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THE
New England
Historical and Genealogical
REGISTER
1923
V
OLUME
LXXVII
PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY
AT THE ROBERT HENRY EDDY MEMORIAL ROOMS
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INDEX OF SUBJECTS
Note. — Roman numerals refer to the pages of the Supplement.
I
I
Abbot (t},7oAn Howard The Courtright (Kort-
right) family noticed 82
William Fitzhale, notice Ixxxv
Acton, Mass., vital records to 1850 noticed 242
Addison, Mrs. Mary Elisabeth (Newcomb),
notice Ixxviii
Adventure, ship, 1773-1774, trade book of
noticed 161
Alden, Frank Wentworth The descendants of
Daniel Alden, who was sixth in descent
from John Alden, the Pilgrim noticed 324
Alden genealogy, descendants of Daniel, by
F. W. Alden noticed 324
Allen, Gardner Weld Capt. Hector McNeill o^
the Continental Navy noticed 160
Sir John Campbell, memoir xli
American Irish Historical Society, journal, vol-
21 noticed 242
American Revolution, Continental Congress t
letters of members, vol. 2, July 5, 1776
to December 31, 1777, editeci by Edmund
C. Burnett noticed 242
Continental Navy, letters, see Capt. Hector
McNeill of the Continental Navy
memoranda written by Elisha Stevens of
Glastonbury, Conn, noticed 241
reminiscences, 1775-1783, by John Green-
wood, edited by I. J. Greenwood noticed
160
Andrews, Frank De Wette Genealogical
records from old family Bibles, manu-
scripts, and letters noticed 325
Angellotti, Mrs. Frank M. The Polks of
North Carolina and Tennessee 133 213
250
Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, Historical
Association, Book of Remembrance,
1921 noticed 161
Atwood, Hartley Frederic, notice Ixxii
Bacot, John Vacher, memoir noticed 82
Baker, Edward Howard, memoir xxxix
Banister, Thomas, notice 238
Bamet, Vt. , history, by F. P. Wells noticed 242
Baskervill, Patrick Hamilton The Skeltons of
Paxton, Powhatan Co., Va., and their
connections noticed 82
Bates, John Lewis Hon. Winthrop Murray
Crane, M.A., LL.D. 3
Beede, Mrs. Abbie Susan Qefts), notice ci
Bell, Dr. Alexander Graham, memoir xcvi
Bethlehem, Conn., vital records, 1813-1814
158
Bingham, George, answer to complaint of Ellis
Haskett, 1627 117
BOARDMAK and variants
Boardman, Andrew, will 1665 306
Dr. Waldo Elias, notice xcix
BOADMAN, Giles, will 1604 305
Boardman, cont'd
BoRDMAN, Andrew, will 1617 306
Boardman genealogy, descendants of Andrew
309
Boone genealogy, descendants of George and
Mary, by H. A. Spraker noticed 82
Booth, Henry Slader Booth genealogy includ-
ing allied families representing the
American ancestry in the Booth Une of
the compiler noticed 159
Booth genealogy, by H. S. Booth noticed 159
Bordman see Boardman
Boston, Mass., deaths, 1799-1815 227 312
history, 1822-1922, by J. Koren noticed 242
Boston, ship, list of officers, crew, and journal,
see Capt. Hector McNeill of the Conti-
nental Navy
Boxford (Mass.) Chronicle, vol. 1, nos. 1-6,
1922 noticed 161
Boyer, Daniel, note 294
Bradford, Sarah Polk, note 253
Bradley, Charles Henry, notice Ix
Brainerd, Lawrence Castle ancestry of George
Parmelee Castle of Honolulu, Hawaii
noticed 159
Tenney ancestry of George Parmelee
Castle of Honolulu, Hawaii noticed 160
President Warren Gamaliel Harding 243
Brookline Historical Society, proceedings, 1923
noticed 326
Brooks, Shepherd, memoir Ixv
Browne, Helliner, will 1617 306
Brumbaugh, Mrs. Gains M. Lineage books of
the National Society of Daughters of
Founders and Patriots of America
noticed 326
Butterfield, Hon. A. Augustine, notice liv
Carter, George Robert A record of the descend-
ants of Dr. Gerrit P. Judd of Hawaii
noticed 325
Castle, George Parmelee, ancestry, by L.
Brainerd noticed 159
Chamberlain, George Walter The early New
England Coolidges and some of their
descendants 270
Chapin, Howard Millar New England vessels
in the expedition against Louisbourg,
1745 59 95; noticed 325
Child, Mrs. S. R. and A. J. Russell The
ancestors and descendants of Abel
Russell noticed 160
Cincinnati, Society of the, see Society of the
Cincinnati
Civil war, see U. S. Civil war
Clapp, John Cotton, memoir Iv
Clements family of Dover, N. H., by J. Scales
noticed 159
Index of Subjects
Coats of Arms, see Heraldry
Cobb, Philip L. A history of the Cobb family,
part 4, Boston family noticed 324
Cobb genealogy, part 4, descendants of Thomas
and Richard of Boston and Hingham,
Mass.. by P. L. Cobb noticed 324
Cocfcrell genealogy, by E. S. Stevenson noticed
159
Coffin, Perciral Brooks and M. C. Johnson
Charles F. CofSn, a Quaker pioneer
noticed 324
Coffin genealogy, by M. C. Johnson and P. B.
CofSn noticed 324
Congdon Chronicle, nos. 4 and 5, Oct., 1921 and
Jan., 1922 noticed 159
Connecticut, census of 1790, errors 80
State Library, report, 1920 noticed 160
Continental Army, see American Revolution
Cook genealogy, descendants of Jesse, by C. C.
Doe noticed 241
Coolidge, Henry Dingley, notice Ixii
Coolidge Tgenealogy, [family of New England
270
Courtright genealogy, by J. H. Abbott noticed
82
Crane, Hon. Winthrop Murray, memoir with
portrait and autograph 3
Crocker, Alvah, biography, by W. B. Wheel-
wright noticed 241
Henry Graham Nathaniel Crocker, 1758-
1855, his descendants and ancestors
noticed 324
Crocker genealogy, descendants and ancestors
of Nathaniel, by H. G. Crocker noticed
324
Cnimsey, Mary, depositions for, 1697 113,
interrogatories, answers of EUis Haskett,
1699 114
Cnmmin^s, Mrs. Margaret (Kimball), notice
xciii
Cushman, David and Dorcas (Morris), record
of family 157
Day, Stephen, notice 310
Detroit Historical Monthly, vol. 1, no. 1,
March, 1923 noticed 326
Devereux, Frances A., note 255
Diaries, New England. 1602-1800. catalogue,
by H. M. Forbes noticed 242
Doe, Mrs. Carrie Cook The ancestry of Jesse
Cook and his descendants noticed 241
Donahue, David, note 103
Donelson genealogical notice, descendantsjof
John of London, Eng. 252
Dow, George Francis and J. H. Edmonds The
pirates of the New England coast, 1630-
1730 noticed 325
Durrell, Harold Clarke Report of the Com-
mittee on Epitaphs xxii
Dusset(t), Ehas. answer of, 1699 123
summons, 1699 123
Wilham, answers of, 1699 and 1702 123
Eddy genealogy, descendants of John and
Samuel, in preparation 240
Edes, Grace Williamson Annals of Harvard,
Class of 1852 noticed 160
Henry Herbert, memoir with portrait and
autograph 83; noticed 241
Edmonds, John Henry and G. F. Dam The
pirates of the New England coast, 1630-
1730 noticed 325
Elliott, Ward C. History of Reynoldsville and
vicinity including Winslow Township
noticed 242
Emerson, P. H. Third booklet. Continued
notes on the Emerson alias Emberson
family of Counties Herts and Essex
noticed 324
Emerson genealogy, 3d booklet, by P. H.
Emerson noticed 324
England, genealogical research in 71 110 190
305
Farwell genealogy, descendants of Henry, in
preparation 240
Fay, Charles Ernest Rev. Cyrus Hyde Fay's
record of marriages, 1840-1901 145 175
Rev. Cyrus Hyde, record of marriages, 1840-
1901 145 175
Fiske, Andrew Report of the Committee to
assist the Historian xx
FUckinger, Mrs. Ella Florence (Hoyt), notice
Ixxxix
Folsom Family Association, eleventh annual
reunion, 1922 noticed 324
Forbes, Harriette Merrifield New England
diaries, 1602-1800, a descriptive cata-
logue of diaries, orderly books, and sea
journals noticed 242
William Hathaway, note 162
Foster, Francis Apihorp The institution of the
Society of the Cincinnati together with
standing resolutions, ordinances, rules
and precedents of the General Society
of the Cincinnati, 1783-1920 noticed
326
Joseph The Soldiers' Memorial, Ports-
mouth, N. H., 1893-1923, Tercentenary
edition with indexed record of the graves
we decorate noticed 326
Fowler, Mrs. Sarah (Brown), notice xlviii
French and Indian War, soldiers, 1754-1763
239
Fulton genealogy, ancestry of the grandchildren
of William Edwards Fulton, by C. E
Leonard noticed 324
Gage, Rev. Walker Miller Gage families;
John Gage of Ipswich, Thomas Gage of
Yarmouth, William Gage of Freetown,
Robert Gage of Weston, William Gage
of Canada, Gage family of The South
Robert Gage of Ireland noticed 241
Gage genealogy, by W. M. Gage noticed 241
Gaulpin, Richard, depositions for, 1697 113
Gavet genealogy, descendants of Philip of
Salem, Mass. 34; noticed 159
Gavit, Joseph Philip Gavet of Salem, Mass.
and some of his descendants 34
noticed 159
Genealogical byways 89
Genealogical records from Bibles, manuscripts,
and letters, by F. D. Andrews noticed
325
Gibbs Family Bulletin, no. 3, 1923 noticed 159
Gloucester, Mass., vital records to 1850,
marriages noticed 325
Goodspeed, Charles Eliot Report of the Com-
mittee on Sale of Publications xix
Gordon, M. Lafayette, experiences in Civil
War, from his narrative, letters, and
diary, edited by D. Gordon noticed 241
Gove, William Henry The Gove book, hjstory
and genealogy' of the American family of
Gove and notes of European Goves
noticed 159
Gove genealogy, by W. H. Gove noticed 159
Index of Subjects
Grant Family Association, reunion, proceedings,
1922 noticed 82
Greenlaw, Mrs. Lucy Hall. Address before
N. E. Hist. Gen. Society, 1923 x
William Prescott Report of the Librarian
XXV
Report of the Special Committee on Rolls
of Membership xziv
Greenwood, John, Revolutionary services,
1775-1783, edited by I. J. Greenwood
noticed 160
Grout genealogy, descendants of Capt. John,
by E. E. B. Jones noticed 159
Hamilton, Victor Hugo, notice xliii
Harding, President Warren Gamaliel, memoir
with portrait and autograph 243
Hartford, Coim., First Church of Christ, year
book, 1923 noticed 326
Harvard University, Class of 1852, annals, by
G. W. Edes noticed 160
Class of 1898, 25th anniversary report, 1923
noticed 325
Class of 1903, 20th anniversary, 1923
noticed 242
Class of 1919, report of secretary, 1923
noticed 242
HASKETT and variants
Haskett, EU^s see Ellis
Ellis, administration of estate, requests for,
by Ellis and Stephen Haskett, Mary
Crumsey, Richard Gaulpin, and Dorothy
Hedditch, 1697 112
depositions concerning, 1697 113
wiU 1698 111
Ellis, answers to Mary Crumsey's interroga-
tories, 1699 114
complaint against Edward Lovell, 1637
118 .
complaint against George Bingham, 1627
117
complaint against William Haskett, 1647
119
complaint against William Haskett, 1662
120
complaints against William Riall and
Thomas Rolt, 1639 118
complaints of, 1699 and 1702 122
Stephen, ancestry, English 71 110
wiU 1654 111
William, answer to complaint of ElUs
Haskett, 1647 120
William, complaint against John HeUyar,
1618 115 117
William, complaint of, 1683 121
Hasket, John, will 1615 76.
Haskitt, Mrs. Elizabeth, deposition, 1698
72
Haskett, baptisms, marriages, and burials
from English parish registers 72
genealogy, descendants of Ellis 126
Hawkins, Philemon, notice 214
Hedditch, Dorothy, complaint against Ellis and
Stephen Haskett, Richard Gaulpin,
Richard Sheene, Mary and Lewis
Crumsey, 1697 121
William, deposition concerning Ellis Haskett,
fi--' 1698 114
HELLYAR and variant
Hellyar, John, answer to complaint of William
Haskett and Ralph Hughson, 1618 116
HiLLiER, John, will 1620 76
Hendrick, Charles T. The Hendrick genealogy,
Daniel Hendrick of_ Haverhill, Mass., and
his descendants with an appendix con-
taining brief accounts of several other
Hendnck families noticed 241
Hendrick genealogy, by C. T. Hendrick
noticed 241
Heniy, Dr. Reginald Buchanan, ancestry
noticed 159
Heraldry, coats of arms, recording of 158 240
Hicks, Rev. Lewis Wilder Memoirs of the
New England Historic Genealogical
Society xxxix
Report of the Historian xxxv
HQdreth Family Association, 2d publication, by
J. L. Porter noticed 324
Hfllier see Hellyar
HofEmeister see Huflfmaster
Holbrook, Levi, notice xcv
Hosmer, Jerome Carter, notice Ixxiv
Hosselkus, Timothy L. P., note 62
Howes, Mrs. Florence Reynolds (.Conont)
Report of the Committee on Papers and
Essays xxiii
Report of the Special Committee on
Endowment and Members xxiv
HufEmaster James T. Huffmaster-Hoffmeister
family records noticed 159
HufEmaster-Hoffmeister genealogy, by J. T.
Hufimaster noticed 159
Hnghes, Philip, note 90
Hnghson, Ralph, complaint against John
HeUyar, 1618 115 117
Hull, Griselda Houston, notice 252
Hnnnewell, James Melville Report of the
Committee on Finance xviii.
Report of the Treasurer xxx
Hnrd, William, will 1638 110
Iowa, State Historical Society of. The Palimp-
sest, vol. 3 noticed 161
Jacobus, Donald Lines Early New England
nomenclature 10
Genealogical byways 89
Jaquett genealogy, supplement, 1922, by E. J.
Sellers noticed 159
Jenks, Albert Alvin, notice ciii
Jenney, Charles Francis The fortunate island
of Monhegan, a historical monograph
noticed 161
Johnson, Alfred Henry Herbert Edes, A. M.
83
Memoir of Henry Herbert Edes noticed
241
Hon. Edward Francis, memoir ci
Mary Coffin and P. B. Coffin Charles F.
CofEn, a Quaker pioneer noticed 324
Sir William, papers, by J. Sullivan, 3 vols.
noticed 241
Jones, Elizabeth E. Boice Capt. John Grout of
Watertown and Sudbury, Mass., and
some of his descendants noticed 159
Rebecca Edwards, notice 251
Jones genealogy, ancestry of Samuel Minot
Jones, by C. S. Walker noticed 159
Jordan, John Woolf, notice xHx
Judd genealogy, descendants of Dr. G. P.
Judd of Hawaii, by G. R. Carter
noticed 325
The Key of Libberty, by W. Manning noticed
162
Kidder Fund, report for 1922 xxxiv
Kimball, Herbert Wood, notice Ixxix
Kimber genealogy, descendants of Thorn
noticed 241
Index of Subjects
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Koren, John Boston, 1822-1922. The story of
its government and principal activities
during 100 years noticed 242
Kortright see Courtright
Lafayette, Marie Jean Paul, Marquis de,
memoir, by W. A. Wilcox noticed 160
Lawrence, Lambert Bigelow, notice jdix
Leach, Mrs. Caroline Eastman Spear family
records, 1644-1921 noticed 241
Lebanon, Me., vital records to 1892, voL 2.
marriages noticed 82; voL 3, deaths
noticed 326
Legge genealogy, ancestry of Nina Legge
Wharton, by N. E. Wharton noticed 325
Leonard, Clarence Eitienne The Fulton-
Hayden-Warner ancestry in America
noticed 324
The Liberty Bell, vols. 6, 7, 8, and 9 noticed 326
Lincoln, Waldo History of the Lincoln family
an account of the descendants of Samue'
Lincoln of Hingham, Mass.. 1637-1920
noticed 241
Lincoln genealogy, descendants of Samuel of
Hingham, Mass., by W. Lincoln noticed
241
Long, Mary Rebecca A., note 251
Longevity, Toppan, Mary (Hughes) 90
Lothrop, Thornton Kirkland Report of the
Corresponding Secretary xxvii
Report of the Council xvii
Louisbourg, N. S., expedition against, 1745'
New England vessels in, account 59
95; noticed 325
Lovell, Edward, answer to complaint of Ellis
Haskett, 1632 118
Lyman, Eunice A. A sketch of the record of
the descendants of Daniel Lyman and
Sally Clapp of Easthampton, Mass.
noticed 325
Julia, notice lix
Lyman genealogy, descendants of Daniel
Lyman and Sally Clapp, by E. A.
Lyman noticed 325
McNeill, Capt. Hector, sketch, by G. W
Allen noticed 160
Maine Historical Society, celebration of 100th
anniversary, 1922 noticed 161
Manning, William The Key of Libberty.
shewing the causes why a free govern-
ment has always failed, and a remedy
against it, written in the year 1798
noticed 162
Massachusetts, Court, General, acts and
resolves, 1922 noticed 161
House of Representatives, journals, 1721-
1722 noticed 82
ship, 1745, illustration 61
Meech, Susan Billings A supplement to the
descendants of Peter Spicer noticed 325
Merritt, Percival Bibliographical notes on an
account of the conversion of the Rev.
John Thayer noticed 242
Middletown, Conn., marriages, 1857-1858 and
1869-1873 177 189
Miller, Mrs, Ida Louise {Farr) Address before
N. E. Hist. Gen. Society, 1923 xiii
Millspaugh, Edward Judson, notice xciv
Milner-Gibson-Cullum, George Gery, memoir 1
Mogg, William, answer to complaint of William
Haskett and Ralph Hughson, 1618 116
Monhegan Island, Me., historical monograph,
by C. F. Jenney noticed 161
Moore, Mary, note 250
Moravians in North Carolina, records, edited
by Adelaide L. Fries noticed 161
Moiiarty, George Andrews, Jr. Genealogical
research in England 71 110 190 305
The Morteyns of Marston and Tillsworth
noticed 159
The Nansiglos family noticed 325
Report of the Committee on English
Research xx
Morteyn genealogy, family of Marston and
Tillsworth. Bedfordshire, Eng.. by G. A.
Moriarty noticed 159
Nansiglos family, by G. A. Moriarty noticed
325
Nashua. N. H., marriages, 1853-1855 153 175
National Society of Daughters of Founders and
Patriots of America, lineage books, vols.
8, 9, and 11, by G. M. Brumbaugh
noticed 326
Nebraska State Historical Society, history and
record of pioneer days, 1921 noticed 161
New England, diaries, 1602-1800, a descriptive
catalogue of diaries, orderly books, and
sea journals, by H. M. Forbes noticed
242
nomenclature 10
pirates, history, 1630-1730, by G. F. Dow
and J. H. Edmonds noticed 325
vessels in the expedition against Louisbourg,
1745 59 95; noticed 325
New England Historic Genealogical _ Society,
Charter and enabling acts cvii
Committee on Collection of Records, report
for 1922 xxi
Committee on English Research, report for
1922 XX
Committee on Epitaphs, report for 1922
xxii
Committee on Finance, report for 1922 x%Tii
Committee on Heraldry, report for 1922 xxi
Committee on Increase of Membership,
report for 1922 xix
Committee on the Library, report for 1922
xxi
Committee on Papers and Essays, report for
1922 xxiii
Committee on Publications, report for 1922
XX
Committee on Sale of Publications, report for
1922 xix
Committee on Ways and Means, report for
1922 xix
Committee to assist the Historian, report for
1922 XX
Corresponding Secretary, report for 1922
xxvii
Council, report for 1922 xvii
Historian, report for 1922 xxxv
Librarian, report for 1922 xxv
membership, admission of women, 25th
anniversary, 1923 X
Memoirs, 1897, 1898, 1918, 1920, 1921, 1922
xxxix
Necrology for 1922 xxxv
officers and committees for 1923 v
proceedings, 1922 77; 1923 154 237 .321 ix
Special Committee on Endowment and
Members, report for 1922 xxiv
Special Committee on Mural Memorials,
report for 1922 xxiv
Special Committee on RoUs of Membership,
report for 1922 xxiv
Treasurer, report for 1922 xxx
New England Society in the City of New York,
117th anniversary, proceedings noticed
326
Index of Subjects
New York, N. Y.. marriages. 1849-1853 151
Newington, Conn., Congregational Church,
celebration of 200th anniversary, 1922
noticed 161
Newport, R. I., Redwood Library, celebration
of 175th anniversary, 1922 noticed 161
Nomenclature of early New England 10
North Carolina, Moravians in, records, edited
by Adelaide L. Fries noticed 161
Ohio Historical and Philosophical Society,
quarterly publication, vols. 16-17, 1921-
1922 noticed 162
Old Lyme, Conn., epitaphs 194
Olivier, Anthoine, note 290
Pardee genealogy, descendants of George, in
preparation 240
Park(e) genealogy, descendants of Arthur of
Pa., by F. S. Parks noticed 82
genealogy, vol. 3, pt. 8, by F. S. Parks
noticed 160
genealogy, vol. 3, pts. 9 and 10, by F. S.
Parks noticed 325
Parks, Frank Sylvester Genealogy of Arthur
Parke of Pa. and some of his descendants
noticed 82
Park family of Westchester Co., N. Y., and
Simon Parke of Franklin, Pa., and
descendants noticed 325
Parke coats of arms. Parks Records, vol. 3,
pt. 8 noticed 160
Pannenter, James Parker Report of the Com-
mittee on Publications xx
Pattee, Mrs. Eleanor Tracy (Eustis), notice
Ixxxviii
Peck, Amos, Jr., biography, by W. H. Russell
noticed 241
Pennsylvania Society of Colonial Governors
vol. 2 noticed 326
Pilgrims and Puritans, history, 3 vols., by J. D.,
Sawyer noticed 242
Pirates of the New England coast, history,
1630-1730, by G. F. Dow and J. H.
Edmonds noticed 325
Plympton, Mass., vital records to 1850 noticed
326
Polk family of North Carolina and Tennessee
133 213 250
Porter, John Lyman Second publication of the
HUdreth Family Association noticed
324
Portsmouth, N. H., Soldiers' Memorial, 1893-
1923, by J. Foster noticed 326
Potter, James Brown, notice Ixvii
Providence, R. I., marriages, 1859-1869 177
Provincetown, Mass., Universalist Church,
historical records, by 8. C. Smith
noticed 161
Puritans and Pilgrims, history, 3 vols., by J. D.
Sawyer noticed 242
Radcliffe, Elizabeth Wills Vernon Capt.
Edward Richardson. A memorial.
With genealogical records of some of his
ancestors and descendants noticed 325
Reynolds, John Fewell Genealogical sketches
of Reynolds, Fewells, Walls, and kindred
families noticed 325
Reynolds genealogy, by J. F. Reynolds noticed
325
meeting of family, 1922, report, by A. C.
Rippier noticed 160 [
Reynoldsville, Pa., history, by W. C. Elliott
noticed 242
Rhode Island, slave trade, records in trade book
of sloop, Adventure, 1773-1774 noticed
161
Rial], William, answer to complaint of Ellis
Haskett, 1639 119
Rich, George Early Rich history and ancestry
of Jonathan Rich, Jr. noticed 160
Rich genealogy, by G. Rich noticed 160
Richardson, William Streeter Report of the
Committee on Ways and Means xix
Richardson genealogy, by E. W. V. Radcliffe
oticed 325
Rippier, Mrs. Anna C. The Reynolds Family
Association of America, 1892-1922.
Thirty-first annual report noticed 160
Rockefeller, William, notice xc
William Goodsell, notice civ
Rolt, Thomas, answer to complaint of Ellis
Haskett, 1639 119
Roxbury, Mass., marriages, 1841-1849 146
Royal Society of Canada, proceedings and
transactions, series 3, vol. 16 noticed 162
Russell, Arthur J. and Mrs. S. R. Child The
ancestors and descendants of Abel
Russell noticed 160
William H. Peck, a sketch noticed 241
Russell genealogy, ancestors and descendants
of Abel, by A. J. Russell and S. R.
Child noticed 160
Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York,
genealogical record, vol. 3, 1923 noticed
326
Saltonstall, Richard Middlecott. memoir
Ixxxii
Sampson, Katharine, will 1627 76
Satterthwaite, Dr. Thomas E. Biographical
and historical sketches of the Sheafe.
Wentworth, Fisher, Bache, Satter-
thwaite, and Rutgers families of
America noticed 241
Savary, Hon. Alfred William, memoir xliv
Sawyer, George Augustus, notice Ivii
Joseph Dillaway History of the Pilgrims
and Puritans, _ their ancestry and
descendants basis of Americanization
3 vols, noticed 242
Scales, John The Clements famUy of Dover,
N. H. noticed 159
Schiflf, Jacob Henry, notice xlvii
Scott, Henry Edwards Theodore Newton Vail
LL.D., S.D. 163
Seavier see Sevier
Sellers, Edwin Jaquett Supplement to gen-
ealogies noticed 159
SEVIER and variant
Sevier, Mariane, will 1607 75
Seavier, William, will 1604 75
Sheafe genealogy, by T. E. Satterthwaite
noticed 241
Shedd, Charles Levi Shedd genealogy, ancestry
of Miriam Symonds Shedd noticed 160
Shedd genealogy, ancestry of Miriam Symonds
Shedd, by C. L. Shedd noticed 160
SheffeUd, George, wiU 1672 191
Sheffield genealogy, descendants of Thomas
192
Shelby, Gen. Evan, notice 139
Index of Subjects
Sherman, Charles Pomeroy Shennan genealogy
in the direct line from Thomas Shennan
noticed 160
Shennan genealogy, by C. P. Sherman noticed
160
Sherman, N. Y., history and centennial cele-
bration, 1923 noticed 326
Shrewsbury, Mass., North Parish Church,
records, 1744-1859 17
Sinckler, Edward Goulbum, notice xcii
Skelton genealogy, by P. H. Baskervill noticed
82
Slavery in Rhode Island, trade book of sloop.
Adventure, 1773-1774 noticed 161
Smith, Simeon C. Leaves from an old church
record book noticed 161
Society for the Preservation of New England
Antiquities, bulletins, Old-Time New
England, vol. 12, July, 1921-April,
1922 noticed 162
Society of the Cincinnati, institution, with
standing resolutions, ordinances, rules
and precedents of the General Society
of the Cincinnati, 1783-1920, by F. A.
Foster noticed 326
Society of Colonial Wars, General, report of
Historian General, 1918 to 1921 noticed
162
Society of the Daughters of the American
Revolution, Samuel Ashley chapter,
Claremont, N. H., officers and members,
1922-1923 noticed 162
Society of Daughters of Colonial Wars, Inc.,
Massachusetts, by-laws, rules and
instructions of the Committee on
Membership and calendar, 1922-1923
noticed 162
Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State
of New York, 5th Record Book, 1922
noticed 162
Society of Sons of the Revolution, New York,
in commemoration of the birth of George
Washington, February, 1923 noticed
326
Society of Sons of the Revolution, New York,
reports and proceedings, 1921-1922
noticed 326
Society Sons of the American Revolution,
Louisiana, yearbook and roster, 1922-
1923 noticed 162
Society Sons of the Revolution, California,
roster and chronological list of first
1000 members, 1923 noticed 162
Spear genealogy, descendants of George, by
C. E. Leach noticed 241
Spicer genealogy, supplement, by S. B. Meech
noticed 325
Spraker, Hazel Atterbury The Boone familj*;
a genealogical history of the descendants
of George and Mary Boone who came
to America in 1717 noticed 82
Standish, Dr. Myles Report ofZthe Committee
on Increase of Membership xix
Stevens, Mrs. Alice Nichols (Cobum), notice
Ixiv
Elisha, memoranda written by him in the
War of the Revolution noticed 241
Samuel Dale, notice Ixviii
Stevenson, Elizabeth Stranahan The descend-
ants of Lyttleton Cockrell, Jr., 1802-
1877 noticed 159
Stewart, George Sawin, notice Ixxxiv
Stowell, Hon. William Henry Harrison, notice
Ixxxvi _: . J
Sullivan, James The papers of Sir William
Johnson, 3 vols, noticed 241
Sweet, Lucy Carpenter, notice Ixxvi
Teall genealogy, descendants of Oliver, by
D. P. Worden noticed 160
Teimey genealogy, ancestry of George Parmelee
Castle of Honolulu, Hawaii, by L.
Brainerd noticed 160
Thayer, Rev. John, conversion of, bibliographi-
cal notes, by P. Merritt noticed 2AS.
Thompson, Rev. Ebenezer, notice bd
Thomdike, Augustus Larldn, notice bud
Tillman genealogy, descendants of Maj. John
Christopher, in preparation 240
Toppan, Mary (Hughes), longevity 90
Torrey, Mrs. Alice White (Shaw), notice c
United States, Civil war, experiences of M.
Lafayette Gordon, edited by D. Gordon
noticed 241
United States, Civil war, official records of the
Union and Confederate navies, 3 vols.,
2d series noticed 161
University of Illinois Studies in the Social
Sciences, vol. 10, no. 1 noticed 162
Van, Theodore Newton, memoir with autograph
and portrait 163
Valpey, Joseph, Jr., ioumal, 1813-1815 noticed
242
Vineland Historical Magazine, vol. 7, 1922
noticed 162
Virginia planters, history, by T. J. Wertenbaker
noticed 82
Walker, Charles S. Samuel Minot Jones, the
story of an Amherst boy noticed 159
Mrs. Emily (Talbot), notice Ixiv
Tandy, notice 219
Rev. Dr. Williston, notice Ixx
Ward, Mrs. Ann Jane (Felton) , notice lxxx\'iii
Warden, William Francis, notice Ixxv
Warren, Nathan, notice Ixxx
Watkins, Walter Kendall Report of the Com-
mittee on Collection of Records xxi
Wells, Frederic Palmer History of Bamet,
Vt.. from the outbreak of the French and
Indian War to present time, with
genealogical records of many families
noticed 242
Wentworth, Moses Jones, notice Ixxii
Wertenbaker, Thomas J. The planters of
Colonial Virginia noticed 82
Weston, Robert Dickson Report of the (Com-
mittee on Heraldry xxi
Report of the Special Committee on
Mural Memorials xxiv
Wharton, Nathan Earl Ancestral chart pre-
pared for Nina Legge Whartonnoticed 325
Wheelwright, William Bond Life and times of
Alvah Crocker noticed 241
Wiggin, Hon. George Winslow, notice Ixxvii
Wilcox, Dr. Dorvil Miller, notice Iviii
William A. General Lafayette 7io/(«d 160
Wing genealogy, in The Owl, vol. 23, nos. 1-4
noticed 160
Worden, Dora Pope Descendants of Oliver
Teall and allied families noticed 160
Wright, Richard, will 1605 306
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HI8T0BICAL AND GENEALOGICAL
REGISTER
JANUARY, 1923
HON. WINTHROP MURRAY CRANE, M.A., LL.D.
By John Lewis Bates
WiNTHROP Murray Crane, former Governor of Massachusetts
and United States Senator, passed away at his home in Dalton,
Mass., 2 October 1920. He was elected a resident member of the
New England Historic Genealogical Society 7 February 1906, and
became a Pilgrim Tercentenary member in the spring of 1919. In
the latter year and in 1920 he rendered notable service to the Society
by consenting to be one of the nine men in whose names invitations
to contribute to the Pilgrim Tercentenary Memorial Fund of the
Society were issued.
He was bom at Dalton 23 April 1853, the son of Zenas Marshall®
Crane, who was born at Dalton 21 January 1815, and his second
wife, Louise Fanny Laflin, who was bom at Lee, Mass., 21 June
1830, the daughter of Winthrop and Fanny Laflin.
The immigrant ancestor in New England of this Crane family was
Henry^ Crane, who as early as 1654 was settled in that part of
Dorchester, Mass., which was incorporated in 1662 as the town of
Milton, and who died at Milton in 1709. From him Senator Crane
was descended through Stephen^ of Milton, Benjamin^ of Braintree,
Mass., Stephen* of Canton, Mass., Zenas^ of Canton and Dalton,
Mass., who was born at Canton 9 May 1777, and Zenas Marshall®
of Dalton, his father.
He was educated in the public schools, at Wesleyan Academy,
Wilbraham, Mass., and at Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Mass.
In 1897 he received the honorary degree of Master of Arts from
Williams College and in 1903 the honorary degree of Doctor of
Laws from Harvard.
Senator Crane married first, 6 February 1880, INIary Benner of
Astoria, Long Island, who died 16 February 1884, daughter of Robert
and Mary Benner; and secondly, 10 July 1906, Josephine Porter
Boardman, daughter of William Jarvis and Florence Porter Board-
man of Washington, D. C. He is surAdved by his second wife, by
Winthrop ^lurray Crane, Jr., child of his first marriage, and by
three minor children of his second marriage, Stephen, Brice, and
Louise.
VOL. Lxxvn. 1
4 Winthrop Murray Crane [Jan.
In 1799 Zenas^ Crane, grandfather of the Senator, then a young
man of twenty^two years, travelled through the wilds of western
Massachusetts, seeking a location to construct a paper mill. He
satisfied himself that Daltonjumished such a location as he desired,
and in 1801 he began the buUding there of the great industry now
for over a century known as the Crane Paper Mills. He had learned
the processes of paper manufacture in a miU operated by his brother
in Newton, Mass., and he gained further experience in the miU of
General Burbank in Worcester. The plant that he constructed at
Dalton was the first in Massachusetts west of the Connecticut
River. Dating from the start of this enterprise early in the nine-
teenth centiuy, the Cranes have been perhaps the best known family
in western Massachusetts. Its members have been characterized by
business sagacity, kindly interest in the welfare of others, and a
willingness to serve the pubHc welfare.
Zenas Crane was for two terms in the Executive Council during
the administration of Gov. Edward Everett, his son, Zenas Marshall
Crane, served two terms in the same body during the administration
of Governor Andrew, and Zenas Crane, the brother of Senator
Crane, served a similar period in the same office in the administra-
tion of Governor Robinson. Thus for three generations before the
coming of Governor Crane to Beacon HiU his family had been
represented in the Executive Council of the State.
Although the Senator was sHght in buUd and appeared frail rather
than rugged, he was always a leader in every circle that he entered.
Apart from the remarkable success that he achieved in pubUc life,
his successes as a business man and as a general of industry were
sufficient to render his fame lasting and secure.
In the business of manufacturing paper he began, as was the habit
in the Crane family, at the very bottom of the industry, and worked
his way up through every department until there was no detail
of the manufacture with which he was not entirely familiar. At the
age of twenty-six and not then a member of the firm, he went to
Washington to obtain from the Government, if possible, the con-
tract for the paper used for currency and bonds. After many months
of patient, persistent effort, and in spite of intense rivahy and
opposition, he convinced the authorities that it was for the best
interests of the United States to place the contract with the Dalton
miUs. That contract has been renewed^ annually for over forty
years, and during that period all the bank notes and securities issued
by the Government, including the biUions of Liberty Bonds during
the late war, have been made from the paper manufactured in the
so-called Crane Government Mill at Dalton. Others have sought to
obtain this contract, but the perfection of the product of the Crane
mill and the fidelity with which the contract has been executed
have prevented the Government from making any change. No
nation has been better served in this respect than has the United
States. The Senator took justifiable pride in the way in which this
contract had been carried out and in the product that he was able
to turn over to the United States Treasury. He was satisfied with
xiothing less than absolute perfection in the paper, combined with
1923] Wintkrop Murray Crane 5
I unique qualities that could not be reproduced by the CQunterfeiter;
I and from the beginning he recognized the necessity for the protec-
f tion of that product so as to make it impossible for any piece of it
I to be removed from the mill except under proper guard. Each sheet
I was numbered and had to be accounted for. The mill has always
l' been under armed guard night and day. Dalton citizens like to tell
I how one night a fire broke out in that milll and the Senator, quickly
r summoned, inquired first as to whether or not all the men were out
t of the building; and, upon being assured that they were, directed
that the doors be locked and the contents left to burn. He would
\^ take no chances of attempting to remove the valuable product, for
fear that in the effort to save there might be furnished the oppor-
tunity, in the confusion and darkness, for some of it to fall into
the possession of those who would use it for private gain. So admin-
istrations may come and administrations may go at Washington,
but all have left with the Crane mills the contract for the Govern-
ment paper.
As Governor of Massachusetts he found in the State treasury
•^ fifty thousand shares of Fitchburg Railroad common stock that had
j' not for thirteen years been carried on the books, because it was
r regarded as of no value. As a result of his negotiations with the
;, Boston & Maine Railroad the State received five million dollars
i for this stock. A large area of land in Boston belonging to the State
I was sold to the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad at a
i, price so favorable to the Commonwealth as to surprise not only
': the public but the railroad officials themselves. He found the
executive commissions and biireaus carrying on the State govern-
<- ment increasing beyond reason, and, through their consolidation, he
secured both greater economy and efficiency. In his first inaugural
address he sounded a keynote that, met with great popular approval.
"Massachusetts has reached," said he, "a limit of indebtedness
beyond which she should not go."
Further illustrating his business acmnen, it wUl be recalled that
when the Arnold Print Works, emploj'ing thousands of people in
North Adams, was in financial straits, it was to him that the people
looked, to take charge and save the industry, and he devoted himself
to the problem with marked success. He refused compensation for
this service, preferring that it should be a service rendered for the
pubUc welfare without personal gain.
For many years, and until his death, he was an active director of
the American Bell Telephone Company. ^Much of its remarkable
progress and achievement was due to lus wise council and constant
watchfulness.
New England will not soon forget how the New York, New Haven
& Hartford Railroad, after its financial flights, suddenly collapsed
and threatened to paralyze all New England industries. It had
lost the confidence of capital, of labor, and of the public. A new
board of directors was demanded, and Senator Crane, as one in
whose judgment and integrity aU classes and all interests believed,
, was m-ged to accept a place on the board. This he did with reluc-
tance, yet, having accepted, he devoted himself to these large and
6 Winthrop Murray Crane [Jan.
intricate problems until the crisis' was over and the affairs of the
company were on the mend.
These are only a few of the instances that might be mentioned as
showing the service that he rendered as a business man of unusual
genius; but it was in his public service in official and political positions
that his greatest fame was acquired.
In 1892 he was elected a member of the RepubHcan National
Committee, and, with the exception of the years when he was
Governor of Massachusetts, he continued a member until he resigned
a few months before his death. At all times he was one of the fore-
most in influence on the committee and for long periods its \mques-
tioned leader.
He was Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts in 1897, 1898, and
1899, and was Governor in 1900, 1901, and 1902, and his adminis-
tration stands as one of the best business administrations in the
history of the State.
In 1904 Senator George Frisbie Hoar died, and the then Governor
appointed Mr. Crane to fill the vacancy until the assembling of the
Legislature; and, when the Legislattue met, it elected him to fill
the imexpired term and in 1907 reelected him for the full term of
six years. Several months before his term expired he announced he
would not be a candidate for reelection. That he easily could have
been reelected there is no doubt. His retirement was a disappoint-
ment to the people of the Commonwealth, but was necessitated by
the condition of his health, which was beginning to feel the effect
of the strenuous life which he had imposed upon himself.
His service at Washington was distinctly unique. He never made
a speech on the floor of the Senate in opposition to or in favor of
any measure. No legislation was introduced that bore his name.
However, it was recognized that for much of the time he was in the
Senate he had more to do with determining legislation than any
other man. When he saw that a thing ought to be done, he made it
his business to see that it was done. When he saw that a thing ought
not to be done, he made it his business to prevent it. He had great
tact for bringing men together and harmonizing their views. Oft-
times he succeeded in unifying the part}'. For nine years he was
a silent but powerful force ha\dng much to do vnth. making the history
of the United States.
When one went with him for the first time to lunch in the Senate
restaurant at the Capitol, he would come away amazed at the
almost constant interruption by this congressman or that senator
or an official who came to get his views or decision in regard to some
pubhc matter or some pending bill. There were no partj' lines at
Senator Crane's table, but Democrats as weU as Republicans were
anxious for "just a moment's talk" with him.
While in Washington his work never seemed to be done, and
when the hour of midnight approached it was an enjoyable and
valuable experience to go with this seemingly tireless man over to
the White House and witness the glad expression on the face of
President Taft, as he would put his arm about him and pull him
1923] Winihrop Murray Crane 7
away to a quiet corner for a little chat on the events of the day and
the plans of the morrow for the welfare of the Nation.
"The business manager of the United States" he was sometimes
called during President Taft's administration, and there was much
reason for this title.
A lawyer in the Berkshires used to complain, in a friendly way,
that he had chents who came to him for advice and after they had
received it would tell him that they were not going to act on it until
they had consulted "Uncle Murray," which was the familiar way
in which they designated Senator Crane in his home territory. He
was the adviser of all Berkshire.
President Taft leaned much upon him, and President Roosevelt
held his opinion of the greatest moment. In 1902, when the coimtry
was threatened with disaster as a result of the strike of the anthracite-
coal miners, President Roosevelt sent for the then Governor Crane,
to come to Washington for a conference. The Governor's successful
handling of the teamsters' strike in the city of Boston had attracted
attention and won the favorable comment of the whole coimtry. He
presented to President Roosevelt strongly the necessity for inter-
vention by the Government between the mine operators and their
men in the coal strike, the President was much impressed with his
views, and as a result there was appointed the now famous Anthra-
cite Strike Conmaission, which finally adjusted the difficulties that
had been a matter of momentous concern to the entire coimtry.
President Roosevelt had occasion many other times to seek
Senator Crane's advice, and, although in later years he and Mr.
Crane were not in accord in some matters, it has been said that the
President was very careful not to include Senator Crane in his
"violent denunciations of the Reactionaries of the RepubUcan
party."
President Roosevelt twice offered him the Treasury portfolio in
his Cabinet, and was disappointed that he could not induce him to
accept it.
For twenty-four hours preceding the nomination of Mr. Hughes
at Chicago in 1916 it was apparent that no progress was being
made within the convention walls, but, had you been on the line of
communication between the platform of the convention and the
rooms occupied by Senator Crane, you would have been aware of
the fact that the leaders of that convention were constantly going
back and forth for consultation with Senator Crane in regard to the
varying aspects of the problems. He spent but few minutes in the
convention, and, when the nomination was finally made and the
tumult was at its height, with the bands playing and the cheers
and huzzas rising in one tremendous chorus, the quiet, modest man
from Dalton, who had had more to do with the result than any
other, had thrown himself on a couch in his room, exhausted by
the days and nights of ceaseless work and entirely unmindful of the
ovation he might have received had he but showed himself in the
convention. His sole thought seemed to be that the result accom-
plished was the one which, under all the circumstances, promised
best for the party and the coimtry. He was satisfied, and he asked
8 Winthrop Murray Crane [Jan.
neither cheers nor credit. Cotemporary historians have attributed
to him an equal influence in determining the results of the conven-
tions of 1912 and of 1920.
In their estimates of Senator Crane all men agree that he had an
almost unerring judgment. As quick as the facts were stated his
decision was ready. He never seemed to be in need of advice. In
his courteous way he may have asked men if they did not agree,
but it never occurred to him to ask them as to what they would do
in his place. He neither wavered in his decisions nor doubted his
own judgment.
He did not care for public office except as a place for service. He
was not a campaigner, and never made a speech at either a social or
pohtical gathering if he could avoid it. In one of the years when he
was nominated for reelection as Governor he gave express instruc-
tions to the committees to hold no rallies. This programme was
very much to the discomfiture of the distinguished Democrat who
was running in opposition, for he soon found that it was impossible
to arouse any pubUc interest where no one considered it worth while
to reply. Mr. Crane had rightly sized the situation, and his plan of
"no campaign" was entirely successful.
No one ever went to his home as a guest without coming away
charmed by the beauty and harmony of the family circle, the sim-
plicity and sincerity of their hospitality, and the atmosphere of
kindly feeling. Yet no one could spend an evening at that home
without being made aware by the persistent demands of that busy
messenger — the telephone — that the Senator was indeed in touch
with Boston, New York, and Washington, and that the calls on him
for advice on mattei-s relating to political, governmental, and busi-
ness affairs were constant from every section of the country. This
was a condition which existed not only when he was an official but
after his retirement from office, for, as a private citizen, he continued
to exercise that same wide influence that had characterized his
public life.
He was, perhaps, the most loved man that western Massachusetts
has ever produced. Long before his great business sagacity and his
wise counsel were known to the nation at large, he had bound to
him the hearts of men in his own community. His neighbors had
discovered in him an accessible friend. He was unselfish in all his
plans, and seemed more interested to advance the other fellow than
himself. He was always considerate and seeking ways to be helpful.
Although spending the larger part of his life in serious problems,
there was always about him an air of good cheer. There was no
solemnity in his face. His good humor was a marked characteristic,
and his mind seemed to find relief from its responsibilities in a spirit
of playful jest. He was the most social of men. His generosity was
not for public view, but it could not always be hidden. The citizens
of Berkshire like to relate stories regarding his kindly disposition.
They will tell you that there were never any labor difficiilties at the
Crane mills, but always an attitude of friendly interest between
the employer and the employee; that, if an employee had been
injured, the Senator was likely to be the first to proffer assistance;
1923] Winthrop Murray Crane . 9
that, if an aged employee was retired from the service, he did not
retire without the arm of helpfulness being stretched out to him
beyond the days of his employment; that, if news came that a boy
had been killed across the sea in the Great War, the Senator was
among the first at the grieved home; that, when a contagious disease
had claimed its .victim and even the undertaker hesitated about
going to the stricken home, the Senator was there taking charge,
unmindful of the peril he was incurring; that, if a boy wanted a
college education and needed help, he knew that he would find that
help at the Crane home;, that, if a man was in financial difficulty and
needed assistance to tide him over, the Senator was his hope and the
hope did not fail him.
His gifts to the town of Dalton and his large donations to public
charities were many and illustrate still further the warm-hearted and
generous nature that was never dormant.
It is evident that no man could accomplish what Senator Crane
did without courage, sentiment, and ideals. His last fight, one that
undoubtedly shortened his days, was a fight for a moral ideal. It was
his fight for the League of Nations. He believed that the business
and economic relations of the world were bound up in this problem,
but it was the needs of mankind that more particularly summoned
him to the contest. He believed that partisan politics had had too
much to do with the treatment of this great question, that partisan-
ship had prevented its fair presentation to the American public. He
conceived it to be a duty that America owed to the world to take the
foremost place that was awaiting her in the League and to cooperate
in the restoration of world peace. And he further believed that with-
out such cooperation America, Europe, and the world were bovmd
to suffer disaster. He was anxious for Massachusetts to throw all
her weight in favor of the League.
In the Republican State Convention in September 1919 he insisted
on a declaration in the platform in favor of the League. It was his
midnight ultimatum, the night before the convention, that finally
resulted in the platform being drawn with the endorsement that he
desired.
He went to the Chicago National Convention in Jime 1920 to
make the same fight, but the opposition was too great. His influence
was apparent in aU the other work of the convention, but he returned
to his home weakened both by his efforts and by his disappointment
at the attitude of his party on what he conceived to be the greatest
moral question of the age. He did not recover his full strength and
vigor thereafter, and his physicians and friends had no doubt but
that the intensity of the fight he had made had shortened his life.
And so he died as. he had Uved — loved by a host of friends, serving
his fellow men, responding to the call of humanity.
10 Early New England Nomenclature [Jan.
EARLY NEW ENGLAND NOMENCLATURE
By Donald Lines Jacobus, M.A., of Mount Carmel, Conn.
It has often been remarked that the early settlers in New England,
particularly those who came in the great wave of immigration
between the years 1620 and 1650, were more nearly honaogeneons
than were the founders of the southern colonies. Certain it is, that
such contrasts as existed in the former case were less violent than
that, for example, between the aristocrats and the deported criminals
of Virginia. Yet, outside of savage tribes, it may be doubted if an
entirely homogeneous people has ever existed; and the Puritans,
though mainly sprung from the English yeomanry, had their castes.
DiflBcult as it frequently is to draw the line of demarcation in specific
instances, in a general way the first generations of New Englanders
may be divided into two classes. The first class, constituting a
majority of the population, was. composed of those who were in
sympathy, at least, with Puritan ideals. The second class, a sub-
stantial minority, drew from various elements : the adventiu-ers who
hoped to better themselves materially in the New World, the servants
who accompanied well-to-do Puritans, the ne'er-do-wells who felt
safer outside of England.
^ The trend of history is often reflected in the very names borne
by the men and women who played a part in it. The Assjoiologist,
for example, merely on the strength of the names borne by certain
kings, whether Semitic or not, can reconstruct the probable course
of history fom* or five milleniums ago. It is interesting to see how
far the succession of historical movements, the changes in manners
and standards, during the first two centuries of New England life,
affected the nomenclature of the inhabitants.
The first settlers bore names of three different types, those of
English origin, those of Hebrew origin, and those which were intended
to have a moral significance. The old EngUsh names, on account
of their connection with the Church of England, were not in favor
with the Puritans; those who bore them were, as a rule, either not
Puritans at aU or else had been christened before their parents
turned Nonconformists. For a hundred years this class of names
was not common, since even non-Piuitan families were influenced
by the prevailing mode. In some instances — though these are
comparatively rare — filial piety caused the retention throughout
this period of an old family name, such as Roger or Edward; and
there was one family which, uninterruptedlj'- for generations, endowed
its daughters with the sturdy Saxon name of iEtheldred. And despite
the prejudice against English names, it is curious to note that this
prejudice apparently did not apply to surnames; from the first it
was a common practice to give a boy his mother's surname.
The most numerous of the three types of names emploj'ed by the
Puritans was the BibHcal group. Here, with the exception of thoroughly
Anglicized names, such as John, James, or Thomas, the Old Testament
patriarchs and prophets were the favorites. The established church
1923] Early New England Nomenclature 11
in England had made common use of New Testament names, and
the Puritans wished their children to be distinguished from Con-
formists even by their personal names. The name Peter, because
of that apostle's traditional connection with the Papacy, was not
common; but it is not so easy to explain the aversion to Paul. This
name was as rare as Seraiah, Shebaniah, Bezaleel, or any of the
least known Biblical characters. There was a natural dislike of
Cain, Delilah, Jezebel, Herod, and the rest of the Scriptural rascals
and vampires. Judas is rare, though Jude and Judah occur; we also
find Judith, the feminine of this name, indicating an acquaintance
with the Apocrypha. Adam and Eve, the parents of all our woe,
do not appear to have been popular. Other names, Hke Christopher
and Christian, Angel and Angelina, Michael and Gabriel, though
sanctioned by the Anglican Church, were perhaps held too sacred
for mortals to bear; they are among the most uncommon names to
be fotmd in Puritan famUies. But the names we meet for generations
in every town and hamlet of New England are those of the patriarchs
from Abraham to Joseph and his brethren, those of the famous
leaders and kings of the IsraeUtes, such as Moses, Joshua, Gideon,
Samuel, and David, and those of the Major Prophets.
However rare they may be, it is possible to find namesakes of
practically every person mentioned between the covers of the Bible.
The chief reason for this is probably the old custom of opening the
Bible with the eyes shut and giving the child the name which happened
to be nearest to the pointing finger. This custom may explain the
occasional use of place names, like Eden and Sinai, instead of personal
names.* It may also explain the fact that in 1721 one Samuel Pond
inflicted on his helpless son the name of Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin.
It is not easy to think of any other rational explanation imless
Mr. Pond, having in mind the interpretation of the handwriting
on the waU, intended to commemorate the final downfall of the
Stuarts, which seven years before had been assured by the succession
of the House of Hanover. The confusion of the Biblical Mehitabel
with the Latin Mabel — the names were used interchangeably —
often perplexes the amateur genealogist, and the origin of the con-
fusion is not apparent.
Of course the most interesting, perhaps the most characteristic,
names were those signifying moral attributes, intended to incite
the bearers of them to lead godly lives. Names of this type in New
England were much more common for girls than for boys, and were
seldom so grotesque as some of the monstrous combinations employed
by the Puritans in England. Among the popular names for girls
were Content, Lowly, Mindwell, Obedience, Patience, Silence,
Submit, and Temperance. What a commentary on the qualities
deemed desirable in women! Charity, Mercy, and Prudence, in
use before Bunyan wrote, received an increase in popularity from
•their appearance in his allegories; the name Beulah originated with
Bunyan. Comfort, Delight, Faith, Hope, Thankful, Desne! With
names like these, how charming — at least in their girlhood —
these Puritan damsels must have been. Marriage at an early age,
♦The name Notwithstanding GrUwold may be similarly explained.
12 Early New England Nomenclature [Jan.
the bearing of eight or more children, and the loss, irreparable to
■ them, of their teeth, aged them rapidly. If they could only have
provided themselves with false teeth and grandmotherly spectacles,
how few old hags there would have been to suspect of witchcraft.
Among the names given to boys we may note Consider ("let us
consider together, saith the Lord"), Ransom ("a ransom for many"),
Remember (" Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth"),
and Saving (referring, not to thrift, but to the grace of God). Virtue
and Zealous occur, but are infrequent. It is remarkable how quickly
the names of this group were standardized, one portion being assigned
to boys, the other to girls. The reasons determining this assignment
remain obscure ia many instances. Why should Deliverance, Relief,
and Recompence customarily be assigned to boys, and Experience,
Reliance, and Repentance to girls? It is odd that Wait and Waitstill
should be masculine, Hope and Hopestill usually feminine, that
Lovewell should be a man's name and Freelove a woman's. Elder
William Brewster of the Mayflower named a son Love, but elsewhere
this name is usually feminine; and a single case. has been found where
Mercy, a popular name for girls, was applied to a boy. The sex of
the rarer names was differently standardized in different localities,
and even in the case of the common names imiformity was not
absolute.
Some names of this group apparently were improvised to com-
memorate some special occasion. Preserved is an example of this
class. During the War of the Revolution many boys were christened
Freedom, Liberty, or Independence. The name Doctor was some-
times bestowed on a seventh son in allusion to the superstition that
seventh sons possessed an intuitive knowledge of the use of herbs.
Mariner was occasionally bestowed on the son of a seafaring family,
and thfere is at least one instance of SaHtrue, not a bad name for a
sailor. The relation between parent and child determined such
names as Lent, Gift, and Welcome. The names Lament and Trial,
sad to say, were considered appropriate for girls born out of wedlock;
incidentally, boys born out of wedlock were usually given the name
of the reputed father. Posthxmaous girls occasionally were christened
Orphana; similarly, the Biblical names Benoni and Benjamin (in
remembrance of the death of Rachel) were frequently given to boys
whose mothers died in childbirth, while Ichabod was popular for
posthumous boys. There were also names peculiar to certain local-
ities. In ancient Woodbury, Conn., for instance, three feminine
names, though rare elsewhere, were very common: Emblem, Con-
currence (usually abbreviated to Currence), and OUve (a variant
of the stately Olivia). Other names were peculiar to certain families:
the wife of one of the foimders of Hartford rejoiced in the Italian
name of Violet, which for generations was bequeathed to her de-
scendants; and this name was otherwise so exceedingly rare that,
whenever it occurs, the genealogist at once surmises and seeks to
establish a connection with this particular family.
Among the more unusual names we must not fail to mention
Be-Fruitful Brockett, who died in infancy, and Maybe Barnes.
The origin of the latter name has not been ascertained; possibly
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it was intended for the surname Mabie. Matthew and Rhoda
Blakeslee called their fifteenth child Careful. At times these Puritan
parents exhibited a woeful lack of hiunor or else humor of a tasteless
variety. We cannot suppose that the parents of Preserved Fish,
Green Plumb, or Jvory Keyes (boys), or those of Active Foote,
Rhoda Bull, Rhoda Way, or Silence Noyes (girls) intended a doiible
entendre. On the other hand, the father of Happy Sadd must have
selected his son's name with dehberate mahce, as surely as Jonathan
Rose intentionally alluded to the Song of Solomon when he named
his son Sharon. Some of the early Puritans undoubtedly cherished
the same delight in the bizarre which at a later date (about 1800)
caused Dr. Osee Button to name his eleventh child Sebastian Maria
Ximenes Petruchio and his twelfth child Thomas Albert Buonaparte
Jeflferson.
It has been said that the Puritans were deficient in himior. The
Puritan of the old English story who named his dog Moreover after
the dog in the Scriptures ("And moreover the dog came and Ucked
his sores") displayed an almost incredible hteralness; the story may
be apocryphal. But it is true that wit, like gaiety, was not encouraged.
The youth who, after rescuing his cow from a bog, told her to go
her way and sin no more, was fined for his blasphemous misuse of
Holy Writ. Yet it must not be supposed that the Puritans were
entirely without a spark of fun. The trouble is that we do not see
them in their playful moments. It is only when some prank is
carried too far and the practical joker summoned into court, that
the documents record anything of this nature. The story of Foote's
negro is a case in point. Nathaniel Foote of Branford, Conn., one
Sabbath morning, bribed his negro to seat himself in the pew of Mr.
Maltby, a wealthy merchant.
It is not difficult to picture the scene. The meeting house is
already well filled. Mr. Maltby, waiting for the service to begin,
sits in his pew, which because of his social position is close to the
pulpit. A tall, full-blooded African stalks solemnly up the central
aisle, where members of his race are not permitted. All ej'es are
focused on him as he imsmilingly progresses towards the front of
the house. The hushed expectancy is broken by scarcely audible
murmurs of horror as he calmly seats himself beside Mr. Maltby.
Boys titter in the gallery. Everyone in the house realizes the
humor of the situation. Only the force of habit restrains the con-
gregation from the wildest disorder. Then Mr. Maltby angrily rises
and orders the negro out of his pew. The burly fellow hesitates,
gets to his feet, and, unruffled amidst the commotion he has occa-
sioned, retreats down the aisle to his customary place. And the
sequel? Inquiries, of course, are made after the service, and the
negro, because of his ignorance, is absolved of blame. The real
culprit, Nathaniel Foote, is siunmoned to appear before the magis-
trates, and is fined for an action which, in the words of the record,
was contrary to rehgion and a profanation of the Sabbath. We
sincerely hope that he did not regret his httle joke, but considered
it well worth the amount of his fine. ^ ^
As bearing on this question of the Puritans' sense of humor, it is
14 Early New England Nomenclature [Jan.
instructive to examine their gravestones. The demoniacal angels
that often grimace on the borders — so reminiscent of the worst
Etriiscan atrocities — are not alone in offending our taste. The
majority of the epitaphs express that austere seriousness which was
later to degenerate into mere morbidity; they are of the "prepare
for death and follow me" variety. But occasionally there is a quaint
frankness, a curious twist of thought, that soimds more strangely
yet in our modem ears. The epitaph of Dr. Isaac Bartholomew,
who died in 1750, to-day barely decipherable, is traditionally ascribed
to his wife. It reads:
"He that was sweet to mi repose
Hath now become a stink unto mi nose.
This is said of me:
So it shall be said of thee."
Evidently the wife addresses her deceased husband in the first two
lines, and he repUes in the last two. Or read the cryptic epitaph of
Cyrus Hotchkiss:
"Cyrus the' pleasant in his day
Was sudden seas'd and sent away."
Or that of MiUy Gaylord, a five-year-old child:
"Soon ripe; soon rotten.
Soon dead, but not forgotten."
The epitaph of a young bride reads:
"The saddest sight in all creation:
A wedding turn'd to lamentation,
A moiuning groom in desperation."
The sense of humor has been defined as an appreciation of what is,
and what is not, congruous. Can anything be more incongruous
than these lines, used as an epitaph for a Connecticut youth who
died on Long Island about 1781 :
"Thoughtless he wandered from his native shore
And laid his ashes in a hostile land."
After making full allowance for the fact that Long Island while
occupied by British troops could, albeit temporarily and in a restricted
sense, be considered hostile land, there still remains something ludi-
crous in the application of these lines. No, the early New Englanders
were for the most part a sober-minded, all too literal people ; it was
after all but rarely that the innate capacity for Homeric laughter
burst (as in the case of Nathaniel Foote) the prohibitive bars of
Puritanism.
From about the middle of the eighteenth century onward a gradual
ehange is apparent in the ideas and manner of life of the inhabitants
of New England. Contact with the British and French during the
Indian wars broke the crust of their provinciaUsm, and the long
War of the Revolution, which placed them shoulder to shoulder
with the other colonists — the Dutch of New York, the gentlemen
of Virginia — could not but broaden their mental horizon. The
colleges, which at first had been mere classical schools for the training
of clergymen, became more humane; their Ubrary shelves held more
books of a secular and hberal tendency; college societies began to
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I enact English comedies. As the merchant class grew more affluent,
I the yomiger generation studied law and medicine. Culture, was
I imposed on wealth. It was natural that, as the opportunities for
I sensuous luxury and for intellectual enjoj^nent increased, there
] should be a rebellion against the narrowness of Puritan dogma and
I the aridity of Piuitan life. Many were infected with deism, a phi-
I losophy to which the poetry of Pope — not to mention the Calvinistic
I fatalism of Jonathan Edwards — afforded an easy transition; many
I more "embraced the Church of England, which, in addition to its
I reUgious and aesthetic appeal, tolerated the more innocent pastimes.
I What was true of the upper stratum of New England society was
: true in even greater measure of the lower strata. The descendants
of the adventurers and roisterers who had caused so much annoyance
to the early Puritans had only in rare instances risen to position
in church or civil hfe. They were stiU at the foot of the ladder, still
made to feel their inferiority. The Anghcan Church was at this
time doing missionary work in the Colonies; the Congregational
societies in some of the New England Colonies constituted the estab-
lished church, for a long period acknowledged by the civil government
and authorized to tax all citizens, whether members or not, for its
; maintenance. Eager to gain converts, the Anghcan missionaries
I did not spurn these black sheep of Puritanism, but welcomed them
I to the fold. It is not difficult to understand the success of the Church
? , of England in proselyting those who hitherto had been of little
standing in New England society. Doubtless the prestige and the
more elaborate ritual of the mother church impressed them; here
too, they found a rehgious body which was more tolerant of frivolity,
more ready to admit the weakness of the flesh and to pardon the
carnal sins. But the most powerful desire was, perhaps, to improve
their social status, to form a community of their own, in which they
could move imdisturbed by the censure of Puritanical bigotry. Thus
it came about that between 1700 and 1775 the newer aristocracy of
wealth and the "white trash" of the New England Colonies both
gravitated towards the Church of England.
The middle classes, still constituting a vast majority of the popu-
lation and carrying with them the remnants of the older Puritan
aristocracy of birth and personal worth, clung to the tenets of their
fathers; but even here the infiltration of new ideas is discernible.
Religious zeal lost its intensity and moral fibre its toughness. Manners
grew more lax; there was greater freedom of intercourse between
the sexes. The eighteenth century was altogether a more comfortable
period to live in than the seventeenth century had been. The old
standards were breaking up; society was growing more complex;
opinions were becoming more divergent and irreconcilable.
Through the transition era, this time of shifting ideas and changing
manners, the trend of history may be read in the names bestowed
on the children of the age. The Biblical names still greet us. but the
uncommon ones begin to drop out until only the more popular
survive. Side by side with them the good old English names, long
disused but not forgotten, reappear with increasing frequenc3^
The Church of England was in no small degree responsible for the
16 Early New England Nomenclature [Jan.
revival of Saxon names, for the Anglican families had employed these
names throughout the period when most of their contemporaries
were Israelites indeed. Our gratitude is not lacking as Hachaliah
and Zachariah make room for Henry and Edmund, and we haU the
return of Dorothy and Margaret. But we must not in our com-
placency overlook a long list of names of an entirely new class which
make their appearance in the registers of births. Where once it
had been essential to choose names from one book, the Sacred
Scriptures, it now became the fashion to filch names from any book.
A renascence of the classics is indicated when we find ourselves
confronted with Vii-gU, iEneas, and Horace. The great English
novels of the generation were also read; the popularity of Richardson
may be gauged by the number of Clarissas and Pamelas who kept
the home fires burning for the soldiers of Valley Forge, nor were
Fielding's Amelia or Smollett's Narcissa neglected. Shakespearean
heroes- and heroines, especially the latter, come into favor: Miranda,
Orlando, Silvia, Celia, JuUa, and a host of others. Other names,
unfamiUar, yet modern in appearance when contrasted with Obadiah
and Ketxirah, were doubtless stolen from some forgotten romance,
some "best seller" of that generation. Calvin, Luther, and the
names of other theologians and di\'ines became common, and in
Lamira the hymnal appears to have furnished at least one name.
Finally, a few names, such as George and Frederick, Caroline and
Henrietta, were borrowed from royalty and the EngUsh aristocracy.
In a word, it became at last the unquestioned prerogative of
parents to take names from any and every available soiirce; and
we must not forget the influence of newspapers in the latter half of
the eighteenth century in propagating the names of public characters.
But perhaps the most remarkable feature of the nomenclature of
the new era was the transformation undergone by the names of
the preceding period, nor could any more striking illustration be
found of the greater laxity of manners prevailing than in the nick-
names which fill the baptismal registers, both Congregational and
Episcopal. Among the feminine derivatives of common occurrence
were Sally (Sarah), Molly and Polly (Mary), Betty (EUzabeth),
Patty (Martha), Nabby (Abigail), Sene (Asenath), Hitty (Mehitabel),
Dolly (Dorothy), Sukey (Susan), Tenty (Content), and Bede
(Obedience). Though less frequently, jnasculine names were sub-
jected at times to a similar diminution, as Tom and Ned, Riah
(Azariah) and Jere (Jeremiah) bear ■R'itness.
We have crossed the threshold of the nineteenth century, a century
in which the increasing complexity of social strata, the increasing
diversity of interests, and the diversity of blood introduced from
Ireland, Germany, and elsewhere are matched by a corresponding
diversity in the nomenclature. It will be wise to take our leave of
the New England of the Puritans at this point, before the threads
of the discourse are quite lost in the labyrinth we are approaching.
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RECORDS OF THE CHURCH IN THE NORTH PARISH
OF SHREWSBURY, MASS.
From a manuscript in the posskssion of the New England Historic
Genealogical Society
The North Precinct or Parish of Shrewsbury, Mass., was estab-
lished 17 Dec. 1742, and the number of settlers in that part of the
town and their distance from the Shrewsbiuy meeting house made
the organization of a new church advisable. For this purpose several
men were dismissed from the Shrewsbury church, and on 6 Oct. 1743
the church in the new parish was "gathered." On 26 Oct. 1743
Rev. Ebenezer Morse was ordained as the first pastor of this church,
and in the succeeding months other members, both men and women,
of the parent church joined their brethren in the north part of the
town. This parish remained a part of Shrewsbury until 1 Mar. 1786,
when it was estabhshed as the town of Boylston and its church
became the Congregational Church of Boylston.
Rev. Ebenezer Morse was bom at Medfield, Mass., 2 Mar. 1718/19,*
the son of Joshua* (Samuel' of Medfield, Joseph^ of Dedham, Mass.,
Samuel^ of Dedham and Medfield) and Mary Morse of Medfield,
and died at Boylston, Mass., 3 Jan. 1802. He received the degree
of. A.B. at Harvard College in 1737 (where he was placed twenty-
third in a class of thirty-four), and took the degree of A.M. in due
course. He married at Slirewsbury, 23 Oct. 1745,t Persis Bush,
bom 22 Apr. 1727,t died 6 May 1788, daughter of John and Martha
Bush of Shrewsbury. On 1 Jan. 1790 the intention of marriage of
Rev. Ebenezer Morse of Boylston and Mrs. Rebeckah Symms was
published at Shrewsbury, but the marriage did not take place.
Mrs. Symms is said to have been the widow of Thomas Symms, a
Revolutionary patriot who died at Shrewsbmy in the course of the
War.
At the outbreak of the Revolution Mr. Morse sided with the
Loyalists, and at a town meeting in Shrewsbury, 23 May 1775, a
committee of five was elected to examine him and four other men
who were suspected of Toryism. A week later this committee reported
that Mr. Morse in sundry instances had "appeared not to be so
friendly to the cormnon cause, as we could wish; but rather, in some
instances, unfriendly;" and the town voted:
"That the Committee of correspondence forthwith take from said Morse,
his arms, ammunition and warlike implements of all kinds, to remain in
said Committee's hands for the present; and that the said Morse do not
pass over the lines of the 2d Parish in Shrewsbury, on any occasion whatever,
without a permit from two or more of the Committee of said precinct."
In June 1775 Mr. Morse was summarily dismissed by his parish-
♦Acoording to the printed Vital Records of Medfield he was born 2 Mar. 1717/18, but see his
own family record, given at the end of this article.
tThis date is from Rev. Ebenezer Morse's own record. According to the printed Vital Records
of Shrewsbury the marriage took place 27 Nov. 1745, and according to the Morse Genealogy
3 Oct. 1744 or (on another page) 21 Nov. 1745.
{According to the printed Vital Records of Shrewsbury she was born 23 Apr. 1727.
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Church Records of Shrewsbury, Mass.
[Jan.
ioners and excluded from the pulpit, but it was not until the following
November that this action was confirmed by an ecclesiastical council.
He continued to reside in the North Parish of Shrewsbury (later the
town of Boylston), and practised medicine there for several years.*
The following records are preser\'ed in a book kept by Rev. Ebenezer
Morse, which has recently been secured for the New England Historic
Genealogical Society through the efforts of Mr. Walter Kendall
WatkiJQS, Chairman of the Society's Committee on Collection of
Records. It contains records of the chiirch in the North Parish
dm-ing Mr. Morse's pastorate, together with a few professions of
religion, baptisms, and marriages occurring after he was dismissed,
and also Mr. Morse's record of his own family. In preparing this
manuscript for publication dates have been given with the usual
abbreviations, the year-date has been placed above the month and
day (in the original it is usually on the same line with the month
and day) and has not been repeated above succeeding months or
days in the same year, and marks of punctuation have been placed
at the end of each entry (except in Mr. Morse's family record) and
also within entries, if clearness requires them. Most of the church
votes and a few other passages or phrases containing no genealogical
information have been omitted; but names of members, admissions,
and all baptisms have been copied, although the birth records of
many of the children baptized may be foimd in the printed Vital
Records of Shrewsbury. The only marriages, however, printed here
are those which are not given in the Vital Records of Shrewsbury or
which differ materially from the corresponding entries in that book.
1743
June 28
Oct. 26
1744
Mar. 11
May 20
Sept. 30
Appeared liere & in most parts of New England vast armies of
insects Resembling of Caterpillars which devoured boath Com
and Grass in a wonderfull manner. They did not Continue
Long but in the Space of about daj"^ [illegible] Generally
dissappeared.
The day of my Consecration to the work of the Gospel Ministry.
John Holland, Abner Seaver, Bethsheba
admitted into Church.
Desire ToLman and Eli Kej'es admitted
Lydia Briard.
Holland, and Mary Rand
into Chh.
Dec. 16 Sarah Keyes.
Mary Bennet.
Rebeckah Keyes.
Ruth Keyes.
Patience Keyes.
Hepsibeth Kej'es.
Hanah Taylor.
Abigail How.
Sarah Smith.
Sarah Goodell.
Hanah Bennet.
Phebe Keyes.
Abigail Keyes.
Admitted.
lu'omjo
Sept. 8
Nov. 3
Jan. 12
1746
Oct. 12
Bulay Taylor.
Martha Biglo.
Martha Bennet.
Hanah "Walker.
Joseph Glazier & EUjah
Rice.
XathaU Davenport & his
wife & Jonas Holland.
Aaron[?] Newton.
Martha Bush.
•Cf. Ward's Hbtory of the Town of Shrewsb'jry, Boston, 1847, pp. 38-39, 205-210, 371.
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1747
May 7
1748
May 22
June 19
1749
Jan. 10
Feb.
Nov. 19
1750
Feb. 18
July 15
1751
Jan. 13
Persis Morse.
Jonathn Keyes, Junr.
Sarah Taylor.
Hazadiah Taylor.
Amariah Biglo.
Wm Crafford & wife.
Joseph Hinds.
Jabez Beaman
■wife.
& his
Feb.
Mar.
Apr.
Oct.
17
17
29
6
Danll Ball & Unice his
wife.
Jos Glazier & his wife.
Aaron Seaver & his wife.
Persis Keyes.
Elizbth Maynard.
Sarah Newton.
Cypn. Keys, Junr., &
Martha his wife.
Silence Winch.
Samll Rice & his wife.
Stephen Flagg & his'wife.
Jotham Flagg.
Abigail Gale.
Miriam Biglo.
Luce wife of Willm. Goss.
Sarah wife of Amh Biglo.
Levi Mores & his wife.
Thankfull Cheeny.
Aaron Sawyer & hiis wife.*
[Here follow several blank pages, on one of which is written: " Tay Edwards,
Coney Hill, by Franklin Centre, Que." — the name and address of the recent
possessor of this book of records.]
1743 At a fast solemnized by the Covenanting brethren in Shrewsbury
Oct. 6 North Preciact and attended by the Revd. Mssrs Parkman &
Gushing and his delegates a Chh was Gathered ia Sd. Precinct.
The Signers of their Covenant were as follows: Ebenr Morse,
John Keyes, Senr., Eleazer Taylor, Jacob Hynds, Cyprian Keyes,
Mephibosheth Bixbey, Oliver Keyes, Jonathan Keyes, Josiah
Bennet, Joshua Houghton, Ebenezer Taylor, Elisha Majoiard,
Ephraim Wheeler, Phinehas How, Jonathan Bennet, Daniel
Bixby, John Keyes, Junr., Nathaniel Bixby, David Taylor. Heze-
kiah Walker.
N.B. Sd. Walker Signed on ye Morning of the ordination of their
Pastor & with ye Consent of ye before mentioned Signers.
Oct. 30 Mary Daughter of Eli Keyes baptized per Dom Bavley [?].
Nov. 13 David Crosby Received into Sd. Chh & from ye first Chh in
Shrewsbury.
20 Abraham Son of Henry Thayer was baptized.
29 . . . Voted . . . That John Keyes, Senr., Cyprian Keyes, and
Jonathan Keyes officiate as as deacons in Sd. Chh. . . .
1753
Feb. 18
Dec. 28
1755
Aug. 3
Unice Glazier & Susann
Robbins.
Hulda Rice.
Ruth & Priscilla Kej'es.
Hannah Taylor.
Jotham Bush & Hepsi-
beth Bush.
Zebulun Rice & wife.
Danl Hastings, Junr.
Job \\Tiitney.
1756
"Jun" 8
Sept.
Oct. 15
1757
Jan. 9
Feb. 27
June 19
1742
June 14
1756
Feb. 28
1751
Sept. 15
, 1754
July 1
Oct. 30
1756
Sept. 4
Oct. 15
1742t
Dec. 25
[1744]
Jan. 8
Jan. 22
Abigail daughter of John Keyes, Junr., baptized per Domn Gushing.
. . . Nethaniel Son of Nethanll Davenport baptized.
Daniel Son of Jonathan Ball baptized.
*This entry has been crossed out.
tAn error for 1743.
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1
15
May
13
Sept.
16
30
Oct.
28
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Feb.
3
1745
Mar.
3
Mar.
22
24
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Oct.
30
1745
Mar.
31
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Feb. 26 Luce daughter of Isaac Temple baptized.
* * *
Abner Son of Josiah Bennet baptized. . . .
Abigail daughter of Benj Temple baptized.
Hamiah Wilder Seaver Daughter of Abner Seaver baptized.
Gardner Son of Elisha Manard baptized pr D. Buckminster.
Dinah & Catherine daughters of Jonthn Keyes per D Gushing.
Unice daughter of Ephr Holland baptized.
* * *
Bette daughter of Ephm Wheeler baptized per Do Gushing.
* * *
Nathan Taylor owned the Govenant & had Isaac his Son baptized.
Item David ye Son Da\id GhUd was baptized.
Samll Bixbey . . . owned ye Covenant & had Ephraim &
Manassah his Sons baptized.
Easter daughter of Jonas Holland baptized per Jona Prentice.
Phebe daughter of John Keyes, Junr., & Nathan Son of Jonthn
Green baptized.
Mary daughter of Eli Keyes baptized per Donm Baxter.
EUzabeth daughter to Willm dunsmore baptized per D Mellen.
Easter daughter of Oliver Keyes baptized.
Apr. 9 Luce Seaver daughter of Jesse Seaver baptized per Domi
of Henry Keyes baptized.
4: * 4c
Sept. 8 Joseph Glazier & Elijah Rice admitted into Chh & Unice Glazier
& Hepsibeth Wait baptized.
Nathaniel Davenport his wife & Jonas Holland Reed, into Chh.
Willm Banack[?] Servant Child of Aaron Newton baptized.
Aaron Newton Reed into Chh.
baptized Lowis daughter of Phinehas How.
baptized EHzabeth daughter of John Keyes, Junr.
Samll Holland & Sarah his Wife owned the Co%i:t & Elizebeth
their daughter baptized, also Molle daughter of Phinehas
Bennet was baptized.
Solomon Son of Benj a. Temple baptized.
Robert Cumin owned the Covenant & was baptized. '
John My son baptized.
Daniel Son of Danl Whitney baptized per Do Gushing.
Abijah Son of OHver Keyes baptized.
Aaron son of Ephaim Wheeler baptized.
Mrs Bush Received to full Communion with this Chh & Thaddeus
Son of Nethanael Hastings baptized.
Jerusha & Elizabeth daughters of Nethanael Bixby baptized.
Item Luce daughter of Samll Frizzel baptized.
Joel Son of Jess Seaver baptized.
Joseph French and Mary his wife owned the Covenant. She Reed
baptism as also did Desire their Son.
Jan. 25 Jonathan Son of Jonathan Bennett was baptized.
*Nov. 3 written below Nov. 10th.
Nov.
3
Nov.
3*
Jan.
12
1746
Mar. 30
Apr.
6
May
11
June
1
15
July
27
Sept.
14
Sept.
21
Sept. 28
Oct.
12
Nov.
23
Dec.
1746/7
Jan.
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Sarah Daughter of ,Wm. Norcross baptized.
Mindwell daughter of Mr Silas Brigham baptized.
* * *
John Son of Samll Bixby baptized.
Paul Son of Edwd. Goodell baptized.
Hannah daughter of Daniel Bixby baptized.
Joseph Son of Ephm. Holland & Jonathan Son of Jonathan
Cutting baptized.
Lavina daughter to Beja. Biglo baptized.
Sarah daughter to Isaac Temple baptized per D Martyn.
Sarah daughter of Eli Keyes baptized.
Persis my Spouse admitted to full Commuiyon with ys Chh.
Catherine daughter to Nathll. Davenport baptized.
Copia daughter to Silas Rice baptized in private. ...
Elisabeth daughter of Jonathan Green baptized.
William Son of Jonathan Ball baptized.
Mary my daughter baptized.
Lydia daughter to Amariah Biglo, who is now owning ye Covenant,
baptized.
Elishk Son of Elisha Manard baptized.
Jonathan Keyes, Jimr., Reed, into fuU Comm. with Chh.
Amos Son of Benja. Temple baptized.
John Son of Jason wait baptized.
Sarah Taylor admitted to fuU Comn. with ye Chh.
L[blot]ise daughter of Willm. Goss & Rachael daughter to Hezekiah
Walker baptized.
Rhoda Daughter of Phiriehas Bennet baptized per Do. Gushing.
Mary daughter of Joseph French baptized per Do Davis.
Abigail daughter of Jonathan Cuttng baptized.
Benj Hinds & Elizabeth his wife owned ye Covenant . . . Bette
daughter of Benja. Hinds baptized.
Mary daughter of Capt. Joseph Biglo baptized.
Aaron Son of Joseph Glazier baptized.
Francis & Freedom children of John Bouker Baptized.
Priscilla daughter of Samll. Bixby baptized.
Hezzadia wife of David Taylor Reced to full Comn.
Amariah Biglo Reed to full Comn.
Mary daughter of Silas Brigham & Jonas Son of Josiah Bennet
baptized.
a letter of Recommendation to ye Chh of Bolten voted to Br.
John Kej'es & his wife Abigail by ye Chh.
Apr. 9 Cate daughter of Benja. Hoit baptized, then tried a vote in ys
chh to See whether it would Recommeded our Brother Phinehas
Bennet & Mary his wife to j^e chh of Holden & is passed in ye
Negative, j'e Reason assigned was ji. ye persons above Sd had
not for months past attended on jt duty here agreeable to ye
tenor of ye Covenant of ys Chh.
Apr. 31 The persons last mentioned acknowledged ye fault above named,
[sic] & obtained ye Chhs forgiveness & Reconciliation. Also William
Thomas son of Benja. Biglo Baptized.
May 6 Daniel Son of Benja. Hinds Baptized.
May 14 Mary daughter of Nathanael Davenport baptized.
May 21 Abu daughter of Nicholas Briard baptized.
Jan.
4
Feb.
15
Mar.
1
22
29
Apr.
6
26
July
5
12
May
Aug.
27
Sept.
2
Sept.
6
Oct.
4
Dec.
27
1748
Mar. 27
Apr.
17
May
22
Item
June 19
July
10
July
24
Aug.
21
Sept.
19
Oct.
9
Nov.
6
[1749]
Feb.
Jan.
Feb.
Mar.
5
1749
Mar.
24
22 Church Records of Shrewsbury, Mass. [Jan.
June 18 Antony Son of Eleazer Taylor baptized.
■ July 9 Aaron Son of Danil. Bixby baptized.
Aug. 18 Submit daughter of Jonathn. Ball baptized per Domi Mellen.
Sept. 10 Sarah daughter of Danl. Whitney baptized.
Sept. 17 David Son of Edwd. GoodeU & Elijah Son of Elijah Rice baptized.
Nov. 5 Silas Son of Silas Rice baptized per Do Goss.
Oct. 29 David Son of Jonathan Bennet baptized.
Nov. 19 Jno Graff ord lately of ye Chh of Xt in Londonderry came under
ye bonds of this Chh & was Reed, to full Comn. -with us.
1750
Jan. 28 Ezra Son of Eli Keyes baptized.
Feb. 18 Joseph Hinds admitted to fuU Communion' with ye Chh.
Mar. 4 Samuel Son of Robert Andrews Baptized.
Mar. 24 Abigail daughter of Samll Holland baptized.
Apr. 8 Eliakim my Son, also Unice daughter of Joseph Glazier baptd.
Apr. 8 BerzUlai Holt &. his wife owned ye Covenant & obtained baptism
for yr. 3 childn, viz., Abel, Berzillai, & James.
May 13 Sarah daughter of Jonathan Cutting baptized.
June 24 Luther Son of Jonas Holland baptized per Do Mellen.
July 15 Jabez Beaman & his wife received into ye Chh from^ye
Chh of Christ in Bolton. Item Silas Son of Berzillai Holt
Baptized.
Aug. 12 Tilley Son of Beja. Temple, SUas Son of Nathl. Hastings,
Son of Eph Wheeler baptized per Do Gushing.
Aug. 26 Silas Son of BerzUlai Holt baptized. Item Br. Joshua Houghton
recommended to the first Chh in Lancaster.
Oct. 7 Benja. Son of Saml. Frizzel baptized.
Oct. 14 Zebulun Rice & his wife owned ye Covenant & received baptism
for yr. son Josiah.
27 Abner Son of Benja. Hinds baptized per Do. Mellen.
1751
Jan. 13 Unice Wife of Joseph Glazr & Susanna Robins admtd to fuU Comn.
Jan. 20 Moses Smith and wife owned the Cavt & reed, baptism for moses
yr. Son.
Feb. 3 Sarah Daughter of Benja. Hoit, Senr., Baptized. GiKrey Negro
owned ye Covenant and received baptism
Feb. 17 Hulda wife of Elijah Rice received to fuU Comm.
Mar. 17 Ruth and PrisciUa Keyes admitted to full Comn. with the^Chh.
Item Edmund Son of Benja. Biglo baptized.
Apr. 29 Hannah Taylor reed into fuU Comm. with ye Chh.
May 5 Martha daughter of Samll. Bixby baptized.
May 12 Lowis daughter of NathU. Bixby baptized.
* * *
Aug. 24 Jotham Son of John Bouker baptized.
Sept. 8 Joab Son of Moses Smith baptized.
Sept. 15 Nathanael Son of Nathanael Davenport baptized.
Item Luce wife of WiUiam Goss reed to full Comm.
Sept, 22 Joseph Biglo, Junr., & Olive his wife o'mied ye Covent. & Reed
baptism for Rehef yr. daughter. Item Louis daughter of EUjah
Rice baptized.
Oct. 6 Jotham Bush & Hepsibeth his wife admitted to full Comn.
28 Jonathan son of Jonathan Ball & Rachael daughter of Nicholas
Briard baptized.
Nov. 3 Alpheus Son of Joseph Morse baptized.
Nov. 19 Peter Larkin & Azuba his vfiie owned ye Govt, of ys Chh. . . .
1923] Church Records of Shrewsbury, Mass. 23
j " '
I Dec. 30 Hepsibath Daughter of Jotham Bush baptized. Son of
't Benja. Temple baptized.
i 1752
I Apr. 12 Joshua my Son & Jonah Son of Samll. Holland baptized.
1 Apr. 19 Joshua Son of WiUiam Goss baptized per D Gushing.
I May, 10 Lavina daughter of Joseph Glazier baptized.
I June 14 Stephen Flagg & Judith his wifd were received to full Comn with
I this Ghh. Item Soln. Houghton & Deliverance his wife owned
I ye Govt. Item John Son of Stephen Flagg baptized.
I June 28 Molle Daughter of Sohn Houghton Baptized per D Martyn.
July 19 Abigail daughter of Benja Hinds baptized.
Sept. 23 Hannah daughter of Wilhn Whitney baptized in private.
Oct. 3 Mary daughter of Eleazer Taylor Baptized. Item Ebenr. Inglesbe
owned ye Govenant of this Ghh. & together with his wife . . .
Received baptism for ther
• Nov. 24 Berzeliel Son of Jonathan Bennet Baptized.
Dec. 22 Sarah Witherbee Baptized, Deacn. Jonathan Keyes & wife Sponsors.
1753
Jan. 21 Dinah Negro woman owned the Govenant of this Ghh & Reced
baptism.
Feb. 18 Zebuiun Rice & wife Game into full Gomn. with this Ghh.
Mar. 4 Bette daughter of Josiah Bennet baptized per Do Martyn.
Mar. 11 Joseph son of Ebenr Prescot baptized.
Mar. 28 Ebenr. Son of Ohver Harris baptized.
Apr. 15 Lavina daughter of Ephm. Holland baptized per Do Harrington.
May 20 Martha daughter of Joseph Biglo, Junr., baptized.
May 25 Adonijah Son of Nathanael Bixbe baptized.
July[6Zoi] Solomon Son of Jonathan Keyes, Junr., baptized.
July 29 Thomas Son of Nathanael Hastings baptized.
Aug. 12 John Son of John Keyes baptized, also mary daughter of Jacob
Pike.
Aug. 19 Solomon Son of Stephen Flagg baptized per D. Gushing.
Aug. 26 Francis Son of Amariah Biglo, David son of Jotham Bush, &
John son of Ebenr. Inglesbee baptized.
Sept. 23 Ezra son of Jonn. Ball, EUzabeth daughter of Barz. Holt, & Sarah
daught of Daniel Bixbey baptized.
Sept. 30 Luce daughter of Jonathan Gale Baptized.
Item William son of Willm Dunsmore baptized.
Nov. 18 Triphena daughter of Elijah Rice baptized. . . .
* * *
Dec. 28 Daniel Hastings, Junr., admitted to full Gommunion with ys Ghh.
1754
Jan. 13 Patience daughter of Willm Goss & Ruth daughter of Daniel
Hastings, Junr., baptized.
Apr. 21 Voted a letter of Recommendation of Ebenezer Taylor & of Beulah
his wife directed to ye Ghh of Xt in Narragansett No. 2.
May 19 Sophia daughter of Joseph Morse Baptized.
June 16 Ebenezr. My Son, Salmon Son of Benja. Temple, & Tamar
daughter of Sol. Houghton Baptized.
May 12 Ephraim & Martha twin Ghildren of Samll. Bixby Baptized.
June 30 Rachel daughter of David Winch baptized.
July 1 Sarah wife of Amariah Biglo Received to fuU Gomm with ys Ghh.
Aug. 10 Stephen Son of Gharles Wood Baptized.
Sept. 8 Ithamer Son of Ephm. Wheeler Baptized per Do Mellen.
Sept. Benja. Son of Benja. Hinds Baptized.
24 Church Records of Shrewsbury, Mass. [Jan.
Sept. 29 Bazaleel Maynard & his wife Elizabeth . . . received Baptism
for Elizabeth their daughter.
Oct. 20 Olive daughter of Joseph Glazier baptized.
Oct. 29 Mercy daughter of Jonathan Gale baptized per Do Gushing. .
Dec. 4 Rebeccah daughter of Levi Mores Baptized.
* * *
Oct. 30 Levi More & Rebecca his wife admitted to full Comn.
1755
Jan. 19 MoUe Daughter of Willm. Ghesnut Baptized.
Feb. 2 Dinah daughter of Jontha. Keyes, Junr., & Abel Son of Amariah
Biglo Baptized.
Feb. 24 Elizabeth daughter of Robert Andrews Baptized.
Apr. 18 Silence daughter of Jonathan Ball Bapt. per D marty.
May 11 David Son of Danll Bixby Baptized.
Item Joseph Son of Ebenr Inglesbe.
June 7 Mary daughter of Peter JosIjti Baptized.
July 13 Ebenr. my Son, Willim Son of Wm. Goss, John son of Josiah
Bennet, Thomas Son of John Keyes, John & Jotham Sons of
Jotham Bush Baptized.
Aug. 3 Mr. Job Whitney Reed, to full Gomn.
10 Dinah Daughter of Joseph Biglow, Junr., Baptized.
Nov. 3 Ephraim Son of Ephm. HoUand Baptized.
Nov. 30 Reuben Son of Samll HoUand Baptized.
1756
Feb. 15 Jane daughter of Jacob Pike & Ruth daughter of Berzell Maynard
baptized.
22 Jason Son of Benja. Hinds baptized per D MeUen.
28 Jotham Flagg, Abigail Gale, & Meriam Keyes Reced to full Comn.
Mar. 22 Ebenr Son of Elijah Rice baptized.
May 8 Eliakim Son of Zebulun Rice Baptized.
May 15 Rhuami Son of SamU Bixby baptized.
Jime 8 Daniel Ball & Unice his wife admitted to full Communion.
Moses, Aaron, & Daniel, Sons of ye Sd. Ball, Baptized.
June 14 Charles Son of Charles Wood & John Son of Moses Smith Baptized.
Sept. Joseph Glazier, Senr., & Mary his wife admitted to full Comn.
Thanfull Cheeny admitted to fuU Comn & Reed baptism for
Simon her Son. Unice daughter of Jona Gale baptized.
Sept. 12 being nigh its End daughter of Reuben Mores baptized in
private.
Oct. 15 Aaron Sawj^er & Abigal his Wife, Elizabeth Maynard, Sarah
Newton, Persis Keyes admitted to full Gomn. Aaron Son of
Aaron Sawyer Baptized. Also Lemuel & Elijah, Sons of widdow
Sarah Newton, Baptized.
1757
Jan. 9 Cyprian Keyes and Martha his wife admitted to Comn. also
Joseph my Son Baptized being 7 daj''s old.
Feb. 13 Sarah daughter of Jonathan Keyes, Junr., baptized.
Feb. 27 Silence Winch admitted to Comn. in fuU.
Mar. 27 Amariah Son of Amariah Biglo Bapd. per D Gushing.
Apr. 3 John son of Robert Andrews Baptized.
June 19 Saml Rice & his wife . . . were admitted to full Comn. & Reed.
Baptism for their Son Samuel.
July 3 OUve daughter of WiUm Dunmore baptized.
July 18 David Son of Cyprian Keyes, Junr., baptized.
Nov. 6 Olive daughter of Josh. Biglo, Junr., Baptized.
Dec.
5
.1758
Jan.
14
Apr.
2
Apr.
23
Apr.
30
June
4
1923] Church Records of Shrewsbury, Mass. 25
'Bette daughter of Mr. Gleazon Baptized.
Nimrod Son of Benja. Hinds baptized. ...
Jonas Temple & Olive his wife owned the covenant & Olive therr
daughter baptized.
Louisa daughter of Baseliel Majmard Baptized.
Anna daughter of Ebenr Inglesbe baptized.
Saml Hastings and Ann his wife . . . owned ye Covenant &
I Received baptism for Stephen their Son.
I June 9 Voted a Letter of Recommendation to Br Daniel Hastings and
f Priscilla his wife to the Chh of Christ in Petersham.
\ * * *
June 19 James Son of Ephm. Holland was baptized.
July 22 Ephraim Temple and Mary his wife . . . owned ye Covenant
of this Chh and Received Baptism for Francis their Son.
Sept. 23 Reuben Son of Joshua Townsend baptized.
Oct. 2 James & Reuben Sons of Widdow Moore baptized.
* * *
Nov. 5 Abigail Moore admitted to full Conm. . . .
Nov. 18 William Crawford & his wife . . . owned the Covenant of of this
Chh & Reced. Baptism for their Son John.
Item Joseph Son of Elijah Rice baptized.
Dec. 31 Damaris daughter of Jonas Temple baptized.
Nov. 3 Jonathan Son of Jonathan Keyes, Junr., baptized.
I 1759
\ ' Jan. 14 Rufus Son of Jonas Ward baptized.
I Feb. 4 Esther daughter of David Taylor & Cyprian Son of Cyprian
I Keyes, Junr., Baptized,
f - Feb. 18 Eliakim my Son baptized.
! Feb. 25 Ebenezr Pike, Junr., reed to fuU Comm & David his Son Baptiz.
i Apr. 22 Calvin Son of Joseph Glazier Baptized.
I Apr. 29 Isaac Son of Epm Temple Baptized. Item Lucy daughter of
I Robt. Andrew & Susannah daughter of Zebulun Rice Baptized.
• June 10 Jno. Taylor & his wife admitted to Conm. and Received baptism
for HoUowell their Son.
Item Stephen Son of Stephen Flagg baptized.
June 24 Ebenr Son of Jonathn Cutting baptized.
Aug. 19 Sarah daughter of Amariah Biglo baptize.
* * *
Sept. 5 The Chh voted That Molle Whittemore be admitted into Covenant
with ye Ch.
Sept. 9 MoUe Whittemore baptized.
Sept. 16 Ashm* Son of Benjn. Hinds baptized.
Nov. 11 Levi Son of Levi Moore baptizd per Mr. Sherman.
Dec. 23 Levina daughter of Ezra Beaman baptiz.
1760
Jan. 6 Jonas son of Samll. Holland baptized.
Jan. 27 Eliab Son of Isaac Gleazon baptized.
Mar. 24 INIolle daughter of Ebenr Inglesbee baptized.
Jan. 6 Willm. Goss Removed his Relation from ye 2d Chh in Lancaster
to this Chh. Item Edward Newton, Senr., from sd 2d Chh to
ys. Chh.
May 16 Zebadah daughter of Benj. Temple baptized.
Elizabeth Goss received to full Comn. with this Chh.
June 8 Eli Son of Jonathn Gale baptized.
July 13 Stephen Son of Capt Joseph Biglo, Jur., baptized.
26 Church Records of Shrewsbury, Mass. [Jan.
Item Sally daughter of Daniel Ball. •
July 20 Levina daughter of Stepn Keyes Baptized.
Aug. 20 Hannah daughter of David Taylor baptizd,
Nov. 16 Amhert my son baptized.
Nov. 16 Relief daughter of Nathll Bixby baptized.
Nov. 23 Patte daughter of Benja. Hinds baptized.
Nov, Ebenezer Son of Jonathan Keyes, Junr., baptized.
1761
Jan. 4 John Son of Steph. Flagg baptized.
Jan. 11 I'redrick Abbut & Jurusha Bixby, wife of Nathall. Bixby, admitted
to full Comn. with this Chh. Also David Winch and his Wife
were Received from ye Chh of Framingham.
Feb. 25 Charles Son of Samll Hastings baptized.
Mar. 22 Oliver Son of Willm. Goss, Ephm. Son of John Keys, Philemon
Son of Sol Houghton, & Ephraim Son of Ebenr Pike, Junr.,
Baptized.
Mar. 29 Luce daughter of Jotham Bush baptized.
Mary daughter of John Taylor baptized per Don Goss.
May 22 Naomi daughter of Edward Newtofi, Junr., baptized.
June 12 Nathanael Son of Ephraim Holland baptized.
Sept. 3 Sarah daughter of Enoch Kinsley baptized.
Aug. 9 Margaret Gale & Zillah Taylor admitted to full Comn.
* * *
Oct. 11 Isaac Temple admitted to full Comn.
Oct. 19 Parnae daughter of Aaron Sawyer baptized.
Oct. 5 Thaddeus son of Jonas Ward baptized.
Nov. 15 Samuel Bennet & Abigail his wife Removed yr Relation from the
Chh of Holden to ys Chh.
Item Daniel Far Removed his Relation from ye Chh of Stow to this Chh.
Item his wife Removed her relation from ye Chh of Holden to this Chh.
Item Esther daughtei; of Antipas Bouker baptized.
1762
Feb; Molle daughter to Levi Moore baptized.
Feb. 14 Patte daughter of Cjtju Keyes, Junr., baptized.
Feb. 28 Persis daughter of Peter Joslyn.
Mar. 7 Tabitha daughter of Benja. Hinds baptized.. '
Apr. 11 Levi Son of Amariah Biglo, Winsor Son of Isaac Gleason, Banister
Son of Berzel Maynard, Sarah daughter of Daniel Farr, Luce
daughter of Jonathan Goodenough Baptized.
Apr. 18 Paul Son of Samll HoUand, Unice daughter of Ebenr. Inglesby,
Mary daughter of Josha. Townsend, Eleonar daughter of
Willm. Crawford baptized.
May 9 Persis daughter of Ezra Beaman baptize per D MartjTi.
May 23 Asa son of Robert Andrews baptized.
June 6 Charles Biglo & Luce his ^dfe admitted to full Comn. with this
Chh. Lucretia his daughter baptized.
June 27 Ezra Son of Ephm. Temple baptized, also Eliphalet Cutting &
Mary his wife owned ye Covt. & Abigail jt. daughter Baptised.
July 4 Zehariah Eager & Abigail . . . Reed. Baptism for Lovisa their
daughter.
July 25 John Son of Jonas Temple Baptized per Do Mecarty.
Aug. 22 Luce daughter of Samll Rice baptized.
Sept. 12 Axah daughter of Joseph Biglo baptized.
Sept. 19 Amos Fullar & Mary his wife . . . put themselves imder ye
bonds of the Covet. & She Recived baptism for her Self.
Item Salmo Son of Jonathan Keyes, Junr., baptized.
1923] Church Records of Shrewsbury, Mass. 27
Jonathan son of Jonathan Gale, Lucy daughter of David Taylor,
and Elizabeth daughter of Stephn Keyes Baptized.
A letter' of Recommendation of the Revd. Mr. James Welman
I from the 2d Chh in Sutton read; & pursuant thereunto Voted
] to Receive to our fellowship & Comn the Revd. person abovesd.
I Nov. 21 ■ daughter of Amos Fuller baptized.
I Nov. 28 Benja son of Zechaiah Eager baptized.
A letter to ye Covenanting Brethren at Ipswitch Canada Recom-
mending & Dismissing Daniel Bixby.
Asa Harris received from ye Chh in Leominster.
Bette the wife of John Hastings reed to full Comn.
Luke son of Asa Harris and Eliakim Son of John Hastings baptized.
A letter of Recomdn. of Tabitha Bixby to the Chh in Ipswitch ,
Canada Voted. Item Isaac Son of Norman Sever Baptized.
Levi Son of Jothm. Bush, Epm. Son of Ephm Allen, and Edmund
Son of Edmund Larkin Baptized per D Martyn.
Abial Son of Bazillai Holt baptized.
Lucy daughter of Artemas Maynard baptized.
Ephr. Alleij Removed his Relation from the 2d Chh in West-
borough to this Chh.
of Ebenr Pike, Junr., baptized.
Berzeliel How and his wife admitted to fuU Conm. with this Chh.
Mr. Kimbal Removed his Relation from the first Chh in Boxford
to this Chh.
Item Sarah Graves admitted to full Comn. with this Chh.
Ebenr Woodisse & wife owned the Govt and Reed. Baptism for
Edward their Son.
Eli Keyes, Junr., admitted to fuU Comn as also Sarah his wife . . .
and Red. Baptism for Relief her daughter as also for Ezra
their son.
Item Saphira daughter o[f] Antipas Bouker baptized.
Peobody Son of Cypr. Keyes, Junr., baptized.
Francis Son of Berzeliel Maynard baptized.
Micah Hathern & Sarah his wife owned the Covn of this Chh &
Reed Baptism for Sarah yr daughter.
* * *
Nov. 27 Ezra Son of Asaph Butler and daughter of Ebenr. Inglesbe
baptized.
1764
Jan. 1 Ezra Son of Levi Moor baptized. .
* * *
Feb. 19 Dorothy & Anna daughters of Peter Joslyn Baptized.
Mar. 4 Betty daughter of Edward Newton, Junr., Baptized.
Mar. 11 Samuel Son of Daniel Farr baptized.
May 1 Andrew Son of Charles Biglo baptized.
May 22 Jonas son of Jonas Temple and Anis my daughter Baptized, also
Relief Bennet and Gate Graves admitted to full Comm.
May 20 Jonas Son of Jonas Temple & Anis my daughter baptized.
* * *
June 10 James Goodenough & his wife owned ye Covenant and received
baptism for Timothy their Son.
June 24 Candice daughter of Joseph Glazier baptized.
Abigail daughter of Aaron Sawyer Baptized.
July 22 Mary Gleason admitted to full Comn. with this Chh and Lettice
daughter of Elijah Rice baptized.
Oct.
Oct.
24
Nov.
21
Nov.
28
Dec.
5
Pi
f:[1763]
Jan. 2
Item
Feb.
27
1763
Apr.
3
Apr.
17
May 15
May 22
May 25
Sept.
Sept.
11
18
Oct.
16
Oct.
24
Nov.
7
Nov.
13
Nov.
21
28 Church Records of Shrewsbury, Mass. [Jan.
Aug. 5 Stephen Hastings and his wife owned ye Covenant and received
Baptism for Antipas a Servant boy of theirs.
Aug. 26 Rachel daughter of Stephn. Hastings baptized.
Sept. 2 Jonathan Son of Jonathan Cutting & Lucretia daughter of Jonas
Ward Baptized.
Sept. 23 Silas How & Abigail his wife Received to full Comn. John Son of
Willm Crawford baptized.
Nov.[6Zot] Levi Son of Silas How Baptized.
Nov. ' Daniel Son of Eli Keyes, Junr., and Mara daughter of Widow
Sarah Holland baptized.
Nov. 25 Tamar Beaman admitted to full Comn.
Dec. 2 Rhoda daughter of Jonn Gale & Tamar daughter of Nathnll.
Davnpot baptized.
Dec. 24 Thomas son of Artemas Maynard Baptized.
Item Ebenezer Belknap . . . was admitted to Covenant [and]
Silence His wife also. . . .
1765
Feb. 24 Jotham Son of BerziUai Holt & Lydia daughter of Micah Hathem
Baptized.
Mar. 10 Elisha Son of Ephm. Allen baptized.
Mar. 17 ThankfuU daughter of Daniel Ball Baptized.
Item The Chh manifested their Consent that Zoeth Johnson
Should be Baptized in private as his bodily Indisposition would
not admit of his attending Publick worship, wch. Baptism was
accordingly admiministed March 21 at the place of his Residence.
Apr. 15 Ahio son of Epm. Temple, SHas son of Epm. Beaman, Luke Son
of Zebulun Rice, Louisa daughter of Eben. Belknap.
Apr. 29 Betty daughter of John Hastings baptized.
June 19 Abigail daughter of Edmimd Larking baptized.
June 30 daughter of Ebenr Pike baptized.
Sept. 1 Levi son of Amariah Biglo baptized,
Oct. 20 Francis son of Jonatn. Kej'es, Junr., & Amariah Son of Joseph
Sawyer Baptized per Mr. Rice.
Nov. 3 Ethon son of Norman Sever Baptized.
Nov. 3 Lucy daughter of Berzeliel lilaynard baptized.
Nov. 30 Sarah Beaman & Mary Morse admitted to fuU Comn.
Dec. 1 Le\'i Son of Asa Harris & Phinehas son of Berzell. How Baptized.
1766
Mar. 3 Persis daughter of Jonas Temple & Nahum Son of Lot Houghton
Baptized. ,
Apr. 9 Willm Dinsmore admitted to full Comn. and Bulah Lee . . .
Reed. Baptism for her Son Benoni.
Apr. Abigail daughter of Silas How Baptized.
Apr. Joseph Son of Charles Biglo Baptized.
May 4 Zenobia daughter of Jotham Flagg Baptized.
May 23 Son of James Goodnough & Abigail Daughter of Da%'id
Hastings Baptized.
