptions  on   bronse  tablets  placed 
on  Burial  Grounds,  245 

Boston  Record  Commissioners,  Report,  244 

Bostonlan  Society's  Annual  Meeting  (1884),  800 

Boutwell's  Landmarks  in  Qroton,  &Uss.,  300 

Bridtce  Genealogy,  469 

Brooks  (Charles  T.)  Memorial,  460 

Buck's  Milwaukee  under  the  Charter,  1847— 
1853.    Vol.  IIL    469 

Catalogue  of  American  Poetry,  107 

Chapman's  Phllbrick  Family  (1583—1883),  400 

Chauncy  Fami'y  Pedigree,  360 

Circulars  of  Information  of  Bureaa  of  Ediwa- 
tlon  (1883),  241 

Cleveland  ( Hon.  Grorer),  Lineage  of,  400 

College  de  Maguelonne,  107 

Conant's  Cooant  Genealogy,  247 

Congregational  Year  Book  (1884),  242 

Daris's  Daris  Genealogy,  112 

Dean's  Deaoe  Genealogy,  113 

Dexter,  George,  Tribute  to  memory  of,  800 

Dison's  Dixon  and  Bomer,  400 

Drake's  New  England  Legends,  110 

Dummer  Academy  Catalogue,  OfBcers  aod  Stn- 
dents,  457 

Dyer's  (Cornelia  Joy)  Dyer  Family,  801 

Eddy  Family  Reuolon,  247 

Egles's  Dauphin  and  Lebanon  Counties  (IRt.), 
104 

Farmer  (John),  Memorial,  240 

Foster's  Stephen  flopkins,  367 

Gallon's  Record  of  Family  Faculties,  247 

Gardiner's  Papers  and  Biography  of  lionel  Gar> 
diner.  111 

Genealogist,  The,  Tol.  TIT.,  108 

Gerard's  Chapman  Genealogy,  300 

(Goodrich  Family  Memorial,  Part  II.,  801 

Green's  Groton  during  the  Indian  Wars.  100- 

Oreen's  Notes  on  Dr.  William  Dooglass's  Alma- 
nack, 1743, 860 

Orlswold  Family  in  ConneeUcat,  469 


IV 


General  Index. 


Book  NoUoe*^ 

Gonnlton's  Gonniion  Memorial,  247 

HftU*s  H&U  Qenealogy,  112 

HalPi  Waldo  Family,  112 

Harris's  Index  to  American  Poetry,  107 

Harrises  EpIUphs  of  Blook  Islaod,  L  L,  111 

Harris's  Harris  Family,  112 

Hastam's  CheeTer  Family,  Part  II.,  MO 

Hayden'i  Pollock  Genealonr,  118 

Bomphreys's  Hamphr^s^hraealogy,  112,  801 

HonneveU's  Historical  Moaomaota  of  Franoa, 

8M 
Hontington's  Lo-Lathrop  Family,  406 
lutrootlon  Primaire  ra  Langnedoo,  107 
Jameaoo's  Cogsirells  In  America,  460 
JohosoD*s  Clarke  Qeoealogy,  400 
Kansas  State  Historical  Society.    List  of  Neirs- 

papmv  and  Periodicals  pabUshed  In  Eduisaa, 

March,  1884,  369 
Kelton*s  Annals  of  Fort  Mackinac,  450 
Leicestersliire  MSS.  Notes,  241 
Library  Journal  (1883).  243 
Looghboroagh  (fSnglaud)  Parish  Begistar,  241 1 

Historical  Handbook,  241)   Chapters  In  th« 

History  of,  241 
Magasine  of  American  History,  109 
Margerlson's  Registers  of  tlia  Parish  Ohoroh  of 

Oalverly,  109 
Meads,  Orlando  Memorial  Tributes  to,  40» 
Merchant  Taylors'  School  Register  (1502^1774), 

808 
Minntea  of  National  Oooncil  of  Ooogrsgatlonal 

Oburches  in  U.  8.,  242 
Mnton  (Mass.)  BiarriagaBegislflra  (1080—1727), 

819 
Miscellanea  Genealogfca  at  Heraldica,  111 
Misoallanea  Marescalliana,  242 
Money's  First  and  Second  Battle  Newbary  and 

Siege  or  Donnlngton  Oaatle  (1048-0),  408 
Morrison's  Armstrong  Fandly,  247 
Mosical  Record,  112 
Nelson's  Homblower  Famtlj  aod  flrtt  Steam 

Bngine  in  America,  IH 
New  Bngtand    Historic  Oaoaalogloal  Society. 

President  WUder's  Annoal  Address,  240 
New  York  HUtorical  Sodety^s  OoUeodons,  1881, 


Kotsi  and  Qneries  ( Jaly  to  Pee.  1888>,  867 
Old  Sooth  Chnreh,  Boston,  BIft  Catalogue,  103 
Osbom'e  Ancient  Egypt  In  tiM  UglA  of  aMXiern 

disooreries,  108 
Gating  and  the  WheelsMUi,  January,  1884, 11& 
Page  (in  Tirginia)  Genealogy,  112 
Palmer's  Corinth,  Me.  (170t-1888),  800 
Parker's  ReooUectiooo  of  a  Na?al  OOoer  (1841— 

06),  100 
PeonsylTanla  Historloal  Boolaty,  loangaratioQ 

of  Mew  Hall,  469 
Perkliis'B  Periiins  Faariiyr  Part  I.,  4ia 
Phosnix,  Stephen  WUtaMy,  Mttorial  Bkeleh, 

868 
Pickering  Family,  Genaalegleal  Data,  SIV 
Powers*s  Powers  Genealogy,  801 
Preble's  Steam  Narigatioo,  866 
RegMer  Plan  of  arranging  Oenealcgtai,  118 
Report  of  Commissioners  uf  MaoiMoo,  1881,241 
Rice's  Reminisoences  of  (3borga  AOeo,  887 
Riell*s  History  of  Traro,  Maas.,  108 
Robertson's  Historical  Societies  la  thair  laUtlon 

to  local  historical  Interest,  861^ 
Robertson's  American  BeroltittCD  aod  tha  Ao- 

qatalUon  of  the  Valley  of  tha  Mteioslppi,  860 
ScnU's  Dorothea  Scott,  lOfr 
Saoomb's  History  of  Assherot,  N.  H..  104 
BUnghter's  Life  of  William  Orseo,  m 
Sparc's  Spare  Genealogy,  801 
tpooner's  Spooner  Family,  118,  S4T 
Soffolk  Deeds,  Uber  II.,  243 
Thwing's  Thwini^  Genealogy,  112 
Tattle's  Tattle  Geneatogy,  112 
Usher^  Carpenter  Family  Reeonl,  IfS 
Usher's   Lawrence^owaley  aod   OhmT^wn* 

lay's  BMales  In  Bngland,  8dl 
Tiek's  Floral  Guide  (1888),  110 


Book  Notices-^ 

Virginia,  Diocese  of,  Digest  of  (3onTentloii  and 

Councils,  868 
Visitations  of  Suffolk  Co.,  England  (1681),  240  { 
Lincoln  (160^4),  Berkshire  (1004^;,  Wo(w 
ceater  (1683),  240 
Walcott's  Concord  in  the  Colonial  Time,  888 
Wiilkef*s  First  Chufcb  in  Hartford,  1608—1888, 

466 
Watson's  Chart  of  the  Old  Thirteen  Ccloolaa, 

246 
Weisse's  (Mrs.)  Betbune  Family,  800 
Whitmore's  Sketch  of  Abel  Bowen,  800 
Wilder's,  MarchaU  P.,  Eighty  Fifth  BIrth-Daj 

Banquet,  246 
Wood's  Wood    (deaoendanta  of  Thomaa  and 
Ann),  801 
Boeton,  facilities  for  genealogical  research  In  Begia- 

trias  of  l*robate,  181 
Bretlaod,  EUaabeth,  genealogical  gleanings  of,  08 
Bradford  Family,  query,  84, 844 
Bradstreet,  Symon,  genealogieal  gleanings  of,  200 
Braintree  Records,  282 
Brookfleld,  Mass.,  Indian  attack  on ;  Place  of  Oapt« 

Wheeler's  defeat  in  1076,  query,  896 
Broughton,  tabular  notes,  60 
Broirn  Family  of  Conoord,  note,  889 
Bulkeley,  R«t'.  Peter,  letters,  query,  84 
Burneil,  genealogieal  gleanings  of,  419 
Batcher,  NIoion,  gonealoglcal  gleanings  of,  418 
Buttrick  Family  of  Conoord,  note,  390 

Calef,  Robert,  death  of,  note,  840 

Carr,  Sir  Robert,  genealogical  gleanings  of,  72 

Chapin,  Edwin  H  ,  Rer-,  memoir  of,  121 

Chaplin,  Olement,  genealogical  gleanings  of,  71  { 

Edmund,  410 
Chartett,  Richard,  genealogical  gleanings  of,  821 
CheeTer  Genealogy,  170 
CJht^ter,  Joseph  L.,  memoir  of,  1}  abetraet  of  his 

manuscripts,  17 ;  works  of,  18 }  Insoriptloa  OTsr 

grave,  262 
Children  named  for  Washlnaton,  844 
Clarke,  Dorus,  memoir  of,  263 
Clark  Family,  queries,  231  {  answer  to,  448 
Cole,  Edward,  genealogical  gleanings  of,  70 ;  Joho, 

321 
Concord  (Mass.),  scne  firmer  fkmiUes  of,  888 
Cowley,  Walter,  query,  88 
Crouch,  Richard,  geneakiglcal  gleanings  of,  419 
Calrerwell,  Baeklel,  genealogical  gleaninm  of,  427 
Curtis,  John,  genealogical  gleanings  of.  07 
Cashing,  Peter,  genealogical  gleanings  oi;  421 

DartmoQtb,  The,  note  on,  80 

Deaths,  current.  11».  260,868,  405 

Decay,  supposed,  of  Famfllea,  384 

Deed  of  William  and  Hannah  Shanke  (1080),  878 

Deerfleld,qo6rles  and  Items,  228 

Deposition  of  Esekiel  CheeTer  (1001^2),  178}  Gnca 

Sylvester  (1086),  207 
Derby  Family  of  Conoord,  note,  803 
Dole  Genealonr,  74}  answer  to  query,  447 
Downelnge,  llathaniel,  genealogieal  ghsanloii  of, 

193}  George,  194 

Early  Maps  of  Massacbofattt  aod  of  Boilon  Harbor, 

note,  842 
Baton,  Family  of  Qor.  Theopfallns,  29 
Bales,  Nathaniel,  geoealogtoal  note,  04,  410 
Emerson,  Joseph,  query,  840 
England,  Waters's  genealogloal  gleaoioga  io,  00, 

193, 801,  414 
EngraTings.    C8ee  lUuttraU&nM.) 
Epitaphs.    {3ee  Ituoripiion§.) 
Errata,  304 

Essex  County  (3oart  Files,  abstracts,  81 
llyre,  Simon,  genealogical  glsanlngB  of,  417 

Facilities  for  genealogioil  research  In  Begiatrisa  of 

Probate  In  London  and  Boston,  131 
Falmouth  Records,  reply  Io  query,  86 
Farmingtnn  (Coon.)  Church  Baootds,  276,  410 
Fenwiek,  Qeorga,  gaoaalogksal  gtaaolofe  and  padl- 

gcaa,  100 


General  Index. 


Wsakt,M 

id,  w,  US,  set,  4U 

I,  bdlKtai  <(  tn  Biataa  ud 

r,  IT.  H.,  DoM,  U 
»,  DoU!.  ta 

fiaMn  hmt,  f«>MiifiBti  tiaBiigi  or,  an 

OaBd(cTlMaiu.(eii«liMls>l  riiiU,  M 
Said*,  SLuwadak*,  (noloclal  DMe,  St 
Goadmn  Funll;,  sou,  230 

Orini,  )ll:Juwl.  (<iieik>(lM]  Bolt,  «T 

Srlulill.  AnAbiilioii  Ei]maiid,»lMtnct  iHIl,  301 

Oribb,  OibHil,  DOW,  441 

lUnt*.  BrHbrtb,  enc*k«Val  jleulnn  of,  412- 
Himrd.  Je>ho.iad  Kmumcl  Oollefc,  »M 
Kulxm  FimUj,  fiDUkigiatl  gMulcfl  ot,  SSi  301- 

lUf  nn)  TimOj,  qatfj,  M]  npl;  to,  Bl,  US 
BaiKt  (gaflJl.  Eoa.)  Heat.  S43 


Jtsepb  I.  Cbnicr.  t  (    D.  Cb 
nupiD.  HI  )  Tbamu  Bobbin 

" ■—- .— Bonjthm,  M 


TtT««tlM.0kMtar,Si1 
imuiow  rtir  Id  BDtuii  In  isu,  Bou,  wa 
trairieh  Qowur  HIIMnur,  444 

Iro,  JahD,  (oneilDglal  gloul^  id,  did 


Klof  ndllp'i  War,  aoldian  bi,  U,  IIT,  lU,  US 


L*rf*hM,  jjinftogta*]  itnolnci  of,  St  i  Joha,  SM 
Utkn^  CipL  TOODM  aod  bto  m«  Id  K1d«  PttllB'k 

I«llii,'abr  Burr,  SIS 

ON<nrOnii>vell(ISU),a>4 

LHklhcrCIOll),  in 

Ton  nt  Pnrmaoih  10  EHu  Sdlanui  Ddtd},  M" 

KdDond  QolDCT  (IIM)  m,  ItX,  [IIU]     lU^ 
(ITSI)  1U,  lU 

■.  K.BInn([1SS4).an 

Dl«BlulgJ(UI»),  11 
tianira,  WUILmm,  verj,  390 
Lilt  or  AnHriBD   Ckpilna  ndcoMd   In  AlflNI 

(ISdl),  S«» 
Uimrj  Raminti  M  BoiOBnet  HmH,  44B 
LongD0iido«(Mu.]  lte»rdi,4a,lGTi  naU,IS 
Lorinc  runUj,  tUT,  19) 
Locu,  Rabon,  (enoloflMl  (lluilngl  of,  Sd 


Hirtf  B,  Klchird,  no 


IhTon 


JoHpb  L.  CbeUer,  1 
Donu  CUrke,  363 
Edmnml  Qnliicjr,  14i 

tfUdlewri  Gounlx  Rrcordi,  fthotncta,  Tl 


w  Englud  HiMorlc  OtDMkfl- 


t  i.  Uomphnj,  8S 
H.Jo,«,4U 


Donllo  S.  ICo/iri.  23S 
Wtllird  Fukor,  3M 
Btnjuiln  0.  Ptiicc,  10 


VI 


General  Index* 


noratio  N.  Perkins,  454 

EdWNrd  9  lUnd,  464 

Fmnael  P,  Rindge,  230 

Oeorre  A.  SImrooDS,  23S 

Jofliah  A.  Steami,  101 

JnhD  G  Tappan,  M 

Oinery  Twicbell,  89 

Israel  Waahbum,  99 

Qinmt  W.  Warren,  8fr 

Moses  T.  WilUnl,  92 

Kdward  Winalow,  98 
Nelll,  ReT.  Edward  D.,  qaery  as  to  catborahfp,  440 
Nelfvn,  Thomas,  geneslogloil  gl«aDiogs  of,  423 
New  Bofrland  Gleanings,  79 

New  England  Bl^tnrle   Genealogteal   Society — An- 
nual Address,  183 1  Ni^mlngy  of,  89,  236,  810, 
468 ;  Proceedings  of,  87.  236.  847,  460 
N^w  England  (Early),  notes  sod  letters  relating  to, 

378 
Norspy  Bark,  note,  843, 448 
Not^s  and  Qaeries,  82,  227, 839,  446 

Ohtmary  Notices.  (See  Biographical  3k9tek9t  and 
Necroloffy.) 

Parsons,  qnery,  447 

Peake,  Sir  Robert,  geneafc)g)c8l  gleanings  of,  74 

Pepperell.  Willlain,  genealogical  gleanings  of,  204 

Peme,  Richard  mod  Rachel,  geoealjglcal  gleanings 
of.  311 

Petition  of  merrhant  adrentarers  trading  in  the 
Iron  Works  In  New  England,  878 

Phllbrlck  Genealogy,  279 

Phips,  Sir  William  and  Frands,  geneaiogieal  glean- 
ings of.  204,  326 

Poor,  Wmtam,will,  noiM,  232 

Portraits,    (dee  I Uuttrations.) 

Potter,  I>orothj,  aaery,  86 

Purtsmoutn,  M.  H.    Early  papers,  69 

Pratt,  Tbomas,  query,  840 

Purchase,  Thomas,  note,  82}  Samuel,  819 

Quaker  and  Universalist  Preacher,  query,  228 
Queries.    (See  IfoUM  and  Queries.) 
Quick,  William,  geuealogknu  note,  00 
Quiocy ,  Edmund,  mtrmoir  of,  146 
Quiocy,  Elixa  Susan,  Miss,  sketch  of,  146 
Quo  Warranto  of  1036,  209 

Rawson,  Edward,  genealogical  gleaniniti  of,  308  } 
DiiTid.  8u9  I  William,  310 

Recent  Publicattoos,  116,  248,  368,  401 

Records.  Braiotree,  Mass  .  202 }  Milton.  Mass.,  20} 
Farmingtoo,  Ot,  27-^,  410 1  Loogmeadow,  Mass , 
40.  167}  Portsmouth.  N.  M  (Papers),  66}  Win- 
chester, N.  H.,  31,  226. 280,  406 

Reed.  Gen.  Jsmes,  note  on  portrait  of,  81 

Read,  John,  genealogical  gleanings  of,  07 

Rice,  Nehemiah.  query,  447 

Rich,  Simeon,  query,  231 

Richardson,  Amos,  note,  017 

Robinson,  Thomas,  query,  bS 

Robblos,  Thomas,  memoir  of,  304 

Roby,  Andrew,  genealogical  gleanings  of,  07 

Rolfe.  John,  genealogical  gleanings  of,  08 

Rowe,  Mary,  genealogical  gleaniogs  of,  808 

Rue,  Hesekiah,  query,  344 

Bootchford,  John,  genealogical  gleanings  of,  416 
Sears  Family,  query,  86 
Sedgwicke,  John,  genealogical  gleanings  of,  200 
Sherwood  Family,  query,  84,  344 
SllTer,  Juho,  query,  229 
Smith,  John,  genealogical  gleanings  of,  71,  417 
Soldiers  In  King  Phnip*s  War,  34,  217, 326, 429 
Spelman,  Thomas,  genealogical  gleanings  of,  323,  428 
Spriggs,  Elisabeth,  query,  83 
Si.  John,  N.  B.,  ancestry  of  first  flunilies  of,  note,  440 
Stebbins,  Elisabeth,  query,  84 }  records,  16T 
Stewart,  John,  query,  231 
Stone,  Margaret,  geoeatogicat  gleanfaigs  of,  890 
Snmner^s  History  of  East  Boston,  note  oa  author- 
ship of,  446 
Soppoaed  Decay  of  familict,  884 


Sylvester,  ConsUnt,  genealogkial  gleanings  of,  907 

Tabular  Pedigree,  Waite  and  Bronghton  fkmilies,  60 
Taunton,  Ancient  Iron  Works  of,  206 
Ten  Generations  in  New  England,  Table  of,  60 
Tbacher,  Rev.  Peter,  marriage  records  in  Milton, 

Msss.,  20 
Thomson,  Robert,  genealogical  gleanings  of,  817,  414 
Tibbetts,  Ichabod,  query,  447 
Tllden,  Joseph,  genealogical  gTeaninga  of,  822 
Town  Histories  in  prepwation— 

Albany,  N.  Y.,  233 

Bradford,  N.  H.,  347 

Norway,  Me.,  234 

Paris,  Me.,  234 

Philadelphia,  Pa.,  234 

Weare,  N.  H.,  80.  234 
Town  Records.    (See  Reeordn.) 
Tyler,  John,  Goremor  and  Son,  letters  and  memolrt 
of,  note,  86 

Underwood  Genealogy,  400 

Yansoldt,  Elisabeth,  genealogical  gleanings  of,  894 

▼irglnia  Queries,  230 

Virginia,  Ez«catlTes  of,  note,  232 

Wade,  Joseph,  genealogical  gleanings  of,  821 

Wadsworth,  answ^n*  to  query,  86 

Waite  Family,  tabular  notes  on,  60 

Wallin,  Hannah,  genealogical  gleanings  oi;  819 

Warde,  Nathaniel,  genealoglcai  note,  73 

Wamett,  genealogical  gleanings,  of,  197}    tabular 

pedigree,  196 
Washington,  John.  426}  autograph  of,  query,  929 
Wa'son,  query,  341 

Waters,  Henry  F.,  and  his  English  Researches,  00, 
193,  301,  414  }  Abstract  of  letter  from,  839 }  Gen- 
ealogical Gleanings  of— 

Francis  Anthony,  420 

Edward  Apaiey,  418 

John  AsCwood,  421 

Thomas  Bell,  02 

Ellen  Bigge,  01 

John  BIrg,  01 

Smalehope  Bigg.  00 

Simon  Bradstreet,  20(^ 

Kliaabeth  Bretland,  08 

Thomas  Bumell,  419 

NInlon  Butcher,  416 

Robert  Carr,  72 

Clement  Chaplin,  71 

Edmund  Chaplin,  419 

Edward  Oole,  70 

John  Cole,  321 

Richard  Charlett,  821 

Rlchaid  Crouch,  419 

Eseklell  CulverweU,  49T 

John  Curtis,  07 

Peter  Cushing,  421 

George  Downing,  194 

Nathaniel  Downlnge,  199 

Nathaniel  Eeles,  04, 419 

Simon  Eyre,  417 

George  kenwick,  199 

Robert  Feveryeare,  70 

Joslas  Firmin ,  72 

Thomas  Foul  ks,  890 

Edward  Gadsby,  08 

Jose  GloTer,  72 

Roger  Glover,  423 

Mary  Oodwyn,  821 

Tbomas  GoUedge.  00 

Marmadnke  Gooae,  85 

Michael  Griggs,  07 

Edmund  Grindall,  801 

Elisabeth  Hailes,  422 

Kathanlel  Hathome.  908 

Robert  Hathome,  08 

Sara  Hathome,  902 

William  Hathome,  901 

Nowell  Hilton,  78 

Joseph  Holland,  TS 

Jamas  Bolt,  488 


General  Index. 


Vll 


Balph  BoolLcr, 
Xdward  Bopkint,  811 
BcBf7H0pkiiM.su 
Mary  Hoakin*.  66 
John  Ire,  411 
JkBn6  JooM|  66 
Daaiei  JoIumoo,  68 
Jote  Larabee,  SiSl 
Sir  John  LeIU  SIS 
Botat  Loom,  66 
ThaiiiMNelMo,4SS 
Bohcct  Pnk«,  74 
WUfiam  Pepperall,  204 
Bacbei  Pmie,  811 
Kidurd  PenM,  811, 429 
WnadB  Phl|»p«,206 
Br  WilliuB  PUpt,  204, 82S 
BuBoel  PardiM,  819 
'WaUainQiilek,60 
Edvmrd  Bavmm,  806 
DftTid  Bawmo,  800 
WUUam  Bavboo,  810 
John  EMd,  07 
Anthony  &ol»]r,  67 
JohoBolfe,06 
Mary  Rove,  808 
Joho  8«ifwlek,  906 
John  Bcwtrttlbfd,  418 

Cnnarant  Qyhreater.  907 

Grace  BjlTcafenr,  907 

John  Bmith,  71 

KathaaW  flmith,  417 

Thoaaa  Spdnutn,  828,429 

ManvH  fltOQo,  890 

Bobort  Thomaoo,  817,  414 

Jfloeph  Tllden,  892 

Baholh  Tanwildt,  824 

Jowph  Wade,  821 

Bannah  WaUier.  310 

Vathnntel  WaH,  73 

Thomaa  Wamett,  107 

John  WtlklDioo,  3u7 

WUIiam  WflMO,  306 

Bf^rjamiu  Woodbridffe,  424 

EdmoDd  Woodhall.  304 

Jux>es  Woodhall,  303 

William  Woodhall,  »04 

Henry  Woodhoote,  67 

Thomas  Yale,  310 

Qtm^  Tardflj,  69 
Weeks  Family,  qoerj,  83 
Weotworth  c  Paul)  Family  in  Barbadoes,  444 
Wheeler,  Capt.  Thomas  and  his  oompir "  in  King 
Philip's  War,  34  *,  query  as  to  the  pla^>«rhis  de- 
feat.  895 
Wheeler  family  of  Coooord,  note,  394 
White,  Dai>lel,  qoory,  83 
Whitmore  Family,  query,  228 
Wtekabna«  or  Winnimlsset  7  305 
WiUer,  Marshall  P.,  anooal  address  of.  138 
Wilkioson,  John,  fenealogiral  gt^'sninirs  of,  807 
Wniard.  M^.  S.moo,  and  his  men  in  King  Philip's 

War,  218 
WQIs,  I>e^8  and  Probate  Records,  abstracts  of  and 
extracts  from— > 

Francis  Anthony  (1628),  420 

Kdvard  Apsley  (1051),  418 

John  Asiwood  (1654),  421 

Alice  Baldwin  (1662),  166 
Bartholomew  Baldwin  (1055),  207 

tdward  Baldwin  (1601).  293 

Francis  Baldwin  (1639),  296 

Henry  Baldwin  (1557).  165,  (1661)  291 

John  B«ldwin  (1649),  160 

Richard  Baldwin,  (1552-3)  162,  (1632)  167,  294 

Thomas  Baldwin  (157U).  298.  (1617)  373 

Syirerter  Baldwin  (159^),  872 

Tbnmas  Bell  (1672),  62 

B^rerly  Town  Reoonls,  81 

Klen  Bigge  (1638),  61 

John  Bigg  (1642),  61 

taalhope  Bigg e  ri638),  60 


Wins,  Deeds,  dec— > 

BimoQ  Bradsireet  (1627),  206 
Elisabeth  Bretland  (1687),  68 
Thomas  Bomeil  (1661),  419 
Ninioo  Botcher  (1660),  411 
Sir  Robert  Carr  (1667).  72 
Clement  Chaplin  (1656),  71 
Sdmand  Chaplin  (1618),  416 
Bdward  Coie  (1652),  70 
John  Cole  (1603).  321 
Rkshard  Charlett  (1694),  891 
Richard  Crouch  (1660),  419 
Enkleli  Culrerwell  (1631),  427 
John  Curtis  (1690),  67 
Peter  Cashing  (1664),  421 
George  Dtiwoing  (1684),  194 
Mathaolcl  Downioge  (1616),  198 
Rkhard  Baton  (1616),  20 
Nathaniel  Eeles  (1678),  64, 419 
Bsaez  Oo.  Files,  81 
Symon  Eyro  (1660),  417 
(}eorge  Fenwick  (1657),  199 
Robert  Fereryeare  (1656),  70 
Joalas  Firmlon  (1638),  72 
Thomas  Foalks,  320 
BdWArd  Oadsby  (1606),  68 
Jose  Glorer  (1638).  72 
BogerQloTer  (1687).  428 
Mary  Qoodwyn  (1665),  821 
ThomaN  a>lledge  (1645).  60 
Mannaduke  Ooode  (1678),  65 
Michael  ariggs(168!»),  67 
Ednwnd  Orindall  (1588),  801 
Eliaabeth  Uailes  (1664).  422 
Nathaniel  Uathome  (1654),  208 
Bobeit  Hathome  (1691),  68 
Sara  Hathome  (1655),  202 
WlUiam  Hathome  (1651),  201 
Mowell  Hilton,  73 
Joseph  Holland  (1658),  78 
James  Holt  (1631),  428 
Ralph  Hooker  (1665).  328 
Edward  Hopkins  (1657),  811 
n«nry  Hopkins  (1664).  315 
Mary  Uoskin*  (1678).  66 
John  Ive(l«19),  416 
Daniel  Johnton  (1696),  63 
Anne  Jones  (1678).  66 
JohD  Lanibee  (1694),  321 
Sir  John  Ullo  (1629),  313 
Robt-rt  Lucas (1678).  66 
MiddlrB«'X  Court  Filen,  79 
Thomas  Nelson  (1650),  423 
Robert  Peake,  74 
W  illiam  P«rpperel1  (1655).  204 
Rachel  Pt-me  (1650),  311,  429 
Richard  Perne  ( 1636),  381,  429 
Francis  Phips  (1668).  205 
Sir  Willitm  Pbips  (1696),  204,  321 
Samuel  Purchu  (1626).  319 
William  Quick  (1614),  60 
Edward  Rnwson  (1604).  308 
David  Rawson  (1617).  300 
Willinra  Rawson  (1604),  310 
John  Reed  (1688),  67 
Anlhonj  Roby.  68 
John  Roire(16SO).68 
^ary  Rowe  (1682-3),  808 
John  Bedgewtcke  (163H),  206 
JoiinScnichford  (160<>).  415 
Consunt  8ylvest«>r  (1671;,  207 
John  Smltb  (1656),  71 
Nathanael  fmith  (1650),  417 
Thomas  Speiman,  323.  429 
Mtirgar^t  ^tooe  (1605),  3A) 
Roben  Thomson  (1091 ).  317,  414 
Joseph  Tilien  (1642).  3J2 
£litab«-th  Vansoldi  (160ft),  324 
Jos  ph  Wade  (1692).  321 
Hantiah  WRilin  (1663).  319 
Nathaniel  Warde  (1667).  73 
Thoma«  Wamett  (1630),  107 
JohD  Wilkinson  (1034).  307 
William  Wilson  (1616),  306 


TIU 


General  Index. 


Willi,  Bcedf ,  ke.-~ 

Benjamlo  Woodbridge  (1684),  4M 

Edmund  WoodhaU  (18S8).  80* 

James  WoodhaU  (1001),  M8 

William  WoodlMll  (1604),  804 

Henry  WoodhooM  (1688),  67 

Thomaa  Tale  (1607),  816 

BIr  Georfe  Tardlej  (1«28),  60 

York  Go.  fUei,  81 
WUion,  WUUam,  g«neatogte>l  gtamlafct  of,  806 
Winchester,  N.  b.,  Beoocda,  81,  S8ft,  286, 40» 
Wing  Qenaalogy,  876 


WInslow,  Edward,  notat  oo,  H 

Wise,  query,  83 

Wolterton,  Orrgory,  qtiery,  846 

Woodbridge,  i^amio,  gWMalogfml  gleudDfi  of, 

424 
Woodhall,  James,  genealogleal  gleanings  of,  808 } 

William,  804;  Edmund,  804 
Woodbouse,  Henry,  genealogloal  gleanings  oC;  67 
Wright  Family,  quary,  B4 
Tale,  Thomas,  genealogloal  gleanings  of,  816 
Tardley,  Oeorge,  genealogical  gleanbgs  of;  60 
Tork  Gonntj,  abstzaot  deads,  81 


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HISTORICAL  AND  GENEALOGICAL 

REGISTER. 


JANUARY,  1884. 


JOSEPH  LEMUEL  CHESTER,  LL.D.,  D.C.L. 

THE  life  of  the  late  Col.  Chester,  whose  career  has  added  lustre 
to  the  names  of  genealogist  and  antiquary,  has  a  peculiar  in- 
terest for  the  readers  of  the  Register,  in  whose  fngea  his  writings 
have  often  appeared.  He  was  the  third  son  and  fifth  child  of  Jo- 
seph and  Prudee  (Tracy)  Chester,  of  Norwich,  Connecticut,  and  was 
bom  in  that  town  April  30,  1821. 

His  earliest  known  ancestor  in  this  country  was  Capt.  SaraueP 
Chester,  of  New  London,  who  removed  to  that  town  about  the  year 
1663  from  Boston.  Samuel  Chester  was  in  the  West  India  trade, 
and  in  connection  with  William  Condy,  who  is  styled  his  nephew, 
received  in  1(564  a  grant  of  land  for  a  warehouse.  "  He  was,"  says 
Miss  Caulkins,  "much  employed  in  land  surveys,  and  in  1G93  was 
one  of  the  agents  appointed  by  the  general  court "  of  Connecticut 
"to  meet  with  a  committee  from  Massachusetts  to  renew  and  settle 
the  boundaries  between  the  colonies."* 

Joseph  Lemuel  Chester  was  the  sixth  in  descent  from  Capt.  Sam- 
uel,* through  John,'  Deacon  Joseph'  and  his  second  wife  Elizabeth 
Otis,  Joseph*  and  wife  Elizabeth  Lee,  and  his  father  Joseph*  above 
named.  His  mother,  Prudee  Tracy,  was  a  daughter  of  Major  Ele- 
azer  Tracy,  of  Norwich,  by  his  wife  Prudee,  daughter  of  Captain 
Uriah  R')gers,  of  that  town.  She  was  descended  from  Lieut.  Tho- 
iQiis  Tracy,  an  early  settler  of  Norwich ;  and  she  inherited  also  the 
bLxnl  of  the  Rev.  John  Rogers,  the  famous  Puritan  preacher  of 
Dedham,  Enghmd,  his  son  the  Rev.  Nathaniel  Rogers,  of  Ipswich, 
Mas^.,  the  Rev.  William  Hubbard,  author  of  the  History  of  New 
En^rland,  and  other  distinguished  personages. 

Joseph  Chester,  the  father  of  Col.  Chester,  was  a  grocer  in  mod- 
erate circumstances,  an  honest  and  upright  man.     He  died  at  Nor- 

•  See  Canlkins's  History  of  New  London,  pp.  145  and  3o3;  Hinman's  Early  Puritan  Set- 
tler* of  Connecticut,  pp.  557-9;  Memoir  of  Joseph  Lemuel  Chester,  by  JohuJ.  Latiing,  iQ. 
N.  Y.  Genealogical  and  Biographical  Record,  vol.  xiii.  pp.  149-56. 

VOL.    XXXVIU.         1 


2  Colonel  Chester.  [Jan. 

wich,  January  30,  1832,  aged  44 ;  but  having  had  a  large  family 
of  nine  children  to  support,  left  little  property  to  his  widow  and 
children.  His  eldest  son,  now  the  Rev.  Albert  Tracy  Chester,  D.D., 
of  Buffalo,  was  then  a  student  at  Union  College,  Schenectady,  N.  Y. 
The  next  son,  Charles  Huntington  Chester,  a  youth  of  sixteen,  carried 
on  the  grocery  store  for  his  mother  for  two  or  three  years.  In  1835 
the  family  removed  to  Rome,  Ohio,  where  Erastus  Chester,  a  brother 
of  Mr.  Chester,  resided,  and  where  they  took  a  small  farm.  Albert 
was  graduated  from  Union  College  in  1833,  studied  for  the  min- 
istry, and  when  settled  as  a  clergyman  took  his  younger  brothers 
and  sisters  successively  into  his  family.  Mrs.  Chester,  the  widow, 
on  the  6th  of  September,  1837,  married  the  Rev.  John  Hall,  rector 
of  the  Episcopalian  church  at  Ashtabula,  Ohio. 

Joseph  obtained  his  education  at  the  common  schools,  though 
possibly  he  may  have  attended  for  a  short  time  the  academy  at  Ash- 
tabula, where  his  mother  resided  after  her  second  marriage.  One 
of  his  teachers,  Othniel  Gager,  who  kept  the  district  school  at  Nor- 
wich when  Joseph  was  eight  or  ten  years  old,  is  the  present  town 
clerk  of  Norwich,  Ct.  Mr.  Latting,  the  author  of  the  excellent  me- 
moir of  Col.  Chester  in  the  yew  York  Genealogical  and  Biograph- 
ical Record,  hjis  seen  Mr.  Gager,  who  described  his  pupil  to  him  as 
a  handsome,  briirht  boy,  but  he  had  no  remembrance  of  any  peculiar 
mental  traits.  That  Joseph  made  himself  proficient  in  his  studies  at 
the  various  schools,  is  shown  bv  the  fact  that  before  he  had  reached  his 
majority,  he  himself  taught  a  school.  This  was  at  Ballston,  ]S.  Y., 
which  is  near  Ballston  Spa,  where  his  brother  Albert  was  first  set- 
tled as  a  clergyman.  In  1837  he  was  for  a  short  time  a  clerk  at 
Warren,  Ohio,  in  the  land  agency  office  of  Gen.  Simon  Perkins  and 
the  Hon.  Frederick  Kinsman,  the  latter  of  whom  remembers  him  as 
a  young  man,  '*  tall  and  commanding  in  appearance,  and  Very  ready 
as  a  clerk  to  comprehend  and  do  what  was  required  of  him." 

In  1838,  being  then  seventeen  years  old,  he  went  to  New  York 
city  and  commenced  the  study  of  law.  He  soon  abandoned  it  for 
the  mercantile  profession.  He  was  at  one  time  employed  as  a  clerk 
by  Messrs.  Arthur  Tappan  &  Co.  in  that  city,  silk  merchants,  the 
members  of  the  firm  being  noted  for  their  enterprise  and  also  for 
their  philanthropic  labors.  "They  were,"  Mr.  Latting  writes  me, 
"very  strict  in  the  enforcement  of  a  printed  set  of  rules  for  the  moral 
conduct  of  their  clerks  and  other  employes.  They  made  them  all 
workers  in  the  causes  of  Temperance  and  Anti-Slavery."  One  of 
the  partners,  Lewis  Tappan,  established  in  1841  a  mercantile  agen- 
cy in  New  York,  and  employed  Mr.  Chester  as  a  clerk. 

His  literary  taste  was  early  developed.  While  in  New  York  he 
contributed  articles  to  the  newspapers  and  magazines  of  the  day, 
r  chiefly  of  a  poetic  character."  The  Knickerbocker  for  January, 
1843,  contains  a.  poem  by  him  entitled  "Greenwood  Cemetery," 
and  signed  "  Julian  Cramer."     This  pseudonym  is  that  by  which  he 


1884.]  Colonel  Chester.  3 

became  best  known ;  though  he  wrote  under  several  other  signa- 
tures. The  Knickerbocker i  in  which  his  poem  appeared,  was  then 
the  leading  literary  magazine  in  the  United  States.  The  same  year 
his  first  volume,  **  Greenwood  Cemetery  and  Other  Poems,"  was 
published  at  New  York  and  Boston.  The  Knickerbocker  for  March, 
1843,  has  a  favorable  notice  of  the  book,  written,  I  presume,  by  the 
editor,  Lewis  Gaylord  Clark,  a  competent  critic.  It  states  that 
though  the  poems  had  "  some  faults,"  which  were  to  be  expected  in 
80  young  a  writer,  there  are  in  them  "  marks  of  a  veritable  taste 
and  a  pleasing  imagination,  and  evidence  of  an  eye  that  sees  and  a 
he  irt  that  feels  the  beautiful  in  nature,  and  the  bright,  tender  or 
sorrowful  in  humanity."  Mr.  Latting  states  that  this  volume  com- 
prises '*  fifty-four  separate  pieces,  mostly  written  prior  to  attain- 
ing his  majority.  The  lines  *0n  the  Death  of  President  Harrison,' 
'  On  the  Loss  of  the  Steamship  President,'  and  '  The  Captives  of 
L'Amistad,'  were  all  composed  in  his  twentieth  year."  *  His  other 
early  publications  are,  "  A  Preliminary  Treatise  on  the  Law  of  Re- 
pulsion as  a  Universal  Law  of  Nature,"  Philadelphia,  1853  ;  and 
''Xarrative  of  Margaret  Douglas,"  Boston  and  Cleveland,  1854. 

He  also  entered  the  lecture  field.  In  the  winter  of  1839-40,  he 
lectured  before  the  Mechanics'  Institute,  as  I  am  informed  by  Ben- 
son J.  Lossing,  LL.D.,  the  historian,  who  was  chairman  of  the 
board  of  directors  of  that  institution,  and  who  then  made  Mr.  Ches- 
ter's acquaintance.  One  of  Mr.  Latting's  correspondents  writes  to 
him  that  he  met  Mr.  Chester  while  the  latter  was  lecturing  on  Tem- 
perance in  western  Massachusetts,  and  Judge  Kinsman  remembers 
him  as  visiting  Ohio  on  a  similar  lecturinor  tour. 

About  the  year  1845  he  removed  to  Philadelphia,  where  he  ob- 
tained a  situation  as  merchant's  clerk.  In  1847,  and  for  some  years 
subsequent,  his  occupation  is  given  in  the  Philadelphia  Directory  as 
a  commissioner  of  deeds.  In  the  years  1848,  1849  and  1850,  he 
was  also  the  musical  editor  of  Godeys  Lady 8  Book,  "In  1852," 
says  ilr.  Latting  in  his  memoir,  "  he  became  one  of  the  editors  of  the 
Philadelphia  Inquirer  and  of  the  Dally  Sun,  in  conjunction  with 
Colonel  James  S.  Wallace.  These  positions  brought  liim  into  no- 
tice politically,  and  on  the  consolid«ation  of  the  city  of  Philadelphia, 
in  1854,  he  was  elected  a  member  of  the  City  Council  from  the  sixth 
ward,  serving  in  that  capacity  for  one  term,  commencing  May  7, 
1855.  During  several  sessions  of  congress  at  Washington,  he  vis- 
ittnl  that  city  as  corresponding  editor,  and  a  portion  of  the  time  of 
his  residence  there,  he  was,  through  the  favor  of  his  friend,  Colonel 
John  W.  Forney,  then  Cliief  Clerk  of  the  House  of  Representatives, 
employed  as  one  of  the  assistant  clerks."  In  one  of  Col.  Chester's 
It'tters  to  nie,  lie  mentions  having  held  the  last  named  office  in  the 
spring  of  1856.  He  was  appointed  l)v  the  Hon.  James  Pollock,  who 
was  trovernor  of  Pennsvlvania  from  1855  to  1858,  one  of  his  aids 
with  the  military  rank  of  colonel. 


4  Colonel  Chester.  [Jan. 

While  residing  at  Washington,  he  was  employed  to  make  sale  in 
England  of  some  patents,  and  in  1858  left  his  native  country.  He 
landed  in  England  on  the  6th  of  September.  Various  causes  pre- 
vented him  from  succeeding  in  his  undertaking :  but  he  settled  in 
London  and  made  it  his  residence  thereafter  till  his  death.  For  a 
time  he  kept  up  his  connection  with  the  newspaper  press,  and  for 
about  three  years  furnished  a  weekly  letter  from  London  to  the 
Philadelphia  Inquirer.  Aft«r  taking  up  his  residence  in  England, 
he  made,  at  least,  one  visit  to  the  continent,  for  in  one  of  his  letters 
to  me  he  gives  an  account  of  an  interview  with  the  Hon.  Charles 
Sumner  in  March,  1859,  in  the  Museo  Borbonico  in  Naples,  and 
of  dining  the  same  evening  at  the  American  minister's.  He  seldom 
left  England,  however,  for  on  the  14th  of  September,  1872,  he  wrote 
me :  **  I  have  spent  some  weeks  in  Ireland  this  summer,  my  first 
visit  there.  It  was  the  first  real  holiday  I  have  taken  during  the 
last  fourteen  years." 

It  was  a  tradition  in  the  Sogers  family,  though  the  tradition  had 
been  rejected  by  the  best  New  England  antiquaries,  that  his  ancestor, 
the  llev.  Nathaniel  Rogers  of  Ipswich,  Mass.,  son  of  the  Rev.  John 
Rogers  of  Dedham,  England,  was  a  descendant  of  the  famous  John 
Rogers,  the  Marian  Proto-martyr,  whose  fate  had  been  made  fami- 
liar to  the  children  of  our  land  by  one  of  the  pictures  in  the  New 
England  Primer.  Being  in  England  and  having  heard  the  tradition 
from  his  youth,  he  determined  to  investigate  the  matter.  His  re- 
searches, however,  did  not  result  favorably.  On  the  contrary  he 
found  proof  that  the  Dedham  minister,  through  whom  he  hoped  to 
trace  his  lineage,  could  not  have  been  a  descendant  of  the  martyr. 
This,  no  doubt,  was  a  sore  disappointment  to  him,  as  few  who  pride 
themselves  on  their  New  England  blood  would  not  prefer  to  be 
descended  from  John  Rogers  than  from  any  of  the  sovereigns  of 
England.  But  these  researches  led  him  to  undertake  the  life  of 
Rogers,  as  he  tells  us,  in  the  following  words,  in  the  preface  to 
t  hat  work : 

Personally  unsatisfactory  as  were  his  labors  in  that  direction,  they  led 
him  into  another,  and  it  was  not  long  before  he  was  thoroughly  imbued 
with  the  conviction  that  historical  justice  had  never  been  done  to  the  per- 
son whose  eventful  career  forms  the  subject  of  these  pages.  He  soon  dis- 
covered that  the  only  original  account  concerning  him,  which  had  been  re- 
ceived as  authentic  for  nearly  three  centuries,  was  full  of  the  wildest  dis- 
crepancies and  grossest  errors.  Modest  and  humble,  unambitious  of  a  rec- 
ord on  the  common  roll  of  fame,  actuated  by  higher  and  holier  motives 
than  the  attainment  of  a  name  among  men,  while  he  lived,  he  carefully 
avoided  all  appearance  of  ostentation,  and  never  claimed  the  honors  to 
which  he  was  justly  entitled  ;  while  after  his  death  his  very  memory  was 
rudely  thrust  aside  in  order  to  make  room  for  that  of  those  of  his  associates 
who  had  been,  indeed,  his  official  superiors,  but  who,  generally,  were  in- 
finitely his  inferiors,  as  well  in  regard  to  their,  character  and  attainments, 
as  to  the  services  which  they  rendered  the  church  and  the  world. 


1884 •]  Colonel  Chester.  5 

This  work,  under  the  title  of  "  John  Rogers :  the  Compiler  of 
the  First  Authorized  English  Bible ;  the  Pioneer  of  the  Eng- 
lish Reformation  ;  and  its  First  Martyr,"  was  published  in  the 
autumn  of  1861.  The  claims  which  he  made  for  his  hero  in  the  title 
of  the  work  were  abundantly  proved  in  its  pages.  The  book  at- 
tracted immediate  attention,  and  English  and  American  antiquaries 
awarded  him  high  honor  for  his  first  antiquarian  work.  It  was  also  the 
foundation  of  an  acquaintance  with  Sir  Frederic  Rogers,  bart.,  now 
Lord  Blachford.  The  book  was  dedicated  to  him,  and  the  friend- 
ship between  them  became  intimate  and  lasting. 

The  war  of  the  Rebellion  had  then  broken  out.  While  he  was 
thinking  of  returning  home,  he  "  received  a  commission  from  the 
United  States  government  for  a  service  which  he  could  render  in 
England,"*  and  decided  to  remain  in  that  country. 

It  was  natural  that  one  who  had  met  with  such  decided  success  in 
antiquarian  and  genealogical  researches  should  continue  to  prosecute 
tliem.  On  the  24th  of  October,  1862,  he  thus  wrote  to  the  Rev. 
Caleb  Davis  Bradlee,  of  Boston  : 

I  have  been  fortunate  enough  to  ohtamfree  access  to  Doctors'  Commons, 
and  am  preparing  to  make  thorough  investigations  among  the  wills  of  that 
fiuDous  repository.  My  admission  as  a  '^  Literary  Inquirer  "  enables  me 
to  examine  all  wills  recorded  previous  to  1700,  and  to  make  any  extracts 
I  choose,  or  even  to  copy  the  whole  wills.  Hitherto,  as  you  are  doubtless 
aware,  we  could  only  look  at  a  single  will  by  paying  a  fee  of  25  cents,  and 
then  were  not  suffered  to  make  so  much  as  a  note  on  our  finger  nails.  The 
regulation  is  a  new  one,  and  the  number  to  whom  permission  is  granted 
will  t)e  very  limited. 

I  am  now  devoting  all  my  leisure  to  examining  the  wills  from  1 600  to 
16.J0,  and  shall  go  back  to  the  earliest  date  and  down  to  1700,  designing 
to  use  such  information  as  I  may  acquire  for  my  own  literary  purposes. 
There  is  no  doubt  but  that  much  which  has  been  indistinct  in  the  genealogy 
of  the  early  settlers  of  New  P^ngland  will  be  cleared  up  by  a  careful  exam- 
ination of  these  wills. 

lie  continued  for  twenty  years  to  collect  materials  illustrating  the 
ancestry  of  American  families  in  the  mother  country.  In  the  mean 
time  he  made  special  searches  for  clients,  and  investigated  the  Eng- 
lish ancestry  of  noted  Americans.  The  result  of  each  research  he 
arranged  and  wrote  out  carefully.  Some  of  these  monographs  have 
been  printed  by  hinwelf  or  others ;  but  probably  the  greater  number 
remain  in  manu8cri[>t  in  the  hands  of  his  clients.  They  are  charac- 
terized by  fullness  and  minuteness  of  detail,  the  result  of  the  most 
persistent  and  thorough  research.  Amon^j  them  may  be  named  the 
Wentworth,  Hutchinson,  Marbury,  Tilden,  Pelham,  Dumraer, 
Baldwin,  \Vheelwright  and  Ferneley  families.  The  Wentworth  re- 
search, for  the  Hon.  John  Wentworth,  LL.D.,  of  Chicago,  was  a 
marvel  of  completeness.     His  early  investigations  are  embodied  in 

*  Mr.  LattiDg's  Memoir. 

VOL.  xxxvni.  !• 


6  Colonel  Cheater.  [Jan. 

an  article  in  the  Register  in  April,  1868 ;  but  the  full  results  of  his 
labors  did  not  appear  till  the  two  editions  of  the  Wentworth  Gene- 
alogy were  published  in  1871  and  1878.  It  would  be  difficult  to 
name  any  Wentworth  of  prominence  in  English  history  or  literature 
whose  ancestry  is  not  given  in  that  book.  The  Tilden  pedigree, 
for  the  Hon.  Samuel  J.  Tilden,  ex-governor  of  New  York  and  demo- 
cratic candidate  of  the  Presidency  of  the  United  States  in  1876,  is, 
Col.  Chester  wrote  me  October  17,  1873,  "the  most  complete  in 
its  minuteness  that  I  have  ever  done."  The  Wheelwright,  Hutchin- 
son, Marbury,  Pelham  and  Dummer  genealogies  have  appeared  in 
the  Register,  and  the  Baldwin  will  be  printed  in  it  this  year.  The 
Ferneley  research,  made  for  the  late  Joseph  Ballard,  of  Boston,  fill- 
ing ten  closely  written  foolscap  pages  of  precise  information,  is  in 
the  possession  of  the  New  England  Historic  Genealogical  Society. 

He  delighted  to  grapple  with  difficulties  which  had  foiled  other 
antiquaries.  When  a  genealogical  mystery  was  cleared  up  by  him, 
he  did  not  often  rest  satisfied  till  he  had  traced  the  connections  of  the 

Jierson  whose  history  he  was  tracing  through  all  their  ramifications, 
n  a  letter  of  January  6,  1872,  he  writes  that  one  of  the  most  emi- 
nent English  genealogists,  whom  he  names,  had  recently  appealed 
to  him  in  a  genealogical  matter,  after  he  had  exhausted  all  his  own 
resources,  and  Col.  Chester  adds  with  pride  that  he  was  able  to 
*'  help  him  out  of  his  difficulties."  Many  instances  of  similar  suc- 
cess could  be  named,  but  I  will  refer  to  only  three — one  whose  in- 
terest is  coextensive  with  English  literature,  and  two  in  which  it  is 
confined  to  Americans. 

1.  For  a  long  time  the  surname  of  the  mother  of  the  poet  Milton 
had  been  a  puzzle  for  his  biographers.  In  the  words  of  one  of  them. 
Prof.  Masson,  the  problem  had  "  been  waiting  unsolved  by  native 
ingenuity  for  two  hundred  years."  Even  Edward  Phillips,  Milton's 
own  nephew,  gave  a  wrong  surname,  Caston,  and  John  Aubrey  the 
antiquary  called  her  a  Bradshaw.  Col.  Chester  proved  that  her 
maiden  name  was  Jefierys.  The  evidence  by  which  he  arrived  at  this 
result  he  communicated  to  the  London  Athenceuniy  Nov.  7,  1868, 
and  Mr.  Latting  gives  a  good  abstract  in  his  memoir.  Prof.  Mas- 
son  accepted  the  result,  and,  in  announcing  it,  styled  Col.  Chester 
**  a  Hercules  of  genealogy." 

2.  The  parentage  of  Mrs.  Anne  Hutchinson,  the  friend  of  Sir  Hen- 
ry Vane,  whose  religious  zeal  and  skill  in  controversy  had  set  the  in- 
fant colony  of  Massachusetts  ablaze,  had  been  hopelessly  sought  by 
our  genealogists  (see  Register,  xvii.  65).  Col.  Chester  proved 
that  she  was  the  daughter  of  the  Rev.  Francis  Marbury  of  London, 
and  that  her  mother  Bridget  Dryden  was  a  sister  of  Sir  Erasmus 
Dryden,  bart.,  the  grandfather  of  the  poet  Dryden. 

3.  The  maiden  name  of  Mrs.  Mary  Norton,  the  wife  of  the  Rev. 
John  Norton  of  Boston  and  the  liberal  benefactor  of  the  Old  South 
Church  (her  bequest  of  landed  property  having  made  that  church 


1884.]  Colonel  Cheater.  7 

one  of  the  richest  in  this  city)  had  foiled  all  the  efforts  of  our  gene- 
alogists, not  even  a  clew  having  been  obtained.  Col.  Chester 
proved  that  she  was  Mary,  the  third  daughter  of  John  Femeley  of 
West  Creting,  by  his  wife  Temperance,  daughter  of  Sir  Miles  Cor- 
bet, and  that  Miles  Corbet,  famous  in  English  history,  was  her  own 
cousin,  while  two  of  her  great  aunts  were  wives  of  two  of  the  most 
eminent  statesmen  of  their  day,  Sir  Nicholas  Bacon  and  Sir  Thomas 
Gresham. 

Col.  Chester,  in  his  letter  to  the  Rev.  Mr.  Bradlee,  refers  to  the 
extracts  he  was  then  making  from  the  wills  at  Doctors'  Commons, 
now  at  Somerset  House,  London.  He  availed  himself  also  of  many 
other  sources  of  genealogical  information.  Prominent  among  them 
are  the  Parish  Registers,  of  which  at  his  death  he  left  eighty-seven 
folio  volumes  of  extracts,  of  more  than  400  pages  each.  Seventy  of 
these  volumes  are  carefully  indexed.*  The  Manuscripts  of  the  Rev. 
Matthias  Candler,  the  Piu*itan  vicar  of  Coddenham,  Suffolk,  con- 
taining much  genealogical  information  relative  to  families  which 
emigrated  to  America,  early  engaged  his  attention.  In  1862  he 
sent  to  the  Register,  of  which  I  was  the  editor,  an  article  on  the 
*  Rogers  Grenealogy  and  the  Candler  Manuscript,"  meaning  the 
volume  in  the  Harleian  MSS.,  British  Museum,  which  had  been 
made  known  to  New  England  readers  by  the  Rev.  Joseph  Hunter 
and  Mr.  Horatio  G.  Somerby.  In  1866  Col.  Chester  learned  that 
there  were  two  other  volumes  by  Candler  in  the  Tanner  MSS., 
Bodleian  Library,  and  in  July  visited  Oxford,  where  he  spent  a 
week.  He  wrote  me  the  result  of  his  discoveries  in  a  letter  dated 
the  30th  of  that  month.  An  extract  from  this  letter  is  printed  in 
my  "  Memoir  of  Nathaniel  Ward,"  page  122.  In  the  summer  and 
fall  of  1869  he  spent  several  weeks  at  Oxford,  and  on  the  19th  of 
October  wrote  that  the  two  Candler  volumes,  which  he  had  been 
having  copied,  were  finished;  adding,  "I  have  found  two  more 
volumes  in  his  handwriting,  relating  to  Suffolk  people  exclusively, 
not  pedigrees,  but  personal  sketches,  copies  of  monuments,  etc., 
which  I  am  copying.     They  will  all  be  very  valuable." 

The  Matriculation  Register  of  the  University  of  Oxford  is  another 

♦  These  eighty -seven  volumes  of  Parish  Register  extract*^  form  the  first  of  the  nine 
•erie»  of  Col.  Chester*8  manuscripts  in  the  lists  prepdred  by  Mr.  Coltayne,  his  executor,  the 
■obfltance  of  which  list  will  be  appended  to  this  memoir.  Of  the  nine  series,  the  second, 
third  and  fourth  have  been  sold,  while  the  sixth,  seventh,  eighth  and  ninth  are  not  for  sale. 
Col.  Chester's  library  was  sold  at  auction  in  London,  April  17-20,  1883,  by  Sotheby,  Wil- 
kinson and  Hodge. 

The  Parish  Registers,  mentioned  in  the  text,  are  said  to  be  the  most  valuable  series  of 
the  above  manuscripts.  A  more  particular  description  will  Iw  found  in  the  list  just  referred 
to.  They  had  not  been  sold  when  I  lost  heard  from  Mr.  Cokayno.  It  would  be  a  tilting 
tribute  to  the  memory  of  one  of  the  mo«*t  unselfish  antiquaries  tliat  ever  lived,  if  these  man- 
QMrriptA  could  be  purchased  for  some  public  institution  in  this  country,  where  they  would 
be  kept  together.  Mr.  Cokayne  says  of  them :  "Judging  from  the  price  which  MSS. 
of  this  nature  have  fetched  during  recent  years,  it  is  more  than  probable  that,  if  sold  (by 
aaction  or  otherwise)  separately,  they  would  command,  at  the  lowest  calculation,  an  ave- 
rage price  of  £50  a  volume  (£4350);  but  as  it  is  wished,  for  the  sake  of  doing  honor  to 
their  great  and  indefatigable  collector,  to  keep  them  together,  the  whole  series  is  now  offer- 
ed as  one  collection  at  a  very  considerably  less  rate,  viz.,  £3000  net  (which  is  the  minimam 
tluu  will  be  taken),  being  less  than  i^35a  volume.*' 


8  Colonel  Chester,  [Jan. 

source  from  which  he  gathered  information.     On  the  2d  of  March, 
1866,  he  wrote  me  from  Oxford : 

I  have  been  very  hard  at  work  here  day  and  night.  I  am  making  a  com- 
plete copy  of  the  Matriculation  Registers  of  the  University,  from  1564  to 
1750,  permission  having  been  kindly  afforded  me.  There  will  be  more 
than  one  hundred  thousand  entries,  name,  parentage,  residence,  age,  &c. 
It  will  be  invaluable,  as  such  a  list  never  will  be  printed.  I  have  already 
identified  numbers  of  our  early  New  England  families,  and  among  other 
things  settled  the  ancestry  of  the  famous  Anne  Hutchinson,  as  well  as  com- 
pleted my  chain  of  evidence  disproving  the  Washington  pedigree. 

On  the  16th  of  October,  1869,  he  wrote  from  Oxford  that  he  was 
there,  and  would  remain  till  Christmas,  and  would  complete  his  copy 
of  the  Matriculation  Register  to  that  year;  "so  that,"  he  adds,  "I 
shall  have  it  perfect  for  over  three  hundred  years." 

The  Old  Marriage  Allegations  in  the  Bishop  of  London's  Regis- 
ter, extending  from  1598  to  1710,  furnished  him  another  source 
from  which  he  drew  his  information.  He  wrote  me  August  29, 
1868,  that  he  had  completed  his  examination,  and  had  secured  "no 
less  than  thirty-five  hundred  choice  extracts." 

I  shall  not  attempt  to  specify  the  variety  of  materials  illustrating 
the  family  history  of  England,  chiefly  in  the  seventeenth  century, 
which  he  collected,  methodically  arranged  and  indexed.  A  general 
idea  may  be  obtained  from  the  list  of  manuscripts  appended  to  this 
memoir. 

The  work  to  which  he  devoted  a  large  portion  of  his  time  during 
his  residence  in  England,  was  an  annotated  transcript  of  the  Regis- 
ters of  Westminster  Abbev.  It  was  no  doubt  owint;  to  this  under- 
taking  that  free  access  to  many  parish  and  other  records  which  we 
have  referred  to,  was  accorded  to  him.  At  first  he  contemplated 
only  a  partial  transcript,  but  at  the  suggesticm  of  Dean  Stanley  he 
was  induced  to  enlarge  his  plan.  On  the  9th  of  November,  1867, 
he  wrote  me,  "  I  think  I  told  you  that  I  am  engaged  in  preparing  for 
the  press  and  annotJiting  the  entire  Register  of  Marriages,  Baptisms 
and  Burials  in  Westminster  Abbey.  I  am  quite  proud  of  this  work." 
On  the  13th  of  the  next  month  he  wrote : 

My  labor  on  the  Abbey  Registers  is  excessive,  and  likely  to  be  protract- 
ed, though  I  confine  my  notes  simply  to  the  identification  of  the  parties. 
Still,  it  is  a  labor  of  love,  and  it  is  surely  something  for  an  American  to  be 
proud  of,  thus  to  have  his  name  perpetually  connected  with  the  glorious  old 
Minster. 

His  letters  abound  in  references  to  this  work,  the  progress  he  had 
made,  and  the  new  materials  which  had  been  opened  to  him.  June 
17,  1871,  he  wrote  me: 

A  paper  of  mine  was  read  before  the  Historical  Society  last  Monday,  a 
copy  of  which  I  will  send  you  as  soon  as  printed.  That  paper  will  show 
you  one  of  the  causes  of  my  slow  progress  with  my  Abbey  Book.  I  had 
paid  no  attention,  to  the  Royal  Family,  supposing  that  if  the  hbtory  of  any 


1884-]  Colanel  Chester.  9 

€uni1y  wa9  tboroagbly  known  it  was  that  And  yet  the  second  burial  in 
the  Abbey  Register,  when  I  reached  it,  I  found  to  be  entirely  wrong,  and 
it  cost  me  a  month's  labor  to  set  it  right.  These  interruptions  delay  me 
▼ery  much,  but  I  still  hope  to  go  to  press  this  year. 

Oq  the  4th  of  May,  1872,  he  wrote  : 

Yes,  every  day's  delay  tends  to  make  my  Abbey  book  more  perfect,  and 
as  it  is  probably  the  great  work  of  my  life — my  legacy  to  the  nation — and 
at  I  mean  it  to  be  a  standard  book  forever,  I  am  not  sorry  for  the  delay. 
I  am  coustantly  at  work  on  it,  and  as  constantly  improving  it. 

In  the  spring  of  1874  his  work  was  sufficiently  advanced  to  make 
arrangements  for  its  publication.  On  the  11th  of  April  he  wrote 
that  I^  had  presented  it  to  the  Harleian  Society,  and  that  it  would 
appear  as  one  of  its  serials.  About  two  weeks  later,  on  the  24th, 
he  informed  me  with  gratification  that  the  Queen  had  that  week  ac- 
cepted the  dedication  of  his  book,  an  honor  **  not  often  accorded." 
On  the  30th  of  May  he  writes  more  fully  on  this  subject : 

It  seemed  proper,  as  my  book  is  a  National  work,  that  it  should  be  dedi- 
eated  to  the  head  of  the  nation.  I  left  the  matter  to  Dean  Stanley  whether 
I  should  dedicate  it  to  him,  or  whether  he  thought  the  Queen  should  be 
a&ked^  aud  I  knew  nothing  more  of  it  until  I  received  her  formal  permission 
through  her  private  secretary. 

On  the  16th  of  May,  before  the  last  letter,  but  after  the  Queen 
had  accepted  the  dedication  of  his  book,  to  which  patronage  he  at- 
tributeiT  the  favor  granted  to  him,  he  wrote  : 

The  Lords  of  the  Treasury  have  just  given  me  free  access  to  the  wills  at 
Doctors'  Commons  of  the  last  century,  my  present  privilege  only  extend- 
ing to  the  year  1700 — the  only  thing  I  yet  wanted  to  perfect  my  book. 
This  is  a  concession  never  before  granted  to  anybody.  Dean  Stanley  and 
1  have  been  trying  for  it  for  the  last  five  years,  and  have  only  just 
nicceeded. 

The  next  year  he  commenced  printing  his  book,  and  sent  me  a 
proof  of  the  first  pages,  August  28,  1875.  Progress  in  the  print- 
ing is  frequently  noted.     On  the  10th  of  March,  1876,  he  writes  :  * 

My  Abbey  volume  has  been  some  time  all  printed,  making  526  pages  of 
text.  Its  issue  is  only  delayed  by  the  index,  a  most  important  feature, 
on  which  I  have  now  been  at  work  four  weeks,  twelve  hours  a  day,  and 
it  will  occupy  me  at  least  a  fortnight  longer.  I  hope  to  forward  the  vol- 
ome  some  time  next  mouth. 

In  1876  the  work  was  issued  as  the  tenth  volume  of  the  publica- 
tions of  the  Harleian  Society.  A  small  edition  was  printed  sepa- 
rately for  presents  to  the  author's  friends.  The  work  more  than  met 
the  high  expectations  that  had  been  raised.  The  English  and  Amer- 
ican press  spoke  highly  of  its  merits.  The  London  Times  of  Sept. 
1,  1876,  devoted  three  and  a  half  columns,  and  the  Morning  Post 
of  \ov.  2,  more  than  a  column  to  a  review  of  the  work.  The 
Times  said : 


10  Colonel  Chester.  [Jan. 

Throughout  the  whole  of  this  huge  volume,  with  its  profusion  of  names, 
illustrious  or  obscure,  it  is  only  at  rare  intervals  that  a  case  is  to  be  found 
of  which  the  industry  of  its  annotator  has  failed  to  obtain  some  particulars. 
Such  a  happy  result  has  been  secured  by  protracted  investigations  possible 
only  to  an  antiquary  industrious  beyond  his  fellows.  The  wills  at  Somer- 
set House,  the  marriage  records  preserved  in  the  various  offices  belonging 
to  the  Sees  of  London  and  Canterbury,  the  matriculation  registers  at  Ox- 
ford— all  these  have  yielded  up  their  dead  ;  and  from  such  original  research 
Col.  Chester  has  amassed  a  wealth  of  biographical  illustration  almost  with- 
out parallel  for  novelty  and  accuracy. 

The  London  Morning  Post  said  : 

There  is  scarcely  a  family  of  rank  and  position  which  may  not  learn 
something — some  out-of-the-way  fact  or  incident  of  interest — from  the  pro- 
digious amount  of  accurate  information  here  provided  by  Colonel  Chester, 
who  is  thoroughly  and  completely  master  of  his  subject.  When  it  is  borne 
in  mind  how  inexact  many  persons  have  been  and  are  as  regards  dates,  how 
one  misstatement  (made  often  not  intentionally,  but  through  carelessness 
and  to  save  trouble)  is  handed  on,  repeated  and  enlarged,  writers  of  general 
or  personal  history  cannot  but  be  grateful  for  this  admirable  work.  Colo- 
nel Chester  brings  to  light  facts  which  have  been  forgotten  ;  tracks  out  er- 
rors and  inaccuracies,  which  have  had  a  long  life,  with  unceasing  care ;  and 
provides  in  this  book  a  monument  of  his  painstaking  industry  and  patient 
self-sacrifice.  As  long  as  Westminster  Abbey  lasts  his  name  will  be  re- 
membered because  of  this  magnificent  work. 

The  warm  encomiums  given  it  on  its  publication  have  been  re- 
peated by  the  press  and  individuals  since  his  death.  B.  Beedham, 
Esq.,  of  Ashfield  House,  Kimbolton,  an  English  antiquary  of  note, 
in  a  recent  letter  to  me  writes  :  "  These  Registers  were  worthy  o£ 
the  most  ample  illustration,  and  at  his  hands  they  received  it  to  an 
extent  which  has  never  been  accorded  to  any  similar  records.  He 
has  thus  added  a  page  to  the  history  of  the  church,  so  splendid  and 
80  rich  in  associations,  to  which  every  intelligent  countryman  of  his 
directs  his  earliest  steps  on  visiting  the  land  of  his  forefathers." 

Col.  Chester  was  justly  gratified  by  the  manner  in  which  his  book 
was  received.     On  the  22d  of  December,  1876,  he  wrote  me  : 

I  have  something  like  two  hundred  letters  of  the  most  complimentary 
and  appreciative  character,  from  the  best  men  in  the  country,  and  am  am- 
ply repaid  for  all  my  labor.  The  Queen  sent  me  a  kind  message  some  days 
ago,  through  the  Dean  of  Westminster,  with  her  "  sincere  thanks  "  for  my 
**  valuable  and  interesting  volume."  On  my  return  home  yesterday  I 
found  from  her  a  copy  of  the  Life  of  the  Prince  Consort  (written  by  Mr. 
Theodore  Martin  under  her  direction)  with  her  aiUograph  inscription,  "To 
Colonel  Chester,  from  Victoria  R.*' 

On  the  26th  of  January,  1877,  he  wrote  : 

You  will  be  pleased  to  hear  that  the  Queen  has  just  sent  me  the  second 
volume  of  the  Life  of  the  Prince  Consort,  with,  as  before,  her  autograph 
presentation  inscription  (only  this  time  she  signs  her  name  *'  Victoria  R. 
&,  I.")  and  this  kind  message,  "  that  she  has  not  been  forgetful  of  your 
labors,  and  wishes  you  to  understand  how  much  she  appreciates  them." 


1884.]  Colonel  Chester.  11 

On  the  9th  of  March,  1878,  he  writes  with  equal  pleasure  that  he 
had  received  from  the  Queen  the  third  volume  of  that  work.  Mr. 
Latting  has  sent  me  a  copy  of  the  letter  of  Dean  Stanley  accorapa- 
Dying  the  book,  which  is  as  follows : 

Deanery,  Westminster. 
My  dear  Col.  Chester : 

I  have  been  graciously  commanded  by  the  Queen  to  send  you  the 
3rd  volume  of  the  Prince  Consort's  life.  It  may  please  you  the  more  be- 
cause it  b  entirely  the  Queen's  own  thought — the  more  remarkable  at  this 
moment  when  her  mind  must  be  so  much  occupied  by  the  overwhelming 
anxieties  of  public  affairs. 

1  have  not  myself  seen  the  Queen,  having  been  kept  at  my  house  by  a 
troublesome  cold,  which  is,  I  trust,  at  last  giving  way. 

You  will  remember  that  yesterday  was  the  2ud  Anniversary  of  the 
edipse  of  my  life.* 

March  2,  78.      .  Yours  sincerely,  A.  P.  Stanley. 

A  few  years  later,  December  31,  1881,  he  informs  me  with  pride 
that  a  handsome  card-tray,  made  from  old  oak  taken  from  West- 
minster Abbey,  had  been  sent  him  as  a  Christmas  present  by  the 
Dean  and  Chapter. 

In  the  preface  to  his  Abbey  book  he  made  the  following  an- 
nouncement : 

It  may  be  as  well  to  add  that  the  Editor  has  a  large  collection  from 
which  he  may  eventually  decide  to  print  a  list  of  sucli  persons  as  were 
probably  buried  in  the  Abbey,  but  whose  names  do  not  appear  in  the  Reg- 
isters, with  the  evidences ;  and  also  that,  if  his  life  is  spared  a  few  years 
longer,  he  intends  to  embody  in  a  supplement  such  important  information 
fts  he  may  acquire  respecting  the  persons  named  in  the  present  volume,  and 
especially  concerning  the  few  still  unidentified. 

Such  a  volume  would  have  been  a  valuable  supplement  to  his 
great  work,  but  unfortunately  he  did  not  live  to  compile  it.  Nor 
did  he  finish  the  other  work  on  which  he  bent  all  his  energies  after 
the  publication  of  his  Westminster  book,  and  which  he  refers  to  in 
the  following  extract  from  a  letter  dated  Dec.  2,  187G  :  "I  am  de- 
voting all  my  leisure  time  to  working  up  the  immense  amount  of 
Washington  material  I  have  collected,  and  clearing  away  the  rub- 
bish. I  have  now  the  means  to  explode  utterly  the  South  Cave 
theory,  which  has  always  been  a  giant  in  the  way.  I  believe  I  have 
the  clew  to  the  President's  real  ancestry,  but  I  some  time  ago  made 
up  my  mind  not  to  say  or  print  anything  more  on  the  subject  until 
I  can  lay  the  subject  complete  before  the  world."  Though  he  was 
not  able  to  finish  these  works,  he  found  time,  however,  to  edit  seve- 
ral volumes  for  the  Ilarleian  Society,  the  titles  of  which  will  be  found 
in  the  list  of  his  writings  appended. 

•  yote  bv  J.  J.  JLattiny.— Lady  Augusta  Stanley,  the  Dean's  wife,  died  on  Wednesday, 
March  1. 1876. 


12  Colonel  Chester,  [Jan. 

Hifl  labors  were  soon  recognized  by  the  learned  societies.  The 
earliest  to  bestow  its  honors  upon  him  was,  I  think,  the  New  Eng- 
land Historic  Genealogical  Society,  which  elected  him  a  correspond- 
ing member  in  1862.  He  was  elected  to  the  same  membership  in 
the  New  York  Genealogical  and  Biographical  Society  in  1871. 
From  the  title-page  of  his  Westminster  volume  we  learn  that 
he  was  also  an  honorary  or  a  corresponding  member  of  "  the  His- 
torical Societies  of  the  States  of  Massachusetts,  New  York,  Penn- 
sylvania, Virginia,  Maryland,  Maine,  New  Hampshire,  Rhode 
Island,  Connecticut  and  Minnesota,"  in  this  country.  In  Eng- 
land he  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Harleian  Society,  and  a 
Fellow  of  the  Royal  Historicjil  Society.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
councils  of  both  societies  at  their  organization,  and  held  that  office 
in  the  former  society  till  his  death.  In  October,  1880,  he  was 
elected  an  honorary  member  of  the  IIii<toric  Society  of  Lancashire 
and  Cheshire.  He  was  doubtless  a  member  of  other  learned  socie- 
ties in  England  and  America. 

He  was  also  the  recipient  of  academic   honors.     In  the  spring  of 
1877,  the  late  Evert  A.  Duyckinck,  A.M.,  the  senior  author  of  the 
"  Cyclopajdia  of  American  Literature "  and  one  of  the  trustees  of 
Columbia  College,  New  York,  wrote  to  me  that  it  was  contemplated 
by  this  college  to  honor  Col.  Chester  with  a  degree.     In  writing  to 
my  friend  I  hinted  this  to  him,  but  without  naming  the  college.    He 
replied  on  the  11th  of  May  that  he  .should  value  highly  such  a  rec- 
ognition by  an  American  college,  as  it  would  show  that  hid  work 
was  appreciated  by  his  countrymen.     He  then  adds,  "There  has 
been  an  intimation  to  the  same  effect  here."     After  the  degree  of 
LL.D.  was  conferred  on  him  by  Columbia  College,  he  wrote,  July 
10,  1877,  to  me: 

I  appreciate  this  honor  for  three  reasons  :  First,  because  it  proves  that 
the  prophet  is  not  always  without  honor  even  iu  his  own  country.  Sec- 
ondly, because  it  was  in  New  York,  and  almost  under  the  shadow  of 
this  college,  that  I  began  my  manhood  career  nearly  forty  years  ago. 
Thirdly,  liecause  I  know,  as  you  say  in  your  kindly  note  in  the  Transcript, 
that  Columbia  College  has  always  been  very  sparing  and  discriminating  in 
conferring  its  highest  honors. 

The  intimation  to  which  he  refers  in  his  letter  in  May,  was  doubt- 
less a  degree  from  Oxford.  This,  four  years  later,  he  received,  for 
on  the  22d  of  June,  1881,  that  ancient  University  conferred  its 
highest  degree,  D.C.L.,  upon  him,  '' in  acknowledgment,"  says 
Mr.  Latting,  '*  of  his  services  as  a  genealogist ;  the  first  and  only 
instance,  it  is  understood,  in  which  that  degree  was  given  for  such 
a  cause."     For  this  honor  Col.  Chester  was  profoundly  grateful. 

In  March,  1850,  a  portrait  of  him,  with  his  autograph,  '*  Julian 
Cramer,"  appeared  in  Godeifs  Lady's  Book.  In  1874  I  met  with 
this  portrait,  and  wrote  him  to  that  effect,  adding  that  I  could  see 
little  resemblance  in  it  to  the  photograph  taken  in  1869,  which  he 
had  sent  me.     He  replied  Feb.  7, 1874  : 


1884.]  Colonel  Chester.  13 

The  portrait  yoa  mention  was  considered  a  good  one  when  it  was  en- 
graved, now  some  twenty-four  or  five  years  ago,  when  I  was  of  course  so 
many  years  younger.  I  now  wear  my  hair  and  beard  differently,  which 
naturally  alters  one's  appearance.  I  suspect  that  portraits  taken  at  an  in- 
terval of  a  quarter  of  a  century  would  seldom  exhibit  much  similarity,  un- 
kss  one  had  some  strongly  marked  features. 

Of  this  portrait  Dr.  Lossing,  the  well  known  author  referred  to 
in  the  beginning  of  this  memoir,  wrote  me,  Dec.  28,  1883  : 

Col.  Chester  presented  me  with  his  engraved  portrait  when  it  was  first 
published.  He  was  then  about  twenty-nine  years  of  age.  His  almost 
black  hair  and  whiskers  were  close  cut.  The  latter  extended  under  his 
chin.  He  had  no  moustache,  and  his  chin  was  shaven.  He  wore  a  *'  turn- 
down "  collar,  and  was  enveloped  in  a  cloak. 

The  portrait  which  embellishes  this  memoir  is  from  a  photograph 
taken  at  Oxford  in  1881,  when  he  received  his  degree.  It  was  en- 
graved for  the  Jfew  York  Genealogical  and  Biographical  Rec- 
ord^  to  accompany  Mr.  Latting's  memoir  in  that  periodical,  Octo- 
ber, 1882.* 

Time  works  great  changes  in  the  features  of  an  individual,  but 
seldom  so  great  as  is  shown  by  these  three  portraits.  A  friend,  after 
comparing  them  together,  remarked  that  he  could  not  see  a  single 
feature  that  was  the  same  in  all ;  and  yet  the  portraits  have  all  been 
pronounced  good  likenesses.  The  mind,  however,  looks  out  from 
each  of  them.  At  twenty-nine  we  see  a  fair  brow  and  an  eye  full 
of  hope  and  confidence ;  at  forty-eight  we  notice  that  time  has 
stamped  a  deeper  impression  on  the  features ;  and  at  sixty  the  full 
charac(er  is  written  on  the  face  and  brow.  I,  myself,  never  saw 
Col.  Chester,  but  from  all  descriptions  which  I  have  heard  or  read, 
it  is  evident  that  he  was  a  fine  looking  man  and  had  a  command- 
ing presence.     Dr.  Lossing  writes  : 

I  first  met  Col.  Chester  as  a  lecturer  in  New  York.  He  was  then  a  very 
haudsome,  finely  proportioned  young  man  in  the  nineteenth  year  of  his 
age.  From  that  time  we  met  occasionally  and  kept  up  an  occasional 
coiTesi>ondence  until  he  went  to  Europe.  Our  acquaintance  was  kept  bright 
chiefly  through  letters  ever  afterwards.  Our  personal  intercourse  was 
very  slight  We  were  wide  apart  geographically  most  of  the  time. 
The  last  time  I  saw  him  was  in  Harper's  Building,  New  York,  the  year 
before  he  went  to  England.  For  years  after  that  I  lost  trace  of  him.  Two 
or  three  years-  hefore  the  api>earance  of  his  Westminster  Abbey  book,  I  re- 
ceived letters  from  him,  and  from  that  time  until  the  year  before  his  death 
we  corresponded  briefly  at  rather  wide  intervals.  When  his  Westminster 
book  was  published  he  sent  me  a  copy.  His  letters  were  warm  and  sym- 
pathetic, and  I  felt  it  a  privilege  to  be  remembered  in  his  list  of  friends. 
One  of  the  earliest  tokens  ot  his  regard  for  me  was  a  copy  of  his 
**  Green  wood  Cemetery  and  Other  Poems,"  presented  to  me  son  after  its 
appearance  in   1843.     My  brief  personal  acquaintance   with  him  and  our 

•  I  am  indebted  to  the  courtesy  of  the  New  York  Genealogical  and  Biogr.aphical  Society 
fur  the  fR'e  a^c  of  the  plate. 

TOL.   ZXXVIII.         2 


14  Colonel  Chester.  [Jan. 

exchange  of  epistles  taught  me  to  esteem  him  very  highly  as  a  most  genial, 
generous,  scholarly  and  every  way  attractive  man. 

The  Rev.  Alexander  B.  Groeart,  on  dedicating  to  him,  in  1869, 
his  edition  of  the  Poems  of  Sir  John  Beaumont,  thus  addresses  him : 

I  like  you  for  your  English  Puritan  name  and  for  your  English  face — 
that  of  **  a  hrave  gentleman "  all  of  the  olden  time ;  I  like  you  for  your 
right  good  service  in  writing  for  the  first  time  adequately,  the  Life,  a  su- 
premely nohle  and  beautiful  one,  of  "  John  Rogers,"  Proto-martyr  of  Eng- 
land under  Mary ;  I  like  you  as  an  American  proud  of  your  lineage  and 
unmixed  English  descent ;  and  I  like  you  for  your  catholic  literary  aympa- 
thies  and  brotherhood. 

George  W.  Marshall,  LL.D.,  F.S.A.,  the  founder  and  for  seven 
years  the  editor  of  The  Genealogist^  published  in  the  number  of 
that  quarterly  for  July,  1882,  an  appreciative  memoir  of  his  friend 
Col.  Chester.     He  thus  describes  him  : 

His  personal  appearance  was  in  every  way  characteristic.  Tall,  of  stout 
build,  well  proportioned,  with  long  flowing  gray  beard,  and  a  peculiarly 
kindly  expression  of  countenance,  he  naturally  prepossessed  those  with 
whom  he  came  in  contact  at  first  sight,  and  his  quiet,  unobtrusive  manner 
at  once  commanded  respect.  Generous  and  genial  in  disposition  far  beyond 
most  men,  he  was  at  the  same  time  highly  sensitive,  and  felt  keenly  any 
want  of  gratitude  on  the  part  of  those  who  obtained  his  assistance  in  their 
researches,  while,  on  the  other  hand,  the  most  trivial  attention  shown  him 
was  accepted  and  valued  with  childlike  simplicity  and  delight.  Ever  ready 
to  afford  to  any  one  who  asked  him  all  the  aid  which  his  large  collection 
could  supply,  he  spent  half  his  time  in  replying  to  the  inquiries  of  his  nu- 
merous correspondents,  and  it  was  rarely,  however  much  trouble  it .  involv- 
ed or  time  it  took,  that  the  desired  information  was  not  supplied  by  return 
of  post.  The  only  return  he  expected,  though  for  that  he  never  asked,  was 
thanks. 

He  was  always  ready,  as  Dr.  Marshall  says,  to  help  his  brother 
antiquaries.  The  author  of  a  biographical  sketch  in  the  New  Months 
ly  Magazine^  published  during  his  lifetime,  also  says  :  ^  The  accu- 
mulations of  more  than  twenty  years  ....  are  generally  known  to 
be  at  the  service  of  any  one  requiring  them  for  legitimate  historical 
purposes ;  and  it  will  be  found  that  scarcely  a  modern  book  appears 
relating  to  biography,  genealogy,  county  or  parish  history,  that  is 
not  more  or  less  indebted  to  him/'  This  many  of  us  know  to  be 
true  in  our  own  cases,  and  the  numerous  acknowledgments  to  him 
which  we  meet  with  in  books,  are  additional  confirmations  of  the 
fact.' 

He  had  a  keen  intellect,  great  versatility  of  talent  and  a  ready 
command  of  language.  He  expressed  himself  forcibly,  and  did  not 
hesitate  to  say  what  he  thought.  His  readiness  of  expression  is 
shown  by  his  letters  and  other  manuscripts,  which  are  written  in  a 
free,  legible  and  uniform  hand,  with  hardly  an  erasure  or  inter- 
lineation. 

His  truthfulness  was  conspicuous.     He  would  not  encourage  the 


1884.]  Colonel  Chester.  15 

pretentioDB  of  those  who  sought  to  connect  themselves  with  the 
gentry  of  England  when  no  evidenca  could  be  found  to  favor  it ; 
and  he  had  no  patience  with  those  who  pandered  to  the  vanity  of 
such  persons.  At  the  request  of  an  acquaintance  I  wrote  to  Col. 
Chester  asking  him  to  prepare  a  chapter  on  *'  The  Armorial  Insig- 
nia of  American  Families,"  for  a  work  which  that  gentleman  had 
undertaken.  I  stated  that  it  was  desired  that  the  whole  truth  should 
be  told.     He  replied  March  25, 1881 : 

I  have  been  in  doubt  whether  it  would  be  politic  in  me  to  write  an  arti- 
de  that  would  place  me  in  such  open  antagonism  with  so  large  a  portion  of 
mj  countrymen  whom  I  know  to  be  claiming  and  using  armorial  bearings 
to  which  they  have  no  shadow  of  right  The  truth  is  that  they  do  not  wish  to 
be  undeceived,  and  will  not  only  not  thank  me  for  undeceiving  them*  but 
will  be  angry  with  me  for  having  done  so.  I  have  had  experience  of  this 
already,  in  a  number  of  cases  in  which  I  have  dealt  with  the  matter  in 
detail. 

No  statements  I  can  make,  however  fortified,  will  convince  the  descend- 
ants of  a  score  of  families  which  I  could  name,  that  they  have  no  more 
right  to  the  arms  they  claim  and  use  than  they  have  to  the  royal  coat  of 
England,  and  yet  I  know  that  it  is  true. 

He  finally  consented  to  write  the  chapter ;  but  the  projected  work 
was  abandoned  before  he  had  begun  to  write  the  article. 

He  was  proud  of  the  land  of  his  birth,  and  loved  to  have  his  coun- 
trymen call  on  him,  and  delighted  in  showing  them  his  wonderful 
coUections.  No  one  visited  him  without  carrying  away  an  exalted 
opinion  of  the  man  and  his  work.  He  wished  to  be  known  as  an 
American,  and  rejoiced  that  he  Wcas  able  to  do  honor  to  his  country 
by  his  pen  ;  and  yet,  perhaps,  a  residence  of  twenty  ye.irs  and  up- 
wards in  England  had  assimilated  him  more  than  he  wjis  aware  to 
the  people  with  whom  he  lived.  The  late  S.  Whitney  Phoenix, 
in  giving  an  account,  in  a  letter  to  his  friend  Henry  T.  Drowne,  of 
New  York,  September  21,  1880,  of  a  pleasant  visit  to  Col.  Chester, 
pronounces  him  "  a  thorough  Englishman  in  speech  and  manner.'' 
Such  assimilation  is  not  un frequent. 

As  to  his  residence  in  London,  liis  earliest  letters  to  me  do  not 
give  it,  his  address  being  to' the  care  of  Mr.  Moran  of  the  American 
legation.  In  18f>5  it  was  "14  George's  Terrace,  Blue  Anchor 
Road,  Bermondsey."  He  removed  to  "16  Linden  Villas,"  in 
the  same  jstreet,  in  April,  1870,  on  the  16th  of  which  month  he 
writes  me : 

I  have  been  in  sad  confusion  for  the  last  fortnight,  moving,  and  have  but 
just  got  settled  in  my  new  quarters,  where  I  hope  to  remain  permanently. 
I  have  fitted  up  my  library  to  my  own  taste,  and  write  this  from  it.  If  you 
ever  come  to  see  me,  as  I  hope  you  may,  I  think  you  will  say  I  am  very 
coiiy  and  comfortable. 

This  house  he  made  his  home  till  his  death  twelve  years  later, 
though  in   December,  1878,  the  name  of  the  street  was  changed  to 


16  Colonel  Chester.  [Jan. 

Southwark  Park  Road,  his  number  being  124.     On  the  30th  of  that 
month  he  writes : 

I  change  my  address,  happily,  thanks  to  the  authorities,  without  chang- 
ing my  residence,  and  the  new  name  of  my  street  is  so  distinctive  that*  I 
am  able  to  drop  the  "  Linden  Villas  "  and  "  Bermondsey "  altogether, 
much  to  my  own  satisfaction,  and  greatly  to  the  relief  of  my  correspondents. 

The  close  of  his  life  and  his  funeral  rites  are  thus  described  by 
Dr.  Marshall  in  his  memoir : 

Incessant  work,  and  the  sedentary  life  which  it  enforced,  naturally  told 
on  what  was  to  all  appearances  a  robust  constitution,  but  till  within  a  few 
weeks  of  his  demise,  the  gout,  from  which  he  frequently  suffered,  was  his 
only  serious  complaint  He  spent  a  fortnight  last  Christmas,  as  he  had 
been  in  the  habit  of  doing  during  the  most  of  his  residence  in  England,  at 
the  house  of  his  friend  Mr.  Cokayne,  and  seemed,  though  perhaps  a  little 
less  active,  much  in  his  usual  health  and  spirits.^  In  February  he  was  at- 
tacked by  his  old  enemy  the  gout,  and  though  he  did  not  rally  as  soon  as 
usual,  nothing  serious  was  anticipated  till  the  end  of  April,  when  his  medi- 
cal attendant,  Mr.  Cooper,  suspected  that  he  was  suffering  from  disease  of 
the  nature  of  internal  tumor.  On  the  5th  of  May,  Sir  James  Paget,  and 
Dr.  Moxon  of  Guys,  examined  him,  and  pronounced  the  case  to  be  that  of 
a  cancerous  tumor  in  the  stomach  of  considerable  size  and  long  standing, 
but  not  of  necessity  immediately  fatal.  These,  or  some  such  words,  were 
told  him  by  Sir  James,  and  since  that  time  he  seemed  to  lose  all  heart,  and  . 
I  believe  never  wrote  a  line  more.  He  continued,  however,  to  sit  up  in  his 
library  on  an  invalid  couch,  and  though  his  voice  became  feeble,  was  able  to 
converse  with  his  friends  till  the  23d  of  May,  when,  though  weak,  he  ap- 
peared much  as  usual ;  but  on  that  night  came  an  attack  of  bronchitis,  then 
an  abscess  in  the  throat,  and  though  he  appeared  to  recover  from  both  of 
thase,  soon  after  midnight  his  strength  gave  way  ;  and  on  the  25th  he  grad- 
ually sank,  and  at  10,  A.M.  on  the  26th,  expired. 

On  the  last  day  of  the  month  his  funeral,  which  was  of  a  private  charac- 
ter, took  place  at  Nuuhead  Cemetery ;  a  large  number,  however,  of  his 
poorer  neighbors  (among  whom  he  had  so  long  resided,  and  to  whom  he 
had  ever  been  a  liberal  and  most  kind  benefactor)  were  present.  The 
American  Embassy  was  represented  by  Mr.  E.  S.  Nadal,  one  of  the  Secre- 
taries of  Legation.  The  service  was  read  by  Dr.  Bradley,  Dean  of  West- 
minster, who  thus,  on  behalf  of  himself  and  l^s  Chapter,  testified  the  respect 
due  to  one  who  had  done  so  much  towards  illustrating  the  history  of  their 
glorious  Abbey.f 

Nothing  more  remains  to  be  told,  unless  it  be  to  add  that  of  the  many 
good  qualities  exemplified  in  his  life,  his  genial  disposition  was  the  most 
striking.  Having  acquired  knowledge  himself,  by  imparting  it  to  others  he 
made  the  best  p)ossible  use  of  it,  and  thus  derived  the  truest  and  noblest 
enjoyment  from  its  possession.  In  this  respect  he  has  left  behind  him  a 
bright  example  and  taught  a  useful  lesson.  His  too  early  death  has  caused 
a  general  and  heartfelt  feeling  of  sorrow  amongst  all  whose  good  fortune  it 
was  to  come  in  contact  with  him.     We  shall  see  his  kindly  face  no  more, 

•  I  am  just  starting  for  a  friend's  honse  In  the  country,  where  T  always  spend  a  fort- 
night at  Christmas  and  New  Year.    {Col.  Chester's  Letter,  Dec.  23,  1881.)— J.  w.  D. 

t  A  tablet  to  his  memory  will  be  placed  in  Westminster  Abbey  by  the  Dean  and  Chap* 
ter,  it  it  is  not  already  there.— J.  w.  o. 


1884.]  Colonel  Chester.  17 

DO  longer  learn  onr  work  under  his  able  guidance,  and  though  we  cannot 
wish  to  recall  him  from  the  reward  of  a  life  well  spent  and  of  work  well 
done,  our  heart  is  still  human,  and 

"  It  mourns  that  dust  should  part." 

The  life  of  Col.  Chester  adds  another  proof  to  the  many  with 
which  literature  abounds,  that  great  things  may  be  accomplished  when 
the  energies  are  concentrated  on  a  single  object  and  the  powers  of 
mind  are  equal  to  the  undertaking.  He  had  not  the  advantage  of 
an  early  antiquarian  training.  Till  he  arrived  in  England  in  his 
thirty-eighth  year,  we  do  not  learn  that  he  had  attempted  anything 
in  the  line  in  which  he  afterwards  distinguished  himself.*  The  ca- 
pacity and  taste  for  what  was  to  become  hereafter  his  life-work  no 
doubt  were  in  him,  though  undeveloped,  and  he  soon  placed  himself 
in  the  front  rank  of  antiquaries.  When  he  died  it  is  acknowledged 
that  he  had  no  superior  as  a  genealogist  among  the  English-speak- 
ing race  ;  and  his  reputation  had  been  steadily  increasing.  He  had 
gained  the  position  which  he  had  long  labored  for ;  but  he  was  not 
permitted  to  enjoy  it  many  years.  In  the  midst  of  his  activity  and 
usefulness  his  work  was  arrested,  as  his  friend  Dr.  Marshall  has  told 
us.  Another  friend,  Joseph  Jackson  Howard,  LL.D.,  F.S.A.,  the 
editor  of  Miscellanea  Genealogica  et  Heraldica  and  his  co-worker 
in  the  Harleian  Society,  in  a  letter  dated  July  10,  1882,  thus  de- 
scribes his  condition  in  the  last  days  of  his  life  : 

I  saw  poor  Chester  three  days  before  he  went  to  rest.  He  was  quite 
prepared  for  the  change,  and  seemed,  and  I  fully  believe  was,  at  peace  with 
all.  He  then  told  me  that  although  he  could  not  read  his  books,  yet  he 
liked  to  he  carried  into  his  study.  He  knew  the  position  of  every  volume, 
aud  called  them  his  "  familiar  faces,"  bringing,  as  he  glanced  from  one  to 
the  other,  to  his  recollection  many  happy  hours  spent  in  collecting  the 
memoranda  stored  in  each  volume. 


CoL.  Chester's  Manuscripts. 

Abstract  of  a  List  prepared  by  his  Executor ,  George  E.  Cokaynet  M.A.y  F.S.A. 

Tbey  may  be  divided  into  nine  series,  each  series  being  quite  separate  and  un- 
eoDoected  with  the  other,  viz.: 

I.  The  Rplendid  collection  of  Extracts  from  Parish  Rrqisters  from  nearly  all  the 
coantieei  in  England,  consisting  of  87  folio  volumes,  each  containing  about  400 
ptgw,  closely  written.  Of  these  volumes  70  are  full  and  are  carefully  indexed, 
the  '"  index  nominum''  to  each  being  a  work  of  immense  labor.  The  other  17 
are  partially  filled. 

•  Mr  Ilassam  of  this  city  has  shown  in  an  article  which  will  appear  in  the  April  number 
ofthe  Rp.oiaTBR,  the  disadvantages  under  which  Col.  Chester  latjorcd,  and  under  which 
fTfncaio^i.MW  in  London  now  l.U)()r,  in  compirison  with  the  facilities  atforded  for  ^cnealogi- 
ctireH'ttfch  in  Boston.  Dean  Stinley  and  Col.  Chester  were  only  able  after  ye:irs  of  soli- 
ntation.  to  obtiiin  free  access  to  the  wills  of  the  last  ccnturv  for  a  wjrk  of  national  interest. 
Inihijj  eity  access  to  all  the  probate  records  is  given  without  fee  to  any  peison.  In  Lon- 
don the  Literary  Inquirer,  even  for  the  period  for  which  he  has  the  use  of  the  reconls,  has 
Qot  access  to  the  files.    Here  records  and  files  are  equally  at  his  service  without  charge. 


18  Colonel  Chester.  [Jan. 

They  contain  the  entries  of  all  the  families  of  note  in  the  parishes  thus  dealt  with, 
but  were,  it  is  believed,  made  with  the  special  view  of  illustrating  such  fjeimilied  as 
emigrated  to  America.  They  are  therefore  particularly  valuable  to  the  American 
nation^  and  it  was  in  America  that  Colonel  Chester  fully  believed  they  would  event- 
ually find  their  home.  They  are  as  follows,  viz.:  fieds  1  vol.,  Berks  1  vol.,  Bucks  1 
vol.,  Cambridgeshire  1  vol.,  Cheshire  1  vol.,  Cornwall  1  vol.,  Derbyshire  2  vols., 
Devon  3  vols.,  Dorset  1  vol.,  Rssex  3  vols.,  Gloucestershire  1  vol.,  Hants  1  vol., 
Herts  2  vols  ,  Huntingdonshire  1  vol.,  Kent  2  vols.,  Lancashire  1  vol.,  Lincolnshire 
5  vols.,  Middlesex  4  vols.,  Middlesex  Westminster  10  vols.,  Middlesex  London  19 
vols.,  Middlesex  Private  Chapels  1  vol.,  Norfolk  2  vols.,  Northants  2  vols.,  North- 
umberland 1  vol.,  Notts  2  vols.,  Oxfordshire,  3  vols.,  Oxfordshire  Oxford  City  5 
vols.,  Shropshire  I  vol.,  Somerset  3  vols.,  Staffordshire  1  vol.,  Suffolk  1  vol.,  Sur- 
rey 4  vols.,  Sussex 2  vols.,  Warwickshire  1  vol.,  Wilts  I  vol.,  Worcestershire! 
vol.,  Yorkshire  2  vols.    Total,  87  vols. 

n.  A  complete  series  of  all  the  Matriculatiovs  at  the  University  of  Oxford 
from  the  commencement  in  1567  to  1869,  beautifully  written.  Seven  enormous  folio 
volumes,  viz. :  Vol.  1. — A.D.  1567  to  1580;  with  Index.  [Mem.  The  information 
given  at  this  time  was  very  scant.]  Vols.  2  »to  4. — A.D.  1581  to  1714.  Vols.  5 
to  7. — A.D.  1715  to  1869.  The  names  arranged  in  strict  alphabetical  order.  These 
entries  (about  95,000  in  number)  show  for  the  most  part,  not  only  the  College,  the 
age  and  birthplace  of  the  person  who  matriculated,  but  also  the  name  and  descrip- 
tion of  his  fattier. 

III.  Complete  list  of  E^ttrancbs  at  Grat's  Inn,  1581  to  1781,  arranged  chrono- 
logically, showing  in  most  instances  the  name  and  description  of  the  father  of  the 
student.    Barristers,  1657  to  1865,  &c.    One  thick  quarto  volume,  nicely  written. 

IV.  ALkRRiAOB  LicKNCEs.  Fivc  folio  volumes,  of  about  400  pages  each,  nicely 
written  and  carefully  indexed,  from  the  following  offices,  viz  :  The  Bishop  of  Lon- 
don's Office,  1521  to  1828.  Also  the  Dean  and  Chapter  of  Westminster's  Office  (all 
taken) ,  1559  to  1699,  3  vols.  Faculty  Office  of  the  Archbishop  of  Canterbury,  1543  to 
1569,  1  vol.    Vicar-Generars  Office  of  the  Archbishop  of  Canterbury,  1660  to  1679, 

1  vol. 

V.  Abstract  of  Wills  and  Admons,  9  vols,  (one  only  partially  filled),  one  vol. 
of  noble  admons  from  C.  P.  C.    In  all  10  vols.    Index  to  testators  only. 

VI.  Pedigrees,  2  vols,  (one  only  partially  filled),  entitled  '*  Chaos.''  Pedigrees, 

2  vols.  Tone  only  partially  filled) ,  from  Candler's  Suffolk  Collection.    Pedigrees,  1 
vol.  (only  partially  filled),  relating  to  Westminster  Abbey. 

VII.  Pedigrees  and  miscellaneous  matters  (unindexed),  9  vols,  folio,  of  which 
eight  are  devoted  to  the  following  families,  viz.  :  Adams,  Chester,  Hutchinson, 
Rogers,  Taylor,  Washington,  Wentworth,  Whitmore;  the  others  being  miscel- 
laneous. 

VIII.  Tabular  Pedis^ees,  printed  and  MSS.,  arranged  in  boxes  under  the  first 
letter  of  the  principal  degree. 

IX.  Four  enormous  volumes,  full  of  miscellaneous  collections  as  to  the  family 
of  Rogers. 

Works  of  Col.  Chester. 

1.  Greenwood  Cemetery  and  other  Poems.  New  York  and  Boston,  1843.  12  mo. 
pp.  132. 

2.  A  Preliminary  Treatise  on  the  Law  of  Repulsion  as  a  Universal  Law  of  Na- 
ture.   Philadelphia,  1853.    8vo.  pp.  64. 

3.  Educational  Laws  of  Virginia.  The  Personal  Narrative  of  Mrs.  Margaret 
Douglass,  a  Southern  Woman,  who  was  imprisoned  for  one  month  in  the  Common 
Jail  of  Norfolk,  under  the  Laws  of  Virginia,  for  the  crime  of  teaching  Free  Colored 
Children  to  read.    Boston  and  Cleveland,  1854.     12mo.  pp.  65. 

4.  John  Rogers :  the  Compiler  of  the  First  Authorized  Fnglish  Bible ;  the  Pio- 
neer of  the  English  Reformation  and  its  First  Martyr.  Embracing  a  Genealogical 
Account  of  his  Family,  biographical  sketches  of  some  of  his  Principal  Descendants, 
his  own  Writings,  etc.  etc.     London,  1861.    8vo.  pp.  xii.-|-452. 

5.  Notes  on  the  Ancestry  of  William  Hutchinson  and  Anne  Marbury.  From  Re- 
searches recently  made  in  England.    Boston.    8m.  4to.  pp.  24. 

Reprint  of  an  article  in  the  Rbqistir  for  October,  1866. 


1884.]  Colonel  Chester.  19 

6.  A  Prelimioary  InTestigation  of  the  Alleg^ed  Anoestry  of  George  WashiDgton, 
FSnt  Presideot  of  the  United  States  of  America ;  ezposiDg  a  Serious  Error  in  the 
Aottinfl^  Pedigree.    Boston.    1866.    Svo.  pp.  33. 

This  18  a  reprint  from  the  Heraldic  Journal  for  October,  1866,  where  it  was 
printed  from  advance  sheets  of  the  London  Herald  and  Genealogist  for  January, 
1867.  It  was  also  printed  in  the  Rbqistkr  for  January,  1867,  and  in  pamphlet  form 
Id  London.    8yo.  pp.  15. 

7.  A  Genealogical  Memoir  of  the  Wentworth  Family  of  Eosland,  from  itsSaz-  ' 
«  origin  in  the  Eleventh  Century  to  the  Emigration  of  one  of  its  Representatives 
t»  New  fojciand  about  the  year  1636.    Boston.  1868.    8vo.  pp.  20. 

This  is  a  r^rint,  with  pagination  unchangea,  of  an  article  in  the  Reqistsr  for 
April,  1866. 

8.  An  Oflicial  Inaoenracy  respecting  the  Death  and  Burial  of  the  Princess  Mary, 
toghter  of  King  James  L  Read  at  a  meeting  of  the  Historical  Society  of  Great 
Britain,  Jane  19,  1871.    London,  1871.    8vo.  pp.  8. 

Beprinted  from  the  first  volume  of  the  Transactions  of  the  Historical  Society. 

9.  The  Marriage,  Baptismal  and  Burial  Registers  of  the  Collegiate  Church  or 
Abbey  of  St.  Peter,  Westminster.  London,  1876.  (Editor.)  Royal  8vo.  pp.  ziii.+ 
Ol. 

This  is  the  tenth  Tolnme  of  the  Publications  of  the  Harleian  Society. 

10.  The  Beiester  Booke  of  Saynte  De*nis  Batfkchurch  parishe  (City  of  London) 
for  Maryages.  Ohristenynges  and  Buryalles,  Begynnynge  in  the  Yeare  of  o'  Lord 
God  1538.    (Editor.)     London,  1878.    Ro^al  8vo  pp.  viii.+369. 

The  third  volame  of  the  Register  Section  of  the  Publications  of  the  Harleian 
Society.  • 

11.  Herbert  Pelham ;  his  Ancestors  and  Descendants.    Boston,  1879.  8vo.  pp.  11. 
Reprinted  from  the  Rioistkr  for  July,  1879. 

19.  The  Parish  Rejcieters  of  St.  Maij  Aldermary,  London,  containing  the  Mar- 
riages, Baptisms  and  Burials  from  1558  to  1754.  (Editor.)  London,  1880.  Royal 
9?o.  pp.  VI.+277. 

The  fifth  volame  of  the  Register  Section  of  the  Publications  of  the  Harleian 
Society. 

13.  The  Parish  Rezisters  of  St.  Thomius  the  Apostle,  London,  containing  Mar- 
riages, Baptisms  and  Burials  from  1558  to  1754.  (EMitor.)  London,  1881.  Royal 
8to.  pp.  ri.-)-190. 

The  sixth  volume  of  the  Register  Section  of  the  Publications  of  the  Harleian 
Society. 

14.  The  Family  of  Dummer.    Boston,  1881.    8vo.  pp.  29. 
Reprinted  from  the  Register  for  July  and  October,  1881. 

15.  The  Parish  Registers  of  St.  Michael,  Cornhill.  London,  containing  the  Mar* 
liagen.  Baptisms  and  Burials  from  1546  to  1754.  (Editor  in  part.)  London,  1882. 
Hoyal  8vo.  pp.  viii.-f-348. 

This  is  the  seventh  volume  of  the  RegiHtcr  Section  of  the  Publications  of  the  Har- 
leian 2)ociety.  Col.  Chester  died  while  the  book  w&s  in  press,  and  his  work  was 
oompleted  by  other  hands.     A  notice  of  Cul.  C.  is  prefixed  to  the  volume. 

He  also  assisted  Joseph  Jackson  Howard,  LL.D.,  P.S.A.,  in  editing  the  fifleenth 
volame  of  the  Publications  of  the  Harleian  Society,  viz.  : 

The  Visitation  of  London,  Anno  Domini  1633,  1634  and  1635.  Made  by  S'  Hen- 
nS>  George,  K^  Richmond  Herald,  and  Deputy  Marshall  to  S'  Richard  S'  George, 
K\  Clarencieux  King  of  Armes.    London,  1880.    Royal  8vo.  pp.  vi.-{-434. 

Col.  Chester's  Contributions  to  the  Register. 

1.  The  Rogers  Genealogy  and  the  Candler  Manuscript.  January,  1863,  vol.  xrii. 
p.  43. 

d.  The  Roprers  Family.  Wills  of  the  Revs.  Richard  and  John  Rogers.  October, 
1863,  vol.  zrii.  p.  326. 

3.  (Genealogical  Waifs.  January,  1864,  vol.  xviii.  p.  81 ;  July,  1877,  vol.  xxxi. 
p.  323. 

4.  The  Hutchinson  Family  of  Gnjrland  and  New  England,  and  its  connection  with 
the  Marbnrys  and  Drydens.    Octo^r,  1866,  vol.  zx.  p.  355.    See  Works,  No.  6. 


20  Colonel  Chester.  [Jan. 

5.  Rev.  John  Wheelwright.    October.  1867,  vol.  xxi.  p.  363. 

6.  Rev.  John  Wheelwright's  Wife.    January,  1868,  vol.  xxii.  p.  83. 

7.  A  Genealogical  Memoir  of  the  Wentworth  Family  of  England,  from  its  Saxon 
Origin  in  the  Eleventh  Century  to  the  Emigration  oi  one  of  its  Representatives  to 
New  England  about  the  Year  1636.  April,  1868,  vol.  xxii.  p.  120.  See  Works, 
No.  7. 

8.  Genealo^  of  the  Hutchinsons  of  Salem.    July,  1868,  vol.  xxii.  p.  236. 

9.  Herbert  Pelham  and  his  Ancestors  and  Descendants.  July,  1879,  vol.  xxxiu. 
pp.  285  and  355.    See  Works,  No.  11. 

10.  Transactions  of  the  Historic  Society  of  Lancashire  and  Cheshire.  April,  1881, 
vol.  XXXV.  p.  200. 

11.  The  Family  of  Dummer.  July  and  October,  1881,  vol.  xxxv.  pp.  254  and 
321.    See  Works,  No.  14. 

Col.  Chester's  Contributions  to  other  Periodicals. 

Transactiovs  op  thb  Historical  (now  Royal  Historical)  Socibtv. — Xn  Official 
Inaooaracy  respectinj?  the  Death  and  Burial  of  the  Princess  Mary  (1872,  vol.  i.  p. 
344).    See  Works,  No.  8. 

Procebdinos  or  the  Massachusbtts  Hibtorical  Socnsmr. — S3me  Particulars  re- 
specting the  Family  of  M^jor  Andr^  (Marcii,  iH76,  vol.  xiv.  p.  217). 

Thb  Atue><jbum,  London.— Milton's  Mother  (Nov.  17,  1868). 

Tbb  Academy,  London. — Original  Lists  of  Persons  of  Quality,  Emigrants,  &o. 
(Oct.  24,  1874).  This  is  a  review  of  John  Camden  Hotton's  book.  It  was  reprint- 
ed in  the  Boston  Eoening  Transcript,  Nov*  9,  1874. 

Hotton's  Original  Lists  TNov.  7,  1874).  Another  article  on  Hotton's  book,  re- 
printed in  the  Transcript,  Nov.  20.  1874. 

The  Life  of  Benedict  Arnold  (Jan.  31,  1880).  This  is  a  review  of  Isaac  N.  Ar- 
nold's memoir  of  Gen.  Arnold. 

Notes  and  Queries,  London. — Bridget  Cromwell  (Dec.  26,  1868). 
George  Washington  and  Rev.  Jonathan  Boucher  (Jan.  19,  1878).    Besides  nu- 
merous shorter  articles  in  the  various  issues. 

Note. — I  am  aware  that  this  is  a  very  imperfect  list. 


Memoirs  AND  Biographical  Sketches  of  Col.  Chester. — 1.  Memoir  by  John  J. 
Latting  in  New  York  Genealoaical  and  Biographical  Record,  October,  1882.  Rfr- 
printed  as  a  pamphlet,  8vo.,  New  York,  1882,  pp.  10.  2.  Memoir  by  George  W. 
Marshall,  LL.L).,  F.S.A.,  in  The  Gencaloc/ist ,  October,  1882.  3.  Memoir  in  The 
Biograph  and  Review,  May,  1881.  4.  Memoir  in  Colburn's  Neio  Monthly  Magazine, 
June.  1881.  (Note.  Thi.M  is  the  same  as  No.  3  with  a  single  new  paragraph  insert- 
ed.) 5.  Sketch  by  J.  VV.  Dean  in  Duyckinck's  **  Cyclopaedia  of  American  Literal 
ture,"  ed.  1866,  supplement,  p.  88;  ed.  1875,  vol.  ii.  p.  447.  6.  Sketch  in  Parish 
Registers  of  St.  Michael.  See  Works  No.  14.  7.  Obituary  in  the  Boston  Eve- 
rung  Transcript,  June  1,  1882.  8.  Obituary  in  the  London  Athentpum,  June  3, 
1882.  9.  Obituary  in  the  London  Academy,  June  3,  1882.  10.  Obituary  in  the 
BioiSTER,  October,  1882. 

Letters  used  as  Authorities,  besides  those  cited. — From  John  J.  Totting,  New 
York,  Dec.  1,  4,  22,  24,  26,  27,  29  and  30,  1883  ;  Rev.  Albert  T.  Chester,  of  Buffa- 
lo, Nov.  19  and  28,  Deo.  17  and  25,  1883;  Dr.  Benson  J.  Lossing,  of  Dover  Plains, 
Dec.  15,  1882,  Jan.  8,  Nov.  28,  Dec.  22,  1883;  Charles  Hervey  Townshend,  New 
Haven,  July  18,  1882  ;  George  E.Cokayne,  M.A.,  F.S.A.,  of  London,  Norroy  Kinff 
of  Arms,  July  i5,  Aug.  1  and  24,  1882;  P.  Kinsman,  Warren,  Ohio,  Dec.  5  and 
13,  1883;  Thompstm  Westcott,  Philadelphia,  Dec.  10,  1883;  William  W.  Harding, 
publisher  of  the  Inquirer^  Philadelphia,  to  T.  Westcott,  Dec.  3,  1883 ;  B.  Boedham, 
Oct.  29,  1883. 


I  would  return  thanks  to  the  gentlemen  who  have  furnished  me  informatioD 

used  in  this  memoir,  particularly  to  John  J.  Latting,  £sq.,  liev.  Albert  T.  Chester, 
D.D.,  and  Benson  J.  Lossing,  LL.D. 


1884.]  Edward  Winalow.  21 


EDWARD  WINSLOW.* 

Commnnicated  by  O.  D.  Scull,  Esq.,  of  Oxford,  England. 

BELKNAP  and  other  historical  writers  have  duly  placed  on  record  all 
the  particalar  and  noteworthy  passages  in  the  life  of  Edward  Wins- 
low  in  New  England,  from  the  time  of  his  arrival  there  in  1 620  to  his  final 
retom  to  England  in  1646,  where  he  acted  as  the  efficient  agent  and  com- 
missioner of  the. new  colony.  In  London  he  was  instrumental  in  founding, 
in  1648,  the  *' Society  for  the  Promoting  and  Propagating  the  Gospel  of 
Jesas  Christ  in  New  England,'*  under  the  presidency  of  Judge  William 
Steele,  and  was  one  of  the  fourteen  assistants  or  governing  body  of  the  as- 
lociatioD,  which  was  chartered  in  1 649.  He  was  one  of  the  most  active 
members  of  this  body,  and  it  would  appear  that  he  undertook,  besides  other 
work  for  it,  the  supervision  of  the  business  of  collecting  and  investing  the 
funds  of  the  society.  *'  The  Earl  of  Warwick,  May  30,  1648,  commending 
to  Lord  Denbigh  his  favour  (he  himself  being  called  to  sea,  by  the  Command 
of  the  Parliament),  M'  Winslow,  agent  for  New  England  who  '  hath  some 
business  with  the  'Committee  for  ffouraigne  plantac'ons  that  have  long  at- 
tended a  dispatch.  They  doe  all  concerne  severall  societies  of  our  owne 
countrymen  there,  who  may  justly  challenge  very  much  respect  and  one  of 
them  hath  a  more  speciall  relation  to  the  advancement  of  religion  amongst 
the  native  Indians.'  "  That  the  society  was  prosperous,  and  that  its  funds 
had  been  invested  in  a  judicious  manner,  Edward  Randolph  bears  ample 
testimony  when  he  states  in  1684  *' that  there  was  formerly  belonging  to 
this  Company  800  or  1000£  per  annum  as  I  have  been  credibly  informed." 

Oil  November  22d,  1650,  "humble  proposals  of  several  Barhadeans, 
who  were  dissatisfied  with  the  rule  of  Francis,  Lord  Willoughby,"  were  ad- 
dressed to  the  Protector.  The  address  states  that  **  it  is  desired  that  the 
Government  may  be  established  in  the  hands  of  Edward  Winslow,  a  per- 
son of  approved  fidelity  to  this  Commonwealth." 

September  30,  1651,  ordered  in  Council  that  "One  hundred  Narratives 
of  the  battle  of  Worcester  and  acts  for  a  day  of  thanksgiving  to  be  de- 
Jivere<l  to  Edward  Winslow  that  he  may  send  them  to  New  England." 

On  the  25th  January,  1654,  he  was  appointed  one  of  the  commissioners 
"  for  compounding  for  advance  of  money  and  indemnity,"  and  was  also  one 
of  the  commissioners  for  managing  estates  under  sc(]uestration,  from  24  June 
to  Deceml>er  19th,  1654,  '*  when  he  left  that  employment"  by  reason  of 
his  acceptance  of  a  joint  commission  to  proceed  to  the  West  Indies  with 
Admiral  William  Penn  and  General  Robert  Venables.  Cromwell,  who 
bad  often  expressed  a  tender  regard  and  concern  for  the  welfare  of  the  New 
England  settlers,  had  been  for  some  time  considering  of  a  plan  whereby  he 
might  effectually  mitigate  their  many  trials  and  hardships  by  inducing  a 
oamerous  body  of  them  to  emigrate  to  a  more  congenial  climate  and  fertile 
soil.  He  had  fixed  his  mind  upon  the  Island  of  Ilispaniohi,  of  which  St. 
Domingo  was  the  capital.  For  the  selection  of  this  island  for  his  design  he 
had  been   mainly  influenced  by  the  representations  of  one  Thomas  Gage, 

*  This  article  was  written  as  an  introduction  to  the  Winslow  letters  published  in  the  last 
DomtxT  of  the  Reoistbr,  bat  the  manuscript  readied  us  too  late  for  insertion  in  that  num- 
ber.—Editor, 

YOL.   ZXXYUI.  3 


22  Edward  Winslow.  [Jan. 

who  had,  in  1648,  addressed  to  the  Protector  a  paper  he  called  ^'  Some 
briefe  and  true  observations  concerning  the  West  Indies,  &c."  He  was  the 
son  of  John  Gage  of  Hayling,  Snrrej,  brother  to  Sir  Henry  Grage,  gover- 
nor of  Oxford,  killed  at  Culham  Bridge  January  11,  1644.  His  parents 
were  Catholics.  He  went  to  Spain  in  1612,  where  he  joined  the  order  of 
Dominicans.  In  1625  he  went  to  the  Spanish  Possessions  in  America  and 
the  West  Indies,  and  returned  to  England  after  an  absence  of  twenty-four 
years.  He  found  his  father  dead  and  himself  disinherited.  He  turned 
Protestant,  joined  the  Parliamentarians,  and  was  presented  (Hasted  says) 
to  the  living  of  Acrise  Kent.  He  no  doubt  exchanged  this  for  Deal,  for 
here  he  buried  both  his  wife  Mary  and  daughter  of  the  same  name,  the  for* 
mer  in  1 652.  He  was  also  chaplain  to  Lord  Fairfax.  He  wrote  an  ac- 
count of  his  wanderings  in  America :  ^  The  English-american  his  Travaile 
by  sea  and  land,  or  a  New  Survey  of  y*  West  Indies,  &c  &c\" 

This  design  of  the  New  Eugland  emigration  Cromwell  opened  to  Cap- 
tain John  Astwood,  when  he  was  over  on  a  visit  to  England  early  in  1654. 
William  Leete,  writing  to  his  friend  Samuel  Disbrowe  in  October,  1654, 
says,  *'^  Captain  Astwood  writes  that  he  had  admittance  to  speak  with  liis 
highnes,  who  Expressed  his  tender  respect  of  New  England  and  thought- 
fulnes  which  way  to  doe  them  good,  but  said  with  all,  that  the  landes  in  Ire- 
land were  disposed  to  y*  souldyers  and  adventurers,  &*,  so  that  nothing 
there  could  he  done,  nor  can  the  dutch  be  removed  unlesse  by  composition, 
since  the  peace  with  holland  (being  prevented  as  by  speciall  providence  to 
be  done  before)  as  in  my  last  I  touched  upon.     But  Captain  writes  that  my 
Lord  asked  him  whether  it  would  not  be  better  that  New  England  were 
removed  to  some  place  where  they  might  have  Cittyes  ready  builded  and 
land  ready  tilFd  and  where  stable  Comodityes  might  be  raised  thair,  either 
to  remove  the  dutch  or  plant  in  delaware,  the  place  he  hinted  it  seemes  was 
Hispaniola,  but  Cap^  Astwood  answered,  at  present  he  thought  that  they 
would  rather  chuse  the  nearer  and  probably  more  peaceable  though  the  poorer 
than  be  removed  farther  with  more  hazard  to  loose  peace  and  gain  riches. 
The  answer  was  true  for  the  main  so  farre  as  it  went,  but  we  apprehend 
somewhat  more  should  have  beene  addressed,  as  we  have  inserted  in  a  let- 
ter from  our  Grenerall  Court  to  y*  Protector  this  year  viz*  That  whatever 
we  might  upon  selfe  respect  chuse,  yet  wee  are  free  in  adherence  &  com- 
plyance  with  his  highnes  and  our  godly  native  Cuntrymen  to  be  removed 
to  any  place  wither  the  lord  our  god  call,  where  wee  may  but  carry  on 
Christs  worke  under  our  handes  and  provide  necessary  Comforts  for  us  and 
ours.     The  Captain  saith  my  Lord  wished  him  to  Consider  further  of  the 
matter  and  come  to  him  againe,  when  (I  hope)  he  will  bethink  himselfe  of 
an  answer  that  may  shut  up  no  doore  of  Providence  towards  us  without  first 
acquainting  us  that  so  the  positive  answer  may  immediately  proceed  from 
ourselves  ;  ffor  the  present  I  perceive  the  Cuntry  doe  most  desire  to  keep 
themselves  in  y*  most  apt,  waiting  posture  which  may  suit  any  further  dis- 
covery of  gods  minde  and  will  concerning  them  whatsoever,  or  whereso- 
ever, onely  attending  the  present  duty  of  the  day  or  yeare  which  frame 
cannot  change  but  be  somewhat  detrimenting  to  settlement  here,  if  so  should 
prove  to  be  our  way  after  all,  yet  for  my  part,  I  think  if  many  had  knockt 
in  lesse  stakes  into  rocky,  sandy  parts  of  this  wildemes  it  might  better  have 
suited  a  wildemes  state  in  its  infancy  especially."^ 

•  Extract  from  William  Leet*8  letter  in  the  MS.  **  Some  additional  Notes  on  the  Leat  or 
Leete  Family,"  to  appear  in  a  fatore  number  of  the  Rboistba. 


1884.]  Edward  Winstoio.  23 

Bj  the  end  of  1654  Cromwell  had  matured  his  plans  and  made  every- 
tiuDg  ready  for  despatching  ao  expedition  to  the  West  Indies,  with  a  view 
to  ohuuning  poBsession  of  Sl  Domingo,  the  capital  of  the  Island  of  Hispan- 
iob,  and  making  it  ready  for  the  reception  of  the  proposed  New  England 
em^ration.  Edward  Winslow  and  two  other  commissioners  were  appoint- 
ed by  Oomwell  to  go  out  with  the  expedition  having  this  object  in  view, 
whilst  Captain  Daniel  Gookin  was  to  be  sent  to  New  England  to  induce 
tlie  New  Englandetv  to  emigrate.  The  salary  of  Winslow  was  fixed  at 
£1000  per  annum,  '*  and  his  Highness  to  be  requested  to  order  500£  to  be 
adranoed  to  him.**  Admiral  William  Penn  and  Greneral  Robert  Venables 
•tOed  from  Portsmouth  27  December,  1654,  for  Hispaniola,  with  sealed 
orders  as  to  their  destination,  to  be  opened  at  a  prefixki  time.  They  were 
to  take  St.  Domingo,  the  capital  of  the  Island.  Rapin  says,  '*  Cromwell's 
iostmetions  were  so  particular  and  circumstantial  that  they  appeared  to  be 
drawn  by  men  thoroughly  acquainted  with  the  country."  Availing  himself 
of  Thomas  6aee*s  accurate  and  extensive  knowledge  of  the  island,  Crom- 
well appointed  him  chaplain  to  the  expedition,  and  gave  orders  on  the  19th 
December  (1654),  *'to  provide  a  frigate  to  convey  M'  Gage,  minister  of 
Deal,  Kent,  to  Portsmouth."  Edwai^  Winslow,  who  was  on  most  friendly 
terms  with  Secretary  John  Thurloe,  wrote  to  him  on  the  eve  of  his  depar- 
ture from  Portsmouth,  and  again  on  touching  at  Barbadoes,  March  1 6th  : 
^  I  told  you,  how  easily  that  soare  was  cured  between  Venables  and  Penu 
whose  demeanour  mutually  towards  each  other  at  sea  was  sweet  and  hope- 
foil,  bat  the  last  of  these  two  gentlemen  is  too  apt  to  be  taken  with  such 
eoDoeipts,  but  I  trust  all  will  be  well ;  onely  I  feare,  that  going  hence  with- 
oot  oar  stores  some  occasion  will  arise  of  disturbance  between  the  land  & 
MS  forces.  The  Lord  god  prevent  it,  in  much  mercy.  I  onely  speake  my 
fears,  but  shall  endeavour  against  it  with  all  my  might*' 

The  expedition  had  30  ships  and  5000  laud  forces  under  Venables,  which 
were  if  possible  to  be  augmented  at  Barbadoes  by  the  aid  of  the  iiifiuential 
planters,  particularly  Colonel  Lewis  Morris.  This  Col.  Morris  afterwards 
joiDed  the  Quakers,  and  became  an  eminent  and  much  esteemed  member  of 
that  body.  Penn  arrived  at  Barbadoes  29th  of  January,  1654-5.  Ou  the 
16th  of  March  Winslow  wrote  to  Thurloe  that  "  the  reason  wherefore  Col. 
Lewis  Morris  will  not  goe  with  us,  is,  because  he  hath  so  lovely  an  estate 
which  he  fears  may  be  seized  for  some  other  debts  after  he  is  gone.  At  first 
he  told  us,  he  hoped  we  would  forgive  him  a  small  debt  he  owed  the  state 
in  regard  of  former  good  services  he  had  done  them  and  losses  sustained 
for  them.  To  this  we  seemed  willing,  provided  he  went  freely,  knowing 
how  necessary  an  instrument  he  might  prove.  This  we  found  to  be  26,900 
weight  of  sugar.  Afterwards  he  told  us  in  plaine  terms,  if  we  would  give 
him  an  100.000  weight  of  sugar,  that  so  he  might  pay  his  debts  and  leave 
hii  estate  cleare  to  his  wife,  then  Lewis  Morris  would  spend  his  blood  for 
OR.  We  told  him  it  was  beyond  our  Commission,  and  General  Venables 
told  him,  if  he  should  offer  up  his  Commission  he  durst  not  accept  it,  be- 
cause it  was  sent  by  his  highness,  who  expected  so  much  service  from  him, 
besides  what  he  demanded  was  as  much  as  all  the  field  officers  of  the  army 
ha<l,  and  it  would  make  them  thinke  they  were  very  much  under- valued. 
Afler  all  this,  he  came  to  me  and  said,  there  was  another  way  whereby  we 
might  enable  him  to  goe  with  us  and  presst  me  to  move  it  to  General  Ve- 
Dables  and  the  rest  viz* — the  |)eople  of  this  Island  (Barbadoes)  saith  he, 
never  look  for  pay  for  their  quartering  the  soldiers.  Now  if  we  would  be- 
Mow  that  on  him,  it  would  serve  his  turue.     This  I  told  him  I  would  move, 


24  Edward  Win  slow.  [Jan. 

at  his  request,  but  was  sure  that  the  General  and  Commissioners  more 
prized  their  honour  than  to  do  it.  So  this  we  rejected  also,  and  the  truth  is, 
he  confesseth  he  never  was  where  we  intend  first  to  pitch  and  sett  downe, 
80  at  last  he  told  us,  he  would  conceale  his  intention  and  march  his  men  ou 
board  the  ships,  for  which  we  gave  him  thankes,  but  all  these  things  are  pri- 
vate as  yet,  but  the  Commissioners  of  the  prize  office  have  Summoned  him 
to  pay  in  his  debts  to  the  State,  or.  shew  cause.  The  truth  is  he  prizeth 
himself  at  so  high  a  rate,  as  if  the  Expedition  could  not  goe  on  without 
him,  which  made  some  of  us  in  a  loving  way  tell  him,  we  should  be  glad  of  so 
Experienced  an  instrument  as  he  was  but  withall  let  him  knowe,  our  trust 
and  relyance  was  not  on  him,  but  on  God,  and  if  the  Lord  would  be  pleased 
to  use  us  as  instruments  in  his*  right  hand  and  owne  us  as  such,  which  we 
hoped  he  would,  we  doubted  not  but  we  should  be  able  to  give  a  good  ac- 
count of  our  proceedings  ;  and  thus  stands  the  case  betwixt  him  and  us." 

It  is  very  apparent  the  three  commissioners  were  much  over  worked. 
"Winslow  writes  that  "  Our  want  of  more  commissioners  is  very  great." 
: . . .  "I  beseech  you  consider  the  place  we  intend  by  God's  blessing  to 
settle  upon,  the  many  townes  built  upon  it,  besides  the  many  citties  and 
each  must  be  quitted  and  resettled  by  us  and  truly  how  to  doe  lesse  than 
settle  a  minister  in  each  I  know  not,  only  entreate  my  Lord  to  remember 
that  the  settlement  of  the  protestant  religion  is  one  of  the  grounds  he  goeth 
upon."  At  Barbadoes  the  strength  of  the  troops  was  increased  from  5000 
to  9000,  besides  two  troops  of  horse  raised  upon  the  island.  Having  thus 
refitted,  they  sailed,  March  30th,  for  Hispaniola.  Again  following  Rapin, 
"  At  the  approach  of  the  English  fleet  the  Spaniards  abandoned  St.  Domin- 
go. Venables,  instead  of  landing  his  troops,  as  per  instructions,  within  a 
mile  of  the  place,  disembarked  them  ten  leagues  more  westward.  The 
inhabitants  had  thus  time  to  put  themselves  in  a  posture  of  defence.  The 
English,  when  they  approached  Domingo,  were  so  fatigued  by  a  long 
march,  by  the  excessive  heat,  by  hunger  and  thirst,  they  were  easily  re- 
pulsed." Thus  baffled  they  again  sailed  and  seized  Jamaica  on  the  17th  of 
May.  Penn  and  Venables  left  some  troops  upon  the  island  and  returned 
to  England.  Ex-Secretary  Edward  Nicholas,  writing  to  a  correspondent 
from  Cologne,  Oct.  19-29,  says,  **  The  2000  or  3000  troops  left  by  Penn, 
came  to  the  Barbadoes  when  Penn  left  Jamaica,"  and  thinks  none  now  re- 
main at  the  latter  place."* 

Edward  Winslow  died  in  the  passage  between  Hispaniola  and  Jamaica, 
and  was  buried  at  sea.  William  Dugdale  (afterwards  Sir  William),  writ- 
ing to  John  Langley  at  Trentham,  October  9,  1655,  says:  "Winslow 
(a  Committeeman  of  Haberdasher's  Hall)  died  in  the  return  from  Hispani- 
ola. I  hear  he  raved  much  of  Haberdasher's  Hall,  in  his  sickness."  .... 
"April  IS***  1656.  Representation  of  Susanna,  relict  of  Edward  Winslow 
and  Josiah  his  son  and  Executor,  to  the  Lord  Protector  and  Council. — Her 
husband  was  appointed  on  December  12^^  1654  one  of  the  Commissioners 
in  the  Expedition  with  Gen^  Venables  to  the  West  Indies  with  a  salary  of 
1000£  per  annum,  500£  of  which  was  advanced  to  him,  but  he  died  on  his 
voyage  8  May,  1 655,  and  left  debts  to  upwards  of  500£.  Prays  notwith- 
standing he  died  before  the  year  expired,  that  the  remaining  500£  may  be 
paid  to  satisfy  the  creditors."     Referred  by  Cromwell  to  Council. 

*  Ohlmixon  states  the  **  3000  men  left  on  the  Islnnd  of  Jamaica  were  afterwards  rein- 
forced  by  Miyor  Sedgwick  with  over  a  thoasand  men  and  a  regiment  under  Col.  Hum- 

Shreys,  1000  men  fVom  Ireland  under  Col.  Brayne,  and  followed  by  1500  more  under  Col. 
[oor.    M}\jor  Sedgwick  died  in  the  West  ladies." 


18S4.]  Mtoard  Winslo^.  25 

Wlien  the  expedition  sailed  from  Portsmouth,  Admiral  Blake  had  pro- 
ceeded to  the  Mediterranean  to  suppress  some  pirates  there.  Meanwhile 
CapL  Daniel  Gookin  had  landed  at  Boston,  New  England,  January  20, 
l^i-5,  on  his  mission.  He  visited  the  settled  parts  far  and  wide,  freely  dis- 
triboted  his  little  printed  fly-sheets,  inviting  emigration  to  Jamaica,  but  his 
project  received  but  scant  encouragement.  He  remained  through  1 655,  1 656, 
and  on  Jane  20, 1 657,  wrote  to  Secretary  Thurloe,  asking  to  be  recalled.  Af- 
ter the  English  troops  were  beaten  in  Hispaniola,  Thomas  Gage  collected 
them  together  and  preached  to  them  a  sermon,  taking  as  his  text,  Joshua, 
chapter  7,  verse  7.  He  eidier  died  in  Jamaica,  or  shortly  after  the  return  of 
the  expedition  to  England,  for  on  *MuIy  18,  1656,  Mary,  widow  of  Tho- 
mas G^e,  Chaplain,  applied  to  the  Navy  Commissioners  for  his  arrears  of 
pay.- 

September  20,  1655,  Council  of  State.  *'His  Highness  acquainting 
Coancil  that  Gren'  Rob'  Venables  attended  at  the  door,  he  was  called  in. 
Order,  to  advise  that  he  be  committed  to  the  Tower."  Like  order  to  ad- 
vise that  General  William  Penn  be  committed  to  the  Tower  &  approved 
by  the  Protector. 

Nicholas,  writing  October  2-12,  says:  "I  do  not  doubt  Cromwell  would 
not  proceed  against  Penn  &  Venables  as  he  has  done  without  the  seeming 
concurrence  of  the  Colonels  of  the  army  &  his  Council.  He  has  committed 
them  dc  may  try  them  for  their  lives  to  vindicate  his  wisdom,  that  it  may 
not  be  thought  he  failed  in  laying  that  design,  but  they  in  Executing  it.  If 
BUke  should,  on  Cromwell's  rough  usages  of  Penn  <&  Venable,  Consider 
before  he  puts  himself  in  such  a  tyrant's  power,  it  may  much  prejudice  the 
arch  villain"  (Cromwell).  And  under  date  October  19-29,  he  writes: 
^  Blake  being  in  the  Downs,  is  afraid  to  go  ashore,  lest  he  should  have  the 
same  usage  as  Penn  &  Venables."  October  30,  1655.  Council.  Order, 
on  petition  "  of  Rob*  Venables  and  his  acknowledgment  and  submission 
therein  contained,  to  advise  of  bis  release  from  the  Tower,  &  that  he  give 
up  his  Commission  as  General  cfe  his  Command  in  Ireland.  The  warrant 
for  his  release  to  be  acted  on  as  soon  as  he  delivers  them  to  M'  Jessop." 
Approved  October  30.  October  3 1  st.  "  Order  on  a  letter  from  Gen^  Ve- 
nables taking  notice  that  he  had  seen  Councils  vote  of  yesterday  concern- 
ing his  enlargement  &  is  ready  to  deliver  his  Genl''  Commission  &  to  give 
a  resignation  of  his  Irish  Command,  only  he  has  not  his  Commission  with 
him — that,  on  his  delivery  to  Jessop  of  his  Commis"  as  Gen^  &  a  resigna- 
tion in  writing  of  his  comm**  in  Irel**,  with  a  promise  to  deliver  the  comm° 
when  he  can  get  it,  the  Warrant  for  his  liberation  be  executed." 

Petition  of  William  Penn  to  the  Protector,  October  25th.  "  Being  hon- 
oured with  the  Command  of  the  Fleet  in  the  late  American  Exped***  I  re- 
turned home  without  leave  for  which  I  have  incurred  y'  displeasure  &  this 
is  more  displeasing  to  me  than  any  worldly  cross.  My  heart  bears  me  wit- 
ness that  my  return  was  not  through  refractoriness  against  superiors  hut  for 
advancement  of  the  service  in  giving  an  acco*  of  what  would  not  otherwise 
be  represented.  And  was  at  first  willing  to  part  with  all  that  was  dear 
to  me  to  help  forward  this  Christian  design.  I  would  rather  never  have 
gone  if  I  thought  my  return  would  have  made  it  less  hopeful.  I  beg  re- 
lease from  restraint,  on  acco*  of  my  family  &  my  increasing  distemper.  It 
is  the  infirmity  of  man  to  err,  but  the  virtue  of  a  prince  to  pardon  error." 
October  25.  *'  Order  in  Council — on  a  petition  of  William  Penn,  prisoner 
in  the  Tower,  in  consideration  of  his  acknowledgment  of  his  fault  and  sub- 
mission therein,  to  advise  a  Warrant  to  the  Lieutenant  for  his  liberation,  on 

VOL,  XXXTUI.  3* 


26  Thacher^a  Record  of  Marriages  at  Milton,  [Jan. 

his  giving  up  to  M'  Jessop  his  Commission  as  a  General  of  the  fleet,^and 
note  by  Jessop  of  his  giving  ap  the  Commission,  whereon  the  Warrant  for 
his  release  was  issued." 

Dugdale  to  Langley,  October  9,  1655.  "  We  talk  high  here  of  sending 
another  Armada  to  conquer  Hispaniola,  notwithstanding  this  ill  success.  It 
seems  our  superiors  are  not  pleased  that  so  much  of  these  matters  should 
be  communicated  by  the  Press.  I  send  you  by  the  carrier,  a  journal  of  our 
late  Exped^  to  Hispaniola,  which  may  not  abide  the  light  here." 


REV.  PETER  THACHER'S  RECORD  OF  MARRIAGES  AT 

MILTON,  MASS. 

Commanicated  by  Edward  Doubledat  Harris,  Esq.,  of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

[Concluded  ftt>m  vol.  xxxtL  paf^  304.] 

Nov.  17,  1709.  M'  Thomas  Spur  of  Dorchester  was  marled  to  m" 
Elizabeth  Kinsley  of  Milton. 

Dec.  19,  It  10.  Simes  Langley  was  maried  to  Elizabeth  Long  both  of 
Milton. 

May  23,  1711.  m'  Samuel  Bass  of  Boston  was  married  to  m'*  Ruth 
Ilayden  of  Milton. 

June  12,  1711.     Preserued  Lion  was  maried  Joanna  Vose  both  Milton. 

June  21,  1711.     Joseph  Ganzy  was  maried  to  Elizabeth  Badcock. 

Dec.  24,  1712.  Timothy  Crehore  of  Milton  &  Mary  Triscol  of  Dor- 
chester were  maried. 

Dec.  25,  1712.  John  Sawin  of  Sherborne  was  maried  to  Johanna  Lyon 
of  Milton. 

May  28,  1713.  m'  John  Chickley  was  Maried  to  m"  Rebecca  Miller 
of  Milton. 

June  24,  1713.     m'  Jones  was  Maried  to  m"  Elizabeth  Rider. 

June  23,  1713.  James  Bagley  was  maried  to  Jane  Pierce,  y*  One  Brain- 
try  the  other  viz:  y*  woman  of  Milton. 

July  3,  1713.  John  Death  of  Sherborn  was  maried  to  waitstill  Vose  of 
Milton. 

Nov.  12,  1713.  m'  Samuel  French  of  Braintry,  was  maried  to  m"  Eliz- 
abeth Clap  of  Milton. 

May  6,  1714.  Mathew  Adgeltoa  was  maried  to  Ruth  Newton  both  of 
Milton. 

May  6,  1714.  John  Dickerman  was  maried  to  Mary  Tucker  both  of 
Milton. 

Feb.  10,  1713-4.  Son  Oxenbridge  Thacher  was  maried  to  m"  Eliza- 
beth Lilly. 

May  20,  1714.  Recompence  Wads  worth  was  Maried  to  Sarah  Moore 
both  of  Milton. 

Jan.  12,  1714-5.  Benjamine  Jewet  of  Ipswich  &  Reforme  Triscot  of 
Milton  were  married  Each  to  other. 

July  14,  1715.  George  Badcock  was  marrid  to  Hannah  Daniel,  both  of 
Milton. 

Nov.  18,  1715.  Ezra  Clap  &  Waitstill  TuOker  both  of  Milton  were 
joyned  together  in  a  mariage  Covenant  y*  Evening  after  y*  Thanksgiuing 
w*  was  y*  17  day. 


1884.]       Thachera  Record  of  Marriages  at  Milton.  27 

Feb.  8,  1715.     Samael  Tapley  of  Dorchester  was  married  to  Hannah 
Trisect  of  Milton. 

June  1716.     Thomas  Blunt  was  married  to  Hannah  Momantaog  both 
of  Milton. 

July  16,  1716.   Sambo  a  negro  servant  of  m'  Brightman  of  Boston  &  Ha- 
gar  my  woman  servant  was  maried. 

Aug**  16,  1716.     m' Nehemiah  Clap  was  married  to  m"  Lidea  Tucker 
both  of  Milton. 

Aug**  30,  1716.     m'  Stephen  Tucker  was  married  to  m"  Hannah  Bel- 
cher both  of  Milton. 

Nov.  21,1716.   m'  Manasseh  Tucker  Juni'  was  married  to  Hannah  Shep- 
erd  both  of  Milton. 

March  28,  1717.     John  Gulliver  was  maried  to  Lidea  Gulliver  both  of 
Milton. 

Octo.  1,  1717.      Georg  Hunter  was  Maried  to  Betty  Nateant,  both  of 
Milton. 

Jan.  15,  1717-8.     Samuel  Fuller  of  Deadham  was  maried  to  Elizabeth 
Craine  of  Milton. 

February  6,  1717-8.      Jason  Williams  of  Charlstowne  was  maried  to 
Mary  Sheperd  of  Milton. 

March  24,  1718.     m^  William  Mountgomery  of  Roussick  was  maried  to 
Elizebeth  Ilarsey  of  Milton. 

May  26,  1718.     William  Thomas  was  maried  to  Sarah  Pocock  both  of 
Milton  when  published. 

June  4,  1718.  M'  Samuel  Wads  worth  was  Maried  to  m"  Ann  Withing- 
ton,  both  of  Milton. 

Aug^  6,  1718.  Joseph  Warrick  &  Hannah  Blunt  both  of  Milton  (In- 
dians) were  maried  by  Peter  Thacher  Pastor. 

Nov.  20,  1718.  John  Spear  of  Brantry  was  Maried  to  Aime  Peirce  of 
Milton  hv  Peter  Thacher  of  Milton. 

Feb.  20,  1718-9.  Joshua  Mohu  was  Maried  to  Sarah  Morauiitaog  both 
of  Milton  l)v  Peter  Thacher  Past'. 

Ck^to.  22.  1719.  m'  Ephraim  Tucker  was  Maried  to  m"  Mary  Sumner 
both  of  Milton  by  Peter  Thacher  Pastor. 

Feb.  4,  1719-20.  m*^  Ei>enezar  Clap  was  Maried  to  m"  Abigail  Belcher 
both  of  Milton  By  Peter  Thacher  Pastor. 

March  24.  1720.  m""  John  Marshall  of  Braintry  was  maried  to  m"  Eliz- 
abeth Gulliver  of  Milton  p.  P.  Thacher  Past'. 

April  21,  1720.  Thomas  Heron  of  Deadham  was  maried  to  Sarah  Tuck- 
er of  Milton   By  Peter  Thacher  Pastor. 

Milton,  Nov.  14,  1720.  Noah  Daman  of  Dorchester  was  married  to  m" 
Sarah  Dickt»rman  of  Milton  p  Peter  Thacher  Past'. 

July  20,  1721.  John  Pitcher  was  maried  to  m"  Hannah  Tucker  both  of 
Milton  By  Peter  Thacher  Pastor  at  Deacon  Tuckers  her  father. 

Sep'  14.  1721.  m'  Robert  Vose  was  married  to  m"  Abigail  Sumner 
both  of  Milton  p  me  Peter  Thacher  Past'. 

Octo.  25,  1721.  John  Stimson  &  Mary  Wadsworth  (Deacon  Ebenezar 
Wads  worth's  Daughter)  both  of  Milton  were  maried  By  Peter  Thacher 
Pastor. 

Milton,  Feb.  8,  1721-2.  Nathaneel  Vose  &  Rachel  Bent  both  of  Mil- 
ton were  Maried  By  Peter  Thacher  Pastor. 

Milton  Vkih.  23,  1721-2.  Robert  Lochridg  was  maried  to  Ilauna  Clark 
both  of  Milton  By  Peter  Thacher  Pastor. 


28  Thacher^a  Becord  of  Marriages  at  Milton.  [Jan. 

Milton,  March  9,  1721-2.     Moses  Heiden  was  married  to  Jaia  Hoot 
both  of  Milton  by  me  Peter  Thacher  Past'. 

May  3,    1722.     Robert  Carter  Cowel  of  Boston  was  marled  to  Jane 
Vose  of  Milton  By  Peter  Thacher  Pastor. 

May  10, 1722.    Isaac  Adams  of  Sherborn  was  marled  to  Martha  Vose  of 
Milton  By  Peter  Thacher  Pastor. 

May  24,  1722.     Robert  Anderson  was  marled  to  Abigail  Bagley  both  of 
Milton  By  Peter  Thacher  Past'. 

Aug**  14,  1722.     John  Kelton  was  maried  to  Sarah  Badcock  both  of 
Milton  By  Peter  Thacher  Pastor. 

Sep'  27,   1722.     Ebenezar  Houghton  of  Milton  was  maried  to  Sarah 
Evans  of  Dorchester  By  Peter  Thacher  Pastor. 

Dec.  27,  1722.     Benjamine  Crane  was  maried  to  Abigail  Houghton  both 
of  Milton  By  Peter  Thacher  Pastor. 

January  3,  1722-3.     m' Stephen  Winchester  of  Brockline  4  m**  Hannah 
Gulliver  of  Milton  were  maried  in  Milton  by  Peter  Thacher  Pastor. 

March  26,  1723.     Andrew  M^'^Kee  and  Jerusha  Vose  both  of  Milton 
were  maried  By  Peter  Thacher  Pastor. 

May  30,  1723.     m'  William  Lackey  of  Boston  was  maried  to  m"  Sarah 
Woodey  of  Milton  By  Peter  Thacher  Pastor. 

June  20,  1723.     m'  Benjamine  Fenno  &  m"  Abigail  Wadsworth  both  of 
Milton  were  maried  by  Peter  Thacher  Pastor. 

July  5,  1723.     m'  Seth  Gulliver  &  Thankfull  Trot  both  of  Milton  were 
maried  in  Milton  By  me  Peter  Thacher  Pastor. 

Nov.  14,  1723.     m'  Joshua  Hay  ward  of  Braintree  &  m" -Elizabeth  Niles 
of  Milton  were  maried  in  Milton  By  me  Peter  Thacher  Pastor. 

Nov.  26,  1723.     m'  James  Endicot  of  Dorchester  &  m"  Hester  Clap  of 
Milton  were  maried  in  Milton  By  me  Peter  Thacher  Pastor. 

Dec.  26,  1723.     m'  George  Sumner  Juni'  &  m"  Susanna  Clap  both  of 
Milton  were  maried  in  Milton  by  Peter  Thacher  Past'. 

Feb.  13,   1723-4.     Joseph  Bent  was  maried  to  Martha  Houghton  both 
of  Milton  By  me  Peter  Thacher  Pastor. 

Feb.  25,  1723-4.     Benjamine  Baxter  was  maried  to  Abigail  Beal  both 
of  Braintry  By  P.  T. 

April  9,  1724.     Simon  Blake  &  Hannah  Badcock  both  of  Milton   were 
Maried  in  Milton  By  Peter  Thacher  Pastor. 

April  30,  1724.     Robert  Swan  of  Dorchester  &  Mary  Craine  of  Mil- 
ton were  Maried  in  Milton  By  me  Peter  Thacher  Pastor. 

Jiily  1,  1724.     m' John  Crehore  of  Milton  &  m"  Mehitable  Billings  of 
Dorchester  were  maried  in  Milton  by  Peter  Thacher  Pastor. 

Octo.  26,  1724.     Robert  Miller  of  Volentown  &  Jean  Pateson  of  Milton 
were  maried  in  Milton  By  Peter  Thacher  Pastor. 

March  10,  1724-25.     Cap*  John  Billing  of  Dorchester  &  m"  Mary  Vose 
of  Milton  were  Maried  in  Milton  By  me  P.  Thacher  Past'. 

Milton,  March   10,  1724-5.     m'  Roger  Sumner  &  m"  Sarah  Badcock 
both  of  Milton  were  Maried  by  me  Peter  Thacher  Pastor. 

May  6,  1725.     m'  Moses  Billing  of  Dorchester  &  m"  Miriam  Vose  of 
Milton  were  maried  by  me  Peter  Thacher  Pastor. 

May   26.  1725.     m'  Timothy  Tolman  of  Dorchester  &   m"  Elizabeth 
Wadsworth  of  Milton  were  maried  by  me  P.  T. 

June  10,  1725.     m'  John  Davenport  of  Dorchester  &  m"  Mary  Bent  of 
Milton  were  maried  In  Milton  By  me  P.  T. 

Sep'  16,  1725.     m'  David  Vose  &  m"  Mehetable  Miller  both  of  MHton 
were  maried  in  Milton  By  me  P.  T.  pastor. 


1884.]  The  Family  of  Gov.  Theophilua  Eaton.  29 

Dec.  1,  1725.  m'  David  Copland  of  Bridgwater  was  maried  to  m" 
Elizabeth  Bent  of  Milton  by  me  Peter  Tbacher  Pastor. 

Dec  9,  1725.  M'  Samuel  Kinsley  was  maried  to  m"  Mary  Gulliver 
both  of  Milton  by  me  Peter  Thacher  Pastor. 

Dec  30,  1725.  m'  Edward  Adam  Junior  was  maried  to  Deliverance 
Trot  both  of  Milton  by  me  Peter  Thacher  Pastor. 

MiltOD,  March  31,  1726.  m'  Penuel  Doming  of  Pomfret  was  Maried  to 
m"  Ann  Sumner  of  Milton  By  Me  P.  T.  Pastor. 

MiltOD,  July  15,  1726.  m'  Amos  Wadland  of  Boston  was  Maried  to 
m"  Jemima  Fenno  of  Milton  By  Peter  Thacher  Pastor. 

Nov.  24,  1726.  m'  Nathanael  Stearns  of  Plainfeild  was  maried  to  m" 
Aona  Blake  of  Milton  by  Peter  T.  Pastor. 

Dec  8,  1726.  m'  Joseph  Fenno  of  Dorchester  was  maried  to  m"  Sarah 
White  of  Milton  By  Me  Peter  Thacher  Pastor. 

Dec  14,  1726.  m'  James  Leonard  of  Taunton  was  maried  to  m"  Lidea 
Golliver  of  Milton  By  me  Peter  Thacher  Pastor. 

Dec  15,  1726.  M'  John  Fenno  Juni'  of  Dorchester  was  maried  to  m" 
Hannah  Billing  of  Milton  By  Me  Peter  Thacher  Pastor. 

Dec  15,  1726.  m'  James  Meares  of  Roxhury  was  maried  to  m"  Mehit- 
abel  Danvenport  by  P.  T. 

February  9,  1726-7.  m'  Joseph  Hunt  was  Maried  to  m"  Esther  Searle 
both  of  Milton  by  P.  T. 

Feb.  17,  1726-7.  m'  Eliashib  Faxson  of  Brain  try  was  Maried  to  m" 
Elizabeth  Crane  of  Milton  by  P.  T.  Pastor. 

March  2,  1726-7.  Thomas  White  was  maried  to  Rachel  Horton  both 
Milton  By  Peter  Thacher  Pastor. 

March  30,  1727.  m'  John  Ireland  of  Charlestown  was  maried  to  m" 
Sarah  Shepard  of  Milton  By  Peter  Thacher  Pastor. 

April  4,  1727.  m'  Justus  Soper  Sc  m"  Susanna  Sumner  both^  of  Milton 
were  maried  at  Milton  By  P.  T.  Pastor. 

Sep'  6,  1727.  Heury  Crane  &  Mellatiah  Vose  both  of  Milton  were  ma- 
ried In  Milton  By  Peter  Thacher  Pastor. 


I 


THE  FAMILY  OF  GOV.  THEOPHILUS  EATON. 

By  Prof.  Franklin  B.  Dexteh,  A.M.,  of  Yale  College,  New  Haven,  Ct. 

X  1878   the  late  Col.  Chester,  in  reply  to  some  inquiries  respect- 
ing the  English  origin  of  Governor  Theophilus  Eaton,  of  New 
Haven,  wrote  from  London  as  follows  : 

^  I  have  paid  no  special  attention  to  Governor  Eaton's  pedigree, 
I.  e.,  I  have  not  gone  into  it  systematically ;  but  I  am  able  to  settle 
the  question  of  his  parentage,  viz.,  that  he  was  the  son  of  the  Rev. 
Richard  Eaton.  I  have  long  had  among  my  collections  an  abstract 
of  his  father's  will,  which  is  as  follows  : 

"" '  I,  Richard  Eaton,  Clerk,  &c.  ;  dated  the  11th,  sealed  12th  July, 
lfil6.  My  two  houses  called  Pow  House  and  Poos  House,  in  over 
Whettley,  co.  Chester,  &  a  piece  of  land  lately  bought  of  John  Eaton 


30  The  Family  of  Gov.  Theophilus  Saion.  [Jan. 

of  Sandywajy  and  all  my  other  lands,  I  give  to  my  wife  Elizabeth  for 
her  life.  Other  premises  in  Over  Wheatley  to  be  sold  and  the  pro- 
ceeds divided  among  my  children,  Elizabeth,  Hannah,  John,  Samuel, 
Thomas,  Frances,  Nathaniel,  &  Jonathan,  equally.  To  my  son 
Theophilus  said  two  houses  after  my  wife's  death,  and  I  make  him 
my  executor,  he  to  pay  my  said  tliree  daughters  their  portions  at 
marriage.' 

^  The  will  was  proved  by  Theophilus  Eaton  in  the  Prerogative 
Court  of  Canterbury,  14  January,  1616-17.'* 

The  Richard  Eaton  referred  to  was  probably  son  of  an  elder  Rich- 
ard, who  was  Vicar  of  Great  Budworth,  Cheshire,  in  the  latter  part 
of  the  sixteenth  century,  and  was  there  buried,  January  7,  1600.— 
(Ormerod's  Cheshire,  iii.  444.) 

Richard,  the  son,  was  probably  the  one  of  that  name  who  received 
the  degree  of  B.A.  at  Lincoln  College,  Oxford,  February  1,  1585— 
6,  and  that  of  B.D.  July  5,  1599.  He  may  have  been  a  curate  of 
the  church  at  Stony  Stratford,  a  parish  lying  partly  in  Oxfordshire 
but  properly  in  Bucks,  where  Cotton  Mather  (Magnalia,  ii.  26) 
says  that  Theophilus,  who  appears  to  have  been  his  eldest  child,  was 
born  about  1591.  (Richard  Eaton's  name  is  not  in  the  list  of  vic- 
ars of  Stony  Stratford.  There  are  no  parish  records  extant,  and 
decipherable,  earlier  than  1613.) 

The  records  of  Trinity  Church,  Coventry,  Warwickshire  (in  which 
John  Davenport  was  baptized,  1597),  show  that  Richard  Eaton  was 
vicar  from  January  12,  1590[-1?],  till  May  8,  1604.  They  fur- 
ther  give  the  dates  of  baptism  of  five  of  his  (ten)  children.  Of  these 
Reb^Qca,  baptized  March  16,  1594,  was  dead  before  her  father's 
will ;  Elizabeth,  baptized  October  29,  1696,  was  living  unmarried 
in  1616,  and  is  not  again  heard  of;  Ann,  baptized  October  20, 
1698,  is  undoubtedly  the  child  called  by  the  equivalent  name  Hannah 
in  the  will,  and  probably  the  Ann,  wife  of  Francis  Higginson,  who 
accompanied  that  godly  minister  to  Salem  in  1629,  and  after  his 
early  death  removed  to  New  Haven,  where  she  died  about  the  be- 
ginning of  the  year  1640.  It  is  necessary,  however,  if  we  assume 
this  identification,  to  conclude  that  she  was  a  second  wife,  and  not 
the  mother  of  the  Rev.  John  Higginson,  whose  birth  was  only  a  few 
days  after  the  date  of  Richard  Eaton's  will.  The  fifth  child  of  the 
Rev.  Richard  is  John,  baptized  in  Coventry,  September  28,  1600, 
and  not  traced  later  than  1616.  The  sixth  is  Samuel,  baptized  Jan- 
uary 21,  1602,  graduated  B.A.  at  Magdalen  College,  Cambridge, 
in  1624,  and  subsequently  a  minister  of  the  Church  of  England ; 
he  came  to  New  Haven  with  the  first  settlers,  but  returned  in  1640, 
and  served  in  the  ministry  in  Duckenfield,  Cheshire,  until  the  ejec- 
tions caused  by  the  Act  of  Uniformity  in  1662.  He  died  in  the 
neighboring  parish  of  Denton,  Lancashire,  January  9,  1664-5. 

The  Rev.  Richard  Eaton  terminated  his  ministry  in  Coventry,  as 
has  been  said,  in  May,  1604,  and  on  the  third  of  August  in  the 


1884*]  Becards  of  Winchester,  JT.  H.  81 

aame  year  was  instituted  vicar  of  Great  Budforthi  as  successor  to  his 
fioher.  This  was  a  large,  straggling  parish,  and  one  of  the  town- 
diips  included  in  it  was  Over  Whitley,  where  part  of  the  property 
mentioned  in  his  will  was  situated.  He  arrived  at  dignity  in  the 
church  by  his  appointment,  July  10,  1607,  to  the  position  of  Pre- 
bendary of  Lincoln  Cathedral ;  and  he  died  within  a  few  days  after 
the  date  of  his  will. 

Of  the  younger  children  named  in  this  will,  Thomas  and  Jonathan 
are  otherwise  unknown.  The  daughter  Frances  is  only  heard  of  in 
a  bequest  in  Gx)v.  Eaton's  will,  forty  years  later,  to  *'  Mary  Low, 
daughter  to  my  sister  Frances."  Nathaniel,  bom  about  1609,  was 
educated  under  Dr.  William  Ames  at  Franeker  in  the  Netherlands, 
was  initiated  (says  Winthrop)  among  the  Jesuits,  and  came  to  New 
England  with  Ins  two  brothers.  His  career  as  the  first  head  of 
Harvard  College  from  1637  to  September,  1639,  was  not  a  credit 
to  the  name.  Thence  he  went  to  Virginia,  where  he  remained  at 
least  until  1645,*  and  on  returning  to  England  is  said  by  Mather 
(Magnalia,  iv.  127)  to  have  become,  after  the  Restoration,  a  parish 
minister  in  Bideford,  Devon,  and  finally  to  have  died  a  prisoner  for 
debt  in  King's  Bench  prison. 

The  will  reveals  the  christian  name  of  Gov.  Eaton's  mother,  who 
emigrated  with  her  sons,  and  died  in  New  Haven  in  a  good  old  age. 


PARTIAL  COPY  OF  RECORDS  OF  THE  TOWN  OF  WIN- 
CHESTER, N.  H. 

Commnnicated  by  John  L.  Alexander,  M.D.,  of  Belmont,  Mass. 
[Continaed  trovk  toI.  xxxtU.  page  809.] 

1800  Loved  Haskins  m.  Abigail  Putnam 
John  Foster  m.  Sarah  Pierce 
Ebenezer  Co|>elaud  m.  Lucy  Fassett 
Rufiis  Reed  m.  Keziah  Ware 
Lemuel  Taylor  m.  Katherine  Thompson 

1801  Hubbard  Lawrence  m.  Polly  Goss 
Elisha  Holman  m.  Pbila  Packard 
Silas  Cutter  m.  Olive  Holbrook 

Asa  Alexander  m.  Abigail  Alexander 
Porter  Wood  m.  Hannah  Rice 
Eliab  Howard  m.  Dolly  Stowell 
Ebenezer  Hutchins  m.  Persis  Hutchins 
Amos  Willard  m.  Olive  Pratt 
Phineas  Field  m.  Hannah  Taft 

1802  Abner  Allen  m.  Anna  Melvin 
Seth  Hammond  m.  Nancy  Bent 

*  See  Records  of  Massachosetts  Bay,  ed.  Shnrtleff,  ii.  114)  and  MS.  Archivei  in  Secreta* 
Tj  of  8ute*i  Office,  Boston,  vol.  15  B,  page  246. 


82  Records  of  Winchester,  N.  H.  [Jai 

John  Taylor  m.  Christina  Follett 
Josiah  Taylor  m.  Philena  Hammond 
Daniel  Dodge  m.  Esther  Morse 
Jonas  Hunt  m.  Polly  Field 
Benjamin  Whipple  m.  Parma  Kingman 
John  Eviden  m.  Molly  Gale 
Ebenezer  Jewell  m.  Susanna  Erskine 
Francis  Dickinson  m.  Sally  Wutkins 
Charles  Mansfield  m.  Elizabeth  Howard 

1803  John  Bogle  m.  Abigail  Bent 
Jonathan  Hall  m.  Hannah  Dodge 
Jeremiah  Pratt  m.  Lucy  Rixford 
Ciril  Flint  m.  Sally  Curtis 
Thomas  Stone  Curtis  m.  Via  Wise 
Philip  Howard  m.  Ruth  Ilaskins 
Barzilla  Hubbard  m.  Laviiia  Putnam 
Ilosea  King  m.  Sophia  Hutchins 
Thomas  Howard  m.  Deziah  Combs 
William  Twttchell  m.  Susanna  Davis 
Samuel  Lyman  m.  Sally  Smith 
Simeon  Wheelock  m.  Molly  Scott 

1804  Luther  Morse  m.  Tarza  Field 
Amos  Bond  m.  Hannah  Wood 
William  Comstock  m.  Frinda  Hawkins 
Azariah  Wright  m.  Prudence  Howard 
Daniel  Holman  m.  Phebe  Fuller 
Robert  Flemmings  m.  Anna  Bartlett 
Silas  French  m.  Ruth  Cook 

Joel  Hutchins  m.  Sally  Rice 
Aldeii  Ripley  m.  Lucy  Scott 
John  Morse  m.  Mille  French 

1805  Amasa  Atwood  m.  Phebe  Erskine 
Ebenezer  Smith  m.  Lucinda  Smith 
Silas  Capron  m.  Sylvia  Foster 
Abner  Houghton  m.  Susanna  Taylor 
John  Sykes  m.  Triphena  Kelley 
Lewis  Vickery  m.  Betsey  Bond 
Caleb  Farnum  m.  Hannah  Capron 
Erastus  Wright  m.  Susannah  Pratt 
William  Rixford  m.  Betsey  Willard 
Luther  Alexander  m.  Eunice  Ripley 
David  Kellog  m.  Hannah  Healy 
Amasa  Woolley  m.  Molly  Alexander 
Josiah  Stebbins  m.  Susannah  Miles 
Jonathan  Bellows  m.  Bet«ey  Field 
Daniel  Stowel  m.  Lydia  Field 
Abijah  Bowen  m.  Anna  Field 
Riifus  Jewell  m.  Olive  Pratt 

1806  Isaac  King  m.  Rebeckah  Verry 
Harry  Smith  m.  Lois  Ripley 
John  Willis  m.  Eunice  Dodge 
Elijah  Smith  m.  Damaris  Follett 


1884.]  Records  of  Winchester^  N.  H.  83 

Daniel  Yerry  m.  Rebeckah  Cleavland 
Thomas  Groald  m.  Grata  Grould 
John  Capron  m.  Persia  Hawkins 
Nathaniel  Lawrence  m.  Sally  Rixford 
John  Erskine  m.  Achsa  Jewell 
Henry  Foster  m.  Henrietta  Cleavland 
Ebenezer  Conant  m.  Dolly  Thayer 
Solomon  Alexander  m.  Thankful  Alexander 
William  Earl  Smith  m.  Sally  Flint 
Samuel  Bond  m.  Sally  Randall 
Amos  Fassett  m.  Phebe  Page 

1807  Stephen  Rice  m.  Olive  Wood 
Asa  Willis  m.  Ludnda  Lawrence 
Lather  Lawrence  m.  Sally  Foster 
Jonathan  Newell  m.  Cloe  Willis 
John  Bennett  m.  Sasannah  Wood 
Greorge  Ripley  m.  Phebe  Chamberlain 
Grardner  Flemmings  m.  Betsey  Ward 
Elijah  Dodge  m.  Lncinda  Thayer 
William  Young  m.  Sally  Bancroft 
Alpheus  Kingman  m.  Esther  Thayer 
Dea.  Nehemiah  Hoit  m.  Martha  Smith 

1808  Nehemiah  Healy  m.  Mercy  French 
Francis  Burt  m.  Mrs.  Eliza  Wright 
Reuben  Lee  m.  Sarah  Green 
Lanson  Fasset  m.  Hannah  Tattle 
Micah  Bent  m.  Sarah  Jennings 
Elihu  Wright  m.  Eunice  Hoi  ton 

Bancroft  m.  Sally  Couaut 

Bloget  m.  Catherine  Newton 

Luther  Rixford  m.  Sally  Hawkins 
John  Sykes  m.  Dolly  Kellog 
Royal  Cutter  m.  Mariah  Field 
Elisha  Hutchins  m.  Sally  Smith 
Daniel  Curtis  m.  Polly  Hatch 
Silas  Follett  m.  Hannah  May 

1809  Joseph  Marble  m.  Anna  Smith 
John  Fassett  m.  Susannah  Dutton 

1810  John  Follett  m.  Lydia  Oldham 
Harry  Adams  m.  Hannah  Foster 
George  Rider  m.  Mary  Dunbrin 
Abel  Scott  m.  Betsey  Follett 
Tertius  Lyman  m.  Hannah  Foster 
John  Howard  m.  Rhoda  Plumley 
Elisha  Lane  m.  Electa  Scott 

1811  David  Bliss  m.  Polly  Whiting 
Edward  Gustin  m.  Fanny  Field 

1812  Calvin  Bond  m.  Nancy  Wood 
Anthony  Combs  m.  Abaf^ail  Aldrich 
Josiah  Prime  m.  Sophia  Lawrence 

Elijah  Alexander  m.  Mrs.  Sally  Holden  Viol 

[To  be  continued.] 
TOL.   XXXVIIL  4 


34  Soldiers  in  King  Philip's  War.  [Jan. 


SOLDIERS  IN  KING  PHILIPS  WAR. 

Commanicated  bj  the  Rev.  Oeorob  M.  Bodob,  of  Dorchester,  Mass. 

Continued  fh>in  Vol.  zxxvii.  page  375. 

No.  V. 

Capt.  Thomas  Wheeler  and  his  Men. 

IN  gathering  from  the  pages  of  the  Treasurer's  Journal  the  names 
of  soldiers  who  served  at  different  dates  and  places  during  the 
war,  under  any  one  officer,  and  setting  them  in  one  list,  it  is  difficult 
to  preserve  at  the  same  time  the  proper  sequence  of  events  without 
repeating  something  of  the  same  story,  in  relating  the  service  of 
different  companies.  It  is  proposed  in  this  article  to  write  out  a 
brief  account  of  the  services  of  Capt.  Thomas  Wheeler,  of  Concord, 
and  the  men  who  served  under  him  during  the  war. 

A  word  concerning  Capt.  Wheeler  may  be  in  order  here,  espe- 
cially since  I  find  that  the  published  references  to  him  with  which  I 
am  acquainted  are  vague  and  conflicting.  The  genealogy  of  the 
Wheelers  of  Concord  is  a  difficult  problem,  from  the  fact  that  as 
early  as  1640-1  no  less  than  seven  heads  of  families  of  that  name 
were  in  town,  viz.,  George,  Joseph  and  Obadiah  among  the  first 
settlers.  Ephraim,  Thomas  and  Timothy  settled  in  1639,  and  a 
second  Thomas  who  appears  in  1640-1.  All  published  accounts  are 
defective  and  misleading,  but  the  long  and  careful  research  of  Mr. 
George  Tolman,  of  Concord,  has  done  much  to  clear  up  the  mys- 
tery., By  a  diligent  comparison  of  Mr.  Tolman's  papers,  kindly 
loaned  me,  with  all  I  am  able  to  glean  from  other  sources,  I  derive 
the  following  account. 

Thomas  Wheeler,  first  mentioned,  removed  to  Fairfield,  Connec- 
ticut, in  1644  ;  his  son  Thomas  settled  on  the  farm  he  left  in  Con- 
cord, and  married  a  wife  Sarah  before  1649.  Mr.  Savage  errone- 
ously identifies  this  latter  with  the  Captain.  But  of  Capt.  Thomas, 
we  know  that  he  was  the  brother  of  Timothy,  who  mentions  in  his 
will,  probated  Sept.  7th,  1687,  ''Joseph,  Ephraim  and  Deliverance 
my  brother  Thomas  his  sons."  He  married  Ruth,  daughter  of  Wil- 
liam Wood,  and  from  the  record  of  deaths  in  Concord  we  find  some 
account  of  their  children.  Alice  died  March  17,  1641;  Nathaniel 
died  January  9,  1676-7  ;  Thomas  died  Jan.  17,  1676-7  ;  Ephraim 
February  9,  1689.  Joseph  and  Deliverance,  mentioned  in  Timo- 
thy's will,  were  probably  the  sole  survivors  of  the  parents.^  '^Capt. 
Thomas  Wheeler,  husband  of  JRuth,  died  Dec.  10,  1676."  Ruth 
the  widow  administered  upon  his  estate  next  year.     Their  son  Jo- 

^  It  is  possible  that  James  Wheeler,  who  married  Sarah  Randall  in  1682  and  settled  in 
Stow,  was  a  son  of  Capt.  Thomas  and  Rath. 


1884.]  Soldiers  in  King  Philip's  War.  35 

eeph,  in  1677,  administered  upon  the  estates  of  his  brothers  Thomas 
and  Xathaniel.  The  estate  of  Thomas  consisted  of  "  a  horse,  pistols,  • 
cutlash  and  gun,"  and  was  prized  at  £6  12s.  This  was  the  Cap- 
tains son  who  saved  his  father's  life  at  the  fight  near  Wickabaug 
Pond.  The  son  Joseph  married  Mary  Powers  and  settled  in  Stow, 
Mass.  Deliverance  married  Mary  Davis,  and  also  settled  in  Stow. 
Capt.  Thomas  was  admitted  freeman  in  1642,  was  sergeant  of 
the  foot  company  of  Concord  in  1662,  was  appointed,  at  its  or- 
ganization in  1669,  captain  of  the  horse  company,  made  up  of 
troopers  from  several  adjoining  towns.  He  was  in  command  of  this 
company  in  July,  1676,  when  it  was  called  into  the  service  of  which 
some  account  is  to  be  given  presently.  Of  this  the  main  facts  are 
gathered  from  the  very  interesting  '*  narrative  "'^  which  he  published 
10  1675,  within  a  few  months  after  the  service  was  rendered.  The 
tide  of  this  pamphlet  has  been  transcribed  by  the  kindness  of  A.  C. 
Goodell,  Jr.,  Esq.,  from  a  copy  of  the  original  edition  belonging 
to  the  Essex  Institute,  which  copy  is  bound  up  with  the  Rev.  Peter 
Bulkeley's  Sermon,  and  was  perhaps  published  with  it.  It  is  as 
follows : 

A  True  Narrative  Of  the  Lord^s  Providences  in  various  dispensations 
towards  Captain  Edward  Hutchinson  of  Boston  and  my  self  and  those  that 
went  with  us  into  the  Nipmuck  Country^  and  also  to  Quabaug^  alias  Brook- 
field.  The  said  Captain  Hutchinson  having  a  Commission  from  the  Hon- 
(ntred  Council  of  this  Colony  to  Treat  with  several  Sachems  in  t/wse  parts, 
in  order  to  the  publick  peace  and  my  self  being  also  ordered  by  the  said  Coun- 
cil to  accompany  him  with  part  of  my  Troop  for  Security  from  any  danger 
that  might  be  from  the  Indians :  and  to  Assist  him  in  the  Transaction  of 
matters  committed  to  him. 

In  may  be  in  order  here  to  recall  the  situation  of  affairs  and  some 
of  the  circumstances  that  led  up  to  this  expedition  to  Brookfield. 

^  Of  this  valaable  publication  contemporary  historians  availed  themselves.  Mr.  Hub- 
hard  evidently  used  it  freely  nnd  followed  it  fully  in  his  account.  Mjyor  Gookin  refers  to 
tnd  quotes  from  it  in  his  **  History  of  the  Prayiup  Indians."  But  Rev.  Nathan  Fiske,  pastor 
of  the  Third  Church  in  BrcK>ktield,  who  preached  a  centennial  historical  scnnon  in  1773 
(which  was  pul)lishcd  in  1776),  seems  not  to  have  known  of  it,  but  follows  Gov.  Hutchin- 
wij's  history,  who  himself  evidently  had  never  seen  it,  at  least  does  not  notice  it.  And 
RcT.  Joseph  I.  Foot  delivered  a  Historical  Discourse  on  Thanksgiving  Day,  November  7, 
16r28  (pnbiuJhed  first  in  the  same  year),  which  discourse  (pays  the  Editor  of  the  enlarged 
editbn  of  1S43)  was  compiled  by  the  author  '•  after  much  inquiry  and  laborious  research," 
tnd  yet  Mr.  F(X)t  seems  to  have  been  entirely  Ignorant  of  the  existence  of  the  "  narrative," 
Mid  makes  no  mention  of  Capt  Wheeler,  leaving  the  natural  inference  that  he  could  hardly 
hive  read  either  Hubl)ara's,  Mather's  or  Gookin's  History.  The  edition  of  1843  contains 
*' Wheeler's  narrative "  in  full;  and  by  the  Editor's  statement  and  a  letter  from  Lemuel 
ShattQck,  of  Concord,  it  seems  that  Mr.  Foot  became  aware  of  the  existence  of  the  pamph- 
let bat  did  not  receive  it  from  Mr.  Shattiick,  who  possessed  two  copies,  until  July,  1829, 
iwiie  time  after  his  discourse  was  i)ubli<hed,  and  even  then  Mr.  Shattuck  appears  not  to 
l»ve  known  that  the  N.  H.  Historical  Society  had  published  the  **  Narrative  '*  in  their 
Collections  two  years  l>cfore,  with  valuable  annotations.  In  the  edition  of  1843,  however, 
the  Editor  plainly  used  the  publication  of  the  N.  H.  Society,  word  for  word — title,  intro- 
doction,  notes  and  all,  without  addition  or  omission,  though  omitting  to  make  acknowledg- 
meDt  of  the  same.  On  July  4lh,  18()0,  in  his  oration  at  the  Bi-Centennial  Anniversary  of 
the  .*Hfltlement  of  Brookfield,  Rev  Lyman  Whiting  gives  a  complete  and  el0(iuent  account 
of  the  fight  and  subsequent  d<«fence  of  the  garrison  by  Wheeler's  troopers.  And  later  Mr. 
H.  E.  Waitc  has  made  valuable  investigations  (see  Rkoistkr,  ante,  vol.  xxxv.  p.  333),  and 
has  kindly  famished  asbistitnce,  advice  and  material  to  the  present  writer. 


36  Soldiers  in  King  Philip's  War.  [Jan. 

The  Nipmuck  Indians  had  been  for  some  time  uneasy  and  threaten- 
ing. Twice  during  July  Ephraim  Curtis  had  been  to  treat  with 
them,  as  has  been  previously  noted.  On  the  last  occasion  their 
sachems  had  agreed  to  send  their  Sagamore  to  treat  with  the  Eng- 
glish ;  but  failing  to  keep  this  promise,  the  Council  thought  it  expe- 
dient to  send  a  larger  party,  with  more  show  of  power,  to  compel 
them  to  some  sort  of  a  treaty.  The  Council,  however,  did  not  fully 
estimate  the  number  or  disposition  of  the  Nipmucks,  deluded  in 
part  by  the  fair  promises  of  the  Sachem  David  to  the  settlers  at 
Brookfield,  and  partly  relying  upon  the  knowledge  that  Philip  was 
securely  shut  up  in  the  swamp  at  Pocasset,  with  Capt.  Henchman's 
company  warily  guarding  at  Fort  Leverett,  and  the  Plymouth  forces 
near  at  hand.  News  having  come  that  Mattoonas  (leader  of  the 
murderous  assault  upon  Mendon  on  July  14),  with  some  of  the 
Narragansets,  had  come  among  the  Indians  about  Quabaog,  the  pre- 

Earations  of  the  Council  were  somewhat  hastened,   as  will  be  seen 
y  the  following  "  minutes"  (Mass.  Arch.,  vol.  67,  p.  224  ) : 

''The  Council  met  at  j*  time  26  July  at  Charles  Towne  &  afterwards  at 
Boston  1 675.'*  An  Order  past  to  send  for  Capt  The.  Wheeler  &  20  of  his 
troop  to  be  here  at  Boston  w"'  y*  Gou'  &  Council  at  10  in  y*  morning." 

And  the  following  commission  to  Capt.  Edward  Hutchinson^^ 
(Mass.  Arch.,  vol.  67,  p.  228) : 

Boston  27.  July  1 675 
The  Council  beeing  informed  y*  the  narraganset  iudiaDS  are  come  downe 
with  about  one  hundred  Armed  men  iuto  the  Nipmuck  couutry,  Do  order 
you  Capt  Edward  Hutcheson,  to  take  with  you  Capt  Thomas  Wheler  St 
his  party  of  horse  with  Ephraim  Curtis  for  a  guide  &  a  sufficient^*  interpre- 
ter, &  forthwith  to  repaire  into  those  parts  &  ther  Laubour  to  get  a  right 
understanding  of  the  motions  of  the  Narraganset  indians  &  of  y*  indians  of 
Nipmuck:  and  for  that  end  to  demand  of  the  leaders  of  j*  narraganset 
Indians  an  acc'ot  of  y*  grouns  of  y*'  marching  in  y'  country  &  require  to 
understand  the  orders  of  their  Sachems,  And  also  to  demand  an  Account  of 
the  Nipmuck  Indians  why  they  have  not  sent  downe  their  Sagamore  accord- 
ing to  their  promise  unto  o'  messenger  Ephraim  Curtis, And  further  let 

y™  know  y*  wee  are  informed  that  there  are  some  among  them  y*  have 
actually  joyned  with  our  enemies  in  the  murder  &  spoyle  made  upon  the 
English  by  Philip,  And  that  Matoones  &  his  Complices  who  have  Robed 
&  Murdered  our  people  about  Mendon  are  now  among  y"*  And  y^  wee 
require  them  to  deliver  up  to  you  or  forthwith  bring  in  to  us  those  our  en- 
emies, otherwise  wee  must  Looke  at  them  to  bee  no  friends  to  us,  but  ayders 

^  Memoirs  of  the  Hotchinson  family  are  pnblished  in  the  Rboistbr,  toI.  1.  p.  297,  and 
XX.  355.  Capt.  Edward,  the  eldest  son  of  William  and  Ann,  came  to  this  coantry  mnn  Eng- 
land with  his  uncle  Edward  Hatchinson,  prot>ably  in  September,  1633,  a  vear  beftire  hit 
parents  came.  His  family  were  mach  interested  in  the  civilization  of  the  Indians,  and  were 
widely  known  amongst  them.  Capt.  Edward  owned  a  large  farm  in  the  Nipmack  coontiy, 
and  had  employed  several  of  the  sachems  in  tilling  it.  He  was  popular  with  the  Indians, 
experienced  in  militarv  matters,  trusted  by  the  colony,  and  had  several  times  been  sent  to 
treat  with  different  tribes,  and  was  but  lately  returned  from  the  treaty  with  Narragansets, 
antet  vol.  xxxvii.  p.  868. 

^<  In  the  original  the  words  **  Peter  Ephraim  of  Natick  for  an*'  are  written  and  tbeo 
atmck  out,  and  the  words  '*  a  sufficient "  put  in. 


W84.]  Soldiers  in  King  Philip*s  War.  37 

aDd  abettors  [«tc]  and  unto  all  these  things  yoa  shall  require  y"  expr*6se  an- 
swer; &  as  soon  as  you  have  dispatched  the  affayre,  you  are  to  returue  home 
k  give  us  an  acct,  so  desiring  the  Lords  presence  with  you  &  in  prosecution 
of  this  affayre  if  you  should  meet  with  any  Indians  that  stand  in  opposition 
to  you  or  declare  y™  selves  to  bee  yo'  enemies  then  you  are  ordered  to  in- 
gage  with  them  if  you  see  reson  for  it  &  endeav'  to  reduce  y"  by  force  of 
Arms. 

Such  was  the  situation  when,  as  we  learn  from  Capt.  Wheeler's 
narratiye  above  mentioned,  he,  with  about  twenty  of  his  troop,  report- 
ed to  the  Council  as  commanded,  and  with  Capt.  Hutchinson  marched 
on  July  28th  from  Cambridge  to  Sudbury,  and  thence  the  next  three 
days  into  the  Nipmuck  Country.    They  marched  to  within  two  miles  of 
New  Norwich,  and  finding  all  the  Indians  had  fled  from  their  towns, 
and  meeting  with  but  a  few  stragglers  here  and  there,  who  fled  from 
them,  they  marched  back  to  Brookfield,  arriving  there  Sunday,  Au- 
gust Ist,  and  hearing  of  Indians  in  great  force  about  ten  miles  away, 
they  sent  out  four  men  to  treat  with  them.     One  of  these  was  Eph- 
raim  Curtis  (as  I  find  by  his  testimony  in  the  trial  of  the  Wabaquas- 
la  Indian,  Poquahow,  for  being  engaged  in  the  assault  upon  Capt. 
Hutchinson  and  the  rest),  two  I  think  were  Brookfield  men,  and 
the  fourth  was  probably  one  of  the  Indian  guides.     They  met  the 
Indians  about  eight  miles  from  Brookfield  in  a  swamp,  and  after  the 
young  warriors  had  blustered  and  threatened  a  long  time,   their  sa- 
chems agreed  to  meet  Capt.  Hutchinson  and  his  party  next  day  at 
8  o'clock  at  a  plain  three  miles  from  Brookfield.     Capt.  Hutchin- 
son, accompanied   by  the  troopers,  scouts  and  three  of  the   "chief 
men  "  of  Brookfield  went  to  the  place  appointed ;  but  no  Indians 
appeared.     Whereupon   the  officers  suspected  treachery,  and   were 
earnestly  warned  by  the  Indian  guides. not  to  go  on  ;  but  the  Brook- 
field men  were  so  confident  of  the  good  faith  of  the  Nipmucks,  and 
urged  so  hard,  that  at  last  they   prevailed,   and  the  party  marched 
on.     They  supposed  the  Indians  to   be  in  a  swamp  several  miles 
away,  the  approach  to  which  was,  at  one  point,  narrow  and  difficult, 
having  an  impassable  swamp  on  one  side  and  a  steep  rocky  hill  on 
the  other.'*     Here  with  their  usual  skill  the  Indians  had  placed  their 
ambuscade.     The  English  were  forced  to  ride  along  this  narrow 
pass  single  file.     The  entire  company  was   allowed  to  pass  the  first 
lines  of  the  ambuscade,  which  then  closed  up  to  cut  off  a  retreat ;  and 
when  the  foremost  of  the  troopers  had  ridden  forward  some  sixty  or 
seventy  rods,  the  Indians,  from  their  coverts  on  either  hand  along 
the  whole  line,  poured  in  upon  them  a  sudden  and  terrible  volley. 
Eight  men  were  killed  on  the  spot,  viz. :  Zechariah  Phillips  of  Bos- 

'•  The  exAct  spot  has  not  been  fully  identified,  but  a  careful  comparison  of  the  best  au- 
thorities seems  to  establish  the  place  in  the  narrow  defile  alx)vc  the  head  of  Wickaboag 
Food.  Local  tradition,  reliably  transmitted,  still  points  out  the  graves  of  the  fidlen  in 
the  old  cemetery  at  West  Brookfield,  on  the  south  shore  of  that  pond.  A  gentleman  of 
oitiail  judgment,  who  recently  visited  the  spot,  assures  me  that  seven  graves  are  yet  plainly 
Tinble  there. 

VOL.  ZXXVIII.  4* 


38  Soldiers  in  King  Philip^s  War.  [Jan. 

ton,  Timothy  Farlow  of  Billerica,  Edward  Colebum  of  Chelmsford, 
Samuel  Smedly  of  Concord,  Shadrach  Hapgood  of  Sudbury,  and 
the  three  men  of  Brookfield,  Sergeants  John  Ayres  and  William 
Pritchard,  and  Corporal  Richard  Coye ;  and  five  were  wounded,  viz. : 
Capt.  Hutchinson,  Capt.  Wheeler  and  his  son  Thomas,  Corporal 
John  French  of  Billerica,  and  John  Waldo  of  Chelmsford.  Five 
of  their  horses  were  killed  and  many  more  wounded.  The  troopers 
rallied  and  made  a  dash  up  the  hill,  but,  scattered  as  they  were,  and 
encumbered  by  their  horses,  were  unable  to  make  a  permanent 
stand.  The  Indians  pressed  upon  them  closely  to  surround  them. 
Capt.  Wheeler  escaped  the  first  fire  and  dashed  part  way  up  the  hill, 
but  finding  some  of  his  men  had  fallen  in  the  pass,  turned  back  to 
face  the  enemy  alone,  not  calling  upon  his  company  to  foUow,  which, 
he  says,  they  would  have  done ;  and  then  he  was  sorely  wounded 
and  his  horse  killed  under  him,  so  that  he  was  near  falling  into  the 
hands  of  the  enemy  pressing  close  upon  him,  when  his  son  who, 
retreating  with  the  rest  of  the  company,  had  missed  his  father  and 
turned  back,  now,  though  himself  sorely  wounded,  dismounted 
and  helped  his  father  upon  his  own  horse,  and  ran  along  beside 
him  on  foot  until  he  found  another  horse  whose  rider  had  been 
killed,  and  thus  closely  pursued  by  the  enemy  they  escaped  to  the 
rest  of  the  company.  In  this  brave  rescue  of  his  father,  the  son 
was  again  dangerously  wounded  in  the  lefl  arm.  In  this  juncture 
the  remainder  of  the  company  were  saved  by  the  sagacity  of  the  two 
Indian  guides,^^  Sampson  and  Joseph  Robin,  who  led  them  round 
by  a  way  known  to  them,  and  thus  avoided  a  second  ambuscade 
which  the  enemy  had  laid  for  them  on  the  direct  road.  The  credit 
is  not  given  them  in  Wheeler's  narrative,  but  in  a  certificate  given 
these  Indians  by  him,  and  afterwards  published  by  Major  Gookin. 

After  a  difficult  march  of  ten  miles,  the  troopers  rode  into  Brook- 
field,  where  they  took  possession  of  and  hastily  fortified  one  of  the 
largest  houses.  The  alarm  spread  through  the  town,  and  the  inhab- 
itants immediately  left  their  own  houses  and  fled  to  the  house  held 
by  the  troopers,  in  their  fear  bringing  very  little  with  them,  either 
of  food  or  clothing.  Capt.  Wheeler,  finding  himself,  by  reason  of 
his  wound,  unable  to  conduct  the  defence  of  the  garrison,  appointed 
to  thut  office  Simon  Davis,  of  Concord,  James  Richardson  and  John 
Fiske,  of  Chelmsford.  Within  two  hours  after  they  returned  to 
the  town,  the  Captains  sent  out  Ephraim  Curtis,  and  Henry  Young 
of  Concord,  to  carry  news  of  the  disaster  to  the  Council  at  Boston, 
but  in  this  time  the  Indians  had  crept  warily  about  the  town,  and 
were  found  by  the  messengers  pillaging  the  outlying  houses.     Find- 

77  Sons  of  old  Robin  Petuhanit,  a  faithfhl  **  Christian  '*  Indian.  Notwithstanding  thif 
•enrice  thev  were  afterwards  so  uivjastlj  ased  by  the  English  that  thej  were  driren  to  Jofai 
Philip^  allies,  and  Sampson  was  killed  by  some  scouts  of  the  English  near  Wachuset, 
while  Joseph  was  captured  and  sold  into  slavery  in  the  West  Indies.  See  **  Gookin's  Uia- 
tonr  of  the  Praying  Indians." 

7*  Said  to  haTC  been  the  inn  kept  by  John  Ayres,  killed  as  abore  noted. 


1884.]  Soldiers  in  King  Philip's  War.  39 

ing  the  way  encompassed  and  the  whole  force  of  the  enemy  closing 
io  upon  them,  the  messengers  returned  to  warn  the  garrison. 
hnmediately  the  Indians  came  swarming  upoQ  them  with  fierce  vol- 
leys and  load  shootings,  ^  sending  in  their  shots  amongst  us  like  hail 
durongh  the  walls."  But  one  man,  Henry  Young  above  mentioned,  was 
killed,  and  that  in  the  evening  while  looking  out  from  the  garret  win- 
dow, and  a  son  of  William  Pritchanl  (slain  at  the  fight  in  the  morn- 
ing), who  had  ventured  out  of  the  garrison  to  fetch  some  things  from 
hisfather^s  house  still  standing  near  by,  was  killed  just  as  he  was  leav- 
ing the  house  to  return,  and  his  head  was  cut  off  and  tossed  about 
m  view  of  the  English,  and  then  set  upon  a  pole  against  the  door  of 
Us  father's  house.  All  night  they  besieged  the  house  fiercely,  till 
tbont  three  o'clock  in  the  morning  August  3d,  when  they  collected 
^liay  and  other  combustibles,  and  attempted  to  set  the  house  on  fire 
tt  the  comer.  Under  cover  of  their  comrades'  muskets,  a  party 
promptly  rushed  out  in  the  face  of  the  enemies'  bullets,  and  put  it 
oat.  Only  two  of  these  were  wounded.  At  this  time,  at  Capt. 
Wheeler's  request,  Ephraim  Curtis  made  an  attempt  to  get  away 
through  the  lines  to  carry  a  message,  but  failed  ;  but  near  morning 
he  tried  again  and  succeeded  by  creeping  a  long  distance  on  his 
hands  and  knees  to  elude  the  Indians,  and  after  a  day  and  night, 
fainting  with  hunger  and  fatigue,  reach  Marlborough  on  August 
4th.  But  the  news  of  the  destruction  of  Brookfield  had  preceded 
him,  carried  by  some  people  who  were  travelling  towards  Connecti- 
cut, and  coming  to  Brookfield  and  seeing  the  burning  houses  and 
the  killing  of  some  cattle,  turned  back  and  spread  t}ie  alarm  at 
Marlborough,  and  a  post  was  immediately  sent  after  Major  Willard 
who  was  to  march  that  day  from  Lancaster  to  Groton.  The  messen- 
gers overtook  him  already  upon  the  march,  and  upon  receipt  of  the 
message  he  promptly  marched  his  force  of  forty-six  soldiers  and  five 
Indians  under  Capt.  James  Parker  of  Groton,  towards  Brookfield. 

In  the  mean  time  the  Indians  kept  up  their  furious  assault  upon 
the  garrison,  trying  by  every  art  to  fire  the  house  through  all  the  day 
tnd  night,  August  3d,  which  the  English  succeeded  in  preventing, 
without  injury,  except  to  one  Thomas  Wilson,  who  was  wounded 
while  venturing  into  the  yard  outside  to  draw  water.  On  August 
4th,  the  enemy  having  received  large  reinforcements,  proceeded  to 
fortify  the  meeting-house  near  by,  and  also  the  barn  belonging  to  the 
besieged  house,  to  protect  themselves  from  the  watchful  aim  of  the 
Ennrlish  muskets,  and  later  they  invented  a  machine-of-war,  of  a 
rtyle  unheard  of  before  or  since  in  warfare.  It  was  a  sort  of  trund- 
ling wheel-barrow  fourteen  rods  long,  a  pole  thrust  through  the 
heads  of  a  barrel  for  a  front  wheel,  and  for  a  body  long  poles  spliced 
together  at  the  ends  and  laid  upon  short  cross-poles,  and  truckle 
wheels  placed  under  at  intervals.  They  constructed  two  of  these 
centipede-like  carriages  and  loaded  the  fronts  with  quantities  of 
combustibles,  such  as  hay,  flax  and  **  candle  wood."     These  were 


40 


Soldiers  in  King  Philip^a  War, 


[Jan. 


scarcely  completed,  however,  when  a  heavy  shower  fell  and  wet 
down  their  combustibles,  so  that  they  would  not  readily  bum,  and 
in  the  mean  time  Major  Willard  and  his  force  arrived,  and  so  intent 
were  the  Indians  about  the  machines,  that  his  company,  coming 
about  an  hour  after  dark,  gained  the  yard  of  the  garrisoned  house 
before  the  enemy  perceived  them.  There  was  a  large  body  of  In- 
dians posted  about  two  miles  away,  on  the  road  by  which  the  Ma- 
jor's company  had  come,  and  another  party  of  over  one  hundred 
in  a  house  nearer  the  garrison.  The  outpost  had  let  the  company 
pass  unharmed,  depending  upon  those  nearer  to  strike  the  blow ; 
and  these  latter  depending  upon  the  others  for  an  alarm,  which  either 
was  not  given  or  else,  in  the  excitement  of  building  the  machines, 
they  did  not  hear,  both  missed  the  opportunity  of  attack.  As  soon 
as  they  saw  their  mistake  they  attacked  the  Major's  party  with 
fury,  but  without  much  avail,  and  all  were  soon  safely  within  th^ 
house.  The  Indians  seeing  their  devices  defeated  and  the  garrison 
reinforced,  set  fire  to  the  barn  and  meetinghouse,  and  in  the  early 
morning  of  August  5th  withdrew. 

Such  is  Capt.  Wheeler's  account  in  brief  of  the  famous  fight  near 
Wickaboag  Pond,  and  the  subsequent  defence  of  Brookfield.  And 
I  have  followed  his  account  thus  fully  and  at  some  length,  because 
most  of  the  published  accounts  that  I  have  seen  have  either  con- 
flicted with  his  or  have  been  otherwise  misleading. 

On  August  7th  fresh  forces  arrived  from  Boston,  and  all  remained 
at  the  garrison  till  the  10th  day,  when  Capts.  Hutchinson  and 
Wheeler,  with  all  of  their  company  that  were  able  to  travel,  came 
away  and  arrived  at  Marlborough  on  Aupjust  14th.  Capt.  Hutch- 
inson died  there  of  his  wounds  on  the  19th,  and  was  buried  the  next 
day.  Capt.  Wheeler  and  the  remnants  of  his  company  remained 
there  until  the  21st,  when  thev  returned  home  to  Concord. 

Of  those  who  were  engaged  in  this  affair,  the  following  received 
credit  for  military  service  under  Capt.  Thomas  Wheeler : 


Sept.  15,  1675. 
Samson  Robin.  00  13  08 

Joseph  Robin. 

Sept.  28**^ 
Benjamin  Graves. 
SimoD  Davis. 
John  Buttrick. 

Oct.  W^ 
George  Howard. 
John  Hart  well. 
John  French,  Corp^. 


00  13  08 

02  16  04 

03  08  16 
03  01  06 

01  08  06 
01  11  06 
07  04  00 


George  Farly. 
James  Paddison. 
John  Bates. 
Simon  Howard. 
Samuel  Smedly. 
Sidrach  Hopgood. 


00  14  00 

01  14  08 
01  14  03 
01  10  00 
00  14  00 
00  10  00 


November  30**^ 

John  Waldoe.  04  00  00 

John  Fisk.  01  14  09 

Jan'y  25,  1 675-6. 
James  Richardson.  02  02  00 


John  Kittery  (Kitteridg).  03  08  06 

Besides  these  credited  above,  there  are  several  mentioned  in  the 
"Narrative"  and  elsewhere,  who  doubtless  belonged  to  Captain 
Wheeler's  troop — Zechariah  Phillips,  Timothy  Farlow  and  Edward 


1884.]  Soldiers  in  King  Philip's  War.  41 

Colebum,  killed  at  the  ambuscade,  and  Henry  Young  killed  at  the 
girrison.  These,  with  young  Thomas  Wheeler,  make  up  the  num- 
ber to  twenty-one,^*  besides  the  guides.  Ephraim  Curtis  was  credited 
18  directly  in  the  service  of  the  Council,  £2  for  his  service.  It  will  be 
noticed  that  neither  Capt.  Wheeler  nor  his  son  receive  credit  in  the 
treasurer's  account,  but  it  is  seen  by  two  items  in  the  Court  Records , 
first,  October  13th,  1675,  in  answer  to  his  petition  setting  forth  his 
necessities,  that  he  receives  ten  pounds,  and  again  in  October,  1676, 
bt  his  own  and  his  son's  service,  he  is  credited  full  wages  for  both 
from  the  time  they  left  their  own  homes  till  they  returned  to  them 
ipun,  which  was  £28  in  addition  to  the  £10  granted  him  the  year 
before,  which,  in  the  Treasurer's  Ledger,  is  put  under  the  head  of 
"Contingencies,"  and  is  in  part  remuneration  for  his  losses  and  recog- 
nition of  his  eminent  services.  The  twenty-eight  pounds  must  have 
iodnded  subsequent  service.  He  remained  at  home  for  some  time, 
and  probably  in  that  time  wrote  out  his  "  Narrative."  Together 
with  others  of  his  troop,  he  celebrated  the  21st  of  October,  1675, 
as  a  day  of  thanksgiving  for  their  safe  return  from  Brookfield. 
Before  February  29th,  as  is  evident  from  the  credits  following,  he  had 
been  out  again  in  service.  What  or  where  that  service  was  I  have 
not  been  able  to  find  from  any  published  reference. 

There  was,  however,  much  quiet,  though  efficient,  service  per- 
formed in  those  times,  that  the  chronicler  passed  over  in  giving  ac- 
coant  of  the  more  stirring  events ;  and  such  service  is  often  only 
revealed  by  these  dim  old  pages  of  Hull's  Journal,  or  the  brief  busi- 
ness or  official  letters  preserved  in  our  precious  Archives.  Such 
data  may  be  helpful  here.  And  first,  the  similarity  of  the  amounts 
of  credit  would  indicate  that  nearly  all  in  this  list  were  on  the  same 
service,  and  it  would  follow  that  the  service  was  rendered  before 
February  29th,  1676.  The  reference  to  "Groton  Garrison"  in 
the  credit  of  a  part  of  the  men,  seems  to  point  to  Groton  and  the 
neighboring  towns  as  the  place  of  service.  And  again  the  letter  to 
the  Court  from  Groton,  dated  February  6th,  1675-6,  and  signed  by 
James  Parker,  Thomas  Wheeler  and  Henry  Woodhouee  (Woodis), 
respectfully  suggests  that  the  maintenance  of  a  scout  of  "  forty  men, 
troopers  and  dragoons,"  to  scout  between  Groton,  Lancaster  and 
Marlboro',  is  unnecessary,  the  garrison  at  Lancaster  being  sufficient 
for  such  purpose.  Moreover,  that  such  method,  considering  the 
distance,  renders  the  force  unavailable  in  case  of  sudden  surprise, 
tod  that  such  towns  as  Billerica  and  Chelmsford  are  weakened  by 
the  withdrawal  of  their  troopers  for  this  service,  and  that  now  in  view 
of  the  sudden  disappearance  of  the  Weymesit  Indians,  the  troopers 
fix)m  those  towns  ^  demand  a  release,"   &c.     I  find  that  many  of 

'  In  RcT.  John  Rnssell's  list  of  men  killed  in  Hampshire  Coanty,  I  find  the  name  of 
ItmeH  HoTey,  killed  at  Brookfield,  Augast  2.  There  is  no  other  uathority  for  the  state- 
ment.  The  name  occars  after  that  of  Capt.  Hutchinson,  and  it  may  be  that  he,  like  Capt. 
H.,  died  of  ipjarles  receired  at  the  fight  or  garrison. 


42 


Soldiers  in  King  Pkilip^a  War. 


[Jan. 


those  in  the  list  were  from  Billerica  and  Chelmsford.  The  letter 
shows  this  scouting  service  to  have  been  going  on,  and  I  think  it  is 
safe  to  conclude  that  most  of  these  thirty-seven  men  were  engaged 
in  it  under  Capt.  Wheeler  and  Lieut.  Woodhouse.^ 


Credited  under  Capt.  Wheeler : 

Feb'y  29'M675-( 

1 

David  Batchelor. 

01 

12  10 

Simon  Davis  (two  credits] 

101 

11   10 

Simon  Crosbe. 

01 

12  10 

'  Nath.  Hill. 

01 

12  10 

Daniel  Maginnis. 

00 

06  00 

Jonathan  Hill. 

01 

12  10 

John  Kitteridg. 

01 

12  10 

Joseph  Foster. 

01 

12  10 

James  Fattisou. 

01 

12  10 

John  Waldo. 

01 

12  10 

Jonathan  Hide. 

01 

12  10 

Francis  Dudly. 

01 

12  10 

Samuel  Davis. 

01 

02  10 

Samuel  Fletcher  Sen'. 

01 

04  05 

John  Brown. 

01 

12  10 

Sl^ 

Samuel  Fletcher  Jun'. 

01 

12  10 

Joseph  Hay  ward. 

01 

12  10 

Eleazer  Brown. 

01 

19  04 

John  Hayward. 

01 

12  10 

Cyprian  Stevens. 

00 

14  03 

Stephen  Hosmer. 

01 

12  10 

Benjamin  Graves. 

00 

19  04 

John  Gould. 

01 

12  10 

John  Bates. 

01 

12  10 

Phinias  Sprague. 

01 

19  04 

Stephen  Goble. 

01 

12  10 

Henry  Green. 

01 

12  10 

March  W*^ 

Joseph  Winn. 

01 

12  10 

Simon  VVillard 

01 

12  10 

Sept  23*  1676. 

Thomas  Tarball. 

01 

12  10 

Abraham  Jaque. 

00 

11  00 

Joseph  Blood. 

01 

12  10 

Joseph  Fitch. 

01 

09  00 

June  24*^  1676 

• 

Samuel  Dunton. " 

01 

09  00 

Henry  VVoodis,  Lieut, 

04 

02  02 

Jonathan  Frescott 

00 

14  03 

Jo 

ses  Buckman. 

01 

12  10 

Of  the  operations  of  the  troops  about  Brookfield  after  the  retreat 
of  the  Indians,  some  explanation  will  be  given  in  the  accounts  of  the 
various  captains  and  their  companies.  In  estimating  the  number 
of  inhabitants  who  were  in  the  house  and  took  part  in  the  defence, 
we  may  consider  the  following  data.  The  whole  troop,  including 
Capt.  Wheeler  and  son,  numbered  twenty-two;  Capt.  Hutchinson, 
Ephraim  Curtis  and  three  Indians  made  it  twenty-seven.  At  the 
fight  five  were  killed  and  five  wounded,  one  Indian  guide  captured, 
Henry  Young  killed  at  the  house,  and  Curtis  sent  to  Marlborough, 
leaving  fourteen,  presumably,  fit  for  duty.  There  were  some  six- 
teen families  gathered  in  the  house,  including  fifty  women  and  child- 
ren. On  August  3d  Capt.  Wheeler  reports  that  only  twenty-six, 
counting  the  men  of  the  town  and  his  soldiers,  were  capable  of  ser* 
vice.  Hence  we  may  infer  that  twelve  of  the  inhabitants  were  ac- 
tively engaged  in  the  defence.  Recurring  now  to  the  list  of  peti- 
tioners of  October,  1673,  published  by  Mr.  Waite  (Register,  vol. 

*  Many  will  notice  how  rich  this  list  is  in  its  snpgcstion  of  honored  names— Waldo, 
Fletcher,  Dudley,  Simon  Wilhird  (son  of  the  Mnjor),  Crosby  and  Hosmer,  the  last  seeming 
almost  a  benediction,  ns  it  recalls  the  late  Dr.  George  W.  Ilosmer.  But  among  this  goodly 
array  comes  also  the  wretched  Stephen  Goble  (Gobelcy),  or  ••  Gobble,*'  as  it  was  written 
later,  who  afterwards  murdered  the  harmless  Indian  women  at  Watertown,  and  was  exe* 
cuted  in  1676  along  with  some  murderous  Indians. 

»'  These  were  credited  '*  under  Capt  Wheeler  and  at  Groton  Garrison." 


1884.]  Soldiers  in  King  Philippe  War.  43 


336)9  and  counting  out  Ayres,  Pritchard  and  Coy  killed 
and  Wilson  wounded,  we  shall  not  be  far  out  of  the  way  in  con- 
cluding that  the  others  were  joined  with  the  troopers  in  making  up 
the  twenty-six,  allowing  for  some  changes  by  accessions  to  and  re- 
movals from  town  between  1673  and  '75.  The  reported  numbers 
of  four  or  five  hundred  Indians  present,  and  eighty  killed,  will  bear 
reduction  by  at  leKst  one  half,  though  the  English  carbines  were 
bravely  effective. 

The  following  fragment  may  be  of  interest  here  as  showing  the 
presence  of  the  celebrated  pirate  here  just  after  the  assault  was  over. 
It  is  taken  from  the  Mass.  Archives,  vol.  68,  p.  7. 

Boston,  October  f  13,  1675. 
To  the  honored  Governer  &  Councell  of  the  Massathusets  Colony  in  New 
England 

These  are  to  signyfie  that  Comellius^  [«c]  Consort  the  Dutch- 
man was  uppon  the  Contryes  Servis  Att  quabauge  and  by  the  Councle  of 
Warre  there  was  sent  out  Capt.  of  the  for  lorne  And  Afterward  marched 
to  Grotton  &  Chemsfort  According  to  my  best  Advice  continud  in  the 
Countryes  Servis  six  weekes  Cornellius  being  Reddy  to  depart  the  Country 
&  myself  being  here  att  boston  the  Major  Willard  being  Absent  I  granted 
this  ticket.                                                         Thomas  Wheller,  Capt. 

Bbookfibld  after  the  Attack. 

Capt.  Wheeler  relates  that  soon  after  his  own  return  from  Brook- 
field,  "the  inhabitants  of  the  town  also,  men,  women,  and  children, 
removed  safely  with  what  they  had  left,  to  several  places,  either 
where  they  had  lived  before  their  planting  or  settling  down  there,  or 
where  they  had  relations  to  receive  and  entertain  them,"  and  "  the 
Honored  Major  Willfird  stayed  several  weeks  after  our  coming 
away."" 

The  town  was  doubtless  wholly  vacated  before  the  middle  of  Oc- 

"  This  was  the  famous  Cornelius  Anderson,  see  ante^  vol.  xxxvii.  p.  172,  note.  In  the 
frreat  trial  of  the  pirates  he  wan  constantly  referred  to  as  Cornelius  Consort,  i.  e.  Consort  of 
Capt.  Roderi/i^o,  the  chief  of  the  pirates.  The  name  Consort  thus  became  his  familiar  cog- 
Domen  amon^  the  people  and  soldiers  with  whom  he  was  very  popular.  Mr.  Drake  evi- 
dently bjised  his  decision  on  the  alyove  paper,  not  having  observed  the  "  ti'ial  "  documents. 
I  cannot  tell  on  what  occasion  he  led  the  forlorne,  but  It  was  after  Capt.  Moscly  came,  Aug. 
11th  or  12th,  and  before  the  15th  when  he  left.  The  Council  of  War  was  held  after  Capt. 
Wheeler  had  gone,  but  now,  Oct.  13th.  being  in  Boston,  Major  Willard  absent  at  Groton, 
Mosely  at  Hatfield,  Lathrop  and  Beers  both  slain,  it  devolved  upon  him  to  "  gram  the 
ticket." 

*•  A  small  garrison  was  undoubtedly  maintained  at  the  fortified  house  some  time  after 
the  withdrawal  of  the  inhabitant^  prolmbly  up  to  the  I'ith  of  October,  and  it  is  likely  that 
widow  Susannah  Ayres  remained  during  that  time,  as  is  indicated  by  her  petition  and  ac- 
count presented  the  Court  in  Ociol)er,  1677,  which  charges  supplies  to  soldiers  under  Eph- 
ralm  Curtis,  M»yor  Willard  and  Capt.  Poole ;  but  some  time  before  November  16th  the  place 
wa>  vacant,  for  the  Council  on  that  date  instri^cts  Capt.  Appleton  in  his  march  homeward 
from  Connecticut  River,  if  he  comes  by  way  of  Quabaog,  to  drive  down  some  of  the  cattle 
and  swine  which  they  have  heard  have  gathered  a>)out  the  house,  as  a  relief  to  the  "  poore 
people  that  are  concerned  therein."  There  is  much  material  preserved  in  the  Mass.  Ar- 
chivvj*  Clearing  xxynin  this  point  of  the  withdrawal  of  the  garrison  from  Brookfleld,  in  numer- 
ous ktters  and  orders  ot  the  Council  to  various  officers,  all  giving  evidence  of  the  com- 
plete desertion  of  the  town  al>out  Oct.  12th.  So4)  especially  correspondence  with  Capt. 
Appleton  and  Lieat.  John  Ruddock,  &c. 


44  Soldiers  in  King  Philip* a  War.  [Jan. 

tober,  and  remained  so,  except  for  the  frequent  passage  of  the  troops 
to  and  from  the  west,  up  to  the  last  of  February  following.  On  the 
21st  of  that  month  the  Council  ordered  **  Carpenters'  tooles  for  six 
men,  nayles  of  all  sorts  with  hooks  and  hinges  for  doors  and  locks 
and  of  such  sort  as  the  chief  carpenter  shall  appoint,  to  build  a 
quarter  at  Quabaog,"  and  on  the  25th  the  committee  was  ordered 
to  procure  either  John  Brewer  of  Sudbury,  or  John  Coolidge  of  Wa- 
tertown  to  go  up  with  the  army  and  build  a  house  or  houses  for 
lodging  and  shelter  of  provisions,  &c.  A  small  garrison  was  estab- 
lished there  under  Serg't  William  Ingraham,  who  writes  the  Coun- 
cil on  March  2l8t  for  relief,  *'  men  few  and  discouraged,  need  am- 
munition," &c.  In  answer  the  Council  sent  up  Capt.  Nathaniel 
Graves  of  Charlestown  with  men  and  horses  laden  with  supplies,  as 
will  be  seen  by  the  following  order  from  Mass.  Archives,  vol.  68, 
p.  173 : 

Att  A  Coancil  held  at  Boston,  22.  March  1675-6 
It  is  ordered  that  Capt.  Nathaniel  Graves  of  Charlestown  shall  be  the 
Comander  of  the  Garrison  at  Brookfield  &  all  Inferioar  officers  and  Sould- 
jers  are  requested  to  be  obedjent  to  him  : 

As  the  said  Capt.  Graves  is  ordered  to  take  ye  Comand  of  twenty  troopers 
and  thirty  horses  <&  fiveteen  men  besides  w^  the  Carriage  horses  to  be  Load- 
en  w'**  provision  <&  Ammunition  to  be  conveyed  to  the  Garrison  at  Brook- 
field  and  after  the  Carriages  are  Lodged  there  he  then  send  backe  the 
Troopers  <&  Carriage  horses,  dismissing  them  to  theire  several  homes,  And 
that  W™  Ingram  now  Comander  of  the  Garrison  at  Brookfield  is  dismissed 
after  Capt  Graves  comes  there  who  is  to  returne  with  the  Troopers  &  Car- 
riages. It  is  further  ordered  that  Major  Savage  order  ten  Souldiers  mora 
to  strengthen  the  Garrison  at  Brookfield  as  soon  as  he  Can  Conveniently. 
And  the  said  Capt  Graves  is  ordered  with  all  Convenient  dispatch  to  march 
up  to  Brookfield  w'*"  the  sayd  Carriages :     dated  in  Boston  as  Above. 

pr  Edw*  Rawson,  Secret'y. 

Warrants  issued  forth  to  the  Constables. 
To  Charlestowne  for  Carriage  To  Roxbury,  Car.  hor.    4  and  2  men 


horses,  4  and  2  men 


besides  a  horse  for  Capt  Graves.  30     15 

"  Cambridge,  Car.  hor.   4  and  2men  To  Capt  Prentice  for  7  Troopers. 

«  Watertown,   "      '*        6   "  3   "  To  the  Constable  of  Marlborough 
«  Sudbury,        "      "        6   "  3   "  for  6  Troopers. 

«  Wooburne,    '*      "        6   "  3   "  To  Capt.  Davis  for  6  Troopers. 

The  following  letter  is  of  interest  both  for  the  matter  in  hand  and 
to  show  that  garrison  life  in  idleness  is  much  the  same  in  every  age. 
From  Mass.  Archives,  vol.  68,  p.  237  : 

Honoured  Governor  & 

Sir  we  are  all  In  Indifferent  helth  we  dayly  are  goeing  forth  bat 
cannot  see  any  Indians  :  our  provissions  dus  spend  apace  And  if  you  Intend 
to  Continue  y*  place  we  must  have  more  prouissions  y*  wee  have  may  Last 


1884.]  Soldiers  in  King  Philip's  War.  45 

aboQt  8  or  10  days:  for  my  owne  partt  I  Can  be  Content  w*^  Less  j^ 
BiDj  of  f  men  heare :  I  have  eatten  but  Littell  of  your  provissions :  I  ex- 
pect A  release  by  y*  next  y*  Cum  up :  for  I  am  not  fit  for  y'  Employ  being 
out  of  my  way  &  know  there  are  many  men  more  fit  than  I  for  y*  Busines 
I  do  not  Apprehend  any  danger  to  Ly  heare  for  I  Beleave  the  Indians  will 
lott  Com  to  our  Garreson  all  my  feare  is  of  our  men  y*  go  Abroad  &  are 
BOt  10  Carefiill  as  they  shud  be  we  have  had  no  damage  yet  y*  makes  us 
Secure  if  you  doe  Continue  y*  men  heare  they  will  wantt  showes  &  Shurtts 
And  Linin  drawers  and  Tobacco  &  A  glace  to  Keap  watch  w^  all  our 
diaoontent  Arises  from  y*  now  afore  it  was  want  of  meate  now  we  have 
ttoogh  heare  are  many  would  not  care  if  they  did  stay  there  time  out  they 
ow  &ere  masters  htfe  is  noething  to  doe  but  up  to  play  And  down  to 
ileepe  if  y*  Country  Can  Aibard  to  maynteyn  them  so :  I  am  Content 
nther  to  bare  my  partt  of  y*  Charge  then  to  play  heare  where  I  Can  do 
no  good  w^*  showes  and  other  things  we  had  was  sent  to  hadly  &  I  have 
t  Resayte  for  them  from  y*  Commissarys  w'^  I  hoap  w"  discharge  mee  w*^ 
ii  all  y*  offers  att  present  from 

Sir,  your  Seruant  In  what  I  am  abell  &  understand. 
28^  Aparell  1676  Nathaniel  Gbayes. 

On  May  5th  Serg*t  Ephraim  Savage  was  chosen  to  go  up  to  re- 
lieve Capt.  Graves  with  new  supplies,  and  to  send  home  those  that 
were  sick  or  greatly  needed  at  home,  and  to  take  command  of  the 
garrison,  thirty  of  the  men  at  least  to  remain.  Serg't  Savage  was 
excused  from  the  service  on  account  of  sickness,  and  Thomas  Walk- 
o,  "the  brickmaker,"  was  chosen  in  his  stead.  It  would  seem, 
however,  that  his  health  improved,  for  he  went  with  a  lieutenant's 
commission  and  wages,  and  the  credit  below  shows  him  to  have 
terved,  and  not  Walker.  Of  the  subsequent  history  of  the  garrison 
there  is  no  definite  account,  but  frequent  references  to  it  as  a  base 
of  supplies,  c&c.,  show  it  to  have  been  maintained  for  some  time. 

The  following  names  are  credited  with  military  service  at  the 
garrison : 

At  Brookfield. 

June  24,  1676.  Ezekiel  Levitt.  01  04  00 

John  Rayman.  01  00  00    John  Norton.  01  09  00 

James  Kelling.  05  01  00     John  Mansell.  01  18  00 

At  Quabauge  (Brookfield). 

July  24,  1676  Charles  Duckworth.  03  15  00 

Joseph  Hide.  01  00  06  John  Cromwell.  03  15  03 

Iiaac  Perkins.  01  01   04  John  Norton.  01  12  06 

Nicholas  Elawlins.  00  07  00  William  Bodkin.  04  12  06 

George  Norton.  00  06  04  John  Jeffery.  04  19  04 

Benjamin  Dunnage.  01  08  03  Joseph  Swady.  04  12  06 

JohnArtsell.  01  08  00  Ebenezer  Engellsbee.  04  12  06 

Thomas  Scott.  01  04  00  Henry  Pellington.  05  07  00 

Thomas  Cooper.  05  00  00  JohnAlgar.  03  02  06 

TTiomas  Philips.  05  03  06  Thomas  Stacie.  01  12  06 

Joseph  Garfell.  00  17  00  Sylvester  Haies.  04  10  00 

Benjamin  Pickerin.  04  10  00  John  Simple.  03  02  06 

TOL.  XXTYin.        6 


*6  Longmeadow  Families.  [Jan, 


John  Glide.  05  08  00 


August  24*'»  1676 


Benjamin  Bucknall.  04  15  00  John  Cromwell.  02  09  06 

Ephraim  Savage,  Lt.  04  07  09  Charles  Duckworth.  02  09  06 

Chnstopher  Cole.  03  02  06  Edward  Blancher.  05  10  00 

Charles  Blinco.  03  13  00  David  Crouch.  02  06  02 

John  Mansell.  01  10  00  David  Jones.  07  06  06 

Nathaniel  Partridg.  05  08  00  phjUp  Sandy.  05  08  00 

John  Sargent.  03  02  06  Thomas  Phillips.  00  18  00 

John  Cutler.  05  09  08 

There  is  no  reliable  evidence  that  the  town  of  Brookfield  was  re- 
settled before  1686  or  7.  Many  families  were  there  before  1693, 
and  a  garrison  house  had  been  built,  when,  on  July  27th  of  that 
year,  a  band  of  twenty-six  Canada.  Indians  attacked  the  town  and 
killed  and  captured  several  of  its  inhabitants. 


LONGMEADOW  (MASS.)  FAMILIES. 

Commaaicated  by  Willard  S.  Allen,  A.M.,  of  East  Boston,  MaM. 

[Contlnaed  flrom  rol.  xxxrli.  pugt  801.] 

4th  Greneration.  Colonel  John  Pyncheon,  of  Springfield,  son  of  Col. 
John  and  Margaret  Pyncheon,  was  married  Feb.  18,  1702,  to  Bashaa  Tay- 
lor, daughter  of  the  Rev.  Mr.  Taylor,  of  Westfield.  She  was  bom  Jan. 
11,  1683.  Their  children  were—Elizabeth,  bom  Dec.  27,  1702,  died  Sept. 
26,  1776.  William,  bom  Nov.  11,  1703,  died  Jan.  11,  1783.  John,  born 
Feb.  8,  1705,  died  April  6,  1754.  Joseph,  bom  Feb.  8,  1705,  died  in 
Boston.  Mary,  born  Oct.  10,  1706.  Bathshua,  bom  Jan.  1,  1708,  died 
Jan.  5,  1760.  A  son,  bom  June  19,  1710,  and  died  within  an  hour.  Bath- 
shua  the  daughter  died  June  20,  1710,  age  27.  Col.  John  Pyncheon  the 
father  was  married  again  Nov.  3,  1711,  to  Phebe  Sexton,  of  Enfield;  she 

was  born  Jan.  7,  1686.     Their  children — Martha,  bom ,  died  Dec. 

8, 1712.  Edward,  bora  April  6,  1713,  died  Nov.  3, 1777.  Nathaniel,  bora 
March  3,  1715,  died  Oct.  10,  1722.  George,  born  April  20,  1717,  died 
June  26, 1797.  Charles,  bom  Jan.  31,  1719,  died  Aug.  19,  1783.  Mar- 
garet, bom  ',  died  Oct  27,  1722.  Elizabeth  was  married  Feb.  6, 
1721.  to  Benjamin  Col  ton,  son  of  Isaac  and  Mary  Colton.  Mary  was  mar* 
ried  Aug.  12,  1726,  to  Joseph  Dwight,  who  was  known  by  the  title  of  Brig- 
adier Dwight  Bashua  was  married,  Feb.  18,  1730,  to  Robert  Harris. 
Phebe,  the  second  wife  of  this  Col.  John  Pyncheon,  died  Oct  17,  1722. 
He  died  July  12,  1742,  age  68.  This  Col.  John  Pyncheon  was  two  years 
in  Harvard  College.  His  grandfather  took  him  away  and  procured  for  him 
the  Clerk's  ofBce  at  Springfield,  and  he  was  chosen  County  Register.  He 
lived  some  years  with  his  grandfather,  who  was  the  first  justice  of  the  court 

4th  Greneration.  Colonel  William  Pyncheon,  of  Springfield,  son  of  Col. 
John  and  Margaret  Pyncheon,  served  an  apprenticeship  with  a  brazier  in 
Boston.  At  twenty-one  years  of  age  he  came  to  Springfield.  He  was  a 
justice  of  the  court.  May  15,  1721.  He  was  married  to  Catharine  Brewer, 
daughter  of  the  Rev.  Daniel  Brewer  and  Catharine  his  wife.  Their  child- 
ren^Sarah,  born  Aug.  17,  1721,  died  Aug.  4,  1755.     William,  born  Dec 


1884.]  Longmeadow  Families*  47 

12, 1723.  Margaret,  born  Nov.  24,  1727,  died  April,  1772.  Daniel  John, 
bom  Oct.  7,  1733,  died  April  22,  1754.  Joseph,  born  Oct.  30,  1737.  Sa- 
rah WHS  married  to  Col.  Josiah  Dwight,  of  Springfield,  and  had  no  children. 
William  was  educated  at  Harvard  College,  graduated  1743.  He  settled  at 
Salem  in  the  practice  of  law,  and  died  in  that  town.  Margaret  was  mar- 
ried Jan.  1,  1750,  to  Major  Elijah  Williams,  of  Deerfield.  Daniel  J.  died 
a  stadent  in  New  Haven  College,  April  22,  1754.  Joseph  was  educated 
It  New  Haven  College,  graduated  1757.  He  was  married  to  Sarah  Rug- 
ries,  daughter  of  Rev.  Mr.  Ruggles,  of  Gilford,  and  settled  in  that  town. 
CoL  William  Pvncheon  the  father  died  Jan.  1, 1741.  Catherine  his  wid- 
ow died  April  io,  1747. 

[Page  186.]  5th  Generation.  William  Pjncheon,  Esq.,  of  Springfield, 
BOD  of  Col.  John  and  Bathshua  Pjncheon,  was  married  Dec.  14,  1738,  to 
Sarah  Bliss,  daughter  of  Lieut.  Pelatiah  and  Elizabeth  Bliss.  Their  child- 
ren—William, bom  Nov.  21,  1739,^ed  March  24,  1808.  John,  born  Sept. 
20, 1742.  Sarah,  born  Oct.  5,  1751,  died  July  26,  1826.  The  family  of 
William,  see  page  187.  Sarah  was  married  Dec.  5,  1780,  to  David  White. 
William  Pyncheon  the  father  died  Jan.  11,  1783.  Sarah  his  widow  died 
Feb.  21,  1796. 

5th  Generation.  The  Hon.  Joseph  Pyucheon,  sod  of  Col.  John  and 
Bathshua  Pyncheon,  was  educated  at  Harvard  College,  graduated  1726, 
preached  at  times,  and  studied  and  practised  physic.  Settled  first  at  Long- 
meadow,  and  was  married,  Oct.  13, 1748,  to  Mrs.  Mary  Cheney,  widow  of  the 
Rev.  Mr.  Cheney,  of  Brookfield,  and  daughter  of  the  Rev.  John  Colton,  of 
Newton.  Their  children — Mary,  bom .  Rebecca,  born .  Mar- 
tha, bom Margaret,  born .    Joseph  Pyncheon  the  father,  soon 

after  his  marriage,  removed  to  Boston. 

5th  Generation.  Edward  Pyncheon,  Esq.,  of  Springfield,  son  of  Colonel 
John  Pyncheon  and  Phebe  his  wife,  was  for  many  years  county  treasurer 
and  register.  He  was  married  Dec  15,  1763,  to  Mrs.  Rebecca  Bliss,  wid- 
ow of  Capt.  Luke  Bliss.  Her  maiden  name  was  Stoughton.  They  died 
without  issue.  He  died  Nov.  3,  1777,  leaving  his  estate  to  his  kindred. 
She  died  Nov.  5,  1810.     She  was  born  March,  1721. 

5th  Generation.  Capt  George  Pyncheon,  of  Springfield,  son  of  Col. 
John  and  Phebe  Pyncheon,  was  married,  Dec.  21,  1738,  to  Hannah  Bart- 
let  Their  children  found  on  record — George,  born  April  27, 1739.  Lov- 
ice,  bom  August  9,  1740.  Nathaniel,  born  Jan.  1,  1743.  Walter,  born 
Sept  5,  1744.  Peter,  born  Aug.  30,  1746.  Margaret,  born  March  19, 
1747.  Hannah  the  mother  died  Aug.  10,  1751.  Capt  George  Pyncheon 
was  married  again  to  Abigail  Pease,  daughter  of  Ebenezer  and  Mid  well 
Pease,  of  Enfield.  Their  children — Peter,  born  March  6  [Page  187], 
1756.  Henry,  born  Feb.  24,  1758.  Henry,  born  Dec.  31,  1759.  Abi- 
gail, boni  Jan.  1,  1762.  Peter,  born  Dec.  22,  1763.  Capt  George  Pyn- 
cheon the  father  died  June  26,  1797.  Abigail  the  mother  died  Sept  9, 
1810.  Abigail  the  daughter  was  married  June  19,  1780,  to  Jeremiah 
Piatt,  of  New  Haven,  Conn. 

5th  Generation.  Colonel  Charles  Pyncheon,  of  Springfield,  commonly 
in  his  day  known  by  the  title  of  Doctor  Pyncheon,  being  an  approved  phy- 
sician, was  son  of  Col.  John  and  Phebe  Pyncheon,  and  was  married  July 
30,  1749,  to  Anne  Dwight,  daughter  of  Henry  Dwight,  of  Hatfield.  Their 
children — Mary,  born  Feb.  1,  1753,  died  Oct.  23,  1802.  Anna,  born  Dec. 
1,  1754,  died  Dec  26,  1797.  Mary  was  married  May  9,  1782,  to  the  Hon. 
Samuel  Lyman,  who  died  June  6,  1802.     Anna  was  married,  May,  1786, 


48  Longmeadow  FamilieB.  [Jan. 

to  Colonel  Joseph  Williams,  and  died  without  issue.  Col.  Charles  Pjn- 
cheon  the  father  died  August  19,  1783.  Anna  the  mother  died  Dec.  22, 
1802. 

6th  Generation.  Major  William  Pyncheon,  of  Springfield,  son  of  Wil- 
liam and  Sarah  Pyncheon,  was  married,  Nov.  13,  1766,  to  Lucy  Harris, 
daughter  of  Lieut.  Robert  Harris  and  Bathshua  his  wife.  Their  children 
— Erastus,  born  Oct.  19,  1767.  Stephen,  born  Jan.  31,  1769.  Loice, 
born  Oct.  6,  1770,  died  June  8,  1781.  Bathshua,  bom  July  27,  1772. 
Edward,  born  Nov.  14,  1774,  died  March  17,  1830.  William,  born  Dec. 
11,1776.  Joseph,  bom  Aug.  23,1779.  Loice,  born  Jan.  1,  1782,  died 
Jan.  3,  1782.  Major  William  Pyncheon  the  father  died  March  24,  1808. 
Bathshua  the  daughter  was  married,  May,  1799,  to  the  Rev.  Ebenezer 
Gay,  of  Suffield. 

\^Page  18H.]  5th  Generation.  John  Pyncheon,  of  Springfield,  son  of 
William  and  Sarah  Pyncheon,  was  ma#k*ied,  Dec.  8,  1768,  to  Lucy  Horton, 
daughter  of  Capt.  John  Hortou  and  Mary  his  wife,  of  Springfield.  Their 
children— ^ohn,  born  Nov.  12,  1769.  Lucy,  born  March  1,  1771.  Lucy, 
Dec.  16,  1772.  Daniel,  born  March  3, 1775.  Daniel,  bom  Feb.  12,  1781. 
[  Vacant  to  page  190.] 

John  Rumrill,  of  Enfield,  son  of  Simon  and  Sarah  Rumrill,  was  mar- 
ried, Feb.  14,  1728,  to  Abigail  Chandler,  daughter  of  Henry  and  Lydia 
Chandler,  of  Enfield.  Their  children — John,  bom  Aug.  16,  1728,  died 
Jan.  19,  1809.  Abigail,  born  March  1,  1730,  died  Feb.  1787.  Martha, 
born  Oct.  14,  1731.  Nehemiah,  bom  Sept  5,  1733,  died  Jan.  14,  1805. 
Sarah,  born  June  6,  1735,  died  Dec.  11,  1805.  Lydia,  bom  Feb.  18,  1737. 
Mehitable,  bom  April  6,  1739,  died  Nov.  11,  1809.  Hannah,  born  March 
19,  1741,  died  1809.  Simeon  and  Henry,  born  July  3,  1743.  Ebenezer, 
born  July  16,  1745,  died  Dec.  17,1801.  John  Rumrill  the  father  died 
Nov.  28,  1770,  age  66.     Abigail  his  widow  died  Jan  21,  1772. 

John  Rumrill,  of  Enfield,  son  of  John  and  Abigail  Rumrill  above,  was 
married  Nov.  18,  1762,  to  Sarah  Bliss,  daughter  of  Ebenezer  and  Sarah 
Bliss,  of  Longmeadow.  Their  children— John,  bom  April  27,  1763, 
drowned  Oct  11,  1789.  Sarah,  born  Sept.  5,  1764.  Elijah,  bom  June 
14,  1766.  Silence,  bom  Feb.  3,  1768.  Amasa,  born  March  14,  1770. 
Abigail,  born  March  22,  1772.  Catherine,  bora  March  17,  1774.  Mar- 
tha,  born  June  14,  1777,  died  June  10,  1809.  Asahel,  born  August  20, 
1781.     John  Rumrill  the  father  died  Jan.  19,  1809. 

Nehemiah  Rumrill,  of  Longmeadow,  son  of  John  and  Abigail  Rumrill 
above,  was  married  March  9,  1758,  to  Alice  Parsons,  daughter  of  Nathan- 
iel and  Alice  Parsons,  of  Enfield.  Their  children — Penelope,  bom  Aug. 
2,  1758,  died  Aug.  20,  1758.  Penelope,  born  Aug.  13,  1759.  Alice,  bom 
Nov.  27,  1761.  Asa,  born  May  8,  1764.  Susanna,  bom  Nov.  28,  1766, 
died  July  28,  1767.  Levi,  born  June  29,  1768.  Susannah,  bom  Jan.  14« 
1771,  died  Feb.  27,  1786.  Alexander,  born  Aug.  18,  1773.  Lucy,  born 
Feb.  13,  1776.  Ruth,  born  Dec.  21,  1778.  Margaret,  bom  April  11, 
1781.  Alice  Rumrill  the  mother  died  Nov.  18,  1804.  Nehemiah  Rum- 
rill the  father  died  Jan.  14,  1805. 

[^Page  191.]  Ebenezer  Rumrill,  of  Longmeadow,  son  of  John  and 
Abigail  Rumrill,  was  married  Dec.  1,  1767,  to  Eleanor  Cooley,  daughter  of 
Josiah  and  Experience  Cooley.  Their  children — Simeon,  born  March  14, 
1768.  Elam,  born  Nov.  8,  1770.  Eleanor,  born  July  6,  1772.  Ebene- 
zer, bom  Sept.  11,  1774,  died  April  1, 1775.  Ebenezer,  born  Dec.  7, 1775, 
died  Sept  12,  1777.    Ebenezer,  born  Sept  19,  1777,  died  Nov.  8,  1777. 


1884.]  Longmeadow  Families.  49 

■ 

Eleanor  the  mother  died  Oct  21,  1777.  Ebenezer  Rumrill  the  father  was 
married  again,  Sept  3,  1780,  to  Mary  Bliss,  widow  of  Asahel  Bliss  and 
daogfater  of  Stephen  and  Mary  Chandler.  Their  children — Triphene,  born 
SepL  24,  1784.  Beteey,  born  Nov.  15,  1787.  Ebenezer  Rumrill  the  fa- 
ther died  Dec  17,  1801.     Mary  his  widow  died  Aug.  17,  1810. 

Levi  Rumrill,  of  LK>ngmeadow,  son  of  Nehemiah  and  Alice  Rumrill, 
WIS  married  April  12,  1792,  to  Elizabeth  Bliss,  daughter  of  Ebenezer  and 
Sarah  Bliss.  Their  children — Lorin,  bom  May  29,  1793.  Asa,  born  Feb. 
22, 1795.  Betsey,  born  Jan.  16,  1797.  Chauncy,  bom  Nov.  27,  1798. 
Minnda,  bora  July  2,  1801.  Sophia,  born  June  13,  1803.  Elizabeth  the 
mother  died  April  22,  1816.     [  Vacant  to  page  193.] 

Emery  Russell,  of  Longmeadow,  son  of  William  and  Sarah  Russell,  of 
Somers,  was  bora  March  19,  1750,  and  was  married  to  Eleanor  Smith,  of 
Ashford.  Their  children — Emery,  born  April  6,  1784.  Eleanor,  born 
Feb.  2,  1786.  Emery,  bora  March  15,  1789.  Emery  Russell  the  father 
died  Sept  14,  1807.  Eleanor  t^e  daughter  was  married,  Oct  27,  1803,  to 
Jehiel  Spencer,  of  Somers,  son  of  Jonathan  Spencer. 

Joseph  Scott,  of  Longmeadow,  son  of  Moses  and  Mary  Scott,  of  Row- 
ley, state  of  Massachusetts,  was  bora  March  7, 1768,  and  was  married,  Dec. 
16, 1798,  to  Eunice  Merrit  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Zilpha  Merrit,  of 
Brooklyn,  state  of  Connecticut  Their  children — Joseph,  born  April  30, 
1801.  George,  born  Nov.  4,  1802,  died  April  12,  1827.  Harriet  and 
Emily,  born  April  11,  1805.  William,  born  April  26,  1807.  Mary,  born 
Jane  27,  1809.  Moses,  born  May  30,  1812.  The  five  first  of  the  above 
children  were  bora  in  Brooklyn,  Connecticut   Eunice,  born  April  26, 1818. 

[Page  194.]  Robert  Siloock,  of  Longmeadow.  He  came  from  the  city 
of  Worcester,  in  England,  as  a  soldier  in  the  British  service  in  the  Revo- 
lutionary war.  Being  a  weaver,  he  followed  that  occupation,  and  was  mar- 
ried May  1,  1781,  to  Sarah  Stebbins,  daughter  of  Jonathan  and  Abigail 
Stebbins.  She  died  March  19,  1825,  age  71.  Their  children — John,  born 
Feb.  15,  1782.  Sarah,  born  Nov.  19,  1783,  died  Sept  4,  1819,  age  36. 
Mary,  bom  July  10,  1785,  died  Oct  20,  1840,  married  Seth  Taylor.  Wil- 
liam Collin,  bora  Feb.  16,  1787.  Nancy,  born  June  30,  1789.  Clarissa, 
bom  Feb.  1,  1792.  Robert  born  Feb.  2,  1794,  died  Feb.  24,  1818.  Phe- 
be,  bora  Nov.  28,  1795,  died  Nov.  4,  1819.  Lyman,  born  Feb.  21,  1798. 
Robert  Silcock  the  father  died  March  21,  1806,  age  49,  born  May,  1757. 
Clarissa  married  Ethan  Taylor.  Mary  the  daughter  was  married  Sept.  21, 
1806,  to  Seth  Taylor.     Nancy  married . 

[Page  195.]  Israel  Spencer,  of  Longmeadow,  son  of  Jonathan  Spen- 
cer, of  Somers,  was  married  Jan.  19,  1775,  to  Ruth  Wright,  daughter  of 
Samuel  Wright,  of  Somers.  He  died  Jan.  22,  1825,  age  77.  Their  child- 
ren— Ruth  and  Jerusha,  born  Aug.  5,  1779.  Jerusha  died  Oct  2,  1834, 
Age  55.  Ruth  the  daughter  was  married  Feb.  26,  1796,  to  Micah  King. 
Jerusha  was  married  Jan.  8,  1802,  to  Henry  Ellis,  who  died  Nov.  3,  1810. 
See  page  128.     [Page  196.] 

fTo  be  eontinued.] 


What  wb  arb  working  for.— Let  it  not  be  tbonght  that  we  are  working  for  onrselyes 
•looe,  Dor  for  those  only  who  are  now  living ;  bat  let  as  remember  that  thousands  yet  un- 
born  will  bless  the  pious  hands  that  rescued  from  oblivion  or  destruction  our  precious 
Koordi.  Nor  is  it  to  New  England  only  that  we  devote  our  labor  and  our  efforts.  The  star 
of  empire  has  risen  in  the  western  sky,  and  its  trail  of  light  streams  across  the  continent, 
tOQcbmg  the  rock  of  Plymouth  upon  the  Atlantic  coast.-^JETon.  William  Whiting y  LL.D, 

VOL.  XXXTHL  6» 


The  Bonython  Family  of  Mai 


[Jan, 


THE  BOYV'THON  FAMILY  OF  MAINE. 

By  Dr.  CtuHLM  E.  Bankb,  PaBBcd  AsBtstanl  Snrgeoo  D.  S.  MariuivHoBpiUl  SecriM. 


Bo  MYTH  OK  AkKB. 


The  itftme  of  Bonython"  is  one 
of  the  most  ancient  and  nristo- 
critic  in  the  county  of  Cornwall, 
Engtanil.  Its  antiquity  ia  ahown 
in  the  records  which  tell  us  that 
they  were  posaeesed  of  the  Bony- 
thon   Manor   continuously   from 

the  Uth  century  to  the   begin-  '^"''  U'>'"^"»''  F'-^o^-t 

ning  of  the  18lh  century,  and  the  social  position  of  the  family 
certified  hy  their  intermarriage  with  the  leading  families  of  Cora- 
wall  for  four  centuriea. 

One  Simon  de  Boniton  in  the  middle  of  the  13th  century  wa 
deapatched  to  Ireland  as  a  royal  messenger  (Pipe,  38  Hen.  III. 
Kot.  I.  dors),  and  in  1397  another  Simon  Bonython,  with  his  son 
Gawin.  had  license  for  an  Oratory  witlun  the  city  of  Exeter.  [Bp, 
Stufferd  Reg.  folio  12.] 

■  The  pronniK^lalion  or  Oi{»  nainB  is  to  be  made  liy  accenting  Ibc  accoad  gyllibla  u 
rhyrolng  it  witli  "  pvthoii "— Bo-ny'.tlion.    U  meaiu  r  fnray  aboda. 

f  AonmbcrorTeAMiigo,  at  thu deiuli ofa Isdy  wboreifdod  nisar  St.  A.ii9tel1.  there « 
dlioovcred  among  her  ef^cu  a  cuHont  old  jag  of  Btonevore  wlilch  bad  )i«ii  piemTvod  ll 
Ijer  family  as  >  precious  lielr-loom.  A  label  atUcbed  to  tlie  flngon  contained  tbe  followlB 
lawriplton  ;  "  Dole  or  tliia  Jus  159S.  It  niu  used  ai  the  coronation  banqtiet  of  J^me*  I 
and  VL  of  Scotland  by  one  or  the  Bonython  Bimlly  who  olBciated  at  lllo  Mnqnel."  T^ 
Iady'>  property  came  into  tbe  market,  paeocd  into  oiber  hands  and  became  the  objooc  of  i 
Ions  and  Intereitingaiiarchiniititatcd  by  tbe  present  ovncr  abont  1879,  whlcb  render*  a 
>'  theXondon  "  Nolei  and  Queries  "  may  remember  to  hare  noticed.  BacceM  rewanled  hf 
e^trW.and  nowltli  again  In  tbepouestioaof  a  memberoTtlie  historic  family,  Hr.  Job 
Langdon  Bonython  of  Adelnide,  South  Agetnitia,  who  has  kindly  loaned  the  abora  annW 
Ingof  hlaancestni]  Oa Ron  and  the  famity  arms  to  llla«tnte  this  article.  It  is  tiy^ltli  old  an 
■t  bis  snKgVEiion  that  the  writer  has  prepared  tbii  genealogy,  and  sindenM  ofonr  «uiroor 
nlnl  history  will  bo  glad  to  tcnrn  that  one  of  the  Bonythons  still  lives,  allhongh  M  we  ( 
ttpodes,  who  has  a  lympnthetlc  interest  In  helping  ns  m  know  more  of  oar  ancesun. 
will  be  rememtiered  that  the  poet  Wblttler  uses  John  Bonython  as  a  character  in  "  Ma_^^ 
Megone,"  and  Hr.  J.  h.  Bonython  bos  an  sntograph  letter  ftom  tbe  poet,  aclcnowledsll 
.. rt.i.. .-     Vh. -~.i  t»..n.r.il„„  |j^(^  ^- ■  - - ■ .._  Ji^™ 


jTofblsn 


.    The  poet  I^ngfellow  Is 


:>tjL>>'4'VvUu*lif 


lfleTU7  Ushti  lud  u 


10  connected  vritb  (he  Bonytbons  1)7  < 


1884.]  The  Bonython  Family  o/Maine.  51 

The  Bonythons  of  Bonjrthon  were  seated  in  the  Lizard  district  of 
Cornwall  in  the  pacish  of  Curj,*  a  bleak  wild  track  on  the  serpen- 
tine formation,  and  notwithstanding  their  remote  situation  they  be- 
came conspicuous  figures  in  the  political  agitations  of  that  period 
which  culminated  in  the  stormy  days  of  the  Stuart  dynasty.  Seve- 
nd  branches  issued  from  the  parent  stock,  the  most  opulent  of  which, 
through  a  fortunate  marriage,  became  possessed  of  Carelew,  in  My- 
kr,  and  is  designatad  as  the  Bonythons  of  Carelew  to  distinguish 
them  from  the  elder  house  which  held  the  ancient  manor,  f  We 
ihall  not  have  occasion  to  follow  out. this  junior  line,  as  the  Maine 
fiunily  were  descended  from  the  elder  branch,  and  it  will  only  be 
necessary  to  state  that  in  1749  the  Carelew  estate  passed  out  of  the 
fkmily  by  sale,  as  in  1702  the  Bonython  manor  had  been  alienated 
by  the  elder  branch. 

Bonython  manor  is  a  plain  substantial  building  with  a  granite 
front,  fkcing  the  sea,  which  it  overlooks  at  a  distance  of  about  two 
miles  by  the  valleys  of  Poljew  and  Gunwalloe.  The  view  from  the 
front  of  the  house  is  a  most  extensive  one,  unusually  so,  as  most  of 
the  ancient  Cornish  houses  are  built  quite  on  the  side  of  the  hill  or 
in  the  valley.  On  the  lower  part  of  the  estate,  in  a  small  planta- 
tbn,  is  a  group  of  magnificent  rocks,  the  grandeur  of  which  strikes 
the  beholder  at  the  first  glance.  One  of  these — the  topmost — is 
naiaed  the  Fire  or  Bonfire  Rock,  and  is  probably  a  relic  of  the  Dru- 
idicrdigion.     [Western  Antiquary  (Supplement),  pt.  iv.  204.] 

Pedigree. 

1.  Ralph'  Bonython,  of  Bonython,  Cornwall,  paid  a  subsidy  in  the 

parish  of  Cury,  15  Henry  VIII.  He  married  twice,  probably,  (1) 
Elizabeth  Downe,  and  (2)  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Thom:is  and  Eliz- 
abeth Erissey  [Inq.  Post.  Mort.  (James  Erissey),  35  Hen.  VIII. 
62 ;  comp.  Coles  Esch.  Harl.  Mss.,  No.  757,  p.  38],  and  had  issue  : 

3.  i.      Richard,  son  and  heir. 

ij.     EloMOND,  had  issue  two  daughters :  1.  Katharine y^  who  m.  Thomas  Godol- 

phin  ;  and  2.  Margaret.^ 
iii.    John,  d.  6.  p. 

2.  Richard'  Bontthon   (Baiph^),  also  paid  subsidy  as  above  at  the 

same  time,  but  died  the  next  year  (1535),  as  his  wife  Jane,  daughter 
and  heir  of  John  Durant  of  Pensinans,  Cornwall,  was  a  widow  16 
Henry  VIII.,  at  Bodmin,  where  she  was  taxed.     He  had  issue  : 

3.  i.      John,  son  and  heir. 

ii.  Jambs,  paid  subsidy  in  Mullion,  1  Elizabeth  [Lay.  Subsidy,  87-218] ;  m. 
Margerie,  daashter  of  John  Melhuise,  or  Truro,  Merther,  by  whom 
he  had  :  1.  Johny*  of  St.  Columb  Major,  who  m.  Margerie,  daughter 
of  John  Kerne,  alias  Tresilian  ;  2.  Robert*;  3.  Nicholas ,*  a  burgess, 
who  m.  Anne,  daughter  of  iiugh  Monday  of  Tregony ;  4.  Thornas* 

*  Snbsidics  had  been  paid  on  the  manor  since  16  Hen.  VIII. 

t  **  Carelew  bath  (after  the  Cornish  manner)  well-nigh  metamorphosed  the  name  of 
Xtrter  Bonithon,  his  owner,  unto  his  own."  [Carew,  Survey  of  Cornwall  (1602),  p.  365.] 
Anocber  braoch  of  the  family  was  seated  at  Tresadem  in  St.  Columb  Mt^or.  [Lake,  Pa- 
fochial  Hbt.  of  Cornwall,  i.  234.] 


52  The  Bonython  Family  of  Maine.  [Jan. 

• 

a  goldsmith  of  Gheapside,  London,  who  m.  Alice,  daughter  of  Hampb- 

rey  Purforoy  of  Leicestershire, 
iii.    Janr,  m.  TregoUes. 
iv.    Christian,  m.  Nicholas  Davy. 
V.     fisRSABA,  m.  John  Davy. 

Ti.    EuzABKTH,  m.  (1)  William  Condon ;  (2)  Peter  Cooke, 
vii.  IsABBLLB,  m.  James  Pawley. 
viii.  Charity. 

8.  John*  Bonython  {Richard^  Ralph* ),  paid  a  sabsidj  in  the  parish  of 
Curry,  1559 ;  he  married  Eleanor,  daughter  and  co-heir  of  Job 
Myllayton  of  Pengerswick  Castle,  St.  Breock,  Kirrier ;  Governor 
of  St.  Michael's  Mount.  [Lake,  Parochial  History  of  Cornwall,  L 
134,  137.]  The  Myllaytons  became  possessed  of  Pengerswick  Cas- 
tle, temp.  Henry  VIH.,  and  Job  Myllayton  was  made  governor  of 
St.  Michaels  in  1547  in  place  of  Humphrey  Arundell  of  Holland, 

who  was  executed  for  treason.     Issue : 

• 

4.  i.      Resktmer,  son  and  heir. 

5.  li.     Richard,  the  emigrant  to  Maine, 
iii.    Edmond. 

iv.  William. 

V.  John,  Captain  of  Pendennis  Castle. 

vi.  Elizabeth,  m.  Henry  Pomeroy,  Mayor  of  Tregony,  15  April,  1600. 

vii.  Anne,  m.  Walter  Roscarrock,  15  Oct.  1606. 

4.  Reskymer^  Bonython  {John*  Richard,*  Ralph*),  was  High  Sheriff 
of  Cornwall,  17  James  I.  [Tonkin,  History  of  Cornwall,  L  287],  and 
died  6  April,  1627  [Inq.  Post  Mort  17  Chas.  I.  (pt  i.)  No.  73]  ; 
married  Loveday,  daughter  of  William  Kendall  of  Lostwithiel 
[Carew,  Survey  of  Cornwall  (1602),  p.  109],  by  whom  he  had 
issue : 

6.  i.    Thomas,  b.  1504,  son  and  heir. 

6.  Thomas*  Bonython  {Reshymer,^  John?  Richard,^  Ralph^),  *'  was  a 

captain  in  the  Low  Countries  and  much  consumed  his  patrimony." 
[Tonkin  Mss.]  He  married  Francisca,  daughter  of  Erasmus  Wal- 
ler, Esq.,  of  London*  [Visitations  of  Cornwall,  1530,  1575,  1620, 
ed.  Vivian],  by  whom  he  had  issue: 

7.  i.    John,  b.  1618,  son  and  heir. 

7.  John*  Bonython  {Thomas,*  Reskymer,^  John,*  Richard,^  Raiph*)^ 

married  Anne,  daughter  of  Hugh  Trevanion  of  Trelegan,  by  whom 
he  had  issue : 

8.  i.    Charlis,  son  and  heir. 

8.  Charles^   Bonython  {John,*  Thomas*  Redcymery^  John,*  Richard,* 

Ralph*),  Steward  of  the  Court  of  Westminster,  168$ ;  represented 
the  city  of  Westminster  in  Parliament,  1685;  Sergeant-at-Law  at 
Gray's  Inn,  1692.  [Wynne,  Sergeant-at-Law,  p.  90.]  He  sold 
the  manor  of  Bonython  in  1702  to  Humphrey  Carpenter,  and  three 
years  later,  30  April,  1705,  ^*  in  a  fit  of  madness,  shot  himself  in 
his  own  house  in  London.^f  By  wife  Mary  Livesay  of  Livesay, 
Lincolnshire,  he  had  issue : 

•  According  to  Tonkin  [Hist,  of  Cornwall],  i.  287,  he  married  Frances,  daughter  of  Sir 
John  Parker  of  London,  but  it  may  have  been  a  second  marriage. 

t  May  1,  1705.  "Yesterday  Mr.  Sargeant  Bonython,  steward  of  Westminster  Coait. 
shot  himself  throngh  the  body  with  a  pistoil."    [Lattrell.j 


)84.]  The  Bonython  Family  of  Maine.  53 

i.  Richard,  eldest  son  and  heir ;  "  an  in^nioos  ffentleman,*'  says  Tonkin, 
"  but  being  tainted  likewise  with  his  fathers  distemper,  ....  set  fire 
to  his  ehamber  in  Lincoln's  Inn,  burnt  all  his  papers,  bonds,  &o.,  and 
then  stabbed  himself  with  his  sword,  bat  not  effectually ;  he  then 
threw  himself  out  of  the  window  and  died  on  the  spot."  [Bistorv  of 
Cornwall,  i.  S87;  Comp.  Luttrell,  Brief  Relation,  i.  215,  and  y. 
554-5.] 

ii.  John,  the  second  son.  King's  College,  Cambridge,  B.  A.  1717 ;  M.  A. 
1721.  While  an  undergraduate  he  wrote  a  JuEttin  poem  which  was 
published  in  1714  by  some  Cambridge  students.  He  became  an  emi- 
nent physician  in  Bristol.  He  is  mentioned  in  the  will  of  his  cousin 
Jane  (fionython)  Eempe  of  Carolew,  1749.  [Records  Consistory 
Court,  ExeterJ 

iii.    [Daughter],  m.  Thomas  Pearce  of  Helston. 

&  Richard*  Bonython  (John,*  Riehardy^  Ralph%  was  baptized  at  St 
Colnmb  Major,  3  April,  1580,  the  second  son  of  John'  Bonython 
of  Bonython.  It  is  possible  that  he  is  the  Richard  Bonython  who 
was  Comptroller  of  the  Stannaries  of  Cornwall  and  Devonshire, 
1603  and  1604,  and  keeper  of  the  Gaol  at  Lostwithiel  m  1603 
[Calender  of  State  Papers,  Domestic].  He  came  to  Saco  in  1631, 
bringing  with  him,  as  a  copartner  of  Thomas  Lewis,  a  patent,  dated 
12  Febmarj,  1629-30,  for  a  large  tract  of  land  four  miles  by  eight 
upon  the  East  side  of  the  Saco  River,  of  which  livery  of  seizen  was 
given  28  June,  1631,  following.  His  associate  had  '*  already  been 
at  the  charge  to  transport  himself  and  others  to  take  a  view  of  New 
England  for  the  bettering  his  experience  in  the  adyancing  a  planta- 
tion," as  is  recited  in  the  grant  I  snppose  that  his  emigration  to 
this  almost  unknown  land  may  be  explained  by  recalling  that  he 
was  not  in  the  line  of  succession  to  the  family  seat  and  honors,  his 
brother  Reskymar  having  in  1620  a  son  and  grandson  to  inherit  the 
property.  I  judge  also  that  he  had  been  a  soldier  in  some  of  the 
French  wars,  perhaps  serving  with  Sir  Ferdinando  Gorges,  from 
whom  he  imbibed  some  of  the  enthusiasm  of  *'  that  grave  knight " 
respecting  the  New  England.  This  seems  to  be  confirmed  by  his 
universal  title  of  *'  Captain  Bonython/'  as  well  as  by  a  letter  from 
Richard  Vines  to  John  Winthrop,  25  January,  1640,  in  which  he 
says  :  '*It  seems  the  governor  [Dudley]  makes  a  question  that  Sir 
Ferdinando  Gorges  was  not  in  the  Ffrench  wars  in  his  tyme.  Capt. 
Bonython  intreats  me  to  write  a  word  or  two  thereof,"*  and  then 
he  proceeds  to  detail  the  facts  as  stated  by  him.  This  martial  ca- 
reer secured  to  him  an  authoritative  position  among  the  early  set- 
tlers, and  he  was  undoubtedly  a  local  magistrate  under  the  *'  combi- 
nation "  government  of  Richard  Vines,  before  the  arrival  in  1 635  of 
Deputy  Governor  William  Gorges.  When  this  new  executive  oflS- 
cer  arrived,  he  organized  his  first  court  25  March,  1 635-6,  at  the 
house  of  Captain  Richard  Bonython,  who  was  then  appointed  one 
of  the  Provincial  Commissioners,  and  in  1640,  under  the  first  char- 
ter, he  was  appointed  one  of  the  Councillors  to  Deputy  Governor 
Thomas  Gorges.  We  have  no  means  of  estimating  his  character 
except  through  negative  testimony,  and  it  is  a  legitimate  inference 
that  he  must  have  been  a  man  of  ability  and  honor  to  have  retained 
the  respect  and  confidence  of  his  fellow  citizens  for  so  many  years. 
The  court  records  are  free  from  any  charges  impugning  his  moral, 

•  4  Mass.  Hint.  Coll.  yii.    Winthrop  Papers. 


54  The  Bonython  Family  of  Maine.  [Jan. 

social  or  political  character,  and  to  this  is  added  the  positive  evi- 
dence that  as  a  judge  he  spared  not  his  own  sou  from  the  utmost 
rigors  of  the  law.  One  scrap  of  exemporaneous  history  affords  ns 
a  sidelight  into  his  character.  Rev.  Thomas  Jenner,  the  Puritan 
minister  at  Saco  [1640-6],  writing  to  Grovernor  Winthrop,  says: 
*<  M'  Vines  &  the  captaine  [Richard  Bonython]  both  haue  timely 
expressed  themselves  to  be  utterly  against  church-way,  saying  their 
patent  doth  prohibit  the  same."  Parson  Jenner's  "  church-way  " 
did  not  suit  loyal  Captain  Richard  or  Deputy  Governor  Vines,  for 
the  latter  says :  *'  I  like  Mr.  Jenner  his  life  and  conversacion  and 
also  his  preaching,  if  he  would  lett  the  Church  of  England  alone ; 
that  doth  much  trouble  me  to  hear  our  mother  church  questioned 
for  her  impurity  vpon  every  occasion.***  Richard  Bonython  served 
as  Councillor  through  1645,  and  died  about  1650.  [Folsom,  Saco 
and  Biddeford,  113.]  By  wife,  whose  name  I  judge  to  be  Lucretia, 
he  had  issue : 

9.  i.      John,  son  and  heir. 

ii.  ,  m.  Richard  Foxwell. 

iii.  ,  m.  Richard  Cummings. 

9.   John*  Bonython  {Richard,^  John,*  Richard,*  Ralph}),  born  certainly 
before  1620,  was  the  opposite  of  his  father,  for  he  lived  a  life  of 
debauchery  and  outlawry  during  twenty  years  of  his  existence.    The 
first  court  held  at  his  father's  house  in  1636,  brings  him  to  view  as 
the  father  of  an  illegitimate  child,  and  his  excesses  developed  to  such 
a  degree  in  1645,  that  "  threatening  to  kill  and  slay  any  person  that 
should  lay  hands  on  him,"  the  court,  at  which  his  father  again  sat, 
adjudged  him  **  outlawed  and  incapltble  of  any  of  his  Majesty's  laws, 
and  proclaim[ed]  him  a  Rebell."     [York  Court  Records.]     After 
Massachusetts  assumed  control  of  the  government  of  Maine  in  1652, 
he  refused  to  submit  to  her  government,  and  so  far  carried  his  guer- 
illa warfetre  that  the  Greneral  Court  proclaimed  him  an  outlaw  and 
offered  a  price  upon  his  head  to  the  person  who  would  bring  him  to 
Boston  alive  or  dead.     This  seemed  to  have  the  desired  effect,  and 
submitting  to  their  authority  in  1658,  he  behaved  himself  for  a  few 
years  until  the  Restoration,  when  the  Gorges  party  once  more  came 
to  the  front  in  Maine.     Then  he  unloosed  his  bonds  again,  and  de- 
fied his  late  political  masters  in  an  insulting  letter  to  the  Massachu- 
setts   magistrates.     In   1668   the   tables  were  again  turned,   and 
although  Bonython  remained  recalcitrant,  he  found,  after  three  more 
years  of  ineffectual  opposition,   that  submission   was  the    wisest 
course,  and  he  wrote  the  magistrates  a  letter  asking  them  to  pardon 
his  past  offences,  alleging  that  he  "  was  blinded  by  a  letter  from 
Mr.  Grorge."     [Mass.  Arch,  xlviii.  108.]     His  offences  were  not 
always  of  a  political  nature,  for  he  quarrelled  with  his  brother  in 
law,  Richard  Foxwell,  in  1654,  and  tore  down  his  house,  for  which 
he  had  to  pay  roundly  when  the  court  reviewed  the  case.     In  1640 
he  was  sued  for  libel  by  Rev.  Richard  Gibson  (who  had  married 
Mary  Lewis,  the  daughter  of  his  father's  partner),  in  that  he  had 
called  him  **  a  base  priest,  a  base  knave  and  a  base  fellow,"  besides 
slandering  his  wife.t     The  court  gave  the  plaintiff  a  verdict  of 

•  4  Mass.  Hist.  Coll.  vil.    Winthrop  Papers. 

t  He  was  probably  the  instigator  of  the  charges  against  Gibson's  wife,  recounted  in  the 
letter  to  Winthrop,  14  Jan.  1678-0,  and  we  may  suppose  that  Jealousy  was  the  cause  of  the 
trouble.    [6  Mass.  Hist  ColL  L  267.] 


1884.]  The  Bonython  Family  of  Maine.  55 

£6.  6.  8.  and  costs  128.  6d.  This  is  a  record  nnusoally  crowded 
with  the  eTents  of  a  disreputable  career,  and  it  is  not  at  all  certain 
that  the  story  is  complete.*  We  are  relieved,  however,  to  learn  that 
ID  1666  he  had  so  far  obtained  the  confidence  of  his  towns  people 
as  to  be  placed  on  a  trial  jarj,  but  that  is  the  extent  of  his  public 
services,  as  far  as  can  be  leamed.f  At  the  outbreak  of  the  Indian 
hostilities  in  Maine,  1675,  his  house  was  burned  about  September 
of  that  year,  and  with  his  &mily  he  fled  to  Marblehead  for  safety. 
There,  17  February,  1676,  ^*  in  his  last  sickness,"  he  made  his  will, 
from  which  we  learn  the  names  of  his  wife  and  children  [ante,xxxiv. 
99].  This  date  may  be  taken  as  the  time  of  his  decease;  but 
though  dead,  his  £Eime  will  not  only  live  in  Whittier's  "  Mogg  Me- 
gone,"  but  in  an  epitaph  still  preserved,  which  sums  up  his  life  in 
expressive  rhyme : 

"  Here  lies  Bonython  the  Sagamore  of  Saco 
He  lived  a  rogue  and  died  a  knave  and  went  to  Uobbowocko."t 

Folsom  says  "  He  was  buried  at  his  own  request  near  the  river 
on  the  line  separating  one  division  of  his  estate  from  that  of  [James] 
Gibbins.  A  man  who  lives  near  the  spot  informs  us  that  having 
had  frequent  occasion  to  pass  it  when  a  boy,  ....  he  was  often  told 
that  the  *  governor  of  Saco'  lay  buried  there."  [History  Saco  and 
Biddeford,  |116.]§  His  estate  was  not  administered  until  1732, 
when  the  property  was  found  to  consist  of  5000  acres  of  land  valued 
at  18  shillings  per  acre,  which  was  divided  amoug  his  heirs. 

By  wife  Agnes  he  had  issue : 

i.  John,  **  the  eldest  sonne,'*  b.  1654  ;  selectman,  1685;  removed  to  New- 
castle, N.  U.,  1689,  where  he  was  livipe  in  1694.  He  had  children  :  1. 
/?{cAar</,^  of  Newcastle,  a  cordwainer,  who  was  living  there  in  1713,  but 
died  before  1732 ;  2.  Patience  J  m.  John  Collins.  She  was  the  only 
heir  of  John  Bonython,  Jr.,  living  in  1732,  to  take  part  in  the  division 
of  the  estate. 

ii.  Elinor,  m.  Churchwell.  This  daughter  inherited  her  father's  moral 
proclivities.  She  was  examined,  20  Sept.  1667,  on  a  charge  of  bau- 
tardy,  and  being  convicted  was  punished  in  the  usual  way  by  standing 
in  a  white  sheet  in  public  meeting,  but  her  father  paid  the  siiternate  of 
£5  fine. 

iii.  Qavrigan.)  In  1672,  this  son  had  a  suit  at  law  against  George  Norton 
in  the  New  Hampshire  courts.     [Mass.  Arch,  xxxix.  413.] 

iv.  Thomas,  *'  who  then  lay  sick  *'  at  the  date  of  his  father's  '*  last  sick- 
ness.'' Presented  to  the  court  in  1669  with  his  brother  John  '*  for  liv- 
ing in  a  disorderly  family  in  the  house  of  their  father,  a  contemner  of 
this  (Massachusetts)  authority."    [Folsom,  144.] 

V.     WiNNiFRKD,  m.  [Robert]  Nichols. 

*  In  1683,  as  if  to  atone  for  his  past  misdeeds  and  secnre  the  good  will  of  the  people,  he 
PTetbetown  twenty  acres  of  upland  for  the  minister.     [Folsom,  116.] 

t  Id  1665  the  townsmen  elected  him  constable,  bat  be  refhsed  the  honor  and  was  fined  40. 
for  Dot  taking  the  oath  of  office.    [Folsom,  115.] 

!  Hobbowocko  is  the  devil  of  the  Indians,  according  to  Jocelyn,  who  says :  **  They  ac- 

Knowledge  a  God  whom  thoy  call  Sqaantan, but  Abbowockot  or  Chepie,  many  times 

nitei  them  with  incurable  diseases,  scares  them  with  his  apparitions  and  panic  terrors,  by 
^tuoa  whereof  they  live  in  consternation  worshipping  the  Devil  for  fear." 

(  b  i>  presamptaoas  to  offer  corrections  to  Folsom's  accurate  work,  but  I  suggest  that 
tte  tradition  of  the  burial  place  of  the  "  governor  of  Saco  "  refers  to  Captain  Richard,  his 
^Itther,  who  was  in  fact  a  magistrate  of  the  place.  John  may  have  been  buried  near  his 
&Uier. 

I  This  name,  like  Reskymer,  is  a  Cornish  surname,  and  possibly  gives  clue  to  the  maid- 
en ntme  of  John's  wife  or  mother.  The  Gavrigan  family  lived  in  St.  Columb  Mfgor,  where 
CtpL  Richard  Bonython  was  baptized. 


56  Ten  Oenerationa  in  New  England.  [Jan. 

This  closes  the  record  of  a  family  of  gentle  blood  who  came  to 
the  Province  of  Maine  to  aid  in  the  perpetuation  of  the  feudal  seig- 
nories  of  Old  England.     With  this  aristocratic  scion  of  Bonython 
Manor  were  associated  the  almost  royal  Champernownc,  owning 
kinship  to  the  Plantagenets  and  Courtenays  of  England  and  the 
Montgomerys  of  France ;  the  gentle  Joscelyn  of  the  knightly  house 
of  Kent;  the  noble  Cammock,  related  to  the  powerful  Earl  of  War- 
wick, and  Godfrey,  who  bore  the  arms  of  the  renowned  Godfrey  of 
Bullion   the  chivalrous  King  of  Jerusalem.     All  these  men  were 
the  associates  of  Richard  Bonython,  but  no  one  to-day  bears  the 
name  of  Bonython,  Champemowne,  Joscelyn,  Cammock  or  God- 
frey in  the  state  which  they  helped  to  found.     The  fate  of  the  Bony- 
thon family  in  America  bears  a  striking  resemblance  to  the  tragic 
end  of  the  elder  line  in  England,  for  the  line  of  Richard  the  emi- 
grant tapers  off  miserably  in  the  profligate  "  Sagamore  of  Saco," 
for  we  hear  nothing  of  his  son's  descendants.     In  the  female  line, 
however,  through  the  Cummings  match,  the  families  of  Bragdon, 
Banks,  Longfellow  and  others,  deduce  their  pedigree,  while  from 
the  Fox  well  marriage  several  other  Maine  families  can  be  traced, 
including  Thornton  and  Libby. 


NoTK. — I  am  indebted  to  the  Western  Antiquary,  Sopplement.  Part  TV.,  March, 
1882,  for  the  facts  connected  with  the  English  portion  or  the  family.  This  was  far> 
Dished  to  me  by  Mr.  John  Langdon  Bonython  of  Adelaide,  South  Australia,  who 
had  collected  most  of  the  material  for  that  magazine. 


TEN  GENERATIONS  IN  NEW  ENGLAND. 

By  Hbnbt  E.  Waitb,  Esq.,  of  West  Newton,  Mass. 

THE  result  of  an  attempt  to  discover  all  the  New  England  an- 
cestors of  a  family  of  the  present  generation,  is  shown  upon 
the  accompanying  folded  sheet,  which  is  submitted  for  additions  and 
corrections. 

The  arrangement  is  as  follows,  to  wit :  Each  column  represents 
a  diflTerent  generation : 

The  dash  ( — )  indicates  that  no  more  can  be  found  in  New  Eng- 
land : 

The  dots  (  .  -  )  reserve  a  space  for  those  not  yet  discovered  : 

The  asterisk  (*)  distinguishes  names  and  dates  not  established  as 
correct. 

One  name  is  found  in  the  eleventh  generation,  viz. :  Hugh  Las- 
kin,  of  Salem,  father  of  Editha,  wife  of  Henry  Herrick.  Each 
name  is  an  index  to  material  in  hand  relating  to  the  family  and  gen- 
eration of  which  it  is  a  part. 

Several  of  the  lines  of  ancestry  can  readily  be  extended  in  Old 
England,  where  some  were  of  gentle  rank  and  ancient  estate. 


I 


1884.]  Ten  Generations  in  New  England.  57 

The  source  of  information  relied  upon  in  this  work  has  been 
a  personal  examination  of  the  public  records  of  towns,  counties  and 
colonies.  The  uncertainty  of  correspondence  and  printed  histories 
is  illustrated  in  the  following  instances,  viz.  : 

I.  In  reply  to  a  communication  with  the  usual  fee  enclosed,  a 
town  clerk  kindly  sent  a  list  of  the  name  asked  for,  but  not  the  par- 
ticular family  wanted.  After  a  tedious  personal  examination  of  the 
records  of  surrounding  towns  and  of  the  county,  without  success,  a 
venture  into  the  original  town  to  verify  the  clerk's  list  revealed  the 
missing  family  upon  a  page  of  the  records  which  he  had  overlooked. 

II.  According  to  tradition.  Patience  Sprague — who  married 
William  Jenks,  of  Rhode  Island,  and  had  a  son  Jonathan  Jenks — 
was  supposed  to  have  been  a  daughter  of  the  first  Jonathan  Sprague, 
but  in  the  printed  history  of  the  family  by  Hosea  Sprague,  it  is 
stated  that  Jonathan  Sprague,  born  at  Hingham  in  1648,  removed 
to  Rhode  Island,  and  left  no  posterity.  This  is  repeated  in  Soule's 
memorial  of  the  family,  and  even  Judge  Mitchell,  in  his  history 
of  Bridgewater,  says  he  died  at  Hingham  and  left  no  posterity, 
while  Savage's  Dictionary  adds  a  wife  Elizabeth  and  the  birth 
of  a  daughter  of  the  same  name,  July  21,  1670 — perhaps  quoting 
from  the  Register,  iii.  269,  a  correct  transcript  of  the  records  of 
Weymouth,  Mass.  It  appears  from  original  sources  of  information, 
that  there  were  three  Jonathan  Spragues  in  Rhode  Island  at  the 
same  time;  the  eldest,  born  at  Hingham  in  1648,  married  Mehitable 
Hoibrook,  and  removed  to  Rhode  Island  soon  after  1675,  where  he 
was  a  Deputy  from  Providence  to  the  General  Assembly  from  1695 
to  1714,  and  had  children — Patience,  Jonathan,  Joanna,  Persis  and 
\Mlliain — and  died  in  1741,  aged  93  years,  leaving  numerous 
descendants. 

In  Morse's  history  of  Sherborn  and  Holliston,  and  in  his  Descend- 
ants of  Ancient  Puritans,  he  states  that  "Samuel  Hoibrook,  Senior,  of 
'Vevmouth,  appears  by  his  will  of  1696,  reported  in  Mitchell's  his- 
tory of  Bridfje water,  to  have  left  an  estate  to  his  children,  Mehita- 

e,  wife  of  Jonathan  Sprague,"  and  others.  This  is  quoted  by 
Savage,  who  adds  :  ^1  doubt  if  any  more  obscure  family  report  can 
b€  discerned."  A  careful  reading  of  Mitchell's  Bridgewater — a  vol- 
ume without  an  index — fails  to  discover  any  will  reported  there. 

In  Deane's  history  of  Scituate,  however,  is  found  an  abstract  of 
^ne  will  referred  to,  but  an  examination  of  the  probate  records  of 
Plymouth  County  shows  the  maker  of  the  will  and  father  of  the 
children  to  have  been  William,  and  not  Samuel  Hoibrook. 

Samuel  Hoibrook,  Senior,  of  Weymouth,  was  son  of  William,  and 
his  will,  dated  1718  and  proved  1719,  names  children  correspond- 
^^  with  the  registiy  of  their  births  and  marriages  upon  the  records 
of  Weymouth  and  Scituate.  The  confusing  arrangement  of  his  child- 
fen  with  those  of  his  father  by  "Morse"  and  "Vinton,"  and  the 
acceptance  of  their  "  obscure  report "  by  "  Savage,"  seems  to  have 
originated  with  the  error  by  "  Deane  "  of  a  tingle  word, 

VOL.  xxxvin.  6 


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Early  Papers  at  Portsmouth^  N.  H. 


EARLY  PAPERS  AT  PORTSMOUTH,  NEW  HAMPSHIl 

[Copied  from  originals  in  possession  of  North  Parish,  Portsmouth,  by  Frank  W.  ] 

ETT,  of  Portsmouth.] 

I. 

Richard  Martyn's  Account  with  the  Town  of  Portshou 


1609   The  Town  of  Portsmo. 

To  10  ba«h  com  to  Ouner  Onion 

To  pii  J  no  Bn?w»ter 

To  pd  Guner  Onion 

To  1  bush  corn  to  ditto 

To  pd  Koger  Kniffht 

To  :i  lb  great  uayTeo  schoolhoute 

To  3  lb  ditto  to  ditto 

To  1  lb  duble  teiius 

To  2  lb  grt'El  nayles 

To  pd  Jami'd  Leach  for  work  on  ye 

sohoolhou^e 
To  2  pr  stocking  Gnner  Onyon 
To  3i  cotton  ditto 
To  10  daves  work  James  Leach  on  ye 

schoolhouifte 
To  2  lb  great  navies  ditto 
To  1  lb  nayles  ditto 
To  p*l  VAvt  Clarke  for  work  on  ditto 
To  2  qra  beefe  to  Onyon 
To  |>d  J  no  Slierl>ourn  for  worke  on 

»clKH>lhott«e 
To  pil  Kmliu  Purington  for  making 

dothe4  for  Knight 


To  \A  Wm  Richard*  &  Rogr  Call  for 

work  on  school  hou^e 
To  Dvl  mr  li  unkings  on  ditto 
To  1  bush  ooru  goodin  Onvon 
To  more  pd  Kdw.  clarke  iot  worke  on 

»ch«.»«tlhou»e  1  06  03 

To  2  qt9  mm  at  raiding  the  achoolhonse  0  02  00 
To  mine  own  charge  ditto  0  (k>  00 

liar  26    To  money  to  mr  Stileman 

1^1       about  je  town  Bounds  0  05  00 


To  my  charge  at  Boston  Deputy 
To  nayles  about  ye  bel«rbe«le 
To  A  belrope 

To  iny  going  to  gen*ll  eoort 
To  naVle«  to  «ehoolho«ue  to  J  no 

Totup^n 
To  pd  mr  Phillips  to  hmnging  ye  bell 

Jt  wh<<ele 
To  4S  lb  porke  to  Joan  Clemencie 
To  yA  prw^on  for  ringing  ye  bell 
To  pd  mr  moodey  in  part  of  my  rate  73   2 
To  ci^l#  for  ye  nMvtiug  honse 
To  pd  foUn^by  4  J  no  linnet  tor  work 

on  ditto 


Dr. 

£  s.  d. 

02  00  00 

10  00  00 

00  10  09 

00  04  06 

00  10  00 

00  07  Ot; 

00  07  06 

00  01  00 

00  11  00 

01  02  06 

00  05  00 

00  14  00 

2  13  (H 

00  11  00 

00  at  00 

1  10  00 

3  05  06 

0  18  00 

0  10  06 

26  07  01 

0  06  OO 

0  10  00 

0  01  00 

Carried  OT«r  the  ballance 


2^  l^  10 

4  00  00 
0  1  09 
0  07  01 
2  10  00 

006  00 

1  10  00 
OO  12  00 

4  10  00 

2  10  tX> 
0  10  06 

0  04  Ofi 

4«  10  04 
44  14  1 

1669    per  Contra  < 

By  my  own  rate  69  < 

By  ledbrook's  rate  < 

By  mr  Uunking's  rate  • 

By  Wm.  Coleman*!*  rate  • 

By  Wm  Cotton's  rate  < 

By  Sam  Haines  rate  • 

By  J  a:  Leach  his  rate  • 

By  Kich:  Sampsous  rate  < 

By  mr  Cuming  rate  • 

By  J  no  Denet  A  J  no  Tomson  ( 

By  Jo  Atkinson 
By  Bernard  Squire 
By  Jno  .lacksoQ 
By  I^dwick  ffowler 
By  Edw;  melchtT- s  rate  in  the  yeare  70 
By  Roger  Calls  rate  in  70 
By  Edvr:  Clarks  rate 
By  mr  Wallid  rate 


1670    By  mr  ffletchcrs  rate 

By  I^adWick  ffowlers  rate 

By  Wm  Richards  rate 

By  Sam:  llayns  for  liimself  h  his  man 

By  Jno  Iluukiugs  rate 

by  Rich  Sam?«>us»  rate 

By  mine  ttwne  rate 

Bv  Tho:  Brackets  rate 

By  Robt.  Ellettf  rate 

By  mr  Tho;   ilarvies  rate 

By  Jo:  Hall^  rate 

By  Abiell  Ljimiie  rate 

By  J  DO  Partridge 

By  1  bush  com  of  Jo:  Hall 

By  James  Leach  his  rate 

By  Wm  II earls  rate 

By  J  no  Cutt  Senr  of  Portm 

By  1  *t  lb  pysessarry 

By  Jno  Keni^tone  for  2  rates 

By  Just:  Richard 

By  Jno  Banfield  2  rates 

By  Rich:  Samson *«  rate 


Br  mine  own  rate  72 

'1672:  73 
By  son  Cntt«  rate 
By  2  H  boards  Phillip  Lews 
By  mine  owne  rate  73 
By  son  Cntu^  rate  73 
BV  Edward  Mtrcher*  rate  72 
By  ditto  73 
By  Ledbrooks  rate 


1  16    3 


1884.] 


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59 


1074     POBTBMO        Dr. 

To  ballanoe  on  ye  other  lide 

To  >,  lb  bread  to  surreyors 

T«>  nayleo  h  line  for  ye  meetinghouse 

To  A  tfhroad  for  Tho  Williama 

To  money  to  ye  glazier 

To  pd  Wm  Lucome  per  ordr 

To  uaylca  to  watchhoaee 

To  15.11  footii  board  ditto 

To  I  lb  nayles  ditto 

To  BiTTing  an  attachmt  upon  Purmet 

To  entering  an  accom  ditto  y  money 

To  Rich.  Weber  to  making  Lucomefl 

clothes 
To  my  going  to  Qenll  Court 
To  Ja:  Brown  for  glass  for  ye  Bchool 

house  money 
Fd  Alex  Denet  for  stocks 


1676 


1674 


Contra 


£  s. 

d. 

1  16 

3 

0  10 

0 

OO  00 

6 

00  05 

0 

0  15 

0 

3  05 

6 

0  08 

6 

3  01 

0 

0  01 

0 

0  Oj 

0 

0  10 

0 

0  06 

0 

400 

0 

0  10 

0 

0  05 

0 

16  15    9 


TopdOba:  Mors  for  A  lock  for  ye 

ftocks  money  0  02    0 

To  one  pe  square  timber  for  ye  meet- 
ing house  •  0  06    0 
To  I  pd  ditto  to  ditto                               0  a3    0 
To2  ll  shingle  nayles  school  house        0  08    0 
Topd  Kob*t  Bumam  for  meeting  house 

•df  0  15    0 

To  Wm  Richards  in  bread  &  rum  at 
fetdiing  ditto  0  03    0 

To  A  pwnt  mt  County  Court  In  money  0  02    6 
To  pd  John  I>enet  for  worke  on  ye 

DKCtiDff  house  0  07    0 

Topdffollinsbie  on  schooles  0  10    0 

To  pd  Alex:  Denet  for  worke  on  ye 
meeting  house  0  05    0 


18  Itf    6 


Of  th]«  seoot  I  hare  expended  in  money 
foorty  nine  slUU 

4  16 
3    8 


3 
3 


jE  1    8 
ffebraWh:  1676-7 

Erronrs  excepted. 

KiCBARD  MABTTN 

[EDdorsed] 

Mr  Martines  Accompt  to  76-7 


Ry  Caleb  Stephins  rate 

By  Jno  Bowmans  rate  p  Oba:  Morss 

By  mine  own  rate 

By  Antho:  Ellins  rate 

By  Josiah  Clarks  rate 

By  Jno  Denotfl  rate  p  8  Keaies 

By  Wm  llcarls  rate  ditto 

By  Obttdi:  Blors  hiit  rate  ditto 

By  Geo:  levers  rate  ditto 

By  Son  Cutts  rate  ditto 

By  Edw.  Melchers  rate  74 

By  Jno.  Brackets  rate  74 

By  Deacon  ilaynes  &  his  son  Sams 

rat«'  74 
By  Tho.  Waooms  rate  74 
By  Matthias  Haines  rate  74 
By  Phillip  Severets  rate  74 
By  Beui  Stars  rate  74 
By  LedbroolcM  rate  7'i  p  Chad:  Morss 
By  Rich.  Webers  rate  74 
By  l!<auc  I'hillips  rate  74 
By  Jno  Kelleys  rate  74 
By  Leonard  Weeks  rate  74 
By  Jno  Kenistons  rate  73  p  Oba;  Mors 
By  Symon  flares  rate  74 


1676 
By  Dan:  Duggin  fc  Jas  Jbans  p  Sam 

KeaioH 
By  mr  Tho:  his  rate  74 
By  Jamt^H  Johnsons  rate  by  Purmet 
By  Goodman  Kecks  rate  by  ditto 
By  Goodman  Hoi»kin9  by  ditto 
By  Jno.  I^wes  by  ditto 
By  mr  Barshams  rate  74    S  Keaies 
By  Jno  Bowman?  rate  74 
By  mr  Hen:  Sherbourn  rate  74 
By  Jno  Partridge  his  rate  76 
By  Alex:  Dennets  rate  76 
By  Jno  Denetj*  rate  76 
By  Sam:  ITernalds  rate  76 
By  Wm  Wakir  &  'V\\o*  (Jubtavleo  74 
By  Jno  Bowman^  rate  70  mr  Tucker 
By  Jno  Kenistuus  rate  76 


To  ballance  this  accot  this  day 


11. 


u 

0 


Cr. 

£  8.  d. 
10  00 
15  00 
1  03  00 
0  07  00 

0  u:t  00 

0  04  06 
0  06  00 
OU  00 

oy  00 

05  06 
03  06 
03  06 


0 
0 
0 
0 
0 


17  06 
Oi  06 

03  06 
07  06 

04  06 
(tTi  (lO 
06  00 
0:{  06 


0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0  02  06 

0  01  06 

1  05  00 
0  02  06 


9  05  06 

0  07  00 

0  02  06 

0  05  00 

0  03  00 

0  15 

00 

0  03  OS 

0  02 

00 

0  07  00 

0  05  00 

0  04  06 

0  05 

0 

0  10 

0 

0  12 

0 

0  06 

0 

0  U6 

0 

0  05 

0 

14  03 

0 

4  16 

6 

18  19    6 


Letter  op   Committee    op  Town  of  Portsmouth  to  Capt.  Elias 

Stileman. 

Capt*  Elias  Stileman  Portsmouth  y®  28  May  1676. 

S'    yours  p  m'  Moodey  came  safe  to  our  hand  and  in  order  to  your 
desire  y*  Inhabitants  convened  this  morning  and  agitated  that  Concerne, 
je  result  of  which  is  thus,  by  reason  of  sodaine  a  mo — upon  so  great   Con- 
cerae  requiring  present  Answer  that  ye  main  is  left  unresolved  untell  fur- 
ther Consideration  what  was  done  you  have  underneath.     The  vote  of  y* 
Towne  as  followeth  That  the  Inhabitants  have  consented  &  are  willing  to 
Joyne  with  ye  rest  of  this  Jurisdiction  to  bare  their  equ^-l  proportion  of  ye 
charge  of  this  present  warr  with  y*  Indians  provided  it  Infringe   not  upon 
y*  agreed  upon  at  our  first  Articling  w^^  s**  m         husett  Jurisdiction. 

Wee  have  not  farther  to  say  y*  Lord  direct  you  in  all  that  may  tend  to 
oar  welfare  John  Cutt  Phi  Lewis 

Tiio  Daniell  Jo:  IIakvie 

W™  Vaugiian  John  pickerin 

Nath  Ffkyek  Natiianell  drake 


58 


Early  Papers  at  Portsmouth^  N.  H, 


EARLY  PAPERS  AT  PORTSMOUTH,  NEW  HAMPS 

[Copied  from  originals  in  possession  of  North  Parish,  Portsmouth,  by  F&ank 

ETT,  of  Portsmouth.] 

I. 

Richard  Martyn's  Account  with  the  Town  of  Ports: 


1«(»   The  Town  ok  Portsmo. 

To  10  bash  com  to  Ganer  Onion 

To  pii  Jno  Brewster 

To  pd  Ganor  Onion 

To  1  bush  corn  to  ditto 

To  pd  Koger  Kniffht 

To  :i  lb  greHt  uayTei}  schoolhonte 

To  3  lb  ditto  to  ditto 

To  1 11)  duble  teuus 

To  2  lb  great  nay  lea 

To  pd  Jumoi)  Leach  for  work  on  je 

Bchoolhouse 
To  2  pr  stocking  Ganer  Onyon 
To  3i  cotton  ditto 
To  10  dayc9  work  James  Leach  on  ye 

sclioolliouse 
To  2  lb  great  navies  ditto 
To  1  lb  nayles  ditto 
To  pd  Kdw  Clarke  for  work  on  ditto 
To  2  (irs  boefe  to  Onyon 
To  pd  Jno  Sherbourn  for  worke  on 

schoolhouse 
To  pd  Kmliu  I*urington  for  making 

clothes  for  Knight 


To  pd  Wm  Richards  &  Rogr  Call  for 

work  on  ttchoolhouite 
To  pd  mr  il  unkings  on  ditto 
To  1  bush  corn  goodiu  Onyon 
To  xnoTv  pd  Kdw:  clarke  for  worke  on 

schoolhou^c  1  0(1  ai 

To  2  «itf)  rum  at  raising  the  schoolhouse  0  02  00 
To  nifne  own  charge  ditto  0  08  00 

May  20    To  money  to  mr  Stileman 

1671       about  ye  town  Bounds  0  05  00 


1672:  73 
To  my  charge  at  Boston  Deputy 
To  navies  about  ye  belwheelc 
To  A  belrope 

To  my  going  to  gen '11  court 
To  nuyhis  to  sclioolhouse  to  Jno 

Touip!<on 
To  |m1  mr  Phillips  to  hanging  ye  bell 

&  wheele 
To  48  lb  porke  to  Joan  Clemence 
To  pd  preston  for  ringing  ye  bell 
To  \n\  uir  raoodey  in  part  of  my  rate  73 
To  ooatM  for  yo  meeting  house 
To  p<l  folintiby  &  Jno  Dcnet  for  work 

on  ditto 


Carried  over  the  ballance 


£  ».  d. 

02  00  00 

10  00  00 

00  10  09 

00  04  0^ 

00  10  00 

00  07  06 

00  07  06 

OO  0  i  00 

00  11  00 

01  02  06 

00  05  00 

00  14  00 

2  13  04 

00  11  00 

00  o:i  00 

1  10  00 

3  05  06 

0  18  00 

0  10  06 

20  07  01 

0  06  00 

0  10  00 

0  04  00 

2tf  08  10 

4  00  00 
0  1  00 
0  07  01 
2  10  00 

0  06  00 

1  10  00 
00  12  00 

4  10  00 

2  10  00 
0  10  06 

0  M  02 

MS   10  04 
44  14  1 

1669    per  Contra 

By  my  own  rate  69 

By  leabrook's  rat« 

By  mr  Ilunking's  rate 

By  Wm.  Colenian'rf  rate 

By  Wm  Cotton's  rate 

By  Sam  liaiueit  rate 

Ky  Ja:  Iyi>uch  \\\»  rate 

By  Rich:  Sampsious  rate 

By  mr  ('umiiig  rate 

By  Jno  Denet  &  Jno  Tomson 

By  Jo  Atkinson 

By  Bernard  Squire 

By  Jno  Jackson 

By  Ladwick  ffowler 

By  K<lw:  melclier's  rate  in  the  yea 

By  Roger  Calls  rate  in  70 

By  Kdw:  Clarks  rate 

By  mr  VVallis  rate 


1670    By  mr  fflotchers  rate 

By  Ladwick  ffowlers  rate 

By  Wm  Richards  rate 

By  Sam:  Hayns  for  himself  &  his 

By  Jno  IIuniciugM  rate 

By  Rich  Samsons  rate 

By  mine  t»wiie  rate 

By  Tho:  Brackets  rate 

By  Robt.  Kl lots  rate 

By  mr  Tho:   ilarviea  rate 

By  Jo:  Halls  rate 

By  Abiell  Lainbc  rate 

By  Jno  Partridge 

By  1  bush  corn  of  Jo:  Uall 

By  James  I^'acli  his  rate 

By  Wm  llearlM  rate 

By  Jno  Cutt  Senr  of  Portm 

By  l>a  lb  pysessarry 

By  Jno  Iv(>nistone  for  2  rates 

By  Just:  Richard 

By  Jno  Banfield  2  rates 

By  Rich:  ISamson's  rate 


By  mine  own  rate  72 

1672:  73 
By  son  Cutts  rate 
By  2  M  boards  Phillip  Lews 
By  mine  owne  rate  73 
By  son  Cutts  rate  73 
By  Kdward  Mechers  rate  72 
By  ditto  73 
By  Ledbrooks  rate 


1  16    3 


1884.] 


Early  Papers  at  Portsmouth,  N.  H. 


59 


1874    POBTSMO       Dr. 

To  ballance  on  ye  other  side 

To  S  lb  bread  to  surreyora 

To  navies  It  line  for  ye  mcetinghoase 

To  A  'shroud  for  Tbo  WilUams 

To  monpy  to  ye  gl«zier 

To  pd  Wm  Lucome  per  ordr 

To  luTles  to  watchhoDse 

To  l£'9  footit  board  ditto 

To  \  lb  oayles  ditto 

To  Mrrring  an  attachmt  apon  Punnet 

To  enterinf  an  accom  ditto  y  money 

To  Kicb.  Weber  to  making  Lacomes 

clothes 
To  mj  roing  to  Ocn'll  Court 
To  J  a:  Brown  for  glass  for  ye  school 

hoiue  money 
Pd  Akx  Denet  for  stocks 


1C0 


1074 


Contra 


£  8. 

d. 