June 8 Dorcas daughter of Nathall Davenport Baptized.
June 15 Lucy daughter of Micah Hathem Baptized.
1763
Aug. 14 !Martha daughter of Revd. James Welman Baptized per Revd.
Welman.
1766
May 25 Joshua Son of the Revd. James Welman Baptized per ye Revd.
James Welman.
June 22 Jemima Mahawny . . . received Baptism for her Daughter
Hannah.
Dec.
29
1767
Jan.
4
Jan.
11
Feb.
8
Feb.
15
Mar,
20
Mar. 22
I - 1923] Church Records of Shrewsbury, Mass. 29
\ Item Lucena & Sophia daughters of Antipas Bouker were Baptized.
{ Nov. 9 Isaac Stone and Rachel his wife admitted to full Communion &
I Received baptism for Esther yr daughter. Lucy daughter of
i Jonah Goodenouh baptized.
I Nov, 19 Stephen Bigham & Jemime his wife admitted to full Comm. &
■■ Received Baptism for Patte yr daugher. Item Manasseh Bixby
] & wife . . . owned the Covenant of this Chh & Received
f baptism for Manassah yr Son. WiUm Crawford recived baptism
I for their Son James.
s * * *
Jotham Son of Robert Andrews baptized. . . .
John Glazier & Sarah his wife . . . owned the Covenant of this
Chh.
Jotham Son of Jotham Flagg baptized.
Hanah Whitemore owned ye Covenant & was baptized.
Eliakim Son of Joseph Glazier baptized.
Loami Son of Ephm. Temple baptized in private. . . .
Aaron Temple and his wife owned ye Govt and received Baptism
for Elizabeth their daughter,
* * *
May 31 Alpheus son of Jonathan Cutting baptized.
* * *
June 21 Bette daughter of Ezra Beaman Baptized.
July 5 Fortunatus Son of Nathan Eager & Daniel Son of Norman Sever
Baptized,
* :)< :»
July 30 John & Betty child of Jona. Gale & Jacob son of Benja. Hinds
baptized,
* * *
Sept. 13 Elnathan Son of Amariah Biglo baptized.
Oct. 4 WiUiam Son of Joseph Morse, Louis daughter of Abel Holt and
Unice his Wife (Who this day owned ye Covenant) baptized.
Also Lorana a Black Child Liveing with Danll. Abbut, Junr.,
. . , baptized upon the footing of his wifes Covenant Relation.
Oct, 26 Bette daughter of Isaac Stone baptized.
Nov. 3 Lydia daughter of Zechariah Eager baptized.
Nov. 11 Asa son of Asa Harris baptized.
Nov. 30 John Dinsmore & Sarah his wife owned ye Covenant & Reed.
Baptism for Sarah jt daughter. Also Epm Son of Silas How
baptized.
1768
Feb. 21 Samuel Son of Micah Hathern baptized.
Mar. 27 Ebur Son of Antipas Bouker baptized.
Apr. 10 Jane daughter of Willm Crawford baptized.
Apr. 24 Jonas Goodenow and Mary his wife reed to full Comm. and Elijah
yi- Son baptized.
May 14 Lucy daughter of Barzel. Maynard baptized.
June 5 Lucretia daughter of Stephen Flagg, Bette daughter of Cyprian
Keyes, Simeon Son of Zebulun Rice, Benjamin Son of Mrs.
Winch baptized.
June daughter of Jonth. Green baptized.
Aug. 20 Tamar daughter of Ephm. Beaman baptized.
Aug. 28 Henry Son of Simeon Keyes baptized.
Oct. 23 David Son of Thomas Keyes baptized.
Oct. 29 Rebeccah daughter of Jotham Flagg baptized.
30 Church Records of Shrewsbury, Mass. [Jan.
Nov. 6 Annise daughter of Josph. Biglo, Junr., Baptized.
1769
Jan. 15 Isaac Bernard Esqr. & John Holland and their wives admitted
to full Comn. with this Chh upon a Recommendation of an
Ecclesiastical Council at Sutton.
Mar. 5 Lucy daughter of Josa. Townsend baptized.
Apr. 4 Willm Son of Wm. Dinsmore baptized.
Apr. 11 Ezekiel Son of Danll Ball baptized.
Apr. 30 Timothy Whitney and wife . . . owned the Covenant & received
Baptism for Lucy their daughter.
May The wife of Mr. March of Sutton received to the Comn. of
this Chh from Sutton 2d. Chh upon the recommendation of an
Ecclesiastical Coimcil.
July 9 Sylvanus Son of Ira Dinsmere baptized per Revd. Whitney of
Northborough.
Sept. 17 Daniel Son of Jonas Ward, Joseph Son of Zebulun Rice, and
Amherst Son of Daniel Child Baptized.
Oct. Edmund Son of Mr. Stephen Brigham baptized.
if * *
Oct.* 25 Phebe Keyes, Lydia Keyes admitted to full Comn.
Nov. 2 Isaac Mimroe & Jacob Alunro baptized.
Nov. 9 Submit Keyes & Sarah Keyes received to full Comn.
Dec. 30 Amsden Gale owned ye Covt. & was Baptized.
1770
Feb. 8 Lucy daughter of Micah Hathem baptizd.
Apr.' 8 John Morse and Elizabeth his wife owned the Covenant & Received
Baptism for EKzabeth >t daughter.
Apr. 22 Aaron Goodale & wife owned the Covenant and received Baptism
for their oldest Child.
Apr. 29 Timothy Temple and his wife owned the Covenant and received
Baptism for Pama their daughter.
May 6 Joseph Bixby and . . . owned the Covenant & received baptism
for their oldest daughter.
May 6 Solomon Houghton received baptism for his daughter.
Item Cyprian Keyes, Junr., received baptism for Lucy their daughter.
May 13 Benja. Hind received baptism for his daughter.
June 3 Nathal. Davenport received Baptism for Dolly his daughter.
July 15 Joel Son of Benj. Keyes baptized.
Aug. 5 Patience Goss . . . owned ye Covnt. & Received Baptism for
Benoni her Sone.
Item Samll. Blocket and Lydia his wife owned ye Covn. and Reed.
baptism for Catherine their daughter. ^
Sept. 3 Aaron Son of Adonijah Rice baptized.
Sept. 18 Nathan Pike & wife owned ye Covt. & received baptm. for Samuel
their Son.
Sept. 30 Baptized daughter of Lieut. Fletcher and Lucey daughter
of Parks of New Fane.
Oct. 7 Baptized Gershom Son of Stephen Flagg. Item Levi the Son of
William Crawford.
Oct. 21 John Bixby & his wife admitted to Covt. & to Rece Baptism
their Son.
Nov. 6 Josiah Cutting & his Wife admitted to Covt & Reed Baptism for
Joel their Son. Also Soil Son of Jotham Flagg Baptized.
Item Sally How admitted to fuU Comn.
♦In the original manuscript "Sep" ia written above " Octob," and the last two letters of "Ootob*
have been crossed out.
Dec. 4
1771
Feb. 3
Mar. 23
Item
Apr. 6
Item
Aug. 2
Aug.
Item
Nov.
Item
25
24
1772
Jan. 12
Mar.
Apr.
8
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Dec. 9 Lucy daughter of Aaron Goodell Baptized. Item David Son of
Mrs. Kimball.
Voted a letter of Recomendation of Ephm Allen to ye Chh in
Rutland.
Phebe daughter of Jonathan Green baptized pr Dom. Hutchinson.
James Winch and Sarah his wife admitted to full Comn. Axah
their daughter baptized.
Benjamin Son of Zebulun Rice baptized.
Son of John Dunsmore baptized.
Amity daughter of Jonn. Fasset Baptized.
Daniel Whitney admitted to full Comn.
Lewis Son of John Glazier & Axa daughter of Josa. Townsend
Ba^jtized.
Elijah Bail and Wife admitted to full Com.
MoUe daughter of Stanton Carter baptized.
EUzabeth Temple reced to fuU Comn.
Josp. Dinsmore & wife owned ye Covt. & receved Bapt for Annise
their daughter.
Robert Andrews, Junr., & wife reed to full Comm. and Recevd
Baptism for
Martha daughter of Jotham Bush baptized.
Unice daughter of Micah Hathem, Annise daughter of Ebenr.
Pike, Sally daughter of Stephen Brigham baptizd.
May 3 Unice daughter of Josp. Biglo, Junr., Henry Son of Fredrick
Abbut, PrescUla daughter of Josp. Bixby, and Rhoda daughter
of Willm Win baptized.
Item Willm Win & wife . . . owned the Covt.
May 10 Lucy Keyes admitted to full Comn. Abm Gale & wife owned ye
Covent. and received baptizm for Mary their daughter.
June 20 Jacob[?] Pike & wife . . . were admitted to Covn. Item Thoms
Blocket & wife & received baptm for yr Children.
July 5 Olive daughter of Jos. Dinsmore baptized.
July 13 Jonas Richardson & wife admitted to full Conm.
Sept. 8 Tamar daughter of Silas How baptized.
Sept. 13 Samuel Son of Jotham Flagg, Annise daughter of Soln Houghton,
and Azuba daughter of Jonas Richardson baptized. Also
Voted a letter of Recomion of Benj Biglo and wife to the Chh
in Worthington.
1773 •
Jan. 24 Unice & daughters of Josiah Cutting Baptized.
Feb. 14 Shepherd Son of Adonijah Rice baptized.
Feb. 21 John Son of John Morse Baptized.
* * *
Nov. 28 Phenehas Haywood and wife made a profession of the Christion
Religion & received Baptizm for their Child.
Dec. 12 Dudley Bradstreet Son of David Andrews baptized.
1774
Jan. 16 Elizabeth daughter of Jonn. Fasset Baptized.
Feb. Unice daughter of Ezra Beaman baptized.
Mar. 13 Jonas Whitney and Wife made a profession of the Christian
Religion.
Apr. 3 Polly daughter of Jonas Ward baptized per D Whitney.
Apr. 26 ThankfuU daughter of Jotham Flagg baptized.
32 Church Records of Shrewsbury, Mass. [Jan.
May 22 John Son of Abraham Gale baptized.
July Thanael Son of David Cutting Baptized.
Sept. 18 Mary daughter of John Bixby baptized.
Sept. 25 Henry Son of Jonathan Hastings baptized.
Oct. 23 Son of Joseph Bixby & Meriam daughter of Capt. Josh.
Biglo Baptized.
Nov. 6 Solomon Son of Charles Biglow baptized.
Dec. 4 Sally daughter of Sol Houghton Baptized.
1776
Sept. James Son of Charles Biglo baptized.
1778
Aug. Mary daughter of Willm Crawford baptized.
1779
Aug. 11 Mary daughter of Charles Biglo baptized. *■
1781
Sept. John Son of Charles Biglo baptized.
1783
Apr. 20 Jotham Bush and Mary his wife made profession of the Christian
Religion and put themselves under the Bonds of the Chh
Covenant and received Baptism for Mary their daughter.
1785
Apr. 19 Jemima Hallowell daughter to Jothm Bush baptized.
1786
Apr. 19 Polly Jenings made a profession of the Christian Religion and
was Baptized.
June 18 James Wite[?] made a profession of the Christian Religion and
was baptized.
Aug. 13 Le\'i Bush and Patte his wife made a profession of the Christian
Religion and received baptism for Abigail Wilder their daughter.
Lucy Fish owned the Covent. Lucy her daughter bapt. Silas
Beaman and Persis his wife made a profession of Religion.
Jemima daughter of Jotham Bush baptized.
Patte daughter of Levi Bush baptized.
1790
Aug. Charity daughter of Levi Bush baptized.
Ninety-five marriages, fromJNIar. 26, 1744, to Apr. 2, 1791, inclusive,
are entered in the book from which the records given above have
been copied; but, as has been stated above (page 18), only those
marriages (thirty-two in number) are reproduced here which are
not included in the printed Vital Records of Shrewsbury or which
differ materially from the corresponding entries in that volume.
Nov. 18, 1747 Benjam. Hinds Married to Elizabeth Temple.
July 12, 1757 Ephraim Allen Married to widdow Huldah Chestnut.
Feb. 28, 1758 William Crawfford married To Mary Dunsmore.
Apr. 25, 1758 Silas Whitney married to Jane Pearson.
Jan. 18, 1759 Thomas Willard married to Elis Davenport.
Nov. 8, 1759 William Goss married to Widow Pike.
Nov. 20, [1760] Henry Rice married to Sarah Boynton.
Apr. 1, 1762 Eli Kej-es married to Hannah How.
Apr. 24, 1762 John Britain married to Esther Newton.
May 18, 1762 Solomon Newton married to Hannah Hastings.
May 25, 1762 John Hastings married to Betty How.
May 27, [1762] Artemas Ma3mard married to Meriam Keyes.
Feb. 23, 1764 Nathanael Davenport Married to Tamar Aloore.
May 29, [1764] Ephraim Beaman ^Married to Tamar How.
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I Aug. 7, 1764 Richard Stanford married to Elizabeth Winch.
I Sept. 19, 1769 Josiah Cutting married to Persis Glazier.
I Oct. 5, 1770 Joseph Dyar of New Fane married to Susannah Holbrook.
I Item Benjamin Skeel and Sarah How of Townsend. ,
I Dec. 24, 1770 Stephen Bass married to Phebe Keyes.
I Dec. 11, 1771 William Win married to Anna Briard.
I Jan. 14, 1773 Jonas Bennet Married to Mary Williams[?].
i Jan. 14,*1773 David Bennet Married to Persis Cutting.
I Sept. 26, 1773 Phinehas Smith married to Esher Green, new Fane.
f May 24, 1774 Thomas Clark married to Catherine Ward.
j Item Warren Smith married to Catherine Keyes.
I Dec. 8, 1774 John Powers married to Anna Stacy.
! Feb. 17, 1775 Thomas Richardson married to Refief Biglo.
-[ Apr. 26, 1779 Edward Raymond married to Wdw Hepsibeth Bush.
'[ ■ Feb. 22, 1786 Isaac Jennings Married to Thankfull Oaks.
'■ June 22, 1786 Amherst Morse married to Asuba Fisk.f
Jan. 18, 1791 Mr. Henry Smith married to Molly Fuller.^
Apr. 2 Mr. Jason Abbot married to Miss Mary Morse. §
The church book contains also the following family record, written
apparently (except some of the death entries) by Rev. Ebenezer
Morse. It has been copied verbatim from the original record.
i I Ebener Morse Bom March 2 1718 0. S
I ' Persis my wife bom April 22 1727
Married Octob 23 1745 0. Stile
I Persis my wife died May 6 1788 New Stile
\ Revd Ebenr Morse Died the 3d Day Jany 1802 New Stile Aged. 84
I years
I John my Son bom July 15th 1746
.? Mary my daughter bom 24 of Decembr. 1747 & died March 26 17[wom]
\ EUakim my Son bom April 7th. 1750 Died Feb 27th. 1758
Joshua my Son bom April 8th 1752
Ebenezer bom June 11 & Died 28 of July 1754
Ebenezer the Second bom July 10th 1755
Joseph bom Jan 3 1757 and died Sepr 20 1779
Eliakim ye 2d bom Feb 14 1759 died 9 Jany 1859 1[
Amherst born Nov 11th 1760
Anis bom May 19 1764 died 27 Jany 1845
Mary my daughter bom Augt. 12 1767 and died 28th August 1843
*"Jan. 14" written above "Feb. 24," which hag been crossed out.
tin the printed Vital Records of Boykton, under the name Morse, is given the marriage of
Amherst Morse and Azubath Fish or Fisher, May 15, 1786; under the name Fish (or Fisher) is
given the publishment of Azubah and Amherst Morse, May 15, 1786.
JThis marriage is given in the printed Vital Records of Boylston.
{The date of this marriage is given in the printed Vital Records of Boylston and in the Morse
Genealogy as April 2, 1797. In the record given in this article this marriage immediately follows
the marriage of Mr. Henry Smith and Molly Fuller, but no year is given.
TThis death record is written in pencil.
34 Descendants of Philip Gavet ' [Jan.
PHILIP GAVET OF SALEM, MASS.,
AND
SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS
By Joseph Gavit of Albany, N.Y.
The immigrant ancestor in New England of the family which
forms the subject of this article was of French origin, and came to
this country, towards the middle of the seventeenth century, from
the Island of Jersey, one of the Channel Islands, off the northern
coast of France. These islands have belonged to England for many
centuries, being the only part of the former Duchy of Normandy
which remained under the rule of the Enghsh kings after the close
of the Hundred Years' War. The population of the islands, however,
is largely French, from Brittany, Artois, and other ancient provinces
of northern France. There is a tradition that in the old church of
St. Saviour, in Jersey, there are records of this family that date
back into the twelfth century. There are Gavets in France to-day,
and writings by members of the family are listed in the catalogue
of the Bibliotheque Nationale. In J. B. Rietstap's "Armorial
G6n6ral," second edition, Gouda, 1884, vol. 1, page 750, is the
following description of a Gavet coat of arms:
"Gavet ou Gawet — Angl., Art., Bret* D'arg, a une tour de gu., surm.
d'une rose du meme, et accostee de deux rats de sa., poses debout, les queues
se croisant au-dessous de la tour."
The spelling of the surname has varied at different times and in
different branches of the family. Philip, the immigrant ancestor in
New England, and his descendants at Salem generally used the
form Gavet or Gavett, but the compUer of this genealogy spells the
name Gdvit, although of the same Salem line. Ezekiel, the progenitor
of the Westerly (R. I.) branch of the family, signed his wUl as Gaidt,
but in deeds to him from Oliver Ring and Charles Ninegret the
surname is spelled Gavett. Gavett and Gavitt have been used by the
Westerly descendants, and another form of the name is Gavitte.
Various immigrants of the name have arrived in America since the
coming of the ancestor of the Safem family, and one branch of these
immigrants has changed the speUing to Gavey, to retain the French
pronunciation.
According to the family Bible of Joseph^ Gavet (vide infra, 4),
as quoted by the late WUliam Fobes Gavet (55) of Salem, his descend-
ant, in whose possession the Bible was at that time, the immigrant
ancestor of the Salem family was Phihppe Gavet, who was born in
the Island of Jersey 2 May 1631, arrived in Massachusetts in 1647,
and married at the age of twenty-four, that is, about 1655. But the
four children mentioned in this Bible were the children of Philip
Gavett and Hannah Macchone, who were married at Marblehead,
Mass., 6 Sept. 1681. This may be a second marriage of the immigrant
♦The words in italics are abbreviations of Angleterre, Artois, Bretagne, that is, England, Artois,
Brittany.
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i
I of 1647; but, when it is considered that Joseph, the youngest child
i of this marriage, was born 22 Dec. 1699, that the mother, Hannah,
[ was born 31 Oct. 1659 and died 1 Dec. 1713, and that after her
f death her husband, Phihp, removed to Westerly, R. I., and built
I a house, being then, if he was the immigrant of 1647, about eighty-
I three years old, it seems likely that the Phihp who married Hannah
I Macchone was not the immigrant of 1647, but may have been his
J son. In that case, perhaps Katherine Gavet, who was married at
I Newbmy, Mass., 5 or 8 Apr. 1677, to Job Pilsbury,* and John Gavitt,
I who married Sarah and whose daughter was born at Newport,
i R. I., 14 Sept. 1699, were also children of the first "Philippe."
Joseph's family Bible gives no particulars regarding his parents,
as such.
The following genealogy begins with the PhUip Gavet who married
Hannah Macchone, and leaves unsettled the question whether he
was identical with the immigrant of 1647.
1. Philip^ Gavet, of Marblehead and Salem, Mass., died in
Rhode Island not earUer than 1714. He married at Marblehead,
6 Sept. 1681, Hannah Macchone, born at Cambridge, Mass.
(where she is recorded as. Hannah Macoone), 31 Oct. 1659 and
baptized in the First Church there 19 July 1663, died at Salem
1 Dec. 1713, daughter of John and Deborah (Bush) Macoone.
! Hannah Gavet, wife of Phihp, being "a child of the Church at
I Cambridge," was propounded and admitted to the First Church of .
I Salem 21 June 1696, and was admitted to fuU communion 6 Nov.
I 1698. Her six children were baptized in that church 21 June 1696.
• There was in existence, a few years ago, a translation by Phihp
Gavet of Charles Drelincourt's "Consolations de Tame fidele centre
les frayeurs de la mort," from an edition published in Paris in 1669.
WiUiam Bentley (cf. his Diary, vol. 3, pp. 332-333) saw this trans-
lation in Dec. 1807, in the hands of William^ Gavet (28), in Salem .
"The handwriting," writes Bentley, "is uncommonly clear &
almost easy to read as print. The lines are at proper distance &
the titles & margins & notes of the pages are preserved as in the
printed copy." This relic, undoubtedly the work of Philip Gavet
the immigrant, was, when last heard of, in the possession of Louis
Fobes^ Gavet of Salem, son of the late William Fobes^ Gavet (55),
who had also a carpenter's plane stamped "P. G."
The following letter from Philip Ga^-et to his son Ezekiel of
Westerly, R. L, was copied from the original manuscript, which in
1909 was temporarily in the hands of the compiler of this article.
The handwriting, like that of the translation of Drelincom-t's "Con-
solations," is "uncommonly clear," and somewhat too steady for a
man in his eighties.
"v/ritten the 7th of December 1713
"My deare Son Ezekiel
"These few sad lines will give you to understand that youre deere Mother
is dead, She was taken very sick the last thirsday of November, and diyed
*Job Pilsbury died 10 Sept. 1716, and "Katbereen" Pilsbury, widow, died 1 Sept. 1718.
(Newbury Vital Records.)
VOL. LXXVII. 3
36 Descendants of Philip Gavet [Jan
the first day of December bettweene eight of the clock, and nine, in the
Morning else I thank God we are all well at present. If you are willing to
be a helpe to me to transport me, and my tools, and bedin and such things
as we have next April, or May, next insueing I shall indeavor to be ready
for your coming then, and if it sute you after planting time, well, with a
small sloop if you could conveniently. And if you could not conveniently
with a Sloope let it be with a horse-carte; and if will com with a horse-carte
you must bring two horses with you heither for I Shall have then a horse-
carte of my own for I am a making of one and wee shall in they two carts
carry my beds,- and as many tools as shall make our Casse of Draws and also
prepare som place somthing sutable that we may sett ourselves to work as
soon as we are com the Goodness of God being plaised to keepe us in health
as for the rest of things I can get som friend to secure them for me against
another comming for them were it at the end of two monts after or were it
against the next spring com twelve monts. How ever contrive about it as
you will and as you can and send me an Answer by the next post, you must
post-pay this letter, and I will post pay yours only remember to make your
superscription Thus To my beloved father Philip Gavet in Salem, to be
delivere to him with haste. Then I shall know what you will do. For when
I see ye word father on the latter I shall know of certainty that it corns
from you, and so I resolve to post pay it so fare-well from your father
"Phihp Gavet"
[Addressed]
"To My beloved Son Ezekiel Gavet I hope living at Westerly in Narra-
sainset to be delivered to him with all the speed
"Sal 9"
According to a letter from Mrs. W. S. Gavitt of Ocean View,
Washington Co., R. I., dated 12 Feb. 1882, Philip Gavet carried
out the plan proposed in his letter of 7 Dec. 1713, removed to Rhode
Island, and, with his son Ezekiel, buUt a house "on the Post Road
from Newport to New London," on the site of which I\Irs. Ga\'itt
was living when she wrote and where she says that Philip died.
Doubtless he is buried in one of the unmarked graves in "Gavitt
ground (4)," mentioned by Denison in "Westerly and its Witnesses."
Children :
i. Elizabeth,* b. at Marblehead 18 July 1682; bapt. at Salem 21 June
1696; perhaps the Elizabeth Gavit who m. in Boston, Mass.,
28 May 1723, Mathew Delawat or Dellaway.
2. ii. Ezekiel, b. at Marblehead 25 Dec. 1683; bapt. at Salem 21 June
1696,
iii. Samuel, bapt. at Salem 21 June 1696.
iv. Philip, bapt. at Salem 21 'June 1696.
3. v. John, bapt. at Salem 21 June 1696.
,vi. Hannah, bapt. at Salem 21 June 1696; perhaps the Hannah Gavett
who m. in Boston, 14 Aug. 1740, Tho.mas Dillehat.
4. vii. Joseph, b. at Salem 22 Dec. 1699; bapt. there 5 Mar. 1699 [1699/
1700].
2. Dea. Ezekiel^ Gavit (Philip^), of Westerly, R. I., yeoman,
born at Marblehead, Mass., 25 Dec. 1683 and baptized at
Salem, Mass., 21 June 1696,. died between 13 May 1752, when
he made his will, and 25 I\Iar. 1754, when his will was proved.
He married at Westerly, 22 Apr. 1704, Hannah Wilcox,
born 4 Oct. 1689, li^dng 13 May 1752, daughter of Edward.
Ezekiel Gavit removed to Westerly about 1700, and was.
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admitted a freeman 30 Apr. 1723. He appears to have been
prominent in the Presbyterian Church, and to have acquired
a considerable property. He is called "Joyner" in a deed
dated 11 Apr. 1726 and acknowledged the same day, by which
Oliver Ringe of New Shoreham "aUias Block Island In the
Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantation In New
England Ship Carpenter and Mary Ringe," his wife, in con-
sideration of £87. 8s., current money of New England, convey
to him 150 acres of land, more or less, in the town of Westerly
(Westerly Land Records, book 4, fo. 97). He is called "Yeo-
man" in a deed dated 24 Sept. 1731 and acknowledged the
same day, by which Charles Ninegret of Westerly, "Chief
i . • Sachem of the Narragansett Country," in consideration of
i £20, current money of New England, conveys to him his
: interest in a tract of land in Westerly (ib., book 5, pages 309-
310).
In his will, dated 13 May 1752 and proved 25 Mar. 1754,
; Ezekiel Gavit of Westerly, yeoman, bequeaths to his daughter
i Mary Lewis 5s., old tenor; to his daughter Hannah Case 5s.,
] old tenor; to his daughter Thankful Gavit a bed and furniture;
[ to his daughter Prudence French 5s., old tenor; to his daughter
r Esther Gavit a bed and fiu-niture; to his son Ezekiel Gavit
I ^ his silver tankard and silver-headed cane, in addition to
I * previous gifts; to his son Stephen Gavit 5s., old tenor, in
i addition to previous gifts;* to his sons Samuel Gavit and
I ■ Joseph Gavit all his homestead farm, to be equally divided
I between them, and also other lands, the said Samuel to pay
1 to the testator's son Benajah Gavit, within three years after
I the testator's decease, £400, " Current Money of New England
I or In Passable Bills of the old Tenor," and the said Joseph
' to pay to the testator's son Hezekiah Gavit, within the same
; time, £400, of the same description; and to his wife Hannah
Gavit his dwelling house and all his personal estate, "for
her to Dispose of as She Sees Meet." He appoints as executors
his wife Hannah Gavit and his son Ezekiel Gavit. The will
was witnessed by Stephen Willcoeks,! Daniel Saunders, and
Joseph Crandal, who made oath when the mil was proved.
• (Westerly Records of Wills, book 4, pages 399-400.)
Children:
i. Makt,3 b. 15 Aug. 1705; living 13 May 1752; m. 10 Oct. 1733
William Lewis.
ii. Hannah, b. 28 Feb. 1707/8; living 13 May 1752; m. 3 Dec. 1724
Immanuel Case. They had issue.
5. iii. Ezekiel, b. 18 Oct. 1710.
6. iv. . Samuel, b. 3 May 1712.
V. John (twin), b. 22 Sept. 1717; probably d. before 13 May 1752.
vi. Thankful (twin), b. 22 Sept. 1717; U\-ing unm. 13 Mav 1752.
vii. Prudence, b. 6 July 1720; living 13 May 1752; m. 1 Mar. 1738
William French. Children: 1. John, b. 15 Nov. 1739. 2.
Prudence, b. 7 June 1743.
I .7. viii. Stephen, b. 24 Feb. 1722/3.
• *In another part of the will it appears that Stephen had received land from his father.
tStephen Willcocks is called by the testator, in another part of the will, his brother-in-law.
8.
IX.
9.
X.
10.
XI.
xu.
38 Descendants of Philip Gavet [Jan,
Joseph, b. 17 Jan. 1724/5.
Benajah, b. 11 Nov. 1726.
Hezekiah, b. 9 Sept. 1729.
Esther, b. 17 Sept. 1732; m. 24 Jan. 1754 Peter Burdick.
3. John* Gavet (Philip^), of Salem, Mass., baptized at Salem 21
June 1696, was living 24 June 1754, when he and his wife
Mary were among the signers of a deed at Salem. He married,
1 Feb. 1716, Maky Carter, daughter of John and Sarah.
Children, baptized at Salem :
i. Mary,3 bapt. 20 Nov. i720; m. 24 Jan. 1747 David Calltjm, b.
15 Dec. 1700, s. of John and Elizabeth (Beans).
11. ii. Joseph, bapt. 4 Aug. 1723.
iii. Sarah, bapt. 9 Apr. 1727; probably d. young,
iv. Sarah, bapt. 8 June 1729.
V. John, bapt. 7 Feb. 1730/1.
4. Joseph'^ Gavet (Philip^), of Salem, Mass., born at Salem 22 Dec.
1699 and baptized there 5 INIar. 1699/1700, died not earlier
than 2 Nov. 1764, the date of his will. He married first,
20 May 1725, Mary Williams, born 19 Dec. 1699, died 11 June
1743, daughter of Isaac and Mary (Endicot); and secondly,
4 May 1746, Susannah Carwick, -^adow, who was probably
buried 7 Mar. 1779.*
Children by first wife, born at Salem :
i. John,' b. 11 Mar. 1725/6; d. 14 Mar. 1725/6.
ii. Joseph, cordwainer, b. 17 Feb. 1726/7.
12. iii. Samuel, b. 24 Mar. 1728/9.
13. iv. Jonathan, b. 3 July 1731.
V. Mart, bapt. 18 Mar. 1732/3; probably d. young.
Children by second wife:
vi. Mart, b. 15 Feb. 1746/7; bapt. at Salem 1 Mar. 1746/7; d. in
infancy.
14. vii. John, b. 30 Apr. 1751; bapt. at Salem 5 May 1751.t
5. EzEKiEL^ Gavitt (Ezckiel,^ Philip^), of Westerly, R. I., was bom
at Westerly 18 Oct. 1710. He married first, at Westerty,
9 Aug. 1732, Amey Babcock, bom 8 Feb. 1712/13, daughter
of John and Mary (Champlin); and secondly, 8 May 1763,
Mary Bryan of Stonington, Conn.
Children by first -nife:
i. Elijah,^ b. 28 May 1734; probably d. young,
ii. John, b. 13 July 1736; m. at Westerly, 19 Apr. 1758, Anna York
of Charlestown, R. I., b. 7 Apr. 1741, dau. of Stanton. She m.
(2) 10 Nov. 1779 Amos Chegebrough, s. of .\mos.
15. iii. WiLLi-VM, b. 11 Nov. 1737.
iv. Amet, b. 1 Dec. 1739; probablv d. young.
V. Ezekiel, b. 15 June 1741; d. 12 Sept. 1825; m. at Westerly, 22 Mar.
1767, Phoebe Babcock, b. 24 July 1748, d. 7 June 1836, dau. of
Isaac' and Mary (Worden). Child: 1. Hannah,^ b. in 1769; d.
7 Feb. 1826.
vi. Han-nah, b. 9 Mar. 1742/3.
vii. LucT, b. 5 Dec. 1744.
*"Mar. 7 [1779], Mr. Joseph Gavets mother Burid." (From Gibson Clough's Account-Book,
Eseex Institute Historical Collections, vol. 15, p. 68.)
tThis family is recorded in the family Bible of Joseph' Gavet, which is marked "Joseph
Gavet his Book 1741," and passed into the possession of his son Joseph.' In the record the
father's sxirname is spelled Gavet and that of the son Gavett.
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i viii. Elijah, b. 6 Jan. 1746/7.
I Children by second wife :
1 ix. Amet, b. 27 July 1764; d. at Dimock, Pa., 17 Aug. 1849; m. 12 Nov.
I 1780 Isaac Babcock, s. of Isaac' and Mary (Worden). Eleven
3 children.
J X. George, b. 28 Oct. 1766; m. 31 Mar. 1788 Rhoda Babcock, dau.
I of Isaac' and Mary (Worden). She m. (2) 20 Oct. 1816, as his
'< second wife, Capt. Nathan Pendleton.
i 6. Samuel' Ga^ttt (Ezekiel,^ Philip^), of Westerly, R. I., was
f born 3 May 1712. He married Mary .
• Children:
16. i. Olivek,* b. at Westerly 11 Feb. 173S.
ii. Susanah.
17. iii. Samuel, b. 8 Sept. 1743.
18. iv. Edward, b. 6 May 1747.
V. Hannah, b. 17 Aug. 1751. .
vi. Eunice, b. 3 Aug. 1753; m. 9 Apr. 1798 William Thompson.
vii. Vashti, b. 4 Sept. 1755; m. 12 Aug. 1784 George Bliven, b. 16
Sept. 1759, s. of Edward and Arm.
7. Stephen' Gavitt (Ezekiel,^ Philip^), of Westerly, R. L, was
bom 24 Feb. 1722/3. He married first, at Jamestown, R. I.,
24 Jan. 1741/2, Mary Thomas of Newport, R. I.; secondly,
i > at Westerly, 11 May 1775, Mercy West; and thirdly Sallie
I ' Crandall of Hopkinton City, R. I.
Children by firat wife:
i. Mart,* b. 14 Aug. 1744.
19. ii. ■ George, b. 21 Nov. 1745.
iii. Thankful, b. 15 Oct. 1754; m. 25 Jan. 1779 Oliver Champlin,
b. 17 Mar. 1761, s. of Samuel. Children: 1. John, U 10 Aug.
1780. 2. Aiby, h. 15 Aug. 1783.
20. iv. IsATAH, b. in 1760.
V. Stephen, m. (1) in Oct. 1785 Mart Lewis; m. (2) 29 Sept. 1800
Esther (Pendleton) Eldridge, widow. Child by firat wife:
1. Stephen,^ b. 5 Feb. 1790.
vi. Mollt, d. unin.
vii. ELezekiah.
yiii. Ltdia, d. unm.
ix. Prudence, d. unm.
X. Hannah, d. unm.
Children by second wife :
xi. Betset, b. 27 Aug. 1775.
xii. Martha, b. 13 Feb. 1778.
Children by third wife :
xiii. Welles, a deaf mute, m. 30 Dec. 1826 Eunice Lamphier.
xiv. Paul, d. at the age of 17.
XV. Joshua.
xvi. David, m. 21 Dec. 1823 Martha Hall.
xvii. Nanct, m. 7 July 1813 James E. Williams of Montville, Conn.
21. xyiii. Richmond, b. 22 Apr. 1796,
xix. LiBEUs, d. unm.
XX. Martha, m. Abel Main.
8.. Joseph' Gavitt {Ezehiel,'^ Philip^), of Westerly, R, I., born
17 Jan. 1724/5, died 22 Sept. 1815. He married first Thankful
40 Descendants of Philip Gavet [Jan.
Ross; and secondly, 1 Oct. 1780, Sarah Edwards, bom in
1740, died 29 Mar. 1833.
Children by first wife:
22. i. JoHN,< b. 13 July 1744.
ii. Mabjoey, b. 4 Sept. 1746; d. 14 Aug. 1821; m. at Westerly, 1 Oct.
1770, her first cousin, Olivek^ Gattitt (16), q.v., s. of Saipuel'
and Mary,
iii. Joseph, b. 13 May 1749; perhaps the Joseph Gavitt who m. 29 Jan.
1797 Mrs. Lydia Cxilver of Preston, Conn,
iv. Phallet, b. 13 May 1752; m. 7 Nov. 1776 Elias Cotteell.
23. V. Sanford, b. 28 June 1760.
vi. Samuel, b. 29 Mar. 1763.
vii. Mart, b. 1 Jan. 1768.
Children by second wife:
viii, Sarah, b. 20 Nov. 1781.
ix. Thankful, b. 3 July 1785.
9. Benajah^ Gavitt (Ezekiel,"^ Philip^), of Westerly, R. I., was
born 11 Nov. 1726. He married, 7 Sept. 1746, Lois Pendleton,
born 22 Aug. 1728, daughter of John and Sarah.
Children:
24. i. Sylvester,* b. in 1755.
ii. Stlvli, m. Soper.
10. Hezekiah' Gavitt {Ezekiel,^ Philip^), of Westerly, R. I., .was
born 9 Sept. 1729. He married
Children :
i. Dinah,* m. 6 Dec. 1787 Arnold Crandall, b. 24 Oct. 1760. Four
children.
ii.t Prudence, m. 4 Aug. 1778 Henry Babcx)CK, b. 23 June 1757, s. of
James and Mary. Child: 1. Asa, b. 26 Apr. 1786; m. at Westerly,
12 Sept. 1813, his second cousin, Mary' Gavitt (19, vii), b. 16
Mar. 1787, d. at Churchville, N. Y., 21 Aug. 1857, dau. of George*
and Abigail (Hiscox).
11. Joseph' Gavet (John,"^ Philip^), of Salem, Mass., was baptized
at Salem 4 Aug. 1723. He married at Beverly, Mass., 28 Feb.
. 1750/1, LucT Cresst of Salem, baptized at Beverly 30 Nov,
1729, daughter of Job and Rebekah (Diamond) of Beverly.
Children, baptized at Salem:
i. John,* bapt. 7 Nov. 1756 (perhaps the John mentioned in the
History of the Essex Lodge of Freemasons as "born 1752");
d. 2 June 1784; m. (1) 23 Dec. 1780 Elizabeth Peters; m. (2)
at Salem, 8 June 1783, Mary Symonds.
ii. Lucy, bapt. 7 Nov. 1756; m. (1) at Beverly, 6 Dec. 1770, Daniel
Woodman of Salem, bapt. there 8 Oct. 1749, s. of Benjamin and
Lydia; m. (2) 1 Dec. 1808 Capt. Robert Foster, b. at Salem
11 Mar. 1741/2, d. in Aug. 1814.
iii. Bethiah, bapt. 5 Dec. 1756; m. 23 Apr. 1780 John McNeal.
iv. Sarah, bapt. 15 June 1760.
V. LucRECE, bapt. 13 Feb. 1763.
vi. Mary, bapt. 5 Jan. 1766; m. at Salem, 23 Sept. 1792, Amos Towne.
yii. Eunice, bapt. 3 June 1770; m. 16 Apr. 1787 William Deadman.
12. Samuel^ Gavet (Joseph,^ Philip^), of Salem, Mass., mariner,
was bom at Salem 24 Mar. 1728/9. He married at Salem,
21 July 1751, Ann Whittemore.
1.
u.
m.
IV.
27.
V.
VI.
28.
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vm
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The following were probably their children:
25. i. Chables.*
26. ii. John, b. at Salem about 1762.
13. Jonathan' Gavet (Joseph,'^ Philip^), of Salem, Mass., cabinet
maker and turner, born at Salem 3 July 1731, died there
31 July 1806. He married at Salem, 22 Sept. 1754, Sarah
Whittemore.
He was one of the proprietors of the first house of the North
Chiu-ch, Salem.
Children:
A CHILD,* d. in infancy.
A CHILD, d. in infancy.
A CHILD, d. in infancy.
Sarah, bapt. at Salem 24 Jan. 1773, aged. 13 years; m. (1) 11 Oct.
1781 John Crane; m. (2) 22 Dec. 1803 Zecheriah Marston.
Jonathan, bapt. at Salem 24 Jan. 1773, aged 11 years.
Joseph, bapt. at Salem 24 Jan. 1773, aged 8 years; killed by a
sentry at the Portsmouth (N. H.) Navy Yard 20 Mar. 1814;
m. 17 Nov. 1802 Betsey Frederick of Rockingham, N. H.
Two children.
. — WiLLLAM, b. at Salem 2 Jan. 1767.
I viii. Mart, b. 31 Oct. 1768; bapt. at Salem 24 Jan. 1773, aged 4 years;
d. 13 Dec. 1849.
ix. Elizabeth, bapt. at Salem 24 Jan. 1773, aged 2 years; d. 20 Jan.
1820; probably the Elizabeth who m. 21 Jan. 1803 John Cab-
wick.
X. Deliverance, bapt. at Salem 20 Oct. 1776; d. 14 Nov. 1835; m.
9 Oct. 1808 Ambrose Courtis.
14. John' Gavet (Joseph,'^ Philip^), bom 30 Apr. 1751 and baptized
at Salem, Mass., 5 May 1751, died in Aug. 1807. He married,
9 Mar. 1777, Susannah Hill of Stoneham, Mass., who died
in 1807.
Children :
James,* b. 15 Mar. 1777.
Joseph, b. at Salem 22 Apr. 1778.
Mart, b. 19 Nov. 1779; m. 19 Oct. 1806 Jeremiah M. Shute.
Susannah, b. 28 May 1781; d. 10 July 1852; m. 8 Nov. 1800 Michael
Veal. Six children.
John, b. 8 Jan. 1783; d. at sea.
Jonathan, b. 23 May 1785; said to have m. Vanderpoel.
Abigail, b. 1 Sept. 1787; m. 5 Feb. 1809 Robert Phippen.
Samuel, b. 17 Dec. 1789; d. 20 Nov. 1824; m. 23 May 1814 Hannah
Gardner, sister of Nancy Gardner of Salem, N. H., the wife of
his brother Joseph (30). Hannah (Gardner) Gavet m. (2) her
husband's brother, Philip Gavet.
ix. Edward, b. 26 Feb. 1793; d. 11 Apr. 1822; m. Ruth Wallace, who
m. (2) 9 Jan. 1827, as his second wife, Philip Gavet, brother
of Edward. Child: 1. Charles Henry,'' bapt. at Salem 24 May
1822.
X. WiLLLAM, b. 10 Mar. 1794; d. at Newport, R. I., 11 Nov. 1865; m.
at Marblehead, Mass., 3 June 1821, being then of Salem, Mass.,
Sarah Doliber.*
xi. Sallt, b. 23 Sept. 1795; m. (1) Gavet; m. (2) 20 Apr. 1830
(intention recorded at Stoneham, 21 Mar. 1830) Alansen
Noble of Stoneham.
xii. Elizabeth, b. 30 Jan. 1797; m. 20 Feb. 1828 James H. Phippen.
*Their adopted child, Hannah, was baptized at Salem 7 Oct. 1821.
29.
i.
30.
u.
m.
IV.
V.
VI.
vu.
vm
42 Descendants of Philip Gavel [Jan.
xiii. Philip, b. 19 July 1799; d. at NewBurj^port, Mass., 19 Oct. 1876;
m. (1) Hannah (Gaednee) Gavet, widow of his brother Samuel;
m. (2) 9 Jan. 1827 Ruth (Wallace) Gavet, widow of his brother
Edward; m. (3) 19 Dec. 1867 Lucy Thuhston, widow. One
daughter by second wife.
15. William* Gavitt {Ezekiel,^ Ezekiel,"^ Philip'^), of Westerly, R. I.,-
was born 11 Nov. 1737. He married at Westerly, 19 May
1760, Anna (Slocum?) Gavitt, who died 22 Oct. 1817, aged 76.
Children:
i. Anna,' b. 29 Dec. 1761; m. (1) at Westerly, 15 Mar. 1778, John
Pbentice* Babcock, b. at Westerly 4 Oct. 1750, killed at the
Battle of Mystic (Fort Griswold, Conn.) 6 Sept. 1781, s. of
Isaac' and Mary (Worden); m. (2) 13 Dec. 1782 Aaeon^ Fish,
b. at Groton, Conn., 30 Oct. 1758. Child by first husband:
1. Stanton. Nine children by second husband.
iL John, b. 19 Feb. 1764.
31. iii. William, b. at Westerly 2 Apr. 1766.
16. Olivee* Gavitt {Samuel,^ Ezekiel,^ Philip^), of Westerly, R. I.,
born at Westerly 11 Feb. 1738, died 6 Sept. 1811. He married
at Westerly, 1 Oct. 1770, his first cousin, Maejoet* Gavitt
(8, ii), born 4 Sept. 1746, d. 14 Aug. 1821, daughter of Joseph^
and Thankful (Ross).
Children :
i. Joseph,' b. 26 Jan. 1771; d. 26 Sept. 1827.
ii. Benjamin, b. 10 July 1772; d. 18 Feb. 1849; m. at Westerly, 17 May
1814, Amelia Allen.
iiL EzEKiEL, b. 26 June 1773; m. at Westerly, 21 Nov. 1805, Hannah
Wilcox, b. in 1771, d. 3 Jan. 1811. Children: 1. Lydia,^ b.
30 June 1806. 2. Joseph, h. 7 Aug. 1808.
iv. Thankful, b. 25 Feb. 1781.
V. Mart, b. 18 Oct. 1787.
17. Samitel* Gavitt {Samuel,^ Ezekiel,"^ Philip^), was born 8 Sept.
1743. He married at North Kingston, R. I., 27 Nov. 1766,
Ruth Bates, born 7 Dec. 174-.
Children :
i. Oliver,' b. 23 Dec. 1766.
ii. Daniel Peaece, b. 20 Oct. 1768; m. at South Kingston, R. I.,
21 Jan. 1794, Lucy Worden.
iiL Mary Ann, b. 2 Aug. 1770; m. 24 Oct. 1839 John E. Smith.
iv. Esther, b. 26 Feb. 1772; m. at South Kingston, R. I., 21 Jan. 1794,
William Sheldon.
V. Elizabeth, b. 12 Nov. 1773.
vi. Samuel, b. 10 Nov. 1775.
vii. Hannah, b. 4 Apr. 1779.
viii. John, b. 7 Mar. 1781.
ix. Ruth, b. 9 Nov. 1784.
32. X. Arnold, b. 9 Jan. 1787.
xi. Perry, b. 19 May 1789; m. 21 June 1816 Clarissa Caepenter, b.
21 June 1797, dau. of Timothy. Child: 1. Abhy,^ m. 5 Aug.
1850 Maxson White of North Kingston. (Cf. Carpenter Gen-
ealogy.)
18. Edwabd* Gavitt {Samuel,^ Ezekiel,^ Philip^), bom 6 May 1747,
died in 1831. He married, in 1772 (?), Mart Champlin, born
16 Aug. 1752 (?), daughter of Samuel and Hannah.
He was a soldier in the Revolution.
33.
1.
u.
34.
m.
IV.
V.
VI.
vu.
VUl.
35.
IX.
I
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Children :
Samuel,' b. 14 Nov. 1773.
Maht, b. in 1777; m. Wilcos.
Edward, b. 6 Mar. 1779.
Phoebe, b. in 1781; m. (1) Daniel Bates; m. (2) Gideon Wobden.
Elijah, b. in 1782.
Hannah, b. in 1783.
EzEKiEL, b. in 1786. '
Susan, b. in 1789; m. (1) Asa Curd; m. (2) John Westcott.
John Champlin, b. at Westerly, R .1., 4 Apr. 1799.
\ 19. George* Gavitt (Stephen,^ Ezekiel,^ Philip^), of Westerly, R. L,
\ bom 21 Nov, 1745, died 12 Dec. 1805. He married at Westerly,
! 4 Nov. 1772, Abigail Hiscox, who died 5 Apr. 1813.
! Children:
36. i. George,' b. 16 Apr. 1773.
37. ii. Thomas, b. 26 Feb. 1775.
38. iii. Ephraim, b, 22 Oct. 1777.
iv. Abigail, b. 10 July 1780; m. at Westerly, 17 Dec. 1807, Merchant
Hatf (or Hall), b. 15 May 1775. Three children.
39. V. Asa, b. 29 Mar. 1782.
J vi. Arnold Saunders, b. 16 Nov. 1784; m. Polly Pride, b. at Preston,
Conn., 12 Apr. 1793, d. 30 Dec. 1881, dau. of Absalom and
j Huldah (Brewster). Child: 1. Abbie,* m. her first cousin, Edwin'
1 Gavitt (38, iii), q. v., a. of Ephraim' and Sally (Larkin). (Cf .
I Brewster Genealogy.)
vii. Mart, b. 16 Mar. 1787; d. at Churchville, N. Y., 21 Aug. 1857;
I m. at Westerly, 12 Sept. 1813, her second cousin, Asa Babcock
I (10, ii, 1), 8. of Henry and Prudence* (Gavitt).
j 20. Isaiah* Gavitt (Stephen,^ Ezekiel,^ Philip^), born in 1760, died
j in 1819 (?). He married, in 1780, Hiscox.
I His name, or that of his son, appears in the New York State
I census of 1807, as a resident of Berlin, Rensselaer Co., N. Y.
( Children :
i. Hannah,' b. in 1781; m. Rhodes Sherman.
ii. Polly, b. 4 July 1784; d. at Adams, N. Y., 1 Apr. 1855; m. at Berlin,
N. Y., 7 Nov. 1805, Joseph Greene, b. 5 July 1786, d. 24 Sept.
1868, s. of John (whose second wife was Amelia Gavitt (vide
infra, 20, iv), sister of Polly (Gavitt) Greene) and his first wife.
Child: 1. Spicer, hving at Adams Centre, N. Y., in 1883.
40. iii. Isaiah, b. 4 Oct. 1786.
iv. Amelia, b. in 1792; d. 2 May 1858; m. 2 July 1836, as his second wife,
John Greene of Berlin, N. Y., b. at Westerly, R. I., 10 Jan.
1754, d. at BerUn 31 July 1838. (Cf. supra, 20, ii.)
V. Nancy, d. umn.
vi. Betsey, m. Babcock.
41. vii. Clark, b. 4 June 1799.
viii. Ephraim, m. Polly White. Several children.
ix. Elleht.
21. Richmond* Gavitt (Stephen,^ Ezekiel,^ Philip^), of Groton,
Conn., born 22 Apr. 1796, died 4 Aug. 1847. He married
Rebecca Williams of Montville, Conn., born 6 Oct. 1794,
died 16 Dec. 1863.
Children :
i. Prentice A.,' b. 17 May 1814. He served in the Twenty-second
Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantrj'.
ii. Temperance, b. 23 Sept. 1818.
44 Descendants of Philip Gavet [Jan.
iii. Peter, b. 10 July 1827.
iv. Mabt, b. 27 June 1830.
V. John, b. 3 May 1832; d. 20 Aug. 1905; m. Nancy Fosteb Moore,
b. 16 June 1832. Children: 1. Fred A.,' h. 28 May 1859. 2.
Clementine, b. 8 Apr. 1862; living at Montrose, Pa., in 1909.
3. Homer, h. 10 Apr. 1864; d. at Schenectady, N. Y., 15 Nov. 1909.
. vi. Thankful S., b. 1 May 1836.
vii. Nanct.
22. Col. John^ Gavitt (Joseph,^ Ezekiel,"^ Philip^), of Westerly, R. I.,
was born 13 July 1744. He married, at Westerly, 28 Dec. 1773,
Desire Wilcox, .born in 1754, living with her son Benajah
in 1840 and drawing a pension.
Children:
i. Ketubah,' b. 8 Dec. 1778; d. 17 Apr. 1^29; m. at Westerly, 10
May 1803, Joseph" Babcock, b. in 1772, d. 17 Apr. 1831, s. of
Joseph' and Hai^nah (Ross).
42. ii. ■ Joseph, b. 10 Jan. 1781.
iii. Samuel, b. 19 Mar. 1784; m. at Westerly, 24 July 1806, Rebecca
Taylor, b. 1 Mar. 1788, dau. of Samuel and Rebecca. Child:
1. Albert,^ b. 14 Feb. 1807.
iv. Thankful, b. 21 Jan. 1787; d. 27 Oct. 1848.
43. v. Benajah, b. 20 June 1791.
vi. Maby, b. 17 May 1795; d. at Hudson, N. Y., in Jan. 1862; m. 11
Apr. 1811 George' Babcock, b. at Westerly in 1787, d. at Hud-
son in 1836, s. of Joseph and Hannah (Ross). Six children.*
vii. Daniel Lee, b. 4 Aug. 1799; m. Maby Chapman, b. in 1811, d.
24 Mar. 1838, dau. of Israel and Mary. Child: 1. Alice,' d.
3 Mar. 1868; m. James S. Ostrander.
23. Sanpord* Gavitt (Joseph,^ Ezekiel,^ Philip^), bom 28 June 1760,
died 27 Apr. 1853. He married, 23 Feb. 1787, Mrs. Hannah
Berry,
Children :
44. i. Samuel,* b. 1 Oct. 1787.
ii. Saxton Berry, b. 1 Oct. 1789.
iii. John, b. 1 Dec. 1791.
45. iv. Joseph, b. 4 Mar. 1795.
V. Susannah, b. 9 June 1797; d. 19 Sept. 1854; m. (1) 9 Feb. 1823
Abijah Browning; m. (2) in 1828, as his second wife, Geobge
Thurston.
vi. Hannah, b. 5 Jan. 1800; living in 1882 at Westerly, R. I.; m. Henby
C. Gavitt.
vii. Sanfobd, b. 11 Aug. 1802; d. 3 Aug. 1852.
viii. Saunders, b. 30 Jan. 1804; d. at Black Creek, Fla., in 1847; m.
. Two of his children, Amos^ and Sanford, of Philadelphia,
Pa., were living in 1882.
24. Sylvester^ Gavitt (Benajah,^ Ezekiel,^ Philip^), of Westerly,
R. I., born in 1755, died 1 May 1829. He married first, 30 Sept.
1781, Sarah Babcock, born 25 Mar. 1764, died 16 June 1787,
daughter of Col. James and Content; and secondly, 16 Mar.
•Of the six children of George and Mary (Gavitt) Baboook, Susan was born at Westerly 11 Feb.
1812 and died at Albmy, N. Y., 8 Jan. 1905, and Hannah Desire was born 31 May 1817 and
married Lemuel ' Jenkins Hopkins. Susan Babcock Hopkins, daughter of Lemuel Jenkins and
Hannab Desire (Babcock), married 21 May 1868 Samuel Lyman Mubson of Albany, bom at
Norwich (now Huntington), [Mass., 14 June 1844, son of Garry and Harriet (Lyman). They
have seven children. Mr. Munson is a Pilgrim Tercentenary member of the New England His-
toric Genealogical Society. Jane Ross Hopkins, another daughter of Lemuel Jenkins and Hannah
Desire (Babcock), married Dr. George E. Gorham of Albany, where she died 4 Feb. 1920.
1923] Descendants of Philip Gavet 45
1788, Keturah Pendleton, bom 25 Jan. 1761, died 15 May
1819, daughter of Col. William and Mary.
Sylvester Gavitt was town treasurer of Westerly and a
delegate to the Rhode Island General Assembly.
Child by first wife: ■
i. Lois,» b. 8 Nov. 1783; d. 21 Feb. 1847; m. 15 Mar. 1810 Peleg
Sherman Barber, who d. 15 May 1822, aged 33. Children:
1. Keturah. 2. Charles P.
I Children by second wife:
I , ii. KJETURAH, b. 15 Sept. 1791; d. at Newport, R. I., 14 Dec. 1811; m.
■: 24 Jan. 1811 Underwood Carr of Newport, who m. (2)
'. iii Sarah, b. 3 Sept. 1793; m. at Newport, R. I., 29 Mar. 1817, Robert
! Robinson Carr, who d. 12 May 1872.
iv. Rhoda, b. 28 Mar. 1795; d. 20 Jiine 1833; m. at Westerly, 29 Feb.
1824, her second cousin, Benajah' Gavitt (43), q.v., s. of Col.
John< (22) and Desire (Wilcox).
V. Maj. Sylvester, b. 3 Apr. 1797; drowned 10 Sept. 1837; m. Mart
B. Peckham of South Kingstown, R. I. Children: 1. Sylvester
■ Franklin,i h. 18 Aug. 1824; d. 6 Dec. 1849. 2. Timx)thy P., m.
5 June 1848 Freelove V. Thompson.
46. vi. Charles P., b. 17 Dec. 1798.
i vii. William, b. 19 Feb. 1801; drowned 14 May 1838.
I 47. viii. Col. Isaac P., b. 9 May 1805.
j 25. Capt. Charles* Gavet (? Samud,^ Joseph,^ Philip^), of Salem,
I Mass., probably a son of SamueP (12), married in the Brattle
I Square Church, Boston, Mass., 25 Jime 1786, Mary Glover,
i born at Milton, Mass., 20 Mar. 1762, died at Salem 13 Apr.
i 1799, aged 36 years, daughter of Moses and Jerusha (Crane)
\ of Milton. (Cf. Glover Memorials and Genealogies, Boston,
I 1867, pages 517-518, 523.) She was a member of the church
I at Milton, in full communion, and her four children were
3 baptized there, although she resided at Salem in the later
\ years of her life.
; The Revolutionary record of Charles Gavet, who enhsted
25 Apr. 1775, apparently as a private, being then of Concord,
Mass., was of Boston in a company retimi dated 30 Sept. 1775,
and ser\'ed in the Continental Army from 1 Jan. 1777 to
13 Dec. 1779, when he was discharged, may be found in
"Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary
War," vol. 6, page 330. More about his service in the Con-
tinental Army is given in Godfrey's "Commander in Chief's
Guard, Revolutionary War," page 170, where it appears that
he was of Massachusetts, that he enlisted 12 July 1777 for
three years, as a private in Capt. George Lewis's troop, that
he was assigned to the cavahy of the Commander in Chief's
guard, that he took part in the Battles of Brandy wine (11 Sept.
1777), Germantown (4 Oct. 1777), and Monmouth (28 June
1778), that he was transferred to the Third Regiment, Con-
tinental Dragoons, commanded by Col. George Baylor, 26
Sept. 1778, and that he was discharged at SchuylkiE Barracks,
Philadelphia, Pa., 13 Dec. 1779.
l Children, baptized at Milton:
' ■ i. Charles Sullfvan,^ b. 2 Apr. and bapt. 8 Apr. 1787; d. young.
46 Descendants of Philip Gavet [Jan.
ii. Maby Wallace, b. 24 Oct. and bapt. 26 Oct. 1788; m.
Ongek. She removed to the West Indies.
iii. John Whiting, b. 27 Oct. and bapt. 31 Oct. 1790.
iv. Isaac Phillips, b. 27 Sept. and bapt. 7 Oct. 1792.
26. JoHN^ Gavet (Gaffet, Gaffit, or Gavvet) (? Samioel,^ Joseph,'^
Philip,^), of New Marlborough, Ulster Co., N. Y., and of
New York City, probably a son of SamueP (12), born at
Salem, Mass., in 1762, died in New York City 26 Aug. 1837.
He married first, at New Marlborough, about 1784, Rachel
Bloomer, born in 1762, died in New York City in 1820 or
1821, perhaps daughter of WiUiam and Rachel (Bosman) of
Ulster Co.; and secondly, in New York City, 16 Dec. 1823,
Catherine (Brooks) Baker, widow of Abner Baker. She
died at Albany, N: Y., 5 Apr. 1855, aged 80. According to the
Albany Journal of that date, she died at the home of her
grandson, Harvey Tuton, who was evidently a son of Jane
Baker (daughter of Catherine (Brooks) (Baker) Gavet by her
first husband) and her husband, William Tuton.
According to the pension records at Washington (Widow
File 1264) together with his statement to his grandson, John
Edmonds Gavit (52) of New York City, John Gavet was bom
at Salem in 1762, and, on the death of his father, was appren-
ticed to an uncle in Salem,* who treated him so badly that
at the age of fifteen he ran away and enlisted at Londonderry',
N. H., 6 Apr. 1777, as a fifer in Capt. Ebenezer Frye's company,
First New Hampshire Regiment. His name is spelled Gaffett
and Gaffet in the roUs, and the State librarian of New Hamp-
shire certifies that the speUing Gasset in the printed New
Hampshire Revolutionary RoUs (vol. 1, page 606) is a mis-
print. The First, Second, and Third New Hampshire Regi-
ments comprised General Poor's brigade, which served with
distinction in the battles around Saratoga in September and
October 1777. His service was practically continuous, either
in the Militia or the Line, from that time until 1783. He was
in Captain Reynold's company of Colonel Peabody's regiment,
serving in the defence of Rhode Island from 1 Jan. 1778 to
4 Jan. 1779. Later he was in Captain Lovejoy's company,
in the defence of Portsmouth, N. H., in September and October
1779. He then returned to the Line, in which he served from
January 1780 to 7 June 1783, when a discharge, signed by
George Washington and now 'nith the papers in the pension
office, was issued to "Fifer John Gaffitt." According to his
own statement his name was misspelled in the discharge, but,
as it was in General Washington's handwriting, he never
attempted to haye it corrected. Evidently he did not remember
that his name was misspelled all through the rolls. For his last
period of service in the Line he drew a pension, under the
Act of Congress of March 1818, from 4 Apr. 1818 until his
*Perhaps Jonathan'* Gavet (13), whose wife, Sarah Whittemore, waa probably a sister of
Ann Whittemore, wife of Samuel Gavet (12).
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I death in 1837.* On 12 Sept. 1853 Catherine Gaffitt of Albany,
'[ N. Y., applied for a pension as the widow of John Gaffitt, who
I • died in New York City 26 Aug. 1837, and William Tuton and
I Jane Tuton of Albany testified as to the death of John Gaffitt,
I etc.
\ In the Census of 1790 he is found, as John Gaffet, at New
I Mariborough, Ulster Co., N. Y., where he had married about
I 1784, his farnily then consisting of two free white males of
J 16 years and upwards (probably John Gaffet himself and a
hired man), two free white males imder 16 years (probably
two sons), and five free white females. He next appears, as
John Gaffet, in the New York City directory for 1798; but in
1803 he changed the speUing of his surname to Gavvet, retaining
this form until 1818, when the spelling was changed back to
Gaffit, the name under which he drew his pension. His grand-
son, John Edmonds Gavit, changed the surname once more
to Gavit.
The will of John Gaffitt, inspector, of New York City, dated
27 July 1833 and proved 1 Nov. 1837, leaves to the testator's
wife, Catherine, all the furniture in DeBrosses Street brought
to the testator by his said wife at the time of marriage and
property at Haverstraw known as part of the estate of Thomas
Smith, Esq., deceased, and bequeaths to the testator's grandson
John (son of his deceased son Joseph), to the testator's children
then living and to the children of his deceased children, to his
daughter Sarah, wife of Benjamin Hendrickson, to his daughter
Mary, wife of WiUiam Whitley, to his daughter Rachel, wife
of Abraham HaU, to his daughter Ann, widow of CorneUus
Van Allen, to his daughter Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Bloomer,
to his daughter Jane, wife of Samuel Wandell, to his son
George, to the children of his deceased son John, and to the
children of his deceased son Joseph. His son Charles Gaffitt
and Samuel F. Randolph were named as executors in the will,
and the witnesses were A. D. Wilson of 42 Walker Street, Thomas
Cough of 17 DeBrosses Street, and Harris Wilson of 77 Mm-ray
Street, New York City. Among the next of kin and heirs at
law of the testator, whose names appear ia the probate records,
were Charles Gaffitt, Ann Van Allen, Catherine Gaffitt, Jane
Wandell, Margaret Maxwell, Mary Glawson, EKzabeth Bloomer,
CaroKne Gaffit, John Gaffit, Daniel Gaffit [John and Daniel Vv^ere
the only children of the testator's deceased son Joseph], James
Gaffit, Mary Gaffit, Margaret Gaffit, Rebecca Gaffit, and
Catherine Hyer [daughter of the testator's deceased son John].
Children, probably all by first wife (order of births con-
jectural) :
i. JoHN,^ d. before 27 July 1833; m. . Children: 1. Catherine,^
♦The application for a pension of John Gaffit of New York City, aged 59, dated 1 July 1820
(or 2 Apr. 181S), states that he enlisted in 1780 with the First Company, Captain Munroe, First
Regiment of New Hampshire troops, as a musician (a fifer), and served until 1783; that his family
in 1820 consisted of his wife Rachel, aged 58, his daughter Jane, aged 17, an orphan child of
12 years, and a helpless, aged mother-in-law; that he had been disabled with a rupture for sis
years, and had suffered from debility, with spitting of blood, for five years.
48 Descendants of Philip Gavet [Jan.
living in 1837, when she was wife of George W. Hyer. Probably
others.
48. ii. Joseph Bloomeb, b. at New Marlborough, perhaps about 1784.
iii. Sarah, living 27 July 1833, when she was wife of Benjamin Hbn-
DBICESON.
iv. Mart, Uving 27 July 1833, when she was wife of William Whitley.
V. Rachel, living 27 July 1833, when she was wife of Abraham Hall.
vi. Ann, Uving 27 July 1833, when she was widow of Cornelius Van
Allen; still Uving, as Ann Van Allen, in 1837.
vii. Elizabeth, Uving 27 July 1833, when she was wife of Thomas
Bloomer; stiU Uving, as Elizabeth Bloomer, in 1837.
viii. Jane, b. about 1803; living 27 July 1833, when she was wife of
Samuel Wandell; still living, as Jane Wandell, in 1837.
ix. Charles, living in 1837, executor of his father's wiU.
X. George, died in 1834 or 1835.
27. Jonathan^ Gavet (Jonathan,^ Joseph,'^ Philip^), of Salem, Mass.,
was baptized at Salem 24 Jan. 1773, aged 11 years. He married
at Salem, 12 Jan. 1788, Sallt Hay, who married secondly,
19 Nov. 1809, Thomas Milboume.
Children :
i. James Hay,' bapt. at Salem 18 Jan. 1789; d. 1 Dec. 1844; m. 10
Aug. 1817 Susan Gardner. He was a soldier in the War of 1812,
was taken prisoner, add confined at Dartmoor. He had issue.
49. ii. ' A child (probably Jonathan), bapt. at Salem in Aug. 1793.
iii. Lydia, bapt. at Salem 6 Sept. 1795.
iv. Sally, bapt. at Salem 16 July 1797.
V. William.
28. William^ Gavet (or Gavett) (Jonathan,^ Joseph,^ Philip^), of
Salem, Mass., born at Salem 2 Jan. 1767, died there 8 Jan.
1856. Hemarried at Salem, 27 Oct. 1799, Martha Richardson,
born 15 July 1776, died 9 Nov. 1823, daughter of Peter and
Martha (Grover) of Woburn, Mass.
Children, bom at Salem:
50. i. William Richardson,' b. 27 Apr. 1801.
ii. Martha, b. 4 Jan. 1803; d. 26 Sept. 1804.
ui. Clarissa, b. 17 Oct. 1804; d. unm. 24 Aug. 1896.
iv. Jonathan, b. 16 Sept. 1806; d. 15 Feb. 1896.
V. Martha, b. 13 Feb. 1809; d. 9 July 1894; m. 6 Nov. 1836
William Hill. Children: 1. Martha Richardson, h. at Salem
19 Aug. 1838. 2. Capt. William A., h. at Salem 28 June 1840.
3. George Henry, b. at Salem 30 or 31 July 1849.
51. vi. George Bradish, b. 12 Oct. 1810.
vii. Mary Augusta, b. 10 June 1813; d. unm. 18 Feb. 1904.
viii. Charles, b. 10 Sept. 1816; m. 3 Feb. 1850 Sarah Ann Lane, b.
5 Jan. 1822. The famOy Uved at Grantville. Children: 1.
Charles H.,^ b. in 1851; d. in childhood. 2. Willia7n C, h. in
1854; d. in childhood.
29. James* Gavet (John,^ Joseph,^ Philip^) was bom 15 Mar. 1777.
He married, 3 June 1800, Abigail Depah.
Children :
i. Abigail,' m. 4 May 1820 Jehial Hard.
ii. Susan H., m. 25 Dec. 1828 John Thompson.
iii. James, m. 29 May -1831 Margaret Strout Patterson, bapt. at
Salem 29 Sept. 1805, dau. of John and Susanna. Child. 1. Maria,*
m. Alden M. Reed.
30. Joseph* Gavet (John,^ Joseph,^ Philip^), born at Salem, Mass.,
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f 22 Apr. 1778, died 5 Mar. 1851. He married, 22 Dec. 1805,
I •• Nancy Gardner of Salem, N. H., who died 2 July 1866, sister
I of Hamiah Gardner, the wife successively of his brothers
I Samuel (14, viii) and Philip (14, xiii).
? , Children:
\ i. Nancy,' b. 28 Oct. 1806; d. at Salem, N. H., 11 Oct. 1875; m. 12
i Apr. 1828 Michael Peirce.
I ii. Robert S., b. 22 Dec. 1809; d. 5 Feb. 1841; m. (1) ; m. (2)
I Sabah Gordon. Child by first wife: 1. Amanda.^
I iii. Joseph, b. 24 Mar. 1817; d. 6 Apr. 1852.
I iv. Benjamin Gardner, b. 6 Oct. 1822; d. s.p. 28 July 1895; m. 25 July
\ 1850 Catherine Lewis Wilcutt.
t V. Charles Henry, b. 12 May 1826; d. 31 Aug. 1894; m. 27 Jan. 1850
Miriam Gushing Wilcutt. Child: 1. A daughter,* d. aged 3
years.
vi. Sarah, m. George W. Palfrey of Portsmouth, N. H.
31. William* Gavit (William,* Ezekiel,^ Ezekiel,^ Philip^), of Westerly,
R. I., Groton, Conn., Granville, Mass., Granville, Ohio, and
Ashley, Ohio, born at Westerly 2 Apr. 1766, died at Ashley,
Delaware Co., Ohio, 6 Jan. 1854. He was buried at Granville,
Ohio. He married first, at Groton, Conn., 9 Oct. 1785, Sarah
Babcock of Hopkinton, R. I., born 10 Mar. 1765, died at
Granville, Ohio, 17 Apr. 1842; and secondly, 8 May 1846,
Mrs. Anna ( ) Devereaux of Alexandria, Ohio, born
in 1773, died 16 Feb, 1849. She was buried beside her first
husband at Alexandria, Ohio.
WilHam Gavit served as a privateersman in the Revolution.
He was one of a party of emigrants who went to Ohio in Nov.
1805, and was elected four times to the Ohio Senate.*
Children by first wife:
i. William,^ b. at Groton, Conn., 19 July 1786; d. at Patterson, N. J.;
m. , and had issue. His eldest son d. at Bloomfield, N. J.
ii. John, b. at GranvOle, Mass., 5 July 1788; d. at Evansville, Ind.,
28 Feb. 1832; m. at Newark, Ohio, 13 July 1815, Alice Smith.
His wife and several children survived him. His son, John
Smith,'' h. 3 Mar. 1826, was a major in the First Indiana Volun-
teer Cavalry, and was killed at Frederickstown, Mo., 21 Oct.
1861, being the first Indiana officer who was killed in the Civil
War.
iii. Asa Babcock, b. at GranviUe, Mass., 9 June 1790; d. in Lower
Sandusky, Ohio; m. . Child: 1. Asa Jod. '
iv. Benjamin Franklin, b. at Granville, Mass., 9 Mar. 1792; d. in
Golconda, Pope Co., 111.
V. Marcus Aurelius, b. at Granville, Mass., 24 Feb. 1794; d. in 1841;
m. . Children: 1. Marcus AJ 2. Charles. 3. Joseph
Warren. 4. Lewis Cass.
vi. Sarah, b. at GranviUe, Mass., 1 Feb. 1796; d. 31 Oct. 1854; m. 10
Oct. 1816 Robert Moore of Newark, Ohio. Four children,
vii. Amelia E., b. at Granville, Mass., 30 Dec. 1798; d. 22 Aug. 1879;
m. 14 Dec. 1820 H. W. Bragg, b. 22 May 1798, d. 8 June
1875.
viii. George Benedict, b. at Granville, Mass., 15 July 1801; d. at
Granville, Ohio, 4 Oct. 1806.
ix. Mary Anna, b. at Granville, Mass., 10 Mar. 1803; d. there 22 Mar.
1803.
X. Rev. Ezekiel Stanton, a Methodist minister, b. at Granville,
*Ci. The "OUl Northwest" Genealogical Quarterly, vol. 8, pp. 235 et seq. (October 1905).,
50 ' Descendants of Philip Gavet [Jan.
Mass., 18 Oct. 1804; living at Ashley, Ohio, in 1882; m. twice,
and had a large family.
xi. Rev. Elnathan Corrington, a Methodist minister, b. at Gran-
ville, Ohio, 16 Dec. 1808; d. at Toledo, Ohio, 15 Mar. 1896; m.
(1) 10 June 1833 Sophia J. Halset, who d. 9 May 1869; m. (2)
Miss E. M. Royse, M.D. Both his wives were college women.
His first wife was a graduate of Hudson College, and opened
Norwalk Academy, the first school of any importance in the
Methodist Church in Ohio. In 1882 his second wife had been a
practising physician at Toledo for fifteen years. He preached
the first sermon ever preached at Toledo, when its population
was limited to five houses. In 1834 he was a missionary to the
Sioux and Fox Indians, west of the Upper Mississippi River,
before that region was divided into States and Territories. Seven
children by first wife. His son, Halsey Corrington,'' an Army
chaplain, whose last service was with the First United States
Cavalry, retired 1 July 1917, aged 74.
xii. Gardner Denison, b. 3 Feb. 1811; d. 5 Feb. 1811.
32. Arnold* Gavitt (Samuel,* Samud,^ Ezekiel,"^ Philip^) was born
9 Jan. 1787. He married Mercy Rodman, bom 20 Oct. 1786,
daughter of Robert. (Cf. Rodman Genealogy.)
Children :
i. Reuben,' m. Mary Tourgee. Their son. Hazard,'' m. 28 Oct. 1849
Abbie Cooke.
ii. James.
iii. Sarah, b. in 1819; m. Albert Stone.
iv. Renewed.
V. Robert.
vi. Ruth, m. Cory.
vii. Arnold, of Warwick, R. I., m. 10 Nov. 1844 Barbara Shaw of
Johnston, R. I. (Marriage recorded at Newport, R. I.)
viii. Catherine.
ix. Margaret, m. Eben Warner.
X. Samuel.
33. Samuel* Gavitt {Edward,* Samuel,^ Ezekiel,^ Philip^) was bom
14 Nov. 1773. He married Eunice Crandall, born 8 July
1785.
Children :
i. Betsy,« b. 13 Dec. 1808.
ii. Mary M., b. 7 May 1811.
iii. Abby, b. 22 Jan. 1813.
iv. Joseph, b. 19 Feb. 1820; d. 13 Mar. 1875.
34. Edward* Gavitt (Edward,* Samuel,^ Ezekiel,^ Philip^), born
6 Mar. 1779, died 17 Apr. 1836. He married IVIary Nye,
born 11 Feb. 1780, died in 1851.
Children :
i. Simeon T.,^ b. 19 Mar. 1800; m. Susan Chappell.
ii. Elijah C, b. 5 Apr. 1802; m. Ln 1824 Mary Locke.
iii. Sarah M., b. 19 July 1804; m. in 1S21 Thomas Chappell.
iv. Nancy, b. 1 Sept. 1806; d. 1 Oct. 1832.
V. Phoebe, b. 3 Dec. 1808; d. 15 Sept. 1832.
vi. Philena, b. 26 Mar. 1810; d. 26 May 1831.
vii. Eunice, b. 9 Apr. 1813; d. 7 Apr. 1832.
viii. EzEKiEL, of Fiskdale, Mass., b. 13 Dec. 1815; Uving ia 1872; m. in
1838 Betsy C. Maxfield.
ix. Benjamin N., b. 29 July 1818; m. Is-^bella S. Quint.
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X. LtJCT, b. 10 Feb. 1821; m. at Old Smithfield, R. I., 1 Aug. 1839,
W. P. Perkins.
xi. Edwahd J., b. 10 May 1824; d. 27 Oct. 1825.
35. John Champlin^ Gavit (Edward* Samuel,^ Ezekiel,^ Philip^),
born at Westerly, R. I., 4 Apr. 1799, died at Willimantic,
Conn., 20 Jan. 1866. He married at South Kingstown, R. I.,
7 Feb. 1821, Elizabeth Healt, bom 2 Sept. 1801, daughter
of Joseph and Bashaby(?).
Children (the first six bom in Rhode Island, the others in
Willimantic, Conn.):
1 i. George Champlin,' b. 24 Nov. 1822; d. in 1823.
ii. Mart Elizabeth, b. 20 Dec. 1823; m. (1) Philander Fuller; m.
' (2) David F. White.
I iii. AiTET Angeline, b. 24 Dec. 1825; m. Nathaniel Payne.
\ iv. Sarah Jane, b. 14 Jan. 1828; m. (1) W. R. Robins; m. (2) W. R.
Brownell.
V. Catherine Dexter, b. 2 Feb. 1830; d. in 1831.
vi. Henht Tatem, b. 13 June 1832.
I vii. George Washington, of Chicago, HI., b. 23 May 1834; living in
1881; m. Sarah L.Steele, b. in New York 9 Oct. 1836.
! viii. Nakct Catherine, b. 4 Oct. 1836; m. (1) Oscar Tanner; m. (2)
{ Enoch T. Savage.
I ix. Hanah Mahlah, b. 8 Nov. 1838; m. Nathan Liitlefield.
f x. Ltdl\ Ann, b. 27 Nov. 1840; m. Franklin Barnes.
I xi. John Champlin, b. 13 Nov. 1842; d. in 1845.
' xii. Edna Lavinia, b. 17 Nov. 1846; m. John Hatch.
1 36. Geobge* Gavitt (George* Stephen,^ Ezehiel,^ Philip^), born 16
.' Apr. 1773, died in 1855. He married, 16 Sept. 1795, Luct
\ Bliven, bom 25 Apr. 1768 (?), died 16 Sept. 1845, daughter
I of John and Elizabeth of Westerly, R. I.
[ Children :
I i. Lucy,' b. 7 July 1796; m. 20 Apr. 1817 James Wells of Hopkinton,
I R. I. Their son m. Wellcome StiUman and had three children,
j his widow marrying (2) Rev. G. B. Utter of Westerly, R. I.
I ~ ii. Betsy, b. 7 Dec. 1798; m. D. Lee Wells of Hopkinton, R. I. Three
j children.
! iii. Isaac Bliven, b. 24 Apr. 1801; d. in 1802.
: iv. Abby, b. 11 Feb. 1803; m. William Wells of Westerly, R. I.
V. John Bliven (twin), b. 9 Feb. 1806; d. in 1808.
vi. George Washington (twin), b. 9 Feb. 1806; d. 14 July 1886; m.
in 1831 Betsy Sheffield. Seven children.
vii. Franklin, b. 12 Mar. 1808; d. at Middletown, Conn., in 1871; m.
Eliza C. Van Kuren. Three children.
viii. Arnold, b. 17 May 1810; d. at Binghamton, N. Y., in 1864; m. 19
Octj 1835 Sarah Foote of Norwich, Conn.
ix. Mary Hex, b. 18 July 1812; living 4 Mar. 1872; m. Rev. W. B.
Gillette of Shiloh, N. J.
37. Thomas* Gavitt {George* Stephen,^ Ezekiel,'^ Philip^) was bora
26 Feb. 1775. He married at Westerly, R. I., 19 Nov. 1796,
Melinda Cunningham of Groton, Conn.
Children (cf . Norwich, Conn., Vital Records) :
i. Melinda,« b. 21 Dec. 1797; d. 5 Dec. 1798.
ii. Thomas Jefferson, b. 10 Dec. 1802.
iii. Polly, b. 1 Oct. 1804.
iv. Eliza, b. 30 July 1806.
V. Wn.T.TAM, b. 12 July 1808.
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vi. Almira, b. 28 Apr. 1810.
vii. Cordelia, b. 16 Apr. 1812.
viii. Eliza Ann, b. at Lebanon, Conn., 2 May 1813.
38. Ephraim* Gavitt {George* Stephen,'^ Ezekiel,^ Philip^), born
22 Oct. 1777, died at Norwich, Conn., 14 Sept. 1863. He
married, 17 Feb. 1805, Sally Karkin, born 7 Feb. 1773, died
1 Feb. 1861, daughter of Abel and Sarah (Foster) of Westerly,
R. I.
Children:
i. Daniel,' ship carpenter, b. 3 Mar. 1804; m. Mary Chapman.
Children: 1. Daniel FJ 2. Elizabeth.
ii. Sally b. at Norwich 24 Dec. 1805; m. John Nash of Preston, Conn.
Four children,
iii. Edwin, b. 23 July 1808; m. his first cousin, Abbie' Gavitt (19, vi,
1), dau. of Arnold Saunders' and Polly (Pride),
iv. Mary Ann, b. 9 Apr. 1810; m. James S. Nash of Watch Hill, R. I.
Five children.
V. Abbie, b. 23 June 1812; became insane,
vi. Martha Rhodes, b. 27 Sept. 1814.
39. AsA^ Gavitt {George,'^ Stephen,^ Ezekiel,^ Philip^), bom 29 Mar.
1782, died 18 Sept. 1847. He married at Norwich, Conn.,
3 Aug. 1806, Mart Baker, bom 16 Mar. 1788, died 27 Dec.
1827.
Children:
i. Mart Ann,« b. and d. 3 July 1807.
ii. Harriet B., b. 13 Aug. 1808; m. 5 May 1835 Willlam Greenb, b.
at Belchertown, Mass., 27 June 1805. Tbey removed to Andover,
Mass. Seven children. (Cf. Giles's Vinton Memorial.)
iii. Mabia, b. 23 June 1811; d. 23 Jan. 1834.
iv. Angeline, b. 13 Mar. 1814; d. 16 Jan. 1835.
V. Emily D., b. 4 Feb. 1817; d. 13 Sept. 1872; m. 10 Sept. 1838 James
N" SpEjN'cer
vi. Mart E., b. 30 May 1820; d. 1 Mar. 1878; m. 27 May 1847, as hia
second wife, Jesse D. Noyes, b. 30 Jan. 1804, d. in 1884, s. of
John and Priscilla (Chesebrough) of Stonington, Conn.
vii. Caroline L., b. 4 Apr. 1824; m. at Norwich, Conn., 5 Apr. 1847,
Timothy L. P. Hauselkuse, alias Parmelee.*
viii. Sarah P., b. 20 Dec. 1827; d. 22 Feb. 1829.
40. Isaiah^ Gavitt (Isaiah,* Stephen,^ Ezekiel,^ Philip^), bom 4 Oct.
1786, died at Covington, Ky., 15 Apr. 1839. He married
Elizabeth Murpht, born 26 jMay 1785, died at Portage,
N. Y., 15 Dec. 1872.
Children :
i. Chauncy,' b. at Berlin, N. Y., 5 Sept. 1809; d. in infancy.
ii. Nelson E., b. at Berlin, N. Y., 3 June 1811; living at Hartsville
and Scio, N. Y., in the eighties; m. (1) 17 Julv 1844 Barbara
A. Davis of Alfred, N. Y., b. 10 July 1826, d. 13 June 1851;
m. (2) 14 Oct. 1851 Adelaide Budlong of Carroll, N. Y., who
d. at Ahnond, N. Y., 7 Nov. 1859; m. (3) 5 Apr. 1864 Maria
•The vital records of Norwich give the name of this man as Timothy L. P. Hosaelkus; but his
wife signs letters as Caroline L. Parmelee, and states that she was married, on the date given,
to Timothy L. Parmelee. In the records of the Congregational Church of Chatham, Conn., p. HI.
appears the following: "married by Rev. Joel West Jan. 26 1817 at East Hampton, Ct., John P.
Hauselkuse and Dencey Parmelee (dau. of Timothy and Hannah)." Evidently Timothy L. P.
Hauselkuse was a son of this marriage, and dropped his father's name as unattractive, retaining
as his surname his mother's maiden name. The name Hauselkuse is probably a Hessian name,
borne by one of the Hessian mercenaries employed by the British in the Revolution.
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Brown of Leroy, N. Y., b. 27 Dec. 1840. Four children by first
wife, two children by third wife,
iii. Elizabeth, b. at Almond, N. Y., 11 Apr. 1814; d. at Hinsdale, N. Y.,
8 Aug. 1865; m. at Almond, in 1834, Lemuel Howard, Jr.
Children: 1. Henry F. 2. Alonzo B.
iv. LtrcT M., b. at Ahnond, N. Y., 14 May 1816; d. 24 July 1874; m.
(1) 9 Jan. 1850 Judiah Budlong, who d. 23 Jan. 1854; m. (2)
26 June 1856 Albert Fox.
V. Emaline, b. at Freeport, Pa., 2 June 1818; m. 31 Aug. 1839 J. S.
Haskins, who d. 29 May 1881. Four children, b. at Almond,
N. Y.
vi. Charlotte M., b. 5 Feb. 1821; m. Roland. They removed
to Los Angeles, Calif.
I . vii. George W., b. at Pembroke, N. Y., 10 Nov. 1824; m. 28 Feb. 1846
1 Harriet Cottrell, dau. of Pardon and AbigaQ (StiUman) of
Petersburg, N. Y. Four children, b. at Almond, N. Y.
viii. Ann E., b. at Almond, N. Y., 23 Dec. 1829; d. at Los Angeles, Calif.,
. 10 Jime 1889; m. Braddock Stillman* of Almond.
ix. Nancy L., b. at Almond, N. Y., 11 June 1831; m. 24 Feb. 1847, as
his second wife, Orson Wentworth, t b. 19 Dec. 1819. Four
children.
i 41. Clark' Gavitt {Isaiah* Stephen,^ Ezekiel,"^ Philip^), bom 4 June
I ^799, died 22 May 1871. He married first, 25 Jan. 1820,
I Ltdia Weaver, born 16 May 1803, died 22 Dec. 1825; secondly,
I 25 Sept. 1827, Latjra O. Ellsworth, born 25 Aug. 1809,
i died 4 May 1854; and thirdly, 3 Dec. 1854, Widow Abigail
I White, born 8 June 1804, died 24 Oct. 1879.
f Children by first wife:
Melissa,' b. 23 Feb. 1821; d. 7 Mar. 1821.
Isaiah W., b. 16 Aug. 1822; d. 14 Feb. 1824.
Sarah M., b. 28 Sept. 1823; m. 19 Nov. 1843 Dexter F. Bentlet,
b. 22 Mar. 1814, d. 22 May 1880. Three children.
Ann Elizabeth, b. 9 Sept. 1825; m. 8 Feb. 1845 Erastus Kendall.
Five children.
Children by second wife:
V. George C, b. 16 Aug. 1828; m. 14 Jan. 1850 Nancy M. McNaught.
Children: 1. Clark /.' 2. Alfred E.
vi. Ltdia, b. 22 Apr. 1830; living unm. in 1882.
vii. Stephen H., b. 24 Apr. 1832; d. 1 June 1871; m. 1 Dec. 1855
Sarah L. Coleman. Four children, of whom WiUiam E.,'' the
eldest son, was hving at Troy, N. Y., in 1899.
viii. Melissa R., b. 8 Oct. 1834; d. 29 Mar. 1871; m. 30 May 1857
Horace Satterlee. Three children.
ix. Nancy, b. 21 Feb. 1836; d. 10 Mar. 1836.
X. John G., b. 15 June 1838; living unm. in 1882.
xi. Isaiah, b. 20 May 1840; d. 17 Mar. 1841.
xii. Laura M., b. 5 Apr. 1842; d. 20 May 1843.
xiii. Franklin N., b. 14 July 1844; livmg in 1882; m. 4 June 1868
Jennie M. Eldbidge. Two children.
xiv. Mary L., b. 30 May 1847; d. 6 Oct. 1849.
XV. Francis A., b. 8 July 1850; living unm. in 1882.
42. Joseph' Gavitt (Col. John* Joseph,^ Ezekiel,^ Philip^), of
Westerly, R. I., bom 10 Jan. 1781, died in 1872. He married
at Westerly, 29 Nov. 1809, Thankful Bliven, bom 27 July
1787, daughter of William and Eleanor.
*Cf. StiUman GeneaJogy.
tCf. Wentworth Genealogy. Orson Wentworth married (1) 17 Jan. 1844 Marcia Ana Hulett.
but had no children by her.
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Children :
i. John Emoht,« b. 11 May 1809.
ii. Francis, b. 11 May 1811.
iii. William Sidney, b. at Charlestown, R. I., in Apr. 1813; m. Eleanor
. Child: 1. Antoinette Nicholls,'' b. in Nov. 1861.
43. Benajah^ Gavitt {Col. John,* Joseph,^ Ezekiel,"^ Philip'^), of
Westerly, R. I., bom 20 June 1791, died 27 July 1858. He
married at Westerly, 29 Feb. 1824, bos second cousin, Rhoda*
Gavitt (24, iv), q. v., daughter of Sylvester* and Keturah
(Pendleton).
Children:
i. Desire A.,« m. at Westerly, 24 Dec. 1^49, Edward M. Dunn.
ii. Keturah P., m. at Westerly, 22 Sept. 1847, Peleg Saunders, b.
16 Oct. 1820. Child: 1. Alice, b. 6 July 1854; m. 14 Oct. 1874
John Olin Brigham; two sons, Herbert Olin, of Providence, R. I.,
Librarian of the Eiode Island State Library, a corresponding
member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, b.
at Providence 15 Dec. 1875, and Clarence Saunders, of Wor-
cester, Mass., A.B. (Brown University, 1899), A.M. (ife., 1909),
Librarian of the American Antiquarian Society, a resident
member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, b.
at Providence 5 Aug. 1877. (Cf. Brigham Genealogy.)
44\ Samuel* Gavitt (Sanford,* Joseph,^ Ezekiel,^ Philip'^), bom
1 Oct. 1787, died in 1863. He married, 8 Jan. 1808, Eunice
Edwards of Connecticut.
He was tollgate keeper at Columbia, Conn., removed thence
to Greenville, Conn., thence to Norwich, Conn., and in 1835
to Philadelphia, Pa. He served in the War of 1812.
Children:
i. Nelson,* b. 28 Oct. 1810; m. Eliza Murphy of Boston, Mass.
Ten children. (Cf. Merrick Genealogy.)
ii. Eliza Ann, b. 23 Mar. 1814; d. 11 May 1863; m. at Norwich, Conn.,
24 Nov. 1835, George S. Avery of Norwich, b. 18 July 1811,
d. 21 Dec. 1874 Four children,
iii. Susan, b. 22 Feb. 1816; m. C. Davis of Philadelphia,
iv. Gorton, b. 1 Jan. 1818; m. Susan Lippincott of Philadelphia.
Children: 1. Julia.'' 2. Sarah E. 3. Marsie. 4. Nelson.
V. Saxton, b. 9 Nov. 1821; d. in Philadelphia in 1848.
vi. Albert N., b. 25 Dec 1825; living in Philadelphia in 1882; m.
Eliza Drumm of Philadelphia. Child: 1. John A.,'' a, lawyer in
Saginaw, Mich., in 1891.
vii. Abby Jane, b. 11 Sept. 1828; m. B. Brown.
viii. Mary, b. 15 Dec. 1831; m. S. Kingsbury. They removed to
Tennessee in 1858.
45. Joseph* Gavitt {Sanford,* Joseph,^ Ezekiel,"^ Philip^), bom
4 Mar. 1795, died at Walworth, Wayne Co., N. Y., 7 Dec. 1834.
He married, 22 Feb. 1820, Eliza Ellsworth, born 13 June
1799, living in Walworth in 1886, died at the age of 100 years.
Joseph Gavitt lived in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., in 1828, when
he subscribed to a tree-planting fund for Christ Church, and in
1831 removed to Walworth.
Children :
i. Saxton Berry,* b. at Red Hook, Dutchess Co., N. Y., 6 Oct. 1821;
d. at Lyons, Wayne Co., N. Y., 3 Apr. 1905; m. at Marion,
Wayne Co., N. Y., 30 Dec. 1845, Harriet Durfee, b. 30 June
1923] Descendants of Philip Gavet 55
i; 1824, d. at Lyons 10 July 1899, dau. of Elias and Mercy. He
•' was a banker at Lyons. Cinldien: 1. EUa M .'' 2. William Seward,
\ President of the Lyons National Bank, d. 11 Jan. 1921.
i ii. Cornelia M., b. 5 Apr. 1823; d. 13 Jan. 1860.
I iii. MoNTGOMERT W., b. 13 June 1825; d. 8 Nov. 1825.
[ iv. Franklin, b. 3 July 1827; d. 1 Apr. 1830.
I V. Theodore, b. 11 Apr. 1831; drowned 29 July 1853.
!46. Chaeles p.* Gavitt (Sylvester,*^ Benajah,^ Ezekiel,^ Philip^),
bom 17 Dec. 1798, died 1 Jan. 1878. He married first Hannah
I Gavitt, who died 8 Jan. 1841, daughter of William and Sarah
I (Adams) of Westerly, R. I.; and secondly, at Mystic, Conn.,
; in 1842, Mary Duncan of Vermont.
Children by first wife :
i. LomsA Barker,^ b. 2 Aug. 1827; d. 16 Sept. 1882; m. 8 June 1853
Charles Taylor. Four children.
ii. Sarah Ann, b. 28 Dec. 1829; m. James L. Austin. Six children,
iii. Rhoda Adams, b. 30 Mar. 1831; m. 8 May 1854 Robert Wood-
: BURN of St. John, N. B.
; iv. Charles William, b. 28 Dec. 1833; d. 9 July 1860.
I V. Isaac Robinson, b. 13 Dec. 1835; d. 14 Feb. 1888; m. in 1855
' - Catherine Green.
vi. Keturah Mary, b. 20 Feb. 1838; m. David D. Tracy.
. vii. George Henry, b. in Jan. 1841; m. in 1884 Adelaide Taylor.
1 47. Col. Isaac P.* Gavitt {Sylvester,* Benajah,^ Ezekiel,^ Philip^),
I of Westerly, R. I., born 9 May 1805, died 23 July 1838. He
I married, 7 Oct. 1827, Phcebe Ann Edwards, who married
I secondly, at Westerly, 4 July 1844, James Champlin.
Children:
i. Isaac R,« b. 1 Dec. 1827.
ii. Sylvester, b. 27 Feb. 1830; m. 26 Dec. 1855 Sarah Jane Robin-
! SON, b. 13 Mar. 1839. Five children.
• ' iii. Phebe Ann, b. 1 Mar. 1832.
iv. Amos, b. 16 Oct. 1837.
48. Joseph Bloomer^ Gaffet (John* ? Samuel,^ Joseph,^ Philip'^),
of New York City, wood inspector, bom at New Marlborough,
Ulster Co., N. Y., perhaps about 1784, died in New York
City in 1820. He married, in 1814, Eliza Brown, daughter
of Wheeler and Martha (Tier).
Children :
52. i. John Edmonds,^ b. in New York City 29 Oct. 1817.
53. ii. Daniel E., b. 22 Sept. 1819.
49. Jonathan^ Gavet (Jonathan,* Jonathan,^ Joseph,^ Philip^),
probably baptized at Salem in Aug. 1793, died 1 Nov. 1843.
He married, 17 Mar. 1815, Esther Rowe Leonard of Glouces-
ter, Mass., baptized there 6 ]\Iay 1804, died 24 Nov. 1853,
daughter of William.
Children :
i. Sarah Hay,« b. 27 July 1816; m. 13 June 1867 John Gibbs Gilbert
of Boston, Mass., an actor.
ii. Andrew Jackson, b. 10 Oct. 1818; d. 1 June 1859; m. 27 Apr. 1854
Susan H. Taft, widow. He was a brass founder, and made the
casts for Howe's sewing machine. The first bronze statue cast
in America was cast in his shop.
56 Descendants of Philip Gavet [Jan.
iii. Jonathan, b. 24 Sept. 1820; m. 4 Dec. 1844 Maey Ann McDer-
MOTT. They removed to California. Children: 1. Mary Ann,''
b. 17 Aug. 1845; m. 29 Oct. 1874 Henry F. Miller, Jr. 2. Sarah,
b. in 1847; m. 2 Feb. 1869 Clarence W. Jones of Boston, Mass.
3. Ann Rdiecca, b. in 1848.
iv. Ann Johnson, b. 7 Aug. 1822; m. 25 Apr. 1850 Richard A. Babt-
LETT, who d. in 1858. Child: 1. Annie G., m. George Peirce of
, Weston, Mass.
54. V. William Leonard, b. 15 July 1824.
vi. Rebecca Thomas, b. 14 Mar. 1826; m. 20 Oct. 1880 Nahum Poole
of East Bridgewater, Mass.
vii. James H., b. 1 Sept. 1827; d. 13 Jan. 1836.
viii. Joseph, b. 4 Apr. 1830; d. 7 Oct. 1867; m. 21 July 1859 Susan E.
Taft.
50. William Richardson^ Gavett (William,* Jonathan,^ Joseph,^
Philip^),, of Salem, Mass., bom at Salem 27 Apr. 1801, died
there 21 Apr. 1870. He married first, 28 Dec. 1831, Ann
Seaver; and secondly, 29 Mar. 1837, Frances Cordelia
Clapp, born in New York City 23 Dec. 1816, died 6 Jan. 1903,
daughter of Fobes and Frances (McClinch) of New York City.
Children by second wife:
55. i. William Fobes,* b. in Boston, Mass., 12 Apr. 1838.
ii. Frances Cordelia, b. 31 Mar. 1841.
51. George Bradish* Gavet {William,* Jonathan,^ Joseph,^ Philip^),
of Salem, Mass., bom at Salem 12 Oct. 1810, died at
Cambridge, Mass., 19 Apr. 1885. He married first, 6 Apr.
1837, Catherine M. E. Motley, bom 4 Jan. 1817, died
20 July 1852, daughter of William W. and Mary (McClinch);
and secondly, 17 Nov. 1853, Caroline ( ) Wheeler,
widow of Dr. Abner Wheeler.
William Richardson Gavet and George Bradish Gavet were
partners in the firm of Clapp & Gavet, tailors, of Salem.
Children by first wife:
i. George Bradish,* b. 21 Sept. 1838; m. Sarah F. Potter of
Jersey City, N. J., who d. 7 May 1875. No children.
ii. Frances Motlet, b. 13 May 1841; m. 19 June 1867 Benjamin S.
Prat. Child: 1. James Stvrgis, h. 26 Feb. 1871.
iii. Mart Motlet, b. 4 Oct. 1843; m. 8 Jan. 1863 George F. Sargent.
Children: 1. Frederick LeRoy, b. 25 Dec. 1863. 2. Nellie Pray,
b. 17 Dec. 1867; d. 17 Aug. 1869.
iv. Richard Motlet, b. 12 May 1846; d. 19 Feb. 1858.
v. Ellen Riddle, b. 10 June 1849; d. 22 Feb. 1869.
52. John Edmonds* Gavit (Joseph Bloomer,^ John,* ? Samuel,^
Joseph,^ Philip^), of Albany, N. Y., and of New York City,
born in New York City 29 Oct. 1817, died at Stockbridge,
Mass., 25 Aug. 1874. He married, 28 Nov. 1840, Margaret
Sophia Robinson, born at PalmjTa, N. Y., 11 June 1819,
died in New York City 23 Apr. 1902, daughter of Dr. Gain and
Chloe (Bradish) of Palmyra.
John Edmonds Gavit was a bank-note engraver. He learned
his trade with Burton, Durant & Edmonds, spent the year
1837 in Boston, Mass., in the employ of Smith, Perkins &
Company, removed to Albany in 1838, and entered the employ
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I of Hall, Packard & Cushman. He founded the firm of Gavit &
I Company in 1841, and removed to New York City in 1859.
I He was a foimder, and at the time of his death president, of
I . the American Bank Note Company of New York. He was
I deeply interested in scientific research, and was a member of
I the American Association for the Advancement of Science,
I the New York Microscopical Society, and various other
J scientific societies.
! Children:
1 i. John,' b. 4 Aug. 1841; d. 22 Aug. 1842.
ii. JoBEPH, b. at Albany 22 Dec. 1842; d. in New York City 14 May
1887; m. at Albany, 10 Oct. 1867, Fanny Breese Palmer, b.
9 Sept. 1848, dau. of Erastus Dow and Mary Jane (Seamans).
^ Upon the removal of his father to New York City in 1859 he
became manager of the firm of Gavit & Company, engravers, of
which he was the head at the time of his death. Children:
1. John Palmer,* b. at Albany 1 July 1868; m. 8 May 1890 Lucy
Lamont, dau. of Rev. Thomas. 2. Henry Fassett, h. 15 June 1871;
d. 30 May 1872. 3. Erastus Palmer, of Albany, a Pilgrim Ter-
centenary member of the New England Historic Genealogical
Society, b. 22 July 1872; m. (1) 24 Sept. 1901 Flora Myers Brady,
b. 18 Apr. 1878, d. 3 Oct. 1912, dau. of Anthony N.' and Marcia
(Myers) of Albany; m. (2) 7 Mar. 1914 Marie (Tinner) Cooke,
i dau. of Maj. Emory S. Turner of New York City. 4. Helen
I Paimer,b. 26 Mar. 1875; m. 28 June 1911 Paul Swan. B.Joseph,
• of Albany, a member of the staff of the New York State Library
and the compiler of this genealogy, b. 10 Oct. 1876; m. 17 Sept.
1903 Katherine Hulst, A.B. (Syracuse University, 1896), b. at
Greenwich, N. Y., 1 Oct. 1872, dau. of Dr. Peter H. and Caroline
• (CorneD) of Greenwich. 6. Mary Isabel, h. 21 Apr. 1882; d. 25
Sept. 1882. 7. Walter Palmer, captain, Battery A, Ninetieth
Coast Artillery Corps, American Expeditionary Forces, in the
World War, b. 25 June 1886; m. 8 June 1907 Elizabeth G. Mon-
tague, b. 11 May 1887, dau. of Arthur E. and Cassie (Groesbeck)
of Albany,
iii. Margaret, b. 26 Mar. 1846; d. at Pittsfield, Mass., 3 Nov. 1916;
m. 8 Oct. 1868 Charles Prentice Adams, s. of Dr. L.. S. Adams
of Stockbridge, Mass. Children: 1. Karl Joseph, now J. K.
Adam^ of New York City, b. 21 June 1870. 2. Philip Lucius,
b. 18 Mar. 1882; living at Pittsfield, Mass.
iv. William Edmonds, b. 10 Feb. 1849; d. s.p. at Brooklyn, N. Y.,
26 May 1905; m. Alice Leask, who d. at Brooklyn 21 Apr. 1910.
V. Helen Elizabeth, b. 26 Nov. 1850; h^'ing unm. in New York City,
vi. Clark Robinson, b. 27 June 1852; d. 28 Feb. 1915; m. Angeline
CoNKLiNG. Children: 1. Margaret Robinson,* b. 8 Oct. 1874;
m. 27 June 1903 Archibald Henderson, b. in 1872. 2. Mabel
Maud, b. 23 Sept. 1876; m. 20 Dec. 1904 Richard Sylvester
O'Brien of New York City. 3. Clark Robinson, b. 14 Jime 1882;
m. 8 Oct. 1904 Harriet Watts of Yonkers, N. Y.
vii. Julia Niles, b. 22 Feb. 1855; Hving unm. at Sharon, Conn,
viii. Chloe Bhadish, b. 29 Apr. 1857; d. s.p. in New York City 14 Dec.
1912; m. 20 May 1890 Theodore Keese of New York City,
who m. (2) 25 July 1916 EmiHe Bailie Hayes.
ix. Pauline, b. 3 Feb. 1860; m. 4 Oct. 1892 Rev. Mild Hudson
Gates, now vicar of the Chapel of the Intercession, Trinity
Church, New York City. No children.
53. Daniel E.* Gavit (Joseph Bloomer,^ John,^ ? Samuel,^ Joseph,^
Philip^), born 22 Sept. 1819, died in New York City 1 Mar.
1875. He married at Albany, N. Y., 22 June 1840, Clarissa
58 Descendants of Philip Gavet [Jan.
J, Andrews, bom at Albany 11 Nov. 1819; died in New York
City 23 Apr. 1899.
He was a daguerreotypist in the early days of that art, and
in the Civil War served as captain, Company A, Thirty-eighth
New York Volunteers.
Children:
i. Marietta E.,^ b. at Albany 23 Jan. 1843; d. in New York City in
1902; m. at Brooklyn, N. Y., 8 Jan. 1874, Dr. Antius F. John-
son of Stuyvesant, N. Y., who d. at Yonkers, N. Y., in 1905.
ii. Emma C, b. at Albany 23 Nov. 1845; d. 20 Dec. 1896; m. at Albany,
in Nov. 1864, Geobge F. Russell of Albany.
iii. Henry C„ b. at Albany 9 Dec. 1847; d. in Dec. 1884; m. in New
York City, in Dec. 1872, Theresa Mastines.
iv. Charlotte S., b. at Albany 23 Nov. 1848; d. 30 Sept. 1897; m. 13
Mar. 1867 George C. Covert.
v. John E., b. at Albany 16 Mar. 1851; d. at Brooklyn, N. Y., 4 Mar.
1918; m. in Apr. 1872 Julia Hahigan.
vi. Dudley S. G., b. at Jersey City, N. J., in 1853; d. 31 July 1855.
54. William Leonard® Gavet (Jonathan,^ Jonathan,^ Jonathan,^
Joseph,^ Philip^) was bom 15 July 1824. He married, 1 June
1852, Julia A. Hobbs of Wells, Me.
Children :
i. Andrew Jackson,^ b. in Boston, Mass., 19 Sept. 1853.
ii. Esther Leonard, b. in Boston, Mass., 14 Sept. 1855.
iii. Joseph Williams, b. at Cambridge, Mass., 29 Jan. 1858.