1  16 

3 

0  10 

0 

OO  00 

6 

00  05 

0 

0  15 

0 

3  05 

6 

0  08 

6 

3  01 

0 

0  01 

0 

0  Oi 

0 

0  10 

0 

0  06 

0 

4  00 

0 

0  10 

0 

0  05 

0 

16  15    9 


To  pd  Oba:  Mors  for  A  lock  for  ye 

itocks  money  0  02    0 

To  one  pe  square  timber  for  ye  meet- 

Ing  hon-te  *  0  08    0 

To  1  pd  ditto  to  ditto  0  a3    0 

To  2  11  fthiagle  nayles  school  house  0  08  0 
To  pd  Eob't  Bumam  for  meeting  house 

•df  0  15    0 

To  H'm  Richards  in  bread  &  rum  at 

Mdilng  ditto  0  03    0 

To  A  pseot  mt  County  Court  in  money  0  OcS  6 
To  pd  John  Denet  for  worke  on  ye 

Bmioff  hoQse  0  07    0 

To  pd  flbuin^bie  on  schooles  0  10    0 

To  pd  Alex:  Denet  for  worke  on  ye 

nmrting  huose  0  05    0 


18  Itf    6 


Of  thb  scoot  I  hare  expended  in  money 
foarty  nine  sbill 

4  16 
3    8 


3 
3 


£  1    8 
fftbr20th:    1676-7 

Krrours  excepted. 

KiCHARD  MARTTN 
(En.l»r*«l] 

Ur  Martlnes  Accompt  to  76-7 


By  Caleb  Stephina  rate 

By  J  no  Bowmans  rate  p  Oba:  Morss 

By  mine  own  rate 

By  Antho:  Elllns  rate 

By  Joeiah  Clarks  rate 

By  J  no  Denets  rate  p  S  Keaies 

By  Wm  Ilcarls  rate  ditto 

By  Obadi:  Blors  hii«  rate  ditto 

By  Geo:  Lavers  rate  ditto 

By  Son  Cutts  rate  ditto 

By  Edw.  Melcliers  rate  74 

By  J  no.  Brackets  rate  74 

By  Deacon  Uaynes  &  his  son  Sams 

rate  74 
By  Tho.  Wacoms  rate  74 
By  Matthias  Haines  rate  74 
By  Phillip  Sererets  rate  74 
By  Beni  Stars  rate  74 
By  Le<lbrookH  rate  7'i  p  Chad:  Morss 
By  Rich.  Webers  rate  74 
By  I<>auc  Phillips  rate  74 
By  J  no  Kelleys  rate  74 
By  Leonard  Weeks  rate  74 
By  J  no  Kenistons  rate  73  p  Oba:  Mors 
By  Symon  Eares  rate  74 


1676 
By  Dan:  Duggin  fc  Jas  Jbans  p  Sam 

Keaie.s 
By  mr  Tho:  his  rate  74 
By  Jamos  Johnsons  rate  by  Punnet 
By  Goodinun  Becks  rate  bv  ditto 
By  Goodman  lloskins  by  aitto 
By  Jno.  I^wes  by  ditto 
By  mr  Banshams  rate  74    S  Keaies 
By  Jno  Bowman  8  rate  74 
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Letter  of    Committee    of  Town  of  Portsmouth  to  Capt.  Elias 

Stileman. 

Capt*  Elias  Stileman  Portsmouth  y''  28  May  1 676. 

S'  yours  p  m'^  Moodey  came  safe  to  our  hand  and  in  order  to  your 
de>ire  y*  Inhabitants  convened  this  mornin*^  and  agitat<Ml  that  Concerne, 
Vf  result  of  which  is  thus,  by  reason  of  sodaine  a  mo — upon  so  groat  Con- 
<»;rne  re(|uiring  present  Answer  that  ye  main  is  left  unresolved  untell  fur- 
tlur  Consideration  wliat  was  done  you  have  underneath.  The  vote  of  y* 
Towne  as  followeth  That  the  Inhabitants  have  consented  &  are  willing  to 
Joviie  with  ye  rest  of  this  Jurisdiction  to  bare  their  equal  proportion  of  ye 
<'liarge  of  this  present  warr  with  y**  In<lians  provided  it  Infringe  not  upon 
y*  agreed  ujx)n  at  our  first  Articling  w'**  s"*  m         husctt  Jurisiliction. 

Wee  have  not  farther  to  say  y*  Lord  direct  you  in  all  that  may  tend  to 
our  welfare  JoiLV  Cutt  Phi   Lkwis 

Tiio  Danikll  .Io:  IIakvie 

AV"  Vaughax  .John  imckkkin 

NaTII    FfKYEK  >»ATiIANELL    DUAKE 


60  Oenealogical  Gleanings  in  England.  [Jan. 


GENEALOGICAL  GLEANINGS  IN  ENGLAND. 

By  Hbxiit  F.  Watebs,  A.B.,  now  residing  in  London,  Eng. 
[Continued  from  vol.  xxxrii.  page  388.] 

William  Quicke,  citizen  and  grocer  of  London,  26  October,  1614^ 
proved  21  January,  1614.  He  mentions  daughter  Apphia,  wife  Elizabeth, 
daughter  Elizabeth,  daughter  Debora,  brother  Nicholas  Quicke  and  hit 
children,  the  rest  of  brothers'  and  sisters'  children,  kinswoman  Mary  Mar- 
shall the  younger,  brother-in-law  Thomas  Hodges,  merchant  taylor,  &c. 

*'  I  give  and  bequeath  to  and  amongest  my  three  daughters  aforesaid,  all 
my  pte  of  all  such  landes,  tenements  and  hereditaments  as  shall  from  time 
to  time  be  recovered,  planted  and  inhabited  eyther  in  Virginia  or  in  the 
somer  Ilandes  heretofore  called  the  Bermoodas  togither  w'^  all  such  mynes 
and  mineralls  of  gold,  silver  and  other  mettalls  or  treasure,  perles,  precious 
stones  or  any  kiude  of  wares  and  merchandices,  comodities  or  profitts  what- 
soever which  shalbe  obtayned  or  gotten  in  or  by  the  said  voyages  and  plan- 
tations accordinge  to  the  adventure  and  portion  of  money  that  I  have  em- 
ployed to  that  use."  Rudd,  1. 

[^John  Smith,  in  his  *'  Generall  Historie,"  Ed.  162B,  page  126,  gives  the  name  of 
William  Quicke  in  the  List  of  the  Adventurers  for  Virginia. — R.  A.  Brock,  of 
Richmond,  Va.] 

Thomas  Golledge,  his  will  in  form  of  a  letter  written  from  Charde  in 
Somerset,  10  May,  1645,  and  addressed  to  his  wife  Mrs.  Mary  Golledge  at 
Chichester;  proved  by  Mary  Golledge,  1  June,  1648. 

"  My  Deere  Wyffe  I  am  now  goinge  in  the  service  of  my  Lord  and 
Master  Jesus  Christ.  I  knowe  not  Howe  hee  will  dispose  of  my  fraile  lyfe 
in  breife  I  shall  desire  thow  wilt  take  all  6tt  opportunity  yf  the  Lord  soe 
dispose  to  leave  thee  w***  out  an  husband  as  to  transport  my  sweete  poore  in- 
nocent children  into  New  England  or  some  such  place  voyd  of  Trouble  be- 
cause the  Lord  ys  ready  to  shoote  his  fiery  darts  of  wrath  against  this  sin- 
full  land  and  yo"  w%ut  an  husband  and  they  w'^^owt  a  ffather  may  suffer 
the  black  darknesse  of  Egiptian  Popery  or  Athisme  pray  sell  what  of  mine 
is  to  bee  sould  for  though  I  cannot  w'^owt  helpe  of  a  lawyer  make  a  fformall 
will  yet  my  desire  in  breife  ys  that  thow  bee  my  sole  executor  &  have  fall 
power."  Essex,  98. 

Smalehope  Bigg,  of  Cranbrooke  in  the  County  of  Kent,  clothier,  3 
May,  1638,  proved  3  October,  1638,  by  John  Bigg.'  Brother  John  Bigg, 
of  Maidstone,  to  be  executor.  To  the  poor  of  Cranbrooke  ten  pounds* 
To  my  Aunt  Mary  Bridger  of  West  Peckham  and  her  two  sons,  Robert 
and  Thomas  Betts  ;  to  my  kinswomen,  the  wife  of  William  Hunt  of  Brench- 
ley,  Anne  Bottinge  of  Brenchley,  widow,  and  the  wife  of  John  Saxby  of 
Leeds  ;  to  Judith,  wife  of  Thomas  Tadnall,  late  of  Dover;  to  Godfrey  Mar- 
tin of  Old  Romney  and  his  sisters ;  to  the  children  of  Robert  Pell  of  Ne^r 
Romney,  jurat,  deceased. 

To  my  kinsfolk  Thomas  Bate,  of  Lydd,  James  Bate,  Clement  Bate,  the 
wife  of  William  Batchelor,  John  Compton,  Edward  White  and  Martha  hifl 
wife,  all  which  are  now  resident  in  New  England,  twenty  shillings  each.  1 
give  ten  pounds  to  be  distributed  to  them  or  to  others  in  New  England  by 


1884.]  Genealogical  Gleanings  in  England.  61 

my  mother  and  my  brother  John  Stow.     To  Peter  Master  of  Cranbrook 
wiio  married  my  sister.     To  my  mother  Rachell  Bigg  one  Imiidred  pounds. 
Lauds  &c.  at  Rye  in  County  Sussex  to  my  wife  Ellin.     To  my  sisters  Pa- 
lience  Foster  and  Elizabeth  Stow  in  New  Eno;Iand.     To  Hopestill  Foster, 
sou  of  my  sister  three  hundred  pounds.     To  Thomas  and  John  Stow,  sons 
of  ray  sister  Stow  two  hundred  pounds  each.     To  Elizabeth  Stow  and  the 
other  three  children  (under  age)  of  my  said  sister  Stow.     Lands  in  Hors- 
monden  to  my  brother  John  Bigg.     Lands  at  Wittersham,  Lidd  and  Cran- 
brook to  Samuel  Bigg,  my  brother's  son,  at  the  age  of  twenty-three  years. 
My  friends  John  Nowell  of  Rye,  gentleman,  James  Holden  and  Thomas 
Bigg  the  elder,  of   Cranbrook,  clothiers,  to  be  overseers.     To  my  cousin 
Hunt's  children  and  John  Saxbey's  children;  to  the  two  sons  of  my  Aunt 
Belts;  to  my  cousin  Bottenn's  children;  to  my  cousin  Pell's  children,  viz., 
Joan  Pell,  Elizabeth  Pell,  Richard  Pell  and  Thomas  Baytope's  wife. 

After  a  hearing  of  the  case  between  John  Bigg,  brother  and  executor  of 
the  one  part,  and  Hellen  alias  Ellen  Bigg  (the  relict).  Patience  Bigg  alias 
Foster,  wife  of  Richard  Foster,  and  Elizabeth  Bigg  alias  Stow,  wife  of 
Richard  (sic)  Stow,  testator's  sisters,  of  the  other  part,  sentence  was  pro- 
nounced to  confirm  the  will  4  April,  1639  (the  widow  having  previously 
died,  as  shown  by  date  of  probate  of  her  own  will  which  follows). 

Consistory  Court,  Canterbury,  Vol.  51,  Leaf  115. 

Ellen  Bigge,  of  Cranbrooke,  widow  of  Smalehope  Bigge,  of  Cran- 
brook, clothier,  24  November,  proved  12  February,  1G38.  To  be  buried 
in  Cranbrooke  Cemetery,  near  my  husband.  To  Samuel  Bigge,  son  of  my 
brother  John  Bigge,  of  Maidstone.  Lands  and  tenements  at  Rye  in  the 
County  of  Sussex  to  my  only  sister  Mary,  wife  of  Edward  Benbrigg,  jurat, 
of  Rje,  for  her  life,  remainder  to  her  son  John  Beubridge  ;  to  Anne  Ben- 
Wge,  alias  Burrish,  and  Elizabeth  and  Mary  Benbrig,  daught(irs  of  my 
aforesiiid  sister  Marv.  To  John  Beubricfi;,  clerk,  Thomas  Benbriirir  and 
S:imuel  Benbrigg,  sons  of  my  deceased  sister  Elizabeth ;  also  her  daughters 
Anne  Benbrigge,  alias  Puttland,  and  Elizabeth  Benbrigg  (the  last  named 
muler  age).  My  said  sister  Mary  Benbrigg  and  her  son  John  Benbrigg  to 
Ikt  executors.  To  Peter  Master,  son  of  my  brother  Peter  Master,  of  Crau- 
hrojjke;  to  my  sister-in-law  Katherine  Master.  To  William  Dallett  (son 
of  my  dec*d  sister  Bridgett)  and  his  son  (under  age).  To  William  Ed- 
warils.  son  of  my  sister  Mercy.  To  Thomas  Pilclier,  Elizabeth  Pilcher 
alias  Beinson,  Judith  Pilcher  alias  Burges,  and  Anne  Pilcher,  son  and 
daughters  of  my  uncle  John  Pilcher  of  Rye,  deceased.  To  Mary,  wife  of 
RoWrt  Cushman  and  their  son  Thomas  (under  age).  James  Holden  of 
Cranbrooke,  clothier,  and  my  brother-in-law  Peter  Master  of  Cranbrooke, 
mtrcer,  to  be  overseers. 

Archdeaconry,  Canterbury,  Vol.  70,  Leaf  482. 

John-  Bigg,  of  Maidstone  in  the  County  of  Kent,  17  August,  1040, 
proved  7  February,  1642.  Crane,  11. 

As  a  copy  of  this  will  has  already  been  printed  in  the  Register  (vol. 
nix.  p.  2oG),  the  above  reference  only  is  given.  ii.  f.  w. 

'Sop  will  of  Christopher  Gibson,  Suffolk  Probntc  Records,  vi.  f>4.  lie  and  Hope- 
will  Filter,  Jr.,  utarried  sisters,  daughters  of  James  Bate. 

fur  the  foregoing  alwtracts  of  the  wills  of  JSnialchope  Higg  and  his  widow,  Mrs. 
Ellen  Biffj^e,  the  readers  of  the  Register  are  indchted  to  the  kindness  of  Jost»ph 
Eedes,  kj^.j  who  has,  moreover,  given  me  numerous  clews  and  references  to  other 
VOL.   XXXYllI.  6* 


62  Oenealogical  Gleanings  in  England.  [Jan. 

American  names,  to  be  followed  up  herean;er.  Indeed  all  my  fellow  workers  heie 
are  constantly  exhibiting  proof  of  that  good  will  and  kindly  fellowship  which  my 
experience,  in  America  as  well  as  England,  has  shown  me  to  be  characteristic  of 
the  brotherhood  of  antiquaries.  Hbxrt  F.  Waters. 

By  an  instrument  dated  Sept.  10,  1653,  recorded  with  Suffolk  Deedfi,  lib.  i.  fol. 
318,  Hopestill  Foster  of  the  one  part  and  Thomas,  Nathaniel  and  Samuel  Stoweof 
the  other  part,  all  of  New  England,  for  the  purpose  of  ending  the  *'  many  &,  vn- 
comfortable  differences''  which  have  arisen  concerning  the  wills  of  their  deceased 
uncles  Mr.  Smallhope  Bigg  and  Mr.  John  Bigg  both  of  the  County  of  Kent  in  old 
England,  and  which  **  haue  occasioned  much  trouble  each  to  other  p'tie  &  likewise 
Tncomfortable  suits  att  Lawe,''  agree  that  each  party  shall  ''  enioy  what  they  now 
enioy  namely  Hopestill  ffoster  or  his  assignes  the  one  half  of  all  those  lands  In 
Crambrooke  Withersham  &  Lidd  w<^^  m'  Smallhop  [  ]  Bigg  gaue  ?nto  Samuell  Bi^ 
his  Brothers  Sonne  &  Thomas  Stowe  and  his  sonne  John  as  heires  to  John  Stowe  his 
Uncle  deceased  And  NathanioU  &  Snmuell  Stowe  the  other  half  of  the  said  land 
and  likewise  quietly  &  pcacably  to  enioy  the  lands  of  m'  John  Bigg  of  60^  a  yeare  or 
thereabout"  w^^^  hee  deuided  as  by  his  will  is  exposed  Unto  Hopstill  ffoster  15'^  a  years, 
John  Stowe  15^  a  year,  Thomas  Nathaniell  k  Samuell  y^*  remainder.'' — John  T. 
Uassam. 

Smallhope  Bigg,  in  his  will,  mentions  sisters  Patience  Foster  and  Elizabeth  Stow. 
They  were  the  wives  of  Hopestill  Foster  of  Dorchester  (see  Dorchester  Antiq.  Soci- 
ety's Hist.  Dorch.,  p.  118)  and  John  Stow  of  Roxbury  (see  the  Apostle  Eliot's  Ch. 
Records,  Register,  xxxv.  244).  Of  the  kinsmen  whom  he  names,  Edward  White, 
Dorchester,  Mass.,  had  married  in  1616,  at  St.  Dunstan's  Church,  Cranbrook,  Kent, 
Martha  King,  according?  to  a  pamphlet  printed  in  1863,  entitled.  In  Memoriam 
Lieut.  W.  Greenough  White ;  John  Compton  was  probably  the  person  of  the  name 
who  settled  at  Roxbury  (Reg.  xxxv.  244),  and  William  Batchelor  may  have  been 
the  Charlestown  settler  who  had  wives  Jane  and  Rachel  (Wyman's  Charlestown, 
i.  42.)  Clement  Bate  settled  at  Hingham  (Barry's  Hanover,  p.  246)  and  James 
Bate  at  Dorchester  (Hist.  Dorch.  p.  106) .  For  the  parentage  or  the  latter,  see  Reg- 
ister, xxxi.  142. 

John  Bigg  in  his  will  (Reg.  xxix.  259),  mentions  as  persons  **  that  went  from 
Cranbrook,''  *' Edward  Whitt  [White],  John  Compton,  John  Moore,  Thomas 
Brigden  and  Goodman  Bcale." — Editor.] 

Thomas  Bell,  senior,  of  London,  merchant,  29  January,  1671,  proved 
3  May,  1672,  by  Susanna  Bell,  bis  relict  and  sole  executrix. 

I  give  unto  Mr.  John  Elliott,  minister  of  the  church  and  people  of  Cirod 
at  Roxbury  in  New  England  and  Captaiue  Isaac  Johnson,  whom  I  take  to 
be  an  otlicer  or  overseer  of  and  in  the  said  church,  and  to  one  such  other 
like  godly  person  now  bearing  office  in  the  said  church  and  their  successors, 
the  minister  and  other  two  such  Head  Officers  of  the  church  at  Roxbury, 
as  the  whole  church  there,  from  time  to  time,  shall  best  approve  of  succes- 
sively, from  time  to  time  forever,  all  those  my  messuages  or  tenements, 
lands  and  hereditaments,  with  their  and  every  of  their  appurtenances,  sdt- 
uate,  lying  and  being  at  Roxbury  in  New  England  aforesaid,  in  the  parts 
beyond  the  seas — To  Have  and  To  Hold  to  the  said  Minister  and  Officers  of 
the  said  church  of  Roxbury  for  the  time  being  and  their  successors,  from 
time  to  time  forever, — In  Trust  only  notwithstanding  to  and  for  the  main- 
tenance of  a  Scoole-master  and  free  schoole  for  the  teaching  and  instmc- 
tiou  of  Poore  mens  children  at  Roxbury  aforesaid  forever,  And  to  and  for 
no  other  use,  intent  or  purpose  whatsoever. 

Whereas  my  son  Thomas  Bell  did  pay  unto  me  the  sum  of  three  hoo- 
dred  pounds  which  he  received  in  marriage  with  his  wife,  I  therefore  give^ 
&c.,  over  and  besides  two  hundred  pounds  formerly  given  him,  the  sum  of 
twelve  hundred  pounds  within  twelve  months  after  my  decease.  If  he  be 
dead  then  to  his  wife  Jane  the  sum  of  five  hundred  pounds.  To  grand 
child  Clement  Bell  three  hundred  pounds  at  the  age  of  one  and  twenty.  To 
grand  child  Thomas  Bell  three  hundred  and  tftj  pounds  ;  to  grand  child 


1884.]  Genealogical  Gleanings  in  England.  63 

Simon  Bell  one  hundred  and  fifty  pounds  at  one  and  twenty.  Whereas  I 
gave  in  marriage  with  my  daughter  Susan  to  John  Wall  deceased  the 
6um  of  three  hundred  pounds  and  afterwards  the  sum  of  four  hundred 
pounds  to  M'  John  Bell  her  now  husband,  I  do  give  to  M'  John  Bell  and 
to  said  Susan  his  wife  the  sum  of  eighty  pounds  between  them.  To  grand 
child  John  Wall  the  sum  of  one  hundred  and  twenty  pounds  at  the  age  of 
one  and  twenty.  To  Simon  Baxter,  my  son-in-law,  and  Sarah  his  wife 
eighty  pounds,  and  for  Edward  and  Simon  their  sons,  and  to  Sarah  and 
Susan  13axter,  my  grand  children,  one  hundred  pounds  apiece  at  age  of  one 
and  twenty  or  on  day  of  marriage,  &c.  To  my  daughter  Mary  Turpin, 
wife  of  John  Turpin ;  to  Edward  Bell,  son  of  my  brother  Edward,  at  age 
of  twenty  one  years  ;  to  Elizabeth  and  Sarah  Bell,  at  age  of  twenty  one ; 

to  Susanna ,  late  wife  of  Edward  Bell,  and  to  her  two  children  which 

she  had  by  the  said  Edward ;  to  the  poor  of  the  parish  of  Allhallows  Bar- 
king, London,  where  I  now  dwell,  &c. 

I  do  hereby  give  and  bequeath  unto  Thomas  Makins,  my  sister's  son,  in 
New  England,  the  sum  of  twenty  pounds  and  to  the  other  child  of  my  said 
sister,  whose  name  I  remember  not,  twenty  pounds.  And  to  all  the  child- 
ren of  my  sister  Christian,  on  her  body  begotten,  who  married  one  Chap- 
pell*  or  Chapman,  I  give  and  bequeath  twenty  pounds  apiece,^ &c.  To  my 
cousin  Ann  Bugg,  widow,  an  annuity  of  three  pounds  for  life.  To  cousin 
Thomas  Wildboare  (my  cousin  Sarah's  son)  ten  pounds  at  age  of  twenty 
one,  and  to  Susan,  her  daughter,  ten  pounds.  To  said  cousin  Sarah  Wild- 
boare the  sum  of  twenty  pounds,  and  her  husband  to  have  no  power  over  it. 
A  legacy  to  M'  Isaac  Daffron.  The  sum  of  one  hundred  pounds  to  be  dis- 
tributed among  poor  necessitous  men  late  ministers  of  the  Gospel,  of  which 
number  I  will  that  that  M'  Knoles  and  M'  John  Colling,  both  late  of  New 
England  be  accounted.  Legacies  to  the  said  M'  Knoles  and  M'  Samuel 
Knolls  his  son,  M'  John  Colling  and  one  M'^  Ball.  To  my  cousin  IVr  John 
Bayley  of  little  Warmfield,  in  co.  Suffolk  and  his  wife  and  daughter  Mar- 
tha and  his  other  four  children ;  to  my  cousin  William  Whood  and  his  wife; 
to  my  uncle's  daughter  of  S'  Edmuudsbury  whose  husband's  name  is  John 
Cason  ;  to  Mary  Bell,  daughter  of  brother  Bell.  Houses  in  Grace  church 
St.,  London,  to  wife  Susan  for  life,  then  to  son  Thomas.  I  omit  to  give 
anything  to  his  daughter.  Eure,  56. 

[Thomas  Bell  of  Rozbury  and  his  wife  **  had  letters  of  Dismission  granted  &  sent 
to  £ngland  an®  1(^54  T™**,'^'  according  to  the  Apostle  Eliot's  records  (Reg.  xxxv.- 
Si5).  Thomas  Meakins  and  his  wife  Catherine  were  admitted  to  the  churoh  in 
Bupton.  Feb.  2^  163^-4.  His  son  Thomas  settled  in  Braintree,  and  thence  removed 
to  KozDury  and  Uadley  (Savage).  **  M"^  Knoles  and  M""  John  Colling,"  mentioned 
16  **  ministers  of  the  Gospel,"  were  the  Rev.  Ilanserd  Knollys  and  the  Rev.  John 
Collins.  Knollys  preached  at  Dover,  N.  ii.,  awhile,  and  returned  in  1641  to  Eng- 
land. He  died  in  London,  September  19,  1691,  a^ed  93.  See  his  Life  and  Times, 
London,  1693,  and  articles  by  A.  H.  Quint,  D.D.,  m  the  Congregational  Quarterly, 
ziii.  ^-53  ;  and  by  J.  N.  Brown,  D.D.,  in  Sprague's  Annals  of  the  American  Pul- 
pit, vi.  1-7.  A  society  in  England  for  publishing  Baptist  historical  works  was 
named  for  him.  The  Rev.  John  Collins,  graduated  H.  C.  1649,  returned  to  Eng- 
land, was  chaplain  to  Gen.  Monk,  and  afterwards  pastor  of  an  Independent  Church 
in  London,  where  he  died,  Dec.  3,  1687.  (See  Sibley's  Harvard  Graduates,  i.  186- 
91.)  He  was  a  son  of  Edward  Collins,  of  Cambridge,  N.  E.,  who  with  sons  Daniel, 
John  and  Samuel  and  daughter  Sible,  are  mentioned  in  1639,  in  the  will  of  his  bro- 
ther Daniel  Collins,  of  London.  (Emmerton  and  Waters's  Gleanings,  p.  20.)  Mr. 
Waters  sends  us,  as  confirmatory  of  his  queries  four  years  ago,  in  Emmerton 
and  Waters's  Gleanings,  p.  21,  about  the  Collins  family,  the  two  following  short 
pedigrees: 

•  Perhi^  William  Chappell  of  New  London.    (See  Savage's  Oen.  Diet  i.  363.>— H.  F.  W. 


64  Genealogical  Gleanings  in  England.  [Jan. 

Sam^  Bedle  of  Wolvcrston,  Saff.—Abigail,  dau.  of  ....  Collins  in  com.  Essex. 

John.  Samuel.  Nathan  U.  Dorothy.  AbigaiL 

Have  we  not  here,  Mr.  Waters  adds,  Abigail  widow  of  Samuel  Bedle,  wife  of 
William  Thompson,  sister  of  Daniel  Collins,  Dorothy  daughter  of  above  and  fint 
wife  of  John  Bowies,  and  Abigail  her  sister  wife  of  Michael  Powell  ? 

John  Collyns  of  London,  Saltei^=  Abigail,  dau.  of  Thos.  Rose  of  Ezmouth,  oo. 

I  Devon,  3d  wife.  * 


Daniel  Collyns  of  London,  merch^  1633,  s.  p.=Sibil,  dau.  of  Thos.  Francklyn  of 

London,  goldsmith. 

— Editor.] 

Nathaniel  Eeles,  of  Harpenden  in  the  County  of  Hartford,  28 
March,  1678,  with  codicil  of  9  April,  1678,  proved  12  February,  1678. 
To  wife  Sarah  one  third  of  household  goods  and  the  lease  of  Denhames 
house  and  land,  and  the  money  made  of  her  lauds  at  Boringdon,  now  in 
the  hands  of  M'  Combes  of  Hemsted,  for  her  natural  life,  and  my  watch 
and  largest  English  bible  in  folio,  with  annotations  thereon,  in  two  volumes, 
and  DeOdate's  Annotations,  and  all  the  books  I  have  of  M'  Carill  upon  Job, 
&c.  Certain  property  to  three  daughters  at  day  of  marriage  or  age  of 
twenty  four  years.  To  son  Nathaniel  ten  pounds  and  my  sealing  ring,  he 
having  formerly  received  his  portion,  for  which  I  have  a  writing  under 
his  hand.  To  son  John  ten  pounds,  he  having  received  his  portion  and 
part  formerly,  the  said  ten  pounds  to  be  paid  to  him  within  one  year  after 
my  decease,  or  be  then  or  as  soon  as  may  well  be  after  sent  over  to  him 
into  Virginia,  if  he  be  then  living ;  and  if  he  die  before  the  time  limited 
for  the  payment  thereof  to  him,  I  give  the  said  ten  pounds  unto  my  son 
Nathaniel.  To  son  Isaac  my  lease  of  Denhames,  with  the  rents  and  pro- 
fits thereof,  after  the  decease  of  my  wife,  and  all  my  books,  he  to  pay  tea 
pounds  unto  my  son  Daniel  within  one  year  after  the  decease  of  my  wife. 
To  sons  Jacob,  Joseph  and  Jeremiah,  to  each  one  hundred  and  fifty  |>ounds 
for  to  educate,  maintain,  and  put  them  forth  to  callings  and  for  the  setting 
them  up  in  their  trades  after  they  shall  have  served  up  their  apprenticeships 
or  times  with  them  to  whom  my  wife  shall  put  them  ;  and  the  like  sum  of 
one  hundred  and  fifty  pounds  to  son  Daniel  for  the  same  ends  and  purposes. 

The  portions  to  my  four  sons  last  named  shall  be  paid  unto  them  at  their 
ages  of  twenty  four  years  or  when  they  shall  have  served  out  their  appren- 
ticeships and  need  the  same  to  set  up  with,  at  the  discretion  of  my  wife.  To 
daughter  Sarah  two  hundred  pounds ;  to  daughters  Rebecca  and  Mary  one 
hundred  and  fifty  pounds  each ;  and  to  every  of  my  sons  and  daughters  I 
give  a  practice  of  Piety  (a  book  so  called)  and  M' Alley  his  Treatise  of 
Conversion  and  AP  Baxter  his  call  to  the  unconverted,  and  a  new  bible  to 
such  as  need  the  same.  To  my  very  loving  brother  M'  William  Eeles  and 
my  dear  and  loving  sister  M"  Foster,  both  which  I  appoint  to  be  overseen 
of  this  my  will,  1  give  twenty  pounds  to  each  of  them  and  desire  them,  by 
all  the  love  they  ever  bare  to  me,  to  give  my  destitute  and  afflicted  wife  the 
best  assistance,  counsel  and  advice  they  can  in  all  cases,  from  time  to  time, 
as  need  shall  require.  To  loving  sisters  M"  Eeles  ar^l  M"  Pearse,  to  each 
of  them  ten  pounds,  to  buy  them  rings.  My  dear  and  loving  wife  Sarah  to 
be  sole  executrix.  The  one  hundred  pounds  in  M'  Coombe's  hand  is  of 
right  my  wife's  during  her  life. 
The  witnesses  to  the  will  were  William  Eele,  John  Eeles,  Will :  Eelei 


1884.]  Genealogical  Gleanings  in  England.  65 

jon'  and  Jos:  Marlow.     All  bat  the  first  named  were  witnesses  to  the 
codicil.  King}  16. 

[Id  Calamy  and  Palmer's  NoDConformist's  Memorial  (1802),  Vol.  II.,  pase  306, 
nDder  tbe  head  of  Harden,  in  Hertfordshire,  we  learn  that  Mr.  Nathaniel  Eeles  (of 
Emmanuel  College,  Cambridge)  was  born  at  Aldenham  in  that  county,  of  good  pa- 
rentage. Haying  prosecuted  his  studies  till  he  was  senior  bachelor  and  then  stu- 
died two  years  at  Utrecht,  he  was  ordained  a  Presbyter,  returned  to  England  and 
Dreftched  at  Caddington  in  Bedfordshire.  In  1643  he  was  called  by  the  people  of 
Harding  to  be  their  preacher.  There  he  continued  till  the  year  1661,  when  ho  was 
ejected.  He  preached  in  private  in  sundry  places  till  1672,  when  he  took  out  a  li- 
eense  for  his  own  house  at  Harding,  where  he  preached,  gratis,  to  all  who  would 

eome.    He  died  18  December,  1678,  aged  61,  leaying,  we  are  told,  a  wife  and  ten 

cb'ildren.— H.  F.  W. 
1  do  not  know  of  any  present  representative  of  the  name  Eeles  in  Virginia.    I  find 

that  Samuel  Eale  and  John  Stith  received  a  grant  of  500  acres  in  Charles  City  Co., 

?a.  m  1652.    Ya.  Land  Registry,  Book  5,  p.  268.— R.  A.  B.] 

Marmaduke  Goode,  of  Ufton,  in  Berkshire,  clerk,  5  September,  1678, 
proved  20  February,  1 678,  by  Samuel  and  Mary   Goode,  executors.     To 
brother  Samuel  Goode  all  that  messuage  or  tenement,  with  the  appurte- 
nances, lying  in  Sulhamsteed  Abbots  and  South  Bannister  which  I  hold  by 
lease  from  Francis  Perkins  Esquire,  to  said  Samuel  to  enjoy  the  same  duF* 
ing  his  natural  life ;  and,  after  his  death,  I  give  the  said  messuage  &c.  to 
my  niece  Mary  Goode,  the  daughter  of  my  brother  John  Goode,  to  enjoy 
for  the  remaining  term  of  the  said  lease.     To  my  brother  John  Goode,  citi- 
zen of  London,  &  to  Susanna  his  now  wife  all  my  house,  tenement,  lands  and 
hereditaments  <&c.  in  Sylchester  in  the  County  of  Southhampton,  which  I 
purchased  of  John  Carter  of  Sylchester,  and  after  their  decease,  to  my  neph- 
ew Marmaduke  Goode,  son  of  the  said  John  Goode,  he  to  pay  to  his  sisters, 
Elizabeth,  Susanna  and  Anne,  forty  pounds  apiece  within  twelve  months 
after  he  shall  be  possessed  of  the  said  lands  and  premisses  at  Silchester. 
To  my  brother  William  Goode  my  messuages  or  tenements,  &c.  called  or 
knoiru  by  the  name  of  the  Heath  lands  or  heath  grounds,  situated,  lying  & 
being  in  the  several  parishes  of  Ufton  and  Sulhamsteed,  in  the  county  of 
Berks,  and  which  I  lately  purchased  of  Richard  Wilder  of  Theale  in  the 
parish  of  Tylehurst,  in  the  said   County  of  Berks,  innholder,  during  his 
natural  life  and  afterwards  to  my  nephew   Robert  Goode,  son  of  the  said 
William  Goode  and  his  heirs  forever,  he  to  pay  to  his  two  sisters,  Elianor 
and  Mary,  forty  pounds  within  twelve  months,  &c.     To  my  sister  Mary 
Haines  and  her  two  maiden  daughters  fifty  pounds  apiece  within  one  year 
after  my  decease ;  to  ray  brother  John  Goode  in  Virginia  ten  pounds  with- 
in twelve  mouths  after  my  decease,  according  to  the  appointment  of  my 
brother  John  Goode,  citizen  of  London ;  to  my  brother  Thomas  Goode,  in 
Ireland,  ten  pounds  (in  the  same  way)  ;  to  my  sister  Ann  Wickens  of  Up- 
ton ten  pounds ;  to  ray  servant  Alice   Payee  ten  pounds ;  to  my  servant 
Hugh  Larkum  five  pounds.     All  the  rest  of  the  property  to  brother  Sam- 
oel  Goode  and  niece  Mary  Goode,  daughter  of  my  brother  John   Goode, 
who  are  appointed  joint  executors. 
The  witnesses  were  Samuel  Brightwell  and  Robert  King. 

King,  17. 

[By  family  tradition  John  Goode  came  to  Virginia  from  Whitby,  England,  about 
16^K  with  his  wife,  and  purchnsed  the  plantation  of  one  Gough  (situated  on  the 
•Hith  side  of  James  River,  about  four  miles  from  the  city  of  Manchester)  which  he 
ntmed  **  Whitby.*'  His  descendants  have  intermarried  with  many  prominent  fam- 
ilies of  Virginia,  including  the  Harrisons,  Elands,  Turpi ns,  Gordons,  Scott*^,  Cookes 


66  GrenecUogical  Oleanings  in  England.  [Jan. 

and  others.  Gol.  Thomas  F.  Goode  and  Hon.  John  Goode  of  Virginia,  and  Ptot 
G.  Brown  Goode  of  the  Smithsonian  Institution,  are  descendants  of  John  Goode. 
**  Whitby  "  is  now  the  property  of  A.  D.  Williams,  Esq.,  Richmond,  Virginia.— 
R.  A.  B.] 

Mary  Hoskins,  of  Richmond  in  the  County  of  Surrey,  widow,  30  Julj, 
1678,  proved  28  February,  1678.  To  my  dear  mother  Anne  Githins,  wid- 
ow, all  my  plate  and  linen  and  diamond  locket  and  five  hundred  pounds 
within  three  months  after  my  decease.  To  M"  Mariana  Carleton,  the  wift 
of  Matthew  Carleton,  gentleman,  my  best  diamond  ring  and  twenty  pounds. 
Ten  pounds  apiece  to  be  paid  to  the  three  children  of  my  late  deceased  bro- 
ther John  Githins  in  Meriland,  Philip,  John  and  Mary  Githins.  To  Marj 
Evererd,  daughter  of  Robert  Evererd  of  Gods  tone,  five  pounds  and  fi?6 
pounds  to  Richard  Nye,  whom  I  placed  with  M'  Taw.  Twenty  pounds  to  j 
be  laid  out  in  placing  two  boys  to  trades,  whereof  one  to  be  of  Oxted  and 
the  other  of  Godstone.  All  my  houses  in  the  Maze  in  Southwark,  held  of 
S^  Thomas  Hospital  and  all  other  personal  estate,  &c.  to  my  loving  brother 
William  Githins,  Gentleman,  whom  I  appoint  executor. 

The  witnesses  were  Thomas  Jenner,  Richard  Smith  (by  mark),  Wino- 
frut  King  of  Petersham  and  Jeoffrey  Glyd.  King,  19. 

The  pedigree  of  the  Hoskins  Family  of  Oxted  is  given  in  various  MSS. 
io  the  British  Museum.  The  marriage  of  any  Hoskins  with  the  testatrix 
named  above  has  not  been  found. 

[The  name  Everard  has  had  most  prominent  representatives  in  Maryland,  Virffinia 
and  North  Carolina,  and  is  a  favored  Christian  name  in  the  distinguished  Meado 
family  of  Virginia. — R.  A.  B.] 

Anne  Jones,  of  S'  Clement  Danes  in  the  County  of  Middlesex,  wid- 
ow, 20  February,  1676,  proved  6  February,  1678.  To  Bridget  Waite, 
wife  of  William  Waite  (certain  household  effects)  and  the  lease  of  my 
house  wherein  I  now  dwell,  she  paying  the  rent,  &c.  AJl  the  rest  to  my 
son  Thomas  Daniel  1  who  is  in  Virginia,  beyond  the  seas.  And  I  do  hereby 
make  my  said  son  Thomas  Daniell  full  and  sole  executor,  and  my  friends 
Charles  Stepkin  Esq.  and  M*"  Richard  Southey  overseers,  they  to  keep  the 
estate  in  trust  for  my  said  son  Thomas  Daniell.  In  case  he  die  before  ha 
comes  from  beyond  the  seas,  then  I  bequeath  to  Edward  Jones  and  Patience 
Jones,  son  &  daughter  of  John  Jones,  of  the  parish  of  S'  Clement  Danes, 
taylor,^  five  pounds  apiece ;  and  all  the  rest  of  my  estate  to  Mark  Work- 
man and  Elizabeth  Workman,  son  and  daughter  of  Mark  Workman,  late 
of  the  parish  of  S'  Mary  Magdalen,  old  Fish  Street  London,  deceased, 
equally. 

The  witnesses  were  Richard  Southey,  Jun^  John  Searle  and  Ro:  Stone. 

King,  19. 

[l  find  of  record  in  the  Virginia  Land  Registry,  Book  No.  8,  p.  428,  a  grant  of  130 
acres  in  the  Counties  of  Isle  of  Wight  and  **  Nanzimond,'*  Va.,  to  Owen  Daniell. 
in  1695.— R.  A.  B.J 

Robert  Lucas,  of  Hitehin,  in  the  County  of  Hertford,  in  his  will  of  13 
January,  1678,  proved  14  February,  1G78,  speaks  of  land  purchased  of 
William  Papworth  of  New  England,  lying  close  to  land  which  was  here- 
tofore that  of  the  testator's  father,  Simon  Lucas,  deceased,  and  lands  here- 
tofore the  lands  of  William  Willis.  King,  21. 

[  Query.    Where  did  William  Papworth  reside  ?— Ed.] 


1884.1  Genealogical  Gleanings  in  England.  67 

Anthokt  Robt,  of  the  Province  of  Carolina,  6  December,  1686,  proved 
11  July,  1688.  To  mother  Early  Roby,  in  England,  all  my  estate  in  Caro- 
lina or  elsewhere  ;  if  she  be  dead  then  to  her  next  heirs  then  living.  My 
friend  Andrew  Percivall  Esquire,  of  the  said  Province,  to  be  sole  executor. 

The  witnesses  were  David  Harty,  James  Wyatt  and  John  Shelton. 

Exton,  99. 

JoHK  Reed,  mariner,  4  April,  1688,  proved  6  July,  1688.  I  bequeath 
til  my  concerns  aboard  the  ship  Richard,  of  London,  John  Reade  Master, 
riding  at  anchor  in  the  York  River,  to  my  loving  wife  Mary  Reade  of  Bris- 
tol I  desire  my  loving  friend  Capt.  Trim,  commander  of  the  ship  Judy, 
riding  at  anchor  in  York  River,  to  take  accompt. 

The  witnesses  were  Benjamin  Eyre,  George  Lodge  and  Charles  Perkes. 

Exton,  99. 

[John  Read  was  granted  145  acres  in  Glouc&ster  Co.,  March  18,  1652.  Va.  Land 
Bi^try  Office,  Book  5,  p.  280.  There  are  grants  within  a  short  period  thereaf- 
fior  to  Alexander  Argubeli  and  James  Read  or  Reade. 

TheEiyres  have  been  continuously  seated  in  Northampton  Co.,  Va.,  from  the  I7th 
ttDtory.  They  early  intermarried  with  the  tScvems,  Southeys  and  LoTttletons,  and 
these  latter  names  are  now  favored  Christian  names  in  the  family. — K.  A.  B.] 

Henry  Woodhouse,  of  the  parish  of  Linhaven,  of  lower  Norfolk  in 
Virginia,  29  January,  1686,  owned  to  be  his  will  31  January,  1686-7,  and 
proved  24  July,  1688.  To  eldest  son  Henry  Woodhouse  my  plantation 
where  I  live  (containing  five  hundred  acres,  and  described)  ;  to  second  son, 
Horatio,  property  call^  Moyes  land  (adjoining  the  above)  ;  to  son  John 
(other  real  estate) ;  to  son  Henry  two  negroes  Roger  and  Sarah ;  to  daugh- 
ters Elizabeth  and  Lucy,  daughter  Mary,  wife  of  William  More,  and 
daoghter  Sarah,  wife  of  Cason  More.  Exton,  102. 

[I  find  the  following  grants  of  land  to  the  name  Woodhouse,  of  record  in  the  Va. 
Land  Reijifitry  Office  :  Thomas  Woodhouse,  200  acres  in  James  City  Co.,  March  24, 
1M4,  Book  No.  2,  p.  1 ;  Henry  Woodhouse^  200  acres  in  Lynhaven  parish,  Lower 
Norfolk  Co.,  April  5,  1649,  p.  167  ;  the  same,  275  acres  in  same.  May  11,  1652,  Bk. 
No.  3,  p.  254  ;  the  same,  74?)  acres  in  the  same,  April  3,  1670,  Book  No.  6,  p.  357 ; 
Hamond  Woodhouse,  340  acres  in  Charles  City  Co.,  April  20,  1669,  Book  No.  6, 
p.  216.— R.  A.  B.] 

Michael  Griggs,  of  County  Lancaster,  Colony  of  Virginia,  gentle- 
man, 17  April,  1087,  proved  10  September,  1688.  To  my  futlier-in-law 
Robert  Schofield.  To  wife  Anne  Grigt^s  the  residue.  The  witnesses  were 
William  Lee,  Richard  Farringtou  and  William  Carter. 

The  above  will  was  proved  at  London  "  juramento  Annaj  Bray,  'als 
Griggs  (mode  uxoris  Richardi  Bray)  relictas  dicti  defuncti  et  executricis,"  &c. 

Exton,  117. 

[William  Lee  was  doubtless  the  son  of  Col.  Richard  Lee,  the  founder  of  the  dis- 
tberuished  family  of  the  name  in  Virginia. 

The  name  Bray  is  of  early  seating  in  Virginia.  John  Bray  received  a  grant  of 
300 acres  in  **  Worroequinack  *'  Co.,  June  4,  1636.  Va.  Land  Records,  Book  No. 
1,  p.  362.  His  descendants  intermarried  with  the  Harrinon  and  other  prominent 
itmiliee.  The  Brays  intermarried  early  also  with  the  Plomer,  Plommer,  Plum- 
per or  Plumer  famuy. — R.  A.  B.] 

John  Curtis,  of  Boston,  Co.  Middlesex,  New  England,  mariner,  be- 
jongiiig  to  Majesty's  ship  the  English  Tyger,  appoints  Robert  Chipchace 
in  County  Middlesex,  Old  England,  his  attorney  and  sole  executor,  31  Jan- 
Wtfy,  1C89-90,  in  presence  of  Thos.  Coall  and  Tho' Browne.  Proved  3 
December,  1690,  by  Robert  Chipchace.  Dyke,  200. 


68  Oenealogical  Gleanings  in  England.  [Jan. 

Elizabeth  Bretland,  late  the  wife  of  William  Bretland,  deceased, 
Barbados,  6  October,  1687.  Legacies  to  daughters  Elizabeth  Taylor  and 
Millecent  Acklam ;  to  grandson  Peter  Jones  ;  to  grandsons  John  and  Jacob 
Legay.  I  give  and  bequeath  to  my  brother  Adam  Coulson*s  children,  of 
Reading  near  Boston,  in  New  England,  the  sum  of  one  hundred  poandii 
to  be  equally  divided  among  them  or  the  survivor  of  them. 

Cousin  Edward  Munday  and  M**  John  Mortimer  of  London,  merchants, 
to  be  executors  of  the  will. 

Item  I  give  unto  my  brother  Adam  Coulson's  children,  of  Reading,  near 
Boston,  in  New  England,  one  negro  woman,  by  name  Sarah,  being  my  own 
proper  purchase,  or  to  the  survivor  of  them,  to  be  sent  to  them  the  fink 
opportunity  after  my  decease.  I  leave,  according  to  the  desire  of  my  dear  ' 
husband,  Mr.  Edward  Munday,  to  my  three  daughters,  Elizabeth,  MiUo* 
cent  and  Mary,  thirty  five  pounds  of  silver,  at  twelve  ounces  to  the  pound. 

Friends,  Capt  Elisha  Mellowes  and  Mr.  John  Hooker,  to  be  executors 
for  that  portion  of  the  estate  in  the  Barbados. 

The  witnesses  made  deposition  as  to  this  will  3  April,  1 689.  It  was  ep- 
tered  and  recorded  in  the  Secretary's  Office,  17  February,  1689.  Proved 
in  London  5  December,  1690.  Dyke,  199. 

[Adam  Colson,  of  Reading,  Mass.,  married  Sept.  8,  166R,  Mary,  daughter  of  Jo- 
siah  Dustin.  lie  was  sohoolmaster  there  from  1679  to  16iBl.  He  di^  March  I, 
1687.    See  Eaton's  Reading,  p.  58,  and  Savage. — £d.] 

Robert  Hathorne,  the  elder,  of  the  parish  of  Bray  in  the  county  of 
Berks,  yeoman,  15  February,  1689,  proved  16  February,  1691.  He  left 
all  his  estate  to  his  son  Robert  Hathorne,  the  younger,  of  the  parish  of 
Bray  in  the  county  of  Berks.  Fane,  49. 

[The  testator  of  the  above  will  was  doubtless  a  brother  of  Major  William  Hath> 
orne  of  Salem,  Massachusetts,  ancestor  of  the  distin^ished  writer  Nathaniel  Haw- 
thorne. (See  Emmerton  &  Waters*s  Gleanings  from  English  Records.) — H.  P.  W.J 

Edward  Gadsbt,  of  Stepney,  in  the  county  of  Middlesex,  mariner, 
bound  out  to  sea  "  with  M'  Peun  to  Virginy  "  in  the  Charity  of  Londoo, 
appointed  John  Duffield,  citizen  and  barber-surgeon  of  London,  his  attorney,  j 
&c.  30  January,  1692,  proved  28  April,  1696.  He  wished  all  his  estate 
to  be  given  to  his  brother  Samuel  Gadsby,  of  Woodborough,  in  the  Comh 
ty  of  Nottingham,  basket-maker.  Bond,  47. 

Daniel  Johnson,  of  Lynn  in  New  England,  trumpeter,  22  June,  1695, 
appointed  Patrick  Hayes  of  Bermondsey  in  the  County  of  Surrey,  vic^ 
ualler,  to  receive  and  collect  his  bounty  or  prizemoney,  pursuant  to  their 
Majesties'  Gracious  Declaration  of  23  May,  1 689,  and  all  such  money,  dsc. 
as  should  be  due  to  him  for  service  in  any  of  their  Majesties'  ships,  frigates 
or  vessels  or  any  merchant  ships,  &c.  He  gave  and  bequeathed  all  aotA  ? 
his  beloved  children  (without  naming  them)  equsJly  to  be  divided  amoii|  i 
them.     Proved  6  April,  1696.  Bond,  51. 

[There  was  a  Daniel  Johnson  at  Lynn,  Mass.,  who  married  March  3,  1674,  ^fa^^ 
tha  Parker,  and  had  Abigail,  bom  April  21,  1675,  Stephen  and  Nathaniel,  twia%^ 
bom  Feb.  14,  1678,  Sarah,  bora  July  5,  1680,  Elizabeth,  bom  March  7,  1689,  stf: 
Simon,  bora  Jan.  25,  1684  (Savage)  .^£d.] 

John  Rolfe,  of  James  Gty  in  Virginia,  Esquire,  10  March,  16S1 
proved  21  May,  1630,  by  William  Pyers.     Father-in-law  Lieut  Williai 


1884.]  Genealogical  Gleanings  in  England.  69 

Pyera,  gentlemaD,  to  have  charge  of  the  two  small  children  of  very  tender 
ige.  A  parcell  of  land  in  the  country  of  Toppahaiinah  between  the  two 
creeks  over  against  James  City  in  the  continent  or  country  of  Virginia  to 
aoD Thomas  Holfe  &  his  heirs  ;  failing  issue,  to  ray  daughter  Elizabeth;  next 
to  my  right  heirs.  Land  near  Mulberry  Island,  Virginia,  to  Jane  my  wife 
during  her  natural  life,  then  to  daughter  Elizabeth.  To  my  servant  Robert 
Davies  twenty  pounds. 

The  witnesses  were  Temperance  Yeardley,  Richard  Buck,  John  Cart- 
wright,  Robert  Davys  and  John  Milwarde.  Scroope,  49. 

[It  would  appear  that  John  Rulfe  was  three  times  married,  his  first  wife  bear- 
t  him  in  1609  one  male  child,  which  died  on  the  Island  of  Bermuda.  Uis  second 
iewas  Pocahontas,  and  his  third  Jane  Pyers,  or  Poyers,  of  the  text,  the  mother 
of  the  daughter  Elizabeth.  The  son  Thomas  appears  to  have  married  in  En<shind, 
kaiing  idBue  Anthony,  whose  daughter  Hannah  married  81  r  Thomas  fjeigh  of  co. 
KeDt,  the  descendants  of  that  name  and  ol'the  additional  highly  respectable  names  of 
Seooet  and  Spencer  being  now  quite  numerous.  Died  prior  to  8  Nov.  1632.  See 
Rkkmond  Standard,  Jan.  21,  1882. 

The  witness  Richard  Buck  (sometimes  rendered  Bucke)  was  doubtless  the  minis- 
ter of  the  name  at  Jamestown,  who  died  sometime  prior  to  1624,  leaving  a  widow, 
ind children — Mara,  Gersbom,  Benoni  and  Peleg. — R.  A.  B.]  , 

SItGrorge  Yardley,  12  October,  1627,  proved  14  February,   1623. 
To  wife  Temperance  all  and  every  part  and  parcell  of  all  such  household 
fitoff,  plate,  linen,  woollen  or  any  other  goods,  moveable  or  immoveable, 
of  what  nature  or  quality  soever,  as  to  me  are  belonging,  and  which  now 
at  the  time  of  the  date  hereof  are  being  and  remaining  within  this  house  in 
James  City  wherein  I  now  dwell.     Item,  as  touching  and  concerning  all 
the  rest  of  my  whole  estate  consisting  of  goods,  debts,  servants,  ''  negars," 
cattle,  or  any  other  thing  or  things,  commodities  or  profits  whatsover  to 
me  belonging  or  appertaining  either  here   in  this  country  of  Virginia,  in 
EDgland  or  elsewhere,  together  with  my  phmtation  of  one   thousand  acres 
of  land  at  Stanly  in  W'arwicke  River,  my  will  and  desire  is  that  the  same  be 
all  and  everj-  part  and  parcell  thereof  sold  to  the  best  advantage  for  tobac- 
co and  the  same  to  be  transported  as  soon  as  may  be,  either  this  year  or  the 
next,  as  my  said  wife  shall  find  occasion,   into   England,  and  there  to  be 
•old  or  turned  into  money,  &c.  cfec.     The   money  resulting  from  this  (with 
sundry  additions)  to  be  divided  into  three  parts,  of  which  one  part  to  go  to 
said  wife,  one  part  to  eldest  son  Argoll   Yeardley,  and  the  other  part  to 
sou  Francis  &  to  Elizabeth  Yeardley  equally. 

The  witnesses  were  Abraham  Peirsey,  Susanna  Hall  and  William  Clay- 
borne,  Scr. 

A  oo<licil,  dated  29  Oct.  1627,  was  witnessed  by  the  same  scrivener. 

Ridley,  9. 

Commission  to  administer  on  the  estate  of  Sir  George  Yeardley,  late  in 
Virginia,  deceased,  was  issued  14  March,  1027-8,  to  his  brother  Ralph 
Yeanlley  during  the  absence  of  the  widow,  relict.  Temperance  Yeardley,  in 
the  parts  beyond  the  seas,  &c.  Admon  Act  Hook  for  1628. 

[From  the  Calendar  of  State  Papers,  Colonial  Series  (London,  1860),  we  learn 
that  (ioTernor  Francis  West  and  the  Council  of  Viririnia  certified  to  the  IVivy  Coun- 
cil, 20  December,  1627,  the  death  of  Governor  Sir  George  Yeardley  and  the  election 
of  Captain  Francis  West  to  succeed  him  in  the  government.  In  July,  1629,  Kd- 
ttaod  RosHin^^ham  sent  in  a  petition  to  the  Privy  Council  stating  that  ho  was  agent 
to  bis  uncle  Sir  George  Yeardley,  late  Governor  of  Virginia,  who  dying  before  any 
Atisfactton  was  made  to  the  petitioner  for  being  a  chief  moans  of  raising  his  estate 
to  the  value  of  six  thousand  pounds,  Ralph  Yeardley,  the  brother,  took  administra- 

YOL.    ZXXYUL  7 


70  Genealogical  Oleaninga  in  England.  -  [Jan. 

tion  of  the  same.  He  prayed  for  relief  and  that  his  wrongs  miffht  be  examined  into. 
This  was  referred,  July  1 1,  1629,  to  Sir  Dudley  Diggs,  Sir  Maurice  Abbott,  Tho- 
mas Gibbs  and  Samuel  Wrote,  late  commissioners  tor  that  plantation,  to  ezamino 
into  the  true  state  of  the  case.  Annexed  is  the  report  of  Gibbs  and  Wrote,  made  85 
Sept.  1629,  describing  in  detail  the  petitioner's  employments  from  161S,  and  award- 
ing three  hundred  and  sixty  pounds  as  due  to  him  in  equity  ;  also  an  answer  by  Ralph 
Yeardley,  administrator,  &c.,  to  Rossingham's  petition.  In  January  or  Febmary, 
1630,  Rossingham  sent  in  another  petition  praying  for  a  final  determination.  Id  it 
he  styles  Ralph  Yeardley  an  apothecary  of  London.  On  the  nineteenth  of  Febroaiy 
the  Privy  Council  ordered  Ralph  Yeardlev  to  pay  two  hundred  pounds  to  the  peti- 
tioner out  of  his  brother's  estate,  twelve  hundiW  pounds  having  already  come  into 
the  administrator's  hand. 

Captain  Yeardley  was  chosen  Governor  of  Virginia  in  1618,  in  place  of  Lord  De 
la  Warr,  who  is  said  to  have  died  in  Canada,  and  he  departed  immediately  thither 
with  two  ships  and  about  three  hundred  men  and  boys.  On  the  twenty-eighth  of 
November  Chamherlain  writes  that  Captain  Yeardley,  **  a  mean  fellow,'*  goes  Gof- 
ernor  to  Virginia,  two  or  three  ships  being  ready.  To  grace  him  the  more  the  King 
knighted  him  this  week  at  Newmarket,  *'  which  hath  set  him  up  so  high,  that  M 
flaunts  it  up  and  down  the  streets  in  extraordinary  bravery,  with  fourteen  or  fifteea 
fair  liveries  after  him."  He  arrived  in  Virginia  in  April,  1619,  and  is  said  tohtie 
brought  the  colony  from  a  very  low  state  to  an  extremely  flourishing  condition,  fle 
was  governor  again  1626-27. — H.  F.  W. 

Colonel  Argoll  Yeardley  married  Sarah,  daughter  of  John  Custis,  of  Northamp* 
ton  Co.,  Va.,  a  native  of  Rotterdam  and  the  founder  of  the  socially  distingaisbed 
family  of  the  name  in  Virginia. 

**  Colonel"  Francis  Yeardley  (died  August,  1657)  married  Sarah  the  widow  of 
Adam  Thorowgood  and  of  John  Gookinz,  the  latter  being  her  first  husband. 

The  name  Yeardley,  or  properly  Yardljr,  is  still  represented  in  the  United  States, 
but  1  know  of  none  of  the  name  in  Virginia. 

One  Abraham  Piersey,  or  Percy,  was  treasurer  of  the  colony  of  Virginia  in  1619. 
He  may  have  been  the  father  of  the  first  witness.  The  other  witness  was  doubtless 
Col.  William  Clay  borne,  or  Claiborne,  as  it  is  now  rendered,  the  son  of  **  the  rebel " 
of  the  same  name,  who  had  the  command  of  a  fort  in  New  Kent  county  in  1676 
(Major  Lyddal  servin^j;  with  him),  and  who  distinguished  himself  in  tne  Indian 
wars  of  Bacon's  Rebellion.  There  was  of  record  in  Kin^  William  Countv,  Va.,  t 
certificate  of  his  valorous  service,  signed  by  Gov.  William  Berkeley  and  attested 
by  Nathaniel  Bacon  (senior,  of  the  Council)  and  Philip  Ludwill. — R.  A.  B.] 

Edward  Cole,  of  East  Bergholt,  in  the  county  of  Sufifolk,  clothier,  18 
August,  1649,f)roved  the  last  of  May,  1652.  To  wife  Abigail;  to  young- 
est sou  Peter  Cole ;  to  my  two  daughters  Sarah  and  Mary  Cole  ;  to  the 
children  of  my  son  Edward  Cole ;  to  my  grandchildren  in  New  England 
twenty  pounds. 

The  witnesses  were  John  Layman  and  Richard  Royse. 

Bowyer,  103. 

Robert  Feverteare,  the  elder,  of  Kelshall  in  the  county  of  Suffolkt 
yeoman,  24  June,  1656,  proved  5  September,  1656.  To  wife  Elizabeth. 
Frances  Brothers  of  Kelshall  owes  me  on  bond.  To  Edmund  Feveryeare, 
my  brother,  the  sum  of  forty  shillings  within  six  months  after  my  decease.  To 
William  Feveryeare,  my  brother,  three  pounds.  To  Margaret  FeveryearSr 
my  sister,  forty  shillings  within  six  months,  &c.  To  Margery,  my  sist^t 
wife  of  Robert  Goodwin,  forty  shillings  within  twelve  months,  &c. ;  alw 
eight  pounds  within  twelve  months,  &c.  To  Anne,  my  sister,  wife  of  Jobtt 
Miles,  five  pounds  within  six  months,  &c.  To  Richard  Eade,  mine  under 
twenty  shillings ;  to  Mary  Minstrell,  my  former  servant,  twenty  shilling* 
within  six  mouths,  &c.  To  Robert  Goodwin,  the  elder,  my  new  suit  of 
apparel.  To  Henry  Minstrel,  the  elder,  a  legacy.  Brother  William  anl 
wife  Elizabeth  to  be  executors  and  residuary  legatees.        Berkeley,  333. 


1884.]  Genealogical  Gleanings  in  England.  71 

Clement  Chaplin,  of  Thelford,  in  the  county  of  Norfolk,  Clerk,  16  Au- 
gust, 1G56,  proved  23  September,  1666,  by  Sarah  Chaplin  his  relict  and 
sole  executrix.  To  wife,  Sarah,  all  my  houses  and  lands  in  Hartford  and 
Weathersfield  in  New  England,  to  her  and  her  heirs  forever.  Loving  bro- 
ther Thomas  Chaplin  of  Bury  S*  Edmunds  in  old  England,  and  my  kins- 
man Mr.  William  Clarke,  of  Rocksbury  in  New  England  to  be  supervi- 
sors.    Witnessed  by  Elizabeth  Gurnham  (her  mark)  and  John  Spincke. 

Berkeley,  332. 

[The  testator  of  the  above  will,  son  of  William  Chaplin  **  of  Semer '*  (see  the  Can- 
dler MS.  No.  6071  of  Harleian  Collection,  British  Museum) ,  we  are  told  was  a  chand- 
ler io  Bury,  went  over  into  New  England,  and  was  one  of  the  elders  in  the  congre- 
gation whereof  Mr.  Hooker  was  minister.  His  wife  Sarah  was  one  of  five  daugh- 
ters and  co-heiresses  of Hinds,  a  goldsmith  in  Bury.    Her  sister  Elizabeth  was 

wife  of  Thomas  Chaplin  (mentioned  above),  linen  draper  in  Bury,  alderman  and  jus- 
tieeof  the  peace  for  the  County  of  Suffolk,  her  sister  Mar^ret  Hinds  was  married  to 
George  Groome  of  Rattlesden,  Justice  of  the  Peace,  Abigail  Hinds  was  married  to 
Riebard8cott  of  Braintree  (who  married  secondly  Alice  Snelling),  and  Anne  Hinds 

was  married  to AUiston.    Mr.  Chaplin  had,  besides  the  brother  Thomas  whom 

bemunes,  a  brother  William  of  Blockeshall,  who  had  issue,  a  brother  Richard,  of 
SmiCT  {nneprole), a  brother  Edmund  of  Semer,  who  had  many  children,  and  a  bro- 
ther Capt.  Robert  Chaplin  of  Bury,  who  had  issue.  A  sister  Martha  is  said  to  have 
been  married  to  Robert  Parker  of  Wollpit,  who  went  into  New  England,  another 

sitter,  whose  name  is  not  given,  was  wife  of Barret  of  Stratford,  and  mother 

of  a  Thomas  Barret,  and  a  third  sister  f  also  unnamed)  was  married  to Smith 

of  Scner.  Alderman  Thomas  Chaplin  nad  a  daughter  Anne  who  was  married  to 
Jamer  Shepheard,  an  alderman  of  Bury,  and  a  daughter  Abigail  married  to  Robert 
Whiting  of in  Norfolk.— H.  F.  W.] 

John  Smith,  citizen  and  merchant  tailor  of  London,  by  reason  of  age 
weak  in  body,  17  December,  1655,  proved  20  October,  1656,  by  Sarah 
Whiting,  daughter  and  executrix.  To  wife  the  sum  of  five  pounds  in 
money,  as  a  token  and  remembrance  ot  my  love,  and  I  will  and  appoint 
th.it  it  shall  &  may  be  lawful  for  her  to  dwell  and  abide  in  my  dining-room 
and  wainscot  chamber  belonging  to  my  dwelling  house  in  the  old  liailey, 
London,  by  the  space  of  three  months  next  after  my  decease  ;  and  I  con- 
firm the  indenture  bearing  date  30  August,  1654,  between  me  and  Thomas 
Fiiz  Williams,  of  the  one  part,  and  ray  said  wife,  known  by  the  name  of 
Sarah  Neale,  and  Vincent  Limborowe,  of  the  other  part,  &c.  &c.  To  the 
children  of  my  loving  daughter,  Sarah  AVhiting,  ten  pounds  apiece  towards 
putting  them  out  to  be  Apprentices,  (fee,  and  also  forty  pounds  apiece  to 
the  wns  at  twenty  four  years  of  age  and  to  the  dauffht^rs  at  twenty  one. 

Likewise  I  give  to  the  children  of  my  cousin  William  Smith,  in  New 
England,  and  Mary,  his  now  or  late  wife,  the  sum  of  three  pounds  apiece, 
to  be  paid  to  them,  the  said  children,  at  the  ages  as  above  is  limited  to  my 
grandchildren,  &c.  &c. 

Legacies  to  brother  Thomas  Smith  and  to  the  daughter  of  James  Smith, 
son  of  brother  Thomas.  To  grandchild  John  Whiting,  son  of  daughter  Sa- 
rah Whiting,  the  half  part  of  certain  lands,  tenements,  &c.  in  llogsden, 
ftlias  Hoxden,  in  the  County  of  Middlesex,  and  to  the  male  and  female 
i88ue  of  the  said  John  ;  failing  such  issue,  then  to  grandchild  Nathaniel 
Whiting,  &c.  &c. ;  with  remainder  to  grandchildren  Robert  and  Stephen 
Whiting ;  then  to  Samuel  Whiting,  another  son  of  my  said  daughter,  &c. 
The  otiier  moiety  to  grandchild  Nathaniel  AVhiting  ;  then  to  John  ;  then 
to  Uol)ert  and  Joseph  ;  then  to  Stephen  Whiting.  Legacy  to  son-in-law 
Timothy  AVhiting.  Berkeley,  3.S7. 

[There  was  a  Nathaniel  Whiting  in  Dedham  who  had  sons  John,  Samuel  and  Tim- 
othy.-U.  F.  W.l 


72  Genealogical  Gleanings  in  England.  [Jan. 

JosiAS  FiRMiN,  the  elder,  of  Nay  land,  Co.  Suffolk,  tanner,  27  August, 
1638,  proved  the  last  of  November,  1638.     To  the  poor  of  Nayland.     To 
wife  Anne,  houses  and  lands  in  Nayland  and  also  in  Stoke  next  Nayland 
(called  Noke  meadow  in  Stoke),  then  to  Gyles  Firmin  my  youngest  son 
and  his  heirs,  but  if  he  die  before  he  arrives  at  twenty  four  years  of  age, 
then  to  the  rest  of  my  children.     Lauds  in  Stoke  called  Fdmondes  Field, 
after  death  of  wife,   to  eldest  son  Josias   Firmin   and  his  son  Josias,  my 
grand  child.     To  John  Firmin,   my  son,  ten   pounds   within  one  year  after 
my  decease.     To  my  daughter  Mary,  now  wife  of  Robert  Smith,  forty  five 
pounds.     To  daughter  Martha  Firmin  one  hundred  pounds  at  age  of  twen- 
ty one.     To  daughter  Sara  Firmin  tenement,  &c.  at  Foxyearth,  co.  Essex, 
which  I  purchased  of  one  Thomas  Partridge,  &c.,  to  said  Sara  at  age  of 
twenty  years.     To  grand  child,  John  Firmin,  son  of  Josias  Firmin.     SoM 
Josias  and  Gyles  and  my  three  daughters.     Executors  to  be  wife  Anne  and 
son  in  law  Robert  Smith  of  Nayland,  mercer.  Lee,  146. 

[See  abstracts  of  wills  and  cxtractn  from  parish  registers  relating  to.4he  name  of 
Firmin  in  £mmerton  and  Waters 's  Gleanings,  pp.  34-9. — £d.] 

Jose  Glover,  of  London,  being  by  the  providence  of  God  forthwith  to 
embark  myself  for  some  parts  beyond  the  seas,  16  May,  1638,  proved  22 
December,  1638,  by  Richard  Daveys,  one  of  the  executors,  power  being 
reserved  for  John  Harris,  another  executor.  To  my  dear  and  loving  wife 
all  my  estate,  cfec.  both  in  New  England  and  old  England  for  life,  she  to 
maintain  and  liberally  educate  all  my  children.  After  her  decease  the 
property  to  ^o  to  two  eldest  sons,  Roger  and  John,  equally.  To  my  three 
daughters,  Elizabeth,  Sara  and  Priscilla,  four  hundred  pouads  apiece  (then 
follows  a  reference  to  a  decree  and  order  of  the  court  of  chancery),  my 
three  daughters  to  release  to  Edraond  Davyes  Esq.  and  Thomas  Younge, 
merchant  of  London,  at  da}-  of  marriage  or  arrival  at  full  age,  all  their  in- 
terests, &c.  in  tenements,  &c.  in  Dorenth*  and  Stone  in  co.  Kent,  &c.  To 
my  ancient,  faithful  servant  John  Stidman  fifty  pouuds.  To  all  my  bro- 
thers &  sisters  that  shall  be  living  (except  my  sister  Collins)  five  pounds. 
To  friend  M'  Joseph  Davies  and  his  wife  five  pounds  apiece.  The  execu- 
tors to  be  John  Harris,  my  loving  uncle,  warden  of  the  College  of  Win- 
chester, and  Richard  Davies,  my  ancient  loving  friend.  The  witnesses  were 
E.  Davies,  Joseph  Davyes,  Thomas  Yonge,  Samuel  Davyes  &  John 
Davyes.  Lee,  176. 

[See  the  article  by  J.  Hammond  Trumbull,  LL.D.,  on  the  christian  name  of  Mr. 
Glover,  in  the  Register,  xxx.  26-8.  His  will,  from  a  copy  preserved  on  the  Middle- 
sex Court  Files,  is  printed  in  full  in  the  Register,  xxiii.  135-7. — Ed.] 

Sir  Robt  Carr,  of  Ithall,  co.  Northumberland,  knight.  All  estate  in 
America,  &c.  to  eldest  son  William  Carr,  the  other  estate  in  England  be- 
ing formerly  settled.  To  James  Deane,  my  now  servant  and  his  heirs,  for 
and  in  consideration  of  his  service,  a  plantation  within  any  of  the  six  islanda 
granted  unto  me,  except  in  Carr's  Island.  This  having  been  read  to  him, 
29  May,  1667,  he  did  declare,  &c.  Proved  16  July,  1667,  when  commis- 
sion was  issued  to  AVilliam  Carr,  natural  son  and  lawful  heir  and  principal 
legatee  named  in  the  will  of  Sir  Rob*  Carr,  knight,  lately  of  Carr's  Island, 
in  New  England,  in  the  parts  beyond  the  seas.  Carr,  90. 

[See  notice  of  Sir  Robert  Carr,  with  remarks  on  his  will,  in  the  Register,  xxif. 
187.—ED.1 

•  Parent. 


1884.]  Genealogical  Gleanings  in  England,  73 

NowELL  Hilton  of  Charlestown,  co.  Middlesex  in  New  England,  mar- 
iner, appoints  hip  trusty  and  loving  kinsman  Nathaniel  Cutler,  of  the  pa- 
rish of  Stepney  in  co.  Middlesex,  sawyer,  his  attorney,  &c.  The  amount 
due  for  my  service  done  or  to  be  done  on  board  of  any  of  his  Ma**®*  ships, 
vessels  or  frigates,  &c.  Signed  6  October,  1687,  in  presence  of  Mary  Story 
(her  mark),  Cuthbert  Stoy  {sic)  and  Samuel  Sapp,  at  the  two  Anchors  and 
three  Stars  on  Wapping  Wall.  17  September  1689  emanavit  comissio 
Nath"  Cutler,  &c  Ent,  123. 

[Nowcll  mitoo,  the  testator,  was  bom  in  Charlestown,  May  4,  1663.  He  was  a 
mo  of  William  Hiltoa  of  Charlestown  bv  his  second  wife  Mehitable,  a  daughter  of 
Increase  Nowell.  Afler  the  death  of  his  father  his  mother  married  (2)  29:  8th, 
1684,  Deacon  John  Cutler.  Timothy  Cutler,  a  son  of  Deacon  John  Cutler,  mar- 
ried, Dec.  22,  1673,  Elizabeth  Hilton,  a  sister  of  the  testator.  See  the  articles  en- 
titled **  Some  of  the  Descendants  of  William  Hilton,''  Register,  zzzi.  179.  See 
also  Wyman*s  Genealogies  and  Estates  of  Charlestown,  255,  257,  504,  710.  This 
will  was  printed  in  full  in  the  Rbgistbr,  xxxii.  50. — John  T.  IIassam.] 

Nathajjiel  Warde,  of  Old  Winsor,  co.  Berks,  Doctor  in  Divinity,  8 
December,  nineteenth  of  K.  Charles,  proved  11  February,  1667.  He  men- 
tions wife  Susanna  and  marriage  contract,  a  bond  of  one  thousand  pounds 
onto  M'  Thomas  Hanchett  and  M'  Solomon  Smith,  in  trust  for  said  wife, 
iion  Nathaniel  to  be  executor.  The  witnesses  were  Robert  Aldridge,  Eliz- 
abeth Reynolds  and  (the  mark  of)  Edward  Stokes.  Hene,  26. 


Notes  on  Abstracts  previously  printed. 

Joseph  Holland.     Will  Dec.  25,  1658.     [Reg.  xxxvii.  377.] 

f  We  have  received  the  following  note  from  Prof.  Arthur  L.  Perry,  LL.D.,  of 
Williams  College  : 

If  Mr.  Wnters's  abstract  of  the  will  of  Joseph  Holland  of  Ix>ndon,  citizen  and 

cloth  worker,  discredits  one  conjecture  of  Dr.  Bond  in  his  history  of  Waitertown,  it 

Krikingly  confirms  another  conjecture  of  that  author  in  the  same  volume.     A  John 

Ferry  died  in   Watertown  in  1674,  aged  61.     Another  John   Perry  of  Watertown 

married  Sarah  Clary,  of  Cambridj^e,   Dec.  1667.     Bond  says  the  first  John  was 

**  prohably  father  "  of  the  second  John.    Joseph  Holland's  will  makes  that  guess 

a  certHiDty.     He  leaves  bequests  **  to  son-in-law  J  oka  Perry  and  Johanna  his  wife^ 

my  daugkttr^  and  their  sons  John  Perry  and  Josias  Perry  and  daughter  Elizabeth 

Perry. ''^    In  another  clause  :  **  To  my  said  dau^rhter  Johanna  certain  needle  work 

wrtjuj^ht  by  my  first  wife,  her  mother."     In  another  clause  he  leaves  twenty  pounds 

in  i^o^ds  *Wo  my  son  Nathaniel  Holland  of  Waterlon  in  New  England.''''    The  first 

John  Pern'  was  therefore  brother-in-law  of  Nathaniel  Holland,  and  the  second  his 

nephew.     The  Perrys  came  to  Watertown  eight  years  (1666)  after  this  will  was 

drawn  (1658).    They  were  clothworkers,  i.  e.  weavers  and  tailors,  like  the  Hollands 

in  London.     The  London  names,  John  and  Johanna  and  Josiah  and  Joseph,  were 

kept  up  constantly  among  the  Perrys  in  Watertown  and  after  their  removal  to  Wor- 

eeeter  in  1751,  and  some  of  them  are  not  even  yet  disused  as  christian  names  in  the 

family.    It  is  a  matter  of  record  in  the  family  Bibles  that  the  two  Perrys  came  to 

Watertown  from  London.    Inferentiallv,  therefore,  but  certainly,  they  were  among 

the  heirs  mentioned  in  Joseph  Holland Vi  will. 

That  will  was  drawn  before  the  great  fire  of  London  in  1666.  The  mother  of 
Mn.  John  Perry  the  elder  was  already  buried  in  St.  Sepulchre  Church  in  1658  ;  and 
tbegood  Joseph  Holland,  citizen  and  clothworker,  directed  that  his  own  body  should 
l>e  buried  **  on  the  south  side  of  the  christening  pew  '*  of  that  parish  church. 

A  grandson  of  the  second  John  Perry,  Nathan,  became  deacon  of  the  old  South 
Church  in  Worcester  in  1783,  and  continued  in  that  oflBce  till  his  death  in  1806  ; 
bi8  8on  Moses  succeeded  in  the  office  immediately,  and  continued  in  it  till  his  death 
inlB42 ;  and  bis  son  Samuel  succeeded  his  father  and  sustained  the  office  thirty-five 
yean  longer,  making  ninety-four  years  of  continuous  service  in  one  family. 

Arthur  L.  Pkrrv, 
Seventh  generation  from  first  John«] 

TOL.  xxxyni.         ?♦ 


74  The  Dole  Family.  [Jan. 

I  find  a  crant  of  land  on  record  in  the  Virginia  Land  Registry  Office,  of  189 
acres,  to  £award  Besse,  on  the  south  side  of  Chickahominy  River,  April  7,  1651, 
Book  No.  2,  p.  3*21.  The  names  Arnott,  Gouge,  Booth,  Perry  And  Travers  appear 
in  the  early  annals  of  Virginia.  Francis  Willis,  the  ancestr>r  of  the  worthy  Vir- 
ginia family  of  that  name,  married,  about  the  middle  of  the  17th  century,  Ann 
Rich. — R.  A.  Brock,  of  Richmond,  Va.J 

Sir  Robert  Peake,  Knt.     [Reg.  xxxvii.  379.] 

[In  the  Virginia  Land  Registry  Office  the  following  grants  are  recorded  :  George 
Lyddal,  **  Gentleman,"  1750  acres  in  York  County,  Nov.  25,  1654;  **  Captain" 
George  Lyddal,  2390  acres  in  New  Kent  County  (formed  from  York  County  in  1654) 
Jan.  20,  1657.  Book  No.  4,  p.  214.  The  name  Lyddall  is  a  favored  Christian 
name  in  a  number  of  Virginian  families,  notably  in  the  Bowles  and  Bticon.  I  find 
on  record  in  Henrico  County  court,  in  June,  1754,  the  will  of  Langston  Bacon. 
Wife  Sarah  is  named,  and  also  as  Executors,  Nathaniel  Bacon,  Lyddal  Bacon  and 
Joiin  Williamson.  John  Lyddall  Bacon,  Epq.  is  at  this  date  President  of  the  Stafco 
Bank  of  Richmond. — R.  A.  Brock,  of  Richmond,  Va.] 


THE  DOLE  FAMILY. 

By  the  Rev.  George  T.  Dole,  of  Reading,  Mass. 

THERE  seems  to  be  good  evidence  that  Dole,  as  a  family  name, 
is  of  French  origin,  introduced,  like  many  others,  into  Eng- 
land by  the  Norman  conquest.  It  is  sup[)osed  to  have  been  derived 
from  the  ancient  city  of  Dole  ;  and  it  is  found  early  written,  in  some 
instances,  with  the  particle  de  before  it.  Afterward,  when  surnames 
came  into  general  use,  that  prefix  was  dropped ;  and  for  the  last 
five  centuries,  as  the  name  is  found  here  and  there  in  English  rec- 
ords, it  has,  with  a  few  temporary  exceptions,  its  simple  form  and 
orthography,  D-o-L-E,  as  now. 

1.  Richard*  Dole,  the  first  American  ancestor  of  all  Doles  of  New  Eng- 
land origin,  and  it  is  believed  of  most  who  bear  the  name  in  America, 
was  baptized  in  Ringworthy,*  near  Bristol,  England,  December  31, 
1622,  0.  S.  Ringworthy  had  been  the  residence  of  his  grandfather 
Richard,  and  his  father  William  inherited  the  homestead  there.  Af- 
terward William,  then  living  in  Thornbury,  indented  young  Richard 
to  "John  Lowle,  glover, of  Bristol."  AVhen  the  brothers  John  aud 
Richard  Lowle  and  their  father  Percival,the  ancestor  of  the  present 
eminent  family  of  Lowells,  come  to  this  country  in  1639,  they 
brought  Richard  Dole  with  them.  The  Lowle  family  settled  in  New- 
bury, Mass.,  aud  Richard  Dole  continued  as  clerk  in  their  employ  for» 
time.  But  he  entered  early,  and  with  great  activity  and  enterprise, 
upon  business  for  himself.  He  long  held  a  prominent  place  as  mer- 
chant in  Newbury,  and  also  became  an  extensive  laudholder,  djA 

•  Now  Rangeworthy.  This  parish  is  in  Gloncestershire,  about  ten  miles  north  of  Bristol- 
The  Rev.  Mr.  Dole,  the  author  of  this  article,  informs  us  that  he  gives  the  name  RingwortbT 
on  the  authority  of  the  late  H.  G.  Somerbyj  Esq.,  to  whom  he  is  indebted  for  the  record  •• 
Richard  Dole's  baptism,  his  father's  marriage,  &c.  Mr.  Somerby  found  the  name  of  tb* 
parish  so  spelled  in  the  official  records,  both  of  the  Bishop's  Court  and  those  of  the  Begi** 
try  of  Wills  for  Gloucestershire,— Editob. 


1884.]  The  Dole  Family.  75 

left  at  his  decease  an  estate  of  £1840 — a  large  property  for  those 
times.  He  built,  and  made  his  home  through  life,  on  the  north  bank 
of  the  river  Parker,  just  below  where  **  Old  town  bridge  "  is  now 
located.  He  was  a  man  of  marked  ability  and  upright  character, 
influential  and  respected  as  a  citizen  and  a  christian. 

Richard  Dole  came  to  Newbury,  Mass.,  in  1639  ;  married  first, 
Hannah  Rolfe,  of  Newbury,  who  died  16  Nov.  1678;  married  sec- 
ond, Hannah,  widow  of  Capt.  Samuel  Brocklebank,  of  Rowley; 
married  third,  Patience  Walker,  of  Haverhill.  The  date  x)f  his 
death  is  not  ascertained.  Inventory  of  his  estate  was  taken  26 
July,  1705,  and  will  approved  30  July,  So  it  is  probable  he  died 
in  his  83d  year.     He  had  children  : 

2  i.      John,  b.  10  Aug.  1648. 

3.  ii.     Richard,  b.  6  Sept.  1G50. 

iii.    Anna,  b.  26  March,  1653  ;  d.  6  July,  1653. 

ir.    Benjamin,  b.  14  June,  1654;  believed  to  have  d.  young. 

T.  Joseph,  b.  5  Aug.  1657.  2:kid  to  have  been  captain  of  one  of  his  father^s 
ships.  There  is  evidence  that  he  lived  to  be  more  than  thirty  years  of 
at;e,  but  no  record  of  his  death  or  marriage.  Yet  there  is  some  reason 
to  think  he  may  have  been  the  father  of  a  John,  who  subsequently  ap- 
pears on  the  town  records,  but  whose  parentage  is  uncertain. 

4.  Ti.    William,  b.  11  April,  1660. 

5.  Tii.  Henry,  b.  9  March,  1663. 

Tiii.  Hannah,  b.  23  Oct.  1665  ;  m.  John  Moody,  18  May,  1692. 
ix.    Apphia,  b.  7  Dec.  1668 ;  m.  Peter  Coffin. 

6.  X.     Abner,  b.  8  March,  1672. 

2.  John'  Dole  (Richard^) ^  born  10  August,  1648.     Was  a  physician. 

Settled  in  that  part  of  Newbury  which  afterward  became  the  busi- 
ness centre  of  Newburyport.  He  married  Mary,  daughter  of  Capt. 
William  Gerrish,  23  October,  1676.  The  date  of  his  death  is  un- 
known. Administration  upon  his  estate  was  granted  3  October, 
IG'jy.     His  children  were  : 

i.      Hannah,  b.  16  Aug.  1677;  m.  Jonadab  VVaite. 

7.  ii.     BtNJAMiN,  b.  16  Nov.  1679. 

iii.    Mary,  b.  14  Nov.  1681 ;  believed  to  have  d.  young, 
iv.    Sarah,  b.  11  Dec.  1683  ;  m.  Joseph  Macres. 

8.  T.      John,  b.  16  Feb.  1686. 

vi.     Moses,  b  24  Dec.  1688;  d.  unm.  22  Sept.  1708. 

vii.    Elizabeth,  b.  16  Aug.  1692;  m.  John  Brown,  Jr.,  20  Jan.  1713. 

Tiii.  Judith. 

3.  Richard'  Dole  {Richard}),  born  6  Sept.  1650;  lived  near  his  fa- 

ther; married  Sarah,  daughter  of  Capt.  Stephen  Greenleaf,  She 
died  Sept.  1718.  He  died  1  August,  1723.  Monumental  stones 
mark  their  graves  in  the  oldest  burying  place  in  Newbury.  They 
had :  , 

9.  i.      Richard,  b.  28  April,  1678. 

ii.     Elizabeth,  b.  1679  ;  m.  Joshua  Plumer,  1699. 

iii.    Sarah,  b.  14  Feb.  1681  ;  m.  William  Johnson,  of  Woburn,  1  Jan.  1708. 

Shed.  14  Oct.  1710. 
iv.    Hannah,  b.  5  Dec.  1682  ;  m.  Edmund  Goodrich,  16  Nov.  1702. 

10.  T.      John,  b.  2  Feb.  1685. 

Ti.    Stephen,  b.  2  Dec.  1686;  d.  an  infant. 

11.  Tii.  Stephen,  b.  1687. 

12.  viii.  Joseph,  b.  5  Dec.  1689. 

ix.    Mary,  b.  1  July,  1694  ;  m.  John  Gerrish,  1723. 


76  The  Dole  Family.  [Jan. 

4.  William'  Dole  [Richard),  born  11  April,  1660;  lived  near  his  fa- 

ther ;  married  Mary  Brocklebank,  daughter  of  his  father's  second 
wife,  13  October,  1684  ;  d.  29  Jan.  1718.     They  had : 

13.  i.      William,  b.  1684. 

ii.     Hannah,  b.  1685  ;  m. Kelley. 

iii.    Mary,  b.  1  Feb.  1688;  in.  Joshua  Boynton,  30  April,  1708. 

14.  iv.    Richard,  b.  1  Dec.  1680. 

V.     Jane,  b.  23  Jan.  1692 ;  m.  Joseph  Noyes,  17  Aus.  1711.  . 

vi.    Patience,  b.  8  April,  1694 ;  m.  John  flale,  25  July,  1716 (see  Reo.  zxzi. 

95).    Rev.  Gphraim  Pea  body  was  one  of  her  descendants, 
vii.   Apphia,  b.  13  May,  1696 ;  d.  unm.  1754. 

15.  viii.  Samuel. 

16.  iz.    Benjamin,  b.  2  July,  1702. 

5.  Henry*  Dole  (Richard^),  born  9  March,  1663.     He  married  Sarah 

Brocklebank,  like  his  brother  William's  wife,  a  daughter  of  his  fa- 
ther's second  wife.  He  died  at  the  early  age  of  twenty-six  and  a 
half  years,  13  Sept.  1690.  His  widow  married  Hon.  Nathaniel 
Coffin.     Henry's  children  were  : 

i.      Apphiah,  b.  28  Feb.  1688 ;  d.  9  Oct.  1694. 

ii.     Sarah,  b.  12  Feb.  1690 ;  m.  Tristram  Little,  30  Oct.  1707. 

6.  Abner*  Dole  {Richard,  1st),  born  8  March,   1672;  married  first, 

Mary  Jewett,  1  Nov.  1694.  She  died  25  Nov.  1695.  He  married 
second,  Sarah  Belsher,  of  Boston,  5  Jan.  1699.  She  died  21  July, 
1730.  The  date  of  his  death  is  not  ascertained,  but  his  will  was 
proved  12  Jan.  1740.     He  had: 

17.  i.      Henry,  b.  28  Oct.  1695. 

18.  ii.     Nathaniel,  b.  29  March,  1701. 

iii.    Sarah,  b.  14  Jan.  1703;  m.  Jonathan  Woodman. 

19.  iv.    Abner,  b.  11  May,  1706. 

7.  Benjamin'  Dole    {John,'*  Richard^),  born   16  Nov.  1679;  like  his 

father,  a  physician ;  settled  in  Hampton,  N.  H. ;  married  Frances, 
daughter  of  Capt.  Samuel  Sherburne,  11  Dec.  1700;  died  8  May, 
1707.  Coffin  (Hist,  of  Newbury)  mistakes  this  man  for  Benjamin 
son  of  the  tirst  Richard,  and  has  dated  his  birth  accordingly.  But 
he  died,  as  appears  on  his  tombstone,  at  the  early  age  of  27. 

+•  i.      Jonathan,  b.  14  April,  1703. 

ii.     Marv,  m.  Rev.  John  Tuck,  of  the  U\es  of  Shoals.    See  Register,  z.  197. 
They  wore  ancestors  of  the  lato  Samuel  G.  Drake,  A.M.,  for  nearly 
ten  years  editor  of  this  periodical.    See  Reg.  zvii.  199. 
iii.    Love,  b.  1706;  d.  1711. 

8.  John'  Dole  {John,*  Richard*),  born  16  Feb.  1686;  settled  in  Salis- 

bury ;  m.  Hannah  Todd;  died  18  August,  1720. 

+    i.  John,  b.  1710. 

ii.  Benjamin,  b.  29  Dec.  1712 ;  d.  13  April,  1720. 

iii.  Moses,  d.  an  infant. 

+    iv.  MosKS,  b.  12iMarch,  1714. 

V.  Mary,  b.  13  Oct.  1717  ;  d.  1720. 

vi.  Elizabeth,  b.  20  Feb.  1719 ;  m.  Henry  Dole,  son  of  Abner ;  d.  11  June, 
1805, 

9.  Richard*  Dole  (Richard,*  Richard^),  born  28  April,  1678  ;  mar- 

ried first,  Sarah  Illsley,  3  April,   1706.     She  died  26  Feb.  1708; 

•  This  mark,  the  sign  of  addition,  indicates  that  the  compiler  has  a  record  of  the  families 
of  the  individuals  to  whose  names  it  is  prefixed. 


1884.]  The  Dole  Family.  77 

married  second,  Elizabeth  Stickney,4  Aug.  1709.  Their  home  was 
in  Rowley  after  about  1715.     He  had: 

-}-  i.  Enoch,  b.  20  Jan.  1708. 

-I-  ii.  Edmund,  b.  12  Nov.  1710. 

-}-  ill.  Moses,  b.  15  Jan.  1714. 

It.  Sarah,  b.  29  Sept.  1716 ;  m.  Jethro  Pearson,  of  Exeter,  N.  II.,  7  Jane, 
1753. 

-I-  T.  Stephen,  b  2  Feb.  1719. 

tI.  Amos,  b.  28  July,  1725 ;  probably  d.  young. 

10.  John'  Dole  (Richard,^  Richard}),  born  2  Feb.  1685 ;  married  Esther 

Burpe,  of  Rowley,  24  June,  1717.  He  lived  and  died  near  the 
old  home  in  Newbury.     He  had  : 

-I-  1.  Thomas,  b.  16  Dec.  1718. 

ii.  Sarah,  b.  23  March,  1722 ;  m.  Daniel  Perkins,  of  Bozford,  27  Nov.  1740. 

+  iii.  John,  b.  28  Oct.  1724. 

It.  Jeremiah,  b.  22  Sept.  1727  :  d.  Oct.  1727. 

T.  Judith,  b.  4  April,  1729 ;  d.  unm. 

+  Ti.  Nathan,  b.  12  May,  1733. 

11.  SiEPeEN*  Dole  (Richardy*  Richard})^  born  1687;  married  Susanna 

Noves,  29  Nov.  1706.  She  died  6  April,  1754.  They  lived  and 
died  in  Newbury.     He  died  28  Jan.  1742.     They  had : 

1.  Elizabeth,  b.  30  May,  1718. 

+  ii.  Stephen,  b.  28  Aug.  1720. 

+  iii.  Richard,  b.  4  Feb.  1722. 

i?.  Sarah,  b.  18  Feb.  1726;  m.  Enoch  Plumer,  9  Oct.  1759. 

y.  Parker,  b.  14  March,  1735 ;  d.  25  Sept.  1758. 

vi.  Anna,  b.  1741;  d.  1745. 

Tii.  Elizabeth,  b.  12  Dec.  1746  ;  m.  D.  Bailey. 

12.  Joseph*  Dole  (Richard*  Richard^),  born  5    Dec.   1689;  married 

Lydia  Noyes,  1  Feb.  1717.  It  is  believed  that  he  had  no  son  who 
lived  to  adult  years.  He  lived  and  died  at  "  Oldtown."  The  date 
of  his  death  not  ascertained.  His  will  was  proved  October,  1757. 
He  had : 

i.  Hannah,  b.  2  Nov.  1717;  d.  unm.  1788. 

ii.  Joseph,  b.  4  Jan.  1719. 

iii.  Molly,  b.  18  June,  1722;  d.  5  Aug.  1723. 

iv.  Maky,  b.  5  Dec.  1724  ;  m.  William  Woodbridge. 

V.  Lydia,  b.  16  Aug.  1729;  d.  unm. 

Ti.  Joseph,  b.  12  Oct.  1732. 

13.  William'  Dole  (  William,*  Richard^),  born  1684 ;  married  Kebekah 

Pearson,  of  Rowley,  8  Jan.  1714  ;  lived  at  Oldtown.  He  died  8 
Aug.  1752.     They  had: 

i.      Anna,  b.  1  Feb.  1715  ;  m.  Moses  Coffin,  of  Epping,  N.  H.,  30  Sept.  1732  ; 
d.  1810. 
4-  ii.     Daniel,  b.  28  Sept.  1716. 

iii.    David,  b.  25  Aug. ;  probably  never  married.    Lost  at  sea. 
+  iT.     WiLLi.\M,  b.  19  Sept.  1720. 

T.     JouN,  b.  14  Aug.  1722  ;  d.  an  infant. 
vi.    JouN,  b.  27  Nov.  1724;  d.  14  June,  1729. 
+  vii.  Jonathan,  b.  23  March,  1727. 

yiii.  Kebekah,  b.  30  Aug.  1729  ;  d.  unm. 

ix.    Mary,  b.  13  Sept.  1731  ;  in.  Samuel  Plumer,  8  April,  1755,  and  became 
the  mother  of  Gov.    William  Plumer  of  New  Hampshire.    See  Reg. 
XXV.  2. 
X.     Eunice,  b.  18  June,  1733. 


78  The  Dole  Family.  [Jan. 

14.  Richard*  Dole  (William,^  Richard^) ^  horn  1  Dec.  16B9  ;  married 

Sarah  Emery,  21  May,  1719  ;  died  10  March,  1778.     They  had: 

i.      Sarah,  h.  12  March,  1720 ;  m.  James  Enij;ht,  22  May,  1740. 

ii.     Richard,  b.  1  March,  1721  ;  d.  an  infant. 

iii.    Richard,  b.  23  April,  1722  ;  d.  an  infant. 

iv.    Abigail,  b.  14  April,  1727  ;  m.  John  Plumer,  4  April,  1751 ;  d.  24  May, 

1807. 
V.      Anne,  b.  26  Nov.  1729 ;  m.  William  Illsley,  24  Not.  1747. 
vi.    £liphalbt,  b.  19  Feb.  1732;  d.  young. 
Tii.  A  SOD,  b.  27  March,  1735 ;  d.  young. 

viii.  Ruth,  b.  30  Nov.  1738 ;  m.  Thomas  Plumer ;  d.  24  Aug.  1805. 
-f-    ix.    Stephen,  b.  7  July,  1741. 

15.  Samuel*  Dole  {WiJUam?  Richard})^  born  1  June,  1699;  married 

Elizabeth  Knight,  30  Oct.  1720.  Moved  to  West  Newbury  1730, 
and  built  on  "  Crane-neck  Hill."     Died  15  Dec  1776.     They  had: 

i.      Elizabeth,  b.  31  July,  1722 ;  m.  Henry,  son  of  Abner  Dole. 
4-    ii.     Samuel,  b.  March,  1724. 

iii.    MosBS,  b.  4  Feb.  1726  ;  d.  14  Nov.  1736. 

iv.    Mary,  b.  14  Sept.  1727. 

V.     Apphia,  b.  25  Jan.  1730  ;  m.  Joniah  Bartlet ;  d.  22  Nov.  1765. 

vi.    Oliver,  b.  13  Aug.  1732  ;  d.  5  Feb.  1737. 
+    vii.   Richard,  b.  3  Feb.  1736. 

viii.  Sarah,  b.  7  Jan.  1738  ;  m.  Joshua  Moody,  4  May,  1758. 

ix.    Eunice,  b.  30  May,  1741 ;  m.  Nicholas  Lunt,  26  Jan.  1768  ;  d.  March, 
1824. 

X.     Hannah,  b.  U  Deo.  1744  ;  m. . 

16.  Benjamin'  Dole  (William,^  Richard}),  l)orn  2  July,  1702;  supposed 

to  have  married  Sarah  Clark,  6  Nov.  1731.  Settled  at  **  Crane 
Neck,"  W,  Newbury  ;  died  4  Jan.  1776.  He  had  seventeen  child- 
dron,  but  one  of  whom  ever  married : 

i.      Amos,  b.  30  Jan.  1733 ;  d.  28  March,  1816. 

ii.     Sarah,  b.  16  June,  1734;  d.  28  Sept.  1736. 

iii.    Patience,  born  8  Sept.  1736;  d.  12  June,  1782. 

iv.    Oliver,  b.  Oct.  1738  ;  d.  24  Sept.  1770. 

V.     MiCAH,  b.  20  Feb.  1740;  d.  Dec.  1747. 

vi.    Jane,  b.  1  Aug.  1742;  d.  3  Feb.  1825. 

vii.  Elizabeth,  b.  2  March,  1744  ;  married  Joseph  Wadleigh. 

viii.  Susannah,  b.  6  March,  1746  :  d.  26  Nov.  1804. 

ix.    Judith,  b.  2  Sept.  1747 ;  d.  17  Aug.  1837. 

X.     ,  d.  an  infant. 

xi.    MosBS,  b.  13  April,  1750;  d.  18  Feb.  1816. 
xii.  Eunice,  b.  17  Oct.  1751 ;  d.  17  Nov.  1796. 

xiii. ,  d.  an  infant. 

xiv.  Sarah,  b.  8  June,  1754 ;  d.  29  June,  1754,  aged  21  days. 
XV.   David,  b.  15  March,  1756 ;  d.  15  Oct.  1839. 
xvi.  Hannah,  d.  an  infieknt. 
xvii.  Samuel,  d.  an  infant. 

17.  Henry*  Dole  {Abner*  Richard}),  born  28  Oct.  1695  ;  lived  near  his 

father  in  Oldtown;  married  first,  Mary  Hale,  13  Nov.  1728  ;  mar- 
ried second,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Samuel  Dole,  4  Oct,  1742.  Date 
of  death  not  ascertained.  His  will  was  proved  1  Oct.  176G.  He 
had : 

i.  Henry,  b.  3  Nov.  1729;  d.  13  Nov.  1736. 

ii.  Samuel,  b.  30  Aug.  1731 ;  d.  31  Aug.  1736. 

iii.  Jeremiah,  b.  2  May,  1733  ;  d.  7  Sept.  1736. 

iv.  Mary,  b.  5  Oct.  1737  ;  m.  Thomas  Cross,  2  Dec.  1762. 

V.  Sarah,  b.  25  May,  1739  ;  m.  John  Poor,  8  Nov.  1759  ;  d.  17  Aug.  1819. 

+    vi.  MosES,  b.  23  Aug.  1740. 


1884.]  ITew  England  Oleanings.  79 

Tii.  EiTNicB,  b.  1  Aug.  1743 ;  m.  John  Thurston,  26  Jan.  1765 ;  d.  1817. 
+  Tiii.  Henrt,  b.  12  Sept.  1748. 

18.  Nathaniel'  Dole  (Abner*  Bickard,  1st),  born  29  March,  1701  ; 
married  Elizabeth  Noyes,  26  Nov.  1730.  Settled  in  Salisbury  and 
died  there  12  August,  1790.     He  had  : 

i.      Nathaniel,  b.  3  Nov.  1731 ;  d.  24  Aug.  1736. 

ii.     Bblshsr,  b.  25  Feb.  1733  ;  d.  23  Sept.  1736. 

iii.    EuzABETH,  b.  5  Nov.  1734 ;  d.  28  Sept.  1736. 
+  iv.    Cutting,  b.  30  March,  1736. 

T.     Sarah,  b.  25  Dec.  1737  ;  d.  15  Deo.  1765. 
-I-  vi.    Nathandel,  b.  20  May,  1739. 
+  Tii.  Belshkr,  b.  23  Jan.  1741. 
+  Tiii.  Jacob,  b.  29  Oct.  1742. 

is.    Jane,  b.  6  Aug.  1744  ;  m.  Samuel  Moody  ;  d.  31  Aug.  1796. 

X.     Samuel,  b.  6  May,  1746 ;  d.  19  Oct.  1748. 

xi.    Datid,  b.  10  Dec.  1747 ;  d.  7  Not.  1748. 
+  xii.  Isaiah,  b.  4  Oct.  1748. 

19.  Abneb'  Dole  (Ahner^  Richard}),  born  11  May,  1706  ;  married  Mary 
Kent,  3  Sept.  1730.  Date  of  death  unknown  ;  was  living  in  1769. 
Ilad: 

i.      Sarah,  b.  27  April,  1731 ;  m.  Joseph  Warner,  8  Aug.  1749. 
ii.     Abner,  b.  5  Sept.  1732 ;  d.  probably  unm.  1757. 
iii.    Mart,  b.  7  Julv,  1735. 
+  iv.    Joseph,  b.  16  Jan.  1740. 

T.     Elizabeth,  b.  28  Oct.  1743 ;   probably  m.  Abner  Greenleaf,  12  Jan. 
1762. 


Note.— The  compiler  of  this  record,  which  for  brevity's  sake  is  little  more  than  a  list  of 
Bimes,  is  a  native  of  Newbury,  and  l>egan  more  than  forty  years  ago  to  note  down  items 
intbe  family  pedi$;ree.  Since  that  he  has  pursued  the  Hubject  as  opportnnity  has  offered. 
He  hx^  searched  the  records  of  Newbury  and  adjacent  towns ;  has  corresponded  exten- 
sinly  with  Doles  in  various  part8  of  the  country,  and  has  been  able,  in  almost  all  cases,  to 
trtce  their  lineage  from  our  common  ancestor  Richard.  He  has  collected  materials  for  a 
loIeral»lv  full  genealogy  of  the  various  branches  of  the  family  down  to  a  recent  period.  If 
pufflcient  interest  is  felt  among  them  to  give  needed  encouragement,  he  would  be  glad, 
eboQJd  his  life  t>e  spared,  to  put  it  into  a  form  in  which  all  interested  in  the  subject  may 
posMssii. 


NEW  ENGLAND  GLEANINGS. 

UNDER  this  head  we  shall  publish  such  items  as  are  furnished 
us  containing  references  to  the  English  residences  of  the  settlers 
New  Enijland. 

I. 

Middlesex  County  Deeds,  I.  87. — Susan  Blackiston,  of  New  Castle  upon 
Tine,  widow,  August  27,  1 653,  constitutes  Joanna  Scill  of  New  England, 
widow,  her  attorney  to  recover  from  : — 

Anne  P>rington,  widow,  debt,  1 637. 

Andrew  Steveuson,  cobbler,  debt,  1637. 

•lobn  Trumble,  cooper,  debt,  1637. 

Thomas  Chesholme,  taylor,  debt,  1 635. 

All  late  of  New  Castle  upon  Tine,  and  now  of  New  England. 


80  ITew  England  Gleanings.  [Jan 

Ih.  I.  143. — William  Cutter,  of  New  Castle  upon  Tine,  his  attorneys  am 
well  beloved  friends  Edward  Goffe,  Mr.  Elijah  Corlett  and  Thomas  Sweet 
man  of  Cambridge,  and  Robert  Hale  of  Charlestowu  in  N.  E.  January  12 
1653. 

lb,  I.  123.— Samuel  Ward,  of  Hull,  N.  E.,  March  26, 1655,  makes  drafti 
on  Wapping  and  Algate. 

Ih,  II.  32. — Anne  Palsgrave,  of  Stepney,  co.  Middlesex,  England,  widov 
of  Richard  Palsgrave,  late  of  Charlestown,  N.  E.,  physician,  March  17 
1656,  revokes  power  formerly  given  John  Abbott  of  Roxbury,  Thomai 
Cooper  of  Seaconk  and  William  Dade  of  Charlestown,  and  makes  her  at 
tomeys  John  Pierce,  mariner  of  Wapping,  co.  Middlesex,  and  P^dmuik 
Haylet  of  Stepney. 

IL  III.  77. — The  executors  of  AVilliam  Tanner,  late  of  Coggeshall  Mag 
na,  CO.  Essex,  Eng.,  make  John  Plumbe  of  Hartford,  N.  E.,  son  of  Georg« 
of  In  worth,  co.  Essex,  Eng.,  his  attorney  to  collect  debts  of  Thomas  8w(Et 
man,  merchant  of  Cambridge,  N.  ii.,  and  others,  1601. 

Ih,  IX.  165,  and  X.  576. — Daniel  Bacon,  of  Cambridge,  and  his  wife 
Mary,  daughter  of  Thomas  Read  of  Colchester,  co.  Essex,  old  England 
deceased,  1678. 

lb.  XV.  167.— Thomas  Whinyard  of  y«  Parrish  of  Alhallows  the  Wall 
London,  coachman,  and  Anna  Wynyard  alias  Gould,  his  wife  and  sistei 
of  Thomas  Gould  late  of  y*  Parrish  of  St.  Mary  Ase,  London,  and  of  hei 
Majesty's  ship  Eagle,  mariner  dec'd,  constitute  our  loveing  cousen  James 
Gooding  of  Norton  Island  near  Boston  in  N.  E.,  our  attorney,  to  collect 
rents,  &c.  in  Charlestown  late  in  possession  of  their  unckle  John  Gould 
Sept.  7,  1708. 

Middlesex  County  Court  Records^  IV.  68. — Nathaniel  Harwood  [Con- 
cord] assignee  and  attorney  of  his  brother  John  liar  wood  of  Lon<lon  the 
elder,  June  19,  1683,  sues  Samuel  Nowell  Esq.  who  fn.  Mary,  widow  ol 
Mr.  Hezekiah  Usher,  for  legacy  of  50£. 

Ih,  I.  25. — Thomas  Stow  vs.  Hopestill  Foster  for  rents  due  from  est  ol 
John  Bigs  of  Maidstone,  co.  Kent.     1652. 

Essex  County  Court  Files,  IX.  45. — Daniel  King  of  Becomfeld,  co. 
Buckes,  Eng.  Slay  16,  1653,  and  bound  for  N.  E.,  received  45£  14s.  9d. 
from  his  cousin  William  Guy  as  an  adventure. 

Ih,  IX.  46. — Daniel,  son  of  Daniel  King  Senr  of  Lynn  in  1658,  had  gone 
to  Barbadoes. 

3.  XVII.  75. — Copy  of  draft  by  Michael  Spencer,  dated  Boston,  Jan*y 
19,  1648,  upon  his  cousin  Daniel  Spencer,  Grocer,  "in  Friday  Strcete  in 
London,"  payable  to  Mr.  Thomas  Ruck,  Haberdasher  att  the  Seaven 
Starres  on  London  bridge  for  30£  part  of  legacy  **  given  mee  by  my  Un- 
ckle Richard  Spencer." 

Ih.  XXII.  142. — Salem,  April  2,  1674.  Inquest  on  Michaell  partridge 
of  Solcum  In  Devonsheire  antl  Thomas  Hoop':  of  Seaton  In  s*d  sheire 
drowned  ;  debts  at  Marblehead. 

Ih,  XL VI.  100. — Thomas  Starr,  about  19,  saw  Francis  Chappell,  » 
youth,  in  Tinmouth,  Devonshire,  in  February,  1685-6. 


1884.]  New  England  Oleaninga.  81 

Beverly  Town  Records, — William  Hooper,  son  of  Julian  Hooper  of  Co- 
ker  in  Old  England  was  drowned  at  sea  Nov.  8,  1679,  aged  30. 

Eitex  County  Court  Files,  XXXIX.  136. — Thomas  Alley  servant  to 
Daniel  Chamberlin  of  the  Island  of  Jersey,  apprenticed  to  John  Pedrick 
of  Marblehead,  on  the  neck  side,  May  3,  1675. 

Essex  County  Court  FileSy  XXXVII.  149. — From  declaration  of  Job 
Tookie  to  the  Court  at  Salem,  June  27,  1682,  having  been  imprisoned  by 
Doctor  Richard  Knott,  an  Englishman  of  Marblehead,  for  refusing  to  ship 
on  a  fishing  voyage  as  agreed,  to  recompense  Dr.  Knott  for  assuming  a 
debt  to  Mr.  Wentworth  of  Piscataqua — "  Master  Knott  in  a  rage  saying 
that  he  had  better  att  home  to  wipe  his  shoes  than  ever  my  father  was,  <&c. 
u  DO  small  grief  to  me,  ....  My  great  grandfather  was  a  Doctor  of  Di- 
Tinitje  in  London  in  Queen  Elizabeth's  Tyme  <&  Deceased  there :  my 
Grandfather  was  Minister  of  St.  Ives  well  known  by  y*  honoured  Grovern' 
Broadstreet  as  his  honour  told  me  himself  and  likewise  by  Major  Pendleton 
of  Winter  Harbor  now  Deceased  ;  my  father  and  M'  Wiliam  Bridge 
Preached  twelve  yeares  together  in  y*  New  Church  of  Great  yarmouth.  I 
being  bis  eldest  son  he  did  intend  I  should  have  been  a  minister  and  in  my 
Thirteenth  year  of  age  Sent  me  to  Emanuell  Colledge  in  Cambridge.  I 
bad  been  there  but  a  fortnight  before  my  father  sent  for  me  home  and  asked 
me  if  I  was  willing  to  goo  to  London  to  be  an  apprentice.  I  went  and  was 
bound  to  a  Whole  Sale  Grocer  in  Cheapside,  but  not  much  above  a  year 
the  chiefest  part  of  the  Citty  was  burnt  and  my  father  consenting  to  my 
going  to  sea  I  was  bound  for  three  years  to  Capt  Sam**  Scarlett  of  Bostoiv 
which  time  I  served,"  &c.  &c. 

[The  Rev.  Job  Tookie,  of  Yarmouth,  England,  father  of  tho  deponent,  was  ejected 
anider  the  Bartholomew  act.  There  is  a  long  account  of  him  in  Palmer's  Noncon- 
formists' Memorial  (ed.  1777),  vol.  ii.  pp.  -209-12.  He  was  born  at  St.  Ives,  Dec. 
11, 1616,  and  died  in  l>ondon,  Nov.  20,  1670,  nged  54.  He  was  the  son  of  Job 
Tookie,  minister  of  St.  Ives  in  Huntingdonshire.  There  had  been  ministers  in  the 
ramily  for  several  generations. — Editor.] 

lb.  I.  94. — John  Wyatt  of  Ipswich  15 — 10 — 1647,  grandfather  of  the 
children  of  Luke  Heard  Senior  of  Ipswich  dec'd,  and  wife  Sarah.  A  por- 
tion of  land  at  Assington  in  Suffolk,  Old  England,  to  be  the  right  of  said 
Sarah  after  her  mother's  decease,  if  not  entailed. 

Com.  by  Henry  E,  WattCy  Esq.,  of  West  Newton,  Mass. 

IL 

Tork  County  Registry^  II.  108. — Joseph  Couch,  son  of  W™  Couch  in  the 
County  of  Cornwall,  sells  land  (at  Kittery)  to  John  Bray,  late  of  Plymouth 
County  of  Devon,  shipwright, 1G68. 

The  daughter  Margery  of  tho  above  John  Bray  m.  the  first  William 
Pepperell. 

Com.  by  William  M.  Sargent,  Esq.,  of  Portland,  Me. 


PoRTR.%rr  OF  Brig.  Gkn.  James  Kebd. — A  portrait  of  this  patriot  of  the  war  of 
the  Resolution  was  presented  to  the  Htate  of  New  Hampshire  in  August  last.  It 
*w painted  by  Miss  Anna  l)e  Witt  Reed,  daughter  ol  the  late  Itev.  SylvanuH  Reed, 
»f  New  York  city,  who  was  a  great-^reat-grandson  of  tJen.  Recti.  It  is  presented 
^y  Mrs.  Caroline  G.  Reed,  widow  of  the  Rev.  Mr.  Reed.  It  was  copied  trom  a 
inini&ture  in  enamel  in  possession  of  the  family,  taken  prior  to  the  year  1780. 

TOL.   ZZZVIII.      8 


82  Nolea  and  Querie$.  [Jmu 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 

NOTKS. 

Belungham. — In  looking  over  an  interesting  mRnuscript  sheet  pedigree  of  Um 
Curwens  of  Workington  and  allied  families,  compiled  by  the  late  Mr.  George  Hia- 
Bon  of  Maryland,  fur  bis  **  History  of  Kent  County/'  I  noticed  some  desoeots of 
**  Bellingham  of  Levins,'*  and  it  occurred  to  me  that  the  Richard  and  William  Bel* 
lingham,  who  came  to  Massachusetts  in  1634,  may  have  been  of  this  family.  Ott 
any  one  tell  me  if  these  emigrants  came  from  the  north  or  west  of  EDgland.  Sif* 
age  does  not  say. 

A  Ueorge  Curwin  or  Curwen,  from  '*  Workington,"  came  to  Boston  in  1096. 
His  name  does  not  appear  on  the  pedigree  of  this  branch,  and  I  am  not  able  to  pItM 
bim.  Cara  J.  Hubbard. 

Navy  Yard,  Portsmouth ,  N.  H, 


Gleanings  from  the  British  Museum. 

1.  Parish  Register  of  Somerby^  in  the  County  of  Leicester^  England.  Brit.  Mas. 
Additional  MSS.  24,  802.  **  Purchased  of  U.  Devon,  E8q.  April,  1862."  Thi?  ist 
long,  narrow  book  of  a  few  leaves  of  vellum,  not  more  than  five,  with  entries  iroa 
1601  to  niS—some  of  them  barely  legible.  It  is  imperfect.  There  are  few  entrief 
nnder  the  first  date,  the  most  perhaps  of  the  3'ears  1633  and  following  a  number  of 
years.  After  1700  the  entries  are  more  full.  The  most  frequent  names  are  Snatk^ 
Green,  Knapp.  Some  of  those  which  occasionally  occur  are  Eggle^ld,  Tr^% 
Baxter,  Barton  (a  St.  John  Barton)^  Byllington,  Sharp  and  Roberts.  I  notice  s•^ 
eral  entries  in  the  name  of  Beeby,  after  1700,  bearing  the  christian  names  of  Lydiii 
Francis,  John  and  Robert. 

2.  John  Adams.  Additional  MSS.  24,329,  contains  an  interesting  letter  of  John 
Adams  of  three  quarto  pages,  dated  '*  Quiocy,  near  Boston,  May  12,  1793,"  to 
**  John  Stockdale,  Esq.,  Piccadilly,  London,'^'  a  reply  to  his  of  *•  16  March." 
From  a  manuscript  note  on  the  back  it  appears  to  have  been  bought  at  **  R.  Oole'i 
sale  29  July  1861  Lot  9.*'  This  letter  refers  to  the  publication  of  some  of  Ad- 
amses writing.  He  says  he  did  not  write  '*  Publicola,  or  any  part  of  it.*'  It  is 
not  written  in  a  very  amiable  mood. 

Another  denial  of  the  authorship  of  the  above  is  to  be  found  in  Randolph's  lifii 
of  Jefferson,  where  a  letter  is  quoted  of  an  earlier  date  than  the  foregoing. 
CamdeUf  TV.  J,  Wiluam  John  Potts. 


Thomas  Purchase,  an  Early  Centenarian  (Essex  Co.  Court  Piles,  xzviii.  147).— 
'*  An  lovetory  [sic]  of  the  Estate  of  M'  Thomas  Purshas  Senior  deecascd  in  Don  id 
may  ist  1678  sa  :  Aged  iOi  years  >«"  presented  by  wife  Elizabeth.  n.  i.  w. 

Larrabee  (ante,  vol.  xix.  p.  128). — I  can  add  one  complete  family  to  the  Lamp 
bees  in  the  Register  for  April,  1867,  which  seems  so  far  to  have  been  overlooked. 

March  6,  1732-3.    Isaac  Larrabee,  now  of  Lynn,  but  formerly  of  North  Yarmouth, 
recites  that  his  father  Stephen  Larrabee  was  by  a  deed  from  the  Indiana  an  owner 
of  a  lot  of  land  in  said  North  Yarmouth  before  Governor  Danforth  and  others  wen 
regularly  settling  the  town  ;  that  at  a  meeting  at  that  time  of  the  Committee  and 
Proprietors  it  was  agreed  that  the  heirs  of  said  Stephen  Larrabee  should  quit  and  re- 
sign all  their  right  and  claim  to  said  tract  on  cimdition  that  each  of  the  children, 
▼iz. :  Stephen,  William,  John,  Thomas,  Samuel,  Isaac,  Benjamin,  Ephraim  and  Jean 
Asbfield  should  have  a  10  acre  lot  laid  out  and  granted  them  with  a  full  share  in 
the  common  and  undivided  lands — '*  but  so  it  happened  that  John  went  to  See  mi 
dyed  abrode  and  Ephraim  was  killed  by  the  Indians  at  North  Yarmouth  and  there 
was  no  lot  laid  out  either  for  John  or  Ephraim.     W  herefore  your  Petitioner  pin|t 
that  said  lots  may  be  laid  out  to  the  heirs  of  said  John  and  Ephraim  Larrabee." 

Portland,  Me.  William  M.  Sargent. 


1884.]  Notes  and  Queries.  83 

Thb  Nicholas  Oilman  House  at  Exetbr,  N.  H.— John  T.  Perry,  Esq.,  one  of  the 

editors  and  proprietors  of  the  Cindnna/i  Gazette,  retired  last  year  from  that  paper, 

and  has  removed  to  Exeter,  N.  II.,  where  he  has  hou$;ht  and  now  occupies  the 

hoQSc  occupied  by  his  jcrcat-grandfather,  Nicholas  Oilman,  from  about  1752  to  his 

death  in  1783.     Mr.  Oilman  was  Treasurer  of  New  Hampshire  and  chairman  of  the 

Committee  of  Safety.     Much  of  the  headwork  of  the  Revolution  was  transacted  in 

the  little  office  in  one  corner  of  the  building.     After  his  death  the  mansion  Wiis  oc- 

eopied  for  many  years  by  his  eldest  son,  Oov.  John  Taylor  Oilman.    The  place  has 

been  recently  thoroughly  repaired,  and  is  one  of  the  most  interesting  of  the  few  re- 

BtainiDg  colonial  '*  seats,'*  for  such  it  is  called  in  the  Exeter  map  of  1802.    The 

eentral  part  is  bailt  of  brick,  with  walls  about  two  feet  thick.    They  have  been  cov- 

«ed  with  wood  to  conform  to  the  wings  put  on,  probably  by  Afr.  Nichola.s  Oil- 

Mo.    There  is  some  obscurity  about  the  history  of  the  older  part  of  the  house, 

but  if  the  description  in  *'  The  Homes  of  the  Oilmans,*'  published  in  the  Oranite 

Monthly  for  October,  1882,  can  be  trusted,  it  was  probably  built  by  Nathaniel  Ladd 

thejounger,  bom  1679. 


QUKRIKS.  • 

WarrK.— Daniel  White,  of  Cambridge  1696,  and  Lexington  1731,  had  wife  Mary, 
ind  fecondly,  a  wife  Hannah.     Who  was  bis  father,  and  what  the  wives*  names  ? 
RochdaUf  Mass,  T.  W .  Nicksrson. 


Robinson. — ^Is  it  possible  to  find  from  what  county  in  England  Thomas  Robinson, 
vfao  settled  in  Hartford  in  1640,  came  ?  Maria  M.  Whitnst. 

Moseley  Homestead,  Westjield,  Mass, 


Spriggs,  Spragg. — I  am  desirous  of  obtaining  genealogical  information  relating  to 
Biiabeth  Spriggs,  who  married  John  Carter,  Esq.,  July  3,  1733,  in  the  Swedish 
Church,  Philadelphia.  The  first  of  the  family  ^came  from  London  and  was  named 
John  8pragg.  "  Mrs.  R.  B.  Allen. 

53  Ojft^  St,y  Cambridge,  Mass. 


Wise. — Can  any  of  the  readers  of  the  Register  inform  me  who  the  wife  of  Rev. 
Jeremiah  Wise  wns?  She  was  buried  at  South  Berwick,  Mc,  Nov.  12,  1742.  (Reg. 
of  Jan.  1856.  p.  58.)  Winfield  S.  JAiiE:>ON. 

Purt  Uambie,  Washington  Ter, 


CowLKT. — Are  there  any  de.«<cendants  on  this  side  of  the  Atlantic  of  Walter  Cow- 
ley or  Co<>ley,  who  was  the  Solicitor  General  of  Ireland  in  1559,  and  who  emi^nited 
with  his  brother  Richard  to  Ireland  in  the  reign  of  Henry  Vlll.  from  Rutlandshire 
in  England?  The  name  wiis  originilly  Cooley.  and  of  one  branch  of  the  family  the 
Duke  of  Wellington  and  others  of  the  Wcllesly  family  were  members.  Bcini;  a 
de<<ueDdant  of  the  **  Cowleys  '*  through  my  grandmother,  I  should  be  pleased  to  have 
oorrcsp'indence  with  any  connections  of  the  Irish  branch  of  that  family. 

Portland,  Me,  Joun  T.  Hull. 


Weeks — Weekes.— Information  is  desired  in  regard  to  the  following  persons  and 
their  descendants  : 

^Villiam,  born  1654  ;  (ieorge,  born  1661  ;  Joseph,  Jr.,  born  1670  (wife  Deliver- 
•noc) :  Simuel,  born  1680  (wife  Elizabeth):  Arumiel,  born  1683  (wife  Deborah) 
ttBrookfield  17.37-69;  William,  born  1690  (wife  Sarah);  Ebenezer,  born  1699; 
Lptoucl,  b.irn  1733  (wife  Elizabeth);  of  Dorchester  and  Bos/on.  VVilliam,  born 
1655  fwife  Joan),  of  Dorchester,  Worcester  and  Northfiefd.  Elijah,  born  1710  (at 
Rye,  >i.  Y.,  1717)  ;  Samuel,  born  17*21) ;  Moses,  born  1770;  of  Marlborough.  Tho- 
aiHi*  (had  son  Nathan,  born  1761),  ol  Ware.  Ebenezer,  Joel,  Nathan,  Eli,  Isaac, 
Daniel,  horn  1772-92,  sons  of  Holland  and  Mary,  of  Bckherlown.  Reuben,  born 
1776  (wife  Anna),  of  Harwich.  Barber  (Genesee  Co.,  N.  Y.,  1812-17),  William, 
Ebenexer,  born  1768-80.  sonn  ofllez^'kiah,  of  Norwich — all  born  in  Massachusetts. 

Aleo  any  evidenoo  showing  whether  William,  admitted  an  inhabitant  of  Fal- 


84  Notes  and  Queries.  [Jan. 

mouth,  Maine,  17*27,  was  or  was  not  the  same  with  William  (abore),  born  Boston, 
1689-00,  who  married.  1721,  Sarah  Tukekee,  of  Dorchester.         Addre»8 

Grovestend,  Essex  Co,,  N.  J,  Robert  D.  Wkeks. 


Ames. — Abel  Ames,  born  May  3,  1770  (supposed  in  Groton,  Mass.),  remofad 
from  Qroton,  N.  H.,  to  Lake  (then  Qeau^)  County,  Ohio,  in  1816.  He  married, 
in  1793,  Polly  Boynton,  and  in  1801  Hannah  Fowler.  Where  was  be  bom,  and 
who  were  his  ancestors  ?  R.  U.  Mitchell. 

Nevada^  Iowa, 


Uatward. — Who  was  the  wife  of  Thomas  Hay  ward,  the  settler  from  England  to 
Duzbury  before  1638?  and  who  was  Elizabeth,  the  wifo  of  Nathaniel  Haywud, 
grandson  of  Thomas?  R.  H.  Mitchell. 

Nevada,  Iowa, 

Mitchell.— The  old  B;x)k  of  Records  of  Chatham  says  **  James  Mitchell  y«  soDof 
William  &  Sarah  Mitchell  was  born  Nov.  y«  4»»»  1718.'* 

Tabitha,  daughter  of  the  same,  was  born  July  19,  1720 ;  Mary,  daughter  of  sainft, 
born  May,  1722 ;  William,  the  son  of  William  and  Sarah,  born  June  31,  1725. 

W  ho  can  tell  anything  of  this  family  ?  R.  H.  Mitchell. 

Nevada,  Iowa, 

Rey.  Peter  Bdlkelst*s  Letters. — In  the  excellent  **  History  of  the  Town  of  0)0- 
cord,*'  by  the  late  Lemuel  Sliattuck,  reference  is  made  to  the  various  letters  of 
Peter  Bulkeley,  one  of  the  founders  of  Concord,  as  well  as  its  earliest  minister* 
These  letters  are  the  following,  taking  them  in  the  order  in  which  they  come  in  Mr* 
Shattuck's  book:  1.  (p.  150),  '*a  long  letter,  ...  written  by  Mr.  Bulkeley  before 
his  ordination,  to  the  Rev.  Mr.  Cotton  of  Boston,'*  and  the  date  of  which  would 
therefore  be  previous  to  April  6,  1637.  2.  (pp.  154,  5)  Feb.  12,  1639,  to  Mr.  Shcp- 
ard,  of  Cambridge.  3.  (same  pp.)  December  17,  1640,  to  John  Cotton.  4.  (p.  155) 
Sept.  26,  1642,  to  the  same.  These  documents  are  not  in  the  possession  of  Mr. 
Shattuck*s  family,  and  1  shall  be  pleased  to  leurn  where  they  are  preserved.  Re- 
plies may  be  addressed  to  the  care  of  Mr.  Dean,  18  Somerset  Street,  Boston. 

B.  Beedham. 


Moor. — I  wish  to  learn  of  a  man  named  Moor,  who  was  in  business  on  Long 
Wharf  about  the  time  of  the  Revolution.  1  do  not  know  his  christian  name.  Hit 
wife*B  name  was  Hannah.  She  died  in  Boston  in  1803.  One  of  his  sons  wasao 
officer  in  the  3d  Mass.  Artillery  during  the  Revolution. 

Boston,  Mass,  Wiluam  F.  Jones. 


SherwooD'Bradford.— I  have  received  several  inquiries  about  a  daughter  or 
granddaughter  of  Uov.  William  Bradford,  who  married  a  Sherwood.  Can  any 
one  tell  me  her  name,  or  anything  about  where  her  descendants  settled,  or  wboss 
daughter  she  was  ?    Her  name,  and  husband^s  name  alone,  will  be  valuable  to  me. 

P.  O.  Box  55,  Newark,  N,  J.  W.  L.  Sherwood. 

Allen  Queries. — 1.  What  was  the  maiden  name  of  Zipporah,  wife  of  Ephiaim 
Allen?  She  died  Dec.  28,  1769,  at  Attleboro',  aged  80  years.  Where  was  her 
birth-place  ? 

2.  Of  what  place  was  Mary  Torrey.  who  married  Beiyamin  Allen,  of  Berkley, 
and  who  died  in  Attleboro*,  May  3,  1778,  aged  53  years?  Was  she  of  Weymouth? 
His  second  wife  was  Catharine ?     Where  born  ? 

Taunton,  Mass,  Please  address  Rev.  £.  W.  Allen. 


Wright  and  Stebbins.— Wanted,  the  parentage  of  Henry  Wright,  who  married 
Elizabeth  Stebbins  about  1755.  Their  first  child  was  born  in  December,  1756«  aiKJ 
the  father,  H.  W.,  died  in  Wilbraham,  Oct.  30,  1818,  a^ed  89.  Was  he  the  11 
W.  bom  in  Sprin^ifield,  Aug.  7,  1729,  son  of  Henry  and  Elizabeth? 

Wanted,  also,  the  parentage  of  the  above  Elizabeth  Stebbins.  She  died  April  17 
1776,  in  her  39th  year,  as  the  Wilbraham  records  say.  Alfred  C.  Chapim. 

115  Broadway,  New  York  City, 


1884.]  Notes  and  Queries.  85 

Austin.— Rribert*  Austin,  of  Kind's  Town,  R.  I.,  died  before  1687.  Who  was 
his  wife  ?     What  were  his  children's  names  ? 

Jeremiah^  Austin,  Kinj^'s  Town,  Exeter,  R.  I.,  was  born  between  1660  and  1670, 

tnd  married.  1690  to  1695,  Elizabeth .     Who  were  the  parents  of  Elizabeth? 

What  were  the  names  of  Jeremiah's  children  ? 

Robert*  Austin,  King's  Town,  Westerly,  Charlestown ;  born  1690  to  1695,  and 
died  1752  at  Charlestown,  R.  I.  Who  were  the  parents  of  his  wife  Hannah  ?  What 
were  the  names  of  his  children  ?  J.  0.  Austin. 

P.  O,  Box  31,  Providence,  R.  L 

Pom*. — Dorothy  Potter,  widow,  born  1617,  married  about  1647  John  Albro,  of 
Portsmouth,  R.  I.,  for  her  second  husband.  She  had  only  one  child  by  her  first 
Wband  (viz.  Nathaniel  Potter).  Who  wore  her  parents,  and  what  was  the  christ- 
ian name  of  her  first  husband  ?  J.  0.  Austin. 

Prvvidence,  R.  I. 

SKiRS.—*' Richard  Sears,  of  Hingham,  co.  Suffolk,  province  Mass."  pnrchaeed 
ItDdat  Lyme,  Conn.,  in  1719.  Silas  Sears  bought  lana  there  in  1727,  and  James 
Sam  in  17S^.  .  Neither  of  these  names  appears  in  Hingham  town  records.  Any 
information  respecting  them,  their  parents,  &c.,  will  oblige  S.  P.  Mat. 

Piemion,  Mass, 

Replies. 

EiiLT  Records  of  Casco  or  Falmouth,  Me.  (ante^  xxxvii.  306). — I  have  noticed 
I9  yoar  Register  that  Mr.  Mayberry  and  others  are  trying  to  discover  what  became 
01  the  earlier  Falmouth  records.    I  presume  this  will  settle  it  for  them  : 

1722.  The  Proprietors  of  North  Yarmouth  in  a  petition — recjuest  that  a  copy  may 
be  nude  of  their  records  (then  in  Charlestown),  but  the  original  kept  in  Boston 
**tbatso  the  ancient  Records  of  the  said  Town  may  be  kept  safe  &  secured  from 
the  dan^  of  falling  into  the  hands  of  the  Indians  A  other  casualties  that  may  hap- 
pen, which  was  the  unhappy  case  of  Falmouth  in  Casco  Bay  whose  Records  were 
W.  the  loes  of  which  has  run  them  into  great  confusion  &  has  almost  proved  their 
utter  ruin  A  destruction."  Wiluam  M.  Sargent. 

Portland,  Me. 

LoNGVEADOw  Families. — In  examining  the  list  of  **  Longmeadow  Families,** 
given  in  the  Register,  xxxii.  p.  402,  I  can  add  a  couple  of  items.  My  father  mar- 
ried the  Flavia  Burt  there  spoken  of,  who  died  in  1819,  and  1  have  met  the  Mrs. 
Bomham  who  was  Miss  fimelia  Burt,  after  her  marriage  to  Mr.  T.  K.  Brace. 

You  can  therefore  add,  if  you  see  fit,  to  that  family  list — 

Flacia  Burl  was  married  to  Charles  S.  Pbel;  3,  of  Warehouse  Point,  Conn.,  in 
the  spring  of  1819. 

Mn.  Emelia  Burnham  was  afterwards  married  to  Thomas  K.  Brace,  of  Hartford, 
Conn. 

My  mother  was  Charles  S.  Phelps's  second  wife.  C.  £.  Poelps. 


Wadsworth   (ante,  xxxvii.  403). — Our  correspondent  X.  is  informed  that  the 
totries  in  the  Cowles  bible  about  this  family  are  printed  in  the  Wadsworth  book, 


pigel29. 


Historical  Intelligence. 


lyier,  tenth  President  of  the  United  States  Numerous  letters  and  documents  will 
be  introduced,  including  the  address  ot  Ex-President  Tyler,  May  13,  1857,  at  the 
quarter  millenary  celebration  of  the  English  settlement  at  Jamestown.  The  talented 
author  is  the  youngest  son  of  President  Tyler,  and  has  bad  decided  success  in  obtain- 
ing original  matter  to  illustrate  the  lives  of  his  father  and  grandfather.  Free  access 
hsm  been  granted  him  to  the  papers  of  Daniel  Webster,  Caleb  Cushing  and  Abel  P. 
VOL,  XXXYUl.  8* 


86  Notes  and  Queries.  [Jan. 

Upshur,  and  he  has  ooDferred  with  Messrs.  Bancroft  and  Curtis  in  preparing  this 
work,  which  will  be  a  valuable  and  interesting  contribution  to  our  historical  and 
biojf^raphical  literature,  it  will  make  two  volumes  of  about  500  pazes  each,  and 
will  be  furnished  to  subscribers  at  $3  a  volume.  It  will  be  illustrated  by  throe  por- 
traits on  steel,  one  of  Qov.  Tyler  and  two  of  President  Tyler. 


Thk  Dartmouth. — This  colle^re  paper,  of  which  Mr.  Fletcher  Ladd  is  the  mana|^ 
ing  editor,  is  published  bi-weekly  at  ilanover,  N.  H.  Each  number  contains  9B 
pages,  and  the  price  is  two  dollars  a  year.  The  present  volume  is  much  iis- 
proved  in  several  respects,  and  the  alumni  of  Dartmouth  College  are  particularly 
appealed  to  for  support.  Special  prominence  is  given  to  the  **  Memoraaa  Alumno* 
rum  *'  department,  which  has  much  biographical  interest  and  value. 


Town  Histories  in  Preparation. — Persons  having  facts  or  documents  relating  to 
any  of  these  towns  are  advised  to  send  them  at  once  to  the  person  engaged  in  writ- 
ing the  history  of  that  town. 

(Veore,  iV.  H. — A  history  of  this  town  is  in  preparation  under  the  charge  of  a 
committee  of  twenty-six  persons  who  were  appointed  two  years  ago.  The  general 
committee  assigned  to  twelve  persons  certain  tf)pics  to  write  upon  for  the  proposed 
work.  A  historian  will  soon  oo  chosen  to  write  the  history  of  the  town,  making; 
such  changes  and  additions  to  the  chapters  prepared  by  the  committee  as  he  may 
deem  necessary.  The  town  has  already  appropriated  five  hundred  dollars  towards 
defraying  the  expenses.  It  is  expected  that  the  book  will  be  completed  and  pub- 
lished in  the  course  of  two  years. 

Genealogies  in  Preparation.— Persons  of  the  several  names  are  advised  to  fur- 
nish the  compilers  of  these  genealos;ies  with  records  of  their  own  families  and  other 
information  which  they  think  will  be  useful.  VVe  would  suggest  that  all  facts  of 
interest  illustrating  family  history  or  character  be  communicated,  especially  ser- 
.vice  under  the  U.  S.  government,  the  holding  of  other  offices,  graduation  from 
college  or  professional  school?,  occupation,  with  places  and  dates  of  oirth,  marriages 
residence  and  death.  When  there  are  more  than  one  christian  name  they  should  all 
be  given  in  full  if  possible.  No  initials  should  be  used  when  the  full  names  are 
known. 

Batlou.  By  the  Rev.  Adin  Ballon,  of  Hopedale.  Mass. — The  genealogj'  of  this 
family  for  some  years  has  been  in  process  of  collection  by  Ira  B.  Peck,  who  hu 
now  relinquished,  by  reason  of  age,  the  undertaking  to  Ariel  Ballon,  M.D.,  and  Hon. 
Latimer  W.  Ballon,  of  Woonsocket,  R.  I.,  and  who  in  turn  have  engaged  the  Rev. 
Adin  Ballon,  the  historian  of  the  town  of  Milford,  to  complete  the  labors  of  oon)- 
pilation.  Rev.  Adin  Ballon,  the  editor,  would  therefore  solicit  information  from 
genealogists  and  local  historians  throwing  light  upon  this  family.  All  data,  births, 
marriages  and  deaths ;  service  for  public  good  in  civil,  educational,  military  or  in- 
dustrial life,  and  in  fact  all  data  which  reveal  the  life,  labors  and  character  of  the 
scattered  family,  will  be  most  cheerfully  welcomed.  The  mother  of  our  lamented 
President  Garfield  was  a  member  of  this  family. 

Codman.  By  Oj^den  Codman,  Jr.,  of  Boston. — Any  information  in  regard  to  the 
Codman  family  will  be  gratefully  received.  Address  Mr.  Codman  at  18  Somerset 
Street. 

Dodge.  By  Robert  Dodge,  12  Wall  Street,  New  York  City  .—This  work  is  com- 
pleted and  ready  to  be  printcnl  when  an  adequate  subscription  is  secured.  It  will 
make  a  handsome  l2mo-  of  about  300  pages,  and  the  price  will  be  $3.  It  will  be 
sold  only  to  subscribers.  It  will  beentitl^  '*  Tristram  Dodge  and  his  Descendants 
in  America ;  with  Historical  and  Descriptive  Accounts  of  Block  Island  and  Coir 
Neck,  L.  I.,  their  original  settlements." 

Goodhue. — By  the  Rev.  J.  E.  Goodhue,  of  Cuba,  N.  Y. 

Goodrich."''  The  Goodrich  Family  Memorial,''  Part  II.,  by  Edwin  Hnbbard,or 
Chicago,  111.,  is  in  press,  and  advance  sheets  of  94  pages  are  before  us.  It  is  to 
contain  the  American  history  and  four  generations  of  the  descendants  of  William 
Goodrich,  an  early  settler  of  Wethersfield,  Ct.  The  work  is  to  be  illustrated,  and 
is  well  done. 

Lamb.  By  Frank  B.  Lamb,  Bainbridge,  N.  Y. — This  book  will  be  devoted  to 
the  descendants  of  Thomas  Lamb  of  Roxbury,  1630.  The  author  solicits  aid  from 
all  members  of  the  family. 


1884.]  Societies  and  their  Proceedings.  87 

Pkilbrick.  By  the  Rev.  Jacob  Chapman,  of  Exeter,  N.  H. — The  book  will  be  de- 
voted to  the  deecendantf)  of  Thomas  Philbrick,  who  in  1630  was  of  VVatertown. 
Ma£6.,  and  afterwards  of  North  Hampton,  N.  H.,  where  be  died.  The  author  will 
be  thankful  to  any  who  will  furnish  materials  to  aid  him. 

Powers. — Edwin  Hubbard,  of  Chicago,  111.,  is  carrying  through  the  press  a  gen- 
ealogy of  this  family,  principally  compiled  from  the  collections  of  Amos  U.  Powers, 
of  Chicago,  and  the  late  Herman  Powers,  of  Massachusetts.  Advance  sheets  of  83 
pam,  now  before  or,  show  that  it  will  be  a  valuable  book. 

RanlfU,  Randief  and  Rundlett.  By  Seth  A.  Ranlett,  Boston,  Mass. — ^Morethan 
500  names  and  a  nearly  complete  record  of  several  branches  of  this  family  have  been 
collected.  Circulars  furnished  and  correspondence  solicited  by  Seth  A.  Ranlett, 
Boston,  Mass. 

Treat. — A  genealogy  of  the  descendants  of  Rev.  Samuel  Treat  of  Eastham,  son 
of  Gov.  Robert  Treat  of  Connecticut,  is  in  course  of  preparation.  All  who  are 
able  to  furnish  information  ttre  requested  to  correspond  with  J.  H.  Treat,  Law- 
rence. Mass.,  or  fi.  P.  Treat,  Frankfort,  Me. 

Weeks.  By  Robert  D.  Weeks,  Grtvestend,  New  Jersey.— Mr.  Weeks  is  collect- 
ing materials  for  a  ^nealogical  history  of  the  descendants  of  George  VVeekes,  or 
Weeks,  who  settled  m  Dorchester,  Mass.,  in  1635.  Encouraging  progress  has  been 
made.     Correspondence  is  solicited. 

Weeks.  By  the  Rev.  Jacob  Chapman,  of  Exeter,  N.  H.— This  work  is  devoted  to 
the  descendants  of  Leonard  Weeks  of  Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  1656.  Records  and 
other  materials  thankfully  received. 


SOCIETIES  AND  THEIR  PROCEEDINGS. 

New-Enqland  Historic  Genealogical  Society. 

Boston,  Wednesday,  March  7,  1883. — A  stated  meeting  was  held  this  aflemoon 
at  3  o*clock,  at  the  Society's  House,  18  Somerset  Street,  the  president,  the  Hon. 
Marshall  P.  Wilder,  Ph.D.,  in  the  chair. 

The  Rev.  Edmund  F.  Slafter,  AM.,  the  corresponding  secretary,  announced  and 
exhibited  some  of  the  principal  donations  received  durioi^  the  past  month. 

HeiHiiutions  on  the  death  of  Willitmi  Dunne,  honorary  vice-president  lor  Penn- 
Hykania.  prepared  by  George  11.  Allan,  of  the  committee  appointed  in  January, 
were  read  and  adopted. 

Kev.  Charles  C.  Beaman,  of  Boston,  read  a  historical  paper  on  **  Windsor,  Ver- 
mont."   Remarks  followed  from  several  members,  and  thanks  were  voted  to  him. 

John  Ward  Dean.  A.M.,  the  librarian,  reported  as  donations  in  February,  38  vol- 
omes  and  97  pamphlets. 

Rev.  Mr.  Slafter,  the  corresponding  secretary,  reported  letters  accepting  the  mem- 
bership to  which  they  had  been  elected,  from  His  Honor  Albert  Palmer,  mayor  of 
Boston;  George  C.  Shattuck,  M.D.,  and  Robert  K.  Darrah,  of  Boston ;  SSaiunel  B. 
Rindge,  of  Cambridge;  Oakcs  A.  Ames,  of  North  Easton  ;  Col.  John  M.  Fessen- 
den,  of  Princeton,  N.  J. ;  Hon.  Francis  H.  Dewey,  of  Worcester,  and  J.  P.  Bishop, 
of  Taunton. 

Re?.  Increase  N.  Tarbox,  D.D.,  the  hi.storiographer,  reported  memorial  sketches 
of  five  deceased  members,  viz.  :  Hon.  Marshall  Jewell  of  Uartfurd,  Ct.,  Col.  John 
1^.  Fessenden  of  Princeton,  N.  J.,  Eliab  Kingman  of  Wtishington,  L).  C,  Hon. 
iitmael  L.  Crocker  of  Taunton,  and  Hon.  Paul  A.  Chadbourue  of  Amherst. 

April  i. — A  quarterly  meeting  was  held  this  afternoon.  President  Wilder  in  the 
cbir. 

The  corresponding  secretary  announced  important  donations. 

lion.  Nathaniel  r.  Safford,  chairman  of  the  committee  appointed  in  March,  re- 
ported resolutions  on  the  death  of  the  Rev.  Dr.  Paul  A.  Chadbourue,  which,  after 
ftmarks  fn>m  members,  were  adopted. 

Rev.  Andrew  P.  Peabodv,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  of  Cambridge,  read  a  vei^  interesting 
ptper  on  *"  The  Italian  People,''  founded  on  observations  during  visits  the  last 
year  and  sixteen  years  previous.  Remarks  were  made  by  several  members  and 
thuikB  were  voted. 


88  Societies  and  their  Proceedings.  [Jan. 

The  librarian  reported  58  volumes  and  576  pamphlets  as  donations. 

The  corresponding  secretary  reported  letters  accepting  membership  from  Josepk 
FostiT  of  London  and  George  William  Curtin  of  New  Brighton,  N.  Y.,  as  corws- 
pondint;.  and  Ke?.  William  C.  Win^low,  Boston;  Camillun  G.  Kidder,  Oranse, 
N.  J. ;  Jeffrey  R.  Brackett,  Quincy ;  Rev.  William  L.  Chaffin,  £aston  ;  andSliU- 
man  B.  Pratt,  Marlborough,  as  resident  members. 

The  historiographer  reported  memorial  sketches  of  three  deceased  members,  vii. : 
Nathaniel  Thayer,  of  Boston,  a  benefactor ;  M(\jor  George  Daniels,  of  Milford, 
N.  11. ;  and  Hon.  William  Greene,  of  Warwick,  R.  I. 

May  2. — A  stated  meeting  was  held  this  afternoon,  President  Wilder  in  thecbtir. 

Rev.  Edmund  F.  Slafter,  chairman  of  the  committee  on  the  death  of  Uagb  Mont- 
gomery, reported  resolutions,  which,  after  remarks  by  members,  were  adopted. 

The  corresponding  secretary  announced  important  donations. 

William  W.  Whcildon  addressed  the  society  on  the  historical  inaccuracy  of  tbede> 
signs  accepted  for  the  statue  of  Paul  Revere  about  to  be  erected  in  this  city.  Tin 
president  stated  that  the  board  of  directors  had,  at  Mr.  Wbeildon's  suggestion, 
ordered  their  secretary  to  remonstrate  with  the  committee  in  charge  of  the  statue. 

Rev.  VNTilliam  C.  Winslow  read  a  paper  entitled,  **  What  Egypt  says  of  IstmI 
and  the  Exodus.''  Remarks  followed  by  several  members,  anatbanks  were  voted 
for  the  paper. 

The  corresponding  secretary  reported  letters  of  acceptance  from  Waldo  Hiegin* 
son  of  Boston,  Hon.  Horace  Davis  of  San  Francisco,  Charles  F.  Conant  of  Ofta- 
bridge,  Jklward  Stearns  of  Lincoln,  and  Samuel  P.  May  of  Newton,  as  resident,  and 
Rev.  Charles  Hawley,  D.D.,  of  Auburn,  N.  Y.,  Silas  Bent  of  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  ud 
Charles  C.  Jones,  LL.D.,  of  Augusta,  Ga.,  ns  corresponding  members. 

The  librarian  reported  454  volumes  and  i^7  pamphlets  as  donations. 

Thu  historiographer  reported  memorial  sketches  of  three  deceased  members,  vis.: 
Peter  Cooper  and  Holmes  Ammidown  of  New  York,  and  Hugh  Montgomery  of 
Boston. 

June  6. — A  monthly  meeting  was  held  this  afternoon,  the  president  in  the  chair. 

The  president  announced  the  deaths  of  the  Hon.  Israel  Washburn,  Jr.,  LL.D.t 
vice-president  for  Maine,  and  the  Hon.  G.  Washington  Warren;  and  appointed 
committees  to  prepare  resolutions. 

The  Corresponding  secretary  announced  important  donations. 

Rev.  William  Barrows.  D.D.,  of  Reading,  reada  paper  on  **  Webster  in  the  Aeb- 
burton  Treaty  and  the  Oregon  Question.''  Remarks  followed  from  members,  and 
thanks  were  voted  to  Dr.  Barrows. 

Rev.  Increase  N.  Tarbox,  D.D.,  and  the  Hon.  James  W.  Austin,  chairmen  of 
committees  appointed  for  the  purpose,  reporte<l  resolutions  on  the  deaths  of  Hon. 
Marshall  Jewell,  vice-president  for  Connecticut,  and  Hon.  G.  Washington  War- 
ren, which  were  unanimously  adopted. 

Rev.  Dr.  Tarbox,  to  whom  the  matter  had  been  committed,  reported  resolutions 
approving  the  plan  now  before  Congress,  and  brought  to  the  Society's  attention  by 
Dr.  Franklin  B.  Hough,  of  Lowville,  N.  Y.  ;  of  preparing  and  printing  a  centen- 
nial record  of  the  Government  of  the  United  States  under  the  direction  of  the  na- 
tional Congress,  which  resolutions  were  adopted. 

The  librarian  reported  as  donations  in  May,  97  volumes  and  484  pamphlets. 

The  historiographer  reported  memorial  sketches  of  eight  deceased  members,  vis. : 
Hon.  John  D.  Baldwin  of  Worcester,  David  P.  Holtim,  M.D.,  of  New  York,  Rev. 
Charles  C.  Beaman  of  Boston,  Horatio  N.  Perkins  of  Melrose,  Hon.  Ginery  Twicb- 
ell  of  Brookline,  Horatio  S.  Noyes  of  Newton,  George  Craft  of  Brookline,  and  John 
G.  Tappan  of  Boston. 

Rhodb  Isi^nd  Historical  Society. 

Providence  J  Tuesday^  Oct.  3,  1883. — A  quarterly  meeting  was  held  in  the  Socie- 
ty's Cabinet,  Waterman  Street,  the  president,  William  Gammell,  LL.D.,  in  tkM 
chair. 

The  president,  as  chairman  of  the  committee  to  whom  the  letter  of  Franklin  B. 
Hough,  M.D.,  LL.D.,  on  the  subject  was  referred,  reported  a  resolution  approving 
of  the  passage  of  the  bill  introduced  in  Congress  in  March  last,  providing  for  the 
printing  of  a  centennial  history  of  the  Government  of  the  United  States,  wbiek 
resolution  was  adopted. 


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Dr.  Parsons  read  a  letter  of  Roger  Williams,  which  has  never  before  been  pub- 
lished. 
A  large  number  of  donations  was  announced. 

Wednesday,  Nov.  7. — A  stated  meetins:  was  held,  President  Gammell  in  the  chair. 

Maj.  Asa  Bird  Gardiner,  LL.D.,  of  New  York,  Judge  Advocate  of  the  United 
States  Army,  read  a  paper  on  '*  The  Society  of  the  Cincinnati  in  France  under  Louis 
XVI.'*    R^arks  from  members  followed  and  thanks  were  voted. 

Tuesday,  Nov,  27. — A  stated  meeting  was  held  this  evening. 
William  B.  Weeden  read  a  paper  on  *'  Indian  Money  in  English  Civilization." 
After  remarks  by  members,  thanks  were  voted. 

Chicago  Historical  Socixtt. 

Ckkaoo^  lU.,  Oa,  16,  18b3.— A  quarterly  meeting  was  held,  President  Arnold 
tt  the  cnair. 

The  librarian  reported  the  accession,  einee  the  meeting  in  September,  of  100 
boand  books,  963  pamphlets  and  unbound  volumes,  99  maps,  5  nags  and  a  large 
^tttntity  of  old  newspapers. 

Hod.  E.  B.  WashBurne,  in  behalf  of  Hon.  Ninian  W.  Edwards,  of  Springfield, 
ID.,  presented  a  large  and  valuable  lot  of  letters  and  other  manuscripts  (seven 
Tolames)  that  belonged  to  his  father,  Qov.  Ninian  Edwards. 

Mr.  Wasbbume  also  presented  the  society  in  behalf  of  Gdward  and  Mary  Coles, 
of  Philadelphia,  a  nicely  painted  portrait  of  their  father,  Edward  Coles,  the  second 
gofernor  or  Illinois. 

W.  F.  Poole,  LL.D.,  was  then  introduced,  and  read  a  paper  on  "  The  Ordinanoe 
of  1787  and  Mr.  Bancroft."    After  which  the  society  adjourned. 

Virginia  Historical  Societt. 

Richmond,  Saturday,  Sq)t.  16,  1883.~A  meeting  of  the  Executive  Committee 
Via  held  yesterday  in  the  Society's  Rooms  in  the  Westmoreland  Club  House, 
William  Wirt  Henry,  vice-preeident,  in  the  chair. 

A  large  number  of  letters  were  read  from  scholars  and  other  eminent  men,  in 
America  and  England,  commending  the  historical  value  and  excellent  typography 
of  the  recent  publications  of  the  society,  and  expressing  warm  appreciation  of  the 
generosity  of  Mr.  Corcoran.  A  letter  from  the  Hon.  Charles  C.  Jones,  Jr.,  of  Au- 
Koeta,  was  also  read,  stating  that  his  History  of  Georgia,  a  critical  and  compre- 
hensive work  in  two  volumes  of  more  than  500  pages  each,  was  in  press. 


NECROLOGY  OF  THE  NEW-ENGLAND  HISTORIC 

GENEALOGICAL  SOCIETY. 

Prepared  by  the  Rev.  Incrbasb  N.  Tarbox,  D.D.,  Historiographer  of  the  Society. 

The  historiographer  would  inform  the  society,  that  the  sketches  pre- 
pared for  the  REGISTER  are  necessarily  brief  in  consequence  of  the 
limited  space  which  can  be  appropriated.  All  the  facts,  however,  he  is 
able  to  gather,  are  retained  in  the  Archives  of  the  Society,  and  will  aid  in 
DJore  extended  memoirs  for  which  the  "  Towne  Memorial  Fund,"  the  gift 
of  the  late  William  B.  Towne,  A.M.,  is  provided.  Three  volumes,  printed 
*t  the  charge  of  this  fund,  entitled  "  Memorial  Biographies,"  edited  by 
the  Committee  on  Memorials,  have  been  issued.  They  contain  memoirs  of 
ill  the  members  who  have  died  from  the  organization  of  the  society  to  the 
close  of  the  year  1859.     A  fourth  volume  is  in  press. 

Hon.  GiNERT  TwicHELL,  a  life  member,  constituted  June  25,  1863,  was  born  Au- 
fnst  26,  1811.  at  Athol,  Mass.,  and  died  at  his  residence  in  Brookline,  Mass.,  July 
23,  1883,  aged  72  years,  10  months  and  27  days. 

The  Ainerican  founder  of  the  Twichell  family  seems  to  have  been  Joseph,  of  Dor- 


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Chester,  1633.  The  name  an  given  by  Savage  ih  varioasly  spelled  Twitchell, 
ell,  and  Twithwell.  The  name  is  now  more  commcml^  spelled  as  above,  Twiob* 
ell.  His  father  was  Francis  Twitchell « of  Athol,  and  his  mother  was  Sally  Fifth,  of 
Athol.     lie  was  the  second  of  nine  children.  ^ 

Mr.  Twichell's  career  has  been  such  an  could  hardw  be  possible,  certainly  ml 
probable,  under  any  other  than  the  free  institutions  of  this  country.  B«>m  of  • 
plftin  but  vigorous  stock,  breathin<;  in  his  boyhood  and  youth  the  air  of  the  roqgh 
hill  country  of  northern  Massachusetts,  enjoying  the  privileges  of  thai  comiWA 
school  education  to  whidh  every  New  England  boy  and  girl  is  entitled,  he  rose  fh« 
humble  employments  through  the  rank  of  stage  driver  to  become  a  large  »tage  wo- 
prietor,  owning  and  managing  various  lines  reaching  from  MassaohuscUfl  into  New 
Hampshire  and  Vermont.  His  experiences  and  successes  as  an  express  rider  ars  aki 
will  remembered. 

When  the  railroad  ase  had  been  fairly  inaugurated,  he  left  the  kinn^dooi  of 
horses,  in  which  he  had  ruled  and  reigned,  and  turned  to  the  iron  track  and  tioa 
horse.  From  assistant  superintendent  he  became  superintendent  and  then  presideat 
of  the  Boston  and  Worcester  Railroad,  already  when  he  took  it.  one  of  the  import- 
ant roads  in  the  country  ;  but  it  was  immensely  enlarged  and  improved  during  thi 
period  of  his  connection  with  it,  partly  by  the  rapid  growth  of  the  country  and  pail* 
ly  by  his  wise  and  efficient  management.  During  this  period  the  Boston  and  War* 
cester  and  Western  roads  were  united,  making  the  Boston  and  Albany  Road.    Hil 

£  residency  ended  when  the  two  roads  were  united.  His  connection  with  the  roid 
isted,  in  its  various  forms  of  service,  for  about  twenty-nine  years,  and  was  cfaB^ 
acterized,  so  far  as  he  was  concerned,  by  magnanimity, — a  large  and  generous  oa^ 
oeption  of  the  true  interests  of  the  rona  in  its  relations  to  its  patrons.  There  ml 
nothing  of  the  mean  and  narrow  in  his  composition. 

In  1666  ho  was  chosen  Member  of  the  fortieth  Congress  by  the  third  district  of 
Massachusetts,  and  was  reelected  to  the  forty-first  and  forty-second.  He  was  not  a 
talking,  but  a  wise,  working,  thoroughly  useful  and  practical  member. 

Mr.  Twichell  was  first  married  to  Miss  Theolathia  R.  Ruggles,  daughter  of  (''aptiii   I 
Creighton  R.  Ruggles,  of  Barre,  Mass.    She  was  born  April  26,  1820.     There  wen 
six  children  from  tliis  marriage,  all  of  whom,  with  the  mother,  are  dead. 

He  was  married  a  second  time  to  Miss  Burt,  sister  of  the  late  post-master  Bolt, 
of  Boston.    The  second  wife  with  a  daughter  survive. 

Hon.  John  Denmison  Baldwin,  of  Worcester,  Mass.,  a  resident  member,  chosei 
April  22,  1868,  was  born  at  North  Stonington.  Conn.,  Sept.  28,  1809,  and  died  al 
"Worcester,  July  8,  1883,  aged  73  years,  9  months  and  10  dsys. 

His  father  was  Daniel*  Baldwin,  born  in  North  Stonington,  Conn.,  and  his  mother 
was  Hannah  Stanton,  born  in  Groton,  C<mn.,  Mirch  11,  1786. 

From  Mr.  Baldwin^s  own  account  of  his  American  ancestry,  on  his  father's  side, 
we  take  the  following  items. 

Sylvester^  Baldwin  was  one  of  the  company  that  left  England  and  began  the  set- 
tlement of  New  Haven,  Conn.,  in  the  year  1638,  but  died  on  the  passage  over,  lie 
left  two  sons,  Richard  and  John. 

John^  Baldwin,  bv  his  second  wife,  had  six  children — four  daughters  and  two 
sons,  Sylvester  and  Theophilus.  He  removed  from  New  Haven  to  North  Stoning^ 
ton,  and  there  the  family  resided  for  some  generations. 

Theophilus'  Baldwin  married  Priseilla  Mason,  a  granddaughter  of  the  famoof 
Cant  John  Mason,  of  Windsor,  Conn.,  of  Pequot  memory,  and  had  one  daughter 
and  three  S(ms— John,  Theophilus  and  Sylvester. 

John^  Baldwin  married  Eunice  Spalding,  of  Plainfield,  Conn.,  and  had  seveial 
daughters  and  two  sons,  John  and  Ziba. 

John^  Baldwin,  son  of  last  named,  married  Sarah  Dennison,  whose  fourth  soft 
was  named  Daniel.  Daniel*  Baldwin,  the  father  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  msT' 
ried  Hannah  Stanton,  April  21,  1808. 

The  name  Baldwin,  like  the  name  Huntington,  belongs  specially  to  Connecticat. 
Harvard  College,  nearly  two  hundred  and  fifty  years  old,  shows  on  its  triennial  cat* 
alogue  only  fourteen  persons  of  the  name  Baldwin,  and  only  ei^ht  of  thane  are  regu- 
lar graduates  from  the  college  ;  while  the  Yale  triennial,  starting  with  iu*  list  sixty 
years  later,  presents  between  sixty  and  seventy  students  of  this  name,  of  whom  fifty- 
five  are  regular  graduates. 

Hon.  John  Dennison  Ikldwin.  however,  was  not  a  graduate.  He  studied  for  the 
ministry  in  the  Yale  Theological  Seminary,  finishing  bis  course  in  1834.     He  re- 


1884.]         Ifecrology  of  Historic  Genealogical  Society.  91 

MTcd  the  honorary  degree  of  A.M.  from  Yale  College  in  1839.  He  was  ordained 
h  West  Woodstock,  Conn.,  Sept.  3, 1834,  where  be  preached^till  July  25,  1837.  He 
was  afterwards  settled  at  North  Branford,  Conn.,  from  Jan  17, 1838,  to  May,  1845, 
tnd  at  North  Killingly  (now  Ea8t  Putnam)  from  April  29,  1846,  to  Sept.  17,  1849. 
From  1849  to  1853  he  was  the  editor  of  the  Republican  of  Hartford.  For  some  vears 
tfter  he  was  employed  as  editor  or  assistant  editor  in  the  Boston  Commonwealth,  the 
Tdt^apk^  and  Daily  Advertiser,  From  1863  to  1869  ho  was  a  member  of  the 
Hbow  of  Rrorescntatives  at  Washington.  During  the  later  vears  of  his  life  he  has 
lesided  at  Worcester,  MasH.,  and  has  been  the  editor  of  the  '^A^orcester  Spy, 

Mr.  Baldwin  was  united  in  marriage,  April  3,  1832,  with  Mies  Lemira  Hatha* 
irmy,  daughter  of  Ebenezer  Hathaway,  of  Dighton.  From  this  marriage  there  were 
two  soii»— John  Stanton,  born  Jan.  6,  1834,  and  Charles  Clinton,  born  May  4, 1835. 
Tb^  are  both  married,  with  families,  or  children,  and  are  living  in  Worcester. 

m  has,  besides  his  editorial  work,  been  a  large  writer  of  articles  for  magazines 
nd  qoarterlies.  He  published  in  early  life  a  book  of  poems,  entitled  *'  Raymond 
ItiUand  Other  Poems,*'  and  in  his  later  life  he  was  the  author  of  the  work  enti- 
M,  **  Prehistoric  Nations  of  Ancient  America.*'  He  has  also  interested  himself 
greatly  in  genealogical  studies  and  researches. 

GioRGX  Craft,  a  life  member,  chosen  March  2,  1869,  was  born  in  Brookline, 
Mass  ,  May  28,  1812,  and  died  in  the  same  place,  July  21,  1883,  aged  71  years,  1 
Booth  and  23  days. 

His  father  was  Caleb  Crafl,  bom  in  Brookline,  Dec.  10,  1783,  and  who  died  there. 
Joly  11,  1860. 

Uis  mother  was  Sarah  Richardmn,  of  Needham,  Mass.,  bom  April  25,  1783,  and 
vbodied  in  Brookline,  Nov.  27,  1861. 

His  grandfather  was  Caleb  Craft,  born  in  Roxbury,  Mass.,  August  21,  1741,  and 
vbo  died  in  Brookline,  Jan.  R,  1826,  aged  84. 

His  iniindmother  was  Eleanor  White,  daughter  of  Beigamin  White,  and  was  bora 
in  Brookline,  Oct.  26,  1745. 

His  in^at-grandfather  was  Dea.  Ebenezer  Craft,  who  wasVorn  in  Roxbury,  Mass., 
Mav  22,  1705,  and  who  died  there  in  1791  at  the  age  of  86. 

His  great-grandmother  was  Siiwin  White,  daughter  of  Samuel  White,  of  Brook- 
line. Ma.ss      She  died  Sept.  4,  1752,  at  the  a«(e  ot  39. 

His  great-great-grandlather  wa.s  Ebenezer  Craft,  whose  wife's  name  was  Eliza- 
beth.   They  were  married  Nov.  14,  1700. 

Mr.  Craft's  earliest  American  ancestor  must  probably  have  been  GriflBn  Craft, 
who  ap|)eared  in  Roxburv  in  1630,  and  was  made  freeman  in  1631.  He  seems  to 
bare  been  the  only  founder  on  these  shores  of  the  families  bearing  this  name,  which 
was  early  written  also  as  Crafts  and  Croft.  It  is  supposed  that  Griffin  Craft  came 
OTer  in  Gov.  Winthrop's  fleet,  reaching  the.»<c  shores  in  the  early  summer  of  1630. 

Mr.  Craft  had  such  early  education  as  the  old  New  England  school  could  give. 
He  lived  on  the  spot  where  he  was  born,  and  cultivated  the  lands  I>eloiiging  to  his 
looestors.  He  took  great  delight  in  the  culture  of  flowers  and  trees,  and  this  has 
been  his  business  for  many  years.     In  the  mean  time  he  has  interested  himself  in 

bin  leisure  hours  in  studying  and  arranging  the  genealogy  of  his  family,  and  though 

be  has  never  completed  the  work  and  made  it  ready  for  publication,  bis  collections 

bare  been  such  as  to  aid  greatly  in  that  direction. 
He  leaves  behind  a  good  record.     Ail  his  business  transactions  have  been  marked 

by  honesty  and  uprightness.     He  was  never  married,  but  has  lived  all  his  life  on 

the  old  homestead,  in  that  part  of  Brookline  bordering  closely  on  West  Roxbury,  in 

company  with  his  sisters. 

Hon.  Cbarles  Bingley  Hall,  a  life  member,  admitted  iMay  7,  1860,  was  born  in 
Jjetfiwn  of  Orford.  N.  H.,  June  28,  1HI5,  and  died  in  Chester  Square,  Baston, 
«tv  8, 1883,  aged  67  years,  10  months  and  10  days. 

His  father  was  Richard  Hall,  of  Orford,  N.  H.,  a  farmer. 

Hi.s  grandfather  was  John  Hall,  who  came  from  Pelham,  N.  H.,  to  Orford. 

His  great-grandfather  lived  to  great  age,  and  died  in  Francestown,  N.  H. 

The  early  life  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch  was  passed  in  his  native  town  of  Or- 
ford. He  received  during  his  youth  sueh  education  as  could  be  obtained  in  the 
jcbouLs  of  his  own  town  and  county.  In  1834,  when  at  the  age  of  19,  he  went  to 
HaTerhill,  Mass.,  as  a  clerk  in  a  store,  where  he  remained  four  years.  In  1838  he 
v«ot  into  bueiDcss  by  himself  for  the  sale  of  West  India  goods.    In  184!  he  was 


92  Necrology  of  Historic  Genealogical  Society.       [Jan. 

appointed  poBt-master  of  Haverhill,  which  office  he  retained  eieht  yearn.  In  1649 
be  was  chosen  democratic  representative  to  the  legislature.  In  lodO  Got.  Brigp 
appointed  bini  Trial  Justice  in  fishes.  In  the  same  year  be  was  made  a  director  la 
the  Merrimac  Bank,  Haverhill,  and  in  the  Haverhill Savinza  Bank,  in  1851  he  wii 
made  Treasurer  and  Receiver  General  of  the  commonwealth.  In  the  same  year  bt 
was  made  CommisHioner  to  adminlHter  baths  and  affirmations  to  persona  appoiniad 
to  office.  In  1853  he  was  one  of  the  Commissioners  to  divide  the  publio  lands  io 
Maine.  In  the  same  year  he  wan  chosen  a  member  of  the  State  UonTentioa  to 
amend  the  constitution.  In  1853  also  the  Charter  of  the  National  Bank  of  Boston 
was  procured,  and  be  was  chobcn  cashier  of  the  same.  The  capital  was  $750,000. 
This  office  in  the  bank  occasioned  his  removal  in  1854  from  Haverhill  to  Boetoo.  lo 
1878  he  became  director  and  president  of  this  same  bank,  in  which  offices  he  con- 
tinued till  his  death.    . 

In  the  year  1842,  while  residing  in  Haverhill,  he  was  united  in  marriage  with 
Miss  Elizabeth  W.  Dow,  daughter  of  Mr.  John  Dow,  of  Haverhill.  There  wasont 
daughter  from  this  marriage,  Ada  Elizabeth,  who  was  married,  and  who  died  lail 
year. 

Mr.  Hall  was  a  mason  of  high  order,  having  received  the  thirty-three  degrees  of 
the  Ancient  Accepted  Scottish  Rite  of  Free  Masonry.  He  was  also  a  member  of  tfat 
Supreme  Council  of  Grand  Inspectors  General  of  the  Northern  Masonic  Jurisdictios 
of  the  United  States  of  America. 


Hon.  Moses  Thompson  WiLLARn,  a  life  mnmber,  admitted  March  16,  1863, 
born  at  Bow,  N.  H.,  June  21,  1800,  and  died  at  Concord,  N.  H.,  May  30,  1863, 
aged  76  years,  11  months  and  9  days. 

His  father  was  Moses  F.  Willard,  and  his  mother  was  Mehitable  Robertson. 

He  attended  the  common  schools  uf  his  native  town  in  his  childhood,  and  afler- 
wards  received  a  good  academical  training  at  Pembroke  Academy.  Ho  went  fron 
this  school  to  the  Medical  Dep-.irtment  of  Dartmouth  College,  and  was  graduated 
in  1835,  in  a  clans  of  twenty-nine.  Ho  chr>se  the  profession  of  a  dentist,  and  took 
up  his  residence  in  Concord  so(»n  after  his  graduation. 

Dr.  Willard  was  first  married  to  MIks  Mary  B.  Morgan,  of  Pembroke,  with  whom 
be  lived  many  years.  After  her  death  lie  was  united  in  marriage  with  Miss  Zelda 
Morgan,  of  Pembroke.  She  also  died  before  him,  some  two  years  ago.  He  had  no 
children. 

Dr.  Willard  was  mayor  of  Concord  in  1850-60,  and  was  poet-master  for  several 
years.  The  Concord  Daily  Monitor  of  May'30,  1883,  says  of  him  :  '*  He  was  one 
of  the  Old  Guard  of  FreeHoilers,  an  ardent  supporter  of  John  P.  Hale,  and  when  the 
Republican  party  came  int4)  existence  he  l)eeame  one  of  its  earliest  and  most  stead- 
fast suppi>rterM,  never  losing  laith  in  its  principles.  He  was  also  a  devoted  friend  of 
temperance,  and  for  many  years  was  connected  with  the  Sons  of  Temperance  organ- 
ization, filling  its  principal  chairs.  He  was  long  identified  with  the  educational 
interests  of  the  city,  and  always  felt  a  deep  interest  in  public  education,  and  what- 
ever would  tend  to  elevate  and  improve  people.  In  brief,  be  was  a  public  spirited 
citizen,  liberal  in  the  way  of  his  means,  broad  and  charitable  in  bis  views,  a  kind 
neighbor,  and  an  honest  man,  who  had  the  courage  of  his  convictions.'* 

A  well  known  citizen  of  Concord,  in  a  private  letter,  writes  thus  of  him  :  **  I  have 
ever  considered  the  Doctor  an  honest  man.  I  don't  .know  that  he  ever  did  a  dishon- 
est act.  He  was  a  conscicntiouHly  good  denti.st,  and  years  ago,  when  good  dentist! 
in  the  country  were  few.  Concord  had  in  him  one  of  first  cla.«s  ability.  He  wif 
honest  in  his  calling,  and  despisi'd  all  shams,  even  when  covered  up." 

He  was  also  a  man  possessing  a  forcible  and  effective  humor,  which  came  into 
ready  play  on  occasions,  and  his  Hayings  in  this  line  are  remembered  and  repeated 
among  the  people  of  Concord. 

John  Gallison^Tappan,  E?q.,  a  resident  member  and  benefactor,  chosen  Januaiy 
26,  1871,  WMs  born  in  Bo.ston,  Mass.,  Feb.  5,  1808,  and  died  in  Brookline,  Mass.* 
Aug.  29,  1883. 

His  father  was  the  Hon.  John*  Tappan,  of  B.)ston,  who  was  bom  in  Northamp- 
ton, .Maas.,  July  26,  1781. 

His  niother  was  Sarah  Salisbury,  daughter  of  Samuel  Salisbury  and  granddaugh- 
ter of  Nicholas  Snli.sbury,  both  of  Bfwton. 

His  earliest  American  ancestor  (m  the  paternal  side,  was  Abraham^  Toppan, 
who  came  from  Cambridge,  England,  with  bis  wife  and  two  children,  in  the  year 


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1637,  and  settled  in  Newbary,  where  he  was  made  freeman,  October  10,  that  same 
jear. 

A  son  of  Abraham  was  Peter'  Toppan,  of  Salisbury,  who  was  born  in  England  in 
1634. 

A  s»n  of  Peter  was  Samuel'  Toppan,  of  Newbury,  who  was  bom  June  5. 1670. 

A  son  of  Samuel  was  Benjamin^  Tappan,  minister  at  Manchester,  Mass.,  who  was 
bom  at  Newbury,  Mass.,  I^^ebruary  2i^,  1720.  He  was  graduated  at  Harvard  Col- 
lege in  1742,  and  died  in  Manchester,  May  6,  1760.  About  this  time  the  name 
teems  to  have  been  changed,  in  its  American  uHe,  from  Toppan  to  Tappan. 

A  sun  of  Rev.  Beiyamin  was  Bei\jamin^  Tappan,  of  Northampton,  Mass.,  who 
WIS  bom  in  Manchester,  Mass.,  Oct.  21,  1747,  and  died  at  Northampton,  Jan.  29, 
1831. 

A  son  of  Benjamin  was  John*  Tappan,  of  Boston,  already  mentioned.    He  (John 
Tkppan)  was  one  of  eleven  children,  among  whom  were  Hon.  Benjamin  Tappan,  of 
Ohio,  U.  S.  Senator  and  Judge,  Arthur  Tappan,  of  New  York,  first  president  of  the 
American  Anti-Slavery  Society,  and  Lewis  Tappan,  of  New  York. 
I       The  sobject  of  our  sketch,  in  his  early  life,  attended  the  public  schools  of  Boston, 
I    and  afterwards  was  fitted  for  college  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover.     He  entered 
^    Harvard  College,  where  he  remained  only  one  year,  and  then  gave  himself  vigor- 
ously to  a  mercantile  life.    He  was  for  many  years  president  of  the  Boston  Belting 
Company. 

He  was  united  in  marriage.  May  8,  1839,  with  Mies  Eliza  Lavn^nce  Trask,  daugh- 
ter of  Israel  Trask,  of  Springfield,  Mass.  From  this  marriage  there  were  six  cbild- 
nn,  foar  sons  and  two  daughters. 

For  the  last  few  years  of  his  life  Mr.  Tappan  has  lived  in  Brookline,  Mass.  Be- 
fore his  removal  thither  his  home  was  in  Ashburton  Place,  Boston. 

SLLiB  Kingman,  Esq.,  a  corresponding  member,  chosen  Dec.  12,  1861,  was  bom 
io  Warren,  R.  I.,  May  24,  1797.  and  died  in  Washington,  D.  C,  Feb.  1,  1883 

He  was  graduated  m  Brown  University  in  the  class  of  1816,  at  the  age  of  19,  hav- 
ing Among  bis  classmates  such  men  as  Benjamin  Bosworth  Smith,  Bishop  of  Een- 
tuckj*  and  Solomon  Peck.  D.D.,  professor  of  Hebrew  and  L^tin  in  Amherst  Col- 
lege. Though  horn  in  Warren,  R.  I.,  the  ancestral  home  of  his  family  for  several 
fenerations  was  Bridgewater,  Mass.  Henry  Kingman,  of  Weymouth,  was  his 
r>t  American  anceistor,  who  was  here  in  the  very  early  years  of  the  settlements  in 
the  Massachusetts  Bay.  Soon  alter  graduation  he  was  invited  south  as  private  tutor 
io  the  family  of  the  father  of  Gov.  Henry  S.  Foote,  of  Virginia.  By  this  honorable  as- 
sociation he  was  led  into  connection  with  other  distinguished  families  of  Virginia, 
and  thus  enjoyed  rare  opportunities  for  culture.  In  1821  he  went  to  Washington. 
He  was  then  twenty-seven  years  of  age,  and  entertKi  at  that  time  upon  the  career  of 
journalism  which  became  his  life-work.  At  that  period  the  profession  of  journal- 
»m  was  fiir  less  distinct  and  marked  than  at  present.  Mr.  Kingman  became  one  of 
the  mtjfit  distinguished  men  of  his  time  in  that  deoartment. 

He  came  to  Boston  in  1830  and  purchased  the  New  England  Palladium,  but  not 
sacceedin^  with  it  as  well  as  he  hoped,  he  sold  it  out  after  a  time  to  the  Colum- 
hian  Centioel  and  returned  to  Washington.  In  1841  he  purchased  on  Nth  Street  a 
h)Qse,  with  quite  a  tract  of  land,  where  he  lived  through  all  his  remaining  years. 
This  porcbase  proved  a  very  valuable  one,  as  he  was  able  to  sell  building  lots  from 
it  at  a  greatly  advanced  price. 

In  \S^  he  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Cordelia  Ball  Ewell,  eldest  daughter  of 
Dr.  James  Ball  Ewell.  She  died  in  1876,  and  m  the  same  year  Mr.  Kingman  met 
with  an  accident  which  seriously  lamed  him. 

Hon.  RoGEH  AvsRiLL,  of  Danbury,  Conn.,  a  life  member,  admitted  November  20, 
1869,  was  born  in  the  town  of  Salisbury,  Litchfield  County,  Conn.,  Aug.  14,  1810, 
tod  died  in  Danbury,  Dec.  9,  1883,  aged  73  years,  3  mos.  and  25  ds. 
JUifl  Either  was  JJa than iel  Peny  Averill,  born  in  Washington,  Conn.,  July  25, 
17<0.  His  mother  vras  Mary  Wnittlesey,  born  in  Washington,  Conn.,  June  13, 
1771. 

U'm  remoter  ancestors,  on  his  father's  side,  were — Samuel  Averill,  2nd ;  Samuel 
Averill,  bom  1715  ;  Isaac  Averill,  born  about  1685. 

The  boy  Roger,  after  beingeducated  in  the  common  schools,  and  being  fitted  iot 
^lleje,  entered  Union  in  1828  at  the  a^e  of  eighteen,  and  was  graduated  in  due 
OMuie  in  1832.    He  then  studied  law  m  the  office  of  the  Hon.  Samuel  Church, 

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Chief  Justice  of  Connecticat,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1835.  He  made  fak 
home  in  bis  native  town  until  1849,  holding  the  offices  of  justice  of  the  peace,  towa 
clerk  and  town  treasurer.  He  then  removed  to  the  town  of  DaQbory^  CoQo.«  whieh 
bas  since  been  his  home. 

He  represented  both  bis  native  town  and  his  adopted  town  in  the  General  Annnni 
bly  of  Q)nnecticut.    He  was  for  three  years  Judge  of  Probate  in  the  Daoboiy  Pro- 
bate District. 

In  1862  be  was  elected  Lieutenant  Governor  of  the  state,  and  was  leeleeled  to 
the  same  office  for  the  three  years  following. 

The  Boston  Journal,  in  its  issue  of  Dec.  11,  1883,  says  of  him :  "  In  1809  be  wit 
elected  Lieutenant  Governor  on  the  Republican  ticket,  and  moRt  ably  assisted  Gof, 
Buckingham  during  the  early  part  of  the  late  war.  Ho  vras  reelected  to  the  mtm 
position  and  served  to  1866.  He  held  the  position  of  Trustee  of  the  State  Nomtl 
School  for  twelve  years,  and  was  also  a  member  of  the  State  Board  of  EdaeaficA 
for  three  years,  besides  holding  many  other  offices  of  trust.  Mr.  Ayerill  kavei  a 
widow  and  four  children." 

Mr.  Averill  was  united  in  marriage,  Oct.  16, 1844,  with  Miss  Maria  D.  White,  of 
Danbury.  By  this  marriage  there  were  four  children — Arthur  H.,  John  C,  Mip 
ria  W.,  Harriet  £.,  all  of  whom  are  now  living.  His  wife  died  Feb.  13,  1860,  anl 
he  was  married  again,  Sept.  18,  1861,  to  Mary  A.  Perry.  His  second  wife  sorrim 
him. 

Oapt.  Samuel  Richardson  Knox,  U.S.N. ,  a  resident  member,  admitted  Nor.  9, 
1874,  was  bom  in  Cbarlestown,  Mass.,  Aug.  28, 1811,  and  died  at  Ererett,  Maa-y 
Nov.  20,  1883,  aged  72  years,  2  mos.  and  22  days. 

His  father  was  Robert  Knox,  bom  in  Boston,  Mass.,  Nov.  4, 1770. 

His  mother  was  Ann  Richardson,  born  in  Boston,  Nov.  1,  1770. 

His  earliest  American  ancestor  was  Adam  Knox,  who  was  bora  in  tbe  north  of 
Ireland  in  the  year  1719.  He  with  two  brothers  came  to  this  country  in  1737.  Ha 
settled  in  Boston,  and  his  brothers  went  elsewhere,  one  of  them  to  Conneetioiit 
Adam  Knox  was  married  in  June,  1741,  to  Martha  King,  daughter  of  Henry  aad 
Martha  King. 

One  of  the  children  of  this  marriage  was  Thomas  Knox,  bora  April  18,  1749.  H» 
married  Feb.  1,  1770,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Dea.  Samuel  Barrett.  The  eldat 
child  of  this  marriage  vras  Robert,  mentioned  above. 

He  was  educated  at  the  common  and  private  schools  of  Boston,  and  in  1828  enter- 
ed the  naval  service,  being  appointed  thereto  by  Hon.  Samuel  L.  Southard,  under 
tbe  presidency  of  John  Quincy  Adams.  He  served  at  first  on  board  tbe  U.  8.  Fri^ 
ate  Constitution.  From  November,  1828,  he  served  in  different  ships  until  1833  oe 
the  Pacific  Station.  In  the  autumn  of  1833  he  sailed  in  the  ship  Europe  for  tht 
Northwest  coast,  and  returned  in  1836.  In  1838  he  joined  the  U.  S.  Exploring  fif> 
pedition,  and  returned  home  in  1842.  In  1843  went  in  the  ship  Plymouth  to  tin 
Mediterranean,  returning  in  1845.  During  the  Mexican  war  be  was  stationed  it 
the  vicinity  of  Vera  Cruz.  In  1849  he  went  to  the  Pacific  in  command  of  the  U.  S. 
Steamer  Massachusetts,  and  was  employed  in  making  a  naval  and  militair  surngr 
of  the  coasts  of  California  and  Oregon.  He  returned  in  1845,  but  on  tbe  breakiiic 
out  of  the  war  of  the  Rebellion  he  served  on  the  coasts  of  Florida  and  Texas,  aol 
also  in  the  recruiting  service. 

Capt.  Knox  was  not  married. 

WiLLUM  LsTSRRT  DicKiNSON,  A.M.,  a  Corresponding  member,  admitted  Jti. 
15,  1848,  was  born  at  Windsor,  Vt.,  Jan.  9,  1819,  and  died  in  Jersey  City,  N.  J^ 
Nov.  3,  1883. 

His  father  was  Cotton  <}aylord  Dickinson,  who  was  bora  in  Northampton,  Mass., 
July  11,  1786.    His  mother  was  Lucy  Stone,  bora  in  Windsor,  Vt.,  Jan.  9,  1794. 

After  finishing  his  early  education  and  his  prenaration  for  college,  he  was  enteiei 
at  the  University  of  Vermont,  and  was  ^raduatea  there  at  the  early  age  of  nineM 
in  1838.  He  very  soon  entered  upon  his  work  as  a  teacher  in  Jersev  City,  begitt' 
ning  first  as  a  private  tutor,  then  as  the  principal  of  a  private  school,  then  as  tfat 
bead  of  one  of  the  public  schools.  In  the  ^ear  1870  he  was  chosen  superintendent 
of  the  public  schools,  which  office  he  continued  to  hold  till  near  the  time  of  hit 
death.  This  office,  for  some  part  of  the  time,  seems  to  have  included  within  its  ooa- 
pass  the  schools  of  the  county  as  well  as  the  city.  A  man  acting  for  so  long  a  {{W 
od  of  time  in  one  locality,  with  a  constantly  ascending  scale  of  responsiblK^,  giTM 


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tbondant  eridenoe  that  be  is  poraeased  of  most  reliable  qualities  of  mind  and 


He  was  united  in  marriage,  Aug.  28,  1843,  with  Miss  Oelia  Goes,  wbo  was  bom 
ID  Winchester,  N.  U.  Her  father  was  Phillips  Goes,  who  was  born  in  Winchester, 
N.  H.,  1791,  and  her  mother  was  Diantha  Pierce,  born  July  24, 1707. 

From  this  marriage  there  are  two  children  now  living,  viz.:  William  Henry, 
born  January  90,  1850,  and  Gordon  Kimball,  bom  Dec  14, 1855.    His  wife  survives. 

WnxiAXS  Latham,  Esq.,  a  life  member,  admitted  March  7, 1865,  was  born  in  East 
Bridgewater,  Mass.,  Nov.  4,  1803,  and  died  in  Bridgewater,  Nov.  6,  1883,  aged  80 
yean  and  9  days. 

His  &tber  was  Galen  Latham,  who  was  bora  in  1775,  and  his  mother  was  Susan- 
m  Keith,  daughter  of  Eleazar  Keith.    Thev  were  married  in  1802. 

His  earliest  American  ance«<>tur  on  his  father's  side  was  William'  Latham,  who  was 
h  Ptymonth  in  1023.  In  1637  he  lived  in  Duxbury.  In  1639  he  sold  his  home  and 
knd  to  Rev.  Ralph  Partridge  and  removed  to  Marsnfield. 

A  mm  of  William  was  Robert,'  who  held  the  office  of  constable  in  Marshfield  in 
1613.  He  married  in  1649  Susanna  Winslow,  daughter  of  John  and  niece  of  Gov. 
ttwmrd  Winslow.  The  mother  of  Susanna  Winslow  was  Mary  Chilton,  wbo  was  the 
int  woman,  according  to  tradition,  wbo  came  ashore  from  the  Mayflower.  F6r 
this  reason  a  son  of  Robert  was  Chilton  Latham. 

This  Chilton'  Latham  married  in  1699  Susanna,  daughter  of  John  Kingman,  and 
bad  a  large  family. 

A  son  of  Chilton  was  Charles*  Latham,  who  married  Susanna,  daughter  of  Na- 
thaniel Woodvrard. 

A  son  of  Charles  vras  Woodward*  Latham,  who  married,  in  1763.  Rebecca  Dean. 

This  Woodward  was  the  father  of  Galto,*  already  named,  ana  Galen  was  the 
fctber  of  Williams'  Latham,  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 

tie  was  graduated  at  Brown  University  in  the  class  of  1827,  having  among  his 
dnunates  Gov.  John  U.  Clifford,  John  Pratt,  president  of  Denison  University,  and 
Smalley,  D.D. 

tie  settled  in  Bridgewater,  where  he  opened  a  law  office  and  practised  law  for 

ore  than  forty  years. 

The  Boston  Evening  Jouraal  of  Nov.  7  has  the  following  just  and  discriminating 
paragraph  upon  Mr.  Latham's  public  services : 

**  His  public  spirit  was  early  manifested  in  a  desire  to  adorn  and  beautify  bis  town 
with  shade  trees,  and  many  hundreds  of  these  monuments  to  his  memory  are  the 
pride  of  Bridgewater  and  his  native  town.    lie  was  for  many  years  active  in  the 
interest  of  the  Plymouth  County  Agricultural  Society,  and  as  a  Trustee  and  Trea- 
surer and  Secretary  his  services  have  been  frequently  acknowledged  in  its  reports. 
tie  was  one  of  the  pioneers  in  the  society's  interest,  and  was  foremost  in  securing 
and  beautifying  the  ample  grounds  and  hall.    lie  was  often  called  to  places  of  im- 
portant trust,  ever  discharging  his  duties  with  signal  ability  and  faithfulness.    One 
of  his  numerous  public  bene^tions  was  a  preparation  of  a  record  of  the  ancient 
burial  grounds  of  Bridgewater  and  viciuiiy,  which  he  had  printed  in  a  handsome 
tt^nme.    He  vras  many  years  a  member  of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society, 
and  also  of  the  New  ^gland  Historic  Genealogical  Society.     His  familiarity  with 
ancient  records  rendered  him  high  authority  upon  the  early  history  of  New  Eog- 
knd,  and  his  home  was  a  museum  of  interesting  and  valuable  material  that  would 
€orich  the  archives  of  a  historical  society.    His  love  of  music  identified  him  with 
Bosical  circles,  and  bis  collection  of  church  music  embraced  nearly  all  the  ancient 
tad  modem  publications  of  note.    He  was  a  member  of  the  Stougbton  Musical  So- 
ciety, and  vras  a  frequent  attendant  upon  its  meetings.    He  was  one  of  the  active 
Bembers  of  the  First  Congregational  Society,  and  was  liberal  in  contributions  to  its 
•apport.    His  broad  catholic  spirit  vras  in  sympathy  with  all  true  Christian  denom- 
iiuions,  and  he  often  remarked  that  ho  would  rejoice  to  see  one  church  that  would 
wtbraoe  all  sincere  believers  of  the  Christian  religion.'' 

Mr.  Latham  vras  married  June  29,  1843,  to  Miss  Lydia  Thomas  Alger,  of  West 
Bridgewater.  She  was  bom  Sept.  15,  1818.  She  was  the  daughter  of  Abiezer  and 
Aue  (Cashing)  Alger.  His  wife  survives.  There  were  no  children.  He  left  a 
be^iMBt  of  one  thousand  dollars  to  this  society,  besides  legacies  to  other  institutions. 

Hob.  Qeowom  Washinoton  Warren,  a  resident  member,  admitted  Oct.  6,  1870, 
VMbom  in  Charlestown,  Mass.,  Oct.  1,  1813,  and  died  in  Boston,  May  13,  1883. 


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His  father  was  Isaac*  Warren,  of  Charlestown.  born  in  Weeton,  Maas.,  July  30, 
1758,  and  his  mother  was  Abigail  Fiske,  born  in  Weston,  Mass.,  April  4,  1760. 

His  earliest  American  ancestor  was  John'  Warren,  who  came  to  these  shtves in 
1630,  aged  45,  and  died  Dec.  13, 1667. 

DanieP  Warren,  third  child  of  the  above,  was  bom  in  England  in  1628,  and  took 
the  freeman's  oath  in  New  England  in  1652. 

Johp^  Warren,  seventh  child  of  Daniel,  was  bom  in  March,  1665,  and  died  July 
U,  1703.  ... 

John^  Warren,  son  of  the  last  named,  was  bom  March  15,  1684,  and  died  in  1745. 

Elisha,'^  seventh  child  of  John,  was  bom  April  9,  1716,  and  died  8ept.  18^  1785. 

Isaac*  Warren,  seventh  child  of  Elisha,  was  bom  (as  above)  July  30,  1758. 

The  suhiect  of  this  notice  was  therefore  of  the  seventh  generation  From  the  Aner- 
ican  founder. 

On  his  mother's  side  he  was  also  of  the  seventh  feneration  from  Nathan^  FiskOfOf 
Waltham,  through  Nathan,*  Nathan,'  Nathan,*  Jonathan*  and  Abigail.* 

Mr.  Warren  was  graduated  at  Harvard  College  in  1830,  ac  the  earWage  of  sev- 
enteen, having  among  his  classmates  the  Hon.  Elisha  R.  Potter,  of  Khode  Island, 
and  Hon.  Charles  Sumner. 

In  1835  he  was  united  in  marriage  with  Miss  Lucy  Rogers  Newell,  of  StofW, 
Ma.s8.,  dauj;hter  of  Jonathan  Newell^  M.D.,  and  Eunice  Bigelow,  daughter  of  Al- 
pheus  Biselow,  of  Weston.  From  this  marriaeo  there  was  one  son,  Lucius  Ueuy 
Warren,  Dorn  Oct.  6,  1838,  who  was  graduated  from  Princeton  College.  N.  J.,  ia 
1860,  and  from  the  Harvard  Law  ISchool  in  1862.  In  both  institutions  his  nsoi 
stands  upon  the  roll  of  honor  for  military  services  rendered  during  the  War  of  tlis 
Rebellion.    He  lives  in  Philadelphia. 

Jud^e  Warren *s  first  wife  died  Sept.  4,  1840,  and  he  married  the  second  toss 
Georgiana  Thompson,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Susan  (Pratt)  Thompson,  of  Charier 
town.  By  this  marriage  there  were  five  children,  two  sons  and  three  daughters,  of 
whom  two  sons  and  a  daughter,  now  married,  with  the  mother,  survive. 

In  1838  Judge  Warren  was  chonen  to  represent  the  town  of  Charlestown  in  ths 
State  IjCgislature.  In  1853  and  1854  he  was  State  Senator  from  Middlesex  Ooonlf. 
From  1847-50,  inclusive,  he  was  mayor  of  Charlestown,  these  being  the  first  four 
years  jjof  Charlestown  under  a  city  charter.  From  1847  to  1875  he  was  president 
of  the  Bunker  Hill  Monument  Association,  and  from  1837  to  1847  he  wassecr^ 
tary  of  the  same.  He  is  the  author  of  the  large  and  valuable  volume  givinff  ths 
History  of  this  Association.  From  1861  to  the  present  time,  he  has  been  Juc^of 
the  Municipal  Court  for  the  Charlestown  District. 

Otis  Drurt,  a  resident  member,  admitted  B'cb.  9,  1874,  was  bom  in  New  Salen, 
Mass.,  Nov.  26,  1804,  and  died  at  West  Bridgewater,  Mass.,  Oct.  2,  1883,  aged  78 
years,  10  months  and  6  days. 

Though  bom  in  New  Satem  his  family  removed  to  Natick,  Mass.,  the  year  of  hk 
birth,  and  there  be  remained  till  he  came  to  Boston  in  1826,  where  the  larger  pait 
of  his  life  has  been  passed. 

His  father  was  Abel  Drurv,  who  was  bom  in  Framingham,  Mass.,  in  1774,  and 
as  above  stated  fixed  his  residence  in  Natick  in  1804,  where  he  died  Aug.  31,  1)^ 

His  mother  was  Nabby  Broad,  who  was  born  in  Natick,  Mass.,  Feb.  14,  1784,  and 
lived  in  that  town  many  years  after  the  death  of  her  husband,  dying  at  a  very  sd> 
vanced  age. 

Mr.  Drury*s  education  was  obtained  in  the  common  schools  of  Natick  and  it 
Leicester  Academy. 

He  was  united  in  marriage,  Oct.  6,  1836,  with  Miss  Julia  Ann  Alger,  daaghter 
of  Mr.  Abieeer  Alger,  of  West  Bridgewater.  From  this  marriage  there  were  M 
children. 

Mr.  Drury  first  appears  on  the  Boston  Directory  in  1830,  in  the  firm  of  DraiyA 
Macomber,  95  Commercial  Street,  for  the  sale  of  West  India  goods.  In  1844  be  m 
alone  in  business  at  No.  7  Commercial  Wharf  as  a  commission  merchant.  In  185I| 
in  the  same  business,  his  office  was  at  99  State  Street.  In  1864  his  place  of  b«i* 
nef«  was  at  Gray's  Wharf,  and  afterwards  at  the  R.  R.  Exchange,  for  somejistf 
be  has  had  an  office  at  75  State  Street,  and  has  been  employed  in  the  care  ok  tki 
Alger  estate  belonging  to  his  wife's  kindred.  He  gave  up  this  o£^  at  the  be|^ 
ning  of  the  present  year. 

Through  the  years  of  his  business  life  he  has  been  known  as  a  man  faithful,  joik 
and  upright  in  all  his  relations.    Though  he  met  with  reverses  in  the  earlier  yeifl  * 
of  his  active  life,  yet,  by  patient  industry  and  wise  economy,  he  retrieved  bis  te* 


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..».«<..  and  in  belieyed  to  have  died  possessed  of  a  handsome  property.  He  has  held 
DOpablic  oflSces. 

Hui  earliest  American  ancestor  was  Hugh^  Dranr,  who  came  from  Sudbary,  Enf|^ 
land,  about  1640,  and  settled  in  Boston.  The  line  from  him  runs  as  follows :  John,* 
Thomas,'  Caleb,*  Caleb.*  Caleb,*  Abel,^  Otis.' 

Mr.  Dmry's  widow  surviTes  him. 

Hon.  Napolion  Bonaparti  Mounttort,  a  corresponding  member,  admitted  Jan. 
lOy  1863,  was  bom  in  Boston,  Mass.,  Dec.  19,  1800,  and  died  in  New  York  city. 
Hot-  Sd,  1883,  aged  82  years,  11  mos.  and  3  days. 

His  father  was  Joseph*  Mountfort,  born  in  Boston,  Feb.  5,  1750. 

Hia  mother  was  Sarah  Gyles,  daughter  of  John  Gyles,  of  Boston,  bom  Dec.  7, 
1759. 

His  first  American  ancestor  was  Edmund^  Mountfort,  who  came  from  London  to 
this  ooontry  in  1650,  and  in  1663  was  united  in  marriage  with  Elizabeth  Farnham, 
dftoghter  of  Deacon  John  Famham.    He  died  Aug.  14,  1690. 

A  SOD  of  Edmund  was  John'  Mountfort,  who  was  barn  in  Boston,  Feb.  8,  1670, 
and  was  married  Jan.  19,  1693,  to  Mary  Cock,  granddaughter  of  Nicholas  U[^all. 

A  BOO  of  John  was  Joseph'  Mountfort,  bom  April  13,  1713,  who  was  married  m 
1790  to  Rhoda  J.  Lambert. 

A  son  of  Joseph  was  Joseph*  Mountfort,  above  mentioned. 

As  a  boy  the  sulpect  of  tnis  sketch  was  educated  at  the  Elbt  School  in  Bennett 
Street,  where  for  his  superior  scholarship  he  received  two  Franklin  medals.  From 
fimrteen  to  sixteen  he  was  assistant  teacher  in  the  same  School  without  pay,  and 
afterwards  spent  a  year  in  the  Salem  Street  Academy,  where  he  was  one  ofche  fore- 
Most  scholars. 

After  his  school  days  were  ended  he  was  educated  as  a  merchant  in  the  store  of 
Horace  Draper,  but  circumstances  occurred  to  change  hi»  plan  of  life,  and  he  went 
to  New  York  and  entered  as  a  law  student  the  office  of  Hon.  Willis  Hall,  then  At- 
torney General  of  the  state.  In  one  year  he  had  so  far  perfected  himself  in  legal 
studies  that  he  was  permitted  to  practise  in  the  highest  courts. 

He  was  united  in  marria^,  Jan.  3,  1825,  with  Miss  Mary  Trull,  eldest  daughter 
of  fisra  Trull,  of  Boston.  She  died  in  New  York  in  October,  1858,  and  was  buried 
in  the  Granary  cemetery,  Boston.  By  this  marriage  there  was  a  large  family  of 
children,  of  whom  all  but  two  are  detid.  These  are  William  U.  Mountfort,  uf  the 
firm  of  Fraxer,  Lee  &  Co.  of  New  York,  and  Joseph  Mountfort,  a  merchant  in  Den- 
ver, Col. 

He  held  many  offices  in  the  city  and  state  of  New  York.  He  was  for  some  years 
Jad^  of  the  Police  Court.  For  a  long  course  of  years  he  had  a  large  and  controll- 
ing influence  in  the  affiiirs  of  the  city  of  New  York,  which  influence  be  used  for  or- 
der and  good  government,  and  not  like  some  who  have  followed  him,  for  private 
plunder  and  gain—a  man,  taken  all  in  all,  of  a  very  strong  and  unique  character, 
■8  also  an  able  and  successful  lawyer. 

While  living  in  New  York  he  was  one  of  the  chief  founders  of  the  Calvary  and 
St.  Barnabas  Episcopal  Churolies. 

Ele  was  prominent  in  the  Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  bdng  chosen  August  4,  1853, 
Grand  Patriarch  for  the  State  of  New  York. 

He  had  also  a  high  place  in  the  Order  of  Free  Masons. 

Ht.  Gmitas  W.  Baobt,  a  corresponding  member,  admitted  July  19,  1860.  was 
bom  at  North  View,  Buckingham  Co.,  Va. ,  August  13,  1828, and  died  at  Richmond, 
?a.,  Nov.  S9,  1883,  aged  55  years,  3  mos.  and  16  days. 

His  father  vras  George  Bagby,  for  many  years  a  merchant  of  Lynchburg,  Va.^ 
and  bis  mother  was  Virginia  Young  Evans,  daughter  of  William  Evans.  She  was 
bom  in  Pennsylvania,  but  moved  with  her  family  to  Virginia  in  early  life. 

He  was  fitted  for  college  at  Edge  Hill  School,  Princeton,  N  J.,  and  entered  Dela- 
HR College,  Newark,  Del.,  in  1843,  at  the  early  age  of  fifteen.  After  spending 
tvo  yearn  at  the  college,  he  left  to  enter  the  medical  department  of  the  University 
of  Pinnsylvania,  where  he  received  the  degree  of  M.D. 

He  gave  but  little  time,  however,  to  the  practice  of  medicine,  but  followed  in  his 
wdy  manhood  the  strong  bent  of  his  mind,  which  led  him  into  the  walks  of  general 
M    fikenUire,  as  also  to  journalism,     lie  became  in  1853,  when  twenty-five  years  of 
^1    •!».  the  editor  of  the  Lynchburg  DaUy  Eapress,   In  1860  he  was  made  editor  o^  th^* 
^  3I       TOL.  XXXYHI.  10 


98  Necrology  of  Historic  Genealogical  Society.  [Jan. 

Sovthem  Literary  Messenger,  He  was  for  several  years  the  Washin^n  corree- 
pondent  of  the  New  Orleans  Crescent,  the  Charleston  Mercury  and  the  RichuKind 
Dispatch,.  £le  has  had  connection « in  one  form  or  another,  with  various  other  nou th- 
em papers  and  periodicals.  He  has  been  also  a  frequent  contributor  of  very  popu- 
lar articles  to  Harper^ s  Magazine,  UppincotCs  Af o^azin^,  and  other  Dorthern  month- 
lies and  periodicals. 

But  he  was  perhaps  still  more  widely  known  as  a  public  lecturer.  In  this  de- 
partment few  men  have  achieved  a  more  marked  success.  In  his  lectures  he  could 
DC  grave  or  sportive.  Some  of  his  humorous  lectures  by  which  he  is  well  known, 
bear  such  titles  as  these — **  Bacon  and  Greens,  or  The  Native  Virginian,"  '*  An 
Apology  for  Fools,"  **  Humor  and  Nonsense,*'  **The  Virginia  Neero,  Past  and 
Present."  Other  lectures  and  printed  volumes,  also,  he  gave  to  the  public.  In 
short,  few  men  in  the  country  have  plied  a  more  busy  pen  than  his,  and  his  no- 
tation was  of  the  best  as  a  generous  nne-hearted  gentleman. 

In  l858<-9,  he  was  secretary  and  librarian  ot  the  Virginia  Historical  Society. 
From  1870,  on  for  several  years,  he  was  assistant  secretary  of  the  Commonwealth. 

He  was  united  in  marriage,  Feb.  16,  1863,  with  Miss  Lucy  Parke  Chamberlayne, 
daughter  of  Dr.  Lewis  W.  Chamberlayne,  of  Richmond,  Va.  She  is  sister  of  the 
late  John  Hampden  Chamberlayne. 

This  marriage  proved  an  exceedingly  happy  and  helpful  one.  In  all  his  aetivi- 
ties  he  could  turn  to  his  home  for  healthful  sympathy  and  companionship.  From 
this  marriag;e  there  were  ten  children,  of  whom  eight,  four  sons  and  four  daughters, 
with  the  wife,  survive. 

Francis  Josiah  Humphrey,  A.M.,  a  life  member,  admitted  June  530,  IR63,  was 
born  in  Boston,  Mass.,  May  17,  1812,  and  died  in  Boston,  August  9,  1883,  aged  71 
years,  2  mos.  and  22  days. 

His  father  was  Benjamin  Humphrey,  who  was  born  in  Weymouth,  Mass.,  Feb. 

18,  1781,  and  died  in  Boston,  Jan.  28,  1857. 

His  mother  was  Orens  Turner,  who  was  bom  in  Scituate,  Mass.,  August  38,  1786. 
She  was  the  daughter  of  William  and  Eunice  (Chipp)  Turner.  Her  father  wts 
born  in  Scituate,  Jan.  16,  1747,  was  a  graduate  of  Harvard  College  in  the  class  of 
1767,  and  became  an  officer  in  the  army  of  the  Revolution. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  graduated  at  Harvard  College  in  1832,  in  a  class  of 
71  ;  received  the  de'jrt'e  of  LL.B.  in  1836,  that  of  A.M.  in  1851. 

Favored  with  a  sufficient  fortune,  he  has  lived  a  life  of  benevolent  leisure. 

Mr.  Humphrey  was  united  in  marriage,  May  24,  1852.  in  Boston,  with  Miss  Su- 
san R.  D.  Charter,  daughter  of  Daniel  Charter.  Slie  was  born  in  Marlboro',  Vt., 
about  1823,  and  died  at  Harrison  Square  in  1875.  There  were  no  children  from 
this  marriage. 

The  earliest  American  ancestor  of  Mr.  Humphrey  was  Jonas*  Humphrey  of  Do^ 
Chester,  1630,  who  ctime  from  Wendover,  co.  of  Bucks,  £ngland.    He  died  Mareb 

19,  1662. 

A  eon  of  his  was  Jonas^  Humphrey,  of  Weymouth,  who  was  bom  in  England  in 
1600.  and  died  Feb.  11, 1678. 

James^  Humphrey,  of  Weymouth,  was  a  son  of  the  foregoing,  who  was  bom  Sep- 
tember 16,  1665,  and  died  August  17,  1718. 

A  son  of  James  was  James^  Humphrey,  of  Weymouth,  who  was  bora  June  89, 
1711,  and  died  May  2,  1798. 

Josiah^  Humphrey,  of  Weymouth,  was  a  son  of  the  last-named  James.  He  wtfl 
born  in  1748  and  died  in  1834.  He  had  two  wives,  Mary,  daughter  of  Benjamin 
Bicknell,  and  Mary  Kingman. 

A  son  of  Josiah  was  Benjamin*  Humphrey,  of  Boston,  already  named,  who  wii 
father  of  Francis  Josiah,^  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 

For  the  above  ancestral  details  we  are  indebted  to  George  Lamb,  Esq. 

Edward  Winslow,  Esq.,  of  Newton,  Mass.,  a  resident  member,  admitted  May  I5f 
1878,  was  born  in  Boston,  Nov.  7, 1803,  and  died  at  Newton  Centre,  May  26, 1883, 
aged  79  years.  8  mos.  and  19  days. 

His  father  was  Isaac  Winslow,  of  Boston,  who  was  hom  in  Boston,  February^! 
1774.     His  mother  was  Margaret  Blanchard,  horn  in  Boston,  April  25,  1777. 

His  first  American  ancestor  was  John*  Winslow,  brother  of  Governor  Edw«r» 
Winslow  of  Plymouth,  who  came  over  in  the  ship  Fortune.  A  son  of  John  w»* 
Edward,'  whose  two  wives  were  Sarah  Hilton  and  Jane  Hutchinson.    Edward,'  ^ 


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8on  of  the  last  named,  had  three  wives,  Hannah  Moody,  Elizabeth  Pcmberton  and  a 
Mrs.  Soaver.  Joshua,^  son  of  £dward  and  Hannah,  married  Elizabeth  Sava^. 
Isaac^  Winslow,  son  of  Joshua,  had  two  wives,  Elizabeth  Sparhawk  and  Mary  Da- 
viit.^  Isaac,*  son  of  the  last-named  Isaac  and  Mary  Davis,  was  the  father  of  the 
sohji>ct  of  this  sketch,  who  w&s  therefore  of  the  seventh  American  generation. 

Mr.  Winslow*s  early  education  was  obtained  chiefly  in  the  Boston  public  schools, 
ending  with  the  Latin  School.  He  had  also  separate  and  special  instruction  in 
boiikkeeping  and  in  French. 

He  began  his  business  life  as  cashier  in  a  manufacturing  establishment,  and  not 
lonx  after  went  as  a  clerk  into  the  house  of  Isaac  Winslow  &  Co.  (Martin  Brim- 
mer, afterwards  mayor  of  the  city,  beinff  the  partner).  He  afterwards  went  into 
business  for  himself  in  partnership  with  Air.  Ward,  son  of  Jud^e  Artemas  Ward. 

He  was  united  in  marriage,  Sept.  25,  1847,  with  Miss  Elizabeth  Sparhawk,  only 
daughter  of  Hon.  Samuel  Sparhawk,  of  Concord,  N.  H.,  for  man^  vears  State  Sec- 
retary in  New  Hampshire.     From  this  marriage  there  were  no  chilcfren. 

Mr.  Winslow  was  honorably  connected  by  his  birth  and  by  his  marriage.  Among 
bis  own  ancestral  kindred  was  Copley  the  painter,  father  of  Liord  Lyndhurst. 
Among  Ww  wife's  kindred  were  Sir  William  Pepperell  and  family. 

Mr.  Winslow  was  to  some  extent  a  writer,  and  wrote  especially  for  the  papers 
mbout  the  time  of  the  formation  of  the  Republican  party,  being  associated  with 
Henry  Wilson,  Charles  Francis  Adams  and  Charles  Sumner,  in  furthering  the  alms 
of  that  party. 

In  the  latter  yearn  of  his  life  he  was  general  agent  of  the  Industrial  Aid  Society, 
having  bis  office  at  the  Charity  Building,  Chardon  Street,  Boston. 

Hon.  Israel  Washburn,  LL.D.,  was  made  a  resident  member  of  the  society.  De- 
cent her  8,  1864,  and  in  January,  I8f>5,  was  chosen  vice-president  for  the  state  of 
Main(>.  He  was  born  in  Livermore,  Oxford  County,  Me.,  June  6,  1813,  and  died  in 
Phihidelphia,  May  12,  1883. 

His  father  was  Israel  Washburn,  of  Raynham,  Mass.,  who  in  his  later  years  lived 
in  Maine.  He  was  born  in  Rayoham  in  November,  1784,  and  was  for  four  years  a 
meinlter  of  the  Massachusetts  legislature. 

His  mother  was  Martha  Benjamin,  daughter  of  Lieut.  Samuel  Benjamin,  an  ad- 
jutant in  the  war  of  the  Revolution.  She  was  born  in  Livermore,  Me.,  October, 
1792.  :\nd  died  there  in  1860. 

Tlie  family  springinji  from  this  married  pair  has  proved  a  truly  remarkable  one. 
Then*  were  in  all  eleven  children,  among  whom  were  Hon.  Israel  Washburn,  mem- 
ber of  congre«»  and  governor  of  Maine  ;  Hon.  C  C.  Washburn,  meml)er  of  congress, 
governor  of  Winconsin,  bri;;adicr  general  and  major  general  in  the  war  of  the  re- 
belli  >n  ;  Hon.  E.  B.  Washburn,  member  of  congress,  governor  of  Illinois,  secretary 
of  Mate  at  Wa>hington,  and  minister  to  Franee;  and  Hon.  W.  D.  Washburn,  sur- 
veyor-ireneral  and  member  of  con;;res8  from  Minnesota.  These  four  brothers,  when 
their  ci>ngreJvional  records  are  added  together,  have  probably  occupied  seats  in  the 
national  House  of  Representatives  for  a  longer  term  of  years  than  can  be  shown  by 
the  member**  of  anj'  other  fami'y  of  brothers  in  the  land.  If  we  have  made  the  count 
corrtM-tly,  their  united  services  in  this  respect  cover  a  period  of  forty  years. 

Israel ,  Jr. ,  the  subjeet  of  this  sketch,  was  edueated  as  a  boy  in  the  common  schools 
of  Maine,  but  at  the  age  of  fourteen  was  placed  under  private  instruction,  where  he 
remaincl  for  four  years.   He  then  studied  law,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1834 
at  the  age  of  twenty-one.     He  practised  law  in  Orono,  Me.     He  was  a  member  of 
the  Maine  legislature  in  1850,  and  the  next  year  was  chosen  member  of  congress 
fTt>in  tfie  Bangor  district.     He  served  in  congress  continuously  from  1851  to  1860. 
In  18JK)  he  was  chosen  governor  of  Maine,  and  resigned  his  seat  in  congress  to  take 
thisollioe.     He  was  one  of  the  distinguished  "war  governors.'*    In   1863  he  was 
apIM>inte<l  by  President  Lincoln  Collector  of  the  port  at  Portland,  which  office  he 
heiil  till  1877.     He  was  a  popular  lecturer  on  literary  subjects,  and  was  a  promi- 
nent and  active  member  of  the  Maine  Historical  Society.     He  sustained  many  im- 
p«)rtitnt  relations  to  local  institutions  in  Portland  as  well  as  to  more  distant  organi- 
miims. 

He  left  his  home  in  Portland  quite  recently  and  went  to  Philadelphia  for  medical 
tn-atment,  where  he  died  unexpectedly.    His  wife  was  with  him  during  his  last 
hours. 
Mr.  Washburn  was  a  prominent  member  of  the  Univorsalist  denomination,  and 

Was  president  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  Tufts  College. 


100  Jfecrology  of  Historic  Genealogical  Society.         [Jn. 

Dayid  Parsons  Holton,  M.D.,  a  life  member,  admitted  Juno  4, 1868,  was  ban 
in  Westminster,  Vt.,  June  18,  1812,  and  died  in  New  York  city,  June  8, 1883,  ifoi 
71  years,  11  mos.  and  20  days. 

His  father  was  Joel*  Holton,  born  in  Westminster,  Vt.,  Oct.  5,  1769,  whose  wlfii 
was  Pbcbe  Parsons.  ^■ 

His  earliest  American  anc&^tor  was  William^  Holton,  who  came  to  New  England 
in  the  year  1634,  in  the  ship  Francis,  and  settled  in  Northampton,  Mass.  He  died 
in  Northampton,  Aug.  12,  1691.  A  son  of  the  foregoing  was  John*  Holton,  wly 
married  a  woman  whose  christian  name  was  Abigail,  and  died  April  14,  171S. 
William'  Holton,  of  the  next  generation,  married  Abigail  Eidwards,  and  died  Not. 
13,  1757.  A  son  of  William  was  John,^  who  was  born  Oct.  24, 1707,  and  died  Get 
25,  1793.  His  wife*8  name  was  Mehitable  Alexander.  Joel*  Holton  was  a  son  of 
the  last-named  John,  and  was  born  at  Northfield,  Mass.,  July  10,  1738.  His  wilb  ^ 
was  Bethiah  Farwell.  A  second  Joel*  was  born  at  Westminster,  Vt.,  Oct.  5, 170B,  * 
and  as  already  stated  was  the  father  of  David  Parsons  Holton.  j 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  therefore  of  the  seventh  generation  from  WiUiaa     z 
of  Northampton,  the  American  founder. 

After  a  good  education  in  his  childhood  and  youth,  be  passed  two  years,  1835  aad 
'36,  in  the  University  of  the  City  of  New  York,  but  did  not  remain  to  finish  hb 
course  and  graduate.  The  institution,  some  years  later,  bestowed  upon  him  the 
honorary  decree  of  A.M. 

After  leaving  college  he  studied  in  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  in  New 
York,  and  was  graduated  there  in  1839. 

In  the  year  of  his  graduation  he  was  united  in  marriage,  Mav  12,  1839,  to  Mia 
Frances  K.  Forward,  daughter  of  Mr.  Pliny  Forward,  of  South  wick,  Mass.  She 
was  bom  in  that  town,  May  5,  1815,  and  survives  her  husband.  There  were  three 
children  from  this  marriage,  all  of  whom  are  dead. 

After  marriage  he  practised  as  a  physician  in  the  city  of  New  York  until  1843. 
Then  he  remov^  to  Westport,  N.  i.,  whore  he  followed  his  profession  till  1847. 
He  then  visited  Europe  for  the  purpose  of  studying  physiology,  which  he  did  for 
four  years  in  the  universities  of  Fans  and  Berlin. 

After  the  death  of  his  own  children  he  labored  in  behalf  of  orphan  children ;  and 
especially  after  the  breaking  out  of  the  war  of  the  rebellion,  these  labors  were  car- 
ried on  in  connection  with  the  institute  of  Reward  for  orphans  of  patriots,  in  whidi 
benevolent  work  he  was  greatly  assisted  by  his  wife. 

He  has  been  a  genealogical  and  antiquarian  student,  and  has  published  bookf 
of  genealogy  on  the  WinsTow  and  Farwell  families. 

A  memorial  sketch  by  Henry  R.  Stiles,  M.D.,  is  printed  in  New  York  Genoh 
logical  and  Biographical  Record  for  October,  1883. 

Rev.  Charles  Cotesworth  Beaman,  of  Boston,  a  resident  member,  admitted  Nor. 
9,  1875,  was  born  in  High  Street,  Boston,  Aug.  12,  1799;  died  in  Boston,  July  4, 
1883,  aged  83  years,  10  mos.  and  22  days. 

His  father  was  Ephraim  Beaman,  born  in  Lancaster,  Mass.,  Nov.  17,  1770,  and 
bis  mother  was  Rebecca  Greenleaf,  born  in  Haverhill,  Mass.,  March  28,  1778.  His 
grandfather  was  Joseph  Beaman,  born  in  Lancaster  in  1733.  His  earliest  Ameri- 
can ancestor  on  his  father's  side  was  Gamaliel  Beaman,  who  came  to  Dorchester, 
New  England,  in  1635,  a  lad  of  twelve  years  old,  and  after  his  marriage  in  Dor- 
chester removed  to  Lancaster,  Mass.  His  earliest  American  ancestor  on  nis  motb- 
er^s  side  was  Edmund  Greenleaf,  who  was  born  at  Brizham,  Devonshire,  Eng.  He 
man  led  Sarah  Dole,  and  had  several  children  born  in  England,  when  he  removed 
with  his  family  to  New  England,  settling  first  in  Newbury,  Mass.,  and  afterward 
made  his  home  in  Boston,  where  he  died  in  1671. 

His  early  education  was  in  Boston  in  the  Public  School  on  School  Street,  the  build- 
ing standing  on  the  ground  now  occupied  by  the  Citv  Hall.  Afterwards,  at  the  age 
of  thirteen,  ne  was  placed  in  a  private  school  kept  by  Mr.  Lawson  Iwon  on  Federal 
Street,  where  he  remained  four  years.  Being  then  seventeen  years  of  age,  and  lookr 
ing  forward  to  a  life  of  business,  he  was  placed  in  the  store  of  Blake  k,  McLellan  on 
Long  Wharf.  He  afterwards  served  as  clerk  in  other  stores  until  1829,  when  be 
went  into  the  auction  and  commission  business  for  himself,  in  the  Faneuil  Hall 
building. 

In  1834  he  gave  up  business  to  prepare  himself  for  the  ministry.  He  took  a  three 
years  course  at  Andover  Theological  Seminary,  graduating  in  1837.  He  was  or- 
dained at  Houlton,  Me.,  June  sS,  1839,  and  served  as  Coi^^regational  minister  in 


1884.]        Ifecrology  of  Historic  Genealogical  Society.  101 

flooltoo,  Me.,  North  Falmouth,  Mass.,  Edorartown  Mass.,  Wellfleet,  Mass.,  SSoutb- 
boruaf^h,  Mass.,  North  ^icituate,  R.  I.,  Howard  St.  Church,  Salem,  Mass.,  and 
Wcstl'urdy  Ct.  This  hriDj^  us  to  the  year  1874,  since  which  time  he  has  resided  in 
Ouihridge  mnd  Ek)6ton  without  charge. 

He  wiui  uDited  in  marriage,  July  10,  1839,  with  Miss  Mary  Ann  Stacy,  daughter 
of  Nynphas  Stacy,  of  Wiscasset,  Me.  From  this  marriage  there  were  four  sons, 
ailliring.  His  sons  Charles  C.  and  William  S.  are  lawyers  in  New  York  city,  and 
to  none  George  U.  and  Nathaniel  P.  are  associated  in  business  in  the  city  of  ixjston. 
Hit  wife  died  in  Cambridge,  Feb.  22,  1875. 

Mr.  Beaman  was  a  gentleman  of  fine  personal  appearance  and  exceedingly  plea- 
aot  addreas.  His  voice  and  manner  were  especially  attractive.  lie  read  before  the 
•odetyt  a  few  years  since,  a  paper  giving  his  recollections  of  life  in  Boston  in  the 
cuiy  yearn  of  the  present  century,  when  the  choice  residences  of  the  town  were 
krgelv  in  the  region  of  the  present  Pearl,  Federal,  Congress  and  High  Streets.  He 
was  aboat  eighty  years  of  age  at  the  time  of  the  reading,  but  his  minute  and  grace- 
foi  narrative  was  listened  to  with  much  pleasure. 

He  htts  been  during  his  long  life  a  fre(iuent  contributor  of  articles,  in  praoe  and 
verse,  to  different  periodicals.  Among  them  was  a  series  of  historical  sketches  of 
Seiiuate  and  Foster,  towns  in  Rhode  Island,  which  were  published  in  the  Providence 
Joamal. 

His  eon  Charles  C,  of  New  York,  married  the  daughter  of  Secretary  Evarts,  and 
the  prtvmte  secretary  of  Hon.  Charles  Sumner. 


Bdcjamin  OeoooD  Pxmci,  A.B.,  of  Beverly,  Mass.,  a  resident  member,  admitted 
Sept.  26,  1877,  was  bom  in  Beverly,  Miiss. ,  Sept.  26,  1812,  and  died  in  same  town, 
Nov.  12,  1883,  aged  71  years,  1  month  and  16  days. 

Hia  lather  was  Boi\jamin  Peirce,  born  in  Paxton,  Mass.,  Sept.  2, 1776.  His  moth- 
er was  Rebecca  Ome,  born  in  VVenham,  Mass.,  Oct.  12,  1775. 

Ulh  earliest  American  ancestor  was  John^  Peirce,  of  Watertown,  whose  wife  was 
Eliatieth.  From  him  the  line  proci-edH  through  Robert^  Peirce,  of  Woburn,  whose 
wife  wa&s  Mary  Kniisht;  Benjamin*  Peirce,  of  Charlestown,  whose  wife  was  Han- 
nah Bowers  ;  Jerahmcel*  Peirce,  of  Charlestown,  whose  wife  was  Rebecca  Ilurd  ; 
BtfOamin*  Peirce,  of  Salem,  whose  wife  wtxs  Mary  Wait ;  and  Benjamin^  Peirce 
and  Rebt-cca  Ome,  alraidy  given.  He  was  therefore  of  the  seventh  gcneratiuu  from 
the  early  New  England  days. 

Mr.  Peirce 's  early  education  was  obtained  in  the  public  and  private  schools  of 
Beverly  and  in  the  South  Reading  Academy,  where  he  was  prepared  for  college.  He 
entere«i  Waterville  College,  Me.  (now  Colby  University),  and  was  graduated  there 
in  Ih:i5. 

He  was  married,  June  15,  1841,  to  Mehetable  Osgood  Seccomb,  daughter  of  Eben- 
eier  and  Mary  (Marston^  Seccomb,  of  Salem.     His  wife  was  born  May  3,  1621. 

From  this  marriage  there  were  three  children — Emily  Rebecca  Osgood  Peirce, 
Mary  O^^good  Peirce,  and  Benjamin  Osgood  Peirce. 

Mr.  Peirce  has  performed  the  duties  of  Professor  of  Mathematics  and  Natural 
Philosophy  at  New  Hampton  Institution,  N.  II.;  Principal  of  Madison  Female 
Academy,  Morgan  Co.,  Georgia  ;  Principal  of  Penfield  Female  Seminary,  in  (Jreene 
to.,  Georgia;  and  Professor  of  Chemistry  and  Natunil  Phihxsophy  in  Mercer  Uni- 
versity, Georgia.  In  the  first  named  institution  he  served  from  1835  to  1837  ;  in 
Kbc  «^H»nd  he  was  employed  in  1838  and  1839.  After  spending  some  seven  or  eight 
years  more  at  the  south,  in  1847,  on  account  of  the  ill  health  of  his  wife,  he  remov- 
ed to  the  north,  and  has  lived  at  Beverly  and  at  Cambridge.  His  son  Benjamin 
Osgood  Peirce  is  a  graduate  of  Harvard  College  in  the  class  of  1876. 

Dr.  JosiAB  Athebton  Stearns,  a  resident  member,  constituted  June  17,  1858, 
was  bom  in  Bedford,  Mass.,  Sept.  1,  1812,  and  died  in  lioston  Highlands,  Sept.  8, 
1883,  aged  71  years  and  seven  days.  He  was  baptized  the  Sabbath  after  his  birth, 
and  his  first  name  was  given  him  in  memory  of  his  grandfather,  Rev.  Josiah  Stearns, 
of  Rpping,  N.  H.  His  second  baptismal  name  was  in  remembnince  of  his  father  s 
cuUi^ge  classmate  and  chum,  Hon.  Charles  Humphrey  Atherton,  of  Amherst,  N.  H. 

His  father  was  Rev.  Samuel  Stearns,  born  in  Kpuinij,  N.  H.,  April  8,  1770; 
l^raduatedat  Harvard  College  in  1794;  settled  in  Bedford,  Mass.,  April  27,  1796, 
and  dying  in  Bedford,  Dec.  26,  1834. 

His  mother  was  Abigail  French,  eldest  daughter  of  Rev.  Jonathan  French,  of 

TOL.  XXXVIII.  10* 


102  Necrology  of  Historic  Genealogical  Society.        \i«^. 

Andover,  Mass.  She  was  born  in  that  town,  May  29,  1776.  By  her  marriage  with 
the  Rev.  Mr.  Stearns  she  became  the  mother  of  thirteen  children,  and  lived  many 
years  after  the  death  of  her  huslmnd.  Four  of  her  sons  were  graduates  of  Uarrard 
College,  viz. :  William  Augustus,  D.D.,  president  of  Amherst  College ;  Jonathan 
French,  D.D.,  for  many  years  pastor  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  in  Newark, 
N.  J. ;  Rev.  Samuel  U.,  who  died  in  1837,  three  years  after  he  was  chosen  pa^or 
of  the  Old  South  Church,  Boston  ;  and  £ben  Sperry,  chancellor  of  some  institutioii 
of  learning  in  Tennessee.  Besides  these,  the  subject  of  this  sketch  received  the  b<n- 
orary  degree  of  A.M.  from  Harvard  College  in  1854. 

There  nave  been  not  tar  from  twenty-five  graduates  of  Harvard  College  of  the 
name  Steams,  and  these  have  been  chiedy  among  the  remoter  kindred  of  this  Bed- 
ford family. 

Mr.  Stearns's  earliest  American  ancestor  was  laaac^  Steams,  of  Watertown,  who 
came  over  in  1630  in  the  fleet  of  Gov.  Winthrop.  His  son  John*  Steams  was  ooo 
of  the  earliest  settlers  of  the  town  of  Billerica,  and  the  first  child  born  in  the  town 
was  John^  Steams.  A  son  of  the  last  named  was  John,  afterward  known  as  lieat 
John*  Stearns,  of  Billerica.  A  son  of  this  John  was  Joeiah,*  bora  in  Billerica,  Jan. 
20.  1732,  who  was  graduated  at  Harvard,  1751,  settled  in  Eppine,  N.  U.,  Maiefa 
8, 1758,  where  he  died.  July  25,  1788.  He  was  the  father  of  Rev.  Samuel,*  of  Bed- 
ford, and  the  grandfather  of  Josiah  Atherton^  Steams,  the  sul^eot  of  this  sketch. 


John  Rogers  Kimball,  Esq.,  of  Lexington,  Mass.,  a  life  member, 
Dec.  10,  1853,  was  born  in  the  town  of  Ipswich,  Mass.,  Aug.  23,  1816,  and  died  at 
Lexington,  Mass.,  Sept.  17,  1883,  aged  67 years  and  24  days. 

His  father  was  Rev.  David  Tenney  Kimball,  who  was  bora  in  Bradford,  MaM., 
Nov.  23,  1782,  was  graduated  at  Harvard  College  in  1803  ;  was  ordained  and  lel^ 
tied  over  the  First  Congregational  Church  of  Ipswich,  Mass.,  Oct.  8,  1806,  when 
he  continued  till  his  death,  Feb.  3,  I860. 

His  mother  was  Dolly  Varnum  Cobum,  daughter  of  Capt.  Peter  and  MrsElia- 
beth  (Poor)  Coburn,  of  Dracut,  Mass.  They  were  married  Oct.  20,  1807.  From 
this  marriage  there  were  five  sons  and  four  daughters. 

Mr.  Kimball  was  fitted  for  college  by  his  father,  but  developing  a  taste  for  host- 
ness  he  did  not  enter  college,  but  was  early  placed  in  a  store  in  Boeton,  and  as  yaaa 
passed  on  was  connected  as  partner  with  the  house  of  Austin  Sumner  k  Co.,  and 
Sumner,  Brewer  &  Co.,  on  Milk  Street,  and  afterwards  E.  O.  Tufts  k  Co.,  on  Frank- 
lin Street. 

He  was  united  in  marriage.  May  30,  1844,  with  Miss  Lydia  Ann  Cobura,  daagb- 
ter  of  Pascal  P.  and  Lydia  (Jones)  Coburn,  of  Dracut,  and  after  a  few  years  resi- 
dence in  Boston  and  Roxbury,  fixed  his  home  in  Wobura,  where  he  remained 
many  years,  taking  an  active  part  in  the  affairs  of  the  town  and  of  the  Congrega- 
tional Church,  of  which  he  was  deacon.  He  represented  the  town  of  Woburnin 
the  legislature  during  the  years  of  the  war. 

He  took  a  very  active  part,  by  the  expenditure  of  both  time  and  money,  in  found- 
ing the  Hancock  Congregational  Churcn  at  Lexington,  Mass.,  which  was  organised 
in  1868.  He  aided  greatly  in  the  erection  of  the  church  edifice,  which  was  dedicat- 
ed entirely  free  from  debt. 

His  first  wife  dving  Feb.  20,  1867,  he  was  again  united  in  marriage,  in  1873, 
with  Miss  Eliza  J.  Davis,  of  Lexington,  Mass.,  daughter  of  John  and  Mary  (Pbelpe) 
Davis,  and  with  her  lived  several  years  at  the  west,  where  his  two  sons  have  tbtir 
home.  His  second  wife  died  at  Lexington,  April  10,  1883.  Her  father  was  bora  in 
Gloucester,  Oct.  15,  1794,  and  died  in  Lexington  in  1880.  Her  mother  was  bora  at 
Gloucester,  Oct.  1,  1795,  and  is  still  living  at  Lexington. 

Mr.  Kimball's  line  of  ancestry  on  the  paternal  side  dates  from  Richard*  Kimball, 
of  Watertown,  through  Benjamin,^  Jonathan,^  Nathaniel,^  Daniel,^  David  Tenn^.' 

Since  1880  his  home  has  been  at  Lexington.  In  the  preparation  of  this  notice  m 
have  been  aided  by  Rev.  Edward  G.  Porter,  of  Lexington,  and  by  Mr.  Kimball'i 
brother,  Mr.  Daniel  Kimball,  of  Woburn.  We  cannot  better  close  this  brief  papef 
than  in  the  just  and  affectionate  words  of  this  brother.  He  says:  "  My  bratbr 
was  always  ready  with  heart  and  voice  and  hand  to  aid  every  good  and  l>eneTol<Dt 
enterprise  connected  with  the  speed  of  the  Redeemer's  kingdom.  Nor  did  he  foraet 
the  poor  and  needy,  the  forlorn  and  forsaken,  the  wretched  inebriate  and  his  sufler* 
ing  family.  He  was  a  dutiful  child,  a  loving  brother,  a  kind  husband  and  fatlieri 
a  warm-hearted  and  earnest  christian.'' 


1884.] 


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Truro  J  Cape  Cod;  or  Landmarks  and  Seamarks,    By  Shibiyah  Rich,  Member  of 
the  New  Englaxid  Hmtoric  Genealogical  Society.     Seventy-seven  lilustrations. 
Boston:  D.  U>throp  and  Company,  32  Franklin  Street.    8vo.  pp.  580.    With  List 
of  Subscribers  and  index.    Price  $5. 

That  portion  of  the  old  Plymouth  Colony  named  by  Capt.  Bartholomew  Gosnold 
Cape  Cod,  and  which  stretches  its  bent  arm  out  before  Massachusetts  as  if  in  de- 
moe  of  the  state  against  all  agfressors  from  across  the  ocean,  has  always  been  a 
locality  of  much  interest,  not  only  from  its  having  been  the  first  landin<{-plaoe  of 
tbo  Pilgrims,  but  from  its  high,  distinctive  character,  and  its  quaint,  antique  ap- 
pearance. It  has  perhaps  preserved  more  of  its  ancient  garb  than  any  section  of 
the  state,  although  time  and  the  ocean  have  wrought  many  changes  in  the  configu- 
latktt  of  its  bays  and  harbors. 

There  is  an  air  of  breesy  saltiness  about  the  cape  that  is  invigorating ;  and  the 
aafcbor  in  this  Truro  history  has  succeeded  in  imparting  something  of  this  atmos- 
pherical flavor  to  his  book.  It  is  certainly  original,  vigorous,  and  at  times  eloquent 
m  style.  The  usual  incidents  pertaining  to  town  nistories  are  described  in  a  forci- 
ble manner.  The  third  and  fourth  chapters  tell,  in  a  very  interesting  way,  the  oft- 
told  story  of  the  Pilgrim  landing.  The  incidents  of  the  great  shipwreck  of  1841 
aie  also  graphically  described.  But  the  book  is  not  without  grave  defects.  The 
aatbor  has  a  way  of  wandering  from  his  subject,  which  distracts  the  attention  of 
the  reader  from  the  main  facts  of  the  history.  There  are  also  needless  repetitions, 
eaeh  as  the  extract  from  the  records  relating  to  the  laying  out  of  a  highway  through 
the  lands  at  Tashmuit,  given  on  pages  91-2,  and  aj^in  presented  on  page  08,  the 
only  diffi;rence  being  the  date,  which  in  the  first  instance  is  given  '*  June  15, 1703,'' 
and  in  the  second,  '*  June  15,  1705."  There  are  also  inaccurate  statements,  such 
ftt  (HI  page  75—''  '  Reliance,'  Governor  Hinckley's  daughter,  the  wife  of  Nathaniel 
8loiie,  second  minister  of  Boston  " — whereas  the  second  minister  of  Boston  was  the 
Arr.  John  Cotton.  Wrong  dates  are  given  in  numerous  cases,  which  may  be  pos- 
sibly attributed  to  bad  printing  or  proof-reading.  We  understand  that  tlie  first  edi- 
tion is  nearly  sold,  and  there  will  be  a  chance  for  a  thorough  revision  before  another 
edition  is  printed,  which  we  hope  will  be  soon  The  illustrations  and  general  typo- 
graphical appearance  of  the  work  are  excellent. 

oy  Oliver  B.  8leb6ins^  ^Q-,  of  South  Boston  ^  Mass, 

An  Uutorical  Catalogue  of  the  Old  South  Church  (Third  Church),  Boston,    Print- 
ed for  Private  Distribution.     1883.    8vo.  pp.  371. 

This  book  is  divided  into  three  parts.  First  we  are  given  a  list  of  the  Pastors, 
DeaeoQs,  Members,  and  the  members  of  the  baptismal  covenant.  The  second  part 
eonsists  of  an  alphabetical  arrangement  of  the  two  last,  whereby  any  person  ever 
eonnected  by  membership  with  this  church  can  be  readily  found,  and  the  third  part 
eopaiiteof  biog^raphies,  with  notes  and  index,  from  1669  to  1719. 

The  Tolume  is  prepared  for  the  use  primarily  of  the  members  of  this  church  at  the 
prawnt  day,  but  so  rich  is  it  in  local  material  that  no  antiquarian  who  loves  Boston 
eaii  be  without  it. 

This  book  is  edited  by  Mr.  Hamilton  A.  Hill  and  Dr.  George  F.  Bigelow,  the 
oommittee  to  whom  the  work  was  entrusted.    The  publication  of  Judge  SewalPs  Dia- 
ry added  much  that  was  needed  to  the  understanding  of  every  day  life  in  ancient 
Boilion  during  the  colonial  period  ;  and  in  the  third  part  of  this  book  the  editor  has 
been  greatly  assisted  by  hi.s  diary  in  brinmng  before  us  incidents  relating;  to  this 
chueC,  for  this  was  Se wall's  church,  and  dearly  he  loved  it  and  tenderly  ho  wrote 
of  it.    We  see  again,  as  we  turn  over  the  pages  of  this  catalogue,  the  faces  of  the 
nembers  of  two  centuries  ago,  the  warriors  of  King  Philip's  time,  not  in  battle  ar- 
m,  but  at  their  firesides,  in  the  house  of  God,  or  keeping  holy  time.    The  spirit- 
w  life  of  the  seventeenth  century  comes  out  vividly  before  us,  and  is  exemplified  in 


104  Booh  Notices.  [Jaa. 

the  liTes  and  characters  oF  the  founders  of  the  '*  Old  Soath."  Again  the  book  is  foil 
of  su^r;estiuna,  a  wide  field  for  notes  and  (Queries.  There  are  names  in  it  that  half 
a  history,  which  the  boon  of  its  publication  may  exhume.  Valuable  utbii 
book  is  for  the  new  lines  of  thought  it  offers,  and  the  light  it  throws  on  fitmiliM 
hitherto  unknown,  it  is,  we  are  glad  to  learn,  but  the  harbinger  of  a  more  oompletl 
and  amplified  edition,  for  the  editor,  who  has  shown  good  judgment  and  great  TO* 
search  in  the  preparation  of  this  volume,  desires  not  only  to  reoeive  additional  iii> 
formation  in  rei^ard  to  the  seventeenth,  but  trusts  to  complete  the  biographical  pof* 
tion  of  the  book  down  to  the  close  of  the  eighteenth  century.  Certainly  no  biam 
men  or  more  faithful  followers  of  Christ  lived  than  those  who  in  the  ReroiatkNi 
fought  bravely  and  prayed  fervently  for  the  cause  of  their  country,  and  many  of  thi 
bravest  and  the  best  of  them  were  the  descendants  of  those  worthy  Old-Sooth  OMI 
who  had  been  partakers  of  its  communion,  and  who  fought  in  the  wbcb  of  tiN 
Narragtinsetts. 

The  Dook  reflects  credit  upon  the  Old-South  people  of  to-da^,  and  we  trust  thai 
all  religious  societies  in  New  England  who  are  historic  and  rich,  will  follow  their 
example,  and  give  their  members  and  the  world  the  benefit  injprint  of  the  mniiy 
records  now  lying  useless  in  the  closet  of  the  Deacon. 

By  Daniel  T.  V,  Huntoon^  ^i't  of  Canton ,  Mass. 

History  of  the  Town  of  Amherst,  Hillsborough  County,  New  Hampshire V9iA 

Genealogies  of  Amherst  families.   By  Danibl  F.  Sscx>mb.   Concord,  N.  U.  :  Piinl^ 
ed  by  £van8,  Sleeper  and  Woodbury.     1883.    8vo.  pp.  978.    Price  $4. 

This  volume  is  a  valuable  addition  to  our  rapidly  extending  local-history  liteia- 
ture.  It  includes  a  map,  which  might  have  been  enlarged  to  advantage,  of  the 
town,  with  its  early  ana  larger  boundaries,  fifteen  portraits  and  ten  other  illastrir 
tioDS,  including  meeting-house,  town-house  and  soldiers*  monument.  The  index  of 
names  fills  42  pages,  and  is  well  made ;  and  the  large  clear  type  in  which  ic  it 
printed  deserves  mention.  This  remark  applies  indeed  to  the  whole  volume,  as  iti 
open  and  fair  pages  are  very  pleiusnnt,  and  the  paper  is  heavy  and  good.  We  fhoubl 
question,  indeed,  whether  these  advantages  were  not  secured  at  some  sacrifice  to  tbt 
highest  convenience  and  value  of  the  book.  It  fills  978  pages,  and  it  is  too  large. 
With  margins  a  trifle  narrower,  and  more  compactness  in  the  make-up  of  paragraphSf 
especially  in  the  genealogies,  a  saving  of  200  pages,  or  250,  might  have  been  made, 
to  the  greater  convenience  of  those  who  handle  the  book. 

Amherst,  at  first  Souhegan  East,  was  one  of  the  Narragansett  townships,  and 
the  author  gives  a  good  resum6  of  the  early  grants  to  the  survivors  of  King  Philipl 
w»r,  the  processes  by  which  they  were  secured  and  improved,  and  the  later  growth 
and  changes.  The  style  is  somewhat  fragmentary,  but  the  substantial  and  impor* 
tant  facts  are  interwoven  with  considerable  skill,  and  the  care  witu  which  the  reo* 
ords  are  drawn  upon  is  very  satisfactory. 

The  theory  that  town  histories  should  omit  genealogies  and  remit  them  to  the 
family  historians,  has  not  been  acted  upon.  One  half  of  the  volume  is  devoted  to 
them.  They  are  very  full  and  carefully  worked  out,  and  the  time  and  toil  which 
they  have  cost  the  author  can  only  be  appreciated  by  those  who  have  done  sooh 
work.^  The  number  of  different  family  names  occurring  is  unusually  large,  and 
there  is  no  such  proportionate  prominence  of  one  name  or  of  a  few,  as  is  found  of 
the  Sanborns  in  Sanbornton,  or  of  the  Crosbys,  Danforths,  Hills,  Stearns  and  Whit- 
ings in  Billerica. 

A  word  should  be  added  in  recognition  and  commendation  of  the  filial  spirit  of 
one  son  of  the  town,  lion.  Edward  Spalding,  of  Nashua,  who  defrayed  ''  the  expenses 
of  the  compilation  and  publication  of  the  work.''  The  volume  will  be  a  noble  m^ 
morial  of  his  munificence,  and  he  deserves  the  thanks  of  the  town,  of  her  children 
scattered  abroad,  and  of  all  the  increasing  number  who  are  interested  in  our  local 
genealogical  history. 

By  the  Rev,  Henry  A.  Hazen,  of  Auburndalc,  Mass, 

History  of  the  Counties  of  Dauphin  and  Lebanon  in  the  Commonwealth  of  Pennsyl- 
rania.  Biographical  and  Genealogical.  By  Wilu.\m  Hknrt  Eqle,  M.D.,  M.A., 
Author  of  **  History  of  Pennsylvania.''  Philadelphia :  Everts  &  Peck.  1883. 
Royal  8vo.  pp.  616+360. 

Dr.  Egle  is  one  of  the  busy  historical  students  and  writers  of  the  country.  He 
has  done  much  for  the  preserving  and  publishing  of  the  history  of  Pennsylvania, 
and  for  all  of  which  he  should  receive  much  credit  from  the  citizens  of  the  stftts. 


1884.] 


Booh  Notices.  105 


rl. 


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Ajfl  Tolume  is  lari^ly  his  work.    Harriflburc  is  the  chief  city  of  Daaphin  County, 
and  Lebanon  County  adjoins  it  on  the  ea9t.    The  first  named  county  was  in  the  pur- 
«faue  of  1749,  while  the  latter  was  purchased  of  the  Proprietors  of  Pennsylvania  in 
1735  and  prior.    The  Germans  early  came  into  l^banon  County,  and  the  Scotch- 
Irish  into  Dauphin  County,  even  before  substantial  titles  were  held.    The  strifes 
between  the  Tarious  '*  original  purchasers  ''  of  different  nationalities  and  religions 
■n  aoderstandingly  portrayed.    These  settlers,  hardy  in  race  and  earnest  in  con- 
teoding  with  the  forests,  developed  a  still  stronger  character,  and  made  the  people 
•liTe  to  their  best  interests  in  times  of  war  and  pence. 

Dr.  £gle  in  this  work  also  presents  those  characteristics  of  the  Pennsylvania  Ger- 
■an  speech^  which  has  been  maligned  even  by  learned  ones  who  should  have  known 
mom  oi  it.  The  author  throughout  shows  an  independent  tone  in  his  words.  Those 
of  ooDtral  Pennsylvania  find  in  Dr.  Egle  a  champion  of  their  history,  and  he  makes 
OlafceineDte,  and  sustains  them  by  documents,  which  will  make  the  Quaker  oham- 
pioo  wary  in  coming  times.  The  conduct  of  Pennsylvania  towards  Gen.  Braddook 
m  placed  in  a  new  light,  and  if  censure  is  needed  is  placed  where  it  has  not  been. 
The  first  American  flag  hoisted  upon  the  citadel  of  Mexico  was  by  the  Cameron 
Guards.  The  abolishing  of  slavery  in  Pennsylvania  is  claimed  by  Dr.  Egle  to  have 
bad  its  origin  not  among  the  Quakers  of  Philadelphia,  but  to  have  been  due  to  the 
Scotch  Irish  and  German  elements  of  the  state. 

The  parts  played  in  the  various  wars  of  the  country,  from  that  of  the  Revolu- 
tkm  to  the  Civil,  are  graphically  described,  while  official  reports  are  largely  used, 
that  all  names  of  the  veterans  may  be  preserved  to  posterity.  The  editor  for^ts 
not  the  **  Paxtang  boys  "  nor  the  *'  Buck  shot  war."  The  business  thrift  of 
to-daj  receives  generous  attention.  The  book  is  fully  illustrated  by  en^y- 
ingp  of  men  of  more  or  lees  local  celebrity,  and  of  residences  and  places  of  business 
of  public-spirited  citisens.  This  volume  is  a  large  one.  It  contains  a  vast  deal 
of  information,  and  doubtless  is  more  carefully  edited  than  the  general  run  of 
tboM  of  like  character. 
By  the  Rev,  Aiuon  7V/u5,  of  Weymouth,  Mass. 

Dorothea  Scott,  otherufixe  Gotherson  and  Hogben^  of  Egerton  House,  Kent,  1611- 
1060.  A  New  and  Enlar^  Edition.  By  G.  D.  Scull,  Editor  of  the  Evelyns  in 
America.  Printed  for  Private  Circulation,  by  Parker  &  Co.  Oxford,  1883.  8vo. 
pp.  ix.+S16.    Illustrated. 

The  firet  edition  of  this  work  was  noticed  in  the  Rsoistxr,  vol.  xxxvii.  p.  225. 
It  oootained  only  28  pages.  This  edition  contains  a  great  deal  more  than  its  title 
inpliee — 1.  Sketch  or  £k>rothea  Scott ;  2.  Sketch  of  Daniel  Gotherson,  her  first  hus- 
band; 3.  Of  John  Scott,  a  ''Jeremy  Diddler*'  of  the  time  of  Charles  II.,  who 
defraoded  the  others  out  of  their  estate ;  4.  Of  Thomas  Scott,  her  father.  It  contains 
alao  four  tabular  pedigrees,  tracing  her  ancestry  to  Charles  Martel,  ob.  741,  and  her 
deseendants  to  the  author,  who  has  inscribed  an  affectionate  sonnet  to  her  memory. 

fie  baa  also  reprinted  her  '*  Call  to  Repentance,  &c.^*'  from  what  is  supposed  to 
be  an  unique  copy  in  possession  of  the  Society  of  Friends  at  Devonshire  House, 
LoodoD,  printed  in  1660 ;  with  copious  extracts  from  a  similar  work  written  by  her 
basband,  published  in  the  same  year ;  besides  a  treatise  on  Knighthood  and  kin- 
dred subjects,  written  by  her  father  in  1628,  and  addressed  to  the  Earl  Marshall  of 
Soffland. 

"nie  writings  of  these  different  persons  mark  the  distinct  characteristics  of  each. 

Her  father,   descended  from   the  most   distinguished  aristocracy  of   the  realm, 

looked  with  disgust  upon  the  cheap  knighthood  created  by  the  Stuart  kings,  and 

the  esquires,  sons  of  hod-carriers  or  of  pot-house  politicians.    His  prose  is  as  pointed 

and  as  terse  as  Peter  Pindar's  poetic  allusions  to  the  same  kind  of  creations  at  a 

kter  period.    The  pride  of  Scott  s  own  birth,  which  furnishes  many  illustrations 

of  the  class  which  be  thinks  should  be  honored,  is  in  striking  contrast  with  the 

modesty  of  his  daughter  Dorothea,  as  shown  in  her  Call  to  ^pentance ;  still  she 

has  the  fearlefsness  which  comes  as  an  inheritance  of  her  blood. 

*'  0  England,  England,  art  thou  so  wise  The  contrary  a  dirty  puddle 

In  thy  own  deceitful  eyes  ? . . .  A  sink,  a  splash,  that  doth  bemuddle 

Why  sure  there  is  a  christal  stream.  And  sink  thee  down  into  the  mire, 

A  fountain  pure,  a  river  clean ;  Which  is  thy  place  till  thou  choose  higher, 

Wbathindentheein  ittogo  

Tbe  caoM  it  in  thee  yet  I  trow  For  shoaldst  thou  atcuid  atiU  in  this  state 

Aid  tboa  art  in  it  itill  I  know.  Thy  mischief  would  come  on  thy  own  pate." 


106  Booh  Notices.  [Ji 

It  must  be  remembored  that  she  wrote  in  the  lascivioas  times  of  Charles  II.,  anil 
one  of  the  non-conformist  divines  broui|;ht  her  name  into  bis  books  for  disobeyiaf 
the  bible  in  not  allowing  her  male  visitors  to  kiss  her ;  and  the  sly  Sam.  Pcpys  HM 
brought  into  business  relations  with  her.  Wo  know  from  his  diary  how  much  1» 
liked  to  indulge  in  that  kind  of  holiness. 

The  husband  of  Dorothea  was  not  a  ''  level-headed  man."  Unfortunate  in  bnai- 
ness  ;  deluded  out  of  his  wife^s  fortune  by  John  Scott ;  afterward  an  officer  in  Croa> 
weirs  armv,  and  finally  an  eaves-dropper  and  tell-tale  for  the  royalists,  he  wasaa 
unworthy  husband  of  a  most  worthy  woman.  She  settled  upon  Long  Island,  tnl 
was  a  highly  respected  teacher  in  the  Society  of  Friends.  She  has  many  denoeod- 
ants  in  the  United  States. 

Mr.  Scull's  tastes  and  instincts  are  thoroughly  historic.  The  different  phases  of 
life  and  thought  which  he  has  gathered  in  this  book  illustrate  so  well  the  crumbUag 
of  the  aristocracy  of  the  previous  age,  the  vacillating  course  of  the  men  of  the  tisM, 
and  the  development  of  purer  religion  by  the  shame  at  the  vileness  of  the  times  Ml 
bjr  such  women  a?  Dorothea  (Scott)  Gotherson,  that  this  book  should  be  piMiskni 
(instead  of  privately  printed) ,  and  placed  in  every  public  library  in  the  United 
States. 

By  John  Coffin  Jones  Brown^  Esq,,  qf  Boston. 

Groton  during  the  Indian  Wars.  By  Samuel  A.  Green,  M.D.  Groton,  Mas. 
1883.    8vo.  pp.  214.    Price  $2.50. 

The  towns  are  fortunate  that  have  among  their  sons  one  so  loyal  and  at  the  sans 
time  so  able,  to  chronicle  their  history.  In  many  respects  this  work  of  Dr.  Green^ 
is  unique.  It  relates  in  a  complete  and  clear  manner  the  most  important  and  in- 
teresting affairs  of  the  town's  annals,  such  matters  as  in  the  ordinary  town  histom 
are  crowded  into  a  few  pages  without  authority  or  explanation. 

The  author  begins  with  the  earliest  settlement  of  the  town,  and  gives  a  suociiwl 
account  of  the  relations  of  the  settlers  to  the  Indians,  thus  leading  up  to  *'  EJog 
Philip's  war."  Many  original  documents  are  here  reproduced  from  the  archives^ 
the  state  and  other  records,  both  from  public  and  private  sources.  Manv  are  gim 
complete,  others  in  abstracts,  but  all  showing  the  patience  nnd  fidelity  of  the  writar 
in  preserving  the  quaint  phraseology  and  spelling  of  the  original  papers. 

The  connection  of  events  is  kept  up  in  the  intervals  of  peace  with  the  fndian8,ao 
that  we  do  not  lose  sight  of  individuals,  but  are  able  to  keep  tlie  relations  of  men 
and  things  along  wiui  the  story,  the  growth  in  population  and  resources,  better 
knowledge  of  Indian  warfare  and  improved  means  of  defence  against  them,  tlie 
gradual  outpushiujo;  energy  of  the  new  generations  advancing  the  frontiers,  the  viih 
ishing  of  the  Indians  farther  into  the  forests ;  all  these  matters  are  kept  along 
through  the  six  Indian  wars  recurring  at  intervals  from  1675  to  1763.  Many  vila- 
able  lists  of  names,  both  of  settlers  and  soldiers,  are  given,  sources  of  authori^ 
carefully  quoted,  explanations  briefly  but  cletirly  put.  The  zeal  of  the  historian, 
the  eood  judgment  and  pure  style  of  the  editor,  the  art  of  the  printers,  have  ooB- 
bined  to  make  this  one  of  the  most  valuable,  and  at  the  same  time  most  readable,  of 
works  on  this  subject  of  our  Indian  wars.  A  full  index  of  names  and  subjects  makes 
the  volume  easily  available  and  helpful  to  students  of  history,  and  it  becomes  at 
once  an  important  addition  to  the  working  library,  a  pleasing  and  instructive  Tol- 
ume  in  an v  library. 

By  the  Rev.  G.  M.  Bodge,  Dorchester,  Mass. 

Recollections  of  a  Naval  Officer,  1841—1865.  Bv  Capt.  Willux  Harwar  Parkb, 
Author  of  '*  Elements  of  Seamanship,"  *'  Ilarbor  Routine  and  Evolutions,'* 
**  Naval  Tactics,"  **  Naval  Light  Artillery— Afloat  and  Ashore,"  "Remarks  on 
the  Navigation  of  the  Coasts  between  San  Francisco  and  Panama,"  **  The  Great- 
est Friend  of  Truth  is  Time  :  her  Greatest  Enemy  is  Prqjudioe."  New  Yoik: 
Charles  Scribner's  Sons :   1883.    pp.372.     Price  $1.50. 

The  story  of  the  seaman  has  a  peculiar  narrative.  It  is  different  from  those  in 
other  walks  of  life.  Their  duties  and  dangers  are  such  as  others  know  not  of.  The 
title  of  this  book  tells  its  character.  It  is  one  of  interest,  and  once  begun  is  hard 
to  lay  down.  We  may  not  coincide  with  ccrUiin  opinions  dropped  here  and  then. 
but  the  story  of  the  navy  in  the  war  with  Mexico,  and  as  it  was  before  the  civil 
strife,  is  well  told  ;  and  the  service  of  the  author  in  the  navy  of  the  Confederacy* 
and  his  writing  out  of  personal  knowledge,  throws  light  upon  places  of  history,  and 


1884.]  Booh  Notices.  107 

will  aid  doabtless  to  clarify  our  judgment  of  events  wrought  in  the  heat  of  civil 
war.    Oapt.  Porter  saw  much  of  naval  service  between  1^1  and  1865«  and  being 
one  having  authority  upon  naval  subjects,  this  book,  as  have  his  others,  will  attract 
Bttentiiin  from  students  of  military  and  naval  science. 
B^tkt  Rev.  Anson  Titus,  of  Vfeymouth,  Mass, 

hstruciion  Prhnaire  en  Languedoc,  avant  1789.    Toulouse :  1883.    12mo.  pp.  27. 
CoUtge  de  Magudonne,    Par  M.  Saint-Charles.    Toulouse  :  1883.    8vo.  pp.  19. 

TWfie  two  brochures  are  from  the  pen  of  M.  Ldon  St.  Charles,  of  Toulouse, 
Ihmce. 

The  first  is  an  interesting  collection  of  facts  upon  the  education  of  children  in 
**  la  lecture,  T^criture,  le  calcul  et  la  grammaire/*  in  the  south  of  France  during 
the  middle  ases.    It  is  of  especial  value  to  the  student  of  pedagogy. 

The  second  is  a  brief  history  of  a  college  which  existed  as  a  subordinate  of  the 
great  University  of  Toulouse  for  five  centuries,  or  from  A.D.  1277  to  1767.  It  is  a 
laloable  paper  on  the  history  of  such  semi-monastic  educational  in^tutiuns. 

M.  L^n  St.  Charles,  the  author  of  these  pamphlets,  is  a  native  of  Toulouse,  and 
t  member,  in  the  department  of  letters,  of  the  Academy  of  Science,  Inscriptions  and 
Belles  Lettres,  of  that  city ;  a  society  established  in  1620,  erected  into  a  Royal 
Academy  under  Louis  XIV.  in  1746,  supprcKsed  by  the  events  of  1793,  and  resusci- 
tated in  1807.  It  has  a  resident  membership  of  forty,  and  a  considerable  number 
of  correspondents  in  France  and  abroad.    It  publishes  '*  Memoires." 

M.  St.  Charles  has  distinguished  himself  by  his  researches  in  the  Archives  of  the 
Civil  Hospitals  of  Toulouse,  the  manuscripts  of  which,  running  back  to  the  thir- 
teenth century,  and  written  in  Lfitin,  Provengal  and  French,  he  has  classified  and 
iDventoried  with  great  pains  and  diligence.  Besides  this  great  labor,  M.  St.  Charles 
hascompilcd  much  relating  to  the  history  of  the  streets  of  his  native  city,  its  public 
institutions,  and,  above  all,  its  University  and  School  of  Medicine,  which  at  one 
time  bad  high  celebrity.  *** 

Index  to  American  Pofttry  and  Plays  in  the  Collection  of  C.  Fiske  Harris.  Provi- 
dcQOe  :  Printed  for  Private  Distribution.     1874.     18mo.  pp.  171. 

Catalogue  of  American  Poetry^  comprising  Duplicates  from  the  Collection  of  the  late 
C.  Fiske  Harris,  of  Providence,  R.  J.  For  sale  by  William  T.  Tibbitts,  No.  64 
Westminster  Street,  Providence.     1883.     Sq.  l6mo.  pp.  83. 

The  late  Caleb  Fiske  Harris,  A.M.,  of  Providence,  of  whom  a  sketch  is  printed 
in  the  Register,  xxxvi.  336,  collected  a  rare  and  valuable  library,  described  in  Rog- 
ers's Private  Libraries  of  Providence,"  pp.  179-20*2.  At  his  death  it  is  said  to 
have  numbered  nearly  ten  thousand  volumes.  One  of  his  specialties,  and  probably 
the  principal  one,  was  American  Poetry,  of  which  he  had  the  largest  collection  ever 
nuide  In  1874  he  had  4129  titles,  which  appear  in  the  ''Index  ''  compiled  and 
printed  by  him  in  that  year.  He  continued  collecting  seven  years  lon<rer,  till  Oct. 
8,  18S1,  when  he  and  his  wife  met  with  a  sad  death  by  drowning  on  Moosehead 
Lake. 

We  are  glad  to  learn  that,  though  other  portions  of  his  library  have  been  scattered 
by  auction,  his  library  of  American  Poetry  remains  intact,  having  been  purchased  by 
the  Hon.  Henry  B.  Anthony,  United  States  Senator  from  Rhode  Island,  who  we  think 
had  previously  a  fine  collection.  1  he  duplicates  are  oflfered  for  sale  by  Mr.  Tibbitts. 
We  nope  that  Senator  Anthony  will  take  precautions  to  ensure  that  at  his  death  the 
library  will  be  kept  together. 

A  Brief  Sketch  of  the  Life  of  William  Green,  LL  D.,  Jurist  and  Scholar,  with 
some  Personal  Reminiscences  of  him.  By  Philip  Slaughter,  D.D.,  Historiog- 
rapher of  the  P.  E.  Church,  Dioccee  of  Virginia.  Also  a  Historical  Tract  by 
Judge  Oreen,  and  some  Curious  Letters  upon  the  Origin  of  the  Proverb  **  Vox 
Populi,  Vox  Dei.'*  Richmond  :  1883.  8vo.  Cloth,  price,  $1.25.  Address  Rev. 
Philip  Slaughter,  D.D.,  MitchelPs  Station,  Va. 

The  learned  author  of  this  graceful  and  t<)uching  tribute  eiyoys  a  wide  popularity 
throuich  his  numerous  graphic  and  delightful  contributions  to  local,  church  and 
fiuDily  history,  as  well  as  by  his  glowing  eloquence  as  a  pulpit  orator. 

A  relative  and  early  associate,  and  through  life  an  intimate  friend  of  the  distin- 
gniiihed  subject  of  the  memorial,  he  has,  as  might  have  been  justly  expected,  feli- 
citously acquitted  him.self  of  his  loving  office.    Disclaiming  **  ambitious  preten- 


108  Book  Notices.  [3\ 

sions  "  as  a  bio^pher,  be  yet  prestents  a  oomprebensive  and  well  roanded  view  of 
the  usefully  occupied  life  of  a  remarkable  man,  who  was  one  of  the  most  learned 
jurists  of  this  age  certainly,  and  it  has  been  asserted,  of  any  **  time  or  olime." 

Not  only  is  the  descent  of  William  Green  carefully  traced  from  eminent  English 
ancestors,  and  his  mental  traits  and  personal  characteristics  faithfully  portrayed, 
but  through  the  *'  confidence  of  private  friendship  "  et\|oyed  by  Dr.  Slaughter  with 
thedecea^,  **  glimpses  into  the  inner  life  ••••  of  this  many-sided,  complex  tad 
incongruous  being  "  are  given. 

Dr.  Green  was  not  only  profound  in  the  classics,  and  indeed  '*  at  home  "  in  the 
wide  realm  of  literature,  but  was  intimately  and  curiously  erudite  in  history,  and 
singularly  so  in  that  of  his  native  state.  HLs  memory  was  quite  as  prodigioue  ti 
that  of  Magliabecchi  the  famous  Florentine,  and  his  conversation  was  a  quaint  oal- 
pouring  and  marvellously  curious  mosaic  of  the  whole  arena  of  learning  and 
thought. 

A  valuable  example  of  his  research  and  mode  of  expression  is  afforded  in  tbt 
**  Historical  Trait "  by  him  on  '*  The  Genesis  of  Certain  Counties  in  Virginia  from 
Cities  or  Towns  of  the  same  name. " 

It  will  be  found  importantly  suggestive.  Notwithstanding  the  limited  pages  of 
Dr.  Slauj^hter's  ''sketch,"  it  yet  contains  attractive  pabulum  for  the  student, the 
moral  philosopher  and  for  the  public. 

By  R.  A.  Brocks  Esq.,  of  Richmond,  Va, 

Ancient  Egypt  in  the  Light  of  Modern  Discoveries.  By  Prof.  H.  S.  Osborn,  LL.D. 
Cincinnati,  Ohio:  Robert  Clarke  &  Co.,  Publishers.  1883.  12mo.  pp.  23d.  Priot 
$1.25. 

The  author  says  in  his  preface,  **  Our  main  object  is  to  present  the  whole  subject 
in  its  general  historical  unity,  and  in  so  popular  and  comprehensive  a  manner,  tbtt 
any  reader  may  find  an  interest  in  the  discoveries  and  the  records  of  that  wondcvfol 
Nation  and  Empire  of  Ancient  Egypt,"'  and  he  has  carried  out  his  plan  in  a  most 
admirable  manner,  for  every  page  is  replete  with  valuable  information.  The  thiid 
and  fourth  chapters  treat  of  Egyptian  chronology,  and  of  the  various  theories 
and  speculations  employed  in  the  hope  of  establishing  a  definite  measurement  of 
time  from  the  first  dynasty  to  the  christian  era.  One  scientist  believes  it  to  bo 
5004  years,  another  only  2700  years,  and  there  is  much  doubt  as  to  the  duration 
of  dynasties,  and  whether  they  were  all  consecutive  or  some  of  them  contemporan* 
ecus.  The  fifth,  tenth,  eleventh  and  twelfth  chapters  are  exceedingly  interesting, 
the  two  former  treating  of  events  contemporaneous  with  Moses  and  the  Exodus. 

The  ancient  Egyptians  were,  according  to  Prof.  Osborn,  a  distinct  race  from  the 
other  Africans,  and  were  the  first  of  all  nations  **  to  cut  history  into  stone  or  wrilo 
it  upon  papyrus." 

A  valuable  map  of  Egypt  is  contained  in  the  book,  and  gives  a  clear  idea  of  tbs 
location  of  the  ancient  monuments,  and  of  ancient  places  bearing  old  or  new  names, 
these  being  distinguished  by  different  type,  it  will  be  noticed  that  Egypt  is  pno- 
tically  limited  to  the  Valley  of  the  Nile,  a  strip  of  territory  550  miles  north  and 
south,  and  onlv  about  12  miles  in  width. 

In  this  smnll  volume  the  hieroglyphics,  religions,  arts,  monnraents,  history,  and 
to  some  extent  the  habits  and  customs  of  that  land,  so  prominent  in  the  world*! 
history  from  the  dawn  of  civilization  to  the  declining  period  of  the  Roman  Empire, 
is  portrayed  in  a  pleasing  style. 

by  George  K.  Clarke,  Esq.,  of  Need  ham » 

The  Genealogist.  Edited  by  George  W.  Marshall,  LL.D.,  Fellow  of  the  Society  of 
Antiquaries.  Vol.  Vli.  London  :  George  Bell  and  Sons,  York  Street,  Cofenl 
Garden.     1883.    8vo.  pp.  vii.-f-312.     Price,  bound,  128. ;  in  numbers,  10s. 

The  Genealogist,  published  quarterly  in  Ix)ndon,  closed  its  seventh  volume  with 
the  October  number,  and  the  editorehip  of  George  VV.  Marshall,  LL.D.,  itsfonnder, 
then  ceased. 

Dr.  Marshall's  principal  wish  has  been  to  furnish  reproductions  of  hitherto  nn- 
publi.shed  material,  and  these  he  gives  with  a  simplicity  and  accuracy  equalling  an 
original  document ;  he  has  no  wrakness  for  overloading  with  notes,  and  has  always 
spoKen  freely  against  the  style  of  those  editors  whose  main  ideas  have  been  aeeoood* 
band  compilation  of  already  printed  material,  or  who  debased  the  profession  of 
genealogist  by  catering  to  family  vanity  in  publishing  pedigrees  of  fabulous  ancei* 
try.  The  false  pride  of  some  New  England  families  in  attachinj||  to  fabulous  anee»> 
try  has  been  exposed,  and  we  already  sec  a  rising  generation  of  genealogists  hen 


1883.]  Booh  Notices.  109 

wbo  have  been  guided  by  Dr.  Marshall  to  seek  the  truth  in  preference  to  the 
pUasing. 

Vf  e  regret  that  Dr.  Marshall  can  no  longer  spare  time  for  its  editorial  care.  It 
is,  however,  well  established,  and  will  continue  to  obtain  from  its  contributors  most 
nJnable  material,  as  in  the  past.  In  the  last  volume  we  noticed  the  names  of  an- 
cestors of  American  families  in  the  Marriage  Licenses  at  Worcester,  and  the  repro- 
doction  of  Parish  Registers,  Visitations  and  Family  Sketches,  are  constantly  bring- 
ioc  in  material  of  ase  in  this  country,  the  search  for  which  is  thus  obviated. 

The  annual  subscription  price  is  ooly  10s.  for  384  pages,  of  which  32  pnges  in 
etdi  future  number  will  be  devoted  to  '*  A  New  Peerage,*-  embracing  the  whole 
ibitish  Isles,  and  will  be  separately  paged  from  the  body  of  the  magazine.  It  will 
eoDtain  also  the  ex/i'nc/  ana  </orman/ peerages.  Such  a  work  is  much  needed,  as 
Barke  8  new  edition  (so  called)  has  been  revised  to  a  most  trifling  extent,  the  very 
type  of  the  old  edition,  errors  included,  having  been  left  unmolested.  (See  p.  285, 
nu.  vii.  Genealo^rist.) 

By  John  Cqffm  Jones  Brown ,  Esq,  ^  qf  Boston. 

Maaazine  of  American  History,  Illustrated.  Edited  by  Mrs.  Martha  J.  Laitb.  New 
xork :  30  Lafayette  Place,  January,  1884.  Sm.  4to.  Published  monthly  in 
numbers  of  88  pages  each.    Price  $5  a  year,  or  50  cts.  a  number. 

The  Magazine  of  American  History  has  just  closed  its  tenth  volume  and  fifth  year, 
and  the  initial  namber  of  the  sixth  volume  is  before  us.  It  has  ceased  to  be  an 
experiment  and  become  a  necessity  among  the  students  of  the  history  of  early  Amer- 
icKD  days.  The  magazine,  since  its  commencement,  has  been  ably  edited,  and  each 
of  its  volumes  bears  testimony  to  care,  research  and  painstaking.  Diirincr  the  last 
year  there  has  been  a  change  in  the  editorship.  The  Rev.  Dr.  B.  F.  De  Costa,  for 
the  past  year  or  two  and  until  the  May  number  of  1883,  was  its  chief  editor,  and 
stnee  then  the  present  editor,  Mrs.  Martha  J.  Lamb,  has  had  char^  of  it.  £ach 
of  the  numbers  has  been  full  of  papers  upon  subjects  of  national  and  local  interest, 
and  not  these  alone,  but  papers  of  import  to  historical  students  in  other  countries. 
None  of  the  monthly  parts  are  to  be  despised  in  Americana  lore  ;  but  we  venture 
a  mention  of  articles  of  large  worth  printed  in  it  in  1883.  **  Where  are  the  Re- 
mains of  Christopher  Columbus?'*  •*  The  Founding  of  Georgia  ;''  »*  The  Scotch- 
Irish  in  America;"  *'  The  B.iron  de  Castine  *'  (though  on  page  371  Fort  Royal  is 
mentioned  as  bein^  in  the  present  Portland,  Maine.  It  should  be  Fort  Loyal ;  Fort 
Keyal  was  in  Acadia)  ;'*  *'  Clnybome  the  Rebel,'*  by  J.  Bsten  Cooko,  the  well  knowa 
Virginia  author;  **  The  Centennial  of  the  Cincinnati ;"  **  The  Last  C^tntonoient 
of  the  Main  Army  of  the  Revolution."  The  editor,  Mrs.  Lamb,  also  contributes 
articles  of  hi^h  value — upon  the  **  Wall  Street  in  History,"  in  which  is  much 
data  concerning  those  times  of  great  financial  movements,  and  of  the  prominent 
actors  in  them.  Attention  during  the  year  has  been  specially  drawn  to  Washing- 
ton, Columbus,  the  early  voyages  to  tho  American  waters,  and  the  Franklin  Papers. 

The  leading  article  in  the  number  for  January,  1884,  is  on  *'  The  Van  Reits8elaer 
Mansion,"  by  the  editor,  illustrated  with  a  portrait  of  Gen.  Stephen  Rensselaer. 
There  are  other  articles  on  **  The  Beginning  of  the  New  Kngland  Society  of  New 
York  ;*•  **  The  Poll  Tax  in  Maryland  ;"  *•  llistory  of  the  Location  of  the  National 
Capital ;"  also  a  number  of  original  documents,  and  a  variety  of  Notes  and  Que- 
ries, reports  of  the  proceedings  of  historical  societies,  and  book  notices. 

The  magazine  is  well  and  finely  illustrated,  and  with  deserved  maintenance  will 
be  a  repository  which  no  student  can  afford  to  overlook. 

By  the  Rev.  Anson  Tit  us  ^  of  Weymouth. 

The  Rcf/istcrs  of  the  Parish  Church  of  Calverfey  in  th^:  West  Riding  of  the  County  of 
York,  with  a  Description  of  the  Church  and  a  Sketch  of  its  History.  By  Samukl 
Maegerison.  Vol.11.  Bnidford  :  G.  F.  Sewell,  Printer,  Dailey  Street.  1883. 
12mo.  pp.  \iii.-|-254.     Price  4s.,  including  postage  4s.  4d. 

The  first  volume  of  this  work  containini;  the  entries  in  the  Registers  of  the  Cal- 
verley  church  from  1574  to  1650,  was  published  in  1880.  It  contained  entries  in- 
teresting to  the  Wales  (Rbq.  zxxv.  72)  and  other  New  England  families. 

The  .»*eoond  volume,  whose  title  we  give  above,  continues  the  entries  from  1650  to 
1680.  It  contains  a  description  of  the  church  and  a  sketch  of  its  history,  an  af)pen- 
dix  of  37  pages  of  interesting  matter  and  a  full  index  of  surnames.  The  readers  of 
the  Rbuister  will  feel  most  interest  in  the  '*  Notes  on  the  Ancestry  of  Longfellow," 
which  till  14  pages  of  the  Appendix.  We  knew  from  the  letter  of  Judge  Samuel 
VOL.   XXXYIII.  11 


110  Booh  Notices.  [Jan. 

Sewall,  December  24,  1680,  printed  in  the  Rioistkr,  xxiv.  123,  that  the  fiitberof 
William  Looj^fellow,  the  cmij^rant  ancestor  of  the  poet  Longfellow,  was  named  Wil- 
liam, and  that  in  1680  he  resided  at  Uorsforth,  Yorkshire,  Englana.  Mr.  Mareeri- 
son's  researches  make  it  probable  that  the  emigrant  was  William,  sod  of  WilTiAm 
Longlrllow,  baptized  at  (iuiselev,  Oct.  20,  1650,  and  that  he  was  the  fifth  in  descent 
from  Percival*  Longfellow,  of  Bagley,  Parish  of  Calverley,  throujgh  Thomas,^  Ed- 
ward' and  William.'*  A  tabular  pedigree  in  the  book  gives  the  details  of  this 
descent,  which  though  it  is  not  pretended  that  it  is  proved,  is  extremely  probable 
from,  the  evidence  in  the  case.  Mr.  Margerison  gives  extracts  from  re^jptters  of 
parishes  in  the  vicinity  of  Calverley,  abstracts  of  wills  and  other  genealogical  mat- 
ter, relating  to  the  name  of  Longfellow  under  its  various  spellings.  Other  entries 
of  interest  to  American  families  will  be  found  in  this  volume. 

The  two  volumes  now  published  can  be  had  of  Mr.  Margerison,  the  editor,  Otl- 
verley,  near  Leeds,  England,  price  4  shillings  a  volume,  to  which  4  pence  for  post- 
ajre  should  be  added.  A  third  volume  is  in  press  whicn  will  contain  the  Registeis 
of  Calverley  from  1681  to  1720.    Price  to  subscribers,  3s.;  to  non-sabecribers,  48. 

A  Book  of  New  England  L^ends  and  Folk  Lore,  in  Prose  and  Poetry.  By  Samuh 
Adams  Dbake,  author  of  **  Nooks  and  Comers  of  the  New  England  Coast," 
'*  Old  Landmarks  of  Boston,*'  etc.  Boston  :  Roberts  Brothers,  1884.  Sm.  4(o. 
pp.  xviii.-f-46l.    Price,  Cloth,  $3.50  ;  Cloth  gilt,  $4. 

Mr.  Drake  has  done  a  good  service  in  gathering  up  the  legends,  romantic  ind- 
dents  and  folk  lore  current  among  a  people  who  have  the  reputation  of  being  very 
matter  of  fact  and  prosaic,  with  little  romance  in  their  composition.  Many  of  bis 
readers  will  be  surprised  that  he  has  been  able  to  fill  so  large  a  book.  It  was  do 
easv  task  that  he  undertook  and  has  accomplished,  to  gather  the  legends  among  us, 
ana  to  separate  the  false  from  the  true. 

'*  The  recovery,*'  he  tells  u.s  in  his  preface,  **  of  many  legendary  waifs  that  not 
only  have  a  really  important  bearins  upon  the  early  history  of  our  country,  but  that 
also  shed  much  light  upon  the  spirit  oi  its  ancient  laws  and  upon  the  domestic  lives 
of  its  people,  has  seemed  to  me  a  laudable  undertaking.  This  purpose  has  now 
taken  form  in  this  collection  of  New  England  legends. 

**  As  in  a  majority  of  instances  these  tales  go  far  beyond  the  time  when  the  inte- 
rior was  settled,  they  naturally  cluster  about  the  seaboard;  and  it  would  scarcely 
be  overstepping  the  limit  separating  exagi^eration  from  truth  to  say  that  every  league 
of  the  New  England  cv)aBt  has  its  story  or  its  legend.'* 

The  incidents  in  this  book  extend  from  the  settlement  of  the  country  to  the  pre- 
sent century,  from  William  Blackstone  and  Anne  Hutchinson  to  Moll  Pitcher  and 
Flood  Ireson,  and  they  are  prcsontt'd  in  the  author's  usual  attractive  style. 

The  book  is  profusely  illustrated  by  F.  T.  Merrill,  the  engravings  being  of  a  high 
order  of  merit.    It  is  handsomely  printed  and  bound. 

Outing  and  the  Wheelman.  Illustrated.  Vol.  III.  No.  4.  January,  1884.  Boston, 
Mass.  :  The  Wheelman  Co.,  175  Tremont  Street.  Royal  8vo.  Published  month- 
ly, 72  pages  to  a  number.    Price  $2  a  year,  or  20  cts.  a  number. 

The  Wheelman  has  before  been  noticed  in  these  pages.  It  was  commenced  in  this 
city,  Oct.  1882,  as  '*  an  illustrated  magazine  of  Cycling  Literature  and  News.'* 
Five  months  previous,  in  May,  1882,  Outing  was  begun  at  Albany,  N.  Y.,  as  *'a 
mas;azine  devoted  to  the  literature  of  pleasure  travel,  outdoor  sports  and  the  general 
field  of  recreation.**  Both  magazines  were  ably  edited  and  obtained  the  approval 
of  the  public.  The  proprietors  of  the  Wheebnan  having  determined  **  to  broaden 
its  scope  and  cover  tne  general  field  of  recreation  in  its  literary  and  art  contribo- 
tion,**  purchased  the  subscription  list  of  Outing,  and  now  issue  a  consolidated  mag- 
azine, tne  first  number  of  which  is  before  us.  tt  contains  accounts  of  travels,  tales, 
poetry  and  other  articles  of  particular  interest  to  the  class  of  readers  for  which  it 
IS  intended.  Its  platform  embraces  '*  all  recreations  that  tend  to  develop  manliness 
and  womanliness,  and  make  people  stronger,  brighter,  more  vigorous,  better  and 
happier."    Its  literary  character  and  its  illustrations  are  deserving  of  praise. 

Vick's  Floral  Guide,    Rochester,  N.  Y.,  1884.    8vo.  pp.  134.    Price  10  cents. 

The  Floral  Guide  for  this  year  is  fully  equal  in  every  respect  to  its  predecessors. 
There  are  three  elegant  colored  plates  of  flowers  and  vegetables,  and  more  than  one 
thousand  other  illustrations.  *'  It  is  handsome  enough  for  the  centre  table  or  for  a 
holiday  present.** 


1 884.  ]  Booh  Notices.  Ill 

Tht  Papers  and  Biography  of  Lion  Gardiner^  1599-1663.  With  an  Appendix. 
£dited  by  Curtiss  C.  Ciardimeb.  St.  Louis:  Printed  for  the  £ditor.  1883. 
4to.  pp.  106.    Price  $3. 

The  name  of  Lion  Gardiner  is  familiar  to  most  historical  students  as  that  of  one 
of  the  piooeerB  of  New  England  and  first  proprietor  of  G.irdiner^s  Island  in  Long 
Isfaiod  Soand,  which  island  is  chiefly  noted  for  its  having  continued  in  one  family 
•iooe  1639,  passing  from  lather  to  son  hy  entail  male.  The  work  of  Capt.  Gardi- 
ner is  a  Taloable  contribation  to  the  general  history  of  New  England,  as  well  as  an 
interesting  sketch  of  his  worthy  ancestor,  containing  in  the  second  and  third  chap- 
ters reprints  Irom  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society^s  Collections  of  a  *'  Rela- 
tion **  by  Gardiner  himself  of  his  experiences  in  the  Pequot  wars,  of  his  letters  to 
John  Winthrop,  Jr.,  governor  of  Connecticut,  during  the  same  period,  and  in  the 
bii^raphical  cnapter,  and  the  Appendix,  much  additional  matter  relating  to  the 
Mme  wars  and  to  Gardiner's  Island . 

Nothing  is  known  of  the  ancestry  of  Lion  Gardiner,  although  a  record  copied  from 
an  ancioit  Genevan  bible  ffives  quite  a  full  account  of  bis  emigration  irom  Hol- 
land, and  of  his  wife's  kin£ed  there. 

He  was  a  native  of  England  and  went  to  Holland  as  a  lieutenant  in  an  Enj^Hsh 
rsfftment,  England  then  ^ing  an  ally  of  Holland,  during^  the  reign  of  Charles  First. 

In  1635  Gardiner  states  that  he  was  *'  an  engineer  ana  master  of  works  of  fortifi- 
eation  in  the  legers  of  the  Prince  of  Oranee  in  the  Liow  Countries,"  and  was  in- 
duced by  some  eminent  Puritans  to  go  to  New  England,  setting  sail  July  10,  1635. 
He  went  first  to  Boston  to  complete  the  fortifications  on  Fort  Hill,  and  about  the 
same  time  was  sent  to  Salem  to  ascertain  if  it  was  an  object  to  fortify  that  settle- 
ment, but  reported  that  the  people  were  in  more  danger  of  starvation  than  of  any 
**  foreign  potent  enemy."    He  is  spoken  of  by  Winthrop  as  '*  an  expert  engineer." 

In  A&rch,  1636,  he  was  sent  to  Connecticut  to  fortiiy  certain  places  there,  and 
was  commander  oi  the  fort  atSaybrooke,  taking  an  active  part  in  the  struggles  with 
the  Indians. 

May  3,  1639,  he  parchased  Gardiner's  Island  of  the  Indians,  then  called  the  Isle 
of  Wight,  and  the  next  May  he  obtained  a  grant  of  the  same  from  the  Earl  of  2Scer- 
linff,  grantee  of  the  King  of  England. 

The  book  contains  a  map  showing  the  location  of  the  island,  a  list  of  the  proprie- 
tors, a  brief  genealogy  of  the  author,  and  a  chapter  on  the  Gardiner  Arms. 

Capt.  Gardiner  the  editor  has  presented  his  subject  in  an  attractive  form,  and  the 
work  is  printed  and  bound  in  the  best  manner. 

By  Giorge  K,  Clarke^  Esq,,  Necdham,  Mass. 

Miscellanea  Genealogica  et  Heraldica.  Edited  by  Joseph  Jacksox  Howard,  LL.D., 
F.S.A.  New  Series.  Vol.  IV.  No.  72.  December,  1883.  Hamilton,  Adams 
k  Co.,  Paternoster  Row,  London.  8vo.  Published  monthly,  each  number  con- 
taining 16  pages.    Price  fid.  a  number. 

The  December  number  of  this  valuable  periodical  completes  the  Second  or  New 
Series.  The  work  was  commenced  in  July,  1866.  as  a  quarterly  magazine,  and  two 
volumes  were  issued  in  that  form.  In  April,  1870,  the  New  or  Monthly  Series  was 
begun.  Four  volumes  of  this  series  have  been  published.  They  are  filled  with  mat- 
ter interesting  to  the  genealogist  and  antiquary. 

With  the  January  number  a  third  series  will  be  commenced.  The  number  of 
pa^es  will  be  increased,  with  an  advertising  sheet  and  a  colored  wrapper  ;  and  the 
price  will  be  raised  to  lOs.  6d.  per  annum,  Is.  a  number,  poet  free.  **  It  haH  been 
arranged  that  a  collection  of  Notes  by  the  editor  and  the  late  Col.  Chester,  includ- 
ing an  important  series  of  Will  Abstracts  by  Mr.  Eedes,  illustrating  the  Heraldic 
Visitation  of  London,  1633,  will  beiprinted  in  the  Miscellanea,  These  Notes  will 
be  enriched  with  fac-simile  wood-cuts  of  Arms,  Seals  and  Autographs." 

The  first  series  of  this  work  is  out  of  print;  but  the  second  series  of  four  vol- 
ume*<  can  still  be  furnished  by  Mitchell  k  Huflches,  140  Wardour  Street,  London, 
\V.  England.     Price  for  the  set  £4  14s.  6d.,  and  for  a  single  volume  £1  5s. 

A  Copy  of  the  Old  Epitaphs  in  the  Buryina  Ground  of  Block  Island^  R.  1.  By 
Edw.  Doublkdat  FlARRis.  ('ambridge :  Press  of  John  Wilson  and  Son.  1883. 
12mo.  pp.  66.     Edition  of  100  copies. 

This  ele^nt  book  shows  that  Mr.  Harris  knows  how  to  prepare  and  bring  out  a 
work  of  this  kind.    His  taste  and  judgment  are  conspicuous  in  every  part  of  the 


112  Booh  JTotices.  [Jan. 

Tolume.  Not  only  do  the  inscriptions  represent  those  on  the  stone,  even  to  the  oqd- 
nected  letters,  but  the  kind  of  stone  u»ed  is  given.  There  are  brief  genealogical 
notes  which  add  to  its  value.    The  index  is  a  good  one. 

Genealogists  have  before  been  indebted  to  Mr.  Harris  and  his  lamented  brother, 
the  late  William  Thaddeus  Harris,  LL.B.,  for  their  care  in  preserving  the  inscrip- 
tions on  the  gravestones  in  the  graveyards  of  Cambridge  ana  Watertown,  and  we 
trust  this  is  not  the.  last  contribution  of  the  kind  from  him  that  we  are  to  receive. 

The  Musical  Record.  A  Journal  of  Music,  Art,  Literature.  Edited  by  Dxxm 
Smith.  Boston  :  Oliver  Ditson  &  Co.  November  and  December,  1883,  and  Jan- 
uary, 1884.  Published  monthly,  ^  pages  royal  4to.  each  number.  Price  $1  a 
year  or  10  cts.  a  number. 

The  reputation  which  this  periodical  has  attained  as  a  musical  and  literary  maga- 
zine is  well  maintained.  Mr.  Smith  shows  his  ability  to  make  an  interesting  imd 
valuable  miscellany  for  the  musical  world.  The  Record  contains  essays  on  mosical 
subjects,  the  experience  of  music  teachers,  discussion  of  musical  topics,  notes  and 
queries  on  music,  choice  poetry,  criticism,  reviews  and  items  of  musical  news, 
movements  of  artists,  and  other  matters.    We  commend  the  work  to  our  readera. 

Samuel  Davis,  of  Oxford,  Mass.,  and  Joseph  Davis,  of  Dudley,  Mass.,  and  thm 
Descendants,  North  Andover,  Mass. :  George  L.  Davis,  Compiler  and  Publisber. 
1884.    Cloth.    8vo.  pp.  610. 

The  Descendants  of  William  and  Elizabeth  Tuttle,  who  came  from  Old  to  New  E^ 
land  in  1635,  and  settled  in  New  Haven  in  1639,  with  numerous  Bioaraphictti 
Notes  and  Sketches,  By  George  Frederick  Tuttle.  Printed  and  Published  bj 
Tuttle  &  Company,  Official  State  Printers,  Rutland,  Yt.  1883.  Cloth.  8vo.  pp. 
U.-I-754. 

The  halls  of  New  England,  Genealogicdl  and  Biographical,  By  Rev.  Datid  R 
Hall,  of  Duanesburgh,  N.  ¥.  Albany :  Printed  for  the  Author  by  Joel  Mim- 
seirs  Sons,  82  State  Street.     1883.    Cloth.    8vo.  pp.  x.+ 735+55.    Price  $5. 

Genralogy  of  the  Page  Family  in  Virginia ;  also  a  Condensed  Account  of  the  Nelson, 
Walker,  Pendleton  and  Randolph  Families.     With  References  to  other  Distil' 
guished  Families  in  Virginia.    By  One  of  the  Family.    New  York  :  Jenkins  & 
Thomas,  Printers,  8  Spruce  Street.     1883.    Cloth.    Royal  8vo.  pp.  350. 

The  History  and  Genealogy  of  the  Prentice  or  Prentiss  Family  of  New  England,  etc., 
from  1631  to  1883.  By  C.  J.  F.  Binnet.  Second  Edition.  Boston :  Published 
by  the  Editor.     1883.    Cloth.    8vo.  pp.  iv.  +446. 

Records  of  William  Spooner  of  Plymouth,  Mass.,  and  his  Descendants.  Vol.  I.  Bj 
Thomas  Spooner.    Cincinnati.     1883.    8vo.  pp.  694.    Price  $5. 

Thwing :  a  Genealogical,  Biographical  and  Historical  Account  of  the  Family.  Bj 
Walter  Eliot  Thwinq.  Boston  :  David  Clapp  &  Son,  Printers.  1883.  Cloth. 
8vo.  pp.  214. 

The  Genealogy  and  Biopraphy  of  the  Waldos  of  America  from  1650 /a  1883.  Com- 
piled by  Joseph  D.  Hall,  Jr!  Danielsonville,  Conn. :  Press  of  Scofield  &  Hamil- 
ton.    1883.    Cloth.     Large  12mo.  pp.  127+xTiii. 

7^/>  Harris  Family,  Thomas  Harris,  of  Ipswich,  Mass.,  in  1636  ;  and  Some  of  his 
Descendants  through  Seven  Generations  to  1883.  By  William  Samtol  Hasrxs. 
Printed  for  the  Author  by  Barker  &  Bean,  Nashua,  N.  H.  1883.  Cloth.  Svo. 
pp.  vi.+135.  Sent  post-paid  for  $2  a  copy  by  the  author,  W.  S.  Harris,  Wind- 
nam,  N.  H. 

Tlie  Humphreys  Family  in  America,  By  Frederick  Humphrkts,  M.D.,  assisted  by 
Otis  M.  Humpurets,  M.D.,  Henrt  R.  Stiles,  M.D.,and  Mrs.  Sarah  M.  Church- 
ill. New  York  :  Humphreys  Print.  1883.  Paper.  Royal  4to.  pp.  114  (from 
p.  91  to  204).    Price  $2  for  a  single  number,  or  $10  for  the  complete  work. 

Josiah  Hornblower  and  the  First  Steam  Engine  in  America,  with  Some  Notices  ofthf 
Schuyler  Copper  Mines  at  Second  River,  N.  J.,  and  a  Genealogy  of  the  Hornolouh 
er  Family.  Bv  William  Nelson,  Recording  Secretary  of  the  New  Jersey  Histor- 
ical Society.  Newark,  N.  J. :  Daily  Advertiser  Printing  House.  1883.  Paper. 
8vo.  pp.  80.    Sold  by  E.  W.  Nash,  80  Nassau  Street,  New  York. 

Pollock  Genealogy.  A  Biographical  Sketch  of  Oliver  Pollock,  Esq.,  of  Carlisle,  P«m- 
sylvania,  United  States  Commercial  Agent  at  New  Orleans  and  Havana^  1776- 


1884.] 


Booh  Notices,  113 


1784.  With  Genealogical  Notes  of  his  Descendants^  And  Genealogical  Sketches 
of  other  Pollock  Families  settled  in  Pennsylvania.  By  the  Rev.  Uoracb  Edwin 
Hatdkn.  Harrisburg,  Pa. :  Lane  S.  Hart,  Printer  and  Binder.  1883.  Paper. 
8vo.  pp.  69.     Price  $1  50. 

Gtntalogical  and  Historical  Record  of  the  Carpenter  Family^  with  a  Brief  Genealo- 
gy of  Some  of  the  Descendants  of  William  Carpenter  of  Weymouth  an^  Rehuboth, 
Mass.,  Wiltiam  Carpenter  of  Providence^  R.  /.,  Samuel  Carpenter  of  Penn.^  and 
J^hratm^  Timothy  and  Josias  Carpenter  cf  Long  Island,  including  a  Full,  Com- 
pute and  Reliable  History  of  the  Carpenter  Estate  of  England.  By  James  IJshbr, 
»  Marray  Street,  New  York  City.     1883.    Paper.    8vo.  pp.  70. 

Descendants  of  Thomas  Deane  of  Massachusetts  and  New  Hampshire,    By  John 
Wakd  Dean.     Boston,  Maan.  :   Privately  Printed.     1883.    Paper,    pp.  12. 

Specimen  of  the  Register  Plan  for  Arranging  Genealogies,    8vo.  pp.  4. 

We  oontinoe  our  quarterly  notices  of  genealogical  works  which  have  recently 
appeared. 

The  Davis  genealogy,  whose  title  heads  the  list  this  quarter,  is  a  work  that  we 
out  confidently  refer  to  as  a  model  for  such  works.  The  Hon.  George  L.  Davis,  to 
whom  we  owe  the  work,  has  been  several  years  in  collecting  the  materials  which  he 
DOW  presents  to  the  public.  In  preparing  his  book  for  the  press  he  has  had  the  as- 
•istanoe  of  George  r.  Daniels,  of  Oxford,  author  of  the  valuable  historical  work, 
The  Huguenots  of  the  Nipwuck  Counti^,  who  has  much  taste  and  skill  in  these 
matters.  The  book  is  very  full  and  precise,  not  only  as  to  the  genealogy  but  the 
biopapby  of  the  family.  It  is  arranged  on  the  Register  Plan,  with  a  few  new  fea- 
tares  that  adapt  it  better  for  a  book.  It  is  handsomely  printed,  with  clear  and  dis- 
tinct type,  ano  has  a  very  good  index. 

The  Tuttle  book  seems  to  be  a  very  full  account  of  the  various  families  of  the 
Dame,  and  must  have  cost  much  labor.  Besides  the  descendants  of  William  Tuttle 
of  New  Haven,  it  has  genealogical  accounts,  more  or  less  full,  of  John  Tuttle  of 
Dover,  N.  H. ;  Richard  Tuttle  of  Boston  ;  John  Tuttle  of  Ipswich,  and  Henry  Tut- 
faill  of  Hingham,  Mass.,  with  genealogical  notices  of  several  allied  families.  It  is 
illustrated  with  portraits  and  has  two  indexes. 

The  Halls,  to  which  the  next  book  is  devoted,  are  a  numerous  race.  The  author 
gives  a  list  of  eighty-three  early  emigrants  of  the  name,  between  few  of  whom,  we 
think,  has  any  connection  been  traced.  The  author  has  shown  commendable  perse- 
verance in  collecting  the  memorials  of  thene  scattered  families.  The  volume  is  well 
printed  and  well  indexed.  Numerous  portraits,  many  of  them  on  steel,  illustrate 
the  work. 

The  Page  Family  of  Virginia  gives  the  genealogy  of  that  ancient  family,  which 
is  traced  to  Col.  John  Page,  of  Williamshurg,  Va.,  of  whom  an  original  portrait 
by  Sir  Peter  Lily  is  preserved  and  has  been  engraved  for  this  volume.  Other  por- 
traits and  views  also  illustrate  the  work.  Great  research  is  shown  in  these  pages, 
and  much  historical  and  biographical  matter  is  preserved  here.  Besides  the  fami- 
lies whose  names  we  have  copied  in  the  above  title,  tliere  are  references  to  those  of 
Byrd,  Carter,  Cary,  Duke,  Gilman,  Harrison,  Rives,  Thornton,  VVelllbrd  and 
Vfasbin^n. 

Mr.  Binney,  the  author  of  the  next  volume,  published  his  first  edition  of  the  IVen- 
tice  Family  in  1852.  Since  then  he  has  collected  much  material  for  a  new  edition, 
mod  the  late  Mr.  £.  C.  Prentice  devoted  his  leisure  for  several  years  to  the  same* 
work.  His  collections  have  been  added  to  those  of  Mr.  Binney,  who  has  compiled 
fn>m  the  united  collection  a  very  valuable  and  interesting  worx.  It  is  well  arrang- 
td  and  well  printed,  and  has  good  indexes.  Numerous  portraits  and  other  illustra- 
tions embellish  the  book. 

The  first  volume  of  the  Spooner  genealogy  has  been  printed,  and  the  advance 
sheets  are  before  us.  We  notice  it  briefly  m  this  number,  but  shall  do  so  more 
fully  in  the  next.  The  Hon.  Mr.  Spooner,  of  Glendale,  Ohio,  has  spent  many  years 
and  much  money  in  gathering  material  for  the  genealogy  of  the  Spooner  family. 
In  1871  he  published  a  preliminary  outline  volume,  lie  now  issues  the  first  vol- 
ome  of  the  Cfimpleted  work,  the  result  of  nearly  a  quarter  of  a  century  of  labor. 
The  detaib»  are  full  and  precise,  as  might  be  expected,  and  there  is  a  full  index  in 
one  alphabet.    The  book:  is  handsomely  printed. 

The  Thwing  Family,  the  subject  of  tne  next  book,  is  not  a  very  numerous  one; 
bat  the  author  has  succeeded  in  fiiiiog  more  than  two  hundred  pages  with  interest^ 

TOL.  xxxym.        II* 


114  Recent  Publications.  [Jan. 

ing  matter  about  it.  Ao  account  of  the  Twenge  family  of  England,  of  which  tbii 
is  supposed  to  be  an  ofi&hoot,  is  prefixed.  The  immigrant  ancestor  of  the  Thwing 
family  in  this  country  was  Benjamin  Thwing,  who  came  to  New  England  in  the 
Susan  and  Ellen  in  1635,  and  settled  in  Boston.  His  descendants  are  fully  carried 
out.    A  number  of  heliotypes,  mostly  portraits,  illustrate  the  work. 

Mr.  Uall,  the  author  of  the  book  about  the  Waldos,  has  had  the  use,  io  prepar- 
ing this  volume,  of  the  papers  of  the  late  Hon.  Loren  P.  Waldo  of  Hartford,  Conn., 
Charles  E.  Waldo  of  Canon  City,  Colorado,  and  Mrs.  S.  G.  Waters  of  East  Ran- 
dolph, Vt.,  who  have  devoted  more  or  less  time  to  collecting  fiicts  about  the  family. 
JuQge  Waldo,  of  Hartford,  had  intended  to  prepare  a  work  similar  to  this.  Vk. 
Hall  has  preserved  much  valuable  information  concerning  a  distinguished  family. 
The  book  has  a  good  index,  and  is  illustrated  with  portraits  and  other  engravings. 

The  Harris  Family  of  Ipswich  seems  to  be  very  fully  traced  in  the  next  volame. 
Thomas  Harris  was  one  of  the  early  settlers  of  that  town.  He  afterwards  removed 
to  Rowley,  but  returned  to  Ipswich  and  died  there  in  1687.  Over  six  hundred  ftm- 
ilies  of  his  descendants  are  given  in  this  volume.  It  is  indexed  and  illustrated  by 
heliotype  portraits. 

The  nrst  part  of  the  Humphreys  genealogy  was  noticed  in  our  number  for  July 
last.  The  part  before  us  is  aevoted  to  the  descendants  cf  Michael  Humphreys,  who 
settled  in  Windsor,  Conn.,  as  early  as  1643.  One  of  the  most  distinguished  of  these 
descendants  was  Gen.  David  Humphreys  of  revolutionary  fame,  of  whom  a  portrait 
and  sood  biography  are  given,  illustrated  by  facsimiles  of  letters  by  Washinstoo 
and  himself.  Tne  work  is  very  thoroughly  compiled  and  handsomely  printed,  no- 
similes  of  sevenii  ancient  documents  are  given.  ' 

Mr.  Nelson ^s  memoir  of  Josiah  Homblower  preserves  some  interesting  facts  in  the 
history  of  our  country.  Mr.  Homblower  came  from  England  to  America  in  1793, 
bringing  with  him  the  first  steam-engine  which  was  used^in  this  country.  The  ni^ 
moir  details  the  incidents  of  his  life,  particularly  in  relation  to  this  ensine  and  the 
Schuyler  Copper  Mines  at  Second  River,  N.  J.,  where  it  was  used.  The  name  of 
Homblower  is  intimately  associated  with  the  steam-engine  in  England,  and  Jona- 
than Homblower,  Jr.,  a  nephew  of  Josiah,  invented  in  1776  a  double-cylinder  oi- 
gine.  Mr.  Nelson  calls  him  **  one  of  the  rarest  inventors  of  England."  In  the 
appendix  is  an  account  of  this  engine  and  Mr.  Homblower's  controversy  with 
Messrs.  Boulton  and  Watt.  The  genealogy  appended  seems  to  be  fully  traced. 
There  is  an  index  to  the  whole  pamphlet. 

The  Rev.  Mr.  Hayden,  of  Wilkes  Barre,  Pa.,  is  a  careful  historical  aad  biographi- 
cal writer,  and  in  the  present  work  has  given  a  very  interesting  account  of  Oliver 
Pollock,  particularly  ot  his  services  to  his  country  at  the  time  orthe  revolution.  He 
has  appended  a  genealogy  of  the  Pollock  family  of  Pennsylvania  and  notices  of  oth- 
ers of  the  name. 

The  brief  genealogies  of  the  several  American  families  of  the  name  of  Carpenter 
•given  on  the  title-page,  are  additions  to  our  genealogical  information.  Appended 
IS  a  report  *'  To  the  Members  of  the  Carpenter  Fund  Association,"  as  whotw  agent 
Mr.  Usher  visited  England.  He  gives  the  result  of  his  investi^tions  there.  After 
stating  the  facts  to  the  members,  he  adds :  **  It  may  now  be  aefinitely  taken  as  a 
fixed  fact  that  the  so-called  *  Carpenter  Estate  '  does  not  exist,  except  in  the  fictioo 
of  tradition  and  the  hopes  of  the  expectant  recipients." 

The  Deane  genealogy  is  a  reprint,  from  the  Register  for  July,  1883,  of  the  article 
on  that  family,  with  an  appendix  of  two  pages,  giving  the  ancestry  of  several  of  the 
individuals  named  in  the  genealogy.  This  carries  back  the  ancestry  of  persons  now 
living,  in  various  lines. 

The  Specimen  of  the  Register  Plan  is  a  reprint  from  the  July  Register  of  a  por- 
tion of  the  last  article,  and  with  it  the  short  article  on  that  Plan,  giving  an  explii- 
Aation  of  it.    It  will  be  furnished  gratis. 


RECENT  PUBLICATIONS, 
Presbntbd  to  the  New  England  Historic  Oenealooical  Societt,  to  Dbc.  1, 1888. 

I.  Publicatioru  written  or  edited  by  Membert  of  the  Society. 

Mary,  Qnecn  of  Soots.    A  Study.    By  "Anchor."    New  York:  Charles  H.  Lndwir. 
Printer,  10  &  12  Bcade  Street    1882.    8vo.  pp.  144.  ^ 


1884.]  Recent  Publications.  115 

An  Inqidiy  into  the  Career  and  Character  of  Mary  Staart,  and  a  jnstification  of  Both- 
well.  By  J.  Watts  De  Peyster,  "  Anchor."  New  York :  Charles  H.  Ludwig,  Printer, 
10  &  12  Reade  Street.    1883.    8?o.  pp.  260. 

The  Life  and  Misfortanes  and  the  Military  Career  of  Brig.  Oen.  Sir  John  Johnson,  Bart. 
By  J.  Watts  de  Peyster,  **  Anchor,"  Mtyor  General  S.  N,  Y.  New  York :  Charles  H.  Lud- 
wifT,  Printer,  10  &  12  Reade  Street.    1882.    8vo.  pp.  168. 

Brinton's  Library  of  Aboriginal  American  Literature.  Number  II.  The  Iroquois  Book 
of  Rites,  edited  bv  Horatio  Hale,  M.A.,  author  of  the  Ethnography  and  Philology  of  the 
U.  S.  Exploring  Expedition,  etc.    D.  O.  Brinton :  Philadelphia.    1883.    8vo.  pp.  222. 

Tmro— Cape  Cod,  or  Land  Marks  and  Sea  Marks.  By  Shebnah  Rich.  Boston :  D* 
Lotbrop  and  Company,  3i  Franklin  Street.    8vo.  pp.  580. 

Poblic  Docament,  1881,  No.  15,  Supplement.  The  Census  of  Massachusetts,  1880.  By 
OuToll  D.  Wright,  Chief  of  the  MasM.  Bureau  of  Statistics  of  Lalmr,  Supervisor  of  U.  S. 
Ceasns,  etc.  etc.  Boston :  Wright  &  Potter  Printing  Co.,  State  Printers,  18  Post-Offlce 
Sqoare.    1883.    8vo.  pp.  698. 

History  of  Steam  Navigation.  By  Rear  Admiral  G.  H.  Preble,  U.S.N.  Philadelphia : 
L  R.  Hamersley  &  Co.    1882.    8to.  pp.  271. 

Hetrical  Effusions  pertaining  to  College  Scenes  and  Associations.  Br  George  Kent,  a 
Ihrtmoath  graduate  of  1814.  Washington,  D.  C. :  *'  School  of  Music  "  l^riut.  1883.  8vo. 
pp.  40. 

A  copy  of  the  Old  Epitaphs  in  the  burying  ground  of  Block  Island,  R.  I.  By  Edward 
Doableday  Harris.    Cambridge :  1883.    Press  of  John  Wilson  and  Son.    8?o.  pp.  66. 

Johns  Hopkins  University  Studies  in  Historical  and  Political  Science.  Herbert  B.  Ad- 
•mf.  Editor.  IX.-X.  Village  Communities  of  Cape  Anne  and  Salem.  From  the  Histori- 
cal Collections  of  Essex  Institute.  By  Herbert  B.  Adams,  Ph.D.  Baltimore :  Published 
bf  the  Johns  Hopkins  University.    July  and  August,  1883.    8vo.  pp.  81. 

XI.  The  Genesis  of  a  New  England  State  (Connecticut).  Read  before  the  Historical 
•od  Political  Science  Association,  April  13,  1883,  by  Alexander  Johnson,  A.M.  Baltimore: 
Poblished  by  the  Johns  Hopkins  University.    Septemi)er,  1883.    8vo.  pp.  29. 

British  Views  on  Americin  Trade  and  Manufactures  during  the  Revolution.  By  Wil- 
fiun  John  Potts.  Extracted  from  the  Pennsylvania  Magazine  of  History  and  Biography, 
Vol.  VII.  No.  2.    1883.    Collins  Printing  House,  705  June  Street. 

In  Mcmoriam.  Mary  C.  Bispbam ;  Francis  J.  Humphrey.  The  might  of  Faith.  A  Ser- 
mon preached  in  the  Church  at  Harrison  Square,  Boston,  Mass.,  Sept.  2,  1883,  the  first 
Sanday  of  worship  after  the  funerals  of  Mrs.  Mary  C.  Bisphara  and  Francis  J.  Humphrey. 
Bv  the  Pastor,  CD.  Bradlee.  Boston :  Press  of  George  E.  Todd  &  Co.  Harrison  Square : 
1883.    8vo.  pp.  16. 

An  Account  of  the  White  Kennett  Library  of  the  Society  for  the  Propagation  of  the  Gos- 

rtl  in  Foreign  Parts,  by  Charles  Dcane.    Cambridge :  John  Wilson  and  Son,  University 
ress.    1883.    8vo.  pp.  8. 

Address  at  the  nineteenth  session  of  the  American  Pomological  Society,  held  in  Phila- 
delphia, Pa.,  Sept.  12,  13,  14,  1883  By  Marshall  P.  Wilder,  president  of  the  Society.  Pub- 
lished by  the  Society.     1883.    8vo.  pp.  25. 

The  Classifir-ation,  Training  and  Education  of  the  Feeble-Mindcd,  Imbecile  and  Idiotic, 
by  Charles  H.  SUnley  Davis,  M.D.  New  York :  E.  Steiger  &  Co.,  25  Park  Place.  1883. 
8to.  pp.46. 

The  Trial  and  Execution  for  petit  treason  of  Mark  and  Phillis,  slaves  of  Capt.  John  Cod- 
man,  who  murdered  their  master  at  Charlestown,  Mass.,  in  1755,  for  which  the  man  was 
hanged  and  gibbeted,  and  the  woman  was  burned  to  death,  including  also  some  account  of 
o^r  punishments  by  burning  in  M^sachusetts.  By  Abner  Cheney  Goodell,  Jr.  Cam- 
bridge ;  John  Wilson  and  Son,  University  Press.     1883.    8vo.  pp.  39. 

Elementary  German.  An  outline  of  the  Grammar,  with  exercises,  convcr^jations  and 
readings.  Bv  Charles  P.  Otis,  Ph.D.  Second  edition.  With  revisions  and  apiK'ndix. 
New  York  :  Henry  Holt  and  Company.    1883.    8vo.  pp.  332. 

1783 — 1883.  The  Massachusetts  Society  of  the  Cincinnati.  An  Historical  Address  de- 
livered on  the  occasion  of  the  Centennial  Celebration  at  Boston,  Massachusetts,  July  4, 
1883,  bv  Samuel  C.  Cobb,  president.  [Seal.]  Boston :  Printed  by  order  of  the  Society. 
1883.    dvo.  pp.  50. 

An  account  of  the  Seals  of  the  Judicial  Courts  of  the  Colony  and  Province  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts Bay,  1680-1780.  By  Abner  Cheney  Goodell,  Jr.  A  paper  read  before  the  Massa- 
cha.'^ctts  Historical  Society,  March  8,  1883.    Boston  :  1883.    8vo.  pp.  14. 

Documents  relating  to  the  Colonial  History  of  the  State  of  New  Jersey,  editpd  by  Wil- 
liam A.  Whitehead.  Vol.  VII.  Part  of  administration  of  Gov.  Jonathan  Belcher,'  174&- 
1751.    Newark,  N.  J. :  Daily  Advertiser  Printing  Office.    1883.    8vo. 

Four  drawings  of  the  engagements  at  Lexington  and  Concord,  April  19,  1775,  reproduced 
fixnn  Doolittle's  original  copperplate  engravings,  with  an  explanatory  text  by  Kcv.  Edward 
O.  Potter.    Boston:  1883.    Quarto. 


116  Recent  Publications.  [J 

Catalogue  of  ancient  and  modern  editions  of  the  Scriptares,  with  other  sacred  books  and 
mannscripts  from  the  Library  of  S.  Brainard  Pratt,  Boston. 

Notes  on  the  Rubrics  of  the  Commnnion  OflBce;  illustrating  the  history  of  the  rnbriei 
of  the  various  prayer  books,  &c.  &c.,  together  with  a  review  of  the  decisions  of  the  Privy 
Council,  and  observations  on  Modern  Ritualism.  By  John  Harvey  Treat.  With  an  intro- 
ductory letter  bv  the  Rev.  Morgan  Dix,  S.T.D.  With  many  iilastrations.  .  .  .  New  Yoii: 
James  Pott,  publisher,  12  Astor  Place.    1882.    8vo.  pp.  278. 

In  Memoriam.    Lucinda  Freeman  Hoyt.    8vo.  pp.  6. 

Notes  on  the  History  of  Witchcraft  in  Massachusetts,  with  Illnstrative  Docamcnts.  From 
the  Proceedings  at  the  annual  meeting  of  the  American  Antiquarian  Society,  Oct.  21, 1881 
Worcester,  Mass. :  Printed  by  Charles  Hamilton.    1883.    8vo.  pp.  32. 

History  of  the  Counties  of  Dauphin  and  Lebanon,  in  the  Commonwealth  of  Pennsylvi- 
nia.  Biographical  and  Genealogical.  By  WUIiam  Henry  Egle,  A.M.,  MJ).  Philadtl- 
pbia :  Everts  and  Peck.    1883.    Large  4to.  pp.  360. 

XL  Other  PubUeatumt, 

Biennial  Report  of  the  Minnesota  Historical  Society,  Saint  PanI,  totheLegisIatoreof 
Minnesota,  session  of  1883.    Minneapolis:  Johnson,  Smith  &  Harrison.  1883.  8vo.  pp.tf. 

Records  of  the  Court  of  General  Sessions  of  the  Peace  for  the  County  of  Worcester, 
Massachusetts,  from  1731  to  1737.  Edited  by  Franklin  P.  Rice.  Worcester,  Mass.:  Tbt 
Worcester  Society  of  Antiquity.    1882.    U.  S.  A.    CVI.    8vo.  pp.  197. 

Sixteenth  Annual  Report  of  the  Provost  to  the  Trustees  of  the  Peabody  Institute  of  tiN 
City  of  Baltimore,  June  1,  1883.  Baltimore :  Steam  Press  of  Wm.  K.  Boyle  &  don.  188S. 
8vo.  pp.  35. 

List  of  Palaeozoic  Fossil  Insects  in  the  United  States  and  Canada.  A  paper  read  betat 
the  Wvoniing  Historical  and  Geological  Society,  April  6,  1883.  By  R.  D.  Lacoe.  Wy- 
oming Historical  and  Geological  Society,  1858.  Publication  No.  6.  Wilkes  Borre,  P4.: 
Printed  for  the  Society.    1883.    8vo.  pp.  21. 

Fund  Publication,  No.  18.  The  Foundation  of  Maryland  and  the  origin  of  the  Act  «m- 
cerning  Religion  of  April  21,  16+9.  Prepared  for  and  partly  read  before  the  Maryland  Elf- 
torical  Society.  By  Bradley  T.  Johnson,  a  mcml)er  of  the  Society.  Baltimore.  1881 
8vo.  pp.  211. 

Smithsonian  Miscellaneous  Collections.  Vols.  XXII.,  XXIII.,  XXIV.,  XXV.,  XXVL 
and  XXVII.    Washington:   Published  by  the  Smithsonian  Institution.     1882,1883.    8fO. 

What  Science  is  saying  al>out  Ireland.  By  the  author  of  "  The  Irish  Land  Bill."  8«e- 
end  edition,  with  considerable  additions.  Lcug  and  Co.,  Kingston-npon-HuII.  Sold  m 
London  by  Hamilton,  Adams  &  Co.    8vo.  pp.  87. 

Yale  College  in  1883.  Some  statements  respecting  the  late  progress  and  present  condi- 
tion of  the  various  departments  of  the  University,  for  the  information  of  its  gradoates, 
friends  and  benefactors.  By  the  executive  committee  ot  the  Society  of  the  Alamni,  Jooe, 
1883.    8vo.  pp.  159. 

Twentieth  Annual  and  Second  Decennial  Catalogue  of  the  English  and  Classical  School, 
Providence,  R.  I.  1883.  1864.  Providence,  Rhode  Island  Printing  Co.,  62  WeybosMt 
St.    1883.    8vo.  pp.  71. 

Catalogue  of  the  Officers  and  Students  of  Phillips  Exeter  Academy,  1783— I8S3.  Boston : 
J.  S.  Cushing  Sc  Company.    18H3.    8vo.  pp.  199. 

Did  General  Meade  desire  to  retreat  at  the  Battle  of  Gettysburg  ?  By  George  Meade. 
Philadelphia:  Porter  and  Coates.    1883.    bvo.  pp.  29. 

Les  Canadiens  Frangais  de  Fall  River,  Mass.  Notes  Historiques,  par  H.  A.  Dubuque. 
Fall  River:  Imprimerie  du  Journal,  Le  Castor,  H.  Buisseau,  Editour.    1883.    Bvo.  pp.  22. 

The  Twenty -fifth  Annual  Report  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Brooklyn  Librair. 
Presented  March  29,  1883.    Brooklyn,  N.  Y.    Printed  for  the  Library.    1883.    8vo.  pp. ». 

Report  and  Collections  of  the  State  Historical  Society  of  Wisconsin  for  the  years  1880, 
1881  and  1882.  Vol.  IX.  Madison,  Wis. :  David  Atwood,  State  Printer.  1882.  Svo.  pp. 
498. 

Manual  for  the  use  of  the  General  Court,  containing  the  rules  of  the  two  branches.  By 
8.  N.  Gifford,  Clerk  of  the  Senate,  and  Edward  A.  McClaughlin,  Clerk  of  the  House. 
Boston :  Wright  &  Potter  Printing  Company,  State  Printers,  18  Post-Office  Square.  188S. 
12mo.    pp.  445. 

James  Osborne  Safford,  member  of  the  Finance  Committee  of  the  Essex  Institute  from 
1874  to  1883.  A  sketch  read  at  the  annual  meeting,  Mav,  1883.  By  Robert  S.  Rantoul. 
From  Historical  Collections  of  the  Essex  Institute,  vol.  ^0.    8vo.  pp.  12. 

An  Alphabetical  List  of  the  Names  of  all  persons  residing  in  Washington  City  and  the 
District  of  Columbia,  June  1,  1880,  aged  75  years  or  more.  Copied  from  the  U.  S.  Census 
Reports  of  1880,  compiled  by  J.  M.  Toner,  M.D.  Containing  also  a  list  of  all  the  decedents 
in  the  District  of  75  years  and  upward  between  June  1st,  1880,  and  June  1st,  1882.  Report- 
ed through  the  Health  Office  of  the  District  of  Columbia.    8to.  pp.  20. 


1884.]  Recent  Publications.  117 

Manual  of  the  First  Orthodox  Congregational  Chnrch,  Franklin  Street,  Somerville, 
Mass.,  May,  1883.  Boston :  Frank  Wood,  Printer,  352  Washington  Street.  1883.  8vo: 
pp.26. 

Memorial  History  of  Bradford,  Mass.,  by  J.  D.  Kingsbnry,  inclnding  addresses  delivered 
at  the  two  hnndrcdth  anniversary  of  the  first  charch  of  Bradford,  December  27,  1882.  Ha- 
verfaill,  Ma<8. :  C.  C.  Morse  &  Son,  Book  and  Job  Printers.    1883.    8vo.  pp.  192. 

Archaeological  Institute  of  America.  Fourth  Annaal  Report  of  the  Execntive  Commit- 
tee, and  Second  Annaal  Report  of  the  Committee  on  the  American  School  of  Classical 
Studies  at  Athens,  1882-83.  Presented  at  the  annaal  meeting  of  the  Institute,  Boston, 
May  19, 1883.    Cambridge :  John  Wilson  and  Son,  University  Press.    1883.    8vo.  pp.  56. 

Report  of  the  Boston  Toang  Men's  Christian  Union.  Instituted  1851.  Incorporated 
1852.    For  the  year  ending  April  11, 1883.    Boston,  No.  18  Boylston  Street. 

Catalogos  Senatns  Academici  et  eomm  qui  Munera  et  Offlcia  Academica  gesserunt.  Qui- 
qne  aliqaoris  Oradn  exomati  fuerunt  in  Collegio  Yalensi  in  Novo-Portu,  in  Repat)lica 
Connecticatensi.  In  Nova  Porta :  Tattle  et  Morehouse  et  Taylor  typographis.  1883.  8vo. 
pp.  156  +  73. 

Proceedings  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Maine  at  its  sixty-foarth  Annaal  Communciation,  held 
•t  Portland,  May  1,  2  and  3, 1883.  Vol.  XI.  Part  II.  Portland :  Stephen  Berry,  Printer. 
1883.    8to.  pp.  607. 

Annaal  Report  of  the  Board  of  Managers  of  the  N.  T.  State  Reformatory  at  Elmira,  for 
the  year  ending  September  30, 1882.    Reformatory  Press.    1883.    8vo.  pp.  101. 

Proceedings  of  the  Worcester  Society  of  Antiquity  for  the  year  1882.  Worcester,  Mass. 
Poblished  by  the  Society.    1883.    U.  S.  A.    CVII.    8vo.  pp.  167. 

Eleventh  Annaal  Report  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Chicago  Public  Library,  June, 
1883.    Chicago :  Public  Library  Rooms,  40  Dearborn  Street.    1883.    pp.  40. 

Memorial  of  Zachariah  Allen,  1795-1882.  By  Amos  Perry.  Cambridge :  John  Wilson 
and  Son,  University  Press.    1883.    8vo.  pp.  108. 

Minutes  and  Reports  of  the  General  Conference  of  the  Congregational  Charches  in  Maine. 
Maine  Missionary  Society,  seventy-sixth  anniversary,  held  with  the  church  in  FarmingtOD, 
Jane  19,  20  and  21, 1883.    Bangor :  Press  of  Benjamin  A.  Burr.    1883.    8vo.  pp.  219. 

Josiah  Homblower  and  the  first  steam  engine  in  Amcrica,twith  some  notices  of  the  Schay- 
ler  Copper  Mines  at  Second  River,  New  Jersey,  and  a  genealogy  of  the  Homblower  family, 
by  William  Nelson,  Recording  Secretary  of  the  New  Jersey  Historical  Society.  Read  be- 
fore the  Society  at  Newark,  May  17,  1883.  Newark,  N.  J. :  Daily  Advertiser  Printing 
Hoaae.    1883.    8vo.  pp.  80. 

Catalogue  of  the  Phienogamoas  and  Vascular  Cryptogamous  Plants  of  Worcester  Coun- 
ty. Mass.  By  Joseph  Jackson.  Worcester,  Mass. :  Published  by  the  Worcester  Natural 
Historv  Society,  Worcester,  Mass.,  U.  S.  A.    1883.    8vo.  pp.  48. 

Proceedings  of  the  Long  Island  Historical  Society  at  the  twentieth  annaal  meeting  held 
May  15, 1883,  with  the  report  of  the  directoi-s  and  a  list  of  the  members.  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. : 
Printed  for  the  Society.    1883.    8vo.  pp.  46. 

United  States  Salary  List  and  the  Civil  Service  Law  rules  and  regulations,  with  specimen 
czaminadon  questions  in  the  custom  house,  post-offlce  and  classified  departmental  service, 
prepared  under  the  direction  of  Henry  N.  Copp,  attorney  and  counsellor  at  law,  Washing- 
ton, D.  C.   Henry  N.  Copp.     1883.    3vo.  pp.  143. 

A  Golden  Anniversary.  The  Transcript's  Fiftieth  Birthday.  A  long  look  backward. 
{Seal  of  the  Office.]    Privately  printed.    1880.    Sm.  4to.  pp.  51. 

The  Ninety-fifth  Anniversary  of  the  Settlement  of  Ohio  at  Marietta.  Historical  address 
hf  Hon.  George  B.  Loring,  and  other  addresses  before  the  Washington  County  Pioneer 
Anociition,  Marietta,  Ohio,  April  7,  1883.  Marietta:  Printed  for  the  Pioneer  Association. 
1883.  Register  Print.    8vo.  pp.  76. 

8Ciinger*8  Illastrated  Guide  to  Boston  and  its  Suburbs ;  with  maps  of  Boston  and  the 
kntor,  by  James  H.  Stark.  Also  a  full  description  of  routes  of  the  horse-car  lines,  &c. 
Ac.  Boston,  Mass. :  Photo-Electrotype  Co.,  publishers.  No.  63  Oliver  Street,  near  Frank- 
lin.  I8S3.    8vo.  pp.  180. 

Credit:  Its  Meaning  and  Moment.  By  Clark  W.  Bryan,  editor  and  proprietor  of  The 
Piper  Worid  and  Manufacturer  and  Industrial  Gazette.  New  York :  Bradstrcct  Press. 
1883.  8m.4to.pp.  36. 

Proceedings  at  the  Reunion  of  the  Alumni  of  Bridgton  Academy,  held  at  North  Bridg- 
tOD,  Me.,  on  Jaly  12, 1882.    Bridgton :  Bridgton  News  Press.    1883.    8vo.  pp.  69. 

Proceedings  of  the  Trustees  of  the  Peabody  Education  Fund  from  their  original  organi- 
ntion  on  the  8th  of  February,  1867.  Printed  by  the  order  of  the  Trustees.  Vol.  1.  Bos- 
ton :  Press  of  John  Wilson  and  Son.    1875.    8vo.  pp.  442. 

Proreedingsof  the  Trustees  of  the  Pealxxiy  Education  Fund,  1874-1881.  Printed  by  or- 
der of  the  Trustees.  Vol.  II.  Boston :  University  Press,  John  Wilson  &  Son.  1881.  8vo. 
PP.44L 


118  Recent  Publications.  [Jan. 

The  two  hundred  and  forty-fifth  Annnal  Record  of  the  Ancient  and  Honorable  Artfltey 
Company,  Massachusetts.  1882-1883.  Sermon  by  Rev.  H.  Bernard  Carpenter.  Bostoo: 
Alfred  Mudge  and  Son,  Printers,  34  School  Street.    1883.    8vo.  pp.  87. 

Acts  and  Resolves  passed  by  the  General  Court  of  Massachusetts  in  the  year  188S,  to- 
gether with  the  constitution,  the  messages  of  the  Governor,  &c.  &c.,  published  by  the  Sec- 
retarv  of  the  Commonwealth  Boston :  Wright  and  Potter  Printing  Co.,  State  Printen, 
No.  18  Post-Offlce  Square.    1883.    8vo.  pp.  830+. 

Bulletin  of  the  Boston  Public  Library.  Autumn  Number.  1883.  Vol.  5,  No.  7.  Wholt 
number,  66. 

Williams  College.  Addresses  delivered  at  a  Memorial  Meeting  made  at  Commencement, 
July  3,  1883,  with  an  Address  before  the  Society  of  Alumni  in  regard  to  the  lute  Barefaf 
Jermain,  chiss  of  74,  who  died  July  7,  1882.  Published  by  order  of  the  Tmsteea.  Wfr 
liamstown,  Mass.:  18J33.    8vo.  pp.  46. 

Catalogue  of  the  Officers  and  Students  of  Williams  College  for  the  year  1883-84.  Wfl- 
liamstown,  Mass. :  Published  by  the  College.    1883.    8vo.  pp.  39. 

Proceedings  at  the  celebration  of  the  Ninetieth  Anniversary  of  the  founding  of  Law- 
rence Academy,  Groton,  Massachusetts,  June  21,  1883.  Oroton  :  Published  by  order  of  tbe 
Trustees.    1883.    8vo.  pp.48. 

List  of  Pensioners  on  tbe  Roll,  January  1,  1883,  giving  the  name  of  each  pensioner,  the 
cause  for  which  pensioned,  the  post-office  address,  the  rate  of  pension  per  month,  and  th« 
date  of  original  allowance.  V .  volumes.  Washington :  Government  Printing  Office.  1883. 
8vo. 

Transactions  of  the  Moravian  Historical  Society.  Series  II.  Part  6,  for  1883.  Printed 
for  the  Society.    Bethlehem,  Pa. :  Henry  P.  Clander.    1883.    8vo.  pp.  322. 

Proceedings  of  the  New  Jersey  Historical  Society.  Vol.  VII.  Second  Series.  188J. 
No.  4.    8vo.  pp.  160-276. 

Worcester  County  Musical  Association.  Twenty-sixth  Annual  FesUval  in  Mechaniei 
Hall,  Worcester,  Mass.,  Sept.  24th,  25th,  26th,  27th  and  28th,  1883.  Carl  Zerrahn,  Condao- 
tor.    Worcester,  Mass. :  Published  by  the  Association.    18S3.    8vo.  pp.  86. 

The  Thursdav  Lecture.  By  Samuel  £.  Staples.  Worcester :  Press  of  Clark  JUlfoo. 
1883.    8vo.  pp.  7. 

The  Fortifications  of  To-Day.  Fire  against  models  of  Coast  Batteries  and  Paradoc 
Horizontal  and  curved  fire  in  defence  of  coasts.  Translated  under  the  direction  of  the 
Board  of  Engineers  for  fortifications.  Col.  John  Newton,  Corps  of  Engineers,  Brevet  Ma- 
jor General,  U.S.A.,  President  of  the  Board.  Washington :  Government  Printing  Offloe. 
1883.    Folio,  pp.29. 

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DEATHS. 


Atzr,  flon.  Caleb  R.,  of  Cornish,  Me., 
died  at  bis  residence  in  that  place,  Oc- 
tober 5,  1883,  at  the  age  of  70  years. 

He  was  a  son  of  Oapt.  James  Aver, 
one  of  the  best  known  citissens  of  New- 
field,  whose  father,  Eiisha  Ayer.  was 
one  of  the  original  grantees  and  pio- 
neers of  that  town,  then  known  as 
**  Washington  Plantation."  and  who 
came  there  from  Saco  wliile  James  was 
a  mere  lad.  Mr.  Ayer,  Senior,  was  a 
man  of  ffreat  physical  endurance,  and 
did  much  in  promoting  the  settlement 
and  development  of  the  town.  As 
proof  of  his  public  spirit  and  interest 
in  its  welfare,  it  may  be  mentioned 
that  he  erected  the  first  moeting-house 
and  school-house  for  the  use  of  the  peo- 
ple of  that  place.  Caleb  K.  Ayer  /^rad- 
oated  at  Dartmouth  Coll.  in  the  class 
of  Ib34,  having  among  his  classmates 
Daniel  Clark,  formerly  United  States 
Senator  and  now  U.  S.  District  Judffe 
of  New  Hampshire.  Immediately 
after  his  graduation  he  pursued  his 
legal  studies  in  the  office  of  his  bro- 
ther-in-law, the  late  Justice  Nathan 
Clifford,  of  the  United  States  Su- 
preme Court,  at  that  time  a  resident 
of  Newfield  and  a  leading  practitioner 
at  the  bar  of  York  County.  Mr.  Ayer 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1838,  soon 
after  which  he  entered  into  partner- 
ship with  Mr.  Clifibrd,  which  ctmtin- 
oea  till  the  year  1841,  when  he  re- 
moved to  Cornish,  where  he  continued 
to  reside  until  his  death.  He  was  a 
meoiber  of  the  State  Senate  in  the 
years  1847  and   1848--the   latter  of 


which  he  was  president,  and  in  1856, 
during  the  administration  of  (^vemor 
Wells,  was  Secretary  of  State.  In  the 
years  18C8,  1869  and  1870,  he  was 
County  Attorney  of  York  County,  and 
repeatedly  held  municipal  offices  in 
his  town.  The  duties  of  ail  these 
positions  of  trust  and  honor  he  dis- 
charged with  great  ability.  Mr.  Ayer 
was  possessed  of  fine  presence,  elo- 
quent voice,  rare  command  of  lan- 
guat^e,  and  for  many  years  ranked  as 
one  of  the  ablest  members  of  the  York 
bar.  He  was  a  man  of  great  intellec- 
tual power,  and  when  fully  aroused, 
bis  arguments  before  a  jury,  and  his 
speeches  on  the  stump,  were  often  of 
great  power  and  eloquence. 

He  leaves  a  wife  and  three  children, 
one  of  the  daughters  being  the  wife  of 
Dr.  W.  B.  Swttsey,  of  Cornish. 

By  N.  J.  Heirick^  Esq. 

Barstow,  George,  died  at  San  Francis- 
co, Cal.,  9th  &ptember,  1883,  aged  71. 
He  WHS  the  author  of''  Barstow  s  His- 
tory of  New  Hampshire.''  He  was  a 
native  of  Haverhill,  N.  H.,  and  jrrad- 
uated  at  Dartmouth  College  in  1835. 

Dodge,  Gen.  Augustus  C,  died  at  his 
residence  in  iiurlington,  Iowa,  Nov. 
20,  1883,  at  the  age  of  71  years,  10 
mos.  and  18  ds. 

He  was  a  son  of  the  late  Hon.  Hen- 
ry Dodge,  Delegate  in  Congress  and 
Governor  of  the  territory  of  Wiscon- 
sin, and  United  States  Senafcjr  from 
1848,  the  time  of  its  admission  into 


120 


Deaths. 


the  union,  to  1857 — both  being  mem- 
bers of  the  House  and  Senate  during 
nearly  their  entire  terms  of  service, 
which  is  the  only  case  known  in  the 
history  of  the  country  of  father  and 
son  serving  in  congress  at  the  same 
time.    The  grandfather  of  Augustus 
O.  Dodge  was  brael  Dodge,  a  native 
of  £ssex  County,  Massachusetts,  who 
emigrated  from    Connecticut    to   St. 
Genevieve,  Missouri,  during  the  latter 
part  of  the  last  century.    Gen.  Dodge 
was  one  of  the  early  settlers  of  Bur- 
lington.   In  1838  he  was  appointed  by 
President  Van  Buren  Register  of  the 
Land  Office  at  that  place.     In  Decem- 
ber, 1840,  at  the  early  age  of  28  years, 
he  entered  Congress  as  delegate  from 
the  territory  oi  Iowa,  serving  as  such 
until  its  admission  into  the  union  in 
1848,  at  which  time   he  was  chosen 
one  of  its  first  Senators,  taking    his 
seat  December  2ft,  1848,  and  continu- 
ing in  the  senate  until  February  8, 
1855,  when  he  resigned  to  accept  the 
appointment  of  Minister  Plenipoten- 
tiary to  Spain,  tendered  him  by  Presi- 
dent Pierce.    In  1864  he  was  a  dele- 
gate to  the  National  Democratic  Con- 
vention at  Chicago ;  in  1866  a  dele- 
gate to  the  **  National  Uniim  Conven- 
tion *'  at  Philadelphia  ;  in  1868  he  was 
a  delegate  to  the  National  Democratic 
Convention  in  New  York,  and  in  1874 
was  mayor  of  the  city  of  Burlington. 
Gen.  Dodge  has  been  for  nearly  half  a 
century  intimately  connected  with  the 
national  and  political  interests  of  Iowa. 
His  influence,    discreet   counsel    and 
broad  statesmanship  have  done  much 
in  placing  that  commonwealth  in  the 
front  rank  of  northwestern  states.    Of 
the  highest  personal  character,   and 
possessed  of  fine  social  qualities,   he 
was  greatly  endeared  to  all  who  were 
honored  with  his  acquaintance. 
By  N,  J,  Herrick,  Esq. 

jrREELET,  Mrs.  Sarah  Bridges,  widow  of 
Mases  Greeley,  Esq.,  died  August  26, 
1883,  aged  86  years,  2  months  and  25 
days.  She  was  a  daughter  of  James 
and  Mary  (Montgomery)  Bridges,  of 
Andover,  Mass.,  and  was  born  June 
1,  1797.  She  was  the  last  of  eight 
children  of  her  parents,  all  of  whom, 
except  Hannah,  who  died  in  1819,  a. 
25  y.  1  m.  6  d.,  passed  be^'ond  their 
70th  year,  namely,  Mrs.  J.  Abbott,  of 
Andover,  who  died  at  the  aije  of  73 
years,  2  raos.  3  ds. ;  Colonel  Moody 
Bridges,  of  Andover,  73  years,  7  mos. 
12  ds. ;  Mrs.  S.  Frye,  of  Onondaga, 
Mich.,  71  years,  8  mos.  27  ds. ;  Mrs. 
D.  C.  Brown,  of  Boston,  78  years,  9 
mos.  6  ds. ;  Mm.  Samuel  Herbert,  of 


Concord,  N.  H.,  84  years,  7 
ds. ;  and  Mrs.  £.  C.  Preston 
cord,  N.  H.,  81  years,  10  mos. 

A. 

HoTT,  Mrs.  Lucinda  Freeman. 
Cincinnati,  O.,  July  19,  1888 
90th  year  of  her   age.    She 
dauj^hter    of    Thomas    and 
(Swift)   Freeman,  of   Barnai 
where  she  wau  born,  Dec.  2, 
Mrs.  Hoyt  was  the  wife  of  t 
Beiyamin  Ray  Hoyt   (bom 
Braintree,  Mass.,  Jan.  6,  178 
in  Salem,  N.  H.,  Oct.  3,  187 
the  mother  of  eight  children,  < 
three  survive.    She  was  a  W( 
superior  mental  powers,  and  p 
many  useful  and  endearing 
(See  **  Memorial  Sketch  '^  c 
Hoyt;  also  Pnigc^s  History  o 
wick,  p.  380  (9)  ;    Hoyt   Ger 
pp.  201-2,  and  205<-6 ;  Freema 
p.  156.) 

Hoyt,  Rev.  William  Harrison, 
the  city  of  New  York,  Dec.  11 
aged  nearly  71  years.     He  w 
in  Sandwich,  N.  H.,  Jan.  8, 
was  graduated  at  Dartmouth 
in  1831,  and  married  Ann  Dci 
1838.      Mr.  Hoyt    was    forme 
Rpiscopalian  clergyman  at  St. 
Vt.,   but  became  a  Roman   C 
and  for  some  years  thereafter  p; 
law.     At  the  time  of  his  death 
an  assistant  minister  of  St.  An 
G.)  church  in  New  York.    His 
were  Hon.  Daniel  and  Sally  (Bl 
Hoit,  of  S.    Albert  G.  Hoit,  t 
ebrated   portrait    painter,    wh 
at  Jamaica  Plain,  Mass.,  in  18 
a  brother.     (Hoyt  Genealogy, 
and  91.) 

JoHXSON,   William  Schuyler,  th« 
son  of  Ben  and  Louise  M.  J( 
was  born  Sept.  21,   1859,  and 
Washington,  D.  C,  Oct.  6,  18t 
was  an  estimable  young  man 
qualities,  a  member  of  the  An 
Association   for  the   Advanceu 
Science,  and  for  several  years 
secretary  to  Prof.  Alexander  C 
Boll,  but  more  recently  enga 
business  in  Florida.     He  was 
ventor  of  an  Electric  Si(^nalling  1 
He  died  of  pysomia,  induced  by 
scess  from  which  be  had  been  a  f 
for  five   months.     Services  wei 
on  the  8th  at  his  residence  in 
ington,  and  his  remains  were  ti 
Owego,  N.  Y.,  by  his  brother  ( 
S.  Johnson,  Esq.«  of  Washingt 
only  survivor  of  this  family. 


T7TE 


•(ruiOAL  AND  Ql-XEALOGICAL 

registe:i. 


APIiJL.   1^84. 


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•Ij-i  .!:i3i»  »»1  tl>'.»  Aiijfjp'^an  r-  ii'iiio^,  tliroiigh  u  lin*  of  r  thy 
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THE 


HISTORICAL  AND  GEi\EALOGICAL 

REGISTER. 


APRIL,  1884. 


REV.  EDWIN  HUBBELL  CHAMN,  D.D.,  LL.D. 

By  the  Rev.  Anson  Titus,  of  Weymoath,  Mass. 

EDWIN  HUBBELL  CHAPIN  was  born  in  Union  Village,  Wash- 
ington  County,  New  York,  December  29,  1814,  the  son  of 
Alpheus  and  Beulah  (Hubbell)  Chapin.  He  could  trace  his  ancestry 
to  the  earlier  days  of  the  American  colonies,  through  a  line  of  worthy 
parentage ;  and  in  one  of  thoee  masterly  lectures  he  pronounced  be- 
fore 60  many  audiences,  in  which  he  declares  himself  a  ^  believer  in 
ancestry  and  in  the  feeling  it  kindles,"  he  expressed  the  tradition  of  his 
family  that  ^  a  drop  of  the  Black  Douglas,  the  Scottish  Knight,  ran 
in  his  veins."  Nobility  of  character  and  strength  of  lofly  purpose 
were  his,  whether  from  Scottish  veins,  or  the  hardy  blood  of  other 
peoples. 

The  paternal  anceetry  of  Mr.  Chapin  reaches  back  eight  genera- 
tions, to  Samuel  Chapin,*  who  was  among  the  early  settlers  about 
BoBtoD,  and  who  in  1642  took  upon  himself  the  fortunes  of  a  wilder- 
ness home  in  Springfield.  His  wife  was  Cicely.  Mr.  Savage,  in 
his  Genealogical  Dictionary  of  New  England  Families,  says  he  was 
'^ a  deacon  and  man  of  distinction."  In  a  brief  diary  of  his  son 
Japhet  are  these  words  :  **  My  father  was  taken  out  of  this  trouble- 
some world  the  11  day  of  November  about  eleven  of  the  clock,  1675." 
The  age  of  this  paternal  progenitor  is  not  known,  but  it  was  above 
three  score  years.  The  eldest  son  of  Samuel  was  Japhet,  who  mar- 
ried Aibilenah  Cooley.  Japhet  resided  in  the  north  part  of  Spring- 
field, the  present  Chicopcc.  He  was  at  the  Indian  fight  at  TumePs 
Falls,  as  will  be  seen  from  the  following  note  supposed  to  be  in  his 
handwriting  in  an  ancient  account  book  :  **  I  went  out  Volenteare 
against  ingens  the  17th  of  May  1676  and  we  ingaged  batel  the  19th 
of  May  in  the  morning  before  sunrise  and  made  great  Spoil  upon  the 
enemy  and  came  off  the  same  day  with  a  loss  of  37  men  and  the 

*  For  an  account  of  tbe  history  of  the  Chapin  Family,  vide  The  Chapin  Oenealogj, 
containing  a  very  lante  proportion  of  the  descendants  of  Dea.  SamacI  Chapin,  who  setUed 
in  Springfleid,  Biasa.,  in  1642.  Collected  and  compiled  by  Orange  Chapin,  Northampton, 
1886.  pp.  36/. 

TOL.   XXZYIII  12 


122  Itev.  Edwin  H.  Chopin.  [AprH, 

Captin  Turner,  and  came  home  the  20th  of  May.**  He  died  in  1712 
at  the  age  of  70  years.  To  Japhet  was  bom,  among  others,  a  son 
Thomas  Chapin,  who  married  Sarah  Wright.  He  died  at  the  age 
of  85,  and  his  wife  Sarah  98  years.  To  Thomas  was  bom,  in  1694, 
a  Thomas  Chapin,  Jun.,  who  married  Jerusha  Jones,  of  the  town  of 
Sunderland  ;  and  residing  in  the  vicinity  of  Chicopee  until  1748,  he 
removed  to  Belchertown,  where  he  died  at  the  age  of  86,  and  his 
wife  in  1773  aged  77  years.  The  oldest  son  of  Thomas  was  Elijah, 
bora  in  1722,  and  who  died  in  Windsor,  Vermont,  aged  87  years. 
To  Elijah  was  born  Perez,  who  graduated  at  Middlebury  College, 
became  a  physician,  and  after  practising  for  a  time  in  Granby,  Mass., 
removed  to  Benson,  Vermont.  He  married  Elizabeth  Smith  in  1776. 
Dr.  Perez  Chapin  died  in  Benson  in  1838,  aged  86  years.  Alpheus 
Chapin  was  their  son,  bom  Oct.  24,  1787.  He  was  a  man  of  fine 
abilities,  and  was  a  portrait  artist  of  no  mean  reputation.  Unlike 
the  same  profession  to-<lay,  he  was  obliged  to  go  from  place  to  place, 
especially  to  those  towns  where  wealth  and  public  spirit  were  found, 
to  gain  a  livelihood  and  extend  his  reputation.  Alpheus  Chapin  and 
Beulah  Hubbell*  were  married,  and  to  them  was  born  December  29, 
1814,  Edwin  Hubbell  Chapin,  whose  memoir  this  is. 

Thus  it  will  be  seen  that  long-lived  and  hardy  was  the  race  from 
which  our  subject  sprang.  He  was  the  eighth  generation  from  Samuel 
Chapin.  We  know  not  the  age  of  Samuel,  but  of  the  six  generations 
between  them  the  average  age  was  almost  eighty-three  years,  while 
the  wives  of  these  forefathers  also  died  advanced  in  life. 

The  mrfteraal  ancestry  of  Mr.  Chapin  is  likewise  worthy  and  noble. 
His  mother,  Beulah  Hubbell,  was  born  in  Bennington,  Vermont, 
in  1785,  the  daughter  of  Elnathan  and  Isabella  (Breckenridge) 
Hubbell.  The  line  of  her  ancestry,  back  to  Richard  Hubbell,  the 
early  emigrant  of  the  family,  is  as  follows  :  Beulah,*  Elnathan,* 
Elnathan,'  James,'  Richard.'  It  was  among  the  strong  families  of 
Connecticut,  public-spirited,  and  earnest  in  military,  civil  and  church 
affairs.  James,  of  the  second  generation,  lived  to  the  age  of  104 
years. 

The  youthful  days  of  Chapin  were  spent  in  various  towns,  where- 
ver his  father  could  gain  employment  in  his  profession.  He  knew 
not  the  full  worth  of  a  homestead,  but  only  of  the  boarding  and 
tenement  house.  The  thoughts  which  early  came  to  him  must  have 
moulded  his  later  life,  and  thus  made  him  more  tender  and  sympa- 
thetic towards  those  who  felt  the  deep  need  of  home  and  childhood 
reverence.  The  affection  of  parents  was  the  stronghold  in  his  char- 
acter. When  about  eleven  years  old  the  wanderings  of  the  family 
brought  them  to  Boston.  His  school  days  had  been  few,  and  these 
only  for  a  few  weeks  at  a  time.  On  coming  to  Boston,  he  soon  be- 
came an  errand  boy  to  Aaron  Dana,  broker,  No.  26  State  Street. 

•  Vide  History  of  the  Hnbbell  Famny,  containing  a  Genealogical  Record,  by  Walter 
Habbeli,  New  York,  1881.    pp.  463. 


1884.]  Bev.  Edwin  H.  Uhapin.  123 

Few  details  remain  of  these  years  in  Boston.  His  bright  and  im- 
aginative mind  caught  upon  suggestions  and  visions  which  lifted  the 
young  errand  boy  above  the  round  of  duty,  and  often  to  a  neighboring 
errand  boy  would  he  recite  some  extempore  effusion  which  had  for 
the  moment  possession  of  his  soul.  The  youth  was  turned  towards 
the  drama  and  histrionic  art.  Rude  indeed  may  have  been  the  execu- 
tion of  his  endeavors ;  but  gathering  a  small  company  of  like  passion 
he  easily  played  the  leading  part.  In  this  company  of  amateurs  with 
young  Chapin  were  Charles  H.  Eaton  and  John  P.  Addams,  come- 
dians, and  E.  L.  Davenport,  tragedian,  whose  brilliant  delineations 
of  the  art  made  his  fame  world-wide.  There^was  ever  strength  of 
friendship  between  Davenport  and  Chapin.  Anxiety  reigned  in  the 
hearts  of  the  parents,  and  they,  feeling  the  dangers  which  city  life 
and  excitement  would  have  upon  one  of  his  temperament,  arranged 
to  have  him  go  to  Bennington,  Vermont,  and  attend  the  Academy 
at  that  place.  **  When  his  little  trunk  was  finally  packed  for  the 
journey,  bis  mother  took  from  it  sundry  well-worn  plays  and  decla- 
mations he  had  concealed  in  it,  and  in  their  place  she  deposited  a 
c»py  of  the  Bible  as  her  parting  gift.  Her  cup  of  joy  would  have 
been  full  could  she  have  foreseen  how  prophetic  was  this  act  of 
transfer  1 "  * 

Young  Chapin's  school  days  at  Bennington  were  full  of  profit. 
The  new  life  was  overflowing  with  exhilaration.  The  fresh  thoughts, 
the  new  associations,  the  broad  aud  beautiful  landscapes,  a  teacher 
who  saw  into  the  depths  of  his  great  nature,  and  inviting  oppor- 
tunities, conspired  as  one  to  lend  aid  to  the  unfolding  of  concealed 
powers.  During  the  greater  part  of  the  six  years  he  was  in  Ben- 
nington he  lived  with  his  uncle,  Dea.  Aaron  Hubbell.  It  was  while 
attending  Academy  that  Mr.  Chapin  wrote  the  poem,  which  first  ap- 
peared in  the  Southern  Literary  Magazine,  entitled  "The  Burial  at 
Sea,"  the  first  line  of  which  ran, 

**  Bury  me  not  in  the  deep,  deep  sea," 

and  has  in  all  the  years  of  its  wanderings  found  a  place  in  the  leading 
periodicals  of  our  language. 

From  Bennington  the  young  man  went,  in  1836,  to  Troy,  N.  Y., 
In  the  law  oflSce  of  Huntington  and  Van  Schoonhoven  he  read 
Blackstone  for  a  short  time,  and  afterwards  studied  in  the  oflice  of 
Judge  Pierson.  But  he  was  not  content  with  legal  phrase.  There 
was  not  enough  of  the  poetic  in  it  to  suit  his  temperament.  He 
would  rather  declaim  the  choice  paragraphs  of  world-famed  orators, 
than  apply  himself  to  the  fine  points  and  technicalities  of  law. 
The  autumn  of  1836  gave  him  grand  days.  He  entered  the  Presi- 
dential campaign  in  the  support  of  Martin  Van  Buren.  Of  Chapin's 
speeches  in  this  campaign  his  old  school-mate,  the  Hon.  Martin  I. 

•  life  of  Edwin  H.  Chapin,  D.D.,  by  Rev.  Samner  Ellis,  D.D.,  page  24. 


124  Rev,  Edwin  H.  Chnpin.  [AprO, 

Townsend,  says:  *^They  were  as  successfiil  in  their  line  as  his 
«ermons  were  afterwards.  Everybody  patted  him  on  the  back  and 
praised  him  for  them.  They  were  rough  and  tumble,  but  perfectly 
charming."  This  campaign  was  a  life  to  him.  It  was  a  prophecy 
of  his  great  work  for  the  world.  But  blindly  did  he  gi*ope.  Little 
did  he  know  his  mission  ;  but  He  who  rears  men  for  special  work 
and  all  the  race  for  some  work  was  entangling  his  life  with  thoughts 
and  circumstances  to  guide  him  into  and  to  persuade  him  concerning 
the  labors  and  service  of  the  world's  Master  among  men. 

The  excitement  of  a  political  campaign  over,  and  only  the  ordinary 
routine  of  studious  plodding  once  more  resumed,  he  grew  tired  and 
his  temperament  failed  to  respond  to  the  niceties  of  legal  study.  He 
loved  the  stir  and  the  responsive  enthusiasm  of  public  address.  But 
there  was  more  than  this.  His  soul  was  reaching  out  for  that  which 
he  did  not  possess.  A  religious  revival  was  in  progress  in  Troy,  and 
his  heart  turned  to  subjects  of  spiritual  life  and  growth.  Religions 
thoughts  were  received  favorably,  but  to  him  the  dominant  creeds 
and  statements  were  hard  to  be  reconciled.  To  the  home  of  his 
parents  he  once  more  turned,  and  amidst  the  affections  of  loved 
ones  his  wearied  heart  began  to  feel  refreshment.  This  home  was 
now  at  Bridgewater,  to  the  south  of  Utica,  New  York.  His  father 
plying  his  profession  in  Utica,  the  young  man  sought  again  a  law 
office  in  which  to  pursue  his  studies.  In  a  leisure  hour  he  strolled 
to  a  book  store,  an  attractive  place  to  him,  and  there  a  kindly  greet- 
ing and  consent  made  him  welcome.  Connected  with  the  store  was 
a  printing  office.  It  was  the  publication  office  of  the  Grospel  Ad- 
vocate and  Magazine,  the  organ  of  the  Universalist  denomination  for 
New  York  State,  and  the  books  on  sale  were  largely  those  which 
advocated  the  doctrines  of  this  religious  body.  Here  the  student, 
with  no  money  to  purchase,  found  a  place  of  pleasing  resort.  New 
thoughts  and  motives  thrilled  his  soul.  These  books  and  publica- 
tions, with  a  broad  and  generous  spirit,  aroused  his  nature,  and  a 
new  man  was  he.  The  genial  friendship  awakened,  and  the  attractive- 
ness of  an  editorial  room,  were  more  seductive  than  the  law  office. 
On  the  first  of  July,  1837,  his  first  article,  an  Independence  Hymn, 
appeared  in  the  columns  of  this  paper.  Soon  he  became  established 
as  an  assistant  editor,  for  his  writings  gained  favor  rapidly  among 
the  readers  of  his  own  and  other  papers.  This  labor  gave  him  fresh 
joy.  Until  the  following  Spring  did  he  remain  in  this  position,  de- 
veloping rare  powers  as  a  writer.  In  Utica  also  there  was  a  debating 
society  this  same  winter,  and  there  he  often  gave  utterance  to  his 
thoughts  on  various  subjects,  to  the  admiration  and  profit  of  all  who 
listened.  In  the  Spring  of  1838,  Rev.  Aaron  B.  Grosh,  the  senior 
editor,  announced  the  accession  to  the  Universalist  ministry  of  him 
who  had  been  his  assistant.  He  was  ordained  to  the  full  work  of  the 
Christian  ministry  September  27,  1838,  at  Knoxville,  Oneida  Co., 
New  York. 


1884.J  Bev.  Edwin  H.  Chapin.  125 

In  two  months  from  the  time  of  his  first  sermon,  he  was  a  settletl 
pastor  in  Kichmond,  Virginia.  College  advantages  and  special 
theological  training  he  did  not  possess,  but  with  a  rare  power  of 
grasping  truths  from  every  side,  and  with  a  happy  faculty  of  applying 
them  to  bis  hearers,  he  soon  captivated  the  hearts  of  the  Virginians. 
His  reputation  as  an  orator  of  sacred  truth  began  at  the  outlet  of 
his  ministry.  During  his  pastorate  of  two  and  a  half  years  in 
Richmond  he  prepared  a  course  or  two  of  lectures  which  became  the 
foundation  of  as  many  volumes  of  his  published  works. 

In  the  autumn  of  1839,  Mr.  Chapin  came  North  to  attend  the 
Universalist  General  Convention  in  Portland,  Maine.  He  arrived 
in  Boston,  September  13th,  as  the  body  of  Rev.  Thomas  F.  King 
was  awaiting  burial  in  Charlestown.  Great  grief  was  over  the  city. 
On  the  evening  of  this  day  a  service  was  desired  on  the  part  of  the 
people,  and  the  visiting  clergymen  in  attendance,  who  were,  as  was 
Mr.  Chapin,  on  their  way  to  the  said  Convention.  Mr.  Chapin  was 
invited  to  preach,  and  consented.  The  preacher's  words  were  of 
faith,  and  such  was  the  pathetic  and  eloquent  application  to  the 
pervading  sadness,  that  to  him  did  the  people  look  for  a  future  pastor. 
It  was  not,  however,  until  more  than  a  year  af^er,  that  he  consented 
to  leave  his  Richmond  charge.  December  23d,  1840,  he  was  in- 
stalled as  pastor  of  the  Universalist  Church  of  Charlestown,  and  for 
five  years  did  he  go  in  and  out  before  his  people  with  words  of  sym- 
pathetic ministration  and  a  life  which  fired  other  hearts  to  better 
living. 

It  was  in  Charlestown  that  he  said  he  lived  his  five  most  valuable 
years.  His  conquests  and  victories  were  many.  The  new  avenues 
of  research,  the  reforms  of  the  time,  his  growing  reputation  upon  the 
lecture  platform,  all  called  forth  the  nobler  powers  of  his  nature. 
During  these  plastic  years,  his  labors  and  accomplishments,  helpful 
88  they  were  to  others,  yet  exercised  an  abiding  influence  upon  him- 
self. In  Charlestown  he  met  in  social  life  two  intimate  friends,  who 
were  such  to  the  last,  Richard  Frothingham  and  Thomas  Starr  King. 
Large  hearted  and  noble  were  these  three  men,  and  upon  each  other 
they  exercised  a  superior  type  of  influence.  This  ministry  in 
Charlestown  was  widely  felt,  and  it  was  only  with  a  cost  of  painful 
emotion  that  his  relations  were  severed  to  accept  a  call  as  an  associate 
with  the  venerable  Hosea  Ballou  of  Boston. 

Mr.  Chapin  was  installed  in  Boston,  January  26,  1846,  the  senior 
pastor,  Hosea  Ballou,  delivering  the  sermon.  Of  this  period  of 
hifi  life  Rev.  Sumner  Ellis,  D.D.,  his  biographer,  says:  "His  min- 
istry in  Boston  was  brief,  reaching  through  a  period  of  only  two 
years,  and  was  not  marked  by  any  thing  special  in  the  way  of  de- 
velopment or  incident.  Coming  from  Richmond  to  Charlestown,  he 
had  made  in  the  latter  place  the  great  advance  steps  of  his  life. 
Under  the  shadow  of  Bunker  Hill  he  caught  a  new  vision  of  Liberty, 
and  amidst  the  temperance  agitation  of  that  time  he  gave  his  heart 
VOL.  xxxvni.        12* 


126  Mev,  Edioin  H,  Chapin.  [April, 

to  Total  Abstinence,  and  put  his  hand  to  the  pledge  ;  and  for  these 
great  causes  he  became  the  eloquent  advocate.  Here  also  he  had 
acquired  a  new  and  tenderer  sentiment  in  his  soul,  a  more  pathetic 
tone  to  his  voice,  through  the  discipline  of  his  iSrst  great  sorrow, — an 
acquisition  as  permanent  as  his  life ;  and  here  his  moods  of  enthu- 
siastic abstraction,  in  which  his  friends  even  failed  to  arrest  his  notice, 
became  characteristic.  And  with  these  developments  put  forth,  like 
buds  burst  into  full  bloom,  he  removed  to  Boston  only  to  keep  the 
even  tenor  of  his  way ;  or  if  any  change  came  to  him,  it  was  merely 
a  change  to  greater  activity  and  influence,  through  the  demand  im- 
posed by  his  growing  fame." 

While  he  was  pastor  in  Charlestown,  two  urgent  invitations  had 
been  given  him  to  settle  in  New  York  City,  and  after  a  two  yean 
pastorate  in  Boston,  came  a  renewed  call  he  was  unable  to  resist. 
On  the  first  Sunday  of  May,  1848,  he  entered  upon  his  new  pastoral 
engagement.  The  same  day  Rev.  Alonzo  A.  Miner,  his  successor, 
began  in  Boston.  Their  lines  truly  were  fallen  in  divinely  marked 
places.  The  busy  and  stirring  life  of  the  metropolis  was  best  suited 
to  the  gifted  Chapin,  and  the  long  successful  pastoral  career  of  Dr. 
Miner,  as  the  leading  Universalist  minister  in  Boston,  shows  clearly 
to  all  readers  of  the  divine  mind,  how  a  gracious  Providence  raises 
up  men  for  stations,  and  creates  stations  for  men.  From  the  first, 
the  ministry  of  Mr.  Chapin  in  New  York  was  attractive  and  ever 
widening.  His  reputation  as  an  orator  of  sacred  themes  took  anew 
the  wings  of  the  wind.  First  one  church  edifice  and  then  another 
his  congregation  outgrew.  His  reputation  as  a  lecturer  made  visitors 
to  the  metropolis  desire  to  hear  him  upon  the  Sabbath  day.  The 
consequence  was,  no  visit  was  complete  without  listening  to  him  of 
whom  so  much  was  said.  His  parish  grew  in  numbers  and  in  wealth, 
and  finally,  in  1866,  was  erected  the  substantial  and  beautiful  edifice 
— the  Church  of  the  Divine  Paternity — on  the  comer  of  Forty-fifth 
Street  and  5th  Avenue.  A  succession  of  successes  characterized  his 
labors.  No  words,  statement  or  statistics  can  estimate  the  worth, 
work  and  power  of  this  mighty  man  in  a  leading  pulpit  of  the  leading 
city  in  the  land.  It  were  vain  to  attempt.  On  the  7th  of  May, 
1873,  he  was  invited  by  his  large  and  generous  minded  people  to 
celebrate  his  twenty-fifth  anniversary*  as  their  pastor.  It  was  an 
event  to  be  remembered.  The  people,  to  whom  he  was  a  true  and 
steadfast  friend,  were  present  in  large  numbers.  Addresses  were 
made  by  various  speakers  of  a  congratulatory  character,  but  the  chief 
and  central  address  was  by  Rev.  Dr.  James  M.  Pullman,  who  in  apt, 
terse  and  eloquent  words,  presented  Dr.  Chapin,  on  behalf  of  his 
people,  a  sum  of  money,  denominated  ''ten  thousand"  thanks. 

The  pulpit  of  this  Church  of  the  Divine  Paternity  was  ever  firm. 
It  was  true  to  the  nobler  reforms  of  the  day,  and  loyal  in  the  darker 

•  The  Twenty-fifth  Anniyersanr  of  the  settlement  of  £.  H.  Chapin,  D.D.,  Pftstor  of  tbt 
Charch  of  the  DiTine  Paternity,  New  York,  Wednesday,  Maj  7, 1873.    Syo.  pp.  67. 


1884.]  Bev.  Edwin  H.  Chapin.  127 

times  of  the  Nation's  civil  strife.  No  scandal  ever  breathed  its  poison 
against  it.  It  has  been  a  tower  of  strength  amid  men  busy  with  the 
traffic  of  the  world. 

The  Rev.  Dr.  Thomas  J.  Sawyer,  at  a  memorial  service  m 
Boston,  said  of  Dr.  Chapin :  ^  He  was  one  of  nature's  noble- 
men ;  designed  and  fashioned  to  be  a  man  of  mark,  with  a  large 
brain  and  a  great  heart.  Physically,  intellectually  and  morally,  he 
was  made  for  vast  activity,  endurance  and  most  efficient  service. 
Though  dying  at  the  age  of  sixty-six,  he  was  fitted  by  nature  to  have 
lived  much  longer.  No  doubt  he  has  accomplished  by  his  intensity 
of  thought  and  action,  as  much  as  many  others  with  his  endowments 
would  have  done  in  a  life-time  half  as  long  again.  But  unfortunately 
for  him,  and  for  us,  I  think,  he  had  no  mercy  on  himself,  and  when 
in  the  hey-day  of  health  and  vigor  he  thought  nothing  impossible,  no 
amount  of  labor  too  great.  He  was  not  merely  a  preacher.  His 
was  a  divided  throne  between  the  pulpit  and  the  platform.  For 
many  years  he  was  active  in  temperance  and  other  reforms,  and  his 
magnetic  eloquence  made  him  sought  by  all  associations  of  the  kind 
that  desired  the  presence  of  a  crowd  and  a  stirring  and  persuasive 
appeal.  For  five  and  twenty  years  he  was  one  of  the  most  promi- 
nent of  a  long  catalogue  of  lecturers  whom  every  lyceum  must  hear. 
Now  imagine  a  man  who  has  to  preach  two  sermons  every  Sunday, 
preach  to  an  audience  of  from  twelve  to  eighteen  hundred  people, 
and  so  preach  as  to  maintain  the  reputation  of  the  most  eloquent 
divine  in  the  country  I  " 

In  1850  he  visited  Europe,  and  attended  the  Peace  Congress  held 
in  the  Parliament  House  of  Grermany,  and  his  address  here  electrified 
the  assembly,  and  gave  him  a  reputation  at  once  among  the  orators 
of  Europe.  His  work  for  the  Odd-Fellows  earned  the  gratitude  of 
all  bound  by  their  mystic  tie.  The  cause  of  Temperance  found  his 
words  of  no  little  help  in  upbuilding  the  sentiments  of  total  abstinence. 
There  was  no  mistaking  where  his  large  sympathies  were. 

The  services  of  Mr.  Chapin  were  in  constant  demand  before  the 
Lyceums  of  the  country.  The  first  years  of  his  ministry  in  Rich- 
mond witnessed  his  advent  as  a  lecturer,  and  from  that  time  onward 
he  was  ^  the  acknowledged  prince  of  the  lyceum  platform."  The 
following  named  lectures  are  those  upon  which  his  reputation  was 
established  :  "  Orders  of  NobUity  "  ;  ''  Social  Forces  " ;  ''  Modem 
Chivalry  " ;  ""  Building  and  Being  " ;  "  The  Old  and  the  New  "  ;  ''  The 
Roll  of  Honor  ** ;  "  Man  and  His  Work  " ;  ''  Woman  and  Her  Work  " ; 
•*  The  People  " ;  ""  The  Age  of  Iron "" ;  ''  Europe  and  America  "  ; 
^  John  Hampden,  or  the  Progress  of  Popular  Liberty  "  ;  **  Columbus," 
and  ^  Franklin."  At  a  time  Mr.  Chapin  was  asked  what  he  lectured 
for,  and  he  replied,  "  For  f-a-m-e  —  fifty  and  my  expenses." 
But  this  was  in  the  early  days  of  the  Lyceum  ;  later  his  prices 
reached  the  highest  figures  paid  for  lectures.  The  most  popular  of 
these  lectures  were  doubtless  delivered  upon  three  or  four  hundred 
different  platforms. 


128  Mev.  Edwin  H.  Ohapin.  [April, 

Although  Dr.  Chapin  was  connected  with  every  charitable  insti- 
tution identified  with  the  Universalist  Church,  the  Chapin   Home 
for  the  Aged  and  Infirm  was  the  most  intimately  connected  with  the 
dead  clergyman's  work  and  with  the  Church  of  the  Divine  Paternity. 
The  fund  with  which  the  Home  was  established  was  raised  for  a 
memorial  of  Dr.  Chapin  by  difiTerent  members  of  his  congregation. 
The  Home  was  incorporated  on  the  ist  of  May,  1869.     The  Board 
of  Trustees  was  composed  of  ladies  of  Dr.  Chapin*s  church.     No 
candidate  for  admission  to  the  Home  is  refused  admission  on  account 
of  creed  or  color.    Both  sexes  are  admitted,  but  the  applicants  must 
not  be  less  than  sixty-five  years  old.     The  institution  owns  its  build- 
ing  on    Sixty-sixth   Street,   near   Lexington  Avenue,   which  cost 
$83,000  to  erect,  and  other  property  of  income-bearing  value. 

Dr.  Chapin  was  a  great  lover  of  books.  The  choice  things  in  old 
timed  or  recent  literature  were  sure  to  be  sought  out  by  him.  His 
library,  after  his  decease,  was  sold,  and  its  catalogue  revealed  a  store- 
house of  literary  treasures.  Rarely  has  the  sale  of  a  private  library 
attracted  more  general  attention. 

In  addition  to  pulpit  labors,  pastoral  obligations  and  the  lecture 
platform,  he  was  an  author  of  works  of  more  than  ordinary  value. 
These  included  several  volumes  of  sermons,  and  works  entitled: 
"Duties  of  Young  Men,"  "Duties  of  Young  Women,"  "Characters 
in  the  Gospel,"  "Hours  of  Communion,"  "Crown  of  Thorns,"  "The 
Beatitudes,"  "  Moral  Aspects  of  City  Life,"  "  Humanity  in  the  City," 
"  True  Manliness,"  "  A  Token  for  the  Sorrowing,"  "  Discourses  on 
the  Book  of  Proverbs,"  "  Discourses  on  the  Lord's  Prayer,"  "  Extem- 
poraneous Discourses,"  "Lessons  of  Faith  and  Life,"  "Living 
Words,"  and  "Providence  and  Life."  These  volumes  have  had  ex- 
tensive sale,  and  the  writer,  though  dead,  through  these  is  still 
speaking  words  of  love,  light  and  hope. 

In  1856  Harvard  University  conferred  upon  him  the  degree  of 
Doctor  of  Divinity,  and  in  1878  Tufts  College  the  degree  of  Doctor 
of  Laws. 

Mr.  Chapin,  ever  serious  in  his  address,  manner  and  life,  yet  was 
a  man  who  loved  wit,  and  himself  was  a  wit  of  no  mean  repute. 
Henry  Ward  Beecher  said  "  his  wit  flashed  like  the  spokes  of  a  wheel 
in  the  sun."  From  his  biography  we  quote  several  witticisms. 
"In  the  midst  of  an  out-door  speech  at  College  Hill,  on  an  occasion, 
as  the  cars  of  the  Lowell  Railroad  went  thundering  by  only  a  few 
rods  from  him,  and  confused  alike  speaker  and  hearer,  he  instantly 
observed,  "It  is  difficult  to  conduct  a  train  of  cars  and  a  train  of 
remarks  at  the  same  time.  It  is  a  train  of  circumstances  unfavorable 
to  a  train  of  thought." 

Limping  along  the  street  by  aid  of  a  cane,  and  suffering  a  twinge 
at  every  step  from  a  rheumatic  foot,  he  was  met  by  one  who  sought 
to  engage  him  in  a  religious  conversation,  and  led  off  by  asking  him 
if  Universalists  did  not  believe  that  people  got  their  punishment  as 


1884.]  Bev.  Edwin  H.  Chapin.  129 

they  went  along.  ^  Yes,  that's  my  case  exactly,"  said  he,  and  hob- 
bled away,  leaving  the  inquirer  to  ponder  on  the  wisdom  of  the 
reply. 

Sitting  down  one  day  on  Rev.  Dr.  Emerson's  stove-pipe  hat,  he 
instantly  rose  and  passed  the  crumpled  thing  to  its  owner,  saying, 
**  Yoa  ought  to  thank  me  for  that,  for  your  hat  was  only  silk,  but 
now  it  is  sat'in.^^ 

The  pulpit  was  Chapin's  real  throne ;  thus  truly  says  his  biographer. 
Ghreat  as  were  his  lectures,  and  oratorical  efforts  upon  the  platform, 
yet  in  his  pulpit  before  his  own  people,  speaking  upon  the  great 
themes  of  duty,  life,  immortality  and  destiny,  his  large  nature  and 
gifted  powers  surpassed.      Rev.  I.  M.  Atwood,  D.D.,  of  Canton 
Theological  School,  Canton,  New  York,  says:    "For  while  we  do 
not  claim  the  highest  place  among  the  great  for  Dr.  Chapin,  his  fame 
makes  it  idle  for  any  one  to  deny  him  an  eminent  place.     He  was 
not  a  great  originator,  like  Augustine  or  the  Elder  BaUou ;  nor  a 
great  scholar,  like  Origen  or  Cudworth ;  nor  a  great  thinker,  like 
Jonathan  Edwards  or  Horace  Bushnell ;  nor  a  great  organizer,  like 
Wesley ;  nor  a  great  agitator,  like  Theodore  Parker.     Dr.  Chapin 
was  a  great  preacher.     He  belongs  to  the  same  range  with  Chry- 
sostom,   Bourdaloue,   Bossuet,   Whitefield,   Chalmers,    Beecher — 
the  great  pulpit  orators  of  the  world.     In  some  particulars  it  is 
probable  every  one  of  these  surpassed  him.     It  is  not  an  extravagant 
supposition  that  in  some  particulars  he  was  their  superior."    And  in 
comparing  him  with  the  acknowledged  masters  of  eloquence  in  our 
generation,  he  further  says :  ^  Certain  it  is  that  on  every,  platform, 
after  all  the  oratorical  princes  had  competed  for  the  crown  and  Chapin 
was  summoned,  there  never  was  any  dispute  as  to  who  was  king* 
In  uplifting,  thrilling,  overpowering,  unreportable  eloquence,  he  left 
all  contemporaries  far  behind  him." 

The  health  of  Mr.  Chapin  was  declining  for  some  years,  and  it 
was  becoming  apparent  that  he  was  slowly  failing  under  the  burden 
of  his  labors  and  advancing  disease.  A  generous  people  gave  him 
opportunities  of  rest  and  travel  in  Europe,  hoping  to  stay  the 
progress  of  his  complaints.  But  the  offers  of  friendship,  change  of 
air  or  skill  of  physician  availed  little,  and  after  months  of  steady  de- 
cline he  died  December  26,  1880. 

Mr.  Chapin  married  in  Utica,  N.  Y.,  October  15,  1838,  Miss 
Hannah  Newland,  who  only  survived  him  seven  months,  dying  July 
22,  1881.  Three  children,  Frederick  H.  Chapin,  Sidney  H.  Cha- 
pin, M.D.,  and  Mrs.  Marion  G.  Davison,  and  five  grandchildren,  are 
now  living. 

The  biography  of  Dr.  Chapin  was  prepared  in  the  autiunn  of  1882, 
by  Rev.  Sumner  Ellis,  D.D.,  of  Chicago,  and  was  noticed  in  the 
Register,  Volume  xxxvii.  p.  420.  It  was  published  by  the  Univer- 
salist  Publishing  House,  Boston,  to  which  we  are  greatly  indebted 


130  Bev.  Edwin  H.  Chapin.  [Aprfl, 

for  the  use  of  the  excellent  portrait  of  Dr.  Chapin.  This  biography, 
in  our  notice  of  it,  is  characterized  '*  as  a  model  of  its  kind.  It  is  a 
worthy  tribute  to  the  memory  of  him  whose  earnestness  and  eloquence 
went  far  to  mould  and  fashion  the  thought  and  life  of  to-day. ** 

The  last  services  and  tributes  over  the  remains  of  Dr.  Chapin  were 
simple,  appropriate  and  touching.  Evidences  came  from  every  side 
of  the  fraternal  spirit  cherished  towards  him  by  all,  irrespective  of 
creed  or  denomination.  The  secular  press  over  the  world,  not  limited 
to  the  English  speaking  nations,  were  hearty  in  according  him  a 
foremost  place  in  the  realm  of  oratory.  His  funeral  took  place 
December  30th,  at  the  Church  of  the  Divine  Paternity.  The  brief 
services  at  his  residence  were  conducted  by  his  friend  Rev.  C.  H.  Fay. 
The  services  at  the  church  were  in  charge  of  Rev.  James  M.  Pull- 
man, D.D.,  for  many  years  closely  associated  with  him  as  a  neigh- 
boring pastor  of  the  same  denomination.  The  opening  prayer  was 
oflTered  by  Rev.  Elmer  Hewitt  Capen,  D.D.,  President  of  Tufts 
College,  and  remarks  of  a  consolatory  and  eulogistic  nature  were 
made  by  the  Revs.  Robert  CoUyer,  Henry  Ward  Beecher,  Thomas 
Armitage,  and  Rev.  Dr.  Pullman,  who  also  closed  the  service  with 
prayer.  The  remains  were  then  borne  to  their  last  resting  place  in 
Ghreenwood,  the  beautiful  city  of  the  dead. 

Memorial  services  were  held  in  Boston,  Charlestown,  Cambridge- 
port,  and  other  places,  while  there  was  scarcely  a  preacher  in  all  the 
churches  of  New  York  and  Boston  who  did  not  make  allusion  to  the 
departure  of  this  strong  Christian  orator.  In  Boston,  a  special  ser- 
vice took  place  at  the  Columbus  Avenue  Universalist  Chiurch,  Rev. 
Dr.  A.  A.  Miner,  pastor,  which  was  very  largely  attended  by  old 
time  parishioners  and  persons  drawn  by  their  love  and  admiration  of 
the  man,  preacher  and  orator.  The  addresses  upon  this  occasion 
were  by  Revs.  Thomas  J.  Sawyer,  S.T.D.  ;  Charles  Follen  Lee; 
his  Excellency,  John  D.  Long,  Governor ;  his  Honor,  Frederick  O. 
Prince,  Mayor  of  Boston,  and  the  Rev.  A.  A.  Miner,  his  successor 
as  pastor  of  the  Church. 

The  press  was  generous  in  all  its  notices.  The  same  columns 
usually  filled  with  secular  matters  spoke  praises  for  the  dead  orator 
and  preacher.  The  Brooklyn  Times  said,  **His  pure  and  classic 
eloquence  and  the  solid  erudition  and  logical  clearness  of  mind 
placed  him  in  the  high  rank  among  metropolitan  preachers."  The 
New  York  Tribune  said,  "  His  intellectual  qualities  were  of  a  high 
order.  His  sermons  were  satisfying  in  substance  as  well  as  singularly 
fine  in  rhetoric.  Probably  no  one  ever  heard  him  preach  without 
carrying  away  in  his  memory  some  beautiful  thought  in  a  golden 
setting  of  words."  The  New  York  Times  spoke  thus :  **  As  a 
preacher.  Dr.  Chapin  was  ripe,  scholarly,  eloquent..  His  sermons, 
while  abounding  in  original  thought,  were  polished  to  the  last  degree, 
and  in  language  as  in  sentiment  were  models  of  elegant  and  perspic- 


1884.]     Oenecdogiccd  Research  in  Boston  and  London.         131 

U0U8  Englieh."  The  Brooklyn  Eagle  voiced  truthful  words  :  "  The 
American  pulpit  never  possessed  a  sturdier  brain,  nor  a  more  expan- 
sive catholic  heart,  than  the  brain  and  heart  whose  mortal  record 
ended  when  Edwin  H.  Chapin  died." 

This  brief  sketch  gives  but  a  glimpse  of  a  most  noble  career,  whose 
every  power  was  consecrated  to  the  enlarging  of  the  kingdom  of  a 
Master  to  whose  service  his  life  was  devoted. 


THE  FACILITIES  FOR  GENEALOGICAL  RESEARCH  IN 
THE  REGISTRIES  OF  PROBATE  IN  BOSTON 

AND  LONDON. 

By  John  T.  Hassam,  A.M.,  of  Boston,  MaM. 

THIS  paper  was  intended  to  serve  as  a  note  to  the  Memoir  of 
Col.  Joseph  L.  Chester,  by  John  Ward  Dean,  A.M.,  in  the 
Register  for  January,  1884,  but  for  want  of  space  it  could  not  be 
printed  in  that  number. 

We  have  here  in  Boston  a  record  office  which  may  well  serve  as  a 
model  of  arrangement  for  other  public  offices.  I  mean  the  Registry  of 
Probate  for  the  County  of  Suffi^lk.  Its  contents,  for  the  purpose  of  this 
description,  may  be  considered  as  divided  into  four  classes,  the  Index,  the 
Docket,  the  Records  and  the  Files. 

The  Index  contains  the  names  of  all  persons  whose  wills  have  been  pro- 
hateti,  or  whose  estates  have  been  administered  upon,  using  the  word  ad- 
ministration here  in  its  broadest  sense.  This  Index  is  not  a  mere  ^'  alpha- 
bet." It  is  admirably  arrange<l  according  to  Christian  as  well  as  surnames ; 
briefly  sets  forth  the  nature  of  the  case  (t.  e,  whether  a  testate  or  an  intestate 
estate,  guardianship,  trust,  etc.) ;  gives  the  year  in  which  the  proceedings 
were  begun ;  and  points  out  the  number  under  which  the  case  is  entered  on 
the  docket.  Any  name  in  it,  from  1636  down  to  the  present  year,  1884, 
can  be  found  in  an  instant,  as  readily  as  in  a  city  directory. 

Having  thus,  by  means  of  the  index,  ascertained  the  docket  number,  we 
turn  to  the  Docket.  This  is  an  entry  book,  or  chronological  arrangement 
of  case.s  70594  in  rmrober,  and  gives  us  at  a  glance  the  titles  of  all  the 
papers  filed  or  recorded  in  each  case ;  the  date  of  such  filing ;  and  the  vol- 
ume and  page  of  the  record  books  where  such  of  the  instruments  as  have 
been  recorded  in  extenso  may  be  found. 

The  Records  of  the  Court  consist  of  552  large  folio  volumes,  having, 
some  of  them,  more  than  500  pages  each.  They  contain,  in  the  words  of 
the  statute  (Pub.  Stat.  Ch.  156,  §27),  all  '* decrees  and  orders,  all  wills 
proved  in  the  Court,  with  the  probate  thereof,  all  letters  testamentary  and 
of  ailministration,  all  warrants,  returns,  reports,  accounts,  and  bonds,  and 
all  other  acts  an«l  proceedings  required  to  be  recorded  by  the  rules  of  the 
court  or  by  special  orders  of  the  judge." 

The  Files  include  all  the  original  papers,  recorded  or  unrecorded,  in  each 


132        Gfenealogical  Research  in  Boston  and  London.     [April, 

case.  Every  paper  is  marked  with  the  namber  of  the  case,  and  all  the 
papers  in  each  case  are  placed  by  themselves  in  a  stout  envelope,  which  has 
stamped  upon  it  the  number  of  the  case,  its  date  and  the  name  of  the  party 
to  whose  estate  it  belongs.  By  this  system  it  is  possible  to  find  in  a  mo- 
ment, not  only  the  record  of  every  will,  but  the  will  itself,  and  every  paper, 
however  unimportant,  which  has  ever  been  filed  in  the  Probate  Office. 

It  depends,  of  course,  on  the  nature  of  a  case  how  many  papers  are  filed 
in  it.  In  valuable  and  complicated  estates,  where  large  sums  of  money  are 
involved,  especially  where  the  property  is  held  for  many  years  in  trust,  the 
number  is  naturally  greater  than  in  smaller  and  less  important  ones.  It  is 
not  easy  therefore  to  determine  just  how  many  documents  the  Probate 
Office  contains,  but  there  are  probably  not  far  from  half  a  million.  At  the 
present  rate  of  increase  there  will  soon  be  a  million  of  them.  And  yet  any 
one  of  these  million  papers  can  be  found  in  an  instant,  so  admirable  is  the 
arrangement.  The  system  is  in  fact  much  simpler  than  this  description  (tf 
it,  and  should  be  seen  in  its  actual  working  to  be  understood  and  appreciated. 

The  contrast  between  this  office  and  the  Principal  Registry  of  Probate, 
London,  is  a  painful  one.  There  the  files,  or  what  is  left  of  them,  are  in  a 
state  of  indescribable  chaos.  Inventories  from  about  1480  to  about  1720 
are  all  mixed  up  together,  shovelled  into  boxes  and  stored  in  the  cellars  of 
Somerset  House,  in  complete  disorder  and  confusion.  They  cannot  be  con- 
sulted, and  in  their  present  condition  are  absolutely  useless.  No  eye  has 
for  generations  seen  them.  The  index  to  the  records,  the  Calendar  as  it 
is  called,  is  of  the  most  primitive  description,  and  ought  not  to  be  tolerated 
in  any  public  office.  It  is  the  antiquated  and  cumbersome  ^'  alphabet" 
which  we  have  long  ago  discarded  here. 

I  have  myself  had  no  little  personal  experience  in  England  among  the 
early  records,  and  can  bear  witness  to  the  disadvantages  under  which  Cd. 
Chester  pursued  his  investigations — disadvantages  which  the  searchers  in 
our  better  arranged  and  well  appointed  public  offices  can  hardly  imagine. 
The  wonder  is  that,  under  so  many  discouragements,  he  achieved  the  suc- 
cess that  he  did.  Yet  in  England  the  prospect  is  steadily  improving,  and 
the  outlook  for  the  future  is  by  no  means  disheartening.  The  preface  to  the 
Camden  Society's  publication  entitled  *'  Wills  from  Doctors'  Commons," 
shows  how  the  moderate  advance  made  in  rendering  those  records  accessi- 
ble was  attained.  The  bill  introduced  at  the  last  session  of  Parliament  for 
bringing  all  the  parish  registers  in  England  up  to  London,  and  placing 
them  in  a  central  office,  where  they  can  be  readily  consulted,  is  evidence 
that  public  attention  is  being  fixed  upon  the  present  unsatisfactory  state  of 
things.  The  article  on  "  Local  Public  Records "  in  the  Saturday  Review 
for  Feb.  10,  1883  (Iv.  175),  is  another  indication  that  the  English  antiqua- 
ries are  in  earnest  in  their  efforts  to  break  down  the  barriers  which  now  so 
completely  block  the  way  of  the  historical  investigator. 

The  work  of  Col.  Chester  was  essentially  pioneer  work.  Those  who  are 
to  follow  him  will  have  fields  of  research  open  to  them  and  facilities  afford- 
ed them  which  he  never  had.  The  wealth  of  historical  and  genealofficil 
material  lying  buried  in  England  is  almost  boundless,  and  he,  with  all  his 
untiring  energy,  haftlly  succeeded  in  more  than  scratching  the  surface. 


1884.]  President  Wilder' s  Addreta.  133 


ADDRESS  OF  THE  HON.  MAESHALL  P.  WHiDER, 

Delirered  at  the  Annual  Meeting  of  the    New  England  Historic  Gbnbalogioal 

SociETT,  January  2,  1884. 

Gentlemen  of  the  Society: 

Old  Time  hath  moved  his  hand  around  the  dial  of  another  year, 
and  we  still  live  I  Many  of  our  associates  and  friends  have  joined 
the  countless  throng,  and  passed  on  to  enter  on  that  life  which  has 
no  end,  but  we  still  remain  to  carry  on  our  noble  work.  This  is 
the  seventeenth  time  you  have  called  me  to  this  chair.  Most  grate- 
fully do  I  thank  you  for  this  expression  of  your  appreciation  of  my 
services.  I  assure  you  again  that  I  will  bring  to  the  discharge  of 
its  duties  all  the  strength  and  ability  that  I  may  possess. 

Yes,  we  still  live  1  But  during  the  past  year  we  have  been  called 
on  to  deplore  the  loss  of  a  large  number  of  members  by  death ;  so 
far  as  known,  forty-one  members  have  passed  away — the  largest 
number »«with  one  exception,  for  the  same  period  since  the  Society 
was  formed.  Several  of  them  are  entitled  to  special  remembrance, 
but  as  the  historiographer,  the  Rev.  Dr.  Tarbox,  will  report  so  fully 
on  them,  and  as  appropriate  action  has  been  taken  by  the  Society, 
there  is  no  further  need  of  comment  by  me.  1  desire,  however,  to 
repeat  the  names  of  a  few  of  those  who  have  stood  prominently 
before  the  public  as  interested  in  our  work,  or  as  benefactors  in 
our  land. 

The  Hon.  Israel  Washburn,  LL.D.,  Vice  President  of  this 
Society,  and  Ex-Governor  of  Maine,  one  of  a  very  remarkable 
family.  Several  of  his  brothers  have  been  distinguished  in  other 
States  and  in  national  affairs.  The  Hon.  Marshall  Jewell,  Vice 
President  of  this  Society,  ex-Governor  of  Connecticut,  ex-Post- 
master General  of  the  United  States,  and  Ambassador  to  Russia;- 
from  a  distinguished  family  of  New  Hampshire,  one  of  whose  sons 
was  our  deceased  member,  Harvey  Jewell.  The  Hon.  Paul 
A.  Chadbourne,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  President  of  the  Massachusetts 
Agricultural  College,  ex-President  of  Williams  College  and  of  the 
University  of  Minnesota;  a  very  remarkable  man,  distinguished  for 
his  enterprise,  energy,  learning  and  well  balanced  mind.  The 
Hon.  Peter  Cooper,  the  world-wide  renowned  philanthropist,  and 
founder  of  the  Cooper  Institute  of  New  York.  The  Hon.  George 
Washington  Warren,  ex-President  of  the  Bunker  Hill  Monument 
Association.  Nathaniel  Thayer,  Esq.,  a  generous  benefactor  to 
this  Society  and  many  institutions  of  this  State  ;  for  his  princely 
gifl  of  a  quarter  of  a  million  of  dollars  to  Harvard  University,  he 
is  conspicuous.  The  Hon.  John  Dennison  Baldwin,  a  diligent 
student  of  history,  who  has  written  much  oa  the  antiquities  of  this 
VOL.  xxxviii.  13 


134  President  Wilder^s  Address.  [April, 

country.  Dr.  George  William  Bagby,  of  Richmond,  Va.,  a  man  of 
literary  activity  and  successful  life.  Hugh  Montgomery,  Esq.,  of 
Boston,  and  Williams  Latham,  Esq.,  of  Bridgewater,  both  members 
of  the  legal  profession,  the  latter  of  whom  has  spent  many  years  in 
gathering  materials  illustrating  the  history  of  his  native  town  of 
Bridgewater,  upon  which  subject  he  has  long  been  an  authority. 

The  average  age  of  life  of  our  deceased  members  for  the  last  year 
has  been  71  years,  5  months  and  29  days,  being  a  longer  term  of  life 
than  that  allotted  by  Scripture  to  mankind.  This  average  seems  to 
increase,  thus  giving  us  some  hope  that  although  our  association  is 
not  a  life  insurance  conipany,  an  interest  with  us  in  the  objects  of  our 
Society  may  tend  rather  to  lengthen  than  to  shorten  our  time  on  earth. 

Thus  year  by  year  our  members  pass  away.  We  shall  soon  fol- 
low. This  is  the  lot  of  all  sublunary  things.  Therefore,  let  us  be 
consoled  with  the  reflection  that  there  is  a  higher  life,  to  which  we 
may  aspire  when  our  pilgrimage  on  earth  is  ended. 

As  blossoms  close  with  close  of  day, 
To  ope  again  with  morning  ray. 
So  we  shall  sleep  like  nature's  flowers* 
To  wake  again  with  nobler  powers. 
Shall  wake !  Shall  rise !  to  sleep  no  more. 

So  o'er  life's  sea  we'll  safely  glide. 
With  Christ  as  guardian  and  our  guide. 
We'll  spread  our  sails  still  more  and  more, 
Until  we  reach  that  blissful  shore 
Wliere  friends  shall  meet,  to  part  no  more. 

It  gives  me  great  pleasure  to  state,  that  the  third  volume  of  the 
series  containing  biographies  of  deceased  members  is  completed,  and 
ready  for  distribution.  It  contains  memorial  sketches  of  thirty- 
nine  deceased  members,  making  in  the  three  volumes,  sketches  of 
one  hundred  and  twenty-seveji  members,  taken  in  the  order  of  their 
decease.  These  memoirs  have  been  prepared  with  great  care  by 
competent  persons,  among  whom  are  found  some  of  the  most  dis- 
tinguished writers  of  our  day;  and  I  here  desire,  in  behalf  of  this 
Society,  to  present  to  the  committee  who  have  had  charge  of 
bringing  forth  these  volumes,  our  grateful  acknowledgments  for  the 
gratuitous  and  able  service  which  they  have  rendered. 

The  fourth  volume  is  now  in  course  of  preparation  ;  and  so  from 
year  to  year  the  work  will  go  on,  to  form  a  biographical  dictionary 
of  our  members,  to  embalm  the  memory,  not  of  a  single  class, 
but  of  all  who  have  in  any  way  been  useful  in  promoting  the 
interests  of  this  Society,  or  the  happiness  of  their  fellow-men. 
It  is  a  noble  work,  replete  with  historic  and  biographic  lore,  of 
constantly  increasing  value,  and  its  examples  cannot  fail  to  inspire 
the  heart  of  succeeding  generations  to  imitate  them. 

The  reports  of  the  various  departments  which  are  to  be  submitted 
to-day  inspire  us  with  renewed  confidence  in  the  usefulness  and  pros- 
perity of  our  association.      We  surely  have  cause  for  rejoicing  in 


1884.]  President  Wader's  Address.  135 

what  has  already  been  accomplished.  The  constant  increase  of  mem- 
bers, the  large  accessions  to  our  library,  and  the  receipts  of  money 
in  aid  of  our  fund,  afford  substantial  evidence  of  the  sympathy  felt 
for  its  welfare. 

Our  financial  affairs,  under  the  discreet  supervision  of  our  treasurer 
and  finance  committee,  were  never  in  a  better  condition.  The  inter- 
ests and  dividends  on  its  securities  have  been  promptly  paid.  Dur- 
ing the  past  year  we  have  received  $3000  from  the  legacy  of  Mrs. 
Russell,  a  legacy  of  $500  from  Hugh  Montgomery,  and  ere  long 
we  are  to  receive  $1000  from  the  bequest  of  Williams  Latham,  of 
Bridge  water,  lately  deceased.  Other  smaller  amounts  have  been 
received  for  special  purposes,  and  considerable  sums  have  been  pro- 
mised for  the  enlargement  of  our  House.  Nor  should  we  forget 
the  noble  bequest  of  Joseph  J.  Cooke  of  five  thousand  dollars  in 
books  from  his  library. 

For  all  these  manifestations  of  interest  in  our  work  we  are  most 
sincerely  grateful,  and  we  welcome  them  as  harbingers  of  that  day, 
not  far  distant,  when  the  annual  bequests  and  donations  will  be 
ample  for  the  vigorous  and  perpetual  prosecution  of  our  work. 
But  let  our  friends  not  wait ;  let  them  give  of  their  abundance 
while  they  live,  and  thus  share  with  us  in  the  harvest  which  they 
have  sown.  And  we  should  not  disguise  the  fact  that  we  must 
have  immediate  funds  for  the  enlargement  of  our  House,  the  safety 
of  our  Library,  and  the  convenience  of  our  members  and  those 
students  of  history  who  are  constantly  visiting  our  rooms. 

For  the  last  few  years  I  have  spoken  to  you  of  the  growing  neces- 
sity of  enlarged  accommodations  for  our  library.  With  the  return 
of  almost  every  day  we  find  this  need  more  and  more  imperative. 
Indeed  it  must  be  supplied  immediately,  or  the  usefulness  of  the 
Society  will  in  a  measure  be  retarded. 

We  must  have  money  for  the  enlargement  of  our  House,  and 
some  liberal  amounts  have  been  subscribed  for  this  purpose.  But  I 
fondly  anticipated  that,  ere  this,  some  generous  member  of  our  large 
association  would  have  volunteered  to  give  us  the  necessary  funds 
for  this  enlargement,  the  structure  to  be  called  by  his  name,  and  be 
a  memorial  to  other  genenitions  of  his  interest  in  our  work.  This 
hope  is  not  yet  abandoned,  but,  should  it  not  soon  be  realized,  meas- 
ures must  be  taken  to  secure  the  money  by  solicitation  of  subscrip- 
tions from  liberal  gentlemen,  of  whom  vvc  have  many. 

The  librarv  steadily  increases.  The  addition  to  the  number  of 
l>ooks  for  its  shelves  this  year  is  larger  than  usual ;  but  this  has  been 
chiefly  by  donations.  Additional  funds  are  wanted  for  buying  books 
which  are  needed  by  our  readers,  but  which  cannot  be  obtained  ex- 
cept by  purchase.  The  library  is  also  every  year  more  and  more 
coni«ulted,  not  only  by  members,  but  by  visitors  from  the  West  and 
South,  and  even  from  the  Pacific  coast.  It  now  numbers  nearly 
nineteen  thousand  volumes,  and  more  than  fifty  thousand  pamphlets. 


1 36  President  Wilder^s  Address.  [April, 

The  bequest  of  the  late  Joseph  J.  Cooke,  Esq.,  of  Providence,  which 
will  be  reported  upon  by  the  committee  in  charge  of  the  matter,  has 
added  many  books  in  American  and  English  topography  and  history, 
which  we  would  not  have  been  likely  to  obtain  otherwise,  and  which 
will  be  of  great  service  to  us. 

The  New  England  Historical  and  Genealogical  Register  issued  by 
the  Society  enters  this  month  upon  the  thirty-eighth  year  of  its  ex- 
istence, and  is  by  far  the  oldest  historical  periodical  in  the  country. 
I  would  recommend  to  members  of  this  Society  not  only  that  they 
subscribe  themselves,  but  that  they  call  the  attention  of  their  friends 
who  feel  an  interest  in  preserving  the  early  history  of  our  country, 
to  its  merits.  The  late  Col.  Joseph  L.  Chester,  LL.D.,  D.C.L., 
whose  opinion  in  such  matters  carries  great  weight,  uses  this  lan- 
guage :  ^  There  are  no  books  in  my  library  that  I  would  not  sooner 
part  with  than  my  set  of  the  Register."  Two  series  of  articles,  com- 
menced in  it  the  last  year,  are  of  particular  value,  namely,  the  com- 
munications of  Mr.  Waters,  giving  the  results  of  his  genealogical 
researches,  and  the  articles  by  the  Rev.  George  M.  Bodge  on  the 
Soldiers  of  King  Philip's  War,  a  subject  on  which,  hitherto,  it  has 
been  difficult  to  obtain  information.  Let  it  not  be  forgotten,  that 
by  patronizing  the  Register,  by  paying  the  small  sum  of  its  yearly 
cost,  you  aid  in  making  it  possible  to  put  into  permanent  form  most 
valuable  and  important  information  relating  to  New  England  family 
and  local  history. 

At  the  annual  meeting  held  three  years  ago,  I  called  your  atten- 
tion to  the  first  volume  of  Suffolk  Deeds,  which  had  then  just  been 
printed  by  order  of  the  Board  of  Aldermen  of  the  City  of  Boston 
acting  as  County  Commissioners  for  the  county  of  Suffolk.  In  re- 
sponse to  another  petition  of  the  members  of  the  Suffolk  Bar,  the 
Commissioners  last  year  ordered  the  printing  of  the  second  volume 
of  these  records.  The  book  is  now  ready  for  distribution,  and  is, 
like  the  first,  a  monument  to  the  skill  and  patience  of  our  fellow 
member  Mr.  William  B.  Trask,  who  transcribed  the  original  for  the 
printer  and  on  whom  the  great  labor  of  carrying  the  work  through 
the  press  devolved.  The  excellent  index  by  which  its  contents  are 
made  easily  accessible  to  the  reader  was  prepared  by  still  another 
member,  Mr.  John  T.  Hassam.  The  value  of  these  volumes  to  the 
antiquary  and  to  the  historical  investigator,  as  well  as  to  the  con- 
veyancer, can  hardly  be  exaggerated. 

But  that  which  will  render  this  past  year  memorable  in  the 
annals  of  this  Society  is  the  setting  on  foot  of  what  may  be  justly 
called  a  most  interesting  historical  mission.  I  refer  to  the  thorough 
investigations  now  making  in  England  by  Mr.  Henry  F.  Waters, 
under  the  auspices  of  this  Society.  It  is  a  new  departure  in  historical 
research,  and  deserves  and  should  have  the  cordial  support,  not  only 
of  every  member  of  the  Society,  but  of  all  others  who  can  appreciate 
the  importance  of  the  work.    The  success  that  has  attended  the  eflforts 


1884."|  President  Wtlder*s  Address.  137 

of  Mr.  Waters,  ample  evidence  of  which  is  afforded  by  his  valuable 
contributions  to  the  Register,  cannot  fail  to  open  the  eyes  of 
people  in  this  country  to  the  possibilities  that  lie  before  us.  The 
accumulation  of  historical  and  genealogical  material  in  England  is 
little  dreamed  of  here,  and  the  thorough  system  adopted  by  Mr. 
Waters,  will  enable  him  to  bring  to  light  what  has  escaped  the 
notice  of  all  previous  investigators.  The  subscriptions  so  far  made 
to  the  fund  are  large  enough  to  ensure  the  beginning  of  this  great 
work,  but  to  carry  it  on  properly  more  money  is  needed.  I  commend 
this  most  deserving  project  to  the  members  of  the  Society. 

The  department  of  local  and  family  history  in  which  our  Society 
has  been  so  deeply  interested  has  become  very  rich  in  its  acquisitions, 
and  is  so  rapidly  increasing  as  to  demand  special  attention  with 
better  accommodations  for  those  who  may  wish  to  consult  our  books. 

Every  monthly  meeting  furnishes  evidence  of  increased  interest 
bv  donations  of  this  class  and  other  rare  and  valuable  books.  We 
give  a  most  hearty  welcome  to  these  accessions,  and  are  very  grate- 
ful for  them. 

Our  library  is  a  great  depository  for  local  and  family  history. 
This  is  its  grand  work,  and  we  must  provide  not  only  for  the  present 
exigency,  but  for  all  other  historical  works  which  may  be  given  us 
in  the  future. 

The  increase  in  number  and  the  improvement  in  character  of  our 
town  and  family  histories  is  very  great.  The  interest  in  this  line  of 
research  is  rapidly  increae^ing  throughout  our  country,  and  affords 
us  the  most  gratifying  evidence  that  the  seed  sown  by  this  Society 
has  taken  root  and  is  producing  bountiful  harvests ;  and  in  this  de- 
partment of  genealogical  and  local  research  we  think  we  can  see 
that  there  has  been  an  influence  reflected  from  these  shores  on  the 
Old  World.  A  late  Scottish  newspaper,  the  North  British  Mail, 
of  Glasgow,  refers  to  the  development  of  local  history  in  Great 
Britain  :  '^  We  have  had  frequent  occasions  of  late  to  call  atten- 
tion to  the  fact,  both  in  Scotland  and  England,  people  are  beginning 
to  realize  that  national  history  is  made  up  of  local  history,  so  that 
we  are  getting  a  rich  harvest  of  town  and  family  history  which 
surprises  its  readers  with  the  long  push  forward  it  gives  them  in 
understanding  their  country."  The  same  paper  remarks:  "In  the 
department  of  family  history  the  Yankees  excel  us,  especially  in  the 
external  splendor  with  which  many. of  their  books  are  got  up." 

Thirty  years  ago,  the  late  American  genealogist,  Mr.  Horatio  G. 
Somerby,  who  had  then  been  several  years  engaged  in  investigating 
in  England  the  pedigrees  of  American  families,  informed  a  friend  of 
mine  that  he  found  among  the  mercantile,  and  to  a  surprising  ex- 
tent among  the  professional  people  whom  he  met,  a  great  indifference 
in  regard  to  their  ancestry,  except  in  cases  where  these  persons  hap- 
pened to  belong  to  families  whose  pedigrees  are  recorded  in  the 
vifiitations  and  peerages.     Now  many  such  persons  have  their  pedi- 

VOL.  XZXYUI.  13* 


138  President  Wilder*8  Address.  [April, 

grees  collected  and  printed,  though  not  with  the  thoroughness  with 
which  genealogies  are  compiled  in  this  country. 

The  past  year,  like  some  of  its  predecessors,  has  been  remarkable 
for  centennial  celebrations  of  important  events  in  the  history  of  our 
nation,  and  the  progress  of  science  and  civilization  on  this  continent. 
Several  of  these  have  occurred  in  tliis  city,  and  have  assumed 
such  importance,  as  to  be  worthy  of  mention  in  the  records  of 
this  Society.  As  your  representative  I  have  attended  several  of 
them,  among  which  may  be  named  the  celebration  of  Washington's 
Birthday  by  the  Webster  Historical  Society  in  the  Old  South  Church, 
with  an  oration  by  the  Hon.  George  B.  Loring,  on  which  occasion  I 
had  the  honor  to  preside ;  the  Opening  of  the  Foreign  Exhibition, 
under  the  auspices  of  the  Massachusetts  Charitable  Mechanic  Asso- 
ciation ;  the  American  Exposition  of  our  own  products  by  the 
New  England  Manufacturers  and  Mechanics  Institute ;  and  the  De- 
dication of  the  splendid  temple  of  the  Harvard  Medical  School ,  with 
an  oration  by  Dr.  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 

The  Foreign  Exhibition  was  inaugurated  Sept.  3,  1883,  in  the 
presence  of  a  large  concourse  of  people,  including  distinguished  repre- 
sentatives from  our  own  and  other  countries.  This  was  exclusively 
devoted  to  the  arts  and  manufactures  of  foreign  lands,  and  in  com- 
memoration of  the  signing  of  the  treaty  of  peace  between  Great 
Britain  and  the  United  States  on  that  day  a  hundred  years  ago, — 
a  day  which  closed  the  great  drama  of  the  American  Revolution,  and 
gave  to  the  arts  of  peace  a  progressive  and  independent  nation. 
In  this  Exhibition  of  products  forty-nine  Foreign  States  were  repre- 
sented. 

No  celebration  could  have  been  more  appropriate,  bringing  to- 
gether in  this  city,  where  the  Revolution  was  commenced,  the 
products  of  the  arts  and  industries  of  other  nations ;  and,  better 
than  all  this,  representatives  in  person,  to  rejoice  with  us  in  the 
harvest  we  are  reaping  from  the  issues  of  tliat  memorable  day.  And 
what  added  much  to  the  dignity  and  interest  of  the  occasion,  was 
the  presence  of  John  Jay,  Charles  Francis  Adams,  Jr.,  Mrs.  Eliz- 
abeth (Duane)  Gillespie,  lineal  descendants  of  John  Jay,  John 
Adams,  and  Benjamin  Franklin,  who,  on  the  part  of  our  nation, 
affixed  their  seal  and  names  to  that  memorable  paper,  that  shall  con- 
stitute one  of  the  golden  pages  in  the  annals  of  human  welfare. 

The  American  Exposition,  not  the  least  in  importance,  was 
an  exhibition  of  American  products  by  the  New  England 
Manufacturers  and  Mechanics  Institute,  which  was  opened  on  the 
5th  of  September.  It  was  an  imposing  demonstration,  attended 
with  civic  and  military  display,  and  dignitaries  and  delegates  from 
various  states  of  our  union.  This  was  devoted  to  the  products 
of  our  soil,  and  devices  of  American  ingenuity  fabricated  by 
American  labor.  This,  with  the  Foreign  Exhibition,  held  at 
the  same  time,  afforded  an  opportunity  of  comparing  the  products 
of  the  old  and  new  worlds  not  often  presented. 


1884.]  President  Wilder' s  Address.  139 

The  celebrations,  in  addition  to  those  before  named,  were  those 
held  on  the  opening  of  the  Suspension  Bridge  between  Brooklyn 
and  New  York ;  the  Completion  of  the  Northern  Pacific  Railroad ; 
the  Centennial  anniversary  at  Newburgh,  N.  Y.,  of  the  Disband- 
ment  of  the  American  Army,  Oct.  18,  1783;  the  Evacuation  of 
New  York  by  the  British  troops,  Nov.  26,  1783,  on  which  occasion 
a  statue  of  Washington,  on  the  steps  of  the  sub-treftsury  building, 
was  unveiled,  on  the  spot,  as  President  Arthur  said,  **  where  the 
first  President  of  this  Republic  took  the  oath  to  preserve,  protect 
and  defend  the  constitution." 

One  of  the  most  notable  of  these  occasions  was  the  completion  and 
opening  of  the  immense  Suspension  Bridge,  between  the  cities  of  New 
York  and  Brooklyn,  on  the  24th  of  May,  thus  welding  together 
these  two  great  communities  more  strongly  than  ever,  with  nerves  of 
steel,  cables  of  iron,  and  the  golden  links  of  intercourse,  in  a  common 
welfare  and  destiny.  Thus  was  welcomed,  by  the  acclamations  of 
hundreds  of  thousands,  the  largest  bridge  of  the  kind  in  the 
world,  built  on  a  rock,  rearing  its  massive  pillars  heavenward, 
in  monumental  grandeur,  and  spanning  high  in  air  with  triumphal 
arch  the  broad  and  watery  abyss  below,  bidding  defiance  to  storm 
and  tide. 

Another  great  event  of  the  past  year  was  the  driving  of  the  golden 
spike  that  completed  the  Northern  Pacific  Railroad,  on  the  8th  day 
of  September,  thus  opening  another  great  highway  across  our  con- 
tinent, for  Europe  and  Asia  ;  a  conquest  for  new  lines  of  commerce 
and  industry,  and  for  the  development  of  the  vast  resources  of  the 
great  Northwest  of  America.  This  is  the  longest  trunk  railroad 
owned  by  any  single  corporation  in  the  world  ;  and  though  far  to 
the  North,  it  is  expected  to  be  comparatively  free  from  the  em- 
barrassments of  snow,  and  the  shortest  route  to  the  Pacific.  My 
feeble  pen  fails  to  describe  the  possible  and  probable  benefits  which 
may  arise  in  the  future  from  these  facilities  of  frequent  intercourse 
with  our  own  and  other  peoples  of  the  world.  In  the  words  of  ex- 
president  Billings,  "  But  never  one,  which  had  more  work  and  faith 
behind  ;  never  one,  which  had  a  greater  future  before  it." 

The  extent  of  the  railroad  business  in  our  day  is  something  startling. 
It  is  estimated  that  the  gross  annual  receipts  of  all  the  railroads  in 
the  United  States  are  nearly  eight  hundred  millions  of  dollars,  being 
on  our  present  population  an  average  of  fourteen  dollars  for  every 
man,  woman  and  child ;  that  these  roads  are  one  hundred  and 
twenty  thousand  miles  long,  a  greater  extent  than  all  the  railroads 
of  Europe  combined  ;  and  that  ere  five  years  shall  have  elapsed,  our 
mileage  will  be  as  great  as  that  of  all  the  rest  of  the  world  put 
together. 

The  recent  equalization  of  time  throughout  the  United  States, 
which  went  into  operation  on  the  18th  day  of  November,  1883, 
happily  and  quietly  inaugurated,  will  not  only  be  of  great  conven- 


140  President  Wilder^s  Address.  [April, 

ience  to  the  travelling  public,  but  eminently  so  to  numerous  other 
scientific  and  practical  workers. 

The  Railroad  is  the  great  developer  and  civilizer  of  the  present 
age ;  the  most  potent  agency  for  the  development  and  distribution 
of  the  industries  of  the  world,  and  intercourse  between  mankind; 
the  harbinger  of  peace  and  prosperity,  merging,  as  it  does,  the  wealth 
and  capital  of  tiations  and  individuals  together,  in  a  common  interest 
for  the  welfare  of  all.  Thus  has  our  nation  been  blest,  and  to  the 
railroad,  more  than  any  other  material  element,  are  we  indebted  for 
the  ever  increasing  growth  and  development  of  the  resources  of 
our  vast  domain. 

These  anniversaries  and  occasions  are  full  of  interest,  not  only  for 
the  practical  good  they  produce  in  the  concerns  of  every  day  life, 
but  especially  for  their  beneficent  influence  in  promoting  peaceful 
relations  between  our  States  and  the  nations  of  the  earth. 

The  most  widely  celebrated  event  of  the  year,  has  been  the 
observance  of  the  four  hundredth  anniversary  of  the  birth  of  Martin 
Luther,  on  the  10th  of  November.  No  event,  for  many  years,  has 
been  so  generally  observed  throughout  the  Protestant  world. 
Luther's  career  had  a  mighty  influence  on  the  condition  of  mankind; 
it  stimulated  thought  and  gave  freedom  to  the  conscience.  Luther 
was  the  great  champion  of  the  Reformation.  His  sympathies  were 
with  the  people.  He  was  for  the  people.  His  steadfast  faith,  his 
indomitable  will  and  dauntless  courage,  stirred  the  christian 
world  to  its  very  centre,  and  will  continue  to  do  so  until  all  men 
shall  become  in  the  noblest  sense  "free  indeed."  It  was  Luther 
who  ignited  the  spark  of  religious  liberty,  whose  sacred  flame  is  yet 
to  illuminate  the  world.  And  what  added  a  charm  to  his  life,  was 
his  love  of  music  and  of  the  beautiful  in  nature ;  returning  after 
the  fatigues  of  the  day  to  his  garden,  with  his  beloved  Katrina  and' 
his  children,  he  sat  under  the  shade  of  the  trees  he  had  planted,  and 
joined  in  songs  of  thankfulness  to  Him  who  made  them  all. 

The  name  of  Luther  will  doubtless  be  revered  by  grateful  millions 
while  the  earth  shall  bear  a  plant,  the  flower  shed  its  fragrance  on 
the  air.  Old  Hundred  ascend  in  jiraise  to  God,  or  song  delight  the 
human  soul. 

I  have  often  spoken  to  you  of  the  extraordinary  growth,  resources 
and  prosperity  of  our  countr3s  and  I  desire  now  to  solicit  your  at- 
tention for  a  few  moments  while  1  speak  of  the  reflex  influences  of 
the  new  world  on  the  old. 

The  Signing  of  the  Compact  on  board  of  the  Mayflower,  although 
occasioned  by  circumstances  which  they  could  not  control,  was 
nevertheless  the  first  formal  statement  in  the  little  Pilgrim  colony, 
of  the  principles  of  self-government,  which  were  destined  to  grow 
and  expand  as  years  rolled  on.  In  the  colony  of  Massachusetts 
Bay,  there  was  a  similar  progress  and  expansion.  From  a  corpo- 
ration of  limited  powers,  its  colony  grew  into  a  free  state  with  ab- 


1884.]  President  Wilder' 8  Address.  141 

solute  personal  rights  both  civil  and  religious.  When  the  French 
Revolution  broke  out,  it  had  before  it  in  America  examples  of  thir- 
teen states  rising  through  the  experience  of  a  hundred  and  fifty 
years,  into  a  strong,  compacted  and  well  settled  republic.  Our 
example  could  not  be  looked  upon  with  indifference.  Moreover, 
the  French  officers  and  soldiers  who  had  served  in  this  country 
imbibed  here  the  spirit  of  liberty,  and  returned  to  their  native  land 
to  be  its  apostles  there.  Had  there  been  no  republic  in  America, 
who  would  venture  to  assert  that  there  would  now  be  a  republic  in 
France,  and  republican  tendencies  throughout  Europe  ? 

Lafayette  carried  in  his  patriot  bosom  the  spirit  of  American 
liberty  to  his  own  countrymen,  and  ever  since,  till  this  day,  they 
have  been  trying  to  follow  in  our  track.  Their  excesses,  distractions 
and  failures,  only  show  that  the  preliminary  conditions  of  popular 
liberty,  free  institutions  and  education,  which  made  our  republic 
possible,  were  lacking  in  France. 

There  are  numerous  tokens  of  the  influence  of  our  enterprise,  ac- 
tivity, peculiar  traits,  habits  and  usages  upon  the  Old  World  from  the 
formation  of  our  government,  and  whatever  speculations  in  regard  to 
its  perpetuity  may  have  been  entertained,  we  must  leave  to  be  worked 
out  in  future  years.  It  has  passed  through  one  of  the  greatest  strains 
that  any  nation  has  ever  known,  and  it  still  survives. 

Our  civil  war,  its  conduct,  its  close,  its  consequences,  the 
peaceful  dispersion  of  great  armies  to  private  life,  the  work  of  con- 
ciliation and  reconstruction,  the  return  of  marvellous  prosperity,  the 
rapid  payment  of  the  national  debt,  and  the  surprising  increase  of 
population,  these,  all  together,  have  challenged  the  respect  and 
admiration  of  other  nations. 

The  opinion  and  attitude  of  our  government  on  any  subject  of  world- 
.wide  interest  have  a  very  decided  influence  upon  the  course  and 
measures  of  other  governments,  in  commerce,  in  councils,  and  in 
matters  of  war  and  peace.  The  United  States  of  America  must 
be  taken  into  account  in  any  great  congress  of  the  world. 

A  striking  recognition  of  the  influences  reflecting  back  from  the 
New  World  to  the  Old,  will  appear  by  a  reference  to  the  dis- 
coveries, inventions  and  improvements  of  the  present  age,  the  ap- 
plication of  electricity,  ansesthetics,  the  Corliss,  Harrison  and 
Ericsson  engines,  Hoe's  printing  press,  the  agricultural  machinery 
and  the  many  other  devices  from  the  genius  of  our  countrymen, 
which  have  come  into  general  use  in  foreign  lands,  in  the  saving  of 
labor,  the  relief  of  suffering,  and  the  multiplication  of  the  comforts, 
the  elevation  and  happiness  of  the  world. 

Every  year  brings  more  and  more  to  view  the  marvellous 
results  which  have  followed  from  the  settlement  of  this  country. 
We  cannot  say  what  would  have  been  the  progress  of  civil  and 
religious  freedom,  the  developments  of  science,  or  the  progress 
of   civilization    and    invention,    had    not    those    little    bands   of 


142  President  Wilder* s  Address.  [April, 

Pilgrims  and  Puritans  landed  at  Plymouth  and  Salem.  But  we 
can  say,  that  no  event  in  modern  political  history  has  so  greatly 
affected  the  governments  of  the  world,  or  has  had  such  a  beneficent 
influence  on  the  destinies  of  mankind.  With  the  sailing  of  the 
Mayflower  from  Delft  Haven  in  1620,  there  arose  a  new  star  in  the 
East  which  led  the  Pilgrim  mariners  to  the  Western  world.  No 
other  star  in  the  constellation  of  the  heavens,  if  we  except  that  which 
rested  over  Judea,  has  shone  with  such  resplendent  glory,  as  this 
our  polar  star  of  freedom  1  the  star  that  never  sets  1 

Who  shall  say  that  but  for  the  bold  and  manly  spirit  of  Samuel 
Adams,  James  Otis,  and  Josiah  Quincy,  the  example  of  Wash- 
ington, Franklin,  and  Lafayette,  there  would  have  been  a  Kossuth, 
Garabaldi,  or  Gambetta,  proclaiming  to  the  people  of  the  Old  W^orld 
those  heaven-born  principles  which  have  made  our  nation  what  it  is ! 

Truly,  our  fathers  planted  and  builded  better  than  they  knew. 
The  infant  child,  rocked  on  the  billows  of  the  deep,  has  become 
the  prime  minister  of  the  gospel  of  liberty,  and  now  offers  the  keys 
of  freedom  to  the  nations  of  the  earth.  The  tree  of  liberty  which 
they  planted  has  spread  its  branches  from  the  Atlantic  to  the  Pacific, 
and  under  its  genial  shadow  fifty  millions  of  happy  freemen  now 
rejoice  in  the  blessings  of  peace,  plenty  and  prosperity.  This  was  an 
event  which  will  be  hallowed  in  the  memory  of  the  christian  world, 
while  a  spark  of  freedom  or  good  will  to  man  shall  have  a  place  in 
the  heart  of  mankind. 

We  would  not  unduly  exalt  our  nation  or  extol  its  virtues,  but  we 
would  be  grateful  to  the  Giver  of  all  good  for  the  wonderful  works 
which  he  hath  wrought  by  her  people.  This  is  the  Lord's  work,  and 
not  our  own,  and  it  seemeth  good  in  his  sight. 

Look  for  instance  at  her  institutions,  her  acquisitions,  upon  her 
discoveries  in  science,  her  inventions  in  art,  and  the  numerous  bless-, 
ings  which  have  resulted  from  these  emanations  of  the  American 
brain,  the  lightning  drawn  from  the  clouds  and  made  subservient  to 
the  will  of  man  ;  the  mystic  wire  taught  to  speak  all  the  languages  of 
the  earth  ;  the  etherous  anodyne,  blotting  from  the  memory  all  suffer- 
ing by  the  surgeon's  knife,  and  the  many  ills  that  flesh  is  heir  to  ;  the 
free  school,  that  tree  of  knowledge  in  whose  fruits  are  the  seeds  of 
equal  rights,  and  which  is  yet  to  revolutionize  the  kingdoms  of  this 
earth  ;  the  numerous  inventions  and  improvements  in  agricultural 
machinery,  without  which  the  products  of  the  earth  could  not  be 
harvested ;  the  immense  exports  of  our  grains,  cotton,  and  other 
products,  with  always  a  reserve  in  store  to  supply  the  deficiencies  of 
the  Old  World.  And  were  we  to  follow  out  this  subject  in  detail, 
we  should  be  astonished  at  the  number  of  discoveries,  inventions, 
and  improvements  which  the  Old  World  has  received  from  the 
New  ;  the  cotton  gin,  the  platform  balance,  and  the  thousand  other 
evidences  of  American  genius,  which  are  now  in  daily  use  ;  and  last, 
not  least,  the  influence  of  American  industries,  and  of  our  systems 


1884,]  President  Wilder' 8  Address.  143 

of  education.  Young  men  from  India,  China  and  Japan  have  taken 
up  their  abode  on  our  soil,  have  enjoyed  the  privileges  of  our  free 
institutions,  and  have  returned  to  plant  similar  ones  for  their  own 
people ;  thus  cultivating  independent  thought,  and  the  sacred  in- 
spiration which  declares  that  all  nations  are  made  of  one  blood,  all 
men  born  free  and  equal. 

This  independence  of  thought  in  regard  to  civil  and  religious 
liberty  is  growing  day  by  day  in  the  minds  of  the  people  of  the  Old 
World. 

These  are  some  of  the  reflex  influences  of  our  republic  ;  these 
are  some  of  the  beneficent  achievements,  the  benevolent  acts,  which 
are  casting  their  light  far  and  wide,  and  on  which  other  nations  are 
looking  with  intense  interest  to  see  whether  the  republic  is  able  to 
maintain  its  tree  institutions,  under  a  government  controlled  by 
the  people. 

Let  us  refer  to  the  opinions  of  some  of  the  most  distinguished 
men  of  our  age. 

When  speaking  of  the  greatness  and  influence  of  our  country,  with 
its  aspirations,  suggestions,  and  possibilities.  Dean  Stanley  said : 
^  It  cannot  be  realized  until  touched  by  the  actual  sight  of  it.  Then 
we  feel  that  we  are  in  the  presence  of  one  of  those  great  creative 
epochs  of  nations,  a  vast  and  heaven- ward  inspiring  destiny." 

"  What  is  America  now  1  '  said  Canon  Farrar  of  England.  "  A 
mighty  civilization,  destined,  perhaps,  to  surpass  our  own,  a  land  of 
illimitable  hopes,  a  boundless  continent  I  If  glorious  htis  been  our 
legacy  to  her,  glorious  too  have  been  her  gifts  to  us.  She  has  given 
us  a  type  at  once  of  manhood,  enthusiastic,  practical,  self-sacrificing, 
prudent  and  godly." 

The  Rev.  Dr.  Parker,  of  London,  when  speaking  of  our  country 
and  its  institutions  and  possibilities,  says :  '^  America  is  more  than 
a  continent,  it  is  a  little  world  !" 

Matthew  Arnold,  who  is  at  present  in  this  country,  when  speaking 
of  its  influences  under  Puritan  discipline,  says  :  "  It  has  become  an 
incomparable  and  all-transforming  remnant,  and  the  common  topic 
of  admiration  for  the  world." 

Mr.  Gladstone  says  :  "  I  am  proud  of  America.  America  has  a 
territory  fitted  to  be  the  base  of  the  largest  continuous  empire  ever 
established  by  man." 

Lord  Coleridge,  when  recently  here,  said  :  "  I  rejoice  to  see  the 
independence  and  prosperity  of  your  middle  classes.  It  is  not  the 
immense  size  of  your  country  that  strikes  me  most.  It  is  the  big- 
ness of  that  sentiment  which  has  given  its  best  blood  in  vindication 
of  human  right." 

And  Professor  Scely,  of  the  English  Cambridge  University,  says  : 
"The  United  States  has  solved  the  problem,  how  from  a  fnngc  of 
settlement  on  the  Atlantic  a  whole  continent  as  far  as  the  Pacific  may 
be  peopled,  and  prosper  under  a  united  government.     If  the  United 


144  President  Wilder^B  Address.  [April, 

States  hold  together  for  another  half  century,  they  will,  at  the  end 
of  that  time,  completely  change  the  condition  of  such  old  states  as 
France  and  Germany." 

Thus  the  horizon  of  freedom  opens  wider  and  wider,  giving  surer 
and  surer  promise  of  that  glorious  day,  when  the  voice  of  peace  and 
good  will  shall  echo  from  mountain  top  to  mountain  top  around  the 
globe. 

There  may  be  *  seasons  of  political  strife  and  misrule ;  ambition 
and  treachery  may  spread  their  wily  nets.  There  may  be  mistakes 
in  legislation,  and  lack  of  integrity  in  official  positions,  dissensiont 
and  outbreaks,  times  of  doubt  and  despondency ;  but  disunion  will 
not  again  rear  its  hydra  head.  The  glories  of  our  republic  may  be 
dimmed  for  a  time  on  the  page  of  history,  but  all  these  evils  shall 
melt  away  like  untimely  frosts  before  the  morning  sun.  The  Amer- 
ican Union  sliall  survive  !  a  glorious  illustration  of  the  capabilities 
of  a  people  to  govern  themselves,  owning  no  sovereignty  but  that 
of  God ! 

Gentlemen,  we  now  enter  on  the  fortieth  year  of  the  existence 
of  our  Society.  Did  time  permit,  I  would  address  you  still  further 
on  the  imi)ortance  of  our  work,  on  what  has  already  been  accom- 
plished, and  on  the  great  field  which  it  is  to  occupy  in  the  future. 
Suffice  it  to  say,  that  in  the  order  of  Providence  it  has  become  a 
leader  in  the  work  for  which  it  was  established.  The  spirit  that 
animate<l  the  hearts  of  its  founders  has  awakened  an  interest  in 
local  and  family  history  never  fully  recognized,  and  our  duty  is  to 
foster  and  perpetuate  it. 

The  study  of  family  history,  observes  the  Rev.  Mr.  Slafter, 
elevates  and  ennobles  the  nature  of  man,  and  lifts  it  up  to  a  truer 
and  nobler  type.     So  say  we. 

To  know  nothing  of  our  ancestry  or  from  whence  we  came,  to 
have  no  reverence  for  the  precious  memories  of  the  past  or  an  io* 
terest  in  those  wlio  are  to  succeed  us  in  the  battle  of  life,  is  to  ignore 
the  elements  and  influences  that  have  made  us  what  we  are,  to  re- 
pudiate the  natural  instincts  and  affections  of  the  human  heart,  and 
to  suppress  the  aspirations  and  hopes  of  a  soul  that  is  to  courae 
on  though  endless  circles  of  eternity.  And  what  more  precious  tes- 
timonial of  your  love  of  kindred  and  home  can  you  leave,  than  that 
which  provides  for  the  transmission  of  the  history  of  your  ancestors, 
yourself  and  family,  to  future  generations?  And  how  consoling  the 
thought,  that  when  you  shall  have  been  gathered  to  your  fathers, 
this  history  shall  live  through  all  coming  time,  as  a  precious  inherit 
tance  to  your  descendants !  This  is  a  trust  that  Providence  has 
confided  to  your  care ;  and  who  so  dead  to  sympathy  and  affi^don, 
to  kindred  and  country,  that  would  not  preserve  the  record  of  his 
ancestors,  the  place  of  his  birth,  the  home  of  his  childhood,  and  the 
sacred  spot  where  repose  the  loved  and  lost  ones  of  earth  1 

These  are  the  words  which  I  spoke  to  you  many  years  ago»  and 


1884.]  Memoir  of  Edmund  Qtdncy.  145 

which  I  now  repeat,  that  they  may  live  in  your  memories  and  those 
which  shall  follow  you  when  I  shall  have  passed  away. 

Great  is  the  importance  and  influence  of  our  work ;  great  the 
responsibility  of  our  duty.  On  you,  and  those  who  are  to  succeed 
you,  must  rest  its  prosperity,  usefulness  and  perpetuity.  Cherish 
this  Society  affectionately,  and  support  it  generously. 

And  now,  in  conclusion,  let  me  express  again  my  earnest  prayer 
Aat  our  association  may  successfully  fulfil  its  benevolent  mission, 
treasuring  up  the  history  of  the  past,  binding  ancestry  and  posterity 
together  to  the  latest  generations,  even  until  the  histories  of  this 
world  shall  have  blended  with  the  histories  of  the  future. 

Manfully,  manfully,  let  us  press  on, 
Filling  up  time  with  duties  well  done, 
Patiently,  trustingly,  without  a  fear, 
Joyfully,  joyfully,  while  we  stay  here. 


MEMOIR  OP  EDMUND  QUINCY  (1681—1738)  OF 
BRAINTREE,  MASSACHUSETTS  BAY. 

By  the  late  Eliia.  Susan  Quinot,  of  Qoincy,  Mass. 

[In  presenting  to  the  readers  of  the  Register  the  following  ar- 
ticle, the  last  literary  production  of  its  author,  we  take  occasion  to 
transfer  to  our  pages  a  just  and  touching  tribute  to  her  memory^ 
written  by  her  sister,  Mrs.  Waterston,  of  Boston,  and  printed  by 
the  fkmily  for  distribution  among  friends  : 

Eliza  Susan  Quinct, 
Daughter  of  the  late  President  Quincy, 

The  life  of  this  lady  covers  a  period  of  nearly  eighty-six  years.  She  was 
bom  on  the  15th  day  of  March,  1798,  in  the  mansion  of  her  grandmother, 
the  widow  of  Josiah  Quincy,  Jr.,  of  Revolutionary  memory,  which  stood 
in  Pearl  Street,  Boston,  and  she  passed  away  on  the  evening  of  Jan.  17, 
1884,  from  the  ancestral  home  of  her  family  at  Quincy,  Massachusetts,  iu 
the  room  whence  her  great-grandfather,  Josiah  Quincy,  departed  on  the 
dd  of  March,  1784,  a  century  having  spanned  the  period  between  the  two 
events.  In  Boston  and  Quincy  the  interests  of  Miss  Quincy's  life  centred, 
incloding  the  episode  of  seventeen  years'  residence  at  Cambridge,  while  her 
fuher  was  president  of  Harvard  College.  Such  a  life  may  appear  monot- 
onous in  the  restless  and  changing  currents  of  existence  to-day,  but  Miss 
Qnincy's  experience  was  full  and  varied.  Her  intense  interest  in  the  histori- 
cal past  of  her  native  New  England,  and  of  the  family  of  which  she  was 
a  member,  her  wonderfully  retentive  memory,  her  thorough  knowledge  of 
&cts  and  dates,  her  indomitable  perseverance  and  self-renouncing  devotion 
as  the  principal  assistant  of  her  father  in  all  his  work,  literary  and  other- 
wise, made  her  career  a  marked  one.  During  her  father's  long  public  life 
she  was  brought  into  contact  with  many  remarkable  people  and  had  much 
experience  of  society,  as  society  was  then  constituted.     Miss  Quincy  never 

TOL.  XXXVIII.  14 


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146  Memoir  of  Edmund  Quxncy.  [Aprili 

came  before  the  public  as  an  aathoress,  bat  the  large  number  of  her  private 
manuscripts,  as  well  as  various  papers  furnished  to  historical  societies,  might 
fill  several  volumes.  In  1861  she  edited  the  autobiography  of  her  mother, 
Mrs.  Eliza  Susan  (Morton)  Quincy,  which  was  printed  for  private  circula- 
tion. Miss  Quincy  had  also  many  correspondents  at  home  and  abroad, 
among  whom  were  eminent  literary  and  scientific  persons,  and  her  kind- 
ness and  charity  were  yet  more  widely  extended.  A  natural  gift  for  draw- 
ing was  early  developed,  and  many  proofs  exist  of  her  talent  and  tireless 
industry  in  that  department  of  art  As  the  eldest  child  of  her  father*i 
family  she  was  the  constant  and  trusted  companion  of  her  parents,  and  to 
the  younger  children  a  truly  disinterested  and  affectionate  sister.  This  ten- 
derness of  her  nature  extended  itself  to  the  young  people  of  two  succeeding 
generations.  With  her  departs  out  of  daily  life  one  long  known  and  well 
loved.  She  retained  her  vigorous  intellect  and  unfailing  memory  to  the 
last  hour  of  her  long  life.  That  life  in  itself  is  a  well-tilled  volume,  with- 
out one  line  we  can  wish  to  blot ;  a  fit  record  to  be  left  on  earth,  and  to 
"  follow  her  up  to  joy  and  peace  forever." 

The  manuscript  was  accompanied  by  a  letter  dated  December  29, 
1883.  In  less  than  three  weeks,  and  before  her  article  was  in  type, 
the  author  had  passed  from  earth. — Editor.] 

Edmund  Quincy,  of  Braintree,  Mass.  (1681 — 1738),  was  the 
fourth  of  his  name  in  direct  succession.  His  grandfather,  an  emi- 
grant from  England,  was  born  in  1602,  the  son  of  Edniund 
Quincy  of  Wigsthorp,  a  landholder  in  Northamptonshire  in  Eng- 
land, who  married  Ann  Palmer  in  1593,  and  gave  to  his  eldest  son 
Edmund  an  estate  at  Achurch,  where  he  resid^,  and  in  1623  mar- 
ried Judith  Pares.  Their  daughter  Judith  was  baptized  at  Achurch, 
September,  1626,  and  in  1627,  according  to  the  records  of  the 
church,  a  child  was  baptized  elsewhere  and  not  in  the  parish  church. 
This  singular  entry  proves  that  Edmund  Quincy  had  become  a 
Puritan. 

In  1628  he  came  to  Massachusetts.  Here  he  formed  a  partner- 
ship with  William  Coddington,  and  they  bought  the  planting  ground 
of  the  Sachem  of  the  Massachusetts  Indians.  This  purchase  is  con- 
firmed by  an  Indian  deed,  yet  extant,*  by  which  Wampatuck,  the 
son  of  **  Chickatabot,  sold,  in  1655,  lands  in  Braintree  to  Thomas 
Faxon  and  others,  excepting  Mr.  Coddington's  farm,  Mr.  Quincy's 
farm,  and  others,  which  lands  were  purchased  by  the  said  men  of 
his  predecessors,  which  the  said  Wampatuck  does  hereby  confirm." 

Edmund  Quincy  went  to  England,  and  returned  to  Boston  with  his 
wife  and  two  children,  September  4,  1633,  in  the  ship  Griffin,  which 
brought  the  Rev.  John  Cotton,  Mr.  Haynes,  and  many  other  men  of 
good  estate.  His  name  and  that  of  Judith  his  wife  are  inserted  on 
the  records  of  the  First  Church  in  Boston,  November,  1633,  Nos. 
79  and  80,  and  afterwards  the  names  of  six  of  his  servants  are,  as 
such,  inserted  on  the  same  records. 

•  The  deed  now,  in  1883,  is  in  the  possession  of  the  town  of  Braintree. 


1884.]  Memoir  of  Edmund  Quincy.  147 

On  the  14th  of  May,  1634,  Edmund  Quincy  was  elected  one  of 
the  first  representatives  of  the  town  of  Boston  in  the  General  Court 
of  the  Province,  and  on  the  10th  of  the  ninth  month,  1634,  he  was 
appointed  first  on  a  committee  by  the  town  of  Boston,  to  assess  a 
tax  of  98.  3d.  to  Mr.  Blackstone  ^  to  purchase  his  rights  to  the 
peninsula  of  Shawmut."  On  the  14th  of  the  tenth  month,  1635, 
a  oommittee  was  i4)pointed  to  bound  out  farms  at  Mount  WoUas- 
ton,  then  a  part  of  Boston,  to  Mr.  W.  Coddington  and  Mr. 
Edmund  Quincy.  On  the  14th  of  the  first  month,  called  March, 
1636,  the  committee  report  the  bounds  they  have  assigned  to  them. 

This  grant  at  the  Mt.  Wollaston  plantation  comprehended  several 
thousand  acres,  including  the  planting  ground  of  Chickatabot, 
cleared  of  trees,  and  suitable  to  agriculture  or  pasturage,  and  also 
the  peninsula  now  called  Germantown,  with  a  harbor  adapted  for 
ship-building,  at  the  mouth  of  Weymouth  River. 

They  took  possession  of  their  lands  and  built  their  houses  on  the 
banks  of  a  brook  which  falls  into  the  bay  north  of  Mt.  Wollaston, 
then  a  part  of  Boston. 

The  bouse  erected  by  Edmund  Quincy  was  of  one  story  with  a 
large  attic,  a  plan  firequently  followed  at  that  time.  On  the  right  of 
the  entrance  the  door  opens  into  a  room  twelve  or  thirteen  feet 
square  and  seven  feet  high,  with  four  windows  and  a  fire-place  in 
the  comer.  A  carved  cornice  of  wood  round  the  ceiling  proves  that 
it  was  the  residence  of  the  owner. 

The  rest  of  the  house  was  divided  into  a  number  of  apartments 
with  flues  leading  to  the  chimney  in  the  centre,  beside  which  a  stair- 
case ascended  to  the  attic.  It  was  situated  on  a  large  brook  and 
near  a  pond  of  fresh  water  and  a  fine  spring.  It  was  protected  on 
the  east  by  Mt.  Wollaston,  and  commanded  an  extensive  view  to- 
wards the  west.  The  house  is  yet  standing  in  good  preservation  in 
1883. 

Mr.  Coddington's  house  was  situated  on  elevated  ground  on  the 
other  side  of  the  brook.     The  cellar  was  visible  in  1880. 

The  exact  date  of  Edmund  Quincy's  death  in  1635,  at  the  age  of 
thirty-three  years,  or  its  cause,  is  not  known.  It  must  have  been 
hard  to  depart  at  the  threshold  of  a  great  enterprise,  leaving  a  wid- 
ow and  two  children  in  the  wilderness.*  In  1636,  the  grant  at  Mt. 
Wollaston,  then  a  part  of  Boston,  for  Braintree  was  not  incorporated 
till  1640,  was  divided  between  Mr.  Coddington  and  the  heirs  of 
Eldmund  Quincy.  Mr.  Coddington  had  the  eastern  portion  of  the 
pimt  and  Mt.  Wollaston.  He  became  engaged  in  the  Antinomian 
controversies  of  the  day,  and  on  his  removal  to  Rhode  Island  in 
1638,  he  sold  his  Mt.  Wollaston  estate  to  Edward  Tyng,  and  gave 
the  rest  of  his  lands  to  the  town  of  Braintree. 

*  The  wild  state  of  the  coantry  at  this  time  is  evident  from  the  fact  that  the  graves  in  the 
inci<.*nt  burial  ground  at  Braintree  are  defended  from  the  wolves  by  large  stones,  and  io 
i  diarj  of  the  period  it  is  stated  that  the  woods  swarmed  with  l>ear8. 


148  Memoir  of  Edmund  Quincy.  [AprQi 

The  records  of  the  town  and  First  Church  of  Boston  for  a  long 
time  were  the  only  sources  of  information  relative  to  the  emign^- 
tion  of  Edmund  Quincy,  but  in  1832  a  rough  autograph  draught  of 
the  letter  here  inserted,  written  on  a  half  sheet  of  letter  paper,  which 
had  been  given  by  one  of  his  family  to  the  Rev.  Mr.  Burroughs,  of 
New  Hampshire,  was  then  given  by  him  to  President  J.  Q. 
Adams,  whom  he  accidentally  met  at  an  evening  party.  It  is  from 
Edmund  Quincy,  grandson  of  the  emigrant,  to  his  relations  in  Eng- 
land: 

Braintree  in  New  England 
To  Mr.  John  Quincy.  December  29*S  1712. 

Loving  Cousin 
and  dear  friends  unknown. 

This  comes  per  the  Chester  Man  of  War,  (Captain  Thomas  Mathews 
commander  and  Convoy  to  the  Mast  Ships)  to  bring  you  after  a  long  in- 
terval of  time,  the  freshest  tidings  from  your  relations  in  this  country,  who 
are  to  you,  as  you  to  us,  personally  unknown.  About  the  year  1 678  my 
father  received  his  last  letters  from  his  uncle  Thomas  Quincy  dated  from 
Harrold  in  Bedfordshire — ^as  also  did  my  brother  Daniel  Quincy  who  wai 
some  time  before  in  London  and  other  places  among  his  relations,  and  I 
suppose  known  to  some  of  you.  The  sight  of  these  letters  with  many  oth- 
ers preceding  have  informed  me  of  your  and  our  family  then  living  in  or 
near  your  shire — and  that  ray  Grandfather  had  three  brothers,  to  wit,  Fran- 
cis, John  and  Thomas  and  three  sisters.  That  in  the  year  1663  there  was 
living  only  one  brother  Thomas,  and  the  three  sisters  aforenamed,  and  afte^ 
wards  in  1676  but  two  sisters  were  alive  and  tlie  aforenamed  brother  Tho- 
mas, who  also  had  one  son  namely  John  Quincy,  and  one  cousin  of  the 
same  name  supposed  to  be  son  of  Francis  aforenamed,  who  was  said  to  live 
at  a  place  called  Achurch  in  a  house  that  was  my  Grandfathers.  Moreover 
that  John  Quincy's  children  then  lived  at  a  place  called  Wigsthorpe  and 
were  seven  or  eight  in  number. 

This  is  a  short  account  of  what  I  know  concerning  your  family  in  Old 
England,  what  I  thought  proper  to  my  letter.  I  shsdl  add  as  short  a  one 
concerning  a  branch  of  the  same  family  in  New  England  and  it  is  as 
follows. 

My  Grandfather  came  over  here  in  the  year  1628,  brought  with  him  one 
son  and  one  daughter.  The  son  was  my  father,  who  bore  his  father's  name, 
as  I  bear  his.  He  had  by  a  first  wife  many  children,  sons  and  daughters, 
one  of  whom  was  Daniel  before  named,  who  is  deceased  leaving  behind 
him  a  son  and  daughter.  The  son's  name  is  John — a  man  grown  and  liv- 
ing in  our  town.  The  rest  of  the  aforenamed  children  are  all  dead  except 
one  daughter  named  Ruth  who  lives  near  us.  By  a  second  wife  my  father's 
children  were  three — viz.  two  sons  and  a  daughter.  The  daughter  is  liv- 
ing, one  son  died  young, — the  other  is  myself  who  am  a  married  man,  and 
live  where  my  grandfather  was  first  seated  after  his  arrival  in  Boston,  and 
where  also  my  father  lived  and  died,  being  about  ten  miles  from  Boston, 
the  Metropolis  of  our  country,  and  have  at  the  writing  hereof  (thanks  be 
to  God)  two  sons  and  three  daughters,  all  young,  who  with  myself  and  the 
rest  of  our  family  living  near  us  are  in  good  health,  and  desire  the  accept- 
ance ot  our  love  and  service  we  hereby  send  you,  wishing  you  with  all  our 
hearts  the  best  and  greatest  peace  and  happiness  in  your  remote  country,— 
and  at  length  eternal  rest  in  a  better. 


1884.]  Metnair  of  Edmund  Quincy.  149 

I  design  by  this  to  get  acqaaiutance  with  the  family  of  my  father,  whose 
good  aod  welfare  I  earnestly  desire,  wish  for  and  long  to  hear  of.  If  any 
of  them  be  living  and  deem  it  worth  their  care  to  answer  these  lines  and 
hear  from  hs  by  this  way,  I  shall  accept  the  same  and  endeavor  the  best 
and  most  kind  returns  I  can.  Hoping  in  the  mean  time  that  this  will  come 
safe  to  hand  and  find  you  all  in  good  health  I  take  leave  coomiitting  you  to 
the  protection  of  Almighty  God, 

and  am  dear  friends 

your  affectionate  Kinsman 

and  humble  servant, 

Edhukd  Quinct. 

P.  S.  I  have  sent  two  other  letters,  one  to  yourself  and  another  to  ano- 
dier  supposed  Cousin  Thomas  Quincy.  They  come  in  the  convoy  to  the 
Mast  Ships,  Capt.  Matthews  commander,  and  are  directed  to  be  left  at  the 
Post  Office,  London,  for  conveyance.  I  shall  be  glad  to  hear  from  some  of 
you  by  the  first  opportunity  in  the  spring.  Please  to  direct  your  letters  to 
be  left  with  John  Campbell,  post  master  in  N.  £.  E.  Q. 

Edmund  Quincy,  third  of  the  name,  bom  at  Achurch  1627,  in- 
herited the  western  portion  of  the  grant,  which  included  the  plant- 
ing ground  of  the  Sachem  and  the  peninsula  of  Germantown.  In 
1649  he  married  Joanna  Hoar,  and  resided  in  the  house  of  his  fa- 
ther, which  remains  in  good  preservation  in  1883.  It  is  interest- 
ing to  remember  that  the  execution  of  Charles  the  first  and  the 
affairs  of  the  conflicts  of  the  Commonwealth,  were  heard  as  news 
and  were  talked  over  in  this  lonely  dwelling.  His  wife  was  sister 
of  President  Hoar  of  Harvard  College  and  of  Margaret,  wife  of 
Henry  Flint.  The  children  of  Edmund  and  Joanna  Quincy  were, 
Daniel,  bom  1650,  married  Ann  Shepard  1681 ;  Mary,  born  1652, 
married  Ephraim  Savage  1681 ;  James,  bom  1654,  married  D. 
Hubbard ;  Elizabeth,  born  1656,  married  Daniel  Gookin ;  Ruth, 
married  John  Hunt ;  and  Experience,  married  W.  Savil. 

He  was  an  active  man  and  became  eminent  in  the  military  ser^'ice 
of  the  colonies.  He  was  the  first  major  and  lieut. -colonel  in  Brain- 
tree;  representative  in  1670,  73,  75,  79.  His  wife  died  May  16, 
1680,  aged  55 ;  and  in  1680  he  sold  Shed's  Neck,  now  German- 
town,  to  his  brother-in-law,  John  Hull,  on  condition  that  he  paid 
each  of  his  children  a  hundred  pounds  in  1680.  He  was  married 
at  Cambridge  to  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Gookin  Eliot,  daughter  of  Maj.- 
Gren.  Daniel  Gookin  and  widow  of  Rev.  John  Eliot,  Jr«,  of  Nonan- 
tum,  the  eldest  son  of  the  Rev.  John  Eliot,  of  Roxbury.  He 
divided  his  estate  into  three  farms,  the  home,  middle  and  lower 
larms,  about  1684  ;  built  a  farm-house  on  the  lower  farm  and  plant- 
ed an  orchard,  some  of  the  trees  of  which  still  remain  in  1883.  In 
1685  he  built  a  house  of  two  stories  nearer  the  brook,  fronting  to  the 
east.  In  1688  he  was  appointed  one  of  the  Committee  of  Safety 
which  formed  the  provisional  government  of  the  colony  until  the 
arrival  of  the  new  charter  from  William  and  Mary.  Edmund  Quin- 
TOL.  xxzviu.         14* 


150  Memoir  of  Edmund  Quincy.  [April, 

cy  died  January  8,  1698.  At  his  funeral  on  the  12th  of  January, 
there  were  a  troop  of  horse  and  three  foot  companies.  His  grave  is 
marked  by  two  granite  stones,  in  which  his  name  and  arms,  engraved 
on  lead,  were  inserted.  In  1775  the  lead  was  taken  and  run  into 
bullets  to  use  against  the  British,  and  the  monument  would  have 
remained  unknown,  but  President  John  Adams  remembered  the  in- 
scription, and  in  1820  it  was  restored,  engraved  on  a  marble  slab 
placed  between  the  stones. 

In  his  will  he  bequeathed  to  the  First  Church  in  Braintree  a  silver 
cup  on  which  the  coat  of  arms  he  inherited  are  engraved.  For  a 
hundred  years  this  coat  of  arms  was  considered  a  sufficient  mark  of 
ownership  for  the  tomb  and  plate  of  the  family.  In  1883  this  cup, 
with  the  date  1699  on  its  base,  is  in  the  possession  of  the  First 
Church  in  Quincy,  Mass.  It  is  mentioned  in  Mr.  Lunt^s  centen- 
nial discourse,  September  29,  1839,  in  the  list  of  |i  plate  of  the 
church,  as  the  gift  of  an  unknown  donor.  An  inscription  giving  the 
name  of  Edmund  Quincy  as  the  donor  was  added  in  1840. 

Edmund  Quincy,  son  of  the  preceding,  born  in  Braintree  in  1681, 
entered  Harvard  College  in  1695.  A  little  manuscript  book  in  his 
band-writing  gives  a  list  of  the  books  which  he  owned  in  his  Sopho- 
more year — about  one  hundred  in  number,  containing  most  of  the 
Latin  and  some  of  the  Greek  classics,  and  of  works  on  philosophy, 
logic  and  theology.  The  manuscript  also  contains  college  exercises, 
including  four  Latin  orations  delivered  at  different  times  under  the 
presidency  of  Increase  Mather  during  his  college  course,  and  nu- 
merous notes  of  Latin  disputation  on  philosophical  questions.  Jon- 
athan Belcher,  Jeremiah  Dummer,  John  Bulkley,  Edmund  Quincy, 
four  of  the  class  of  1699,  were  as  distinguished  characters  as  New 
England  has  produced.* 

It  is  not  known  where,  after  graduating,  he  pursued  his  studies  and 
acquired  the  learning  which  fitted  him  to  hold  the  important  sta- 
tions conferred  on  him  by  the  public.  His  mother  died  in  1700, 
and  on  leaving  college  he  took  possession  of  his  father's  house  and 
estate,  and  in  1701  he  married  Dorothy  Flint,  daughter  of  Rev. 
Josiah  Flintf  of  Dorchester  and  Esther  Willet,  daughter  of  Thomas 
Willet,  the  first  mayor  of  New  York.  Their  children  were  Ed- 
mund, born  in  1703;  Elizabeth,  born  in  1706;  Dorothy,  born  in 
1708  ;  Josiah,  born  in  1710.$  In  1705  he  enlarged  his  father's  house 
by  the  erection  of  two  stories  and  an  attic,  and  also  two  rooms  ;  made 
the  WMlks  and  canal  and  planted  trees  which  remain  in  good  preser- 
vation in  1883.  He  early  received  the  confidence  of  the  public,  and 
be  never  frustrated  the  hopes  of  those  who  loved  him. 

•  Eliot's  Biographical  Dictionary. 

t  Rev.  Josiah  Flint,  son  of  Margaret  Hoar  and  Henry  Flint,  bom  at  Braintree  24  An- 

gast,  1645;  graduated  at  H.  C.  1664  ;  ordained  at  Dorchester  27  December,  1671 ;  died  16 
eptcinber,  1680,  aged  3d. 

X  Dun)tby  married  Edward  Jackson,  of  Boston ;  Josiah  married  Hannah  Stoigis,  of 
Yarmouth,  daughter  of  John  Sturgis. 


1884.]  Memoir  of  Edmund  Quincy.  151 

In  1713  he  was  commissioned  first  colonel  of  the  Suffolk  regi- 
ment by  Governor  Dudley.  In  1718  he  was  commissioned  Judge 
of  the  Superior  Court  of  Judicature  by  Governor  Shute.  He  was 
re-commissioned  by  Governor  Burnet  December  16,  1728.  And 
again  by  Governor  Belcher  June  21,  1733.  He  had  an  additional 
oommiesion  of  the  peace  Quorum  throughout  the  province.  The  fol- 
lowing letters  were  written  to  his  daughter — the  Dorothy  Q.  of  Dr. 
Holmes's  poem — while  she  was  visiting  at  Springfield  : 

Braintree,  July  8"»,  1724. 
My  Dear  Daughter, 

This  is  to  bring  yoa  the  good  news  of  my  safe  return  home  Commence- 
ment day  in  the  evening,  and  finding  your  mother  in  good  health. 

With  this  you  will  have  from  your  sister  Betsey  the  things  you  wrote 
for  by  me,  and  from  your  brother  PMmund  a  small  present.  My  Child 
you  are  peculiarly  favored  among  your  friends  in  these  parts  in  having  a 
good  word  spoken  of  you  and  good  wishes  made  for  you  by  everybody  let 
this  hint  be  improved  only  to  quicken  and  encourage  you  in  virtue  and  a 
good  life. 

My  love  to  all  the  family  in  which  you  are,  with  your  Mother's  and 
Grandmothers',*  also,  to  them  and  you. 

I  am  your  dear  and  loving  father, 

E.  QuiNcr. 

Half  a  yard  of  muslin  being  too  little  for  two  head  dresses,  your  sister 
has  sent  you  one  yard  wanting  half  a  quarter,  which  cost  ten  and  sixpence 
— and  the  Thread  (lace)  cost  fourteen  shillings — so  much  I  paid  for  and 
'tis  the  best  thread  and  muslin  of  the  price. 

Braintree,  Aug.  18*^  1724. 
My  dear  danghter. 

Last  night  I  received  your  letters  to  me  and  your  brother  and  sister. 
They  gave  us  no  small  pleasure  in  reading, — and  you  have  got  reputation 
with  your  Friends  by  having  composed  and  penned  them  agreeably.  Go 
on  to  think  and  speak  and  write  so,  and  above  all  improve  in  the  wisdom 
which  is  from  above.  I  wrote  you  last  week  a  few  lines.  1  am  glad  to 
hear  of  any  relief  ....   from  lameness. 

As  to  the  danger  and  to  the  fear  of  the  Indians  &c.  I  really  apprehend 
none,  and  what  you  see  or  hear  of  watchings  and  wardings  in  the  town  need 
not  teaze  you  at  all, — ^but  rather  ease  your  mind  and  quiet  your  fears ;  for 
in  such  caution  and  care  under  God  is  your  security  and  safety,  the  more 
and  better  established.  In  short  according  to  what  I  know  of  the  situation 
of  your  town — though  a  man  may  have  been  killed  20  miles  o£E  in  the 
woods — this  need  not  increase  your  fears,  you  being  in  the  h^art  of  a  nu- 
merous people  that  live  compact  and  near  to  other  strong  populous  towns 
and  in  a  watchful  posture,  as  I  said  before  you  can't  but  be,  humanly  speak- 
ing, very  safe,  and  so  I  would  have  you  think  yourself  to  be  and  put  away 
yoor  fears.  Edmund  Qcincy. 

•  Mm.  Esther  Flynt,  the  widow  of  the  Rev.  Josi'ah  Flynt  of  Dorchester,  and  danghter 
of  Tbomas  Willet,  Esq.,  of  Rhode  Island.  She  resided  in  the  family  of  Edmnnd  Quincy' 
tUl  her  death,  A.D.  1737. 


152  Memoir  of  Edmund  Quincy.  [April, 

Braintree,  Not.  9*  1724. 
Dear  Dorothy, 

'Tis  now  almost  two  months  since  I  saw  yoa  or  heard  directly  from 
you 

Your  sister  Bettey  will  be  married  the  12^^  day  of  this  month  (that  is 
next  Thursday  night)  if  health  permit. 

You  may  and  ought  to  wish  her  joy  and  happiness  in  the  new  reladon 
and  condition  she  is  entering  into  though  you  are  at  a  great  distance  from 
her.  We  make  no  wedding  for  her  but  only  a  small  entertainment  on  Fri- 
day for  a  few  friends  that  may  happen  to  be  present.  You'll  hear  the  par- 
ticulars perhaps  from  your  brother  Edmund  or  Josiah  after  'tis  over.  Your 
mother  has  sent  you  the  Muslin  Pattern,  Thread  and  needles,  a  Knott  and 
girdle  the  Gown  and  quilted  coat  are  not  sent  at  present  your  mother  thinks 
you  may  do  without  the  gown  and  if  you  can  possibly  tis  best  that  you  may 
not  have  too  great  a  pack  of  things  to  bring  back  and  besides  we  are  apt 
to  think  tis  best  you  should  keep  in  and  not  expose  yourself  this  winter 
(though  you  be  better)  lest  you  fall  back  again  by  catching  cold.  Before 
Spring  you  may  write  further  if  need  be  for  a  supply  The  sUk  for 
Mrs  Hooker  is  also  sent  and  the  price  b  1  .  3  .  10  being  7'  4^  a  yard 
you  may  acquaint  her. 

Pray  give  my  kind  salutation  to  her  and  Mr  Hooker  with  all  the  family 
and  your  mother  also  my  regards  to  D'  Porter  and  Mr  Whitman  if  yoa 
see  him  and  he  inquires  after  me 

I  am  your  loving  father  ^^^^^  Qou,ct. 

P.  S.  Since  I  wrote  last  night  I  received  yours  of  Oct  8***  as  also  Ed- 
mund and  Betty  as  to  the  things  you  speak  of  they  shall  be  sent  in  due 
time  they  roust  be  sent  by  water  when  a  good  opportunity  presents  when 
your  quilt  and  gown  must  come  also  for  such  bulky  things  people  on  horse- 
back dont  care  to  be  troubled  with. 

Dear  Child  Braintree  May  6***  1725 

your  mother  and  I  were  not  so  willing  to  have  you  leave  us  though 
for  your  own  good,  but  now  are  as  desirous  to  see  you  here  again  were  it 
for  the  best.  Accept  this  expression  as  from  the  best  of  your  earthly  friends 
(your  dear  Parents)  who  think  of  you  every  day  and  hope  to  hear  of  yoa 
oftener  than  of  late. 

The  last  of  your  letters  I  have  yet  received  was  dated  March  6**^. 

I  have  wrote  since  then  once  or  twice  but  know  not  whether  they  have 
come  to  your  hand   I  expect  a  letter  from  you  and  Dr  Porter  every  day. 

Your  brother  Edmund  you  have  heard  I  suppose  is  married  and  I  hope 
very  happily  and  that  we  shall  have  joy  and  comfort  in  this  doubled  rela- 
tion to  Mr  Wendells  family  Brother  Wendell  and  his  wife  from  New 
York  was  at  the  wedding  and  have  since  been  at  our  house  a  few  days  and 
are  returning  in  a  short  time  home  by  the  way  of  Rhode  Island  as  they 
came  The  new  married  couple  are  yet  at  their  uncles  house  but  are  to  live 
with  brother  Wendell  and  his  wife  and  Miss  Molly  Higginson  is  gobg 
from  hence  tomorrow  to  live  with  them  and  your  mother  will  be  destitute 
of  a  companion  and  assistant  again  but  I  hope  will  be  provided  for.* 

I  am  going  on  Monday  next  to  Piscataqua  to  keep  court  at  Ipswich  and 
York  to  be  absent  about  a  fortnight. 

I  am  your  loving  father  Edmund  Quinct. 

•  At  this  period  excellent  colored  servants  were  employed  in  these  famiUea. 


1884,]  Memoir  of  Edmund  Quincy.  153 

At  this  penod  the  chief  communication  from  Boston  was  by  water. 
Before  a  dam  was  built  across  the  brook,  boats  at  high  tides  could 
approach  the  house.  It  was  unsafe  to  go  as  far  inland  as  Milton 
Hill,  for  fear  of  the  Indians,  and  the  communication  was  across  the 
Neponset  by  Penny  Ferry  at  a  point  where  the  railroad  now  ter- 
minates. 

Edmund  Quincy  appears  to  have  been  an  active  and  influential 
member  of  the  board  of  Overseers  of  Harvard  University  for  twenty 
years,  his  name  continually  recurring  on  their  records.  The  last 
time  it  occurs  is  on  the  16th  of  June,  1737,  when  Mr.  Holyoke  was 
chofien  president ;  and  the  last  Commencement  Edmund  Quincy  at- 
tended was  that  of  the  same  year,  when  his  brother  in  law  Tutor 
Flint  officiated  as  president.*  Mr.  Quincy  then  returned  to  his 
house  in  Braintree,  where  he  was  received  for  the  last  time  by  his 
wife  and  her  mother,  Mrs.  Esther  Willet  Flint,  who  died  there 
imder  the  care  of  her  daughter  in  July,  1737.  Mrs.  Quincy  sur- 
vived only  a  few  weeks,  dying  after  a  short  illness  on  the  thirty- 
first  of  August,  1737. 

Edmund  Quincy,  on  being  asked  at  this  time  how  soon  he  thought 
America  would  be  dismembered  from  the  mother  country,  replied 
that  if  the  colony  improved  in  the  arts  and  sciences  for  half  a  cen- 
tury to  come  as  it  had  for  that  time  past,  he  made  no  doubt  in  that 
time  it  would  be  accomplished.  The  event  confirms  his  observation,  f 

In  1737  commissioners  were  sent  by  the  colony  of  Massachu- 
setts Bay  to  Great  Britain,  to  settle  a  controversy  respecting  the 
boundary  line  of  Massachusetts  and  New  Hampshire.  Although 
the  people  of  Massachusetts  thought  themselves  secure  of  the  cause, 
they  deemed  it  prudent  to  send  a  special  agent.  The  General  As- 
sembly therefore  united  in  electing  Edmund  Quincy,  as  a  man  of 
known  integrity,  and  well  acquainted  with  the  affair  in  all  its  rela- 
tions, to  represent  their  claims  at  the  court  of  Great  Britain.  A 
sense  of  duty,  which  was  the  governing  principle  of  his  life,  induced 
him  to  accept  this  important  trust.  An  extract  from  the  Journal  of 
the  House  of  Representatives,  Province  of  Massachusetts  Bay  in 
N.  £.,  October  25th,  is  here  given : 

"  The  Honorable  Edmund  Quincy  lately  chosen  one  of  the  agents  of  this 
Province,  and  being  notified  thereof,  came  into  the  House  and  spake  as 
follows : 

**  Mr.  Speaker :  I  have  a  grateful  sense  of  the  honor  which  his  Excel- 
lency and  this  Court  have  done  me,  in  appointing  me  one  of  the  Agents  at 
the  Court  of  Great  Britain.  I  am  humbly  sensible  of  my  own  insufiicien- 
cj,  and  how  unequal  I  am  to  the  important  trust  hereby  reposed  in  me. 
Bnt  having  asked  the  best  advice  and  deliberated  (as  the  time  would  allow 
me)  on  the  affair,  and  being  satisfied  of  the  clearness  of  my  call,  I  dare  not 

*  Tutor  Flint  was  acrastomed  to  pass  his  vacations  at  his  house,  and  two  rooms  were 
erected  for  his  accommodation  near  the  canal  known  by  his  name  in  1883. 
t  From  a  letter  from  John  Wendell,  Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  Oct.  4, 1785. 


i 


154  Memoir  oj^  Edmund  Quincy.  [April, 

refuse  the  same,  and  therefore  in  a  humhle  dependence  on  the  divine  pre- 
sence and  assistance,  shall  devote  myself  to  the  service  of  my  country,  and 
to  the  utmost  of  my  power  pursue  and  discharge  the  duty  of  my  office." 

On  the  20th  of  December  following,  Judge  Quincy  embarked  with 
his  son  Josiah  for  England,  ^  attended  by  Governor  Belcher  and  other 
gentlemen  below  the  Castle,  where  the  cannon  were  discharged  as 
he  passed  by."*  He  arrived  in  London  in  Januaryi  1737-8,  from 
which  place  he  wrote  these  letters  to  his  family : 

London,  Jan.  18**^  1737 
Dear  Son 

After  being  at  sea  25  days  we  landed  at  Dover  and  from  thence  got 
safe  here  last  night  by  the  exceedingly  great  and  remarkable  goodness  of 
Almighty  God,  who  in  many  instances  of  our  danger  and  distress  on  our 
voyage  appeared  graciously  to  overule  the  winds  and  seas  which  wero 
boisterous  though  generally  fair. 

I  hope  this  will  find  you  with  my  other  dear  children  and  grandchildroi 
in  good  health  both  in  Boston  and  Braintree  and  to  each  of  whom  give  mj 
best  and  most  affectionate  Parental  love  and  regards. 

Josiah  will  give  you  the  news  of  the  Jerseys  being  made  a  distinct  gov- 
ernment and  who  is  Governor  and  the  success  of  Mr  Daniel  Russell  and 
ladys  appeal  on  the  law  of  interest 

We  are  at  Mr  Wilks  at  present  where  we  were  kindly  invited  last  night 
and  had  the  pleasure  to  sup  with  Mr  Newman  Mr  Partridge  and  Mr  Bel- 
cher, where  were  also  IMr  By  field  and  Jon*  Bernard  who  was  the  first  New 
Englander  I  met  at  alighting  out  of  the  stage  coach  a  few  doors  distaace 
from  Mr  Wilks  at  the  tavern. 

I  am  now  going  to  advise  with  Dr.  Juxon  and  others  about  being  inocu- 
lated though  there  is  scarce  anybody  as  they  say  have  it  in  this  city.  I 
believe  I  shall  think  it  my  duty  to  come  into  it. 

To  us  let  it  be  Christ  to  live  and  to  die  Gain 

I  am  Dear  fklmund 

Your  most  loving  &ther 

Edmund  Quinct. 

The  king  is  inconsolable  tis  said  under  the  Surprising  death  of  the  late 
Queen, t  at  this  juncture  critical  with  respect  to  his  family  disorders.  The 
Parliament  who  meet  the  24^  inst  will  be  opened  by  Commission,  by  reason 
of  the  deep  mourning  the  King  is  still  in,  which  it  is  said  exceeds  that  of 
Common  Widowers. 

London  Jan  28**^  1737:8 
My  Dear  daughter 

I  received  your  letter  of  the  25*^  of  last  month  the  26***  inst.  and  how 
refreshing  every  line  was  to  me  at  this  distance  from  you  you'll  perceive 
best  when  this  comes  to  hand  which  I  am  sure  when  you  receive  it  will  be 
very  pleasant  to  so  dutiful  and  affectionate  a  child  from  so  loving  and  ten- 
der a  Father. 

•  Annnls  of  the  town  of  Dorchester,  by  James  Blake. 

f  Caroline,  wife  to  George  II.,  died  suddenly  Nov.  20, 1787,  aged  64. 


1884.]  Memoir  of  Edmund  Quincy.  155 

I  have  written  on  my  arrival  here  and  so  has  Josiah  yia.  New  York,  but 
lest  that  shoold  fail  would  again  write  this  first  opportunity  of  a  direct  Con- 
Tejanoe  to  Boston  to  let  you  know  we  arrived  safe  at  Dover  14***  day  of 

January From  Dover  16'*^  we  went  in  coach  toward  London,  where 

after  a  safe  and  pleasant  journey  we  arrived  in  health  Tuesday  evening  the 
19^  at  Mr  Wilks  and  were  courteously  received  and  lodged  till  the  27^ 
when  we  took  lodgings  with  one  Nicholas  Lewis  warden  of  St.  Antoline 
Parish,  Cheapside  in  Queen  St  London,  where  our  letters  from  New  Eng- 
land are  to  be  directed. 

This  is  a  strange  new  world  Pm  got  into  and  will  appear  more  so  when 

I  can  safely  look  about  me  I'm  well  assured 

Your  most  tender  and  affectionate  father, 

Edmund  Quinct. 

According  to  the  design  expressed  in  this  letter,  he  was  soon  after 
inoculated.  The  hopes  of  his  friends  were  of  short  duration,  and 
the  disease  terminated  fatally  on  the  morning  of  the  23d  of  Februa- 
ry, 1737—8.  Viewing  death  with  fortitude  and  resignation,  he  expir- 
ed while  in  prayer  for  his  native  country.  Josiah  Quincy  sent  to  his 
brother  Edmund  the  following  account  of  their  father's  funeral : 

London,  March  2,  1737 
Dear  Brother, 

I  wrote  to  you  a  few  days  since  per  Captain  Morris,  in  which  I  gave 
you  the  melancholy  news  of  our  dear  Father's  death,  an  affliction  almost 
insupportable  to  me  I  but  I  find  myself  surrounded  with  a  great  many  sin- 
cere good  friends,  especially  in  good  Coz.  Phillips's  family  where  I  now 
lodge,  and  by  whom  I  am  treated  more  like  a  brother  than  a  stranger, 
which  demands  our  most  grateful  acknowledgments. 

Our  dear  father's  corpse,  the  evening  after  his  death  was  removed  from 
his  lodgings  in  Q  street  (by  order  of  Mr.  Wilks)  to  Upholders  hall,  in 
Leadeuhall  street,  from  whence  the  next  Sunday  evening  he  was  carried 
in  a  Hearse  drawn  by  six  horses  to  a  burying  place  called  Bunhill  fields, 
where  he  was  interred  in  a  spot  of  ground  belonging  to  mr  Phillips's  fami- 
ly :  before  the  Hearse  went  3  Mourning  Coaches  with  the  6  supporters  of 
tLe  Pall,  who  were  Mr.  Bendien  and  Mr.  Sauford,  Mr.  Yeamans  and  Mr. 
Newman,  Mr.  Burreau  and  Mr.  Lyde.  and  was  followed  by  14  Mourning 
Coaches  and  2  Chariots  filled  with  Gent"  that  were  invited  to  the  funeral. 
Over  his  grave  Mr  Denham  (a  dissenting  clergyman)  made  a  speech  proper 
to  the  occasion,  a  copy  of  which  Mr.  Newman  has  desired  me  to  get,  and 

if  I  can  obtain  it  he  will  print  it I  again  and  again  recommend  you 

and  yours  (among  whom  I  include  my  own  under  your  care)   to  the  bless- 
ing and  protection  of  God 

Your  most  affec*  &  Lov*  B' 

Josiah  Quinct. 

The  news  of  his  death  was  received  with  the  deepest  afiSiction, 
not  only  by  his  own  family  and  town,  but  by  the  whole  province. 
He  died  in  the  service  of  his  country,  and  was  lamented  by  all 
ranks  and  orders  of  people  as  a  great  and  irreparable  loss  to  the 


156  Memoir  of  JEdmund  Quincy.  [April, 

The  General  Court  of  Massachusetts,  as  a  testimony  of  their  love 
and  gratitude,  gave  to  his  heirs  a  thousand  acres  of  land  in  the 
town  of  Lenox,  and  caused  a  monument  to  be  erected  Over  his  grave 
in  Bunhill  fields,  London,  with  the  following  Latin  inscription : 

Edmundi  Quincj  Armigeri,  patria  Nov-Angli  Massachasettensis,  viri 
pietate,  piudeiitiu.  et  bonis  literis,  spectati  hie  depositee  sunt  reliquiae. 

Qui  variis  ab  ineunte  setate  Muneribus  in  Re  tarn  civili,  quam  militari  a 
suis  sibi  commissis  (his  praesertim  Regi  a  Conciliis,  Gurise  Supremse  Jadica- 
toriae  Justiciarii,  et  Militum  Tribuni^  summa  Facultate,  et  spectata  Fide 
Functus,  Laudem  merito  adeptus  est. 

Re  Patrias  suae  publica  postulante  ad  aulam  Britannicam  legatos  est  pro- 
fectus,  ut  Jura  suorum  et  commoda  procuraret. 

Variolis  Arreptus,  morte  praematura  obiit,  et  cum  eo  Emolumenta,  qiUB 
in  ejus  legatione,  summa  cum  spe  reposita  erant,  omnibus  suis  popularibos 
penitus  desiderabilis,  decessit,  at  nulHs  magis  quam  Patrio  Senatui,  qui  in 
Amoris  Testimonium  et  gratitudinis,  ejus  Tumulo  hoc  epitaphium  inscribi 
curaverunt.     Obiit  Londoni,  28  Feb.  1737  aet  57.* 

As  a  judge  he  maintained  an  unblemished  reputation  for  wisdom, 
virtue  and  probity ;  diligent  in  attending  his  duty  and  supporting 
by  his  wise  and  grave  deportment  the  dignity  of  that  bench.  His 
opinions  were  highly  valued  and  approved  by  the  court,  and  the 
greatest  deference  universally  paid  to  him  as  a  righteous  judge  for 
nineteen  years.  In  the  private  relations  of  life  his  character  was 
marked  by  every  social  virtue.  In  all  his  public  employments  he 
seemed  to  act  upon  principles  of  justice  and  honor,  upon  the  truest 
and  safest  maxims,  f 

Many  of  the  descendants  of  Edmund  Quincy  were  eminent  in  the 
public  service.  Several  obtained  the  highest  rank  in  the  profession 
of  law  and  medicine ;  others  were  leaders  in  the  conflict  of  the  Rev- 
olution, and  subsequently  in  the  establishment  of  manufactures  in 
Massachusetts  and  the  foundation  of  the  town  of  Lowell.  Those 
whose  names  are  most  familiar  to  the  public  in  1883  are  Oliver 
Wendell  Holmes,  and  John  Lowell  the  founder  of  the  Lowell 
Institute. 

NoTS. — Smibert  painted  two  portraitH  of  Edmund  Quincy  in  his  official  drew.  TIm 
one  inherited  by  President  Quincy  has  been  placed  for  safe  keeping  in  the  Art  Ma- 
«eum  in  Bonton  ;  the  other  became  the  property  of  his  daughter. Dorothy,  and  was 
given  by  her  H()n  Jonathan  Jackson,  in  1810,  to  ICdmund  Quincy,  the  youngest  son 
of  President  Quincy.    It  was  much  injured  by  the  British. 

*  Here  nre  deposited  the  remains  of  Edmund  Quincy,  Esq.,  native  of  the  Massachusetti 
Bay,  in  New  Kn^lnmi,  a  man  of  distingai8bed  piety,  pradence  and  learning.  Entm^tedl^ 
his  coantry  with  many  important  offices,  he  early  merited  praise,  for  discharging  with  tho 
greatest  ability  and  approved  integrity  various  employments,  both  civil  and  military,  par* 
ticularly  as  one  of  his  Majesty's  Council,  a  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  and  the  Colonel  of 
a  Regiment.  To  secure  the  rights  and  privileges  of  his  countrymen  he  embarked  as  ibeir 
agent  to  tho  Court  of  Great  Britain.  Being  seized  with  the  small-pox  he  died  a  premature 
death,  and  wit'i  him  the  advantages  expected  from  his  agency  with  the  greatest  prospect 
of  success.  He  departed  tho  delight  of  his  own  people,  but  of  none  more  than  the  Senate* 
who  as  a  testitnony  of  their  love  and  gratitude  have  ordered  this  Epitaph  to  be  inscribed 
on  his  monument.    He  died  at  London,  Feb.  23,  1737|  in  the  57th  year  of  his  age. 

t  Hancock's  funeral  sermon,  Braintree,  1738. 


1884.]  liongmeadov)  Families.  157 


LON6MEADOW  (MASS.)  FAMILIES. 

Commmiicated  bj  Willard  S.  Allen,  A.M.,  of  East  Boston,  Mass. 

[Contbmed  flrom  page  40.] 

SlMins  Families  in  Springfield  and  Longmeadow. 

IST  Gkksration.  Rowland  Stebbins,  as  far  as  known,  is  supposed  to 
have  been  tbe  ancestor  of  all  of  his  name  in  New  England.  He  came  to 
Boxbary  and  from  thence  to  Springfield.  Probably  he  removed  to  North- 
ampton, as  his  death  is  recorded  in  that  town.  He  died  Dec.  14,  1671. 
By  the  records  it  appears  that  Lawrence  Bliss  came  into  possession  of 
his'home  lot  in  Springfield.  Thomas  and  John  were  his  sons.  Thomas 
settled  in  Springfield,  and  his  and  some  of  his  descendants'  families 
are  hereafter  entered,  John  Stebbins  married  and  had  children  there. 
He  removed  to  Northampton  and  died  March  7,  1678.  Elizabeth  Stebbins, 
probable  daughter  of  Rowland,  was  married  March  2,  1647,  to  John  Clark. 
Sarah  Stebbins,  probably  another  daughter,  was  married  to  Thomas  Mer- 
rick, Nov.  14,  1689.  Sarah  the  wife  of  Rowland  Stebbins  died  Oct.  4, 
1649. 

2d  Greneration.  Lieut.  Thomas  Stebbins,  of  Springfield,  eon  of  Row- 
land Stebbins,  was  married  Nov.  1645,  to  Hannah  Wright.  Their  child- 
ren— Samuel,  born  Sept.  19,  1646,  died  July  18,  1708.  Thomas,  born 
July  31,  1648,  died  Dec  29,  1705.  Joseph,  born  Oct.  24,  1652,  died  Oct. 
15,  1728.  Sarah,  born  Aag.  18,  1654,  died  Nov.  6,  1721.  Edward,  born 
April  14,  1656,  died  Oct  31,  1712.  Benjamin,  born  April  11,  1658. 
Rowland,  born  Oct.  2,  1660,  died  Oct.  24,  1661.  Hannah,  born  Oct  1, 
1660.  Hannah  the  mother  died  Oct  16,  1660.  Lieut.  Thomas  Stebbins 
was  married  to  Abigail  Mun,  Dec.  14,  1676,  and  died  Sept  5,  1683.  The 
fiunilies  of  the  sons,  see  hereafter.  Sarah  the  daughter  was  married  Jan.^ 
2,  1672,  to  Samuel  Bliss,  of  Longmeadow. 

3d  Generation.     Samuel  Stebbins,  of  Longmeadow,  son  of  Thomas  and. 
Hannah  Stebbins  above,  was  married  July  22,  1679,  to  Joanna  Lamb,, 
daughter  of  John  and  Joanna  Lamb.     Their  children — Thomas,  born  Dec. 
26,  1681,  died  Jan.  3,  1682.     Samuel,  born  May  13,  1683,  and  died  June 
17,  1767.     Joanna  the  mother  died  Aug.  8,  1683.     Samuel  Stebbins  the^ 
father  was  married  again  Dec.  10,  1685,  to  Abigail  Brooks,  daughter  of 
William  and  Mary  Brooks.     Their  children — Johu,  bom  Feb.  13,  1686. 
Ebenezer,  bom  Nov.  30,  1688.     William,  born  July  27,  1693,  died  Oct 
80,  1776.     Abigail,  born  Nov.  30,  1695.     Joanna,  born  March  4,  1697.. 
Thomas,  bom  Aag.  10,   1698.     Benjamin,  born  Dea  10,  1700.     Mercy, 
bom  Jan.  19,  1705,  died  Aug.  4,  1780.     The  famUies  of  Samuel  and  Wil- 
liam, see  page  198.     John  and  Thomas  settled  in  Brimfield.     Samuel  the 
lather  died  July  13,  1708.     Abigail  the  mother  died  March  13,  1754.  She 
was  bom  Jan.  25,  1666.     Abigail  the  daughter  was  married  Aug.  1,  1717, 
to  John  Hitchcock,  son  of  John  and  Mary  Hitchcock.     Joanna  was  mar- 
ried May  31,  1720,  to  Mathew  Noble,  of  Westfield.    Mercy  [Page  197] 
was  married  Dec  22,  1726,  to  Lieut  John  Col  ton,  of  Longmeadow. 

drd  Greneration.  Thomas  Stebbins,  of  Springfield,  sou  of  Lieut  Tho- 
mas and  Hannah  Stebbins,  was  married  Dec.  21,  1672,  to  Abigail  Mun. 
Their  children— Thomas,  born  Jan.  28,  1673,  died  March  20,  1675.    Abir 

VOL.  xxxvin.  15 


158  Longmeadow  Families.  [April, 

gail,  born  May  27,  1675,  died  March  15,  1692.  Hannah,  born  Dec  29, 
1677,  died  Jan.  10,  1698.  Hannah,  born  Dec.  22,  1680.  Thomas,  born 
Nov.  30,  1682,  died  Sept.  9,  1684.  Sarah,  born  April  17,  1686.  Mary, 
bom  Dec.  1,  1688.  Abigail  the  mother  died  Feb.  6,  1692.  Thomas  the 
father  died  Dec.  7,  1695. 

3rd  Generation.  Joseph  Stebbins,  of  Springfield,  son  of  Lieut.  Thomas 
and  Hannah  Stebbins,  was  married  Nov.  27,  1673,  to  Sarah  Dorchester, 
daughter  of  Anthony  Dorchester.  Their  children — Joseph,  born  Oct.  7, 
1674,  drowned  Sept.  29,  1722.  Benjamin,  born  Jan.  23,  1676.  Thomas, 
born  July  13,  1679,  died  June  29,  1713.  John,  born  Sept.  22,  1681,  died 
Nov.  11,  1686.  Mehitable,  born  Nov.  27,  1683,  married  Jonathan  Strong. 
Ebenezer,  born  June  8,  1686.  Sarah,  born  June  8,  1688,  married  David 
Chapin.  John,  born  Nov.  8,  1690.  Hannah,  born  Nov.  9,  1692.  Mar- 
tha, born  June  28,  1697.  Mehitable  was  married  Nov.  21,  1705,  to  Jona- 
than Strong  of  Northampton.  Sarah  was  married  Nov.  21,  1705,  to  David 
Chapin,  of  Springfield.     Joseph  Stebbins  the  father  died  Oct.  15,  1728. 

3rd  Generation,  Edward  Stebbins,  of  Springfield,  son  of  Thomas  and 
Hannah  Stebbins,  was  married  April,  1679,  to  Sarah  Graves.  Their  child- 
dren — Sarah,  born  Feb.  20,  1681.  Thomas,  born  Oct.  1685,  died  Jan.  31, 
1686.  Thomas,  born  March  7,  1687.  Mary,  born  Sept.  1 1,  1689.  John, 
born  Jan.  10,  1692.  Mary,  born  June  2,  1695,  died  April,  1698.  Sarah 
the  mother  died  June  12,  1700.  Edward  Stebbins  was  married  again,  Oct. 
18,  1701,  to  Mary  Colton,  widow  of  Isaac  Colton,  and  he  died  Oct.  31, 
1712.  She  died  at  her  son  George  Col  ton's  in  Longmeadow,  August  30, 
1743,  age  91.  Edward  Stebbins,  early  in  the  spring  of  1676,  was  taken 
by  the  Indians  at  Longmeadow  while  he  was  with  Samuel  Bliss,  his  bro- 
ther-in-law, and  he  was  carried  to  the  falls  above  Deerfield,  and  with  a 
youth  named  Gilbert  made  his  escape  from  the  Indians  and  gave  informa- 
tion of  their  place  of  residence,  whereupon  the  English  went  and  destroyed 
three  hundred  or  more  of  them.     \_Page  198.] 

3rd  Generation.  Benjamin  Stebbins,  of  West  Springfield,  son  of  Lieut 
Thomas  and  Hannah  Stebbins,  was  married  Oct.  9,  1682,  to  Abigail  Den- 
ton. Their  child  Abigail,  born  Oct.  29,  1685.  Abigail  the  mother  died 
Aug.  24,  1689.  Benjamin  Stebbins  was  married  May  8,  1701,  to  widow 
Martha  Ball.  Their  children — Benjamin,  born  March  8,  1702.  Francis, 
born  Nov.  19,  1703.  Martha,  born  Nov.  14,  1705.  Miriam,  born  Oct.  8,. 
1707.     Mary,  l)orn  June  25,  1713.     Mercy,  born  July  24,  1715. 

4th  Generation.  Samuel  Stebbins,  of  Longmeadow,  son  of  Samuel  and 
Joanna  Stebbins,  was  married  Jan.  30,  1707,  to  Hannah  Hitchcock,  daugh- 
ter of  Luke  Hitchcock,  Esq.,  and  Sarah  his  wife.  Their  children — Samuel, 
born  June  19,  1708,  died  Feb.  10,  1754.  Jonathan,  born  Oct.  24,  1709, 
died  July  11,  1788.  Stephen,  born  Oct.  16,  1711,  died  Feb.  26,  1768. 
Hannah,  born  June  10,  1713.  Aaron,  born  Feb.  20,  1715,  died  May  15, 
1808.  Joanna,  born  Nov.  1,  1716,  died  Sept.  23,  1800.  Moses,  boru  Dec. 
4,  1718.  Luke,  born  Jan.  28, 1722.  Sarah,  bom  Nov.  8,  1725,  died  Nov. 
25,  1725.  Nehemiah,  born  April  14,  1727.  Thankful,  born  March  4, 
1730,  died  Oct.  23,  1733.  The  families  of  the  sons,  see  in  pages  199,  200 
and  201.  Hannah  the  daughter  was  married  Jan.  13,  1736,  to  Moses  Par- 
sons, of  Enfield.  Joanna  was  married  Jan.  31,  1740,  to  James  Firman,  of 
Enfield.  Hannah  Stebbins  the  mother  died  May  24,  1756.  Samuel  Steb- 
bins the  father  was  marrie<l  again  Jan.  3,  1758,  to  Sarah  Allin.  She  died 
Feb.  26,  1763,  and  he  died  June  17,  1767,  and  was  buried  at  the  time  of 
raising  the  meeting-house. 


1884.]  Longmeadow  Families,  159 

4th  Generation.  Lieut.  William  Stebbins,  of  Longmeadow,  son  of  Sam- 
uel and  Abigail  Stebbins,  was  married  March  15,  1716,  to  Mercy  Knowi- 
ton,  of  Springfield.     Their  children  as  found  on  record  were — Benjamin, 

died  Dec  4,  1718.    Mercy,  died  June  11,  1720.     William,  born ,  died 

March  29,  1725.  William,  born  April  22,  1726,  died  April  20,  1797. 
Ruth,  born  July  26,  1728,  died  Aug.  16,  1728.  Ezra,  born  Aug.  16,  1731, 
died  Feb.  5, 1796.  Zadock,  bom  Nov.  10,  1732,  died  Nov.  10, 1732.  Mercy, 
died  Jan.  15,  1743.  Mercy  the  mother  died  March  3,  1751.  Lieut  Wil- 
liam Stebbins  was  married  again  in  1754  to  the  widow  Thankful  Pond,  of 
Northford,  a  parish  in  the  town  of  Branford.  He  died  Oct.  30,  1776, 
and  she  returned  to  her  children  in  Connecticut.  The  families  of  William 
and  Ezra  the  sons  see  in  pages  201  and  202.     \^Page  199.] 

5th  Generation.  Samuel  Stebbins,  of  Wilbraham,  sou  of  Samuel  and 
Hannah  Stebbins,  was  married  March  22,  1734,  to  Mary  Knowlton,  of 
Springfield.  Their  children — Mary,  born  Aug.  23,  1735,  died  Aug.  27, 
1742.  Seth,  born  January  8,  1739,  died  September  1,  1742.  'rliank- 
fiil,  bom  February  14,  1737.  Noah,  born  October  13,  1741.  Mary, 
bom  March  25,  1744.  Mercy,  born  Feb.  12,  1747.  Mary  the  mother 
died  Aog.  22,  1750,  at  Longmeadow.  Samuel  Stebbins  the  father  was 
married  again,  Nov.  18, 1750,  to  the  widow  Sarah  Jones,  daughter  of  Dea- 
con James  Wood,  of  Somers.  Their  children — Samuel,  born  Sept.  8,  1751. 
Seth,  bom  July  17,  1753,  died  July  27,  1753.  Samuel  Stebbins  the  father 
died  at  'Somers,  Feb.  10,  1754.  Thankful  was  married  May  5,  1757,  to 
Paul  Langdon,  of  Wilbraham.  Mary  was  married  April  21,  1763,  to  Enos 
Stebbins,  son  of  Jonathan  Stebbins,  of  Longmeadow.  They  settled  in 
Wilbraham. 

5th  Generation.  Jonathan  Stebbins,  of  Longmeadow,  son  of  Samuel 
and  Hannah  Stebbins,  was  married  Dec.  11, 1735,  to  Margaret  Bliss,  daugh- 
ter of  Thomas  and  Sarah  Bliss.  Their  children — »Tonathan,  born  Sept. 
28,  1736,  died  Dec.  7,  1762.  Bliss,  born  May  30,  1738.  Enos,  born  July 
26,  1740.  Margaret,  born  Aug.  28,  1741,  died  Oct.  6,  1807.  Eunice, 
bora  Nov.  25,  1742,  died  May  2,  1786.  Ann,  born  Feb.  8,  1744,  died  April 
17,  1787.  Margaret  the  mother  died  June  16,  1744.  Jonathan  Stebbins 
was  married  again,  Oct.  18,  1745,  to  Sarah  Mosley,  of  Westfield.  She 
had  one  child  stillborn,  Nov.  14,  1746,  and  died  Nov.  29,  1746.  Jonathan 
Stebbins  was  married  again,  Nov.  5,  1747,  to  Abigail  Hale,  daughter  of 
John  and  Thankful  Hale,  of  West  Springfield.  She  was  born  Jan.  18, 
1721.  Their  children— Abigail,  born  Oct.  29,  1748,  died  June  4,  1811. 
Medad,  born  Feb.  4,  1751,  died  Sept.  9,  1804.  Sarah,  born  March  22, 
1752,  died  June  2,  1754.  Sarah,  born  Sept.  16,  1754.  Rhoda,  born  July 
15,  1756,  died  Oct.  9,  1756.  Lewis,  born  Jan.  10,  1758,  died  Oct.  9,  1758. 
Rhoda,  bora  July  16,  1759.  Lewis,  born  March  22,  1761,  died  June  15, 
1778.  The  sons  Enos  and  Medad  had  families.  Margaret  was  married 
May  12,  1765,  to  Noah  Stebbins.  Eunice  was  married  Nov.  27,  1766,  to 
Enoch  Burt.  Ann  was  married  Feb.  3,  1774,  to  Thomas  Hale.  Abigail 
was  married  Feb.  15,  1770,  to  Moses  Bartlett,  of  Wilbraham.  Sarah  was 
married  May  1,  1781,  to  Robert  Silcock.  Rhoda  was  married  Oct.  6, 
1784,  to  John  Robinson,  of  Granville.  Jonathan  died  at  New  York  on 
his  return  from  Havanna,  Dec.  7,  1762.  Bliss  received  part  of  a  college 
e<]ucation,  and  die<l  a  common  stroller.  Jonathan  Stebbins  the  father  died 
Jiilv  11,  1788.  Abigail  the  mother  died  May  1,  1812,  age  91  years  Jan. 
29,"past.     [Page  200.] 

[To  be  con  tinned.] 


1 60  The  Family  of  Baldwin.  [April, 


REPORT  OF  INVESTIGATIONS  CONCERNING  THE 

FAMILY  OF  BALDWIN,  OF  ASTON 

CLINTON,  CO.  BUCKS. 

By  the  late  Col.  Josbpb  L.  Chestbb,  D.CL  ,  LL.D.,  of  London,  Eng. 

THE  following  '^  Report  of  Investigations  concerning  the  Fami- 
ly of  Baldwin,  of  Aston  Clinton,  co.  Bucks,'*  was  sent  to  me 
by  Col.  Chester  shortly  before  his  death,  and  it  was  his  desire  that 
I  should  offer  it  to  the  Register  for  publication.  It  corrects  many 
very  inexcusable  blunders  in  the  pedigree  given  in  ^  Notes  on  Ae 
Baldwin  Family,"  for  which  Miss  Bainbridge  is  responsible,  which 
appeared  in  Register,  xxvi.  295.  Free  use  has  been  made  of  Col. 
Chester's  report  by  Mr.  C.  C.  Baldwin,  of  Cleveland,  in  his  "Bald- 
win Genealogy,"  published  about  two  years  ago,  but  it  has  never 
been  printed  in  a  completed  form. 

The  very  undeserved  credit  given  to  me  in  the  preface  to  Mr.  C. 
C.  Baldwin's  volume  for  these  investigations  concerning  the  early 
history  of  the  family  in  England,  should  have  been  given  to  Col. 
Chester.  G.  W.  Baldwin. 

Boston,  Mass. 

That  the  name  of  Baldwin,  in  various  orthographical  forms,  was  preva- 
lent in  the  county  of  Buckingham,  from  a  very  early  period,  and  especially 
in  the  neighborhood  of  Aylesbary,  is  evident  from  its  appearance  in  an- 
cient records.  The  recurrence  of  it,  however,  is  at  such  rare  intervals,  and 
under  such  circumstances,  that  it  has  been  impossible  to  connect  the  vari- 
ous persons  mentioned,  or  to  establish  the  relationship  of  the  earliest  known 
Baldwins  of  Aston  Clinton  with  those  of  other  parts  of  the  county.  Al- 
though occasionally  one  of  the  name  elevated  himself  to  a  position  suffi- 
ciently prominent  to  leave  a  trace  of  his  existence  in  the  public  records,  it 
may  be  safely  assumed  that  the  great  majority  of  the  race  were  of  a  social 
rank  below  that  of  the  country  genty.  No  better  proof  of  this  can  be  re- 
quired than  the  single  fact  that  among  all  the  Inquisitions />oi/ morfem,  from 
their  institution  in  the  year  1340  down  to  the  year  1600,  there  are  but  two 
which  relate  to  the  Baldwins  of  Bucks.  One  of  these  is  that  of  Richard 
Baldwin,  who  died  21  Sept.  1485,  leaving  his  brother  John,  then  in  his  sev- 
enteenth year,  his  heir.  He  held  in  socage  of  the  king  the  manor  of  Otter- 
arsfee  in  Aylesbury,  probably  a  manor  so  small  that  it  was  long  since  ab- 
sorbed by  some  larger  one,  as  no  further  trace  of  it  can  be  discovered.  The 
other  Inquisition  is  that  of  the  well  known  Sir  John  Baldwin,  Chief  Jus- 
tice of  the  Common  Pleas,  who  died  24  Oct.  1545,  leaving  no  male  issue 
surviving.  He  was  unquestionably  the  most  eminent  Buckinghamshire 
Baldwin  down  to  the  end  of  the  sixteenth  century. 

The  earliest  Baldwin  will  preserved  in  the  Prerogative  Court  of  Canter- 
bury, in  which  court  the  great  bulk  of  the  wills  of  the  whole  country  were 
proved,  and  whose  records  commence  in  1883,  is  that  of  John  Baldewyn, 
which  was  dated  the  2d  of  June  and  proved  the  2l8t  of  July,  1469,  by  his 
relict  Edith.    The  will  (which  is  short  and  in  Latin)  contains  the  usual 


1884.]  The  Family  of  Baldwin.  161 

religious  bequests  of  the  period,  and  charges  his  estate  with  twenty  marks 
per  aDDum  as  an  annuity  for  his  widow,  who  of  course  also  had  his  person- 
alty. He  evidently  died  childless,  as  he  bequeathed  all  his  lands  and  ten- 
ements in  the  county  of  Bucks  to  his  brother  William.  He  was,  therefore, 
evidently  one  of  the  Buckinghamshire  Baldwins,  but  there  is  no  trace  of 
his  ancestry  obtainable,  and  nothing  can  be  discovered  of  his  brother  Wil- 
liam. This  John  Baldwin  was  a  member  of  Grav's  Inn,  and  held  the  office 
of  Common  Serjeant  of  London,  which  office  still  exists.  He  was  buried, 
as  he  directed,  in  the  Church  of  the  Grey  Friars  in  London,  whose  site  is 
now  occupied  by  the  well  known  Christ's  Hospital,  better  known  as  the 
**  Blue  Coat  School."  (In  the  Messrs.  Nichols's  '*  Collectanea  Topograph- 
ica  et  Genealogica,"  Vol.  V.  page  288,  the  date  of  his  death,  probably  by 
an  error  in  transcribing,  is  wrongly  given  as  10  April,  1469.  It  will  be 
seen  that  his  will  was  not  made  until  the  2d  of  June  in  that  year.) 

In  the  local  Registry  of  the  Archdeaconry  of  Bucks,  the  earliest  Bald- 
win will  is  of  the  date  of  1522.  (There  is,  however,  the  record  of  probate 
of  the  will  of  a  John  Baldwin  in  1483,  but  it  does  not  give  even  his  resi- 
dence, and  unfortunately  the  will  itself  is  not  recorded.)  Thomas  Bawde- 
wyn,  of  the  farm  of  Wendover,  made  his  will  on  the  7th  of  May,  1522, 
and  it  was  proved  on  the  15th  of  the  same  month  by  his  relict  Joane.  He 
directed  to  be  buried  in  the  church  yard.  He  left  £6  to  his  son  John,  and 
£4  to  his  daughter  Agnes,  their  mother  to  have  the  control  of  it  till  they 
were  sixteen  years  old,  but,  in  case  she  married  again,  then  his  father  Ro- 
bert Bawdewyn,  and  her  father  John  Gynger,  were  to  receive  it  for  his 
childrens'  use.     There  is  nothing  else  in  the  will. 

Let  me  state  here  that  in  pursuing  my  investigations  I  have  taken  full 
abstracts  of  every  Baldwin  will,  and  record  of  administration,  existing  in 
the  two  Registries  named,  beyond  which  it  would  be  useless  to  go,  as  the 
wills  of  Buckinghamshire  people  were  proved  in  one  of  these  courts.  I 
have  also  examined  every  reference  to  the  name  at  the  Public  Record 
Office,  and  obtained  all  there  is  to  be  had  from  the  Patent  Rolls,  Fines, 
Subsidies,  Inquisitions,  Chancery  Proceedings,  &c.  &c.  I  have  also  visited 
Aston  Clinton,  and  obtained  every  entry  of  the  name  of  Baldwin  from  the 
Parish  Registers.  And,  finally,  I  have  exhausted  my  own  extensive  pri- 
vate genealogical  collections,  the  accumulation  of  twenty  years'  incessant 
and  laborious  research.  Of  course,  I  have  acquired  a  vast  amount  of  ma- 
terial respecting  the  Baldwins  generally  that  can  be  of  no  possible  use  in  the 
present  inquiry.  I  have  carefully  separated  the  chaff  from  the  wheat,  and 
the  following  pages  will  be  exclusively  confined  to  the  descent  of  the  Aston 
Clinton  line.  I  have  only  to  add  that,  as  I  shall  give  my  authority  for 
every  statement  made,  the  entire  account  may  be  unhesitatingly  relied  upon. 
I  may  as  well  say  at  once  that  the  early  portion  of  the  pedigree,  printed 
in  the  N.  E.  Hist,  and  Gen.  Rkgisteb,  July,  1872,  vol.  xxvi.  page  294,  is 
entirely  erroneous.  My  pedigree,  as  will  be  seen  hereafter,  will  commence 
with  two  brothers,  Richard  and  John  Baldwin.  Henry  Baldwin  of  Dun- 
dridge,  with  his  brother  John  and  sister  Lettice  Foster,  named  in  the  pedi- 
gree in  the  Register,  were  children  of  this  Richard,  and  not  of  Sylvester, 
son  of  John.  Of  the  first  two  generations  as  given  in  the  pedigree  in  the 
Register,  I  have  only  to  say  that  I  can  find  no  record  of  a  subsidy  being 
paid  by  John  Baldwin  on  the  manor  of  Otterarsfee  in  1542,  and  no  deed  of 
1546,  or  of  any  other  date,  by  which  he  gave  lands  to- his  son  Sylvester  on 
his  marriage  with  Sarah  Gelly.  If  any  such  records  ever  existed,  they  do 
not  exist  now,  at  all  events  in  the  only  places  where  they  alone  should  be 
TOL.  xxxviii«         15*  . 


162  The  Family  of  Baldwin.  [April, 

found.  The  taxes  on  the  manor  of  Dundridge  were  not  paid  in  1579  bj 
Sylvester  Baldwin  and  his  son  Henry,  as  this  pedigree  states,  but  by  Henry 
and  Richard  Baldwin,  most  probably  father  and  son,  who,  as  will  be  pre- 
sently seen,  had  recently  become  the  possessors  of  it.  No  Sylvester  Bald- 
win died  at  Aston  Clinton  in  1593,  but  one  was  buried  there  in  1592,  and 
will  be  found  in  his  proper  place  in  the  ensuing  narrative.  Without  at- 
tempting to  account  for  these  extraordinary  errors — the  more  extraordina- 
ry because,  as  will  be  seen  hereafter,  they  were  entirely  unnecessary — ^I 
leave  the  forthcoming  facts  to  rectify  them. 

There  is  no  apparent  reason  why  the  John  Baldwin  named  in  the  Inqui- 
sition post  mortem  of  Richard  Baldwin  in  1485  as  his  brother  and  heir,  may 
not  have  been  the  father  of  Richard  and  John  who  commence  the  new  ped- 
igree. The  recurrence  of  the  same  christian  names  is  suggestive,  and,  as 
this  John  was  born  in  1469,  he  may  reasonably  have  been  father  of  sons 
dying  in  1553  and  1565.  It  would,  however,  be  unsafe  to  assume  it  mere- 
ly on  the  strength  of  the  christian  names,  for  those  of  Richard  and  Joha 
appear  to  have  been  common  in  every  family  of  the  name  in  Bucks,  and  I 
have  not  been  able  to  find  any  trace  of  this  John  after  the  date  of  the  In- 
quisition. On  the  other  hand,  I  do  find  in  a  Subsidy  Roll  of  the  reign  of 
King  Henry  YIII.,  but  the  date  of  which  is  unfortunately  gone,  a  Robert 
Baldwin  of  Aston  Clinton,  assessed  at  £13,  from  £8  of  which  he  was  re- 
lieved on  account  of  the  marriage  of  his  son,  and  also  a  Richard  Baldwin 
of  the  same  place,  assessed  at  40  shillings.  If  we  could  but  be  certain  that 
these  two  assessments  applied  to  father  and  son,  I  think  we  might  be  pret- 
ty safe  in  carrying  our  pedigree  a  generation  farther  back.  But  this  Ro- 
bert Baldwin  left  no  will,  and  I  can  discover  nothing  more  of  him.  I  pre- 
fer, therefore,  to  commence  the  new  pedigree  with  the  two  brothers,  Rich- 
ard and  John,  concerning  whom  the  testimony  is  positive,  leaving  the  pos- 
sible identification  of  their  progenitors,  as  it  must  be  left,  to  the  chance  of 
accident,  perhaps  by  some  lucky  reference  in  the  wills  or  other  records  of 
the  families  with  which  they  intermarried.  Richard  was  evidently  the 
eldest  of  the  two  brothers,  for  which  reason,  and  also  because  his  line 
were  the  possessors  of  Dundridge  for  several  generations,  I  shall  at  first 
pursue  their  history  without  interruption,  and  then  return  to  the  line  of 
John.  In  each  case  I  will  distinguish  the  different  generations  by  Roman 
numerals. 

I.  Richard  Baldwin,  described  as  of  *'  Donrigge,'*  in  the  parish  of 
Aston  Clinton,  co.  Bucks,  yeoman,  made  his  will  16  Jan.  6  £dw.  YL 
[1552-3].  In  the  body  of  the  will  the  name  is  indifferently  spelt 
**  Bawldwyn  "  and  "  Baldwyn,"  but,  as  the  record  is  a  copy  of  the 
will,  and  has  not  his  signature,  it  is  impossible  to  say  how  he  may 
have  signed  his  name.  The  following  is  a  complete  abstract  of  the 
will,  nothing  being  omitted,  as  in  all  cases,  except  the  useless 
verbiage : 

To  be  buried  in  the  church-yard  of  Aston  Clinton — to  Alis  my 
daughter  20  marks  when  married — to  Agnes  my  daughter  £12  when 
19  and  to  Cicelly  and  Letise  my  daughters  each  £10.  when  19 — to 
John  my  son  my  farm  at  Dongrove  in  the  parish  of  Chesham,  when 
23,  but,  if  he  die  before  that  age,  then  the  same  to  Henry  my  son 
— to  Richard  my  son  my  tenth  in  Cholsbury  and  the  lands  belong- 
ing thereto,  when  23 — to  EUyn  my  wife  and  Henry  my  son  the  rents 
.of  my  said  houses  &  lands  towards  bringing  up  my  children — to 


1884.  ]  The  Family  of  Baldwin.  1 68 

Henghe  Baldwyn  my  brother's  son,  £6. 13'  4^ — small  bequests  to 
goddbildren,  tenants  &  servants — ^to  Henry  my  son  10  silver  spoons 
and  a  maser — the  residue  of  all  personalty  to  EUyn  my  wife  &  Hen- 
ry my  son  equally,  &  they  to  be  my  executors— overseers  of  my 
will,  my  brothers  John  BsJdwyn  &  John  Apuke. 

This  will  was  proved  in  the  Court  of  the  Archdeaconry  of  Bucks, 
21  Feb.  1552-3,  by  the  relict  Ellen  and  the  son  Henry  Baldwin,  the 
executors  named. 

The  original  will  of  the  widow  Ellen  is  among  the  records  of  the 
Court  of  Uie  Archdeaconry  of  Bucks,  but  the  probate  act  is  miss- 
ing, so  that  it  is  impossible  to  determine  exactly  when  it  was  proved, 
and  thus  obtain  the  approximate  date  of  her  death.  The  date  is  the 
24th  of  some  month  [the  paper  just  here  eaten  or  torn  away]  in  the 
8th  year  of  Queen  Elizabeth.  The  exact  date  may  therefore  have 
been  the  24th  of  November,  1565,  or  the  24th  of  any  month  there- 
after down  to  24th  October,  1566.  She  signed  her  name  '^  Elyn 
Baldwin,"  and  described  herself  as  of  "  Donrich,"  in  the  parish  of 
Aftton  Clinton,  oo.  Bucks,  widow.  The  following  is  a  full  abstract 
of  the  will : 

To  be  buried  in  the  church  yard  of  Aston  Clinton — to  the  poor 
there  12**,  &  to  the  poor  of  Cholsbury  12* — to  each  of  my  god- 
children 4  pence — to  each  of  my  childrens*  children  4  pence — to  each 
of  my  daughters  Cecilye  and  Lettys  sundry  linen,  household  stuff, 
Ac  when  married,  they  to  be  guided  iu  their  marriage  by  my  cou- 
sin Greorge  Baldwin — to  Richard  and  Sylvester,  children  of  my  son 
Henry  Baldwin,  each  12  pence — residue  of  personalty  to  my  son 
John  Baldwin,  and  be  to  be  my  executor— overseer,  my  son  Henry 
Baldwin. 

It  may  be  well  to  say  here  that  the  Register  of  Marriages  at  As- 
ton Clinton  begins  8  July,  1561,  that  of  Baptisms  3  Dec.  1565,  and 
that  of  Burials  12  Feb.  1560-1.  Hence  the  burial  of  this  Richard 
Baldwin  is  not  in  the  Register,  as  a  matter  of  course,  but  why  that 
of  his  widow  Ellen  is  missing,  when  she  directed  to  be  buried  there, 
can  only  be  conjectured.  As  she  named  her  sou  John  as  her  exec- 
utor, she  may,  after  the  date  of  her  will,  have  gone  to  reside  with 
him,  and  have  been  buried  at  Chesham.  Who  she  was  does  not 
appear,  unless  she  was  sister  of  the  John  Apuke  whom  her  husband 
named  as  his  brother,  i.  e.  brother  in  law.  If  so,  her  family  name 
is  perhaps  represented  by  the  modern  Pooke. 

As  both  Richard  Baldwin  and  his  wife  Ellen  described  themselves 
as  of  Dundridge,  it  may  be  as  well  just  here  to  explain  the  descent 
of  that  manor,  or  *'  reputed  manor,"  as  it  is  sometimes  called.  In 
the  possession  of  the  Montacutes  from  an  early  period, — as  early  as 
1320, — it  descended  to  the  celebrated  Margaret,  Countess  of  Salis- 
bury, who  was  beheaded  in  1541,  when,  under  her  attainder,  it  fell 
to  the  Crown.  Shortly  after.  King  Henry  VIII.  bestowe*!  it  upon 
Sir  John  Baldwin,  the  Chief  Justice,  who  held  it  at  his  death,  24 
Oct.  1545,  when,  with  his  other  estate,  it  passed  to  his  heirs,  who 
were,  as  stated  in  his  Inquisition  post  mortem,  Thomas  Packington, 
son  and  heir  of  his  daughter  Agnes,  and  John  Burlacy,  son  and  heir 
of  his  daughter  Petrouilla.  In  the  subsequent  division  of  the 
estate  Dundridge  appears  to  have  fallen  into  the  sole  possession  of 
the  Pakingtons,  passing  from  Thomas  Pakington,  above  mentioned, 


164  The  Family  of  Baldwin.  [April, 

to  his  son  and  heir  John  Pakington,  who,  on  the  Ist  of  March,  1577 
-8,  according  to  Patent  Roll,  20  Kliz.,  Part  5,  alienated  it,  with 
other  messuages,  tenements,  &c.,  in  Aston  Clinton,  Cbesham  and 
Wendover,  co.  Bucks,  to  **  Henry  and  Richard  Baldwin,"  and  it 
was  they,  of  course,  who  paid  the  taxes  upon  it  the  following  year, 
wrongly  stated  elsewhere  to  have  been  paid  by  **  Sylvester  Baldwin 
&  his  son  Henry.*' 

It  will  be  seen,  therefore,  that,  although  Richard  Baldwin,  in  his 
will,  in  1552-3,  described  himself  as  of  Dundridge,  he  could  only  have 
been  the  tenant  of  the  manor,  as  the  ownership  did  not  pass  from 
the  Pakingtons  until  1577-8.  It  seemed  curious  and  suggestive, 
that  only  seven  or  eight  years  after  the  death  of  Sir  John  Baldwiu, 
another  Baldwin  should  be  found  apparently  in  the  possession  of 
this  manor,  and  the  fact  seemed  to  indicate  some  very  near  connec- 
tion ;  but  none  can  be  discovered,  while  the  discovery  of  the  fact 
contained  in  the  Patent  Roll  perfectly  explains  the  apparent 
myster}*. 

There  may  be  a  question  whether  the  Henry  and  Richard  Bald- 
win, to  whom  John  Pakington  so  conveyed  the  manor,  were  the  two 
brothers,  or  the  father  and  son.  If  the  former,  Richard  certainly  at 
some  subsequent  date  parted  with  his  interest — of  which,  however, 
no  record  can  be  found — because  it  is  perfectly  certain  that  Dun- 
dridge continued  in  the  line  of  Henry  until  the  heir  of  his  descend- 
ant in  the  sixth  generation,  a  hundred  and  seventy  years  later,  final- 
ly sold  it  to  a  stranger,  as  will  appear  hereafter.  I  think  it  more 
likely  that  the  conveyance  was  made  to  Henry  and  his  sou  Richard. 
This  is,  however,  of  little  importance. 

We  find,  then,  Richard  Baldwin,  with  whom  we  commence  our 
pedigree,  a  substantial  yeoman  of  the  first  half  of  the  sixteenth  cen- 
tury, of  sufficient  means  and  importance  to  rent  the  manor  and  oc- 
cupy the  manor-house,  and  also  able  to  possess  at  least  one  other 
farm,  an<l  lease  the  tithes  in  another  parish.  His  money  bequests 
to  his  children,  when  multiplied  by  ten  in  order  to  obtain  their  rel- 
ative value,  were  by  no  means  inconsiderable,  and  the  bequest  of 
ten  silver  spoons  elevates  him  at  once  to  a  position  superior  to  those 
by  whom  he  was  surrounded.  If  nothing  is  ever  learned  of  his  an- 
tecedents, he  is  an  ancestor  of  whom  his  descendants  need  not  be 
ashamed. 

The  children  of  Richard  and  Ellen  Baldwin,  as  we  have  now 
learned  from  their  wills,  were  as  follows  : 

1.  Henrt,  of  whom  hereafter. 

2.  John.  At  the  date  of  his  father^s  will,  in  1552-3,  he  was  not  yet  23  years  of 

nije,  and  at  that  age  was  to  have  the  farm  of  Donijrove,  in  Chesham. 
He  was  named  a^  bis  mother's  executor  in  her  will,  dated  in  15(i5  or  6, 
and  as  the  overseer  of  his  brother  Henry 'h  will,  dated  2  Jan.  1599-1600, 
but  these  are  the  only  traces  of  him  1  have  been  able  to  find.  He  certain- 
ly left  no  will,  unless  he  went  into  some  other  part  of  the  ooantry,  and  it 
was  proved  in  some  other  diocese. 

3.  Richard.    I  find  nothing  positive  about  him  beyond  the  facts  in  his  &- 

therms  will,  viz.,  that  he  was  not  23  in  1552-3,  and  was  to  have  the  tithe* 
and  lands  in  Choisimry.  He  may  have  been  the  Richard  to  whom,  in  am* 
junction  with  Henry,  the  manor  of  Dundridge  was  conveyed  by  John  Pak- 
ington in  1577-8,  hut,  as  I  have  said  before,  1  do  not  think  so.  He  is  oot 
named  in  any  of  the  wills  after  that  of  his  father.  I  find,  however,  the 
will  of  a  Richard  JBaldwin,  of  Choisimry ^  *'  weaver,'*  dated  S3  Miy, 
1630,  which  must  not  be  overlooked.  The  following  is  a  fall  abstract  of  it : 


884.]  The  Family  oj  Baldwin.  165 

To  Isabell  my  wife  one  third  of  my  goods  k  chattels— to  Nathaniel  my 
80D  £10 — to  Joseph  mv  son  half  an  acre  of  land  called  Hant's  Wick,  when 
91 — ^tomy  daaffhter  Mary  Pratt  Gs.  8d.  &  to  her  daaghter  Mary  3  sheep,  k 
her  other  9  children  each  a  sheep— to  my  daughter  Hannah  xl3.  6.  8,  & 
my  9  other  daairhters  Christian  Jb  Sarah  each  £10.,  when  31  or  married — 
aU  reddae  to  Timothy  my  eldest  son,  and  he  to  be  my  execator. 

The  son  Timothy  proved  the  will,  in  the  Coart  of  the  Archdeaconry  of 
Backs,  16  Mav,  1633. 

Althooffh  this  Bichard  evidently  coald  not  have  been  the  one  who  had 
the  Cholsoury  lands  in  1553-3,  nnless  he  had  these  children  in  his  ex- 
treme dd  age,  jret  it  seems  not  unlikely  that  he  was  his  son,  and,  as  I  can 
find  no  traces  of  the  three  sons  Timotny^  Nathaniel  and  Joseph  named  in 
the  will,  after  the  probate  in  1633, 1  thixik  there  can  be  little  if  any  doubt 
that  they  were  the  three  of  those  names  who  emigrated  to  New  England, 
appearing  at  Milford  in  1639.  The  Registers  of  Cnolsbary  begin  in  1583, 
and  perhaps  mifl:ht  clear  up  this  matter. 

4.  AucK.    She  was  living  unmarried  in  1553-3,  but,  as  she  was  not  named  in 

her  mother's  will  in  1565  or  6,  she  probably  died  and  was  buried  at  Aston 
Clinton,  before  1560-1,  the  date  when  the  registers  begin. 

5.  AoNB,  who  iras  unmarried  and  not  19  at  the  <Ukte  of  her  father's  will.    She 

was  married  at  Aston  Clinton,  18  Nov.  1566,  to  William  Ghnnge,  but 
lived  less  than  four  months,  and  was  buried  there  10  Idarch,  1566-7.  He 
remarried,  and  was  finally  buried  at  Aston  Clinton,  14  Nov.  1583.  In  his 
Dunoopative  wilLdated  2d  Sept.  1583,  he  named  his  wife  Isabell  and  his 
sons  Henry  and  Thomas,  and  made  Henry  Baldwin,  of  Aston  Clint<m,  his 
first  irife's  brother,  his  executor. 

6.  CiciLT.    She  iras  named  as  unmarried  in  her  father's  will  in  1553-^,  and  in 

ber  mother's  in  1565  or  6,  but  not  in  that  of  her  brother  Henry  in  1599- 
1600. 

7.  Ijbttics.    She  iras  still  unmarried  in  1565-6,  but  is  named  in  the  vrill  of  her 

brother  Henry,  1599-1600,  as  wife  of  (blank)  Foster.  In  the  will  of  her 
nephew  Robot  Baldwin,  son  of  her  brother  Heniy,  dated  33  March.  1605 
-6,  she  is  again  mentioned,  as  living  at  Tring,  oo.  Herts,  after  whicn  I  do 
not  bear  of  ner. 

We  now  return  to  the  eldest  son  of  Richard  and  Ellen  Baldwin, 
viz.: 

II.  Henrt  BAXDwm,  who  was  his  father's  executor  in  1552-3,  and  who, 
in  1577-8,  became  the  first  owner  of  Dundridge.  His  will,  as 
'*  Henry  Baldwin,  of  Dunridge,  in  the  parish  of  Aston  Clinton,  co. 
Bucks,  Teoman,"  was  dated  on  the  2d  of  January,  1599-1600.  The 
following  b  a  ftill  abstract : 

To  the  poor  of  Aston  Clinton  20  shillings,  of  Cholsbury  20  shil- 
lings, of  Wendover  5  shillings,  &  of  Great  Missenden  3  shillings  & 
4  pence — to  Edmund  Stonhill  of  St  Leonard's  2  shillings — to  Tho- 
mas Gerye  of  St.  Leonard's  12  pence— to  widow  Tomkins  of  St 
Leonard's  2  shillings — to  Thomas  Chapman  of  St  Leonard's  12 
pence — to  widow  Pratt  of  St  Leonard's  12  pence — to  my  son  John 
xny  4  crofts  in  Wendover,  called  "  Stybbings,"  &  £10. — to  Robert 
my  son  my  messes,  lands  &  tents,  &c.  in  Flanden  &  Hempstead  & 
elsewhere  in  co.  Herts,  also  £40--- to  Agnes  my  daughter  £100. 
within  2  years  after  my  death,  or  at  her  marriage — to  James  Bonas 
£40 — to  iUchard  my  son  sundry  ftimiture,  household  stuff,  &c. 
( enumerated )  after  the  death  of  Alice  my  wife — to  Sylvester  my 
son  £10.  besides  what  he  owes  me,  and  to  his  sons  John  &  Henry 
each  six  shillings  and  8  pence — to  Henry  son  of  James  Bonas  6-8 
— to  Bartholomew  Gravenye  a  ewe  &  lamb — "  to  Robert  Baldwin 
my  late  $ervant**  12  pence — to  each  godchild  6  pence — to  my  sister 
Lettice   Foster  20  shillings — to  Thomas  King  of  Swanbome  10 


166  The  Family  of  Baldwin*  [April, 

shillings — to  Richard  Salter  my  son  in  law  10  sheep — all  residue  to 
Alice  my  wife — my  son  Richard  to  be  my  executor,  and  my  brother 
John  Baldwin  and  George  Adams  of  Little  Horwood,  overseers. 

The  will  was  proved  at  London,  in  the  Prerogative  Court  of  Can- 
terbury, 2  July,  1602,  by  Richard  Baldwin,  son  and  executor.  Hen- 
ry Baldwin  was  buried  at  Aston  Clinton,  1  June,  1602. 

The  original  will  of  his  widow  Alice  is  on  file  among  the  records 
of  the  Court  of  the  Archdeaconry  of  Bucks,  in  which  it  was  proved, 
and  is  dated  4  June,  1622.  She  signed  her  name  *' Alice  Bald- 
win," and  is  described  as  of  Dunridge  (&c.),  widow.  The  follow- 
ing is  a  full  abstract : 

To  be  buried  in  the  parish  church  of  Aston  Clinton,  near  my  late 
husband  Henry  Baldwin — to  my  sons  Richard,  Sylvester,  &  John 
Baldwin,  each  £20. — to  my  daughter  Mary  Salter,  £10.,  my  best 
gold  ring,  best  gown,  &c. — to  the  children  of  my  said  son  Sylves- 
ter Baldwin,  viz.  John,  Henry,  Sylvester,  Richard,  William,  Alice, 
&  Jane,  each  40  shillings — to  the  children  of  my  son  John  Baldwin, 
viz.  Richard,  John,  Mary,  Agnes,  &  Martha,  each  40s — to  the  child- 
ren of  my  daughter  Mary  Salter,  viz.  Richard,  Thomas,  John,  Da- 
vid, Susanna,  Mary,  &  Sarah,  each  40  shillings — to  the  children  of 
my  daughter  Jane  Bonus,  viz.  Henry,  James,  John,  Christian,  Faith, 
Mary,  &  Jane,  each  a  sum  varying  from  £4.  to  £10. — to  Henry 
Stonehill  my  son  in  law,  &  his  children  Henry,  Jane  <&  Agnes,  each 
40  shillings — to  Anne,  daughter  of  my  son  Robert  Baldwin,  40 
shillings — to  my  brother  Thomas  King  10  shillings  &  to  his  child- 
ren 20  shillings  among  them — to  William  son  of  Thomas  King  10 
shillings — to  my  sister  Marie  Mountegue  10  shillings — all  residue 
equally  to  my  sons  Richard,  Sylvester,  &  John  Baldwin  db  my 
daughter  Mary  Salter — (she  mentions  incidentally  that  she  and  her 
son  Richard  occupy  the  manor  of  Dunridge) — my  said  sons  Richard 
&  John  to  be  my  executors — overseers,  my  friends  Richard  Crippes, 
of  St.  Leonard's,  Clerk,  &  Richard  Salter,  senior,  of  Hemel-IIemp- 
stead — if  my  s**  sons  Richard  &  John  decline  to  act,  then  my  s**  sod 
Sylvester  &  my  sou  in  law  Richard  Salter,  to  be  executors. 

The  will  was  proved  14  Dec.  1626,  by  the  son  Richard  only. 
She  was  buried  at  Aston  Clinton,  23  Nov.  1626.  Her  will  is  a 
model  one,  as  she  evidently  named  every  living  son  and  daughter 
and  grandchild  that  she  had.  It  is  to  be  regretted  that  she  was  not 
more  explicit  about  her  own  family,  for  it  is  impossible  to  determine 
whether  Thomas  King  and  Mary  Montagu  were  her  own  brother 
and  sister,  or  only  brother  and  sister  in  law.  It  should  be  noticed 
that,  while  the  first  Richard  Baldwin,  the  tenant  of  Dundridge,  and 
his  wife  Ellen,  both  directed  to  be  buried  in  the  church-yar(/,  she 
directs  to  be  buried  in  the  church,  where  she  says  her  hunband  was 
also  buried,  a  significant  distinction  between  the  tenant  of  the  manor 
and  the  lord  of  it.  It  should  also  be  noticed  that  in  describing  her 
husband  she  called  him  plain  '^  Henry  Baldwin,"  without  the  affix 
of  "  Esquire "  or  **  Gentleman,'*  which  would  certainly  have  been 
given  him  by  any  lawyer  or  scrivener  of  the  period  if  it  could  have 
been  properly  applie<l. 

The  children  of  Henry  and  Alice  Baldwin,  according  to  their 
wills,  were  as  follows  : 


884.]  The  Family  of  Baldvnn.  167 

1.  Richard,  who  was  named  in  his  grandmother *8  will  in  1565-6,wa8  his  fa- 
ther's executor  in  1602,  his  brother  Robert's  in  1606,  and  his  mother's 
in  1626.  As  his  will  was  printed  in  extcnso  in  the  Hist,  and  Gen.  Reg- 
ister for  July,  1872,  volume  26,  pp.  295-7,  I  shall  give  only  a  brief, 
though  full  genealogical  abstract  or  it  here,  for  the  purposes  of  this  nar- 
rative. (There  are  a  few  errors,  evidently  in  transcribing,  in  the  copy  in 
the  Register,  which  1  will  here  point  out,  in  order  that  they  may  be  cor- 
rected. On  page  295,  line  10  from  bottom,  read  **  with  the  appurte- 
nances." On  same  page,  line  8  from  bottom,  **  xx^*  '*  should  be  **  xx"," 
i.  e.  20  shillings  instead  of  20  pounds.  On  page  296,  line  10  from  bot- 
tom, read  '*  vi*  "  instead  of  **  vi"."  On  same  page,  line  8  from  bottom, 
for  .4nnt>,  read  Anne,  On  pasre  297,  line  6  from  top,  instead  of  ''  Ghafife  " 
read  *' Ghasse '*  (i.  e.  Chase).  On  same  page,  line  31  from  top, 
for  *'xx*'*  read  **  xxi.*'  With  these  exceptions,  the  transcript  in  the 
Register  is  strictly  accurate.) 

ilbt  will,  as  *'  Richard  Baldwin,  of  Dun-Dridge,  in  the  Parishe  of  As- 
ton Glinton,  in  the  Gountie  of  Bucks,  Yeoman,^*  is  dated  on  the  18th 
February,  1632-3.    The  following  is  a  full  abstract  of  it : 

To  Mr.  Hall,  now  the  minister  of  St.  Leonard's,  £5. — to  Henry  Bald- 
win, son  of  my  brother  Sylvester,  and  my  next  heir,  a  close  called  Brays 
Bush  in  Great  Ghesham  t  Wendover,  payin;;  to  the  pcx>r  of  St.  Leonards 
20  shillings  yearly  for  100  years  ;  also  £20.  on  condition  that  he  allows 
those  men  who  have  bought  wood  &  timber  of  me,  to  cut  down  and  carry 
the  same  away  peaceably  ;  also  *^  one  coffer  with  evidences  concerninge 
this  mannur  of  Dundrid^e  &  also  the  evidences  concerninge  the  Ghappell 
lande  ** ;  aLso  ainalt  mill,  a  Cornlet  &  its  furniture,  the  turniture  for  one 
horse  for  service  of  the  mu.sters,  &  the  tables,  frames,  forms,  cupboards, 
wainscot,  benches  &  armor  in  the  hall,  &  the  best  bedstead  in  the  new 
chamber — to  Gliristian  my  wife  half  my  bedsteads  not  bequeathed,  half  my 
bed  clothes  So  linun.  half  my  pewter  &  brass,  and  the  other  moveable  goods 
in  the  dwelling  house  to  be  divided  equally  between  her  &  my  executor  ; 
also  to  my  wife  Ghristian  2  of  my  best  beasts,  20  slieep,  3  hoggs,  all  my 
poultry,  one  quarter  of  wheat  &  one  of  malt,  &  all  my  wearing  apparel, 
also  £20.  per  annum  for  her  life,  and  she  to  have  sufficient  house  room  & 
firew«>od — to  my  brother  John  Bildwin  &  his  eon  John  each  £20,  the  rest 
of  my  money*  in  their  hands  to  be  paid  to  my  executor — to  my  sister  Mary 
Salter  &  her  children  John,  David,  Mary  &  Sarah  Salter,  each  £10 — to 
the  children  of  my  sister  Jane  Bonus,  viz.  to  Henry  Bonus  £20.,  James 
Bonus  £10,  Christian  Bonus  £30,  Mary  Bonus  £100  &  Jane  Bonus  £50, 
to  the  two  latter  in  full  payment  of  their  grandmother's  gifts  &  of  their 
mother's  goods — to  Anne  Bryant,  daughter  of  my  brother  Robert  Bald- 
win, and  to  her  son  Richard  Bryant,  a  freehold  tenement  &c.  in  Wendo- 
ver, also  £48.  6.  8 — to  Henry  Stunhill,  son  of  my  sister  Anne  Stonhill, 
£30.  when  21,  &  20  acres  of  free  land  in  Dra^-tou  Bcauchamp — to  Anne 
Stonhill,  daughter  of  my  sister  Anne  Stonhill,  £10. — to  Richard  Bald- 
win, son  of  my  brother  Sylve-«ter   Baldwin,  £10— to  William  Baldwin, 
Sitn  of  my  brother  Sylvester,  £10 — to  Richard  Baldwin,  son  of  Silvester 
Baldwin  of  Aston  Glinton,  £10 — to  each  of  my  brothers  &  sisters  children 
living  at  my  death,  40  shillings— to  Joane  Chasse,  my  wife's  sister,  40 
shillings — to  William  Darley  a  year's  rent  of  the  messuage  wherein   he 
now  dwelleth — to  Joyce  Bernard,  widow  20  shillings— to  Silvester  Tom- 
kins,  John  Tompkins,  So  George  Baldwin,  all  of  St.  Leonards,  each  20s. 
—  to  Richard  Gravener,   widow  Wilkins,  widow   Gourney,  &  Edward 
Springall,  all  of  Buckland,  each  20  shillings— to  Richard  ArnoU  of  Ghes- 
ham, his  sister  Mary  Garratt,  Jonas  Nuton  of  Gholsbury,  widow  Ghilde 
of  Harridge,  Robert  Wilkins  of  Buckland,  Ho  Shem  Ginger  of  St.   Leon- 
ard's, each  20  shillings — to  the  poor  of  Aston  Glinton  20  shillings,  of  St. 
Leonard's  20  shillings,  &  of  Gholsbury  20  shillings — to  each  servant  in  my 
flervice  at  my  death  10  shillings— to  widow  Gocke  of  St.  Leonard's  20 
shillings — residue  of  all  my  goods  &c.   to  Sylvester  Baldwin  of  Aston 
l-linUm,  son  of  my  brother  Sylvester  Baldwin,  &  he  to  be  my  executor. 
(VVitneeses,  William  Grange  So  Henry  Stonhill.) 

•  This  woaid  indicate  that  John  the  yoanger  was  of  ftill  age  in  1632,  the  date  of  the  will. 


168  The  Family  of  Baldwin.  [  Ainril, 

The  will  was  proved  in  the  Coart  of  the  Archdeaoonry  of  Backs,  89 
Nov.  1636,  by  Sylvester  Baldwin,  nephew  of  the  testator,  and  the  ezeca- 
tor  named. 

The  will  abundantly  attests  the  substantial  condition  of  Richard  Bald- 
win, and  is  an  excellent  specimen  of  such  documents.  The  amounts  of 
the  legacies  show  him  to  have  been  poasessed  of  considerable  means,  for 
those  amounts  must  be  multiplied  by  ten,  and  the  bequests  suflBcientlv 
indicate  the  character  of  the  man.  After  handsomely  remembering  aU 
his  immediate  relations,  he  did  not  forget  his  tenants,  the  poor  widows 
and  other  poor  in  his  neighborhood,  and  finally  his  servants^  That  he 
was  the  owner  of  Dundridge  is  amply  proved  by  his  bequeathing  to  his 
heir  the  *^  coffer  containing  the  evidences,'*  i.  e.  his  title-deeds.  It  wis 
his  father's  before  him,  or  jointly  with  him,  and  they  purchased  it  from 
the  Pakin^tons,  who  had  it  from  Sir  John  Baldwin,  as  we  have  seen.  It 
is  clear,  therefore,  that  the  statement  in  Lipecombe's  History  of  Buckt^ 
a.  96,  that  it  ever  *'  belonged  to  Sylvester  Baldwin,"  is  an  error.  Lips- 
combe  probably  confounded  Henry,  son  of  Sylvester,  with  Sylvester 
himself. 

Richard  Baldwin  died  childless,  and  was  buried  at  Aston  Clinton,  14 
Oct.  1636. 

His  widow  made  her  will  on  the  16th  of  February.  1640-1,  describing 
herself  as  Christian  Baldwin,  of  Dundridge,  dxs.,  widow.  The  following 
is  a  full  abstract : 

Aged  and  weak — to  my  kinsman  John  Grove,  of  Chesham  Boys,  &  bis 
father  Nehemiah  Grove,  my  kinsman,  each  ^. — to  Deborah  Weston,  of 
Chesham,  widow,  2  pair  of  sheets — to  my  sister  Joane  Chace  £10. — to  my 
kinsman  Richard  Arnold,  a  silver  beaker,  the  same  to  ffo  to  his  son  at  his 
death — to  Richard  Neale  who  dwelt  with  m^  cousin  Arrett,  10  shillines 
— to  my  kinsman  Abraham  Parrett  10  shillings — residue  of  my  goods 
&o.  to  my  sister  Joane  Chace,  her  children  John  Qrover,  Mary  Harris, 
Thomas  Chace,  &  Benaiah  Chace,  my  kinsman  Richard  Arnold,  A  my 
kinswoman  Mary  Parrett,  equally — my  kinsmen  Richard  Arnold  &  Tho- 
mas Chace  to  be  joint  executors,  &  W  lUiam  Grange  overseer. 

The  will  was  proved  in  the  Archdeaconry  Court  of  Bucks,  27  July, 
1641,  but  her  burial  Ls  not  in  the  Aston  Clinton  register,  and  she  was 
probably  buried  with  her  own  family,  to  which  the  will  gives  no  clew, 
except  that  she  had  a  sister  Joane,  evidently  then  a  widow,  but  who  had 
had  two  husbands,  named  G rover  and  Chase.  She  was  married  to  Rich- 
ard Baldwin  at  Cholcebury  in  Idi^,  as  Christian  Towckfeild,  i.  e.  Tuck- 
field. 
S.  Sylvester  Baldwin,  of  whom  hereafter. 

3.  John  Baldwin,  evidently  from  the  wilb  third  son  of  Henry  and  Alice  Bald- 
win.   His  father  left  him  in  his  will,  in  1599-1600,  4  crofts,  called 
'*  Stybbinss,"  in  Wendover,  and  he  and  bis  children  were  remembered  in 
the  will  of  his  mother  in  1622.  His  brother  Richard,  in  1632-3,  bequeath- 
ed him  £20.   (i.  e.  multiplied  by  ten,  equivalent  to  a  thousand  dollars 
now) ,  and  he  was  living  at  the  date  of  his  son  Richard *8  will  in  1634.  He 
left  no  will,  but,  on  the  14th  of  October,  1637,  his  widow  Hannah  wis 
eranted  Letters,  from  the  Archdeaconry  Court  of  Bucks,  to  administer 
nis  estate,  when   he   was  described  as   late   of  Chesham,  co.  Bucks. 
The  Administration  Bond  was  signed  by  her  and  by  John  Baldwin,  of 
Chesham f  Mercer,    Of  the  relict  Hannah  I  find  no  further  trace.    Their 
children,  as  enumerated  in  the  will  of  their  grandmother  Alice  Baldwin, 
in  1622,  were  as  follows  : 
I.  Richard,  whose  will,  as  Citizen  and  Girdler,  of  London,  dated  9  June, 
was  proved  23  July,  1634,  in  the  Prerogative  Court  of  Canterbury,  by 
two  London  friends,  Henry  Shaw  and  Henry  Poole.    Ho  appears  to 
have  been  a  young  man,  certainly  unmarried,  just  commencing  bosi- 
ness  with  a  partner  named  George  Thwaites,  and  he  gives  the  amount 
of  bis  investment  as  £270,  of  which  he  bequeathed  £190  to  his  **  dear 
father  &  mother,'*  and  £30  to  his  brother  John  Baldwin^  also  sums 
from  £15  to  £25  to  his  three  brothers-in-law,  Thomas  Dudsbnnr,  Tho- 
mas Ward  and  Thomas  Butcher.    To  his  uncle  Richard  Balinrin  be 
left  a  ring  of  the  value  of  20  shillings,  and  40  shillings  to  the  poor  of 


1884.]  The  Family  oj  Baldwin.  169 

Chcsham,  where  he  says  he  was  bom.    The  rest  of  his  bequests  were 
to  friends  and  senrants  in  London. 

2.  John  Baldwin ,  named  in  the  wills  of  his  grandmother  in  162*2,  his  uncle 

Richard  in  1633-3,  and  in  his  brother  Ricnard's,  as  above.  I  see  no  good 
reason  why  he  may  not  have  been  the  emigrant  afterwards  known  as 
John  Baldwin  of  Norwich,  about  whose  early  history  so  little  is  known, 
and  nothing  certainly.  The  traditions  that  have  come  down  about 
him  are  so  vaeue  as  to  be  practically  valueless.  He  would  have  been 
own  cousin  oi  Sylvester  tbe  emigrant,  though  doubtless  much  his  ju- 
nior, as  he  was  a  younger  son  oi  a  still  younger  son.  That  he  must 
have  been  very  young  in  1622  is  evident  from  the  fact  that  his  elder 
brother  had  only  just  completed  his  apprenticeship  and  engaged  in 
business  twelve  years  later.  Other  cousins,  the  Bryants  and  Stonehills, 
of  the  same  generation,  appear  to  have  also  gone  to  New  England 
about  the  same  time.  It  seems  probable  that  he  was  the  '*  John 
Baldwin,  Mercer,"  who,  with  his  mother,  signed  the  bond  when  she 
administered  to  his  father's  estate  in  1637.  1?  so,  he  must  have  only 
just  commenced  business,  and  there  is  no  reason  why  he  may  not  have 
given  this  up  and  gone  with  his  relations  to  New  England.  In  favor 
of  this  theory  is  the  strong  fact  that  no  further  trace  of  him  can  be 
found  at  Chesham  nor  elsewhere  in  this  country.  If  not  married  until 
1653,  as  is  said,  he  would  then  still  have  been  comparatively  a  young 
man,  probably  not  far  from  thirty-five.  Admitting  that  John  of  Nor- 
wich did  not  go  to  Guilford  in  1G39  a  mere  child — and  on  this  point 
there  is  really  no  evidence  whatever — there  is  no  good  reason  why  this 
John  may  not  have  been  that  emigrant,  while  in  favor  of  it  is  his  near 
relationship  to  the  other  emi^^nts  of  his  name,  and  the  fact  of  his  dis- 
appearance here.  It  seems  improbable  that,  if  he  had  continued  as  a 
mercer  at  Chesham,  he  would  not  have  married,  had  children  baptized 
and  buried,  and  have  been  buried  there  himself.  But  there  is  abso- 
lutely no  trace  of  him  after  1637.  Of  course  this  is  not  positive  proof 
of  his  identity  with  John  Baldwin  of  Norwich,  but  I  present  it  as 
strongly  suggestive. 

3.  Mary,     5  All  named  in  the  will  of  their  grandmother  Alice  in  1622. 

4.  Aqnes.    >  They  evidently  became,  but  in  what  order  does  not  appear, 

5.  JSiartha.  j  the  wives  of  Thomas  Dudsbury,  Thomas  Ward,  and  Thomas 

Butcher,  named  by  their  brother  Richard  in  his  will  as  his  brothers- 
in-law. 
4.  Robert  B.\ldwin,  evidently  from  the  wills  fourth  and  youngest  son  of  Hen- 
ry and  Alice  Baldwin,  to  whom  were  bequeathed  lands,  &c.,  in  Hertford- 
shire. His  will,  as  of  Northchurch,  Herts,  veoman,  dated  22  Mch.  1605 
-6,  was  proved  1  April  following,  by  his  brother  Richard  Baldwin,  whom 
he  made  his  executor.  He  directo<l  to  be  buried  in  the  churchyard  of 
Northchurch.  He  bequeathed  10  shillings  to  his  aunt  Lettice  Foster,  then 
of  Tring,  and  named  his  brother  Stilter  overseer  of  his  will,  which  rela- 
tionships perfectly  identify  him.  He  also  left  small  bequests  to  the  poor 
of  St.  Leonard's  and  Cholsbury.  The  residue  of  his  estate  which  ap- 
pears to  have  been  small,  he  left  equally  to  his  wife  Joane  and  his  daugn- 
ter  Anne.  He  evidently  died  very  young,  and  this  daughter  Anne  was 
his  only  child,  and  then  an  infant.  She  was  living  in  1632-3  as  Anne 
Bryant,  with  a  son  Richard. 

5.  Jane,  evidently  from  the  wills  eldest  daughter  of  Henry  and  Alice  Bald- 

win. She  was  in  1599-1600  the  wife  of  James  Bonus,  but  both  were  dead 
at  the  date  of  her  mother's  will  in  1622,  leaving  seven  children,  of  whom 
I  have  found  nothing  later. 

6.  Mart,  evidently  second  daughter  of  Henry  and  Alice  Baldwin.    She  was 

married  at  Aston  Clinton,  So  Jan.  1598-9,  to  Richard  Salter.  Both  were 
living  in  1622,  with  seven  children.  She  was  still  living  in  1632-3,  with 
four  children,  two  sons,  John  and  David,  and  two  daughters,  Mary  and 
Sarah.  After  this  date  I  have  found  nothing  concernin<r  them,  unless  it 
be  that  the  son  David  was  a  David  Salter,  of  Agmondeshain,  co.  Bucks, 
tanner,  whose  nuncupative  will,  made  11  April,  1669,  was  proved  6  Octo- 
ber following,  by  his  relict  Sarah,  sole  legatee. 

7.  Agnis,  evidently  third  daughter  and  youngest  child  of  Henry  and  Alice 

Baldwin.    (In  her  brother  Richard *s  will  she  is  called  Anne,  but  in  her 
VOL.  xxxvm.  16 


170        Ezehiel  Cheever  and  some  of  his  Descendants.      [April, 

mother's,  Agnes ^  and  so  in  the  parish  register.)  She  was  baptiiedat 
Aston  Clinton  in  July  (the  day  blank),  1579.  She  married  Henry  Stone- 
hill  and  was  dead  in  1622,  her  husband  surviying  her,  and  three  cnildren, 
Henry,  Jane  and  Agnes.  It  was  probably  the  son  Henry  who  was  in  New 
England  from  1639  to  1646,  then  retumina^  to  England.  He  would,  u 
will  be  seen,  have  been  of  the  same  generation  as  Sylvester  Baldwin  tht 
emigrant  and  John  of  Norwich,  if  the  aboTe  suggestioQ  prove  correct. 

rXo  be  oontiniied.] 


EZEKIEL  CHEEVER  AND  SOME  OF  HIS 

DESCENDANTS. 

(Part  Second.) 
By  JoHir  T.  Hassam,  A.M.,  of  Boston. 

THE  article  entitled  '*  Ezekiel  Cheever  and  Some  of  his  Descend- 
ants," published  by  me  in  the  Register  for  April,  1879 
(xxxiii.  164),  contained  a  biographical  notice  of  Ezekiel  Cheever, 
the  famous  master  of  the  Boston  Latin  School,  who  was  bom  in 
London,  January  25,  1614,  and  who  died  here  in  Boston,  August 
21,  1708,  with  some  account  of  his  descendants  in  the  line  of  his 
eldest  son,  the  Rev.  Samuel  Cheever  (Harvard  Coll.  1659),  the 
first  settled  minister  of  Marblehead.  The  purpose  of  the  present 
paper  is  to  give  the  results  of  some  researches  concerning  others  of 
his  descendants,  particularly  in  the  line  of  his  younger  son,  the  Rev. 
Thomas  Cheever  (Harvard  Coll.  1677),  the  first  settled  minister  of 
Rumney  Marsh. 

It  has  been  compiled  almost  wholly  from  the  public  records.  No 
regard  has  been  paid  to  family  traditions,  which  are  generally  so 
misleading  and  untrustworthy.  In  the  few  instances  in  which  dates 
of  births,  marriages  and  deaths  are  taken  from  private  sources  of 
information,  the  authority  therefor  is  given,  or  else  such  dates  are 
distinguished  from  the  others  by  being  enclosed  in  brackets.  The 
reader  has  thus  every  facility  afforded  him  for  verifying  the  state- 
ments here  made  by  reference  to  the  documentary  evidence  on  which 
they  are  based.  It  must  be  borne  in  mind,  however,  that  Chelsea 
was  not  set  off  from  Boston  until  1739,  and  that  prior  to  that  date 
the  births,  deaths  and  marriages  in  that  part  of  Boston  are  to  be 
treated  as  Boston  births,  deaths  and  marriages,  inasmuch  as  they 
appear  on  the  Boston  Records  without  any  distinctive  marks  by 
which  they  may  be  known  from  the  others.  In  the  same  way  the 
births,  marriages  and  deaths  in  what  is  now  Saugus  are  credited  to 
Lynn  prior  to  1815,  when  the  present  town  of  Saugus  was  incor- 
porated. 

Mr.  Henry  F.  Waters  and  Mr.  Ira  J.  Patch,  of  Salem,  have 
each  collected,  with  a  view  to  publication,  a  great  deal  of  material 
concerning  the  Cheever  family,  particularly  in  the  line  of  Peter 


1884.]    Ezehiel  Cheever  and  some  of  his  Descendants.  171 

Cheever  of  Salem.  Mr.  Deloraine  P.  Corey,  of  Maiden,  has  also 
gathered,  for  a  like  purpose,  much  information,  especially  as  to 
the  descendants  of  the  Rev.  Thomas  Cheever  of  Chelsea.  I  am 
indebted  to  these  gentlemen  and  to  Mr.  Charles  B.  Whitman,  of 
Boston,  for  valuable  assistance  in  the  preparation  of  the  present 
paper. 

The  members  of  this  branch  of  the  Cheever  family  are  themselves 
to  blame  if  this  list  of  the  descendants  of  Ezekiel  Cheever  is  not  in 
some  cases  as  complete  as  it  could  be  made.  Indifference,  apathy, 
neglect  to  answer  even  the  most  pressing  letters  and  circulars,  is 
probably  the  experience  of  most  compilers  of  genealogies,  and  must 
be  borne  with  what  philosophy  one  can  command.  But  more  than 
the  usual  amount  of  exasperating  reticence  and  stolidity  has  been 
encountered  in  the  course  of  these  investigations. 

When  our  forefathers  first  set  foot  in  this  country,  every  one  of 
them  of  course  knew  from  what  part  of  England  he  himself  came. 
If  he  had  taken  pains  to  perpetuate  evidence  of  the  fact,  by  depo« 
sitions  or  by  recitals  in  some  document  which  could  be  preserved  in 
the  public  records,  or  if  the  government  here  had  early  established 
some  strict  system  of  registering  arrivals,  a  great  deal  of  trouble 
would  have  been  spared  us.  As  it  was,  the  exact  locality  from 
which  he  came  was  known  to  his  immediate  family  for  perhaps  a 
generation  or  two,  then  the  tradition  grew  fainter  and  fainter  until 
all  knowledge  of  it  was  completely  lost. 

What  Old  England  is  to  us.  New  England  is  to  the  newer  West. 
For  the  first  century  and  a  half  after  the  settlement  of  this  country 
our  ancestors  moved  within  necessarily  narrow  limits,  and  could  not 
stray  very  far  away  from  the  home  first  established  in  the  new  land. 
But  since  the  present  century  all  this  is  changed.  In  this  age  of 
railways  and  steamboats  a  vast  tide  of  emigration  is  pouring  into 
the  most  distant  states  and  territories  of  the  West.  There  is  hardly 
a  New  England  family  which  is  not  represented  there.  For  the  first 
few  years  the  outgoing  members  will  keep  up  some  sort  of  communi- 
cation with  the  rest  of  the  family  which  remains  at  the  old  homestead. 
In  the  next  generation  they  will  be  comparatively  strangers  to  each 
other.  Then  all  knowledge  of  the  relationship  will  gradually  fade 
firom  their  minds,  and  the  disruption  will  be  complete.  The  gen- 
ealogist of  the  next  century  will  have  no  enviable  task  before 
him.  It  will  probably  be  impossible  in  the  majority  of  cases  to 
trace  any  connection  between  the  different  branches  of  families  so 
scattered. 

This  renders  it  all  the  more  imperative  upon  us  of  this  generation  to 
put  on  record  in  the  only  imperishable  form  known  to  us,  that  is  in 
print,  all  that  can  be  ascertained  in  regard  to  our  early  families.  We 
can  establish  relationships  by  the  testimony  of  persons  now  living, 
which  those  who  come  after  us  will  be  unable  to  do.  It  is  a  duty 
we  owe  to  posterity  to  smooth  the  pathway  of  the  future  investiga- 


172         Ezehiel  Cheever  and  some  of  his  Descendants.     [April, 

tor  and  to  remove  from  it  the  stumbling-blocks  which  will  inevita- 
bly bring  his  labors  to  naught. 

These  considerations  have  induced  me  to  publish  now  in  this 
paper  what  I  have  so  far  collected  concerning  this  branch  of  the 
Cheever  family,  without  waiting  until  I  could  afford  the  time,  which 
might  never  come,  to  make  the  record  still  more  complete  in  all  its 
parts.  It  will  be  the  means  of  preserving  for  all  time  information 
which  has  been  gathered  with  great  toil  and  labor,  some  of  it  from 
sources  which  will  be  inaccessible  to  the  future  genealogist.  It  will 
also,  it  is  to  be  hoped,  aid  in  bringing  to  light  materials  for  a  more 
extended  genealogy  of  the  Cheever  family. 

EzEKiEL*  Cheever,  the  famous  master  of  the  Boston  Latin 
School,  bom  in  London,  January  25, 1614 ;  came  to  Boston  in  New 
England  in  1 637  ;  removed,  probably  the  next  year,  to  New  Haven ; 
went  afterward  to  Ipswich,  then  to  Charlestown,  and  finally,  in 
1671,  to  Boston,  where  he  died  August  21,  1708.  For  a  biograph- 
ical notice  of  him*  and  an  account  of  some  of  his  descendants,  see 
the  Register  for  April,  1879  (xxxiii.  164). 

His  children  by  his  first  wife  Mary,  who  died  in  New  Haven,  Jan. 
20,  1649,  were: 

2.  i.      Samuel,  b.  in  New  Haven,  Sept.  22.  1639  ;  bapt.  there  17:  9:  1639.    For 

his  descendants,  see  Reg.  xxxiii.  193-202. 

ii.  Mary,  bapt.  in  New  Haven,  29:  9:  1640 ;  m.  (1)  22  Nov.  1671,  Capt.  Wil- 
liam Lewis,  of  Farmington.  Ct.,  as  his  second  wife.  She  m.  (2)  Tho- 
mas Bull,  of  Farmington,  Jan.  3,  1692,  and  d.  Jan.  10,  1728. 

iii.    £zKKiEL,  l^pt.  in  New  Haven,  12:  4:  1642  ;  d.  young. 

iv.  Elizabeth,  bapt.  in  New  Haven,  6:  2:  1645 ;  m.  in  Charlestown,  Sept.  6, 
1666,  Samuel  Goldthwaite. 

V.     Sarah,  bapt.  in  New  Haven,  21:  7:  1646. 

vi.    Hannah,  bapt.  in  New  Haven,  25:  4:  1648. 

His  children  by  his  second  wife,  Ellen  Lathrop,  sister  of  Capt 
Thomas  Lathrop,  of  Beverly,  whom  he  married  Nov.  18,  1652,  and 
who  died  in  Boston,  Sept.  10,  1706,  were : 

vii.  Abigail,  b.  Oct.  20.  1653 ;  d.  in  Boston,  Jan.  24,  1705,  unmarried,  aged 
52  years. 

3.  viii.  EzEKiEL,  b.  July  1, 16.55. 

ix.    Nathaniel,  b.  m  lj)swich,  June  23,  1657 ;  d.  there  July  12,  1657. 

4.  X.      Thomas,  b.  in  Ipswich,  Aug.  23,  1658. 

xi.    William,  b.  in  Charlestown,  Jan.  23,  bapt.  Jan.  29,  d.  there  Feb.  5, 

1664. 
xii.  Susanna,  m.  in  Boston,  June  5,  1693,  Joseph  Russell. 

3.   Ezekiel'  Cheever  {Ezehiel}),  tailor;  born  July  1,  1655  ;   married  in 
Salem,  June  17, 1G80,  Abigail  Lippingwell.  ^    t^Tx^  /P      ^  ^^ 
He  was  one  of  the  signers  of  the  petitionf  ^X*%l<^  xM^'^OVt^ 
of  the  Salem  Troop  for  commissioned  offi-  itm. 

cers  in  1 G78,  and  was  one  of  those  who  took  the  oath  of  fidelity  in 
that  year.J  He  took  the  oath  of  freeman,  May  11,  1681.§  He  was 
one  of  the  original  members  of  the  church  at  Salem  Village,  "  at  the 

•  Since  that  article  was  written,  the  Rev.  Edward  Everett  Hale  has  contributed  to  the 
Proceedings  of  tlie  Mass.  Historical  Society,  for  Nov.,  1882  (xx.  22),  extracts  from  Dr. 
William  Bennett's  copy  of  the  Register  of  Emmanuel  College,  Cambridjce,  Ensland.  One 
of  the  entries  in  it  is  as  follows :  *'  1632-33,  J»iu.  12.    EzekicI  Cheever.  Sizar.  Middlesex." 

t  Reoisteb,  X.  66. 

t  Essex  Court  Files,  xxx.  63.  {  Mass.  Col.  Records,  t.  640. 


1884.]    JSzekiel  Oheever  and  some  of  his  Descendants.  173 

first  Embodying,  on  y*.  19,  Nov'.  1689,"*  and  was  soon  subjected  to 
its  discipline.  *^  Sab.  30  March  1690  Brother  Cheevers  who  having 
in  distress  for  a  horse  upon  his  wives  approaching  travell  about  five 
or  six  weeks  past  taken  his  neighbour  Joseph  Putmans  horse  out  of 
his  stable  &  without  leave  or  asking  of  it,  was  called  forth  to  give 
satisfaction  to  the  ofiended  Church,  as  also  the  last  Sabbath  he  was 
called  forth  for  the  same  purpose,  but  then  he  failed  in  giving  sat- 
isfaction, by  reason  of  hb  somewhat  minsing  in  the  latter  part  of  his 
confession,  which  in  the  former  he  had  more  ingenuously  acknow- 
ledged, but  this  day  the  Church  received  satisfaction  as  was  testi- 
fyed  by  their  holding  up  of  their  hands.  And  upon  the  whole  a  word 
of  caution  by  the  Pastor  was  dropt  upon  th  offendour  in  particular, 
&  upon  us  all  in  generall."t 

At  the  hearing  which  took  place  before  the  magistrates,  March  1, 
1691-2,  in  Salem  Village,  in  the  cases  of  Sarah  Grood,  Sarah  Os- 
bum  and  Tituba,  the  Indian  woman,  the  first  persons  charged  with 
the  crime  of  witchcraft,  he  was  deputed  to  take  down  in  writing  the 
examination  of  these  unfortunate  persons.)  This  was  the  opening 
scene  in  the  terrible  tragedy  of  the  Salem  Witchcraft  A  fac  simile 
of  his  signature  as  it  appears  on  a  depo8ition§  in  the  case  of  ^  Goodie 
Corie ''  is  given  above.  At  the  trial  of  Martha  Corey  he  made  the 
following  deposition,§  March  19,  1691-2:  *'M'  Ezekiel  Cheevers 
affirmd  to  y*  jury  of  inquest :  that  he  saw  Martha  wife  to  Giles  Cory 
examined  before  y*  majestrates  at  which  time  he  observed  that  y*  sd 
Cory  some  times  did  bite  her  lip ;  and  when  she  bit  her  lip  mercy 
Lewis  and  Eliza*^  Hubbard  and  others  of  y*  afflicted  persons  were 
bitten  also  when  s'd  Cory  pinched  her  fingers  together  :  then  mercy 
lewise  Elizabeth  Hubbard  and  others  were  pinched ;  and  acording 
to  y*  motions  of  s'd  martha  Coryes  body  ;  so  was  y*  afflicted  per- 
sons ;  afflicted ;  this  he  affirmed  to  be  true  acording  to  y*  best  of 
his  observation  Mr  Edward  Putnam  affirmed  y'  same  to  y'  jury  of 
inquest  that  M'  Cheevers  doth  M'  Thomas  Putnam  affirmed  y* 
same :  all  upon  oaths  all  of  them." 

He  owned  lands  in  Dracut,  and  was  one  of  the  Committee  of  the 
Proprietors  to  lay  out  undivided  lands]  there.  His  name  appears 
on  the  rate-list  of  Salem  Village  as  late  as  173  LIT  His  will,  dated 
Nov.  18,  1724,  was  probated  Dec.  30,  1731.     His  children**  were : 

i.      Abigail,  b.  in  Salem,  22:  1:  1679-80. 
ii.     EzEKiKL,  bapt.  1st  Church,  Salem,  July  31,  1681. 
ill.    Thomas,  b.  Salem,  Feb.  28,  1683  ;  d.  Deo.  17,  1690. 
iv.    £zEKiEL,  b.  Salem,  March  15,  1685>6 ;  bapt  Ist  Church,  Salem,  Sept.  3, 
1687 ;  d.  Feb.  15,  1689-90. 
5.  T.     Samukl,  b.  Salem,  Feb.  9,  1689-90 ;  bapt.  Salem  Village,  April  13,  1690. 

•  Rboistbr,  xi.  131. 
t  Rboibtee,  xi.  131. 

X  EsMx  Coart  Files,  Witchcraft,  i.  12;  Upham's  Salem  Witchcraft,  ii.  13-26;  Hist.  Coll. 
BMex  Inst.,  ii.  74-6. 

1;  Enex  Coart  Files,  Witchcraft,  I  13. 
\  Drake's  Hirt.  of  Middlesex  Co.  (Dracut,  hy  the  Rey.  Ellas  Nason),  I.  408,  409.  410 : 
ddlescx  Deeds.  L.  28,  f.  500:  L.  21,  f.  178,  632;  L.  24,  f.  452. 
t  Upham's  Salem  Witchcraft,  i.  113. 

—  The  dates  of  birth  are  from  the  Salem  Records.  The  dates  of  baptism  are  from  the 
HitC  Coll.  Essex  Inst.  vii.  121,  126;  xTi.  235-7,  239.  The  name  of  the  mother  of  Benja- 
min is  erroneoasly  written  in  the  original  record  R.  Cheerer.  The  date  of  death  of  Tho* 
ma«  is  ft^m  the  Reg.  xxxvi.  188. 

VOL.  xzxYni.        16* 


174        JEzekiel  Cheever  and  some  of  his  Descendants.      [April, 

6.  yi.    Ebenezer,  bapt.  Salem  Village,  Jane  26,  1692. 

vii.  Nathaniel,  bapt.  Salem  Village,  removed  to  Dracnt ;  yeoman. 

Administration  on  his  estate  was  granted  to  hia  nephew  £zekiel  Chee- 
ver, of  Dracut,  husbandman,  who  gave  bond  July  11,  1763. 

viii.  EzEKiEL,  m.  in  Marblehead,  June  ^,  1738,  Hannah  Phillips.  He  re- 
moved to  Dracut  and  was  a  husbandman.  Administration  on  bis 
estate  was  granted  to  his  brother  Nathaniel,  who  filed  bis  bond,  Oct. 
27,  1739,  the  widow  Hannah  declining  to  administer. 

7.  ix.    Benjamin,  bapt.  Salem  Village,  July  6,  1701. 

4.  Thomas^  Cheever  {EzekieU)^  Rev.,  bom  in  Ipswich  Angnst  23, 1658 ; 
graduated  at  Harvard  College  in  1677.  He  was  admitted  a  mem- 
ber of  the  First  Church,*  Boston, 

July      1680,  and  took  the  oath  of      _^-^  ^  / 

freemantOct.13, 1680.    He  began   t^^JhjflfiM     L^/iC&l/CI^ 
to  preach  at  Maiden  "14  day  of  1708 

February  1679,"  and  was  ordained  there  July  27, 1 681,  as  colleague 
of  the  Rev.  Michael  Wigglesworth  (Harv.  Coll.  1651).t 

Edward  Randolph,  "  the  evil  genius  of  New  England,"  who  a^ 
rived  in  Boston  October  26,  1683,  with  the  q\M  warranto  "issued 
against  the  Charter  and  Government"  of  Massachusetts,  in  his 
"  Narrative  of  the  Delivery  of  his  Majesty's  writ  of  quo  warranto^ 
presented  to  the  Privy  Council,  and  which  was  read  to  the  Coundl 
March  11, 1684,  says  that  "  Seven  or  eight  days  before  the  Assembly 

broke  up,  a  libellous  paper  was  dispersed  in  Boston It  was 

verily  believed  that  one  Cheevers,  a  young,  hot-headed  minister, 
was  the  author  of  that  paper.**§ 

Judge  Sewall  in  his  diary,  under  date  of  March  15,  1686,  writes: 
"  Mr.  Wigglesworth  here,  speaks  about  a  Council  respecting  Mr. 
Thomas  Chiever,"||  and  again  March  28,  1686,  "  Letter  read  from 
Maldon  directed  to  the  three  Churches  in  Boston,  desiring  Council 
respecting  their  Pastor  Mr.  Tho.  Chiever,  who  is  charg'd  with  scan- 
dalous immoralities,  for  which  hath  not  given  satisfaction. "IT  Sewall 
was  himself  a  member  of  the  Council  called  to  consider  these  charges, 
and  he  has  left  an  account**  of  the  trial  which  took  place  in  Maiden, 
April  7,  1686.  Ezekiel  Cheever,  schoolmaster,  the  father  of  the 
pastor,  "desired  to  be  present,  was  admitted  and  bid  wellcom,  except 
when  Council  debated  in  private  all  alone."  The  Rev.  Mr.  Chee- 
ver denied  the  truth  of  the  charges.  The  Council  in  their  report 
complained  that  they  had  not  seen  ^*  that  humble  penitential  frame 
in  him  when  before  us,  that  would  have  become  him.'*  They  ad- 
vised the  church  to  suspend  him  from  the  exercise  of  his  ministerial 
function  for  the  space  of  six  weeks,  *^  and  that  in  case  he  shall  in 
the  mean  while  manifest  that  Repentance  which  the  Rule  requires^ 
they  should  confirm  their  Love  to  him,  and  (if  possible)  improve 
him  again  in  the  Lord's  Work  among  them.''  When  the  report  was 
read  in  public  the  following  day  by  the  moderator,  the  Rev.  Increase 

•  Transcript  of  the  records  of  the  First  Church,  Boston,  in  the  library  of  the  Mass.  Hist 
Society. 

t  Mass.  Col.  Records,  v.  640. 

X  Memoir  of  Rev.  Michael  Wigglesworth,  author  of  the  Day  of  Doom,  l^  John  Ward 
Dean,  second  ed.,  Albany,  N.  T.,  Joel  Munscll,  1871.    See  also  Ebo.  xvii.  1^. 

6  Palfrey's  Hist,  of  New  England,  iii.  387,  note. 

11  Sewall's  Diary,  i.  127. 

%  Scwall's  Diarv,  i.  130. 

♦♦  SewaU'8  Diaiy,  ii.  21,*  22,*  23.* 


1884.]    EzeJeiel  Cheever  and  some  of  his  Descendants.  175 

Mather,  "  Mr.  Chiever  the  Father,  stood  up  and  pathetically  desir'd 
his  son  might  speak,  hut  Mr.  Moderator  and  others  judg'd  it 
not  convenient,  he  not  having  by  what  he  said  given  the  Council 
encouragement.**  The  result  was  that  the  Council  which  adjourned 
to  meet  in  Boston,  where  meetings  were  held  May  20th  and  27th, 
and  June  10th,  1686,  advised  the  Church  to  grant  him  a  ^Moving 
dismission."* 

He  removed  shortly  after  this  to  Rumney  Marsh,t  then  a  part  of 
Boston,  but  which  was  incorporated  in  1739  as  a  distinct  town  under 
the  name  of  Chelsea.  The  inhabitants  of  Rumney  Marsh  had  suc- 
ceeded as  early  as  1701  in  obtaining  a  votej  of  the  town  authoriz- 
ing the  establishment  of  a  school  there,  but  nothing  appears  to  have 
been  done  until  the  following  vote§  was  passed  by  the  selectmen  of 
Boston,  January  24,  1709,  **  That  in  case  M*"  Thomas  Cheever  do 
undertake  and  attend  the  keeping  Such  School  at  his  House  four 
dayes  in  a  weeke  weekly  for  y*  space  of  one  year  ensueing,  and  ren- 
der an  acco'  vnto  the  Selectmen  once  every  Quarter  of  the  number 
of  Children  or  Schollars  belonging  untoy*  s**  district,  wh*'*  shall  duly 
attend  the  S^  School,  he  shall  be  allowed  &  paid  out  of  the  Town 
Treasury  after  the  Rate  of  Twenty  pounds  p  annum  for  his  service." 
The  Register  for  Jan.,  1864  (xviii.  109),  contains  his  "  account  of 
y*  schollars  attending  y*  School  in  Rumny-marish  for  reading, 
writing,  and  cyphering,  in  the  last  quarter :  ending  February :  8th 
1709-10 :--3  from  Hog  island;  2  of  Jon°:  Tuttle;  2  of  Edw^  Tut- 
tle:  sen' ;  4  of  Elisha  Tuttle's ;  4  of  Hugh  Floyd's ;  2  of  John 
Floyd's ;  2  of  Chamberlane's ;  3  of  Will:  Hassey  ;  1  of  Abra:  Has- 
sey ;  2  of  Lewis's ;  1  of  Cole's ;  3  of  Marble  ;  1  of  Pratt ;  1  of 
Center's ;  2  of  Cheever's."|| 

On  the  formation  of  the  church  in  Rumney  Marsh,  October  19, 
1715,  he  was  ordainedlT  as  its  first  minister.  The  Rev.  Joseph 
Tuckerman,  who  was  ordained  in  Chelsea,  November  4,  1801,  in  a 
sermon**  preached  to  commemorate  the  completion  of  twenty  years  of 
his  pastorate,  says  :  "  Mr.  Cheever  had  been  minister  of  the  church 
in  Maiden;  but  his  records  contain  no  reference  to  this  fact;  and 
whatever  were  the  circumstances  which  occasioned  his  separation 
from  that  church,  they  do  not  appear  to  have  come  before  the  coun- 
cil which  ordained  him  here.  But  one  only  remains  among  us  who 
distinctly  remembers  him ;  although  two  others  who  sat  under  his 
ministry  are  still  living  with  us.  I  am  told  that  he  was  much  re- 
spected at  home  ;   and  his   records  bear  ample  testimony  to  the 


3M 


•  Dean's  Memoir  of  Wigglesworth,  p.  90. 
t  Saflblk  Deeci8,  L.  15,  f.  2. 
Memorial  Hist,  of  Boston  (Rumney  Marsh,  etc^  by  the  Hon.  Mellen  Chamberlain),  ii. 


L Boston  Selectmen's  Minates,  i.  177. 
The  Hon.  McIlen  Chamberlain,  in  the  Memorial  History  of  Boston  (ii.  380),  has  given 
c-«imile  of  another  of  these  returns,  the  original  of  which  is  in  his  exceedingly  valuable 
manascrlpt  collection,  for  the  two  quarters  ending  Feb.  8,  1713-4. 
^  Jodgc  Sewall  was  present  at  this  ordination.    Sec  Diary,  iii.  63. 
••  This  is  the  sermon  referred  to  by  the  Hon.  Mellen  Chamberlain  in  his  Studies  in  Chcl- 
fea  History,  published  in  the  Chelsea  Telegraph  and  Pioneer  of  Nov.  20,  1880,  as  not  to  tx) 
fbond  in  any  of  the  libraries  in  or  about  Boston.  The  extracts  here  printed  are  made,  with 
bts  permiasion,  fn)m  the  copy  which  he  at  last  succeeded  in  obtaining. 

Tnc  Rev.  Thomas  Cheever  was  the  author  of  "  The  Church's  Duty  and  Safety.  Boston. 
1716,"  and  "  Two  Sermons  Preached  at  Maldon.  The  First,  August  26,  1722.  On  the  Sab- 
bath.  The  Second  on  a  Particular  Fast,  June  i^  1725.  Printed  for,  and  Sold  by  Nicholas 
Boone,  at  his  Shop  in  Comhill,  1726.' 


» 


176        JEzeJciel  Cheever  and  some  of  his  Descendants.     [April, 

regard  which  was  felt  for  him  by  neighbouring  churches.  There  was 
at  that  time  more  of  ostensible  discipline  in  the  church,  than  there  is 
at  this  day ;  and  the  minute  detail  which  he  has  left  of  complaints 
and  investigations,  of  publick  censures,  acknowledgments  and  par- 
dons, at  once  indicate  the  strong  feeling  which  the  church  then  had 
of  its  power  and  its  daty,  and  shew  that  he  was  not  behind  those  of 
his  cotemporaries,  who  were  most  zealous  for  ministerial  fidelity, 
in  this  department  of  the  sacred  office.  But  I  know  not  that  we 
have  any  reason  to  think,  that  this  mode  of  exercising  power  cod- 
tribated  to  the  advancement  of  the  true  interest  of  the  church.  That 
it  gave  occasion  for  the  indnlgence  of  bad  passions,  is  as  certain,  as 
that  it  availed  in  any  instance  to  the  correction  of  evil.  It  grew, 
however,  out  of  the  spirit  of  the  time,  and  is  now  almost  unknown 
in  this  section  of  our  country." 

'^  In  consequence  of  his  age  and  infirmities,  it  was  determined  that 
the  7th  of  October,  1747,  should  be  observed  as  a  day  of  ^tingand 
prayer,  for  the  purpose  of  imploring  the  direction  of  Almighty  Grod 
in  the  choice  of  a  minister  as  colleague  with  the  Rev.  Mr.  Cheever. 
....  It  does  not  appear  that  he  preached  after  this  time ;  and  he 
died  in  November,  1749,  retaining  the  unabated  affection  of  those  to 
whom  he  had  dispensed  the  word  and  ordinances  of  the  gospel.** 
"  He  lived,"  says  Sibley,*  "  to  be  the  oldest  surviving  graduate  of 
the  college;  Samuel  Andrew,  of  the  Class  of  1675,  the  next  oldest 
before  him,  having  died  in  1738." 

He  died  in  Chelsea,  Nov.  27,  or  Dec  27,  according  to  the  inscrip- 
tion on  his  gravestone,  1749.  His  will  (No.  9441),  dated  Oct.  13, 
1748,  was  probated  Jan.  23,  1749. 

He  married  (1)  Sarah,  daughter  of  James  Bill,  Sen'r,  of  Pullen 
Point.  She  died  January  30,  1704-5  (g.s.).  He  married  (2)  in 
Boston,  July  30, 1707,  Elizabeth  Warren.  She  died  May  10, 1727, 
set  64.  He  married  (3)  (pub,  August  31,  1727)  Abigail  Jarvis, 
who  survived  him,  and  who  died  a  widow  in  Boston,  June  20,  1753, 
set  84.  Her  will  (No.  10489),  dated  March  28,  1750,  was  probated 
June  29, 1753.     His  children,  all  by  his  first  wife,  were : 

6.  i.  Thomas. 

ii.  Sarah,  m.  in  Boston,  Nov.  7,  1701,  Thomas  Kendall. 

9.  iii.  Joshua,  b.  Boston,  Jan.  6,  1687. 
iy.  Abigail,  b.  Boston,  May  20,  1690. 

T.     Abigail,  b.  Boston,  March  20,  1690-1 ;  m.  in  Boston,  June  3, 1714,  John 
Burt.t 

10.  vi.    £zEKiEL,  b.  Boston,  March  7,  1691-2. 

11.  vii.  Nathan,  b.  Boston,  March  16,  1694. 

5.  Samuel*  Cheever  (Ezekiel*  EzekieJ})^  weaver,  bom  in  Salem,  Feb. 
9,  1689-90.  Administration  on  his  estate  was  granted  Jan.  14, 
1733,  to  his  widow,  Mary  Cheever.  Their  children,]:  all  bom  in 
Salem,  were : 

Abigail,  b.  Oct.  3,  1715 ;  bapt.  in  Salem  Village,  Oct.  9,  1715. 
i.     Samuel,  b.  April  30,  1719 ;  bapt.  in  Salem  Village,  June  7,  1719. 
ii.    Israel,  b.  June  18,  1721 ;  bapt.  in  Salem  Village,  Oct.  15,  1721 ;  m.  in 
Salem,  May  25,  1750.  Ruth  Perkins,  of  Topsfield. 

•  Sibley's  Harvard  Oradnates,  ii.  503. 
t  Eliors  Biographical  Dictionary,  p.  108,  note. 

t  The  births  arc  from  the  Salem  records,  the  baptisms  flrom  the  Ulst.  Col.  Essex  InHi- 
late,  xyL  310,  313, 314,  317. 


1884.]     Ezehiel  Cheever  and  some  of  his  Descendants.  177 

IT.     Mart,  b.  April  30,  1725 ;  bapt.  in  Salem  Village,  Aug.  S22,  1725. 
T.      fluzABiTH,  b.  Aug.  28,  1728. 

6.  Ebenezer*  Cheever  {Ezekiel^  Ezehiel}),  cooper,  baptized  in  Salem 

Village,  June  26,  1692  ;  married  in  Salem,  June  11,  1718,  Sarah 
White.  In  a  deed  dated  May  3,  1749,  recorded  with  Essex  Deeds, 
Lib.  102,  fol.  7,  and  a  deed  dated  May  19,  1763,  recorded  with 
Middlesex  Deeds,  Lib.  60,  fol.  568,  he  describes  himself  as  of  Leba- 
non in  the  County  of  Windham  and  Colony  of  Connecticut  His 
children*  were : 

i.  Amos,  bapt.  Salem  Villajze,  May  1,  1720. 

ii.  Nathan,  bapt.  Salem  Vmage,  Jan.  6,  1722. 

iii.  Sarah,  bapt.  Salem  Viila^re,  June  13,  1725. 

It.  EssirBZXR,  bapt.  Salem  Village,  Sept.  24,  1727. 

7.  Benjamin*  Cheever  {Ezekiei*  JSzekieP),  weaver,  baptized  in  Salem 

Village,  July  6,  1701  ;  married  (1)  in  Salem,  October  21,  1725, 
Mercy  Wilkins ;  married  (2)  in  Salem,  September  18,  1740,  Ra- 
chel Stacey.  He  removed  to  Souhegan  West,  incorporated  in  1760, 
and  called  Amherst,  New  Hampshire.  Both  he  and  his  son  Benja- 
min Cheever,  Jr.,  signed  the  petitionf  for  protection  against  the  Li- 
dians  in  1747.  His  children,  all  by  his  first  wife,  and  all  born  in 
Salem,*  were : 

i.  A  daughter,  b.  Dec.  31, 1726 ;  d.  a  week  after. 

ii.  Bknjamin,  b.  March  20, 1727-8. 

ill.  £zBxixL.  b.  Nov.  8,  1729 ;  d.  Feb.  4,  following. 

iv.  Mkrct,  b.  May  3,  1731. 

V.  John,  b.  May  23,  1738. 

8.  Thomas'  Cheever  ( Thomas*  EzekieP),  gentleman ;    was  of  Rumney 

Marsh  as  late  as  1702,  and  in  that  year  removed  to  Lynn.      He  is 

styled  in  earlier  deeds  cordwainer, 

yeoman  and  tanner.    With  Eben-  ^  ^^  ^ 

Boston  Street  crossing,  t   The  pri-  1743. 

vilege  had  been  granted§  October  27,  1721,  by  the  town  of  Lynn  to 
Benjamin  Potter,  Jacob  Newhall  and  William  Curtis,  who  resigned 
their  grantj  October  8,  1722.  At  the  same  meeting  the  privilege 
was  granted  Xo  Thomas  Cheever  and  Ebeuezer  Merriam.  He  was 
an  enterprising  man,  and  the  Church,  Town  and  County  records 
give  ample  evidence  of  his  ceaseless  activity.  He  took  the  foremost 
part  in  the  formation  of  the  church  in  the  third  parish  of  Lynn,  of 
which  his  son  Edward  was  the  first  settled  minister.  This  parish 
was  incorporated  as  a  distinct  town  in  1815  and  named  Saugus.  He 
was  one  of  the  directors  of  the  Manufactory  Companylf  in  1740. 

He  died  in  Lynn,  Nov.  8,  1753,  and  administration  on  his  estate 
was  granted  Dec.  17, 1753,  to  his  son  Joshua  Cheever. 

He  married  (1)  in  Boston,  Feb.  11,  1701,  Mary  Bordman,  daugh- 
ter of  William  Bordman ;  (2)  in  Lynn,  August  6,  1712,  Mary  Sa- 

•  These  baptisms  are  from  the  Hist.  Col.  Essex  Institute,  xvi.  313,  315,  316,  318. 
t  Town  Papers,  New  Hampshire,  ix.  8,  9. 

♦  Newhairs  Lewis's  Hist,  of  Lynn,  320. 
I  Town  llecords.  1706-1754,  p.  132. 

i  Town  Records,  1706-1754.  p.  153. 
%  Soflblk  Deeds,  L.  60,  f.  21. 


178        EzeJciel  Cheever  and  some  of  his  Descendants.      [April, 

ker,  who  died  in  Lynn,  May  10, 1753.  He  married  (3)  October 
19,  1753,  Mary  [Emerson  ?],  who  saryiyed  him.  His  son  Abner, 
in  his  family  Bible,*  thus  records  some  of  these  events:  *'May  y* 
10'**  1753  my  mother  Cheever  Deperted  this  Life  October  y*  19 
on  Friday  my  Father  marred  again,  brgt  his  wife  hom  on  fryday 
y*  26,  he  Brock  his  leag  on  monday  y*  29,  &  thirsd  Com  Senet 
i^ovember  y*  8  1753  he  Deperted  This  Life." 

The  children  he  had  by  his  first  wife,  all  born  in  Ljrnn,  were : 

i.  Mart,  b.  Nov.  3,  1703. 

13.  ii.  Thomas,  b.  Feb.  35,  1704-5. 

13.  iii.  WiLUAM,  b.  May  31 ,  1706. 
iv.  Abnbr,  b.  Feb.  19,  1709-10. 

His  children  by  his  second  wife,  all  bom  in  Lynn,  were : 

14.  V.     £zKKiSL,b.  March  35,  1714. 

15.  vi.    Joshua,  b.  Oct.  4,  1715. 

16.  vii.  Edward,  b.  May  3,  1717. 

17.  viii.  Abuah,  b.  Dec.  11,  1718. 
iz.    John,  b.  June  13,  1730. 

X.  Mart,  b.  April  10, 1723 ;  m.  in  Lynn,  Dec.  34, 1739,  Timothy  Upham,t 
of  Maiden. 

xi.  Sarah,  b.  Feb.  14,  1723-4 ;  m.  (1)  in  Lynn,  March  8,  1752,  Capt.  Wil- 
liam Robyt ;  m.  (3)  (pub.  May  33, 1757)  Col.  James  Frye,  of  Andover. 

18.  xii.  Abner,  b.  Jan.  34,  1735-6. 

xiii.  Elizabeth,  b.  Aug.  16,  1737;  m.  in  Lynn,  Sept.  18, 1761,  Jacob  Parker, 
of  Maiden. 

9.  Joshua'  Cheever  {Thonuu*  EzehieP)^  merchant,  bom  in  Boston, 
Jan.  6,  1687.  He  was  one  of  the  original  members  of  the  New 
North  Church  §  in  Boston,  which  was  gathered  Oct  20,  1714,  was 
chosen  deacon  Nov.  1,  1720,  ruling  elder  July  11,  1736,  ordained 
August  7, 1737.  He  was  one  of  the  selectmen  of  Boston, |  1730-2, 
one  of  the  Prince  subscribersIT  in  1736,  and  in  1741  was  commander 
of  the  Ancient  and  Honorable  Artillery  Company.** 

He  married  (1)  in  Boston,  Nov.  2,  1708,  Sarah  Warren.  She 
died  in  Boston,  Jan.  26,  1723,  set.  37  yrs.  He  married  (2)  in  Boston, 
Nov.  5,  1724,  Sarah  Jenkins,  widow  of  David  Jenkins  and  daugh- 
ter of  Robert  Sears. 

•  This  Bible  is  now  in  the  possession  of  Prof.  David  W.  Cheerer,  M.D.,  of  Boston,  a 
great-grandson  of  Abner  Cheever.  Extracts  from  the  family  record  it  contains  were  pob- 
Sshed  by  William  B.  Trask,  Esq.,  in  the  Register  for  January,  1878  (zzxii.90).  The 
name  of  the  third  wife  of  Thomas^  CheeTcr  is  not  given,  nor  have  1,  so  far,  beenmble  to 
discover  the  record  of  this  marriage.  The  Lynn  records,  however,  onder  date  of  Septem- 
ber SO,  1763,  record  the  intention  of  marriage  of  Mr.  Thomas  Cheever  and  Mrs.  Mary  Em- 
enon,  of  Reading,  and  a  certificate  was  issued  October  15,  1753.  This  Thomas  was  if 
all  probability  Thomas'  Cheever,  but  as  his  grandson  Thomaa^  Cheever  also  had  a  wM 
Mary,  whom  he  must  have  married  about  this  time,  I  hesitate  to  state  the  fact  positively 
and  without  reservation.  There  is  great  confusion  attending  the  marriages  of  these  various 
Thomas  and  Mary  Cheevcrs,  and  Mr.  Savage  (Gen.  Diet.  i.  372)  has  actually  married  the 
Sev.  Thomas*  Cheever  to  Mary  Bordman,  the  wife  of  his  son  Thomas'  Cheever.  bi  Uiis 
mistake  he  has  been  followed  by  subsequent  writers,  not  however  by  the  accarato  tad 
painstaking  Sibley  (Harvard  Graduates,  ii.  506),  who  has  called  attention  to  thte  error. 

t  Register,  i.  43 ;  xii.  241 ;  xxiii.  37. 

X  The  date  of  this  marriage  was  March  8, 1752,  according  to  the  returns  In  the  offiee  of 
the  Clerk  of  the  Courts,  Salem.    According  to  the  Church  Records  it  was  Jan.  3, 1753. 

}  The  original  records  of  the  New  North  Church,  as  the  society  has  become  extinct,  ait 
deposited  with  the  City  Clerk.  A  transcript,  made  by  the  late  Thomas  B.  Wymaa,  Jr., 
has  been  placed  by  the  Record  Commissioners  in  the  City  Registrar's  office.  See  also 
Snow's  Hist.  Boston,  212 ;  Memorial  Hist.  Boston,  ii.  220. 

D  Town  Records,  iii.  12, 17,  28. 

^  Register,  vi.  191 ;  Memorial  Hist.  Boston,  ii.  562. 

*«  Transcript  of  the  records  of  the  Ancient  and  Honorable  Artillery  Company  d^odlad 
in  the  Boston  Athenaoum.   See  also  Memorial  Hist,  Boston,  ilL  301. 


1884.]     JStzekiel  Cheever  and  same  of  his  Descendants.         179 

His  will  (No.  9898),  dated  Oct  20,  1750,  and  a  codicil  dated 
Jane  25,  1751,  were  probated  Dec.  18, 1751.  His  estate  was  ap- 
pnited  at  £48972:  14:  9,  old  tenor,  or  £6529.  13.  9^  L.  money. 
Administration  (No.  11069)  on  the  estate  of  Sarah  Cheever,  his 
widow,  was  granted  June  13,  1755,  to  her  son  David  Jenkins  of 
Boston,  merchant     No  issue. 

10.  Ezekiel'  Cheeybr  (  Thomas^*  EzekieU),  Hon.,  bom  in  Boston,  March 
7,  1691-2 ;  removed  to  Charlestown.  He  is  styled  mariner,  captain 
and  merchant  in  various  documents.  He  was  one  of  the  selectmen* 
of  Charlestown  in  1732  and  subsequent  years,  a  representativef  for 
several  terms,  beginning  in  1736,  and  in  1743  was  chosen  one  of 
His  Majesty's  Council.t  He  was  of  the  Ancient  and  Honorable 
Artillery  Company  §  in  1733,  and  one  of  the  Prince  subscribers!  in 
1736.  Leave  was  granted  him,  August  2,  1736,T  to  build  <<a  Tomb 
on  the  burial  hill,  near  Cha:  Chambers  Esq**."  He  was,  with 
others  of  the  Council,  added  to  the  committee  of  the  General 
Court,**  appointed  in  1744,  to  provide  transports  for  the  expe- 
dition to  Louisburg,  and  as  a  member  of  the  Council  in  1757 
his  signature  appears  affixed  to  the  commissionff  of  Sir  William  Pep- 
perrell  as  Lieutenant  General.  The  Boston  Chronlcle,tt  iii.  87,  c  1, 
contains  the  following  notice  of  his  death :  ''  Boston  Mar.  15,  1770, 
— Last  week  died  at  Charlestown,  the  Hon.  Ezekiel  Cheever,  Esq.,  in 
the  78th  year  of  his  age ;  formerly  a  Rep.  in  the  General  Court  for 
that  town,  and  many  years  a  member  of  his  Maj's  Council  for  this 
Province." 