55. William Fobes* Gavet {William Richardson,^ William,^ Jona-
than,^ Joseph,^ Philip^), of Salem, Mass., broker, born in
Boston, Mass., 12 Apr. 1838, died at Danvers, Mass., 12 Aug.
1912. He married, 9 Sept. 1862, Rebecca Oliver Thayer,
born at Salem 24 Jan. 1840, died 20 July 1897, daughter of
Capt. Oliver and Rachel L. (Bancroft).
Mr. Gavet was a resident member of the New England
Historic Genealogical Society from 1902 until his death, and
he was also a member of the Essex Institute of Salem. He
devoted much of his spare time to collecting material for a
genealogical history of Ids own family.*
Children, born at Salem :
i. Rachel Thayer,' b. 1 Sept. 1864; m. in 1892 John Francis Henry
Wyse, eldest son of Col. Francis Octavius Wyse, U. S. A. They
reside at Toronto, Province of Ontario, Canada. Four children.
ii. Louis FoBES, b. 8 June 1870; m. 24 June 1896 Frances Elizabeth
Bard. Child: 1. Elizabeth Bard,^ b. 24 Dec. 1897.
*Cf. memoir of William Fobes Gavet in Register, vol. 68, p. Ivi.
1923] New England Vessels in the Louisbourg Expedition 59
NEW ENGLAND VESSELS IN THE EXPEDITION AGAINST
LOUISBOURG, 1745
By Howard Millar Chapin, A.B., of Providence, R. I.
The expedition of 1745 against Louisbourg is of particular interest,
not only on account of the brilliant achievement of the capture of
one of the world's strongest fortresses by an Ul-trained and ill-
equipped Colonial army, but likewise because of the size and success
of the Colonial naval contingent. The largest naval force that had
been raised in the American Colonies convoyed the army, and, in con-
junction with the British fleet under Commodore Warren, blockaded
Louisboxu"g. These Colonial vessels, as truly American as their suc-
j cessors of subsequent centuries, were a sort of prophecy of American
I prowess on the seas to come. The hard, dihgent, unceasing labors
i and trying experiences of the^e early seamen have been in a sense
I thrown into a shadow by the more showy exploits of the land forces,
j whose aims could nevertheless not have been attained save through
I the assistance of the Colonial fleet, which convoyed the troops,
I assisted in the blockade, acted as scouts, guards, and messengers,
I and kept open the line of communication for supplies and ammunition
i from New England to the army in the field.
; The American Navy did not spring forth full-fledged at the out-
[ break of the Revolution, like PaUas Athene from the head of Zeus.
I Its roots go back to the Colonial privateersmen and the naval expe-
i ditions against the French and Spanish. An outline of the naval
• mancBuvres of the most extensive and important of these expeditions
I is here for the first time drawn together from scattered and frag-
i mentary contemporary somrces. Wliile the account is in no sense
4 exhaustive and &ial, yet it presents for the first time in convenient
form the records of the movements of the vessels and wiU enable
information discovered in the future to be easily checked and
verified.*
The date and place of sailing of the first Colonial naval contingent
in the secret expedition against Louisbourg in 1745 seems to be stUl
shrouded in ahnost as fiiuch mystery as it was when it occurred.
Governor Shirley on Apr. 3 said that the six vessels had sailed
about three weeks before; but, as some sailed before 'Ma.r. 13 and
♦This account of the movements of the Colonial vessels in the Louisbourg Expedition of 1745
is based primarily on the printed diaries of Rev. Adonijah Bidwell, Chaplain of the Fleet (Reqisteb,
vol. 27, pp. 153-160), Benjamin Cleaves (i6., vol. 66, pp. 113-124). Sir William Pepperell (.Pro-
ceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, New Series, vol. 20, pp. 141-176), Dudley Bradstreet
{Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, vol. 31, pp. 417—446), Benjamin Stearns
(t6., vol. 42, pp. 135-144), and Rev. Joseph Emerson (ib., vol. 44, pp. 65-84), the Pepperell
Papers (Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Series 6, vol. 10), the Letters of Capt.
George Curwen (Historical Collections of the Essex Institute, vol. 3, pp. 185-188), the Letters and
Journal of Benjamin Craft (ih., voL 6, pp. 181-194), the Journal of Lieut. Daniel Giddings (ib.,
; vol. 48, pp. 293-304), the Letters and Journal of Maj. Seth Pomeroy (in Trumbull's History of
Northampton, Massachusetts, voL 2), Roger Wolcott's Journal (Collections of the Connecticut
Historical Society, vol. 1, pp. 131-161), and various anonymous manuscript diaries in the Ubrary
of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Other contemporary sources, such as the Massachusetts
Provincial records and archives, the Suffolk County Court files, the Boston News-Letter, etc.
have been used to substantiate and amphfy the items in the diaries.
60 New England Vessels in the Louisbourg Expedition [Jan.
three sailed on Mar. 16, it is clear that Shirley was speaking roughly,
combining the two contingents and approximating the date.
On Mar. 6, 1744/5, the snow* Prince of Orange, 14 guns,t Capt.
Joseph Smithurst, and the ship Fame, 24 guns, Capt. Thomas Thomp-
son, were ordered to cruise in consort under Capt. Smithurst's orders.
The Prince of Orange probably sailed from Boston in company with the
brigantinel Boston Packet, 12 guns, Capt. WiUiam Fletcher, to Cape
Ann Harbor, where they were joined by the Fame. The Fame and
the Coesar had, in the latter part of February, been ordered to pro-
ceed from Newport, R. I., to the place of rendezvous, then specified
as Cape Ann. These two vessels, usually called by contemporary
writers the "Rhode Island ship" and the "Rhode Island snow,"
were privateers, and both belonged to PhiUp Wilkinson and Daniel
Ayrault, Jr., of Newport. Thomas Hutchinson, on behaK of the
Province of Massachusetts, went to Newport and chartered these
vessels for this expedition, and Newport merchants subscribed some
£8000 towards the hire of the Coesar and probably also of the Fame.
The same captains and crews were retained. The Fame was a ship
of 250 tons and the Coesar a snow of 130 tons. Each of these vessels
carried as many swivel guns as carriage guns. At this period it was
customary to carry as many, if not more, swivel guns as carriage
guns, although only carriage guns were reckoned in descriptions of
the vessels. Many of the transports carried swivel guns, and the
larger merchant vessels carried carriage guns as a matter of pre-
caution. The Prince of Orange, called the "Province snow," and the
Boston Packet, sometimes called the "Boston galley,"§ were owned
by the Province, the latter having been purchased for use in this
expedition.
The Prince of Orange and the vessels with her were sighted off
Brown Banks, about 90 leagues from Boston, on Mar. 15. The
"Habitant" says that two of the English Colonial cruisers were
sighted off Louisbourg^ on Mar. 14,] | but this date is too early. On
the other hand Parkman says that the cruisers first arrived there on
Mar. 25, which is four days later than the time when the Molineux
actually arrived off Louisbourg.
The snow Coesar, 14 guns, Capt. John Griffith, was ordered on
Mar. 12 to impress 20 seamen and then to follow the ships that had
already sailed from Cape Ann under Captain Smithurst's command.
On the next day. Mar. 13, this order was countermanded, and the
Casar was ordered to sail in company with the Massachusetts and
to act imder Commodore Tyng's orders. If the Coesar was at Cape
*A snow differs from a brig in that it has a trya^ mast just abaft and close to the mainmast,
which carries a trysail on a gaff and boom. The trysail mast goes into the maintop, and the try-
sail is furled without lowering the gaff.
tBidwell has been followed in regard to the armaments. He is correct in five out of the six
cases that can be verified.
JThe terms 'brigantine and brig were used interchangeably at this period, the latter being an
abbreviation or corruption of the former, and were applied to the sort of vessel now known as
a brig.
{A galley carries its guns on a continuous or flush deck, unlike a frigate, which has deep waists
and high poops. Cf. Preble in Register, vol. 22, p. 396.
lIThe Lettre d'un Habitant, p. 36, reads: "Mars 14. Ce fut le quatorze, que nous vimes les
premiers Navires ennemis, ils n'etoient encore que deux et nous les primes d'abord pour des Vais-
seauz Francais."
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61
Ann at this time, she soon went to Boston, where she certainly
was three days later.*
Commodore Edward Tyng, in the ship Massachusetts, a new
frigate of 22 gmis, his flagship,! sailed from Boston about noon on
Mar. 16, in company with the ship MoUneux, 24 gmis, Capt. Jonathan
Snelling, and the snow Ccesar. The Massachusetts had been purchased
by the Province, while she was still on the stocks, and the MoUneux
had been chartered for the expedition. Cleaves says that Tyng sailed
from Boston on Mar. 12; but, if this is so, either he went only to
Nantasket or else he returned.
The MoUneux, on the voyage to Cape Breton, lost sight of the
Massachusetts and the Ccesar on Mar. 18, in a fog. The next day
she was on George's Banks, and sighted the Massachusetts again on
the following day and Louisbourg Harbor on -the 20th.
The ship Massachusetts, enlarged from a contemporary engraving of
1745. Curiously enough the engraver mistook her rating of 20 guns
for a broadside of 20 guns.
One shudders to think of the hardships of the crews of these little
vessels, tossed about in the stinging cold winds of the North Atlantic
in early spring, amid icebergs and ice fields, beaten upon by snow,
sleet, and chilling rain, and now and then shut in by a dense fog,
all the while off a hostile coast and with scarcely any of our modern
aids to navigation.
Upon reaching Cape Breton Island the fleet stood on and off,
*The briefs in the case of Notre Dame de la Deliverance state that the Massachusetts frigate went
to Cape Ann to pick up the Ccesar, evidently following the original orders rather than
the events. These briefs are often inaccurate in regard to details not pertinent to their arguments.
tShe is often called the Massachusetts frigate, doubtless to distinguish her from the Province,
sloop Maaaachusetts, Captain Saunders. A frigate is a ship of war, usually of two decks, light built
and designed for swift sailing.
62 New England Vessels in the Louisbourg Expedition [Jan.
blockading icebound Louisbourg, and waiting for the delayed
arrival of the land forces under the convoy of Captains Rous and
Saunders.
On Mar. 17 two of the Massachusetts armed sloops, the Resolution,
often caUed the Resolute, 10 guns, Capt. David Donahue,* which was
owned by Thomas Tillebrown, William Bowdoin, Jacob Griggs, and
Andrew Hall, and was leased to the Province for £1200 per month,
old tenor, and the Bonetta, 6 guns, Capt. Robert Becket, sometimes
called Beckwith,t preceded the main body of the Massachusetts
contingent, saihng from Boston and apparent'y touching at Pis-
cataqua, and, while coasting along Nova Scotia, touched at Knowles
Harbor or Owl's Head. Upon seeing some Indians Captain Donahue
hoisted French colors on his own sloop and French colors with English
colors under them on the Bonetta, so that the Indians thought that
it was a French privateer with a prize. Three of the Indians came
on board to trade, and Captain Donahue immediately put them in
irons. From these Indians it was learned that the French intended
to besiege Port Royal, now Annapolis Royal. These two sloops
with their prisoners reached Canso, the French Canseau, on Mar. '25.
The Molineux came down from Cape Breton to Canso, where
she arrived Mar. 26. The land forces were expected there at this
time, but only the Resolution and Bonetta had as yet arrived. The
Molineux stayed at Canso during a few days of bad weather, and
sailed on the afternoon of Mar. 29 for Louisbourg.
On Mar. 15 the New Hampshire Colony sloop Abigail, 10 guns,
Capt. John Fernald, with several transports, sailed from Portsmouth
to Newcastle, and on Mar. 21 the entire New Hampshire fleet of
twelve vessels sailed from Newcastle for Canso, where they arrived
Mar. 31. .
Meanwhile the Massachusetts soldiers had been embarking at
Charlestown, Boston, and elsewhere, and the vessels had been
assembling at King's Roads, now Nantasket, in Boston Harbor.
Three vessels arrived there on or before, probably on, Mar. 17,
thirteen on the 18th, two on the 19th, two on the 20th, ten on the
21st, ten on the 22d, eight on the 23d and seven on the 24th. Cleaves
says that fifty-two sailed on the 24th, thus leaving apparently three
at Boston. We know that two were left.
At fom" o'clock in the afternoon on Sunday, Mar. 24, the first
Massachusetts contingent of some 2800 men, in fiftj^HDue vessels,
under the convoy of the snow Shirley, often called the Shirley gallej'',
24 guns, Capt. John Rous, sailed from King's Roads. George White-
field, the evangehst, had given the expedition somev.'hat the aspect
of a crusade by suggesting as a motto for their flag : Nil desperandum
Christo duce.
They reached Sheepscot on the 26th. The second contingent, of
200 rtien, sailed on the 26th from Boston. At nine in the morning on
the 29th the fleet of sixty-three sail weighed anchor at Sheepscot
and proceeded on its way. A slight accident occurred, one of the
sloops running on a rock. In addition to the Shirley, the fleet was
♦David Donahue waa appointed captain of the Resolution Feb. 27, 1744/5.
tShefiBeld, p. 16, calls him Beckwith of Connecticut.
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guarded by three other armed vessels, the Province sloop Massa-
chusetts, 10 guns, Capt. Thomas Saunders, a sloop of 8 guns, Captain
Swan, and a sloop of 6 guns. Captain Bush {alias Bosch). The names
and the captains of only a few of the fifty-nine transports which made
up the fleet have as yet been discovered.
The Humming Bird was commanded by Captain Honiwell, the
Hannah and Mary by Capt. David Carmida, the schooner Fish-
hawk by Captain Newmarch, the schooner Sally by Capt. Joseph
Smith, and the schooner Seaflower by Captain Wadlin. There is
said to have been a sloop Seaflower, commanded by Capt. Jona-
than Sayward of York, Me. (Burrage, Maine at Louisbourg, pages
22, 86.) There was a schooner Elizabeth and also a sloop Elizabeth.
The three despatch packets were commanded by Capt. Moses
Bennett (who gave up his command of the Bonetta to go into this
service), Capt. Joseph Sniith, and Capt. Michael Hodge. These
vessels were to ply between Boston and General Headquarters.
Captain Loring and Captain Giddings each commanded a schooner.
Other transports were commanded by Mr. Dodd, Captain Stone,
Captain Lovett, Captain West, Mr. Hammond, Mr. Allen, Captain
Daggett, Robert White, Samuel Barnes, and Captain Mitchell, the
last-named in a sloop owned by Nathaniel Sparhawk. Captain
Stone's vessel and a Captain Adams's vessel were left behind and
did not reach Sheepscot with the Shirley.
As might be expected at that season of the year, the fleet was
scattered by the bad weather that was encountered on the voyage.
A northeast storm raged all day on the 30th and through the follow-
ing night. Then during Sunday, Mar. 31, the vessels tossed about
all day in a calm, with high, sickly swells left over from the storm.
Another storm raged all day Monday.
According to Dr. Usher Parsons (Life of Pepperell, page 57) some
of the transports arrived at Canso on Apr. 1. Certainly the sloop
Massachusetts, Captain Saunders, and six transports with her arrived
on the 2d. The Shirley, carrying Pepperell and Rous, with twenty
vessels, arrived on the 4th. On that day the ship Massachusetts
reached Canso from Louisbourg.
Meanwhile the Molineux sighted a vessel on Apr. 1 and gave
chase. The chase lasted all day, and the vessel put into Canso.
Captain Snelling on that account considered the vessel a friend.
The Molineux lay off the harbor that night, but got becalmed in
the morning when she tried to enter the harbor. At least seventeen
vessels could be seen in the harbor. When the wind sprang up later
in the day the Molinewt: put to sea. On Apr. 3 she spoke the Prince
of Orange, the Ccesar, and the Fame, part of the fleet blockading
Louisbourg. There were rumors of an incipient mutiny among the
crew of the Molineux on the 4th. She put back into Canso on the
following morning about 8 o'clock.
The Boston Packet, Captain Fletcher, about 15 leagues east of
Cape Breton, captured on Apr. 2 a sloop loaded with rum, wine,
brandy, and indigo from Martinique, and brought her into Canso on
the forenoon of the 5th. This was the first prize taken in the expe-
dition, and was usually spoken of as the "Martinico sloop." The
64 New England Vessels in the Louisbourg Expedition [Jan.
Molineux and the schooner Hannah and Mary reached Canso on this
day (Apr. 5). Pomeroy says that there were sixty-eight vessels at
Canso on this date, and Craft says that on the 7th there were five
vessels cruising off Cape Breton. These were the Fame, Ccesar, Prince
of Orange, Molineux, and the ship Massachusetts. The two last-
mentioned, the Molineux and the ship Massachusetts, sailed from
Canso for Cape Breton Apr. 7, and were joined by the Boston Packet
on the following day. Seven more transports arrived at Canso on
the 8th and 9th.* Nine more transports, the last, except for one,
of those battered about and delayed by the storm, came in on the
11th. These included the Humming Bird; Captain Honiwell, Captain
Lovett's vessel, and Captain West's vessel. One diarist states that
twelve transports arrived on the 8th and twelve more on the 11th.
Of these, three reached Island Harbor on or before Apr. 9. The
transport that Cleaves was on reached there at 6 P.M. on the 9th.
The Resolution and two transp)orts arrived at Island Harbor on the
9th. On the 10th nine vessels sailed from Island Harbor and reached
Canso at 2 o'clock in the afternoon of the 11th.
The prize "Martinico sloop," which had been captured by Fletcher
in the Boston Packet, sailed for Boston with despatches Apr. 11.
She reached Portsmouth, N. H., on the 20th, sailed again the next
day, and reached Boston Apr. 22. Apparently it was planned to send
a duplicate copy of the despatches by a brigantine, in case the
"Martinico gloop" should be taken by the French or lost at sea, but
instead the duplicates were finally sent by the first packet, Capt.
Moses Bennett, which sailed about Apr. 28. Bennett probably reached
Boston about May 4 and probably brought back Shirley's letter of
May 5, doubtless arriving at Chapeaurouge Bay about the 11th.
On Apr. 10 Giddings and some other soldiers in a whaleboat
pursued a French shallop off the mouth of Canso Harbor, but without
success. Captain Donahue in the Resolution was sent to the Gut of
Canso on the 12th, where about 10 o'clock on the following morning,
at Doe Island, he captured eight Indians, of whom it is said that
one was a chief and one a queen, and brought them back prisoners
to Canso on Apr. 14. Captains Cobb and ' B " were sent
over towards St. Peter's on the 15th, with twenty-four men, in two
whaleboats, but ice prevented their landing. These two captains
were probably from the land forces, and Captain B was
perhaps Capt. Israel Bayley, of the same regiment as Capt. SUvanus
Cobb. On Apr. 15 the Molineux, while cruising off Cape Breton
Island, was surrounded by vast cakes of ice, some of them nearly
50 feet thick. Such were the hardships encountered by these hardy
Colonial sailors.
On the next day, Apr. 16, the Boston Packet and the Molineux
chased two French brigantines. One escaped, and the other was
overtaken by the Molineux amidst the ice and fog, about 10 leagues
from Canso. The Molineux fired three guns at her, whereupon the
brigantine struck her colors, without offering any resistance. She
*Pepperell does not mention the arrival of any transports on the 8th, but one diarist states
that he arrived on that day, smd Pomeroy writes: "Monday at evening, whioh was the 8th of
April, came in seven more."
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I proved to be the Victory, 6 guns, formerly commanded by Captain
j Loring,* and captured by the French in 1744. She had a cargo of
I rum, molasses, coffee, sugar, chocolate, and syrup, valued at £25,000,
i and was bound from Martinique for Louisbourg. She had recently
! captured two Cape Ann schooners, what to-daj"" would doubtless
I be called Gloucester fishermen. The Boston Packet convoyed the
I Victory into Canso on Apr. 17.
{ On that day a vessel was sighted off Canso, and Captains Donahue,
1 Becket, and Swan went in chase.f It being calm, eleven whaleboats
!; towed the Resolution out of the harbor. At dawn on the 18th the
Molineux captured a schooner which had been taken by the French
brigantine St. Jean, 8 guns, about a week before. After taking the
schooner, the Molineux gave chase to the St. Jean and followed
her all day. Before the Molineux came up with her, however, the
French vessel was overtaken and captured by the Resolution, Captain
Donahue, a league or two from Canso. About 6 o'clock in the after-
noon Captains Donahue and Swan brought the prize into Canso,
and sailed again before dusk. Capt. Wilham Adams was a prisoner
on board of the brigantine, and reported that his vessel, the schooner
St. Peter, while carrying despatches from Boston to Newfoundland,
had been captured by the St. Jean on Apr. 12. Captain Brimble-
comb was also a prisoner on the St. Jean, his vessel having been
captured by her.
According to Steams, Captains Donahue and Becket captured a
Cape. Ann schooner that had been taken by the French the day
before and brought her into Canso on Apr. 18. This is doubtless
identical with the schooner taken by the Molineux, mentioned above.
The discrepancies in the different accounts are no greater than one
might expect to find in reports circulated in camp. Cleaves (who is
sometimes contradictory and in some instances a day later than other
diarists) and another diarist state that two recaptured schooners
were brought in on the 19th, doubtless referring to this schooner,
which appears to have been Captain Brimblecomb's, and to the one
taken by the Prince of Orange and mentioned later, which came in
during the afternoon. The Borietto, Captain Becket, sailed on the
19th, but foimd nothing but an iceberg and retxu-ned about 2 P.M.
No sooner had the Molineux come up with the Resolution and the
St. Jean, then reports of heavy cannon fire were heard. The Moli-
neux followed the sound, and soon joined the ship Massachusetts, the
Fame, and the Ccesar, who were fighting the French frigate Renommee,
36 guns. Captain Kersaint. This ship had been sighted off Canso
Harbor on the 18th, and the Shirley, Captain Ex)us, the sloop Massa-
chusetts, Captain Saunders, and the Abigail, Captain Fernald, had
been sent in chase about 3 o'clock in the afternoon. The Renommee
escaped in the thick weather and darkness, but was chased again
by the fleet in the morning. Stearns states that she was chased by
nine Colonial cruisers, and escaped. Commodore Tyng of the ship
Massachusetts wrote the following account of the engagement:
•See also Boston Newa-Letler for Apr. 5, Apr. 18, and May 9, 1745.
tPepperell says Captain Donahue and a schooner, but Fepperell is not always aocurata
in regard to rigs, and calls the Prince of Orange a schooner. George Curwen, in a letter dated Apr.
17, but perhaps finished later, eays Donahue and Swan of Marblehead.
66 New England Vessels in the Louisbourg Expedition [Jan.
"The ship which we chased came up very fast till within gunshot. Twice
he struck his colors. Capt. Griffith in the Cwsar came across him and
they exchanged a broadside with each other. Then Capt. Smithurst [in
the Prince of Orange] came across him and did the same. Captain Fletcher
[in the Boston Packet] also; and if Capt. Snelling [in the Molineux] had
tacked in time, as the chase was running down towards him, we should have
taken him. I believe that the chase flung something overboard, which gave
him the start of us again. We were not much more than a gunshot from
him tiU it was quite dark, and then had chased him so far that I was afraid
of running ashore, and in tacking lost sight of him. For the rest, I refer
your Honor to Capt. Rous [of the Shirley]. I expected he would keep
in with the shore, so I kept in close by the ice the whole night. The Rhode
Island men behave extraordinary well, though their vessels [the Fame and
the Casar] saU very bad. They are quite out of wood and water and we
have spared them all we can."
The Shirley fired 115 guns at the Renommie in this encounter.
Captains Femald and Saunders commanded the other two vessels
that made up the nine mentioned as being in the chase.
On Apr. 19 Captain Smithurst's mate brought into Canso a Cape
Ann schooner that had been recently taken by the Prince of Orange
off Chapeaurouge Bay (Gabarus Bay), and Captain Saunders
returned. Captain Swan sailed at 3 P.M. Captain Femald, in the
New Hampshire Colony sloop Abigail, recaptured the schooner
St. Peter on the 18th off Chapeaurouge Bay, and brought her into
Canso on April 20.* Pomeroy states that this was the sixth prize
brought into Canso.
The Resolution, Captain Donahue, returned to Canso on the 20th,
and, carrying thirty soldiers and an oflttcer and accompanied by the
Bonetta, Captain Becket, sailed about 6 P.M. on Apr. 21 from Canso
for the Bay of Vert, where they were to cruise for the purpose of
intercepting and capturing provision vessels, and had orders not to
land. On this day, also, Lieut. Col. Edward Evelith of the Fifth
Massachusetts Regiment was sent, with seventy men, two schooners
(or sloops, according to one diarist), one of which was perhaps the
schooner Fishhawk, and five whaleboats, against the town of St.
Peter's, on Cape Breton Island. On Apr. 21 Joseph Emerson,
chaplain of the Molineux, wrote:
"We saw a sail, gave chase, came up about 11 o'clock, found her to be a
sloop who just before we came up retook a schooner which the brig took
sometime ago from Boston with stores for the army & wine for the General."
The Shirley returned to Canso Apr. 21. On Apr. 22 the Molineux
and the ship Massachusetts were cruising near each other off Cape
Breton. On this day H.M.S. EUham, 40 guns, Capt. Philip Durell,
arrived at Canso from Piscataqua, after a voyage of six days.' She
was the first of His Majesty's vessels to join the Colonial forces.
When she received her orders to join the expedition, she was just
on the point of sailing for England as convoy for the mast ships,
as the vessels were called that carried to Europe the American timber
that was to be used for vessels' masts. At 6 o'clock in the evening
♦According to Cleaves, at 3 o'clock, Apr. 21. Perhaps he means the preceding afternoon, as
this item is followed by accounts of what happened in the morning. Cf. his record in regard to
Brimblecomb.
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one of the transports, which had been given up as lost, arrived at
Canso in good condition.
It was at first planned to add the St. Jean to the fleet of Colonial
cruisers and to send her out in search of the St. Peter, but later this
was decided to be inadvisable. She was, however, ordered to carry
water, wood, and provisions from Canso to the fleet off Louisbourg
on Apr. 22. That night a disorderly affray occurred on board the
brigantine Victory, and her commander, Capt. John Friend, was on
that account replaced by Capt. William Adams.
On the 23d Lieutenant Colonel Evelith returned to Canso from
St. Peter's, where he had burned some French houses. He brought
with him a French prize sloop laden with wood. They had captured
another sloop, but were forced to abandon her, and a third sloop
that they chased ran ashore.
Commodore Peter Warren, with H.M.S. Superb, 60 guns, Capt.
Richard Tiddeman, H.M.S. Launceston, 40 guns, Capt. Warwick
Calmady, and H.M.S. Mermaid, 40 guns, Capt. James Douglas,
touched at Canso on Apr. 23, in the forenoon, and then proceeded to
Cape Breton to join the Colonial cruisers blockading Louisbourg.
The Abigail, Captain Fernald, was sent to blockade the harbor of
St. Peter's.
On the morning of Apr. 24 the three men-of-war under Commodore
Warren joined the fleet off Louisbourg. The Boston Packet took a
schooner loaded with wood, which was formerly commanded by
Captain Donnel and had been captured by the French off Annapolis
Basin in 1744. The Fame captured a sloop that ran ashore while
attempting to escape. She also was loaded with wood. In the
afternoon a shallop was taken. These vessels came from St. Peter's
and were captiured at Margaret's Bay.
It is now necessary to go back in point of time to Apr. 14, when
the Connecticut contingent, consisting of five sloops, two brigantines,*
and one schooner, eight vessels in all, seven transports and the
Connecticut Colony guard sloop Defence,^ 12 guns, commanded by
Captain Prentice, sailed from New London at 11 o'clock Simday
morning. It should be noted that both the Massachusetts and the
Connecticut contingents sailed on Sunday. The Rhode Island
Colony sloop Tartar, a brig of 14 guns, Capt. Daniel Fones, accom-
panied the Connecticut fleet as an additional safeguard. They reached
Holmes Hole (Vineyard Haven) on the 13th, Nantucket on the 15th,
and Cape Sable on the 21st. One of the transports was the schooner
Charming Molly, Captain Byles. Another Connecticut transport was
the sloop Diamond, Capt. Ephraim Doane, and five others appear to
have been commanded by Captains Coit, Robbins,. Mumford, Tal-
cott, and Lais. It is possible that some of these were not in this
fleet, but capae up to Louisbourg later with re enforcements or supplies.
Capt. Aaron Bull commanded a Connecticut transport sloop which
*CIeaves says that one of the Connecticut vessels was a snow.
tFrancis Parkman in the Atlantic Monthly for March, 1891, p. 322, wrote: "two sloops hired in
Connecticut of 16 guns each." Burrage, p; 22, follows Parkman. He states also that there were
13 vessels in the fleet, viz., Massachusetts, 9; Connecticut, 2; Rhode Island, 1; and New Hamp-
shire, 1. There were in reality 15 armed vessels, viz., Massachusetts, 12 (of which 2 were hired
from Rhode Island owners); Connecticut, 1; Rhode Island. 1; and New Hampshire, 1.
VOL. LXXVII. 5
68 New England Vessels in the Louisbourg Expedition [Jan.
arrived at Louisbourg on Aug. 10. This vessel may have been in the
fleet which sailed on Apr. 14 and may have returned to Connecticut
in May, June, or July.
The French cruiser Renommee was sighted by the Connecticut fleet
on Apr. 23 off Pope's Head, The Tartar left the fleet and went out
to meet the Renommee, firing two bow chasers at tier. The French
ship replied with two broadsides of at least 60 cannon. The Tartar,
greatly inferior in armament, lead the Renommee away from the
transports, which were thereby enabled to reach Tor Bay, N. S.,
in safety. The Tartar's jib halliards were shot away, and Captain
Fones found it necessary to cut down the waist of the Tartar in
order to make her sail better. After an eight hour's chase to wind-
ward the Tartar proved herself a better sailer than the Renommee
and escaped in the night.
The Connecticut transports and the Defence reached Canso on
Apr. 24 at 11 A.M. (or, according to Cleaves, at 9 A.M.), and reported
that the Tartar had probably been captured by the French ship.
At noon Captain Swan sailed from Canso with despatches for
Commodore Warren.
On Apr. 25, at 5 o'clock, the snow Ccesar, Captain Griffith,
arrived at Canso from Cape Breton, with news that the ice had
gone from Louisbourg. She took on wood and water. At 1 o'clock
in the afternoon the Tartar fiired five guns and came to anchor at
Canso, only shghtly damaged by her combat with the Renommee.
Captain Femald returned from his expedition against St. Peter's,
having touched at the Isle de Madame. On ttus day, off Louis-
bourg, a French ship of 14 guns, laden with wine, etc., escaped
Commodore Warren in the fog, but six hours later was attacked by
the ship Massachusetts. She, however, again escaped in the fog and
night, and got into Louisbourg. The Massachusetts lost one man in
the engagement.
On Apr. 26 Captain Swan reached Canso, with news that the fleet
off Louisbourg had captured three French vessels two days before.
Lieutenant General Pepperell transferred his headquarters from the
Shirley to the sloop Massachusetts, Captain Saunders's vessel. Cap-
tain Rous in the Shirley and Captain Fones in the Tartar sailed from
Canso in quest of the Renommee. They cniised to the westward, and
fell in with the Renommee to the west of George's Banks, where
they attacked her, but, being a better sailer, she escaped. The
Shirley continued westward, and reached Nantasket on May 2.
Between 5 and 7 o'clock in the morning of Apr. 29 the New Eng-
land armada sailed from Canso, in four divisions of transports, under
the convoy of "an armed snow and two armed sloops." Light winds
prevented their reaching Chapeaurouge Bay before night, as had
been hoped. Commodore Warren and some of his fleet, which now
included the Colonial cruisers as weU as His Majesty's ships, were
sighted in the afternoon, and a brigantine laden v\ith suppHes was
sent out to them. Colonel Moulton, with four or five vessels under
convoy of the Abigail, Captain Femald, made an attack on St.
Peter's with 270 men.
After a day and night at sea the fleet and army under Pepperell
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arrived at Chapeaurouge Bay about 10 o'clock in the morning on
t Apr, 30. Meanwhile the Resolution and the Bonetta, preceding the
i transports, had destroyed the fishing villages of St. Pierre,* St.
I Esprit, and Fourche. Commodore Warren's men-of-war bombarded
I the forts of Lonisbom-g, while the troops disembarked 10 miles away
j at Chapeaurouge Bay, their landing being covered by the gunfire
I from the vessels of Captains Fletcher, Saunders, and Bush. The
{ village at Lorembec was also destroyed.
{ In the morning of Apr. 30 a French ship was chased by some of
I the cruisers into Manaton (Menadon) Bay, eastward from Louis-
i bourg. The Molineux, the Fame, the Launceston, and the Eltham
\ were in the chase, and the Molineux finally got close enough to attack
and capture the French vessel.f She was the Marie de Grdce, 14
guns, from Granville for Louisbourg, laden with suppKes. Commo-
dore Warren asked PeppereU for several fast-saiUng schooners to
carry messages, three schooners to attend him off Louisbourg, some
for fishing, a fast schooner to send to Newfoundland with despatches,
and Captain Bush's sloop to blockade the mouth of the harbor at
night. PeppereU replied that he would send such vessels as soon as
they were unloaded. He also suggested that Commodore Warren
I should join with Brig. Gen. ^amuel Waldo and himseK and fit out a
! brigantine as a privateer on their own account. This plan, however,
I does not appear to have been carried out. The Defence and the
I brigantine referred to, which was valued at £1910, old tenor, at
I Canso, and which had a cargo of clothing for the sailors, together
I with Mr. Dodd's vessel, took prisoners and despatches out to the
I fleet on May 2. The Defence retiimed and anchored in Chapeaurouge
I Bay that night. The Boston Packet chased a sloop and a schooner
f into one of the bays east of Louisbourg, but they escaped because
-; there were no light-draft schooners to go after them.
: The Defence cruised off Louisbourg on May 3. Five of the desired
schooners reached Commodore Warren on the 4th, and were soon
followed by two more and by one to take despatches to Newfoundland.
The fifth schooner, the Fishhawk, Captain Newmarch, sailed from
Chapeaurouge Bay on the 4th. On this day the fleet drew up in line
of battle in front of Louisbourg Harbor, and the ship Massachusetts,
the Prince of Orange, the Fame, the Defence, the Eltham, and at least
one schooner sailed eastward in search of two ships said to be in a
harbor there.
Meanwhile Captain Donahue had been repulsed in the Bay of
.Vert, and Capt. Richard Jacques, who accompanied him, had been
killed. In this expedition the Resolution went as far as the Isle de
St. Jean, where a landing party burnt a considerable number of
houses, destroyed the cattle, and frightened the inhabitants, thus
deterring them from sending help or suppUes to Louisbourg. Return-
^FerhaiM a fishing village on Isle St. Pierre, evidently not the town of St, Peter'a. The Boston
News-Letttr for May 23 says that the fisheries at Forechetto and Lawrembeque were destroyed.
fTbe logs of the LaunceiUm and the Mermaid enter this capture under the date of May 1, This
U due to the fact that the nautical day in a ship's log always runs from noon of one day to noon
of the next, and is called by the calendar day on which it ends, so that any events occurring in tha
afternoon or evening are entered under the date of the following day. Bradstreet records a rumor
that two supply ships were taken.
70 New England Vessels in the Louishourg Expedition [Jan.
ing with two small prize sloops, the Resolviion reached Canso on
or before May 4.
The expedition under Colonel Monlton destroyed the town of
St. Peter's, burnt four schooners, and then returned with one prize
schooner to Canso, where they turned the prisoners over to the
garrison there. Then they proceeded eastward, and joined the main
body of the army at Chapeaurouge Bay on the 5th. Captain Donahue
at Canso on May 7 discovered and frustrated a plot among the
French prisoners to carry off the brigantine Victory.
The second of the four supply vessels mentioned by Shirley
seems to have been the sloop Good Intent, Captain Bradford, which
left Boston about Apr. 24 and reached Canso May 8, having run
ashore at the mouth of the harbor the previous night and lost her
boom. The third vessel was the sloop Philadelphia, Capt. John
Stinson, which sailed from Boston about Apr. 26. The "fourth
sloop" doubtless came in the fleet that was convoyed by the Shirley.
On May 8 the Resolviion, Captain Donahue, and the Bonetia,
Captain Becket, went on a short cruise to the harbor of St. Peter's
and places adjacent, and Captain Arno was put in command of one
of Donahue's prize sloops and sent with despatches to Chapeaurouge
Bay.
Captains Donahue and Becket were in search of French vessels
said to be laid up in the vicinity of St. Peter's. They foimd and cap-
tured a sloop, a schooner, and at least one other vessel, probably
a sloop, and returned to Canso on or before May 10. On that day
Captain Donahue sighted a ship to the westward which was thought
to be H.M.S. Bien Aim4, Capt. Clark Gayton, which had sailed from
Nantasket on May 3.
The Resolution, Captain Donahue, joined the fleet off Louisbourg,
and came into Chapeaurouge Bay on the 11th, and a schooner that
had been in the expedition to the eastward returned to Chapeaurouge
Bay. The Tartar, Captain Fones, which had returned to the fleet
after her cruise with the Shirley in pursuit of the RenommSe, was
sent to the eastward to summon to Chapeaurouge Bay the vessels
that had not as yet returned from that expedition and also the
Mermaid and the Molineux, that were cruising to the eastward.
The Tartar cruised on this mission for five days, meeting the Defence
on the 13th and presumably some of the other vessels, and retiuned
to Chapeaurouge Bay, where she lay on the 16th. The aforesaid
expedition reached St. Ann's Bay on the 6th. The schooners (appar-
ently there was more than one in the expedition) went in to the bay
during the morning, and the Defence went in and landed men in the
afternoon. The next day a landing party with the EUham's barge
and yawl attacked and burnt St. Ann, a town of about 20 houses
and between 20 and 40 shallops. They took one prisoner and much
loot, consisting of 12 or 15 feather beds, 3 or 4 cases of bottles,
chests with clothes, iron pots, brass kettles, candlesticks, frying palis,
pewter plates, spoons, etc.
On the 8th the Prince of Orange and the Defence weighed anchor
at 4 P.M. and sailed northward. They captured a shallop, but
turiied it adrift in a snowstorm. On the 9th they reached Aganish
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i
I [Nigonish] Bay and burnt a town of 80 houses. They also destroyed
J the towns of Bradore and Bayonne, as well as St. Ann. At noon
I they started back for Louisbourg, but were forced to lay to until the
!12th on account of stormy weather. On the 13th the Defence met
the Tartar about sunrise and reached Chapeaurouge Bay about
I 11 o'clock. On the 8th the ship Massachusetts ran afoul of the Eltham
I in the fog at night, stove in the latter's larboard quarter, and tore her
; ■ mainsail. The Massachusetts carried away her bowsprit in the crash.
1 The EUham reached Louisbourg some time between May 13 and 16.
i Capt. Moses Bennett, in command of one of the despatch packets,
i sailed from Chapeavu-ouge Bay on the 12th and reached Boston on
the 17th. Captain Donahue, in the Resolution, sailed with despatches
and prisoners on the 12th for Boston, stopping on the way at Canso
for his cable, anchor, and boat which he had left there. He reached
Boston on the 18th. The Molineux spoke the ship Massachusetts on
the 12th and the Bien Aime on the 13th. Captain Gayton, in the
Bien Aime, who had left Nantasket May 3, was off Louisbourg on
the 13th, having spoken the ship Massachusetts, the Molineux, and
j a schooner from Chapeaurouge Bay on that day. This same day a
1 French snow of 150 tons, from Bordeaux, successfully ran the
I blockade and entered Louisbourg. Some packet or transport arrived
i on the 13th or 14th, for Giddings records receiving a letter from New
; England on May 14. On the 14th, also, some shallops were fitted
f with swivel gims, in order to assist landing parties. On May 13
1 two fire ships, one an old ship of 150 tons and the other a schooner,
i were sent into Louisbom-g in an imsuccessful attempt to burn the
! French snow, which was thought to have powder on board. Warren
and Pepperell were constantly sending schooners with despatches
back and forth between the fleet and the camp.
I [To be concluded]
GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH IN ENGLAND
Communicated by the Committee on English Research
[Continued from vol. 76, page 301]
Haskett
Contributed by G. Andrews Moriartt, Jr., A.M., LL.B., of Newport, R. I.
In this article records are presented which supply new information
about the English ancestry and family connections of Stephen
Haskett, who settled at Salem, Mass., as early as 1668, and through
two of his daughters, who married into the Derby famUy, was an
ancestor of later generations of this well-known family. In order to
make accessible in one article all the evidence thus far discovered on
the English origin of this immigrant, a few records previously printed
are here printed again — among them the deposition of EUzabeth,
72 Genealogical Research in England [Jan.
widow of Stephen Haskett, which was made in 1698 and is the
starting point for investigations into his ancestry, and abstracts,
with shght changes, of several EngUsh wills contributed by the late
Henry FitzGilbert Waters to earher volumes of the Register. A
study of the Haskett records already in print and of those here
printed for the first time shows that Stephen Haskett of Salem was
a son of Elias Haskett of Marnhull, co. Dorset, and Henstridge, co.
Somerset, and a nephew of the Stephen Haskett of Marnhull who
made his will (found by Mr. Waters) in 1648 and who was con-
sidered, eight years ago, by the contributor of this article, to have
been probably the father of the Salem settler.* These records also
point to an Elias or EUis Haskett of Henstridge, who was buried
10 May 1639, as probably the grandfather of Stephen of Salem.
A pedigree, in which the information derived from the records is
set forth in genealogical form, will conclude the article.
From Essex Countt (Mass.) Notarial Records
Elizabeth Haskitt's Oath & Certificate Entred May 30ti>, '98.
M". Elizabeth Haskitt widow formerly the wife of Stephen Haskitt of
Salem personaly appeared (before me) y« subscriber & made Oath that she
hath six children Uuing (viz) one sonne whose name is Elias Haskitt aged
about Twenty Eight yeares & fiue Daughters Ehzabeth Mary Sarah Hannah
& Martha all which she had by her husband y« abouesaid m'' Stephen Haskitt
& Were his Children by him begotten of her body in Lavrfull Wedlock being
married to him by Doctor Ceauell in Exiter in y^ Kingdome of England &
whose sd husband serued his time with one m'' Thomas Obume a chandler
and sope boyler in s^* place & was ye reputed Sonne of Haskit of
Henstredge (so called) in Summersetshire in s<J Eangdome of England &
haue often heard my s^ husband say that he had but one brother whose
name was Elias Hasket & that he lined in said Towne of Henstredge. Eliz-
abeth Haskitt.
Swome Salem May ye 30*^ 1698 before me John Hathome One of y«
Councill & Justice pe & Q. in y^ County of Essex in his Maj^'^s province of
ye Massachusets Bay in New England.f
From the Parish Registers and Transcripts of Henstridge,
CO, Somerset, 1605-1699
Baptisms
1605 EUnor Stibbs daughter of WiUiam 18 October, j
1622 Anna Stibbs daughter of WUliam and Edith his wife 15 December.f
1622 Susan Hasket daughter of Ehzer of Endeston§ and Christian his wife
19 March [1622/314
1636 Joan bastard daughter of Aditha Hasket 27 May.J
1636 Stephen Hasket son of Elizer Hasket, Sen.[?], clotliier, and Ellinora
his wife 18 December. J
1639 William Stibbs son of WiUiam and Agnes his wife 2 February [1639/
40].t
1640 Sara Dusset daughter of George and Ehzabeth 20 September.^
1640 WiUiam Hasket son of EUis and Sarah his wife 4 November.f
*Cf. Essex Institute Historical Collections, vol. 51, p. 2.
tPrinted in Register, vol. 30, p. 110, from a copy made by the late Henry FitzGilbert Waters.
{This entry ia taken from the Bishop's transcripts of the parish registers of Henstridge, these
transcripts being preserved at Wells.
{Endeston or Enston, a hamlet in Henstridge, is now called Yenston.
1 1923] Genealogical Research in England 73
I 1665 Susanna daughter of Ellis Hasket, Junr., and Elizabeth 1 November.
I 1665 Jonathan son of WiUiam and Rebecca Hasket 23 November.
1667 Mary daughter of Ellis and EUzabeth Hasket 18 March [1667/8].
1669 Annetta daughter of William Haskett and Joan 18 November.
1670 Ellis son of Ellis and Elizabeth Haskot 8 January [1670/1].
1673 Sara daughter <rf EUis and Elizabeth Haskott 2 April.
1673 Stephen son of WiUiam Hasket and Joan 21 October.
11674 Mary daughter of William Haskott and Joan 12 January [1674/5].
1676 Mary daughter of Martha Haskett, widow, 26 October.
I 1675 Sara daughter of WiUiam Haskott and Joan 12 January [1675/6].
I 1676 Samuel son of EUis and EUzabeth Haskot 3 April.
\ 1677 Samuel son of WiUiam Haskott and Joan 29 April.
i 1678 Jane daughter of WiUiam Haskott and Joan 15 September.
I 1681 Joan daughter of WiUiam Haskot and Joan 15 June.
1682 Thomas son of WiUiam Haskot and Joan 27 August.
Marriages
I 1673 Anthony Davidge of Kington Magna, Dorset, to Mary Haskott of
this parish 10 April.
1673 Robert HeUier of Stalbridge, Dorset, to Mary Haskott of this parish
10 November.
I 1681 WiUiam ChandoU of MamhuU, Dorset, to Joan Haskott of this parish
I 5 September.
I 1695 William KeUoway of MamhuU, Dorset, to Anna Hasket of Henstridge
} 25 March.
i' 1699 Joseph Perrin and Mary Haskot 27 July. «
i Burials
I " 1605 Richard Stibbs 26 September.*
s 1623 Dionisia Haskett daughter of EUzer, Senior, 4 July.*
j 1639 EUis Hasket, an old man, 10 May.*
1639 WUliam Stibbs infant son of WUUam and Agnes 16 February [1639/
I 40].*
I . 1640 Joane Hasket wife of WUUam 1 March [1640/1].*
: 1654 WiUiam Haskott son of Wm. Haskott and Rebecca his wife 3 May.
: 1660 Ehior Haskett 17 June.
1666 Robert son of WiUiam Haskot 19 September.
1673 Mary daughter of EUis Haskot of Marshf 26 June.
1673 EUzog [?] Haskot of Enston 22 September.
1681 Johanna daughter of WiUiam Haskott 2 October.
1687 Samuel son of Wm. Haskot 23 October.
1690 Joan wife of Wm. Haskot 3 March [1690/1].
1696 • Mary Haskott, widow, 21 February [1696/7].
From the Parish Registers of Kingsdon, go. Somerset
1625 WUlm Hescott and Joanna Hurd married 3 November, f
From the Parish Registers of Marnhull, go. Dorset,
1560-1701
Baptisms
1596 John son of John Haskett 27 June.
1597 WiUiam son of John Haskett 7 January [1597/8].
1599 Joan daughter of John Haskett 1 July.
♦This entry is taken from the Bishop's transcripts of the parish registers of Henstridge, these
transcripts being preserved at Wells.
fMarsh was the name of a part of Henstridge.
tPrinted in Phillimore's Somerset Parish Registers, Marriages, vol. 1, p. 96.
74 Genealogical Research in England [Jan.
1601 Marie daughter of John Hasket 22 May.
1603 Thomas son of John Haskett 8 April.
1605 Robert son of John Haskett 18 September.
1608 Edeth daughter of Ellis Hasket 9 December.
1610 EQis son of Ellis Hasket 28 October.
1615 William son of EUzeno Haskett 12 June.'
1622 Elizabeth daughter of Steven Hasket 19 January [1622/3].
1624 Margaret daughter of Steven Hasket 12 January [1624/5].
1629 John son of Steven Hasket 25 June.
1648 Stephen son of Stephen Haskett the Younger and Elizabeth his wife
12 November.
1652 Elizabeth daughter of Stephen Haskett and Elizabeth his wife 7
April.
1673 Steuen son of Steuen Hasket and Marey his wife 7 May.
1675 Thomas son of Steuen Hasket and Mary his wife 15 June.
1677 John son of Steuen Hasket and Elizabeth his wife 3 October.
1678 John son of John Hasket and Joane his wife 3 September.
1680 Frances daughter of Steven Hasket and Elizabeth his wife 4 June.
1680 James son of John Hasket and Joane his wife 25 July.
1680 John and Mary twin children of Henr. Hasket and Mary his wife
9 January [1680/1].
1682 Ann daughter of Henr Hasket and Mary his wife 2 April.
1682 James son of John Hasket and Joane his wife 21 November.
1683 Jonathan son of Steven Hasket and Elizabeth his wife 28 March.
1686 Thomas son of Stephen Haskett and Anne his wife 23 June.
1687 Thomas son of John Hasket and Joane his wife 5 Maj'.
1689 John son of John Haskett and Elizabeth his wife 23 March [1689/90].
1696 Thomas son of Thomas Hasket and Mary his wife 5 July.
1697 Stephen son of Thomas Hasket and Mary his wife 16 January [1697/
8].
1699 Jonathan son of Thomas Hasket and Mary his wife 6 January [1699/
1700].
1701 Ambros son of Thomas Haskett and Mary his wife 25 July.
Marriage
1686 Richd. Fricker of Dunhead St. Mary and Elen Haskett 27 October.
Burials
1597 Wilbn son o7 John Haskett 5 February [1597/8].
1635 Alice daughter of Stephen Haskett and Elizabeth his wife 16 Novem-
ber.
1635 Margarett daughter of Stephen Haskett and Elizabeth his wife
30 January [1635/6].
1648* Steven Haskett the Elder 29 October.
1651 Steven Hasket the Elder 9 August.
1669 Robert Hasket 16 February [1669/70].
1675 Ann Hasket 28 December.
1681 James Hasket 25 November.
1682 Elizabeth Hasket of Todber 15 August.
1695 John Hasket 6 February [1695/6].
1701 Steven Hasket, Junior, 11 September.
*The entry is recorded under this year, but from the context it is evideBt that the year-date
should have been 1649.
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Fbom the Parish Registebs of Stalbeidge, co. Dorset
Marriages*
1703 Richard Burge and Rebecca Duffet 22 February [1703/4].
1706 Charles Duffet and Martha Snook 21 July.
1709 John Calpen and Mary Dibble 16 November.
From Probate Records
The Will of William Seavier of Yenston in the parish of Henstridge, co.
Somerset, husbandman, dated 7 October 1604. To be buried in the parish
church or churchyard of Henstridge. To that parish church 20s. and to the
parish church of Kingston 10s. To Margaret SeaAier £10 and to Callice
Seavier £10, to remain in the executors' hands till they marry or be of age.
To John Seavier, my brother Reynolde's son, £6, at one and twenty. To
Reynold Seavier, my brother, a hundred weight of cheese. To my brother
Presley's children a sheep apiece. To my brother Ellis Haskette's children
a sheep apiece. To Gregory Royall's daughter Margery one calf of the next
year's weaning. To -John Collis' son William a calf of the same weaning.
To Gregory Royall's son Richard and his two daughters Alice and Mary a
lamb apiece. To every of my godchildren 12d. apiece. To the poor folks
of Yenston four bushels of barley, to be divided amongst them. All the
rest of my goods, etc., I give arid bequeath to Marrian Seavier, my wife,
and John Seavier, whom I make my full and whole executors. Overseers:
Ellys Basket and Gregory Royall. Proved 29 November 1604. (P. C. C,
Harte, 86.) [This abstract has been adapted from the abstract of the will
of William Seavier published in Register, vol. 63, p. 13, and reprinted in
Waters's "Genealogical Gleanings in England," vol. 2, p. 1437.]
The Will of Mariane Sevier of Yenstone in the parish and peculiar of
Henstridge, co. Somerset, widow, dated 9 May 1607. To be buried in the
churchyard of Henstridge. To the parish church of Henstridge 10s. To
the poor folk, of Henstridge parish 10s. To Deane Haskett, daughter of
Ellis Haskitt, 40s. To Elhs Haskett's three other daughters and William
Haskett, his son, £4; if any of them die before they come to the age of one
and twenty years or be married, then the money is to remain to the sur-
vivors. To Margaret Sevier, daughter of Richard Sevier, a gown cloth and
£10; to Alee Sevier, another daughter, a gown and £10. To Marie Royall
of Henstridge, widow, one featherbed and £3. To Annis Harte 20s. To
Cicely Royall, daughter of Marie Royall, £3. To Richard and Dorothie
Royall, son and daughter of Marie Royall, 20s. apiece. To brother-in-law
Reynold Sevier £3 and to John Sevier, his son, 40s. To Dorothie Pennie a
gown. To Marrian Harris, wife to Richard Harris, five sheep. To John
Moores nine sheep. To the children of John Wolfres nine sheep. To Thomas
Seavier the Younger nine sheep. To the children of Gregorie Royall £4.
8s. 4d., which money is in the hands of the said Gregorie. To John and
Dorothy Penny, my servants, 10s. apiece. To Rose Collis, wife of John^
Collis, £3. To Marie Haskett, wife of Ellis Haskett, 20s. To every of my
godchildren 12d. apiece. AU the rest of my goods to Gregory Royall, whom
I constitute sole executor. Overseers: Ellis Haskett and Richard Chippman,
and I bequeath to them 3s. 4d. apiece. Witpesses: John Bryne, William
Pittman, Richard Chippman, Ellis Haskett, and John Royall. Proved
26 June 1607. (P. C. C, Huddleston, 62.) [This abstract has been adapted
from the abstract of the will of Mariane Sevier published in Register,
vol. 40, p. 303, and reprinted in Waters's "Genealogical Gleanings in England,"
vol. 1, pp. 175-176.] -
•Printed in Phillimore's Dorset Parish Registers, Marriages, vol. 4, pp. 42, 43.
76 Genealogical Research in England [Jan.
The Will of John Hasket of Todber, co. Dorset, dated 29 September,
12 James [1614]. To be buried in the parish churchyard of Stowre Estowre
[sic]. To the same church and to the church of Todber. To my son Wilham
Hasket my parcel of land called Berriell, by estimation five acres, and Pitt
mead, by estimation seven acres, in the parish of Sutton Mountague alias
Montacutt, Somerset, for the term of ten years after my decease, he paying
to my son John Hasket, yearly during the said term, 58.; and after the said
term of ten years I bequeath the said land wholly to my son John Haskett
and the heirs male of his body, etc., with' remainder to my son Thomas and
then to my son Robert and the heirs male of his body for ever. To Anne,
my wife, during her natural life, my parcel of land called Bushe Hayes and
the arrable thereunto belonging, [she] paying her son William Haskett
yearly during her life 6s. 8d., if it be lawfully demanded; and after her
decease I give it to the said William, etc., with remainder to my son Michael
Haskett and then to the right heir. To my son John £30, to be paid for his
use when he shall be a prentice; in the meantime his mother is to have the
profit, or, if he be obstinate or stubborn towards his mother in making his
choice for a wife, then it shall be at the discretion of his mother and the over-
seers what portion to allow him. To my son Thomas £40. To my son
Robert £40. To my son Michael £40. To my two daughters, Joane Haskett
and Mary Haskett, £50 apiece, to be given them at their marriage if their
mother shall so long happen to live; if not, then to be paid them at their
mother's decease. Also, if they should be obstinate and stubborn towards
their mother in not taking their mother's good wiU and consent in their
choice for marriage, then it shall be at their mother's discretion what por-
tion to allow either of them. Residue to my wife Anne, whom I make my
sole executrix. Overseers: my well-beloved friends Stephen Haskett, William
Haskett, and George Coxe. Witnesses: Stephen Haskett, William Haskett
[and others]. Proved 23 February 1614 [1614/15]. (P. C. C, Rudd, 8.)
[This abstract has been adapted from the abstract of the will of John Hasket
published in Register, vol. 53, pp. 13-14, and reprinted in Waters's "Gen-
ealogical Gleanings in England, " vol. 2, pp. 1437-1438.]
The Will of John Hillieb of Wincanton, co. Somerset, gentleman, dated
20 May 1619. To be buried in the churchyard of Wincanton, where I now
dwell. To the parish church 5s. To the poor of Wincanton 8d. Residue to
my son-in-law William Moggs and his wife Dorothye. All my lands to my
said son-in-law and my daughter Dorothye, his wife, and the heirs of their
bodies, and in default thereof to the said William and Dorothj-e Moggs in
fee simple. Executors: WUliam and Dorothye Moggs. Witnesses: John
Maycock, Robert Powell, George Greenestrete, Johja Strode. Proved 23
October 1620._ (P. C. C, Soame, 93.) [There is a very brief abstract of this
will in the printed "Register Soame," p. 365.]
The WiU of Katherine Sampson of the parish and pecuhar jurisdiction
of Hengstridge, in the Diocese of Bath and Wells, maiden, dated 30 AprU
1627. To be buried in the parish church of Hengstridge. To the said church,
in money, 20s. To the poor of the said parish 10s. I forgive mj^ cousin
Nicholas Locke all the debts that he doth owe me. To my mother my best
band of hnen and my best apron. I forgive my cousin John Sampson, out of
the bond of 40s. which he oweth me, 20s. thereof, and the other 20s. of the
said bond I give to my cousin Susan Sampson. To my sister Joane Sampson
one silver spoon. To cousin Mary Sampson, my brother William's daughter, .
my best gown, my best petticoat, my best hat, and £16. 10s. which is due
me upon bond from Ellis Hasket and William Haskett, his son. Residue to
my two sisters, Jane and Edith Sampson, and they are to be executrices.
Overseers: Richard Sampson the Younger and Thomas Morris the Younger.
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Brother Henry Sampson oweth me £26. Witnesses: Richard Ebume, vicar,
and others. Proved 14 June 1627. (P. C. C, Skinner, 63.) [This abstract
has been adapted from the abstract of the will of Katherine Sampson pub-
lished in Register, vol. 40, p. 303, and reprinted in Waters's "Genealogical
Gleanings in England," vol. 1, p. 176.]
[The rest of the Haskett material, with pedigree, will be published in the
Register of April 1923. — Editor.]
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC
GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY
By Henry Edwards Scott, A.B., Recording Secretary
Boston, Massachusetts, 4 October 1922. A stated meeting of the Society was
held in Wilder Hall, 9 Ashburton Place, at 2.30 P.M., President Chase presiding.
The minutes of the May meeting were read and approved, and the reports of
the Corresponding Secretary, Librarian, Historian, and Council were accepted,
the Council reporting that since the May meeting members of the Society had
I - been elected as follows:
Honorary Member
I John Venn, Sc.D., F.R.S., F.S.A., of Cambridge, England
Life Member
Eliza Taft Newton of Holyoke, Mass.
Resident Members
George Bucknam Dorr of Bar Harbor, Me.
J Mrs. A. Roberson of Binghamton, N. Y.
i Mrs. Stella E. J. Mills of Willimantic, Conn.
Mrs. C. K. Baker of Auburn, R. I.
i Harry W. Glossbrenner of Indianapolis, Ind.
I Mrs. W. H. May of Pittsfield, Mass.
I Walter M. Tuller of Wynantskill, N. Y.
', Mrs. Emihe Maris Cole of Duluth, Minn.
Jessica J. Haskell of HalloweU, Me.
Jessie E. Blackstone of Anaconda, Mont.
Mrs. Le Roy B. Cox of Chicago, HI.
Elizabeth Crawford of ICittanning, Pa.
Mrs. A. C. Rippier of Brooklyn, N. Y.
Claud F. Lester of Philippi, W. Va.
Mrs. E. B. Thomas of Pasadena, Calif.
Mrs. WiUiam H. Hoffman of Barringtori, R. I.
Mrs. John F. Storm of Union, S. C.
Percival Jones of Boston, Mass.
Mrs. Mark C. Price of Greensboro, N. C.
Louise Tanner Reeve of Buxton, N. Dak.
Mrs. J. H. Cutter of North Litchfield, N. Y.
Mrs. F. R. Heustis of Hyde Park, Mass.
Mrs. Clarence R. Sloan of Marietta, Ohio
Allan Hiram Whitman of Maiden, Mass.
Elizabeth F. Gordon of Bridgewater, Mass.
Perry OHver Holden of Ashland, Mass.
Mrs. T. L. Smith of Concord, Mass.
Mrs. Grayce E. Eldred of Cody, Wyo.
Arthur Crew Inman of Boston, Mass.
Nathan E. Triunan of Bainbridge, N. Y.
78 Proceedings of the N. E. Hist. Gen. Society [Jan.
Stanley Brampton Parker of Cambridge, Mass.
Mrs. Arthur E. Barter of Roslindale, Mass.
Mrs. Frances B. Phipps of Boston, Mass.
Charles Levi Shedd of Arlington, Mass.
James Williamson Eddy of Boston, Mass.
Robert Adams Gibbs of Los Angeles, Calif.
Carrie Belle Jewett of Grand Rapids, Mich.
Mrs. Frank Alde'n Besse of Wareham, Mass.
John Whiting Webber of Newton, Mass.
Mrs. Andrew Chalmers Wilson of Osterville, Mass.
Mrs. Winthrop Brown, Jr., of Cambridge, Mass.
Mrs. Alice Benjamin Vail of River Head, Long Island, N. Y.
Mrs. A. F. Rees of Biltmore, N. C.
Frederick M. Libby of Neponset, Mass.
Mrs. Juha Watkins Brown of Ann Arbor, Mich.
Mrs. Clara Hyde Dewey Hogg of Cadiz, Ohio
Wayne V. Jones of Kansas City, Mo.
Alexander Morton Emerson of Boston, Mass.
The Chair then presented, as the speaker of the afternoon, Lewis Appleton
Barker, LL.B., of Brookline, Mass., who gave an interesting and instructive
address, illustrated with colored lantern sUdes, on Arms — Their Evolution and
Influence on History.
No further business being presented, the Chair, at 4 P.M., declared the meet-
ing dissolved, and the members of the Society, with their guests, enjoyed a social
hour in the tea room.
1 November. A stated meeting of the Society was held in Wilder Hall, 9 Ash-
burton Place, at 2.30 P.M., President Chase presiding and a quortmi being
present.
The minutes of the October meeting were read and approved, and the reports
of the Corresponding Secretary, Librarian, Historian, and Council were accepted,
the Council reporting that since the October meeting members of the Society
had been elected as follows:
Life Member
Frederick A. Grant of West Somerville, Mass.
Resident Members
George Thomas Eaton of Andover, Mass.
Stewart Henry Hartshorn of Short Hills, N. J.
William Hall Best of West Newton, Mass.
Mrs. B. P. Bole of Cleveland, Ohio
Rear Admiral Austin M- Knight, U.S.N., Retired, of Washington, D. C.
William Sohier Bryant, M.D., of New York City
Mrs. Charles P. Lesh of Indianapolis, Ind.
Harold D. Kilgore of Gloucester, Mass.
. Mrs. W. W. McCIench of Springfield, Mass.
Levi B. Chase of Sturbridge, Mass.
On motion it was
Voted, That the Society proceed to the election of the Nominating Committee, agreeable to
the provisions of the By-Laws.
That three tellers be appointed by the Chair, and that said tellers shall distribute, receive,
sort, and count the ballots, and make a report to this meeting.
That the polls be now opened, and stand open until every member present has had opportunity
to vote.
The Chair appointed as tellers Nathaniel T. Kidder, Henry B. Reed, and Miss
Josephine E. Rayne, and the election by ballot of the Nominating Committee
took place.
After the polls had been closed, the Chair presented, as the speaker of the
afternoon, Arthur Lord, Esq., President of the Pilgrim Society of Plymouth,
Mass., who read an instructive paper on The Value of Tradition, in which he
considered the weight that should be assigned to tradition in history and gene-
alogy and referred to several events in New England history for which the
evidence is largely traditional, such as the visits of the Norsemen to the New
1923] Notes 79
England coast, the identification of Plymouth Rock aa the landing place of the
. Pilgrims at Plymouth, and the traditions relating to Mary Chilton and to the
courtship of Myles Standish.
On motion of Alfred Johnson, seconded by T. Julien Silsby, a unanimous vote
of thanks was extended to Mr. Lord for his scholarly paper.
The Chair then called for the report of the tellers, and, when this had been
presented, declared that Mrs. Sarah Hemenway Bell of West Newton, Mrs.
Emma Burt Blaine of Boston, Charles Eliot Goodspeed of Wollaston, Percival
Hall Lombard of Brookline, and James Parker Parmenter of Arlington had been
{ unanimously elected members of the Nominating Committee.
\ No further business being presented, the President, at 3.30 P.M., declared the
' meeting dissolved, and invited the members of the Society and their guests to
enjoy a social hour in the tea room.
6 December. A stated meeting of the Society was held in Wilder Hall, 9 Ash-
• burton Place, at 2.30 P.M., President Chase presiding.
The minutes of the November meeting were read and approved, and the
reports of the Corresponding Secretary, Librarian, Historian, and CouncO were
accepted, the Council reporting that since the November meeting members of the
Society had been elected as follows:
Life Member
I Weston P. Dimock of Standish, Me.
! Resident Members
Mary Caroline Bucknam of Swampscott, Mass.
! Charles Himtington Pennoyer of Attleboro, Mass.
] Frank E. Doyle of Mattapan, Mass.
; Mrs. John S. Thatcher of West Medford, Mass.
! Mrs. N. E. Howes of Holyoke, Mass.
i Mrs. Carroll A. Dwinell of East Lynn, Mass.
i Charles William French of Woburn, Mass. ^
A. S. Hannaford of Toledo, Ohio
! Daniel L. Ransome, M.D., of Rockford, HI.
{ The report of the Nominating Committee was read and accepted.
! The President appointed Messrs. Harold Clarke DurreU and Joseph Harvey
} White as Auditors to audit the accoimts of the Treasurer for the current year.
' The Chair then presented, as the speaker of the afternoon, Frank W. Bayley
of Boston, who spoke on Gilbert Stuart, Artist and Historian, illustrating his
remarks by a very interesting series of lantern slides showing some of Stuart's
'■ best portraits.
On motion of Hosea Starr Ballou the thanks of the Society were extended to
Mr. Bayley for his interesting and instructive lecture, the President calling upon
: those present to express their approval of the motion by rising.
;• No further business being presented, the Chair, at 3.50 P.M., declared the
meeting dissolved, and the members of the Society and their guests remained for
a social hour in the tea room.
NOTES
It having come to the attention of this Society that certain geneal-
ogists and publishers have used the name of the Society in con-
nection with their own enterprises, the Society again desires to
state that it has NO genealogical representatives in this country or
in England, nor is it in any way comiected with any publications
other than those that it issues over its own name at 9 Ashburton
Place, Boston.
80 Notes [Jan.
Ehhoes in the Census of 1790 (Connecticut). — In attempting to identify
the heads of families in several towns of New Haven County, Conn., the under-
signed found many errors in the printed volume containing the names of the
heads of families in Connecticut in the First Census of the United States, taken
in 1790. Most of these errors are palpably clerical, made by those who prepared
the census returns for publication, although a very few were conceivably made
by those who originally compiled the census. The published Census of 1790 being
of prime importance to all genealogical students, the following corrections may
be found useful. It is not claimed that the corrected readings give the exact
spelling of the original, but only that they signify the person who was intended
in the original.
Generally speaking, many Christian names have been lengthened in the
printed volume, as Dan to Daniel, Uri to Uriah, Nathan to Nathaniel. Only a
few such cases are listed below as examples. The name Enos is (in New Haven
Coxmty) almost invariably printed Eneas. The name Elijah (mistaken for the
abbreviated form Eliza:) often appears as Elizabeth. Under WaUingford, every
Merriam is converted into a Merriman, these being actually two distinct families.
Great care has been used in making the following corrections, most of which call
attention to serious and misleading errors.
In the columns in the printed volume the surnames, followed by commas,
precede the Christian names. In these corrections, however, the Christian names
precede the surnames.
Branford
Page 92, column 2, for Phineas Bench read Phineas Beach.
Cheshire
Page 92, column 3, for Eneas Andrews reed Enos Andrews.
for Uriah Benham read Uri Benham.
for Lazerus Tuttle read Lucius Tuttle.
for Jecobed Tuttle read Ichabod Tuttle.
Page 93, column 1, for Mineman Hotcbkiss read Merriman Hotchkiss.
for Bela Hotchkiss, 2nd, read Bela Hitchcock, 2nd.
Page 93, column 2, for Israel Hotchwick read Israel Hotchkiss.
for Rockmary Thompson read Roxana Thompson. ' •
for Samuel Durrany read Samuel Durand.
for Andrew Durany, 2nd, read Andrew Durand, 2nd.
for Samuel Bench read Samuel Beach.
for Daniel Hitchcock read Dan Hitchcock.
Page 94, column 1, for Nathaniel Ford read Nathan Ford.
■ for Elijah Wiknott read Elisha Wilmott. (Elijah is
correctly listed higher up in this column.)
for Clum Cooke read Elam Cooke.
Derby
Page 94, column 1, for John Hond read John Houd.
for Eunice Horsey read Eunice Horvey.
for Elizabeth Hotchkiss read Elijah Hotchkiss.
Page 94, column 2, for Lewis Lovemond read Lewis Loveland.
Page 94, column 3, for Ebenezer Lewis read Eleazer Lewis.
far Jonah Nettleton read Josiah Nettleton.
for Nathaniel Wooster read Nathan Wooster.
Page 95, column 2, for Jonah Tucker read Josiah Tucker.
for Riggs David read David Riggs.
for Bowen Washboun read Bowers Washboun.
Page 95, column 3, for Eber B. Johnson read Eben[ezer] B. Johnson.
for Medad Renny read Medad Keeney.
for Ebenezer Renny read Ebenezer Keeney.
Page 96, column 1, for Abigal Hegleton read Abigal Hazleton.
far Zapthali Tucker read Zephaniah Tucker.
far David Gilbert read David GUlet.
East Haven
Page 96, column 3, for Henry F. Hine read Henry F. Huse.
For Banns or Bans read Bams, throughout.
I 1923] Notes 81
Hamden
Page 100, column 1, for William Mencer read William Mansor.
for Daniel Tolmap, 2nd, read Daniel Talmadge, 2nd.
Page 100, column 2, for Nathaniel Hintcm read Nathaniel Heaton.
Page 100, column 3, for Benjamin Galend read Benjamin Gaylord.
for Nathaniel Ailing read Nathan Ailing.
for Joseph Hinton read Joseph Heaton.
New Haven
Page 102, column 3, for Charles Prinale read Charles Prindle.
for Nathaniel Story read Nathaniel Storer.
Page 103, column 2, for Joseph Howett read Joseph Howell.
Page 103, column 3, f<rr Cheney Howell read Chauncey Howell.
for John Miles, 3rd, read John Miles, Sr.
Page 104, column 2, for Abiel Marumberg read Abiel Macumber.
Page 104, column 3, for Eichstead Mansfield read Kierstead Mansfield.
Page 105, column 1, for Hoy Tuttle read Hez[ekiahl Tuttle.
for Lewis Bradley read Lois Bradley.
Page 105, column 2, for Elisha Thompson read EUjah Thompson.
for Ashael Lines read Ashbel Lines.
Page 105, column 3, for Isaac Candie read Zaccheus Candie.
For Murrain or Murran read Merwin, throughout.
North Haven
Page 106, column 1, for Thomas Bradley read Theophilus Bradley.
for John Dayton, 2nd, read Jonathan Dayton, 2nd.
for Nathan Starry read Nathan Stacey.
for Job Buckley read Job Blakeslee.
for Jehu Bassett read Jesse Bassett.
Page 106, column 2, for Abraham Selby read Abraham Seeley.
for John Heaton read Jonathan Heaton.
for Calhoun Heaton read Calvin Heaton.
for Jerry Barnes read Jared Barnes.
for Andrew Perth read Andrew Porch.
Wallingford
Page 106, column 3, for William Merriman read William Merriam.
for Asaph, Nathaniel, Edmond, and Benjamin Merri-
man read Asaph, Nathaniel, Edmond, and Benjamin
Merriam.
Page 107, colunm 1, for Joseph, Ephrim, Aron, and Samuel Merriman read
Joseph, Ephrim, Aron, and Samuel Merriam.
Page 107, column 3, for Robert Bissinton read Robert Byington.
for Heil Bissinton read [Jejhiel Byington.
Page 108, colunm 2, for Bemijah Morse read Benajah Morse.
Waterbury
Page 109, colimui 2, for John Boxton read John Baxter.
for Benjamin Betram read Benjamin Beriham.
Woodbridge
Page 111, colimm 1,/or Nicholas Beecher read Nichols Beecher.
Page 111, column 2, for Marahel Ailing read Marshal AUing.
for Benjamin Beach read Benajah Beach.
for Lar Clarke read Laz[arusl Clarke.
for Elizabeth Perkins read Elijah Perkins.
for George Salton read George Sutton.
Page 111, column 3, for Elizabeth Wooden read Elijah Wooden.
for Jacob Downs read Jareb Downs.
Page 112, column 1, for Justus Bencher read Justus Beecher.
Page 112, column 2, for Garthom Thomas read Gershom Thomas.
Page 112, column 3. The second Joseph Hitchcock in this column is
probably intended for Joseph's brother Timothy,
who is otherwise omitted. The family described
corresponds with Timothy's at that date.
Mount Carmel, Conn. Donald Linbs Jacobub.
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THE
NEW ENGLAND
HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL
REGISTER
APRIL, 1923
HENRY HERBERT EDES, A.M.
By Alfred Johnson, A.M., Litt. D., of Brookline, Mass.
Henkt Herbeet Edes,* of Cambridge, Mass., elected to resident
membership in the New England Historic Genealogical Society
1 January 1868 and made a life member in 1871, was bom at Charles-
town, Mass., 29 March 1849, the son of Henry Augustus and Sarah
Louise (Lincoln) Edes, and died at his home in Cambridge 13 October
1922. At the time of his death only four of the resident and life
1 members of the Society were his seniors in election to membership,
and the eldest of these survived Mr. Edes by less than seven weeks.
I So far as is known, the lineage of Henry Edes was wholly Anglo-
I Saxon. His paternal hne may be traced back in England for five
? generations, to one Henry Edes of Bocking, co. Essex, whose estate
I was administered by his son Henry 3 July 1574, and whose great-
I grandson, Rev. John Edes, was the most prominent English represen-
tative of the family.
This Rev. John Edes, a graduate of St. John's College, Cambridge,
was admitted to the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1610 and to that of
Master of Arts in 1614, and for forty-one years prior to his death,
which occurred on 12 April 1658, was rector of Lawford, co. Essex,
retaining this benefice in spite of his Nonconformist opinions.f His
tomb may be seen in the churchyard at Lawford, and the railing
around it has been recently restored by some of his American descend-
ants. His son John was the father of a third John Edes, who was
the founder of the American branch of this family.
This immigrant to New England, John^ Edes, born at Lawford,
CO. Essex, 31 March 1651, and baptized 6 April 1651, settled at
Charlestown, Mass., where he followed the occupation of a ship
carpenter and married, 15 October 1674, Mary Tufts, daughter of
Peter of Medford. He died in 1693, but his widow was living in
1707. His son, John^ Edes, cordwainer, baptized 22 August 1680,
married, 13 April 1698, Grace Lawrence, daughter of George and
Elizabeth, and died 16 January 1721, aged 42. His widow died
The New England Historic Genealogical Society gratefully acknowledges the courtesy of The
Colonial Society of Massachusetts in loaning the photogravure plate from which the portrait of
Mr. Edes accompanying this memoir has been printed. — Editoe.
tCf. Annals of Evangelical Non-Conformists in Essex, by T. W. Davids, 1863, p. 156.
VOL. Lxxvn. 6
84 Henry Herbert Edes [April
9 August 1758. Peter^ Edes, hatter, son of John,^ born 15
September 1705, married first, 18 December 1729, Esther Hall,
daughter of Stephen and Grace (Willis), and removed later to
Harvard, Mass., where he died 25 January 1787. Their son, Thomas*
Edes, of Charlestown, leather dresser, bom 26 September 1737,
married, 28 May 1761, Mary "Wood, daughter of David and Ruth,
and died 5 February 1792. He was a soldier in the French and Indian
War, enlisting in 1756 in T. Lord's company, Colonel Gridley's
regiment. It was at the home of his brother, Benjamin* Edes, of
the firm of Edes & Gill, famed as publishers of the Boston Gazette,
that the convivial meeting preceding the Boston Tea Party took
place.* Thomas^ Edes, the only chUd of Thomas and Mary (Wood),
baptized 15 August 1762, married, 26 November 1788, Mary Ball,
daughter of Robert and EUzabeth (Wait), and died 5 April 1818.
His son, Robert Ball® Edes, a well-known master mariner, bom
3 September 1789, married first, 18 January 1818, Sarah Barker,
daughter of Josiah and Penelope (Hatch), and was the father of
Henry Augustus^ Edes, who was born 16 January 1824, married,
8 June 1848, Sarah Louise Lincoln, daughter of Hawkes and Sarah
(Webb), and died 28 August 1851. He was the father of the subject
of this memoir.t
On both sides of his house Henry Herbert^ Edes was descended
from Mayflower and Colonial ancestors whose names are well known
in his country's annals. On her paternal side his mother belonged
to one of the Lincoln famiHes of Hingham, that of Thomas the
Weaver; on her maternal side she was allied with the Coffins of
Nantucket, through her great-grandmother, Sarah, daughter of
Charles and Mary (Barrett) Coffin, who married John Leach of
London. This great-grandfather, before emigrating to this coimtry,
was imprisoned in the Tower of London, for corresponding with
Wilkes; and he was also incarcerated here, in the same prison, the
Boston gaol, with Peter^ Edes, son of the Benjamin* Edes mentioned
above, and for kindred reasons, namely, his Revolutionary opinions.!
Henry Herbert Edes was only about two and a half years of age
when his father died. He and his mother then made their home with
his Grandfather Lincoln in Charlestown, where he attended the
public schools. It was his great ambition to obtain a college educa-
tion; but, aU the Lincoln property having been lost by the defalcation
of a partner, the entire support of the family devolved upon his
uncles, and, when the time came to enter Harvard College, but one
uncle, George Lincoln, was hving. Henry felt that he had no right
to accept so great a sacrifice from his uncle as the maintenance of
the family while he was in college, as well as the expense of the
college course, would entail, and therefore he entered upon a business
career. A fortunate decision this, since the death of his imcle,
*The India cluna bowl, from which the brew was -drunk, is now in the possession of the Massa-
chusetts Historical Society. The house was in Comhill. part of which formed the alley leading to
Brattle Street. •
tCf. Wyman's Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown, vol. 1, pp. 319-323.
JBoth men kept journals during their imprisonment; and the original manuscripts of these
journals, recently in the possession of Mr. Henry Herbert Edes, were left by him to The Colonial
Society of Massachusetts.
1923] Henry Herbert Edes 85
when Henry was in his early twenties, brought upon his shoulders
the entire support of his mother and her 'two sisters, a burden borne
with uncomplaining courage, devotion, and tenderness for over
forty years.
His early business aflSJiations during eighteen years were with
the Everett Mills, but in 1889 he resigned his position with that
company to become manager and treasurer of the Conveyancers
Title Insurance Company of Boston, The success of this corporation
may be said to be due in no small measure to his business acumen
and foresight and not less to his unfaiUng courtesy and consideration
towards both cHents and employees. Long before the modern theories
of salesmanship had been exploited, he had grasped their essentials
and made of himself an expert salesman of the best type.
From early manhood all his leisure was devoted to genealogical
and historical research, and his friendships were largely with men
older than himself. Among them was the descendant of one of the
early settlers in Charlestown, Thomas Bellows Wyman, a somewhat
eccentric bachelor, wholly given over to genealogical pursuits. He
was probably one of the first to espouse genealogy as a calling, and
in his multifarious researches he became possessed of unusually
extensive knowledge of the former residents of Charlestown. ReaUzing
the value of Mr. Wyman's extraordinary and comprehensive informa-
tion, Mr. Edes, with the utmost difficulty, succeeded in persuading
the City Council of Charlestown to pass a measure authorizing the
publication of the results of Mr. Wyman's work in genealogy and of
his researches in probate and land records. With infinite happiness
the old gentleman began what he felt to be the crown of his life's
work; but, while it was stiU in a comparatively early stage, he fell
ill of pneumonia, and, reaUziag that the end was near, he sent for
Mr, Edes and adjured him to see these. precious volumes properly
put forth. This trust was assumed on the death of Mr. Wyman,
19 May 1878, and was fulfilled at the expense of untold labor and
with the painstaking care which Mr. Edes gave to everything to
which he set his hand, with the result that Wyman's "Genealogies
and Estates of Charlestown" has become a classic of its kind.
While he lived in Charlestown, he also published more or less
genealogical work of his own, and wrote the "History of the Harvard
Church in Charlestown" and the second volume of the "Annals
of King's Chapel, " a work undertaken by Rev. Henry Wilder Foote
and left incomplete at his death.
In 1896 he took up his residence in Cambridge, having married
in that year Grace, daughter of WUliam Cross and Sarah Rowland
(Ricketson) Williamson of Boston, who sur\-ives him. Mrs. Edes's
father, an eminent Boston lawj^er, was of the distinguished Harvard
Class of 1852, a brother of Hon. Joseph WiUiamson of Belfast, Me., the
well-known local historian and antiquary, and a nephew of Hon.
William Durkee Williamson, Governor and historian of the State of
Maine.
Henry Edes's mother had spared no effort to foster in him principles
and noble aims, material to the development of character, and
everything had been done to render his home happy. But, growing
86 Henry Herbert Edes [April
up wholly surrounded by an older generation, he had necessarily
missed the care-free joys of boyhood. With his marriage and removal
to Cambridge, for the first time youth, joy, and gayety came to him.
He was many years older than his wife, and their characters were
singularly unlike, with the result that each complemented the other.
Almost their greatest pleasure was in pursuing together the literary
work they both loved so dearly, wherein each was the other's chief
critic and inspiration. Added to this companionship was a constantly
widening circle of friendships, especially with younger people, which
brought new brightness into his life, while the unfolding of new
interests broadened his outlook in a way impossible in his former
restricted surroundings. His honorary degree of Master of Arts
from Harvard (1906)* and his increasing association with the College,
whose loyal son he had been at heart long before she adopted him,
did their part in his development. He was for several years editor of
the Harvard Quinquennial Catalogue, and found the duties involved
in this task well suited to his tastes. He was also a member of the
committee appointed by the Board of Overseers to visit the Depart-
ment of History.
To the New England Historic Genealogical Society Mr. Edes
gave active service through a number of years, first as assistant
treasurer, and then as a member of the PubKcation Committee, as
Coimcillor, and as Corresponding Secretary.f His aflahations with
kindred societies included the Massachusetts Historical Society,
the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (a feUow and treasurer),
the American Antiquarian Society, the American Historical Asso-
ciation, the Essex Institute, the Elaine Historical Society, the
New Hampshire Historical Society, the Rhode Island Historical
Society, the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, the Trinity
Historical Society of Dallas, Tex., the Bostonian Society, the Bunker
HiU Monument Association, the Boston Memorial Association,
the Cambridge Historical Society, the Unitarian Historical Society
(president), the Club of Odd Volumes, and The Colonial Society of
Massachusetts, of which he was a f oimder and the treasurer until his
death. Added to these was a long list of charitable, civic, music, art,
social, and church clubs. In many of these varied organizations he
took an active part and held important offices.
He was passionately fond of music, especially the old Itahan
operas, and played many of them bj' ear with a charming touch that
made his hearers regret that he never had leisure to learn to read
music. He was interested in art, being a member of the Da Vinci
Club, of which William Morris Himt was president. He had an
extensive collection of engravings, including some fine Bartolozzis
and others connected with his collection of Americana, and he became
thoroughly conversant both with engra\dng and with painting.
He had surrounded himself with a matchless collection of ancestral
*0n Commencement Day, 27 Jime 1906, President Eliot conferred this honorary degree upon
Mr. Edes, characterizing him as "Henry Herbert Edes, New England antiquarian and annalist,
accurate reproducer of a reverenced past. " Abeady, in 1898, the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta
Kappa had elected Mr. Edes to honorary membership.
tTothe New England Historical, and Genealogical, Reqisteb Mr. Edes contributed many
valuable memoirs, genealogical and antiquarian articles, and notes.
1923] Henry Herbert Edes 87
portraits and silver and a large library relating to early New England.
Mr. Edes was an ardent Unitarian, serving on many committees
of the Harvard Church, Charlestown, and acting for some years as
Sunday school superintendent. At the time of the disruption of this
society, due to changes in the class of residents in the city, it was
through his instrumentahty that the bust of the one-time pastor-
president, James Walker, and the crystal chandeher now in the
Faculty Room were given to Harvard University. He was for
many years chairman of the Unitarian Festival Committee, and
spared no pains in securing for the annual banquets speakers who
were often of world-wide fame.
At the time of his death he had been for many years in covenanted
relationship with the -First Church in Boston. He was a trustee of
its property, a faithful and regular attendant at its services of
worship, and, as a member of its Memorials Committee, he had
virtual charge of the monuments and memorials in which it is so
rich, and in obtaining and erecting which he had taken a very active
part. His tastes and speciahzed historical knowledge made his work
on this committee particularly congenial to him, and his success in
it was noteworthy.
Always faultlessly and rather formally attired, usually with the
taU silk hat in vogue in his youth during business hours, he had been
for years, up to the time of his death, a striking and famUiar figure
on State Street. Handsome, taU of stature, well-built, erect, with a
distinguished bearing almost miUtary, and quick of step, his every
movement and gesture suggested vigor, energy, and alertness.
One meeting him casually would have inferred that he had been an
athlete in his youth and had always lived much in the open air. Such
sports and pastimes were, however, and always had been entirely
foreign to ham. These diversions demanded time and opportunity
which were never his. From boyhood work had consumed his days,
and his nights into the small hours were ever given over to reading
and study, to historical, antiquarian, and genealogical research, and
to arranging and editing the results for pubhcation.
Even his short and infrequent vacations were devoted to these
pursuits, and his travels, for the most part confined to his beloved
New England, led him to patriotic or ancestral shrines. To him the
scenes among which the Fathers had passed their lives had a deep
significance, and a church wherein they had worshipped, like a
village cemetery containing the grave of a progenitor, was for him
a Mecca. His knowledge of our early history was so detailed and his
acquaintance with its leading personages so intimate that to
accompany him on one of his historical pilgrimages was to live in
the past and to feel the very presence of the men and women of
bygone days, so vividly did his conversation conjure them up amid
their former surroundings.
Far was he, however, from morbid aloofness from things of the
present world. On the contrary, his love of hmnan nature, of people,
was intense; and, just as his sympathetic interest in the affairs of
all whom he met was great, so was his response to their approbation
of himself sincere and immediate.
88 Henry Herbert Edes [April
Perhaps his happiest moments were when he dispensed the gracious
hospitality for which his home in -Cambridge was famous. Here,
year after year, he gathered men distinguished throughout the world
of learning. And what a host he was ! He was a master in the art of
putting his guests at their ease and of drawing out each and making
him appear at his best. From the budding, obscure instructor to the
acknowledged leading international authority, each and all, in turn,
shared his undivided attention. He knew much of the interests,
the attainments, and the capacities of each. The hospitality
dispensed at his generous board to the last left naught to be desired
in the way of material things, while the intellectual pabulum was
ever such as to cause the guests to linger long and eagerly over
the feast.
On these occasions, as in almost every gathering in which Henry
Edes was found, he was the central figure around whom others
gathered and to whom they looked to lead the conversation or settle
the argument. So vital and fuU of radiating energy was his person-
ality, that men felt instinctively when he entered the room that the
meeting had begun. If he were called away, the interest usually
flagged. The atmosphere had become less charged and exhilarating.
His success in securing the interest and financial support, alike
of his friends and of strangers, for the various societies and pubUc-
spirited undertakings in which he was interested was unusual. In a
quiet, unobtrusive way he was also often instrumental in securing
recognition of worth and service that might otherwise have been
overlooked in the busy world of to-day. He made these matters his
personal business, and went about them with all the tact, energy,
and sagacity that were his to an xmusual degree. His success in
obtaining what he asked for others was in no small measure due to
the fact that for himself he asked nothing. To him the objects of
his interest seemed always outside of himself and larger than himseK.
Many years ago he said to the writer: "Things don't usually just
happen of themselves. If you wish events to shape themselves as
they should, you must see to it that they do."
In his contact with people he had something' of the quaUties of the
diplomat and the statesman, which, with his gracious and somewhat
courtly manners of the olden time, added to the influence of his
personahty. There was, withal, a certain mixture of sweetness
in his make-up which made him a good loser. Even when things
did not turn out as he wished, he kept on working with good grace,
his shoulder to the wheel as before.
His voice was strong and musical. His English, both spoken and
written, was clear and forcible, and his illustrations were always in
striking figures. He could wield a trenchant pen, and also possessed
marked talent in the preparation of sympathetic biographical sketches
of men he had known. Had he been trained for the ministry or for
the legal profession, his success in either career would have been
assured. His letters and notes, written in the graceful style so
familiar to his friends and often in his own strong, beautiful hand-
writing, were habitually well turned, and he was capable of making
an excellent occasional speech. His conversational powers were of a
1923] Genealogical Byways 89
high order, and his retentive memory made it possible for him to
cherish and repeat many an amusing story or delightful anecdote
of the past. His cordial, hearty greeting wiU remaia long ia the
memory of many. Once a friend, he was ever a loyal one.
Often did total strangers, after an interview with him, go their
way rejoicing, with a desired bit of information regarding some
obscure antiquarian problem which to all others had been but a
riddle. Few knew the evolutions which the present map of Boston
has gone through during the past three centuries better than he.
To this cartographic knowledge his vocation of conveyancer as well
as his avocations had contributed.
Speculation on such a- subject as the following is perhaps profit-
less; but the writer has often found himself wondering what this man
might not have accomplished with the college education which he
coveted, with opportunities for travel, and with ample leism-e to devote
himself exclusively to historical study. Certainly his acquirements,
his accomphshments, his friendships which outlive him, and the
4 position to which he attained in this community entitle him to be
j ranked as a striking example of that peculiarly American tj-pe, the
I self-made man. His one chance lay in hard, constant, and persistent
( work. And work he did, hard, all his long life. Truly, to the last,
I whatsoever his hahd foimd to do, he did it with his might.
[ , When he learned that the end was approaching, he stood ready to
} meet Death like a conqueror, regretting most the unfinished work
i that he must leave behind.*
GENEALOGICAL BYWAYS
I
By Donald Lines Jacobus, M.A., of Mount Carmel, Conn.
The chief value of genealogical study Ues in the interest it arouses
in Colonial history and National antiquities, with a consequent
broadening of the student's cultural attainment. The bare statistics
which form the substructure of the science of genealogy are usually
considered dull and uninteresting in themselves; and so indeed they
are, except to those who find a certain enjojonent in piecing them
together — the same sort of enjoyment which some find in picture
puzzles or chess problems. But occasionally the genealogist discovers
interesting oddities in the statistics or is able to deduce from them
certain conclusions of general interest.
It is the object of this paper to show that genealogical research
is not so dull and uninteresting as many imagine it to be, but that,
in addition to providing essential statistics for other sciences, it
opens up new vistas to the genealogist and offers certain "byways"
*Funeral services were held in the First Church in Boston on Monday, 16 October 1922, the
pastor, Rev. Charles Edwards Park, D. D., pronouncing an impressive eulogy. Interment was
at Weston, Mass.
90 Genealogical Byways [April
of investigation which are very interesting and informative. The
material selected to illustrate what may be found in these "byTvays"
is practically all drawn from the writer's own researcl^and investiga-
tion, and in this sense is new. Genealogical novices should find a
few comments that will be of use to them, but it is not claimed that
the article will offer anything of value to the experienced genealogist ;
it is in fact addressed rather to the general pubUc than to the
genealogical profession.
Consider the subject of longevity. Statisticians assure us that the
average length of life is increasing, but this can be attributed to the
decrease in infant mortality and the prevention of some epidemic
diseases by means of proper hygiene, quarantine, and inoculation.
Hence, although a greater percentage of infants Hve to twenty,
forty, or sixty years than formerly, it is doubtful if the man of seventy
has a better chance of unusual longevity than he had a hundred or
two hundred years ago. Every genealogist has found cases of
individuals who lived to the century mark or a year or two beyond it,
but experienced genealogists have learned to view claims of extreme
old age with suspicion. Insurance actuaries state that no proved
case is on insurance records of a man living beyond 108 years; the
present writer has not found a proved case beyond 103 years.*
Most of the instances where 110 or 120 years are alleged prove
on investigation to be fictitious or grossly exaggerated. The novice
in genealogical research sometimes falls into error through ignorance
of these facts; the expert is cautious in accepting statements of
extreme age, even when found in town records or on gravestones.
The compiler of a Davis genealogy, for example, states that a certain
Dan Davis, of Oxford, Conn., died in 1822, at the age of 112 j^ears.
Investigation shows that this Dan Davis actually died some thirty
*A well-authenticated case of a woman who exceeded the age of 103 years is that of Mrs. Mary
Tappan or Toppan, of Newburyport, Mass., who died there 9 Jan. 1833, aged 105. (Vital Records
of Newburyport, voL 2, p. 817; Newburyport Herald, Thursday, 10 Jan. 1833, which adds: "Some
notice of this venerable and pious woman may be expected hereafter.") The funeral services
were held on Friday, 11 Jan. 1833, and the address delivered by Rev. Mr. Dimmock at the funeral
was printed in the Newburyport Herald of Tuesday, 15 Jan. 1833, which may be found in the
Newburyport Public Library. In this address it is stated that Mrs. Mary Toppan died Wednes-
day morning, 9 Jan. 1833, aged 105 years, 1 month, 15 days; that she (originally Mary Hues)
was born in Boston 14 Nov., O. S., or 25 Nov., N. S., 1727; that the family removed
from Boston to this place [Newburyport, previous to 1764 a part of Newbury] when she was 5 years
of age; that she was converted in the 16th year of her age and about two years later joined the
Congregational Church, of which Rev. John Lowell was pastor; that at the age of 22 she was
married to Mr. Samuel Toppan, with whom she lived forty-four years — till 1793, and had since
then been a widow; and that she had had two children, of whom the elder, John, was lost at sea
on the privateer ship Hero in the Revolutionary War, and the younger, a daughter, sur\ived her
mother. The Vital Records of Newbury, vol. 2, p. 492, show that Samuel Toppan, 3d, and Mary
Hews were married 6 July 1749, and the same book, vol. 1, p. 528, records the birth of John Toppan,
son of Samuel, Jr., and Mary, on 1 July 1753, and that of Mary, daughter of Samuel, Jr., and
Mary, on 23 July 1759. The daughter Mary died 25 Apr. 1836, aged 76 years C^'ital Records
of Newburyport, vol. 2, p. 817). The records tof Christ Church, Boston, give the baptism, 19 Nov.
1727, of Mary, daughter of John Hughes, who was the son of Philip Hughes and married in Boston,
11 May 1726, Mary Clark. These records also give the baptism of Elizabeth, 25 Jan. 1729, and
of Ann, 29 Feb. 1731, likewise children of John Hughes. Two sons of this John Hughes were
baptized in Queen Anne's Chapel, Newbury, viz., Philip, 9 Mar. 1734/5, and John, 3 Aug. 1740.
It was in a search for the ancestry of this last-named son, John Hughes or Hues, who later settled
in Pownalborough (now Wiscasset), Me., that the writer of this note discovered the facts given
above and was able to prove that John Hughes or Hues of Pownalborough did not belong to the
Abel Huse family of Newbury but was a grandson of Philip Hughes of Boston, who apparently
came to Boston from Great Britain in the early years of the eighteenth century. — Editor.
1923] Genealogical Byways 91
years earlier, and that it was a yoiinger man of the same name who
died in 1822. The error could have been avoided, if the compiler
had been aware of the general considerations stated above.*
Amateurs in genealogical research, inexperienced in checking
chronological possibilities, often fall into error regarding marriageable
ages and the age of parents at the birth of children. In Colonial
New England marriage was customary between men of 20 to 25
years and women of 18 to 23 years. The earliest ages which the
writer recalls were 16 for a man and 13 for a woman, though earlier
marriages are probably to be found; but genealogists are slow to
credit extremely youthful marriages imless • established by indispu-
table evidence. There is, however, no limit to marriageable age in
the dechning years of Kfe, and unions, especially between widows
and widowers, were common; many a woman became a blushing
bride — perhaps so for the third or fourth time — between the
ages of 60 and 80.
The possible age of parents at the birth of children is a matter
that can be settled more definitely. Amateurs should always subtract
the date of birth of the mother from the date of birth of the child,
and should question the accuracy of their records if the result makes
the mother more than 45 or 46 years old; for, although instances are
oil record of women who became mothers at 49 or even 50, such
instances are very rare. It is also wise, when the father of a family
was much over 60, to make sure that the children did not really
belong to a younger man of the same name. This, however, is merely
a precaution, since there is nothing inherently impossible in a man
becoming a father at any age.
The most remarkable case on record of children born when the
father had reached an advanced age may be foimd in the British
peerage. It is that of two earls of Leicester, father and son, the former
of whom petitioned King George III to deal more leniently with the
American Colonies, while the latter died in 1909, one htmdred and
fifty-five years after his father's birth. The first earl, Thomas WilUam
Coke (1754-1842), when raised to the peerage, had a wife and
daughters but no son. He contracted a second marriage at the age
of 68, and the union was blessed with six children, the youngest
born when the father was 81. The eldest son, another Thomas
WiUiam (1822-1909), second earl of Leicester, was, Uke his father,
twice married, and had in all eighteen children, the youngest born
when the father was 71. This youngest son of the second earl was
forty-nine years younger than his eldest half-sister, who was already
a grandmother when he was born.
Remarkable instances of paternity at an advanced age have been
found in New England, but it is doubtful if any of them can equal
the record of the Coke family. The follo^ving item, which appeared
in a Connecticut journal over a hundred years ago, is probably
exaggerated :
•The statement of Dan Davis's unusual age occurs in "Genealogy of the Descendants of Col.
John Davis, of Orford, Conn.," by George T. Davis, New Rochelle, 1910; but the compiler of this
volume was led into error by following the account of the Davis family in "Seymour, Past and
Present," by Messrs. Campbell, Sharpe, and Bassett, Seymour, Conn., 1902, pp. 430, 433.
92 Genealogical Byways [April
Died, of physical exhaustion, Lieut. John , of , at the age of
110 years. He left behind him a young widow and three children, the latter
all under 10 years of age.*
The interval between the births of children in Colonial New
England averaged two years; the interval between the first two
was often shorter and that between the last two or three longer,
but in many families eight or ten children were bom — one every
two years with unbroken regularity. This is one of the first observa-
tions that amateurs make, when they begin to study the records of
the past, and it is an important one; for the' existence of a gap of
four or five years between children suggests the possibihty that an
unrecorded child may have been born in the interval. When searching
for the parentage of some ancestor whose birth is not on record, a
clue can sometimes be gained in this way.
The number of children who can be born of a single union is
probably greater than the unreflecting would estimate. If a woman
marries at 20 and has one child every two years, she would be 44
at the birth of the twelfth, and it is rarely that more than twelve
children of a single union are found. But a recent article in a scientific
journal cites the case of a woman who -had borne thirty-three children,
all of them twins or triplets. A truly remarkable case of fertility and
longevity is furnished by the Pond family. Dan Pond (1726-1783),
of Northford, Conn., married Mabel Munson (1730-1793); they
settled in Poultney, Vt., -and had fifteen children, thirteen sons and
two daughters. Several of the sons served in the Revolution, one
of them dying in service. The other fourteen children all lived to
marry, and most of them lived to an advanced age. The sum tota
of the Uves of these fifteen children amounted to more than a thousand
years. If any other American woman, through her children, can
equal this record, let her share the laurel with Mabel Pond!
Extraordinarily large families can sometimes be found in cases
where a widower with children married a woman much younger
than himself, but even in such cases there were seldom more than
twenty or twenty-two children by both -nives.
It is interesting, at a time when the size of famihes of New England
stock is constantly diminishing, to note that the fertility of the
roj^al houses of Europe appears to continue unabated. To take a
single instance, the Empress Zita, widow of the late Emperor Charles
of Austria, was one of a family of twenty-two children, her father,
one of the Bourbons of Parma, having been twice married; her own
family of children, because of her husband's death, reached an
untimely completion at the number of eight.
The subject of inbreeding is one that frequentlj'' arouses the
interest of the genealogist. Since one's ancestors double in each
generation, one need go back only a few centuries to find the total
number of ancestors exceeding the total munber of people then Uving
in the world. The explanation of the paradox is the dupUcation of
the same ancestors through endogamous marriages. Hence, in a
♦The writer regrets that he made no note of the issue in which this singular obituary occurred.
He memorized the wording and is confident of its accuracy; but the surname and residence of the
patriarch escape his memory.
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i
\ broad sense, we'are all inbred ; it is merely a question of how close the
1 inbreeding is. Nearly everyone of from eight to ten generations
i , of Colonial ancestry wiU find, if the complete ancestry is charted,
I that some of the names are duplicated. A gentleman of the writer's
I acquaintance stated that he had twenty-four descents from one of
I the early settlers in New Hampshire. In charting the ancestry of a
l lady of Connecticut descent, it was discovered that she had as many
i as eight, ten, and twelve Unes going back to several of her immigrant
I ancestors. Unquestionably,' the endogamous marriages in these
I two instances are much more numerous than is usually the case.
i For the purpose of comparison, it may be stated that the children
■ of the late Emperor Charles of Austria are descended 1990 times
from Ferdinand and Isabella, the patrons of Coliunbus; their cousins,
children of the Archduke Peter Ferdinand, have 2032 descents from
the same ancestors; while the twins born in 1921 to Frederick Victor,
Prince of HohenzoUem, can boast 2326 descents.* Astounding as
these figures are, it is possible, even probable, that the European
peasantry which has lived for centuries in the same locaUties would
; show ahnost as much inbreeding, if genealogical records had been
i kept. The New England colonists rarely inbred as closely as their
I European cousins have done, and during the last hundred years
I there has been much intermarriage with unrelated stocks. It therei-
I fore seems ridiculous to assert, as some have done, that the New
1 England stock has been injured by inbreeding.f
f The gehealogical student finds much to interest him in the dis-
: tribution of the sexes in the old families; for, while some families^.
"ran to boys" and in a few generations were flourishing in numerous
branches, others became almost or quite extinct in the male line
because of the preponderance of girls. Biologists are not yet agreed
as to the causes that determine sex; but the writer has made an
interesting test which may shed some Ught on the question. J The
sex of the first-born child, and also the sex of all the children, of 139
reigning sovereigns was ascertained, and the results are surprising.
For, while out of a total of 876 children 467 were male and 409
female, out of the 139 first-born children 95 were male and 44 female.
It wiU be observed that, if the first-born children are deducted,
the remaining children are almost evenly divided as to sex; and this
is what is to be expected in ascertaining the sex of any large number
of chUdren. But the excess of males among the first-born children
is so amazing as to be of real significance. It may safely be assumed
that a large majority of the mothers in these cases were extremely
desirous that their first-born children should be boys, in order to
secure the succession to the throne; and it may be asked whether
the mental disposition of the mother can be one of the determining
causes of the sex of the child. *
Instances can be found where for several successive generations
*With a view to making certain studies in heredity, inbreeding, etc., the writer has charted
over 10,000 descendants of Ferdinand and Isabella, and the figures given above are based on
these charts.
tCf. the thoughtful note of Riifus Stickney Tucker, in Registeb, vol. 75, p. 317.
JThe figures for the test were drawn from the writer's charts of the descendants of Ferdinand
and Isabella.
I
94 Genealogical Byways [April
there was no surviving son and the line of descent had to go through
daughters — where, in other words, a woman who was herself an
heiress iiad only female issue, who in their turn had only female
issue, thus establishing a Une of heiresses from mother to daughter.
The most singular case on record nms through several titled famiUes
of Germany and Austria, and ought to be published in toto to preserve
it as a genealogical curiosity; but it has no legitimate place in the
present article. Suffice it to say, that for eight successive generations,
upwards of two hundred years, the line of descent was through
females, no one of whom had survi\dng male issue.*
It is also curious to note how the members of certain families
adopted the same profession for generations; and it is difficult to
say whether this is due to inherited inclination or to the influence of
environment and training. The noted Hull family of Wallingford
and Derby, Conn., produced within six generations, and in the male
line, at least seventeen physicians, two generals, one commodore,
six captains, three Ueutenants, and many others engaged, either
permanently or temporarily, in the military and naval professions.
Every genealogist has found similar instances, and the curious can
find many such cases noted in books and articles treating of eugenics.
The peculiar names with which the Puritans so often endowed
their chjldren quickly catch the attention of the genealogical novice,
and it delights even the experienced genealogist to discover such odd
appellations as Yet-Once Barstow and Godsgift Amold.f The
emplojinent of unusual names frequently provides clues towards
the elucidation of an ancestral line, but the novice is as likely to be
misled as correctly guided by clues of this kind. It frequently happens
that the duplication of the same Christian names in two families is
nothing more than coincidence, and such considerations as locaUty
and social status are almost as important as nomenclatm-e. An
exception is the use of surnames for Christian names, which in the
first hundred years of New England history usually signified relation-
ship to the family whose surname was used. But after we pass
much beyond the year 1750, the employment even of surnames is
of doubtful value as a clue to relationship.
Such are some of the genealogical byways into which the feet
of the student may stray, whether for pastime or for mental profit.
Space has been lacking to pursue any one of these byways very
far, but enough has been said to indicate whither they lead.
Genealogy and chronology have been called the handmaids of
history; it is equally true that genealogical statistics are essential
to students of eugenics, biometrics, and human heredity. The
genealogist not onlj^ supplies these essential data to his brother
scientists, but finds his own intellectual horizon broadened by
straying at -times into these cognate fields of science.
*The line starts with Elisabeth, Princess of I-iechtenstein, born in 16S3, wife of Leopold, Duke
of Holstein-Wiesenburg, continues through the eldest daughter in each generation, including
the first wife of the famous Austrian statesman, Metternich, and concludes with Elisabeth, Princess
of Oettingen, born in 1SS3, wife of Victor, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingfurst. The last-named
had (in 1922) four daughters and one son; if this son survives, he will be the first to break the
chain of heiresses in 233 years.
tCf.'REGISTEK, voL 77, p. 10.
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NEW ENGLAND VESSELS IN THE EXPEDITION AGAINST
LOUISBOURG, 1745
By HowABD MiLLAB Chapin, A.B., of Providence, R. I.
[Concluded from page 71]
Meanwhile Captain Rous, in the Shirley, sailed from Boston early
in May (about May 3), convoying five transports, the Massachusetts
ones commanded by Captains Bramham, Clark, ' Rackwood, and
Jones, and the New Hampshire one by Captain Ward. On the
voyage*, he feU in with the French frigate Renommee, which attacked
one of the transports and forced her to strike her colors. The Re-
nommee then left her to chase the Shirley, thus enabling the captured
vessel to escape. Rous ordered two of the others to go inshore,
where the Renommee could not follow them, and by this means they
escaped. Three of them reached Canso by May 10. The other
two made a harbor west of Canso, and finally arrived at Canso a
day or so later. The Shirley outsailed the Renommee and reached
Canso in safety. On the 15th the Shirley sailed from Canso, con-
voying the aforesaid five transports and the Good Intent and the
Philadelphia, which had reached Canso a few days earlier. This
fleet reached Chapeaurouge Bay on the 16th.t
A schooner left Chapeaurouge Bay on the iSth, touched at Canso
on the 17th, and arrived at Boston on May 24. The schooner that
had been sent to Newfoimdland with despatches, returning, arrived
at Chapeaurouge Bay on or before the 15th.
On this day also four transports sailed from Canso for Boston.
They were the brigantine Victory, Capt. WiUiam Adams, the
brigantine St. Jean, Captain Richardson, the schooner St. Peter,
Captain Davis, and the prize sloop taken by Donahue, which was
commanded by Captain Arno. On the 15th two schooners commanded
by Mr. Allen and Mr. Hammond were sent on a fishing expedition
from Chapeaurouge Bay. They touched at Canso on the evening
of the 16th and again on the evening of the 17th. They sailed in the
morning, but were driven back by bad weather. On the 19th they
sailed again for Chapeaurouge Bay, Mr. Hammond carried despatches
from Cutter to Pepperell, and reached Chapeaurouge Bay on the
21st. The Victory, Captain Adams, reached Boston on May 22, as
also a schooner taken by the Boston Packet.
The brigantine St. Jean and Captain Arno reached Boston before
May 23, as also another sloop and a schooner, both prizes of Captain
Donahue. A schooner which left Chapeaurouge Bay on the 15th
and Canso on the 17th arrived at Boston on the 24th. This was
probably the schooner Charming Molly, Captain Byles, carrying
wounded soldiers, which saUed from Canso on the 17th in company
with the schooner Seaflower, Captain Wadlin, which carried French
♦Kimball, Correspondence of the Colonial Governors of Rhode Island, voL 1, p. 341, footnote,
confuses this voyage with that of the Tartar in April.
tPepperell says that the transports arrived on the 17th. Rous, however, was certainly off
Louisbourg on the 16th, with at least some of the transports.
\.
96 New England Vessels in the Louisbourg Expedition [April
civilians from the Isle de Madame. On the 16th the Bonetta, Captain
Becket, sailed from Canso for the Gut of Canso, in search of timber,
and also for the Isle de Madame.
On May 16 the Superb, EUham, Launceston, Tartar, and Shirley
were off Louisbourg, and a council of war was held on board the
Superb, which was attended by Warren, Durell, Calmady, Tiddeman,
Rous, and Fones.
On May 17 Warren wrote to Pepperell: "Captain Gayton and all
our cruizers except the Road Island ship are now in sight," appar-
ently ignoring the absence of the Prince of Orange. In direct contra-
diction to this, PeppereU wrote on the 19th to Warren: "When
Capt. Gayton arrives, pray the favour of you that I may know of
it," and again on the 19th: "I cant conceive where Gayton and
Smythers are," and on the 20th to Warren: "Capt. Gayton is not
yet arrived." Either Pepperell did not know that Gayton was seen
by Warren on the 17th or else he was expected to go into Chapeau-
rouge Bay and failed to do so.
The apparent contradiction in the data in regard to the Prince
of Orange, Captain Smithurst, can perhaps be explained by the fact
that Pepperell and Warren issued orders to the captains of vessels
without regard as to whether or not the vessels were present. On
May 11 it was voted to send fourteen Massachusetts transports to
Boston imder convoy of Captain Smithurst. On the 12th PeppereU
wrote to Warren: "I have this day sent the schooner Prince of
Orange to Boston, ordering to wait on you for your packets." The
Prince of Orange was a snow, not a schooner. Warren on the 13th
wrote: "Smythers was with the EUham, and I believe will soon be in."
Smythers, alias Smithurst, was captain of the Prince of Orange and
was with the EUham on the expedition to St. Ann on the 7th and
8th and perhaps later. On the 13th Warren asked Pepperell: "Shall
I send Smythers when he arrives to Boston, agreeable to Mr. Shirley's
request to you?", and on the 19th Pepperell, as stated above, wrote:
"I cant conceive where Gajiion and Smythers are." On the 21st
PeppereU wrote: "Some of them you may order on board Smithers
which he may carry with him to Boston, as Gov. Shirley desires he
may be sent to guard the coast of New England." Smithurst had
not sailed by the 21st and was not with the fleet on the 24th. Pep-
pereU wrote to Shirley on June 2: "I have heard nothing of Smithurst
since his being in bad weather on his passage from St. Ann's."
Governor Shirley wrote on June 2: "I am in some pain for Smith-
urst," and on July 19 he conceded the loss of the Prince of Orange,
attributing it to a storm. A French privateer was captured on
July 13 by the Boston Packet, and from this vessel it was learned
that the Prince of Orange had been captured by the Renommee, which
reached Canada (McLennan says the Bale des Castors in Acadia)
some thirty-two days before, that is, about June 12. It must have
been earHer than that date, however, for the Renommee crossed the
Atlantic and arrived at Brest on June 19. The Prince of Orange was
probably captured between the time when she parted from the
Defence on May 12 and the time when she would naturally have
reached the fleet off Louisbourg, that is, not later than May 16 or 17.
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Curiously enough, after capturing the snow Prince of Orange, the
Renommee crossed the Atlantic, joined De Salvert's squadron, and
sailed again for America, capturing on this voyage, late in July or
early in August, another Prince of Orange, one of the so-called "mast-
ships," from which the French fleet obtained its first news of the fall
of Louisbourg.
H.M.S. Trethodck (Trecolhick), a supply vessel for Commodore
Warren's fleet, arrived at Chapeaurouge Bay on May 18. On this
day the Tartar was ordered to cruise to the eastward of Louisbourg.
A French brigantine appeared, and the Tartar immediately went in
chase and soon captured her in the Bay of Scatarie. She was the
Deux Amies, called also by various authorities the Deux Arnie, Deux
Amis, and perhaps also the Two Friends (cf. McLennan, Louisbourg,
page 144, footnote), 80 tons, Capt. Dominick Chatson, bound from
St. Jean de Luz, near Bayonne, France, for Louisbourg, with a
cargo of wine, brandy, provisions, oil, nets, cordage, and salt. The
Tartar took the Deux Amies into Chapeaurouge Bay on the 19th,
being joined on the way by H.M.S.' Launceston. From the Deux
Amies it was learned that a French fleet of four men-of-war (one of
72 guns, and three of 56 guns each) and three company ships of 30
gims each might be daily expected. On May 18 Captain Fletcher ia
the Boston Packet landed a party about 10 miles from Louisbourg,
on Chapeaurouge Bay, some distance from the camp. They were
attacked by Indians and lost seven or eight men kiUed and three
captured. The Molineux went into Chapeaurouge Bay for wood and
water on the 19th.
The French ship' Vigilant, 64 guns, Capt. Alexandre Boisdescoxirt,
Marquis de la Maisonfort, attacked H.M.S. Mermaid about 1 P.M.
on May 19. The latter led the French ship toward the fleet off
Louisbourg. The Vigilant pursued the Mermaid until the fleet came
in sight. Then she attempted to escape, instead of chase, and the
Mermaid in turn chased her. The Shirley, Captain Rous, joined in
the chase at 3 P.M. (at 6 P.M., according to the log of the Mermaid)
and "plyed his Bow Chace very well" until 7 o'clock. The Superb,
Launceston, Eltham, and the ship Massachusetts joined in the chase.
The larger vessels easily outsailed the Massachusetts and the Shirley,
and soon disappeared in the fog that had set in. The Vigilant, after
being very badly battered by gunfire, surrendered to the Mermaid
about 9 o'clock in the evening. Waldo wrote on May 21 that he
thought he saw the large French ship following Commodore Warren
into Chapeaurouge Bay on the evening past. Bradstreet states that
the Vigilant was brought into Chapeaurouge Bay on the 21st.
Captain Douglas of the Mermaid was given the command of the
Vigilant, and Captain Montague was put in command of the Mermaid.
The ship Massachusetts, Captain Tyng, brought a letter from
Commodore Warren to General Pepperell at Chapeaurouge Bay on
the 21st, and H.M.S. Bien Aime, Captain Gayton, arrived. In the
afternoon H.M.S. Launceston ran afoul of the Molineux in the fog
and almost capsized her. The Launceston's forechains were carried
away. As is usual in war, sickness claimed many victims. Com-
modore Warren states that he had to man the Shirley out of the
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transports and left only four men on each transport. He suggested
that the prisoners be put on the Ccesar, Fame, Molineux, and the
Prince of Orange. A schooner with despatches from Canso reached
Chapeaurouge Bay. Captain Saunders, who apparently had charge
of the vessels at Chapeaurouge Bay, wrote to General PeppereU
that he had sent two schooners with wood and water out to the
fleet, had watered the Fame, Molineux, and Tartar, and had sent
Captain Daggett to the fleet with powder and shot.
A large ship of 60 guns, supposed to be the Aurora Borealis but
really H.M.S. Princess Mary, Captain Edwards, joined the fleet on
the 22d, and Captain Smith of the packet service sailed from Cha-
peaurouge Bay with despatches, touching at Canso on the 23d and
arriving at Boston on May 30. Cleaves under date of May 22 wrote:
"go tens [? Gajrtons] men to[ok] a french shaUoway from St. Johns
[? Isle St. Jean] to Lovesbiirge [Louisbourg] laden with corn and rye."
On May 22 Captain Donnel's schooner, that had been retaken by
the Boston Packet, arrived at Boston. She must have sailed from
Canso or Chapeaurouge Bay about the middle of the month.
The ship Massachusetts was in Chapeaurouge Bay on the 23d,
and on the 24th H.M.S. Hector joined the fleet and the Defence
anchored in Chapeaurouge Bay. The Defence sailed out of the Bay
and joined the fleet off Louisbourg on the 26th.
About the middle of May Captain Newmarch, in the schooner
Fishhawk, was sent with despatches to Annapohs Roj'al. On the
19th he was attacked by Indians, in eleven canoes, at Annapohs
Harbor, between the Basin and the fort, and, after the Indians had
fired about 200 shots, he was forced to return. He arrived at Canso
on the 26th, and reported that a 60-gun French ship had recently
been at Liscomb's Harbor. Captain Newmarch continued on to
Chapeaurouge Bay, where he arrived on the 31st. On May 30 the
Vigilant was brought into Chapeaurouge Bay to be refitted. Captain
Becket, in the Bonetta, went from Canso to the Isle de Madame, and
returned with news that 1000 French and Indians would soon go
to Cape Breton via the Gut of Canso. On this cruise Captain
Becket landed at the Isle de la Madelaine and burned eleven houses
there. Becket planned to go to "Santa Spirit" [St. Esprit] to bum
that place, but Cutter, the commandant at Canso," would not spare
him so long from guarding that port.
At a councU of war held June 1 it was decided to man the Vigilant
out of the transports and land forces, lea%dng only two men on each
transport. Commodore Warren sent despatches to General PeppereU
by Mr. Loriag and by Captain Ne^Tnarch in the Fishhawk. The
Susurnam, a brigantine from Nantes, laden with wine and brandy,
was captured by the Mermaid on June 1 or 2, Wolcott and Bradstreet
saying that she was taken on the 1st, while the logs of the Mermaid
and the Eltham and also Warren, PeppereU, and BidweU give the
date as the 2d. According to the Launceston's log, she was brought
to the fleet on the 3d. The Molineux was sent in chase to the east-
ward on the 2d. An anonymous diarist says that a ship and a brig
were taken on Jime 1, and Bradstreet says a ship and a snow, evi-
dently meaning a brig. The rumor of the capture of two vessels
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was apparently current in camp. Wolcott describes the vessel as
a brig of 15 tons, probably an error for 150 tons or 15 guns. Captain
ExDus in the Shirley, together with two schooners, was ordered to
Annapolis with despatches on June 1, and a vessel with despatches
for Boston was to be convoyed by the Shirley as far as Cape Sable.
In case Annapolis was found to be in danger, one schooner was to
be sent to Boston and the other to Louisbourg.
On June 2 the Defence anchored off the camp. Later in the day
(or, according to Wolcott, Bradstreet, and an anonymous diarist,
on the 3d) Captain Donahue, in the Resolution, arrived from Boston
in eight days, with a large mortar, shells, and powder. Captain Bush
was sent to the Lighthouse Battery with carriages for the cannon,
and Commodore Warren sent Mr. Loring in a schooner to assist
Bush with the landing. The Shirley sailed jon the 2d, in company
with two schooners, for Annapolis. Captain Giddings, in a schooner,
sailed from Chapeaurouge Bay on June 3 (June 4 according to
Pepperell's diary, but June 3 according to a letter of Pepperell's
written on the 5th and also a subsequent letter) with despatches, and
arrived at Boston on June 15 after "a 10 days voyage." It is possible
that Giddings joined the Shirley and was convoyed as far as Cape
Sable, as ordered.
On June 3 Commodore Warren ordered the Boston Packet, Captain
Fletcher, into the Bay as an additional guard to help Captain
Saunders in case of trouble with the prisoners. Captain Griffith in
the Ccesar captured a large sloop from Canada, laden with flour and
other provisions, a few rmle? east of the hghthouse. She ran ashore
while trying to escape. This vessel brought the news that 1000
re enforcements were coming from the siege of Annapolis to the
relief of Louisbourg. The Launceston's log, under the date of June 4,
says that she was "joined by privateer's sloop and prize."
At a council of war held on June 3 it was voted to man the Vigilant
out of the Fame, CcBsar, and Molineux, leaving forty men on each,
and then to send these three vessels to New England with prisoners.
It was also voted to retain the Tartar in His Majesty's service until
further orders. Cleaves says that Colonel EveUth's schooner came
in from AnnapoUs on the 3d and that the prize ship [? the Vigilant]
sailed out of the Bay.
Bidwell records that a "frigas" [frigate], with nineteen men, was taken
at night on June 3 near Scatarie. This perhaps refers to the Susurnam.
Captain Becket, in the Bonetta, with only thirty-one men, sailed
from Canso on May 28 and cruised at sea, returning on June 1.
Captain Bennett sailed from Boston about May 27 and reached
Canso, after a voyage of six days, on the afternoon of June 2 and
Chapeaurouge Bay on the 4th._ Evidently the schooner Montague
and another schooner belonging at Annapolis had been captured by
the French, for Governor Shirley on June 3 -RTote that he hoped to
retake them. He also wrote: "The Canso soldiers I got sent away
in an armed biUander* sufficient to clear the Gut of the enemy."
*A bilander is a two-masted vessel, like a brig, but she has her mainsail bent to the whole length
of a yard hanging fore and aft and inclined to the horizon at an angle of 45 degrees, the foremost
lower corner being secured to a ringbolt in the deck. She carries a square maintopsail and top-
gallant sail.
VOL. LXXVn. 7
100 New England Vessels in the Louishourg Expedition [April
Engineer John H. Bastide, in the "Ordnance Packet" Amplus,
Captain Donnel, left AnnapoUs on May 27 and reached Canso on
June 4. Mr. Bastide then sent a despatch to Commodore Warren by
the Bonetta, Captain Becket's "Uttle sloop," which reached Cha-
peaurouge Bay on the 5th. Mr. Bastide in the Amplus sailed from
Canso on the 5th and reached Chapeaurouge Bay on June 6.
Bradstreet says that two vessels were captured on June 4, evidently
referring to the "Carolina rice ship"* and the "Canada sloop," the
latter also being mentioned by Viirn as taken on the 3d. PeppereU
also refers to her on both the 3d and 4th. She was captured on the
3d at night, and was apparently brought into Chapeaiuouge Bay on
the 4th; hence the repeated entries. PeppereU wrote that, if Captain
Bush and Captain Loring in a schooner had not been at the entrance
of the harbor, the sloop would probably have got in. The so-called
"Carolina rice ship" was chased by the Molineux and the Princess
Mary on June 4 and was captured by the latter. She was a brigantine
•of 200 tons and 12 guns, and had been recently captured by the French
ship Renommee. On this day also the ship Massachusetts and the
Fame sailed to the rehef of Annapolis.
On June 5 the Defence weighed anchor and cruised to the west of
the Ughthouse, the Abigail, Captain Femald, was ordered to replace
Captain Bush's vessel in guarding the mouth of the harbor, and the
Bonetta, Captain Becket, arrived from Canso with news that the
French had raised the siege of Annapolis and were sending re en-
forcements to Louisbourg. The Molinevx was ordered to Chapeau-
rouge Bay to take on board 150 French prisoners for Boston. The
Hopestill sailed from Chapeaiuouge Bay on June 5 at 7 o'clock in
the evening, reached Casco Bay on Jime 18, and sailed on the 20th
for Boston, where she arrived at 1.12 at night on the 21st. On
June 6 Captain Bush came on shore at Chapeaiurouge Bay.
The Tartar, Captain Fones, sailed on June 6 for Canso, where she
arrived on the 7th, and sailed immediately to join the Resolution
and the Bonetta, which had already sailed for the Gut of Canso on
the evening of the 6th.
H.M.S. Chester, 50 guns, joined the fleet on June 9, and Warren
sent word of the fact to PeppereU. PeppereU, also, sent a despatch
to Warren by a shaUop.
The fourteen transports which were to be convoyed to Boston by
the Prince of Orange, according to the order of May 11, sailed June 10
under the convoy of the Bien Aime, Captain Gay ton, as the PriJice
of Orange was stiU missing. There were twenty-six vessels in this .
convoj'', including the Molineux, Ccesar, and four New Hampshire
transports. A schooner was despatched from Chapeaurouge Bay for
Canso with messages on this day.
About June 4 Captain Donahue, in the Resolution, sailed from
Chapeaurouge Bay for Canso and the Gut. Captain Bush was
ordered to Boston with prisoners on June 6, but these orders were
probably countermanded, as he apparently did not make this voyage.
•One diarist says a brig, and Pomeroy says that the vessel was taken on the 5th and was said
to be a 34-gun ship. Cleaves says that a ship and a snow were taken on the 4th and two rice ships
on the 5th. Evidently the rumors in camp exaggerated the cumber of prizes taken
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The Tartar was off Louisbourg on June 6 and was ordered to take
Bush's place at the mouth of the harbor.
.Warren wrote on this date, June 6, that he had ordered the Defence
to the Gut of Canso; but this was either a shp of the pen or else
the order was changed, for the Tartar was sent. Commodore Warren
sent a schooner to Annapolis on the 7th to recall the Massachusetts
and Fame and to order the Shirley to Boston.
Six transports were ordered out to the fleet on June 11, and on the
13th all the transports in Chapeaurouge Bay, fifty-four in number,
sailed out to the fleet to strip the vessels for action.
; Meanwhile, on June 12, H.M.S. Sunderland, 60 guns, H.M.S.
Canterbury, 60 guns, H.M.S. Lark, 40 guns, a prize of 20 guns, and
the ordnance storeship for Annapolis, the Blacket and Fenwick,
Captain Kitchenman, arrived; two wood sloops were sent out to
the fleet; and the Defence and Boston Packet sent a plundering expe-
dition on shore near "Laten." Th,e land forces at the Royal Battery
I seized seventeen shallops, thirty whaleboats, and a schooner, and
1 Mr. Shipman on June 12 ran the schooner out of the harbor to the
i fleet. A shallop had been kept plying between the fleet and Grand
I Battery with messages.
I The Resolution, Captain Donahue, reached Canso on Jtme 5, with
I General Pepperell's orders of the 3d; the Tartar, as has been noted,
I arrived on the 7th; Captain Hodgkins arrived with supplies from
I Chapeaurouge Bay on the 11th, and sailed again for Chapeaurouge
f Bay, in company with "the small sloop," on or before June 14.
I Captain Bramham's sloop was at Canso on June 14, and sailed on
I the 15th for Chapeaurouge Bay. On that day the schooner SaUy,
I Captain Smith, arrived at Canso from Boston in ten days, and reached
i Chapeaurouge Bay on the 18th.
I Louisboiu-g capitulated on June 16, 1745, and the fleet of warships
\ and transports sailed into the harbor on the 17th. On the 18th the
:' French ship St. Francis Xavier, 300 tons, 12 guns, from Bordeaux,
I laden with wine and brandy, appeared off the hghthouse and was
• captured by H.M.S. Chester. Governor Wolcott credits the capture
•: to the Connecticut sloop Defence, Captain Prentice, which probably
assisted the Chester. The schooner Sally, Captain Smith, one of the
despatch packets, 'arrived from Boston and Canso.
At Boston Captain Giddings, in a schooner, arrived on the 15th,
the Molineux, Captain SneUing, with 143 prisoners on the 17th,
and on the 19th the Ccesar, Captain Griffith, a prize ship of 16 guns,
and (in the evening) the Bien Aime, Captain Gayton. Between
June 20 and 27 several transports with troops sailed from Boston
for Cape Breton Island. The Boston News-Letter states that Captain
SneUing, ia the ship Ccesar, sailed June 25. This error has been fol-
lowed by Winsor and Preble. It was reaUy the Molineux, Captain
SneUing, carrying 110 soldiers, that saUed from Nantasket early in
the morning of the 25th, and not the snow Caesar, which was a vessel
of 14 guns and was commanded by John (not George) Griffith.
(Cf. Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, vol. 44,
. page 76.) She had under convoy a schooner and a sloop, but lost
sight of them in a thunderstorm on June 29. '
102 New England Vessels in the Louisbourg Expedition [April
Captain Bennett sailed from Louisbourg on the 20th and reached
Boston July 2, with the first news of the capture of Louisbourg.
Early in the morning of the next day, July 3, which was Commence-
ment Day, Governor Shirley ordered all the bells in Boston to be
rung and guns to be fired to annoimce and celebrate the victory.
Captain Bush sailed from Louisbourg for England on the 22d,
with Captain Montague and a joint letter from Warren and Pep-
pereU to the Duke of Newcastle. The vessel was reported by a
French prize to have been captured and taken into Saint-Malo, yet
Captain Montague, with the news of the surrender of Louisbom-g,
arrived in England on July 20. At 4 o'clock in the afternoon of
Tuesday, July 23, the Tower and park guns in London were fired in
honor of the captiure of Cape Breton, and in the evening London was
illuminated, amidst the blaze of many bonfires.
The Shirley, Captain Rous, arrived off Louisbourg from Annapolis,
with artUlery, on the 24th, but was prevented by a heavy fog from
entering the harbor until the 25th.* She saluted the fleet with 17
guns. Coit's, Mumford's, and Robbins's vessels were taken into the
King's pay on the 24th. This was doubtless a result of the action of
the coimcil of war, which on June 22 advised that eight vessels be
used as transports to carry the prisoners to France, viz., two brig-
antines and a schooner belonging to Connecticut (probably the
vessels commanded by Coit, Mumford, and Robbins), two sloops
belonging to Boston, commanded by Bramham and Clark, a schooner
(? the St. Peter) of York, commanded by Adams, a sloop of Ports-
mouth (the Abigail), " Jno. FmneU, Master," and two vessels com-
manded by Robert White and Sarnl. Barnes. As the only schooner
in the Connecticut contingent of Apr. 14 was the Charming Molly,
Captain Byles, that had sailed for New England in May, it wo*ald
seem probable that this schooner and one or both of the brigantines
had come later with supplies or reenforcements. The embarkation
of the French prisoners and refugees on the transports and warships
for their journey to France began on June 24.
The Tartar joined the Resolution and the Bonetta in the Gut of
Canso about June 8. The fleet of three vessels, under the command
of Fones, cruised for a week in search of the enemy reenforcements,
but without success. On the 15th, near Tackquamnash in Askma-
couse Harbor, Famme Goose Bay, at six in the morning, smoke was
sighted to leeward. The Tartar and Bonetta went in pursuit, behev-
ing it to be from the fires of the French and Indian troops. Soon
after they had disappeared from sight, two sloops, two schooners, a
shaUopway, and about fifty Indian canoes appeared. The vrmd hav-
ing dropped, the Resolution was left helplessly becalmed, and was
easily surrounded and attacked by the Hghter craft. Captain Dona-
hue and his vessel were dangerously near capture, when a freshening
breeze brought back the Tartar and the Bonetta. When these vessels
brought their guns to bear on the French and Indians, many were
killed. The enemy then retreated into shoal water, the Resolution
pursuing them at pistol-shot range until she ran aground, but later
♦Accounts vary, giving Rous's arrival on the 24th, the 25th, and the 26th. Cleaves gives Rous's
arrival from Annapolis both on June 26 and July 2.
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she was floated. The French and Indians retreated up the narrow
creeks and sought refuge in the woods. They were under the com-
mand of M. Marin, a Canadian oflficer, and were about 1200 in
number, being the reenforcements sent from the siege of Annapolis
Royal to the reHef of Louisbourg, This defeat which they suffered
at Famme Goose Bay prevented their crossing to Cape Breton
Island and reaching Louisbourg. Two days after this repulse the
forces under Pepperell entered the city of Louisbourg.
The fleet under Fones cruised for another week in order to prevent
a second attempt of the reenforcements to cross to Cape Breton
Island, and then, on the 22d, Captain Fones despatched the Bonetta,
Captain Becket, to Canso with news of the defeat of Marin. The
Bonetta arrived at Canso Jime 23.
Returning from Canso, the Bonetta rejoined Fones's fleet and cruised
with them until the 26th, when Fones sent additional despatches to
Commodore Warren. The Bonetta carried these, touching at Canso
on the 27th, speaking the Defence off St. Esprit on the 29th, and
reaching Chapeaurouge Bay the same day. Meanwhile the Tartar
and the Resolution continued to guard the Gut of Canso. On Satur-
day, June 29, they sighted four Indians at a place called Fustic, ,
about a league west of the Gut. Captain Donahue and eleven of
his men went ashore in his launch to investigate, and were suddenly
surrounded and cut off by about 300 Indians. The Tartar, being
within musket shot of the shore, tried to cover the landing party
with gunfire, but Captain Donahue and five of his men were killed,
the otheir six being captured. The Indians are reported to have
cut open Donahue's chest, to have sucked his blood, and then to have
eaten Donahue and the other five slain. Captain Fones in the
Tartar, with Captain Donahue's Resolution, reached Canso July 7
with the sad news of Donahue's death, and on the 8th the Resolution
sailed into Louisbom-g Harbor with her colors hoisted at half-mast.
Capt. David Donahue was the only naval commander to lose his
life in the expedition of 1745 against Louisbourg.* Capt. Joseph
Richardson was appointed captain of the Resolution.
The Massachusetts, Captain Tyng, returning from Annapolis,
passed Canso on June 26 without stopping, apparently not seeing
the signals of Captain Cutter, the commandant there, and therefore
must have reached Louisbourg about the 27th. The Defence sailed
from Louisbourg on June 28, spoke the Bonetta, Captain Becket,
about 8 o'clock on the 29th off St. Esprit, and anchored at Canso
on June 30.
H.M.S. Hector, Captain Cornwall, sailed from Louisbourg June 30
with despatches, and arrived at Boston July 9, "in eight days."
The Defence sailed from Canso at 7 A.M. on July 1 and anchored
in Louisbourg Harbor at 11 A.M. oh July 3. The Diamond, Capt.
•David Donahue was mate on the Mary gaUey, of London, which was wrecked, 4 Sept.
1742, in the River Gambia, on the western coast of Africa. The ship was plundered and de-
stroyed by the natives, and her cargo of slaves escaped and barbarously murdered all of the crew
except the captain and Donahue. These two hid for twenty-seven days in the remains of the
cabin, and finally made their escape and reached SenegaL But Donahue escaped death at the
hands of the African savages only to be barbarously killed three years later by the Indians in
Nova Scotia.
104 New England Vessels in the Louishourg Expedition [April
Ephraim Doane, sailed from Louisbourg with sick soldiers on July 2
and reached Canso at 3 P.M. on July 3, sailing again from Canso
July 5 for New London.
Captain Giddings, who saUed from Boston June 22 with despatches
and several vessels and one company of Colonel Choate's regiment,
arrived at Chapeaurouge Bay July 2 and anchored at Louisbourg
July 3. Captain Edman also arrived at Louisbourg on the 3d, with
a company of Worcester County men.
At least one of the transports that sailed from Boston with part
of Colonel Choate's regiment, a day or so after Captain Giddings
sailed, arrived at Canso July 3.
On July 3 there arrived at Louisboxirg the Fame from Armapolis,
a schooner, probably Captain Giddings's, from Boston, the Defence
from Canso, and a 20-gim man-of-war, with 200 soldiers, from
Newfoundland. H.M.S. Launceston and several transports. sailed for
France with about 1200 refugees, H.M.S. Lark for Newfoundland,
and H.M.S. Superb, Captain Tiddeman, for Boston. Some of the
transports may have sailed for New England on July 3.
Captain Robbins, Captain Cerl [? Coit], Captain Mum ford, and
several sloop transports, six vessels in aU, sailed for France July 4,
and a schooner from New England, with troops (Cleves says two
transports), arrived.
On July 5 Captain Saunders with despatches, H.M.S. Eltham, a
schooner (apparently the HopestiU), and the "Annapolis store ship"
Blacket and Fenwick, Captain Kitcherman [Kitchenman] sailed for
Boston. Captain Saunders arrived on the 14th; the Eltham, the
storeship, and a prize sloop with 204 prisoners arrived on the 17th.
This last-mentioned may have been one of the vessels that sailed for
Canso on the 5th.
The Defence and "two other sloops" sailed from Louisbourg
July 5 for Canso, where the Defence arrived on the 6th.
On July 12, in lattitude 42° 16', between Cape Sable and the
Isle of Shoals, the Diamond spoke Captain Saxmders in an armed
vessel that had sailed' from Louisbourg after the Diamond sailed.
Commodore Warren issued orders dated July 5 to Captain Fones
and Captain Donahue. The latter, however, had been lolled, and
Captain Fones was still in the Gut of Canso or Bay of Vert. Captain
Fones may have received these orders when the Tartar reached
Canso on the 7th, or he may have joined Commodore Warren's
squadron on the 8th and then received them. In either case he seems
to have returned immediately to the Bay of Vert, following these
instructions, and to have gone to Isle de St. Jean, to seize that island
and bring away prisoners or hostages. They landed at St. Peter's,
on Isle de St. Jean, and, according to Pollard, "devastated the
establishment of le sieur Roina, and another [estate belonging]
to la Joie, then imder the command of an Ensign of foot, M. Dupont
Duvivier, and 15 men. Duvivier escaped to the woods and when a
party of English advanced into the forest, they were set on by
Duvivier, reinforced by a number of Indians and 28 men were killed."*
*Jame3 B. Pollard's Historical Sketch of the Eastern Regions of New France, p. 17. Cf. also
Thomas C. Haliburton' Nova Scotia, p. 123, and McLennan's Louisbourg, p. 166.
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< ' On July 5, in the morning, a schooner arrived at Louisbourg from
I Boston via Canso, having on board CJolonel Choate and two com-
I panies of soldiers. The Shirley, Captaia Rous, sailed July 6, amid the
I salutes of the men-of-war, with despatches for England, where she
I arrived after a voyage of three weel^. The Molineux, Captain Snel-
I ling, with a sloop and schooner, arrived at Louisbourg from Boston
I with recruits on the 6th.
I On the 4th the Molineux spoke a schooner that had sailed on the
I 23d from Boston for Louisbourg. A Rhode Island schooner com-
I manded by James Jordon arrived at Canso in the afternoon of July 8.*
? On the 9th seven transports sailed from Louisbourg for Boston with
; prisoners, ■ and a sloop commanded by Trefethen sailed for Ports-
'; mouth. Another diarist says that eight schooners sailed for New
I England with prisoners on the 9th. A schooner sailed for France
on the 10th.
The Defence sailed from Canso for St. Peter's on July 11, spoke
Captain Hammond, who was boimd for Louisbourg, on the 13th,
and returned to Canso on the 15th. A schooner, Captain Jordon,
from Canso, three weeks out from Rhode Island, arrived at Louis-
■ bourg July 11, and five or six schooners with prisoners and soldiers,
I together with the Fame, Captain Thompson, with sick soldiers,
I sailed at 10 A.M. for Boston. Captain Mitchell, in command of a
I sloop transport, Donahue's Resolution, Captain Richardson, and two
I schooners (one diarist says two sloops and two schooners) were in
I the fleet of five or six vessels that saUed for New England on the 12th.
1 The Boston Packet, Captain Fletcher, on July 13 took a French
i privateer schooner, 4 guns (4 cannon and 12 swivel guns), from
I Canada, laden with provisions, and from this vessel it was learned
; that the Prince of Orange had been captured by the Renommee several
\ weeks before.
I Several wood sloops returned from St. Ann to Louisbourg on
I July 14; a transport sailed at 6 A.M. from Louisbourg, reached
■ Canso on the 15th, passed Cape Negro on the 23d, and reached
!. Boston on the 29th; and the Amplus saUed from Louisbourg about
7 A.M., spoke a brigantine from Massachusetts on the 15th, and at
four in the afternoon of the 16th put into Canso, where they found
; strawberries ripe. The Amplus sailed from Canso at dawn the next
day, sighted several vessels from Boston, passed Cape Sable on the
26th, sighted Cape Ann on the 28th, reached Nantasket on the 29th,
and anchored at Boston before sunset.
Late in June or early in July Captain Wickham arrived at Boston
from Newport with 74 Rhode Island sailors for the Vigilant, 61 of
whom were embarked before July 3 on the snow Ccesar. The Ccesar
was delayed in Boston until July 9, when she was ordered to sail
forthwith, and she arrived at Louisbourg July 16, having convoyed
six or seven vessels with troops from "the neighboring governments,"
; that is, Rhode Island and Connecticut. These vessels doubtless
included the two Rhode Island transports (SheflGield mentions two brig-
antines, the Success and the Su^an), the brigantine Success (which
; was hired by the Colony before June 18, 1745, from William Ellery
I 'Sheffield, p. 18, says that Jordon airired at Louisbourg July 25.
106 New England Vessels in the Louishourg Expedition [April
and Philip TiUingliast, both of Newport), and the schooner Beaver,
Captain Cahoone, which sailed from Newport July 2, with three
companies of Rhode Island soldiers.
Two sloops, under Captain Chapman and Captain Fitch, with
troops from Connecticut, arrived at Louishourg on July 17, and
apparently also Capt. John Wise arrived from Portsmouth, whither
he sailed back, arriving there before July 25. The Molineux, Captain
Snelling, sailed at 10 A.M. for Boston with 150 prisoners, passed
White Head on the 18th, at midnight on the 19th, in a fog, ran
afoul of a sloop bound from Boston to Newfoundland, passed Cape
Negro on the 24th and spoke a sloop thirteen days out from Louis-
hourg, and on the 28th, at 2 A.M., anchored in Boston Harbor.
Some vessels going east passed Canso on July 17, and two more
on July 18. Captain Adams saUed from Boston with letters on
July 17, and Captain Stephenson on or soon after that date, both for
Louishourg.
Meanwhile the sloop Massachusetts, Captain Saunders, had arrived
at Boston on July 14, and had been ordered on July 16 to go to the
fort on the St. George's River. She immediately sailed on this
mission, and, returning, reached Boston before Aug. 19.
Captain Daniel and others from Louishourg, in a sloop for New
England, arrived at Canso July 16, and at night another sloop for
the same destination arrived there. They both sailed on the 17th.
On July 18 the ship Massachusetts sailed for Boston, some vessels
sailed for France, and a. sloop arrived. A ship sailed for France on
July 19. The ship Massachusetts reached Boston before Aug. 1.
The Defence sailed from Canso at sunrise on July 20, and reached
Louishourg a little before sunset. A snow sailed for France, and a
ship arrived from Boston, with women as well as men.
Captain Bennett, Captain ElweU, and other transports arrived
from Boston July 22, and a large French vessel was sighted off the
harbor.
At 9 A.M. on the 23d the Defence, Princess Mary, and Canterbury
went in pursuit of the French ship and took her in the afternoon.*
She proved to be the Charmante, an East Indiaman of 28 guns, from
Bengal. With the first broadside she struck, then hoisted her colors
again, tried to escape, and struck again as the English vessels closed
in on her. She was said to be worth £200,000.
The Boston Packet and several wood sloops came into Louishourg
July 23, and on the next day the Defence, Princess Mary, Canterbury,
and Charmante sailed into Louishourg Harbor. One diarist says that
new recruits arrived from New England on the 24th. Captain Wise
sailed from New Hampshire on or after July 9 with letters, and
reached Louisbourg on or before July 25.
On July 25 a large Rhode Island schooner, commanded by Captain
Burton or Barton, arrived at Louisbourg. In the afternoon the
French Malouin shipf sailed for France with refugees, and was
convoyed off the coast to a distance of 60 leagues by the Tartar,
*Curwen states this in a letter dated July 25, and he adds that on the next day Colonel Gorham
was to go in a sloop to Canada, with about 30 French prisoners.
tA ship hailing from or sailing from the port of Saint-Malo, on the English Channel, in the old
French province of Brittany.
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Captain Fones, in order that she might not speak to any of the
expected Indiamen. Captain Lovett's vessel went to St. Peter's to
get wood.
The Ccesar was in Louisbourg Harbor on July 20, and was ordered
to carry French prisoners to Rhode Island. She was stiU at Louis-
bourg on the 24th, but must have sailed soon afterwards. She arrived
at Newport Aug. 11, 1745, and was thereupon discharged from
service. The Fame arrived at Boston July 28, was still there on
July 31, and was then ordered to Newport. She was ordered to dis-
charge Thomas Russell, John Vickary, Roger Vickary, and Thomas
Armstrong, aU of Essex, Mass., before leaving Boston. She arrived
at Newport Aug. 7 and was thereupon discharged from service.
Captain Branscome sailed from New Hampshire for Louisbourg,
with letters, on or after July 20.
Several transports and traders, including at least a sloop and a
schooner from Boston, arrived at Louisbourg on the 25th or 26th.
Some sloops went to St. Peter's and Chapeaurouge Bay to get wood.
Captain Hodge and some others sailed on the 26th for New England,
Hodge arriving at Boston Aug. 6.
The Defence sailed from Louisbourg July 27 and reached Canso
on the 28th. Ten wood sloops could be seen off Louisbourg bound
for St. Peter's. In the afternoon two men-of-war brought in a prize
topsail sloop, which was a tender from the Bay of St. Lawrence.
According to Craft, twenty-two prize vessels were sold at public
auction (vendue) on the 27th.
After the Tartar, Captain Fones, had left the French Malouin ship
some 60 leagues south-southeast of Louisbourg, she returned. On
her way back Captain Fones spied a ship, whereupon he hoisted
French colors and decoyed her towards the harbor of Louisbourg, in
order that she might be captured. The two vessels were sighted off
Scatarie on July 28. The Chester and the Mermaid went in chase
and soon captured the French vessel, which proved to be the Heron,
24 gxms, an East Indiaman from Bengal. The Tartar came into
Louisbourg Harbor in the morning of July 29, and the Chester,
Mermaid, and Heron arrived in the afternoon.* They fired a salute
of fifteen guns, which was returned by Commodore Warren.
According to the Briefs, the Tartar must have sailed for the Bay
of Vert on a cruise on or shortly after July 29, but she seems to have
been back again at Louisbourg on Aug. 7.
On July 29 a sloop from Boston arrived with livestock and Ume,
and apparently also a vessel from Salem. Captain Young and Captain
Smith arrived from Boston at night with 230 men. Captain Brans-
come from Portsmouth, with a brigantine and schooner and three
companies of New Hampshire troops, arrived July 30.
On July 31 the Boston Packet and the Defence were ordered to
cruise off Louisbourg in the direction of Scatarie. The Defence,
however, did not return from Canso untU Aug. 6.
On Aug. 1 Captain Talcott sailed from Louisbourg for New
*0ne diarist states that this rich prize was brought in on the 28th, and that it had been taken a
day or two ago. fie also wrote similarly on Aug. 2 that that rich prize had been taken some davs
ago.
108 New England Vessels in the Louisbourg Expedition [April
London and Parsons sailed for New England. The Boston Packet,
Captain Fletcher, was cruising to the eastward of Louisbourg, and
on the evening of Aug. 1 she captured a barge which belonged to the
Heron and which had gone in to Scatarie to get a pilot. The French-
meij thought the Boston Packet was a French brigantine, as she was
flying French colors; and therefore they went out to warn her not to
go into Louisbourg and were taken prisoners by Captain Fletcher.
The next morning the Boston Packet sighted a large French ship,
which the officer frpm the Heron thought was the Triton, of 40 guns.
The Boston Packet fired three signal guns to warn the ships in the
harbor that she had seen a sail. She also sent the captured barge
into the harbor with the news. Then, hoisting French colors, she
tacked back and forth, trying to decoy the French ship into the
harbor. Soon the Chester and the Sunderland, both imder French
colors, were towed out of the harbor and made sail. When they
reached the Boston Packet, all three bore down on the French ship,
lowered their French colors, and raised EngUsh ones. Thereupon
the Chester fired a single gun, and the French ship, the Notre Dame
de la Deliverance, 22 guns, Pierre Litan, captain, struck. She was
from the South Sea, with over £300,000 sterUng, in gold and silver,
from Peru and a cargo of cocoa, Peruvian wool, and Jesuits' bark.
She had sailed from Cadiz on this cruise over three years before.
It is not surprising that a great amount of Utigation followed the
taking of so valuable a prize. The prize case of Notre Dame de la
Deliverance was for many years in the comts, and much information
in regard to the Colonial cruisers is found in the evidence there
presented.
In the afternoon (Aug. 2) the warships and their prize came into
Louisbourg Harbor. Captain Ward arrived from Kittery, Captain
Powell from Casco, and some sloops with wood from St. Peter's.
Captain Ward reported that he had seen five lar^e ships and some
sloops off Cape Sable. These were thought to be a French fleet.
A ship arrived from London on Aug. 3, a schooner from New York
on the 4th, and the Defence, which sailed from Canso on the 5th
at 6 A.M., arrived at Louisbourg on the 6th. On Aug. 7 the Tartar
was sent on a cruise along the coast from Louisbourg to Canso, in
order to meet and escort the Hector, in which Governor Shirley was
expected, in case that vessel should hesitate to venture inshore in .
the fog. If the Tartar should not mept the Hector before she reached
Canso, she' was to return immediately to Louisbourg with a report
on the conditions at Canso. She followed these instructions, reached
Canso long before Shirley did, and returned to Louisbourg, where
she arrived Aug. 15.
Capt. Zebulon ElweU, Captain Bennett, Captain Ryon, and others
sailed for Boston Aug. 8. Bennett arrived at Boston Aug. 13, in
five days — a fast trip. Captain Sherburn's schooner was •m-ecked
on the rocks on Island Battery, while going after wood on the 9th.
Several sloops returned from St. Peter's with wood, and a schooner,
perhaps the Beaver, Captain Cahoone, arrived from Newport, R. I.
Craft says that on Aug. 10 thirty-seven vessels belonging to the
army were sold at pubKc auction for £1419. Capt. Aaron BuU, in a
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sloop, arrived Aug. 10, as well as a vessel from Charlestown and one
from New York. Captain Branscome sailed for New England Aug. 13.
The Tartar, Captain Fones, arrived at Louisbourg on the 15th
from Canso, and on the same day a deputation, consisting of two
priests and five agents, came from Isle de St. Jean. They may have
come on the Tartar. A number of transports sailed for Shedbuckda
for wood, and several traders came in.
H.M.S. Superb and H.M.S. Hector sailed from Boston Aug. 3 and
feached Louisbourg at sunset on Aug. 16, bringing Governor Shirley,
Mrs. Shirley, Mrs. Warren, and others. The next day, when Gov-
ernor Shirley went on shore, the Hector fired seventeen guns, the
Canterbury seventeen gims, and the city nineteen guns. Several
vessels arrived from Boston on the 17th, and on the 18th the Massa-
chusetts frigate. Captain Tyng, arrived, with several members of
the Governor's Council and two companies of men.
About Aug. 20 a packet arrived from the West, that is, New
England. A supply vessel from Massachusetts and several traders
arrived on the 21st.
On Aug. 20 the Tartar was ordered to go to Newfoundland with
despatches, and to take with her, under convoy, the schooner Eliza-
beth, with troops and stores. The Tartar's crew had been depleted by
sickness, so that she had to recnjit hands from the land forces. She
saUed Aug. 23, successfully carried out this mission, and, returning,
arrived at Louisbourg Sept. 9.
Soon after Aug. 23 the Beaver, Captain Cahoone, a Rhode Island
vessel, must have saUed from Louisbourg for Newport.
The Boston Packet came into Louisbourg Harbor on the 26th.
News reached Louisbourg that a French privateer sloop had taken
some English traders going to St. Ann, but had given back the
vessels after taking off the cargoes. The Boston Packet and the
Bonetta were sent in chase on the 27th, but, not sighting the privateer,
returned. The Hector sailed Aug. 27.
On Aug. 29 a sloop was sighted off the harbor, and the Boston
Packet and Tjmg's lieutenant in the Bonetta went in chase. These
entries of an anonymous diarist may refer to the same occurrences
that Craft gives under the dates of Aug. 27 and 28. A sloop came
into Louisbourg on the 30th. She had been taken by the privateer
sloop which was chased by the Boston Packet. The Boston Packet
came into Louisbourg about noon, but sailed immedia.tely.
A ship was sighted off Louisbourg on the 31st, and six men-of-war
went in chase. The ship Massachusetts sailed from Louisbourg Aug.
31 for Boston, where she arrived Sept. 7, after a six days' trip. She
saUed again for Louisbourg on or after Sept. 13. Captain Lais, in a
sloop with 60 or 70 men, sailed on the 31st, for Connecticut.
Captain Spry, in a sloop, and the Resolution, Captain Richardson
(or, according to Craft, Tucker's sloop), sailed in pursuit of a French
privateer on Sept. 1. The Resolution ran afoul of a vessel at night,
but, after getting clear, followed her until dayhght, when she took
the chase as a prize. This was a Carolina rice ship of 14 guns, that
had been taken by De Salvert's squadron three weeks before, east
of Newfoimdland. Captain Richardson brought her into Louisbourg
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on the 3d. She was the ship that was off Lonisbourg on Saturday,
Aug. 31, and had a cargo of rice, pitch, and tea. From her it was
learned that the Renommee had returned to Brest and sailed again
with De Salvert's squadron on July 6. The sloop Union, Captain
Mayhew, was in Louisbourg Harbor on Sept. 3.
Captain Spry returned to Louisbourg Sept. 4, and a sloop and
schooner sailed to cruise ofif Scatarie. The Resolution, Captain Rich-
ardson, was ordered to Annapolis on the 4th, and probably sailed
on the 5th. She carried despatches in regard to De Salvert's presence,
and was to go from Annapolis to the Harbor of Grand Passage, 10
leagues to the west of Annapolis, where she was t-o remain until
Sept. 30, aU the whUe on the watch for the approach of the French
fleet. If it appeared, a whaleboat was to be sent to Annapolis and the
Resolution was to retiu-n immediately to Louisbourg. Captain Clark,
on his way from Louisbourg to Boston, put into Canso Sept. 8.
A schooner from Rhode Island arrived at Louisbourg Sept. 8,
having sighted De Salvert's squadron of five topsail vessels and one
small one oflf Cape Sable on the 4th.
On Sept. 9 the Tartar, Captain Fones, arrived from Newfoundland,
and Captain Miles came in from Connecticut.
The Boston Packet was sent on the 10th to Cape Sable, to look for
the French fleet, and returned Sept. 25. A vessel arrived from
Beaubassin in the Gut of Canso on the 13th, and Colonel Gorham
sailed for Beaubassin the next day.
Capt. Aaron Bull sailed from Louisboiu-g for Connecticut on the
19th. Captain Sanford sailed for New York on the 22d, and on the
23d Captain Bingham arrived in a sloop from New Lbndon and a
brig arrived from New York. Colonel Gorham returned from the
Bay of Vert on the 24th.
The Shirley, Captain Rous, arrived from England on the 24th, after a
voyage of four weeks-. She fired fifteen gims, and the Superb answered
with thirteen guns. At 3 P.M. Commodore Warren raised his flag as
Rear Admiral of the Blue, amidst the salutes of the ships and forts.
Several of the Colonial war vessels had already been discharged
from service. The time of battles, of attacks, and of rich prizes had
passed. The vessels stfll retained in service were thenceforth to have
the dull lot "of an army of occupation.
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Haskett (conclitded)
Contributed by G. Andrews Moriaett, Jr., A.M., LL.B., of Newport, R. 1.
The Will of William Hukd the Elder of Kingsdon, co. Somerset, gentle-
man, dated 14 April 1638. To be buried in the parish church or churchyard.
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To the church and poor of Kingsdon and the poor of Hchester and Mudf ord.
Sundry servants and others named. My grandchild and godson Joseph
Francklin. My daughter Judith Rawe. Thomas Rawe, her husband.
Their children, my grandchildren. My goddaughter Judith Crane. Whereas
my son-in-law William Haskett hath mortgaged unto me one messuage or
tenement, -with appurtenances, lying in Henstridge, for the payment of
£200, my will is that he shall pay to my son William Hurd three score and
ten pounds or give sufficient security to him for the payment thereof and
shall likewise give unto my executors the like sufficient security for dis-
charging of my executors of a bond of £200 which I do stand bound unto
Ellioc Haskett, father of the said William Haskett, that my executors shall
dehver up unto the said WiUiam Haskett the said deed of mortgage and
convey and assign over aU my grounds lying at Pryors Downe, with appur-
tenances, according to the true intent and meaning of a grant and assign-
ment heretofore made and drawn by Mr. Richard Kmg of Sherborne. £30 to
be employed for the use and benefit of my grandchild Mary Haskett and my
daughter Joane Haskett. The said Mary to marry with consent of her
mother. My son George Hurd to behave himself as a dutiful and obedient
son unto his mother. My daughter Hester Franklin. My son Thomas
Hurd. My wife Joane Hurd. Proved 17 October 1638. (P. C. C, Lee, 129.)
[This abstract has been adapted from the abstract of the will of William
Hurd the Elder published in Register, vol. 53, p. 14, and reprinted in
Waters's "Genealogical Gleanings in England," vol. 2, p. 1438.]
The Will of Stephen HLiSKETT the Elder of MamhuU, co. Dorset, fuller*
dated 24 May 1648. To be buried in the churchyard of the parish church
of MarnhuU. To EUis Haskett, my son, 2s. To my son John a truckle
bedstead and bed, one chest, one middling brass pan, one bell mettle pot
which I bought of Nicholas Warren, and one pair of tucker's shears. To my
grandchild James Yoimg 5s. By two several indentures of lease I am now
possessed of a certain messuage, tenement, and curtilage, and of divers
water mills, fuUing mills, and grist mills in MarnhuU, Todber, and Fifehed
Magdalen. The same to my mfe Elizabeth for Ufe, then to my son Stephen
for life, and remainder to my daughter EHzabeth Young, as promised her
in part of her marriage portion. To my son Stephen [other property, includ-
ing] my racks and aU other tools belonging to my fuller's trade. My wife
Elizabeth to be my whole executrix. Overseers: my two friends Osmond
Ploant and John Snooke. Witnesses: Elizabeth Haskett of Todber, widow,
and others. Proved 27 February 1653 [?1653/4]. (P. C. C., Alchin, 320.)
[This abstract has been adapted from the abstract of the wiU of Stephen
Haskett the Elder published in Register, vol. 53, pp. 14r-15, and reprinted
in Waters's "Genealogical Gleanings in England," vol. 2, pp. 1438-1439.]
The Will of Elias Haskett of Henstridge Marsh, co. Somerset, yeoman,
dated 13 February 1696 [1696/7]. To my kinswoman Mary Hoddinott
£20. To the wife of Richard Shaue, late deceased, and her father-in-law
Richard Shaue the Elder, now U\'ing, and the children of the said Richard
Shaue, deceased, £20, to be equally divided between them. To William
Heddeech, shoemaker, £20, and to his child that is now H%Tng with him £20.
To Henry, Robert, Dorothy, and Anne Heddeech, brothers and sisters of
the said William, £20, to be divided betwixt them. To my wife's kinsman
Thomas Acstens [? Arstens] £10, and to his children £10, and £10 also to
John and George Acstens, brothers of the said Thomas. To William Duffett's
wife of Stalbridge Side Hill, Ijing in Henstridge against South Mead, and
to his five children £100. To Anne Frampton and her child £5. To my
wife's nephew Nicholas Buggis my now dwelling house, with appurtenances,
and my two home closes called Greene Close and ISIarsh Close. But if he
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die without issue, then it shall come to Elias Duffett, second son of the said
William Duffett, and his heirs for ever. To John Calpen, son of William
Calpen, late of Stalbridge, deceased, £10, and to William Calpen, brother of
the said John, £50, at one and twenty. [Conditional bequests to Mary and
Hannah, two sisters of Nicholas Buggis.] To EUas Haskett, son of Ehas
Haskett the baker, my close of arrable and pasture land in Henstridge called
Hurleoake, and when he shall be possessed of the said close he shall pay to
his brother and to his sisters Mary and Sarah £5 apiece and to his sister
Susanna Hobbs, widow, £15. To WiUiam Loden's wife of Sherborne Castle
Town, button-maker, £5. If Richard Calpen, my kinsman, should come
to be in want, the said EUas Duffett shall pay him 20s. a year for his natural
life. [Other bequests.] Executrix: my wife Mary. Proved 12 May 1698,
commission being issued to Mary Crumsey, wife of Lewis Crumsey, "nepti
semel remotae prox. consanguin" [i.e., grandniece and next of kin], Mary
Haskett the relict having died before taking the burden of the execution,
(P. C. C, Lort, 60.) [This abstract has been adapted from the abstract of the
wUl of Elias Haskett published in Register, vol. 53, p. 15, and reprinted in
Waters's "Genealogical Gleanings ia England," vol. 2, p. 1439.]
From Processes and Decrees in the Court of Delegates ^
[Various relatives of Elias Haskett of Henstridge Marsh, co. Somerset, yeoman,
the testator of 13 February 1696 [1696/7], an abstract of whose will is given
above, claimed the administration cum testamento annexo on his estate; and
their claims were brought finally before the Court of Delegates, which, after
considering numerous depositions, granted the administration to Elias Haskett,
son of Stephen Haskett of Salem, Mass., deceased, and nephew of the testator.
The Court of Delegates was originally a court of appeal from the Prerogative
Courts of Canterbury and York and the Irish probate courts. Appeals also could
be taken from the various diocesan courts to the Court of Arches and thence to
the Court of Delegates. This court was called the Court of Delegates, because
the judges were delegated for each particular case, the delegates being generally
three puisne judges, one from each court of common law, and three or more
civilians. Occasionally, however, certain specified spiritual and temporal peers
were included in the Court. The Court of Delegates was abolished in 1832, when
the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council was established. The processes in
the Court of Delegates are preserved in the PubHc Record OfiBce, London; the
decrees and wills are in Somerset House, London. Some of the wills are entered
also in the registers of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury or were originally
proved in local courts. Cf. The Genealogist, New Series, vol. 11, p. 165, intro-
duction to an article entitled "Wills and Administrations in the Court of Dele-
gates. " — Editor.]
Hasket v. Crumsey
20 April 1697. Request for administration cum testamento annexo on the
estate of Elias Hasket, late of Henstridge [co. Somerset], deceased, by EKas
and Stephen Haskett, cousins once removed ("consobrinos in gradu semel
remoto") and next of kin to the deceased, Richard Gaulpin, cousin and
next of kin, and Dorothy Hedich, sister of Hasket, deceased, relict
and executrix of the wiU of said Elias.
Elias and Stephen Haskett allege that EUas, the testator, died in February,
leaving as executrix his widow, who died before proving the wiU; and they
seek the administration as next of Mn.
Richard Gaulpin claims to be next of kin and cousin ("consobrinum")
of the deceased.
Mary Crumsey, wife of Lewis, alleges that she is grandniece ("neptem
semel remotam") of the deceased, being the child of Mary Haskett alias
Hoddinot, who was the child of WilUam Hasket, the elder brother of the
testator.
Dorothy Hedditch alleges that she was the full sister of Haskett,
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relict and executrix of the deceased and now herself deceased. (Processes
in the Court of Delegates, vol. 269, no. 630.)
24 October 1697 [after various adjournments and pleadings]. Elias and
Stephen Basket appear as above, and also Richard Gaulpin, cousin once
removed ("consobrinum semel remotum"), and Mary Crumsey, Richard
Sheane, and- Mary Bumet, grandnieces and grandnephew ("neptes et
nepotem semel remotos") of said deceased also appear. {lb.)
Depositions for Richard Gaulpin.
Egidius HaUett of Bowdon in Henstridge, where he has lived since infancy,
aged 80 years, deposes that he has well loiown EUas Hasket for thirty years
and more, but Stephen Hasket and Mary Crumsey and Dorothy Hedditch
he did not know. He well knew William Stibbs, who died at Bowdon and
was his neighbor. This WiUiam had five daughters, Elinor, Susanna, Ann,
Margaret, and Edith Stibbs. He well knew Elias Hasket, father of Elias
Hasket deceased, who was married to Ellinor Stibbs, and Elias Hasket the
testator, whose estate is in issue, was the son of the said Elias Hasket and
Elinor Stibbs alias Haskettj his wife. The testator was bom in Henstridge.
; The sister of Elinor Stibbs, Ann Stibbs, married Thomas Gaulpin and had
j seven sons, the yoimgest of whom is Richard Gaulpin, a party to this suit.
i Sworn 16 September 1697.
i Thomas Clarke of Yenston in Henstridge, where he has lived from infancy,
i ■ husbandman, aged 77 years, deposes that he knew Elias Hasket but not
I Crumsey, Stephen Hasket, or Hodditch. He was a neighbor of William
I Stibbs, and knew his daughters Elinor and Ann. EUnor married Elias
I Haskett the Elder, father of Elias Hasket the testator. Ann married Thomas
I , Gaulpin, and they were always taken for man and wife in Henstridge. They
I had several children, among them Richard. Sworn 16 September 1697.
I WiUiam Rideout of Yenston in Henstridge, where he has lived since
I infancy, aged 60 years, deposes that he has known Elias Hasket and Stephen
j Hasket for twelve years, but does not know Crumsey or Hedditch. He was
a neighbor of Elinor Hasket alias Stibbs and of Elias Hasket, Jr., whose
i estate is in litigation. Elinor was widow of Elias Hasket, Sr., the father of
t Elias Hasket, Jr., deceased, the testator. He deposes as the others as to the
: relationship of Gaulpin and Hasket. {lb.)
> Depositions, ordered 5 October 1697, in behalf of Mary Crumsey, to prove
\ that she is the lawful niece once removed [i.e., grandniece], on the brother's
side, of the testator, namely, that she is the daughter of William Hoddinott,
deceased, by Mary Haskett, deceased, his wife, daughter of WiUiam Hasket,
the elder brother of Elias Hasket the testator:
Mary Morgan, wife of Luodovic Morgan of Stalbridge [co. Dorset],
where she has lived since her birth, aged 57 years, deposes that she has
known Mary Crumsey from childhood, and watched with her mother,
Mary Hoddinott, in her childbirth with Mary Crumsey. The said Mary
Hoddinott, mother of Mary Crumsey, was daughter of William Heskott.
She has known Mary Cnunsey for about thirty-five years. She believes
that she lives in London. Her father and mother were William and Mary
Hoddinott, and she was born in Stalbridge in the house of one Taunton, in
the posesssion of John Lyte. She knew her grandfather, William Hoddinot,
; who lived in Stalbridge. Her grandfather on the mother's side was WiUiam
; Hasket, but she does not know where he lived.
■ Ann WiUowby of Stalbridge [co. Dorset], where she has Uved thirty-seven
j years, deposes that she has known Mary Crumsey from chUdhood. WiUiam
Haskett, her grandfather, was the elder brother of Elias Hasket the testator.
Mary Cnunsey Uves in London, and was born in Stalbridge in the house of
John Lyte. Sworn 9 November 1697.
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William Webb of Henstridge [co. Somerset], where he has lived sixty years,
weaver, aged 75 years, deposes in like mamier, and [testifies] that Mary
Crumsey now Hves in London, and that Elias the testator was son of Elias
and Ehiior Hasket of Henstridge, where the said testator was bom and
always lived. Mary Cnmasey's grandfather and grandmother on the mother's
side were William Haskett and Mary his wife. Her great-grandfather on
the mother's side was Elias Hasket the Elder.
Thomas Kensington of Henstridge [co. Somerset], where he has lived since
birth, yeoman, aged 66 years, deposes that Mary Crmnsey lives near the
printing house in Blackfriars, London. He testifies the same as the others.
Aima Toogood of Henstridge [co. Somerset], where she has lived since
birth, aged 80 years, deposes that she has known Mary Crumsey from
childhood. She lives in London. She knew the father of EUas Hasket the
testator, but she has forgotten her [sic, his] Christian name, but his mother's
name was Elinor. They lived at Henstridge in the house of one Mr. Rogers,
where Elias was bom. William Hasket, the grandfather of Mary Crumsey,
lived in the parish of Henstridge, where the mother of Mary Crumsey was
married. She also knew his wife, her grandmother, but has forgotten her
name. (lb.)
4 June 1698. Deposition of William Hedditch of Gillingham, co. Dorset,
shoemaker, aged about 30 years. He weU knew Elias Hasket, deceased, who
was a husbandman and kept stock. Upon his death Elias and Stephen
Hasket, two of the parties to the suit, came upon the land and drove away
six cows; and they attempted to take the goods from the house and did take
some. [Order issued for an inventory of such goods.] (76.)
Inventory of the goods of EUas Hasket, husbandman, deceased, including
goods in the possession of Elias Hasket the Elder and Stephen Hasket of
Henstridge, made 29 May 1697, £766. 6s. 6d. (76.)
10 December 1697 [sic, ? 1698]. Petition of Elias Hasket, presenting his
claim for administration on the estate of the testator as next of kin, being
the child of Stephen Hasket, brother of Elias Hasket, Sr., deceased. Some
of petitioner's witnesses are dead, and others are beyond seas and cannot
be brought into Court. (76.)
Answers of Mary Crumsey, wife of Lewis Crumsey and great-niece and
next of kin and administratrix of the goods of Elias Hasket, deceased, made
to pretended articles of interrogation against her on behalf of Elias Hasket:
She does not beheve Elias Hasket to be of any kin to the deceased Ehas
Hasket, save that she hath heard that the late Elias Hasket had a brother
named Stephen. Sworn 25 Febmary 1698 [1698/9]. (Court of Delegates,
Examination of Witnesses, vol. 23, 1694-1711.)
Answers of Ehas Hasket to IMary Cnunsey's interrogatories: He believes
that Elias Hasket, this respondent's uncle, did Uve in Henstridge and died
about 14 February 1696 [1696/7], leading a wife Mary, who died a few daj^s
later and before the proving of the will of Elias Hasket; that some persons
have pretended that he made a will and made his wife executrix, and that
she died before she took execution. Suits thereupon arose and were carried
on between several persons who pretend to be the next of kin to the said
EUas. So proceedings were had in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury and
were transmitted to this Court; but he does not beUeve that the pretended
will was a tme will or that Elias Hasket was of sound mind. The said EUas
Hasket left no child nor any father or mother, brother or sister. The respond-
ent is the son of Stephen Hasket, deceased brother of the said EUas. This
Stephen was apprenticed to a soap boiler in Exeter, and, after his time was
out, he did intermarry with one EUzabeth Hill of the said city and had by
her a child, EUzabeth. Afterwards the said Stephen, meeting some crosses
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in the world, went beyond seas to a town or place called Salem, in New
England; and, after he had been there some time, he sent for his wife to
come over to hiTn and bring their child. She then went over, and there said
Stephen lived with his wife for several years and had several children, namely,
this respondent and four sisters, Mary, Sarah, Hannah, and Martha, together
with Elizabeth, the first child, who are stiU living; and, when the defendant
grew up, he went to Barbadoes, and there married EUzabeth Rich, and
there settled with her and his family, and did and does trade in shipping and
merchandise, and in 1696 he came from Barbadoes in the ship New London,
whereof he was master, to London, and on or about 28 September 1696 he ,
arrived at Plymouth, and on 28 October at London. He unloaded, and
staid in and about London until the end of the following May, and in May
1697, about the 24th of the month, he left London and went on board the
Sheerness galley. Captain Bolles, commander, for Barbadoes, and, having
touched at Ireland and Madeira, arrived in Barbadoes the latter end of
August 1697. He continued there until the month of September 1698.
Although in England, he did not hear of his uncle's death, and, while in
England, he wrote several letters to Mr. John EUery of Exeter, merchant,
desiring of him an accoimt of his said imcle, Elias Hasket, but could not
and did not receive any answer thereto, the said EUery being, as he has
since learned, then beyond the seas; and he never gave any order to any
proctor to appear for his interest until he came to England in November
last, in order to prosecute this appeal. Nor did he know of any proceeding
brought in the Prerogative Court about his uncle's estate until he received
notice from one Mr. Dan about September 1698. Sworn 20 May 1699. (76.)
Administration with will annexed on the estate of Ehas Hasket, late of
Henstridge, deceased, was granted, 14 August 1699, to Elias Hasket, nephew
on the brother's side and next of Idn. (Decrees of the Court of Delegates,
lib. 4, fo. 48.)
From Chancert Proceedings*
10 February 1617 [1617/18]. To Sir Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor.
William Haskett and wife Margaret and Ralph Hughson and wife
Elizabeth, Margaret and Elizabeth being daughters of John Hellier, com-
plain that said John Hellier, being seised of a capital messuage and lands
in Maperton, Somerset, called the manor of Hatherley, of the yearly value
of 100 marks, of goods, etc., to the value of £1800, and of leases, etc., of great
value, and having only one son, above 50 and not disposed to marry, provided
him with a rent of £40 a year. Plaintiffs and also William Mogge and his
wife Dorothy, the third daughter, had several children. HeUier about three
years ago decided to settle the above manor on his three sons-in-law and
their wives, with remainder to their children, reserving to himself a life interest
in the same. He promised also to lend the plaintiffs money for the purchase
of land, to give £20 a year to each of H^skett's seven children, and to have
his personal estate equally divided between his daughters and their children
after his death. Haskett accordingly bought land to the value of £600, and,
as Hellier could not fulfil his promise for help on account of disbursements
made for Mogge, Haskett was obliged to sell some of his own living, worth
£60 a year, for five years, to be redeemed by payment of £240. HelSer then
promised help both for the above purchase and in payment of a debt of
£40 which Haskett owned to one Rogers. None of these promises has been
fulfilled; and the plaintiff Hughson, who married on the understanding that
the third of the manor would be settled on him, has received no marriage
portion with his wife. William Mogge and Dorothy, imder the influence of
Richard Mogge, who has been bailiff and deputy to the under sheriff of the
•Preserved in the Public Record Office, London.
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county, have got possession of the deed of enfeoffment made by Hellier and
of alf other deeds relating to the manor, and declare that the plaintiffs have
no right to the property on account of defects in the deed of enfeoffment and
that Hellier has it in his power to settle it aU on themselves and their children.
They liave also induced HeUier, who is aged and almost imbecile, to hve with
them, and have persuaded him to make them secret grants of the manor
and to give them his money and personal estate. The plaintiffs pray that
the defendants may be compelled to produce the deeds ia Chancery, etc.
The King's writ, 14 February, 15 James I [1617/18], appoints commissioners
to visit and examine Hellier and the other defendants, if they are not able
to appear in court.
Answer of John Helltak, William Mogg, and his wife Dorothj', three
of the defendants, to the above bill of complaint.
John Hellyar acknowledges the truth of the plaintiffs' statement as to his
property, etc. His three daughters were married about nineteen or twenty
years ago, and, his son, aged 50, infirm of constitution and unmarried, being
provided for by some copyhold livings worth about £30 a year, he had a
secret desire to settle the manor upon his grandson, the son of WUliam Mogge
and Dorothy. The marriages with Hasket and Hughson had been against
his UMng, and Hasket had committed some foUy with the said Margaret
before their marriage. Haskett, "being a man long and weU experienced in
Contencyouse and litigious courses," came three years ago to Hellier and
urged hiim to settle £40 a year on his son and the manor on the three sons-
in-law and their wives and children. Hellyer answered that he meant to
settle the property on one only, meaning Mogge's son, but Haskett assured
him that he was bound in law to divide it between the three. Finally Haskett
was allowed to draw up a deed, by which the manor was settled according
to his proposal, Hellier to hold for fife, and the thirds of Mogge and Hughson
to remain to Haskett's children. The deed was ingrossed in four parts, one
being left with Hellier and the other three given to the sons-in-law. After-
wardfe Elizabeth Hughson, pretending to come at the request of her brother,
the younger John HeUier, obtained the conveyance [several words illegible]
from her father, who, being assured by Haskett that he had now only a life
interest in the property, took counsel's advice thereon. Being assured that
it was still in his power to dispose of the manor, etc., as he chose, he deter-
mined to make a settlement on William Mogge, his wife, and son. He
granted the property last December to Riclmrd Mogge, another of the
defendants, and John Sainton, to hold to the use of himself for life and
after his death to the, use of William Mogge, etc. He charges the plaintiffs
with disobedient and undutiful conduct towards himself, and says that
Haskett before his marriage with Margaret "wrested" £100 from him,
afterwards suing him at the assizes in Somerset for a further portion. The
dispute was referred to the arbitration of a Mr. Swanton, who ad^dsed
defendant to give Haskett £30, which he did. Haskett has also had £10 from
him and the daughters £20, "besides other valuable good tumes and Cur-
tesies." Defendant has given to his daughter Elizabeth and two of her
children a copyhold tenement worth £6 a year, though she married Hughson
secretly, against his wiU. Hughson has also had £200 from him since the
marriage.
William Mogge says that until seven years ago he had no settled portion
with his wife, above a sum of £50, but since that time they have been well
provided for by Hellyar. The settlement of the manor on them was made
by advice of learned counsel to frustrate Haskett's designs. About twelve
months ago Mogge bought, at Hellyar's wish, a tenement at Wincalnton,
Somerset, and HeUyar afterwards left his dwelling at Horsington to hve with
them there. John Hellyar is not possessed of goods and chattels to the value
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of £1800, nor have the plaintiffs, WilUam and Ralph, rendered him such
services as they profess to have rendered, etc. (Chancery Proceedings,
James I, H. 2/70.)
[Undated.] Replication of William Hasket and -wife Margaret and
Ralph HuGHSONand wife Elizabeth to the answer of John Hellier the Elder,
William Mogge, and his wife Dorothy.
The defendant John Hellyer, having provided for his son, promised to
alter the lease of certain grounds in Marsh Court to James Hasket, the
plaintiff's son, for his life, in lieu of the life and name of Mr. James Hanam,
and declared his intention to settle the lands, etc., mentioned in the bill of
answer among his three daughters and their heirs. When he came to deliver
? seisin of the deeds of conveyance drawn up to this effect, he was dissuaded
j by one Robert Dore, acting as the instrument of the defendant Mogges and
his wife, who wished to secure the lands for themselves. The plaintiff Haskett
had received only a small portion in marriage, had many children, and had
left his own trade and devoted himseff to the care of John Hellyer's estate.
John Hellyer promised to pay £100 of a lease which Haskett bought for
£300, and to provide him with cattle and household stuff. This he failed to
do, and Haskett began the suit [torn] which was ended by mediation, Hellyer
! paying £30 besides the £100, and Haskett traveUing for him in his affairs.
; Hellyer's wife died about three years ago, leaving much wealth, which came
i to the defendant [torn] and in which plaintiffs had no share. Hellyer himself
i had cattle, furniture, plate, etc., besides chattels, leases, etc., to the value
i of £700, which Mogges and his wife have gotten, besides the profits of
j Hellyer's lands, which amount to £140 a year. Hellyer, now old and weak
I and almost past sense, is completely under the influence of Mogge and his
j wife, who will not aUow the plaintiffs to see him. They have induced him
I to make another deed of conveyance of the lands. Plaintiffs deny that they
f married their wives against Hellyer's wish and that Hellyer proposed to
I settle the lands upon William Mogge's son. Mogge told Hughson that he
I should keep him out of the land, but would give him £200. John Hellyer
' the Younger sent to the plaintiff, EUzabeth, his sister, to get the deed of
I annuity for him; but Mogge and his wife had taken it away with the intent
\ of defrauding the said John Hellyer the Younger. As to the making of a
I new feoffment to the defendants, Richard Mogge and John Bainton, the
■' plaintiffs say that John HeUyer has forfeited his estate for life reserved to
> him by the former conveyance, as they are entitled to enter on the lands and
,; expel him. The £50 which Mogge had to his marriage portion was more
than he deserved. Haskett's Uving was ten times the value of Mogge's, and
he had only £130. Mogge and his wife in seven years had gotten away
£2000 at least from Hellyer. (Chancery Proceedings, James I, H. 120/111.)
26 May, 3 Charles I [1627]. To Lord Coventry [Lord Keeper, 1625-1640].
The complaint of Elize Haskett the Younger of Henstridge [co. Somer-
set], yeoman, shows that, having occasion to borrow money of a money
lender, he borrowed £8, and became bound, by two bills dated on or about
24 Jime 1622, in a penalty of £16 to George Bingham. When the bills came
due, he could not pay them; and Bingham agreed to continue the loan and
; thereafter agreed to take so much butter and cheese in payment as should
amoimt to £8, and he has acknowledged the receipt thereof and promised
to give the orator the several biUs to cancel; but now he refuses to make
; deUvery of the said goods in payment, and seeks to sue the orator at the
: conunon law. Wherefore the orator prays that he be compelled to dehver
: the said bills up for cancellation.
I The answer of George Bingham. He denies the loan or that he is a money
I lender. The complainant was bound by several biUs in the sum of £16, to
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be repaid at the rate of £4 a year at the Feasts of the Annunciation of the
BlesSed Virgin Mary* and the Nativity of St. John the Baptist.f He denies
the complainant's allegation regarding there being any request for extension
and that he agreed to receive butter and cheese in payment or to deliver the
bonds. (Chancery Proceedings, Charles I, C 2, H. 86/33.)
To Lord Coventry [Lord Keeper, 1625-1640].
The complaint of Ellis Basket of Yenston in the parish of Henstridge
[co. Somerset], gentleman, shows that in or about the month of March,
7 Charles [1631/2], the orator became bound to Edward Lovel of Henstridge,
yeoman, for the penal sum of £60, to secure the repayment of £30. Shortly
. afterwards, in March, 8 Charles [1632], the orator demised to Edward LoveU
several closes of meadow and pasture, about forty acres, called West Leasures,
a parcel of a tenement called Brynes in Yenston, for two years, imder a
yearly rent of fourscore pounds. At the same time he demised to Edward
LoveU another close, called Meade Close, of six acres, at a yearly rent of
£4.10s., and about March, 11 Charles [1635/6], he agreed with Lovell that
he should by deed indentured make a lease to Edward LoveU and Thomas
JoUiffe, gentleman, for five years next ensuing, should he, the orator, Uve
so long, of several closes of land, meadow, and pasture, caUed West Grounds,
belonging to Brynes tenement aforesaid in the west side of Yenston, in the
occupation and tenure of the orator, and Edward LoveU was to accept the
same in discharge of the bond for £60 and to deUver the same to the orator
to be canceUed. The orator made the lease; but LoveU refuses to surrender
the bond, and is suing the orator at common law. He prays reUef .
1 July 1637. The answer of Edwaed Lovell shows that the complainant
became bound by a bond, dated 15 March, 7 Charles [1631/2], to pay
£36.14s. at the defendant's house. The complainant did grant to the defend-
ant the closes of West Leases and Meade Close. The defendant became bound
for debts of the complainant, namely, to one WiUiam Ridet of Henstridge
for £12, to secure the payment of £6, to Jone Hobbes, widow of , for
£20, to secure the payment of £10, and to John Everes of Henstridge for
£20, to secure the payment of £10. For the discharge of the defendant from
the bonds the complainant did, about February, 11 Charles [1635/6], demise
as stated to Lovell and JoUiff, to take its beginning at the Feast of the
Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary* next after the grant. The defend-
ant denies, however, that he has taken the rents and profits, but beUeves
Joliffe does, and the defendant is not discharged of his obUgation in the
several debts, nor was it intended so to discharge him out of the profits of
the land. The complainant has not paid the £30. 14s. according to the bond.
Therefore the defendant has put the bond in the conamon law to recover his
money and denies any agreement to cancel the same. (Chancery Proceedings,
Charles I, H. 95/43.)
2 July 1639. The complaint of Ellis Haskett the Elder of Yenston,
parish of Henstridge, co. Somerset, gentleman, and Ellis Haskett and
WUUam Haskett, his sons, shows that thej'- purchased two copyhold ten-
ements within the manor of Yenston for the term of their lives successively.
So being seised, EUis Haskett the father became indebted for money borrowed
of divers persons, i.e., Thomas WiUes of Sherborne, co. Dorset, mercer,
£17. 10s., WiUiam RyaU of Yenston, yeoman, £30, Edmond LoveU of
Yenston, husbandman, £30, John Grove of Yenston, husbandman, £10,
one LoveU of Yenston, widow, £16, and Thomas Rolt of Temple Combe,
CO. Somerset, gentleman, £12, in all amounting to £115, for which his said
sons, ElUs and WilUam, were bound as sureties with their father. So being
*The Feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary falls on 25 March.
tThe Feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist falls on 24 June.
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indebted, Ellis Haskett the father, at the suit of Thomas Rolt, steward to
Sir John Jacob, Knight, owner of the manor of Yenston, about June, 14
Charles I [1638], was arrested in Marlborough, co. Wilts, and was detained
in prison there two months and more, although he offered to pay said Rolt
the £12 owing him; but Rolt pretended that he owed him £200 and had
forfeited an obligation of £400 for nonpayment thereof, which was untrue.
To pay his debts and procure his enlargement from prison, complainants
sold a close of meadow called Common Close, two closes of meadow and
pasture called Sawyers, and three acres of meadow in the common meadow,
being in all twenty-two acres, worth about £17 a year; and the money for
the same, being £250, was paid into Thomas Rolfs hands, who divided the
same among the creditors and refused to pay the overplus to the complainants,
the said debts not coming to more than £135. Therefore they desire that
Thomas Rolt and the aforesaid creditors may have v,Tits of subpoena directed
j to them to appear and answer, etc.
; The answer of Wiluaji Riall, defendant, taken at Wincalton, co. Som-
erset, 5 October, 15 Charles I [1639]. He says that Ellis Haskett, Senr.
and Junr., owed him £80, and Ellis Haskett, Senr., owed Thomas Rolt £12,
the latter of whom caused Haskett to be imprisoned, during which imprison-
ment defendant charged the said Haskett with his account. As to the lands
sold, he denies that they were of the yearly value of £17, but of about £12.
He has received from Thomas Rolt only £30, in part payment of the money
due to him, and he has lately sued out process for the residue due to him.
The answer of Thomas Rolt, gentleman, taken at Shafton, co. Dorset,
5 October 1639. He beUeves that the complainants purchased two copyhold
tenements, as alleged, but at the time of the debt he was and yet is an officer,
not steward, to Sir John Jacob, Knight. It is true that he caused the com-
plainant, Ellis Haskett the father, to be imprisoned for debt, but he denies
that he pretended that he owed him £200. He says that the lands were
sold, as alleged in the bill of complaint, and that the said Haskett gave
him a note of hand dated 22 July 1638, authorizing him to receive all sums
of money due for the same sale. He says that he only received £157 and
I no more, and that he paid all the debts due and £16. 18s. for expenses
i" incurred by said Haskett's imprisonment, as by a note delivered to him
I by Samuel Young, sergeant of the Corporation of IVIarlborough, dated
\ 23 July 1638, ready to be produced; and that he has given the overplus of
> £5. 5s. lid. to said Haskett, and has delivered up the bonds for the said
i debts to said Haskett or his wife. He denies that he is guilty of harsh conduct
{ or keeping back money, etc., and he desires to be dismissed with his reason-
•: able costs. (Chancery Proceedings, Charles I, H. 77/71.)
i 27 May 1647. The complaint of Ellis Haskett the Elder of Enson alias
Endiston in the parish of Henstridge, co. Somerset, yeoman, shows that
about fifteen years ago he purchased an estate for his own life and the Uves
of his two sons, William and EUis Haskett, of and in a copyhold tenement,
with the appurtenances, in Enson aforesaid, within the manor of Henstridge,
called Brynes tenement or the West Living, being of the yearly value of
£16, to hold to him and his said sons for the term of their lives, according
to the custom of the manor; and, having been admitted, had he died, his
widow would have enjo3'ed the same during her widowhood. About ten
•; years ago William Haskett the Younger, aforesaid, intreated the complainant
i and made use of his friends to persuade him to surrender the said tenement
i to the use of the said William and such wife as he should marry, barring
; such widow as complainant should leave, and it was agreed that immediately
! after such surrender the said William should pay complainant an annuity
j of £10 a year, and, in sure confidence of this agreement being carried out,
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complainant at the Court Baron held at Henstridge, 31 July 1638, siurendered
the same to the use of the said William and such widow as he left after his
death. The said William has by his marriage obtained a great portion; but,
although complainant has carried out his side of the agreement and has
barred his wife from her widow's estate, the said William refuses to pay the
said annuity, so that complainant is much impoverished now, but is Uke to
perish for want of payment if WiUiam dies before him, and in his old age
is like to come to great want. As some witnesses to the said agreement are
dead and some gone beyond the seas, complainant is deprived of their
testimony, and the said William takes advantage thereof to refuse to pay
or give security for doing so. Therefore complainant begs that a writ of
subpoena may be directed to said William, causing him to appear, etc.
The answer of William Haskett to the bill of complaint of his father,
Ellis Haskett, taken at Sturminster, co. Dorset, 11 October, 23 Charles I
[1647].
He believes that about fifteen years ago an estate of a copyhold tenement
and lands in Enson, parish of Henstridge, co. Somerset, called Brynes
Tenement or the West Lyving, of the yearly value of £16, was made by
copy of court roU to complainant, EUis Haskett, and to defendant and EUis
Haskett the Younger, for their lives successively; but the money for the
same was not paid by complainant but by the friends of Christian, the
defendant's late mother, as part of her portion, as eighteen or twenty years
before the granting of this estate an estate of the same tenement and lands
"was granted to complainant and Christian and EUis Haskett the Younger,
for their lives successively, and the fine for the same was paid out of the
marriage portion of this defendant's mother, formerly left in her friends'
hands for her benefit and disposal, and out of her love for him she, in her
lifetime, surrendered up her right and interest for life in the said tenement
to him, the defendant. About ten years ago the complainant was imprisoned
for debt at Marlborough, and, being in want of money, persuaded the defend-
ant and ElHs the Younger to join with him in surrendering a moiety of
the said tenement, and offered to surrender his interest therein for life in
the other moiety to the use of the defendant. And upon this consideration
only was the surrender made. Since the surrender aforesaid the defendant
has enjoyed the said moiety, and intends in time to come so to hold the
same for himself and wife and family, according to the aforesaid agreement,
without paying the sum of £10 a year during complainant's life. He denies
making any such promise, and says that the moiety of the said tenement
was sold to others and the money employed for payment of complainant's
debts and enlargement from prison. As to such wife as the defendant now
hath, he did not obtain her by reason of his estate in the said copyhold
tenement but by God's goodness and her love and affection for him. tVlule
defendant was suitor to his wife and in service with a master and for seven
years after the surrender, complainant kept the profits of defendant's moiety
to his own use; and since his marriage defendant has taken the profits to
his own use, as he ought to do for the maintenance of himself, his wife, and
children. Complainant has £20 a year copyhold lands, and received £200
with his now wife, and therefore will not be destitute, as he pretends. Defend-
ant desires to be dismissed with his reasonable costs. (Chancery Proceedings,
Charles I, H. 29/65.) [A brief abstract of this case was published in Register,
vol. 53, p. 16, and reprinted in Waters's " Genealogical Gleanings in England,"
vol. 2, p. 1440.]
12 May [?] 1662. To Lord Clarendon.
The complaint of Ellis Haskett the Elder of Yenston in Henstridge
[co. Somerset], yeoman, shows that about twenty years ago [i.e., about 1642]
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he had occasion to borrow, and repaired to William Haskett the Younger
of Yenston aforesaid, yeoman, and became bound to William in a bond of
£10, payable in six months from the date of the obligation, which time is
now long past. When the time for payment came, the orator could not
pay, and it was continued by the consent of William Haskett. Said bond
was continued thus for eight or nine years, after which said William impor-
tuned the orator for his money, which the orator could not then pay. The
defendant then sued the orator and recovered judgment. The orator then
paid the same, with interest and costs, and defendant agreed to deUver the
bond to the orator to be cancelled, and acknowledged full satisfaction;
but he has failed to do so, and, "intending imjustly to extort divers sums of
money from the orator doth give out speeches that he was not satisfied"
I of the said principal, interest, or costs; and, combining with persons unknown
; to the orator, he is planning to recover on it. The orator cannot make proof
at the conunon law, as his witnesses are since dead or gone to remote parts
beyond the seas; and he prays rehef and a writ of subpcena, etc. [No answer
attached.] (Chancery Proceedings before 1714, Collins, pt. 16, no. 585,
Haskett v. Haskett.)
i . 28 February 1682 [?1682/3]. To Lord Coventry.
\ The complaint of William Haskett of Todber, co. Dorset, yeoman,
i shows that his father was seised of copy or customary lands as tenant of
I the manor of More in the said county. He surrendered them to the lo^d,
■: and received them back to himself and his son John Hasket for a lease for
I the life of the longest Uver of them. By the custom of the manor, on the
i death of a tenant his wife had an estate for her life. The manor has been
I dissolved, and the reversion of the said copyholds has come to William
1 Byles of Fyfehead, NevHl, co. Dorset, gentleman, and to Ehzabeth Byles
I of Phyfin Oakford in said county, widow, and they intend to deprive com-
j plainant's wife of her estate to which she is entitled by the custom of the
i dissolved manor. The complainant's witnesses to the said custom are dead
i or old and feeble, and cannot travel to London or Weston. (Chancery Pro-
j . ceedings before 1714, Reynardson, 413/185.)
i 14 December 16Qi [sic, 1697]. The complaint of Dorotht Hedditch
\ of GiUingham [co. Dorset], widow, administratrix of the estate of Mary
. Haskett, her late sister, widow of EUas Haskett, late of Henstridge Marsh
: [co. Somerset], yeoman, shows that the said Elias Haskett was seised in
his demesne as of fee of lands to the value of £20 and goods and chattels
in the form of ready money, household goods, mortgages, judgments, bonds,
bills, securities, stock on lands, com, grass, hay, cattle, oxen, cows, sheep,
. horses, wagons, carts, ploughs, tackling, chattel leases, etc., to the value of
£700. Being so seised, he made his will, and disposed of the same to Mary,
his then wife, and to his and her kindred and relatives, and the residue he
gave to his wife. The wiU was dated 13 February, 9 King William [1696/7],
and was as follows. [Here is set forth the will of EUas Haskett of Henstridge .
Marsh, co. Somerset, yeoman, dated 13 February 1696 [1696/7], an abstract
of which is given above, p. 111]. Soon after the maldng of the will he gave,
in the presence of three witnesses, aU his undisposed property, in bonds,
mortgages, securities, etc., which were in the house, to his wife Mary. She
then stated that he had left no legacy to his basebom child, and he told
her to amend according to her desires what he had not done and declared
her to be the sole legatee of his property imdisposed of. He then died, on
• or about 19 February 1696 [1696/7]. By reason of her affection for hm
I Mary, his wife, sickened and died five daj's later, in the same house, in
: possession of all his executory estate, intestate, before becoming executrix
• of his will. Thereupon the orator took out administration on her estate
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from Samuel Mews, Clerk, Prebend of Henstridge, in the Cathedral Church
of Wells, on the 3d of March following, and incurred the funeral expenses of
Elias Haskett and his wife; and, as by law Mary was possessed of the
residue of Elias's property, she made an inventory of the chattels of EUas,
and later, in June, "bona notabilia" of Elias appearing, she made a new
inventory and had it filed in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, and
took out another administration on her sister's estate, under the seal of
that court, by virtue whereof she has enjoyed the executory estate of EUas.
But now Elias Hasket, Stephen Hasket, EHas Hasket, Richard Gaulpin,
Richard Sheene, Mary Crumsey, Luzde alias Lewis Crumsey, Mary the wife
of Lewis alias Ludse Qrumsey, and Rogers, combining with persons
• unknown to defeat the executory estate given to Mary, and giving out
speeches that the said confederates or some of them are of the nearest kin
and blood to EHas Hasket, and having gotten possession of the original will
and much of the testator's estate, will obhge that administration cum iesta-
mento annexe on the estate of Elias Hasket be given to some of them. Com-
plainant prays for reUef and the funeral expenses. Some of the orator's
witnesses are either dead or gone beyond seas; and she asks for a writ of
subpoena against EUas Hasket, Stephen Hasket, Richard Gaulpin, Richard
Sheene, Mary Crmnsey, Lewis alias Ludes Crumsey and Mary his wife,
Rogers, and EUis Hasket. (Chancery Proceedings before 1714,
Mtford, C. 8, 542/34.)
27 February 1698 [1698/9]. To Lord Somers.
The complaint of Elias Hasket of , gentleman, shows that EUas
Hasket, late of Henstridge [co. Somerset], yeoman, was seised of several
messuages, lands, etc., in Henstridge Marsh in Henstridge and at divers
other places and parishes in the said county and elsewhere, to the yearly
value of £40 and worth £800 or more, and of personalty, household stuff,
plate, com, animals, etc., to the value of £600. He died about February
1696 [1696/7], without lawful issue and intestate, leaving your orator, born
beyond seas in New England, who is the only son and heir of Stephen Hasket,
heretobefore of the city of Exeter, co. Devon, but late of Salem in New
England, merchant, deceased, who was the only natural and lawful brother
of the said EUas Hasket, deceased; and the said freehold estate ought to
descend to him as heir at law, being the next and nearest relation and kin
of the testator; but your orator dweUing and inhabiting some times in New
England and at other times in Barbadoes beyond seas and having no intel-
ligence till very lately of the death of his said uncle, EUas Hasket, Lewis
Crumsey of the city of London and Mary, his -nife, Nicholas Buggis of
Henstridge, yeoman, WilUam Dussett of Stalbridge, co. Dorset, yeoman,
EUas Dusset his son, Stephen Haskett of Marnehull in Dorset, yeoman,
and Dorothy Hedditch of , widow, combining with others unknown
for the purpose of taking advantage of your orator's being beyond seas and
having no inteUigence till verj' lately of the death of his uncle, EUas Hasket,
under some pretended administration, which they got by surprise, received
possession of the personal and freehold estate under some pretended will,
in which they pretend that they were made executors of the said EUas, and
got custody of aU the deeds, evidences, etc., and now they give out speeches
that EUas Hasket made a wUl not long before his death, which they now
set up, purporting to devise aU the real and personal estate to them, and
at other times they pretend that they are the heirs at law of the said EUas
Haskett, and not yoiu- orator, when in truth the same is weU known to those
confederates to be the fact, and they are also weU satisfied in their consciences
that the said EUas Hasket, deceased, never made any such de^'ises to them,
and, if any wiU was obtained, it was by fraud, when the said EUas Hasket
was in extremis, and some of the coiifederates were witnesses to the said
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wiU and knew the truth thereof. These confederates now refuse to discover
any deed or will, and refuse to deUver over the property; but they threaten
to share and divide it among themselves, .and have sold the greater part
of the personalty or converted the same, and have made several alienations
of the realty to irritate and perplex the orator's title and rights thereto,
and they pretend that they have two wills, well and truly expressed, pur-
porting to divide the estate among them, and they purpose to set them up
against any suit of ejectment and so to nonsuit the orator and to refuse him
evidences of discovery, and he has no relief except in equity, as the witnesses
to these facts are either dead or in parts beyond the seas, remote and unknown
to the orator. He prays that they be interrogated as to what property the
said EUas Hasket, the orator's uncle, died seised of and its value, and where
it lies; also how they are related to the said EUas Hasket, and whether the
orator be not the son of Stephen Hasket, the brother of Elias Hasket,
deceased, and what they know, believe, or have heard, and from whom,
touching that matter, etc. (Chancery Proceedings before 1714, Mitford,
B. 572/41.)
Summons to Elias Dussett, an infant about 8 years of age, to choose a
j guardian ad litem* He chooses Thomas Gribham [?] of YoveU [Yeo\il],
! CO. Somerset, as guardian for the purposes of this suit, and a certificate
i thereof is produced.'
I The answer of William Dtjsset* shows that he believes that Elias Hasket,
I deceased, was seised in his demesne as of fee of three closes, called Whitefields
I Lane, New Close, and Long Close, and two parcels lying in South meade,
\ in all nine acres, of the yearly value of about £8, in Henstridge, and also
5 of a close of pastureland, called Sidehill, of three and one^haK acres, of the
I yearly value of £5, but the defendant cannot tell the terms of the lease,
I as Nicholas Buggis has it. Elias Hasket, several days before he died, made
I his wiU, 13 February 1696 [1696/7], which was witnessed by Thomas Browne,
< WUham Dasset, and Alice Carly. By it he gave to the defendant's wife
': Sidehill close and to the defendant's sons £100, to be divided between them.
i He made his wife Mary the sole executrix, and she died before proving the
•j wiU, some five or six days before [sic, after] her husband. Trouble then
; arose among the kindred as to who had the right to administration with the
I will annexed. The Court of the Arches of Canterbury gave it to Lewis
i Crumsey and his wife Mary, in her right, as she pretended to be the next
't of kin of the deceased; and thereupon the defendant, in right of his wife,
; entered upon SidehiU, and shortly afterwards upon the three closes and two
pigtells [pightels], in the name and right of the defendant, Elias Dussett,
his son, to whom they were deviled; and he has held them until about twelve
months since, when the complainant came into England and pretended
to be the next of kin, and by threats and menaces of suits at law prevailed
on the defendant to quit possession of the premises, and he refused to pay
Elias Dussett or his brothers the £100. Wherefore this complainant, with
other legatees, hath a suit in this Honorable Court against the complaioant
for recove];y of the said legacies, and he believes the complainant to be no
kin of the deceased, and that he obtained the administration falsely. This
same Elias Hasket brought an ejectment suit against the defendant which
was to be tried in the Somerset assize in ]\Iay 1698, and he threatened to
imdo the defendant by suits at law, and prevailed on him to make an agree-
ment with him. He also induced Alice Carley to forget her attesting of the
will.
The answer of Elias Dussett by Thomas Gribham, next friend and
guardian ad litem. This is in substance the same as the preceding answer,
* This summons and answer apparently belong to the same case with the complaint of Elias
Hasket of 27 February 1698 [1698/9), given above.
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and adds that Alice Carley was the testator's servant. The defendant denies
that the complainant was the son of Stephen Hasket, brother of Elias Hasket
the testator, who was this defendant's mother's imcle. (Chancery Pro-
ceedings before 1714, Mitford, 583/2.)
3 April 1702. The complaint of Elias Hasket of Henstridge Marsh
[co. Somerset], Esq., cousin and heir of EUias Hasket of Henstridge, yeoman,
deceased, who left a considerable estate, shows that imtil very lately the
complainant has traded as a merchant at Barbadoes in America, and, having
some employment in the government of England, was obliged to reside
there until about four years since, and then, returning into England and
being at Henstridge, he found several persons in possession of the estate,
who had divided it among themselves. The orator made himself known,
and [showed] that he considered himself entitled to the estate, and requested
them to prove their titles. They produced a will, purporting to have been
made by EUas Hasket when he was in extremis and non compos, and the
orator has been informed that the will was fictitious. There were several
suits in the Court of Arches, this Honorable Court, and at law, whereupon
several of the pretenders to the estate of EHas Hasket released their claims;
but, one WiUiam Dussett of Stalbridge in Dorset, yeoman, being related
to Elias Hasket, and being in possession of the premises hereafter named
under the pretended wiU to which he pretended to be a witness, the orator
brought a suit of ejectment, which was ready for trial; but then the said
Dussett, who was in very mean circumstances, prevailed on the orator to
give him £40 for the maintenance of himself and family, and on 22 March
1698 [1698/9] an agreement was made between the orator and Dussett
that recited that, for the purpose of quashing various disputes, quarrels,
and actions commenced, as well as long and tedious suits, the orator should
pay the said Dussett £40, and the latter was before three calendar months
to convey to the orator and his heirs all his, the said Dussett's, pretended
right and title to a meadow called South Meade, containing by estimation
one acre, and three fields or closes called Whitfield Lane, New Close, and
Long Close, in all ten acres, together with several parcels of land in South
Meade in Henstridge, late the land of inheritance of the deceased, which
he pretended had been given to his, Dussett's, wife and children, and was
to release aU claims to the orator. The orator then gave the said Dussett
a bond, with sureties, for the payment, and Dussett delivered up to him the
possession of the premises, and the orator is in actual possession of them.
He has asked Dussett to-make the convej'ance agreed on, and has tendered
the £40. But now the defendant Dussett and Mary his wife and his son
EHas and the children of the said Dussett, conspiring with persons unknown,
pretend that they were surprised into the agreement, and that their interest
was greater, and that the said WiUiam Dussett had no interest in the estate,
and, if he did, it was only for his life, as guardian of his children or by their
courtesy; and at other times they say that he was ready to convey, but
that his wife dissuaded him and refused to join in the conveyance, and that
his children are infants and cannot make an agreement; and again they
say that he had settled the land on his wife and their issue. He prays discovery
and a writ of subpcsna.
1 August 1702. The answer of William Dussett confesseth that Elias
Haskett, deceased, was seised of one close called Side Hill, of three acres,
worth £3 per annum, for the remainder of ninety-nine years, determinable
in the deaths of persons yet living. Several days before his death EKas
Hasket made a will, on 13 February 1696 [1696/7], attested by Thomas
Browne of Stalbridge, scrivener, and gave the defendant and his five sons
£100, and made his wife Mary sole executrix, and so died, leaving his wife
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i
I Mary, who survived her husband five or six days and died before proving
I the will. Trouble then arose amongst their kindred as to whom adminis-
itration cum^testamento annexo should go; but at last it was given to Lewis
Cnimsey and his wife Mary, by order of the Arches Court of Canterbury,
' as next of kin. The defendant entered the close called SidehiQ in right of
I his wife Mary and of his son Elias and on the three closes at issue, and
1 enjoyed the same until five or six years ago the complainant came into
England from beyond seas, and pretended to be nearer of Idn to the testator
, than Mary Crumsey, and got administration with the wiU annexed on all
\ the goods of the testator, and by threats and menaces of suits got the defend-
i ant timorously to desert the said demised premises, although they were
'l given to his wife. The complainant refused the defendant the legacies and
! premises or to pay the £100 bequeathed to the defendant's children. The
defendant denies any wrong acting, and does not believe the complainant
to be of any kin or affinity with .the testator, and denies that he has any
deeds or evidences in his hands. The wiU was not obtained by fraud, and
he challenges the complainant's right to the closes in question. Moreover,
the complainant has admitted the validity of the will by taking administration'
with the win annexed. At the testator's request Thomas Browne and Alice
Carly attested the will, which now remains in the Prerogative Court and
it is from this that the defendant's wife and his son Elias Dusset derive their
title. The deceased left two wills, the first of which was given to the com-
.• plainant by Nicholas Buggis, who held the house in Henstridge late of the
. j testator; but the defendant does not know the contents of the first wiU.
i The defendant does not believe that the complainant is the son of Stephen
I Haskett, brother of the testator, who was this defendant's (i. e., young
\ Ellis Dusset's) mother's uncle. The last will was filed in the Court of Arches
i of Canterbury. The defendant's children are: WilHam Duss.et, aged 13 years,
1 Ehas, under 12 years, Henry, under 10 years, George, under 9 years, and
; James, under 6 years. The complainant has prevailed on Alice Carly to
* forget her attesting the will; and Thomas Browne's single evidence is not
I enough to prove it, according to the strict construction of the law. The only
I reason why he submitted to make the agreement alleged by the complainant
■; R'as his inability to defend himself, and he prays that it be cancelled. (Chan-
; eery Proceedings before 1714, Reynardson, 168/44.)
; From Lay Subsidies for Henstridge, co. Somerset*
39 Elizabeth [1596-7]. William Sevier in goods [valuation] £3
[tax] 8d.
William Stibbs in goods [valuation] £3
[tax] 8d.
18 James I [1620-1]. Elias Hasket in lands [valuation] 20s. [itax]
8d.
William Stibbs in lands [valuation] 20s.
[tax] 4d.
3 Charles I ]1627-8]. Elias Hasket in lands [valuation] 20s. [tax]
. 4d.
WiUiam Haskett in lands [valuation] 40s.
[tax] 8d.
William Stibbs in lands [valuation] 20s.
[tax] 4d.
4 Charles I [1628-9]. Elias Haskett in lands [valuation] £1 [tax]
8d.
♦Preserved in the Public Record Office, London.
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William Haskett in lands [valuation] £2
[tax] 16d.
William Stibbs in lands [valuation] £1
[tax] 8d.
16 Charles I [1640-1]. William Haskett in lands [valuation] 20s.
[tax] 8d. [Assessment of first two of
four payments.]
16 Charles I [1640-1], Poll Tax. Ellis Haskett [valuation] £10 [tax] 2s.
Mr. Haskett [valuation] £20 [tax] 5s.
William Stibbs [valuation] £10 [tax] 2s.
The foregoing records contain much information about the Hasketts
who in the later years of the sixteenth century and in the seventeenth
century lived at MarnhuU and Todbere, in the northern part of
Dorsetshire, and at Henstridge, a parish in the adjoining portion of
Somersetshire, among whom were the ancestors and near relatives
of Stephen Haskett of Salem in New England. EUis (or Elias) Hasket
of Henstridge, who was buried there in 1639, was probably the grand-
father of the emigrant to New England, and a pedigree showing two
or three generations of his proved and of his probable descendants
is given below. This pedigree is followed by information about the
family of a John Hasket of Marnhvill and Todbere, co. Dorset, who
was probably closely related to EUis Hasket of Henstridge, There
are a few Hasketts mentioned in the parish registers given above
whose relationship to the family of EUis or that of John has not yet
been established, as there are also several legatees and other persons
named in the foregoing wUls whose relationship to the testators has
not y^t been ascertained. New England records also have been
consulted for the New England immigrant and his children.
1. Ellis (Ella.s) Hasket, of Henstridge, co. Somerset, born prob-
ably about 1560, was buried at Henstridge, "an old man," 10 May
1639. He probably married first ; and secondly, about 1595,
Mary Seavier or Sevier, sister of William Seavier of Yenston in
the parish of Henstridge, husbandman, the testator of 1604. IMary
(Seavier) Hasket was living 9 May 1607, when she was mentioned
as a legatee in the wiU of her sister-in-law, Mariane Sevier, widow
of WiUiam.
Ellis (Elias) Hasket appears to be the first of the name in Henstridge,
as no Hasketts are to be found there in the lay subsidies of 89 and 43
Elizabeth [1596-7 and 1600-1]. He probably came to Henstridge
because of his marriage with Mary Sea\der, sister of William Seavier
of that parish, who was taxed at Henstridge in the lay subsidy of
39 EUzabeth [1596-7], and he may have been a near relative of
John Hasket of Todbere, co. Dorset, the testator of 1614, and of
William Hasket, who married a daughter of John HiUier of Wincanton,
CO. Somerset, gentleman, the testator of 1619. He is probably the
EUas Hasket who was taxed at Henstridge in the lay subsidy of
18 James I [1620-1], 3 Charles I [1627-8], and 4 Charles I [1628-9].
Children by first wife:
2. i. Ellis (Elias), probably s. of Ellis of Henstridge, b. about 1585.