He  married  (1)  in  Charlestown,  September  29,  1715,  Elizabeth 
Jenner.§§  She  died  in  Charlestown,  May  5,  1728.  He  married 
(2)  in  Charlestown,  September  25,  1729,  Elizabeth  Gill,  daughter 
of  Michael  Gill,  and  (3)  in  Charlestown,  November  11,  1736,  Sarah 
Mousall.ig 

Administration  on  his  estate,  which  was  appraised  at  £1003: 18:  7}, 
was  granted  to  his  sou  David,  who  gave  bond,  May  15,  1770.  His 
childrenlTir  were : 

*  Cbarle^town  Archives,  xxiii.  157  et  teq.  Memorial  History  of  Boston  (Charlestown  br 
Henry  H.  Edcs),  ii.  325.  At  a  town  meeting  held  in  Charlestown,  March  2, 1746-7  (xxiiL 
S27).  he  WHS  again  chosen  one  of  the  selectmen,  but  declined.  The  town  then  *'  Voted  the 
HoQ^.  Ezekiel  Cheever  the  thanks  of  ttie  Town  for  his  good  Service  in  the  Several  offices 
be  baa  Sustained  in  the  Town  for  many  years." 

t  Chiirlestown  Archives,  xxiii.  199  et  teq. 

t  Charlestown  Archives,  xxiii.  287. 

f  Tran;»cript  of  the  Records  of  the  Ancient  and  Honorable  Artillery  Company,  deposited 
tn  the  Boston  Athennnm. 

4RBOitrTBR,  vi.  191 ;  Memorial  Hist.  Boston,  ii.  562. 
Charlestown  Archives,  xxiii.  202.     This  tomb  has  armorial  bearings  cut  in  stone,  with 
tbit  foacription :  "  No  57  Ezekiel  Cheevbb  Esq'  His  Tomb,  1744."     The  arms,  however, 
■re  not  the  Cheever,  but  the  Cheytor  arms.   Letter  of  J.  C.  J.  Brown,  Esq.,  Sept.  3, 1883; 
Heraldic  Journal,  i.46,  72;  Register,  xviii.  268. 
.   •«  Mais.  Oen.  Ct.  Rec.  xviL  (4)  662. 
ft  Reoistek,  xxi.  208. 

Jn  RxoisTEB,  xxiii.  209.    See  also  the  Essex  Gazette  for  March  20, 1770. 
I  Rboister,  xix.  248. 
I  [Serah  Mousall  was  daughter  of  Nicholas  Lynde  and  widow  of  Jonathan  Phillips  and 
omas  Monrall.    By  her  first  husband  she  was  the  mother  of  Sarah  Phillips  who  mar- 
ried Ezekiel  (19)  Cheever.    (D.  P.  Corey.    Wyman's  Oen.  and  Estates  of  Charlestown.)] 

%%  The  births  are  from  the  Charlestown  records,  the  baptisms  from  the  "  Record  Book  of 
the  First  Church  in  Charlestown,"  as  printed  bv  James  F.  Hunnewcll,  Esq.,  in  the  Regis- 
TBS,  xxxi.  326,  xxxii.  61, 63,  169,  173, 174.  In  the  record  of  baptism  of  Elizabeth,  the 
name  if  ernmeously  given  at  Abigail. 


180  Ezekiel  Cheever  and  some  of  his  Descendants.     [April, 

19.  i.      EzEKTEL,  bapt.  1st  Church,  Charlestown,  May  15,  1720. 

20.  ii.     David,  b.  CnarlcetowD,  June  1,  1722 ;  bapt.  Ist  Gbaroh,  CharieBtown, 

June  3,  1722. 

iii.  Elizabeth,  b.  Charlestown,  Jan.  1,  1723-4;  bapt.  1st  Church,  Charles- 
town,  Jan.  5,  1723-4;  m.  in  Charlestown,  October  20,  1741,  Samoel 
Henley. 

iv.  Sarah,  b.  Charlestown,  July  21,  1727  ;  bapt.  Ist  Church,  Charles- 
town, July  23,  1727;  m.  (j)  in  Charlestown,  Not.  30,  1749,  Thomas 
Savage;*  m.  (2)  (pud,  in  Boston,  Sept.  26,  1705)  William  Taylor. 

T.  Thomas,  b.  Charlestown,  July  2,  1730;  bapt.  1st  Church,  Charlertown, 
July  5,  1730 ;  Harv.  Coll.  1750.  Captain  of  a  company  in  the  French 
and  Indian  War.  (Muster  Rolls,  xcyi.  53, 03-6.  Charlestown  ArchiTes, 
zxiii.  476.) 

yi.  Relief,  b.  Charlestown,  Aug.  30,  1731 :  bapt.  1st  Church,  Charlestown, 
Sept.  5,  1731. 

yii.  Joshua,  b.  Charlestown,  May        1738. 

11.  Nathan*  Cheever  (Thomas'  EzekteP),  gentleman,  born  in  Bostooi 

March  16,  1694.  At  a  town  meetiiigf  held  in  Boston,  March  15, 
1725,  he  was  chosen  constable  for  liutnney  Marsh.  After  the  in- 
corporation of  Chelsea  he  was  one  of  its  selectmen.t  He  was  of 
the  Ancient  and  Honorable  Artillery  Company  §  in  1733.  He 
married  (I)  (pub,  Nov.  8,  1721)  Hannah  Brook8.||  She  died 
July  1,  1724  (g.s.).  He  married  (2)  in  Boston,  February  15, 1738, 
Anna  Fuller,  widow  of  Nathaniel  Fuller  and  daughter  of  Samuel 
Burrill,  of  Lynn.  She  died  November  10,  1740.  He  died  Sep- 
tember 30,  1774  (g.s.).  Buried  "Oct'  2  1774  Lieut  Nathan  Chee- 
ver M'  81  years."ir  His  will  (No.  15704),  dated  October  2,  1769, 
was  probated  October  21,  1774,  and  his  estate  was  appraised  at 
£840:  4:  6.     He  had  one  child  by  each  of  his  wives : 

21.  i.      Nathan,  b.  in  Boston  (R.  M.),  Jan.  15,  1722 ;  bapt.  in  Rumney  Marsh, 

Jan.  20,  1722-3. 

22.  ii.     Joshua,  b.  in  Chebea,  Oct.  10,  1740;  bapt.  in  Chelsea,  Oct.  12,  1740. 

12.  Thomas*  Cheever  (Thomas^^  Thomas^  Ezekiel})^  yeoman,  bom  in 

Lynn,  Feb.  25,  1704-5;  married  in  Lynn,  March  5,  1729-30,  Eu- 
nice Ivory,**  daughter  of  John  Ivory.  His  will,  dated  February  13, 
1734-5,  was  probated  April  7,  1735.  Their  children,  both  bom  in 
Lynn,  were : 

i.  Mart,  b.  May  4,  1732 ;  m.  in  Lynn,  Sept.  26, 1754,  Aaron  BoardmaD, 
and  died  a  wi^^ow,  Sept.  14, 1805  (g.s.). 

23.  ii.     TuoMAfl,  b.  Feb.  20,  1733-4. 

13.  William*  Cheever  (ThomaSj^  Thomas*  Ezehier)^  gentleman,  bom 

in  Lynn,  May  21,  1708;  married  (pub,  in  Lynn,  Jan.  28,  1727-8) 
Sarah  Wait-tt  His  will,  dated  May  13,  1748,  was  probated  Sept  19, 
1748.     His  children  were  : 

24.  i.      William,  b.  in  Lynn,  Dec.  22,  1728. 

25.  ii.     Ezekiel. 

♦  Register,  i.  82. 

t  Boston  Town  Records,  ii.  450. 

t  Chelsea  Town  Rccrords,  i.  2,  H  seq. 

§  Transcript  of  the  Records  of  the  Ancient  and  Honorable  Artillery  Co.,  deposited  in 
the  Boston  Athenaeum. 

g  [Hannah  Brooks,  daughter  of  Ebenezer  and  Abigail  (Boylston)  Brooks  of  Medftxd, 
was  bom  April  1.5,  1701.    D.  P.  Corey.] 

%  Chelsea  Church  Records. 

••  Eunice  Cheever,  prohably  widow  of  Thomas  (12)  Cheerer,  and  John  Boardman  were 
married  in  Lvnii,  Jan.  8,  1740-1. 

ft  [Sarah  Waite,  daughter  of  William  and  Abigail  (Lynde)  Waite  of  Maiden,  wis  bora 
July  5,  1710.    D.  P.  Corey.] 


1884.]    Ezehiel  Cheever  cmd  same  of  his  Descendants.  181- 

iii.    Sakah,  m.  in  LynD,  Oct.  14,  1747,  John  Mansfield. 

It.    Mart,  m.  in  Lynn,  Nov.  7,  1750,  Elijah  Newball. 

14.  EzEKiEL^  Cheever  {Thomcu^*  Thomoi^  BzekieP),  schoolmaster, bom 

in  Lynn,  March  25,  1714;  graduated  at  Harvard  College  1733; 
married  in  Salisbury,  Jan.  29,  1735-6,  Rachel  Greely.  She  died  in 
Salisbury,  Dec.  24,  1739.  In  a  deed  dated  Dec.  31,  1754,  recorded 
with  E^ex  Deeds,  L.  106,  f.  54,  he  styles  himself  of  Morristowu, 
County  of  Morris,  New  Jersey,  gentleman.  In  a  deed  dated  March 
24,  1778,  recorded  with  Essex  Deeds,  L.  161,  f.  81,  John  Beach  of 
Morris  Town,  New  Jersey,  yeoman,  attorney  for  the  heirs  of  Eze- 
kiel  Cheever,  late  of  Morris  Town,  deceased,  conveys  to  Abner  Chee- 
ver, Jr.,  of  Lynn,  certain  estate  set  off  to  Ann  Cheever,  widow  of 
Deacon  Abijah  Cheever,  of  Lynn.  Children, ♦*  born  in  Salisbury^ 
were: 

i.      Elkanor,  b.  Nov.  80,  1736*;  bapt.  Dec.  5,  173«;  d.  Dec.  26,  1736. 
ii.     Mart,  b.  Jan.  13,  1737-8 ;  bapt.  Feb.  19,  1737 ;  d.  March  18,  1737-8. 
iii.    HuMPHRXY,  b.  June  3,  1739 ;  bapt.  June  10,  1739. 

15.  Joshua^  Cheever  ( Thomas*'  Thomas*  EzekieP ),  gentleman,  bom  in 

Lynn,  Oct.  4,  1715 ;  married  (1)  in  Lynn,  Oct.  10,  1745,  Hannah 
Perkins  ;  married  (2)  (puh,  April  25,  1784)  Rebecca  Weston,  of 
Reading.  By  decree  of  the  Probate  Court  for  the  County  of  Mid- 
dlesex, April  3,  1788,  ber  estate  was  settled  ou  her  brother  £beue- 
zer  Weston,  of  Amherst,  N.  H. 

16.  Edward*   Cheever    {Thomas^*'  Thomas^  IkekieF),   Rev.,  born  in- 

Lynn,  May  2,  1717  ;  graduated  at  Harvard  College,  1737.  He  wat 
admitted  to  full  communion  with  the  Third  Church  of  Ipswich  (now^ 
Hamilton),  Dec.  25^  1737. 

At  a  meeting  held  March  27,  1738-9,  the  newly  formed  society 
of  the  Third  Parish  of  Lynn,  now  Saugue,  secured  his  services  as 
preacher  until  the  following  July,  and  he  was  chosen,  July  3,  1739, 
as  their  first  settled  minister.  He  remained  here  about  eight  years. 
He  carelessly  neglected  to  keep  records  during  his  ministry,  and  his 
Buccessor,  the  Rev.  Joseph  Roby,  who  was  ordained  August  2, 
1 750,  complains  that  wishing  to  obtain  an  exact  list  of  the  commu- 
nicants on  taking  **  y*  charge  of  y*  flock  of  Christ  here,"  he  was 
**  unhappily  disappointed,  as  his  predecessor  had  left  nothing  relat- 
ing to  y*  matter  in  writing  all  that  could  be  recovered  was  a  copy 
of  y*  Church  covenant  &y*  names  of  y*  persons"  who  first  joined. 

In  deeds  dated  May  31,  1750,  and  June  1,  1750,  recorded  with 
Suffolk  Deeds,  L.  82,  f.  228,  and  L.  108,  f.  96,  respectively,  and  in 
a  deed  dated  May  15,  1750,  recorded  with  Essex  Deeds,  L.  99,. 
f.    110,   he  i»  styled  of  Wrentham,   Clerk  and   Preacher   of  the 
Grospel. 

He  was  installed  in  1751  as  minister  of  the  Church  in  Eastham,t 
but  "  no  records  of  the  church  are  found  which  were  kept  by  him  " 
during  his  long  ministry  there  of  forty-three  years. 

♦  The  births  and  deaths  are  from  copies  made  by  Samuel  J.  Brovm,  Esq.,  Town  Clerk 
of  Salisbarj.  The  baptisms  are  from  the  Hist.  Coil.  Est^ex  Institute,  xvi.  204,  205.  In 
the  original  record  of  tne  death  of  Eleanor,  the  name  of  the  mother  is  incorrectly  given  as 
Sleanor  instcAd  of  Rachel. 

t  MaM.  Hist.  Soc.  Coll.,  Ist  Series,  yiii.  185;  Fratt's  Hist,  of  Eastham,  Wellfleet  and  Or- 

TOL.   ZXZVIUi  XT' 


182         Hzehiel  Cheever  and  some  of  his  Descendants*      [April, 

He  died  in  Eastham,  August  16,  1794,  and  his  will,*  dated  Sept 
24,  1792,  was  probated  Sept  8,  1794.  His  estate  was  appraised  at 
£226.  16.  4. 

He  married  (1)  in  Ipswich,  Dec.  11, 1739,  Martha  Wigglesworth, 
of  Ipswich,  and  (2)  in  Eastham,  Jane  13,  1788,  Dorcas  Cook,  who 
survived  him.     His  childrenf  were : 

i.      £dward,  b.  d.  before  1793,  leavinf  a  son  Edward  Mazin  CheeTcr. 

ii.     Martha,  b.  m.  in  Eastham,  March  14,  1770,  John  Atwood. 

iii.    Samuel,  b.  m.  (pub.  in  Eastham,  May  12,  1781)  Tbankfal  Ham- 

mond, of  Rochester.  Children— 1.  Thankful,  b.  Eastham,  April  10, 
1782 ;  2.  Samuel,  b.  Eastham,  ISept.  6, 1783 :  3.  Edward,  b. 

17.  Abijah*  Cheever  (Thomas,^  Thomas*  JSzekieP),  tanner,  bom  in 
Lynn,  Dec.  11,  1718  ;  married  in  Lynn,  Nov.  22,  1759,  Ann,  wid- 
ow of  Thomas  Mansfield.}  Administration  on  his  estate,  which  was 
appraised  at  £1834:  3:  8,  was  granted  Nov.  6,  1775,  to  his  brother 
Joshua  Cheever. 


18.  Abner*  Cheever  ( Thomas'  Thomas*  Ezekiel^),  Esq.,  bom  in  Lynn, 

Jan.  24,  1725-6;  married  in  Lynn,  Nov.  8,  1752,  Elizabeth  New- 
hall  ;§    died  in  Lynn,  April 
22,  1796.     His  widow  died 
[July  29,  1799].     His  will, 
dated   May  30,   1794,  was  1775. 

probated  Sept.  26,  1796.  His  estate  was  appraised  at  $8453.45. 
Their  children,  all  born  in  Lynn,  were : 

i.      Elizabeth,  b.  Au^.  21,  1753. 

26.  ii.     Abner,  b.  March  16,  1755. 

iii.    Sarah,  b.  Oct.  1,  1756  ;  d.  in  Lynn,  Nov.  18, 1774. 
iv.    Joshua,  b.  June  10,  1758. 

27.  V.     Abijah,    \  .    .„.  j  b.  May  23,  1760. 

vi.    Ann,         >  *^*°*'  I  b.  May  23,  1760 ;  d.  in  Saugu«,  Oct.  16,  1927. 
vii.  Mehitabel,  b.  July  23,  1762 ;  m.  in  Lynn,  Novembej^  15,  1783,  Thomtl 
Newhali. 

28.  viii.  Lot,  b.  Aug.  6,  1764. 

29.  ix.    EzEKiEL,  b.  Dec.  24,  1766. 

19.  Ezekiel*  Cheever  {Ezekiel*  Thomas^  EzekieJ}),  sugar  baker,  bq)- 

tized  in  Charlestown,  May  15,  1720.  He  was  one  of  the  selectmeiil 
of  Charlestown  from  1752  to  1755,  but  afterward  removed  to  Boston* 
He  was  among  the  Sons  of  LibertylT  who  dined,  August  14,  1769, 
at  Liberty  Tree,  Dorchester.  He  took  an  active  part  in  the  pro- 
ceedings  of  the  inhabitants  of  Boston  and  the  neighboring  towns  at 
the  meeting'!'*  held  in  Faneuil  Hall,  adjourned  to  the  Old  South 
Church,  Nov.  29  and  30,  1773,  to  oppose  the  landing  of  the  tea, 
and  was  made  captain  of  the  watch  set  on  the  30th  to  observe  the 

•  Certified  copies  of  will  and  Probate  proceedings  mado  by  Freeman  H.  Lothrop,  Ejq^ 
Register  of  Prol)ate. 

t  Ttiese  Eastham  births,  deaths  and  marriages  are  from  copies  made  by  FreemftB 
Mayo,  Esq.,  Town  Clerk  of  Orleans. 

X  The  date  of  this  marriage  is  Nov.  22,  1759,  according  to  the  Town  Records,  bat  tbf 
Charch  Records  say  Nov.  23,  1759. 

6  Nov.  9,  1752,  according  to  the  entry  In  the  family  bible  before  referred  to. 

[I  Charlestown  Archives,  xxiii.  386,  401,  413,  427. 

%  Proceedings  Mass.  Hist.  Society,  18G9-70. 

*•  Original  minates  of  these  meetings,  now  In  the  possession  of  the  Overseers  of  the  Poor, 
published  in  the  Proceedings  of  the  Mass.  Hist.  See,  1882-3,  p.  10;  Snow's  HisU  of  Bor 
ton,  291,  293 ;  Hist.  Coll.  Essex  Institute,  xii.  226. 


115^4.]    JEzekiel  Cheever  and  some  of  his  Descendants.  183 

tea  ships  that  night     He  was  appointed,  August  17,  1775,  Com- 
missary of  Artillery*  of  the  Revolutionary  Army. 

He  married  (1)  in  Charlestown,  July  14,  1743,  Sarah  Phillips; 
married  (2)  in  Boston,  May  29,  1784,  Sarah  (Weaver)  Gooch, 
widow  of  John  Gooch. f  The  will  (No.  20392)  of  Sarah  Cheever, 
the  widow  of  Ezekiel*  Cheever,  dated  July  3,  1793,  was  probated 
Feb.  10,  1795.  Her  estate  was  appraised  at  £719:  16:  6,  the  real 
estate,  consisting  of  house  and  landt  at  the  corner  of  Winter  and 
Newbury  (now  Washington)  St.,  Boston,  being  appraised  at  £600. 
His  children,  all  born  in  Charlestown,  were : 

•  Proceedings  Mass.  Hist.  Society,  1876-7,  p.  144;  Memorial  Hist.  Boston,  iii.  104, 116; 
Frothingham's  Siege  of  Boston,  App.  408. 

t  The  intention  of  marriage  of  Ezeiciel  Cheever,  Jr.,  and  Elizabeth  Hnghes  was  published 
in  Boston,  Not.  14, 1769. 

t  In  the  Book  of  Possessions  (80)  the  posiiession  of  Robert  Blott  in  Boston  is  thus  de- 
fcribed :  '*  One  honse  &  garden  bounded  w^  the  streete  on  the  east  &  north :  M^ 
fflint  on  the  south :  John  Levorit  on  the  west."  In  his  will  f  No.  39)),  dated  27:  3™°.  1662, 
probated  Feb.  1,  166-5,  ho  gives  to  Edward  Ellis,  his  son  in  law,  the  husband  of  Sarah,  a 
dAOghter  of  the  testator,  "  my  howse  and  the  Lotte  belonging  theare  Ynto;  with  all  the 
mppartenances.*'  In  a  codicil  dated  March  27,  1665,  he  declares  that  "  whcras  I  have 
given  my  house  &  Ground  unto  my  sonn  Ellis,  my  meaning  &  will  lieerin  is  only  this  that 
tt  is  for  the  Good  And  Benifflt  of  my  Daughter  Sara  &  the  children  of  my  sonn  Ellis  bv 
her  during  their  lives  or  the  surviver  off  them  but  my  meaning  is  not  that  it  shall  at  all 
goe  from  him  otherwise  then  for  their  beniffltt  and  therby  of  him  in  them."  In  the  in- 
ventory of  his  estate,  filed  Feb.  1, 1663,  "  y«  dweilingo  house  &  land  adioyningo  "  were 
appraised  at  £100. 

By  deed  dated  April  12, 1677,  recorded  with  SuflFblk  Deeds,  Lib.  10,  fol.  73,  Edward  Ellis, 
ebirargeon  and  Sarah  his  wife,  convey  to  Isaac  Walker,  tailor,  a  portion  of  this  estate  front- 
ing on  Blott's  Lane.  After  the  death  of  Ellis,  Sarah  Ellis  his  widow,  Roticrt  Ellis,  barber 
chinirgeon,  William  Ruck,  mariner,  and  Mary  his  wife,  said  Robert  and  Mary  being  the 
only  children  of  said  Edward  and  Sarah,  convey  in  mortgage  to  John  Koster,  Esq  by  deed 
of  mortgage  dated  June  17,  1695,  recorded  Lib.  17,  fol.  92,  still  another  portion  of  their 
eitate,  the  portion  so  mortgaged  being  bounded  easterly  40  feet  by  "  the  street  Iciiding  to- 
wards Roxbury  "  [Washington  St.],  and  northerly  lOO'ft.  by  Blott's  Lane  f  Winter  St.]. 

Robert  Ellis,  in  his  will  (No.  43r2)  dated  Feb.  23,  1719,  prol>atcd  April  18,  1720,  devises 
one  third  of  his  estate  real  and  personal,  to  his  wife  Elizabeth  during  her  life,  to  be  disposed 
of  at  her  death  as  she  shall  see  fit,  and  the  other  two*  thirds  to  his  six  children,  Edward, 
Thomas,  Robert,  Samuel,  Sarah  and  Elizabeth.  He  makes  his  wife  Elizabeth  and  his 
brother  in  law  James  Pemberton,  executors  of  his  will,  giving  them  power  to  sell  l)efore 
any  diviglon  of  his  estate  is  made,  provided  such  division  be  no  longer  delayed  than  such 
time  as  bis  youngest  child  shall  arrive  at  the  age  of  15  years.  In  his  inventory,  filed  July 
4, 1720,  **  2  houses  at  the  south  end  of  the  town  &  the  Land  thereunto  belonging  fronting 
Newbcny  &  Winter  street,"  were  appraised  at  £800. 

Rlizabeth  Ellis,  widow,  conveys  to  Elizabeth  and  Abigail  Phillips,  spinsters,  by  deed  of 
mortgage  dated  Oct.  lo,  1720,  recorded  Lib.  35,  fol.  28,  these  two  houses  and  the'  land  be- 
longing to  them,  to  secure  the  payment  of  £300,  the  estate  being  described  as  76f.  on  New- 
bury Street,  70f.  in  the  rear  and  220f.  on  Winter  Street,  and  22uf.  on  the  south,  Thomas 
Bannister  being  the  abutter  on  the  south  and  west.  Ihis  mortgage  was  discharged  on  the 
margin  of  the  record  Oct.  12,  1722,  by  Abigail  Phillips  and  by  James  Townsend  who  had 
married  Elizabeth  Phillips.  In  August  of  the  latter  year  the  widow  again  mortgaged  this 
CiCafie  (L.  36,  f.  127)  to  Abigail  Phillips  to  secure  the  payment  of  £400.  By  reason  of  the 
■OD-payment  of  said  principal  sum  and  the  interest  thereon,  the  mortgagee,  then  the  wife 
of  John  Erwin,  manner,  recovered  judgment  for  possession  of  said  estate  at  the  Inferior 
Court  of  Common  Pleas,  and  possession  was  delivered  to  said  Erwin,  Dec.  23,  1727.  The 
tenants  at  that  time  were  John  Durant,  smith,  Joseph  Simpson,  clogmaker,  and  Anne 
Stone,  retailer.  The  smithy  was  at  the  corner  of  Newbury  and  Winter  Streets,  and  the 
rent  was  £8  per  annum.  Erwin  and  wife,  by  deed  dated  June  15, 1728,  recorded  L.  42, 
1 179,  conveyed  the  estate,  which  they  describe  as  240  f.  deep,  to  Benjamin  Peml)erton, 
merdiant. 

By  letter  of  attorney,  dated  April  13, 1727  (Lib.  40,  fol.  323),  Edward  Ellis  and  Thomas 
Ellis,  surgeons,  Thomas  Kilby,  merchant,  and  Sarah  his  wife,  empower  '*  Our  honoured 
mother  M^^  £lizal)eth  Ellis  of  Boston  afores<i  Widow  and  Shopkeeper,"  to  sell  and  convey 
three  fifth  parts  of  the  houses  and  lands  on  Newbury  and  Winter  Streets,  late  the  estate  of 
their  father  Robert  Ellis,  surgeon,  deceased,  and  they  ratify  and  conlirm  the  mortgage 
made  by  her.  In  answer  to  her  petition  presented  to  the  General  Court,  Jan.  24,  1727,  she 
was  anthorized  to  make  sale  of  the  mortgaged  premises.  She  then  by  deed,  dated 
April  26,  1728  (L.  42,  f.  98),  conveyed  the  estate,  described  as  240  f.  deep,  to  said  Benjamin 
Pemberton. 

Beigamin  Pemberton  having  thus  acqah*ed  title  to  the  Ellis  estate,  divided  it  into  smaller 


184        UzeJeiel  Cheever  and  some  of  his  Descendants.      [April, 

1.      EzEKiEL,  b.  April  29,  1744. 

ii.     Jonathan,  b.  Au^.  13,  1745;  d.  in  Charlestown,  May  27,  1747. 

ill.  Joshua,  b.  Oct.  26,  1747;  d.  in  Charlegtown,  April  23,  1748. 

iy.  Sarah,  b.  July  15,  1751 ;  d.  in  Boston,  April  24,  1822,  unmarried,  tct- 
tate.    (Will  No.  26676.) 

y.      FiLrzABETH,  b.  Dec.  2,  1752 ;  d.  in  Boston,  Jan.  5, 1835. 

Ti.  Abigail,  b.  May  25,  1754  ;  d.  in  Boston,  Feb.  22,  1836,  unmarried,  tes- 
tate.   (Will  No.  31142.) 

yii.  Grace,  b.  Aug.  20,  1756 ;  m.  the  Rev.  Samuel  Whitman.* 

▼iii.  Jonathan,  b.  July  20,  1758. 

ix.    Joshua,  b.  April  22,  1761. 

20.  David*  Cheever  {Ezekiel?  Thomas^*  EzekieP),  distiller,  bom  in 
Charlestown,  Jane  1,  1722.  He  was  one  of  the  selectmenf  of 
Charlestown  from  1761  to  1768,  but  after  the  burning  of  the  town 
removed  to  Boston.  At  the  meetingt  of  the  people  in  the  Old 
South  Church  in  Boston,  December  14,  1773,  to  take  action  concern- 
ing the  tea,  he  was  chosen  moderator,  but  as  he  was  not  to  be  found, 
Samuel  P.  Savage  was  chosen  in  his  stead.  He  was  one  of  the 
committee  appointed  at  the  meeting  to  go  with  Mr.  Rotch  to  the 
Collector  to  obtain  a  clearance  for  the  tea  ships.  At  a  town  meetingS 
held  in  Charlestown,  November  27,  1773,  he  was  chosen  one  of  the 
Committee  of  Correspondence.  He  was  a  delegate  to  the  Provindal 
Congress!  in  1774  and  1775,  and  in  1776  a  Representative  to  the 

parcels,  and  by  deed,  dated  Jane  13,  1728  (L.  42,  f.  193),  CGnveyed  to  Edward  Dunnt, 
Dlacksmith,  that  part  of  it  measuring  easterly  on  Newbary  Street  20  feet,  northerly  on 
Winter  Street  100  feet,  westerly  on  an  alley  ^  feet,  and  southerly  on  the  remaining  part  of 
said  Pemberton's  land  109  feet.  Purant  then  mortgaged  for  £150  (L.  43,  f.  90)  the  estate  so 
conveyed  to  him,  described  as  dwelling  houses  and  land  in  the  tenure  of  Mrs.  Faith  Waldo 
and  Capt.  Thomas  Child,  to  John  Dupeo  and  Stephen  Boutineau,  elders  of  the  French 
Church.  This  mortgage  was  discharged  April  3, 1730,  on  the  margin  of  the  record  by  Ste- 
phen Boutineau,  and  Durant,8tvUng  himself  of  Newton,  gentleman,  conveys  by  deed  dated 
Auffust  16,  1738  (L.  56,  f.  242),  to  Samuel  Brown  of  Worcester,  tailor,  the  easterly  half  of 
his  estate  measuring  20  feet  on  Newbury  Street  and  60  feet  on  Winter  Street,  going  so  far 
West  as  to  take  in  half  the  well  and  pump.  Brown,  then  of  Leicester,  in  the  County  of 
Worcester,  after  mortgaging  this  estate  (L.  57.  f.  147)  to  Jonathan  Brown  and  Joseph  rat- 
erson  of  Watertown,  yeomen,  by  deed  of  mortgage  discharged  by  them,  Dec.  26,  1739,  oo 
the  margin  of  the  record,  conveyed  it  by  deed  dated  Dec.  17, 1739  (L.  58,  f.  179))  to  Powers 
Mariott  of  Boston,  barber. 

Powers  Mariott,  shopkeeper,  in  consideration  of  love  and  affection  for  Sarah  Wearer  of 
Boston,  minor,  and  "  Neice  unto  Katharine  my  Wife,  and  for  her  advancement  in  the 
World,"  conveys  this  estate  by  deed  dated  Dec.  15,  1752  (L.  81,  f.  197),  to  John  Spooner, 
merchant,  in  trust  for  said  Sarah  from  and  after  the  decease  of  said  Katharine. 

The  will  (No.  20040)  of  Catherine  Marriot  of  Boston,  widow,  was  probated  Nov.  13, 1792. 
Sarah  Weaver,  m.  (I.J  1770,  John  Gooch,  (II.)  1784,  Ezekiel  Cheever.  After  the  death  of 
her  second  husband  she  conveyed  this  estate  by  deed,  recorded  September  7, 1793  (L.  177« 
f.  48),  to  Sarah,  Elizabeth  and  Abigail  Cheever,  spinsters,  her  "  daughters  in  law,"  to  hokl 
to  them  and  the  survivor  of  them  after  her  decease.  In  her  will  (No.  20392),  dated  July 
3, 1793,  probated  February  10, 1795,  she  makes  her  three  "  daaghters  in  law  "  her  residuary 
legatees. 

Sarah  and  Abigail  Cheever,  spinsters,  mortgage  their  two  nndivided  third  parts  of  this 
estate  (L.  189,  f.  247),  to  Sarah  Russell  of  Boston,  minor,  daughter  of  Thomas  Russell,  de- 
ceased, under  guardianship  of  William  Scaver  of  Kingston  This  mortgage  was  dischaif- 
ed  April  14,  1803,  on  the  margin  of  the  record  by  William  Seaver,  goardian. 

Sarah,  Ellzal)cth  and  Abigail  Cheever,  spinsters,  then  convey  the  estate  by  deed  dated 
Jan.  1,  1803  (L.  204,  fol.  41),  for  ^3733j  to  John  Parker  Whitwell,  apothecary. 

•  Ezekiel  Cheever  Whitman,  a  son  of  the  Rev.  Samuel  and  Grace  (Cheever)  Whitmao, 
bom  in  Ashby,  Sept.  17, 1783,  had  his  name  changed  by  act  of  the  legislature,  Jane  12, 
1828,  to  Ezekiel  Cheever.    See  Reo.,  xxxiii.  183.  note. 

t  Charlestown  Archives,  xxiii.  564;  xxiv.  12,  31,  54,  76. 100, 118,  137. 
Proceedings  Mass.  Hist.  Society,  1882-3,  p.  15. 
Charlestown  Archives,  xxiv.  260. 

Charlestown  Archives,  xxiv.  275,  287.  Journals  of  the  Provincial  Congress,  8, 78, 274. 
Frbthinghnm's  Siege  of  Boston,  55, 129.  Proceedings  Mass.  Hist.  Society,  1871-^,  p.  S0. 
note.  "  On  the  9th  of  July  [1775]  the  Congress  *  resolved,  that  Deacon  Cheever  be  a  coia- 
mittee  to  bring  in  a  resolve,  empowering  the  committee  of  supplies  to  ftimiah  Oeneiml 
Washington  with  such  articles  of  household  fumitore  as  he  had  wrote  to  said  oommittet 
for.'  '* 


1884.]    JEzekiel  Gheever  and  some  of  his  Descendants.  185 

Greneral  Court*  at  Watertown.  He  was  nominated,!  March  29, 
1776,  one  of  the  Justices  of  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas  for  the 
County  of  Middlesex. 

He  married  (1)  in  Charlestown,  December  8,  1748,  Elizabeth 
Foster  ;t  married  (2)  in  Salem,  October  9,  1760,  Elizabeth  Gray.§ 
She  died  in  Dorchester,  Oct.  10,1811,  aged  71.  Her  will  (Nor- 
folk, No.  3485),  dated  July  16,  1811,  approved  by  him  of  the  same 
date,  was  presented  for  probate,  but  was  disallowed,  Dec.  3,  1811, 
she  being  a  femtne  covert.  Administration  on  her  estate,  however, 
was  granted  Feb.  7,  1815,  to  Benjamin  Leverett,  of  Boston,  who 
represented  that  both,  she  and  her  husband  were  then  deceased. 
His  childrenll  were : 

i.      Mart,  bapt.  1st  Church,  Charlestown,  Jan.  30,  1750-1. 

ii.     Marit, bapt.  Ist  Church,  Charlestown,  Feb.  18, 1753 ;  m.  [Ephraim  HallJ. 

iii.    David,  bapt.  Ist  Church,  Charlestown,  Sept.  22,  1754. 

21,  Nathan"*  Cheever   {Nathan^^  Hiomas*  BzekieP),  born  in  Boston, 

(R.  M.),  Jan.  15,  1722 ;  baptized  in  Rumney  Marsh,  Jan.  20,  1722 
--3;  graduated  at  Harvard  College  in  1741.  In  1743  he  taught 
school  in  Manchester,  Mass.lT  He  ;s  styled  blacksmith  in  some  doc- 
uments. He  married  in  Chelsea,  March  4,  1744,  Elizabeth  Tuttle. 
Buried  "Jan.  13,  1787  Nathan  Cheever  A.M.  JE*  64."**  His  wid- 
ow  died  in  Chelsea,  Feb.  15,  1814,  aged  86  years.  Their  children 
were: 

i.      Nathan,  b.  Chelsea,  March  11,  1745. 

ii.     Joseph,  b.  Chelsea,  August  17,  1748;    d.  in  Chelsea,  June  22,  1752 

(June  22,  1751,^.8.). 
iii.   Jacob,  b.  Chelsea,  r^ov.  27,  1750. 

30.  iv.    JosKPH,  b.  Chelsea,  Dec.  3,  1752. 

V.     Thomas,  b.  Chelsea,  April  17,  1754;  d.  in  Maiden,  Doo.  1813. 
vi.    Betsey,  b.  Chelsea,  Dec.  16,  1760. 

Til.  Hannah,  b.  Chelsea,  Dec.  16,  1763;   m.  [April  18,  1793]  William  Em- 
mons, of  Maiden, 
viii.  Samuel,  b.  killed  by  lightning ;  buried  Aug.  5,  1799,  ^t.  34.tt 

22.  Joshua*  Cheever  (Nathan^^  TTiomas^^  JEzekieP),  gentleman,  born  in 

Chelsea,  Oct  10,  1740;  married  in  Chelsea,  May  8,  1765,  Abigail 
Enstis,!!  who  died  in  Chelsea,  Feb.  1809,  aged  63  years.     He 

died  in  Chelsea,  Jan.  15,  1813.  His  will  (No.  24104),  dated  June 
5,  1809,  was  probated  Jan.  25,  1813.  His  estate  was  appraised  at 
$5478.50.     Their  children  were  : 

31.  i.      Joshua,  b.  in  Chelsea,  March  1,  1766 ;  bapt.  in  Chelsea,  March  2,  1766. 
ii.     Anna,  b.  Chelsea,  Aug.  24,  1768  ;  bapt.  in  Chelsea,  Aug.  28,  1768  ;  m. 

(1)  in  Chelsea,  Jan.  8,  1789,  Thomas  Pratt ;  m.  (2) Stowers. 

33.  iii.    William,  b.  Chelsea,  Feb.  20,  1770 ;  bapt.  in  Chelsea,  Feb.  25,  1770. 
iv.    Abigail,  b.  Chelsea,  Oct.  18,  1771 ;    bapt.  in  Chelsea,  Nov.  27,  1771 ; 
m.  (1)  in  Chelsea,  Sept.  13,  1796,  Keuben  Hatch;  m.  (2)  William 
fiucknam. 

*  Charlestown  Archives,  xxiv.  294. 
t  Coancil  Records,  \n,  39. 
i  Reoistbr,  XXV.  69. 
I  Giles  Memorial,  p.  323. 

I  The  baptisms  of  these  children  are  from  the   **  Record  Book  of  the  First  Church 
in  Charlestown,"  as  printed  by  James  F  Hunncwcll,  Esq. 
f  Selectmen's  First  Accuant  Book,  Manchester. 
—  Chelsea  Cborch  Records, 
ft  Chelsea  Charch  Records. 
XX  Kboutxr,  xxxii.  207. 

TOL.  zxxym.        17* 


186        EzeTciel  Oheever  and  some  of  his  Descendants.      [April, 

T.  Sarah,  b.  Chelsea,  Feb.  17,  1774 ;  bapt.  in  Ghdaea,  Feb.  SO,  1774 ;  d. 
Nov.  20,  1786  (g.8.). 

vi.    Polly,  b.  Chelsea,  Feb.  4, 1776 ;  bapt.  in  Chelsea,  Feb.  11. 1776. 

yii.  Elizabeth,  b.  Chelsea,  Oct.  31,  1778;  bapt.  in  Chelsea,  Nov.  I,  1778; 
m.  in  Chelsea,  Jan.  16,  1805,  John  Cook,  of  Cambridge. 

Till.  Lois,  b.  Chelsea,  June  11,  1781 ;  bapt.  in  Chelsea,  June  17,  1781 ;  m.  is 
Chelsea,  Sept.  10, 1805,  Josiah  Mixer,  of  Cambridge. 

iz.    Margarkt,  b.  Chelsea,  July  11  bapt.  in  Chelsea,  July  13,  1783; 

m.  in  Chelsea,  May  20,  1807,  Abraham  Grant,  of  Cambridge. 

X.  Nathan,  b.  [Nov.  3'*,  1785] ;  bapt.  in  Chelsea,  Nov.  6, 1785 ;  m.  in  Chel- 
sea, Nov.  3,  1814,  Eleanor  Platts,  and  d.  in  Chelsea,  Sept.  5,  1837. 

xi.  Sarah,  b.  [Dec.  I  ]  ]  bapt.  in  Chelsea.  Jan.  3,  1790 ;  d.  Dec.  27, 1790 
(g.s.)  ;  buried  Jan.  10,  1700,  aged  10  days.    (Church  Records.) 

S3.  Thomas*  Cheever  (Thomas,*  Thomas:^  Thomas^  Ezekiel^),  cordwain- 
er,  bom  in  Lynn,  Feb.  20,  1733-4 ;  had  a  wife  Mary  who  died  in 
Lynn,  Nov.  23,  1809.  He  died  in  Lynn,  Jan.  28, 1823.  Their  child- 
ren, all  bom  in  Lynn,  were : 

i.  Hannah,  b.  March  26,  1756. 

ii.  Mart,  b.  March  21,  1758. 

33.  iii.  Thomas,  b.  March  17,  1760. 

iv.  John,  b.  Feb.  25, 1783. 

24.  William*  Cheever  {William*  Thomas f  Thomas*  JSzekieP),  cord- 

wainer,  bora  in  Lynn,  Dec.  22,  1728;  married  in  Lynn,  June  21, 
1750,  Mehitabel  Newhall.  A  William  Cheever,  probably  this  Wil- 
liam, married  in  Lynn,  Jan.  10,  1763,  the  widow  Anna  £aton. 
Children : 

i.  Lois,  b.  in  Lynn,  Aug.  25,  1751. 

ii.  William,  b.  m  Lynn,  May  17,  1753. 

iii.  Israel. 

iv.  Sarah. 

25.  EzEKiEL*   Cheever   (WiUiam,*  Thomas,*  Thomas*  EzeJdeT),  cord- 

wainer,  born  married  in  Lynn,  Nov.  28,  1759,  Mary 

Giles.     Their  children,  all  born  in  Lynn,  were  : 

i.  Mary,  b.  Sept.  1,  1760. 

ii.  Sarah,  b.  Feb.  28,  1762. 

iii.  Rebecca,  b.  Oct.  1, 1763. 

iv.  £benezer  Giles,*  b.  April  24,  1765. 

V.  Ltdla,  b.  June  1, 1767. 

•  There  was  an  Ebenezer  G.  Cheever,  probablv  this  Ebenezer,  in  Chesterfield,  N.  H.,  M»d 
Keading,  V t.  He  had  a  wife  Hannah,  and  his  children,  according  to  copies  of  the  RcadlDf 
(Vt.)  records,  made  by  W.  W.  Keyes,  Esq.,  the  Town  Clerk,  were : 

i.  Polly,  b.  in  Chesterfield,  N.  H.,  Sept.  28, 1787. 

ii.  Hannah,  b.  in  Reading,  Tt.,  Ang.  29, 1789. 

iii.  Ebenezer,  b.  in     ••  "   May  11. 179[1. 

iv.  Isaiah,  b.  in  «  "   Aug.  5, 179[]. 

V.  Richard,  b.  in      "  "   Aug.  13,  1795. 

The  Rev.  Ebenezer  Cheever.  son  of  the  above,  bom  in  Reading,  Vt.,  May  11,  179[1), 
graduatedat  Bowdoin  College  in  1817;  was  installed  Dec.  8, 1819,  at  Mt.  Vernon,  N.  H., 
and  afterward  at  Hoosick  Falls,  N.  Y.  His  health  failing,  he  abandoned  preaching  fori 
time  and  went  to  Troy,  N.  Y.  He  became  soon  after  this  a  colleague  of  Dr.  Blatchford  it 
Waterford,  N.  Y.,  and  was  next  settled  at  Stillwater,  N.  Y.  In  1833  he  was  secretafy  of 
the  Presbyterian  Edncntional  Society,  and  removed  first  to  New  York  city  and  then  to 
Philadelphia.  In  1834  he  was  called  to  the  ministry  of  the  Second  E*resbyterian  Church 
in  Newark,  New  Jersey,  where  he  remained  twelve  years.  In  184$  he  visited  the  West  fbr 
the  Edacational  Society.  He  was  settled  at  Tecnmseh  and  Ypsilanti,  Michigan,  and  after 
this  was  minister  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  Patterson,  N.  J.  In  1862  fiUling  healA 
compelled  him  to  relinquish  active  labor,  and  ho  went  again  to  Michigan.  He  died  Ib 
Ypsilanti,  Mich.,  Dec.  31, 1866. 

He  married  (1.),  July  21,  1819,  Fanny  Butterfield;  (II.)  Oct.  27, 1828,  Marr  BiitteiiMd; 
(ni.)  Oct.  11, 1830,  Abby  M.  Mitchell,  of  Saybvook,  Conn.    His  children : 


84.]     JEzekiel  Cheever  and  same  of  his  Descendants,  187 

Abner*  Cheever  (Ahner,'*  Thomasj*  Thomas*  Ezehie?)^  gentleman, 
born  in  Lynn,  March  16,  1755 ;  married  in  Lynn,  Nov.  29,  1779, 
Mercy  NewhalL*  His  will,  dated  July  26,  1831,  was  probated  Jan. 
3,  1838.     Children,  all  born  in  Lynn,  were : 

i.  Abijah,  b.  Aue.  2,  1780.  [Married  Hannah  Totman,  who  d.  April  6, 
1826.  He  died  Sept.  1859.  Their  children  were  Elizabeth  Ann, 
George  Nelson  and  Maria  Loaiaa.] 

ii.     Abner,  b.  Aug.  5,  1783 ;  [d.  at  sea  about  1800]. 

ill.    Uenrt,  b.  Sept.  4,  1786 ;  d.  in  Saugus,  Oct.  25,  1846. 

iv.    Sallt,  b.  July  1,  1789. 

▼.      Emilt,  b.  June  16,  1792 ;  d.  in  Brattleboro',  Vt.,  Sept.  6, 1855. 

Ti.    Frederick,  b.  June  8,  1795 ;  d.  in  Brattleboro\  Vt.,  Sept.  22, 1875. 

vii.  Belinda,  b.  June  15,  1798 ;  m.  Putnam  Perley. 

Tiii.  Abnse  [b.  1800;  d.  abt.  1824]. 

Abuah*  Cheever  {Ahner^^  Thomas^  Thomas^  JSzehieP),  physician, 
born  in  Lynn,  May  23,  1760; 
graduated  at  Harvard  College 
in  1779  ;  was  a  surgeon  in  the 
navy  during  the  Revolutionary 
War.    He  afterward  established  178;}. 

himself  in  the  practice  of  his  profession  in  Boston,  where  he  married 
(1),  July  5,  1789,  Elizabeth  Scott,  daughter  of  Daniel  Scott,  and 
married  (2)  Oct.  18,  1798,  Sally  Williams.t  About  the  year  1810 
he  removed  from  Boston  to  Saugus,  where  he  died,  April  21,  1843. 
Administration  on  his  estate  was  granted  May  16,  1843,  to  his  son 
Charles  Augustus  Cheever.     His  children  were : 

i.      Margaret  £uzabsth  Scott,  b.  [March  11,  1792] ;  bapt.  Ist  Church  in 
Ik)ston,  May  13,  1792 ;  d.  [Sept.  17,  1792]. 
Vi.  ii.     Cbarles  AuGUBTUS,  b.  [Dec.  1,  1793]. 

iii.    Elizabeth  Scott,  b.  [July  5,  1795] ;  d.  in  Sauf^us.  Feb.  19,  1873. 
iv.    Horatio  Herbert,  b.  [Jan.  1,  1800]  ;  bapt.  Ist  Church  in  Boston,  Jan. 
5,  1800;  d.  [July  31,  ]801]. 

.    Lot*  Cheever  (Abner,^  Thomas,^  Thomas^  JEzekier),  bom  in  Lynn, 
August  6,  1764. 

.    EzEKiEL*  Cheever  (Abner,*  Thomas,^  Thomas*  Ezekiel^),  yeoman, 
born  in  Lynn,  Dec.  24,  1766;  married  in  Lynn,   Dec.  29,  1794, 

i.      Adeline  Francis,  b.  in  Mt.  Vernon,  N.  H.,  June  3,  1822;  m.  in  Tecumseh,  Mich., 

Oct.  22, 1846.  Hon.  B.  L.  Baxter, 
ii.     Mar>'  Emeline,  b.  in  Hoosiclt,  N.  Y.,  Sept.  19, 1824;  d.  in  Watcrford,  N.  Y.,  Sept. 

28.  1828. 
iii.   Harriet  Newell,  b.  in  Troy,  N.  Y.,  May  2,  1826 ;  m.  in  Newark,  N.  J.,  June  11, 

1845,  Edward  O.  Faltoute. 
It.    Abhv  House,  b.  in  Waterford,  N.  Y..  April  22, 1828;  d.  there  Oct.  25, 1828. 
T.    Mary  Emeline,  b.  in  Waterford,  N.  Y.,  Dec.  14, 1829;  d.  there  Dec.  16,  1829. 
Ti.    Henry  Marty n,  b.  in  Stillwater,  N.  Y.,  June  20,  1832;  m.  in  Ypsilanti,  Mich.,  June 
20,  1854,  Sara  H.  Buckbee.     He  is  an  old  resident  of  Detroit,  Mich.,  where  ho 
haA  practised  law  for  more  than  thirty  years.    His  daughter,  Mary  Backbee 
Cheever,  b.  in  Detroit,  Mich.,  Sept.  4,- 1866,  m.  there,  Sept.  16,  1875,  Edward 
Howard  Donning. 
Til.  William  El>enczer,  b.  in  New  York  city,  Dec.  10,  1833 ;  m.  in  Ypsilanti,  Mich., 
April  3,  1855,  Marv  Hewitt.    His  children  are :  I.  Walter  Hewitt  Cheever,  b. 
YpiJilanti,  Mich.,  Jan.  16, 1856.    II.  Mary  Alice  Cheever,  b.  Detroit,  Mich., 
Feb.  23, 1859.    III.  Frances  Harriet  Cheever,  b.  Ypsilanti,  Mich.,  July  9, 1864. 
Aathority,  Henrv  Martyn  Cheever,  Esq.,  Detroit,  Mich.     See  also  Hist,  ot  Bowdoin 
llMre,  Boston,  1882.) 

*  The  Town  and  Chnrch  Records  agree  as  to  the  date  of  this  marriage.  The  family  bible, 
bre  referred  to,  gives  the  date  as  Dec  9, 1779. 
'  RioiSTKB,  xxxii.  35. 


188         Ezehiel  Cheever  and  some  of  his  Descendants.     [April, 

Rachel  Brown,*  and  died  in  Lynn,  April  28,  1810.  She  died  in 
Saugus,  March  31,  1855.  Her  Vill,  dated  May  28,  1853,  was  pro- 
bated June  5,  1855.     Their  children  were: 

i.      Zblutb  Brown,  b.  in  Lynn,  Oct.  7,  1796 ;  d.  May  11, 1873  (g  s.)* 

ii.     Rachel. 

iii.    Mart,  m.  Joseph  Alden. 

iv.    Almira,  m.  in  Boston,  Jan.  [    ],  1836,  Enoch  Train. 

T.     John,  d.  Oct.  2il,  1849 ;    had  a  wife  Hannah,  and  a  child  Rachel  £. 

Cheever,  b.  in  Saugus  about  1822,  who  m.  there  Dec.  31,  1846,  George 

A.  Thayer. 

Tl.      EZEKISL. 

80.  Joseph*  Cheever  (Niathan*  Nathan,*  Thomas*  EzekieP)^  yeoman, 
born  in  Chelsea,  Dec.  3,  1752 ;  married  in  Boston,  April  23,  1774, 
Sarah  Low.f  He  was  a  lieutenant  in  Sprague's  company  of  Col. 
Samuel  Gerrish's  regiment)  in  the  Revolutionary  War,  and  was  a 
revolutionary  pensioner.  He  removed  from  Chelsea  to  Maiden. 
His  descendant,  Mr.  Deloraine  P.  Corey,  gives  this  account  of 
him  :  "Joseph  Cheever  was  born  in  Chelsea,  December  14,  1752, 
according  to  the  record  in  the  family  bible  and  his  gravestone  in 
Maiden.  He  married,  April  23  (or  20,  according  to  the  bible), 
1774,  Sarah  Low,  of  Boston.  She  was  bom  August  25,  1754, 
and  died  March  20,  1841,  aged  87.  He  was  present  at  the 
battle  of  Bunker  Hill  as  a  lieutenant  in  Capt  Samuel  Sprague*s 
company  of  Col.  Gerrish's  regiment,  and  is  said  to  have  commanded 
the  company  during  the  engagement,  the  captain  having  been  wound- 
ed eariy  in  the  battle.  He  continued  in  the  service,  in  the  same  reg- 
iment, which  was  re-organized  under  Col.  Loammi  Baldwin,  and 
although  he  received  no  higher  commission  than  that  of  first  lieo- 
tenant  during  the  war,  he  commanded  his  company  during  the  year 
1776,  and  was  present  at  the  battle  of  Trenton  with  forty-three 
men.  He  received  his  commissionf  as  captain  from  Gov.  Hancock 
in  1793." 

Administration  on  the  estate  of  Joseph  Cheever,  of  Maiden,  gen- 
tleman, was  granted  Feb.  15,  1831,  to  his  son  Jacob  Cheever,  of 
Maiden,  cordwainer,  Sarah,  his  widow,  declining  to  administer. 
Their  children,  all  born  in  Chelsea,  were : 

i.  Sarah,  b.  June  16,  1775;  m.  in  Chelsea,  Feb.  19,  1795,  William  Ol- 
iver, Jr.,  and  d.  in  Maiden,  [Oct.  13,  1805]. 

ii.     Betsey,  b.  Nov.  20,  1776 ;  d.  in  Chelsea,  Sept.  12,  1791. 

iii.  Nancy,  b.  Jan.  29,  1779;  m.  [iMay  31,  1798]  Aaron  Waite;0  d.  [Dec. 
27,1852]. 

iv.  ScKEY,  b.  May  29,  1781 ;  m.  [Sept.  7,  1797]  Andrew  Waite  ;i  d.  in 
Charlestown,  Dec.  2,  1857. 

V.  Hannah,  b.  No?.  5,  1782  ;  m.  [June  14,  18011  Thomas  Waite  -M  d. 
[Nov.  22,  1858]. 

vi.  LccY,  b.  Nov.  30,  1784;  m.  [March  15,  1803]  Samuel  Shute,  of  Maiden; 
d.  [Sept.  24,  1872]. 

•  According  to  the  Church  Records  the  date  of  the  marriage  was  Dec.  24,  1791. 

t  Snrah  Lee  in  ttic  Boston  records  of  marriages,  Sarah  Love  in  the  intentions  of  mv- 
Tiage,  Sarah  Loe  in  tlic  original  return  of  the  marriage. 

X  Coat  Roll,  Secretary's  OflBce,  Boston;  Proceedings  Mass.  Hist.  Soc,  1876-7,  page 86; 
Frothingham's  Siege  of  Boston,  App.  402. 

§  This  commission  has  been  presented  to  the  Trustees  of  the  Public  Librair,  Maldei. 
See  Maiden  City  Press,  Jan.  5,  1884. 

n  Reoistbr,  xxxii.  195-6. 

H  RxoisTBB,  xxvi.  102;  xxxii.  195-6. 


1884.]    Uzehiel  Cheever  and  some  of  his  Descendants.  189 

Tii.  Polly,  b.  May  17,  1786:    m.  [Nov.  3,  1805]  William  Raymond,  of 

Charlestown;  d.  in  Maiden  [Aug.  11,  1853]. 
viii.  Pattt,  b.  June  1,  1788  ;  m.  William  Skinner,  of  Lynn ;  d.  in  Lynn, 
iz.    Harriet,  b.  Oct.  13,  1789;  d.  [June  6,  1808]. 
X.     Joseph,  b.  Jan.  21,  1792 :  m.  in  Chelsea,  Oct.  8,  1815,  Phoebe  Crowell ; 

d.  in  Bedford,  Mans.,  Sept.  17,  1879.    Left  issue. 
xi.    Jacob,  b.  Nov.  8,  1794 ;    m.  [Dec.  13,  1818]  Lydia  Swectser,  of  Saugos; 

d.  in  Maiden  [Jan.  14,  1876].    Letlt  issue. 

31.  Joshua*  Cheever  (Joshua*  Nathan*  Thomas,*  EzekieJ}),  yeoman, 
bom  in  Chelsea,  I^Iarch  1, 1766 ;  married  in  Boston,  March  24, 1789, 
Elizabeth  Huxford,  and  died  in  Chelsea,  March  8,  1816.  Admin- 
istration (No.  24885)  on  his  estate  was  granted,  March  18,  1816, 
to  his  widow  Elizabeth  Cheever,  who  died  in  Boston,  May  29, 
1827.     Their  children,'*'  all  bom  in  Chelsea,  were : 

35.  i.      Joshua,  b.  March  31,  1790 :  bapt.  May  2,  1790. 

36.  ii.     William,  b.  July  27,  1792  ;  bapt.  July  29,  1792. 

iii.    Uenrt,  b.  Feb.  12,  1793 ;  bapt.  Feb.  15,  1795 ;  master  mariner  ;  lost  at 
sea  about  1836. 

37.  i?.    Reuben  Hatch,  b.  May  23,  1797  ;  bapt.  May  28,  1797. 

38.  V.     Thomas  Huxford,  b.  Aug.  7,  1799;  bapt.  Aug.  11,  1799. 
vi.    Eliza,  b.  Aag.  3,  1802 ;  oapt.  Jan.  10,  1802 ;  d.  young. 

vii.  Mart  Melledgb,  b.  Sept.  8,  1810;  bapt.  Dec.  9,  1810:  m.  in  Boston, 
Jday  9,  1833,  Solomon  fi.  Morse,  Jr. 

82.  William*  Cheever  {Joshua,^  Nathan^*  Thomas*  UzekieP),  yeoman, 
bom  in  Chelsea,  Feb.  20,  1770;  married  in  Brookline,  Mass.,  Jan. 
25,  1801,  Juliana  Corey,  of  Brookline.  He  died  in  Chelsea, 
March  2,  1813,  and  administration  (No.  24135)  on  his  estate  was 
granted,  March  15,  1813,  to  Elijah  Corey,  of  Brookline,  yeoman. 
His  widow  died  [July  15,  1852]  in  Washmgton,  N.  H.  Their 
children,  all  born  in  Chelsea,  were : 

i.      [Sarau],  b.  d.  in  Chelsea,  1803,  about  2  years  old. 

ii.     Sarah,  b.  d.  in  Brookline  [May  21,  1818],  aged  16  years. 

39.  iii.    Charles,  b.  [March,  1804]. 

iv.    George,  b.  d.  in  Taunton,  Nov.  29,  1868. 

▼.      Abigail  Eustis,  b.  [Jan.  [    ]  1810]. 

Ti.    William,  b.  m.  (1)  in  Roxbury,  Dec.  5, 1839,  Caroline  Par- 

ker Within ojton,  of  Roxbury,  who  d.  in  Concord,  N.  II.,  about  1858. 
Her  will  (Norfolk,  No.  3483),  dated  July  22,  1857,  was  probated  May 
1,  1858.  They  had  one  son  William  who  died  in  infancy  in  West 
Koxhury.  He  m.  (2)  in  Concord.  N.  fl.,  August  1,  1860,  Lucv  Maria 
(Fay)  Marsh,  widow  of  Charles  Marsh,  and  died  in  Pawlet,  Vt.,  May 
8,  1869.  His  will  (Norfolk,  3499) ,  dated  July  25,  1863,  was  probated 
•Sept.  29,  1869.    His  widow  surviTed  him.    He  left  no  issue. 

vii.  Susan,  b.  d.  in  Brookline  [July  25,  1835]. 

33.  Thomas'  Cheever  (Thomas,^  Thomas,"*  Thomas,*  Thomas,*  EzekteP), 
yeoman,  born  in  Lynn,  IMarch  17,  1760;  married  (1)  in  Lynn, 
August  30,  1789,  Anna  Hudson;  married  (2)  in  Lynn,  JVIay  15, 
1797,  Abigail  Breed,  and  died  in  Lynn,  April  19,  1825.  Adminis- 
tration on  his  estate,  wbicb  was  appraised  at  $1765  real,  and  $193.97 
personal  property,  was  granted  May  17,  1825,  to  his  son  Joseph 
Cheever,  cordwainer.     His  children,  all  born  in  Lynn,  were  : 

i.    John,  b.  Nov.  28,  1789.    Had  issue. 

ii.    Anna,  b.  June  9,  1791  ;  d.  in  Lynn,  Sept.  2,  1834. 

iii.  JosEPU,  b.  March  6,  1793.    Had  issue. 

*  The  dates  of  birth  arc  fh>m  a  family  record  now  in  possession  of  Mr.  Solomon  6.  Morse, 
of  Boston. 


190  Uzekiel  Cheever  and  some  of  his  Descendants.     [April, 

34.  Charles  Augustus*  Cheever  (Abijah,^  Ahner,^  Thomas?  Thomas* 

EzekieJ}),  physician ;  born  Dec-  1,  1793  ;  graduated  at  Harvard 
College  1813;   M.D.  1816;  es-    y^  ^C^  y 

tablished  himself  in  Portsmouth,  ^y[ti/d  ^9i^jC^tJ^t/^9\^ 
N.  n.,  where  he  practised  med-  ig3g 

icine  and  surgery  for  more  than 

thirty  years.  He  died  in  Saugus,  Sept.  22,  1852.*  A  copy  of  hit 
will  (No.  39590),  which  was  dated  August  17,  1852,  probated  at 
Portsmouth,  Nov.  9,  1852,  was  filed  in  the  Suffolk  Registry  of  Pro- 
bate, March  19,  1855. 

He  married  (1)  Ann  Mary  Haven,  daughter  of  John  and  Nancy 
Woodward  Haven,  of  Portsmouth.  She  died  July  4,  1826.  He 
married  (2)  October,  1830,  Adeline  Haven,  sister  of  his  first  wife. 
She  survived  him  and  died  Dec.  16,  1872.     His  children  were: 

40.  i.      John  Uaven,  born  in  Portsmouth,  April  25,  1824. 

ii.  Odarles  Augustus,  b.  June  20,  1826  ;  drowned  June  9, 1838. 

41.  iii.  David  Williams,  b.  in  Portsmouth,  Nov.  30,  1831. 
iv.  Thomas  Baxtkr,  b.  June  30,  1833 ;  d.  Aue:.  27,  1833. 
V.  Nathaniel  Haven,  b.  July  30,  1835 ;  d.  Jan.  31, 1836. 
vi.  Ann  Mart  Haven,  b.  July  26,  1837 ;  d.  Aug.  28,  1838. 

35.  Joshua*  Cheever  {Joshua?  Joshua?  Nathan?   77iomas?  EzekieP), 

lumber  merchant,  born  in  Chelsea,  March  31,  1790 ;  married  (1) 
in  Boston,  July  24,  1814,  Harriet  Cutter.  She  died  in  Boston,  Nov. 
7,  1835.  He  married  (2)  in  Boston,  Dec.  1,  1836,  Elizabeth  J. 
Waterman.  She  died  in  Boston,  Dec.  28,  1837.  He  married  (3) 
in  Boston,' Sept.  13,  1838,  Rachel  Pond.f  He  died  in  Boston,  Feb. 
14,  1841,  and  administration  (No.  32781)  on  his  estate  was  granted, 
March  1,  1841,  to  his  widow  Rachel,  who  died  in  Cambridgeport, 
August  2,  1871.  His  children,^  all  bj  his  first  wife,  and  all  born  in 
Boston,  were: 

42.  i.      Joshua,  b.  Feb.  19,  1815. 

ii.     Harriet  Cutter,  b.  Oct.  18,  1816 ;  d.  in  Boston,  July  19,  1834,  aged  18 

years, 
iii.    Caroline  Elizabeth,  b.  Sept.  19,  1818 ;  m.  in  Boston,  July  8,  1841, 

Henry  T.  Butler  ;  lives  in  Oakland,  Cal. 
iv.    Emily  Cutter,  b.  Aug.  1,  1820;  d.  in  New  Orleans  [Sept.  20,  18541. 
V.     Almena  Cutter,  b.  June  12, 1822  ;  m.  in  San  Francisco,  Cal.  rMarcn  25, 

1861],  Georce  0.  Potter,  and  d.  in  Washington,  D.  C.  [Feb.  8,  1878]. 

43.  vi.    Ammi  Cutter,  d.  Nov.  16,  1824. 

vii.  Thomas  Pratt,  b.  Dec.  18,  1826  ;  d.  in  Boston,  April  15,  1844,  aged  17 

years, 
viii.  Mary  Harriet,  b.  Dec.  1,  1828;  m.  in  San  Francisco,  Cal.  [Feb.  10, 

1857],  Charles  S.  Potter. 

44.  iz.    Ephraim  Lombard,  b.  Sept.  5,  1831. 

36.  William*  Cheever  {Joshua?  Joshua?  Nathan?  Thomas?  JEzekieP), 

trader,  born  in  Chelsea,  July  27,  1792 ;  married  in  Boston,  July 
25,  1819,  Charlotte  Flagg,  and  died  at  sea,  June  20,  1825,  while  on 
his  return  from  the  West  Indies.  Administration  (No.  27666)  on 
his  estate  was  granted,    July  18,   1825,  to  James    Melledge,  of 

•  Register,  vii.  373. 

t  Pond  Ocnenlo^y.  Daniel  Pond  and  his  Descendants,  by  Edward  Doubleday  Harris. 
Boston,  1873,  p.  59. 

X  The  dates  of  birth  ore  all  from  a  family  Bible  in  possession  of  his  grandson  Ammi  B. 
Cheever,  of  St.  Louis. 


884.]      EzeJciel  Cheever  and  some  of  his  Descendants.         191 

Boston,  merchant.  His  widow  died  in  Pepperell,  Mass.,  May  8, 
1861.     Their  children  were : 

i.      Almira  Luct,  b.  in  Philadelphia,  July  27,  1822;   lives  in  Clarendon 

Springe,  Vt. 
ii.     William  Henry,  b.  in  Weston,  Mass.,  Oct.  20, 1824 ;  lives  in  Troy,  N.Y. 

7.  Reuben  Hatch*  Cheeyer  (Joshua,^  Joshiuz*  Nathan,^  Thomas* 
JSzekieP),  shoe  dealer,  born  in  Chelsea,  May  23,  1797  ;  married  in 
Boston,  Dec  12,  1819,  Abigail  Turner,  daughter  of  Otis  Turner,* 
and  died  in  Boston,  June  22,  1828.  She  died  a  widow,  in  Boston, 
Dec  28,  1877,  aged  78  yrs.  8  mo.     Their  children  were : 

i.      Henry  Otis,  b.  lost  at  sea,  unmarried. 

45.  ii.     Thomas  Hatch,  b. 

iii.    Sarah  Ann,  b.  in  Boston  [Oct.  13,  1825];  m.  in  Boston,  Oct.  95,  1854, 
Nathaniel  £.  Rogers,  and  d.  in  Roxbury,  Feb.  4,  1865. 

B.  Thomas  Huxford*  Cheeyer  (Joshiuz,^  Joshua,'*  Nathan,*  Thomas* 
Ezekiel}),  merchant's  clerk,  born  in  Chelsea,  Aug.  7,  1799 ;  m.  in 
Boston,  Nov.  1,  1827,  Mary  Ann  Phillips,  anddi^  in  Boston,  Nov. 
14,  1831.  His  widow  married  in  Boston,  Feb.  22,  1838,  Gijlam 
B.  Wheeler,  and  died  in  Melrose,  April  1,  1879.  Child  of  Thomas 
H.  and  Mary  Ann : 

i.  Anna  Maria,  bapt.  12tb  Congregational  Church  in  Boston,  June  21,  1829, 
and  d.  in  Boston,  Oct.  10,  1832,  aged  4  years. 

9.  Charles'  Cheever  ( William*  Joshua*  Nathan,*  Thomas*  JEhfekieP), 
master  mariner,  bom  in  Chelsea  [March,  1804],  On  retiring  from 
the  sea  he  established  himself  in  Liverpool,  England,  where  he  died 
Aug.  30,  1880.  He  married  in  England  (1)  Ann  Cannell;  (2) 
Margaret  Cannell,  who  was  born  in  Peel,  Isle  of  Man,  Septembier, 
1804.  His  children,  one  by  each  wife,  both  born  in  Liverpool, 
were: 

46.  i.      WiLLUM  Cannell,  b.  April  8,  1835. 

ii.     Ann  Julu,  b.  March  19,  1840  ;  m.  in  Liverpool,  June  17,  1863,  Alfred 
Pooley. 

0.  John  Haven^  Cheever  (  Charles  A,*  Abijah,^  Abner,*  Thomas,*  Tho- 

masy^  Ezehiel^),  merchant,  born  in  Portsmouth,  N.  II.,  April  25, 
1824 ;  married  Ann  Elizabeth  Dow,  daughter  of  John  and  Mary 
(Plumer)  Dow,  of  Epping,  N.  H.  He  moved  to  Boston,  and  after- 
ward to  New  York.     Their  children  are  : 

i.  Charles  Augustus,  b.  in  Boston,  Sept.  4,  1852. 

ii.  Elizabeth  Scott,  b.  in  Boston,  Sept.  30,  1855. 

iii.  John  Dow,  b.  in  New  York,  Nov.  27,  1859. 

iv.  Gertrude,  b.  in  New  York,  May  16,  1863. 

V.  Henry  Durant,  b.  in  New  York,  Jan.  8,  1869. 

1.  David  Williams^  Cheever  (  CJiarles  A,,*  AUjaJi^  Ahner,*  Thomas,* 

Thomas,*  jEzekiel^),  physician  and  surgeon,  born  in  Portsmouth, 
N.  H.,  Nov.  30,  1831 ;  graduated  at  Harvard  College  1852;  M.D. 
1858.  After  eighteen  months  study  in  Europe  and  nearly  four  years 
in  Boston  at  the  Harvard  Medical  School,  he  began  to  practise  in 
Boston  in  1858.  In  1860  he  was  made  Demonstrator  of  Anatomy 
in  the  Medical  School  of  Harvard  University;  in  1867,  Assistant 
Professor  of  Anatomy ;  in  1868,  Adjunct  Professor  of  Clinical  Surge- 

•  Tamer  Genealogy ;  Descendants  of  Hamphrey  Tomer,  Boston,  1852,  p.  45. 


192        Ezehiel  Cheever  and  some  of  his  Descendtmts.      [April, 

ry ;  in  1876,  Professor  of  Clinical  Surgery,  and  in  1882,  Professor 
of  Surgery,  succeeding  to  the  chair  held  in  succession  by  Dr.  John 
Collins  Warren,  Dr.  George  Hayward  and  Dr.  Henry  J.  Bigelow. 
From  1858  to  1862  he  contributed  articles  to  the  North  Americaa 
Review,  Atlantic  Monthly  and  Christian  Examiner.  In  1860  he 
received  the  Boylston  Prize  for  an  essay  on  the  "  Value  of  Statis- 
tics in  Observing  Disease.**  In  1864  he  was  appointed  Surgeon  of 
the  Boston  City  Hospital.  He  has  contributed  numerous  profes- 
sional articles  to  the  Medical  Journals.  In  1868  he  was  editor  of 
the  Boston  Medical  and  Surgical  Journal.  He  published  in  that 
year  a  monogram  on  *'  QEsophagotomy,"  8vo.  pp.  78.  In  1870  he 
edited  the  ^*  First  Medical  and  Surgical  Report  of  the  Boston  City 
Hospital,**  8vo.  pp.  688;  in  1877,  a  second  Report,  8vo.  pp.  316, 
and  in  1882  a  third  Report,  8vo.  pp.  390. 

He  married,  Oct.  9,  1860,  Anna  Caroline  Nichols,  daughter  of 
Thaddeus  and  Sarah  Chamberlain  Nichols.     Hb  children^  are : 

i.  David,  b.  Aug.  29,  1861 ;  d.  Aug.  19,  1864. 

ii.  Alice,  b.  Aug.  5,  1862. 

iii.  Helen,  b.  Nov.  12,  1865. 

iv.  Marion,  b.  March  1,  1867. 

y.  Adeline,  b.  Jan.  16,  1B74. 

yi.  David,  b.  June  25,  1876. 

42.  Joshua^  Cheever  (Joshua,*  Joshua,^  Joshua,^  Naikan^  Thomas* 
EzekieJ})^  steamboat  captain,  born  in  Boston,  Feb.  19,  1815;  re- 
moved to  St.  Louis.  He  married  in  Pauldingsville,  Warren  Co., 
Missouri,  Dec.  3,  1844,  Susan  Ann  Simpson.  She  died  in  St. 
Louis,  June  5,  1873.  He  died  in  Oakland,  Cal.,  August  10,  1876. 
Their  c1)i]dreu,t  both  born  in  St.  Louis,  were  : 

i.      Ammi  Bedow,  b.  Dec.  12,  1845. 

ii.     Harriet  Lombard,  b.  ISept.  22,  1851 ;  m.  in  St.  Louis,  Sept.  16, 1878, 
Henry  1.  D'Arcy. 

48.  Ammi  Cutter'  Cheever  (Joshua,^  Joshua,^  Joshua,*  Nathan,*  Tho- 
mas,^ EzekieV"),  tinsmith,  born  in  Boston,  Nov.  16,  1824;  married 
(1)  Maria  Peoples  Sanford,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Rachel  Sanford. 
She  died  in  Boston,  Dec.  9,  1857.  He  removed  not  loftg  after  her 
death  to  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  where  he  married  (2)  Mary  Alexan- 
der,  by  whom  he  had  one  child  that  died  young.  His  children^  by 
his  first  wife,  were : 

i.      Emily  Cutter,  b.  in  Boston  [April  4,  1847] ;  m.  in  fioeton,  Jane  30, 

1874,  James  W.  P.  Dyer, 
ii.     Harriet  Cutter,  b.  in  Koxbury  [July  88, 1848] ;  m.  in  New  York,  July, 

1867.  Anthony  Bell,  and  d.  in  New  York,  Jan.  28,  1877. 
iii.    Ammi  Cutter,  b.  in  Boston,  May  4,  1851  ;  m.  in  New  York,  Jan.  1874, 

£inma  J.  Morris,  who  was  b.  in  London,  £ng.    He  d.  in  Milford,  Fa., 

Oct.  28,  1883. 
iy.    Caroline  Butler,  b.  in  Boston,  March  18,  1853. 

*  The  naincg  and  dates  of  birth  of  his  children,  and  those  of  his  brother  John  UsTei 
Cheever,  are  talvcn  from  a  tabular  pedigree  prepared  for  him  by  William  B.  Trask,  Esq. 
A  copy  of  it  may  l>c  found  in  the  Library  of  the  New  England  Historic  Oenealogica]  Sode^* 
See  Rrgistbk,  xxxii.  443. 

t  Ammi  B.  Clieevor  of  St.  Louis  is  authority  for  the  dates  of  these  births,  deaths  sad 
marriages. 

X  Mrs.  Emily  C.  Dyer  if:  the  authority  for  information  concerning  this  brandi  ofthi 
family.    Her  name  was  originally  Emily  C.  ChccTer.    She  assumed  in  childhood  the ; 
of  Maria  £.  Cheever,  but  afterward  resumed  the  use  of  her  former 


B84»]  Genealogical  Gleanings  in  England.  193 

T.  Efhraim  Lombard,*  b.  in  Boston,  Feb.  8,  1855  ;  m.  in  New  York,  Feb. 
22,  1875,  Abigail  J.  Uuffhes,  who  was  b.  in  Banc^or,  N.  Wales.  Their 
children,  both  born  in  New  York,  arc — 1.  Epkraim  San  ford  Peoples 
Cheever,  b.  Jan.  28,  1876,  d.  in  New  York,  July  16,  1878;  2.  Mary 
Emily  Cheever,  b.  Dec.  25,  1877. 

I.  Ephraim  Lombard^  Cheever  (Joshua,*  Joshua,^  Joshua,'^  Nathan,* 
Thomas,*  EzekieV^),  born  in  Boston,  Sept.  5,  1831 ;  removed  to  St. 
Louis,  Missouri,  where  he  married  Kllen  Ware.  He  was  killed, 
Feb.  4,  1858,  on  the  steamboat  Col.  Grossman,  then  commanded 
and  in  part  owned  by  his  brother  Joshua  Cheever,  bound  from  New 
Orleans  to  St  Louis.  She  exploded  her  boiler  when  about  one  mile 
above  New  Madrid,  and  then  took  fire.  Twenty  lives  were  lost. 
He  had  two  children  who  died  in  infancy.  His  widow  afterward 
married  W.  P.  Armstrong. 

).  Thomas  Hatch^  Cheever  {Reuben  K*  Joshua^  Joshua,*  Nathan^* 
Thomas^  EzekteJ}),  merchant;  born  married  in  Providence, 

R.  I.  [Nov.  13,  1849],  Mary  F.  Daland,  daughter  of  Tucker  Da- 
land,  of  Salem,  and  died  in  Salem,  Oct.  5,  1860.  His  will,  dated 
Feb.  14,  1860,  was  probated  Oct.  16,  1860.  His  widow  married 
in  Salem,  Oct.  20,  1870,  James  S.  Putnam,  who  died  in  Salem, 
Sept.  26,  1873.  She  died  in  Charleston,  S.  C,  April  27,  1879. 
The  children  of  Thomas  H.  and  Mary  F.  Cheever  were : 

i.      Gbace  D.,  b.  in  Roxbury,  Dec.  21,  1849  ;  m.  in  Salem,  Deo.  2, 1874, 

Arthur  B.  Lovgoy,  of  Boston. 
ii.     Henry,  b.  d.  March  9,  1857,  aged  I  y.  9  d.  (g.e.). 

iii.    Thomas  U.,  b.  d.  Feb.  27,  1862,  aged  2  y.  14  d.  (g.s.). 

>.  William  Cannell^  Cheever  (Charles,^  William,^  Joshua,*  Nathan,^ 
Thomas,^  EzehieV),  born  in  Liverpool,  England,  April  8,  1835  ; 
married  in  New  Brighton,  England,  Dec.  30,  1862,  Jessie  Eraily 
Pooley.  He  is  a  wholesale  wine  and  spirit  merchant  in  Liverpool > 
and  lives  in  Liscard,  Cheshire.  His  children,  both  boru  in  Liscard, 
are: 

i.      Charles  Eustace,  b.  July  25,  1864. 
ii.     Margaret,  b.  May  9,  1867. 


GENEALOGICAL  GLEANINGS  IN  ENGLAND. 

By  IIbnry  F.  Waters,  A.B.»  now  residing  in  London,  Eng. 
[Continued  from  p«ge  74.] 

Nathaniel  Downeixge  of  London,  gentleman,  7  May,  1616,  proved  14 
[ay,  1616,  by  his  wife  Margaret  Downeinge.  To  be  buried  in  the  parish 
!barch  of  St.  Dionis  Backchurcli,  London,  or  elsewhere  it  shall  please  my 
cecutrix.  To  the  poor  of  St.  Dionis  and  of  St.  Gabriel  Fanchurch,  Lon- 
Mi.  To  my  brother  Joseph  Downeinge,  now  dwellings  in  Ipswich,  in  the 
banty  of  Suffolk,  twenty  pounds.  To  my  sister  Abigail  Goade,  wife  of 
ohn  Goade,  skinner,  twenty  pounds,  and  to  their  son,  John  Goad,  forty 
lillings   to  make  him  a  cup.     To  my  sister  Susanna  Kirby,  wife  of  Jobn 

*  His  name  is  properly  Sanfbrd  Cbccvcr,  but  he  assumed  the  name  of  Ephraim  Lombard 
becTcr. 

TOL.  XXYxm.        18 


194  Genealogical  Gleanings  in  England.  [AprS, 

Kirby,  skinner,  twenty  pounds.  To  my  mother  in  law  Mary  Cellyn,  wid- 
ow, ten  pounds  and  the  "  Hope  [hoop]  Ringe  "  which  was  my  mother's. 
To  my  brother  Joshua  Downinge  the  seal  ring  of  gold  that  I  do  wear  on 
my  hand.  And  to  my  brother  Emanuel  Downeinge  I  give  the  like  ring  of 
gold  of  the  same  value  c&  fashion.  The  residue  to  my  wif^  Margaret  Downe- 
inge, whom  I  make  sole  executrix.  Whereas  I  am  now  seized  in  fee  of  and 
in  the  late  dissolved  monastery  of  the  "  Fryers  Carmelites,  or  the  White- 
ffryers,''  in  Ipswich  in  the  County  of  Suffolk,  with  the  appurtenances,  &c. 
— this  to  wife  Margaret  and  her  heirs  forever.  Cope,  48. 

Sir  George  Downing  of  East  Hatley,  in  the  County  of  Cambridge, 
Knight  and  Baronet;  24  August,  1683,  with  codicil  added  7  July,  1684; 
proved  19  July,  1684.  My  body  to  be  interred  in  the  vault  which  I  have 
made  under  the  chancel  at  Crawden,  alias  Croyden,  in  the  county  of  Cam- 
bridge, by  the  body  of  my  wife  JFrances.  Son  George  Downing,  Esq.,  and 
son  William  named.  Houses  in  or  near  King  Street,  in  the  city  of  West- 
minster, lately  called  Hampden  House,  which  I  hold  by  long  lease  from 
the  Crown,  and  Peacock  Court  there,  which  I  hold  by  lease  from  the  Col- 
legiate Church  of  St.  Peter,  Westminster ;  all  which  are  now  demolished 
and  rebuilt,  or  rebuilding,  and  called  Downing  Street.  To  Edward  Lord 
Viscount  Morpeth  and  Sir  Henry  Pickering,*  Baronet,  my  son-in-law,  in 
trust,  <&c.  Bequests  to  sons  Charles  and  William  Downing,  and  to  three 
daughters,  Lucy,  Mary  and  Anne,  at  age  of  twenty-one  years  or  day  of 
marriage.  The  guardianship  and  custody  of  the  persons  of  these  three 
daughters  entrusted  to  my  dear  daughter  Frances  Cotton.  Bequests  to 
daughter  Cotton's  children,  Francis,  John  and  Thomas,  and  to  Elizabeth 
and  Frances,  the  two  daughters  of  my  late  daughter  Pickering  deceased ; 
also  to  nephew  John  Peters,  niece  Lucy  Spicer,  nephew  Joshua  Down- 
ing and  M'  Edmond  Woodroffe,  one  of  my  clerks  in  my  office  in  the  Ex- 
chequer. Hare,  139. 

This  Indenture  made  the  Thirteenth  day  of  Sept.  Anno  Doiri.  one  thou- 
sand seueii  hundred  and  in  the  twelfth  yeare  of  the  Reigne  of  our  Soue- 
raign  Lord  William  the  third,  by  the  grace  of  God  of  England,  Scotland, 
ff ranee  and  Ireland  King,  defender  of  the  Faith  &c*. 

Between  Charles  Downing  of  London  in  the  Kingdome  of  England 
Esq'  of  the  one  part  and  Thorndike  Procter  of  Salem  in  the  Countey  of 
Essex  within  his  Maj'^"  Province  of  the  Massachusetts  Bay  in  New  Eng- 
land in  America,  yeoman,  on  the  other  part  [then  follows  the  ordinary 
phraseology  of  conveyance  of  a  tract  of  three  hundred  acres  in  Salem 
which  was]  formerly  the  far  me  of  Emanuel  Downing  of  Salem  aforesaid 
Gent:  Deceased,  Grandfather  of  the  said  Charles  Downing,  purchased  by 
the  said  Emanuel  Downing  of  one  Robert  Cole  unto  whome  the  same  was 
granted  by  the  said  town  of  Salem  one  thousand  six  hundred  thirty  and 
fivet  [together  with  other  parcels  of  land  which  had  belonged  to  Emanuel 
Downing.      And  the  grantor  warrants  the  purchaser  that  he  may  hold 

♦  This  Sir  Henry  Pickering  was  son  and  heir  of  Sir  Henry  Pickering  of  Whaddon,  who 
was  cicatod  a  Baronet  2  January,  1660.  He  was  of  Barbados  in  1695,  and  had  two  wirei, 
Philadelpliia,  daupliter  of  Sir  George  Downing,  by  whom  he  had  two  daughters,  Mary  and 
Anne  (who  botli  died  without  issue),  and  secondly,  Grace,  daughter  of  Constant  Silvester, 
Esq.  (Sec  Uko.  xxxvii.  385.)  At  his  death,  in  1705,  the  title  became  extinct.  (See  Add. 
MS.  24193,  liiitish  Museum.)— H.  F.  W. 

t  This  must  be  a  mistake  for  1638.  (See  Book  of  Grants,  Salem,  edited  by  William  P. 
Upham.  Esq.)— U.  F.  W. 


1884.]  Gfenealogical  Gleanings  in  England,  195 

these  premisses]  free  and  clear  or  well  and  sufficiently  Indemnified  saued 
aud  kept  harmless  of  and  from  all  and  all  manner  of  former  and  other  gifts, 
grants,  bargaines,  sales,  leases,  releases,  mortgages,  Joyntures,  Dower, 
Judgments,  Executions,  Extents,  wills.  Entails,  ffines,  fforfeitures,  titles, 
troubles,  charges  and  Incumbrances  whatsoever  had,  made,  done,  commit- 
ted, knowledged  or  suffered  by  the  said  Charles  Downing,  S""  George  Down- 
ing, Baron*,  late  father  of  the  said  Charles,  and  the  abouesaid  Emanuel 
Downing  or  any  of  them. 

This  Indenture  was  signed  by  the  grantor,  Charles  Downing,  Esq™,  and 
his  wife,  Sarah  Downing,  and  their  seals  affixed  on  the  day  and  year  first 
abovewritten.  Deeds  of  Essex  Co.,  Mass.,  Book  7,  Lvs.  7  to  1 0. 

The  will  of  Sir  George  Downing,  Knight  of  the  Bath  &  Baronet,  pro- 
viding (in  default  of  male  issue  to  his  cousin)  for  the  foundation  of  a  new 
college  in  the  University  of  Cambridge,  "which  college  shall  be  called  by  the 
name  of  Downing  College,"  was  dated  20  December,  1717,  and  proved  13 
June,  1749.  Lisle,  179. 

[The  foregoing  extracts  show  clearly  enough  the  connection  of  this  family  with 
New  England,  a  family  whose  name,  associated  as  it  is  with  n  street  in  which  has 
been,  for  so  many  years,  the  official  residence  of  the  Prime  Minister  of  England, 
the  centre  of  the  greatest  and  roost  wide-spread  empire  of  modern  times,  and  with  a 
college  in  one  of  the  most  famous  universities  of  the  world,  U  known  wherever  the 
English  language  is  spoken,  and  bids  fair  to  last  so  long  as  English  history  shall  be 
read. 

From  some  MS.  notes  furnished  me  by  my  very  obliging  friend  Mr.  T.  C.  Noble, 
whoee  authority  on  matters  connected  with  the  history  of  the  great  metropolis 
of  the  world  and  its  surroundinof  parishes  is  unquestioned,  I  find  that  Sir  George 
Downing  was  rated  for  a  house  in  **  New  Pallace  "  (New  Palace  Yard,  Westmin- 
Bter)  for  twenty  years  previous  to  1683,  that  in  1728  the  rentals  of  the  whole  of 
Downing  Street  (for  assessment)  amounted  to  less  than  £1000,  and  in  1828  the  total 
was  £3(W0.  At  the  piesent  time  (1883)  the  whole  street  is  occupied  by  the  offices 
of  the  government  and  the  residences  of  the  First  Lord  of  the  Treasury,  Clianceilor 
of  the  Exchequer,  Ac.  From  the  '*  MeiiioriaJB  of  Westminster,"  by  the  Rev.  Mac- 
kenzie E.  C.  Walcott,  we  learn  that  '*  The  official  residence  of  the  First  Lord  of  the 
Tre:isury  formerly  belonged  to  the  Crown  :  King  George  I.  gave  it  to  Baron  Bothmar, 
the  Hanoverian  Minister,  for  life.  After  his  death  King  George  11.  offered  the  house 
to  Sir  Robert  Walpoie,  who  only  accepted  it  upon  the  condition  that  it  should  be 
attached  to  the  Premiership  forever.  Since  that  time,  therefore,  Downing  Street  is 
inseparably  connect<»d  with  the  name  of  every  successive  Prime  Minister  ot  Eng- 
lana.''  Chapter  HI.  of  the  Appendix  to  these  Memorials  gives  us  additional  in- 
formation, includinir  a  list  of  the  successive  occupants  of  the  official  residence  down 
to  July  6,  1846.  '*  Sir  Robert  Walpoie  accepted  it  in  1732,  and  came  to  reside  here 
22  Sept.  1735."  **  In  the  small  waiting-rof)m  of  No.  14,  for  the  first  and  only  time 
in  their  lives  met  Sir  Arthur  Weliesley  and  Lord  Nelson  ;  the  latter  was  well  known 
to  Sir  Arthur  from  the  prints  in  the  shop  windows ;  they  conversed  toirether  for 
Bome  minutes ;  on  parting  Lord  Nelson  went  out  of  the  room  and  asked  the  name 
of  the  stranger  whose  conversation  and  appearance  had  made  a  deep  impression  upon 
him.'* 

I  nm  informed  by  William  H.  Richardson,  E<»q.,  F.S.A.,  who  is  now  annotating 
•*  The  Annals  of  Ipswiehe,  by  N.  Bacon,"*  that  George  Downinsx,  who  was  un- 
donbt^-dly  the  father  of  Emanuel  and  Nathaniel  l")i)wninaf,  was  master  of  the  Gram- 
mar School,  Ipswich,  about  the  3'ears  1007  to  1610.  His  son  Emanuel,  ha|)ti/.ed  in 
the  pari(»h  church  of  St.  Lawrence,  Ipswich,  18  Aujfust,  1585,  married  at  (Jrotcm, 
Sair>lk.  10  April,  1622,  Lucy  (baptized  27  January,  1601),  daughter  of  Adam  Win- 
throp,  E«q.,  and  sister  of  Governor  John  Winthrop.  Mr.  Dtiwning  was  a  lawyer 
of  the  Inner  Temple,  London,  Attorney  in  the  Court  of  Wards,  and  seems  to  have 
lived  in  the  parishes  of  St.  Bridget  and  of  St.  Miohael,  Cornhill.  lie  came  over  to 
New  Enirlund  in  1638,  took  up  his  abode  in  Salem,  was  admitted  into  the  ehurch 
4  Norember  of  the  same  year,  and  frequently  represented  the  town  in  the  General 

♦  The  Taloable  MS.  referred  to  in  note,  pp.  197-8,  vol.  xxxvii.  Reo. 


196  Genealogical  Gleaninga  in  England*  [April, 

Court  of  the  colony.  The  date  of  his  death  is  not  known,  nor  has  any  record  yet 
been  found  of  any  will  made  by  him.  We  have  seen  what  became  of  his  farm  in 
Salem.  His  town  residence  was  conveyed,  8  August,  1656,  by'  Lucie  Downing  of 
8alem,  with  consent  of  Emanuel  Downing  her  husband  (as  is  recited  in  the  deed)  to 
their  son  Lieut.  Joseph  Gardner,  as  the  dower  of  their  daughter  Ann  on  her  mar- 
riage with  Lieut.  Gardner.  It  was  described  as  a  messuage  or  tenement  in  Salem 
situated  upon  four  acres  of  ground  entire,  having  the  Common  on  the  east,  the 
street  or  highway  that  runs  from  the  meeting-house  to  the  harbor  on  the  south,  and 
the  lane  that  goes  to  the  North  River  on  the  West.  This  property  compriites  the 
various  estates  now  included  between  St.  Peter,  Essex,  Newbury  and  Browne 
Streets.  Lieut.  Gardner  and  his  wife  sold  various  lots  at  either  end  to  sundry 
members  of  the  Gardner  family,  and  to  Deacon  Richard  Prince  and  Mr.  William 
Browne,  Jr.  The  house,  which  stood  where  the  residence  of  the  late  Col.  Francis 
Peabody  stands,  remained  as  the  homestead  of  Mrs.  Gardner.  After  the  untimely 
loss  ot  her  first  husband,  who  was  killed  in  the  great  Swamp  Fight,  19  December, 
1675,  she  took  for  a  second  husband  Simon  Bradslreet,  £^. ;  but  by  the  terms  of  the 
marriage  contract  of  2  May,  1676,  the  ownership  of  the  homestead  remained  with 
her.  It  wiis  afterwards  commonly  known  as  the  Bradstreet  house,  and  was  torn 
down  in  1750,  having  previously  been  used  as  a  tavern.  On  pasre  75  of  the  first  vol- 
ume of  the  Register,  and  on  page  185  of  the  fourth  volume  oi  Historical  CoIlectioDS 
of  the  Essex  Institute,  may  be  seen  an  engraving  representing  this  house,  in  which 
Sir  George  Downing  probably  passed  his  boyhood  while  under  the  tuition  of  the 
Rev.  John  Fisk,  preparing  for  entrance  into  Harvard  College,  from  which  he  was 
graduated  in  that  famous  first  class  of  1642.  For  a  long  account  of  him  and  his 
family,  and  a  list  of  his  published  works,  see  Sibley's  Harvard  Graduates,  vol.  i. 
pp.  28-51. 

Nathaniel  Downing,  brother  of  Emanuel  and  uncle  of  Sir  George,  was  baptised 
in  the  church  of  St.  Mary  at  the  Tower,  Ipswich,  8  October,  1587.  Be  married,  6 
May,  1613,  Margaret,  daughter  of  Doctor  Daniel  Selyne  (or  Selin),  a  French  phy- 
sician, who  died  19  March,  1614-15,  and  in  his  will  (Rudd,  2*^)  mentions  bis  son- 
in-law  Nathaniel  Downing.  Mr.  Downing  seems  to  have  had  one  son,  Daniel,  bap- 
tized at  St.  Dionis  Backchurch,  5  April,  1614,  and  buried  five  days  afterwards. 

In  the  Whitehall  Evening  Post  of  Febr.  11,  1764,  is  this  letter  : 

"To  the  Printer  &c.        Sir 

By  the  death  of  Sir  Jacob  Garrard  Downing  Bar^  an  estate  of  about  5  or 
6000  pr  annum  falls  to  the  University  of  Cambridge,  to  build  a  college,  to  be  called 
Downing  College.  The  late  Sir  George  Downing,  of  Gamlingay,  in  Cambridge- 
shire, BiirS  having  left  it  to  the  late  Sir  Jacob  Garrard,  and  his  Heirs  male  ;  ^  lor 
want  of  such  Issue,  to  the  rev:  M^  Peters,  late  Lecturer  of  S^  Clement-Danes  k  bis 
Heirs  male  :  both  of  whom  having  died  without  such  Issue,  the  Estate  descends  as 
above.  The  Original  of  the  Family  was  D'  Calibut  Downing,  one  of  the  Preachers 
in  the  Rebel  Army,  k  a  great  man  with  Rump  :  and  his  son,  afterwards  Sir  Geo: 
Downing,  &  the  first  Baronet  of  the  Family,  was  made  Envoy  from  Cromwell  to  the 
States-General,  and  got  a  great  Estate,  owin^  to  this  Incident.  When  King  Charles 
the  2^  WMs  travelling  in  Disguise  in  ilollana,  to  visit  the  Queen  Mother,  attended 
only  by  Lord  Falkland,  &  putting  up  at  an  Inn,  after  he  had  been  there  some  Time, 
the  Landlord  came  to  these  strangers  and  said,  there  was  a  Begsrar-man  at  the  Dooi, 
very  shabbily  dressed,  who  was  very  importunate  to  be  admitted  to  them  ;  on  which 
the  King  seemed  surprisetl,  <&  after  speaking  to  Lord  Falkland,  bid  the  Landlord 
admit  him.  As  soon  as  this  Beggar-man  entered,  he  pulled  off  his  Beard  (which 
he  had  put  on  for  a  Di.sguise)  &  fell  on  his  knees,  &  said  he  was  M*"  Downing,  the 
Resident  from  Oliver  Cromwell ;  &  that  he  had  received  Advice  of  this  intended 
visit  from  his  Miyesty  to  tlie  Queen  ;  and  that,  if  he  ventured  any  farther,  he  would 
bo  assassinated  ;  &  begged  secrecy  of  the  King,  for  that  his  Life  depended  upon  it, 
&  departed.  The  King  was  amazed  at  this,  &  said  to  Lord  Falkland,  How  could  this 
be  known  ?  there  were  bat  you  &  the  Queen  knew  of  it.  Therefore  the  Q;icen  must 
have  mentioned  this  to  somebody  who  ^ve  Advice  of  it  to  his  Gnemies.  How- 
ever, the  King  returned  back,  whereby  this  Design  was  prevented.  Upon  this, after 
the  Restoration,  Sir  George  Downing  was  rewarded,  made  a  Baronet  &  Farmer  of  the 
CustomH,  &c.  &c.,  whereby  this  large  Estate  was  raised. 

Besides  the  above  Estate  of  Sir  Jacob  Garret  Downing  Bar*,  which  devolves  on 
the  University  of  Cambridge,  another  fine  Estate,  with  a  handsome  house  at  Put- 
ney, falls  to  his  Lady." 


1884.1  Genealogical  Gleanings  in  England.  197 

Id  the  London  Chronicle  of  Jan.  9,  1772,  is  this  Article  : 

**  We  are  assured  that  the  Heirs  at  Law  [B.  P.  Ewer  of  Bangor  who  married  a 
fiamardiston]  of  Sir  Jacoh  Downin^^  Bar'  have  applied  for  a  Royal  Charter  to  found 
k  incorporate  the  College  at  Camhndge.  A  spot  is  fixed  upon  for  erecting  this  ed- 
ifice, which  is  a  spacious  Piece  of  ground,  fit  for  the  Purpose,  on  the  South  Side  of 


belong  to  several  Bodies  Corporate  _ 

tainea  to  impower  them  to  sell,  this  noble  Benefaction  will  be  carried  into  iiuediate 
Execution/' — h.  f.  w. 

The  Enfflish  genealogical  works  which  attempt  to  give  the  ancestry  of  Sir  George 
Downing,T)aronet,  give  it  erroneously.  The  error  seems  first  to  have  been  promul- 
cated  by  Anthony  a  Wood  in  his  Athense  Oxoniensis,  published  1691-2,  where, 
m  an  account  of  Ur.  Calybute  Downing,  the  Puritan  writer,  son  of  Calybute  Down- 
ing of  Shennington,  Gloucestershire,  Sir  George  is  called  his  son.  The  error  has 
been  copiM  into  several  Baronetages.    Dr.  Downing's  ancestry  has  been  carried 


George  Downing  of  Ipswich,  Suffolk,  who,  as  Mr.  Waters  shows*  was  father  of 
Enmnncl,  the  father  ot  Sir  George.  Savage  names  Mary,  wife  of  Anthony  Stoddard ; 
James ;  Anne,  wife  of  Capt.  Joseph  Gardner  and  afterwards  of  Gov.  Simon  Brad- 
gtzeet :  John ;  and  Dorcas,  as  other  children  of  Emanuel  Downing  ;  and  there  was 
probably  also  a  son  Joshua  (Mass.  Hist.  Coll.  4th  S.  vi.  79).  Emanuel  Downing  an- 
nounces his  intention  to  leave  New  England  in  the  (all  of  1654  with  Gen.  Sedgwick 
(Ibid.  p.  84).  He  was  living  as  late  as  Sept.  6,  1658,  in  Edinburgh  (Ibid.  p.  86). 
His  wife  was  living  in  England,  June  27,  1662  (Ibid.  p.  544).  The  place  and  date 
of  death  of  neither  are  known.  Interesting  letters  from  Emanuel  Downing  and 
<Hber  members  of  his  family,  are  printed  in  the  volume  of  the  Mass.  Hist.  Coil,  cited. 

Henry  Downing,  father  ot  Col.  Adam  Downing,  distinguished  as  an  officer  in 
William  III.'s  army  in  Ireland,  may  have  been,  as  represented  by  Burke  (Ext.  and 
Dorm.  Baronetage,  ed.  1844,  p.  163  ;  Landed  Gentry,  ed.  1853,  i.  453),  a  son  of  Dr. 
Calybute.     We  find  no  evidence  that  Sir  George  had  a  brother  Henry. 

It  is  not  probable  that  Wood  obtained  his  information  from  the  family,  for  the 
deed  of  which  Mr.  Waters  gives  an  abstract  proves  that  Charles  Downing,  son  of  Sir 
George,  knew  that  his  grandfather's  name  was  Emanuel  so  late  as  1700,  ei«;ht  years 
afler  the  publication  of  Wood's  AthcnaB.  The  following  letter,  copied  for  us  by 
G.  D.  Scull,  Esq.,  of  Oxford,  England,  from  the  original,  shows  that  Wood,  while 
engaged  on  his  work,  applied  to  the  Rev.  Increase  Mather  for  information  about  the 
Downings,  but  with  little  success  : 

"Sir 

I  have  yours  of  20**»  Instant.    There  never  was  any  Dr  Downing  in  New 
England.    It  is  true  y'  Sir  George  Downing  (who  was  knighted  by  Charles  2"'!) 
bad  his  education  in  y«  Colledg;e  there ;  but  had  no  other  degree  there  besides  y'  of 
Bachelor  of  Art.    Nor  do  any  in  that  colledge  proceed  further  than  Master  of  arts 
afler  seven  years  standing,  as  'tis  in  Oxford  and  Cambridge.     We  never  (which  is 

?>ity)   had  any  Doctors.    I  am  ashamed  to  tell  you  that  I  cannot  procure  any 
drther  account  concerning  non  conformist  writers.    I  have  really  laboured  to  grat- 
ify you  to  my  power.    I  heartily  wish  there  were  more  publick  spirits  in  the  world. 

Sir  Your  servant,  I.  Mather. 

London  July  83—1691. 
To  M'  Anthony  Wood  near  Merton  CJollegc  in  Oxford." 

Ad  equally  inexplicable  error  will  be  pointed  out  in  this  article  when  we  come 
to  the  will  of  Sir  William  Phips;  who  is  represented  in  English  books  to  be  ances- 
tor of  the  present  Marquis  of  Normanby.  Both  errors  have  years  ago  been  pointed 
oat  by  our  countrymen.  The  second  volume  of  Hutchinson's  Massachusetts,  which 
was  reprinted  in  England  in  1768,  gives  the  true  christian  name  of  the  father  of  Sir 
George  Downing.— Editor.] 

Thomas  Warnett,  now  of  James  City  in  Virginia,  merchant,  13  Feb- 
ruary, 1629,  proved  8  November,  1630,  by  Thomaziue  Warnet,  relict  and 

TOL.  XXX vni.        18* 


198  Genealogical  Gleanings  in  England.  [April, 

executrix.  To  M^*  Elizabeth  Pott  one  Corfe  and  crosse  cloth  of  wrought 
gold  and  to  D'  John  Pott  (1)  five  thousand  of  several  sorts  of  nayles.  T<l 
Francis  Pott  four  score  pounds  of  tobacco  which  he  oweth  me.  To  MT 
Francis  Boulton,  minister,  one  firkin  of  butter,  one  bushel  of  white  salt, 
six  pounds  of  candles,  one  pound  of  pepper,  one  pound  of  ginger,  two  bush- 
els of  meal,  one  rundlett  of  ink,  six  quires  of  writing  paper  and  one  pair  of 
silk  stockings.  To  John  Johnson's  wife  six  pounds  of  soap,  six  pounds  of 
white  starch  and  one  pound  of  blue  starch.  To  John  Browning's  wife  one 
thousand  of  pins,  one  pair  of  knives  carved  with  two  images  upon  them, 
twelve  pounds  of  white  starch  and  two  pounds  of  blue  starch.  To  the  wife 
of  M'  John  Uptone  one  sea  green  scarf  edged  with  gould  lace,  twelve 
pounds  of  white  starch  and  two  pounds  of  blue  starch.  To  my  friend  M' 
Thomas  B urges  by  second  best  sword  and  my  best  felt  hat  To  John  6re- 
vett's  wife  one  pair  of  sheets,  six  table  napkins,  three  towels  and  one  table 
cloth  marked  with  T.  W.,  six  pounds  of  soap,  six  pounds  of  white  stardi 
and  one  pound  of  blue  starch.  To  Thomas  Key's  wife  one  gilded  looking 
glass.  To  Sarg*  John  Wane's  (2)  wife  four  bushels  of  meal  and  one  rundlett 
of  four  gallons  of  vinegar,  one  half  pound  of  "  threed  '*  of  several  colours, 
twenty  needles,  six  dozen  of  silk  and  thred  buttons,  one  pewter  candlestick 
&  one  pewter  chamberpot.  To  Roger  Thompson's  wife  one  half  bushel  of 
white  salt,  one  pound  of  pepper  and  one  jar  of  oil.  To  Benjamin  Symes  (3) 
one  weeding  hoe.  To  George  Muleston  one  '*  howing"  hoe  &  one  axe. 
To  John  Goundry  one  bar  of  lead  of  twenty  pound  weight  and  three  pound. 
To  John  Hattone  one  black  felt  hat,  one  suit  of  grey  kersie,  one  shirt 
marked  T.  W.,  four  pairs  of  Irish  stockings,  two  pairs  of  my  own  wearins 
shoes,  one  bar  of  lead  and  six  pounds  of  powder.  To  John  Southerne  (4) 
six  pounds  of  candles,  one  Poland  cap  furred  and  one  pair  of  red  slippers. 
To  Michael  Batt  (5)  his  wife  two  bushels  of  meal. 

The  rest  of  my  temporal  estate  in  Virginia,  my  debts  being  paid  and 
legacies  paid  &  discharged,  to  wife  Thomazine,  whom  I  appoint  executrix. 
Friends  John  Southerne  and  James  Stome  overseers.  To  the  former  one 
black  beaver  hat  and  gold  band,  one  doublet  of  black  chamlet  and  one  pair 
of  black  hose ;  and  to  James  Stome  my  best  sword  and  a  gold  belt. 

The  witnesses  were  Francis  Boltoue  (6)  &  John  Southerne. 

Scroope,  105. 

[The  following,  from  Harl.  MS.  (Brit.  Mus.),  1561,  f.  14*3,  undoubtedly  gives  the 
pedigree  of  the  testator  of  the  above  will,  and  mdicates  his  place  of  residence  befim 
nis  migration. 

John  Wamet  of  =  Susan,  d.  of  . . . .  Ridley 
Hempsted,  Sussex.    |    of  VVbellebeech,  Sussex. 

Francis  Wamet=Anne,  d.of  Tnomas  Wamet=Tbomazin,d.    Catnarine.     Sossn, 


of  Ilempsted, 
ob.  V.  p. 


Edw.Boys,     of  Southwark 
of  CO.  Kent,    in  co.  Surrey, 
1623. 


and  heir  of  ax'EdmoiKi 

Wm.  Uall  of  Jordan  of  Ga(- 

Woodalling,  wick,  oo.  Surrey. 
CO.  Norfolk. 


Edm 


ond  Wamett.         Thomas,  3  y.  old  1623.  Judith. 


B.  r.  w. 


1.  Dr.  John  Pott,  the  legatee  mentioned,  was  doubtless  the  John  Pott,  A.M., 
M.D.,  physician  for  the  colony  of  Virginia,  who  arrived  with  his  wife  Elizabeth  in 
October,  1621,  in  the  ship  George,  lie  was  appointed  on  the  recommcndatioD  of 
Dr.  Theodore  Gulston,  the  founder  of  the  Gulstonian  lectureship  of  Anatomy,  still 


1884.]  Genealogical  Gleanings  in  England.  199 

maintained  by  the  London  College  of  Physicians.  In  the  Virginia  Land  Records, 
Book  No.  1,  p.  8,  he  appears  as  a  grantee,  on  August  11th,  1624,  of  three  acres  of 
•laikd  in  *'  James  Cittie/'  and  is  mentioned  as  a  '*  Doctor  of  Ph^  sicke  ''  and  a  mem- 
ber of  the  **  Councill.*'  Francis  West,  the  governor  of  the  colony  and  a  younger 
brother  of  Lord  Delaware,  departing  for  England  March  5th,  1628,  Dr.  Pott  suc- 
eeeded  him  as  governor,  and  so  served  until  some  time  in  March,  1630,  when  he 
was  sapersedcd  by  Sir  John  Harvey.  Pott  was  then  arraigned  for  pardoning  Ed- 
ward Wallis,  condemned  for  murder  and  cattle  stealing.  This  was  the  first  trial  by 
joiy  in  the  coluny.  Pott  was  found  guilty  and  confined  to  his  plantation  at  Uar- 
rope,  DOW  Williamsburg,  until  the  King's  pleasure  could  be  ascertained.  Gover- 
nor Harvey  forwarded  the  recommendation  of  the  Ck>uncil  for  his  pardon,  and  Mrs. 
Pott  crossed  the  ocean  and  pleaded  her  husband's  cause.  The  commissioners  to 
whom  the  petition  was  referred  reported  to  the  King  that  *'  condemning  him  for 
fdony  was  very  rigorous,  if  not  erroneous,*'  and  recommended  that  he  should  be 
restored  to  liberty  and  his  estate,  and  the  practice  of  his  profession." 

3.  I  find  in  the  State  Land  Re^ist^  a  grant  of  300  acres  to  John  Wayne  (render- 
ed in  the  Index,  Waine)  in  Charles  Kiver  County  (as  the  County  of  York  was  first 
called).  May  10th,  1638.    Book  No.  1,  p.  560. 

3.  It  may  be  recalled  that  Benjamin  Symmes  is  reported  in  1648  as  bavins 
founded  in  the  colony  a  free  school,  which  he  endowed  with  two  hundred  acres  (^ 
land,  a  good  house,  forty  milch  cows  and  other  appurtenances. 

4.  There  is  a  grant  also  of  record  to  John  Southeme,  **  Gent."  (in  all  probability 
bim  of  the  will),  of  twenty-four  acres  in  **  James  Cittie/'  September  1st,  1^7. 
Book  No.  1,  p.  55. 

5.  Michaell  Batt  appears  as  a  grantee  of  one  acre  of  land  in  *'  James  Clttie  Is- 
land," September  20th,  1643,  Book  No.  1,  p.  890.  Grants  also  appear  contempo- 
raneonsly  to  John,  William  and  Henry  Batt,  Batte  or  Batts,  as  the  name  is  various- 
ly rendered.  The  descendants  of  William  and  Henry  Batte  (as  the  name  now  ob- 
tains), brothers,  are  quite  numerous  in  Virginia,  and  of  high  respectability. 

6.  The  Rev.  Francis  Boulton,  Boltone  or  Bolton,  as  the  name  is  variously  render- 
ed, who  had  been  recommended  by  the  Earl  of  Southampton  for  some  vacant  parish 
in  Virginia,  arrived  in  the  colony  in  the  ship  George,  as  above,  and  was  assigned  to 
Qizabeth  City,  to  reside  with  Captain  Thomas  Newce. — R.  A.  Brock,  of  Richmond, 

Virginia.] 

George  Fen  wick,  of  Worminghurst,  co.  Sussex,  Esquire,  2  February, 
1656,  with  codicil  of  9  March,  1656,  proved  27  April,  1657,  by  P2Iizabetb 
Fenwick,  daughter  and  executrix.  To  wife  Katharine,  &c.  &c. ;  to  my 
most  natural  and  dear  mother,  M"*  Dorothy  Clayering ;  to  brother  Claudius 
and  his  heirs  male  my  lands  in  Brenckborn  and  Nether  Framlingtou  in  the 
county  of  Northumberland ;  to  my  nephew  Thomas  Ledgard  and  his  heirs 
male  land  in  Thirston  and  Tillington  in  Northumbcrlaud ;  to  my  sister 
Ledgard  and  my  sister  CuUick  each  fifty  pounds  ;  to  my  brother  Ledgard 
and  my  brother  CuUick,  each  ten  pounds ;  to  my  sister  Cullick's  children 
one  hundred  pounds  apiece ;  to  my  niece  Clifton  fifty  pouuds,  and  to  niece 
Bootflower's  boy  fifty  pounds ;  to  my  daughter  Elizabeth  and  daughter 
Dorothy ;  to  Ralph  Fenwick,  a  scholar  of  Christ  Church,  Oxford,  ten 
pounds  a  year ;  to  my  daughters  land  in  Sussex  that  descends  to  them  from 
their  uncle  Edward  Apsley,  Esquire,  deceased. 

The  above  he  declared  to  be  his  will  10  March,  1656.  In  the  codicil  he 
bequeaths  to  his  sister  CuUick  and  her  children  all  his  estate  in  New  Eng- 
land ;  and  also  five  hundred  pounds  to  the  public  use  of  that  country  of  New 
England  if  **  my  *'  loving  friend  Edward  Hopkins  think  fit.  lie  makes 
bequests  to  his  friend  Robert  Leeves  and  to  his  servant  Moses  Fryer.  To 
Dame  Elinor  Selby  of  Barwick  he  leaves  ten  pounds  and  desires  her  to 
undertake  the  education  of  Dorothy.  His  father-in-law  Sir  Arthur  Hessle- 
rigg  to  accept  the  mean  remembrance  of  forty  shillings  to  buy  a  ring.  He 
also  mentions  his  cousin  Lawrence  and  his  wife,  his  cousin  Strickland  and 


200  Oenealogical  Gleanings  in  England.  [April, 

his  lady,  his  ancient  acquaintance  and  dearly  beloved  friend  Sir  Thomas 
Widdrington,  his  dear  and  good  friend  M'  Edward  Hopkins,  late  warden  of^ 
the  fleet,  his  friend  Aaron  Gourdon,  Dr.  of  Physic,  his  fnend  M'  Tempest 
Milner,  alderman  of  London,  and  the  latter's  kinsman  Robert  Key,  his 
father-in-law,  M'  Claveringe,  and  Thomas  Barrell  of  Brinckborn,  North- 
umberland. He  gives  six  pounds  per  annum  to  Tristram  Fenwick  for  life, 
forty  shillings  to  W  Ogle  of  Leith  in  Scotland,  and  twenty  shillings  to  the 
widow  Clarke  of  Weldon.  Ruthen,  138. 

[The  following  pedigree  is  extracted  from  Richard  Mandy*8  copy  of  VisitatioDS  of 
Nortbumberland,  1575  and  1615,  Uarl.  M8.  1554,  ff.  90, 54  : 

Thomas  dom*    =s 
de  ffenwick  miles  I 
Ano  4.  £.  2. 


Will"  de  ffenwick  = 
miles  17.  £.  3.      I 


Robertas  de  ffenwick  =»  Elinor.  Petras,  fto. 
I 

Johannes  Fenwick  =s  Elizebetha  filia  Alani  de  Hetton. 
miles  I 

,  J      '^  i 

Johannes  Fenwick  =  Alanos. 

Armiger | 

John  Fenwick  ^ 

I 

Jonannes  Fenwick=  Catherina  filia 
dom  Esbenden  miles       I     Wilmi  Plampton  militis. 


Johannes  Fenwick  miles  =  Elizebetha  filia  Roger!  de  Woderington. 

Hcnericus  Fenwick  ^ 

Mary,  d.  k  h.  of  Wm.=John  Fenwick  of  Fenwick=Eli2.  d.  ^  Roger  Woderingtoo. 
Strother       1  wife     |  I 

issae. ^| 

Gerard  Fenwicke  =  . . . .  d.  &  heire  of  S'  Walter  Boarghton 
6  son  I     of  ....  in  CO.  Northumberland. 


I 
Tristram  ffenwick  =  Margarett,  d.  of Ogel  of  Bothell. 

3  son I 


Georj^e  ffenwick  =  Doratbey  d.  of     Gregory*         William'  Margerett,  ox. 

of  Brinckbome,  I  John  Forster  of  Robert  Ogte. 

1615.  I      Newham. 

George  ffenwick      William*     Mary     Gregory'    Henry*     Claudius'     Marmett 
12yeroold  1615.  * 

The  family  of  Forster,  of  Newham,  from  which  Col.  George  Fenwick  and  his  as- 
ter Mrs.  Elizabeth  CuUick  derived  their  descent,  are  said  by  Mundy  to  be  deaoeoded 


1884.]  Genealogical  Gleanings  in  England.  201 

oat  of  the  hoase  of  Poreier  of  Etherston.  In  this  latter  family  the  haptismal  name 
of  Reignold  often  iKJCurs,  saggesting  the  possible  origin  of  Reginald  Forater  of  Ip- 
swich. They  bore  Argent,  a  chevron  vert  between  three  bugle-horns  stringed  sable. 
'*  these  verses  were  sett  about  the  Armes,''  says  Mundy  : 

"  let  us  derly  them  hold 
to  mind  ther  worthynes 
that  wch  our  parent's  old 
hath  left  us  to  posses." 

Col.  Fcnwick*s  first  wife  and  the  mother  of  his  children,  was  Alice,  relict  of  Sir 
John  Botteler,  knight,  and  daughter  of  Sir  Edward  Apsley  of  Thackham  in  county 
Sussex,  knight.  One  of  her  sisters,  Elizabeth,  was  the  wife  of  Sir  All>ert  Morton, 
Secretary  oi  State  to  King  James.  His  second  wife,  Catherine,  was  cldi'st  daugh- 
ter of  the  famous  Sir  Arthur  Uazelrigg  of  Noseley  Hall,  in  Leicestershire.  The 
monument  erected  to  the  memory  of  Col.  Fenwick  in  the  church  at  Berwick,  which 
he  is  said  to  have  been  principally  instrumental  in  building,  shows  that  he  died  15 
March,  1656.  it  will  be  noticed  that  his  sister  Elizabeth,  wife  of  Capt.  John  Cul- 
lick,  does  not  appear  on  the  foregoing  peditrree,  probably  not  having  been  bom 
antil  after  1615,  when  the  visitation  was  made.  The  *'  sister  Ledgard  '"  was  Mary, 
wife  of  Thomas  Ledgard. — h.  f.  w.] 

William  Hathorne,  of  Binfield  in  the  County  of  Berks,  yeoman,  18 
May,  1650,  proved  2  May,  1651,  by  Sara  Hathorne,  the  widow  and  exeo- 
Qtrix.  To  the  poor  of  the  parish  of  Binfield  twenty  shillings,  to  be  dis- 
tributed on  the  day  of  my  burial.  To  Robert  Hathorne,  my  son,  all  that 
my  messuage  or  tenement  now  in  the  tenure  of  my  brother-in-law  John 
Lawrence,  situate  and  being  in  Bray,  in  the  County  of  Berks,  together  with 
all  barns,  stables,  outhouses,  orchards,  gardens,  backsides,  easments,  profits 
and  hereditaments  thereto  belonging ;  and  also  that  my  cottage  closes  and 
parcels  of  land,  pasture  and  meadow,  lying  and  being  in  Bray  aforesaid,  and 
hereafter  particularly  mentioned.  That  is  to  say,  one  barn  with  two  or- 
diards  and  five  closes  of  pasture  and  meadow  called  Neatherhouse  barn, 
neathouse  mead,  the  two  Butts,  Bishopps  cloase  and  the  backside,  containing 
in  all  eighteen  acres,  more  or  less,  lying  together  near  unto  the  said  mes- 
suage and  abutting  upon  Oakely  Greene  towards  the  North, — (other  lots,  of 
four  acres  and  of  eighteen  acres  respectively,  abutting  upon  Oakely  Green 
towards  the  South),  one  cottage,  with  a  hay  house  and  backside,  late  in  the 
tenure  of  Richard  Braiser,  containing  one  acre,  more  or  less,  abutting  upon 
Okely  Greene  aforesaid  towards  the  North ;  also  one  close  and  one  pidle 
of  pasture  ground  called  Grodlers,  containing  seven  acres,  adjoining  to  a 
lane  leading  out  of  Okeley  Greene  into  Didworth  Green  towards  the 
South,  to  have  unto  the  said  Robert  Hathorne  my  son  <&  his  heirs  forever, 
npon  trust,  &c. — that  they  shall  give  and  pay  unto  William  Hathorne,  my 
eldest  son,  his  executors  or  assigns,  the  sum  of  one  hundred  pounds  of  law- 
fol  money  of  England  within  two  years  next  after  my  decease,  and  unto 
John  Hathorne,  my  son,  &c.,  twenty  pounds  within  three  years,  &c.  Item, 
I  give  unto  Nathaniel  Hathorne,  my  son,  twenty  shillings  in  money.  Fur- 
ther onto  John  Hathorne  twenty  pounds,  if  living,  otherwise  to  his  wife 
and  children,  within  one  year  next  after  my  decease.  To  Edmond  Ha- 
thorne, my  youngest  son  (thirty  acres  and  more  in  Bray)  upon  the  trust 
and  confidence  and  to  the  end,  intent  and  purpose  that  the  said  Edmond 
Hathorne,  my  son,  his  heirs  or  assigns,  shall  give  and  pay  unto  Elizabeth, 
my  daughter,  the  wife  of  M'  Richard  Davenporte,  her  executors  or  as- 
signs, the  sum  of  forty  pounds  of  lawful  money  of  England  within  two 
years  next  after  my  decease.  To  Anne,  my  daughter,  wife  of  Hugh  Smith, 
twenty  shillings,  and  to  Elizabeth,  her  daughter,  five  shillings.  To  Robert, 
Sara,  Anne  and  Katherine,  the  children  of  my  son-in-law  Philip  Lee,  five 
shilliDgs  apiece. 


202  Genealogical  Oleanings  in  England.  [April, 

The  residue,  my  debts  being  paid,  my  funeral  expenses  discharged  and 
this  my  last  will  and  testament  in  all  things  duly  performed,  to  Sara  Ht- 
thorne,  my  wife,  whom  I  ordain  and  make  sole  execatrix. 

The  witnesses  were  John  Sowthey  als  Hayle,  Thomas  Dyer  and  Robert 
Sou  they  als  Hayle.  Grey,  87. 

Sara  Hathorne  (by  mark)  of  Binfield  in  the  County  of  Berks,  widow, 
5  September,  1655,  proved  14  March,  1655,  by  Nathaniel  Hathorne,  son 
and  sole  executor.  To  the  poor  of  Binfield  twenty  shillings,  to  be  bestowed 
on  such  as  have  most  need,  at  the  discretion  of  my  executors,  on  the  day 
of  burial.  To  Robert  Hathorne,  my  son,  a  round  table  in  the  chamber 
over  the  Hall,  with  a  drawer  to  him,  a  great  joyned  chair  in  the  parlor,  my 
elm  chest  in  the  chamber  over  the  parlor,  a  great  pair  of  andirons  standing 
in  the  parlor,  two  pillow  beares,  one  of  them  Holland  pillow  beare  and  the 
other  of  them  a  flaxen  pillow  beare,  two  silver  spoons,  one  of  my  best 
joined  stools  in  the  hall,  a  cupboard  cloth  wrought  with  blue  at  the  ends 
and  a  great  brazen  candlestick.  To  Anne,  my  daughter,  the  wife  of  Hugh 
Smith,  my  best  feather  bed  and  bolster  belonging  to  him,  a  feather  pillow, 
two  blankets,  my  green  rug,  my  green  sea  curtains  and  valians  to  them,  two 
pair  of  my  better  sheets,  the  fourth  part  of  all  my  pewter,  my  lesser  brass 
pot  and  pothooks,  my  little  skillett,  all  my  wearing  apparell,  three  of  my 
bigger  milk  bowls,  a  low  leather  chair,  my  best  green  matted  chair,  the 
biggest  chest  that  was  her  fathers  and  ten  pounds  of  lawful  money  of  Eng- 
land. To  my  two  grandchildren  Anne  Lee  and  Katherine  Lee,  twenty 
shillings  apiece.  To  all  the  residue  of  my  grandchildren,  that  is  to  say, 
Sara  Hathorne,  Elizabeth  Hathorne  and  Elizabeth  Hathorne,  Susanna 
Hathorne,  Nathaniel  Hathorne,  William  Smith  and  Elizabeth  Smith,  the 
several  sums  of  ten  shillings  apiece.  To  Anne  Middleton,  my  late  servant, 
ten  shillings. 

The  residue  to  son  Nathaniel  Hathorne,  who  is  to  be  sole  executor.    The 
witnesses  were  John  Yonges  and  Henrie  Otwaie  (by  mark). 

Berkley,  34. 

[The  forcffoin^  will  of  William  Hathorne  of  Binfield  confirms  the  guess  made  in 
1879,  ns  to  the  Lnglish  home  of  the  American  family  of  Hathorne,  and  the  inter- 
marriage of  Lieut.  Richard  Davenport,  of  New  England,  with  that  family.  (See 
Gleanino^  from  Bn^^lish  Records,  &q.^  by  P]mmerton  and  Waters,  Rssex  fnetitote. 
Salem,  Mass.,  where  sundry  abstracts  of  English  wills  may  be  found,  and  paternal 
and  maternal  pedigrees  of  the  distinguished  author  Nathaniel  Hawthorne.)  Bin- 
field,  Bray  and  Oakley  Green  are  all  in  the  North  Eastern  part  of  Berkshire,  a  little 
West  and  South  West  of  Windsor.  From  a  History  and  Antiquities  of  the  Uan- 
dred  of  Bray,  by  Charles  Kerry,  London,  1861,  I  learn  that  there  was  a  manor  of 
Cruchficlds  and  Hawthorne,  that  a  William  Hawthorne  was  one  of  the  tenants 
of  **  Queen  Lease  **  in  the  parish  of  Bray  and  Manor  of  Bray,  1650 ;  in  the  "  Ren- 
tall  of  the  Manor  of  Bray,  1650,'*  William  Hawthorne  is  charged  one  pound  per  an- 
num for  all  lands  holdcn  of  the  manor,  Thomas  Hawthorne  is  charged  three  shil- 
lings, the  heirs  of  Robert  Hawthorne  five  shillings,  and  William  Hawthorne,  Jr., 
five  pence.  In  '*  The  Assert  Rent  of  Bray,  1658,"  under  the  title  •*  Oakley,"  1 
find  **  Robert  llauthorne  for  house  and  lands,'*  six  shillings  four  pence,  •'Tho- 
mas Ilauthorne  ditto,"  three  shillings  three  pence  halfpenny,  and  *^  Henery  Qan- 
thorne  for  lands,"  Beven  shillings.  William  Hawthorne  was  one  of  the  church 
wardens  in  Bray,  A.D.  1600.  By  Indenture  dated  10  January,  6  James  n(%0), 
Sir  John  Norris  confirmed  unto  William  Goddard,  William  Hathorne,  Ihomii 
Westcott  and  five  others,  and  their  heirs,  all  those  piddles  or  parcels  of  ground 
severally  lying  in  certain  hamlets  and  tithings  of  the  parish  of  Bray  in  the  coan^ 
of  Berks,  whereupon  small  cottaj^cs  and  other  edifices  were  erected  and  built,  ooo- 
taining  in  the  whole,  by  estimation,  five  acres,"  &c.,  in  trust  for  the  **  relief  of 
such  poor,  impotent  and  aged  persons  as  from  time  to  time  thereafter  should  be 


1884.]  Qenedlogical  Gleanings  in  England.  203 

dwelling  within  the  said  parish,  and  to  the  intent  that  the  poorest  and  most  aged 
and  impotent  f>erson8  of  the  said  parish  should  he  provided  for  ever  of  houses  and 
habitation.'*  By  an  Indenture  dated  14  January,  1621,  it  appears  that  Wiih'am 
Hawthorn  and  Thomas  Westcott,  who  were  the  survivin<;  trustees,  associated  with 
themselves  eight  other  substantial  inhabitants  of  the  parish  as  feoffees  in  trust,  &c. 
%y  Indenture  of  feoffment  bearing  date  1  September,  1657,  it  appears  that  Thomas 
Wilcox  was  the  surviving  trustee.  On  page  1 10  of  the  History  may  be  found  **  The 
Legend  of  Hawthorn,"  which  narrates  the  finding  of  two  pots  of  gold  on  Haw- 
thorn Hill,  near  Crucbfield  (but  a  little  way  from  Binfield),  and  on  page  111  sun- 
dry notices  of  the  name  of  Hawthorne,  gathered  from  court  rolls,  registers  and  other 
aotbentic  sources  ;  from  which  it  appears  that  John  Hothorn  died  15'i0,  leaving  Hen- 
ry Uothorn  his  son  and  heir.  Henry  died  1531,  leaving  Roger  his  son  and  heir.  In 
1535  a  field  of  Thomas  Hothorne  adjoined  one  held  by  John  Bysshop  in  **  Cryche- 
feld."  In  1533  Thomas  Hothorne  was  appointed  collector  for  the  lands  he  (Bys- 
■hop)  held  called  **  Chaunters  "  by  the  yearly  rent  of  twenty  shillings  nine  pence. 
William  Hothorn  died  1538,  leaving  VVilliam  his  son  and  heir.  William  Haw- 
thorne was  a  copyhold  tenant  1601  and  church  warden  1600-02.  Thomas  Hawthorn 
Jan.  purchased  *'  Brownings*'  in  Holyport,  1602.  John  Hawthorne  held  a  coppice 
at  Binfield  called  '*  Picking's  Points,''  1605.  One  of  this  family  married  Anne, 
daaghter  of  Gilbert  Loggins,  circa  1605.  And  Robert  Hawthorne's  name  occurs 
1056  to  1664.— H.  F.  w.] 

Nathaniel  Hathorne,  of  Cookharn  in  County  Berks,  gentleman,  27 
September,  1652,  proved  29  July,  1654,  by  Martha  Hathorne,  the  relict 
and  executrix.  To  wife  Martha  eight  hundred  pounds  in  lieu  of  her  joint- 
ure and  thirds,  &c.  My  manor  of  South  Braham*  in  the  county  of  Som- 
erset. Estates  in  the  counties  of  Devon,  Somerset  and  Berks.  My  four 
brothers-in-law,  Thomas  Loggins,  John  Whistler,  Ralphe  Whistler  and  Tho- 
mas Whistler,  gentleman.  My  three  own  sisters,  Elizabeth,  Mary  and 
Anne,  and  John  Laurence,  the  husband  of  Anne.  My  son-in-law  Wil- 
liam Mattingly  and  Jone  his  wife.  My  kinsman  William  Eldridge  and 
Judith  his  wife-  Anne  Winche,  the  wife  to  my  nephew  John  Winch.  My 
nephew  William  Winche.  The  poor  of  Cookham  and  South  Braham. 
Wife  Martha  to  be  executrix,  and  two  loving  kinsmen,  Dr.  Daniel  Whist- 
ler of  Gresham  College,  and  John  Winche,  of  London,  haberdasher,  to  be 
overseers.     One  of  the  witnesses  was  John  Hathorne.  Alchin,  251. 

[This  testator  was,  of  course,  brother  to  the  foregoing  William  Hathorne  and  un- 
do to  the  American  immigrant. 

it  b  with  a  peculiar  satisfaction,  it  must  be  confessed,  that  the  compiler  of  these 
Gleanings,  himself  a  native  of  Salem,  has  at  last  l)cen  able  to  prove  beyond  a  doubt 
whereabouts  in  **  Our  Old  Home,"  that  elder  England  beyond  the  seas,  we  must 
look  for  the  ancestry  of  the  most  widely  known  among  the  distinguished  sons  of 
old  Sjalem,  the  most  original  ol  the  prose  writers  of  our  New  England,  and  the  one 
whose  writings  are  most  native  to  her  soil ;  a  satisfaction  tinged  with  the  regret, 
however,  that  the  discovery  was  not  made  in  the  great  writer's  life-time.  We  can 
easily  imagine  with  what  delight  he  would  have  made  a  pilgrimage  into  Berk- 
ahire,  how  gladly  he  would  have  loitered  about  Binfield  ancf  Bray,  Cruchfield  and 
Oakley  Green,  making  new  sketches  to  illustrate  his  English  Note  Book,  and  how 
eai^erly  his  quaint  and  vivid  fancy  would  have  seized  even  upon  the  scanty  materi- 
als onered  to  it  in  the  Legend  of  Hawthorn  Hill  and  its  pots  of  gold,  to  weave 
therefrom  a  story  that  should  rival  in  weirdness  any  of  his  **  Legends  of  New 
So^land.'* 

The  eldest  son  and  namesake  of  William  Hathorne  of  Binfield,  and  first  Ameri- 
can ancestor  of  the  distinguished  writer,  was,  next  to  Governor  Endicott,  by  far 
the  most  important  personage  in  the  civil  history  of  Salem  daring  the  first  genera- 
tion. By  sheer  force  of  natural  talent  and  commanding  character,  this  eon  of  a 
I»Iain  English  yeoman  easily  came  to  the  front  rank  among  the  many  wise  and  ac- 
tive New  England  men  who  were  then  engaged  in  the  tremendous  and  to  them 
solemn  task  of  founding  a  state,  opening  up  the  wilderness,  treating  with  **  the 

*  Probably  South  Braham  (or  Brewham)  in  the  Hundred  of  Braton.^u.  f.  w. 


204  Genealogical  Gleanings  in  England.  [April, 

barbixrious  Flenthen/*  justly  and  peaceably  if  possible,  bat  with  fire  and  sword  if 
need  be,  allotting  lands  to  the  new  comers  in  proportion  to  their  means  and  ability 
and  to  the  numberH  of  their  families,  establishing  offices  of  record,  settling  dUpates, 
levying  taxes,  making  provision  for  meeting-house  and  school-house,  regarding 
justice  and  morality,  a  careful  religious  training  and  the  free  education  of  all,  ts 
the  only  sure  basis  of  good  order  and  sound  government,  the  only  firm  and  stable 
foundation  whereon  to  erect  the  superstructure  of  a  mighty  new  state.  In  all  thii 
work  Major  William  ilathorne  bore  a  prominent  part,  whether  as  an  enterprising 
and  prasperous  merchant,  a  trusted  citizen  and  deputy,  an  honored  speaker  of  tM 
House,  a  wise  and  influential  magistrate  in  the  highest  court,  or  an  active  and  sao- 
cessfui  commander  in  the  wars;  and  bis  career  illustrates  most  happily  the  wonder- 
ful capacity  of  the  Anglo-^xon  race,  that  imperial  race  of  modern  times,  its  adapt- 
ability and  readiness  to  cope  with  new  conditions  of  life,  to  ac^ust  itself  to  strange 
and  heretofore  untried  surroundings,  its  plain  and  homely  common  sense,  its  anion 
of  native  practical  sagacity  and  sound  judgment  with  a  love  of  law  and  order,  and 
at  the  same  time  a  spirit  of  adventure,  which  has  made  Great  Britain  not  only  the 
most  prosperous  of  nations,  but  the  greatest  colonizing  people  in  the  world,  the 
mother  of  Nations,  and  which  is  so  conspicuously  manifested  in  the  marvellous  ca- 
reer of  her  daughters,  the  '*  Greater  Britain  **  in  America  and  Australia  and  else- 
where throughout  the  world  wherever  a  love  of  enterprise  or  any  other  cause  has 
led  its  people  to  settle  and  plant  new  homes. — n.  f.  w.] 

William  Pepperell  of  St.  Stephens  by  Launceston,  in  the  County  of 
Cornwall,  5  June,  1G55,  proved  15  October  1655,  by  Jane  Pepperell,  his 
widow,  and  William  Pepperell,  his  son.  Daughter  Alice  (under  12)  and 
Jane  Pepperell,  second  sou  Robert,  wife  Jane,  son  Thomas  (under  12)  and 
eldest  son  William.  Richard  Call  my  brother-in-law,  John  Roe  of  Launctt- 
ton,  Thomas  Facy  of  St.  Thomas,  and  Robert  Pepperell  my  brother  (of 
whose  unfained  aifection  and  fidelity  I  have  had  long  and  frequent  experi- 
menUs),  to  be  overseers.  The  witnesses  were  Nevill  Blighett,  Will  Blag- 
don  and  Nicholas  Dodge.  Aylett,  387. 

[The  testator  could  not  have  been  the  grandfather  of  Sir  William  Pepperrdl, 
hart.,  the  captor  of  Louisburg.  Possibly  he  may  have  been  his  great-grand- 
father. William  Peppcrrcll,  the  father  of  the  baronet,  was  born  about  1616, 
having  died  Feb.  13,  1733-4,  in  his  87th  year.  Usher  Parsons,  M.D.,  in  the  bio^ 
raphy  of  the  son  (Boston,  i85()),  sttites  that  the  father  was  born  in  Tavistock,  De* 
vonshire  :  but  ten  years  later  (Register,  xx.  i)  he  calls  him  a  native  of  Wales.  The 
Wentvvorth  Gcnwilogy  (ed.  1878,  p.  307)  calls  him  a  native  of  Cornwall.  '*  Tia- 
dition,'^  accordin<]r  to  Dr.  Parsons,  *^  says  that  he  spoke  broad  Welsh,  as  Boll  and 
Woll  for  Bill  and  Will."  He  had  three  sisters.  One  married  a  Phillips,  another 
a  Gilbert,  and  the  third,  Grace,  died  unmarried.  Ilis  children  were  Andrew,  Mary, 
Margery,  Joanna,  Miriam,  William  the  baronet,  Dorothy  and  Jane.  For  an  ac- 
count of  the  descendants  of  the  baronet,  among  whom  is  £dward  Walford,  M.A., 
of  London,  Eng.,  editor  of  the  Antiquarian  Magazine,  see  Reoistkr,  xz.  1-6.^ 
Editor.] 

Sir  William  Phips,  Knight,  of  Boston  in  the  county  of  Suffolk,  Pro- 
vince of  Massachusetts  Bay,  in  New  England,  18  December,  1693,  sworn 
to  by  Dame  Mary  Phips  10  September,  1696;  proved  29  January,  169fi. 
To  brother  James  Phips  or  his  heirs,  the  sum  of  five  shillings.  To  my 
dear  and  entirely  beloved  consort  Mary  Phips,  and  to  her  heirs  forever,  all 
my  estate,  real  and  personal,  &c.  &c.,  with  power  to  alienate  by  deed  of  gifii 
will  or  codicil.  If  she  should  die  without  having,  by  will,  disposed  of  my 
estate,  &c.,  it  shall  all  descend  and  fall  to  my  adopted  sou,  Spencer  Phips 
ats  Bennett  and  the  heirs  of  his  body.  If  he  should  die  without  issue  sur- 
viving, what  is  left  shall  be  equally  divided  and  shared,  one  half  thereof  by 
my  sisters  Mary,  Margaret  and  the  heirs  of  my  sister  Anne  deceased,  or 
their  heirs  forever,  and  the  other  half  in  like  manner,  to  the  relations  of 
my  beloved  consort,  reserving  only  out  of  the  whole  estate  one  hundred 


1884.]  Oenealogical  Gleanings  in  England.  205 

pooDds  current  money  of  New  England,  which  my  said  relations  and  the 
relations  of  my  said  wife  shall  cause  to  be  paid  unto  John  Phipps,  son  to 
my  brother  John  Phipps  deceased,  or  to  his  heirs,  if  this  clause  be  not  re- 
pealed by  my  wife  aforesaid.  If  my  dear  consort  should  die  before  my  said 
son  18  come  to  age  or  is  married,  then  I  do  nominate  and  appoint  my  friends 
Capt.  John  Foster,  Esq.,  and  Capt.  Andrew  Belcher  of  Boston,  merchants, 
to  be  trustees  of  my  estate  and  guardians  to  my  said  sod,  until  he  shall  be 
of  foil  age  or  married. 

The  witnesses  were  John  Phillips,  John  White,  John  Hiskett,  Josiah 
Stone  and  John  Greenough.  Pyne,  15. 

Francis  Phipps,  the  elder,  of  Reading,  in  the  county  of  Berks,  men- 
tions (inter  alios)  son  Constantiue  Phipps,  in  his  will  proved  1668. 

Hene,  69. 

[A  flattering  .sketch  of  the  mathematical  and  inventive  ability  of  Sir  William 
Phips-j-our  fifovempr  darinf^  the  time  of  the  witchcraft  delusion ;  with  a  copy  of 
the  epitaph  from  his  monument  in  St.  Mary  Woolnoth^s  Church  in  London,  are 
eifen  in  '*  The  Peerage  of  Ireland,"  by  John  Lodge,  vol.  vii.  p.  84,  of  the  edition  of 
17^,  edited  by  Mervyn  Archdall,  as  a  prelude  to  the  history  of  the  ancestry  of 
Lord  Mulsrave;  which  is  followed  by  the  statement  that  Sir  William  Phips  was 
&therof  Sir  Constantino  Phipps,  Lord  Chancellor  of  Ireland  from  1710  to  1714, 
who  was  jzrandiatber  of  the  first  Baron  Mulgrave. 

Sir  WiUiam  (whose  will  is  given  above)  was  son  of  James  Phips,  a  gunsmith, 
who  came  from  Bristol,  England,  and  settled  near  the  Kennebec  River.  Cotton 
Mather  states  that  James  had  twenty-one  sons  and  five  daughters.  Sir  William 
mentions  in  his  will  but  one  brother  and  three  sisters,  and  having  no  child  adopts 
his  wife's  nephew,  afterward  known  a^  Spencer  Phips,  who  lived  and  died  in  New 
En^and.  Sir  Egerton  Bridges  copied  the  statement  from  Archdall  and  incorporat- 
ed It  in  his  celebrated  edition  of  Collinses  Peerage  ( 1812),  but  having  noticed  later 
the  Life  of  Sir  William  Phips  by  Cotton  Mather,  corrects  the  statement  in  an  ap- 
pendix, so  far  as  Sir  Constantine  was  concerned,  by  suggesting  that  Spencer  Phips, 
the  adopted  son  of  Sir  VV^illiam,  was  the  true  ancestor  of  I^ord  Mulgrave.  Debrett, 
in  bis  anmial  Peerage,  carried  the  original  story  for  years,  but  finally  left  it  out  en- 
tirely. Burke  substituted  **  cousin  '  for  *' father,"  still  keepin;;  Sir  William 
Phips  for  the  '*  figure-head  '*  of  the  family  by  sayins:  he  was  cousin  of  Sir  Con- 
stantine. Savage  (1861)  Vol.  iii.  p.  4'22,  calls  attention  to  the  **  preposterous 
fiible,'*  and  quotes  **  Smiles *s  Self-Help,  p.  169,"  as  a  present  example  of  its  con- 
tinuance. The  Heraldic  Journal  (1865),  Vol.  i.  pp.  154-5,  contains  a  full  and  in- 
teresting account  of  this  **  popular  error."  The  latest  promulgation  of  the  old 
story  which  haa  come  to  my  sight  is  in  an  eleo:ant  volume  purchased  by  the  Boston 
Atfaienseum  daring  1881,  **  Picturesque  Views  of  Seats  of  Noblemen,  &c.,"  by  Kev. 
F.  O.  Morris  (no  date)  but  evidently  a  very  recent  publication,  Vol.  ii.  pp.  11  to  12, 
with  a  view  of  Mulgrave  Castle,  the  seat  oi  the  Mar(^uiH  of  Normanby. 

This  magnificent  place  was  inherited  by  Constantine  Phipps  (a  grandson  of  Sir 
Constantine  previously  mentioned)  from  his  maternal  grandmother,  whose  paternity 
was  a  qaestion  of  historic  doubt. 

Catherine  Sedley,  created  Countess  of  Dorchaster  for  life^  was  the  acknowledged 
mistress  of  James  II. ;  the  keeper  of  his  privy  purae.  Col.  James  Graham,  also  had 
intimate  relations  with  her!  It  happened  that  her  daughter — Lady  Catherine  Darn- 
ly — bore  an  exact  resemblance  to  his  daughter,  the  Countess  of  Berkshire.  Col. 
Grmham  was  not  inclined  to  deny  the  paternity,  while  the  mother  asserted  that  her 
daog^ter  **need  not  be  so  proud,  as  she  was  not  the  King's  child,  but  Col.  Gra- 
ham s.*'     (Jesse's  Lives  of  the  Stuarts,  Vol.  iii.  p.  508.) 

Lady  Catherine  Darnley  was  married  first  to  the  Earl  of  Anglesey,  from  whom 
she  was  divorced;  she  then  married  the  Duke  of  Buckingham.  From  him  she 
received  Mulgrave  Castle,  and  she  gave  it  to  Constantine  Phipps,  the  son  of  her 
daoffhtcr  by  her  first  husband. 

"rtis  Constantine  Phipps  was  created  Baron  Mulgrave  of  the  peerage  of  Ireland  in 
1768,  tmt  the  titles  have  accumulated  upon  his  dencending  line  until  the  present 
bead  of  the  family  is  **  Marouis  of  Normanby,  £arl  of  Mulgrave,  Viscount  Norman- 
by and  Baron  Mulgrave  of  Mulgrave,  co.  York,  in  the  Peerage  of  the  United  King- 
VOL.    ZZZVIU.  19 


206  Genealogical  Gleanings  in  England*  [April, 

dom;  Baron  Malgraye  of  New  Ross,  co.  Wexford,  in  the  Peertme  of  Ireland!'^ 
The  armorial  bearings  ore  quarterings  of  those  of  James  II. !  and  of  Sir  William 
Phine! 

Mr.  Waters  has  found  a  father  for  a  Constantine  Phipps,  and  we  hope  the  whole 
qnestion  of  relationship  to  ^ir  William  (if  any  existed)  will  be  fully  settled  sooo. 
Or.  Marshall  in  **  The  Genealoj^ist/'  Vol.  ti.,  gave  new  material  as  to  the  mir- 
riages  and  children  of  the  first  Constantine. — J.  C.  J.  Browtv. 

From  Hist,  and  Antiquities  of  Reading,  by  the  Rey.  Charles  Coates,  LL  B.,  Loo- 
don,  1R02,  p.  445,  we  learn  that  there  was  a  tradition  that  Sir  ConstanUoe  Phipps, 
the  ancestor  of  the  MulgraTe  family,  was  bom  at  Reading. — ^h.  r.  w.] 

Stmon  Bradstbeete,  citizen  and  grocer  of  London,  22  Febniary,  1627, 
proved  28  February,  1627,  by  Samuel  Bradstreete.  Daughter  Margaret, 
now  wife  of  Edmond  Slater,  citizen  and  mercer  of  London,  married  with- 
out my  love,  leave  or  consent.  My  nephew,  Samuel  Bradstreete,  to  be 
residuary  legatee  and  sole  and  absolute  executor.  Barrington,  14. 

[Simon  Bradstreet,  the  **  Nestor  of  New  England,"  who  was  governor  of  Massa- 
chusetts, 1679-86  and  1689-92,  was  probably  related  to  the  testatdV.  Gov.  Brad- 
street  used  on  his  will  a  seal  with  these  arms :  On  a  fesse  three  crescents,  in  base  a 
greyhound  passant  (Register,  viii.  313).  The  tinctures  are  not  indicated.  The 
arms  of  ^3ir  John  Valentine  Bradstreet,  baronet,  descended  from  Simon  B.  of  Kil- 
mainham,  co.  Dublin,  Ireland,  created  a  baronet  in  1759,  are,  Arg.  a  greyhound 
passant  gules;  on  a  chief  sable  three  crescents  or. 

The  father  of  Gov.  Bradstreet  was  named  Simon,  according  to  the  statement  of 
the  Rev.  Simon  B.  of  New  London  (Reg.  ix.  113).  Cotton  Mather,  who  does  not 
give  the  christian  name,  says  that  he  was  **a  minister  in  Lincolnshire  who  was 
always  a  nonconformist  at  home  as  well  as  when  preacher  at  Middlebargh 
abroad ''  (Magnalia.  ed.  1702,  Bk.  ii.  p.  19;  ed.  1853,  vol.  i.  p.  138).  Gov.  Brad- 
street, according  to  Mather,  was  ''  born  at  Horbiing,  March,  1603.'*  He  died  at 
Salem,  March  27,  1G97,  *'  aet.  94/'  according  to  the  inscription  on  his  monument 
(Reg.  i.  76).  He  was  bred  at  Emmanuel  (Allege,  Cambridge,  A.B.  1690,  A.M. 
1624,  came  to  New  England  in  1630,  being  then  secretary  of  the  Massachusetts 
Company.  He  married  first,  Anne,  daughter  of  Gov.  Thomas  Dudley,  by  whom  be 
had  eight  children — Samuel,  Dorothy  married  Rev.  Se&bom  Cotton  ;  Sarah  wife  of 
Richard  Hubbard;  Rev.  Simon,  Hannah  or  Ann,  wife  of  Andrew  Wiggin ;  Dud- 
ley, John,  and  Mercy  wife  of  Nathaniel  Wade.  He  married  secondly  Mrs.  Anna 
f  Downing)  Gardiner.  See  memoirs,  Register,  i.  75-7 ;  viii.  312-13.  Lists  ol 
ctesccndants  of  him  and  his  gifted  wife,  the  first  female  poet  in  Now  England,  in- 
cluding some  eminent  American  writers,  are  printed  in  the  Register,  viii.  312-25; 
ix.  113-21.— Editor.] 

John  Sedgwicke,  of  the  parish  of  S*  Savior's,  Southwark,  in  county 
Surrey,  brewer,  27  November,  1638,  proved  5  December,  1638,  by  Mar- 
tha Sedgwicke,  widow  and  executrix.  To  be  buried  in  the  parish  church 
of  S'  Savior's.  To  wife  Martha  two  thousand  pounds  of  money  and  cer- 
tain personal  property  at  my  house  at  Barnes  in  county  Surrey,  late  in  the 
occupation  of  M'  Ilubland  deceased.  To  my  mother  Elizabeth  Sedg- 
wicke, of  VVoburn  in  the  county  of  Bedford,  widow,  the  sum  of  ^\'e  hun- 
dred pounds  in  money  within  one  year  after  my  decease.  But  if  she  die 
before  the  expiration  of  said  year,  then  two  hundred  and  fifty  pounds  of 
that  money  to  be  given  to  my  wife  and  the  other  two  hundred  and  fifty 
pounds  to  be  at  the  disposal  and  ordering  of  my  said  mother  to  such  of  her 
children  as  slie  shall  think  most  meet,  at  her  own  will  and  pleasure.  To  mj 
sister  Mary  Houghton,  now  wife  of  Robert  Houghton,  and  their  daughter 
Martha,  my  god-daughter,  the  sum  of  one  hundred  and  fifty  pounds  within  one 
year,  &c.  To  my  brother  William  Sedgwicke,  minister  of  Farnam,  near 
Bishops  Starford,  fifty  pounds  within  one  year,  &c.  **  Item  I  give  and  re- 
mitt  to  my  loving  brotlier  Robert  Sedgwicke,  of  Charlestowne  in  new  Eng- 
land Thirtie  and  eight  pounds  which  bee  oweth  mee  by  bill  and  fourty  shil- 


1884.]  Genealogical  Gleanings  in  England.  207 

lings  to  bay  him  a  ring."  To  my  father  and  mother  in  law,  Edward  and 
Joan  Wicke,  of  Leighton  in  the  county  of  Bedford,  the  sum  of  fi\Q  pounds 
each ;  to  sister  Joan  Wicke  ten  pounds  ;  to  brothers  IMatthew,  Mark  and 
Thomas  Wicko  ten  pounds  apiece ;  and  to  brother  Luke  Wicke  thirty 
pouuds ;  all  within  one  year  after  my  decease.  To  my  friend  and  brother 
Nicholas  Crisp,  citizen  and  girdler  of  London,  ten  pounds,  and  to  his  wife 
Sarah  Crisp,  ten  pounds  within  one  year,  &c.  To  the  poor  of  the  f>ari8h 
of-  Woburu  in  the  County  of  Bedford,  the  sum  of  twenty  pounds,  &c.,  it 
being  the  parish  in  which  I  was  born.  To  the  poor  of  the  town  of  Leigh- 
ton  twenty  pounds.  To  the  poor  of  the  Liberty  of  the  upper  ground,  on 
the  Bankeside,  in  the  parish  of  St  Saviors,  ten  pounds.  To  ten  poor  goflly 
ministers  of  6od*s  word  the  sum  of  forty  pounds,  to  be  distributed  at  the 
discretion  of  my  overseers.  To  M'  Nicholas  Morton,  minister  of  the  pa- 
rish of  St.  Saviors,  forty  shillings  to  preach  my  funeral  sermon.  To  M' 
James  Archef,  minister  also  of  the  said  parish,  forty  shillings.  To  my 
nncle,  Mr  Stephen  Sedgwicke,  brewer,  five  pounds  to  buy  him  a  ring.  To 
servant  Nathaniel  Barrow  five  pounds.  Wife  Martha  to  be  executrix, 
and  kinsmen  and  friends  Edward  Wicke,  Stephen  Sedgwicke,  Nicholas 
Crisp  and  Robert  Houghton  to  be  overseers.  Lee,  181. 

[Robert  Sedgwick,  named  in  this  will  as  brother  of  the  testator,  was  a  prominent 
man  in  early  New  En^^land  history.  It  is  noteworthy  that  Sarah  Sedt^wiok,  second 
wife  of  Got.  John  Leverett  rRso.  xxxv.  348),  who  has  heen  supposed  to  be  a  sister 
of  Robert,  is  not  mentioned  here.  Robert  Sedgwick  settled  in  Charlcstown  as  early 
aa  1636.  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Artillery  Company  in  1638,  was  chosen  Ma- 
jor-General,  the  highest  military  ofiBce  in  the  colony,  May  26,  1052;  went  to  Eng- 
land and  was  appointed  by  Cromwell  commander  of  the  expedition  which  captured 
in  1654  the  French  posts  in  Acadia.  He  was  sent  as  a  commissioner  to  Jamaiciv  after 
the  capture  of  that  island  (Req.  ante,  p.  24),  where  he  died  May  24  (Drake),  or 
June  34XPalfrey),  1656.  llis  children  were  Samuel,  Hannah,  William  and  Rob- 
ert (Wyman's  Charlestown).  His  widow  Joanna  became  the  second  wife  of  Rev. 
Thomas  Allen  of  Charlestown,  whose  first  wife  iras  Anna,  widow  of  John  Harvard. 
founder  of  Harvard  College.  Descendants  have  been  distinguished  in  literature  ana 
in  civil  and  military  life.— Editor.] 


Notes  on  Abstracts  previously  printed. 

Constant  Sylvester.     {Ante,  xxxvii.  385.) 

Grace  Sylvester. — In  the  Register  for  October  last,  page  385,  Mr.  Waters  gives 
an  abntract  of  the  will  of  Constant  Silvester,  made  in  Barbadoes  in  1671.  In  this 
will  the  testator  gives  his  two  daughters,  Grace  and  Mary,  **  two  thousand  pounds 
each  on  the  day  of  their  marriage,  besides  One  hundred  pounds  each  to  buy  them 
a  jewel  at  the  age  of  16  years.  The  following  deposition,  made  by  the  mother  of 
these  two  young  ladies,  has  been  transcribed  from  the  *'  Proceedings  in  the  Spirit- 
ual Court  of  the  Diocese  of  London,"  and  brings  to  light  an  interesting  episode 
in  the  annals  of  the  family  of  Sylvester  : 

"12  Die  Menses  Decemhris  Anno  Dorii  1685  which  day  appeared  p'son- 
allj  Grace  Sylvester,  widdow  and  Relict  of  Constant  Sylvester,  Esquire, 
dec*  and  by  vertue  of  her  oath  deposed  that  about  Ten  years  since  her  hus- 
band being  dead,  her  affaires  called  her  into  Barbadoes  ;  she  left  her  child- 
ren, viz'  one  Sonn  and  two  daughters  under  the  care  and  tuition  and  gov- 
ernment to  Anne  Walrond  her  sister,  who  dyed  in  ffebruary  last,  as  she  was 
informed  and  she  was  likewise  informed  y*  one  M'  John  Staples  being  an 
acquaintance  of  this  deponents  sonn  Constant  Sylvester,  thereby  became 
acquainted  with  Grace  Sylvester  this  deponents  daughter  and  pretended  to 
make  his  addresses  to  her  in  the  way  of  marriage  and  the  same  (as  this  de- 


208  Genealogical  Gleanings  in  England*  [April, 

poneut  was  informed)  Came  to  the  Knowledge  of  the  said  Anne  Walrond 
&  she  forbad  the  said  John  Staples  to  come  to  the  said  House  and  he  there- 
upon did  desist  and  she  doth  farther  depose  that  she  this  deponent  arrived 
at  London  on  the  28*^  of  September  last  and  after  such  her  arrival  Sir 
Henry  Pickering  Bar*  made  courtshipp  in  the  way  of  marriage  to  her  this 
Deponents  daughter  Grace  Sylvester  and  he  made  also  his  addresses  to  this 
deponent  therein  to  whom  she  gave  her  consent,  upon  Information  of  his 
Quality,  State  and  Condition  and  after  some  tyme  the  said  M'  John  Sta- 
ples came  to  her  this  deponents  lodgings  in  S*  James  S*  vlz^  on  or  about 
the  3**  day  of  Nov'  last  and  in  the  p'sence  of  this  Depon*,  Henry  Walrond 
Sen'  Esq'*  and  severall  other  p'sons  the  said  m'  John  Staples  told  this  de- 
ponent that  he  understanding  that  her  daughter  Grace  was  speedily  to  be 
married  to  Sir  Henry  Pickering  and  he  thought  good  to  acquaint  this  de- 
ponent that  her  daughter  could  not  justly  p'ceed  in  the  s^  match,  for  she 
was  by  promise  engaged  to  him  or  to  that  effect  and  he  being  asked,  when, 
where,  and  in  whose  p'sence,  he  answered,  in  the  Mall  in  S'  James  and  that 
her  sister  Mary  and  Mrs  Mary  Seaman  were  with  them,  but  were  either 
soe  much  before  or  behind  them  that  they  could  not  heare  theire  discourse 
and  the  s*  Grace  Sylvester  being  then  p'sent  absolutely  denyed  that  she 
made  any  such  p'mise,  but  declared  that  she  told  him  that  she  would  never 
marry  any  p'son  w^  out  her  mothers  consent  and  approbation,  or  to  that 
very  effect,  whereupon  the  ^  John  Staples  replyed  that  the  p'mise  made 
to  him  had  that  condi66n  and  the  s^  Grace  denying  any  p'mise,  the  s^  John 
Staples  said  that  this  was  noe  more  than  he  expected  and  in  a  little  tyme 
after  departed,  but  imediately  before  his  departure  had  some  private  dis- 
course with  Henry  Walrond  Sen'  Esq'  and  this  depon*  findeing  that  her  s* 
daughter  Grace  Sylvester  was  noe  wayes  engaged  to  the  s*  John  Staples 
nor  }iad  any  kindness  for  him.  This  dep*  did  consent  that  the  said  Sir  Hen- 
ry Pickeriug  should  pursue  his  addresses  to  the  s**  Grace  her  daughter  which 
he  did  accordingly  and  hath  obteyned  the  affections  of  her  s**  daughter  and 
there  was  and  is  an  agreement  made  between  them  by  and  with  the  Con- 
sent of  this  dep*  and  that  order  was  and  is  given  for  drawing  up  writings 
and  settling  of  a  Joynture  and  preparation  for  the  marriage  between  him  the 

8**  Sir  Henry  Pickering  and  the  s**  Grace  to  be  solemnized  before  any 

or  Inhibition  was  served  on  the  said  Grace  which  was  not  served  as  she 
believeth  untill  the  fourth  of  this  Instant — December  and  upon  designe  (as 
this  dep*  doth  verily  believe)  by  the  s*  John  Staples  to  gett  some  money 
or  other  sinister  end.     In  witness  whereof  she  hath  hereunto  sett  her  hand. 

Grace  Sylvester. 
12  Decemb.  1685.      p*  fata  Gratia  Sylvester  ) 
vidua  jurat  coram  me,  Th**  Exton.  ) 

Henry  Walrond,  Sen''  also  made  a  deposition  similar  to  the  above,  and  also  adds 
that  Staples  in  a  private  discourse  with  hira  said  ''  he  knew  the  Consent  or  promise 
made  to  him,  was  no  such  promise,  as  thereby  to  oblige  her,  meaning  the  s^  Grace, 
to  marry  him,  or  to  make  null  or  void  her  marriage  to  any  other  person,  but  be 
could  thereby  putt  a  stonp,  or  hindrance  if  he  plea^d  to  her  marriage  with  any 
other  person  and  desired  this  deponent  (Henry  Walrond)  to  consider  thereof." 

Sir  ilenry  Pickering  was  the  only  son  of  Sir  Henry,  the  first  Baronet,  of  Whad- 
don,  CO.  Cambridge,  by  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Sir  Thomas  Vinor,  1st  Baronet, 
Lord  Mayor  in  1653,  lie  succeeded  his  father  in  1667-8,  and  married  first  the 
daughter  of  Sir  Georffe  Downing,  Bart.,  of  East  Hatley,  oo.  Cambridge;  second, 
Grace  Sylvester,  bv  wliom  he  had  no  children.  He  resided  in  Barbadoee,  where  be 
died  in  1704-5.  \Vith  him  the  Baronetcy  became  extinct. — G.  D.  Scuu,  i^  0»- 
ford^  Enyland, 


1884.]  The  "  Quo  Warranto "  of  1635.  209 


THE  "QUO  WARRANTO"  OF  1635. 

Commanicoted  by  G.  D.  Scull,  Esq.,  of  Oxford,  England. 

THE  Indictment,  which  followed  closely  upon  the  AVrit  of  Quo 
Warranto,  isaued  in  1635  against  the  Massachusetts  Bay  Com- 
pony  by  Charles  Ist,  through  his  attorney  general,  Sir  John  Banks, 
incited  thereunto  by  Sir  Ferdinando  Gorges,  Thomas  Morton  and 
others,  is  well  known  to  the  students  of  early  New  England  history 
by  the  abstract  of  that  notable  document  preserved  in  Hutchinson's 
**  Collections  of  Papers,"  Boston,  1769,  pp.  101-3.  A  copy  of 
the  writ  of  Quo  Warranto,  issued  on  the  17th  day  of  June  in  the 
II th  year  of  Charles  1st,  addressed  to  the  sherifTs  of  London,  to 
take  Sir  Henry  Rosewell  and  the  associates  or  freemen  of  the  Socie- 
ty of  the  Massachusetts  Bay,  is  printed  among  the  Danforth  Papers 
in  the  Second  Series  of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society's  Col- 
lections, Volume  VIII.  The  original  indictments,  in  Latin,  drawn 
separately  against  Sir  Henry  Rosewell,  Sir  John  Young,  Thomas 
Southcot,  John  Humphreys  and  Simon  Wlietcombe,  and  their  after- 
associates,  to  whom  the  grant  of  Massachusetts  Bay  with  the  ad- 
joining lands,  was  made  by  the  Council  for  New  England,  arc  pre- 
served among  the  Parchment  rolls  in  the  State  Paper  liecord  Office, 
and  are  known  as  the  "  Coram  liege."  These  rolls  are  large  bound 
bundles  of  thick  parchment  skins,  each  skin  being  about  two  feet 
long,  and  written  over  on  both  sides  in  Latin,  in  columns  of  fifteen 
or  sixteen  inches  long  and  eight  inches  wide.  They  are  all  in  per- 
fect preservation.  The  caligraphy  in  them  is  quite  a  model  of  pre- 
cision and  neatness,  the  ink  used  in  the  manuscripts  having  retained 
its  original  black  color  unimpaired. 

The  translation  of  the  indictment,  in  extenso,  which  is  herewith 
printed,  was  made  from  a  copy  in  Latin  found  among  the  Egerton 
Manuscripts  in  the  British  Museum.  There  are  good  grounds  for 
supposing  that  this  particular  copy  was  the  one  used  in  court  (of  the 
King's  Bench)  at  the  trial,  by  Sir  John  Banks.  It  is  drawn  in  one 
document  as  a  collective  and  comprehensive  indictment  against  the 
twenty-four  associates  in  the  Massachusetts  Bay  Company,  and  not 
as  a  separate  indictment,  each  of  the  same  tenor,  against  every  indi- 
▼idual  member  of  the  twenty-four,  as  Sir  John  Banks  felt  legally 
obliged  to  have  them  drawn,  as  they  are  now  found  in  the  Roll  of  the 
**  Coram  Rege."  This  copy  of  the  Latin  indictment  and  the  brief  report 
of  the  decisions  of  the  court  before  which  the  twenty-four  associates 
were  summoned  to  be  tried,  were  both  found,  as  above  mentioned, 
in  the  Egerton  Collection.  In  a  printed  catalogue  for  the  sale  of 
these  manuscripts,  the  previous  owner,  whose  name  was  carefully 

VOL.  xxxvnL        19* 


210  The  **  Quo  Warranto  "^  of  1635-  [April, 

withheld  from  the  public,  had  made  this  note  concerning  the  manu- 
scripts :  **  These  papers  comprise  many  of  the  highest  importance, 
and  should  at  this  moment  be  found  in  the  Colonial  office."  They 
were  sold  at  Sotheby's  auction  room,  London,  February  16th,  1875, 
for  £25,  and  were  bought  by  the  British  Museum. 

A  copy  of  the  decisions  of  the  court  on  the  Quo  Warranto  trials 
will  be  also  found  printed  in  the  Hutchinson  Papers,  but  it  varies 
somewhat  in  form  from  the  copy  here  introduced,  and  which  was 
found  appended  to  the  indictment  in  the  bound  volume  above  allud- 
en  to,  as  among  the  Egerton  Manuscripts. 

\^Bnt%sh  Museum,  Egerton  MS.  2395 jfoL  27.] 

Par  Indicament.  Trinit.  xj.  Car.  R's=sprimae.     Quo  Warranto— 1635. 

Memorandum  quod  Johannes  Banks  miles  attomatus  Domini  Regis  nune 
genealis  qui  pro  eodem  Domino  Rege  in  hac  parte  sequitur  in  propria  per- 
sona sua  venit  hie  in  Curiam  dictij  dominus  Regis  coram  ipso  Rege  apod 
Westmonasterium  die  veneris  proximo  post  crastinum  Sanctae  Trinitatis  isto 
eodem  Termino  et  pro  eodem  Domino  Rege  dat  Curi»  hie  intelligi  et  infbr- 
mari  quod  Henricus  Rosewell  miles  Johannes  Young  miles  Richardus  Sal- 
tonstal  miles  Johannes  Humphreys  Johannes  Endicot  Simo  Whitcomb  Sam- 
uel Aldersey  Johannes  Yen  Matheus  Cradock  Georgius  Harwood  Increase 
Nowel  Richardus  Perry  Richardus  Bellingham  Nathaniel  Wright  Samuel 
Vassal  Theophilus  Eaton  Thomas  Goffe  Thomas  Adams  Johannes  Brovme 
Samuel  Browne  Thomas  Hutchins  Willielmus  Vassal  Willielmus  Pincheon  et 
Georgius  Foxcroft  liberi  homines  societatis  de  Mattachusets  Bay  in  Nova 
Anglia  et  alij  liberi  homines  Societatis  de  Mattachusets  Bay  in  Nova  An- 
glia  predicta  per  spatium  trium  annorum  jam  ultimo  elapsorum  et  amplios 
usi  fuerunt  et  ad  hue  utuntur  ac  Clamant  habere  et  uti  infra  CiFitatem 
London  et  Libertatis  eiusdem  ac  in  omnibus  locis  extra  Civitatem  London 
praedictam  Infra  hoc  Regnum  Anglise  nee  non  in  quam  pluribus  partibiu 
transmarinis  Extra  hoc  Regnum  Anglioe  absque  aliquo  warranto  sive  Regali 
concessione  libertates  privilega  et  Francheses  snbsequents  vid^  fore  unum 
corpus  corporatum  et  politicum  jure  facto  et  nomine  per  nomen  Gubemato- 
ris  et  Societatis  de  Mattachusets  Bay  in  Nova  Anglia  ac  per  illud  nomea 
placitare  et  implacetare  respondare  et  responderi  in  Omnibus  Curijs  et  lodi 
quibcunq^  tam  in  omnibus  et  singulis  actionibus  sectis  et  querelis  quam  in 
omnibus  et  singulis  allijs  causis  negotijs  materijs  et  demandijs  quibuscuoi} 
cujuscunq^  siut  generis  naturse  sive  specei  ac  peridem  nomen  fore  personaB 
habiles  et  in  lege  capaces  ad  perquirendum  habendum  recipiendum  ca- 
piendum  et  possidendum  sibi  successoribus  suis  tam  de  dicto  Domioo 
Rege  quam  de  aliquibus  alijs  personis  vel  eomm  Corporationum  tam 
infra  hoc  Regnum  Anglias  quam  in  aliquibus  partibus  transmarinis 
extra  hoc  Regnum  Anglia  aliqua  dominina  territoria  teras  tenementa  re- 
ditus  reversionis  reventiones  omnia  possessiones  hereditamenta  bona  et  cat- 
talla  licentia  libertates  francheses  [pjroficua  et  comodatatates  quocun^ 
eis  per  prefatum  nomen  sive  alijs  personb  vel  aliem  alij  persons  ad 
eorum  sum  dicta  habita  facta  concesa  sive  confirmata  ac  par  dictum  nomen 
dare  concedere  dimittere  locare  disponere  assignare  et  alienare  bona  cattaDa 
terras  tenementa  et  hereditamenta  sua  quecum^  cuicum^  personse  vel  quibos 
cun^  personis  ad  eorum  libitum  acetiam  habere  deversa  Commina  Sigilla 


1884.]  The ''Quo  Warranto ""  of  1635.  211 

pro  omnibas  et  singlis  causis  et  negotijs  suis  agendo  et  ilia  ad  libitum  suam 
matare  frangere  et  de  de  novo  facere  a  etiam  habere  potestatem  et  author- 
itatem  quandoecuiic^  eis  placuerit  nominare  constituere  et  jurare  unum 
alios  de  semetipsis  fore  et  esse  Depatatum  Gubernatorem  Societatis  pre- 
dicts ac  nominare  constituere  et  jurare  quascunq^  personas  tam  de  semetip- 
sis quam  de  alijs  fore  et  esse  assistentes  ejusdem  Societatis  ac  nomina  con- 
stituere et  jurare  de  semetipsis  tot  et  tales  officiarios  et  ministros  tam  infra 
hoc  Regnam  Angliae  quam  in  perdictis  partibus  transmarinis  de  Mattachu- 
sets  Bay  in  Nova  Anglia  predicta  in  habitantes  et  residentes  quot  et  quales 
eis  placverit  et  Gubernatorem  Deputatum  Gubernatorem  Assistentes  et 
alios  officicarios  et  alios  ministeros  illo  ad  libitum  suum  proprium  Exone- 
rare  amovere  et  matare  ac  facere  eligere  et  admittere  in  Societate  ilia  quas 
canc^  personas  eis  placeuerit  tam  alienos  quam  alios  et  diversas  denariorem 
sommas  de  ejusdem  personis  capere  et  levare  pro  eorum  admissioiie  in 
Societatem  predictam  quodq^  personae  sic  electse  admissas  et  admittende 
enint  de  societate  predicta  et  incorporate  vaacum  ceteris  de  eadem  societate 
nee  non  quascunq^  personas  de  eadem  societate  ad  libitum  suum  propriuus 
A  libertatibus  et  ffranchesibus  suis  ejusdem  societatis  Excludere  et  easdem 
personas  disfranchesare  et  a  societate  ilia  amovere  et  Exonorare  nee  non 
habere  sibj  et  successoribus  suis  totam  illud  terram  patriam  et  Territorium 
dicti  domini  Regis  vocatum  IVIattachusets  Bay  in  nova  Anglia  predicta  et 
Terram  et  Territorum  illud  ad  libitum  suum  proprium  assignare  dare  un- 
dere  alienare  et  desponere  cuicunq,  personse  et  quibuscun^  personis  Eii 
placverit  ac  habere  regimen  et  solum  Gubernationem  suum  terrarum  pra- 
triarum  et  territoriarum  perdictorum  et  omnium  personarum  eisdem  iuhabi- 
tantiam  Comorantium  et  residentium  s'eu  in  parte  ilia  veinesitium  s*eu  ne- 
gotiantium  et  easdem  personas  regere  et  gubernare  secundus  ordinationem 
et  oonstitotionem  societatis  illius  ac  habere  unum  Consilium  Continueresi- 
dem  infra  hoc  Regnum  Anglise  Consistore  de  diuersis  hominibus  eiusdem 
societatis  per  ipsos  nominatis  et  nominandis  et  nominare  eligere  et  lurare 
qoascanqi  personas  fore  de  Consilio  illo  ac  habere  unum  Coufilium  Contin- 
ue residens  in  dictis  partibus  transmarinis  vocatis  Mattachusets  Bay  in 
Nova  Anglia  predicta  consistens  de  diversis  hominibus  per  ipsos  nominatis 
electis  et  Eligendis  et  nominare  Eligere  lurare  quos  cunq^  voluerunt  fore 
de  Consilio  iUo  nee  non  habere  et  tenere  tam  infra  civitatem  London  pre- 
dictam quam  alibj  infra  hoc  Regnum  Angliae  ac  etiam  inpartibus  transma- 
rinis pr^ictis  quasdem  domus  confiliares  et  in  eisdem  domibus  quando  cun^ 
eis  videbitur  Expedire  habere  et  tenere  Curiam  Congregationem  et  convo- 
cationem  de  quam  plurimis  et  diversis  hominibus  ejusdem  societatis  et  allijs 
quibuscunq^  tot  et  talibus  quot  et  qualibus  eis  placuit  ac  in  eisdem  curia  con- 
gregatione  et  convocatione  ad  libitum  suum  proprium  diversa  statua  leges 
et  oonstitutiones  ordinare  facere  et  constituere  ac  diversa  alia  statu ta  leges 
et  cordinationes  concernentia  terras  tenementa  bona  et  cattalla  hujus  modi 
homiDum  societatis  predicUe  et  aliarum  personarum  in  partibus  transmari- 
nis predictis  contra  leges  et  consuetudines  hujus  Regni  Anglias  facere  or- 
dinare et  constituere  et  omnes  personas  tam  de  societate  predicta  quam 
alios  personas  non  Existentes  de  eadem  Societate  que  Statutis  ordinationi- 
bos  legibas  et  constitutionibus  illis  non  obedierent  imprisonare  at  fines  et 
Amerciamenta  super  eis  de  causa  taxare  et  imponere  et  ea  ad  usus  suos 
proprios  levare  et  convertere  ac  etiam  ad  libitum  suum  proprium  Exportare 
at  transportare  Extra  hoc  Regnum  Angliae  in  partes  transmarinas  predic- 
tas  qnascunc^  personas  Eis  plac'int  tam  subditos  dicti  Domini  Regis  Ext- 


212  The  ^  Quo  Warranto  "  of  1635-  [April, 

stentes  \sic\  quam  alias  personas  quaecunc^  Easq^  ad  libitam  saum  proprium 
Regere  et  gubernare  tarn  in  itiuere  suo  super  mare  quam  in  dictis  partibus 
transmariuis  ac  etiam  habere  libertatem  potestatem  et  authoritatem  contra 
leges  et  statu ta  hujus  Regni  Anglise  transportare  Extra  hoc  Regnum  An- 
glioe  in  partes  transmarinas  omnes  et  ominmodo  merchandis  mercimonis  et 
alia  res  quascunq^  per  leges  e  statuta  hujus  Regni  Anglias  prohibitas  trans- 
portari  ac  etiam  transportare  Extra  hoc  Regnum  Angliae  in  partes  transma- 
rinas predictas  omna  genera  armorum  aramentorum  instrumeutorum  l)elli- 
cosorum   pulveris   bombardici   victalium  pecorum    Equorum    Equarims  et 
omnium  alliarum  marchandisarum  et  rerum  quarumcunq^  redditione  vel  solo- 
tione  subsidiorum  customarum  impositionum  vel  aliarum  taxationam  quA- 
rumcunq^  dicto  Domini  Regi  vel  ad  usum  ejusdem  Domini  Regis  actiam  de 
omnibus  personis  tam  subditis  dicti  domini  Regis  quam  alijs  negotiantibas 
anglice — trading  in  —  in  partes  transmarinls  illas  tam  non  Existentibus  de 
societate  sua  predicta  quam  alias  diversas  denariorum  summas  ad  libitum 
proprium  exigere  omnesC])  qui  dictas  taxationes  solvare  uegaverunt  vel  neg- 
lexerunt  imprisonie  ac  habere  solam  et  vincam  Indicionem  omnium  et  sin- 
gularum  rerum  et  marchandisarum  a  partibus  transmariuis  predictis  infra 
hoc  Regnum  angliae  addictum  vel  aducedum  et  Exeorum  propriae  authoritate 
prohibere  omnes  et  singulas  personas  qui  non  sunt  de  societate  sua  predicta 
transportare  Extra  hoc  Regnum  Angliaj  in  partes  transmarinas  predictas 
aliquas  marchandisas  vel  alias  res  quascunq^  ibidem  in  partibus  illis  marchan- 
disus  sue  alias  marchandisas  vel  alias  res  quascunC^  adducere   a  partibus 
transmariuis  illis  in  hoc  Regnum  Anglia3  nee  non  fines  et  Amerciamenta 
ad  libitum  suum  taxare  et  imponere  suber  quibus  libet  persouis  negotiant!- 
bus  anglire-trading-cum  aliquibus  merchandisis  vel  alijs  rebus  quibuscnui} 
in  partibus  transmariuis  illis  et  easdem  personas  et  libitum  suum  imprison- 
are  ac  etiam  quascunc]^  impositiones  placuerit  super  marchandisis  et  allijs 
rebus  illis  imponere  nee  non  habere  potestatem  et  authoritation  uti  et  Ex- 
ercere  tam  in  partibus  transmariuis  perdictis  quam  super  altum   mare  Jut 
militare  quandocunq^  eis  placuerit  ac  etiam  absq^  sacramento  Examinare 
quas  cun(j  personas  eis  placuerit  in  alqua  causa  quas  cunq^  concernente  vitam 
et  membrum  ac  etiam  ad  prosedeudum  ad  triatiouem  sententiam  Judicium 
et  Executionem  concernentem  vitam  et  membrum  terras  et  tenementa  bona 
et  Cattalla  contra  leges  et  consuetudines  hujus  Regni  Anglisa  de  quibus  om- 
nibus et  singulis  libertatibus  privilegijs  et  Franchesibus  supra  dictis  ijdem 
Heuricus  Rosewel  Johannes  Young  Richardus  Saltonstall  Johannes  Hum- 
phreys Johannes  Endicot  Simon  Whitcomb  Samuel  Aldersey  Johannes  Ven 
Mathew  Cradock   Georgius   Harwood    Increase  Nowel   Richardus  Perry 
Richardus  IJellingham  Nathaniel  Wright  Samuel  Vassal  Theophilus  Eaton 
Thomas  Goffe  Tliomas  Adams  Johannes  Browne  Samuel  Browne  Thomas 
Hutchins  Willielmus  Vassal   AVillielmus  Piucheon  et  Georgius    ffoxcroft 
liberi   homines  socictatis  predictac  per  totum   tempus  supra  dictum  super 
dictum  Domiuum   Regium  nunc  usurpaverint  et  ad  hue  usurpaut  in  dicti 
Domini  Regis  nunc  et  sua3  regiai  prerogativae  grave  ad  damnum  et  perjo- 
dicium  ac  in  contemptum  dicti  Domini  Regis  nunc  Coronae  et  dignitatis 
suarum  &^  unde  idem  attorn atus  dicti  Domini  Regii  pro  eadem  Domino  Rege 
petit  advisamentum  Curias  in  premissis  et   debitum  legis  proccssum  usos 
ipsos  Ilenricum  Rosewel  Johannem  Young  Richardum  Saltonstall  Johan- 
nem  Humphreys  Johannem  Endicot  Simonem  Whetcomb  Samuelcm  Al- 
dersey Johannem    Ven   Matheum   Cradock   Georgius  Harwood  Increase 
Nowel  Richardum  Perry  Richardum  Bellingham  Nathaniel  Wright  Sam- 


1884.]  The  •'  Quo  Warranto  "  of  1635.  213 

uel  Vassal  Theophilam  Eaton  Thomam  Goffe  Thomam  Adams  Johannem 
Browne  Samuelem  Browne  Thomam  Hatchins  Willielmum  Vassal  Williel- 
mom  Pincheon  et  Georgium  ffoxcroft  liberos  homines  predictae  et  alios  libe- 
ros  homines  societatis  predictae  in  hac  parte  fieri  ad  respondendum  dicto 
Domino  Regi  quo  waranto  clamant  habere  libertates  privilegies  et  Fran- 
cheses  snpradictos  &c 

De  Termino  Sancti  Michaelis  An®  xj  Regis  Caroli  Ro*  Clxxv  Int'  Judi- 
dj  pro  defectu  responsi  versus  Matheum  Cradock  libernm  hominem  soci- 
etatis a  Mattacbusets  Bay  in  Nova  Auglia  super  quo  warr^  Clamant  ha- 
bere diversa  libertates  privilegia  et  francheses  infra  Civitatem  Loudon  et 
libertatem  ejusdem  ac  in  omnibus  locis  extra  civitatem  London  predictam 
infra  hoc  Regnum  Anglic  nee  non  in  quam  plurimis  partibus  transmarinis 
Extra  hoc  Regnum  Anglise  unde  impetitus  est. 

est  quod  predlcta  libertatis  privilegia  et  francheses  in  manus  dicti  domini 
Regis  capiantnr  et  seisiantur  et  quod  predictus  Matheus  de  et  in  libertati- 
bus  privUegijs  et  franchesibus  perdictis  a  mode  nullatenus  se  intromittat  sed 
ab  omnia  osu  et  clamatum  eorundem  et  eorum  cujus  libet  perijtus  Excluda- 
tor  et  quod  predictus  Matheus  capiatur  ad  satisfaciendum  dicto  Domino 
Regi  pro  osurpatione  libertatum  privilegiorum  et  franchesium  predictorum. 


[Translation,'] 

By  Indictment.    Trinity  Term,  A^  11  King  Charles  I. 

Memorandum :  that  John  Banks,  knt.,  Attorney  General  of  our  Lord  the  King, 
that  DOW  is.  who  puisnes  for  the  same  King  in  this  particular,  came,  in  person,  into 
theCooit  or  oar  said  lord  the  King  here,  before  the  said  Kincr  at  Westminster  on 
I^day  next  after  the  morrow  of  the  Holy  Trinity,  in  the  said  Term;  and,  for  the 
said  lord  the  Kin|r,  gives  the  Court  here  to  understand  and  to  be  informed,  that 
Ueniy  Roeewell,  Knt.,  John  Young,  Knt.,  Richard  Saltonstai,  Knt.,  John  Hum- 
phreys, John  £ndicot,  Simon  Whetcomb,  Samuel  Aldersey,  John  Yen,  Matbew  Cra- 
dock, Cieor^  Harwood,  Increase  Nowel,  Richard  Perry,  Richard  Bellingham,  Na- 
thaniel Wnght,  Samuel  Vassal,  Tbeophilus  Eaton,  Thomas  Goffe,  Thomas  Adams, 
John  Browne,  Samuel  Browne,  Thomas  Hatchins,  William  Vassal,  William  Pinche- 
on and  George  Foxcrofl,  freemen  of  the  Society  of  Mattacbusets  Bay,  in  New  £ng- 
laad,  and  other  free-men  of  the  Society  of  Mattachusets  Bay,  in  New  England,  afore- 
said, were  accustomed,  for  the  space  of  three  years,  already  last  past,  and  for  more, 
and  to  the  present  time,  ha^e  used  and  claim  to  have  and  use,  within  the  City  of  Lon- 
don, and  of  the  liberty  thereof,  and  in  all  places  without  the  City  of  London,  aforesaid, 
within  this  Kinfi[dom  of  England,  and  also  in  very  many  parts  beyond  seas,  without 
this  Kingdom  of  England,  without  any  Warrant  or  royal  Concession,  the  liberties, 

K'vileges  and  Franchises  following  ;  viz.  to  be  a  body  corporate  and  politic,  in  right, 
id,  fuid  name,  by  the  name  of  the  Governor  and  Society  of  Mattachusets  Bay,  in 
New  EngUnd,  and,  by  that  name,  to  plead  and  implead,  answer  and  be  answered, 
in  aU  Courts  and  places  whatsoever,  as  well  in  all  and  singular  actions,  suits  and 
qoarrels,  as  in  all  and  singular  other  causes,  businesses,  matters  and  demands, 
whatsoever,  of  whatever  kind,  nature  or  species,  and,  by  the  same  name,  to  be 
penoDs  fit  and  capable  in  law,  to  acquire,  bold,  receive,  take  and  possess,  for  them 
and  their  successors,  as  well  from  the  said  our  lord  the  King,  as  from  any  other  per- 
sons, or  of  their  corporations,  as  well  within  this  Kingdom  of  England,  as  in  other 
parts  beyond  seas,  without  this  Kingdom  of  England,  any  domains,  territories, 
buds,  tenements,  rents,  reversions,  revenues,  possessions,  hereditaments,  goods  and 
chattels,  licenses,  liberties,  franchisee,  profits  and  commodities,  in  what  way  soever 
made,  conceded  or  confirmed,  to  them  by  the  aforesaid  name,  or  to  any  other  per- 
son or  persons,  to  their  use,  and,  by  the  said  name,  to  give,  concede,  demise,  place, 
dvpose,  assign  and  alienate  their  goods,  chattels,  lands,  tenements  and  iieredita- 
ments,  whatsoever,  to  whatsoever  person,  or  whatsoever  persons,  at  their  please, 
tod  also  to  have  diven  Common  Seals,  for  the  carrying  on  ot  all  and  singular  their 


214  The  "  Quo  Warranto''  of  1635-  [April, 

causes  and  negotiations,  and  to  change  and  break  them  at  their  pleasure,  and  to 
make  them  anew,  and  also  to  have  power  and  authority,  whensoever  it  may  please 
them,  to  nominate,  constitute  and  swear,  one  of  themselves,  to  be  Deputy  Gove^ 
nor  of  the  Society  aforesaid,  and  to  nominate,  appoint  and  swear,  whats^^ever  pe^ 
sons,  as  well  of  themselves  as  of  others,  to  be  assistants  of  the  same  Society,  and  to 
appoint  and  nominate,  and  to  swear,  of  themselves,  so  many  and  such  Officers  and 
Servants,  as  well  dwelling  and  residing  within  this  Kinsdom  of  £nzland  as  in  the 
parts  aforesaid,  beyond  seas,  of  Mattachusets  Bay,  in  New  England,  aforesaid,  of 
such  sort  and  such,  as  it  may  please  them,  and  to  discharge, remove  and  change,  at 
their  pleasure,  the  Governor,  Deputy  Governor,  assistants,  and  other  officers,  and 
to  cause  to  be  chosen  and  admitted,  into  that  Society,  whatsoever  persons  it  may 
please  them,  as  well  strangers  as  others^  and  to  take  and  levy  divers  sums  of  money 
from  the  same  persons,  for  their  admission  into  the  Society  aforesaid,  which  personf , 
80  elected,  admitted  and  to  be  admitted,  shall  be  of  the  Society  aforesaid,  and  in- 
corporated together  with  the  rest  of  the  said  Society,  and  likewise  to  exclude  whatp 
soever  persons  of  the  same  Society,  at  their  pleasure,  from  the  liberties  and  fran- 
chises of  the  same  Society,  and  to  disfranchise  the  same  persons,  and  to  remove  and 
discbarge  them,  from  that  Society.  And  also  to  hold  to  them  and  their  successon, 
all  that  land,  country  and  territory  of  the  said  our  lord  the  King,  called  Matta- 
chusets Bay  in  New  England,  aforesaid,  and  to  assign,  give,  sell,  alienate  and  re- 
sign, that  land  or  territory,  at  their  pleasure,  to  whatsoever  person  or  persons  it 
may  please  them,  and  to  have  command  and  sole  |K)vemment  of  the  lands,  countries 
and  territories  aforesaid,  and  of  all  persons,  inhabiting,  dwelling  and  living  in 
them,  or  living  or  negotiating  in  that  part,  and  to  rule  and  govern  the  same  per- 
sons according  to  the  ordinance  and  constitution  of  that  Society,  and  to  have 
one  Council,  continually  resident  within  this  Kingdom  of  England,  to  consist 
of  divers  men  of  the  same  Society,  nominated  by  themselves  and  elected,  and  to  be 
elected,  and  to  nominate,  elect,  and  swear,  whomsoever  they  will  to  be  of  that 
Council,  and  also  to  have  and  hold,  as  well  within  the  City  of  London,  aforesaid, 
as  elsewhere  within  this  Kingdom  of  England,  and  also  in  the  parts  beyond  seas, 
aforesaid,  certain  Council  houses,  and,  in  the  same  houses,  to  have  and  hold  a  Court, 
Congregation,  and  Convocation,  whensoever  it  shall  appear  expedient  to  them,  of  as 
many  and  diverse  men  of  the  said  Society,  and  others  whomsoever,  so  many  and 
such  as  it  pleases  them,  and  to  ordain,  make  and  constitute,  in  the  same  Court, 
Congregation  and  Convocation,  at  tlieir  pleasure,  divers  Statutes,  laws  and  coasti- 
tutibns,  and  to  make,  ordain  and  constitute,  divers  other  Smtutes,  laws  and  condi- 
tions, concerning  the  lands,  tenements,  goods  and  chattels  of  this  kind,  of  the  men 
of  the  Society  aforesaid,  and  of  other  persons  in  the  parts  beyond  seas,  aforesaid, 
contrary  to  the  laws  and  customs  of  this  Kingdom  of  England,  and  to  imprison  all 
persons  of  the  Society,  aforesaid,  and  other  persons,  not  being  of  the  same  SiX^iety, 
disobeying  thase  statutes,  ordinances,  laws  and  constitutions,  and  to  tax  and  im- 
pose fines  and  amerciaments  upon  them,  for  that  cause,  and  to  levy  and  convert 
them  to  their  own  uses,  and  likewise,  at  their  own  free-will,  to  export  and  trans- 
port beyond  this  Kingdom  of  England,  into  parts  beyond  seas,  aforesaid,  whatsoever 
persons  it  shall  please  them,  as  well  subjects  of  the  said  lord,  the  King,  as  other 
persons  whomsoever,  and  to  rule  and  govern  them,  at  their  pleasure,  as  virell  during 
their  journey  upon  the  sea,  as  in  the  said  parts  beyond  seas,  and  also  to  have  lib- 
erty, power  ana  authority,  against  the  Statutes  and  laws  of  this  Kingdom  of  Eng- 
land, to  transport,  l)cyond  this  Kingdom  of  England  to  parts  beyond  seas,  all  and 
all  kinds  of  merchandise,  goods,  and  other  things  whatsoever,  prohibited  by  the 
laws  and  Statutes  of  this  Kingdom  of  England,  to  be  transported.  And  likewii^e  to 
transport  beyond  this  Kingdom  of  England,  into  the  parts  beyond  seas,  aforesaid, 
all  kinds  of  arms,  armaments,  instruments  of  war^  gun  powaer,  victuals,  cattle, 
horses,  mares,  and  of  all  other  kinds  of  merchandise  and  things,  whatsoever,  by 
rendering  or  payment  of  subsidies,  tolls,  impositions,  or  other  taxations,  whatso- 
ever, to  the  said  lord,  the  King,  or  to  the  use  of  the  said  lord,  the  King.  And 
likewise  to  exact  from  all  peieons,  as  well  subjects  of  the  said  lord,  the  King,  as  of 
others,  negotiating,  **  Anglice  trading  '*  in  those  parts  beyond  seas,  aa  well  those  not 
belonging  to  tlie  Society,  as  others,  divers  sums  of  money,  at  their  pleasure,  and  to 
imprison  all  tha«»e  wlio  have  refused  or  neglected  to  pay  the  said  taxation ;  and  to  have 
sole  and  only  judgment  of  all  and  sini^ular  things  and  merchandise,  brought  or  to  be 
brought  from  parts  beyond  seas,  aforesaid,  within  tliis  Kingdom  of  England,  and 
of  their  own  authority,  to  prohibit  all  and  sin":ular  persons  who  are  not  of  their 
Society,  aforesaid,  from  transporting  out  of  this  Kingdom  of  England,  into  the  parts 


1884.]  The  "  Quo  Warranto "  of  1635.  215 

beyond  seas,  aforesaid,  any  merchandise  or  other  things  whatsoever,  there  purchas- 
ed, or  tu  brin^  other  merchandise  or  other  tbini^s,  whatsoever,  from  those  parts 
beyond  seas,  into  this  Kingdom  of  England.  Likewise,  to  tax  and  impose  fines 
and  amerciaments,  at  their  pleasure,  upon  each  person  negotiating,  **  Anglico  trad- 
ing,'* with  any  merchandise,  or  other  things  whatsoever,  in  those  parts  beyond  6eas, 
and  to  imprison  those  persons  at  their  pleasure,  and  likewise  to  impose  whatever 
impositions  it  may  please  them,  upon  merchandise  and  other  things,  and  also  to 
have  power  and  authority  to  use  and  exercise,  as  well  in  parts  beyond  seas,  afore- 
said, as  upon  the  hijgh  seas,  military  right,  whensoever  it  may  please  them,  and 
also,  to  examine,  without  oath,  whatsoever  persons  it  may  please  them,  in  any  cause 
whatsoeTer,  concerning  the  life  and  member  [meinbram],  and  also  to  proceed  to 
trial,  sentence,  iudgment  and  execution,  concerning  the  life  and  member  [mem- 
braml  lands  and  tenements,  ffoods  and  chattels,  against  the  laws  and  customs  of 
this  Kingdom  of  England.  Ofall  which  and  singular  liberties^  privileges  and  fran- 
ebiMR.  aforesaid,  the  said  Henry  Rosewel,  John  Young,  Richard  Saltonstall,  John 
Humphreys,  John  Eodicot,  Simon  Whetcomb,  Samuel  Alderscy,  John  Yen,  Ma- 
thew  Cradock,  George  Harwood,  Increase  Nowel,  Richard  Perry,  Richard  Belling- 
ham,  Nathaniel  Wright,  Samuel  Vassal,  Theophilus  Eaton,  Thomas  Goffe,  Thomas 
Adams,  John  Browne,  Samuel  Browne,  Thomas  Hutchins,  William  Vassal,  Wil- 
liam Pinchyon,  and  George  Foxcroft,  freemen  of  the  Society  aforesaid,  for  the  whole 
time  aforesaid,  have  nsurped  and  still  usurp,  to  the  grave  injury  and  prejudice  of 
the  royal  prerosative  of  our  lord,  the  King,  that  now  is,  and,  in  contempt  of  the 
said  lord,  the  King,  that  now  is.  of  his  Crown  and  dignity,  &o.  Whence,  the  said 
Attorney  of  the  said  lord  the  King,  seeks,  for  the  said  lord,  the  King,  advisement 
of  the  Court,  in  the  premises,  and  due  process  of  law  against  the  same  Henry 
Roflewel,  John  Young,  Richard  Saltonstall,  John  Humphreys,  John  Endicot,  Simon 
Whctoomb,  Samuel  Aldersey,  John  Ven,  Mathew  Cradock,  George  ilarwood,  In- 
crease Nowel,  Richard  Perry,  Richard  Bellingham,  Nathaniel  Wright,  Samuel 
Vassal,  Theophilus  Eaton,  Thomas  Goffe,  Thomas  Adams,  John  Browne,  Samuel 
Browne,  Thomas  Hutchins,  William  Vassal,  W^illiam  Pincheon,  and  George  Fox- 
croft, free  men,  aforesaid,  and  other  free  men  of  the  Society  aforesaid,  in  this  part, 
to  be  caused  to  reply  to  the  said  lord,  the  Kin^,  by  what  warrant  they  claim  to  have 
the  liberties,  privdeges  and  franchises  aforesaid,  etc. 

In  Michaelmas  Term,  A''.  11  King  Charles  I.  Roll  clxxv. 

Entry  of  iudgment,  in  default  of  reply,  against  Mathew  Cradock,  freeman  of  the 
Society  of  Slattachusets  Biy,  in  New  England,  upon  a  Quo  Warranto,  they  claim 
to  have  divers  liberties,  privileges  and  fi-anchiscs,  within  the  City  of  London,  and 
its  liber^,and  in  all  places  without  the  City  of  London  aforesaid,  with  in  this  King- 
dom of  ^Tngland,  and  likewise  in  many  parts  beyond  se:is,  without  this  Kingdom  of 
England,  whence  it  is  in  petition,  that  the  aforesaid  lil)ertieH,  privileges  and  fran- 
cbisert,  may  be  taken  and  seized  into  the  hands  of  the  said  lord,  the  Kin^,  and  that 
the  aforesaid  Matthew  may  not,  in  any  way  enter  upon  the  liberties,  privileges  and 
franchises  aforesaid,  but  be  entirely  excluded  from  all  use  and  claim  in  tiiem  or  any 
of  them,  and  that  the  aforesaid  Aiatthew  may  be  held  to  satisfy  the  said  lord,  the 
King,  ior  his  usurpation  of  the  liberties,  privileges  and  franchises  aforesaid. 

Trinity  Term  xj  Car oli  primus. 

Quo  Warranto  ")      A  quo  warranto  was  brought  severally  against 

aga*  the  Massachusets    >  the  Govern',    Deputy   Goverir  and  every  of  the 

1G35  )  assistants  of  the  Corporacbn  of  the  Massachusets 

Bay  in  New  England  viz*  S'  Henry  Rosewell,  S' 
Crow ne  Office )  John  Young,  Sir  Richard  Saltonstall,  Ju"  Humphreys, 
Rowle,     65     )  Jn°  Endicott,  Simon  Whetcomb,  Sam^  Aldersey,  Jn°  Ven, 

Mathew  Cradock,  Geo  Harwood,  Increase  No  well,  Rich- 
anl  Perry,  Richard  Bellingham,  Natli*  Wright,  Sam^  Vassall,  Theophilus 
Eaton,  Thomas  Goffe,  Tho*  Adams,  Jn°  Browne,  Sam*  Browne,  Tho* 
Hutchins,  W™  Vassall,  W'"  Pinchon,  Geo  ffoxcraft,  and  a  day  was  appoint- 
ed for  them  to  make  their  appearance  and  give  their  answer  in  Mich'  Term 
next  following  at  the  King  s  Bench. 


216 


The  «  Quo  Warranto  **  of  1635. 


[April, 


Mich^  Term — xj  CaroU, 

John  Ven 
Geo.  Harwood     . 
Thomas  Hutch  ins 
Gustos  Brevi'  Rich*  Perry 

Nath^  Wright 
Theophilus  Eaton 
Tho'  Adams 
Tho-  Goffe,  Dept^  Gov 
Geo  ffoxcroft    . 
Sam^  Vassall 
Mathew  Cradock,  Govern' 

{who  disclaimed  but  disclaimer  not 
allowed. 


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appeared 
and 
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the 
Charter. 


Not  appearing  were 
outlawed. 


Miliary  Terme  xj,  CaroU 
Sir  Henry  Rosewell         .        .         Rowle    46    disclaimed 

Easter  Terme  scf.  Carolu 

John  Humphreys 
John  Endicott 
Simon  whetcomb 
Samuel  aldersey 
Increase  Nowell 
Rich**  Bellingham 
John  Browne 
Samuel  Browne 
Wm  vassall 
W"  Pinchon 

HlUary,  Terme  ay  CaroU 

J  Sir  Rich*  Saltonstall  .         .         Rowle     61.) 

(  appeared  and  disclaimed      ) 

Easter  Terme  xiij,   CaroU 

Sir  Jn<»  Young  .         .         .         Rowle    35. ) 

appeared  and  disclaimed     ) 


{ 


Whereupon  Judgment  was  given  for  the  King  that  the  Liberty es  and 
Franchises  of  the  said  Corporators  should  be  seized  into  the  King's  hands 
and  they  the  said  Mathew  Cradock  his  Body  to  be  taken  into  Custody  for 
usurping  the  said  Liberty     ....     (Rowle,  68). 


The  Axtiquahy's  Motives. — The  philosophical  inquirer  who  observes  In  erery  quarter 
of  our  broad  lami  a  considerable  class  of  persons,  of  all  grades  of  education  and  position, 
giving  no  small  part  of  their  lives  to  the  rescue  and  preservation  of  the  memorials  of  the 
past,  cannot  tail  to  ask  wbatcommoiV  bond  of  interest  unites  in  similar  pursuits  those  who 

are  in  all  else  so  dissimilar The  answer  is  not  doubtful.    It  is  no  mere  fondness  for 

things  that  are  ancient;  for  the  most  veritable  piece  of  antiquity,  without  a  story  or  asso- 
ciation, would  be  powerless  to  awalcen  their  interest.  But  it  is'tbe  desire,  common  to  each 
of  them,  to  secure  from  decay  visible  tokens  of  the  men  and  times  that  have  passed  away, 
to  keep  alive  their  memory,  and  so  to  provide  materials  which  will  contribute  to  the  com* 
pieteness  of  our  country's  archives*— B'on.  Charles  H.  BeU,  LL,D. 


1884.]  Soldiers  in  King  Philip's  War.  217 


SOLDIERS  IN  KING  PHILIP'S  WAE. 

Commanicated  by  tho  Rev.  Qeorgb  M.  Bodge,  of  Dorchester,  Mass. 

[CoDtinaed  fi'om  page  46.] 

No.   VI. 

Majob  Simon  Willard  and  his  Men, 

OF  all  the  names  that  stand  upon  the  pages  of  New  England  his- 
tory, none  are  more  honored  than  that  of  Major  Simon  AVillard. 
His  biography  has  been  written  in  the  "Willard  Memoir,"  and  there- 
fore only  a  brief  outline  will  be  necessary  here.  He  was  born  at  Hors- 
monden.  County  of  Kent,  England,  baptized  April  7,  1605.  He  was 
the  son  of  Richard  and  his  second  wife  Margery.  Simon  married  in 
England  Mary  Sharpe,  of  Horsmonden,  who  bore  him  before  leav- 
ing England  (probably)  three  children,  and  six  in  New  England. 
He  married  for  a  second  wife  Elizabeth  Dunster,^*  who  died  six 
months  after  her  marriage ;  and  a  third  wife,  Mary  Dunster,  who 
bore  him  eight  children,  between  the  years  1649  and  1669.  Simon 
Willard  arrived  in  Boston  in  May,  1634,  and  settled  soon  after  at 
Cambridge.  He  was  an  enterprising  merchant,  and  dealt  exten- 
sivelv  in  furs  with  the  various  Indian  tribes,  and  was  the  "  chiefe 
instrument  in  settling  the  towne  "  of  Concord,  whither  he  removed 
at  its  first  settlement  in  1635-6,  and  remained  for  many  years  a 
principal  inhabitant  of  that  town.  On  the  organization  of  the  town 
he  was  chosen  to  the  office  of  clerk,  which  he  held  by  annual  elec- 
tion for  nineteen  years.  It  is  said  upon  respectable  authority 
that  he  had  held  the  rank  of  captain  before  leaving  England,  and  in 
Johnson's  **  Wonder  Working  Providences,"  he  is  referred  to  as 
"Captain  Simon  Willard  being  a  Kentish  Soldier."  In  1637  he 
was  commissioned  as  the  Lieutenant-Commandant  of  the  first  mili- 
tary company  in  Concord.  At  the  first  election,  December,  1636, 
he  was  chosen  the  town's  representative  to  the  General  Court,  and 
was  reelected  and  served  constantly  in  that  office  till  1654,  except 
three  years.  In  that  year  he  was  reelected,  but  was  called  to  other 
more  pressing  duties  ;  and  afterwards  to  his  death  was  Assistant  of 
the  Colony.  In  1641  he  was  appointed  superintendent  of  the  com- 
pany formed  in  the  colony  for  promoting  trade  in  furs  with  the  In- 
dians, and  held  thereafter  many  other  positions  of  trust,  either 
by  the  election  of  freemen  or  the  appointment  of  the  Court,  too 
many  to  admit  of  separate  mention  here.  In  1646  he  was  chosen 
Captain  of  the  military  company  which,  as  Sergeant  and  Lieutenant, 

••  This  b?  qncstioncd  by  some  niitlioritics.  It  is  fully  discus^cc]  in  the  '*  Momolr,"  and  see 
tlao  Ukgistlu,  vol.  iv.  p.  309;  also  Dr.  Faiijc's  *'Hi>tory  of  Cambridije,"  under  Ilenry 
DoDStcr. 

VOL.   XXXVUI.  20 


218  Soldiers  in  King  Philijfa  War^  [April, 

he  had  commanded  from  its  organization.  For  many  years  he  was 
a  celebrated  surveyor,  and  in  1652  was  appointed  on  the  commis- 
sion sent  to  establish  the  northern  bound  of  Massachusetts,  at  the 
head  of  Merrimac  River,  and  the  letters  S  W  upon  the  famous 
Bound-Rock  (discovered  many  years  «go  near  Lake  Winnepesau- 
kee)  were  doubtless  his  initials,  cut  at  that  time  (Reg.  i.  p.  311). 
In  1653  he  was  chosen  Serjeant-Major,  the  highest  military  officer 
of  Middlesex  County. 

In  October,  1654,  Major  Willard  was  appointed  commander-in- 
chief  of  the  military  expedition  against  Ninigret,  Sachem  of  the  Ny- 
anticks,  for  the  details  of  which  see  the  "  Willard  Memoir,"  page 
193  and  onward.  In  the  settlement  of  the  town  of  Lancaster  Ma- 
jor Willard  had  been  of  great  service  to  the  inhabitants,  and  their 
appreciation  was  shown  when,  in  1658,  the  selectmen  wrote  him  an 
earnest  invitation  to  come  and  settle  among  them,  offering  a  gener- 
ous share  in  their  lands  as  inducement.  This  invitation  he  accepted, 
sold  his  large  estate  in  Concord,  and  removed  to  Lancaster,  proba- 
bly in  1659,  and  thence  to  a  large  farm  he  had  acquir/ed  in  Groton, 
about  1671,  at  a  place  called  Nonacoicus. 

At  the  opening  of  "Philip's  War,"  Major  Willard,  as.  chief  mili- 
tary officer  of  Middlesex  County,  was  in  a  station  of  great  respon- 
sibility, and  was  very  active  in  the  organization  of  the  colonial 
forces.  His  first  actual  participation  in  that  war  was  in  the  defence 
of  Brookfield,  the  particulars  of  which  have  been  noted.  We  must 
admire  this  grand  old  man  of  seventy,  mounting  to  the  saddle  at  the 
call  of  the  Court,  and  riding  forth  at  the  head  of  a  frontier  force  for 
the  protection  of  their  towns.  On^  August  4th  he  marched  out  from 
Lancaster  with  Capt.  Parker  and  his  company  of  forty-six  men,  ^  to 
look  after  some  Indians  to  the  westward  of  Lancaster  and  Groton  ** 
(Major  Willard's  home  was  in  Groton  at  this  time),  and  receiving 
the  message  of  the  distressed  garrison  at  Brookfield  promptly  hasten- 
ed thither  to  their  relief,  ..which  he  accomplished,  as  we  have  seen 
in  a  former  article.  Upon  the  alarm  of  the  disaster  at  Brookfield, 
a  considerable  force  soon  gathered  there  from  various  quarters. 
Two  companies  were  sent  up  by  the  Council  at  Boston,  under  Cap- 
tains Thomas  Lathrop  of  Beverly  and  Richard  Beers  of  Watertown, 
and  arrived  at  Brookfield  on  the  7th.  Capt.  Mosely,  also,  who 
was  at  Mendon  with  sixty  dragoons,  marched  with  that  force,  and 
most  of  Capt.  Henchman's  company  (just  off  the  pursuit  of  Philip 
from  Pocasset),  and  arrived  at  Brookfield  probably  about  August 
12th  (see  antey  vol.  xxxvii.  page  177).  From  Springfield  came  a 
Connecticut  company  of  forty  dragoons  under  Capt.  Thomas  Watts, 
of  Hartford,  with  twenty-seven  dragoons  and  ten  Springfield  Indians 
under  Lieut.  Thomas  Cooper,  of  Springfield.  These  forces  for  sev- 
eral weeks  scouted  the  surrounding  country  under  Major  Willard ; 
the  details  of  wliich  service  belong  properly  to  the  accounts  of  the 
several  Captains.     In  addition  to  these  were  forty  ^^  River  Indians  " 


1884.]  Soldiers  in  King  Philip' 8  War.  219 

from  the  vicinity  of  Hartford,  and  thirty  of  Uncas's  Indians  under 
his  son  Joshua,  who  scouted  with  the  other  forces.  The  Nipmucks 
could  not  be  found,  and  it  was  afterward  learned  from  the  Indian 
guide,  George  Memecho,  captured  by  the  Nipmucks  in  Wheeler's 
fight,  that  on  their  retreat  from  Brookfieid  on  August  5th,  Philip, 
with  about  forty  warriord  and  many  more  women  and  children,  had 
met  them  in  a  swamp  six  miles  beyond  the  battle  ground,  and  by 
presents  to  their  Sachems  and  otherwise,  had  engaged  them  further 
in  his  interest ;  and  all  probably  hastened  away  towards  Northfield 
and  joined  the  Pocomptucks,  and  thence  began  to  threaten  the  plan- 
tations on  the  Connecticut  River.  After  several  days  diligent 
searching,  on  August  16th,  Captain  Lathrop's  and  Beers's  compa- 
nies, the  latter  reinforced  by  twenty-six  men  from  Capt.  Mosely, 
together  with  most  of  the  Connecticut,  Springfield  and  Indian  forces, 
marched  towards  Hadley  and  the  neighboring  towns,  while  Mosely 
went  towards  Lancaster  and  Chelmsford.  Major  Willard  remained 
for  several  weeks  at  the  garrison.  Mr.  Hubbard  and  Capt.  Wheel- 
er make  this  statement,  and  further  relate  that  he  soon  after  went 
up  to  Hadley  on  the  service  of  the  country.  I  think  the  visit  to 
Hadley  was  after  August  24th,  as  on  that  date  I  find  a  letter  from 
Secretary  Rawson  to  him,  enclosing  one  to  Major  Pynchon,  and  ad- 
vising him  to  ride  up  to  Springfield  and  visit  Major  Pynchon  "  for 
the  encouragement  of  him  and  his  people."  The  writer  of  the  "  Wil- 
lard Memoir  "  states  that  he  was  in  command  of  the  forces  about 
Hadley  for  some  time  in^the  absence  of  Major  Pynchon,  but  I  have 
been  unable  to  find  any  confirmation  of  this,  unless  it  may  be  the 
inference  drawn  from  Hubbard,  who  states  that  when  Major  Willard 
^  returned  back  to  his  own  place  to  order  the  affairs  of  his  own  regi- 
ment, much  needing  his  Presence,"  he  left  "  the  Forces  about  Had- 
ley under  the  Command  of  the  Major  of  that  Regiment."  The  let- 
ter above  contained  directions  about  the  disposal  of  his  forces,  &c., 
which  would  naturally  take  several  weeks  to  accomplish,  and  al- 
though the  precise  date  of  Major  Willard's  return  from  Brookfieid 
is  not  given,  some  inference  may  be  drawn  from  circumstances  noted 
further  on.  Following  is  the  list  of  those  credited  with  service 
under  Major  Willard,  from  August  23d  to  January  25th,  1675  : 


Ango&i  23*,  1675 

John  Tarball. 

02  03  00 

Richard  Keatr«. 

01 

02  00 

Lot  Johnson. 

02  04  06 

Sept  17. 

• 

Onesiphorus  Stanley. 

02  04  06 

Thomas  Hincher. 

04 

00  00 

Josiah  Parker. 

00  11  00 

Sept  21-« 

Samuel  Davis. 

00  11  00 

Jonathan  Prescott 

00 

14  00 

James  Nutting. 

00  11  00 

John  Divall. 

00 

11  00 

October  5*** 

Sept  2%'\ 

Paul  Fletcher. 

02  10  00 

James  Parker,  CapL 

01 

02  00 

Edward  Foster. 

02  10  00 

James  Knap,  Serg\ 

03 

00  00 

John  Barrett. 

02  10  00 

James  Fisk. 

00 

16  09 

Gershom  Procter 

02  10  00 

Matthias  Famsworth 

00 

12  06 

Ephraim  Hildred. 

02  07  00 

220 


Soldiers  in  King  Philip^s  War. 


[April, 


Jonathan  Chrisp. 

01  04  06 

John  Heale. 

04  15  06 

John  Hawes. 

04  00  00 

James  Smedly. 

04  00  00 

Thomas  Tally. 

04  00  00 

Josiah  Wheeler. 

02  17  00 

October  W^  1675 

Thomas  Rogers. 

02  07  04 

John  Shead. 

02  02  04 

Benjamin  Simons. 

03  06  08 

Simon  Willard,  Major, 

30  00  00 

Humphrey  Jones  alias 

Johnson. 

01  18  06 

Josiah  White. 

00  12  00 

Daniel  Gaines. 

00  12  00 

Ephraim  Sawyer. 

00  12  00 

Daniel  Adams. 

00  08  00 

Thomas  Beamon. 

00  08  00 

Simon  Willard.^ 

03  00  00 

Samuel  Cleaveland 

03  06  04 

John  Bateman. 

03  15  00 

John  Jefts. 

02  03  04 

Anthony  Hancock. 

Nov.  20*. 
John  Brookes. 
Simon  Willard,  Major. 
John  Bateman. 
Paul  Fletcher. 
John  Coddington. 
John  Gleason. 
Daniel  Lincolne. 
William  Wade. 
William  Kerby. 
Consider  Atherton. 

Nov.  80* 
John  Brookes. 
Edward  Wright 
Abraham  Cousens. 

Dec.  20 
John  Severy. 

January  25.  1675-6 
Philip  Read,  Doctor.  09 

John  Smith.  02 


01  01  06 


02 
10 
03 
02 
03 
02 
01 
02 
00 
00 

00 
00 
01 


04  06 
00  00 

00  00 

01  00 
00  00 
03  00 

05  08 
03  00 
12  00 
15  00 

II  00 
10  00 
05  02 


00  10  OS 


07  04 
06  04 


The  foregoing  list  of  credits  I  presume  to  embrace  the  company 
of  Capt.  Parker,  who  marched  with  Major  Willard  to  the  relief  oi 
Brookfield  on  August  4th.  I  judge  that  Capt.  Parker,  with  aome 
sixteen  or  more  of  these  men,  returned  to  Groton  before  Auguil 
16th,  as  on  that  date  Capt.  Jlosely  had  sent  twelve  men  to  Groton 
to  help  secure  the  town ;  and  Capt.  Parker  writes  the  Council  on 
August  25th  about  their  affairs,  asking  for  arms  and  ammuni- 
tion, as  they  are  expecting  an  attack  upon  the  town.  Those  that 
went  back  with  him  were  very  likely  Groton  men,  and  it  is  proba- 
ble are  represented  by  the  smaller  credits.  Capt.  Parker  acknow- 
ledges the  receipt  of  twenty  men  from  Capt.  Mosely  and  Major 
Willard,  and  these  were,  doubtless,  in  addition  to  the  number  of 
his  own  men  that  returned  with  him.  The  rest  of  his  company  r^ 
mained  with  Major  Willard,  as  may  be  shown  by  their  larger 
credits. 

From  a  paper  which  was  presented  to  the  Court  after  Major  Wfl- 
lard*s  death,  in  statement  of  his  unpaid  services  and  expenses  for 
the  government,  it  appears  that 

"  From  the  20*'^  of  September  (1G75)  till  the  18"»  of  April  (1676),  the 
Major  was  employed  about  the  country  business,  Settling  of  Garrisons  in 
towns,  and  settliug  of  Indians  at  Concord  and  Chelmsford,  and  other  busi- 
ness/* &c. 

The  paper  is  given  in  full  in  the  "  Willard  Memoir,**  and  shows 
that  this  was  a  time  of  constant  anxiety  and  activity  in  those  towns, 

^^  The  Mnjor's  sod.    His  horso  was  killed  at  Brookfield,  for  which  the  Court  allowed  £3 
in  October,  1G76. 


1884.]  Soldiers  in  King  Philip's  War.  221 

and  tliat  the  Major's  house  at  Xonacoicue  (in  the  town  of  Groton, 
now  within  tJie  town  of  Ayer)  'wae  a  place  of  frequent  rendezvous 
for  the  troops  pnsaing  hither  and  thither,  and  of  eniertainoient  to 
those  who  came  to  the  Major  on  the  country's  business. 

.On  September  8th  the  Council  issued  an  order  to  Comet  Tho- 
mas Brnttle  and  Lieut.  Thomas  Henchman  to  march  to  Chelmsford 
wicb  fifty  men,  cc^lected,  thirty  from  Norfolk  and  twenty  from  Mid- 
dlesex Counties,  and  diatribute  them  in  the  garrisons  in  the  frontier 
towns  of  Qroton,  Lancaster  and  Dunstable.  This  order  was  proba- 
,bly  in  answer  to  Capt.  Parker's  appeal  of  August  25th.  The  men 
were  to  he  left  under  the  command  of  the  chief  officers  in  each  town ; 
aim}  m  Major  Willard  jk.fiot  referred  to  at  all,  it  would  seem  proba- 
ble that  he,  had. not  y«t  returned  from  Brookficld,  but  sometime  be- 
fore SeptetnberSOtb  he  frus  at  home ;  and  when  Capt.  Henchman 
WW  teat,  about  that  date,  to  organize  an  expedition  to  Pennacook 
with  onkrB  to  withdtaw  eighty  men  from  the  several  garrisons  be- 
fore nia^uoDed,  he. was  instructed  to  meet  Major  Wilkrd  at  his 
borne,  nd  conealt  with  him  and  the  chief  officers  of  the  several 
garrisom  n  to  ^^pedition..  This  meeting  took  place  on  Sejitem- 
ber  S5lfa,  and  qd  ^a.aMiie  di^y  Major  Willard,  to<;ethcr  with  officers 
Ad;un4,  Parker  and  Kiildcr,  Hd<Irossed  a  remonstrance  to  the  Coun- 
cil against  the  withdrawal  of  no,  many  of  their  soldiers.  Capt. 
Iltmchniuii  reports  tlie  same  u>ecting  in  his  letter  of  Sept.  27th. 
Tbc  Coitnci).  for'  various  reuttone,  concurred  with  the  Major,  and 
the  expedition  was  abandoned. 

For  the  succeeding  montliB  Miijor  Willard  was  busily  engaged  in 
ordering  (be  defences  of  t)>o  Aliilillcsex  frontier  towns  and  settling 
the  various  Bodies  of  friciidlv  liulinns.  Garrisons  were  maintained 
at  LiaocastCT.  Chclmafoid,  Gmtuu  and  Dunstable,  and  the  entire 
avaiiiible  force  of  the  couniy  wiu  kept  in  a  "  posture  of  war."  Dur- 
ing the  time  that  the  army  of  ihe  colony  was  absent  at  Narraganset, 
there  i«  evidence  from  frequent  letters,  petitions,  &c.,  from  these 
frontier  towns,  that  the  jR'njile  (i-it  comparatively  secure;  but  when 
FhHipt  after  the  Xarraganset  tight,  fleeing  with  his  surviving  war- 
rion,  came  again  into  tlie  vicinity,  their  tears  were  again  aroused, 
especially  when,  about  February  titli,  tlw  army  abandoned  the  pur- 
suit, leaving  tli6  Indians  in  the  woodd  about  Brookficld,  and  return- 
ing to  Boston  were  disbanded.  The  Council,  not  insensible  to 
the  danger  which  thus  thrcatenecl  these  towns,' immedintelf  issued 
orders  to  Major  Willard  to  raise  a  large  force  of  dragoons  to  scout 
in  front  of  tlic  towns  of  Groton,  Lancaster,  £c.,  to  Marlborough. 
This  plan  met  with  immediate  remonstrance-  from  the  towns,  and 
appeals  were  at  once  made  to  the  Council  against  the  measure,  as  it 
withdrew  many  from  the  garrisons  to  a  great  distance  for  days  to- 
gether, leaving  them  exposed  to  sudden  .incursions  from  the  prowl- 
iag  and  watchful  enemy. 

At  this  time  Major  Willard  was  so  busy  ordering  the  defences  of 
TOL.  xxxriiL         20* 


222  Soldiers  in  King  Philip's  War.  [April, 

the  towns  tliat  he  was  unable  to  take  his  peat  in  the  Council,  and 
sent  them  a  letter  of  explanation.  This  letter  is  not  found  in  the 
archivt»s,  ])ut  tlie  answer  of  the  Council  is  as  follows,  giving  some 
idea  of  the  contents. 

*'  Sir.  The  Council  received  your  letter  and  are  sorry  for  your  excuse  for 
not  coming  to  the  Council  by  reason  of  the  state  of  Lancaster,  which  we 
desire  you  to  endeavour  to  the  utmost  of  your  power  to  relieve  and  succoor. 
We  are  useing  our  best  endeavours  to  prepare  more  forces  to  send  to  dis- 
tress the  enemy.  You  shall  hear  more  from  us  speedily,  and  in  the  inte- 
rim we  desire  you  to  be  in  readiness  if  you  should  have  a  full  command 
over  the  forces  to  be  sent  forth  from  the  Colony.'*  E  B  Secy 

11  Feb.  1675." 

The  Council's  letter  was  written  the  day  after  the  attack  upon 
Lancaster,  of  which  evidently  they  had  not  heard.  Major  Willard 
was  probably  at  this  time  at  Groton  or  Chelmsford,  where  an  at* 
tack  was  daily  expected,  doing  all  in  his  power  with  the  small  force 
at  his  command  to  protect  these  towns  from  surprisal.  After  the 
attack  upon  Lancaster,  a  large  party  of  the  Indians  swept  down  to* 
wards  Plymouth  Colony,  taking  Medfield  on  the  way,  February 
21st,  and  for  the  time  distracting  attention  from  the  main  body, 
which,  as  soon  became  evident,  were  still  in  the  vicinity  of  **  Wa- 
chusett  Hills."  On  February  19th  Major  Willard  and  Capt.  Par- 
ker, in  behalf  of  the  people  of  Groton,  send  an  earnest  appeal  to 
the  Council  for  help  and  advice.  On  the  2l8t  the  Major  was  pre- 
sent at  the  sitting:  of  the  Court  at  Boston,  and  remain^  durinsT  the 
session.  lie  was  at  Cambridge  on  March  4th,  and  certainly  did  not 
return  to  Groton  till  after  March  7th,  as  on  that  day  he  was  at  the 
Court  of  Assistants.  It  was  probably  by  his  endeavors  that  a  lev}*  was 
ordered  to  be  made  on  Norfolk  and  Essex  counties  (forty-eight  from 
Essex  and  forty  from  N()rf(»lk).  These  forces  were  hastily  collected, 
and  under  the  stress  of  the  news  of  the  attack  upon  Groton  were 
placed  under  the  command  of  Capt.  Joseph  Cook,  of  Cambridge, 
and  ordered  to  report  to  Major  Willard  at  Groton  at  once.  This 
action  was  taken  by  Major  Gookin  and  Thomas  Danforth,  two  mem- 
bers of  the  Council  living  at  Cami)ridgc,  and  was  approved  by  the 
Council  at  their  next  meeting,  March  IGth. 

On  March  9th  the  Indians  again  aj)peared  at  Groton,  doing  some 
mischief,  and  again  on  the  13th  in  full  force,  and  destroyed  all  the 
houses*(n  town  except  the  garrison  houses,  and  one  even  of  these, 
from  which,  however,  the  people  had  escaped.  I  tliink  that  Major 
Willard  marched  up  from  Watertown  with  Capt.  Cook's  force  on 

*^  The  last  clause  in  the  letter  may  show  in  what  hiph  esteem  Major  Willard  was  held  br 
the  Council,  both  as  a  military  leader  and  also  for  Imk  wide  influence  among  the  }>cople. 
Wtr  ('aiinot  tell  whether  he  declined  the  command  wlien  the  expedition  prew  to  Uxryitr  pro- 
)K)rtion*(  and  involved  his  withdrawal  from  the  towns  near  his  home,  bnt  it  is  f^afc  to  infer 
that  )icr>onal  considerations  either  way  did  not  sipiify  with  him  when  the  Council  demand- 
ed hi*-  service.  The  expedition  w;u>  not  ready  until  PVhniary  2l8t,  and  then,  a^  has  »«cii 
related,  Msgor  Savage  was  appointed  to  command,  and  M^jor  WiUard  was  present  At  the 
Council  at  that  time. 


1884.]  Soldiers  in  King  Philip's  War.  223 

the  12th  or  13th,  and  arrived  at  Groton  on  the  14th/^  as  the  In- 
dians retired  on  that  day,  apparently  aware  of  the  approaching  force. 
The  peoi)le  got  safely  within  their  garrisons  before  the  attack,  and 
but  one  man,  probably,  John  Nutting,  was  killed.  The  town  was 
abandoned  within  a  few  days,  and  the  inhabitants  removed  to  the 
towns  nearer  the  coast.  Major  Willard,  with  his  family,  removed 
to  Charlestown.  It  is  likely  that  he  had  removed  his  family  some- 
time before  the  destruction  of  his  house  on  the  13th,  as  that  stood 
in  an  exposed  position,  and  his  son  Samuel  AVillard,  the  minister 
of  Groton,  had  another  of  the  garrisoned  houses. 

The  Indians  were  greatly  elated  at  their  success  at  Groton,  and 
threatened  to  attack  and  destroy  all  the  towns,  including  even  Boston , 
And  M.ijor  Willard's  orders  were,  after  relieving  Groton,  to  scout 
back  and  forth  to  protect  the  neighboring  towns,  especially  Chelms- 
ford and  Marlborough.  The  business  of  the  removal  of  the  people 
of  Groton  was  committed  to  Capt.  Joseph  Sill,  of  Cambridge,  who 
weot  up  with  troops  and  some  sixty  carts  for  that  purpose.  This 
design  was  successfully  carried  out,  although  the  force  guarding  the 
long  line  of  carts  was  so  small,  and  an  ambush  was  laid  and  an  at- 
tack made  upon  the  advance  from  a  very  advantageous  position. 
Two  of  the  **  vaunt  Carriers "  were  mortally  wounded,  but  the 
English  were  promptly  drawn  up  for  battle,  and  after  a  few  shots 
the  enemy  retired  before  their  well-aimed  volleys.  In  the  me<'in 
time  Major  Willard,  and  his  Essex  and  Norfolk  men,  were  not  idle, 
as  will  be  seen  by  the  following  account,  prepared  by  him,  of  his 
movements  from  March  21st  to  the  29th.  Mass.  Archives,  Vol. 
68,  p.  186. 

A  short  narative  of  what  I  have  ateiuled  unto  by  the  Coimcill  of  late, 
since  I  went  to  relieve  Groatton.  The  21:1:  75-7G,  1  went  to  Concord,  and 
divided  the  troope  committed  unto  mo  from  Essex  &  Norfolkeinto  three  pts 
one  to  garde  the  carte,  pressed  from  Sudbury,  one  pt  for  y*  carte  pressed 
from  conconl,  both  to  Lancaster,  one  pt  for  y'  carte  that  went  from 
Charlestowne  &  Wattertowne  that  went  volin tiers  or  wear  hiered  when 
I   bad  sent  them  to  their   severall  places  I   came  downe  being;  the   22: 

"  This  theory  seems  to  reconcile,  somewhat,  conflicting  accounts,  and  is  supported  by 
the  following  evidence.  Mr.  ilubbnrd  says—"  March  2  They  assaultod  Grotcn  :  the  next 
dmy  ov<T  nij^lit  Major  Willard  with  seventy  Horse  came  into  the  Town;  forty  foot  also 
came  np  to  ihcir  relief  from  Watrrtown,  but  the  Indians  were  all  Ik'd."  We  know  that 
this  cannot  Ik*  true  in  the  matter  of  the  date,  but  it  i'j  fair  to  infer  that  the  arrival  of  Major 
Willard  with  the  troops  was  inadvertently  tnln^ferred  from  the  \Mh  to  the  2d,  as  he  im- 
mc<Iiat<.*ly  prorccd'*  to  relate  the  events  which  we  know  took  plaiv  on  the  13th.  Ajrain, 
there  i<  much  evidence  to  show  that  Major  Willard  was  not  present  at  either  attack  on  the 
town.  The  Court's  letter  to  Willard  on  Mar.  I6th  (t*:e  sjime  day  on  which  the  order  to  Capt. 
Cook  was  appnived)  was  directed  to  Groton,  and  indicates  that  he  had  arrived  there  with 
the  nddier**,  and  the  Court  was  aware  of  it,  judging  from  the  clause,  "  if  you  have  issued 
that  business  at  Gniaten  at  least  done  what  vou  can,"  Ac.  This  letter  is  not  in  the  Ar- 
chives but  was  pR'M'rved  by  Mr.  William  Gibbs,  a  desccn<iant  of  Major  Willard.  It  is 
published  in  full  in  the  "  W'illaid  Memoir."  The  explanation  of  Mr.  Uutier,  in  his  *'  His- 
tory  of  (irottm,"  that  Mr.  Hubbard's  "  overnisht"  is  a  misprint  for  "  fonni^ht,"  seems 
ontenablo  in  the  lif^ht  of  the  alM)ve  evidence,  taken  top'iher  with  the  fact  that  *•  next  tlay 
over  niirbt "  Is  an  expression  of  frequent  recurrence  in  Mr.  Hubbard's  historv,  an<l  *'  next 
day  f«>rtnltfht"  is  seldom  if  ever  used  by  him,  and  moreover  would  be  a  jump  in  the 
matter  of  time  that  not  only  seems  ont  of  place,  but  passes^ovcr  tho  attack  ol'  the  9th,  ot 
whicii  ht  WAS  well  aware. 


224 


Soldiers  ^l^King  Philip^s  War, 


[April, 


1:  75-6:  &  went  to  concord  the  25:  1:  75,  when  I  caipe  there  &  inquu^ 
how  it  was  with  Lancaster  the  answer  was  they  weare  in  distresse,  I  p'sentlj 
sent  40  horse  thither  to  fetch  awaye  ccn'ne,  and  I  went  that  night  to 
Chellmsfoord  to  se  how  it  was  with  them,  they  complayned,  Billerikye 
Bridge,  stood  in  great  need  of  beinge  fortified,  I  ordered  that  to  be  don, 
allso  they  told  me,  that  the  Indians  made  two  great  rafte  of  board  &  rayles, 
that  they  had  gott,  that  laye  at  the  other  syd  of  the  river,  I  ordered  20  soul- 
diers  to  go  over  &  take  them,  &  towe  them  downe  the  River,  or  p'serve 
them  as  they  se  cause,  the  27  of  this  instant  I  went  from  Chellmsfoord  to 
concord  agayne  when  I  came  there,  the  troopers  that  I  sent  to  Lancaster 
last  had  brought  away  all  the  people  there,  but  had  left  about  80  bushells 
of  wheat  &  Indian  corhe,  yesterday  I  sent:  40:  horses  or  more  to  fetch  it 
away,  &  came  down  from  concord,  this  day  I  expect  they  will  be  at  con- 
cord. Some  of  the  troope  I  relesed  when  this  last  worke  was  don,  the  other 
I  left  order  to  scout  abroad  untill  they  heare  from  me  agayne,  I  thought  it 
not  meet  to  relese  men,  when  we  stand  in  need  of  men,  my  desire  is  to 
know  what  I  shall  do  herin  in,  concord  &  chelmsford  look  every  day  to 
be  fired,  and  wold  have  more  men  but  know  not  how  to  keepe  them,  nor 
paye  them,  your  humble  servant.  Simon  Willard  29:  1:  76. 

The  troops  that  went  up  from  Norfolk  and  Essex  were  credited 
under  their  special  officers,  and  will  there  appear.  The  following 
are  those  who  receive  credit  under  Major  Willard,  and  are  those 
probably  who  were  employed  in  scouting  with  him  in  the  early  part 
of  the  winter. 


Credited  under 

Major  Willard. 

February  29*^ 

John  Dexter. 

00  07  00 

Thomas  Wheeler 

02  16  08 

Samuel  Green. 

00  07  00 

Juue  24^^ 

Joseph  Wilson. 

00  07  00 

Edward  Young. 

01  04  00 

John  Lind. 

00  07  00 

July  24"» 

Thomas  Newell. 

00  07  00 

John  Bush. 

01   04  00 

John  Sprague. 

00  07. 00 

Isaac  Fellows. 

01  05  06 

Thomas  MungOf 

00  07  00 

Samuel  Iiigolls. 

01  10  10 

Peter  Towne. 

00  07  00 

Samuel  Bishop. 

01  10  10 

Thomas  Wheeler,  jr. 

04  00  00 

August  24'^ 

William  Prince  jr. 

01  07  04 

William  Green, 

00  08  06 

September 

23* 

Phiuias  Sprague. 

00  07  00 

Francis  Whitman. 

00  10  00 

John  Green. 

00  07  00 

Daniel  Gowen. 

01  17  04 

On  March  29th  Major  Willard  was  in  his  seat  at  the  Court  of 
Assistants,  and  his  family  was  then  living  at  Charlestown.  He  was 
also  at  the  session  of  the  County  Court  at  Cambridge  at  its  sicssion 
beginning  April  4th.  On  the  11th  he  was  reelected  as  Assistant, 
having  the  highest  number  of  votes  cast  for  any  magistrate  except 
the  governor  and  deputy  go\'ernor.  He  was  constantly  engaged  in 
his  public  duties  until  April  18th,  when  he  retired  to  his  home  and  was 
struck  down  it  is  thought  by  an  "  epidemical  cold  "  which  was  then  rag- 
ing, and  on  April  24th  "  died  in  his  bed  in  peace,  though  God  had  hon- 
oured him  with  several  signal  victories  over  our  enemies  in  war,** 
says  a  contemporary  historian.     No  man  was  ever  more  fully  '•r 


J84.]  Records  of  Winchester,  J!f.  H.  225 

ore  deservedly  honored  in  life  and  death  than  Major  WiUard.*® 
is  funeral  at  Charlestown  on  April  27th  was  an  occasion  of  great 
)mp  for  that  time,  six  military  companies  parading  under  command 
*  Capt.  Henchman,  and  his  death  created  profound  sorrow  far  and 
ide.  There  are  numerous  references  to  his  death  and  funeral  in 
e  literature,  records  and  MS.  journals  of  that  day.  His  family 
as  reimbursed  for  his  great  expense  and  service,  in  1677,  and 
^n  in  1G81  a  grant  of  land  of  one  thousand  acres  was  set  aside 
r  his  six  youngest  children  when  they  should  come  of  age. 
He  left  a  numerous  posterity,  many  of  whom  have  held  honorable 
>sitions  in  succeeding  generations.  His  widow  married  Deacon 
>6eph  Noyes  of  Sudbury,  July  14,  1680,  and  died  in  that  town, 
ecember,  1715. 


PARTIAL  COPY  OF  RECORDS  OF  THE  TOWN  OF  WIN- 
CHESTER, N.  H. 

Commanicated  bj  Jomr  L.  Alexander,  M.D.,  of  Belmont,  Mass. 

[ConUnued  firom  page  33.] 

Marriages —  Continued. 

1812  Jonas  Holden  m.  Eunice  Twitchell 
William  Hutchins  m.  Lydia  Willis 
Roswell  Hutchins  m.  Polly  Linkfield 
Walter  Follett  m.  Luciuda  Hawkins 
Abel  Dickinson  m.  Julieth  Butler 

1813  Daniel  Collar  m.  Susannah  Foster 
Joseph  Kendrick  m.  Permelia  Smith 
Bartholomew  Kendrick  m.  Fanny  Lyman 
Lyndon  Ripley  m.  Eusebia  Humphrey 
Benjamin  Pierce  m.  Sally  Erskine 
Caleb  Curtis  m.  Lucy  Saben 

Nathan  Awood  m.  Khoda  Manning 

1814  Lyman  Felton  m.  Sally  Scott 
Edmond  Richmond  m.  Electa  Smith 
Newell  Allen  m.  Betsy  Coon 
Phineas  Lyman  m.  Sally  Morse 

1815  Otis  Capron  m.  Phila  Page 
Levi  Fay  m.  Lucretia  Scott 
James  Perkins  m.  Abigail  French 
David  Hammond  m.  Abic^ail  Smith 
Robert  Pratt  m.  Finis  Rixford 

■  I  conpidcr  the  rcmnrkable  story  of  his  being  cashiered  and  censured  by  the  Court  for 
irchins  to  the  relief  of  Brook  field  *'  beside  his  orders,"  as  almost  too  absurd  for  eontra- 
!tion  ht-n*.  It  rests  entirely  wynm  the  authority  of  Rev.  Nathan  FIske,  in  a  note  to  his 
Dtenniid  Sermon  In  l77o,  and  no  one  else  lias  ever  been  able  to  find  a  shadow  of  evidence, 
her  in  tradition  or  record,  iiffordin;?  even  a  clue  to  the  origin  of  the  story  of  Mr.  Fiske. 
»jor  Willard  was  chief  commander  in  Middlesex  Count}',  and  conducted  military  opera- 
tns  in  the  county  at  his  discretion,  and  the  records  arc  very  full  of  the  Court's  unqualified 
proval  of  his  managemeot  from  first  to  last. 


226  Records  of  Winchester,  IT.  H.  [April 

Hollis  Narramore  m.  Rachel  Pomeroy 
Ahira  Dickinson  m.  Azuba  Bond 
Lynds  Wheelock  m.  Sally  F.  Conant 
Hosea  Pickett  m.  Seraph  Whipple 
Joseph  Flint  m.  Grata  Foster 
Daniel  Tuttle  m.  Harriet  Cook 
Jedediah  Hntchins  m.  Betsey  Wise 

1816  Elisha  Dickinson  m.  Azuba  Hammond 
Nathai^vJCager  m.  Rhoda  Hammond 
Henry  "WVight  m.  Hannah  White 
Stephen  Randall  m.  Cena  Smith 
John  H.  Fuller  m.  Permelia  Conant 
Warren  Maynard  m.  Nancy  Holden 
John  Smith,  2d,  m.  Sally  Allen 

1817  Roswell  ScoU  m.  Zuba  Erskine 

John  Harrington  m.  Abagail  P.  Evens 
Daniel  Clark  m.  Julia  P.  Dickinson 
Joseph  Emerson  m.  Maria  Ripley 

1818  Asa  Thayer  m.  Delia  Pratt 
Leonard  Wise  m.  Deborah  Smith 
Benjamin  Sinkfield  m.  Lois  Witt 
Alba  Lyman  m.  Sally  Codding 
Turner  White  m.  BeUey  Miles 
Charles  Taylor  m.  Susanna  Butler 

<  Luljier  Lyman  m.  Sally  Woolley 

Benedick  Saben  m.  Plannah  Twitchell 
Pliineas  Bond  m:  Abigail  Hammond 
Edward  Stimson  m.  Sarah  Foster 
Samuel  Smith  m.  Betsey  Codding 
Stephen  O.  Hawkins  m.  Cynthia  Miles 
Simeon  Belles  m.  Sully  Ilutchins 

1819  Barnabas  C.  Peters  m.  Rebecca  Willard 
Henry  Loveland  m.  Saflly  Field 
Truman  Watkins  m.  Almira  Alexander 
Horatio  Smith  m.  Lovina  Putnam 

Asa  Twitchell  m.  Sarah  Stowell 
William  Howard  m.  Rebecca  Fairbanks 
Samuel  Ripley  m.  Emily  Alexander 
Calvin  Ljman  m.  Sophronia  White 
Pliny  Jewell  m.  Emily  Alexander 
Thomas  Wheelock  m.  Sally  Flint 
Ezra  Willis  m.  Polly  Hunt 

1820  Asa  Gilbert  m.  Frinda  Howard 
Leonard  Smith  m.  Sally  Lyman 

1821  Levi  O.  Preston  m.  Mary  Smith 
Ella  Lyman  m.  Clarissa  Cook 

1822  Jonathan  Davis  m.  Betsey  Bullard 
Osmer  Willis  m.  Chloe  Cook 
Lewis  BoUes  m.  Anna  Flint 
William  Smith  m.  Atty  Lyman 


1884.]  Notes  and  Queries.  227 

Births. 

Children  of  Nathaniel  &  Margarett  Rockwood. 
Nathaniel  born  Nov.  16'**  1728.  Amos  b.  Aug  O***  1730.  Ebenezer  b. 
April  S'**  1732.  Asa  b.  Feb.  b^  1734.  Rhoda  b.  June  8^  1736.  Reu- 
ben b.  Sept  5***  1737.  Margarett  b.  July  13»»»  1739.  Rhoda  b.  Aug  19*»» 
1740.  Elizabeth  b.  Qct  22  1742.  Asa  b.  Apr  S**^  1745.  Mary  b.  Sept. 
30'^  1747.     William  born  Oct  20'>»  1749. 

Children  of  John  &  Hannah  Ellis. 
Ellen  b..  Mar  4«'  1728.     Elizabeth  b.  April  5*»*,  1730.     Thankful  b.  Mar 
80^**  1732.     Dorcas  b.  June  14  1735.     John  b.  Aug  30"»  1737.    John  b. 
May 1739. 

Children  of  Jacob  &  Ann  Davis. 
Ann  b.  Jan  22*»  1734.    Jacob  b.  Mar  l-*  1735.     Ann  b.  Nov.  16«»  1736. 
Silas  b.  Feb  4"»  1739.     Ann  b.  Dec  IV"  1740. 

Children  of  Benjamin  &  Mehitabel  Melvin. 
Mehitabel  b.  Nov  7,  1736.     Sarah  b.  July  8"»  1739.     Benjamin  b.  May 
30«'  1741.     Moses  b.  Sept  26"»  1745. 

Chil  of  James  &  Experience  Porter. 
Nathan  b.  Sept  %^  1736. 

Chil  of  Will&m  &  Ann  Orvis. 
Mary  b.  Nov  12«»  1735.     Samuel  b.  Mar  10  1738.     William  May  S^* 
1740.     Rachel  b.  mar  15"*  1742.     Rachel  b.  Dec.  20»»*  1743. 

Chil  of  Josiah  <&  Hannah  Willard. 
Josiah  b.  in  Sudbury  Mass.  Sept  22'*  1734.  Josiah  b.  Feb.  26*^  1736 
-7.  Hannah  b.  Feb  4»'»  1738-9.  Sampson  b.  Dec  W^  1740.  Abagail 
b.  Jany  V2^  1743.  Eunice  b:  Mar  19"»  1745.  Solomon  b.  21^  1747. 
Prentice  b.  Jany  27***  1750.  Jonathan  b.  Dec  27*^  1751.  Hannah  b.  Oct 
24*^  1754.     Susannah  b.  June  2^  1757. 

[To  be  oontlnued.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES.      . 

Notes. 

Old  Bells. — The  first  bell  in  New  Haven  Colony  is  that  mentioned  by  Rev.  Dr. 
Bacon  in  his  **  Historical  Disconrses.*'  In  April,  1681,  *'  there  bein^  a  bell  brought 
in  a  Vessel  into  the  harbor,  it  was  spoken  of,  and  generally  it  was  desired  that  it 
might  be  prucured  for  the  town ;  and  for  the  present  it  was  desired  that  Mr.  Tho- 
man  Trowbridge  would  ifke  can,  prevail  with  Mr.  Hod^e  the  owner  of  it,  to  leave 
it  with  him  until  the  town  hath  had  some  further  consideration  about  it." 

In  August  the  owner  of  the  bell  had  sent  to  have  it  brought  to  the  Bay  in  Joseph 
Al8op*s  vessel,  **  and  it  having  lain  so  long  it  would  not  be  handsome  for  the  town 
to  put  it  off."  "Thereupon,  *'  after  a  free  and  large  debate,"  it  was  voted  that  the 
bell  be  purchased.  The  price  was  £17.  In  April,  1682,  the  town  was  informed 
that  the  bell  was  now  *'  hanged  in  the  Turret  "  of  the  meeting-house,  and  in  No- 
vember the  townsmen  ''  had  agreed  with  George  Pardee  for  his  son  Joseph  to  ring 
the  bell  for  the  towns  occasions  on  the  Sabbaths  and  other  meetings  as  it  was  wont 
to  b^  b Y  the  Drum  and  also  to  ring  the  bell  at  nine  o'clock  every  ni^ht."  In  1686 
the  bell  was  sent  to  England  to  be  new  cast  and  made  bigger  for  the  town's  use, 
Mr.  Simon  £yre  offering  to  carry  it  out  and  back  freight  free. 

The  bell  was  brought  txEick  and  finally  sold  by  the  town  for  the  State  House,  and 
when  the  State  House  was  torn  down  the  bell  was  stored  in  the  basement  of  the  new 
State  House  about  1829.    After  a  while  some  boys  got  it  out,  and  ringing  it  broke 


228  Notes  and  Queries.  [April, 

it,  and  probably,  as  it  was  of  some  yalue  as  old  metal,  it  may  have  been  recast  into 

another  bell,  and  may  now  be  doing  use  somewhere.  T . 

New  haven. 


QcrKRm. 

GiNSALOGICAL  QUERIIS. 

Can  any  of  our  genealoo^ists  fill  the  blanks  or  giTe  dates  in  the  following?  The 
figures  in  brackets  are  approximate  dates  only. 

Susanna  Adams  of  Medway,  m.  Alexander  (1*3^).    Hannah  Adams  of 

Mw.  m.  —^  Richardson  (1725).    Jeremiah  Adams  of  Mw.  m.  Elisabeth  — ^— 

(1730).    Sarah  Adams  of  Medfield,  m. Harding  (1750).    Joseph   Adams  of 

Mf.  m.  Mary (1702).    Aaron  Allen  of  Mf.  or  Dedh.  m.  Hannah  — — 

(1737).    Enoch  Allen  of  Mf.  m.  Jane (1776).    Preserved  Baker  m.  Elixft- 

beth (1775).    Rachel  Baker,  m. Wood  of  Uxbr.  (1797).   John  Balch 

of  Beverly  m.  Phebe (1790).   George  Barber  of  Mf.  m.  Ann (1706). 

John  Barl>er  of  Mf.  m.  Hannah (1735).    Joseph  Bullard  of  Mf.  m.  Sarah 

(imi) .    Ebenezer  Bullard  of  Mf.  m.  Susanna (1715).     Bethia  Sul- 
len of  Mf.   m. Colburn  (1684).    Isaac  Chenery  of  Mf.  m.  Rachel  

(1708).    Hannah  Cheney  m. Taft  (1730).    Jeremiah  Clark  of  xMf.  m.  Pa- 
tience  (1711).    Moses  Clark  of  Mf.  m.  Elizabeth (1735).    Samoei 

Ellis  of  Mf.  m.  Abigail (1726).    Abigail  Ellis  of  Mf.  m.  Jonathan  

of  Dedh.   (1730).    George  Fairbanks  of  Mf.  m.  Susanna (1680).    James 

Gerauld  or  Jeniid  m. (1733.)     Abraham  Harding  m.  Elizabeth  ■ 

(1648).    Abraham  Harding  of  Mf.  m.  Sarah (1695).    Mary  Hinsdale  of  Mf. 

m.  Hide  (1750).      Mary  Johnson  of  Chelmsf.  m.  —  Arnold   (1703). 

Elizabeth  liovell  of  Mf.  m. Hartshorn  (1718).    Deborah  Partridge  of  Mf.  m. 

Keith  of  Uxb.  (1718).    Hannah  Partridge  of  Mf.  m. Fisher  (1720). 

Mehitable  Partridge  ra.  Grant  (1730^.    John  Pratt  of  Reading  m.  Sarah 

(1685).     Dr.  Timothy  Sheppard  m.  Mary  (1785).    John  Thurston 

m.  Hannah (1712).    John  Turner  of  Roxb.  m.  Deborah  (1616). 

Abiel  Wight  of  Mf.  m.  Randall  (1696).    Joseph  Wight  of  Mf.  m.  Mercy 

(1700).    John  Wilson  of  Mf.  m.  Sarah  -. (1685). 

In  many  of  the  early  marriages  residence  is  not  given.  If  any  of  the  above  are 
discovered,  please  communicate  the  intelligence  to  W.  S.Tilden,  Medfield,  Mass., 
editor  of  town  history. 

Deerfield  Qceries  and  Items. — Wanted,  the  parenta^  of  Joseph  Wright,  who 
moved  from  liadley  to  Deerfield,  where  he  died  SeptemSer  21,  1793,  aged  73.  He 
married  Jane  [by  her  gravestone  '*  Jain"]  Cook  of  Hadley  in  1749,  when,  ssyi 
Judd,  he  was  of  n  are. 

Also  the  parentage  of  Godfrey  Nims.  He  is  first  heard  of  as  a  lad  at  Northamp- 
ton, 1667.     He  died  at  Deerfield,  1705. 

Also  of  William  Arms,  a  soldier  under  Turner  at  the  Falls  fight,  1676.  He  also 
died  at  Deerfield,  1731,  aged  71. 

The  ashen  of  William  Arms,  Matthew  Clisson,  Robert  Hinsdale  FHinsdell,  Hinds- 
dale],  Philip  Mattoon  [Matun],  Godfrey  Nims  and  William  Smeaa,  rest  in  the  soil 
of  Deerfield.  So  far  as  I  am  able  to  learn  they  are  the  first  male  American  ances- 
tors of  all  the  early  generations  bearing  those  names.  Modem  immigration  mty 
have  bn)U(!;ht  in  others.  Gbo.  Sheldon. 

Deerfield y  Mass. 

Quaker  and  Universalist  Preacher. — Rev.  Dr.  Eliot,  in  a  series  of  papers  on  the 
Eccicsiaslical  History  of  Massachusetts^  published  in  early  volumes  of  O>llections  of 
the  Mass.  Hist.  Soc,  mentions  a  **  man  who  had  been  a  Quaker  preacher,"  but  be- 
came a  Universalist,  and  preached  in  Berkshire  Co.  in  1794.    Who  ¥ra8  he? 

R.  £ddt. 


maiden 
Conn. 

over  some  seven  years  later  and  settled  in  Cambridge,  Mass.  Are  the  descendantf 
of  the  latter  still  living  in  Boston,  and  can  any  information  be  given  as  to  the  En^ 
lish  ancestry  of  the  brothers?  S.  W.  CwmKDSir. 

Utica,  N.  Y. 


1884.]  Ifotes  and  Queries.  229 

Bacon. — Can  anv  reader  of  the  Register  give  information  as  to  the  English  an- 
cestry of  Nathaniel  Baoon,  who  came  to  this  country  1640,  or  thereabouts,  settled  in 
Barnstable,  Mass.,  married  Hannah  Mayo,  daughter  of  Rev.  John  Mayo  of  B.,  was 
Assistant  of  Plymouth  Colony,  and  died  at  6.,  16 — ,  leaving  a  large  estate  for  those 
days.  He  had  four  sons  and  four  daughters  ;  one  of  the  former  (John,  from  whom 
1  am  descended)  emigrated  to  Canterbury,  Conn.,  in  16 — . 

In  the  Register  ror  April,  1883,  a  deposition  of  one  John  Ward  of  Brandford 
(taken  at  New  Haven,  Oct.  17th,  1661)  is  siven  to  the  effect  that  Nathaniel  Bacon 
was  the  son  of  William  Bacon  of  Clipsam  (or  Stretton)  in  the  county  of  Rutland, 
JSngland.  A  passage  in  ''  Historical  Sketches  of  Middletown,''  quoted  in  the  Wet- 
more  (or  Whitmore)  genealogy,  p.  31,  would  seem  to  apply  this  deposition  to  Na- 
thaniel Bacon  of  Middktown^  who  cannot  be  the  same  person. 

An  old  man,  a  descendant  of  Nathaniel  Beu^on  of  Barnstable,  living  in  Canterbu- 
ly  in  1843,  averred  that  the  family  came  from  Ipswich  (En^.),  *'  at  the  first,*'  as 
lie  expressed  it,  which  would  seem  to  point  to  a  connection  with  the  Ipswich  branch 
of  the  Bacons  of  Hesaett  and  Drinkstone  in  Suffolk.    Can  this  be  traced  ? 

Ltka,  N.  Y,  Wm.  J.  Baoon. 


LoRiNG. — Can  any  one  tell  whose  son  was  Thaddeus  G.  Loring,  who  was  a  scholar 
at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  Mass.,  from  1828  to  1830,  or  give  an  account  of  him? 
Wanted  for  the  Centennial  Catalogue  of  that  academy,  and  inform  the  Editor,  18 
Somerset  Street,  Boston,  Mass.,  or  Dr.  George  B.  Loring,  Washington,  D.  C. 

Whose  daughter  was  Priscilla  Bailey,  who  married  (1736)  Nathaniel  Loring, 
Ptaibroke,  Mass.  (his  residence).  Bailey  is  a  christian  name  in  most  every  Loring 
fiuniJy  of  this  branch  since,  but  they  cannot  tell  who  her  parents  were. 

C.  J.  F.  BlNNBT. 


Autograph  of  John  Washington. — The  late  Col.  Chester,  a  few  years  before  his 
death,  arrived  at  a  probable  solution  of  the  mystery  concerning  the  Eni^lish  ances- 
try of  President  Washington,  and  only  needed  an  autograph  of  John  Washington, 
ilie  emigrant  ancestor  of  the  president,  to  decide  whether  his  conjecture  was  true  or 
not.  He  wrote  to  his  friend  Robert  A.  Brock,  Rsq.,  of  Richmond,  Va.,  to  obtain  a 
tracing;  but  no  autograph  could  be  found  by  him.  Mr.  Brock  wrote  to  the  clerk 
of  the  Westmoreland  county,  who  informed  him  that  he  was  of  opinion  that  the 
orifl^inal  of  the  will  of  John  Washington  had  recently  been  on  file  in  that  office,  but 
it  disappeared  during  the  late  war.  Bishop  Meade  in  his  Old  Churches  and  Fami- 
lies of  Virginia,  published  in  1855,  vol.  ii.  page  167,  says  that  the  wills  of  John 
Washington  and  his  brother  Lawrence,  made  respectively  on  Feb.  26,  1675,  and  on 
Sept.  27,  1675,  and  proven  relatively  on  the  10th  and  6th  of  January,  1677,  were 
then  of  record  in  an  old  book  of  wills  in  Westmoreland  Court  Houfw,  and  he  gives 
the  opening  clause  of  the  first.    This  record  book  cannot  now  be  found. 

Information  is  desired  of  the  above  will  of  John  Washington,  or  of  any  docu- 
ment bearing  his  autograph ;  also  of  the  record  book  referred  to  by  Bishop  Meade. 
— Editor. 


Leverett. — Information  wanted  as  to  the  date  of  birth  and  parentage  of  Wil- 
liam Leverett  who  died  in  Needham,  1791.  a^ed  64.  His  wife  was  Rachel  Watts, 
and  his  children  were  born  in  Boston,  Cam  or  iago  and  Needham.  HissLster  mar- 
ried a  Richardson,  and  of  his  daughters  Rachel  married  Josiah  Dana,  Polly,  Joshua 
Cook,  Betsey,  Elisha  Bobbins,  Catharine,  James  Walker,  Sarah,  Oliver  Pratt,  Lucy, 
Joseph  White,  Rebecca,  William  Robinson  ;  and  his  sons  married  into  the  families 
of  Fuller  and  Stevens.  By  tradition  William  Leverett  was  descended  from  Gov. 
Leverett,  bnt  if  so  this  line  is  omitted  in  the  Leverett  Memorial. 

Cariisle,  Fa,  W.  C.  Leverett. 


SiLTSR. — ^Information  wanted  concerning  a  certain  **  John  Silver,"  about  whom 
tradition  says  that  he  came  to  New  Jersey  or  New  York  from  England  about  the 
latter  part  of  the  seventeenth  century.  The  undersigned  will  be  very  thankful  for 
«iy  information  concerning  any  one  of  the  name  of  Silver ,  Silvers  or  ^lUr. 

56  Saratoga  St.,  Baltimore ^  Aid,  John  Silver  Uughes. 

TOL,   XXXYIU.  21 


230  Notes  and  Queries.  April, 

Virginia  Queriks. — ^I  am  very  anxious  for  any  additional  facts  re^rdin^  any  of 
the  following  persons.    Also  for  any  needed  corrections  in  the  following,  viz. : 

From  the  Virginia  Charter,  April  10th,  1606. 

Thomas  Hanham. — *^  Mr  Serjeant  Thomas  llanham  married  Penelope  daazhter  of 
Sir  John  Popham,  Lord  Chief  Justice  of  England."  He  came  to  N.  £.  with  Pring 
in  1606,  and  on  the  faith  of  their  reports  the  Popham  Colony  was  sent  out  the  next 
year.    He  was  probably  a  Knight  Templar. 

Ralegh  Gilbert — son  of  Sir  liumphrey  Gilbert,  married  a  Miss  Kelly  and  left 
issue.  He  was  also  one  of  the  first  members  of  the  let  Council  for  N.  £.,  Not.  3d, 
1620. 

William  Parker. — "  Capt  William  Parker  of  Plimmouth  "  sailed  from  that  city 
in  the  beginnin<;of  November,  1601,  in  command  of  several  vessels  for  the  West 
Indies.  He  took  St.  Vincent  and  Puerto  Bello  in  February,  1601-3;  and  at  the 
latter  place  captured  Pedro  Melendes,  the  chief  governor  of  that  town,  *'  using  him 
and  his  farre  otherwise  "  than  Pedro  Melendes,  his  ^reat  uncle,  used  John  Ribaolt, 
Laudonni^re  and  the  French  Huguenots  in  Florida.  He  returned  safely  to  Plymouth, 
May  6th,  1602.  Sept.  24th,  1618,  *'Capt.  Parker  of  Plymouth,"  **  old  and  cor- 
pulent," Vice- Admiral  of  the  East  Indian  Fleet,  under  Sir  Thomas  Dale,  died  at 
sea  on  the  voyage  to  the  East  Indies. 

George  Popham. — **  A  kinsman  of  Sir  John  Popham,  Chief- Justice."  Died  in 
N.  E.  Feb.  5,  1698.  A  notice  is  in  Drake *s  Dictionary  of  Ameriean  Biography,  and 
in  the  Memorial  Volume  of  the  Popham  Celebration,  Portland,  1863. 

From  the  King's  Council  of  Virginia,  Nov.  20th,  1606. 

Thomas  Warr,  Elsq, — [**  Roger  Warre  Esq  of  Hester  oombe  married  Eleanor, 
daughter  of  Chief- Justice  Popham."] 

**  Thomas  James  of  the  Citty  of  Bristol^  merchant  y 

^*  James  Bagge  of  Plymouth,  in  the  County  oj  Devonshire,  merchant. ^^ — A  to- 
wards *^  Sir  James  Bagge  of  Saltheme  in  the  County  of  Devon,  Knight,"  and  a  Cooo- 
cillor  of  the  New  England  Company  (1632). 

From  the  King's  Council  of  Virginia,  March  9th,  1606-7. 

Sir  Anthony  Palmer. — A  Knight  of  the  Bath  and  a  member  of  the  East  Indit 
Company. 

Sir  John  Mallet. — Of  Enmore,  married  Mary,  daughter  of  Chief-Justice  Popham. 

Sir  Bartholomew  Mitchell. — [Chief- Justice  Popham's  sister  Elizabeth  married 
Richard  Mitchell  of  Canniogton.] 

Edward  Rogers,  Esq. — **  Edward  Rogers  Esq.  of  Cannington,  in  Somersetshire 
married  Kathcrine,  daughterof  Chief  Justice  Popham  " 

Edward  Scamour,  Esq. — '*  Edward  Seymour,  Esq.  of  Berry  Pomeroy,  M.  P.  for 
the  County  of  Devon,  wjis  created  a  Bironet  29th  June  1611.  He  m.  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  Sir  Arthur  Champernon,  Knt.  of  Dartington,  in  Devonshire  (see  Rbq. 
zxviii.  79)  ;  and  died  April  11th,  1613."  The  Marquess  and  Earl  of  Hertford  is  t 
descendant. 

Bernard  Greenville,  Esq. — **  Bernard  Granville  of  Bideford  in  Devon,  and  of 
Stow  in  Cornwall,  the  eldest  son  of  the  celebrated  Sir  Richard  Granville  (or  Green- 
ville), was  High  Sheriff  of  Cornwall,  1596;  M.  P.  for  Bod  win,  1597,  and  subee* 
quently  received  the  honour  of  knighthood."  He  married  Elizabeth,  sole  daughter 
and  heir  of  Philip  Bevil,  Esq.,  of  Kiliigarth,  Cornwall,  and  died  in  1636,  having 
had  issue  four  sons  and  two  daughters.  Two  of  his  sons,  Sir  Bevil  and  Sir  Richard 
Granville,  were  very  celebrated  Cavalier  Commanders. 

The  above  named  were  of  the  Council,  &c.,  for  the  Northern  Colony  of  Virginia. 

I>lorwood  P.  O.,  Nelson  Co.,  Va.  Alexander  Brown. 


Goodwin. — All  persons  having  information  regarding  the  family  of  Ozias  Good- 
win, who  settled  in  Hartford,  Conn.,  in  1639.  are  requested  to  communicate  with 
the  undersigned,  who  is  employed  thereon  and  authorized  to  make  reasonable  com- 
pensation for  the  same.  Frank  F.  Starr. 

Middletown,  Conn. 


Flint.— Can  any  one  furnish  the  parentage,  date  and  place  of  birth  of  Rev.  Josh- 
ua Flagg,  who  died  in  Dana,  Mass.,  in  1859?  R.  Eddt. 


1884.]  Notes  and  Queries.  231 

Stewart. — John  Stewart,  of  Stirling,  Scotland,  came  to  New  York  in  the  ship 
Caledonia,  August,  1699.  Went  to  Uackensack  in  New  Jersey, and  in  March,  1709, 
married  Jemima  De  Marest,  daughter  of  John  De  Marest  or  Demorest.  Her  sis- 
ter, in  1702  or  1703.  married  James  Christy.  Stewart  moved  1703  to  Appoquini- 
mink,  Del.,  and  died.  Will  dated  Feb.  19,  1723,  but  last  from  the  Delaware  records. 

Information  desired  of  John  Stewart  or  his  will,  and  of  John  Demurest. 

Wilkes  Barre,  Pa,  Rev.  Horace  Edwin  Hayden. 


Rich. — Lacy  Lincoln,  of  Western,  now  Warren,  Mass.,  married  not  far  from 
1780  with  Simeon  Rich,  and  lived  at  Cherry  Valley,  N.  Y.  I  shall  be  very  thank- 
liil  for  any  information  as  to  his  parentage  and  birth-place. 

Newark  Valley^  N.  Y,  D.  W.  Patterson. 

Thomas  Clark,  of  East  Haddam,  Willington  parish.  The  family  emif^rated 
ibence  to  Great  Egg  Harbor,  N.  J.,  about  the  time  when  the  Rev.  Timothy  Symmes 
was  dismissed  from  that  charge,  in  1743.  There  was  a  connection  then  or  subse* 
qoently  between  the  Clark  family  and  the  Symmes 's.  What  was  it?  This  Tho- 
mas C&rk  issuppoeed  to  have  been  a  grandson  of  Thoma^of  Milford,  Ct.,  who  marri- 
ed Ann,  widow  of  John  Jordan  of  Guilford,  Ct.  (in  1654),  who  is  said  to  have  been 
related  to  Governor  Fenn wick.  Thomas  Clark,  says  our  memorandum,  was  born 
1686-7.     Who  were  his  parents  ?    He  married  Hannah .    Their  children  were : 

1.  Rev.  Samuel  Clark,  graduated  at  Yale — or  at  Princeion,  his  name  being  on  its 
Triennial  Catalogue ;  ordained  and  installed  over  the  parish  of  Kensington,  Ct  , 
July  14,  1756,  where  he  died  Nov.  6,  1775.  He  had  a  son  Samuel  and  a  daughter 
Jerusha  who  were  baptized  there.  2.  Hannah,  who  married  Capt.  William  Brock- 
way  of  Lyme,  Ct.  3.  Col.  Elijah  Clark  of  Gloucester,  N.  J.,  a  member  of  the 
New  Jersey  Provincial  Assembly  in  1777  (possibly  a  grandson.  4.  A  daughter  or 
granddaughter,  married  James  Van  Nuzem,  a  merchant  of  Philadelphia — of  a  Flem- 
ish family  originally. 

A  fuller  record  oi  this  old  Connecticut  Clark  family  is  respectfully  solicited. 

W.  Hall. 


Larmon. — Wanted  the  parents  and  ancestors  of  Elizabeth  Larmon,  who  was  born 
Sept.  6,  1718,  married  Ebenezer  Tuwnsend,  and  removed  to  New  Haven,  Conn., 
where  they  continued  to  reside.  Frakk  F.  Starr. 

Middktown,  Conn, 


Replies. 

A  New  Chime. — In  the  articles  on  the  '*  Early  Bells  of  Massachusetts  "  in  the 
Register  for  April  and  July,  1874,  and  January,  1883  (vol.  29,  pp.  176-84,  279-88  ; 
vol.  zxxvii.  pp.  46-52),  fifteen  chimes  of  bells  in  Massachusetts  nave  been  described. 
Ujde  Park  has  now  a  chime,  the  sixteenth  in  use  in  the  state.  It  consists  of 
nine  bells,  and  is  called  the  St.  Martin's  chime.  It  was  consecrated  on  the  18th 
of  November  last,  in  the  presence  of  many  of  the  dignitaries  of  the  Catholic  Church, 
when  Rt.  Rev.  H.  de  Goesbriad  repeated  a  prayer,  sprinkled  the  bells,  anointed  them, 
made  the  sign  of  the  cross  upon  them,  and  named  them  as  follows :  St.  Patrick, 
St.  Daniel,  ot.  Louis,  St.  John,  St.  Richard,  St.  Aloyson,  St.  Agnes,  St.  Elizabeth 
and  St.  Cecelia.  The  bells  hear  no  inscriptions  except  the  name  or  theMcShane  Bell 
Foundry,  Baltimore,  Md.  It  is  a  complete  diatonic  chime,  and  the  musical  names, 
with  weights,  are  as  follows :  E*,  2567  pounds;  F,  1724;  G,  1165;  A6,  925;  B6, 
746:  C,  526;  D^400;  D,  311;  E*,  264.  Total,  6628  pounds.  Cost  of  chime, 
$3,000.  E.  H.  Goss. 

Melrose, 


Hatward  (an/«,  vol.  xxxviii.  84). — Diligent  search  has  only  revealed  that  her 
name  was  Susanna.  She  was  married  in  England.  Elizabeth,  wife  of  Nathaniel, 
who  was  bom  April  26,  1664,  is  said  by  Judge  Mitchell  to  have  married  about  1687 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  John  and  Constant  (Mitchell)  Fobes.  But  the  late  Hon. 
Bexa  Hay  ward  oelieved  that  he  married  Elizabeth  Crussman  uf  Taunton. 

D.  T.  V.  HUNT005. 


232  Notes  and  Queries.  [April, 

Belcher.— I  think  tbe  Register,  xxxv.  p.  377,  last  two  linei  in  birth  of  John, 
son  of  John  Belcher,  ''  11th  mo.  1.  1658,"  which  I  read  1  Jan.  1658-59,  explains 
the  Boston  transcript  of  same  record,  as  ^ven  in  Rbqister,  zii.  p.  350,  third  line 
from  bottom,  **  11:  1:  58,"  which  Dr.  Savage  read  U  March,  1659,  and  which  led 
him  to  think  the  birth  was  that  of  a  second  John.  So  his  text.  Vol.  I.  p.  156,  line 
two  from  bottom,  should  read  ''  John,  I  Jan.  1659,  d.  9  Feb.  1659  "  :  and  not  as 
amended  in  his  corrections,  p.  504  of  same  volume.  D.  W.  Patterson. 

I^ewark  Valley,  N.  Y. 


Poore. — In  a  collection  of  abstracts  of  wills  from  the  town  records  of  Exeter,  R.  I., 
recently  loaned  to  me  by  Editor  Arnold  of  the  Narragansett  Historical  Register,  I 
find  the  name  of  Poore,  quite  unusual  in  that  state  in  those  years.  I  have  ventoied 
to  enclose  the  item  for  publication,  in  the  hope  that  the  veteran  genealogist  ol 
Salem,  if  no  one  else,  will  find  it  of  interest. 

Tbe  will  of  William  Poore,  dated  May  24,  1758,  probated  at  Exeter,  R.  I.,  No- 
vember 20,  1759,  bequeaths  to  mother  Riachel  Osbun  now  of  Richmond,  £67,  Old 
Tenor ;  to  sister  Hannah  Osbun,  now  of  South  Kingstown,  single  woman,  forty 
acres  of  land  in  Exeter,  being  that  he  (William)  had  purchased  of  Stephen  Rogers, 
also  all  the  rest  and  residue  of  his  estate.  The  said  Hannah  was  apiK)inted  executor. 
The  teHtator  made  his  mark.  The  witnesses  were  Pelcg  Thomas  (his  mark),  Eli»- 
beth  Sheldon  and  and  John  Sheldon.  An  inventory  of  the  personal  estate,  taken 
Jan.  8,  1760,  by  John  Sheldon  and  John  Reynolds,  amounted  to  £543.  38.  9d. 

The  will  and  inventory  are  recorded  on  Book  viii.,  pp.  82  and  93  of  the  reoordi 
above  named.  Rat  Grkbkb  Hulikg. 

Fitchburg,  Mass, 


Historical  Intelligence. 

Executives  of  Virginia,  1606-1884.— R.  A.  Brock,  Esq.,  secretary  and  librarian 
of  the  Virginia  Historical  Society,  has  prepared  for  Hardisty's  Geographical  and 
Biographical  Encyclopocdia,  a  series  of  biographies  of  the  executives  of  Virginia 
from  the  founding  of  the  colony  to  the  present  time,  which  is  in  press.  Weliave 
examined  some  of  the  earlier  sheets,  and  find  that  Mr.  Brock  has  condensed  into  a 
comparatively  small  space  reliable  and  precise  information  concerning  these  wor- 
thiest. Much  of  it,  the  result  of  his  individual  research,  has  never  betore  appeared 
in  print.  The  book  will  supply  a  want  in  Virginia  history.  It  is  proposed  to  iflsoe 
a  corrected  edition  of  the  serial  in  separate  and  handy  form,  with  portraits  and 
other  illustrations. 


Genealogies  in  Preparation. — Persons  of  the  several  names  are  advised  to  fur- 
nish the  compilers  of  these  genealogies  with  records  of  their  own  families  and  other 
information  which  they  think  will  be  useful.  We  would  suggest  that  all  facts  of 
interest  illustrating  family  history  or  character  be  communicated,  especially  ser- 
vice under  the  U.  S.  government,  the  holding  of  other  offices,  graduation  prom 
college  or  professional  schools,  occupation,  with  places  and  dates  of  oirth,  marriages 
residence  and  death.  When  there  are  more  than  one  christian  name  thev  should  all 
be  given  in  full  if  possible.  No  initials  should  be  used  when  the  full  names  are 
known. 

Binney.  By  Charles  J.  F.  Binney,  Binney  Street,  Roxbary  District,  Boston, 
Mass. — This  extensive  genealogy  has  been  in  preparation  by  the  author  for  forty 
years,  and  will  make  an  8vo.  volume  of  between  four  and  five  hundred  pages,  print- 
ed with  good  type  on  tinted  paper,  and  well  bound  in  cloth,  similar  to  the  Pren- 
tioe-PrentLss  Genealogy  published  by  him  last  year,  and  noticed  in  January,  1884. 
The  book  will  be  published  as  soon  as  350  copies  are  subscribed  for  at  #4  a  copy 
(by  mail,  $4.20) .  It  will  contain  all  of  the  name  in  the  United  States,  British  Pro- 
vinces and  Great  Britain,  of  whom  the  author  can  obtain  details. 

Boynton.  By  John  Famham  Boynton,  Highland  Place,  Syracuse,  N.  Y. — Mr. 
Boynton  has  made  largo  collections  relating  to  this  family,  particularly  to  the  de- 
scendants of  William  and  John  Boynton,  early  settlers  of  Rowley,  Mass. :  but;before 
printing  it  he  proposes,  if  sufficiently  encouraged,  to  issue  a  directory  oontaining  the 
names  and  other  particulars  of  living  persons  of  the  name,  male  and  female.    Price 


1884.]  Notes  and  Queries.  233 

of  the  Directory,  $2.50.  Circalars  giving  further  details  of  his  work  and  plan  can 
be  obtained  from  Mr.  Boynton.  He  also  proposes  to  reprint  with  annotations  a 
history  of  the  Boynton  family  in  England.     Price  $3.50  for  the  reprint. 

Cummings.  By  the  Rct.  George  Mooar,  D.D.,  of  Oakland,  CaJ. — Dr.  Mooar  has 
made  larse  collections  toward  a  record  of  the  families  bearing  this  name,  descended 
from  early  settlers  of  Massachusetts,  New  Hampshire,  Vermont  and  Maine.  His 
attention  has  been  directed  especially  to  the  posterity  of  Isaac  Cummings,  Topsfield, 
Mass.,  1640.  Ho  would  be  glad  to  enlist  the  active  cooperation  of  others  in  making 
the  record  as  complete  as  possible.  Any  members  of  the  family  who  may  have  in- 
terested themselves  in  looking  up  their  particular  lines  of  descent  are  invited  to 
Qorrespond  with  him. 

Goode.  By  G.  Brown  Goode,  United  States  National  Museum,  Smithsonian  In- 
stitation,  Washington,  D.  C. — He  has  been  engaged  about  twenty  years  in  collect- 
ing material  about  the  Goode  family  of  Virginia. 

Herrick,  By  Dr.  L.  0.  Herrick,  295  Hunter  Street,  Columbus,  Ohio. — This 
work,  which  has  been  more  than  t)?n  years  in  progress  (Reg.  xxvii.  42i),  is  now 
oompleted,  and  will  probably  be  ready  for  subscribers  in  June  next.  It  will  make 
ma  8vo.  volume  of  about  600  pages,  illustrated  with  portraits  on  steel.  The  price 
will  be  in  cloth  $5 ;  in  extra  cloth  binding,  uncut  edges,  gilt  top,  bevelled  boards, 
$6 ;  half  turkey  moroooo,  gilt  top  or  marbled  edges,  as  preferred,  $7.50  ;  full  tur- 
key morocco,  full  gilt,  $10.  It  contaias  all  the  matter  in  Gen.  Herrick *8  book, 
puolished  in  1846,  and  much  more.  It  brings  the  record  down  to  the  present  time, 
and  contains  much  matter  of  historical  interest  to  members  of  the  finmily.  It  will 
be  thoroughly  indexed. 

Levalley,  By  Benjamin  W.  Smith,  14  Westminster  Street,  Providence,  R.  I. — 
Mr.  Smith  would  like  to  hear  from  any  one  connected  with  the  family,  or  who  has 
anything  to  communicate  concerning  it. 

Newell,  By  Joseph  R.  Newell,  of  Springfield,  Mass. — Mr.  Newell  has  a  large 
collection  of  material  relating  to  the  descendants  of  Abraham  Newell,  of  Roxbury, 
Mass.,  who  came  in  1634  in  the  Francis. 

Phillips. — By  Albert  M.  Phillips,  of  Auburn,  Mass. 

Underwood.    By  Prof.  L.  M.  Underwood,  Syracuse,  N.  Y. 

Van  Dyke.  Robinson.  Nixon.  By  Rev.  Horace  Edwin  Hayden,  Wilkes  Barre, 
Pa. — Genealogies  of  the  descendants  of  Thomas  Janse  Van  Dyke,  Long  Island,  N. 
Y.,  1610;  George  Robinson,  of  Dover,  Delaware,  1680;  Nicholas  Nixon,  of  Do- 
ver, Delaware,  1670,  are  nearly  complete.    Further  data  desired. 

Virginia  Genealogies.  By  Rev.  Horace  Edwin  Hayden,  Wilkes  Barre,  Pa. — Mr. 
Hayden  is  preparing  a  volume  of  biography  and  genealogy  of  the  families  of  Glas- 
sell  uf  Virginia  and  Brown  of  Maryland,  including  pedigrees  in  full  or  in  part  of 
the  following  connecting  families :  Alexander,  Conway,  Cave,  Daniel,  Grinnan, 
Homer,  Lewis,  Upuitt,  Moncure,  Morton,  Patton,  Peyton,  Robinson,  Scott,  Sont- 
erville,  Taylor,  Wallace,  Ware,  Webb,  of  Virginia ;  Claggett,  Kev,  Hayden,  Scott, 
Stone,  of  Slaryland  ;  Eno  and  Crosby  of  New  England  ;  Bryan  of  Georgia  ;  Terry 
of  Texas;  Campbell  ^Duke  of  Argyll)  of  Scotland  and  Louisiana.  Any  informa- 
tion as  to  these  families  will  be  gratefully  received  if  addressed  to  the  author,  or  to 
Mr.  Richard  Moncure  Ck)nway,  Belmont  P.  0.,  Spottsylvania  Co.,  Va. 

Wilcoxson.  By  Rev.  Horace  Edwin  Hayden,  Wilkes  Barre,  Pa. — This  genealo- 
gy will  be  printed  in  connection  with  the  Hayden  genealogy,  now  ready  for  the 
press,  and  will  comprise  all  that  can  be  gleaned  of  the  descendants  of  Timothy  Wil- 
oozson  of  Ma.ssachu setts,  1620.  and  Stratford,  Conn.,  1639.  Some  of  the  name  have 
dropped  the  last  syllable  and  write  the  name  Wilcox.  It  will  be  almost  impossible 
to  trace  these  unless  they  communicate  with  the  author  personally. 


Local  Historhs  in  Preparation. — Persons  having  facts  or  documents  relating  to 
any  of  these  cities,  towns,  counties,  etc.,  are  advised  to  send  them  at  once  to  the 
persons  engaged  in  writing  the  several  histories. 

Albany,  N.  Y.  By  Jonathan  Tenney,  M.A.,  Ph.D.,  484  Madison  Avenue^  Alba- 
ny.— The  Illustrated  History  of  Albany  and  Schenectady  Counties,  includmg  the 
cities  of  Albany,  Schenectady  and  Cohoes,  is  in  active  preparation.  Special  atten- 
tion will  be  given  to  the  indpstries  of  the  cities.  W.  W.  Munsell  &  Co.,  Publishers. 

VOL.   XXXYllL  21* 


234  Societies  and  their  Proceedings.  [April, 

Norway y  Me. — ^The  town  has  contribated  $700  towards  a  new  town  history. 

Paris,  Me.  By  William  fi.  Lapham,  M.D.,  of  Augusta,  Me.,  and  S.  P.  Maxim.— 
The  town  has  voted  an  appropriation  to  defray  the  expense*  of  publishing  this  his- 
tory, and  the  work  is  now  in  progress.  Dr.  Lapham  was  till  hifeely  the  editor  of 
the  Maine  Farmer,  and  has  also  hfui  much  experience  in  historical  and  genealogical 
work.  This  town  and  Norway  lie  contiguous  in  Oxford  county,  and  it  is  probable 
that  both  works  will  be  brought  out  during  the  current  year. 

Philadelphia,  Pa.  By  J.  Thomas  Scarf  and  Thompson  Westoott.— This  will 
be  one  of  the  moRt  complete  local  works  ever  publishea.  It  will  form  three  large 
octavo  volumes  of  about  800  pages  each,  with  three  hundred  fine  historical  views, 
maps,  plans  and  portraits.  It  will  be  ready  this  spring,  and  will  be  sold  only  by 
sub«tcription.  Price  $25.  Louis  H.  £verts  &  Co.,  publishers,  719  Filbert  Street, 
Philadelphia. 

Weare,  N.  U, — A  committee  to  obtain  the  facts  relating  to  the  Proprietary,  Po- 
litical, Military  and  Church  History,  Population,  Census,  Records,  Genealofyt 
Biography,  Geography,  Agriculture,  Manutieicturing.  Professions,  Schools,  etc.,  Eis 
been  appointed  by  the  town,  and  $500  appropriated  to  aid  the  work.  A  historiaa 
will  be  appointed  to  write  the  history,  under  the  superintendence  of  the  committee. 
Further  appropriations  will  be  made  when  necessary.  The  work  will  probably  be 
published  within  two  years.    S.  C.  Goold  is  secretary  of  the  publication  committee. 


SOCIETIES  AND  THEIR  PROCEEDINGS. 

N£w-£noland  Historic  GransALOGicAL  Socibtt. 

Boston,  Massachusetts,  September  5,  1883. — A  stated  meeting  was  held  at  the  So- 
ciety's House,  18  Somerset  Street,  this  afternoon  at  three  o'clock,  the  president,  the 
Hon.  Marshall  P.  Wilder,  in  the  chair. 

Cyrus  Woodman,  Esq.,  chairman  of  the  committee  appointed  at  the  last  meeting, 
reported  resolutions  on  the  death  of  the  Hon.  Israel  Washburn,  LL.D.,  vice  presi- 
dent for  Maine,  which  were  unanimously  adopted. 

The  Rev.  Abijah  P.  Marion,  of  Lancaster,  read  a  paper  on  **  Writing  and  Pub- 
lishing Town  and  other  Local  Histories.'' 

John  Ward  Dean,  the  librarian,  reported  97  volumes  and  484  pamphlets  as  do- 
nations since  the  last  meeting. 

The  Rev.  Increase  N.  Tarbox,  D.D.,  the  historiogapher,  reported  memorial 
sketches  of  eight  deceased  members,  viz.,  David  P.  Holton^M.D.,  Rev.  Charles  G. 
Beaman,  Horatio  N.  Perkins,  Hon.  John  D.  Baldwin,  Hon.  Ginery  Twichell, 
George  Craft,  Horatio  S.  Noyes  and  John  G.  Tappan. 

Boston,  October^. — A  quarterly  meeting  was  held  this  afternoon,  President  Wikier 
in  the  chair. 

The  Rev.  Edmund  F.  Slafter,  the  corresponding  secretary,  announced  some  of  the 
more  important  donations. 

The  Rev.  Increase  N.  Tarbox,  D.D.,  Rev.  Henry  A.  Hazen,  Hon.  Nathaniel  F. 
Safford,  C.  Carleton  Coffin  and  E.  H.  Goss,  were  chosen  a  nominating  committee. 

The  Rev.  Raymond  H.  Seeley,  D.D.,  of  Haverhill,  read  a  paper  on  ^*  Robert 
Seeley,  of  Watertown,  Mass." 

The  corresponding  secretary  reported  acceptances  of  their  election  as  resident 
members  from  Gen.  Francis  A.  Walker,  LL.D.,  Rev.  George  Mooar,  D.D.,  Hoo. 
Charles  A.  Sayward,  Hon.  Amos  Hadley,  George  Sheffield,  Eugene  B.  Qagar,  A.D- 
AV.  French,  and  Sereno  B.  Pratt. 

The  librarian  reported  thirty  volumes  and  thirty-four  pamphlets  as  donatioDfl 
in  September. 

The  historiographer  reported  memorial  sketches  of  three  deceased  members, 
Josiah  A.  Stearns,  Ph.D.,  Francis  J.  Humphrey  and  John  R.  Kimball.  G&x^ 
U.  Allan  offered  resolutions  requesting  the  city  government  of  Boston  to  commemo- 
rate this  month  the  centenary  of  the  closing  of  the  revolutionary  war  by  planting 
in  Copley  Square  young  trees,  of  the  Dutch-English  stock,  from  Brush  Hill) 
Milton,  whence  the  late  Paddock  Elms  of  the  same  stock  were  taken  in  1709. 

The  publishing  committee  of  last  year  was  reelected. 


1884.]       necrology  ofHisto^nc  Genealogical  Society.  235 

Rhode  Island  Historical  Socebtt. 

Providence,  Tuesday^  Dec,  11,  1883. — A  reffular  meeting  was  held  this  evening, 
the  president,  William  Gammell,  LL.D.,  in  the  chair. 

George  G.  Mason,  Jr.,  of  Newport,  read  a  paper  on  *'  Queen  Anne  or  Free 
Ciaffiic  Architecture." 

ViBGiKiA  Historical  Sochtt. 

Richmond,  Tuesday,  Oct,  9,  1883. — ^The  executive  committee  met  at  the  rooms  of 
the  society  in  the  Westmoreland  Club  House.  Many  donations  were  announced, 
among  them  a  photographic  copy  of  Sebastian  Cabot's  Map  of  the  World  from  the 
rare  original  in  the  National  Library  of  Paris,  presented  by  the  Hon.  Robert  0. 
Winthrop. 

Saturday,  Feb.  16, 1884.— A  meeting  was  held,  Gharles  G.  Barney,  M.D.,  in  the 
diair. 

The  corresponding  secretary  read  letters  containing  interesting  information. 
Prof.  Edwara  Arber,  of  Birmingham,  Enff.,  in  his  letter  stated  that  he  had  nearly 
ready  his  reprint  of  the  complete  works  of  Capt.  John  Smith,  and  also  that  an  au- 
totype copy  of  the  portrait  of  Pocahontas,  in  the  possession  of  Hastings  Elwin,  of 
the  county  of  Norfolk,  England,  had  been  made.  Alexander  Brown,  oi  Norwood, 
in  his  letter,  stated  that  he  had  procured  an  autotype  copy  of  the  portrait  of  Richard 
Hakluyt,  the  early  chronicler,  which  is  not  known  to  have  been  engraved. 

William  W.  Corcoran,  Washington,  D.  C,  was  elected  first  vice  president  of  the 
society,  vice  Conwav  Robinson,  deceased ;  and  William  W.  Henry  and  J.  L.  M. 
Currey  second  and  third  vice  presidents. 


NECROLOGY  OF  THE  NEW-ENGLAND  fflSTORIC 

GENEALOGICAL  SOCIETY. 

Prepared  by  the  Rev.  Incrbase  N.  Tarbox,  D.D.,  Historiographer  of  the  Society. 

The  historiographer  would  inform  the  society,  that  the  sketches  pre- 
pared for  the  Register  are  necessarily  brief  in  consequence  of  the 
limited  space  which  can  be  appropriated.  All  the  facts,  however,  he  is 
able  to  gather,  are  retained  in  the  Archives  of  the  Society,  and  will  aid  in 
more  extended  memoirs  for  which  the  "  Towne  Memorial  Fund,"  the  gift 
of  the  late  William  B.  Towne,  A.M.,  is  provided.  Three  volumes,  printed 
at  the  charge  of  this  fund,  entitled  "  Memorial  Biographies,"  edited  by 
the  Committee  on  Memorials,  have  been  issued.  They  contain  memoirs  of 
all  the  members  who  have  died  from  the  organization  of  the  society  to  the 
close  of  the  year  1859.     A  fourth  volume  is  in  press. 

Jonathan  Mason,  £dq.,  a  resident  member,  admitted  May  9,  1871,  was  bom  in 
Boston,  March  12.  1795,  and  died  in  the  same  city,  Feb.  21,  1^,  aged  88  years, 
11  months  and  9  oays.  Mr.  Mason  was  a  member  of  the  society  for  a  time  almost 
at  the  beginning  of  its  existence,  but  was  reelected  at  the  date  above  given.  Ills 
lather  was  Jonathan  Mason,  for  a  time  member  of  the  U.  S.  Senate,  born  in  Boston, 
September,  1756.  His  mother  was  Susan  Powell,  born  in  Boston,  April  13,  1779. 
His  remoter  American  ancestors  on  his  father's  side,  were  Jonathan  Mason,  bom 
in  Boston,  1725,  and  Benjamin,  bora  in  Boston,  1695. 

He  was  fitted  for  college  at  an  early  age,  and  was  for  a  time  connected  with  the 
daasof  1815  of  Harvard  College,  but  was  compelled*to  leave  college  because  of  tem- 
porary deafness.  He  had  for  classmates  Drs.  John  G.  Palfrey  and  Jarcd  Sparks. 
Leaving  college  he  gave  his  leisure  hours  to  art,  and  was  himself  a  painter  of  good 
reputation.  He  presented  to  our  society  a  copy  of  Stuart*s  portrait  of  John  Ad- 
ftiDS  painted  by  his  own  hand,  and  the  portrait  of  Capt.  Winslow  Lewis  belonging 
to  the  society  was  also  painted  by  him. 

Ue  was  united  in  marriage,  Nov.  25,  1834,  with  Isabella  Cowpland,  daughter  of 
an  English  merchant  of  New  York.  This  marriage  took  place  in  Florence,  Italy. 
From  this  marriage  there  were  six  children,  four  sons  and  two  daughters.    His 


236         Necrology  of  Historic  Genealogical  Society.         L-^pnl, 

youngest  son,  Philip  Dummer,  died  at  Washington  from  woands  received  in  battle 
while  serving  as  lieutenant  in  a  regiment  of  artillery. 

Mr.  Mason  was  president  of  the  Boston  Wharf  Company  in  1838,  and  was  presi- 
dent and  treasurer  of  the  South  Boston  Association,  as  succeasor  to  the  Hon.  Jud^ 
Samuel  Hubbard.  This  oflBce  he  held  from  1843  to  the  expiration  of  the  charter  m 
1852.  The  Transcript,  in  its  issue  of  Feb.  21,  1884,  savs  of  him :  '*  He  was  mach 
interested  in  art,  and  was  himself  an  amateur  artist,  there  being  many  of  his  pic- 
tures in  this  city,  and  while  in  London  he  was  a  friend  and  associate  of  the  artists 
Allston,  Leslie  and  Harding.  The  late  Dr.  John  G.  Warren,  David  Sears,  Patrick 
Grant  and  Samuel  Parkman  married  his  sisters,  and  his  daaghter,  Mrs.  Hooper, 
was  the  wife  of  the  late  Charles  Sumner.  The  late  William  Powell  Masoo  was  bis 
brother.    He  has  for  some  time  past  resided  at  the  Hotel  Bristol." 

Hon.  Gbrrt  Whiting  Cochrane,  of  Boston,  a  life  member,  admitted  Jane  6, 
1870,  was  born  in  New  Boston,  Hillsborough  County,  N.  H.,  March  22,  1808,  and 
died  in  Chester,  N.  H.,  Jan.  1,  1884.  His  father  was  John  Cochrane,  who  was 
born  Oct.  23,  1770,  at  Windham,  M.  H.,  and  his  mother  was  Jemimah  Davis,  who 
was  born  Aug.  13,  1774,  in  New  Boston,  N.  H.  His  paternal  grandfather  was 
John  Cochrane,  of  Scotch  stock,  and  his  maternal  grandfather  was  Joseph  Davis,  a 
captain  in  the  revolutionary  army. 

His  early  education  was  obtained  in  the  district  school,  at  Pinkerton  Academy, 
Derry,  N.  H.,  and  at  Bradford  Academy  in  this  state.  After  finishing  his  educa- 
tion, he  was,  for  a  time,  engaged  in  teaching.  In  1829,  at  the  a^  of  twenty-one, 
he  entered  upon  the  course  of  mercantile  business  which  has  chiefl]^  occupied  bis 
life.  On  the  9th  day  of  June,  1832,  he  was  united  in  marriage  with  Miss  Mary 
Jane  Batchelder,  daughter  of  Rev.  William  Batchelder,  of  Haverhill,  Mass.  By 
this  marriage  there  were  three  sons,  all  of  whomreoeivea  a  liberal  education.  Their 
names  are  William  B.,  Henry  F.  and  Frederick. 