3. ii. Stephen, probably s. of Ellis of Henstridge, b. about 1590.
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Children by second wife:
iii. DeAne (dau.), b. probably about 1596; bur. at Henstridge, as Dionisia
Haskett, 4 July 1623; legatee in the will of Mariane Sevier, widow
of William, 9 May 1607.
iv. A DAUGHTER, b. probably about 1598; living 9 May 1607 (see wiU of
Mariane Sevier, widow, of 1607).
V. William, of Henstridge, b. probably about 1600; m. (1) at Kingsdon,
CO. Somerset, 3 Nov. 1625, Joanna Hued, bur. at Henstridge
1 Mar. 1640/1, dau. of William of Kingsdon, gentleman, the testator
of 1638 (see his wUl, supra, p. 110); m. (2) Rebecca . Child
by first wife: 1. Mary, living 14 Apr. 1638, when she is mentioned
in the will of her grandfather, William Hurd. Children by second
wife: 2. William, bur. at Henstridge 3 May 1654. 3. Robert, bur.
I at Henstridge 19 Sept. 1666. 4. Jonathan, bapt. at Henstridge
I 23 Nov. 1665. Perhaps others.
1 vi. A DAUGHTER, b. probably about 1602; living 9 May 1607 (see wUl of
• Mariane Sevier, widow, of 1607).
vii. A DAUGHTER, b. probably about 1604; living 9 May 1607 (see will of
Mariane Sevier, widow, of 1607).
2. Ellis (Elias) Hasket (? Ellis), of Ma,rnhu]l, co. Dorset, and of
j Henstridge, co. Somerset, yeoman and gentleman^ clothier,
I probably a son of Ellis (1), born about 1585, died before 1660.
I He married first, about 1608, Christian -, who died
1 before 1635; and secondly, about 1635, Eleanor Stibbs, bap-
I tized at Henstridge 18 Oct. 1605, buried there, a widow, 17 June
I 1660, daughter of WUliam of Henstridge.
I He. appears at Marnhull, 1608-1615, and at Henstridge, where
\ he Hved in the hamlet of Enston or Yenston, from 1622 on.
I He was a plaintiff in Chancery suits, abstracts of which have
•: been given above, in 1627, 1637, 1639, and 1647, the defendant
J in the suit of 1647 being the plaintiff's son, William Haskett.
I Children by first wife :
I i. Edith, bapt. at Marnhull 9 Dec. 1608. Child (illegitimate): 1. Joan,
I bapt. at Henstridge 27 May 1636.
V ii. Ellis (Elias), bapt. at Marnhull 28 Oct. 1610; living 2 July 1639
I (see Chancery suit) ; d. s.-p. soon afterwards.
'( iii. William, of Yenston in Henstridge, bapt. at Marnhull 12 June 1615;
\ Hving in 1662, when he was defendant ia a Chancery suit {q.v.);
1 m. between 1637 and 1647 Mary , Hving 11 Oct. 1647. He
\ was plaintiff, with his father and brother Ellis (EUas), in the Chan-
i eery suit of 1639, and was defendant in the Chancery suit brought
by his father in 1647. Child: 1. Mary, b. probably about 1645;
d. before 20 Apr. 1697; m. at Henstridge William Hoddinott, who
d. before 5 Oct. 1697, s. of William of Stalbridge, co. Dorset; their
dau. Mary, b. in Stalbridge about 1662, m. I^wis Crumsey, and
in 1697, being then of Blackfriars, London, claimed the admin-
istration cum testamento annexo on the estate of EHas Haskett
(2, vii), the testator of- 13 Feb. 1696/7, her half great-uncle, which'
was granted to her in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 12 May
1698, but was given by the Court of Delegates, 14 Aug. 1699, to
Elias Hasket (4, iii), son of the testator's own elder brother, Stephen
Haskett of Salem in New England, deceased.
.- iv. Susan, bapt. at Henstridge 19 Mar. 1622/3.
! Childrenby second wife:
4. V. Stephen, bapt. at Henstridge 18 December 1636.
': vi. A DAUGHTER (probably), who was probably b. about 1639 and m.
I . They were probably the parents of Mary, b. probably
• about 1663, who m. about 1687 William Dussett of Stalbridge,
i.
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CO. Dorset, yeoman, one of the defendants in the Chancery suits
of 27 Feb. 1698/9 and the defendant in the suit of 1702. Both
William Dussett and his wife Mary were living 1 Aug. 1702, and
had then the following children: 1. William, aged 13 years. 2. Elias,
under 12 years. 3. Henry, under 10 years. 4. George, under 9 years.
5. James, under 6 years. (See Chancery suit of 1702, given above.)
vii. Elias (Ellis), of Henstridge Marsh, yeoman, the testator of 13 Feb.
1696/7. b. at Henstridge, probably about 1642; d. about 14 Feb.
1696/7; m. Maky , who d. five or six days after her husband
and was bur. at Henstridge 21 Feb. 1696/7. Child: 1. Mary, bur.
at Henstridge 26 June 1673. Elias Haskett was the father aJso of
an illegitimate child, to whom he left no legacy in his wiU (see
Chancery suit brought in 1697 by Dorothjr Hedditch, widow,
sister of Mary, wife of Elias Haskett). In his will {vide supra, p. Ill)
Elias Haskett made his wife Mary his executrix; but she died a
few days after her hxisband, without proving the will. Various
relatives and connections of the testator claimed the administration
cum testamento annexo on his estate, and the Prerogative Court of
Canterbury, in which the will was proved 12 May 1698, granted
administration to Mary Crumsey, wife of Lewis Crumsey, who was
grandniece of the testator, being the granddaughter of William
Haskett (2, iii), deceased, an elder half brother of the testator,
i I The contest for the administration was carried into the Court of
' Delegates, which on 14 Aug. 1699 granted the administration
_, cum testamento annexo to the nephew of the testator, Elias Haskett,
I ' the son of Stephen Haskett of Salem in New England, deceased (4),
I . the elder own brother of the testator. The processes in this litigation
in the Court of Delegates and the Chancery suits connected with
this contest (see the suits of 1697, 1698/9, and 1702) contain impor-
tant information on the family connections of the testator and
have been most helpful in the compiling of this pedigree. It is not
possible to determine the relationship to the testator of some of
the legatees in his wUl.
3. Stephen Haskett, of Marnhull, co. Dorset, fuller, the testator
of 1648, probably a son of EUis (1), born about 1590, was buried
at Marnhull 29 Oct. 1648 or 1649. He married Elizabeth ,
who was named as executrix in his will (q.v.), dated 24 May
1648 and proved 27 Feb. 1653 [? 1653/4].
Children :
5. i. Ellis (Elias), b. probably about 1618.
6. ii. Stephen, b. probably about 1620.
iii. Elizabeth, bapt. at Marnhull 19 Jan. 1622/3; living 24 May 1648; '
m. Young. Child: 1. James, living 24 May 1648.
iv. Margaret, bapt. at Marnhull 12 Jan. 1624/5; bur. there 30 Jan.
1635/6.
V. Alice, bur. at Marnhull 16 Nov. 1635.
vi. John, bapt. at Marnhull 25 June 1629; living 24 May 1648.
4. Stephen Haskett (Ellis, ? Ellis), of Exeter, co. Devon, and
Salem, Mass., soap boiler, baptized at Henstridge, co. Somerset,
18 Dec. 1636, died before 30 May 1698. He married, at Exeter,
CO. Devon, about 1666, Elizabeth Hill of Exeter, who sur\'ived
him and deposed at Salem, as his widow, 30 May 1698.
He served an apprenticeship at Exeter to one Mr. Thomas
Oburne, a chandler and soap boiler there, and, after his time
was out, married. Afterwards, according to the statement of
his son Elias, "meeting some crosses in the world," he emigrated
to Salem, in the Colonj'- of the Massachusetts Bay, where he
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I is found 22 Mar. 1666/7 (Salem Town Records, in Essex Institute
Historical Collections, vol. 41, p. 122) and where he settled.
After he had been there a while, he sent for his wife, who left
England and joined her husband in Salem, bringing with her
their daughter Elizabeth. In Nov. 1671 he deposed, aged 37
years (Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex
CoUnty, vol. 4, p. 430), and his name occurs several times in
the Essex Coimty court records. He is "styled soap boiler and
captain. He appears to have carried on the trade of a chandler
and at the same time he was captain of a trading vessel. Capt.
Stephen Hasket was employed to carry stores around Cape Cod
to the army at Narragansett in 1675, and he was present at
the storming of the Narragansett fort [in King Philip's War]
as one of Capt. Curwin's troopers." (Essex Institute Historical
Collections, vol. 51, p. 2.) On 30 Nov. 1677 Stephen Haskett
was appointed by the Quarterly Comt at Salem administrator
of the estate of John Langdon, deceased, intestate, and Michaell
Comes and Peter Joy, aged about 40 years, deposed on 22 Oct.
1677 that they heard Jolm Langdon say that he gave to Elizabeth
Haskitt, daughter of Mr. Stepheen Heskitt, £10, and what else
there was left was to be divided among said Heskitt's children,
this being said Langdon's desire when he went away with
Mr. Eliezer Devenportt out of the country in Dec. 1676. John
Langdon's estate was appraised at £20. 10s. (Records and Files
of the Quarterly Courts of Essex Coimty, vol. 6, p. 376. Cf.
Register, vol. 29, p. 318.) What, if any, relationship there
} was between John Langdon and the children of Stephen Haskett
I does not appear. The deposition of Stephen Haskett's widow,
\ Elizabeth, of 30 May 1698, in regard to her children has been
I given in the early part of this article (vide supra, page 72) ; and
I on the same date Stephen Sewell, notary, certified that Stephen
f Hasket left only one son and five daughters.
> Children:
; i. Elizabeth, b. in England (probably at Exeter, co. Devon) about
I 1667; brought in infancy by her mother to New England; d. before
• 8 Apr. 1740, when administration on her estate was granted to
1 her son-in-law, Joshua Hicks; m. (1) 6 June 1684 William Dynn
of Salem, b. at Kinsale, Ireland, about 1660, came to New England
in 1678, d. ia 1689-90, s. of John; m. (2) in 1691, as his second wife,
Roger Derby, Sr., of Salem, b. probably at Topsham, co. Devon,
England, about 1643, came to New England in 1671, d. at Salem
26 Sept. 1698, aged 55 years. Children by first husband, b. at
Salem: 1. John, b. 23 May 1686; Uving 26 July 1698, when he is
mentioned in the wiU of his stepfather, Roger Derbj-^; d. unm.
before 18 June 1716. 2. WiUiam, b. 1 Aug. 1689; living 26 July
1698, when he is mentioned in the will of his stepfather, Roger
Derby; d. unm. before 18 June 1716. Children by second husband,
; b. at Salem: 3. Elizabeth, h. 10 Mar. 1691/2; d. before 29 Dec. 1721,
when her will was proved; m. 17 Apr. 1718 Thomas Palfray, sail-
maker, b. at Salem 24 June 1689, d. before 1 Aug. 1720, when his
will was proved, s. of Walter and Margaret (Manning) ; their only
: chUd, Elizabeth, bapt. at Salem 11 Oct. 1719, d. young. 4. Margaret,
: b. 14 Aug. 1693; d. 11 July 1765; m. 8 Feb. 1710 WiUiam Osborn,
; yeoman, b. 3 May 1682, d. at Danvers, Mass.^ 28 Sept. 1771,
: s. of William and Hannah (Burton) of Salem; eight children. 5.
130 Genealogical Research in England [April
Ann, b. 10 Dec. 1695; living 19 June 1752, when she was named
as executrix in her husband's will; m. 2 Jan. 1717/18 Capt. Benjamin
Ives, master mariner and tanner, b. at Salem about 1692, d. between
19 June 1752, when his wiU was dated, and 16 July 1752, when his
will was proved, s. of Thomas and Elizabeth (Metcalf ) ; nine children,
b. at Salem. 6. Martha, h. 30 Sept. 1697; m. 22 Oct. 1719 Joshua
Hicks of Salem, merchant; eight children.
ii. Stephen, b. at Salem in Mar. 1668/9; d. in two weeks.
iii Col. Elias, b. at Salem 25 Apr. 1670; m. in Barbados, about 1695
or earUer, Elizabeth Rich. In early Life he went to Barbados,
where he settled and became a sea captain, merchant, and planter.
He made a voyage from Barbados to England in 1696, in the ship
New London, of which he was master, and remained in England
until May 1697, when he embarked on the Sheerness galley, Captain
Bolles, for Barbados, where he arrived in Aug. 1697. In Nov. 1698
he went again to England, and in the ensuing winter claimed in
the Court of Delegates, as next of kin, administration on the estate
of his uncle, EUas Haskett of Henstridge Marsh, co. Somerset,
yeoman, the testator of 13 Feb. 1696/7; and he also brought a
suit in Chancery, 27 Feb. 1698/9, for the possession of the estate
of the deceased. On 14 Aug. 1699 administration cum testamento
annexo on the estate of the deceased was granted to him by the
Court of Delegates; but on 3 Apr. 1702, calling himself Elias Biasket
of Henstridge Marsh, Esq., he brought suit in Chancery against
WiUiam Dussett, husband of a niece of the deceased (cf. 2, vi),
because he had not carried out an agreement which he had made
with the plaintiff in connection with the latter's claim to the estate
cf the deceased. Meanwhile, he had been nominated by the Lords
Proprietors of the Bahama Islands to be Governor of those islands,
and had been vouched for by several men, presumably merchants
of London, in the following letter: "To the Honble Lords Commis-
sioners of Trade We whose names are subscribed doe humbly
certify that Capt. EUas BLaskett is a person very well known unto
us being personally acquainted with him for many years past, he
being imployed by divers considerable Merchants of Credit and
reputation as commander of severall ships and alsoe intrusted with
the disposall of their Cargoes, which Trust he performed to their
full satisfaction. And farther That he hath always manifested
himself a Loyall and faithfull Subject to this present Government.
[Signed] Hwtn.[?] Ennis Thomas Richards John Stretet Epa
Charington William Deacon Jno Reynolds Rob. Hej^sham Mel.
Holder Rowld Trj-on." This letter is endorsed: " Certificate
of Mr. Robert JBeysham and others in behalf of Capt.
Elias Hasket nominated by the Lords Proprietors of the
Bahamas in the Indies to be Governour of those Islands." (State
Papers, Colonial Series, vol. 13, p. 14, from Colonial Office Papers,
5, 1260, no. 42.) A bond of Ellas Hasket of London, Esq., Robert
Nesmith of London, Gent., and Josias Dicken of London, Gent.,
to John, Earl of Bath, and the other proprietors, as Governour of
the Bahamas and to suppress piracy, etc., is dated 18 Apr. 1700,
and is witnessed bj' Jo. Aleman, James Griffith, and Benj. Durgj-.
(/6.,»no. 41.) He received his commission as Governor 'of the
Bahamas about 12 May 1701, and proceeded thither with his wife
and family aiid took up the duties of his office. His career as Governor
was brief but stormy. The people of New Providence, in an assembly
held at Nassau 5 Oct. 1701, addressed to the Lords Proprietors and
to the Commissioners of Trade a long statement of their grievances
and of the oppressive acts of the Governor. In the statement in
his own defence which he published in London in 1702, the Governor
ascribes his troubles to the wicked men whom he had tried to bring
to justice, who, he says, conspired with divers inhabitants of the
island to stir up an insurrection against him. In Oct. 1701, the
narrative continues, the conspirators seized the fort at Nassau,
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broke into the Governor's house, "and in a Rebellious and Hostile
manner assaulted the said Grovernour and his Attendants, and
having grevously wounded him in the Head and other Parts^ to
the great hazard of his Life, they carried him away Prisoner into
the Fort, and kept him there confin'd in Irons; and the same Night
his. Wife, Sister, and Family were constrain'd for their Security,
to fly. into the Woods." The insurgents looted the Governor's
house, and took away his own securities and money and money
belonging to the King and the Lords Proprietors. They held the
Governor for three days or thereabouts in the fort, and then removed
him 'to a small house about four miles from Nassau, where he was
kept a prisoner, in irons, for six weeks; and his wife and sister were
kept in close confinement during a great part of this time. At
length the Governor was placed on board of a small ketch, and
made his escape from the Islands. Some time later, in the middle
of the winter, his wife and sister were forced to board a sloop, and
i ^ ' were cast away on a desert and uninhabited coast,* his wife suc-
• ' ceeding in reaching Charleston in Carolina, whence she sailed for
England. The Governor himself made his way to New York and
\ New England, and on 19 Mar. 1701/2, styling himself "the Hon.
j Col. Elias Haskett Esquire," Governor of New Providence, in the
1 West Indies, gave a power of attorney to Capt. Samuel Browne,
I , merchant, of Salem, to collect his rents and sell his property, etc.,
] in Salem. (Cf. Essex Institute Historical Collections, vol. 42, p. 162,
I and vol. 51, p. 1.) He went to England, to lay his case before the
I authorities, and on 3 Apr. 1702 brought the suit in Chancery against
i , William Dussett which has been referred to above. Savage (Gen-
j ealogical Dictionary, vol. 2, p. 372) states that he lived some time
' in Boston in the early part of the eighteenth century.
I iv. Maey, b. at Salem 13 Mar. 1671/2; m. Capt. Benjamin Pickman
; of Salem, b. 30 Jan. 1671/2, d. 26 Apr. 1719, s. of Benjamin and
{ Elizabeth (Hardy). Child: 1. John, bapt. at Salem 12 Feb. 1698/9,
I V. Saba, b. at Salem 5 Feb. 1673/4; m. 29 July 1702 Samuel Ingersoll
f of Salem. They had issue.
; vi. Hannah, b. at SaJem 2 Aug. 1675; m. 11 May 1704 Richard Symmes.
i They had issue.
•* vii. Martha, m. 25 Feb. 1702/3 Richard Derby of Salem, mariner, b.
I at Ipswich, Mass., 8 Oct. 1679, d. 25 July 1715, s. of Roger and his
t first wife, Lucretia (Kilham or Hilman), Roger Derby marrying
f for his second wife Elizabeth (Hasket) Dynn, eldest sister of Martha
(Hasket) Derby. Children, b. at Salem: 1. John, h. 27 Dec. 1705.
.i 2. Mary, b. 9 Jan. 1707/8; d. 9 Feb. 1736/7; m. 11 May 1727 Capt.
George Mugford, mariner; two children. 3. Richard, of Salem,
master mariner and merchant, b. 16 Sept. 1712; d. 9 Nov. 1783;
m. (1) 3 Feb. 1735/6 Mary Hodges, b. 21 Dec. 1713, d. 27 Mar.
' 1770, dau. of Gamaliel and Sarah (Williams) of Salem; m. (2)
2 Oct. 1771 Sarah (LaMley) Hersey, b. in 1712, d. 17 June 1790,
: widow of Dr. Ezekiel Elersey of Hmgham, Mass.; six children by
« his first wife, of whom one was Elias Hasket Derby, the well-known
Salem merchant, b. in 1739, d. in 1799. 4. Martha, b. 21 Sept. 1714;
d. 28 Sept 1745; m. 30 Mar. 1736 Capt. Thomas Elkins, mariner;
one son.
5. Ellis (Ella.s) Haskett {Stephen, ? Ellis), of Enston (Yenston)
in Henstridge, co. Somerset, yeoman, born probably about
1618, was buried at Henstridge 22 Sept. 1673. He married
i Sarah .
I In 1662, as Ellis Haskett the Elder, he was plaintiff in a
. *The documents containing the charges against Gov. Elias Haskett and his answers to these
■' charges were collected by the contributor of this article and were printed in Essex Institute His-
I torical Collections, vol. 51, pp. 1-22, 97-125, in an article entitled "The Governor of New
1 Providence, West Indies, in 1702." '
{ VOL. LXXVII. 9
132 Genealogical Research in England [April
Chancery suit (q-v.) against his first cousin, William Haskett
the Younger of Yenston, yeoman (2, iii).
Children :
i. William, bapt. at Henstridge 4 Nov. 1640; probably the William
Haskett who m. Joan (bur. at Henstridge 3 Mar. 1690/1).
Their children, bapt. at Henstridge, were: 1. Annetta, bapt. 18 Xov.
1669; perhaps the Anna Hasket of Henstridge who m. there, 25
Mar. 1695, William Kelloway of Mamhull, co. Dorset. 2. Stephen,
bapt. 21 Oct. 1673. 3. Mary, bapt. 12 Jan. 1674/5; perhaps the
Mary Haskot who m. at Henstridge, 27 July 1699, Joseph Perrin.
4. Sara, bapt. 12 Jan. 1675/6. 5. Samuel, bapt. 29 Apr. 1677; bur. at
Henstridge 23 Oct. 1687. 6. Jane, bapt. 15 Sept. 1678. 7. Joan,
bapt. 15 Jime 1681; bur. at Henstridge 2 Oct. 1681. 8. Thomas,
bapt. 27 Aug. 1682.
ii. Ellis. (Elias), of Henstridge, baker, b. probably about 1642; living
in i697, when, with his cousin Stephen Haskett (6, i), he claimed
in the Court of Delegates administration cum testamento annexo
on the estate of Elias Haskett (2, vii), the testator of 13 Feb. 1696/7;
m. Elizabeth . On 1 Nov. 1665 he is called "Ellis Hasket,
Junr." Children, bapt. at Henstridge and all living 13 Feb. 1696/7
(see will of EUas Haskett of that date): 1. Susanna, bapt. 1 Xov.
1665; m. Hobbs, who d. before 13 Feb. 1696/7. 2. Mary,
' bapt. 18 Mar. 1667/8. 3. EUis (Elias), bapt. 8 Jan. 1670/1. 4. Sara,
bapt. 2 Apr. 1673. 5. Samuel, bapt. 3 Apr. 1676.
Probably also daughters.
6. Stephen Haskett (Stephen, ? Ellis), of MarnhuU, co. Dorset,
born probably about 1620, was buried at MarnhuU 9 Aug. 1651.
He married Elizabeth .
Children, baptized at Mamhull:
i. Stephen, of Mamhull, bapt. 12 Nov. 1648; probably living 11 Sept.
1701; m. (1) Mart -^ , who d. about 1675; m. (2) Elizabeth
—, who d. about 1683: m. (3) Anne . In 1697, with his
cousin Elias Haskett (5, ii), he claimed in the Court of Delegates
administration cum testamento annexo on the estate of Elias Haskett
(2, vii), the testator of 13 Feb. 1696/7. Children by first wife, bapt.
at Mamhull: 1. Stephen, bapt. 7 May 1673; bur. at Mamhull
11 Sept. 1701. 2. Thomas, bapt. 15 June 1675; probably the Thomas
Hasket who m. Mary and had children bapt. at Mamhull,
via., Thomas, bapt. 5 July 1696, Stephen, bapt. 16 Jan. 1697/8,
Jonathan, bapt. 6 Jan. 1699/1700 ,and Ambrose, bapt. 25 Julj'
1701. Children by second wife, bapt. at Mamhull: 3. John, bapt.
3 Oct. 1677. 4. Frances (dau.), bapt. 4 June 1680. 5. Jonathan,
bapt. 28 Mar. 1683. Child by third wife: 6. Thomas, bapt. at
Mamhull 23 June 1686.
ii. Elizabeth (posthumous), bapt. 7 Apr. 1652.
John Hasket, of MarnhuU and Todbere, co. Dorset, the testator
of 1614, perhaps a brother or a cousin of EUis (EUas) Hasket of
Henstridge, co. Somerset, with whom the pedigree given above begins,
died between 29 Sept. 1614, when his wUl was dated, and 23 Feb.
1614/15, when his will was proved. He married Anne — -. , whom
he appointed executrix of his wiU.
A Stephen Haskett and a WiUiam Haskett, his "weU-beloved
friends," were overseers and witnesses of his wUl. He directed that
he should be buried in the churchyard of Stowre Estowre [sic],
that is, probably. East Stower, a parish a little distance north from
Todbere.
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Children, all except the last two recorded at Marnhull, and
all except the second (who died in infancy) living 29 Sept. 1614,
when they are mentioned in their father's wiU:
i. John, bapt. 27 June 1596.
ii. William, bapt. 7 Jan. 1597/8; bur. 5 Feb. 1597/8.
iii. Joan, bapt. 1 July 1599; living unm. 29 Sept. 1614.
iv. Mart, bapt. 22 May 1601; living unm. 29 Sept. 1614.
V. Thomas, bapt. 8 Apr. 1603.
vi. Robert, bapt. 18 Sept. 1605.
vii. William, probably b. after his father removed to Todbere.
viii. Michael, probably b. after his father removed to Todbere.
; THE POLKS OF NORTH CAROLINA AND TENNESSEE
j By Mrs. Frank M. Angelloiti of San Rafael, Calif.
I It is the purpose of this article to trace the descendants of William^
t Polk of Maryland, who settled in North Carolina about 1750 and
[ through his sons, four of whom were officers in the Revolution, was
I the ancestor of the distinguished Polk family of North Carolina and
j ' Tennessee, to which James Knox Polk, eleventh President of the
\ United States, and Leonidas Polk, Bishop and Confederate General,
I belonged. A brief account also is given of the first two generations
I of Polks in America, in order to show the family connections of
I William Polk of Maryland and North Carolina and his descent from
? Robert Polk, the immigrant ancestor of the family.
i The compiler of the article is indebted to Mr. George Washington
I Polk of San Antonio, Tex., for the line of his ancestor. Brig. Gen.
\ Thomas Polk (5), and for various researches in the line of Capt.
f _ Charles Polk (6), and to Mr. Wihnot Polk Rogers of Berkeley, Calif.,
for the line of his ancestor, Col. Ezekiel Polk (8). Additions and
corrections for this genealogy wUl be welcome, and should be sent to
the compiler.*
*It is not surprising that a family which has furnished a President to the United States, a Bishop-
General to the Confederate Army, and many other men who have acquitted themselves well in
public office or in military or naval service should have engaged the attention of genealogists,
biographers, and historians, and that in consequence a considerable amount of material about
Robert Polk of Maryland and his descendants is already in print. Much of this material belongs
chiefly to the fields of biography or history, but two genealogies of the family should be mentioned
here. The first is found in a series of articles by Miss Mary Winder Garrett, published in 1895-
1899 in the American Historical Magazine of Nashville, Tenn. (vols. 1, 2, 3, and 4), and the second
is a good-sized volume by William Harrison Polk of Lexington, Ky., entitled "Polk Family and '
Kinsmen," published in 1912. This latter work contains an abundance of genealogical and biograph-
ical matter about the Polk family, with many letters and records and with numerous portraits and
other illustrations; but the arrangement of the contents is faulty and inconvenient from the gene-
alogist's point of view, it is difficult to separate the genealogical data from the other material, dates
of birth, marriage, and death are often lacking, and the book is not free from errors. The articles
by Miss Garrett, although much less voluminous and perplexing than the "Polk Family and
Kinsmen," also omit many important dates. It seems, therefore, to the compiler of this article
and to her collaborators that a genealogy of the Southern Polks, arranged on the Register plan
and correcting the errors and supplying the deficiencies of the earUer works, will serve as a useful
guide in tracing descent from Robert Polk of Maryland and will be welcomed by all who are
interested in the historic families of the United States.
134 The Polks of North Carolina, and Tennessee [April
1. Capt. Robert^ Pollock or Polk (as the name became con-
tracted in Maryland), the immigrant ancestor of the Polks of North
Carolina and Teimessee, came to America with his family from co.
Donegal, Ireland,* probably between 1672 and 1680, when John Polk,
his son, registered the earmarks of his cattle, and settled on the East-
ern Shore of Maryland. He died between 6 May 1699, when his will
(on file at Aimapohs, Md.) was dated, and 5 June 1704, when it was
proved. He married, before coming to America, Magdalen (Tasker)
Porter, who made her will (on file in Somerset Co., Md.) 7 Apr.
1726, daughter of Colonel Tasker of Broomfield Castle, near London-
derry, Ireland, a chancellor of Ireland, and widow of Colonel Porter,
in whose regiment, a part of the Parliamentary forces under Crom-
well, Robert Pollock served as captain. On the death of Colonel
Tasker, Broomfield Castle was left to his elder daughter, Barbara,
while Magdalen received another estate of her father's called Moneen,
"lying in the Barony of Rafo, County of Donegal, in the Parish of
Lyford," near the village of Strabane, Ireland. In her wiU of 1726
Magdalen left Moneen to her youngest "son Joseph PoUock and the
heirs of his body forever." Her will begins "I Magdalen PoUock,"
but is signed "Magdalen Polk."
Robert Polk and his sons and grandsons received grants of land
on the Eastern Shore of Maryland from the Lords Baltimore between
1687 ahd 1742,t and in 1689 the names of Robert Polk and his son
John appear on a hst of loyal subjects of Somerset Co., Md., who
addressed a letter to King WiUiam and Queen Mary.
Children (order of births uncertain) :
i. JoHN,2 b. probably in Ireland; d. in 1707; m. (1) Jane , who d.
28 Oct. 1700; m. (2) Joanna Knox, sister of Nancy (Knox) Owens,
the first wife of his brother William. His wiU has not been found,
but a deed from William Kent and his wife to Ephraim Polk
recites that John Polk's will was dated 20 Nov. 1702. He had
devised Locust Hammock and other lands to William Kent, prob-
ably in trust for his (John Polk's) children, and these lands were
afterwards conveyed to the two children. In 1708 their \mcle,
William Polk (2), was appointed their guardian. Children by first
wife (births recorded in the church at Monie, Somerset Co., Md.):
1. William,' b. 11 July 1695; d. in Maryland, probably in 1726, his
wlU being proved 21 Feb. 1726/7; m. his first cousin, Priscilla
Roberts, dau. of Francis and Ann (Polk) (1, vii).t 2. Ann {Nancy),
b. 27 Jan. 1698 [? 1698/9]; m. her first cousin, Edward Roberts, s.
*For statements about the ancestry of Capt. Robert Pollock or Polk see Addendum I to this
article.
tSome of the grants of land in Marj'land issued to Robert Polk, his sons, and his grandsons were:
To Robert Polk, 7 Mar. 1687, "Polke's Lott" and "Polk's Folly;" 8 Nov. 1700, "Bally Hack."
To Ephraim Polk, 20 Sept. 1700, "ClonmeU;" 26 Mar. 1705, "Long Delay;" 27 Mar. 1715,
"Chance;" 10 Dec. 1740, "Hogg yard." To James Polk, 1 June 1705, "James Meadow;" 27
Feb. 1728, "Green Pastures;" 30 Nov. 1730, "White Oak Swamp." To William Polk, 10 July
1725, "Moneen" and "Donigal;" 10 Sept. 1725, "Romas;" 6 Mar. 1728, "Richmond;" 4 Nov.
1735 (to William Polk and Thomas Pollitt), "Come by Chance." To Charles Polk, 14 Mar. 1728,
"Charles Purchase;" 24 July 1733, "Second Purchase;" 2 Nov. 1730, " Charles Advantage." To
David Polk, 14 Oct. 1730 "Plimouth;" 11 Nov. 1742, "Davids Hope." To Joseph Polk, 15 May
1738, "Forlorn Hope Addition." To John Polk, "Dublins Advantage;" 20 Dec. 1741, "John's
Venture." To Robert Polk, 7 July 1739, "Msirgaret's Fancy." In some of these grants the sur-
name is given as PoUock. The total grants from 7 Mar. 1687 to 11 Nov. 1742, so far as known,
amounted to 4,152 acres.
tOn a Polk "Tree" of 1849 this William Polk, son of John, is given as the progenitor of the Polk
family of North Carolina, and this statement was followed by Miss Mary Winder Garrett in her
papers on the Polk family; but a later discovery of records in Maryland and other States shows
that the line as given in this article is correct. Cf. Polk's " Polk Family and Kinsmen," p. 207.
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of Francis and Ann (Polk) (1, vii). 3. John, h. 22 Oct. 1700; d. 29
Oct. 1700.
ii. Robert, b. probably in Ireland; d. between 2 Feb. 1726/7, when his
will was dated, and 10 May 1727, when it was proved,
iii. David, b. probably in Ireland; living 6 May 1699, when he is men-
tioned in his father's will; probably d. intestate; probably m.
NuTTEK, dau. of Christopher.
2. iv. William, b. probably in co. Donegal, Ireland, about 1664.
v. James, d. in 1727, as the probate of his will, dated 8 Nov. 1726,
shows; m. Makt Williams, probably sister of his brother Ephraim's
wife. He left lands to his sons David,' John, James, and Henry, and
daughters Mary, Sarah, Elizabeth, Magdalen, Jane, and Anna.
vi. Ephhaim, b. probably in Ireland about 1671; d. in Somerset Co.,
Md., about 1717/18, his widow giving bonds as administratrix
of his estate on 19 Mar. 1718 [?1717/18]; m., probably about 1700,
Elizabeth Williams, probably sister of the wife of his brother
James. She m. (2) John Laws, and was living aa his wife in 1724.
' . Children: 1. Magdalen,' h. in 1702. 2. Charles. 3. John. 4. Joseph.
5. Ephraim.
vii. Ann, d. probably before 6 May 1699, as she is not mentioned in her
father's will of that date; m. (1) Francis Roberts, a planter, of
Dame's Quarter; m. (2) John R.enshaw, Jr., who subsequently
joined in her bond concerning the estate of her first husband.
Children by first husband (surname Roberts): 1. Edward, m. his
first cousin, Ann Polk (1, i, 2), b. 27 Jan. 1698 [?1698/9], dau. of
John and Jane. 2. PriscUla, m. her first cousin, WiUiam Polk
(1, i, 1), b. 11 July 1695, d. in Maryland, probably in 1726, s. of
John and Jane.
viii. Martha, b. in Maryland about 1679; m. (1) Thomas Pqllett of
Somerset Co., Md.; m. (2) Richard Tull of Dame's Quarter,
records showing that she was his wife in 1710.
ix. Joseph, b. in Maryland about 1681; d. in 1752, aged 71 years; m. (1)
Wright, dau. of Col. Thomas (as is shown by the latter's
will of 8 Feb. 1753); m. (2) , Uving when her husband made
his will. He did not change his surname to Polk, as his brothers
did, but adhered to the older form. Pollock. By his mother's will,
dated 7 Apr. 1726, he received the estate called Moneen, in Ire-
j land, and lived in Ireland for several years. Then he evidently
I disposed of his estate there, and returned to Maryland. His
i brother Robert, in his will of 2 Feb. 1726/7, devised to him "part
i of Forlorn Hope . . . and likewise a certain tract of land called
5 Bally Hack," and on 15 May 1738 he acquired from Lord Balti-
? more land called "Forlorn Hope Addition." In his will, dated 12
• Sept. 1751 and proved 10 Jime 1752, he mentions his son Robert
PoUock, his youngest son James Pollock, his eldest daughter Ann
Pollock, his son Zephaniah PoUock, and his (the testator's)
"beloved wife." Children by first wife: 1. Robert.' 2. Ann.
Children, probably by second wife: 3. Zephaniah. 4. James.
Perhaps another daughter or other daughters.
2. William^ Polk {Robert''-), born probably in co. Donegal, Ire-
land, about 1664, died probably near the end of 1739, as his
will was proved 24 Feb. 1739/40. He married first Nanct
(Knox) Owens, widow, sister of the second wife of his
i brother John (1, i); and secondly Gray, widow,
i probably the mother of Allen Gray, who is mentioned in
\ William Polk's will.
i He lived at the old family home, "White Hall," on the East-
1 ern Shore of Maryland. His two older sons are not mentioned
I in his will, but they probably received their shares in his prop-
i erty and left home after their father's second marriage.
136 The Polks of North Carolina and Tennessee [April
Children by first wife :
i. Elizabeth,' b. about 1695; m. John Williams of Somerset Co., Md.
Children (surname Williams): 1. Mary, to whom her father, in
his will, left a tract of 100 acres of land called "Ramoth." 2. John,
a captain in the Revolution, d. in 1798. Probably two other sons,
who migrated to the Carolinas.
3. ii. William, b. in Maryland, probably at "White Hall," his father's
home, about 1700.
iii. Chaeles, b. probably in 1703; d. between 19 Mar. 1753, when his wiU
was dated, and 20 June 1753, when it was proved; m., probably in
1735, Christian Matson, sister of Ralph. He built a residence
and trading house at the North Bend of the Potomac River, and
was known there as Charles Polk, the Indian trader. In Gist's
Journal it is stated that his name appears in the list of Indian
traders in 1734. On Major's map of 1737 his name is marked with
the names of four other settlers at the North Bend of the Potomac,
where Hancock, Md., now stands. In the spring of 1780 his son,
Capt. Charles Polk, with his brothers William, Edmond, and
Thomas, and their sister, Mrs. Sarah (Polk) Piety, and her chil-
dren, travelled from Pittsburgh, Pa., to Kentucky, and settled
there. Delilah (Tyler) Polk, wife of Capt. Charles Polk, was cap-
tured by Indians, but was recovered.
Children by second wife :
iv. James, b. 17 May 1719; d. in 1770; m. (1) Mart Cottman; m. (2)
Betty Cottman, sister of his first wife. His wiU was proved in
Apr. 1771, in Frederick Co., Md. He and his descendants remained
in Maryland.
V. David, b. in 1721; d. in 1778; m. Betsey Gillis. He Uved at "White
Hall," the old homestead of his father and grandfather. He was
commissioned a Justice of the peace on 8 Jan. 1763, and became a
Colonial judge for Somerset Co., Md. His children remained in
Maryland, where his eldest son, William, was a judge of the Court
of Appeals. This family became connected by marriage with the
families of Lowe, Jenkins, McLane, Cox, Tilghman, Laws, and
many other prominent families.
vi. Jane, b. in 1723; m. James Stravtbridge.
3. William' Polk {William,'^ Robert^), born in ^Maryland, prob-
ably at "White Hall," his father's home, about 1700, died in
North Carolina, "west of the Yadkin," about 1753. He
married Margaret Taylor, who survived him.
Apparently he and his brother Charles left home after his
father married for the second time, and William settled in the
vicinity of what is now Carlisle, Pa., a region then a part of
the frontier. Later he and his family moved to Mecklenburg
Co., N. C.
' Children, born in Cumberland Co., Pa., near the site of the
present Carlisle:
4. i. William.*
ii. Deborah, m. Samuel McLeary.
5. iii. Thomas, b. about 1730.
6. iv. Charles, b. 9 July 1732.
V. Susan, m. Benjamin Alexander. Children (surname Alexander):
1. Charles. 2. Thomas. 3. WilHam, a captain in the Revolution,
called locally "Black Bill." A.Susan. S.Benjamin. G.Taylor.
vi. Margaret, m. Robert McRee of Mecklenburg Co., N. C. Children
(surname McRee): 1. William. 2. Debora. S.James. A.Susan.
5. Dinah. 6. Margaret. 7. Thomas. 8. Harriet. 9. Rachel. 10.
William. 11. Mary.
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7. vii. John, b. probably about 1739.
8. viii. EzEKiEL, b. 7 Dec. 17^7.
4. William* Polk (WiUiam,^ William,^ Robert), born in Cumber-
land Co., Pa., near the site of the present CarUsle, probably
went with his father to North Carolina. He married twice;
but the names of his wives and the number of his children are
unknown.
Children (order of birthsTuncertain) :
i. Thomas,* b. probably in North Carolina; d. at what is now Gibraltar,
N. C, in 1842; m. Maht Shelby of the Chesterfield (S. C.) dis-
trict, sister of Reese and Thomas Shelby. He Hved first on Watson's
Creek, but later removed to Richardson's Creek, settling at the
place called Little Mountain. Afterwards the settlement became
known as Polk's Mountain, and, in 1880, as Gibraltar. Children:
1. Shdby,* d. in 1847: m. Winifred Colburn; emigrated to Ten-
nessee in 1813 ;"seven children. 2. Andrew. 3. Thomas, i. Job. 5.
Hannah. 6. Dicy. 7. Patsy. 8. Mary. 9. Elizaheth.
ii. John, lived on Crooked Creek, in that part of Anson Co., N. C,
which is now Union Co, Later he moved to South Carolina.
iii. EzEKiEL, of North Carolina, d. in 1791. He was ensign in a regiment
of United States Infantry 3 June 1790 (Heitman's Historical Regis-
ter and Dictionary of the United States Army, vol. 1, p. 796). , .
Perhaps other children.
5. Brig. Gen. Thomas* Polk (William,^ William,^ Robert^), born
in Cumberland Co., Pa., near the site of the present Car-
hsle, about 1730, died at Charlotte', N. C, 26 June 1794.
i He married in 1755 Susanna Spratt, daughter of Thomas,
! who was probably the first white settler in Mecklenburg
\ Co., N. C.
Thomas Polk was a surveyor, and settled near the site of the
i present Charlotte, N. C. He was elected to the North Carolina
I Assembly, and remained a member of that body almost con-
I tinuously from 1766 to 1776. He was a trustee of Queen's
; College, the first institution for the education of the young in
i Charlotte. He was an instigator and signer of the so-called
I Mecklenburg Declaration of 1775. On 19 Apr. 1776 he was com-
\ missioned as colonel in the Continental Line, and was assigned
] to Colonel Moore's brigade, at Wilmington, N. C. In the
; spring of 1777 he joined Washington in New Jersey, was
1 assigned to Lord Stirling's division, and was in active service
under Washington until 10 Feb. 1778. He commanded the
escort of the Liberty Bell, when, Philadelphia being threat-
ened, the Bell was removed to Bethlehem, Pa. In the later
years of the Revolution he served in the Southern States, and
. attained the rank of brigadier general. After the War he hved
at his old home in Charlotte, received Lafayette when the
■ latter visited that city, and gave a dinner foY him at his home,
; at which the principal men of the county were entertained.
j For his services in the Revolution he received a land warrant
■: from the North Carolina Assembly for lands in what was then
; Davidson County, now the State of Tennessee; he also bought
1 up many land warrants of soldiers from North Carohna in the
I Continental Line, and went to Tennessee and located them.
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The original land warrant for his services was presented to the
State of Tennessee by one of his descendants, George Washing-
ton Polk of San Antonio, Tex., and is now preserved in
' the State Archives.
Children :
i. Thomas,' a lieutenant in the Revolution, killed at the Battle of
Eutaw Springs, S. C, 8 Sept. 1781; d. unm.
9. ii. William, b. in Mecklenburg Co., N. C, 9 July 1758.
iii. EzEKtEL, lost at sea.
10. iv. Chables, b. near Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N. C.,'about 1762.
V. Maegabet, m. Nathaniel Alexander, Governor of North Caro-
lina from 1805 to 1807. No issue.
vi. Mary, m. David Brown. Three children, all of whom died in child-
hood.
vii. Martha, m. Dr. Ephraim Brevard, a prominent patriot of
Mecklenburg County, N. C, who served in the Revolution. Child
, (surname Brevard): 1. Mary, m. Dickinson of South Caro-
lina; she left one chUd, James Polk, who was lieutenant colonel in
Butler's regiment in the Mexican War and was mortally wounded
at the Battle of Churubusco, 20 Aug. 1847.
viii. James, m. Moore, dau. of Colonel Moore. No issue.
6. Capt. Charles* Polk (William,^ William,^ Robert^), born in
I Cumberland Co., Pa., near the site of the present Carhsle,
9 July 1732, died in Mecklenburg Co., N. C, 10 Mar. 1821.
I He married first, in Mar. 1762, IMaey Clark, born in Jime
I 1744, died 8 Oct. 1776; and secondly, 5 Feb. 1782, Philopena
I Helms, born 10 June 1764, died 12 Jan. 1849.
I About 1750 he migrated with his parents to North Carolina.
: When he grew to manhood, he acquired lands in Mecklen-
I burg Co., and Uved there until his death.
I He was a heutenant, 7 June 1766, in Capt. Adam Alexander's
I company of militia (the Clear Creek Company), as is proved
I by a recorded list of that company. He took an active part in
I the Revolution, served in the campaign against the Scotch
i Highland Tories, and was captain of the Brunswick Light
I Horse. The pension granted his widow for his Revolutionary
i services was for "five months' service as Captain of Cavalry,
I nine months as Captain of Infantry, and nine months and
nineteen days as Captain of Cavalry." The record also states
that he served under Lieut. Col. William Polk and that he was
a brother of Gen. Thomas and of John and Ezekiel Polk.
His will, recorded in Mecklenburg Co., N. C, names as his
executors his brother-in-law, Rev. Jacob Helms, and his son,
George Washington Polk.
Children by first wife :
i. Peggy,' b. 25 Dec. 1764; m. William Freeman, b.'24 June 1765.
ii. John, b. 17 Nov. 1766; m. Esther Pool. He migrated to Hardeman
Co., Tenn.
1 iii. Deborah, b. 10 Dec. 1768; m. Gideon Freeman, b. 12 July 1769.
[ iv. Thomas, b. 28 Feb. 1771; m. Keziah Prior, b. 18 Feb. 1763, d. in
t 1842. He migrated to Hardeman Co., Tenn.
I 11. V. Michael, b. in Mecklenburg Co., N. C, 20 June 1774.
I vi. Mary, b. 24 Sept. 1776; m. John Brooks.
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Children by second wife:
12. vii. Chables, b. in Mecklenburg Co., N. C, 15 Mar. 1784.
viii. William, b. 10 Apr. 1786. He migrated to Hardeman Co., Tenn.,
and his later history has not been traced,
ix. Susanna, b. 19 June 1788.
X. EzEKiEL, b. 9 June 1791. He migrated to Hardeman Co., Tenn.
xi. Mahtha Washington, b. 4 May 1794; m. Moses Shelby. They
moved to Tennessee.
xii. Geokgb Washington, b. 18 Sept. 1799; m. 4 Dec. 1823 Mabgahet
Gakman, b. 10 May 1804. Children: 1. Martha," b. 6 Oct. 1824. 2.
Phehe, b. 10 June 1826. 3. Charles H., h. 23 Apr. 1828. 4. Mary S.,
b. 2 Mar. 1830. 5. John P., b. 12 May 1832. 6. Tabitha, b. 28 Feb.
1 1834. 7. William S., b. 18 Feb. 1836. 8. James, b. 17 Jan. 1838.
I 9. Henry M., b. 22 Dec. 1840. 10. George W., b. 27 Sept. 1841;
' d. 6 Jime 1851. 11. Margaret, b. 3 June 1843. 12. Alphonso, b. and
d. 11 July 1845.
xiii. Eleanor, b. 16 Jan. 1804.
7. Capt. JoH>f^ Polk (William,^ William,'^ Roherf), bom in Cum-
berland Co., Pa., near the site of the present Carlisle, probably
i about 1739, died probably early in 1785, as on 9 Sept. of that
1 year the Assembly of North Carolina issued Land Warrant
{ No. 2149 "to the heirs of John Polk" for " 1000 acres of land
I within the limits of the land reserved by law for the officers
I and soldiers of the Continental line of this State." He married,
I 2 Oct. 1758, Eleanor Shelby, daughter of Gen. Evan,*
John Polk went with his parents to Mecklenbiu-g Co., N. C,
about 1750, and in a deed of 1763, on file at Charlotte, he is
styled "a planter." BSs wife "Elloner" joined with him in
signing a deed in the same county in 1764. His name is given
as the author of a petition in 1765 to the Governor and Council,
complaining, with his neighbors, of the acts of the chief agent
of the large Selwyn grant, on which they lived. On 7 June 1766
he appears as a member of the Clear Creek Company of mi-
litia, commanded by Capt. Adam Alexander, in which his
older brother Charles (6) was a Ueutenant. By acts of the
General Assembly of the Province in 1766, 1771, and 1773, he
was made a member of commissions charged with laying out
roads to connect the western counties with Wilmington and
Brunswick Co. He was an officer in Col. Francis Locke's regi-
ment, which was raised to meet the Loyalists then gathering,
and which fought a few days later at the Battle of Ramseur's
Mills. At various times he served as captain in the militia of
that region, when it was called out by the Conmiittee of Safety.
*Gen. Evan Shelby was born in Carnarvonshire, Wales, about 1720, and died at his home at
Sapling Grove, Tenn., 4 Dec. 1794. He came with his parents, Evan and Catherine (Davies)
Shelby, to Maryland, where they settled near the North Mountain. He married first Letitia Cox,
who died in 1777, aged 54 (tombstone record), and was buried at Charlottesville, Va.; and secondly
Isabella EUiott. He lived for a time near Salem, N. C. He was present at Braddock's defeat as a
captain of Rangers, was a captain in the French and Indian War that followed, and served through-
out the war under General Forbes. After his superior officers had been killed or disabled in the
battle with the Indians at Point Pleasant, Va., 10 Oct. 1774, he assumed command in the field and
routed the enemy. In 1779 he led a successful expedition against the Chickamaugas. He was
made a brigadier general in the Militia of Virginia. For his standing as a man, officer, and states-
man see Roosevelt's "Winning of the West." His children were: 1. Eleanor, m. Capt. John Polk (7).
2. Sxisanna. 3. John. 4. Isaac. 5. Evan. 6. Moses. 7. James. 8. Catherine. Mary Shelby, a kins-
woman of Eleanor, m. Col. Adam Alexander.
140 The Polks of North Carolina and Tennessee [April
An affidavit concerning the service of Capt. Charles Polk (6), on
file in the Pension Office in Washington, contains a declaration
■ that John Polk was appointed Indian Agent for the Catawba
Indians. By the efforts of local officers in North Carolina
these Indians were kept friendly during the Revolution, but
'they were not wards of the Government.*
Children :
13. i. Chahles,* b. in Mecklenburg Co., N. C, 18 Jan. 1760.
14. ii. John, b. probably in Mecklenburg Co., N. C, in 1767.
iil. Shelby.
15. iv. Taylor, b. in North Carolina about 1780.
V. Eleanor. Her place in the list of children is uncertain. Perhaps she
d. young.
8. Col. Ezekiel* Polk (William^, William,^ Robert^) , born in Cumber-
land Co., Pa., near the site of the present Carlisle, 7 Dec. 1747,
died near BoUvar, Hardeman Co., Tenn., 31 Aug. 1824, and
was buried in Riverside Cemetery. He married first, in
Mecklenburg County, N. C, about 1769, Mary Wilson,
who died probably before 1790, daughter of Samuel ;t sec-
ondly, probably, Bessie Davis, although some say that her
name was PoUy Campbell; and thirdly, in Maury Co., Tenn.,
in 1812 or 1813, Sophia (Neelt) Lennard, daughter of
James Neely,
He was taken by his parents to Mecklenburg Co. , N. C. , about
1750, and, when he came to manhood, acquired considerable
property there. The official records show that he was clerk
of Tiyon Co. (now abolished^), N. C, in 1770-1772. Some
time between 1772 and 1775 he moved across the border and
settled in York Co., S. C, west of the Catawba River. There,
in 1775, he was Ueutenant colonel of the Twelfth Regiment of
South Carohna MUitia, for the New Acquisition District, § a
district largely settled by the overflow from Mecklenburg
Co. In 1775 the Provincial Congress of South Carolina estab-
lished the Council of Safety, and authorized the organization
of three regiments of troops; and on 18 June 1775 Ezekiel
Polk was made captain of the second company in the regiment
commanded by Colonel Thompson, and proceeded to march to
Ninety-Six. On 28 July 1775 Captain Polk and his company
returned to their homes in York Co., and he became active as
lieutenant colonel in the miUtia of his district; but that his
company of Rangers was held intact, although the men were
allowed to return to their homes, is clear from a first return of
the company, covering the period from 18 June to 7 Oct. 1775,
*For information about the services of John Polk see Colonial Records of North Carolina and
State Records of North Carolina.
fSamuel Wilson came into the Mecklenburg region about 1752. He was a man of high education
and of considerable wealth, and was visited there by his kinsman. Sir Robert Wilson. His first
wife was Marj' Winslow, daughter of Moses and Jean (Osbourne) . His third wife was Margaret
Jack. His daughter Violet married Maj. John Davidson. (History of Mecklenburg Co>inty, p. 10,
by Dr. J. B. Alexander.)
JBecause of the unpopularity of William Tryon, at one time the royal governor of North
Carolina, the General Assembly of North Carolina, in 1779, abolished Tryon County and out of
its territory organized two new counties, Lincoln and Rutherford.
§Cf. South Carolina in the Revolution, p. 12.
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- which shows that its personnel was the same when it was
called back into service on 21 Aug. as when it was first recruited
in June and July. He was in command of this company of
Rangers in the "Snow" campaign against the Tories in the
back district. About the time when the British abandoned
their attempts to take Charleston, the Indians and Tories on
the western frontier began to make raids and to massacre; and
Colonel Thomas's regiment of militia, with that of Colonel
Neil, of which Ezekiel Polk was lieutenant colonel, was sent
against them. In three months the Patriots were victorious,
and the, troops returned home and were disbanded. After
^ CornwaUis's retreat from Mecklenburg Co., N. C, Captain
Polk did not return to York Co., S. C, where his property had
been confiscated by' the enemy, but made his home on Sugar
Creek, in Mecklenburg Co. After Sumter was made brigadier
general and was authorized to raise regiments in South Caro-
■ lina to cooperate with General Greene, one of these regiments
was placed imder the command of Ezekiel Polk.* From this
time to the end of the War he continued to serve under Sumter
and in the militia, except for several months in 1781 or 1782
which he spent in Pennsylvania.
Shortly before 1790 he migrated with his family to the
Western District, as Tennessee was then called, where he had
acquired large tracts of land by the purchase of land warrants
from Revolutionary soldiers. In 1790 Governor Blount
appointed him justice of the peace in Tennessee Co. In 1806
he was living in Williamson Co., Tenn., as is shown by a deed
of gift of 300 acres of land on Carter's Creek to his daughter
MatUda, wife of John Campbell. In 1811 he was a member
I of the grand jury formed to "inquire into the body" of Maury
I Co., Tenn. In 1820 he moved, with his sons Samuel and Wil-
s . liam and his sons-in-law Col. Thomas Jones Hardeman and
i Thomas McNeal and their families, and founded the first
• white settlement in Hardeman Co., Tenn., which was named
[ for his pioneer son-in-law; and there he died.
1 Children by first wife :
'; 16. i. Thomas* (twin), b., probably in Tryon Co., N. C, 5 Dec. 1770.
ii. Matilda Golden (twin), b. 5 Dec. 1770, it is supposed, as she is
called "twin of Thomas" in early Polk records and his birth date
is known to be as here given; d. at Springfield, Mo., 20 Sept. 1853;
m. (1) 3 May 1792 John Campbell, b. in Pennsylvania, d. in 1816,
being lost on a trading trip (on which cotton and molasses were
loaded on barges) down the Mississippi to New Orleans; m. (2) in
Maury Co., Tenn., in Dec. 1821, Philip Jenkins. In 1835 she and
' her children migrated from Maury Co., Tenn., to Missouri, and
I settled near Springfield. Her first husband served in the Revolu-
tion as a Ueutenant of Artillery in Capt. Mott's company, in the
! Second North Carohna Regiment, commanded by Charles Lamb.
I His will is dated 21 Apr. 1816, and he died within two months after
j that date. Children byfirst husband (surname Camp6eH):tl-^^«wi/>
I*Cf. SmUh Carolina Historical aruL Genealogical Magazine, vol. 2, p. 105, and Year Book, City
of Charleston, 1899, pp. 25, 37, 49.
; tin addition to the children whose names are here given, there were other children of this mar-
I riage who died young.
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142 The Polks of North Carolina and Tennessee [April
b., probably in Mecklenburg Co., N. C, 21 Mar. 1795; m. Joseph
Miller; three children, perhaps more. 2. Robert, b., probably in
Mecklenburg Co., N. C, 5 July 1797; d. at Columbia, Tenn., 1
Dec. 1852; m. his second cousin, Elizabeth Polk (14, v), b. 9 Oct.
1796, d. at Columbia, Term., 8 July 1856, dau. of John and Eliza-
beth (Alderson); on the records of Maury Co., Tenn., this Robert
Campbell is called Robert, Jr., to distinguish him from his father^s
brother, Robert, Sr.; eight children, the seventh of whom, Matilda
Jane, b. in Maury Co., Tenn., 10 Sept. 1826, d. at Danville, Ky.,
15 June 1894, m. in Maury Co., Tenn., 4 July 1848, Washington
Curran Whitthorne, s. of Jarvis and Eliza Joyce (Wisener), who was
b. in Marshall Co., Tenn., 19 Apr. 1825, d. at Columbia, Tenn., 21
Sept. 1891, was graduated at East Tennessee University in 1843,
studied law at Columbia under Hon. James Knox Polk, was a
member of the State Senate, 1855-1858, speaker of the Tennessee
House, 1859, a presidential elector, on the Breckinridge ticket, in
1860, adjutant general of the State in the Civil War, and (his
disabihties having been removed by act of Congress in 1870) a
Democratic representative in the Fortj'-second and in the five
succeeding Congresses (1871-1883), was appointed and subse-
quently elected United States Senator, as a Democrat, for the
unexpired term of Howell E. Jackson, served as senator from 16
Apr. 1886 to 4 Mar. 1887, and was a representative in the Fiftieth
and Fifty-first Congresses (1887-1891). 3. Eliza Eugenia, b.,
probably in Mecklenburg Co., N. C, 24 May 1800; d. at Car-
ter's Creek, Tenn., 27 July 1856; m. 8 Jan. 1819 Abden Indepen-
dence Alexander, b. 4 July 1798, d. 1 Oct. 1868, s. of Eliazer (b.
23 Nov. 1763) and Margaret (Carter) (b. 19 Sept. 1770); eleven
children. 4. Ezekid Madison, b. in Mecklenburg Co., N. C, 21
July 1802; d. in Polk Co., Mo., 22 Sept. 1874; m. in Maurv Co.,
Tenn., in 1821, Rebecca Patton Adkins, b. in 1800, d. in 1876;
ten children, of whom two, James Madison and Robert Bruce,
served in the Confederate Army, the latter dying in that service.
5. John Polk, b. in Mecklenburg Co., N. €., 29 Mar. 1804; d. at
Tallequah, Indian Territory, 28 May 1852- m. in Maury Co.,
Tenn., 28 May 1827, Louise TerriU Cheairs, dau. of Nathaniel and
Sarah (Hall); he served imder General Price in the Mexican War,
attaining the rank of major in Colonel Doniphan's regiment; ten
children, of whom four served in the Confederate Army, viz., John
Nathaniel, a captain in the Thirtieth Mississippi Infantry, Leoni-
das Adolphus Cadwallader, heutenant colonel in the Third Missouri
Infantry, and Thomas Polk and Samuel Independence, soldiers in
the same regiment. 6. William St. Clair, h. probably in Maury
Co., Term., 16 May 1808; d. near Humboldt River, Nev., en route
to CaHfornia, 24 July 1852; m. (1) 20 Feb. 1826 Mildred Ann
Blackman; m. (2) 7 July 1848 Sarah Nichol; six children (three by
each wife), of whom the eldest, Leonidas Caldwell, was a captain
and later a colonel in the Confederate Army. 7. Matilda Golden, b.
in Maury Co., Tenn., 14 Apr. 1809; d. at Springfield, Mo., in Nov.
1870; m. in Maury Co., Tenn., Stephen Blackman; seven children.
8. Junius Tennessee, b. in Maury Co., Tenn., 24 June 1812; d. at
Springfield, Mo., 16 Mar. 1877; m. at Springfield, 16 May 1832,
Mary Ann Blackwell; eleven children. 9. Caroline Huntley, h. in
Maury Co., Tenn., 14 Mar. 1814; m. Hardeman; no issue.
10. Samuel Polk, h. in Maury Co., Tenn., 4 May 1816; d. unm. at
Springfield, Mo., 6 July 1835.
17. iii. Samttel, b., probably in Trj-on Co., N. C, 5 July 1772.
iv. John, b. probably in York Co., S. C, in 1774, but according to the
Polk Tree of 1849 he was younger than his brother William Wilson,
who was b. 10 Sept. 1776. The Tree also shows that he had two
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daughters. 1. Olivia Mary,* m. Prior, and had three chil-
dren. 2. Angelina, m. Crawford.*
18. V. William Wilson, b., probably in York Co., S. C, a few miles over
the Une from Mecklenburg Co., N. C, 10 Sept. 1776.
vi. Clarissa, b., probably in Mecklenburg Co., N. C, 25 Dec. 1782; d.
at Bolivar, Tenn., 8 Dec. 1846; m. in Wilhamson Co. Gater Maury
Co.), Tenn., in 1803, Col. Thomas McNEAL.f Children (surname
McNeal): 1. Ezekid Polk, b. in Maury Co., Tenn., 6 Sept. 1804;
d. at Bolivar, Tenn., 10 Dec. 1886; m. at BoHvar, in 1835, Anne
WiUiams; one daughter, PriscUla, b. 5 Apr. 1836, d. unm. in 1854.
2. Mary Eliza, h. in Maury Co., Tenn., 16 Sept. 1806; d. at Bohvar,
Tenn., 10 Sept. 1853; m. in Hardeman Co., Term., Mark R. Roberts;
she migrated to Fannin Co., Tex., about 1835; fourteen children.
3. Prudence Tate, b. in Maury Co., Tenn., 29 Jan. 1809; d. at Boli-
var, Term., 14 Aug. 1840; m. at Hatchie (now BoHvar), Hardeman
t Co., Tenn., 9 Sept. 1823, Maj. John Houston Bills, s. of Isaac and
Lillias (Houston) and nephew of Gen. Sam Houston of Texas; eight
children. 4. Albert Thomas, h. in Maury Co., Term., 28 Jan. 1811;
d. at Coffeeville, Miss., 3 Sept. 1844; m. in 1839 Mary Jane Dunlap,
dau. of and Mary (Blair); two children. 5. Jane Frances,
b. 11 May 1813; d. at Prairie Lea, Tex., 25 June 1852; m. at BoUvar,
Tenn., 14 Oct., 1829, Dr. David FranMin Brown, b. 17 Mar. 1801,
] d. 7 Nov. 1869, s. of Dr. Joseph of Giles Co., Tenn. ; she was edu-
I cated at Miss Trumbull's school in Baltimore, Md., moved with
; her family to Texas in 1838, and settled on the Colorado River
I about three mQes from Bastrop; eight children, of whom Albert
I Polk was a sergeant in Company A, Fourth Texas Infantry, Hood's
I brigade in the Confederate Anny, was mortally wounded in the
t • Battle of Gaines' Mills, Va., 27 June 1862, and d. unm. at Rich-
1 mond, Va., 14 Aug. 1862, and Lycurgus McNeal, a member of the
I same company, d. unm. in camp near Humphries, Va., 27 Dec.
t 1861. 6. Samud L., b. in Maury Co., Tenn., 1 Dec. 1815; d.
i unm. at Nashville, Tenn., 5 Sept. 1871. 7. Evelina Louisa, b. in
] Maury Co., Tenn., 26 July 1818; d. at Bolivar, Tenn., 20 Oct.
I 1855; m. (1) at Bolivar, in 1837, Erasmus McDowell; m. (2)
f at Bolivar, in 1841, Dr. George Boddie Peters; seven children by
\ second husband, of whom Thomas McNeal served as second lieu-
{ tenant of Artillery in the Confederate Army (Capt. Marshall T.
\ Polk's battery, Cheatham's division) and James Arthur, who had
J entered the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md., in
I 1860 but had resigned from the Academy in 1861, served in the
' Confederate Navy and later in the Confederate Army. 8. William
Wallace, b. in Maury Co., Tenn., 28 Sept. 1821; d. at Lockhart,
] ■ - Tex., 7 Apr. 1870; m. at Bohvar, Tenn., 26 Nov. 1844, EUzabeth
; ' Walker Barry; he migrated to Texas soon after his marriage, and
settled at Lockhart; two sons.
vii. Mary, b. probably in Mecklenburg Co., N. C, about 1784; d. at Boh-
var, Tenn., about 1830; m. in Maury Co., Tenn., about 1814, Col.
Thomas Jokes Hardeman.} Soon after his wife's death Colonel
Hardeman, with his children, migrated to Texas, settUng near
Smithville, Bastrop Co., where his old home, now owned by his
youngest daughter, still stands. He took an active part in the war
for Texan independence, and later was a member of the Congress
of the Republic of Texas. Children (surname Hardeman): 1.
*A deed on file at Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N. C, shows that John Wilson gave land in
Burke Co., N. C, to "my sister Mary's son John Polk." Unfortunately the early records of Burke
' County were destroyed during the Civil War.
■ tPhelan's History of Tennessee, p. 306, states that the first settlement in Hardeman Co. was
made near Hickory Valley by Ezekiel Polk and his sons-in-law, Thomas McXeal and Col. -Thomas
i J. Hardeman, and that the County Court was organized at the house of Thomas McNeal. Maj.
', John H. Bills and Prudence McXeal were the first couple in this vicinity united in marriage under
; the laws of civilization.
j JOne of the first settlers in Hardeman Co., Tenn. He was a brother of Bailey Hardeman, the
1 first secretary of war of the Republic of Texas.
144 The Polks of North Carolina and Tennessee [April
Thomas Monroe, b. in Maury Co., Term., 30 Oct. 1815; d. at Knox-
ville,' Tenn., 14 Sept. 1862, while a member of Hood's brigade in
the Confederate Army; m. in Bastrop Co., Tex., 16 Apr. 1843, Susan
) Anna Burleson, dau. of Joseph; he was educated at Nashville,
I Tenn., as a lawyer, returned to Texas in 1834, and was in General
s Bvurleson's command; four children. 2. William P., b. in Maury
I Co., Tenn., 4 Nov. 1816; d. at Austin, Tex., 8 Apr. 1898; m. (1) in
I 1842 Rebecca Amanda Wilson, who d. 15 Oct. 1853; m. (2) at
Prairie Lea, Tex., 27 Dec. 1857, Sarah Ann (Hamilton) Reade, who
d. 8 Nov. 1869, dau. of John and Ann (Good) HamOton; m. (3) at
Austin, Tex., 5 Feb. 1874, Mary Elizabeth Collins, who d. 13 Mar.
1911 ; he migrated with his father to Texas about 1830, later served
in the Texan Army, and attained the rank of brigadier general in
the Confederate Army; he resided in Caldwell Co., Tex., until 1876,
when he moved to Austin; two daughters by first wife, five chil-
dren by second wife. 3. Owen Bailey, b. in Maury Co., Tenn., 25
Dec. 1819; d. at Weatherford, Tex., 3 Sept. 1890; m. at Brenham,
Tex., 30 Apr. 1849, Sarah Meredith Berry, who d. 6 Sept. 1911;
five children. 4. Mary Ophelia, b. in Maury Co., Tenn., about
1823; d. at Prairie Lea, Tex.; m. near Bastrop, Tex., 8 June 1841,
Dr. James Fentress; her only son, Thomas Hardeman, b. near
Bastrop, was killed in the Battle of Val Verde, near Albuquerque,
N. Mex., 8 Apr. 1862, while serving in the Fourth Texas Cavalry,
Green's brigade, in the Confederate Army. 5. Leonidas Polk, h. at
I Bolivar, Tenn., 26 Mar. 1825; d. at Prairie Lea. Tex., 26 Feb. 1892;
I m. at Lockhart, Tex., 8 Jan. 1852, Tullius [sic] Leonora Hamilton,
I ' b. 16 Oct. 1834, d. 8 Jan. 1904, dau. of John A.; he served in the
I Mexican War, enlisted 4 Feb. 1862 in the Confederate Army, was
I • made second lieutenant, 16 May 1862, in Col. William P. Harde-
I . man's regiment, Green's brigade, and served throughout the war,
I attaining the rank of captain; three children.
I viiL Louisa, b. probably in Mecklenburg Co., N. C, about 1787; d. at
I Bolivar, Tenn., 20 Dec. 1869; m. (1) in Maury Co., Tenn., about
1 1807, Capt. Charles Rufus Neelt, b. in Virginia about 1787,
I . d. near Tuscumbia, Ala., in 1820; m. (2) in Hardeman Co., Tenn.,
5 Db. Clinton C. Collieb. Her first husband. Captain Neely,
'= migrated to Tennessee when he was yoimg, and afterwards settled
I near Tuscumbia, Ala. He attained the rank of captain in the War
I of 1812. Children by first husband (surname Neely): 1. Rufris
; Polk, b. in Maury Co., Tenn., 26 Nov. 1808; died at BoUvar, Tenn.,
J 10 Aug. 1901; m. at Bolivar, 18 May 1829, Elizabeth Lea, dau. of
-; John M. and Catherine _ (McClyment) of Philadelphia, Pa.; f9r
J several years he was register and coimty clerk of Maury Co. ; in
I 1839, as captain of militia, he led a company to assist in removing
I N the Indians to their new territory; he was a member of the State
^ Legislature, 1839^0, and was brigadier general of the Militia of
Tennessee; early in 1861 he was appointed captain of Company B,
Fovu-th Tennessee Infantrj', Confederate Army, and in May was
made colonel of the regiment; eleven children, b. at BoUvar, of
whom Charles Lea was killed in the Battle of Brice Cross Roads,
10 June 1864, while serving in the Confederate Army. 2. Mary
Catherine, b. in Maury Co., Tenn., 16 Jan. 1811; d. at Austin, Tex.,
19 July 1896; m. at Bolivar, Tenn., 29 June 1829, William Woods
Atwood, who d. 2 Jan. 1871; six children, of whom Rufus Neely
enlisted in 1862 in the Confederate Army, was taken prisoner in
Feb. 1862 at the fall of Fort Donelson, Term., and d. imm. in a
military prison at Chicago, HI., 7 Mar. 1863. 3. Adela Clarissa, m.
I (1) James Bell; m. (2) Thomas Chambliss; m. (3) Col. John Pope
i • "of Memphis, Term.; one child by first husband, who d. in infancy.
j 4. James Jackson, m. Fanny Stephens. 5. Thomas, m. Sarah Fort;
t one child, William, d. young; perhaps other children. 6. Fanny, d.
> unm. 7. William, d. xinm.
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Children by third wife:*
19. ix. Charles Perrt, b. in Maury Co., Term., 27 Oct. 1813.
X. Eugenia, b. in Maury Co., Tenn.^* d. at Wilburton, Okla., 16 Oct.
1895; m. in Hardeman Co., Tenn., Alexander Neilson. Children
(surname Neilson): 1. Hitgh, d. unm. 2. Sarah, d. unm. 3. Wil-
liam, d. unm. 4. Ada, d. vmm. 5 Charles, h. at Bolivar, Tenn.; d.
at Corinth, Miss.; m. at West Point, Miss., Hattie Williams; one
child, Charles, who d. in infancy. 6. Sophia, h. at Bolivar, Tenn.;
m. at Corinth, Miss., George Cox; no issue. 7. Benigna Ellen, b. at
Bolivar, Tenn., 22 Feb. 1856; m. at Corinth, Miss., 19 Nov. 1873,
Charles Henry Reed, s. of James Crownover and Mary (Phillips) ;
residence, McAlester, Okla.; four daughters.
xi. Benigna, b. in Maury Co.. Tenn., 30 Jidy 1816; d. at Memphis,
Tenn., 27 Jan. 1886; m. in Hardeman Cfo., Tenn., 18 July 1834,
William Henry Wood, s. of Drury and Matilda (Carr). Children
(surname Wood): 1. Mary Morton, b. at Bolivar, Tenn., 22 May
^ 1835; m. at Bohvar. 8 July 1858, Napoleon Hill, s. of Duncan and
Lillias Olivia (Bills); residencej Memphis, Tenn.; seven children,
b. at Memphis. 2. Matilda, d. in infancy. 3. James, d. in infancy.
4. Benigna Durdap, h. at Bolivar, Tenn., 27 Nov. 1843; m. at
Memphis, Tenn., 30 July 1866, James Henry Martin, s. of John A.
and Nancy, captain in the Seventh Tennessee Infantry, Confeder-
ate Army; residence, Memphis; nine children.
xii. Edwin FrrzHiTGH, b. in Maury Co., Tenn., 6 May 1818; d. at Bolivar,
Tenn.; m. at Bolivar, 30 July 1846, Octavia Rowena Jones, dau.
of Calvin. Children: 1. Pauline,^ d. in idfancy. 2. Octavia, b. at
Bolivar 10 Mar. 1848: m. at Bolivar, 7 Sept. 1869, Tudor F. Brooks;
residence, "Mecklen, near Bolivar; no issue.
[To be continued]
REV. CYRUS HYDE FAY'S RECORD OF MARRIAGES,
1840-1901
Communicated by Charles Ernest Fat, A.M., Ldtt.D., of Tufts College, Mass.
This article gives the essential facts found in a manuscript record,
kept by Rev. Cyrus Hyde Fay, D.D., LL.D., of the marriages
solemnized by him during a period of more than sixty years (1840-
1901) and in many different places.
Cyrus Hyde Fay was born at Lebanon, N. H., 19 Nov. 1815, and
died at Stamford, N. Y., 23 July 1903. He was educated at Norwich
University, Vt., where he was a member of the Class of 1837, entered
the Universahst ministry, held pastorates in Roxbury, Mass., New
York City, Nashua, N. H., Middletown, Conn., Providence, R I.,
and Washington, D. C, and was often called on to perform the
marriage ceremony in other places. Saint Lawrence University,
Canton, N. Y., bestowed on him in 1887 the degree of Doctor of
Divinity, and Norwich University in 1892 admitted him to the
degree of Doctor of Laws,
In preparing this record for pubHcation the words "I married,"
with which almost all of the entries begin, have been omitted, dates
have been given with the usual abbreviations and have been trans-
*By his second wile Col. Ezekiel Polk probably had children who died yourg.
146 Rev. Cyrus Hyde Fay's Record of Marriages [April
ferred from the margin to the text of the entry, and the names of
places, often abbreviated, have been printed in full. The names of
persons have been spelled -exactly as in the manuscript record.
The customary abbreviations have been used for the names of
States, and the punctuation has been revised.
At Bridgewater, Windsor Co., Vt., July 17, 1840, Napoleon B. Southgate
of Bridgewater and Polly Moulton of Randolph, Orange Co., Vt.
At Woodstock, Windsor Co., Vt., Oct. 5, 1840, Walter Lyon of Detroit,
Mich,, and Huldah E; Lake of Woodstock.
In Roxbury,* Jan. 25, 1841, ]\lr. Daniel C. Bates and Miss Mary H. Bugbee,
both of Roxbury.
In Roxbury, Apr. 22, 1841, Mr. Charles Pratt of Boston and Miss Sarah
Cobb of Roxbury.
In Roxbury, May 6, 1841, I\lr. Henry R. Taylor and Miss Susan York
Sawyer.
In Roxbury, May 23, 1841, Mr. James T. Bicknell and Miss Caroline Newell,
both of Roxbury.
In Roxbury, June L3, 1841, Mr. Wm. Rumrill and Miss Nancy Young, both
of Roxbury.
In Roxbury, June 19, 1841, Mr. William Mugridge and Miss Eliza Ann
Stephens, both of Roxbury.
In Boston, July 4, 1841, Mr. Philander A. Jones and Miss Emily Wheeler,
both of Boston.
In Roxbury, Aug. 15, 1841, Mr. Hosea B. Stiles and Miss Sarah Mirick,
both of Roxbury.
In Boston, Aug. 27, 1841, Mr. William A. Knight of Providence, R. I., and
Miss Ellen P. Webber of Roxbury.
In Roxbury, Aug. 29, 1841, IVIr. Benj. F. James and Miss Sarah Haynes,
both of Roxbury.
In Roxbury, Sept. 8, 1841, Mr. Charles Leroy of Roxbury and I\Iiss Sarah
Ann Humphrey of Brookline.
In Roxbury, Nov. 28, 1841, Mr. Ezekiel W. Cutter and Miss Eliza S. Rich-
ards, both of Roxbury.
Jan. 12, 1842, Mr. Spencer Cook and Miss Almira L. Smith, both of Roxbury.
In Dorchester, Apr. 14, 1842, Mr. James F. Twombly of Wobum and Miss
Beulah A. EUis of Dorchester.
In Dorchester, Apr. 28, 1842, Mr. George Rixford and Miss Sarah A.
Harrod of Dorchester.
In Roxbury, May 4, 1842, Mr. Ephraim Capen of Dorchester and Aliss
Mary T. Lucas.
In Roxbury, June 12, 1842, Mr. John Hall and IMiss Elizabeth R. Freeman,
both of Roxbury.
In Roxbury, June 14, 1842, Mr. Henry H. Richardson and IVIiss Celia F.
Marsh, both of Roxbury.
In Roxbury, July 3, 1842, IMr. George Reed of Newton and Miss Tabitha
Rich of Roxbury.
In Roxbury, July 21, 1842, Mr. Ebenezer W. Scott and Miss Sarepta \\Tiite,
both of Watertown.
In Roxbury, Oct. 1, 1842, Mr. Daniel Spalding of Nashville, N. H., and j\Iiss
Julia M. J. Williams of Roxbury.
In Roxbury, Oct. 2, 1842, JNlr. John F. Miller and ^Miss Harriet L. Smith,
both of Roxbury.
•The Roxbury named in this and the following entries is Roxbary, Mass., as appears from the
heading placed by Dr. Fay above this section of marriages. '
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In Boston, Oct. 6, 1842, Mr. Ashley Pannlee and Miss Harriet Mudge, both
of Boston.
In Roxbury, Nov, 9, 1842, Mr. Oliver H. Whittemore of Sharon and Miss
Frances M. BuUard of Roxbiuy.
In Roxbury, Nov. 17, 1842, Mr. Wm. M. Oliver and Miss Abby J. B. Far-
rington, both of Roxbury.
In Roxbury, Dec. 11, 1842, Mr. Augustus Allen and Miss Adeline Smith,
both of Roxbury.
In Roxbury, Jan. 1, 1843, Mr. Robert J. Douglass and Miss Elizabeth Cox,
both of Boston.
In Roxbury, Mar. 2, 1843, Mr. William Seaver and Miss Martha P. Went-
worth, both of Roxbury.
I In Roxbury, Mar. 26, 1843, Mr. Eben H. Folsom and Miss Harriet B. Bell,
I both of Roxbury.
In Roxbury, May 11, 1843, Mr. George B. Monroe and Miss Sarah B.
Massy, both of Roxbury.
In Roxbury, May 28, 1843, Mr. Josiah M. Russell and Miss Susan M.
Haynes, both of Roxbiuy.
In Roxbury, June 18, 1843, Mj. John Parker and Miss Rebecca Yoimg, both
i of Roxbury.
.; In Roxbury, July 16, 1843, Mr. William 0. Wallis of Chelsea and Miss
I Elvena S. Tapley of Danvers.
\ In Roxbury, Oct. 5, 1843, Mr. Joseph Cheney and Miss Abby Brown, both
I of Roxbury.
I In South Boston, Nov. 26, 1843, Mr. Stephen Gulliver of Dorchester and
f Mrs. Mary Downing of South Boston.
In Roxbury, Nov. 29, 1843, Mr. John Bery and Miss Catharine M. Smith,
both of Roxbury.
In Roxbury, Nov. 30, 1843, Mr. John F. Estabrook of Westborough and
Miss Mary E..Drew of Roxbiuy.
5 In Roxbury, Dec. 27, 1843, iNlr. George Delano and Miss Emeline Delano,
I both of Dorchester.
I In Roxbury, Jan. 24, 1844, ^Mr. Willard Hawes of Boston and Miss Susan M.
I Withington of Roxbury.
I In Roxbury, Apr. 24, 1844, Mr. Edmund Fisher and Miss Isabella Savage,
j both of Roxbury.
-• In Roxbury, May 5, 1844, Mr. Thaddeus BuUen of Boston and Miss Emily
; H. Page of Roxbury.
• In Roxbury, May 19, 1844, I^Ir. Wm. Barton and Miss Harriet A. Everett,
. both of Roxbury.
! In Roxbury, June 2, 1844, Mr. Nelson Worthen and Miss Hannah Young,
both of Roxbury.
In Roxbury, Jime 9, 1844, Mr. Hewett Tolman of Marshfield and Miss
Betsey Small of Roxbury.
In Roxbury, Jime 9, 1844, Mx. Augustus C. Swasey of Roxbury and l:Ahs&
Sarah Ann Gove of Cambridge.
In Roxbury, July 7, 1844, Mr. Elijah Grooms and Miss Elizabeth Stevenson,
: both of Roxbury.
In Roxbury, July 14, 1844, Mr. George Roberts and Miss Louisa Hood,
both of Roxbury.
; In Roxbury, July 29, 1844, Mi. Charles Wells and Miss Abby Crush, both
; of Roxbury,
J In Roxbury, Aug. 26, 1844, Mr. Wm. C. Twombly and Miss Phebe Brad-
i bury, both of Roxbury.
i In Roxbury, Sept. 1, 1844, Mr. Joseph W. Foster and Miss Rebecca W.
i McLane, both of Roxbury.
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148 Rev. Cyrus Hyde Fay's Record of Marriages [April
In Roxbury, Sept. 8, 1844, Mr. Robert Ferguson and Miss Julia A. Wyman,
both of Roxbury.
In Roxbury, Sept. 10, 1844, Mr. John N. Peavey and Miss Olive N. Bunker,
both of Roxbury.
In Roxbury-, Oct. 6, 1844, Mr. Charles G. Philbrick and Miss Eliza M.
Pinkham, both of Boston.
In Roxbury, Oct. 7, 1844, Mr. John G. Wilkinson and Miss Ellen Brown,
both of Roxbury.
In Roxbury, Oct. 13, 1844, Mr. John Hatch and Miss Martha A. Davis,
both of Roxbury.
In Boston, Oct. 13, 1844, Mr. Gilbert Pannlee and Miss Mary E. Richardson,
both of Boston.
In Roxbuiy, Oct. 17, 1844, Mr. George Young and Miss Elizabeth C.
Rumril, both of Roxbury.
In Roxbury, Nov. 14, 1844, Mr. John W. Blanchard and Miss Louisa P.
Barbour, both of Roxbury.
In Dorchester, Nov. 25, 1844, Mr. Le^i F. Snow of Dorchester and Miss
Abby L. Calder of Boston.
In Roxbury, Dec. 5, 1844, Mr. James H. Barnard of Waterbury, Conn., and
Miss Mary N. Goss of Newton.
In Brooklyn, N. Y., Dec. 22, 1844, Mr. Robert M. Pollock and Miss Mary
Louisa Fumald, both of Brooklj-n.
In Brooklyn, N. Y., Dec. 22, 1844, Mr. Henley D. Allen and Miss Ann
Maria Rider, both of BrookljTi.
In RoxDury, Jan. 9, 1845, Mr. Mark E. Hodgdon and Miss Phebe Jane
Getchel, both of Boston.
In Lowell, Jan. 25, 1845, Mr. Thomas C. Dorsay and Miss Emeline Davis,
both of Lowell.
In Roxbury, Feb. 6, 1845, Mr. Theodore A. Sampson and Miss Emily
Litchfield, both of Roxbury.
In Roxbury, Feb. 16, 1845, Mr. Wm. H. Harlow and Miss Catharine R.
Hawes, both of Roxbury.
In Roxbury, Feb. 27, 1845, Mr. Cyrus Monroe and Miss Sarah E. Mitchell,
both of Roxbury.
In Roxbury, Mar. 6, 1845, Mr. Francis Albert Newton and Miss Mary
Jane Hastings, both of Boston.
In Roxbiuy, Mar. 9, 1845, Mr. George W. Cobb and'^iss Mary L. Stanton,
both of Roxbury.
In Roxbury, Mar. 30, 1845, Mr. John L. Stanton and Miss Fanny L. Hast-
ings, both of Roxbury.
In Roxbury, Apr. 1, 1845, Mr. Edwin Litchfield and Miss Mary E. Pearson,
both of Roxbury.
In Roxbury, Apr. 13, 1845, Mr. Andrew H. Smith and Miss Caroline Colby,
both of Roxbury.
In Roxbury, Apr. 20, 1845, Mr. James ISL Coye and IMiss Frances E. AUen,
both of Roxbury.
In Roxbury, Apr. 22, 1845, Mr. Wm. H. Ivers and Miss Lucy Jane Allen,
both of Roxbury.
In Roxbury, May 11, 1845, Mr. Edwin Hatch of Acton and Miss Margaret
J. W. Fuller of Roxbury.
In Roxbury, June 8, 1845, Mr. James D. BuUock and Mrs. Olive Gale, both
of Roxbury.
In Roxbury, June 23, 1845, Mr. Ephraim Chaddock and IMiss Hannah
Ware, both of Dorchester.
In Roxbury, June 29, 1845, Mr. Greenleaf T. Lougee and Miss Mary A.
Parsoqs, both of Roxbury.
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In Roxbury, Aug. 14, 1845, Mr. Daniel Clapp [and] Mrs. Fanny Snell, both
of Roxbury.
In Roxbury, Aug. 31, 1845, Mr. Christopher S. Mills of Boston and Miss
Sarah E. Laughton of Roxbury.
In New York City, Sept. 11, 1845, Mr. James Davenport and Miss Sarah
I A. A. WiswaU, both of Roxbury, Mass.
In Boston, Oct. 19, 1845, Mr. George W. C. -Washburn of Livermore, Me.,
and ]Mis3 Diana P. Parmlee of Boston.
In Boston, Oct. 26, 1845, Mr. Henry A. Robinson and Miss Rebecca F,
Anderson, both of Roxbury.
In Roxbury, Oct. 28, 1845, Mr. Martin Eddy and Miss EUzabeth W. Clough,
both of Roxbury.
In Roxbury, Dec. 20, 1845, Mr. Benj. F. Perry and Miss Emily A. Leighton,
both of Roxbury.
> In Roxbury, Mar. 8, 1846, Mr. WilUam Carlyle and Miss Mary B. Forbes,
both of Roxbury.
In Roxbury, Apr. 23, 1846, Mr. Robert Morgan and Miss Sarah Osgood
Johnson, both of Roxbury.
In Roxbury, Apr. 30, 1846, Mr. WiUiam Gill and Miss Isabella Richardson,
; both of Roxbury.
\ In Roxbury, May 14, 1846, Mr. Charles B. Bryant and Miss EUzabeth S.
; WUHams, both of Roxbury.
'; In Dorchester, May 20, 1846, Mr. Samuel Maxfield, Jr., of Roxbury and
-. Miss Sarah E. S. Frost of Dorchester.
I In Dorchester, June 4, 1846, Capt. George M. Famum of Boston and Miss
• Catharine D. Harod of Dorchester.
j In Roxbury, June 7, 1846, Mr. Samuel T. Drake of Roxbury and Miss
5 Ehzabeth A. Hyland of Manchester, N. H.
I In Boston, Sept. 7, 1846, Mr. Moses A. Getchell and Miss H. Sophia Parmlee,
I - both of Boston.
i In Roxbuiy, Nov. 5, 1846, Mr. Andrew Jackson Cobb and Miss Eliza Ann
I Mackintosh, both of Roxbury.
I In Roxbury, Nov. 19, 1846, Mr. John M. Marston and Miss Ellen M.
I Richardson, both of Roxbury.
i In Roxbury, Dec. 5, 1846, Mr. Silas Estabrook and Miss Sarah J. Burton,
] both of Boston.
I In Roxbury, Dec. 17, 1846, Mr. Daniel M. Black of Roxbury and Miss
i Emeline D. Bates of Providence, R. I.
; In Roxbury, Dec. 24, 1846, Mr. AIon2;o Josselyn and Miss Caroline A.
": Morse, both of Roxbury.
• In Roxbury, Dec. 24, 1846, Mr. Frankhn WiUiams and IVIiss Mary Elizabeth
Seaver, both of Roxbury.
In Roxbury, Dec. 25, 1846, Mr. Joseph Q. Twombly and Miss Susan F.
Trask, both of Roxbury.
In Roxbury, Jan. 7, 1847, Mr. Charles M, Clark and IMiss Sarah A. Head,
both of Roxbury.
In Roxbury, Jan. 17, 1847, Mr. Charles H. Ryan and Miss Mary E. Ward,
both of Roxbury.
In Roxbury, Jan. 20, 1847, Mr. Thomas K. Pahner and Mrs. Sarah Richards,
both of Roxbury.
In Roxbury, Apr. 18, 1847, Mr. Joseph Warren Cobb and JMiss Mary Ann
Withers, both of Roxbury.
In Roxbury, May 19, 1847, Mr. James B. Dana of Brighton and Miss Lucy
B. Peck of Roxbury.
In Roxbury, May 23, 1847, Mr. Lyman L. Parmlee of Boston and Miss
Susan Hill of Waterford, Vt,
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In Roxbury, May 27, 1847, Mr. Daniel Le Better and Miss Elizabeth J.
Fowl, both of Roxbury.
In Roxbury, June 3, 1847, Mr. Charles D. Bowman of Boston and Miss
Sarah H. Smith of Waltham.
In Roxbury, June 27, 1847, Mr. Thaddeus C. Craft of Baltimore, Md., and
Miss Sarah J. Newman of Roxbury.
In Roxbury, July 13, 1847, Mr. Isaac F. Nute of Boston and Miss Charlotte
A. Hager of Charlestown.
In Roxbury, July 14, 1847, Mr. WiUiam A. Norton of Boston and Miss
Margaret W. Kendrick of Roxbury.
In Roxbury, July 22, 1847, Mr. Consider A. Southworth of Stoughton and
Miss Serena Field of Roxbury.
In Roxbury, Sept. 8, 1847, Mr. John V. Woodhouse and Miss Harriet J.
White, both of Roxbury.
In Roxbury, Sept. 24, 1847, Mr. John Brough and Miss Mary Kite, both of
Roxbury.
In Roxbury, Sept. 29, 1847, Mr. David K. Foster and Miss Lucy W. Tucker,
both of Roxbury.
In Roxbury, Oct. 17, 1847, Mr. Samuel L. White of Roxbury and ^liss
Orinda I. Keller of Lowell.
In Roxbury, Oct. 31, 1847, Mr. Nathan MerriU of Watertown and IMiss
Amanda Brown of Brighton.
In Roxbury, Nov. 9, 1847, Mr. Jeremiah Blake and Miss Eliza A. W. Evans,
both of Roxbiu-y.
In Roxbury, Nov. 18, 1847, Mr. George K. Goodwin of Dover, N. H., and
Miss Sarah Louisa Winslow of Roxbury.
In Roxbury, Nov. 24, 1847, Mr. Hawley Folsom of Acton, Me., and Miss
Lucy S. Corporal of Roxbury.
In Roxbury, Nov. 28, 1847, Mr. Frederick E. Wright of Cambridge and Miss
Anna C. BeU of Roxbiuy.
In Roxbury, Dec. 26, 1847, Mr. William Ewell and Miss Lovey Gowell,
both of Roxbury.
In Roxbury, Jan. 9, 1848, Mr. Josiah Richardson and Mrs. Hannah M.
Wentworth, both of Roxbury.
In Roxbury, Jan. 9, 1848, Mr. James T. White of Roxbury and Miss Delia
. F. Drake of Newton.
In Roxbury, Jan. 23, 1848, Mr. Isaac S. Burrill and Miss Maria A. Newell,
both of Roxbury.
In Roxbury, Jan. 23, 1848, Mr. Abijah Richardson of Turner, Me., and
Miss Caroline Williams of Roxbury.
In Roxbury, Mar. 19, 1848, Mr. Francis P. Beverstock and ISIiss Laura
Ann Wheeler, both of Roxbury.
In Roxbury, Apr. 23, ,1848, Mr. George S. Head of Roxbury and Miss Susan
B. Chase of Stratham, N. H.
In Roxbury, June 1, 1848, Mr. James Porter and Miss Maria Williams, both
■ of Roxbury.
In Roxbury, June 4, 1848, Mr. George Frost of Charlestown and Miss
Elizabeth A. Pearson of Roxbury.
In Roxbury, June 4, 1848, Mr. Charles D. Swain and jMiss EUza S. Newman,
both of Roxbury.
In Roxbury, June 8, 1848, Mr. Charles Williams and Miss Hannah M. Rust,
both of Roxbury.
In Roxbury, June 13, 1848, Mr. Cahdn Bird and Miss Mary H. Gulliver,
both of Dorchester.
In Dorchester, June 15, 1848, Mr. Edward A. Dammers and INIiss Sarah E.
Mears, both of Dorchester.
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In Roxbury, Oct. 15, 1848, Mr. George H. Burton and Miss Hannah D.
Pierce, both of Roxbury.
In Roxbury, Nov. 4, 1848, Mr. Isaiah Pahner of Roxbury and Miss Margaret
A. Langmaid of Nottingham, N. H.
In Brookline, Nov. 22, 1848, Mr. Sylvester Kimball and Mrs. Nabby Ward,
both of Brookhne.
In Roxbury, Nov. 25, 1848, Mr. George Hazelton and Miss Ann MiUer, both
of Roxbury.
In Roxbury, Nov. 30, 1848, Mr. Nathaniel B. Harlow and Miss Lydia
Dunham, both of Bridgewater.
In Roxbury, Dec. 10, 1848, Mr. George Sherive and Miss EUzabeth A.
Francis, both of Roxbury.
In Roxbury, Dec. 30, 1848, Mr. Ebenezer Hubbard and Miss Nancy Yates,
both of Roxbury.
In Roxbury, Jan. 1, 1849, Mr. Gushing Webber and Miss Ellen L. Everett,
both of Roxbury.
In Roxbury, Jan. 17, 1849, Mr. Samuel R. Farmer and Miss Betsey Abbot
of Ossipee, N. H.
In Roxbury, Jan. 24, 1849, Capt. Johnathan Hassam of Manchester and
Miss Mary Smith of Roxbury.
In Roxbury, Feb. 8, 1849, Mr. George Dixon and Miss EUzabeth C. Daven-
port, both of Boston.
In the City of New York, May 13, 1849, Mr. David Miller and Miss EUza
Vandawater, both of New York.
In the City of New York, May 14, 1849, Mr. James A. Lucas and Miss
Amanda M. Martin, both of New York.
In New York City, Aug. 8, 1849, Mr. James M. Parker and Miss Sarah
Louisa Fisher, both of New York.
In New York, Oct. 14, 1849, Mr. Jacob L. Myers and Miss Mary Frances
Buckley, both of New York.
In New York, Nov. 15, 1849, Mr. Jeremiah Carhart and Miss Lydia Van
Brunt of Troy.
In New York, Nov. 27, 1849, Mr. Walter H. Smith and Miss Mary Cover,
both of New York.
In New York, Dec. 26, 1849, Mr. Henry Craft of Norwalk, Conn., and Miss
Mary Jane Hoyt of Darien, Conn.
In New York, Mar. 3, 1850, Mr. George Holsey of Rochester and Miss
Sarah E. Foote of Pittsfield, Mass.
In New York, Apr. 18, 1850, Mr. Wilbor B. Waite and Miss Annette Tileston,
both of New York.
In New York, Apr. 25, 1850, Mr. Joseph W. Wittenberg of Washington,
D. C, and Miss Lydia A. Lloyd of Long Branch, N. Y. [sic].
In New York, May 14, 1850, Mr. WiUiam Young of New York City and
Miss EUen Jane Fosdick of Orange Co.
In New York, June 5, 1850, Mr. Charles M. Gillet and Miss Lousa C.
Gassart, both of New York.
In New York, June 18, 1850, Mr. Warren (Marion?) Waite Turner and
Miss Mary (Ann) Ballantine, both of New York.
(Two or three not recorded here because their names are lost.)
In New York, Oct. 6, 1850, Mr. R. F. Powers and Miss Rhoda C. Kidd,
both of New York.
In New York, Oct. 15, 1850, Mr. Wm. A. Murdock and Miss Frances E.
ScanUn, both of New York.
In New York, Oct. 28, 1850, Mr. V, W. Potter of Chicago, 111., and Miss
EUza Conely of this city.
In this city (New York), Oct. 29, 1850, Mr. Gideon Foimtain and Miss
Mary E. Beech, both of New York.
152 Rev. Cyras Hyde Fay's Record of Marriages [April
In New York, Nov. 13, 1850, Mr. Spencer Stedman and Miss Sylva D.
Swasey, both of New York.
In New York, Mr. Edward S. Smith of Philadelphia, Pa., and Miss Charlotte
S. Eaton of New York. This marriage took place between Feb. and
Aug. 1850.
In New York, Apr. 28, 1851, Mr. Charles C. J, Beck and Miss Phebe A.
Ketchum, both of New York.
In this city (New York), Apr. 29, 1851, IMr. Joshua S. Jones and Miss Abbey
Conklin, both of this city.
In New York, May 8, 1851, Mr. Joseph A. Starr and Miss Susan A. Law-
rence, both of New York.
In New York, May 22, 1851, Mr. Edwin Mershan and Miss Mary Frances
Boyd, both of New York.
In this city (New York), June 26, 1851, Mr. Azor Hoyt and Miss Mary A.
Smith, both of this city.
In this city,* July 31, 1851, Mr. Alfred Bemey and Miss Matilda A. Chamber-
lain, both of New York.
In this city, Oct. 1, 1851, Mr. Alpheus Peck and Miss Louisa A. Steitz, both
of New York.
In this city, Oct. 8, 1851, Mr. Robert Onderdonk and Miss Sarah J: Mills,
both of New York.
In this city, Oct. 8, 1851, Mr. John R. Sydam and Miss Elizabeth Schoon-
maker, both of New York.
In this city, Oct. 8, 1851, Mr. George H. Reed and Miss Sarah J. Conklin,
both of New York.
In this city, Oct. 23, 1851, Mr. Edward Gocha of Conastota, Oneida Co.,
and Miss Sarah Jane Haws of Kinderhook, N. Y.
In this city, Nov. 24, 1851, Mr. George W. Yoimg and Miss Mary Ann Wilt,
both of New York.
In this city, Dec. 3, 1851, Mr. Edward Philips, Jr., and Miss Anne E. Asten,
both of New York.
In this city, Dec. 8, 1851, Mr. James Annett of Brooklyn, L. I., and Miss
Maiy C. S. Burdett of New York.
In this city, Dec. 17, 1851, Mr. John Graham TiUey of New York City and
Miss Maria Amelia Seamens of Flushing, L. I.
In this city, Jan. 26, 1852, Mr. Theodosius Himt and Miss Margaret
Campbell, both of New York.
In this city, Feb. 17, 1852, IMr. Albert P. Houghton and Miss Rebecca
Cusser, both of New York.
In this city. Mar. 8, 1852, Mr. Edward Holly and Miss Ester Hayes, both
of Newark, N. J.
In this city, Mar. 18, 1852, Mr. Edwin N. Dodge of Buffalo and Miss Caroline
P. Tibbets of this city.
In this city. Mar. 28, 1852, Mr. James W. Trask and Mrs. Llartha C.
Arment, both of New York.
In this city, Apr. 15, 1852, Mr. James Gushing, Jr., and Miss Mary Jane
Fairchild, both of New York.
In this city. May 28, 1852, Mr. Wm. Burnish and IVIiss Mary Jane Broad-
hurst, both of New York.
In this city, June 28, 1852, Mr. James Y. Watkins, Jr., and IMiss Jane Eliza
Fordham, both of New York.
In this city, July 4, 1852, Mr. George W. Warren and IMiss Lucinda' W.
Stetson, both of New York.
In this city, July 11, 1852, Mr. David Alston Decker and Miss Emily Julia
Soulleyet, both of New York.
•In this and the following entries, as far as and including the entries of Sept. 1, 1S53, the
words "this city" refer to New York City.
1923] , Rev. Cyrus Hyde Fay's Record of Marriages 153
In this city, Aug. 5, 1852, Mr. Charles R. Reed and Miss Josephine V.
Berlin, both of New York.
In this city, Aug. 11, 1852, Mr. Andrew Mitchell and Miss Sarah Jane Clark,
both of New York.
In Brooklyn, Aug. 18^ 1852, Mr. Asa Prindle and Miss Catharine McFarlan,
both of Brookljm.
In this city, Aug. 28, 1852, Mr. Geo. W. Sammis and Miss Harriet J. Horton,
both of Huntingdon, L. I.
In this city, Sept. 1, 1852, Mr. Wm. J. Murphey and Mss Mary Eliza Mason,
both of New York.
In this city, Sept. 1, 1852, Mr. Nelson F. Tyler and Miss Henrietta S. Watson,
both of New York.
In this city, Sept. 20, 1852, Mr. Michael Dumsday and Miss or Mrs. Eliza
V. Carroll, both of New York..
In this city, Oct. 3, 1852, Mr. George Loveland of Berlin, Conn., and Miss
Mary Jane Williamson of Maine.
In this city, Oct. 4, 1852, Mr. John H. Lane and Miss Lavina Lucas, both of
this city.
In this city, Nov. 26, 1852, Mr. David Moulton of Maine and Miss EUzabeth
J. Wentworth of New York.
In this city, Dec. 8, 1852, Mr. Joseph T. Porter and Miss Adelia B. Guernsey,
both of New York.
In this city, Dec. 13, 1852, Mr. Francis Mallony and Miss Mary Hayner,
both of New York.
. In this city, Dec. 22, 1852, Mr. James B. McAllister and Miss Rebecca W.
Murdock, both of New York.
In this city, Feb. 2, 1853, Mr. William H. Selleck and Miss Mary Ann
Langton, both of New York City.
In this city, Mar. 20, 1853, Mr. George Henry Higgins and Mrs. Hannah
W. Osbom, both of New York.
I In this city, Mar. 20, 1853, Mr. Selleck W. Waring and Mrs. Catharine W.
i Schenck, both of this city.
i In this city, Apr. 25, 1853, Mr. Jules Peret and Miss Georgianna Francis,
I both of New York.
I In this city, I\Iay 11, 1853, Mr. Daniel Garrison and Miss Phebe A. Scott,
J both of New York.
.; In this city. May 19, 1853, Mr. Thomas Fred Thomas and Miss Mary
I Chichester, both of this city.
j In this city, Sept. 1, 1853, Mr. Frederick (G) (or Theophil, as afterwards
i written) Vettircke, aged 42 years, dyer of sUk and woolen goods, and
I Mrs. Aurelia J. Blake, aged 33 years, both of New York.
In this city, Sept. 1,.1853, Mr. Samuel Dunbar, aged 24 years, agent of a
■» boarding house, and Miss Margaret Johnson, servant girl, aged 21 years.
In New York City, Sept. 26, 1853, Mr. William Dally Hohnes, trunk and
box maker, aged 25 years, and iliss Martha Elizabeth Cook, dressmaker,
aged 26 years, both of New York.
In New York City, Oct. 18, 1853, Dr. J. T. Whittle and Miss Amanda Roby,
i both of Nashua, N. H.
In this city,* Oct. 5, 1853, Mr. Charles G. Saxton of New York City and
I Miss Arabella E. Burke of Nashua.
! In this city, Oct. 6, 1853, Mr. Constantine W. Adams and Miss Louisa M.
I Emery, both of Sherburne, Vt.
1 [To be continued]
I 'In this and the following entries, as far as and including the entry of Sept. 12, 1855, the words
• " this city" refer to Nashua, N. H.
154 Proceedings of the N. E. Hist. Gen. Society [April
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC
GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY
By Henry Edwards Scott, A.B., R.ecording Secretary
Boston, Massachiisetts, 3 January 1923. A stated meeting of the Society was
held in Wilder Hall, 9 Ashburton Place, at 2.30 P.M., President Chase presiding.
On motion of Johp Albree it was
Voted, That the reading of the minutes of the December meeting be omitted, that said minutes
be approved as the records of the December meeting, and that the reports of the Corresponding
Secretary, Librarian, and Council be read by title only.
This was done, and the above-mentioned reports were accepted and ordered on
file, the report of the Council showing that since the December meeting members
of the Society had been elected as follows:
Resident Members
Hon. Charles L. BmriU of Boston, Mass.
Mrs. Charles Langley of Poplar Bluff, Mo.
Thomas V. Wooton of Allston, Mass.
Newell Cutler Bullard, M. D., of North Attleborough, Mass.
George Thurston Spicer, M. D., of Providence, R. I.
. Mrs. Delmar J. Miller of Stockton, Calif.
Howard Goodell Thompson of Walla Walla, Wash.
Ehza R. Greenwood of New York City.
Phineas Warren Sprague of Boston, Mass.
In accordance with the custom of the Society the membera and their guests,
at the request of the President, rose while the report of the Historian, containing
the names of deceased members, was read, and this report was then accepted and
ordered on file.
The C^air then presented, as the speaker of the afternoon, Allan Forbes of
Boston, who entertained the large number present with an interesting and humor-
ous informal talk on A Visit to Boston and Dedham, Old England. Mr. Forbes
exhibited many beautiful pictiu^s of the two English towns whose names mean
so much to New England people, and showed also a few views of the international
polo matches in England, which he attended, and of some of the devastated
regions in France, which he visited.
On motion of Albert Henry Lamson a vote of thanks was extended to Mr.
Forbes for the delightful afternoon which he had provided for the Society.
Charles French Read, Clerk of the Bostonian Society, called the attention of
those present to the fact that in connection with the recent celebration of the
two-hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Old North Church (Christ
Church) on Salem Street, Boston, some bricks and tiles from the Guild HaU in
Boston, England, had been received, and that they had been laid in the pavement
of the vestibule of Christ Church.
No further business being presented, the Chair, at 3.45 P.M., declared the
meeting dissolved, and invited the members of the Society and their friends to
remain for the usual social hour.
7 February. The annual meeting of the Society was held this day, for a report
of which see the Supplement to the present number of the Register.
7 March. A stated meeting of the Society was held in Wilder HaU, 9 Ashburton
Place, at 2.30 P.M., President Chase presiding.
The minutes of the annual meeting were read and approved, and the reports
of the Corresponding Secretary, Librarian, Historian, and Coimcil were accepted,
the Council reporting that, in recognition of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the
first admission of women to membership in the Society, it had elected as Honorary
Member of the Society Caroline Hazard, M.A., Litt.D., LL.D., of Peace Dale,
R. I., a Resident Member from 1899 to 1919, afterwards a Life Member, and the
first woman to be elected to Honorary Membership in the Society. The Council
also reported that since the annual meeting othjer members of the Society had
been elected as foUows:
1923] Proceedings of the N. E. Hist. Gen. Society 155
Life Member
Maria Patten Hamlen of South Byfield, Mass.
Resident Members
V Nelle Elizabeth Rea of CoffeyviUe, Kans.
Mrs. William F. Hunt of Staten Island, N. Y.
Julian Hazelhurst Walter of Newark, N. J.
Mrs. Fred W. Culver of Saginaw, Mich.
Delano Wight of Brookline, Mass.
Mrs. Elmer Ellsworth Beall of Greenfield, Ohio.
- James F. Bigelow of Marlborough, Mass.
Mrs. S. H. Bruce of Garrettsville, Ohio.
Mrs. William F. Brooks of New Britain, Conn.
. The Chair then presented, as the speaker of the afternoon, H. Augustine Smith,
A.M., Professor of Fine Arts in Religion, Boston University School of Rehgious
Education and Social Service, who annoimced that, since the inclement weather
had prevented many members and their friends from attending the meeting, he
would, at the suggestion of the Committee on Papers and Essays, read this after-
noon only a part of his paper, The Early Music of America, but that it was expected
that an opportunity would be afforded at a later date for the Society to hear the
whole of what he had prepared on this subject. Professor Smith then proceeded
to describe, in a most interesting manner, the early religious and patriotic music
of America, and some of the melodies of the Colonial days were rendered in a very
pleasing manner by the lecturer and his three assistants (one man and two women)
from the Boston University School of Religious Education and Social Service.
On motion a vote of thanks was extended to Professor Smith and his able
assistants for their instructive and entertaining work.
No further business being presented, the President, at 3.20 P.M., declared the
meeting dissolved, and refreshments were served in the adjoining tea room to the
small niunber of members and guests who were present.
4 April. A stated meeting of the Society was held in Wilder Hall, 9 Ashburton
Place, at 2.30 P.M., Alfred Johnson, Vice President for Maine, presidjng.
In the absence of the Recording Secretary the Chair appointed Mrs. Florence
Conant Howes Recording Secretary pro tempore.
The minutes of the March meeting were read and approved, and the reports
of the Corresponding Secretary, Librarian, Historian, and Council were accepted,
the Council reporting that since the March meeting members of the Society had
been elected as follows:
Liife Members
Mrs. Walter C. Baylies of Boston, Mass.
Mrs. John W. Farlow of Boston, Mass.
Susan Cheever Gould of Boston, Mass.
Mrs. Walter Hines Page of Boston, Mass.
Mrs. Alden Augustus Thorndike of Boston, Mass.
Mrs. Charles Simmer Bird of East Walpole, Mass.
Mrs. Robert, Manton Burnett of Southborough, Mass.
Mrs. Melvin O. Adams^of Boston, Mass.
Lydia Hammond Gale of Albany, N. Y.
Resident Members
Mrs. Mildred G. Griswold of Missoula, Mont.
Harold Murdock Taylor of Somerville, Mass.
Mrs. Clarence Foster Hand of Philadelphia, Pa.
Mrs. Edward W. Hutchins of Boston, Mass.
Mrs. W. Basil King of Cambridge, Mass.
Mrs. Oscar lasigi of Boston, Mass.
Mrs. Godfrey Lowell Cabot of Cambridge, Mass.
Mrs. Charles F. Leland of Boston, Mass.
Mrs. Walter B. Nye of Chestnut Hill, Mass.
Mrs. John Gardner Coolidge of Boston, Mass.
Mrs. Richard Henry Dana of Cambridge, Mass.
Annie L. Sears of Boston, Mass.
MaryP. Sears of Boston, Mass.
156 Proceedings of the N. E. Hist. Gen. Society [April
Mrs. William Norton Bullard of Boston, Mass.
Mrs. Charles Archibald Kidder of Boston, Mass.
Mrs. John Clark Jones of Brookline, Mass.
Mrs. Henry V. Greenough of Brookline, Mass.
Mrs. Robert Treat Paine of Boston, Mass.
Mrs. M. A. De Wolfe Howe of Boston, Mass.
Mrs. Richard M. Saltonstall of Chestnut Hill, Mass.
Margaret Bromfield Slade of Boston, Mass.
Mrs. James Cunningham Gray of Boston, Mass.
Mrs. Arthur W. Moors of Boston, Mass.
Katherine Horsford of Cambridge, Mass.
Caroline Parkman Cordner of Boston, Mass.
EUzabeth P. Cordner of Boston, Mass. ,
Mrs. William Famsworth of Boston, Mass.
Mrs. Edwin A. Rogers of Boston, Mass.
Mrs. William Allen Newell of Brookline, Mass.
Mrs. Thomas B. Gannett of Cambridge, Mass.
Mrs. John Livingston Grandin of Boston, Mass.
Mrs. David Cheever of Boston, Mass.
Mrs. Reginald Heber Fitz of Boston, Mass.
Mrs. Charles Davis, Jr., of Boston, Mass.
Mrs. George Reed of Boston, Mass.
Mrs. William Blodget of Chestnut Hill, Mass.
Mrs. Charles R. Sanger of Cambridge, Mass.
Mrs. David S. Greenough of Jamaica Plain, Mass. •
Mrs. William Alexander Gaston of Boston, Mass.
Mrs. George A. Goddard of Boston, Mass.
Mrs. Arthur P. Nazro of Jamaica Plain, Mass.
Mrs. Frederick Dabney Stackpole of Boston, Mass.
Mrs. Alfred M. Tozzer of Cambridge, Mass.
Mrs. Henry O. Houghton of Boston, Mass.
Mrs. Frederic J. Cotton of Boston, Mass.
Mrs. Arthur S. Johnson of Boston, Mass.
Mrs. Frank Gair Macomber of Boston, Mass.
Mrs. Arthur H. Dakin of Boston, Iilass.
Dora Spalding of Boston, Mass.
Mrs. Edward Cabot Storrow of Needham, Mass.
Mrs. John G. Walker of Boston, Mass.
Bertha H. Vaughan of Cambridge, Mass.
Mrs. James Means of Manchester, Mass.
Mrs. Albert Thorndike of Boston, Mass.
Mrs. Warren B. P. Weeks of Boston. Mass.
Mrs. Francis R. Spalding of Manchester, Mass.
Mrs. Edwin Sibley Webster of Boston, Mass.
Mrs. Richard Wheatland of Boston, Mass.
Florence Tate of Tate, Ga.
Mrs. Ward Thoron of Danvers, Mass.
Mrs. Frederic Tudor of Boston, Mass.
Mrs. George E. Barnard of Ipswich, Mass.
James Jay Wilson of Cornwall, Conn.
Mrs. Hosea Starr Ballou of Brookline, Mass.
Mrs. Stoughton Bell of Cambridge, Mass.
Mrs. Thomas Kennedy of Normal, 111.
Mrs. Ralph Hornblower of Boston, Mass.
Mrs. Albert Felix Schmitt of Cambridge, Mass.
Mrs. Samuel Hoar of Boston, Mass.
Mrs. Samuel D. Warren of Boston, Mass.
Mrs. Charles Fanning Ayer of Boston, Mass.
Mrs. William H. Bowker of Boston, Mass.
The Chair then presented, as the speaker of the afternoon, Edward Howard
Griggs, A.M., L.H.D., LL.D., public lecturer and author, whose subject, Litera-
ture and American Culture, was treated with the briUiancy, sweetness, and schol-
arliness which always characterize this master of modem lecturer^.
1923] Notes 157
Enthusiastic applause attested the appreciation of the audience, and, on
motion of Desmond FitzGerald, a vote of thanks was extended to Dr. Griggs
for his stimidating message. Mr. FitzGerald also spoke briefly in defence of
specialization in art, in opposition to Dr. Griggs's plea for less specialization in all
piuBuits.
This led to further remarks by the Chairman and Dr. Griggs, after which the
Chair, at 4.15 P.M., declared the meeting dissolved, and invited the naembers
and guests to linger for a social hour, although the customary tea was omitted.
NOTES
It having come to the attention of this Society that certain geneal- '
ogists and publishers have used the name of the Society in con-
nection with their own enterprises, the Society again desires to
state that it has NO genealogical representatives in this country
or in England, nor is it in any way coimeeted with any publications
other than those that it issues over its own name at 9 Ashburton
Place, Boston.
Cushman-Fhazee. — In an article entitled "A Grandson of Elder Thomas
Cushman and Some of His Descendants," which was published in the Register,
vol. 72, pp. 10-16, it was proved that Thomas' Cushman of Plymouth and Plymp-
ton, Mass., eldest child of Elder Thomas' Cushman of Plymouth in New England
I ' and his wife, Mary (Allerton), and ^andson of Rxiberti Cushman (the weU-
I known agent of the Leyden Pilgrims m England), had, by his first wife, Ruth
I (Howland), besides two other children, a son named Thomas, and in that article
} one line of the descendants of this last-named Thomas was traced to the present
I day. In regard to David' Cushman (6, i), eldest child of Thomas* and Mary
I (Frazee) of Elizabeth, N. J., the statement was made (p. 15) that he was born
I 3 Oct. 1764, married 22 June 1788 Dorcas Morris, and died 13 Dec. 1839, that
I he lived in the latter part of his life in Mason Co., Ky., and that he had issue.
\ In this note are given the children of David and Dorcas (Morris) Cushman and
I also some descendants of David's daughter Ann, by her second husband, Joseph
* Frazee.
I Children of David' and Dorcas (Morris) Cushman:*
i i. Thomas,8 b. 16 Oct. 1796; d. 26 Jan. 1851; m. Mart Kilgoee, b. 17
May 1802, d. 7 June 1880.
ii. Ann, b. in Mason Co., Ky., 12 Oct. 1798; d. 11 Aug. 1851; m. (1)
Hollidat; m. (2) near Germantown, Mason Co., Ky., 22
Apr. 1834, Joseph Frazee, b. 15 Sept. 1794, d. 7 Aug. 1870. For her
children by her second husband see below,
iii. Joseph, m. Sallee Hess.
iv. Mary, m. (1) Mannen; m. (2) Richard Kjrk.
V. Eliza, m. Rudolph Black.
Children of Joseph and Ann (Cushman) (Holliday) Frazee:
i. Joseph Thomas, b. in 1834; d. 15 Oct. 1899; m. 20 Oct. 1857 Amanda
M. Gordon, b. 16 Oct. 1834, Uving at Flemingsburg, Ky., in 1922.
ii. Rebecca, d. when a small child.
'■ iii. John Morris, of Germantown, Ky., Weston, Mo., and Maysville,
; Ky., b. 13 Aug. 1838; m. at Lancaster, Ky., 18 Nov. 1869, Eliza
Jennings Lusk, b. at Lancaster 17 Aug. 1846. "They were both
; . living at MaysviUe in 1922. Children: 1. Anna Cushman, b. at
I *Dorcas (Morris) Cushman died la Mason Co., Ky., about 1848. Herhusband, David Cushman,
• also died in Mason Co.
158 Noles ' . [April
Germantown, Ky., 28 Nov. 1870; living at Maysville, Ky., in
1923; m. at Maysville, 20 Feb. 1895, Posey Dixon Ball, b. at Cary-
don, Ky., 16 Jan. 1865, d. at Henderson, Ky., 28 May 1898; one
daughter (posthumous), Francis Dixon, b. 3 Feb. 1899, living at
Maysville in 1922. 2. Frances Lusk, h. at Germantown, Ky., 19
Dec. 1874; m. at Maysville, Ky., 28 May 1912, Henry Lloyd;
both living at Lexington, Ky., in 1922; one child, Henry, b. at
Lexington 6 June 1916, living there in 1922.
iv. David Cushman, b. 17 Sept. 1842; m. 23 Nov. 1869 Mabia Lee, b.
13 Mar. 1847. They were both living at Lexington, Ky., in 1922.
These statements as to the descendants of David and Dorcas (Morris) Cush-
man are supported by an affidavit of my father, John Morris Frazee, sworn to
and subscribed before a notary pubUc in Mason Co., Ky., 16 Sept. 1922, and
furnish an additional contribution to the history of the westward migration of
some of the descendants of the Pilgrims.
Maysmlie, Ky. Anna Cushman (Frazee) Ball.
"Bethlehem (Conn.) Vital Records. — A letter in the writer's possession,
dated "Bethlem Feb 12th 1814," contains certain vital records of the winter of
1813-14 which are probably not in print, since the Bethlehem records published
in Cothren's "History of Woodbiuy," vol. 3, contain no entries of marriages
between 1812 and 1832. The Sssential part of the letter foUows:
"mariage has become fashonable in our town this fall and winter mr Stephen
Scoot to miss Carialine frisby mr James Tryon to miss Lucenda frisby mr Benj°
frisby to Polly An Dickeson Amos Bishop to miss permilia hine Cap* Knap to
miss Bitsey Ludenton . . . and many more it is healthy in our tqwn this winter
not many Deaths one in our neighbourhood miss Rebecca Stilson Daughter of
Abel Stilson of tifus feavor . . . Decon Smith has gone to new Connetticut to be
gone till Next fall and if he likes to stay for always ... we have had such an ice
storm as the oldest man liveing Cant Remember it has Broke frute treas very
much forrest treas are break ven' much Cap* Doolittle thinks he has at the least
computations two hundred loads of wood down and a great part of his Best
timber."
Mount Carmd, Conn. Donald Lines Jacobus.
Historical Intelligence
Herald BY. — The Committee on Heraldry of the New England Historic
Genealogical Society strongly recommends that all coats of arms which can be
proved to be authentic be offered for record
with this Society. The arrangements for the
making and preservation of such records are
complete, and the volume of recorded arms has
been begun by the entry therein of a number of
weU-authenticated coats. Printed forms and
directions for the making of applications may
be obtained from the Committee, and aU com-
mimications on this subject should be addressed
to the Committee on Heraldry, New England
EEistoric Genealogical Society, 9 Ashburton
Place, Boston.
Without taking any position with reference to
the propriety of assummg arms, the Committee
will be glad to examine arms or heraldic devices
which any person or organization desires to as-
sume, and give advice as to whether the same are heraldically correct or whether
they violate a right of exclusive use heretofore acquired by others.
1923] Recent Books 169
RECENT BOOKS
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the information of readers, the price of each book, with the amount to be added for postage when
sent by mail and from whom it may be ordered. For the January issue, books should be received
by Not. 1; for April, by Feb. 1; for JiUy, by May 1, and for October, by July 1.]
GENEALOGICAL
Booth genealogy. Booth genealogy including allied families representing the
American ancestry in the Booth line of the compiler. By Henry Slader Booth.
Randolph, Vt., 1923. 116 p. 8° Price, $5.00 paper; $6.00 cloth. Address
Henry S. Booth, Randolph, Vt.
"Among the allied families represented in this book are Barlow, Barnard, Brewster, Brown,
Bull, Carter, Chalkcr, Chipman, Clement, Clough, Cobb, Cochrane, Currier, Dingley, Eames,
Ford, Fowler, Frost, Grant, Hopkins, Howland, Huckins, Hurst, Ingham, Lewis, Mayo, Merrick,
Morrill, Osgood, Porter, Post, Prence, Slader, Stevens, Warner, Wilder, and Williams."
Castle, George Pannelee, ancestry. Castle [ancestry of George Parmelee
Castle of JBonolulu, Hawaii]. By Lawrence Brainerd. Boston, Mass., 1922.
Chart,
Clements genealogy. The Clements family of Dover, N. H. By John Scales.
n.p. 1923. 15 p. 8°
Cockrell genealogy. The descendants of Lyttleton Cockroll, Jr., 1802-1877.
By Elizabeth Stranahan Stevenson. [Fayette, Iowa, 1922.] 26 p. 12° Address
Mrs. W. B. Stevenson, Fayette, Iowa.
Congdon genealogy. The Congdon Chronicle, nos. 4 and 5, October, 1921,
and January, 1922. 8° Price 25 cents per copy. Address G. E. Congdon,
I Grafton, Vermont,
I
Gavet genealogy. Philip Gavet of Salem, Mass., and some of his descendants.
By Joseph Gavit. Boston, Mass., 1923. 27 p. 8° Reprinted from the
Register for January, 1923.
Gibbs genealogy. The Gibbs family bulletin, no. 3, January, 1923. n. p. 1923,
38 p. pi. por. 8°
Gove genealogy. The Gove book, history and genealogy of the American
family of Gove and notes of European Goves. By William Henry Gove. Salem,
Mass., Sidney Perley, 1922. 2+690 p. fcsm. pi. por. 8° Price $10.00 cloth;
$15.00 half-morocco. Address Sidney Perley, Salem, Mass.
Grout genealogy. Capt. John Grout of Watertown and Sudbury, Mass., and
some of his descendants. A contribution toward a genealogy of the Grout and
allied families with special reference to the line of Henry Whittemore Grout of
Waterloo, Iowa. By Elizabeth E. Boice Jones. Published by Henry Whitte-
more Grout. Waterloo, Iowa, 1922. 124 p. geneal. tab. pi. por. 8°
Henry genealogy. Henry, Ruffin, and other genealogies. By Dr. Reginald
Buchanan Henry, n.p. 1922. Chart. Address Dr. Reginald B. Henry, Parris
Island, S. C.
Contains also the Buchanan, Byrd, Carter, and Skipwith families.
HufEmaster genealogy. Huffmaster-Hoffmeister family records. By James
T, Huffmaster. [Galveston, Texas, Oscar Springer Print] 1922. n. p. por. 12°
Jaquett genealogy. Supplement to genealogies. By Edward Jaquett Sellers.
Philadelphia [Press of Allen, Lane & Scott], 1922. 2+73 p. 8°
Contains additions to the author's genealogies of the Jaquett, Van Culemborg, Fenwick, Kolloch,
Shepherd, and other families.
Jones genealogy. Samuel Minot Jones, the story of an Amherst boy [includ-
ing his ancestry]. Amherst, Mass., 1922. By Charles S. Walter, Pres. of the
Amherst Historical Society. Amherst, Mass., 1922. 100 p. fcsm. pi. por. 8°
Morte}^ genealogy. The Morteyns of Marston and Tillsworth [Bedfordshire,
160 Recent Books [April
England]. By G. Andrews Moriarty, A.M., LL.B. Exeter, William Pollard &
Co. Ltd., 1922. 12 p. 8° Reprinted from The Genealogist, N. S., vol. 38, 1922.
Parke genealogy. Parke coats of arms. Parks Records, vol. 3, pt. 8. By
Frank Sylvester Parks. Washington, D. C, 1922. 8 p. il. pi. 8° Price $3.00.
Address F. S. Parks, 1G09 Hobart St., Washington, D. C.
Reynolds genealogy. The Reynolds Family Association of America, 1892-
1922. Thirty-first aimual reoort. By Mrs. Anna C. Ripoier, Secretary. His-
torical Collections edited by Marion H. Reynolds, A.B. Brooklyn, N. Y., Press
of the Brooklyn Eagle, 1922. 280 p. fcsm. il. map pi. por. 8°
Rich genealogy. Early Rich history and ancestry of Jonathan Rich, Jr.,
Ft. Covington, N. Y. By George Rich. n. p. 1922. 46 p. 8°
Russell genealogy. The ancestors and descendants of Abel Russell, Revolu-
tionary soldier from Westford, Mass., and Fayette (Starling Plantation), Me.,
comprising one of the lines of descent from William and Martha Russell, of Cam-
bridge in Mass., who came to America from England about the year 1640. By
Arthur J. Russell and Mrs. S. R. Child. Minneapolis, Press of Augsburg Pub-
lishing House, 1922. 42 p. pi. por. 12°
Shedd genealogy. Shedd family, ancestry of Miriam Symonds Shedd. By
Charles Levi Shedd. Arlington, Mass., 1922. Charts. Address Charles L.
Shedd, 116 Jason St., Arlington, Mass. Corrections and additions welcomed.
Blueprint copies, chart A, 1920 to 450 A. D., $5.00 each; chart B, 450 A. D. to
I 4000 B. C, $5.00 each. Black line on white charts, price on application.
I Sherman genealogy. Sherman genealogy in the direct line from Thomas
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I Sherman, XII (1796-1869), and all his descendants: also all children of the direct
I line who came to or were bom in New England, and many of their descendants:
also mention of other Sherman lines. By Charles Pomeroy Sherman. Atlantic
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Teall genealogy. Descendants of Oliver TeaU and allied families. By Dora
I Pope Worden. Ithaca, N. Y., 1922. 13 p. pi. por. 8°
I Tenney genealogy. Tenney [ancestry of George Parmelee Castle, son of Hon.
I Samuel Northrup Castle and Mary (Tenney) of Honolulu, Hawaii]. By Law-
J. rence Brainerd. Boston, Mass., 1922. Chart.
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f published by the Wing family of America, incorporated. 4°
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I Greenwood, John, Revolutionaiy services. The revolutionary services of
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\ manuscript with notes by his grandson, Isaac J. Greenwood. New York, 1922.
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I sketch prepared at the request of the Waterloo Observer, by William A. Wilcox,
I member of the Waterloo Librarj' and Historical Society, for its issue reporting
I the dedication of the Lafayette Monument and Park, June 8, 1922. n.p. n.d.
j 8 p. 8°
McNeill, Capt. Hector, sketch. Capt. Hector McNeill of the Continental
Navy. By Gardner Weld Allen. Boston, 1922. 108 p. fcsm. 8° Reprinted
from the Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, vol. 55, 1921-1922.
I Harvard College, Class of 1852. Annals of the Harvard Class of 1852. By
( Grace Williamson Edes. Cambridge, privately printed, 1922. 13-f[2]-l-455 p.
! pi. por. 8°
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Connecticut, State Library. State of Connecticut, public document, no. 13.
Report of the State Librarian to the Governor for the twenty-one months ended
1923] Recent Books 161
June 30, 1920. Printed by order of the Legislature. Hartford, published by the
State, 1920. 64 p. il. pi. por. 8"
Massachusetts Court, General. Acts and resolves passed by the General
Court of Massachusetts, in the year 1922, together with the constitution, tables
showing changes in the statutes, etc., etc. Published by the Secretary of the
Commonwealth. Boston, Wright & Potter Printing Co., 1922. 106+958 p. 8°
North Carolina, Moravians in. Publications of the North Carolina Historical
Commission. Records of the Moravians in North Carolina. Edited by Adelaide
L. Fries, M. A., Archivist of the Moravian Church in America, Southern Province.
Vol. 1, 1752-1771. Raleigh, Edwards & Broughton Printing Co., State Print-
ers, 1922. 511 p. fcsm. map pi. por. 8°
Rhode Island slave trade. A Rhode Island slaver. Trade book of the sloop,
I Adventure, 1773-1774, from original manuscript in the Hbrary of George L.
1 Shepley, with notes and introduction by Prof. Vemer W. Crane of Brown Uni-
! versity. Providence, Shepley Library, 1922. [3]+10p. 4°
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Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the Navy, by C. C. Marsh, Captain, U. S. N.,
Retired, officer in charge Naval Records and Library. Vols. 1 and 2, Series 2.
Washington, D. C, 1921. 980+864 p. pi. por. 8°
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I in the War of the Rebellion. Published imder the direction of the Hon. Edwin
i Denby, Secretary of the Navy, by Col. Harry Kidder WMte, U. S. M. C, Supt.,
J Office Naval Records and Library. Vol. 3, Series 2. Washington, D. C, 1922.
I 1335 p. fcsm. pi. por. 8°
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I 1922. v.p.S"
I Monhegan Island, Me. The fortunate island of Monhegan. A historical
I monograph. By Charles Francis Jenney. From Vol. 31 of the Proceedings of
I the American Antiquarian Society. With additions. Worcester, Mass. The
I Davis Press, 1922. 78 p. map pi. 4°
i Newington, Conn., Congregational Church. Two hundredth anniversary of
I The Church of Christ, Congregational, Newington, Conn., September 30 and
I October 1, 1922. n. p. 1922. 39 p. pi. 8°
I Newport, R. I., Redwood Library. One hundred and seventy-fifth anniversary
1 of the incorporation of the Redwood Library. Newport, R. I., 1922. 49 +[1]
: p. fcsm. il. pi. 8°
,; Provincetown, Mass., Universalist Church. Leaves from an old church record
r book. By Simeon C. Smith. Boston, Universalist Pubhshing House, 1922.
48 p. il. pi. 8°
SOCIETIES AND MAGAZINES
Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, Historical Association. The Book of Remem-
brance of the Historical Association of Annapolis Royal' A. D. 1921. Edited by
the president [L. M. Fortier]. [Toronto, Can.] University of Toronto Press,
1921. 93+[3]p. fcsm.pl.por. 4° Price S2. 50. Address L. M. Fortier, Annapo-
hs Royal, Nova Scotia.
Iowa, State Historical Society of. The Palimpsest. Edited by John C. Parish,
Vol. 3. Pubhshed monthly by The State Historical Society of Iowa, Iowa City,
Iowa, 1922. 8° Price 10 cts. per copy: SI. 00 per year.
Maine Historical Society. Centennial of the Maine Historical Society, April
11, 1922. I. The Maine Historical Society in Brunswick, by President Kenneth
C. M. Sills, of Bowdoin College. II. The Maine Historical Society at Port-
land, by Hon. Augustus F. Moulton, of Portland. Portland, 1922. 51 p. 8°
i Nebraska State Historical Society. Nebraska History and Record of Pioneer
162 Recent Books [April]
Days. Addison E. Sheldon, editor. Published monthly by the Nebraska State
Historical Society. Vol. 4. Lincobi, Nebr., 1921. F° Price $2.00 per year.
Ohio Historical and Philosophical Society. The quarterly publication of the
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Ohio, The Abingdon Press, 1921-1922. 8°
Royal Society of Canada, proceedings and transactions. Proceedings and
transactions of the Royal Society of Canada. Third series, vol. 1&. Meeting of
May, 1922. For sale by Jas. Hope & Son, Ottawa, The Copp-Clarke Co. (Limited) ,
Toronto; Bernard Quaritch, London, Eng., 1922. v. p. il. map pi. por. 4°
, Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, bulletin. Old-Time
New England. The bulletin of The Society for the Preservation of New England
Antiquities. Vol 12, July, 1921-April, 1922. Boston, Mass., Harrison Gray
Otis House, 1921-1922. 8°
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of Historian General, Jime 15, 1918, to June 4, 1921. Printed under the author-
ity of a resolution adopted at the 36th general council meeting of the General
Society of Colonial Wars, Hartford, Conn., Dec. 15, 1922. Office of the Historian
General, Frank Hervey PettingeU, 639 South Spring St., Los Angeles, California.
53 p. pi. 8°
Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Samuel Ashley Chap-
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members, 1922-1923. Organized February 15, 1897. [12] p. 12°
Society of Daughters of Colonial Wars, Inc., Massachusetts. By-laws, rules
and instructions of the Committee on Membership, facsimile of insignia and
calendar, 1922-1923. Mrs. Prank D. Ellison, President; Mrs. James C. Peabody,
Secretary, 47 Allston St., Foston, Mass.
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1894, incorporated 1895. New York, 1922. 244 p. pi. por. 8°
Society Sons of the American Revolution, Louisiana. 1922-1923 yearbook and
membership roster, Louisiana Society Sons of the American Revolution. Officers,
committees, by-laws, annual reports, genealogical and historical documents,
what the Society is doing, scope and purposes. [New Orleans, La., Jones-Robin-
son Co., Inc., 1923.] 87p.il. 8°
Society Sons of the Revolution, California. Thirtieth anniversary number.
Roster and chronological. list of first 1000 members Society Sons of the Revolu-
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University of Illinois Studies in the Social Sciences. University of Illinois
Studies in the Social Sciences. Vol. 10, March, 1922, no. 1. A study of " Mon-
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hain Dunbar. Board of Editors: Ernest L. Bogart, John A. Fairlie, Albert H.
Lybyer. PubUshed by the University of Illinois under the auspices of the Graduate
School, Urbana, lU., 1922. 164 p. 8°
Vineland Historical Magazine. The Vineland Historical Magazine, devoted
to history, biography, genealogy. January, April, July, October, 1922. Vol. 7,
nos. 1-4. Published quarterly by the Vineland Historical and Antiquarian
Society. Vineland, N. J., 1922. 4°
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The Key of Libberty. The Key of Libberty shewing the causes why a free gov-
ernment has alwaj's failed, and a remedy against it. Written in the year 1798 by
Wilham Manning of Billerica, Mass. With notes and a foreword by Samuel
Ehot Morison. Billerica, Mass., published by The Manning Association, 1922.
15+2-1-71 p. 8° Price $3.00. Address Earl G. Manning, President of the Man-
ning Association, 200 Devonshire St., Boston 9, Mass.
"This very interesting book is printed by The Manning Association from an hitherto unpub-
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Manse at North Billerica, Mass., where it had reposed for 124 years."
THE
NEW ENGLAND
HI8T0BICAL AND GENEALOGICAL
REGISTER
SUPPLEMENT TO APRIL NUMBER, 1923
PROCEEDINGS
OF THE
New England
Historic Genealogical Society
AT THE
ANNUAL MEETING, 7 FEBRUARY 1923
WITH
MEMOIRS OF DECEASED MEMBERS, 1922
PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY
AT THE ROBEBT HENRY EDDY MEMORIAL ROOMS
9 ASHBURTON PLACE, BOSTON
1923
THE M0BRAT PRINTINO COMPANY
EEN'DAl.1. BQUABE
CAMBRIDGE
CONTENTS
Officers Elected by the Society for the Year 1923 v
Officers and Committees Appointed by the Council vi
Report op Proceedings at the Annual Meeting . ix
1 Report of the Council xvii
Committee on Finance xviii
■ Committee on Ways and Means xix
j Committee on Increase of Membership . . . xix
\ Conamittee on Sale of Publications .... xix
I Committee on Publications xx
I Committee to Assist the Historian .... xx
I Committee on English Research xx
I Committee on Heraldry xxi
I Committee on the Library xxi
\ Committee on Collection of Records .... xxi
I Committee on Epitaphs xxii
i Committee on Papers and Essays xxiii
I Special Committee on Endowment and Members . xxiv
"< - Special Committee on Mural Memorials . . . xxiv
I Special Committee on Rolls of Membership . . xxiv
Report of the Librarian xxv
Report of the Corresponding Secretary . . . xxvii
Report of the Treasurer xxx
Report of the Trustees of the Kidder Fund . . xxxiv
Report of the Historian — Necrology for 1922 . xxxv
Memoirs of Deceased Members xxxix
Charter cvii
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OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY
FOR THE YEAR 1923
JOHN CARROLL CHASE Deny, N. H.
NATHAN MATTHEWS, LL.D Boston
ALFRED JOHNSON, A.M., Litt.D Belfast, Me.
ALBERT HENRY LAMSON New London, N. H.
i WILLIAM WALLACE STICKNEY, LL.D Ludlow, Vt.
! GEORGE ANDREWS MORIARTY, Jb., A.M., LL.B. Newport, R. L
GEORGE SEYMOUR GODARD, M.A., B.D Hartford, Conn.
3Elecarbing ^ecrttarp
HENRY EDWARDS SCOTT, A.B. Medford
I t Corres^ponbins ^ecretarp
j THORNTON KIRKLAND LOTHROP, A.B Boston
I Kxtaiuttt
I JAMES MELVILLE HUNNEWELL, A.B., LL.B. . . Boston
I mhxanm
i WILLIAM PRESCOTT GREENLAW Winthrop
I ^i)t Council
? JOHN CARROLL CHASE
I NATHAN MATTHEWS, LL.D.
i HENRY EDWARDS SCOTT, A.B.
( THORNTON KIRKLAND LOTHROP, A.B.
5 JAMES MELVILLE HUNNEWELL, A.B., LL.B.
] WILLIAM PRESCOTT GREENLAW
" For 1923
ARTHUR WINSLOW PEIRCE, A.B., Lirr.D. . . . Franklin
Mrs. ELEANOR COTTON (DENHAM) WARDEN Boston
ANDREW FISKE, Ph.D., LL.B Weston
For 1923, 1924
Mrs. SUSAN WATERS (TARBOX) CARR .... Boston
EDWARD WILLARD HOWE, A.B Roxbury
MYLES STANDISH, A.M., M.D., S.D Boston
For 1923, 1924, 1925
\ WILLIAM CHURCHILL BRIGGS SomervUle
I Mrs. FLORENCE REYNOLDS (CONANT) HOWES Allston
j ROBERT DICKSON WESTON, A.B Cambridge
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OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES
FOR THE YEAR 1923
APPOINTED BY THE COUNCIL
Rev. lewis WILDER HICKS, M.A. WeUesley
(Cbttor of S^uhlitationi
HENRY EDWARDS SCOTT, A.B Medford
Committee on Jfinance
JOHN CARROLL CHASE, Chairman ex officio . . . Deny, N. H.
EDWARD WILLARD HOWE, A.B Roxbury
WILLIAM PRESCOTT GREENLAW Winthrop
ARTHUR WINSLOW PEIRCE, A.B., Lrrr.D. . . . FranVlin
WILLIAM CHURCHILL BRIGGS SomerviUe
WILLIAM OGILVIE COMSTOCK, E.M Brookline
JAMES MELVILLE HUNNEWELL, A.B., LL.B., ex
officio Boston
Committee on Ws.^i anb iHean
WILLIAM STREETER RICHARDSON, Chairman . Canton
Mes. IDA LOUISE (FARR) MILLER Wakefield
JAMES MELVILLE HUNNEWELL, A.B., LL.B. . . Boston
MYLES STANDISH, A.M., M.D., S.D Boston
Mbs. FLORENCE REYNOLDS (CONANT) HOWES Allston
JOSEPH HARVEY WHITE Chestnut Hill
EDWARD HOLMES KITTREDGE, A.B Arlington
Committee on Sncreajie ot iHemtiersitiiP
JOSEPH HARVEY WHITE, Chairman Chestnut HiU
WILLIAM STREETER RICHARDSON Canton
Mrs. IDA LOUISE (FARR) MILLER Wakefield
JAMES MELVILLE HUNNEWELL, A.B., LL.B. . . Boston
MYLES STANDISH, A.M., M.D., S.D Boston
Mrs. FLORENCE REYNOLDS (CONANT) HOWES Allston
EDWARD HOLMES KITTREDGE, A.B Arhngton
Committee on ^ale of ^ublirations
CHARLES ELIOT GOODSPEED, Chairman .... Wollaston
EVERETT JEFTS BEEDE, A.B Belmont
CHARLES EMILE LAURIAT, Jr West Newton
ANDREW McCANCE Roxbury
HENRY JOSEPH STEVENSON, S.B East Boston
CHARLES SIDNEY ENSIGN, Jr., A. B.,J.B. ... Newton
HENRY BEECHER REED South Weymouth
Committee on S^ublitationi
JAMES PARKER PARMENTER, A.M., LL.B., Chairman Arlington
HOSEA STARR BALLOU Brookline
GEORGE ANDREWS MORIARTY, Je., A.M., LL.B. Newport, R. I.
Rev. JOHN WALLACE SUTER,A.B.,S.T.D Winchester
ALFRED JOHNSON, A.M., Litt.D Brookline
GEORGE RITCHIE MARVIN, A.M Brookline
HENRY EDWARDS SCOTT, A.B., ex officio Medford
Committee to 'Smi^i tfie ^iitatiwn.
ANDREW FISKE, Ph.D., LL.B., Chairman Weston
Rev. ANSON TITUS Somerville
J Mrs. ETHEL (STANWOOD) BOLTON, A.B Shirley
I Mes. MARION (FOBES) BRAINERD Cambridge
\ T. JULEEN SILSBY Brookline
• GEORGE THOMAS EATON, M.A Andover
HENRY EDWARDS SCOTT, A.B., ex officio Medford
Committee on CnslisSfj 3^seatdb
GEORGE ANDREWS MORIARTY, Jr., A.M., LL.B.,
Chairman Newport, R. I.
HENRY EDWARDS SCOTT, A.B Medford
ALFRED JOHNSON, A.M., Lrrr.D Brookline
I GEORGE FRANCIS DOW Topsfield
I FREDERICK SAMUEL FISH, A.B South Bend, Ind.
j VINCENT BURROUGH REDSTONE Woodbridge, Eng.
} HAROLD BOWDITCH, A.B., M.D Brookline
I Committee on Heralbrp
I ROBERT DICKSON WESTON, A.B., Chairman . . . Cambridge
I BOYLSTON ADAMS BEAL, A.B., LL.B Nahant
1 CHARLES KNOWLES BOLTON, A.B Shirley
'■ WILLIAM STREETER RICHARDSON Canton
WILLIAM TRUMAN ALDRICH, S.B Boston
I Committee on tfje Hifirarp
J JAMES MELVILLE HUNNEWELL, A.B., LL.B.,
\ Chairman Boston
JOHN CARROLL CHASE Derry, N. H.
ALBERT HENRY LAMSON New London, N. H.
Miss IDELLE KEYES Boston
Mrs. SUSAN WATERS (TARBOX) CARR Boston
LAWRENCE BRAINERD Cambridge
WILLIAM PRESCOTT GREENLAW, ex offi/Ao .... Winthrop
Committee on Collection o£ ^ccorbfS
WALTER KENDALL WATKINS, Chairman Maiden
CLARENCE SAUNDERS BRIGHAM, A.M Worcester
SAMUEL BURNHAM SHACKFORD, A.B., LL.B. . . Dover, N. H.
GEORGE SEYMOUR GODARD, M.A., B.D Hartford, Conn.
GEORGE HUNT BARTON, S.B Cambridge
WILLIAM BRADFORD BROWNE North Adams
WILLIAM PRESCOTT GREENLAW, ex officio .... Winthrop
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Committee on Cpitapfiief
HAROLD CLARKE DURRELL, A.B., Chairman . . . West Medford
WTLLIAM DAVIS PATTERSON Wiscasset, Me.
OTIS GRANT HAMMOND, A.M Concord, N. H.
Mrs. KATE EUGENIA (MORRIS) CONE, A.B., Ph.D. Hartford, Vt.
Mes. JESSIE ALICE (WOODS) PORTER Springfield
Miss EDITH MAY TILLEY Newport, R. I.
LUCIUS BARNES BARBOUR, A.B Hartford, Conn.
Committee on papers; anti <£.66avi
ARTHUR WINSLOW PEIRCE, A.B., Litt.D., Chainrum FranHin
Mrs. FLORENCE REYNOLDS (CONANT) HOWES . Allston
THORNTON KIRKLAND LOTHROP, A.B Boston
Mes. SARAH GROSS (HEMENWAY) BELL, A.B. . . West Newton
EDWARD BRECK, A.M., Ph.D Brookline
Rev. GLENN TILLEY MORSE, A.B., S.T.B West Newbury
Miss ELIZABETH PRENTISS FOWLE Dorchester
S>pectal Committee on ^bisiion of tfje ^p-HatoiS*
JAMES PARKER PARMENTER, A.M., LL.B., Chairman Arlington
WALDO LINCOLN, A.B Worcester
JOHN CARROLL CHASE Derry, N. H.
WILLIAM PRESCOTT GREENLAW Winthrop
SAMUEL MITCHELL CHILD, LL.B West Roxbury
Special Committee on iHural iHemorialst
ROBERT DICKSON WESTON, A.B., Chairman . . . Cambridge
WILLIAM STREETER RICHARDSON Canton
Mrs. FLORENCE REYNOLDS (CONANT) HOWES . . AUston
EDMUND INGERSOLL LEEDS Newton
WILLL\M TRUMAN ALDRICH, S.B Boston
Special Committee on 3^oUi of Mtmbtvii^ipj
MYLES STANDISH, A.M., M.D., S.D., Chairman . . . Boston
WILLIAM PRESCOTT GREENLAW Winthrop
Mrs. FLORENCE REYNOLDS (CONANT) HOWES . Allston
Special Committee on ^0£(pitaIitpt
Miss JOSEPHINE ELIZABETH RAYNE, Chairman . . Cambridge
Miss MARY ST. BARBE EUSTIS Brookhne
Mrs. belle AUGUSTA (SEAVEY) FLOYD Winthrop
Mrs. ELEANOR COTTON (DENHAM) WARDEN . Boston
Mrs. WINIFRED WELD (BATCHELDER) KINCAID SomerviUe
Mrs. ALICE LORING (NEWCOMB) SARGEANT . . Cambridge
Mrs. MARY CHASE (FARWELL) BALLOU .... Brookline
'Appointed by the President in accordance with a vote of the Society of 1 April 1914, and serv-
ing until discharged by the Society.
fAppointed by the Council.
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PROCEEDINGS AT THE ANNUAL MEETING
The seventy-ninth annual meeting of the Society was held on
Wednesday, 7 February 1923, at 2.30 P.M., in Wilder Hall, 9 Ash-
\ ■ burton Place, Boston, President Chase presiding and a quonim being
present.
The minutes of the meeting of 3 January 1923 were read and
i approved, and the monthly reports of the Corresponding Secretary,
I Librarian, Historian, and Council were accepted, the Council report-
i ing that since the January meeting members of the Society had been
I elected as follows :
Life Members
Joseph D. Bascom of St. Louis, Mo.
Edwin D. Morgan of New York City
Resident Members
J Mrs. H. B. Andrews of Battle Creek, Mich.
I Mrs. Frank C. Buckley of Superior, Wis.
i Mrs. Henry R. Grant of Everett, MaJss.
I J. Howard Randerson of Albany, N. Y.
i Joseph Heluy Curtis of Boston, Mass.
;. Mrs. Henry H. Weikel of Concord, Mass.
I George H. Davis of New York City
) Mrs. Robert L. Warner of Cambridge, Mass.
• Mrs. Floyd K. Smith of Buffalo, N. Y.
Charles H. Sergei of Chicago, HI.
Mrs. Frank M. AngeUotti of San Rafael, Calif.
' On motion it was
Voted, That the annual reports of the Council, including its committees, the
Librarian, the Corresponding Secretary, the Treasurer, the Trustees of the
Kidder Fimd, and the Historian, being presented in print and now in the hands
of the meeting, be accepted and ordered filed with the originals.
On motion it was
; Voted, That the Society proceed to the election of oflScers and councillors,
• ^ agreeable to the provisions of the By-Laws.
; That three tellers be appointed by the Chair, and that said tellers shall
; distribute, receive, sort, and count the ballots, and make a report to this meeting.
i That the polls be now opened, and stand open until every member present
\ has had opportunity to vote.
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The Chair appointed as tellers Messrs. William Ogilvie Com-
STOCK, John Albert Holmes, and Henry Beecher Reed, and the
election by ballot of oflBcers and councillors took place.
After the polls had been closed, exercises in observance of the
twenty-fifth anniversary of the first admission of women to member-
ship in the Society were held. President Chase introducing this sub-
ject with the foUow-'ng words:
"From time immemorial the second of February has been one of
the noteworthy days of the calendar, but a quarter of a century ago
it became an epochal date in the annals of this Society. I do not
know what the atmospheric conditions were on that particular day,
but I am fain to believe that the skies were overcast, that the ground
hog, unable to discover his shadow, returned not again to his winter
abode, and that the winter of our discontent was made glorious spring
by the admission of women to membership.
"There had been a long and bitter contest before this result was
achieved, but the silence of the years that have passed I will not
disturb.
"The number elected on February 2, 1898, has increased imtil
nearly one-third of our membership are women, who are unexcelled
in their devotion to the work and interests of the Society. Of the
thirty-six women elected to membership on that day, twenty-nine
qualified as members, twelve are still members, and to-day we are
honored by the presence on the platform of six of that number. Rise
and greet them with the recognition to which they are justly entitled."
Thereupon the other members present and their guests rose to
greet these six ladies, namely, Mrs. Lucy (Hall) Greenlaw of
Winthrop, Mrs. Ida Louise (Farr) Miller of Wakefield, Mrs. Lora
Altine (Woodbury) Underhill of Allston, Mrs. Emeline Bridge
(Tyler) Simonds of West Medford, Miss Mary Elvira Elliot of
Somerville, and Mrs. Lydia Matthews (Bangs) Fisher of Hyde
Park.
President Chase then said :
"As the first representative of those we honor to-day I present Mrs.
Lucy (Hall) Greenlaw, who will now address you."
Mrs. Greenlaw then read a carefully prepared and interesting
paper on the circumstances attending the first admission of women to
membership in the Society, speaking as follows :
"Mr. President, Members of the New England Historic
Genealogical Society, and Guests :
"I suppose the reason that I have been asked to represent this
little group of women upon the platform this afternoon is tecause I
have been called the first woman member of this Society. Let me tell
yow how it happened. When it was apparent that the movement to
admit women to the Society would be successful, there was some
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little rivalry among two or three of us whose names were upon the
nomination book, to see who would really become the first woman
member. Or, to be more exact, the rivalry was between our husbands.
The honor lay between the late Mrs. Julia E. Folsom of Brookline
and myself. Mrs. Folsom was the wife of Capt. Albert A. Folsom,
who during his lifetime was very active in the affairs of the Society.
Captain Folsom was very anxious that his wife should become the
first woman member; so, in order to expedite matters, he paid her
dues some time in advance. But, although the dues of Mrs. Folsom
were received by the Treasurer before mine, Colonel Hoyt, who at
I that time was the Corresponding Secretary of the Society and the cus-
I todian of the rolls, notified me that my letter of acceptance, whereby
I completed the necessary qualification of membership, was the first
to be received by him from a woman candidate. In aU fairness to
the memory of Mrs. Folsom, who is not here to speak for herself, I
present these facts, and you may decide for yourselves to whom the
; honor belonged. But this is a slight honor at best, for there were
I thirty-six women elected at the stated meeting of the Society held
■ February 2, 1898, twenty-five years ago this month.
I "A brief history of the events that led up to this innovation may
i not be amiss. This Society was founded, as you all know, in 1844,
i and for the first fifty-four years of its life the membership was
I composed of men only. From time to time during this long period a
I woman candidate would appear, but always failed of election. In
I 1897 the standing rules of the Council required unanimous consent
I of that body for a name to be presented to the Society for election,
\ and it had become a sort of unwritten law to ignore the name of any
i woman appearing in the nomination book.
I "In December 1896 Mr. J. Henry Lea, not knowing the existing
i state of affairs concerning the admission of women, proposed the
1 name of his cousin, Mrs. Georgetta Barton Witter of Worcester, and
] the names of more than a dozen other women appeared as candidates
I before the next meeting of the Council. The Council, a httle startled
1 by this concerted appearance of so many women candidates, ordered
a postal canvass of the membership, which revealed the fact that a
large majority were in favor of their admittance.
"The question of legality was then raised by those who objected,
so a bill was introduced into the General Court, was passed, and was
approved April 10, 1897, giving the Society the right to admit women
to membership, subject to such restrictions as the by-laws of the
corporation might from time to time impose. The legal objections
were thus overcome, yet none of the names of the many women who
had been proposed were reported to the Society by the Council.
The chief objector was a member of that body, and, exercising his
right imder the standing rules, he prevented the election of the
women candidates.
"There was but cne thing left to do by those in favor of the change,
and that was to overcome this awkward situation through action by
the Society. This was a long process, but was finally accompUshed by
a revision of the by-laws which extinguished the one-man power.
And so on the second day of February, 1898, more than a year after
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the begiiming of the movement to admit women, thirty-six women
were elected, of whom twenty-nine made the necessary quaUfication
for membership. Their names, given in the order of complete quali-
fication, as they appear on the Rolls of Membership, were as follows :
Mrs. Lucy Hall Greenlaw of Cambridge
Mrs. Julia Elizabeth Folsom of Brookline
Mrs. EUen Augusta Lord Biu'ditt of Boston
Miss Sara Elizabeth Cushman of Newton
Miss Mary Hannah Graves of Boston
Mrs. Anna Margaret Riley of Claremont, N. H.
Mrs. Harriet Hodges Stone of Newton
Mrs. Adelaide Elizabeth Cordis of Medford
Mrs. Harriette Estelle Hayes of Boston
Mrs. Sarah Abigail Clarke Kimball of Methuen
Mrs. Ida Louise Farr Miller of Wakefield
Mrs. Harriet Hanson Robinson of Maiden
Mrs. Lora Altine Woodbury Underbill of Brookline
Mrs. Frances lone Abbe Wallace of Albany, N. Y.
Miss Helen Frances Kimball of Brookline
Miss Mary Cummings Sawj'er of Wellesley
Mrs. Emeline Bridges Simonds of Charlestown
Mrs. Charlotte JeUison Milliken of Boston
Miss Mary Perkins Quincy of New Haven, Conn.
Mrs. Evelyn McCurdy Salisbury of New Haven, Conn.
Mrs. Sara White Lee of Brookline
Miss Emily Wilder Leavitt of Boston
Miss Mary Elvira EUiot of Somerville
Miss Elizabeth Josephine Wilmarth of Attleborough
Mrs. Harriet Westcott Laurie of Boston
Mrs. Emma Story White of Boston
Mrs. Fanny Wilder Brown of Fitchburg
Mrs. Susan Vining Briggs of Brookline
Mrs. Lydia Matthews Fisher of Hyde Park
"Twenty-five years have taken their inevitable toU from the ranks
of these twenty-nine women — eight have died, eight have resigned,
and one has allowed her membership to lapse, leaving twelve of the
original twenty-nine whose names are stiU upon the rolls of the
Society, which, however, is an excellent showing at the end of twenty-
five years. Of these twelve members, six are not able to be here this
afternoon because of distance or illness; but the rest, six in number,
are upon the platform.
"It does not seem possible that twenty-five years have elapsed
since that day; but the bird of time is ever on the wing, and the years
pass before we are aware. Just to bring to your mind the passage of
time, let me recall to your attention that the Spanish War had not
broken out at this date, the sinking of the battleship Maine, which
precipitated that event, occurring February 15, 1898, thirteen days
after our election to this Society. Also let me remind you that in
1898 there were no automobiles, the bicycle being the most popular
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method of conveyance, the aeroplane and submarine were unknown,
and wireless telegraphy and radio were imdreamed of.
"The Society, from the first, seemed to benefit from the change.
Just prior to the advent of women members it had been necessary to
reduce the number for a quorum at a stated meeting from twenty to
fifteen members, in order to transact business, but immediately
there was an increase of interest in the attendance. These new
members served on important committees with gratifying results.
Three of the original twenty-nine have served on the Council, Miss
Helen Frances Kimball, Miss Mary Cummings Sawyer, and Mrs.
Ida Farr Miller, two of these. Miss Kimball and Mrs. Miller, having
served two terms each. The Committee on Papers and Essays, in
charge of the regular meetings, has been composed largely of women
and has had a wonderful degree of success in developing this part of
the Society's work.
"The lasr twenty-five years have been the most prosperous in the
history of the Society. During that period its Library has taken and
held the first place in the world in its field. Its publications, both in
volume and usefulness, have achieved a similar reputation. Its meet-,
ings have increased from a mere score of members to an average of
about two hundred. It has erected a building suitable to its needs,
worth nearly a quarter of a million dollars, and it has increased its
endowment funds in proportion to its growth.
"In view of the fact that this wonderful growth has taken place
during the quarter of a century that women have been members, and
that women have served on the governing board with the men, we
venture to claim that, like the virtuous woman described in the Book
of Proverbs, we have 'done good and not evil all the days' of these
twenty-five years."
The President then presented Mrs. Miller, who spoke as follows:
"Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen:
"The admission of women to membership in the New England
Historic Genealogical Society, with all its privileges, was an event of
suflScient importance to this Society to be worthy of the anniversary
celebration we are now enjoying. As there are but a few survivors
of that first number, we hope you will all join in the pleasure we feel
on this occasion, as we but stand as representatives of all the women
members who have been added to the number first admitted.
"Always in looking back there should result the added interest and
enthusiasm for the work and opportunities ahead, and with an insti-
tution of the importance and high standing of this Society we may
build for the future on the sure foundation of the traditions of the
past.
"It has recently been said that every town and city in our land
should have an historical society to teach the yoimg .Ajnericans and
the new Americans what the earlier Americans did for our coimtry
and who they were.
"Most important is such an interest, with the wide spread of
obnoxious and dangerous propositions and the fast increasing nimiber
of un-American organizations to confuse and mislead our people.
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"In all the years of its activity this Society has well lived up to its
purpose, and in this we are proud to-day to feel we have had a
share, if even a small one. Before the State granted the change in
its charter, those first women came to the Library to work out ances-
tral problems, made necessary by the organization of patriotic
societies; and we remember with gratitude the help received from
Mr. Dean, who, sitting with his work at the end of the long table in
the Library on Somerset Street, was always approachable and
helpful. And equally so was Mr. Gordon, at his desk on the floor
below; and to-day I would pay a grateful tribute to both these
wonderful men, who were never too preoccupied to listen to our
difficulties and to give the important piece of information. At that
time we Americans were accused of not knowing who our great-
grandparents were; and this taunt incited a feverish hunt for these
individuals, whose history could easily have been obtained earher
from relatives, who unfortimately had then become ancestors them-
selves.
"So the admission of women to the ranks of this Society was not
a step toward that objective known as 'women's rights,' but a real,
purposeful act to enable us to follow closely suggestions received and
clues discovered, by stepping behind those ropes which barred us
from the alcoves and the much desired books and scanning quickly
the pages whereon we found our reward for patient searching
"Our first opportunity for service came shortly after our election
to the Society, when a letter of appeal was sent to the women members
to make it possible to catalogue the valuable contents hidden in the
vault and not accessible for reference.
"Miss Mary C. Sawyer, still a member, and myself were privileged
to put our names on this appeal, and the generous response was
insufficient to carry out the plans. Since that time I don't think
the women have missed an opportunity to aid the Society, and I can
give the assurance that in the future they never will.
"As our interest has increased, so our problems have multiplied;
and we see ever before us more ancestors to find and new clues to
follow.
"Nearly a century ago, in a small New Hampshire town, there
i were two wide-awake boys, who were cousins. These two later
■ moved to different localities, one to a larger town in the same State,
i while the other journeyed West to Utah, made his home there,
accumulated a fortune, and became a promiaent member of the
, IMormon Church. In his later years he paid a visit to the ancestral
J town in New Hampshire, and called upon his cousin John, who had
I remained a good citizen, had become a prominent lawyer, and was
I an Orthodox deacon of great piety. They indulged in reminiscences
! and recalled their relatives and boyhood doings; and then John
{ thought it his duty to acquaint Lorin with his ideas of Mormonism,
I to which Lorin replied: 'Now, John, you have had three wives and
f I have had five. What is the difference between having them all
I at one time, or one at a time?' It is not for us to discuss this or express
f an opinion on the subject; but, as searchers after lost people and
J facts of the years past, we do know that, if many ancestors had
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five wives and thirty-nine children, our problems would be infinitely
more complex and more difficult of solution, and that time and
thought would be taxed unnecessarily.
"And now, as the women members of this Society, we express our
very great appreciation of what it has meant to us to be members,
with all the privileges we have enjoyed, for these past twenty-five
years.
"Om" interest has grown in ever-increasing measure, as we have
availed ourselves of all the opportunities offered; and we can well
promise our loyal support for the prosperity we confidently predict
this Society will always enjoy and the important place it wUl always
fill among the historical societies of our country."
At the request of the President, Mrs. Howes, Chairman of the
Committee on Papers and Essays, described the arrangements made
by that committee for the observance of the twenty-fifth anniversary
of the first admission of women to membership, and stated that, in
addition to the simple exercises of the day, a Women's Lecture
Fund had been estabUshed by contributions from the women mem-
bers of the Society, and an effort was being made to increase the pro-
portion of women members from about one-third to one-half of the
total membership.
The Chair then presented, as the speaker of the afternoon, Denis
Aloysius McCarthy, LL.D., of Arlington, Mass., who reminded
his hearers that he spoke from the point of view of an immigrant from
the Old World, and proceeded to illustrate his subject, Poetry and
Patriotism, by reading inspiring selections from patriotic poems of
his own composition.
On motion of Hosea Starr Ballou the thanks of the Society were
extended to Dr. McCarthy for his timely message and to Mrs.
Greenlaw and Mrs. Miller for their entertaining papers relating
to the admission of women to membership in the Society.
The tellers then made their report, which showed that oflScers and
councillors had been elected as follows:
President
John Carroll Chase, of Derry, N. H.
Vice Presidents
Nathan Matthews, of Boston, Mass.
Alfred Johnson, of Belfast, Me.
Albert Henry Laaison, of New London, N. H.
William Wallace Sticknet, of Ludlow, Tt.
George Andrews Moriartt, Jr., of Newport, R. I.
George Seymour Godard, of Hartford, Conn.
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Recording Secretary
Henky Edwards Scott, of Medford, Mass.
Corresponding Secretary
Thobnton Kibkland Lothbop, of Boston, Mass.
Treasurer
James Melville Htjnnewell, of Boston, Mass.
Lxbrarian
William Pbescott Gbeenlaw, of Winthrop, Mass.
CounciUora for the term of three years, 1923, 1924, i92o
William Chubchill Beiggs, of Somerville, Mass.
Mas. Flobence Reynolds (Conant) Howes, of Allston, Mass.
RoBEBT Dickson Weston, of Cambridge, Mass.
President Chase, in a few appropriate words, accepted the office
of President to which he had been reelected, and then, on motion,
it was
Voted, That the proceedings of this meeting, with the annual reports accepted
and the biographical notices of deceased members, be printed as a supplement
to the April, 1923, number of The New England Histobical and Genealogical
Registeb, that a copy of said Supplement be mailed to every member of the
Society not receiving the Registeb, to the families of members deceased during
the past year, and to exchanging societies, and that the Council be charged with
the execution of this order.
No further business being presented, the Chair, at 4 P.M., declared
the meeting dissolved, and invited the members of the Society and
their guests to remain for the usual social hour. Refreshments
were served under the auspices of the Committee on Papers and
Essays in the tea room on the auditorium floor.
Henry Edwards Scott,
Recording Secretary.
REPORT OF THE COUNCIL
Prepared by Thornton Kirkland Lothrop, A.B.
The year 1922 was another prosperous year for the New England
Historic Genealogical Society. The PUgrim Tercentenary drive
fortunately came after the World War, and happened to coincide
with the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Society. It was over
before the year 1922 began, but the final payments from some of
the members belonging to this special class came during the year,
and this special fund, so well handled by Lee, Higginson & Com-
pany for the Society during the drive, was not completely trans-
ferred to the Treasurer, for the Society, until this year. The Council
passed a vote of thanks to Lee, Higginson & Company for the careful
and satisfactory way in which they had handled this fund for the
Society; and it also appointed a special committee to devise a suitable
reward for Mr. Frederick A. Grant, who had personal charge of this
fund in Lee, Higginson & Company's office. This committee reported
that a Life Membership, as a gift from this Society, would be a suitable
recognition and agreeable, they thought, to Mr. Grant, and the
Council voted to confer such a membership on Mr. Grant, and he
has accepted it. The Council also passed a vote of thanks to the
sponsors for the invitations for subscriptions to this Pilgrim Ter-
centenary Memorial Fund for the Society, Messrs. J. Pierpont
Morgan, Henry Cabot Lodge, Charles W. EUot, Elbert H. Gary,
Charles P. Taft, Charles Deering, Myron T. Herrick, and Myles
Standish, and to Mrs. W. Mvuray Crane, whose late husband, Hon.
W. Murray Crane, was also one of the sponsors. This particular
drive, the great work of the Special Committee on Endowment and
Members, has thus entirely ceased. That Special Committee was,
however, originally designed to raise funds and increase the mem-
bership of the Society by this and other means; and it did this work
so well that it has been continued, and is still raising funds and
getting new members for the Society in a very satisfactory manner.
The memorial tablets which are in process of being put up by
different members of the Society to ancestors selected by them, in
the halls and stairways of the Society's Building, at 9 Ashburton
Place, have taken up a lot of the time of many members of the
Council, and have been considered also by the Council itself as a
body. The placing of these tablets has progressed during the year.
The most important of all, that to Abraham Lincoln, has been given
to the Society by his son, Robert Todd Lincoln, a member of this
Society. It is placed in the main hall, near the front door, where
everybody who enters the building cannot fail to observe it with
interest. This was unveUed, with suitable addresses and other
ceremonies, on 31 May 1922, by direction of the Council. A complete
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description of the occasion, including the full text of the addresses,
will be found in the Register for July 1922.
The other tablets fonn a general decoration to the walls which is
both pleasing and appropriate; and, when studied in detail, they
show that the Society and its members, although especially inter-
ested in the Pilgrims, Pviritans, and other early settlers of New
England, also take an interest in more recent events and in the
families and histories of later arrivals in New England and other
parts of the United States and even anyTvhere in America, in the
larger sense of the word. This is very satisfactory, brings visitors
to the Society's Bmlding, and makes members return oftener than
they otherwise would return. It shows plainly for what the Society
stands, even before one enters the Library or indeed any other of
the rooms in the Building.
A portrait of our late President, Hon. James Phirmey Baxter,
was received from his son, Hon. Percival P. Baxter, Governor of
Maine, according to the bequest in his father's will, about the first
of the year, was reported by the Librarian at the meeting of the
C!ouncil on 3 January 1922, and was appropriately acknowledged
by the Council at that meeting. The Special Committee on Mural
Memorials has hung this portrait in the Council Chamber, where
Mr. Baxter so often sat when presiding at the meetings of the Council.
Many other matters have been passed on by the Council diuing
the year, but they are, I think, better dealt with in the reports of
the various officers and committees for the year.
The Report of the Committee on Finance, by James Melville
HunneweU, A.B., LL.B., Treasurer:
Under the will of our late Treasurer, George Lambert Gould, the
Society will receive a bequest of five shares of stock in the American
Telephone & Telegraph Company, to constitute a fund in his mem-
ory, the income of which is to be used by the Committee on Papers
and Essays.
The mortgages held by the Society upon the estates 16 and 18
Somerset Street, Boston, have been extended on satisfactory terms,
the rates of interest, in conformity with present conditions, being
increased, and the mortgage on the Society's Building 1ms been
reduced $1000 by contributions for this specific purpose.
By vote of the Committee and upon approval by the Council the
Walter Titus Avery Fund was marked up to $1,000, the Horace
Davis Fund to $3,000, and the Victor Channing Sanborn Fund to
$1,000, the increases representing the amounts paid as inheritance
taxes upon these legacies, so that the funds now stand at the amoimts
named in the diEFerent wills.
The Committee has marked down the book value of fifty shares of
common stock of the Boston & Maine Railroad, long held by the
Society, to its market value on 30 December 1922.
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The Committee has given careful attention to the investments
of the Society and has made numerous changes, it being the poUcy
of the Committee to sell all Liberty Bonds (except those required
by the donor to be held), all bonds maturing within the next few
years, and all redeemable bonds the market price for which is near
the redemption value. New investments have been made with the
proceeds, so as to give the Society the advantage of the present high
interest rates over a long term of years; and it is anticipated that
few further changes need be made in the immediate future.
The Report of the Committee on Ways and Means, by William
Streeter Richardson, Chairman:
No meetings of the Committee have been held during 1922, the
conditions indicated in the report of the Committee for 1921 having
still prevailed.
The success of the method adopted of working through the Special
Committee on Endowment and Members and the Special Committee
on Mural Memorials has continued to operate advantageously, and
good progress has been made.
The Report of the Committee on Increase of Membership, by
Myles Standish, A.M., M.D., S.D., Chairman:
The Committee on Increase of Membership has been in a state of
suspended animation the past year, on accoxmt of the arrangement
for liberty of action on the part of the Special Committee on Endow-
ment and Members.
The Report of the Committee on Sale of Publications, by Charles
Eliot Goodspeed, Chairman:
In 1922 the Society secured the entire stock of remainders of
editions of the Vital Records of Worcester County towns, which
were published by the late Franklin P. Rice imder the name of
"Systematic History Fund." Some of Mr. Rice's publications are
entirely out of print, and of several others only a few copies remain.
The Society is now able to supply bound copies of theSe records of
the following towns:
Ashbumliani, Athol, Auburn (in paper covers), Bolton, Brookfield, Charlton,
Douglas, Dudley, Gardner, Grafton, Hubbardston, Leominster, Marlborough,
Marlborough Epitaphs (in paper covers), Oakham, Oxford, Paxton Epitaphs
(in paper covers). Petersham, Phillipston, Royalston, Rutland, Shrewsbiuy,
Sp«ncer, Sutton, Templeton, Upton, Warren, West Boylston, Westminster, and
Winchendon.
As soon as the binding can be done, the records of the following
towns also wiQ be available:
Barre, Holden, Leicester, Millbury, Princeton, Southborough, and
Westborough.
One hundred and thirty-three volumes of Massachusetts Vital
Records, relating to one hundred and twenty-four towns, can now
be obtained from the Society.
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During the year the Treasurer has sold all the odd secondhand
copies of miscellaneous books, and will hereafter deal only in publi-
cations of the Society and those remainders of editions which it owns.
The sales of Vital Records, back numbers of the Register, and
miscellaneous publications have been above the average of recent
years.
The Report of the Committee on Pubucations, by James Parker
Parmenter, A.M., LL.B., Chairman:
The Committee on PubUcations reports that during the year 1922
the work of preparing for publication vital records of Massachusetts
towns has been continued, and that arrangements are now being
made for resuming the printing of these volumes, in the form approved
by the Commonwealth, The cost of printing is now somewhat less
than it was a year or two ago, and the State has made a small increase
in the price per page which it pays for these publications. The
Committee, therefore, has felt justified in recommending to the
Council that the publication of vital records by the Society be
resumed; and it is Ukely that the records of Acton and those of
Plympton will be printed in the early part of 1923.
The Register, with its Supplements, has been published as usual,
the issues for 1922 forming the seventy-sixth volume of this magazine.
The Report of the Committee to Assist the Historian, by Andrew
Fiske, Ph.D., LL.B., Chairman:
The Committee to Assist the Historian has the honor to report
that it has held one meeting during the year, namely, on 11 December
1922, when it received a report from the Historian and rendered to
him all the required assistance which was in its power to render.
The Report of the Committee on English Research, by George
Andrews Moriarty, Jr., A.M., LL.B,, Chairman:
During the year 1922 the work has been continued as usual.
Records coUected by the Chairman in England in the winter of
1920-21 have been published, including an article upon the ancestry
of the mother of John Coggeshall, the early president of the Rhode
Island Colony. Among the other families whose English pedigrees
have been given are those of Weeden of Rhode Island and Chesham
in Bucks, purchased of Mrs. Elizabeth (French) Bartlett, the ancestry
of Martha Jenkin, the wife of William Eaton of Reading, Mass.,
purchased of Eben Putnam, the Perkins family of Topsfield, con-
tributed by Mrs. Frank Elmer Perldns, and the Tuckers of Kent,
contributed by Rufus Stickney Tucker, Ph.D.
An article of considerable interest, because it is the first time that
such an article has appeared in the Register, is the one in the
October Register, by the Chairman of the Committee, upon the
De Greys of Oxfordshire, which traces with original records the
early generations of a famous family to the original Domesday
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tenant of 1086. This sort of work, while familiar to students of
English genealogy and to the readers of the Genealogist and the
writings of Mr. J. Horace Round, is for the most part unknown to
American students; and it is hoped that this article will show them
what can be done by scientific methods with a genealogy of the
\ twelfth century.
I It is hoped that contributions wiU be made which wiU enable the
t Committee to carrj' on the work that it has been doing for so many
years.
I The Report of the Committee on Heraldry, by Robert Dickson
I Weston, A.B., Chairman:
• While this Committee has during the year 1922 performed such
duties as it has been called on to perform, it has not been especially
active in securing the registration of arms the right to which is sus-
ceptible of proof. New possibUities of this sort are constantly pre-
senting themselves, and the Committee sees before it an immense
deal of congenial and interesting labor.
1 The Report of the Committee on the Library:
\ For the growth, use, condition, and needs of the Library see the
I Report of the Librarian.
I The Report of the Committee on Collection of Records, by
1 Walter Kendall Watkins, Chairman:
i
\ During the year 1922 the chief manuscript collections received by
i the Society were:
• 10 January. — Dukes County Probate Records, 1663-1850, 1 vol., F. Docu-
; ments relating to Martha's Vineyard, Edgartown Deeds, 1 vol., F. Documents
I relating to Martha's Vineyard, Court Record, 1 vol., F. Documents relating to
I Martha's Vineyard, Tisbury Deeds, 1 vol., F. Given by Charles Edward Banks,
M.D., Colonel, U. S. A., Retired, of Chicago, 111.
24. January.— Census of Martha's Vineyard, I, 1790, 1800, 1810, 1 vol., Q.
Census of Martha's Vineyard, II, 1850, indexed, 1 vol., Q. Given by Charles
Edward Banks, M.D., Colonel, U. S. A., Retired, of Chicago, lU.
8 February. — Pottle Genealogy, 1 vol., O. Given by Charles Edward Banks,
M.D., Colonel, U. S. A., Retired, of Chicago, 111.
3 March. — Howe Genealogical Manuscript (carbon copy), 26 boxes, 3 packages.
Bequest of the late Hon. Daniel W. Howe of Indianapolis, Ind.
7 March. — Original Manuscript of the Howe Genealogy, with Introduction,
Appendix, and Indexes (typewritten), 3 packages. Bequest of the late Hon.
Daniel W. Howe of Indianapolis, Ind.
16 May. — Settlers of Martha's Vineyard, 24 vols., Q. Given by Charles Edward
Banks, M.D., Colonel, U. S. A., Retired, of Chicago, IlL
25 May. — Genealogical Papers, Sawyer, 1 package. Sawj'er Papers, Receipted
Bills, 1 package. Sawj-er Papers, Medical, Religious, Miscellaneous, 1 package.
Newspaper Clippings, Sawyer Material, 1 envelope. Sawyer Chart, Thomas of
Lancaster (Vermont Sawyers), Chart Scroll No. 1. Sawyer Chart, James of
Gloucester, Scroll No. 2. Sawyer Chart, Scroll No. 3. Saw>-er Chart, Scroll No. 4.
Given by the Estate of the late Ellen M. Sawyer of Cambridge, Mass.
29 May. — Derby Manuscript, 1 box. Given by Estate of the late Samuel C.
Derby of Columbus, Ohio.
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i June. — Southworth Material, 2 large boxes. Given by Dr. Samuel Gilbert
Webber of Newtonville, Mass.
4 October. — Package containing Genealogical Notes on the Greenleaf Family;
book, "Ten Times One Is Ten, " "Harry Wadsworth and The Wadsworth Club; "
lithographs of the Greenleaf Family and Water Color of the Greenleaf House at
Squirrel Island, Me. Given by Edward Hale Greenleaf of London, England.
5 October. — Genealogical Material relating to Boardman, 2 vols., Q. Given
by the late Dr. Waldo E. Boardman of Boston, Mass.
27 October. — Record? of the Church in the North Parish of Shrewsbury, Mass.,
1743 and following years.* Given by Tay Edwards of Coney Hill, by Franklin
Centre, Quebec.
5 November. — Thatcher Genealogy, Line of Anthony of Yarmouth, Mass.,
23 vols. Given by John R. Totten of New York City.
15 November. — Package containing six drawers of Pomfret, Vt., manuscripts.
Given by Henry H. Vail of Woodstock, Vt.
19 December. — ^Kilburn Genealogj', 1 small package. Given by Mrs. Joseph
Foster White.
The Report of the Committee on Epitaphs, by Harold Clarke
DurreU, A.B., Chairman:
The foUowing collections of epitapLs have been received by the
Society during the year 1922:
9 January. — Epitaphs from Wells, Me., 1700-1921, 42 pp., MS., given by
Harold Clarke Durrell of Arlington, Mass. Photograph of Gravestone erected
in memory of Dr. Philip Godfrid Kast, given by Emerson Rice of Hyde Park,
Mass.
19 January. — Inscriptions on the Tombstones in the Old Muddy Brook
Cemetery, Great Barrington, Berkshire Co., Mass., 64 pp., 1921, typewritten.f
given by Mrs. S. Walton of Chicago, 111.
7 March. — Inscriptions from the Pond Cemetery, Russell, Mass., typewritten.
Inscriptions from an old Cemetery in Guilford, Vt., MS. Given by Mrs. Jessie A.
Porter of Springfield, Mass.
4 April. — Barre Cemetery Records, n.p., 1897, tjrpewritten, given by Mrs.
Frank D. Ellison of Belmont, Mass.
6 June. — ^Tombstone Inscriptions in the Village Cemetery of St. Albans,
Somerset Co., Me., with index; also in the old abandoned Sleeper Cemetery
in St. Albans Township, Me., 94 pp., 1921. The Old Village Cemetery at Hartland,
Me., with index, 66 pp., 1921, MS. Given by Mrs. Edward A. Strong of
Minneapolis, Minn.
7 June. — ^Epitaphs from the Forest Hill Cemetery (Old Cemetery), Fredonia,
Chautauqua Co., N. Y., 5 pp., 1922, MS., given by Mrs. Olive Harriet Harwood
of Benton Harbor, Mich.
12 June. — Village Cemetery, Schroon Lake., N. Y., 31 pp., MS. Mt. Hope
Cemetery, Ticonderoga, N. Y., 44 pp., MS. Old Cemetery, "Hoffman" (now
Loch Muller), Schroon Lake, N. Y., 3 pp., MS. West Side Cemetery, South
Ticonderoga, N. Y., 9 pp., MS. Old Cemetery, South Ticonderoga, N. Y., 7 pp.,
MS. Cemetery at Severance ("Platts"), Schroon Lake, Essex Co., N. Y., 28 pp.,
MS. Cemetery at North Hudson, N. Y., 15 pp., MS. Old Cemetery, PottersviUe,
N. Y., 21 pp., MS. All given by Mrs. Frank Haviland of Framinghain, Mass.
23 June. — Inscriptions in the Old Burjnng Groimd of the First Presbs^terian
Church, Cedarville, N. J., 1 pamphlet, 17 pp., 1920, given by Mr. Frank D.
Andrews of Vineland, N. J.
12 July. — Burial Grounds at Ashby, Mass. (Old Village Yard, indexed),
112 pp., 1922, MS., given by Rev. John Elliot Bowman of New Ipswich, N. H.
♦Printed, with a few omissions, in the Reqister of January 1923.
fPrinted in the REOiaxBR of July 1922.
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23 August. — Paxton, Mass., Burial Ground Inscriptions, 2 pamphlets, 32 pp.,
1906. Marlborough, Mass., Burial Ground Inscriptions: Old Conunon, Spring
Hill, and Brigham Cemeteries, 1 pamphlet, 218 pp., 1908. Both given by the
Estate of the late Pranklin P. Rice of Worcester, Mass.
S October. — ^Epitaphs copied from the Bleachery Graveyard, Swansea Village,
Mass., 3 sheets, typewritten, given by George Walter Chamberlain of Maiden,
Mass.
4 October.- — ^Photographs of the Grave of Capt. George Dennison, given by
Dennison D. Dana of Great Barrington, Mass.
I The Report of the Committee on Papers and Essays, by Mrs.
i Florence Reynolds (Conant) Howes, Chairman:
I The Committee on Papers and Essays provided eight lectures for
the stated meetings of the year 1922, as follows:
4 January. — "Vermont, the Green Mountain State, " by William Hill Crockett,
Editor of University Publications, University of Vermont, Biu-lington, Vt.
1 February. — "Three Massachusetts Clergymen," by Bishop Edwin Holt
Hughes, A.M., D.D., LL.D., of Maiden, Mass.
I 1 March. — "Colonial Architecture in Rhode Island," by Norman Morrison
I Isham, A.M., of Providence, R.I.
f 6 April. — "Connecticut's Contribation to the Revolutionary War." by Re\.
I Sherrod Soule, Superintendent" of The Missionary Society of Connecticut,
; Hartford, Conn.
I S May. — "The Clipper Ships of Massachusetts," by Samuel Eliot Morison,
I Ph.D., Lecturer on Bfetory, Harvard University.
i 4 October. — "Arms — Their Evolution and Influence on History," by Lewis
I Appleton Barker, LL.B., of Brookline, Mass.
I / November. — "The Value of Tradition," by Arthur Lord, Esq., President of
I the Pilgrim Society of Plymouth, Mass.
i 6 December. — "Gilbert Stuart, Artist and Historian," by Frank W. Bayley,
] of Boston.
I All but two of these lectures were illustrated with stereopticon
I slides, and the usual refreshments followed each meeting.
■; Owing to the success of the Open Forum enjoyed by the members
'j in December of the preceding year, the Committee arranged for a
• Round Table on the fifteenth of February. The discussion was on
\ "Heraldry Ln New England, " and was conducted by Robert Dickson
"^ Weston, Chairman of the Committee on Heraldry. The meeting
proved interesting and stimulating. Again, on 21 December, the
Committee had charge of a tea held in celebration of the tenth
anniversary of the occupation of the Society's BuUding at 9 Ash-
burton Place.
It is gratifying to call attention to the year's programme for 1923,
which annoimces one lecture to be provided for by a memorial fund
from the bequest of our late Treasurer, Gteorge Lambert Gould, and
to state that a second memorial fund is to be donated to this Com-
mittee for a like purpose.
The purchase of a stereopticon lantern is an additional asset in
the work of the Committee.
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The Report of the Special Committee on Endowment and Mem-
bers, by Mrs. Florence Reynolds (Conant) Howes, Secretary:
The work of the Special Committee on Endowment and Members
was continued during the year 1922, but on a much smaller scale
than previously. It was deemed advisable to pursue simpler methods;
and typewritten invitations, approximating 2000, were sent out
during the year, with a satisfactory return of nearly one himdred
acceptances for Annual and Life Membership.
Should it be advisable to carry on the work during 1923, employing
the same simple methods as last year, the direction of the work might
easily fall upon the Council or the Committee on Increase of Mem-
bership, without the continuance of the Special Committee on
Endowment and Members.
The Report of the Specla.l Committee on Mural Memorials, by
Robert Dickson Weston, A.B., Chairman:
For one reason or another the work of this Committee progressed
a Uttle more slowly in 1922 than in 1921. Nevertheless, thirteen new
tablets were actually put in place, and seven more went through
what we may call "the committee stage" and passed into the hands
of the designers and stonecutters. This means that the work of the
Committee is about half done. Some thirty-five more tablets remain
to be provided with inscriptions, designed, carved, and fixed in
appropriate places on the walls.
The most impressive feature of the Committee's work during the
past year was the putting up of the bronze tablet in memory of
Abraham Lincoln. This beautiful bas-rehef was imveiled 31 May
1922 with appropriate exercises, a full account of which, with a
photogravure of the tablet, may be found in the Register for July
1922.
The Report of the Special Committee on Rolls of Membership,
by William Prescott Greenlaw:
Considerable progress in preparing copy for the continuation of
the printed Rolls has been made during the year. Also, all the
changes needed to complete the printed RoUs to the end of 1891
have been noted in an interleaved copy of that work. A thorough
checking of the lists of hving members kept by the Secretary and the
Treasurer and this Committee has been made, and all these lists
are now in accord.
The Society begins the year 1923 with 12 Honorary, 47 Correspond-
ing, 521 Pilgrim Tercentenary, 433 Life, and 827 Resident Members,
a total of 1840. Of the Life Members, there are 61 in the thirty-
dollar, 307 in the fifty-dollar, and 65 in the himdred-dollar class.
Of the Resident Members, there are 65 in the three-dollar, 549 in
the five-dollar, and 213 in the ten-doUar class.
The plates which were made of the printed RoUs will need so many
alterations to take care of the changes in the RoUs since they were
printed that it may be cheaper to reset the entire matter. This is
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XXV
a condition that will always exist, if the Rolls are completed to date
and again published in the same arrangement — a fact which raises
the question of the expediency of continuing the fonner arrangement.
It is advisable that the Conomittee be enlarged and instructed to
devise some plan to obviate 'this diflBculty.
Occasional inquiries come to the Committee as to the relative
position of the older members. Below is given a list of the Resident
and Life Members who were elected before 1880 and whose names
are still on the Rolls, with the date of election of each.
George William Baldwin
William Whitman . .
Lemuel Pope ....
Arthur French Towne
David Greene Haskins, Jr. .
Simeon Eben Baldwin
Thomas Dennie Quincy, Jr..
Theodore Parker Adams .
John Collins Warren
William Thomas Lambert
Charles Wells Hubbard . .
Charles Pelham Greenough .
Beimett Franklin Davenport
Edward Preston Usher . .
Sidney Perley ....
George Kuhn Clarke .
William Francis Crafts
Anson Titus
Grenville Howland Norcross
Robert Maurice Bailey, Jr. ,
John Whittemore Farwell .
June 1865
March 1866; resigned 29 December
1893; reelected 3 May 1916; Life
Member 1919
April 1867; Life Member 1874
April 1868; Life Member 1870
January 1869
November 1869; Life Member 1872
September 1870; Life Member 1870
October 1873
June 1875
June 1875; Life Member 1875
February 1876; Life Member 1912
December 1876
January 1877
February 1877; Life Member 1877
February 1878
September 1878; Life Member 1883
November 1878
November 1878; Life Member 1887
January 1879; Life Member 1885
February 1879
September 1879; Life Member 1901
REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN
Presented by William Peescott Greenlaw
The total accessions for the year 1922 number 1208 volumes, 495
pamphlets, and 88 miscellaneous articles. Of these, 299 volumes and
75 pamphlets were purchased; 843 volumes, 415 pamphlets, and 88
miscellaneous articles were given or deposited; and 66 volumes and
5 pamphlets were received in exchange. Two himdred and eighty-
two genealogies were acquired during the year.
Last year estimates were obtained for installing additional book-
stacks to furnish shelving for the expansion of the Library. Upon
consideration of the prices quoted, it was deemed inadvisable to do
anything in the matter at that time. Li consequence of that decision,
the growth of the Library has made it necessary to withdraw from
use and place in storage many miscellaneous works, to provide space
for the expansion of those classes of books which are in constant
demand. The number of volumes withdrawn from use was about
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equal to those acquired during the last four years, and the number
now accessible remains about the same as in 1918, when it waa
determined that there were nearly 51,000 volumes on the shelves.
There is an increasing demand for books to use at home, on the
part of members who live at a distance and who cannot visit the
Library in person. On account of this demand it has been found
necessary from time to time to purchase duplicates of important
works, when it was thought that the loan of the books wanted would
lessen the usefulness of the Library as one of reference. These dupli-
cates will eventually be needed to replace volumes that are wearing
out through constant and hard usage. This practice also helps the
institution financially by increasing the membership and retaining
the interest of the members ia the work of the Society. Members
can make this part of the service much more valuable by the donation
of dupUcates of genealogies and local histories.
The registration of visitors during the year just closed was the
second highest since moving into the new building ten years ago,
and was only about thirteen per cent below that of 1921, the banner
year. Statistics of visitors have been kept since 1892, and show a
gratifying increase in the use of the Library by nonmembers. Taking
ten-year periods as a fair basis for comparison, these statistics show
for each 100 in the first decade (1892-1901) 266 in the next (1902-
1911) and 310 in the third period (1912-1921). The ratio for the
opening year of the fourth decade (1922) was 355.
A full supply of soft coal was purchased early in the season, before
the price was advanced. The change from hard to soft coal will make
a saving of nearly S700 for the year. The heating and ventilating
plant, one of the best in this part of the country, has been examined
by the engineer who planned it, and directions have been given to
the man in charge for operating it in such a manner that there shall
be no waste of fuel. This insures plenty of fresh air of the right
temperature and humidity at aU times of the day for the average
number of persons in the oflSces and the reading room.
The greatest need of the Library at the present time, from the
viewpoint of those who use it, as well as that of the Librarian, is an
adequate index of the data in print relating to American families.
Durrie's and Munsell's indexes came to an end in 1908, and did not
fully cover the field, especially in the later years. While these guides
served their purpose very well in their time, the entries in them are
not full enough for the present day. What is needed now is a com-
prehensive guide that will enable the searcher to determine from the
index itself the probabUity of the volume indexed containing any-
thing that would help him in his search, and save him from consulting
a long hst of works useless for his quest. Such an index would also
save the attendant at the desk in the Library much unnecesssary
handling of books, and to some extent reduce the wear of the books
and the expense of rebinding. A small beginning has been made at
the Library in the compilation of such a guide, and a practical plan
has been formulated for carrying on the work with whatever funds
may be available for that purpose. The Librarian believes that this
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REPORT OP THE CORRESPONDING SECRETARY XXVI 1
important work should be undertaken in earnest and carried through
to completion, and recommends that funds be sought to carry on
the undertaking.
REPORT OF THE CORRESPONDING
SECRETARY
Presented by Thornton Kirkland Lotheop, A.B.
Boston, 30 December 1922.
The names and residences of those who have joined the Society
during the year 1922 and of those who have been transferred from
one class of membership to another are herewith submitted.
Honorary Member
Joha Venn Cambridge, Eng.
CORRESPONDINQ MEMBER
Montague Spencer Giuseppi London, Eng.
i Pilgrim Tercentenary Members by Succession
■ John Vacher Bacot Utica, N. Y.
i (succeeded John Vacher Bacot)
5 Francis Corwin Millspaugh Lowell i
I (succeeded Edward Judson Millspaugh)
[ Samuel Dale Stevens, Jr Peace Dale, R. I.
i (succeeded Samuel Dale Stevens)
f Edward Foster Swift Chicago, 111.
1 (succeeded Ann M. Higgins Swift)
I Life Members
Joseph Dayton Bascom St. Louis, Mo.
Weston Pettit Brewster Dimock Standish, Me.
Frederick Ayer Grant Somerville
Edwin Denison Morgan New York, N. Y.
Eliza Taft Newton Holyoke
George Wood Wawa, Pa.
Resident Members Transferred to Life Membership
Albert Nickerson Murray Cambridge
George Homer Partridge Bronxville, N. Y.
Resident Members
Mrs. Herbert B. Andrews (Bertha Goodrich) . . . Battle Creek, Mich.
; Mrs. Charles Kelley Baker (Maude Maybelle Hallett) Auburn, R. I.
I Mrs. Arthur E. Barter (Ida S.) Roslindale
Charles Addison Bean Watertown
Mrs. Frank AJden Besse (Mary Bryant Gammons) . Wareham
; William Hall Best West Newton
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Jessie Edna Blackstone Anaconda, Mont.
Mrs. Dwight Blaney (Edith White Hill) .... Boston
Mrs. Benjamin Patterson Bole (Roberta Holden) . . Cleveland, Ohio
Belle Oilman Brown .......... Boston
Mrs. Elbridge Gerry Brown (Julia Watkins) . . Ann Arbor, Mich.
Mrs. Winthrop Brown, Jr. (Margaret K.) . . . Cambridge
William Sohier Bryant New York, N. Y.
Mrs. Frank Cornelius Buckley (OUve Randall Smith) Superior, Wis.
Mary Caroline Bucknam Swampscott
Newell Cutler BuUard North Attleborough
Mrs. Richard Charles Carrick (Anna Valentine Cramton) Keene, N. H.
Charles Blanchard Carter Auburn, Me.
Mrs. Elno Allston Carter (Lillian Wetherbee) . . . Everett
Levi Badger Chase Sturbridge
Mrs. WiUiam Henry Cole (Emihe Maris) .... Duluth, Minn.
Mrs. Le Roy Benjamin Cox (Mary Bell CHft) . . Chicago, 111.
Lydia Elizabeth Crawford Kittanning, Pa.
Allen Potter Crolius Philadelphia, Pa.
Mrs. James Hutchinson Cutter (Frank Adele) . . . North Litchfield, N. Y.
Mrs. WiUiam Mehard Davidson (Nettie Adams) . Pittsburgh, Pa.
Allen Stewart Davison Pittsburgh, Pa.
Elmer Ellsworth Doe Orleans, Vt.
Greorge Bucknam Dorr Bar Harbor, Me.
Frank Edward Doyle Boston
Mrs. Carroll Amos Dwinell (Mary Eliza Philbrook) Lynn
George Thomas Eaton Andover
James Williamson Eddy Boston
Mrs. Sidney Albert Eldred (Grayce Undena Eliza Swift) Cody, Wyo.
Mrs. Charles Lyman Ellis (Grace Perry) . . . . Anadarko,' Okla.
Alexander Morton Emerson Boston
Robert Adams Gibbs Los Angeles, Calif.
Harry Wishard Glossbrenner Indianapolis, Ind.
Elizabeth F. Gordon Bridgewater
Mrs. Henry Reuben Grant (NeUie Izetta) .... Everett
Eliza Rudd Greenwood New York, N. Y.
Mrs. Herbert Wilder Hall (Mabel Buzzell Goodwin) HalloweU, Me.
Albert Swan Hannaford Toledo, Ohio
Stewart Henry Hartshorn Short Hills, N. J.
Jessica Josephine Haskell Hallowell, Me.
Mrs. Frank Reed Heustis (Eliza Josephine Thompson) Hyde Park
Mrs. WiUiam Henry Hofifman (Mira Hettie) . . . Barrington, R. I.
Mrs. Charles Mather Hogg (Clara Hyde Dewey) . Cadiz, Ohio
Perry Oliver Holden Ashland
Winifred Hohnan Watertown
Mrs. Nelson Everett Howes (Nancy KeUogg Hubbard) Holyoke
Arthiu* Crew Inman Boston
Carrie Belle Jewett Grand Rapids, Mich.
Percival Jones Cambridge
Wayne Van Leer Jones Kansas City, Mo.
Harold Dustin KUgore Gloucester
Rear Admiral Austin Melvin Knight, U. S. N., Retired Washington, D. C.
Mrs. Charles Langley (Laiu-a Elizabeth Walters) . Poplar Bluff, Mo.
Mrs. Eldon Lee Larison (Jessie Ruth Hoyt) . . . Anaconda, Mont.
Mrs. Charles Perry Lesh (Ora Wilkins) .... Indianapolis, Ind.
Claud Frederick Lester Philippi, W. Va.
Frederick M. Libby Boston
Mrs. William Wallace McClench (Katharine Amanda
HiU) Springfield
Mrs. William Hyatt May (Martha Louise Woodward) Pittsfield
Neal Francis Mears Chicago, lU.
Mrs. Delmar James MiUer (Mamie Elizabeth Huggins) Stockton, Calif.
WiUiam Alexander MiUer Grantwood, N. J.
Mrs. Calvin Rawson MiUs (Stella Emeline Johnson) . WiUimantic, Conn.
REPORT OP THE CORRESPONDING SECRETARY XXIX
Stanley Brampton Parker Cambridge
Charles Huntmgton Pennoyer Attleboro
Charles Floyd Perkins • . . Brookline
Mrs. Walter Bowen Phipps (Frances Bowman Smith) Boston
Mrs. Mark Cordier Price (Ivie Johnson) .... Greensboro, N. C.
Jeffry Howard Randerson Albany, N. Y.
Mrs. Charles Clarence Read (Annie Wadsworth
Hurlbutt) Arlington
Mrs. Arthur Frithjoff Rees (Martha Baxter) . . Biltmore, N. C.
Louise Tanner Reeve Buxton, N. Dak.
Mrs. Alfred Charles Rippier (Anna Frances Congdon) Brooklyn, N. Y.
Mrs. Alonzo Roberson (Margaret Hays) Binghamton, N. Y.
Charles Levi Shedd Arlmgton
Mrs. Clarence Reuben Sloan (Helen Cornwell HQl) . Marietta, Ohio
Mrs. Theodore Lincoln Smith (Alice Louise Gage) . Concord
Mrs. John T. Storm (Cora Elizabeth Brown) . . Union, S. C.
I Susan Eliza Swallow South Hanover
j John Ailes Taft Evanston, 111.
i Mrs. John Sturtevant Thatcher (Amelia Elizabeth West) West Medford
j Mrs. Eben Briggs Thomas (Helen Gertrude Streator) . Pasadena, Calif.
Howard Goodell Thompson Walla Walla, Wash.
j Nathan Elbert Truman Bainbridge, N. Y.
I Walter Melvin Tuller New Rochelle, N. Y.
I Mrs. Alice Benjamin Vail River Head, Long
i Island, N. Y.
\ Mrs. Robert Bums Walker (Adelaide Pauline Bangs) . Needham
I John Whiting Webber , . Newton
I Allan Hiram Whitman Maiden
i Mrs. Andrew Chalmers Wilson (Mary Fuller Sturges) . Osterville
I This gives a total of one Honorary Member, one Corresponding
j Member, four successors to Pilgrim Tercentenary Members, six new
• Life Members, two members transferred to Life Membership, and
I ninety-five Resident Members. This has been another satisfactory
5 year. The total number of new members in 1922 is one hundred and
I seven, as compared with one hundred and seventeen in 1921; but,
not counting the Honorary and Corresponding Members and the
successors to previous memberships, the total number of new mem-
bers is one himdred and one this year, exactly the same as in the
previous year.
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REPORT OF THE TREASURER
The Treasurer submits herewith his annual report for the year
ending 31 December 1922.
Exhibit I
Balance Sheet, 31 December 1922
ASSETS
Real Estate (Society's Building and Land) . . . $220,000.00
Library, Fixtures and Furnishings 112,270.92
Real Estate (9A Ashburton Place) 55,585.41
$387,856.33
Cash 3,503.28
Investments (Exhibit II) :
Bonds $132,404.37
Liberty Bonds 1,014.20
Stocks 39,449.52
Mortgage on Real Estate at 16 Somerset Street . . 14,300.00
" " " " 18 " " . . 37,500.00
$224,668.09
Registers on hand ........... 5,780.45
Genealogies and Miscellaneous Publications . . . 2,307.48
Vital Records Stock 14,925.33
Consolidated Index 2,888.40
Genealogies from George Homer Partridge .... 100.00
$26,001.66
Inventory, Coal on hand 400.00
" ' Paper on hand 488.78
- $888.78
Prepaid Insurance 264.50
Account Receivable (rent due) 250.00
$643,432.64
LIABILITIES
Funds (Exhibit III) $589,121.84
Premium Accoimt 2,075.68
Mortgage Note Payable 44,000.00
Income belonging to 1923:
Admissions and Assessments $2,659.00
Subscriptions to N. E. H. G. Register .... 770.00
$3 429.00
Surplus, Gain from 1922 $5,903.96
Less Deficit, 1921 (Exhibit IV) ... . 1,097.84
$4,806.12
$643,432.64
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I Exhibit II
I Investments
^ BONDS Book Value
I 2 Boston & Maine R. R. 6's, 1930 $2,000.00
I 1 Boston & Maine R. R. 6's, 1930 500.00
I 2 Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. R. Co. 3H's, 1949 1,880.00
i 5 Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. R. Co. 4'8, 1958 4,890.62
I 4 Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Ry. Co. 4's, 1934 3,890.00
I 10 Chicago Junction Rys. & Union Stockyards Co. 4's,
I 1940 10,000.00
\ 2 Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis R. R.
\ Co. 6's, 1929 1,851.25
i 5 Consolidated Coal Co. 5's, 1950 ...... 4,600.00
! 8 City of Copenhagen 5H's, 1944 6,637.50
5 Detroit Edison Co. 6's, 1940 4,802.50
5 Dutch East Indies 6's, 1947 4,793.75
2 Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Ry. Co. 4's, 1928 1,937.50
5 Massachusetts Gas Co. Gold 4H's, 1929 . . . 4,956.25
5 Milwaukee, Sparta & Northwestern Ry. Co. 4's,
1947 4,627.50
4 Missouri Pacific Ry. Co. 5's, 1965 ($500.00 each) . 2,000.00
2 Minneapohs & St. Louis R. R. Co. 5's, 1934 . . 2,000.00
3 New York Central & Hudson River R. R. Co. 3H's,
]^99g _ 2 700.00
0 New York Central R. R. Co. 6's, 1935 ." .' . '. 4^53o!oO
6 New York Telephone Co. 6's, 1949 5,765.00
\ 5 New York, New Haven & Hartford R. R. Co. SJ^'s,
i 1947 5,000.00
\ 5 Northern States Power Co. 5's, 1941 .... 4,382.50
1 5 Northern Westchester Lighting Co. 5's, 1955 . . 4,450.00
* 1 Pennsylvania-Ohio Power & Light Co. 7^*8, 1940 965.00
* 5 Pacific Gas & Electric Co. 6's, 1941 5,000.00
J 3 Pere Marquette R. R. Co. 5's, 1956 300.00
I 3 Pere Marquette R. R. Co. 4's, 1956 3,000.00
"i 5 Province of Ontario 5H's, 1937 5,225.00
5 Puget Sound Power & Light Co. 7H's, 1941 . . 4,875.00
„ 1 Riordon Co. Ltd. 8's, 1940 990.00
: 5 Southern Pacific R. R. Co. 4's, 1949 .... 4,767.50
; 8 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 5J^'8,
1929 and 1937 7,612.50
5 United States Rubber Co. 5'si 1947 4,475.00
3 Western Telephone & Telegraph Co. 5's, 1932 . . 3,000.00
5 Western Union Telegraph Co. 4H's, 1950 . . . 5,000.00
Total Book Value of Bonds $132,404.37
1 United States Liberty Bond, 4J^% 1,014.20
STOCKS Book Value
195 shares American Telephone & Telegraph Co. . . $19,018.50
625 shares Austin Water Co., No. 7 600.00
50 shares Boston & Maine R. R., common. No. B23593 875.00
15 shares Cambridge Gas Light Co., Nos. 4594, 4598,
5331, 5801, 6284 2,686.02
50 shares New England Power Co., preferred . . 4,737.50
50 shares Pullman Co 6,107.50
50 shares Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, preferred,
7% 5,425.00
Total Book Value of Stocks $39,449.52
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I BECAPITULATION
^ Bonds $132,404.37
I Liberty Bond 1,014.20
I Stocks 39,449.52
I Mortgages on Real Estate at 16 Somerset Street . . 14,300.00
I " " " " " 18 " " . . 37,500.00
I Total Investments (Exhibit I) $224,668.09
I Exhibit III
\ • Funds
! Librarian Fund . . . .' $12,763.13
Library Fund 110,601.76
! Donors' Free Fund 1,305.00
; Ebenezer Alden Fund 1,000.00*
William Sumner Appleton Fund 293.02*
Walter Titus Avery Fund 1,000.00
John Barstow Fund 1,200.00
Robert Charles Billings Fund 5,000.00
I Robert Charles Billings Book Fund 5,000.00*
I Henry Bond Fund 2,500.00*
I John Merrill Bradbury Fund 2,500.00
I Edward Ingersoll Browne Fund ; . 1,000.00
I Cheney Memorial Book Fund 427.67*
I Jonas Gihnan Clark Fund 2,000.00
I Thomas Crane Fund 1,000.00*
1 Cushman Genealogical Fund 521.97*
I Horace Davis Fund 3,000.00
I Benjamin Franklin Dewing Fund 187.67*
\ Phny Earle Fund 1,000.00
I Robert Henry Eddy Fund 36,788.00
f Charles Louis Flint Fund 5,000.00
^ John Foster Fund 5,000.00
! CaroUne Sumner Freeman Fund 5,000.00
I Charles Edward French Fund 1,000.00*
i George Lambert Gould Fund 1,000.00
-! Robert Cushman Hunnewell Memorial Fund . . . 5,000.00
I Moses KimbaU Fund 5,000.00
i Charles Lamed Fund 1,000.00
: Williams Latham Fund 1,000.00
George Sumner Mann Fund 2,462.07*
Noah Martin Fund 200.44
Moses Greeley Parker Fund 244.99
Ira Ballou Peck Fund 1,000.00
Marv Warren Russell Fund 3,000.00
Pilgrim Tercentenary Memorial Fund 168,300.00
Samuel Elwell Sawyer Fund 4,000.00
Anne Elizabeth Sever Fund 5,000.00*
Frank Edson Shedd Fund 500.00
Edmund Farwell Slafter Fund 500.00*
George Plumer Smith Fund 10,000.00
Joseph Henry Stickney Fund 1,000.00
Agnes Beville Tedcastle Fund 700.00*
William Cleaves Todd Fund 11,000.00*
WiUiam Blanchard Towne Memorial Fund . . . 3,000.00*
William Blake Trask Fund 500.00
John Harvey Treat Fund 10,000.00*
Mehitable Calef Coppenhagen Wilson Fimd . . . 500.00
Robert Charles Winthrop, Jr., Fund 3,000.00
Cyrus Woodman Fund 1,000.00
Carried forward $443,995.72
REPORT OF THE TREASURER
Brought forward $443,995.72
Victor Channing Sanborn Fimd 1,000.00
Building Fund . 86,361.10
Life Membership Fund 41,686.94
Bulkeley Fund 468.00
Eddy Town-Record Fund 5,434.99
Reduction of Mortgage Fund 2,925.09
Fund Income Account 7,250.00
Total Funds (Exhibit I)
The funds starred are more or less [restricted and
amount to
Exhibit IV
Profit and Loss Account
Income from Mortgage on Real Estate at 16 Somerset
Street
Income from Mortgage on Real Estate at 18 Somerset
Street
Income from Stocks and Bonds
Income from Liberty Bonds
Income from Real Estate (9A Ashburton Place) .
Admissions and Assessments $7,692.00
Less 1923 account 2,659.00
Subscriptions to N. E. H. G. Register $2,160.00
Less 1923 account 770.00
General Income
Interest on Mortgage $2,700.00
Suspense Account 2,589.39
Books for Library 776.17
Binding _ 870.32
Society's House, Care and Repairs 2,195.85
Cataloguing 950.59
Committee on Papers and Essays 403.94
Special Cormnittee on Endowment and Members . . 2,529.05
Heating and Lighting . 1,704.63
Printing, Postage, and Stationery 2,196.93
Printing N. E. H. G. Register 5,591.85
Salaries 5,864.40
Taxes and Insurance 213.72
Committee on English Research 26.00
Miscellaneous Expenses 432.52
Deficit from Operations
Transferred to Funds by vote of Council:
Walter Titus Avery Fund $50.00
Horace Davis Fund 118.75
Victor Channing Sanborn Fund 42.75
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$589,121.84
$44,592.40
$505.21
1,593.75
9,664.22
231.68
1,762.00
$5,033.00
$1,390.00
5,129.78
$25,309.64
$29,045.36
$3,735.72
Reduction in value of Boston & Maine R. R. Stock
$211.50
8,930.00
$12,877.22
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f
I Brouaht forward $12,877.22
I Increase in value of Society's Hoiise S17,781.18
i Increase in value of Vital Records 1,000.00
I §18,781.18
I
i Profit and Loss Account for the year $5,903.96
I Less Deficit for 1921 1,097.84
I Balance to credit Profit and Loss, 31 December 1922
I (Exhibit I) $4,806.12
I ■ James M. Hunnewell, Treasurer.
\
\ Auditors' Certificates
; The books of the New England Historic Genealogical Society for the year
ending 31 December 1922 have been audited by me and found to be correct, the
j balance cash on hand as stated. The securities represented in the investment
j accounts have not been verified by me.
j Gideon M. Mansfield,
! Boston, 30 January 1923. Certified Pvblic Accourdard.
\ The undersigned hereby certify that they have examined the securities of the
I New England Historic Genealogical Society and have foimd them to be in accord-
i ance with the lists.
I Harold Clarke Durrell "I ^^^^^^^
? J. Harvet White /
i Boston, 1 February 1923.
{
I
REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE
KIDDER FUND
Boston, 30 December 1922.
Balance on hand, 31 December 1921 $1,079.67
Dividend No. 27, 15 February 1922 . 100.00
Dividend No. 28, 17 May 1922 100.00
Dividend No. 29, 18 August 1922 75.00
Dividend No. 30, 20 November 1922 75.00
Interest on deposits 12.29
$1,441.96
Books 1,052.21
Net Balance on hand. Merchants National Bank, 30 December 1922 S389.75
The property in the hands of the Trustees consists of fifty shares in the Cabot
Manufacturing Company.
Wm. Sumner Appleton
James M. Hunnewell \ Trustees
Francis N. Balch
HEPOET OF THE HISTOHIAX XXXV
REPORT OF THE HISTORIAN
Presented by Rev. Lewis Wildeb Hicks, M.A.
NECROLOGY FOR 1922
i [The dates in the first column indicate the years of election]
\ Honorary Member
\ 1890 Right Hon. James Bryce, Viscount Bryce, D.C.L., LL.D., Litt.D.,
I F.R.S., of Hindleap, Forest Row, co. Sussex, England, was bom at
Belfast, Ireland, 10 May 1838, and died at Sidmouth, co. Devon,
England, 22 January.