Ho  was  made  a  director  of  the  Shoe  and  Leather  Fire  and  Marine  Insnranoe  Go. 
at  the  time  of  its  organization,  and  continued  so  till  a  recent  period,  possibly  till  his 
death.  He  was  also  for  some  twenty  years  one  of  the  directors  of  the  Shoe  and  Lea- 
ther National  Bank.  He  was  chosen  Presidential  Elector  in  1860.  He  was  Execu- 
tive Councillor  for  the  2nd  Essex  district  in  1862  and  1863.  He  was  fur  eight  years 
on  the  Republican  State  Committee,  and  was  a  member  of  the  Baltimore  Conven- 
tion that  nominated  Abraham  Lincoln  for  president  for  his  second  term.  He  also 
held  the  office  of  Justice  of  the  Peace  and  Quorum  about  fifteen  years. 

William  Peirce,  Esq.,  a  resident  member,  chosen  June  14,  1859,  vras  bom  at 
Greenfield,  Mass.,  Feb.  7,  1806,  and  died  at  his  home  in  Charlestown,  Mass.,  May 22, 
1883. 

Elis  father  was  Proctor  Peirce,  born  in  New  Salem,  Mass.,  March  20,  1768,  grad- 
uated at  Dartmouth  College,  1796,  and  died  in  Boston,  April  15,  1821. 

His  mother  was  Susanna  Newton,  born  in  Greenfield,  Mass.,  April,  1779,  and 
died  at  Cambridge,  Mass.,  July  13,  1B55.  She  was  the  daughter  of  Ro^r  Newtoo, 
D.D .,  a  native  of  Durham,  Conn.,  born  in  1737,  a  graduate  of  Yale  College  in  1758, 
and  minister  of  the  Congreo:ational  Church  in  Greenfield  from  Nov.  18,  1761,  to 
Dec.  10,  1816,  a  period  of  tifly-five  years.  He  was  a  descendant  from  Rev.  Roger 
Newton,  the  first  settled  minister  [1652]  of  Farmington.  Conn.  This  Roger  New- 
ton of  Farmington  married  a  daughter  of  the  celebrated  Thomas  Hooker  of  Hartford. 

At  the  age  often  years  the  boy  William  removed  from  Greenfield  to  Cambridge, 
where  he  learned  the  trade  of  a  printer.  In  his  early  manhood  he  established  him* 
self  in  the  book  and  publishing  business  at  No.  9  Cornhill,  where  he  continued  with 
different  partners  for  a  number  of  years.  He  afterwards  lived  for  a  time  in  Ando- 
ver  and  Lawrence.  He  was  employed  for  some  years  in  the  Boston  Custom  House. 
For  the  long  period  of  twenty-eight  years,  from  1854  to  1882,  he  was  clerk  of  the 
Massachusetts  State  Prison.  In  this  position  the  genial  and  kindly  qualities  of  hifl 
nature  had  free  play. 

Samuel  Baker  Rindge,  Esq.,  a  benefactor  and  life  member,  admitted  Feb.  3, 1683, 
was  born  at  East  Cambridge,  Dec.  26,  1820,  and  died  at  Cambridge,  May  3.  1883. 

His  father  was  Samuel  Rindge,  who  was  born  in  Ipswich  in  1791.  and  died  in 
Cambridge  in  1857.  His  mother  was  Maria  Bradlee  Wait,  who  was  bom  in  Med- 
ford,  1797,  and  died  in  Cambridge,  1850.  His  earliest  paternal  ancestor  in  this 
country  was  Daniel*  Rindge,  who  was  an  inhabitant  of  the  town  of  Rozbury  as  eariy 


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as  1639,  and  removed  tbenoe  to  Ii)swich  in  1648.  He  died  in  1661.  His  wife  was 
Mary  Kinsman.    They  had  six  children.    The  descent  is  throoeh  Daniel^  Rindge, 

who  had  two  wiTes,  Hannah  Perkins  and  Hannah ;  Daniel,^  son  of  the  second 

wife,  bom  Jan.  6,  1691,  killed  by  the  Indians  in  1724.  His  wife  was  Martha 
(Caldwell)  Ayers.  Daniel,^  born  Jan.  39,  1720.  He  married  Mary  Kimball  in 
1745,  and  died  in  1800.  Daniel,^  bom  in  1753,  and  Samuel,*  father  of  the  subject 
of  this  sketch,  noticed  above.  Mr.  Rindge  was  therefore  of  the  seventh  American 
generation. 

He  received  his  early  edaoation  in  the  schools  of  Cambridge,  and  was  one  year  at 
■ehool  in  ikilem.  When  only  fourteen  years  old,  in  1834,  he  entered  the  mercantile 
boose  of  Parker  &  Blanchard  in  this  city,  where  he  remained  till  his  death,  rising 
irorn  the  lower  grades  of  servioe  till  he  oecame  one  of  the  most  active  and  import- 
ant members  oAhe  firm. 

He  was  united  in  marriage  with  Miss  Clarissa  Harrington,  April  39,  1845,  who 
was  horn  at  Lexington,  Mass.,  Deo.  8,  1833,  and  vras  the  daughter  of  Nathaniel 
mod  Clarissa  (Mead)  Harrington,  both  natives  of  Lexington.  From  this  marriage 
there  were  six  children,  three  sons  and  three  daughters,  oT  whom  only  one,  Frederick 
Hastings  Rindge  and  the  mother  survive. 

At  the  time  when  Mr.  Rindge  entered  the  store  in  this  city,  the  name  of  the  firm 
was  Parker  &  Blanchard.  A&rwards  it  stood  as  Parker,  Wilder  &  Parker.  Then 
it  took  its  present  form  of  Parker,  Wilder  &  Co.  The  partners,  as  the  firm  was 
recently  constituted,  were:  Marshall  P.  Wilder,  Ezra  Famsworth,  Samuel  B. 
Eindge,  John  Ro^rs,  W.  H.  Wilder,  W.  H.  Sherman  and  B.  Phipps.  Mr.  Rindge 
became  a  partner  in  1847. 

Hon.  GusTAVTTS  Vasa  Fox,  a  life  member,  admitted  to  the  society  Jan.  9,  1875, 
was  bom  in  Saugus,  Mass.,  June  13,  1831,  and  died  in  New  York  city,  Oct.  39, 
1863,  a^ed  63  years,  4  months  and  16  days. 

His  mther  was  Jesse  Fox,  of  Dracut,  Mass.,  who  was  bora  Feb.  38,  1786,  and  died 
at  Lowell,  Mass.,  Oct.  13,  1870.  His  mother  was  Olivia  Flint,  bom  in  Middleton, 
Mass.,  Jan.  8,  1794.  On  his  father's  side  he  was  descended  from  Thomas^  Fox,  of 
Concord,  Mass.,  who  died  Feb.  14,  1658;  through  £liphalet,'  of  Concord,  Mass., 
who  died  Aug.  15,  1711 ;  Nathaniel,'  of  Concord,  bom  Dec.  18,  1683,  went  to 
Dracnt,  Mass.,  in  1734,  and  died  there  after  1770  ;  Daniel,^  bom  in  Concord,  1700. 
died  in  Dracut,  1769 ;  Joel,^  of  Dracut,  bora  May  9,  1758,  died  Feb.  8,  1849;  and 
Jes^e,*  as  above  given. 

When  the  boy  Gustavus  was  very  young  the  family  removed  to  Lowell,  and  there 
his  early  education  was  obtained.  At  the  age  of  seventeen  he  was  appointed  a  mid- 
sbipnian  in  the  navy,  and  distinguished  himself  as  a  young  officer  by  his  remarka- 
ble intelligence  and  ability.  Without  going  into  details,  such  as  would  be  beyond 
the  compass  of  this  brief  notice,  it  is  safe  to  say  that  he  made  himself  thoroughly 
acquainted  with  the  wants  and  necessities  of  the  United  States  Navy  Department, 
00  that  at  the  opening  of  the  war  of  the  rebellion  he  was  made  Assistant  Secretary 
of  the  Navy,  Gideon  Wells  being  Secretary.  He  was  thoroughly  awake  to  the 
needs  of  the  hour ;  was  present  at  the  encounter  of  the  Monitor  and  the  Merri- 
mack, and  introduced  the  big  guns  into  the  service.  He  had  before  that  retired 
from  the  service,  and  was  acting  as  the  agent  of  the  Bay  State  Mills  in  Lawrence, 
but  was  called  t»ck  by  the  exigencies  which  had  suddenly  arisen. 

He  was  married  October  39,  1855,  to  Virginia  L.  Woodbury,  daughter  of  Hon. 
Levi  Woodbury,  of  Portsmouth,  N.  H. 

Hon.  Charles  Levi  Woodburv,  of  Boston,  his  brother-in-law.  has  furaished  us 
with  items  of  information  for  the  preparation  of  this  notice,  ana  wo  can  do  nothing 
better  in  few  words  than  to  give  his  estimate  of  the  noble  character  of  the  deceaseo. 
He  nays : 

*'  Tine  late  Mr.  Fox  was  a  man  of  powerful  physique,  and  at  the  same  time  of 
great  breadth  of  thought  and  grasp  of  mind,  untiring  in  his  industry,  and  capable 
of  enduring  mental  labor  and  responsibility  with  coolness  and  decinion.  A  man  of 
high  moral  tone  and  of  j^eat  perseverance  in  whatever  he  undertook.  He  had  a 
•rare  executive  abilitv,  which  was  shown  in  everything  he  did.  His  devotion  to  his 
wife,  always  somewhat  of  an  invalid,  and  their  delightful  sympathy  with  each  other, 
^knB  of  the  rarest  order.*' 

David  Oakss  Clark.  Esq.,  of  Milton,  Mass.,  a  life  member  admitted  March  6, 
1875,  was  bora  in  Cambridge,  Mass.,  Dec.  1,  1836,  and  died  in  Milton,  Mass.,  Deo, 


238  Necrology  of  Historic  Oenealoffical  Society.      [April, 

13,  1883,  a^ed  57  years  and  twelve  days.  His  father  was  Gyros  Clark,  bom  in 
Amherst,  N.  II.,  «fan.  29,  1788.  Uis  mother  was  Tabitha  Oakes,  daughter  of  Jon- 
athan Oakes,  of  Maiden,  Mass.    She  was  born  in  Maiden,  Mass.,  July  27,  1794. 

He  received  his  early  education  in  the  public  schools  of  Cambridge.  In  1844,  at 
the  age  of  18,  he  went  as  a  clerk  into  a  store  on  Lewis  Wharf,  Boston,  and  two 
years  later  sailed  in  the  ship  **  Mary  £llen  "  for  China.  He  was  shipwrecked  on 
his  voyage  home,  in  the  China  seas,  and  spent  forty-five  days  with  the  natives  in  the 
little  island  of  Suba. 

He  went  again  to  China  in  1848  and  remained  till  1858,  when  he  sailed  as  soper> 
cargo  to  San  Francisco,  In  the  interest  of  the  mercantile  house  of  Russell  &  Co.  In 
the  following  year  he  returned  again  to  China. 

In  the  year  1854  he  was  acting  United  States  Consul  at  Foochow,  China.  From 
1857  to  1860  he  was  Swedish  and  Norwegian  Consul  at  Bangkok,  Siam.  From 
1862  to  1868  he  was  Swedish  and  Norwegian  Vice  -Consul  in  charge  at  Foochow, 
China.  While  in  Bangkok  he  was  agent  for  the  firm  of  Russell  &  Co.  He  after« 
ward  became  a  partner  m  the  house,  in  which  connection  he  remained  till  1870.  He 
retired,  however,  from  active  participation  in  the  business,  and  returned  to  Ameri- 
ca in  1868. 

The  Boston  Journal,  in  its  notice  of  his  death,  Dec.  15,  1883,  says,  **  by  his  indos- 
try  and  integrity  he  became,  when  comparatively  a  young  man,  a  member  of  the 
firm  of  Russell  &  Co.,  China  tea  merchants He  was  noted  for  his  benevolenoe." 

Mr.  Clark  was  united  in  marriage,  Oct.  29,  1861,  with  Miss  Catherine  ElizabeUi 
AVinslow,  daughter  of  George  Winslow,  of  Maiden.  She  was  bom  in  Maiden, 
May  2,  1832.  From  this  marriage  there  were  three  children,  viz. :  Elizabeth  Reid, 
born  in  Foochow,  China,  Feb.  15,  1863 ;  Winslow,  bom  in  Maiden,  Mass.,  June 
12,  1869  ;  Elton,  bom  in  Milton,  Mass.,  May  27,  1872.  Mr.  Clark  in  all  h»  asso- 
ciations has  home  a  most  excellent  reputation  for  integrity  and  generosity.  Uis 
wife  and  the  two  sons  survive  him. 

John  Dickson  Bruns,  M.D.,  of  New  Orleans,  La.,  a  corresponding  member,  dating 
from  March  16,  1858,  was  born  in  Charleston,  S.  C,  Feb.  24, 1836,  and  died  at  New 
Orleans  on  Sunday,  May  20,  1883,  aged  47  years,  2  months  and  26  days.  His  father 
was  Henry  M.  Bruns,  LL.D.,  who  was  born  in  Charleston,  S.  C,  Mav  I,  1808.  Uis 
mother  was  Margaret  Stewart,  bora  also  in  Charleston.  His  grandfather  was  Henry 
Bruns,  who  emigrated  to  this  country  from  Germany  near  the  close  of  the  last  cen- 
tury. His  grandfather  on  his  mother^s  side  was  Robert  Stewart,  of  Scotch-Irish 
descent,  who  was  a  cadet  of  the  house  of  Menteith.  He  came  hither  near  the  cloee 
of  the  last  century,  and  married  Mary  Lyle  Gnihame,  also  of  Scotch-Irish  blood. 

His  education  was  gained  in  the  High  School  of  Charleston,  where  he  was  fitted 
for  college,  and  in  1854,  at  the  age  of  eighteen,  he  was  graduated,  with  the  first 
honors  of  his  class,  at  Charleston  College.  In  1857  he  was  graduated  from  the 
South  Carolina  Medical  College.  Afterwards  he  pursued  advanced  studies  in  medi- 
cine at  Jefferson  College,  Penn.,  and  at  University  College,  London. 

He  was  twice  married.  His  first  wife  was  Sarah  Robertson  Dickson,  daughter  of 
Henry  Dickson,  M.D.,  LL.D.,  and  their  marriage  took  place  July  22,  1858.  There 
were  two  children  from  this  marriage,  Henry  Dickson  and  Margaret  Stewart. 

He  was  married  the  second  time,  October  11,  1870,  to  Mary  Peirce,  daughter  of 
L.  Peirce.    From  this  marriage  there  were  two  sons,  Peirce  and  Robert  Martin. 

Dr.  Bruns  was  a  learned  and  able  writer  on  matters  specially  pertaining  to  his 
profession,  in  which  he  attained  an  early  eminence.  The  Boston  Journal,  in  its  no- 
tice of  his  death,  published  May  23,  1883,  says  of  him  :  **  He  owned  and  edited 
the  Charleston  Medical  Journal  and  Review,  and  acted  as  professor  of  physiology 
in  the  Charleston  preparatory  medical  school  from  1858  until  the  breaking  out  of 
the  war,  when  he  entered  the  Confederate  service  as  surgeon.  In  1866  he  became 
professor  of  physiology  in  the  New  Orleans  medical  school,  and  in  connection  with 
other  doctors  organized  the  famous  New  Orleans  Infirmary.    Since  1874  ho  has  been 

{)rofessor  of  practice  and  theory  of  medicine  in  the  Charity  Hospital  Medical  Col- 
ege.  New  Orleans,  and  both  as  a  voluminous  writer  and  lecturer  has  contributed 
much  toward  the  advancement  of  his  profession  at  the  South." 

George  Artdcr  Simmons,  Esq.,  a  resident  member,  admitted  Dec.  13,  1859,  was 
born  in  Keene,  N.  H.,  May  17,  1808,  and  died  at  his  home  in  Roxbury,  Feb.  26, 
1884,  aged  75  years,  9  months  and  9  days.  His  father  was  David  SimmorL<t,  who 
was  born  in  Ilingham,  Mass.,  in  1761.  His  mother  was  Mary  Stimpson,  who  was 
bom  in  Charlestown,  Mass.,  in  1763. 


1884.]        Ifecrology  of  Historic  Genealogical  Society.  239 

He  came  to  BoetoD  as  a  boy  of  twelve  years  in  the  year  1820.  Up  to  that  time 
hia  opportanities  for  education  had  been  slight,  and  indeed  his  advantages  in  this 
respect  were  small  all  through  his  early  life.  But  in  his  youth  he  formed  the  habit 
of  reading  good  books,  especiallv  in  the  departments  of  history  and  biography,  and 
80  became  a  man  of  far  more  than  ordinary  intelligence.  In  1831,  at  the  age  of 
twenty-three,  he  was  united  in  marriage  with  Belinda  Wells,  daughter  of  Thomas 
and  Anne  Maria  Wells,  both  writers  of  note  in  their  day.  She  was  great-grand- 
daaghter  of  the  distinguished  Samuel  Adams  of  revolutionary  fame,  one  of  the 
signers  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence.  This  relationship  Mr.  Simmons  took 
great  pleasure  and  pride  in  impressing  upon  the  minds  of  his  children. 

It  is  a  remarkable  fact,  exhibiting  at  the  same  time  his  own  fixed  habits  and  the 
rapid  growth  of  the  city,  that  he  first  beean  business  at  No.  21  Long  Wharf,  keep- 
ing the  same  place  for  fifty-three  years,  but  at  the  time  of  bis  death  the  building 
stood  as  204  State  Street. 

By  bis  marriage  there  were  nine  children,  of  whom  six,  three  sons  and  three 
daughters,  with  his  wife,  survive. 

The  Boston  Journal  of  Feb.  28,  1884,  says  of  him  :  **  He  was  the  first  to  reduce 
the  refininff  of  whale  and  sperm  oil  to  a  science,  and  he  succeeded  in  a  remarkable 
decree,  lie  gained  the  confidence  of  the  New  Bedford  and  Fairhaven  merchants 
and  became  their  agent.  His  sales  of  oil  and  candles  forty  years  ago  were  im- 
mense. He  outlived  all  his  original  contemporaries,  Josiah  Bradlee,  Downer,  Aus- 
tin &  Co.,  Maoomber,  Sawin  i  Hunting.  He  was  the  last  of  the  old  occupants 
of  Long  VV'harf,  and  there  are  but  two  who  survive  him  who  were  connected  with 
that  corporation — Captain  Wilder,  the  wharfinger,  and  Thomas  Lamb,  the  Presi- 
dent. When  whale  oil  ceased  to  be  an  important  factor  in  commerce,  Mr.  Sim- 
mons turned  his  attention  to  real  estate,  of  which  he  at  one  time  was  a  large  holder 
within  the  city  limits.  He  bad  been  at  the  time  of  his  death  a  resident  of  the  High- 
land District  for  more  than  half  a  century,  and  a  tenant  of  the  store  on  Long  Wharf 
for  fifty-three  years.  He  was  a  man  of  strong  convictions,  and  an  unblemished 
mercantile  integrity  marked  his  entire  business  career.  Both  socially  and  in  his 
business  associations  he  was  very  popular,  though  he  never  sought  political  dis- 
tinction." 

Horatio  Smith  Notes,  Esq.,  a  resident  member,  admitted  Dec.  4,  1875,  was  bom 
at  Brattleboro\  Vt.,  April  16,  1815,  and  died  suddenly  at  Newtonville,  Mass..  Au- 
gust 10,  1883,  aged  68  years,  3  months  and  24  days.  His  father  was  John  Noyes, 
bom  in  Atkinson,  N.  U.,  April  2,  1764.  He  was  a  graduate  of  Dartmouth  College 
in  tbe  clans  of  1795,  was  tutor  in  Dartmouth,  and  had  under  his  care  Daniel  Web- 
rter.  He  was  afterward  member  of  Congress,  1815-1817.  Ho  married  in  1804 
Polly  Haves,  sister  of  the  father  of  President  Hayes.  The  father  died  in  1841  at 
Patner,  Vt.,  and  the  mother  died  in  1864.  His  earliest  American  ancestor  was 
Nicholas  Noyes,  who  settled  in  Ipswich,  Mass.,  in  1634. 

Young  Noyes  entered  Dartmouth  College  in  1830,  but  in  consequence  of  ill 
health  left  in  his  Sophomore  year ;  later  he  entered  Yale  College,  graduating  in 
tbe  class  of  1835.  He  had  among  his  classmates  Rev.  Daniel  Butler,  secretary  of 
the  Massachusetts  Bible  Society  :  George  W.  McPhail,  D.D.,  president  of  La  Fay- 
ette College;  Hugo  White  ShaflFey,  LL.D.,  Jud^e  of  the  Superior  Court  of  Vir- 
ginia; Jonn  Lord  Taylor,  D.D.,  professor  at  Andover  Theological  Seminary;  and 
Alexander  Smith  Johnson,  LL.D.,  one  of  the  Circuit  Judges  of  the  United  States. 
After  graduation  he  commenced  the  study  of  law,  hut  was  soon  turned  aside  to 
■seist  his  lather  who  was  growing  old  and  feeble.  The  result  was  that  he  never 
completed  his  law  studies,  but  has  lived  a  life  of  miscellaneous^  but  suocossful  busi- 
oesH,  having  been  connected  editorially  with  several  papers,  and  having  been  also 
a  dealer  in  real  estate. 

He  was  first  married  May  24,  1843,  to  Mary  Augusta  Chandler,  daughter  of  Hon. 
David  Chandler,  of  Rockingham,  Vt.  She  died  Feb.  22,  1855.  She  was  the  moth- 
er of  two  sons,  one  of  whom  died  before  the  mother,  at  the  age  of  five  years,  and  the 
other  is  now  in  business  in  Chicago.  He  married  again,  >Say  19,  1857,  Abbio  S. 
Woodman,  daughter  of  Charles  Woodman,  of  Boston.  She  has  been  the  mother  of 
three  children,  two  sons  and  a  daughter,  who,  with  the  mother,  survive.  The  old- 
est son,  Charles  Rutherford,  is  a  graduate  of  Viest  Point,  and  is  now  in  the  United 
btates  military  service  at  the  west.  The  other  son,  a  year  or  two  since,  was  a  clerk 
in  a  Philadelphia  store. 
'  Tbe  Daily  Advertiser,  in  its  issue  of  August  11,  1883,  says  of  him :  *'  He  was  a 


240  Book  Notices.  [April, 

very  genial  man,  and  those  who  knew  him  expressed  only  admiration  for  his  cbv- 
acter.  He  was  very  popular  among  residents  of  Newtonviile,  and  was  always  the 
first  to  call  on  and  welcome  new  acquisitions  to  the  neighborhood.  Mr.  Noyes  wm 
a  man  of  college  education,  and  studious  in  his  habits.  Sereral  years  of  his  life 
were  devoted  to  journalism.'* 

The  hlBtoriographer,  from  his  personal  acquaintance  with  Mr.  Noves  for  many 
years,  can  bear  testimony  to  his  kind  and  companionable  spirit,  and  his  quick  and 
ready  ability  as  a  writer. 


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The  Visitations  of  Suffolk  made  by  Hervey,  Clarenceux^  1561  ;  Cooke^  Clareneeta, 
1577 ;  and  Raven,  Richmond  Herald,  1612.  With  Notes  and  an  Appendix  of 
Additional  Suffolk  Pedigrees.  Edited  by  VValtkr  0.  Mktcalr,  F.S.A.  Exeter: 
Privately  Printed  for  the  Editor  by  William  Pollard,  North  Street.  1888.  Roy- 
al 8vo.  pp.  vii.-f  230. 

The  Visitation  of  the  County  of  Lincoln  in  1562-4.  Edited  by  Waueb  C.  Mjd- 
CALFE,  F.S.A.    London :  George  Bell  &  Son.     1881.    8vo.  pp.  154. 

The  Visitation  of  the  County  of  Lincoln,  1592.  Edited  by  Waltsb  C.  Metcalfk, 
F.S.A.  London  :  George  Bell  &  Son,  York  Street,  Covent  Garden.  1882.  8vo. 
pp.  3+84. 

The  Visitation  of  Berkshire,  1664-6,  by  Elias  Ashmole,  Windsor  Herald  for  Sir  Ed- 
ward Bysshe,  Clarenceux.  {Harl.  MSS,  1483,  1530.)  Edited  by  WALTxa  C. 
Metcali-e,  F.S.A.  Exeter:  William  Pollard,  Printer,  North  street.  1869. 
Royal  8vo.  pp.  iv.+126. 

The  Visitation  of  the  County  of  Worcester,  Begun  by  Thomas  May,  Chester,  and 
Gregory  King,  Rouge  Dragon,  in  Trinity  Vacacon,  1682;  and  Finished  by  Hatfjf 
Dethick,  Richmond,  and  the  said  Rouge  Dragon,  Pursuivant,  in  Trinity  Vacation, 
1683,  by  Virtue  of  Several  Deputacons  from  Sir  Henry  St,  George,  Clarenceuij 
Kinr/e  of  Armes,  with  Additions  by  the  late  Sir  Thomas  Phillipps,  Bart.  Edited 
by  Walter  C.  Metcalfe,  F.S.A.  Exeter :  Privately  Printea  fur  the  Editor  by 
William  Pollard,  North  Street.     1883.    Royal  8vo.  pp.  5+124. 

County  Visitations  by  the  Heralds  from  the  College  of  Arms,  have,  previons  to 
the  last  twenty  years,  been  an  unprivileged  source  of  recourse  to  New  En/eland 
genealogists  ;  our  libraries  have  been  entirely  bare  of  those  printed  by  the  private 
munificence  of  Sir  Thomas  Phillipps.  The  general  attention  of  local  societies  m  Eng- 
land dc[)endent  not  only  on  the  lioerality  of  their  subscribers,  but  much  more  upon 
the  unrequited  labor  of  some  of  their  devoted  antiquarian  scholars,  have  furnished 
students  of  family  history  with  these  valuable  aids  ;  the  Chetham  Society  represent- 
ing LAncashire  and  Cheshire;  the  Surtees  Society,  Yorkshire — which  county  isabo 
indebted  to  Joseph  Foster  for  printing  three  Visitations ;— the  Archseological  Soci- 
ety of  Staffordshire  with  Grazcdbrook^  aid  have  done  some  work  for  that  County : 
the  llarleian  Society,  with  itd  admirable  corps  of  literary  workers,  have  given  18 
volumes,  principally  Visitations ;  but  here  is  a  gentleman  who  alone  seems  to  bear 
the  whole  responsibility  of  what  is  usually  undertaken  by  societies. 

The  five  volumes  before  us  represent  seven  visitations,  all  published  within  three 
years  ;  those  relatinj;  to  Lincolnshire  and  Suffolk  embrace  the  period  previous  to  the 
departure  of  most  oi  the  New  England  emigrant  settlers,  and  We  need  not  say  that 
they  will  be  in  constant  consultation  to  discover  ancestors  and  collateral  kindred; 
the  volumes  on  Berkshire  and  Worcestershire,  covering  a  later  period  of  time,  are 
most  welcome  aids  in  the  study  of  general  genealogy,  but  it  is  noticeable  that  we 
look  in  vain  for  the  names  of  our  gentilitial  ancestors  upon  their  pages. 

It  is  to  books  of  this  class  that  we  go  for  the  family  statements  and  records  io 
order  to  discover  how  much  of  truth  or  of  fabrication  has  been  otherwheres  given. 
The  writer  had  the  curiosity  to  test,  by  the  Visitation  of  Suffolk,  the  statement  in 
RsGiST£R,  vol.  xxxvii.,  note,  p.  192,  that  a  **  Monument  in  Barham  Church  sa^ 


1884.]  Booh  Notices.  241 

Bkn,  daoffhter  oi  Thomas  Little,  married  £dward  Bacon,  third  son  of  the  Lord 
KeQ>er.  They  are  aaid  to  hare  had  19  sons  and  12  daughters ;  as  it  was  suggested 
that  the  &mily  of  the  late  Leonard  Bacon,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  mieht  claim  ancestry  from 
timt  locality,  and  thus  (I  suppose)  claim  kinship  with  Lord  Bacon^who  some  im- 
agine to  have  written  the  plays  of  the  immortal  Shakspeare.  The  Yisitation  made 
iB  1613  gives  the  following  named  children  to  Edward  Bacon,  third  son  of  Sir  Nich- 
ttlafl,  Lora  Keeper,  and  Helen  Litle  his  wife,  viz.,  Nicholas,  son  and  heir,  page  23 ; 
Philip,  second  son,  age  19 ;  Nathaniel,  third  son,  age  18 ;  Lionell,  fourth  son,  age 
16 ;  ramcb,  fifth  son.  age  11 ;  Thomas,  sixth  son,  age  7 ;  Jane,  eldest  daughter,  and 
Aiui  age  14.  Edward  the  father  died  in  1618 ;  one  of  the  sons  probahly  died  soon, 
leaving  only  five  sons.    See  Rbq.  ,  vol.  zxxvii.  p.  197,  note  v. 

Theee  standard  reference-hooks  are  printed  in  good  taste  on  suhstantial  paper  of 
lam  8vo.,  and  will  bear  the  wear  which  their  quality  of  continual  use  demands. 

By  John  Coffin  Jones  Brown^  Esq.^  qf  Boston, 

The  Parish  Registers  qf  houghborouak  in  the  County  of  Leicester.  By  W,  G.  Di« 
xocK  Flstchzr.    London  and  Derby :  Bemrose  &  Sons.    1873.    8vo.  pp.  11. 

&9torical  Handbook  to  Loughborough.  By  the  Rev.  W.  6.  Dimock  Flbtchkr,  M.A., 
of  St.  Edmund  Hall,  Ozon.  Loughborough  :  H.  Wills.  1881.  13mo.  pp.  53. 
Moe  Is. 

The  Rectors  of  Loughborough.  By  the  Rev.  W.  G.  Dimock  Fuetchxr,  M.A.  Loagh- 
boroagh  :  H.  Wuls.    1883.    12mo.  pp.  53.    Price  Is.  6d. 

Ckepters  in  the  History  of  Louakborough.  By  the  Rev.  W.  G.  DmocK  Fl£TCH1B, 
A.M.    Loughborough  :  Herald  Office.    1883.    12mo.  pp.  63. 

Naies  on  Leicestershire  MSS.  in  the  Public  Record  Office  and  our  National  IJbrth 
rus.  By  the  Rev.  W.  G.  Doiock  Flbtcher,  M.A.  Leicester:  Samuel  Glarke. 
1868.    8vo.  pp.  30. 

Tbcse  pamphlets  by  the  Rev.  W.  G.  Dimock  Fletcher,  M.A.,  of  Leicester,  En^ 
bod,  are  full  of  value.  The  author  proves  by  publishing  them,  that  he  is  abund- 
•ntly  able  to  add  to  the  information  therein  ana  give  to  the  world  a  book  of  much 
vortb,  and  one  to  be  consulted  bv  all  students  of  English  local  history  and  genealo- 
£f  •  LoughboroQgh  is  the  second  town  in  the  County  of  Leicester,  and  is  105  miles 
fibvn  London. 

The  first  pamphlet  is  reprinted  from  the  ReUguary  for  April,  1873.  The  last 
ptinphlet,  *'  Notes  on  Leicestershire  MSS.,''  is  a  contnbution  to  the  **  Transactions 
of  toe  Leicestershire  Architectural  and  Archaeological  Society,'^  and  is  printed  2q 
famphlet  form  for  private  circulation. 

By  the  Reo.  Anson  Titus,  qf  Weymouth. 

Report  of  the  Commissioners  of  Education  for  the  Year  1881.  Washington :  GoT- 
enment  Printing  Office.    1883.    8vo.  pp.  cclxxvii.+840. 

Ceradars  of  Information  of  the  Bureau  qf  Education,  1883.  Washington :  Got« 
emment  Printing  Office.    1883.    No.  3,  pp.  30.    No.  3,  pp.  81.    No.  4,  pp.  83. 

-  The  report  of  the  Bureau  of  Education  for  1881  is  of  exceeding  interest  to  all  oon- 
oonied  for  the  future  well  being  and  prosperity  of  our  country.  The  early  portion 
of  ibe  volume  contains  vali^able  tables,  based  upon  census  statistics,  and  showing 
the  excess  of  females  in  the  different  states,  the  number  of  minors,  and  also  the 
looation  of  the  masses  of  foreign-bom  citizens  of  given  nationalities.  The  report 
interns  us  that  the  **  school  age  "  in  different  states  and  territories  varies  fVom  8 
to  14  years  to  from  4  to  31.  and  gives  information  as  to  the  salaries  of  teachers 
thxoaghont  the  union,  Soutn  Carolina  paying  her  male  instructors  an  average  sala- 
jy  of  ^85.45  per  month,  and  Vermont  paying  only  $16.84  in  the  cara  of  females, 
while  Nevada  stands  flnt  in  both  instances,  compensating  males  at  $99.50,  and  fe- 
aaka  at  $74.76. 

Tb»  school  population  of  the  country  exceeds  15,800,000,  while  about  9,800,000 
•le  enrolled  as  pupils.  The  Questions  of  the  eseential  qualifications  of  teachers, 
adiool  superintencienoe  and  illiteracy  are  discussed,  and  the  latter  illustrated  by 
tables. 

There  has  been  and  is  since  the  last  report  a  constant  educational  progress  in  all 
the  states  and  territories  excepting  New  Jersey,  Delaware,  Maryland,  South  Caro- 
finoa,  Alabama,  Tennessee  ana  Texas,  and  in  most  of  these  there  has  been  important 
advance  in  certain  directions,  and  retrogression  in  others.  Much  stress  is  laid  upon 
the  oondition  and  prospecte  of  colored  schools  in  the  south,  and  the  present  state  of 

TOL.  XXXTIU.  22 


242  Booh  Notices.  [April, 

all  kinds  of  institationR  of  learning  in  the  United  States*  indading  scboob  for  tiie 
blind,  &o.,  is  exhibited  by  reports  and  tables.  The  school  statistics  of  foreign  coun- 
tries arc  elaborately  presented,  and  the  volume  bears  test  of  the  thoroagh  and  aoen- 
rate  system  pursued  by  this  department,  a  system  productiTC  of  wonderful  lesulti, 
which  it  would  have  been  impossible  to  accomplish  a  generation  ago. 

Three  Circulars  of  Information  have  been  issued  since  we  last  noticed  the  0eriei. 
No.  2  contains  much  information  relating  to  co-education  of  the  sexes  in  the  pnblie 
schools.  No.  3  is  a  report  of  the  Proceedinffs  of  the  Department  of  Saperintend* 
ence  of  the  National  Eiducation  Association,  Feb.  20-22,  1883,  with  some  interesting 
matter  relating  to  the  education  of  Indian  Youth.  No.  4  is  the  Recent  School  Law 
Decisions,  compiled  bv  Lyndon  A.  Smith. 

By  George  K.  Clarke^  Esq.^  Needham, 

Minutes  of  the  National  Coundlofthe  CongrMotional  Churches  cf  the  United  St&tes^ 
at  the  Fifth  Session,  held  in  Concord,  N,  H.,  October  11-15,  1883.  WUk  the  Ee- 
ports  and  Papers,    Boston:    Congregational  Publishing  Society.     1883.    8vo. 

pp.  iv.-f  189. 

The  Congregational  Year  Book,  1884.  Boston :  Congregational  Publishing  Soci- 
ety,   ovo.  pp.  272.    Price  75  cents,  post-paid. 

These  two  publications  belong  naturally  together,  though  the  first  is  triennial 
and  the  other  annual.  At  this  fifth  session  of  the  Triennal  National  Council,  dele- 
gates clerical  and  Itiy  were  present  from  twenty-six  states  and  territories.  The  body 
continued  in  session  from  Thursday,  Oct.  11,  1883,  being  called  to  order  that  day  at 
11  o'clock,  until  noon  on  Monday  15.  The  meeting  was  one  of  nnosoal  interest 
and  harmony.  The  next  meeting  of  the  National  Council  was  appointed  to  be  held 
in  the  Union  Park  Congregational  Church,  Chicago,  III.,  commencing  at  10  o'clock, 
Thursday,  Oct.  17,  1886. 

The  Congregational  Year  Book,  hitherto  under  the  charge  of  Dr.  Alonso  H. 
Quint,  by  whom  it  has  been  developed  into  its  fullness  and  exactness,  has  passed 
now  into  the  care  of  Rev.  Henry  A.  Ilazen,  who  was  chosen  secretary  of  the  Na- 
tional Council  at  its  late  meetinff  at  Concord.  The  present  issue  is  from  his  hands, 
and  is  a  guaranty  of  the  admirable  manner  in  which  the  work  will  be  done  while 
in  his  charee.  For  many  years  the  statistics  of  the  Congregational  Chnrcbes  have 
been  so  gathered  and  arranged  that  they  would  bear  honorable  comparison  with,  if 
they  might  not  claim  superiority  over  those  of  anv  other  religious  body  in  this  or 
other  lands.    This  high  standard  is  fully  preserved  in  the  present  issue. 

The  Congregational  Churches,  reported  in  this  volume,  are  4016  in  number,  scat- 
tered through  forty-seven  states  ana  territories,  including  the  District  of  Columbia. 
The  number  of  ministers  reported  is  3796.  The  total  membership  of  these  churches 
is  396,246.  The  churches  with  pastors  and  acting  pastors  are  3,085.  The  churches 
vacant  are  941.  The  number  of  students  in  the  seven  Theological  Seminaries  be- 
longing to  the  denomination,  is  284,  twelve  more  than  last  year. 

By  the  Rev.  Increase  N.  Tarhox,  D,D,,  of  Newton,  Mass, 

Miscellanea  Marescalliana,  beina  Genealogical  Notes  on  the  Surname  Marshall,  Col- 
lected by  Geokoe  William  Marshall,  LL.D.  Vol.  I.  To  all  Marshalls  all  over 
the  World,  I  bequeath  this  Work  Gratis.  8vo.  pp.  3+328-|-44+50.  London, 
1883.    In  two  Parts. 

During  twenty  years  Dr.  Marshall  collected  from  the  various  probate  oflBces  of 
England,  summaries  of  the  wills  made  by  persons  of  his  surname,  whether  belong- 
ing to  his  immediate  family  or  not ;  in  the  same  general  way  he  selected  from  Pa- 
rish Registers  all  local  notes  relatinjy;  to  the  name,  and  at  the  Faculty  Offices  gath- 
ered the  marriage  licensee :  after  withdrawing  from  this  mass  the  genealogy  oF  hit 
own  family,  he  has  with  simple  and  hearty  generosity  had  the  remaining  Memo- 
randa printed  and  fully  indexed  for  the  benefit  of  **  all  Marshalls  all  over  the 
world.'' 

Beside  printing  the  abstracts  of  several  hundred  wills,  he  has  in  some  instances 
arranged  pedigrees  of  families ;  the  names  alone  from  parish  registers  number  thou- 
sands ;  the  finely  printed  index  covers  56  pajB^es.  Dr.  Marshall  printed  fifty  copiei 
only,  which  he  has  presented  to  various  societies  and  institutions,  where  they  can 
be  of  the  greatest  good  to  the  greatest  possible  number.  The  New  England  Histo- 
ric Genealogical  Society  was  thus  favored. 

By  John  Cqffin  Jones  Brown,  Esq,,  of  Boston. 


1884.] 


Booh  Notices.  243 


Bi^oUl  Deeds,  Liber  11.  Boston  :  Rockwell  and  Churchill,  City  Printers,  No.  39 
Arch  Street.     1883.    8yo.  pp.  344+135. 

Too  mach  cannot  be  said  in  praise  oi  our  practice  of  registering  deeds,  and  mak- 
ing them  a  public  notice  to  every  one,  whicn  has  prevailed  here  in  New  England 
for  nearly  two  hundred  and  fitly  years.    By  this  means  the  would-be  purchaser  or 
his  lawyer  is  enabled  to  consult  tbem  at  any  time,  and  can  easily  detect  any  cloud 
upon  the  title.    We  did  not  derive  the  custom  from  the  mother  country,  for  it  has 
never  been  in  general  use  there,  although  frequent  attempts  have  been  made  to  in- 
trodnoe  it.     Kegietration  facilitates    the  transfer  of  land,  which  (as  the  Hon. 
Charles  Levi  Woodbury  clearly  shows  in  his  able  review  of  the  first  volume  of  these 
deeds  published  in  1880)  is  an  end  not  desired  in  conservative  England,  and  perhaps 
rightly  too.    In  our  more  thinlv  settled  country  we  have  land  and  to  spare,  and  the 
ownership  of  it  does  not  carry  the  same  political  and  social  prestige  with  it. 

Much  praise  is  due  John  T.  Uassam,  A.M.,  a  member  of  this  society,  for  origin- 
ating the  idea  of  printing  the  volume ;  and  also  to  Mr.  William  B.  Trask,  likewise 
a  member  of  the  society,  who  copied  it  from  the  records.  Mr.  Temple,  the  Regis- 
ter of  Deeds,  put  the  printing  in  charge  of  the  latter. 

It  is  of  course  out  of  the  question  to  attempt  an  extended  review  of  a  book  of  this 
nature.  It  is  for  the  most  part  a  collection  ot  deeds  from  1653  to  1656 ;  it  also  con- 
tains powers  of  attorney,  depositions,  receipts  and  divers  other  legal  papers.  It  has 
good  indexes,  is  well  bound  ;  and  the  printing  is  ^[ood,  as  our  printing  goes,  but 
when  shall  we  learn  to  e(^ual  the  French  in  publishing  clear  and  Wible  books? 

It  appears  that  the  quaint  and  time-honored  usage  of  transferring  land  by  livery  of 
seisin,  oy  takine  the  grantee  upon  the  ground  to  be  conveyed  and  giving  him  a 
twi^  or  a  clod  of  earth  before  witnesses,  was  then  in  vogue.  This  formal  mode  of  in- 
TssUtore  gave  place  later  to  the  conveyance  of  land  by  the  delivery  of  a  duly 
ezeeoted  (feed.  This  old  custom,  however,  seems  to  have  been  well  adapted  to  an 
ace  in  which  few  of  the  people  could  read  and  write. 

This  volume  will  be  of  interest  to  philologists  as  showing  the  changes  in  our  lan- 
guage- The  orthography,  judged  by  our  standard,  seems  to  be  rather  mixed.  \ye 
appear  to  have  been  anticipated  in  the  use  of  the  phonetic  method.  Take  for  in- 
stnooe  the  christian  name  **  Hyssekya."  Did  the  writer  mean  Issachar  or  Heze- 
kiah?  It  is  scarcely  to  be  wonaered  at  that  a  people  who  had  to  work  as  hard  as 
the  early  settlers  of  Massachusetts  should  occasionally  be  deficient  in  their  spelling. 
It  appears  that  they  thought  two  names  sufficient  for  each  person,  a  custom  which 
mi^nt  well  be  followed  at  the  present  day.  They  retained  the  English  practice, 
which  has  since  unfortunately  fallen  into  disuse,  of  giving  each  man^s  addition 
after  his  surname,  viz.,  John  Doe,  Gentleman,  Merchant,  Cordwainer,  &c.,  as  the 
case  might  be. 

It  is  of  great  value  from  a  historical  point  of  view,  as  it  gives  an  insight  into 
many  of  uie  customs  of  the  hardy  and  coura^us  men  and  women  who  founded 
this  great  and  ever  growing  New  England,  this  branch  of  Old  England,— or,  as  Dr. 
Freeman  loves  to  call  it.  Middle  England, — the  land  which  gave  us  our  laws,  the 
land  where  our  fathers  lived. 

By  Daniel  Rollins^  -^^m  of  Boston, 

The  Ubrary  Journal.  Official  Organ  of  the  American  Library  Assodaiion,  Chiefly 
devoted  to  Uhrary  Economy  and  BibUoyraphy.  Editors,  C.  A.  Cuttbr  and  F.  Let- 
FOLDT.  Vol.  8,  January— December,  1883.  New  York  :  F.  Leypoldt,  publisher. 
1883.    4to.  pp.  356.    Published  monthly.    Price  $4  a  year. 

This  valuable  publication  is  apparently  not  diminishing  in  usefulness  or  in  inter- 
est as  the  years  pass.  In  fact,  as  was  suggestively  remarked  of  the  meeting  of  the 
American  Library  Association  last  summer,  this  body  **  continues  to  be  young. 
Its  period  of  interest  and  enthusiasm  is  not  over."*  A  glance  over  the  contents  of 
this  last  completed  volume  of  the  Journal  reveals  at  almost  every  page  material 
which  must  oe  of  indispensable  service  to  those  in  charge  of  libraries,  whether  one 
be  in  want  of  helps  or  suggestions  as  to  library  architecture,  library  administration, 
sdeetion  of  books,  authorship  of  books,  intercourse  with  readers,  or  the  innumera- 
ble other  details  which  go  to  make  up  a  librarian's  work.  As  usual,  a  large  amount 
of  qmce  is  given  to  a  report  of  the  proceedings  of  the  annual  meeting  of  the  Ameri- 
can Library  Association,  held  last  year  at  Bufialo,  in  August.  Among  the  papers 
read  there  was  a  most  suggestive  one  by  Mr.  Cutter,  which  illustrates  the  '*  scien- 

•  The  Nation,  xxxvU.  167. 


244  Booh  NbticeB.  [April, 

tifio  use  of  the  imagination  *'  in  a  dep;rec  seldom  met  with.  Anv  one  who  is  inter- 
ested in  the  question  of  doing  the  most  and  the  most  useful  wore  in  libraries,  and 
of  doing  it  in  the  best  way,  cannot  tiail  to  find  this  article  of  fascinating  interest. 
The  exceedingly  practical  method  of  considering  the  work  of  a  iibraty  under  the 
beads  of  its  various  **  sections/'  and  of  assigning  these  seotions  (as  architeetore, 
classification,  aids  and  guides  to  readers,  the  r^ing  of  the  young,  cataloguing, 
etc.),  each  to  some  one  member  for  extended  treatment  in  an  annual  report,  fait 

S roved  very  serviceable.  Another  paper  of  striking  interest  and  value  is  tlMit  of 
Ir.  James  L.  Whitney,  entitled  '*  A  Modem  Proteus.**  The  Protean  phenomena 
which  he  here  investigates,  are  the  numerous  and  very  troublesome  instances  where 
a  book  which  has  become  known,  favorably  or  otherwise,  under  some  one  titie^ 
subsequently  makes  its  appearance  under  a  different  one,  as  if  it  were  a  new  publi* 
cation.    Mr.  Whitney's  *'List  of  books  with  changed  titles,'*  aooompanyins;  hii 

Saper,  is  a  monument  of  minute  and  comprehensive  research,  and  is  well  nign  ex- 
austive.  There  certainly  appears  to  be  no  reason  why  the  Library  Journal  shouU 
not  continue  indefinitely  to  lay  open  the  results  of  study  in  these  important  fields  of 
discussion.  t. 

A  Report  of  the  Record  Commissioners  ^  containing  Boston  Births,  BapHsms,  Mar" 
riages  and  Deaths,  1630-1699.  Boston :  Rockwell  and  Ghurobill,  City  Printen. 
8vo.  pp.  vii.+280. 

This  volume,  while  it  is  not  the  first  of  the  kind  that  has  appeared,  is  probably 
the  most  valuable  and  thoroughly  prepared  printed  copy  of  ancient  births,  bep- 
tisms,  marriages  and  deaths  yet  published  in  this  state.  Mr.  Appletoo,  toe 
•commissioner  who  edits  this  volume,  informs  us  that  '*  every  entrjr  on  Town  Reoonki 
and  Church  Records  has  been  compared  with  the  original,  and  it  is  believed  that 
the  exact  meaning  is  expressed  in  the  printed  copy,  though  the  wording  has  been 
often  changed  for  the  sake  of  brevity. 

The  book  is  of  special  interest  to  genealogists  and  historical  students,  inasmuch  M 
it  contains  not  only  some  of  the  very  earliest  records  in  the  colonies,  but  those  of  our 
most  prominent  families,  such  as  Winthrop,  Dudley,  Bradstreet,  Sewall,  Bromfieki 
and  others.  The  records  of  the  First  Church  are  included,  and  consequently  upon 
the  appearance  of  the  **  Old  South  **  Church  records,  which  we  hope  will  soon  be 
printed,  we  shall  have  substantially  all  the  births,  baptisms,  marriages  and  deaths, 
recorded  in  Boston,  prior  to  1700,  preserved  for  all  time  in  an  acoessible  and  availa- 
ble form.  The  substance  of  the  records  of  the  Second  Church  is  already  in  print. 
The  city  was  very  fortunate  in  securing  the  services  as  Record  Commissiooera 
of  two  such  competent  antiquaries  as  Messrs.  William  H.  Whitmore  and  Wfl- 
liam  S.  Appleton.  There  is  a  eood  index  to  the  volume,  which  is  printed  in  the  best 
manner.  Let  us  hope  that  Dedham,  Newbury,  Nantucket  and  other  ancient  towns 
will  follow  the  example  of  Boston  and  print  their  invaluable  records  before  any  mis- 
•chance  renders  it  impossible.  In  no  way  can  towns  better  expend  the  public  mouc^ 
than  in  preserving  by  publication  their  records  and  historical  documents. 

The  record  commissioners  have  now  given  us  in  print  nine  volumes  of  the  records 
of  Boston  and  of  towns  which  form  portions  of  the  present  city  of  Boston.  Th^ 
have  more  than  fulfilled  the  expressed  wish  of  the  Historic  Genealo^cal  Sooie^, 
which  in  1860,  through  its  committee,  consisting  of  Winslow  Lewis,  M.D.,  i9 

8 resident,  Charles  G.  Coring,  LL.D.,  the  Hon.  Amos  A.  Lawrence,  Rev.  Uenry  A. 
files,  D.D.,  and  J.  Gardner  White,  Esq.,  petitioned  that  the  town  records  of 
Boston  previous  to  1700  be  printed  by  the  city.  The  Bosion  Journal  in  noticing 
the  petition,  which  was  presented  to  the  boara  of  aldermen.  June  11,  1860,  nsea 
this  language :  **  The  publication  will  be  of  great  value,  and  we  hope  that  no  mis- 
taken economy  will  prevent  such  an  important  work.  A  mass  of  interesting  his- 
toric matter  is  buried  in  these  records  *  (See  Rbqistkr,  xiv.  296).  The  volumes 
printed  have  shown  the  truth  of  the  JournaVs  estimate  of  the  value  of  these  records 
as  materials  for  history.  Those  which  will  follow  them  will  be  equally  rich  in  his- 
toric matter. 

The  present  commission  resulted  from  a  petition  of  the  above-named  society  pr^ 
sented  in  January,  1875,  calling  the  attention  of  the  city  government  to  the  imper- 
fect state  of  the  records  of  births,  marriages  and  deaths,  and  asking  that  measoiei 
be  taken  to  supply  the  deficiencies.     (See  Rbgister,  xxxiii.  264.) 
By  George  K.  Clarke,  Esq.,  of  Needham,  Mass, 


1884.] 


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Inscriptions  on  the  Bronze  Tablets  recently  placed  on  the  Gates  oj  the  Older  Burial 
Grounds  of  Boston,  Massachusetts,  Prepared  by  Samuel  A.  Grsen.  Cam- 
bridge :  John  Wilson  k  Son,  UniTersity  Press.     1883.    8vo.  pp.  8. 

Thia  pamphlet  is  reprinted  from  the  Proceedings  of  the  Massachusetts  Histori- 
etl  Society.  The  inscriptions  were  prepared  by  the  lion.  Dr.  Green  while  he  was 
Biyor  of  coston,  in  compliance  with  an  order  of  the  city  council.  They  give  the 
of  some  of  the  principal  persons  buried  in  five  of  the  oldest  burial  grounds  in 


Boston,  namely,  the  Kind's  Chapel,  Coop's  Uill,  Granary,  Rozbury  and  Dorches- 
ter gionnds.  Many  of  the  founders  of  Massachusetts,  ana  others  prominent  in  its 
liifitory,  are  buried  in  Boston,  and  it  is  an  excellent  idea  to  let  its  citizens  as  well 
as  strangers  from  abroad  know  the  places  where  their  remains  lie.  Mayor  Green 
has  earned  out  this  idea  with  judgment  and  taste. 

ProeeedinM  at  a  Banquet  given  by  his  Friends  to  the  Hon.  Marshall  Pinckney  Wild' 
€r,  Ph.D.,  on  his  nirthday,  Septetnber  22,  1883,  to  commemorate  the  completion  of 
Ids  l^hty-Piflh  Year,    Cambridge:  University  Press.    1883.    Royal  8vo.  pp. 
115. 

Address  at  the  Nineteenth  Session  of  the  American  Pomological  Society,  field  in  Phit- 
adetphia.  Pa.,  September  12,  13,  14,  1883.  Bv  Marshall  P.  Wilder,  President 
of  the  Society.    Published  by  the  Society.     1883.    8vo.  pp.  25. 

Address  itf  the  Hon.  Marshall  P.  Wilder,  and  the  other  Proceedinas  at  the  Annual 
Meeting  of  the  New  England  Historic  Genealogical  Society,  January  2,  1884. 
Boston :  The  Society  House,  18  Somerset  Street.     1884.    pp.  42. 

Without  doubt  it  may  be  stated  that  among  the  most  notable  local  events  of  the 
pftst  year,  was  the  banquet  given  in  honor  of  the  eighty-fifth  anniversary  of  the 
oirth  of  oar  venerable  President,  the  Hon.  Marshall  Pmckney  Wilder. 

It  fiUls  to  the  lot  of  a  goodly  number  of  men  to  be  eulogized  upon  their  deaths ; 
bat  it  rarely  happens  that  while  living  it  is  given  to  any  one  to  hear  what  his  friends 
really  think  of  his  character  and  of  his  conduct  of  life. 

This  is  a  case  which  forms  an  exception  to  the  general  rule  that  **  a  prophet  is 
nol^without  honor  except  in  his  own  country."  Our  venerable  President  is  most 
CDiphatioally  in  his  own  home;  and  here  we  see  a  host  of  the  foremost  ^en- 
tkmen  of  New  England  meeting  together  lor  the  purpose  of  testifying  before  him, 
themselves  and  the  community  their  appreciation  of  and  their  admiration  for  a  char- 
acter which  for  so  many  years  has  been  so  perfect  an  example  of  truth,  of  honor, 
of  kindness,  courage  and  usefulness. 

It  occasionally  happens  that  in  meeting  like  the  one  under  consideration,  ow- 
ioff  to  the  excitement  of  the  moment  prai.<<e  is  lavished  with  a  certain  lack  of  dis- 
enmination,  but  here  what  seems  to  be  acknowledged  by  all,  and  has  been 
frequently  commented  upon,  is  the  fact  that  the  good  words  spokeu  were  true  in 
every  particular,  and  that  the  encomiums  passed  upon  our  noble  old  friend,  wheth- 
er by  Governors,  bv  Clergymen,  by  Scientists,  Soldiers  or  Lawyers,  were  eminently 
deserved  by  one  whose  long  life  will  be  ever  remembered  and  should  be  held  up 
as  a  model  for  coming  generations  of  young  meu. 

The  volume  does  credit  to  the  University  Press,  from  which  it  issues.  It  is  a 
model  of  typography  in  print  and  paper. 

The  addresses  oy  Mr.  Wilder  before  the  Pomological  and  Historic  Genealogical 
Societies,  whose  titles  are  given  above,  show  that  time  has  not  lessened  the  vigor  of 
bis  mind,  nor  his  interest  in  the  important  institutions  over  which  he  has  so  long 
and  ably  presided. 

By  Augustus  T.  Perkins,  A.M.,  of  Boston. 

Chart  of  the  Old  Thirteen  Colonies — Rortahle  History.  By  Gmilt  H.  Watson, 
Boston  Highlands,  Mass.  Published  b^  W.  B.  Clarke  and  Carruth,  340  Wash- 
in^n  Street,  Boston,  and  William  B.  Smith  and  Co., 27  Bond  Street,  New  York. 
Price,  with  covers,  $1 ;  rolled,  75  cents. 

The  author  who  succeeds  in  bringing  the  im{>ortant  study  of  history  more  com- 
pactly and  more  easily  within  the  reach  of  the  ordinary  reading  classes,  has  accom  - 
plished  a  great  purpose  in  the  direction  of  popularizing  this  much  neglected  de- 
partment of  literature.  History,  when  properly  cultivated,  is  a  noble  and  instruc- 
tive study.  The  record  of  nations  and  of  men  in  past  ages  contains  such  mines  of 
information,  is  so  fraught  with  moral  lessons,  so  replete  with  illustrations  for  the 
guidance  of  human  character  and  government,  that  the  mind  can  scarcely  grasp  its 
scope,  or  thoroughly  consider  in  its  fullest  extent  its  influence  for  good.  Ana  yet 
bow  little  this  deeply  interesting  branch  of  literature  is  cultivated  by  the  public  at 
VOL.  xxxvm.        22* 


246  Book  Notices.  [Apnl, 

liKt^fi.  This  is  probably  dae,  in  a  great  measnre,  to  the  lack  of  a  syBtem  in  chTono- 
logical  arraDgement  which  shall  so  simplify  and  make  clear  the  association  of  cotem- 
poraneous  events  as  to  bring  a  large  amount  of  historical  matter  within  easy  reaeh, 
and  without  the  trouble  and  delav  consequent  npon  extended  research. 

Such  a  system  has  been  devised  by -the  compiler  of  the  chart  nnder  notice.  The 
principal  events  in  the  entire  colonial  history  of  the  county  are  here  comprised  in 
a  sheet  of  aboat  three  feet  in  length  and  two  in  breadth.  To  thus  present  a  som* 
mary  covering  a  period  of  over  a  century  and  a  half  in  so  small  a  cqmoe  re^nires  mneh 
judgment,  tact  and  method  in  arrangement,  and  these  qualities  are  herein  conspioa- 
ousW  displaced.  Almost  at  a  single  glance  the  reader  is  made  acquainted  with  the 
whole  colonial  record ;  and  in  ad(Ution  to  this  the  arrangement  of  dates  is  such  that 
the  reader  has  the  cotemporaneous  history  of  all  the  thirtMn  colonies,  from  New  Eng- 
land on  the  right  hand  to  Georgia  on  the  left,  at  any  particular  date,  without  remov- 
ing his  eves  from  a  single  line  across  the  sheet,  an  arran^ment  ^ected  with  great 
skill  and  care,  and,  from  a  tolerably  close  scrutiny,  without  error  or  misplaoed 
statement. 

The  lady  certainly  deserves  the  thanks  of  every  teacher  or  of  every  person  mtei^ 
ested  in  the  education  of  the  people  in  historical  matters.  It  will  tie  found  an  in- 
valuable aid  in  our  schools ;  and  those  who  cannot  spare  the  time  and  tronUe  to 
investigate  facts  through  the  medium  of  cydopaodias  will  weloome  this  assistant  to 
the  accomplishment  oAheir  desires  with  pleasure  and  delight. 

By  Oliver  B.  Stebbins,  Esq,,  of  SotUh  aeston,  Mass. 

A  Memorial,  with  Reminiscences,  Historical,  Personal  and  Charaderistie  qf  John 
Farmer,  A.M,,  Corresponding  Secretary  of  the  New  Hampshire  Historical  Soci^, 
Member  of  the  Royal  Society  of  Northern  Antiquaries  at  Copenhagen,  etc.  By 
John  Lb  Bosqust.  Boston :  Cupples,  Upham  &  Co.,  Old  Corner  Bookstore. 
1884.    12mo.  pp.  138.    Price  $1. 

Dr.  Farmer,  as  he  was  usually  called,  wfts  a  pioneer  in  New  Eneland  genealo^. 
His  Genealogical  Register  of  the  First  Settlers  of  New  England,  whi3i  was  the 
basis  of  the  Genealogical  Dictionary  of  the  Hon.  James  Savage,  has  laid  the 
genealogists  of  our  country  under  perpetual  indebtedness.  When  the  Rnis- 
TXR  was  commenced  in  1847,  the  editor  choee  him  as  a  representative  man,  and 
gave  the  place  of  honor  to  his  memoir  and  portrait.  A  memoir  of  him  by  his  asso- 
ciate in  historical  labors,  the  Qon.  Jacob  B.  Moore,  had  been  previously  pablished  in 
February,  1839,  in  the  American  Quarterly  Register. 

The  author  of  the  book  before  us  has  written  a  very  interesting  narrative  of  tiie 
life*  of  Dr.  Farmer,  and  has  interspersed  his  own  reminiscences  of  that  careful  and 
conscientious  antiquary,  with  whom  he  was  intimate  more  than  half  a  century  aco. 
Mr.  Le  Bosquet  has  had  the  use  of  some  of  Dr.  Farmer's  letters,  from  which  he  baa 
drawn  interesting  matter. 

The  Bay  State  Monthly :  A  Massachusetts  Magazine,  Boston :  John  N.  McGlintoA 
&  Company,  Publishers,  31  Milk  Street.  Published  monthly,  64  pages  each 
number.    Price  $3  a  year,  or  30  cents  a  number. 

This  periodical  was  begun  in  January,  1884,  and  in  the  words  of  its  piwpeotoi 
is  *'  devoted  to  the  Literature,  History  and  Biography  and  State  Progress  of  Mas- 
sachusetts." Three  numbers,  frt)m  January  to  March,  have  been  issued  filled  with 
articles  of  special  interest  to  Massachusetts  men.  The  January  number  contains  a 
memoir  of  toe  Hon.  Marshall  P.  Wilder,  Ph.D.,  embellished  by  an  excellent  por- 
trait. The  editors  having  decided  to  be^in  in  its  pages  a  series  of  articles  devoted 
to  the  material  advancement  and  pro^eriW  of  Massachusetts  and  the  record  of  her 
past  greatness,*'  selected  Col.  Wilder  as  ^*  a  representative  man  "  whose  memoir 
should  be  the  initial  article  in  the  Monthly,  The  February  number  contains  a  memoir 
of  £x-GoT.  A.  H.  Rice,  by  Daniel  B.  Hagar,  and  the  March  number  one  of  Judge  J. 
G.  Abbott,  by  Col.  J.  H.  George,  both  with  fine  portraits.  Among  the  other  con- 
tributors may  be  named  the  Hon.  Dr.  Samuel  A.  Green,  Dr.  Thomas  W.  Bicknell. 
Hon.  Mellen  Chamberlain,  Gen.  Henry  B.  Harrington,  Hon.  Charles  Oowley  aoa 
Elizabeth  Porter  Gould. 

The  Antiquarian  Magazine  and  Bibliographer,  Edited  by  Edward  WALronn,  M. A. 
Formerly  Scholar  of  Balliol  College,  Oxford,  and  late  Editor  of '  *  The  Gentleman's 
Magazine."  London:  Vol.  IV.  July— December,  1883.  David  Bogus,  3  St 
Martin's  Place,  Trafalgar  Square,  W.  C.    1883.    8vo. 

This  magazine,  which  was  commenced  in  January,  1889,  has  now  completed  four 
volumes,  wnile  four  parts  of  a  fii^h  volume  have  bedn  issued.    It  mimbin  .amoog 


1884.]  Booh  IToticeB.  247 

iti  oootribaton  some  of  the  best  known  English  antiquaries,  and  the  suljeots 
treated  of  in  its  pages  are  of  historic  value  and  varied  interest. 

Mr.  Walford  nas  had  much  experience  as  an  editor.  Besides  the  GentlemanU 
Moffozine,  named  in  the  title,  he  vras  the  founder  and  the  first  editor  of  The  Anii" 
fMoryt  which  under  his  charge  gained  great  reputation.  The  bibliographer  as  well 
ts  toe  antiquary  will  find  here  much  to  interest  him. 

Reoffrds  of  William  ^porter  of  PlymotUh,  Mass.,  and  Ms  Descendants,  Vol.  L  By 
Tdomas  Sfoonxs.    Cincinnati.    1B83.    8vo.  pp.  6d4.    Price  $5. 

The  Eddy  Family.  Reunion  at  Providence  to  celebrate  the  Two  Hundred  and  Fiftieth 
Anniversary  in  the  Landing  of  John  and  Samuel  Biddy  at  Plymouth,  Oct.  39, 
1690.  Second  Edition.  Boston,  Mass.,  1884.  dvo.  pp.  304.  Price  $3.  To  be 
obteined  of  F.  Q.  Pratt,  41  Temple  Phice,  Boston. 

A  ffenealogy  of  the  Descendants  of  Hugh  Ounnison,  of  Boston,  Mass.,  covering  the 
wriod  1610-1876.  Compiled  hy  GioROi  W.  Gunnison,  A.M.,  for  the  Use  of  the 
JVunily.  Boston:  Published  for  the  Gunnison  Family  by  George  A.  Fozcrofl. 
1880.  18mo.  pp.  223.  Price  $2.  Published  for  J.  B.  and  C.  £.  Gunnison,  Erie, 
Pton.,  who  will  send  copies  post-paid  on  receipt  of  the  price  as  above  stated. 

Genealogical  Data  respecting  John  Pickering  of  Portsmouth,  N,  i/.,  and  his  De- 
scendants.    Boston  :  1884.    8vo.  pp.  32-t-iii.+l. 

The  Armstrong  Family  of  Windham,  N.  H.  By  Lbonaro  A.  Morrison.  8vo.  pp. 
10.    Published  1884. 

PetEgree  of  the  Conant  Family.  Compiled  by  Fredkricc  Odell  Con  ant,  of  Port- 
land, Me.  Broadside,  18  by  38  inches.  Published  1884.  Price  $1.  To  be  ob- 
tained of  the  author. 

The  Bonython  Family  of  Maine.  Bf  Dr.  Charlis  E.  Banks,  Passed  Assistant  Sur- 
geon, U.  S.  Marine  Hospital  Service.    8vo.  pp.  7.    Published  1834. 

Record  of  Family  Faculties ;  consisting  of  Tabular  Forms  and  Directions  for  enter^ 
ingData,  with  an  Explanatory  Preface.  By  Francis  Galton,  F.R.S.,  author  of 
**  Hereditary  Genius,^'  *'  Inquiries  into  Human  Faculty  and  its  Development," 
ato.    London :    Macmillan  and  Co.    1884.    4to.  pp.  64. 

We  continue  our  quarterly  notices  of  genealogical  works  which  have  recently 
appeared. 

The  Spooner  genealogy  was  briefly  noticed  from  advanced  sheets  in  the  January 
mnnber.  We  have  now  the  bound  volume  before  us.  The  work  shows  marks  of  care 
and  labor,  as  might  be  expected  in  a  work  that  has  employed  its  author  a  quarter 
of  a  century,  it  is  arranged  on  the  Connecticut  or  Goodwin  plan,  with  some 
ehan^.  It  is  particularly  full  in  biography,  and  th6  sketches  of  some  of  the 
proounent  individuals contam  information  which  will  cause  it  to  be  referred  to  oflen 
Dy  others  besides  the  family.  Mr.  Spooner  is  to  be  congratulated  on  having  pro- 
duced so  satisfactory  a  work  in  every  respect.    It  has  a  full  index. 

The  first  edition  of  the  Eddy  book  was  noticed  in  April,  1883,  and  we  refer  to  that 
notice  for  its  principal  features.  The  genealogy  is  by  Robert  Henry  fiddy  of  Boston. 
In  this  edition  there  are  large  additions  to  that  portion  of  the  work,  and  considera- 
ble improvements  to  other  portions.  But  what  is  of  the  most  importance,  this  edi- 
tion has  a  good  index.  The  book  covers  the  history  of  the  family  very  satisfactorilv 
from  1585  to  1884.  It  is  a  handsome  volume,  well  printed  and  embellished  with 
fineportraits  and  views. 

Tne  Gunnison  genealogy  was  compiled  by  the  late  Rev.  George  W.  Gunnison, 
who  died  in  Boston,  Mass.,  May  14,  1878,  aged  55,  and  at  the  time  of  his  death  was 
eonneeted  with  the  Watchman.  It  has  been  printed  at  the  expense  of  his  brothers. 
Messrs.  John  B.  and  Charles  £.  Gunnison,  of  Erie,  Pa.  The  emigrant  ancestor  of 
this  funily,  Hugh  Gunnison,  is  found  in  Boston  in  1634,  and  there  is  questionable 
tradition  that  he  was  in  New  Hampshire  earlier.  Later  be  kept  the  Kins's  Arms 
Tavern,  of  which  the  history  is  gi?en  in  the  Rbgister,  xxxiv.  41-8.  He  afterwards 
x«moved  to  Kittery,  Maine.  The  book  fives  a  genealoeical  record  of  his  descend- 
ants through  his  youngest  son  Elihu.    An  index  of  the  beads  of  families  is  given. 

The  Pickering  genealogy  is  by  Robert  H.  Eddy,  of  Boston,  who  has  been  referred 
to  in  this  article  as  the  author  of  the  genealogical  portion  oi  the  Eddy  book.  The 
anthor  has  prepared  a  good  record  of  the  lines,  embracing  the  most  prominent  per- 
ns in  this  distinguished  family.    The  book  has  a  good  index. 

The  AmistrongTamily  first  appeared  in  the  History  of  Windham,  N.  H.,  noticed 


248  Recent  Publications.  [April, 

by  us  in  October,  1883.  It  is  devoted  to  the  descendants  of  Robert  Armstrong,  one 
of  the  original  proprietors  of  Londonderry,  N.  H.,  1733.  The  book  has  been  re- 
printed for  the  use  of  the  family.  A  portrait  on  steel  of  George  W.  Armstrong,  of 
Boston,  embellishes  the  volume. 

The  tiibular  pedigree  of  the  Gonant  family  contains  seven  ffenerations  of  the  de- 
scendants of  Koger  Conant,  the  founder  of  Salem,  Mass.,  oi  whom  a  good  memoir 
by  the  late  Rev.  Dr.  Felt  is  printed  in  the  Rxgister,  ii.  333-9,  339-35.  Mr.  Conant 
bas  been  quite  successful  in  tracing  the  descendants  of  this  worthy.  No  genealogy 
of  the  family  has  appeared  before,  and  we  trust  that  the  author  will  give  us  fuller 
details  in  book  form. 

The  Bonython  genealogy  is  a  reprint  firom  the  Rmistie  for  January  last. 

The  Record  ,of  TamilyH^aculties,  though  not  strictly  a  genealogical  work,  li  one 
that  will  be  useful  to  the  genealogical  inquirer.  Mr.  Qalton  in  his  Preface  says : — 
**  This  book  is  designed  for  those  who  care  to  forecast  the  mental  and  bodily  facul- 
ties of  their  children  and  to  further  the  science  of  heredity."  The  forms  which  are 
here  given  for  recording  data  concerning  the  individual  and  bis  ancestors  are  admi- 
rably adapted  for  the  purpose.  The  distinguished  author  has  prefixed  to  them 
valuable  suggestions  and  advice  as  to  making  the  records  and  drawing  deductions 
from  them.  1?he  earliest  person  in  the  United  States  to  devote  much  attention  to 
these  subjects  was,  we  think,  the  late  Lemuel  Shattuck^  one  of  the  founders  of  the 
Historic  Genealogical  Society,  of  whom  a  memoir  is  prmted  in  the  third  volume  of 
its  Memorial  Biographies. 


RECENT  PUBLICATIONS, 
Prbsbntbd  to  the  New  Enolajtd  Historic  Gbkbalooioal  Sooibtt,  to  Majlch  1, 1884. 

I.  Publications  written  or  edited  by  Members  of  the  Society. 

Maryland  in  the  beginnini?,  a  brief  submitted  to  the  Historical  and  Political  Science  Am- 
sociation  of  Johns  Hopkins  University.  By  Edward  D.  Neill.  Baltimore :  Cushingsft  Bailey, 
262  Baltimore  Street.    18S4.    Svo.  pp.  M. 

A  Statement  relating  to  the  will  of  Hon.  Cadwallader  C.  Washburn.  By  Cyrus  Woodmaa. 
Svo.  pp.  11. 

The  Forty -fifth  Regiment,  Massachasetts  Volunteers  Militia— nine  months  men— and  the 
Eighth  Bejtimcnt,  at  Annapolis  in  1861.  Extracts  from  speech,  bv  General  Edward  W. 
HIncks,  of  Cambridge,  at  Peabody,  November  5th,  1883.  Cambridge,  Mass. :  Printed  by 
William  H.  Wheeler.    1883.    Svo.  pp.  23. 

A  Report  of  the  Record  Commissioners,  containing  Boston  Births,  Baptisms,  Marriagei 
and  Deaths.  1630—1699.  Boston :  Rockwell  &  Churchill,  Citv  Printers,  39  Arch  StieeL 
1883.    Svo.  pp.  281. 

The  Rigs  of  Vessels.  By  R.  B.  Forbes,  Boston.  1883.  James  F.  Cotter,  Printer,  166 
Devonshire  Street.    Svo.  pp.  20,  with  map. 

Miscellanea  Marescalliana.  1)eing  genealogical  notes  on  the  surname  of  Marshall.  Col- 
lected by  George  William  Marshall,  LL.D.  Vol.  I.  Parts  I.  and  II.  To  all  Marshalls  all 
over  the  world  I  bequeath  this  work  gratis.    Svo. 

The  Numismatic  and  Antiquarian  Society  of  Philadelphia.  Necrology  for  1883.  Charles 
Perrin  Smith,  Lucius  Quintius  Cincinnatus  Elmer,  George  Sharswood.  Bv  Charles  Henry 
Hart,  Historiographer.  [Reprinted  from  the  Proceedings,  for  1883.]  Philadelphia.  1884. 
Svo.  pp.  17. 

American  Antiquarian  Society.  The  Relations  between  Hamilton  and  Washington. 
Report  of  the  Council,  October  22,  18S3.  Worcester,  Mass.,  U.  S.  A. :  Printed  by  Charles 
Hamilton,  311  Main  Street.    1834.    Svo.  pp.  14. 

Further  notes  on  the  History  of  Witchcraft  in  Massachusetts,  containing  additional  evi- 
dence of  the  passage  of  the  Act  of  1711,  for  reversing  the  attainders  of  the  Witches;  alto 
affirming  the  legality  of  the  Special  Court  of  Oyer  and  Terminer  of  1692 :  with  a  heliotype 

glate  of  the  Act  of  171 1,  as  printed  in  1713,  and  an  appendix  of  documents,  etc.  By  Abner 
hency  Goodell,  Jr.  Reprinted,  with  slight  alterations,  from  the  Proceedings  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts Historical  Society.  Cambridge :  John  Wilson  &  Son,  University  Flress.  1884. 
Svo.  pp.  52. 

The  Congregational  Year  Book,  1884,  issued  under  the  sanction  of  the  National  CoancO 
of  the  Congregational  Churches  of  the  United  States,  by  its  publishing  committee,  and 
containing  the  general  statistics  of  those  churches  for  the  last  previous  year.  Boston: 
Congregational  Publishing  Society.    1884.    Svo.  pp.  272. 


1384.] 


Recent  PuhUcationa.  249 


John  Adams,  the  Statesman  of  the  American  Revolntton.  Addresses  before  the  Webster 
Historical  Sodetj  at  its  annaal  meeting  in  Boston,  January  18, 1884.  By  Hon.  Mcllen 
Chamberlain.  Boston :  Published  by  the  Society.  Office  83  Bquitable  Building.  1884. 
8fO.  pp.  83. 

Bqwrt  of  the  Librarian  of  the  State  Library,  for  the  year  ending?  September  30, 1883,  and 
ftMuto  annual  supplement  to  the  general  catalogue.  Boston :  Wright  &  Potter  Printing 
Gos  Slate  Printers,  18  Post  Office  Square.    1884.    8yo.  pp.223. 

XL  Oiher  PubKeations. 

Bariy  History  of  Hanover  College.  An  address  by  Hon.  William  McEee  Dunn,  LLJ)., 
dettrered  at  the  Semi-Centennial  Commencement  of  Hanover  Coliege,  June  13, 1883.  Madi- 
son, Ind. :  The  Courier  Company,  Printers  and  Binders.    1883.    8vo.  pp.  20. 

Cootribntions  of  the  Old  Residents  Historical  Association,  Lowell,  Mass.  Organised 
December  21, 1868.  Vol.  II.  No.  4.  Published  by  the  Association  November,  1888. 
LoireU,  Mass. :  Morning  Mail  Print,  18  Jackson  Street.    1883.    8vo.  pp.  330—461. 

Addresses  delivered  at  the  fhneral  of  Lyman  HotchlLiss  Atwater,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  in  the  First 
Presbyterian  Church,  Princeton,  N.  J.,  Tuesday,  February  20, 1883.  A  memorial  discourse 
delivered  in  the  College  Chapel,  on  the  evenins;  of  Baccalaureate  Sunday,  June  17, 1888. 
PnbUshed  by  reauest  of  the  Trustees.  New  York :  Anson  D.  F.  Randolph  &  Co.,  906 
Bkoadway,  cor.  20th  Street    8vo.  pp.  77. 

flalnt  Andrew's  Chnrch,  New  Castle,  Maine,  consecrated  November  22d,  1883.  By  the 
Bt.  Rev.  Heniy  Adams  Neeley,  D  J).,  Bishop  of  Maine.  Boston :  Franklin  Press,  Rand, 
Avery  &  Co.    1883.    8vo.  pp.  29. 

Proceedings  of  the  General  Theological  Library,  for  the  year  ending  April  16, 1883,  with 
a  sketch  of  its  history,  rules,  a  list  of  its  officers,  rounders,  patrons,  members,  &c  Boston : 
12  West  Street.    Printed  for  the  Society.    1883.    8vo.  pp.  60. 

The  Confederate  Debt  and  private  Southern  Debts.  By  J.  Barr  Robertson.  London : 
Waterlow  &  Sons.  Limited.  95  and  96  London  Wall.  ISSL  Price  one  shilling.  Sq.  8vo. 
pp.38. 

Boss  Memorial,  William  Sterling  Ross  and  Ruth  Tripp  Ross.  Reports  of  Committees  of 
Wyoming  Historical  and  Geological  Society.  Publication  No.  8.  Wilkesbarre,  Penn. : 
Prated  for  the  Society.    1884.    8vo.  pp.  17. 

Message  of  the  President  of  the  United  States  communicated  to  the  two  Houses  of  Con- 
gren,  at  the  beginning  of  the  first  session  of  the  forty-eighth  Congress.  Washington :  Oov- 
emment  Printing  Office.    1883.    8vo.  pp.  19. 

A  circular  of  inquiry  ftrom  the  Wyoming  Historical  and  Geological  Society  respecting  the 
Did  Wiikes-Barre  Academy.  Prepared  by  Harrison  Wright,  Recording  Secretary,  Wiikes- 
Bane,  Penn.    Printed  for  the  Society.    1883.    8vo.  pp.  19. 

Isaac  Smith  Osterhout.  Memorial.  Report  of  the  Committee  of  Wyoming  Historical  and 
Geologicai  Society.  Publication  No.  7.  Wilkesbarre,  Pa. :  Printed  for  the  Society.  1883. 
8vo.  i^  15. 

Proceedings  of  the  Wyoming  Historical  and  Geological  Society,  for  the  year  ending  Feb- 
niaiy  11, 1883.  Publication  No.  6.  Wilkes-Barre,  Pa. :  Printed  for  the  Society.  1883. 
8to.  pp.  70. 

Archives  of  Maryland.  Proceedings  and  acts  of  the  General  Assembly  of  Maryland, 
January,  1637-6— September,  1664.  Published  by  authority  of  the  State,  under  the  direc- 
tion of  the  MaryUna  Historical  Society,  William  Hand  Browne,  Editor.  Baltimore :  Blary- 
Uuid  Historical  Society.    1883.    Large  4to.  pp.  563. 

Commemorative  exercises  of  the  First  Church  of  Christ  in  Hartford,  at  its  two  hundred 
and  fiftieth  Anniversary,  October  11—12.  1883.  Hartford,  Conn.:  Press  of  the  Case, 
Lockwood  &  Brainard  Co.    1883.    8vo.  pp.  215. 

Constitution,  By-Laws,  officera  and  members  of  the  Saint  Nicholas  Club  of  the  dty  of  New 
York,  1883.    Club  House,  12  East  29th  Street.    Printed  by  order  of  the  Club.    8vo.  pp.  43. 

Essex  Institute  Historical  Collections,  July,  August  and  September,  1883.  Vol.  XX. 
SUem,  Mass. :  Printed  for  the  Essex  Institute.    1883.    8vo.  pp.  161—240. 

1836—1880.  Census  of  Iowa  for  1880,  with  other  historical  and  statistical  data.  Bv  John 
A.  T.  Hull,  Secretary  of  State.  Printed  by  order  of  the  General  Assembly.  Des  Moines : 
F.  M.  Mills,  State  Printer,  to  page  368.  Completed  by  Geo.  £.  Roberts,  State  Printer. 
1S8S.    8vo.  pp.  744. 

Fnocfaial  Histoi7  of  Westerham,  by  Granville  Leveson  Gtower,  F.S.A.  London :  Mitch- 
ell and  Hughes,  140  Wardour  Street.    1883.    8vo.  pp.  101. 

A  Memorial  of  the  one  hundredth  Anniversary  of  the  incorporation  of  the  Town  of  Mid- 
dlefleld,  August  15, 1883,  containing  the  Historical  Discourse  by  Prof.  Edward  P.  Smith, 
of  Worcester,  with  the  addresises  and  letters.  Published  by  the  Town  of  Middleficld,  Mas- 
iachnsetu.    1883.    8vo.  pp.  96. 

Proceedings  of  the  American  Antiquarian  Society  at  the  annual  meeting  at  Worcester, 
October  22, 1883.  Vol.  III.  New  Series.  Parti.  Worcester :  Press  of  Charles  Hamilton, 
111  Mahi  Street.    1884.   Svo.pp.  76. 


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Catalogae  of  the  Officers  and  Stadents  of  the  Theological  Seminanr,  AndoTer.  Mass., 
1883-84.    Andover :  Printed  by  Warren  F.  Draper.    1884.    8yo.  pp.  35. 

Manual  with  Rules  and  Orders  for  the  use  of  the  General  Assembly  of  the  State  of  Rhode 
Island,  1883-81.  Prepared  in  accordance  with  a  Resolution  of  the  (General  Assemble,  bf 
Joshua  M.  Addeman,  Secretary  of  State.  Providence,  R.  I.:  £.  L.  Freeman  &  Co.,  Print- 
ers to  the  State.    1883.    8vo.  pp.  278. 

Constitution  and  By-Laws  of  the  Boston  Marine  Society,  institated  in  the  year  1742,  in- 
corporated in  the  year  1754,  together  with  a  brief  history  of  the  Society,  its  condition  in 

1883,  and  a  list  of  members.    Boston :  Press  of  T.  R.  Marvin  &  Son,  49  Federal  Street. 

1884.  8vo.  pp.  92. 

Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology.  Nineteenth  Annual  Catalogae  of  the  Officers  and 
Students,  with  a  statement  of  the  courses  of  instruction,  and  a  list  of  the  Alumni  and  of  the 
members  of  the  Society  of  Arts,  1883-84.  Boston :  Press  of  George  H.  Bills,  141  Franklin 
Street    1884.    8vo.  pp.  144. 

Seventy-Eighth  Anniversary  Celebration  of  the  New  England  Society  In  the  City  of 
New  Yorlc,  at  Delmonico's,  Dec.  22, 1883.    8vo.  pp.  106. 

Annual  Report  of  the  Inspectors,  Warden  and  subordinate  officers  of  ICaJne  State  Pri- 
son, 1882.    Augusta :  Sprague  and  Son,  Printers  to  the  State.    1883.    8vo.  pp.  45. 

Forty-Eighth  Congress.  [First  SessionJ  Congressional  Directory,  compiled  for  the 
use  of  Congress.  By  Ben  :  Perley  Poore.  Second  Edition.  Corrected  to  February  15, 1884. 
Washington :  Government  Printing  Office.    1884.    8vo.  pp.  200. 

Papers  concerning  Early  Navigation  on  the  Great  Lakes.  I.  Recollections  of  Capt.  Da- 
Tid  Wilkeson.  II.  The  Pioneer  Lake  Erie  Steamboats  Walk-in-the- Water  and  Superior. 
By  William  Hodge.  Buffiilo  Printing  House  of  Bigelow  Brothers,  Pearl  and  Seneca  Sts. 
1883.    8vo.  pp.44. 


DEATHS. 


Fahnsworth,  Miss  Elizabeth,  died  in 
Groton,  Mass.,  Feb.  2,  aged  91  years,  3 
mos.  She  was  the  only  daughter  and 
last  survivor  of  the  five  cluldren  of 
Major  Amos  and  Elizabeth  (Kockwood) 
Fams worth  of  Groton,  whose  deaths 
were  mentioned  in  vol.  iv.  page  110  of 
the  Keoister.  She  was  a  woman  of 
strong  character,  and  one  of  the  earliest 
of  the  Garrison  abolitionists. 

Hall,  Mrs.  Sybella  Hale,  widow  of  the 
late  Mr.  Richardson  Hall,  of  Greenfield, 
Mass.,  died  at  the  residence  of  her  son 
in  Reading,  Mass.,  31  January.  She 
was  a  daughter  of  the  Rev.  Enoch  and 
Octavia  Throop  Hale,  of  Westhampton, 
Mass.  (Westhampton  Memorial,  1866), 
where  she  was  bom  3  Sept.,  1797,  and 
of  which  town  her  father  was  a  minis- 
ter from  Sept.,  1779,  to  his  death  in 
Jan.,  1837.  Mrs.  Hall  was  a  niece  of 
that  most  excellent  young  man  and 
patriotic  soldier,  Capt.  Nathan  Hale,  of 
the  Connecticut  line  in  the  Army  of  the 
Revolution,  who  suffered  death  (exe- 
cuted with  vindictive  cruelty)  by  order 
of  Gen.  Howe,  the  British  comman- 
der, 22  September,  1776.  Two  of  her 
brothers  were,  Hon.  Nathan  Hale, 
LL.D.,  editor  and  owner  of  the  Boston 
Daily  Advertiser ^  and  Enoch  Hale, 
M.D.,  a  widely  known  and  esteemed 
physician,  first  of  Gardi^ier,  Me.,  and 
afterwards  of  Boston.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Hall  were  the  parents  of  ten  children, 


of  whom  the  following  named  surriTe : 
Mrs  Henry  Hooker  of  Westfield,  John 
Richardson,  Mrs.  Edward  Dewey,  Wil- 
liam Hooker,  and  Mrs.  Franklin  Bar- 
nard of  Boston,  Edward,  now  resident 
in  California,  and  Henry  Throop  of 
Reading.  In  an  obituary  notice  of 
Mrs.  Hall  in  the  Advertisers  her  nephew, 
Rev.  Dr.  Edward  Everett  Hale,  says : — 

*'The  Rev.  Enoch  Hale  was  the  nither 
of  eight  children.  He  left  44  grand- 
children. I  think  that  from  his  mar- 
riage, in  1781,  to  his  death,  in  1837,  he 
never  saw  death  enter  the  circle  of  his 
immediate  family.  These  eight  chil- 
dren, of  whom  Mrs.  Hall  was  the  last 
survivor,  all  married,  and  their  child- 
ren and  grandchQdren  are  now  living 
in  all  parts  of  the  United  States. 

**She  was  a  most  attractive  person 
from  her  birth  to  her  death.  Of  great 
personal  beauty,  of  the  most  sunny  and 
unselfish  disposition,  with  humor  and 
wit, — which  were  perhaps  derived  from 
her  ancestry,  as  they  are  certainly 
transmitted  after  her, — and  with  a  quick 
appreciation  of  people  and  of  books, 
she  brought  a  charm  with  her  wherever 
she  came  which  will  long  linger,  though 
she  be  no  longer  seen. 

**The  circle  of  eight  brothers  and 
sisters  have  joined  each  other.  They 
have  left  in  their  children  and  grand- 
children a  large  circle,  —  of  various 
names, — scattered  through  more  than  20 


1884.] 


Deaths. 


251 


American  States, — all  proud  of  the 
family  history,  ^tefiil  for  the  West- 
hampton  memories,  and  ready,  I  think, 
wherever  they  may  be  called,  to  renew 
the  services  which  the  *old  line'  has 
been  able,  in  various  exigencies,  to  ren- 
der to  the  country  or  to  mankind." 
Com.  by  A.%  H»  Hoyt, 
HmiPBRETs,  Brig.  Gen.  Andrew  A.,  died 
in  Washington,  Dec.  28,  1883,  aged  73. 
He  was  bom  in  Philadelphia,  Fa.,  Nov, 
3,  1810.      He  graduated  at  the  U.  S. 
Military  Academy,  West  Point,  in  1831, 
and  was  appointed  2d  lieut.  of  the  2d 
Artillery,     in  1836  he  resigned,  and 
was  employed  as  a  dvil  engpjieer  in  the 
service  of  the  United  States.    In  1838 
he  was  re- appointed  to  the  army  as  1st 
lieut.  of  engineers,  and  was  employed 
in  many  important   works.      During 
the  war,  he  served  with  distinction  in 
Virginia,  Maryland  and  Pennsylvania, 
and  rose  to  the  ranks  of  major  general 
of  volunteers,  and  bvt.  major  general 
of  the  regular  army.      Since  Aug.  6, 
1866,  he  has  held  the  office  of  chief  of 
engineers. 
Lbonard,  Joseph,  died  at  his  residence, 
Bozbury,  March  6,  1884,  aged  74.    He 
was  bom  in  Portsmouth,  England,  Oct. 
32,    1809,  and  came  to   this  country 
when  young.     He  was  a  well-known 
Auctioneer  in  Boston,  and  was  one  of 
the  first  to  inaugurate  the  sales  of  stan- 
dard books  and  libraries  in  this  city. 
He  was  also  a  pioneer  in  the  art  sale 
business.     In  1862  he  rebuilt  the  Na- 
tional Theatre,  burnt  April  22,  and  in 
October  opened  it  to  the  public.    It  did 
not  prove  profitable,  and  he  returned 
to  the  auction  business.     He  was  of 
genial  manners  and  eminently  social, 
which  rendered  him  very  popular.     See 
Obituary  in  Boiton  Transcripts  March 
6,  1884. 
Phillips,  Wendell,  the  most  brilliant  and 
effective  orator  of  the  day,  died  in  Bos- 
ton, Saturday  evening,   Feb.  2,   1884, 
aged  72.      He  was  a  son  of  the  Hon. 
John  Phillips,  the  first  mayor  of  Bos- 
ton, and  was  bom  in  this  town  Nov. 
39,  1811.     He  was  a  descendant  in  the 
7th  generation  from  the  Rev.  George^ 
Phillips,  the  first  minister  of  Water- 
town,  through  Rev.  Samuel,'  Samuel,' 
Hon.  John,**    William,*  who  married 
Margaret,  dau.  of  Hon.  Jacob  Wendell 
(Rbo.  XXX vL  246),  and  Mayor  John,* 
his  &ther.      He  was  also  descended 
from  the  celebrated  Mrs.  Anne  Brad- 
ttreet  (Reg.  viii.  315 ;  xxxviii.  206).  He 
was  graduated  at  Harvard  College  in 
1831,  and  from  its  Law  School  in  1834. 
He  joined  the  Anti- Slavery  party  in 


1836 ;   and  his  first  memorable  speech 
in  that  cause  was  the  well  known  one 
in  Faneuil  Hall,  Dec,  1837,  in  reply  to 
Attorney  Gen.  James  T.  Austin.    The 
meeting  was  held  to  **  notice  in  a  suita- 
ble manner*'  the  murder  at  Alton,  01., 
of  Rev.  Elijah  P.  Lovejoy,  the  opponent 
of  slavery,  **who  fell  in  defence  of  the 
freedom  of  the  press."    Mr.  Austin  had 
defended  the  mob ;   but  the  eloquence 
of  Phillips  prevailed,  and  resolutions 
denouncing  it  were  passed.     Hence- 
forth Mr.  Phillips  was  the  orator  of  the 
anti- slavery  cause:   his  life  work  was 
given  to  the  overthrow  of  slavery  which 
he  lived  to  see  accomplished.     He  was 
also  an  advocate  of  woman- sufifragCt 
and  was  active  in  the  cause  of  temper- 
ance.    His   **  Speeches,  Lectures  and 
Letters*'  were  published  in  1863.    Sev- 
ral  speeches  and  other  pamphlets  by 
him  were  also  printed.     He  was  a  con- 
tributor to  the  Rboistbr  when  Mr. 
Drake  edited  it. 
Smith,  Baxter  Perry,  died  in  Washington, 
D.  C,  Feb.  6,  1884,  aged  64.     He  was 
a  son  of  Moses  and  Mehitabel  (Ward) 
Smith,  and  was  bom  in  Lyme,  N.  H., 
Aug.  29,  1829.    He  graduated  at  Dart- 
mouth College  in  1854 ;  and  was  agent 
of  the  American  Tract  Society  in  New 
York  frt)m  1864  to  1856,  and  in  Boston 
frt>m  1856  to  1861.      He  served  in  the 
9th  N.  H.  regiment  from  Aug.  15, 1862, 
to  June  5,  1863.    He  studied  divinity, 
but  owing  to  a  disease  afiecting  his 
voice  did  not  enter  the  ministry.     For 
some  years  past  he   has    resided    at 
Brookline,  Mass.     He  was  the  author 
of  The  History  of  Dartmouth  College^ 
published  in  1878,  Boston,  8vo.  pp.  474 
(Rboistbr,  xxxiii.  120). 
Whitnby,  William  A.,  died  in  Detroit, 
Jan.  23,  1884,  aged  63,  and  was  buried 
in  Oakwood  cemetery,  Adrian,  Mich., 
on  the  25th.     He  was  bom  in  Shelby, 
Orieans  Co.,  N.  Y.,  AprU  21,  1820.  He 
was  one  of  the  earliest  pioneers  of  Ad- 
rian, to  which  place  he  removed  with 
his  parents  in  1828.     He  was  city  re- 
corder of  Adrian  1859  to  1861 ;  register 
of  Lenawee  Co.,  1863  to  1867 ;    post- 
master of  Adrian,  1869  to  1873.     He 
then  engaged  in  the  printing  business, 
and    founded  the    Adrian    Daily   and 
Weekly  Pretty  which  newspaper  is  stiU 
published  in  that  city.     In   1867,  he 
wrote  the  early  history  of  Adrian  from 
1825  to  1835,  and  published  it  in  the 
Adrian    Timet,      In   conjunction  with 
Richard  I.  Bonner,  he  was  author  o 
the   History  and  Biographical  Recorf 
of  Lenawee  County,  published  in  1879 


Insobiption  oyer  the  Grays  of  Colonel  Chester  at 

NUNHEAD   CeMETERT,   SuRRET. 

Beneath  this  stone 

Are  deposited  the  remains  of 

Colonel  Joseph  Lemuel  Chester, 

LL.D.  of  Columbia  College,  New  York  City  (1877)  ; 

D.C.L.  of  the  University  of  Oxford  (1881)  ; 

And  for  nearly  20  years  a  resident  in  the  parish 

Of  St  James',  Bermondsey,  in  this  county. 

Bom  30  April,  1821,  at  Norwich,  Connecticut,  U.S.A^ 

He  landed  in  England  6  September,  1858, 

Where  he  employed  the  remaining  years  of  his  life 

In  collecting  materials  to  illustrate 

The  Genealogical  History 

Of  his  Native  and  of  his  Adopted  Country. 

The  indefatigable  Energy,  marvellous  Accuracy, 

And  patient  Ingenuity  displayed  in  his  writings. 

Are  established  to  posterity  in  the  work  entitled 

'*  The  Westminster  Abbey  Registers," 
Of  which  he  was  the  sole  Editor  and  Annotator, 
A  Monument  of  literary  lore  Unrivalled  in  its  kind ; 
In  grateful  appreciation  whereof, 
A  tablet  to  his  memory  has  been  erected 
By  the  Dean  and  Chapter  of  Westminster  in  that  Abbey. 
These  great  and  rare  qualities  were  not  more  admirable 
Than  the  Generous  and  disinterested  Sympathy 
Which  made  him  always  willing  to  give 
Gratuitous  Assistance  to  his  Fellow  Workers 
On  both  sides  of  the  Atlantic 
(Many  of  whom  he  had  never  seen)  ; 
An  Assistance  which  will  long  be  missed, 
And  long  had  in  thankful  remembrance. 
Beloved  by  all  who  knew  him. 
And  deeply  regretted  by  many  more, 
He  departed  this  life 
(In  which  he  had  played  so  active  a  part) 
On  26  May,  1882, 
In  the  62nd  year  of  his  age. 


'^Best,  happy  Dead, 
Sleep  all  thy  Weariness  away. 
Thou  shalt  be  waked,  on  God's  great  day, 
From  thy  cold  bed.** 


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HISTORICAL  AND  GENEALOGICAL 

REGISTER. 


JULY,  1884. 


MEMOm  OF  THE  KEV.  DORUS  CLAEKE,  D.D. 

By  the  Her.  HsmiT  A.  Hazeit,  A.M^  of  Aubomdale. 

DORUS  CLAEKE  was  the  eldest  of  the  eight  children  of  Jona- 
than  Clarke,  Jr.,  of  Westhampton,  Mass.,  where  he  was  born 
Jan.  2,  1797.  His  mother  was  Jemima,  daughter  of  Capt.  Azariah 
Lyman,  of  the  same  town.  His  father  was  of  the  fifth  generation 
from  William  Clarke,  who  was  at  Dorchester  in  1637,  and  whose 
son  John  Clark  was  a  deacon  of  the  church  in  Northampton,  where 
he  died  in  1704.  Westhampton  was  incorporated  in  1778,  from  a 
part  of  Northampton ;  and  this  beautiful  locality  had  thus  been  the 
home  of  the  Clark  family  for,  at  least,  one  hundred  and  fifty  years. 

The  grandmothers  of  Dr.  Clarke  were  Sarah  Strong  and  Jemima 
Kinsley,  and  other  direct  maternal  ancestors  represented  the  names 
of  Allen,  Edwards,  Parsons  and  Sheldon,  giving  him  the  right  to  a 
pardonable  pride,  which  he  certainly  felt,  in  his  Puritan  lineage.  He 
mirrored  his  own  feelings  in  a  quotation  which  he  once  made  from 
Macaulay  :  ''Any  people,  who  are  indifferent  to  the  noble  achievements 
of  remote  ancestors,  are  not  likely  to  achieve  any  thing 'worthy  to  be 
remembered  by  their  descendants  ;  "  and  the  steadiness  with  which 
he  stood  for  the  old  paths  was  a  legitimate  result  of  the  long  lines 
of  influence  which  had  come  down  to  him. 

Dr.  Clarke  published  in  1878  an  interesting  and  widely  circulated 
address  on  ^Saying  the  Catechism,"  which  contains  glimpses  of  his 
early  home  and  life  that  may  fitly  be  re-produced  here : 

"'  The  town  of  Northampton,  as  it  was  originally  laid  out,  embraced  the 
present  towns  of  Northampton,  Easthampton,  Southampton,  and  West- 
hampton. Westhampton  is  the  most  picturesque  of  these  four  municipalities. 
It  was  incorporated  in  the  year  1778.  In  its  palmiest  days  it  numbered 
only  about  nine  hundred  souls,  and  now  contains  only  about  six  hundred. 
It  lies  partly  in  the  valley  of  the  Connecticut  River,  and  partly  upon  the 
hills  which  form  the  eastern  slope  of  the  Green  Mountain  range,  which 
extends  from  Canada  to  Long  Island  Sound.  My  eyes  first  saw  the  light 
of  day  upon  the  Alpine  heights,  one  mile  west  of  the  centre ;  and,  in  the 
vast  and  beautiful  valley  below,  lay  Northampton,  Easthampton,  Amherst, 

VOL.   XXXYIU.  23 


254  Mev.  Dorua  Clarke.  [Jolji 

Hadley,  South  Hadley,  Moant  Tqp,  Mount  Holyoke,  and  the  serpentine 
Connecticut,  winding  its  way  to  the  ocean, — all  of  which  were  photographed 
indelibly,  in  variegated  mosaics,  upon  my  youthful  imagination.  Often  was 
my  taste  regaled  with  the  grandeur  of  that  splendid  panorama  of  hill  and 
dale,  of  mountain  and  valley,  of  churches  and  hamlets.  Some  new  and 
beautiful  features  have  since  been  added  to  that  magnificent  spectacle,  wheo 
viewed  from  the  loftier  eminences,  such  as  the  Williston  Seminary,  the 
Smith  College,  the  Agricultural  College,  and  Amherst  College.  Mount 
Washington  presents  sublimer  scenery,  but  none  so  beautiful.  It  was  a  fine 
place,  too,  for  the  display  of  heaven's  pyrotechnics  and  artillery.  Well  do 
I  recollect  how  sometimes  the  firmament  gathered  blackness,  and  '  the  rain 
descended,  aud  the  fioods  came,  and  the  winds  blew,'  and  the  lightnings 
gleamed,  and  the  thunders  crashed  along  the  mouutains,  and  the  earth  rocked 
under  the  fury  of  the  tempest  as  it  swept  sublimely  along  down  into  the 
vast  valley  beneath ;  and  how  the  commingled  elements  raged  and  rolled 
and  surged  over  £asthampton  and  Northampton,  and  sent  back  their  deafen- 
ing roar  to  my  ears ;  while  the  setting  sun  came  out  in  his  brightness  to 
look  at  the  scene,  lighted  up  the  hills  around  me  with  his  smiles,  painted 
rainbows  on  the  departing  storm,  and  every  twig  and  leaf  and  flower  glit- 
tered with  tears  of  gratitude  that  the  fearful  tornado  was  overpast  and  gone. 
**  The  early  settiers  of  that  town  were  a  godly  generation.  Divine  Provi- 
dence sifted  Northampton,  Easthampton,  Southampton,  and  Dedham  in 
Massachusetts,  and  Colchester,  Lebanon,  and  Coventry  in  Connecdcat,  to 
find  seed  good  enough  wherewith  to  sow  those  hills  and  valleys.  The  names 
of  the  pioueers  may  not  be  found  in  the  registers  of  heralds,  but  I  verily 
believe  that  most  of  them  will  be  found  in  the  ^  Book  of  Life.'  Neither  they 
nor  their  descendants  there  have  been  distinguished  for  wealth.  There  are 
no  wealthy  people  in  that  town,  and,  what  is  better,  there  are  no  poor  people 
there.     As  Defoe  said  of  the  Scotch, — 

They  are  rich  compared  to  poor,  and  poor  compared  to  rich. 

But  they  are  and  were  '  rich  towards  God.' 

*'In  ecclesiastical  polity,  the  people  were  as  unitedly  Congregationalists, 
as  they  were  unitedly  evangelical  in  doctrine,  and  they  are  nearly  as  much 
so  at  tiie  present  day.  No  other  church  exists  in  the  town,  and,  to  present 
appearance,  no  other  church  ever  will. 

''  With  the  exception  of  one  excellent  family  which  came  from  Dedham,  all 
observed  Saturday  evening  as  a  part  of  the  Sabbath,  and  kept  it  with  the 
most  conscientious  strictness.  On  the  Sabbath,  no  work  was  done  except 
'  works  of  necessity  and  mercy,'  and  no  recreations  were  allowed.  Family 
prayer,  morning  and  evening,  was  universal ;  and  the  children  were  thor- 
oughly instructed  in  the  great  articles  of  the  Christian  faith,  as  it  was  held  by 
their  fathers.  The  first  meeting-house  was  built  soon  after  Mr.  Hale's 
ordination ;  and  though  it  exhibited  many  symptoms  of  decay,  and  though 
old  Boreas  often  treated  himself  to  the  music  of  the  clatter  of  its  doors  and 
windows  and  shingles,  it  was  still  standing  within  my  own  recollection.  It 
was  innocent  of  paint  and  bell  and  steeple,  as  well  as  of  a  thin  congregation 
on  the  Sabbath.  Rain  or  shine,  snow  or  hail,  lightning  or  thunder,  the 
people  were  all  there,  including  many  of  the  small  children,  and  even  in- 
fants, who  sometimes  furnished  music  gratuitously, — solos,  duets,  and  cho- 
ruses. The  other  exercises  of  the  church  were  conducted  with  the  greatest 
reverence  and  decorum." 


1884.]  JRev.  Dorus  Clarke.  255 

A  graphic  picture  follows  of  ^  Saying  the  Catechism  "  as  it  was 

Eractised  in  Westhampton.  The  pastor  was  Rev.  Enoch  Hale, 
rother  of  Nathan  Hale,  whose  name,  as  the  martyr  of  the  Revolu- 
tion, is  immortal.  Three  summer  Sabbaths  yearly  were  devoted  to 
the  catechetical  exercise,  which  was  conducted  in  the  church  by  the 
pastor.     All  the  children  in  the  town  were  expected  to  appear. 

^'  There  was  '  no  discharge  in  that  war.'  Public  sentiment  demanded  the 
most  implicit  obedience  by  all  concerned.  The  old  Primers  were  looked 
up,  new  ones  booght,  and  the  parents  set  the  children  to  the  work  at  once 
and  in  earnest  £very  question  and  every  answer  must  be  most  thoroughly 
committed  to  memory,  verbatim  et  literatim  et  punctuatim.  The  time  for 
recitation  was  at  the  close  of  the  afternoon  service.  All  the  children  in  the 
town,  dressed  in  their '  Sabba-day  clothes,'  were  arranged  shoulder  to  shoulder, 
— ^the  boys  on  the  one  side,  and  the  girls  on  the  other  of  the  broad  aisle, 
beginning  at  the  '  deacon's  seat'  beneath  the  pulpit,  and  extending  down  that 
uue,  and  round  through  the  side  aisles  as  far  as  was  necessary.  The  par- 
ents— *'  children  of  a  larger  growth  '—crowded  the  pews  and  galleries,  tremb- 
lingly anxious  that  their  little  ones  might  acquit  themselves  well.  Many  a 
mother  bent  over  that  scene  with  solemn  interest,  handkerchief  in  hand, 
the  tears  of  joy  ready  to  fall  if  their  children  should  succeed,  and  tears  of 
sorrow  if  they  should  happen  to  fail.    It  was  a  spectacle  worthy  of  a  painter. 

^  Father  Hale,  standing  in  the  pulpit,  put  out  the  questions  to  the  children 
in  order ;  and  each  one,  when  the  question  came  to  him,  was  expected  to 
wheel  out  of  the  line,  a  la  miUtaire,  into  the  broad  aisle,  and  face  the  min- 
ister, and  make  his  very  best  obeisance,  and  answer  the  question  put  to  him 
without  the  slightest  mistake.  To  be  told^  that  is,  to  be  prompted  or  cor- 
rected by  the  minister,  was  not  a  thing  to  be  permitted  by  any  child,  who 
expected  thereafter  to  have  any  reputation  in  the  town  for  good  scholarship. 
In  this  manner  the  three  divisions  of  the  Catechism  were  successively  re- 
cited, while  many  were  the  *  knees  which  smote  one  against  another ; '  and 
many  are  the  persons  who  recollect,  and  will  long  recollect,  the  palpitating 
heart,  the  tremulous  voice,  the  quivering  frame,  with  which  for  several  years 
they  went  through  that  terrible  ordeal.  But,  if  the  nervous  effects  of  that 
exercise  were  appalling,  the  moral  influence  was  most  salutary;  and  I  desire, 
in  this  presence,  to  acknowledge  my  deep  obligations  to  my  parents,  who 
long  since,  as  I  trust, '  passed  into  the  skies,'  for  their  fidelity  in  requiring  me, 
much  against  my  will,  to  commit  to  memory  the  Assembly's  Catechism,  and 
to  *  say '  it  six  or  seven  years  in  succession  in  the  old  meeting-house  in  West- 
hampton, amid  tremblings  and  agitations  I  can  never  cease  to  remember. 

^  But  this  was  not  all.  The  Catechism  formed  a  part  of  the  curriculum  of 
aU  the  common  schools  in  that  town  for  half  a  century,  and  was  as  thor- 
oughly taught  and  as  regularly  recited  there  as  Webster's  Spelling-Book,  or 
Murray's  English  Grammar.  It  was  as  truly  a  classic  as  any  other  book. 
It  was  taught  everywhere, — in  the  family,  in  the  school,  and  in  the  church, — 
indeed,  it  was  the  principal  intellectual  and  reVigioua  pabulum  of  the  people. 
We  bad  it  for  breakfast,  and  we  had  it  for  dinner,  and  we  had  it  for  supper. 
The  entire  town  was  saturated  with  its  doctrines,  and  it  is  almost  as  much 
BO  at  the  present  day." 

Moulded  by  such  influences,  young  Clarke  at  the  age  of  sixteen 
entered  Williams  College,  which  had  graduated  its  first  class  two  years 


256  Hev,  Doras  Clarke.  [July* 

before  his  own  birth.  His  class,  that  of  1817,  numbered  seven,  one  of 
whom  during  the  last  two  years  was  Emory  Washburn,  afterwards 
the  eminent  judge  and  governor  of  Massachusetts.  In  1815,  during 
his  course,  the  Rev.  Ebenezer  Fitch,  D.D.,  the  first  president  of 
Williams  College,  resigned,  and  was  succeeded  by  Rev.  Zephaniah 
S.  Moore,  D.D.  The  influence  of  both  these  eminent  men  was  thus 
brought  to  bear  upon  him,  and  left  lasting  impressions,  as  did  the 
missionary  impulses  which  were  specially  emphatic  in  the  college  at 
that  time.  His  love  and  loyalty  to  his  alma  mater,  to  the  end  of  his 
life,  were  especially  strong ;  and  the  honorary  degree  of  Doctor  of 
Divinity,  which  she  conferred  upon  him  in  1869,  was  a  tribute  to  a 
son  as  loyal  as  any  college  could  ask. 

From  college  he  went  at  once  to  Andover  Theological  Seminary, 
where  he  was  graduated  in  1820.  Of  the  twenty-eight  graduates  and 
nine  other  members  of  his  class  he  was  the  last  survivor.  His  classmates 
and  contemporaries  at  Andover  constituted  a  group  of  remarkable 
men ,  of  whom  an  unusually  large  proportion  have  since  become  widely 
and  honorably  famous.  Under  Porter,  Stuart,  and  Woods,  the  U- 
lustrious  trio  of  professors,  who  then  gave  so  much  character  to  Axh 
dover,  and  with  the  scarcely  less  important  stimulus  afforded  by  the 
students  with  whom  he  was  brought  in  contact,  the  training  which 
Mr.  Clarke  received  bore  excellent  fruit.  To  the  end  of  his  long  life 
he  counted  his  privileges  at  Andover  among  the  best,  and  recurred 
to  them  with  unfailing  pleasure.  He  went  out  from  his  college  and 
seminary  course  well  furnished  for  his  work,  trained  to  scholarly 
habits — a  careful  thinker,  a  sound  reasoner,  wielding  the  pen  of  a 
ready  writer,  and  ardent  in  the  spiritual  activities  to  which  he  was 
called. 

When  his  course  of  study  was  finished,  and  he  was  ready  to  under- 
take the  work  of  his  chosen  calling,  he  found  his  way  to  Blandford, 
in  Hampden  County,  among  the  hills  of  western  Massachusetts,  and 
was  there  ordained  and  installed  over  the  Congregational  Church, 
Feb.  5,  1823.  In  the  useful  and  congenial  duties  of  this  pastorate 
thirteen  years  of  his  early  manhood  were  spent.  He  brought  to  them 
diligence  and  enthusiasm,  and  was  permitted  to  gather  precious  fruits. 
Among  the  children  of  the  town  and  church  who  were  trained  under 
his  pastoral  influence  was  Rev.  Daniel  Butler,  who  has  been  con- 
nected with  the  Bible  cause  in  Massachusetts  as  agent  and  secretary 
almost  forty  years.  Of  this  Blandford  ministry  Mr.  Butler  thus 
spoke  at  his  funeral : 

"  The  town  of  Blandford  was  prominent  among  the  hill  towns  of  western 
Massachusetts.  It  was  seven  miles  square,  and  contained  nearly  eighteen 
hundred  inhabitants.  The  larger  portion  of  the  people  were  his  parishion- 
ers, and  were  scattered  over  the  whole  town.  The  hills  were  steep,  the 
roads  rough,  and  the  winter  storms  rendered  the  travelling  difficult  and  some- 
times impossible.  He  had,  however,  youth  on  his  side,  perfect  health,  and 
a  united  parish,  and  heartily  addressed  himself  to  the  discharge  of  his  a^ 


1884.]  Bev.  Dorus  Clarke.  257 

Bomed  daties.  The  history  of  the  church  during  this  period  attests  the  use- 
fulness of  his  labors,  and  aged  believers  will  speak  tenderly  to-day  of  the 
beloved  pastor  who  in  their  youthful  days  led  them  to  the  cross.  There 
were  many  things  that  rendered  his  position  desirable,  and,  agreeably  as  his 
later  years  were  spent,  it  may  be  questioned  if  he  was  ever  happier  than  in 
those  early  years  when,  from  a  home  made  radiant  by  the  presence  of  wife 
and  children,  he  went  forth  to  his  appointed  work." 

The  church  in  Blandford  prospered  under  this  stimulating  ministry. 
Extensive  revivals  were  enjoyed  in  1825  and  in  1831,  and  large 
harvests  rewarded  the  young  pastor's  labors. 

After  thirteen  years  in  this  charge,  he  was  dismissed  Feb.  17, 
1835,  and  accepted  a  call  he  had  received  from  the  church  at  Chicopee 
Falls,  which  was  then  a  parish  in  Springfield.  He  was  installed 
there  March  4,  1835,  and  remained  until  Nov.  4,  1840.  Here,  in  a 
growing  manufacturing  village,  he  labored  with  ardor  and  with  much 
success.  The  church,  which  was  small  in  numbers  at  the  beginning 
of  his  ministry,  received  nearly  150  members  during  the  five  years 
of  his  pastorate,  and  the  fruits  of  his  work  have  endured.  The  vol- 
ume of  Lectures  to  Young  People^  which  was  published  in  1836,  and 
had  a  wide  circulation  through  several  editions,  represents  well  the 
direction  and  spirit  of  his  labors  in  this  pastorate. 

Eighteen  very  actiwre  years  in  the  ministry  brought  Mr.  Clarke, 
in  1840,  to  a  point  where  his  health  demanded  a  change,  and  resign- 
ing his  charge  at  Chicopee  he  came  to  Boston,  where  and  in  its  vici- 
nity the  latter  half  of  his  life  was  spent.  The  transition  to  an  editor's 
chair  brought  him  to  a  place  for  which  he  had  many  qualifications. 
He  wielded  a  ready  pen  ;  he  had  a  lively  interest  in  passing  events 
and  an  eye  for  their  deeper  significance ;  and  his  discussions  were  forci- 
ble, pointed  and  practical. 

In  1839  Rev.  Dr.  Parsons  Cooke  had  established  The  Puritan 
at  Lynn.  It  was  designed  to  be  a  family  religious  paper,  strongly 
Calvinistic  in  its  type  of  theology.  It  was  removed  to  Boston 
in  1840,  and  the  Rev.  Dr.  Woodbridge  became  connected  with 
it  as  a  proprietor  and  editor.  With  the  spirit  and  aims  of  this  paper 
Mr.  Clarke  had  a  warm  sympathy  from  the  first,  and  the  result 
came  naturally  when,  in  July,  1842,  he  entered  its  management 
as  both  editor  and  proprietor.  In  the  congenial  labors  of  this 
position  he  spent  three  years,  becoming  for  a  short  time  sole  pro- 
prietor of  the  paper,  and  using  the  opportunity  thus  afforded  for  the 
dissemination  of  the  doctrinal  views  to  which  from  his  childhood  he 
had  been  strongly  attached.  It  was  a  period  of  theological  ferment, 
and  the  debates  between  Old  School  and  New  School  waxed  warm. 
Andover  was  arrayed  against  Princeton,  and  New  Haven  against 
Hartford,  and,  in  the  thick  of  the  conflict,  The  Puritan  sought  to  be 
heard,  and  was  heard.  Dr.  Clarke's  nature  possessed  a  comba- 
tive side.  He  was  well  furnished  by  training  and  temperament,  to 
^'contend  earnestly  for  the  faith  once  delivered  to  the  saints,"  and 
TOL.  xxxvnL       23* 


258  Mev.  Dorus  Clarke.  [July, 

did  not  shun  any  encounter  to  which  he  believed  that  loyalty  to  the 
truth  summoned  him.  In  this  respect  he  was  of  kindred  mould  with 
his  associates  of  The  Puritan  ;  and  they  did  not  fail  to  exert  a  decided 
influence  on  the  current  of  events. 

Dr.  Clarke  disposed  of  his  interest  and  retired  from  the  editor- 
ship of  The  Puritan  in  May,  1845,  and,  during  1846,  was  an 
editor  of  the  Mother's  Magazine.  In  1847,  he  became  an  editor  and 
proprietor  of  the  Christian  Alliance  and  Family  Visitor^  and, 
subsequently,  of  the  Christian  Times,  He  was  also  for  some  time 
the  Boston  associate  editor  of  the  Christian  Parlor  Magazine^  and 
of  Merrxfs  Museum^  which  were  published  in  New  York.  These 
various  editorial  labors  furnished  him  with  useful  employment,  and 
gave  him  a  wide  influence.  He  engaged  in  them  with  characteristic 
enthusiasm.  When  he  put  his  hand  to  any  work  he  gave  it  his 
heart ;  and  his  editorial  work  was  incisive,  instructive  and  salutary. 

In  1847  he  removed  from  Boston  to  Newton,  and  in  1849 
made  his  home  in  Waltham,  where  he  remained  for  twenty  years, 
a  longer  residence  than  he  ever  had  elsewhere.  In  1869  he  returned 
to  Boston,  where  he  found  a  most  convenient  and  pleasant  home  at 
13  Walnut  Street,  and  where  he  remained  until  the  end.  Here,  m 
the  vicinity  and  companionship  of  his  children,  and  in  the  loving  and 
pious  care  for  his  wife,  who  in  her  later  years  was  quite  an  invalid, 
this  closing  period  of  his  life  was  spent  in  a  ripe  and  honorable  age. 
He  was  a  member,  and  active  in  the  councils,  of  the  Massachusetts 
Total  Abstinence  Society.  In  1862  he  became  a  member  of  the  New 
England  Historic  Genealogical  Society,  which  he  served  as  its  His- 
toriographer and  as  one  of  its  Directors,  giving  to  it  much  time  and 
labor ;  so  much,  that  it  is  only  a  fit  recognition  of  his  usefulness  that 
a  fine  portrait  of  him  graces  its  walls.  In  these  relations,  and  in 
association  with  his  brethren  in  the  ministry,  in  whose  councils  he 
always  bore  his  part,  his  hands  and  his  active  mind  found  no  time 
for  idleness.  He  was  '*  diligent  in  business,  fervent  in  spirit,  serving 
the  Lord." 

Mr.  Clarke  married.  May  20, 1824,  Hannah  Alvard  Bliss^  daugh- 
ter of  Gad  and  Deborah  (Olcott)  Bliss,  of  Longmeadow,  where  she 
was  born  Dec.  21,  1801.  Few  men  owe  more  to  a  good  wife  than 
did  Dr.  Clarke  to  the  excellent  woman  who  for  fifty-four  years  filled 
his  home  with  the  constant  light  of  her  loving  presence,  care  and 
grace.  Those  who  knew  her  use  warm  words  in  her  praise,  de- 
scribing the  serenity,  the  tact,  and  the  fidelity  with  which,  as  wife 
and  mother,  she  moved  through  the  round  of  her  household  ways. 
She  was  spared  to  a  felicitous  celebration  of  their  golden  wedding  in 
1874,  and,  for  four  years  longer,  illustrated  the  beauty  and  blessed- 
ness of  her  Christian  faith,  in  much  bodily  infirmity  and  suffering. 
Her  death  occurred  May  9,  1878,  at  the  age  of  76  years. 

Their  children  were : 


1884.]  liev.  Darus  Clarke.  259 

1.  Susan  Cornelia,  born  March  3,  1825,  who  married  Sept  13,  1847, 

Samael  Dennis  Warren,  an  extensive  paper  mauufacturer  and 
merchant,  whose  home  is  on  Mt.  Vernon  Street,  Boston. 

2.  Henrt  Marttn,  born  Nov.  19,  1826,  who  married  Oct.  15,  1857, 

Jane  S.  Hurlbut,  of  Lee,  and  lives  in  Boston. 

3.  William  Bliss,  born  June  21,  1829,  who  entered  the  practice  of 

law,  and  died  in  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  Oct  28,  1864;   a  young  man  of 
much  ability  and  promise. 

4.  Ellen  Sarah  Sophia,  bom  July  21,  1833,  who  married  Oct  15, 

1874,  George  Warren  Hammond,  and  lives  in  Boston. 

5.  Mart  Ltman,  born  Dec.  10,  1839. 

In  1876  Dr.  Clarke  printed  for  private  circulation  a  record  of  his 
Ancestry  and  Writings,  in  25  pages,  octavo.  It  is  due  to  him 
that  his  own  account  of  his  literary  life  should  be  given  here. 

"In  October,  1827,  he  published,  by  request,  a  Discourse  upon  the  *  True 
Foundation  of  Christian  Hope,'  delivered  at  the  ordination  of  his  brother, 
the  Rev.  Tertius  S.  Clarke,  as  pastor  of  the  Congregational  Church  in  South 
Deerfield,  Mass.  In  1836  he  published  a  volume  of  eight  '  Lectures  to 
Young  People,'  of  which  two  editions  were  printed,  one  in  Boston  and  one 
in  New  York.  In  1838  he  published  four  *  Letters  to  the  Hon.  Horace 
Mann,  Secretary  of  the  Board  of  Education,'  then  recently  formed,  upon 
the  proper  ftinctions  of  that  Board.  The  letters  were  published  over  the 
signature, '  Clericus  Hampdenensis.'  In  1839  he  published  a  '  Sermon  upon 
the  death  of  William  L.  Wyman,  of  Brookline,  Vt,*  who  was  drowned  in  the 
Chicopee  River.  In  1841  he  removed  to  Boston,  and  became  joint  editor 
and  proprietor  of  'The  New  England  Puritan,' and  afterward  was  a  proprie- 
tor and  editor  of  *  The  Christian  Alliance  and  Family  Visiter,'  of  *  The 
Christian  Times  ;'  and,  at  a  later  period  still,  was  the  Boston  editor  of  *  The 
Christian  Parlor  Magazine '  and  *  Merry's  Museum,'  published  in  New  York. 
His  contributions  to  these  publications  were  numerous.  In  1864  he  pub- 
lished an  octavo  volume  of  235  pages,  entitled  *  Fugitives  from  the  Escritoire 
of  a  Retired  Editor,'  consisting  of  articles,  some  of  which  had  never  been 
published,  and  others  which  had  already  appeared  in  reviews  or  in  pamph- 
let form.  In  1866,  as  chairman  of  a  committee  appointed  for  the  purpose, 
he  compiled  and  edited  a  small  volume  of  85  pages,  entitled  *  A  Memorial 
of  the  Jie-union  of  the  Natives  of  Westhampton,  Mass.'  In  18G9  his  *  One- 
ness of  the  Christian  Church,'  a  volume  of  105  pages,  made  its  appearance, 
and  it  has  passed  through  two  editions.  In  1871  his  work  entitled  'Ortho- 
dox Congregationalism  and  the  Sects,'  a  volume  of  170  pages,  was  published. 
In  1872  he  published  in  the  Vermont  Chronicle,  in  six  articles,  a  *  Review 
of  the  Oberlin  Council,'  over  the  signature  *  A  New  England  Congregation- 
alist'  In  1 874  he  published  a  volume  on  *  The  Revision  of  the  English 
Version  of  the  Bible.'  It  was  adopted  and  issued  bv  the  American  Tract 
Society,  Boston.  In  1875  *The  Life  and  Writings  of  F.  P.  G.  Guizot'— 
an  article  which  he  had  read  before  *  The  Now  England  Historic  Genea- 
logical Society,'  in  the  course  of  his  official  duty  as  the  Historiographer  of 
that  Institution — was  given  to  the  public.  In  the  course  of  a  service  of  seven 
years  in  that  capacity  he  prepared  and  read  1 27  Memoirs  of  the  deceased 
members  of  that  Society,  the  greater  part  of  which  have  been  published  in 
'The  New  England  Historical  and  Genealogical  Register.'  In  1875  he 
also  wrote  a  '  Memoir  of  the  Rev.  James  Browning  Miles,  D.D.,  Corres- 


260  Rev.  Dorus  Clarke.  [Jolji 

ponding  Secretary  of  the  American  Peace  Society,*  which  was  pablished  in 
'The  Advocate  of  Peace/  in  December  of  that  year.  In  1876  he  pablished 
in  the  Boston  Transcript,  over  the  signature  of  *  Justice,'  a  Beview  of  the 
*  Advisory  Council '  then  recently  held  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.** 

So  far  is  the  record  made  by  Dr.  Clarke,  in  1876,  of  hia  own  writings. 
It  remains  to  add  the  following : — In  1877  he  read  before  the  minis- 
ter's meeting,  and  afterwards  published,  an  essay  on  the  question 
"What  is  the  true  Idea  of  the  Tri-unity  of  God?,"  18  pps.  8vo. 
In  December,  1878,  he  read  before  the  New  England  Historic  Gren- 
ealogical  Society  an  article  on  Saying  the  Oatechiem^  which  was  pub- 
lished in  the  Congregationaliat^  and  in  two  pamphlet  editions, 
and  had  a  very  wide  circulation.  Extracts  given  aboTe  show  its 
character  and  vigor.  In  1879  he  gave,  in  his  native  town,  an  ad- 
dress commemorating  the  one  hundredth  anniversary  of  the  church  in 
Westhampton,  which  was  published  as  One  Hundred  Years  of  a 
New  England  Church.  In  1881  the  Total  Abstinence  Society 
published,  from  his  pen,  an  Open  Letter  to  the  Rev.  Dr.  Crosby. 
In  1883  he  read  a  paper  before  the  Suffolk  North  Association  on  The 
Alleged  Progress  in  Theology ^  which  was  his  last  publication. 

The  later  years  of  Dr.  Clarke's  life  gave  pleasant  illustration  of 
the  vigor  and  elasticity  of  his  physical  and  spiritual  manhood.  He 
was  hearty  in  body  and  mind,  active  in  his  accustomed  duties, 
cheerful  and  hopeful.  He  attended  the  annual  meeting  of  the  New 
England  Historic  Genealogical  Society,  which  occurred  on  his  birth- 
day, Jan.  2,  1884,  and  his  presence  was  gracefully  recognized  by 
the  president,  Hon.  Marshall  P.  Wilder. 

On  Feb.  25th  he  wrote  a  letter  to  the  Eev.  William  C.  Scofield, 
pastor  of  the  church  in  Westhampton,  which  was  perhaps  the  last  he 
ever  wrote.  From  this  we  give  an  extract,  which  lifts  the  veil  and 
gives  us  a  glimpse  of  the  experience  through  which  he  was  drawing 
near  to  the  end.  He  says  :  **  For  five  weeks  I  have  been  in  the  hands 
of  the  physicians.    My  difficulties  are  those  which  are  incident  to  old 

age All  talk  encouragingly,  but  I  think  it  a  matter  of  doubt 

whether  I  am  able  to  go  from  home  much  more.  My  earthly  work 
is  done.  Oh  that  it  had  been  done  better  I  My  hope  in  Christ  is 
unshaken,  and  sometimes  I  should  be  glad  to  depart.  I  shall  much 
regret  not  to  visit  Westhampton  again,  and  your  new  church  ;  but 
there  is  a  much  more  splendid  place  of  worship^up  there  !  **  To 
that  he  was  rapidly  hastening,  and  nearer,  perhaps,  than  he  thought. 
He  passed  away  on  the  8th  of  March,  aged  87  years,  2  months  and 
6  days. 

The  funeral  services  were  held,  March  11th,  in  Mt  Vernon  Church, 
conducted  by  the  pastor.  Rev.  Samuel  E.  Herrick,  D.D.  The  at- 
tendance was  large,  including  many  ministerial  friends  of  Dr.  Clarke, 
and  many  of  his  associates  in  the  New  England  Historic  Genealogical 
Society.  Memorial  addresses  were  made  by  Rev.  Daniel  Butler, 
of  the  Massachusetts  Bible  Society,  and  by  Rev.  Cushing  Eells, 


1884.]       Books  on  If.  E.  in  English  Plantation  Office.        261 

D.D.,  of  Washington  Territory,  both  of  whom  were  natives  of  Bland- 
ford,  and  could  speak  from  personal  experience  of  Dr.  Clarke's  early 
pastorate  in  that  town.  These  addresses,  with  an  appropriate  sermon 
preached  by  Dr.  Herrick  on  a  subsequent  Sabbath,  have  been 
published. 

We  are  permitted  to  add  a  note  from  Rev.  E.  E.  Strong,  D.D., 
editor  of  the  Missionary  Herald^  who  was  for  several  years  Dr. 
Clarke's  pastor  during  lus  residence  in  Waltham. 

^  Bey.  H.  a.  Hazen,  Boston. 

Mr  Dear  Sir  : — You  asked  me  for  a  brief  note  in  reference  to  Rev* 
Dr.  Dorus  Clarke,  who  was  for  some  years,  while  a  resident  iu  Waltham,  a 
member  of  the  church  of  which  I  had  the  honor  to  be  pastor.  During  these 
six  years  I  had  the  privilege  of  often  meeting  Dr.  Clarke,  both  in  his  home 
and  in  the  various  walks  of  life.  It  was  pleasant  to  watch  one,  who,  though 
he  had  retired  from  active  life,  after  a  common  phrase,  had  retained  all  his 
powers  of  body  and  mind  and  used  them  most  actively.  He  was  always  at 
work,  and  never  more  pleased  than  when  engaged  in  the  discussion  of  some 
literary  or  theological  subject  His  acute  mind  loved  to  follow  out  some 
new  line  of  argument,  especially  if  it  led  to  some  old  conclusion.  For  one 
who  held  so  strenuously  to  the  theories  of  the  past  he  was  remarkably  toler- 
ant of  the  methods  of  the  present  generation.  Conservative  by  nature  and 
conviction,  he  yet  could  favor  changes  where  he  saw  that  improvement  could 
be  made,  as  is  shown  in  his  published  essay  in  advocacy  of  a  revision  of  the 
English  Bible. 

**  After  Dr.  Clarke  removed  to  Boston  I  had  occasion  to  see  little  of  him, 
but  enough  to  know  that  he  maintained  a  lively  interest  in  the  antiquarian, 
literary,  and  theological  questions,  which  had  such  an  attraction  to  his  mind. 
It  was  pleasant  to  see  how  the  years  mellowed  his  thought  and  character, 
and  with  what  firmness  and  vigor  he  clung  to  the  faith  and  hope  which  he 
so  often  commended  to  others.  I  think  of  him  as  one  of  the  Puritan  fathers 
left  long  on  earth,  that  this  generation  might  know  what  those  fathers  were. 

I  am  very  truly  yours, 
"  Boston^  May  31,  1884.  E.  E.  Strong." 


BOOKS  IN  THE  ENGLISH  PLANTATION  OFFICE 
TREATING  OF  NEW  ENGLAND. 

Communicated  by  O.  D.  Soull,  Esq.,  of  Oxford,  England. 

AS  the  Council  for  Trade  and  Plantations  were  so  intimately  asso- 
ciated, for  so  many  years,  with  the  direction  of  affairs  in  New 
England,  it  is  interesting  to  know  what  authorities  they  consulted  on 
the  colony  during  their  deliberations.  The  following  list  of  works 
on  New  England  was  drawn  up  between  the  years  1676  and  1680. 


V     ^ 


262  Braintree  Records.  [July, 

«  A  Lbt  of  all  Books  (in  the  Plantation  office)  treating  of  New  England." 

Printed  in  y*  jewe 

1671.  Ogilby  in  his  America. 

1625.  Purchas  his  pilgrims  y*  4^  part. 

1659.  Ferdinando  Grorges  Esq'. 

1641.  Abstract  of  y*  Laws  of  New  England. 
1648.  New  England^s  first  Fruits. 

1622.  Relation  of  Plimouth  in  new  England. 

1622.  New  Englands  Trials  by  Cap^  Jn^"  Smith. 

1644.  A  short  Discovery  of  America  by  W*"  Castel. 

1676.  The  Warrs  of  New  Eng*  by  Increase  Mather. 

1616.  Description  of  New  Engl<^  by  Cap^  Jn^"  Smith. 

1674.  Dntch  patent  to  a  West  India  Company. 

1624.  General  History  of  New  Eng*  by  Cap'  Jn*  Smith. 

1676.  New  England  Crisis. 

1637.  New  England's  Canaan  by  Tho*  Morton. 

1672.  Description  of  New  Engl*  by  Sir  Th«  Lynch. 

1675.  2  voyages  to  New  Eng*  by  John  Josselyn. 
1672.  New  Engl^  Rarities  by  John  Josselyn. 
1672.  Laws  of  New  England. 

1638.  Cap' John  Underbills  news  from  America. 

1642.  Tho  Lechford's  news  from  New  Engl^ 
1628.  Voyages  into  N.  Engl<>  by  Ch'  Levet. 
1652.  HI  news  from  N  Engl*  by  John  Clark. 
1630.  New  England  Planta66n  by  a  Divine. 

1643.  Simplicity's  Vindication  against  the  Seaven  beaded  diareh  Gov- 

ernment. 
New  England's  prospects  by  W*"  Wood. 


BRAINTREE  RECORDS. 

Commanieated  bj  Samubl  A.  Batbs,  Esq.,  Town  Clerk  of  Braintree,  liaM. 

[Continued  from  toI.  xxxTiL  p.  S48.] 

Ruth  the  daughter  of  Samnell  Irons  Sb  Sarah  his  wife  was  borne  the  16* 
Novemb'  1678. 

Mehetabell  the  daughter  of  Thomas  Bass  &  Sarah  his  wife  was  borne  18*^ 
Septemb'  1678. 

Abigaill  the  daughter  of  Samuell  Savell  &  Hannah  his  wife  was  borne 
y»  H'^^offebruary  1678. 

Abigaill  the  daughter  of  Samuell  Neale  Sb  Abigaill  his  wife  borne  the  17* 
of  february  1678. 

John  the  son  of  Alexander  Marsh  &  Mary  his  ¥nfe  was  borne  y*  17* 
february  1678. 

Moses  the  son  of  Theophilus  Curtis  &  Hannah  his  wife  was  borne  No* 
vemb'25.  1678. 

Joseph  Permenter  the  son  of  Joseph  Permenter  ds  Mary  his  wife  was 
borne  the  23  of  Aprill  1679. 

Joanna  daughter  of  Nathaniell  Wales  Sb  Joanna  his  wife  was  borne  the 
IS^  ApriU  1679. 


1884.]  Br aintree  Records.  263 

ElUabeth  7*  daughter  of  Moses  Belshar  &  Mary  his  wife  was  borne 
Aprill25*  1679. 

Margarett  the  daughter  of  Jn^  Lambe  &  Mary  his  wife  was  borne  the 
26«»offebruary  1678. 

Silence  daughter  of  Samuell  Belshar  d;  Mary  his  wife  borne  the  24^ 
June  1679. 

Caleb  the  son  of  Eleazer  Ezgate  &  Joice  his  wife  was  borne  1679. 

Abinezer  the  son  of  Abinezer  Heiden  and  Hannah  his  wife  borne  the  18^ 
Aprill  1679. 

Deborah  the  daughter  of  Samuell  Basse  &  Rebeckah  his  wife  borne  Oo- 
tob'  5***  1679. 

Jn^  the  son  of  Jn®  Savell  &  Mehetabell  his  ¥nfe  was  borne  the  28^  Oo- 
tob'  1679. 

Ellin  the  daughter  of  M'  Beniamin  Thompson  d;  Susanna  his  wife  borne 
28»^  NovemV  1679. 

the  daughter  of  Jn®  Hardine  d;  Hannah  his  wife  was  borne  the 

3*  of  December  1 679. 

Sarah  the  daughter  of  Jonathan  Heiward  &  Sarah  his  wife  borne  the 
12*^  Decemb'  1679. 

Margarett  daughter  of  Valentine  Decrow  &  Martha  his  wife  borne  the 
10«»of  Jany^l679. 

Abigaill  daughter  of  Jn^  Heiford  &  Abigaill  his  wife  borne  the  26^  of 
Jann^  1679. 

Elizabeth  daughter  of  M'  Moses  flfiske  &  Sarah  his  wife  borne  the  7'^  of 
feb^  1679.  80. 

Sarah  the  daughter  of  Nathaniell  Wales  d;  Joanna  his  wife  borne  the 
11*  of  March  1680,81. 

Nehemiah  the  son  of  Nehemiah  Heiden  &  Hannah  his  wife  was  borne 
May  16**  1680. 

Moses  the  son  of  Joseph  Peniman  &  Waitinge  his  wife  borne  february 
the  14«»»  1677. 

Deborah  the  daughter  of  Joseph  Peniman  &  Waitinge  his  wife  borne 
february  27«*  1679. 

Beniamin  the  son  of  Joseph  Allen  &  Ruth  his  wife  borne  the  31'*  of  Oo- 
tob'  1679. 

Mary  the  daughter  of  Joseph  Permenter  &  Mary  his  wife  was  borne 
May  the  27«*  1680. 

Joanna  the  daughter  of  Henry  Neale  &  Hannah  his  wife  borne  27**  of 
May  1680. 

Sarah  y*  daughter  of  Samuell  Tompson  &  Sarah  his  wife  borne  y*  first 
of  Janu^  1679. 

Rebekah  the  daughter  of  Richard  Thayer  &  Rebekah  his  wife  borne  the 
16*of  August  1680. 

Joseph  the  son  of  Joseph  Clerk  &  Damaris  his  wife  was  borne  the  10** 
of  Octob'  1 680. 

Peter  the  son  of  Peter  Scott  d;  Abigaill  his  wife  was  borne  the  20**  of 
September  1680. 

Sarah  the  daughter  of  James  Brackett  &  Sarah  his  wife  borne  the  22* 
October  1680. 

Hannah  y*  daughter  of  Edward  Linsford  &  Hannah  his  wife  was  borne 
Jtnu^  y^  9*  1680. 

David  son  of  Josiah  Chapin  d;  Lidia  his  wife  bom  Novemb'  9**  1680. 


264  Braintree  Records.  [July, 

Thomas  son  of  Thomas  Thaje  &  Abigaill  his  ¥nfe  borne  Janu^  14^ 
1680. 

Will"  the  son  of  WUl"  Savell  &  Deborah  his  wife  borne  feb^  19»»»  1680. 

Increase  the  son  of  Increase  Nile  &  Mary  his  wife  borne  March  9^ 
1680-81. 

Solomon  the  son  of  SoUomon  Curtis  &  prudence  his  wife  borne  March 
20'»»  1680-81. 

Hannah  the  daughter  of  Nehemiah  Heiden  &  Hannah  his  wife  borne 
July  16^  1681. 

Bathia  daughter  of  Samuell  Savell  &  Hannah  his  wife  borne  Octob'  17*^ 
1681. 

Jn^  son  of  Solomon  Veazy  &  Elizabeth  his  wife  borne  Novemb'  12**^  1681. 

Ruth  daughter  of  Abinezer  Heideu  &  Hannah  his  wife  borne  Novemh' 
19"»  1681. 

Katherine  daughter  of  Moses  Belshar  &  Mary  his  wife  borne  NoTemh' 
23*>  1681. 

Thomas  son  of  ffrancis  Nash  &  Elizabeth  his  wife  borne  agnst  last  1681. 

Sarah  daughter  of  Theophilus  Curtis  &  Hannah  his  wife  borne  feb^  y* 
1681. 

Samuell  son  of  Samuell  Basse  &  Rebekah  his  wife  borne  Decemb'  8*^ 
1681. 

Samuell  son  of  Jonathan  Hay  ward  &  Sarah  his  wife  was  bom  the  4^ 
of  Aprill  1682. 

Thomas  sou  of  Thomas  Thayr  &  Abigaill  his  wife  borne  Janu^  14^ 
1680. 

Samuell  son  of  Samuell  borne  Novemb'  17"*  1680^ 

Sarah  the  daughter  of  Beniamin  Savell  &  Rebeckah  his  borne  No- 

vemb'  1680. 

Wiir  son  of  Will"  Savell  &  Deborah  his  wife  borne  feb^  9*  1680. 

Hannah  daughter  of  Nehemiah   Heiden  &  Hannah  his  wife  borne  July 
18*M681. 

Increase  son  of  Increase  Nile  borne  March  9*^  1680-^1. 

Solomon  the  son  of  Solomon  Curtis  <&  Prudence  his  wife  borne  March 
20^'*  1680-81. 

Mary  the  daughter  of  Robert  field  &  Mary  his  wife  borne  Augost  SO** 
1681. 

Bathia  daughter  of  Samuell  Savell  &  Hannah  his  wife  borne  Octob*  17** 
1681. 

Edmond  son  of  Edmond  Quinsey  and  his  wife  borne  Octob'  14**  1681. 

Samuell  the  son  of  Samuell  Neale  <&  Abigaill  his  wife  borne  Septemb' 
b^^  1681. 

Rebeckah  daughter  of  Joseph  Allen  &  Rebeckah  his  wife  borne  De- 
cemb'O'**  1681. 

Lidia  daughter  Samuell  Paine  &  Mary  his  wife  borne  Janu^  6***  1681. 

John  the  sou  of  John  Heiford  &  Abigaill  his  wife  borne  feb'  23***  1681. 

John  the  son  of  John  Webb  &  Bethia  his  wife  borne  March  9'**  1681-2. 

Hannah  daughter  of  Samuell  Nile  &  Mary  his  wife  borne  1682. 

Richard  son  of  Will"  Horsey  &  Mary  his  wife  borne  May  6***  1682. 

Will"'  son  of  Thomas  Thayer  &  Abigaill  his  wife  borne  August  15** 
1682. 

Mary,  daughter  of  James  Brackett  &  Sarah  his  wife  borne  August  30^ 
1682. 

[To  be  oontinaed.] 


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ANCIENT  IRON  WORKS  IN  TAUNTON. 

By  J.  W.  D.  Hall,  of  Taunton,  Mass. 

HISTORY  of  the  early  iron  enterprises  in  Massachusetts  is  not  our 
purpose,  as  the  subject  has  been  exhausted  in  elaborate  data  and 
dissenting  opinions,  but  rather  to  present  a  few  interesting  facts  and  in- 
cidents relative  to  the  origin,  progress  and  successful  management  of  the 
ancient  Iron  Works  of  Taunton,  derived  from  antiquarian  researches  and 
reliable  records.  Traditions,  which  do  not  bear  the  test  of  investigation, 
have  crept  into  histories  and  census  reports  relative  to  the  origin  and  man- 
agement of  these  works ;  but  let  them  pass. 

It  has  been  generally  admitted  that  the  first  iron  works  enterprise  in  this 
state  for  the  manufacture  of  bar  iron  from  native  ore  was  commenced  on 
the  banks  of  the  Saugus  River  in  Lynn,  in  1643,  by  a  company  under  the 
auspices  and  influence  of  John  Winthrop,  Jr.,  son  of  Gov.  Winthrop,  with 
an  English  capital  from  London  of  £1000,  and  skilled  workmen  imported 
for  the  purpose;  that  another  iron  enterprise  was  soon  after  started  in 
**  Brantry  "  by  the  same  company,  and  that  Boston  donated  3000  acres  of 
common  land  as  an  encouragement  *'  to  set  up  iron  works  on  the  Monan- 
ticut  River''  in  that  town,  where  ore  had  been  discovered.  It  is  also 
alleged  that  an  unexpected  scarcity  of  ore  and  incompetent  management  in 
their  infancy  was  followed  by  disaster  to  these  enterprises,  and  that  after 
spending  a  large  amount,  about  £10,000,  the  company  partially  suspended 
operations  in  Lynn  and  Braintree,  in  the  latter  place  in  1653  and  in  the 
former  a  few  years  later. 

Iron  ore  had  been  discovered  quite  abundant  in  the  flats  bordering  on 
Two  Mile  River  and  other  localities  in  Taunton,  and  the  enterprising  Pil- 
grim settlers  considered  the  field  open  for  the  establishment  of  a  **  bloome- 
rie  **  on  that  river.  It  was  also  learned  that  Henry  and  James  Leonard, 
skilled  iron  workers  from  Wales,  who  had  been  employed  for  several  years 
at  the  works  in  Lynn  and  at  Braintree  by  the  Winthrop  company,  might 
be  induced  to  come  to  Taunton  and  aid  in  the  practical  working  of  iron. 
Accordingly  in  October,  1652,  preliminary  steps  were  taken  to  establish 
the  first  iron  works  in  the  Old  Colony,  in  Taunton,  and  the  following  was 
the  record,  Oct.  21,  1652: 

'*  It  was  at  a  town  meeting  conferred  and  agreed  upon  between  the  inhabitants 
of  Taunton  and  Henry  Leonard  of  Braintree  : 

Imprimis  It  was  agreed  and  granted  by  the  town  to  Henry  and  Jamee  Leonard, 
his  brother,  and  Ralph  Russell,  Tree  oon^nt  to  come  hither  and  join  with  certain 
of  our  inhabitants  to  set  up  a  Bloomery  Work  on  the  Two  Mile  River. 

**  It  was  also  agreed  and  granted  by  a  free  vote  of  the  town,  that  such  particular 
inhabitants  as  shall  concur  together  with  the  said  persons  in  this  design,  shall  have 
fne  liberty  from  the  town  so  to  do,  to  build  and  set  up  this  work,  and  that  they 
shall  have  the  woods  on  either  side  of  the  Two  Mile  River,  wheresoever  it  is  com- 
moD  on  that  side  of  the  river,  to  out  for  their  cord  wood  to  make  coals,  and  also  to 
di^  and  take  moine  or  ore  at  Two  Mile  Meadow,  or  in  any  of  the  commons  apper- 
taining to  the  town,  where  it  is  not  now  in  propriety."* 

In  accordance  with  the  above  preliminary  action,  the  leading  citizens  of 
Taunton  interested  in  the  enterprise,  formed  a  stock  company,  inviting 

•  Baylies*8  Historical  Memoir  of  the  Colony  of  New  Plymoath,  Part  ii.  p.  288. 
TOL.  XXXYUI.  24 


266  Ancient  Iron  Works  in  Taunton*  [July, 

capitalists  in  other  places  to  join  them  in  carrjing  the  project  into  effect 
without  the  aid  of  English  capital — and  they  succeeded.  To  obtain  the 
shareholders  required  some  length  of  time;  but  the  precise  date  when 
they  were  obtained  has  not  been  fully  ascertained,  nor  is  it  known  when 
the  brothers  Leonard  and  Mr.  Russell  came  from  Braintree.  Probably 
it  was  soon  after  the  suspension  of  the  iron  works  there  in  1653.  Nor 
is  there  any  record  that  Henry  Leonard  or  Ralph  Russell  were  employed 
in  these  works.  They  had  land  "  set  off*  to  them  "  by  the  proprietors  **  as 
encouragement/'  but  they  did  not  remain  to  occupy  it  Rassell  went  to 
Dartmouth  and  soon  after  was  engaged  in  starting  iron  works  at  ^  Russell's 
Mills.''  Henry  Leonard  was  at  Lynn  in  1655,  says  Newhall  the  historian, 
and  some  years  later  was  engaged  with  his  sons  by  a  wealthy  company  of 
Salem  in  an  iron  works  at  Rowley  Village.  He  afterwards  went  to  Nev 
Jersey,  and,  it  is  said,  successfully  engaged  with  a  company  in  the  man- 
ufacture of  bar  iron.  He  has  left  in  that  state  numerous  descendants, 
among  whom  are  men  of  ability  and  of  prominent  standing  in  business  and 
the  professions. 

A  documentary  relic  of  the  early  date  above  referred  to,  recently  found 
among  ancient  papers  in  the  handwriting  of  Oliver  Purchis,  who  was  tomi 
clerk  at  the  time,  makes  the  following  record  preparatory  to  the  organiza- 
tion of  the  Iron  Works  Company  in  1 653-4 : 

**  The  names  of  those  who  bath  put  in  themselves  to  be  proprietors  in  the  Bloora- 
erie,  viz: — Hezekiah  Hoare,  Thomns  Gilbert,  Richard  Williatns,  Walter  Dean, 
George  Hall,  Oliver  Purchis,  James  Walker,  John  Tisdall,  Wm.  Parker,  Mr.  Gil- 
bert scnr:  Peter  Pitts,  Richard  Stacey,  John  Cobb,  William  Hodges,  Nath'l  W<>od- 
ward,  Timothy  Holloway,  James  Burt,  E<iward  Bjbett,  Jonah  Austin,  sen'r,  John 
Parker,  Samuel  Wilbore,  Miss  E.  Pole,  Jane  Pole." 

Additional  records  show  the  names  of  William  Pole,  Timothy  Lindall  of 
Salem,  his  son-in-law,  Nicholas  White,  senr.,  Richard  Stephens/' John  Tur- 
ner, Thomas  Lincoln,  senr.,  Anthony  Slocum,  James  Leonard/Thos.  Arma- 
bery,  Joseph  Wilbore,  Henry  Andrews,  John  Hall,  James  Phillips,  Fran- 
cis Smith,  Geo.  Watson,  Gov.  Leverett  and  Wajor  Edward  Tyug  of  Boston, 
Nath'l  Paine,  senr.,  and  Stephen  Paine  of  Rehoboth,  John  Gary  and  Nath'l 
Paine,  Jr.,  of  Bristol,  Benedict  Arnold  of  Newport,  Richard  Thayer  of 
Braintree— contributing  from  £20  to  £5  each,  for  whole,  half  and  quarter 
shares. 

The  building  of  a  suitable  dam  across  "  Two  Mile  River,"  where  was  pre- 
viously a  bridge  ;  preparing  the  timber  for  the  necessary  buildings ;  obtain- 
ing from  abroad  the  hammers  and  heavy  iron  machinery  and  tools  required 
for  operating  the  "  bloomerie  "  for  the  manufacture  of  bar  iron,  occupied 
a  long  time  before  the  practical  working  of  the  same. 

The  following  confirmatory  record  in  a  ledger*  of  Capt  Thomas'  Leon- 
ard, son  of  James,*  who  was  with  his  father  a  "  bloomer,"  and  became  the 
"  clearkc  "  and  manager  in  1 G83,  indicates  the  time  the  works  commenced, 
as  follows : 

•  This  ledjrer  was  fonnd  in  the  old  mansion  built  in  1750  by  Dca.  Elijah'  Leonard,  prand- 
son  of  Capt.  Thomas,*  who  had  carefully  stored  the  books  transmitted  to  him  by  liis  father 
and  grandfather,  when  he  built  the  house.  It  was  the  birthplace  of  Capt.  Edward  Leon- 
ard, who  resided  there  seventy  years,  and  of  Rev.  Elijah  Leonard,  of  Marshfield,  who  died 
in  February,  1834,  after  a  forty-five  years'  pastorate,  and  the  father  of  Rev.  Geo.  Leonard, 
who  died  in  July,  1881,  after  a  pastorate  of  thirty  years  in  the  same  Marshfield  church,  and 
who  inherited  the  old  place  in  Raynham  from  his  uncle  Capt.  Edward.  It  was  sold  a  few 
years  ago  to  Mr.  John  Spinney,  who  in  preparing  to  remodel  the  old  mansion  dii*ct)vered 
the  books  deposited  there  one  hundred  and  thirty  years  before.  It  was  destroyed  by  fire 
shortly  afterwards. 


1884.]  Ancient  Iron  Works  in  Taunton.  267 

••  An  accompt  of  who  hath  heen  clarke  of  Taunton  Iron  Works  ever  sence  George 
Hall  was  first  Olearke,  and  some  others  joyned  with  him  for  a  time,  which  begun 
AoDO  1656.    Also,  what  product  the  works  hath  made  from  year  to  year." 

By  this  record,  which  has  descended  throu«jh  two  hundred  years,  and 
whose  authority  is  undoubted,  it  is  shown  that  the  manufacture  of  iron 
was  commenced  "  Anno  1656."  On  a  page  of  this  ledger  are  two  columns 
of  figures,  indicating  the  years  and  the  product  of  the  works  fifty-eight 
years,  from  that  date,  to  the  death  of  Capt  Thomas  in  1713.  The  first  lino 
reads  thus:  "  1656 — George  Hall  clearke,  John  Turner  working  y*  forge." 
Three  years  no  iron  was  shared.  "  1659,  400  shared."  "  1660,  a  ton  of 
iron  sould  to  buy  goods,  whi:  were  devided.** 

At  this  time  an  arrangement  was  made  by  the  shareholders  by  which 
the  works  were  leased  to  George  Hall  and  his  associates,  Hezekiah  Hoar 
and  Francis  Smith.  The  lease  of  this  transaction,  recently  discovered 
among  the  papers  of  Capt  Thomas  Leonard,  thus  sets  forth  in  substance 
the  agreement: 

•'  ThiB  present  writing,  dated  April  the  fir^t,  anno  domini,  one  thonwind  six  hun- 
dred and  sixtie.  witneeneth  :  that  whereas  the  Companie  in  partnership  in  the  Iron 
works  or  bloomerie.  erected  and  maintained  in  workinjr  use  within  the  plantation 
of  Taunton,  in  the  C(»lony  of  New  Plymouth,  did  by  themselves  and  their  attor- 
nie«,  generally  consent  and  aj^ree,  that  y*  said  works  should  be  let  for  a  term  of 
five  years ;  to  begin  after  y«  stock  of  coles  is  now  being  wrought  out — ^yieldini?  and 
paying  to  y«  whole  companie  aforesaid,  (not  one  partner  at  all  excluded)  yearly 
daring  said  term  the  full  summe  of  four  tunne  of  iron  :"— *•  that  said  Grorge 
Hall,  Hezekiah  Hoar  and  Francis  Smith  havinjr  embraced,  accepted,  and  received 
■aid  tender,  and  rent  of  y«  works,  accordins:  to  y«  said  propositions  named,*  them- 
selves being  partners  "—and  **  to  whom  full  libertie  was  then  and  there  given,  that 
tbey  might  tnke  into  this  contract  with  themselves  whom  they  liked  of."  They 
accordingly  took  into  partnership  :  William  Pole,  Walter  Deane,  Joseph  Wilbore, 
John  Deane,  Anthony  Slocum,  Thos.  Linkon,  senr,  Wm.  Parker,  James  Leonard, 
Jonah  Austin  sen'r.  John  Parker,  Peter  Pitts,  James  Phillips.  Henry  Within^ton, 
of  Dorchester.  '*  The  rest  of  said  company  in  partnership,  do  by  these  preeent*!  rat- 
iff,  confirm,  establish,  promise  and  make  good  and  effectual  to  the  s'd  George  Hall. 
Hezekiah  Hoar,  and  Francis  Smith,  the  said  contnict,  and  do  hereby  give  them  full 
power  and  right  to  act.  or  cause  to  be  acted  or  done  in  and  about  said  iron  works 
m  every  particular  case  during  y«  said  term  without  interruption,  molestation 
or  hindrance  of  y«  partners,  provided  that  they  truly  and  faithfully  perform  their 
engagements  in  the  premises.  .  .  .  And  the  said  partner.  Wm.  Pole,  Walter 
Deane  and  others,  doe  likewise  covenant,  promise  and  engage  them<»elvcs,  unto  said 
(ieorge  Hall,  Hezekiah  Hoare  and  Francis  Smith,  to  cnrrie  out  said  contract  as  one 
man,  with  faithfulness,  according  to  their  wisdom  and  abilities;  that  they  will  en- 
deavor to  prevent  all  damages  and  support  each  other  in  all  cases,  whether  in 
charges  of  payments  or  troubles  of  lawsuits  and  walk  together  in  \o\e  and  peace  in 
the  light  of  God,  without  superioritie  one  over  another.** 

**  In  witness  whereof  they  herewith  to  one  seal  set  their  several  hands  the  day  and 
year  above  written  : 

Georoe  Hail,    HszEKiAn  Hoare,    Francis  Smitd,        [Seal.] 

Wm.  Pole,    Henry  Withington,    Jno.  Deane,    "Wm.  Parker, 
Walter  Deane,    Peter  Pitts,    Jo«>eph  Wilbore,    James  Phillips. 
John  Parker,  Anthony  Slocum,  Thos.  Linkon  sen.,  Jonah  Austin." 
'*  In  presence  of 

John  Hathcway,  Sam*l  Linkon. 

Resuming  the  old  ledger  records.  Goorgo  UaW  hold  the  position  of  man- 
iger  and  clarke  thirteen  years  (excepting  James  Walker  held  the  office  a 
year)  until  his  death  in  October,  16G9,  and  "John  Hull  toy*  end  of  y'year." 

•  Drawn  hy  James  Walker,  Richard  Williams  and  John  TL^dall,  of  said  company. 


268  Ancient  Iron  Works  in  Taunton.  [July, 

"1670,  Henry  Andrews  clearke."  "1671,  John  Hall,  thence  to  1675 
when  (says  the  record)  the  Indian  [King  Philip's]  War  began  and  many 
coals  burned  in  the  woods."  "  1676— the  works  garrisoned — great  rates — 
many  coals  burned."  (No  iron  shared  three  years.)  "1677,  Israel  Dean 
clearke,  y*  beginning,  John  Hall  y*  end  of  y*  year."  Hall  continued  until 
1683,  and  was  succeeded  by  Capt.  Thomas  Leonard,  during  whose  thirty 
years'  management  occurred  most  of  the  transactions  and  "  orders  "  record- 
ed below  in  connection  with  this  brief  history  of  the  most  important  enter- 
prise in  the  early  days  of  the  Old  Colony.  He  was  an  able,  self-educated 
man ;  he  held  military  commissions  from  Ensign  to  Major  in  the  Bristol 
County  regiment ;  was  the  leading  magistrate ;  presiding  justice  of  the 
County  Court,  1685  to  1693;  clerk  of  the  Taunton  North  Purchase  pro- 
prietors, over  twenty  years  ;  filled  various  town  offices  ;  also  performed  the 
duties  of  physician.  He  died  in  1713,  at  the  age  of  70,  leaving,  besides  a 
large  estate,  the  Middleboro'  and  Chartley  Iron  Works,  a  large  quantity  of 
official  papers  and  miscellaneous  relics,  preserved  with  remarkable  care 
during  his  eventful  life.* 

Dea.  Samuel'  Leonaifi,  in  Oct  1713,  succeeded  his  father  Capt  Thomas 
after  many  years  of  successful  management  Another  ancient  ledger  contains 
an  instructive  record  of  the  transactions  in  the  business  during  his  charge ; 
many  pages  are  filled  with  items  of  the  bar  iron  **  circulating  medium  "  and 
barter  trades,  similar  to  those  appended.  On  the  division  of  Taunton  in 
1731,  the  iron  works  locality  fell  to  the  new  town  of  Raynham,  and  that 
town  owned  half  a  share.  Dea.  Leonard  died  in  1745,  after  thirty-two 
years'  service,  owning  several  shares. 

Dea.  Samuel  Leonard,  Jr.,  was  the  successor  of  his  father  in  the  manage- 
ment of  the  iron  works.  He  had,  during  his  four  years'  management,  pur- 
chased a  large  number  of  whole  and  fractional  shares,  securing  nearly  a 
majority  of  the  stock.  He  died  in  1749,  leaving  a  large  incumbrance  on 
the  works  and  a  declining  stock.  He  left  12  shares,  valued  in  hb  inventory 
at  £660  of  the  common  currency.f 

Dea.  Elijah  Leonard,  who  had  been  at  the  "  Chartley  Works  "  in  Nor- 
ton, succeeded  his  brother  in  1749,  as  clerk  and  manager.  He  soon  after- 
wards built,  a  short  distance  east  of  the  forge,  the  mansion  referred  to.  He 
remained  in  charge  of  the  business  until  1777.  During  the  last  twenty 
years  the  shares  had  been  depreciating  in  value,  owing  to  the  increasing 
price  of  coal,  and  the  declining  production  of  good  ore,  in  competition  with 
the  New  Jersey  ore  which  contained  a  much  larger  percentige  of  pure  iron, 
and  was  worked  by  competing  establishments.  With  a  depreciating  cur- 
rency and  other  obstacles,  the  iron  business  waned,  the  works  hardly  met  ex- 
penses, the  shareholders  received  trifling  or  no  dividends,  and  the  shares  were 
relinquished  at  great  sacrifice.  The  incumbrance  on  the  works  finally  result- 
ed in  the  sale  of  a  large  portion  of  the  shares  to  Dea.  George  Leonard, 
brother  of  Dea.  Elijah,  who  in  1770  disposed  of  them  (7  J  sixteenths)  to 

•  The  salary  of  Capt.  Thomas  was  £8  the  first  year,  and  from  1684  to  1713  it  wa^  £11. 
His  successor  received  the  same  amount.  From  1742  to  1745,  and  thereafter,  **  ten  hundred 
of  iron  was  vot«d  for  salary."  They  also  received  a  percentage  on  the  iron  manufactared. 
The  wr)rks  made  from  20  to  30  tons  annually,  which  brought  from  £400  to  £675,  averaging 
about  $100  a  ton  of  our  cunency. 

t  In  1749  £1  sterling,  or  •*old  tenor,"  was  worth  £11  of  Massachusetts  cnrrencr.  An 
oz.  of  silver,  6  shillin^fs  par  value,  stood  at  66  shilihigs  of  that  currency.  Thus  rapidly 
approaching?  "  fiat  money,"  which  was  cou'iummated  by  the  United  Sta'tcs  national  cur- 
rency in  paying  oflf  the  soldiers  of  the  revoluti.^n  thirty  years  later,  which  became  reduced 
to  £1000  for  £i  sterling,  or  about  $1  per  bushel. 


1884.]  Ancient  Iron  Works  in  Taunton.  269 

Josiah  Dean  for  £90 — which  shows  a  great  reduction  from  the  inventory 
value  in  1749.  At  subsequent  sales  in  1777,  at  low  figures,  of  other  shares, 
with  a  portion  of  the  real  estate,  Mr.  Dean  became  the  purchaser.  From  the 
original  shareholders  the  changes  were  numerous  from  year  to  year,  and  to 
attempt  a  record  would  require  much  time  and  space.  Many  of  the  sons, 
and  descendants  of  the  third  generation  from  the  original  owners,  held 
shares  during  the  hundred  years  and  more  of  the  progress  of  the  old  iron 
works,  until  they  passed  into  the  hands  of  the  new  owner.  The  price  of  them 
varied  from  £22  to  £20  the  par  value  ;  theuce  to  £10,  and  finally,  before  the 
dose,  to  £5  per  share,  or  any  price  takers  would  give.  Thus  terminated 
the  Leonard  management,  which  had  been  conducted  from  1683  by  Capt. 
Thomas  and  by  his  son  and  grandsons  nearly  one  hundred  years,  a  large 
portion  of  the  time  upon  the  agency  system,  inaugurated  in  1656,  as  above 
described. 

Having  purchased  a  controlling  interest  in  the  '*  old  iron  works,*'  Hon. 
Josiah  Dean  took  possession  in  1777  ;  he  converted  the  bar  iron  forge,  or 
'*  bloomerie,"  into  a  rolling  mill  and  nail  works,  where  also  copper  bolts 
were  rolled  and  made  for  ship-building,  &c.  It  was  the  first  copper  bolt 
manufactory  in  this  region.  After  conducting  the  business  about  forty 
years  he  died  in  1818.*  He  was  succeeded  by  his  son  Major  Eliab  B. 
Dean,  who  in  1825  changed  the  nail  works  into  an  anchor  forge,  which  was 
continued  in  that  heavy  line  of  iron  manufacture  by  him  and  his  son  and 
successor,  Theodore  Dean,  about  forty  years,  when  the  works  were  suspend- 
ed. About  a  year  ago  the  old  buildings  were  demolished,  and  the  privi- 
lege, dam  and  foundation  walls  alone  remain  of  the  ancient  Taunton  Iron 
Works  of  two  hundred  and  twenty-four  years — the  oldest  successful  iron 
manufactory  in  New  England. 

The  pioneer  settlers  during  a  long  period  of  the  last  and  preceding  cen- 
tury after  the  iron  works  were  started,  were  seriously  embarrassed  in  their 
increasing  business  transactions  by  the  scarcity  of  money.  They  had  but  a 
small  amount  of  specie,  chiefly  brought  by  emigrants  who  came  across  the 
ocean  here  to  make  their  homes.f  No  banks  had  been  established — no  *'  Land 
bank  "  capital  had  evoked  even  "  new  tenor  bills  ;"t  no  Bank  of  England  or 
'*old  tenor"  notes  were  in  circulation,  although  the  pioneers  owed  allegi- 
ance to  *'  His  Majesty  James  "  the  despot,  and  the  edicts  of  his  tyrannical 
subservient  Sir  Edmund  Andros  were  borne  until  patience  ceased  to  be  a 
virtue.  Therefore  a  dernier  resort  tr»  bar  iron,  manufactured  at  the  Taun- 
ton Works,  as  a  "  circulating  medium  of  exchange,"  to  supply  the  great 
deficiencv.  Iron  made  from  tho  native  boij  ore  of  the  creeks  and  swails  of 
Two  Mile  River,  and  "  Scaddings  moire  "  became  more  valuable  than  gold 
— an  important  factor  in  daily  traffic.  It  entered  largely  into  the  transac- 
tions of  business,  as  is  shown  by  the  subjoined  brief  letters,  orders  and  re- 
plies, couched  in  expressions  of  genuine  old-time  courtesy,  from  managers, 
shareholders  and  patrons  of  the  ancient  iron  works.  These  amusing  and 
interesting  scraps  were  found  between  the  leaves  of  Capt.  Thomas  Leon- 
ard's ledger  of  two  hundred  years  ago,  the  pages  of  which  are  filled  with 
the  records  of  which  these  scraps  were  vouchers. 

•  Hon.  Josiah  Dean  was  a  member  of  Congress  in  1807-9»  and  town  officer  and  magis- 
trate fur  many  years. 

t  Daring  the  year  1652  a  mint  for  coining  silver  money  was  estnl)lished  in  Boston  by  the 
colony,  and  the  first  pine-tree  shillings  made  from  silver  imported  from  the  West  ladies. 
This  made  but  a  small  supply  of  specie. 

X  Paper  money  was  first  issued  in  Massachusetts  in  1690,  but  in  very  small  qnandty  for 
the  demand.    The  l)ank  of  England  was  established  1694. 

VOL,  XJOLYUL,  24* 


270  Ancient  Iron  Works  in  Taunton.  [Jaly> 

The  veterans  Deacons  Richard  Williams  and  Walter  Dean,  Hezekiah 
Hoar,  Shadrach  Wilbore  the  second  town  clerk,  Increase  Robinson,  Joseph 
Wilbore,  James  Walker,  John  Richmond,  Peter  Pitts,  James  Phillips, 
Richard  Stephens,  John  Ilall,  Peter  Walker,  and  the  sons  of  many  suc- 
cessors of  ownership  of  shares  in  the  iron  works,  appear  in  the  collection, 
also  Rev.  George  Shove  and  Rev.  Samuel  Danforth,  third  and  fourth  minis- 
ters of  Taunton  ;  John  Pole,  merchant  of  Boston,  son  of  Capt.  William  and 
nephew  of  Elizabeth ;  Benedict  Arnold,  son  of  Gov.  Arnold  of  Newport, 
R.  I.  (who  married  a  Taunton  woman,  daughter  of  John  Turner) ;  Nathan- 
iel Paine  and  John  Saffin  of  Bristol,  Judges  of  Probate ;  and  John  Gary,  Reg- 
ister ;  Dea.  Samuel  Topliff,  Philip  Withington  and  John  Bird,  selectmen 
of  Dorchester  nearly  two  hundred  years  ago ;  the  polite  John  Baker,  son 
of  Richard ;  Richard  Thayer,  son  of  the  first  settler  and  Mistress  Dorothy 
of  **  Brantry ;"  Peter  Noyes  of  Sudbury,  Capt.  Thomas  Leonard  and  his 
son  Major  George  of  Chartley  Works,  not  to  be  outdone  in  **  loving 
phrase "  by  his  father ;  and  others.  Schools  were  scarce  in  those  primi- 
tive days,  and  many  wealthy  business  men  made  their  "  mark ;"  therefore 
errors  in  orthography,  unique  expressions  and  ancient  idioms  may  be  ex- 
cused. The  first  order  is  from  one  of  the  founders  of  Taunton  and  pro- 
moters of  the  iron  works,  who  draws  an  order  to  pay  a  grocer's  bill: 

**  Ensiffne  Thos.  Leonard,  please  to  pay  to  Bar:  Tipping  nine  shilling  &  three 
pence  in  iron,  as  money  :  from yr  friend,  Richard  Williams. 

Taunton  16:  !•»  1685-86." 

Deacon  Walter  Dean's  order. 
"  Ensign  Thomas  Leonard,  Please  to  pay  y*  bearer  hearof  one  hundred  of  Iron  j* 
is  due  on  Mr  Shoves  act.  to  my  wife  your  friend. 
Taunton  y«  16  of  y«  1st  mo.  1685-6.        Your  friend,  Walter  Drani.*' 

**  Thomas  Leonard,  clarke  of  the  Iron  Works  of  Taunton  : 

S'  pray  pay  to  Joseph  Cra^tdman,  on  hundred  of  iron  as  money,  &  this  shall  be 
your  dischart; :   this  y<^  13th  Janurao,  1683.  IIezskiah  Hoar. 

Tanton— 84." 

A  letter  from  some  friendly  parishioner  in  1683,  addressed  to  the  third  minister 
of  Taunton,  and  accompanying  order,  reads  thus  : 

^*  For  the  Rev.  Mr.  George  Shove,  pastor  of  the  church  of  Christ  in  Taunton : 
These:" 

*^  Ensign  Leonard,  pray  deliver  to  John  Hodges  or  his  order  one  hundred  and 
half  of  iron  on  account  of  y'  friend  George  Shove. 

March  14,  83-4.'' 

John  Gary  of  Bristol,  Register  of  Probate,  responds  to  a  polite  request  to  credit 
a  hundred  of  iron  : 

**  Loving jfriend^  John  Gary,  these  mav  inform  you  that  if  You  please  to  Gredit 
Richard  Burt  as  much  as  comes  to  a  hundred  of  Iron,  I  will  be  Responsible  to  yoa, 
&  Rest  your  Lok  ffriend,  Thomas  Leonard. 

Taunton  Dec.  30,  1683-4.'' 

''  Insign  Leonard,  be  pleased  to  pay  to  this  bearer,  James  Tisdall,  the  asseats  of 
the  above  written  bill,  by  which  you  will  oblige     Your  friend,  John  Cart. 

Januarys,  1684." 

An  order  from  an  early  settler  to  pay  the  schoolmaster's  rate  : 

**  Ensine  Lenard,  I  pray  you  let  M'  greene  have  four  shillings  more  in  iron,  as 
money,  and  place  it  to  my  account.         June  20,  1684.  James  Walker." 

''  Capt.  Leonard,  pray  pay  to  John  Wetherel  iron  98.  and  6d.  and  set  it  to  my 
account.  Samuel  Wilbore." 

**  Ensigne  Leonard,  pray  deliver  to  Nath^  Coddington  as  much  iron  as  comes  to 
4'  5**  at  y«  rate  of  18s.  per  G.  John  Deane. 

Taunton  Sept.  4,  1685." 


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He  was  son  of  John  Deane,  senior,  and  the  first  birth  among  the  pioneer  settlers 
of  Taunton. 

Increase  Robinson,  one  of  the  early  settlers  on  Dean  Street,  gives  a  credit  order 
for  iron  to  pay  his  minister,  Rev.  Mr.  Danfurth  : 

'*  Captain  Leonard  :  Sir,  I  would  intreate  you  to  pay  James  Tisdale  y«  sum  of 
3-7-6  in  iron  at  22s.  per  hund.  and  make  me  Deptr  for  it  on  y^  acount  of  y^  Credit 
Mr  Danford  gave  mie  on  your  book.  Your  fi&'d       Increase  Robbinbon. 

Tanton  y«  23<i  March  1688-9." 

Thomaf?'  Williams  (son  of  Richard^)  sold  an  ox  to  one  Nathaniel  Smith,  and 
the  following  orders  ensued  for  payment : 

*'  Nathaniel  Smith,  this  is  to  desier  you  to  pay  to  my  Mother  Williams  three  hun- 
dred &  half  a  qur.  of  iron  which  is  part  of  y^  price  of  y*'  ox  which  you  bought  of 
mee.  Thomas  Williams. 

Taunton  y»y«  l&^  of  Oct.  1693." 

On  the  opposite  side  of  the  above  Mr.  Smith  ordered  the  iron  : 

'*  Capt.  Leonard,  I  pray  be  pleased  to  pay  to  old  mother  Williams  3  hundreth 
&  half  a  quarter  of  Iron.  Nathaniel  Smith." 

Dorchester,  May  15,  1696. 
"  Worh'ysfuUSir: 

After  my  service  to  your  Honour,  these  are  only  to  desire  you  to  Send  the 
income  of  my  interest  in  the  work»  by  D  Robinson  and  these  shall  be  the  reccpt  for 
the  same.  And  if  I  could  know  when  you  come  to  Boston,  I  should  be  willing  to 
discourse  w^  you  in  point  of  sale  (it  being  at  such  a  distance  from  me)  if  your  self 
is  inclined  to  buy.    I  remain  y'  bumble  servant,  John  Baxer." 

Deacon  Topliff  orders  iron  for  the  half  share  due  Dorchester  : 

^*  Captin  Linorc/— pray  please  to  deliver  to  this  bearer,  Philip  Withington,  SOO 
and  half  of  Iron,  the  which,  by  your  information,  is  due  to  Dorchester :  In  so  do- 
in^  you  will  much  oblige  us  your  asurcd  friends :  Dated  in  Dorchester  2  Aug. 
1699.  Samuel  ToPLiwr." 

Capt.  Leonard  delivers  200  and  half  on  the  order  for  1797-98. 

Taunton  April  1,  1700. 
**  Capt.  Leonard  I  desire  you  to  give  John  King  credit  upon  works  book  for  20 
shillings  of  iron  as  money.         Your  friend  to  serve  John  Hall.'' 

An  order  from  Rev.  Samuel  Danforth,  the  fourth  minister  of  Taunton,  to  pay  his 
•*  servant  mayd  *'  : 

*'  To  Captain  Thomas  Leonard^ 

S'  I  would  pray  you  to  pay  Elizabeth  Gilbert  (my  late  servant  mavd)  the  sum 
of  thirty  shilhngH  in  iron  at  18  sh.  pr  Cent:  to  her  or  her  order — &  place  it  to  my 
account  •••  pr  y'  friend  and  servant  Sam"  Danforth." 

Dated  Tanton,  March  11, 1703-4. 

Here  is  one  of  his  business  orders :  Rev.  Mr.  Danforth  virants  iron  to  buy  nails. 

'*  To  Capt.  Thomas  Leonard  in  Tanton: 

S'  I  have  got  Thomas  Willis  to  go  to  Bridgewater  to  fetch  me  some  nails  from  Mr. 
Mitchell's  this  ni^ht :  k  pray  to  let  him  have  200  of  iron  to  carry  with  him  topay 
for  them  :  of  which,  100  on  acc^  of  Edward  Richmond  ;  5s.  worth  on  acct.  of  Too- 
mas  fJnkon,  son  of  John  Linkon,  bv  virtue  of  his  note  herewith  sent  you  :  for  the 
remainder  I  may  by  y  leave  be  y'  debtor  for  a  while  till  I  have  another  note  from 
some  other  to  baliance  against  it :  &  remain  yr  obliged  Sam^  Danforth.'* 

86  8"'".  1702. 

**  Capt.  Thomas  Leonard: 

S' — Give  credit  to  William  Briggs  (son  of  W™  Briggs  grand-senior)  &  to  Thomas 
Brigi^s  his  bnither,  for  the  sum  oitwo  shillings  and  four  pence  in  iron  at  18  pr  Cent. 
A  make  me  Debtor  for  the  same  in  Y""  book :  This  2**^  4^  is  to  pay  theyr  iron  part 
of  thiyr  Rate  to  the  Ware  bridge.  Pr  Sam"  Danforth." 

Dated  July  15,  1703. 

•*  to  l)e  p<*  to  Increse  Robbinson,  Constable  for  the  use  afores*." 

Order  for  iron  **for  the  ministry  of  Dorchester,** 

**  Capt.  Thomas  Leonard  of  Taunton  : — 
Sir  :  These  lines  may  inform  you  y'  the  Selectmen  of  Dorchester,  would  desier 


272  Ancieyit  Iron  Works  in  Taunton.  [July, 

yon  to  deliver  unto  Sargt.  Philip  Withington  all  that  iron,  wh  is  due  from  the  Iron 
Works  to  the  miuistry  of  Dorchester,  and  in  so  doeing  this  shall  be  discharg.  Dor- 
chester the  26  of  March  1705.  Samubl  Capen, 

for  the  name  and  with  the  consent  of  the  rest  of  the  Selectmen." 

Mr.  Withington  receipts  for  the  product  of  the  half  share,  700  of  iron  for  1699, 
1700,  '1,2,  and  3. 

The  genuine  autographs  of  many  of  the  early  settlers  are  among  these 
unique  scraps  of  iron  history,  and  are  now  in  possession  of  the  writer. 

To  illustrate  the  annual  divisions  of  iron  to  shareholders,  the  following 
cases  are  cited  from  the  old  ledger  records,  from  1683  to  1713,  and  later  in 
Dea.  Samuers  records. 

The  oldest  original  shareholder  was  Richard  Williams,  who  received  in 
1683  for  his  one  share  £3  6s. ;  for  1684-5,  £4  8s.  each  year ;  for  1686  and 
87,  £3  6s.  each;  for  1688,  £4  8s.;  for  1689-90-91,  £2  is.  each  year, 
mostly  in  bar  iron,  or  barter  thereof  at  the  stores  of  Bartholomew  Tip- 
ping of  Taunton,  John  Pole  of  Boston,  Benedict  Arnold  of  Newport,  and 
other  sources,  butchers,  shoemakers,  weavers,  <&c.,  discounted  at  the  iron 
works.  Mr.  Williams  died  in  1693,  and  his  widow  continued  to  receive 
the  product  share,  through  her  son,  who  succeeded  to  his  father's  business, 
tanning,  from  1691  to  1700  each  year  2  C.  to  4  cwt.;  in  1701  2  C;  1702, 
£3  2s. ;  in  1703,  £1  10s.;  in  1704,  £0  8s.;  1705,  13s  2d.,  about  the  same 
for  five  years  ;  in  all  500  wt.  of  bar  iron  at  20s.  per  hundred  ;  discounting 
meeting  house,  town,  school  master  and  county  rates,  and  store  pay,  by  the 
clerk  of  tlie  iron  works,  and  occasionally  a  few  shillings  in  money.  Dea. 
Williams  was  annually  credited  "  £2  10s.  for  a  hide  for  the  bellows." 

The  town  of  Taunton  held  half  a  share,  and  to  illustrate  the  amount 
others  received,  owning  half  shares, — in  1683  £1  13s.  was  shared,  or,  '*  1 
C.  2  qrs.  in  iron,  on  Deacon  Walter  Dean's  order  for  the  school  master, 
Mr.  Green;"  for  1684,  **£2  4s.  in  iron,  delivered  on  Dea.  Dean's  order 
for  same  rate;*'  for  1685,  £2  4s.;  1686,  "£1  13s.  paid  by  Dea.  Dean  for 
ammunition;"  for  1687,  £1  13s.;  1688,  £2  4s.  in  iron;  1689,  £1  7s.  6d.; 
and  1G90,  £1  28.  to  Dea.  Dean's  order  to  pay  the  meeting  house  rate  of 
£2  15.S.  From  that  during  the  ten  years  to  1700,  the  average  was  £1  28.; 
partially  in  money  ordered  by  Dea.  Dean  for  school  and  other  rates,  or  in 
iron  bartered.  The  amount  of  iron  and  money  shared  differed  from  the 
above  in  some  cases,  but  iron  was  as  much  in  demand  as  money,  and  as 
available  in  Boston  and  Dorchester  as  in  Taunton. 

The  following  illustrations  from  the  ledger  pages  show  the  manner  of 
convevance  of  iron  to  shareholders  in  Boston,  Dorchester  and  elsewhere. 
"June,  1685,  delivered  to  Nicholas  White,  sen'r.  to  carry  (through  the 
wilderness)  to  Major  E.  Tyng,  7  C.  of  iron,  also  to  Madam  Leverett*  of 
Boston  7  C.  of  iron ;  for  Peter  Noyes  of  Sudbury  5  C.  2  qrs.  in  bars,  for 
John  Baker  of  Dorchester  3  C.  2  qrs.  and  for  Samuel  Capen  3  C.  2  qrs. 
for  Dorchester  church,  as  their  due  for  1683-84."  "In  November  1686, 
delivered  to  same  to  carry  to  Mrs.  Tyng  and  Madam  Leverett  of  Boston 
4  C.  and  12  lbs.  each,  for  Mr  Noyes  of  Sudbury  3  C.  2  qrs. ;  for  Mr 
Baker  205  lbs.  and  for  Mr  Capen's  order  .205  lbs.  as  their  share  for  1685." 

Thus,  without  long  repetition  of  other  cases,  for  twenty  years  or  more, 
the  annual  transportation  of  iron  (occasionally  a  little  money)  to  share- 
holders, varied  from  year  to  year  as  the  product  of  the  iron  works  varied. 
The  record,  however,  shows  a  gradual  decline  during  the  succeeding  years. 

♦  Widow  of  John  Leverett,  governor  of  Massachusetts  1673-79. 


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In  1700,  delivered  to  Wm.  Thomas  of  Plymouth  5  C.  of  iron  for  Madam 
Leverett ;  same  amount  for  Mrs.  Tyng  of  Boston,  as  their  shares  for  two 
years,  "  marked  L,  for  John  Pool  of  Boston."  "  To  Philip  Withington 
per  order  of  Selectmen  of  Dorchester,  just  7  C.  of  iron  for  the  four  years, 
1699  to  1703."  Also,  "per  order  Dea.  Sam'l  Topliff,  for  the  Dorchester 
Church,  1  C.  and  half  of  iron  for  the  years  1704,  5,  6  and  7,  being  £l  ISs. 
each  year."  "In  1720  &  '21,  £1  2s.;  in  1722  &  '23,  nothing;  from 
1724  to  1732,  11  shillings  each  year,  for  Dorchester."  Other  half  share- 
holders same  amount,  or  £1  2s.  per  share.  Here  ends  the  old  ledger  ao- 
coants,  transferred  to  later  books,  of  which  whole  columns  are  filled  with 
the  details. 

Whittinoton  Iron  Works. 

James  Leonard,  senior,  purchased  of  William  Haylston  in  1666  about 
ten  acres  of  land  on  Mill  River,  with  a  water  privilege,  where  he  after- 
wards erected  a  forge  or  "  bloomerie,"  "  with  one  hearth,"  for  the  manu- 
&cture  of  charcoal  iron,  called  the  "  Whittington  Forge,"*  which  was  in  ope- 
ration in  1678.  His  three  sons,  Joseph,  Uriah  and  Benjamin,  having  served 
in  the  Taunton  Iron  Works  at  the  "  refining  and  bloomerie  "  trade,  worked 
the  forge.  They  also  had  a  grist-mill  at  the  same  place.  This  was  the 
location  of  James  Leonard's  iron  works. 

James  died  in  1691,  and  the  Probate  record  (Book  I.)  describes  the  divi- 
sion of  his  property  by  agreement  of  all  the  heirs.  Joseph'  "  to  have  one 
fourth  of  his  father's  iron  works,"  with  some  adjacent  land,  and  "  to  pay 
20  shillings  in  money,  and  400  of  iron  annually  to  his  mother-in-law;" 
Uriah  "  to  have  the  rest  of  the  Whittington  Iron  Works,  dwelling  house 
and  land,"  and  "  pay  600  of  iron  per  annum  to  his  mother-in-law  Margaret 
as  long  as  she  continued  his  father's  widow ;"  James'  to  have  some  tracts 
of  land,  **  the  old  home  lot,"  and  "  Ai«  father* s  half  share  in  the  Taunton 
Iron  Works**  also  £4  9s.  more  from  the  estate  ;  Benjamin'  to  have  certain 
parcels  of  land  named,  the  shop  tools,  old  iron,  his  father's  clothing  and 
as  much  more  from  the  estate  as  to  make  £26  9s.  Abigail'  and  John 
Kingsbury,  Rebecca'  and  Isaac  Chapman,  and  Hannah'  and  Isaac  Dean 
(daughters  and  husbands)  to  have  certain  tracts  of  land  and  proceeds  of 
sales  from  the  estate,  to  make  for  each  £26  9s.  Thomas  to  have  the  dwell- 
ing house  near  the  iron  works  on  Two  Mile  River,  after  the  death  of  his 
mother-in-law,  and  to  administer  the  estate,  to  pay  all  bequests  to  the  heirs, 
and  have  the  remainder.  One  third  of  all  the  movables  were  assigned  to 
Widow  Margaret,  she  "  to  reside  in  the  house  where  she  lives  as  long  as 
she  remains  a  widow."     To  all  of  which  she  agreed.     She  died  in  1701. 

Joseph'  died  in  1692,  leaving  widow  Mary,  executrix,  and  four  children 
— his  "  brother  Thomas  and  Deacon  Henry  Hodges  to  be  overseers,"  to 
assist  in  settling  the  estate.  A  few  years  later  James,'  son  of  Capt  James, 
succeeded  as  a  partner  and  to  the  management  of  the  Whittington  Iron 
Works;  and  they  were  "  ^o  pay  the  widow  Mary  600  of  iron  annually 
during  her  life,  while  the  works  stand."  James'  finally  purchased  Uriah's 
interest  in  the  iron  works  in  1699,  and  the  forge  and  capacity  for  making 

•  "  Whittlnfrton,"  the  original  name,  changed  to  Whittenton  and  legalized.  A  record  in 
1669  says,  **  Whereas,  James  Leonard,  forgeman,  hath  an  intent  to  set  up  a  small  Iron 
Works  to  go  by  water  on  Mill  River,  alx>ve  the  Saw  Mill,  and  whereas  the  land  on  the  op- 
posite side  t)el6ngeth  to  Lieut.  George  Macy,  and  may  be  overflowed  by  a  dam  ;  "  said 
Mary  *•  hereby  grants  to  James  Leonard  tlie  right  to  build  a  dam  and  make  u^c  of  the  water 
to  overflow  any  part  of  bis  land  by  paying  so  much  annually  as  any  iudiffurent  rational 
man  shall  Judge." 


274  Ancient  Iron  Works  in  Taunton*  [July» 

iron  was  enlarged.  The  maDufacturing  of  iron  from  bog  ore  mined  in  the 
vicinity  of  "Scadding's  Moire"  and  pond  and  along  up  the  Mill  River  to 
Winneconnet  Pond,  was  conducted  by  the  descendants  of  James  Leonard 
nearly  a  hundred  years. 

Crocker,  Bush  <&  Richmond  succeeded  the  Leonards  at  Whittenton  in 
1805,  in  the  iron  and  cotton  manufacture.  They  were  succeeded  in  1824  by 
the  Whittenton  Manufacturing  Company,  of  which  Willard  Lovering  had 
charge  in  1836.  In  1858  it  became  the  property  of  Willard  Lovering  and 
Sons,  and  after  the  death  of  the  senior  in  1875,  Lovering  Brothers  were 
successors  in  proprietorship.  At  the  present  time  they  occupy  over  ten  acres 
with  their  manufactories.  A  vast  change  from  the  time  when  James  Leon- 
ard built  his  dam  at  the  outlet  of  Scadding*s  Pond  in  1670  for  his  little 
'*  bloomerie/'  the  only  manufacturing  establishment  on  Mill  River. 

Chartlet  Iron  Works. 

Thomas  and  James  Leonard,  sons  of  James  senior,  in  1695  discovered 
a  convenient  location  for  iron  works  within  the  limits  of  the  ^  Taunton 
North  Purchase  "  made  of  Philip  (Metacomet)  Sachem  of  the  Wampanoags 
in  1668,  and  having,  says  the  record,  "found  iron  ore  there,  and  being  in 
great  hopes  of  finding  more,  they  were  willing  to  set  up  a  forge  or  bloom- 
ery,  which  they  believed  would  promote  the  settlement  of  that  territory,  be 
of  great  benefit  to  the  proprietors,  and  with  the  blessing  of  God  may  be 
the  beginning  of  a  happy  township  in  that  place."  To  extend  due  encour- 
agement to  the  enterprise  the  proprietors  of  said  North  Purchase  did  there- 
upon "deed  and  grant  two  lots  of  land  of  100  acres  each,  next  to  Stony 
brook,  running  into  Coweeset  River,"*  to  Thomas  and  James  Leonard,  for 
building  said  iron  works,  and  the  privilege  "  to  dig  ore  anywhere  in  the 
vicinity  at  Is.  per  ton." 

The  proprietors  signing  the  deed  were  John  Richmond,  Nicholas  White, 
John  Deane,  Thos.  Harvey,  Shadrach  Wilbore,  Philip  King,  Thos.  Deane, 
James  Walker,  John  Williams,  Nathaniel  Thayer,  Thomas  Linkon,  John 
Hatheway  and  others. 

In  accordance  with  the  terms  of  that  grant  the  iron  works  were  built  in 
1696-7,  and  the  iron  work  and  tools  required  were  made  at  the  Taunton 
Iron  Works.  Capt.  James'  Leonard  had  charge  of  the  manufacturing  of 
bar  iron,  and  in  1698  he  was  credited  with  the  first  ton  of  iron  delivered  at 
the  latter  works  in  Taunton,  from  the  "  Chartley  Iron  Worhs*^  which  they 
were  called.  Capt  James  sold  his  half  of  the  iron  works  in  1707  to  his 
nephew  George  Leonard,!  son  of  Thomas,  who  had  been  clerk  there  a  few 
years  ;  and  in  1713  he  received  the  other  half  by  will  at  the  death  of  his 
father.  Major  George  made  extensive  enlargements  to  the  Chartley 
Works,  and  added  nearly  a  thousand  acres  to  the  territory. 

The  above  enterprise  was  the  origin  of  the  noted  Leonard  Iron  Works 
of  Norton,  and  one  of  the  chief  causes  of  the  organization  and  incorpora- 
tion of  that  town  in  1711  ;  and  to  aid  in  organizing  a  church  and  building  a 
meeting-house  here,  Capt.  Thomas  gave  £40  in  land.  There  is  not  at  the 
present  time  a  landmark  to  identify  the  place  on  "  Stony  Brook,"  where  that 
ancient  bloomery  stood,  except  the  dam  and  a  small  portion  of  the  fouuda- 

•  *•  Coweeset,'*  obsclctc ;  the  Indian  name  of  Wadinj?  River,  which  flows  throagh  Nor- 
ton to  its  confluence  with  Rumford  River  near  ihe  Copper  works. 

t  It  is  ^t4lted  in  several  historiial  worlds  that  •*  Major  George  Leonard  built  the  Charlie/ 
iron  works  in  1690-96."    The  above  is  from  authentic  record. 


1884.]  Church  Records  of  Farming  ton  ^  Conn.  275 

tion  wall ;  but  the  old  mansion  still  stands  as  a  memorial  of  the  ''  baronial 
family  "  who  resided  there  over  a  hundred  years  ago,  now  the  residence  of 
Charles  D.  Lane. 


A  few  incidents  of  antiquarian  interest  are  cited  to  illustrate  the  appreci- 
ative value  of  iron  at  the  middle  of  the  last  century. 

Dea.  Samuel  Leonard  in  his  will,  in  1745,  gave  his  "daughter  Haza- 
diah,  wife  of  Rev.  John  Wales,  £100  in  good  bar  iron,  or  20  acres  of  land," 
and  similar  amounts  to  each  of  his  four  other  daughters.  But  to  remind 
the  executor  more  clearly  his  wishes,  he  added  a  codicil,  stating  that  the 
daughters  "must  have  £100  in  money,  old  tenor,'*'  as  good  as  merchant- 
able bar  iron  at  £3  per  100  cwt  or  beef  at  8d.  per  pound,  or  Indian  com 
at  9s.  per  bushel, — or  if  in  bills  of  credit,  at  that  est!  mate." 

Rev.  John  Wales  was  the  first  clergyman  of  Raynham,  where  he  was 
settled  in  1731,  receiving  a  small  salary.  The  inhabitants  proposed  to  in- 
crease it.  At  a  public  town  meeting  held  by  adjournment  Sept.  2d,  1751, 
Jacob  Hall  moderator,  states  the  record,  "it  was  put  to  vote  whether  or  no 
the  town  will  make  an  addition  to  the  Salary  of  Rev.  John  Wales  for  the 
present  year, — that  is,  to  make  in  the  whole  £400  old  tenor ;  one  third  to 
be  paid  in  good  merchantable  bar  iron  at  £9  per  Cwt,  the  other  two  thirds 
in  Indian  corn  at  20s.  per  bushel,  rye  at  30s.,  beef  at  18d.  per  lb.  and 
pork  at  2s.  6d.,  which  sum  being  reduced  to  lawful  money  is  £53  6s.  8d. 
in  the  whole, — ^and  it  was  passed  in  the  affirmative.  Recorded  by  Jo- 
siah  Dean  town  clerk." 


CHURCH  RECORDS  OF  FARMINGTON,  CONN. 

Communicated  by  Julius  Gat,  Esq.,  of  Farmington,  Conn. 
[Continaed  fVom  yol.  xiii.  page  00.] 

THE  Church  Records  of  this  town,  previously  printed  in  the 
Register,  are  from  a  copy  made  by  the  late  Nathan  el  Good- 
win. The  printed  record  of  baptisms  stops  abruptly  at  the  death 
of  the  Rev.  Samuel  Hooker,  November  5,  1697  (Reg.  xii.  328). 
I  send  for  publication  the  remaining  entries  in  the  first  volume, 
which  is  fast  falling  in  pieces.  The  book  measures  five  and  a  half 
by  four  inches.  The  accuracy  of  the  copy  may  be  relied  on.  When- 
ever the  writing  was  obscure  I  have  compared  it  with  the  town  and 
probate  records.  I  have  put  an  interrogation  mark  ( ?)  after  the 
few  doubtful  words.  The  spelling  and  all  contractions  are  carefully 
preserved. 

Sarah  Wadsworth  Daughter  of  John  Wadsworth  Baptized  July  4.  97. 
Thomas  Norton  son  of  John  Norton  Bap:  July  11.  97. 

•  Monej,  "  old  tenor"  so  called,  or  English  sterling,  £1  of  which  in  1745,  at  the  time 
of  Dea.  Samael's  death,  was  worth  £5  lOs.  of  Massachusetts  currency;  hence  the  codicil 
of  his  will  to  avert  the  loss  to  his  daughters  in  being  paid  in  depreciating  currency,  which 
in  four  years  afterwards  had  fallen  to  £11  for  £1  sterling.  A  similar  depreciation  is  noted 
in  the  Raynham  minister's  salary.  Those  were  critical  times  for  busincfia  men,  of  whicii 
the  present  generation  know  bat  little. 


276  Church  Mecorda  of  Farmington^  Conn.  [July, 

Easter  Barns  Daughter  of  Joseph  Barns  Bap:  Jul  18.  97. 
Su[sa]nnah*  Langton  Daugh:  of  Joseph  Langton  Bap:  Aag:  29.  97. 

[Blank  page.] 

A  Record  of  persons  Baptized  in  ye  Church  of  Farmington. 
Anno  1706. 
Ruth  Coles  ye  daughter  of  John  Coles  Baptized  December  22. 
Abigail  Wodruff  ye  Daughter  of  Sam"  Woodruff  Sen'  Baptized  Decemb.29. 
Lidea  Wadsworth  ye  Daughter  of  John  Wadsworth  Baptized  January  5. 

170f 
Mehitabel  Hooker  Daughter  of  Sam"  Jan:  12.  170f. 
Rachell  Porter  Daughter  of  Neh:  Jan:  12. 

January  ye  19.  ye  children  following  Baptized. 
Sarah  Or  ton  aged  8  years  sometime  in  febr: 
Anna  Orton  aged  about  4  years  in  february. 
Mary  Orton  aged  2  years  in  march. 
Stephen  Porter  son  of  Samuel  Porter. 
Ebenezer  Langton  son  of  Joseph  Langton. 
Ezekiel  Woodroof  son  of  Samuel  Woodr  Jun'. 
Phebe  Huff  daui'hter  of  Jonathan  Huff*. 
Nathan  Lewis  son  of  Samuel  Jan.  26. 
Elijah  Hart  son  of  Thomas  of  Capt°  feb.  2. 
Abraham  Jillet  aged  aboue  20  years  feb:  2. 
Patience  Barns  Daughter  of  Thomas         feb:  9. 
Hannah  Woodroff  Daughter  of  Joseph  feb:  23. 
Josiah  Woodroff  son  of  Joseph  baptized  y*  same  day. 
Jonathan  )  bird,  children  of  Thomas  march.  2. 
Mary        ) 

Martha  Scot.  March  16.  owned  ye  Cov:  &  bap: 
Benjamin  Judg  1 
Susannah  Judg  | 

Abigail  Jud        \  children  of  Benjamin  Jud  baptized  ye  same  day. 
Keziah  Jud        I 
&  Mary         J 

March  26,  1707. 
Matthew  Woodroof  bap. 
Easter  &  )  Daugh  of  Thomas  Newel. 
Sarah       j 

April  1  6.     Stephen  Smith  son  of  Samuel  Baptized. 
Aprill  13.  Joseph  Judd  son  of  Joseph. 
May.  11.     Joseph  Barns  son  of  Joseph. 

Hannah  Seamar  daughter  of  Sam". 
June  8:     Josiah  &  )  child"  of  Thomas  North  Juu'  baptized. 

Thomas   ( 
June  15.     Ledea  Bird  Daughter  of  Thomas  Baptized. 
June  22.     Sarah  Nuel  Daughter  of  Sam"  Baptized. 
July  6.     Margett  Orton  Daughter  of  Thomas. 
July  20.     Su[sa]nnaht  Woodruff  Daughter  of  John. 
August.  10.     Nathaniel  Cowles      ) 

thankful!  Cowles      >    of  Nathaniel  Bap: 
&  Timothy  Cowles  ) 


*  That  the  name  is  Sasannah  appears  also  from  the  Town  Record  of  Birtbf. 
t  Susannah  in  Town  Records. 


1884.]  Church  Records  of  Farmington^  Conn.  277 

Aagnst  17.     Elizabeth  Woodford  daugh  of  Joseph  Baptized. 
Aogast  31.     Hannah  Hawley  of  Joseph  Bap: 
September  7.     Samael  Scot  Sen'  Baptized. 

Thomas  Langton  son  of  Joseph. 
Septem^'  14^    y*  children  of  Sam"  Scott      f  Ebenezer. 

Samael. 

Mary. 

Hezekiah. 

Septem:  28.    Jemima  Ck>ale  daughter  of  Isaac 
October.  12.     Bathsheba  Jud  daughter  of  Benjamin. 
Elizabeth )  [children  of  Stephen  Lee  and  his  wife  who  joined  the  church 
Sarah        >-  the  Sunday  preceding.] 

Stephen    ) 

December  14.  1707.    James  Hart  son  of  Thomas  of  Stephen  Baptized. 
January  4. 170}.    Jonathan  Root  son  of  Timothy  Baptized    Abraham 

Brownson  son  of  Roger  Mary  Tompson  daughter 
of  Thoinas. 
fob.  29:  1701.     Rebecca  Brownson  Daughter  of  Samuel  of  Jacob. 
March  21.  1708.    Daniel  Hart  son  of  Stephen. 
Aprill  11.  1708.    Jt>hn  Woodruff  of  Samuel. 
Aprill  18.  1708.     Ruth  Hooker  of  John. 
May  y*  9.  1708.     Nodiah  Lewis  of  NathanieL 

Mathew  Clark  of  Mathew. 
May  16.  1708. 
Mary 
Elisabeth 
Ester 
Anna 
Rebecca 

June  13.  1708.    James  Woodruff  of  Saml^ 

Ezekiel  porter     )      ^  g        ^  j^    , 
Abigail  porter      ) 
Ebenezer  porter  of  Timothy. 
June  20.  1708.    Joseph  Brunson  son  of  John. 

Jerusha  Judd  daught'  of  Daniel. 
July  11.  1708.     Lydea  Lee  of  Thomas,  Mehitabel  Coal  daughter  of  Mar 

bell,  Experience  Smith  daughter  of  Joseph. 
August  1.    Samuel  North  of  John  on  his  owning  of  y*  covenant  by  John 

y*  father. 
8.     Elizabeth  Norton  of  Isaac  on  his  wives  account. 
August  15.     Thankfull  North  of  Thomas  of  Samuel. 
September  12.    Hanna  Barns  of  Thomas,  Joanna  Gridly  of  Thomas  of 

Sam. 
October  8.    Amoe  Judd  son  of  Anthony. 

10.     Hannah  Tompson  of  John,  Jedidiah  Barns  of  Ebenezer. 
Septemb**  9.     Ester  Lewis  of  Samuel,  EHsha  Woodruff  of  Matthew. 
January  16.     Elnathan  Whitman  of  Sam^^  bap. 
January  23.     Rodah  Judd  of  John. 

*  September  \a  erldently  a  mistake,  for  September  9  did  not  fkll  on  Sunday,  bat  on  Thnrt- 
daj.  Moreorer  Hester  I^wis,  daaghter  of  Samael,  was  bom  November  8, 1708,  and  Josh- 
na  (noi  Bliiha)  WoodmA  fon  of  Matthew,  was  bom  November  7»  170S.  See  Town  Rao- 
ecds,  Vol.  1,  pp.  F,  and  N. 

TOL.  zxxnn.         25 


porter  Daughters  of  John. 


278  Church  Records  of  Fartntngtonf  Conn.  [Jnly, 

Feb:  20.     Gideon  Norton  John  ye  third. 

Aprill  10.  1709.    Mary  Woodford  Daughter  of  Joseph.    Hannah  Hart 

daughter  of  Thomas  of  Cap". 
May  1.     Thomas  Orton  of  Thomas. 
May  8.    Hanna  Lee  of  Stephen.    Sam^'  Tompson  of  Samuel  upon  his 

owning  covenant 
June  5.    Benjamin  Huff  of  Jonathan.    Timothy  Wadsworth  of  Nathaniel 

Joseph  Andros  of  Joseph. 
July  24.    John  &  Joseph  Woodruff  sons  of  John  Jeams  North  of  Thomas 

of  Thomas. 
Sept.  18.     Sam^  Hauley  son  of  Joseph.     Hanna  Smith  daughter  of  Jona- 
than Jun. 
October  16.  1709.     Mary  Lee  of  Thomas. 
October    2.  1709.     Matthew  Porter  of  Nehemiah. 
October  24:     William.  Samuel,  Marget.  children  of  Eldward  Neal. 
January  1.    Josiah  Lewis  son  of  Sam"  Lewis. 
March  26.     William  Wadsworth  son  of  William. 

Joanna  Jud  daughter  of  benjamin. 
April  16.     Mary  Clark  daughter  of  Mathew. 

Lidea  Woodruff  daughter  of  Joseph.  • 

Aprill  22.  1710.    Solomon  Whitman  son  of  Samuel. 

Timothy  North  of  Samuel. 
May.  19:     Ester,  Lydea,  Silence  Daughters  of  ye  wife  of  John  Brownson 

by  her  former  husband  Charterton. 
June.  26.     Nathaniel,  Mica,  Anna  children  of  Sam"  brownson  of  Richard. 
July  23.     Esther  Tompson  of  Dr,  Rachell  brownson  of  John,  Bath  Smith 

of  Samuel. 
July  30.     Elisha  Lewis  of  Nathaniel. 
Sep.  24.  1710.     William  Hart  son  of  Thomas  Hart  bap: 
Sep.  10.  1710.     Roger  Hooker  son  of  John. 

Sep.  24.  1710.    Joseph  Smith  son  of  Joseph  Smith  Jun'  baptiz'  on  his  own- 
ing ye  covenant. 
Jemima  Jud  daughter  of  Daniell  Jndd  baptiz^  the  same  day. 
Dec:  3.  1710.    Noah  Smith  of  Samuel  at  ye  Swamp. 
Decem:  10.     Mary  Orvice  on  Miriam  Orvices  owning  ye  covenant 
Decem.  24.     Charles  Norton  son  of  Isaac, 
feb.  1711.     Unice  North  of  John, 
feb:  4.    Jeams  Tompson  son  of  John, 
feb:  18.     Zephaniah  Smith  son  of  Joseph  Smith  Sen'.    Abram  Woodruff 

son  of  Matthew, 
feb.  25.     Ruth  Norton. 
March  18.  1711.     Stephen  Root  of  Timothy. 
March  25.     Eldad  Lewis  of  Isaac. 

April  15.     Baptized  Ruth  Wadsworth  daughter  of  John.     Susannah  po^ 

ter  daugh:  of  Timothy. 
Mkrtha  Andros  daughter  of  John  Andros,  his  wife  being  a 
member  at  Waterbury. 
June  3.     Simmon  Wodroff  son  of  John.* 

Aug:  5.    ye  children  of  Sarah  Carington  on  her  admission  into  ye  Ch.  Sa- 
rah Carington  John  Carington. 

•  The  date  was  first  written  Jane  3  and  afterward  altered  to  July  81.    Simmons  Wood- 
nff  was  bom  January  6, 1710-1.    See  Town  Elecords,  1. 92. 


1884.]  ITiomas  PhilbHck  and  Family.  279 

August  12.     Elijah  heart  son  of  Thomas  of  Thomas. 
October.     Rebecca  Seamor,  Samuel,  Abigail  of  Ebenezer  Seamor. 
Novemb.  1711.     baptized  Hezekiah  Coale  sod  of  Caleb,  Matthew  Norton 

SOD  of  thomas,  Jared  Lee  son  of  thomas  Daniel  Gridly 
son  of  Samuel. 
[Rev.  Samuel  Whitman  made  no  farther  record  of  baptisms  in  this  vol- 
ume of  the  church  records.] 
Thomas  Orton  added  to  ye  Church  Jan.  12.  anno  170|. 

february  9.  ye  following  persons  were  added  to  ye  Church. 
Benjamin  Judd,  Joseph  Woodrof,  Thomas  Tompson  son  of  Thomas,  Eb- 

eneze  Bams  &  Deborah  his  wife. 
Joseph  Stanly  &  his  wife  &  Jonathan  Hough  &  his  wife  came  to  us  by  let- 
ters of  dismission. 
March  16.    Matthew  Woodroff  added. 
March  30.    Joanna  Smith  added  to  ye  Church. 

aprill  21.     Mary  Lewis  wife  of  Sam"  came  in  by  a  letter  of  dismission, 
march  4.  1707.    Thomas  Gridly,  HauDah  his  wife  Thomas  North,  Rachel 

Brownson  added  to  ye  Cch. 
Jon  10.  1707.     Samuel  Orvis,  Timithy  Porter  &  Susannah  his  wife  added 

to  ye  Cch. 
August  16.  1707.     Joseph  Woodfiird  Jun'  and  his  wife  Lydea  &  Marga- 
ret Woodruff  came  into  ye  church  by  letters  dismis- 
sive from  Symsbury. 
Sep:  14.  1707.     Hannah  North  came  into  communion  by  ye  same  letter  of 

dismission. 
Oct  5.     Stephen  Lee  &  his  wife  joined  to  us. 

feb.  23.  anno  170^.     Samuel  Brownson  of  Jacob  added,  ye  same  day  Han- 
nah Hart  wife  of  John,  Elizabeth  Woodruff  wife 
of  Matthew,  John  brownson,  all  by  one  dismissive 
letter  from  Hartford  2  church. 
May  2.  1708.     John  &  Samuel  porter  of  daniel. 
July  11.  1708.     Thomas  Tompson  &  Margret  his  wife  joined  to  us. 
August  15.     Thomas  North  of  Samuel  joined  to  us. 
Octob'  17.     Dorothy  Wadsworth  added. 

[To  be  continued.  ] 


THOMAS  PHILBRICK  AND  FAMILY,  1583—1883. 

By  the  Rev.  Jacob  Chapman,  of  Exeter,  N.  H. 

THOMAS  PHILBRICK*  is  said  to  have  come  from  Lincoln- 
shire in  England.  Old  records  preserved  in  the  family  state 
that  he  and  his  family  came  in  1630  in  the  Arabella.  This  vessel 
was  one  of  seventeen  ships  which  in  that  year  brought  colonists 
to  Massachusetts.     The  Arabella,   in  which  came  Gov.  Winthrop, 

*  The  name  is  Rpelled  in  the  early  records  in  Tarious  ways.  We  find  Filbrick,  Philbrook, 
Philbmcke,  Philbrok,  &c.  &c.  **  It  was  pcrliafvs  a  Lancashire  name,"  originally  from  the 
lame  Saxon  word  as  Bridget  spelled  in  the  Northambrian  Co.  Brigg,  a  Scandinavian  form. 
(Reo.,  1869,  p.  81.) 

Otbcra  derive  the  word  from  the  Greek  **  Phile  "—htely^  and  the  old  English  word 
Brook, 


280  TTiamaa  Philbrick  and  Family.  [July, 

Sir  Richard  Saltonstall  and  others,  sailed  from  Yarmouth,  April  8, 
1630,  and  arrived  at  Salem  June  14.  The  next  month  the  passen- 
gers in  this  and  other  vessels  settled  at  Charlestown ;  but  soon  after 
divided,  and  a  part,  with  Saltonstall,  settled  in  Watertown.  Tho- 
mas Philbrick  and  family  were  there  in  1636.  ^  His  homestead  was 
on  the  N.  W.  comer  of  Belmont  and  Lexington  Streets." 

In  1639,  the  second  summer  after  the  settlement  of  Hampton, 
N.  H.,  John,  son  of  Thomas  Philbrick,  moved  to  Ebtmpton;  and 
it  seems  that  his  brother  Thomas  soon  followed  him.  It  is  said  that 
"  The  first  settlers  of  Hampton  were  attracted  to  the  place  by  the 
fishing,  the  fowling,  the  best  of  clams,  and  the  salt  marshes  almost 
ready  for  the  scythe." 

In  1645—6,  Thomas  Philbrick,  Sen.,  a  grantee  of  eight  lots,  sold 
his  estate  in  Watertown,  and  in  1650  or  51  he  had  removed  to 
Hampton,  where  his  elder  sons  lived. 

February  22,  1649,  "Richard  Saltonstall  owned  land  in  Ip- 
swich joining  that  of  Mr.  Rogers's  grant  of  the  town,"  and  Thomas 
Philbrick  is  named  as  being  there  (Antiquarian  Papers,  No.  37). 
John  Philbrick,  of  Seabrook,  says,  "  The  deed,  William  Sanborn 
to  Thomas  Philbrick,  dated  May,  1647,  proves  that  the  remainder 
of  the  family  came  to  Hampton  in  the  spring,  1645-6."  His  wife 
Elizabeth  died  12th  mo.  19th,  1663,  and  in  March,  1664,  he  calls 
himself  "very  aged."     He  died  in  1667. 

1.    Thomas  Philbrick,  by  wife  Elizabeth,  bad  born  in  England: 

3.  i.  James,  of  Unmpton  in  1644,  a  mariDer,  who  [m.  Ist,  Jane  (daui^hter  of 
Thomas)  Roberts  of  Dover]?  and  2d,  her  sister  Ann  Roberts.  *'  In 
1670,  he  was  chosen,  with  others  to  run  the  Exeter  line.*'  In  1671  he 
had  a  erant  of  Lot  52,  40  acres,  in  the  So.  of  Hampton,  called  **  The 
new  plantation"  (now  Seabrook).  He  had  10  children.  He  was 
drowned  in  Hampton  river,  near  the  mouth  of  Cole's  Creek,  16  Not. 
1674.    His  widow  married  8  July,  1678,  William  Mastin. 

3.  ii.     John,  who  m.  Ann  f  Palmer  ?]  and  was  settled  in  Hampton  in  1639.    He 

had  7  children.  On  the  20th  8th  mo.  1657,  as  they  were  going  out  of 
the  harbor  on  their  way  to  Boston,  he,  his  wife  and  daught^  Saiah 
and  5  others,  were  cast  away  and  drowned. 

4.  iii.   Dea.  Thomas,  b.  1624,  m.  Ist,  Ann,  daughter  of  William  Knapp,  Sen., 

of  Watertown,  and  settled  about  1651  on  the  land  in  Seabrook  now 
owned  by  George  A.  Philbrick.  He  was  a  prominent  man,  often  cho- 
sen as  selectman,  representative,  iaa.  His  wife  Ann  died  17  May,  1667, 
leaving  four  children.  On  the  22d  7th  mo.  1669,  he  m.  2d,  Hannah, 
widow  of  John  White  of  Haverhill.  Mass.,  and  daughter  of  £dward 
French,  of  Hampton,  by  whom  he  had  three  children.  He  died  24 
Nov.  1700,  a.  76. 

iv.  Elizabeth,  ro.  in  1642, 1st,  Thomas  Chase,  who  d.  1652,  leaving  1.  Tho- 
mas,^ b.  1643,  d.  Oct.  1714;  2.  Joseph,^  b.  1645,  d.  12  Jan.  1718; 
3.  Isaac,^  b.  1647,  m.  Mary  Perkins,  and  d.  1727  ;  4.  James,^  b.  1649, 
m.  Elizabeth  Green;  5.  Abraham^  b.  1651,  **slaine  in  ye  wares  in 
1676."  She  m.  2d,  Oct.  26,  1654,  E.  P.  Qarlaiid,  and  had  :  6.  John,^ 
b.  1655  ;  7.  Jacob,^  b.  1656;  8.  Peter,^  b.  1659.  Mr.  Garland  d.  4 
Jan.  1661,  and  she  m.  3d,  Judge  Henry  Robey.  >  She  d.  11  Feb.  1677. 

V.     Hannah. 

vi.  Mary,  m.  about  1648,  Edward,  son  of  Robert  Tiack,  of  Hampton,  who 
d.  1652,  and  had:  1.  Edward,^  b.  1649,  d.  youne;  2.  Dea.  John,^  b. 
1651-2,  m.  Bethia  llobbs  and  had  sixteen  ctiiildren.  Mary'  m.  2d, 
James  Wall,  and  had  :   3.  Afory,'  b.  1656,  >|fife  of  John  Marston  ; 


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4.  Hannahf^  b.  7  March,  1658,  m.  fiei^amin  Moalton.  James  Wall 
d.  1659.    His  widow  Mary  lived  Ull  1699. 

Tii.  Martha,  b.  Watertown,  1633 ;  m.  Ist,  1657,  John  Cass,  who  d.  sudden- 
ly in  bed,  7  April,  1675.  Their  children  were :  1.  John^ ;  3.  iSomu- 
e/,'  b.  13  July,  1659,  m.  Mary  Sanborn  ;  3.  Ebenezer^ ;  4.  Jonathan^ ; 

5.  Abiaail^ ;  6.  Mercy  ^;  7.  Mary,^  Gen.  Lewis,  son  of  Jonathan 
Cass,  b.  Exeter,  1783,  was  one  of  her  descendants.  (Rbqister,  vi. 
246.)    She  m.  3d,  William  Lyons,  of  Rowley,  Mass. 

2.  James' Philbrick  (Thomcu^),  1622  ?-l 674,  by  his  wife  Ann  had 

children  bom  in  Hampton : 

i.  BsTHiA,  who  m.  24  April,  1677,  Caleb,  son  of  Isaac  Perkins  of  Hamp- 
ton, and  had  Rhoda,*  who  m.  34  May,  1700,  £lias  Philbrook*  (John,' 
John'}  and  had  seven  children. 

5.  ii.     Gapt.  Jamks,  b.  13  July,  1651,  a  mariner  of  Hampton,  who  m.  4  Dec. 

1674,  Hannah,  daughter  of  Isaac  Perkins,  b.  14  Feb.   1656,  and  died 

1739.    They  had  eight  sons  and  three  daughters. 
iii.    Appbia,  b.  1655 ;  m.  3  Deo.  1674,  Timothy  Hilliard,  and  had :  1.  Ben- 
jamin,* 1681 ;  3.  Apphia,*  1686 ;  3.  Mary,*  1688. 
iy.    £sTHBR,  b.  1  March,  1657  ;  m.  Sylvanus  Nock  of  Dover. 

6.  T.     Thomas.  Jr.,  b.  14  March,  1659,  cordwainer;  m.  14  April,  1681,  Me- 

hitable  (daughter  of Dalton),  and  settled  in  Hampton.    In  1694 

he  was  a  grantee  of  Kingstown.    In  1703  he  sold  his  house  to  Samuel 
Chapman,  late  of  Ipswich,  Mass.,  and  removed  to  Kingstown,  where 
he  died  1  Jan.  1713.    They  had  ten  children, 
vi.    Sarah,  b.  14  Feb.  1661. 

7.  vii.  Joseph,  b.  1  Oct.  1663  ;  m.  1685-6,  Triphena,  daughter  of  William  and 

Rebecca  Marston,  b.  38  Dec.  1663,  and  d.  in  1729.  He  was  a  mariner, 
and  about  1714  removed  to  Rye,  where  he  d.  17  Nov.  1755.  Had  nine 
children. 

viii.  £uzABXTH,  b.  24  July,  1666. 

ix.    Mebitablb,  b.  19  July,  1668 ;  m.  2d  wife  Timothy  Hilliard. 

3.  John'  Philbrook  (T^omcu^),  died  1657;  by  his  wife  Ann  had  born 

in  Hampton : 

8.  i.      John,  b.  about  1648 ;  lived  with  his  grandfather  Thomas  afler  the  death 

of  his  flEither,  and  inherited  a  part  of  his  estate.     He  married  Ist,  in 

1667,  36th  13th  mo..  Prudence,  daughter  of  William  Swain,  h.  29  Dec. 

1654,  and  d.  about  1717.    She  led  £ur  or  more  children.    In  1723  he 

had  married  3d,  Sabina ,    who  survived  him.     He  d.  in   1737. 

Having  been  early  left  an  orphan  he  had  little  education,  but  seems  to 

have  l^n  a  successful  farmer  in  Greenland. 
ii.     Hannah,  b.  36  Sept.  1651 ;  m.  Ist,  Joseph  Walker  of  Portsmouth  ;  and 

3d,  39  July,  1686,  John  Seavey. 
iii.    Martha  (twin  sister  of  Hannah),  m.  John  Bracket, 
iv.    Sarah,  drowned  80th  8th  mo.  1657,  with  her  parents. 
▼.     Mart,  m.  30  Dec.  1669,  Jacob  Perkins  of  Hampton. 
vi.    Abigail,  b.  8th  9th  mo.  1654. 
vii.  £pHRAiM,  b.  34th  3d  mo.  1656 ;  m.  Elizabeth  Barron  and  settled  in  Gro- 

ton,  Mass.,  where  he  had  Elizabeth,*  Abigail*  and  Ephraim*  Jr. 

4.  Sargeant  Thomas'  Philbrook,  Sen.  (  Thomas^),  1624-1700,  of  Hamp- 

ton, by  his  wife  Ann  had  children  born  in  Hampton : 

i.      Mart,  b.  11  Sept.  1651. 

ii.     [Bkthia,  b.  16tb  10th  mo.  1654]  ? 

iii.   Jonathan,  b.  4th  5th  mo.  1657  :  m.  widow Shaw ;  had  no  children. 

He  d.  1747,  and  eave  the  homestead  to  the  grandsons  of  his  brother 
Samuel,  namely,  Abner*  and  Jonathan*  Philbrick. 

iy.    Samuel,  b.  19th  3d  mo.  1660;  m.  Jane ,  and  d.  33d  3d  mo.   1694. 

He  left  but  one  son, 

9.  Thomas*  who  m.  Abiah ,  andd.  at  Hampton,  1747,  leaving 

five  children. 
T.     Blizabsth,  b.  1667,  and  d.  a.  3  mo. 
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282  Thomas  Philbrich  and  Family.  [July, 

Thomas'  Philbrick  m.  2d,  on  the  22d  7th  mo.  1669,  widow  HaD- 
nah  White,  daughter  of  Edward  and  Ann  French,  and  had : 

10.  Ti.    William,  b.  37th  4th  mo.  1670 ;  m.  10  Oet.  1689,  Mary,  daughter  of 

Walter  Neale  of  GreenlaDd,  in  Portsmouth,  and  settled  there  in  1694. 
yii.  Janb,  m.  17  August,  1700,  Joseph  Cram. 
Tiii.  Hannah. 

5.  Capt  Jambs'  Philbrick  {James*  Thomat^)^  1650-1723,  mariner  of 

Hampton,  and  his  wife  Hannah  (Perkins),  had,  bom  'in  Hampton, 
twelve  children : 

i.      Hannah,  b.  30th  dd  mo.  1676 ;   m.  96  July,  1603,  Stephen  Sanborn 

and  had  Nathan^  Sanborn, 
ii.     Danikl,  b.  19th  12th  mo.  1678. 

iii.   Jonathan,  b.  lOth  day  of  9th  mo.  1680  ;  m.  Mary . 

iv.    Sarah,  b.  U  June,  1682:  m.  Ist,  8  Aug.  1701.  Eosigjii  John  Sanborn 

of  No.  Hampton,  who  d.  3  Sept.  1727.    She  m.  Sd,  about  1731,  Lieut. 

Thomas  Rawlins  of  Stratham,  and  d.  30  May,  1761.    Her  children 

were  14,  and  her  desoeodants  before  her  death,  239. 

11.  ▼.     Ebenizer,  b.  29  Oct.  1683 ;  m.  Bethia  Moulton  and  had  four  children, 

James,^  Ritth,^  Bethia^  and  Ebenezer,^  Jr.    In  1743  he  moved  to  Rye, 

and  d.  Dec.  1760. 
▼i.    Apphia,  b.  8  April,  1686 ;  d.  unm.  1759. 
Til.  Isaac,  d.  5  August,  1688 ;  m.  20  Oct.  1719,  Mary  Palmer  and  had : 

1.  Jonathan^;  2.  Hannah^;  and  Z.Daniel,*  b.  1726,  m.   Mar^ret 

Ayres,  and  d.  1804.    He  had  three  sons  :   1.  Perkins*  ;  2.  Darnel* ; 

3.  John,*  who  settled  in  Epsom. 

▼iii.  Jambs,  m.  Sarah ;  was  a  weaver  in  New  Castle  in  1703.    Children : 

1.  Hannah,*  b.  1701 ;  2.  Mary*  b.  1702?   3.  Rachei,*  b.  Mav,  1704; 

4.  Benjamin,*  b.  29  Sept.  1706,  who  settled  in  HaTerhill,  Mass.,  a 
farmer. 

ix.    Abioail,  b.  25  June,  1692  ;  m.  Thomas  Haines  and  had  Malachi.* 

12.  X.     Dea.  Joseph,  b.  5  Feb.  1694;  m.  1st,  5  Dec.  1717,  Ann  Dearborn,  who 

d.  in  1718.  He  m.  2d,  26  Nov.  1719,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  James 
Perkins,  who  d.  26  March,  1736,  leaTing  four  children.  He  m.  3d, 
18  Nov.  1736,  Sarah,  daughter  of  John  Nay,  who  had  ten  children. 
He  d.  20  Dec.  1761. 

xi.  Nathan,  b.  19  August,  1697 ;  a  blacksmith  ;  m.  30  Oct.  1721,  Dorcas, 
daughter  of  James  Johnson  ;  lived  at  Hampton  and  Rye ;  d.  23  April, 
1794.  His  children  :  1.  Mary*  b.  25  Jan.  1723 ;  2.  Jonathan*  b.  13 
Oct.  1725,  a  mariner,  taken  bv  the  French ;  3.  Benjamin^*  b.  about 
1726,  m.  15  Dec.  1751,  Sarah,  daudbter  of  Shubael  Page  of  Hampton, 
b.  12  April,  1734,  settled  at  Little  iliver  and  had  seven  sons,  wbo  set- 
tled in  oanbomton,  where  he  d.  23  Jan.  1808. 

zii.  Mart,  b.  1701 ;  d.  1721. 

6.  Thomas'  Philbrick  {James,*   Thomat^),  1659-1712 ;  of  Hampton 

and  Kingston ;  by  his  wife  Mehitabel  Ayres  had  children  bom  in 
Hampton : 

i.      A  daughter  in  1681.    ii.  A  son,  b.  1683.    Both  d.  young. 

iii.   Jeremiah,  b.  21  Sept.  1684 ;  m.  and  d.  in  Rinjpton.  1721. 

iv.    £lizabetu,  b.  16  Oct.  1685;  m.  Abram  Bradley  of  Haverhill,  Mass. 

V.     TmoTHT,  b.  14  May,  1689 ;  d.  1711. 

vi.    Ann,  b.  12  March,  1691 ;  m.  1  Jan.  1716,  Stephen  Berry  [of  Rochester?]. 

vii.  Mehitablb,  b.  26  March,  16U3 ;  m.  29  April,  1712,  Capt.  Daniel  Lad  of 
Kingston.  She  d.  23  Jan.  1779,  a.  86.  A  chrbtian  woman  much  re- 
spected. Her  children:  1.  Mehitable*;  2.  Elizabeth*;  3.  Anna*; 
4.  Hannah*;  5.  Mary,*  b.  1722;  6.  Daniel,*  b.  1725;  7.  Stqthen*; 
8.  Joanna,*  b.  1735 ;  9.  John,*  b.  21  Oct.  1737. 

viii.  Sahuel,  b.  1695  ;  d.  1711. 

13.  ix.    Jkdediah,  b.  9  August,  1700;  m.  25  August,  1721,  Blaiy  Taylor.    He 

was  a  surveyor,  and  aided  in  running  the  lines  of  new  townships ; 
**  was  justice  of  the  peace,  captain  of  the  town,  zepreaeDtative  to  the 


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legislature,  deacon  of  the  ohuroh,"  &o.    He  bad  ten  ohildren,  and  d. 
20  March,  1754,  much  lamented, 
z.     Thomas,  Jr.,  b.  1704;  d.  1704. 

7.  Joseph*  Philbrick  (James*  T^omo**),  1662-1755;  of  Hampton 

and  Rye,  mariner ;  by  his  wife  Triphena  Marston  had  children  born 
in  Hampton : 

i.      JosiPB,  b.  1686 ;  d.  young, 
ii.     Joseph,  b.  19  Feb.  1688. 

14.  iii.    Capt.  Zbchariah,  b.  U  March,  1600;  mariner  and  &rmer  of  Hampton 

Falls ;  m.  Mary ,  and  had  seven  children. 

ir.    Sabina,  b.  1691 ;  m.  Abraham  Libbey. 

T.     Ann, b.  13  Jan.  1694  [m.  Stephen  Berry  of  Rochester?]. 

15.  Ti.    Ephraim,  b.  12  Aug.  1696 ;  m.  Martha,  b.  Jan.  1702,  (laughter  of  Henry 

VVadleigh  of  Hampton.    He  settled  in  Exeter,  was  a  butcksmith,  had 
six  children,  and  d.  in  1747,  leaving  much  property. 

Tii.  Hestkr,  b.  2  May,  1699. 

yiii.  Phxbk,  b.  9  June,  1701 ;  m.  Daniel  Moulton. 

16.  ix.    JosBS,  b.  5  Nov.  1703;  blacksmith;  m.  4  Jan.  1727,  Abi^il,  daughter 

of  William  Locke,  who  d.  12  Aug.  1783.    They  had  eieht  children. 
He  was  an  active  business  man  and  dealt  much  in  lands.    He  d.  24 
March,  1757,  89.  54. 
X.     Eliza,  b.  8  Deo.  1706. 

8.  John*  Philbroor  (John*  Thoma^),  1648?-! 737,  farmer,  and  his 

first  wife.  Prudence  Swain,  had  children  bom  in  Hampton : 

i.  Joul,  b.  22d  12th  mo.  1668  ;  d.  probably  1717.  He  m.  and  had  three 
children  in  Greenland :  1.  iSusanna,^  bapt.  1713 ;  2.  John^^  bapt.  1715 ; 
3. . 

ii.  Susanna,  m.  Joshua  Berry  of  Greenland,  who  is  named  in  the  will,  22 
Sept.  1737. 

17.  iii.    EuAS,  b.  1680 ;  m.  Ist,  21  May,  1700,  Rhoda,  daughter  of  Caleb  Per- 

kins, b.  24  June,  1677,  who  had  seven  children  and  d.  about  1720.    On 
the  2d  Jan.  1723,  £lias«  m.  2d,  Penelope  Philbrick,  who  in  the  will  of 
James*  Philbrick,  in  1722,  is  called  Lis  **  daughter  in  law."    Elias^ 
Philbrick  d.  suddenly  in  Greenland,  23  Nov.  1747. 
IT.    Hannah,  b.  14  April,  1687. 

9.  Thomas*  Philbrick  (Samuel*  Thomas*  Thomas^),  1684?-! 748,  of 

Hampton,  and  his  wife,  Abiah  or  Abigail,  had,  born  in  Hampton : 

i.      Abnsr,  b.  21  Jan.  1708 ;  m.  1st,  10  Nov.  1731,  Mehitable  Stewart,  b. 

1716,  who  had  eight  children,  and  d.  1770. 
ii.     John,  b.  26  May,  1712 :  m.  26  Dec.  1734,  Judith  Sanborn,  and  had  six 

children.    He  d.  16  Feb.  1748. 
iii.    Jans,  b.  20  May,  1715  ;  m.  Ebenezer  Enowlton,  a  blacksmith, 
iv.    Elder  Jonathan,  b.  14  June,  1718 ;  d.  July,  1807.    He  m.  let, ,and 

lived  in  Newbury,  Mass.  He  m.  2d  Beulah  Hardy  ;  removed  to  Weare, 

N.  H.,  where  she  d.  August,  1823,  a.  92.    They  had  seven  children. 
V.     Anna,  b.  28  Feb.  1720;  m.  19  Nov.  1738,  Ebenezer  Shaw. 

10.    William*  Philbrook  (Thomas*  Thomas^),  1670-1714,  farmer  in 
Greenland,  and  his  wife  Mary  Neal,  had,  bom  in  Greenland : 

18.  i.      Walter,  b.  10  Nov.  1690 ;  m.  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Robert  Tufton,* 

a  blacksmith,  who  bought  and  sold  much  laira  and  d.  in  1732. 

19.  ii.     Jonathan,  b.  about  1692;  a  shipwright;  m.  Elizabeth .    In  1728 

he  sold  lands,  removed  to  "  Arundel,  York  Co., Me.,  and  then  to  Saco, 

afterward  to  Bath,  Me."    He  had  ten  children, 
iii.    Samuxl,  m.  and  was  in  Greenland  in  1713. 
iv.    Mart.  b.  20  May,  1702. 
T.     Oliti.  vi.  Abigail.  vii.  Sarah. 

•  Robert  Tufton  is  said  to  have  taken  the  name  Maun  afterwards. 


284  Thomas  Philbrich  and  Family.  [July, 

11.  Ebenezer^  Philbrick  {Jamesf  Jamei*  ITunnas^),  1683-1760,  and 

his  wife,  Bethia  Moulton,  had,  bom  in  Hampton : 

i.  James,  b.  2  June,  1714 ;  m.  Elizabeth  Rand  of  Rye,  and  bad :  1.  James,* 
b.  Portsmoath,  39  Aug.  1737 ;  9.  Elizabeth,*  b.  28  May,  1739.  James* 
is  supposed  to  have  settled  in  Deerfield  about  1760. 

ii.    Ruth,  b.  13  Oct.  1717 ;  m. Rand,  and  d.  before  Jan.  1755. 

iii.    Bethia,  b.  8  June,  1718. 

iy.  Ebknszer,  Jr.,  b.  27  May.  1721 ;  m.  12  March,  1747,  Hannah  Moulton, 
and  was,  in  1750,  a  cordwainer  in  Rye. 

12.  Dea.  Joseph*  Philbrick  (James*  Jarnez^  Thcma*^)^  1694-1761,  of 

Hampton,  and  his  2d  wife,  Elizabeth  Perkins,  had,  born  in  Hamp- 
ton: 

i.      Ann,  b.  1724 ;  d.  1728. 

ii.     Joseph,  Jr.,  b.  3  Dec.  1725 ;  m.  24  Oct.  1749.  Abigail,  daughter  of  John 

Nay,  sister  of  his  step-mother,  and  had  eight  children, 
iii.   Jambs,  b.  10  Feb.  1727 ;  m.  3  Sept.  1754,  Tkbitha  Dow,  and  had  five 

children. 
It.    Jonathan,  b.  1729 ;  d.  April,  1731. 
▼.     Ann,  2d,  b.  9  June,  1732. 
Ti.    EuDiA,  b.  6  Jan.  1734. 

vii.   (By  his  3d  wife  Sarah  Nay)  John,  b.  30  Nov.  1737 ;  d.  SI  Jan.  1738. 
Tiii.  IIannah,  b.  6  July,  1739 ;  d.  8  July,  1745. 
ix.    Samuel,  b.  18  March,  1741. 
X.     JosHU^,  b.  March  and  d.  April,  1742. 
xi.    JosiAH,  b.  and  d.  August,  1743.  ^ 

xii.  Betty,  b.  Nov.  1744 ;  d.  July,  1745. 
xiii.  Nathan,  b.  April  and  d.  Oct.  1749. 
xiv.  John,  b.  and  a.  Dec.  1750. 

13.  Jedediah*  Philbrick  ( 7%oma«,'  James^  T^oiium*),  1700-1754,  of 

Kingston,  and  his  wife,  Mary  Taylor,  had,  bom  in  Kingston,  ten 
children : 

i.  Jeremiah,  b.  2  Feb.  1722 ;  m.  20  Sept.  1744,  Mary  Stevens,  and  d.  8  March, 
1754.  Children  :  1.  Jedediah*  b.  Feb.  1745  ;  2.  John,*  b.  April,  1747, 
d.  1751 ;  3.  Elizabeth,*  b.  15  Dec.  1749,  m.  Jonathan  Clough ;  4.  Mt- 
hitable,*  bapt.  21  June,  1752,  m.  Joseph  Philbrick. 

ii.  Hannah,  b.  6  Feb.  1724;  m.  Nov.  1747,  Humphrey  Hook,  and  had  four 
children  :  Mary,*  b.  1748;  Martha,*  b.  August,  1760;  Jacob,*  b.  30 
July,  1752. 

iii.    Thomas,  b.  Jan.  1726 ;  d.  Sept.  1730. 

iv.    Benjamin,  b.  July,  1728 ;  d.  1730. 

V.     Thomas,  2d,  b.  1730 ;  d.  1735. 

vi.    Bonimion,  b.  1734;  d.  1735. 

vii.  Thomas,  3d,  b.  1738 ;  d.  1739. 

viii.  Samuel,  b.  11  Feb.  1739  ;  m.  9  Feb.  1767,  Sarah  Sanborn,  and  had  sii 
children  :  1.  Jedediah,*  1767;  2.  JerenUah,*  1769;  3.  Abraham,*  1771; 
4.  John*  1774 ;  5.  Sarah,*  1776 ;  6.  Samuel,*  b.  1779.  Samuel*  d. 
4  April,  1779.    **  A  pious  and  useful  man  in  society.*' 

ix.    Jedediah,  b.  1742 ;  d.  Dec.  1743. 

z.  Joseph,  b.  4  Nov.  1748  ;  m.  Mehitable,  and  settled  in  Andover,  where 
he  d.  in  1822.    His  wife  d.  Feb.  1838.    They  had  five  sons. 

14.  Capt.  Zechariah*   Philbrick  (Joseph,*  James,*  Thomas^),  1689- 

and  his  wife  Mary,  had,  born  in  Newbury,  Mass.,  and  Hampton 
Falls,  seven  children : 

i.      Gideon,  b.  S  Sept.  1718. 
ii.     Hannah,  b.  6  Sept.  1722. 
iii.  •  Mary,  b.  15  Oct.  1724. 
iv.    Sarah,  b.  30  Oct.  1727. 
V.     Joseph,  b.  7  Jan.  1729. 


1884.]  Thomas  Philbrick  and  Family.  285 

Ti.    Ephsaix,  b.  29  Oct.  1731 ;  m.  23  Jan.  1756,  Mary  Sanborn,  and  had : 

Rachel*  b.  1756,  and  Richard,*  b.  13  Oct.  1758. 
Tii.  MicHABL,  b.  10  Not.  1734 ;  m.  Mary ;  went  from  Hampton  to  Pu> 

Bonsfield,  Me.,  then  to  Standish.    Ho  had  six  children. 

15.  Ephraim*  Philbrick  {Joseph,*  James*    TTiomas^),  1696-1747,  of 

Exeter,  blacksmith,  and  his  wife,  Martha  Wadleigh,  had,  born  in 
Exeter : 

1.  BxBUAMiN,  b.  16  Julv,  1721 ;  m.  Ist,  Hannah  Currier,  who  d.  5  Sept. 

1745.    He  m.  2d,  Lydia  Coloord.  and  bad  ten  children. 

ii.  JosKPH,  m.  Lydia  Coloord,  and  d.  oefore  1749.    No  children, 

iii.  EuzABiTH  (JBetsey),  m.  Ichabod  Thurston  of  £xeter. 

iy.  Martha,  m.  William  Moore  the  4th,  joiner,  in  York,  Me. 

▼.  Trukwortht. 

▼i.  John,  d.  before  1752,  leaTing  no  children. 

16.  JosES^  Philbrick  (Joseph*  James*  Tfioma^),  1708-1757, of  Rye, 

mnd  his  wife,  Abigail  Locke,  had,  bom  in  Rye : 

i.      Hannah  and  her  twin  sister   )  m.  Reuben  Moulton. 

ii.  Triphrna,  b.  24  April,  1729,  5m.  1760,  Ist,  John  Sanders;  2d,  Jona- 
than Beny. 

iii.    Abigail,  b.  11  Not.  1730  ;  m.  Mk.  Randall  of  Moultonboro'. 

IT.  Sarah,  d.  9  Nov.  1732 ;  m.  1760,  Robert  Moulton,  and  in  1775  moved  to 
Gilmanton,  where  she  d.  10  August,  1823.  At  that  time  she  had  11 
children,  34  frandcbildren,  OOjrt.-graDdohildren ;  in  all,  105. 

T.  JosKPB.  b.  10  August,  1735 ;  m.  2  Dec.  1760,  Ann  Fowle ;  had  ton  ohild- 
dren  and  d.  11  Sept.  1788. 

▼i.  Rkubrn,  b.  27  Feb.  1737 ;  m.  1st  Hannah  Locko,  2d  widow  Mary  Wedge- 
wood,  3d  Marv  Dalton,  and  4th  Mary  Beck.    He  had  four  children. 

yii.  Danirl,  b.  2  Feb.  1740  ;  m.  Abigail  Marden,  and  had  three  children. 
He  lived  in  Rye,  where  he  d.  b^ore  Nov.  1*^. 

viii.  Jonathan,  b.  26  Nov.  1745 ;  m.  8  Dec.  1768,  Mary,  daaghter  of  Ebene- 
zer  Maiden  of  Rye,  and  had  five  children. 

ix.    Mart,  b.  12  Feb.  1749 ;  d.  15  Nov.  1834. 

17.  Elias^  Philbrook  (John*  John%  1680-1747 ;  £Einner,  of  Greenland 

and  No.  Hampton,  and  his  1st  wife,  Rhoda  Perkins,  had,  baptised 
in  Greenland: 

i.      Elias,  Jr.,  bapt.  1715 ;  m. ,  and  had  Hannah,  bapt.  1739. 

ii.  Calrb,  b.  21  July,  1705 ;  m.  Mary,  daughter  of  John  Soerbun  of  Ports- 
mouth, and  had  six  of  their  eleven  children  bom  in  Greenland.  He 
removed  to  £pping,  where  he  d.  Dec.  1759. 

ill.  £uPBALRT,  bapt.  1715  [a  shoemaker  in  Rowley,  Mass.  7] .  In  1733  sold 
his  house  and  lands  m  Hampton  to  Timotny  Shepeid  of  Haverhill, 
Mass. 

iy.  John,  bapt.  1715 ;  joined  the  church  in  1742.  In  1743  lived  in  North 
Hampton ;  m.  Judith,  daughter  of  fiiley  Hardy  of  Exeter,  and  bad  : 
1.  David  of  Tam worth,  N.  H.;  2.  Jonathan  of  Tam worth  ;  3.  John 
of  Loudon,  and  4.  A  daughter,  m.  Gurtiss.  He  d.  30  Jan.  1799, 
at  Tamworth. 

y.  Bethia,  bapt.  1715 ;  joined  the  church  in  1722 ;  m.  Edward  Palmer  of 
Kensington. 

yi.    Rhoda,  bapt.  1715. 

vii.  Benjamin,  bapt.  1718 ;  m. ,  Mary,  and  lived  on  the  homestead  till 

1763,  or  later ;  afterward  in  *'  East  town,"  now  Wakefield.  His 
children  :  1.  Sarah,*  bapt.  Greenland,  1744;  2.  Mary,*  bapt.  Qroen- 
land,  1746,  m.  Col.  John  Wingate,  lived  in  Wakefield,  and  bad  seven 

children  ;  3.  Eliphalet*   bapt.    1748,    m.  Balch,  and  had  four 

sons;  4.  Penelope*  b.  1751,  m.  Kensington.  8  Jan.  1771,  Job*  Chap- 
man (Paul,*  Samuel,^  Samuel,'  Edward^),  b.  1747,  and  lived  22  years 
on  the  Chapman  homestead  in  Greenland,  then  in  Deerfield,  and  in 
1802  with  their  seven  children  they  settled  m  Ttimworth,  where  she  d. 


286  Records  of  Winchester^  If.  H.  [July, 

in  1838.    Her  foarth  son  Samaer  m.  Betsey  S.  Folsom  of  Tamworth, 
and  their  first  child  was  Jacob*  Chaphan,  the  writer  of  this  article. 

18.  Walter*  Philbrook  {WiUiam?  Thmaaf),  1690-1782,  of  Green- 

land,  blacksmith,  and  his  wife,  Elizabeth  Tuftin,  had : 

i.  RoBKRT  TurriN,  bapt.  1715 ;  a  gunsmith  and  a  man  of  infloenoe ;  d.  1798. 

ii.  Mabt,  bapt.  1716. 

iii.  Dbborah,  bapt.  1719. 

iv.  Simon,  bapt.  1722  [d.  in  the  expedition  to  Lonisbarg,  1745  7] 

▼.  Walter,  Jr.,  bapt.  1724;  m.  Margaret,  daughter  of  SamaelNeal.    In 

1769  he  was  a  cabinet  maker  in  Greenland, 

vi.  Elizabeth,  bapt.  1728,  his  youngest  daughter. 

19.  Jonathan*  Philbrook  {WiUiam,^  Thomas,^  7%omaf^),  1692?-,  and 

his  wife  Elizabeth,  had  seven  children,  bom  in  Greenlaiid : 

i.      Elinor,  bapt.  1722. 

ii.     William,  bapt.  1722 ;  m.  and  had  five  sons  in  Maine. 

iii.   Jonathan,  Jr.,  bapt.  1722 ;  m.  Dorothy,  daughter  of  Rev.  Ab\jah  Weld 

of  Attleboro',  Mass.,  and  had  ^y^  sons  and  two  daughteia.    He  was 

a  miller, 
iv.    Priscilla,  bapt.  1722. 
y.     David,  bapt.  1724. 
vi.    Abigail,  bapt.  1725. 
vii.  Joshua,  b.  10  Oct.  1727;  a  shipwright,  farmer  and  hanter.    He  lived 

with  his  father  in  what  is  now  Bath,  Me.,  and  on  June  15,  1750,  m. 

Elizabeth  Alexander,  b.  Georgetown,  Me.,  1729. 
vii.  Job,  bapt.  1729,  b.  probablv  in  Biddeford.  Me.    About  1744,  when  fif- 

teien  years  old,  he  was  taken  by  the  Indians  and  carried  to  Canada. 

but  was  ransomed  and  settled  on  Job's  Island,  then  on  So.  Fox  Island 

in  Vinal  Haven,  Me.    He  had  four  sons,  Jeremiah ^^^  b.  1753,  Jod, 

Jonathan  and  Job. 
is.    Sarah,  bapt.  1731. 
z.     Joseph,  m.  and  settled  on  Philbrook*s  Island,  one  of  the  Isleboro'  group 

in  Penobscot  bay. 

Note. — I  have  records  of  some  eighty  families,  including  more  complete 
records  of  those  upon  the  preceding  pages,  and  extending  to  the  eighth  and 
ninth  generations,  which  will  be  printed  and  bomid  in  a  volume,  if  I  have 
orders  for  copies  enough  to  pay  Uie  printer.  Jacob  Chapman, 

No.  7  Middle  Street,  Exeter,  N.  H. 


PARTIAL  COPY  OF  RECORDS  OF  THE  TOWN  OF  WIN- 
CHESTER, N.  H. 

Communicated  by  John  L.  Albxanoer,  M.D.,  of  Belmont,  Mast. 

[Continaed  from  pag«  227.] 

Births —  CorUintied. 

Children  of  Dea.  Edward  Foster 
Henry  b  Mar  31*  1737  William  b  Mar  3'>  1739 
Rachel  b  July  4»^  1742  Sarah  b  Apr  6*^  1744 
Remembrance  b  Sept30«»  1746  Edward  b  May  14«^  1749 
Fletcher  b  Aug  16"»  1751  Alpheus  b  Aug  W^  1753 
Moses  b  Mar  20*»»  1756 

«  Elisha,  son  of  Jeremiah,*  late  of  Waasaa,  Marethon  Co.,  Wis.,  deceased,  htd  for 
maDv  years  been  collecting  extensive  records  of  the  family,  fh>m  which  I  had  hoped  to 
obtam  aid  in  preparing  this  sketch ;  but  his  records  have  not  reached  me. 


1884-]  Records  of  Winchester,  If.  H.  287 

Chfldren  of  Jeremiah  &  Dorothy  Hall 

Sarah  b  Jane  20"^  1737 
Children  of  Samuel  &  Ann  Taylor 

Sarah  b  Sept  30«»  1739  Ann  b  Oct  Xffi"  1741 

Mary  b  Nov  W^  1743 
Children  of  Rev.  Joseph  &  Ann  Ashley 

Joseph  b  Apr  ^^  1738  Stephen  b  Nov  27"»  1740 

Gideon  b  May  15*^  1743 
Children  of  Ebenezer  &  Thankful  Alexander 

AbagaO  b  July  20*^  1738  Reuben  b  Feb  \1^  1740 

Aaa  b  Oct  7"»  1742  Abagail  b  Aug  30«»  1745 

John  b  Aug  29*^  1748  Ann  b  July  12«»  1753 
Children  of  Nathaniel  &  Abagail  Brooks 

AbagaU  b  Apr  6«»»  1735  AbagaU  b  Nov  \V^  1736 

Eunice  b  May  2*  1739  WUliam  b  Mar  18*^  174-1 
Chil  of  Andrew  &  Susanna  Grardner 

Sarah  b  Oct  \1^  1738  Mary  b  June  12«»  1742 
Chil  of  Elisha  &  Sarah  Root 

Martha  b  Feb  22<^  1736  Samuel  b  June  22  1738 

Moses  b  Sept  1**  1740  Joseph  b  Dec  3<>  1744 
Chil  of  Moses  &  Jemima  Chamberlain 

Susannah  b  Aug  29^^  1740 
Children  of  Henry  &  Mary  Ann  (Fullerton)  Bond 

Mary  b  Nov  18"»  1742  Phebe  b  Sept  26«^  1744 

Phebe  b  June  5«^  1746  Samuel  b  Feb  23<^  1748 

Henry  b  Oct  25«»  1749  Sarah  b  Oct  11**^  1751 

Lydia  b  Oct  15°»  1753  Thadeusb  July  20"»  1755 

Asa  b  Aug  25*>»  1757  Anna  b  Oct  29^  1760 
Chil  of  Samuel  &  Eunice  Ashley 

Oliver  b  Oct  20'»»  1743  Tirza  b  Dec  24»»»  1745 

Samuel  b  Sept  W^  1746  Thankful  b  Nov  10«»  1749 

Eunice  b  Deer  17«»  1751  Daniel  b  Jan^  15*>»  1754 

Luther  b  Apr  27«»»  1762  Luther  b  Aug  W  1764 

Susanna  b  Dec  16"^  1766 
Children  of  Gains  &  Sarah  Field 

Zachariah  b  Apr  2*  1741  Sarah  b  Apr  9«»  1743 

Joshua  b  Jany  5*»»  1746  Waitstill  b  Sept  4*^  1749 

Elisha  b  Sept  6"^  1752  Dinah  b  Sept  21  1757 

Gains  b  Mar  21-'  1763 
Chil  of  Ebenezer  &  Loana  Pierce 

Joseph  b  Jany  29'^  1743 
Chil  of  David  <Sb  Sarah  Pierce 

Abbe  b  July  25"»  1743  Nathan  b  July  25"»  1746 
Chil  of  John  &  Bathsheba  Pierce 

Anna  b  Jany  27"»  1745  Bathsheba  b  May  \V^  1750 

Jeremiah  b  June  28»»»  1752  Rachel  b  Feb  W^  1754 

Mary  b  Apr  30«»  1759  Sarah  b.  June  19»^  1763 

Reuben  b  Nov  30»»»  1764 
Chil  of  William  &  Prudence  Willard 

Willouchby  b  Nov  14^  1745    Killed  in  the  battle  of  the  Revolution  at 
Rutland  Vt 
Chil  of  Daniel  and  Susannah  Houghton 

Nehemiah  b  Feb  16<>'  1738 


288  Records  of  Winchester^  IT.  H.  [Jul] 

Children  of  Joshua  &  Submit  Wells 

Esther  b  Dec  2*  1745  Submit  b  Aug  5'»»  1746 
Chil  of  Simeon  &  Catherine  Willard 

Submit  b  May  14"»  1742  Sarah  b  Apr  5^  1743 

Simon  b  Dec  23*  1744  Sarah  b  Nov  16^  1746 

Catherine  b  May  10"^  1749  Sibbel  b  May  15»^  1751 

Elijah  b  Apr  18***  1754  Seth  b  Aug  15*"  1756 
Chil  of  Martin  &  Sarah  Ashley 

Rhoda  b  July  11'^  1750  Deziah  b  Feb  21"»  1752 

Sarah  b  Nov  29*^  1755 
Chil  of  Josiah  &  Submit  Foster 

Sibil  b  Oct  11«»  1751 
Children  of  Joseph  &  Sarah  Dodge 

Joseph  b  Nov  26'»»  1752  Sarah  b  Jan^  23«»  1755 

Abagail  b  Sept  W^  1760  Phebe  b  May  25*»*  1763 

Dorcas  b  Sept  30'^  1765  Elijah  b  Feb  24'»*  1769 
Chil  of  Hilkiah  <Sb  Submit  Grout 

Asa  b  Feb  3'*  1753  Martha  b  Sept  25*"  1754 

Elishab  Feb  17»»»  1760  Hilkiah  b  Oct  30*"  1761 

Bridgman  b  June  24*"  1763  Seth  b  July  2S^  1765 

Daniel  b  Apr  19*"  1767  Oliver  b  June  80*"  1769 
ChU  of  William  &  Mary  Wilson 

Oliver  b  Jan^  14*"  1756  Aaron  b  May  19*"  1758 
Chil  of  Jeremiah  &  Ellinor  Pierce 

a  son  b  Sept  23  1755  James  b  Oct  8*"  1760 
Chil  of  Oliver  &  Esther  Capron 

Nathaniel  b  Apr  24*"  1758  Otis  b  May  17*"  1760 

Oliver  b  July  3*  1762 
Children  of  Simeon  &  Elizabeth  Chamberlain 

Benjamin  b  May  25*"  1757  Dorcas  b  July  27*^  1760 

Elizabeth  b  Oct  22**  1761  Tabitha  b  Feb  18*"  1764 

Hepzibah  b  Jan^  29*"  1766  Pruda  b  Feb  12*"  1768 

Elisha  b  Apr  12*"  1770  Calvin  b  Mar  16*"  1772 
Children  of  Abraham  &  Mehitabel  Scott 

Sarah  b  June  12*"  1758  Jacob  b  Deer  15»"  1759 

Mehitabel  b  July  29*"  1762  Anne  b  Sept  23'>  1764 

Eunice  b  Jan^  26*"  1767  Jacob  b  Feb  13*"  1769 

Jesse  b  Mar  12*"  1771  Jerusha  b  Jan^  27*"  1772 

Jemima  b  May  10*"  1777  Jesse  b  Mar  7*"  1774 

Mary  b  Deer  9*"  1778  Abraham  b  Feb  11*"  1783 
Children  of  Stephen  &  Sarah  Temple 

Susannah  b  Mar  15*"  1759  Phebe  b  Apr  7*"  1761 

Stephen  b  Jaii^  5*"  1764  Lovica  b  Nov  19*"  1766 

Lucretia  b  July  4*"  1769  Palmer  b  Apr  18*"  1772 
Children  of  Samuel  &  Ellinor  Wood 

Samuel  b  Jan^  23'*  1756 
Children  of  Simeon  &  Betty  Smeed 

John  b  May  3I-*  1759  Betty  b  Feb  15*"  1761 
Children  of  William  &  Elizabeth  Dodge 

William  b  Mar  6*"  1760  Elizabeth  b  Jan^  29*"  1762 

Anna  b  Jan^  14*"  1764  Daniel  b  Oct  15*"  1767 

Tirzah  b  Sept  26*"  1769  Luther  b  Sept  18**^  1771 


184.  ]  The  Family  of  Baldwin.  289 

Lucy  b  July  28*^  1773 

Children  of  Nathaniel  &  Ruth  Foster 
Lydia  b  July  8*^  1760 

Children  of  Philip  &  Hannah  Gk)88 

Mary  b  May  28«»  1760  Abbe  b  Mar  31*»  1763 
Levi  b  May  24*»»  1765  Sarah  b  Sept  9«*  1768 
David  b  Oct  10*>»  1770  Samuel  b  Sept  9»»*  1772 

[To  be  oontinued.] 


REPORT  OF  INVESTIGATIONS  CONCERNING  THE 

FAMILY  OF  BALDWIN,  OF  ASTON 

CLINTON,  CO.  BUCKS. 

67  the  late  Col.  Jobbfh  L.  Chbstbb,  D.C.L.,  LL.D.,  of  London,  Eng. 

[Continued  firom  page  170.] 

We  now  return  to  the  second  son  of  Henry  and  Alice  Baldwin,  viz. : 

III.  Sylvesteb  Baldwin,  through  whom,  his  elder  brother  Richard 
having  died  childless,  the  line  of  the  family  continued.  He  was 
living  at  the  date  of  his  grandfather's  will,  in  1565-6,  and  at  that  of 
his  mother's,  4  June,  1622,  but  was  evidently  dead  at  that  of  his 
brother  Richard's,  18  Feb.  1632-3.  There  seems  hardly  room  for 
doubt  that  he  was  the  Sylvester  Baldwin  who  was  married  at 
Choiesbury,  near  Aston  Clinton,  28  Sept  1590,  to  Jane  WelU  (the 
name  is  neither  WiUis  nor  Wilde^  as  stated  in  the  printed  account  of 
the  family),  which  also  wrongly  gives  the  date  as  30  "  September." 
There  is  but  one  other  entry  concerning  him  in  the  Choiesbury 
rejjister,  viz.,  the  burial  of  his  son  George  (not  Harry),  21  Nov. 
1596  (not  1594),  who  is  distinctly  named  as  son  of  Sylvester  Bald- 
win of  Dundridge,  which  seems  sufficiently  to  identify  him.  But 
where  his  children  were  baptized,  or  when  or  where  he  and  his  wife 
died,  I  have  been  entirely  unable  to  discover.  In  the  pedigree  en- 
tered by  his  grandson,  in  the  Visitation  of  Buckinghamshire  of  1669, 
lie  is  called  ''of  Milton  in  Bedfordshire."  There  are  two  parishes 
of  this  name  in  that  county,  and  it  became  necessary  therefore  to 
examine  the  registers  of  both.  In  that  of  Milton  Bryant  the  name 
of  Baldwin  does  not  occur  at  all.  From  the  register  of  Milton  Er- 
nest, near  the  town  of  Bedford,  I  obtained  the  marriage  and  burial 
of  one  of  his  daughters,  and  the  burial  I  presume  of  his  eldest 
son,  but  his  name  nowhere  occurs  in  the  register.  It  seems  likely 
that  his  eldest  son  had  taken  up  his  residence  at  Milton,  and  that 
his  father  may  have  lived  with  him  during  the  latter  part  of  his  life, 
leaving  the  place  after  his  son's  death.  It  is  also  possible,  if  he  died 
shortly  before  his  brother  Richard  made  his  will,  18  Feb.  1632-3,  that 
he  was  buried  at  Milton,  for  there  is  a  hiatus  in  the  burial  register  ex- 
tending from  6  Nov.  1632,  to  1  May,  1634.  It  seems  clear  that 
he  was  dead  at  the  date  of  his  brother's  will,  but  he  was  certainly 
not  buried  at  Milton  before  6  Nov.  1 632.  At  all  events,  neither  he 
nor  his  wife  left  a  will,  nor  were  their  estates  administered,  either 
in  the  London  Court,  Uiat  of  the  Archdeaconry  of  Bucks,  that  of 
VOL.  xxxvui.        26 


290  The  Family  of  Baldwin.  [Julj, 

the  Archdeaconry  of  Bedford,  or  that  of  the  Archdeaconry  of  Sur- 
rey, the  only  ones  possible,  unless  he  lived  in  some  other  part  of 
England  altogether.  It  is  also  possible  that  both  he  and  his  wife 
may  have  been  buried  at  Cholesbury,  but  there  is  a  still  greater 
hiatus  in  the  registers  of  that  parish,  extending  from  161]  to  1669. 
It  is  very  unsatisfactory  to  leave  them  undisposed  of,  but  I  have 
exhausted  every  reasonable  source  of  information  without  success. 
Their  children,  however,  are  perfectly  identified  by  the  wills  and 
other  records,  and  were  as  follows : 

1.  GiORaE,  who  died  young,  and  was  buried  at  Cholesbury,  31  Nov.  1596. 

2.  John,  who  was  livinjz  in  1599-1600,  bat  was  evidently  dead  at  the  date  of 

his  uncle  Richard  s  will,  18  Feb.  1639-3,  when  his  next  brother  Henry 
was  named  as  his  *'  next  heir.*'  There  can  be  little  doubt  that  he  was 
the  John  Baldwin  who  was  buried  at  Milton  fimest,  in  Bedfordshire,  10 
Feb.  1631-2,  just  a  year  before  his  uncle  Richard  made  his  will.  That 
he  had  resided  there  for  some  years  is  evident  from  the  fact  that  be 
signed  the  parish  register  as  one  of  the  Church  wardens  for  the  years  1627, 
1629  and  1630.  No  baptisms  of  children,  or  burial  of  a  wife,  appear  in 
the  Milton  registers,  and  it  is  therefore  probable  that  he  died  unmarried. 
He  left  a  will,  for  the  record  of  it  appears  in  the  Calendar  of  the  Arch- 
deaconry Court  of  Bedfordshire,  now  at  Northampton,  but  the  will  itself 
has  disappeared  from  its  proper  handle,  and  although  a  careful  search  has 
been  made  for  it,  it  cannot  now  be  found.  The  presumption  is  that  it 
was  returned  to  the  executor  after  its  probate. 

3.  HxNar,  of  whom  hereafter. 

4.  SvLVKBTER,  who  was  the  undoubted  emigrant  to  New  England,  and  with 

whose  history  1  have  of  course  nothing  to  do.  The  latest  date  at  which  1 
find  him  in  England  is  29  Nov.  1636,  when  he  proved  his  uncle  Richard's 
will,  and  he  was  then  defloribed  as  of  Aston  Clinton.  That  appearsto 
have  been  his  only  residence,  as  his  children  were  iMiptiied.aDd  those  wtM) 
died  buried  there.  I  append  a  list  of  them  as  they  occur  in  the  Astoo 
Clinton  register.  It  will  be  seen  that  my  dates,  in  the  cases  of  the  son 
Samuel  and  daughter  Elizabeth,  vary  from  those  already  printed,  and  also 
that  I  discovered  in  the  register  the  baptism  of  the  son  John  (afterwards 
of  Stonington)  which  had  before  been  overlooked. 

1.  Sarah,  baptized  22  April,  1621. 

2.  Richard,  baptized  25  Aug.  1622. 

3.  Mary,  baptized  28  Feb.  1623-4 ;  buried  3  Nov.  1625. 

4.  Mary,  baptized  19  Feb.  1625-6. 

5.  Martha,  baptized  20  April,  1628. 

6.  Samuel,  baptized  1  July,  1633  ;  buried  4  January,  1632-3. 

7.  Elizabeih,  baptized  28th  and  buried  31st  January,  1633-4. 

8.  John,  baptized  28th  October,  1635. 

5.  Richard,  who  was  living  in  1622  and  1632-3,  but  was  apparently  dead  at 

the  date  of  his  brother  Henry's  will,  in  1661.  By  his  wife  Phillippa,  who 
was  buried  at  Aston  Clinton,  30  July,  1641,  he  had  the  following  child- 
ren, who  thus  occur  in  the  register  of  that  parish  : 

1.  Rebecca,  baptized  23  June,  1611. 

2.  Alice,  baptized  22  Aug.  1613. 

3.  John,  baptized  19  Feb.  1614-15. 

4.  Jane,  baptized  12  April,  1618. 

5.  Henry,  baptized  8  Feb.  1623-4. 

6.  Sarah,  baptized  23  March,  1627-8. 

Some  of  these  dates,  it  will  be  seen,  differ  from  those  already  printed. 
Of  these  children  I  have  no  later  traces,  except  that  the  daughter  Sarah 
was  named  in  her  uncle  Henry's  will  in  1661. 

6.  WiLUAM,  who  was  living  in  1632,  1632-3,  1661,  and  at  the  date  of  the  will 

of  his  nephew  Thomas,  16  July,  1676.    His  children  were : 

1.  m7/tam,  living  1661  and  1676. 

2.  Margaret,  living  1661. 

3.  Another  daughter,  named  in  the  will  of  her  unde  Heniy,  11  Sept. 

1661,  as  then  wife  of  •  *  •  •  Markwiok. 


1884-]  The  Family  of  Baldwin.  291 

7.  Janb,  named  in  the  will  of  her  grandmother  Alice,  4  June,  1622,  bat  of 

whom  I  learn  nothing  further. 

8.  Alice,  named  in  her  grandmother's  will,  in  1622.    From  the  will  of  their 

brother  Henry  in  1661,  it  is  evident  that  one  of  these  two  daughters  had 
married  John  Edwards,  and  in  the  register  of  Milton  Ernest  above  men- 
tioned, I  found  the  marriage,  4  Ma^,  1629.  of  John  Edwards  and  Alice 
Baldwin,  and  the  very  next  entry  m  the  register  is  that  of  her  burial,  6 
Jnly,  in  the  same  year,  only  two  months  after  her  marriage.  The  child- 
ren of  John  Edwards  named  in  her  brother  Henry's  will  were  by  a  second 
wife,  the  eldest  of  whom  was  baptized  at  Milton  in  1639,  ten  years  later. 

It  now  only  remains  to  follow  out  the  line  of  the  third  but  eldest 
sarviving  son  of  Sylvester  and  Jane  Baldwin,  who  succeeded  to  the 
manor  of  Dundridge,  viz. : 

lY.  Henrt  Baldwin.  His  uncle  Richard  recognized  him  as  his 
^*  next  heir,"  and  bequeathed  to  him  the  title  deeds  of  Dundridge,  &c 
He  appears  to  have  become  a  barrister  at  law,  and  was  of  Clifford's 
Inn,  London.  He  married  Mary,  only  daughter  and  heir  of  Ed- 
ward Hurst,  of  Kingston  upon  Thames,  co.  Surrey,  where  she  was 
baptized  28  July,  1605.  She  died  before  her  husband.  He  subse- 
quently resided  at  Guildford,  co.  Surrey,  and  was  buried  in  St. 
Mary's  church  in  that  town.  He  made  his  will  on  the  11th  of  Sep- 
tember, 1661,  describing  himself  as  of  Guildford,  Gentleman,  which, 
although  possessing  no  coat  of  arms,  he  had  the  right  to  do  as  a  bar- 
rister.    The  following  is  a  full  abstract  of  his  will : 

To  the  poor  of  Guildford  £3 — to  Mr.  Holland,  minister  there, 
for  my  faneral  sermon,  £3. — to  the  ministers  of  St  Leonard's  and 
Aston  Clinton  co.  Bucks,  each  20  shillings — to  the  poor  of  St. 
Leonard's  40  shillings — I  release  to  my  brother  William  the  debt 
to  me  owing,  if  any  there  be,  and  I  give  to  my  nephew  William 
Baldwyn  &  his  sister  Margaret  each  £20,  &  to  my  niece  Mark- 
wick  £10. — I  release  to  Henry  Edwards  &  Alice  his  sister  the  ar- 
rearages of  my  brother  John  Edwards'  account  appearing  to  be  due 
to  me,  they  allowing  the  £15.  I  am  to  pay  for  binding  said  Henry 
apprentice — to  my  niece  Sarah,  daughter  of  my  brother  Richard 
Baldwyn,  £20,  and  to  her  &  her  heirs  the  tenement  &  close  at  East 
End  in  Flitwick,  co.  Bedford,  devised  to  me  by  my  said  brother 
Richard — to  my  daughter  Jane  all  my  childbed  linen,  &  all  my  late 
wife's  rings,  cabinets,  &c.  also  £500.  at  her  marriage — to  Edward 
my  son  sundry  household  stuff,  the  goods  in  my  chamber  at  Clif- 
ford's Inn,  sundry  plate,  &c. — to  my  grandchild  Elizabeth  Baldwin 
£100.  when  21 — "I  give  to  y*  use  of  my  brother  Silvester  [blank] 
or  the  yssue  of  them  [blank]  shalbe  [blank]  equally  to  bee  divid- 
ed " — to  the  children  of  my  kinsman  John  Forbes  equally  £60. — I 
appoint  as  my  executors  Thomas  my  son,  and  Jane  my  daughter — 
my  overseers  to  have  the  care  of  my  estate  till  my  said  son  Thomas 
be  24  &  my  daughter  Jane  21  years  of  age. 

The  will  was  proved  in  the  Prerogative  Court  of  Canterbury, 
20  March,  1661-2,  by  both  executors. 

I  have  given  the  extract  from  the  will  relating  to  his  brother  Syl- 
vester verbatim.  It  is  evident,  I  think,  that  he  originally  designed 
leaving  legacies  to  the  children  of  Sylvester,  or,  if  they  were  dead, 
to  their  children,  but  eventually  changed  his  mind,  perhaps  in  con- 
sideration of  the  inconvenience  of  obtaining  them.     At  all  events, 


292  The  Family  of  Baldwin.  [July, 

the  blanks  in  the  will  were  never  filled  ap.    It  may  also  be  noticed 
that  he  signed  his  name  Bcddwyn, 
His  issue  were  as  follows  : 

1.  Edward,  of  whom  hereafler. 

2.  Thomas,  who  was  his  father's  executor.    He  made  his  will  (signin/^  his  name 

Baldwin)  16  July,  1676,  describing  himself  as  of  Guildford,  oo.  Surrey, 
Gentleman^  which  he  wad  by  right,  as  will  be  seen  hereafter.  He  left 
rings  and  other  legacies  to  several  friends,  but  the  only  bequesU  to  hi8 
relations  were  as  follows :  To  my  uncle  William  Baldwin  and  his  Siin  Mr. 
William  Baldwin,  each  £lOO~all  residue  to  my  dear  brother  £dward 
Baldwin,  Esi^.  and  he  to  be  mjr  executor. 

He  also  directed  to  be  buried  in  St.  Mary's  parish  in  Quildford,  near 
his  father.  The  will  was  proved,  in  the  Prerosatiye  Court  of  Canterbury, 
21  Feb.  1676-7,  by  the  executor  named,  his  elder  brother,  the  eldest  son 
of  Henry  and  Mary  Baldwin,  viz. : 

V.  Edward  Baldwin,  who  was  a  barrister  and  subsequently  a  bench- 
er of  the  Inner  Temple,  and  eventually  a  Justice  of  the  Peace  and 
of  the  Quorum  in  the  County  of  Bucks.  He  married  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  Richard  Turfrey  of  London,  who  died  before  him  and 
was  buried  at  Beaconsfield.  Her  mother  Susanna  remarrie<l  his 
distant  kinsman,  Richard  Baldwin,  of  Beaconsfield,  who.  in  1G61, 
bequeathed  to  him  the  capital  messuage,  &c.  known  as  Wiltons,  in 
Beaconsfield,  which,  with  his  other  inherited  estate,  must  have  ren- 
dered him  a  man  of  considerable  wealth,  and  given  him  a  decided 
position  among  the  landed  gentry  of  the  county.  In  order  to  con- 
firm this  position,  and  place  himself  on  a  recognized  social  equality 
with  his  neighbors,  he  applied  the  next  year  for  a  Grant  of  Arms,  and 
on  the  19th  of  December,  1662,  the  then  Clarenceux  King  of  Arms 
granted  to  him,  and  to  his  brother  Thomas,  and  their  descendants, 
the  following  coat  and  crest : 

Arms :  Argent,  a  chevron  ermines  between  three  hazel  sprigs 
vert. 

Crest :   A  squirrel  sejant  or  holding  a  hazel  spring  vert. 

This  was  a  Grants  and  not  a  ConfirmcUian,  of  arois,  and  it  is 
only  necessary  to  point  out  that,  if  on  that  occasion  he  could  have 
shown  his  descent  from  any  family  of  Baldwin  entitled  to  arms,  the 
coat  of  that  family  would  have  been  confirmed  to  him,  as  a  matter 
of  right.  That  he  could  not  do  so  is  prima  facie  proved  by  the 
fact  that  it  was  found  necessary  to  incur  the  infinitely  greater  ex- 
pense of  an  original  Grant.  This  completes  my  evidence  and  argu- 
ments against  the  possibility  that  the  Baldwins  of  Aston  Clinton 
descended  from  any  heraldic  family  of  the  name, — being  the  last 
in  date,  and  the  most  important,  though  it  precedes  the  other  evi- 
dences to  be  found  in  the  remaining  portion  of  the  narrative. 

Edward  Baldwin  made  his  will  29  May,  1691,  describing  himself 
as  "  a  Bencher  of  the  Inner  Temple,  London,  now  dwelling  at  my 
house  at  Wilton's  in  the  parish  of  Beconsfietd  co.  Bucks.*'  A 
full  abstract  of  it  follows  the  pedigree. 

On  the  occasion  of  the  Heralds*  Visitation  of  Bucks  in  ICGO.  this 
Edward  Baldwin  entered  the  following  pedigree. 

The  original  is  in  the  College  of  Arms,  and  it  is  the  only  pedi- 
gree of  the  family  that  I  have  been  able  to  find  either  there  or  else- 
where. 


1884.]  ne  Family  of  Baldwin.  293 

Sihester  Baldwinas 
of  Milton  iD  Com.  Bed.  I 

Henry  BaldwinaMaiy,  da.  oFEdw:  Hurst 
of  Gaildford  in  Com.  Sarr.          I     of  SUngston  and  his  sole 
I      heire. 

1  ;  TS  il 

Edward  Bald win-«»Eliz:  da.  of  Rich.  Thomas  Jane 


of  Becoonsfield,  Barrister 
of  the  Inner  Temple, 
Jostioe  of  the  Peace  and 
Qaom  in  Com.  Buck. 


Turfrey  of  London  2d  Sonne 


|1  13  |3 

Heniry  sonne  and  Rich:  £lii: 

heire  aetat.  6 
Ann.  1669 

(Signed)  £dw:  Baldwin. 

Abstract  of  Will 

To  be  buried  at  the  discretion  of  my  eldest  son  Richard  Baldwin, 
Eisq. — to  the  poor  of  Beconsfield  £5. — Whereas,  by  Indentures 
dated  7  Nov.  1690,  between  me  of  the  1st  part,  Thomas  Colston 
£^.  &  merchant  of  London  &  Elizabeth  Monteth,  widow,  of  the 
2d  part,  and  my  said  son  Richard  Baldwin  of  the  3d  part,  I  reserv- 
ed certain  powers,  &c.  I  now  appoint  W™  Westbrooke  of  Ferring, 
CO.  Sussex,  Esq.,  William  Hill  the  younger,  now  of  Beconsfield, 
CO.  Bucks,  Gent.,  Thomas  Eayre  of  Dun  ridge,  or  Bucks,  Yeoman, 
&  Elizabeth  Mytton  my  eldest  daughter,  wife  of  Richard  Mytton, 
of  Aldermanbury,  London,  Grent,  executors  in  trust  of  this  my 
will — I  direct  that  the  sums  named  in  said  Indentures  as  portions 
for  my  three  sons  &  2  daughters,  viz.  Edward,  Stephen,  &  Thomas, 
Maria  &  Sarah,  be  paid  to  said  sons,  at  their  respective  ages  of  21, 
and  to  said  daughters  at  21  or  marriage — my  said  son  Stephen  to 
be  paid  £300.  bequeathed  to  him  by  the  Wills  of  Sir  Stephen 
White,  Kt  <Sb  Stephen  White  of  London,  Merchant,  &  my  said 
daughter  Sarah  to  be  paid  £20.  bequeathed  her  by  her  godmother 
Mrs.  White,  of  Hackney — I  direct  that  all  my  said  children  who 
were  living  at  the  death  of  my  mother  in  law  Susanna  Baldwin, 
widow,  be  paid  by  my  son  Richard  £10.  each  for  a  piece  of  plate — 
to  my  daughter  Baldwin,  my  eldest  son's  wife,  my  mohair  bed  &c — 
to  my  daughter  Maria  my  diamond  ring  which  my  wife  gave  me — 
to  my  beloved  grandchild  Elizabeth  Mytton  a  ring  of  30  shillings 
value — my  daughter  Mytton,  a  good,  dutiful  child,  desires  me  to 
leave  her  nothing,  so  I  give  to  her  &  her  husband  mourning  only — 
I  appoint  my  son  Richard  joint  executor  with  those  above  named. 

The  will  was  proved,  in  the  Prerogative  Court  of  Canterbury,  1 
March,  1691-2,  by  the  son  Richard,  power  being  reserved  to  the 
other  executors. 

The  children  of  Edward  Baldwin,  by  his  wife  Elizabeth  Turfrey, 
were  as  follows : 

1.  Hbkrt,  son  and  heir  in  1669,  then  aged  6  years.  He  matriculated  at  Ox- 
ford from  Merton  College,  30  May,  1679,  aged  16,  but  took  no  degree. 
He  died  in  his  father's  lifetime,  and  probably  unmarried,  certainly  leav- 
ing no  iasne. 

9.  Richard,  of  whom  hereafter. 
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294  The  Family  of  Baldwin.  [July, 

3.  Edward,  eecond  surviving  son  in  1691,  not  21. 

4.  Stephen,  third  surviving  son  in  1691. 

5.  Thomas,  fourth  surviving  son  in  1691. 

6.  EuzABETH,  eldest  daugnter,  and  named  in  her  grandfather^s  will  in  1661 . 

She  became  the  second  wife  of  Richurd  Mytton,  of  London,  Gent.,  to 
whom  she  was  married  at  St.  Bride^s,  Fleet  Street,  London,  7  Feb.  1688-9. 
They  had  a  child  baptized  at  St.  Mary  Aldermanbary,  London,  in  169*2, 
and  her  husband  was  buried  there  23  Feb.  1699-1700. 

7.  Maria,  second  daughter  in  1691,  unmarried  and  not  91. 

8.  Sarah,  third  daughter  in  1691,  unmarried  and  not  21. 

Of  the  three  youngest  sons  and  two  youngest  daoghters,  I  have 
discovered  nothing  later. 

The  second  but  eldest  surviving  son,  viz. : 

VI.  R1CHA.RD  Baldwin,  was  born  at  Beaconsfield  and  matriculated  at 
Oxford,  from  St.  John's  College,  20  May,  1686,  aged  17.  He  was 
afterwards  of  the  Inner  Temple,  London.  He  married  at  St.  Dio- 
nis  Backchurch,  London,  2  Dec.  1690,  Anne,  daughter  of  James 
Monteth,  of  St.  Andrew's,  Holborn,  London,  and  of  Saffron  Wal- 
den,  CO.  Essex,  Gent,  descended  from  the  ancient  Scottish  family  of 
that  name.  She  was  baptized  at  St.  Andrew's,  Holborn,  12  June, 
1662.  She  survived  her  husband,  but  died  before  20  Aug.  1734, 
leaving  no  will  that  can  be  found,  and  very  probably  having  re- 
married. 

Richard  Baldwin  made  his  will  8  Dec  1696,  calling  himself  of 
Beaconsfield,  Esquire.     The  following  is  a  full  abstract : 

To  be  buried  in  the  Chapel  appropriate  to  my  own  family,  in  the 
parish  church  of  Beaconsfield,  near  my  late  dear  deceased  father  and 
mother — to  the  poor  of  Beaconsfield,  the  place  of  my  nativity,  50 
shillings — to  my  wife  my  Chamber  in  the  third  staircase  of  Sir  Robert 
Sayer*8  Buildings  in  the  Inner  Temple,  the  furniture  &  goods  there, 
&  all  my  goods,  plate,  &c.  in  my  house  at  Wiltons,  and  I  appoint 
her  my  sole  executrix,  she  to  bring  up  my  children,  and  see  paid  to 
them  their  legacies  in  the  will  of  their  good  Aunt  Mrs.  Elizabeth 
Monteth,  viz.  to  my  daughter  Ann,  my  son  Richard,  &  my  daugh- 
ter Elizabeth,  each  £500. 

The  will  was  proved  in  the  Prerogative  Court  of  Canterbury,  21 
March,  1797-8,  by  the  relict  Anne. 

The  children  of  Richard  Baldwin,  by  his  wife  Anne  Monteth, 
were  as  follows : 

1.  Ann,  evidently  eldest  child,  as  named  in  her  father *s  will,  and  in  that  of 

Mrs.  Elizabeth  Monteth  (whom  he  mentioned) ,  which  was  dated  22  Feb. 
1694-5.  She  died  unmarried,  and  letters  of  administration  to  her  estate 
were  granted,  in  the  Prerogative  Court  of  Canterbury,  20  Aug.  1734,  to 
her  brother  and  next  of  kin,  Robert  Monteth  Baldwin,  Esquire. 

2.  Richard,  who  was  living  22  Feb.  1694-5,  and  also  at  the  date  of  his  father's 

will,  but  who  probably  died  young,  at  all  events  without  issue,  as  bis 
younger  brother  possessed  the  family  estates. 

3.  Elizabbth,  living  at  the  date  of  her  fother*s  will,  8  Dec.  1686,  but  of  whom 

I  find  nothing  further. 

4.  The  youngest  child  was 

VII.  Robert  Monteth  Baldwin,  who  was  evidently  born  after  the 
date  of  his  father's  will.  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Monteth  above  named 
was  the  widow  of  his  mother's  paternal  uncle,  and  in  her  will,  dated 
22  Feb.  1694-5,  left  legacies  of  £500.  each  to  the  three  children  of 


1884.]  The  Family  of  Baldwin.  295 

Richard  Baldwin  and  Anne  Monteth,  with  the  provision  that,  if  any 
of  them  died  in  their  minority  orhefore  marriage,  their  portions  should 
go  to  any  son  of  said  James  and  Anne  Baldwin  who  should  be  bap- 
tized by  the  name  of  her  dear  deceased  husband  Robert  Monteth, 
He  appears  to  have  outlived  his  brother  and  sisters,  and  to  have 
died  unmarried.  His  will,  which  is  very  short,  was  made  3  Sept. 
1746,  when  he  described  himself  as  of  the  Middle  Temple,  London, 
Esquire.  He  simply  bequeathed  all  his  estate,  both  real  and  per- 
sonal, to  his  ^'  cousin  "  John  Canham,  Esquire,  and  appointed  him 
sole  executor.  He  proved  the  will,  in  the  Prerogative  Court  of 
Canterbury,  6  April,  1747.  Who  and  what  this  John  Canham  was 
I  have  not  ascertained.  He  may  have  been  an  actual  cousin,  son  of 
one  of  his  aunts  Maria  or  Sarah,  or  the  word  ^^  cousin  "  may  have 
been  used  in  the  light  of  nephew^  and  he  have  been  the  son  of  his 
sister  Elizabeth  ;  or,  again,  he  may  have  been  a  relation  on  his 
mother*s  side.  At  all  events,  the  estates  of  the  direct  line  of  Dun- 
ridge  Baldwins  appear  to  have  descended  to  this  Robert  Monteth 
Baldwin,  and  he  bequeathed  them  to  his  cousin  John  Canham,  dy- 
ing the  last  of  his  race.  The  very  next  year,  1748,  according  to 
Lipscombe  (who  wrongly  calls  him  John  Monteth  Baldwin),  this 
heir  sold  Dundridge  and  the  other  family  lands,  and  the  name  of 
Baldwin  ceased  to  be  connected  with  them,  after  an  ownership  of 
170  years,  and  a  previous  tenantry  of  Dundridge  making  up  the 
•  period  of  two  centuries.  It  was  left  for  the  younger  branches  of 
the  Dundridge  line  to  perpetuate  their  race  in  America,  while  the 
elder  branch  which  remained  in  England  faded  out  entirely  in  about 
a  hundred  years  after  the  emigration. 

We  now  return  to  the  brother  of  the  first  Richard  Baldwin,  the 
tenant  of  Dundridge,  viz. : 

I.  John  Baldwin,  who  was  named  as  the  overseer  of  his  brother  Rich- 
ard's will  in  1552-3.  He  made  his  will  12  March,  1564-5,  des- 
cribing himself  as  of  the  Ilayle,  in  the  parish  of  Wendover,  co.  Bucks, 
Yeoman.     The  following  is  an  abstract: 

To  each  of  my  children's  children  4  pence — to  Nicholas  my  son 
my  houses  &  lands  in  Great  Missenden  and  the  Lee,  and  a  tenement 
in  Wendover — to  Silvester  my  son  a  grove  called  Lord's  grove  in 
Wendover,  and  lands  in  Aston  Clinton  called  Pleadells,  and  the 
same  after  his  death  to  go  to  his  son  John  and  his  heirs  forever — 
to  Richard  my  son  £20 — to  Robert  my  son  £10 — to  Thomas  my 
son  a  horse  worth  33-4 — to  George  my  son  all  residue  of  my  estate, 
and  he  to  be  my  executor — overseer,  my  son  Silvester. 

The  will  was  proved  2  March,  1565-6,  in  the  Archdeaconry  Court 
of  Bucks,  by  the  son  George.  His  wife  evidently  died  before  him, 
and  I  have  not  obtained  even  her  name.  His  children  were  as 
follows : 

1.  GiORQB,  clearly  eldest  son  from  his  father's  will,  and  also  so  called  in  cer- 
tain Chancery  proceedings  in  1590.  He  was  called  '*  cou8in "  Ci.  e. 
nephew,  the  two  wordn  beins^  used  indifferently)  in  the  will  of  Ellen  Bald- 
wm  of  Dundridge,  in  156a-6,  and  her  two  daughters  were  to  be  guided 
by  him  in  their  marriages,  ilis  will,  as  of  the  Hayle,  in  Wendover,  co. 
Bucks,  dated  10  Feb.,  was  proved  20  March,  1576-7,  bv  his  widow  Ave- 
lyn,  probably  a  sister  of  William  Aystell  whom  be  called  bis  brother,  and 


296  The  Family  of  Baldwin.  [July, 

named  as  overseer  of  his  will  in  connection  with  his  brother  Sjlrester 
Baldwin  and  his  own  son  Ralph.  Besides  Ralph,  his  children  named 
were  James,  Edmund,  John,  Henry  and  Michael,  all  apparently  under 
age.  Of  none  of  these  do  I  find  anything;  further,  except  that  Edmund, 
to  whom  he  bequeathed  the  Tan  House,  £o.,  was  a  party  to  a  Chancery 
suit  in  February,  1586-7,  and  then  described  as  WendoFer,  tanner.  He 
appears  to  have  demised  his  property  in  Wendover  a  year  and  a  half  be- 
fore, and  he  was,  I  suspect,  the  Edmund  Baldwin  of  Ghalfont,  St  Peters, 
00.  Bucks,  yeoman,  whose  will,  dated  6  Jan.  16S0-1,  was  proved  2  Octo- 
ber following,  by  his  relict  Cicely.  He  named  as  living  his  sons  Thomas 
and  Edmund,  and  his  daughters  Elizabeth  Hodson  and  Anne  Tibbie,  also 
his  son  Ralph  as  dead.  Of  Ralph  Baldwin,  eldest  son  of  George,  and  one 
of  the  overseers  of  his  will,  I  only  find  further,  that  on  the  S?th  of  Sep- 
tember, 1611,  he  proved  the  nuncupative  will  of  his  daughter  Rebecca, 
who  died  unmarried  in  the  previous  month  of  May.  She  was  deseribed 
as  of  Wendover,  and  bequeathed  to  her  father  £100  he  had  promised  her. 
which  was  to  be  paid  to  her  by  her  brother  Henry  Baldwin,  and  prayed 
him  to  be  kind  to  her  poor  brother  (probably  another  one)  in  distress. 
2.  Nicholas  Baldwin,  eviaently  second  son  of  John  Baldwin  of  the  Hayle.  to 
whom  he  bequeathed,  in  1564-5,  lands  at  Great  Missenden  and  the  Lee, 
a  tenement  in  Wendover,  &c.  He  is  otherwise  completely  identified  in  the 
proceedings  in  a  Chancery  suit  in  November,  1590,  in  which  he  is  also 
said  to  have  married,  about  1545,  Agnes,  widow  of  William  Fisher. 
(This  suit  was  between  her  and  her  son  John  in  reference  to  certain  lands 
in  Wendover  settled  on  her  on  her  marriage  bv  her  husband's  fiftthcr,  said 
John  Baldwin  of  the  Hayle.)  He  lived  at  Edlesborough,  Bucks,  where 
he  made  his  will  2  July,  1557,  calling  himself  a  yeoman  and  directing  to 
to  be  buried  in  Edlesbiorough  churchyard.  The  original  will  is  on  file  in 
the  records  of  the  Archdeaconry  Court  of  Bucks,  in  which  court  it  was 
proved  24  April,  1581,  by  his  brother  Sylvester  Baldwin,  but  unfortu- 
nately about  one  quarter  of  the  sheet  has  been  torn  away,  and  the  frag- 
ment ends  just  as  he  was  enumerating  his  children,  so  that  the  onlv  be- 
quests remaining  are  to  iiis  wife  Agnes  and  his  sons  Triamor  and  John. 
His  other  children  are,  however,  sufficiently  identified  otherwise,  as  will 
be  seen  hereafter.  Of  his  widow  Agnes  I  find  nothing  after  the  Chan- 
cery proceedings  in  1590.    Their  children  were  as  follows  : 

1.  John  Baldwin^  of  Edlesborough,  Bucks,  veoman,  who  in  two  Bills 

in  Chancery,  dated  5  May,  1586,  and  26  Nov.  1590,  described  him- 
self as  the  son  of  Nicholas  Baldwin  and  Agnes  Fisher  his  wife, 
and  cited  the  will  of  his  grandfather  John  Baldwin  of  the  Hayle. 
His  will,  as  of  Edlesborough,  yeoman,  dated  9  Jan.  1629-30,  wa$ 
proved  in  the  Archdeaconry  Court  of  Bucks  5  April  following,  by 
hb  son  Ralph,  to  whom  he  left  all  his  poesessions,  except  5  shil- 
lings to  his  daughter  Elizabeth  Beaker.  His  wife  evidently  died 
before  him. 

2.  Francis  Baldwin^  who  made  his  will  25  May,  1639,  describing  him- 

self as  of  the  parish  of  St.  Mary  le  Strand,  co.  Middlesex,  ''  Gen- 
tleman." This  is  the  earliest  instance  of  any  of  the  descendants 
of  either  Richard  Baldwin  of  Dundridge  or  John  of  the  Hayle 
calling  himself  anything  but  a  **  yeoman."  From  his  living  in 
London,  and  in  the  particular  parish  named,  I  think  it  probable 
he  was  connected  with  one  of  the  Law  Courts  or  public  offices  in 
that  vicinity,  and  so  felt  that  he  had  risen  a  little  above  the  usual 
rank  of  his  lamily.    The  following  is  an  abstract  of  his  will  : 

To  John  my  son  and  to  the  child  in  my  wife^s  womb  each  £200 
when  21,  and  my  brothers  Bartholomew  and  Triamor  Baldwin  to 
be  their  guardians,  but,  if  both  die  before  that  age,  then  £50. 
thereof  to  mv  godson  Thomas  Baldwin,  and  £50.  to  my  gudaugh- 
ter  Sarah  Baldwin,  and  the  other  £300.  equally  among  tne  child- 
ron  of  my  brothers  Thomas,  Bartholomew  andi  Triamon  Baldwin 
and  of  my  sister  Winifred  Johnson — to  the  poor  of  Edlesborough, 
where  1  was  born,  40  shillings— to  my  mother  in  law  Elizabeth 
Hills,  widow,  40  shillingH— to  uiy  brother  in  law  Thomas  Reynolds 
40  shillings— my  wife  Elizabeth  and  my  brother  Triamor  Baldwin 
to  be  my  ezeeutors. 