Corresponding Member
1904 DoRviL Miller Wilcox, B.A., M.D., of Lee, Mass., was bom at
Lexington, N. Y., 15 Febmary 1841, and died at Pittsfield, Mass.,
25 January.
1913 Edward Goulburn Sinckler, F. R. C. L, of Waverley, St. Lawrence,
} Barbados, B. W. I., was bom at St. Michael's, Barbados, 19
I November 1856, and died at Waverley 30 June.
}
I Pilgrim Tercentenary Members
\ 1920 Julia Lyman, of Cambridge, Mass., was bom in Boston 30 January
I . 1859, and died at Cambridge 26 January,
I 1921 George Robert White, of Boston, was bom at Lynn, Mass., 19
; July 1847, and died in Boston 27 January.
i 1919 Shepherd Brooks, A.M., of Boston and Medford, Mass., was bom
: in Baltimore, Md., 23 July 1837, and died ia Boston 21 Febmary.
I 1919 James Brown Potter, A.B., of New York City, was bom in New
I York City 17 May 1853, and died at West Hampton, Va., 21
i Febmary.
} 1919 Samuel Dale Stevens, of North Andover, Mass., was born at
North Andover 16 June 1859, and died there 21 February.
1919 Mrs. Ann Marla (Higgins) Swift, of Chicago, lU., was bom at
Eastham, Mass., 13 August 1843, and died in Chicago 19 May.
1919 William Rockefeller, of New York City, was bom at Richford,
N. Y., 31 May 1841, and died at North Tarrji^wn, N. Y., 24 June.
1920 Edward Judson Millspaugh, of Utica, N. Y., was bom at
Richmond, Staten Island, N. Y., 20 June 1861, and died at Utica
14 July.
1919 Mrs. Alice White (Shaw) Torrey, of Dorchester, Mass., was bom
at South Weymouth, Mass., 6 Augiist 1836, and died at Dorchester
18 August.
1920 Albert Alvtn Jenks, of Pawtucket, R. I., was bom at Central FaUs,
R. I., 1 November 1859, and died at Pawtucket 7 November.
1919 James Pierce Stearns, of Brookline, Mass., was bom at Brookline
10 February 1840, and died there 9 November.
1920 William Widdicomb, of Grand Rapids, Mich., was bom at Exeter,
CO. Devon, England, 12 July 1839, and died at Grand Rapids
27 November.
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XXXVl N. E. HISTOEIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY
1919 Francis Wood Carpenteh, of Providence, R. I., was bom at Seekonk,
Mass., 24 June 1831, and died at Providence 1 December.
1921* KiHKLAND Hopkins Gibson, A.B., of Chestnut Hill, Mass., was
bom at Medford, Mass., 12 January 1881, and died at Chestnut
Hill 18 December.
1919 Mes. Helen Frances (Adams) Dinsmore, of Staatsburgh on the
Hudson, N. Y., was bom in Boston 18 October 1845, and died in
New York City 22 December.
1919 Timothy Hazen Fowler, of Holyoke, Mass., was bom in that part
of West Springfield, Mass., which is now the town of Agawam,
14 Febmary 1849, and died at Holyoke 23 December.
Life Members
1919 Hon. A. Augustine Butterfield, of Jacksonville, Vt., was bom
at Wiknington, Vt., 25 June 1844, and died at JacksomiUe 1
I January.
I 1904 Mrs. Emily (Talbot) Walker, of San Mateo, Calif., was bom at
I East Machias, Me., 12 September 1848, and died at San Mateo
20 Febmary.
1885 MosEs Jones Wentworth, A.M., LL.B., of Chicago, HI., was bom
at Sandwich, N. H., 9 May 1848, and died in Chicago 12 March.
1897 Jerome Carter Hosmer, of Dorchester, Mass., was bom at Framing-
ham, Mass., 2 November 1834, and died at Dorchester 17 March.
I 1901 Hon. George Winslow Wiggin, of Franklin, Mass., a life member
; since 1902, was bom at Sandwich, N. H., 10 March 1841, and died
I at Franklin 23 March.
I 1909 Mrs. Mary Elisabeth (Newcomb) Addison, of Quincy, Mass..
I was bom at Quincy 30 May 1852, and died there 9 April.
I 1891 Richard Middlecott Saltonstall, A.B., of Chestnut HiU, IMass.,
;- a life member since 1912, was bom at Chestnut Hill 28 October
I 1859, and died at Brookline, Mass., 17 April.
I 1905 William Fitzhale Abbot, A.B., of Worcester, Mass., was bom in
; Boston 27 April 1853, and died at Worcester 21 April.
; 1912 Hon. William Henry Harrison Stowell, of Amherst, Mass.,
s was bom at Windsor, Vt., 26 July 1840, and died at Ainherst 27
; April.
1911 Mrs. Eleanor Tracy (Eustis) Pattee, of Brookline, Mass., was
bom in Boston 22 March 1851, and died at Coronado, CaM., 20
May.
1900 Henry Clay Jackson, of Boston, a life member since 1902, was
bom at North Bridgewater (now Brockton), Mass., 19 April 1838,
and died in Boston 21 May.
1897 Levi Holbrook, M.A., of New York City, a Hfe member since
1898, was bom at Westborough, Mass., 7 March 1836, and died at
Centre Harbor, N, H., 26 July.
1913 Waldo Elias Bo.uidman, D.M.D., of Boston, a life member since
1919, was bom at Saco, Me., 1 September 1851, and died at Omaha,
Nebr., 14 August.
1921 Louis Ellsworth Laflin, C.E., of Princeton, N. J., was bom at Pitts-
field, Mass., 23 March 1861, and died at Princeton 2 September.
*Mr. Gibson succeeded in 1921 to the Pilgrim Tercentenary membership formerly held by his
father, the late George Alonzo Gibson, A.B., LL.B.
REPORT OF THE HISTORIAN XXXVU
1913 Mrs. Abbib Susan (Jefts) Beede, of Hudson, Mass., was bom at
Marlborough, Mass., 28 August 1859, and died at Hudson 16
September.
1868 Henkt Herbert Edes, A.M., of Cambridge, Mass., a life member
since 1871, was bom at Charlestown, Mass., 29 March 1849, and
died at Cambridge 13 October.
1893 Henrt Cole Quinbt, A.M., LL.B., of New York City, a life
member since 1919, was bom at Lake Village, N. H., 9 July 1872,
and died in New York City 23 October.
1876 Francis Hjinbt Manning, of Boston, was bom in Boston 26 August
1847, and died there 31 October.
I 1917 Hon. Morgan Gardner Bulkelet, M.A., LL.D., of Hartford,
I Conn., was bom at East Haddam, Conn., 26 December 1837, and
! died at Hartford 6 November.
1921 William Goodsell Rockefeller, B.A., of New York City, was
bom in New York City 21 May 1870, and died there 30 November,
1907 Mrs. Elizabeth Sticknet (Clapp) Cheney, of Boston, was bom
in Boston 23 August 1839, and died there 11 December.
I Resident Members
\ 1892 John Cotton Clapp, of Dorchester, Mass., was bom at Dorchester
j 30 June 1837, and died there 9 January.
\ 1891 George Augustus Sawter, A.B., of Cambridge, Mass., was bom
I at Roxbury, Mass., 25 May 1857, and died at Cambridge 14
I January.
I 1921 Charles Henry Bradley, M.A., of Boston, was born at Johnson,
I Vt., 13 Febmary 1860, and died in Boston 30 January.
1 1903 Rev. Ebenezeb Thompson, A.B., B.D., of Sarasota, Fla., was bom
i at Pomfret, Conn., 21 November 1846, and died at Sarasota 5
; February.
> 1913 Henry Dingley Coolidge, of Concord, Mass., was bom at Chelsea,
I Mass., 26 August 1858, and died at Cambridge, Mass., 7 February.
1 1904 Mrs. Alice Nichols (Coburn) Stevens, of Lowell, Mass., was
I bom at Lowell 4 April 1851, and died there 9 Febmary.
I 1904 Rev. Williston Walker, Ph.D., D.D., L.H.D., of New Haven,
I Conn., was bom at Portland, Me., 1 July 1860, and died at New
; Haven 9 March.
1899 Augustus Larkin Thorndike, of Brewster, Mass., was born in East
Boston 10 August 1861, and died in Boston 10 March.
1897 Hartley Frederic Atwood, A.B., of Brookline, Mass., was bom
at Chelsea, Mass., 19 December 1861, and died at Brookline 11
March.
1920 William Franqs Warden, of Boston, was bom at Bath, Me.,
2 June 1872, and died in New York City 22 March.
1917 Lucy Carpenter Sweet, of Attleboro, Mass., was born at Worcester,
Mass., 29 December 1855, and died at Attleboro 23 March.
1912 Herbert Wood Kimball, of Newton, Mass., was bom in Boston
■ 3 March 1840, and died at Newton 10 April,
1903 Nathan Warren, of Waltham, Mass., was bom at Waltham 11
February 1838, and died there 11 April.
; 1898 George Sawin Stewart, B.A., of Watertown, Mass., was bom at
■ Newton, Mass., 30 March 1870, and died at Watertown 17 April.
XXXVIU N. E. HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY
1920 Mrs. Emilte Sniffbn (Lebhee) Fthth, of South Orange, N. J. , was born
in New York City 25 April 1854, and died at South Orange 26 April.
1912 Mrs. Ann Jane (Felton) Ward, of Roxbury, Mass., was bom at
Barre, Mass., 25 July 1840, and died at Roxbury 8 May.
1896 Col. Josiah Granville Leach, LL.B., of Philadelphia, Pa., was
bom at Cape May Coiul; House, N. J., 27 July 1842, and died in
Philadelphia 27 May.
1895 Andrew Marcellus Kidder, of Somerville, Mass., was bom at
Chariestown, Mass., 20 May 1845, and died at Somerville 9 June.
1915 Mrs. Ella Florence (Hott) Flickinger, of Little Rock, Ark., was
bom at Brandon, Mich., 18 August 1861, and died at Little Rock
24 June.
1916 Mrs. Margaret (Kimball) Cxjmmings, of Boston, was bom in
Boston 19 October 1841, and died at Topsfield, Mass., 14 July.
1889 Alexander Graham Bell, Ph.D., M.D., LL.D., Sc.D., of Wash-
ington, D. C, was bom in Edinburgh, Scotland, 3 March 1847,
and died near Baddeck, Cape Breton, 2 August.
1890 Hon. Edward Francis Johnson, A.B., LL.B., of Wobum, Mass..
was bom at Wobum 22 October 1856, and died there 23 September,
1913 James William Sullivan, of Boston, was bom at Bradford, Me.,
30 November 1848, and died at Brookline, Mass., 24 September.
1918 Mrs. Emma Frances (Upham) Almt, of East Brookfield, Mass.,
was bom at East Brookfield 22 May 1861, and died there 11 October.
1917 Frank Whitney, of Boston, was bom at Lynn, Mass., 2 July 1846,
and died in Boston 30 October.
1904 Gen. Lucius Albert Barbour, of Hartford, Conn., was bom at
Madison, Ind., 26 January 1846, and died at Hartford 6 November.
1862 Charles Sumner Fellows, of Minneapolis, Minn., a resident
member from 1862 to 1878, a corresponding member from 1878 to
1894, and a resident member again since 1894, was bom at Bangor,
Me., 18 May 1838, and died at Minneapolis 28 November.
1904 Elisha Rhodes Brown, of Dover, N. H., was bom at Cranston,
R. I., 28 March 1847, and died at Dover 25 December.
Deaths that occurred in ■previous years, but not recorded until now
1880 Edward Howard Baker, of Rockford, Dl., a corresponding member,
was bom at Ferrisburgh, Vt., 5 April 1828, and died at Rockford
26 January 1897.
1884 Sir John Campbell Allen, LL.D., D.C.L., of Fredericton, N. B.,
a corresponding member from 1884 to 1890 and an honorary
member since 1890, was bom in the parish of Kingsclear, York Co.,
N. B., 1 October 1817, and died at Fredericton 27 September 1898.
1915 Victor Hugo Hamilton, B.A., of East Liberty, Ohio, a resident
member, was bom at East Liberty 7 March 1886, and died there
15 April 1918.
1902 Mrs. Sarah (Brown) Fowler, of Guilford, Conn., a resident
member, was born at Collinsville, Conn., 27 August 1846, and died
at Guilford 21 April 1921.
1905 Lambert Bigelow Lawrence, of Foxborough, Mass., a life
member, was bom at Marlborough, Mass., 2 May 1872, and died
in Boston 28 May 1921.
1908 John Woolf Jordan, LL.D., of Philadelphia, Pa., a corresponding
member, was born in Philadelphia 14 September 1840, and died
there 11 June 1921. s
MEMOIRS
OF 'I'H y.
NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY
Prepared by Rev. Lewis Wildeb Hicks, M.A., Historian
The following pages contain obituary notices of members who
died during the year 1922, with the addition of nine who died in
preceding years. The notices are arranged in the order in which
the deaths occurred.
1897
Edward Howaed Baker, of Rockford, 111., a corresponding
member since 1880, was born at Ferrisburgh, Vt., 5 April 1828, the
son of Ira Watson and Mira (Noble) Baker, and died at Rockford
26 January 1897. He traced his descent from Alexander^ Baker of
Boston, Mass., who came from London in 1635 in the Elizabeth and
Ann, aged 28, with his wife Ehzabeth and two children, through
Joshua^ of New London, Conn., John' of Woodbury, Conn., Elisha*
of Woodbury, Elisha* of Clarendon, Vt., and Ira Watson* of Ferris-
burgh, his father. His mother, Mira Noble, was fifth in descent from
Thomas^ Noble, who was in Boston in 1652 and resided later at
Springfield and Westfield, Mass., through Matthew^ of Westfield,
Obadiah' of Sheffield, Mass., Peter* of Sheffield, and Solomon^ of
Ferrisburgh, Vt., her father.
His early childiiood was spent in his native town and in the neigh-
boring city of Vergennes. When he was about nine years old, his
father migrated to the West, and, after living for two ytears at
Madison, then in Geauga Co., but now in Lake Co., Ohio, took up
his abode at Rockford, Winnebago Co., 111., on 6 October 1838, only
two years after the first survey of the pubhc lands in this county
was begun. Yoimg Edward accompanied his father into the hard-
ships of pioneer life, and was identified with that section of Illinois
from his eleventh year until his death — a period of almost sixty years.
His early education was obtained at private schools and from
special teachers, and embraced a thorough course in the common
branches and in mathematics, natural science, history, literature,
Latin, Greek, and French. He was admitted to the freshman class
of Knox College, Galesburg, 111,, in June 1845, and in the following
September, as a freshman, entered Illinois College, at Jacksonville,
in the same State. He did not complete the college course, however,
but left college in 1846 and became a teacher in the common schools
— first at Athens, then in Sangamon Co., but now in Menard Co.,.
111., and in 1847 at Grand Detour, Ogle Co., HI. In May of the latter
year he engaged in business; but in 1852 he entered upon the study
of law and in 1854 was admitted to the bar. He never ceased, how-
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ever, to be a student, and in his later years, in addition to his legal
studies, continued to delve into history, literature, French, German,
Latin, books on travel, and biography, and devoted much time to
collecting and arranging genealogical material relating to the descend-
ants of has immigrant ancestor, Alexander Baker.
Mr. Baker was not only a leading member of the bar of Winnebago
County but was also active and prominent in the development of
his adopted town and the region around it. From 1847 to 1852 he
served as assistant postmaster at Rockford, and from 1858 to 1864
he was a master in chancery for Winnebago County. He became
connected as secretary with the beginnings of various railroad enter-
prises in that part of Illinois, 1856-1864, and held the oflBce of mayor
of Rockford in 1866 and 1868 and that of city attorney in 1876. He
was prominent also in Masonic circles, and was the last survivor of
the twelve charter members of Rockford Lodge, No. 102, organized
13 February 1851. In politics he was at first a Whig, as was his
father, but in 1854 he took an active part in organizing the Republi-
can Party in Winnebago Coimty. Like his paternal ancestors from
Alexander Baker down, he was attached to the Congregational
Church.
In later life Mr. Baker looked back with justifiable satisfaction
on the part that he had taken in promoting the welfare of the com-
munity in which he lived. In 1880, when he accepted election as a
corresponding member of the New England Historic Genealogical
Societ3'', he wrote:
"Let the biographer of 'my times' gazette me among the 'rank and file.'
If the money that might have been accumulated into riches has been scat-
tered here and there for the begitmiag of schooLs, libraries, churches, and
needed charities, my children shall not lose their inheritance. If I have
served my City, State, or Country, they are not ungrateful, because they
have more worthy servants than they have honors to bestow. And if at
home or in society I have done anything of which it might be said 'well
done,' let that be my record and my reward."
On account of poor health the later years of his life were passed
quietly, and after his retirement from active pursuits he seldom left
Rockford. In 1876 he visited Boston, New York, and Washington,
and attended the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. In 1893
he saw the Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
A tribute to him published in a local paper the day after his death
characterized him as follows:
" Mr. Baker was a man of fine mind, of high intellectual attainments. He
was a deep and careful student, an omnivorous reader, and possessed a
wonderful memory. He was ever eager to enrich his mind with a knowledge
of the best things in the arts, sciences and fiteratiu'e. Perhaps no person
in the city was better informed on colonial history than he, and his researches
in similar fields were marked by the same thoroughness. . . . Mr. Baker
was one of the kindhest, most genial of men. He was a progressive, energetic
citizen, and a man of the strictest integrity."
Mr. Baker married at Rockford, 26 April 1852, Lucy Frances
Marsh, born at Adams, Jeflferson Co., N. Y., 2 August 1833, daughter
of Col. Jason and Harriet Moore (Spafiford) Marsh. Colonel Marsh
MEMOIRS
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was closely associated with his son-in-law in many public services.
Mrs. Baker survived her husband by several years, dying in 1914.
Their children, bom at Rockford, were: 1. Myra Frances, born
5 November 1858; living unmarried at Rockford in 1922. 2. Charles
ii Henry, born 14 October 1860; living in 1922. 3. Edward William,
bom 6 May 1866; died 28 November 1920. Three brothers of Mr.
Baker also survived him, namely, Charles G., William B., and
Henry N., but all three are now deceased.
1898
Sir John Campbell Allen, Ejaight, LL.D., D.C.L., of Frederic-
ton, N. B., a corresponding member from 1884 to 1890 and an
honorary member since 1890, was bom in the parish of Kingsclear,
York Co., N. B., 1 October 1817, the son of John and Jane (Blair)
Allen, and died at Fredericton 27 September 1898.
His grandfather, Isaac Allen, practised law at Trenton, N. J.,
j previous to the American Revolution. He was loyal to the British
i Crown, served as lieutenant colonel of the Second Battalion, New
1 Jersey Volunteers, and settled in Nova Scotia in 1783. When the
I Province of New Brunswick was organized, he was appointed a
f justice of the Supreme Court, and held that office until his death,
I in October 1806. He married Sarah Campbell, a native of Philadel-
I phia. Pa,
I John Allen, son of Isaac and Sarah (Campbell) AUen and father
I of the subject of this memoir, was born in Annapolis Co., N. S.,
I 27 June 1784, and died in the parish of Kingsclear, N. B., 29 April
I 1875. His first wife, Jane Blair, the mother of Sir John Campbell
I Allen, was born at Fredericton, N. B., and died in 1822. John Allen
I was for many years a prominent factor in the civil and military affairs
I of the Province of New Brunswick. In his younger days he was a
1 captain in the New Brunswick Fencibles, a corps raised in the
'. Province during the War of 1812 and commanded by Gen. John
i Coffin. That regiment was disbanded in 1817; and he was subse-
\ quently appointed heutenant colonel and inspecting field officer of
the Provincial Militia, serving in that capacity until the office was
abolished, and later he was appointed quartermaster general. From
1809 to 1847 he represented York County in the Provincial Assembly.
John Campbell Allen was educated at the CoUegiate School in
Fredericton, and studied law with Hon. John Simcoe Saunders, son
of the then chief justice of New Brunswick. He was admitted as an
attorney in October 1838, and became a member of the bar of the
Supreme Court of New BrunswicTc in October 1840. As a young man
he was active in military affairs, joining as early as 1835 a volunteer
company of artillery that in 1838 became part of a regiment known
as the New Brunswick Royal Artillery. He rose to the rank of
captain in the militia (1840), served from 1844 to 1848 as aide-de-
camp on the staff of Sir WiUiam Colebrook, Lieutenant Governor of
New Brunswick, and retired from the service in 1865.
His most important services to New Brunswick were performed
in civil life. In 1845 he was appointed one of the commissioners to
Xlii N. E. HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETT
settle the claims to land in the Madawaska Settlement, under
Article Four of the Treaty of Washington of 1842, commonly called
the Ashburton Treaty. That part of the disputed territory which
became British soil was inhabited by Acadian French, to whom the
Provincial Government refused to issue grants; and from 1845 to
1847 the commission appointed to investigate and adjust these
difficulties was engaged in hearing and determining the claims of all
settlers between the Grand Falls of the St. John River and the
St. Francis River. In 1847 he published the "Rules of the Supreme
Court of New Brunswick," with notes relating to the practice of the
Court, a book commonly known as "Allen's Rules," In 1849 he
was appointed reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Court, and
the six volumes of decisions which he published are known as "Allen's
Reports." From November 1851 to January 1856 Mr. AUen served
as clerk of the Provincial Executive CouncU. In 1852 he was elected
mayor of Fredericton and held the office for three years, and was
the first mayor of Fredericton to be elected by popular vote, this
office having previously been filled by appointment of the Coimcil.
In February 1856 he was elected a representative from York Coimty
to the General Assembly of New Brunswick, and in May 1856 was
appointed solicitor general, holding that office until the following
year, when his party was defeated. Declining the position of queen's
counsel in 1860, he reentered the Assembly in 1862, was elected
speaker, and served as such until the dissolution of the Assembly
in 1865. He was again returned to the Assembly as an opponent of
confederation in April of that year, and was appointed attorney
general. In June 1865 he and Hon. Albert J. Smith, afterwards Sir
Albert J. Smith, were sent as delegates to London, to present the
objections of New Brunswick to the proposed Canadian Confedera-
tion. On 21 September 1865 he was appointed a judge of the Supreme
Court of New Brunswick, and on 8 October 1875 he succeeded Hon.
William J. Ritchie as chief justice. On 8 October 1866 he had been
appointed vice president of the Court of Governor and Council,
for determining suits relating to marriage and divorce; and in June
1878 he was elected, in place of the late Governor Wihnot, as an
arbitrator in the Northwestern Boundary dispute, the other arbi-
trators being Sir Edward Thornton, British minister at Washington,
and Chief Justice Harrison of Ontario. But, unfortunately, his
judicial duties would not permit him to enter upon this work, and
he accordingly resigned.
He received the degree of Doctor of Laws from the University of
New Brunswick in 1882, and thaf of Doctor of Civil Law from
King's College, Windsor, N. S., in 1890. He was knighted by Queen
Victoria in 1889. In 1888 on the fiftieth anniversary of his admission
as an attorney, he was presented with a valuable piece of plate by
the members of the St. John bar; and in 1893 the New Bnmswick bar
presented to the Supreme Court a life-size portrait of the Chief
Justice, which now hangs in the court room in Fredericton.
In November 1893, while holding court at St. Andrews, Charlotte
Co., N. B., Chief Justice Allen was stricken with paralysis, and this
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i illness compelled him to resign his oflBce and to retire from public
I life and eventually caused his death.
I Chief Justice Allen was a commimicant of the Chiu-ch of England.
I He was a highly valued member of the synod and church society of
i the diocese, a warden of the parish church for twenty years, and in
I 1877 and 1880 a delegate to the Provincial Synod at Montreal. His
I ability and high personal character were known and appreciated by
I his many acquaintances of the legal profession in the United States
I as well as throughout the Dominion of Canada; and his enforced
I retirement from the seat of honor which he had so long and so
! ably filled was looked upon with sincere regret.
i He was twice proffered the lieutenant-governorship of his native
' Province, first in 1878, by Alexander MacKenzie, the leader of the
' Liberal Government of that day, and secondly in 1893, by the then
Conservative administration.
He married, 3 July 1845, Margaret Austin Drury, daughter of
; Charles Drury, Esq., a captain in the Twenty-ninth Regiment of
j Infantry, who died at St. John in 1835. Seven sons and two daughters
I were born of this union, namely, John, now deceased, Charles Drmy,
i who died at sea in August 1882, William K., now deceased, Thomas
I Carleton, K.C., D.C.L., of Fredericton, now registrar of the Supreme
I Court and deputy attorney general, Frances, who died in 1856,
} Hon. Edmund Head, now of Fredericton, and George Winthrop,
I Henry, and another daughter — aU three now deceased.
1918
Victor Hugo Hamilton, B.A., of East Libert}'", Logan Co., Ohio,
a resident member since 1915, was born at East Liberty 7 March
1886, the son of Fremont C. and Cora DeU (James) Hamilton, and
died there 15 April 1918. He was fifth in descent from Hugh Hamilton
and his wife, (Walker), through their son James, who was
born 24 May 1754, married Mary Craine (born 15 July 1752, died
near Titusville, Pa., 8 January 1824), and died at Cherrytree, Venango
Co., Pa., 15 February 1837. Richard Hamilton, son of James, was
born 10 March 1784, married Ann Reynolds (born 4 June 1789, died
at Cherrytree 17 September 1830), daughter of William and Lydia
(Thomas) Reynolds, and died at Cherrytree 18 December 1844.
James Walker Hamilton, son of Richard, was bom 22 October
1811, married, 3 April 1839, Climena Allen (bom at Montpelier,
Vt., 9 February 1814, died at East Liberty, Ohio, 20 July 1893),
daughter of Asaph and Sarah (McCloud) AUen, migrated to Ohio,
and died at East Liberty 1 August 1879. His son, Fremont C.
Hamilton, father of the subject of this memoir, was born at East
Liberty 27 October 1856, married, 28 June 1883, Cora DeU James
(born at East Liberty 15 February 1859), daughter of Spain N. and
Nancy M. (Howe) James, and resides at East Liberty.
Victor Hugo Hamilton was prepared for college at the East Liberty
High School and the Toledo (Ohio) High School, entered the Ohio
State University, at Columbus, in 1904, and received there the
degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1908.
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After leaving the University he entered the Hamilton Bank at
East Liberty as assistant cashier, and in 1915 was promoted to the
position of cashier, which he held until Ulness compelled his retire-
ment. In 1916 he was elected treasurer of the township in which
he lived, and was fulfilling the duties of this office at the time of
his death.
A man of pleasing, genial disposition, Mr. Hamilton had numerous
friends both in business and social circles, and took a prominent
part in the civic life of the community. He was also affiliated with
the Masons and Odd Fellows.
He married, 28 June 1912, Gretchen H. Lawson, born at Belle-
fontaine, Ohio, 3 January 1893, daughter of Thomas E. and Rosa
(Lease) Lawson, who survives him, with two children, John Lawson
Hamilton and Donald Hamilton. His parents and two sisters, Mrs.
Lucy Miller of Lorain, Ohio, and Donna Hamilton of East Liberty,
are also living.
1920
Hon. Alfred William Savart, M.A., D.C.L., of Annapolis
Royal, N. S., a corresponding member since 1913, was bom at
Plympton, Digby Co., N. S., 10 October 1831, the son of Sabine and
Olive (Marshall) Savary, and died at Annapolis Royal 30 March
1920, his death having been reported in the Necrology for 1921.
He was descended from several families of early New England.
Thomas^ Savory was in the service of the Pl5rmouth Colony in
April 1634, being a member of the expedition led by John Howland
against the trespasser Hocking on the Kennebec, and afterwards
lived for many years at Plymouth. In his will, dated 1 April 1674
and proved 7 March 1676, he leaves all his estate to his wife Ann.
From this Thomas Savory the subject of this memoir was descended
through SamueP of Plymouth and Rochester, Mass., born 4 June
1651, Thomas' of Rochester and Plymouth, born 3 October 1681,
died about 1731, Uriah,* born 30 April 1708, who married, 3 Sep-
tember 1738, Deborah Bumpus (born 31 August 1713, died 16
February 1792), daughter of Isaac and Mary (Perry) Bumpus of
Rochester, and Nathan,^ born in 1748, who served in the Colonial
forces in the early days of the Revolutionary War, fighting then, as
he claimed, "for redress of grievances, but not for independence,"
but did not favor the separation of the Colonies from Great Britain
and migrated after the War to Nova Scotia. At. Digby in that
Province he married, 28 May 1785, as his second wife, Deidamia
Sabin, daughter of Jeremiah and Susanna (Le Valley) Sabin, and a
descendant through her mother of the Huguenot family of Levalley
or La valine, which came to Marblehead, Mass., from France or from
the Channel Islands. Nathan^ Savary, who died in 1826, was the
father of seventeen children, five by his first wife, Elizabeth Nye,
and twelve by his second wife, Deidamia Sabin. The second child
and oldest son by his second marriage was Sabine® Savary, who was
born 20 March 1788, and died 1 May 1878. He married, 15 November
1821, Olive Marshall, born at Yarmouth, N. S., 11 April 1801,
daughter of Samuel and OUve (Haskell) Marshall. Samuel Marshall
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was a prominent merchant and shipowner of Yarmouth and a
member of the Provincial Parliament from 1812 until his death
the next year at the age of 55. Olive Haskell's father, William
Haskell, Jr., came with his father, William, Sr., from Beverly, Mass.,
about 1767, and was one of the early settlers of Yarmouth. Sabine'
Savary always resided in Plympton, Digby Co., where he carried
on trade with Eastport, Me., Boston, and St. John, N. B., and in
his later years engaged in shipbuilding. From early manhood he
was a member of the Church of England. He was the father of three
daughters and one son, of whom the last-mentioned, Alfred William,
is the subject of this memoir.
Through Mary (Perry) Bimipus, daughter of Ezra and Rebecca
.(Freeman) Perry of Sandwich, Mass., and mother of his great-
grandmother, Deborah (Bumpus) Savery, Alfred WUliam Savary
was also a descendant of Elder William Brewster and Gov. Thomas
Prence of the Plymouth Colony.
He was prepared for college by private tutors and at the Windsor
College School, and entered King's College, at Windsor, N. S., where
he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1854, that of Master of
Arts in 1857, and the honorary degree of Doctor of Civil Law in
1909. At college he distinguished himself especially in the classics.
Choosing the law as his profession, he studied iu New Brimswick,
was admitted to the bar of that province in 1857, and, after practising
for four years at St. John, returned to Nova Scotia in 1862 and con-
tinued his professional career at Digby.
For three years he served as inspector of pubhc schools for Digby
County. In 1863 he entered pohtics as an imsuccessful candidate for
a seat in the Nova Scotia Legislature. In 1867, however, as an anti-
confederation candidate in Digby County, he was elected to the
First ParUament of the Dominion of Canada by an overwhelming
majority, and for the first two years as a member of that body gave
vigorous support to the pohcy of those favoring a repeal of the
newly formed union. In 1870 the opposition to the Dominion
decreased, and Mr. Savary went over to the side of the Government
and was reelected to the Second Parhament of the Dominion, in
1872, as a Government candidate. His parliamentary career, how-
ever, came to an end in 1874, when he was defeated in the general
election. For some time previous to his death he was, with perhaps
one exception, the last surviving member of the First ParUament of
the Dominion.
In his chosen profession he was recognized as a leader of marked
ability, he was created queen's coimsel in 1870, and was appointed,
21 August 1876, a judge of the newly established county courts for
the counties of Annapohs, Digby, and Yarmouth, a position which
he held until his retirement on a pension in 1907. "As a judge,"
says a Nova Scotia newspaper, "he was fearless in his decisions and
enjoyed the respect and confidence of everyone."
It is, however, as a genealogist and antiquarian and as the his-
torian of Annapolis County that Judge Savary merits special com-
memoration in these pages. Among his numerous writings should be
mentioned his "Genealogical and Biographical Record of the Savery
xlvi N. E. HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY
Families . . . and of the Severy Family," published in Boston in
1893, with a Supplement published in 1905, and his "History of the
County of AnnapoUs," published in 1897, and based on material
gathered by the late W. A. Calnek, which, at the request of the
estate of the latter, Judge Savary undertook in 1893 to edit and
complete. In 1907 he published "The Narrative of Col. David
Fanning, a Loyalist of North Carolina in the American Revolution,"
in 1911 he contributed to the London Genealogist a paper (afterwards
reprinted in pamphlet form) on the ancestry of Gen. Sir WUliam
Fenwick Williams of Kars, and a partial Jolmston genealogy and a
Hunt genealogy, both from his pen, were published in The New York
Genealogical and Biographical Record. In the Halifax Acadian Recorder
of 20 April 1920 Rev. Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton, D.C.L.,
of Boston, a native of Nova Scotia, a member of the New England
Historic Genealogical Society, and a well-known writer and authority
on Nova Scotia history and genealogy, paid to Judge Savary as an
historian a well-deserved tribute, which is in part as follows :
"The service to local history in our province rendered by the late Judge
Savary in the course of his long life, although recognized cordially by our
various provincial newspapers, deserves from a brother local historian an
especial tribute of unqualified praise.
"The faithful and accurate local historian in these enlightened da}'^ is
rightly considered a benefactor to society, and his work is held in the high
esteem it deserves. Judge Savary, like the late Mr. Israel Longworth, of
Truro, was a born historian, and he must early have begun to gather facts
for the valuable work he later put into print in books and pamphlets. On
the shelves of the various libraries in Boston, as elsewhere, stand his ' Savary
Genealogy,' a work that family historians constantly appeal to and will
always highly prize, and the 'History of AnnapoHs County,' largely prepared
by the late Mr. Calnek, another bom historian of our pro%'ince, but edited
and published with stupendous labor and expense by Judge Savary, without
whose interest in such work we should have no history in print of the county
in which our provincial history begins. ... To future generations his
work in connection with Mr. Calnek's wUl stand as one of the most valuable
literary products of Nova Scotia in the nineteenth centiury, or indeed in
any time."
Judge Savary was a member of the Nova Scotia Historical Society,
the meetings of which he attended regularly, taking an active interest
in its proceedings, of the Wiltshire (England) Archaeological Society,
of the American Historical Association, and of the Champlain Society,
a corresponding member of the New England Historic Genealogical
Society and of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society,
and an honorary fellow of the Manorial Society of England.
' He was a communicant of the Anglican Church, and took a very-
deep interest in its work. He was a member of the Diocesan, Pro-
vincial, and General SjTiods of the Church, attended almost every
session of each body, and served on several committees of each.
He married first, 20 February 1877, EKzabeth Crookshank Otty,
born 29 November 1851, died 8 October 1887, daughter of Henry
Phipps and Hetty (Howe) Otty of St. John, N. B.; and secondly,
16 June 1892, Eliza Theresa Hunt, daughter of Rev. Abraham Spurr
and Catherine (Johnston) Hunt, who survived him. By his first
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wife he had four children, viz.: 1. Rev. Thomas William, B.A.
(Toronto University, 1900), Rector of St. James' Church, Kingston,
Ontario, born 8 January 1878; married, in July 1905, Edna Neve,
daughter of Reginald Neve of Winnipeg, Manitoba. 2. EflSe Howe,
born 4 February 1879; died unmarried 28 April 1896. 3. Henry Phipps
Otty, a barrister of Calgary, Alberta, born 12 September 1880.
4. John Howe, born 28 January 1882; died 28 January 1913.
Funeral services for Judge Savary were held at St. Luke's Church,
Annapolis Royal, on 1 April 1920, and the interment was at Digby.
H. E. S.
Jacob Heney Schiff, of New York City, a Pilgrim Tercentenary'
member siace 1919, was born at Frankfort on the Main, Germany,
10 January 1847, the son of Mortimer Schiff, and died at his home in
New York City 25 September 1920, after an illness of about six
months, his death having been reported in the Necrology for 1920.
In his veiQS flowed the blood of those who have left their imprint
upon Jewish life in Germany, and his ancestors included scholars
and leaders in a community which has been the mirror of the active
life of the Jewish spirit during the past century.
His early education was obtained from resoiu-ces within his native
city, and he took his first steps in finance in the banking house of a
relative. Endowed with a keen perception and clear judgment,
which dominated his character and won him his position, wealth,
and esteem in maturer life, he early saw the greater possibiUties of
success in America and emigrated hither in 1865, at the age of eighteen.
His first position here was as clerk in a bank, where his natural
acimien and energy won him promotion and in a short time the
junior partnership in the new brokerage firm of Dodge, Schiff &
Company.
Conscious of the restrictions of his education, Mr. Schiff went
to Europe to study advanced financial methods. Upon his return
in 1875, he married the daughter of Solomon Loeb, head of the
banking house of Kuhn, Loeb & Company, where he was admitted
into partnership and esteemed for his counsel. Ten years later, in
1885, when Mr. Loeb retired, he was made the head of the firm,
which has so expanded its business as to stand as one of the great
banking houses of the world.
It was the support of Mr. Schiff and his firm that helped E. H.
Harriman to accomplish the great financial venture whereby the
Union Pacific Railroad was reorganized in 1897 and later o.btained
control of the Southern Pacific and other raUroads. It was in recog-
nition of Mr. Harriman's ability as a railroad organizer that Mr.
Schiff gave him such support, although he was a warm personal
friend of James J. Hill, Mr. Harriman's rival in the struggle for the
control of the transcontinental lines. The ability of Kuhn, Loeb &
Company to back great projects constituted them benefactors of
the country, for it was their money that made the Pennsylvania
Railroad tunnel into New York City a possibility, that raised the
renowned Pennsylvania RaUroad Station, that placed miUions of
xlviii N. E. HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY
dollars worth of Pennsylvania bonds in France, and that floated a
bond issue of $200,000,000 for the Japanese Government to aid in
carrying on the war against the Russians. Mr. Schiff's sympathies
were deeply aflfected by the oppression of the Russian people, and
the action of his firm was his way of aiding the foes of the old regime ;
but later he is said to have regretted his action, as he considered
that the Japanese nation had become a greater peril.
Respected for his honor and integrity in business affairs, Mr.
Schiff enjoyed a very wide and cosmopolitan circle of business
friends. Added to these were personal friends who shared in his
social pleasures and benefactions, for he was connected as an officer,
trustee, or donor with a countless number of business houses and
philanthropic institutions. Among his charities may be mentioned
his munificent gift to Barnard College, his gift of the Semitic Museum
to Harvard University, generous contributions to the Jewish Theo-
logical Seminary of New York City, and lavish sums for war-rehef
work of all kinds.
;Mr. Schiff knew no racial distinctions. He was an American citizen
first and foremost, and he aided and abetted all good and worthy
causes irrespective of race or creed. It was his idealism that made
him one of the most eminent financiers and philanthropists in the
country, as well as a glowing example of a noble American citizen.
Many of the leading men of the country, Jews and Gentiles, men of
all nationaUties and all creeds, paid ardent tribute to his virtues
after his death.
He married, in 1875, Therese Loeb, born in Cincinnati, Ohio,
daughter of Solomon and Fanny (Kuhn) Loeb. She survives him,
together with a son, Mortimer Leo Schiff, B.A. (Amherst College,
1896), honorary M.A. (ib., 1906), also a Pilgrim Tercentenary' mem-
ber of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, who married,
30 AprU 1901, Adele Gertrude Neustadt, daughter of Sigmimd and
Agnes (Richard) Neustadt, and is a member of his father's firm,
and a daughter, Mrs. Felix M. Warburg. Two brothers, Philip and
Ludwig Schiff, retired bankers of Frankfort, Germany, also survived
Mr. Schiff.
1921
Mrs. Sarah (Brown) Fowler, of Guilford, Conn., a resident
member since 1902, was born at Collinsville, Conn., 27 August 1846,
the daughter of Samuel William Brown, M.D., and his wife, Hannah
(Humphreys), and died at Guilford 21 April 1921. She traced her
descent' from James Brown of Middletown, Conn., through his son
Samuel, his grandson William, and his great-grandson Samuel
WUHam, her father, who was born at Hartford, Conn., 13 April
1802. Her mother, Hannah Humphreys, born at Canton, Conn.,
25 May 1811, was the daughter of Decius and Laura (Adams)
Humphreys. Among her ancestors were members of such prominent
New England families as the Chittendens, Bishops, Evartses, Haw-
lej^s, Goodriches, Wellses, Grants, Woodbridges, Dudleys, Leetes,
Phelpses, and Griswolds.
She received her early education in public and private schools at
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xlix
Petaluma, Calif., whither her mother went four years after the birth
of the daughter to join her father, who had settled there as a practis-
ing physician. From the age of sixteen she attended the famous
Hartford (Conn.) Female Seminary, where she was graduated in
1865. She afterwards gave special attention to the study of music.
After graduation she became a teacher in the high school at Guilford,
where she resided for the rest of her life, devoting herself in later
years to the tracing of ancestral lines and to other professional work
as a genealogist. She was instrimiental in organizing a scholarship
in the new Connecticut CoUege for Women at New London.
She was married, 17 November 1886, to Henry Eliot Fowler, son
of Henry and Sally Amelia (Hart) Fowler, who sur\dves her.
Lambert Bigelow Lawrence, of Foxborough, Mass., a life
member since 1905, was born at Marlborough, Mass., 2 May 1872,
the son of Henry Otis and Ada Genevieve (Bigelow) Lawrence, and
died in Boston 28 May 1921. He traced his descent from Henry^
Lawrence, through Johii^ of Watertown and Groton, Mass., Enoch'
of Groton, Nathaniel,* Nathaniel,* Thomas,® Thomas,' Parker,^
and Henry Otis,' his father, who was born at Marlborough 21 June
1833. He numbered also among his ancestors members of the
Garfield, Howe, Whitney, Warren, and other early New England^
families.
His early education was obtained in the public schools of his native
town and at the Northborough (Mass.) High School, where he was
graduated in 1890. After his graduation he attended the Bryant
and Stratton Commercial School in Boston, and then accepted the
position of head bookkeeper with the S. H. Howe Company, which
he left to accept a similar position with Caton Brothers of Fox-
borough. He made his residence in the latter town for twenty-one
years, and was connected with the Caton Company for the larger
part of that time.
Mr. Lawrence was a trustee of the Foxborough Savings Bank, a
director of the Northborough National Bank, and a member of the
Foxborough Club. He belonged to the Unitarian Chiirch of North-
borough and to several Masonic orders.
He married, 13 June 1906, Aurora AUce Heath of Northborough,
his classmate in the high school there, who survives him, together
with a daughter, Evelyn Heath Lawrence, and a sister, Mrs. EUen B.
Mack of Hudson, Mass.
John Woolf Jordan, LL.D., of Philadelphia, Pa., a corresponding
member since 1908, was born in Philadelphia 14 September 1840,
the son of Francis and Emily (Woolf) Jordan, and died there 11 June
1921.
His great-grandfather, Frederick Jordan, was bom in co. Kent,
England, in 1744, and was a sergeant in the Second New Jersey
Continental Line in the Yorktown campaign. He married Catherine
Eckel of Bucks Co., Pa., and died in Hvmterdon Co., N. J., in 1784.
Frederick's son John was born in Hunterdon Co., N. J., 1 September
1770, married, 23 August 1804, Elizabeth Henry, and died in Phila-
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delphia 17 February 1845. Francis Jordan, son of John and father
of the subject of this memoir, was born in Philadelphia 26 Jime 1815,
and died 13 August 1885. He married Emily Woolf (bom in Phila-
delphia 12 November 1821, died 4 September 1889), daughter of
John Lewis and Margaret (Ewing) WooK and granddaughter of
Lewis WooK, a private in the Cavalry, and John Ewing, a captain of
Infantry, in the Revolution. EKzabeth Henry, wife of John Jordan,
was the daughter of Hon. William and Sabrina Henry. Her father
was an associate justice of the courts of Northampton Co., Pa.,
1788-1814, and a presidential elector in 1792. Her grandfather,
Hon. William Henry, who was born in Chester Co., Pa., 24 January
1734, and died at Lancaster, Pa., 15 December 1786, was of Scotch
ancestry, his grandparents, Robert and Mary A. Henry, natives of
Scotland, coming to Pennsylvania in 1722 and dying in Chester
Coimty. He was a man of rare distinction, who served as armorer of
the troops of Generals Braddock and Forbes in the expeditions against
Fort Duquesne, was commissioned justice of the peace for Lancaster
Coimty in 1758, 1770, and 1777, was a justice of the Courts of Common
Pleas, 1780, a member of the Pennsylvania Assembly, 1776, a member
of the Pennsylvania Council of Safety, 1777, treasurer of Lancaster
County, 1777-1786, armorer of Pennsylvania and assistant com-
«missary general, 1778, and a member of the Congress of the Con-
federation, 1784r-85. He was a member of the American Philosophical
Society and of other learned bodies and a patron of Benjamin West,
whose first figure pictvurefrom a living model, "The Death of Socra-
tes," is still in the possession of the family.
John Woolf Jordan was educated in private schools in Philadelphia
and at the Nazareth Hall Mihtary Academy, a Moravian school,
where he was graduated in 1856. In 1902 he received the degree of
Doctor of Laws from Lafayette College.
In the Civil War he organized Starr's battery. Thirty-second Regi-
ment of Pennsylvania Militia, of which he was quartermaster sergeant
in the Gettysburg campaign; and he was a member of the First Regi-
ment, Pennsylvania Volunteers Veteran Corps.
His life was given to Kterary study, writing, and to the work of
his position as librarian of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
He was secretary of the council of that organization, its corresponding
secretary, assistant Ubrarian, 1885-1903, and since 1903 its hbrarian.
He was editor of The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography
since 1887 and of the "Biographical History of Pennsylvania Fami-
lies," and gave most valuable assistance to Sir George Otto Trevelyan,
who constantly called upon him for material while he was writing
his history of the American Revolution.
The wide range of his patriotic and civic interests is shown in the
list of societies and clubs to which he belonged and the positions he
held in them. He was founder and president of the Federation of
Pennsylvania Historical Societies, a member of the Pennsylvania
State Historic Commission, secretary of the Valley Forge Park Com-
mission, a founder of the Society of Sons of the Revolution, a member
of the Society of the Cincinnati and of the Baronial Order of Runny-
raede, vice president of the Colonial Society of Pennsylvania, -vice
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president of the Swedish Colonial Society, a member of the Pennsyl-
vania State Commission having in charge the preparing of the history
of the part taken by Pennsylvania in the "World War, and a mem-
ber of the Penn, Philadelphia Barge, Bethlehem, Pittsburgh, and Art
Clubs, together with many other patriotic and historical societies.
He should be remembered, also, as a leader in the movement which
led to the observance of Flag Day.
Among his writings are the following: "Bethlehem, Pennsylvania,
during the Revolution, 1775-1783," "Military Hospitals at Bethle-
hem and Lititz, Pennsylvania, during the Revolution," "The
Moravians at Broad Bay, Maine," "Franklin as a Genealogist,"
"Narrative of John Heckewelder's Journey to the Wabash in 1792,"
"Notes of Travel of John Heckewelder to Ohio, 1797," "Bishop
Spangenburg's Notes of Travel to Onondaga in 1745."
Mr. Jordan married, 19 May 1883, Anne Page, daughter of Alfred
and Rebecca S. (Jinnet) Page, who sm^ves him, together with three
children, Wilfred, Helen, and Bevan Page Yeates.
•; George Gery Milner-Gibson-Cullum, M.A., F.S.A., of Bury
I St. Edmimds, co. Suffolk, England, an honorary member since 1918,
I was born in London, England, 5 November 1857, the son of Right
I Hon. Thomas and Susanna Arethusa (Cullimi) Milner-Gibson, and
I died unmarried at his residence, Hardwick House, Bury St. Edmunds,
I 21 November 1921, his death having been reported in the Necrology
I for 1921.
I -He was of distinguished ancestry both on his father's and his
i mother's side. His great-grandfather. Rev. Thomas Gibson, belonged
I to a family settled at Dovercourt-ciun-Harwich in Essex and at
) ■ Ipswich in Suffolk. His grandfather, Thomas Milner Gibson, mar-
; ried Isabella Glover, daughter of Henry Glover of Chester, served at
I Trinidad, B. W. I., as a major in the British Army, and, returning to
I England, died there in May 1807, his widow marrying secondly,
[ in July 1810, Thomas Whiting Wootton, who died in 1844. Major
? Gibson's only child, Thomas, the father of the subject of this memoir,
was prominent in English politics in the first half of the reign of
Queen Victoria. He was born at Port of Spain, Trinidad, 3 September
1806, was brought to England by his parents in 1807, and, after the
necessary preparation at various schools and under a private tutor,
entered Trinity College, Cambridge, and was admitted to the degree
of Bachelor of Arts in 1830. He married, 23 February 1832, Susanna
Arethusa Cullum, who was born at Southgate Green, Bury St.
; Edmvmds, 11 January 1814, became after her marriage a leader in
■ London society, embraced in her later years the doctrines of the
\ Church of Rome, and died in Paris 23 February 1885. She was the
> only child of Rev. Sir Thomas Gery Cullum of Hardwick House,
j Bxuy St. Edmunds, who was the eighth and last of a line of baronets
I that began when Sir Thomas Cullvmi of Hawstead and Hardwick,
1 an alderman of London and sheriff of London in 1646, was created a
I baronet on 18 June 1660. Sir Dudley Cullum, the third baronet of
i this family, was high sheriff of Suffolk in 1690 and a member of
Parliament for the county in 1702. Thomas Gibson, on 7 February
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1839, assumed by royal licence the additional surname of MUner
before that of Gibson, to show his respect for the memory of Robert
Milner of Ipswich. He was elected to Parliament from Ipswich as
a Conservative in July 1837, but resigned his seat two years later,
having espoused the Liberal cause. As a Liberal candidate for
Parliament he was defeated by the electors of Ipswich in 1839, but
some two years later, in 1841, he was returned for Manchester. He
had become ere this an enthusiastic advocate of free trade and an
influential supporter of Cobden in the agitation against the Com
Laws. In July 1846 he was appointed vice president of the Board of
Trade in Lord John Russell's ministry, holding this office until
April 1848, and was made a member of the Privy Council (8 July
1846). His speeches at this period in opposition to the Com Laws
were able and convincing. In March 1857 he seconded Cobden's
motion of censure of Lord Palmerston's Chinese policy, but he lost
his seat for Manchester because of his opposition to the Crimean
War. In December 1857, however, he was returned for Ashton-
under-Lyne, co. Lancaster, and, when Lord Pahnerston's biU to
amend the law of conspiracy came up for its second reading, he moved
a vote of censxire of the Government which was carried and led to
Lord Palmerston's resignation, 19 February 1858. But in the later
ministry of Palmerston, 1859-1865, and in the brief ministry of
Lord John Russell, 1865-66, Mr, Milner-Gibson again held office,
first as president of the Poor Law Board, 25 June to 10 Jiily 1859,
and then as president of the Board of Trade, with a seat in the
Cabinet, from July 1859 to July 1866. While holding the latter office
he took an important part in bringing about the abolition of the
newspaper stamp, the advertisement duty, and the excise on paper,
so-called "taxes on knowledge," of which he had long advocated
the repeal. He continued to represent Ashton-imder-Lyne in Parha-
ment until 1868, when he was defeated as a candidate for reelection
(17 November) and withdrew from public life. Retiring from office
with an annual pension of £2000, he refused the governorship of the
Mauritius, which was offered to him in March 1869, and also the
honor of Knight Commander of the Bath. His residence was at
Theberton House, Sxiffolk, but he spent much of his time after his
retirement in yachting in the Mediterranean, and died at Algiers,
on board his yacht, the Resolute, 25 February 1884. His wife had
borne to him several children, of whom only two survived their
parents, namely, Jasper Milner-Gibson of Theberton House, Suffolk,
and the fifth son, George Gery Milner-Gibson, who in 1873, on the
death of his maternal grandmother. Lady Cullum (Mary Anne
Eggers), had succeeded to Hardwick House, Bury St. Edmunds,
and by royal licence had assumed the additional surname of Cullum
and the Cullum arms.
The Right Hon. Thomas Milner-Gibson and his wife had a second
residence in Paris, and from early childhood their son George was
acquainted with the manners and customs of France as well as
England. He received his preliminary education in Paris, at Wellesley
House, Twickenham, and at Burlington House, Spring Grove,
Isleworth, in England, and studied imder private tuition at Great
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president of the Swedish Colonial Society, a member of the Pennsyl-
vania State Commission having in charge the preparing of the history
of the part taken by Pennsylvania in the World War, and a mem-
ber of the Penn, Philadelphia Barge, Bethlehem, Pittsburgh, and Art
Clubs, together with many other patriotic and historical societies.
He should be remembered, also, as a leader in the movement which
led to the observance of Flag Day.
Among his writings are the following: "Bethlehem, Pennsylvania,
during the Revolution, 1775-1783," "Mihtary Hospitals at Bethle-
hem and Lititz, Pennsylvania, duripg the Revolution," "The
Moravians at Broad Bay, Maine," "Franklin as a Genealogist,"
"Narrative of John Heckewelder's Journey to the Wabash in 1792,"
"Notes of Travel of John Heckewelder to Ohio, 1797," "Bishop
Spangenburg's Notes of Travel to Onondaga in 1745."
Mr. Jordan married, 19 May 1883, Anne Page, daughter of Alfred
and Rebecca S. (Jinnet) Page, who survives him, together with three
children, WUfred, Helen, and Bevan Page Yeates.
George Gery MrLNER-GiBSON-Cu^LUM, M.A., F.S.A., of Bury
St. Edmimds, co. Suffolk, England, an honorary member since 1918,
was born in London, England, 5 November 1857, the son of Right
Hon. Thomas and Susaima Arethusa (Cullum) Mihier-Gibson, and
died unmarried at his residence, Hardwick House, Bury St. Edmunds,
21 November 1921, his death having been reported in the Necrology
for 1921.
'He was of distinguished ancestry both on his father's and his
mother's side. His great-grandfather. Rev. Thomas Gibson, belonged
to a family settled at Dovercourt-cmn-Harwich in Essex and at
Ipswich in Suffolk. His grandfather, Thomas MiLner Gibson, mar-
ried Isabella Glover, daughter of Henry Glover of Chester, served at
Trinidad, B. W. I., as a major in the British Army, and, returning to
England, died there in May 1807, his widow marrying secondly,
in July 1810, Thomas Whiting Wootton, who died in 1844. Major
Gibson's only child, Thomas, the father of the subject of this memoir,
was prominent in English politics in the first half of the reign of
Queen Victoria. He was born at Port of Spain, Trinidad, 3 September
1806, was brought to England by his parents in 1807, and, after the
necessary preparation at various schools and vmder a private tutor,
entered Trinity CoUege, Cambridge, and was admitted to the degree
of Bachelor of Arts in 1830. He married, 23 February 1832, Susanna
Arethusa Cullum, who was born at Southgate Green, Bury St,
Edmunds, 11 January 1814, became after her marriage a leader in
London society, embraced in her later years the doctrines of the
Church of Rome, and died in Paris 23 February 1885. She was the
onlj' child of Rev. Sir Thomas Gery CuUum of Hardwick House,
Bury St. Edmvmds, who was the eighth and last of a line of baronets
that began when Sir Thomas Cullum of Hawstead and Hardwick,
an alderman of London and sheriff of London in 1646, was created a
baronet on 18 June 1660. Sir Dudley Cullum, the third baronet of
this family, was high sheriff of Suffolk in 1690 and a member of
Parliament for the county in 1702. Thomas Gibson, on 7 February
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Barton vicarage in Suffolk. Entering Trinity College, Cambridge,
he was admitted to the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1880 and to that
of Master of Arts in 1881.
In the eighties he seemed to be about to follow in his father's
footsteps and to enter Parhament, being the second Liberal candidate
I for Bury; but, when the borough was deprived of one of its seats in
I the House of Commons by the passing of the Redistribution of
I Seats BUI in 1885, he retired in favor of the senior Liberal candidate,
5 Mr. J. A. Hardcastle, and did not again come forward as a candidate
{ for political honors.
i His mother had spent many years of her childhood and girlhood
i " in Italy, with her father, and it was in Naples that she met her
i future husband. She enjoyed the friendship of the Brownings and
Mrs. Shelley, and was closely associated with some of the leaders
in the cause of Italian liberty, to which she was passionately devoted
and to which in her later years she was able to render helpful service;
for her salon in London was frequented at various times by many
; distinguished foreign refugees, among them Louis Napoleon, INlazzini,
I Victor Hugo, and Louis Blanc, and by some of the leading English
i men of letters, such as Dickens and Thackeray, and her husband's
I standing in political circles seconded her advocacy of the cause of
I the Itahan patriots. It was, therefore, natural that her son from his
I early years should cherish an ardent love for Italy, and that after
\ the death of his parents he should spend much time there, especially
i in Rome. He became an earnest and enthusiastic student of history,
t archaeology, genealogy, and heraldry, published pedigrees of several
< Suffolk and Essex families, and wrote extensively for genealogical
I and archaeological pubHcations.
I Although he travelled much on the Continent, his interest in his
I Suffolk estates and in his home borough never flagged. At Hardwick.
i House he possessed an extensive Ubrary and a valuable collection of
i manuscripts, autographs, old china, and furniture, and the gardens
i there were laid out with great sHtl and good taste. Everjiihing
\ pertaining to the welfare of Bury St. Edmimds commanded his loyal
■ and enthusiastic support, and manj' valuable articles of historic
interest were given by him to the local museum. He was high sheriff
of Suffolk in 1888, was admitted a freeman of Bury St. Edmunds in
1911, and was elected mayor of the borough in 1913. He was also a
justice of the peace and deputy Heutenant for the county. He was
active in organizing dramatic performances for the benefit of local
charities, and in a pageant at Bury St. Edmunds in 1907 he himself
filled most admirably the role of Cardinal Beaufort. He owned about
2500 acres of land in Suffolk, and 120 acres elsewhere, and for many
years it was his custom to throw open his beautiful grounds at
Hardwick House for a popular fete on the August Bank Holiday.
Besides his honorary membership in the New England Historic
Genealogical Society Mr. Milner-Gibson-Cullum was president of
the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and Natural History, honorary
curator of the Moyses Hall Museum at Bury St. Edmunds, and a
j fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, the Harleian Society, the Hugue-
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not Society of London, the Society of Genealogists of London, and
the Zoological Society.
H. E S.
1922
Hon. a. Augustine Butterfibld, of Jacksonville, Vt., a life
member since 1919, was born at Wilmington, Vt., 25 June 1844, the
son of Ezra Turner and Mary (Leonard) Butterfield, and died at
Jacksonville 1 January 1922. He traced his descent from Benjamin^
Butterfield of Charlestown, Wobiirn, and Chelmsford, Mass.,
through Joseph,^ Sergt. Benjamin,^ Ensign Benjamin,* Capt. Ben-
jamin,^ Capt. Ezra,^ Dea. Zenas,^ and Hon. Ezra Turner^, his father,
who was born at Dummerston, Vt, 15 AprU 1815. His maternal Kne
went back to the Leonards of Taunton, Mass., the iron manufacturers
who came from Wales.
He attended the common schools and the high school of Wilming-
ton, and afterwards read law in the offices of the late Charles N.
Davenport of Wilmington and Hon Abishai Stoddard of Townshend,
Vt., beuig admitted to the Vermont bar in April 1867. In the fol-
lowing year he moved to Jacksonville, where he practised law up to
the time of his death, with the exception of one year in Massachusetts,
where he was admitted to the bar in 1870.
Mr. Butterfield was actively interested in educational, church,
Masonic, town, and county affairs, holding many positions of trust
and responsibility. He was a representative in the State Legislature
in 1880-1882, and by his bill to tax certain corporations he saved the
State $100,000. He was State's attorney for Windham County,
1882-1884, State senator in 1888-1890, census enumerator in 1890-
1892, notary pubUc fifty-three years, master in chancery fifty years,
and justice of the peace forty-nine years. He also devoted much
attention to insurance, being for some time connected with the
Union Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Montpelier.
In pohtics he was a Republican and in reUgion a Baptist.
He did some important genealogical work in writing a history of
the Butterfield famUy and a short history of the town of Whiting-
ham, Vt.
"Mr. Butterfield was a man of original ways and ideas. He pos-
sessed a keen intellect and an abundance of native wit. He was
upright in his dealings, a man of excellent character, and supported
every movement for the good of the community with which he had
been so closely and prominently identified."
He married, 2 October 1869, Marcia Sophia Brown, who died
11 April 1908, daughter of Rufus and EUzabeth (Winn) (Edwards)
Brown. There were born to them two sons and six daughters, three
of whom, Mary Blanche, May, and Clara Julia, died before their
father. The surviving children are Marcius Augustine Butterfield
of Jacksonville, Ossian Rufus Butterfield of Athol, Mass., Alice
Adele, wife of Charles A. Faulkner of Jacksonville, Marcia Amelia,
wife of EUiot F. Davis of Whitingham, and Estella Elizabeth, wife
of Arthur D. Wheeler of Whitingham. Ten grandchildren also are
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not Society of London, the Society of Genealogists of London, and
the Zoological Society.
H. E S.
1922
Hon. a. Augustine Butterfield, of Jacksonville, Vt., a life
member since 1919, was born at Wilmington, Vt., 25 June 1844, the
son of Ezra Turner and Mary (Leonard) Butterfield, and died at
Jacksonville 1 January 1922. He traced his descent from Benjamin^
Butterfield of Charlestown, Woburn, and Chelmsford, Mass.,
through Joseph,^ Sergt. Benjamin,^ Ensign Benjamin,* Capt. Ben-
jamin,* Capt. Ezra,® Dea. Zenas,^ and Hon. Ezra Turner*, his father,
who was born at Dummerston, Vt, 15 April 1815. His maternal line
went back to the Leonards of Taxmton, Mass., the iron manufacturers
who came from Wales.
He attended the common schools and the high school of Wilming-
ton, and afterwards read law in the offices of the late Charles N.
Davenport of Wilmington and Hon Abishai Stoddard of Townshend,
Vt., being admitted to the Vermont bar in April 1867. In the fol-
1 lowing year he moved to Jacksonville, where he practised law up to
I the time of his death, with the exception of one year in ^Massachusetts,
I where he was admitted to the bar in 1870.
■I Mr. Butterfield was actively interested in educational, church,
[ Masonic, town, and county affairs, holding many positions of trust
I and responsibility. He was a representative in the State Legislature
5 in 1880-1882, and by his bUl to tax certain corporations he saved the
I State $100,000. He was State's attorney for Windham County,
I 1882-1884, State senator in 1888-1890, census enumerator in 1890-
I 1892, notary public fifty-three years, master in chancery fifty years,
I and justice of the peace forty-nine years. He also devoted much
f attention to insurance, being for some time connected with the
i Union Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Montpelier.
I In poHtics he was a Republican and in religion a Baptist.
I He did some important genealogical work in writing a history- of
the Butterfield family and a short history of the town of Whiting-
ham, Vt.
"Mr. Butterfield was a man of original waj's and ideas. He pos-
• sessed a keen intellect and an abundance of native wit. He was
upright in his dealings, a man of excellent character, and supported
I every movement for the good of the community with which he had
i been so closely and prominently identified."
I He married, 2 October 1869, Marcia Sophia Brown, who died
11 April 1908, daughter of Rufus and EUzabeth (Winn) (Edwards)
Brown. There were born to them two sons and six daughters, three
of whom, Mary Blanche, May, and Clara Julia, died before their
father. The surviving children are Marcius Augustine Butterfield
of Jacksonville, Ossian Rufus Butterfield of Athol, Mass., Alice
Adele, wife of Charles A. Faulkner of Jacksonville, Marcia Amelia,
wife of EUiot F. Davis of Whitingham, and Estella EHzabeth, wife
of Arthur D. Wheeler of Whitingham. Ten grandchildren also are
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living and two brothers, Attorney 0. E. Butterfield of Wilmington
and Professor L. A. Butterfield of Brattleboro, Vt.
John Cotton Clapp, of Dorchester, Mass., a resident member
since 1892, was bom at Dorchester 30 June 1837, the son of David
and Mary Elizabeth (Tucker) Clapp, and died there 9 January 1922.
His immigrant forbear on his father's side was Nicholas^ Clapp, who
came to Dorchester, probably in 1633, his name appearing in the
records of the town the next year. From him the subject of this
memoir was descended through NathanieP Clapp, Jonathan,' David,*
David, ^ and David, ^ his father, all of whom were born at Dorchester.
His mother was a descendant of Robert^ Tucker of Weymouth,
\ Mass., 1638, and lat^r of that part of Dorchester which in 1662
I was set off as the town of Milton, through Manasseh^ of Milton,
Ebenezer,' William,* Ebenezer,^ and Atherton,^ her father, all of
this line after Manasseh having been born at Milton.
Both David* Clapp, the great-grandfather, and David^ Clapp,
the grandfather of John Cotton Clapp, served in the Revolution,
I the elder and the yoimger man working together at the task of
I throwing up fortifications on Dorchester Heights in March 1776
j and the son being subsequently enrolled in the service at various
I times in the course of the War. David* Clapp, who was born
I 6 February 1806 and died 10 May 1893, entered in May 1822, at
f the age of sixteen, as a "country" boy from Dorchester, upon an
1 apprenticeship in the printing business which had been established
I about a year earlier by John Cotton, Jr., and which circumstances
I had placed in the hands of the latter's father, John Cotton, Sr. The
I elder Cotton was apparently not a practical printer, but had other
i business interests, and his son conducted the printing house for him.
I In 1831 Mr, Clapp, who from his early days there had been the
I mainstay of the office, formed a partnership with John Cotton, Sr.,
« and Henry S. Hull, imder the firm name of Clapp & Hull; but this
i partnership was soon dissolved, and Messrs. Clapp and Cotton
"f: established the firm of D. Clapp, Jr., & Company. In 1834 Mr. Clapp
bought out the interest of his partner, and was the sole proprietor
of the business until 1864, when he admitted his eldest son, John
Cotton Clapp, into the firm, which, under the new name of Da\dd
Clapp & Son, continued to carry on the printing business in Boston
until the retirement of the sole surviving* member of the firm, John
Cotton Clapp, in December 1920. David* Clapp was a resident
member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society from
1866 until his death.*
The youthful John Cotton Clapp received what was for his gen-
eration a substantial education in the primary and grammar schools
of South Boston, at a boarding school in Newton, Mass., where he
spent a year or more, and at the famous Chauncy Hall School in
Boston. He then worked for about two years in the printing office
* Cf. the excellent memoir of David Clapp, by William Blake Trask, A.M., in the Register,
vol. 48, pp. 145-156, and also a shorter memoir, by William Richard Cutter, A.M., in
"Memorial Biographies of the New England Historic Genealogical Society," vol. 9, pp. 135-
137. For David Clapp and his ancestors sie also "The Clapp Memorial," Boston, 1876.
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of Prentiss & Sawyer of Boston, and in 1855 was given employment
with his father's firm, of which he became a member some nine
years later.
This printing business, the life work of father and son, had been
established by the Cottons in a building on the northeast corner
of Washington (the part then called Marlborough) and Franklin
Streets, and there it was carried on for forty years, until the building
was demolished in 1861 in order to make possible the widening of
Frankhn Street. The business was then moved to 334 (afterwards
renumbered as 564) Washington Street, thence in 1882 to 35 Bedford
Street, and in 1889, when the Bedford Street building was taken
down, to 115 High Street. One more change was made, at the
beginning of 1895, to 291 Congress Street, where the firm remained
until its affairs were closed up at the end of 1920.
Many notable publications were issued by this house during the
century of its existence. From 1829 to 1846 it printed the Boston
Directory. In 1823, in the days of the Cottons, when the elder Clapp
had been in the oflice hardly a year, the printing of the Boston Medical
Intelligencer was undertaken, a publication which was afterwards
combined with another periodical under the name of the Boston
Medical and Surgical Journal and was edited by distinguished
members of the medical profession. This periodical became the
property of David Clapp in 1834, when he acquired the interest of
Mr. Cotton in the firm, and was issued from his press until December
1874, when it was sold to a company of medical men and turned over
to other printers. In the fall of 1864 the printing of the New England
Historical and Genealogical Register was placed in the hands
of David Clapp & Son, the first number printed by them beiag the
issue for January 1865, with which volume 19 begins. The firm
continued to print the Register for almost fifty years, until the
spring of 1914, when the increasing cost of hand-set work and the
superior facilities afforded by monotype machines, with which the
house of David Clapp & Son was not equipped, led the committee
charged with the publication of the Register, with much regret,
to make arrangements with another printing firm. At one time,
before the Massachusetts railroads were merged into two or three
great systems, the firm did much railroad printing. Numerous
books and pamphlets also, pertaining to various subjects but espe-
cially to history and genealogy, were issued by this long-established
printing house, and many a well-known fainily history bears the
imprint of David Clapp & Son.
In the later years of the -firm David Capen Clapp, younger brother
of John Cotton Clapp, also had an interest in the business, and
retained it until his death.
In December 1920 Mr. Clapp, then in his eighty-fourth year, gave
up the business with which he had been identified for sixty-five
years, and the oldest printing house in Boston closed its doors.
As Boston was incorporated as a city on 23 February 1822, the Kfe
of this firm coincided practically with the first century of the life
of the city; and the names of the founder and of the last proprietor
of the house recall also the very early days of the settlement, for
MEMOIRS Ivii
John Cotton was a descendant of Rev. John Cotton, the first teacher
in the First Church in Boston, and John Cotton Clapp was named
for his father's friend and associate, the later John Cotton, who died
in Boston a short time before the birth of his namesake.
Mr. Clapp's close application to his business left him httle time
for outside activities. Like his father, however, he was a faithful
and devoted worker in St. Matthew's Church (Protestant Episcopal)
in South Boston, serving there as clerk for forty years, as junior and
senior warden, and for a short period as treasurer. He was a member
of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association, the Paul
Revere Association, the Old Hawes School Boys' Association, and
the Boston Young Men's Christian Association.
Many of the tributes to Mr.Clapp's father which were published
in the Register (vol. 48, pages 153-156) are appUcable in great
measure to the son. With all who met him, either socially or in
business, there remains the memory of a sweet, genial, honest,
courtly gentleman, who erased all misunderstandings or difficulties
with a pleasing smile and a happy word.
Mr. Clapp married, 19 July 1865, Julia Curtis Crane, who was
born in Dorchester 3 November 1837 and died 24 October 1919,
daughter of Horatio Nelson and Mary Ann (Homer) Crane of Boston
and a descendant of Hemy^ Crane of Dorchester. For several years
they made their home in South Boston, but later they resided in
Dorchester. Their children were : 1. Ellen Gertrude, born 7 May 1866 ;
died 21 January 1885. 2. Homer Crane, born 9 December 1868;
died 1 November 1889. 3. John Cotton, Jr., of Dorchester, born
27 October 1870, an architect with office in Boston. 4. David
Atherton, born 12 June 1873; died 10 August 1874.
H. E. S.
George Augustus Sawyer, A.B., of Cambridge, Mass., a resident
member since 1891, was born at Roxbury, Mass., 25 May 1857,
the son of Jabez Augustus and Sarah Caroline (Worcester) Sawyer,
and died at Cambridge 14 January 1922.
He was prepared for college in the public schools of Cambridge,
entered Harvard, and in the course of his college career became a
prominent member of the University baseball nine. He was admitted
to the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1877, and then began the study
of law in a Boston office. He also attended the Boston University
Law School for three years, without seeking a degree. He taught
school for a short time at HoUis, N. H., and in the Cambridge evening
schools. In 1880 he was admitted to the Suffolk County bar, and
carried on a general practice of the law for a few years, until he
began to make a specialty of conveyancing. He practised this
branch of the law by himself with remarkable success until October
1920, when he entered a well-known Boston firm of conveyancers,
which after his admission took the name of Rackemann, Sawyer &
Brewster.
Mr. Sawyer served on the Common Council of Cambridge in
1884, but was defeated as a candidate for reelection. He was for
three years a trustee of the Cambridge Hospital, a trustee and
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vice president of the Cambridgeport Savings Bank, and for twenty-
four years had been a director of the Cambridge Gas Light Company.
He was a member of the Oakley Country Club, the Algonquin, the
Automobile, and the Harvard Clubs of Boston, the Lexington Golf
Club, and the Harvard Club of New York. He made many journeys
abroad, and in his later years was an enthusiastic golf player.
He married, 18 June 1884, Florence Emeline EUis, daughter of
J. Russell and Emeline S. EUis of Cambridge, who survives him,
together with two sisters, Caroline Sawyer and Lillian Sawyer,
both of Cambridge.
DoRViL Miller Wilcox, B.A., M.D., of Lee, Mass., a corre-
sponding member since 1904, was born at Lexington, Greene Co.,
N. Y., 15 February 1841, the son of Henry and Susanna (Miller,
Wilcox, and died at the home of his nephew, Reuben J. Brooks)
in Pittsfield, Mass., 25 January 1922. His great-grandfather, Jehie,
Wilcox, and his grandfather, Nathaniel Wilcox, served in the Revo-
lution, and his father served in the War of 1812.
He was born and passed his earliest years amidst the Catskills,
and attended the district schools at Lexington; but he spent most
of his school years at Pittsfield, where he was a pupil in the district
schools and in the high school. His father was a farmer, and, owing
to farm labor and the passionate pursuit of hunting and fishing,
the lad grew up in hardy vigor, which he maintained until old age.
In the winter of 1859-60 he taught school in Pittsfield, and in the
autumn of 1860 he entered WiUiams College, with the Class of 1864.
As soon, however, as it became certain that a war for the preservation
of the Union was inevitable, he left college, after his second term
there, worked long enough on a farm to pay some httle debts that
he had contracted, and then applied to the colonel of the Tenth
Massachusetts Regiment, which was encamped at Springfield, for
admission to the regiment. That organization had its full quota of
soldiers; but a man deserted, and young Wilcox was accepted to
fill the vacancy. Although his coUege course was thus interrupted,
WiUiams CoUege in 1884 conferred on him the degree of Bachelor
of Arts, as of the Class of 1864.
He had enUsted for three years, and during this term of service
he was always present for duty, except for a month when he was
in the hospital with the so-caUed Chickahominy fever and for several
weeks when he was recovering from a wound received in the Battle
of the Wilderness. His term of service having expired, he was dis-
charged on 1 July 1864. Prior to this he had secured an appointment
to a Government clerkship in the office of the depot quartermaster
in Baltimore, Md., and during the several months which he spent
there he began the study of medicine, as his duties aUowed him
considerable leisure. Tiring, however, of so quiet a life, he enlisted
in a Maryland regiment and served until the close of the War.
Returning to Pittsfield, he continued the study of medicine, taught
school there in the winter of 1865-66, and on 16 October 1866 was
graduated at the old Berkshire Medical CoUege, which was then
situated in Pittsfield but now no longer exists. He then entered
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upon the practice of his profession at Mount Pleasant, Wayne Co.,
Pa. The next year he was appointed to a position in a New York
hospital, where he remained until the spring of 1868, when he went
as far west as the Union Pacific Railroad had then been constructed
and followed its extension from station to station until the iron
highway was opened across the continent. On reaching the Pacific
coast he spent several months in placer mining in California, with
a brother who had followed that occupation for some years. In 1870
he returned to the East by way of the Isthmus of Panama, and
took up the arduous calling of a coimtry practitioner of medicine,
which he followed for the next twenty years in Connecticut and
in western Massachusetts, residing during most of this time in Lee,
which became his permanent home. About 1892 he gave up active
practice; but he held several medical and surgical positions of some
importance and profit, and for many years was medical examiner
in the Lee district.
For some forty-five years Dr. Wilcox was a member of the School
Committee of Lee, and he served in the same capacity for several
years at Canaan, Conn.
In addition to his professional labors. Dr. Wilcox took a deep
interest in local history, archa^jlogy, geology, and mineralogy.
In 1900 he pubHshed a work entitled "Records of the Town of Lee
from its Incorporation to A. D. 1801," and this was followed in 1901
by "Gravestone Inscriptions, Lee, Mass., including all extant of the
Quarter Century 1801-1825." He was heartily and actively in favor
of the passage by the Massachusetts General Coiut of the Vital
Records Act of 1902, in accordance with which the records of births,
marriages, and deaths prior to 1850 in many Massachusetts towns
have been compiled and published by the New England Historic
Genealogical Society and other organizations and individuals and
have been purchased and distributed by the Commonwealth among
certain pubhc offices, libraries, and historical societies; and it was
chiefly owing to his efforts and influence that many of the towns of
western Massachusetts presented the New England Historic Gen-
ealogical Society with copies of their vital records for use in preparing
these books for the press. His collection of Indian rehcs was one
of the finest in that part of the State, and his Ubrary was especially
rich in works on the natural sciences, biography, and local history.
In his will he bequeathed to the New England Historic Genealogical
Society the sum of five hundred dollars, together with sundry volumes
from his library.
Dr. Wilcox was married twice, but both his wives and his children
died before him, and his nephew, Mr. Brooks, is his nearest surviving
relative
Julia Lyman, of Cambridge, Mass., a Pilgrim Tercentenary
member since 1920, was born in Boston 30 January 1859, the eldest
child of Arthur Theodore and Ella Bancroft (Lowell) Lyman, and
died at Cambridge 26 January 1922.
She came from a long line of distinguished New England ancestors,
both on her father's and her mother's side, being a descendant of
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Richard Lyman, who came to Roxbury, Mass., from co. Essex,
England, in 1631, and afterwards settled in Hartford, Conn., and
of Percival Lowell, who came from Bristol, England, to Newbury,
Mass., in 1639, and was the progenitor of the well-known Lowell
i family of Boston. Both her parents were born in Boston, and their
I residence was for years at 39 Beacon Street. They had also a summer
I home in Waltham, Mass. Mr. Lyman, who was a graduate of
I Harvard, was eminent in financial and business circles, and served
J as president and treasurer of several manufacturing companies.
I He was a life member of the New England Historic Genealogical
I . Society from 1912 until his death on 24 October 1915, and a memoir
I of him may be found in the Register, vol. 70, page liv.
; Miss Lyman was educated in private schools in Boston, and had
travelled somewhat in Europe. Like her parents, she was a devoted
member of the congregation worshipping in King's Chapel. Her
wide range of interests in charitable and philanthropic work did
i not prevent her from pursuing studies in botany, geology, and
j genealogy; and in the last-mentioned field she proved to be the
! authority to whom the family turned for ancestral facts.
I Three brothers and two sisters survive her, namely, Arthur Lyman
iof Boston, A.B. (Harvard, 1883), a former mayor of Waltham,
Herbert Lj^man of Boston, A.B. (Harvard, 1886), Ella, wife of
Richard Clarke Cabot of Cambridge, A.B. (Harvard, 1889), M.D.
\ {ib., 1892), Mabel Lyman of Cambridge, and Ronald Theodore
i Lyman of Boston, A.B. (Harvard, 1902).
I Charles Henry Bradley, M.A., of Boston, a resident member
i since the early summer of 1921, was born at Johnson, Vt., 13 February
! 1860, the son of Harmon Howe and Sarah Grout (Ferguson) Bradley,
I anddiedinBoston30 January 1922. He was a descendant of Stephen^
j Bradley of Guilford, Conn., through Stephen^, Stephen,^ Eber,*
i Eli Judson,* and Harmon Howe,^ his father.
I He was educated in the public schools of his native town and in
I the State Normal School, which was also situated in Johnson, and
; came to Massachusetts in 1880 to be an instructor in the State
j Primary School at Palmer, of which he was made assistant super-
intendent five years later.
In March 1888 he accepted an appointment as head of the Farm
and Trades School on Thompson's Island, in Boston Harbor, an
institution established in 1814 to provide a home and education for
worthy boys in destitute circumstances. It was the first school in
this country to make farming the basis of its educational policy,
its 157 acres of land affording an excellent opportunity for such an
experiment. At Thompson's Island Mr. Bradley entered upon his
life work; for, although his growing reputation as a teacher and
leader of boys brought to him offers of other responsible positions —
notably those of head of the New York Reformatory at ELmira
and head of the House of Refuge in New York, he preferred to remain
with his boys in Boston Harbor.
I Under Mr. Bradley's guidance the school on Thompson's Island
• became known the country over. Here were formed the first sloyd
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classes in the United States, and iron and metal work, shoe repairing
stationary engineering, and typewriting, with the study of many
other practical arts, were added to the curriculimi of the school.
The "Cottage Row City," a boys' government, was established on
the Island nearly ten years before the well-known George Junior
Republic was founded. In 1905 Mr. Bradley set up a meteorological
observatory there, which is now a cooperative station of the United
States Weather Bureau. In the same year he visited Europe, and
made a study of schools for boys there.
Mr. Bradley's work received academic recognition in his native
State in 1911, when Norwich University conferred on him the
honorary degree of Master of Arts; and since 1912 he was a trustee
of that institution.
Mr. Bradley was one of the founders of the Vermont Association
of Boston, and served as its president in 1911-12 and as a member
of its executive board for many years. He was vice president of the
Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association for the last eight
years of his life, and he was a member of the Society of Colonial Wars,
the Society of Sons of the American Revolution, the Bostonian
Society, the Boston City Club, the Twentieth Centmy Club, the
Monday Evening Club, the South Boston Yacht Club, the Massa-
chusetts HorticiJtm'al Society, the Vermont Historical Society,
and the Masonic fraternity.
He married, 7 June 1883, Mary Chilton Brewster of Duxbury,
Mass., who is eighth in descent from Elder William Brewster of the
Mayflower company. Mrs. Bradley survives her husband, together
with their son, Charles Henry Bradley, Jr., who entered Harvard
College with the Class of 1914, but did not complete the college
course and is now in the advertising business in Boston.
Rev. Ebenezer Thompson, A.B., B.D., of Sarasota, Fla., a
resident member since 1903, was born at Pomfret, Conn., 21 Novem-
ber 1846, the son of Charles Stockbridge and Clara (Grosvenor)
Thompson, and died at Sarasota 5 February 1922.
He traced his descent from Anthony^ Thompson, who was in
Boston in 1637 and in New Haven in 1638, through John'^ of New
Haven, Joseph' of West Haven, Rev. Ebenezer* of New Haven,
Conn., and Scituate, Mass., Ebenezer^ of New Haven, Scituate, and
Providence, R. I., Ebenezer® of Providence and Pomfret, and Charles
Stockbridge^ of Pomfret, his father. He was a great-great-grandson
of Gen. Israel Putnam of Revolutionary fame, his mother being a
daughter of Lemuel Putnam Grosvenor and a granddaughter of
Gen. Lemuel Grosvenor of Pomfret, whose wife, Eunice, was a
daughter of General Putnam. He was also a descendant of John
Howland and Richard Warren of the Mayflower, Thomas Clark,
Nathaniel Tilden, Edward Bangs, and Edward Sturgis of the Plymouth
Colony, Henry Adams of Braintree, Mass., William Hathorne of
Salem, Mass., and many other early settlers of New England.
He was prepared for college at the Cheshire (Conn.) Military
Academy, and, entering Brown University in 1864, received there
the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1868. He then studied theologj'^,
bdi N. E. HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY
and was admitted to the degree of Bachelor of Divinity by the
Philadelphia Divinity School in 1871. On 20 June of the same year
he was ordained a deacon of the Protestant Episcopal Church by
the Right Rev. Alfred Lee, in the Church of the Saviour, Philadelphia,
and on 11 June 1872 he was ordained a priest by Bishop Clark in
St. John's Church in Providence.
UntQ about eighteen years before his death he was an earnest
and successful worker in the Protestant Episcopal ministry. He was
in charge of St. Thomas's Church, Greenville, R. I., in 1871-72,
associate rector of St. Paxil's Church, Milwaukee, Wis., 1873-1875,
rector of the Church of the Intercession, Stevens Point, Wis., 1875-
1880, and then, after a year of foreign travel, served as rector of
St. Paul's Church, Lansing, Mich., 1881-1887, rector of the Chiirch
of the Redeemer, Biloxi, Miss., 1889-1900, and rector of Trinity
Church, Woburn, Mass., 1902-1904. At Biloxi Mr. Thompson
established the Grosvenor Memorial Chapel in memory of a son
who died in infancy. There also Jefferson Davis was for a short time
one of his parishioners, and he conducted the burial service for this
Southern leader at Beauvoir, Miss., in December 1889. While
residing in Michigan he was chaplain of the First Regiment, Michigan
State Troops, 1882-1886, and in Mississippi he was chaplain of the
Jeflf Davis Artillery, 1890-1900. He was a delegate from the Diocese
of Mississippi to the General Convention of the Episcopal Church
which met at Minneapolis in 1895 and at Washington in 1898.
On retiring from the ministry in 1904 Mr. Thompson took up his
residence at Sarasota, Fla., and immediately became interested in
the development of the community which was thenceforth to be
his home. He was afl&liated with various social and fraternal organ-
izations there, and stood high in Masonic circles. In his later years
he was a student of astronomy, meteorology, and genealogy, furnished
the Jocal newspaper with a weekly weather report, and compiled an
excellent family history.
He married, at Stevens Point, Wis., 17 May 1882, Julia Emily
Curran, daughter of John and Mary (Code) Curran, who survives
him. Their eldest child, John Ebenezer Grosvenor Thompson, who
was born 8 March 1883, died 17 October 1887; but two other sons
survive their father, namely, Charles Curran Thompson, born 17
February 1886, who is in business in Baltimore, Md., and Paul
Stockbridge Thompson, born 3 August 1890, who resides at Sarasota.
A brother. Judge Charles 0. Thompson of Pomfret, Conn.,ys also
living.
Henry Dingley Coolidge, of Concord, Mass., a resident member
since 1913, was born at Chelsea, Mass., 26 August 1858, the only
child of Henry James and Mary Martin (Dingley) Coolidge, and
died at Cambridge, Mass., 7 February 1922. He had attended as
usual to his duties as clerk of the Massachusetts Senate on that day,
and was on his way to his home on the train that left the North
Station, Boston, at 4.20 P.M., when he suddenly became unconscious.
He was taken from the train at Cambridge and hurried to the
Cambridge Relief Hospital, where it was foimd that he was dead.
MEMOiBS bdii
He was a descendant of John^ Coolidge, one of the early settlers
of Watertown, Mass., through NathanieP of Watertown, Thomas'
of Watertown, David,* David, ^ James,' and Henry James,' his
father, who was born in Boston 15 May 1827. His mother, born
in Boston 26 November 1825, the dau^ter of John Thomas and
Mary Coleman (Martin) Dingley of Boston and Marshfield, Mass.,
was seventh in descent from John^ Dingley, who came to Lyim,
Mass., removed in 1637 to Sandwich in the Plymouth Colony, and
was afterwards of Marshfield, through Jacob,^ John,' John,* Thomas^
— all of whom were of Marshfield, John' of Marshfield and Milton,
Mass., and John Thomas,' her father. Through Anna (Phillips),
wife of Thomas* Dingley, Herury Dingley CooUdge was descended
from Peregrine White of the Mayflower.
He was educated in the public schools of Chelsea, in the high
school at Stoughton, Mass., and under private instruction, and,
after his graduation at the high school, entered mercantile business
in connection with the steel trade. In 1886 he entered the service
of the Commonwealth as assistant clerk of the Senate, and in 1889
was elected clerk of the same body, holding this ofiice by successive
reflections for more than thirty-three years, vmtil his death, and
serving longer as clerk of the Senate than any other man since the
adoption of the State Constitution in 1780.
Mr, Coolidge was a faithful pubhc servant, an authority on par-
liamentary law and legislative procedure, an able and efficient clerk
of the Senate, courteous to all, and a helpful coimsellor to the pre-
siding officers of that body and to senators of both parties who sought
his aid in the preparation of bills or in other legislative matters.
He won and held not only the esteem but also the affection of the
numerous members of the Senate who came and went during his
long term of service. On the day after his death the Senate con-
vened only to adjourn out of respect to his memory, and a day later
appropriate resolutions were adopted by it and fitting tributes to him
were voiced by the president and by leading senators.
Mr. Coolidge was a serious student of hterature, an able dramatic
critic, and a writer of marked abihty. He contributed articles to
magazines and amused himself from time to time, in his leisure
moments, by writing plays and playlets, several of which were
produced on the professional stage. Perhaps the best known of
these is a Ught opera entitled "Priscilla; or the Pilgrim's Proxy,"
pubhshed in 1889, for which he wrote the lyrics and which was
composed first of all for the Concord Dramatic Club, the music
being the work of Professor Thomas Whitney Surette of Concord.
He was a member of the Social Circle in Concord, the oldest asso-
ciation of the sort in the town, an outgrowth of the Revolutionary
Committee of Safety. He was also a member of the Society of
Mayflower Descendants, the Society for the Preservation of New
England Antiquities, and the Concord Antiquarian Society, and
several years ago he was elected to honorary membership in the
New York Dramatic Club.
He married at Concord, 8 September 1886, Rose Margaret Cutter,
daughter of Isaac Jqnes and Margaret Farmer (Wood) Cutter,
bdv N. E. HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY
who survives him. Their four children were: 1. Margaret Wood
born 10 October 1887; died 30 May 1889. 2. Pelham Dingley, born
15 February 1891; died 24 September 1894. 3. Henry James, A.B.
(Harvard, 1917, as of 1916), bom at Concord 11 August 1893, who
served in the World War, attaining the rank of captain of Infantry,
and is now in the banking business in Boston but resides in Concord.
4. Frank Pelham, A.B. (Harvard, 1916), born at Concord 14 October
1894, who went overseas with the American Expeditionary Forces
in the World War as first lieutenant of Field ArtiUery, and is now
a cotton salesman at Fall River, Mass.
For more than thirty-five years Mr, Coolidge had made his home
in Concord; and in that historic town, on the afternoon of 10 February
1922, in the First Parish (Unitarian) Church, of which he was a
member, funeral services were held, at which, besides his immediate
friends and neighbors, the Governor of the Commonwealth, repre-
sentatives of the executive departments, and delegations from both
branches of the Legislature were present.
Mrs. Alice Nichols (Coburn) Stevens, of Lowell, Mass., a
resident member since 1904, was born at Lowell 4 April 1851, the
daughter of Charles Butterfield and Elizabeth (West) Cobum, and
died there 9 February 1922.
She was a descendant of Edward^ Colburn, an early settler of
Chelmsford, Mass., through Thomas^ Coburn, Ephraim,' Henry,"
Henry,* and Charles Butterfield,^ her father, who was born at Chelms-
ford 16 June 1813. Her mother, who was born at Providence, R. I.,
11 November 1819, was a daughter of Samuel and Hannah (Foster)
West of Salem, Mass., a granddaughter of Robert Foster, who took
part in LesKe's retreat at the North Bridge, Salem, and a great-
granddaughter of Col. Jeremiah Page, whose historic house in
Danvers, Mass., was standing in 1904. Mrs. Stevens's grandfather,
Samuel West, kept a bookstore in Salem, which was his home except
for two years during which he resided at Providence.
She was for three years a pupU in the Lowell High School, and
spent two years, from 1868 to 1870, in study in Germany.
She was married, 3 December 1873, to Jonathan Tyler Stevens,
who died 12 March 1902, son of Charles Abbott and Maria (Tyler)
Stevens. They had five children, of whom the third child, Maria
Tyler Stevens, became the wife of William H. Fox and died before
her mother, while the other four children, Tyler Abbott Stevens,
JuUa West Stevens, Charles Abbott Stevens, and OUver Stevens,
sur\'ive their parents.
Mrs. Emily (Talbot) Walker, of San Mateo, Calif., a hfe member
since 1904, was born at East Machias, Me., 12 September 1848,
the daughter of William Chaloner and Sophia Gleason (Foster)
Talbot, and died at San Mateo 20 February 1922.
She traced her descent from Peter^ Talbot of Dorchester and
Chelmsford, Mass., through Capt. George^ of Chelmsford, who fought
in the Indian wars, Capt. Peter,' who served in the Revolution,
Peter,* Peter,* who married EHza Chaloner, and William Chaloner,^
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her father, who was born at East Machias 28 February 1816. Her
mother, who was born at Eastport, Me., 15 October 1823, was a
daughter of Ezekiel and Ruthy Jones (Hayden) Foster and a descend-
ant of the Fosters of Ipswich, Mass.
She was prepared for college at Clarke's Institute, San Francisco,
Calif., where she was a pupil from 1860 to 1865, and entered Vassar
College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., in September 1865. In April 1867,
however, illness compelled her to leave coUege; but she continued
her studies from September 1867 to June 1868 at a pension for yovmg
ladies at Geneva, Switzerland.
She was married at San Francisco, 30 April 1885, to Cyrus Walker,
son of James Martin and Eliza (Heald) Walker of Skowhegan, Me.
Their son, Talbot Cyrus Walker, was born at San Francisco 31
December 1886. Their daughter, Emily Pope Walker, was bom
2 December 1890 and died on 14 December of the same year.
For many years her home was at San Francisco.
Shepheed Brooks, A.M., of Boston and Medford, Mass., a
Pilgrim Tercentenary member since 1919, was bom in Baltimore,
Md., where his parents, Gorham and Ellen (Shepherd) Brooks of
Boston and Medford, were temporarily residing, 23 July 1837, and
died in Boston 21 February 1922.
He was a member of an illustrious Massachusetts family, of which
the immigrant ancestor was Thomas^ Brooks, an early settler of
Watertown, who was admitted a freeman 7 December 1636 and soon
afterwards removed to Concord, where he was constable in 1638
and later deputy and captain. In 1660 he and his son-in-law, Timothy
Wheeler, bought four hundred acres of land in Medford; but he
continued to reside in Concord, and died there 21 May 1667. Among
his children by his wife Grace, who died 12 May 1664, was Caleb,^
born, probably in England, about 1632, who removed from Concord
to Medford and died 29 July 1696, aged 64. His two wives, Susanna
and Hannah, were sisters, being the daughters of Thomas Atkinson;
and by the second wife, Hannah, he had two sons, Ebenezer^ of
Medford, whose grandson, John Brooks (1752-1825), was the well-
known Governor of Massachusetts, and SamueP of Medford, who
was born 1 September 1672 and died 3 July 1733. This Samuel
married Sarah Boylston, daughter of Dr. Thomas Boylston of
Brookline and sister of the wife of his brother Ebenezer; and their
son Samuel^ of Medford, who was born 3 September 1700 and died
5 July 1768, was by his wife, Mary Boutwell of Reading, the father
of five children, one of whom was Rev. Edward^ Brooks of Medford,
A.B. (Harvard, 1757), A.M. (z6., 1760), who was born 4 November
1743 and died at Medford 6 May 1781. For a few years after his
graduation at Harvard Edward Brooks was librarian of Harvard
College, and in July 1764 he was settled as pastor at North Yarmouth,
Me. Here, however, Mr, Brooks's somewhat liberal theology proved
unacceptable to his flock, and in March 1769 he was at his own
request dismissed from his pastorate and returned to Medford. He
took an active part in the stirring events of 19 April 1775, and in 1777
was appointed chaplain on the frigate Hancock, which was captured
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by the British off Halifax, Mr. Brooks being held for some tirae as a
prisoner. By his wife, Abigail Brown, whom he married in September
1764, daughter of Rev. John and Joanna (Cotton) Brown of Haver-
hill and great-great-granddaughter of the famous Puritan teacher.
Rev. John Cotton of Boston, Mr. Brooks had two sons and two
daughters. His second son, Hon. Peter Chardon* Brooks, who was
born at North Yarmouth 6 January 1767 and died in Boston
1 January 1849, was named for one of his father's Harvard class-
mates, Peter Chardon, who died prematurely in the West Indies
in October 1766, the son of an eminent Boston merchant of Huguenot
descent, whose house stood at the corner of the present Bowdoin
Square and Chardon Street, on the site recently occupied by the
Bowdoin Square Baptist Church. The family of Rev. Edward Brooks
was in straitened circumstances after his death; but the yoimg
Peter Chardon Brooks, starting in business in Boston about 1789
as a marine-insurance broker, rose to be one of the most eminent
merchants of Boston, and accumulated a fortune. He resided in
Boston in the winter, and passed his summers on his ancestral acres
in the western part of Medford, where he built a large mansion house.
At various times he held public office in the Commonwealth, serving
in both branches of the State Legislature, in the Executive CoimcU,
and in the Constitutional Convention of 1820. In 1792 he married
Ann Gorham, daughter of Judge Nathaniel of Chariest own. Of their
large family of thirteen children, Charlotte Gray Brooks became
the wife of Hon. Edward Everett, and Abigail Brown Brooks the
wife of Hon. Charles Francis Adams, son of President John Quincy
Adams. Gorham' Brooks of Medford, son of Peter Chardon Brooks,
was born at Medford 10 February 1795, entered Harvard College,
from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1814 and
that of Master of Arts three years later, and died 10 September 1855.
He married, 20 April 1829, EUen Shepherd, who was born in Louisiana
22 August 1809 and died 11 August 1884, daughter of Resin Davis and
Lucy (Gorham) Shepherd. Their only daughter died in infancy;
but their elder son, Peter Chardon* Brooks, A.B. (Harvard, 1852),
A.M. {ib., 1871), who was born at Watertown 8 May 1831 and died
in Boston 27 January 1920, married, 4 October 1866, Sarah Lawrence,
daughter of Amos Adams Lawrence, A.B. (Harvard, 1835), A.JNI.
{ib., 1838), and was a weU-known and pubKc-spirited resident of
Boston and Medford, while their younger son. Shepherd* Brooks,
is the subject of this memoir.
He was prepared for college by Dr. Samuel Eliot of Boston, entered
Harvard, and received there the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1857
and that of Master of Arts in 1872. Only two of his Harvard class-
mates of 1857 survived him.
After leaving college, Mr. Brooks passed the winter in New Orleans,
and in the autumn of 1858 went to Europe, where he remained two
years and travelled extensively. His freedom from financial cares
made it possible for him to spend a winter in the South whenever
he wished and to travel at will in this country and abroad. In the
spring of 1872 he joined a pleasiure party that journeyed to the
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Pacific coast, and thus met his future wife, who was also a member
of the party.
Although he had made a special study of architecture, he did not
follow up this subject as an active profession. He had a house in
Boston and a beautiful estate in the western part of Medford, where
he indulged his tastes for rural life and raised extensive crops of the
highest quality. The Brooks estate was one of the show places of
Medford, and was famed throughout the East. It possessed also
much historic interest, and evidences of the old-time canal, the
Indian monument, and the slave wall could until recently be found
there. He was a leading citizen in the home town of his progenitors
and one of its principal benefactors, and was identified with many
of its institutions.
He married in Boston, 10 December 1872, Clara Gardner, daughter
of George and Helen M. (Read) Gardner of Boston, who survives
him, together with a son, Gorham Brooks of Boston, A.B. (Harvard,
1905), and two daughters, Helen, wife of Robert Wales Emmons
of Boston, A.B. (Harvard, 1895), and Rachel, wife of James Jackson
of Westwood, Mass., A.B. (Harvard, 1904), who is at present Treas-
urer and Receiver-General of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Funeral services for Mr. Brooks were held in King's Chapel,
Boston, and his body was placed in the family tomb in Oak Grove
Cemeteiy, Medford.
James Brown Potter, A. B., of New York City, a Pilgrim Ter-
centenary member since 1919, was born in New York City 17 May
1853, the son of Howard and Mary Louisa (Brown) Potter, and died
at West Hampton, near Richmond, Va., 21 February 1922.
The family to which he belonged is conspicuous among American
famiUes for its eminent services in church and state and for the
distinguished careers of its members in professional, military, and
financial pvu-suits. Within the past hundred years it has produced
three bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church, a college president,
a vaUant officer in the Civil War, a highly-respected member of
Congress, and several men of solid worth in the financial world.
The family is of New England origin, and was settled at Cranston,
R. I., when Joseph Potter, a member of the Society of Friends, the
great-grandfather of the subject of this memoir, migrated to Beekman
(now La Grange), Dutchess Co., N. Y. Joseph's son. Right Rev.
Alonzo Potter, D.D., LL.D., who was born at Beekman 10 July 1800
and died at San Francisco, Calif., 4 July 1865, was graduated at
Union College, Schenectady, N. Y., in 1818, the first of several
members of the family to study at this college, which he served
later as teacher and vice president and of which he was practically
the controlling head for a number of years. His marriage to the
only daughter of Rev. EUphalet Nott, D.D., LL.D., a native of
Connecticut and the distinguished and beloved president of Union
CoEege from 1804 to 1866, added another Unk to the ancestral chain
that connected the Potters of New York with their New England
forbears. For the last twenty years of his Hfe (1845-1865) Dr. Alonzo
Potter was Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Pennsyl-
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vania, and his younger brother, Right Rev. Horatio Potter, D.D.,
LL.D., D.C.L., a graduate of Union College in the Class of 1826,
was Bishop of New York from 1861 to 1887. Of Bishop Alonzo
Potter's six sons, Hon. Clarkson Nott Potter, LL.D., was gradu-
ated at Union College in 1842, served several terms in Congress
as a Democratic member from New York, and had a prominent part
in the adjustment of the Hayes-Tilden presidential dispute in
1876-77, Howard Potter, A.M., the father of James Brown Potter,
was graduated at Union College in 1846 and was a lawyer, a banker,
and a benefactor of his alma mater, Maj. Gen. Robert Brown Potter,
who studied at Union College with the Class of 1849 but did not
take a. degree there, was commended by General Grant for his
efficiency in the Civil War and was said by General Hancock to have
been one of the twelve best Army officers in that struggle, Edward
Tuckerman Potter, A.B. (Union, 1853), was an eminent architect
and musical composer, Right Rev. Henry Codman Potter, D.D.,
LL.D., D.C.L., who did not attend Union College, succeeded his
uncle as Bishop of New York, and Rev. EHphalet Nott Potter, D.D.,
LL.D., a graduate of Union College in the Class of 1861, was president
of the College from 1871 to 1884 and president of Hobart College,
Geneva, N. Y., from 1884 to 1897.
James Brown Potter's early education was acquired in part in a
preparatory school at Geneva, Switzerland. He entered Union
College in 1871, pursued the scientffic course, and received there in
1873 the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Like his father, his business Hfe
was devoted chiefly to mercantile and financial pursuits. He began
business as a cotton broker, but subs^^quently turned to real estate
and to banldng, being connected with the well-known banking house
of Brown Brothers & Company. He was president of the great
cotton ranches of Tlahualilo, !^Iexico, a director of the INIissouri,
Kansas & Texas Railroad Company and of other commercial and
financial enterprises, and a member of the New York Chamber of
Commerce.
His success in business made it possible for him to indulge exten-
sively in foreign and domestic travel; and he was affiliated with
many clubs, including the New York Yacht Club and the Tuxedo
Club.
He married first, in 1877, Cora Urquhart, eldest daughter of
Col. David Urquhart of New Orleans, from whom he obtained a
divorce in 1900; and secondly, in 1902, Mary Handy, daughter of
Capt. J. A. Handy, U. S. N., of Richmond, Va., who sur\'ives him,
together with a daughter by his first wife, Anne Urquhart, who was
married, 3 June 1901, to James Alexander Stillman of New York City,
A.B. (Harvard, 1896).
Samuel Dale Stevens, of North Andover, Mass., a Pilgrim
Tercentenary member since 1919, was born at North Andover 16
June 1859, the second son of Hon. Moses Tyler and Charlotte EmeUne
(Osgood) Stevens, and died there 21 February 1922.
His paternal ancestors had been settled in Andover (of which
North Andover formed a part down to 1855) from Colonial days.
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bdx
His grandfather, Capt. Nathaniel Stevens, son of Jonathan and
Susanna (Bragg), was born at Andover 18 October 1786, and married
at Chehnsford, 7 November 1815, Harriet Hale, daughter of Moses
and Susanna Hale of Chelmsford. Capt. Nathaniel Stevens was
one of the early manufacturers of textUe goods in this country; and
the small mill which he built and equipped on Cochichewick Brook
in 1813 grew into the Stevens MUls, which still remain under the
control of the Stevens family. Moses Tyler Stevens, son of Capt.
Nathaniel and father of the subject of this memoir, was born at
Andover 10 October 1825, was graduated at Phillips Academy,
Andover, in 1842, and entered Dartmouth College; but he left
college the next year and went into the business founded by his
father, the manufacture of woolen goods. In 1869 Dartmouth
conferred on Mr. Stevens the degree of Master of Arts, and in 1889
placed his name on the Ust of Bachelors of Arts as of the Class of 1846,
the class with which he would have been graduated had he completed
his college course. He was a member of the Massachusetts House
of Representatives in 1861, and of the Massachusetts Senate in 1868,
f and was elected as a Democrat to the United States House of Repre-
1 sentatives, serving in the Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses
I (1891-1895). He died at North Andover 25 March 1907. His wife,
I Charlotte Emehne Osgood, was born at Andover in December 1831,
j the daughter of Isaac and Charlotte (Adams) Osgood.
! Samuel Dale Stevens was educated in the local grammar and high
\ schools and in the Highland MiUtary Academy at Worcester, Mass.,
I where he was graduated in 1877. He then entered the employ of
I his father, who, after the death of his two brothers, George and
\ Horace N. Stevens, was the sole proprietor of the Stevens MUls.
\ In 1885 Samuel Dale Stevens and his brother Nathaniel were admitted
j to partnership with their father, and five years lat«r the business
I was incorporated as the M. T. Stevens Sons Company, the three
\ brothers, Nathaniel, Samuel Dale, and Moses T., Jr., becoming
active factors in the management. The corporation now controls
six woolen mills, situated in three States, Massachusetts, New
Hampshire, and Rhode Island; and Samuel Dale Stevens was its
vice president.