84.]  The  Family  of  Baldwin.  297 

The  will  was  proved  12  June,  1639,  in  the  Prerogative  Court  of 
Canterbury,  by  his  brother  Triamor,  power  hem^  reserved  to  the 
relict  Elizabeth.  Her  will,  dated  23  January,  1641-2,  was  proved 
4  July  following,  in  the  same  Court,  by  her  mother  Elizabeth 
Hills.  She  directed  to  be  buried  near  her  husband  in  the  parish 
church  of  St.  Mary  le  Strand,  and  loft  her  estate  equally  between 
her  son  John  and  daughter  Elizabeth  when  of  full  age.  The  lat- 
ter was  evidently  a  posthumous  child.  I  find  no  further  trace  of 
her,  or  her  brother  John,  but  the  dates  and  his  probable  aee  seem 
to  render  it  impossible  that  he  oould  have  been  either  of  the  emi- 
grants of  his  name. 
3.  Bartholomew  Baldwin,  snfficiently  identified,  by  his  own  will  and 
that  of  his  brother  Francis  jus*t  qaoted,  as  one  of  the  sons  of  Nich- 
olas Baldwin  and  Agnes  Fisher.  In  his  will,  dated  10  May,  1655, 
he  called  himself  of  Weston  Turvile,  co.  Bucks,  **  Gentleman," 
and,  as  will  be  seen,  there  was  some  reason  why  ho  should  do  so. 
In  order  to  perfect  his  identification,  for  a  parpose  hereafter,  I 
give  a  full  abstract  of  his  will  : 

Whereas,  by  a  former  will  I  made  my  son  Robert  full  executor  & 
ordained  my  lands  at  Wingfield,  in  Chalgraveoo.  Bedford  to  be  sold 
to  pay  my  debts  &  fulfil  the  engagement  for  my  cousin  Elizabeth 
Baldwin^s  portion,  but  my  said  son  Robert  afterwards  persuaded 
me  to  convey  said  lands  to  him  for  his  preferment,  &c.,  I  now  re- 
voke said  will,  &  appoint  as  my  executors  my  brother  Triamor 
Baldwin  &  my  son  in  law  Robert  Abd^,  with  power  to  sell  my 
lands  in  Edlesboroueh  &  Weston  Turvile  oo.  Bucks,  for  the  pay- 
ment of  my  debts  &  legacies— of  the  residue  of  my  estate  I  give 
1-3  to  John  my  son,  &  1-3  to  my  wife  Mary  for  life  with  re- 
mainder to  John  and  Thomas  my  sons  equally — to  my  son  &  daugh- 
ter Abdy  £5. — to  my  sister  Johnson  50  shillinira — I  will  that  &r- 
tholomew  my  son  enjoy  Eastbury  House  in  iSlesborough — I  ap- 
point overseers  my  cousin  Mr.  Aske  &  Mr.  Holton — residue  of 
Sersonalty  to  my  executors  &  to  my  sons  Robert,  Bartholomew, 
ohn  &  Thomas,  equally.  (In  a  codicil  dated  six  days  later,  viz. 
16  May,  1655)  :— to  my  brother  in  law  Everand  Johnson  £5. — to 
my  sister  Hnnnah  Baldwin  &  her  son  my  cousin  (i.  e.  nephew) 
Thomas  Baldwin  each  40  shillings. 

The  will  was  proved  20  July*  1655,  in  the  Prerogative  Court 
of  Canterbury,  by  his  brother  Triamor  Baldwin,  power  being  re- 
served to  Robert  Abdy,  the  other  executor. 

His  widow,  Mary  Baldwin,  then  of  the  parish  of  St.  Paul's, 
Covent  Garden,  made  a  nuncupative  will,  7  Oct.  1666.  Her  leg- 
acies were  as  follows: — to  Bartholomew  Baldwin  Jr.  £10 — to 
Mary  Bowles  £10 — to  my  sister  Baldwin's  children  50  shillings 
— to  my  sister  Johnson  20  shillings—to  Elizabeth  Bowles  lOs 
—to  Sarah  Seavern  20  shillings — to  Bartholomew  Baldwin  my 
son  the  remainder  of  my  annuity  due  me  from  my  daughter  in 
law  Wells.  No  executor  being  named,  her  son  Bartholomew 
Baldwin  took  out  letters  of  administration,  in  the  Prerogative 
Court  of  Canterbury,  25  April,  1668. 

I  know  nothing  further  of  any  of  the  children  except  Robert, 
who  made  his  will  29  Jan.  1657-8,  calling  himself  of  Whelpley 
Hill,  in  the  parish  of  Chesham,  oo.  Bucks.  **  Gentleman."    He 
left  £10.  to  his  mother  Mary  Baldwin,  and  his  capital  messnaju^, 
&c.,  at  Wingfield,  in  Chalgrave,  oo.  Bedford,  to  his  wife  Alioe, 
until  his  daughter  should  roach  the  age  of  21,  or  be  married.    His 
widow  Alice  proved  the  will,  25  May.  1658,  in  the  Preros^ative 
Court  of  Canterbury.     She  remarried  Thomas   Wells  of  Great 
Gndsden,  co.  Herts  (who  died  9  Oct.  1686,  and  was  buried  there), 
and  appears  to  have  been  dead  at  the  date  of  the  will  of  her  moth- 
er in  law  Mary  Baldwin,  7  Oct.  1666.  The  only  child  of  Robert  and 
Alice  Baldwin,  viz.,  Sarah,  died  in  1669,  at  the  age  of  15,  and 
wiiH  buried  in  Bovingdon  church,  Herts,  with  a  monument. 

This  Bartholomew  Baldwin,  Senior,  son  of  Nicholas  and  Agnes, 
becomes  a  personage  of  some  importance  in  this  narrative,  for  a 


298  The  Family  of  Baldwin.  [July, 

reason  which  I  will  now  explain.  It  will  be  seen  that  he  and  hw 
brother  Francis  were  the  first  of  the  fiunily,  in  the  lines  of  either 
Richard  or  John,  who  styled  themselyes  *'Qentieinen."  This, 
as  I  have  explained,  probably  ^rew  out  of  their  baying  gone  to 
London  and  en^raged  in  pursuits  which  raised  them  somewhat  in 
the  social  scale.  This  Bartholomew,  in  1634,  held  the  post  of 
Clerk  of  the  Faculties  in  the  Court  of  Chancery,  and  among  the 
State  Papers  (Domestic  Charles  I.)  is  his  promise,  dated  26  July 
in  that  year,  to  appear  at  the  College  of  Arms  the  next  term,  to 
'*  make  proof  of  his  arms  and  enter  his  descent."  The  Heralds 
were  making  their  Visitation  of  London  in  that  vear,  and,  finding 
him  claiming  to  belone  to  the  ^ntrv,  uid  probably  asing  arms  of 
some  sort,  they  served  him  with  toe  usaal  officiiu  summons,  to 
which  the  above  mentioned  promise  was  a  response.  No  proof  of 
bis  arms,  however,  was  made,  and  no  descent  recorded,  and  it  is 
safe  to  assume  that  he  failed  to  keep  his  promise  to  the  Heralds 
because  he  could  not  establish  his  claim  to  such  arms  as  he  may 
have  been  using,  or  prove  a  descent  which  would  entitle  him  to 
any  arms  at  all.  That  he  would  have  done  so  if  he  could  is  evi- 
dent from  his  promise :  that  he  did  not  do  so  is  certain  :  and  his 
absence  from  the  recorded  Visitation  of  1634  is  a  silent  but  pow- 
erful witness  of  the  unsubstantial ity  of  his  pretended  claim. 

4.  Thomas,  fourth  son  of  Nicholas  Baldwin  Mid  Agnes  Fisher,  was 
living  at  the  date  of  the  will  of  his  brother  Francis  in  1639,  hot 
appears  to  have  been  dead  at  the  date  of  his  brother  Bartholo- 
mew's in  1655,  leaving  a  widow  Hannah  and  a  sod  Thomas  then 
living.    I  find  nothing  more  about  them. 

b,  Triamor  Baldwin,  fifth  son  of  Nicholas  and  Agnes.  In  certain 
Chancery  proceedings  in  January,  1590-1,  he  i8<^ed  their  young- 
est son.  He  was  executor  of  the  wills  of  his  brothers  Francis  ami 
Bartholomew  in  1639  and  1655,  and  then  disappoirs  altogether. 
The  peculiarity  of  his  name  would  prevent  hb  oeing  ovenooked 
if  he  had  left  any  traces  on  the  recoras. 

(I  find  the  will  of  a  'Driamor  Batdwin,  of  London,  dated  and 
proved  as  late  as  1729,  of  course  too  late  to  have  been  the  Triamor 
above,  who  was  born  before  1581,  but  evidently  from  the  peculiar 
name  indicating  some  connection.  He  styled  himself  a  '*  gentle- 
man,*' and  left  but  one  legitimate  child,  to  whom  he  bequeathed 
considerable  property  in  London.  He  also  provided  handsomely 
for  an  illegitimate  son  and  daughter,  who  were  called  by  his  sur- 
name. He  also  left  £100.  to  his  brother  William  Baldwin,  then 
living  in  or  near  New  York,  and  £100.  each  to  his  nephews  Tria- 
mor and  William,  sons  of  siiid  William  his  brother,  and  phiced 
the  nephew  Triamor  last  in  the  line  of  remainder  to  certain  prop- 
erty (1-4  of  the  old  Marshalsea  Prison  immortalised  by  Dickens), 
which  he  bequeathed  first  to  his  illegitimate  son  Thomas  Baldwin. 
If  any  of  the  descendants  of  this  William  Baldwin  of  New  York 
ara  living,  1  think  it  probable  that  their  descent  might  be  asoer- 
talbed.) 

6.  Winifred,  evidently  only  daughter  of  Nicholas  Baldwin  and  Ag- 
nes Fisher,  who  married  Everard  Johnson.  They  are  named  in 
the  wills  already  cited.  Both  were  living  in  1655,  and  she  in  1666. 

3.  Stlvestbr  Baldwin,  of  whom  hereafter. 

4.  Richard,  who  is  named  in  the  will  of  his  father  John  in  1564-5,  and  in  that 

of  his  brother  Thomas  in  1570,  then  with  a  son  Thomas,  neither  of  whom 
have  I  been  able  to  identify  after  the  latter  date. 

5.  Robert,  of  whom  I  find  nothing  after  his  being  named  in  his  father *s  will 

in  1564-5.    lie  probably  died  young.' 

6.  Thomas,  named  last  in  his  father  John^s  will  in  1564-5,  and  who  did  not 

lon^  survive  him.  That  his  identity  may  also  be  established  beyond  a 
douDt,  for  a  purpose  to  be  seen  hereafter,  I  give  a  full  abstract  of  his  will, 
dated  1 1  Oct.  1570 : 

I,  Thomas  Baldwin,  of  Pyvers,  in  the  parish  of  Chcsham,  co.  Bucks, 
Husbandman,  Ac.— to  Joane  my  wife  the  use  of  all  my  lands  in  Cheshsm 
till  John  my  son  be  21 — to  Richard  my  son  £20.,  to  be  raised  out  of  my 


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woods  to  be  sold  by  my  brother  Richard  Baldwin  &  John  Tyndall— to  my 
S  daughters  Joane  and  Amy  each  6.  13.  4  —to  Thomas  Baldwin  my  broth- 
er Ricnard^R  son  a  lamb — residue  to  my  wife  Joane,  &  she  to  be  my  exec- 
utrix— Overseers,  my  brother  George  Baldwin  &  my  cousin  Henry  Bald- 
win of  Dundridge. 

The  will  was  proved  in  the  Archdeaconrjr  Court  of  Bucks,  16  Dec.  1570, 
by  his  widow  Joane ;  but  of  her  or  any  of  the  children  1  find  no  further 
trace.  It  will  be  seen  from  the  will  that  he  was  pretty  well-to-do,  as  the 
phrase  is,  for  a  husbandman^  but  that  he  should  deliberately  describe  him- 
self as  of  a  rank  below  that  of  yeoman  is  a  further  convincing  proof  that 
in  his  day  there  was  no  pretence  in  the  fisunily  to  an  heraldic  descent. 
7.  Hugh  Baldwin  appears  to  be  named  in  the  will  of  the  first  Richard  of  Dun- 
dridge as  a  son  of  his  brother  John  of  the  Uayle.  He  is  not,  however, 
named  among  his  children  by  John  Baldwin  in  his  will  in  1564-5,  and,  if 
he  were  his  son,  he  probabljr  died  young,  and  before  his  father.  The  ex- 
pression in  Richard's  will  is  somewhat  ambiguous,  viz.,  ''Hugh  Bald- 
win my  brother^s  son,"  but,  as  he  named  no  brother,  dead  or  iHiTe,  ex- 
cept John,  it  is  fair  to  presume  that  he  meant  Hugh,  son  of  John.  Rich- 
ard Baldwin  may,  of  course,  have  had  other  brothers,  but  1  find  no  trace  of 
them  in  any  of  the  records,  and  no  suggestion  of  relationship  in  the  wills, 
very  numerous,  of  the  other  Baldwins,  either  in  Bucks  or  any  other  part 
of  England,  except  those  which  are  quoted  in  this  narrative,  and  which 
are  those  exclusively  of  the  the  two  lines  of  Richard  of  Dundridge  and  his 
brother  John  of  the  Hayle.  It  is  proper,  however,  to  say  that  in  the 
parish  register  of  Aston  Clinton  there  occurs  the  marriage  of  a  Hu^h  Bald- 
win and  Mary  Kine,  24  January,  1565-6,  but  this  was  ten  months  after 
John  Baldwin  of  the  Hayle  made  his  will,  namins  no  son  Hugh,  and  of 
the  Hugh  then  married  I  have  been  able  to  find  no  uirther  trace,  either  in 
his  own  will  or  that  of  any  other  Baldwin.  It  is  clear,  from  the  numer- 
ous wills  I  have  examinea,  that  there  were  other  Baldwins  in  the  neigh- 
borhood of  Aston  Clinton,  mentioned  as  *'  servants  *'  and  **  laborers," 
who  were  in  no  way  related  to  the  Baldwins  of  Dundridge  and  the  Hayle, 
and  I  think  it  most  probable  that  the  Hugh  whose  marriage  I  have 
mentioned  was  one  of  these,  and  that  **  Hugh  my  brother*s  son,"  died 
shortly  after  his  uncle  Richard,  and  before  the  date  when  the  parish  reg- 
ister begins. 

fTo  be  oon tinned.] 


THE  GREENLEAF  ANCESTRY. 

By  William  S.  Afplbton,  A.M.,  of  Boston,  Mass. 

AMONG  the  Massachusetts  families  which  deserve  better  treat- 
ment than  they  have  yet  received  genealogically,  is  certainly 
that  of  Greenleaf  of  Newbury.  A  curiously  ill-arranged  and  im- 
perfect record  of  the  family  was  printed  in  New  York  in  1854.  The 
researches  of  the  late  Horatio  G.  Somerby  satisfactorily  settled  the 
English  origin  and  home  of  Edmund  Greenleaf,  the  first  of  the  name 
at  Newbury,  though  many  desirable  facts  were  not  found,  and  abso- 
lute proof  is  also  wanting.  I  wish  to  put  on  record  the  evidences 
of  the  connection  with  England,  together  with  a  generation  or  two 
of  the  family  in  this  country.    • 

1.  Edmund  Greenleaf  undoubtedly  came  from  Ipswich,  Suffolk,  Eng- 
land ;  he  was  probably  born  about  1590;  his  baptism  has  not  been 
foand,  but  it  is  more  than  possible  that  he  was  son  of  Edmund 
Greenleaf  of  the  parish  at  St.  Mary-at-the-Tower ;  he  came  to  New 


300  The  Greenleaf  Ancestry.  [July? 

• 

England  before  1 638,  and  settled  at  Newbury,  Mass. ;  was  Free- 
man 13  March,  1639,  and  the  same  year  appointed  Ensign  of  the 
Company  at  Newbury,  and  permitted  to  keep  a  house  of  enter- 
tainment. In  1 642  he  was  Lieutenant,  and  was  appointed  ^'  to  end 
small  businesses  in  Neweberry;"  in  1647  he  was  at  bis  own  request 
discharged  from  his  military  office,  and  later  moved  to  Boston,  where 
his  wife  Sarah  died  18  January,  1663;  he  married  secondly  another 
Sarah,  widow,  first  of Wilson,  second  of  William  Hill,  of  Fair- 
field, Conn.    She  died  at  Boston  in  1671.  Children,  bom  at  Ipswich: 

i.      £noch,  bapt.  at  St.  Mary-at-tho  Tower,  1  December,   1613 ;  buried  at 

St.  Margaret,  2  Sept.  1617. 
ii.     Samuel,  b. ;  buried  at  St.  Margaret,  5  March,  1637. 

2.  iii.    Enoch,  b. . 

iy.  Sarah,  bapt.  at  St.  Mar^ret,  26  March,  1620 ;  m.  William  Hilton  of 
Newbury  ;  d.  about  1655  ;  he  d.  at  Charlestown,  7  Sept.  1675. 

Y.  Elizabeth,  bapt.  at  St.  Margaret,  16  January,  1622 ;  m.  Giles  Badger  of 
Newbury,  who  died  10  Jiiiy,  1647,  and  she  married  secondly  10  Feb- 
ruary, 1648,  Richard  Brown  of  Newbury,  who  died  26  April,  1661. 

Ti.    Nathaniel,  bapt.  at  St  Margaret,  27  June,  1624  ;  buried  34  July,  1634. 

Tii.  Judith,  bapt.  at  St.  Margaret,  29  Sept  1626;  m.  Henry  Somerbyof 
Newbury,  who  d.  2  Oct.  1652,  and  she  m.  secondly  2  March,  1653, 
Tristram  Coffin  of  Newbury  ;  d.  15  Dec.  1705 ;  he  d.  4  Feb.  1704. 

3.  vili.  Stephen,  bapt.  at  St.  Margaret,  10  August,  1628. 

ix.  Daniel,  bapt.  at  St.  Margaret,  14  Augu.st,  1631 ;  d.  at  Newbury,  5  Dec. 
1654. 

2.  Enoch  Greenleap  (Edmimd),  born  at  Ipswich,  England,   probably 

about  1617-18,  probably  also  came  to  New  England  with  his  father; 
was  of  Maiden,  Ma.ss.,  1603,  but  soon  after  moved  to  Boston  ;  had 
wife  Mary.     Children  : 

i.      Enoch,  b. ;  had  wife  Catherine  and  children  b.  at  Boston ;  d.  8 

Sept.  1705. 
ii.     Joseph,  b. ;  had  wife  Sarah  and  children  b.  at  Boston  ;  she  d.  4 

June,  1690. 

iii.    Ruth,  b. ;  m.at  Boston,  16  Dec.  1689,  John  Cook. 

iv.    RooKSBY,  b. ;  m.  at  Boston,  30  June,  1697,  Thomas  Creese. 

3.  Stephen  Greenleaf  (Edmund),  born  at  Ij^wich,  England,  in  1628: 

married  at  Newbury,  13  November,  1651,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of 
Tristram  Coffin;  in  1670  was  appointed  Ensign  of  the  Company  at 
Newbury,  and  in  1685  Lieutenant;  was  a  Deputy  to  the  General 
Court  9  August,  1676,  and  13  May,  1686,  to  the  Council  of  Safetv 
1689,  and  to  the  General  Court  1689  and  1690;  his  wife  died  19 
November,  1G78,  and  he  married  secondly,  31  March,  1679,  Esther, 
daughter  of  Nathaniel  Weare  of  Hampton,  widow  of  Benjamin 
Swett  of  Hampton  ;  was  a  Captain  in  the  disastrous  expedition 
against  Canada  in  1690,  and  was  drowned  off  Cape  Breton,  31  Oc- 
tober, 1690  ;  his  widow  died  at  Newbury,  16  January,  1718.  Child- 
ren, all  by  first  wife : 

i.  Stephen,  b.  at  Newbury,  15  August,  1652  ;  Captain  ;  m.  23  Oct.  1676, 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of"  William  Uerrish  of*  Newbury,  by  whom  he  had 
several  children  ;  she  d.  5  August,  1712,  and  he  m.  secondly,  in  1713, 
Mrs.  Hannah  Jordan  of  Kittery  ;  d.  30  Sept.  1743. 

ii.  Sarah,  h.  at  Newbury,  18  Oct.  1655  ;  m.  7  June,  1677,  Richard  Dole  of 
Newbury  ;  d.  1  Sept.  1718;  he  d.  1  August,  1723. 

iii.    Daniel,  b.  at  Boston,  17  Feb.  1658;  d.  young. 

iv.  Elizauetd,  b.  at  Newbury,  5  April,  1660;  m.  24  Sept.  1677,  Thomas 
Noyes  of  Newbury. 


1884.]  CfenecUogical  Gleanings  in  England.  301 

▼.  John,  b.  at  Newbary,  21  June,  1662 ;  m.  12  Oct.  1685,  Elizabeth  Hills 
of  Newbary,  by  whom  he  had  several  children  ;  8he  d.  and  he  m.  sec- 
ondly, 13  May,  1716,  Lydia,  daughter  of  Charles  Frost  of  Kittery, 
widow  of  Benjamin  Pierce  of  Newoury ;  d.  24  June,  1734 ;  she  d.  13 
May,  1752. 

yi.  Samukl,  b.  at  Newbanr,  30  Oct.  1665 ;  m.  1  March,  1686,  Sarah,  daugh- 
ter of  John  Kent  of'^ Newbury,  by  whom  he  had  children  ;  d.  6  Aug- 
ust, 1694 ;  bis  widow  m.  secondly,  28  April,  1696,  Peter  Toppan  of 
Newbury. 

▼ii.  Tristram,  b.  at  Newbury,  U  Feb.  1668;  m.  12  Not.  1689,  Margaret 
Piper  of  Newbury,  by  whom  he  had  several  children :  d.  13  &pt.  1742. 

viD.  £dmund,  b.  at  Newbury,  10  May,  1671;  m.  2  July.  1691,  Abifi^il, 
daughter  of  Abiel  Somerby  of  Newbury,  by  whom  he  had  several  child- 
ren;  d.  ?  in  1740. 

ix.    Judith,  b.  at  Newbury,  23  Oct.  1673  ;  d.  19  Nov.  1678. 

X.  Mary,  b.  at  Newbury,  6  Deo.  1676 ;  m.  in  1696,  Joshua  Moody  of 
Newbury. 

No  connection  is  known  to  exist  between  Edmund  Greenleaf  of  New- 
bury  and  John  Greenleaf  of  Boston  ;  but  the  names  of  children  of  the  lat- 
ter (all  of  them  ignored  by  Mr.  Savage)  are  nearly  all  found  among  the 
children  and  grandchildren  of  the  former ;  unfortunately,  however,  the  pe- 
culiar names  Enoch  and  Rooksby  are  not  there. 

John  Greenleaf  married  at  Braintree,  26  July,  1665,  Han- 
nah, daughter  of  William  Veasy ;  lived  at  Boston;  died  in  1712. 
Children,  bom  at  Boston : 

i.  £lizabktb,  b.  19  July,  1666. 

ii.  Hannah,  b  5  Oct.  1668. 

iii.  Mart,  b.  23  Jan.  1671. 

iv.  John,  b.  10  Feb.  1673. 

V.  William,  b.  in  1675 ;  d.  young. 

vi.  Stxphxn,  b.  5  March,  16l^. 

vii.  Samusl,  b.  26  Feb.  1681. 

Tiii.  Sarah,  b.  3  Sept.  1683. 

ix.  William,  b.  4  Nov.  1687 ;  d.  9  August,  1690. 

The  will  of  Edmund  Greenleaf,  dated  1668,  is  on  record  at  the 
Suffolk  County  Probate  Office,  but  the  original  is  not  now  to  be 
found.  There  is  one  puzzling  point  in  it,  viz.,  the  mention  of  his 
**  eldest  son's  son  James  Greenleaf."  So  far  as  I  know  there  is  no 
other  notice  of  a  person  of  this  name,  cither  child  or  adult.  I  can- 
not help  thinking  that  it  may  be  a  mistake  for  Joseph,  though  it 
would  be  rash  to  say  that  it  must  be  euch.  I  will  add  the  hope  that 
some  descendant  may  soon  give  us  a  good  complete  genealogy  of 
the  family  founded  by  Edmund  Greenleaf,  whose  blood  the  wri- 
ter of  this  inherits  in  two  lines,  through  Judith  and  Stephen. 


GENEALOGICAL  GLEANINGS  IN  ENGLAND. 

By  Hbnbt  F.  Waters,  A.B.,  now  residlDg  in  London«  Eng. 
[Continaed  ftom  page  208.] 

Abstract  of  the  last  Will  and  Testament  of  the  most  reverend  Father 
in  Grod  Edmund  Grindall,  Archbishop  of  Canterbury,  made  8  May,  1583, 
•od  proved  15  July,  1583.    All  other  wills  revoked  (except  one  bearing 

VOL.  XZXYIII.  27 


302  Genealogical  Oleanings  in  England.  [July, 

date  12  April,  1583).  Mj  body  to  be  baried  in  the  choir  of  ihe  parish 
church  of  Croydon,  without  any  solemn  hearse  or  funeral  pomp.  To  her 
Majesty  the  Queen  the  New  Testament  in  Greek  of  Stephanas  his  impres- 
sion. To  my  next  successor  the  pictures  of  Archbishop  Warham  and  of 
Erasmus  and  all  such  instruments  of  music  and  other  implements  as  were 
bequeathed  and  left  unto  me  by  my  predecessor  that  last  was.  To  Lord 
Burghley,  the  Lord  High  Treasurer  of  England  that  my  standing  cop  which 
her  Majesty  gave  unto  me  at  New  Years  Tide  last  before  the  date  hereof. 
And  I  make  him  supervisor,  <&c.  (Gifts  to  sundry  other  legatees.)  To 
my  faithful  friend  M'  Nowell,  Dean  of  Paul's,  my  ambling  gelding  called 
Gray  Olyphant.  To  the  poor  of  the  town  and  the  lower  part  of  the  parish 
of  S*  Beghes  ;  to  the  use  of  the  parish  church  of  S'  Beghes.  To  M'  Doc- 
tor Gybson.  To  William  Woodhall,  my  nephew  {inter  alia)^  "  my  blacke 
straye  nagg  called  Nixe.'*  To  Mr.  Wilson  my  chaplain  (certain  books) 
and  the  advowson  of  the  parsonage  of  Wonston  in  the  diocese  of  Winches- 
ter if  it  shall  fall  void  in  his  life  time ;  if  not,  then  to  M'  Robinson,  now 
provost  of  Queen's  College,  Oxford.  To  my  nieces  Mabell,  Anne,  Barba- 
ra and  Frances,  the  daughters  of  Robert  Grindall,  my  brother.  To  my 
nieces  Dorothy,  Katherine,  Elizabeth  and  Isabell,  the  daughters  of  Eliza- 
beth Woodhall,  my  sister,  late  deceased  (fifty  pounds  to  each).  To  the 
children  of  Mabel,  daughter  of  my  sister,  fifty  pounds,  to  be  divided  amongst 
them  at  the  discretion  of  William  Woodhall,  their  uncle.  To  my  niece 
Woodhall  a  bowl.     To  my  niece  Isabell  Wilson,  one  other  bowl,  double 

filt,  without  a  cover.  To  Edmond  Woodhall,  my  godson.  To  my  niece 
'ranees  Younge,  widow.  To  John  Scott,  Esq.,  steward  of  mjr  household. 
To  my  servant  William  Grindall,  my  servant  William  Hales  (and  other 
servants  named).  To  John  Sharpe.  To  my  loving  friend  master  Thomas 
Eaton  and  his  wife.  To  M'  William  Strycland,  M'  Atherton,  John  Browne, 
fellow  of  Pembroke  Hall,  Cambridge,  M'^  Redman,  Archdeacon  of  Can- 
terbury. 

I  ordain  &  constitute  William  Redman,  Archdeacon  of  Canterbury,  John 
Scott,  Esq,,  Steward  of  my  Household,  and  William  Woodhall,  my  nephew, 
executors. 

Clause,  referring  to  a  Free  Grammar  School,  to  be  founded  in  St.  Beghes 
in  the  county  of  Cumberland,  blotted,  and  **stroken"  out  3  July,  1583, 
about  11  A.  M. 

A  codicil  bequeathing  to  M'  Redman,  Archdeacon,  &c.,  all  his  antique 
coins  of  the  Roman  Emperors.  To  M'  Wilson,  his  chaplain,  his  watch. 
He  did  forgive  his  niece  Ann  Dacres,  widow,  <S^  &c  Rowe,  39. 

Siiia  pro  allocacoe  co^pi  bonorum  Reurendissimi  pris  Edi  Grindall  nop 
Cant  Archipi  defti — in  judicio  inter  Alexandra  Willson  Mariam  Willson  et 
Aliciam  Willson  nepotes  ex  sorore  dci  defiincti  partem  hmoi  negotiu  promo- 
vefi  ex  una  et  Johannem  Scott  Armigerum  executorem  superstitem  testa- 
menti  sine  ultimo  voluntatis  dci  defuncti  partem  contra  quam  hfi&oi  negoti- 
um  promovetur  necnon  Mabillam  Windor  ffranciscum  Dacres  Elenam  Da- 
cres Dorotheam  Dacres  ats Barbaram  Raper  ffranciscam  Latns  Johetn 

Wilkenson  Robertum  Wilkenson  Dorotheam  Bowman  Dorotheam  Will- 
son  Johannem  Gibson  Thomam  Gibson  Edmundum  Willson  Willum 
Willson  Johannem  Willson  Thomam  Willson  Mariam  Willson  Mariam 
Sheafe  et  Isabellam  Willson  proximos  consanguineos  dci  defuncti  in  specie 
ac  omnes  et  singulos  alios  jus  titulum  aut  Interesse  in  bonis  dicti  defuncti 
haben  aut  pretendefi  in  genere  ad  videndum  compQm  dci  defiincti  exhiberi 
et  in  debita  Juris  forma  iustificari  Itfiie  citat  etc  etc 


]  Chnealogical  Gleanings  in  England.  803 

ta  lata  et  promulgata  fuit  hec  snia  difiinitiaa  etc  Tertia  sessione  Ter- 
i^asche  die  Jovis  decimo  octauo  viz'  die  menss  Mali  Anuo  Domini 
iino  sexcentesimo  nono.  Dorset,  60. 

s  celebrated  puritan  Archbishop,  the  son  of  William  Grindall,  was  born  at 
»,  in  the  County  of  Cumberland,  in  1519.     He  was  fellow,  president  and 

of  Pembroke  Hall,  Cambridge,  and  filled  successively  the  Sees  of  London, 
nd  Canterbury.  He  died  July  6, 1583,  and  was  buried  in  the  chancel  of  Croy- 
urch,  where  are  bis  monument  and  epitaph.  The  free  school  of  St.  Bees  was 
crated  by  Queen  Elizabeth  in  the  name  of  Edmund  Grindall,  Archbishop  of 
bury,  and  the  school  and  master *s  house  were  built  by  his  executors.  The 
r*s  donation  was  filly  pounds  a  year,  twenty  pounds  whereof  he  appointed  to 
i  to  the  master  of  Pembroke  Hall,  Cambridge.  By  the  foundation  the  master 
school  is  to  be  a  native  of  Cumberland,  Westmoreland,  Yorkshire,  or  Lanca- 
and  is  to  be  nominated  by  the  Provost  of  Queen's  College,  Oxford.     King 

I.  augmented  this  foundation.  Lord  Bacon  says  he  was  the  gravest  and 
3t  prelate  of  the  land.   (Hutchinson's  His.  of  Cumberland.) — Tbomas  Minns.  | 

fES  WoODHALL  of  Walden  in  the  county  of  Essex,  yeoman,  21  Feb- 
^  in  ye  thirdth  yere  of  the  raigue  of  oure  Soueraigne  Ladie  Eliza- 
Ac.,  proved  30  June,  1601.  My  body  to  be  buried  at  the  discre- 
f  my  executor.  To  William  Woodhall,  my  son-in-law  and  Mary  his 
my  daughter,  all  mj  lands  and  tenements,  both  free  and  copy  hold 
within  the  parish  church  of  Littlebury  in  the  county  of  Essex,  and  to 
heirs  forever,  ^^  in  consideration  of  ye  great  kindness  which  I  have 
in  him  towards  me  and  for  a  Remuneration  of  his  fatherly  goodnes 
larges  and  benevolence  bestowed  upon  the  children  of  William  Bird 
;ed,  his  said  wyves  late  husband.'*  To  the  same  all  that  my  messuage 
in  I  now  dwell,  situate  in  Walden  aforesaid,  in  a  street  there  com- 
'  called  Threshwell  hundred,  &c.,  two  acres  I  bought  of  William 
rett,  two  parcels  I  bought  of  Thomas  Crofte,  one  and  a  half  acre 
id  lying  between  the  land  I  bought  of  Thomas  Crofte  and  the 
of  George  Nicholls  Esq.,  two  acres  of  land  in  Windmill  lane  which  I 
bought  of  John  Crofte,  two  and  a  half  acres  of  land  I  bought  of  Rich- 
hapman,  lying  on  Windmill  Hill,  &c.,  and  my  two  houses  in  Duck 
;,  in  the  parish  of  Walden,  (one)  now  in  the  tenure  of  Richard  Aus- 
le  other  late  in  the  tenure  of  Davy  Ilodson.  James  Woodhall,  eldest 
:  the  said  William  Woodhall,  my  godson,  Edmond  Woodhall  (second 
md  William  Woodhall  (third  son).  Certain  land  at  the  Sandpits,  next 
nd  lately  Richard  Plommers.  Land  near  William  Shelford,  land  near 
las  Howard,  bought  of  William  Bowling.  To  William  Bird  and 
1%  Bird,  sons  of  my  daughter  Mary.  To  Mary  Bird,  one  of  the  daugh- 
f  my  said  daughter  and  now  the  wife  of  John  Kyng,  clerk  and  canon 
ndsor.  To  Debora  Woodhall,  a  daughter  of  William  and  Mary  Wood- 
nd  every  of  the  other  sons  and  daughters  of  the  said  William  and 
,  viz.  Elizabeth,  Mary,  Edmond,  Dorothy,  Jane,  Katherine  and  Jo- 
Woodhall.  Whereas  Johane  my  wife,  after  my  marriage  had  with 
lid  faithfully  promise  that  she  would  not  claim  any  title  of  dower,  &c. 
obert  Nicholls,  her  son,  and  to  James,  her  son,  and  Henry,  her  son. 
im  Bird,  my  daughter's  eldest  son,  to  be  the  overseer  of  this  my  will, 
e  testator's  signature  was  Jamys  Woodhall.  The  witnesses  were 
im  Willson,  clerk,  John  Kyng,  clerk,  and  James  Crofte  Not.  Publique. 
a  co<liciI,  made  29  August,  1596,  referring  to  his  wife's  dowry  and  the 
sts  to  Robert,  James  and  Henry  Nicholls,  her  sons,  and  to  the  child- 
f  William  Woodhall  of  Walden  Esq.,  his  son-in-law  and  daughter 
his  wife,  we  learn  that  *^  synce  that  tyme  it  hath  pleased  god  to  blesse 


304  Genealogical  Gleanings  in  England.  [July* 

hym  with  one  sonne  more  named  Grindall  Woodhall,"  &&  The  witnesses 
to  this  codicil  were  William  Bird,  George  Bird,  John  Sharpe,  Robert 
Longe  No.  Pub.,  William  Lawe  and  Josaphat  Webbe. 

In  another  codicil,  bearing  date  22  March,  1598,  he  makes  bequests  to 
his  wife  and  to  the  poor  of  Walden.  The  witnesses  to  this  were  George 
Bird,  Thomas  Bird,  William  Burroughs,  John  Sharpe  and  John  Rice. 

Woodhall,  1. 

William  Woodhall,  of  Walden  in  the  County  of  Essex  Esq.,  30  May 
First  of  James,  proved  29  November,  1 604.  To  be  buried  in  the  parish 
church  of  Walden,  either  on  the  North  side  of  the  church  in  a  place  where 
I  appointed  or  else  by  my  father-in-law  and  my  son  James,  at  the  discre- 
tion of  my  executor. 

**  Nowe  whereas  my  wife  and  I  haue  bin  mareyed  this  fonre  and  thirtie 
yeres  and  I  haue  had  nott  onely  by  her  many  children  but  alsoe  haae  founde 
her  a  moste  kinde  and  loving  wief  I  should  farr  forget  myself  if  I  should  doU 
soe  prouide  for  her  as  she  may  haue  sufficient,"  &c.  &c  I  leave  unto  my  said 
wife,  according  to  her  father's  will  all  such  lands  as  he  hath  bequeathed 
unto  her,  lying  either  in  the  parish  of  Walden  or  Lytlebury.  To  John, 
Archbishop  of  Canterbury  (certain  bequests)  humbly  beseeching  his  Grace 
to  be  good  and  favorable  to  my  son  Edmund  whom  I  leave  behind  me  to 
succeed  in  my  office.  To  loving  cousin  Doctor  Dun,  M'  of  the  Requests 
and  Dean  of  the  Arches.  To  my  dear  and  faithful  brother  M'  William 
Wilson.  To  Doctor  Birde  and  Michael  Woodcock  (spoken  of  in  another 
place  as  "  son  Woodcock  ").  **  I  had  a  purpose  to  bestow  my  sonne  Wil- 
liam Woodhall  either  at  the  study  of  the  common  lawe  or  at  the  Univeni- 
tie  of  Oxforde ;  but  gceiving  his  tabackicall  humor  I  see  he  hath  nott  anie 
minde  either  to  the  one  or  to  the  other,  And  therefore  for  anythinge  I  see  he 
must  be  a  souldyer  or  servingman  both  places  commendable  for  a  younge 
man  especially  if  he  may  haue  a  pipe  of  tobacco.  And  to  that  ende  least  a 
farther  inconvenience  mighte  followe  for  his  better  maintenaunce  I  giue 
unto  the  said  William  the  place  wherein  Thomas  Lynne  was,"  &c.  &c 
"  Nephew  John  Wilkinson  now  in  London,"  referred  to. — **  Son  Grind- 
all  Woodhall  to  be  an  apprentice  either  with  a  merch'  Venturer  or 
some  other  good  trade."  My  three  eldest  daughters,  Debora  Calton,  Wil- 
liam Burroe  and  Michael  Woodcock.  My  four  other  daughters,  Mary, 
Jane,  Katharine  and  Jone  Woodhall. 

**  Memorandum  that  on  Thursday  being  AscenctSn  day  and  the  second 
daie  of  June  1603  betweene  the  bowers  of  seauen  and  eight  in  the  fore- 
nooue  the  testator  within  named  lieing  in  his  bed  in  his  chamber  within  M^ 
Chayre*s  house  in  Pawles  church-yarde  London  did  with  his  owne  hande 
subscribe  his  name  to  every  leafe  of  this  Will  being  ^mq  in  nomber,"  &c. 

The  witnesses  were  Jo:  Lawe  not.  pub.,  William  Birde,  Antho:  Calton, 
George  Birde,  Rich.  Theker,  Christopher  Yowle,  Robert  Longe,  William 
Cooke  and  Timothy  Paget.  Harte,  86. 

Edmund  Woodhall,  Esq.  Registrar  of  the  Prerogative  Court  of  Can- 
terbury, 25  January,  1638,  proved  3  February,  1638.  My  body  to  be  de- 
cently interred,  near  the  bodies  of  my  two  wives,  in  the  "  He  "  belonging 
to  me  in  the  church  of  Little  Munden  in  the  county  of  Hartford,  '*  there 
to  sleep  free  from  further  molestac6n  till  it  be  awaked  at  the  last  day  by 
the  Angels  trumpe  with  a  Surge — Arise  thou  that  sleepest  &  come  to  Judg- 
ment."    1  will  that  the  like  monument  be  there  erected  for  me  as  1  did 


1884.^  Oenealogical  Gleanings  in  England.  305 

set  up  for  my  father  in  the  church  of  Walden,  but  my  desire  is  that  my 
Euneral  may  be  without  auy  great  cost,  my  will  &.  meaning  being  that  only 
my  children  and  two  sons  in  law  have  mourning  provided  for  them ;  the 
charges  of  my  funeral  not  to  exceed  fifty  pounds.  My  two  eldest  daugh- 
ters, Mary  Groad,  now  wife  of  Thomas  Goad,  Doctor  of  Laws,  and  Dame 
Penelope  Gibson,  the  now  wife  of  Sir  John  Gibson  the  younger.  Knight 
To  Bridget  Woodhall,  my  third  daughter,  one  thousand  pounds  and  to  Jane 
Woodhall,  my  youngest  daughter,  the  like  sum,  at  four  &  twenty  years  of 
ftge  or  day  of  marriage.  Son  Edmond  and  son  John  (who  appears  to  be 
\l  King's  College,  Cambridge).  Brother-in-law  Alexander  South  wood, 
gentleman.  Brother  mr.  Michael  Woodcock.  Cousins  and  friends  Nicholas 
Eiawes  Esq.  and  John  Wilkinson  gentleman. 

"  And  soe  Lord  Jesu  come  quickly."  Harvey,  20. 

[The  fullowing  pedigree  from  Harleian  MS.,  1541,  fol.  55,  in  the  British  Museum, 
ihows  the  connection  between  Archbishop  Grindall  and  the  Woodhalls,  whose  wills 
follow  bis : 

John  Woodhall  of  Ullook=» 
in  Com.  Cumberland.      I 


loDD  WoodballssJennett,  d.  of      Thomas  WoodballssJoane,  d.  of  . . . .  Longdale. 

I  . . . .  Crakeplace. 


Jc 


fohn*  WoodhallssGHzabeth,  da.  of  Wm.  Grindall  and  sister  of  £dmond 
df  Walden  in  £ssex.       I      Grindall,  Archbishop  of  Canterbury. 


William  Woodhall»Mary,  da.  of  James  Woodhall^William  Byrd     ' 
of  Walden  in  Essex.   I  son  of  Jas.  Woodhall  of  Cockes-       1  Uusband 

I     more  in  Com.  Cumberland.  vide  London. 


Deoora  ux^         Elizabeth 
Anthony        ux.  William 
Calton  Burrows  of 

Wickhambroke 
in  Com.  Suff. 


Mary  ux.           Dorotbyf       Eatherine       Joanne 
Tho.  Harrison       Jane        ux Barley     ob.  s.p. 


I  III 

Edmond  WoodhallsMargaret  dau.  of        William        James        Grindall 

of  Walden  in  Essex    I    ....  Law.  ob.  s.p.       ob.  s.p.       ob.  s.p. 


£dm 


ond  John  Mary  ux.  Penelope  ux. 

Thos.  Goade  John  Gibson  of  Crake 

D'  of  Civil  Law.        Welborne  in  Com.  York. 


— H.  p.  w. 


In  Lipscomb's  County  of  Buckingham  is  an  interesting  account,  tracing  one 
branch  of  the  Woodhall  family  from  Walter  De  Flanders,  Lord  of  Wahal,  alias 
Woodhal,  2^  William  the  Conqueror,  and  giving  the  coat  of  arms. 

In  ^e  Chapel  of  Eton  College  is  a  Latin  inscription  in  memory  of  "  Jane  Goad 
dan.  of  Edmund  Woodhall  a^  34  1657  the  mother  of  3  sons  &  2  daughters." 
(▼.  iv.  p.  312, 488.) 

In  the  church  of  Walden  in  Essex,  are  epitaphs  of  the  following  persons :  James 
Woodhall,  Assistant  and  Treasurer,  died  1529 ;  William  Woodhall,  Esq.,  Register 

•  Willm  Woodhall  had  evidently  been  written  first,  in  the  same  ink  as  the  rest  of  the 
pedigree,  and  John  Woodhall  written  over  this  in  blacker  ink. — u.  f.  w. 
t  Dorothy  became  the  wife  of  Michael  Woodcock.    (Sec  CassaoB'  Herts,  vol.  ii.  p.  149.) 

H.  P.  W. 

VOL.  xxxvm.        27* 


306  Genealogical  Gleanings  in  England.  [July, 

of  the  Proro/nitive  Court  of  Canterbury,  died  1603  ;  Mary,  daashter  of  James  Wood- 
hall,  first  wife  to  William  Byrd,  afterwards  married  to  William  Woodhall.  She 
died  1613.   William  Byrde,  Gent.,  d.  1568.  (Salmon,  His.  of  Bfesex,  p.  142.)— t.  m. 

I  hRve  a  conviction  that  the  Birds  mentioned  in  the  abstracts  of  the  wills  of 
the  Woodhalls  et  al.,  were  of  the  same  lineage  of  William  Byrd,  of  **  WestoTer," 
James  River,  Va.,  whose  parents  were  John  and  Grace  (Stag£^,  or  Stegge)  Byrd,  (or 
Bird,  or  Birde),  of  London.  The  christian  names  John,  Thomas  and^Tilliam,  ap- 
pear to  be  favored  ones  in  his  pedigree.  William  Byrd,  the  first  of  the  name  m 
Virginia,  came  thither  a  youth  as  the  heir  of  large  landed  estates  of  his  maternal 
uncle  Colonel  Thomas  Stegge  (as  he  wrote  it),  whose  will  is  dated  31st  March, 
1690,  and  it  is  presumed  that  Byrd  arrived  in  the  latter  part  of  the  year.  If  the 
arms  are  given  of  the  Bird  legatees  under  the  Woodhall  wills,  the  family  id^tifi- 
cation  would  be  of  easy  solution. — ^R.  A.  Brock.] 

William  Wilson,  Canon  of  St.  (Jeorge's  Chapel,  Windsor  Castle,  23 
August,  1613,  proved  27  May,  1615.  ""To  be  buried  in  the  chapel  near  the 
place  where  the  body  of  my  dear  father  lies.  If  I  die  at  Rochester  or  Cliff, 
in  the  County  of  Kent,  then  to  be  buried  in  the  cathedral  church  of  Roch- 
ester, near  the  bodies  of  wives  Isabel  and  Anne.  To  my  cousin  Collins, 
prebendary  at  Rochester.  To  the  Fellows  and  Scholars  of  Martin  Col- 
lege, Oxford.  My  three  sons  Edmond,  John  and  Thomas  Wilson,  daugh- 
ter Isabel  Guibs  and  daughter  Margaret  Rawson.  My  goddaughter 
Margaret  Sofiiers  which  my  son  Sofiiers  had  by  my  daughter  Elizabeth,  his 
late  wife.  To  my  god-son  William  Sheafe,  at  the  age  of  twenty  one  years. 
Son  Edmond,  a  fellow  of  King's  College,  Cambridge,  eldest  son  of  me,  the 
said  William.  To  son  John  the  lease  of  the  Rectory  and  Parsonage  of 
Caxton  in  the  County  of  Cambridge,  which  I  have  taken  in  his  name.  To 
Thomas  Wilson,  my  third  son.  Son  Edmond  to  be  executor  and  M'  Eras- 
mus Web.b,  my  brother-in-law,  being  one  of  the  Canons  of  St.  George's 
Chapel,  and  my  brother,  M'  Thomas  Woodward,  being  steward  of  the  town 
of  New  Windsor,  to  be  overseers. 

The  witnesses  were  Thomas  Woodwarde,  Job.  Woodwarde,  Robert 
Lowe  &  Thomas  Holl. 

In  a  codicil,  dated  9  May,  1615,  wherein  he  is  styled  William  Wilsoo 
Doctor  of  Divinity,  he  directs  his  son  Edmond  to  give  to  his  son  John  forty 
pounds  and  to  his  wife  forty  marks,  he  gives  to  Lincoln  College  Oxford 
ten  pounds  towards  a  Library,  and  mentions  son-in-law  M'  Doctor  Sheafe 
and  daughter  Gibbes.  To  this  Thomas  Sheafe  was  a  witness,  amongst 
others. 

In  another  codicil,  of  12  May,  1615,  he  says,  I  have  provided  for  the 
husband  of  my  daughter  Isabel  Gibbes  a  place  in  Windsor,  in  reversion,  of 
some  worth.  His  signature  to  this  codicil  was  witnessed  by  David  Raw- 
son  and  William  Newman.  Rudd,  36. 

[Rev.  William  Wilson,  D.D.,  of  Merton  College,  Oxford,  wan  also  a  prebendary 
of  8t.  Paul's  and  Rochester  cathedrals,  and  held  the  rectory  of  Cliffe,  in  the  county 
of  Kent.  In  1584  he  became  canon  of  Windsor  in  place  of  Dr.  Will.  V^ickham 
promoted  to  the  see  of  Lincoln,  being  about  that  time  chaplain  to  £dmund  (Grio- 
dall).  Archbishop  of  Canteroury.  He  married  Isabel  Woodhall,  daughter  of 
John  and  Elizabeth  Woodhall  of  Walden  in  Essex,  and  niece  of  Archbishop  Grin- 
dall.  He  was  buried  in  St.  George's  Chapel,  Windsor  Castle,  near  the  body  of  his 
father,  William  Wilson,  late  of  W ellsboume,  in  Lincolnshire,  Gent. 

His  eldest  son,  Edmund  Wilson,  M.D.,  of  London,  gave  the  infiemt  colony  of  Mas- 
sachusetts one  thousand  pounds  sterling  about  1633,  which  was  invested  in  arms 
and  ammunition.  2See  Mass.  Colonial  Records,  v.  1,  p.  128,  and  2d  Mass.  Hist. 
Soo.  Collections,  v.  8,  p.  228. 

His  second  son,  Rev.  John  Wilson,  of  Chri8t*s  College,  Cambridge,  married 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Sir  John  Mansfield  and  sister  of  the  wi£9  of  Mr.  Robert 


1884.]  Genealogical  Gleanings  in  England,  307 

Eeayne,  the  first  commaDder  of  the  Artillery  Gompanv  of  Massacha5ietts,  and  in 
1630  accompanied  Winthrop^s  company  to  New  England,  and  became  the  first  min- 
ister of  the  First  Church  in  Boston,  dying  in  ofBce  in  1667.  For  a  fuller  account  of 
him,  see  Mather's  Magnalia,  vol.  ii.  p.  275.  For  his  will,  see  Register,  vol.  xvii. 
p.  343-4. 

His  daughter  Margaret  married  for  her  first  husband  David  Rawson,  of  London, 
and  was  the  mother  of  Edward  Rawson,  secretary  of  the  Massachusetts  Colony  from 
1650  to  1686.  For  her  second  husband  she  married  William  Taylor.  For  a  further 
account  of  them,  see  the  Taylor  Family,  prepared  by  the  late  Col.  Chester  for  Mr. 
P.  A.  Taylor.— T.  M. 

Since  these  abstracts  were  in  type,  the  editor  has  received  from  Mr.  Waters  ab- 
KtractB  of  the  wills  of  Edmund  Wilson,  M.D.,  of  William  Taylor  his  brother-in- 
law,  and  of  William  Taylor,  son  of  the  latter.  They  will  appear  in  another  num- 
ber.— Editor. 

The  following  notes,  taken  from  the  History  and  Antiquities  of  Berkshire,  by 
Elias  Ashmole,  £^.  (Reading,  1736),  give  the  inscriptions  found  b^  that  famous 
ftotiquary  in  the  Chapel  of  St.  George,  Windsor  Castle,  relating  to  this  family. 

On  the  North  Side  lies  a  Grave -stone,  on  which,  in  Brass  Plates,  is  the  Figure  of 
m  Man,  and  this  Inscription. 

To  me  to  live  is  Christ,  and  to  dye  is  Gain, 
Philip.  I.  21. 

Here  underneath  lies  interred  the  Body  of  William  Wilson,  Doctour  of  Divinitie^ 
and  Prebendarie  oftfus  Church  by  the  space  of  32  yeares.    He  had  Issue  by  Isabell  his 
Wife  six  sons  and  six  dauohters.     He  dy^d  the  IS'**  of  May,  in  the  Year  of  our  Lord 
1615.  of  his  Age  the  73.  beloved  of  all  in  his  Ltfe,  much  lamented  in  his  Death, 

Who  thinke  of  Deathe  in  Lyfe^  can  never  dye. 
But  mount  through  Faith,  from  Earth  to  heavenly  Pleasure^ 
Weep  then  no  more,  though  here  his  Body  lye, 
His  Souths  possest  of  never  ending  Treasure, 

On  another  small  Brass  Plate,  on  the  same  Grave-stone,  is  the  following  Inscrip- 
tion. 

?feere  unto  this  Place  lyes  buried  W  illiam  Willson,  the  third  Son,  Who,  after  a  long 
Trial  of  grievous  Sickness,  did  comfortably  yield  up  his  Spirit  in  the  Yeareofour 
Lord  1610.  of  his  Age  23.  Pp.  305-306. 

On  a  Brass  Plate,  on  a  Grave-Stone  Northward  of  the  last,*  is  this  Inscription. 

William  Wilson,  late  of  Wellsbourne,  in  the  County  of  Linoolne,  Gent,  departed 
this  Lyfe,  within  the  Castle  of  Windsor,  in  the  Yeare  of  our  Lord  1587.  the  27*** 
Day  of  August,  and  lyeth  buried  in  this  Place,  P.  369. 

Arms  of  **  Will'm  Wilsonn,  of  Welborne,  per  Norroy  flower,  1586." 
Per  pale  argent  and  azure  three  Itons^  gambs  barways,  erased  and  counterchanged. 
Crest : — A  lion^s  head  erased  argent  guttee  de  sang, 

Harleian  Coll.,  No.  1550,  Fol.  19*2,  British  Museum  ;  Richard  Mundy*s 
copy  of  the  Visitations  of  Lincolnshire,  1564  and  15^. 

— H.  F.  w.] 

John  Wilkinson,  of  London,  gentleman,  3  May,  1614,  acknowledged 
27  May,  1628;  acknowledged  again  18  June,  1634;  with  three  codicils, 
dated  respectively  18  June,  1634,  11  October,  1638,  and  21  March,  1638 ; 
proved  12  September,  1639.  To  my  brother  Robert  Wilkinson  the  land 
whereon  he  now  dwelleth,  at  Preston  Howes,  gish  of  St.  Bees,  in  the  coun- 
ty of  Cumberland.  Sister  Jeane  Pyper,  wife  of  William  Pyper,  mariner. 
Sister  Mary  Wilkinson  and  brothers  Henry  and  James  Wilkinson. 

"  I  do  give  and  bequeath  unto  the  Right  Worshipfull  my  loving  uncle 
William  Wilson,  Doctor  of  Divinity,  ^ve  pounds,  and  to  every  one  of  my 
loving  cosens,  his  children,  twenty  shillings  apiece."     To  my  loving  uncle 

*  The  '*  last  **  monument  referred  to  is  a  white  marble  monument  erected  to  the  memo- 

?'  of  Henry  Someniet,  Dako  of  Beaufort,  at  the  east  end  of  a  small  chapel,  dedicated  to  the 
irgin  Mary,  in  the  sooth-west  comer  of  the  chorch. 


808  Genealogical  Gleanings  in  England.  [Julji 

Henry  Bowman  and  every  one  of  his  children  by  my  aant,  the  right  Wor- 
shipful, the  lady  Margaret  Gibson,  my  good  Aunt,  &c.  The  right  Wor- 
shipful Sir  John  Gibson,  Knight,  my  loving  cousin,  and  his  now  wife  and 
virtuous  lady,  the  lady  Anne  Gibson.  My  cousin  Thomas  Gibson  and  his 
brother  Edward  Gibson.  The  right  Worshipful  my  loving  kinsman  Wil- 
liam Byrd,  Doctor  of  the  civil  laws.  My  loving  kinsman  M'  Tliomas  Byrd, 
his  brother.  My  loving  kinsman  M'  George  Byrd.  My  loving  cousin  Mrs 
Elizabeth  Burroes  and  every  one  of  her  children.  My  loving  cousin  Mrs 
Dorothy  Woodcocke,  wife  of  M'  Michael  Woodcocke,  and  every  one  of  her 
children.  My  loving  cousin  Mrs  Jane  Warren,  wife  of  Francis  Warren. 
My  loving  cousin  E^atherine  Barley.  My  loving  cousin  M'  William  Wood- 
hall.  My  loving  cousin  Grindall  Woodhall.  My  dear  and  loving  cousin 
Edmund  Woodhall  Esq.  &  my  loving  cousin  his  wife,  and  his  two  daugh- 
ters, Mary  &  Penelope  Woodhall.  Mr  John  Law,  Actuary,  and  Mrs  Ann 
Law,  his  wife.  My  loving  friend  John  Sharpe  of  Walden.  My  cousin 
Robert  Wilkinson,  of  Everdale,  in  the  county  of  Cumberland.  The  poor 
of  Preston  Howes,  where  I  was  born.  My  laving  cousins  Mary  Wilson 
and  Aylce  Wilson.  Michael,  Anthony  and  Greorge  Calton,  sons  of  my 
cousin  Debora  Calton  deceased.  Edmond  Calton,  another  son,  when  master 
of  arts. 

In  the  first  codicil  he  mentions  his  friend  &  kinsman  M'  William  Wil- 
kinson, mercer  in  Pater  Noster  Row,  cousin  Mrs  Grace  Pyne,  Jane  War- 
ren, deceased,  and  the  children  of  brother  Edward  Bowens.  Friend  Wil- 
liam Sharpe  and  his  three  sisters.  To  Ralph  Brownerigg,  Doctor  in  Di- 
vinity, a  seal  ring  of  gold.  Nephew  John  Wilkinson  goldsmith  of  LondoD, 
son  of  brother  James.  The  children  of  my  sister  Mary  Bowen.  My  cou- 
sin Alice  Swallowe  and  her  husband  M'  Thomas  Swallowe,  my  cousin. 
Others  mentioned.  Harvey,  151. 

Dame  Mart  Rowe,  widow  of  Sir  Thomas  Row,  Knight,  late  citizen 
and  alderman  of  London  (and  evidently  a  sister  of  William  Gresham  de- 
ceased and  of  Edmond  Gresham),  by  her  will  of  21  March,  1579,  proved 
in  the  year  1582-3,  bequeathed  to  William  Wilsonn,  parson  of  Cliff,  ala 
Clyve,  in  Kent,  a  ring  of  gold,  of  three  pounds  or  three  pounds  in  money^ 
and  to  his  wife  a  ring  of  gold  or  its  equivalent  in  money.  Rowe,  1. 

Edward  Rawsox,  of  Colbrooke,  in  the  parish  of  Langley  Marris,  in 
the  County  of  Buckingham,  mercer,  16  February,  1603,  proved  4  May, 
1604.  To  my  wife  Bridget  Rawson  for  and  during  her  natural  life,  mj 
house  and  tenement  and  the  appurtenances,  &c.  lying  in  Colbrooke,  now 
in  the  occupation  of  Edward  Whitlock,  and,  after  her  decease,  unto  David 
Rawson  my  son  and  to  the  heirs  male  of  his  body  lawfully  begotten  ;  and, 
for  want  of  such  issue,  unto  Henrie  Rawson,  my  eldest  son,  &  to  the  heirs 
male  of  his  body  lawfully  begotten ;  and,  failing  such  issue,  to  the  right 
heirs  of  me,  the  said  Edward,  for  ever.  To  son  Henry  all  that  house 
called  the  '^  Draggon  "  and  the  two  shops  thereunto  adjoining,  lying  and 
being  in  Colbrooke  aforesaid,  and  to  his  heirs  male,  &c.,  with  remainder  to 
son  David  &  his  lawful  issue,  &c. ;  and  failing  such  issue,  unto  Raphe 
Warde,  my  brother-in-law  and  his  heirs  for  ever.  To  the  said  David  EUw- 
son,  my  son,  the  sum  of  two  hundred  pounds  at  his  fiill  age  of  one  aod 
twenty  years.  Henry  Rawson,  also  a  minor.  My  executors,  at  their  costs 
and  charge,  shall  bring  up  my  said  son  David  in  some  reasonable  learning 
until  he  may  be  fitt  to  be  putt  to  apprentice  unto  some  good  trade  or  mys- 
tery.    My  brother  Henry  Rawson  doth  owe  me  fifty  pounds. 


1884.]  Oenectlogical  Gleanings  in  England,  309 

TVife  Bridgett  and  soq  Henry  to  be  executors,  and  friends  John  Bowser, 
gentleman,  Raph  Warde,  Philip  Bowreman  and  George  Charley  to  be 
overseers.  Harte,  40. 

David  Rawson,  citizen  and  merchant  tailor  of  London,  a  most  unworthy 
servant  of  Jesus  Christ,  15  June,  1616,  proved  by  his  widow  Margaret 
BawsoD  25  February,  1617.  My  goods,  &c.  shall  be  divided  into  three 
equal  &  just  parts  and  portions  according  to  the  laudable  custom  of  this 
honorable  city  of  London.  One  of  the  three  parts  to  Margaret  Rawson, 
my  loving  &  well -beloved  wife.  One  other  part  to  William  and  Edward 
Rawson  and  such  other  child  or  children  as  I  shall  hereafter  have  or  as  my 
wife  shall  be  with  child  withall  at  the  time  of  my  decease,  to  be  equally 
divided  amongst  them  all,  part  and  part  alike.  The  other  third  part  I  re- 
serve towards  the  payment  of  legacies,  gifts  and  bequests,  &c.  To  William 
Rawson,  my  eldest  son,  a  double  gilt  salt  and  a  standing  cup  with  a  cover, 
double  gilt,  and  half  a  dozen  of  Postle  spoons  and  two  double  gilt  spoons,  and 
a  silver  porringer,  a  silver  spoon  and  a  silver  bowl.  To  Edward  Rawson, 
my  son,  a  great  standing  bowl,  double  gilt,  and  six  silver  spoons,  and  two 
double  gilt  spoons,  '*  which  was  given  him  by  those  which  were  his  wit- 
nesses at  his  christening,"  and  a  silver  bowl.  All  the  rest  of  the  plate  to 
my  wife.  To  the  relief  of  the  poor  of  the  Town  of  Colbrooke,  in  the  Coun- 
ty of  Buckingham,  where  I  was  born,  the  sum  of  five  pounds  of  lawful 
money  of  England,  to  be  paid  within  one  year  next  after  my  decease.  To 
John  Emery,  sou  of  John  Emerie  of  Colbrooke,  dark,  deceased,  five  pounds, 
to  be  paid  him  on  the  day  when  he  shall  be  made  a  freeman  of  the  city 
of  London.  To  William  Fenner,  a  poor  scholar  in  Pembroke  Hall  in  Cam- 
bridge, five  pounds  within  three  years  after  my  decease.  To  David  Ann- 
gell,  my  godson,  five  pounds  at  the  age  of  twenty  one  years.  To  John 
Nayle,  the  son  of  Nicholas  Nayle,  of  Iver  in  the  County  of  Buckingham, 
five  pounds  on  the  day  he  shall  be  made  a  freeman  of  the  city  of  London,  if 
he  take  good  courses.  To  the  poor  people  at  my  funeral  the  sum  of  forty 
shillings.  To  John  Anngell,  clothworker,  forty  pounds,  &  to  Alexander 
Dubber,  clothworker,  forty  shillings,  which  I  will  shall  be  deducted  out  of 
such  money  as  they  shall  owe  unto  me  at  the  time  of  my  decease  (if  any 
be).  Item,  I  give  unto  my  godson  Edward  Rawson,  the  son  of  my  broth- 
er Henry  Rawson,  the  sum  of  ten  pounds  to  be  paid  unto  him  at  his  age  of 
twenty  one  years. 

I  give  and  bequeath  to  my  dear  mother,  Bridget  Woodward,  the  sum 
of  ten  pounds,  which  I  desire  her  to  give  to  M'  Winge  and  M'  Foxe,  forty 
shillings  apiece,  if  she  so  please.  To  my  sister«in-law,  Jone  Rawson,  the 
sum  of  forty  shillings  to  make  her  a  ring,  and  to  my  sister-in-law  Isabel 
Gibbs  the  like  sum  of  forty  shillings  to  make  her  a  ring,  and  to  my  sister- 
in-law,  Elizabeth  Wilson,  the  like  sum  of  forty  shillings  to  make  her  a 
ring ;  which  said  four  legacies  so  given  to  my  mother  and  three  sisters  I 
will  shall  be  paid  within  one  year  next  after  my  decease.  Item,  I  do  give 
^  bequeath  to  my  brother-in-law,  Thomas  Wilson,  the  sum  of  five  pounds, 
to  be  paid  within  one  year,  &c. ;  and  to  Andrew  Warde,  son  of  my  uncle 
Raphe  Warde,  the  sum  of  fivQ  pounds,  to  be  paid  him  at  his  age  of  twenty- 
one  ;  and  to  my  uncle  John  Warde  the  sum  of  forty  shillings,  if  he  be  living 
at  my  decease.  To  my  master,  M'  Nathaniel  Weston,  the  sum  of  forty  shil- 
lings to  make  him  a  ring,  and  I  desire  him  to  be  assisting  to  my  executrix  to 
help  get  in  my  debts.  To  Isabel  Sheafe,  daughter  of  Doctor  Sheaf e,  three 
pounds,  to  be  bestowed  in  a  piece  of  plate  and  given  her  at  her  age  of  twen- 


310  Genealogical  Oleaninga  in  England*  [Joljt 

ty  one  years  or  at  the  day  of  her  marriage,  which  ever  shall  first  happeo. 
To  my  sou  Edward  Rawson,  over  and  above  his  said  part,  the  sum  of  one 
hundred  pounds ;  and  to  my  apprentice  Matthew  Hunte,  the  sum  of  six 
pounds,  thirteen  shillings  and  four  pence,  to  be  paid  unto  him  on  the  day 
he  shall  be  made  a  freeman  of  the  City  of  London  ;  and  to  William  Beard 
and  John  Samford,  my  apprentices  (the  like  sums  &  on  the  like  conditions). 

If  all  my  children  die  the  portions  shall  remain  &  come  to  Alexander 
Rawson,  the  eldest  son  of  my  said  brother  Henry  Rawson  (if  he  be  then 
living)  ;  but  if  he  die  then  to  John  Rawson  and  Eklward  Rawson,  two  other 
of  the  children  of  my  said  brother,  &c.  equally.  The  Residue  to  wife  Mai^ 
garet  and  son  William.  I  constitute  my  loving  friends,  M'  Thomas  Wood- 
ward, of  Lincoln's  Inn,  in  the  County  of  Middlesex,  Esq.,  my  £ather-iD> 
law,  my  brother  Henry  Rawson  and  Edmond  Wilson,  Doctor  of  Physic, 
and  John  Wilson,  master  of  Arts,  my  brothers-in-law,  overseers  and  give 
them  five  pounds  apiece.  If  wife  should  die  then  the  above  to  be  execu- 
tors during  the  minority  of  my  said  sons  William  and  Edward.  The  wit- 
nesses to  this  will  were  John  Wilkinson  &  Arthur  Vigor  scr. 

In  a  codicil  made  27  November,  1617,  he  bequeaths  to  daughter  Dorothy 
Rawson,  besides  her  (child's)  portion,  the  sum  of  one  hundred  pounds  at 
her  age  of  twenty  one  or  day  of  marriage  ;  to  sister  Anne  Wilson,  the  wife 
of  brother  Thomas  Wilson,  the  sum  of  forty  shillings  ;  to  uncle  John  Wards 
the  sum  of  seven  pounds,  thirteen  shillings  and  four  pence  and  some  of  my 
cast  apparell ;  to  my  cousin  Elizabeth  Glover  the  sum  of  twenty  shillings ; 
to  cousin  Jane  Lawrence  twenty  shillings  ;  to  Isabel  Cave  twenty  shillings ; 
to  Aunt  Fenner  ten  shillings  ;  to  M'  Frogmorton  forty  shillings ;  to  Mr. 
Houlte  twenty  shillings;  to  M"  Jane  Bartlett  ten  shillings ;  to  M"  Martin 
of  Windsor  ten  shillings ;  to  cousin  Dorothy  Sheafe  a  piece  of  plate  of 
fifty  three  shillings  price ;  all  these  legacies  to  be  paid  within  one  year  and 
a  half  next  after  my  decease  by  my  executrix. 

The  witnesses  to  the  codicil  were  John  Wilkinson  &  John  Hill. 

Meade,  15. 

[These  wills  carry  the  pedigree  of  Edward  Rawson,  secretary  of  the  MasBacha- 
setts  Colony  from  1650  to  1686,  back  two  generations.  They  srive  his  father  David 
Rawson  of  London,  and  his  ^ndfather  Edward  Rawson  of  Colebrook.  For  a  me- 
moir of  Secretary  Rawson,  with  a  portrait,  and  a  firenealogy  of  his  desoendants,  see 
Register,  vol.  iii.  pp.  201-8  and  297-330;  also  The  Rawson  Family,  editions  of 
1849  and  1875.— Editor. 

In  Lipscomb's  Buckingham  is  the  following  mention  of  the  Rawson  family.  In 
1540  Sir  John  Rawson  is  Grand  Prior  in  Ireland  of  the  Knights  Hospitallers.  Sir 
Michael  Stanhope,  Knt.,  knighted  at  Hampton  Court,  37  Henry  VIlI.,  governor  of 
Hull,  &c.,  married  Anne,  daughter  of  Nic.  Rawson,  Em.,  of  ATeley,  £^z.  Ob. 
20  Feb.  1587.  The  ancestress  of  the  noble  families  of  Earls  Stanhope,  Chesterfield 
and  Ilarrin^n.  Richard  Rawson,  LL.B.,  was  presented  rector  of  Beaoonsfield,  96 
July,  1525,  Dy  John  Scudamore,  Esq.  He  was  Canon  of  Windsor  and  Archdeaisoo 
of  Essex  ;  and  rebuilt  the  parsonage  here  where  his  arms  remained  in  1728.  He 
died  1543.  James  Raw.son,  inst.  vicar  of  Wingrave,  8  August,  1506.  Edward 
Rawson,  inst.  Rector  of  Hedsor,  13  May  1664  ;  also  vicar  of^Woobarn.  Edward 
Rawson,  presented  vioar  of  Wooburn,  5  Feb.  1662.  John  Rawson,  presented  vicar 
of  Turville,  6  Dec.  1532.  V.  i.  p.  265,  479;  v.  iii.  p.  195,  536,  680,  637,  631.  (Sec 
also  Ma.^keirs  History  of  Allhallows  Barking,  in  London,  p.  47.^ 

The  wife  of  Edward  Rawson  of  CoIebn)oke,  mother  of  David  Rawson  of  London, 
and  ffrandmothor  of  Edward  Raw.son  of  Boston,  Mass.,  married  for  her  second  hof- 
banalhomas  Woodward  of  Lincoln's  Inn. — t.  m.] 

William  Rawson  of  the  town  of  Northampton,  Notary  Publique,  4 
May,  1603,  proved  27  February,  1604.  To  be  buried  in  S*  Gyles  church, 
Northampton,  near  to  the  door  of  the  pew  where  I  use  to  sit.     To  Joane 


1884.]  Genecdogtcal  Gleanings  in  England*  811 

Glover  my  sister  ten  shillings  and  to  every  one  of  her  children  ten  shil- 
liDgs  apiece  which  I  will  shall  be  paid  to  her  husband  to  their  uses  ;  and 
he  shall  have  the  use  thereof  until  the  said  children  accomplish  the  age  of 
one  and  twenty  years.  To  my  brother  Richard  his  children  ten  shillings 
ftfNeoe  in  same  manner  and  form  as  is  above  rehearsed  concerning  my  sister 
Glover's  children.  To  Mary  my  eldest  daughter,  one  "  gyfiiold  Ringe  "  of 
gold,  with  a  sharp  diamond  in  it.  To  Elizabeth  my  daughter  a  little  gold 
ling  enamelled  that  the  lady  Cromwell  gave  her  mother,  with  the  poesie 
(Decreui  in  aeternum)  in  it,  which  rings  are  in  the  keeping  of  Martha  now 
my  wife.  I  will  and  charge  these  my  said  children  to  keep  the  said  rings  so 
long  as  they  shall  live  in  remembrance  of  their  good  mother,  my  late  wife 
Francys.  My  children  William,  Mary,  Thomas,  Elizabeth  and  Timothy. 
To  son  James  my  greatest  silver  bowl ;  to  William  my  second  silver  bowl ; 
to  Thomas  by  best  silver  salt  parcel  gilt ;  to  Timothy  a  stone  pot  garnished 
with  silver  double  gilt  and  six  silver  spoons  which  I  bought  of  M"  Warde. 
My  eldest  daughter  Mary.  My  three  youngest  children,  Mary,  Frances 
and  Melior.  My  wife  Martha,  her  father  Christopher  and  mother  Alice  and 
brother  Robert.  My  cousin  William  Ive.  My  brother-in-law  M'  Francis 
Morgan  of  Kingsthorp.     Son  James  to  be  executor.  Hayes,  11. 

[AUhoagh  in  the  abo?e  will  there  is  no  direct  reference  to  the  family  of  Secretary 
Bawson,  yet  the  mention  of  the  names  Glover  and  Warde  has  led  me  to  save  it  for 
printing.  (See  will  of  Secretary  Rawson's  father,  who  speaks  of  a  cousin  Glover 
sod  of  the  Warde  family.)~H.  r.  w.] 

Richard  Perne,  of  Gillingham  in  the  County  of  Dorset,  Gentleman, 
one  or  two  days  before  his  death.  All  to  wife  ;  only  my  eldest  son  to  have 
an  eldest  son's  part.  Wife  to  be  executrix,  and  Mr.  Edward  Rawson  and 
mj  ancle  Foyle  to  be  overseers.  Sworn  to  10  April,  1636,  by  Edward 
Bawson,  Mary  Perne  and  Jane  Clark  (by  mark).  Proved  17  May, 
1636,  by  Rachael  Perne,  widow,  relict  of  the  deceased.  Pile,  59. 

Rachel  Perne  of  Gillingham  in  the   County  of  Dorset,  widow,  31 
Ifarch,  1656,  proved  13  November,  1656,  by  John  Perne,  son  and  execu- 
tor.    My  body  to  be  buried  in  the  parish  church  of  Gillingham.    I  am 
possessed  of  a  living  called  Easthaimes  in  Gillingham,  as  by  a  lease  bear- 
ing date  12  October,  12'^  of  late  King  Charles,  under  the  hand  <&  seal 
of  William,  Lord  Stowerton,  for  and  during  the  term  of  four  score  and 
nineteen  years,  if  I,  the  said  Rachel,  and  Richard  Perne  and  John  Perne, 
my  sons,  or  either  of  us,  shall  live  so  long ;  and  am  also  possessed  of  the 
kwf  al  right  of  a  certain  ground  called  Wagger  and  one  other  ground  called 
Rftmsleare,  allowed  and  assigned  unto  me  for  &  in  lieu  of  the  fee  fostership ; 
md  of  &  in  certain  lands  ^led  Linches,  by  virtue  of  a  lease  and  assign- 
ment to  me  made  by  John  Tyse,  clerk,  for  a  long  term  of  years,  if  William 
Boll,  Thomas  Bull  and  Joane  Bull,  sons  &  daughter  of  Edward  Bull,  shall 
so  long  live ;  and  of  two  acres  of  mead  in  Combermeade,  by  virtue  of  a 
lease  and  other  assurances  to  me  made  for  divers  years  to  come,  which  said 
two  acres  were  heretofore  the  lands  of  one  Augustine  Matthew ;  and  of  one 
acre  of  allotment  heretofore  allowed  and  assigned  to  the  said  two  acres,  &c 
in  lien  of  common  upon  the  dissaforestation  of  the  late  forest  of  Gillingham  ; 
and  of  five  acres  of  meadow  or  pasture  upon  the  top  of  Bowridge  Hill,  now 
in  the  possession  of  Richard  Gornish,  baker.  Sec     All  the  above  to  John 
Tyse  of  Orcheston  St  George  in  the  County  of  Wilts,  clerk,  Simon  Crock- 
er, of  Winterbome  Stoake  in  said  County  of  Wilts,  clerk,  and  John  Greene, 
of  the  parish  of  St.  James  in  the  said  county  of  Dorset,  gentleman,  &c. 


312  Genealogical  Gleanings  in  England.  [Julji 

upon  the  trust  and  to  the  intents  following,  that  they  shall  permit  and  suf- 
fer my  eldest  son,  Richard  Feme,  to  take  &  receive  the  rents,  &c.  for  so 
long  time  as  he  shall  live ;  and  after  his  death,  &c.  such  woman  as  shall  be 
his  wife  at  the  time  of  his  death,  eo  long  as  she  shall  live ;  then  the  child 
or  children  or  grandchild  or  grandchildren  of  the  said  Richard  Perne ;  In 
default  of  such  then  John  Perne  (in  the  same  way).  I  give  to  the  said 
Richard  Perne  half  my  plate  and  half  my  household  stuff  and  half  my  bacon 
and  half  my  cheese  in  my  house  at  Easthaimes  and  half  my  stock  of  bees 
there  in  my  beefold  or  garden  at  Easthaimes  and  all  my  timber  and  wood 
at  Easthaimes,  except  the  two  woodpiles  abutting  against  the  great  meade 
there  at  Easthaimes  and  one  of  my  cheese  steaues  and  all  my  doors  with 
their  locks  and  keys,  loose  boards,  **  gice  *'  planks,  about  or  belonging  to 

my  said  house  of  Easthaimes, my  biggest  white  mare  and  great 

colt  and  all  the  panes  of  glass  about  or  upon  my  windows  of  my  house  at 
Easthaimes.  To  John  Perne  (certain  property  similar  to  a  portion  of  the 
above)  and  also  my  lease  which  my  husband  took  of  M'  William  Whittaker 
the  elder  deceased,  with  all  my  right  and  title  in  the  same.  To  my  son-in- 
law  John  Tyse  one  shilling. 

^'  Also  I  give  and  bequeath  unto  my  sonue  in  Lawe  Edward  Rawaon 
one  shilling."  To  daughter  Marie  Tyse  thirty  pounds  and  the  goods  that 
I  formerly  delivered  to  my  said  daughter  which  are  now  in  her  house  at 
Orcheston  St.  Georges  aforesaid.  *'  Also  I  give  and  bequeath  unto  my 
daughter  Rachel  1  Rawson  the  summe  of  ffortie  pounds  of  lawful]  monie  of 
England  to  be  paid  at  M'  Webb's  house  in  London  unto  such  friend  as  my 
daughter  Rachell  Rawson  shall  nominate  or  appoint  to  receive  it  for  her." 
To  grandchildren  John  Tyse  and  Mary  Tyse,  ten  shillings  each,  to  daugh- 
ter Rachell  Rawson's  children  the  sum  of  ten  pounds  to  be  divided  among 
them  according  to  the  discretion  of  my  said  daughter, — &  likewise  to  be 
paid  at  M'  Webb's  house  aforesaid.  To  my  brother  Peter  Greene  twenty 
shillings  to  buy  him  a  ring,  to  sister  Anne  Stagg,  six  pounds,  to  be  paid  by 
forty  shillings  yearly,  to  Marie  Tyse  my  great  bible,  to  maid  servants  Alice 
Clement,  Anne  Frippe  and  Margerie  Bateman,  to  the  minister  or  the  cu- 
rate of  the  parish  &  to  the  poor  of  the  parish.  Son  John  Perne  to  be  sole 
executor. 

The  witnesses  were  Richard  Perne,  Mary  Tyse,  John  Hisoock  (by  mark), 
Alice  Clement  (by  mark)  and  Anne  Fripp  (by  mark). 

Berkley,  405. 

[It  seems  probable  from  the  following  pedicree  of  Staj^  of  Little  Hinton,  printed 
in  Uiitchins's  Uiet.  of  Dorset,  vol.  i.  p.  55,  from  the  visitation  book  IG:^,  that  the 
maiden  name  of  Rachel  Pome  was  Green. 


2  Margery,  dau.  of  =a  William  Stagg^l  Maud,  dau.  of  Thomas  Pain,  of 
Slathewa.  of  Ashton.     j         Winterboume,  c.  Wilts. 


I.  W 


illiam  2.  Giles  Stagg»*Margery,  dau.  of  John  Powlden, 

of  Little  Hinton.    j  of  Durweston. 


1.  Wm.  Stagg=*Mary,  d.  of  2.  Giles  StaggssAnne,  dau.  of Green. 

Bartlett.  of  ditto.         j 


Margaret.  Blary. 

— T.M.] 


1884.]  Genealogical  Gleanings  in  England.  313 

Sir  Henrt  Lello  of  AshdoD  in  the  County  of  Essex,  Knight,  7  Janua- 
ry, 1629,  proved  18  January,  1629.  To  be  buried  in  the  church  of  St. 
Brides  ats  Bridgett,  London,  in  the  ^*  Isle  "  of  the  said  church  where  my 
predecessors,  Wardens  of  the  Fleet,  have  been  buried,  if  I  depart  this  life 
in  London.  If  in  Ashdon,  then  in  the  parish  church  there.  I  do  give  and 
bequeath  to  my  most  Hon^^*  and  loving  friends  the  gifts,  sums  and  be- 
quests hereafter  named.  To  the  Riglit  Honorable  Thomas,  Lord  Coven- 
trie,  Lord  Keeper  of  the  Great  Seal  of  England,  my  great  Beaserstone. 
To  my  loving  friend,  D'  William  Paske,  twenty  nobles.  To  M'  John  El- 
dred  the  elder  twenty  pounds.  To  Mr  Binge  five  pounds.  To  M'  James 
Ingram  twenty  pounds  and  also,  as  a  token  of  my  love  to  him,  my  '*  cris- 
tall  cabonite,'*  lying  now  in  a  chest  in  the  fleet,  for  his  great  respect  and 
good  service  done  unto  me  and  in  hope  of  his  future  care  of  the  place  for 
my  executor.  To  M'  Robert  Bailey  twenty  pounds.  To  my  brother  in 
law  Edmund  («tc)  Hopkins  twenty  pounds.  To  my  kinsman  Cuthbert 
Macklyn  twenty  pounds,  to  his  wife  fiwe  pounds  and  to  his  son  Henry  five 
poands.  To  the  said  Cuthbert  Macklyn  the  office  of  Chamberlain  of  the 
Fleet  during  his  life,  with  this  direction  that  who  shall  execute  the  clerk's 
place  shall  be  in  the  nomination  of  my  very  loving  friend  M'  James  In- 
gram and  my  executor,  because  it  shall  be  well  executed.  To  John  Lello, 
my  godson  and  kinsman,  twenty  pounds  at  his  setting  up  of  shop  to  begin 
hia  trade.  To  the  servants  at  Ashdon.  To  the  poor  of  Clenton,  where  I 
was  born,  ten  pounds.  To  the  poor  of  Ashdon,  if  I  die  there,  fi\Q  pounds. 
To  Abigail  and  Margaret,  my  sister  Hopkins'  daughters,  two  hundred 
pounds  apiece,  and  to  Patience  and  Judith,  other  two  of  her  daughters, 
which  are  already  preferred  by  me  in  marriage,  to  Patience  one  hundred 
pounds  and  to  Judith  fifty  pounds.  To  P^dward  Hopkins,  my  nephew,  all 
my  adventure  in  the  East  India  Company.  And  whereas  I  have  already 
given  him  four  hundred  pounds  for  which  I  am  indebted  and  stand  bound  for 
the  payment  thereof  unto  Benjamin  P^ldred,  if  before  my  decease  I  shall 
not  have  paid  and  discharged  the  same  then  I  do  ordain  my  executor  to  pay 
it  or  so  much  as  shall  be  unpaid  at  my  decease. 

I  give  unto  my  sister  Katherine  Hopkins,  the  wife  of  Edward  {sic)  Hop- 
kins, all  my  lands,  tenements  and  hereditaments  in  Clonton  and  Clun  in  the 
County  of  Salop,  during  her  natural  life,  and,  after  her  decease,  to  Matthew 
Hopkins  her  son,  to  him  and  his  heirs  forever.  P^urther,  whereas  I  and 
John  Eldred  aforenamed  purchased  the  Fleet  and  keeping  the  Palace  of 
Westminster  jointly,  to  us  and  our  heirs  forever,  since  which  said  purchase 
the  said  John  Eldred,  for  and  in  consideration  of  the  sum  of  eight  thousand 
pounds,  i&c.  <&c.  hath  released  all  his  right,  title  and  interest  of  the  said 
office  and  keeping  of  the  Palace  of  Westminster  to  me  and  my  heirs  for- 
ever, and  for  non-payment  of  the  said  eight  thousand  pounds  at  the  several 
times  aforementioned  I  have  made  to  him  a  lease  for  three  score  and  ten 
years,  as  by  the  said  lease  doth  likewise  appear,  whereof  the  "  counter- 
paine  "  is  amongst  my  writings,  now  for  the  payment  of  the  said  sum  of 
eight  thousand  pounds,  as  all  my  debts  and  legacies,  I  do  ordain  and  ap- 
point Henry  Hopkins,  my  nephew,  whom  I  do  make  my  sole  executor,  to 
see  paid  and  discharged.  In  consideration  whereof  and  for  the  due  accom- 
plishment of  the  same  I  do  give  and  bequeath  unto  the  said  Henry  all  that 
my  manor  or  capital  messuage  called  the  Fleet,  otherwise  **  the  King's  Gaole 
of  the  Fleete,"  situate  in  the  parish  of  St.  Brides  London,  with  the  office 
of  "  Boarden  of  the  Fleete,"  &c.  &c.,  and  also  the  keeping  of  the  Palace  of 
Westminster,  called  the  old  and  new  Palace,  with  the  benefits  and  rents  of 
VOL.  xxxviu.        28 


314  Genealogical  Gleanings  in  England.  [July, 

the  shops  and  stalls  in  Westminster  Hall  and  without  &c.  &c.,  in  as  large 
and  ample  mtinner  as  I  and  M*"  Eldred  had  and  purchased  the  same  from 
Sir  Robert  Tirrell,  Knight.  Also  I  give  unto  the  said  Henry  Hopkins  my 
farm  or  messuage  of  Thickho,  in  the  County  of  Essex,  and  all  my  lands, 
tenements  and  hereditaments  belonging  to  the  same,  Ac. ;  provided  that  if 
the  said  Henry  Hopkins  do  sell  the  office  of  the  Warden  of  the  Fleet,  for 
the  performance  of  this  my  last  will  and  follow  not  the  course  I  have  by 
the  same  set  down  then  I  do,  by  this  my  will,  appoint  him  to  pay  out  of 
the  said  purchase  money  to  his  brother  Edward  Hopkins  two  hundred 
pounds,  to  his  brother  Matthew  Hopkins  two  liundred  pounds  and  to  every 
one  of  his  four  sisters  before  named  one  hundred  and  fifty  pounds  apiece.  I 
advise  him  to  continue  the  execution  of  the  office  in  M'  James  Ingram,  &a 
&c.,  because  he  is  a  sufficient  and  able  man  for  the  place,  well  acquainted 
therewith  and  one  that  I  have  always  found  very  honest  and  most  ready  to 
do  me  any  service  for  the  good  of  the  office. 

Bequests  are  made  to  the  poor  of  St.  Brides,  to  my  servant  Robert  Free- 
man, my  loving  friend  James  Weston  Esq.,  my  loving  friend  Sir  Paul  Pin- 
dor,  Knight,  to  M'  John  £ldred*s  son  Nathaniel,  my  godson,  to  my  serv- 
ant John  Lightborue,  and  his  son,  my  godson,  to  the  children  of  Josias 
PigiTott,  to  my  kinsman  Willowe  Eve  and  to  his  wife  Judith,  my  niece. 

The  witnesses  were  Robert  Holmes,  Edward  Hopkins  and  Virgill  Rey- 
nolds. Scroope,  6. 

Henrt  Hopkins,  Esq'.  Warden  of  the  Fleet,  30  December,  1654, 
proved  24  January,  1654,  by  Edward  Hopkins,  brother  and  sole  executor. 

I  desire  to  lie  in  my  own  ground  in  S*  Bride's  church,  near  my  uncle 
and  predecessor  Sir  Henry  Lello,  if  I  expire  in  London  or  near  thereunto ; 
to  which  parish  I  give  &  bequeath  five  pounds  if  I  be  buried  there.    Of  my 

temporal  estate, first,  because  there  is  the  greatest  need,  I  give  and 

bequeath  to  ray  sister  Judith  Eve  thirty  pounds  per  annum,  with  that  stock 
I  have  at  Ashdon  and  household,  provided  that  none  of  it  may  come  into 
her  husband's  hands  but  be  disposed  of  for  her  own  subsistence.  I  will 
that  my  executor  defray  the  charges  of  the  commencement  of  our  nephew 
Henry  Dalley  at  Cambridge  and  allow  him  some  competent  means  for  his 
subsistence  until  he  obtain  some  preferment  there  or  abroad.  I  will  that 
my  executor  take  special  care  of  our  dear  sister  Margaret  Tompson  and 
her  two  children,  with  two  more  of  sister  Daily's,  according  as  the  estate 
will  arise  to  and  according  to  their  several  deserts,  which  are  very  diflTerent, 
and  so  are  their  necessities.  And  this  I  reserve  the  rather  to  him  because 
he  is  equally  related  with  me  unto  them  all.  To  master  James  Jackson, 
fellow  of  Clare,  that  ten  pounds  w*hich  his  brother,  master  Richanl  Jack- 
son, oweth  me  and  all  that  household  stuff  he  possesseth  of  mine  in  Clare 
Hall.  I  give  unto  Henry  Hopkins,  now  at  Barbadoes,  ten  pounds  ;  unto 
my  nrodsoii  William  Hall,  the  son  of  William  Hall  at  Lackford,  one  silver 
tankard  which  is  now  in  my  possession  at  the  Fleet.  To  my  loving  friends 
Doctor  Thomas  Paske,  master  James  Ingram,  Doctor  John  Exton,  Doctor 
William  Turner,  Dr  Robert  King,  Doctor  John  Leonard,  Doctor  Corne- 
lias Laurence,  Master  William  Hall  of  Lackford,  Master  John  Sicklemore, 
Master  Charles  Jones,  Master  John  Fifield,  Master  Charles  Bushie,  Mas- 
ter Jackson,  Master  Peele,  Master  Moungague  {sic)  Newse  and  Master 
Wilson,  fellows  of  Clare  Hall,  Master  Thomas  Hall  of  the  Exchequer, 
Master  Thomas  Rivett,  Master  Thomas  Newcomen,  Master  Cutliert 
Macklin,  Master  Henry  Walthew,  to  each  of  them  a  ring  of  thirty  shillings 


1884.1  Genealogical  Gleanings  in  England.  315 

price,  with  this  motto  inscribed — Prce  eo  non  pereo.  The  like  I  give  to 
my  loving  cousins,  M'  John  Harris  of  Elton,  Master  P^dward  Miithewes  of 
Burratou  and  my  brother,  Master  William  Lowe  of  Hereford.  To  the 
poor  of  the  parish  of  Elton,  where  I  was  born,  ten  pounds,  to  be  disposed 
of  at  the  discretion  of  my  executor  and  my  cousin  John  Harris.  To  my 
servant  Richard  Walker  five  pounds  and  I  will  that  iny  executor  continue 
him  in  the  place  of  Tipstaff  of  the  Exchequer  as  long  as  he  behaves  himself 
well.  To  my  servant  Matthew  Pitt  the  place  he  now  holds  of  Tipstaff  in 
the  Common  Please,  during  his  good  behavior,  and  ten  pounds  in  money, 
with  all  my  wearing  clothes  &  do  commend  him  to  the  care  of  ray  execu- 
tor as  judging  him  very  fit  his  employment  here  as  long  as  he  continue  it. 
I  give  unto  Thomas  Lell  the  son  of  Thomas  Lello,  draper,  ten  pounds  ; 
QDto  Mistress  Bridget  Exton,  the  daughter  of  my  most  loving  friend,  my 
crimson  damask  canopy  and  my  best  crimson  quilt. 

I  do  make  and  constitute  my  dear  and  loving  brother  Edward  Hopkins, 
merchant,  sole  executor,  &c. ;  and   to  my  said  executor  all  that  ollice  of 
Warden  of  the  Fleet  and  Keeper  of  the  Palace  of  Westminster  in  as  am- 
ple a  manner  as  I  had  it  from  my  uncle  Sir  Henry  Lello,  Knight.     To  my 
said  brother  and  executor  all  that  my  farm  of  Thickho,  in  the  parish  of 

Ashdon,  to  him  and  his  heirs  forever and  all  else,  &c.  cfcc. 

Henry  Hopkins. 

"  There  haue  bin  many  interlinings  but  all  of  my  owne  hand." 

H.  Hopkins. 

The  witnesses  were  William  Ball,  Henry  Nevill  and  John  Milett. 

Aylett,  41. 

Edward  Hopkins,  esquire,  at  his  house  in  London,  7  March,  lGo7, 
proved  30  April,  1057,  by  Henry  Dalley,  nephew  and  sole  executor.  If 
any  debts  shall  appear  to  be  due  in  New  England  that  they  be  paid  out  of 
my  estate  there.  As  for  the  estate  I  have  in  New  England  (the  full  acoompt 
of  which  I  left  clear  in  my  books  there,  and  the  care  and  inspection  where- 
of was  committed  to  my  loving  friend  Capt.  John  Culleck)  I  do  in  this 
manner  dispose.  To  eldest  child  of  M"  Mary  Newton,  wife  of  M'  Roger 
Newton  of  Farmington  and  dau^jhter  of  M^  Thomas  Hooker  deceased,  thir- 
ty  pounds ;  and  also  thirty  pounds  to  eldest  child  of  M'  John  Culleck  by 
Elizabeth,  his  present  wife.  To  Mrs.  Sarah  Wilson,  the  wife  of  M' 
John  Wilson,  preacher  of  the  gospel,  and  daughter  of  my  dear  pastor,  M' 
Hooker,  my  farm  at  Farmington,  &c.  To  M"  Susan  Hooker,  the  relict  of 
M'  Thomas  Hooker,  all  such  debts  as  are  due  to  me  from  her  upon  the 
Account  I  left  in  New  England.  The  residue  of  my  estate  to  my  father, 
Theophilus  Eaton,  Esq.,  M'  John  Davenport,  M'  John  Culleck  and  M' 
Goodwyn,  in  trust,  &c. — to  give  some  encouragement  in  those  foreign  plan- 
tations for  the  breeding  up  of  hopeful  youths  in  a  way  of  learning,  both  at 
the  Grammar  School  and  College,  for  the  public  service  of  the  country  in 
future  times. 

Of  the  estate  in  England  one  hundred  &  fifty  pounds  per  annum  to  be 
paid  to  M'  David  Yale,  brother  to  ray  dear  distressed  wife,  for  her  comfor- 
table maintenance  and  to  be  disposed  of  by  him  for  her  good,  she  not  being 
in  a  condition  fit  to  raanage  it  for  herself;  this  income  to  be  paid  in  quarterly 
payments.  The  thirty  pounds  per  annum  given  me  by  the  will  and  testa- 
ment of  my  brother  Henry  Hopkins,  lately  deceased,  to  be  given  to  our 
sister  M"  Judith  Eve,  during  her  natural  life,  and  to  be  made  up  to  fifty 
pounds  per  annum.     To  my  sister  M"  Margaret  Thomson  fifty  pounds 


316  Genealogical  Gleanings  in  England.  [July, 

within  one  year  after  my  decease.  To  my  nephew  Henry  Thomson,  eight 
hundred  pounds,  whereof  four  hundred  pounds  to  be  paid  him  within  six- 
teen months  after  my  decease,  and  the  other  four  hundred  pounds  within 
six  months  after  the  decease  of  my  wife.  To  my  niece  Katherine  Thom- 
son, but  now  Katherine  James  (over  and  above  her  portion  of  fi\e  hun- 
dred pounds  formerly  given  her),  the  sum  of  one  hundred  pounds.  To  my 
nieces,  Elizabeth  and  Patience  Dallye,  two  hundred  pounds  each,  provided 
they  attend  the  directions  of  their  brother  or  aunts,  &c,  in  disposing  of 
themselves  in  marriage.  To  brother  M**  David  Yale  two  hundred  pounds; 
to  brother  M""  Thomas  Yale  two  hundred  pounds  ;  to  my  sister  M"  Han- 
nah Eaton  two  hundred  pounds.  Within  six  months  after  the  decease  of 
my  wife  the  sum  of  five  hundred  pounds  to  be  made  over  into  New  Eng- 
land according  to  the  advice  of  my  loving  friends  Major  Robert  Thomson 
and  M'  Francis  Willoughby  (for  public  ends,  &c.).  Twenty  pounds  apiece 
to  M'  John  Davenport,  M'  Theophilus  Eaton  and  M'  Culleck ;  a  piece  of 
plate  of  the  value  of  twenty  pounds  to  my  honored  friend  M'  Wright ;  (a 
bequest)  to  my  servant  James  Porter ;  to  my  friends  Major  Robert  Thom- 
son and  M^  Francis  Willoughby  twenty  pounds  each  in  a  piece  of  plate; 
to  my  servant  Thomas  Hayter ;  to  my  sister  Yale  wife  of  David  Yale 
twenty  pounds ;  to  John  Lello,  a  youth  with  sister  Eve,  twenty  pounds ; 
to  my  nephew  Henry  Dally,  M.A.  in  Cambridge,  my  land  and  manor  in 
Thickoe  in  the  County  of  Essex  and  I  appoint  him  executor,  and  Major 
Robert  Thomson  and  M'  Francis  Willoughby  overseers,  of  my  will. 

Ruthen,  141. 

[Edward  Hopkins,  governor  of  Connecticut,  one  of  the  early  settlers  of  Hartford, 
an  abstract  of  whose  will  is  given  above,  was  born  in  Shrewsbury,  England,  in  1600, 
and  died  in  London,  March,  1657.  For  action  of  the  General  Court  of  Connecti- 
cut in  relation  to  his  lc.&;acy  to  Theophilus  Eaton  and  others,  trustees,  see  Colonial 
Records  of  Connecticut,  edited  by  J.  U.  Trumbull,  vol.  i.  p.  374  ;  and  for  corres- 
pondence in  relation  to  it,  see  the  same  volume,  page  578.  The  £500  for  '*  public 
ends"  was  paid  to  Harvard  College  under  a  decree  in  chancery  in  1710.  With  it 
a  township  of  land  was  purchased,  which  was  named  Hopkinton  in  honor  of  the 
donor.  See  Savage's  notes  on  Winthrop's  New  England,  vol.  i.  Ist  ed.  pp.  228-30; 
2d  ed.  pp.  273-5,  where  large  extracts  from  the  will  of  Gov.  Hopkins  are  made. 
It  seems  from  the  wills  here  abstracted  that  he  was  the  son  of  Edward  or  Edmund 
Hopkins,  that  his  mother  was  Katherine,  sister  of  Sir  Henry  Lello,  and  that  he 
had  two  brothers,  Henry  and  Matthew  ;  and  four  sisters,  Abigail,  Margaret,  Pa- 
tience and  Judith.  For  an  account  of  the  insanity  of  his  wife,  see  Winthrop's  New 
England,  vol.  ii.  1st  ed.  p.  217  ;  2d  ed.  p.  266.  Another  early  settler  of  Hartford 
was  John  Hopkins,  who  could  not  have  been  a  brother  of  Gov.  Edward,  though 
he  may  have  been  related.  He  was  the  ancestor  of  President  Mark  Hopkins  of 
Williams  College,  and  of  the  late  Mark  Hopkins,  Esq.,  an  enterprising  citizen  of 
San  Francisco,  Cal. — Editor.] 

Thomas  Yale  of  London,  merchant,  the  poorest  of  what  is  stampM  with 
my  Creator's  image  and  most  unworthy  his  mercy ;  29  September,  1697  ; 
proved  17  January,  1G97.  As  to  my  temporal  estate  here,  in  India,  and  else- 
where, &c.  To  my  dear  mother  Mrs  Ursula  Yale  and  my  beloved  brother  M' 
Elihu  Yale.  The  hereditary  estate  in  the  county  of  Denbigh  to  my  broth- 
er Elihu  Yale's  male  issue,  if  he  have  any.  Failing  such,  then  to  the  heirs 
male  of  my  uncle  Thomas  Yale,  in  New  England  and  to  his  right  heirs 
forever. 

The  Rev**  Doctor  John  Evans  of  London  and  M'  Robert  Harbin  of  Lon- 
don to  be  trustees  and  overseers. 

Then  follows  an  account  of  his  estate.  Harte,  26. 


1884.]  Genealogical  Gleanings  in  England,  317 

July,  1721.  Undecimo  die  efii*  coiii®  Catharinae  Yale  viduae  Relcaj  Elihu 
Yale  niip  poae  Sci  Andreas  Ilolborn  in  Cofh  Middxioe  ari  defti  heutis  etc. 
ad  adffistrandum  bona  jura  et  credita  dci  defti  de  bene  etc.  jurat. 

Admco  de  bo:  uon  etc.  effi*  mense  Febrii  1727. 

Admon.  Act.  Book  1721     P.  C.  C. 

[The  name  Ursula  here  given  as  that  of  the  testator's  mother,  shows  that  be 
ana  his  brother  Elihu,  the  founder  of  Yale  CoIle<;e,  were  sons  of  David  Yale  and 
not  of  Thomas,  as  has  been  asserted  (Reg.  iv.  245  ;  Savage's  Gen.  Diet.  iv.  666). 
This  agrees  with  the  entry  on  the  repfister  of  the  private  school  of  William  Du 
Gard,  where  Elihu  (there  written  Eliah)  is  called  the  son  of  David  (Rko.  xiv.  201). 
Dn  Gard  had  previously  been  head  master  of  Merchant  Taylors'  School,  London. — 
Editor.] 

Robert  Thomson  (residence  not  stated  in  will),  14  April,  1691.  To 
my  wife,  in  addition  to  her  jointure,  my  household  stuflf,  plate,  coach  and 
horses  and  five  hundred  pounds;  and,  during  her  natural  life,  the  profits  of 
my  houses,  lands  and  stock  at  Gelford  in  New  England,  the  rents  of  my 
farm  at  Culpbo  and  Felsham,  in  the  county  of  Suffolk,  and  of  that  bought 
of  M*^  Denham  in  Kent.  I  give  unto  my  wife  and  son  Joseph  five  hundred 
pounds  to  dispose  as  they  know  is  my  mind  without  being  accountable  to 
any.  I  will  that  there  be  not  above  three  hundred  pounds  expended  on  my 
funeral  in  mourning  and  all  other  expenses.  I  will  that  what  is  expended 
on  those  one  thousand  apiece  (which  I  have  by  deed  settled  on  my  daugh- 
ters Ashhurst,  Clark,  Miller  and  Duckinfield)  of  land  at  Nipmugg  in  New 
England  be  made  up  a  one  hundred  pounds  to  each  for  their  further  settle- 
ment, as  Mr  Staughton'shall  direct.  To  my  grandson  William  Thompson,  sou 
of  my  deceased  son  William,  during  his  natural  life,  after  he  shall  attain  the 
age  of  twenty  five  years,  Esham  in  Lincolnsliire,  with  its  appurtenances, 
bought  of  my  cousin  Oldfield,  and  the  farm  in  Kent  bought  of  M'  Denham, 
and  that,  in  the  mean  time,  my  executors  receive  the  profits  and  lay  them 
out  in  land  for  his  use  as  aforesaid ;  and  this  in  discharge  of  the  twelve 
hundred  pounds  which  my  executor  is  to  pay  :  after  his  decease  to  his  first 
son,  then  to  the  second  son  (and  so  on) ;  failing  male  issue,  to  ray  grandson 
Joseph,  son  of  my  son  Joseph  (in  the  same  order,  &c.)  ;  then  to  my  daugh- 
ters that  shall  be  living,  during  their  natural  lives,  and  after  their  deaths 
to  such  of  their  sons  as  are  or  shall  be  baptized  Robert.  AV^hereas  upon 
my  son  William's  marriage  I  did  settle  several  lands  in  Yorkshire  and  Kent 
upon  my  brother  Glover  and  son  Clarke  in  trust,  &c.  &c. 

On  examining  M*"  Richard  Bradly*s  account  of  Kintledg,  I  found  an 
overweight  which,  for  the  reasons  writ  in  my  waste  book,  may  be  my  just 
right,  yet,  least  there  should  be  an  error,  I  will  that  his  heirs  or  executors 
be  pai<l  the  sixty  four  pounds.  I  give  unto  each  of  my  grandchildren  (ex- 
cept Joseph  Ashurst)  that  shall  be  living  at  my  death,  when  they  marry  or 
come  of  age,  fifty  pounds.     My  dear  wife  &  son  Joseph  to  be  executors. 

The  witnesses  were  Ann  Cunliffe,  Henry  Scoupholme,  John  Rooke  and 
William  Watson. 

Tlie  testator  declared  it  to  be  his  will  12  March,  1693.  Signed  and  de- 
livered in  presence  of  Henry  Scoupholme,  Mary  Watson  and  A.  Hat- 
way.  Proved  by  Joseph  Thomson,  6  December,  1694.  Confirmed  by 
decree  3**  Session  Trinity,  1695.  The  receipt  of  the  original  will  acknow- 
ledged by  Joseph  Thomson  13  July,  1695.  Box,  42. 

Sententia  pro  valore  Testamenti   Roberti  Thompson,  nupcr   de  Stoke 
Xewington  in  comitatu  Middlesexiae  armigeri  defuncti  etc.  etc.  in  judicio  inter 
Franciscam  Thompson,  relictam,  et  Josephum  Thompson,  filium,  dicti  de- 
VOL.  xxxviu.        28* 


318  Genealogical  Gleanings  in  England.  [July, 

faDCti,  executores  hujusmodi  negotiam  promoyentes,  ex  una,  et  Dominam 
Elizabetham  Ashurst  (uxorem  domini  Willielmi  Ashurst,  militis)  Mariam 
Gierke  (uxorem  Samuelis  Gierke  armigeri)  Annam  Miller,  yiduam,  et  Do- 
minam Susan  Duckiugfeild  (uxorem  Domini  Roberti  Duckingfeild  BaroQ- 
etti),  filias  naturales  et  legitimas  dicti  defuncti,  ac  Guilielmam  Thompsoo 
nepotem  ex  filio  ejusdem  defuncti,  partes  contra  quas  idem  negotium  pro- 
movetur,  &c.  &c.  1695.  Irby,  201. 

In  connection  with  the  foregoing  it  may  be  well  to  note  that  Thomas 
Sprigg  of  London,  merchant,  in  his  will  of  19  May,  1675,  preyed  14  Jan- 
uary, 1678,  appointed  Mr  Maurice  Thomson,  Col.  Greorge  Thomson,  Sir 
William  Thomson  and  Major  Robert  Thomson  hb  executors  and  trus- 
tees, &C.  King,  10. 

[From  Hartfordshire  Pedigrees.] 
Rob*  Thomson  that  com  out  of  y«  Norths^ 

I 

Morris  Thomson  of  Sheston  (Oheston*)  Hartfdsh.aaKath.  dau.  of ... .  Harrey. 

Rob*  Thomson  of  Watton  in  Hartfdsh.  living  163i=nElizbt*'  dau.  of  John  Hanieett 

I    of  Wotton,  Hartfd. 


•IS  elac 


Moms  eldest  son  Elizabetbss. . . .  Stokes  Parson  of  Watton  in  Hart. 

George  2  ^| 

Paul  3  —John  Stokes,  eldest  son 

Robert  4  —George  Stokes 

=Anne,  Mary,  £lii*^,  Ellen. 

Harl.  MS.  1234,  fol.  124,  and  Harl.  MS.  1547,  fol.  11. 

— H.  r.  w. 

Major  Robert  Thompson  of  London  purchased  of  the  Rev.  Henry  Whitefield  of 
Guilford,  Ct.,  who  returned  to  England  in  1651,  his  property  in  that  town  includ- 
in^  the  famous  ''  stone  house"  built  in  1639— one  of  the  oldest  buildings  in  New 
England  now  standing.  The  property  remained  in  Thompson's  family  *'  to  the 
great  detriment  of  the  town  till  Octol)er22,  1772,  when  Andrew  Oliver,  Esq.,  of 
Boston,  as  attorney  for  Thompson's  heirs,  sold  it  all  to  Mr.  Wyllvs  Elliott  for  £3000 
of  the  current  money  of  Massachusetts."  (Smith's  Guilford,  p.  92.)  Savage 
(Gen.  Diet.  iii.  2BB)  conjectures  that  Thompson  married  a  sister  of  Gov.  Hopkins. 
We  see  by  the  Hopkins  wills  that  the  governor  had  a  sister  Margaret  who  married 
a  Thompson ;  but  the  names  of  her  children,  Henry  and  Kathenne,  are  not  foond 
as  the  cnildren  of  Robert  Thompson  in  the  probate  of  his  will.  It  is  possible,  how- 
ever, that  they  and  their  mother  died  after  1657  and  before  1691.  several  letters 
from  Major  R)bert  Thompson  are  printed  in  Hutchinson's  (Collection  of  IHipers. 
Winthrop,  in  his  History  of  New  England,  under  1639  (vol.  i.  p.  307  of  1st  ed..  p. 
370  of  2d  ed.))  states  that  *' a  fishing  trade  was  begun  at  Gape  Ann  by  one  Mr. 
Maurice  Tomson,  a  merchant  of  London."  (See  also  Mass.  (Colony  Records,  i.  256.) 
This  was  probably  Maurice,  eldest  brother  of  Miy.  Thompson,  Hon  of  Robert  of 
Watton,  and  grandson  of  Maurice  of  Chcshunt.  *'  He  was  Governor  of  the  East 
India  Ck)mpany  in  the  reign  of  King  Charles  the  First,  as  was  also  his  brother 
Sir  William  in  the  reign  of  King  Charles  the  Second.'*  His  son.  Sir  John  Thomp- 
son, bart.,  was  created  Baron  Haversham,  May  4,  1696.  (CoUins's  Peerage,  ed. 
1741,  pp.  230-233.)  For  other  facts  concerning  Mtyor  Thompson  and  his  broth- 
ers and  their  families,  see  Collins's  Peerage,  as  cited.  See  also  Wotton's  Baronet- 
age, iv.  488.— Editor.] 

«  My  friend  Mr.  Fades  suggests  that  Cheshunt  may  be  intended,  he  having  teen  the 
name  in  this  form  before. — h.  p.  w. 
Collins  gives  Cheshunt  as  the  residenee  of  this  person.— EnrroK. 


1884.]  Genealogical  Gleanings  in  England.  319 

Hannah  Wall  in,  alias  Poulter,  of  S*  Andrews  Undershaft,  London, 
spinster,  15  March,  1661,  proved  7  August,  1663,  by  Joseph  Alston. 

To  be  buried  in  the  parish  church  of  St.  Mary  Hill,  London,  as  nigh  to 
the  place  where  my  dear  brother  John  Wiillin  ats  Poulter  was  buried  as 
conveniently  may  be  with  such  charge  of  my  funeral  as  is  answerable  to 
my  degree  and  estate,  with  the  remainder  of  my  estate  which  is  hereby 
midisposed  of,  which  I  have  purposely  left  sufficient  to  perform  the  same 
in  a  handsome  and  plentiful  manner.  To  Mr  Joseph  Alstone  of  London, 
Norwich  merchant,  and  Mary  his  wife  ten  pounds  apiece.  To  Joseph,  Ed- 
ward, Isaac  and  Clare  Alstone,  children  of  said  Joseph  and  Mary,  five  pounds 
apiece,  the  sons  at  the  age  of  twenty  one  years  and  the  daughter  at  the  age 
of  twenty  one  or  day  of  marriage.  To  M'  Edward  Ashtone,  kinsman  of 
the  said  Joseph  Ashtone  {nc)  the  father,  and  unto  Thomas  Spring  servant 
onto  the  said  Joseph  Ashton,  the  father,  five  pounds  apiece  within  six 
months  after  my  decease.  To  John  Baldridge,  son  of  M'  Baldridge,  now 
dwelling  with  the  said  Joseph  Alstone  the  father,  five  pounds  at  the  age  of 
twenty  one.  To  my  kinsman  Thomas  Hunt,  the  elder,  thirty  pounds  with- 
in six  months  after  my  decease.  To  his  son  Thomas  Hunt  five  pounds  at 
the  age  of  twenty  one.  To  my  god-daughter  Hannah  Hunt,  daughter  of 
the  same,  twenty  pounds  at  the  age  of  twenty  one  years  or  day  of  her  mar- 
riage. To  my  kinsmen  Edward  and  John  Hunt,  brothers  of  the  said  Tho- 
mas Hunt  the  elder,  ten  pounds  within  six  months.     To  Elizabeth , 

sister  of  the  said  Thomas  Hunt  the  elder,  ten  pounds  within  six  months. 
To  my  cousin  John  Poulter  of  Hitchin,  in  the  county  of  Herts,  forty  pounds 
within  three  months  after  my  decease ;  and  to  Mary  Poulter  his  daughter 
twenty  pounds  at  the  age  of  twenty  one  or  the  day  of  her  marriage. 

Item  I  give  and  bequeathe  unto  Thomas  Poulter  (being  now  at  Vir- 
ginia or  some  parts  beyond  the  seas),  brother  of  the  said  Mary  Poulter, 
the  sum  of  ten  pounds  of  like  lawful  money,  to  be  paid  unto  him  within  six 
months  next  after  my  decease.  To  the  son  and  daughter  of  my  cousin  Isaac 
Poulter,  late  of  Hitchen  aforesaid  deceased,  whose  names  I  know  not,  five 
pounds  within  six  months.  If  they  die,  then  amongst  the  children  of  my 
cousin  John  Poulter  equally.  To  the  poor  of  the  parish  of  St.  Andrew 
Undershaft  three  pounds ;  to  the  poor  of  the  parish  of  Hitchen,  where  I 
was  bom,  ^^tq  pounds.  To  my  cousin  Katherine,  wife  of  my  cousin  Tho- 
mas Hunt  the  elder,  to  Mary  Poulter,  daughter  of  my  said  cousin  John 
Poulter,  and  to  my  cousin  Elizabeth ,  sister  of  my  said  cousin  Tho- 
mas Hunt  the  elder,  all  my  wearing  apparel. 

The  executors  to  be  M'  Joseph  Alstone  the  father  and  Mary  his  wife. 
When  the  will  was  proved  by  the  former,  power  was  reserved  for  the 
latter.  Juxon,  112. 

This  family  of  Poulter,  or  Pulter,  were  long  settled  in  Hitchin  in  Hert- 
fordshire. They  bore — argent,  two  hendlets  Sable,  in  the  sinister  chief  a 
Cornish  chough  of  the  Last.  Crest —  Out  of  a  ducal  coronet  Azure  a  demi 
bear  rampant  Ermine, 

Samuel  Purchas,  rector  of  S'  Martins  near  Ludgate,  31  May,  1625, 
proved  21  October,  1626.  Five  pounds  to  the  poor  of  Thaxted  where  first 
I  received  light.  To  my  son  Samuel  all  that  messuage  and  tenement  in 
the  parish  of  Thaxted  which  I  lately  bought  of  Absolon  Onion,  &c.  A 
portion  lately  bought  of  my  brother  William  Purchas  and  by  him  purchas- 
ed of  one Kent  als  Reynolds,  who  formerly  had  bought  of  Absolon 

OnioD,  unto  Martha  my  daughter  and  her  heirs,  also  lands  near  a  hamlet 


320  Genealogical  Gleanings  in  England.  [Julji 

called  Beyton  End,  which  were  lately  belonging  to  my  father  Greorge  Pur- 
chas,  of  pious  memory,  in  the  parish  of  Thaxted,  now  in  the  tenure  of  my 
brother  William.  My  wife  Jane  to  have  the  use  of  the  said  lands  so  long 
as  she  shall  continue  a  widow.  If  my  son  &  daughter  die  without  issae 
these  premises  shall  descend  to  Daniel  Purchas,  son  of  my  brother  Wil- 
liam, with  remainder  to  Samuel,  son  of  the  said  William.  If  my  brother  Wil- 
liam's posterity  should  fail  then  to  the  heirs  of  my  brother  George  Purchas, 
i.  e.  to  his  eldest  son  John.  In  defect  of  issue  of  brother  George  then  to 
Samuel,  son  of  my  brother  Thomas  Purchas  of  Eastwood  and  to  hb  heirs 
forever. 

My  library  and  all  my  books,  globes,  maps  and  charts  unto  Samuel  my 
son,  except  all  those  books  or  works  or  any  part  of  them  whereof  I  have 
been  the  author,  namely  my  Pilgrimage,  Pilgrim  and  Pilgrims,  of  which 
he  hath  already  had  one  printed  copy  of  each  of  them.  The  other  printed 
books  thereof  now  in  my  custody  or  now  due  or  hereafter  to  be  due  upon 
reckonings  from  M'  Fetherstone  I  reserve  &  bequeath  to  the  performance 
of  my  will.  One  of  each  to  my  daughter  Martha,  my  brethren  George 
and  William  and  to  my  brother  in  law  William  Perkins,  to  each  of  them 
one  entire  work  of  my  Pilgrims  in  four  books.  Wife  Jane  to  be  execu- 
trix. Brethren  George  &  William  and  William  Perkins  to  be  overseers. 
My  seal  ring  to  my  son  Samuel.  Hele,  1 37. 

[Samuel  Purchas,  rector  of  St.  Martins,  Lud^tc,  London,  and  author  of  Pur- 
chas bis  Pilgrima<re  and  Purchas  his  Pilgrimcs.  was  born  in  Thaxted,  Essex,  about 
1577,  and  died  in  London  probably  in  1626.  For  an  account  of  him  and  his  writ- 
ings, see  Allibone's  Dictionary  of  Authors,  vol.  ii.  p.  1706.  See  also  Drake*8  Dic- 
tionary of  American  Biography,  p.  745  ;  and  Notes  and  Queries,  London,  1867,  3d 
S.  xi.  57.  For  notices  of  his  son  Samuel,  rector  of  Sutton,  Essex,  also  an  author, 
see  AUibone^a  Dictionary  and  Notes  and  Queries,  186d,  4th  S.  ii.  541. 

It  seems,  from  the  following  note  by  Dr.  Perkins,  of  Salem,  that  the  christian 
name  of  the  father  of  the  author  of  the  **  Pilgrimes  *'  was  George. — Editor. 

**  William  Perkins,  merchant  tnylor,  who  is  mentioned  in  the  will  of  Samuel 
Purchas,  was  the  son  of  George  Perkins  of  Abbots  Salford  in  the  county  of  War- 
wick, yeoman,  bv  his  wife  Katherine  ;  he  was  baptized  January  I,  1579.  He  mar- 
ried first,  Katherine ,  May  22,  1603.     She  died  Sept.  18,  1618.     He  married 

second,  Mary,  daughter  of  George  Purchas  of  Thaxted,  in  the  county  of  Essex, 
March  30,  1619.  She  died  Oct.  29,  1629  (Register,  x.  369).  This  Mary  mu'^t 
have  been  a  sister  of  the  testator,  Samuel  Purchas.  and  of  *  Brethren  William  and 
George.'  William  Perkins  had,  by  his  first  wife  Katherine,  a  son  (inter  al.)  Wil- 
liam, born  Au|5.  25,  1607,  who  immigrated  to  N.  England  about  1630-1,  and  whose 
name  appears  m  various  places  in  our  early  history  as  Rev.  William  Perkins.  He  was 
first  in  Boston  and  afterwards  in  Weymouth,  Roxbury,  Ipswich,  Gloucester,  and 
last  in  Topsfield,  where  he  died.  May  21,  1682.  lie  was  a  man  of  education  and 
very  varied  accomplishments,  lie  has  descendants  now  living  in  Topsfield  and  else- 
where.   His  daughter  xMary  was  the  second  wife  of  Oliver  Purchase,  of  Lynn.— 

G.  A.  Perkins.] 

Margaret  Stone,  wife  of  Simon  Stone  of  St.  Andrews  Holborn,  gen- 
tleman, and  relict  and  executrix  of  John  Fawne,  late  of  St.  Buttolph  without 
Aldergate,  Loudon,  gentleman,  deceased,  did,  about  the  beginning  of  May, 
1G05,  and  about  "sevenights  "  before  her  death  and  at  divers  other  times, 
&c.  make  her  test,  nuncupativ.  Her  husband  the  said  Simon  Stone  to  have 
tlie  keeping  and  bringing  up  of  her  daughter  Judith  Fawne. 

The  above  will  was  proved  23  May,  1G05,  by  Simon  Stone. 

Hayes,  35. 

Thomas  Foulks,  planter,  lying  in  Princess  Ann's  county  in  Virginia, 
1  August,  1602,  proved  19  Sept.  1692.     I  do  leave  my  plantation  io  Frin- 


1884.]  Genealogical  Gleanings  in  England.  321 

oess  Ann's  Connty  in  Virginia  &  all  my  servants  &  my  stock  &  all  other 
things  belonging  to  it,  also  in  cash  250*^  sterling  which  is  now  in  the  hands 
of  John  Vicary  mariner  living  in  the  city  of  Bristol,  to  the  said  John  Vica- 
ry,  my  sole  executor. 

Wit :  John  Barwick,  Edward  Cocks,  John  Vicary. 

Confirmed  per  sententiam  31  October,  1692.  Fane,  141. 

p^illlam  Fookes,  an  ancestor  probably  of  the  testator  Thomas  Foulkes,  received 

apatent  of  450  acres  of  land  lying  on  *'  Nanzamond  "  rirer,  November  24th,  1636. 

Ya,  Land  Records,  Book  No,  1,  p.  399.    The  name,  variously  rendered :  Foulkes, 

Fowlkes,  Folkes,  and  Fonlks,  is  quite  numerously  and  respectably  represented  in  the 

states  of  Vurginia  and  North  Carolina.— R.  A.  Brock. 

Joseph  Wade  (called  also  Ward)  of  Boston  in  New  England,  on  board 
the  ship  Mary,  21  October,  1691,  proved  17  October,  1692.  He  speaks  of 
clothes  lent  to  John  Trinby,  4'  to  M'  Collins  the  waterman  at  Barbadoes, 
6*  lent  to  William  Jewry,  messmates  Thomas  Linch,  Valentine  Baker, 
William  Barten  &  George  Golden.  All  money  goods  &  chattells  in  New 
£ngland  left  to  Frances  Gibbs  of  Boston  aforesaid  spinster. 

Wit:  John  Marshall,  Edward  Mobryd,  Richard  Hazard.     Fane,  193. 

JoNE  Cole,  of  the  city  &  County  of  Exon,  spinster,  12  September, 
1687,  proved  16  February,  1693.  Referring  to  will  of  husband  John 
Cole,  left  with  her  when  he  took  a  voyage  to  America,  intended  for  the  city 
Philadelphia ;  to  Alice  Stoker's  children,  to  William  Home,  to  Fortuna 
Martin's  brothers  and  sisters.  Residue  to  Fortuna  Martia,  kinswoman. 
James  Kearle  executor  of  husband's  will  &  mine.  Box,  28. 

JoHX  Larabee  of  New  England  (evidently  a  mariner)  appoints  Eliza- 
beth Crawford  of  London  bis  attorney,  &c.  30  April,  1694.  Proved  19 
June,  1694.  Box,  130. 

Richard  Charlett  in  the  Province  of  Maryland  in  the  County  of  Cal- 
vert, in  Pawtuxen  River,  in  Swanson's  Creek,  28  August,  1686,  proved  4 
April,  1694.  To  cousin  Hannah  Kings  forty  pounds,  to  cousin  Richard 
Kings  ten  pounds.  All  the  rest  to  my  brothers  &  sisters.  Brother  Rich- 
ard Kings  to  be  executor.  (Signed)  Richard  Charlet 

Wits :  Philip  Rogerson,  Thomas  Vuett,  Ann  Rogerson,  William  Goode. 

Box,  72. 

Mart  Godwtn  of  Lyme  Regis  in  the  County  of  Dorset,  widow,  the  last 
of  March,  1665,  proved  6  June,  1665.  To  the  poor  of  Lyme  Regis  five 
pounds  upon  condition  that  my  body  is  permitted  to  be  buried  in  the 
church  of  Lyme  Regis  aforesaid  without  a  sermon  or  the  Service  Book  in 
such  order  as  is  therein  appointed.  To  my  three  cousins  William,  James, 
Tnatius,  the  sons  of  my  brother  William  Hill,  in  New  England,  one 
hundred  &  fifty  pounds,  to  be  equally  divided  amongst  them.  To 
John  Tyderleigh,  &  Susan  &  Mary  Tytherleigh,  children  of  Nathaniel 
Tytherleigh  of  Lyme  Regis  &  to  Grace,  wife  of  the  said  Nathaniel  &  to 
Nathaniel  their  son,  ten  pounds  each.  To  my  sister  Elizabeth  Kcrridge 
five  pounds  (&  some  land)  to  cousin  William  Hill  of  Lyme,  son  of  my  late 
brother  Benjamin  Hill  &  to  Mary  his  now  wife  &  Benjamin  their  son  & 
their  four  daughters,  at  ages  of  one  &  twenty  years.  To  cousin  Joane 
Berry,  wife  of  John  Berry.  To  sister  Martyn.  To  M'  Wyatt,  clerk.  To 
M"  Thomazine  West,  wife  of  M'  Walter  West.  To  Henry  Fry  of  Wey- 
ford,  my  sister's  son  &  to  bis  daughter  Elizabeth.     To  my  cousin  John 


322  Genealogical  Gleanings  in  England.  [July, 

Shute,  to  my  cousin  Anne  Whitfield,  to  Elizabeth  Sprake,  daaghter  of  my 
cousin  William  Kerridge,  to  Mary  Hoare,  my  now  servant,  to  James  Gol- 
lopp  of  Taunton,  to  M'  Bartholomew  Westley,  to  M"  Sara  Kerridge,  late 
wife  of  M'  John  Kerridge  of  Wooten,  to  my  sister  Paveatt,  to  my  cousin 
M'  John  Kerridge  who  lives  in  Lyme  churchyard,  to  Grace,  daughter  of 
mr.  Nathaniel  Tyderleigh,  to  William  &  Samuel  Courtney,  sons  of  William 
Courtney,  one  of  my  executors,  to  Elizabeth  daughter  of  my  cousin  John 
Whetombe  (<ic),  to  my  cousin  Elizabeth  Hart,  to  the  widow  Isaacke,  the 
widow  Hockett,  the  widow  Pike  &  John  Palmer's  wife,  to  my  cousin  Ju- 
dith, sister  of  my  cousin  Ann  Whitfield,  to  my  cousin  Mary  Fry  of  Woat- 
hill,  to  M"  Elizabeth  West,  wife  of  M'  Gabriel  West,  to  M'  Richard  Far- 
rant's  two  children.  To  M'  John  Farrant,  M'  Robert  Burridge  &  M'  Wil- 
liam Courtney  all  my  right,  title  &  interest  in  the  dwelling  house  &  gar- 
den, with  the  appurtenances  wherein  I  do  now  live  in  Combestreete,  the  is- 
sues &  profits  thereof  to  be  to  the  use  of  such  and  to  be  given  &  disposed 
to  such  poor  outed  and  ejected  ministers  from  time  to  time  as  they  shall 
think  fit  dc  in  their  judgments  have  most  need  &  best  deserve  the  same. 
All  the  residue  to  the  said  three  whom  I  make  executors. 

Hyde,  61. 

[The  above  will  answers  the  query  printed  in  the  Register  (vol.  xzxv.  p.  184). 
The  widow  of  William  Hill  and  mother  of  William,  James  and  Ignatius,  became  the 
wife  of  Mr.  £dmund  Grcenleaf  (ancestor  of  the  New  England  familiee  of  that  name) 
who,  in  a  paper  appended  to  his  will  and  recorded  in  the  Suffolk  Ref^istry  at  Boetoo 
(B.  ly  L.  112),  says:  **  When  I  married  my  wife  I  kept  her  grandcbila,  as  I  best 
remember,  three  years  to  schoolinji:,  diet  £ap[)arel;  and  William  Hill,  her  son, 
had  a  bond  of  six  pounds  a  year,  whereof  I  received  no  more  than  a  barrel  of  pork 
of  3^  0.  0.  of  that  6^  0.  0.  a  year  he  was  to  pay  me,  and  sent  to  hereon  Ignatius  Hill 
to  the  Barbadoes,  in  mackerel,  cider  &  bread  k  pease,  as  much  as  oome  to  twenty 
pounds,  and  never  received  one  penny  of  it.  His  aunt  gave  to  the  three  brothers 
50"  apiece — I  know  not  whether  they  received  it  or  no ;  but  I  have  not  received  any 
part  of  it.  Witness  my  hand  Edmund  Greenlcaf.'* 

^  **  Besides  when  I  married  my  wife  she  brought  me  a  silver  bowl,  a  silver  por- 
ringer and  a  silver  spoon.  She  lent  or  gave  them  to  her  son  James  Hill,  without  my 
consent."— H.  F.  Waters. 

See  Mr.  Applcton^s  article  on  the  Greenleaf  family  in  this  number  of  the  Registek. 

Mrs.  Sara  Kerridge,  named  by  Mrs.  Godwyn,  was  perhaps  Sarah,  sister  of  the 
Rev.  John  Woodbridge  of  Andover,  Mass.,  and  of  the  Rev.  Beqjamin  Woodbrida;©, 
whose  name  beads  the  list  of  the  gniduates  of  Harvard  College.  (Rbo.  uxii.  337, 
342;  xxxvii.  240.)  Sarah  Woodbridge  married,  Dec.  27,  1632,  John  Kerridge 
(Mitchell's  Woodbridge  Record,  p.  9) ,  probably  the  Rev.  Mr.  Kerridge  of  Wooton 
Fitz-Paine,  Dorset,  who  was  ejected  in  1662  and  died  soon  after  (Palmer's  None. 
Mem.  ed.  1778,  p.  487).  His  son  John  Kerridge,  M.  A.,  of  Corpus  Christi  College, 
Oxford,  was  for  a  time  schoolmaster  at  Abingdon,  Berks ;  thence  went  to  Lyme 
Regis,  where  he  was  ejected  as  a  schoolmaster  ;  was  afterwards  pastor  of  a  distsent- 
ing  church  in  Culleton,  Devonshire,  and  died  April  15,  1705  (Ibid.  p.  460). — Ed.1 

Joseph  Tilden  citizen  &  girdler  of  London,  1  February,  1642.  To  my 
brother  Freegift  Tildeu  five  pounds,  to  my  niece  Sara  Smyth  ten  pounds, 
to  my  sister  Lydia  Tilden,  late  wife  of  my  brother  Nathaniel  Tilden,  ten 
pounds,  and  to  her  two  daughters  who  are  married  in  New  England  twenty 
nobles  apiece.  The  livery  of  the  company  of  Girdlers  whereof  I  am  a 
member  to  attend  my  corps  to  burial.  To  the  said  company  for  poor  mem- 
bers and  widows  ten  pounds.  To  the  poor  of  Smallhead  Street  in  the  par- 
ish of  Tenterden,  Kent,  three  pounds  for  the  poor  at  the  discretion  of  M' 
Thomas  Iluckstropp.  To  the  widow  Ilamond  three  pounds.  To  the  wid- 
ow Prestwich  of  Lambheth  in  the  County  of  Surrey  thirty  shillings,  to  Jane 
Ranndall  a  diaper  table  cloth  with  the  napkins  belonging  to  it,  to  my  maid 


1884.]  Genealogical  Gleanings  in  England,  323 

servant  Margaret  Smart  tea  shillings,  to  my  nurse  five  shillings,  to  the 
poor  of  the  parish  of  S'  John  Baptist,  London,  the  several  legacies  follow- 
ing i.  e.  the  widow  Armefield  thirty  shillings  and  to  the  rest  of  the  said  par- 
ish fifty  shillings,  to  be  distributed  among  them  at  the  discretion  of  my 
brother  Thatcher.  To  Hudnall  the  hairdresser  of  our  parish  twenty  shil- 
lings. My  nephew  Joseph  Tilden,  son  of  my  brother  Nathaniel  Tilden,  to 
be  sole  executor.  My  brother  Hopestill  Tilden  to  be  administrator  in  trust 
for  the  use  of  the  said  Joseph  until  he  shall  take  upon  him  the  executor- 
ship and  I  give  to  the  said  Hopestill  ten  pounds  for  his  pains.  To  my 
brother  George  Thatcher  the  half  year's  rent  due  next  Lady  day  for  my 
lands  in  Sussex.     George  Thatcher  to  be  overseer. 

(Signed)  Jos  Tillden. 

Wit :  Henry  Randall  Francis  Helmes  Val:  Crome. 

By  a  codicil  he  bequeaths  the  residue  to  nephew  Joseph  Tilden. 

Letters  of  administration  were  issued  18  March,  1642,  to  Hopestill  Till- 
den, brother  of  the  deceased,  during  the  absence  of  Joseph  Tillden,  execu- 
tor named  in  the  will  <&  now  dwelling  in  the  parts  beyond  the  seas. 

Crane,  28. 

[Elder  Nathaniel  Tilden,  brother  of  the  testator,  settled  in  Scituace,  Mass.  For 
an  account  of  him  and  his  descendants,  see  Deane's  Histonr  of  Scituate,  pp.  353-5. 
One  of  his  denceodants  is  the  lion.  Samuel  J.  Tilden,  u)rmerly  jrovcrnur  of  the 
state  of  New  York,  and  the  democratic  candidate  for  president  of  the  United  States 
in  1876  (see  Rxqisteb,  vol.  xxsviii.  p.  6). — Editor.] 

Thomas  Spelman  of  Virginia,  gentleman,  declared  his  will  that  his 
daughter  Mary  Spelman  in  Virginia  should  have  all  that  he  had  here  in 
England  &  what  he  had  in  Virginia  his  wife  should  have,  in  presence  of 
Jane  Bridges  (her  mark)  Mary  Rowe  (her  mark)  &  Fran:  Spelman.  Let- 
ter of  administration  was  granted  24  April,  1627,  to  Francis  Spelman 
natural  and  lawful  brother  of  the  said  Thomas  Spelman  lately  of  Truro 
in  the  county  of  Cornwall  deceased,  &c.  &c.  during  the  absence  of  Han- 
nah Spelman  the  relict  of  the  said  deceased  in  the  parts  of  Virginia  then 
dwelling,  &c.  Skinner,  40. 

[Thomas  Spilman,  of  **  Kicouffhton  in  the  corporacion  of  Elizabeth  Citty,"  re- 
ceived a  grant  of  fifty  acres,  his  **  first  peraonall  divident  '*  as  an  **  ancient  plant- 
er, *  *  ^  to  be  augmented  and  doubled  by  the  Company,"  December  Ist,  1624. 
Va,  Land  Records^  Book  No.  l,p.  35. — R.  A.  Brock. 

Query.  Was  this  Thomas  Spelman  a  relative  of  Henry  Spelman,  whose  **  Rela- 
tion of  Virginia,'*  1609  (see  Rsqistsr,  xzvii.  332),  was  edited  by  J.  F.  Hunnewell 
and  printed  for  him  in  iSTi  ?  The  author  of  tlie  Relation  was  a  son  of  Sir  Henry 
Spelman,  the  antiquary,  whose  pedigree  will  be  found  in  Blomefield*s  Norfolk,  2a 
ed.  Tol.  vi.  pp.  15(f-5. — Editor.] 

Ralph  Hooker,  of  Barbadoes,  14  March,  1663,  proved  27  May,  1665. 
To  my  good  friend  and  neighbor  M"  Judith  Pinney  eight  hundred  and 
twenty  one  pounds  eight  shillings  and  three  pence  which  she  oweth  me, 
and  also  one  hundred  thousand  pounds  of  Muscovado  Sugar.  And  for  the 
remainder  of  her  debt  to  me  my  executors  to  forbear  to  call  on  her  for  it 
until  February  next,  excepting  only  the  debt  which  she  owes  me  as  execu- 
trix of  M'  Robert  Challoner  deceased,  which  I  desire  may  be  paid  this 
year.  To  my  friends  Capt.  Jeremy  Kgginton,  M'  John  Knight,  M'  Ste- 
phen Spicer,  M'  John  Bawdon  and  M'  John  Sparks  each  a  ring  with  a 
death's  head,  value  three  pounds  sterling.  To  my  friend  D'  Peter  la  Rous 
fifty  pounds  sterling  to  buy  himself  a  ring.     To  M'  Jeofifrie  Body  two  thou- 


324  Genealogical  Gleanings  in  England.  [Julji 

sand  pounds  of  Muscovado  Sugar.  To  Thomas  Peake  one  thousand  pounds 
of  Muscovado  Sugar.  To  Edward  Russell  my  servant  one  half  piece  dow- 
las. To  my  cousin  M'  James  Woods  of  London  merchant,  ten  pounds 
sterling  and  to  his  wife  ten  pounds  sterling.  To  my  cousin  M"  Woods,  re- 
lict of  my  cousin  John  Woods  deceased  ten  pounds  sterling  and  to  her  son 
John  Woods  ^yQ  pounds  sterling.  To  my  cousin  Eklward  Hooker  his  child- 
dren  that  arc  alive  in  England  five  pounds  sterling  each.  To  my  cousins 
Robert  &  Edward  Boys,  my  cousin  Soane  &  her  sister  &  my  cousin  Anne 
Boys,  to  each  of  them  five  pounds  sterling. 

Item  I  give  and  bequeath  unto  my  young  cousin  Peter  Bennett  the  son 
of  Richard  Bennett  of  New  England  (the  which  Peter  was  my  own  sister^s 
son)  the  sum  of  one  hundred  pounds  sterling,  to  be  paid  him  when  he  shall 
accomplish  the  age  of  eighteen  years  of  age.  To  my  poor  kindred  in  Eng- 
land one  hundred  &  fifty  pounds  sterling,  to  be  distributed  by  my  cousin 
James  Woods,  something  of  it  to  be  given  to  my  aunt  Webbe  her  children 
of  Ottebourne,  if  any  alive,  my  cousin  Edward  Hooker  of  Chilcombe  can  in- 
form. For  goods  consigned  to  Capt  Samuel  Davis  &  myself  he  to  make 
returns  to  the  principals  in  London,  but  not  to  meddle  or  intermedle  with 
any  of  my  other  consignations.  A  reference  to  goods  sold  in  this  island  on 
account  of  Sir  Andrew  Riccard  &  Co.  To  Capt.  Davis  five  pounds  sterling 
and  a  horse.  To  my  friend  Capt.  William  Porter  ten  pounds  &  a  gold  hat 
band  &  my  best  beaver  if  he  please  to  wear  it  for  my  sake.  To  Hugh 
Lewis  three  pounds  sterling  to  buy  him  a  ring.  My  executor  to  confer 
with  M'  Stephen  Spicer  who  is  administrator  with  me  about  M'  John  Wil- 
liams' estate.  Reference  to  shipments  home  to  M'  Mico  on  ac*t  of  John 
Williams  deceased, — much  more  sugar  than  I  have  received  on  ac't.  My 
executor  may  employ  M'  Jeoffery  Body  on  my  books  and  accounts.  He 
knows  the  accounts  between  M^  John  Knights  &  myself  and  also  about  M' 
John  Williams*  estate,  M*"  John  Lewis'  estate  and  all  the  accounts  in  my 
books.  My  loving  cousin  John  Hooker,  now  residing  in  the  Island  of  Bar- 
badoes,  to  be  sole  executor  and  my  cousin  James  Woods  of  Loudon,  mer- 
chant, to  be  overseer  in  trust. 

Wit :  John  Hawkesworth,  Josias  Cox,  John  Watkins. 

Barbadoes By  the  Deputy  Governor. 

This  Fifteenth  day  of  April,  1664,  personally  appeared  before  me  Major 
John  Hawkesworth  &  M'  Josias  Cox  &  made  oath  that  they  saw  Major 
Ralph  Hooker  sign,  seal  &  publish  the  foregoing  Writing,  &c.  &c. 

Henry  Willoughby. 

A  true  copy  of  the  Original  recorded  in  the  Secretary's  Office  of  Barba- 
does attested  17  August,  1664.  Edward  Bowden  Dep:  Secretary. 

Hyde,  50. 

[The  Richard  Bennett,  referred  to  in  the  above  will,  said  by  Savage  to  have  been 
of  Salein  in  1636,  afterwards  of  Boston,  had  a  wife  Sybil,  the  mother  of  his  child- 
ren, whose  maiden  name  is  here  shown  to  be  Hooker,  and  a  second  wife  Margaret. 
His  will  of  21  June,  1677,  with  a  codicil  of  6  July,  1677,  was  proved  at  BoetonS 
September,  1677.  In  it  he  mentions  p^ndchild  Susanna  Bennett,  daughter  of  sod 
Peter,  wife  Mar<raret  Bennett,  son  Jonas  Clarke  and  Susanna  his  wife,  and  cousin 
Anthony  Bennet  of  Bass  River,  New  England.  (Suffolk  Probate  Registry,  B.  6, 
p.  195.) — u.  F.  w] 

Elizabeth  Vaxsoldt  of  Whitegate  Alley  in  the  parish  of  Battolph 
Bishopsgate  London,  widow,  7  September,  1665.  Five  pounds  to  be  spent 
about  my  funeral.    To  my  son  Abraham  Vansoldt  in  Virginia  or  elsewhere 


1884.]  Soldiers  in  King  Philip's  War.  325 

twenty  pounds  within  three  months  after  my  decease  (and  certain  movea- 
bles). Legacies  to  daughter  Mary  Wills,  cousin  M"  Judith  Bonnell  of  the 
Old  Jury,  daughter  Anne  White  (inter  alia  two  pictures  made  &  drawn 
for  my  brother  Stripe  &  his  wife),  grand  child  James  White,  &  loving  friend 
Thomas  Parker  of  Walbrook  London  &  his  wife.  My  loving  son  James 
White  to  be  full  and  sole  executor. 

James  White  having  died,  letters  of  administration  were  granted  12  Oc- 
tober, 1665,  to  Anna  White.  Hyde,  126. 


Noiei  on  AhstracU  previovtdy  printed. 

Sir  William  Phips,  Knight  (ante,  pp.  204-5). 

The  fbUowlDg  inscription  on  a  monament  in  St.  Mary  Woolnoth  Gharch,  be- 
tween Lombard  and  Kinff  William  Street,  London,  is  contributed  to  the  Ruistbr 
hj  A.  M.  Haines,  Esq.,  of  Galena,  111. 

**  Near  this  place  is  interred  the  body  of  Sir  William  Phipps,  Koiffht ;  who  in 
the  year  1687  by  his  great  industry,  discovered  among  the  rocks  near  the  banks  of 
miilfHi  on  the  north  side  of  Hispaniola  a  Spanish  plate-ship  which  bad  been  under 
wmler  forty  four  years,  out  of  which  he  took  in  gold  ana  silver  to  the  value  of 
£300,000  Sterling; ;  and  with  a  fidelity  equal  to  his  conduct,  brought  it  all  to  Lon- 
don, where  it  was  divided  between  himself  and  the  rest  of  the  adventarers.  For 
wbioh  great  service  he  was  knighted  by  his  then  Majesty  King  James  II. ;  and 
afterwards,  by  the  command  otbis  present  Majesty,  and  at  the  request  of  the 
principal  inhabitants  of  New  England,  be  accepted  of  the  government  of  the  Mas- 
■aehusetts,  in  which  he  continued  to  the  time  of  bis  death ;  and  discharged  his 
tnut  with  that  seal  for  the  interest  of  his  country,  and  with  so  little  re^rd  to  bis 
own  private  advantage,  that  he  justly  gained  the  good  esteem  and  affections  of  the 
greatest  and  best  part  of  the  inhabitants  of  that  Colony. 

**  He  died  the  16^  of  Februaiy,  1604,  and  his  Lady,  to  perpetuate  bis  memory, 
liftth  caused  this  monument  to  be  erected." 


s 


SOLDIERS  IN  KING  PHILIPS  WAR. 

Commiinlcated  by  the  Rev.  Gbobob  M.  Bodob,  of  Dorchester,  Mass. 

[Continaed  firom  page  225.] 

No.    VII. 

Capt.  Riohabd  Beers  and  his  Men. 

OME  light  may  be  thrown  upon  the  history  of  Capt.  Beers  by 
the  following  petition  in  Mass.  Archives,  vol.  67,  page  163 : 

^  To  the  Goyemour,"  &c.  &c.  ''  Humble  Petition  of  Rich'  Beeres  of 
Watertown  " 
^  Whereas  your  petitioner  hath  bin  an  Inhabitant  of  this  jurisdiction 
ever  since  the  first  beginning  thereof  &  according  to  his  weake  abillities 
ferred  the  same  not  only  in  times  of  peace  But  allsoe  w*^  his  person  in  pe- 
quod  warr  in  two  seyerail  designes  when  the  Lord  delivered  them  into  our 
hands  as  allsoe  nppon  his  retume  such  a  weaknesse  fell  uppon  his  boddy  that 
for  Eught  years  Space  he  was  disinabled  to  labor  for  his  ffamyly  Spending 
a  (grmtj?  part  of  thatlittie  hee  had  uppon  Phesitions  &  having  hitherto 
had  not  any  land  of  the  Country  db  of  the  Towne  but  one  Acre  and  a  halfe 
betides  that  he  hath  purchased,  Humbly  desires  this  Honoured  Court  to 

VOL.  XXXYIII.  2^ 


326  Soldiers  in  King  Philip's  War.  [July, 

Grant  him  Such  a  parcell  of  land  (where  he  can  find  it  in  this  wilderness) 
as  shall  seem  meet  to  this  Honoured  Courte,  and  the  rather  Seing  he  hath 
many  children  to  share  in  the  Same  which  shall  farther  ingage  him  for  the 
future    As  in  duty  hee  is  hound  to  Serve  &  Honour  T'  in  the  Lord." 
'»  October  24,  1 665." 

The  deputies  in  answer  voted  him  five  hundred  acres,  but  the 
maofistrates  cut  it  down  to  three  hundred. 

The  first  expedition  from  Massachusetts  against  the  Pequods  was 
in  the  latter  part  of  the  summer  of  1636,  a  force  of  eighty  men 
under  Capt.  Endicot  of  Salem ;  and  the  second  was  made  in  coo- 
junction  with  the  forces  of  Connecticut  and  Plymouth,  and  Massa- 
chusetts sent  one  hundred  and  sixty  men  under  Capts.  Patrick  of 
Water  town  and  Trask  of  Salem,  with  Capt.  Israel  Stoughton  of 
Dorchester  as  commander  in  chief.  Richard  Beers  was  admitted 
freeman  at  Watertown,  March  9,  1637,  was  granted  a  license  to 
**keep  an  ordinary"  in  Watertown  in  1654,  and  continued  that 
business  during  his  life.  He  was  representative  to  the  General  Coart 
thirteen  years,  and  selectman  of  Watertown  thirty-one  years,  hold-* 
ino:  both  offices  at  the  time  of  his  marching  to  Brookfield,  August 
6th,  1675.  Before  leaving  home  on  that  day  he  made  a  nuncupa- 
tory  will,  proved  Oct.  5,  1675.  He  left  a  widow  Elizabeth  and 
eight  children,  as  follows  (abbreviated  from  "  Bond's  Watertown  ") : 
Sarah,  died  before  Oct.  10,  1639 ;  Sarah,  2d  (bom  probably  about 
1641)  ;  Mary,  born  March  10,  1643  ;  Eliezur,  administered  jointly 
with  Capt.  Richard's  widow  Elizabeth  upon  his  estate  in  1682,  mar- 
ried April  21,  1690,  widow  Susanna  (Harrington)  Cutting,  and  died 
without  issue,  Dec.  5,  1701;  Judith,  born  March  26,  1646; 
Jabez,  born  August  4,  1651 ;  Elnathan,  married  about  1681  Sa- 
rah Tainter;  Elizabeth;  Richard,  bom  Oct.  22,  1659;  and  Abi- 
gail, born  April,  1662.  From  Hull's  Journal  I  find  that  Eliezur 
served  under  Capt.  Cutler  in  1676.  Elnathan  was  sergeant  in  his 
father's  company  in  the  west,  and  afterwards  served  under  Capt. 
Sill.     Capt.  Beers's  age  was  probably  about  63. 

It  will  be  noted  that  in  the  first  campaign  to  Mount  Hope,  the 
troops  were  drawn  almost  wholly  from  the  vicinity  of  Boston,  Suf- 
folk and  Middlesex  counties.  In  the  latter  part  of  July  a  levy  had 
been  made  in  Essex,  and  when  on  August  4th  or  5th  the  news  of 
the  disaster  at  Brookfield  came  to  the  Council,  the  company  from 
Salem  and  vicinity  was  summoned  and  sent  up  to  the  relief  of  the 
distressed  garrison ,  under  the  command  of  Capt.  Lathrop,  and  ano- 
ther company  from  Watertown  under  Capt.  Beers.  According  to 
Capt.  Wheeler,  these  troops  arrived  at  Brookfield  on  Saturday  after- 
noon, August  7th,  and  it  is  probable  that  the  troops  sent  up  from 
Hartford  and  Springfield  arrived  later,  perhaps  the  same  evening. 
It  is  possible  that  it  was  on  Monday,  9th,  or  Tuesday,  that  the 
troops   in   force   marched    out    to    **  Meminimisset,    where    Capt. 


1884.]  Soldiers  in  King  Philip's  War.  327 

Hutchinson  and  Capt.  Wheeler  were  assaulted, "••  and  having  found 
no  signs  of  Indians  in  the  vicinity,  the  company  from  Springfield  left 
the  others  and  marched  northward  and  around  to  Springfield  again, 
while  the  rest  returned  to  Brookfield.  The  English  were  sorely  puz- 
zled as  to  the  whereabouts  of  the  Indians,  and  continued  scouting  for 
several  days  in  the  vicinity  of  Brookfield,  probably  as  far  as  Hadley, 
knowing  that  Philip  had  now  joined  the  Nipmucks,  and  fearing  that 
the  main  body  of  the  Indians  were  at  no  great  distance.  Gardiner's 
bill,  given  below,  indicates  Lathrop's  presence  at  Hadley,  August 
12,  but  within  two  days  he  was  again  at  Brookfield.  There,  be- 
ing recruited  by  the  large  force  that  came  up  with  Capt.  Mosely 
from  Mendon,  an  advance  in  force  was  resolved  upon,  and  on  Aug. 
15th,  Capts.  Lathrop  and  Beers  with  their  companies  marched  by 
way  of  Meminimisset  to  Springfield.  Capt.  Mosely  with  his  troops 
accompanied  them  as  far  as  the  swamp,  the  scene  of  Wheeler's  fight, 
where  he  separated  from  them  and  marched  away  towards  Chelms- 
ford and  Lancaster,  leaving  twenty-six  of  his  men  to  recruit  the 
company  of  Capt.  Beers  (see  ante,  vol.  xxxvii.  p.  177).  The  troops 
under  Lathrop  and  Beers,  joined  at  Springfield  by  the  forces  under 
Capt.  Watts,  together  with  the  Connecticut  Indians,  spent  several 
days  exploring  the  country  up  along  Swift  River  and  the  Connecti- 
cut, without  finding  the  Indians,  and  on  Aug.  22d,  as  we  learn  from 
Major  Pynchon's  letter  to  the  Connecticut  Council,  the  Massachu- 
setts troops  had  returned  to  Brookfield  again,  and  Capt.  Watts  with 
his  forces  was  at  Hadley. 

On  August  23d  Lathrop  and  Beers  had  again  joined  Watts  at 
Hadley,  and  at  a  council  of  war  held  on  that  day  it  was  resolved  to 
disarm  the  Hadley  Indians  who  had  gathered  at  their  fort  on  the 
west  side  of  the  river,  about  half  way  between  Hatfield  and  North- 
ampton. Preparations  were  made  for  carrying  out  this  design  on 
the  24th.  Messengers  were  despatched  to  Northampton  to  secure 
the  co()peration  of  the  force  there,  which  was  to  move  as  near  to  the 
Indian  fort  as  possible  un perceived,  while  Capts.  Lathrop  and  Beers 
crossed  the  river  to  Hatfield,  to  approach  the  fort  from  that  side. 
In  the  mean  time  peaceful  demands  had  been  made  upon  the  Indians 
to  deliver  up  their  arms,  and  one  of  their  sachems  had  come  before 
the  council  to  present  their  objections  ;  and  it  is  probable  that  many 
of  their  old  men  and  others  of  the  tribe  were  in  favor  of  submis- 
sion, but  were  overruled,  and  before  the  English  had  completed  their 
preparations  it  was  found  that  the  Indians  had  all  escaped,  having 

**  Much  doubt  has  existed  as  to  the  exact  locality  of  the  Wheeler  fight,  as  wo  have  note^l 
preTkmslj ;  but  Dr.  L.  R.  Paige  has  investigated  the  matter  fully,  and  feels  sure  that  the 
place  was  some  five  miles  from  the  head  of  Wickal)oag  Pond,  in  the  swamp  near  the  In- 
dian rendezvous  called  Wenimisset,  or  Meminimisset,  which  answers  Capt.  Wheeler's 
description  in  every  particular.  The  other  place  which  has  been  considered  the  scene  of 
attack,  is  some  two  and  a  half  miles  northward  from  Wickaboag  Pond,  just  over  the  town 
line  l)etwcen  West  Brookfield  and  New  Braintrec,  in  what  was  formerly  known  as  "  Ditch 
Meadow.*'  It  is  hoped  that  the  investigations  made  quite  recently  concemlug  this  mat- 
ter will  be  published. 


328  Soldiers  in  King  Philip* 8  War.  [Julyi 

killed  one  old  sachem,  who,  it  is  said,  opposed  the  flight  and  refdsed 
to  join  it. 

The  Indians  fled  on  the  night  of  the  24th,  and  on  the  morning  of 
the  25th  Capts.  Lathrop  and  Beers  with  one  hundred  men  pursued 
them,  coming  upon  them  unexpectedly  ^  at  a  place  called  Sugar-Loaf 
Hill,"  ^*  about  ten  miles  above  Hatfield,"  according  to  Mr.  Hub- 
bard ;  **  at  a  swamp  beyond  Hatfield,"  says  Mr.  Russell  of  Hadley, 
writing  soon  after.  ^^  The  place  is  now  unknown,"  says  the  late 
eminent  historian  of  Hadley,  Mr.  Judd ;  while  Messrs.  Temple  and 
Sheldon,  the  careful  historians  of  Northfield,  locate  the  soene  **in  a 
swamp  just  south  of  Mt.  Wequomps,  in  the  present  town  of  Whate- 
ly."  Here  an  engagement  ensued,  which  is  most  reliably  described 
perhaps  by  the  following  extract  from  a  letter  written  by  Bev.  Solo- 
mon Stoddard  of  Northampton,  on  Sept.  Idth,  1675,  to  Bev.  In- 
crease Mather  of  Boston : 

''  They  (the  English)  intended  to  parley  with  the  Indians,  bat  on  a  sod* 
den  the  Indians  let  fly  about  forty  guns  at  them,  and  were  soon  answered 
with  a  volley  from  our  men ;  about  forty  ran  down  into  the  swamp  after 
them,  poured  in  shot  among  them,  made  them  throw  down  much  of  their 
baggage,  and  after  a  while  our  men,  after  the  Indian  manner,  got  behind 
trees  and  watched  their  opportunities  to  make  shots  at  them.  The  fight 
continued  about  three  hours ;  we  lost  six  men  upon  the  ground,  though 
one  was  shot  in  the  back  by  our  own  men ;  a  seventh  died  of  his  wound 
coming  home,  and  two  died  the  next  night,  nine  in  all,  of  nine  several 
towns,  every  one  of  these  towns  lost  a  man.  Of  the  Indians,  as  we  hear 
since  by  a  squaw  that  was  taken,  and  by  three  children  that  came  to  oor 
town  from  them  the  day  after,  there  were  slain  twenty-six."    .... 

From  Mr.  Russell's  *^  List  of  the  men  slain  in  the  County  of 
Hampshire,"  Mass.  Archives,  vol.  68,  p.  33,  from  another  list  in 
vol.  67,  p.  254,  and  from  various  other  sources,  it  is  judged  that  the 
following  is  a  correct  account  of  the  killed  at  this  fight  of  August 
25th  : 

Samuel  Mason  of  Northampton.  *Mark  Pitman  of  Marblehead. 

James  Levins  of  Roxbury  ?  *  Joseph  Person  of  Lynn  ? 

Azariah  Dickinson  of  Hadley.  *  Matthew  Scales  of  Rowley. 

Richard  Fellows  of  Hatfield.  William  Cluffe  of  Charlestown? 

•John  Plumer  of  Newbury. 

[♦  Were  of  Capt.  Lathrop's  company.] 

After  this  skirmish  the  Indians  made  good  their  escape  and  prob- 
ably joined  the  Pocomtuck  tribe  then  living  near  Deerfield  river. 
The  English  marched  back  to  Hatfield,  and  thence  crossed  to  Had- 
ley, where  other  troops  from  Connecticut  and  from  the  East  were 
gathering,  expecting  a  general  attack  from  the  main  body  of  the  In- 
dians, now  believed  to  be  concentrated  at  Paquoag  ( Athol).  Nothing 
however  was  done  by  the  Indians  until  Sept.  1st,  when  the  Pocom- 
tucks,  now  joined  by  the  Norwottucks  (or  Hadley  Indians),  fell 
upon  Deerfield,  where  but  a  small  garrison  was  stationed,  burned 


1884.]  Soldiers  in  King  Philip's  War.  329 

most  of  the  houses  and  killed  one  of  the  garrison,  James  Eggleston, 
of  Windsor,  Conn.,  of  Capt.  Watts's  company.  In  Mr.  Kussell's 
list  the  name  of  Nathaniel  Com  berry  is  given  also  as  slain  at  Deer- 
field,  but  it  was  probably  later,  perhaps  on  the  12th,  when  Mr. 
Stoddard  relates  another  assault  upon  some  of  the  people  going  to 
meeting,  of  whom  one  was  taken  alive  by  the  Indians. 

Hadley  was  at  this  time  the  head  quarters  of  the  English,  and 
probably  Capts.  Lathrop  and  Beers,  with  their  companies,  were  there 
on  September  Ist.^  It  is  certain  that  they  were  there  on  the  2d, 
and  were  organizing  a  force  to  bring  off  the  garrison  at  North  field. 
Bat  on  that  day  (Thursday,  Sept.  2d),  while  this  expedition  was  in 
preparation,  and  the  Northfield  people  and  the  garrison  soldiers 
were  abroad  in  the  fields  at  work,  a  large  body  of  Indians  sudden- 
ly fell  upon  that  town,  killed  many  of  the  people  as  they  fled  from 
their  homes  and  fields  towards  the  garrison,  burned  all  their  exposed 
houses  and  destroyed  cattle  and  crops.  There  were  sixteen  fami- 
lies in  the  town.  The  English  killed  at  this  time,  according  -to  Rus- 
sell's list,  were  eight : 

Sergt  Samael  Write."    (Wright)  Benjamin  Dinwick.     (Dunwich) 

Ebenezer  Jeans.    (Janes)  Nathaniel  Curtis. 

Jonathan  Jeans.    (Janes)  Thomas  Scott. 

Ebenezer  Parsons.  John  Peck. 

Hadley  was  thirty  miles  from  Northfield,  and,  unaware  of  this 
assault,  Capt.  Beers  on  the  next  morning,  Friday,  Sept.  3d,  set 
forth  with  thirty-six  mounted  men  and  one  ox  team  on  his  march  to 
bring  off  the  garrison  and  people.  The  march  was  slow  and  toil- 
some, and  darkness  came  upon  them  when  still  three  or  four  miles 
from  Northfield,  and  they  were  obliged  to  encamp  for  the  night.  It 
is  supposed  that  the  camping  was  near  the  small  stream  called 
*•  Four-mile  brook."  Early  on  the  morning  of  Saturday  the  4th,  Capt. 
Beers  with  most  of  his  force  started  on  foot,  and  leaving  the  horses  at 
the  camp  with  a  small  guard,  and  taking  the  tearu  with  stores  and  am- 
munition, advanced  towards  the  town,  still  ignorant  of  the  previous 
day's  assault,  and  it  seems  entirely  unsuspicious  of  an  enemy  in  the 
yidnity.  The  best  authority  for  the  scene  and  circumstances  of  the 
engagement  is  probably  that  of  Messrs.  Temple  and  Sheldon,  the 
historians  of  Northfield,  which  1  follow.     ^  He  appears  to  have  kept 

*  The  ttonr  of  an  attack  upon  Hadley,  originating  in  a  reference  by  Ifather  to  an 
**  ilArm'*  at  uadley,  and  enlarged  by  Gov.  Hutchinson  in  his  history  to  an  "  attaclc/'  in 
which  the  regicide  Judge  General  Goflb  played  the  part  of  delirerer,  which  story  snbee- 
qoent  writers  have  expanded  as  reliable  history,  giving  graphic  accounts  of  the  widely 
dreolated  legend  of  the  '*  Angel  of  Hadley/'  as  explained  by  the  sndden  appearance  of 
Gen.  Goflb,  &c.  &c.,  I  consider  to  be  entirely  without  foundation  in  fact.  See  ante,  vol. 
xzTlii.  p.  879,  a  taU  and  able  discussion  of  this  whole  matter,  by  Mr.  Sheldon  of  Deerfield. 

*>  In  the  Hlilory  of  Northfield  is  additional  information.  Sergt.  Wright,  aged  45,  the 
Jtnesea,  tons  of  £lder  William  Janes,  aged  respectively  16  and  14,  were  all  of  Northfield ; 
Fttaona,  aoed  20,  and  Curtis,  were  of  Northampton;  Peclc  was  of  Hadley;  Scott,  Ip- 
iwlch  ?  ana  Dunwich,  residence  unknown,  perhaps  identical  with  Benjamin  Dunnage,  cred- 
ited at  Brooktleld. 

But  one  Indian  was  known  to  hare  been  killed. 

TOi*.  xxxYin.        29* 


330  Soldiers  in  King  Philip's  War.  [July^ 

up  on  the  high  plain  till  he  came  in  sight  of  the  little  brook,  now 
known  as  Saw-mill  brook.  The  ravine  was  now  covered  with  a 
rank  growth  of  grass  and  ferns,  and  the  leaves  were  thick  on  the 
young  trees.'*  It  was  at  this  place  that  the  Indians  had  placed  thdr 
ambuscade.  He  advanced  across  the  brook  by  the  accustomed  ford- 
ing place,  and  just  at  the  passage,  and  when  his  company  was  most 
exposed,  was  furiously  attacked  in  front  and  flank,  and  all  were 
thrown  into  great  confusion,  but  soon  rallied  and  fought  bravely 
for  their  lives,  but  were  forced  back  by  superior  numbers  some 
three-quarters  of  a  mile  to  a  narrow  ravine  on  the  south  of  a  hill 
now  Imown  as  ^Beers's  Hill."  Here  a  stand  was  made,  and  here 
the  little  band  fought  about  their  leader,  with  the  courage  of  despe* 
ration,  till  their  ammunition  was  exhausted,  and  the  captain  with 
nearly  every  man  had  fallen ;  only  a  few  escaped,  joined  the  guard 
left  behind  with  the  horses,  and  made  their  way  back  to  Hadley, 
thirteen  in  all.  An  undoubted  tradition  points  out  the  grave  of 
Capt.  Beers  in  the  ravine  where  he  fell.  Hojrt  in  his  history,  pob> 
lished  in  1824,  says  that  the  bones  of  the  slain  were  still  occasioii- 
ally  found  protruding  from  the  sandy  knoll  where  the  battle  began. 
Mr.  Hubbard  relates  that  twenty  men  were  killed  with  their  leader. 
Mr.  Russell,  in  his  list,  says  sixteen,  and  gives  the  names  of  eleven. 
His  list  is  as  follows  : 

'<  At  Sqaakheage  y*  4  of  Sept  16  men  were  Slayn.** 

Capt  Rich''  Beers.  William  Markham. 

JohD  Chenary.  George  Lycoss. 

Ephraim  Child.  John  Gatchell. 

Benjamin  Crackbone.  James  Miller. 

Robert  Pepper.  John  Wilson. 
Joseph  Dickiuson. 

Another  list  in  the  Mass.  Archives,  vol.  67,  p.  254,  adds  seve- 
ral names  and  varies  the  spelling  of  several,  thus : 

''List  of  Capt  Beeres  and  those  slayn  soldiers,  1^75/* 

Capt  Beeres.  John  Grenery. 

John  Getchell.  Jeremiah  Morrell. 

Benjamin  Crackbon.  Elisha  Woodward. 

Ephra' Child.  WUliam  Marcam     \  Hadley 

George  Lickens.  Joseph  Dickerson     }     men. 

John  Willson.  James  Mullard. 

Thomas  Cornish.  James  Egleston 

Robert  Pepper.  killed  with  Ci^t  Beeres." 

''  8  killed  at  Sqaakheage  with  Capt  Beeres  of  whom  there  is  no  acco*." 

It  will  be  noticed  that  James  Egleston,  who  was  killed  at  Deer- 
field,  is  set  down  here.  Robert  Pepper  of  Roxbury  was  not 
killed,  but  taken  captive  and  returned  home  afterwards.  Besides 
the  thirteen  that  escaped  to  Hadley  that  same  night,  three  more 
came  in  next  day.    It  is  said  that  several  others  counted  as  killed 


1884.] 


Soldiers  in  King  Philip's  War. 


331 


were  taken  prisoners  and  afterwards  tortured  to  death.  One, 
whose  name  is  unknown,  was  reserved  for  torture,  but  was  freed 
by  a  friendly  Natick  Indian  and  made  his  escape.  John  Parke, 
son  of  Thomas  of  Cambridge  Village,  was  wounded  in  the  fight  ^  in 
the  elbow  joint  and  the  bone  broken,"  &c.  He  remained  at  Had- 
ley  till  Maj.  Appleton's  march  home,  Nov.  24.  (See  Mass.  Ar- 
duyes,  vol.  69,  p.  198.)  Probably  the  Indians  engaged  in  this 
assault  were  less  than  one  hundred  and  fifty  in  number,  composed 
of  the  Squakeags,  parties  of  Nashaways,  Quaboags,  Naticks  and 
Marlboroughs,  led  by  Monoco,  alias  ^*  One-eyed  John,**  and  Saga- 
more Sam.  The  number  of  Indians  slain  was  said  to  be  twenty- 
five,  which  is  probably  too  large  an  estimate. 

On  the  next  day,  Sept.  5th,  Major  Treat,  who  had  come  from 
Hartford  to  Hadley  on  the  3d  with  a  company  of  Connecticut  men, 
one  hundred  strong,  marched  up  to  Northfield.  At  night  (Sunday, 
5th)  he  camped  probably  near  the  camp  of  Beers,  and  on  the  6th 
went  forward  to  the  scene  of  the  battle,  finding  a  ghastly  sight,  for 
many  of  the  heads  of  the  slain  had  been  cut  off  and  set  upon  poles 
by  the  wayside.  Pausing  only  long  enough  to  perform  hasty  fune- 
ral rites,  he  passed  on  to  the  garrison  and  found  all  safe.  Hurried-* 
ly  collecting  the  people  and  all  their  effects  possible,  but  obliged  to 
leave  the  cattle,  he  marched  for  Hadley  the  same  evening.  Mr. 
Stoddard,  in  his  letter,  says  ^  they  left  the  bodies  unburied,"  which 
probably  has  reference  to  the  eight  killed  at  Northfield  in  the  attack 
on  the  2d.  Small  bodies  of  the  enemy  were  still  lurking  in  the 
vicinity  of  the  village,  and  a  party  of  the  English  that  ventured  into 
the  fields  were  attacked,^  and  Major  Treat  was  slightly  wounded  in 
the  thigh.  It  is  said  that  many  of  the  cattle  followed  in  the  retreat 
of  the  English,  and  afterwards  came  into  Hadley.  The  following 
are  the  names  of  those  who  are  in  Hull*s  Journal : 

Credited  with  Military  Service  under  Capt*  Richard  Beeres. 


Octobers,  1675. 
John  Shattuck,**  Sergt.      02 
Edward  Jackson.  00 

Ephraim  Beares.  00 

November  9^  1675. 
Joseph  Sill,  LeitU. 
Nathaniel  Bright 
Elnathan  Beeres,  Sergt, 
Nathaniel  Sanger. 
Samuel  Prentis. 


07  06 
18  00 
12  10 


08  11  06 

03  08  06 
05  02  09 

04  02  06 
01  04  00 


November  20«>'  1675. 
Jacob  Hurd. 
Richard  Beeres,  Cc^t 
Joseph  Fuller. 
John  Parkes. 
BeDJamin  Crackhone. 
William  RusselL 
(reorge  Licas. 

December  20"^  1675. 
Richard  Wood.  04 


03 

14  06 

06  08  06 

03 

07  08 

03  07  08 

02 

18  00 

04  16  00 

01 

05  08 

16  00 


*■  Mr.  Sheldon  has  foand  evidence  that  this  party  was  engaged  in  baiying  the  dead,  and 
had  afaneady  found  the  body  of  Sergt  Wright  and  baried  it  apon  the  hill  which  afterwards 
bMsme  the  Northfield  barying-ground,  when  attacked  by  the  Indians. 

**  Shattack  escaped  only  to  be  drowned  shortly  after,  crossing  Charlestown  Ferry.  (See 
Daniel  Gookin's  aocoant  in  his  **  History  of  Christian  Indians.**^  Transactions  of  Am.  An- 
liqiiarian  Sode^.  voi.  ii.  p.  466.)  John  Harrington  of  Watertown  was  badly  wounded,  but 
'  and  lived  to  old  age. 


332  Soldiers  in  King  Philip's  War.  [July, 

John  Cooke.  02  14  00  John  Bowditch.  01  16  00 

John  Harrington.  04  16  00  Ephraim  ChUd.  01  05  08 

Nathaniel  Peirce.  03  05  02  Benjamin  Taynter.  04  16  00 

Gustin  John.  05  04  06  February  29*'»  1675-6. 

January  25*^  1675-6.  Thomas  Hastings.  02  05  00 

John  Wilson.  01  05  08  Nathaniel  King.  00  12  00 

The  probable  reason  that  so  few  are  credited  under  Capt.  Beers 
is  the  fact  of  his  brief  command,  and  also  that  the  twenty-six  men 
delivered  to  him  at  Brookfield  by  Capt.  Mosely  would  probably  re- 
turn to  Mosely  and  be  credited  under  him ;  and  I  am  inclined  to 
think  that  those  who  survived  and  continued  in  the  service  would 
look  to  Capt.  Joseph  Sill,  Beers's  lieutenant,  to  sign  their  vouchers, 
and  would  receive  credit  under  him  or  the  officer  that  appeared 
afterwards  in  command. 

Capt.  Thomas  Lathrop  and  his  Men. 

Thomas  Lathrop,  or  Lothrop,  emigrated  from  England  to  Salem. 
He  was  admitted  freeman  in  1634,  and  settled  on  the  **  Bass  Siver" 
side  of  the  town,  where  he  received  a  grant  of  land  near  Mackerd 
Cove  in  1636.  He  was  lieutenant  of  the  Salem  Train-Band  in 
1644  under  Capt.  Hathorn,  and  succeeded  him  as  captain  of  the 
Artillery  Company  in  1645.  Mr.  Felt  relates  that  he  was  a  cap- 
tain under  Major  Sedgwick  in  the  expedition  of  1654-5  against 
Acadia,  when  St.  Johns  and  Port  Royal  were  reduced.  He  was  an 
active  and  influential  citizen,  represented  Salem  in  the  Greneral 
Court  in  1647,  '53  and  '64,  and  when  Beverly  was  set  oflf  in  1668 
was  chosen  first  selectman  of  the  new  town,  and  thereafter,  till  Ub 
death,  remained  a  leading  actor  in  all  its  affairs,  civil,  ecclesiastical 
and  military.  He  married  Bethia,  daughter  of  Daniel  Rea  and  sis- 
ter of  Joshua,  who  after  his  death  and  before  June,  1680,  married 
Joseph  Grafton,  of  Salem,  and  again  for  her  third  husband,  June 
26,  1683,  Dea.  William  Goodhue,  of  Ipswich.  She  died  Dec.  6, 
1686.  Capt.  Lathrop  left  no  children,  and  his  sister  Ellen,  who 
came  with  him  from  England,  and  became  the  second  wife  of  Eze- 
kiel  Cheever,  with  her  children  inherited  his  estate.  The  age  of 
Capt.  Lathrop  is  put  at  65  years  by  Mr.  Stone  in  his  history  of 
Beverly. 

In  August,  1675,  when  the  news  of  the  disaster  at  Brookfield 
came  to  the  Council,  Capt.  Lathrop  was  placed  in  command  of  the 
company  raised  in  Essex  County,  with  some  men  from  Boston 
and  vicinity,  and  marched  up  to  Brookfield,  where  he  joined  the 
forces  of  Capt.  Beers.  Their  companies  acted  mostly  together 
thereafter  up  to  the  time  of  the  latter's  march  from  Hadley  on  Sep- 
tember 3d.»* 

^  It  is  doubtful  which  of  the  two  were  in  chief  command  in  the  battle  of  Snnr-Loaf 
Hill,  on  August  25,  bat  fh>m  the  fact  that  in  all  the  early  acooants,  tIz.,  HablMra,  Slod* 
dard's  letter,  Capt.  Mosely's  endorsement  of  Dr.  Lock'a  bill,  wherein  he  sajs,  **  Hariog 


1.]  Soldiera  in  King  Philip's  War.  333 

Slated  by  recent  euccoaaes,  the  Indians  pressed  more  closely  about 
e  western  towns,  watching  warily  that  no  opportunity  might  pass 
rike  a  safe  and  telling  blow.     Their  leaders  constantly  outgen- 

Med  our  officera,  and  in  every  engagement  took  care  to  have  the 
odds  in  numbers,  position  and  method  of  attack  on  their  side  ;  and 
while  we  are  horrified  at  their  atrocities,  we  can  but  admire  their 
adroitness  and  persistence.  In  the  mean  time  additional  forces  of 
the  English  were  gathering  at  Hadley  and  vicinity,  and  all  were 
under  the  general  direction  of  Major  John  Pynchon,  of  Springfield, 
commander-in-cbief  in  the  county  of  Hampshire.  On  the  return  of 
Major  Treat  from  Northfield  with  the  garrison  and  people  of  that 
place,  a  council  of  war  waa  held,  at  which  it  was  decided  to  strength- 
en the  various  garrisons  and  hold  the  army  for  the  present  on  the 
defensive.  The  Commissionera  of  the  United  Colonies  had  agreed 
to  raise  an  army  of  five  hundred  men  for  this  campaign  ou  the  Con- 
necticut River,  Besides  the  forces  of  Lnthrop  and  Beers,  Capt. 
Applcton  had  arrived  from  the  East  early  in  September,  and  Capt. 
Mosely  with  a  company  of  sixty  on  Tuesday,  Sept.  14th,  at  eve- 
ning, and  probably  on  the  15th  croaaed  the  river  and  marched  up 
to  Deerfield.  There,  on  the  Sunday  before,  the  Indians  had  made 
an  assault  on  twenty-two  men  passing  from  fee  garrison  to 
another  to  meeting;  none  of  oura  were  killed,  but  one  was  taken 
alive  and  probably  afterwards  killed,  and  Mr.  Judd  auggests  that 
this  was  Nathaniel  Cornberry,  noted  by  Mr.  Russell  as  among  the 
slfdn.  The  Indians  then  burned  two  houaea,  aecured  aeveral  horeo- 
loads  of  beef  and  pork,  killed  many  horsea,  and  with  their  plunder 
betook  themselves  to  a  hill  in  Deerfiold  meadow.  On  the  reception 
of  thia  newa  at  Northampton,  the  officers  there  raised  a  body  of 
volunteers,  who  with  others  hxim  Hadley  and  a  part  of  Capt.  Lfr- 
throp's  company,  marched  up  on  Monday,  13th,  to  Deerfield  gar- 
rison, and  on  the  next  day  went  out  with  the  aoldiers  of  the  garri- 
son to  attack  the  Indians  at  the  hill,  but  they  were  all  fied.  Major 
Treat,  on  Sept.  9th,  had  returned  to  Hartford,  leaving  a  part  of  his 
ibrce  distributed  in  the  varioue  towns  in  garrison.  On  the  15th  or 
16th  he  came  to  Northampton  with  additional  Connecticut  troops, 
and  Capt,  John  Mason,  of  Norwich,  came  there  soon  after  with  a 
body  of  Mohegan  and  Pequod  Indiana.  I  think  it  probable  that 
the  remainder  of  Capt.  Lathrop's  company,  except  the  sick  and 
wounded,  passed  over  with  Capt.  Mosely. 

Such  was  the  position  of  affairs  on  Sept.  18th.  At  Deerfield  a 
large  quantity  of  com  had  been  gathered  from  the  fields  and  loaded 
upon  carts,  teams  and  drivers  provided,  and  Capt.  Lathrop  with 
his  company  were  appointed  as  n  guard  to  Hadley,  where  it  was  to 

JoineJ  mrFcir  wltb  Cnpt.  Laibrop  having  tlic  Hniorltjr  tommandvd  tho  b^  Chrrargooti  From 
nee."  From  llicM  rereronccs  I  ttiinE  it  prnlKililo  IhaC  Ca|it.  Lnthrop  was  ia  cbiet  eoatmani, 
•llbougb  Id  hi*  "  Lancdster  "  lenar  Moael;  aptaka  at  marcblng  In  c!ompao;r  with  "  Ci.pL 
Bmim  uhl  Copuln  l^joap," 


334  Soldiers  in  King  Philip's  War.  [July, 

be  stored.  The  English  evidently  had  no  thoaght  that  any  con- 
siderable force  of  the  enemy  were  in  the  vicinity,  and  Capt.  Mosely 
and  his  company  remained  behind  and  were  scouting  in  search 
of  them  through  the  woods  about.  But  a  large  body^  had  crossed 
the  river  secretly,  and,  undiscovered,  were  watching  every  motion 
of  the  English ;  and  now  with  their  usual  tactics  they  placed  a 
large  ambuscade  in  a  place  which  offered  unusual  advantage,  across 
the  line  of  march.  This  place  was  some  five  miles  from  the  place 
of  starting,  at  what  is  now  South  Deerfield  village,  where  a  small 
stream,  then  known  as  ^ Muddy  Brook"  (but  ever  since  as  ^Bloody 
Brook  ") ,  crossed  the  road.  The  English  seem  to  have  taken  no 
precaution  whatever  against  surprise,  and  many  of  the  soldiers  it 
is  said  had  placed  their  arms  upon  the  carts  to  be  carried,  and  were 
gathering  wild  grapes  by  the  roadside. 

We  can  never  know  with  certainty  much  of  the  details  of  the  bat- 
tle, or  rather  massacre,  that  ensued.  The  survivors  on  this  oocir 
sion  were  few,  and  doubtless  if  questioned  could  give  but  incoherent 
and  exaggerated  accounts.  Moreover,  contemporary  historians 
seem  to  have  been  indifferent  to  particulars,  and  to  have  inclined 
rather  to  moralizing  upon  general  events,  and  succeeding  historians 
have  mainly  repeated  the  stories  of  the  first,  and  it  is  only  within 
the  last  few  decades  that  our  devoted  historical  societies,  with  their 
increasing  facilities,  have  made  the  methods  of  intelligent  criticbm 
possible.  Gen.  Epaphras  Hoyt,  of  Deerfield,  wrote  a  history  of 
the  Indian  wars  more  than  fifty  years  ago,  which  seems  to  be  the 
first  eflfort  at  analysis.  In  that  work  are  many  important  questions 
raised  and  valuable  suggestions  presented.  In  regard  to  this  affair 
he  suggests  that  the  main  part  of  the  troops  had  passed  over  the 
brook  and  were  waiting  the  slow  movements  of  the  lumbering  teams 
over  the  rough  roads.  The  Indians  crept  stealthily  about  and  en- 
compassed the  whole  company  and  fell  upon  them  with  sudden  and 
terrible  fury,  so  that  many  were  shot  down  or  disabled  at  the  first 
volley,  including  probably  Capt.  Lathrop.  Doubtless  a  brave  re- 
sistance was  made,  but  with  little  avail .^  The  coming  of  Capt. 
Mosely  upon  the  scene  after  the  disaster,  his  subsequent  fight  and 
opportune  reinforcement  by  Major  Treat,  have  been  previously 
related. 

As  to  the  number  of  the  English  killed  in  this  encounter,  early 

*^  The  Nipmncks,  joined  with  Philip's  Narragansetts  and  Wampanoa^  The  wliole 
number  was  estimated  at  the  time  from  five  to  seven  handred.  It  is  doabtfnl  whether 
Philip  was  present  in  person.  The  loss  of  the  Indians  in  the  sabseqaent  action  with  Mosdy 
and  Treat  was  doubtless  heavy,  but  the  story  of  **  96  slain  "  is  unworthy  the  least  credit. 
They  carefully  concealed  their  losses. 

*0  In  the  Harleian  Miscellany,  vol.  8,  p.  72,  in  a  letter  sent  fh>m  Boston,  Mass.,  to  Lob- 
don,  Dec.  28, 1675,  containing  the  official  manifesto  issued  by  the  Massachusetts  CoDneil, 
Dec.  7,  1675,  explaining  the  course  of  events  in  the  war,  is  the  following  reference  to  Capt 
Lathrop : 

** Tet  let  not  the  world  censure  too  much  Capt.  Lathrop;  he,  in  the  Peqnot  wars,  bad 
done  exploits ;  nor  in  this  would  have  been  behind-hand  if  the  narrow  passage  or  causef, 
where  his  unexpected  enemies  set  on  him,  would  have  given  him  leave  to  have  drawn  ap 
his  men." 


1884.]  Soldiers  in  King  Philip's  War.  335 

accounts  vary.  In  the  poetscript  to  a  letter  from  the  Massachusetts 
Council  to  Richard  Smith,  of  Narraganset,  dated  Sept.  22,  IGTS, 
and  still  preserved  in  the  Archives,  vol.  67,  p.  262,  the  statement 
is  made  that  **  above  forty  of  Capt.  Lathrop's  men  with  himself 
were  slain ;"  and  then  it  is  further  stated  that  Capt.  Mosely  lost 
deven  men  in  the  subsequent  fight,  which  together  with  many  lost 
that  were  with  the  teams  made  up  sixty-four  in  all,  who  were 
buried  the  next  day.  Mr»  Mather  relates  that  above  threenscore 
were  slain.  Mr.  Hubbard  reckons  eighty  as  the  number  in  the 
company  of  the  English,  including  doubtless  the  teamsters,  and  says 
that  not  above  seven  or  eight  escaped.  In  Rev.  Mr.  RusselFs  list, 
noticed  above,  the  number  of  slain  is  put  at  seventy-one.  This  last 
is  probably  nearly  correct,  as  Mr.  Hull's  credits,  now  for  the  first 
time  published,  after  a  lapse  of  more  than  two  hundred  years,  go  far 
to  prove.  The  list  pertaining  to  ^  Bloody  Brook  "  is  given  below 
entire.  It  has  been  copied  from  the  original  with  the  utmost 
care,  and  proved  and  tested  letter  by  letter  till  I  feel  sure  of  its 
accuracy.  This  list  was  first  copied  by  Mr.  Coffin  some  fiflteen 
years  before  he  published  his  *' Newbury,"  and  is  the  most  nearly 
correct  of  any  list  that  has  been  published  hitherto  that  I  know  of; 
bat  a  comparison  of  his  text  with  the  original  will  show  many  mis- 
takes.    The  following  is  the  list : 

"  At  Muddy-Brook  bridge  y*  18  Sept.  71  men  slaine." 

Capt  Thomas  Laythrop  Caleb  Eemball  George  Ropes 

Sergt.  Thomas  Smith  Thomas  Hobs  Joseph  Kinge 

Samuel  Stevens  Robert  Homes  Thomas  Alexander 

John  Hobs  Edward  Traske  ffrancis  ffreinde 

Daniel  Button  Richard  Lambert  Abel  Osyer 

John  Harriman  Josiah  Dodge  John  LiUeale 

Tliomas  Bayley  Peter  Woodberry  Samuel  Hudson 

Esekiel  Sawier  Joseph  Bolch  Adam  Clarke 

Jacob  Kilboroe  Samuel  Whitteiidge  Ephraim  ffarah 

Thomas  Manninga  William  Duy  Robert  Wilson 

Jacob  Waynwritt  Serg*  Samuel  Stevens  Stevea  Welmao 

Benjamin  Roper  Samuel  Crumpton  Benjamin  fTarnell 

John  Bennett  John  Plum  Solomon  Alley 

Thomas  Menter  Thomas  Buckley  John  Merrit 

The  forty-two  above  were  evidently  soldiers  of  Capt.  Lathrop, 
and  the  following  were  set  down  by  Mr.  Russell  as  including  the 
teamsters : 

Robert  Hinsdall*^  Joshua  Carter  William  Smeade 

Samuel  Hinsdall  John  Barnard  Zebadiah  Williams 

Barnabas  Hinsdall  James  Tufts  Kliakim  Marshall 

John  Hinsdall  Jonathan  Plimpton  James  Mudge 

Joseph  GUlett  Philip  Barsham  George  Cole 

John  AUin  Thomas  Weller 

"  Father  and  three  sons.    Most  of  the  others  were  Deerfleld  men.    George  Cole  Is  cred- 
ited nnder  Capt  L.,  and  was  probably  of  his  company,  perhaps  of  Lynn.    The  following 


336 


Soldiers  in  King  Philip^ a  War. 


[July. 


From  sundry  petitions  preserved  in  the  Archives,  and  from  casual 
references  here  and  there,  we  find  a  few  additional  names.  Joseph 
Prince,  of  Salem,  was  pressed  under  Capt.  Lathrop  and  went  u 
far  as  Quaboag,  but  was  there  given  leave  to  go  home  to  his  dying 
father,  and  did  not  return  to  the  army.  Mrs.  Buth  Bates  had  two 
sons,  Clement  and  Solomon,  who  went  out  with  Lathrop  and  sur- 
vived the  fight,  if  they  were  in  it,  and  spent  the  winter  in  the  garri- 
son at  Westfield ;  Clement  was  killed  there  in  the  spring,  and  the 
mother  petitions  in  April,  1676,  for  the  release  of  Solomon.  John 
Smith's  petition,  Archives,  vol.  69,  p.  23,  shows  that  two  servants 
of  his  had  been  pressed,  and  one  of  them  having  been  out  some 
three  months,  was  killed  with  Capt.  Lathrop ;  hia  name  is  not  given, 
but  the  other,  Mungo  Craford,  having  been  out  near  ten  months, 
was  left  through  the  winter  as  a  garrison  soldier  at  Hadley  or  near, 
and  is  still  there.  Smith  petitions  for  his  release  or  pay  for  his 
service.  Smith  was  of  Boston,  and  Craford  returned  and  settled 
there  ;  Mrs.  Bates  was  the  widow  of  Clement  of  Hingham. 

In  a  note  in  the  Appendix  to  Edward  Everett's  Bloody  Brook 
oration,  Rev.  Joseph  B.  Felt  gives  the  above  list,  and  adds  the 
place  of  residence  of  many.     The  following  in  Hull's  Journal  are 


Credited  under 

October  19,  1675 

John  Palmer,  Corpl  04  11  00 

Nov'  9,  1675 

John  Langbury.  02  08 

Edmond  Bridges.  01  00 

Joseph  Emons.  01  17 

Samuel  Rust.  02  08 

John  Plum.  01  17 

November  30**»  1675 

Richard  Lambard.  01  18 

Samuel  Stevens.  02  13 

Robert  Holmes.  02  08 

Joseph  Balch.  01  18 

Thomas  Lathrop,  Capt.  09  13 

Peter  Woodbury.  01  18 

Paul  Thorndike.  03  04 

John  Plummer.  00  18 

Edward  Trask.  02  03 

Thomas  Buckly.  01  17 

Samuel  Steevena.  01  17 


Capt  Thomas  Lathrop. 

Samuel  Chapman. 

Thomas  Kemball. 

Caleb  Kemball. 
10  Thomas  Hobbs. 
00  Jan'y  25,  1675- 

00     William  Dew.  (Due) 
00    Josiah  Dodge. 
08    John  Harriman. 

Mathew  Scales. 
06    Joseph  Pearson. 
10    Jacob  Kilbom. 
00    Thomas  BaUy. 
06     Ezekiel  Sawyer. 
00    Blase  Vinton. 
06     Andrew  Stickney. 
04     Greorge  Ropps. 
00     Benjamin  Roper. 
00     Ephraim  Farrar. 
08     Solomon  Ally. 
08     Benjamin  Furnell. 


00  18  10 

00  12  10 

01 

16  00 

01  16  00 

6. 

01 

18  06 

01 

18  06 

01 

18  06 

00  18  00 

00  18  00 

01 

18  06 

01  18  06 

01 

18  06 

01  08  08 

01 

16  00 

01 

17  08 

01 

17  08 

01 

16  00 

01 

16  00 

01 

16  00 

men  are  set  down  as  of  Deerfleld,  and  credited  by  Hall  in  the  **  Beefe  "  account  Richani 
Weller,  William  Pixlv,  Daniel  Weld,  James  Tafts.  William  Smeade,  Joseph  Oillett,  Bx- 
perience  Hinsdall,  John  Stebbin,  John  Hawkes.  Nathaniel  Sotlive  it  credited  for  cattle. 
Others  credited  for  cattle,  billeting,  &c.,  at  the  same  time,  Jane  24, 1676,  bat  of  coarse  ibr 
the  year  before.  Sarah  Field,  Ephraim  Hinsdall,  Solomon  Stoddard,  Thomas  MekinB,Bi^ 
nabas  Hinsdall,  Joshuah  Carter,  John  Plimpton,  Thomas  Hastings,  Samson  Fmrr,  Qoefi- 
tin  Stockwell,  John  Allen,  Moses  Crafts,  Samnel  Hinsdall,  Peter  and  Jona^n  Plimptos. 
Thomas  Weller  was  probably  son  of  Richard,  and  Barnard  was  of  Hadley,  son  of  Frtnd>> 
Barsham  and  Williams  were  of  Deerfleld,  Marshall  and  Madge  were  probably  of  Lathrop^ 
company.  Marshall,  sometime  of  Stratford,  Conn.,  now  peraape  of  Boetoo,  and  Mod^  ^ 
Maiden,  son  of  Thomas  and  Sarah. 


1884.] 


Soldiers  in  King  Philip^s  War. 


337 


John  Merrett. 

01  17  08 

Thomas  Rose. 

04  04  00 

February  29*»»  1675-6 

Thomas  Smith. 

01  18  06 

Edmond  Moore. 

03  12  00 

George  Cole. 

03  11  06 

Eleazer  Keyser. 

00  12  00 

Timothy  Bray. 

01  05  08 

Thomas  Manning. 

02  10  06 

John  Denison. 

00  16  02 

Thomas  Rose. 

03  00  00 

July  24"^  1676 

Stephen  VVarroan. 

01  17  08 

John  Bullock." 

15  08  00 

John  Littlehall. 

01  17  08 

Joseph  King. 

01  16  00 

John  Andrews. 

01  01  09 

August 

24«»  1676 

-Samuel  Crumpton. 

01   18  06 

Mark  Pitman. 

01  16  10 

Jacob  VVainwright. 

02  14  06 

Thomas  Bayly. 

01  16  10 

June  24"»  1676 

f 

Abel  Ozzier. 

01  16  00 

Thomas  Mentor. 

01  18  06 

John  Bennett 

01  17  08 

Zekeriah  Davis. 

07  04  00 

Moses  Pengry. 

01  19  04 

In  addition  to  the  above  names  and  faxsts,  we  glean  the  following 
irom  various  sources.  From  Coffin's  History  of  Newbury  we  learn 
that  on  August  5th,  1675,  were  impressed  at  Newbury, 


Steven  Greenleaf 
Thomas  Smith 
John  Toppan 


Caleb  Richardson 
Daniel  Rolf 
John  Hobbs 


Daniel  Button 
John  Wheeler 
Henry  Bodweli 


And  fourteen  days'  provision  supplied  them  by  the  town.  John 
Toppan  at  Bloody  Brook  was  wounded  in  the  shoulder,  but  con- 
cealed himself  in  the  bed  of  a  brook  nearly  dry  by  pulling  grass  and 
weeds  over  his'  body,  and  thus  escaped,  though  several  times  the 
Indians  stepped  over  him.  A  similar  story  is  told  of  a  soldier  who 
escaped  at  Beers's  figlit«  Henry  Bodwell  had  his  left  arm  broken* 
but  being  of  great  strength  and  courage  seized  his  gun  in  his  right 
hand  and  swinging  it  about  his  head  charged  furiously  through  the 
Indians  and  got  away.  Greenleaf,  Toppan,  Richardson,  Wheeler 
and  Bodwell  were  credited  Dec.  lOtli,  under  Major  Appleton, 
with  such  large  amounts  that  I  think  the  service  must  have  included 
tiine    under  Capt.    Lathrop.      Rolf  was  credited  at  Marlborough 

O*  on.  Thos.  Vary  (Very),  under  Capt.  L.,  was  wounded, 
is  petition,  Mass,  Archives,  vol.  69,  p.  260.  In  Felt's  Ipswich 
it  18  stated  that  Thomas  Scott  (killed  at  Northfield)  had  been  of 
Ipswich,  as  also  Thomas  Manning,  Jacob  Wainwright,  Caleb 
Kimball,  Samuel  Whittridge.  Robert  Dutch,  of  whom  Mr.  Hub- 
bard relates  the  wonderful  recovery  from  apparent  death,  was  also 
of  Ipswich.  Mention  is  made  also  of  James  Bennet  slain,  and  John 
Fisher  wounded. 

The  following  bill  of  Jacob  Gardiner,  from  Mass.  Archives,  vol. 
69,  p.  44,  contains  further  names  and  suggestions. 

••  Bullock  was  "  crippled  "  in  the  war,  and  his  large  credit  may  be  due  to  that.  He 
««8  of  Salem,  and  was  afterwards  favored  by  the  Court  and  granted  a  Ucense  to  keep  a 
^  Yfetoftlling  shop,**  January  9, 1680. 


¥OL.  XXXVIU. 


^ 


338  Soldiers  in  King  Philip^a  War.  •  [July, 

'<  An  AmouDt  of  worke  Done  for  Souldiers  under  j*  Commands  of  Oipl: 
Latherup  by  Jacob  Gardener  &  by  y*  order  John  Coalman  Comesary  k 
Daniel  White  Counstable  of  Hattfield  12*^  of  August  75 

Tho:  Hobbes.  a  paire  of  shewes      .        .         .         .  0.  6.  0 

Sam:  Hudson;  A  paire  of  Shewes  &  Leather       •         •  0.  9.  2 

Tho:  Bay leff  ffor  mending  shewes  .         .         .  0.  1.  2 

tlosiah  Bridges  Scabert 0.  I.  3 

Eobert  Leach  a  Scabert  and  mending  His  Shewes  .  0.  2.  9 

Tho:  Tenne  a  pouch  &  Belt  and  Mending  his  Shewes  0.  L  3 

Thomas  Peckes  a  pouch         .         .         •         .         •  0.  L  0 

Capt.  Latherup  3  belts 0.  3.  0 

Daniel  Ring  a  pouch  &  belt    .        .        .         .         .  0.  1.  6 

Abiell  Sadler  a  pouch  &  belt 0.  2.  0 

firances  Young  a  pouch  &  belt        .        .         .         .  0.  L  9 

Gershom  Browne  a  purse  &  belt         .         .        .         .  0.  L  9 

JohnTapin;  a  pouch  &  belt  .         .         .         •  0.  1.  9 

Steven  Butler  a  pouch  &  belt 0.  1.  9 

John  Presson  a  pouch  &  belt  .         .        .         .  0.  L  9 

John  Dauis  a  pouch  &  belt  .         .         .         .  0.  L  9 

Samuel  Hibbert  a  pouch  &  belt  •        .         .         .  0.  1.  9 

Tho:  Hay  son  a  pouch  &  belt  .         .         .         .  0.  1.  9 

Tho:  Hobbs  a  pouch  &  belt 0.  L  9 

Walter  Hickson  a  powder  bage  &  belt     .        .         .  0.  2.  9 

John  Boynton  for  mending  Shewes     .         .        .         .  0.  2.  0 

John  Wicher  a  belt 0.  1.  3 

Tho:  Hayson  a  belt 0.  1.  3 

The  Totall     2.  12.  1 

To  the  Honnoured  Coinety  This  is  to  Certifie  you  that  these  goods  haye 
been  delivered  to  y*  persons  above  written  by  y*  order  of:" 

I  think  it  may  be  fairly  inferred  from  the  above  bill,  that  nearly 
all,  if  not  all,  those  mentioned  were  in  Capt.  Lathrop^s  company. 
Fourteen  of  these  were  credited  afterwards  under  Major  Appleton, 
and  will  there  appear  with  names  a  little  differently  spelled ;  for  in- 
stance, Whicher,  Hazen,  Toppan,  Tenney,  &c.  Hobbs  and  Bay- 
ley  are  in  RusselFs  death-list,  Hickson  was  credited  under  Capt. 
Poole.  Presson  served  under  Gardner  at  Narraganset,  and  next 
year  under  Capt.  Turner.  Hudson  and  Peckes  appear  in  another 
later  Ledger  in  1677,  proving  that  they  were  not  among  the  un- 
known slain. 

Gen.  Hoyt,  before  mentioned,  writing  in  1824,  relates  that,  "The 

f)lace  where  this  tragic  affair  happened  is  near  the  centre  of  the  vil- 
age  of  Muddy-Brook,  and  about  thirty  rods  southerly  of  the  meet- 
ing-house in  that  place.  The  stage  road  passes  over  the  ground 
and  crosses  the  brook  on  a  small  bridge,  precisely  where  Lathrop 
passed.  A  rude  monument  was  erected  near  the  place  of  attack 
sometime  after  the  catastrophe.  It  stood  in  what  is  now  the  front 
yard  of  the  house  of  Stephen  Whitney,  Esq.,  on  the  east  side  of  the 
public  way,   but  is  now  gone  to  decay,  and  two  plain  stone  flagS) 


1884.]  Jfotes  and  Queries.  339 

lying  near  the  front  of  the  house,  are  its  only  remains.  Several 
gentlenien  have  it  in  contemplation  to  repair  the  old  or  erect  a  new 
monument,  near  the  same  spot,  with  appropriate  inscription.'* 
Probably  the  **  stone  slab  "  spoken  of  below  may  have  been  placed 
by  the  gentlemen  referred  to.  See  note  on  this  matter,  Reg.,  vol. 
xxvi.  p.  435. 

On  September  30,  N.  S.  (erroneously  supposed  to  correspond  to 
the  18th,  O.  S.),  1835,  the  Anniversary  of  Lathrop's  defeat  was 
celebrated  at  Deerfield,  and  a  monument,  commemorative  of  the 
event,  was  afterwards  erected  there.  Upon  this  monument  is  the 
following  inscription : 

"  Erected  August,  1838." 

'^  On  this  ground  Capt.  Thomas  Lathrop  and  eighty  men  under  bis  com- 
mand including  eighteen  teamsters  from  Deerfield,  conveying  stores  from 
that  town  to  Hadley,  were  ambushed  by  about  700  Indians,  and  the  Cap- 
tain and  seventy-six  men  slain  Sept.  18th,  1675." 

Some  twenty  rods  south  of  this  monument  the  grave  of  the  slain 
is  marked  by  a  stone  slab  bearing  the  simple  inscription,  *'  Grave 
of  Capt.  Lathrop  and  men  slain  by  the  Indians,  1675." 

On  the  occasion  of  the  celebration  in  1835,  Edward  Everett  de* 
livered  the  oration,  and  Miss  Harriet  Martineau  was  present,  and 
afterwards  wrote  a  sharp  criticism  of  his  address.  Both  address 
and  criticism  were  fine  as  literary  productions,  but  equally  faulty  as 
history. 

I  am  indebted  to  the  Hon.  George  Sheldon,  of  Deerfield,  for 
many  valuable  suggestions  and  much  kindly  assistance  in  preparing 
this  present  chapter. 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 

Notes. 

Ms.  Watsrs^s  GKNEATX)aicAL  RESEARCHES  IN  ENGLAND.— The  following  extracts 
from  a  letter  written  May  13,  1884,  from  London,  by  Mr.  Waters  to  Prof.  E.  N. 
Honford,  of  Cambridge,  Mass.,  will  show  those  who  have  contributed  to  the  fund 
for  defraying  bis  expenses,  what  be  is  doing  and  what  he  intends  to  do. 

•'  I  have  received  from  various  quarters  evidences  of  the  interest  which  my  *  gen- 
ealogical gleanings  '  have  aroused,  but  none  so  flattering  and  gratifying  as  your 
klDcT letter  of  29th  ult.,  with  its  generous  enclosure.  I  thank  you  with  all  my 
heart.  It  has  given  new  zest  to  my  laborious  but  fascinating  work,  in  the  gloomy 
cellar  of  Somerset  House,  of  exhuming  the  records  of  a  buried  past,  a  work  so  con- 
genial to  my  tastes,  so  much  a  *  la^r  of  love,*  and  in  which  my  enthusiasm  is 
Eept.  by  daily  success,  so  constantly  at  a  white  heat  that,  if  1  could  only  look  for- 
ward to  an  assured  support  for  the  rest  of  my  life,  no  one  would  work  harder  than 
I  aod  none  take  greater  delight  in  his  work.  I  have  an  intense  and  natural  desire 
to  show  what  can  be  done  by  one  who  is  released  from  all  anxiety  about  financial 
matters,  and  who  is  not  obliged  to  look  to  private  orders  for  pecuniary  support. 
Your  exceeding  kindness  emboldens  me  to  urge  that  you  will  exert  what  inauence 
jou  may  postiess  among  men  of  wealth,  who  are  at  all  interested  in  genealogy,  to 
piaoo  that  fund,  which  Mr.  Haasam  and  his  colleagues  have  io  chargOi  on  such  a 


340  Notes  and  Queries,  [Jnlj, 

footing  that  I  may  feel  at  liberty  to  refuse  all  private  orders,  if  need  be,  or  at  leiik 
such  as,  in  my  judgment,  would  take  up  too  much  of  my  time  from  the  more  im- 

ftortant  general  work.  I  know  it  will  be  said  that  every  one  wants  his  own  special 
ine  hunted  up,  and  cares  but  little  about  his  neighbors,  fint,  on  the  other  band, 
every  one  is  only  too  glad  to  have  a  clew  placed  in  his  hands,  as  a  sare  gakis 
tlirough  the  genealogical  labyrinth,  by  which  he  may  know  whither  to  turn  wbea 
entering  unknown  ground ;  and  this  clew  is  just  what  my  work  will  be  likely  to  for- 
nitfh.  It  is  a  fact  Isuppose  readily  admitted  by  American  genealogists  that,  as  a 
rule,  whatsoever  success  may  have  been  attained  in  tracing  Amerioan  families,  has 
been  in  carrying  them  back  to  the  period  of  the  first  settlement ;  beyond  that  all  is 
mysterious  and  obscure,  the  trail  seems  lost  in  the  water.  If  then  any  person  is 
desirous  of  pursuing  these  researches  on  English  ground,  he  is  '  all  at  sea.  In  his 
American  hunt  he  had  his  knowledge  of  localities  to  guide  him  and  records  of  deeds 
to  assist  him,  for  he  knew  generally  where  to  look.  In  England  he  knows  not 
which  way  to  turn,  and  so,  without  a  lamp  to  guide  him,  he  blindly  gathers  all  the 
persons  of  the  name,  hoping  ultimately,  by  comparison  and  a  process  of  elimina- 
tion, to  hit  upon  the  right  line  ;  while  all  the  time  some  littleyoc^  that  vrould  ha?e 
furnished  all  the  needful  light  to  have  shown  him  where  to  look  may  be  lyin^  hidden 
in  the  will  of  some  person  hearing  another  name — 9,  fact  which  such  gleanings  as  I 
am  making  might  have  made  known,  and  thus  saved  him  from  gathering  a  lot  of 
maferial  the  greater  part  of  which  would  be  waiite  matter  so  fiir  as  his  object  ia 
concerned. 

*'  The  state  of  genealogical  science  (if  I  may  so  call  it)  in  America  is  00  fiBkradfane- 
ed,  the  interest  taken  in  it  so  deep  and  widespread,  and  the  desire  to  connect  wi(h 
English  families  so  evident,  that  it  was  high  time,  in  my  opinion,  for  the  step  to  be 
taken,  as  it  was  by  Mr.  Uassam  and  his  associates  last  year,  of  sending  over  an 
agent  to  make  a  general  search  among  the  English  records  for  everything  that 
might  be  useful  as  a  clew  or  guide,  and  of  publishing  the  results  of  this  search  m 
the  Register,  that  thus  there  might  he  formed,  for  the  use  of  all,  a  collection  of 
well-assured  facts  that  should  hereafter  prevent,  so  far  as  possible,  all  blind  grop- 
ing in  the  dark,  and  serve  all  individual  explorers  as  a  firm  and  sure  basis  or  start- 
ing point  from  which  to  be^in  their  search  in  Engbvnd.  There  need  be  no  fear  of 
the  giving  out  of  the  material  here.  The  genealogical  wealth,  on  every  side,  is  so 
great  that  I  have  ceased  to  be  amazed  at  it.  Wherever  I  have  prospected  in  the 
records,  from  the  middle  of  the  sixteenth  to  the  middle  of  the  seventeenth  centu- 
ries, I  have  found  indications  of  great  richness,  i  never  take  a  book  to  turn  tbe 
leaves  at  random  that  I  do  not  exf)0ct  to  find  something  that  will  pay  me  for  so  do- 
ing, i  take  the  recordn  consecutively,  looking  over  each  page  and  making  such 
references  as  seem  worth  noting.  I  occasionally  make  excursions  when  the  trail 
seeois  broad  and  clear,  as  in  the  SyIvcHt(;r  and  Brinlcy  notes,  but  1  intend  generally 
to  confine  myself  to  the  period  a  little  before  the  migrations  of  1628-30  and  tbe 
next  half  century.  It  is  just  a  year  since  I  came  here,  and  I  have  already  accumu- 
luted  about  six  hundred  abstracts  of  wills  which  surely  relate  to  the  first  setUers 
(prububly  a  few  more) ,  besides  many  hundred  other  references  which  may  be  uf  u^ 
eventually.'* 

Death  of  Robert  Calef,  1722. — The  following  is  an  abstract  by  the  Rev.  Lucian 
R  Paige,  D.D.,  of  a  dix^umcnt  found  by  him  in  1841  on  the  Suffolk  County  Court 
files.  Since  that  time,  the  files  having  been  i*earranged,  he  hah  loKt  sight  of  the 
original. 

**  Calef.  Dec.  4,  1722.  An  Inquisition  at  Chatham,  Barnstable  Co.  Mft*«., 
*  the  fourth  day  of  Dec'  in  the  ninth  year  of  the  Keign  of  our  Sovereign  bird 
George,  hy  the  grace  of  God  of  England,'  &c  — *  upon  view  of  the  body  of  Roljert 
Calf  of  Boston,  in  the  Co.  of  Suffolk  in  N.  Eng.  aforesaid,  merchant.'  Verdict:— 
'  Tliat  the  albretiaid  Kobert  Call  in  manner  ana  form  aforesaid,  then  and  there  vol- 
untarily and  feloniously,  as  a  felon  of  himHelf,  did  kill  and  murder  himnelf  by 
drownini:  liiinself,*  &c. — signed  by  Richard  Knowles,  Coroner,  and  by  Perez  Brad- 
ford and  fourteen  others,  jurors." 

The  person  on  whose  body  the  inquisition  was  held  was  Robert  Calef,  Jr.  lie 
was  a  son  of  Kobert  Calef  who  died  A|)ril  13,  1719,  aged  71,  aecordin:;  t»  the  In- 
scription on  his  gravestone  printed  in  tlie  Kkgister,  xiv.  52.  Tlie  j^ou  was  at  «'ne 
time  supposed  to  be  the  author  of  '*  More  Wonders  of  the  Invisihie  World."  (^ee 
AVhiiman's  History  of  the  .Ancient  and  Honorable  Artillery  Company,  edition  of 
1642,  p.  253 ;  Savage's  Gen.  Diet.,  vol.  1.  p.  329;  8.  G.  Drake's  Witchcraft  Dela- 


1884.]  Jfotea  and  Queries.  341 

Insioo,  Tol.  ii.  pp.  xii.  to  zxiz.  and  pedigree ;  and  Memorial  History  of  Boston,  toI. 
ii.  p.  167.)  Mr.  Whitman  was  prooably  the  first  writer  to  attribute  the  authorship 
to  the  son.  The  name  of  Robert  Galfe,  Jr.,  is  found  on  the  roils  of  the  Artillery 
Company  ander  the  year  1710.  Mr.  Whitman  took  this  person  to  be  the  author  of 
More  Wonders,  in  which  opinion  John  Farmer  seems  to  have  concurred,  though 
Fanner  doubted  whether  Jr.  was  properly  added  (Whitman's  History  as  above 
eUed).  Whitman  confounds  the  two  persons,  giving  the  date  of  the  father's  death 
aBibfttof  theson. 

Our  writers  and  antiquaries  seem  to  have  followed  Whitman  in  attributing  the 
work  to  the  son  till  1876,  when  the  researches  of  Matthew  A.  Stickney  in  the  gene- 
alo|(y  of  the  Calef  family  led  him  to  think  that  the  father  v^as  the  author  (Registbr, 
zxz.  461).  F.  S.  Drake,  in  his  History  of  Roxbury,  published  in  1878,  expresses  the 
same  opinion.  An  ori^nal  letter  of  the  author  of  More  Wonders  is  preserved  in  the 
Lanox  Libraiy,  a  fao-simile  of  which  will  be  found  in  Uie  Memorial  History  of 
BostoD,  vol.  ii.  p.  168. 


Watson. — ^There  were  two  John  Watsons  in  Bradford,  Mass.,  in  suoceesive  gene- 
lations.     Were  they  kinsmen  ? 

The  earlier  John  Watson  married  Unas  Barker,  daughter  of  James  Barker.  Thev 
iiad  a  son  Nathaniel.  John  Watson  died  in  1685,  and  his  widow  Unas  made  oath 
to  tbe  inventory  of  his  estate  as  returned  to  the  Probate  Court  29th  Sept.  1685. 

The  later  John  Watson  married  in  Bradford,  25th  Feb.  1691-2,  Ruth  Hartshome. 
Deeds  in  Essex  registry  show  him  resident  in  Bradford  till  1718,  when  he  says  **  late 
of  Bradford,  now  of  Cape  Porpoise,*  county  of  York.*'  In  this  deed  of  his  home- 
stead in  Bradford  he  reserves  to  his  aged  mother  '*  the  privilege  of  remaining  in  the 
aniall  house,  she  now  occupies  on  the  premises,  so  lun^  as  she  shall  see  meet."  In 
1731,  John  and  Ruth  Watson  execute  a  deed  in  which  they  are  described  as  of 
Amndel.  Gxo.  A.  Gordon. 


AmRiCAN  Newspapers  in  1884. — From  the  new  edition  of  Messrs.  G.  P.  Rowell 
it  Co.*s  **  American  Newspaper  Directory,''  it  appears  that  the  newspapers  and 
periodicals  of  all  kinds  at  present  issued  in  the  United  States  and  Canada  reach  a 
grand  total  of  13,402.  This  is  a  net  gain  of  precisely  1,600  during  the  previous 
twelve  months,  and  exhibits  an  increase  of  5,618  over  the  total  number  published 
just  ten  years  since.  The  increase  in  1874  over  the  total  for  1873  was  493.  During 
tbe  past  year  the  dailies  have  increased  from  1,138  to  1,254;  the  weeklies  from 
9,063  to  10,028  ;  and  the  monthlies  from  1,091  to  1,499.  The  greatest  increase  is 
in  the  western  states.  Illinois,  for  instance,  now  shows  1,009  papers  in  plac»  of 
last  year's  total  of  904,  while  Missouri  issues  604  instead  of  the  523  reported  in 
1G83.  Other  leading  western  states  also  exhibit  a  great  percentage  of  increase. 
Tbe  total  number  of  papers  in  New  York  state  is  1,523,  against  1,399  in  1883. 
Canada  has  shared  in  the  general  increase. 


EliNO — SoDTHOATE. — Through  the  courtesy  of  A.  K.  P.  Meserve,  Esq.,  of  Buxton, 
in  carefully  searching  the  records  of  the  *'  ISecond  Church  *'  in  Scarboro*,  Me.,  the 
following  entries  have  been  found.  They  are  interesting  as  giving  particulars  relat- 
ing to  Richard  King,  of  Scarboro',  and  his  son  the  Hon.  Rufus  King,  Minister  to 
England  under  Washington. 

Baptisms, 

1755,  April  6,  Child  of  Richard  and  Sihbella  King,  named  Rufus. 

1756,  Nov.  7,  *'  "  "    Sabilla        **        "      Mary. 
1769,  March  11,       *'          "          **        '*  •*        **      Paulina. 

1763,  Jan.  23,  **  '*  "    Mary  '*  "  Richard. 

1764.  July  16,  "          **          *♦        *'            *'  «*  Sybilla. 
1781,  Sep.  2.  *'  Dr.  Southgate  and  Mary,  *'  Horatio. 
1783,  Nov.  16,  '*  Mary  Southgatc,  **  Betsy. 

1788,  Nov.  20,         '*      •*  **  '*      Octava. 

1789,  March  15,      "      *'  •*  "      Miranda. 
1793,  Oct.  6,           •'      •«           "  **      Araxene. 

•  Capo  Porpoise,  1663;  Arundel,  1718;  Kennebank  Port,  1820. 
VOL.   XXXVIII.  31 


4( 


342  Notes  and  Queries.  [July, 

Marriages, 

176-2,  Jan.  31,  Rich<^  King  and  Mary  Black  married. 

1773,  June  29,  Rob*  Southgate  and  Mary  King  ** 

1777,  May  3,  Aaron  Porter  and  Paulina  King  ** 

1786,  Dec.  28,  Joseph  Leland  and  DorcasB  King  '' 

1790,  Jan.  21,  Richard  King  and  Hannah  Latherbee 

1791,  Nov.  16,  Benj.  Jones  Porter  and  Elizabeth  King 

Burials. 

1759,  Oct.  20,  Sybilla,  wife  of  Rich<»  King. 

1770,  Oct.    9,  Child  of  Richard  and  Mary  King  named  Sybilla. 

1775,  Mar.  30,  Rich**  King,  Esq. 

1779,  Mar.    7,  Mary  King  died. 

Owned  the  Covenant, 

1755,  Feb.  16,    Sibelia,  wife  of  Rich**  King. 

1762,  Nov.  21,   Mary,      "  •*  ** 

1810,  Sep.    2,    Mrs.  Mary  Southgate  joined  charch. 

Mr.  Meservc  states  that  the  records  date  back  to  March  30, 174i-5,  at  which  time 
the  church  was  organized,  and  the  Rev.  Richard  filvins  ordained  the  7th  of  Novem- 
ber following.  RuFUS  KDia. 

YonkerSf  N.  V. 

Early  Maps  of  Massachusetts  and  of  Boston  Harbor. — Mr.  Henry  P.  Watcis, 
in  the  course  of  his  researches  for  the  New  England  Historic  Genealogical  Society, 
in  London,  has  found  in  the  British  Museum  an  ancient  map  of  the  Massaohosetti 
Colony.  It  is  without  date,  but  was  probably  made  between  the  years  1632  and 
1634,  perhaps  by  Gov.  Winthrop  himself,  some  of  the  lettering  upon  it  beioz  in 
his  well-known  hand.  It  shows  the  English  settlements,  the  situation  of  Indian 
tribes,  the  earliest  roads,  and  even  prominent  buildings.  It  is  so  exceedingly  ac- 
curate and  minute,  that  it  has  already  enabled  local  historians  to  settle  more  than 
one  vexed  question,  and  it  deserves  to  be  carefully  studied  by  antiqaaries.  This  is 
one  of  the  most  important  discoveries  in  relation  to  our  early  colonial  history  which 
has  been  made  for  many  a  year. 

Mr.  Waters  has  also  found  a  map  of  B^^ston  Harbor  by  Cyprian  Southack,  hand- 
somely done  in  colors,  and  bearing  the  date  of  1694.  The  Trustees  of  the  B-jston 
Public  Library  have  secured  copies  of  both  of  these  interesting  and  valuable  maps. 


Hesskt  (Suffolk,  England)  Items. — Through  the  very  polite  courtesy  of  the  Rev. 
Richard  Morphy,  M.A.,  Rector  of  ilesset,  co.  Suffolk,  Eng.,  I  have  been  given  ac- 
cess to  the  Parish  Register  which  commences  1538,  and  mentions  several  names  of 
families  which  were  £und  in  the  next  century  in  New  England  ;  and  thinking  they 
might  interest,  I  have  jotted  them  down.  Many  entries  relate  to  the  names  of  Uoo 
or  How,  lloo  alias  How,  Bacon,  Newgate,  Page,  Goodrich,  Chaplin,  Goodwyn  and 
Bradntreet.  The  latter  name  has  interest,  as  one  page  of  the  Register,  dated  1630, 
is  signed  Symon  Bradstreet,  clerk^  who  was  perhaps  father  of  Gov.  Brsdstreet  of 
New  England.    See  Register,  vol.  ix.  p.  113  ;  also  bavage*s  Diet.* 

The  lloo,  How,  Hoo  alias  Howe  entries  are  very  numerous.  This  family  (which 
resided  at  the  Hoo  and  held  the  copyhold  of  Rougham  Hall)  and  the  Bacons  built 
Ilesset  Church,  as  the  evidence  is  still  extant  in  black  letters  which  commence  at 
the  Eai«t,  run  along  the  cornice  of  the  solar,  the  chapel  and  a  portion  of  the  aisle : 
**  Prey  for  the  S[owles]  of  Jhon  hoo  &  Katrynnef  hys  wyf  the  queohe  h[at]h  mad 
y  chapel  dewery  deyl  heyleynd  y  westry  8  vatytmentyd  y  hele.'' 

There  is  also  a  beautiful  stone  baptismal  Fount  at  the  \Vost  entrance  of  the  church, 

•  According  to  Mather,  Gov.  Bradstreet*s  father  died  about  1617,  some  thirteen  years 
before  this  date. — Editor. 

t  This  vestry  and  chapel  was  no  doubt  built  by  John  Hoo  and  Kathrin  his  wife,  an»l  fin- 
ished before  1492,  when  his  will  was  proved.  Davy,  Suffolk  Collection,  in  the  Briiivh 
Museum,  gives  pedigree  of  John  Hoo,  whose  sister  Cicily  mar.  John  Bacon,  who  may  hive 
])een  of  Hesset  and  the  builder  of  the  Tower  of  Hessct  Church,  whereon  are  his  initials 
I.  B.  Queen  £Iizal)eth'8  grandf;Uhcr,  Sir  Thos.  Bolyn,  was  grandson  of  Ann,  only  daab'ii* 
ter  of  Thomas  Hoo,  Lord  Hoo  and  Hasting.— c.  n.  t. 


1884.]  Notes  and  Queries.  343 

with  this  inscription  on  the  three  sides  of  the  kneeling  stone : — Orate  pro  Adimahs 
. . .  .rti.  hoo  et  Aagnetis  etxis*  eius  q. . . .  istum  fontem  feri  fecerunt.'* 

The  Hoo  &mily  is  very  interesting,  and  can  without  doabt  be  connected  with  the 
Hows  of  Lynn  and  Boston.  This  John  and  Robert  Hoo  were  no  doubt  brothers, 
the  former  grandfather  of  Walter  Hoo  of  Hesset,  whose  daughter  married  as  fol- 
lows r 

'*  Phillip  Newgatet  and  Joan  daughter  of  Walter  Hoo,  20  Dec.  1578. 

Gualtherus  Hoo  and  Agnes  Lockwood,  prob.  a  widow  and  2d  wife.  7  Oct.  1561. 

Abraham  Church  widower  of  Drinkstone,  and  Joan  Lockwood,  daughter  (step- 
daughter) of  Walter  Hoo,  10  Sept.  1581.'' 

In  Genealogical  Notes  by  Goodwin  the  will  of  Rev.  William  Goodrich  of  Hesset 
is  mentioned,  of  which  and  other  Goodrich  wills  I  have  copies,  and  have  drawn  a 
genealogical  table  of  the  fiEimily,  hoping  some  time  to  hiEive  it  printed  in  the 

ABGISTBR. 

**  John  Goodrich^  of  Bradfield  and  Maria  Hoo  widow.  1  Dec.  1594." 

The  Chaplyn  &mily  of  Suffolk  emigrated  to  New  England,  see  Register  and 
Savage. 

*^  Thomas  Hoo  of  Hesset  and  Ellen  Chaplin  daughter  of  Stephen  Chaplin  of 
Goomes.  mar.  at  Ooomes  17  November,  1657." 

In  will  of  John  Goodrich  of  Bury  St.  Edmunds,  co.  Suffolk,  Eng.  (Clothier), 
dated  April  14,  1632.  His  wife  Margaret.  My  house  in  Burie  where  I  now  dwell, 
and  lands  in  Homingsheath.  To  son  William  Goodrich  the  elder.  To  son  Wil- 
liam Goodrich  the  younger.  To  son  John  Goodrich.  To  son  Jeremy  Goodrich.  If 
son  John  Goodrich  dies  before  he  becomes  21,  then  all  my  lands,  tenements,  &c.  &c. 
to  be  equally  divided  between  my  son  William  G.  the  elder,  William  G.  the  young- 
er and  Qiy  son  Jeremy.  (Many  relations  mentioned.)  To  the  poor  of  St.  Mary 
Pftrisb.  To  poor  spiners  of  Drinkstone,  co.  Suffolk.  To  Thomas  Chaplain  mercer , 
and  Clement  Chaplain,  grocer.  To  William  Goodrich,  son  of  Bro.  Henry  G.  To 
cousin  Robert  G.  of  Bury  St.  Edmunds,  Supervisor.  To  Margaret  my  wife,  whom 
ezeeatriz.  Wit.  Richard  Cooper,  Robt.  Brightwell,  Philip  Crow.  Proved  16  May, 
1632. 

Extract  Candler  MSS.,  Ped.  Chaplyn.  Clement  Chaplyn,  a  chandler  of  Bury 
St.  Edmunds,  went  over  to  New  England  and  was  one  of  the  Elders  of  the  congre- 

Sition  of  Mr.  Hooker.    Will  of  Clement  Chaplyn  of  Seamer,  co.  Suffolk,  daU^  4 
ec.  1615,  proved Feb.  1621.    My  son  Tho.  Chaplyn.    My  son  Edward  Chap- 
lyn.   Grandchild  and  wife  mentioned.  Charles  Hervst  Townsoend. 
New  Haven,  Ct. 


John  Harvard  and  Emhanttel  Collbgb.— On  the  19th  of  June,  Emmanuel  Col- 
lege, Cambridge  University,  England,  at  which  Harvard  was  educated,  celebrated 
its  tercentenary.  Prof.  Charles  Eliot  Norton  attended  the  celebration  as  the  repre- 
sentative of  Harvard  University.  A  statue  of  Harvard,  a  gift  to  the  last  named 
uniTersity  by  Mr.  Samuel  J.  Bridge,  will  be  erected  this  year  at  Cambridge,  Mass. 

These  events  give  a  new  interest  to  the  historv  of  John  Harvard.  Mr.  Henry  F. 
Waters,  in  the  course  of  his  researches  in  London,  has  lately  made  some  very  im- 
portant discoveries  as  to  the  parentage  and  ancestry  of  Harvard.  He  is  still  en- 
gaged in  following  up  the  clews  he  has  thus  obtained,  and  we  hope  before  long  to 
l^ve  the  results  of  his  investigations  to  the  readers  of  the  Register. 

The  London  Genealogist  for  April  last  has  an  article  on  **  Harvard  University, 
U.S.,  and  the  Harvards  of  Southwark,"  by  William  Rendle,  F.R.C.S.,  but  the 
author  has  not  been  able  to  connect  the  founder  of  Harvard  University  with  the 
^miliee  named. 

Col.  Chester's  note  on  Harvard  was  printed  in  the  Register  in  July,  1882. 


A  NoRSKT  Bark. — **  Here  arrived  a  small  Norsey  hark  of  twenty-five  tons,  sent 
by  the  Lords  Say,  &c."   (Savage *s  Winthrop,  i.  pp.  173, 4.)  Savage  writes  thus  con- 

♦  This  font  was  probably  given  by  Robert  Hoo  (and  Agnes  his  wife) ,  whose  will  was 
proved  1610.— c.  h.  t. 
t  See  the  Townshend  Family  of  Lynn  in  Old  and  New  England,  for  Hoo  and  Newgate 

Willi.— 0.  H.  T. 

t  The  GkKMlricA  Family  is  not  the  same  as  the  OoodricA;,  and  which  connected  with  Gov. 
Bellingbam  and  Thomas  Townshend  of  Lynn.  See  Reqistbr.— c.  h.  t. 


344  Notes  and  Qtieriea.  [July) 

oerning  Norsey :  ''I  never  saw  this  word  before ;  bat  cannot  doabt  that  it  is  the 
same  gentilitial  as  Norweffiaa,  or,  of  the  North  Ooantry."  What,  let  me  ask,  ooold 
the  English  want  with  a  Norwegian  bark  ?    Mr.  Drake,  not  aooeptins  Savage's  ex- 

Elanation,  offers  one  which  is  stul  wider  of  the  mark.  He  says  :  ''Mr.  S.  would 
ave  {band  that  one  of  the  undertakers  of  the  enterorise  lived  at  Nosely,  in  Leiees* 
tershire,  which  feet  would  no  doubt  have  saved  him  all  that  tedious  jooniey 
among  the  Norwegians.*'  (Review  of  Savage's  Winthropt  p.  17.)  Norsey  is  aim- 
ply  the  two  words  North  Sea  rolled  into  one,  and  a  Norsey  bark  is  a  bark  built  at  i 
North  Sea  port,  just  as  we  now  hear  of  Clvde-built  steamers.  An  analoffoos  in- 
stance comes  into  m^  mind  as  I  write.  In  the  Fens  near  fily  is  a  little  hamlet,  the 
name  of  which  is  vnritten  Northney,  but  the  place  in  common  talk  is  always  called 
Nomey.  B.  H.  Besdhaii. 


*        QUXRIXS. 

Sherwood — BRAnroRD  (on/e,  p.  84).— It  was  Joseph  Bradford,  son  of  Maj.  Wil* 
liam  Bradford,  and  ffrandson  of  Gov.  William,  who  married  a  Sherwood.  He  mar- 
ried  Mary  (SberwocS)  Fitch,  widow  of  Capt.  Daniel  Fitch,  of  New  London,  Gomi., 
about  1716.  John  Bradford,  their  son,  was  bom  May  20,  1717.  Mary  (S.^  (Fitch) 
Bradford  died  Oct.  7,  1717.  Daniel  Fitch,  her  son  by  Capt.  Daniel,  mamea  Saab 
Sherwood.    John  Bradford,  her  son  by  Joseph,  mamed  Esther  Sherwood. 

The  town  clerk  of  New  London  says  no  other  Sherwoods  appear  on  recxnrd  at  that 
time,  and  thinks  Mary,  Sarah  and  Esther  to  be  from  Fairfield,  Conn.  Fairfidd  rse- 
ords  mention  '  *  Mary  Bradford,  granddaughter  of  Thomas  Sherwood,'*  the  emignnt 
of  that  name. 

I  also  have  two  Sarahs,  two  Marys  and  one  Esther,  at  Fairfield  at  thia  date,  wfaow 
marriages  I  have  not  placed. 

Can  any  one  help  me  out  ?    Who  were  Maiy,  Sarah  and  Esther  ? 

P,  O.  Box  55,  Newark,  N,J.  W.  L.  Sherwood. 


Rub,  Rew,  Rust,  Rkwet.—- Who  were  the  parents  of  Hczekiah  Roe  of  Millbfd, 
Conn.? 

He  and  his  wife  Rejoyce  Rue  were  admitted  to  full  communion  in  the  charch  at 
that  place,  19  June,  1719.  Children  :  1.  Hannah  Rue,  b.  13  Jan.  1718-19;  d.  16 
Feb.  1718-19.  2.  John  Rue,  b.  21  Feb.  1719-20.  3.  Hannah  Rue,  b.  7  August, 
1723  ;  bapt.  15  Sept.  1723.  4.  Eliatha  Rue,  b.  21  Sept.  1725;  bapt.  26  Sept.  1725. 
5.  Mehitabel  Rue,  b.  4  May,  1728  ;  bapt.  16  June,  1728. 

John  Rew  (doubtless  the  one  named  above)  and  wife  Marcy,  lived  in  Woodbnry, 
Conn.,  but  their  name  has  been  published  as  Row  and  Rowe.  They  had  children: 
1.  JSleanor  Rew,  b.  1  June,  1748.  2.  Hezekiah  Rew,  b.  22  August,  1750.  3.  Re- 
joice Rew.  b.  28  Nov.  1752.    4.  Lot  Rew,  b.  27  Feb.  1755. 

John  Ruey,  or  Rewey,  as  his  descendants  now  spell  the  name,  married  in  Stock- 
bridge,  Mnss.,  26  Jan.  1774,  with  Hannah  N^,  and  had  a  son  John  Rewey,  who 
settled  at  Newark  Valley,  N.  Y. 

Lot  Rew  was  also  a  resident  of  Stockbridge,  and  had  children  :  1.  Lot  Rew,  b. 
about  1782,  a  lawyer,  grad.  Williams  Coll.  1805 ;  a  teacher  at  Stockbridge  and 
among  the  Indians  at  New  Stockbridge,  N.  Y.,  and  editor  of  a  paper  at  Rochester, 
N.  Y.,  where  he  died  about  1827.  2.  Nancy  Rew,  b.  27  Dec.  1785.  3.  Sylvesttf 
Rew,  b.  8  March.  1787. 

Any  additional  items  of  this  family  history  will  be  thankfully  received  by 
Newark  Valley ,  N,  Y.  D.  Williams  PATTBRaoR. 


CniLDRKN  NAMED  fOR  WASHINGTON. — Bcin^  dcsirous  of  learning  how  earlv  and  at 
what  date  children  began  to  be  named  Washington,  in  honor  of  ueneral  Washing- 
ton, I  have  noted  the  fact  of  the  following  entry  in  tne  family  bible  of  the  Rev.  John 
Carmichacl,  pastor  of  the  Presbyterian  church  at  the  **  Forks  of  Brandywine.'*  He 
was  a  patriot  in  the  Revolution,  and  the  entry  relative  to  the  naming  of  his  son 
Washington  is  in  the  following  words  :  **  On  the  18**>  day  of  October,  1777,  was 
bom  to  me  a  son.  Since  it  pleased  the  great  Qod  of  Providence  that  this  ohiM 
should  be  born  the  very  day  and  hour  ot  the  day  that  General  Burgoyne  and  bis 
whole  army  had  to  come  forth  and  ground  their  armes  and  resign  themselves  pris- 
oners of  war ;  and  as  General  Gates  was  an  instrument  in  the  bands  of  Divins 


1884.]  Notes  and  Queries.  345 

ProTidence  to  effect  this  grand  deliverance,  and  as  our  great  judicious  commander- 
in-Chief,  General  Washington,  continues  to  perseirere  in  ihe  midst  of  many  difficul- 
ties to  head  the  army  and  superintend  and  give  orders  for  the  whole,  1  thought  it 
a  duty,  as  a  memorial  of  these  things,  to  call  my  son  Washington  Gates  Carmi- 
ehael."  If  any  earlier  and  equally  authentic  instance  of  the  naming  of  a  child  after 
Washington  is  known  to  any  of  your  readers,  it  is  to  be  hoped  they  may  communi- 
cate the  fact.  J.  M.  Tonkr. 
WashingtonyD.  C. 

Thomas  French,  a  member  of  the  First  Church  of  Boston,  died  at  Ipswich,  Mass., 
1639.  It  is  believed  that  he  came  from  the  north  counties  of  Scotland,  and  that  he 
resided,  before  coming  here,  for  a  time  in  Suffolk  County,  England.  It  is  also  sup- 
posed that  his  sons  were  Samuel,  John  and  Thomas,  who  came  from  England  with 
mm,  and  that  another  son.  Dependence,  was  bom  on  the  passage.  Can  any  one 
give  any  information  about  him,  or  can  trace  descent  from  him  ?  It  is  under- 
stood that  Thomas  French,  Jr.,  of  Ipswich,  was  a  son,  that  John  French  of  Dor- 
ebestcr  and  Brain  tree  was  another  son,  and  there  are  other  children  yet  to  be  ao- 
eoanted  for.    Any  information  would  be  valuable.  f. 


Danixl  Ladd,  who  came  in  the  Mary  and  John  in  1633-4,  m.  Ann  '. 

The  first  trace  we  find  of  him  af^r  his  arrival  in  New  England  was  at  Ipswich, 
Mass.,  where,  on  Feb.  5th,  1637,  he  vras  granted  six  acres  of  land,  on  which  ne  built 
a  house.  In  1640,  Sept.  7,  he  had  land  granted  him  in  Salisbury,  Mass.  From 
Salisbary  he  removed  to  Haverhill,  Mass.,  where  he  died  July  24th,  1693. 

Children  of  Daniel  and  Ann  Ladd : 

1.  Elisabeth,  b.  in  Salisbury  Nov.  1.  1640 ;  m.  Nathaniel  Smith,  May  14, 1663. 

3.  Daniel,  b.  in  Salisbury  July  6,  1643 ;  m.  Lydia  Singletery,  Nov.  4, 1668. 

3.  Lydia,  b.  in  Salisbury  April  8,  1645  ;  m.  Josiah  Gage. 

4.  Mary,  b.  in  Haverhill  Feb.  14,  1646  ;  m.  Caleb  Richardson,  July  31,  1682. 

5.  Samuel,  b.  in  Haverhill  Nov.  1,  1649;  m.  Martha  Corlis. 

6.  Nathaniel,  b.  in  Haverhill  March  10, 1651 ;  m.  Elizabeth  Gilman  of  Exeter,  N.H. 

7.  Ezekiel,  b.  in  Haverhill  Sept.  16, 1654 ;  m.  Mary  Fulsom  of  Exeter,  N.  II. 

8.  Sarah,  b.  in  Haverhill  Nov.  4,  1657;  m.  Onesiphorus  Marsh,  12-8,  1685. 

There  is  a  tradition  that  Daniel  Ladd  came  from  Dartmouth,  Devon,  but  it  is 
more  likely  that  he  came  from  the  oounty  of  Kent  or  Sussex,  as  there  were  Ladds 
in  those  counties  as  early  as  1424,  as  we  find  in  Berry's  History  of  the  County  of 
Kent,  page  342. 

I  wish  to  ascertain  if  Daniel  Ladd  was  married  before  he  left  England,  and  if  he 
bad  a  young  son  Joseph  who  came  over  with  him.  W  arren  Ladd. 

iVetc  Bety^ardf  Mass. 


WiLTBRTUNS  (oT  WolUerton^  <S^c.)  Gregory.— This  early  New  Englander  (about 
wboee  name  there  seems  to  be  several  varieties  of  spelling)  is  said  to  nave  been  '*  a 
wealthy  and  prominent  tanner  and  citizen  of  Hartford,  Ct. — one  of  its  first  settlers," 
who  died  there  July  14,  1674^  ased  81.  Susanna  died  1662,  aged  75.  His  wife  sur- 
vived him  and  is  mentioned  m  his  will,  dated  1674.  '*  This  will  makes  mention  of 
a  great  number  of  people  *'  ^says  a  correspondent  who  has  '*  from  time  to  time 

flvcn  considerable  study  to  it ")  **  between  whom  there  Is,  no  doubt,  relationship, 
should  say  that  the  Wallers  of  New  London  and  Lyme,  mentioned  in  immediate 
connection  with  Brockways  of  the  latter  place,  were  probably  related,  and  that  this 
will  would  give  the  key  to  the  source  of  these  connected  families  in  England. 

Matthew  VVolterton,  a  brother  of  Gregory,  was,  I  take  it,  in  New  London  for  a 
time,  and  it  is  here,  perhaps,  that  relationship  with  the  Wallers  comes  in.  After 
providing  for  his  wife  Jane,  no  gives  £10  to  James  Wolterton  of  Ipswich,  G.  B. 
(sod  of  Matthew),  or  to  his  children  ;  then  to  Matthew  Waller  of  New  London, 
£6.  Rebecca  Waller  £10.  and  Sarah  W.  £5.  Then  land  in  Hartford  to  John  Shep- 
ira  of  Hartford,  son  of  Edward  of  Cambridge,  Mass.,  and  £20  to  Edward  Shepard 
and  the  daughters  (except  Elizabeth,  whom  f  cannot  yet  account  for  satisfactorily). 
(John  Shepard  calls  Wilterton  unde  in  a  receipt.)  Next  to  Hannah  and  Sarah 
Lord,  daughters  of  Thomas  L.,  deceased.  To  William  Waller,  son  of  William  of 
Lyme,  deoeosed,  £10 ;  to  Wolston  Brockway,  Sen'r,  £10,  William  B.,  son  of  Wol 
TOL.  zxxym.        81* 


846  Notes  and  Queries.  ^ Jalji 

ston,  £10."    (To  this  son,  at  the  date  of  the  will  bat  biz  yean  old,  his  &ther,  lA 
1700,  ae  recorded  in  the  Lyme  town  reoorda,  deeded  a  tract  of  land,  "in 


tion  of  a  legacy  bequeathed  by  bis  kinsman,  Mr.  Wiltertans  of  Haroord.")  '*  Thn 
come  Stockings,  Hopkins,  Porters,  Moores,  &c,  &c,  Wolston  Brockway's  wife  mi 
Hannah  Bridges,  daughter  of  William  Bridges.  The  names  of  three  of  his  diiM- 
ren,  Tiz.,  Hannah,  JSiizabeth  and  Deborah,  were  also  names  of  Edward  Sbepaid's 
daaghters." 

There  seems  to  have  been  a  Gregory  Wilterton,  Jr.,  and  a  Samael  WiltartOQ  died 
at  Hartford  1668,  aged  7  mo. ;  but  Gf.  W.,  Sen'r,  had  no  heirs,  and  left  hk  estate 
to  an  adopted  son." 

Can  any  reader  of  the  Kegistzr  furnish  the  cine  to  the  connection  between  Wt^ 
ston  Brockway  and  Wiltertun,  or  an  earlier  trace  of  the  former  thaa  1650,  when  be- 
ing in  Saybrook  he  purchased  in  Lyme  and  removed  thither  shortly  after? 

rfew  York  City,  W.  Hall. 


Thomas  Pratt  became  an  inhabitont  of  Sherburne,  Mass.,  about  1679 ;  died  be- 
fore 1692 :  had  wife  Susannah  and  eleven  children.  One  son  Jabei  married  Hannah 
Gale  in  1714 ;  had  son  Jabez  born  about  1718.  This  is  supposed  to  be  the  JabUi  of 
Sutton,  who  married  Elizabeth  Grant  of  Framingham  in  1741,  and  was  in  the  colo- 
nial service  between  1755  and  1761.  One  Jabish  of  Sutton  married  Abigail  Kenqr 
in  1761,  and  died  before  1774. 

Information  is  desired  relative  to  the  descendants  of  the  last  named  Jabish,  and 
as  to  whether  the  Jabish  who  married  Elizabeth  Grant  in  1741  is  the  same  who 
married  Abigail  Kenny  in  1761.  Address  J.  P.  P. 

63  Washmgton  Avenue,  Chelsea,  Has. 


Rsv.  Joseph  Embrson^  H.G.  1717.  was  settled  at  Maiden,  1721-1767.  His  Diaiy, 
covering  the  period  of  his  pastorate,  was  used  by  the  compilers  of  the  Bi-Centenmai 
Book  of  Maiden  in  1849.    Where  may  it  now  be  found?  D.  P.  Gour. 


Replies. 

Hatward  (an/e,pp.  84  and  231).—'*  Elizabeth  Hayward  (wife  of  Nathan)  died 
in  Bridgwater  Dec  y«  26  1739  in  y«  75*^  year  of  her  age."  Gravestone  in  old  grave 
yard  East  Bridgewater  (Latham's  Epitaphs,  p.  212).  She  was  bom  in  1665.  John 
Fobes  died  1661.  She  could  not  have  been  bis  daughter,  but  probably  the  daughter 
of  Robert  Grossman  of  Taunton,  bom  2  May,  1665. 
•    Bangor,  Me,  J.  W.  Porter. 


Historical  Inteluqengb. 

Virginia  Vetusta.  If  a  sufficient  subscription  list  is  obtained.  Joel  Munaell's 
Sons,  82  State  St.,  Albany,  N.  Y.,  propose  to  publish,  under  this  tiUe,  a  work  by  the 
Rev.  Edward  D.  Neill,  of  St.  Paul,  Minn.  It  will  be  a  supplement  to  his  "  HistoiT 
of  the  Virginia  Gompany,''  with  which  it  will  be  uniform  m  size  and  style.  It  will 
contain  scarce  documents  and  letters  never  before  printed.  Mr.  NeiU*s  previous 
publications  are  evidences  that  the  work  will  be  a  valuable  addition  to  our  histori- 
cal literature.    The  volume  will  contain  about  200  pages.    Price  $2.50. 

Genealogies  in  Preparation.— Persons  of  the  several  names  are  advised  to  fo^ 
nish  the  compilers  of  these  genealogies  with  records  of  their  own  families  and  other 
information  which  they  think  will  oe  useful.  We  would  sug;^t  that  all  fiuti  of 
interest  illustrating  family  history  or  character  be  communicated,  eepedally  se^ 
vice  under  the  U.  S.  government,  the  holding  of  other  offices,  graduation  fron 
college  or  professional  schools,  occupation,  with  places  and  dates  of  oirth,  marriafes 
residence  and  death.  When  there  are  more  than  one  christian  name  tbev  should  all 
be  given  in  full  if  possible.  No  initials  should  be  used  when  the  full  names  aie 
known. 

Bassett.    Bv  J.  Baasett,  Salem  Street,  Medford,  Mass. 
Billings,    By  Gharles  Billings,  Billingsbridge,  Ontario,  Ganada. 
Breed.    By  J.  Howard  Breed,  335  South  18th  Street,  Philadelphia,  P^. 
Chaffee,    By  WiUiam  H.  Ghafiee*  P.  0.  Box  3068  New  York  city. 


1$84.]  S&cieHe$  and  their  Ptoceedings.  347 

CkMjpman.  By  C.  B.  Gerard,  Anderson,  Indiana. — A  new  edition  of  his  ''  De- 
leendants  of  Ralph  Chapman,"  published  in  1876. 

Churchill.  By  Gardner  A.  Charchill,  39  Aroh  Street,  Boston,  Mass. — Attention 
Inabeen  more  particularly  given  to  the  posterity  of  John  Churchill,  Plymouth, 
Mmb.,  1644,  but  the  record  will  comprise  also  the  history  of  the  descendants  of  the 
CoDDecticut  and  Vir^nia  families.  The  active  co-operation  of  others  is  solicited, 
tad  members  of  the  ramily  are  invited  to  correspond. 

Herrkk,  By  Dr.  Lucius  C.  Herrick,  996  Hunter  Street,  Columbus,  Ohio. — ^The 
'*  Herrick  Genealo^,"  for  ten  years  past  in  preparation  by  Dr.  Hemck,  is  now  in 
tbe  hands  of  the  pnnter,  and  wul  be  ready  for  delivery  in  September.  It  will  in- 
dode  the  work  ot  General  Jedediah  Herrick  published  in  1846,  and  will  be  brought 
down  to  the  present  time.  It  promises  to  be  one  of  the  most  complete  works  of 
the  kind  published.  Those  of  our  readers  desiring  co|>ies  should  send  their  orders 
to  Dr.  Herrick  at  once,  as  but  a  limited  number  of  copies  will  be  printed. 

Lovtland,  By  J.  B.  Loveland,  Fremont,  Ohio,  and  George  Loveland,  Wilkes- 
Bvre,  Pa. 

Meeker.  By  Edward  F.Meeker,  Bridgeport,  Ct.— The  descendants  of  William 
Meek^,  the  head  of  the  New  Jersey  family,  who  with  his  two  sons  settled  in  that 
eokwy,  are  well  traced ;  and  much  progress  had  been  made  with  those  of  Robert 
Meeker,  the  head  of  Uie  Connecticut  branch,  who  settled  in  New  Haven  and  re- 
moved to  Fairfield.  Early  reference  is  foundf  to  a  John  Meeker,  of  whom  and  his 
descendants,  if  he  had  any,  more  information  is  desired. 

Phillip*.    By  Albert  M.  Phillips,  of  Auburn,  Mass. 

Reed.  By  Alanson  H.  Reed,  136  State  Street,  Chicago,  111.  Mr.  Reed  has  the 
manuscripts  of  the  late  Jacob  W.  Reed,  of  Groveland,  Mass.,  author  of  the  Reed 
iienealogy. 

TViie.    By  Heniy  True,  Biarion,  Ohio. 


Local  Historibs  in  Pripabation. — Persons  having  facts  or  documents  relating  to 
any  of  these  cities,  towns,  counties,  etc.,  are  advimd  to  send  them  at  once  to  the 
persons  engaged  in  vrriting  the  several  histories. 

Bradford^  New  Hampshire.  Bv  J.  M.  Hawks,  of  Lynn,  Mass.,  and  New  Smyrna, 
Fla. — Circulars  can  be  obtained  By  addressing  Hon.  Mason  W.  Tappan,  Bradford, 
N.  H.,  to  whom  all  matter  intended  for  publication,  such  as  records,  historiod  notes 
and  sketches,  should  be  sent. 


SOCIETIES  AND  THEIR  PROCEEDINGS. 

Nkw-England  Historic  Gknkaloqical  SocisTr. 

Boston,  Mass. ^  Wednesday,  Nov.  7,  1883. — A  stated  meeting  vras  held  at  the 
Society's  House,  18  Somerset  Street,  this  afternoon  at  3  o'clock,  the  president,  the 
Hon.  Marshall  P.  Wilder,  Ph.D.,  in  the  chair. 

Tbe  Rev.  Edmund  F.  Slafter,  the  corresponding  secretary,  announced  important 
donations. 

Bi^j.  Am  Bird  Gardiner,  LL.D.,  U.S.A.,  read  a  paper  on  "  The  Society  of  the 
(^neinnati  in  France  under  Louis  XVI."  After  remarks  by  President  Wilder, 
Henry  Edwards,  Rev.  A.  B.  Muzzey  and  George  H.  Allan,  thanks  were  voted  to 
Major  Gardiner  for  his  paper. 

The  corresponding  secretary  reported  letters  accepting  the  membership  to  which 
thegr  bad  been  elected,  from  Frederick  M.  Ballou  of  Providence,  R.  I.,  Jerome  H. 
Kidder  of  Washington,  D.  C,  Rev.  Ephraim  W.  Allen  of  Taunton,  and  John  G. 
Webster  of  Boston,  as  resident  members ;  and  from  Joseph  J.  Muskett  and  John  C. 
O.  Smith  of  London,  as  corresponding  members. 

John  Ward  Dean,  the  librarian,  reported  as  donations  in  October,  596  volnmee, 
37jpamphlet8. 

The  Rev.  Increase  N.  Tarboz,  D.D.,  the  historiographer,  reported  memorial 
sketches  of  Hon.  Gustavus  V.  Fox  of  New  York,  and  Otis  Drury  of  East  Bridge- 
water,  members  of  the  aociefy  recently  deceased. 


348  Societies  and  their  ProceedingB.  [July, 

Dec,  5. — A  monthly  meeting  was  held  this  afternoon.  President  Wilder  in  the 
chair. 

The  corresponding  secretary  announced  donations. 

The  Rev.  William  S.  Smith  of  Aubumdale  read  a  paper  entitled,  "  How  the 
written  Sermon  came  into  use,  with  American  Illustrations."  After  remarks  by 
several  members,  thanks  were  voted  to  Mr.  Smith. 

George  H.  Allan,  in  behalf  of  the  committee  in  charge,  reported  concerning  this 
society's  contribution  of  trees  to  the  Centennial  Tree  Planting  of  the  New  Bruns- 
wick Historical  Society  at  St.  John,  Oct.  4,  to  commemorate  the  settlement  of  the 
Loyalists  at  that  place.  Eight  3'oung  trees  of  the  Dutch  Enelish  stock  at  Milton, 
whence  the  Boston  Paddock  elms  were  taken,  were  contributed.  One  was  planted  in 
honor  of  this  society,  another  in  honor  of  Queen  Victoria,  and  the  rest  in  bonof 
of  other  distinguished  persons. 

The  librarian  reported  as  donations  in  November,  41  volumes  and  40  pamphlets. 

The  corresponding  secretarv  reported  letters  accepting  resident  memoersnip  from 
William  Lee,  M.D.,  of  Washington,  D.  C,  Frank  ET  Bradish  of  Ckmbridga  and 
William  E.  Field  of  Newton. 

The  historiographer  reported  memorial  sketches  of  four  deceased  members:  Ospt. 
Samuel  R.  Knox,  U.S.N. ,  of  Everett,  Benjamin  0.  Pciroe,  A.M.,  of  Beverly,  Hod. 
N.  B.  Mountfort  of  New  York  city,  and  George  W.  Bagby  of  Richmond,  Va. 

Mains  Historical  Socistt. 

Portland^  May  22,  1884. — The  quarterly  meeting  was  held  at  the  Library  of  the 
Society  in  Portland.    Two  sessions  were  held,  and  there  was  a  good  attendance. 

The  report  of  the  librarian  and  curator,  Mr.  H.  W.  Br^rant,  showed  that  a  large 
number  of  accessions  had  been  made  since  the  winter  meeting. 

Mr.  Joseph  Williamson  of  Belfast  read  a  paper  entitled,  **  A  Historical  Review 
of  Maine  Literature/'  and  Mr.  Rufus  K.  Sewall  of  Wiscasset  read  a  paper  oo 
**  Wi-ur-na  and  the  Treaty  at  Georgetown,  Me.,  1717." 

The  Rev.  Samuel  Longfellow  presented  valuable  autograph  letters  to  the  sode^. 

In  the  evening  the  Hon.  Joseph  W.  Porter  of  Bangor  read  a  paper  on  **0q1. 
Jonathan  Eddy  and  some  other  Heroes  of  the  Revolution  who  settled  in  Eastern 
Maine." 

Maine  Genealogical  Societt. 

A  society  devoted  to  genealogy  and  the  local  history  of  the  state  of  Maine  baa 
been  formed  under  this  name  at  Portland,  Me.  Its  organization  was  completed 
April  29,  1884,  by  the  election  of  the  following  officers  : 

President. — John  F.  Anderson. 
Vice-President. — Fabius  M.  Ray. 
Librarian. — Charles  Burleigh. 
Secretary. — Stephen  M.  Watson. 
Treasurer. — Frederic  O.  Conant. 

New  Hahpshire  Historical  Soctett. 

The  sixty-second  annual  meeting  of  the  New  Hampshire  Historical  Society  was 
held  at  the  society's  rooms  in  Concord,  June  II,  1884,  the  president,  the  Hon. 
Charles  H.  Bell,  LL.D.,  in  the  chair. 

The  report  of  the  treasurer  showed  a  balance  of  $7,898. 13,  being  an  increase  over 
last  year  of  $1 ,043.  The  reports  of  the  corresponding  secretary,  librarian,  publica- 
tion committee,  standing  committee,  and  committee  on  library,  were  received  and 
accepted.  The  committee  appointed  to  obtain  an  appropriation  from  the  last  leg* 
islature  for  a  calendar  of  the  New  England  papers  in  the  public  record  offices  m 
London,  reported  that  the  sum  of  $500  had  been  appropriated  and  paid  into  the 
treasury,  and  on  motion  of  Samuel  C.  Eastman  of  Concord  a  committee  of  three  was 
appointed  to  expend  the  appropriation.  The  following  officers  for  the  ensuing  year 
were  elected : 

President. — Charles  H.  Bell. 

Vice-Presidents. — Jonathan  E,  Sargent,  John  M.  Shirley. 

Corresponding  Secretary.-^ John  J.  Bell. 

Recoraing  Secretary, — Amos  Hadley. 


1884.]  Societies  ahd'their  Proceedings4  349 

TVeasurer. — Samuel  S.  Kimball. 

Librarian. — Samuel  G.  Eastman. 

FubUshing  Committee. ^CYmxhs  H.  Bell,  Amoa  Hadle?,  Samuel  C.  Eastman. 

Standing  Committee. — Joseph  B.  Walker,  Sylvester  Dana,  Isaac  A.  Hill. 

Ubrary  Committee. — Amos  Hadley^  Bdwara  N.  Spalding,  J.  E.  Pecker. 

J.  E.  Sargent,  John  M.  Shirley  and  J.  E.  Peeker,  a  committee  on  new  members, 
nported  the  names  of  several  gentlemen,  who  were  elected. 

It  was  voted  that  an  assessment  of  (2  be  levied  upon  members  for  the  ensuing 
jmr ;  that  Amoe  Hadtey  be  invited  to  deliver  the  annual  address  next  year  ;  ana 
thai  a  Field  Day  be  held  at  Exeter  this  year,  -at  a  time  to  be  appointed  by  the 
pnudent.  A  portrait  of  the  late  Judge  Nathaniel  G.  Upham  was  presented  to 
the  society  by  John  Kimball)  a»  one  of  the  executors  of  the  will  of  Mrs.  Upham. 
The  thanks  of  the  socie^  were  voted  therefor.  Messrs.  J.  B.  Walker,  J.  E.  Peck- 
er, Moody  Currier,  E.  H.  Spalding,  George  H.  Balcom  and  Wallace  Hackett  were 
ippointea  a  committee  to  take  such  measures  as  they  deem  proper  to  increase  the 
income  of  the  librarian's  fund. 

The  meeting  adjourned  to  meet  on  Wednesday,  July  16,  at  11  A.M. 

Rhodb  Island  Historical  Socmr. 

Providence^  Jan.  8,  1884. — The  annual  meeting  was  held  this  evening,  the  presi- 
dent, William  Gammell,  LL.D.,  in  the  chair. 

PMident  Gammell  delivered  his  annual  address,  which  was  received  with  marked 
exmssions  of  appreciation. 

Bichmond  P.  Everett,  the  treasurer,  reported  the  annual  receipts  as  $859.36 ; 
the  expenditures  $833.36,  leaving  a  balance  on  hand  of  $96.10.  The  life-member- 
ship fund  amounts  to  $1000. 

Reports  were  also  received  from  the  library  committee  by  Dr.  Charles  W.  Par> 
iODfl,  chairman,  the  publishing  committee  by  Hon.  John  Suness,  and  on  the  en- 
knrament  of  the  cabinet  by  Isfuus  H.  South  wick. 

The  <^cers  of  the  society  for  the  ensuing  year  were  then  elected  as  follows : 

Presideni. — William  Gammell. 

Vice-Presidents. — Francis  Brinley  and  Dr.  C  W.  Parsons. 

Secretary. — Amos  Perry. 

Treasurer. — Richmond  P.  Everett. 

Standing  Committees. — On  Nominations:  Albert  V.  Jenks,  William  Staples, 
W.  Maxwell  Greene.  On  Lectures :  Amos  Perry,  William  Gammell,  B.  B.  Ham- 
mond. On  Building  and  Grounds :  Isaac  H.  Southwick,  Royal  C.  T&ft,  Henry  J. 
Steere.  On  Library  :  Dr.  Charles  W.  Parsons,  William  B.  Weeden,  Stephen  H. 
Arnold.  On  Publications :  John  H.  Stiness,  John  L.  Lincoln,  Thomas  Vernon. 
On  Genealogical  Researches :  Dr.  Henry  E.  Turner,  William  A.  Mowry,  Bennett 
J.  Munro.    Audit  Committee  :  John  P.  Walker,  Levns  J.  Chace,  Edwin  Barrows. 

Procurators. — For  Newport,  George  0.  Mason  ;  for  Bristol,  William  J.  Miller ; 
lor  Woonsocket,  fJrastus  Richardson ;  for  Hopkinton,  George  H.  Olney ;  for  Scitn- 
ate.  Dr.  Charles  H.  Fisher ;  for  Pavrtucket,  the  Rev.  Emery  H.  Porter ;  for  North 
Kingstown,  David  S.  Baker,  Jr. 

Chicaoo  Historical  Sochtt. 

Chicago,  May^,  1884.^  An  adjourned  (quarterly  meeting  of  the  Chica^  Historical 
Society  was  held,  Hon.  E.  B.  Washbume  m  the  Chair.  Judge  Mark  Skmner  offered 
Isolations  in  memory  of  the  late  president  of  the  society,  Hon.  Isaac  N.  Arnold, 
also  requesting  Mr.  Washbume,  at  his  convenience,  to  prepare  a  memorial  address. 
Tbf&f  were  adopted,  after  which  £.  H.  Sheldon  introduced  a  memorial  notice  of  Sir 
A1|^ff*  Todd,  late  of  Ottawa.  Canada,  whose  name  was  placed  with  those  of  other 
deeeaaed  members,  as  a  mark  of  respect,  upon  the  records  of  the  society.  Hon. 
William  Bross  was  appointed  to  prepare  a  memorial  on  the  late  Thomas  H.  Arm- 
stKioff,  of  this  city,  a  former  secretary  of  the  society.  WiUiam  Henry  Smith  was 
itatrodaoed  and  read  an  interesting  paper  upon  ''  Charles  Hammond  and  his  Rela- 
tloDS  to  Henry  Clav  and  John  Quincy  Adams."  At  its  conclusion  Mr.  Washbume 
appointed  Messrs.  Sheldon,  Skinner  and  Ackerman  a  committee  to  draft  resolutions 
in  memory  of  the  late  Cyrus  H.  McCormick.  Before  a^jouming  the  society  tender- 
ed Mr.  Smith  a  vote  of  thanks  for  his  interesting  and  instractive  paper,  asking  that 
a  copy  be  phiced  upon  its  records. 


350  N'ecrology  of  Historic  Genealogical  Society.       [July, 

Virginia  Historical  Socistt. 

Richmond,  Saturday,  May  17,  1884. — A  meeting  of  the  ezeoative  oommittee  wii 
held  this  evening  at  its  rooms  in  the  Westmoreland  Olah  Hoase,  the  Hob.  A.  U. 
Keiley  in  the  chair. 

Mr.  Brock  announced  valuable  donations  to  the  library. 

Resolutions,  offered  by  Mr.  Henry,  were  passed  expressing  ff ratification  that  ti» 

gund  monument  to  Washington  approaches  so  near  its  completion,  and  that  ti» 
on.  Robert  C.  Winthrop,  who  on  the  4th  of  July,  1848,  as  speaker  of  the  booe 
of  representatives,  delivered  the  oration  at  the  laying  of  the  comer  stone,  has  beea 
spared  to  this  time  and  has  been  solicited  to  perform  a  similar  service  at  the  com- 
pletion of  the  monument,  and  that  in  him  we  have  a  fellow  citizen  who  by  hiBTi^ 
tues  and  genius  is  eminently  worthy  of  the  occasion.  The  ezeoative  oommittee.will 
attend  the  ceremonies. 


NECROLOGY  OF  THE  NEW-ENGLAND  HISTORIC 

GENEALOGICAL  SOCIETY. 

Prepared  by  the  Rev.  Incrbase  N.  Tarbox,  D.D.,  Historiographer  of  the  Socie^. 

The  historiographer  would  inform  the  society,  that  the  sketches  pre- 
pared for  the  Register  are  necessarily  brief  in  oonseqaence  of  the 
limited  space  which  can  be  appropriated.  All  the  facts,  however,  he  is 
able  to  gather,  are  retained  in  the  Archives  of  the  Society,  and  will  aid  in 
more  extended  memoirs  for  which  the  "  Towne  Memorial  Fund,**  the  gift 
of  the  late  William  B.  Towne,  A.M.,  is  provided.  Three  volames,  printed 
at  the  charge  of  this  fund,  entitled  '^  Memorial  Biographies,"  edited  bj 
the  Committee  on  Memorials,  have  been  issued.  They  contain  memoirs  of 
all  the  members  who  have  died  from  the  organization  of  the  society  to  the 
close  of  the  year  1859.     A  fourth  volume  is  in  press. 

WiLLARD  Parker,  M.D.,  of  New  York  city,  a  corresponding  member,  admitted 
Oct.  16,  1882,  was  bom  in  Lyndeboro*,  N.  H.,  Sept.  2,  IBOO,  and  died  in  the  citv  of 
New  York,  April  24,  1884,  aged  83  years,  7  mos.  and  22  days.  His  father  was  Jon- 
athan^ Parker,  born  in  Chelmsford,  Mass.,  June  10, 1774,  and  his  mother  was  Han- 
nah Clark,  born  in  Lvndeboro',  N.  H.,  May  28.  1780.  His  remoter  ancestors  on  the 
paternal  side  were  Willard,*  born  1742,  Jonathan,'  born  1714,  John,*  bom  1661, 
and  Joseph,^  who  came  from  England  in  1640  and  settled  in  Woburn. 

Dr.  Parker's  early  life  was  spent  upon  his  father^s  &rm  in  Chelmsford,  to  which 
place  he  returned  from  New  Hampshire  in  1806.  By  working  and  teaching,  study- 
ing meanwhile  as  best  he  could,  he  was  at  lenjgth  prepared  for  oollese,  and  entered 
Harvard  in  1822,  where  he  was  graduated  in  dae  course  in  1826.  He  entered  sooo 
after  upon  the  studies  preparatory  to  that  profession  in  which  he  has  achieved  such 
distinguished  success,  and  won  for  himself  a  name,  than  which  there  are  few  higher. 
In  the  departments  of  medicine  and  surgery  he  has  been  one  of  those  men  who  by 
their  own  learning  and  ability  leave  the  profession  in  a  larger  and  better  conditioa 
than  they  found  it.    He  stands  conspicuously  as  an  originator. 

Dr.  Parker  was  twice  married.  His  first  wife,  with  whom  he  was  united  July 
21,  1831,  was  Miss  Caroline  8.  Allen,  daughter  of  Dr.  Luther  Allen,  of  Sterling, 
Mass.  By  her  he  had  three  children.  His  second  wife,  with  whom  he  was  united 
Oct.  12,  1840,  was  Miss  Mary  A.  Bissel,  daughter  of  Josiah  W.  Bisael  of  Roches- 
ter, N.  Y.  By  this  marriage  there  were  also  three  children.  The  oldest  of  tbeM 
three  was  Mrs.  Lindley,  who  as  a  missionary  wife  and  widow  at  Natal,  South  Afri- 
ca, performed  an  extraordinary  measure  of  valuable  service.  She  lied  some  fin 
years  ago. 

The  papers  of  New  York  city,  on  the  morning  after  Dr.  Parker's  death,  contained 
many  columns  of  printed  matter,  setting  forth  his  history  and  lifo-work.  It  woaid 
be  plain  to  a  stranger  on  reading  these  notices,  that  New  York  had  lost  one  of  her 
most  eminent  men. 


1884.]       Necrology  of  Historic  Genealogical  Society,  351 

Hon.  Francis  BaiNLET  Fooa,  of  NashTiUe,  Tenn.,  a  corresponding  member,  ad- 
mitted March  27,  1858,  was  born  in  Brooklyn,  Cfc.,  September  21,  1793,  and  died 
lit  Nashville  April  13,  1880,  aged  81  years,  6  months  and  22  days.  His  father  was 
Daniel  Fogg,  born  in  Rye,  New  Hampshire,  in  1743.  He  was  graduated  at  Har- 
Tard  College  in  1764,  became  Rector  uf  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  in  Brook- 
lyn, Ct.,  and  died  there  in  1815.  His  mother  was  Deborah  Brinley,  barn  in  New- 
port, R.  I.,  in  1702,  and  died  in  Brooklyn,  Ct.,  in  1846.  She  was  the  daughter  of 
Francis  Brinley  of  Newport,  and  granddaughter  of  Francis  Brinley,  formerly  of 
Roxbury,  Mass. 

Anson  Nelson,  Esq.,  recording  secretary  of  the  Tennessee  Historical  Society,  says 
of  him  :  *'  Mr.  Fos;g*s  career  in  Nasbvilie  was  successful  and  beneficial  to  himself 
and  to  the  community.  He  never  sought  office,  but  was  forced  into  public  positions 
on  one  or  two  occasions.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Constitutional  Convention  that 
adopted  the  present  constitution  of  Tennessee  in  1834,  and  a  member  of  the  State 
Senate  in  1851  and  1852.  He  aided  greatly  in  the  establishment  of  the  public 
schools  now  carried  on  with  such  vi^or  and  prosperity  in  the  city. 

He  was  for  half  a  century  a  consistent  member  of  the  Episcopal  church,  a  man  of 
extensive  learning,  and  peculiarly  fitted  for  practice  before  the  Chancery  and  Su- 

Ereme  Courts,  but  not  a  good  lawyer  before  a  jury.    It  has  been  said  of  him  that 
c  was  a  gentleman  who,  for  deep  scholarly  research  and  unstained  purity  of  mor- 
als, bad  no  superior  west  of  the  Alleghany  mountains 

'*  His  wife  was,  in  a  sense,  a  distinguished  woman,  and  was  descended  from  two 
of  the  signers  of  the  Declaration  of  independence,  Middleton  and  Rutledge." 

Rev.  Datid  McKiknbt,  D.D.,  a  corresponding  member,  admitted  Feb.  8,  1858, 
was  bom  at  Risbaooquillas,  Mifflin  County,  Penn.,  October  22,  1705,  and  died  at 
£d|^worth  Station,  bcwlckley,  Penn.,  May  28,  1879,  aged  84  years,  7  months  and 
6  &JS.  His  father  was  Isaac  McKinney.  Esq.,  born  in  New  Jersey  on  the  Rari- 
tan  river,  June  21,  1767,  and  died  in  Centre  Co.,  Penn., Sept.  11,  1849.  His  grand- 
father was  from  Scotland.  His  mother  was  Jane  Fleming,  born  in  Chester  Co., 
Penn.,  in  January,  1767,  and  died  May  15,  1838.    Her  parents  were  Scotch  Irish. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  passed  his  early  years  on  a  farm  in  Centre  Co.,  Penn. 
He  was  graduated  at  Jefferson  College,  Penn.,  in  1821,  at  the  age  of  26.  The  next 
three  years  were  pa.ssed  in  the  Princeton  Theological  Seminary.  After  closing  his 
seminary  course  in  1824,  he  in  the  following  year  was  ordained  and  installed  pas- 
tor of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  of  fine,  Penn.  After  serving  as  pastor  at 
this  and  other  places  in  Pennsylvania  until  1852,  he  became  the  founder  and  editor 
of  the  Presbyterian  Banner  in  Philadelphia,  which  continued  in  this  form  until 
1865.  In  this  last  named  year  be  removed  to  Pittsburgh.  The  Banner  was  united 
with  the  Christian  Advocate,  and  the  general  name  was  '*  The  Presbyterian  Banner 
and  Advocate." 

The  Princeton  Seminary  report  on  Necrology  for  the  year  1880,  says  of  Dr.  Mo- 
Kinney :  *'  He  was  a  man  of  decided  ability,  a  sound  theologian,  an  effective  preach- 
er^  a  faithful  and  laborious  pastor,  a  proficient  in  all  ecclesiastical  affairs,  and  of  ad- 
miable  business  qualifications.'' 

Dr.  McKinney  was  three  times  married— May  16,  1825,  to  Miss  Eliza  L.  Finley, 
who  died  Nov.  18,  1844 ;  June  2,  1846,  to  Miss  Sarah  F.  Stockley,  who  died  Dec. 
31,  1854,  and  Jan.  30,  1856,  to  Miss  Sarah  Elizabeth  Riddle,  who  died  May  30,  1861 . 
He  loBt  several  children  in  early  life,  and  left  at  his  death  two  sons  and  a  daughter. 

WiLUAM  DvANS,  Esq.,  of  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  a  corresponding  member,  admitted 

June  1,  1855,  and  an  honorary  vice-president  of  this  society  for  Pennsylvania  from 

Janaary,  1866,  till  his  death,  more  than  sixteen  years.    He  was  born  in  Phila- 

ddphia,  February  7,  1808,  and  died  in  the  same  city,  Nov.  4,  IB82,  aged  74.    His 

fiktoer  was  William  John  Duane,  born  in  Clonmcl,  Ireland,  May  9,  1780,  and 

secretary  of  the  United  States  treasury  under  President  Jackson.    His  mother  was 

X>eborah  Bache,  born  in  Philadel]>hia,  October  1,    1781.    On  his  mother's  side 

lie  was  a  great-grandson  of  Beiyamin  Franklin  (Reg.  viii.  374).    On  the  paternal 

~*cle  his  grandfather  was  Willmra  Duane,  whose  wife  was  Catharine  Corcoran, 

id  his  great-grandfather  was  John  Duane  who  married  Joanna  Anastasia  Sarsfield. 

The  early  eoucation  of  Mr.  Duane  was  obtained  in  the  schools  of  Philadelphia 

id  neighboring  places,  until  he  entered  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  where  he 

xvmained  two  years  and  a  half,  and  completing  his  course  at  Captain  Alden  Par- 

^"•"Ige's  American  Literary,  Scientific  and  Mifitary  Academy  at  Middletown,  Conn. 

was  onited  in  marriage,  Nov.  6, 1833,  with  Miss  Louisa  Brooks,  daughter  of  Mr. 


352        Necrology  of  Hiatorie  Qeneah^ical  Society.  [Julji 

Samuel  Brooks,  of  Philadelphia.  Efom  this  marriage  there  were  two  children,  a 
son,  the  Rev.  Charles  W.  Duane,  rector  of  St.  Andrew's  Church,  West  Pfailadd- 
phia,  and  a  daughter. 

In  his  early  manhood  he  was  piade  a  director  of  public  schools  in  Philadelphii, 
and  in  1865  was  a  member  of  the  Common  Council  ot  the  city.  He  was  also  a  some- 
what extensive  writer.    The  following  are  some  of  the  titles  of  articles  or  boob 


Duane;"  '*  Canada  and  the  Continental  Congress.'*  He  was  one  of  the  earliest 
American  contributors  to  the  Lx)ndon  **  Notes  and  Queries,-*  his  signatures  be- 
ing **  Uneda,"  an  anagram  of  his  surname;  and  '*  M.  £.,"  the  finals  of  his  two 
names.  Ho  was  also  a  contributor  to  the  Kbqistkr.  The  Sunday  Dispatch  of  No- 
vember 12,  1882,  savs  of  him  :  '*  His  tastes  were  scholarly.  He  was  particularly 
devoted  to  historical  investigation,  and  had  been  an  active  member  and  officer  of  the 
Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania." 

Delano  Albxander  Qoddard,  A.M.,  a  resident  member,  admitted  Jan.  6, 1870, 
was  born  in  Worcester,  Mass.,  Aufirust27,  1831,  and  died  in  the  city  of  Boston, 
Jan.  11.  1882.  He  was  the  son  of  Benjamin  Goddard,  who  was  horn  in  RoyaJstoo, 
Mass.,  May  5,  1791,  and  of  Sally  Stockwell,  who  was  bom  in  Sutton,  Mass.,  in  Au- 
gust, 1705.  The  American  founder  of  the  family  was  William  Qtxldard,  of  Wattf- 
town,  Mass.,  who  was  an  inhabitant  of  that  town  in  1605,  and  was  a  son  of  Ed- 
ward Goddard,  of  Inglesham,  Wilts,  England,  a  parliament  man  in  the  time  of  the 
civil  wars,  by  wife  Prisciila,  daughter  of  John  D'Oyley.  The  family  is  traced  to 
Walter  Godardville,  temp.  Henry  lU.  (Rio.  xxviii.  327).  From  William  of  Wa- 
tertown  the  line  of  descent  was  through  Benjamin,  Benjamin,  Bei\)amin  of  Qro- 
ton,  Samuel  of  Royalston,  and  Beiyamin  (before  menti(med)  of  Koyalstoo.  fie 
was  therefore  of  the  seventh  generation  from  the  first  American  ancestor. 

Mr.  Goddard  was  graduated  at  Yale  College  in  the  class  of  1853,  a  class  that  has 
become  quite  noted  Tor  the  number  of  its  distinguished  men,  including  such  DanM 
as  Andrew  Dickson  White,  LL.D.,  president  ot  Cornell  University  and  Amcriou 
Minister  at  Berlin  ;  Isaac  Wayne  McVeagh,  late  attorney-general  of  the  Uniled 
States ;  Randal  Lee  Gibson,  senator  of  the  United  States,  and  many  others.  In  1883, 
June  30,  ho  was  united  in  marriage  with  Miss  Martha  Ilowland  Le  Baron,  of  Fly- 
mouth,  Mass. 

After  his  graduation  Mr.  Goddard  devoted  himself  especially  to  journalism,  io 
which  he  won  for  himself  a  very  high  reputation.  The  eulogies  pronounced  upon 
him  at  the  time  of  his  death  in  journals  far  and  near,  are  such  as  it  falls  to  the  lot 
of  few  men  to  receive.  He  was  an  editor  of  the  Worcester  Spy  from  January,  1859, 
to  April,  1868,  and  from  the  latter  date  to  his  death  he  was  editor  of  the  Bostoo 
Daily  Advertiser.  When  the  news  of  his  death  reached  Washington,  Senator  Hoar 
said  of  him  : 

'*The  death  of  this  man,  so  modest  and  gentle,  so  strong  and  so  true,  Ls  a  great 
public  loss.  I  did  not  see  Mr.  Goddard  very  frequently  or  intimately,  but  I  alwmyi 
felt  that  the  Commonwealth  was  richer  for  his  living  in  it.  He  wus  one  of  the  best 
representatives  of  the  old-tieishioned  Massachusetts  journalism,  journalism  of  a  fian^- 
lon  which  is  not  going  out  in  that  state, — and  to  which  her  people  are  hardlj  aware 
of  their  great  debt, — which  always  makes  sure  that  a  fact  is  true  bi*fore  it  states 
it,  and  an  opinion  sound  before  it  utters  it.  Some  of  Mr.  Goddard *s  leaders  oo 
pending  political  questions  were  of  very  ^reat  power.  If  they  had  been  uttered  as 
speeches  in  the  senate,  they  would  have  given  tneir  author  a  very  hi<;h  reputation.'^ 

Mr.  Goddard  was  a  representative  from  Worcester  in  the  legislatures  of  1863  and 
1868.  He  was  made  a  resident  member  of  the  society  January  G,  1870.  His  wile 
survives  him. 


Samuel  L.  Crocker  {ante,  xxxvii.  413).— In  the  Reqister  for  October,  1883,  in 
the  biographical  notice  of  Mr.  Crocker,  it  was  stated  that  he  was  married,  April, 
1830,  to  Miss  Caroline  Thomas.  This  is  correct,  but  should  have  been  preceded  bf 
the  statement  that  he  was  united  in  marriage,  June  15,  1825,  with  Miss  Hanoil 
Weld  Thomas,  who  died  in  November,  1827,  leaving  a  daughter  who  married  Geo. 
Darius  N.  Couch.    The  two  wives  were  sisters. 

The  second  wife  died  Jan.  28,  1875,  leaving  two  daughters.  One,  Sally,  married 
Judge  Bennett,  and  the  other,  fiUen  C,  married  George  G.  Crocker.  She  left  abo 
a  son  Samuel  L.  Crocker. 


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BOOK  NOTICES. 

Thb  Bditob  requests  persons  sending  books  for  notice  to  state,  for  the  information  of 
fSBdert,  the  price  of  each  book,  with  the  amount  to  be  added  for  postage  when  sent  by 
■aiL 

CoOecHons  of  the  New  York  Historical  Society  for  the  Year  ]881.    New  York  : 
PriBted  for  the  Society,  1883. 

The  Monirieor  Journals,    Edited  and  Annotated  by  G.  D.  Scull,  Member  of  the 
New  York  Historical  Society.    8to.  pp.  578. 

No  Tolame  lias  been  issued  for  years  that  contains  more  of  interest  and  utility  to 
the  loTer  of  history  than  this.  It  will  be  a  well  from  which  new  facts  will  be  drawn. 
M och  that  was  hitherto  anknown  is  now  rescued  from  oblivion.  It  consists  of  the 
dmries  of  two  men,  father  and  son,  both  eminent  as  engineers  in  the  kin^c's  service 
in  this  country  during  that  eventful  period  between  the  years  1757  and  1779. 

The  oommittee  in  their  introduction  say,  **  That  the  original  manuscripts  from 
which  these  copies  have  been  furnished  are  preserved  among  the  records  of  Col.  Ed- 
ward Montr^sor,  of  Stonelv  Grange,  Huntingdonshire,  Eng.,  with  whose  kind  per- 
mioBion  they  were  transcribed  for  publication  in  the  society's  collections  by  its  val- 
ued oorrespondinff  associate,  G.  D.  Scull,  Esq.,  of  Oxford,  England  ;^'  and  the  com- 
mittee pay  a  wel^merited  comj^liment  to  the  compiler,  who  is  well  known  to  all 
nadere  of  the  Rbqistir.  The  journals  were  kept  by  Col.  James  Montresor  and  his 
mm  Oapt.  John  Montr^r.  They  consist  of  minute  details  of  current  events,  the 
pjans  ox  forts,  the  fitting  out  of  details  for  special  service,  sketches  of  Fort  William 
HflDiy,  the  Fort  at  Schenectady,  Sandy  Hook,  the  block  house  at  Sarato^,  survevs 
and  profiles,  the  building  of  powder  magazines,  and  all  matters  relating  to  the 
daily  routine  of  an  officer  of  engineers  in  the  service  of  his  country.  The  volume 
Opens  with  an  account  of  the  family  of  Montrdsor,  from  which  it  appears  that  they 
were  originally  Hu^uenots^  and,  like  many  of  our  own  people,  fled  to  England, 
where  they  entered  into  military  life.    James,  who  vtras  ordered  to  this  country  in 

1757,  and  appointed  chief  engineer  in  1776,  was  present  at  the  taking  of  Gibraltar 
in  1T97,  at  which  place  his  son  John  was  born  in  1736.  He  assisted  his  father  for 
four  years.    He  served  under  Gen.  Braddock  and  wa.s  at  the  sieee  of  Louisbure  in 

1758.  He  was  at  the  sie|B:e  of  Quebec  in  1759,  where  he  painted  an  excellent  like- 
ness of  Gen.  Wolfe  in  his  camp  at  Montmorenci.  In  1760-61  he  was  employed  in 
two  scouts  across  what  is  now  Maine.  The  journal  which  he  kept  in  1760  was  pub- 
lished in  the  Rbqistkr,  vol.  xxxvi.  pp.  29-30 ;  that  of  1761,  in  an  imperfect  condi- 
tion, was  used  by  Arnold  in  his  expedition  to  Quebec,  and  was  printed  by  the  Maine 
BmioiticaA  Society  in  its  collections,  vol.  i.  pp.  342-357. 

F^NMn  this  time  he  was  employed  in  the  auties  of  his  profession  at  Detroit,  at  the 
Forfeaffe  of  Niagara,  at  Albany,  at  Fort  George,  at  Castle  William  in  Boston  harbor, 
•I  Halifax,  at  Philadelphia  ana  New  York.  During  all  this  time  he  made  notes  oi 
the  various  expeditions  in  which  he  was  engaged.  Some  of  these,  the  Braddock 
defisat  record  for  instance,  have  unfortunately  been  lost.  Aside  from  the  interest  one 
has  in  the  two  Montr^rs,  there  are  names  continually  occurring  which  have  a 
fiuniliar  sound,  and  seem  like  old  friends.  Lieut.  Diederick  firehm,  a  short  account 
of  whom  appeared  in  the  Riqistxii,  vol.  xxxvii.  page  21,  is  frequently  mentioned. 
We  seem  again  to  go  with  him  from  Montreal  by  La  Galette  round  part  of  the  north 
rixire,  by  l^ke  Ontario,  to  Niagara,  thence  to  Detroit,  and  see  the  fort  as  it  was 
before  it  was  besieged  by  Pontiac. 

Montrdsor  writes  of  **  3rehm*8  Plan  of  Ticonderoga,*'  which  was  shown  him  by 
General  Abercromby.  Again  **  Lieut.  Breme  was  ordered  by  the  General  to  make 
a  post  at  Conojoxeri  on  the  Little  Falls,  and  set  out  accordingly.  He  frequently 
nentions  sending  or  receiving  letters  from  him.  There  is  another  person  men- 
tioned in  these  journals  of  whom  the  writer  has  alwajrs  desired  to  know  as  much 
■s  possible.  His  name  was  John  Henry  Bastide.  In  investigations  regarding  the 
life  of  Richard  Gridley,  made  some  years  ago,  the  fact  became  apparent  that  Bas- 
tide bad  induced  young  Gridley  to  ^ive  up  civil  engineering  and  become  a  military 
engineer.  Gridley  miule  his  acquaintance  in  early  life,  when  Bastide  was  engaged 
in  planning  forts  in  Boston  Harbor,  Marbleheadf,  Cape  Ann  and  Falmouth,    ne 

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354  Book  IfoUces*  [Jollf 

Babseqaently  became  Director  of  Bin  Majesty's  EDgineen,  and  Chief  Engmeer  of 
Noya  Scotia  and  Newfoundland. 

From  the  MS.  of  Coi.  James  Montr^r,  I  find  that  John  Henry  Bastide  was,  on 
April  1,  1759,  equal  in  rank  with  him,  on  the  list  of  the  New  Establishment  of 
Engineers,  receiving  twenty  shillings  per  diem.  The  first  mention  of  his  name  ap- 
pears under  date  of  March  22,  1758 :  *'  RecM  orders  from  Gen*  Abercromby  to  write 
to  Lord  Howe,  and  according  to  the  new  arrangement  of  the  Engineers  at  present, 
(>ipt  Lt  Williamson  goes  to  Halifax  as  Engineer  under  Coll<*  Bastide  and  to  eire 
him  orders  accordingly.''  Again,  April,  1759 :  '*  Rec'd  a  Packet  from  Col"  fiu- 
tide."  On  the  twenty*fourth,  same  month  and  year,  "  Col<*  Bastide  arrived  at  the 
Levee  between  twelve  and  one  o'clock — supped  and  lay  at  my  house.'*  John  Mon- 
tr^6ur  often  mentions  the  receipt  of  letters  from  Halifax,  **  in  1758  from  the  chief 
engineer  Col<^  Bastide,"  and  on  the  sixteenth  of  May  he  "  waited  on  Col  Bastide, 
Chief  Engineer  and  delivered  him  my  letters  from  Col  Montr^r." 

The  moHt  interesting  portion  of  the  Journals  to  New  Englandere  will  be  the 
notes  in  regard  to  incidents  which  happened  when  the  youneer  Montr^r  was  in 
Boston.  Among  the  difficulties  of  carrying  on  the  work  at  Castle  William,  Sept 
14,  1770,  be  mentions  '*  the  ill  disposition  of  the  malecontents  at  Boston  wherd^ 
every  article  becomes  more  expensive  and  withall  not  the  best  of  their  kind,  as  tbey 
are  for  a  service  very  repugnant  to  their  republican  inclinations  and  for  making  for- 
midable a  poet  just  taken  out  of  their  hands.  Castle  William.  **  The  soldiers  p0^ 
Sstually  stealing  the  tools."  *'  The  shortness  of  the  days  at  this  aeason."  **The 
loody  Flux."  He  relates  a  conversation  with  Lieut.  Gov.  Hotebinaon,  whidi 
would  sceip  to  uphold  the  opinion  which  appears  to  be  largely  entertained  in  mod- 
em days,  that  Hutchinson  tried  all  ways,  compatible  with  his  dignity  and  position, 
to  conciliate  and  not  to  offend  the  feelings  of  his  countrymen.  Lieut.  Gov.  Uateb- 
inson  **  remarked  to  me  that  he  would  m  glad  to  save  appearanoes  and  woald  wish 
to  have  had  them  called  storehouses  rather  than  barracks.  Lieut.  Col.  Dalrymple 
very  justly  observed  that  those  points  did  not  affect  us." 

In  the  appendix  appear  two  letters  which  may  throw  some  light  upon  a  subject 
which  is  being  agitated  in  the  newspapers  afresh  at  this  time,  the  throwingof  the  tea 
overboard.  I  am  not  aware  that  they  have  ever  before  been  printed.  They  were 
written  by  Col.  Alexander  Leslie  to  General  Ualdimand.  The  second  is  dated  Castle 
William,  December  20, 1773  :  *''  Sir,  1  did  myself  the  honor  to  write  your  Excell^ 
last  post,  that  very  evening,  the  Sons  of  liberty  went  in  a  large  body  when  dark  to 
the  wharf  where  the  three  Tea  Ships  lay  and  in  two  hours  destroyed  all  the  tea  on 
board  amounting  to  three  hundred  and  fortv  chests.  The  people  that  did  the  businesi 
were  disguised.  I  had  the  regiment  ready  to  take  their  arms  if  they  had  been 
called  upon,  I  have  since  informed  the  council  would  not  on  any  aooount  have  the 
troops  come  to  town,  so  in  fact  it  was  out  of  the  Governors  power  to  call  us.  Such 
is  the  state  of  the  Government  at  present,  there  must  be  a  new  charter  and  a  prvtper 
code  of  laws  formed  for  them,  and  those  laws  enforced,  I  doubt  by  the  military. 
They  threaten  the  Governor  and  my  three  guests  more  than  ever,  for  now  they  find 
they  have  ^one  to  great  lengths,  and  they  attribute  it  to  the  Gatremors  not  allow- 
ing the  ships  to  return,  and  the  Tea  Consignees  for  being  the  cause  of  its  being 
brought  here." 

Among  the  **  memorandums "  of  Capt.  John  Montr^or  are  the  following: 
**  Should  the  American  Colonies  (after  all)  be  lost  to  Great  Britain,  it  may  be  at- 
tributed to  a  variety  of  unfortunate  circumstances,  &c.  viz.  General  Gage  having 
all  his  Cabinet  papers,  Ministers  Letters,  &c.  and  his  correspondence  aU  stole  out 
of  a  large  closet,  or  wardrobe,  up  one  pair  of  stairs  on  the  Landing  at  the  Govern- 
ment House  at  Boston,  1775."  '*  Not  purchasing  the  Rebel  Generals,  even  Israel 
Putnam  of  Connecticut  might  have  been  bought  to  my  certain  knowledge  for  one 
dollar  per  day  or  eight  shillings  New  York  Currency.  The  following  Rebel  Gene- 
rals might  have  been  obtained  at  a  still  *  melieur  marchais,'  vii.  Luker  the  shoe- 
maker of  New  York,  Heard,  the  Tavern  Keeper  of  Woodbridge,  Pomeroy,  the  Gun- 
smith, Putnam  the  carpenter  of  Connecticut,"  &c.  We  insert  theee  statements 
merely  to  show  what  was  the  feeling,  as  expressed  in  the  diary  of  an  English  officer, 
concerning  some  of  the  most  distinguished  patriots  of  the  Revolution.  l 

Every  lover  of  history  ought  to  l^  thankful  for  the  labors  of  such  men  as  Seal 
and  Waters,  by  which  the  archives  and  ancient  documents  of  England  are  continu- 
ally being  exhumed  to  fill  gaps  in  our  own  early  history,  and  the  New  York  His- 
torical Society  may  well  be  proud  of  the  assistance  they  have  furnished  in  printing 
this  boiik. 

By  Daniel  T.  V,  Huntoon,  ^2-9  rf  OaUon^  Mass. 


1884.]  Booh  Notices.  355 

A  Register  of  the  Scholars  admitted  into  the  Merchant  Taylors^  School,  from  A.D. 
\5&i  to  1874.  Compiled  from  autheDtic  sources,  and  edited,  with  Biographical 
Notice,  by  the  Rev.  Charles  J.  Robinson,  M.  A.,  Rector  of  VVest  Hackney,  Lon- 
don, N.  Printed  and  Published  for  the  Editor  by  Famecombe  &  Co.  Lewee. 
8vo.  9  Yols.  Vol.  1,  1882,  pp.  xvi.+391 ;  vol.  2,  1883,  pp.  447.  Price  for  the 
set,  1  £niD®ft  to  past  or  present  members  of  the  school ;  two  guineas  to  non-mem- 
bers.   To  be  obtained  of  the  author  at  London,  or  the  printers  at  Lewes. 

In  1561  this  school  was  founded,  and  is  a  good  representation  of  the  new  power 
which  was  then  taking  root  in  Eojgland.  The  era  of  mercantile  progress  had  be- 
fun  ;  maritime  discoveries,  joinea  with  the  printing  press  and  exchange  of  ideas  as 
well  as  commodities,  in  distant  places,  had  elevatea  the  merchant  to  a  higher  posi- 
tion than  he  ever  before  had  attained  in  England.  Honesty,  virtue  and  wisdom 
were  more  to  him  than  title  or  *'  blue-blood. *°  This  school,*  founded  by  the  liber- 
ality of  the  Merchant  Taylors'  Company,  provided  for  the  education  of  two  hun- 
dred and  fifty  scholars  '*  of  all  nations  and  countries  indifferently,**  which  gave  it  a 
•cope  embracing  sons  of  New  England  and  Virginia  after  the  settlement  of  Ameri- 
ca ;  and  we  find  on  the  list  the  names  of  *'  Samuel  Stileman  (son  of  Richard  of  N.  E. 
Merchant  Taylor),  bom  23  May,  1644  :*'  and  ''  Tho*  Willoughby  (only  son  of  Tho- 
mas, Merchant),  bom  in  Virginia  25th  Dec.  1632." 

The  requirements  demanded  for  its  Head  Master,  were  that  he  should  be  "  a  man 
in  body  whole,  sober,  discrete,  honest,  vertuous  and  learned  in  good  and  rJeane  Latin 
literature,  and  also  in  Greeke  if  such  could  be  gotten.**  He  was  found  in  Richard 
Malcaster,  who  had  been  educated  at  Eton  School  and  both  Cambridge  and  Oxford 
Uoiversities.  The  Rev.  Mr.  Robinson  found  great  difficulty  in  obtaining  the  namen 
of  the  papUs  of  the  first  forty  years ;  affcerward  the  records  were  carefully  made 
and  preserved.  It  would  appear  that  of  the  three  thousand  pupils  under  Mulcas- 
ier*8  instructioD,  only  the  names  of  a  fourth  have  been  discovered,  and  these  are 
auflkient  to  show  both  the  purity  and  scholarship  of  the  Head  Master. 

Edmund  Spenser,  the  father  of  pure  English  Poetry,  was  the  first  pupil  on  the 
record:  and  the  number  of  Bishops  and  Translators  of  King  Jameses  Bible,  who 
graduated  under  the  first  Head  Master,  gave  evidence  to  the  nigh  plane  on  which 
inis  school  stood.  The  quality  has  been  maintained  through  twenty-two  Head  Mas- 
terships ;  and  the  Re||;ister,  so  thoroughly  annotated  by  the  Editor,  gives  us  glimpses 
of  the  men  in  English  history,  as  soldiers,  ecclesiastics,  poets,  antiquaries,  and 
upon  the  Mimic  Sta^e,  who  have  honored  the  school  by  developing  the  powers  ger- 
minated there  into  fuller  usefulness  in  practical  work  for  the  good  of  others.  In  the 
line  of  our  own  studies  the  names  appear  of  Ralphe  Brooke,  the  York  Herald  ;  Peter 
Wballey,  antiquary ;  Charles  Townley,  father  and  son,  Carter  King  and  Lanca- 
shire Herald  ;  Henry  Ellis,  Lib.  British  Museum ;  Philip  Bliss,  Keeper  of  Archives ; 
J.  Q.  Nichols,  William  Chaffers,  Thomas  Tagg,  Edward  Green,  all  genealogists  or 
antiquaries  ;  John  Walter  of  Che  Times. 

The  Reverend  editor  modestly  says  that  his  annotations  are  merely  suggestive, 
and  hopes  that  they  may  assist  others  in  researches,  and  lead  to  discoveries  which 
be  has  failed  to  make.  We  have  but  one  regret  to  express,  because  every  name  is 
a  suggestion ;  and  that  is,  that  the  list  of  the  Boys  admitted  into  Mr.  Da  Gard*a 
Private  School  had  not  been  given  in  an  appendix. 

These  volumes  must  not  be  overlooked  by  New  Englanders  in  their  ancestral  re- 
searches. The  labor  of  the  editor  was  more  thun  that  of  a  collector,  transcriber,  or 
mere  annotator,  as  some  of  his  material,  particularly  Mr.  Du  Oard*s  Register,  1644 
•1661,  was  written  in  Latin,  which  required  translation,  describing  the  parents' 
business  in  very  quaint  terms,  but  with  historic  accuracy,  giving  the  date  of  the 
birth  of  each  pupil.  The  full  index  is  a  ready  help.  The  names  of  Hilton,  Bart- 
lett.  Shirley,  &o.,  strike  the  e^'e  among  others  as  suggestive  of  examination  here. 

We  hope  that  the  other  ffreat  schools  of  England  may  each  find  a  follower  of  Rev. 
Mr.  Robinson,  to  do  for  Winchester,  St.  PauPs,  Eton,  Harrow  and  Rugby,  what 
Mr.  Riibinson  has  so  well  done  for  the  Merchant  Taylors*. 

By  John  Coffin  Jones  Brown,  Esq.,  of  Boston. 

A  Chronological  History  of  the  Origin  and  Development  of  Steam  Navigation.  By 
Geo.  Hbnry  Preble,  Rear  Admiral,  U.S.N.  1543-1B82.  Philadelphia:  L.  R. 
Hammersly  &  Co.     1883.    Large  8vo.  pp.  zx.+484.     Price  $3.50. 

This  volume  has  a  positive  and  authoritative  value  for  all  who  are  either  directly 
or  indirectly  interested  in  the  subject.  It  would  require  many  volumes  to  give  the 
history  of  steam  navigation  in  all  its  details  ;  but  ail  the  facts,  however  ancient,  to 


356  Booh  Notices.  [July, 

far  as  they  have  been  printed,  and  all  the  more  recent  history  which  has  been  pub- 
lished or  preserred  in  the  records  of  official  bureaus,  are  here  eiven  in  a  Tery  ooacifle 
yet  clearly  expressed  and  interesting  form.  The  author  had  for  more  than  twentj- 
five  years  been  collecting  materials  lor  a  work  of  this  nature.  He  traces  the  history 
of  the  evolution  of  the  modern  steamboat  from  the  first  mde  attempts  of  men  to 
employ  mechanical  agencies  for  transit  by  water,  down  to  the  most  recent  td- 
yance  in  the  application  of  steam  as  a  motive  power  for  that  purpose.  From  the 
legendary  experiments  of  Blasco  de  Garray  in  1543  to  the  latest  improvements  in  tbe 
marine  steam  engine  and  in  steamship  architecture,  the  progress  of  discovery  and 
of  mechanical  skill  has  been  as  rapid  as  it  has  been  wonderful.  And  it  affords 
ample  ground  for  the  highest  gratification  to  know  that  for  nearly  a  hundred  years 
some  of  our  countrymen  have  persistently  and  most  successfully  labored  in  this  de- 
partment of  useful  enterprise. 

In  the  Notes  and  Appendix  the  author  presents  also  a  mass  of  valuable  informt- 
tion,  historical,  bibliographical  and  statistical — the  latter  chiefly  in  a  tabulated 
form,  and  hence  all  the  more  convenient  for  a  readv  reference.  There  is  an  Index, 
but  in  the  next  edition  of  the  work  it  would  be  well  to  make  this  complete  and  more 
worthy  of  the  labor  bestowed  upon  the  text. 

In  conclusion  it  may  be  said  that  those  who  are  acquainted  with  Admiral  Pre* 
ble^s  '*  History  of  the  Flag '*  and  his  other  historical  writings,  need  no  assuranee 
that,  in  the  volume  now  under  notice,  he  has  exercised  his  usual  care  and  tboroogh- 
ness  of  research. 

By  Albert  H,  Hoyt,  A.M.,  qf  Boston. 

The  Historical  Monuments  oj  France.     By  James  F.  Hunnewxll.    Boston :  Jamei 
R.  Osgood  &  Co.    1884.    8vo.  cloth,  pp.  xiv.+336.    Price  $3.50. 

The  author  says  in  his  introduction  :  '*  The  recorded  history  of  France  shows  that 
nearly  sixty  generations  of  an  active  population,  sometimes  shifting,  generally  set- 
tled, have  lived  in  her  wide  and  diverHified  territory.  Throughout  it,  and  its  often 
beautiful  or  noble  scenery,  they  spread  the  products  of  their  arts.  Almost  two  thou- 
sand of  these  works  still  spared,  she  classes — and  she  well  nuiy  daas  with  pride— •■ 
her  Historical  Monuments.*' 

The  volume  is  divided  into  several  divisions,  and  these  into  subdivisions.  Tbe  fint 
heading  is  Southern  France,  and  the  reader  is  introduced  to  the  subject  of  Roman 
Remains,  which  are  Btill  numerous  in  that  part  of  the  country,  and  are  lasting  wit- 
nesses to  the  genius  and  enterprise  ol  the  subjects  of  Rome,  displayed  wherever  they 
acquired  control.  Most  of  these  monuments  of  antiquity  are  in  ruins,  but  there 
are  a  few  exceptions,  and  the  wonderful  Port  du  Gard,  of  which  there  is  a  fine  illus- 
tration, is  in  a  state  of  excellent  preservation. 

The  next  subject  in  order  is  the  Mediaeval  Remains,  and  under  this  head  there  is 
much  interesting  matter  relating  to  Avis^non,  which  for  more  than  seventy  years 
was  the  residence  of  the  popes,  and  also  illustrations  of  the  appearance  of  the  fiunoas 
fortress  of  Carcassonne  before  and  since  its  restoration. 

It  may  be  well  to  state  here  that  in  the  last  fiiltv  years,  especially  during  tbe 
reign  of  Napoleon  III.,  who  was  personally  interested  in  tbe  matter,  important  and 
extensive  restorations  have  been  made  throughout  France,  and  the  devastations  of 
time  and  the  revolutionists  repaired  as  far  as  possible. 

The  next  division  of  the  work  is  entitled  Northern  France,  with  the  following 
subdivisions.  The  Ancient  Royal  Domains,  Roman  and  Mediieval  Paris,  and  Tbe 
Great  Cathedrals.  The  history  of  the  Abbey  Church  of  St.  Denis,  the  ancient 
burial  place  of  royalty,  and  of  tbe  Cathedral  of  Notre  Dame,  is  given  in  this  portioQ 
of  the  Dook. 

The  next  head  is  Northern  and  Central  France,  Mediaeval  and  Renaissance  Oa»> 
ties.  This  includes  a  large  number  of  interesting  sketches,  among  others  that  of 
the  castle  of  Loches,  the  residence  of  the  tyrant  Louis  XI.  The  author  describes 
the  famous  dungeons,  or  cachots,  and  the  iron  cages  where  so  many  illustrious  vic- 
tims of  the  king's  cruelty  and  ambition  lansruish^. 

Under  the  heading,  The  Great  Palaces  oi  France,  the  history  and  description  of 
the  Chateau  at  Fontainebleau,  and  of  the  palaces  of  St.  Germain,  Versailles,  St. 
Cloud,  Luxemburg,  Palais  Royal,  the  Louvre,  and  Hotel  de  Cluny,  are  given.  The 
remainder  of  the  volume  is  devoted  to  Mediaeval  and  Modem  Paris,  North west^n 
France,  Brittany,  Normandy,  Anjou  and  Maine.  These  four  provinces  being  rich 
in  ancient  castles  and  churches. 

The  Appendix  contains  a  very  exhaustive  and  valuable  catalogue  of  the  Histori- 
cal Monuments  of  France,  including  hundreds  of  buildings  not  noticed  in  the  boc^ 


1884.]  Booh  Noiices.  357 

of  ibe  work.  This  book,  which  eTinces  great  research  and  a  thorough  knowledge 
of  history  and  architecture,  is  enriched  by  twenty- two  beautiful  illustrations.  The 
plan  of  the  work  is  excellent,  and  the  author  is  to  be  commended  for  putting  into 
the  introduction  whatever  he  had  to  say  concerning  hotels,  methods  of  travelling, 
ftc.  The  book  may  bo  safely  characterized  as  one  of  extraordinary  merit,  of  sur- 
passing  interest  and  value  to  the  historical  student,  and  to  the  general  reader  an 
mscmctive  and  entertaining  work. 

By  George K.  Clarke,  Esq.,  Needham,  Mass. 

Notes  and  Queries:  a  Medium  of  Intercommunieation  for  Literary  Men,  General 
Readers,  etc.  Sixth  Series,  Volume  Eighth^  July — December,  1883.  London : 
Published  at  the  office  20  Wellingtun  Street,  Strand,  W.  C,  by  John  C.  Francis. 
Small  4io.  pp.  558.    Price  4d.  a  number,  or  bound  in  doth,  lOhs.  6d.  a  volume. 

We  have  before  us  the  sixty-eighth  (including  indexes,  the  seventy-third)  volume 
of  this  interesting  and  useful  periodical,  which  has  frequently  been  commended  in 
these  pages.  As  the  Rroistbr  remarked  on  a  former  occasion  (xxix.  339),  '*  The 
whole  series  form  a  mine  of  varied  and  profound  learning,  and  deserve  a  place  in 

every  well  appointed  library The  matters  diecussed  in  Notes  and  Queries 

have  just  the  same  interest  to  us  as  to  native-bom  Englishmen.  W  herever  the  Eng- 
lish race  is,  there  must  also  be  a  never-dying  interest  m  the  history  and  antiquities 
of  Old  England." 

This  perir>dical  was  commenced  Nov.  3,  1849.  The  founder  and  first  editor,  the 
BOW  venerable  William  J.  Thoms,  F.S.A.,  edited  the  work  nearly  twenty-three 
years,  closing  his  labors  in  September,  1872.  His  successor,  John  Doran,  Ph.D., 
F.S.  A.  (RiQ.  xxxii.  259),  had  charge  of  it  over  five  years,  from  Oct.  5,  1872,  to  Janu- 
ary, 187i9,  having  died  on  the  25th  of  that  month.  The  next  editor,  Henry  Frede- 
rick Turle,  closed  his  labors  with  the  volume  preceding  that  under  review,  having 
died  June  28»  1883.  "  His  judgment,  and  tact  and  temper  in  the  conduct  of  *  N, 
and  Q.*,'*  says  one  who  knew  him  well,  **  were  singularly  fine  and  accurate.**  He 
was  **  a  man  whose  hearty,  cheerful  kindness  and  personal  re^rd  were  always  at 
one's  service,  and  were  always  welcome.  His  memory  will  live  with  that  of  *  N. 
and  Q.,*  which  is  no  light  nor  trivial  touch  of  fame.*' 

The  present  editor  has  shown,  by  his  conduct  of  the  work,  that  he  is  worthy  to 
be  a  successor  of  the  able  gentlemen  who  have  preceded  him  in  the  charge  of  Notes 
and  Queries. 

Reminiscences  of  the  Rev.  George  Allen- of  Worcester.  With  a  Biographical  Sketch 
and  Notes.    By  Franklin  P.  Ricb.    Worcester  :  Putnam  and  Davis,  Publishers. 

1883.  8vo.  pp.  127. 

The  Rev.  George  Allen  was  born  in  Worcester,  Feb.  1,  1792,  graduated  at  Yale 
College  in  1813,  was  settled  at  Shrewsbury  as  a  clergyman  from  1823  to  1840 :  was 
ckiaplain  of  the  State  Lunatic  Hospital  from  1843  to  1872,  and  died  March  31,  1883, 
in  his  ninety-second  year.  During  his  long  life  he  became  acquainted  with  many 
prominent  Americans,  recollections  of  whom  are  preserved  in  these  pages.  Hisac- 
ooants  of  their  personal  appearance,  their  characteristics  and  some  of  the  incidents 
in  their  lives,  are  interesting.  Mr.  Rice  has  added  to  the  value  of  the  work  by  his 
notes. 

The  book  is  well  printed,  is  embellished  with  a  portrait  of  the  Rev.  Mr.  AUen^ 
tnd  has  a  good  index. 

Steohen  Hopkins,  a  Rhode  Island  Statesman,     A  Study  in  the  Political  History  of 
the  Eighteenth  Century.    By  William  E.  Foster.    Providence :  Sidney  S.  Rider. 

1884.  Two  parts,  in  paper.    Fcp.  4to.    Part  1.  pp.  xx.-f  289.    Part  II.  pp.  289. 
Price  $5  for  both  parts. 

After  a  careful  examination  of  this  book  it  can  be  well  said  of  it  that  it  is  a  valua- 
ble addition  to  historical  literature.  It  is  indeed  a  relief  to  turn  from  the  loads  of 
ephemeral  books  that  are  published  almost  daily  to  an  exhaustive  work  of  this  nsr 
tare,  embodying,  as  it  docs,  the  studies  and  researches  of  years.  It  is  likewise 
delightful  reading,  for  Mr.  Foster's  periods  are  models  of  good  English. 

it  is  the  litis  of  Stephen  Hopkins  in  all  his  varied  career  as  farmer,  merchant, 
jorisi  and  statesman.  He  was  the  leading  man  of  Rhode  Island  in  the  last  century. 
His  influence  in  the  Continental  Congress  was  also  very  larse.  Neither  is  his  sign- 
ing the  Declaration  of  Independence  to  be  forgotten,  for,  although  it  is  somewhat 
the  fiMhion  to  make  light  or  that  instrumeDt  and  of  those  who  aigned  it,  the  £Mt 
TOL.  XXXYIII.  32* 


358  Booh  N'oticen.  [July, 

remains  that  the  act  meant  an  ienominioas  death  for  eaob  of  the  signers  if  Eng- 
land prevailed  in  the  strasele,  and  did  she  not  seem  likely  to  do  so? 

Stephen  Hopkins  owed  ti is  success  to  his  careful  and  untiring  study  of  boob 
and  men.  **  He  was,"  says  Beaman.  "  a  close  and  soTere  student,  filling  op  all  the 
spare  hours  of  his  life  with  reading. 

Mr.  Foster  has  done  his  work  faithfully,  as  the  many  and  precise  references  show. 
Among  our  Boston  antiquaries,  named  by  the  author  as  having  rendered  asnst- 
anee,  we  find  the  names  of  David  Pulsifer,  A.M.,  and  Drs.  Samael  A.  Qreen  sad 
Edward  Strong. 

This  work  forms  No.  19  of  the  Rhode  Island  Tracts. 

By  Daniel  Rollins,  Esq,,  of  Boston, 

Memorial  Sketches  of  Stephen  Whitney  Phanix,  By  Jaoob  Bailkt  Moori  and 
Ubnrt  Thaybr  Drowns,  of  New  York.  Boston  :  Press  of  David  Clapp  k  Soo, 
35  Bedford  Street.     1883.    8vo.  pp.  6+7. 

These  are  two  interesting  sketches  of  the  life  of  S.  Whitney  Pboaaix.  a  graduate 
of  Columbia  College,  a  fine  Greek  and  Latin  scholar,  and  one  well  read  in  English 
literature,  ilis  knowledge  bad  been  enlarged  by  travel  in  various  parts  of  the 
world,  ilis  love  for  his  kindred  and  his  desire  to  preserve  their  memory,  wete 
shown  by  the  exhaustive  work  on  his  mother *s  family,  the  Whitneys,  noticed  by  us 
in  July,  1879.  He  had  also  collected  much  about  the  Phoenixes  and  other  families 
from  which  be  was  descended.  Mr.  Moore's  excellent  sketch  of  him  for  the  New 
York  Historical  Society,  is  reprinted  from  the  Register  for  July,  1883.  That  of 
Mr.  Drowne,  his  intimate  friend,  was  read  before  the  Rhode  Island  Historical  Sod- 
ety,  July  3,  1883,  and  was  printed  in  the  Newport  Historical  Magasine  the  same 
month.  The  two  biographies  present  clearly  the  incidents  in  the  much  too  brief 
career  of  one  who  showed  the  liberality  of  his  nature  by  noble  bequests  to  Columbia 
College,  the  New  York  Historical  Society  and  the  Museum  of  Natural  Histoiy. 

A  Digest  of  the  Proceedings  of  the  Conventions  and  Councils  of  the  Diocese  of  Vit' 
ginia.  By  T.  Grayson  Dashibll,  Rector  of  St.  Mark^s  Church,  Richmond,  and 
Secretary  of  the  Council.  Richmond,  1883.  8vo.  cloth,  pp.  vii.-h431.  Supplied 
post-paid  for  $2  by  W.  Ellis  Jones,  No.  5  S.  12th  Street,  Richmond,  Va. 

This  work,  published  by  the  Virginia  Council  in  an  edition  of  one  thousand  copies 
only,  is  a  desideratum,  inasmuch  as  the  journals  of  the  Annual  Conventions  for 
past  years  are  unobtainable,  and  no  history  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church 
m  Virginia  has  appeared  since  that  of  Dr.  Hawks  in  1836.  As  Dr.  Dashiell  justly 
remarks  in  his  introduction  :  **  There  is  not  in  our  land  a  Diocese  so  truly  historic 
as  Virginia.  It  was  within  her  borders  that  the  first  services  of  the  mother  Church 
were  enjoyed  in  the  United  States.  It  was  upon  her  shores  that  there  were  under- 
taken the  first  efforts  to  introduce  into  our  country  the  light  of  the  gospel  as  it  is 
reflected  from  our  Liturgy  and  other  standards.  Within  her  bounds  there  are  still 
extant  the  remains  of  the  first  sanctuary  built  within  the  limits  of  the  Union/' 

The  *' Digest"  is  more  usefully  comprehensive  than  its  modest  title  portends, 
and  contains  not  only  a  judicious  and  material  synopsis  of  the  several  councils  and 
conventions  since  1785,  but  also  a  compendious  account  of  the  founding  of  the 
Church  in  Virginia,  and  of  its  history  since  the  Revolution,  together  with  lists  (to 
be  valued  bv  the  biographer  and  genealofl[ist)  of  the  clergy  from  1607  to  1700,  1700 
to  1785,  and  from  1785  to  the  i)resent ;  of  the  officers  of  the  conventions  and  coun- 
cils, and  of  the  lay  delegates  since  1785.     There  is  a  well  digested  index. 

By  R.  A,  Brock,  Esq.,  of  Richmond,  Va. 

Concord  in  the  Colonial  Period ;  being  a  History  of  the  Town  of  Concord^  Massa* 
chusetts,  from  the  earliest  settlement  till  the  overthrow  of  the  Andros  Government, 
1635—1689.  By  Charles  H.  Walcott.  With  Map.  Boston  :  Estes  and  Lao- 
riat.     1884.    8vo.  pp.  xiv.-|-l72. 

In  this  volume  the  author  has  not  only  reproduced  much  which  is  contained  in 
Shattuck^s  History  of  Concord  (now  out  of  print  and  in  a  measure  inaccessible  to  the 
present  generation  of  readers) ,  but  he  has  also  gathered  additional  facts  from  more 
recent  publications  and  from  that  rich  storehouse  of  original  papers  styled  Masst- 
chusetts  Archives.  As  the  result  of  his  investigations,  he  gives  a  condensed  but 
clear  account  of  the  difficulties  and  dangers  encountered  by  the  pioneens,  and  the 
manner  in  which  thej  laid  the  foundations  of  their  civil,  ecclesiastical  and  military 
institutions,  and  resisted  all  encroachments  on  their  libeor^.    He  has  also  briefly 


1884.]  Book  JSToticea.  359 

sketched  the  character  of  some  prominent  inhabitants,  such  as  Rev.  Peter  Balkeley, 
the  first  pastor,  his  son  and  successor,  Rev.  Edward  fiulkeiey,  and  his  grandson 
Peter  Bulkeley,  Esq.,  a  politician,  whose  sun,  though  bright  in  the  morning,  "  did 
set  in  a  cloud;'*  such  also  as  Capt.  Thomas  Wheeler,  the  heroic  commander  of 
cavalry  in  the  sanguinary  skirmish  with  the  Indians  near  Quaboog  (Brookfield)  in 
1075,  and  Miup^  2dimon  Willard,  eminent  alike  as  a  soldier,  legislator,  magistrate 
and  man  of  affairs.  The  value  of  this  volume  is  increased  by  a  map  of  the  town- 
ship and  by  a  remarkably  copious  index.  Of  the  mechanical  execution  it  is  soffi- 
dent  to  say  that  it  was  printed  by  John  Wilson  and  Son. 
By  the  JKev.  Lucius  R,  Paige.  D,D.,  of  Camhridgeport^  Mass. 

Kansas  State  Historical  Society  ^  List  Int  Counties  of  Newspapers  and  Periodicals  pub' 
hshedin  Kansas,  March  1,  1884.  Compiled  by  F.  Gt.  Adams,  Secretory  of^the 
Kansas  State  Historical  Society.  Topeka,  Kansas :  Kansas  Publishing  House. 
1884.    dvo.  pp.  33. 

It  would  naturally  be  thought  an  easy  task  to  compile  a  history  of  the  newspa- 
pers of  a  certain  locality.  But  any  one  who  attempts  it  will  be  surprised  to  find 
now  seldom  it  is  that  files  of  even  the  most  popular  newspapers  are  preserved  and 
bound.  Take  the  Boston  newspapers  since  the  beginning  of  this  century,  and  we 
find  tbat  many  of  them  are  now  hopelessly  sought  tor  whenever  an  occasion  to  con- 
Bolt  them  arises.    Even  the  names  of  some  of  them  are  almost  forgotten. 

In  the  first  volume  of  the  collections  of  the  Kansas  Historicaf  Society,  noticed 
by  OS  in  July,  1881,  the  late  Hon.  Kichard  B.  Taylor  laid  a  good  foundation  for  the 
history  of  the  Kansas  newspaper  press ;  and  we  trust  that  Mr.  Adams  will,  while 
it  is  possible,  see  it  completed.    His  present  publication  will  help. 

Rnisier  of  Marriages  in  Milton^  Mass.,  from  the  Diary  of  Rev.  Peter  Thacher, 
1686—1737.    Boston  :  David  Glapp  <fc  Son,  Printers.     1883.    8vo.  pp.  7. 

This  is  a  reprint  of  the  record  of  marriages  by  the  Rev.  Peter  Thacher  of  Milton, 
oommunicatea  to  the  Rkoistxr  by  Edward  Doubleday  Harris,  of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
Mr.  Harris  has  prefixed  an  introduction  to  the  records.  **  It  is  probable,"  he  savs, 
'*  that  the  larger  portion  of  these  marriages  does  not  exist  elsewhere  or  in  any  otner 
form.  It  is  certam  that  for  the  first  thirty  of  the  list  Savage  had  found  but  six,  and 
of  these  six  one  was  doubtful.  The  importance  of  the  record,  for  the  first  time 
printed,  is  evident  to  genealogists." 

Historical  Societies  in  their  Relation  to  Local  Historical  Interest.  An  Address  delivered 
before  the  Missouri  Historical  Society,  September  18/A,  1883.  By  the  Rt.  Rev.  G. 
F.R0BKRTSON,  D.D.,  LL.D.    St.  Louis:  1883.    8vo.  pp.  16. 

The  American  Revolution  and  the  Acquisition  of  the  Valley  of  the  Mississippi.  A 
Paper  read  htfore  the  Missouri  Historical  Society,  April  Ibth,  1884.  By  tne  Rt. 
Rev.  C.  F.  Robertson,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  Bishop  of  the  Diocese  of  Missouri;  Member  of 
the  Historical  Societies  of  Missouri  and  Virginia  and  the  Southern  Historical  So- 
ciety, and  Corresponding  Member  of  the  Historical  Societies  of  Maryland,  Wis- 
oonsin,  etc.    St.  Louis :    1884.    8vo.  pp.  27. 

We  have  here  two  valuable  papers  by  Bishop  Robertson,  read  before  the  Missou- 
ri Historical  Society.  In  the  first,  after  showing  the  true  aim  of  our  historical 
societies  and  what  they  can  do  to  preserve  the  history  of  our  country,  he  takes  a 
■orvey  of  the  several  state  and  other  local  historical  societies,  and  notices  some  of 
their  working  members. 

The  second  paper,  suggested  by  the  recently  commemorated  centenary  of  the  oon- 
dusion  of  our  revolutionary  war  and  the  disbanding  of  its  armies,  ably  describ€»4 
the  western  explorations  and  settlements  of  the  English,  which  enabled  the  United 
States,  at  the  Treaty  of  Ghent,  in  1783,  to  secure  the  river  Mississippi  as  their  west- 
ern boundary;  and  clearly  presents  the  subsequent  events,  including  the  purchase 
of  the  Louisiana  territory,  which  planted  the  Anglo  Saxon  race  in  the  far  West, 
and  made  our  country  a  power  among  the  nations. 

Notes  on  a  Copy  qf  Dr.  William  Douglasses  Almanack  for  1743,  touching  the  sub- 
jeci  of  Medicine  in  Massachusetts  bltfore  his  Time,    By  Samukl  Abbott  Grxkn, 
M.D.    Cambridge:  John  Wilson  and  Son.     1884.    8vo.  pp.8. 

Dr.  Green  in  these  Notes  preserves  much  interesting  information  concerning  the 
early  history  of  Medicine  in  Massachusetts.  The  pamphlet  is  reprinted  from  the 
Ph)oeeding8  of  the  Maasacbusetts  Historical  Society  for  February,  1884. 


360  Book  Jihtiees.  [July, 

Proceedings  of  the  Bostoman  Society  at  the  Annwd  Meeting,  Jantutry  8,  1884.  Bo9- 
tOD  :  Old  State  House,  Published  by  Order  of  the  Society.     1884.    8to.  pp.  54. 

AM  Bowen.  Engraver,  A  Sketch  prepared  for  the  Bostoman  Society,  By  Wiir 
LiAM  H.  Whitmorb.  Boston :  Press  of  Rockwell  and  Churchill.  1884.  Sto. 
pp.  32. 

The  Proceedinj^  of  the  Bostonian  Societjr  at  its  eeoond  annaal  meeting  are  before 
us  in  pamphlet  form.  Our  readers  are  referred  to  our  issues  for  October,  1883,  and 
July,  1883,  for  information  oonoemingthe  forming  of  this  society  and  its  occupa- 
tion of  the  restored  Old  State  House.  The  present  pamphlet  contains  the  addreii 
of  President  Curtis  Guild  and  the  seyeral  annual  reports.  The  report  of  the  com- 
mittee on  the  rooms,  by  James  Kindge  Stanwood,  is  particularly  valuable  for  the 
list  of  accessions  to  the  society's  collection  of  portraits  and  other  matters  of  historio 
interest.  The  descriptions  of  the  several  articles  are  full  and  precise,  and  ffive  in- 
teresting information  concerning  them  which  must  have  cost  Mr.  Stanwood  much 
labor  to  collect. 

Mr.  Whitmore's  sketch  of  Abel  Bowen  is  illustrated  by  the  engravings  used  in 
Bowen^s  Picture  of  Boston,  the  copper  plates  of  which  were  purchased  by  the  ioei- 
e^  last  year.  Mr.  Whitmore's  familiarity  with  the  local  history  of  Boston  enabki 
him  to  add  valuable  accounts  of  the  buildings,  of  which  views  are  given. 

JVibutea  to  the  Memory  of  George  Dexter,  late  Recording  Secretary  of  the  Massacht 
setts  Historical  Soaety^  offered  at  a  Meeting  of  the  Society,  January  10,  1884. 
Cambridge:  John  Wilson  and  Son.     1884.    8vo.  pp.  11. 

The  death  of  George  Dexter  in  December  last,  at  Santa  Barbara,  Gal.,  at  the 
comparatively  early  a|p;e  of  forty-five,  is  a  real  loss  to  American  historical  literature. 
The  warm  eulogies  otPresident  Winthrop  and  Messrs.  Warren,  Foote  and  Smith, 
show  the  high  esteem  and  respect  in  which  be  was  held  by  his  associates. 

Early  Gleanings  and  Random  Recollections  of  the  Town  of  Corinth,  Maine,  from 
1792  to  1883.  By  Masom  S.  Palmer.  Banffor :  Press  of  M.  A.  Burr.  1883.  8ve. 
pp.  34.  Price  35  cts.  To  be  obtained  of  G.  E.  Littlefield,  57  Combill,  Boston, 
Mass.,  or  the  author,  Corinth,  Me. 


Though  Corinth  was  settled  about  ninety  vears  ago,  it  was  not  incorporated  as  t 
town  till  Jjine  21,  1811.  Asa  plantation  it  had  previously  been  known  as  Ohio  or 
New  Ohio.  The  author  of  the  work  before  us,  who  is  now  in  his  eighty-first  year, 
is  a  native  of  the  town,  and  his  recollections  and  gleanings  furnish  a  good  history 
of  the  place  and  its  people. 

Old  Highways  and  Landmarks  in  Groton,  Massachusetts.  By  Francis  Marion 
BouTW£LL.    Groton  :  1884.    8vo.  pp.  20. 

Mr.  Boutwell  is  the  author  of  *'  Old  Homesteads  of  Groton,"  noticed  by  ne 
in  April,  1883,  to  which  the  present  tract  is  a  worthy  companion.  It  is  a  difficult 
thing,  in  an  ancient  town  like  this,  to  locate  the  old  highways,  some  of  which  have 
been  disused  for  several  generations,  and  the  author  in  the  work  before  us  has  per- 
formed a  meritorious  service.  Fortunately  he  has  been  aided  by  the  dear  and  vivid 
recollection  of  Miss  Elizabeth  Farnswortn,  who  died  last  February  in  her  ninety- 
second  year,  and  to  whose  memory  he  dedicates  the  work. 

A  History  of  the  Bethune  Family.  Translated  from  the  French  ofAndr^  du  Chum, 
with  Additions  from  Family  Records  and  other  Available  Sources.  Together  ici/A 
a  Sketch  of  the  Faneuil  Family  with  whom  the  Bethunes  have  become  connected  is 
America.  By  Mrs.  John  A.  Wbissb.  New  York  :  Trow  Printing  and  BiX>k- 
binding  Co.     1884.    Royal  4to.  pp.  55. 

Pedigree  of  the  Family  of  Chauncy.  Compiled  by  Stspheit  Tucker,  Require,  Lan- 
caster ilerald  in  Ordinary.  London  :  Mitchell  <fc  Hughes.  Royal  4to.  pp.  14. 
Edition  of  200  copies. 

Genealogical  Record  oj  the  Atlee  Family,  The  Descendants  of  Judge  William  i4«- 
gustus  Atlee  and  Colonel  Samuel  John  Atlee  of  Lancaster  County,  Pa,  By  JSownr 
Atlee  Barber,  A.M.  Philadelphia:  Press  of  William  F.  Fell  A  Go.  1884. 
Sm.  8vo.  pp.  130. 

Descendants  of  Ralph  Chapman.  By  Charles  B.  Gerard.  Newburgh,  N.  T. : 
E.  M.  Ruttenber  db  Son,  Printers.  1876.  Sm.  4to.  pp.  80.  One  hundred  copisf 
printed. 


1884.]  Book  Notices.  361 

The  Poufers  Family:  Genealogical  and  Historical  Record  0/  Walter  Power  and 
Some  of  Ms  Descendants  to  the  Ninth  Generation,  Compiled  by  Amos  H.  Pow- 
XRS,  Chica^,  111.  Chicago :  Fergus  Printing  Company.  1884.  8vo.  pp.  1U9. 
Price  $3,  including  postage.    Address  the  compiler,  155  Warren  Av.,  Chicago. 

Some  Records  of  the  Dyer  Family,  Compiled  by  Cornrlia  C.  Jot-Dter.  New 
York :  Thomas  Whitaker.   1884.  ISmo.  pp.  130.   Printed  for  Private  Circulation. 

Descendants  0/  Samuel  Spare,  Compiled  by  John  Sparb,  A.M.,  M.D.  New  Bed- 
ford, Mass. :  P&ul  Howland,  Jr.,  Printer  and  Engraver.  1884.  8vo.  pp.  ft7. 
Price  $1.  The  edition  is  limited.  Copies  can  be  purchased  of  the  author,  New 
Bedford,  Mass. 

Brief  History  of  the  Descendants  of  Thomas  Wood  and  Ann^  his  Wife,  Compiled 
by  Amasa  Wood.  Worcester,  Mass. :  Printed  by  Daniel  Seagrave.  1884.  8vo. 
pp.  34. 

The  Humphreys  Family  in  America,  By  Frbdkrick  Humphrbts,  M.D.  Assisted 
by  Otis  M.  Humphrkts,  M.D.,  Ubnrt  R.  Stilbs,  M.D.,  Mrs.  Sarah  M.  Church- 
ill. New  York:  Humphreys  Print.  Part  HI.  December,  1883;  Part  IV. 
April,  1884.  Boval  4to.  pp.  96  ea.  No.  Price  $3  a  single  number,  or  $10  for 
the  complete  work. 

T%e  Goodrich  Family  Memorial,  Part  11.  Containing  the  American  History  and 
Four  Generations  of  the  Descendants  of  William  and  Sarah  (Marion)  Goodrich 
of  Weihersfield,  Conn,  8vo.  pp.  70.  Price  (1.  Address  the  Compiler,  £dwin 
Uabbard,  16  Monroe  Street,  Chicago,  lU. 

History  of  the  Lawrence-ToumJey  and  Chase-Townleu  Estates  in  England.  With 
Copious  Historical  and  Genealogical  Notes  of  the  Lawrence,  Chase  and  Totvnleu 
Families t  and  much  other  Valuable  Information,  By  Jambs  Ushbr.  New  York 
City,  9  Murray  Street,  1883.    Large  8vo.  pp.  110. 

We  continue  our  quarterly  notices  of  genealogical  works  that  have  recently 
appeared. 

The  Bethunes  and  Faneuils  have  been  influential  fjetmilies  in  this  country,  but 
this  is  the  tfrst  attempt  to  give  the  genealo^  of  either.  The  name  Bethune  is 
**  from  a  city  of  that  name  in  the  ancient  province  of  Picardie,  France."  The  flEtm- 
ily  was  also  prominent  in  Scottish  history,  and  the  author  gives  genealogical  details 
ooDceming  it,  including  biographies  of  Sir  James  Bethune,  baron  of  Balfour,  and 
Cardinal  David  Bethune  or^Beaton.  The  Faneuils  arc  descended  from  Benjamin 
Flaneail,  a  Huguenot,  who  settled  in  New  Rochelle,  N.  Y.,  near  the  close  of  the 
seventeenth  century.  The  noble  gifl  of  his  son  Peter  to  the  town  of  Boston,  Fan- 
eail  Hall,  will  lung  keep  the  name  in  remembrance.  Mrs.  Weisse  deserves  much 
credit  for  collecting  and  preserving  the  memorials  of  these  families  in  so  handsome 
a  form. 

The  Chauncy  volume  is  a  reprint  of  articles  contributed  to  Dr.  Howard's  Mis- 
cellanea Genealogica  et  Heraldtca,  with  valuable  additions.  The  work  shows  great 
and  successful  research.    It  is  handsomely  printed,  with  fine  illustrations. 

The  next  volume  is  devoted  to  the  Atlees.  The  founder  of  the  American  famUy 
was  William  Atlee,  who  settled  in  Philadelphia  about  the  year  1735,  son  of  Samuel 
Atlee  of  Brentford,  England.  The  author  traces  the  fiunily  back  two  generations 
farther  to  William  Atlee  of  Ford  Hook  house,  who  died  Jan.  S8,  1653,  and  whose 
■on  Samuel  was  the  grand&ther  of  the  emigrant.  The  name  is  found  veiy  early  in 
Rngland.  The  American  family  is  thoroughly  carried  out  in  this  book,  with  full 
biographicai  and  genealogical  details.  It  is  embellished  with  portraits  and  other 
illostrations. 

The  work  on  the  Chapman  family  is  by  Mr.  Qerard,  formerly  of  Newburgh,  N.  Y., 
now  of  Anderson,  Indiana.  It  gives  descendants  of  Ralph  Chapman,  an  early  set- 
tler of  Duzbury,  Mass.,  who  afterwards  removed  to  Marshfield,  where  he  died  in 
1671.    It  is  well  arranged,  fully  indexed  and  handsomely  printed. 

The  materials  for  the  Powers  volume  were  collected  by  Amos  H.  Powers  and  the 
late  Herman  Powers.  When  they  commenced  their  labors  more  than  thirty  years 
ago,  they  were  both  in  business  in  Boston.  Both  subsequently  removed  from  Bos- 
t^ — Herman  to  North  Chester,  Mass.,  where  he  died,  Nov.  30,  1882,  and  Amos 
to  Chicago.  Since  the  death  of  the  former,  the  survivor,  with  the  assistance  of 
Edwin  Hubbard,  the  well  known  genealogist,  has  arranged  the  materials  and 
brought  out  the  book.  It  has  a  ^ooa  index  and  is  embellished  with  a  number  of 
portraits,  among  them  that  of  Hiram  Powers  the  sculptor. 


362  Recent  Publications.  [Jalj* 

The  Reoordfl  of  the  Dyer  Family  prenbnre  much  interesting  information  ooncen- 
ing  that  family  in  this  coantry  and  in  England.  The  founder  of  the  Amerietn 
£ekmily  was  William  Dyer  of  Boston  and  Newport,  whose  wife,  Mary  Dyer,  was  the 
heroic  quaker  martyr.  The  records  of  her  life  and  that  of  her  husband  are  here 
pzeserved  in  detail,  as  are  also  those  of  some  distinguished  persons  descended  froB 
them. 

The  book  on  the  Spare  family  is  chiefly  devoted  to  the  descendants  of  Samael 
Spare,  who  came  to  this  country  and  settled  in  Boston  as  earlv  as  1729,  and  aboat 
ten  years  later  removed  to  Canton,  Mass.,  where  he  died.  The  biographies  of  the 
heads  of  the  early  families  are  <^uite  full.  Much  antiquarian  matter  oi  general 
interest  is  preserved,  with  engravings  of  old  buildings. 

Thomas  Wood,  to  whose  descendants  the  next  book  is  devoted,  settled  at  Rowley, 
Mass.,  as  early  as  1054.  This  genealo^  is  confined  to  the  (xxtterity  of  his  son  Sokh 
mon.    It  seems  to  be  carefully  compiled,  with  full  and  precise  dat». 

The  first  two  parts  of  the  Humpnreys  Family  have  been  noticed  by  as  in  Jaly, 
1883,  and  January,  1884.  The  third  and  fourth  p«irts  now  before  us,  are  prepared 
in  the  same  exhaustive  manner.  The  work  bids  fair  to  be  one  of  the  most  satisfiM- 
tory  genealogies  issued.  It  is  illustrated  by  portraits,  facsimiles,  etc.,  and  is  band- 
somely  printed  on  fine  paper  with  a  broad  margin. 

Part  one  of  the  Qoodrich  family  was  published  last  year,  and  noticed  in  October. 
It  was  devoted  to  the  finfflish  history.  The  part  before  us  contains  an  account  of 
William  Goodrich  of  Wetnersfield,  CJonn.,  ana  four  generations  of  his  deMendanls, 
bringing  the  genealogy  down  to  about  the  period  of  the  Revolution.  A  q>eeiniea 
of  Mr.  Hubbard's  Ancestral  Register  for  eight  generations  is  given.  Another  part* 
price  (1.75.  will  complete  the  work.  The  price  of  the  whole  work,  with  titie-page, 
preface,  table  of  contents  and  indexes,  will  be  three  dollars. 

The  last  pamphlet  is  devoted  to  the  investigation  of  the  wild  stories  ahoot  the 
Townley  estate  in  England,  which  have  deluded  many  persons  in  the  United  States 
and  drawn  money  from  a  host  of  credulous  people,  a  large  proportion  of  whom  eoold 
not  afford  to  lose  it.  The  supposed  Townley  estate  has  been  claimed  by  diifeieDl 
families— the  Lawrences,  the  Chases  and  others.  Some  of  the  stories  pl'i^oed  the 
Townley  property  awaiting  heirs  at  five  hundred  million  dollars.  Mr.  Usher  was 
employed  by  certain  persons  to  ascertein  whether  there  was  such  a  property,  and 
whether  they  could  recover  the  same.  After  a  thorough  investigation  ho  reports 
that  "  there  is  no  fund  now  in  the  Bank  of  England  or  the  Court  of  Chancery  in 
the  name  of  Mary  Townley  Lawrence  or  Mary  T.  Chaae/'  and  that  the  whole  story 
of  such  an  estate  in  England  is  a  myth.  An  investigation  of  the  alleged  Burnham 
I>roperty  of  England  aoout  eleven  years  ago,  by  Edward  Paysun,  who  was  ably  as- 
sisted by  the  late  Col.  Chester,  resulted  in  tne  same  manner.  It  is  strange  that 
men  and  women  who  in  other  matters  display  caution  and  common  sense,  should  be 
easily  duped  by  improbable  stories  of  fabulous  estates  in  England.  Mr.  Usher  hu 
done  a  ^ood  work  by  collecting  aU  the  accounts  of  the  Townley  estate  which  have 
been  printed  and  otherwise  circulated,  and  showing  that  they  are  improbable  and 
inconsistent.  He  has  given  a  pedigree  of  the  Townley  family  and  brief  genealo- 
gies of  Chase  and  Lawrence. 


RECENT  PUBLICATIONS, 

PBESSyTBD  TO  THE  NbW  ENGLAND  HISTORIC  ObNBALOGIOAL  SOCIBTT,  TO  JVNB  1,  1884. 

I.  PubUoatitmt  wriiten  or  edited  by  Membert  of  the  Society, 

Abel  Bowen,  Engraver.  A  Sketch  prepared  for  the  Bostonian  Society.  By  William  H. 
Whitmore.    Boston :  Press  of  Ilockwell  &  Churchill,  39  Arch  Street.    1884.    8to.  pp.  31 

Notes  on  a  Copy  of  Dr.  William  Douglass's  Almanac  for  1743,  touching  on  the  subject  of 
medicine  in  Massachusetts  before  his  time.  By  Samuel  Abbott  Oreen,  M.D.  (Reprinted 
ft'om  the  Proceedings  of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society,  February,  1884.)  Cam- 
bridge :  John  Wilson  &  Son,  Uaiversity  Press.    1884.    8vo.  pp.  8. 

Anti-SIavory  Days.  A  SIcetch  of  the  stmggle  which  ended  in  the  abolition  of  slarery  io 
the  United  States.  By  James  Freeman  Clarke.  New  York :  R.  Worthington,  770  Broad- 
way.   1884.    8to.  pp.  224. 

Oencral  Sherman's  March  from  Atlanta  to  the  Coast.  An  Address  deliTered  before  the 
Confederate  Sunrivors  Association  in  Aogosta,  Qa.,  at  its  sixth  annual  meeting,  on  Meino- 


1884.] 


Hecent  JPublicationa. 


363 


itel  Dftjt  April  26, 1884.  By  Col.  Charles  C.  Jonei,  Jr.,  president  of  the  Association.  Printed 
by  order  of  the  Association.  Aogasta^Qa.:  Chronicle  Printing  Kstabiishment.  1884.  8to. 
pp.19. 

Views  from  Cedtfr  Mountain,  present,  retrospect  and  prospectire.  By  Rer.  Philip 
Sbuighter,  D.D.,  in  the  seventy-sixth  year  of  his  age,  and  the  fittieth  year  of  his  ministry 
and  of  his  marriage.    Prirately  printed.    1884.    8to.  pp.  16. 

Address  delivered  at  Bradford,  Mass.,  March  26, 1884,  on  the  occasion  of  the  Presentation 
of  the  Portrait  of  Ann  Hasseltine  Jadson  to  Bradford  Academy.  By  the  Rev.  Edward  G. 
Porter,  Lexington.    Haverhill :  Mitchell  and  Hoy t.  Printers.    1884^  8vo.  pp.  14. 

Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology.  President's  Report,  Dec  12, 1883.  Boston :  J. 
8.  Coshing  &  Co.,  Printers.    1884     8vo.  pp.  31. 

OdllcctionsoftheNew  Torlc  Historical  Societv  for  the  year  1881.  Publication  Fund 
Series,  l^ew  York:  Printed  for  the  Society.  1882.  8vo.  pp.  678.  The  Montr^sor  Jour- 
nals, edited  by  O.  D.  Scull. 

II.  Other  PfAUeaUotu, 

The  Pennsylvania  Museum  and  School  of  Industrial  Art,  Philadelphia.  Catalogue  of 
the  collection  of  tobacco  pipes  deposited  by  Edwin  A.  Barber.  Memorial  Hall,  Fair- 
raonnt  Parle.    1882.    8vo.  pp.  13. 

Society  of  the  Army  of  the  Cumberland,  fifteenth  reunion,  Cincinnati,  Ohio.  Published 
by  Older  of  the  Society.    Cincinnati :  Robert  Claris  &  Co.    1884.    8vo.  pp.  284. 

Bulletin  of  the  Boston  Public  Library,  spring  number.  1884.  Vol.  vi.  No.  2;  whole 
Na68. 

A  Review  of  the  first  fourteen  years  of  the  Historical,  Natural  History  and  Ubrary 
Sodety  of  South  Natick,  Mass.,  with  the  field-day  proceedings  of  1881,  1882, 1883.  South 
Natick,  Mass. :  Printed  for  the  Society.    1884.    8vo.  pp.  126. 

Winthrop  S.  Jordan,  bom  May  2, 1820 ;  died  Sept.  2, 1883.    8vo,  pp.  20. 

Public  Enercisee  at  the  Presentation  of  the  Portraits  of  Rufds  Anderson,  D.D.,  Mrs. 
Harriet  Newell,  and  Mrs.  Ann  H.  Jndson  to  Bradford  Academy,  March  26,  1884.  Haver- 
hill: Mitchell  &  Hoyt,  Printers,  No  4  Main  Street.    1884.    8vo.  pp.  24. 

May,  1884.  Harvard  University  Bulletin,  No.  28,  or  Vol.  iii.  No.  6.  Edited  by  Justin 
Wliisor,  librarian  of  the  University,  with  the  assistance  of  members  of  the  various  faculties. 
8vo.  pp.  241-312. 

Guide  to  Richmond  and  the  Battle-fields.  By  W.  D.  Chesterman.  Twenty-  first  thousand. 
Richmond :  Printed  by  James  E.  Goode.    1884.    8vo.  pp.  64. 

Centennial  Literary  Reunion  at  the  residence  of  Horatio  King,  Saturday  Evening,  Feb. 
2, 1884.    Washington  City :  '<  School  of  Music  "  Press.    1884.    8vo.  pp.  48. 

Tributes  to  the  memory  of  George  Dexter,  late  Recording  Secretary  of  the  Massachu- 
setts Historical  Society,  offered  at  a  meeting  of  the  Society  Jan.  10,  1884.  Cambridge: 
John  Wilson  &  Son,  University  Press.    1884.    8vo.  pp.  11. 

List  of  Members  of  the  Hibernian  Society,  for  the  relief  of  emigrants  from  Ireland,  to- 
gether with  the  list  of  members  of  the  Friendly  Sons  of  St.  Patrick.  1771-1884.  Phila- 
delphia :  Published  by  authority  of  the  Society.    1884.    8vo.  pp.  42. 

Proceedings  of  the  Bostonian  Society  at  their  annual  meeting,  Jan.  8,  1884.  Boston, 
Old  State  House.    Published  by  order  of  the  Society.    1884.    8vo.  pp.  64. 

The  Old  South  Council  called  for  the  Installation  of  the  Rev.  George  A.  Gordon,  Wed- 
nesday, April  2,  1884.  Cnpples,  Upham  &  Co.,  283  Washington  Street,  Boston.  1884. 
8to.  pp.  49. 


DEATHS. 


Dams,  Hon.  Joseph,  died  at  his  residence 
in  Kennebunk,  Maine,  March  16,  1884. 
He  was  a  son  of  Hon.  Joseph  and  Mary 
(Clark)  Dane,  and  was  born  at  Kenne- 
bunk February  21, 1823,  and  was  con- 
sequently at  the  time  of  his  death  61 
years  3  weeks  and  3  days  of  age.  He 
graduated  at  Bowdoin  College  in  the 
class  of  1843,  and  immediately  after 
commenced  the  study  of  law  with  the 
late  Judge  Edward  E.  Bourne  of  Kenne- 
bunk, and  concluded  his  studies  with 


the  late  Hon.  Francis  H.  Dewey  of 
Worcester,  Massachusetts,  afterwards 
a  Judge  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  that 
State.  He  was  admitted  to  the  York 
county  bar  in  1846,  and  at  once  entered 
upon  the  practice  of  law  at  Kennebunk, 
in  which  he  continued  until  his  death. 
For  about  ten  years  he  had  been  a 
member  of  the  Board  of  Overseers  of 
Bowdoin  College.  In  Januanr,  1856, 
he  was  appointed  by  Gov.  Wells  one 
of  the  State  Bank  Commissioners,  and 


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Deaths. 


[July. 


in  1882  was  the  Democratic  nominee 
for  Congress  in  the  First  District.  At 
the  time  of  his  death  he  was  President 
of  the  Maine  Unitarian  Association,  of 
which  denomination  he  was  long  an 
active  and  influential  member.  Mr. 
Dane  was  married  June  7,  1848»  to 
Louisa,  daughter  of  Capt.  Ivory  Lord, 
of  Kennebunk,  who  survives  him.  He 
leaves  one  brother,  the  Hon  Nathan 
Dane,  of  Alfred,  Maine. 

Elwtn,  Alfred  Langdon,  M.D.,  died  at 
Philadelphia,  March  15,  aged  79.  He 
was  a  son  of  Thomas  and  Elizabeth 
(Langdon)  Elwyn,  and  was  bom  at 
Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  July  9, 1804.  Gov. 
John  Langdon  of  New  Hampshire  was 
his  maternal  grand&ther.  Mr.  Elwyn 
graduated  at  Harvard  College  in  1823, 
and  studied  medicine  but  did  not  prac- 
tise it.  He  is  said  to  have  been  the 
author  of  the  first  Dictionary  of 
Americanisms.  His  manuscript  is 
mentioned  by  Bartlett,  but.  we  think, 
the  work  was  never  printed.  He  was 
also  a  contributor  to  periodicals.  A  son, 
the  Rev.  Alfred  Elwyn,  of  Germantown, 
Pa.,  survives. 

Hall,  Henry  B.,  artist  and  engraver,  died 
at  Morrisania,  N.  Y.,  April  26,  aged  76. 
He  was  born  in  London,  March  11, 
1808,  came  to  this  country  in  1850,  well 
introduced  to  prominent  publishers,  for 
whom  he  afterward  illustrated  many 
publications.  His  works  are  numerous, 
chiefly  portraits.  Of  late  years,  his 
three  sous  have  been  associated  with 
him  in  business. 

HoBBs,  Hon.  Hiram  H.,  was  bom  in 
North  Berwick,  Maine,  in  1802,  and 
died  at  his  residence  in  South  Berwick, 
March  9,  1884,  aged  82.  He  was  a  son 
of  Col.  Nathaniel  Hobbs,  long  a  well- 
known  citizen  of  North  Berwick.  He 
graduated  at  Bowdoin  College  in  1823, 
and  pursued  his  legal  studies  in  War- 
ren and  South  Berwick.  He  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  York  county  bar  in  1826, 
and  settled  in  South  Berwick.  He  held 
the  office  of  Clerk  of  the  Courts  of  York 
county  for  the  years  1838  and  1841. 
He  repeatedly  held  municipal  offices  in 
his  town,  was  forty  years  a  trustee  of 
Berwick  academy  and  for  many  years 
director  in  the  South  Berwick  Bank. 
During  his  long  professional  life  he 
maintained  a  high  reputation  at  the  bar 


of  York  county,  ajad  was  held  in  the 
highest  esteem  as  a  neighbor  and  pub- 
lic spirited  citizen.  Li  1826  he  mtr- 
ried  Mary  Cushing,  daughter  of  Charies 
Cushing,  Esq.,  of  South  Berwick.  He 
leaves  two  children — Mrs.  Elizabeth  C. 
Soule,  wife  of  Horace  H.  Soule  of  Bos- 
ton, and  Charles  C.  Hobbs,  Esq.,  a  ^-ell- 
known  lawyer  of  South  Berwick. 

Letpoldt,  Frederick,  died  in  New  York 
city,  March  31, 1884,  aged  48.  He  was 
bom  in  Stuttgart,  Germany,  Nov.l7, 
1835,  and  came  to  this  country  at  the  age 
of  17.  In  1859  he  opened  a  book  stoit 
in  Philadelphia.  In  1864  he  removed 
his  business,  which  included  publish- 
ing, to  New  York,  where  he  had  pre- 
viously established  a  branch.  In  1866 
Henry  Holt  was  admitted  a  partner, 
under  the  firm  of  Leypoldt  and  Holt. 
Since  187 1  he  has  done  business  alone. 
He  was  the  editor  and  publisher  of 
The  Publisher's  Weekly.  ••  Out  of  this 
he  developed  a  complete  system  of  trade 
bibliography."  He  also  published  the 
Literary  News,  the  Publisher's  Trade 
List,  and  The  Library  Journal.  **  The 
crowning  effort  of  his  industry  was  the 
issue  in  two  quarto  volumes  of  nearly 
1500  pages  of  'The  American  Cata- 
logue.* This  is  the  most  enduring 
monument  to  Mr.  Leypoldt's  memory." 

TaQBNER,  Nicholas,  of  London,  died 
March  30,  1884,  aged  67.  He  was  bom 
atHeidelberg,  Germany,  in  1817.  After 
serving  with  booksellers  in  various 
German  cities,  he  attracted  the  atten- 
tion of  Mr.  Longman,  the  London  book- 
seller, who  secured  his  services.  He 
afterwards  entered  into  business  on  his 
own  account  in  that  city,  and  carried 
on  bookselling  and  publishing  there 
till  his  death.  He  was  a  scholar  and 
linguist,  and  was  the  author  of  several 
works.  His  **  Bibliographical  Guide  to 
American  Literature"  was  published 
in  1869.  In  March,  1861,  he  commenc- 
ed  the  **  American  and  Oriental  Liters- 
ry  Record,"  a  monthly  periodical.  His 
services  to  bibliography  were  very 
great. 

Washburn,  Mrs.  Martha  D.,  died  at  the 
residence  of  her  son-in-law.  Philander 
Shaw,  Esq.,  60  First  Place,  Brooklvn, 
N.  Y.,  April  22,  in  her  88th  year.  She 
was  the  last  surviving  child  of  Silas 
Dean,  Esq.,  of  Newport,  R.  I. 


Errata.— Vol.  35,  page  116,  column  2,  line  2  from  bottom,  for  Elizabeth  read  Esther. 
Vol.  36,  |>age  352,  line  1, /or  March  25  read  March  24.  Vol.  37,  page  407,  line  16,  rtai 
Mr.  Solomon  Carter  to  Mrs.  Woodward,  widow.  Vol.  38,  page  4,  line  10  from  bottom, /br 
wildest  read  widest ;  page  20,  line  13  from  bottom,  for  October  read  July ;  page  22%  lioe 
SO,  for  Awood  read  Atwood;  page  227,  line  25,  read  Solomon  bom  Sept.  27,  1747; 
page  316,  bottom  line,  for  Harte,  26,  read  Lort,  26. 


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THOMAS  BOBBINS. 

By  the  Rey.  Increase  N.  Tarbox,  D.D.,  of  Newton,  Mass. 

THE  engraving  which  accompanies  this  article  very  truly  repre- 
sents the  person  who  is  the  subject  of  our  sketch.  It  is  rare 
indeed  that  a  pictured  face  and  figure  are  more  exact  indicators  of 
tke  real  man.  Of  moderate  stature,  of  marked  refinement  in  look 
and  manners,  of  spotless  neatness,  retaining  the  antique  style  of 
dress  after  it  had  been  generally  laid  aside,  he  moved  about 
among  his  feUow  men  at  the  middle  of  this  present  century,  a  most 
ezceUent  specimen  of  the  scholar  and  gentleman  of  the  previous 
generation. 

He  was  bom  August  11,  1777,  in  the  town  of  Norfolk,  Conn., 
when  the  town  itself  was  only  nineteen  years  old.  His  father  was 
Rev.  Ammi  Kuhamah  Kobbins,  the  first  minister  of  the  town^  or- 
dained and  settled  in  1762.  His  mother  was  Elizabeth  Le  Baron, 
daughter  of  Dr.  Lazarus  Le  Baron,  of  Plymouth,  Mass.,  and  grand- 
daughter of  Dr.  Francis  Le  Baron,  who,  as  a  surgeon  on  board  a 
French  privateer,  was  wrecked  in  Buzzard's  Bay  near  the  close  of 
the  seventeenth  century.  With  no  previous  thought,  probably,  of 
making  his  home  in  this  country,  yet,  Joeing  thus  providentially 
thrown  upon  our  shores,  he  concluded  to  cast  in  his  lot  with  us, 
taking  up  his  abode  in  Plymouth,  where  he  practised  as  a  phy- 
sician. By  the  marriage  of  Dr.  Lazarus  Le  Baron  with  Mrs. 
Lydia  Cushman,  nee  Lydia  Bradford,  his  granddaughter,  the  mother 
of  Thomas  Robbins,  was  of  the  fifth  generation  from  William  Brad- 
ford, governor  of  Plymouth.  The  French  blood  which  came  thus 
into  the  Robbins  family  has  shown  itself  from  generation  to  genera- 
tion, in  members  of  the  family,  not  alone  in  physical  forms  and  fea- 
tures, but  also  in  touches  of  grace  and  refinement.  Dr.  Robbins 
himself,  in  his  person  and  manners,  bore  traces  of  this  ancestral 
connection. 

On  his  father's  side  he  was  descended  from  Richard  Robbins,  a 
substantial  citizen  of  early  Cambridge,  Mass.     Richard  Robbins  and 
VOL.  xxxvui.        33 


3G6  Thomas  Rohhins*  [Oct, 

wife  appeared  in  Charlestown,  Mass.,  as  early  as  1639,  but  before 
1643  the  family  had  removed  to  the  adjoining  town  of  Cambrid<2:e, 
where  it  remained  for  some  generations.  The  line  from  Richard  to 
Thomas  ran  through  Nathaniel,  born  1649,  whose  wife  was  Mary 
Brazier ;  Nathaniel,  born  February  28,  1677-8,  whose  first  wife 
and  the  mother  of  his  children  was  Hannah  Chandler;  Philemon, 
born  September  19,  1709,  whose  first  wife  and  the  mother  of  his 
children. was  Hannah  Foot;  and  Ammi  Ruhamah,  born  September 
5,  1740,  whose  wife  was  Elizabeth  Lc  Baron.  Philemon  Robbins 
was  graduated  at  Harvard  College  in  1729,  and  was  the  life-long 
minister,  forty-nine  years,  1732-1781,  at  Branford,  Conn.  Ammi 
Ruhamah,  his  son,  was  graduated  at  Yale  in  1760  and  was  minister 
for  life,  fifty-two  years,  1761-1813,  at  Norfolk,  Conn. 

Chandler  Robbins,  D.D.,  a  brother  of  Ammi  Ruhamah,  was 
graduated  at  Yale  in  1756,  and  was  pastor  of  the  old  Pilgrim 
Church  at  Plymouth  thirty-nine  years,  from  1760  to  his  death,  June 
30,  1799. 

Thomas  Robbins,  therefore,  both  on  his  father's  and  mother's  side, 
was  of  the  sixth  generation  from  the  first  American  founders. 

These  four  ministers,  of  the  name  Robbins,  of  three  diflferent  gen- 
erations, were  all  earnest  promoters  of  an  active  and  evangelical  type 
of  piety,  as  opposed  to  stately  order  coupled  with  dead  formalities. 
The  three  older  men  lived  in  the  days  of  Whitefield,  and  were  his 
open  and  pronounced  friends.  Indeed,  Rev.  Philemon  Robbins  of 
Branford,  Conn.,  was  made  to  suffer  pains  and  penalties  for  his  sym- 
pathy with  Whitefield  and  his  work.  The  legislature  of  Connecti- 
cut, out  of  opposition  to  Whitefield  and  the  men  who  cooperated 
with  him,  had  passed  a  law  forbidding  any  settled  minister  of  the 
state  to  preach  within  the  parish  boundaries  of  any  other  minister 
without  having  been  first  asked  by  such  minister  to  do  so.  The 
town  of  Wallingford,  where  Rev.  Samuel  Whittlesey  was  settled, 
adjoined  the  town  of  Branford  where  Rev.  Mr.  Robbins  preached. 
Mr.  Whittlesey  had  no  sympathy  with  Mr.  Whitefield  or  the  active 
movements  of  his  friends.  Some  of  his  people  in  the  outskirts  of 
his  parish  had  asked  him  to  hold  some  week-day  preaching  services 
in  their  neighborhood,  and  he  refusing  they  applied  to  R^v.  Mr. 
Robbins,  who  complied  with  their  request.  This  led  to  a  trial  last- 
ing one  or  two  years,  when  he  was  deposed  from  the  ministry  under 
state  authority.  But  his  people  rallied  the  more  closely  around 
hiui,  refused  to  be  separated  from  him,  and  after  a  time  the  deposi- 
tion was  removed,  and  he  was  gradually  brought  again  into  regu- 
lar standing  in  his  office. 

That  his  two  sons  were  in  full  sympathy  with  him  is  made  evident 
by  the  fact  that  his  son  Chandler  studied  theology  with  Dr.  Eleazar 
Wheelock,  of  Lebanon,  afterwards  president  of  Dartmouth  College; 
and  Ammi  Ruhamah  studied  with  Dr.  Joseph  Bellamy.  Drs. 
Wheelock  and  Bellamy  were  among  the  most  open  and  prominent 
friends  and  supporters  of  Whitefield. 


1884.]  Thomas  Rohhins.  367 

Born  amid  such  ancestral  associations,  himself  destined  to  the 
Christian  ministry,  he  inherited  naturally  the  same  tendencies. 

The  town  of  Norfolk,  on  the  northern  line  of  Litchfield  County, 
Conn.,  is  made  up  territorially  of  high  hills  and  deep  valleys,  such  as 
prevail  through  all  the  lower  Berkshire  ranges.  The  centre  of  the 
town,  like  the  ancient  Jerusalem,  is  thirteen  hundred  feet  above  the 
level  of  the  sea.  When  Ammi  Ruhamah  Robbins  was  made  minister  of 
the  town  in  1761,  his  house  soon  became  like  a  little  academy,  where 
boys  from  Norfolk  and  the  surrounding  towns  were  fitted  for  college. 
Year  after  year  he  would  send  students  to  enter  at  Yale  or  Wil- 
liams or  Dartmouth,  and  here  naturally  his  own  son  Thomas  and 
two  other  younger  sons,  Francis  Le  Baron  and  James  Watson  Rob- 
bins,  studied  in  their  preparatory  courses. 

Thomas  was  ready  for  college  at  the  age  of  fifteen,  in  1792,  and 
was  entered  at  Yale  that  year.  Dr.  Ezra  Stiles  was  then  president, 
but  died  in  1795,  May  12th,  and  Dr.  Timothy  Dwight  was  inau- 
gurated as  his  successor  in  the  September  following. 

In  1791  a  school  had  been  opened  at  Williamstown,  Mass.,  which 
in  1793  had  been  incorporated  as  Williams  College,  with  Rev.  Eb- 
enezer  Fitch,  D.D.,  as  its  president.  Young  Robbins's  father,  liv- 
ing in  one  of  the  northwestern  towns  in  Connecticut,  had  in  1794 
been  made  a  trustee  of  the  infant  institution,  and  in  1795  the  Col- 
lege graduated  its  first  class  of  four  members.  As  the  country  then 
was,  Williams  College  would,  in  its  early  years,  depend  largely  upon 
Connecticut  for  teachers  and  scholars.  The  Norfolk  minister  be- 
thought himself  that  one  way  in  which  he  could  testify  an  interest 
in  the  new  institution  of  which  he  was  made  one  of  the  guardians, 
would  be  to  transfer  his  own  son  from  Yale  to  Williams,  to  pursue 
the  studies  of  senior  year  and  graduate  with  the  class  of  1796.  Ac- 
cordingly in  November,  1795,  two  months  after  the  inauguration  of 
President  Dwight  at  New  Haven,  young  Robbins  left  Yale  and  took 
up  his  abode  at  Williamstown.  Here  he  was  graduated  on  the  7th 
of  September,  1796.  The  commencement  day  at  New  Haven  was 
one  week  later.  So,  after  receiving  his  degree  at  Williams  he  went 
directly  to  Yale,  and  on  September  14  was  graduated  also  with  his 
class  there,  receiving  his  degree  of  A.B.  from  both  colleges  in  the 
same  year. 

In  Williams  College  on  the  first  day  of  January,  1796,  young 
Robbins,  then  eighteen  years  old,  commenced  keeping  a  diary  which 
grew,  in  after  years,  into  a  notable  record.  It  was  continued  fifty- 
eight  years,  until  1854.  It  was  kept  in  interleaved  almanacs,  and 
since  his  death  has  been  bound  in  twelve  volumes.  Arrangements 
have  been  made  for  annotating  and  publishing  this  diary,  and  as  is 
hoped  at  no  distant  day  it  will  be  prepared  for  the  press.  It  is 
strictly  a  diary,  with  its  daily  entry  year  after  year.  As  a  sample 
of  some  of  its  early  entries  we  give  the  following : 


368  Thomas  Bobbins.  [Oct. 

'<  March  28,  1796.  A  Dumber  of  scholars  went  to  BenniDgton  to  have 
the  small-pox." 

Nearly  three  weeks  later  he  records  : 

**  April  16.  Rode  up  to  BenniDgtoD.  Scholars  in  the  small-pox  have  it 
hard."   .... 

**  Apr.  21.     Some  of  the  scholars  return  from  the  small-pox." 

This  was  the  old  system  of  inoculation  for  the  small-pox  before 
the  days  of  our  modern  vaccination.  This  practice  was  always  at- 
tended with  some  danger,  and  was  occasionally  fatal,  as  in  the  case 
of  President  Jonathan  Edwards  at  Princeton  in  1758.  Williams- 
town  touched  the  Vermont  line,  and  Pownal,  Vt.,  was  the  only 
township  separating  Williamstown  from  Bennington ,  Vt.  At  Ben- 
nington there  was  a  hospital  prepared  expressly  for  this  system  of 
inoculation.  It  will  be  noticed  that  the  students  who  went  up  to 
Bennington  on  the  28th  of  March  did  not  any  of  them  return  to  the 
college  until  April  21,  after  an  absence  of  twenty-four  days,  and 
only  a  part  of  them  were  ready  to  come  back  even  then. 

When  young  Robbins  was  at  home  in  the  college  vacations,  as 
also  from  time  to  time  in  the  years  following  the  completion  of  his  col- 
lege course,  while  he  was  engaged  in  teaching  or  studying  theology, 
it  was  common  for  him  to  make  entries  in  his  diary  like  the  follow- 
ing, which  was  recorded  May  25,  1796  : 

"  Assist  daily  in  hearing  my  father's  scholars." 

The  scholars  were  an  important  element  continually  in  his  father's 
house,  some  of  them  boarding  in  the  family,  some  from  out  of  town 
boarding  in  other  families,  but  coming  in  daily  for  study  and  recita- 
tion, while  others  still  belonged  in  town  and  came  in  from  their  own 
homes.  This  educational  process  went  on  year  after  year  at  the 
parsonage  house  at  Norfolk  through  a  long  ministry. 

As  illustrative  of  the  slow  way  in  which  public  news  circulated  at 
the  close  of  the  last  century,  the  following  instances  may  be  given. 

On  the  17th  of  January,  1796,  just  after  he  entered  Williams  Col- 
lege, he  records  in  his  diary  : 

"  Heard  of  the  death  of  Gov.  Huntington." 

This  was  Gov.  Samuel  Huntington  of  Connecticut,  who  in  1779 
and  1780  had  been  president  of  the  Continental  Congress.  He  died 
at  his  home  in  Norwich,  Conn.,  January  5,  1796,  and  twelve  days 
after  the  news  reached  Williamstown. 

In  1799,  while  on  a  missionary  and  preaching  tour  among  the 
new  towns  of  western  Vermont,  he  makes  the  following  entry  : 

"Jtilyl7  [1790],  May  I  remember  this  morning.  This  morning  at 
Col.  Keys  [Bennington  Bay],  a  gentleman  asked  me  if  I  wished  to  lix)k 
at  a  late  AValpole  paper.  I  took  it«  and  looking  among  the  deaths  1  saw 
Dr.  Cliandler  Robbins  of  Plymouth,  GO.     llow  was  I  shocked!  " 


1884.]  Thomas  Bobbins.  369 

Dr.  Chandler  Eobbins,  of  Plymouth,  was  an  uncle  whom  he 
greatly  loved  and  revered.  He  died  on  the  30tli  of  June,  and  eight- 
een days  afterwards,  on  the  western  borders  of  Vermont,  his  nephew 
first  heard  of  his  death. 

For  two  years  after  graduation  lie  was  employed  chiefly  in  teach- 
ing and  studying  theology.  He  taught  first  at  Sheflield,  Mass.,  and 
at  the  same  time  received  theological  instruction  from  Rev.  Ephraim 
Judson,  minister  of  the  town,  who  was  accustomed  to  superintend 
the  education  of  theological  students.  He  taught  a  school  also  at 
Torringford,  Conn.,  and  meanwhile  put  himself  in  the  place  of  theo- 
logical pupil  with  Rev.  Samuel  J.  Mills,  afterwards  commonly 
known  as  "  Father  Mills."  For  sixty-five  years  Mr.  Mills  was  the 
minister  of  Torringford,  and  was  a  very  quaint  but  noble  specimen 
of  a  man  and  a  minister.  In  the  summer  of  1798  young  Robbins 
resided  in  the  family  of  Dr.  Stephen  West,  of  Stockbridge,  and  there 
completed  his  theological  studies.  The  entry  which  he  made  in  his 
diary  when  on  the  point  of  leaving  Stockbridge  will  show  the  sim- 
plicities of  the  ancient  days  as  to  the  cost  of  education  and  of  living. 

"Sept.  10,  1798.  Finished  my  sermon  on  Eph.  4,  24,  which  is  my 
tenth,  and  which  concludes  my  study  of  divinity  under  an  immediate  in- 
structor. Have  lived  very  happily  at  Dr.  West's,  and  I  hope  received 
much  good  instruction.  Parted  with  him  at  uiglit  affectionately.  Board 
12  weeks  IG  dollars." 

This,  as  we  understand  it,  covers  the  whole  bill  for  instruction  as 
well  as  board.  It  is  possible  that  there  was  some  abatement  from 
the  usual  charges  because  he  was  son  of  a  brother  minister.  But  if 
so,  nothing  of  it  is  indicated  in  the  diary. 

A  few  days  after  leaving  Dr.  West's,  September  26,  he  was 
licensed  to  preach  by  the  Litchfield  North  Association.  For  ten 
years  after  receiving  this  license  he  was  largely  employed  as  a  Home 
Missionary  among  the  new  settlements  which  were  rapidly  spring- 
ing up  in  Vermont,  New  York  and  Ohio.  The  Connecticut  Mis- 
sionary Society  was  organized  in  1798  and  chartered  by  the  state. 
Each  year,  in  May,  a  collection  for  home  missionary  purposes  was 
taken  in  all  the  churches  of  Connecticut  by  state  authority.  This 
enterprise  opened  fields  of  urgent  labor  for  many  of  the  young  min- 
isters then  coming  forward  upon  the  stage.  In  the  volume  entitled 
'^  Contributions  to  the  Ecclesiastical  History  of  Connecticut,"  there 
is  a  section  named  "  Missionaries  employed  by  the  Missionary  Soci- 
ety of  Connecticut  from  1798."  Under  this  head  about  two  hun- 
dred and  fifty  names  are  given  of  those  who  served  for  longer  or 
shorter  periods  in  these  important  fields  of  labor.  With  Mr.  Kob- 
bins  these  home  missionary  services  alternated  with  periods  of  teach- 
ing. His  longest  continued  engagement  in  the  missionary  work 
was  from  1803  to  1806,  on  the  Western  Reserve.  He  returned 
from  these  wilderness  journeyings  in  1806,  broken  in  health  by  toil, 
and  exposure. 

TOL.  xxxvm.        33* 


370  Thomas  Bobbins.  [Oct. 

Before  starting  on  his  journey  to  Ohio,  Mr.  Robbins  received  or- 
dination, July  20,  1803,  from  the  North  Consociation  of  Litchfield 
County,  Conn.  This  was  done  that  he  might  be  fully  furnished  for 
all  ministerial  duties,  the  administration  of  baptism  and  the  Lord's 
supper,  the  organization  of  churches,  the  laying  on  of  hands  in  or- 
dinations, and  the  like,  as  occasions  might  call.  For  three  years 
amid  these  new  settlements  he  led  a  very  active  and  laborious  life. 

Dr.  Robbins's  first  regular  settlement  in  the  ministry  was  at  East 
Windsor,  South  parish.  Conn,  (now  South  Windsor),  May  3,  1809. 
He  had  preached  in  the  parish  for  a  number  of  months  before  his 
installation,  so  that  his  ministry  is  often  made  to  date  from  1808. 
In  this  connection  he  continued  till  1827.  This  was  the  parish 
where  Mr.  Timothy  Edwards,  father  of  Jonathan,  ministered  for 
sixty-three  years  and  more,  from  1694  to  1758.  Dr.  Robbins's 
immediate  predecessor  was  Dr.  David  McClure,  who  continued 
senior  pastor  till  his  death  in  1820. 

About  the  time  of  his  going  to  East  Windsor,  a  plan  which  he 
had  secretly  cherished  for  some  time  began  to  take  definite  shape  in 
his  mind.  He  set  about  the  work  of  gathering  a  large  library  of 
choice  books,  of  a  theological  rather  than  a  secular  type,  but  with 
large  admixtures  of  miscellaneous  works.  He  was  an  unmarried 
man  of  simple  habits,  and  he  thought,  out  of  his  modest  income  as  a 
country  minister,  he  could  add  a  hundred  volumes  a  year  to  his  stock. 
He  set  about  this  work  with  a  quiet  perseverance,  and  year  by  year 
saw  his  plan  unfolding,  even  beyond  his  own  expectations  at  the  be- 
ginning. Between  thirty  and  forty  years  this  process  went  steadily 
forward,  until  he  had  gathered  a  private  library  which,  for  his  day, 
was  of  gigantic  proportions.  If  one  desires  to  see  what  a  fixed  pur- 
pose, with  moderate  means,  can  accomplish  in  an  enterprise  of  this 
kind,  let  him  go  to  the  rooms  of  the  Connecticut  Historical  Society 
at  Hartford,  where  this  library  of  Dr.  Robbins  now  has  its  settled 
abiding  place,  and  he  will  be  cheered  by  the  stately  array  of  book- 
shelves there  presented.  This  library  is  especially  rich  in  choice 
editions  of  the  Christian  Fathers. 

In  September,  1827,  Dr.  Robbins  left  his  parish  in  East  Wind- 
sor, and  after  an  interval  of  three  years  of  miscellaneous  labor,  he 
was  installed  at  Stratford,  Conn.,  February,  1830,  but  remained 
here  only  till  September,  1831.  He  was  soon  called  to  assist  his 
venerable  uncle.  Rev.  Lemuel  Le  Baron,  of  the  Second  Church, 
Rochester,  Mass.,  now  known  as  Mattapoisett.  Mr.  Le  Baron  in 
1832  had  already  been  in  the  ministry  of  this  one  parish  sixty 
years.  Dr.  Robbins  was  settled  as  his  colleague  October  16,  1832. 
In  October,  1836,  Mr.  Le  Baron  died,  at  the  age  of  ninety,  and 
in  the  sixty-fifth  year  of  his  ministry,  and  Dr.  Robbins  was  left  sole 
p<astor.  Here  he  remained  until  1844,  when  he  was  dismissed.  He 
was  now  sixty-seven  years  of  age,  with  forty-six  years  of  ministerial 
service  behind  him,  beginning,  as  he  did,  at  the  age  of  twenty-one. 


1884.]  Thomas  Bobbins.  371 

At  this  point  of  time  there  came  a  very  unexpected  turn  in  his 
life,  and  this  was  brought  about  largely  through  the  agency  of  Hon. 
Henry  Barnard,  of  Hartford,  Conn.  Mr.  Barnard  at  that  time  was 
Commissioner  of  Schools  in  Rhode  Island,  and  knowing  that  the 
very  valuable  library  which  Dr.  Robbins  had  collected  must  ere  long 
find  a  permanent  home  somewhere  or  be  scattered  abroad,  he 
wrought  out  a  plan  and  an  arrangement  by  which  the  library  should 
be  deposited  in  the  rooms  of  the  Connecticut  Historical  Society  at 
Hartford,  and  that  Dr.  Robbins  himself  should  be  made  librarian  of 
the  society,  on  a  sufficient  support.  Dr.  Robbins  accepted  this  pro- 
position, and  ten  years  of  his  life,  from  1844  to  1854,  were  most 
pleasantly  spent  at  Hartford  in  the  companionship  of  his  beloved 
volumes,  now  raised  to  a  state  of  dignity  and  presented  to  the  eye  for 
easy  inspection  and  reference  as  they  had  never  been  before.  Here 
in  a  quiet  and  serene  old  age,  looking  back  upon  a  long  course  of 
honorable  and  faithful  service  toward  God  and  toward  man,  the 
years  glided  away,  until  in  1854,  at  the  age  of  seventy-seven,  his 
memory  and  reasoning  powers  began  to  fail,  and  he  was  compelled 
to  lay  aside  his  public  duties.  Amid  his  numerous  kindred  in  his 
native  town  of  Norfolk,  and  in  the  towns  surrounding,  he  was  most 
kindly  cared  for,  and  so  he  lingered  out  his  days,  dying  September 
13,  1856,  at  the  house  of  his  niece,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Robbins  Allen, 
in  the  town  of  Colebrook,  Conn.,  at  the  age  of  seventy -nine.  His 
sister  Sarah,  two  years  younger  than  himself,  to  whom  he  was  most 
tenderly  attached,  passed  away  a  year  before  him.  She  was  the 
wife  of  Joseph  Battell,  Esq.,  of  Norfolk,  and  in  this  wealthy  and 
hospitable  home  he  was  always  sure  of  a  cordial  reception. 

Dr.  Thomas  Robbins  was  one  of  the  early  New  England  antiqua- 
ries and  genealogists,  and  did  much  in  his  unobtrusive  way  to  help 
forward  this  class  of  studies.  He  was  a  member  of  the  American 
Antiquarian  Society  of  Worcester,  and  of  the  New  England  Histo- 
ric Genealogical  Society  of  Boston.  Harvard  College  gave  him  his 
degree  of  D.D.  in  1838,  while  he  was  settled  at  Mattapoisett. 

Mention  has  been  made  of  his  diary,  and  three  or  four  brief  sen- 
tences from  it  have  been  given.  It  would  be  impossible  by  extracts, 
in  an  article  of  this  length,  to  give  any  sufficient  idea  of  the  range 
and  compass  of  this  work.  Dr.  Robbins  was  a  man  of  most  remark- 
able system  and  order;  and  for  ten  years,  ranging  from  1796  to 
1805,  there  is  not  in  the  diary  a  break  or  omission  of  a  single  day. 
The  same  is  essentially  true  of  the  fifty-eight  years  of  its  continu- 
ance, though  it  is  not  unlikely  that  sickness  or  other  mishaps  may  oc- 
casionally have  interrupted  the  pen  for  a  day  or  a  week.  But  no 
such  gaps  have  yet  been  discovered.  Many  of  the  entries  are  those 
of  a  humble-hearted  Christian  man,  lamenting  his  own  low  estate. 
Many  relate  to  very  simple  matters  in  the  routine  of  daily  life.  But 
very  many  also  of  them  are  the  embodied  thoughts  or  suggestions 
of  a  wise  and  intelligent  observer,  keeping  watch  to  see  what  is 


372  The  Family  of  Baldwin.  [Oct. 

passing  in  the  kingdom  of  God  and  in  the  kingdoms  of  men.  Many 
of  them  relate  to  the  books  which  are  from  time  to  time  issued  in 
the  old  world  and  the  new,  for  his  vocation  as  the  collector  of  a  p-eat 
library  made  him  specially  observing  in  this  department.  There 
will  not,  it  is  true,  in  all  the  diary,  be  found  any  passage  so  amus- 
ing and  entertaining  as  those  pages  in  Sewall's  Diary  which  record 
his  unavailing  attempts  at  courtship  with  Madame  Winthrop.  On 
the  other  hand,  for  a  bird's  eye  view  of  what  is  passing  in  the  wide 
world  through  all  the  years  of  the  continuance  of  the  narrative,  the 
work  will  be  found  extremely  suggestive  and  valuable. 


REPORT  OF  INVESTIGATIONS  CONCERNING  THE 

FAMILY  OF  BALDWIN,  OF  ASTON 

CLINTON,  CO.  BUCKS. 

By  the  late  Col.  Joseph  L.  Chester,  D.C.L.»  LL.D.,  of  London,  Eng. 

{Concladed  from  paf^e  299.] 

We  now  return  to 

II.  Stlvester  Baldwin,  who,  as  named  in  his  will,  appears  to  have 
been  the  third  son  of  John,  of  the  Hayle,  who  bequeathed  to  him, 
in  1564-5,  certain  lands,  &c.,  in  Aston  Clinton,  called  Pleadells. 
He  was  executor  to  his  brother  Nicholas  in  1581,  and  is  frequentlj 
mentioned  in  the  Chancery  proceedings  to  which  I  have  referred. 
His  first  wife,  Agnes,  the  mother  of  his  children,  was  buried  at 
Aston  Clinton,  31  Dec.  1568.  He  married,  secondly,  Agnes  liach- 
eler,  widow.  (She  was  probably  widow  of  Sylvester  Bacheler, 
who  was  buried  at  Aston  Clinton,  10  Dec.  1554.)  Sylvester  Bald- 
win himself  was  buried  there  3  July,  1592.  (He  is,  of  course,  the 
hitherto  mysterious  Sylvester  who  was  said  to  have  married  Sarah 
Gelly  and  to  have  paid  taxes  on  Dundridge  with  his  son  llenrv, 
and  to  have  been  buried  at  Aston  Clinton,  3  July,  1593.  The  date 
was  misread  in  the  parish  register,  but  if  there  had  been  any  doubt 
about  it,  the  dates  of  his  will,  if  it  had  been  seen,  would  have  set- 
tled the  point.  As  there  is  not  the  slightest  doubt  about  his  identi- 
ty, the  chain  of  proof  being  perfect,  it  seems  almost  absurd  for  me 
to  point  out  that,  instead  of  being  the  father  of  Henry  of  Dundrid»^e, 
he  was  his  own  cousin.) 

His  will,  as  of  St.  Leonard's,  in  the  parish  of  Aston  Clinton,  co. 
Bucks,  yeoman,  is  dated  25  June,  1592,  and  was  proved  5  October, 
1592,  by  his  son  Thomas,  in  the  Court  of  the  Archdeaeonrv  of 
Bucks,  among  the  records  of  which  the  original  is  on  lile,  and  from 
which  I  took  the  following  full  abstract : 

To  the  poor  of  Aston  15  shillings,  of  Wendover  5  shillings,  and  of 
Cholesbury  5  shillings — to  each  godchild  6  pence — to  Thomas  Gu- 
nye  a  lamb — to  Alice  Bacheler  of  London  10  shillings — to  Alice 
Hayle  a  lamb — to  Henry  and  Sylvester  Harvye  each  a  bullock— to 
Agnes  my  wife  all  my  household  stuff  at  my  freehold  house  called 
Chambers,  and  sundry  beasts,  corn,  &c.  all  for  her  life,  and  at  ber 


1884.]  The  Family  of  Baldwin.  373 

death  the  same  to  go  to  the  six  children  of  Triamor  Harvye  which 
he  had  by  his  first  wife — to  Thomas  Stonell  and  his  mother  each  a 
lamb — all  residue  to  Thomas  my  son  and  he  to  be  my  executor — 
overseers,  Henry  Baldwin  and  Ralph  Baldwin. 

The  will  of  his  widow  Agnes,  as  of  St  Leonard's,  dated  24  Jan. 
1593-4,  was  proved  18  November  following,  in  the  Court  of  the 
Archdeaconry  of  Bucks,  by  her  son  William  Bacheler.  Her  be- 
quests were  to  her  own  children  by  her  first  husband  and  their  child- 
ren, and  she  named  none  of  her  second  husband's  family  except  her 
son  in  law  Triamor  Harvey,  who  was  to  dispense  her  charities  to 
the  poor.  She  was  probably  buried  at  Aston  Clinton  as  she  direct- 
ed, but,  curiously  enough,  there  is  an  entire  blank  in  the  parish  reg- 
ister for  that  year.  (Probably  that  portion  of  the  old  paper  regis- 
ter was  illegible,  from  some  cause,  when  the  transcript  on  parch- 
ment was  made  under  the  Order  of  Council  of  1598.) 

The  children  of  Sylvester  Baldwin,  by  his  first  wife  Agnes,  were 
as  follows : 

1.  JoBN,  who  was  liviof  at  the  date  of  his  grand&ther's  will  in  1564-5,  but  was 

evidently  dead  at  that  of  his  father's  in  1592,  as  he  was  not  named  in  it. 

2.  AvELYN,  evidently  the  only  daughter,  who  married  Triamor  Harvey.    I  have 

their  marriage  license,  issued  at  the  Registry  of  the  Bishop  of  I/)ndon, 
dated  20  June^  1575,  in  which  both  are  described  as  of  the  parish  of  St. 
Mary  at  Hill,  m  London.  Whether  it  was  a  runaway  marriage,  or  wheth- 
er he  was  then  in  business,  and  she  in  service  in  London  (most  common  in 
families  of  her  station),  it  is  imporaible  to  say ;  but,  at  all  events,  they  re- 
turned to  Aston  Clinton,  where  four  of  the  six  children  named  in  her 
father's  will  were  baptized.  8he  was  buried  there  23  Jan.  1585-6,  evi- 
dently dying  shortly  alter  the  birth  of  her  sixth  child,  which  was  baptized 
on  the  6th  of  the  same  month  bv  her  father's  name,  Sylvester.  Her  hus- 
band, Triamor  Harvey,  married  a  second  wife,  by  whom  he  had  other 
children,  and  was  finally  buried  at  Aston  Clinton  15  June,  1621. 

The  only  surviving  child  of  Sylvester  Baldwin  by  his  first  wife 
Agnes  was 

in.  TnoMAs  Baldwin,  who  was  his  father's  executor  in  1592.  He 
was  twice  married.  His  first  wife,  Rebecca,  the  mother  of  most  of 
his  children,  was  buried  at  Aston  Clinton,  15  April,  1590,  evidently 
dying  in  childbed  of  her  sixth  child  and  fifth  son,  Sylvester.  His 
second  wife  was  Jane  Hayle,  to  whom  he  was  married,  at  Aston 
Clinton,  6  July,  1590,  less  than  three  months  after  his  first  wife's 
death.  (Such  hasty  second  marriages  were  common  enough,  and 
in  his  case  it  may  be  accounted  for  by  the  fact  that  he  was  left  with 
six  very  young  children,  and  no  sister  or  near  female  relative  to  whom 
he  could  turn  for  assistance.)  His  second  wife  survived  him,  and 
appears  to  have  been  buried  at  Aston  Clinton,  2  Aug.  1628.  He 
was  buried  there  9  Jan.  1619-20.  His  will,  as  of  St.  Leonard's,  in 
Aston  Clinton,  yeoman,  was  dated  25  February,  1618-19.  The 
following  is  a  full  abstract : 

To  be  buried  in  Aston  Clinton  Church-yard — to  the  poor  there 
10  shillings — to  Jane  my  wife  J  my  messuages,  lands  and  tenements 
in  Aston  Clinton  and  Wendover,  for  her  life  or  widowhood,  and  ^  of 
my  goods  and  chattels — to  my  sons  George,  Richard,  John,  and 
Sylvester,  and  my  daughter  Agnes  Bowler,  each  10  shillings — to 
Ilobert  my  son  and  Jane  my  daughter  each  £30.  when  21  or  mar- 
ried— to  Samuel  my  son  all  my  messuages,  lands  and  tenements  in 


374  The  Family  of  Baldwin.  [Oct. 

Aston  Clinton  and  Wendover,  subject  to  my  said  wife's  interest, 
also  residue  of  personalty,  and  he  to  be  my  executor — overseers, 
my  friends  Robert  Hayle  and  Henry  Barnabye. 

The  will  was  proved  in  the  Court  of  the  Archdeaconry  of  Bucks, 
27  Jan.  1619-20,  by  the  son  Samuel. 

The  children  of  Thomas  Baldwin,  by  his  first  wife  Rebecca,  were 
as  follows : 

1.  Samuel,  who  was  his  father *s  heir  and  ezecator  in  1619-20.    His  wife  was 

Amy  Bryan,  to  whom  he  was  married  at  Aston  Clinton,  17  Oct.  1^2.  ills 
will,  as  of  Aston  Clinton,  yeoman,  was  dated  8  Feb.  1629-30.  He  named 
only  one  child,  a  daughter  Frances,  who  was  to  have  £30.  when  21  or  mar- 
rieu.  To  his  brother  George  he  confirmed  the  lease  of  the  houfco  wherein 
he  dwelt,  which  lease  was  to  run  21  years  from  the  death  of  his  late  father, 
Thomas  Baldwin.  Ho  named  as  overseers  Richard  Baldwin  of  Dundridge 
and  William  Grange.  His  widow  Amy  proved  the  will,  in  the  Preroga- 
tive Court  of  Canterbury,  22  Nov.  1630,  and  I  find  nothing  more  of  her  or 
her  daughter  Frances. 

2.  George,  who  was  baptized  at  Aston  Clinton  29  March,  1582.    He  made  his 

will  13  Feb.  1656-6,  describing  himself  as  of  Agmondesham,  co.  Bucks, 
'*  Gentleman."  (This  was  in  the  Commonwealth  period,  when,  as  well 
as  afterwards,  people  called  themselves  whatever  they  pleased.)  He  named 
Thomas  as  his  eldest  son  and  heir,  and  Ruth  as  his  eldest  daucrhter.  To 
his  six  younger  children,  George,  Elizabeth,  Mary,  Sarah,  Hannah  and 
John,  he  gave  £250.  each,  and  divided  among  them  equally  his  lands  of 
inheritance  in  Wendover,  which  had  been  bequeathed  by  his  fatlier  Tho- 
mas to  his  elder  brother  Samuel,  and  which  came  to  him  as  the  next  male 
heir  on  the  death  of  the  latter.  All  his  children  were  under  age.  IIi< 
widow  Ruth  proved  the  will,  in  the  Prerogative  Court  of  Canterbury,  25 
Sept.  1656,  and  1  have  nothing  later  of  her  or  any  of  her  children.  As  he 
distinctly  stated  that  his  six  younger  children  were  all  under  the  age  of  18 
at  the  date  of  his  will,  1655-6,  and  as  John  was  named  as  the  youngest 
child,  it  is  clear  that  he  could  not  have  been  the  emigrant  John  of  Nor- 
wich, which  is  the  only  point  necessary  to  note  here. 

3.  Richard,  who  appears  to  have  lived  some  time  at  Agmondesham,  where,  with 

his  son,  he  carried  on  the  business  of  a  brewer,  out  subsequently  ar  Kea- 
consfield,  whither  his  son  removed,  and  where  he  died,  and  was.  acconiin^ 
to  his  son^s  will,  buried  in  the  churchyard.  His  daughter  Elizabeth  Wat- 
kins  administered  to  his  estate,  in  the  Archdeaconry  Court  of  Bucks,  7 
June,  1645,  when  the  amount  of  the  bond  given  was  only  £200,  which 
does  not  indicate  that  he  was  a  man  of  large  property.  He  had,  how*  ver, 
perhaps  divided  his  estate  already  between  his  two  children,  as  it  is  evident 
that  his  son  was  a  wealthy  man.  1  have  not  learned  who  his  wile  was. 
Their  only  daughter  Elizabeth  married  John  Watkins  of  Agmondetiham, 
yeoman,  so  described  as  her  husband  in  the  record  of  administratioa 
above  mentioned.  She  was  still  living  in  1661,  the  date  of  her  brother's 
will,  with  children  and  grandchildren.  Richard  Baldwin,  the  only  son  of 
Richard,  made  his  will  5  Aug.  1661,  calling  himself  of  Beaoonsfield,  oo. 
Bucks,  *^  Gentleman."  As  the  will  is  important  as  regards  the  other  por- 
tion of  this  narrative,  I  give  a  full  abstract : 

To  be  buried  in  Beaconsfield  Churchyard,  where  my  father  was  buried— 
to  my  sister  Elizabeth  Watkins  an  annuit}'  of  £10,  and  my  brewhouse  in 
Agmondesham,  for  life,  with  reversion  at  her  death  to  her  oldest  son  John 
\V  atkins — to  John  son  of  said  John  Watkins  £300.  when  21 — to  Ileniy 
Watkins  my  sister's  son  £5.  and  £20  per  annum  for  life — to  Anne  Merri- 
due  my  sister's  grandchild  £100.  when  21 — to  Elizabeth  Baldwin  my  sister> 
daughter  £5.  and  to  all  her  children  living  at  her  death,  or  when  she  shall 
be  forty  years  of  age  £200.  among  them— to  my  son  in  law  Edward  Baldwin, 
Esquire,  and  Elizabeth  his  wife,  each  £5. — to  Thomas,  my  uncle  Mr.  John 
Baldwin's  son  £5  ;  to  Richard  Baldwin,  my  uncle's  grandchild  £50  when 
21  :  to  his  daughter  Lane  £20,  his  daughter  Clarke  £10,  his  dnughur 
Mitchell  £20,  and  to  my  Aunt  Baldwin  £10. — to  my  cousin  Mrs.  Isabeil 
Day  £20 — to  cousin  Mr.  William  Fisher's  children  £50.  equally  when  il 
— to  my  cousin  Mrs.   Mary  Reynolds  £20 — to  my  cousin  Mrs.  Kebccct 


L884.  ]  The  Family  of  Baldwin.  375 

Filpott  £20— to  the  children  of  my  cousin  Mrs.  Anne  Roberts  deceased 
£20 — to  my  cousin  Mr.  John  Baldwin  of  Harvill  £50 — to  my  aunt  Mrs. 
Rebecca  Applebee  £20 — to  my  son  in  law  Mr.  George  Turfrey  £200 — to 
my  8aid  son  in  law  Mr.  Edward  Baldwin  and  his  heirs  forever  mv  capital 
messuage  ko.  called  Wiltons,  where  I  now  dwell,  in  Beaconsfield  afore- 
said (with  other  lands,  particularly  described),  also  to  him  and  my  wife 
the  residue  of  all  my  personalty,  and  I  appoint  them  joint  executors. 

The  will  Was  proved  in  the  Prerogative  Court  of  Canterbury,  U  Deo. 
1661,  by  said  £dward  Baldwin,  the  relict  Susanna  renouncing  the  execu- 
tion thereof. 

This  Richard  Baldwin's  wife  was  Susanna,  widow  of  Richard  Turfrey  of 
London.  Her  daughter,  Elizabeth  Turfrey,  was  the  wife  of  Edward  Bald- 
win, fi.'^q.,  Bencher  of  the  Inner  Temple,  described  in  the  former  part  of 
this  narrative  as  the  Vch  in  the  descent  of  the  Dundridge  line.  The  rela- 
tionship between  this  Richard  and  Edward  had  by  this  time  become  very 
distant,  and  it  is  curious  how  the  latter  thus  became  enriched  by  marrying 
the  daughter  of  the  wife  of  his  childless  kinsman.  The  connection  between 
these  two  Baldwins,  both  of  Beaconsfield,  and  one  calling  the  other  bis 
son-in-hw,  was  at  first  very  puzzling,  and  the  mystery  was  not  cleared  up 
until  after  a  good  deal  of  labor  and  research.  This  Richard  Baldwin  had 
evidently  acquired  a  considerable  fortune  as  a  brewer,  perhaps  increased 
by  his  marriage,  and,  having  purchased  a  handsome  country  seat,  and  thus 
brouffht  himself  on  a  level  with  the  landed  gentry,  considered  himself  en- 
titled to  be  described  in  his  will  as  a  *^  Gentleman,''  a  title  which  I  need 
hardly  say  would  not  have  been  recognized  at  the  College  of  Arms. 

4.  John  Baldwin,  of  whom  hereafter. 

5.  Sylvester,  who  was  baptized  at  Aston  Clinton  14  April.  1590.    He  was  still 

living  at  the  date  of  his  father's  will  in  1618-19,  but  I  have  found  no  trace 
of  him  after  that  date. 

6.  Agnes,  who  was  baptized  at  Aston  Clinton  29  Dec.  1583.    In  her  father's 

will,  1618-19,  she  is  named  as  Agnes  Bowler,  but  I  find  nothing  later  about 
her. 
The  children  of  Thomas  Baldwin  by  his  second  wife  Jane  Uayle  were  : 

7.  Robert, ) 

8.  Jane,      )  of  neither  of  whom  do  I  find  anything  afler  the  date  of  their  fa- 
.    tber's  will,  1618-19,  when  both  were  living  under  age. 

We  now  return  to  the  fourth  son  of  Thomas  Baldwin  by  his  first 
wife,  Rebecca,  viz. : 

IV.  John  Baldwin,  who  was  baptized  at  Aston  Clinton,  15  Decem- 
ber, 1588,  and  was  named  in  his  father's  will  in  1618-19.  His  will, 
as  of  Chipping  Wycombe,  co.  Bucks,  ironmonger,  dated  2  March, 
1659-60,  was  proved  12  Feb.  1660-1,  in  the  Archdeaconry  Court 
of  Bucks,  by  his  son  Thomas.  He  named  his  wife  Elizabeth,  and 
his  other  children,  viz.,  John  Baldwin,  of  Harvill,  Elizabeth  Lane, 
widow,  Anne  wife  of  John  Clarke,  and  Margery  wife  of  Robert 
Mitchell.  All  these  are  named  in  the  will  of  their  cousin  Richard 
Baldwin  of  Beaconsfield,  dated  5  Aug.  1661.     The  eldest  son, 

V.  Thomas  Baldwin,  his  father's  executor  in  1560-1,  made  his  will 
21  May,  1666,  describing  himself  as  of  Chipping  Wycombe,  "  Hemp- 
dresser."  He  named  his  mother  Elizabeth,  his  wife  Mary,  his  son 
Richard  and  his  daughter  Mary.  The  will  is  the  original  one,  filed 
in  the  Archdeaconry  Court  of  Bucks,  and  has  no  record  of  probate 
attached.  The  daughter  Mary  was  not  twenty  at  its  date.  The 
son, 

VI.  Richard  Baldwin,  was  named  in  the  will  of  his  father's  cousin, 
Richard  Baldwin  of  Beaconsfield,  in  1661,  and  was  under  twenty- 
one  at  the  date  of  his  father^s  will. 


376  The  Wing  Family.  [Oct 

I  have  thus  brought  down  the  history  of  the  line  of  John  Baldwin  of  the 
Hayle,  brother  of  the  first  Richard  of  Dundridge,  to  a  period  considerably 
later  than  the  emigration  of  any  of  the  Baldwins  of  New  England,  and  we 
fail  to  find  any  John  Baldwin  who  by  any  possibility  could  have  been 
the  John  of  Norwich.  Therefore,  as  there  seems  to  be  a  strong  tra- 
dition, if  no  positive  proof,  that  he  was  a  near  relative  of  those  of  the  Don- 
dridge  line,  I  think  we  must  fall  back  upon  the  one  I  have  already  indicat- 
ed as  being  the  one  the  circumstances  of  whose  case  present  the  strongest 
amount  of  probability. 

Probably  a  good  deal  more  might  be  learned  about  both  lines  by  a  care- 
ful examination  of  all  the  parish  registers  in  the  vicinity  of  Aston  Clinton, 
and  by  systematically  investigating  the  histories  of  the  various  families  with 
which  they  intermarried.  This  would  of  course  necessitate  a  vast  amount 
of  time,  labor  and  expense  which  could  not  be  embraced  within  the  scope 
of  the  present  inquiry. 

Joseph  Lemuel  Chester. 

London^  l^th  February,  1878. 


THE  WING  FAlVnLY. 

By  William  H.  Whitmore,  A.M.,  of  Boston. 

rpWENTY  years  ago,  in  the  Register  for  July,  1864  (p.  266),  I 
jL  made  some  notes  on  the  Wing  family,  to  which  I  am  now  able 
to  make  some  important  additions.  Savage  states,  upon  what  au- 
thority I  know  not,  that  John  Wing,  of  Sandwich,  married  in  Eng- 
land, Deborah,  daughter  of  Rev.  Stephen  Bachiler,  and  had  at  least 
three  sons,  Daniel,  John  and  Stephen.  I  am  happy  to  say  that  it 
is  certain  that  these  three  Wings  were  brothers,  and  that  they  had 
a  fourth  brotber  Matthew  Wing,  who  lived  here  for  a  time  and  then 
returned  to  England,  being  termed  '^  of  Stroud,  in  the  county  of 
Kent." 

The  proof  is  in  the  annexed  deed,  now  in  my  possession,  which 
shows  that  ^latthew  married  Joane,  daughter  of  Robert  Newman, 
of  Stroud,  and  had  a  son  John,  but  all  three  died  before  1680. 
The  widow  had  entrusted  her  rights  to  James  Green,  of  Maiden, 
who  married  her  sister  Elizabeth  Newman,  but  gained  nothing. 
So  in  1680  Matthew  Wing's  three  brothers,  as  above,  assign- 
ed all  their  rights  to  Hannah  Shankes,  the  niece  of  Matthew's 
wife,  being  the  daughter  of  her  sister  Anne  Newman,  who  had  mar- 
ried one  Thomas  GrifFen. 


"  To  all  Christian  people  to  whom  these  presents  shall  come,  William 
Shanks  of  Stroud  in  the  County  of  Kent,  Cooper,  and  Hannah  Shankes 
his  wife  sends  greeting.  Whereas  Matthew  Wing  of  Stroud  in  the  Coun- 
ty of  Kent,  aforesaid,  Planter,  in  his  Majesties  Colony  of  New  Plymouth 
in  new  England,  haveing  purchased  a  certain  Estate  there,  afterwards  come- 


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iDg  over  into  England,  left  it  in  the  bands  of  bis  Brotber'Daniel  Wing  of  bis 
Majesties  said  Colony  of  new  Plymoutb,  Planter ;  And  the  said  Mattbew 
Wing  baveing  been  come  into  England  marryed  Joane  Newman,  daagbter 
of  Robert  Newman  of  Stroud  in  tbe  said  County  of  Kent,  Blacksmitli,  by 
whom  be  begot  a  son  whom  he  named  John  Wing,  and  in  bis  minority 
deceased :  And  after  bis  decease  bis  wife  Joane  Newman  altos  Wing  dure- 
ing  bis  sons  minority  by  vertue  of  her  Leter  of  Attorney  authorized  her 
brother  in  law  James  Green  of  the  town  of  Maiden  in  his  Majesties  Colo- 
ny of  Massachusett  Bay  in  new  England,  who  had  marryed  Elizabeth  New- 
man, sister  of  the  said  Joan  Newman  alias  Wing,  for  her  and  in  her  name 
and  to  her  use  and  behoofe,  to  aske,  require,  take  and  receive  that  her  said 
Husband's  Matthew  Wing's  estate,  of  and  from  the  said  Daniel  Wing,  who 
accordingly  delivered  it  into  his  bands,  to  the  intent  the  said  Widdow  Wing 
and  her  son  John  might  reap  the  benefitt  of  it  in  their  necessity  here  in 
Engladd,  which  notwithstanding  they  did  not,  through  tbe  frauds  of  the 
said  James  Green,  dureing  their  lives. 

Now  the  said  Joan  Wing,  tbe  Widdow,  and  John  Wing  the  son,  of  the 
said  Mattbew  Wing,  being  both  likewise  deceased,  and  tbe  estate  not 
haveing  been  delivered  into  their  or  either  of  their  bands  before  their  de- 
cease, the  Estate  is  devolved  unto  three  brothers  of  the  said  Matthew  Wing, 
viz*,  John  Wing  of  the  town  of  Yarmouth  in  the  said  Colony  of  new  Ply- 
month  [Planter  ?]  and  Daniel  Wing  and  Stephen  Wing  of  the  town  of 
Sandwich  in  the  said  Colony  of  new  Plymouth,  Planters,  in  new  England, 

Who  all  three  as  well  for  the  naturall  love  and  affection  which  they 
beare  unto  their  deare  and  wellbeloved  Cousin,  the  abovesaid  Hannah 
Sbankes,  daughter  of  Thomas  Griffen  of  Stroud  aforesaid  in  tbe  said  Coun- 
ty of  Kent,  Fisherman,  and  of  Anne  Griffen,  alias  Newman,  his  then  wife 
deceased,  sister  of  the  said  Joan  Newman  alias  Wing,  as  for  divers  other 
good  [causes]  and  valuable  considerations,  them  and  every  of  them  there- 
unto especially  moving,  have  for  themselves,  their  heirs,  executors,  admin- 
istrators and  assigns,  given,  jaunted,  enfeoffed  and  confirmed 

All  and  singular  the  said  Estate  of  their  said  Brother  Matthew  Wing, 
situate  lying  and  being  in  bis  Majesties  Colony  of  new  Plymouth  in  new 
England,  and  all  and  every  their  Rights,  Titles,  Priviledges,  claymes  and  de- 
mands thereunto,  and  to  every  part  thereof,  unto  tbe  said  Hannah  Sbankes, 
the  now  wife  of  the  said  William  Sbankes,  and  to  the  heires  of  her  body 
lawfully  begotten  for  ever. 

Know  yee  therefore,  That  tbe  abovenamed  William  Sbankes  and  Hannah 
Sbankes  his  now  wife,  in  consideration  hereof  and  for  the  better  accomplish- 
ment of  the  obtaining  the  said  estate  in  her  possession  have  appointed,  or- 
diuned  and  made  and  in  their  stead  and  place  by  these  presents  put,  deputed 
and  constituted  their  deare  and  trusty  and  well-beloved  Unkle  Daniel  Wing, 
aforenamed,  of  the  town  of  Sandwich  in  his  Majesties  said  Colony  of  new 
Plymouth  in  new  England,  Planter,  to  be  their  lawfull  Attorney  [irrevo- 
cable ?]  for  them  and  in  their  names  and  to  their  uses  and  behoofes  to  ask, 
demand,  sue  for,  levy,  require,  recover  and  receive  of  and  from  the  said 
James  Green  or  Elizabeth  bis  wife  and  of  and  from  all  and  every  their 
heires,  executors,  administrators  or  assignes,  all  and  singular  the  said  Estate 
and  every  part  thereof,  with  all  and  singular  their  appurtenances,  pur- 
chased and  bought  by  the  said  Matthew  Wing,  deceased. 

Giving  and  graunting  unto  their  said  Attorney  their  whole  power, 
strength  and  authority  in  and  about  the  premises  by  virtue  of  these  pre- 
sents.  And  upon  the  delivery  and  receipt  thereof,  Acquittances,  releases  or 

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378      I^otes  and  Letters  relating  to  Early  If.  England.     [Oct. 

• 

other  discharge  for  them  and  in  their  names  to  make,  seal  and  deliver ;  And 
all  and  every  other  Act  or  Acts,  thing  or  things,  devise  or  devises  in  the  Law 
whatsoever,  for  them  and  in  their  names  to  do  execute  and  perform  as  fully, 
largely,  amply,  to  all  intents,  constructions  and  purposes,  as  they  themselves 
might  or  could  do,  if  they  or  either  of  them  were  there  personally  present 
Ratifying,  allowing  and  holding  firm  and  stable  all  and  whatsoever  their 
said  Attorney  shall  lawfully  do  or  cause  to  be  done  in  or  about  the  execu- 
tion of  the  premisses  by  virtue  of  these  presents.* 

In  Witness  whereof  the  said  William  Sbankes  and  Hannah  his  wife, 
have  hereunto  sett  their  hands  and  seals  this  seaven  and  twentyeth  day  of 
August  in  the  xxxi  yeare  of  the  reigne  of  our  Soveraigne  Lord  Charles 
the  Second,  by  the  grace  of  God,  of  England,  France,  Scotland  and  Ireland, 
King,  Defender  of  the  Faith,  etc.  Annoque  Domini  One  thousand,  six  hun- 
dred and  eighty.  William  Shamke 

Signed,  Sealed  and  Delivered  sign  Li  tie. 

in  the  presence  of  Hanna  H  Shanke  " 

William  Ellison 

Isaiah  Finch 

The  day  and  year  abovewritten,  the  above-named  William  Shankes  and 
Hannah  his  wife,  Sealed  and  Executed  these  presents  above  written  before 
me,  James  Almond,  Esquire,  Mayor  of  the  City  of  Rochester  in  the  County 
of  Kent,  above  written. 

Witness  my  hand  and  Seale  of  Office, 

James  Almond,  Mayor. 


HISTORICAL  NOTES  AND  LETTERS  RELATING  TO 

EARLY  NEW  ENGLAND. 

Communicated  by  Q.  D.  Soull,  Esq.,  of  Oxford,  England. 

To   the   Right   Honor*^^'   the   Comittee   for  foreign   affaires.     The  hum- 
ble petic5n  of  Lyonell  Copley,  Thomas  Foley,  Tho*  Pury,  Nicholas 
Bond,   John  Pocock,  William  Haycock,  John  Becx,   W°*  GreeiihilK 
George  Shirpuls,  Wm  Beck,  on  the  behalfe  of  themselves  and  other 
marchants  adventurers  Trading  in  the  Iron  works  in  New  England. 
Sheweth — That  yo'  pet"  and  others  in  partnership  with  them  were  invit- 
ed by  the  Inhabitants  of  Massachusetts  Bay  in  New  England  to  erect  and 
Stock  sundry  Iron  works  there,  which  (about  ten  years  since  being  accom- 
plished by  y'  pet")  cost  them  15.000£  whereupon  yo'  pet"  Sent  over  an  agent 
and  ffactor  to  manage  y*  same  namely  John   Giffbrd  for  their  Agent  and 
William  Aubery  for  their  ffactor.    That  their  ffactor's  contracting  supposed 
debts  there  to  the  value  of  1500£  in  yo'  pet"  names,  but  against  their  or- 
der, the  credditors  upon  non-payment  seized  on  and  have  swallowed  up  y' 
pet"  Estates  there,  which  in  Lands,  Buildings,  Stock,  and  Servants,  amount- 
ed to  the  value  of  15.000£  and  in  a  years  time  upon  pretence  of  Interest 
&^  have   inflamed   their  pretended  debt  to  3600£  albeit  some  of  those 
Credditors  were  debtors  to  yo'  pet"  Stock  about  1300£.     That  by  op- 
pression of  power  and  might  they  imprisoned   there  yo'  pet"  agent  for 
cedactions  of  40.000£,  detaine  him  in  prison  three  years  and  a  half  denying 
him  liberty  upon  sufficient  Bayle  or  to  admitt  of  his  legall  and  just  defence 


1884.]  Notes  and  Letters  relating  to  Early  N.  England.       379 

of  yo'  pet"  right  or  to  accept  of  able  security  of  double  the  value  of  their  p'- 
tended  debt  but  rigourously  proceed  in  their  court  called  a  speciall  court 
erected  only  for  Strangers  not  iDhabitants.  That  yo'  pet"  to  their  further 
charge  and  trouble  about  21  months  since  dispatcht  their  agent  from  hence 
thither  to  treat  and  implore  the  Comon  justice  of  the  country  for  their 
reparacbn  which  they  were  soe  far  from  obtaining  that  theire  Estates  are 
still  with  held  even  by  some  of  the  Judges  themselves  who  declared  in  open 
court  there  that  although  yo'  pet"  should  recover  their  Estates  by  Law,  yet 
they  should  not  have  the  Same,  nor  would  they  permitt  yo'  pet"  agent  to 
soe  for  severall  hundreds  of  pounds,  which  were  there  really  due  unto  yo' 
pet",  soe  yo'  pet"  are  without  remedy  or  hope  of  reliefe  w^ut  the  power 
and  Justice  of  this  honourable  Coinittee. 

That  Capt.  Laverett  the  agent  of  the  Country  of  new  England  is  heere.* 
Therefore  it  is  the  humble  request  of  yo'  Pet"  that  yo'  Honours  will  bee 
pleased  to  grant  a  Sumons  against  Henry  Webb,  Thomas  Savage,  Edward 
Hutchinson,  Anthony  Stodder,  Edward  Tyng,  William  Payne,  Richard 
Bellingham,  Symon  Bradstreet,  Thomas  Wiggins  and  upon  their  non-ap- 
pearance in  a  convenient  tyme  after  proofe  of  they  being  served  with  y'  order 
of  Summons,  wee  may  have  Letters  of  mart  to  recover  o'  Estates  against 
the  said  Ck)untry  of  the  Massachusetts  Bay  from  whom  wee  have  received 
o'  wrong,  if  they  p'^tend  themselves  a  free  state  and  not  submitt  to  yo'  or- 
der of  summons,  and  that  yo'  hon"  will  receive  the  testimony  of  the  said 
John  Gilford  o'  agent  whilst  it  may  bee  taken  heere,  least  yo'  pet"  bee  de- 
prived thereof  by  absence  or  death  when  occasion  to  use  the  same. 
And  yo'  pet"  shall  ever  pray  &c.  &c.t 


Copied  from  the  original  manuscript  called 

"This  account  of  New  England— (1675)." 
)  120  thousand  souls 
There  are  about  >- 13        do       ffamylyes 

)  1 6         do       y*  can  bear  armes 
There  bee  5  Iron- works  w"*  cast  noe  Gunns 

15  Merchants  worth  above  50,000£  or  about  5000£  one  with  another. 
500  Persons  worth  3000£  each  (note  in  same  writing  "  I  doubt  it.") 
No  Howse  in  New  England  hath  above  20  Rooms. 
Not  20  In  Boston  w*^^  hath  above  10  roomes  each, 
about  1500  family s  in  Boston. 
The  worst  cottages  in  new  England  are  lofted. 
No  Beggars,  not  three  put  to  death  for  Theft, 
about  35  Rivers  and  Harbours, 
about  23  Islands  and  fishing  places. 
The  3  Provinces  of  Boston,  Mayne  and  Hampshire  are  }  of  y*  whole  in 

wealth  and  strength,  the  other  4  Provinces  of  Plimouth,  Kenecticut, 

Rhode  Island  and  Kinnebeck  being  but  J  of  y*  whole  in  effect. 
Not  above  3  of  their  Military  men  have  ever  been  actuall  soldiers,  but  many 

are  such  soldiers  as  y*  artillery  men,  London. 
Amongst  their  Magistrates  Leverett  y*  Governour  Major  Denison,  Major 

Clerk  and  m'  Bradstreet  are  y*  most  popular. 

•  See  Letter  of  John  Lererett,  from  London,  13  September,  1660,  in  Hatchinson's  Collection 
of  Papers,  pp.  322-4 — Editor. 
t  See  Vinton  Memorial,  p.  463;  Beoistbb,  an^e,  p.  26>5.— Editor. 


380      ITotes  and  Letters  relating  to  Early  N.  England.     [Oct. 


A  ^  wu    (M' Thatcher 

And  amongst  the  3  ^,  Oxenbridge 

Ministers         )  ti--,  tj.  ® 

(  M'  Higgenson 

There  are  no  Musitians  by  trade 

One  Danceing  Schoole  was  set  up  but  put  down. 

A  ffenceing  schoole  is  allowed. 

all  Cordage,  saile-cloth  and  Netts,  come  from  England. 

No  doth  made  there  worth  above  4  pence  per  yard. 

Nor  lynnen  of  above  2  shilling  and  sixpence. 

No  allum  nor  Coperas,  no  salt  by  y*  sun. 

They  take  an  oath  of  fidelity  to  y*  government  but  none  to  y*  King. 

The  Governour  chosen  by  every  ffree-man. 

(  Orthodox 
a  ffreeman  must  bee  •<  above  20  years  old 

(  worth  about  200£ 
Not  twelve  ships  of  Two  hundred  tuns  each,  not 
Five  hundred  fishing  boats. 


''  An  account  of  all  the  trading  townes  and  Ports  lying  upon  the  sea  and 
navigable  rivers  w'^  number  of  Houses  in  Sundry  townes." 


Rye  contains 

Green  w'^** 

Standford 

Narwassett 

ffairefeild 

Stratford 


Upon  ConnecttcuU 

West  Saybrook  (a  fort) 

Lyme 

Shirly  mile  Island 

Middletowne 

Weathersfeild 

Hartford 

Winsor 


New  London 
Norwich 
Stonington  . 
Wickford  (Burnt) 


South  ConnecttcuU  Colony 
Houses 


30 

40 

100 

50 

300 

200 


Milford  contains 
New  Haven 
Brandford    . 
Gilford 
Hommonossett 


Secunk 
Swansye 
Tan  ton 


River y  a  bar'd  harbour  three  fathom  water 

100  ffarmington 

60  Springfeild  (Burnt) 

40  Hadley 

60  Northampton 

.       150  Hatfeild       . 

.       500  Westfeild     . 

.       400  Deerfeild  (Burnt) 

Colony  of  Rhode  Island 

200  Warwick  (Burnt) 

040  Patuxett     (do) 

100  Providence  (do) 

050  Newport 

Portsmouth 

390 

New  Plymouth  Colony 

100     Dartmouth  (burnt) 
050     Sandwich     . 
150    Yarmouth    . 


HOOMS 

200 
500 
050 
100 
040 

1610 

100 

050 

100 

100 

50 

30 

30 


50 

50 

200 

400 

200 

900 


100 
150 


X884.]  Notes  and  Letters  relating  to  Early  Jf.  England.       381 


iT^awsett 

• 

100     Scituate 

.       300 

13arii8tabl6    . 

• 

100     Green  harbour     . 

.       100 

X^ly  mouth     . 

• 

.       105 

Puxberry     • 

• 

.       100 
Massachusetts  Colony 

1300 

Hull     . 

80     Boston  (Castle)    . 

.     2500 

Hingham 

250     Charlestowne 

.       500 

Way  mouth  . 

250     Salem 

.       500 

Brautrye 

.       250 

Dorchester  . 

.       350 
Nisw  Hampshire 

4630 

Marblehead  (ffort) 

50     Create  Island  (fforte)  . 

50 

Cape  Adu 

50     Portsmouth . 

.       200 

Ipswich 

400     Dover 

.       100 

Newberry     . 

300     Exeter 

.      150 

Salisbury     . 

.       200     Isles  of  Shoales     . 

.       100 

Hampton 

.       200 

Portsmouth 

12010  houses,  1  Castle, 
tainiug  38  guns,  Brickfort 
fort.  Say  brook  1  fort — 12 


1800 
Hoad  Island 
200     Newport       ....      400 

3  fforts,  2  more  at  Boston,  Castle  of  Boston  con- 
12  guns  Platform  7  guns.  At  marble  Head  one 
guns.     Great  Island — 5  guns. 


i( 


Extract  from  a  letter  written  from  New  England.* 

Since  you  went  away  after  the  Easterne  buiness  was  quieted  wee  have 
(generaly)  had  peace  with  y®  Indians.  Only  last  Michelmas  a  party  of 
French  Indians  that  heretofore  were  belonging  to  o'  neighborhood  being 
furnished  and  sent  out  by  the  Earle  fibuntracke  Governor  at  Quebecke  (as 
o'  messenger  sent  thither  last  winter  give  us  evident  proof)  I  say  that 
party  being  not  above  27  persons,  fell  at  unawares  upon  the  village  at  Hat- 
feild  near  Hadley,  slew  some  persons,  burnt  some  houses,  captivate<l  about 
23  persons,  whereof  most  were  women  and  children  and  carried  them  all  to 
y*  French  territorys-t  Two  men,  one  named  Ben  Wait  and  y*  other  Jen- 
ings  being  men  of  activity  and  spirit  whose  wives  and  children  were  car- 
ried captive  did  obtain  V*  and  a  pass  from  o'  Gov'  and  Council  to  goe  into 
the  French  Country  to  seek  for  their  wives  and  y'  rest  of  y'  captives.  The 
history  of  their  travells,  interruptions  from  the  English  at  albany  and  at  y* 
Moquas  Country  by  y*  underhand  dealing  of  the  two  French  Jesuits  and 
their  servants  that  live  there,  whom  o'  men  saw,  together  with  y*  many 
hazards,  sufferings,  deliverances  and  vicissitudes  of  Providence  that  befell 
them,  would  take  up  a  large  sheet  to  recite,  where  in  are  many  matters  of 
remarque  w^^  may  bee  of  use  in  future  times,  at  last  it  pleased  God  to 
carry  them  safe  through  all  their  adventures  and  to  crown  their  endeavours 
with  such  success  that  they  found  their  wives  and  children  and  redeemed  them 

•  This  mnst  have  been  written  between  May  and  September,  1678.  It  is  evideotly  by  Mi^. 
Gen.  Daniel  Gookin. — Editor. 

t  See  "  Papers  concerning  the  Attack  on  Hatfield  and  Deerfield  by  a  Party  of  Indians  from 
Canada,  September  Nineteenth  1677,"  New  York,  1859.— Editor. 

VOL.  XXXVIII.        34* 


382      Notes  and  Letters  relating  to  Early  N.  England.     [Oct. 

and  all  y*  rest  of  the  EDglish  captives  that  were  living  being  about  19  in  all 
and  returned  borne  again  towards  y*  latter  end  of  May  last  having  been  about 
six  months  on  that  journey.     The  redemption  of  these  captives  and  the 
charges  and  cost  above  300£  in  money  w®*^  was  collected  by  a  free  and  vol- 
untary contribution  through  the  country  for  this  affaire.     Some  frenchmen 
accompanied  them  home  and  received  to  their  full  content  the  money  that 
our  men  had  contracted  for.     About  y*  same  time  that  the  English  were 
captivated  at  Hatfeild,  another  party  of  ffrench  Indians  carried  away  Wan- 
nalantot  and  his   small  party  from    Fatuxet      Wee  never  heard  since 
what  became  of  them,  for  to  the  French  they  were  not  brought,  nor  yet 
among  the  Easterne  Indians,  therefore  it  is  conjectured  that  the  Moquas 
and  (soe  lately  reported)  met  them  and  seized  them  all  And  put  them  to 
death  or  kept  them  in  bondage.     Whether  this  last  bee  a  truth  or  not,  is 
yet  noe  certainty.     But  of  the  mischief  done  by  the  Moquas,  accompanied, 
conducted  and  excited  thereunto  by  some  of  our  old  inveterate  enemies  that 
are  received  among  and  incorporated  with  them  together  with  the  French 
Jesuits  that  live  among  them,  who  probably  are  not  behindhand  to  promote 
the  persecution  of  the  true  professors  of  Christian  Religion.     These  Mo- 
quas have  within  a  twelve  month  made  many  incursions  and  depredations 
upon  our  poor  Christian  Indians  and  friends,  contrary  to  the  compact  made 
at  Albany  by  Major  Pincheon  and  M'  Richards  of  Hartford  on  behalfe  of 
these  Colonies  in  April  1677  who  then  was  accompanied  with  Grovernor 
Andross.     In  September  last  they  slew  an  honest  Indian  and  scalpt  him 
neer  an  English  house  at  Sudbury  and  in  the  same  month  carried  captive 
two  widdows  that  were  gathering  apples  at  Hassanameset.     About  y*  lat- 
ter end  of  April  last  a  party  of  them  slew  Tom-Rumney-Marsh,  that  val- 
iant soldier  and  his  cosen  Jeremy  y'  lived  at  Eiteige  yo'  neighbor  and  took 
anotlier  man  alive  and  his  Squa,  this  was  done  about  5  miles  from  Patuxet 
on  y'  East  side  of  the  river,  there  was  one  Indian  escaped  viz*,  one  since 
the  preacher  of  Wamesit,  they  were  on  a  hunting  designe  and  lost  with 
their  lives  about  10£  value  in  Beaver.     I  had  settled  this  Spring  about  20 
of  o'  Natick  Indians  in  a  fort  neer  Patuxet  at  Concord  River's  mouth,  who 
by  this  disaster  were  much  frightened,  several  went  away  but  some  of  y* 
best  with  some  encouragement  I  procured  for  them  and  the  Company  of 
my  Son  Samuel ;  they  have  held  possession  there  to  this  day  and  have 
planted  a  good  crop  of  corne.     This  was  done  by  means  I  used  of  particular 
men  without  any  charge  to  the  country  who  declined  it.     In  the  latter  end 
of  June  last  these  Moquas  with  some  of  the  old  enemy  about  60  men  se- 
cretly and  suddenly  surprized  a  company  of  native  Indians  that  were  cut- 
ting corne  at  Magunhog,  where  were  of  ours  about  60  persons  of  all  sorts 
but  not  above  20  armed.     They  had  a  little  fort  there,  but  being  scattered 
on  y'  hill  at  work  and  having  y*  scouts  newly  come  in  w*^  discovered  no- 
thing, the  Enemy  beset  them  and  slew  3  principal  men  and  took  captive  24 
whereof  Job  Eatanatat  a  pious  and  trusty  man,  was  one  and  two  other  men, 
the  rest  women  and  children,  these  they  carried  away  with  all  hast  and  since 
at  their  own  country  have  tortured  to  death.     Job  and  the  other  men  and 
some  women,  one  woman  of  the  captives  escapt  away  in  the  night  neer  the 
Mohawke  Country  and  got  home  who  certainly  informs  y*  number  and 
knew  some  of  y*  old  enemy  that  were  their  Conductors  of  whom  Satnimore 
Sam  of  Nashaway  neer  Kinsman  was  chief  who  told  her  hee  would  revenge 
his  uncles  death.     Our  Council  sent  two  English  messengers  to  the  Mow- 
haks  to  treat  with  them  touching  these  matters  and  urging  y'  breach  of 
covenant,  they  (the  Sachems)  give  fair  words  and  impute  these  disorden  to 


1884.]  ITote8  and  Letters  relating  to  Early  Jf.  England.       383 

7*  youDg  mens  unniliness  bat  declined  to  surrender  j*  poor  captives  at 
present  or  to  send  or  come  and  meet  our  Cofiiissioners  of  the  Colonies 
either  at  Hartford  or  Hadlej  ;  but  said  they  were  willing  to  treat  further 
at  Albany  and  to  doe  whatever  Grovemor  Andross  shall  command  them,  hee 
is  lately  arived  I  hear  and  I  wish  hee  could  quiet  these  troubles  with  the 
Moquas,  otherwise  o'  Indians  with  Unkas,  the  Pequids  and  Plimouth  In- 
dians will  all  join  in  one  body  and  make  head  against  them  and  that  proba- 
bly may  bee  more  prejudicial  to  Gov'  Andross  interest  in  point  of  trade  than 
general  peace  among  the  Indians  would  be.  In  the  interim  o'  poore  Christ- 
ian Indian  friends  and  others  that  have  adhered  stedfastly  to  the  English 
in  this  war  are  dayly  destroyed  and  though  all  ours  lived  in  forts  yet  the 
necessity  urging  to  goe  abroad  to  get  food,  hiint  and  fish  they  become  a 
prey  to  these  wolves.  I  am  not  without  my  fears  that  y*  French  Jesuits 
that  live  in  the  Moquas  Country  have  y*  hand  in  this.  If  the  honorable 
Corporation  would  please  to  move  his  Majesty  to  give  special  order  to  S' 
£dmund  Andross  to  use  his  utmost  endeavours  to  stop  this  persecution  of 
the  Christian  Indians,  whose  instruction  in  Christian  religion  his  Sacred 
Majesty  and  Predecessors  did  with  such  Christian  wisdome  and  care  by  his 
letters  patent  to  that  Corporation  and  in  his  patents  to  New  England  soe 
diligently  take  care  to  promote." 


From  the  original  memorandum  in  Sir  Ferdinando  Gorges's  hand  writing. 

"  The  proposalls  of  Ferdinando  Gorges  Esq'  for  the  Sale  of  the  Province 
of  Maine  in  New  England  to  his  Majesty. 

That  his  Majesty  doe  pay  presently  upon  the  agreement  the  Sume  of 
One  thousand  pounds.  That  when  his  Majesty  shalbe  in  possession  of  the 
said  Province  then  his  Majesty  to  pay  him  tenne  thousand  pounds  more  by 
equall  payments  of  2000  pounds  a  yeare  and  to  be  paid  within  five 
yeares  afler  his  Majesty's  said  possession.  That  upon  the  conveying  of 
the  said  province  to  his  Majesty  such  security  shalbe  given  for  the  pay- 
ment of  the  said  Tenne  thousand,  as  shalbe  advised  by  Councill. 

24  ffebruary — 1675-6.  Ferdinando  Gorges. 

Bancroft  says  that  Charles  II.  was  willing  to  secure  Maine  and  New 
Hampshire  as  an  appanage  for  the  Duke  of  Monmouth.  But  before  the 
Monarch  could  resolve  on  a  negociation,  Massachusetts,  through  the  agen- 
cy of  a  Boston  merchant,  obtained  armed  possession  of  the  claims  of  Gor- 
ges by  paying  him  1250£. 


Transcripts  of  letters  from  Cromwell's  MS.  Letter  and  Dispatch  Copy 

Book. 

Gentlemen.  Your  agent  heere  hath  represented  unto  us  some  particu- 
lars concerning  your  Government  which  you  judge  necessary  to  bee  setled 
by  us  heere,  but  by  reason  of  the  other  great  and  weighty  affaires  of  thb 
Commonwealth  wee  have  been  necessitated  to  deferre  the  consideration  of 
them  to  a  further  opportunity.  In  the  meane  tyme  wee  were  willing  to  lett 
you  knowe  that  you  are  to  proceede  in  your  Government  according  to  the 
tenor  of  y'  Charter  formerly  granted  on  that  behalf  takeing  care  of  the 
peace  and  safety  of  those  Plantations  that  neither  through  any  intestine 
commotions  or  forreine  Invasions  there  doe  arise  any  detriment  or  dishon- 
our to  this  Commonwealth,  or  your  selves  as  farre  as  you  by  y'  care  and 


384      Notes  and  Letters  relating  to  Early  N.  England.     [Oct. 

dilligence  can  prevent  And  as  for  the  thinges  which  are  before  ns  thej 
shall  as  soone  as  the  other  occasions  will  permitt  receive  a  jost  and  fitt  de- 
termination, and  soe  wee  bid  you  farewell. 

Your  verie  loving  ffriend 
29  of  March  1655.  Oliter,  P. 

To  our  trusty  and  welbeloved 
the  President,  assistants  and  Inhabitants  of 

fihode  Island  together  with  the  rest  of  the  Providence  Plantations 
in  the  Narragansett  Bay  in  New  Engl*^. 


Trustie  and  Welbeloved  Wee  greet  you  well. 

Adresse  hath  beene  made  unto  us  by  William  Franklin  of  Boston  in 
New  Englaud  who  by  his  petition  sets  forth  his  great  losses  partly  by 
Prince  Rupert  w*^in  the  £iDg  of  Portugal's  Territories  and  partly  by  the 
Hollanders  to  the  ruine  of  himselfe  and  his  family  which  wee  referring  to 
our  Couucels  consideration  they  found  him  under  an  incapacity  of  releife  in 
an  ordinary  way  through  the  not  Exhibiting  his  claime  in  tyme  occasioned 
by  his  distance  and  the  losse  of  his  papers,  and  therefore  and  because  they 
found  him  recommended  by  some  eminent  persons  both  here  &  in  New 
England  as  godly  and  in  respect  of  his  being  bred  up  in  a  way  of  Trade, 
they  presented  him  to  us  as  a  fit  object  of  Our  respect  and  favour  wherein 
Wee  fully  complieing  (being  well  satisfied  of  his  piety,  Experience  and  fit- 
ness for  trust)  wee  doe  hereby  rec6mend  it  to  you  That  by  the  first  oppor- 
tunity of  a  vacant  place  under  you  suitable  to  bis  breeding,  you  will  settle 
him  therein  which  will  tend  as  to  the  releife  of  an  honest  and  sofifering  per- 
son, soe  wee  hope  it  will  bee  for  the  Commonwealth's  service.  Given  at 
Whitehall  this  ^'^  day  of  July,  1655. 

To  our  trusty  and  well  beloved  the  Cofiiissioners  of  our  Customes. 


Sir — Wee  have  received  yor*  of  the  29***  of  June  1654  and  doe  give  iliis 
answer  thereunto.  That  you  have  well  resolved  not  to  interesse  yo'  solves 
in  the  businesse  which  hath  lately  happened  between  the  Men  of  Seveme 
and  the  Lord  Baltimore  his  Oflicers  in  Maryland  it  being  noe  part  of  the 
meaning  of  our  letter  to  you  to  intermedle  therein  or  to  obstruct  what  hath 
been  done  by  the  Cofiiission"  for  settling  the  Civill  Government  in  that 
place,  in  pursuance  of  the  late  Councell  of  State  their  Instructions  but  wee 
ha\dng  beene  informed  that  some  trouble  was  like  to  ensue  upon  the  differ- 
ence which  hath  beene  for  some  time  between  the  Planta^bn  of  Virginia 
and  Maryland  concerning  their  bound?,  wherein  both  sides  have  appealed 
to  us  and  our  Councell  We  wrote  o'  aforesaid  letter  to  prevent  the  Incon- 
veniences w*^*^  might  fall  out  in  that  respect  requiring  both  parts  to  expect 
the  determination  of  ourselfe  and  Councell  therein  and  this  wee  have 
thought  fit  to  signifie  to  you  for  your  further  satisfaction  and  rest. 

8*^  October  Oliver,  P. 

1655. 
To  our  Trustie  and  well  beloved  Edward  Diggs  Esq" 

Governor  of  Virginia. 


The  list  of  American  Captives  redeemed  in  Algier  by  die  agent  of  Mr. 
William  Bowtell  of  London,  Merchant.  There  were  in  all  390  Slaves, 
(English  and  american)  set  free,  by  the  payment  of  £40  each  person,  bj 


1884.] 


The  Supposed  Decay  of  Families. 


385 


the  English  government  from  a  fund  of  £20,000, 
1680,  when  there  were  900  captives  in  algier  and 


and  Salley"     (1681.) 
John  Bumstead, 
John  Chapman 
Thomas  Corbin 
Peter  Homaman 
Simon  Johnson 
Thomas  Jenner 
Tbomfts  Mitchell 
Loveday  Lampson 
Smith  George 
Joseph  Simons 
John  Watts 


Ship  W«  &  Mary 
Unity 
Blessing 
Crowne 
Unity 
Rose 
Rose 
Blessing 

do 
Susan 
Unity 


(( 
(( 

u 
a 


which  was  created  in 
200  in  '^Mackiness 

of  New  England 
do        do 
do        do 

New  York 

Boston 

New  England 
do        do 
do        do 
do        do 

New  York 

New  England 


The  Society  for  the  Propagation  of  the  Gospel  in  Foreign  Parts  met  21'* 
April  1702  (Extract) 

**  Col  Morris,  his  motion  relating  to  the  bringing  over  Students  in  Divinity 
Educated  in  America  being  considered  —  agreed  that  it  is  the  opinion  of  this 
Comm'**  that  such  Students  in  Divinity  as  shall  come  over  with  good  Testi- 
monials agreeable  to  the  Rules  drawn  up  &  published  by  the  Society  giving 
Recommendations,  in  order  to  their  Receiving  the  Orders  of  the  Church  of 
Eng^  shall  be  allowed  the  sum  of  towards  defraying  their  charges  in 
coming  over  and  returning."  _^ 


THE  SUPPOSED  DECAY  OF  FAMILIES. 

By  Edwabd  Jabyis,  M.D.,  of  Dorchester,  Mais. 

THERE  is  much  said  about  the  decay  of  families  in  New  England,  and 
this  opinion  finds  some  apparent  corroboration  in  the  social  history  of 
Concord,  and  probably  of  other  towns. 

1  do  not  know  that  we  have  any  full  and  correct  account  of  the  early 
settlers  of  Concord  and  when  they  arrived.  Mr.  Shattuck  searched  all 
the  records  which  were  attainable,  and  seems  to  have  recorded  in  the  1st, 
2nd,  Srd,  4th  and  5th  chapters  of  his  History  of  Concord,  and  pages  360  to 
888,  the  names  of  all  the  people  who  were  in  the  town  before  1700.  I 
have  analyzed  all  these  chapters  and  made  the  following  list,  giving  the 
year  in  which  they  first  appeared,  or  in  which  any  record  of  their  appear- 
ance in  the  town  was  found.  In  the  following  list  the  figures  before  the 
name  show  the  number  who  bore  it ;  the  figures  after  the  name  show  the 
years  when  they  appeared,  or  when  they  were  first  recorded ;  the  letter  m 
shows  that  the  person  moved  away.  The  mark  -{-  is  afiixed  to  the  names 
which  are  found  in  the  list  of  voters  of  Concord  in  1881. 

2  Adams,  1646  -}-.  Andrews,  1640.  Atkinson,  1638  m.  Baker, 
1650  +.  Ball,  1655.  Barker,  1646  +.  Barnes,  1661.  Barrett,  1640+. 
Barron,  early  m.  2  Bateman,  1654.  Bellows,  1645  m.  Bennet,  1647  m. 
3  Billings,  1640.  2  Blood,  1654.  2  Brabrook,  1669.  2  Brooks,  1638  4-. 
2  Brown,  1640  -f-.    Bolkley,  1635  -f-.    Buss,  1639.    Battricki  1635  +• 


386 


The  Supposed  Decay  of  Families. 


[Oct. 


Chandler,  1640-}-.  Clark,  1686 +.  Cooksey,  1666.  Coalin,  1642  m. 
DakiD,  1650  +.  Darby,  1684  +.  Davis,  1650  +.  2  Dean,  1645  -f . 
Dill,  1670.  Dowdy,  1645.  Draper,  1639.  Dudley,  1663.  3  Edmonda, 
1640  m.  Edwards,  1642.  Evarts,  early  m.  4  Farrar,  1697+.  Far- 
well,  1638  m.  2  Fletcher,  1635  +.  Flint,  1638  +.  Fowle,  early  m. 
Fox,  1640  m.  Frissel,  1667  m.  French,  1 674  m. +.  Fuller,  1642  m.+. 
Gamblin,  1643.  Gobble,  1640.  Graves,  early  m.  Griffin,  163-  +.  Had- 
lock,  1679.  Hall,  1658  m.  Halstead,  1645.  Hamilton,  1670  m.  Har- 
dy, 1639.  Harris,  1669.  2  Hartwell,  1636  -f .  Harwood,  1667.  Hay- 
ward,  1635.  2  Heald,  1635.  Hey  wood,  1635  +.  Hoar,  1660  -}-.  Hot- 
mer,  1635 -f.  How,  1667  -f.  Hubbard,  1680 +.  2  Hunt,  1646-f. 
Hutchinson,  1661  -\-.  Jones,  1650  -}-•  Judson,  1640  m.  Lettin,  1639  m. 
Lee,  1635.  Marble,  1666 -f.  Martin,  1635  m.  Mason,  1662 -f.  Melvin, 
1700 -f.  3  Merriam,  1654.  Miles,  1640  -f.  Middlebrook,  1644  m. 
Minot,  1680.  Mitchell,  1635,  m.  Oakes,  1682.  Odell,  1635  m.  Parkes, 
1690.  Passmore,  1646.  Pellet,  1666.  Potter,  1635 -f-.  Prescott,  1635. 
Proctor,  1645.  Prout,  1675.  Purchis,  1680.  Reed,  1670.  Rice,  1676-f. 
Robbins,  1670  -}-.  Robinson,  1676  -f.  Ross,  1649.  Rugg,  1679.  Rass, 
1679.  Scotchford,1635.  Shepherd,  1648.  2  Smedley,  1635.  Smith,  1663 -f. 
Squire,  1640.  Standiforth,  1644.  Stow,  1640  4.  Stratten,  1674.  Sy- 
monds,  1635  -f .  2  Taylor,  1656.  Temple,  1650  -f .  Thwing,  1642  m. 
Tompkins,  1642.  Turn^y,  1638  m.  Underwood,  1638  m.  Wheat, 
1639.  6  Wheeler,  1654  -f .  Whitaker,  1690.  Whittemore,  1692.  Wil- 
lard,  1635.  Wilson,  1635.  Wood,  1638  -f.  Woodis,  1656.  Woolley, 
1646  +.     Wright,  1650. 

Names  repeated,  18. 

Number  of  Names,  120 

"        of  Repetitions,  27 


(( 


of  Persons, 


147 


Here  are  one  hundred  and  twenty  different  names  of  persons  or  families. 
Of  these  eighteen  names  are  repeated  once  and  more.  The  whole  number 
of  the  repetitions  amount  to  twenty-seven.  Adding  these  to  the  120  names, 
we  have  147  persons  and  families  who  were  in  Concord  as  early  as  1700. 
Mr.  Shattuck  says  that  twenty-four  of  these  removed  elsewhere,  leaving 
only  one  hundred  and  twenty-three  remaining  in  the  town. 

Names  on  the  List  of  Voter s^  1881. — Forty-five  of  these  names  reappear 
on  the  list  of  voters  in  1881.  These  forty -five  names  were  in  the  early 
period,  1635  to  1700,  borne  by  sixty -five  persons  or  families.  The  follow- 
ing is  a  list  of  the  names  of  settlers  in  Concord  before  1700,  which  are 
found  in  the  list  of  voters  in  the  town  in  1881.  The  figures  attached  to 
each  name  indicate  the  number  of  voters  who  bore  it 


Adams 

1 

Dakin 

4 

Hall 

2 

Baker 

2 

Davis 

4 

Hartwell 

1 

Barker 

1 

Dean 

1 

Heywood 

3 

Barrett 

12 

Derby 

8 

Hoar 

3 

Brooks 

4 

Farrar 

1 

Hosmer 

11 

Brown 

11 

Fletcher 

1 

How 

1 

Bulkley 

1 

Flint 

4 

Hubbard 

3 

Buttrick 

5 

French 

1 

Hunt 

7 

Chandler 

1 

Fuller 

3 

Hutchinson 

1 

Clark 

8 

Griffin 

2 

Jones 

1 

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Wheeler  18 

Wood  5 

Wright  5 


Marble 

1 

Mason 

1 

MelviQ 

5 

Miles 

5 

Potter 

2 

Rice 

5 

Robbins 

RobinsoQ 

Smith 

Stow 

Sjmonds 

Temple 

Total,     167 

Thus  we  see  these  forty-five  names  of  the  immigrants  who  appeared  in 
the  town  from  1635  to  1700,  were  borne  on  the  list  of  voters  by  one  hun- 
dred and  sixty-seven  men  in  1881 — two  hundred  and  forty-six  to  one  hun- 
dred and  eighty-one  years  afterward. 

Hutchinson,  one  of  these  voters  in  1881,  is  a  colored  man  and  cannot  be 
a  descendant  of  the  early  settler  of  the  same  name.  Doubtless  some  oth- 
ers of  these  voters  in  1881,  who  bore  the  names  of  the  early  inhabitants  of 
the  town,  cannot  trace  their  ancestry  to  them ;  but  it  is  safe  to  presume 
that  nearly  the  whole  of  these  one  hundred  and  sixty-six  males,  twenty-one 
years  old  in  1881,  were  descendants  of  those  forty-four  men  of  the  early 
period. 

All  the  other  men  and  their  names  disappeared  from  Concord  in  that 
period  of  one  hundred  and  eighty-one  years.  Very  many  of  the  early  set- 
tlers removed  to  other  towns.  Concord  was,  in  1635,  the  most  remote 
settlement  from  the  sea-coast.  But  this  was  merely  a  resting-place  for 
many,  who,  as  soon  as  they  could  see  their  way  clearly  and  safely,  went 
farther  into  the  wilderness — to  Groton,  Sudbury,  Lancaster  and  the  Con- 
necticut River  valley. 

In  every  generation  some  of  the  families  have  found  insufficient  room  for 
their  children  in  Concord,  or  insufficient  opportunity  for  occupation  or  en- 
terprise according  to  their  education,  their  hopes  or  their  ambition,  and  not 
nnfrequently  this  only  male  heir  of  the  family  who  was  induced  to  settle 
abroad  was  the  last  one  of  the  name  in  Concord,  and  when  he  left,  the  fam- 
ily was  extinct  in  Concord ;  it  was  run  out  as  to  that  place.  But  the  ex- 
tinction was  limited  to  Concord.  These  emigrants  settled  in  other  towns 
and  states.  They  married,  had  their  children  elsewhere,  and  their  genera- 
tions following  thereafter  kept  up  the  family  and  the  name  in  many  other 
places. 

The  descendants  in  the  male  line  of  families  that  once  lived  in  Concord, 
keeping  up  their  respective  names  now  in  many,  probably  in  most,  of  the 
states  of  the  union,  in  probably  every  county  of  the  state  and  a  very  large  por- 
tion of  the  towns  in  Massachusetts,  are  a  host  far  greater  than  all  the  pre- 
sent residents  of  Concord.  Thus,  though  so  many  families  have  run  out 
as  to  that  town  and  seem  to  be  completely  extinguished,  they  are  as  full 
and  as  strong  as  ever,  with  a  fair  prospect  of  .  being  followed  by  a  line  of 
posterity  in  perpetual  succession  of  generations. 

Especially  is  this  decay  apparent  in  the  farmers*  families.  Almost  al- 
ways the  farm  descends  to  one  heir  (son),  and  the  others  must  find  occupa- 
tion and  residence  elsewhere.  In  the  course  of  generations  it  not  unfre- 
qnently  happens  that  a  farmer  dying  leaves  no  son,  or  none  that  wish  to  be 
formers.  The  farm  may  pass  to  the  daughters  who,  if  they  marry,  hold  it 
in  another  name,  and  the  farm  is  knjpwn  no  longer  by  the  name  of  the  old 
proprietor.  But  the  brothers  of  the  last  heir  and  her  male  cousins  or  sec- 
ond cousins,  grandchildren  or  great-grandchildren  of  the  proprietor  of  two 
or  three  generations  before,  they  have  their  families  in  other  places  and 
other  occupations,  and  keep  up  the  name  and  the  character  as  they  had 
been  on  the  ancestral  farm. 


388  The  Supposed  Decay  of  Families.  [Oct. 

Some  Farmer  Families  op  Concord. — The  history  of  several  of  the 
oldest,  most  promiDent  and  prosperous  families  of  Concord  gives  some  in- 
stances of  apparent  exhaustion. 

In  the  early  part  of  this  century  the  most  numerous  families  of  fanners 
in  Concord  bore  the  following  names.  The  figures  show  the  years  when 
they  first  appeared  in  town : 

Buttrick,  1635;  Hosmer,  1635;  Potter,  1635;  Prescott,  1635;  Flint, 
1638;  Barrett,  1640;  Brown,  1640;  Hunt,  1646;  Dakin,  1650;  Wheel- 
er, 1654;  Minot,  1680;  Derby,  1684;  Farrar,  1697;  Melvin,  1700. 

These  were  the  principal  farmers  of  Concord  in  the  first  quarter  of  this 
century.  They  held  their  farms  from  their  fathers  and  their  grandfathers, 
and  all  of  them  have  their  ancesters  in  the  seventeenth  century.  As  they 
had  been  for  ages  the  possessors  of  their  farms,  it  seemed  probable  that 
their  lands  and  homes  would  remain  permanently  in  the  line  of  their  de- 
scendants and  names. 

Barrett  Family, — Within  my  remembrance  the  Barretts  were  the  most 
substantial  and  prosperous  of  the  farmers  in  Concord.  Major  Jame$  Bar^ 
rett  inherited  his  farm  from  his  father,  and  he  from  his  father  before  him. 
He  died  in  1850,  aged  89.  He  (James)  had  two  sons,  James  and  Geoige. 
James  went  to  Rutland,  Yt.,  was  a  prosperous  merchant,  and  died  at  the 
age  of  80.     He  had  several  sons,  but  I  know  nothing  more  of  the  family. 

George  inherited  the  farm,  and  was  successful  on  it,  but  sold  it  to  a 
stranger  before  he  died  in  1873,  aged  78.  His  sons  went  to  New  York 
and  the  West,  and  engaged  in  other  business.  I  do  not  know  whether  they 
married  or  had  any  male  children. 

Joseph  Barrett^  the  brother  of  Major  James,  was  bred  a  tanner,  but  he 
bought  the  Lee  farm,  which  he  cultivated  until  his  death  in  1849,  at  Uie 
age  of  71.  He  left  two  sons,  but  neither  cared  to  take  and  carry  on  the 
farm,  which  was  sold,  and  now  is  owned  and  cultivated  by  Charles  Henry 
Hurd.  One  of  his  sons,  J.  F.  Barrett,  is  a  lawyer  of  Boston,  but  resident 
in  Concord.  He  is  married  but  has  no  son.  The  second  son,  Richard,  is 
the  secretary  of  the  Middlesex  Fire  Insurance  Company,  living  in  Concord. 
He  is  married  and  has  sons  and  grandsons. 

Peter  Barrett  was  a  farmer  and  a  tanner,  living  about  a  quarter  of  a  mile 
north-east  of  Maj.  James.  He  died  in  1808,  leaving  sons — Prescott,  Sher- 
man and  Benjamin.  Prescott  took  the  farm  and  carried  it  on  until  his 
death  in  1861,  at  the  age  of  76.  He  left  sons,  one  of  whom  has  the  farm  and 
is  married.  Benjamin  was  a  physician  in  Northampton,  married  and  had 
one  son  who  died  unmarried.  Sherman  bought  the  farm  of  Capt  Bates, 
on  the  Bedford  road  near  the  town  line,  and  cultivated  it  till  his  death  in 
1863,  at  the  age  of  70.  He  left  several  sons,  but  none  that  took  the  farm, 
which  was  sold  to  another  family.  Two  or  more  of  his  sons  live  in  the 
town.  Dr.  Henry  A.  Barrett  is  married  and  has  no  son.  Other  sons  are, 
I  think,  married,  but  I  have  no  knowledge  of  their  issue. 

Samuel  Barrett  had  a  farm  and  a  mill  on  the  same  road  next  the  comer 
of  the  back  road  to  Acton.  He  died  in  1825,  aged  51,  leaving  two  sons, 
Samuel  and  Rufiis.  Some  years  ago  they  sold  the  farm  and  mill  to  Mr. 
Angier,  who  now  carries  them  on.  Samuel  did  not  marry.  He  died  in 
1872,  aged  60.  Rufus  married  but  had  no  children.  His  wife  died  early 
and  he  remained  a  widower. 

Thomas  Barrett  lived  at  the  south-east  angle  of  the  Hildreth  comer.  He 
died  in  1816,  aged  79.     I  know  nothing  about  his  children. 

Stephen  Barrett  was  a  farmer  and  tanner,  living  on  the  Westford  road 


1884.]  The  Supposed  Decay  of  Families.  389 

a  quarter  of  a  mile  or  more  N.  N.  W.  from  the  school-house,  at  the  angle 
of  the  Westford  and  Carlisle  road.  He  die<i  on  his  farm  in  1824,  aged  74. 
His  son  Emerson  took  the  farm  and  occupied  it  until  his  death.  His  sou 
Abel  took  the  farm,  but  before  many  years  sold  it  and  moved  to  Vermont 
and  engaged  in  the  lumber  business.  I  do  not  know  whether  he  had  any 
brothers,  nor  whether  he  was  married  and  had  children. 

Nathan  Barrett  lived  on  Punkatasset  Hill.  I  think  he  inherited  the 
farm  from  his  father.  He  was  successful  through  his  life,  and  died  in  1829, 
aged  65.  He  left  one  son,  Nathan,  who  occupied  the  farm,  and  was  a  very 
successful  farmer  until  his  death  in  18G8,  aged  71.  He  left  four  sons. 
Nathan  H.  died  unmarried.  Edwin  is  a  merchant  in  Boston.  He  is  mar- 
ried, lives  near  the  Col.  Buttrick  farm  and  has  one  or  tnore  sons.  Arthur 
and  Sidney  (sons  of  Nathan)  are,  I  think,  not  married.  On  their  father's 
death  the  farm  was  sold  to  Mr.  Hornblower,  and  by  him  to  Mr.  John  B. 
Tileston,  who  now  occupies  it.     He  sold  it  to  Mr.  Meigs. 

Humphrey  Barrett  was  direct  descendant  from  Humphrey,  who  came  to 

Concord  from  England  in  1G40.     He  took  the  farm  which  now  Mr. 

Lang  owns  and  occupies,  and  his  posterity  to  the  fourth  generation  held  it. 
The  last  Humphrey  was  married  but  had  no  children.  He  died  in  1827, 
at  the  age  of  75,  and  left  his  estate  to  Abel  B.  Heywood,  nephew  of  his 
wife.  He  sold  it  to  Mr.  Lang.  Humphrey  had  one  brother  Abel  who 
became  a  merchant  and  died  in  Liverpool,  leaving  one  son  who  died  at  the 
age  of  18. 

Joel  Barrett  owned  and  lived  on  a  farm  on  the  north-east  Carlisle  road. 
Monument  Street,  half  a  mile  or  more  from  the  Carlisle  line.  He  was  son 
of  John.  He  died  in  1863,  aged  76,  and  his  son  now  owns  and  cultivates 
the  farm.     I  think  he  is  married,  but  I  know  nothing  of  his  family. 

Thus  of  the  nine  farms,  those  of  Maj.  James,  Joseph,  Samuel,  Thomas, 
Stephen,  Nathan  and  Humphrey  have  passed  from  the  possession  of  their 
families,  and  only  two,  Peter's  and  Joel's,  are  now  occupied  by  the 
Barretts. 

In  1881  there  were  twelve  Barretts  on  the  voting  list,  residents  at  least 
twenty-one  years  old. 

Brown  Family, —  CoL  Roger  Brown  was  born  in  Framingham.  He  early 
came  to  Concord  and  set  up  the  clothier  business,  dyeing  and  dressing 
cloth.  He  built  a  small  cotton  factory  and  had  a  farm  which  he  occupied 
until  his  death  in  1840,  at  the  age  of  91.  He  had  two  sons — William, 
who  died  in  1825,  aged  45,  leaving,  I  think,  no  son;  and  John,  died  with- 
in a  few  years,  aged  80  or  more,  leaving  two  sons,  John  and  William. 
John  became  a  merchant  in  Concord,  was  married  and  had  three  or  more 
80D8.  Some  of  these  are  married.  William  took  the  iurm,  married  and 
had  daughters,  and  one  son  now  in  college. 

Samuel  Brovm  lived  on  the  Westford  and  Carlisle  road,  near  the  part- 
ing of  the  roads  to  these  respective  towns.  He  had  several  sons.  John 
became  a  physician  in  western  New  York,  but  I  know  nothing  of  his  fam- 
ily. Joshua  inherited  the  farm.  He  died  in  1855.  (He  was  married  and 
had  three  or  perhaps  more  sons.)  Amasa  took  a  farm  in  the  country,  but  1 
know  nothing  of  his  domestic  c^)ndition.  Joseph  took  the  farm  of  his  fa- 
ther and  grandfather  and  converted  it  into  a  great  milk  farm,  and  then 
became  exclusively  a  milk  merchant,  buying  up  all  the  milk  of  the  towns 
as  far  as  he  could  get  it,  which  he  now  does,  and  the  farm  is  in  the  hands 
of  strangers.     He  has   two  or  more  sons ;  one  and  perhaps  others    are 

TOL.   ZXXYIII.  35 


390  The  Supposed  Decay  of  Families.  [Oct. 

married.  Warren,  another  son  of  Joshaa  Brown,  bought  a  neighboring 
farm  of  the  heirs  of  Mr.  Jacob  Melvin.  He  died  some  years  ago,  leaving 
one  or  more  sons,  one  of  whom  takes  the  farm.  James  P.  Brown,  a  fourth 
son  of  Joshua,  married  and  had  four  or  five  sons.  One  is  a  minister,  ano- 
ther in  business  in  Boston,  a  third  died,  and  the  fourth  has  the  farm  near 
the  old  Stow  road,  within  half  a  mile  or  more  of  the  Derby's  bridge 
across  the  Assabet  river.  I  do  not  know  whether  there  are  any  other  male 
descendants  of  Samuel  Brown. 

Ephraim  Brown  lived  on  Punkatasset  Hill  on  the  south  slope  and  north- 
west of  the  road,  near  to  Nehemiah  Hunt.  He  died  in  1839,  aged  81.  He 
lost  many  children  in  1815  of  typhus  fever.  I  have  the  impression  he  had 
no  sons  who  grew  to  maturity. 

Abel  BrotOHj  stone-layer,  laborer  and  fisherman,  lived  on  the  spot  now 
owned  by  George  Keyes.  He  died  in  1826,  aged  67.  He  had  one  son  Tho- 
mas, who  followed  the  occupation  of  his  father,  but  disappeared  early  and 
left  no  trace  behind. 

Zachariah  Brown  was  a  laborer,  living  in  the  east  quarter.  He  died  in 
the  poor-house  in  1833.  He  left  one  or  more  sons.  All  the  family  disap- 
peared in  my  boyhood. 

Rexihen  Brown  came  from  Sudbury  in  the  last  century,  and  died  in  1852, 
aged  94.  He  had  sons  Reuben,  George  and  Tilley.  Reuben  did  not  ma^ 
ry,  and  died  in  1854,  aged  74.  George  and  Tilley  went  to  Bangor,  Mc 
but  whether  they  married  or  had  children,  or  when  they  died,  I  have  do 
knowledjje. 

I  do  not  know  that  any  of  these  six  families — Col.  Roger,  Samuel,  Eph- 
raim, Abel,  Zachariah  and  Reuben — originated  in  Concord  or  had  common 
origin  in  any  remote  ancestor. 

Thomas  Brown  was  in  Concord  in  1640.  His  son  Thomas,  bom  1650» 
was  town  clerk  in  1717,  had  Boaz,  Thomas,  Mary,  Edward ;  but  it  is  diffi- 
cult to  trace  the  five  farther  (Shattuck,  p.  365). 

Within  ray  remembrance  there  were families  of  the  name. 

Jacob,  son  of  Ezekiel,  lived  where  now  Abel  B.  Clark  is  living.  He 
died,  leaving  his  farm  to  his  grandson  Jacob  B.  Farmer,  and  he  sold  it  to 
Abel  H.  Clark.  Abishai,  another  son  of  Ezekiel,  had  a  farm  east  of  Jona. 
Hildreth's,  was  not  married,  and  died  in  1839,  aged  61. 

There  were  eleven  of  the  name  on  the  voting  list  of  1881. 

Buttrtck  Family. —  Col.  John  Buttrick,  who  was  conspicuous  in  the  Con- 
cord fight,  April  19,  1775,  was  a  farmer  livhig  near  the  river  on  the  north 
side,  lie  had  six  sons.  John  and  Jonas  remained  in  Concord  ;  Levi  set- 
tled in  Athol ;  Stephen  in  Framingham  ;  Silas  and  Gates  in  Clinton,  N.  Y. 
Col.  John  inherited  a  part,  at  least,  of  his  father's  farm,  and  cultivated  it 
until  his  death  in  1825,  aged  65.  He  left  four  sons — John,  Grosvenor, 
David  and  George — none  of  whom  were  farmers.  John  went  to  Lowell, 
became  a  mechanic,  married  and  had  two  sons.  I  do  not  know  whether 
either  of  these  two  sons  married,  nor  anything  of  their  history.  Grosve 
nor  became  a  machinist,  was  employed  in  some  of  the  mills  at  Dover,  N.  H., 
and  perhaps  elsewhere.  He  married  and  had  one  son.  David  also  became 
a  machinisSt,  settled  in  a  manufacturing  town  in  the  western  part  of  the 
state,  lie  married  and  died  early.  He  left  two  sons  who  followed  the 
same  business  and  are  married,  but  neither  has  a  son.  George  was  in  New 
York  state  in  some  mercantile  employment.     He  married,  but  has  no  son. 

Col.  Jonas  Buttrick,  brother  of  Col.  John  and  son  of  Col.  John  the  elder, 


1884.]  The  Supposed  Decay  of  Families.  391 

iDherited  a  part  of  the  farm  of  his  father  near  his  brother.  There  he  lived 
UDti]  his  death  in  1845,  aged  80.  He  left  one  son,  Stedman  Buttrick,  who 
inherited  the  farm  of  his  ancestors  and  cultivated  it  until  his  death  in  1877, 
at  the  age  of  78.  He  left  two  sons,  George  and  William,  who  are  now  liv- 
ing. William  became  a  machinist.  He  lives  in  the  village,  is  marrie<1, 
and  has  a  son.  George  is  unmarried,  has  spent  the  last  fiiueteen  or  twenty 
years  mostly  in  Louisiana,  in  the  employment  of  the  U.  S.  government  and 
in  some  commercial  undertakings  ;  but  is  now  (1882)  at  home  with  his  sis- 
ters.    The  farm  is  still  in  the  hands  of  the  family. 

Capt.  Samuel  Buttrick  owned  and  occupied  a  farm  in  the  valley  north 
of  Punkatasset  Hill  and  a  quarter  of  a  mile  from  the  public  highway,  the 
Dorth-east  Carlisle  road,  from  which  a  lane  leads  to  his  house.  He  died  in 
1820  at  the  age  of  58.  He  left  two  sons,  Ephraim  and  Joshua.  Ephraim 
hecame  a  lawyer,  practised  successfully  in  Cambridge,  and  died  aged  over 
80  years.  He  left  two  sons  who  went  to  the  western  country,  but  whether 
they  married  and  have  any  children,  I  do  not  know.  Joshua  inherited  the 
farm  and  occupied  it  for  several  years  and  then  sold  it,  I  think,  to  Mr.  — — 
Lee.  Certainly  he  owned  it  afterward.  Then  Mr.  Holden  bought  it,  and 
subsequently  sold  it,  and  now  it  is  the  property  of  William  Hunt.  Joshua 
was  married  twice  ;  had  three  or  four  daughters  but  no  sons.  When  Gen. 
Joshua  Buttrick  sold  his  father's  farm  he  bought  the  house  and  farm  for- 
merly the  property  of  Edward  Wright,  on  the  same  road  and  a  quarter  of 
a  mile  south-east  of  Punkatasset  Hill.  There  he  lived  until  his  death. 
That  farm  is  now  owned  and  occupied  by  Richard  Barrett. 

Dai'id  Buttrick  had  a  farm  on  the  north-east  Carlisle  road,  where  he 
lived  until  his  death  in  1840,  at  the  age  of  70.  His  only  son,  David,  took 
the  farm  and  cultivated  it  with  great  success  until  about  1872,  when  he 
moved  to  a  new  house  near  the  bridge,  where  he  still  lives  in  good  health 
at  the  age  of  83.  He  has  several  sons,  none  of  whom  are  farmers.  All 
are  married  and  have  sons.  The  farm  was  sold  to  his  daughter's  husband, 
Mr.  Holden. 

Joseph  Buttrick  owned  and  cultivated  a  farm  very  near  to  David's  until 
his  death  in  1841,  at  the  age  of  77.  He  had  no  son,  but  two  daughters. 
Mary  married  Charles  Dakin,  who  took  the  farm  and  held  it  until  his  death 
in  1878,  at  the  age  of  70.  He  left  one  son  who  took  the  farm,  but  soon 
sold  it  to  a  stranger  and  went  into  other  business.  Sarah,  the  second 
daughter  of  Joseph  Buttrick,  was  never  married.     She  died  in  1881. 

Jonathan  Buttrick  had  a  farm  on  the  north-east  Carlisle  road,  about  a  quar- 
ter of  a  mile  south-east  of  Joseph  Buttrick.  There  he  live<l  until  his  death 
in  1845,  aged  80.  He  had  two  sons — one,  Jonathan,  became  a  stage-driver. 
He  married  and  died  without  children.  Abner  inherited  the  farm  and  cul- 
tivated it  until  his  death  in  1870,  at  the  age  of  71.  He  left  one  son  who 
sold  the  farm  to  Mr.  Whiting  and  moved  away.  Thus  of  the  five  farmers 
of  the  name  of  Buttrick,  four  of  their  farms  have  passed  into  other  hands 
and  names. 

There  were  ^vq  voters  of  the  name  in  Concord  in  1881. 

Hosmer  Family. — James  Hosmer  came  with  the  first  immigrants  in  1635, 
and  is  supposed  to  have  settled  on  and  occupied  the  farm  east  of  and  bor- 
dering on  the  Assabet  river,  running  from  the  Stow  to  the  Groton  road. 
The  southern  part  was  occupied  by  Elijah  Ilosmer  until  his  death  in  1828, 
at  the  age  of  78.  At  his  death  this  farm  then  descended  to  his  grandson 
Joseph.     He  afterwards  sold  it  and  went  to  Illinois,  leavhig  in  Concord  no 


392  The  Supposed  Decay  of  Families.  [Oct. 

descendants  of  his  grandfather  bearing  the  name.  But  he  married  and  has 
at  least  one  son  in  Chicago  who  is  married.  The  northern  part  of  this 
farm  has  been  and  still  is  in  possession  and  occupied  by  a  branch  of  the 
family.  Jesse  Hosmer  in  the  last  generation  owned  it  until  his  death  in 
1829,  at  the  age  of  86.  His  son,  now  over  80  years  of  age,  owns  and  lives 
upon  it.  He  has  two  sons,  one  living  in  Waltham,  not  a  farmer.  The  oth- 
er son,  Prescott,  lives  with  his  father.  He  has  been  married,  but  buried 
his  wife,  and  he  has  a  second  wife.  I  do  not  know  whether  he  has  any 
sons. 

John  Hostner  lived  on  the  old  Stow  road,  about  half  a  mile  east  by  north 
of  the  Assabet  river.  He  died  in  1836,  aged  84,  leaving  two  sons,  John 
and  Edmund.  John  took  the  farm  and  lived  on  it  till  he  died  in  1843.  at 
the  age  of  74,  leaving  one  or  more  sons,  one  of  whom  has  the  farm,  and,  I 
think,  is  married,  but  whether  he  has  any  children  I  do  not  know. 

Edmund  had  a  farm  on  the  Lincoln  road,  and  in  1853  bought  and  re- 
moved to  the  Capt.  Hunt  farm,  where  he  lived  until  his  death  in  1881,  at 
the  age  of  83.  He  left  three  sons  in  the  western  country,  all  married. 
John  has  two  sons.  I  do  not  know  whether  the  other  sons  have  any 
children. 

Maj,  Joseph  Hosmer  lived  on  the  Stow  road  near  the  Concord  river  and 
the  South  Bridge.  He  died  in  1821,  aged  85.  He  had  two  sons,  Cyrus  and 
Rufus.  Rufus  was  a  lawyer  in  Stow,  married  and  had  one  son,  Rufus.  He 
died  in  1839,  aged  61.  His  son  Rufus  married,  but  died  early,  and  I  think 
left  no  son.  Cyrus  died  in  1818,  at  the  age  of  53.  He  left  two  sons,  Cy- 
rus and  George  Washington.  Cyrus  left  two  sons — Henry,  now  president 
of  the  Acton  Powder  Company,  married  and  has  one  child ;  Cyrus  inherits 
and  cultivates  the  farm  of  his  father,  grandfather  and  great-grandfather. 
He  is  married  and  has  children.  George  W.  Hosmer,  the  second  son  of 
Cyrus,  was  a  minister  in  Buffalo,  N.  Y.  He  married  and  had  three  sons, 
one  of  whom,  James,  is  professor  in  Washington  University,  St.  I^uis,  Mo. 
He  is  married  and  has  four  sous.  The  second  son,  William,  is  a  merchant 
in  Oswego,  N.  Y.,  married  and  has  children.  The  third,  George  II.,  is  a 
minister  in  Salem,  Mass.,  married  and  has  one  son. 

Nathan  Hosmer^  son  of  Stephen  and  grandson  of  the  elder  Stephen,  in- 
herited and  cultivated  the  farm  of  his  father  in  Nine  Acre  Corner  near  the 
river  and  Haven  pond.  lie  died  in  1778  at  the  age  of  38,  and  left  two 
sons,  Silas  and  Nathan,  and  three  daughters,  Mrs.  Potter,  Mrs.  Jar  vis,  and 
Elizabeth,  unmarried.  Silas  sold  the  farm  and  went  to  MonUigue  on  the 
Connecticut  River,  where  he  had  several  sons,  who  married  and  left  their 
sons  in  that  valley.  These  grandsons  also  married  and  have  sons.  Nathau 
became  a  cabinet-maker,  lived  in  Concord  village,  married  and  had  Isaac, 
George,  Abiel,  Rufus,  Nathan  and  Silas.  Isaac  married  and  had  one  son, 
lately  living  in  Lowell.  George  did  not  marry.  Rufus  married,  had  daugh- 
ters, but  no  son.  Abiel  went  to  New  Hampshire.  I  think  lie  marrieii  and 
had  sons.  Nathan  is  a  carpenter  in  Concord  village,  married  and  has  three 
sons.     Silas  is  a  mason  in  Concord  village,  and  has  two  or  more  sons. 

Nathaniel  Hosmer  had  a  farm  in  Nine  Acre  Corner.  He  died  in  18C2, 
aged  76.     I  know  nothing  about  his  family. 

Some  of  the  family  went  early  to  Acton,  and  the  name  has  been  common 
there  for  over  a  century.  The  name  is  to  be  found  in  Walpole.  N.  11^  in 
Watertown,  Framingham,  Medford,  Boston  and  elsewhere,  and  tliere  were 
on  the  list  of  Concord  voters  eleven  of  the  name  in  1881. 


1884.]  The  Supposed  Decay  of  Families.  393 

Hunt  Family. — In  the  first  quarter  of  the  present  century  there  were 
three  farms  in  the  possession  of  the  family :  Nehemiah  on  Punkatasset  Hill ; 
Reuben  owned  and  occupied  the  farm  on  the  Carlisle  road  next  north  of  the 
river  ;  and  Thaddeus  on  the  Lincoln  road.  All  inherited,  or  seemed  to  in- 
herit, their  estates  and  homes  from  several  generations  of  ancestors.  Ne- 
hemiah died  in  1848,  aged  82,  leaving  the  farm  to  his  sons  Nehemiah  and 
Daniel.  Nehemiah,  the  second,  died  in  1845.  aged  53,  leaving  two  daugh- 
ters but  no  son.  Daniel  died  in  1873,  aged  70,  leaving  William  who  now 
owns  and  occupies  the  farm.  Thaddeus  owned  and  occupied  the  farm  on 
the  Cambridge  and  Concord  turnpike,  about  three  fourths  of  a  mile  east  of 
the  mill  brook.  About  fifty  years  ago  or  more  he  died,  and  the  estate  was 
sold  to  Augustus  Tuttle.  I  know  of  no  trace  of  this  branch  of  the  Huut 
family  in  Concord  or  elsewhere. 

John  Hunt,  in  1701,  bought  the  farm  of  Adam  Winthrop,  situated  on 
the  Carlisle,  Westford  and  Lowell  road,  adjoining  the  Concord  and  Assa- 
bet  rivers.  The  house  is  about  one-eighth  of  a  mile  from  the  brid;je.  It 
was  built  in  1701,  and  stood  one  hundred  and  fifty -seven  years  until  it  was 
taken  down  in  1858.     John  was  son  of  Nehemiah. 

William  Hunt  was  in  Concord  before  1640.  One  of  his  sons  was  Ne- 
hemiah, who  was  the  ancestor  of  several  of  the  branches  of  the  family  in 
Concord.  His  son  John  was  born  in  1673.  John's  sou  Simon,  the  deacon, 
was  born  in  1704  and  died  in  1790.  One  of  Simon's  sons,  Joseph,  was 
bom  in  1748,  was  a  physician  in  Concord,  and  died  in  1812,  aged  64.  He 
left  three  sons.  Reuben,  another  son,  born  in  1744,  died  in  1816,  aged  72. 
Reuben  married  and  had  four  sons  and  six  daughters: 

1.  Humphrey  inherited  the  farm  and  cultivated  it  until  his  death  in  1852, 
at  the  age  of  81.  He  left  one  sou  Charles  who  is  now  fifty  years  old,  un- 
marrie<i. 

2.  Reuben  became  a  morocco-dresser  in  Charlestown.  He  married  and 
had  three  dnui^hters  and  one  son.  He  died  in  1866  at  the  as:e  of  83.  His 
son  die<l  unmarried. 

3.  Simon,  who  became  a  harness-maker  and  went  to  Camden,  Maine, 
where  he  died  at  the  age  of  84.  He  had  three  sons  and  one  daughter. 
His  eldest  son  followed  his  father's  occupation,  married  and  lived  in  Cam- 
den, and  had  two  sons.  The  second  son  of  Simon  became  a  shoemaker  and 
lives  in  Wisconsin.  He  is  married,  and  I  think  has  sous.  The  third  sou 
is  an  undertaker  in  Bangor,  married  and  has  sons. 

4.  Abel,  the  fourth  son  of  Reuben  of  Concord,  became  a  merchant  in 
Chelmsford.     He  never  married.     He  died  at  the  age  of  87  in  Concord. 

Thus  we  find  only  one  farm  in  possession  of  the  Hunts.  But  there  are 
seven  voters  of  the  name  on  the  list,  and  there  are  in  Acton,  Sudbury  and 
other  towns  descendants  of  branches  of  the  familv  who  have  in  former 
generations  left  the  town. 

Derby  Family, — The  first  mention  of  this  family  is  in  1684.  They  have 
lived  on  the  same  farm  next  west  of  the  Assabet  river,  on  the  Stow  road, 
for  six  generations.  This  farm  adjoins  the  river.  In  all  their  generations 
the  farm  has  descended  in  a  single  line,  and  all,  until  the  present  owner, 
have  borne  the  name  of  Joseph.  Benjamin  has  the  old  homestead,  i«  mar- 
ried and  has  two  sons ;  Edward,  unmarried,  and  the  mother,  aged  ninety-two 
(March,  1884),  live  with  him.  Joseph  has  a  farm  which  he  manages  with 
great  wisdom  and  success.  It  is  on  the  north  side  of  the  Concord  river,  on 
the  road  from  the  Lowell  Street  bridge  to  the  Monument  Street  bridge. 
VOL.  xxxviii.        35* 


394  The  Supposed  Decay  of  Families.  [Oct. 

It  was  formerly  the  home  and  property  of  Col.  John  Buttrick,  later  the 
home  and  property  of  Dea.  Francis  Jarvis  and  his  son  Captain  Francis 
Jarvis,  and  on  the  death  of  the  latter  psissed  to  his  daughter,  the  wife  of 
Joseph  Derby.  He  has  two  sons.  Urban  Derby  has  a  farm  on  the 
Westford  road,  formerly  the  property  of  Stephen,  and  aflerward  of  Em- 
erson Barrett.  He  has  sons.  Henry  Derby  owns  and  occupies  a  farm 
in  Nine  Acre  Corner,  lately  the  property  of  Daniel  Garfield  and  form- 
erly of  Moses  Binney.  He  has  sons.  Nathan  Derby  is  in  the  provision  busi- 
ness in  the  village.  He  has  two  sous.  Thus  these  six  sons  of  the  late  Joseph 
Derbv  all  live  in  Concord,  five  of  them  farmers,  five  married,  and  all  the 
last  have  sons.     There  are  on  the  list  of  voters  eight  of  the  family. 

Wheeler  Family, — There  were  six  of  the  name  among  the  early  settlers, 
and  their  families  until  this  day  have  been  and  are  the  most  numerous  ia 
the  town.  They  seem  to  be  the  most  fixed  and  the  least  inclined  to  move 
abroad.  They  have  mostly  confined  themselves  to  Nine  Acre  Comer  and 
to  the  cultivation  of  the  earth.  They  have  certainly,  within  the  last  two 
or  three  generations,  been  wise,  industrious  and  successful. 

Ahner  Wheeler,  one  hundred  years  years  ago,  was  a  carpenter  and  farmer 
in  the  east  quarter,  on  the  Virginia  road.  He  had  several  sons,  all  of  whom 
went  away. 

Ephraim  Wheeler  lived  on  his  farm  on  the  Sudbury  road,  opposite  Acad- 
emy lane.  He  died  in  1800,  at  the  age  of  93.  He  had  two  sons;  Jona* 
than  was  a  merchant  in  Boston.  He  died  in  the  first  of  this  century  in 
Liverpool.  He  was  unmarried.  Ephraim  inherited  the  farm  and  cultivat- 
ed it  until  his  death  in  1840,  at  the  age  of  75.  He  left  sons — Henry  A., 
who  cultivated  part  of  the  same  lands,  and  died  in  1881,  at  the  age  of  78, 
leaving  sons  ;  Jonathan,  who  was  a  merchant  in  Cambridge  but  now  lives 
in  Concord,  an  eighth  of  a  mile  south  of  his  father's  house,  is  married  and 
has  one  or  more  sous  ;  and  Abiel  still  cultivates  a  part  of  his  father's  farm 
very  successfully.     He  is  married  and  has  sons. 

John  H,  Wheeler,  in  1834-5-6,  lived  on  the  Acton  road,  a  mile  or  more 
from  Barrett's  mill.  He  had  children,  but  I  do  not  know  whether  he  had 
any  son,  or  anything  about  the  family  since. 

Thomas  Wheeler,     He  had  no  family. 

Artemas  Wheeler  lived  near  the  factory,  but  I  know  nothing  more  of  him 
or  his  family. 

Some  of  the  name  went  to  Lincoln,  to  Acton,  to  other  towns  and  states. 
There  were  on  the  list  of  voters  of  1881,  eighteen  of  the  name.  They  oc- 
cupy most  of  the  land  in  tlie  Nine  Acre  Corner,  and  their  children  seem  to 
promise  to  fill  the  places  of  their  fathers.  But  I  cannot  trace  their  gen- 
ealogies. 

This  account  shows  that  the  Barretts  had  in  the  early  years  of  this  cen- 
tury eight  farms,  and  of  these  only  two  remain  iu  their  families  and  name, 
and  six  have  passed  into  other  hands.  But  there  were  in  1881  six  fam- 
ilies and  twelve  voters  of  the  name  in  Concord,  beside  many  in  other  towns. 

In  the  early  periods  there  were  six  farms  owned  and  occupied  by  the 
Duttricks,  Now  five  of  these  have  passed  into  other  hands,  and  only  one 
is  retained  and  occupied  by  one  of  the  name  ;  but  there  were  five  voters  of 
the  name  in  Concord  in  1881,  and  many  in  other  places. 

In  the  first  quarter  of  this  century  there  were  three  farms  owned  and 
occupied  by  the  Woods,  Now  two  of  these  are  sold  and  owned  by  other 
families,  and  only  one  retained  by  a  Wood.    There  were  five  voters  of  the 


1884.]  Wickaboagf  or  Winnimissetf  395 

name  in  the  town  in  1881,  besides  many  elsewhere,  who  or  whose  fathers 
were  born  on  these  farms. 

In  the  former  time  three  farms  were  in  possession  and  occupation  of  the 
Hunts.  Now  only  one  remains  in  the  name.  There  were  seven  of  the  name 
on  the  list  of  voters  in  1881,  besides  many  of  Concord  origin  in  other  places. 

In  the  former  period  there  were  six  farms  owned  and  cultivated  by  the 
ffosmers.  Now  three  of  these  have  passed  into  other  families,  and  only 
three  are  in  the  hands  of  the  Hosmers.  But  there  were  eleven  voters  of 
the  name  in  town  in  1881,  and  also  many  who  or  whose  fathers  were  born 
on  these  farms,  now  living  elsewhere. 

Two  generations  ago  there  were  four  farms  owned  and  occupied  by  the 
Browns,  There  are  four  now,  and  there  were  eleven  voters  of  the  name  in 
1881  in  town,  and  very  many  of  the  name  in  other  places  whose  parents 
once  lived  on  these  farms. 

At  that  early  period  three  farms  were  owned  and  occupied  by  the  Hints, 
Now  all  are  sold  to  other  families,  but  there  were  four  voters  of  the  name  in 
Concord  in  1881. 

The  Wheelers  were  always  numerous  and  little  disposed  to  change  either 
residence  or  occupation.  There  were  eighteen  voters  of  the  name  in  Con- 
cord in  1881. 


WICKABOAG?    OR  WINNIMISSET  ? 
Which  was  the  Place  op  Capt.  Wheeler's  Defeat  ix  1675? 
By  tho  RcY.  Lucius  R.  Paige,  D.D.,  of  Cambridgeport. 

ON  the  second  day  of  August,  1 675,  a  sanguinary  conflict  occurred  near 
Qnaboag  (Brookfield)  between  a  party  of  Indians  and  a  small  troop 
of  cavalry  un<ler  the  command  of  Captain  Thomas  Wheeler,  acting  as  an 
escort  to  Captain  Edward  Hutchinson.  Many  inhabitants  of  Bruokfield 
have  cherished  a  "  tradition,"  mentioned  by  Rev.  Lyman  Whiting,  D.D., 
in  his  admirable  oration,*  that  the  scene  of  this  tragedy  was  at  some  point 
in  "  the  defile  from  the  head  of  Wickaboag  Pond,  crossing  the  present 
town  line  into  New  Braintree,**  or  on  the  southerly  border  of  Ditch  Mea- 
dow above  the  head  of  that  defile.  Some  other  students  of  history  quite 
as  confidently  believe  that  it  was  on  the  easterly  side  of  the  Winnimisset 
valley  in  New  Brain  tree,  anciently  embraced  in  Hard  wick.  I  am  not  aware 
that  any  other  locality  has  been  suggested. 

The  original  and  best  authority  on  this  subject  is  the  "  True  Narrative," 
publisheil  in  1675,  by  Captain  Wheeler,  who  was  personally  engaged  and 
wounded  in  the  conflict.  This  narrative,  having  long  been  almost  entirely 
forgotten,  was  republished  in  1827  in  the  Collections  of  the  New  Hampshire 
Historical  Society,  ii.  5-23,  from  which  I  quote  as  follows : 

**  The  said  Captain  Hutchinson  and  myself,  with  about  twenty  men  or  more, 
marched  from  Cambridge  to  iSudbury,  July  28,  1675 ;  and  from  thence  into  tho 
Nipmuck  country,  and  finding  that  the  Indians  had  deflerted  their  towns,  and  we 
havinjjT  gone  until  we  came  within  two  miles  of  New  Norwitch.  on  July  31  (only 
we  0aw  two  Indians  having  an  hor^e  with  them,  whom  we  would  have  s])()ke  with, 
but  they  fled  from  us  and  left  their  horse  which  we  took)  ;  we  then  thouf^ht  it  not  ex- 
pedient to  march  any  further  that  way,  but  set  our  march  for  Brookfield,  whither  we 

•  Bi-Centennial  Oration  at  West  Brookfield,  1860,  p.  17. 


396  Wickaboagf  or  Winmmiaaetf  [Oct. 

came  on  the  Lord*8  day  about  noon.  From  thence  the  same  day  (being  Aa^nist  1),  we 
understanding  that  the  Indians  were  about  ten  miles  northwest  from  us,  we  sent  out 
four  men*  to  acquaint  the  Indians  that  we  were  not  come  to  harm  them,  but  our 
business  was  only  to  deliver  a  message  from  our  honored  GoTernor  and  Council  to 
them,  and  to  receive  their  answer,  we  desiring  to  come  to  a  Treaty  of  Peace  with 
them  (though  they  had  for  several  days  fled  from  us),  they  having  before  professed 
friendship  and  promised  fidelity  to  the  English.     When  the  messengers  came  to 
them  they  made  an  alarm,  and  gathered  together  about  an  hundred  and  fifty  fight- 
ing men,  as  near  as  they  could  judge.    The  young  men  amongst  them  were  stout  in 
their  speeches,  and  surly  in  their  carriage.     But  at  length  some  of  the  chief  §«• 
chems  promised  to  meet  us  on  the  next  morning  about  8  of  the  clock  upon  a  plainf 
within  three  miles  of  firookfield,  with  which  anrtwcr  the  messengers  returned  to  us. 
Whereupon,  though  their  speeches  and  carriage  did  much  discourage  divers  of  our 
company,  yet  we  conceived  that  we  had  a  clear  call  to  go  to  meet  them  at  the  place 
whither  they  had  promised  to  come.    Accordingly  we  with  our  men  accompanied 
with  three  of  the  principal  inhabitants  of  that  town  marched  to  the  plain  appointed ; 
but  the  treacherous  heathen  intending  mischief  (if  they  could  have  opportunity), 
camo  not  to  the  said  place,  and  so  failed  our  hopes  of  speaking  with  them  thert. 
Whereupon  the  said  Captain  Hutchinson  and  myself,  with  the  rest  of  our  compa- 
ny, considered  what  was  best  to  be  done,  whether  we  should  go  any  further  toward:! 
them  or  return,  divers  of  us  apprehending  much  danger  in  case  we  did  proceed,  be- 
cause the  Indians  kept  not  promise  there  with  us.    But  the  three  men  who  be- 
longed  to  Brookfield  were  so  strongly  persuaded  of  their  freedom  from  any  ill  in- 
tentions towards  us  (as  upon  other  bounds  [grounds?]  so  especiallv  because  the 
greatest  part  of  those  Indians  belonged  to  David,  one  of  their  chief  Sachems,  who 
was  taken  to  be  a  great  friend  to  the  £  iglish),  that  the  said  Captain  Uutchinauo, 
who  was  principally  intrusted  with  the  matter  of  Treaty  with  them,  was  thereby 
encouraged  to  march  forward  towards  a  swamp  where  the  Indians  then  were.    When 
we  came  near  the  said  swamp  the  way  was  so  very  bad  that  we  could  march  only 
in  a  single  file,  there  being  a  very  rocky  hill  on  the  right  hand,  and  a  thick  swamp 
on  the  left,  in  which  were  many  of  those  cruel  blood-thirsty  heathen,  who  there 
waylaid  us,  waiting  an  opportunity  to  cut  us  off;  there  being  also  much  brush  od 
the  side  of  the  said  hill,  where  they  lay  in  ambush  to  surprise  us.     W^hcn  we  had 
marchiHl  there  about  sixty  or  seventy  rods,  the  said  perfidious  Indians  sent  out  their 
shot  upon  us  as  a  shower  of  haile,  they  being  (as  was  supposed),  about  two  hun- 
dred men  or  more.  "J 

In  this  assault  eight  men  were  killed  outright  and  ^ve  others  were 
wounded,  one  of  whom  was  Captain  Hutchinson,  who  died  soon  afterwanls. 
Having  described  the  conflict  and  mentioned  the  names  of  the  killed  and 
wounded,  Captain  Wheeler  continues  his  **  Narrative"  thus: 

**Upon  this  sudden  and  unexpected  blow  given  us  (wherein  we  desire  to  look 
higher  than  man  the  instrument),  we  returned  to  the  town  as  fast  as  the  badnew 
of  the  way  and  the  weakness  of  our  wounded  men  would  permit,  we  being  then  ten 
miles  from  it.'*( 

I  think  there  is  good  reason  to  believe  that  the  "  swamp  where  the  In- 
dians then  were,"  which  was  supposed  by  Wheeler  to  be  **  about  ten  miles 
north-west  from  us,"  was  the  same  which  P^phraim  Curtis  visited  twice  in 
July,  and  a  third  time,  as  a  special  messenger  from  Captain  Hutchinson,  on 
the  first  day  of  August,  the  day  next  preceding  the  attack  by  the  Indians. 
In  his  first  report  to  the  Governor  and  Council,  dated  July  16,  1G75,  he 
says,  '*  These  Indians  have  newly  begun  to  settle  themselves  upon  an  isl- 
and containing  about  four  acres  of  ground,  being  compassed  round  with  a 
broad  miry  swamp  on  the  one  side,  and  a  muddy  river  with  meadow  on 

•  One  of  these  men  was  Ephraim  Curtis,  wlio  had  twice  l)cfore  been  charj^ed  with  a  sim- 
ilar dutv,  iind  who  now  accompanied  Capt.  Hutchinson  bv  special  order  of  the  Coancii. 
Mass.  Arch.,  Ixvii.  227,  2.34. 

t  This  "  plain  "  is  generally  understood  to  be  at  or  near  the  head  of  Wlckaboag  Pond. 

♦  Nftnative,  pp. 6-8. 
i  Ibid.,  p.  10. 


1884.]  Wickaboag?  or  Winnimissetf  397 

both  sides  of  it  on  the  other  side,  and  but  only  one  place  that  a  horse  could 
possibly  pass,  and  there  with  a  great  deal  of  difficulty,  by  reason  of  the 
mire  and  dirt.*'*  At  his  second  visit  he  reported,  July  24,  1G75,  that  he 
"  found  them  at  the  same  place  where  they  were  before."t  And  he  sub- 
sequently testified  :  "  The  third  time  that  I  was  sent  out  with  Captain  Hutch- 
inson, and  by  his  order  went  and  treated  with  the  Nipmug  Indians  in  a 
swamp  about  eight  miles  from  Quabouge,"  &c4  This  visit  was  on  the  first 
day  of  August,  when  Wheeler  says  "  we  sent  out  four  meu  to  acquaint  the 
Indians  that  we  were  not  come  to  harm  them,"  and  no  intimation  is  given 
by  Curtis  that  they  had  removed  from  the  swamp  *'  where  they  were  be- 
fore." On  the  next  day,  in  approaching  the  "  swamp  where  the  Indians 
then  were,"  Wheeler  says,  "  when  we  came  near  the  said  swamp,  the  way 
was  so  very  bad  that  we  could  march  only  in  a  single  file,  there  being  a 
very  rocky  hill  on  the  right  hand  and  a  thick  swamp  on  the  left ;"  and  he 
adds,  *'  we  had  marched  there  sixty  or  seventy  rods,"  before  the  assault 
was  made.  Moreover,  he  gives  no  intimation  that  the  "  swamp  where  the 
Indians  then  were  "  on  Monday,  the  day  of  the  disaster,  was  not  the  same 
where  he  understood  they  were  on  Sunday,  the  immediately  preceding  day, 
namely,  '*  about  ten  miles  north-west  from  "  the  garrison-house  in  Brookfield. 

I  have  not  personally  explored  the  *'  defile  from  the  head  of  Wicka- 
boag Pond,"  and  cannot  speak  with  authority  concerning  its  correspond- 
ence with  the  descriptions  given  by  Curtis  and  Wheeler.  I  may  Bay,  how- 
ever, that  it  certainly  lacks  one  important  characteristic,  to  wit,  the  river 
mentioned  by  Curtis ;  only  an  ordinary  brook  runs  through  it,  from  Ditch 
Meadow  to  the  Pond.  I  have  often  seen  Ditch  Meadow,  and  I  am  quite 
confident  it  does  not  meet  the  conditions.  With  the  Winnimisset  territory 
I  have  been  familiar  from  my  boyhood  ;  and  a  recent  inspection  has  serv^ 
to  confirm  my  opinion,  long  ago  expressed  publicly,§  that  this  place  was  the 
head-<[uarters  of  the  Indians  when  they  were  visited  by  Curtis  and  ap- 
proached by  Wheeler  and  Hutchinson.  Its  features,  of  course,  have  been 
modified  during  the  last  two  centuries  by  drainage,  by  the  removal  of  trees 
and  bushes,  and  by  long  continued  cultivation.  The  '*  island,"  or  upland, 
now  contains  much  more  than  four  acres,  and  so  much  of  the  swamp  as  has 
not  been  thoroughly  drained  is  now  a  fertile  meadow ;  but  unmistakable 
indications  are  visible  of  what  was  formerly  an  island,  or  small  parcel  of 
upland,  surrounded  on  one  side  by  a  river  and  elsewhere  by  an  extensive 
swamp,  bordered  on  the  easterly  side  by  a  "  rocky  hill,"  which  rises  so  ab- 
ruptly from  the  edge  of  the  swamp  that  we  can  easily  believe  that  horse- 
men might  be  obliged  to  march  in  a  **  single  file,"  not  only  for  the  distance 
of  "  sixty  or  seventy  rods,"  but  for  nearly  or  quite  a  full  mile. 

But  it  has  been  supposed  by  some,  that  although  the  Indian  stronghold 
was  at  Winnimisset,  yet  the  English  troops  marched  only  a  comparatively 
short  distance  in  that  direction — perhaps  not  beyond  "  the  defile  from  the 
head  of  Wickaboag  Pond  " — before  they  were  assaulted.  The  following 
table  of  a[)proximate  distances,  measured  upon  the  maps,  may  aid  in  ex- 
amining this  theory : 

•  Mass.  Archives.  Ixvii.  214-216.    This  report  by  Curtis  Is  printed  In  fall  in  the  History 
of  H:in!wuk,  jjp.  6-9. 
t  Ifild..  Ixvil.  222.  t  I»>'<1m  Ixvil.  2.54. 

f  Centennial  Address  at  Ilardwick,  1838,  p.  6. 


24  miles. 

Si 

3 

64 

5k 

8 

u 

u 

398  Wickaboagf  or  Winnimissstf  [Oct. 

From  the  garrisoD'houfle  on  what  is  now  called  Foster  Hill  to 

Wickiiboaij;  Pond,  about    ...... 

From  the  Pona  to  New  Braintree  line,  about      .... 

From  •*      **      *•  Ditch  Meadow,  **  ... 

From  •*      *•      **  Winnimisset  Island,    "  .  .  .  . 

From  **      '*      **  supposed  battle-ground,  about 

From  the  garrison-house  to  supposed  battle-ground,  abont 

Length  of*  nickabong  Pond,  about      ..... 

Length  of  Winnimisset  meadow,  about    ..... 

How  far  from  the  garrisoa-house  was  Captain  Wheeler  when  he  was 
assaulted  ? 

1.  On  the  first  day  of  August,  while  he  was  at  the  garrison-house,  Wheel- 
er says  he  understood  that  ^'  the  Indians  were  about  ten  miles  north-west 
from  us  ;"  and  Curtis,  who  was  sent  out  the  same  day  to  speak  with  them, 
actually  found  them  *'  in  a  swamp  about  eight  miles  from  Quaboag.*'  As 
the  dbtance  was  estimated  and  not  measured,  the  difference  of  two  miles  in 
estimation  is  not  material. 

2.  On  the  second  day  of  August,  the  Indians  having  failed  to  appear 
*^  upon  a  plain  within  three  miles  of  Brookfield  "  (or  at  the  head  of  Wicka- 
hoag  Pond),  "  Captain  Hutchinson,  who  was  principally  intrusted  with  the 
matter  of  a  Treaty  with  them,"  was  persuaded  '*  to  proceed  and  march  fo^ 
ward  towards  a  swamp  where  the  Indians  then  were,"  apparently  the 
same  swamp  which  they  occupied  on  the  preceding  day.  We  are  not  in- 
formed precisely  how  far  they  marched ;  but  it  is  distinctly  stated  that  thej 
'*  came  near  the  said  swamp  "  before  they  found  that  difficult  pass  where 
they  "  could  march  only  in  a  single  file,"  and  they  afterwards  **  marched 
there  about  sixty  or  seventy  rods  "  before  they  were  assaulted. 

3.  After  the  onslaught,  ^^  upon  this  sudden  and  unexpected  blow,**  says 
Wheeler,  "  we  returned  to  the  town  as  fast  as  the  badness  of  the  way  and 
the  weakness  of  our  wounded  men  would  permit,  we  being  then  ten  mile* 
from  it," — just  as  far  as  the  distance  of  the  Indian  stronghold  from  Brook- 
field  was  understood  to  be  before  the  party  commenced  their  march. 

It  would  be  difficult  to  reconcile  these  facts  with  the  theory  that  Hutch- 
inson and  Wheeler  did  not  advance  beyond  **  the  defile  from  the  head  of 
Wickaboag  Pond,"  or  even  beyond  Ditch  Mea<low.  On  the  contrary,  they 
all  point  to  Winnimisset  as  the  bloody  ground ;  its  distance  and  direction 
from  Brookfield,  and  the  character  of  the  territory,  fully  correspond  widi 
the  descriptions  by  Wheeler  and  Curtis.  And  that  this  was  actually  the 
place  is  declared  by  Hubbard,  who  wrote  in  1677,  two  years  after  the  event 
He  says  that,  not  finding  the  Indians  at  *"  the  place  appointed."  when  the 
party  had  **  rode  four  or  five  miles  that  way,  they  fell  into  an  amhui^h  of  two 
or  three  hundred  Indians,  laid  in  such  a  narrow  passage  betwixt  a  steep 
hill  on  the  one  hand  and  an  hideous  swamp  on  the  other,  that  it  was  scarce 
possible  for  any  of  them  to  escape."*  Again,  he  says  that  certain  st^ldiers 
from  Springfield,  with  others  under  Capt^iin  Lathrop  and  Captain  IWrs, 
scoured  the  woods  soon  after  the  conflict,  and  **  did  the  next  day  march  up 
to  a  place  called  Meminimisset  by  the  Indians,  where  Captain  Hutchinson  and 
Captain  Wheeler  were  assaulted,  and  finding  no  sign  of  any  Indians,"!  thej 

•  Hut)l).ird*s  History  of  the  Indian  Wars  in  New  England,  1677,  DrakcV  EUiion.  18^, 
pp.  98, 90. 

t  li)id.,  pp.  107,108.  Sco  also  Register,  xxxvii.  177;  xxxviii.  326,  327;  «n«l  Jndd'i 
History  of  Hadley.p.  140.  Meminimi;<set,  Moniinemissce,  Monamcsick,  Menimosst*;:,  \V>n- 
imesset  and  Winnimisset,  are  among  the  various  forms  in  which  this  oamc  is  written  by  dif- 
fertut  persons. 


1884.]  Wickaboag?  or  Winntmisset?  399 

separated.  This  account  is  similar  to  Wheeler's,  but  more  exact  in  distances 
and  names.  It  shows,  at  least,  how  Wheeler's  narrative  was  understood  by 
his  contemporaries ;  and  it  is  followed  substantially  by  Gov.  Hutchinson, 
Fiske  and  others. 

On  the  whole,  although  it  may  be  impossible  to  determine  the  precise 
spot  where  this  sanguinary  conflict  occurred,  inasmuch  as  the  conditions  are 
similar  for  more  than  a  mile  in  extent,  yet  scarcely  a  doubt  exists  in  my 
mind  that  it  was  on  the  easterly  side  of  the  Winnimisset  meadows,  at  some 
point  within  the  distance  of  about  a  mile  southerly  from  what  was  formerly 
known  as  the  Fay  Farm,  and  is  now  called  the  Brookside  Farm. 

One  objection  deserves  notice.  In  a  **  narrative  of  George,  a  christian 
Indian,  taken  prisoner  in  the  ambushment  of  Captain  Hutchinson,"  he  says, 
*'  upon  Friday,  being  the  5th  of  this  instant  (August),  Philip  and  his  com- 
pany came  to  us  at  this  swamp,  six  miles  from  the  swamp  where  they  killed 
our  men."*  It  has  been  supposed  that  George  was  then  at  Winnimisset, 
and  therefore  that  **  the  swamp  where  they  killed  our  men  "  was  six  miles 
distant  from  that  place — perhaps  very  near  Wickaboag  Pond. 

The  answer  to  this  objection  is  manifold.  (1)  George  does  not  say  he 
was  at  Winnimisset;  he  gives  no  name  whatever  to  the  swamp.  (2)  There 
is  a  mistake  in  the  date ;  Friday  was  the  sixth  day  of  August,  '*  the  Lord's 
day"  being  •*  August  l."t  The  Indians  retreated  from  Brookfield  ** to- 
wards the  breaking  of  the  day,  August  the  fifth  ;"t  and  Philip  did  not 
visit  them  on  that  day,  but  on  Friday  the  sixth,  at  the  *'  swamp,  six  miles 
from  the  swamp  where  they  killed  our  men."  It  would  not  be  consistent 
with  their  habit  to  remain  in  their  known  dwelling-place  for  the  period  of 
more  than  twenty-four  hours,  awaiting  an  attack  by  the  English  cavalry  ; 
but  according  to  their  usual  custom  they  would  seek  concealment  elsewhere. 
Fleeing  from  Brookfield  before  daybreak  on  Thursday  morning,  we  may 
well  iHilieve  that  they  were  at  least  *•  six  miles  from  the  swamp  where  they 
killed  our  men  "  before  the  close  of  the  next  day ;  nor  did  they  remain 
long  even  at  that  distance ;  for  when  the  soldiers  marched  to  Winnimisset, 
and  scoured  the  woods  and  swamps  in  that  vicinity,  shortly  afterwards,  they 
found  the  place  utterly  deserted  by  the  .Indians,  and  failed  to  discover  their 
hiding-place.§  (3)  Six  months  later,  Mrs.  Rowlandson  assures  us  there 
was  another  Indian  residence  about  six  miles  from  the  main  stronghold. 
She  was  captured  at  Lancaster,  February  10,  1676.  Two  days  afterwards 
she  ^*  came  to  the  place  where  they  intended,  viz.  an  Indian  town  called 
Mennimesset,  northward  of  Quaboag.")  While  she  was  there  she  was  vis- 
ited by  her  son  Joseph,  who  informed  her  that  **  he  was  among  a  smaller 
parcel  of  Indians  whose  place  was  about  six  miles  off.'^IT  The  precise  loca- 
tion of  this  place  I  know  not ;  it  may  have  been  on  the  border  of  Potta- 
paug  Pond  in  Dana,  which  bears  traces  of  Indian  occupancy,  is  about  six 
miles  from  Winnimisset,  and  near  the  track  which  the  Indians  would  natu- 
rally pursue,  if,  as  many  suppose,  they  "  fled  northerly  to  Paquayag,  now 
Athol,  and  other  places  in  that  neighborhood."**  At  this  place,  wherever  it 
was,  they  were  probably  visited  by  Philip,  as  related  by  George  ;  but  they 
immediately  continued  their  flight  to  a  more  safe  distance.  Before  the  next 
February,  however,  they  seem  to  have  become  reestablished  both  at  Win- 


•  Ilatchinson'd  Hist,  of  Mass.,  i.  293. 

t  Narrative,  p.  6.  |  Ibid.,  p.  20. 

&  Hubbard,  p.  107,  and  ante,  pp.  218,  219,  326.  327. 

1  Indiiin  Captivities,  p.  25.  1  Ibid.,  p.  27. 

••  Judd*8  History  of  Hadley,  p.  140. 


400  Underwood  Families  of  Massachusetts.  [Oct. 

Dimisset  and  at  the  '^  place  about  six  miles  off/'  or  '^  six  miles  from  the 
swamp  where  they  killed  our  men." 

The  foregoing  article  is  designed  as  a  quasi  appendix  to  the  Rev.  George 
M.  Bodge's  instructive  and  interesting  account  of  the  ''  Soldiers  in  King 
Philip's  War,"  now  in  course  of  publication  in  the  Register. 


A  BRIEF  NOTICE  OF  THE  UNDERWOOD  FAMILIES 

OF  MASSACHUSETTS. 


T 


By  Prof.  LuciBN  M.  Undekwood,  Ph.D.,  of  Syracuse,  N.  Y. 

HE  Underwood  Family  in  America,  a8  represented  at  present, 
is  descended  from  the  following  lines  :* 

1.  Joseph  Underwood,  who  settled  in  Hingham,  Mass.,  in 
1637,  with  his  brother  Thomas,  and  removed  to  VVatcrtown,  Mass., 
in  1645.     The  latter  left  no  descendants. 

2.  William  Underwood,  of  Concord,  Mass. ;  removed  to 
Chelmsford,  Mass.,  in  1652. 

3.  Henry  Underwood,  who  settled  in  or  near  Newport,  R.  I., 
about  1665. 

4.  William  Thomas  Underwood,  who  settled  in  Virginia 
about  the  middle  of  the  seventeenth  century. 

5.  Alexander  Underwood,  who  settled  in  Maryland  about  the 
mindle  of  tlie  seventeenth  century. 

6.  Recent  Immigrations,  dating  mostly  since  the  Revolution. 

To  the  first  family  belong  Gen.  Adin  B.  Underwood  of  Boston, 
and  Francis  H.  Underwood,  author,  of  the  same  place.  To  the 
second  belonged  the  late  Judge  John  C.  Underwood  of  Virginia.  To 
the  third  belongs  Benjamin  F.  Underwood,  the  free-thinker  of 
Boston.  To  the  fourth  belong  the  late  U.  S.  Senator  Joseph  R. 
Underwood  of  Kentucky,  Representatives  Warner  L.  Under^vood  of 
Kentucky  and  John  W.  H.  Underwood  of  Georgia,  and  others  con- 
nected with  political  life  in  the  two  states  mentioned. 

It  is  the  purpose  of  this  paper  to  trace  the  history  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts families  only,  including  the  Watertown  and  Chelmsford 
branches. 

I.    THE  WATERTOWN  BRANCH. 

1.  Joseph*  Underwood,  of  Hingham,  1G37,  was  admitted  freeman  at 

Watertown,  1645;  married  (1)  Mary ,whod.  13  Feb.  1 658,  and 

he  married  (2)  Mary  How,  of  Dorchester,  29  April,  1665.t  On 
the  fil^s  of  the  court  is  a  paper  relating  to  his  estate,  naming  his 
children  Joseph,   Sarah,  Hannah,  Elizabeth,  Thomas  and  Martha, 

♦  There  is  also  a  '*  North  Carolina  Branch, **  claimed  hy  some,  bot  this  is  hcliered  tobe 
an  otfsh(X)t  from  5.  Other  early  New  England  UnderwoodS|  as  Martin  and  Psriif 
left  no  descendants. 

t  Barry  says  1662. 


1884.]  Underwood  Families  of  Massachusetts.  401 

though  Hudson  says  they  are  probably  not  mentioned  in  order  of  age. 
Savage  states  that  Thomas  was  born  1 1  October,  1 658,  but  this  is 
probably  a  mistake,  as  his  son  Thomas  was  married  in  1679,  leaving 
a  family  at  his  death  in  1691  ! 

It  will  be  impossible  then  at  present  to  arrange  the  children  in 
order  of  age,  but  I  venture  the  following  as  seeming  most  probable : 

2.  i.      Thomas. 

ii.     Elizabeth,  m.  13  Sept.  1693,  William  Bull,  as  his  second  wife.    No 

issue, 
iii.    Mart,  m.  18  May,  1670,  Isaac  Onge,  or  Ong. 
iv.    Martha. 
V.      Sarah. 

3.  vi.    Joseph,  b.  1650. 

vii.  Hannah,  m.  14  Oct.  1680,  John  Qibson,  by  whom  she  had  Silence^  b.  17 
Dec.  1680,  and  Mary,  b.  27  July,  1682. 

It  seems  quite  probable  that  Joseph  Underwood  was  originally 
from  London,  England.  Bond  says  he  is  nearly  if  not  exactly  the 
same  age  as  that  Joseph  U.  who  embarked  at  London,  1635,  for 
Virginia.  Stronger  evidence,  however,  exists  in  the  form  of  a  let- 
ter from  Robert  Atkyn  of  England  to  John  Leverett  of  Boston,- 
dated  18  March,  1672,  which  says:  *^ There  is  one  Mr.  Thomas 
Underwood  sometimes  wollen  drap'  in  London  who  I  think  lives 
in  Boston  and  hes  beene  there  10  or  12  yeares,  that  marry ed  old  Mr. 
Tilson's  daughter  one  of  them,  but  she  is  dead  and  since  he  went 
to  New  England  has  marryed  again,"  etc.*  This  Thomas  Under- 
wood is  no  doubt  the  same  Thomas  that  was  a  brother  of  1  Joseph. 
Thomas  settled  in  Hingham,  1637,  and  was  admitted  freeman  the 
same  year;  was  representative,  1637  and  1648;  removed  to  Water- 
town  and  was  there  selectman,  1035.  His  will,  dated  15  February, 
1668,  left  his  real  estate  to  his  wife  Magdalen  for  life,  and  afterwards 
to  Thomas,  son  of  his  brother  Joseph,  who  was  then  living  with 
him,  lie  also  left  legacies  to  his  brother  Joseph  and  to  his  neph- 
ew and  nieces,  Joseph,  Mary,  Martha,  Hannah,  Elizabeth  and 
Sarah.  It  is  thus  evident  that  he  left  no  descendants. 
Joseph  Underwood  died  17  February,  1677,  aged  62. 

2.  Thomas"    Underwood  (Joseph^),  of  Watertown,  married  Magdalen 

as  her  second  husband.     His  will,  dated  19  July,  1679,  proved 

5  Oct.  1 680,  mentions  only  one  child : 

4.  i.  TnoMAS.t 

It  is  barely  possible  that  2  Thomas  married  his  uncle's  widow, 
the  name  Magdalen,  as  Savage  states,  being  extremely  uncommon. 
In  support  of  such  a  view  it  may  be  stated  that  (1)  Magdalen,  wife  of 
the  uncle,  was  a  second  wife.  (2)  Magdalen,  wife  of  the  nephew, 
married  him  as  a  second  husband.  (3)  The  nephew  was  living  with 
his  uncle  at  the  time  of  the  latter*s  death,  and  (4)  The  pro|>erty  of 
the  uncle  was  willed  to  Thomas,  the  nephew,  after  his  wife's  death. 

3.  Joseph"  Underwood  (Joseph^),  of  Watertown,  born  1650,  married 

Elizabeth and  had  : 

•  MasK.  Hist.  Coll.,  4th  Series,  vol.  ii. 

t  It  teems  quite  po8sii)lo  tliat  the  date  assigned  by  Savage  for  the  birth  of  2  Thomas  is 
Che  date  uf  the  birth  of  his  son,  viz.,  11  Oct.  16oS.  In  this  {:asc  the  speculation  above  could 
not  be  correct. 

TOL.   XXXYUI.  36 


402  Undeirwood  Families  of  Massachusetts.  [Oct. 

5.  i.      JoHJf,  b.  6  March,  1677. 

ii.  Elizabstb,  b.  8  May,  1679. 

6.  iii.  Joseph,  b.  28  May,  1681. 

7.  iv.  Joshua,  b.  31  Jan.  1683. 

8.  V.  Jonathan,  b.  1685.  (?) 

tI.    Mary,  b.  9  May,  1687.     (Savage  says  Sarah.) 

▼ii.   Hannah,  bapt.  13  April,  1690;  m.  1709,  Daniel  Richardson,  by  whom 

6he  had  1.  William,  b.  3  Feb.  1711 ;  2.  Hannah,  b.  25  Dec.  1718  ;  and 

3.  Daniel,  b.  26  June,  1721. 

Sava^re  makes  the  statement  that  the  last  two  were  children  b?  a 
second  wife,  Mary,  but  Morse  states  that  Elizabeth,  his  first  wife, 
was  admitted  to  the  church,  1 687  I  As  his  will,  dated  1 6  Febru- 
ary, 1G91,  proved  7  April,  1691,  mentions  his  wife  Elizabeth,  it  is 
evident  that  the  statement  of  Savage  is  incorrect.  The  will  also 
mentions  the  sons  John,  Joseph,  Jonathan,  Joshua,  and  the  daugh- 
ters Mary,  Hannah  and  Elizabeth. 

4.  Thomas'   Underwood     {Thomas,*  Joseph^),  of  Cambridge,   Mass., 

married  19  Nov.  1679,  Mary  Palmer,  and  had: 

i.      Thomas,  b.  20  Oct.  1680;  probably  d.  young. 

ii.     Mart,  b.  5  June,  1682. 

iii.    Elizabeth,  b.  13  Aug.  1684;  m.  25  March,  1709,  Jonathan  Hewes,  of 
Cambridge. 
-!-•  iv.    Jonathan,  b.  18  Aug.  1686  ;  m.  17  Nov.  1709,  Ruth  Holland,  and  set- 
tled in  Lexington. 

V.      Abigail,  b.  26  March,  1688. 

vi.    Martha,  b.  30  June,  1689. 

vii.  Ihomas,  b.  3  June,  1691.    Of  this  line  I  have  no  further  information. 

5.  John'  Underwood  (Joseph*  Joseph^),  of  Charlestown,  Mass.,  bom 

6  March,  1677  ;  married  19  Nov.  1701,  Rebecca  Shattuck,  and  had: 

i.      John,  b.  10  July,  1704.    Of  thb  line  I  have  no  further  information, 
ii.     Rebecca,  b.  2*2  March,  1707. 

He  is  said  by  Bond  to  have  had  "  a  reputed  son  "  Jonathan,  bom 

7  April,  1714,  about  which  time  he  removed  to  Charlestown.  It  is 
possible  that  this  Jonathan  is  the  one  from  Waltham  that  Bond  re- 
cords as  having  married,  12  April,  1749,  Sarah  Parker,  of  Need- 
ham  ;  but  of  this  I  am  not  positive. 

6.  Joseph'  Underwood  (Joseph,^  Joseph* ),  of  Lexin<]^ton,  Mass.,  after- 

ward (1747)  of  Lincoln,  Mass.,  born  28  May,  1681  ;  married , 

and  had : 

+  i.  Joseph,  bapt.  3  March,  1723;  m.  26  Feb.  1744,  Anna  Baker,  of  Wal- 
tham, who  d.  30  May,  1749,  and  he  m.  (2)  4  June,  1750,  Eunice 
Smith,  of  Lexinirton.  Two  of  his  sons  were  prominent  in  the  Revo- 
lution—7o5e/>A  (1749-182*))  and  Nathan  (1753-1841).  the  hitter  a  und- 
unte  of  Harvard  and  clergyman.  He  d.  at  Lincoln,  25  .\pril,  1760. 
ii.     Joshua,  bapt.  6  June,  1725;  m.  6  June,   1765,  Abigail  Stone,  and  had 

one  son  Daniel,  bapt.  24  April,  1771. 
iii.    Elijah,  bapt.  5  May,  1728. 
-|-  iv.    Peter,  bapt.  25  May,  1729  ;  m.  Keziah  (  Winship?),  by  whom  be  hai 
five  children  in  Charlestown. 
V.      Ruth,  bapt.  4  April,  1731. 
-|-  vi.    Israel,  bapt.  23  June,  1734.     Was  in  the  French  and  Indian  war. 
4-  vii.   Moses,  bapt.  17  Aug.  1735 ;  m.  Mary  Pierce,  of  Lincoln,  Mass.,  and 
settled  in  that  place,  where  he  had  eight  children, 
viii.  Susanna,  bapt.  2  Sept.  1739. 

*  This  Dinrk,  the  sign  of  addition,  indicates  that  the  compiler  has  a  record  of  the  fami* 
lies  of  the  individuals  to  whose  name  it  is  prefixed. 


1884.]  Underwood  Families  of  MaaacLchusetts.  403 

7.  Joshua*  Underwood  {Joseph^  Joseph^)^  of  Sherborn,  Mass.,  born 

31  JaD.  1683;  married  13  Jan.  1707,  Mercy  Fairbanks  (daaghter 
of  Eliezer  F.  of  Sherborn)  and  had  : 

i.  Mkrct,  b.  3  April,  1709 ;  m.  1729,  Eli  Jones,  of  Sherborn,  by  whom 
she  had  six  children. 

ii.  Jonathan,  b.  4  Nov.  1711 ;  m.  23  Jan.  1740,  Priscilla  Bailla,  and  had 
one  son  John^  b.  1742,  and  four  daughters.  He  was  liTing  in  Sud- 
bury, 1755. 

iii.    Joshua,  b.  92  Sept.  1714  ;  d.  17  July,  1731. 

It.  Joseph,  b.  21  Not.  1716 ;  in.  Jemima  Leiand,  and  had  at  Uolliaton  nine 
children.*    He  died  7  June,  1759. 

T.      Thankful,  b  8  Feb.  1719 ;  m.  June  4,  1744,  John  Uill. 

▼i.    Dayid,  b.  May,  1721 ;  d.  7  July,  1742. 

Til.  Mary,  b.  2  Feb.  1723 ;  m.  26  Jan.  1747,  Eleazer  Robhins. 

8.  Jonathan*  Underwood  {Joseph*  Joseph^).    There  seems  to  be  no- 

thing on  record  concerning  this  line,  The  fact  that  the  church 
records  of  Watertown  are  a  blank  from  1709  to  1726,  increases  the 
difficulty  of  tracing.  He  may  have  been  the  father  of  any  of  the 
following,  whose  position  I  am  as  yet  auable  to  determine : 

+  i.  Nehemiah,  b.  5  May,  1721 ;  dismis.<H)d  from  the  church  at  Watertown  to 
the  church  at  Sturbridge  ;  m.  5  Feb.  1744,  Anna  Marcy  (daughter  of 
James  Marcy,  of  WoSistock,  Ct),  and  afterMrard  settled  in  Wood- 
stock, Ct.,  where  he  had  seven  sonsf  and  three  daughters.  He  d.  20 
Oct.  1772. 

+  ii.  Jonas,  b.  1733;  m.  Naomi  (Pike?),  and  bad  atFramingham,  Mass.,  eight 
children,  according  to  Barry, 
iii.  Joshua,  who  died  at  Mendon,  Mass.,  1743,  leaving  a  wife  Hannah, 
iv.  Jonathan,  of  Weston,  Mass.,  who  had  by  wife  Lydia  three  children  at  that 
place. 

II.    THE  CHELMSFORD  BRANCH. 

1.  William*  Underwood,  of  Chelmsford,  Mass.;  removed  from  Con- 

cord, 1652,  with  about  twenty  other  families  from  that  place  and 
Woburn,  to  Chelmsford,  where  he  was  prominent  in  town  affairs, 
and  served  as  a  town  officer.  Was  admitted  to  the  freeman's  oath, 
1650.  Concerning  his  early  history  nothing  is  kuown  at  present, 
but  he  is  supposed  to  have  come  from  England  prior  to  1640.  He 
married  Sarah  Pellet  (?),  and  had  in  Concord  and  Chelmsford : 

i.  Remembrance,  b.  25  Feb.  1640 ;  m.  1659,  Josiah  Richardson,  by  whom 

she  had  eigiit  children. 

ii.  Sarah,  b.  1642;  m.  10  March,  1669,  Daniel  Blogget. 

iii.  Priscilla,  b.  1647  (?) ;  m.  6  July,  1663,  Edward  Spalden. 

iv.  Aquilla,  b.  1749;  d.  17  June,  1657. 

v.  Rbbecca,  b.  6  April,  1650. 

vi.  Deborah,  b.  1653  (?)  ;  m.  25  Dec.  1668,  Nathaniel  Butterfield. 

S.  vii.  Samuel,  b.  14  Feb.  1656. t 

Sarah,  wife  of  William  Underwood,  died  5  Nov.   1C84,  and  he 
married  (2)  Anna  Kidder,  of  Biilerica,  17  March,  1085. 

2.  Samuel*  Underwood  (  William}),   of  Chelmsford,  Mass.,  had   the 

following  sons : 

•  Among  these  was  David,  born  1742,  great-grandfather  of  Ocn.  A.  B.  Underwood,  of 
Bon  ton. 

t  Among  these  was  Daniel,  born  1744,  great-grandfather  of  Francis  H.  Underwood,  of 
Boston ;  also  of  the  writtT. 

1  Some  of  the  dates  given  above  arc  taken  from  Savage,  and  are  prolwibly  inaccurate. 
Those  of  marriages  and  of  the  liirth  o(  Samttel  arc  from  records  of  Chelmsford  in  the  pos- 
session of  the  N.  £.  Hist.  Oen.  Soc 


404  Underwood  Families  of  Mas8cu:husetis.  [Oct. 

3.  i.      JoSKPH,  b.  1681. • 

4.  ii.     Aquilla,  b.  1693. 

It  is  possible  that  there  were  more  children  than  these  two,  bat 
records  are  scautj,  and  these  are  all  that  can  be  found. 

3.  Joseph*  Underwood  {Samuel^*  WiUiam})^  of  Westford,  Mass.,  bom 

1681  ;  married,  1707,  SusauDah  Parker,  and  had  in  Chelmsford  aud 
Westford  : 

i.      Joseph,  b.  1  March,  1708  ;  d.  4  April,  1745. 

ii.     Thomas,  b.  7  Oct.  1709;  d.  20  Oct.  1732. 

lii.    Mary,  b.  28  Oct.  1711 :  d.  26  Not.  1803. 

iv.    Elizabeth,  b.  2  Feb.  1714. 

v.     Jonathan,  b.  22  Jan.  1716 ;  d.  at  Marlboro',  N.  H. 

vi.    Amy,  b.  16  Oct.  17l7 ;  d.  23  May,  1770. 

vii.  Ruth,  b.  20  Jan.  1719;  d.  4  Sept.  1775. 

viii.  Phineas,  b.  3  Jan.  1722 ;  d.  24  Sept.  1757,  Litchfield.  N.  H. 

ix.    Timothy,  b.  11  April,  1724;  m.  1752,  Sasannah  Bond  (?) .  Litchfield, 

N.  H. 
X.     Susannah,  b.  26  Dec.  1725  ;  d.  26  Dec.  1729. 
xi.    John,  b.  15  Sept.  1727 ;  m.  Hannah  Wright  and  had  two  sons,  Jereme.t 

b.  1750,  and  John^l  b.  1755. 
xii.   Bethia.  b.  27  Sept.  1729. 
xiii.  James,  b.  1  Dec.  1731.  Lilchfield,  N.  H. 

The  father,  Joseph  U.,  with  his  brother  Aqnilla,  were  subscribers 
to  the  coveuant  in  1727,  when  the  church  at  Westford  was  formed 
from  the  church  at  Chelmsford  (the  town  of  Westford  having  previ- 
ously formed  a  part  of  Chelmsford).  The  church  was  organized  in 
1729.     Joseph  U.  died  19  Jan.  1761. 

4.  Aquilla*  Underwood    {Samuel,*    WiHiarn^),  of   Westfield    (afte^ 

ward  of  Sandisfield),  married  Margaret ,  and  had: 

i       S.AMUEL,  b.  1  Feb.  1722.    **  Rem.  to  Mich." 

ii.     Mary,  b.  26  March,  1724. 

iii.    William,  b.  1727.    Descendants  reside  in  Massachusetts,  ConnecUcat 

and  New  York, 
iv.    Parker.    Of  this  line  I  know  nothing. 
V.      Roger.    Of  this  line  I  know  nothing, 
vi.    Simon.    Some  of  this  branch  are  now  living  at  Monterey, 
vii.   LrcY. 
viii.  Olive. 
ix.    Margaret. 
X.      Hannah. 

Aquilla  Underwood  was  dismissed  from  the  church  in  Westfonl, 
November,  1741,  to  join  with  others  forming  a  church  at  Litchfield, 
N.  H.,  wlience  he  probably  removed.  He  was  received  at  the  church 
ill  Sandisfield,  Mass.,  20  July,  1761,  at  which  place  he  died,  29 
]\Iay,  1767.  His  wife  Margaret  died  25  August,  1780,  in  her  dlst 
year. 

Such  seem  to  be  the  relations  of  the  first  four  generations  of  Underwooils 
in  Massachusetts.  In  this  connection  it  may  be  stated  that  the  present  wri- 
ter is  preparing  a  complete  genealogy  of  the  Watertown  branch  of  the  Un- 

•  It  is  a  sin^alar  coincidence  that  two  Josephs  of  distinct  branches  shoald  have  been  born 
the  fcuimc  year.    C^ec  Watertown  Branch,  No.  6.) 

t  An  iiccount  of  the  descendants  of  Jcreme  may  be  found  in  Cutler's  History  of  J.ifTrer. 
N.H. 

t  An  account  of  the  descendants  of  John  may  bo  found  in  M'Keen's  Uistor}*  of  Brad- 
ford, Vt. 


1884.]  Records  of  Winchester,  If.  H.  405 

derwood  familj,  and  would  gratefully  receive  any  information  relative  to  the 
family,  or  corrections  or  additions  to  the  above.  Information  is  specially 
desired  respecting  the  descendants  of  (4.  iv.)  Jonathan;  (4.  vii.)  Thomas; 
(5.  i.)  John;  (6.  iii.)  Elijah;  (8.  iii.)  Joshua,  and  (8.  iv.)  Jonathan.  Also 
regarding  the  parentage  of  the  last  four  recorded  under  the  Watertown 
branch  above. 

The  writer  is  indebted  to  the  following  published  works,  which  contaiu 
more  or  less  extended  notices  of  the  early  members  of  the  Underwood 
family : 

1.  Barry,  History  of  Framingham.  2.  Bond,  Family  Memorials  of 
Early  Settlers  of  Watertown.  3.  Draper,  History  of  Spencer.  4.  I'ree- 
man,  History  of  Cape  Cod.  5.  Hudson,  History  of  Lexington.  6.  Mc- 
Keen,  History  of  Bradford,  Vt.  7.  Morse,  Genealogical  Register  of  Sher- 
born,  etc  8.  Savage,  Genealogical  Dictionary  of  New  England.  9.  Wy- 
man,  Charlestown  Genealogies  and  Estates.  10.  Paige,  History  of  Cam- 
bridge. 11.  Hazen,  History  of  Billerica.  12.  Cutler,  History  of  Jaffrey, 
N.  H. ;  and  the  published  colonial  records  of  Massachusetts,  New  Hamp- 
shire and  Rhode  Island. 


PARTIAL  COPY  OF  RECORDS  OF  THE  TOWN  OF  WIN- 

CHESTER,  N.  H. 

Communicated  by  John  L.  Alexander,  M.D.,  of  Belmont,  Mass. 

Continaed  from  page  289. 

Births —  Continued, 

Children  of  Jonathan  &  Mary  Parkhurst 

Mary  b  Ap  9"»  1760 
Children  of  John  &  Grace  Curtis 

Thomas  b  Oct  20»»»  1761  Mary  b  July  — 1764 

John  b  Nov  20»»»  1767 
Children  of  Joseph  &  Martha  Stowell 

Sarah  b  Dec  3**  1761  Abagail  b  Oct  23'»  1764 

Patta  b  Jany  25"»  1767  Elizabeth  b  Mar  13«»»  1769 

Joseph  b  Oct  2**  1771  Eunice  b  Mar  19*»»  1774 

Rhoda  b  Aug  16^  1776  Elijah  b  May  28"»  1779 

Polly  b  Sept  22'»  1781  Paul  b  Oct  30«»  1785 
Children  of  James  &  Rhoda  Scott 

Mary  b  Jany  24**^  1761  James  b  Nov  16"»  1762 

Ebenezer  b  Janv  (32)  30»^^  1765  Hannah  b  July  &^  1767 

Rhoda  b  Jany  lO**"  1770  Chloe  b  Apr  21'*  1772 

Elijahb  Apr  — 1775 
Children  of  Nehemiah  &  Eunice  Houghton 

Edward  b  July  21'»  1760  Abagail  b  Feb  15»»  1762 

Mary  b  Nov  21*  1763  Eunice  b  Deer  \V^  1765 

Nehemiah  b  July  9""  1767  Daniel  b  May  16»»»  1769 

Hannah  b  Jany  28*»»  1771  Luther  b  Deer  28*»»  1772 

Azuba  b  Jany  8'*»  1775  Fredom  b  Mar  27"»  1778 

Sarah  b  May  22^  1780 

VOL.  XXZTUL  36* 


406  Records  of  Winchester^  JV".  H,  [Oct 

Children  of  Benjamin  &  Mary  Wilson 

Samuel  b  Mar  28«»*  1762  Mary  b  Nov  8"»  1763 

Abel  b  Oct  10**^  1765  Benjamin  b  Nov  6«»»  1770 

Elizabeth  b  Mar  1"  1772  John  b  Feb  17«»  1776 

William  b  Jany  W^  1774  WUliam  b  Oct  10"*  1779 

John  b  Deer  12*^  1781  Olive  b  Nov  26***  1783 
Children  of  Moses  &  Hannah  Watkins 

Jared  b  Sept  W"  1762  Moses  b  Sept  16*^  1764 

Aaron  b  Feb  W  17^  1767  Lewis  b  June  V^  1769 

George  b  Mar  27'^  1771  Hannah  b  Mar  4"*  1772 
Children  of  Joseph  &  Lucy  Temple 

Joseph  «&  Benjamin  b  Jany  23*  1762 
Children  of  Nathaniel  &  Lydia  Dodge 

Rebeckah  b  Apr  8***  1762  Lydia  b  Aug  30*  1764 

John  b  Oct  1 1*»»  1767 
Children  of  Henry  &  Abagail  Foster 

Hannah  b  Feb  11»»*  1763  Abagail  b  Deer  2%^  1766  Rachel  b  Oct  22* 

1776  Edward  b  May  U***  1778  Henry  b  Apr  13*  1780  Moses  b  Aug 

SI*'  1781  Elisha  b  Apr  19*»»  1783 
Children  of  Reuben  &  Mary  Rockwood 

Reuben  b  Sept  13*  1763  Mary  b  Aug  27»^  1765  Nathaniel  b  May  26* 

1768  Ezebel  b  June  23'»  1770  Olive  b  May  20*  1772  Lusebia  b  Apr  10* 

1774  William  b  June  S**  1776  David  b  Oct  4»M777  Elizabeth  b  Oct  17* 
1779 

Children  of  John  &  Ruth  Johnson 

Moses  b  Jany  18*»^  1763  Uriah  b  Mar  8*  1766  John  b  Nov  21'*  1767 

Asa  b  June  24*^^   1771  Ruth  b  June  18*  1773 
Children  of  Isaac  &  Elizabeth  Temple 

John  b  June  16*  1763  Clarinda  b  May  2*  1765 
Children  of  William  &  Jemima  Temple 

Sabra  b  Sept  17»»^    1764  Mima  b  Apr  U***  1766  Fanna  b  Nov  6*^  1767 

Sarah  b  Nov  23'»  1769  Mile  b 1771  William  b  May  19*  1774  Sarah 

b  Feb  22*  1776 
Children  of  Samuel  & Fassett 

Esther  b  Apr  24*  1764  Anna  b  Sept  23*  1774  Mary  b  Jany  3*  1778 

Lucy  b  Apr  W^  1779 
Children  of  Benjamin  &  Mary  Freeman 

Amos  b  Apr  4*  1764  Asa  b  July  4»'»  1768  Ebenezer  b  June  l**  1766 
Children  of  Abel  &  Sarah  Hammond 

David  b  Jany  20*  1764  Catherine  b  Mar  24*  1766  Noami  b  Feb  24* 

1768  Sarah  b  Mar  20*  1770  Hannah  b  Mar  22*  1772  Abel  b  Jany  18* 

1775  Seth  b  Jany  30*  1777  Azuba  b  Mar  24*  1779  Philana  b  Aug  3* 
1781  Elijah  b  Mar  23*  1784 

Children  of  Jonas  &  Mary  Whitney 

Mary  b  Mar  12*  1764  Orlando  b  Nov  30»»»  1766  Katharine  b  Mar  21* 
1768  Zabiua  b  Deer  6*  1769  Daniel  Thayer  b  Feb  26"*  1772  Lydia  b  Oct 
23*  1774  James  b  Sept  23*  1776  James  b  July  24*  1778 

Children  of  Israel  &  Mary  Stowell 
Israel  b  May  23*  1765  Elisha  b  Jany  29*  1767  Molly  b  Aug  17*  1768 
Josiah  b  Mar  22*  1770  Luther  b  Oct  18*  1772  Calvin  b  Deer  5  1774 
Elisha  b  May  13*  1778  Reuben  b  Apr  30*  1779  Ebenezer  b  Apr  30* 
1781  Moses  b  Mar  28*  1782  Patty  b  Sept  3*  1788 


1884.]  William  Johnson  of  CharleBtovm^  Mass.  407 

Children  of  Asa  &  Mary  (Bond)  Alexander 

Ebenezer  Apr  24**^  1765  Thadeus  b  Nov  15»  1766  Molly  b  Nov9*»»  1768 
Lucretia  b  Jany  IV^  1771  Asa  b  Jany  16"^  1773  John  b  Deer  6^  1774 
Amos  b  July  15«»  1779  Ann  b  Mar  4"»  1781 

Children  of  Reuben  &  Sarah  Alexander 

Caleb  b  May  19»»»  1765  Sarah  b  June  26"^  1767  Mirium  b  Sept  11*»»  1769 
ReuLen  b  Sept  4»'»  1770  Edward  b  Deer  21"  1772  Foster  b  July  3*  1775 
Luther  b  July  1*  1778  Elijah  b  Feb  21-'  1782  an  infant  b  July  4»»*  1785 

Child  of  Nathaniel  &  Bathsheba  Laurence 
Rebeckah  b  Aug  1'*  1766 

Amzi  Doolittleb 1767 

Children  of  Nathaniel  &  Bathsheba  Lawerance 
Rebeckah  b  Aug 1766 

Children  of  Alexander  &  Lovica  McDole 
John  b  Mar  4"»  1765  William  b  Apr  11«^  1767  Lovina  b  Aug  17*^  1770 
Eber  b  Feb  27»»»  1773  Nathaniel  b  Mar  24"*  1775  Molly  b  Apr  11**»  1776 
Andrew  b  Mar  26"»  1779  Susanna  b  Oct  22*  1785 

Children  of  Enoch  &  Sarah  Stowell 

Daniel  b  June  12***  1766  Enoch  b  Aug  27*^  1768  Jesse  b  May  4*^  1771 
David  b  June  27"'  1773  Roswell  b  Mar  2*  1780  Sylvanus  b  Mar  21*  1785 

Children  of  Samson  &  Mary  Willard 

Philany  b  Oct  12»»»  1766  Melinda  b  June  26*^  1768  Jonathan  Hubbard 
b  Sept  14"*  1770  Molly  b  Apr  18*^  1775  Martha  b  Feb  14*"*  1778 

Children  of  Elijah  &  Anna  Dodge 

Anna  b  Jany  22*  1767  Charlotte  b  July  20*^  1769  Hannah  b  Jany  20** 
1771  Sarah  b  Jany  17"»  1774  Sarah  b  Deer  U^  1774  Elijah  b  Feb  6"* 
1777  Daniel  b  Apr  10"*  1779  Nathan  b  Feb  28»»*  1781  Joseph  b  Mar  9* 
1784 

Children  of  Rev  Micha  &  Eunice  Lawrence 

Eunice  b  July  22*  1767  Julianna  b  May  26"»  1769  Abaga'd  b  Mar  5»^ 
1771  Hubbard  b  Mar  7***  1773  Susanna  b  June  21*  1775  Betsey  b  Mar 
24"*  1777  Sally  Perry  b  Mar  9"*  1779  Solomon  Willard  b  Apr  26"*  1783. 


SOME  OF  THE  DESCENDANTS  OF  WILLIAM  JOHN- 
SON, OF  CHARLESTOWN.  MASS. 

Commanlcated  by  Cuables  Swebt  Johnson,  Esq.,  of  Washington,  D.  C. 

THE  Janaary  and  July,  1879,  and  January,  1880,  numb3r8  of 
the  Register,  contained  an  article  on  William  Johnson,  of 
Charleetown,  Mass.,  and  his  descendants,  from  the  pen  of  Mr. 
Greorge  W.  Johnson,  of  Royal  ton,  N.  Y.  On  the  third  day  of 
August,  1880,  seven  months  after  the  publication  in  the  last  num- 
ber, Mr.  Johnson  died,  leaving  the  article  unfinished.  As  there 
18  no  prospect  of  the  article's  being  completed  by  another  hand,  the 
following  brief  sketch  of  some  of  the  writer's  ancestors  not  included 
in  that  article,  and  of  the  members  of  his  immediate  family  now, 
with  the  exception  of  himself,  extinct,  is  furnished  for  the  Register. 


408  William  Johnson  of  Charlestown^  M(ms.  [Oct. 

12.  Hatnes'  J0HN8ON  (Jesse,^*  Johuy*  Thomas,*  Joseph*    WtUiam^),  the 

second  son  of  Jesse  by  his  second  wife  Priscilla,  was  born  at  En- 
field, N.  n.,  September  15,  1780,  at  which  place  he  was  also  mar- 
ried January  18,  1804,  to  Nancy  Kimble.  In  1812,  he,  with  his 
brother  Ben,  moved  to  Conklin,  Broome  County,  N.  Y.,  where  each 
purchased  a  farm  of  320  acres.  lie  resided  here,  pursuing  the  life 
of  a  hard-working,  energetic  farmer,  until  1836,  when  he  removed 
to  Ohio,  near  Cleveland.  Later,  1845,  he  took  up  his  residence  at 
Hillsdale,  Michigan.  For  upwards  of  twenty  years  he  was  a  justice 
of  the  peace.  He  was  a  man  of  strong  convictions,  and  was  espe- 
cially tenacious  of  his  religious  and  political  opinions.  He  died 
May  1,  1858,  while  on  a  visit  to  his  sou  Peleg  at  Waterloo,  N.  Y., 
and  his  remains  were  interred  in  the  Presbyterian  church-yanl  at 
that  place.  His  wife  was  born  July  13,  1784,  and  died  February 
24,  1844.  She  was  buried  at  Birmingham,  Ohio.  There  were  nine 
children,  the  fruit  of  this  marriage,  viz. : 

i.  Alfred,  b.  Dec.  2,  1804 ;  d.  May  5,  1849. 

ii.  Pelko  Y.,  b.  Jan.  15,  1807  ;  d.  Oct.  3,  1878. 

13.  iii.  Ben,  b.  March  25,  1809;  d.  Aue.  19.  1863. 

iv.  Frederic,  b.  April  1,  1811  ;  d.  Nov.  5,  1813. 

V.  Nancy  K.,  b.  Dec.  8,  1813  ;  d.  Oct.  12,  184fi. 

vi.  Haynes,  b.  Sept.  24,  1810.     Now  livinf^  at  Hillsdale,  Mich, 

vii.  SornRONiA,  b.  Jan.  10,  1819 ;  d.  Nuv.  5,  1819. 
viii.  Henry,  b.  Oct.  7,  1820;  d.  July  31,  1849. 

ix.  William,  b.  March  12,  1822 ;  d.  Sept.  19,  1844. 

13.  Ben^  J0HN8ON,  third  son  of  Haynes,'  was  born  at  Enfield,  N.  H., 

March  25,  1809,  and  died  at  Vicksburg,  Miss.,  August  19,  18G3. 
He  was  married  at  Owego,  N.  Y.,  October  31,  1843,  to  Maria  Lou- 
ise Sweet,  eldest  daughter  of  Hon.  Ezra  Smith  Sweetf  and  Janet 
McLaren  Clow,  who  were  married  at  Shagticoke,  N.  Y.,  May  2, 
1819. 

He  was  named  after  his  uncle  Ben,  a  distinguished  lawyer  of  Ith- 
aca, N.  Y.,  with  whom  he  went  to  live  when  a  boy  of  nine,  and  with 
whom  he  continued  to  reside  as  one  of  the  family  for  nine  years. 
He  attended  the  Ithaca  Academy  and  taught  school  at  intervals, 
thereby  earning  a  sufficient  sum  of  money  to  enable  him,  with  his 
uncle's  assistance,  to  pay  for  a  collegiate  education.  He  thereupon 
entered  Union  College,  Schenectady,  N.  Y.,  graduating  with  honor 
in  the  class  of  1830.  While  at  college  he  became  a  member  of  the 
Phi  Beta  Kappa  Society,  and  ever  after  highly  valued  his  college 
and  society  ties.  After  his  graduation  he  returned  to  Ithaca  and 
read  law  in  the  office  of  his  uncle  Ben.  He  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  in  due  course,  soon  after  which  he  started  south  in  quest  of  for- 
tune and  a  home.      During  his  journeyings  through    the   several 

•  JesRcfi  Johnson  was  born  Oct.  20,  1732;  was  the  eldest  child  of  John.*  See  Register, 
xxxiv.66. 

t  Ezra  Smith  Sweet  was  born  at  New  Bedford,  Mass.,  June  3,  179G,  and  died  at  Owesro, 
N.  Y.,  October  16,  1869.  He  was  of  Welsh  descent  and  a  grandson  of  Silas  Sweet  who 
died  November  25,  1822,  And  Mary  Blaokman  who  died  February  27, 1827-  He  was  a  law- 
yer  by  profession,  and  for  one  term  a  meml>cr  of  the  New  York  IcpisUiture.  Janet  McLa- 
ren Clow  was  !)orn  at  Shagticoke,  N.  Y.,  March  13, 1798,  and  died  Novem»»er  22,  1881.  She 
was  a  daujjhtcr  of  Peter  Clow  born  in  Scotland  in  1775,  and  Lncinda  Ellsworth,  who  were 
married  at  Saratoga,  N.  Y.,  February  14,  1796.  She  was  a  niece  of  George  Ellsworth,  a 
soldier  in  tin-  Revolutionary  War,  and  a  second  cousin  of  ('ol.  Elmer  E.  Ellsworth  who  was 
shot  and  kitted  May  24, 1861,  while  descending  from  the  roof  of  the  Marshall  House,  Alex- 
andria, Va.,  wherc'he  had  been  to  haul  down  a  rebel  flag. 


884.]         William  Johnson  of  Gharlestovmy  Mass.  409 

states  he  contributed  letters  descriptive  of  the  country  through 
which  he  passed,  which  were  published  in  the  Ithaca  Chronicle.  For 
two  years  he  was  chiefly  engaged  as  a  collecting  agent  in  Louisiana 
and  Mississippi,  travelling  on  horseback  through  canebrakes,  swim- 
ming bayous,  and  exposed  to  all  manner  of  dangers  and  discomforts. 

He  finally  located  at  Vicksburg,  Miss.,  where  he  entered  upon 
the  practice  of  his  profession,  which  he  continued  to  follow  with 
marked  success  for  nearly  twenty  years.  He  soon  took  rank  with 
the  foremost  lawyers  of  the  state,  had  an  extensive  practice,  and 
amassed  a  considerable  fortune.  His  residence,  one  of  the  finest  in 
the  city,  was  located  in  the  centre  of  half  a  square  of  ground.  His 
domestic  servants,  of  whom  he  had  at  different  times  from  twelve  to 
fifteen,  were  his  slaves,  and  whatever  may  be  said  on  ethical  grounds 
against  the  institution  of  slavery — now  happily  abolished  forever — 
it  must  be  borne  in  mind  that  it  was  the  universal  custom  among 
gentlemen  of  means  at  the  south,  to  own  their  own  servants.  It  is 
within  the  writer's  knowledge  that  all  of  his  father's  servants,  with- 
out exception,  entertained  the  highest  respect  for  their  master,  and 
he  is  confident  that  they  were  so  well  treated  and  so  contented  with 
their  condition  and  surroundings,  that  they  would  not,  if  they  had 
been  offered  their  liberty,  have  accepted  it. 

In  1851  he  visited  Europe,  and  wrote  from  there  letters  which 
were  published  in  the  Vicksburg  papers.  In  1854,  his  wife  and 
daughter,  returning  to  the  city  from  their  summer  retreat,  took  the 
yellow  fever  and  nearly  lost  their  lives.  Unwilling  to  again  risk  the 
life  of  any  of  his  family,  he  retired  from  the  practice  of  his  profes- 
sion, sold  his  residence  and  slaves,  and  removed  with  his  family  to 
Owego,  N.  Y.,  where  he  afterwards  continued  to  reside. 

Having  large  property  interests  in  the  south,  and  in  order  that 
be  might  be  on  hand  to  look  after  them,  he  applied  for  and  received 
at  the  hands  of  President  Lincoln,  the  appointment  of  post-master  at 
Vicksburg,  and  entered  upon  the  discharge  of  his  duties  immedi- 
ately after  the  capture  of  that  place  by  the  union  forces  under 
Grant.  He,  however,  found  the  office  in  such  a  state  of  chaos,  his 
mode  of  life  was  of  necessity  so  different  from  what  he  had  always 
been  accustomed  to,  and  the  annoyances  and  hardships  to  which  he 
was  subjected  in  consequence  of  the  confused  condition  in  which  he 
found  everything,  were  so  great,  that  his  system,  unused  as  he  was 
to  physical  labor  of  any  sort,  gave  way  under  the  strain,  and  he 
died  unattended  by  any  member  of  his  family,  and  with  only  the 
hands  of  comparative  strangers  to  minister  to  his  last  wants.  His 
remains  were  temporarily  interred  at  Vicksburg,  but  were  subse- 
quently removed  to  Ithaca,  N.  Y.,  and  placed  by  the  side  of  his 
uncle  Ben's,  in  compliance  with  a  wish  expressed  by  him  many 
years  before  his  death.  Notwithstanding  his  long  residence  in  the 
south,  and  the  many  warm  and  strong  attachments  he  formed  among 
his  neighbors  and  acquaintances,  he  was  an  uncompromising  union 
man.  He  was  strictly  temperate  in  all  his  habits,  and  a  man  of  un- 
blemished character,  honorable,  upright,  honest. 

Maria  Louise  Sweet  was  born  at  Salem,  N.  Y.,  March  5,  1822, 
died  at  Washington,  D.  C,  April  14,  1878,  and  was  buried  at  Owe- 
go, N.  Y.  Eminently  fitted  to  adorn  the  highest  social  station,  she 
was  nevertheless  domestic  in  her  habits,  and  discharged  the  duties 


410  Church  Records  of  Farmington^  Conn.  [Oct 

devolving  upon  her  as  a  wife  and  mother  with  an  unselfish  devotion 
seldom  equalled.  She  married  for  her  second  hushand  Gen.  Henry 
Martin  Whittelsey,  a  son  of  Samuel  Whittelsey  and  Abigail  Good- 
rich, and  a  descendant  of  John  Whittelsey  and  Ruth  Dudley,  who 
were  married  at  Saybrook,  Conn.,  June  20,  1 664.  There  were  no 
children  by  this  marriage.  Gen.  Whittelsey  was  bom  August  12, 
1821,  died  August  8,  1873,  and  was  buried  at  Owego,  N.  Y. 

There  were  four  children  born  to  Ben  and  Maria  Louise  Jobn- 
8on,  viz. : 

1.  Frbdbric  Hatnes,  b.  Qct.  20,  1854  ;   d.  Jan.  2,  1882. 

ii.  Charles  Swxet  (the  compiler  of  this  article),  b.  April  9,  1847. 

lii.  Stella  Pauline,  b.  Sept.  5,  1851 ;  d.  Jan.  5,  1881. 

iv.  WiLUAM  Schuyler,  b.  Sept.  20,  1869;  d.  Oct.  6,  1883. 

Frederic  Haynes  Johnson  received  a  liberal  academic  education. 
He  was  a  man  of  fine  address  and  possessed  most  excellent  businets 
qualities.  At  the  date  of  his  decease,  January  2,  1882,  he  was  ia 
the  civil  service  of  the  government  at  Washington,  having  been  pre- 
viously engaged  in  business  as  an  insurance  agent  and  accountaot 
He  was  unmarried. 

Stella  Pauline  Johnson  was  married  at  Epiphany  Church,  Wash- 
ington, D.  C,  February  16,  1876,  to  Quinton  Corwine,  eldest  son 
of  Hon.  Richard  M.  Corwine  and  Mary  Eliza  Quinton,  who  were  mar- 
ried at  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  February,  1842,  and  a  descendant  of  Capt 
George  Corwin,  who  was  bom  in  England,  December  10,  1610. 
She  died  at  Washington,  January  5,  1881,  and  was  buried  at  Owe- 
go, N.  Y.  Mrs.  Corwine  was  educated  at  Elmira  Female  Coll^ 
and  at  Madam  Buel's  Seminary  at  Washington.  She  visited  Eu- 
rope both  before  and  after  her  marriage.  Her  first  visit  abroad  was 
of  eighteen  mouths  duration,  about  half  of  the  time  being  spent^at 
Munich  in  the  cultivation  of  a  naturally  sweet  gift  of  voice,  and  in 
the  study  of  the  German  language.  The  second  visit  was  made 
with  her  husband  and  little  son  Mortimer,  then  only  six  months 
old.  She  possessed  many  accomplishments,  and  occupied  a  high 
place  in  the  best  musical  and  social  circles  at  the  capital.  She  had 
two  children,  Mortimer  Quinton,  born  December  10,  1876,  and 
Louise  Sweet,  born  April  1,  1879. 

William  Schuyler  Johnson  died  at  Washington,  D.  C.,  Octol)er  6, 
1883.  '  He  was  a  member  of  the  American  Association  for  the  Ad- 
vancement of  Science,  and  for  several  years  private  secretary  to 
Prof.  Alexander  Graham  Bell,  hut  subsequently  engaged  in  busi- 
ness in  Florida.  He  was  the  inventor  of  an  Electrical  Signaling 
Device,  and  a  notary  public.  He  was  educated  at  Emerson  lusti- 
tute  at  Washington,  and  was  unmarried.  His  remains  were  iuier- 
red  in  the  family  lot  at  Evergreen  Cemetery,  Owego,  N.  Y. 


CHURCH  RECORDS  OF  FARmNGTON,  CONN. 

Commnnicatcd  by  Julius  Gat,  Esq.,  of  Farmington,  Cunn. 

[Continued  ft-om  page  27V.] 

January  23.     John  Judd  &  his  wife  added. 

feb:  29.     Caleb  Coal  <&  Hannah  North  the  wife  of  Samuel. 


1884.]  Church  Records  of  Fannington,  Conn. 


411 


July,     mindwell  bird. 

Decb'  25.  1709.     Thomas  Newel,  IlaoDa  Lewis  &  Jean  North  widdow  of 

John. 
1710.  March  19.     added  to  ye  church.     William  Wadsworth,  Nathaniel 

Lewis  &  his  wife,  Hannah  porter  Daughter  of  Samuel. 
1710.  Aprill  2.     joined  to  us  by  dismission  from  Hampton  Sarah  Whitman. 
May  12.     grace  brownson  joined  to  us. 
June  4.     Samuel  Brownson  of  Richard  joined  to  us. 
february  11   [17|f]  added  to  ye  church  Isaac  Norton  Jeams  Gridly,  Mary 

Woodruff. 
Decemb.  30.     [1711]  Nathaniel  Coal,  (ruth?)  Gridly. 
Jan.  20.     1711 — 12  ye  persons  following  added 


George  Steel  and  his  wife 
John  Hart  Jun*^  &  his  wife 
William  Porter 
John  Coale 
Nathaniel  Stanly 
Hezekiah  Hooker 

Marcret  root 

^      

Thomas  Tompson  Doc' 

John  North 

Thomas  Newel  wife 

Samuel  Smith  of  Jonathan 

Ephraim  Smith  Jun' 

The  wife  of  Clark  Carington 

Sam"  Woodruff  of  Sam 

Daniel  Woodruff 

Sam  Newel  &  wife 

ye  wife  of  abner  Gillet 

ye  wife  of  Joseph  Cogswell 

Joseph  Andres  &  wife 

William  parsons  &  wife  by  dismission 

the  wife  of  Benj :  Andross 

anna  Standly 

Jacob  bams 

Sam"  Wadsworth  &  his  wife 

Joseph  Woodfurd  Ju"  &  wife 

Mabel  Hooker 

Timothy  Porter 

Sam"  porter  of  Sam. 

Cap.  Josiah  Hart  &  his  wife 

Robert  porter  and  his  wife 

Thomas  Standly  &  his  wife 

Roger  orvice  &  his  wife 

Ephraim  Smith 

John  Gridly  &  his  wife 

ye  wife  of  Samuel  Tompson 

Margaret  Tompson 

Mary  Tompson  &  Ru^ 

Nathaniel  Newel  &  his  wife 

Daniel  Lewis  &  wife 

Thomas  orton 


Sam  Hart 

John  newel  &  his  wife 

Nat  Porter  &  his  wife 

Widdow  Jud  sometimes  Wife 

Sam  Jud 

Josiah  North  &  wife 

Sam  Woodruff  &  wife 

Jeams  Gridly 

Daniel  Jud  and  wife 

Thomas  Hart 

Mary  Smith 

Paul  Andros 

John  Cowles  and  wife 

Thomas  Cowles  &  wife 

Jonathan  Smith  &  wife 

ye  wife  of  Jonathan  Gridly 

Stephen  Andros  &  wife 

Joseph  Root  Jun'  &  wife 

the  wife  of  Thomas  Norton 

Thomas  Smith 

the  wife  of  Cap :  Cowles 

The  wife  of  John  Smith 

Sam^  Nash  &  his  wife 

Mary  Newel 

Elizabeth  Steel 

Hezek :  North  &  wife 

Sarah  North 

Nat  Tompson  &  wife 

Hezek :  Scots  wife 

Hannah  North 

MsLvy  Porter  &  Lydea 

Easter  Jud 

Reb:  Woodfurd 

Sam  Woodfurd 

Neh:  Lew  wife 

Joseph  Roots  wife 

Jeams  Andros  wife 

Abigail  North 

Phebe  Gridly 

the  wife  of  Thomas  orton 


412  Church  Records  of  Farmingtony  Conn.  [Oct. 

An  account  of  such  as  owned  ye  covenant  &  had  thereupon  Baptism  for  y* 
children 

January  19.     107?-.  Sam"  Woodroff  Jun' 

feb.  2.  Thomas  Hart  ye  Captains  son.  Abraham  Jillet  ye  same  day  had 
baptism  for  himself 

March  16.     Martha  Scott  ownd  ye  covenant  and  was  baptized 

May.  11.  1707.     Samuel  Seamor 

June.  13.  1707.     John  Woodruff  ownd  ye  covenant 

August  9.     Nathaniel  Cowles  ownd  ye  covenant. 

September  7.     Sam"  Scott  ownd  ye  covenant. 

Jan:  4.  170}.     Thomas  Tompson  Doc:  Roger  Brownson,  Timothy  Root. 

May  9.     Nathaniel  Lewis  ownd  ye  covenant,  1708. 

July  11.     Thomas  Lee  ownd  ye  covenant. 

October  3.     Anthony  Judd  ownd  ye  covenant. 

feb:  6.  [170f]     John  Norton  3^  ownd  ye  covenant 

June   1709.     Joseph  Andros  ownd   ye  covenant  &  had  his  son  baptized 

Joseph : 

June     John  North  ownd  ye  covenant. 

March  12.     1709-10.     Mary  Smith,  Josiah  Hart,  David  Bull,  Nathaniel 

Woodruff. 

April.  2.  Paul  Andros  &  Jonathan  Woodruff  owned  ye  covenant  Thomas 
Coal,  Samuel  Porter,  Ephraim  Harris?  Joanna  Smith,  Eliza- 
beth Smith,  Deborah  Woodruff  &  Ruth,  Sarah  &  Elizabeth 
Brownson. 

May  12.  1710.     Sarah  Langton  &  ye  eldest  daughter  of  Thomas  Bams 

ownd  ye  covenant. 

May  19.     ye  wife  of  John  Brownson  ownd  ye  covenant. 

March  11.  1711.     Isaac  Lewis,  Elizabeth  Orvice. 

A  memorandum  Taken  by  house  Row.     anno.  1734. 
Joseph  Woodl'urd  Jun'  &  his  wife  joiud    to   ye   church   &   his   children 

baptizd. 
Sara  Hart  joind  to  ye  church  &  his  children  are  baptizd. 
Josiah  Woodruff  &  and  his  wife  joiud  to  ye  church  &  ye  child  is  baptizd. 
Thomas  Orton  Jinr  joind  to  ye  church  &  his  children  are  baptizd. 
James  Andros  ownd  ye  covenant  &  his  children  are  baptizd. 
Nath  Ntnvel  &  his  wife  joind  to  ye  church  y'  children  are  baptizd. 
Daniel  Lewis  joind  to  ye  church  his  children  are  baptizd. 
Nathaniel  Lewis  Jun'  ownd  the  covenant  &  his  child  is  baptizd. 
Timothy  Ilawley  ownd  ye  covenant  &  his  child  is  baptizd. 
Benjamin  Porter  ownd  ye  covenant  &  his  children  are  baptizd. 
Mattliew  Woodruff  Jun'  ownd  ye  covenant  and  his  chihlren  are  baptizd. 
Josiah  North  and  his  wife  joind  to  ye  church  and  his  children  are  baptizd. 
Thomas  Judd  came  into  ye  church  by  a  dismission. 
John  Norton  ownd  ye  covenant  and  his  children  are  baptizd. 
Joseph  Judds  chihlren  are  baptizd. 

Daniel  Judd  &  liis  wife  joind  to  ye  church  and  his  children  are  baptizd. 
Stephen  Andros  &  his  wife  joind  to  ye  church  &  y'  children  are  baptizd. 
Jonathan  Bird  ownd  ye  covenant  and  his  children  are  baptizd. 
Ye  wife  of  Thomas  Norton  joind  to  ye  church  &  her  children  are  baptizd. 
John  Tompson  Jun""  ownd  ye  covenant  &  his  children  are  baptizd. 
Sam''  Tompson  cliildren  are  baptizd. 
John  Steel  &  his  wife  joind  to  ye  church  &  their  children  are  baptizd. 


1884.]  Church  Records  of  Farmingtony  Conn.  413 

Thomas  Smith  joind  to  ye  charch  &  his  children  are  baptizd. 

Eben  Moody  ownd  je  coveDant  &  his  children  are  baptizd. 

Asahel  Strong  Jan'  ownd  ye  covenant  &  his  children  are  baptizd. 

Daniel  Hart  joind  to  ye  church. 

Timothy  Hart  ownd  ye  covenant  &  his  children  are  baptizd. 

Jonathan  Wadsworth  &  his  wife  ownd  ye  covenant  ^  y'  child  was  baptizd. 

Robert  Porter  and  his  wife  joind  to  ye  church  &  his  children  are  baptizd. 

Hezekiah  Lee  ownd  ye  covenant  and  his  children  are  baptizd. 

Paul  Andros  joind  to  ye  church. 

Stephen  Tuttle  owned  ye  covenant. 

Mary  Smith  joind  to  ye  church. 

Capt*  Josiah  Hart  &  his  wife  joind  to  ye  church  &  y'  children  are  baptizd. 

John  Prats  children  are  baptizd. 

Thomas  Cowls  &  his  wife  joind  to  ye  church  <&  their  children  are  baptizd. 

David  Bull  &  his  wife  joind  to  ye  church  &  their  children  are  baptizd. 

Eben  Porter  joind  to  ye  church  &  his  children  are  baptizd. 

Timothy  Porter  Jun'  joind  to  ye  church. 

Giles  Hooker  own  ye  covenant  bis  child  is  baptizd. 

Jonathan  Gridlys  wife  joind  to  ye  church  &  his  children  are  baptizd. 

Eben  Langton  ownd  ye  covenant  &  his  children  are  baptizd. 

Sam^  Nash  and  his  wife  joind  to  ye  church  &  his  child  is  baptizd. 

John  Smith  of  Sam^  ownd  ye  covenant  &  his  wife  formerly  Merils  joind  to 

je  church. 
Joseph  Root  Jun'  joind  to  ye  church  &  his  children  are  baptizd. 
Nehemiah  Lewis  ownd  ye  covenant  and  his  children  are  baptizd. 
Sam"  Wadsworth  joind  to  ye  church  &  his  children  are  baptizd. 
Daniel  Gridly  &  his  wife  ownd  the  covenant  &  his  child  is  baptizd. 
Hezekiah  Scot  ownd  ye  covenant  his  children  are  baptizd. 
Knsiffn  Wadsworths  wife  joind  to  ye  church  her  children  are  baptizd. 
Sam^ Warner  ownd  ye  covenant  and  his  children  are  baptizd. 
John  Gridly  &  his  wife  joind  to  ye  church  &  y'  children  are  baptizd. 
tSimon  Newels  wife  joind  to  ye  church  &  her  children  are  baptizd. 
David  Orvice  ownd  ye  covenant  and  his  children  are  baptizd. 
Sam  Orvice  ownd  ye  covenant  &  joind  to  ye  church  &  his  children  are 

baptizd. 
Stephen  Hart  Jun'  ownd  ye  covenant  &  his  children  are  baptizd. 
Capt*  Woodruff  &  his  wife  joind  to  ye  church  and  their  childreu  are  baptizd. 
Tim  Standlys  wife  joind  to  ye  church  &  her  children  are  baptizd. 
Nath  Standlys  children  are  baptizd. 
Matthew  Jud  ownd  ye  covenant. 

William  Judd  ownd  ye  covenant  his  children  are  baptizd. 
Esek :  Woodruff  &  James  Woodruff  ownd  ye  covenant. 

Mary  Newell  Daughter  of  Thomas,  Elizabeth  Steel  daughter  of  John 
Steel,  Mary  Porter  &  Lydea  Porter  Daughters  of  William  Porter:  Han- 
nah ^  Sarah  &  Hezekiah  North  childreu  of  Thomas  North,  ye  wife  of  Nath: 
Tompson  &  of  Hezekiah  Stel  joind  to  ye  church.  Hester  Jud  &  Mary 
Stedman  joind  to  ye  church.  Asahel  Strong  Jun'  &  Joseph  Hooker  joind 
to  ye  church  &  Rebecca  Woodfurd  &  Sam^*  Woodfurd  joind  to  ye  church. 
John  M Andrus  ?  ownd  ye  covenant  &  was  baptizd. 

[To  be  continued.} 
TOL.  XXXTIII.  37 


414  Genealogical  Gleanings  in  England.  [Oct. 


GENEALOGICAL  GLEANINGS  IN  ENGLAND. 

By  Hbnrt  F.  Waters,  A.B.,  now  reaiding  in  London,  Eng. 
[Continued  from  page  326.] 

Robert  Thompson. — The  following  notes,  appended  by  Mr.  Waters  to 
the  will  of  Major  Thomson  [ante,  pp.  317-8),  were  accidentally  omitted  in 
the  last  number : 

[Information  of  Hugh  Sqaier.  Heard  three  men  of  quality,  one  seemingly  a 
Dutchiuan,  rejoice  that  the  Dutch  had  done  so  well,  and  attribute  it  chiefly  to  the 
care  and  diligence  of  Maurice  Thompson  and  his  brother  M{\jor,  in  supplying  them 
with  information  of  the  motions  of  the  English  fleet ;  they  said  these  men  served 
much  better  than  Soott  for  his  thousand  guilders  a  year.  Finds  that  Maurice  Thomp- 
son was  always  violent  a^inst  kingly  government,  was  intimate  with  the  Protee- 
tor,  sat  on  some  of  the  high  courts  of  justice,  and  sentenced  some  beheaded  lords  to 
death,  so  that  he  is  incapable  of  bearing  any  office.  He  was  a  poor  man  in  Vir- 
ginia, but  got  a  great  estate,  chiefly  from  the  king^s  party.  He,  Hugh  Peters  and 
Nich.  Corsellis,  a  Dutchman,  went  over  in  the  bej^inning  of  the  war  to  collect 
money  in  lloliand  for  the  distressed  Protestants  in  Ireland,  and  was  always  in  great 
favour  with  the  Dutch.  As  to  Mfyor,  can  hear  of  no  one  of  that  name  but  a  rich  Mr. 
Major,  who  married  his  daughter  to  the  Protector^s  son  Richard,  but  be  is  no  bn>- 
ther  of  Maurice  Thompson,  so  thinks  they  must  mean  his  brother  Major  Rob. 
Thompson,  v?ho  was  so  great  with  Cromwell  that  he  had  nearly  married  his  daugh- 
ter :  he  began  with  nothing,  rose  high  enough  to  purchase  3,S^0O^  a  year  in  bishops* 
lands,  and  lost  it  on  the  Restoration,  so  that  he  brags  that  he  haten  not  the  persons 
but  the  office  of  bishops  ;  he  is  bold,  full  of  malice,  and  embittered  against  govern- 
ment ;  he  was  six  or  seven  years  a  navy  commissioner  for  the  Protector,  so  that 
he  knows  all  the  ways  of  the  navy,  and  is  thus  able  to  commit  this  treason.  Thinks 
their  houses  should  be  searched,  and  Council  should  consider  whether  to  seise  them. 
Asks  directions  in  case  he  should  again  meet  the  three  men  whose  discourse  be 
heard.  [2  pages  with  postscript  in  cypher  undecyphered.]  Westminster,  24  June, 
1666. 

Account  of  two  other  brothers  of  these  Thompsons  :  George,  who  lost  his  \e% 
fighting  against  the  King,  but  ^ot  a  great  estate.  When  the  army  had  fallen  into 
the  posture  of  a  brand-iron,  with  the  Hump  in  the  middle,  threatening  a  battle  ro\'al, 
Haelerigg  and  Morley  to  support  the  Hump,  and  Lambert  and  his  party  to  pull  them 
down,  this  Col.  George  Thompson  was  with  some  thousands  in  St.  George's-in-the- 
Fieldn,  Southwark,  and  with  Bibles  in  their  hands,  and  good  swords  also,  they  de- 
clared for  King  Jesus,  which  signified  what  they  pleased,  except  King  Charles. 
*'  Endorsed  Col.  G.  Thompson,  of  Southwark,  a  Millenary,  ic.**    24  June,  1666. 

Calendar  of  State  Papers,  Domestic  Series,  1665-1666. 

The  great  interest  taken  by  this  family  in  the  affairs  of  the  British  Colonies  of 
North  America,  and  the  important  parts  played  by  them  (directly  or  indirectly)  io 
the  nianageiucnt  of  those  affairs,  as  shown  by  the  State  Papers,  would  seem  to  war- 
rant the  giving  of  so  much  space  to  this  account  of  them.  From  this  family  were 
derived  the  baronial  house  of  Thomson  Ix)rds  Haversham,  created  4  May,  1696,  and 
extinct  on  the  death  of  Maurice,  the  lavSt  Baron  Haversham  in  1744,  a  family  closely 
allied,  by  intermarriages,  to  the  house  of  Annesley,  Earls  of  Anglesey.  Of  the  child- 
ren of  Mnjor  Robert  Thomson,  the  testator  of  the  foregoing  will,  Elizabeth  became 
the  wife  of  William  Ashhurst,  son  of  Henry  Ashhurst,*  an  eminent  merchant  of 
London,  descended  from  an  old  Lancashire  family.  This  William  was  himself  Lord 
Mayor  of  l^indon  in  1693,  one  of  the  representatives  of  the  citv  in  several  parlia- 
ments, received  the  honor  of  knighthood  from  King  William  III.,  and  died  12  Jan- 
uary, 1719  ;  his  lady  survived  tiir22  March,  1723.  His  brother  Henry  was  created 
a  Baronet  in  1688.     Her  sister  Mary  was  the  wife  of  Samuel  Clarke,  Esq.,  of  Soail- 

♦  Of  this  Henry  Ashhurst,  Morant  (vide  History  of  Essex,  ii.  296)  says :  ••  He  had  the 
chief  hand  in  KCttling  the  corporation  for  the  Propagation  of  the  Gospel  in  America,  of 
which  he  was  treasiirc'r;  and  also  zealously  promoted  the  translation  ot  the  Bible  iototbe 
Inaian  language.    Ue  dyed  In  1680." — h.  f.  w. 


1884.]  Genealogical  Gleanings  in  England,  415 

well  in  the  county  of  Cambridge  (of  Kentish  stock),  who  was  created  a  Baronet 
25  July,  1698,  and  died  8  March,  1719.  Another  twister,  Susan  Thomson,  was  the 
second  wife  of  Sir  Robert  Ducken6eld,  of  Duckenfield  Hall,  Cheshire,  created  a 
Baronet  16  June,  1665,  who  died  Nov.  1729. — h.  f.  w.] 

John  Scotchpord  of  Brenchlie  in  the  county  of  Kent,  clothier,  26  De- 
cember, 1600,  proved  16  January,  1600.  To  be  buried  in  the  parish  church 
of  Brenchley.  To  the  poor  of  the  parish.  To  Jasp  Saxbie,  Henry  Alchin 
and  Lawrence  Bycie,  to  every  of  them  ten  shillings.  To  my  servants.  To 
every  one  of  my  godchildren  twelve  pence  apiece.  To  John  Scotchford  mj 
uncle  ten  shillings.  To  Laurence  Briggenden  ten  shillings.  To  Jone,  my 
sister,  wife  of  Richard  Browne,  forty  shillings,  and  to  her  son,  Noe  Stone, 
three  pounds.  To  every  one  of  the  children  of  the  said  Jone,  my  sister, 
ten  shillings.  To  my  sister  Martha,  wife  of  Richard  Glydd,  twenty  shil- 
lings. To  her  son  John  my  godson,  twenty  shillings,  and  to  the  rest  of  her 
children  ten  shillings  apiece.  To  every  one  of  my  daughters,  Elizabeth, 
Anne,  Margaret,  Mary  and  Martha,  one  hundred  pounds  at  one  and  twenty 
years  of  age  or  day  of  marriage.  To  my  daughter  Elizabeth,  at  the  age  of 
one  and  twenty  years,  the  sum  of  ten  pounds,  which  ten  pounds  was  given 
her  by  her  grandmother,  my  mother.  To  my  wife  Elizabeth  one  hundred 
and  fifty  pounds  within  one  year  after  my  decease  (and  other  bequests  made 
to  her). 

To  every  one  of  the  daughters  of  John  Bigge  two  shillings,  and  to  his  son 
Hope  Bigg  ten  shillings;  to  Mary  wife  of  John  Bett  ten  shillings;  to  Mary 
wife  of  George  Stacie  ten  shillings;  all  within  twelve  months  after  my  de- 
cease. To  my  mother  nine  pounds  ten  shillings  yearly  (in  quarterly  pay- 
ments) &c.  To  George  Saxbie,  my  uncle,  twenty  shillings,  and  to  Wil- 
liam Saxbie,  my  uncle,  ten  shillings ;  both  within  three  months  after  my 
decease.  To  Edward  Henshall,  vicar  of  Brenchley,  twenty  shillings.  The 
residue  to  my  son  Thomas  Scotchford  and  his  heirs  forever.  John  Saxbie 
and  Robert  his  son,  both  of  Brenchley,  clothiers,  to  be  my  executors.  Rich- 
ard Glidd,  of  the  parish  of  Brightling,  iu  the  County  of  Sussex,  yeoman, 
and  John  Maynard  of  Brenchley,  yeoman,  to  be  the  overseers. 

The  witnesses  were  Edward  Henshall,  Script,  and  John  Maynard. 

Woodhall,  40. 

[The  testator  of  the  above  will  was  probably  the  ancestor  of  John  Scotchford, 
town  clerk  of  Ct)ncord,  who  married  Susanna  (perhaps)  dauj^hter  of  George  Meri- 
am,  and  died  10  June,  1696.  The  will  is  ac  aoy  rate  of  interest  as  relating  to  the 
Bigg  family. — u.  r.  w.] 

NiNiON  Butcher,  of  Mary  Aldermanbury  Loudon,  25  February,  1658, 
provecl  13  October,  1660.  To  the  poor  of  the  parish  of  Staplehurst.  To 
eight  poor  people  of  the  parish  of  Marden  live  shillings  apiece,  and  to  teu 
poor  people  of  the  same  parish  two  shillings  apiece.  To  M^'"  Lawrence, 
widow,  twenty  shillings,  to  M"  Southen  forty  shillings,  and  to  Henry  Par- 
sons ten  shillings.  To  eight  poor  ()eople  of  the  parish  of  Aldermanbury 
five  shillings  apiece,  and  to  eight  more  poor  people  two  shillings  and  six- 
pence. To  my  loving  daughter  Elizabeth  Houlden  five  hundred  and  fifty 
pounds  if  my  said  daughter  is  living  in  twelve  months,  &c.  if  not  then  to 
her  children  at  their  respective  ages  of  eighteen  years.  To  my  sister  Re- 
becca Glover  five  hundred  pounds  within  one  year,  if  my  sister  is  living,  if 
not  then  to  her  children  at  eighteen.  To  my  daughter  Mary  Pointell  five 
hundred  pounds  in  one  year,  &c.  if  alive,  if  dead  then  to  her  children  at 
their  several  ages  of  eighteen.     To  my  grand  children,  Elizabeth  Butcher, 


416  Oenealogical  Gleanings  in  England.  [Oct. 

fifty  pounds  at  eighteen,  William  Butcher,  twenty  pounds  at  one  and  twen- 
ty, and  Hannah  Butcher  twenty  pounds  at  eighteen.  To  my  grandchild- 
ren, James  Iloulden,  fifty  pounds  at  one  and  twenty,  and  Mary  Houlden, 
fifty  pounds  at  eighteen.  To  my  grandchildren,  Rebecca  Glover,  fifty 
pounds  at  eighteen,  and  Thomas  Glover,  twenty  pounds  at  one  and  twenty; 
and  twenty  pounds  to  every  other  child  of  my  daughter  Glover's  that  shall 
be  born  before  my  death,  and  to  be  paid  at  eighteen  if  daughters  and  at  one 
and  twenty  if  sons.  To  my  grandchildren,  Judith  Pointell,  forty  pounds 
at  eighteen,  Daniel  Pointell,  twenty  pounds  at  one  and  twenty,  and  Edward 
Pointell,  twenty  pounds  at  one  and  twenty.  To  my  reverend  Pastor  M' 
Edmund  Calamy  four  pounds  within  6  months.  To  every  one  of  my  bro- 
ther William's  children  that  shall  be  alive  six  months  next  after  my  de- 
cease twenty  shillings.  To  my  kinswomen  Mary  and  Elizabeth  Sheefe 
twenty  shillings  apiece  at  eighteen.  To  my  kinsman  Thomas  Butcher  of 
Staplehurst  twenty  shillings  in  twelve  months.  To  my  kinsman  Richard 
Butcher  twenty  shillings  in  twelve  months.  To  my  cousin  Tunnell  twenty 
shillings  a  year  during  natural  life.  To  my  cousin  Elizabeth  Busnell  twen- 
ty shillings  in  twelve  months.  To  my  cousins  Joseph,  Samuel  and  Caleb 
Swinoke  twenty  shillings  apiece  in  twelve  months.  To  my  cousin  Eliza- 
beth Crosse,  in  Southwark,  twenty  shillings  in  twelve  months.  To  my 
cousin  Mary  Hasleden  twenty  shillings  in  twelve  months.  To  my  loving 
sister  Johnson  forty  shillings  in  twelve  months.  To  M**  Bland  and  his  wife 
ten  shillings  apiece  in  twelve  months.  All  my  lands  to  my  son  John 
Butcher  and  his  heirs  forever,  and  the  residue  to  him.  My  three  daugh- 
ters, Elizabeth  Houlden,  Rebecca  Glover  and  Mary  Poyntell.  Grandchild- 
ren Elizabeth  and  Hannah  Butcher,  daughters  of  son  John.  Son  John 
Butcher  to  be  executor  and  sons  Daniel  Poyntell,  Francis  Willoughby  and 
Thomas  Glover  to  be  overseers.  Nabbs,  176. 

[I  suspect  Thomas  Glover  (husband  of  Rebecca)  was  son  of  John  Glover  of  Do^ 
Chester. — h.  f.  w.J 

John  Ive  of  Naylonde,  in  the  county  of  Suffolk,  clothier,  4  Dec  1618, 
proved  17  June,  1619.  To  wife  Anne  the  house  wherein  I  dwell,  for  and 
during  her  natural  life.  Friends  William  Forth,  gentleman,  and  Thomas 
Blythe  to  be  executors.  To  my  eldest  son  John  Ive  twenty  pounds  within 
one  year  after  the  decease  of  my  wife.  My  son  Thomas  Ive  of  London 
oweth  unto  me  forty  pounds  by  a  bond  bearing  date  9  January,  1617.  To 
my  son  Myles  Ive  the  sum  of  five  pounds  to  be  paid  unto  him  within  one 
year  after  the  decease  of  my  wife.  To  my  son  Ambrose  fifteen  pounds, 
within  one  year,  &c.  To  my  two  daughters  Anne  and  Mary  five  pounds 
apiece,  &c.  To  my  grandchild  John  Ive,  son  of  my  son  Thomas,  three 
pounds  at  the  age  of  one  and  twenty  years.  To  every  one  of  my  grand- 
children, the  children  of  my  son  John,  Miles  and  Anne,  now  living,  twenty 
shillings  apiece,  the  sons  at  twenty-one  and  daughters  at  eighteen.  The 
younger  children  of  my  son  Thomas.  The  children  of  my  son  Miles.  Tbf 
children  of  my  daughter  Anne  Frost. 

The  witnesses  were  Edmund  Wells,  John  Smyth  and  Richard  Robinsoo. 

Parker,  57. 

Edmund  Chaplin  of  Little  Waldingfield  in  the  County  of  Suffolk  and 
the  Diocese  of  Norwich,  gentleman,   G  October,  1G18,  proved  8  Februarfi 
1018,  by  John  Wincoll  and  Thomas   Brian,   with  power  reserved  ^-|j|^ 
widow  Martha  Chaplin  to  act.     To  my  grandchild  E<lmuude  Chaplin,^ 
est  son  of  my  late  son  Edmunde,  my  messuage  called  Lyons,  in  AVliatiieiw| 


1884.]  Genealogical  Gleanings  in  England,  417 

Suffolk,  at  the  age  of  five  and  twenty  years.  To  grandchild  William  Chap- 
lin, another  son  of  said  Edmund  and  to  Ursula  and  EIizal)eth  Chaplin,  his 
daughters  (minors).  To  John  Wincoll,  my  grand  child,  at  the  age  of  four- 
teen, Aune  Wincoll,  my  grand  child,  at  sixteen,  John  Wincoll,  my  son  in 
Law,  Awdry  Wincoll,  my  daughter,  his  wife.  Thos.  Brian  my  son  in  law 
and  Martha  Brian,  my  daughter,  his  wife.  John  Howe  of  Melford,  my 
nephew,  and  Judith  his  wife.  To  my  friend  M""  Thomas  lies  of  Hammer- 
smith, Middlesex,  gentleman,  a  ring  of  gold  (value  forty  shillings)  desiring 
him,  of  all  kindness,  to  stiind  good  grand  father  and  friend  unto  the  young 
poor  fatherless  children  of  my  late  son  and  his  son-in-law  Edmund  Chap- 
lin and  his  wife  Anne  the  daughter  of  M'  lies.  If  interred  at  Little  Wal- 
dingfield.  then,  &c.  If  interred  at  Lindsey,  &c.  To  Pernell  Wilkinson, 
wife  of  Wilkinson  the  elder,  and  to  the  widow  Mallard,  both  of  Little  Wal- 
dingfield,  five  shillings  apiece.  A  bequest  to  four  household  servants  of 
John  Wincoll.  All  the  residue  to  wife  Martha,  appointe<l  executrix,  with 
sons  John  Wincoll  and  Thomas  Brian. 

The  witnesses  were  George  Wincoll,  Francis  AVincoll  and  Joseph  Bri- 
ante.  Parker,  40. 

Sententia  pro  confirmacone  testi  Edmundi  Chaplin  def  in  judicio  inter 
Johannem  Wincoll  et  Thomam  Bryant  partes  hirioi  negotium  promoven- 
tes  ex  una  et  Martham  Chaplin  ats  Bryant  filiam  nVatem  dicti  defuncti 
Edmundum  et  AVttm  Chaplin  nepotes,  Ursulam  et  Eliz.  Chajdin  neptes 
ex  filio  eiusdem  defuncti,  etc.     21  June  1619.  Parker,  56. 

Testamentum  nuncupativum  Thome  Ayres.  of  the  parish  of  Froome  in 
the  County  of  Somerset,  broad  weaver,  14  January,  1638.  To  the  church 
there  three  shillings  and  fourpence ;  to  the  poor  six  shillinirs  and  eight 
pence.  Having  a  debt  of  five  pounds,  eight  shillings  due  him  by  bond 
from  one  Nathan  Doale,  of  Brooke  in  com.  Wilts,  his  will  was  that  Svmon 
Ayers,  his  brother,  should  have  that  debt  to  his  own  use  ;  also  his  wearing 
apparel  and  a  piece  of  new  green  cloth  which  lay  in  the  chest,  of  five  yanls; 
also  his  broad  loom  unto  Simon  Avers  and  William  Avers,  his  brother 
Simon  Ayers  his  children,  to  each  the  moiety.  A  cupboard  at  his  father's 
to  Anne  Ayers,  daughter  of  Simon  Avers.  His  wife  consents  to  these  leg- 
acies.    Witnesses  John  Lacie  and  Richard  Eyers. 

A  commission  issued  forth  20  March,  1638,  to  Mary  Ayers,  the  relict. 

Ilarvev,  54. 

Symon  Eyre  of  Osmiugton  in  the  County  of  Dorset,  yeoman,  20  April, 
1659,  proved  4  October,  1660,  by  William  Eyre.  To  wife  Joan  and  sou 
William  Eyres,  &c.  To  my  daughter-in-law  Alary  Eyres  the  sum  of  three 
score  pounds  which  was  promised  her  at  the  marriage  of  her  unto  my  son 
Symou  Eyres,  provided  the  portion  promised  by  her  friends  in  marriage  bo 
truely  and  duely  paid  and  for  those  children  she  had  by  my  son  Symon. 
To  my  four  grand  children  twenty  shillings  to  be  divided  equally  amongst 
them.  Son  William  to  be  executor  and  my  good  friends  Robert  and  Henry 
Godshall  to  be  overseers.     One  of  the  witnesses  was  a  John  Eyre. 

Kkbbs,  182. 

Nathanaell  Smith,  19  February,  1650.     **I  dispose  of  my  money  and 

goods  that  is  now  in  new  England  and  elsewhere  in  wise  and   manner  fol- 

owing."     The  sixty  three  pounds  in  M'  George   Corwin's   hands  due  by 

N>Dd,    twenty  pounds  of  it  to  my  kinsman   Thomas    Edwards,    eighteen 

'* .  .jinuuds  to  my  sister  liuth  Halford,  ten  pounds  to  M'  John  Nicolls,  flaxman, 

^^*  VOL.  xxxvui.        37* 


418  Genealogical  Gleanings  in  England,  [Oct. 

five  pounds  to  my  cousin  Nathaniel  Edwards  and  ten  pounds  to  my  uncle 
John  Smith.  The  money  in  James  Brown's  hand  and  that  which  is  in 
Master  Makepeace  his  hand,  Brown's  being  eight  or  ten  pounds  and  M' 
Makepeace's  four  pounds  ten  shillings,  my  will  is  that  my  sister  Hanna 
Mellowes  shall  have,  &c.  The  linen  that  I  have  I  do  give  the  napkins, 
towells  and  tablecloths  and  one  half  the  sheets  to  my  kinsman  Thomas  Ed- 
wards and  the  other  half  of  the  sheets  to  my  sister  Hauna  Mellowes  in 
New  England.  Linen  of  mine  in  my  brother  Mr.  Samuel  Wandley's  hands 
I  do  freely  bestow  it  upon  him.  Also  if  there  should  be  any  allowance  for 
the  plundered  estate,  one  half  whereof  is  due  to  me,  I  do  give  one  half  to 
my  brother  M'  Samuel  Fisher  and  the  other  half  to  be  distributed  between 
my  sister  Walford  and  my  sister  Wandley.  My  kinsman  Thomas  Eklwards 
and  cousin  Nathaniel  Edwards  to  be  administrators. 

The  witnesses  were  Samuel  Brinsmeades  and  Samuel  Oliver. 

20  March  1 650  emanavit  cofiiissio  Thomae  Edwards  et  Nathanaeli  Ed- 
wards, consanguineis  dicti  defuncti,  ad  administrand  bona  jura  et  credits 
diet,  defuncti  iuxta  tenorem  et  effectum  testamenti  ipiOs  defuncti,  eo  quod 
dictus  defunctus  nullum  omuino  in  hujusmodi  testamento  nominauit  Exe- 
cutorem  etc.  Grey,  53. 

[In  the  Massachusetts  Archives,  at  the  State  Tlouse  in  Boston  TB.  15,  No.  70), 
may  be  found  a  copy  of  this  will.  Another  copy  is  in  the  Court  llousie  at  Salem, 
among  the  records  of  Ipswich  Court,  1651,  in  the  present  office  of  the  Clerk  of  Coarts 
for  the  County  of  ESssez.  I  have  (scanty)  minutes  of  what  seems  tu  be  an  earlier 
will,  made  1  January,  1648  (Mass.  Archives.  B.  15,  No.  72),  in  which  the  teslator 
mentions  William  Halford,  **  my  brother  Andrew  Ualford*8  sonne,**  cousin  Natbaa- 
iel  AVandley,  cousin  Hannah  Mellowes  to  have  the  linen  and  Abraham  Melloweji 
my  books,  my  brother  Edward  Mellowes  and  my  brother  Samuel  Wandley  to  be 
executors.— H.  f.  w.] 

Edward  Apsley  of  Apsley  in  the  County  of  Sussex.  The  yearly  pro- 
'  fits  of  all  my  real  and  personal  estate,  in  Sussex,  Middlesex  and  Kent,  to 
my  brother  George  Feu  wick,  till  my  nephew  Edward  Fen  wick  attain  the 
age  of  twenty  one  years.  Then  my  will  is  that  he  should  change  his  name  to 
mine  ;  and  so  I  give  to  him  the  said  Edward  Fenwick  ats  Apsley  all  mine 
estate,  both  real  and  personal,  he  paying  to  his  father  one  hundred  pounds 
j>er  annum  during  his  life,  to  Jo:  Apsley,  son  to  my  cousin  Jo:  Apsley  of 
Pulberrow  fifty  pounds  per  annum  during  his  life,  to  my  servant  Margaret 
Moyse  twenty  pounds  per  annum,  to  Thomas  Stringer,  my  servant,  ten 
pounds  per  annum,  to  Moses  Fryer  ten  pounds  per  annum,  to  be  paid  to 
him  at  the  house  his  father-in-law,  M'  Evernden,  now  lives  in,  to  Jo:  Ad- 
ams ats  Humphrey  ten  pounds  per  annum  and  a  lease  for  twenty  one  years 
of  all  the  lands  he  holdeth  of  me,  at  the  rents  he  now  payeth,  to  the  town 
of  Steyning  five  pounds  per  annum,  to  Sir  Thomas  Middleton  one  hundred 
pounds.  To  Sir  Arthur  Ileislerige  two  either  of  my  stone  horses  or  mares. 
To  Duncombe  Colchester  such  of  my  geldings  as  he  shall  choose  and  twen- 
ty pounds,  ten  pounds  by  the  year.  To  my  cousin  Richard  C^oldicott  one 
hundred  pounds.  I  would  have  one  hundred  and  fifty  pounds  paid  to  M' 
Bartholomew ;  M'  Pierce  knoweth  where  he  liveth.     Other  bequests. 

There  issued  forth  letters  of  administration,  13  August,  1652,  to  Sir  Ar- 
thur Haslerigg,  one  of  the  members  of  the  right  honorable  the  Parliament 
of  the  Common  Wealth  of  England,  and  a  '*  legatary  "  named  in  this  will 
for  that  the  said  deceased  named  no  executor,  the  pretended  will  or 
**  scrowle  "  of  the  said  deceased,  bearing  date  11  October,  1651,  being  de- 
clared and  decreed  null  and  void.  Bowyer,  215. 

[See  will  of  Col.  George  Fenwick,  ante,  p.  199.— h.  f .  w.J 


1884.]  Oenealogical  Grleanings  in  England.  419 

Nathaniel  Eles  late  of  Harden  in  the  County  of  Hartford,  husband- 
man (nuncupative)  26  July,  1653,  proved  18  February,  1653.  To  every 
one  of  the  children  of  M'  William  Eles  twenty  shillings  apiece.  To  John 
Eles,  son  of  the  said  William,  a  two  and  twenty  shilling  piece  of  gold  over 
and  above,  <&c  To  every  one  of  the  children  of  M'  Nathaniel  Eles  twenty 
shillings  apiece.  It  was  his  will  that  Richard  White  who  liveth  with  M' 
Nathaniel  Eles  should  have  all  the  money  due  unto  him  from  goodman  Sal- 
mon. To  the  two  sisters  of  the  said  Richard  White  the  rents  of  his  house 
and  lands  till  his  brother  John's  son  shall  come  to  age.  To  the  poor  of 
Hamden  and  Essenden  twenty  shillings  apiece  to  each  parish  if  his  money 
would  hold  out.  To  M'*  Wilton  and  Mary  Smith  twenty  shillings  apiece. 
To  goodwife  Lewis  one  shilling.  To  his  brother's  daughter  all  the  remain- 
der of  the  money  in  his  chest.  To  his  brother's  son  his  house  and  lands 
when  he  cometh  of  age.  To  his  sister  in-law  a  bond  which  is  in  his  chest. 
Master  William  Eles  to  be  sole  executor.  Alchin,  179. 

[See  will  of  Nathaniel  £eies,  ante^  p.  64. — h.  f.  w.] 

Richard  Crouch  (by  mark)  of  the  parish  of  St.  Gyles  without  Crip- 
plegate,  London,  Brewer's  Servant,  27  October,  1660,  proved  29  Novem- 
ber, 1660.     My  body  to  be  buried  at  the  discretion  of  my  executrix. 

Imprimis  I  give  and  bequeath  unto  my  brother  William  Crouch  in  New 
England  beyond  the  seas  one  shilling  of  English  money,  to  be  paid  unto 
bim  within  one  twelvemonth  next  after  my  decease  if  the  same  be  demand- 
ed. To  my  sister  Elizabeth  Ayres,  wife  of  Richard  Ayres,  the  sum  of 
twelve  pence  of  like  money  if  the  same  be  demanded  in  twelve  months. 
The  residue  to  my  loving  wife  Anne  Crouch,  who  is  to  be  executrix. 

The  witnesses  were  William  Howe,  Daniel  How  and  Thomas  Gill,  Scr. 

Nabbs,  206. 

[William  Crouch,  of  Cbarlestown,  married  Sarah,  daughter  of  Barnabas  Lamson, 
of  Cambridge.  See  Wyman's  Charlestown,  pp.  251,597;  Paige's  Cambridge,  p. 
697. — £ditor. 

In  connection  with  the  above  it  may  be  well  to  notice  the  will  of  Peter  Lidget  of 
Boston,  merchant,  made  10  February,  1670-71,  with  a  codicil  duted  21  April,  1676, 
proved  6  May.  1676.  (Suff.  l^g.  Prob.,  B.  6,  pp.  160-162.)  The  following  persons 
are  named  :  My  wife  Elizabeth,  my  daughter  Elizabeth,  wifeof  John  Usher,  my  only 
0on  Charles,  my  daughter  Jane,  my  three  children,  the  three  children  of  my  sister 
Elizabeth  Cornel,  lately  deceased,  viz:  Peter,  Mary  and  Robert,  my  sister  Mary 
Smith's  two  chilaren,  John  and  Peter,  they  living  in  Essex,  to  be  paid  in  London,  my 
three  kinswomen,  cousin  Crouch  of  Charlestown,  cousin  Cooke  of  Cambridge  and 
cousin  Rioe  of  Sudburv,  the  three  children  of  my  aunt  Lampson,  my  grandchild 
fflisabeth  Usher,  jr.    My  son  Charles  to  marry  M"  Bethiah  Shrimpton. — h.  f.  w.] 

Thomas  Burnell,  citizen  and  cloth  worker  of  London,  5  July,  1661, 
with  a  codicil  bearing  date  19  August,  1661,  proved  2  October,  1661,  by 
the  oath  of  Hester  Burnell  his  widow. 

Remembering  the  saying  of  St.  Jerome  which  soundeth  daily  in  mine 
ears,  Surgite  mortui  et  venite  ad  judicium. 

If  I  die  in  London,  to  be  buried  within  the  chancel  door  of  the  parish 
church  of  Allhallows  Barking,  near  Tower  Hill,  under  the  gravestone  there 
lying  where  my  dear  brother  John  Burnell  and  his  virtuous  wife  Mary  (of 
worthy  memory)  lie  buried.  But  if  it  shall  please  the  almighty  God  that  I 
shall  die  at  Stan  more  Magna  then  my  desire  is  that  I  may  be  buried  there  in 
the  vault  within  that  chancel  door  of  the  said  parish  church  where  the  bones 
of  my  dear  deceased  father  and  mother  lie  buried,  at  the  discretion  of  my  lov- 
ing and  dear  wife  Hester  Burnell.     To  my  she  cousin  Hasell,  my  nephew 


420  Genealogical  Gleayiings  in  England.  [Oct. 

John  Burnell  Sen^  and  bis  three  sisters,  An,  Katherine  and  Elizabeth,  and 
to  the  three  sons  of  my  deceased  brother  William  Burnell,  viz:  Thomas, 
John  and  Henry  Burnell ;  also  unto  my  sister  Rewse,  my  two  nephews 
John  and  Richard  Ball  and  their  five  sisters,  An,  Barbara,  Jane,  Margaret 
and  Elizabeth,  my  cousin  Sarah  P2dlin  and  also  my  cousin  William  Pindar, 
]un%  for  his  help  for  the  getting  in  of  mine  estate, — to  all  of  them  the  sum 
of  thirty  pounds  apiece.  Also  I  give  unto  my  nephew  John  Morley,  resi- 
dent in  New  England,  and  to  his  sister-in-law,  the  wife  of  his  brother  Tho- 
mas Morley  deceased,  the  sum  of  ten  pounds  apiece,  and  unto  her  son  Tho- 
mas Morley,  both  resident  in  or  about  Hamburgh,  together  with  all  the 
children  of  my  nephews  John  Burnell,  Sen',  and  Thomas  and  Henry  Bur- 
nell, lawfully  begotten  in  wedlock,  that  shall  be  living  at  my  death,  the  sum 
of  five  pounds  apiece.  To  my  loving  and  dear  wife  fifty  pounds.  Also 
unto  her  loving  brother,  Henry  Wollastone,  Esq.  and  his  son  Henry,  my 
brother-in-law  Robert  Smyth,  my  nephew  Doctor  Richard  Ball,  my  cousin 
Doctor  William  Pindar,  my  cousin  Thomas  Reeve,  my  cousin  James 
Gough,  my  nephew  John  Burnell,  8en^  my  cousin  Doctor  Coe,  Bourcheirs 
and  Rudyere,  my  cousins  Thomas  and  Henry  Burnell,  and  all  their  wives, 
also  my  sister  Rewse,  my  cousin  Anne  Young  and  her  sister  Allett,  and  my 
cousin  Sarah  Ediin,  widow,  also  unto  my  cousin  John  Ball,  Esq.  and  my 
cousin  William  Robinson  and  my  cousin  John  Cooke ;  also  unto  my  cousins 
Doctor  Trench  and  Doctor  Deake  and  Doctor  Winter  and  their  wives,  and 
old  Mrs  Churchman,  the  sometime  bedle's  wife  of  Marchant  Taylor's  Hall ; 
to  all  the  sum  of  six  pounds  apiece  towards  their  mourning. 

My  copyhold  land  and  houses  in  Stanmore  Magna,  in  the  County  of  Mid- 
dlesex unto  my  wife  for  and  during  her  natural  life.  Whereas  I  have  late- 
ly purchased  another  house  and  land  lying  in  or  near  upon  Weald  Green  iu 
the  parish  of  Harrow  upon  the  Hill,  called  or  known  by  the  name  of 
Brookes,  another  field,  wood  ground  and  springs  called  Sander's  Hill,  and 
now  both  in  the  tenure  and  occupation  of  John  Dancer ;  and  also  my  pre- 
sent house  and  garden  wherein  I  now  dwell  here  in  London,  &c.  &c.,  with 
five  other  tenements,  all  lying  in  the  court  or  alley  calle<l  Nunn*s  Court  or 
Alloy,  in  the  street  or  parish  of  St.  Stephens,  ColtMnan  Street,  Loudon, 
(and  other  leases,  &c.)  ; — all  these  to  my  wife  for  life  ;  and  then  to  my 
nephew  John  Burnell,  Sen',  my  chief  house  and  lands  lying  in  SUmmore 
Magna,  Ciilled  and  known  by  the  name  of  Fiddles  (and  a  lot  of  other  lands 
there-to  my  said  nephew  for  life,  then  to  liis  wife,  if  he  do  marry  again,  and 
his  children  e(pially,  during  the  natural  life  or  second  marriage  of  his  said 
second  wife,  if  he  marry  again,  then  eipially  among  his  children  and  their 
heirs  forever;  failing  such  issue,  equally  among  the  children  of  the  three 
daughters  of  my  eldest  brother  John  liurnell  long  since  decease<l.  Also, 
after  my  wife's  decease,  I  give,  &c.  to  my  nephew  Thomas  Burnell,  elilest 
son  of  my  brother  William  Burnell  deceiised,  my  two  thirds  of  the  house 
and  land  he  now  lives  in,  called,  &c.  Buggs,  for  life,  then  to  his  wife  and 
children  during  her  life  or  second  marriage,  then  to  the  children.  To  my 
nephew  John  Burnell,  jun'  now  resident  in  the  East  Lnlies  (estate  in  Har- 
row, &c).  To  my  nephews  John  and  Richard  Ball  (the  house,  &c.  in  Lon- 
don). Legacies  to  godson  liurnell  Ball,  son  of  said  nephew  Richard  Ball, 
to  my  brother  Robert  Smyth,  my  brother  Thomas  AVollastou  and  my  bro- 
ther-in-law Justice  Henry  Wollaston. 

The  witnesses  to  the  will  were  Robert  Fenn,  Peter  AVhitin^e  and  Wil- 
liam  Pindar,  Jun'.  It  was  published  by  the  said  Thomas  Burnell  for  his 
will  19  August,  1661. 


1884.]  Genealogical  Oleanings  in  England.  421 

In  the  codicil  he  names  his  nephew  Thomas  Bumell,  citizen  and  haber- 
dasher of  London,  nephew  Henry  BorDell,  citizen  and  leatherseller  of  Lon- 
don and  his  three  daughters,  Elizabeth,  Mary  and  Barbara,  nephew  John 
Bumell,  citizen  and  clothworker  of  London,  now  in  the  East  Indies,  neph- 
ew William  Pindar,  citizen  and  clothworker  of  London  and  niece  Eliza- 
beth Gough,  wife  of  James  Gough. 

The  witnesses  to  the  codicil  were  John  Mosse,  Notary  Public,  and  Ed- 
ward Bullocke.  May,  150. 

[Stanmore  Magna  lies  at  the  extremity  of  the  County  of  Middlesex,  towards  Hert- 
fordshire, from  which  county  John  Morley  probably  came,  as  shown  by  his  will, 
wherein  he  disposef*  of  real  estate  in  Cheehunt,  Hertfordshiie.  John  Burnell,  Esq., 
was  lord  of  the  manor  of  Stanmore,  and  died  in  1605.  His  widow  Barbara  was  lady 
of  the  manor  for  twenty-six  years.  After  her  death  it  was  for  some  time  the  property 
of  her  son  Thomas  Bumell,  Esq.,  as  we  learn  from  Lyson's  Environs  of  London 
(vol.  3),  in  which  also  are  given  the  arms  of  this  family : — Sable  on  a  bend  Or  three 
escallops  of  the  field, — h.  f.  w.] 

John  Astwood,  of  Milford  in  the  Colony  of  Newhaven  in  New  Eng- 
land, 27  June,  1654,  proved  31  August,  1654,  by  his  son  Samuel  Astwood. 

To  my  loving  wife  Sarah  Astwood  all  my  estate  in  New  England  what- 
soever it  be  in  household  stuff  or  cattle  or  debts,  to  be  disposed  by  her  as 
she  shall  see  meet  for  her  own  proper  use.  Of  my  estate  here  in  England, 
in  Abutley,  I  do  give  my  brother  William  Astwood  ten  pounds  sterling 
within  one  year  after  my  decease.  To  my  loving  mother  five  pounds  ster- 
ling and  the  use  of  two  rooms  of  my  house  so  long  as  she  please.  To  my 
brother  Robert  Astwood  do  I  give  ^ye  pounds  sterling  within  two  years 
after  my  decease.  To  John  Rute  do  I  give  ten  shillings  after  my  decease. 
The  rest  of  my  property  to  my  executor.  My  son  Samuel  to  be  sole  ex- 
ecutor.  The  witnesses  were  Nicholas  Uudley  and  Robert  Swan  (by  mark). 

Aichin,  505. 

[See  Reoistir,  xiv.  304 ;  xxxv.  245.— Editor.] 

Peter  Gushing,  citizen  and  turner  of  London,  2  February,  1 663,  proved 
12  January,  1664.  To  wife  Godly  Gushing  (referring  to  contract  with 
John  Greeuhill  of  Loudon  and  William  Newbold  of  London,  gent.).  The 
messuage  or  tenement  wherein  I  now  dwell,  in  or  near  Broad  Street,  Lon- 
don, and  other  tenements.  To  my  brother  Thomas  Gushing.  To  ten  min- 
isters (who  are  named).  To  the  ^'M',  Warden  and  Gominalty  of  the  Mis- 
tery  or  Arte  de  lez  Tumors,"  London,  whereof  I  am  a  member.  To  Abi- 
gail Phillips,  Margaret  Bull  and  Sarah  Norris,  my  god-daughter.  To  my 
loving  friend  Francis  Gil  low  of  Stratford  Bow,  in  the  county  of  Middlesex, 
gent.  To  Martha  Gamlin,  now  wife  of  Henry  Gamlyn  and  daughter  of  the 
said  Francis  Gillow.  To  my  sister  Katherine.  To  William  and  Robert 
Gushing,  sons  of  my  brother  William  Gushing.  My  loving  friend  M'  Wil- 
liam Devonshire.  My  God  daughter  Sarah  Norris,  the  daughter  of  David 
Norris,  in  St.  Glement*s  Lane.  To  my  wife's  kinsman,  Richard  Hill,  twenty 
pounds.  My  loving  brother  Theophilus  Gushing.  My  brother  William 
Gushing's  youngest  daughter.  To  Anne  Gushing,  daughter  of  my  said  bro- 
ther William. 

*'  I  give  and  bequeath  unto  each  one  of  the  children  of  my  nephew  Daniell 
Gushing,  son  of  my  late  brother  Matthew  Gushing,  which  shalbe  living  at 
my  death  fiftie  pounds  a  peece."  To  Deborah  Briggs,  wife  of  Matthew 
Briggs,  one  hundred  pounds. — all  within  twelve  months  next  after  the  de- 
cease of  my  wife  Godly.     The  residue  to  my  brother  Thomas  Gushing. 


422  Genealogical  Oleanings  in  England.  [Oct 

The  tenemeut  in  Bread  Street  which  I  purchased  of  William  Swayne,  Esq. 
Loving  friends  Arthur  Remington,  Thomas  Hartley  and  William  Green- 
wood to  hold  property  in  trust.  After  payment  of  debts,  legacies,  annui- 
ties, <&c.  the  residue  to  my  said  nephew  Daniel  Cashing  and  to  Jeremy 
Gushing,  Matthew  Gushing  and  John  Gushing,  sons  of  the  said  Matthew 
"  Cushion,"  my  brother  deceased. 

The  witnesses  were  Francis  Gillow,  Henry  Woods,  John  Dawson  and 
Thomas  Stevens.  Hyde,  3. 

[See  Register,  x.  79,  173. — h.  f.  w.] 

Elizabeth  Hailes  of  Lower  Shadwell  in  the  parish  of  Stebunheath  al^ 
Stepney,  in  the  County  of  Middlesex,  widow,  28  September,  1G64,  proved 
22  March,  1664,  by  Thomas  Parker  and  William  Bugby,  the  executors. 
My  executors  to  invite  such  a  number  of  my  christian  friends  as  they  shall 
think  fit  to  accompany  my  corps  to  my  funeral,  and  to  disburse  and  lay  out 
for  the  accommodation  of  those  friends  the  full  sum  of  thirty  pounds.  To 
my  cousin  Thomas  Parker  twenty  pounds,  and  to  my  cousin  Ann  Parker, 
his  wife,  twenty  shillings.  To  my  cousin  John  Parker,  son  of  my  said  cou- 
sin Thomas  Parker,  thirty  pounds.  To  my  cousin  Thomas  Little  ten 
pounds ;  to  Elizabeth  Little,  his  wife,  thirty  pounds ;  and  to  Mary  Little, 
his  daughter,  ten  pounds.     To  my  grandchild  William  Bugby,  five  pounds. 

To  my  cousin  John   Foster,  of  Tower   Hill,  and  to  ,  his  wife,  five 

pounds  apiece.     To  my  cousin  William  Foster,  at  New  England,  tlie  full 

sum  of  ten  pounds  of  like  lawful  money.     To  my  cousin Graves,  of 

Tower  Hill,  widow,  twenty  shillings.     To  my  cousin  Elizabeth  Harris  ten 

pounds,  and  to  her  daughter ,  my  husband's  goddaughter,  four  {.rounds. 

To  my  cousin  Appleby,  of  London,  Beavermaker,  and  to ,  his 

wife,  five  pounds  apiece.  To  my  cousin  Isaac  Foster's  daugliter,  four 
pounds;  to  my  cousin  Elizabeth  Parsons  twenty  pounds;  to  my  cousin 
Martha  Goodwin  twenty  pounds ;  to  my  cousin  John  Hutchinson  twenty 
pounds.  To  my  said  cousin  John  Hutchinson's  five  sons  (that  is  to  say)  John, 
Henry,  Edmond,  Thomas  and  George  Hutchinson,  ten  pounds  apiece.  To 
my  cousin  Ann  Barber,  widow,  twenty  pounds,  to  her  daughter  Susan,  now 
the  wife  of  Robert  Aldons,  ten  pounds,  and  to  the  children  of  the  said  Su- 
san ten  pounds.  These  legacies  to  be  paid  within  one  month  next  after  my 
decease  to  the  several  respective  legatees,  or  to  so  many  of  them  as  shall 
demand  the  same  ;  they  to  give  absolute  discharges  of  any  further  claim  to 
mine  or  my  deceased  husband's  estate. 

To  my  cousin  Thomas  Parker  the  full  sixteenth  part  of  the  good  ship 
William  and  Elizabeth,  of  London,  &c.  &c.,  of  which  ship  he  the  Siud  Tho- 
mas Parker,  under  God,  at  the  date  hereof,  is  master.  To  Jane  Bugby, 
the  wife  of  my  aforesaid  grandchild  William  Bugby,  my  full  two  and  thirti- 
eth part  of  the  good  ship  called  the  Owners  Adventure,  of  London,  &c.  &c., 
of  which  ship,  under  God,  the  said  William  Bugby,  at  the  date  hereof,  is 
master.  To  my  aforesaid  cousin  John  Parker  my  other  two  and  thirtieth 
part  of  the  aforesaid  ship.  Twenty  pounds  amongst  the  j)Oor  of  Shadwell, 
to  be  "  distributed  to  and  amongst  the  Auntient  poore  and  such  as  are  not 
Idle,  drunken  or  of  badd  conversation,"  within  one  month  next  after  my 
decease.  Twenty  pounds  to  another  division  of  Stepney,  resi)ect  btriuj; 
first  had  to  aged  [)oor  seamen  and  their  families  in  want. 

My  loving  cousin  Thomas  Parker  and  my  loving  grandchild  William 
Bugby  to  be  my  executors,  and  my  loving  friends  M'  John  Hall  and  M' 
Day  to  be  the  overseers.     Two  twenty  shilling  pieces  of  gold  to  be  giveu 


1884.]  Genealogical  Gleanings  in  England.  423 

to  Doctor  William  Clarke,  minister  of  Stepney,  for  his  pains  to  preach 
my  funeral  sermon,  if  he  shall  please  to  undertake  the  same.  To  my  nurse 
Margaret  Wybrow  forty  shillings. 

The  witnesses  were  John  Ilulme,  Elizabeth  Hill,  Raph  Matthews  and 
William  Bissaker.  Hyde,  25. 

Roger  Glover  of  London,  merchant,  being  now  at  the  Island  of  Mea- 
vis,  14  November,  1636,  proved  5  Sept.  1637.  William  Hawkins,  citizen 
and  waxchandler  of  London,  to  be  overseer.  Goods,  &c.  in  the  Increase  of 
London  to  be  disposed  of  for  the  advantage  of  Richard  Rowe  of  London, 
merchant,  my  loving  brother  Richard  Glover  of  London,  merchant,  and 
my  loving  sisters  Elizabeth  and  Sara  Glover,  whom  I  appoint,  &c.  executors. 
Debts  due  in  the  ladyes  and  debts  formerly  due  in  any  part  of  the  West 
Indyes.  To  my  niece  Elizabeth  Glover,  daughter  of  my  loving  brother 
Joss:  Glover  fifty  pounds.  To  William  Rowe,  son  of  the  said  Richard 
Rowe,  thirty  pounds.  To  my  niece  Elizabeth  Pemmerton  forty  pounds.  To 
John  Worcester  ten  pounds.  To  my  friend  Capt.  Thomas  Sparrowe,  Gov- 
ernor of  the  Island  of  Meavis  two  thousand  weight  of  tobacco.  To  M' 
George  Upcote  of  the  same  Island  five  hundred  weight  of  tobacco.  To 
Nicholas  Godsalve,  Secretary,  three  hundred  pounds  of  tobacco.  Debts 
due  from  Thomas  Littleton  late  Governor  of  the  abovesaid  Island.  To 
James  Littleton,  his  son.  one  hundred  pounds. 

The  witnesses  were  Thomas  Sparrow,  John  Worcester,  Thomas  Hinde 
and  Nicholas  Godsalue,  Seer.  Goare,  126. 

Thomas  Nelson  of  Rowlay  in  the  County  of  Essex  in  New  England, 
being  by  Providence  called  now  to  make  a  voyage  into  Old  Ent^land  "  this 
sixt  of  Sextilis,  here  called  August,  1 648."     To  wife  Joane  for  her  natu- 
ral life  my  mill,  millhouse,  <&c.   in  Rowlay  and  all  that  ground  near   unto 
the  said  mill,  lately  in  the  occupation  of  Joseph  Wormehill,  and  all  my 
upland  and  meadow  or  other  ground  between  Rowley  Oxe  Pasture  on  one 
part,  the   common  on  another  part  and  the    Mill  River  and  the  Brook 
that  goeth  from  the  town  on  the  other  part, — all  containing  fifty  acres  more 
or  less,  provided  she  make  no  claim  to  any  other  part  of  my  houses,  lauds, 
&c, — also  two  acres  of  ground  in  the  Pond  field  next  M"  Rogers,  during 
her  natural  life  (leaving  out  the  pond),  to  build  her  an  house.     The  rever- 
sion of  said  mills,  &c.  I  give  amongst  my  children  and  their  heirs,  as  well 
that  child  which  my  wife  is  withali  as  the  rest.     To  my  eldest  son  Philip 
Nelson  a  double  portion,  and  to  son  Thomas  Nelson  and  daughter  Marie 
Nelson  and  the  child  or  children  she  is  withali  their  equal  parts.     Richard 
Bullingtam  {sic)  Esq.  and  my  honored  uncle  Richard   Duiiier  gen^  shall 
have  the  education  of  my  son  Philip  Nelson  and  Thomas  Nelson  and  the 
proportions  of  both  their  estates,  &c.   for  their  education  and  maintenance, 
till  they  come  to  the  age  of  twenty-one  years,  &c.   My  uncle  Richard  Dum- 
mer  to  have  the  education  of  my  daughter  Marie  Nelson  and  the  other 
children.     To  my  son  Philip  Nelson  the  sum  of  ten  pounds  which  wiis  given 
him  by  my  aunt  Katharine  Witham  and  is  in  my  hands,  <&c.     M'  Richard 
Bellingham  and  my  uncle  Richard  Duiner  to  be  executors.     I  would  in- 
treat  M*"  Ezekiell  Rogers  of  Rowly  and  M'  John  Norton  of  Ipswich  to  be 
overseers.     Signed  Dec  24*^,  1045,  in  presence  of  Jeremy  Ilowchin  and 
Ezechiell  Northeiis. 

I  Thomas  Nelson  being  about  to  return  to  Rowland  in  New  England  do 
by  these  proscut  test-my  confirmiag  of  my  last  will  and  testament  which  I 


424  Oenealogical  Oleanings  in  England.  [Oct. 

made  and  left  id  New  England  with  my  wife's  unde  M'  Richard  Darner. 

My  youngest  child  Samuel  Nelson  being  bom  since  that  will  was 

made,  &c.  &c. 

The  witnesses  were  Henry  Jacike  ats  Jesse,  Daniel  Elly  (by  mark), 
Sara  Appleyard  (by  mark). 

The  above  will  was  proved  21  February,  1650,  by  Richard  Dummer 
one  of  the  executors,  power  being  reserved  for  Richard  Bellingham,  the 
other  executor,  &c.  Grey,  SO. 

J^ee  Essex  Co.  Court  Papers,  vol.  iii.  Noe.  65  and  70. — H.  F.  Waters. 

This  will  was  also  provea  and  recorded  in  the  Suffolk  County  Probate  Court.  An 
abstract  is  printed  in  the  Rbgisteb,  iii.  3tf7-0.  An  aocount  of  Thomas  Melaoa  is 
printed  in  the  Rkgistsr,  xxxv.  271 ;  see  also  pp.  261,  267,  269. — Editor.] 

Benjamin  Woodbridoe  of  Englefield,  in  the  county  of  Berks,  25  Oc- 
tober, 1684  (nuncupative)  in  presence  and  hearing  of  Dame  Elizabeth 
Alley n,  M'*  Mary  Alleyn  and  M'*  Mariabella  Charles.  He  bequeathed 
all  to  his  wife  Mary.  As  no  executor  was  named.  Letters  of  Administra- 
tion were  issued  to  his  widow  3  April,  1685.  Cann.  51. 

[His  name  stands  first  on  the  list  of  icraduates  of  Harrard  College.  See  Ruistb, 
zxxii.  293.— Editor.] 

Pargiter. 

London  y«  2'^  of  August  1654 

Brother  Francis I  beinge  now  intended  by  divine  providence 

for  L*eland  desireinge  in  my  absence  that  you  would  be  pleased  to  receive 
and  open  whatsoever  letters  shall  come  to  mee  from  beyouud  Seas,  or  from 
freinds  here  ;  And  for  what  goods  of  mine  or  others  that  shalbe  consigned 
to  mee  from  the  Barbadoes  or  elce where  I  request  you  to  enter  them  in 
the  custome  house  and  take  them  up  and  to  dispose  of  them  at  price  Currant 
(except  you  see  anie  probability  to  advance  by  keepinge  of  them  which  I 
leave  to  yo'  discretion  And  withall  you  may  please  to  take  notice  that  I 
stand  indebted  to  the  Account  of  John  Washington  (as  per  Account  sent 
him  thirty  eight  pound  tenn  shillings  and  tenn  pence,  which  monies  is  to 
pay  the  fraught  of  Servants  to  the  Barbadoes  in  case  his  freinds  have  or 
shall  provide  anie  to  send  him  And  for  the  dischargeingo  of  part  of  this 
debt  I  herewith  leave  you  a  bond  of  Thomas  Pargiter^s  for  twenty  and 
three  pouuds  payable  to  mee  the  Sixth  day  of  September  next,  but  since 
hee  made  this  bond  to  mee  I  have  had  of  him  to  the  value  of  aboute  Sea- 
venteene  shillings  Soe  rests  due  but  twenty  two  pounds  and  three  shil- 
lings. The  rest  (or  this  if  his  occation  require  it  sooner)  I  desire  yon 
wilbe  pleased  to  disburse  for  mee  And  to  pay  yo^selfe  out  of  the  proceeds  of 
such  goods  of  mine  as  shall  come  to  your  hands  There  is  likewise  due 
from  mee  to  my  cosen  Robert  Wards  account  five  pounds  which  monies  as 
soone  as  you  shall  have  soe  much  monies  of  mine  in  your  hands  I  then 
desire  it  may  be  paid  to  James  Yeates  for  my  Cosen  Robert  Wards  Ac- 
count I  likewise  leave  one  bill  of  Ladinge  for  my  cosen  John  AVashing- 
ton's  goods  shipt  in  the  Advice  M'  Robert  May  which  I  desire  may  be  sent 
him  the  verie  next  shipp  after  M'  Mays  that  shall  goe  for  the  Barbadoes 
And  if  M^  Lapsey  will  doe  mee  the  favour  (as  hee  hath  promised  mee) 
which  is  to  lett  mee  have  aboute  halfe  a  dozen  hoggs  heads  of  his  Virginia 
Tobacco  at  price  Currant  to  Satisfie  the  debt  of  thirty  two  pound  Seaven- 
teene  shillings  and  eleaven  pence  which  hee  owes  mee  I  shall  then  desire 
my  Cosen  Thomas  Pargiter  the  groser,  or  some  others  of  Judgment  whom 
you  shall  thincke  fitt  to  looke  it  over  that  it  be  found  marchantable  aod 


1884.]  Oenealogical  Oleaningsin  England.  425 

good  and  worth  the  monie  And  then  desire  you  to  receave  it  and  shipp  it 
oat  in  his  name  for  Waterford  or  Dublin  in  Ireland  And  this  is  all  the 
materiall  at  present :  only  (in  case  of  mortallity)  I  then  bequeath  to  you 
the  hundred  and  fifty  pounds  now  restinge  in  my  brother  Robert  Fargiters 
hands  for  which  a  yeares  interest  was  due  to  mee  in  may  last  And  there  is 
three  pounds  tenn  shillings  and  nine  pence  due  to  mee  from  my  nephew 
William  Pargiter  And  I  doe  stand  indebted  unto  Thomas  Fargiter's  bro- 
ther who  lives  at  Wardington  five  pounds  And  fivQ  pounds  more  to  my 
fikther  which  hee  lett  him  have  long  since  And  for  what  other  estate  of 
mine  shalbe  cominge  to  mee  from  beyound  Setfs  together  with  the  ffifty 
pounds  my  brother  ffrancis  Smith  hath  of  mine  upon  a  mortgage  I  doe  as 
before  (only  in  case  of  mortallity)  bequeath  it  to  my  brother  William  Far- 
giter  and  my  brother  Ezechiell  Fargiter  to  bee  equally  devided  betweene 
them.  Soe  wishinge  you  health  and  prosperity  in  all  your  affaires  I  take 
leave  and  rest    Your  Loveinge  brother  to  Comand     Theodor  Pargiter. 

Commission  or  Letters  of  Administration  issued  20  May,  1656,  to  Wil- 
liam Pargiter  and  Ezekiel  Fargiter,  natural  and  lawful  brothers  of  the 
deceased.  Berkeley,  164. 

[What  18  known  of  this  John  Washington  who  was  in  Barbadoes  jost  before  the 
emigrant  ancestor  of  George  Washington  settled  in  Virginia? — Editor.] 

Letters  of  Administration  on  the  estate  of  John  Llotdb,  late  in  Viiw 
giuia,  deceased,  granted  27  August,  1653,  to  his  daughter  Mary  Lloyde^ 

Admon  Act  Book  P.  C.  C,  1653,  fol.  24, 

[Though  I  have  not  met  with  the  name  of  John  Lloyde  in  early  record  or  print  of 
Virginia,  the  followins;  data  of  others  of  the  same  name  may  prove  of  interest.  The 
State  Land  Registry  Offioe  presents  of  record,  grants  to  Cornelius  Lloyd,  800  acres 
in  £lixabeth  City  oountv,  June  2,  1635 ;  400  acres  on  the  west  branch  of  fHizabeth 
River,  March  13,  1636  \  100  acres  on  the  east  side  of  Elizabeth  River,  Dec.  23,  1636— 
Book  No.  1,  pp.  304,  359  and  406  severally.  Cornelius  Uoyd  of  London,  merchant, 
Wm.  Tucker,  Maurice  Tompson,  George  Tompson,  William  Harris,  Thomas  Dob- 
son,  James  Stone  and  Jeremiah  Blackman,  manner,  8000  acres  in  Charles  City  coun- 
ty, February  9,  1636,  Book  No.  1,  p.  410.  £dmund  Lloyd,  4IK)  acres  in  James  City 
county.  May  SO,  1636,  Book  No.  1,  p.  359.  Humphrey  Uoyd,  250  acres  in  Charles 
River  ooun^,  November  6,  1637,  Book  No.  1,  p.  523.  Cornelius  Uoyd  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  House  of  Burgesses  from  Lower  Norfolk  county,  March  d,  1642-3,  Oct.  1, 
1644,  and  Nov.  3,  1647.  **  Leftenant  Colonel  "  Cornelius  Lloyd  appears  as  a  bur- 
ffees  from  Lower  Norfolk  county.  May  6,  1653,  and  July  5, 1653: — Htning^s  Statutes^ 
1.  pp.  239,  283,  340, 373  and  379.  £dward  Lloyd  as  burgess  from  Lower  Norfolk 
county,  Feb.  17,  1644-5.— //entn<7,  i.  p.  289.— K.  A.  BaocK,  Richmond,  Va. 

Letters  of  Administration  on  the  estate  of  Robert  Bodohton  the 
younger,  late  in  New  England,  bachelor,  deceased,  issued  to  his  father 
Robert  Boughton,  31  January,  1655. 

Admon  Act  Book  P.  C.  C,  1656,  fol.  6. 

Letters  of  Administration  on  the  estate  of  Samuel  Frte,  late  in  Vir- 
ginia, bachelor,  deceased,  issued  12  March,  1655,  to  his  mother  Ann  Frye, 
widow.  Admon  Act  Book  P.  C.  C,  1656. 

[The  following  ^prants  of  record  in  the  Virginia  Land  Registry  Office  may  have 
some  connection  with  the  testator  Samuel  Frye : — To  William  ^rye,  250  and  500 
acres  in  James  Ci^  county,  Ma^r  20,  1637,. and  Aug.  29,  1643,  Book  No.  I,  pp.  421 
and  906  ;  to  Joseph  Farye,  250  acres  in  Charles  City  county,  May  27,  163B,  Book 
No.  1,  p.  561.— R.  A.  Brock,  Richmond,  Va.] 

Letters  of  Administration  on  the  estate  of  Andrew  Gilliard,  in  ship 
King  of  Poland,  late  in  Virginia,  deceased,  issued  2  April,  1656,  to  John 
PolUng,  cousin  Grerman.  Admoo  Act  Book  P.  C.  C,  1656. 

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426  Genealogical  Oleanings  in  England.  [Oct 

Letters  of  Administration  on  the  estate  of  Margaret  Gibbons,  late  of 
New  P2ngland,  but  at  her  death  of  Plymouth  in  County  Devon,  issued  28 
February,  1656,  to  Jerusha  Rea,  now  the  wife  of  Capt.  Thomas  Rea,  natu- 
ral and  lawful  daughter  of  the  deceased. 

Admon  Act  Book  P.  C.  C,  1657. 

fThis  was  Margaret,  widow  of  Miy.  Gen.  Edward  Gibbons.  See  RBOiflTKR,  riii. 
276;  ix.  346;  lavage's  Gen.  Diet.  ii.  345;  Wyman'e  Charlestown,  i.  406.— Ed.] 

Letters  of  Administration  on  the  estate  of  Richard  Pate,  late  in  Vir- 
ginia, deceased,  issued  30  October,  1657,  to  John  Pate,  his  brother's  son. 

Admon  Act  Book  P.  C.  C,  1657. 

rXhe  following  grants  are  of  record  in  the  Virginia  Land  Registry  Oflioe : — ^Rteb- 
ard  Pate,  1141  acrtis,  of  land  on  the  north  side  of  York  Ri?er,  Dec.  13,  1650,  Book 
No.  2.  p.  271.  John  Pate,  1000  acres  in  Rappahannock  county,  Dec.  31,  1669, 
Book  No.  5,  p.  201.  The  name  Pate  is  numerously  represented  m  Virginia  at  the 
present  day. — R.  A.  Brock,  Richmond,  Va.] 

Francis  Anthony,  Doctor  of  Physick,  25  May,  1623,  proved  19  Jane, 
1623.  To  be  buried  in  the  parish  church  of  St.  Bartholmewes.  My  lease 
at  Barnes  I  bequeath  to  my  beloved  wife,  consisting  of  niaosion  bouse,  gar- 
den,  orchard,  &c.,  late  in  the  occupation  of  Thomas  Erskins,  and  ten  pounds 
a  year  to  be  paid  out  of  my  dwelling  house  in  St.  Bartholmewes,  daring 
her  natural  life,  and  all  moneys  in  the  hands  of  Sir  Stephen  le  Sure, 
Knight,  and  M'  Richards.  To  my  daughter  Martha,  as  her  dowry  money, 
three  hundred  pounds.  The  inheritance  of  this  my  dwelling  house  in  St. 
Bartliolmewes  to  Francis  my  son,  my  copyhold  lands,  &c.  in  Barnes  to 
my  youngest  son  Charles.     Other  estates  to  eldest  son  Francis. 

To  my  sons  Francis,  John  and  Charles  all  that  state  of  mine  in  Virginia, 
together  with  all  disbursements  of  all  and  singular  such  moneys  as  the 
Company  have  received  from  me  for  thirty  shares,  and  all  the  appurtenances 
in  Southampton  Hundred  there,  to  be  divided  amongst  them  by  equal  por- 
tions as  long  as  they  shall  be  living,  **and  so  to  the  longest  liver  of  them 
three."  To  my  wife  the  basin  and  ewer  of  silver  and  all  such  other  plate 
as  was  in  her  possession  at  the  time  of  my  marriage  with  her.  To  my 
daughter  Vickars  twenty  pounds  a  year.  To  my  son  Charles  twenty 
pounds  a  year  during  the  term  of  the  lease  at  Barnes.  To  my  daughter 
Smith  and  my  daughter  Martha  each  twenty  pounds,  in  the  same  manner. 
To  John  and  Charles,  my  sons,  all  my  books  equally  except  my  written 
books,  wliich  I  bequeath  to  Charles.  To  them  I  give  and  bequeath  all  my 
medicines  equally. 

I  appoint  my  wife  and  Sir  Stephen  le  Sure,  Knight,  my  executors,  and 
M""  Humfrey  Sel wood  overseer. 

The  testator  made  his  mark  26  May.  Probate  was  granted  to  Elizabeth 
Anthony  the  relict  and  one  of  the  executors,  power  being  reserved  for  the 
other.  On  the  17th  of  March,  1629,  commission  issued  to  Sir  Stephen  le 
Sieur,  K"*,  the  other  executor.  Swann,  60. 

Francis  Antuont  of  London,  gentleman,  11  Aug.  1623,  proved  18  Aug. 
1623.  To  be  buried  in  the  parish  of  St.  Gyles  without  Crepelgate,  Loo- 
don.  To  wife  Judith  Anthony  all  those  two  leases  of  the  mansion  house,  &c. 
&c.  situate,  lying  and  being  in  Barnes  in  the  County  of  Surrey,  sometime 
in  the  tenure  of  one  Thomas  Erskins,  and  my  right,  title,  interest,  &c.  in  the 
same  by  virtue  of  the  last  will  and  testament  of  Francis  Anthony,  my  fa* 
ther  deceased,  on  condition  she  do  suffer  my  mother  in  law  Elizabeth  An- 


1884.]  Genealogical  Gleanings  in  England.  427 

thon  J  to  enjoy  such  part  of  the  same  mansion  house  and  premisses  as  by 
the  last  will  and  testament  of  my  said  father  she  is  appointed  to  enjoy,  and 
that  she  pay  such  legacies  as  are  or  shall  be  due  to  be  paid  to  my  said 
mother  for  her  dower,  my  brother  Charles  Anthony,  my  sister — Robinson, 
my  sister — Smith  and  my  sister  Martha,  out  of  the  same  two  leases,  &c.  or 
out  of  my  messuage  or  tenement  in  the  tenure  of  John  Anthony  my  bro- 
ther, situate,  lying  and  being  in  the  parish  of  Great  St.  Bartholmewe 
near  West  Smithfield.  To  my  son  Edmond  Anthony  all  my  said  messuage 
or  tenement  in  Great  St.  Bartholmewe,  &c.  to  hold  forever ;  but  if  my  said 
son  Edmond  shall  depart  this  present  life  before  he  shall  accomplish  his 
fall  age  of  twenty  and  one  years  then  to  Elizabeth  Anthony  my  daughter. 
If  both  die  before  accomplishing  the  age  of  twenty  one  then  to  my  said 
wife  Judith  for  and  during  the  term  of  her  natural  life,  my  wife  to  receive 
the  rents,  &c.  until  they  attain  their  several  ages,  as  aforesaid.  To  my  said 
daughter  Elizabeth  one  hundred  and  fifty  pounds  at  her  age  of  twenty  one  or 
day  of  marriage.  To  Sara  Russha  my  daughter  in  law  fifteen  pounds  due  me 
by  bond  from  my  brother  Charles  Anthony  within  four  years  next  after  the 
date  hereof.  To  my  said  wife  all  the  arras  hangings,  the  best  tafTata  bed, 
&c  To  the  poor  of  St.  Gyles  without  Crepelgate  ten  shillings.  The  res- 
idue to  my  wife  Judith  whom  I  appoint  executrix.  My  brother  Johu 
Anthony,  Doctor  of  Phy sicks,  and  Edmund  BoUyvant  to  be  overseers. 
Wit :  John  Wandley  Sen,  Edward  Leche,  John  Duesh. 

Swann,  87. 

[Frauncis  Anthoyne  obijt  one  Wensdaye  the  13  of  August  burycd  in  S*  Giles  Cri- 
plegatt  before  the  Fulpett  the  15  of  y*  same  1623  w'  7  escochens. — Harleian  MSS. 
1754,  f.  63.— H.  F  w.] 

EzEKiELL  CuLVERWELL,  of  Loudou,  clcrk,  5  July,  1630,  proved  9  May, 
1631.  To  Nicholas  Piccard  my  kinsman  ten  pounds.  To  Katherine  my 
kinswoman  ten  pounds.  To  Mrs  Johnson,  wife  to  Frederick  Johnson,  five 
pounds.  Item  to  Margaret  Chevers,  for  herself  and  her  son  Ezekiell,  ten 
pounds.  To  John  Hudson,  student  at  the  University  in  Dublin,  forty  shil- 
lings. To  Josiah,  son  to  Martha  Wilson,  five  i>ounds.  To  old  Alice  Grind- 
er twenty  shillings.  To  old  Ellyn  Smith,  a  maid,  forty  shillings.  To  Eze- 
kiell  Washbourne,  son  of  Robert  Washbourne,  five  pounds.  To  my  daugh- 
ter Sarah  one  hundred  pounds  to  her  own  use.  To  Benedict,  sou  of  my 
daughter  Sarah  Barfoot,  two  hundred  pounds.  To  poor  faithful  preachers 
and  godly  poor  students  in  either  University  one  hundred  pounds. 

For  all  my  English  books  (my  bible  in  quarto  excepted,  which  I  give  to 
Martha  Wilson)  1  leave  to  my  executrix  for  her  own  use.  All  my  Latin 
books  I  will  to  be  divided  in  three  parts,  equally  as  may  be,  and  then,  by 
lot,  to  give  to  Nicholas  Piccard  one  lot,  to  Josias  Wilson  another  lot,  a 
third  lot  to  Ezekiell  Cheuers.  The  residue  to  my  daughter  Sara,  whom 
I  appoint  sole  executrix.     Wit:  Arthur  Harbur. 

Reg.  of  Commissary  Court  of  London  (1629-34),  fol.  147. 

[Ezekiel  Culverwell,  a  Puritan  divine  and  author,  educated  at  Emmanuel  College, 
was  vicar  of  Felsted  in  EHsex,  but  in  1583  was  suspended  for  not  wearing  the  sur- 

fdioe ;  was  afterwards  rector  of  Stambridge  magna  in  the  same  county,  of  which 
iving  he  was  deprived  about  1609,  his  successor  having  been  inducted  March  27  of 
that  year.  The  register  of  St.  Antholin's  church,  London,  contains  this  entry 
under  the  year  1631:  **  April  14,  M""  Ezekiel  Culverwell,  minister,  bur."  Bio- 
graphical sketches  are  printed  in  Brookes  Puritans,  iii.  513,  and  Davids's  Noncon- 
formity  in  Essex,  n.  125.  See  also  Newcourt's  Repertorium,  ii.  542 ;  Register  of 
St.  Antholin  (Uarl.  8(>c.).  p-  65.  Brook  and  Davids  give  the  titles  and  dates  of  his 
works;  as  does  alno  AUibone  in  his  Dictionary  of  Authors,  i.  458. — Editor. 


428  Chnealogical  Gleanings  in  England.  [Oct. 

Esckiel  Cheever,  one  of  the  le^toes  named  in  the  foregoing  wiU,  was  doabtlevs 
the  famous  master  of  the  Boston  Latin  School.  He  was  bom  m  London,  Jan.  25, 
1614,  came  to  Boston  in  New  England  in  1637,  and  died  there  Aug.  21,  1703,  in  the 
ninety-fourth  year  of  his  age.  For  a  biographical  notice  of  him  and  an  account  of 
his  family,  see  the  articles  entitled  "  £zeKiel  Cheever  and  Some  of  his  Descendants," 
in  the  Ukqister  for  April,  1879  (zxxiii.  164),  and  April,  1881  (zxxriii.  170).— Jofl.H 
T.  Hassam. 

In  vol.  i.  p.  395  London  Visitations  (edited  by  Dr.  Howard  and  Col.  Chester), 
appears  the  marriage  of  Thomas  Uorton,  of  London,  merchant,  a<^  1634,  3d  son  to 
Margaret,  dau.  of  Lawrence  CuWerweli.--J.  C.  J.  Brown.] 

James  Holt  of  Virginia,  planter,  8  December,  1629,  proved  12  May, 
1631.  To  my  son  James  Hoult  all  and  singular  my  goods,  catells,  chat- 
ells,  household  stuff  and  all  my  houses  and  ground  and  all  other  things 
which  I  have  or  may  have  in  Virginia  or  elsewhere ;  and  also  all  the  ser- 
vants which  are  or  shall  be  mine  in  Virginia,  and  all  the  time  that  they 
have  yet  to  serve  with  me ;  only  to  my  servant  William  Bond  one  year  of 
his  time.  To  my  servant  Richard  Bawinton  four  years  of  his  time.  My 
executors  to  be  Nathaniel  Flood,  planter,  Henry  King,  planter,  Theoph- 
ilus  Berrestoue,  planter. 

Wit :  Theophilus  Berrestone  and  Peter  Perkins. 

Emanavit  commissio  W^  Donne,  curatori  ad  lites  Jacobi  Houlte,  &c 
(for  the  reason,  it  appears,  that  those  named  executors  in  the  will  were  be- 
yond the  seas). 

Reg.  of  Commissary  Court  of  London  (1629-34),  fol.  150. 

[The  following  grants  from  the  Virginia  Land  Registry  Office  may  be  informatDry 
in  connection  with  the  above. 

Randall  Holt,  400  acres  in  James  City  county,  Sept.  18, 1636;  Thomas  Holt,  500 
acres  in  New  Norfolk  county.  May  22,  1637  ;  Robert  Holt,  700  acres  io  James  City 
county,  July  23,  lfi40.— Book  No.  1,  pp.  386,  423  and  727. 

John  Fludd,  2100  acres  in  James  City  county.  May  12,  1638,  Book  No.  1,  p.  548. 
John  Flood,  '*  Gentleman,"  **  an  antient  planter,"  1100  acres  in  James  City  county, 
June  7,  1650 — **  Mary  Flood,  John  Flood.  John  Lawrence  and  John  Connaway," 
being  among  the  **  head-rights."— Book  No.  2,  p.  227.  Francis  Flood,  300  acres 
on  York  river,  April  1,  1651,  Book  No.  2,  p.  318.  John  Kins.  300  acres  in  Charles 
River  county,  Dec.  10,  1642 ;  **  Anne  his  wife,  Katharine  Kallaway,  Thomas  Clary, 
Phillip  Neale,  Alice  Smith  and  Alice  Cocke,"  **  transports  *'  or  **  head-rights  "  ; 
John  king,  500  acres  in  York  county,  Nov.  9,  1649.— Book  No.  2,  p.  192.  John 
Kins:,  200  acres  in  **  Gloster  "  county,  October  10,  1651,  Book  No.  2,  p.  345.— R. 
A.  Brock,  Richmond,  Va.J 


Notes  on  Abstracts  previously  printed. 

Thomas  Spelman  {ante^  p.  323). 

[The  Thomas  Spelman  (^Spilman)  of  Virginia,  an  abstract  of  whooe  will  is  found 
in  the  Genealogical  Gleanings  of  lienry  F.  Waters,  in  the  Register  of  July,  1884.  p. 
323,  came  to  Virginia  in  A.l).  1616,  when  he  was  about  sixteen  years  of  age.  His 
wife  Hannah,  when  about  eighteen  years  old,  arrived  in  A.D.  1620.  In  the  Muster 
of  Inhabitants,  taken  in  January,  1624-5,  and  published  in  Hotten's  lAsis,  Thomas 
was  then  listed  as  twenty-four  years  old  and  his  wife  as  twenty-three.  The  daugh- 
ter Mary,  in  England,  in  1627  could  not  have  been  more  than  six  years  old.  SpiU 
man  in  1625  had  four  white  servants  in  his  employ,  and  lived  at  Eeooughton  in 
Elizabeth  City  Corporation,  now  Hampton.  At  the  same  time  there  was  another 
Thomas  Spilman  living  at  James  Citv,  twenty-eicht  years  of  age,  who  came  in  .\.r>. 
1623,  and  was  a  servant  of  Richard  Stephens,  who  arrived  in  the  ship  George  with 
him.  Stephens  was  for  several  years  a  prominent  colonbt. — From  Rev.  Enwiio 
D.  Neill,  of  St.  Paul,  Min.] 


1884.]  Soldiers  in  King  Philip's  War.  429 

Rachel  Perne  {anU^  pp.  311-12). 

[1  may  add  from  my  own  family  papers,  that  '*  John  Tyse,  clerk,"  son-in-law  of 
Richard  and  Rachel  Perne,  mentioned  on  p.  311,  had  two  children,  John  and  Mary. 
The  former,  I  think,  died  unmarried ;  but  Mary  married,  first,  John  (or  Nicholas) 
Goddard,  of  Qillingham,  and,  secondly,  in  1681,  William  Weston,  of  Weston  in 
Stalbridge,  both  in  Dorsetshire.  She  died  about  the  year  17*25,  having  had  an  only 
son,  John  Goddard  of  Gillinsham,  who  died  in  1702,  leaving,  by  his  wife  Martha 
Cox,  who  predeceased  him,  Mary  Goddard,  sole  heiress.  She  became  in  1717  the 
wife  of  William  Helyar  of  Coker,  co.  Somerset,  eldest  son  of  VVilliam  Ilelyar  of 
Coker,  M. P.  for  Somersetshire  in  1714,  and  from  this  marriage  is  descended  the 
present  Horace  Augustus  Helyar  of  Coker  Court,  Secretary  of  the  British  Embassy 
at  the  Hague. — Letter  of  the  Rev.  Charles  J,  Robinson^  M.A.^qf  West  hackney , 
London,  England.] 


SOLDIERS  IN  KING  PHILIP'S  WAR. 

Communicated  by  the  Rev.  Oboroe  M.  Bodoe,  of  Dorchester,  Mass. 

[Continued  from  page  339.] 

No.    VIIL 

Major  Samuel  Appleton  and  the  Forces  under  him. 

A  FULL  account  of  the  Appleton  family  has  been  published  in 
the  "  Appleton  Memorial"  and  various  other  works,  and  renders 
a  brief  sketch  sufficient  for  our  purpose  here.  Samuel  Appleton, 
the  common  ancestor  of  all  of  the  name  in  this  country,  and  the  first 
to  appear  here,  wa^  descended  from  the  ancient  family  of  Appulton 
of  Waldingfield,  Suffolk,  England.  He  was  the  son  of  Thomas, 
and  was  born  at  Little  Waldingfield  in  1586  ;  married  Mary  Eve- 
rard,  by  whom  he  had  five  children  born  in  England.  John,  born 
1622 ;  Samuel,  born  1624 ;  Sarah,  born  1627  ;  Judith  and  Mar- 
tha. With  this  family  he  emigrated  to  New  England  in  1635  and 
settled  at  Ipswich,  where  he  was  admitted  freeman.  May  25,  1636. 
He  was  chosen  deputy  to  the  General  Court,  May  17th,  1637,  and 
was  prominent  in  the  affairs  of  his  town  thereafter,  and  died  at  Row- 
ley in  June,  1670.  The  eldest  son  John  became  an  influential  man 
in  the  colony.  Was  successively  lieutenant,  captain  and  major, 
and  deputy  to  the  General  Court  for  fifteen  years  between  1656  and 
1678,  and  was  honorably  prominent  in  opposition  to  the  Andros 
government.  He  married  Priscilla  Glover,  by  whom  he  had  a  large 
family,  and  died  in  1699.  Of  the  daughters  above  mentioned,  Sa- 
rah married  Rev.  Samuel  Phillips,  of  Rowley,  1651.  Judith  mar- 
ried Samuel  Rogers,  son  of  Rev.  Nathaniel,  of  Ipswich.  Martha 
married  Richard  Jacob,  of  Ipswich. 

Major  Samuel  Appleton,  second  son  of  Samuel  first,  and  the  sub- 
ject of  this  article,  was  born  as  noted  above,  at  Waldingfield,  and 
came  with  his  father  to  Ipswich  at  the  age  of  eleven  years.  His 
first  wife  was  Hannah  Paine,  of  Ipswich,  by  whom  he  had  Hannah, 
Judith  and  Samuel.  By  his  second  wife,  Mary  Oliver  (at  mar- 
voL.  XXXVIII.        38* 


430  Soldiers  in  King  Philip's  War.  [Oct. 

riage,  Dec.  8,  1656,  aged  sixteen),  he  had  John,  Major  Isaac,  Oli- 
ver and  Joanna.  He  was  chosen  deputy  to  the  General  Court  in 
1668,  under  the  title  Lieut.;  also  in  1669  to  1671,  in  company 
with  his  brother  Capt.  John,  and  again  by  himself  in  1673  and 
1675. 

I  have  not  been  able  to  find  the  exact  date  on  which  Capt.  Apple- 
ton  marched  from  the  Bay  up  towards  Hadley,  but  infer  that  it  was 
about  the  first  of  September,  and  Mr.  Hubbard  relates  that  when 
Major  Treat  (on  Sept.  6th)  marched  down  from  the  rescue  of  North- 
field,  bringing  the  garrison,  he  met  Capt.  Appleton  going  up,  who 
strongly  urged  him  to  turn  back  and  pursue  the  Indiana ;  but  the 
Major  overruled  his  wishes,  and  all  marched  back  to  the  headquar- 
ters at  Hadley.  The  course  of  events  from  this  time  to  September 
18th  has  been  previously  related.  In  the  assignment  of  troops  for 
the  defence  of  the  various  towns,  Capt.  Appleton  seems  to  have  re- 
mained at  Hadley,  and  to  have  been  in  close  relation  with  Major 
Pynchon  in  the  conduct  of  affairs.  His  Lieutenant  John  Picker- 
ing, and  doubtless  a  part  of  his  company,  were  with  Capt.  Mosely 
in  the  fight  succeeding  Lathrop's  defeat,  and  when  a  few  days  after 
it  was  decided  to  abandon  Deerfield,  and  the  garrison  and  inhabi- 
tants were  removed  to  Hatfield,  Capt.  Mosely  was  stationed  there 
with  his  force.  Major  Treat  and  his  men  quartered  at  Northampton 
and  Northfield,  and  Capt.  Appleton  remained  at  Hadley  busily 
employed  in  reorganizing  the  Massachusetts  forces,  caring  for  the 
wounded,  and  preparing  for  the  next  attack  of  the  enemy. 

Although  Capt.  Appleton  had  been  in  this  service  several  weeks, 
his  commission  as  '*  Capt.  of  a  company  of  100  men  **  was  not  is- 
sued by  the  Council  until  September  24th.  (He  already  held  the 
rank  of  Captain  of  the  local  company  in  Ipswich  ;  this  was  a  special 
commission  for  active  service.*')  By  the  heavy  losses  under  Capts. 
Lathrop  and  Beers,  the  Massachusetts  forces  were  greatly  reduced, 
and  the  survivors  of  their  companies  were  much  demoralized  by  the 
loss  of  the  captains,  and  gloom  and  discouragement  prevailed  through- 
out the  colony.  It  was  .therefore  with  great  difficulty  that  the  Coun- 
cil filled  the  quota  of  three  hundred  assigned  by  the  commissioners. 
Secretary  Rawson  wrote  to  Major  Pynchon,  September  30th,  **  The 
slaughter  in  your  parts  has  much  damped  many  spirits  for  the  war. 
Some  men  escape  away  from  the  press,  and  others  hide  away  after 
they  are  impressed.*' 

It  will  be  seen  by  the  following  orders,  that  the  Council  was  us- 
in<y  every  endeavor  to  push  forward  troops  to  repair  their  losses. 

Mass.  Archives,  vol.  67,  p.  265. 

The  Council  do  order  &  appoint  Capt  John  Wayte  to  conduct  the  120 
men  appointed  to  rendevooze  at  Marlborough  the  28*^  day  of  this  instant 

M  By  his  position  he  now  ranked  as  Migor,  but  military  officers  were  regalarlr  elected 
by  the  people  and  conficmed  by  the  Coart.  He  was  appointed  Sergeaot-Mi^  of  the  Soath 
^sex  regiment  in  October,  1682,  shortly  after  the  death  of  M^jor  Qenerai  Deniaon. 


1884-]  Soldiers  in  King  Philip's  War.  431 

September  &  to  deliver  them  unto  the  order  of  Maio'  John  Pincheoa  Com- 
ander  in  Cheefe  in  the  Coanty  of  Hampshire  <&  it  is  further  ordered  j*  ia 
case  Capt.  Samuel  Appletou  should  bee  com  awaj  from  those  parts  thea 
the  said  Capt.  Wait  is  ordered  to  take  the  conduct  and  chardge  of  a  Com- 
pany of  100  men  under  Maio'  John  Pincheon  but  in  case  Capt  Apleton  do 
abide  there  then  Capt.  Wait  is  forthwith  to  returne  Backe  unles  Maio' 
Pincheon  see  cause  to  detyne  him  upon  y*  service  of  the  country 

past.  £.  R.  S.     24  Sept.  1675 

On  the  same  paper  is  the  following : 

It  is  ordered  that  there  be  a  comission  issued  forth  to  Capt.  Samuel  Ap- 
pleton  to  Comand  a  foot  Company  of  100  men  In  the  service  of  y*  coun- 
try. But  in  case  hee  should  be  com  away  from  those  parts  then  that  Capt. 
Waite  is  to  have  (a)  like  comission.         past  24  Sept.  1675 

By  y*  Council  E  R  S 

Ordered  y*  y*  Commissary  Jn^  Morse  deliver  Mr  Thomas  Welden  snap- 
hant  musket 

The  Indians  were  gathered  in  great  numbers  on  the  west  side  of 
the  river,  and  were  probably  under  the  direction  of  Philip,  although 
it  is  doubtful  if  he  was  personally  present  in  any  of  the  assaults. 
Small  parties  were  constantly  lurking  near  the  frontier  towns,  Hat- 
field, Northampton,  and  as  far  as  Springfield,  where,  on  September 
26th,  they  burned  the  farm-house  and  bams  of  Major  Pynchon  on 
the  west  side  of  the  river.  Major  Pynchon  says,  in  a  letter  to  the 
Council,  Sept.  30th : 

^'  We  are  endeavouring  to  discover  the  enemy  and  daily  send  out  scouts, 
but  little  is  effected.  Our  English  are  somewhat  awk  and  fearful  in  scout- 
ing and  spying,  though  we  do  the  best  we  can.  We  have  no  Indian 
friends  here  to  help  us.  We  find  the  Indians  have  their  scouts  out.  Two 
days  ago  two  Englishmen  at  Northampton  being  gone  out  in  the  morning 
to  cut  wood,  and  but  a  short  distance  from  the  house,  were  both  shot  down 
dead,  having  two  bullets  apiece  shot  into  each  of  their  breasts.  The  In- 
dians cut  off  their  scalps,  took  their  arms  and  were  off  in  a  trice." 

According  to  Russell's  list  of  killed,  these  men  were  Praisever 
Turner  and  Uzacaby  Shakspeer.  Up  to  this  time  the  Springfield 
Indians  had  been  friendly  and  remained  quietly  in  their  large  fort 
on  the  east  side  of  the  river  towards  Longmeadow.  Some  uneasiness 
had  been  felt  of  late  in  regard  to  them,  and  Major  Pynchon  had  con- 
sulted the  commissioners  about  disarming  them.  The  Connecticut 
Council  advised  against  the  measure,  and  recommended  rather  to  re- 
ceive hostages  from  them,  to  be  sent  to  Hartford  for  security.  This 
plan  was  adopted  and  the  hostages  sent ;  but  the  Indians,  excited 
by  the  successes  of  the  hostiles,  and  probably  urged  by  secret  agents 
of  Philip,  resolved  to  join  the  war  against  the  English.  They  man- 
aged the  escape  of  their  hostages,  and  waited  the  opportunity  to 
strike  their  blow.  On  Monday,  Oct.  4th,  a  large  body  of  the  enemy 
had  been  reported  some  five  or  six  miles  from  Hadley,  and  imme- 
diately all  the  soldiers  were  withdrawn  from  Springfield  to  Hadley, 


432  Soldiers  in  King  Philip's  War.  [Oct. 

and  were  preparing  to  go  out  against  the  Indians  the  next  morning, 
but  during  the  night  a  messenger  arrived  from  Hartford  or  Windsor, 
reporting  that  Toto,  a  friendly  Windsor  Indian,  had  disclosed  a  plot 
of  the  Springfield  Indians  to  destroy  that  town  next  day,  and  that 
five  hundred  of  Philip's  Indians  were  in  the  Springfield  fort,  ready 
to  fall  upon  the  town.  Thereupon,  early  on  the  morning  of  Tues- 
day, October  5th,  Major  Pynchon,  with  Capts.  Appleton  and  Sill, 
and  a  force  of  one  hundred  and  ninety  men,  marched  for  Spring- 
field, arriving  there  to  find  the  town  in  flames  and  the  Indians  just 
fled.  Maj.  Treat  had  also  received  news  of  the  intended  attack, 
and  hastened  from  Westfield  with  his  company,  arriving  on  the 
west  side  of  the  river  some  hours  before  the  Massachusetts  forces 
came,  but  was  unable  to  cross,  though  five  Springfield  men  escaped 
through  the  enemy's  lines,  hotly  pursued,  and  carried  over  a  boat  in 
which  a  party  attempted  to  cross,  but  the  Indians  gathered  upon  the 
east  shore  and  fired  upon  them  so  fiercely  that  the  attempt  was 
abandoned  until  Major  Pynchon  came.  The  Indians  burned  some 
thirty  dwelling-houses  and  twenty-five  bams  with  their  contents, 
Maj.  Pynchon's  mills,  and  several  of  his  houses  and  barns,  occupied 
by  tenants.  Fifteen  houses  in  the  "  town-plat,"  and  some  sixty 
more  in  the  outskirts  and  on  the  west  side  were  left  unharmed.  The 
people  had  taken  refuge  in  the  garrison-houses,  which  were  not  at- 
tacked. Two  men  and  one  woman  were  killed,  viz.,  Lieut.  Tho- 
mas Cooper,  who  before  the  assault  rode  out  towards  the  fort  to 
treat  with  the  Indians,  having  two  or  three  men  with  him,  and  was 
shot  by  an  enemy  concealed  in  the  bushes  a  short  distance  from  the 
town,  but  managed  to  ride  to  the  nearest  garrison-house,  where  he 
died.  His  companion,  Thomas  Miller,  was  killed  on  the  spot. 
During  the  assault,  Pentecost,  wife  of  John  Matthews,  was  killed, 
and  Nathaniel  Browne  and  Edmund  Pringridays  were  mortally 
wounded. 

The  above  account  is  the  substance  of  letters  written  by  Major 
Pinchon  and  Rev.  John  Russell,  October  5th  and  6th.  The  num- 
ber of  Indians  engaged  has  probably  been  much  over-estimated. 
The  Springfield  squaw  captured  at  the  time,  reported  the  whole  num- 
ber at  two  hundred  and  seventy.  Mr.  Russell  said  the  Springfield 
people  thought  there  were  not  "  above  100  Indians,  of  whom  their 
own  were  the  chief."  Rev.  Pelatiah  Glover,  the  minister  of  Spring- 
field, lost  his  house,  goods  and  provisions,  together  with  a  valuable 
library  which  he  had  lately  removed  to  his  house  from  the  garrison- 
house  where  it  had  been  stored  for  some  time. 

On  October  8th  Major  Pynchon  writes  to  the  Council  an  official 
account  of  the  situation,  telling  of  the  great  discouragement  of  the 
people  and  their  sad  state ;  the  loss  of  their  mills  makes  a  scarcity 
of  bread,  and  the  many  houseless  families  throng  the  houses  that  re- 
main. The  Major  advises  to  garrison  all  the  towns,  and  abandon 
the  useless  and  hazardous  method  of  hunting  the  Indians  in  their 


1884.]  Soldiers  in  King  Philip^ 8  War.  433 

swamps  and  thickets.  The  commissioners  were  opposed  to  this 
course,  especially  those  of  Connecticut,  who  insisted  that  the  pur- 
pose of  the  army  in  the  field  was  to  pursue  and  destroy  the  enemy 
instead  of  simply  protecting  the  towns.  In  this  letter  of  the  8th, 
Major  Pynchon  says  they  are  scouting  to  find  which  way  the  Indians 
have  gone,  and  also  that  on  that  day  Maj.  Treat  is  summoned  away 
to  Connecticut  by  the  news  of  a  large  body  of  the  enemy  near  Weth- 
ersfield.  He  then  earnestly  reiterates  his  unfitness  for  the  chief 
command,  and  declares  that  he  must  devolve  the  authority  upon 
Capt.  Appleton,  with  the  permission  of  the  Council,  unless  Major 
Treat  return,  when  he  will  await  their  orders.  The  Council  had, 
however,  already  granted  his  former  request,  and  on  Oct.  4th  had 
appointed  Capt.  Appleton  to  the  chief  command  in  his  place.  His 
commission,  together  with  letters  and  orders  to  Major  Pjmchon,  were 
sent  up  by  Lieut.  Phinehas  Upham  and  his  company  of  recruitSi 
and  did  not  reach  them  until  October  12th,  when  he  immediately 
took  command.     The  commission  is  as  follows  : 

Capt  Appleton. 

The  Councill  have  serioasly  considered  the  earnest  desires  of  major  Pyn- 
chon &  the  great  affliction  upon  him'  &  his  family,  &  have  at  last  consented 
to  his  request  to  dismiss  him  from  the  cheefe  command  over  the  Army  in 
those  parts,  and  have  thought  meet  upon  mature  thoughts  to  comitt  the 
cheefe  cofiiaud  unto  yourselfe,  being  perswaded  that  God  hath  endeowed 
you  with  a  spirit  and  ability  to  mannage  that  affayre ;  and  for  the  Better 
inabling  you  to  yo'  imploy,  we  have  sent  the  Councills  order  Inclosed  to 
major  Pynchon  to  bee  given  you ;  and  wee  reffer  you  to  the  Instructions 
given  him  for  yo'  direction,  ordering  you  from  time  to  time  to  give  us 
advise  of  all  occurences,  &  if  you  need  any  further  orders  &  instructions, 
they  shall  be  given  you  as  y*  matter  shall  require.  So  comitting  you  to 
the  Lord,  desireing  his  presence  with  you  and  blessing  upon  you,  wee  re- 
maine :  Your  friends  and  Servants 

Boston  4**  of  October 

Capt.  Samuel  Appleton, 

Commander  in  cheefe  at  the  head  quarters  at  Hadley. 

The  letter  of  October  4th,  from  the  Massachusetts  Council  to 
Major  Pynchon,  in  which  the  orders  above  referred  to  were  inclosed, 
is  in  the  Massachusetts  Archives,  vol.  67,  p.  280,  as  follows : 

Mass.  Council  to  Major  Pynchon 
Honoured  S' 

Tour  letter  dat  Sept.  29.  wee  received  and  although  wee  could  have  de- 
sired your  continuance  in  that  trust  committed  to  you  as  comander  over  o' 
forces  in  y'  p'*,  yet  considering  your  great  importunity  y*  reasons  alledged 
wee  cann  but  greatly  simpathize  with  you  in  y*  present  dispensation  of 
Divine  Providence  towards  your  family  in  your  absence  and  have  ordered 
Capt  Apelton  to  take  the  charge  as  Comander  in  Cheife  over  the  united 
forces  whiles  in  o'  Colony,  and  uppon  a  removall  of  the  seat  of  Warr  the 
Comanders  to  take  place  according  to  (the)  appoyntment  of  y*  Commis- 
sioners.    Wee  have  considered  (that)  you  will  not  be  wanting  to  afford  the 


434  Soldiers  in  King  Philip's  War.  [Oct. 

best  advice  &  assistance  you  may,  although  dismist  from  y*  perticukr 
charge.  It  is  the  Lord's  holy  will  yet  to  keep  his  poore  people  at  a  p'ad- 
veDture  and  y*  in  this  case  wherein  our  all  is  concerned  and  there  is  none 
to  tell  us  how  long,  yet  is  it  o'  duty  to  wayte  on  him  who  hideth  his  face 
from  the  house  of  Israel,  and  to  say  w"*  y*  Ch:  I  will  brave  y*  indignation 
of  God  untill  he  ple(ad)e  our  case,  &c.     Commending  you  A  yours,  & 

y low  estate  of  his  people  to  y*  shepardly  Care  of  him  who  hath 

made  it  one  p^  of  his  great  name,  Mighty  to  Save ;  wee  take  leave  and 
remayne,  Y®'  assured  ffreiuds,  E  R  S 

Past  y*  Council. 
Boston  4*^  of  Sept  (should  be  Oct.)  1675 

«S' 

'*  Wee  have  ordered  L*  IJpham  to  lead  up  to  you  30  men  and  do  far- 
ther order  that  L'  Scill  be  dismissed  home  to  his  family,  and  his  souldjers 
to  make  up  some  of  y*  companies  as  y*  chief e  Coinander  shall  order  ^  y* 
above  named  L'  Upham  to  be  L*  under  Capt  Wayte.  These  for  Major 
John  Pynchon. 

*<  S'  It  is  desired  when  the  companies  with  you  are  filled  up,  such  as 
are  fitted  to  be  dismist  be  sent  back  with  Lef  Sill  &  Corporal  Poole  &  to 
send  downe  what  horses  you  cann,  and  as  may  be  conveniently  spayred. 

On  assuming  command  on  October  12th,  Capt.  Appleton  writes 
a  long  letter,  expressing  his  sense  of  the  honor  conferred  and  the 
great  responsibility  imposed  by  the  appointment,  and  declaring  that 
he  is  led  to  accept  by  the  urgency  of  the  occasion  and  his  regard  for 
the  earnest  wishes  of  Major  Pynchon ;  and  while  deprecating  his 
own  incapacity,  promises  to  do  his  best  until  they  may  find  some 
abler  officer  for  the  position.  He  agrees  with  Maj.  Pynchon  in  re- 
gard to  present  methods,  and  asks  that  the  commissioners  revise 
that  part  of  their  instructions  which  strictly  prohibits  fixing  soldiers 
in  garrisons.  He  adds  his  account  of  the  condition  of  Springfield, 
and  asks  the  Council  to  support  him  in  the  step  he  has  taken  in  sta- 
tioning Capt.  Sill  and  his  company  there  for  the  town's  security. 
He  complains  of  the  prolonged  absence  of  Maj.  Treat  and  his  com- 
pany at  Hartford.  He  says  that  ^^  There  being  now  come  in  sixty 
men  under  Capt.  Poole  and  Lieft.  Upham,  and  we  needing  com- 
manders, especially  part  of  our  men  being  now  at  Springfield,  & 
we  not  daring  to  send  all  thither,  we  have  retained  Capt.  Poole  to 
comand  these  sixty  men  untill  further  orders  be  given.** 

October  17th  he  writes  an  account  of  their  movements  up  to  that 
date : 

"  On  Tuesday  Octo:  12.  we  left  Springfield  &  came  y*  night  to  Hadley 
neer  30  mile.  On  y*  13***  &  14***  we  used  all  diligence  to  make  discovery 
of  y*  enemy  by  Scouts,  but  by  reason  of  y*  distance  of  the  way  from 
hence  to  Squakeage  &  y"  timorousnesse  of  y*  Scouts  it  turned  to  little  ac- 
count ;  thereupon  I  found  it  very  difficult  to  know  what  to  doe.  Major 
Treat  was  gone  from  us,  and  when  like  to  return  we  knew  not.  Our  or- 
ders were  to  leave  no  men  in  garrison,  but  keepe  all  for  a  field  armve.  w** 
was  to  expose  the  Towns  to  mancfest  hazzard.  To  sitt  still  and  do  nothinge 
is  to  tire  o's  [ourselves]  and  spoyle  o'  souldiers,  and  to  ruin  y'  country  by 


1884.]  Soldiers  in  King  Philip's  War.  435 

y*  insupportable  burden  and  charge.  All  things  layed  together,  I  thought 
it  best  to  goe  forth  after  the  enemy  w***  o'  p'sent  forces.  This  once  resolv- 
ed, I  sent  forth  warrants,  on  j*  14^  instant,  early  in  the  morning  to  Capt 
Mosely  &  CapL  (as  he  is  called)  Seely  at  Hatfeild  and  Northampton,  to 
repair  fourthw***  to  y*  head-quarters,  y*  we  might  be  ready  for  service,"  &c. 

Capt.  Mosely  came  promptly,  but  Seely  tardily  and  then  without 
his  company,  pleading  his  want  of  commission  from  Connecticut  au- 
thorities, but  finally  agreeing  to  return  and  bring  his  men.  Before 
he  started  from  -Northampton,  however,  he  received  orders  from 
Maj.  Treat  not  to  leave  that  town,  and  sends  that  word  to  Capt. 
Appleton.  The  Captain,  much  exercised  by  this  seeming  insubordi- 
nation, posts  away  letters  of  complaint  to  the  Connecticut  Council, 
and  urges  the  return  of  Maj.  Treat,  whom  he  highly  commends  as 
^  a  worthy  Gentleman  and  discreete  and  incouraging  Comander." 
After  this  he  drew  out  his  own  men  and  marched  towards  North- 
field,  but  before  proceeding  two  miles  intelligence  came  that  the 
Indians  were  discovered  in  great  numbers  on  the  west  side  of  the 
river.  Therefore  he  crossed  to  Hatfield  with  the  purposing  of  march- 
ing to  Deerfield.  Night  came  on  as  they  left  Hatfield,  and  after 
marching  some  miles  his  officers  urged  the  exposed  condition  of  the 
towns  left  without  garrisons  and  the  uncertainty  of  the  enemy's 
movements,  and  the  night  promising  to  be  tempestuous,  he  yielded 
his  purpose  and  returned,  against  his  inclination,  to  headquarters. 
On  the  evening  of  the  16th  an  urgent  request  for  reinforcement 
comes  from  Northampton,  which  is  threatened,  and  later,  word  from 
Capt.  Mosely,  that  the  Indians  are  discovered  within  a  mile  of  Hat- 
field ;  and  so  at  midnight  he  crosses  the  river  to  Hatfield,  leaving 
only  about  twenty  men  to  guard  Hadley  and  their  wounded  men. 
In  a  postscript  to  this  letter,  added  on  the  afternoon  of  the  17th,  he 
Bays  that  after  **  a  tedious  night  and  morning's  march  "  they  had  not 
Bucceeded  in  finding  the  enemy. 

Several  letters  in  this  time  passed  between  Capt.  Appleton  and 
the  Council  of  Connecticut,  which  are  full  of  interest  as  showing  the 
varying  aspects  of  affairs  at  the  time.  Connecticut  urges  that  their 
own  towns  are  threatened,  and  further  that  Plymouth  colony  has 
not  sent  its  quota,  and  that  there  is  no  certain  movement  on  foot 
that  demands  the  presence  of  their  troops  at  Hadley,  &c.  These 
letters  are  preserved  in  the  Mass.  Archives,  vols.  67  and  68,  and 
have  been  published  in  the  *^  Appleton  Memorial,"  and  certain  of 
them  elsewhere. 

It  is  unfortunate  that  no  letters  of  Capt.  Appleton  relating  to 
the  attack  upon  Hatfield  on  October  19th  are  preserved.  There  can 
be  no  doubt  that  he  wrote  an  official  account  of  it ;  but  the  Massa- 
chusetts Council  had  not  received  the  news  on  October  23d,  for  on 
that  day  they  wrote  Capt.  Appleton  in  answer  to  his  of  the  17th, 
and  make  no  reference  to  any  attack.  The  next  letter  to  him  from 
the  Council,  so  far  as  known,  is  dated  November  Ist,  and  refers  to 


436  Soldiers  in  King  Philip' 8  War.  [Oct. 

one  from  him  of  the  29th  October,  which  would  seem  to  have  been 
mainly  taken  up  with  a  relation  of  the  insubordination  of  the  Con- 
necticut officers.  Doubtless  several  letters  passed  that  are  lost. 
The  letters  from  a  merchant  of  Boston  to  his  friend  in  London, 
published  in  Drake's  *'  Old  Indian  Chronicle,"  give  information  of 
the  beginning  of  the  attack.  The  Indians  built  large  fires  north  of 
Hatfield,  and  then  lay  in  ambush  by  the  way  leading  thither.  Ten 
horsemen  were  sent  out  as  scouts  about  noon,  of  whom  nine  were 
shot  down  or  captured  by  the  Indians  in  ambush ,  and  one  escaped 
back  to  Hatfield,  and  immediately  the  enemy  came  with  fury  about 
the  town.     But,  says  Mr.  Hubbard, 

*'  AccordiDg  to  the  Good  Providence  of  Almighty  Grod,  Major  Treat  wis 
newly  returned  to  North- Hampton,  Capt.  Mosely  and  Capt.  Poole  were 
then  garrisooiDg  the  said  Hatfield,  and  Capt.  Appleton  for  the  like  end 
quartering  at  Hadley,  when  on  a  sudden  7  or  800  of  the  enemy  came  upon 
the  town  in  all  quarters,  having  first  taken  or  killed  two  or  three  of  the 
scouts  belonging  to  the  town  and  seven  more  belonging  to  Capt  Mosely's 
company,  but  they  were  so  well  entertained  on  all  hands  where  they  at- 
tempted to  break  in  upon  the  ^town  that  they  found  it  too  hot  for  them, 
Major  Appleton  with  great  courage  defending  one  end  of  the  town,  and 
Capt  Mosely  as  stoutly  maintaining  the  middle,  and  Capt  Poole  the  other 
end ;  that  they  were  by  the  resolution  of  the  English  instantly  beaten  off 
without  doing  much  harm.  Capt  Appleton's  serjeant  was  mortally  wound- 
ed just  by  his  side,  another  bullet  passing  through  his  own  hair,  by  that 
whisper  telling  him  that  death  was  very  near  but  doing  him  no  other 
harm." 

Night  came  on,  and  in  the  darkness  it  was  impossible  to  tell  the 
losses  of  the  enemy;  numbers  were  seen  to  fall,  some  ran  through 
a  small  river,  others  cast  away  their  guns,  and  as  usual  they  carried 
away  their  dead.  Of  the  English  slain  at  Hatfield,  Mr.  Russell's 
list  has  the  names  of  ten,  viz. :  Freegrace  Norton  (Appleton's  ser- 
geant), of  Ipswich,  mortally  wounded,  and  died  at  Hadley  sooi 
after;  and  of  the  scouts,  Thomas  Meekins,  Jr.,  of  Hatfield;  Na- 
thaniel Collins  his  servant,  Richard  Stone,  Samuel  Clarke  of  Mose- 
ly's  company,  John  Pocock  of  Captain  Poole's,  Thomas  Warner, 
Abram  Quiddington,  perhaps  of  Boston,  William  Olverton  (possi- 
bly Overton),  John  Petts.  Three  of  these  are  said  to  have  been 
taken  alive,  of  whom  two  were  redeemed  by  some  gentlemen  at 
Albany,  and  arrived  at  New  York  the  next  February ;  one  of  these 
belonged  in  Boston.  The  third  man  was  barbarously  killed  by  the 
Indians. 

In  their  letter  of  November  1st  the  Massachusetts  Council  assure 
Capt.  Appleton  of  speedy  action  in  regard  to  his  affairs  at  the  seat 
of  war.  They  sustain  him  in  his  authority  and  position  towards 
Connecticut  troops,  and  advise  him  that  in  case  Major  Treat  again 
withdraws,  to  improve  his  own  troops  as  best  be  may,  and  await 
their  further  advice.  They  rebuke  him  for  assuming  to  appoint 
Cornet  Poole  captain  without  their  authority,  and  iBstruct  him  that 


1884.]  Soldiers  in  Ring  Philip's  War.  437 

it  18  his  place  to  recommend  any  officer  for  promotion  to  the  Coun- 
cil to  receive  his  commission  at  their  behest. 

On  November  10th  Capt.  Appleton  had  not  received  any  further 
advices  from  the  Council  and  writes  them  for  orders,  and  gives  ex- 
planation of  his  action  in  regard  to  appointing  Poole,  that  he  acted 
from  necessity,  and  as  is  evident  very  wisely.  He  then  details  his  mo- 
tions since  October  29th,  when  two  men  and  a  boy  at  Northamp- 
ton were  attacked.  (These  were  Joseph  Baker,  Joseph  Baker,  Jr., 
and  Thomas  Salmon,  and  Mr.  Sussell  puts  with  them  John  Rob- 
erts, a  wounded  soldier  who  died  there  soon  after.)  On  the  30th, 
at  night,  upon  an  alarm  from  Hatfield,  Capt.  Appleton  was  called 
out  of  his  bed  and  pushed  his  troops  across  the  river,  where  he  re- 
mained over  the  next  day,  Sunday.  On  Monday  he  marched  ten 
or  twelve  miles  out  through  the  '^  Chestnutt  Mountains,'*  scouting, 
without  avail.  Tuesday  he  consulted  with  Major  Treat,  and  agreed 
to  march  on  Wednesday  night  with  their  whole  force  towards  Deer- 
field,  which  they  did  without  finding  the  enemy,  and  returned  late 
at  night.  On  the  5th  an  alarm  at  Nortliampton,  and  another  fruit- 
lees  search.  Upon  a  request  of  Major  Treat  on  the  6th  for  permis^ 
sion  to  withdraw  his  soldiers  from  Westfield  to  seek  the  enemy  down 
the  river,  a  council  of  war  was  appointed  for  Monday  the  8th,  at 
which  meeting  Capt.  Appleton  took  the  ground  that  he  had  no  au- 
thority from  the  commissioners  to  grant  them  leave  to  withdraw*. 
Major  Treat  took  a  very  frank  and  manly  position,  by  no  means  hos- 
tile to  Capt.  Appleton.  The  trouble  seems  to  have  been  the  unwil- 
lingness of  the  Connecticut  soldiers  to  remain  in  garrison  at  West- 
field.  The  report  of  the  council-of-war  is  submitted  to  the  Massac 
chusetts  Council  for  the  orders  of  the  commissioners.  He  says  they 
are  at  loss  to  find  out  the  present  location  or  intention  of  the  enemy, 
but  fear  they  may  be  upon  them  in  force  at  any  moment.  He  sug- 
gests that  if  the  army  be  drawn  off  for  the  winter  and  the  towns 
garrisoned,  Connecticut  troops  might  more  conveniently  be  placed 
and  suppUed  at  Westfield  and  Northampton,  and  the  other  three 
towns  garrisoned  with  Massachusetts  men.  He  reports  a  council-at- 
war,  at  which  David  Bennet,  chirurgion,  was  expelled  from  the 
army  for  *^  quarrelsome  and  rebellious  Carriage,**  and  submits  the  ac- 
tion for  ratification  to  the  Council.  He  sends  down  as  posts,  Serg. 
James  Johnson,  Serg.  John  Throp,  and  Nathaniel  Warner  of  Had- 
ley,  and  with  them  Capt.  Poole,  to  wbon^  he  refers  them  for  a  more 
detailed  account  of  matters. 

While  awaiting  the  long  delayed  rnstructiono  of  the  Council, 
Capt.  Appleton  stood  in  a  very  difficult  position,  the  Connecticut 
oflicers  and  soldiers  in  great  impatience  and  almost  open  mutiny  at 
being  kept  in  garrison  ;  and  the  people,  crowded  into  the  garrison- 
houses  in  fear  that  Philip's  whole  force  might  at  any  hour  fall  upon 
them,  were  threatening  to  abandon  their  towns.  The  Council  of 
Connecticut,  too,  were  apparently  interfering  with  his  command  of 

TOL.  ZZXVIII.        89 


438  Soldiers  in  King  Philip^ 8  War.  [Oct. 

their  troops.  On  the  other  hand  were  the  authority  and  orders  of 
the  United  Commissioners,  to  which  he  adhered  with  inflexible  ener- 
gy. On  November  12th  he  issued  a  proclamation  (Archives,  vol. 
68,  p.  54)  to  the  inhabitants  and  soldiers  of  all  those  towns  under 
his  charge,  forbidding  any  one  to  withdraw  from  his  appointed  place 
without  special  permission  '*  given  under  his  hand  ;"  giving  his  rea- 
sons for  the  step,  and  asserting  the  authority  of  the  commissioners. 
The  Connecticut  people  were  very  loud  in  their  complaints  against 
this  measure,  but  he  rigidly  held  to  it,  daily  expecting  the  further 
directions  promised  by  the  Council  of  Massachusetts,  till  finally  des- 
pairing of  such  relief  he  reluctantly  yielded  to  the  importunities  of 
Connecticut,  and  on  November  19th  dismissed  Major  Treat  and  his 
forces  at  Westfield  to  march  downward  to  the  Connecticut  towns, 
accompanying  the  order  of  permission  with  an  urgent  request  to  the 
Council  there  that  Westfield  and  Springfield  may  be  regarrisoned 
by  their  forces.  On  the  same  day  he  writes  to  Governor  Leverett, 
complaining  of  the  long  neglect  of  the  Council  at  home,  and  saying 
that  it  has  kept  him  in  constant  and  tedious  expectation  until  oblig- 
ed to  yield  to  Connecticut's  demands,  and  now  necessity  forces  him 
to  dispose  of  his  forces  as  best  he  may.  He  complains  of  the  con- 
dition of  the  horses ;  many  will  soon  be  unfit  for  service,  and  if 
put  upon  "dry  meate  "  (i.  e.  hay),  the  cattle  of  the  people  must 
perisli  during  the  winter,  as  hay  is  very  scarce.  They  have  no  cer- 
tain intelligence  of  the  enemy,  but  have  received  word  from  Owe- 
nequo,  son  of  Uncas,  that  Philip  boasts  himself  to  be  a  thousand 
stronp:.  He  speaks  of  his  proclamation  and  its  results,  and  encloses 
a  copy  of  the  same  and  his  correspondence  with  Connecticut  Coun- 
cil also,  and  urges  the  Governor  to  send  him  further  directions 
speedily.  He  then  proceeds  to  garrison  the  several  towns  with  the 
forces  at  his  disposal,  the  details  of  which  will  be  given  in  a  special 
chapter.  The  following  orders  of  disposal  are  dated  November  19 
and  20,  and  are  preserved  in  full  in  the  Mass.  Archives,  vol.  68, 
pp.  65  and  66. 

Twenty-nine  soldiers  taken  out  of  the  companies  of  Capts.  Mosely 
and  Poole  and  Lieut.  Upham,  are  left  at  Westfield  in  charge  of 
Serg.  Lamb,  and  all  under  the  command  of  Capt.  Aaron  Cooke. 
John  Roote  is  appointed  commissary  of  this  garrison,  and  orders 
are  drawn  upon  James  Richards,  of  Hartford,  or  Mr.  Blackleach, 
for  whatever  of  clothing  is  necessary.  Thirty-nine  men  from  Capt. 
Sill's  company  are  left  at  Springfield  with  Lieut.  Niles,  all  to  be 
under  command  of  Major  Pynchon.     Twenty-six  men  are  left  with 

Serg, at  Northampton,  to  be  under  command  of  Lieut.  Clarke; 

and  thirty  men  under  command  of  Capt.  Poole  are  stationed  at  Had- 
ley.  Thirty-six  are  left  at  Hatfield  with  Serg.  Graves,  under  com- 
mand of  Lieut.  Allice. 

Capt.  Appleton  appointed  a  council-of-war  for  the  ordering  of 
military  matters  in  the  towns,  consisting  of  the  commissioned  o£Bcers 


1884.]  Soldiers  in  King  Philip's  War.  489 

of  the  various  garrisons,  together  with  Dea.  Peter  Tilton,  of  Had- 
ley,  and  Serg.  Isaac  Graves,  of  Hatfield,  and  Capt.  Poole  was 
made  president.  These  arrangements  seem  to  have  been  made  in 
anticipation  of  the  order  of  withdrawal  of  the  army,  which  was  au- 
thorized by  the  Council  on  November  16th. — Mass.  Archives,  vol. 
68,  p.  58.  Their  letter  had  not  reached  him  on  November  19th. 
This  letter  gives  a  long  account  of  the  operations  of  Capts.  Hench- 
man and  Syll  now  in  the  Nipmuck  country.  Then  **  touching  the 
disposal  of  the  Army,"  the  direction  is  left  at  his  discretion,  and  as 
to  the  wounded  men,  those  fit  for  garrison  duty  are  to  be  left  as  a 
part  of  the  garrison  soldiery  and  the  rest  to  be  comfortably  provided 
for.  The  special  instructions  seem  to  have  been  in  accordance  with 
the  Major's  own  suggestions  in  his  last  letter  to  the  Council.  On 
the  march  home  it  is  suggested  that  he  come  by  way  of  ^  Wabquisit " 
(now  in  Woodstock,  Conn.),  and  if  convenient  to  form  a  junction 
with  Henchman  and  Syll  and  *'  distress  the  enemy  "  gathered  near 
there.  This  little  plan,  so  easy  to  conceive  in  the  Council  Cham- 
ber, for  excellent  reasons  was  never  realized.  Capt.  Appleton,  with 
his  forces,  marched  homeward  probably  about  November  24th. 
Very  little  is  known  of  the  march  homeward.  This  campaign  cost 
the  colony  very  dearly  in  men  and  means,  but  had  saved  from 
destruction  five  of  the  seven  western  towns. 

Upon  the  organization  of  the  army  for  the  expedition  against  the 
Narraganset  Fort,  Major  Appleton  was  appointed  to  the  command 
of  the  Massachusetts  forces.  A  partial  account  of  that  expedition  and 
its  result  has  been  given  in  a  previous  chapter  relating  to  Capt.  Mose- 
ly.  On  December  9th  the  Massachusetts  forces,  consisting  of  six 
companies  of  foot  under  Capts.  Mosely,  Gardiner,  Davenport,  Oli- 
ver and  Johnson,  and  a  troop  of  horse  under  Capt.  Prentice,  mus- 
tered on  Dedham  Plain  under  command  of  Major  Appleton,  who 
himself  led  the  first  company.  They  were  joined  by  the  Plymouth 
forces,  two  companies  under  Major  William  Bradford  and  Capt. 
John  Gorham.  The  quota  of  Plymouth  Colony  was  one  hundred 
and  fifty-eight  men.  That  of  Massachusetts  five  hundred  and  twen- 
ty-seven. 

In  the  Mass.  Archives,  vol.  68,  p.  91,  I  find  this  fragment  rela- 
tive to  Major  Appleton's  division. 

"  The  full  complement  of  the  Massachusets  is  527,  13  under  the  im- 
pressed men,  so  that  if  there  should  want  13  troopers  and  be  but  62  troopers 
besides  their  officers  there  would  be  but  465  tbote  &  if  less  than  62  troop- 
ers they  must  be  suplyed  with  so  many  foote  soldjers."  *°* 

*<*  Thews  seem  to  l)c  frngmcnts  of  memoranda,  the  latter  list  belnp  on  the  back  of  the 
paper.  This  refers  to  the  number  in  the  six  companies,  and  ^ives  an  excess  of  99  over  the 
estimated  quota  of  46A  foot.  I  doubt  that  this  excess  includes  Capt.  Prentice's  trooperg  as 
misht  at  first  appear,  his  company  not  l>eing  set  down  ;  but  his  lists  and  credits  publi^hed, 
anU^  vol.  xxxvii.  p.  281-2,  give  few  if  any  of  the  names  included  in  Applcion's,  Mosely 's 
or  Johnson's  lists,  which  were  taken  at  Dedham,  Dei^mbcr  9th,  and  contain  exactly  the 
nomi>crs  al>ove.  It  is  probable  that  the  excess  consisted  of  volunteers,  the  regular  quota 
being  impressed  men.  In  this  expedition  Capt.  Muscly  took  Capt.  Hubbard's  place,  aud 
hi«  company  waB  not  made  up  wholly  of  Toluntcers. 


440 


Soldiers  in  King  Philip^ s  War. 


[Oct. 


Troopers — 


Boston 

15  foote 

Major  Appleton 

136 

Prentice 

20 

Capt.    Johnson 

75 

Hasej 

20 

Capt.    Ollivers 

83 

Corwine 

10 

Capt.    Davenport 

75 

Appleton 

10 

Capt.    Gardiner 

95 

— 

Capt.    Mosely 

92 

75 

465 

540 

556 

465 
099 

Mr.  Hubbard  says  that  the  force  from  the  latter  colony  mus- 
tered there  four  hundred  and  sixty-five  ''  fighting  men  besides  a 
Troop  of  Horse  **  under  Capt.  Prentice.  Gov.  Josiah  Winslow,  of 
Plymouth,  was  commander-in-chief  of  the  army  in  this  expedition,  and 
with  this  force  marched  to  Woodcock's  Garrison  (Attleboro')  that 
day,  thence  to  Seaconck,  where  they  arrived  on  the  night  of  the 
11th,  and  on  the  12th  passed  over  Patuxet  Siver,  and  by  way  of 
Providence  arrived  at  Wickford,  at  Smith's  Garrison,  at  night.  ASUx 
several  days  spent  in  scouting  and  skirmishing,  as  previously  related, 
on  the  18th  they  all  marched  out  to  Pettysquamscot  and  met  the  Con- 
necticut  forces,  consisting  of  five  companies,  three  hundred  and 
twenty-five  men,  under  Maj.  Treat,  and  the  whole  army  were  forced 
to  bivouac  in  the  open  air  in  a  driving  snowstorm  during  the  night. 
Bull's  Garrison-house  at  that  place  having  been  burned  by  the  In- 
dians but  a  few  days  before.  At  daybreak  next  morning  they  took 
up  their  march  over  the  rough  country  through  the  deepening  snow, 
each  man  carrying  his  own  arms,  rations,  &c.  In  the  line,  the  Mas- 
sachusetts division  led ;  Plymouth  held  the  centre  and  Connecticut 
the  rear.  This  army,  the  largest  and  best  organized  that  had  ever  been 
in  the  field  in  the  American  colonies,  arrived  about  1  o'clock,  P.M., 
at  the  borders  of  the  great  swamp  where  the  Indians  had  gathered  in 
great  numbers  and  had  built  a  strong  fortification  and  now  awaited 
the  attack.  The  full  account  of  the  battle  must  be  reserved  for 
another  chapter,  wherein  the  names  of  those  in  the  remaining  com- 
panies of  Major  Appleton's  division  are  given.  The  conduct  of  the 
Major  and  his  men  here,  as  elsewhere,  was  creditable.  In  May, 
1676,  the  Court  voted  to  repay  the  losses  of  divers  persons  who  were 
"  damnified  "  by  the  burning  of  Major  Appleton's  tent  at  Narra- 
ganset. 


Credited  under  Capt 

;.  Samuel  Appleton. 

December  10. 

1675 

Stephen  Gullifer 

02  10  06 

Thomas  Davis 

04  18  06 

Thomas  Hastings 

02  14  00 

John  Ford 

03  10  00 

Roffer  Vicar 

02  10  06 

Israel  Thorn 

03  18  00 

Stephen  Butler 

03  18  00 

Thomas  Waite 

03  18  00 

Rohert  Sibly 

02  10  06 

Francis  Young,  Corp^ 

04  11  00 

William  Knowlton 

04  16  10 

Ezekiel  Woodward 

05  17  00 

Thomas  Brown 

02  10  06 

Samuel  Rust 

04  00  00 

Thomas  Ferman 

04  16  10 

Sylvester  Hayes 

05  03  00 

Isaac  Ilsley 

02  10  06 

1884.] 


Soldier)  in  King  Philip's  War. 


Samuel  Bnbrook 

02  10  06 

Elias  Tatingham 

03  18  00 

Arthur  Neale 

02  10  06 

Eleazer  Flagg 

02  10  06 

John  Bovnton 

04  16  10 

Samuel  Pepar 

02  10  06 

Israel  Heuerick 

03  18  00 

Si-Ah  Siorv 

04  16  00 

Robert  Simaon 

03  18  00 

Nathauiei'Wood 

02  10  06 

Samuel  Very 

03  18  00 

Joseph  Kfansfield 

03  18  00 

Philip  Miitoone 

02  10  06 

Benjaraiu  Chadwell 

02  10  06 

Philemon  Dean 

05  17  00 

John  Pikering,  L' 

04  05  10 

Gerehom  Browne 

03  18  00 

John  Newell 

03  18  00 

Andrew  Ileding 

02  10  06 

Uichard  Sutton,  Corp' 

05  12  00 

Robert  Downes 

03  18  00 

John  Ilily 

02  10  06 

Robert  Pease 

03  18  00 

Mii'hacl  DeReeke 

04  16  10 

Thomas  Tennv 

03  18  00 

Jeremiah  Swaine,  Z' 

09  15  00 

Tbomaa  Hateo 

03  18  00 

Benjamin  Langdon 

02  10  06 

WiUiam  Webb 

02  10  06 

Richard  Bryar 

03  18  00 

Solomon  WatU 

02  10  06 

William  Stanly 

03  16  02 

Nathaniel  Masters 

04  16  10 

Joseph  Richardson 

03  18  00 

Jsaac  Ellery 

02  10  06 

Jleury  Bedw,^ll 

04  16  10 

Daniel  Ringe,  Corp' 

04  11  00 

JoIju  Tappiu 

04  16  10 

Jolin  Pengilly,  Corp' 

02  19  00 

{.akb  liicli;irdson 

04  16  10 

Stephen  Greenleaf 

08  16  10 

Edward  Ardway 

04  16  10 

Richard  Hancock 

03  18  00 

Thomas  Parlor 

03  18  00 

John  Whicher  &rg' 

05  17  00 

Daniel  Hawes 

02  10  06 

William  Williams 

03  18  00 

Robert  Dutch 

04  16  10 

02  14  10 

Samuel  Insolls 

03  18  00 

George  Stedman 

02  10  06 

Jonathan  Copp 

02  10  06 

Thomas  Sparke 

03  18  00 

William  Baleman 

04  16  00 

John  Kay  mood 

03  18  00 

Stephen  Greenleaf 

00  16  00 

Samui^l  Foster 

03  18  00 

January  2.1.  167i 

i-6 

Heurj  C«oke 

OS  18  00 

William  [l!iwbius,^r. 

04  08  06 

Samuel  Hebard 

03  18  00 

Jol.n  Warner 

01   16  00 

Johp  Davia 

03  18  00 

Ralph  PoivelL 

01  12  06 

Samuel  lerson 

03  18  00 

Jonathan  Conp 

01  04  00 

Joseph  Eaton 

02  10  06 

Mareh  24, 1675. 

-6 

James  Brearly 

04  16  00 

Thomas  Kylam 

02  15  06 

Ahial  Sadler 

03  18  00 

Samuel  Peirce 

02  15  08 

William  Wainwright 

03  18  00 

Edward  Ardway 

02  15  08 

Benjamin  Webster 

04  16  10 

Join,  Thomas 

02  15  08 

Johu  Warner 

02  10  06 

Sam«el  Foster 

02  14  00 

Ephraim  Cutter 

03  04  06 

John  Harvy 

03  00  00 

Thomas  Abbey 

03  18  00 

Edmond  Brown 

03  05  08 

John  Dennis 

04  18  06 

Samuel  Tiler 

03  07  08 

Josiah  Bridg 

07  16  00 

Lewis  Zacharius 

02  15  08 

Roger  Markes 

02  10  06 

Philemon  Dane 

05  11  04 

Timothy  Breed 

03  18  00 

William  Ho<igkin 

02  15  08 

Thomas  Chase 

03  18  00 

Johu  Perkins 

03  05  OO 

John  Parker 

01  10  00 

Thomas  Palmer 

02  14  00 

John  Wheeler 

09  12  00 

Joseph  Bigsby 

02  14  00 

John  Conant 

04  16  10 

Robert  Downes 

02  15  08 

Edmond  Sheffeild 

04  16  00 

John  Lay  ton 

02  14  00 

John  Kobina 

03  18  00 

John  Stickney 

02  14  00 

Anthony  Williams 

03  18  00 

Thomas  Hazon 

02  14  00 

John  Gamidg 

04  16  10 

Simon  Gawin 

02  02  00 

442 


Soldiers  in  King  Philip*a  War. 


[Oct. 


Ephraim  Cutter 

02  14  00 

Henry  Poore 

02  15  08 

William  Brown 

02  14  00 

John  Raymant 

02  16  06 

Thomas  Waite 

02  14  00 

Isaac  Ashby 

02  16  06 

William  Russell 

02  14  00 

James  Spike 

00  18  00 

William  Sawyer 

02  15  08 

Samuel  Poore 

02  16  06 

April  24, 1676 

John  Cutler,  Chirurgion 

10  00  00 

Francis  Young 

04  05  02 

Robert  Simson 

04  04  00 

Samuel  Browne 
Gershom  Browne 

02  14  00 

Robert  Leech 

03  18  00 

John  Lovell 

02  15  08 

4 

Solomon  Watts 

02  02  00 

9 

AbieU  Sadler 

02  15  08 

Stephen  Gullipher 

03  03  00 

Philip  Matoon 

02  15  08 

Manasseh  Kempthome 

03  08  06 

Thomas  Sparkes 

02  14  00 

Thomas  Abby 

05  02  00 

Jacob  Wilier,  Chirvrgiim 

15  00  00 

June  24%  1676. 

Samuel  Appleton,  Major 

SO  00  00 

John  Thorp 

08  18  00 

July  24"^  1676 

Joseph  Eaton 

02  14  00 

Richard  Godfrey 

04  16  00 

John  Mors,  Commisary 

07  10  00 

Morgon  Jones 

02  14  00 

John  Dodge 

01  10  00 

Joshuah  Boynton 

02  14  00 

Edward  Neland 

02  00  00 

Nicholas  Rawlins 

02  15  08 

Edward  Marston 

01  04  00 

August  24*^  1676 

Ambros  Dawes 

03  06  06 

Zacheus  Newmarch 

02  14  00 

Jonathan  Emery 

02  14  00 

Richard  Way 

06  15  00 

Jonathan  Copp 

04  19  06 

Benjamin  Newman 

02  08  10 

Thomas  Davis 

02  14  00 

Abraham  Fitch 

02  14  00 

Simon  Adams 

02  14  00 

Samuel  Perkins 

02  15  08 

William  Knowlton 

02  16  06 

Richard  Prior 

02  15  08 

Thomas  Rogers 

02  15  08 

David  Bennett 

13  00  00 

Jonathan  Emery 

01  00  00 

John  Lovitt 

01  04  00 

Christopher  Keniston 

04  10  00 

Israel  Blake 

01  04  00 

Thomas  Dow 

02  14  00 

Abraham  Drake 

01  04  00 

Eleazer  Flagg 

02  14  00 

Morris  Hobbs 

01  04  00 

John  Davis 

02  14  00 

Francis  Jennings 

01  04  00 

George  Stedman 

02  14  00 

John  Sleeper 

01  04  00 

Thomas  French 

02  15  08 

Israel  Cli^ord 

01  04  00 

James  Butterick 

02  14  00 

Micael  Towsely 

01  04  00 

Seth  Story 

03  06  00 

William  Sambom 

01  04  00 

Eliah  Tottingham 

01  15  02 

Thomas  Roby 

01  04  00 

John  Pengilly 

04  04  09 

John  Browne 

01  04  00 

Mass.  Archives,  vol.  68,  p.  104. 

A  List  of  Major  Sam*  Apletons  Souldjers  y*  were   slayne  &  wounded 
The  19^^  Decemb  75  at  the  Indian's  fort  at  Narraganset 

Samuell  Taylor  of  Ipswich 


Isaac  Illery  of  Glocester 
Daniel  Rolfe  of  Newbery 
Samuel  Taylor  of  Rowley^®* 


I 


4  men  Slayne 


^^  In  the  list  of  killed  appear  two  Samuel  Taylors.  In  the  credits  is  fonnd  Samuel  Tilef. 
In  a  list  of  men  impressed  at  Rowley,  Nov.  29,  1675,  I  find  Samael  Tiller.  Among  thi 
wounded,  Timson  nndonhtodly  meant  Stimpson,  and  "  II\ja  Thathan  of  Obome,"  wis 
what  the  clerk  made  out  of  Elijah  Tattingham  of  Wol)um.  The  name  appears  eUewhot 
ac  Totenham  and  Totman.    The  other  changes  are  simple. 


1884.] 


Soldiers  in  King  Philip^s  War. 


443 


Leift.  Jerrimyah  Swayne  of  Redding 

Roger  Markes  of  Andiver 

iBaac  Ilsley  of  Newbery 

W"  Standley  of  Newbery 

Dani.  Somersby  of  Newbery 

Jonathan  Emery  of  Newbery 

Jn*^  Dennison  of  Ipswich 

Jn*  Harvey  of  Newbery 

Greorge  Timson  of  Ipswich 

Tho:  Dowe  of  Ipswich 

Symon  Gowen  of  Rowley 

Benj.  Webster  of  Salem 

£llja  Thathan  of  Oborne 

Tho:  Abey  of  Wenham 

Benj.  Langdon  of  Boston 

Solomon  Watts  of  Roxbary 

Jn*^  Warner  of  Charlestowne 

Samuell  Boutericke  of  Cambridge 

The  following  paper,  preserved  in  the  Mass.  Archives,  vol.  68, 
p.  97,  is  the  roll  of  Maj.  Appleton's  company  in  the  Narraganset 
campaign.     Jeremiah  Swain  of  Reading  was  Lieutenant. 


eighteen  men  wounded  who 

are  at  Road  Island  except  y* 

Left.  &  Roger  Marks 

January  6  75 


8«rgt  Ezek.  Woodward 
8erg^  John  Whitcher 
Serg't  m-ancis  Young 
Serg't  Daniel  Rinse 
Corp  John  PengUHe 
Corp  James  Brarly 
Clarke  Fblllemon  i)ean 
Tromp*  John  Wheeler 
Tramp  Josiah  Bridges 
ThoBias  Wayte 
Thonuu  SparkeB 
Abiell  Saddler 
Qerahom  Browne 
larael  Hen  ricks 
Thomaa  Tennie 
Thomas  Hazon 
Robert  Downes 
Richard  Briar 
Joseph  Richardson 
Thomas  Chase 
WUliam  Williams 
Thomas  Abbey 
John  Rayment 
Robert  Leach 
Samuell  Uebbert 
Anthonie  Williams 
8teTen  Buttler 
8amuell  Verry 
WUliam  Waynwright 
Samuell  Fontfr 
Henry  Cooke* 
Robert  .Siroson 
Israel  Thorne 
Samuell  lerson 
John  Newhalle 
Timothle  Breed 
Samuel  Pipin 
PhUlip  Mattoone 


Nath  Wood 
Robert  SIhbly 
WiU.  Webb 
Joseph  Eaton 
Roger  Vicar 
Artnur  Neale 
Inaac  EUirie 
Ben  ChadweU 
John  Daris 
Samuel  Brabrooke 
Isack  Ilsley 
Roger  Markes 
Ben  Leingdon 
John  Rerlle 
Steren  GuUever 
Daniell  HaU 
Solomon  Watts 
Eliezer  Flagg 
John  Warner 
Thomas  Firman 
WUl  Knowlton 
Nath  Masters 
Michale  Derrick 
Thomas  Davis 
CaUeb  Richardson 
John  Boyenton 
Seth  Story 
Ben  Webbster 
Edward  Ardawaj 
Samuel  Ruste 
Silvester  Uai 
Will  Russel 
Sam.  Pelrce 
Sam.  Buttriek 
Ephraim  Cutter 
George  Stedraan 
Edmund  ShefllKUd 
Roger  Joans,        75 


Those  yt  are  wanting 
John  Ford 
Thomas  Parlor 
John  Davis 
Robert  Peas 

The  men  yt  are  now 
listed 
Mosses  Pengrie 
John  Denison 
John  Perkins 
Abraham  Knowlton 
Thomas  ffossey* 
Lewis  Zachriah 
John  LoTweU 
Sam.  Peirce 
George  Stimson 
Thomas  Dow 
Thomas  flVensh 
Sam.  Hunt 
John  Thomas 
Abraham  Fitts 
Richard  Bedford 
Thomas  Killam 
Isaack  Cummins 
Richard  Partsmore 
Richard  Priar 
Ben  Newman 
WiU  Hodskins 
Sam  Taylor 
Amos  (toddin 
Samuel  Perkins 
Peter  Emmons 
Nath  Emerson 
Symond  Adams 
Zscheus  Newmarsh 
John  Hobkins. 
John  Sticknic 


Joseph  Jewett 
Joshua  Boyenton 
John  Leyton 
John  Jackson 
Will  Brown 
Caleb  Jackson 
Sam.  Tyler 
Thomas  Palmor 
Joseph  BIgsby 
Slmond  Gowin 
Daniell  SomersbT 
Samuell  LoTeweil 
SteTen  Swet 
Israh  Roff 
Sam.  Poore 
Henry  Poore 
Christopher  Bartlet 
Edmond  Browne 
Jonathan  Emeric 
Christopher  Kcnniston 
Christopher  Cole 
John  Straton 
John  Harrey 
George  Maler 
Nicolaz  Rollings 
Thomas  Roggers 
Cornelius  Daris 
Jonathan  Clarke 
Wlll'm  Sayward 
WilUam  Warrin 
John  Shepard 
John  Guylie 
Morgain  Joanes 

61  new  men 
76  old  souldlert 
130 


Soon  after  the  battle  of  Narraganset  Major  Appleton  retired  from 
his  protracted  and  arduous  service  in  the  field. ^     He  was  reelected 


*  Are  scratched  out  In  the  MS.  flbstey  appears  elsewhere  as  Fansee,  PlpIn  as  Pepar,  Gnylle 
as  Guild.  Some  twenty-five  on  this  list  do  not  appear  in  HalPs  credits  under  Mi^or  Appleton, 
bnt  1  have  found  nearly  all  mentioned  elsewhere. 

^^  On  the  19th  of  October,  1676,  the  Conrt  appointed  bim  to  command  an  expedition  to 
Fascataqaa ;  bat  he  probably  declined,  as  the  order  was  rescinded  on  October  23d. 


444  The  Wentworths  in  Barbadoes.  [Oct. 

deputy  in  1676,  and  subsequently,  except  1678,  unt'J  1681,  when 
he  was  chosen  Assistant,  and  remained  in  that  office  till  the  coming 
in  of  the  Andros  government  in  1686.  He  was  proscribed  by  Sir 
Edmund's  officer,  Randolph,  as  one  of  the  "  factious."  He  was  ar- 
rested on  the  general  complaint  of  being  "  evil  disposed  and  sedi- 
tious," October  19th,  1687,  and  refusing  to  submit  and  give  bondi 
for  his  good  behavior,  was  committed  to  Boston  jail,  where  he  was 
kept  many  months  till  his  age  and  increasing  infirmities  forced  a  re- 
luctant submission,  and  he  was  set  at  liberty,  March  7,  1688.  In 
the  new  charter  of  William  and  Mary  in  1691,  he  was  made  one  of 
the  Council.  He  died  May  15,  1696,  leaving  an  honored  name 
which  his  posterity  have  continued  in  honor  to  the  present  day. 


PAUL  WENTWORTH  (COUNSELLOR).    THE  WENT- 

WORTHS  IN  BARBADOES. 

THE  Wentworth  Genealogy  left  the  family  origin  of  Gov.  John 
Wentworth's  Counsellor  (appointed  in  1770  whilst  living  in 
London  and  never  returning  to  this  country),  Paul  Wentworth,  in 
doubt.  Gov.  Hutchinson,  in  his  Journal  recently  published,  men- 
tions having  met  him  upon  eleven  different  important  occasions,  and 
always  with  the  most  influential  men  in  authority.  But  the  same 
mystery  always  attends  him.  He  says  nothing.  He  was  the  Agent 
of  the  Colony  of  New  Hampshire,  and,  at  the  date  of  the  closing  of 
the  Journal,  New  Hampshire  matters  were  not  absorbing  much  in- 
terest in  England.  The  Journal  is  poorly  indexed,  and  the  name 
of  Paul  Wentworth  is  only  referred  to  three  times  out  of  the  eleven. 
The  writer  of  this  was  so  much  interested  in  the  Journal  that  he 
could  not  leave  it  until  he  had  read  every  word  in  it.  Gov.  John 
Wentworth's  and  Col.  Michael  Wentworth's  names  are  not  in  the 
index,  as  they  should  be.  As  yet,  the  autographic  writing  of  this 
Paul  Wentworth  nowhere  appears,  although  a  careful  research  in 
all  probable  quarters  has  been  made. 

The  writer  of  this  has  come  to  the  conclusion  that  this  Paul  Went- 
worth originated  in  Barbadoes,  or  that  he  went  there  in  an  early  day 
from  England.  He  was  not  an  American  nor  a  descendant  of  the 
emigrant  ancestor  of  the  Wentworths  in  America.  On  December 
31,  1771,  Gov.  John  Wentworth  granted  two  townships  to  the 
same  parties.  One  he  called  Maynesburgh  (now  Berlin),  and  the 
other  Paulsburgh  (now  Milan).  John  Farmer,  in  the  New  Hamp- 
shire Gazetteer,  says  Maynesburgh  was  granted  to  Sir  William 
Mayne  and  others  of  Barbadoes.  He  says  the  same  of  PauUburgh, 
named  for  Paul  Wentworth.  In  both  grants  the  name  of  Paul 
Wentworth  occurs  without  a  residence^  and  the  sanae  of  all  the 


1884.]  Notes  and  Queries.  445 

other  grantees  except  William  Wentworth,  who  is  called  of  Barba- 
does,  to  distinguish  him  from  other  William  Wentworths  in  Old 
or  New  England.  As  William  Wentworth  is  the  last  name  on 
the  list  in  both  grants,  it  may  be  that  the  ^  of  Barbadoes "  was 
intended  to  apply  to  all  of  them.  A  thorough  examination  of  all 
the  books  relating  to  Barbadoes  finds  only  the  name  of  William 
Wentworth,  who  subscribed  for  the  publication  of  Hall's  Laws  of 
Barbadoes  in  1764.  The  Halls  were  a  numerous  family  in  Barba- 
does, and  no  Hall  genealogy  would  be  complete  without  an  exam- 
ination of  the  Barbadoes  records. 

Hon.  Robert  G.  Holley,  U.  S.  Consul  at  Barbadoes,  writes  under 
date  of  15  August,  1882,  that  the  following  are  all  the  records  that 
he  has  been  able  to  find,  and  that  he  knows  of  no  Wentworth  upon 
the  Island  from  whom  he  can  gather  any  information.  But  he  prom- 
ises to  keep  up  his  inquiries.  He  gives  the  following  births,  but 
does  not  tell  why  he  omits  the  day  and  the  month  ;  nor  does  he  tell 
where  he  found  them  nor  whose  children  they  were.  It  would  seem 
probable  that  they  (or  some  of  them)  were  children  of  William,  who 
may  have  been  a  brother  of  Paul. 

Eatberine  Wentworth,  1764  Elizabeth  Ann  Wentworth,  1780 

Jane  Lewis  "  1766  Rosa  "  1786 

Sasannah  '<  1768  Jane  Lewis  *^  1793 

Nathaniel  Paid  «  1770  Deborah  Hester       "  1793 

CatheriDe  Lewis  ''  1771  John  Joshua  '<  1802 

In  1789  Dartmouth  College  conferred  the  degree  of  LL.D. 
opon  him,  although  he  was  not  in  the  state  after  the  revolu- 
tion. The  Wentworth  Genealogy  says  he  died  very  suddenly  at 
Surinam  in  1789,  where  he  hstd  a  large  plantation,  and  where 
he  had  living  with  him  an  unmarried  nephew  named  Nathaniel, 
whom  he  had  adopted  as  a  son  ;  and  that  soon  after  his  death  the 
nephew  started  to  sail  from  Surinam  to  his  native  West  India  Isl- 
and, when  the  ship  foundered  and  he  was  drowned.  Now  it  may 
have  been  that  this  nephew  Nathaniel  was  the  Nathaniel  Paul  re- 
corded as  born  in  1770.  J.  W. 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 

NOTIS. 


Suicnxr's  IIistort  or  East  Boston. — The  authorship  of  this  work  has  been  more 
than  once  claimed  for  the  late  Samuel  Burnbam.  The  Bumham  Genealogy  has  this 
statement  concerning  him  :  '*  He  has  written  several  books,  the  most  important  of 
which  is  the  History  of  East  Boston,  an  octavo  of  700  pages,  which  he  wrote  for 
General  W.  H.  Sumner  whose  name  appears  on  the  title  page  as  author  " !  The 
Rev.  Increase  M.  Tarbox,  D.D.  in  his  obituary  in  the  Rigistbr, zxviii.  93.  also  says : 
*'  He  was  early  employed  bv  Gen.  Sumner  to  write  the  history  of  East  Boston,  a 
work  which  grew  to  the  bulk  of  six  or  seven  hundred  pages,  and  which  displays  a 


446  Notes  and  Qtteries.  [Oct. 

wonderfal  amount  of  historical  research,  especially  when  regarded  as  the  work  oft 
Teiy  younpr  man,  new  to  the  task.'*  Those  statements  claim  for  Mr.  Burnhaa 
credit  which  does  not  belong  to  him  and  which  we  have  no  reason  to  think  he  erer 
claimed  for  himself. 

The  facts  in  relation  to  the  composition  of  the  "  History  of  East  Boston  *'  are  these. 
In  January,  1854,  Gen.  William  H.  Sumner  began  preparing  for  the  Rboisth,  a 
memoir  of  his  lather.  Got.  Increase  Sumner,  and  employed  Mr.  William  B.  Tnik 
as  an  amanuensis  and  an  assistant  in  collecting  and  digesting  materials.  The 
memoir  was  printed  in  the  Rkgister  for  July,  1^.  A  genealogy  of  the  Sumner 
ftimily  by  Mr.  Trask  was  appended.  About  this  time  Gen.  Sumner  oommenoed 
preparing  his  **  History  of  East  Boston,"  and  retained  Mr.  Trask  in  his  employ  to 
assist  him  in  the  same  manner  as  he  had  done  on  the  previous  work.  Mr.  Traek  wis 
well  acquainted  with  New  England  historv  and  familiar  with  the  original  record! 
and  documents  which  illustrate  it.  He  had  edited  the  Reqistkr  and  made  raloable 
contributions  to  its  pages.  Mr.  H.  P.  Famham,  who  had  charge  of  6ai.  Sumner*! 
business,  also  assisted  as  an  amanuensis. 

Gen.  Sumner,  when  he  began  the  History  of  East  Boston,  had  some  advantages  not 
possessed  by  others.  He  had  a  vast  fund  of  information  concerning  the  persons  con- 
nected with  the  history  of  Noddle's  Island  or  East  Boston,  to  many  of  wnom  he  wu 
allied  by  blood.  He  nad  also  a  large  collection  of  family  papers  illustrating  the 
subject.  He  had  also  considerable  experience  as  a  writer,  ana  was  critical  in  the 
use  of  language.  Mr.  Trask  by  his  direction  examined  and  consulted  public  records 
and  printed  books,  from  which  he  made  copious  extracts  and  abstracts.  These  and 
the  family  papers  beiaring  on  the  subject  were  digested  by  him  and  submitted  to 
Gen.  Sumner  for  his  approval  and  correction.  When  sufficient  material  had  bsea 
collected  the  book  was  written  from  Gen.  Sumner*s  dictation.  By  his  direction  the 
matter  prepared  by  Mr.  Trask  was  incorporated  with  the  work.  The  manuscript 
was  read  and  repeatedly  reread  to  the  author,  he  making  at  every  reading  chan|^ 
and  additions  to  it.  Mr.  Trask  was  employed  in  this  work  more  or  leas  of  his  tiise 
for  two  years  or  longer,  when  his  health,  which  had  failed  him  several  times,  became 
so  bad  that  he  vras  obliged  to  relinquish  the  employment.  Before  Mr.  Trask 
left,  Mr.  Bumham  was  employed  as  an  aasistant,  as  was  for  a  time  Samuel 
Kneeland,  M.D.  The  Rev.  Allen  Gannett  was  engafi;ed  to  compile  the  histoiy 
of  the  Baptist  Church  there  —  the  substance  of  which  appeared  in  the  histoiT. 
The  research  concerning  the  early  history  of  Noddle's  Island  was  substantially 
completed  and  the  results  written  out  before  Mr.  Trask  left ;  and  much  progrei<9  had 
been  made  on  later  portions  of  the  work.  The  Rev.  Dr.  Quint,  who,  as  will  be 
seen  J  carried  the  work  through  the  press,  has  told  me  that  he  found  a  considerable 
portion  of  the  work  in  Mr.  l?ask's  handwriting. 

We  have  no  means  of  knowing  definitely  what  Mr.  Bumham  did  for  the  histoir ; 
but  his  work  on  it  vras  probably  similar  to  that  performed  by  Mr.  Trask.  That  be 
rendered  important  aid  is  evident.  He  had  an  acute  mind  with  a  fine  literary  taste, 
was  possessed  of  much  and  varied  information,  and  had  great  facility  in  expreesiog 
himself.  His  work  being  the  last  done  under  Gen.  Sumner's  personal  supervision, 
he  must  have  assisted  much  in  revising  and  retouching  the  history.  His  researches, 
he  once  told  me,  added  important  matter  even  to  the  early  portion  of  the  historv. 

Before  the  work  was  put  to  press,  Gen.  Sumner's  health,  which  had  long  been 
feeble,  became  utterly  broken ;  he  was  obliged  to  give  up  work,  and  the  book  was 
carried  through  the  press  by  the  author's  friend,  the  Rev.  Alonzo  H.  Quint,  D.D., 
who  was  familiar  with  the  General's  plan,  and  vras  given,  by  written  contract,  full 
control  with  power  to  make  any  changes  that  he  plei^ed.  lie  confined  his  editorial 
work,  however,  to  revision,  omission,  change  in  the  position  of  matter,  etc.  He  dis- 
claims all  authorship,  which  he  agrees  with  me  in  assigning  to  Gen.  Sumner.  No 
one  who  knows  the  imperious  will  and  decided  opinions  of  the  General  will  bcliere 
that  he  allowed  any  one  to  write  his  book.  It  was  with  great  reluctance,  notwith- 
standing bis  inability  to  do  the  work  himself,  that  he  consented  to  place  his  MS. 
unconditionally  in  the  hands  of  Dr.  Quint.  Fortunately  the  work  done  by  Dr. 
Quint  was  found  to  meet  bis  hearty  approval. 

The  Rev.  Dr.  Tarbox  writes  to  me  thus:  **  When  I  wrote  the  obituary  notice  of 
the  late  Mr.  Samuel  Burnham,  I  was  under  a  wrong  impression  as  to  the  large  part 
performed  by  others  in  the  preparation  of  *  Sumner's  History  of  £!ast  Boston.'  I  am 
unable  now  to  say  precisely  how  I  received  the  impression  that  Mr.  Bumham  was 
the  author  of  the  Dook,  but  I  am  now  satisfied  that  it  is  erroneous,  and  that  it  is 
more  in  accordance  with  the  facts  in  the  case  to  say  that  Gen.  Sumner  himself  was 
theauthor  of  thebook."  J.  W.  Diist. 


1884.]  Notes  and  Queries.  447 

Axes  Richardson. — The  brief  aoooant  in  the  Richardson  Memorial  of  the  pos- 
terity of  Amos  Richardson  is  inaccurate. 

Amoe  Richardson,  who  married  Rachel  Farrinffton  (p.  804),  and  settled  at  Coven- 
try, Conn.,  was  the  son  of  Jonathan  and  Ann  (jSi wards) ;  grandson  of  Stephen  and 
Lydia  (Gilbert),  and  great-grandson  of  the  first  Amos  and  Sarah.  The  author  of 
the  Gilbert  Family,  in  the  Reoistbr,  yoI.  iv. ,  is  authority  for  the  statement  also 
found  in  the  Memorial  (p.  16),  that  Lydia  Gilbert  married  Jonathan  Richardson, 
and  this  error  seems  to  hare  been  derived  from  a  careless  reading  of  the  will  of  Mary 
Gilbert,  widow  of  Jons  than.  The  christian  name  of  her  daughter's  deceased  husband 
is  not  mentioned  in  this  will,  but  it  twice  speaks  of  **  m^  late  grandson  Jonathan 
Riohaelson  dec^.'*  This  was  the  first  Jonathan  in  the  family,  and  he  was  probably 
named  after  Jonathan  Gilbert,  who  states  in  his  will  dated  Sept.  10,  1674,  that  **  1 

five  to  my  grandchild  Jonathan  Richelson  5  pounds."  He  was  not  baptized  at 
tonington,  where  the  other  children  of  Stephen  are  recorded,  but  the  records  there 
do  not  commence  until  after  his  birth,  and  be  may  have  been  baptized  at  some  other 
place.  RosBLL  L.  Richardson. 

401  West  1S6/A  8t.,  New  York. 

m 

Gabriel  Grvbb.— How  Dickens  obtained  names  for  his  characters  is  sometimes 
discussed.    It  is  said  that  he  read  sigu-boards  and  studied  directories. 

In  **  Pickwick  Club,"  chapter  29,  is  a  story  of  the  sexton  **  Gabriel  Grub,"  who 
temporarily  dif^peared  so  remarkably.  I  have  found  him.  **  Gabriel  Grubb," 
ID  the  year  1677,  was  arraigned  before  the  court  in  Portsmouth,  N.  H.,as  by 
records  at  JSzeter,  for  *'  opposing  y*  constable,"  and  was  let  off  on  making  a  bumble 
apology!  a.  h.  q. 

QuiRin. 

Author  or  "  Sketch  or  the  Earliest  Explorations  or  the  French  in  Canada 
AND  THE  Valley  op  the  Mississippi." — In  the  fifth  volume  of  Schoolcraft's  History 
and  Condition  of  the  Indians,  commencing  at  page  646,  there  is  an  article  with  the 
Dame  of  Rev.  Edward  D.  Ncill  attached  a.s  author.  In  the  table  of  contents  no  au- 
thor is  given.  Mr.  Neill  writes  that  he  never  saw  nor  heard  of  the  article  until  he 
found  it  printed  in  the  above  volume.  Could  Mr.  Schoolcraft  or  one  of  his  clerks 
in  haste  have  attributed  to  Mr.  Neill  the  production  of  another  pen,  and  thus  have 
taken  away  the  credit  from  the  real  author  7  Scrutator. 


Barker— Rice. — What  is  known  of  Sam.  Still  Augustus  Barker,  graduate  of  Tale, 
1773,  and  Nehemiah  Rice,  graduate  in  1774  ?  Barker  appears  to  have  come  from 
or  lived  in  New  Haven  Co.,  Conn,  (perhaps  Middletown) ;  Rice  in  Waterbury,  or 
Watertown.  Items  of  personal  history  are  sought :  occupation-— dates  of  birth  and 
death — parentage,  Ac.  There  were  two  captains  of  the  same  names  in  the  Revolu- 
tionary army,  Connecticut  Line.  B.  p.  j. 

Hadlyme^  Conn. 

Ball. — Samuel  Ball,  son  of  Francis  and  Abigail  (Burt)  Ball,  of  Northampton, 
Mass.,  and  Dorchester,  Mass.,  1648,  m.  Mary^— ,  who  m.  second,  1690,  Benjamin 
Stebbins ;  what  was  Mary  Balfs  maiden  name? 

Parsons. — Moses  Parsons,  of  Durham,  Conn.,  1710 — 1791,  son  of  Moses  and 
Abigail  Bali ;  gr.  son  of  Joseph  Parsons  and  gt.  or.  son  of  Comet  Joseph  of  North- 
ampton, Mass.,  m.  Elisabeth ,  1711 — 1790.     What  was  her  maiden  name? 

Wilkes  Barre,  Pa.  Horace  Edwin  Hatokn. 

IcBABOD  TiBBETS.— I  would  like  to  kuow  who  was  the  father  of  Ichabod  Tibbets, 
of  family  15,  page  130,  of  the  Rbqister,  vol.  viii.  Mark  Tibbxtts. 

""     '    "S  Ma 


ReadcilU^  Mass. 


Replies. 


Dole  (anfe,  p.  78).— In  the  January  Register  the  record  of  the  family  of  Benjamin 
and  Sarah  (Clark)  Dole  is  given.    In  certain  instances  it  varies  fh)m  the  dates  given 


448  Notes  and  Queries.  [Oct 

in  the  town  records.  Accordinff  to  the  latter,  OlWer  was  bom  Oct.  8,  1738 ;  Mieth 
died  Deo.  22,  1747 ;  Sarah  died  June  9,  1754,  aged  one  day  ;  Eunice  died  Nor.  9, 
1796,  aged  46 ;  Jane  died  Feb.  3, 1823,  aged  80  years  and  6  months. 

Sarah,  wife  of  Beqjamin  Dole,  was  daughter  of  Nathaniel  and  Sarah  (GreenleaQ 
Clark,  of  Newbury.  o.  k.  c. 

Clark  {ante,  p.  231).— In  reply  to  Clark  ^uery,  I  will  say  that  my  manuscript 
Folk-Book  of  East  Haddam,  Cfonn.,  which  is  a  digested  transcript  of  all  reourdi 
personal,  which  I  could  find  in  that  town,  shows  that  in  the  First  Church,  Thomas 
Clark  had  three  children  baptized:  Mary,  16  Sept.  1722;  Thomas,  16  Sept.  1782; 
Hannah,  5  Ap.  1724.  Nothing  further  shown  of  them,  unless  one  of  them  be  Thomas 
Clark  of  Haddam,  who  m.  14  March,  1761,  with  Susanna  Swaddle  of  £ast  iladdam. 

No  records  of  Clarks  in  Millington  (not  Willinffton)  Parish  before  Daniel,  1746. 
If  Thomas  Clark  bought  and  sold  land  in  £ast  Uaddam.  an  examination  of  the  land 
records  would  bring  out  the  facts.  D.  Williams  PATmaov. 

l^ewark  Valley,  Jv.  Y. 

Miscellanea  Markscalluna  {ante,  p.  242).— The  motto  of  thb  book  should  hsTS 
been  printed  chronogrammatically,  thus:  to  aLL  MarsbaLLs  aLL  oVis  thi 
y  VohLD  I  BiaVKATH  tbIs  Work  gbatIs,  giving  the  date,  1883. 


NoRSET  Bark,  {ante,  p.  343).— In  a  letter  of  Edward  Hopkins  to  John  Winthrop, 
Jr.,  dated  *'  London  the  \^  of  August  1635,"  printed  in  4  Massachaaetts  Htstorial 
Society  Collections,  vol.  vi.  pages  325-9,  Mr.  Hopkins  writes:  *'  I  have  now  deared 
of  from  hence  the  North  Sea  Boatt."  On  this  the  editors  make  this  foot-note :  **  Win- 
throp, i.  173,  in  noticing  the  arrival  of  this  vessel  at  Boston,  under  date  of  28Ui 
October,  calls  it  a  *  small  Norsey  bark  of  twenty-five  tons.'  He  probably  intended 
*  Norsey  *  (or  as  the  original  manuscript,  to  our  eyes,  reads,  '  Norsye '),  for  an 
abbreviation  of  North  S^ ;'  but  by  his  awkward  vray  of  expressing  it,  he  has  hitb- 
erto  pu2zled  his  annotators." 


Historical  Intblligsncb. 

Ipswicb  Quarter  Millenary. — In  August  last  a  quarter  of  a  thousand  yeais  was 
completed  since  the  General  Court  of  Massachusetts  gave  the  name  of  Ipswich  to  th« 
settlement  at  Agawam,  the  nearest  approach  to  an  act  of  incorporation  that  eur 
early  colonial  records  show.  It  has  been  said  that  Massachusetts  b«ing  a  corporation 
itself,  had  no  power  to  create  a  corporation  ;  and  it  would  seem  from  what  we  know 
that  the  people  formed  the  townships  and  the  colony  regulated  them.  The  order  waa 
passed  August  5th,  old  style,  corresponding  to  the  i5th  of  that  month  new  style. 
The  250tb  anniversary  of  that  event  was  celebrated  by  the  town  of  Ipswich  on  Satur- 
day, Aug.  16,  and  by  the  First  Church  on  Sunday,  August  17, 1884. 

Saturday  the  16th  was  a  perfect  summer  dav.  The  public  and  many  private 
buildings  uf  Ipswich  were  tastefully  decorated.  In  this  town  many  ancient  buildings 
are  preserved,  and  most  of  them  bore  inscriptions  telling  their  history.  Among  the 
invited  guests  were  Gov.  Robinson  and  Lieut.  Gov.  Ames.  A  procession  was  formed 
at  ten  o  clock,  which  passed  through  the  principal  streets  to  a  tent  on  the  green  near 
the  First  Church,  where  the  literary  exercises  were  held.  Prominent  in  the  pro- 
cessiun  were  the  octogenarian  and  nonogenarian  veterans  of  Ipswich.  Rev.  John  C. 
Kimball,  of  Hartford,  delivered  an  historical  address  on  '*  The  Evolution  of  a  New 
England  Town;"  and  a  poem  by  Miss  Mary  A.  Dodge  (Gail  Hamilton),  entitled 
'*  Mother  Ipswich,  by  one  of  her  grandchildren,''  was  read.  Original  hymns  were 
sung.  At  half  past  two  o'clock  dinner  was  served  in  another  tent ;  after  which 
speeches  were  made  bv  Hon.  George  D.  Robinson,  governor  of  Massachusetts,  Hon. 
George  B.  Loring,  ^fajo^  Ben:  Perlev  Poore  and  others.  A  poem  by  Mrs.  Harriot 
Prescutt  Spofford,  and  letters  from  John  May,  mayor  of  Ipswich.  England,  Hun. 
Robert  C.  Winthrop,  a  descendant  of  John  Winthrop,  Jr.,  the  leader  of  the  settlers 
of  Agawara  in  1633,  John  G.  Whittierand  James  G.  Blaine,  the  republican  nominee 
for  president,  were  read.  Hon.  Marshall  P.  Wilder,  president  of  the  New  England 
Historic  Genealogical  Society,  who  was  invited,  was  not  able  to  attend  ;  but  a  dele- 
gation from  the  society— Hon.  Nathaniel  F.  Safford,  Col.  Albert  H.  Hoyt,  Rev. 


1884.]  Societies  and  their  Proceedings.  449 

Henry  A.  Hazen  and  John  Ward  Dean — were  present.  Hon.  Charles  A.  Sayward 
was  chairman,  and  George  E.  Farley  secretary  of  the  committee  of  arrangements. 
Hon.  George  Haskell  was  president  of  the  day. 

The  First  Church  commemorated  the  event  on  Sunday  the  17th,  by  an  historical 
discourse  in  the  morning  from  the  pastor.  Rev.  £!dwin  B.  Palmer.  In  the  afternoon 
the  Rev.  Increase  N.  Tarbox,  D.D.,  of  West  Newton,  delivered  a  discourse  on  **  The 
£arly  Ministers  of  Ipswich." 

The  iNSTirnrs  Fair  in  Boston,  1884. — The  managers  of  the  New  England  Manu- 
facturing and  Mechanics*  Institute,  with  the  ener^ry  and  enterprise  which  have  always 
characterized  them,  have  this  year  made  a  thorough  canvass  of  the  United  States  and  • 
Mexico,  and  the  result  is  especially  gratifying.  The  entire  south  and  west  have,  with 
one  accord,  responded  to  the  invitation,  while  large  contributions  have  been  received 
from  Mexico.  The  choicest  gems  of  art,  the  achievements  of  scientific  research,  the 
triumphs  of  mechanical  skill  and  the  agricultural  and  mineral  wealth  of  the  land,  are 
collected  here  for  the  instruction  of  visitors.  Among  the  improvements  of  this  year  is 
the  establishment  of  a  Press  i>arlor,  where  the  press  of  New  England  can  be  repre- 
sented. John  M.  Little  is  chairman  of  the  committee  on  the  conduct  of  the  fair, 
and  John  F.  Wood  treasurer  and  general  manager.  The  fair  opened  Sept.  3,  at  two 
o'clock,  P.M.,  and  will  close  Nov.  1,  at  10  o'clock,  P.M. 


Ancestry  of  First  Families  op  St.  John,  N.  B. — In  a  series  of  articles  with  the 
above  title  published  in  the  Daiiy  Sun  of  St.  John,  in  the  early  part  of  the  present 
year,  by  Edwin  Salter,  of  Washington,  D.  C,  the  following  were  amone  the  iamilies 
noticed.  It  will  be  seen  that  oflMhoots  of  many  well  known  New  England  families 
were  among  the  pioneers  of  New  Brunswick,  some  of  whom  settled  there  about 
176^^-3,  anaothcrsat  the  close  of  the  Revolution.  Adams,  Allen,  Arnold,  Arrow- 
smith.  Borden,  Barker,  Beardslee,  Burpee,  Barbaric.  Cole,  Conklin,  Cook,  Craw- 
ford, Carr,  Cox,  Christy,  Coy,  Combs.  Dyer,  Dillon,  Davis.  Ellis,  Esty,  Estabrook, 
Edwards,  Eccies.  Elsworth.  Fisher.  Hulett,  Hartshome,  Hendricks,  Hampton. 
Jennings,  Jobs.  Kerr.  Leonard,  Leavitt.  Nevers.  Potter,  Perley,  Peabody,  Pickard. 
Quintou.    Randolph.    Seaman, Simonds.    Tilton,  Taylor.    Vroom.     Woolley. 

In  the  Daily  Sun  of  Feb.  23d  Mr.  Salter  give.*)  the  names  of  about  two  hundred 
and  fifty  leading  Loyalists  of  New  Jersey,  whose  property  was  confiscated  during 
the  Revolution,  which  will  prove  of  much  interest  to  many  in  the  Province  desirous 
of  tracing  their  ancestry. 

Litbrart  Research  at  Somersbt  House,  London. — The  readers  of  the  Rbqister 
will  be  pleased  to  learn  that  Mr.  Waters  writes  to  us,  that  No.  8  Room  in  the  Pro- 
bate Registry  is  to  be  enlarged  so  as  to  give  admission  to  twelve  readers  at  the  same 
time:  that  an  additional  messenger  is  to  be  employed,  and  that  '*  the  extension  of 
gratuitous  searches  to  all  wills  proved  not  later  than  100  yrs.  before  thedateat  which 
the  search  is  made  "  has  been  conceded.  The  alteration  of  the  room  will,  if  possible, 
be  completed  during  the  vacation,  and  the  new  regulations  will  come  into  force 
when  it  is  ready  for  occupation. 


Genealogies  in  Preparation.— Persons  of  the  several  names  are  advised  to  fur- 
nish the  compilers  of  these  genealogies  with  records  of  their  own  families  and  other 
information  which  they  think  will  be  useful.  We  would  suggest  that  all  facts  of 
interest  illustrating  family  history  or  character  be  communicated,  especially  ser- 
vice under  the  U.  S.  government,  the  holding  of  other  oflBcee,  graduation  from 
college  or  professional  schools,  occupation,  with  places  and  dates  of  birth,  marriages, 
residence  and  death.  When  there  are  more  than  one  christian  name  thev  shoulcTall 
be  given  in  full  if  possible.  No  initials  should  be  used  wheathe  full  names  are 
known. 

J  tee. — At  the  reunion  of  the  descendants  of  John  Lee  of  Farmington,  Conn.,  Au- 

fust  5-6,  1^4,  a  permanent  organization  was  formed.  W-iUiam  Wallace  Lee,  of 
leriden.  Conn.,  and  Thomas  G.  Lee,  126  West  Main  Street,  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  were 
appointed  secretaries.  They  are  engaged  in  preparing  a  complete  genealogy  of  this 
family. 

VOL.  XXXVIII.  40 


450  Societies  and  their  Proceedinga.  [Oct. 

Streeter  or  Slreafer.  By  MiIford*B.  Streeier,  84  North  2d  Street,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
— Mr.  Streeter  has  ^thered  much  material  concerning  this  family,  and  will  thank- 
fully  receive  any  information  sent  him.  Perhaps  some  old  bible,  cootaining  a  finmily 
record,  may  have  descended  through  daughters  into  other  families.  If  bo,  he  would 
be  thankful  for  a  copy  of  the  record. 


S0CIETIE3  AND  THEIR  PROCEEDINGS. 

Nsw-fiNOLAND  Historic  Gensalogical  Sociktt. 

Boston,  Mass.f  Wednesday,  January  2,  1884. — The  annual  meeting  was  held  at 
the  Society  *s  House,  18  Somerset  Street,  this  afternoon,  at  three  o*ciock,  the  presi- 
dent, the  Hon.  Marshall  P.  Wilder,  Ph.D.,  in  the  chair. 

The  recording  secretary,  David  G.  Haskins,  Jr.,  read  the  record  of  the  proceed- 
ings of  the  December  meeting. 

The  Rev.  Increase  N.  Tarbox,  D.D.,  chairman  of  the  nominating  committee,  re- 
ported a  list  of  oflSccrs  for  the  current  year,  and  the  persons  nominated  were 
unanimously  elected.    The  officers  for  1884  are  : 

President. — Hon.  Marshall  P.  Wilder,  Ph.D.,  of  Boston,  Mass. 

Vice-Presidents. — Hon.  Joseph  Williamson,  A.M.,  of  Belfast,  Me.;  Hon.  Jo- 
seph B.  Walker,  A.B.,  of  Concord,  N.  H.  ;  Hon.  Hiland  Hall,  LL.D.,  of  Benning- 
ton, Vt.  ;  Hun.  George  G.  Richardson,  of  Boston,  Mass.  ;  Hon.  John  R.  Bartlett, 
A.M.,  of  Providence,  R.  I. ;  Hon.  Edwin  H.  Bugbee,  of  Killingly,  Ot. 

Honorary  Vice-Presidents. — George  V^illiam  Curtis,  LL.D.,  of  West  New  Brix- 
ton :  Hun.  Rutherford  B.  Hayes,  LL.D.,  of  Fremont.  Ohio ;  William  A.  White- 
head, A.M.,  of  Newark,  N.  J.  ;  Hon.  John  Wentworth,  LL.D.,  of  Chicago,  111. ; 
Hon.  William  A.  Richardson,  LL.D.,  of  Washington,  D.  C.  ;  Rev.  Joseph  F. 
Tuttle,  D.D.,  of  Crawfordsville,  Ind. ;  Lyman  C.  Draper,  LL.D.,  of  Madison, 
Wis.  ;  Rt.  Rev.  William  S.  Perry,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  of  Davenport,  Iowa  ;  Rev. 
William  G.  Eliot,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  of  St.  Louis,  Mo.;  Rt.  Rev.  William  I.  Kip, 
D.D.,  LL  D.,  of  San  Francisco,  Cal. ;  Rev.  Charles  Breck,  D.D.,  of  Wcllsboro*, 
Pa. ;  Rdward  Kidder,  Esq.,  of  Wilmins^ton,  N.  C.  ;  Rev.  Edward  D.  Neill,  A.B., 
of  St.  Paul,  Minn.  ;  Hon.  Hovey  K.  Clarke,  of  Detroit,  Mich. 

Corresponding  Secretary. — Rev.  Edmund  F.  Slafter,  A.M.,  of  Boston,  Mass. 

Recording  Secretary. — David  Greene  Haskins,  Jr.,  A.M.,  of  Cambridge,  Mase. 

Treasurer. — Benjamin  Barstow  Torrey,  of  Boston,  Mass. 

Historiographer. — Rev.  Increase  N.  Tarbox,  D.D.,  of  Newton,  Maas. 

Librarian. — John  Ward  Dean,  A.M.,  of  Boston,  Mass. 

Directors. — Hon.  Nathaniel  Foster  Saflford,  A.B.,  Milton  ;  Hon.  William  Claflin, 
LL.D.,  Newton,  Maas. ;  Hon.  James  W.  Austin,  A.M.,  Boston  ;  Cyrus  Woodman, 
A.M.,  Cambridge;  J.  Gardner  White,  A.M.,  Cambridge. 

Committee  on  Finance. —  Hon.  Alvah  A.  Barrage,  Boston,  Chairman;  Hen- 
ry Edwards,  Boston ;  Hon.  Samuel  C.  Cobb,  Boston ;  Addison  Child,  Boston ; 
Benjamin  B.  Torrey,  Boston. 

Committee  on  Publication. — John  Ward  Dean,  A.M.,  Boston,  Chairman;  Rev. 
Lucius  R.  Paige,  D.D.,  Cambridore  ;  Rev.  Edmund  F.  Slafter,  A.M.,  Boston  ;  Jere- 
miah Colburn,  A.M.,  Bi>ston ;  William  B.  Trask,  Bostoi^  Henry  U.  fides,  Bos- 
ton ;  Henry  F.  Waters,  A.B.,  Salem. 

Committee  on  Memorials. — John  Ward  Dean,  A.M..  Boston,  Chairman;  Albert 
H.  Hoyt,  A.M.,  Boston;  Rev.  Henry  A.  Hasen,  A.M.,  Aubumdale  ;  J.  Gard- 
ner White,  A.M.,  Cambridge;  William  B.  Trask,  Boston;  Daniel  T.V.Hun- 
toon,  Canton ;  Arthur  M.  Al^er,  LL.B.,  Taunton. 

Committee  on  Heraldry. — Abner  C.  Goodell,  Jr.,  A.M.,  Salem,  Chairman;  Hon. 
Thomas  C.  Amory,  A.M.,  Boston;  Augustus  T.  Perkins,  A.M.,  Boston  ;  George 
B.  Chase,  A.M.,  Boston;  John  C.  J.  Brown,  Boston. 

Committee  on  the  Library.— John  T.  Haasam,  A.M.,  Boston,  Chairman;  Willard 
S.  Alien,  A.M.,  Boston;  Jeremiah  Colburn,  A.M.,  Boston;  William  B.  Trask, 
Boston ;  Deloraine  P.  Corey,  Maiden ;  Henry  E.  Waite,  West  Newton  ;  Edmund 
T.  Eastman,  M.D.,  Boston. 

Committee  on  Papers  and  £!s5flfv5.— Rev.  Henry  A.  Hazen,  A.M.,  Aobnmdale, 
Chairman;  Rev.  Dorus  Clarke,  D,D,f  Boston ;  Rev.  Lacreaae  N.  Tarbox,  D.D., 


1884.]  Societies  and  their  Proceedings.  451 

Newton  ;  Rev.  David  G.  U&^kins,  S.T.D.,  Cambridge ;  William  C.  Bates,  Newton  ; 
Charles  C.  Coffin,  Boston  ;  Rev.  Artemas  B.  Muzzey,  A.M.,  Cambridge. 

Col.  Wilder  having,  for  the  seventeenth  time,  been  elected  prej»ident  of  the  soci- 
ety, proceeded  to  deliver  his  annual  address,  which  was  printed  in  full  in  the  April 
number  of  the  Register  {ante^  pp.  133-45) . 

At  the  close  of  the  addrens,  Harrison  EUery  presented,  in  the  name  of  Miss  Mary 
Bonner  Cazneau,  portraits  of  her  ancestors.  Capt.  John  Bmner,  of  Boston,  and  his 
K>n,  Capt.  John  Bonner,  Jr.  The  father  is  the  author  of  the  1722  map  of  Boston. 
Thanks  were  voted  to  Miss  Cazneau. 

The  following  annual  reports  were  presented  : 

The  Rev.  Edmund  F.  Slaffcer,  the  corresponding  secretary,  reported  that  sixty-one 
resident  and  seven  corresponding  members  have  been  added  to  the  society  during 
the  past  year.  He  also  reported  the  usual  correspondence  relating  to  historical 
eabjects. 

The  Rev.  Increase  N.  Tarbox,  D.D.,  the  historiographer,  reported  the  number  of 
members  who  have  died  during  the  year,  as  far  as  known,  to  ne  forty-one,  and  that 
their  average  age  was  seventy-one  years,  five  months  and  twenty-nine  days.  Memo- 
rial sketches  of  deceased  members  have  been  prepared  and  printed  as  promptly  as 
the  space  at  command  would  allow. 

Benjamin  B.  Torrey,  the  treasurer,  reported  the  total  income  of  the  year  to  be 
$3,870.62,  and  the  current  expenses  $3,854.96,  leaving  a  balance  on  hand  of  $15.66. 
The  receipts  for  life-membership  were  $390,  makins:  the  present  amount  of  the  fund 
$10,347.74.  The  amount  of  the  fund  for  the  support  of  the  librarian  is  $12,763.13 ; 
of  the  Bradbury  Fund,  $2,500  00;  of  the  Towne  Memorial  Fund,  $4,424.32  ;  of  the 
Barstow  Fund,  $1,002.58;  of  the  Bond  Fund,  $842.46;  of  the  Cushman  Fund, 
$87.41 ;  of  the  Sever  Fund,  $5,000  00:  of  the  Alden  Fund,  $1,000.00  ;  of  the  Rus- 
sell Fund,  $3,000.00;  and  of  the  Building  Fund,  $1,100  00;  making  a  total  for 
the  several  funds,  in  the  hands  of  the  treasurer,  of  $42,442.64. 

John  W.  Dean,  the  librarian,  reported  that  1,831  volumes  and  2,788  pamphlets 
had  been  added  to  the  library  duting  the  year.  The  library  now  contains  19,381 
volumes,  and  59,445  pamphlets. 

John  T.  Hassam,  A.M.,  chairman  of  the  library  committee,  reported  important 
additions  to  the  society^s  collection  of  state,  county  and  family  histories.  In  re- 
sponse to  an  invitation  of  the  committee,  five  Massachusetts  towns — Princeton,  Do- 
ver, Lancaster,  Bernardston  and  Ware — have  placed  copies  of  their  records  of  births, 
marriai^es  and  deaths  with  the  society  for  preservation  in  its  fire-proof  vault.  Other 
towns  have  promised  copies  of  their  records. 

The  lion.  Nathaniel  F.  Safford,  chairman  of  a  special  committee  on  the  bequest 
of  the  late  Joseph  J.  Cooke,  Esq.,  of  Providence,  R.  I.,  reported  that  Mr.  Cooke  in 
his  will  placed  the  sum  of  $5,000  to  the  credit  of  the  society,  to  be  expended  for 
books  purchased  nt  auction  at  the  sale  of  his  library.  His  library  wa<4  sold  in  New 
York  in  March,  October  and  December,  1883,  and  1 ,440  volumes  were  purchasod  at 
these  sales  with  the  above  named  credit.  The  books  purchased  supply  a  want  long 
felt  in  the  library. 

John  W.  Dean,  chairman  of  the  publishing  committee,  re(X)rted  that  the  Rbqis- 
TER  and  the  annual  proceedings  for  1883  had  been  issued  under  their  charge  since 
their  last  report. 

John  T.  Hassam,  chairman  of  a  special  committee  on  English  Research,  reported 
that  the  services  of  Henry  F.  Waters,  a  member  of  the  society,  whose  experience 
and  skill  eminently  fitted  him  for  this  position,  have  been  engaged  for  a  systematic 
investigation  in  England  of  evidences  to  be  found  there  concerninsr  the  English  an- 
cestry of  the  early  settlers  of  this  country.  He  entered  in  May,  1883,  on  his  labors, 
which  have  proved  remarkably  successful.  The  results  of  his  research  are  printed  in 
the  Register.  Subscriptions  have  been  received  sufficient  to  pay  his  salary  one  year. 
Further  subscriptions  are  solicited  that  he  may  continue  his  labors  for  a  series  of 
years. 

The  Rev.  Dorus  Clarke,  D.D.,  chairman  of  the  committee  on  papers  and  essays, 
reported  that  nine  papers  had  heen  read  beftire  the  society  during  the  year. 

Albert  W.  Hoyt,  secretary  of  the  committee  on  memorials,  reported  progress  on 
the  fourth  volume  of  Memorial  Biographies  printed  at  the  charge  of  the  Towne 
Memorial  Fund. 

The  Hon.  Thomas  C.  Araory,  chairman  of  the  committee  on  heraldry,  reported 
the  doings  of  that  committee.  Queries  had  been  answered  and  beralaic  subjects 
investigated. 


452  Societies  and  their  Proceedings.  [Oct. 

On  motion  of  Rev.  Dorue  Clarke,  D.D.,  the  publishing  committee  were  directed 
to  print  the  president*saddreH8,  with  an  abetract  of  the  other  proceedings. 

Preflident  Wilder  then  aeked  the  Rev.  Dr.  Clarke,  who  had  offered  the  motion,  to 
take  a  place  upon  the  platform,  and  proceeded  to  pronounce  a  warm  eulogy  on  Dr. 
Clarke  and  his  services  to  the  society,  ending  by  informing  the  mfetini;  that  hw 
friend  now  standing  by  his  side,  had  that  morning  completed  the  87th  year  of  his 
age.    Dr.  Clarke  made  a  fitting  response. 

On  motion  of  Rev.  A.  B.  Muzzey,  thanks  were  tendered  to  the  venerable  Presi- 
dent Wilder  for  the  able  and  continued  discharge  of  his  duties  for  these  many  years. 

Maine  Historical  Sociitt. 

The  Annual  Meeting  was  held  in  Brunswick,  Me.,  July  11,  1884,  the  venerable 
Hon.  James  Ware  Bradbury,  LL.D.,  of  Augusta,  presiding. 

The  librarian  and  curator  read  his  annual  report,  showing  a  f^xn  of  about  400 
bound  volumes  and  1,400  pamphlets  during  the  past  year.  Many  interesting  relics, 
duly  authenticated,  have  been  added  to  the  cabinet.  Among  them,  the  raior  strop 
used  by  the  Rev.  Cotton  Mather. 

The  following  officers  were  elected : 

President — James  W.  Bradbury,  Augusta. 
Vice  President — William  G.  Barrows,  Brunswick. 

Corresponding  Secretary — William  Qoold,  Windham. 

Treasurer — I^wis  Pierce,  Portland. 

Librarian  and  Recording  Secretary — H.  W.  Bryant,  Portland. 

Biographer — Joseph  William.son,  Belfast. 

Standing  Commit  tee. ^R,  K.  Sewall,  Wm.  B.  Lapham,  Wm.  Goold,  E  .H.  Elwell, 
Joseph  Williamson,  James  P.  Baxter,  J.  L.  Chamberlain. 

The  members  of  the  society  present  at  this  meeting  had  the  satisfaction  of  greeting 
the  venerable  Professor  Packard,  who  died  suddenly  two  days  afterwards. 

Virginia  Historical  &ciBrY. 

Richmond,  Saturday ^  Aug.  16,  1884.— The  executive  committee  met  this  day. 
Edward  V.  Valentine  in  the  chair  and  R.  A.  Brock  acting  as  secretary. 

Among  the  donations  reported  were  two  vellum  documents — a  patent  by  Lord 
Dunmore,  July  5,  1774,  to  Nathaniel  McClure,  for  140  acres  of  land,  and  another  by 
John  Wood,  governor  of  Virginia,  Nov.  23,  1789,  for  105  acres ;  and  a  rare  pamph- 
let account  of  the  Burning  of  the  Richmond  Theatre,  Dec.  20,  1811,  and  the  inter- 
ment of  the  victims. 

Acceptances  of  membership  were  read  from  Col.  Samuel  Adams  Drake.  Boston, 
Mass. ;  Gen.  C.  W.  Darling,  Utica,  N.  Y. ;  Mrs.  Martha  J.  Lamb.  New  York  city ; 
C.  A.  Hack,  Taunton,  Mass. ;  Mrs.  Virginia  liannon,  Frankfort,  Ky. ;  and  G.  P. 
Frierson,  Columbia,  Tenn. 

Mr.  Brock,  the  secretary,  reported  that  the  second  and  concluding  volume  of  the 
**  Dinwiddie  Papers,*'  of  more  than  seven  hundred  octavo  pages,  with  analytical 
index,  portrait  of  Gov.  Dinwiddie,  etc.,  was  nearly  printed,  and  would  soon  be  ready 
for  delivery  to  members. 

Rhodb  Island  Historical  Socibtt. 

Providence,  Tuesday,  January  22,  1884. — A  stated  meeting  was  held  this  evening, 
the  president,  William  Gammell,  LL  D.,  in  the  chair. 

William  E.  Foster,  A.M.,  read  a  paper  on  **  The  Rhode  Island  Town  Govemmcnta 
of  the  Seventeenth  Century."  (This  paper  is  printed  in  the  Providence  Ecenin>f 
Bulletin^  Jan.  23,  1884.)  The  paper  was  closely  followed  throughout,  and  elicited 
hearty  manifestations  of  approval  at  its  close.  Remarks  followed  from  several  mem- 
bern,  and  thanks  were  voted  to  Mr.  Foster. 

February  5. — A  stated  meeting  was  held  this  evening,  President  Gammell  in  the 
chair. 

Prof.  John  L.  Lincoln,  LL.D.,  of  Brown  University,  read  a  paper  on  **  The  Life 
and  Character  of  Marcus  Aurelius.''  After  remarks  by  several  gentlemen,  thanks 
were  voted  for  the  paper. 

February  19. — The  regular  meeting  was  held  this  evening,  Charles  W.  Parsons, 
M.D.,  vice  president,  in  the  chair. 

John  Erastus  Lester  read  a  paper  entitled  *'  A  Picture  of  Christian  Hill,  its  Con- 
figuration and  Character.'*  Christian  lIiU  is  a  locality  in  Providence.  Remarks  by 
members  followed,  and  thanks  were  voted  to  Mr.  Lester. 


1884.]       Necrology  of  Historic  Genealogical  Society.  453 


NECROLOGY  OF  THE  NEW-ENGLAND  HISTORIC 

GENEALOGICAL  SOCIETY. 

Prepared  by  the  Rev.  Inckbasb  N.  Tarbox,  D.D.,  Historiographer  of  the  Society. 

The  historiographer  would  inform  the  society,  that  the  sketches  pre- 
pared for  the  Rkgister  are  necessarily  brief  in  consequence  of  the 
limited  space  which  can  be  appropriated.  All  the  facts,  however,  he  is 
able  to  gather,  are  retained  in  the  Archives  of  the  Society,  and  will  aid  in 
more  extended  memoirs  for  which  the  "  Towne  Memorial  Fund,"  the  gift 
of  the  late  William  B.  Towne,  A.M.,  is  provided.  Three  volumes,  printed 
at  the  charge  of  this  fund,  entitled  ^'  Memorial  Biographies,"  edited  by 
the  Committee  on  Memorials,  have  been  issued.  They  contain  memoirs  of 
all  the  members  who  have  died  from  the  organization  of  the  society  to  the 
close  of  the  year  1859.     A  fourth  volume  is  in  press. 

Col.  Almon  Danforth  Hodges,  of  Boston,  Roxbury  District,  Mam.,  a  life  member, 
and  president  of  this  Society  frum  1859  to  1861,  was  a  8on  of  Jonathan  Hodireti  and 
was  bom  in  Norton,  Mass.,  January  25,  1801.  He  died  at  his  summer  reeidenoe, 
Portsmouth,  R.  I.,  Sept.  27,  1878,  in  his  seventy-eighth  year.  Uis  great-grand- 
father Major  Janeph  Hodges  served  in  the  old  French  War. 

Mr.  llodi^es  commenced  business  in  Providence  in  1323  with  Mr.  John  J.  Stimson, 
under  the  firm  of  Stimson  &  Hodi^es.  His  active  interest  in  public  affairs  made  him 
prominent  among  the  men  of  his  day.  He  was  a  member  of  the  General  Assembly  of 
Rhode  Island  several  years.  His  military  knowledi^e  admirably  qualified  him  for 
the  command  of  the  Horse  Guards  during  the  Dorr  Rebellion.  In  1845  Col.  Hodees 
moved  to  Boston,  and  as  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Hodges,  Emmons  &  Weld  and  of 
Hodges  &  Emmons  was  most  favorably  known  to  the  business  community.  In  1850 
he  succeeded  Mr.  Aaron  Baldwin  as  President  of  the  Washington  Bank,  a  position 
which  he  held  with  distinguished  ability  till  his  death.  He  proved  that  wise  con- 
servatism coupled  with  energy  of  character  constitute  the  true  elements  of  business 
success. 

Col.  Hodges  lost  a  son  in  the  war.  He  was  one  of  the  most  active  promoters  of 
enlistment,  and  organized  and  commanded  the  Roxbury  Horse  Guards,  composed  of 
older  members  of  the  community.  He  was  a  gentleman  who  enioyed  excellent  health, 
and  for  many  years  he  walked  daily  from  his  residence  in  Roxbury  to  his  place  of 
business.  He  was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Clearing  House,  and  also  Treasurer 
of  the  Association  of  Banks  for  the  suppression  of  counterfeiting,  in  private  life  be 
was  esteemed  for  his  many  genial  traits  of  character,  and  though  he  lived  to  a  ripe 
old  age,  he  was  spared  the  infirmities  of  advanced  years.  CoT.  Hodges  was  twice 
married :  first  to  Martha  Comstock,  a  descendant  of  Roger  Williams,  who  died  Aug. 
29,  1849,  and  his  .second  marriage  was  with  Mrs.  Jane  H.  Leonard,  daughter  of 
Doctor  Amory  Glazier  of  Fall  River. 

He  was  admitted  a  member  Dec.  3,  1853. 

JosiAH  Moore  Jones,  Esq.,  a  benefactor  and  life  member,  admitted  March  15,  1871, 
was  bom  in  Athol,  Mass.,  Jan.  13,  1800,  and  died  in  Boston,  Apr.  23,  1884,  aged 
64  years,  3  months  and  10  days.  His  father  was  Prescott  Jones,  born  in  Weston, 
Maf«.,  Apr.  20,  1771,  and  died  in  Athol,  April  19,  1828.  His  mother  was  Jane 
Tyler  Moore,  daughter  of  Deacon  Joeiah  Moore  of  Cambridge,  Mass.  She  was 
bom  in  Cambridge,  Mass.,  January  14,  1769,  and  died  in  Athol,  Ma.s8.,  May  26, 
1835.  His  paternal  grandfather  was  Captain  Aaron  Jones,  born  in  Weston,  but 
afterwards  removinjB;  to  Templeton,  Mass.,  where  he  died  about  1820,  at  the  age  of  98. 

After  finishing  his  education  in  country  schools,  and  reaching  the  age  of  man- 
hood, he  came  to  Boston  in  the  year  1823.  and  entered  upon  the  hide  and  leather 
business,  having  learned  the  tanners*  and  curriers*  trade  of  bis  father  in  Athol. 
In  this  business  he  continued  till  old  age.  In  1829  he  was  united  in  marria^ 
with  Miss  Maria  Buckminster  BuUard,  <&ughter  of  £11  Bullard,  Esq.,  a  lawyer  in 
Ti>L.   ZZXVHI.  40* 


454  Necrology  of  Historic  Genealogical  Society.         [Oct. 

that  town.  Eli  BuUard,  just  named,  was  a  mduate  of  Tale  College  in  the  daas  of 
1787,  and  was  Preceptor  of  Framinfi^ham  Academy.  He  married  Ruth  Buckminster, 
of  Framina;ham,  in  May,  1794.  The  youngest  child  of  this  marriage,  Maria  Buck- 
minster, be(»me  the  wife  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 

Mr.  Jones  was  a  member  of  the  Common  Council  of  Boston,  for  the  years  1849  and 
1843.  lie  was  a  director  in  the  Shoe  and  Leather  Bank  from  the  date  of  its  incor- 
poration in  1836  until  a  very  recent  period. 

By  his  marriage  there  were  eight  children,  five  daughters  and  three  sons. 

The  earliest  American  ancestor  of  this  family  was  Lewis'  Jones,  who  with  his 
wife  Anna  settled  in  Roxburv  about  1640  and  joined  Mr.  John  Eliot's  churoh.  From 
him  the  line  runs  through  Josiah,'  James,'  Aaron^  and  Prescott.^ 

Horatio  Nelson  Perkins,  A.B.,  of  Melrose  Highlands,  a  resident  member,  admit- 
ted March  15,  1872,  was  born  in  Kennebunkport,  Me.,  February  8,  1808,  and  died 
at  the  Hoffman  House,  Boston,  July  2,  1883,  aged  75  years,  4  months  and  6  days. 

His  father  was  Eliphalct  Perkins,  born  in  Kennebunkport,  Me.,  July  6.  1765, and 
his  mother  was  EliKabeth  Stone,  born  in  Kennebunkport,  Me.,  May  22,  1767.  The 
line  of  his  American  ancestry  on  his  father's  side  is  as  follows :  John*  Perkins  of 
Ipswich,  Mass.,  by  wife  Judith,  had  Deacon  Thomas,'  of  Topsfield,  Ms.,  who  by 
wife  Phebe  Gould,  had  Elisha,'  of  Topsfield,  Ms.,  who  by  wife  Catherine  Towne  bad 
Thomas,^  of  Topsfield,  Ms.,  who  m.  Mary  Wilder  and  in  1719  removed  from  Topsfield 
to  Cape  Porpoise,  now  a  part  of  Kennebunkport,  Me.  They  had  Eliphalet,*  of 
Kennebunkport,  Me.,  who  by  wife  Mary  Perkins,  had  Eliphalet,*  of  ELennebank- 
port,  who  m.  Elizabeth  Stone. 

Beyond  the  common  school,  his  early  education  was  obtained  at  Bradford  Academy, 
Ms.,  and  Saco  Academy,  Me.  He  entered  Bowdoin  College  and  was  graduated 
there  in  1828,  having  among  his  classmates  Prof.  William  Clark  Larrabee,  formerly 
of  Asbury  University,  and  Prof.  Merritt  Caldwell,  formerly  of  Dickinson  College. 

He  studied  law  in  the  office  of  Jud^  Ether  Shepley,  of  Maine,  and  in  the  Om- 
bridge  law  school.  He  established  himself  in  the  practice  of  law,  first  at  Charle^i- 
town,  Ms.,  and  aflerward  in  Boeton.  He  did  not,  however,  continue  long  in  thit 
practice.  Inheriting  considerable  property  from  his  father,  who  was  a  prosperous 
merchant,  his  time  was  sufficiently  occupied  in  the  care  of  his  estate. 

Some  years  since,  Mr.  Perkins  contributed  a  valuable  article  to  the  Rmsm,  on 
the  genealogy  of  the  Perkins  Family.    He  was  never  married. 

Edward  Sprague  Rand,  A.M.,  a  life  member  and  benefactor,  admitted  Feb.  15, 
1864,  was  born  in  Newburyport,  March  15,  1809,  and  was  lost  in  the  wreck  of  the 
steamer  City  of  Columbus,  off  Gay  Head,  in  the  early  morning  of  January  18.  1884. 
With  him  perished  also  his  wife,  his  son  Rev.  Charles  A.  Rand  and  wife,  and  their 
little  daughter. 

Mr.  Rand  was  the  only  son  of  Edward  S.  Rand,  born  in  Newburyport  June  23, 1783, 
and  Hannah  Pettingill.  His  remoter  American  ancestors  on  the  paternal  side  were 
Edward,  of  Newburyport,  Dr.  Isaac  Rand  of  Cambridge,  and  John  Rand  of  Charles- 
town. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  entered  Harvard  College,  and  was  graduated  in  the 
class  of  1h28,  having  among  his  classmates  John  b.  Copley  Greene,  Judge  J.J. 
Gilchrist  of  the  U.  S.  Supreme  Court,  Prof.  Henry  I.  Bowditch,  and  the  Hon.  Robt. 
C.  Winthrop. 

He  was  united  in  marriage  Sept.  17,  1833,  with  Miss  Elizabeth  Arnold,  dangfater 
of  Salmon  Arnold,  of  Provioence,  R.  I.  From  this  marriage  there  were  six  children, 
five  eons  and  one  daughter.  The  daughter  and  two  sons  are  dead.  Uissons  Edward 
Sprague,  Augustus  Arnold  and  Frederic  Henry  are  living. 

Mr.  Rand  has  filled  a  high  and  honorable  place  in  connection  with  the  city  of 
Boston.  He  has  been  entrusted  with  many  important  causes,  and  leaves  behind  a 
name  for  ability,  integrity  and  honor. 

Thomas  Preston  Gentles,  Esq.,  of  Manchester,  Mass.,  a  corresponding  n>ember, 
admitted  April  14,  1848.  died  at  Manchester,  Dec.  22, 1875,  a^  59.  He  was  a  son 
of  Downing  and  Elizabeth  (Preston)  Gentlee,  and  was  born  in  Wenham,  May  30, 
1816.  His  grandparents  on  the  paternal  side  were  Thomas  and  Mary  (Downing) 
Gentlee,  andon  the  maternal  side  Nathan  and  Elizabeth  (Lee)  Preston. 

Thomas,  when  about  seventeen  years  old,  was  sent  by  bis  father,  who  was  a  shoe 
manufacturer  as  well  as  a  farmer,  into  New  Hampshire  with  a  team  to  dispose  of 
his  goods,  in  which  he  was  very  successful.    He  continued  in  this  business  till  be 


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was  twenhr-one  years  old,  when  he  became  a  clerk  in  the  wholesale  and  retail  store 
of  Jonas  Warren,  at  Danvers.  In  1840  he  went  to  Manchester,  and  in  company 
with  A.  P.  Bumham,  opened  a  dry  goods  and  grocery  store,  and  did  a  large  business 
for  so  small  a  town,  deriving  much  trade  from  the  neighboring  towns.  In  1858,  he 
lye  up  this  business,  and  engaged  in  farming  and  in  tne  wooaand  lumber  buHiness. 
e  was  engaged  with  others  in  sawing  mahogany  and  other  veneers,  and  was  a 
roprietor  in  three  saw  mills.  Mr.  Gentlee  also  did  much  business  as  a  real  estate 
roker  and  insurance  agent.  He  held  the  oflSces  of  selectman,  assessor  and  overseer 
of  the  poor  in  Manchester,  and  was  a  justice  of  the  peace  for  Eseez  county.  For 
several  years  he  was  a  trustee  of  the  Essex  Agricultural  Society,  and  was  active  in 
promoting  the  interest  and  growth  of  that  institution.  He  was  of  a  very  active  turn 
of  mind  and  of  large  business  capacity  ;  a  ready  friend  in  need  for  counsel  or  aid  ; 
and  a  very  enterprising  and  useful  man  in  and  for  the  town.  He  attended  to  his 
various  business  up  to  within  a  few  days  of  his  death,  which  was  caused  by  dropsy 
or  heart  di^^ease. 

Mr.  Gentlee  married,  in  1843,  Abigail  Mears,  the  daughter  of  John  and  Susanna 
(Story)  Mears  of  Gssez,  Mass.,  and  had  three  children,  viz. :  Mary  Abby,  born  March 
38,  1843;  married  Nathan  P.  Mildram.  John  Henry,  born  Aug.  19,  1845;  died 
March  15,  1847.  Harriet  Elizabeth,  born  Oct.  18,  1856.  His  wife  and  the  two 
daughters  survived  him. 


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History  of  the  First  Church  in  Hartford,  1633-1883.    By  Gkorgk  Leon  Walker. 
Illustrated.     Hartford :  Brown  and  Gross.     1881.    8vo.  pp.  zii.+503. 

This  is  a  truly  valuable  addition  to  the  ecclesiastical  literature  of  New  England. 
It  is  the  history  of  one  of  the  foremost  among  our  ancient  New  England  churches, 
prei>ared  by  a  careful  and  scholarly  hand.  Already  twelve  of  the  churches  planted 
on  the  New  England  shores  in  the  early  days  have  reached  the  age  of  850  years.  An 
event  so  important  in  their  history  furnishes  a  natural  occasion  tor  a  thorough  review 
of  the  [>ast,  and  a  written  embodiment  of  the  eventful  story.  The  twelve  churches 
thus  referred  to  are  the  Mother  Church  at  Plymouth,  the  First  Church  in  Salem,  the 
First  Church  in  Windsor,  Conn,  (which  was  first  planted  at  Dorchester  in  1630, 
and  removed  to  Windsor  in  1636^,  the  First  Church  in  Boston,  the  First  Church  in 
Watertown,thc  First  Church  in  Kozbury,  the  First  Churches  in  Charlestown,  Lynn, 
Marshfield  and  Duzbury,  the  church  whose  history  is  recorded  in  the  volume  before 
US,  and  which  was  organized  in  Cambridge,  then  Newtown,  in  1633,  with  the  famous 
Thomas  Hooker  associated  with  Samuel  Stone  in  the  pastorate,  and  which  removed 
to  Hartford,  Conn.,  in  1636.  The  last  of  the  twelve  is  the  First  Church  in  Ipswich, 
which  has  just  (at  this  writing,  Aug.  19)  celebrated  its  850th  birthday. 

Among  these  twelve  churches,  no  one  perhaps  hHs  had  a  larger  and  fuller  volume 
of  important  history  to  record  than  this  church  of  Hartford.  Favored  with  a  minis- 
try, at  the  outset,  of  the  highest  character,  for  there  was  no  greater  divine  in  New 
England  in  the  early  days  than  Mr.  Thomas  Hooker,  while  Mr.  Stone  his  associate 
ranked  high  as  a  preacher  and  scholar  ;  planted  at  Hartford,  which  has  been  one  of 
the  important  New  England  centres  for  business,  wealth  and  intelligence  from  gene- 
ration to  generation ;  having  had  for  a  pastor,  midway  in  its  history,  one  of  the 
most  notable  men  of  his  generation,  in  the  person  of  Dr.  Nathan  Strong  (1774-1816), 
and  having  enrolled  in  its  membership  many  of  the  most  honored  names  of  Connecti- 
cnt,  governors,  senators,  judges ;  it  presents  abundant  material  to  be  embodied  upon 
the  historic  scroll. 

Fortunately  the  present  pastor.  Rev.  George  L.  Walker,  D.D.,  had  an  eye  to  see 
his  opportunity,  and  a  taste  and  culture  fit  for  the  enterprise.  W  ith  a  rare  skill  he 
has  traced  this  history  from  its  simple  beginnings,  amid  storm  and  persecution  in 
England,  down  to  this  living  generation.  We  have  a  solid  volume  of  more  than  500 
pages  replete  with  interest,  and  valuable  for  preservation,  while  the  narrative  is 
enriched  with  historical  anecdotes  and  incidents  of  wide  variety. 


456  Booh  Notices.  [Oct. 

The  succession  of  men  filling  the  pastoral  oflSce  in  this  charch  for  250  years  is  as 
follows,  with  the  length  of  their  several  pastorates  appended  :  Thomas  Hooker,  Ifi33- 
1647  ;  Samuel  Stone,  1633-1663 ;  John  Whiting,  1660-1670;  Joseph  Havne^.  1664- 
1679;  Isaac  Foster,  1680-1682;  Timothy  Woodbrid;^,  1685-1732;  DHniel  Wads- 
worth,  1732-1747;  Edward  Dorr,  1748-1772;  Nathan  Strong,  1774-1816;  Joel 
Hawes,  1818-1867:  Woloott  Calkins,  1862*1864 ;  Geo.  U.  Gould,  1864-1870;  Elias 
H.  Richardson,  1872-1879;  Geor^  L.  Walker,  1879. 

History  of  the  kind  embraced  in  this  Tolume,  ought  to  receive  much  attention  as 
the  years  pass  on.  Within  the  next  thirty  years,  not  far  from  forty  Congregational 
Churches  in  New  England,  additional  to  those  already  named,  will  oome  to  their 
250th  anniversary,  and  every  one  of  them  will  doubtless  celebrate  the  event  with 
special  services.  What  may  be  called  New  England  history,  of  the  genuine  tort, 
may  be  found  concentrated  m  these  old  churches,  in  as  lar^  a  degree  as  in  any  of 
our  civil  institutions,  and  it  will  be  well  if  they  have  their  histories  ro  fully  and 
<»refully  written,  that  the  historical  student  can  nave  ready  access  to  them. 

By  the  Rev.  Increase  N,  Tarbox,  D.D  ,  of  Newton,  Mass, 

A  Genealogical  Memoir  of  the  Lo-Lathrop  Family  in  this  Country,  Emhradng  the 
Descendants t  as  far  as  Known,  of  the  RetK  John  Lothropp  of  Scituaie  and  Bamr 
stable,  Mass.,  and  Mark  Lothrop  of  Salem  and  Bridgewater,  Mass.,  and  the  frst 
Generation  of  Descendants  of  other  Names.  By  the  Itev.  E.  B.  HuNTnucroN,  A.M., 
Mrs.  Julia  M.  Huntington,  Ridgeficld, Conn.    1884.   8vo.  pp.  457.    Price  $6  00. 

The  two-hundred  and  fiftieth  anniversary  of  the  landing  of  the  Rev.  John  Lothropp 
at  Boston  in  New  England,  which  took  place  Sept.  18,  1634  (O.S.),  has  won 
a  marked  and  most  appropriate  observance  by  the  publication  of  the  elegant  and 
ample  volume  whose  title  is  given  above.  The  substance  of  the  work  was  pre- 
pared some  years  ago,  but  the  death  of  Mr.  Huntington  prevented  the  aooompUsh* 
ment  of  the  measures  needed  to  secure  its  publication.  His  widow,  however,  wis 
80  fortunate  as  to  find  one  who,  **  though  overladen  with  business  cares,  kindly 
offered  to  see  the  work  through  the  press. **  Of  the  severe  character  of  the  labor  thos 
undertaken,  the  writer  of  this  notice  can  testify;  and  no  one  who  has  any  true 
appreciation  of  the  diflBculties  encountered  in  putting  the  deceased  author^s  work 
through  the  press,  will  have  the  slightest  disposition  to  dwell  upon  any  error  that 
the  genealogist  may  discover  in  the  course  of  deliberate  examination.  In  connection 
with  the  editing  and  pcinting  of  this  volume,  Mr.  Herbert  N.  Lathrop,  of  New  York 
City,  who  modestly  remains  in  the  back  ground,  bos  done  about  all  that,  under  the 
circumstances,  could  have  been  expected  of  any  one;  and  but  for  his  well-directed 
and  disinterested  efforts  in  connection  with  both  the  literary  and  business  interests  of 
the  volume,  the  quarter-millennary  of  the  Lothrops  in  America  might  have  passed  by 
without  anv  suitable  reco^nttion. 

The  really  handsome  volume  now  before  us  has  for  its  frontispiece  a  view  of  St. 
Martin's  Church,  Lowthorpe,  England,  which  was  a  collegiate  church  of  dignity  and 
importance  ;  while  the  Parish  was  the  home  of  some  of  the  early  repreeentativee  of 
the  family,  glimpses  of  whom  appear  in  the  thirteenth  century.  Sixteen  portraits 
of  prominent  American  representatives  of  the  name,  handsomely  engraved  on  steel, 
lend  a  largo  interest  to  the  text,  which  though  cast,  as  a  whole,  in  a  distinct  geneii- 
logical  form,  is  nevertheless  interspersed  with  biographical  and  historical  Dutieesof 
general  interest  and  value.  A  description  of  the  contents  of  the  volume,  however, 
will  not  be  attempted,  as  our  space  is  too  limited  ;  though  we  should  like  to  speak  of 
John  the  famous  pioneer,  and  of  such  men  as  Simon  (98^,  Isaac  <86) ,  Joseph  (285)  of 
"West  Sprin;rtield,  General  Rbcnezer  (347),  Isaac  (374)  of  Old  Coltmy  fame,  the  Hon. 
John  Uiram  (735),  Judge  Francis  S.  (1297),  Daniel  S.  (1797),  Capt.  Thomas  (401) 
the  courai^eous  commander,  and  Ellen  L«>throp,  second  wife  of  Ezekiel  Cheever,  the 
famous  educator.  In  running  through  the  list  we  notice  the  names  of  not  a  few 
distinguished  in  the  annals  oi  the  country,  in  connection  with  the  pursuits  of  peace 
and  war.  We  have  a  college  President ;  soldiers ;  men  of  the  learned  professions;  a 
historian,  like  John  Lothrop  Motley;  a  publisher,  like  the  head  of  the  firm  of  D. 
Lothrop  &  Co. ;  an  engraver,  like  the  well  known  Buttre ;  and  so  on,  through  all  the 
walks  of  life,  the  family  having  even  furnished  laborious  Christian  Missionaries  for 
foreign  lands.  The  importance  of  this  large  and  widely  scattered  family — for  we 
must  consider  the  various  branches  as  one— has  not  been  exaggerated,  and  if  thera 
had  never  beep  any  Ix)throps  in  America  we  may  safely  conclude  that  considerable 
important  and  interesting  history  now  well  known,  would  have  been  wanting  to-day. 
The  genealogist  is  laid  under  great  obligation  for  this  timely  and  important  publi- 
cation. 

By  the  Rev,  B,  F.  DeCosta,  D,D.^  of  New  Yotk  dty. 


1884.]  Booh  Noiices.  457 

New  Castle :  Historic  and  Picturesque.  By  John  Albkb.  Illastrations  by  Abbott 
F.  Graves.  Boston,  1B84.  Price  $1.00.  For  sale  by  Cupples,  Upbam  &  Co.,  383 
Washington  St.,  Boston. 

New  Castle,  or  **  Great  Island,"  as  it  was  formerly  called,  is  situated  on  the 
coast  of  New  ilampshire,  acyoining  Portsmouth  the  ancient  capital  of  the  province. 
Although  its  territcirv  is  small  it  has  played  a  great  part  in  the  colonial  history  of  the 
Granite  State,  so  well  beloved  by  all  her  sons  and  daughters.  Mr.  Albee,  the  author 
of  this  treatise,  has  written  an  admirable  narrative  of  this  the  first  settlement  in  the 
state.  He  has  been  thorough  in  his  researches  bearing  on  this  study,  and  be  has 
at  the  same  time  lent  the  glamour  of  a  poet^s  touch  to  the  different  facts,  besides 
bringing  out  many  bits  of  pathos  in  its  history.  It  abounds  in  witty  passages,  and 
is  also  concise — unlike  the  bulk  of  town  histories.  It  is  difficult  to  review  a  work 
of  this  nature,  for  it  is  of  course  rather  disconnected.  The  author  ouotes  a  bright 
remark  of  John  Elwyn,  one  of  the  best  antiouarians  of  Portsmouth,  in  re^ar<rto 
the  earliest  inhabitants  of  the  state  who  had  gone  to  their  rest  **  full  oi  years, 
labors,  simplicity,  and  rum."  Perhaps  they  did  love  the  colonial  drink,  but  they 
were  a  noble  set  of  men  for  all  that. 

Mr.  Albee  emphasizes  the  fact  that  the  town  was  settled  by  members  of  the 
Church  of  England.  **  They  had  few  principles  in  common  with  the  plantations  at 
Plymouth  and  Massachusetts  Bay.  They  had  no  ordinances  against  dancing,  May 
Pole,  falling  bands,  or  long  hair  ;  nor  did  they  invent  a  hundreo  other  petty,  sump- 
tuary devices  to  make  this  life  as  bleak  as  possible,  and  the  next  not  worth  having 
at  current  Puritan  prices." 

It  seems  incredible  how  he  can  make  so  light  of  the  capture  of  Louisburg  by  the 
oolonies.  He  compares  it  to  a  "  Cambridge  Commencement. "  Surely  a  fortress  that 
was  called  the  '*  Gibraltar  of  America,"  on  whose  works  the  best  French  engineers 
had  been  en^ged  and  six  millions  had  been  spent,  and  which  only  surrendered  after  a 
long  siege,  should  not  be  called  a  **  regular  picnic,"  or  a  **  holiday  muster."  Neither 
docs  he  allow  Sir  William  Pepperrell  due  praise,  for  he  advanced  £5,000  towards 
fitting  out  the  expedition,  ana  it  was  mainly  through  his  indomitable  energy  that 
the  attempt  succeeded.  The  British  squadron  served  to  little  purpose  except  in 
preventing  supplies  from  entering  the  besieged  town.  In  his  description  of  the  flora 
of  New  Castle,  at  page  146,  occur  some  beautiful  lines  in  praise  oi  the  sweet  brier 
rose,  one  of  the  loveliest  of  our  wild  flowers. 

He  gives  a  graphic  account  of  Paul  Revere's  ride  to  Portsmouth  on  the  13th  Dec. 
1774,  which  resulted  in  the  capture  of  Fort  William  and  Mary  with  one  hundred 
kegs  of  powder,  by  patriots  of  the  neighborhood.  This  occurred  four  months  prior 
to  the  battle  of  Lexington,  and  Revere's  later  **  Ride  "  which  Longfellow  has  made 
famous.  As  he  says,  **  it  is  passing  strange  that  so  significant  a  circumstance  should 
be  almost  unknown  and  unnoticed."  lie  also  mentions  a  curious  reply  of  the 
assembly  to  the  royal  governor  who  desired  money  to  build  a  fort.  They  sent  up  the 
following  vote  :  *'  See  14  Luke  28."    Brevity  itself? 

I  cannot  make  a  more  fitting  close  than  by  quoting  some  critical  remarks  of  the 
Hon.  John  C.  Park  in  relation  to  the  book.  He  savs :  '*  It  is  deeply  to  be  regretted 
that  the  shelves  of  our  libraries  are  filled  with  worxs  of  mere  fiction,  and  it  is  to  be 
feared  that  the  public  taste  is  being  deteriorated  by  their  perusal.  This  work  of 
Mr.  Albec's  gives  us  historical  information  in  a  form  that  supplies  us  with  that 
embellishment  of  witty  anecdote  and  poetic  imagery  which  should  attract  the  atten- 
tion and  admiration  of  even  the  blas^  novel  reaaer.  We  hope  to  see  it  in  every 
Sunday  School  and  public  library." 

By  Daniel  Rollins  ^  Esq,,  of  Boston, 

Catalogue  of  the  Officers  and  Students  of  Dummer  Academy^,  Byfield,  Mass.,  Instituted 
A.D.  1763.    Salem,  Mass. :  Observer  Book  and  Job  Print.    1884.    8vo.  pp.  77. 

This  catalogue  has  been  prepared  for  the  press  by  the  Hon.  William  D.  Northend, 
of  Salem,  and  is  printed  under  the  direction  and  at  the  expense  of  the  Society  of  the 
Sons  of  Dummer,  an  association  composed  of  alumni  of  the  academy.  The  academy 
was  founded  by  the  Hon.  William  Dummer,  lieutenant-governor  of  Massachusetts 
from  1716  to  1730,  and  acting  governor  a  portion  of  the  time,  who  died  in  1761,  leav- 
ing by  will  his  lands  and  mansion  in  Byfield  parish  in  the  town  of  Newbury,  for  the 
erection  and  support  of  a  grammar  school.  The  school  was  opened  March  1,  1763, 
and  in  1782  was  incorporated  as  the  Dummer  Academy. 

The  academy  has  had  seventeen  principals  since  its  organization,  and  the  names  of 
2182  of  their  students  are  here  printed.    Mr.  Northend  thinks  that,  from  want  of  care 


458  Book  Notices.  [Oct. 

in  registering,  the  names  of  some  pupils  have  been  omitted.  In  order  to  identify 
the  pupils,  the  college  at  which  they  studied,  the  date  of  graduation,  the  offices  tbey 
held,  etc.,  are  added.  This  must  have  cost  the  editor  much  labor,  and  he  is  to  be 
congratulated  on  the  successful  manner  in  which  he  has  aocompliMhed  his  uodertak- 
ivLg.  A  list  of  the  past  and  present  trustees  is  affixed.  The  pamphlet  is  a  Taluablo 
addition  to  our  materials  for  American  biography. 

The  First  and  Second  Battle  of  Newbury  and  tie  Si^e  of  Donnington  Castle  during 

the  Civil  War,  A.D.  1643-6.    By  Walter  Money,  f^.S.A.  2d  edition.     London: 

Simpkin.  Maishall  ib  Co.  1884.    ISmo.  pp.  iz.+287. 

The  book  has  an  introductory  chapter,  not  given  in  the  first  edition,  ahowing  the 
causes  of  the  Civil  War,  which  may  be  summarized  in  the  simple  statement  of  M. 
Guizot,  that  the  fortune  of  England  in  the  seventeenth  century  was  governed  bf 
the  spirit  of  religious  faith  as  well  as  by  the  spirit  of  political  liberty,  and  entered 
upon  the  two  revolutions  at  the  same  time. 

The  first  battle  of  Newbury  was  fought  Sept.  80, 1643 ;  itspnrpose  was  an  attempt 
of  the  King's  Army  to  prevent  the  Army  of  the  Parliament  from  returning  to  London. 
This  army  had  been  improvised  for  the  relief  of  the  garrison  at  Gloucester,  which 
was  besieged  by  the  King's  forces,  it  being  the  only  phiee  in  possession  of  the  Pariia- 
mentarv  forces,  west  of  London,  from  Cornwall  to  Scotlana.  The  army  bad  been 
suddenly  formed,  of  undisciplined  London  youth  with  auxiliaries,  and  had  swept 
around  the  King's  army  with  such  suddenness  as  to  surprise  the  King  and  aooom- 
plish  its  purpose  of  relief.  The  Parliamentary  army,  under  Essex,  made  a  triumphal 
entry  into  London  on  the  28th  of  September,  1643. 

A  year  had  passed,  with  the  fortunes  of  war  fluctuating  between  the  combatsntB, 
but  the  King  was  impressed  with  his  opportunity  to  take  London  after  a  defeat  of 
the  Parliamentary  army  in  Cornwall  while  their  other  forces  were  scattered,  and  in 
pursuance  of  this  resolve  began  to  concentrate  his  forces,  and  had  massed  thirteen 
thousand  horse  and  foot.  Parliament  was  not  idle,  however;  seeing  the  Kinc's 
intention,  the  army  of  Parliament  came  so  rapidly  to  the  front  of  the  King*s,  tEu 
he  was  forced  to  choose  a  battle  field  before  his  full  quota  of  artillery  arrived,  and 
he  selected  a  position  in  which  Donnington  Castle  could  also  assist,  with  the  road  to 
Oxford,  his  head-quarters,  passing  through  his  camp.  Upon  the  arrival  of  the  Army 
of  Parliament,  eignteen  thousand  strong,  the  Kind's  position  was  seen  to  be  so  strong, 
that  a  large  part  of  the  Parliament  Army,  under  Waller  and  Cromwell,  marched 
around,  several  miles,  and  flanked  him  on  the  other  side,  leaving  the  Earl  of  Manches- 
ter in  his  original  position.  The  fight  occurred  Sunday,  Oct.  27, 1644.  Cromwell  and 
Waller  were  victorious,  while  the  Earl  of  Manchester  was  not.  As  the  fight  lasted 
till  after  sunset,  the  King's  army  escaped  by  the  Oxford  road  during  the  night,  but 
Cromwell  and  Waller  were  not  allowed  to  fullow  up  their  victory.  The  Earl  of 
Manchester,  who  was  in  chief  command,  wsa  evidently  playing  more  for  peace  with 
the  King  than  for  decision  by  battle,  and  freely  expreesed  himself.  Oliver  Cromwell 
told  him  that  he  hoped  to  live  to  see  the  time  that  there  would  not  be  a  nobleman  in 
England,  and  that  he  loved  those  best  who  did  not  love  lords. 

The  author  has  vividly  presented  the  battles,  and  the  material  of  the  armies.  We 
can  see  the  King  and  his  coterie  of  nobles  arrayed  in  armor,  with  bis  soldiers  in 
tatters ;  we  see  everything  odd  to  modern  eyes  in  the  arms  and  accoutrement  of  war; 
in  the  larger  projectiles  they  had  from  mortars  to  leathern-cannon  iron-«(tTapped ; 
their  musqueteers  had  lit  fuse  with  which  to  discharge  their  guns.  If  the  eomposi* 
tion  of  the  London  regiments  furnished  a  fair  specimen,  more  men  carried  pikes  than 
firearms.  The  London  regiments  of  the  Army  of  Parliament  were  dressed  in  gay  ookirs 
— white,  red  or  blue  coats,  and  the  cavalry  probably  in  leather  jackets  with  steel  orna- 
ments for  protection.  The  hazard  of  war  with  such  material  appears  to  depend  upon 
personal  valor  and  strength,  and  the  religious  fervor  carried  into  the  war  nerved 
many  an  arm  and  heart  to  be  a  hero. 

From  the  preface  and  the  pages  of  the  book  we  miss  in  this  edition  the  **  cordial 
thanks  "  and  other  expressions  of  obligation  to  the  late  Col.  Chester,  LL.D.,  whose 
contributions  lightened  the  labors  of  the  editor  and  were  very  properly  acknowledjsed 
in  the  first  edition, 

Mr.  Money  has  collected  every  detail  of  the  fights,  memoirs  of  the  officers  in  both 
armies,  and  all  sorts  of  historical  memoranda  of  the  time,  and  discoveries  of  relics  of 
the  war  made  in  modern  times,  so  that  the  book  in  a  condensed  form  is  one  of  the 
best  works  to  bring  the  circumstances  of  the  time  to  the  mind  of  the  reader. 

By  John  Cojffin  Jones  Brown,  Esq.,  of  Boston. 


1884.]  Book  Kotices.  459 

Milwaukee  under  the  Charter  from  1847  to  1853  inclusive.  Vol.  III.  By  James  S. 
Buck.  Milwaukee:  Symes,  swain  &  Go.  1884.  8vo.  pp.  500.  Price  $4.  Can  be 
purchafled  in  Milwaukee  of  the  author,  or  of  the  pablisbers ;  and  in  Boston,  Maas., 
of  G.  £.  Littlefield,  67  CombiU. 

The  third  volume  of  the  History  of  Milwaukee  under  the  Charter  is  a  valuable 
addition  to  the  series,  and  drives  a  verv  thorough  and  comprehensive  account  of  the 
political  history  and  commercial  development  of  the  city,  nrom  1847  to  1853  inclusive. 
The  author  adaed  to  great  industry  in  research,  a  knowledge  of  a&irs  derived  from 
service  in  the  city  ^vemment,  and  the  minute  details  of  events  contained  in  this 
work  add  greatly  to  its  value  as  a  local  history. 

There  are  a  number  of  portraits  and  bio(i:raphical  sketches,  also  illustrations  of 
several  buildings,  and  a  diagram  of  £ast  Water  Street  as  it  appeared  about  fifty 
years  ago.  The  appendix  is  devoted  to  letters  and  articles  relating  to  the  controversy 
as  to  whether  Juneau  or  Morandeau  was  Milwaukee's  first  permanent  white  settler. 
A  history  of  the  city,  published  in  1881,  had  disparaged  the  claims  and  character  of 
Juneau,  and  most  of  the  letters  printed  in  the  appendix  are  in  vindication  of  him. 

The  book  is  well  printed  and  neatly  bound. 

By  Geo.  K,  ClarKe,  Esq.,  o/Needham,  Mass. 

Annals  of  Fort  Mackinac,  By  Dwioht  H.  Kelton,  Lieut.  U.  S.  Army.  Island 
edition.  1884.  V2mo.  pp.  158+37.  Price  25  cts.  By  mail  30  cts.  To  be 
obtained  of  the  author,  Fort  Mackinac,  Michigan. 

This  work  was  first  published  in  1889,  and  was  noticed  in  our  July  issue  of  that 
year.  The  annals  of  this  hiMtoric  locality  are  compiled  with  care,  and  presented  to 
the  reader  in  an  interesting  form.    The  present  edition  has  been  thoroughly  revised. 

Inauguration  of  the  New  Hall  of  the  Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania ^  March  18, 
1884.    Philadelphia.     1884.    8vo.  pp.  18. 

We  have  here  the  addrens  of  Brinton  Coxe,  F5sq.,  president  of  the  Pennsylvania 
Historical  Society,  with  the  other  proceedings  at  the  dedication,  in  March  last,  of 
the  new  hall  of  that  society  at  the  south-west  corner  of  Thirteenth  and  Locust  Sts., 
Philadelphia.  **  After  fifty-nine  years  of  existence,"  said  President  Coxe  to  the 
members,  **  yon  now  meet  under  a  roof  which  is  your  own.  You  are  now  no  longer 
tenants  of  another,  but  proprietors  in  your  own  right  of  your  own  house  on  your 
own  soil."  The  several  adaresses  are  interesting  and  suggestive.  The  society  is  to 
be  congratulated  on  the  possession  of  an  elegant  and  commodious  building,  of  which 
a  view  is  prefixed  to  this  pamphlet.  Its  cost  vras  nearly  one  hundred  thousand 
dollars. 

Memorial  Tributes  to  Orlando  Meads ^  LL.D.,  late  President  of  the  Albany  Insti* 
tute  and  Vice- Chancellor  of  the  Cathedral  of  All  Saints,  Albany,  N.  K.  Albany : 
The  Argus  Company,  Printers.     1884.    8vo.  pp.  50. 

This  pamphlet  contains  the  proceedings  of  the  Albany  Institute  at  a  memorial 
meeting  in  nonor  of  their  deceased  president.  Dr.  Orlando  Meads,  held  February  19, 
1884.  Dr.  Meads  was  bom  at  Albany,  June  18,  1806,  and  died  at  Hawxhurst,  the 
residence  of  his  daughter,  Mrs.  Duer,  February  11,  1884,  hfted  T7.  He  was  a  law- 
rer  of  distinction,  and  practiced  his  profession  in  Albany.  We  have  here  the  **  me- 
morial minute  '*  from  the  records  of  the  Institute :  remarks  by  David  Murray, 
LL.D.,  Prof.  James  Hall  and  Henry  A.  Homes,  LL.D. ;  and  letters  from  the  Rt. 
Ker.  William  Croswell  Doane  and  others.  Tributes  from  other  institutions  and 
individuals  are  appended.  They  all  show  the  noble  character  of  the  man  and  the 
high  esteem  in  which  he  was  held.  The  editorial  work  in  this  pamphlet  is  by  Pres- 
ident Murray  and  George  R.  Howell  of  the  New  York  State  Library. 

The  Cogswells  in  America.  £.  0.  Jameson.  "  And  my  Qod  put  it  into  mine  heart 
to  gather  together  the  nobles  and  the  rulers  and  the  people  that  they  might  be 
reckoned  by  Genealogy.*'— Neh.  vii.  5.  Royal  8vo.  pp.  xxi.+683.  Printed  at 
Boston,  bv  Alfred  Mudge  &  Son,  1884.  Price  $7  bound  in  fine  muslin,  or  $13  in 
turkey  gilt. 

The  Griswold  Family  of  Connecticut.     With  Pedigree.    Sm.  4to.  pp.  37-f  22+26. 

An  Account  of  the  Descendants  of  John  Bridge,  Cambridge,  1A32.  Boston:  J.  S. 
Gushing  &  Co.,  Printers.     1884.    8vo.  pp.  12U.    Illustrated  by  heliotypes. 

The  Family  of  John  Perkins  of  Ipswich,  Massachusetts.  Part  I.  Descendants  qf 
Quarter  Master  John  Perkins.  By  Gio.  A.  Pxrkins,  M.D.  Salem:  Printed  at 
the  Salem  Press.  1882.  8vo.  pp.  174.  Price,  post-paid,  in  cloth  $2 ;  in  paper 
$1.75.    To  be  obtained  of  the  author,  197  Essex  Street,  Salem,  Maas. 


460  Book  JVotices.  [Oct, 

Clarke — Clark  Oenealogy,  Records  of  the  Descendants  of  Thomas  Clarke^  Ply^ 
mouth,  1623-1697.  Gampiled  by  Re7.  William  W.  Johnsov.  Published  by  the 
Compiler,  North  Greenfield,  Wisconsin.  1884.  8?o.  pp.  168-f-xv.  Price,  post- 
paid, in  cloth  $2.50,  in  paper  $1.50. 

The  Scotch  Border  Clan  Dickson,  the  Family  of  B.  Homer  Dixon,  and  the  Familvof 
De  Homere  or  Homer,  Printed  for  Private  Distribution  only.  Toronto  :  1§84. 
12mo.  pp.  61. 

Brooks  Memorial.  Communications  on  the  Death  of  Charles  T.  Brooks  qf  New* 
port,  H.  I,  By  B.  B.  Willson,  C.  W.  Wbndti,  R.  S.  Rantoul  and  W.  P. 
Andrews.    Salem,  Mass. :  Printed  for  the  Essex  Institute.     1884.    Bvo.  pp.  37. 

Ezekiel  Cheever  and  Some  of  his  Descendants.  By  John  T.  Uassam,  A.M.  Part 
Second.    Boston :  Press  of  David  Ciapp  ft  Son.     1884.    8vo.  pp.  26. 

Thomas  Philbrick  and  his  Family,  1583-1883.  By  the  Rev.  Jacob  Chapman,  of  Ex- 
eter, N.  H.    8vo.  pp.  10.    Reprinted  at  Boston  from  the  Rboistbr  for  July,  18S4. 

Excerpts  from  Genealogical  Records;  showing  lineage  of  Hon,  Orover  Cleveland, 
4to.  pp.  4. 

We  continue  in  this  number  our  notices  of  genealogical  publications  recently 
issued. 

The  first  on  the  list,  **  The  Cogswells  of  America,*'  is  a  work  in  every  way  wor- 
thy of  the  respectable  family  to  which  it  is  devoted.  John  Cogswell,  the  emimnt 
ancestor,  came  with  his  family  to  New  England  in  the  Angel  Gabriel,  which  wis 
wrecked  at  Femaquid  in  the  fearful  gale  August  15,  1635.  This  ship  is  said  by 
Dr.  Increase  Mather  to  have  been  the  only  vessel  which  miscarried  with  passengers 
from  Old  England  to  New.  The  whole  family  escaped  with  their  lives,  and  finally 
settled  at  Ipswich.  Among  the  descendants  ul  John  Cogswell  may  be  named  many 
who  are  distinguished  in  eve>*y  walk  of  life,  those  who  do  not  bcsar  his  surname  as 
well  as  those  who  do.  Of  the  former  are  Ralph  Waldo  Emerson,  Oliver  Wendell 
Holmes,  and  our  honorary  vice-president  for  Ulinois,  John  Wentworth.  The  work 
has  been  compiled  with  conscientious  fidelity  and  contains  a  vast  amount  of  inter- 
esting biographical  and  historical  matter  ;  for  many  of  the  persons  whoee  lives  are 
recorded  here  have  been  actors  in  important  events  in  our  country's  history.  The 
introduction  contains  an  interesting  account  of  the  Cogswells  in  England.  The  ar- 
rangement of  the  work  is  original  in  some  particulars.  Each  family  has  the  nat- 
ter arranged  under  three  hendn,  **  Genealogical,''  **  Biographical,''  and  **  Memo- 
randa." Under  the  last  bead  are  given  documents  and  facts  not  properly  belonging 
to  the  previous  divisions,  and  accounts  of  descendants  in  female  lines.  The  basis  oT 
this  work  is  the  genealogical  collections  of  Kev.  William  Cogswell,  D.D.,  thefir^t 
editor  of  the  Historical  and  Genealogical  Register,  who  died  in  1850,  and  whose 
memoir  and  portrait  are  given  in  the  Register  for  April,  1883.  Dr.  Cogswell  be- 
gan to  collect  genealogical  facts  as  early  as  1810.  The  author  of  this  wurk,  the  Rev. 
Mr.  Jameson,  a  son-in-law  of  Dr.  Cogswell,  must  have  expended  a  va^t  amount  of 
labor  in  collecting  and  arranging  the  details  concerning  the  numerous  families  here 
given.  The  book  is  illustrated  by  numerous  portraits  and  other  engravings.  The 
mechaniciil,  like  the  literary  work,  seems  to  have  been  done  thoroughly  and  in 
good  taste.    The  index  is  full  and  satisfactory. 

The  Griswold  Family  of  Connecticut  is  by  Prof.  Edward  E.  Salisbury,  LL.D..of 
New  Haven.  It  is  characterized  by  the  learning  and  literary  ability  of  its  distin- 
guished author.  A  complete  genealogy  has  not  been  attempted.  The  author  states 
that  his  paper  **  has  reference  especially  to  the  male  line  and  to  those  of  the  name 
most  closely  associated  with  Lyme,"  Connecticut.  The  lines  taken  up  are  very 
fully  de?eluped,  and  are  enriched  by  letters  and  documents  illustrating  the  lives  of 
the  various  individuals.  Many  eminent  men  are  descended  from  this  family,  aad 
a  large  folding  tabular  pedigree  shows  at  a  glance  the  connection  between  them, 
whether  bearing  the  name  of  Griswold  or  other  surnames.  The  book  is  reprinted 
from  the  Magazine  of  American  Hi.story  for  February,  March  and  April,  1884. 

The  Bridge  Genealogy  is  devoted  to  the  descendants  of  John  Bridge,  one  of  the 
early  settlers  of  Cambridge.  It  is  by  the  Rev.  William  F.  Bridjie,  of  Foster's  Croat- 
ing.  Ohio,  who  has  done  his  work  faithfully,  and  has  furnish^  a  full  index  to  his 
book.  A  statue  of  the  first  American  ancestor  of  this  family,  John  Bridge,  has 
been  presented  by  his  descendant  Mr.  Samuel  James  Bridge,  to  the  city  of  Cam- 
bridge, and  was  unveiled  with  appropriate  ceremonies,  November  38,  1882.  An 
account  of  the  proceedings  on  this  occasion  is  appended.  Mr.  Bridge  has  offered 
to  Harvard  University  a  statue  of  its  founder,  the  Rev.  John  Harvard,  and  the  oftr 
has  been  accepted.    Before  this  number  is  issued  the  statue  will  be  unveilod. 


1884.]  Recent  Publications.  461 

The  family  of  John  Perkins,  of  Ipswich,  by  Dr.  Perkins,  of  Salem,  is  a  work  of 
much  merit.  John  Perkins  had  three  sons  and  four  daughters,  who  married  and 
bad  children.  The  families  of  all  are  here  given ;  after  which  the  book  is  devoted 
to  the  descendants  of  the  eldest  son.  Quartermaster  John  Perkins,  as  he  was  called. 
The  posterity  of  the  other  sons,  Thomas  and  Jacob,  will  be  given  in  subsequent 
parts.  John  Perkins,  Sen.,  came  to  New  England  in  the  Lion,  a  fellow  passenger 
of  the  famous  Roger  Williams,  and  settled  in  Boston.  A  few  years  later  be  remov- 
ed to  Agawam,  now  Ipswich,  where  he  died  in  1654.  The  book  shows  much  care 
and  labor.  The  biography  is  full  and  intereisting,  and  much  local  history  is  inter- 
woven with  it.    The  work  is  well  arranged  and  fully  indexed. 

The  volume  devoted  to  the  descendants  of  Thomai>  Clarke,  of  Plymouth,  is  by 
the  Rev.  Mr.  Johnson,  of  North  Greenfield,  Wisconsin.  The  basis  of  it  is  a  pamph- 
let by  Samuel  C.  Clarke,  noticed  in  the  Rboistbr  for  Januarv,  1870.  The  family 
is  here  much  more  thoroughly  traced.  The  book  is  illustrated  bv  a  number  of  heli- 
otype  portraits.  It  has  also  a  steel  eni^ving  of  the  Rev.  l)r.  James  Freeman 
C{arke,  of  Boston.    It  is  well  compiled  and  has  a  ffood  index. 

The  book  on  the  Dickson  fomily  Ls  by  B.  Homer  Dixun,  K.N.L.,  of  Toronto,  Can- 
ada. It  contains  much  interesting  matter  relative  to  the  Dixons,  Homers  and  other 
families  with  which  the  author  is  connected.  Mr.  Dixon  many  years  airo  contrib- 
uted some  valuable  articles  to  the  Rbqister.  He  is  also  the  author  of  a  work  on 
Surnames,  besides  other  publications. 

The  late  Rev.  Charles  f.  Brooks,  of  Newport,  won  for  himself  an  enviable  rep- 
utation aA  an  author;  and  his  friends,  whose  testimonials  are  here  presented, 
have  woven  a  fitting  garland  for  him.  Though  a  native  of  Salem  and  a  resident 
of  Newport,  he  was  descended  from  Henry  Brooks,  an  early  settler  of  Wuburn, 
Mass.    A  brief  genealogy  bv  Luke  Brooks  is  the  closing  article  in  the  pamphlet. 

The  first  part  of  **  £zekiel  Cheever  and  Some  of  his  Descendants,'*  was  noticed 
in  this  periodical  in  July,  1879.  It  was  a  reprint  from  the  Rbqister  for  April, 
1879,  as  the  second  part  is  from  April,  1884,  of  this  work.  The  first  article  con- 
tained an  exhaustive  biography  of  the  famous  Boston  schoolmaster  and  an  account 
of  hii*  descendants  through  his  eldest  son  the  Rev.  Samuel  Cheever.  This  contains 
the  descendants  in  other  unes. 

The  Phil  brick  genealogy  is  another  reprint  from  the  Reotstkr.  The  author,  the 
Rev.  Mr.  Chapman,  gives  briefly  the  first  four  generations  of  the  family.  He  has* 
a  full  genealo^  prepared,  which  will  be  put  to  prees  as  soon  as  the  subscription  list 
will  warrant  it. 

The  **  Excerpts"  from  the  Cleveland  Genealogy  is  by  H.  G.  Cleveland,  of  Cleiw- 
land,  Ohio,  whose  volume  on  the  Cleveland  family  was  noticed  by  us  in  April,  1880. 
Mr.  Cleveland  received  more  letters  of  inquiry  concerning  the  ancestry  of  the-l^m- 
ocratic  candidate  for  President  than  he  could  answer,  and  he  has  therefoie  prepared 
and  had  printed  the  succinct  statement  which  is  before  us. 


RECENT  PUBLICATlONSv 

Prbsentbd  to  the  Nbw  EscoLANn  Historic  Gbnbalooioai»  Sooiett,  to  Sept.  1, 1884. 

I.  PubUcationt  written  or  edited  by  Membere  pfihe  Sod^. 

Views  from  Cedar  Mountain,  Present,  Retrospective  and  Prospective.  By  Rev.  Phi- 
lip Slaughter,  D.D.,  In  the  Seventy-sixth  year  of  his  Ministry  and  of  his  Marriage.  Pri- 
vately printed.    8vo.  pp.  15.    Printed  In  ISiSi. 

On  a  supposed  Rnnic  Inscription  at  Tannonth,.]Vova  Scotia.  By  Henry  Phillips,  Jr.  8vo. 
pp.4. 

Matthew  Wilson,  D  D.,  of  Lewes,  Delaware..   By  the  Rev.  Edward  D.  Neill.    8vo. 

Supplementary  Notes  on  Witchcraft  in  Massachusetts.  A  Critical  Examination  of  the 
alleged  law  of  1711  for  reversing  the  attainders  of  the  Witches  of  1692.  By  George  H. 
Moore,  LL  D.,  corresponding  meml>er  of  the  MVissachn setts  Historical  Society.  From  the 
Proceedings  of  the  Society,  March  13,  1884.  Cambridge:  John  Wilson  taii  Son.  Uni- 
versity Press.    1881.    8vo.  pp.  2*5. 

Reasons  for  coTTclirding  that  the  act  of  1711  Reversing  the  Attainder  of  the  persons  con- 
victed of  Wftchcraft  in  Massachusetts  in  the  year  1692  became  a  law.  Being  a  reply  to 
Sapplementary  Notes,  etc,  by  George  H.  Moore,  LL.D.  By  Abner  Cheney  Ooodell,  Jr. 
Reprinted  fttmi  the  Proceedings  of  the  Massachusetu  Historical  Society.  Cambridge: 
John  Wilsoa  and  Son.    1884.    8vo.  pp.  21. 

TOL.  XXXYIII.  41 


462  Recent  Publications.  [Oct. 

An  Episode  of  Worcester  History.  Read  before  the  Worcester  Society  of  Antiquity, 
April  I,  1884.    By  Nathaniel  Paine.    Privately  printed.    Worcester,  1884.    8vo.  pp.  9. 

Why  I  am  a  Republican.  A  history  of  the  Republican  Party,  a  defence  of  its  poller, 
and  the  reasons  which  justify  its  continuance  in  power,  with  biographical  sketches  of  the 
repiii>lican  candidates.  By  George  S.  Boutwell.  Hartford,  Conn. :  WiUiam  J.  Betts  &  Co. 
1884.    12  mo.  pp.  195+Iii. 

Grog  :  A  Mixture  of  Prose  and  Verse.  Brewed  by  Geo.  Henry  Preble.  Reprinted  from 
"The  United  Service"  for  September,  1884.  For  private  distribation.  Philadelphia.  L. 
R.  Hamersley  &  Co.    1884.    8vo.  pp.  23. 

Milwaulcee  under  the  Charter.  From  1847  to  1853  inclusive.  Vol.  IIL  By  James  S. 
Buck.    Milwaulcee:  Symes,  Swain  and  Co.,  Printers.    1884.    8vo.  pp.  606. 

The  Centennial  Celebration  in  Frederick  County,  Md.,  on  June  28,  1876.  Frederick, 
Md.    Baughman  Brothers.    1879.    8vo.  pp.  64. 

Eichty- Fifth  Annual  Record  of  the  Ancient  and  Honcrable  Artillery  Company  of  Mia- 
sachufctts,  June  3,  1723.  Sermon  hy  Thomas  Foxcroit,  A.M.,  Pastor  of  the  Fint  Chorch, 
Boston.  Alfred  Mndge  and  Son,  Printers,  No.  24  Franklin  Stieet.  1884.  8to.  pp.  46.  Ed- 
ited by  Rev.  Anson  Titus. 

Sixth  and  Seventh  Annual  Addresses— 1883  and  1884— before  the  Cayaga  Histnrical  Sod- 
etv.  By  Charles  Hawlev,  D.D.,  President  of  the  Society.  Reprinted  from  Coilectioos  of 
C.'H.  S.    No.  3.    Auburn,  N.Y.    1884.    8vo.  pp.  47. 

Fourth  Report  of  the  Record  Commissioners  of  the  City  of  Boston.  1880.  Dorchester 
Town  Records.  Second  edition,  1883.  Boston:  Rockwell  and  Charchiil,  City  Printers, 
No.  39  Arch  Street.  1883.  The  Dorchester  town  records  have  been  thoroughly  oompared 
by  the  original  and  corrected  by  William  B.  Trask.  A  facsimile  of  the  map  omitted  in  the 
first  edition  is  given  here. 

II.   Other  Publications, 

Unveiling  the  Statne  of  Chief  Justice  Marshall  at  Washington,  May  10,  1894.  OratioB 
by  William  Henrv  Rawie,  LL.D.  Philadelphia:  Allen,  Lane  and  Scott's  PrintiDg  UoQie, 
229-231  South  Fif^h  Street.     1884.    8vo.  pp.  31. 

1883.  February  13.  1883.  Order  of  Services  at  the  Seml-Centennial  Anniyereary  of  the 
ordination  of  Rev.  Charles  Babbidge  as  pastor  of  the  First  Church  and  Society  in  Pepperell. 
8vo.  pp.  51. 

The  Semi-Cent«nnial  Souvenir.  An  account  of  the  great  celebration,  June  9tb  and  10th, 
1884,  together  with  a  chronological  history  of  Rochester,  N.  T.,  by  William  Mill  Batter 
and  Georsre  S.Crittenden.  Rochester,  N.T. :  Post  Express  Printing  Company.  Iij84. 
8vo.  pp.  75. 

Proceedings  of  the  Most  Worshipful  Grand  Lodge  of  Ancient,  Free  and  Accepted  Ma- 
sons of  the  Commonwealth  of  Massachusetts,  special  communi&itions  February  2'i,  28, 
March  27,  1884.  Quarterly  Communications  March  12,  1884.  M.  W.  Abrah  im  H.  How- 
land,  Jr.,  Grand  Master.  R.  W.  Sereno  D.  Nickcrson,  Recording  Secretary.  Bo:>ton: 
Press  of  Rockwell  and  Churchill,  No.  39  Arch  Street.    18S4.    8vo.  pp.  66. 

Publiciitions  of  the  Buffalo  Historical  Society,  Vol.  II.  Buffalo  :  Published  by  Blgelow 
Brothers,  60,  62,  64  Pearl  Street.     1880.    8vo.  pp.  429. 

Transactions  of  the  Royal  Historical  Society.  New  Series.  Volume  II.  Part  I.  Lon- 
don :  Longmans,  Green  and  Co,    1884.    8vo.  pp.  434. 

Acndia.  A  lost  chapter  in  American  history.  By  Philip  H.  Smith.  Illastrated.  Rav- 
llng,  N.  Y.    Publibhed  by  the  author.    1884.    8vo.  pp.  381. 

Historical  Sketch  of  the  Hillsborough  County  Congresses,  held  at  Amherst,  N.  H.,  1774 
and  177o.  with  other  Revolutionary  Records.  Compiled  by  Edward  D.  Boylston.  Amheret, 
N.  H. :  Farmer's  Cabinet  Press.     1884.    8vo.  pp.  63. 

Proceedings  of  the  Nineteenth  Session  of  the  American  Pomological  Societv,  held  in 
Philadelphia,  Penn.,  Septeml>er  I2th,  13th  and  14th,  1883.  Edited  by  the  secretary,  W.  J. 
Beal,  and  the  chairman  of  the  General  Fruit  Committee,  W.  C.  Barry.  Published  by  the 
Society.    1884.    Large  8vo.  pp.  155-f. 

Twenty  years  of  the  history  of  Plymouth  Church,  Lansing,  Michigan.  A  sermon  bv 
the  pastor,  Rev.  Theodore  P.  Prudden,  April  27,  1884.  W.  S  George  and  Co.,  Printers, 
Lansing.     Sq.  8vo.  pp.  27. 

Sugfrestlons  for  a  Commercial  Treaty  with  Spain,  with  especial  reference  to  the  L^land 
of  Cuba,  by  Adam  Badeau.    8vo.  pp. '66. 

Constitution,  Bv-L:\ws,  Officers  and  Members  of  the  Saint  Nicholas  Club  of  the  Citv  of 
New  York.  1884-5.  Club  House,  12  East  •i9th  Street.  Printed  by  order  of  the  Club. 
Quarto,  pp.  40. 

Reminiscences  of  Schools  and  Teachers  in  Dorchester  and  Boston.  By  Thomas  Gushing, 
late  Principal  of  Chauncy-Hall  School.  Republished  from  Barnard's  American  Journal  of 
Education.    8vo.  pp.  177-191. 

Memorials  of  the  Claris  of  1834  of  Harvard  College.  Prepared  for  the  Fiftieth  AnniTe^ 
sarv  of  their  Gmduation.  Bv  Thomas  Gushing,  at  the  request  of  his  class-matea .  Boston : 
David  Clapp  &  Son.    1884.    8yo.  pp.  110. 


1884.]  Recent  Puhlication$*  463 

Celebration  of  the  6i-Centennial  Anniversary  of  the  New  Jersey  Leglslatnre.  1683-1883. 
Trenton,  N.  J. :  Naar,  Day  andNoar,  Printers  to  the  House  of  Assembly.  1883.  8vo.  pp.  56. 

Charleston,  S.  C.  The  Centennial  of  Incorponition,  18S3.  1670,  Founded.  1783,  Incor- 
porated. The  News  and  Courier  Book  Presses,  19  Bro.id  Street,  Charleston,  S.  C.  8vo. 
pp.  259. 

Bulletin  of  the  E-Jsex  Institute.    Vol.  15.    Salem  :  Jan.,  Feb.  March,  18^.    Nos.  1.  2,  3. 

Bulletin  of  the  Essex  Institute.    Vol.  15.    Salem  :  April,  May,  June.  1883.    Nos.  4.  5,  6. 

Bulletin  of  the  Essex  Institute.    Vol.  16.    Salem  :  Jan.,  Feb.  March,  1884.    Nos.  1,  2,  3. 

Offlcial  Register  of  the  OfBcers  and  Cadets  of  the  U.  S.  Military  Academy,  West  Point, 
N.  Y.,  June,  1884.    12mo.  pp.  39. 

The  California  Pllffrimaffe  of  Boston  Commanderv  Knlcrhts  Templars,  Aupnst  4— Sept. 
4, 1883  By  Sir  the  Rev.  Oliver  Aver  Roberts,  Prelate  of  the  Pil^ma^.  PubMshed  by 
the  committee  in  charge  of  the  pilgrimage.  Boston :  Alfred  Mudge  &  Son,  Printers.  1881. 
Sm.  4to.  pp.  4i)0. 

Proceedings  of  the  Most  Worshipful  Grand  Lodge  of  Ancient.  Free  and  Accepted  Masons 
of  the  Commonwealth  of  Massachn setts.  Special  Communications,  May  31,  1884.  Quar- 
terlv  Communications,  June  11,  1884.  M.  W.  Abraham  H.  Howland,  Jr.,  Grand  M>u«ter. 
R.  W.  Sereno  D.  Nicltcrson,  recording  Grand  Secretary.  Boston :  Press  of  Rockwell  and 
Churchill,  No.  39  Arch  Street.    1884.    8vo.  pp.  97. 

The  Church  Book  of  the  First  Congregational  Church  in  West  Springfield,  Mass.,  and 
catalogue  of  members.  Springfield:  W&iver,  Shipman  and  Company,  Printers.  1884. 
16mo.  pp.  54. 

Engineer  Department  United  States  Arm  v.  Report  on  the  International  Exhibition  of 
Electricity,  held  at  Paris,  August  to  November,  1881.  David  Porter  Keep,  Major,  Corps  of 
Engineers,  U.S.A.    Washington  :  Government  Printing  Office.    1884.    8vo.  pp.  287. 

Engineer  Department  United  State<)  Army.  Professional  Notes  by  Captain  Edward  Ma- 
guire.  Corps  of  Engineeri,  U.S.A.  Washington :  Government  Printing  Offlce.  188(.  8vo. 
pp.  28+. 

Engineer  Department  United  States  Army.  Stndics  on  Coa-^t  Defence  applied  to  (he 
Gnlfof  Spezia,  by  CiBsar  Guarasci.  Colonel  of  Engineers.  Transhited  by  First  Lieut.  G. 
McC.  Derby.  Corps  of  Engineers  U.S.  Army.  Washington:  Government  Printing  Office. 
1884.    8vo.  pp.  20-K. 

Twentieth  Report  of  the  Trustees  of  the  City  Hospital,  Boston,  with  reports  of  the  super- 
intendent and  professional  stuff,  rules  for  admissions  and  discharges,  prospectus  of  tniin- 
ing-school  for  nurses,  &c.  18S3-84.  Boston  :  Rockwell  and  Churchill,  City  Printers,  No. 
39  Arch  Street.     1884.    8vo.  pp.  95. 

Dio<'esc  of  Ma«.«»achusetts.  Journal  of  the  ninetv-fonrth  annn^l  meeting  of  the  Conven- 
tion, 1884.    Boston :  Cupples,  Upham  and  Co.    1884.    8vo.  pp.  242. 

Annual  Report  of  the  Board  of  Regents  of  the  SmithsAninn  Institution,  showing  the 
openitions,  expenditures  and  condition  of  the  Institution  for  the  year  1882.  Washington : 
Government  Printing  Office.     1881.    8vo.  pp.  855. 

Transactions  of  the  M'issachnsetts  Horticultural  Society  for  the  year  1883.  Part.  11. 
Boston  :  Printed  for  the  Society.     1884.    8vo.  pp.  187. 

The  Martyrdom  of  Lovejoy.  An  account  of  the  life,  trials  and  perils  of  Rev.  Elijah  P. 
Lovejoy,  who  was  killed  by  a  pro-slavery  mob  at  Alton,  III.,  om  the  night  of  Nov.  7,  1837- 
By  an  eye  witness.    Chicago  :  Fergus  Printing  Company.    1881.     8vo.  pp.  233. 

The  new  Century  and  the  new  Building  of  the  Harvanl  Medical  School.  17«3-1883. 
Addresses  and  Exerci>«cs  at  the  One  Hundredth  Anniversary  of  the  foundation  of  the  Med- 
ical School  of  Harvard  University,  Oct.  17,  1883.  Cambridge :  John  Wilson  &  Son,  Uni- 
versity Press.     1884.    8vo.  pp.  bo. 

Exercises  at  the  Centennial  Celebration  of  the  founding  of  Phillips  Exeter  Academy, 
New  Hanipjshirc,  June  2u  and  2',  1883.  Exeter,  N.  H.:  William  B.  Morrill,  Printer,  News- 
Letter  Press.     18ft4.    8vo.  pp.  83. 

Masters  of  the  Bench  (»f  the  Hon.  Society  of  the  Inner  Temple,  1450-1883;  and  Masters 
of  the  Temple,  l5tO-18S3.     1883  [not  published].    8vo.  pp.  14o. 

Memoir  of  George  Barrell  Emei-son,  LL.D.  By  Rol>ert  C.  Waterston.  Presented  at  the 
meeting  of  the  Mass^^■hIl^etts  Historical  Society,  M  ly  10,  1881,  wiih  a  supplement.  Cam- 
bridge :  John  Wilson  ft  Son,  University  Press.    1884.    8vo.  pp.  126. 

Decennial  Record  of  the  Class  of  1873,  Yale  College.  Printed  for  the  use  of  the  class. 
Buff  ilo :  Bit^elow  Bro's,  Steam  Printers,  60,  62  and  64  Pearl  Street.     1884.    8vo.  pp.  58. 

James  Ch.ilmers,  the  inventor  of  the  *•  A<lliej<ive  Stamp,"  not  Sir  Rowland  Hill,  with 
letter  to  H.  M.  Po«itmn«icr-General,  and  declaratitm  of  the  tre'»sury.  By  Patrick  Chal- 
mers, Fellow  of  the  Royal  HiHtorical  Society.  London:  Effingham  Wilson,  Koyal  Ex- 
change.   1884.     Price,  six  pence.    8vo.  pp.  39. 

Hi.storicnl  Sketch  of  the  Bnptist  Church  in  Exeter,  R.  I.  Prepared  by  Willet  H.  Arnold. 
Central  Falls,  R.  I. :    Ed.  Freeman  &  Co.,  Printers  to  the  State.    1883.    8vo.  pp.  23. 


464  Recent  Publications.  [Oct. 

Transactions  of  the  Massachusetts  Horticaltaral  Society  for  the  year  1883.  Part  I.  Bos- 
ton :  Piloted  for  the  Society.    1883. 

Lincolnshire  and  the  Danes.  By  the  Rev.  G.  S.  Streatfeild,  MA.  London :  Kegao 
Paul,  Trench  &  Co.,  No.  1  Paternoster  Square.    18S4.    8vo.  pp.  386. 

Collections  of  Cayuga  County  Historical  Society,  Auburn,  N.  Y.  Number  two.  Fourth 
and  Fifth  Annual  Addresses.  Historical  Sketch  of  Friends  in  Cayn^  County,  N.  T.  In- 
ventors and  Inventions  of  Cayujra  County,  N.  Y.,  with  illustrations  and  supplement 
Auburn,  N.  Y.    1882.    8vo  pp.  186. 

Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology.  Nineteenth  Annual  Catalogue  of  the  Officers 
and  Students,  with  a  statement  of  the  itburses  of  instruction  and  a  list  of  the  Alumni  and 
of  the  members  of  the  Society  of  Arts.  1883-1884.  Boston:  Press  of  George  H.  Ellis, 
141  Franklin  Street.    1884.    8vo.  pp.  144. 

Joumnls  of  the  Honorable  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives  of  the  State  of  New 
Hampshire.  June  Session,  1883.  Concord:  Parsons  B.  Cogswell,  Pablic  Printer.  18&I. 
8vo.  pp.  1258. 

Laws  of  the  State  of  New  Hampshire.  Passed  June  Session.  1883.  Conoord:  Par- 
sons B.  Cogswell.  Public  Printer.    1883.    8vo.  pp.  222. 

State  of  New  Hampshire.  Annual  Reports.  1883.  Concord:  Parsons  B.  Cogswell, 
Public  Printer.    1883.    8vo.  pp. 

Chicago  Historical  Society's  Collection.  Volume  II.  Biographical  Sketch  of  Enoch 
Long,  an  Illinois  pioneer,  by  Harvey  Reid.  Chicago:  Fergus  Printing  Company.  188i. 
8vo.  pp.  134. 

Chicago  Historical  Society's  Collection.  Volume  III.  The  Edwards  Papers,  being  a 
portion  of  the  Collection  of  the  letters,  papers  and  manuscripts  of  NInian  Edwards,  chief 
justice  of  the  Court  of  Appeals  of  Kentucky.  •  •  •  Presented  to  the  Chicago 
Historical  Society,  Oct.  16,  1883,  bv  his  son,  Ninian  Wirt  Edwards.  Edited  by  £.  B. 
Washbume.   Chicago :  Fergus  Printing  Company.    1884.    8vo.  pp.  633. 

The  Diary  and  Letters  of  His  Excellency,  Thomas  Hutchini»on,  Esq.,  B.A.  ( Harvard j« 
LL.D.  (Oxon),  Captain  General  and  Governor-'in-Chicf  of  His  late  Majesty's  Province  of 
Massacnusetts  Bay  in  North  America,  with  an  account  of  his  administration  when  he  was 
member  and  speaker  of  the  House  of  Representatives,  and  his  government  of  the  Colony 
during  the  difficult  period  that  preceded  the  war  of  independence,  compiled  fhim  the 
original  documents  still  rtmaining  In  the  possession  of  his  descendants.  By  Peter  Orlando 
Hutchinson,  one  of  his  great-grandsons.  Boston :  Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.,  4  Park  Street. 
1884.    8vo.  pp.  694. 

Bulletin  of  the  Minnesota  Academy  of  Natural  Sciences,  Minneapolis,  Minn.  Winona, 
Minn. :  Jones  &  Kroeger,  Printers.    1883.    8vo  pp.  37. 

Proceedings  of  the  Most  Worshipful  Grand  Lodge  of  Ancient,  Free  and  Accepted 
Ma80[is  of  the  Commonwealth  of  Massachusetts.  •  •  •  Annual  Comnioni- 
cation,  Dec.  12,  1883.  Stated  Communication,  Dec.  27, 1883.  Boston:  Press  of  Rockwell 
&  Churchill,  No.  39  Arch  Street.     1884.    8vo.  pp.  434. 

Memoir  of  Edmund  Quincy  (1681-1738),  of  Braintrec,  Massachu<^tts  Bay.  By  Eiixa 
Susan  Quincy,  of  Quincy,  Mam.  8vo.  pp.  14.  [Repriuted  fiom  the  New  England  Histori- 
cal and  Genealogical  Register  for  April,  1884.] 

Reminiscences  of  Abraham  Lincoln,  and  notes  of  a  visit  to  California.  Two  lectures  by 
Joshua  F.  Speed,  with  a  sketch  of  his  life.  Louisville,  Ky. :  Printed  by  John  P.  Morton 
&  Co.    1884.    8vo.  pp.  67. 

The  Teachers  and  Graduates  of  the  Fitchburg  High  School.  1849-1883.  Preceded  by 
some  mention  of  teachers  in  the  Fitchburg  Academy.  1830-1818.  By  Ray  Greene 
JIuling,  A.M  ,  Principal.  (Published  by  vote  of  the  School  Committee.)  Fitchburg :  Senti- 
nel Printing  Company,  Printers.    1884.    8vo.  pp.  66. 

Town  Papers  and  Documents  relating  to  Towns  in  New  Hampshire,  Gilmanton  to  New 
Ipswich,  with  an  appendix,  embracing  some  document"  relative  to  towns  which  have  l)een 
returned  to  the  State  archives  since  the  publication  of  Volume  XI.  Pui»lished  by  authority 
of  the  Lepislature.  Volume  XII.  Compiled  and  edited  by  Isaac  W.  Hammond.  Concord, 
TJ.  H. :  Parsons  B.  Cogswell,  State  Printer.    1883.    8vo.  pp.  8H. 

Annual  Report  of  the  German  Society  of  the  City  of  New  York  for  the  year  1883.  One 
hundredth  year.  The  aim  of  the  German  Society  is  to  assist  German  emigrants  and  their 
dCBcendants.    New  York  :  Burr  Printing  House.     1884.    8vo.  pp.  79. 

Illinois,  and  the  Thirteenth  Amendment  to  the  Constitution  of  the  United  States.  A 
paper  read  l)efore  the  Chicago  Historical  Society,  Tuesday  Evening,  Jan.  16,  1884.  By 
William  Bross,  A.M.    Chicago:  Jansen  McClurg  &  Co.     1884.    8vo.  pp.  8. 

The  De^irborns.  A  discourse  commemorative  of  the  eightieth  anniversary  of  the  oc- 
cupation of  Fort  Denrborn,  an<l  the  first  settlement  of  Chicago.  Read  l^efore  the  Chicago 
Historical  Society,  Tuesday.  Dec  18,  1883.  By  Daniel  Goodwin,  Jr.,  with  remarks  uf 
Hons.  John  Wentworth  J. 'Young  Scamnion,  E.  B.  Washbume  and  I.  N.  Arnold.  Chi- 
cago: Fergus  Printing  Company.     1884.    8vo.  pp.  66. 

Transactions  of  the  Royal  Historical  Society.  New  Scries.  Volume  I.  Part  IV.  Lon- 
don :  Longmans,  Green  &  Co.    1884.    8vo.  pp.  408  -f  12. 


1884.] 


Deaths. 


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Union  Leagac  Clab.  Restoration  of  American  Shipping  and  defence  of  oar  Harbors, 
Ocean  and  Jjakes.    New  Yoric :  Barr  Printing  House.    1883.    8vo.  pp.  44. 

Memorial  of  John  Denison  Baldwin,  Minister,  Legislator  and  Joarnalist.  By  Samnel  E. 
Staples.    Worcester :  Printed  by  Daniel  Seagrave.    1884.    8vo.  pp.  14. 

A  Memorial  Slietch  of  Lieut.  Edgar  M.  Newcomb,  of  the  Nineteenth  Massachnaetts 
Volunteers.  Edited  by  Dr  A.  B.  Weymouth.  Printed  for  private  distribution.  Maiden: 
Alrin  O.  Brown,  Steam,  Boole  and  Job  Printer.    1883.    8vo.  pp.  134. 

Proceedings  of  the  Rhode  I>land  Historical  Society.  1883,  1884.  Proridence :  Printed 
for  the  Society.    1884.    8vo.  pp  91. 

Catalogue  of  bookf*  obtained  by  the  Rhode  Island  Historical  Society  from  the  sale  of  the 
library  of  the  late  Joseph  J.  Cooke.  March — December,  1883.  Proridence:  Kellogg 
Printing  Co.,  5  Washington  Row.     1884.    8vu.  pp.  3B. 

Catalogue  of  Wesleyan  University.    1883,  '84.    Middletown.  Conn. :    1883.    8vo.  pp.  51. 

Deterioration  of  the  Puritan  Stock,  and  its  causes.  By  John  Ellis,  M.D.  New  York : 
Published  by  the  author.    1884.    r2mo.  pp.  52. 

Reprint  from  No.  3D  of  the  proceedings  U.  S.  Naval  Institute.  The  Cruise  of  Columbus 
in  the  Bahamas,  1492.    By  Lieut.  J.  B.  Murdock,  U.S.N.    8vo.  pp.  449-486. 

Proceedings  and  Transactions  of  the  Roval  Society  of  Canada  for  the  rears  1882  and 
1883.  Volume  I.  Montreal:  Dawson  Brothers,  Publishers.  1883.  Folio,  pp.  286. 
Plates  X  11. 

Register  of  the  Commissioned  and  Warrant  Officers  of  the  Nary  of  the  United  States, 
including  Officers  of  the  Marine  Corps  to  Jan.  15,  1884.  Washington :  Oorernment  Print- 
ing Office.    1884.    8ro.  pp.  214. 

Ciril  List  and  Constitutional  History  of  the  Colony  and  State  of  New  York,  by  Edgar 
A.  Werner.    Albany  :  Weed,  Parsons  &  Co.,  Publishers.    1883.    8vo.  pp.  608. 

With  Gregg  in  the  Gettvsburg  Campaign.  Reprinted  from  chapters  of  unwritten  hiatorr 
in  the  Annals  of  the  War.  Philadelphia  Weekly  Times,  February  2,  1884.  Willi.u'n 
Brooke  Rawle,  Secreuiry  of  the  Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania,  formerly  Captain 
Third  Pennsylvania  Cavalrv  and  Brevet  Lieut.  Col.  U.  S.  Volunteers.  Philadelphia  :  Mc- 
Laughlin Bros.  Co.'s  Job  Printing  Establishment,  113  and  114  South  Third  Street.  1884. 
8vo.  pp.  30. 

The  Charter  and  Revised  Statutes  relating  to  the  State  Historical  Society  of  Wisconsin, 
also  the  Constitution  and  By-Liwsof  the  Society.  Madison,  Wis. :  Democrat  Printing  Co. 
State  Printers.    1884.    8vo.  pp.  18. 


DEATHS. 


Dodge,  Mrs.  Sophia  Ucrrick,  wife  of  the 
late  Ezra  Dodge,  of  Wenham,  Mass., 
and  daughter  of  Joshua  and  Mary 
(Jones)  Herrick,  of  Beverly,  died  at 
the  family  residence  in  Wenham,  April 
1, 1884,  aged  85  years,  6  mo.  and  5  days. 

Dole,  Rev.  George  Thurlow,  died  in 
Reading,  Mass.,  March  26,  1H84,  aged 
75.  He  was  the  only  son  of  Moses  and 
Sarah  (Thurlow)  Dole,  and  was  bom  in 
Newbury,  Mass.,  Oct.  30,  1808.  Ue 
was  grad.  at  Yale  College  in  1838, 
studied  theology  in  Yale  Divinity 
School,  two  years,  and  finished  his 
course  at  Andorer  in  1841.  He  was  a 
congregationalist  minister,  and  was 
ordained  at  Beverly,  Oct  6,  1842.  where 
he  preached  till  July  1,  1851.  He  was 
then  pastor  at  North  Woburn  firom  Oct. 
12, 1852,  to  Oct.  3,  1855,  and  acting  pas- 
tor at  Lanesboro',  from  July,  1856,  to 
July,  1863.  He  next  Uught  the 
Williams  Academy  in  Stockbridge  one 
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year,  and  was  acting  pastor  of  the 
church  in  Curtisrille  in  that  town  ft-ora 
April,  1864,  to  1872.  In  May,  1875,  he 
removed  from  Stockbridge  to  Reading, 
where  he  resided  till  his  death.  He 
married  May  10. 1843,  Jane  P.  Treat,  of 
South  Britain  in  Southbury,  Ct.,  who 
Burrives  him,  with  two  daughters.  He 
was  engaged  in  preparing  a  genealogy 
of  the  Doles,  and  in  January  last  con- 
tributed to  the  Reoistek  an  article  on 
that  family. 

Gardner,  John  Lowell,  A.M.,  died  in 
Brookline  July  23,  1884,  aged  80.  He 
was  bom  in  Boston,  Feb.  8,  1804,  and 
was  graduated  at  Harvard  College  in 
1821.  After  leaving  college,  he  entered 
upon  a  mercantile  and  financial  career, 
in  which  he  achieved  marked  success. 
In  1879  he  was  chosen  president  of  the 
Massachusetts  Hospital  Life  Insurance 
Companv,  and  held  the  office  till  his 
death.    His  wife,  Mrs.  Catharine  £. 


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Deaths. 


[Oct. 


Gardner,  died  Sept.  21,  1883.  They 
leave  two  sons,  George  A.  and  John  L. 
and  several  daughters.  He  was  **a 
typical  Bostonian,  a  representative  no 
less  of  the  old-time  commercial  spirit 
than  of  the  later  wealth  and  culture." 

Marshalt^  Orsamus  Holmes,  died  at  his 
residence  in  Buffalo.  N.  Y.,  July  9, 1884, 
aged  71.  He  was  the  son  of  Dr.  John 
£.  Marshall,  a  pioneer  physician  of 
Buffalo,  and  was  bom  at  Franklin,  Ct., 
Feb.  1,  1813.  He  graduated  at  Union 
College  in  183 1 ,  studied  law  with  Austin 
&  Barker,  Buffalo,  and  at  Yale  College, 
and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  18  {4. 
He  practised  his  profession  in  Buffalo 
as  a  member  of  several  law  firms  and 
alone  till  1867,  when  he  retired  from 
active  practice.  On  the  20th  of  Feb- 
ruary, 1838,  he  married  Miss  Millicent 
Ann  DeAngelis,  by  whom  he  had  three 
children,  all  of  whom  are  now  living, 
viz.:  I,  John  Ellis;  2,  Charles  DeAnge- 
lis, a  partner  of  his  father  from  1863 ; 
and  3,  Elizabeth  Coe,  all  of  whom  sur- 
vive. Few  men  have  been  more  promi- 
nent or  active  in  affairs  directly  con- 
nected with  the  welfare  of  the  city  of 
Buffalo.  The  Buffalo  Historical  Society 
was  founded  in  his  office,  in  1836,  and 
he  was  at  one  time  its  president.  He 
was  the  author  of  several  historical 
works  of  merit,  of  which  "  Champlain's 
Expedition  of  1616,"  and  the  "  BuUding 
and  Voyage  of  the  Griffin,"  have  been 
noticed  in  the  Registeil,  xxxii.  439,  and 
xxxiv.  116. 

Packard,  Prof.  Alpheus  Spring,  D.D., 
died  at  Squirrel  Island,  Me.,  July  13, 
1884,  aged  85.  He  was  the  eldest  son 
of  the  Rev.  Hezekiah  Packard,  D.D., 
and  was  born  in  Chelmsford  Mass.,  of 
which  town  his  father  was  pastor,  Dec. 
23,  1798.  When  he  was  in  his  fourth 
year  his  father  was  settled  over  the 
congregationalist  church  in  Wiscasset, 
Me.  He  entered  Phillips  Academy  at 
Exeter.  N.  H.,  in  1811,  and,  the  next 
year.  Harvard  College,  where  he  gradu- 
ated in  1816.  After  leaving  college  he 
was  an  assistant  in  Gorham  Academy, 
and  then  a  teacher  in  Wiscasset  and  in 
Bucksport.  He  was  next  the  principal 
of  the  Hallowell  Academy.  During  the 
last  sixty- five  years,  he  has  been  con- 
nected with  Bowdoin  College ;  namely, 
froml819tol824asatutor;  from  1824  to 
1865  as  professorof  the  Latin  and  Greek 
Languages.;  from  1842  to  1845  as  pro- 
fessor of  rhetoric  and  oratory ;  and  from 
1864  till  his  death  as  professor  of  natural 
and  revealed  religion.    He  had  also  been 


librarian  since  1869,  and  acting  president 
more  than  a  year.  He  m.  first,  in  1827, 
Frances  £.  dau.  of  President  Jeste 
Appleton.  She  died  in  1839,  leaving 
five  children :  1,  Dr.  Charles  A.  (BoircL 
CoU.  1848) :  2,  Prof.  William  A.  (B.  C. 
1851)  ;  3,  George  L. ;  4,  Prof.  Alpheos 
S.  (B.  C.  1861)  ;  5,  Frances  A.  He  m. 
second,  in  1844,  Mrs.  C.  W.  McLeUan, 
by  whom  he  had  one  son,  Robert  L.  (B. 
C.  1868).  Prof.  Packard  was  also  an  or- 
dained minister.  He  was  the  author  or 
editor  of  several  works,  the  last  being 
a  History  of  Bowdoin  College,  1882, 
begun  by  Xehemiah  Cleaveland,  LLJ)., 
and  completed  and  edited  by  him 
(Rbgisteb,  xxzvii.  321).  At  page  188 
will  be  found  a  sketch  of  his  life,  in- 
cluding a  list  of  his  writings.  The 
Maine  Historical  Society,  of  which 
he  was  librarian  for  nearly  half  a 
century,  celebrated  at  Portland,  Dec. 
23,  1882,  the  84th  anniversary  of  his 
birth  (Rboistbr,  xxzvii.  206). 

Sargent,  Sewell.  died  in  the  hoose  in 
which  he  was  bom,  at  Cherry  VaUej, 
Leicester,  Mass.,  January  20, 1884,  aged 
81  years,  1  month,  20  days.  He  was 
the  youngest  son  of  John  and  Sarah 
(Gates)  Sargent,  and  a  descendant, 
through  Nathan  Sargent  of  Leicester, 
of  revolutionary  memory,  of  William 
Sargent  who  came  to  tlus  country  in 
1 638  and  settled  in  Maiden.  [See  Gene- 
alogy of  the  Sargent  Family,  by  Aaron 
Sargent.J  Mr.  Sargent  inherited  good 
traits  of  character  from  his  ancestors 
and  maintained  them  through  his  long 
and  useful  life ;  discharging  his  duties 
as  a  private  citizen  and  public  serrant 
with  fidelity  and  integrity,  and  po^ess- 
ing  the  confidence  and  esteem  of  all  vho 
knew  him. 

Wilson,  Charles,  died  in  Copenhagen, 
Denmark,  the  place  of  his  birth,  Feb. 
17,  1884,  aged  83  years.  Mr.  WUson 
came  to  this  country  when  a  young 
man,  and  for  nearly  the  last  fifty  years 
of  his  life  resided  in  Boston  and  its 
vicinity.  For  many  years  he  was  a 
leading  stevedore  on  the  wharves  io 
Boston.  He  possessed  the  confidence 
and  esteem  of  the  merchants  and  ship 
owners  with  whom  he  had  business 
connections,  while  to  those  who  knew 
him  in  the  more  intimate  relations  of 
life,  he  was  endeared  by  his  kindness  of 
heart  and  excellent  qualities  as  a  mtn. 
The  latter  years  of  his  life  were  spent 
partly  with  his  friends  in  Boston  and 
partly  in  the  city  of  his  birth,  still  re- 
taining his  citisenship  in  this  country. 


INDEX  OF  NAMES. 


Abb«y,  M1-4S 
Abbott,  70,  so,  IK,  SU 
AbdT.au? 
Abererombj.  3&3,  M4 


xi«,  no,  »1,  ras,  236, 

IM,  «M,  M«,  3M,  XM, 

lu,  lis,  1M,  ua,  M) 


Apuks,  1SJ 

Thdoll.  3<>t 
__jh«r,  407 
Ardwa)',  441,  MS 
Argubtll.a? 
Annrlleld,  US 


JUnr,4S.M,9a,4M 
^bn,  ai,  it.  la-t,  BT. 
117,  ll«,  1ST,  IW,  207, 


AIIcT,M,  81,336,  3U 
AlJlbonr,  SID,  U7 
ALI1«,  4W 
AUlitan,  71 


<•.)!, 


4, 17,  MS 


Anunid^ 

Aodera'an,  '■«,    13,  148, 

Andrt.  iO 
ADd[«».  17« 
Audreot,  'jW,  M8,  337, 

,   MB,  ITS,   SM, 


Angler,  388 


ley,  Eu-I  or,  209 
42S.427 


ADDgcll.  m 

AalboD;,  107. 
ApplcbM,  37t,  .._ 


trong,  1*3,  U7,»B, 

Arnold,  M,  W,  143. 1A7, 
IM,  U8,  IK,  KM,  V70, 
WS,  849,  343,  4W,  te4, 
t«3,4U 

rrowiiolUi,  44) 

ArUcU.'tt 
AmndclI.St 
Aihbr,  441 
Aihaeld,M 

Aibhririt,  317,  :)1B,  414 
Aahlnj,  :«87.  IW 
Aihraoic,  2M,  «07 


BMbel*r,  372,  373.  378 


ftlgbr,  «7,  134,  MS 
8ll«|F,  230 
DMrej,  !0,  28 
Bill»y,  M,  M.  77,  aJO, 

Ul«.  313,  336-37 
Ballla.ioi 
ButDbridn,  IN 
B»tef ,  m,  228,  270,  271, 
~%33t,  MO,  385,  IM, 

^437 

H.  128,  S8E,  139,330 

baldrldge.  310 
■'>ldwln,fi,  0,88,00,  01, 

133,   lW-70,   IBS,   HM. 

»W-M^  37:t-78,  493, 4«G 


DaJlJu'orf,  Lord,  i»t 
Bantron,  »n,8*,80,  383 
BauHcld.&S 


Barber,     SS,  MO,   lU, 


lanMbfi,  374 
lamard,  UO,  333,  336, 

tarn  ardli  ton,  107 

Barn.,  i70,  277, 27*,  383. 

It.  71,  M,  210, 388, 
•sn,  388,  3S0.  3ai,  304 
Baniiigtan.  200 

w>,88!  107. 310,432 


laiiliBin,  M,  328, 33« 
larsluw,  IIU,  1(1 
.artbolomtw.  418 

'3l0,m,396,'3M',  41 

Barlotl.  M 

Bartoo,  M.  321 


I,  40,  42,  28>,  iSO, 

11.  3F1 

Bughman.  t« 

DllMI,  438 

r.   28,  83,  M,  SZ, 


Br>.l.  2a,  W.  403 
Beam  an.  87.  88, 108, 101, 
118,  2^'0.  Ml,  398 

Bearii.  311) 


bv.gj 
^.rfber,  128-30 
Becdbua,  l^  20, 84,  M4 


0,  240,  348,  340, 

.308 

».  Kid,  M3,'3T»,' 


ocdian.  SI 

Bern.  27-u,  11-3, 88 

BerkcI«T,;D,71,10E(,n), 


Index  ofNamea. 


Belhune,  MO,  M\ 

Belli,  eo,  SI,  116,  *ra 

BIckDcll,  W,  IW 
UnloiT,   ««,  m,    IK. 

iM,  Mt,  Ml 
Bigg,  «>-^  «U 
Big!,  80 
Binof ,  MI,  MI 
Bin,  ITS 
!S,  W,  I3»,  34«, 


sas 


wmaD,  M,   302,  SOS, 


ner,    112,   113, 

a,  3M 

1,  wo,  at,  303-011, 

«,  411,  4U 

Hop.  87, 20! 
Itbam,  lit 


Brvant.    MI 

_il7,U2 

;klwB.  IH 


Bliek.HX 
BlBCklalon, » 
BlukleMb,«8 


Bludon, 
BUInc,  t 
Blaks.  -i 


kiMM,  110.  117 


Hrsdhurr,  Ml,  Mi 
Brii<lranl,'gl,'illD,  3M. 


Brmdatuw,  A 
Brsditiwl,  117,  IM,  107, 
■SM.W,  ai,3tJ,a7» 


.,   XI,  17-*,  1G7-SI), 


Btogct,  33,  Ml 
Bt0U,U3 


Urulvr,  «11,  »a 
Urfarly.  MI,  M) 
Bred^tN 

ISV.M,  Ml,  I 
Vvtwtv,  M,  4^  101 


Bodv,  3-^3,  Xf4 
B«gli-.  M 
Bogue,  M 


BoDdTa^, »,  ffi,  73,  tM. 
■Ja7,  3W.   378,  4ul-0i, 
4UI,103,407,i«l,4il 
Boiiiicll.  3Ui 
Boaner,  «1I,  Wl 
Bvuui,  UI&-47,  taa 
Bonytboa,MH>,U47,MS 


Bu^«'itr.3ii,et.iso,tse, 


Bnrpn,  77,  MO 
Burr,  117,  MO,tet,t«C 
llurrige,4M 


Urlg(>.  u,  Ul,  4:11 
-Igliliomi,  37 


3ei,  3111,  3iis,  a 

Broii,  3I«,  4« 


US,  4U,  418, 438,  Ua, 


OfMD,  im,  iJ2 


CulDgtom,  m,  411 


Uurrougll),  I4B,.1M,«H. 


tT.  iw,za,»Ba,Kt. 


BrllloiWB,  S 

•■   -1.113 


CMlani).,  (14.11* 
Uiudwetl,  u:r7,  4M 
UidHf,  MO.  Ml 

Calkla),  4M 

Cill.M,  :ZM 
i;a]Mn,304,  MS,  508 
ran,  lot 

CuiBbcU,'lt«.  131 


Ctufer,  187,  348 
CluO^n,  UI 
Ch>ffln,gg 

ler*,'  IW,  481 
Cbunbrrlaln.  IU.81,18, 


Ctuuaplaln.  4 
"h*mpai]'. » 
hsDillrr,   m 

3W,  3b« 

iplia,    71, 

CluipMI.  Kl, 
UturbB.  M.  4 
Cbvln  Marl 
ChariM  I..  1 1 


ChHbaJme.  TV 

"butrr.  l-^.il,  %  lit. 
131.  ISl,  IM.  180,  tit, 
»i.  se*,S07.M\tK, 
X-i,  S70, 4i».  «8 


nUbuI,  148,147 

ChlckleT,  M 

,  187,  164,  IN,  t«. 


Index  of  Names. 


CbrriMtom',  iva 

Cburcli,  n.  M3 

CbDnihill,   11:1,: 

H8,M7,M(MU 

CUUb,  mo' 

CUA,3.«.U,UI,  71,  78, 
I(n.llL,  IK,  Ii7,  »», 


ley,  KS 
ey,l§,83,  lal 
CooUdg*.  4t 

l«,  \b,  W. 
I,  3t3,  UX 
Cope.  IH 
CopeUnd,  W,  31 
Co  pity.  W.  378 
Copp,  117,  HI,  «2 
Coibet,  7 
Corbln.M,  38S 
Cononn,  W,J3B.  aei 
—   173,  1?»,  I 


K,tW-il 


CliUbM.  tU.  11«,  M2 
Clinon,  IW 

CllUOD,    £28 

Cloacb.  2Bt,  3SS,  «e 

Co^er 

Oobb,  its.  (M,  ue 

Cmhrue.  SM 
Cosk,  »7. 187,  Sai,  13S 
Coddiof,  XM 

GoddlDElon.    IM,   117 

aso.MO 

Codmiui.  Aa.  U5 


or«».  171, 173,  1?», 
IM.  1W.  340,  UO 
Corlell,  M 
Corllu,  HI,  MG 
Caniben;,  &»,  133 


D,  W,  M,  103,  1 

Coo^,  81,  3G: 
CoarlD*]',  M,  322 


CowplHDd,  eiG 
Cox,  3^,4W,W» 
Coye,  3B,  *3,  HI 
CrlckbODC,  130,  311 


gr;' 


S37, 410-U,  413, 4' 
Co]eiuD,G8, 138 
Calcridite,  113 


CollyET,  V» 

«aliton,  M3 

CoIIOD,  M,  47,  U7,  IM 
ColaiabDi,  IW,  m 

Comba.Sf,  33,  M.H» 
Compton,  w,  ov 
Camiiock,  3!,  4U 

CoDui.  33,  m.  xM,  »; 

»8.M8,  441 
Condon,  fit 
Condt,  I 
Cosklln,  HO 
Conway,  snj,  4S8 


MD,  3M,  33X,  41V,  4»), 


CunilOb.  317 
'~iipplei,  »S,  303, 


Cuitilji«,t»,l»,lia,MB, 
—  3W,  «1,  4a,  48" 

oiio,«l,3«t,  ttl 


40$,  Hit 

r,  \\,  33,  SO,  190, 
cJlting,  3X6 


DJckrDt,»tl.«7 

~S"' »;  04,  jaf, 

,X3S,48(I,M1 


Ditlfy.  311-t« 
Dalrymplf ,  3S4 
DalloD.  281,  181 


ia!  3m!  337,  338,  ao7, 
«.  410-13,  «B 
'I  ton.  GO,  U» 


g*.   113-18,   131,    1 
178.  £14,  sa»-78,  a 

M7.:<M.  BW,  HI,  1 


twaih.  M 


DC.  10a 


IW,  184 

[h^lu  Wirr,  Lont,7a 

Mmorcit.  131 
IMnblRh, 


it,  117 


iirby,38«,388,S»,lM, 


DobioD.  4 


DouglM,  3,  IS,  llli  *)•• 

am 

Dow,  K.  Vti,  MS,  m, 
puwiiy,  3M 

JUS^,  lis*,  Ma, 

D'Oyley,  U3 
■)nke.  43,  SO,  78,    110, 
173.  M7,  230,  HI.  no, 

aia,34i;»i,388,«W, 

Driiper,07,23O,tSt,«l, 

Urownc.  U.  338 
Urury,  »0,  K7,  3*7 
Drydou,  8,  W 
UdW.87,  i;m,»i,HI 
Dubber,  30» 
Dubucjur.  lis 
1>D  Ctattoe.  MO 
Uuoklufleld,  317.118,  41t 
Uuckwunb.  H,M 
Diidley^lv,  83,  HI,  MS 

-    -.liurj,  168,  !«• 


ini«e,  18,  328 

i/uniler,'317 


Iln,W 


1,  183,U 
7,  HI 


DuyeltlDCk,  1S.» 
')wlghl,M,47.j(7 
>y",  M.  11«,  no,  Ml, 
sua,  140 
Dyke,  87, « 


Index  of  Namea. 


BuUn*a,  348-M 
KMon,   i»-3\.   ». 

IM,  iVi,  212.  21S,  21B. 

tl«,302,^U,S1«,  441-13 
Boelei.  m 

Sddr,  228. 130,  MT,  S48 
EdlfD.  tSO 
Edmouib,  3U 
Bdwird  Vl^  1<2 
Edwarda,«1,m,10>),I», 

va.  »1,  «7,  3*8,  — 

IM,  417,  4IS,  147, 

■edei,  «1,  111,  ITS,  SIS, 


EggleitoD,  S2B, ; 
Egle,  101. 1«,  1 
Eldnd.  313.  114 


EllialKtb,    QBcen, 
Sl,l«.1.  302.303,  II 

Ellcrj,  441-13,  lai 

XUet,a8 

KUlu,  N 

Ellli,  40.  123,  Itt,  U*. 
183.  va.  xa,  2S0,  3H, 


FvniworUi,  lU,   1 

IT,  113, 13S,  n^  3M, 

ington,  »7. 447 
Fu-mll,  lOD,  3M 
F»T7«,4» 
Fuiell.  SI,  a,  «M 


ir,  MO,  IM,  3U 

Felloiri.  314,328 
Fell.  M8.  331, 33<,  1S7 
Falton.  ms 


EmmDM,  IBS,33«,  443, 

Bndluil,  IS,  2)3, 210.312, 

Xngc'llsbee,  41 
£oa,  S33 
Biit.73 

Ericiion!  Ill 
ErJitfT,Sl 
Errlnglon.  7S 


Fur,  204 
FiilrbuilH, ; 
F^rfm,  2J 


FKTDier.   2M,   311,  t 


301. 418 
Inghlun,  at. 

120,  178,  m. 

Firer,  W.  IW.  118 
FnW.  27.  33,  N, 
—  22»,  331.388 


lie 

crgDi.  3«1,1«>,1M 
irnftid,  St 

FcUientODe,  S2a 

KeTfrjf »re,  70 

"■  "  31-3, 228,  Ml,  187, 

Ftael'd,  311 


itch,  42.  2M,  314,  3S7, 

442,113 
FIlgrlM,  330,41 1-M 
nundert,  120,  308 
FLemlni,  391 
Flcmmrngl.  32,  33 


F1iOt,32,ai.S«,11  .  ..    . 

W,  sss.'sm 


Pobei,'43l,J 


«M,  MO,  OS.  ns,  91 

387,  338,  MS,  IZ:,  1- 
113,132.  4M 
ronlkt,  320,  321 

'awit'r,  K, » 
^1E.  237.  300.  317,  39> 
•oicrofl,  ilO,  21-j.  -J 
2ia,  218,247.4« 
'oiwcll.  H,  IS 
Foyle.811 

FriDcklyn,  81 


3U.  388,  at,  441 

_  Herion,  «C 


tiiiiFti.  xa.  33«,  111,  111 


Giimiui,  »3,  tu.ti 


clUe. 


GkdibT,  88 
<Hgs.  21-3,  28, » 
Diinr,  2 
GidnM,  310 


Ciodilan],  Wu,  at 
Godd>n,4M 
OodDy,  3.  It 
Oodfrer,  30,  ll>, 

I,  Oodolphin.  U 
Gudui*r.  ISI 

;.  GodnhslJ.  »i; 


Goll-^dgo, 


Goodell.  U.  m,ll8,«N 
Quod  hug.  88,  S33 


CiaMii,  .'HI 
Tly.  Ml 


Ellon.  87.  208 
£rr«,  M.  «r,  2 
£l(Mf ,  2^ 


I.  7S,  188,  300 
JGFbb!,'  70,  223, 30*.  31 

1.  01,  ns.  GibMi 


Index  of  JVamet. 


am,  M,  IHl,  182,  llB,[tl 

Qneitr,  1»).  UI 

Gthd. 3.1, K.BJ, 68,10 
OS,  Z24,  SIS,  2M,  2: 
272,  jaO,  111,  313.  34 
lU,  3M,  .'US,  Ml,  3: 
J77,  IM.  MS,  Mt 


irp*r,  M 
HurlnRoD.   EM.   '^i: 


OraeaoDBh.  MS 
Qreenwood,  4X2 

OnKiiD,  7,  3Ca 
Orerett,  IDS 
Qridtcr,   »7,  Z7«,   ! 

411,113 
Qriffcu.  Z7S,  S77, 3M 
Orfgn,  «7 
CrlnlKU,  301-03, 30S,  30d  I 


Orwi.4U 

Gnmi,  288 
Oro'«r.  lea 
Grnbb.  447 


QjUt.  B7 


U«,14I,  3M 

Hart,    113,  ttt,  570-70, 
3M,  im,  31t,  3£i;,  «U, 

|]arUfaorB,2!8,«1,4t« 
..  Kartnell,  40  38S 

Harrnnl,  107.  H3,  4110 
HatTtT.M,  U,  IVO.  274, 
SOB,  308,  318.  3PJ,  373, 

O,   tlD,  111, 

--. I*,»8fl 

Hukel],  440 


I),  33,  18i 
iiiitiiarn«,'M,'M,  iioi-4, 


II  B« 


e.  347,  3. 


BadIrT,  234,  M8,  340 
Hadluck,  38« 

HiXlan,  m 


Hawkfitroith.  -1 

-(.33,M,1P 

.  -  ,  -41 

Hairlej,88,»7,!78,4 

Hawthorn*.  88,  a02,  a 

HavcMk,  )78 
k  Havdfii,  28,  28. 113,  11 
k,      !3I,  2«3,M3,«J.M7 

Hafci.  4S,  «e,  x»,  31 

Hi,M,  80 

DD,  m 

-.  M.  to,  83,  148, 

"ijavwanl,  :»,4Z.I^ 
—  •  ".5,284.  3«.  388. 


Hammand,  31,  32,  I__ 
S».  106,  ZW,  sm,  340,  H 

Hampden,  I: 
Bamptun.  f 
Bans^irlt,  71 
Banrork,  U,   IM,  188, 

Hanliam.  230 

HartHir,  427 
tlardlnc,  M3 


H«il«,32.; 
Hranf,  §1.  a 
Itvarls.M.l 
H«bard.  441 

eiTtni.  W 


liEglnion,  30,  88,  U3, 
lilidrPd,  210 
mil,  tj.  9«.  :«,  IOt,2S3, 


IHMkiai,  M,  88 
UOKincr.   42,    3H,   I 


Howard,  17.  10,  Si,  IS, 

40.   111.  KM,  303,  381, 

HOHObln,  423 
'1owe,-.!ja,30g.  342,  MS, 
384,388.400,  417,  lU 


Unbbanl,  I.  St,  U.  82, 
87,  149.  173,  208, 
ta,  238,  3^.  ISO, 


.   180,  338,  138, 


llabbi.  V80,  3»-^,3»l, 
[lodgF.  7,2i7,MO 


Hoirbon.  108 
Holbrook.  31.  It,  87 


323, 3:13, 338.  teo 
,  114.310,364,4^8 
HaltDD.  33,88,  100,234, 

Hoifoki-,  U3 
laiDer,4«a,  1(1 
lonici.  4M 
[ouk,  :^ 

lvak>^r.88,71,  US,  laS,     _. 
280,  271-78.  318,   J23,iHui 


^Tt 


Uumphijj..24 


170, 18I,SS, 

i,  20.  32,  «0,  81, 
,  310,  310,  388, 
D,  301-03,  SM, 


MD,  lot,  231,  SM, 
Hard,  101,  338.381 


Hui>per,  M,gO,Sl,  238 
HupLm.  IIQ,  100,200. 
^.n.  ,313-18.   318,   >H, 


Hfde,  42,  41 

S34,  Xa,  43 

s>,  417 

inll),  88.  Z 
.gTAhnm.  H 
Irbj,  318 
I  re  bad.  20 

IroDt.'vSJ  ' 


Index  of  Jfamea. 


J»y,  IM 

JiiTf  rion,  St 


Jtaat't.  S4,     .       , 
Jcnningl,  33,  3S1,  Mt,  K 


.U,  33,  S7,  88,133. 
M.  7«,  M3 


JODsa,  3A,M,SB,««,  a 
84,  (»,  W.  IIK,  122.  la 
Zif,  314,  3U.  30.1,  3» 

Jordu,    108.   231,   W 

3C3 
Jo»etyB.W.M.?fl2 
Jodd,  22S.   £76-70.    3Z 

SV1.  3V8.  3W.  410-13 


Kpytfr.  337 
Klddgf,  88,  X21,  347 

0,  4S0 
KUbarn,  331, 338 
KlIbT,  1S3 
KiUBDl,  443 

1,  KEmbJl,  103,  tM. 

336-37,  34»,  4M,  4 

8,'  321 1  3.1^^  335, 

I  Klng'miuil  3:i,'33.^,  » 

KlDailWrT.  117, 37! 
Klnaler.  2e,2»,  2i3 
KlniiDSii,  1, »,  a),  X37 
Kip,  460 

Hirby,  I»3,  1«4,  !» 
KitLrid|c,  40. 42 
KDiipp.  82.'J1R,28a 
t.  KoHJud,  440 

KdIeIiI,  &a.  78,  101,  3« 

"  iJJvii,  03 
lU,  U,  81 
iwLio'n,  IW,  283, 440, 

Kdox,  Rf,  348 
Koiiulli,  142 

L 
^  Ladr,  417 

A:Lwu,'e3,«i,n(,M> 

7,  Llbjctlr,  HI,  141 

Ltke,  ai,  K 
I,  l.uiib,  68,  86,98, 1W,I3 
■      -TV,  !»3,  43b,  4fl'i 

'.  LUDbclt.'w.  333,  414 


Keifcj,  M 
Kena,  41 
KaTib.  », 


Kendrlck,  221 


Idrrnbev,  82.3X1.  i: 


LcItuDQ.  3£!.  3«,Ma, 


LOTweU,  443 

Low,  "  ■ 


II,  11 
t,  7«,  tW 


Lflyputdl,  24 
Llck^ni,  3-iU 


Lowell,  74, 
Lowla,  74 

LaoaaK.  M 
Lmdwig,  ■  ■  ■ 
Ludwin, 
Lnm,- 
Lottai 


LrddiU.  70,  74 

L}de,iM 

Lynuui,  n,  B,  17,  Bt, 


MMklTn,  313.  IM 
MaonllUa,  M7 
HaMiiBbet,S».{aa 
Macra,  7S 

lUcUabeeebl,  KS 


ilof ,  ii«,  at,  M 

ell  43.  4* 

le,  33,  173,381,  IN 

Uu-boiT.  »,B,  18,1* 

HwscrieoD,  lot,  in 
Muion,  CM,  361 


Ld,3W,  46^ 
11,  3j5,  337 


Lunidale,  3a» 

■    -  ^llow,  SO,  M,  im, 

.J48.4S7 
[x)n«iiiBii,3«.4«*,4M 

luring,     117.    138,   as, 

Loihrop,  im,'  lis,    182, 

'  bouii  XlV.,  107 
LddLiXVI.,  8»,  347 


Hukn 


1,441 


Mukwick,  2V0 


Uvtln,    IS.   30,    »-«. 

MvTin,  2W 

Mar}',  f  rlDoeM,  IS, » 

Uukell,  .110 

Mmoo.  «0.  233,  XM,  H8, 


175,  ij?,  i 
307,  3;M,Z 


Index  of  J^amet. 


HittooB,  -iZB.  Hl-3 


UccrsuglilLn.  II 

Wcflimdriis" 
llcC]ure,37u,  II 


McUolc,  4W 
McK».  -JH 

MtKeen.lM,  IDS 
JIiKlnner,  Ml 
UcLsughtln.  UK 


Mornn,  64.01.  Ill 


N-DwelJ.  ai,  n,  60,  IIO,  f 

ujTH,  7i>, };,  7ii,M>,  iij«,  r 


Uulooter.  -HSS 
)lu]r<lot>,  lue 
MulKrave.^Ol,  2M 
Muirsrd.  »M 

MundHf.  91,(8,  £00,907 


Miiioell,    112,  171,  2U, 
Murdock,  IK 


ibt»,tl«,  417,410 

Ulll,  IH 

.u<>lpanlII.,3U 

irnmoro,  -Ot 

uli,  lU.:Ml,tl1,113 


■£U.  Wl,  aM,  344,  410. 

NvLll,  '.'48.940,428,447 

4W.44I 
NcUnd,  442 
Ntl'on,    11'j,    114,     117, 

Ni'ttjVton',  u' 

Ncwlnlil.  421 
Newer,  IW,  314 
Seoconib,  H,  1U,MS 


411-14,441 

i;?',  181,  183,  i 


B.  P»rglier.  « 
Pute,  331. 


licliuLu.  24, 99 
303,3*1,41?  ' 


•   ■■  leHOn,  42,   U 
m.  344,  t4B 


l>iilun,H,»» 
Unngr,  IVInGe  oT,  11 

Jrlon,2;8,27S,t7>,41], 

Urvli,  37,278,  2»,  411- 

D!b«rn,  1(8,  232 
Ij'gunl.  101.  173, 3U 
l)-'lcrhuut,  24V 

litcrtui'i,  tu« 
l>wrii«|uu,  438 
ltxtnbrid».380 
l>iil«r,33i,U7 

farknrd.J],  4«,4W 
l-iuJdlMiu,  40 

1'id.luck.  ',»t 

•'msr,  ;i3.  Il2,   113,  v. .. 

'sKti.  IB,  aw 

■■Igs,  ljo,2i7,  S27, -Hn. 

•nijir,  ail,  m,  270,  J 12, 

[■■kInjttoD,  l«l.  IM.  ira 
81,  «7,  140, 


l*«iulKnoii.ln(,  183,1*4 


3,  8S,  77,  8S. 

;.-,.-iil,  137. 

-I,  4uR,44r 
■  ^»3 
/-■i.'i,W,  117, 

IU«,  S8, 411 


IVtlinilJl,  494 
reltn,  130 
iVnihiult,  U 
Pejlou, 233 


VOL.  XXXVIII, 


474 

Index  o/Namea. 

PIielH,  89,10!           [4SI|Pretoatt,   tt.  III,  UhfRlddle,  SSI 

Umroti.  31a 

PhUlp.  King!  3*-M.' 103 

388 

Eider.  2«.  33. 3i7 

Pruirm,  33S              [4M 

Kldl«y,«i 

Sao£.™""lM.MM,« 

1«,    10«,  IM,   217-24 

TMWn.  38.    1»,   ao. 

SI'^d/;.'t7"k^,^T 

£08.    Xa-X,    3W,  400 

Pnitwlch,  SM 

Saodr^lfl 

laMS 

PrlniB,  33 

Rli«r338 

RllJej.K.  33,288,239 

Saoford.  U8.  IM 

Phimp.,».S7,40,4S,4», 

M.  it,  uu,  174,  m, 

Prince,  130, 178,17*.  IM 

Sangar.  331 

224,  XIB 

R1.01,  in 

RlTfU,  314 

WS  „..,,»» 

IBS,  191,  ao»,  axs.  ass. 

FriDg.  130 

240, 261,  2M,  ai7,  no. 

Hliford,  W.SS.2M 

34f<,  340.  4M 

a47,iii.4».4fli 

Prior.  412,  443 

Robblu«,ia9.S9&-7l,3S9 

SartBdd.  391 

rblppa,  187,  SM-Ot,  237, 

387,403,411 

SaTagr.  31.  44,  13,  «, 

aS*^' 

Froclor.  1«,21»,38« 

Eobfrto,    82,    110,  119, 

S77ii.  ti.  >i.  5  5; 

FlKEKll,  IS.  »8 

•ronl,386 

280,  371.  137,  463 

121. 119,  17-,  leo,  ui. 

PlokiTd,  417,  44« 

Pmdden,  M2 

RobcTUon,  92,  IW,  UK 

197.  20S,  ■^.   «,  *W. 

Plcterinr,  44,  60,  1»4. 

W8.«f.«0,«l 

'nlllng.l2t 

Robin,  3H,  40         ' 

siiU?'u"u!"i':c.^«l 

■ollmu,  1H,  110 

Bi.Wn.ot.,  S3,  IM,  W9 

picketl,  ?ie 

Palilf^r.  36H 

133.  231.  KB.  271,  302, 

rier».26.W.31,»»,M 

PainfrtU.303 

336,  3M.  3«7,  119,  MO 

Bari'l.  I4«, '.w-t 

«4,8i>,»,  101,110,  %», 

^^s^SS'  Si  *"■  **^ 

427,  IM,  448 

Ba<riA.96  239 

¥3«,  las,  «7,  MS  Ml 
3X^   MS,  401,  lis.  Ml 

aobj,  97.  178,  181.  281), 

•s,vs4--» 

t43.4U 

KiriS;;siir68 

Bockweit,  113,  241,  MB 

tsx?-"-" 

Flirion.  123, 3U 

rurinat.  69 

360,361,  MZ-1 

llirj,  378 

Sajwr.Ml 

Putnun,  31.32,  111,  173 

K0derlK0,13 

NcalM,xM.ii« 

l»3,ZMI,SM,SS7 

R«,201 

Pyer.,«l,  « 

Eown,  1,4.3,7,1*.  18 

PlD<i«r.lUG.3I4,l».«l 

213,  ^18, 118,  lis,  *a 

132,  237|  380|  tisl  *» 

sorlcn.  11 

5"r?Mr»7 

33J  381.  *3»:4,  4W 

442  m'      ■  ^ 

soitoa>'i<i.«7,iii,i« 

pUhEr.2?.llO 

P7De,206,  3(H 

RoHrron.  331 

Uorft,  68.  OH,  78,337,112, 

rftm.n>.3M.  SS7 

ntu,  M,  «8,  MJ,  WO 

4 

Bchuriw.  112.11*.  lU 

3IS 

<JuH*»,  M 

Hollliii,W3,*Sfi.  443.4*7 

SoUI.  79 

Plilr.336 

3uiB<7,1ll.  itt-M,  SH 

Booke,  317 

SeoichforA  386.  *U 

FIMt,47 

K.H1I.  177,  278, 287, 411- 

SOOlt,   32,.M.1».  4t,l». 

W4 

13,  421,  138 

71.    los.  ion.  I».  M, 

PUtta,  IM 

iKiMon,  110,44k 

Koper,  »»s,  339 

220,  2.tl.  2M,  St,  «!, 

Plin.ploa,33S.n« 

Rop...  31S,  3« 

W8.  Mi,  :J2V,  W,  W. 

piiimV,eo,33t,m 

411-11.162 

Plumer    B7,  78,  77,  78. 

B 

»«».«,  01.337 

1»1.3W),3!l8,aM 

Rand,  !4»,  W,  4M 

Roicmll,  2IW,  210,  213, 

Stribocr.  109 

PlDinler.  3a 

Uud^l,:>3,34,»8,t28 

213,  118         ■       •  "^ 

8«roop».«U,  198.31* 

18J.3W,  323 

Ron  21).  389 

PouhoDiu,  -iM 

Raudulph,   ■i\,   81,  111 

HoHingllam,  99,  70 

Scull.  21,  IM.  100,  U7, 

174,  MU,  lH,t4U 

WW,  ■»».  291,  S.  m. 

PDln1cli.4ift.4lS 

llowf,'3(f.308,S23,314 

3*3,  .ir^ 

poie.»..«i7.min 

lUntoul.  lid,  410 

^^,. 

Kragrave,  361,  441 

lUpiD,  13,  24 

Bowell.  311 

ISraman.  tOU.  H» 

Pollocli!  3,  111-14 

lUven.  240 

Kowludi^n,  399 

»f«rl^  i.  (W 

KXiWi."'*" 

KbwIb,  4fl2,  4« 

lowlB.llfl 

Sran.W.  1^8.138 

(UwJlul.  «,  M,  282.  442 

Swer,  W.  IM,  431 

lUwion.li,  lii>,  303-11 

Kuckfw"  183 

Kudd,  60.  iB9,  309 

BeaTey.'asi 

Fool*,'  43.  e»,  i«e,  273 

tuj.m 

Kuddock.  11 

SMornb,  101.  lot 

■    33e,434,  *MWt 

Ki^Diui.  43 

ludyere,  !« 

Sedgwick,  W.  1*7,  m 
loT,  3-12 

Pooler,  111  1.  in 

Poor,  7»,   JOi,  232,  HO 

K«i,M.331,tl« 

l!igg,38fl 

a«Ur]r.  IMS 

'^ui.ta.m 

K«dni*i>,  -iOi 

tuggle..  17,  n 

S«ly.li3,231,lSl 

pop«.  lie  ' 

K«d.  31.  M,  «7,»tl.Sl, 

Kuiqrlll.H«,« 

9«ihy.  IW 

Foptinm.  «3a 

220.  317, 388 

RundlMI.  i«7 

R|rM,».m, 

Rnia,  38« 

ael^n*,  IV8 

Itrld,  404 

RuiKll,  41,40,134,154, 

SerMM,!!* 

■temingloD.  m 

171,  181.  238.  29S,  !(fl6. 

Setem.  n? 

27«-u,  aie.  'x».'  3t2, 

Kciidle,  343 

321.  S-AKll,   3>l,    338. 

i«erT.220 

sw,  MB,  Miiraw. « 

338,  431.  132,  *3^  «S7, 

Bewfll,le3. 1W.IW.IJ1, 

112.413,  lil 

i:s.  UH.  Mt.  sn,i» 

Poll,  lis.  IM,  I9> 

KuwK,  ita 

Roatha,  427 

Fottir.  ».  wt.  no,  lie 

IIB,  1J7,  no,  2411,  »»- 

llcjnold..   73,  232,  2Se 

Rult,  339,  440,143 

Strmoir,  K»,  278,  CTl 

8«,U/.44U 

Rlb«ili,'jil 

KuUed».  361 
Kutlenbrr,  300 

Shaffer,  239 

Shakaprare.  311,  *U 

Poullrr.  SHI 

Klce,  3i-3,  116,  IIB,  S« 

Ponll.  H.23S.44I 

W4,  3^7,  3lld,  3H7,  1111 

S 

Sbaptelgb,  M 

Towrrt.3i,IS7,Xl 

Sibsn,  223.  226 

Sharp,  01.  217, 3«,  381, 

pDwKlFn,  :iU 

RJcb,  74,  103,  lis   231 

mci..rd«.M,w,iet,i2B 

Sidlrr,  3:1s.  441-3 

308 

Porrn.  <H 

s»ao,  iro 

8b«iwood,  S4S 

Pnti,  31.  32.88,H,M, 

438 

HsITord,  87,  118,131,418, 

Sbatmek.  ;U.  16,H,  B, 

119.  I»,   US,  181.  IM, 

180.181 

HS,  331.  3W.  aftW 

IH.    ll»,  -as,  2»;  260, 

S»ll.burj.  02,  163.  W 
Salman,  noo.l  IV.  137 

SW).  lict 

wlmi^'**'"'^' 

337,  345,  3111,  Vn,  103. 

sb.w.ii«.-.»i.:83.3ai 

Pnbl>',11»,  3M,  3H,  Km 

fOUer,  160. 197. 109,118 

Shout,  220 

Pr.Ml«.4*.M.'ni,'ll3, 

Sallon.UI,2IO,2U,2IS, 

»lieafe.3W,30«.IO»,»l* 

til,  331,  «9.  440 

2lS,2l*,a» 

Index  ofNamet. 


BhelfiwTl.'aoj '      ' 
Sb'pani.  Z7,  »,  71,  84. 


etierwDDd,  S4,  34i 

SUirler.  34S,  MS,  SU 
SliitpllU.STS 


eiJcocL,  w,  IS 


Bllifer,  liV9 
SlmklR,  tM 
Slmmoiis, '^38,130 
tiimont.  ew,  3W 
Simple, » 
Hlmp«n,  IKI,  IK,  Ml-3 

BtDElleld,  ZW 
BUaaer.  IM.  333,  Mtt 
SiBfter,  S7,  88,  Ml,  234, 

eialer,  iwe 
Blsiuhtei 


Spleer,  18),  323,  324 


StBgg.  3US,  3ia 
HUmdllOrtli,  ^M 


t^      '■ 


Smttli,  31, 31,  M,  M,  DO, 
M.  71-3,  8a.  W,    ••" 

11«.  1».  lei,  bl. 


«»,a«,  MS,  at,  i 

SW,  »iri,  JH7,  37i,  : 
-«,3I8,  au,  336.  S._. 
X37.3t»,317-«,3aD.»«, 
387,  vn,  411-13,    -^^ 
SO.  42S-8,  4M,  4ftl 

SDeUlDK,  71 

Bnow,  So,  ijg,  laa 

BomerbT,  7,  74, 137,  »». 

30^X11,  4<" 
Sonwnct,  3C 
8aDi<  rtlUc. 
ttonram,  » 


sas'' 


fiiwidiiiK,  go.  101,  sti, 

Span,  Hal,  3IU 
ttpubiwk,  UK 
Sparks. :»),  323,441-3 

bpUTOV,  423 


>.  w. 


3iU,  V( 


18,   aJ7,    206 
i.  90, 330,  231 


kugtitoa,  317 

■trot,  ui,  80,  101,102, 

tbbiua,  32,  40,  84,  103, 
l(17-«,a^li,33^«7 
iMloinD,  72.  415,  441-S 
»le,2l.lU-la 

ileSe'f,  11» 
8tt?kln.«8 
iJlerUnE.Eorlor,!!! 

-■  -eut,  42,  w,  a»,  aw 

0,  2S1,  3U,  3J«,  422 


,  281, 183, 422, 441. 
■r,..,  4SI»,  402 
Hwaliow,  308 
SoiiD.ae,  «tl,*M,427 
Swiuey,  111) 


IW,  IVV,  231 
Symoudi,  381, 387, 4«l 

T 

Tiulnikll.  W 
Tan,  HI.  318 
ragg,  331 

raruwr,  ^oa,  m 

Tallr,  -iiO 


SI.  George,  W,  MO 
Siiakni-r,  77,  laa.  Ml 
411.443 

:itUenu>n,SB.n,  XK 
atlln.  lOO,  112.  aSI,  387 
dHmpmii,  2 18,  H2,  443 
!ltllD9Un,27,  22«,4»3 


itiitb.  U 
dUKkda]e,S2 
Stocklnga,  3U 
-- — '  T,  »l 

atoddanl.'  M,  1V7,  KB, 
328,  331, 332,  333 


le,  W,  M,  103,  181. 


Storr,  73,  441-3, 4U 

itMiubtOD,  47.320 

■■ 81,  (12,  BO,  3S8,  387 


.trDlber,'20O ' 

lunn,  d,  109,  111,  lU, 


Tlldall,  'MO,  207, 170,  m 

105'.  107, 100,  m, 

Toddi  70,  11G,348 

roniplclni, '103.107,386 
Toner,  no,  343 
Tonkin.  OS.  33 
Toukle,  HI 
TopUff,  270, 271.  VS 
Toppan.  30],  337.338 


107,  3W,  380,  411,  143, 
T^mplr.  943,   9SB,  i 


rjimbsn,  413 

■its,  301,' 9 


Tb[»iliu,27,m,333,273, 


impuiD.  31,  M.  K, 
I.  it,  lis,  180,  «». 
7-V,  314-18,  111-10, 


Thwallvl, 
Thwrol,'! 


TrMt.  87,  lis.  331,  331 
334, 130,  432-8, 140,  tt 
TregOilei,  42 


Trigg,  82 
Trim.  87 
Trlnbr.  »!1 


TurAvy,  2irj,  !«,  37S 

'it.  oo,ve,  129,  »i, 

208.  287,  370,  til. 

Turnay,  i» 
rurpln,  ex,  K 
riitUe,33.  112,113,117, 
178,  lU,  -i-it,  383,  113, 

TwiMbeii.  32,  ss-eo,  as, 

IVb^r.eS.  80.441,  MS 
Tjrndnr.  2M  ISTI 

ryng,  147,  aw.  17%  01, 
TyK,  311,312,  IW 
Tylharlclgb,  321,  m 


Index  of  Names. 


l,W*re,  31,  m,  2 


'D,  ».  B8,  D5, 
,170,  178,  »i,  : 
too,  3oe,  MO,  US,  II 
Warrtck.  27 
WarHick,  Evl  of,  21 


-jer,MS.«l,l*3 

7.  Whipple,  N,  Ml,  XU 
WliHUPr,  2M 
While,  29, 47,  Kb.  BZ,  B3 
Ul,  *i.  IIS,  1>7,  M 

ZM.  22a,  22»,  m,  aw, 
s|  ^1  isi\  t  is! 


wing,  SOO,  S7fl-8 

WIngile,  2M 

W<ii«fi«ld,  1V7 


field,  L 


Van  Nottraad,  IIS 
T«n  Niuero,  2»l 
Van  KeDswIacr,  108 

Van  Sohooiihoven,  l23 

Vaaial,  XIq',  212, 213,215. 


20.  IW,  ILt,  114,  1 
lav,  M^.  IH,  22U,  a 
M4,  MC,  aSO,  KH.  l'< 

WaKrman,  IM 


riilleli 


Whltmore,  18,Sti,  »M,  i 

3H0,  uu,  s;a  « 

Wbltne;,  8»,  2H,  tSI,  t 


<Dgtou,:.-7,Ue,W, 


iFliitt-rltlm-,  :a 
A'hliilcr.b).  U 
n-liillle«if>,  OS, 

wbiiwi^ii.  mt 


WatMD.  ZM,  KM,  3 


._ j.sii.sw 

Wood,  31-4,  iir.  lUt.W, 
-•JB.  Mt,  iN^3U,  3*1, 

aca,  366.  3i<:,  Mi,  Ml, 

Womll,rii!gc."77, 2*7*8, 

Woudliurf,  M,  IM,  £17, 

Win.liack.90t,  JW.m 

S,  Woodfj 


vICh^ 


>.  tll-U 


Mt,  !67,  270, 


4  la 


Vnett,  3^1 


inrlgtat,   3U,   3.17,  V 


9,  Ml,  M;1 
e8,13X.iW, 
WrdicwDod,  286 

V«k»,M.  Si.  W.  S7 
Vvlne.  :m.  XI 

"  Writer, ' 


WUdRt.  U,  87.  88,  lU, 


V'llklDt,  107,  177 
VUklmun.  7.  Wl,  t> 
■M•.■■m.M».llO,^l 


Itiuui,  76,i3t,tK, 
WuJdruITF,    IM,  X^ 

*iuvt 

Woudi.  2M.  x:l.<n 


•Irr,  Kl.  IM 


IIhcv,  3.  ZXt 
ll«r,  £•.;.  3U,  19S 


Fflcult,   20,  2«,  203, 
;e«tlc7,  322 


WiDluin  tUeCDnqDrr 
Wllllndi  aim  Hu7,  I 

u,  en.  71,  w,  iW,'i— , 

117.  Uro-l.  J74.  32).  w 
■i.  3:l»,  Ml,  MS,  403.  V 
(11  V 

lllj,ni>oil,  74.S4S,3M,  V 

1I1>,X1,33.IM,74 

WUloilihbr, XI, 310,321, 


r,  Wriihl."  XJ.  ».  41,  M. 

■".m.iie..ia.i|^. 


Yale,  xlft-17 

1,  Vnunaus,  lU 

I.  VtanUey.  W,  Tt 

9Uk!33.3#,39,1I.& 


K-r 


Wara,  7.  3:1,  M.  73,  80 
8UB-1I,  321,  ta    ' 


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