^Ir. Stevens was also vice president of the Andover Savings Bank,
a director of the Andover National Bank and of other corporations
and financial institutions, and a trustee of the Stevens Memorial
Fund in North Andover, estabhshed by his father. As a trustee of
the pubUc library, which his father had given to the town, and as
president of the North Andover Improvement Society, Mr. Stevens
rendered most helpful service to the community. During the World
War he was an active worker in many good causes, and took especial
interest in the Red Cross and Liberty Loan campaigns. Although he
• never sought political honors, there was no service for the welfare
•; of the town that he did not wiUingly undertake.
In his later years Mr. Stevens was deeply interested in records
; relating to North Andover and the manufacture of woolens; and,
• the better to preserve the records and traditions of the town, he
founded the North Andover Historical Society, and was its moving
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spirit. He was a member also of the Society of Sons of the Revolution,
the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, the
Bostonian Society, and the Marblehead Historical Society.
His church aflSliations were with the North Parish Church of
North Andover, of which he was treasurer for fifteen years before
his death.
He married, 16 June 1885, Lucy Ameha Abbot, born at Canton,
Mass., daughter of Dr. Ezra and Caroline Howard (Lincoln) Abbot,
who survives him, together with two sons. Abbot Stevens of North
Andover, A.B. (Harvard, 1911), treasurer of the M. T. Stevens Sons
Company, and Samuel Dale Stevens, Jr., of Peace Dale, R. I., super-
intendent of the Peace Dale Mills, and one daughter, Caroline
Stevens of North Andover, A.B. (Bryn Mawr College, 1917). Samuel
Dale Stevens, Jr., succeeds to his father's Pilgrim Tercentenary
membership in the New England Historic Genealogical Society.
Rev. Williston Walker, Ph.D., D.D., L.H.D., of New Haven,
Conn., a resident member since 1904, was born at Portland, Me.,
1 July 1860, the son of Rev. George Leon Walker, D.D., and his
wife, Maria (Williston) Walker, and died at New Haven 9 March
1922.
He traced his descent from Capt. Richard^ Walker of Lynn, Mass.,
1634, through Samuel,^ Samuel,' John,* Nathaniel,^ Phinehas,®
Leonard,^ Rev. Charles,* D.D., and Rev. George Leon,' D.D., his
father, who was born at Rutland, Vt., 30 April 1830, and died
14 March 1900. His mother, the daughter of Nathan Birdseye and
Margaret (Miller) Williston, was born at Brattleboro, Vt., 19 October
1835, and died 31 August 1865.
He was graduated at Amherst College in 1883, with the degree of
Bachelor of Arts, entered the Hartford Theological Seminary in the
same year and was graduated there in 1886, and then pursued his
studies at the University of Leipzig, receiving from the last-named
institution the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in 1888. The degree
of Doctor of Divinity was conferred upon him by Western Reserve
University in 1894, Ajnherst College in 1895, Yale University in 1901,
the University of Geneva, Switzerland, in 1909, and Harvard Univer-
sity in 1912. In 1910 he received the degree of Doctor of Humane
Letters from Marietta College, Ohio.
Dr. Walker's distinguished career as a teacher began at Bryn
Mawr College, where he was an associate in history in 1888-89.
From there he returned to the Hartford Theological Seminary, where
he was associate professor of church history, 1889-1892, and Waldo
Professor of Germanic and Western Church History, 1892-1901.
In 1901 he was called to be Titus Street Professor of Ecclesiastical
History at Yale University, and held this chair until he was made
provost of the University in 1919, This office was a new one, and
the labors involved in it, though carried by him with his accustomed
conscientiousness, were altogether too heavy for his physical strength,
which had never been of the best, and brought him prematurely to
his death, to the great sorrow of the many who had known and
honored him.
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Among other responsibilities that devolved on Professor Walker
may be mentioned his connection with Amherst College, of which
he was a trustee from 1896 and secretary of the Board of Trustees
since 1899, and with the Andover (Mass.) Theological Seminary,
where he was Southworth Lecturer on CJongregationalism, 1898-99.
He was a teacher of unusual ability. His mind was a storehouse
of historical lore, and he knew how to present his learning to his
classes in a most fascinating manner. Lucidity was one of his striking
characteristics, and accuracy of statement another.
His writings, which have been recognized as authoritative and
have gained for him a wide reputation, include the following: "On
the Increase of Royal Power under Philip Augustus," 1888, "The
Creeds and Platforms of Congregationalism," 1893, "A History of
the Congregational Churches in the United States," 1894, "The
Reformation," 1900, "Ten New England Leaders," 1901, "John
Calvin," 1906, "Great Men of the Christian Church," 1908, "French
Trans-Geneva," 1909, and "History of the Christian Church," 1918.
He was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,
a member of the American Antiquarian Society, the American
Historical Association, the American Society of Church History,
the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, the Connecticut Society of
Arts and Sciences, the New Haven Colony Historical Society, of
which he was president, 1903-1913, and the Connecticut Society of
Colonial Wars, and a member also of the Centiuy Club of New York
and the Graduates Club of New Haven.
He married, 1 June 1886, Alice Mather, daughter of Professor
Richard Henry, M.A., D.D., and Elizabeth (Carmichael) Mather
of Amherst, Mass., who survives him, together with two daughters,
AmeUa, wife of Morgan B. Gushing of Brunswick, Me., and Elizabeth
Walker of New Haven.
Augustus Larkin Thorndike, of Brewster, Mass., a resident
member since 1899, was born in East Boston 10 August 1861, the
son of William Henry Thorndike, A.B. (Harvard, 1845), M.D. (ib.,
1848), a Boston surgeon of repute, and his wife, Sarah Wayland
(Smith), and died in Boston 10 March 1922.
He was a descendant of John^ Thorndike of Beverly, Mass., who
came to New England as early as 1632, through PauP and John' of
Beverly, James* and Paul* of BiUerica, Mass., Larkin^ of Salem,
"Mass., and WiUiam Henry,' his father, who was born at Salem
5 June 1824 and died in Boston 26 December 1884. His mother
was born in Boston 24 March 1826, the daughter of Ebenezer and
Eliza (Townsend) Smith.
He was educated in the Boston pubUc schools, and his first business
position was with the Oriental Oil Company in Charlestown, where
he remained for five years. At the end of this period he opened
an office in Boston for the care and management of real estate, under-
taking the trusteeship of the Stebbins estate and accepting at the
same time the office of first president of the Boston Cooperative Bank.
Later he became president of the Wirmisimmet National Bank of
Chelsea, and had charge of his father's estate for many years.
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I In 1911 he was the Democratic candidate for Treasurer and
I Receiver-General of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, but was
I defeated in the election. When, however, a vacancy occurred in the
I position of bank commissioner, Mr. Thomdike was appointed to
I this oflfice in 1912 by Governor Foss, and served with distinction
I until 1920.
I He took much interest in public affairs, and was active in the
f community life of the little town of Brewster, which he called his
f home, although he also had a house in Boston. He was a director
of the Barnstable County Agricultural Association, and acted as the
executive secretary of the Red Cross for the Cape district.
His club affiliations included the St. Botolph, the Coimtry, the
Twentieth Century, the Economic, the Harvard Travelers, the
Algonquin, and the Automobile Clubs, and the Boston Athletic
Association.
Mr. Thorndike married, 23 Jime 1885, Cora Nickerson, daughter
of Frederick William and Lucy Blanchard (Howard) Nickerson and
gi'anddaughter of Capt. Frederick Nickerson of Brewster. His wife
survives him, together with a daughter, Louise, wife of Clifford R.
Eddy of West Newton, a sister, Mrs. Grace T. Whittemore of Newton,
a brother, Townsend William Thomdike of Boston, M.D. (Harvard,
1902), and three granddaughters.
Hartley Frederic Atwood, A.B., of Brookline, Mass., a resident
member since 1897, was born at Chelsea, Mass., 19 December 1861,
the son of Rufus King and Mary Abigail (Oliver) Atwood, and died
unmarried at Brookline 11 March 1922.
He was a descendant of Stephen^ Atwood of Eastham in the
Plymouth Colony, through Eldad,^ John^, Timothy,* David,* David,^
and Rufus King,^ his father, who was born at Wellfleet, Mass.,
28 April 1826. His mother, daughter of Jacob, 2d, and Lydia Crosbj'
(Dunton) Oliver, was born at Georgetown, Me., 13 September 1828.
He was prepared for college at the Boston Latin School, entered
Harvard, and received there the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1884.
After graduation he spent a short time in the banking business, and
then took up the study of law in the Boston University Law School.
He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July 1888, and for a while was
associated with Messrs. Hyde, Dickinson & Howe of Boston; but
in 1889 he opened an office of his own and continued in the practice
of his profession until his death. For many years he was counsel for
the Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Company.
His church affiUations were with the Harvard Church (Congrega-
tional) in Brookline, and he was a member of the University and
Harvard Clubs of Boston and of the Boston Art Club.
Moses Jones Wentworth, A.M., LL.B., of Chicago, lU., a life
member since 1885, was born at Sandwich, N. H., 9 May 1848, the
son of Col. Joseph and Sarah Payson (Jones) Wentworth, and died
in Chicago 12 March 1922.
He was a descendant of Elder William^ Wentworth of Dover, N. H.,
the immigrant ancestor of one of the most distinguished families of
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Ixxiii
I New Hampshire, through EzekieP and Capt. Benjamin^ of Dover,
I Hon. John* of Dover and Somersworth, Hon, John* of Dover, A.B.
I (Harvard, 1768), Capt. Paul* of Dover, Sandwich, and Concord, and
I Col. Joseph^ of Sandwich and Concord, his father, who was born at
I Sandwich 30 January 1818. His mother, the daughter of Moses and
I Sarah (Clark) Jones, was born at Brookline, Mass., 19 February 1823.
i Hon. John Wentworth, LL.D., of Chicago, well known in public Ufe
I and commonly called "Long John Wentworth," who was mayor of
I Chicago in 1857 and 1860, Representative in Congress from lUinois,
I 1843-1851, 1853-1855, 1865-1867, a corresponding member of the
I New England Historic Genealogical Society from 1850, a life member
: from 1865 until his death in 1888, Honorary Vice President of the
Society, 1855-1876, 1879-1888, and the author of "The Wentworth
Genealogy," and his brother, Samuel Hidden Wentworth, A.M.,
LL.B., of Boston, who was a life member of the Society from 1868
until his death in 1912 and Recording Secretary and a Director,
1870-1873, were uncles of the subject of this memoir.*
Moses Jones Wentworth's early education was acquired in the
I schools of Sandwich and under a private tutor. In April 1861 he
! entered Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., and was graduated there
I in 1863. In March 1864 he and his elder brother, Paul, who had
I been in the same class with him at Andover, went to Cambridge,
• Mass., received there further instruction from the weU-known
I teacher, the late George Washington Copp Noble, A.B. (Harvard,
'• 1858), A.M. (ib., 1863), and entered Harvard, where they were
I roonamates throughout their college course and were admitted to the
I degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1868. Paul Wentworth retiirned to
1 New Hampshire, became a lawyer and a farmer, and died in 1915;
{ but his younger brother, Moses, went to Chicago, studied law there,
1 and received the degree of Bachelor of Laws from the University of
I Chicago in 1871. In 1872 he was made Master of Arts by his alma
\ mater.
I He entered upon the practice of his profession in Chicago, and
I was soon drawn into pohtics. He was elected in November 1874
: to the Illinois House of Representatives for a two-year term, as a
member of the ' ' Opposition ' ' Party, which was composed of opponents
of Republican rule. He was reelected in November 1876 as a Demo-
crat. He was again elected in 1878 and in 1880, but in 1882 declined
a unanimous renomination for the next Legislature. In 1888 the
Democratic State Convention selected him as a candidate for presi-
dential elector from the First District of Illinois.
To his professional work he added the care of estates, which came
to be his chief occupation; and he served also as a director in various
corporations, such as the Merchants' Loan & Trust Company, the
State Bank of Chicago, and the MetropoKtan West Side Elevated
Railroad Company. He was also a trustee of the Newberry Library
of Chicago and a vice president of the James C. King Home for
Old Men.
•For the Wentworth family cf. "The Wentworth Genealogy," 3 vols., Boston, 1878, passim,
"Memorial Kographies of the New-England Historic Genealogical Society," vol. 8, p. 363
(memoir of John Wentworth of Chicago), and Register, vol. 67, p. lix (memoir of Samuel
Hidden Wentworth).
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He was an active member and a trustee of the Fourth Presbj'terian
Church in Chicago, and he belonged to the University, Harvard,
Calumet, and Saddle and Cycle Clubs of that city and to the Illinois
Society of Colonial Wars, of which he was governor in 1906. He
published a genealogical pamphlet entitled "Families of Shaw,
Ainsworth, Andrews, Hunt." In the summer of 1906 he sought
recreation in a motor-car trip with his family in England and Scot-
land.
He married, 7 December 1891, Lizzie Shaw Hunt, daughter of
Charles H. and Eleanora (Shaw) Hunt of Chicago, who survives him,
together with two sons, John Wentworth, A.B. (Harvard, 1914),
who served in the Aviation Section with the American Expeditionary
Forces in the World War, attaining the rank of captain, and Hunt
Wentworth, A.B. (Harvard, 1917), who also served with the American
Expeditionary Forces as a captain of Infantry.
Jerome Carter Hosmer, of Dorchester, Mass., a life member
since 1897, was bom at Framingham, Mass., 2 November 1834,
the son of Charles and Susanna (Carter) Hosmer, and died at Dor-
chester 17 March 1922.
He was descended in two lines from James^ Hosmer of Concord,
Mass., the immigrant ancestor of this New England family, whose
English home was at Hawkhurst, co. Kent, and who came to America
in the Elizabeth from London in 1635, aged 28, and settled finally at
Concord, where he died 7 February 1685. The first line of descent
led through Stephen'^ Hosmer of Concord, a soldier in King Philip's
War, Stephen,^ Ephraim,* Samuel,^ a Revolutionary soldier, and
Charles,^ who was born at Acton, Mass., 13 August 1799, and died
in 1866, the father of the subject of this memoir; and the second
line led through Stephen,^ Stephen,^ Jonathan,* Stephen,^ and Sarah,*
who married SamueP Hosmer of the first line, her first cousin once
removed, and was the mother of Charles,* mentioned above. Susanna
Carter, mother of Jerome Carter Hosmer, was bom at Lancaster,
Mass., 2 November 1800, and died in 1870, the daughter of Ephraim
and Mary (Maynard) Carter and a descendant in two lines from
Rev. Thomas Carter, a graduate of St. John's College, Cambridge,
England, and the first minister at Wobum, Mass. SamueP Carter,
who was in the Indian fight at Lancaster in 1704, his nephew. Col.
John* Carter, who marched to the relief of Fort William Henry,
and Lieut. William Maynard, who fought at Bunker HiU, were
among her "fighting" ancestors. Jerome Carter Hosmer was also,
through Martha Conant, wdfe of his great-great-grandfather,
Jonathan* Hosmer, a descendant of Roger Conant, the well-known
leader of the early settlement at Cape Ann.
He received his early education in the public schools of Framing-
ham, and was for four years a pupil at Framingham Academy, where
he studied every subject in the curriculum except Greek. On 1 April
1851 he came to Boston, and for nearly two years was employed
in a wholesale straw and milhnery house on Milk Street. Finding
mercantile life uncongenial, he returned to Framingham, learned the
carpenter's trade, and after the outbreak of the Civil War went to
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I
\ work at Springfield, Mass. Soon afterwards he entered the service
I of the Government, in which he remained until the close of the War.
I He then came again to Boston, where for thirteen years he followed
1 the occupation of superintendent for a Boston builder and then for
I fifteen years more was employed by a firm of builders partly to pre-
I pare their estimates and partly as a superintendent. In 1892 he
I embarked ia business on his own account as a contractor and builder,
I , and was often engaged, as an expert in building matters, to appraise
j losses by fire and to fix values of property. Dming his later years
r Mr. Hosmer lived in retirement at his home in Dorchester.
I His interest in tracing his ancestral lines led to his becoming a
member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, in which
he served for three years (1907, 1908, 1909) as a member of the Com-
mittee on English Research and for three more years (1911, 1912,
1913) as a member of the Council. He was a member also of the
Bostonian Society, the Society of Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth
of Massachusetts, the Massachusetts Society of Sons of the American
Revolution, being a charter member and at one time president of
; the Boston Chapter of this organization, and the Starr Family
I Association, an honorary member of the Handel and Hayden Society,
I and a director for many years of the Massachusetts Charitable
I Mechanic Association. He was the oldest living member of
I Moimt Lebanon Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons. In
I politics he was a Repubhcan and in religious belief a Unitarian.
I Mr. Hosmer married, 22 December 1859, Martha Ann Fogg,
I daughter of Abner and Sarah Waite (Sherman) Fogg, who died
I several years before her husband. Of their three sons and three
I daughters, two sons died in infancy, the youngest daughter, Sadie
i Sherman Hosmer, died before her father, and the other three chil-
I dren, Frederick Charles Hosmer of Cleveland, Ohio, Susie Carter
I Hosmer, wife of Edward Lanning of Dorchester, and Mary Agnes
Hosmer, wife of Walter G. Morey of Mechanic Falls, Me., survive
him. Rev. Frederick Lucian Hosmer, S.T.D., of Berkeley, Calif.,
a well-known Unitarian clergyman and writer of hymns, is a younger
brother of the subject of this memoir, and Professor James Kendall
Hosmer, A.M., Ph.D., LL.D., of Minneapolis, Minn., the historian
and biographer, is a relative.
William Francis Warden, of Boston, artist, a resident member
since 1920, was born at Bath, Me., 2 June 1872, the son of Clarence
and Harriet Hatch (Payne) Warden, and died at the Roosevelt
Hospital in New York City 22 March 1922.
He was a descendant of Thomas^ Warden, who was of Scituate in
the Plymouth Colony in 1690 and had probably been at Pemaquid,
Me., in 1686, and his wife, Elizabeth (Sergeant), through Francis-
(1695-1766) of Scituate and Boston and his first wife, Elizabeth
(Crowell), John* (1735-1820) of Salem, Mass., and his second wife,
Sarah Bridge (Gorman), John* (1775-1858) of Salem and his wife,
Rachel (Ross), Francis^ (bom at Salem 6 July 1806, died in Paris,
France, 27 January 1873) and his wife, Lydia Susanna (Davis), and
Clarence,* his father, who was born in New York City 3 September
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1845 and died in Paris 6 March 1907. His mother, Harriet Hatch
PajTie, was born at Bath 8 November 1845, was married to Clarence^
Warden 5 November 1870, and died in Paris 8 September 1903.
She was a daughter of Wilham Elisha Payne, M.D., a prominent
physician of Bath, and his wife, Betsey Ann (Hatch), and was a
descendant of Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower.
Mr. Warden was educated in Paris, and resided there until a few
years before his death, when he came to Boston to Uve. He studied
painting in Paris under Joseph Mezzara, L6on Comerre, Aim6 Morot,
Robert-Fleury, and Benjamin Constant, and won recognition as a
talented artist. Many times he exhibited his paintings at the Salon
des Artistes Fran^ais in Paris and at other Paris exhibitions, and
several times also in Chicago; and he received a medal for work
exhibited at Toulouse, France.
In the World War he gave his services in French relief work in
Boston, and his assiduous labors in this cause undermined his health.
He was a member of the Cercle de V Union Artistigue and of the
Traveler's Club, both of Paris, the Society of Mayflower Descendants,
the Society of Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
the Boston Athletic Association, and the Union Club of New York
City.
Mr. Warden married, 12 July 1898, Eleanor Cotton Denham,
I daughter of Weston Tate and Melinda Carr (Potter) Denham of
i Bowdoin, Me., who, with one chUd, Harriet Eleanor Warden, sirr-
f vives her husband. Mrs.Warden was elected a resident member of
I the New England Historic Genealogical Society on 3 December
! 1919, three months before her husband joined the Society, ser\-ed
I for two years (1921 and 1922) as a member of the Committee on
I Papers and Essays, and is at present a member of the Special Com-
1 mittee on Hospitality. She is also a member of the Council of the
I Society, having been elected at the annual meeting in February
[ 1921 for a three years' term.
_ Lucy Carpenter Sweet, of Attleboro,* Mass., a resident member
since 1917, was bom at Worcester, Mass., 29 December 1855, the
daughter of Everett Leprilete and Lucy Bliss (Carpenter) Sweet,
and died at the old family homestead in Attleboro 23 March 1922.
She was a descendant of John^ Sweet of Salem, Mass., and later
of Providence, who died in 1637, through John^ of Warwick and
Newport, R. I., Henry^ of Swansea and Attleborough, Mass.,
Thomas,* Gideon,* Leprilete,^ and Everett LeprUete,'^ her father,
who was born at Attleborough 28 August 1828. Her mother, Lucy
Bliss Carpenter, was bom at Rehoboth, Mass., 1 August 1824, the
daughter of Joseph and Nancy Mason (Bullock) Carpenter, and
was married to Everett Leprilete Sweet 6 March 1851. Among other
ancestors of Lucy Carpenter Sweet were the Bullocks, Bowens,
Coles, Dunhams, Salisburys, Wheelers, and other prominent settlers
in early New England.
Miss Sweet's father spent five years of his business life in Worces-
ter, and in that city his daughter Lucy was bom. From early
♦In 1914 the town of Attleborough was incorporated as the city of Attleboro.
MEMOEBS Ixxvii
childhood, however, Attleborough, the home of several generations
of her ancestors, was also her home. She attended the public schools
in that town, and after her graduation from the high school in June
1874 she became a teacher in the lower grades of the grammar schools
there. After twenty years of this service for the town she conducted
for three years a private school for kindergarten and primary pupils.
The caU of genealogy was strong within her, and the urge to follow
that profession led her to study the methods and principles of genea-
logical research. The later years of her life were whoUy devoted to
this profession and to nmnerous patriotic interests. As a member
of the Society of Daughters of the American Revolution she had
proved her descent from ten or more Revolutionary ancestors, and
she took an active part in the meetings of that organization. She
often attended as a delegate the Washington conventions of the
society, and was registrar of its Attleboro chapter.
She was also a faithful worker in the Second Congregational Church
of Attleboro.
Hon. George Winslow Wiggin, of Franklin, Mass., elected a
resident member in 1901 and made a life member in 1902, was bom
at Sandwich, N. H., 10 March 1841, the son of Richard and Mehitable
(Beede) Wiggin, and died at Franklin 23 March 1922.
He was descended from Capt. Thomas^ Wiggin, who was at Dover,
N. H., in 1631, where he was one of the earhest members of the
government and was an assistant for several years from 1650 on,
through Thomas,^ who married Sarah Barefoote, sister of Deputy
Gov. Walter Barefoote of New Hampshire, Thomas,' Andrew,*
Chase,* Andrew,^ and Richard,'' his father.
He was educated, largely by his own industry, in the common
schools and academy of his native town, in the Friends' boarding
school at Providence, R. I., and at Phillips Academy, Exeter, N. H.,
where he was graduated in 1867.
Previous to entering Phillips Academy he had taught school for
three winters, two winters in Falmouth and one in Barnstable,
Mass., and after his graduation he resumed teaching for five years,
one of which he spent as instructor in mathematics in the Friends'
School at Providence and the other foiu* as principal of the high
school at Wrentham, Mass. After studying law with Hon. Samuel
Warner, he was admitted to the Norfolk (Mass.) bar in 1872, prac-
tised his profession in Franklin with success, and subsequently
opened an office in Boston, where he conducted a general law practice.
For a number of years he was justice of the District Court for
Western Norfolk. From 1879 to 1894 he was one of the county com-
missioners of Norfolk County, being chairman of the board from
1885 to 1894, and he served the town of Franklin as selectman,
assessor, moderator of the town meetings, and member of the School
Committee, of which he was chairman at the time of his death. He
was connected at various times with many pubUc and financial
institutions in Franklin, being a trustee of Dean Academy, clerk of
the Board of Directors of the Ray Memorial Library, vice president
of the Benjamin Franklin Savings Bank and of the Dean Cooperative
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Bank, a director and clerk of the Milford, Franklin & Providence
and of the Rhode Island & Massachusetts Railroad Companies, and
a director of the Norfolk Mutual Fire Insurance Company. For a
number of years also he was president of the Massachusetts Fish and
I Game Protective Association.
I He attained high standing in Masonic fraternities, and in his
I political aflfihations he was a stanch Republican.
I . He was a member of the Coimcil of the New England Historic
I Genealogical Society in the years 1907 and 1908, and at the time of
; his death was serving on the Society's Committee on Ways and
I Means, to which he had been appointed for the year 1921 and again
j for the year 1922.
j In recording his death the local newspaper said:
' "Few men in town will be more distinctly missed than Judge Wiggin, so
closely has he been identified with the interests of the town for nearly a half
century, during which time he has won and held the respect of all for his
devotion to duty and his desire to furtber the interest of his adopted town."
He married first, at Exeter, N. H., in July 1868, Mary A. Warren,
who died in July 1873; and secondly, at Stoneham, Mass., in Novem-
ber 1877, Mary A. Bryant, formerly a preceptress in Goddard Semi-
nary, Barre, Vt., and also in Dean Academy, Franklin, who, with
their daughter, Alice Wiggin of Franklin, survives him.
I Mrs. Mart Elisabeth (Newcomb) Addison, of Quincy, Mass.,
I a life member since 1909, was bom at Quincy 30 May 1852, the
f daughter of Bryant Barter and Caroline Baxter (Crane) Newcomb,
t and died there 9 April 1922.
I She traced her descent from Francis^ Newcomb, who came to
I New England in the Planter in 1635, aged 30, with his wife Rachel
r and two children, settled in Braintree, Mass., and died 27 May
I 1692, through John,^ John,^ Isaac,* Thomas,^ Bryant,^ James,^ and
1 Bryant Barter,* her father, who was born in a part of Braintree
I which is now included in Quincy 11 March 1810 and died in 1857.
: Her mother, Caroline Baxter Crane, who was born in a part of
Braintree which is now included in Quincy 23 December 1811, was
a daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Baxter) Crane and was fifth in
descent from Henry^ Crane, who as early as 1654 was settled in that
part of Dorchester, Mass., which was incorporated in 1662 as the
town of Milton, and who died at Milton in 1709.
She attended the Washington Grammar School at Quincy and
continued her studies imder private teachers. Her father had died
when she was a little child, and her mother was burdened with the
care and support of a family of nine children. Faced, as she grew
up, with the necessity of making her own way in the world, she
finally decided to adopt nursing as a calling, and took courses in the
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, and the Springfield City
Hospital, which enabled her to join the ranks of trained nurses, a
profession which she followed most successfiiUy for twenty years.
After her marriage a large part of her time was given to philan-
thropic and charitable work. In 1899 she organized, supported, and
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maintamed a society for little folks from ten to thirteen years of
age, numbering twenty-five, for the purpose of developing within
them habits of industry, as applied to home life. This she continued
for four years, until 1903, when she was elected the first president of
the Quincy Day Nursery Association. This position she resigned
in 1908, leaving this philanthropic organization on a solid basis
and being elected its vice president and chairman of its Board of
Visitors. She was also an active member of the Quincy Tuberculosis
Society, of which she was a director, the Quincy Charitable Society,
Incorporated, of which she was secretary, the Quincy Historical
Society, the Circle of the King's Daughters, the Florence Crittenton
League of Compassion, and the Women's Educational and Industrial
Union of Boston.
Mrs. Addison was prominent in the affairs of the Universalist
Church up to the time of her illness, and was highly esteemed by all
who knew her.
She was married, 22 November 1898, to Thomas Alfred Addison,
bom at Wolverhampton, co. Stafford, England, 6 January 1849,
son of John and Mary (Waldron) Addison, who survives her. They
had no children.
Herbert Wood Kimball, of Newton, Mass., a resident member
since 1912, was born in Boston 3 March 1840, the sixth child of
Daniel and Louisa (Keith) Kimball, and died at Newton 10 April
1922.
He was a descendant of Richard^ Kimball of Rattlesden, co. Suf-
folk, England, wheelwright, who, with his wife Ursula, daughter of
Henry and Martha Scott of Rattlesden, and seven children, came to
Boston from Ipswich, England, in the Elizabeth, in 1634. He settled
first at Watertown, Mass., where he was freeman in 1635, and about
1638 removed to Ipswich, Mass., where he died 22 Jime 1675, aged
above 80 years. From hhn Herbert Wood KimbaU was descended
through John^ of Ipswich, who married Mary Bradstreet, Richard'
of Ipswich, who married Lydia Wells, Richard,* who married Sarah
Burley and moved to Norwich and later to Windham, Conn., Capt.
Aaron,^ who settled at Grafton, Mass., married Mary Brooks, and
served ia the French and Indian War and in the Revolution, Leonard,*
who married Patty Baird of Worcester, Mass., and DanieF of Boston,
his father, who was born at Grafton, Mass., 31 October 1794 and
died at Hingham, Mass., 21 June 1874, and was a life member of
the New England Historic Genealogical Society from 1870 until his
death.* Through his mother, Louisa Keith, daughter of Royal and
Deborah (Adams) Keith, who was born at Grafton 15 June 1801, was
married to Daniel Kimball 28 September 1825, and died 20 January
1870, he traced his descent from Rev. James^ Keith, who came to
America from Scotland in 1661, married Susanna Edson, and was
the first minister of Bridgewater, Mass., through James,^ who
married Mary Thayer of Weymouth, Mass., in 1695 and removed
*Cf. memoir of Daniel KimbaU in "Memorial Biographies of the New-England Historic Gene-
alogical Society," vol. 7, pp. 105-107, and Morrison and Sharples's "History of the Kimball
Family in America," 2 vols., Boston, 1897.
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to Mendon, Mass., in 1713, Simeon,^ who married Abigail Aldrich
of Mendon, Simeon,^ who married Rebecca Leland of Grafton and
died in 1776, while serving in the Revolutionary Army, and Royal^
of Grafton, who married Deborah Adams of Northbridge, Mass.
He was educated at the Brookfield Family School and in the public
and private schools of Boston and became a clerk in the store of
Frederick Jones & Company, where he remained imtil 1861, when
he made a voyage to London on a sailing vessel. On his return the
following year he removed to Fitchburg, where he was a part owner
of the Fitchburg Woolen Mill Company. Four years later he returned
to Boston, and in 1869 entered into partnership with Joseph C.
Bates in the flour and grain business, imder the firm name of Kimball
& Bates. Upon the dissolution of this partnership in 1882, Mr.
KimbaU became an accoimtant. To his work in this vocation he
added in 1894 the duties of secretary and registrar of the Massa-
chusetts Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, which he
performed with great fidelity for a period of twenty-six years. His
long-contkiued service in that society kept him in touch with other
State societies and with hundreds of members, and won for him
their affectionate regard.
Mr. KimbaU was also an enthusiastic member of the Old School
Boys' Association of Boston, a charter member of the Everett Liter-
ary Association, organized by young men clerks who were employed
in Boston, a life member of the Young Men's Christian Union, and a
member of the Bostonian Society and the Bunker Hill Monument
Association.
In 1875 he took up his residence in Roxbury, in 1890 he moved
to Jamaica Plain, and in 1896 he moved again to the Waban district
of Newton, where he built the house which was thenceforth his
home.
He married, 22 October 1868, Abby Rice Brown Kimball of
Lunenburg, Mass., daughter of Phineas Sawyer and El\'ira Evelina
! (Brown) KimbaU and a descendant also of Richard^ KimbaU, through
i Thomas^ of Rowley, Mass., who was kiUed by the Indians in 1676,
j Thomas^ of Bradford, Mass., Ephraim* of Bradford, Ephraim^ of
j Lunenburg, Ephraim® of Fitchburg, Ephraim^ of Fitchburg, and
Phineas Sawyer^ of Lunenburg, her father. His wife survived him,
together with two daughters and two sons, Evelyn Louisa, wife of
Harold Anthony Richmond of Providence, R. I., S.B. (Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, 1893), and Kathrina Prescott Kimball,
Herbert Sawyer Kimball, S.B. (Massachusetts Institute of Tech-
nology, 1891), and Richard Davenport KimbaU, aU three of Newton.
Nathan Warren, of Waltham, Mass., a resident member since
1903, was born at Waltham 11 February 1838, the son of Nehemiah
and SaUy (Wyman) Warren, and died there 11 AprU 1922.
He traced his descent from John^ Warren of Waterto^vn, Mass.,
who, with his wife and four children, came to New England, probably
in 1630, and died 13 December 1667, aged 82,* through Damel,^
•For the English home and ancestry of John Warren of Watertown see Registek, toL 64,
pp. 348-355.
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Ixxxi
John,3 John,* Elisha,* Nathan^ of Weston, Mass., and Nehemiah,^
his father, who was born at Weston 8 September 1796. His mother,
Sally Wyman, born at Woburn, Mass., 21 November 1794, was
daughter of Benjamin and Hannah (Boynton) Wyman.
The patriotic record of this family is distinctly remarkable. DanieP
Warren of Watertown, from whom the subject of this memoir was
sixth in descent, served in Capt. Nathaniel Davenport's company
in the Great Swamp Fight of 19 December 1675 and also in the
Sudbury Fight of 1676. His grandfather, for whom he was named,
enlisted in 1776, when a lad of but fifteen years, and rendered service
for three years in the Revolutionary War as a private in the regi-
ments of Colonels Dike, Brooks, and Howe. His father, Nehemiah
Warren, was a private in the War of 1812 imder Major Jaques, in
Lieut. Col. Jonathan Page's detached regiment. He himself served
in the Civil War as corporal in Co. G, Forty-fifth Regiment of In-
fantry, Massachusetts Volunteer MUitia; and his son Richard saw
service in France during the World War as captain of the Twentieth
Forestry Engineers, American Expeditionary Forces.
Mr. Warren received his early education in the public schools of
Waltham, and, after graduating from the high school in 1855, although
he was prepared for admission to Harvard College, entered commercial
life in Boston as clerk in a wholesale dry-goods house. But the call
of his imperilled coimtry led him to enlist, 26 September 1862, in the
Forty-fifth Massachusetts Infantry, for a term of nine months, in
which he saw service in North Carolina and at the expiration of
which he was honorably discharged. In 1864 he was again in the
service, and was stationed at New Orleans, in the Department of
the Giilf, acting as deputy provost marshal of one of the parishes;
and a year later he held a position in the War Department in Wash-
ington.
In 1866 and the years immediately following Mr. Warren was
employed by a shipping house in Boston as a supercargo, one of the
very last to hold such a position, and sailed to the West Indies, the
Cape Verde Islands, and the west coast of Africa. In 1873, when
the Yellowstone Park expedition, accompanied by General Custer's
Cavalry regiment, crossed the plains of the great Northwest, in
advance of the line of survey of the Northern Pacific Railroad, Mr.
Warren was a member of the party. In 1878 he made a trip to
Europe. For nearly forty years he was connected with the life-
insurance business, his service as the leading representative in Boston
of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States dating
back to a time prior to the erection of that company's building in
this city, the demolition of which was singularly coincident with
his death. In 1893 he was president of the Boston Life Underwriters'
Association.
A Repubhcan in politics, he was at one time active in the work
of his party, serving as a member of the Republican State Committee
and representing Waltham in the Legislature in 1880 and 1881,
where he was chairman of the Insm-ance Committee when construc-
tive legislation in both life and fire insurance was enacted.
For more than twenty-five years Mr. Warren was president of
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the Board of Trustees of the Waltham Public Library, and the
present imposing Ubrary building was erected while he was serving
as a trustee. He was for some years a member of the Park Com-
mission of Waltham, and up to the time of his death was vice presi-
dent of the Waltham Savings Bank and a member of its investment
committee. He was also prominent in the Waltham Historical
Society, of which he had been president, and he was a contributor
of historical pap>ers to various publications, being the author of a
history of Waltham in the "History of Middlesex Coxmty," com-
piled by D. H. Hurd, 1890, and a "History of Insurance in Massa-
chusetts," published in 1897 by D. H. Hurd in his "New England
States." He was also the joint author of an address at the sesquicen-
tennial celebration, in 1888, of the incorporation of Waltham as a
town.
Mr. Warren was a member of the Society of Colonial Wars in
the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and took a prominent part
in the affairs of the Sons of the American Revolution, serving for a
time as treasurer of the National Society, while in 1892-1894 he
was registrar, in later years a member of the Board of Managers,
and in 1910-11 president of the Massachusetts Society of this organ-
ization. He was also a member of the Masonic fraternity.
Mr. Warren's long service and prominence in life-insurance circles,
together with his many pubhc-spirited activities, made him well
known throughout the State, and his sterling character attached to
him a very wide circle of devoted friends. He was a sturdy New
Englander, a man who commanded the respect of all who were
I capable of appreciating the best type of Christian manhood.
I He married, 18 January 1883, Charlotte Elizabeth Bacon of Spring-
t field, Mass., daughter of Francis B. and Charlotte (Hare) Bacon,
I who survives him, together with two children, Richard Warren of
I Waltham, A.B. (Harvard, 1910), and Margaret, wife of Edwin
! Chester Towne of Waltham.
i Richard Middlecott Saltonstall, A.B., of Chestnut HUl,
? Mass., elected a resident member in 1891 and made a life member
in 1912, was bom at Chestnut Hill 28 October 1859, the son of L^verett
\ and Rose Smith (Lee) Saltonstall, and died at Brookline, Mass.,
I 17 AprQ 1922.
! He was a descendant of Sir Richard^ Saltonstall of Watertown,
• Mass., who in the royal charter of the Massachusetts Bay Company
I was the first-named of the eighteen assistants, made his first voyage
j to New England in 1630 in the fleet with Winthrop, and, with Lord
i Say and Seal, Lord Brooke, and others, was an original patentee of
Connecticut, through Richard^ of Ipswich, Mass., Nathaniel,^ A.B.
: (Harvard, 1659), Richard," A.B. (Harvard, 1695), A.M. {ib., 1698),
> Judge Richard,^ A.B. (Harvard, 1722), A.M. (ib., 1725), Nathaniel,^
I A.B. (Harvard, 1766), A.M. {ib., 1769), Hon. Leverett,^ M.C., of
I Salem, Mass., A.B. (Harvard and Yale, 1802), A.M. (Harvard,
i 1805, and Bowdoin, 1806), LL.D. (Harvard, 1838), and Leverett,*
I of Chestnut Hill, A.B. (Harvard, 1844), A.M. and LL.B. {ib., 1847),
\ his father, who was bom at Salem 16 March 1825 and died at Newton
i
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15 April 1895, and was collector of the port of Boston, 1885-1890,
and a resident member of the New England Historic Genealogical
Society from 1856 until his death.* His mother. Rose Smith Lee,
was born at Salem 24 January 1835, the daughter of John Clarke
Lee, A.B. (Harvard, 1842, as of 1823), A.M. {ib., 1842), and his wife,
Harriet Paine (Rose) Lee,t and was married to Leverett* Saltonstall
19 October 1854.
He was prepared for college in the well-known private school of
the late George Washington Copp Noble, A.B. (Harvard, 1858),
A.M. (ib., 1863), entered Harvard, and received there the degree of
Bachelor of Arts cum laude with the Class of 1880, which nmnbered
among its members Theodore Roosevelt, Robert Bacon, Josiah
Quincy, Charles GrenfiU Washburn, William Alexander Gaston, and
Albert Bushnell Hart. After studjong for two years in the Harvard
Law School and later in the office of Hon. William Caleb Loring,
A.B. (Harvard, 1872), LL.B. (ib., 1874), A.M. {ib., 1875), LL.D.
{ib., 1901), afterwards a justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of
Massachusetts and since 1898 a life member of the New England
Historic Genealogical Society, he was admitted in January 1884 to
the Massachusetts bar and in 1891 to practice in the United States
Circuit Court.
From 1884 to 1890 he was connected with the law department of
the old New York & New England RaUroad Company, being general
soUcitor of the company in the last three or four years of this period,
and from the beginning of 1891 xmtil November 1899 he was engaged
in the general practice of the law in Boston on his own account.
On 1 November 1899 he became a member of the law firm of Gaston,
Snow & SaltonstaU, later known as Gaston, Snow, SaltonstaU &
Hunt, with which he retained his connection vmtil his death. In his
profession Mr. Saltonstall enjoyed a very high standing in Boston
and also in other cities, and was frequently called for consultation
to Washington, New York, and other places.
Pleasure rarely lured him from his work, but in 1885, 1896, 1912,
and 1914 he travelled abroad. His summers were spent for the most
part on his country estate at North Haven, Me., though he gave much
attention to his large farm at Sherborn on the Charles River. The
spring and fall seasons were spent at his Chestnut Hill home and the
winter months at his city residence, 99 Bay State Road, Boston.
On Mr. SaltonstaU devolved the task of publishing, for private
distribution among the members of his family, the genealogy of the
Saltonstalls, which had been prepared with infinite care and pains
by his father and which the son brought out in 1897. The work is
of great value to students of historic families and is strongly indic-
ative of the character of the compiler, forceful, convincing, and
thorough.
Mr. SaltonstaU held membership in a variety of organizations.
They included the Somerset, the Union, the Country, the Exchange,
the Norfolk Hunt, and the North Haven Golf Clubs, the New Riding
♦Cf. memoir of Leverett Saltonstall in Register, vol. 49, pp. 351-352, and in "Memorial
Biographies of the New England Historic Genealogical Society," vol. 9, pp. 253-254.
tCf. " The Lee Family," by Thomas Amory Lee, A.M., LL.B., in Register, vol. 76, pp.
197-223 (July 1922).
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Club, of which he was treasurer, the Curtis Club, the Harvard Club
of Boston and New York, the Massachusetts Horticultural Society,
of which he was president at one time, the Massachusetts Society
for Promoting Agriculture, in which he held the double post of
treasurer and trustee, the Bar Association of the City of Boston, and
the Colonial Society of Massachusetts.
He married, 17 October 1891, Eleanor Brooks, daughter of Peter
Chardon, A.M., and Sarah (Lawrence) Brooks* of Medford, Mass.,
who survives him,t together with three children, Leverett Saltonstall
of Chestnut Hill, A.B. (Harvard, 1914), LL.B. (i&., 1917), who served
in France in the World War as a first lieutenant of Field Artillery,
American Expeditionary Forces, Muriel Gvu-don Saltonstall of
Chestnut Hill, and Richard Saltonstall of Boston. A.B. (Harvard,
1920, war degree), who in the World War attained the rank of ensign
in the United States Naval Reserve and was assigned to duty in the
transport service. These two sons represented the eighth generation,
in imbroken succession from father to son, of the Saltonstall family
at Harvard. Another daughter, Eleanor Saltonstall, served in France
in the World War imder the American Red Cross, was attached later
to a field hospital imit, and was awarded the croix de guerre with
star. She died of typhoid fever at Portland, Oreg., 2 August 1919.
Of Mr. Saltonstall's five brothers and sisters two survived him,
namely, INIary Elizabeth Saltonstall, who married first Louis Agassiz
Shaw, A.B. (Harvard, 1884), who died 2 July 1891, and secondly
John SUsbee Curtis of Boston and Beverly Farms, and Endicott
Peabody Saltonstall of Chestnut Hill, A.B. (Harvard, 1894), LL.B.
1 (ib., 1897), who was appointed by the Governor of the Commonwealth
! in 1921 district attorney for the Northern District of Massachusetts
\ and died at Chestnut Hill 19 December 1922, a short time before
\ the expiration of his official term.^
George Sawin Stewart, B.A., of Watertown, Mass., a resident
member since 1898, was born at Newton, Mass., 30 March 1870, the
son of John Brigham and Nancy Abigail (Parker) Stewart, and died
at Watertown 17 April 1922.
He traced his ancestry from Duncan^ Steward of Ipswich, New-
bury, and Rowley, Mass., through James^ Steward, Solomon' Steward,
Daniel* Steward, Amherst^ Steward, Thomas Carlisle® Stewart, and
John Brigham^ Stewart, his father. Among his ancestors also were
Carlisles, Moreys, Cobbs, HUdreths, and members of other early
New England families.
He was prepared for college at the Newton High School, entered
Amherst College, and received there in 1891 the degree of Bachelor
of Arts cum laude. His first business position was a clerkship with
the firm of Estes & Lauriat, booksellers, of Boston. Here, however,
he remained less than a year, and then he accepted a position with
M. S. Ayer & Company, first as clerk and later as salesman.
*For the ancestry of Peter Chardon Brooks see memoir of his brother, Shepherd Broosa, A. 2>1.,
supra, p. Ixv.
tMrs. Saltonstall is a resident member of the New England Eistorio Genealogical Society,
having been elected 3 April 1923.
MEMOIRS IxXXV
Ever studious and fond of delving into history and genealogy, Mr.
I Stewart abandoned mercantile busmess in 1911 to follow genealogy
I as a profession. His careful, painstaking work won recognition
I among his associates, and in 1921 he was elected secretary and
I registrar of the Massachusetts Society of the Sons of the American
I Revolution, a position which he was amply qualified to fill.
{ He had prepared voluminous and valuable genealogies which he
I had not published. They included the "Steward, Stewart, Stuart
i Family, Descendants of Duncan Steward," "Descendants of David
i Carlisle of Lunenburg," " Descendants of Isaac and Bridget (Fletcher)
I Parker," "Descendants of John Cobb of Taunton," "Descendants
' of Alexander Steward of Marlborough," and "Early Generations of
New England Stewarts."
He married, 31 March 1897, Mary Alice Heckman, daughter of
John Franklin and Wilheim Anna (Currier) Heckman, who survives
him, together with four children, Margaret, John Heckman, IVIarion,
and Edward Amherst Stewart. Another child, Katharine, died at
the age of two years.
I William Fitzhale Abbot, A.B., of Worcester, Mass., a life mem-
I ber since 1905, was bom in Boston 27 April 1853, the son of Joseph
f Hale and Fanny Ellingwood (Larcom) Abbot, and died at Worcester
f 21 April 1922.
* He was a descendant of George^ Abbot, who came from York-
1 shire, England, about 1640, and settled in Andover, Mass., through
] Dea. John,'^Dea. John,' Capt. John,* aU of Andover, Maj. AbieP of
Wilton, N. H., Capt. Ezra® of Wilton, and Joseph Hale,^ his father,
1 A.B. (Bowdoin, 1822), A.M. {ib., 1827), who was born at Wilton,
! N. H., 25 September 1802 and died at Cambridge, Mass., 7 April
] 1873. His grandfather, Capt. Ezra* Abbot (1772-1847), the first
I manufacturer of potato starch, married Rebecca Hale, daughter of
I Lieut. Joseph and Rebecca (Harris) Hale and niece of Capt. Nathan
\ . Hale, the Revolutionary patriot. His mother, who was born at
' Beverly, Mass., 14 June 1807 and died 26 June 1883, was the daughter
\ of Capt. Henry and Fanny (Ellingwood) Larcom and was married
to Joseph Hale Abbot at Beveriy, 13 May 1830.
His father, who made teaching his life work, was a tutor in modem
languages and librarian at Bowdoin College, 1825-1827, professor of
mathematics at Phillips Academy, Exeter, N. H., 1827-1833, and
taught in Boston, 1833-1855 and 1857-1860, where for many j^ears
he conducted a private school for girls, and in Beverly, 1861-1867.
He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,
and spent the last years of his life in literary work in Boston.
William Fitzhale Abbot received his early education at home, from
his father, until he was fifteen years old, when he entered the Cam-
bridge High School (September 1868). He was graduated there in
; 1870, was admitted to Harvard in the same year, and in 1874 received
'" from Harvard the degree of Bachelor of Arts cum laude, with final
1 honors in classics.
f He followed the profession of his father, and in September 1874
became an assistant in the private school for boys conducted in Bos-
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ton by George Washington Copp Noble, A.B. (Harvard, 1858), A.M.
(ib., 1863). HI health caused him to withdraw from this school in
January 1876; but a year later he was able to resume teaching, and
in partnership with Ins college classmate, Theodore Lovett SewaU,
A.B. (Harvard, 1874), LL.B. (ib., 1876), whose sister he afterwards
married, he conducted the Indianapolis (Ind.) Classical School for
Boys until the summer of 1880. In September of that year he became
teacher of Greek and Latin in the college preparatory department of
the Worcester High School, in 1890 was made head of the classical
department there, and continued in that position until his death.
Mr. Abbot was president of the New England Classical Teachers'
Association, and a member of the American Philological Association,
the Worcester Society of Antiquity, the Massachusetts Society of
Sons of the Revolution, the Massachusetts Reform Club, the Twen-
tieth Century Club, and various teachers' organizations and local
societies.
He married at Milwaukee, Wis., 28 December 1882, Caroline Ward
Sewall, daughter of Edmund Quincy SewaU, A.B. (Harvard, 1847),
A.M. (ib., 1850), and his wife, Louisa KUham (Lovett). Mrs. Abbot
survives her husband, together with four children, Edmund Quincy
Abbot of Worcester, A.B. (Harvard, 1906), Hale Wellington Abbot
of Boston, Miriam Abbot of Worcester, A.B. (Vassar, 1912), and
Theodore Sewall Abbot of Worcester. Another child, Larcom, twin
brother of Hale Wellington Abbot, died a few days after he was bom.
Two brothers also survive Mr. Abbot, namely, Edwin Hale Abbot of
Cambridge, A.B. (Harvard, 1855), A.M. {ib., 1858), LL.B. (ib.,
1861), a retired lawyer, who practised his profession for many years
in Boston and was afterwards prominent in the management and
financing of the Wisconsin Central Railroad, and Brig. Gen. Henry
Larcom Abbot, U. S. A., Retired, LL.D. (Harvard, 1886), a veteran
of the Civil War, who also Uves in Cambridge. Another brother,
Francis EUingwood Abbot, A.B. (Harvard, 1859), Ph.D. and A.M.
{ib., 1881), was a well-known minister, teacher, and writer on philo-
sophical and religious topics, an exponent of radical doctrines in
religion, and a life member of the New England Historic Genealogical
Society from 1892 until his death in 1903.*
Hon. William Henry Harrison Stowell, of Amherst, Mass., a
life member since 1912, was born at Windsor, Vt., 26 July 1840, the
son of Sylvester and Fanny Chandler (Bowen) Stowell, and died at
Amherst 27 April 1922.
His earliest New England ancestor of the Stowell name was Samuel^
Stowell of Hingham, Mass., 1649, from whom he was descended
through IsraeP of Hingham, Isaac,^ Jacob^ of Dedham, Mass., JoeP
of Windsor, Vt., and Sylvester,^ his father, who was bom at Windsor
12 April 1808 and died at Needham, Mass., 24 January 1888. His
mother, Fanny Chandler Bowen, daughter of Elisha and Fanny
(Morris) Bowen, was born at Wilbraham, Mass., 21 January' 1810,
and died at Needham 3 November 1893. She was married to Svlves-
ter Stowell at Reading, Vt., 16 May 1833.
*Cf. memoir of Francis EUingwood Abbot, in Register, vol. 5S, p. c\\.
MEMOIRS Ixxxvii
In his youth Mr. Stowell attended the Boston public schools,
among them the weU-known Quincy and Phillips Grammar Schools
and the English High School, and was graduated from the High
School in 1858. In the same year he entered the business world as
clerk in the oflBce of C. 0. Whitmore and Sons of Boston, shipowners,
who were engaged in the East India trade and later in the refining
of sugar; and from 1861 to 1865 he was chief clerk in the Union
Sugar Refinery. Charles Octavius Whitmore was a member and
stanch friend of the New England Historic Genealogical Society,
and William Henry Whitmore, with whom Mr. Stowell was daily
associated, was an early member of the Society and one of the best
known and most highly esteemed genealogists in England and America.
It was in remembrance of these circumstances that Mr. Stowell a
half century later selected Ufe membership as his form of membership
in the Society whose weKare they had so much at heart.
In April 1865, in the closing days of the Civil War, Mr. Stowell
went to Virginia, in search of health, and bought a cotton plantation
inBnmswick Coimty; but he soon gave up the occupation of planter
i and became a member of the firm of West, Beardsley & Company
I of Richmond, Va., lumber merchants, who rented the famous Libby
\ Prison as a warehouse and imported liunber and other building
; materials from Maine. Dining lus residence there he was appointed,
I in 1865, United States commissioner for Virginia, was made collector
\ of internal revenue for the Fourth District of Virginia in 1868, and
i was elected, as a RepubUcan, a member of the Forty-second, Forty-
I third, and Forty-fourth Congresses (1871-1877) from the Fourth
1 Congressional District of that State. He served as chairman of the
I Republican State Committee of Virginia in 1872, the only year in
i which the State was carried by the Republicans, and as delegate at
i large and chairman of the Virginia delegation to the Republican
I national convention at Cincinnati in 1876.
I From Virginia Mr. Stowell migrated to the West, where he founded
I the Fox River Pulp Company of Appleton, Wis., in 1877, and the
> Atlas Paper Company in the same place in 1878, serving as secretary
and treasurer of both organizations. Some ten years later he made
his home in Duluth, Minn., where he became interested in and was
' secretary and treasurer of the Duluth Iron & Steel Company, 1889,
and built at Diiluth the first blast furnace west of Chicago. Later
he added banking to his interests, and acted as president of the
Manufacturers' Bank, West Duluth, from 1889 to 1895. In 1896
he retired from active business.
Mr. StoweU's distinguished public services as well as his social and
business connections secured him a wide acquaintance among promi-
nent men, including statesmen, financiers, and Uterary persons, in
New York City, Paris, New England, and the South and West. He
[ himseK wrote many articles for the public press, among which may be
mentioned "The Separation of the Church and State in France,"
Paris, 1907, which appeared first in the St. Paul Dispatch, "The
Results of Our Mexican Policy," 1915, "What America Thinks, a
Reminiscence of Gen. Garibaldi," 1916, and "Letters and Talks
with Sir Edward Carson," 1916. He was also deeply interested in
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genealogical researches during the later years of his life, and con-
tributed to volume 71 of the Register (1917) articles on the de-
scendants of the two brothers, Samuel and Jonathan Hyde of Newton,
Mass. The completed manuscript of his "Stowell Genealogy" was
published in 1922, after his death, and makes a volume of 980 pages.
He was an Episcopalian, and held membership in the Minnesota
Historical Society, the Order of Foimders and Patriots of America,
the Society of Colonial Wars, the Society of Sons of the American
Revolution, the American Red Cross, the Amherst Club of Business
Men, and the Amherst Golf Club.
He married at St. Paul, Minn., 13 November 1873, Emma Clara
Averill, daughter of Gen. John Thomas and Hannah Elizabeth
(Atkinson) Averill of St. Paul. Mrs. Stowell was born at Winthrop,
Me., 16 October 1852, and died in New York City 28 September 1911.
A son, William Avenll Stowell, of Amherst, A.B. (Princeton, 1904),
Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins, 1908), who was professor of Romance lan-
guages at Amherst College, 1910-1920, survives his parents.
Mrs. Ann Jane (Felton) Ward, of Roxbury, Mass., a resident
member since 1912, was bom at Barre, Mass., 25 July 1840, the
daughter of Benjamin and Ruth Miranda (Johnson) Felton, and
died at Roxbury 8 May 1922.
She was a descendant of Nathaniel^ Felton, of Salem, 1633, who
married Mary, daughter of Rev. Samuel Skelton of Salem, through
Nathaniel,* Skelton,' Joseph,* Skelton,* and Capt. Benjamin' of
Barre, her father.
She received her education in public and private schools at Barre,
and in the high school at Athol, Mass. For a year after her gradua-
tion, 1858-59, she taught school at Orange, Mass.
She was closely identified with religious activities as a member of
the old Immanuel Congregational Chiirch of Roxbury, electing
especially work for foreign missions. She had lived in the same house
(37 Winthrop Street) in Roxbury for more than fifty years.
She was married, 2 August 1860, as his second wife, to Francis
Jackson Ward of Roxbury, only son of Nahum and Susan (Gumey)
Ward and a resident member of this Society from 1897 until his death
on 14 January 1912.* A daughter, Mrs. William Alfred Paine (Ruth
Felton Ward) of Boston, and five grandchildren, Francis Ward
Paine, Mrs. John Henry Blodgett (Ruth Sargent Paine), Mrs. Morris
Felton La Croix (Esther Himaphrey Paine), Stephen Paine, and
Dorothy Bowen Paine, survive her. A second daughter, Esther
Hmnphrey Ward, died in London 14 June 1892, in her 23d year.
Mrs. Eleanor Tracy (Eustis) Pattee, of Brookline, Mass., a
life member since 1911, was bom in Boston 22 March 1851, the
daughter of WiUiam Tracy and Martha Gilbert (Dutton) Eustis,
and died at Coronado, Calif., 20 May 1922.
She was descended from WilUam^ Eustis of Rumney Marsh
(now Chelsea), Mass., of whom the earliest record in New England
is that of the birth of his son John in 1659, through William^ of
♦Cf. memoir of Francis Jackson Ward, in REaiSTEB, vol. 67, p. 1.
MEMOIRS Ixxxix
Chelsea, Joseph,' Joseph* of Boston, William Beers,* Joseph,* who
married at Newburyport, Mass., 2 October 1820, Eleanor St. Barbe
Tracy, and William Tracy® her father, who was bom in Boston 29
September 1822, married, 3 October 1849, Martha Gilbert Button
of Boston, daughter of Henry Worthington and Arm Eliza Bradlee
(Spear) Button, and died at Brookline 11 October 1906. After an
I active business career of almost half a century William Tracy Eustis
1 devoted the later years of his life to genealogical research, especially
I in the records of the Eustis and Button families. He was a resident
? member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society from 1886
I imtU his death, and gave to the Society zealoiis and faithful service
! as a member of important committees and as Councillor for the years
1893-1898 and 1903-1905.*
Eleanor Tracy Eustis was educated at private schools in Boston,
and was married, 3 October 1872, to Frank Hargrave Pattee. They
resided in Boston imtil 1883, when they moved to California, where
Mr. Pattee was treasurer of the Southern California Railroad, which
I was later merged in the Santa F6 system. Mr. Pattee died at Los
I Angeles in 1893, and Mrs. Pattee then returned to the East. She
i spent much time at Brookline and at Castine, Me., where the Eustis
I family has a summer home, and she traveled extensively both in
f America and abroad. She and her sister, EUzabeth Mussey Eustis,
i were passengers in the spring of 1912 on White Star steamship
I Titanic, and narrowly escaped the fate which overtook so many of
• their fellow passengers when the ill-fated vessel went down amidst
the icebergs of the North Atlantic. Buring the later years of her
•• life Mrs. Pattee spent the winters in Southern California.
1 A daughter, Mrs. Harold Ahlquist of Painesville, Ohio, survives
Mrs. Pattee, and also three sisters and two brothers, Henry Button
I Eustis, Elizabeth Mussey Eustis, and Mary St. Barbe Eustis, all
three of Brookline and all also Pilgrim Tercentenary members of the
; New England Historic Genealogical Society, and Mrs. Walter
■ Briant Stephenson (Martha Eustis) of Haverford, Pa., and Joseph
Tracy Eustis of Brookline, both life members of the Society. AH
these sisters and brothers were generous contributors to the building
fund of the Society in 1911, and in recognition of their helpful interest
in the work of the Society and their father's untiring fidelity in its
service the Treasurer's office in the Society's house at 9 Ashburton
Place, Boston, has been named the William Tracy Eustis Memorial
Room.
Mrs. Ella Florence (Hoyt) Flickinger, of Little Rock, Ark.,
a resident member since 1915, was bom at Brandon, Oakland Co.,
Mich., 18 August 1861, the daughter of George Willis and Ella Groat
(Polhemus) Hoyt, and died at her home at Little Rock 24 June 1922.
Her father had migrated to Michigan from New York, and his
daughter received her education at the St. Charles High School, Sag-
^ inaw Co., Mich.
•Cf. memoir of William Tracy Eustis in Register, vol 61. pp. 219-221, where also may be
, found information about the St. Barbe and other families allied to the Eustises, and see the
\ Eustis genealogy published in Registee, voL 32, pp. 204-228.
XC N. E, HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY
She was married at Fremont, Mich., 22 April 1880, to Louis FUck-
inger. After her marriage she devoted her remarkable energy to
the support of many religious, philanthropic, patriotic-historical,
and civic movements, and at the time of her death was prominent
for her unusual achievements in behalf of these causes. Her afl&lia-
tions with patriotic, historical, and genealogical societies were numer-
ous, and included National and State as well as local organizations.
Among them may be named the Grand Council of Vice Presidents
of the National Historical Society, of which she was a founder, the
Order of Founders and Patriots of America, of which she had been
State president, the Daughters of the American Revolution, of
which she had been State recording secretary, the United States
Daughters of 1812, of which she had been State registrar, the National
Society of Colonial Dames of America, the Colonial Daughters of
America, the Huguenot Society of America, the Huguenot Society of
South Carolina, the Scions of Colonial CavaUers of America, the
Military Society of the Frontier, and the New York Genealogical and
Biographical Society. She had been regent of the Little Rock chapter
of the Daughters of the American Revolution. She was appointed
by Gov. Jefferson Davis of Arkansas as one of the honorary commis-
sioners from Hot Springs County for the Louisiana Purchase Exposi-
tion at St. Louis in 1903, an honor which carried with it many privi-
leges and powers.
Notwithstanding the exacting strain of her many duties in these
societies, Mrs. Flickinger was equally active in church work, the
Red Cross, and in literary, musical, educational, art, and dramatic
societies. Since 1883 she had been a member of the Methodist
Episcopal Church.
Her husband, their son, Bruce Norman Flickinger, a grandson,
Louis Speer Flickinger of Denver, Colo., a brother, Clarence Hoyt
of South Richmond, Va., and a sister, Mrs. John W. Sheets of Saginaw,
Mich., survive her.
William Rockefeller, of New York City, a Pilgrim Tercen-
tenary member since 1919, was born at Richf ord, Tioga County, N. Y.,
31 May 1841, the son of William Avery and Eliza (Davison) Rocke-
feller, and died at North Tarrytown, N. Y., 24 June 1922.
To the student of genealogy and heredity the pedigree of Mr.
Rockefeller is especially interesting. Instead of an unbroken chain
of New England ancestors descended from English forbears, it shows
an amalgamation of various racial elements which has resulted in
the present day in a family of stalwart, forceful, and foremost Amer-
icans. On the paternal side his line is traced back from his father,
William Avery^ Rockefeller, a physician and farmer, who was born
at Granger, Columbia Co., N. Y., 13 November 1810, through God-
frey,* who was born at Germantown, N. Y., in 1783 and married
Lucy Avery of Great Barrington, Mass., WiUiam,' who was bom at
Amwell, N. J., in 1750 and married his cousin, Christina Rockefeller,
Peter,^ who was born in Germany in 1711 and came to America with
his father, to John Peter,i who was bom near Neuwied, Germany,
about 1682, emigrated to America in 1723^, and died at Amwell,
MEMOIRS XCl
N. J., about 1766. He was probably the son of Jean, who was born
about 1634 and spelled his surname Roquefeuille or Roquefeuil,
being evidently of French extraction, and his second wife, Elizabeth
Margaret Remegan, whom he married about 1678. Mr. Rockefeller's
mother, who was bom at New Brunswick, N. J., in March 1813 and
died 28 March 1889, was married to his father at Niles, Cayuga Co. ,
N. Y., 18 February 1837, and was the daughter of John and Cynthia
(Selover) Davison of New Brunswick and a descendant of William
Davison, an Englishman who settled in Monmouth Co., N. J., near
the close of the seventeenth century. Thus in a short span are found
French, German, New Jersey, and New England strains.
Mr. Rockefeller was educated at Owego Academy, Owego, N. Y.,
and in the public schools of Cleveland, Ohio, whither the family,
including father and mother and two sons, William and his elder
brother, John Davison, had removed in 1852. He began his mer-
cantile career there in the produce business, in which he won his
way to partnership and accumulated sufficient capital to enable him
in 1865 to enter with his brother into the oil industry, then in its
infancy. The establishing of a branch office in New York City led
to his removal to that city to take charge of it. He was unquestion-
ably the merchant of the company, assuming the responsibility of
marketing the output of the industry. With a commanding physique,
an active intellect, an energetic personality, a stern but just judg-
ment, and a kindly spirit, he was beloved by all, and constituted a
solid asset of the Standard Oil Company. He did not, however,
confine himself so closely to the oil business as did his brother, but
was largely interested also in railway and other enterprises, suc-
ceeding CorneUus VanderbUt as a director of the New York Central
Railroad, and serving as an officer or director of a large number of the
leading transportation lines of the country, of several banks, and of
various copper and insurance companies and public utilities.
Although a member of the Baptist Church, he was in his later
years, which he spent largely at his country home at North Tarry-
town, N. Y., a regular attendant at St. Mary's Protestant Episcopal
Church at Scarborough.
Mr. Rockefeller was a member of the New England Society of
New York, the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society,
The American Fine Arts Society, The Metropolitan Museum of Art,
and the American Museum of Natural History; and his club affilia-
tions were with the Union League, Metropolitan, Riding, New York
Yacht, and Automobile Clubs of New York City, and the Ardsley
(N. Y.) and Jekyl Island (Ga.) Clubs.
He married at Fairfield, Conn., 25 May 1864, Almira Geraldine
Goodsell, daughter of David Judson and Ellen (O'Brien) Goodsell
of New York City and a descendant of Thomas Goodsell, a Welshman,
who came to America in 1678. Mrs. Rockefeller was bom in New
York City 19 March 1844 and died 17 January 1920. Of their six
children, four survived their parents, Emma, wife of Dr. David
Hunter McAlpin, William Goodsell, Percy Avery, and Ethel Geral-
dine, wife of Marcellus Hartley Dodge; but William Goodsell Rocke-
feller, who was a life member of the New England Historic Genealog-
XCU N. E. HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL. SOCIETY
ical Society, outlived his father by little more than five months,
dying 30 November 1922.*
Cf. The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, vol. 54, pp. 124-126.
Edward Goulburn Sinckler, F. R. C. I., of Waverley, St. Law-
rence, Barbados, B. W. I., a corresponding member since 1913, was
I bom at Kensington House, St. Michael's, Barbados, 19 November
\ 1856, the eldest son of Rev. Edward Griffith and Henrietta Briggs
I (Howard) Sinckler, and died at Waverley 30 Jime 1922.
I Mr. Sinckler's father, who was bom at Bridgetown, St. Michael's,
\ 16 February 1823, was vicar of St. Leonard's, Barbados; and his
i paternal grandfather, James William Sinckler, born 26 December
I 1789, died 20 August 1853, was a medical practitioner and held the
! rank of captain in the First or Royal Regiment of MQitia. Mr.
Sinckler's mother, bom at St. Philip's, Barbados, 27 July 1825, was
the eldest daughter of William Murrell Howard, a planter and a
member of the Colonial Legislature, and his wife, Sarah (Briggs.)
I The Sinckler family is undoubtedly of Scotch origin, the surname
I being a corruption of "Sinclair"; but Mr. Sinckler's great-great-
I grandfather, James Sinckler, a planter of the parish of St. George,
1 Barbados, who was bom in 1735 and died 23 August 1788, spelled
I his name "Sinckler," and this spelling has been followed by most
? of the latter's descendants. James Sinckler owned land and slaves
I in St. George's as early as 1782, and his son James, who died 30 July
j 1807, great-grandfather of Edward Goulburn Sinckler, also owned
j land and slaves in that parish.
I Mr. Sinckler was educated at a private school kept by his father.
\ In 1874 he entered the public service of the Colony, in which he
I continued for more than forty j'ears, beginning as a subordinate
I clerk in the Colonial Secretary's office and advancing step by step
t until 1883, when he became chief clerk of the Record Branch and
I clerk of the Courts of Ordinary and Error. In 1886 he was made
I clerk of the Legislative Coimcil, and in 1892 he was appointed a
I justice of the peace and clerk of the Assistant Court of Appeal.
In 1893 and subsequent years he served repeatedly as senior police
magistrate in Bridgetown and in various country districts, some-
times adding the duties of judge and coroner to those of magistrate.
In 1905 he took an active part in promoting the celebration of the
tercentenary of Barbados. In 1919 he became manager of the
Government Savings Bank, and held this position at the time of his
death.
Since 1897 Mr. Sinckler has been a fellow of the Royal Colonial
Institute. Always fond of literary pursuits, he was the author of
several monographs pertaining to the history and antiquities of
Barbados, collected and published in a local newspaper many of
the legends of the island, compiled a "Handbook of Barbados,"
and occasionally composed l3rric verses. He was a member and
honorary secretary of the Historic Sites Committee, which was
; appointed in 1909 to inquire into the historic sites, old forts and
i houses, and burial grounds and tombs of Barbados. He was also
1 *Cf. memoir of William Goodsell Rockefeller, infra, p. civ.
MEMOIRS XCIU
a member of the Masonic fraternity. He was a most interesting
companion, and among his most intimate literary friends was the
late Nicholas DameU Davis of British Guiana and afterwards of
London, a well-known authority on West Indian History and a cor-
responding member of the New England Historic Genealogical
Society from 1888 imtil his death in 1915.*
He married, 12 December 1883, Eva Douglas Richards, the eldest
daughter of John Christopher Richards, a member of the Colonial
Legislature, and his wife, Mary EUzabeth (Douglas), who was the
\ daughter of Daniel Douglas and granddaughter of James Douglas,
I owner of Bath Plantation, St. John's, Barbados. Mr. Sinckler's
i wife and their only child, Eva Beatrice Sinckler, survive him.
Mrs. Margaret (Kimball) Cummings, of Boston, a resident
member since 1916, was born in Boston 19 October 1841, the daughter
of Hon. Moses and Frances Lavinia Angier (Hathaway) Kimball,
and died at Topsfield, Mass., 14 July 1922.
She was a descendant of Richard^ and Ursula (Scott) Kimball,
who came from Rattlesden, co. Suffolk, England, ia 1634, settled at
I Watertown, Mass., and later removed to Ipswich, Mass., through
}. Caleb,'* Caleb,' Capt. John,* Dea. Nathaniel,^ David,® and Moses,''
I her father, who was bom at Newburyport, Mass., 24 October 1809,
I and died at Brookline, Mass., 21 February 1895. Moses Kimball,
I in his day one of the most prominent citizens of Boston, active in
I politics, at various times a member of the Boston city government
\ and of the Massachusetts Legislature, and well known as the pro-
■ prietor of the famous Boston Museum, was a resident member of
4 the New England Historic Genealogical Society from 1878 until his
i death and one of its generous benefactors.f
I Mrs. Cummings was educated at private schools ia Boston imtil
I 1855, and then entered Professor Agassiz's school at Cambridge,
I where she remained until 1861. A period of foreign travel followed
i her school course.
She was married, 12 October 1869, to Charles Amos Cummings
of Boston, architect, a graduate of the Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute. He was born in Boston 26 Jvme 1833, the son of Amos
and Rebecca (Hopkins) Cummings, and died 11 August 1905. Two
children survive her, Charles Kimball Cummings, A.B. (Harvard,
1893), an architect of Boston, and Margaret Cummings of Topsfield,
and also three sisters, the Misses Helen Frances, Hannah Hathaway,
and Lulu Kimball of Brookline and Prides Crossing (Beverly), Mass.
Miss Helen Frances KimbaU, a Pilgrim Tercentenary member and
benefactor of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, was
one of the first group of women who, in 1898, were elected to mem-
bership in the Society, and has served the Society as a Councillor
and on various committees. Miss Hannah Hathaway Kimball, a
life member, has also been a generous donor to the Society. In
•A memoir of Nicholas Darnell Davis'may be found in Registee, vol. 72, p. xxxii.
tFor the life and ancestry of Moses Kimball see two memoirs, one in Reqister, vol. 49, pp.
219-220, which has been reprinted in "Memorial Biographies of the New England Historic Gene-
alogical Society," voL 9, pp. 239-241, and the other, by his son-in-law, Charles Amos Cummings,
with portrait, in Register, vol. 56, pp. 335-340.
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recognition of the gifts received from these sisters and in remem-
brance of their father's unfailing support a large room in the Society's
house, at 9 Ashburton Place, Boston, has been named the Moses
Kimball Memorial Room.
Following the example of her public-spirited father, Mrs. Cum-
mings bequeathed more than $90,000 for public purposes, including
$20,000 to the trustees of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, to be
added to the fund given by her late husband, $10,000 to the New
England Hospital for Women and Children, also in memorj' of her
husband, $10,000 to the Children's Hospital, in memory of her
mother, Frances (Hathaway) Kimball, $5000 each to the Aiken
Cottages, in memory of her son, Francis Hathaway Cummings, A.B.
(Harvard, 1895), who died in 1897, and equal sums to several edu-
cational institutions in the South, to the Massachusetts School for
the Bhnd, to the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Children, and to the First Church in Boston. Other
bequests of an interesting nature disclosed the good judgment and
warm-heartedness of the giver.
Edward Judson Millspatjgh, of Utica, N. Y., a Pilgrim Ter-
centenary member since 1920, was bom at Richmond, Staten Island,
N. Y., 20 June 1861, the eldest son of Dr. Isaac Little and Deborah
Barron (Mundy) Millspaugh, and died at Utica 14 July 1922.
He traced his descent from Matheis^ Melsbag, who came to this
country, presumably from Holland, with his wife, Anna Eva Bush,
and at least three grown children, and settled at Walldll, Orange Co.,
N. Y., about 1730. The will of Matheis, recorded in Ulster County,
N. Y., in 1770, is an interesting document and has been published
by the New York Historical Society. His son Pieter^ married Susan-
nah Comfort, and the line was continued through Adam,^ yoimgest
son but one, who was a private in the Second Regiment, Ulster County
Militia, during the Revolutionary War, and married Jane White.
Their eldest son, Samuel,* served in the War of 1812, and married,
as his second wife, Dorothy Corwin; and their youngest child,
Isaac Little,* was the father of the subject of this memoir. Isaac
Little Millspaugh was born near Walkill 1 February 1827, was
graduated at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York
City, and was a practising physician at Richmond, Staten Island, for
a period of fifty-eight years. In the Civil War he served as assistant
surgeon with the One Hundred and -Seventy-eighth New York
Volunteers and the Thirteenth New York Cavalry. He married,
15 June 1858, Deborah Barron Mundy of Staten Island, who was
born 11 May 1836 and died 7 July 1890, daughter of Dr. Crowell
and Ann (Guyon) Mvmdy and a descendant of Jacques Guyon, a
French Huguenot of the early part of the seventeenth century. He
died 27 August 1908, and is buried in the Moravian Cemetery at New
Dorp, Staten Island, where also his son, the subject of this memoir,
has been laid to rest.
After attending the Staten Island Academy, Mr. Millspaugh
entered business in 1877 as a clerk in a hardware store in New York
City, at $2.00 a week. From this small beginning he advanced from
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one position to another until he became, in 1887, assistant to Mr.
Jesse L. Eddy, then resident sales agent at Utica of the Delaware
■■ and Hudson Canal Company. On 1 January 1890 he was promoted
i to succeed Mr. Eddy, and five months later he foimded the' firm of
I Millspaugh & Green, distributors of anthracite coal, with offices at
I Utica, Syracuse, and Rochester. This firm was incorporated 31
I May 1905 as the Millspaugh & Green Company, and Mr. Edward
I Judson Millspaugh was a director and president of it from the time
I of incorporation until his death. He was also director and president
i of two other coal companies, from the time of their organization to
j his death, and held kindred offices in a large nimiber of other busi-
j ness enterprises.
I In politics he was a Republican. In religion he was an Episco-
paUan, although he was trustee of the Westminster Presbyterian
Church of Utica for many years. He served for twenty years as
treasurer of the Utica Rescue Mission, and rendered most valuable
and active service on the Liberty and Victory Loan Committees of
i Utica during the World War.
j His membership in clubs and societies was varied and extensive,
I including historical, patriotic, antiquarian, religious, business, social,
i and sporting organizations.
I He had a wide circle of friends and acquaintances, by whom he was
I highly esteemed for his business integrity and honesty, his sensitive
I response to the viewpoint of others, and the charm of his personality,
i His generosity was well known, and many charitable enterprises
I profited from his large gifts.
1 Mr. Millspaugh married, 20 June 1887, Anna Belle Mase of Mat-
J teawan, N. Y., daughter of Hon. WiUard Horace and Jane Elizabeth
(Corwin) Mase. Mrs. Millspaugh's mother was the daughter of
David Wells Corwin, and claimed descent from Matthias Corvinus,
a famous king of Hungary. Mr. Millspaugh's wife survives him,
together with their only chUd, Francis Corwin Millspaugh, of Lowell,
Mass., B.A. (Yale, 1912), M.E.E. (Harvard, 1915), who succeeds
his father in his Pilgrim Tercentenary membership in the New Eng-
land Historic Genealogical Society.
Levi Holbrook, M.A., of New York City, elected a resident
member in 1897 and made a life member in 1898, was bom at West-
borough, Mass., 7 March 1836, the son of Levi and Eliza (Grout)
Holbrook, and died at Centre Harbor, N. H., 26 July 1922.
He traced his descent from John^ Holbroke, who was at Wey-
mouth, Mass., in 1640 and was chosen several times to represent
that town in the General Court of the Colony, through Thomas^ Hol-
brooke, NathanieP Holbrook, Nathaniel,* Micah,* David,® and Levi,^
his father, who was born at Sherborn, Mass., 9 June 1785. His
mother, who was born at Northborough, Mass., 20 October 1807,
was the daughter of Seth and Susanna (Haskell) Grout.
Mr. Holbrook was prepared for college at Williston Seminary,
Easthampton, Mass., and entered Yale, where he received the
degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1857 and the degree of Master of Arts,
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in course, in 1860. He was the valedictorian of his college class and
a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
His eyes had suffered serious injury during his coUege course, and
he theriefore spent the six months following his graduation in Boston,
where he was vmder treatment for his impaired sight. Out-of-door
life being deemed advisable for him, he rode on horseback through
the western wUdemess across the Rocky Moxmtains to the Columbia
River and back in 1858, and then travelled extensively in the several
continents of the Old World. From 1860 to 1863 he studied modem
languages and literature at Cambridge, Mass., so far as his eyes
permitted; but he was finally obliged to give up his plans for a
literary or professional career and entered business in Boston, where
he remained from 1864 to 1867. From 1871 on he made his home
in New York City, but, handicapped by his defective vision, he
was unable to engage steadily in active work and spent much time
in travel. He bore with cheerful resignation his inability to use
his eyes, consoling himself with one of his favorite lines of poetry:
"They also serve who only stand and wait." In his old age he was
a man of striking appearance, with his long white hair and beard;
and in the neighborhood of his summer home in New Hampshire
he was known as "the Grand Old Man of Lake Winnepesaukee."
He was a member of the American Fine Arts Society, the Amer-
ican Geographical Society, of which he was secretary and councillor,
the Order of Foimders and Patriots of America, of which he was
registrar general, the Society of Colonial Wars, the Society of Sons
I of the Revolution, and the New Hampshire Society of the Cin-
j cinnati.
I He married, 27 December 1871, Viola Vowers, daughter of John
I Andrew and Elizabeth Melissa (Failing) Vowers. Mrs. Holbrook
I survived her husband by less than seven weeks, dying on 10 Septem-
I berl922. A son, Clark Holbrook of Red Bank, N. J., and a daughter,
i Mrs. Juhan Pearce Smith (Helen Holbrook) of Upper Montclair,
I N. J., survive their parents.
i
I Alexander Graham Bell, Ph.D., M.D., LL.D., Sc.D., of
I Washington, D. C, the world-renowned inventor of the telephone,
I a resident member since 1889, was born in Edinburgh, Scotland,
j 3 March 1847, the son of Alexander Melville and Eliza Grace (Sy-
i monds) Bell, and died at Beinn Breagh, his estate near Baddeck,
' Cape Breton, 2 August 1922. He was buried on the crest of Mount
Beinn Breagh, at a spot chosen by himself.
His grandfather, Alexander Bell, born at St. Andrews, Scotland,
3 March 1790, was the son of David Bell, who was bom at St. An-
drews in 1760 and was probably the son of a James Bell who married
Helen Duncan, but this point seems not yet to have been posi-
i tively established. Dr. Bell's mother, who was born at Dover, co.
I Kent, England, was the daughter of Samuel Symonds, a surgeon in
[ the Royal Na-v^, and his wife, Mary White.
! Aside from the sturdy Scotch traits inherited from his
J forbears, Alexander Graham Bell was endowed by his father and
i ■ grandfather with a student's interest in vocal physiology, which led
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f
i forward to the crowning achievement of his life, the invention of
I the telephone. The grandfather, a noted orator of his day and an
I expert ia elocution and voice culture, had made a lifelong study
I of sound, and invented a method of removing impediments in speech.
I His son, Alexander Melville Bell, continued in the same course,
I lecturing on vocal physiology at the University of Edinburgh, at
! University College in London, and later at Queen's University,
Kingston, in the Province of Ontario, Canada, and inventing in his
turn a method of instruction in orthoepy which was successfully used
I in teaching deaf-mutes. A nmnber of scholarly books dealing with
i this study were written by him and extensively used. His experi-
I ments, which were conducted in his home, aroused the interest of
1 his two sons. Both boys made tests along the same lines and arrived
at some striking results, of which the most notable was the construc-
tion of an artificial skull of gutta-percha and india rubber that could
be made to pronounce several words in weird tones when blown on
by hand bellows. This machine was exhibited more than once
before neighborhood audiences.
I In addition to the training thus received Alexander Graham Bell
1 was educated at the Royal High School, Edinburgh, and attended
5 lectures at the University of Edinburgh and at University College,
i London, where he was matriculated in 1867. During this period,
i when but sixteen years of age, he became an instructor of deaf-mutes.
I At twenty-two the youthful body broke under the strain of his
( studious life and he was threatened with tuberculosis; but with the
I removal of the family to Brantwood, Canada, in 1870, came a full
\ retimi to vigorous health,
j In 1872, two years after the family had settled in Canada, Dr. Bell
removed to Boston, where he was employed in the Horace Mann
I School as a teacher of deaf-mutes and later (1873-1877) was pro-
[ fessor of vocal physiology in Boston University. Teaching interfered
I so materially with his experiments that he gave up, at length, all
I but two pupils, one of whom, Mabel Hubbard, later became his
i wife; and it was her father, Gardiner Greene Hubbard of Boston,
who was Bell's financial support during the lean experimental years
of the telephone.
On 2 June 1875, while Dr. Bell, assisted by Thomas A. Watson,
was experimenting with his device for transmitting the hiunan voice
over a wire, in the electrical workshop of Charles WUliams at 109
Court Street, Boston, he heard for the first time, over a wire running
from one room to the next, sounds made by Watson, who was in the
next room. The following March, on Mr. Bell's twenty-ninth
birthday, the patent on the invention was received, and a week later,
on 10 March 1876, at No. 5 Exeter Place, Boston, where a wire had
been installed, Watson, listening at the end of the wire in another
room, heard Bell say: "Mr. Watson, please come here. I want you."
ThrUled by success. Bell, two months later, carried his new toy to
the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, where he gave a practical
; demonstration of the transmission of the human voice by electricity,
s and in June 1876 saw his invention leap into fame through the weU-
1 known incident of Dom Pedro, Emperor of Brazil, who ejaculated "My
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God! It talksl" when he heard Bell's voice coming forth from the
queer cone-shaped instniment which he was holding to his ear. From
that moment this exhibit became the most popular of the whole
exposition. It was in October of the same year that a successful
conversation was carried on between Dr. Bell in Boston and Mr.
Watson in Cambridge, over a private telegraph wire, and in Decem-
ber a long-distance talk between North Conway, N. H., and Boston
assured the pioneers of the utility of the invention. The first tele-
phone line was opened on 1 April 1877 between the Boston workshop
of Charles Williams and his home in Somerville. Thus Boston had
j the honor of being the birthplace of this remarkable invention, which
startled the world by its possibilities of usefulness. On the fortieth
anniversary of the "birth of the telephone," in 1916, Dr. BeU
returned to Boston for the dedication of the tablet erected at
5 Exeter Place to commemorate his first success. The preceding year,
when the transcontinental line was opened. Dr. Bell in New York had
once more said over the wire "Watson, come here," but this time Mr.
Watson was ia San Francisco.
Having started the telephone on its triumphant way, Dr. Bell, as
i well as his associates, quietly left its career to the guidance of Theo-
j dore Newton VaU* and turned his attention to other inventions.
I In cooperation with C. Sumner Taintor and Dr. Chichester Bell
i the recording and reproduction of speech, as embodied in the grapho-
l phone, was improved. To Alexander Graham BeU is due also the
« invention of a method of lithography, a photophone, an induction
I balance, and a telephone probe which was used in locating the bullet
I . which caused the death of President Garfield. Dr. Bell spent fifteen
I years and §200,000 in testing his tetrahedral kite, and established as
I a principle in architecture the use of tetrahedral cells or imits. From
I 1886 on his laboratories were located near Baddeck, Cape Breton,
I where he conducted researches and made experiments in aerial
j locomotion and other scientific subjects; and in 1907 the Aerial
\ Experiment Association was formed, with headquarters at Cape
•■ Breton.
{ During the World War Dr. Bell and Mr. F. W. Baldwin invented
a boat or hydroplane, which developed a speed of seventy miles an
hour and was called the fastest in the world. It was intended for
the pursuit of submarines and for scouting, but the armistice pre-
vented its use for those purposes.
It was in 1877 that Dr. Bell foimded and endowed the Volta Bureau
for the increase of knowledge relating to the deaf. He was also the
founder and at one time president of the American Association to
Promote Teaching of Speech to the Deaf, to which he gave §200,000.
j He was a regent of the Smithsonian Institution, a member of the
' National Geographic Society, of which he had been president, a
member of the American Philosophical Society, a fellow of the Amer-
i ican Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the National
I Academy of Sciences and of other learned societies.
i He was the author of many scientific and educational monographs,
I 'A memoir of Mr. Vail, with portrait, will be published in the Rbqistbb of July, 1923.
i /
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including a "Memoir on the Formation of a Deaf Variety of the
Hiunan Race."
Many honors were conferred upon Dr. Bell after his great inven-
tion had made him famous. In 1880 the French Government awarded
him the 'prix Volta and decorated him in 1881 as an officer of the
Legion of Honor. A medal was received from the London Society
of Fine Arts in 1902; and in 1907 the Royal Albert Medal, the Elliott
Cresson Medal, and the John Fritz Medal were awarded to him.
To these were added the Hughes Medal from the Royal Society of
Arts, London, in 1913, and the Edison Medal in 1914. Numerous
honorary academic degrees were bestowed on him, namely, those of
Doctor of Philosophy (Wiirzburg, 1882), Doctor of Medicine (Hei-
delburg, 1886), Doctor of Laws (Illinois College, 1896, Harvard,
1896, Amherst, 1901, St. Andrews, Scotland, 1902, Edinburgh, 1906,
Queen's, Canada, 1908, Dartmouth, 1913, George Washington, 1913),
and Doctor of Science (Oxford, 1907).
Dr. Bell married, 11 July 1877, Mabel Gardiner Hubbard, daughter
of Gardiner Greene and Gertrude Mercer (McCurdy) Hubbard.
Mrs. BeU survived her husband only five months, her death occurring
in Washington, D. C, 3 January 1923. Of their four children, two
sons died in infancy, but the two eldest children, daughters, survive
their parents, namely, Elsie May Bell, who was bom at South Ken-
sington, England, and married in London, 23 October 1900, Gilbert
Hovey Grosvenor, B.A. (Amherst, 1897), M.A. {ib., 1901), editor of
a Washington magazine, and Marian Hubbard Bell, born in Wash-
ington, D. C, the wife of Dr. David G. Fairchild of that city.
Waldo Elias Boardman, D.M.D., of Boston, elected a resident
member in 1913 and made a life member in 1919, was born at Saco,
Me., 1 September 1851, the son of Elias and Sarah Hartshorn (Hop-
kins) Boardman, and died at Omaha, Nebr., 14 August 1922, while
on his way home from the convention of the National Dental Asso-
ciation at San Francisco, Calif.
His paternal ancestry has been traced from Maj. WUliam^ Bord-
man or Boardman of Cambridge, Mass., 1638, and his wife Frances,
through WUliam^ and Sarah of Maiden and Chelsea, Mass., WQliam'
and Abiah (Sprage) of Lynn, Mass., Amos* of Chelsea and Reading,
Mass., who married at Reading, 28 May 1752, Elizabeth Smith of
Reading, Dea. Elias,^ a Revolutionary soldier, who married at Read-
ing, 5 April 1785, Hannah Lewis, Elias,* who was born at Bridgewater,
N. H., 24 November 1786, married, 21 January 1821, Huldah Green,
and died at South Reading, (now Wakefield), Mass., 23 November
1861, and Elias,^ his father who was bom at South Reading 26
February 1822 and died at Haverhill, Mass., 15 October 1901. His
mother, Sarah Hartshorn Hopkins, was born at South Reading 28
February, 1823, the daughter of Joseph and Martha (Crooker)
Hopkins, and was married to Elias Boardman 5 December 1848.
He was educated in the public schools of Saco and at the Bryant and
Stratton Commercial School in Portland, Me., and was engaged
with his father for two years in the boot and shoe business. In
August 1871 he came to Boston and was employed as confidential
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clerk by a patent lawyer, with whom he afterwards entered into
partnership. In 1877 he was compelled by impaired health to give
up this work, and, after a rest of four years, he became a newspaper
publisher, in New York City. Returning to Boston a year later, he
engaged in the drug business, which he soon left to enter the con-
fectionery business, in which he remained for two years. Then,
after seven or eight months of rest, he was enrolled in 1883 as a
student in the Harvard Dental School, and received from Harvard
in 1886 the degree of Doctor of Dental Medicine.
Dr. Boardman practised his profession from 1886 until his death.
At one time he resided in Winthrop, but he had his office in Boston.
He held various positions in the Harvard Dental School, serving as
instructor in operative dentistry, 1891-1899, curator of the Dental
Museum, 1893-1915, librarian of the Dental School, 1897-1915, and
editor for many years of the quinquennial catalogues of the Dental
School.
He was president of the Massachusetts Dental Society, 1896-97,
chairman of its executive committee for many years, and the author
of a history of that society from 1867 on. He held high office in
other dental organizations, being president of the National Dental
Association in 1904-05; and he was a member of the World's Colum-
bian Dental Congress in 1893 and of the organization committee of
the Fourth International Dental Congress at St. Louis, Mo., in 1904,
a delegate to the Fifth International Dental Congress in Berlin,
Germany, in 1909, and chairman of the National Dental Convention
which met in Boston in 1920.
He was connected also with many historical, patriotic, and social
organizations, including the Massachusetts Charitable IMechanic
Association, the Society of Colonial Wars, the Sons of the American
Revolution, and the Bostonian Society. For three years, 1917-1919,
he was a member of the Committee on Ways and Means of the New
England Historic and Genealogical Society.
Dr. Boardman married first, 15 June 1882, Margaret Elisabeth
Brown, who died s.p. in Boston in December 1917, daughter of
Thomas and Julia Brown; and secondly, at Santa Cruz, Calif., 14
February 1921, Mary E. Townsend, who survives him.
Mrs. Alice White (Shaw) Torrey, of Dorchester, Mass., a
Pilgrim Tercentenary member since 1919, was born at South Wej'-
mouth, Mass., 6 August 1836, the daughter of Theron Vinson and
Rebecca Tubbs (Colburn) Shaw, and died at Dorchester 18 August
1922. Through her mother, the daughter of Rev. Samuel Woods and
Ruth (Coggswell) Colburn, she was connected with several honored
families of early New England.
She was married at Weymouth, Mass., 14 October 1862, to Elbridge
Torrey, who was born at South Weymouth 17 September 1837 and
died at Dorchester 2 January 1914, the son of Joseph and Harriet
(Wade) Torrey. He was for many years senior member of the carpet
house of Torrey, Bright & Capen of Boston, now known as the
Torrey, Bright & Capen Company, was active in the work of the
Congregational Church, in the American Board of Commissioners
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\ for Foreign Missions, and in educational fields, and was a resident
I member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society from
j 1900 until his death.*
I Mrs. Torrey was a member of the Second Church of Dorchester,
I known as the Codman Square Church. Her life was filled with benef-
I icent deeds; and in her will she made large bequests to churches,
I schools and eleemosynary institutions, in the same spirit of service
I which had characterized her husband's activities in behaK of his
fellow men. She was the last of her family.
j Mrs. Abbie Susan (Jefts) Beede, of Hudson, Mass., a life mem-
•; ber since 1913, was bom in that part of Marlborough, Mass., which is
now included in the town of Hudson, 28 August 1859, the daughter
of Luman Thompson and EmUy Susan (Witt) Jefts, and died at
Hudson 16 September 1922.
Her great-grandfather was David Jefts, and her grandfather was
Benjamin Jefts. Her father was bom at Washington, N. H., 4 April
1830. Her mother, who was born at Marlborough 6 August- 1833,
was the daughter of Dwight and Abigail (Estabrook) Witt.
] She was educated in the Hudson public schools, at Willow Park
I Seminary, Westborough, Mass., and at the New England Conserva-
I tory of Music, and was for two years a pupil in the preparatory
I school of WeUesley College and for two years more a student in
I Wellesley College.
I She was married, 24 April 1884, to Frank Taylor Beede, who was
I born at East Hebron, N. H., 14 September 1849 and died at Hudson
\ 22 November 1905, the son of William Taylor and Irene Quimby
i (Smith) Beede and fifth in descent from Eli Beede of Kingston, N. H.,
. I who was bom in the Island of Jersey in 1699. Two children, Everett
\ Jefts Beede, of Belmont, Mass., A.B. (Boston University, 1905), who
f has been a life member of the New England Historic Genealogical
Society since 1912, and Luman Jefts Beede, survive her.
Mrs. Beede was known for her devotion to her family and to
charitable interests, and was a distinct factor in the community
interests of her home town.
Hon. Edward Francis Johnson, A.B., LL.B., of Woburn, Mass.,
a resident member since 1890, was bom at Woburn 22 October 1856,
. the son of John and Julia Ann (Bulfinch) Johnson, and died there
23 September 1922.
He was a descendant in the ninth generation of Capt. Edward^
Johnson,! a charter member of the Ancient and Honorable ArtUlery
Company of Massachusetts in 1637, one of the seven pioneers who
left Charlestown and founded in 1640 the settlement at Woburn, of
which he was the first town clerk, and the author of the "Wonder-
working Providence of Sion's Savior in New England," through Maj.
William,^ commanding officer against the Indians and the second
•Cf. memoir of Elbridge Torrey, in Registeb, vol. 69, p. xlix.
tCapt. Edward Johnson was baptdied at St. George's Church, Canterbury, co. Kent, England,
16 September 1598, the son of William and Susan (Porredge) Johnson. His ancestry has been
traced back to his great-grandfather, William Johnson of Canterbury, and his mother's ancestry
has betn traced to her grandfather. See Reqistee, vol. 67, pp. 169-180.)
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town clerk of Woburn, Capt. Edward,' who succeeded his father in
1700 as captain of the Woburn mihtary company, Samuel,^ Reuben,*
who served in the French and Indian War, Reuben,^ who was a
member of Belknap's company from Woburn, at Lexington, 19 April
1775, John,^ and John,* his father, who was born 12 February 1814
and died 7 December 1902. All of this Johnson line except Edward^
I and William'' were born at Woburn, all lived at Wobum, and all
I died there. His mother, Julia Ann Bulfinch, his father's second wife,
I was born at Lynn, Mass., 23 June 1825 and died 1 May 1903, the
daughter of Amos Breed and Hannah (Coombs) Bulfinch.* '
J He was prepared for college in the Woburn public schools, was
i' graduated at the high school there in 1874, entered Harvard in the
< autumn of the same year, and received the degree of Bachelor of
] Arts in 1878. In college he was admitted to membership in Phi Beta
i Kappa. For a few months after his graduation he read law by him-
self; but in the spring of 1879 he sailed for Europe and spent several
months there in study and travel. Returning home in October 1879,
he entered the Harvard Law School and attained the degree of
, Bachelor of Laws in 1882.
• Already, in July 1881, he had opened a law office in Boston, with
I his classmate, the late Gen. William Amos Bancroft, and in November
I of that year he had been admitted to the Suffolk bar. He retained
I his Boston office until October 1883; but from that time on he carried
5 on his professional work at Wobum, having been appointed clerk of
5 the first District Court of Eastern Middlesex on its establishment
I in 1882, an office which he held until July 1888, when he resigned.
I For two years, 1887 and 1888, he was town treasurer of Wobum;
I and in 1888, when the town of Wobum, which had been foimded by
I his ancestors, became a city, he was elected its first mayor and
I served for two years, 1889 and 1890. Declining a second reelection,
f he was appointed in February 1891 justice of the Fourth District
I Court of Eastern Middlesex, and continued to serve in this capacity
I for thirty-one years, until his death.
•| WhUe he was a Woburn official, he prepared at his own expense
• and began the publication of "Woburn Records of Births, Deaths,
\ and Marriages, from 1640 to 1873," arranged alphabetically by
surnames and chronologically imder each surname, a valuable contri-
bution to history and genealogy. This publication was subsequently
brought down to 1890.
He was deeply interested in genealogical matters, and published
several pamphlets dealing with the Bulfinch, Simonds, and Johnson
families, including an exhaustive genealogical study under the title of
"Captain Edward Johnson of Wobum, Massachusetts, and Some of
His Descendants," Boston, 1905, of which the portion dealing with
the first five generations of the f amUy was published originally in the
Register, vol. 59. His researches also led him to publish numerous
articles pertaining to matters of local history.
Judge Johnson was a member of the Middlesex Bar Association,
*Her paternal ancestry may be traced back for four generations in a booklet by Judge Johnson,
published in 1895 and entitled "A Genealogy of the Descendants of John Bulfinch of Boston,
Massachusetts, 1700}— 1895."
i MEMOIRS cm
I the Massachusetts Bar Association, the Massachusetts Historical
f Society, to which he was elected in 1894, but in which he resigned
I his membership a few years before his death, the American Anti-
I quarian Society, the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, and the
1 Rumford Historical Association, which he had served as president
f (1899). He was a former president and a life member of the board
I of trustees of the Wobum Public Library, a trustee of the Wobum
f Charitable Association, and vice president of the Wobum National
? Bank. He was a member also of the law firm of Johnson & Johnson
of Wobum, made up of his brother, himself and their two sons — all
Harvard men.
In his yoimger days he was an enthusiastic baseball and tennis
player, and he never lost his interest in athletic sports. He made
several trips overland to the Pacific coast in the latter part of his
life. For several years before his death, however, his health had
been impaired.
He married, 26 September 1882, Mary Elizabeth Simonds, the
daughter of Edward and Mary (Tidd) Simonds of Wobum. His wife
survives him, together with their two sons, Harold Pendexter John-
l son, A.B. (Harvard, 1905), LL.B. {ib., 1907), bom at Wobum 10
j November 1883, a former mayor of Wobum, and now a member of
I the firm of Johnson & Johnson, and Kenneth Simonds Johnson, A.B.
I (Harvard, 1907), born at Wobum 12 February 1885, a telephone
I engineer in New York City, with his home in Jersey City, N. J., and
i their daughter, Eleanor Johnson, their yoimgest child.
Judge Johnson was a kindly, courteous, considerate man, ever
ready to place the results of his study and researches freely at the
I disposal of younger students. His love of family was intense, and,
i like his distinguished ancestor, the foimder of Wobum, whom he
I resembled in other striking ways, he devoted much time gratuitously
i to public-spirited undertakings and to the welfare of his native town.
[ His work in preserving the vital records of Wobum was of a pioneer
J character, and deserves recognition and gratitude from aU who
; realize the value of such publications. He once told the writer that
he began this work whUe waiting for his first clients to come to his
oflSce, and that he was able to pursue it for some time without inter-
ruption or annoyance. The distinguished and useful position which
his family has held continuously in Wobum throughout ten genera-
tions is very vmusual, even in New ngland.
A. J.
Albert Alvin Jenks, of Pawtucket, R. I., a Pilgrim Tercentenary
member since 1920, was born at Central Falls, R. I., 1 November
1859, the son of Alvin Fales and Eliza (Whitford) Jenks, and died
at Pawtucket 7 November 1922.
His father's family traced its line from Joseph* Jenks of Lynn,
Mass., 1645, through Joseph,* who came from England with his
father and eventually settled at Pawtucket, Maj. Nathaniel,^ Nathan-
iel,* Capt. Stephen,* Stephen,^ Alvin,^ to Alvin Fales,* the father of
the subject of this memoir, who was bom at Central Falls 23 August
1828. Through Hannah Howland Bosworth, wife of Maj. NathanieP
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Jenks and granddaughter of John and Elizabeth (Tilley) Howland,
Albert Alvin Jenks derived Mayflower ancestry. His mother, bom
at Warwick, R. I., 23 August 1829, was the daughter of Benjamin
and Elizabeth (Sherman) Whitford.
He was educated at the private school of James Mills in Paw-
tucket, Mowry and Goff's English and Classical School in Providence,
R. I., the Highland Military Academy in Worcester, Mass., and the
Bryant and Stratton Commercial School in Providence.
After his school days were ended, the young man entered the Fales
& Jenks Machine Company of Pawtucket, founded in 1830 by his
grandfather, Alvin Jenks, and David Fales, a partnership which
grew out of the original firm of Stephen Jenks & Son, of which Alvin
Jenks had been a member. His choice of manufacturing as a career
was a natural sequence to the previous history of his paternal ances-
tors in New England, who, from the time when Joseph' Jenks settled
at Pawtucket in 1671, where he buUt a forge, carried on a sawmill
and carpenter shop, and later operated an iron foimdry, had been
engaged without interruption in iron foimding and manufacturing,
the firm at the present time being directed by Robert Rice Jenks, the
son who succeeded his father as president of the company, on the
j latter's resignation about two years before his death.
;. Success in his own business brought to Mr. Jenks the cares and
j responsibilities of many other enterprises. He was president and a
I director of the Jenks Spinning Company of Pawtucket and of the
I Pilgrim MUls of Fall River, Mass. He was a director, also, of the
I Cornell Mills of Fall River, the Dartmouth Manufacturing Corpora-
I tion of New Bedford, Mass., the Judson Mills of Greenville, S. C.,
I the Jenks Canadian Company, Limited, of Drummondville, Province
{ of Quebec, the Queen City Cotton Company of Burlington, Vt., and
{ the Slater Branch Industrial Company, and was a vice president of
I the Home Market Club.
I Mr. Jenks was alive to the welfare of his city, was a Uberal donor
I to charities, and was interested in many patriotic. Masonic, and
I recreational societies, being a member of the Society of Mayflower
I Descendants, the Society of Colonial Wars, and various Masonic
I organizations and business and country clubs. He attended St.
I John's Episcopal Chiirch.
; He married, 6 February 1884, Annie Cleveland Rice, daughter of
', John T. and Ellen M. (Bates) Rice, who survives him, together with
their son, Robert Rice Jenks of Pawtucket, who succeeds his father
in his Pilgrim Tercentenary membership in the New England Historic
Genealogical Society. A younger son, Richard Alvin Jenks, who was
born in 1892, died in his eighteenth year.
j
I William Goodsell Rockefeller, B.A., of New York City, a
life member since 1921, was born in New York City 21 IMay 1870, the
son of William and Ahnira Geraldine (Goodsell) Rockefeller, and
f died there 30 November 1922.
\ His paternal ancestry has been given in the memoir of his father,
! WUliam Rockefeller, a Pilgrim Tercentenary member -of the Society,
I who died 24 Jtme 1922. {Vide supra, page xc.)
MEMOIES CV
He was prepared for college at M. W. Lyon's Collegiate Institute,
entered Yale, and received from that institution the degree of Bache-
lor of Arts in 1892. Except for a year (1893-94) spent in travel, in
which he went around the globe, his life was devoted chiefly to
business and finance. He entered the employ of the Standard Oil
Company of New York and the Standard Oil Company of New
Jersey, and served as treasurer of the former organization from 1899
I to 1911. For five years he was secretary and treasiu-er of the Amal-
1 gamated Copper Company, of which he was also a director, and he
I held various official positions in the Anaconda Copper Mining Com-
! pany and companies subsidiary to this company and to the Amalga,-
mated Company. His services were sought as a bank director and as
a director of several raUway systems, among which may be men-
tioned the Union Pacific Railroad Company, the Oregon Short Line
Railroad Company, and the Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navi-
gation Company. He was a director also of the Brooklyn Union
Gas Company and of bther public utilities and industrial companies.
After his retirement in 1911 from the treasurership of the Standard
I Oil Company of New York, Mr. Rockefeller spent much of his time
I at Greenwich, Conn., where his large estate of several hvmdred
I acres contained a deer park, a trotting park, and the famous Rocke-
I feller kennels. He was a member of the Union Club, the Metropolitan
\ Club, the Yale Club, the University Club, and many other New
I York clubs, as well as various organizations for out-of-door sports.
-. He married, 21 November 1895, Elsie Stillman, daughter of the
1 late James Stillman, the well-known New York banker and financier,
I and his wife, Sarah Elizabeth (Rmnrill). Mrs. Rockefeller survives
I her husband, together with their five children, William Avery, B.A.
(Yale, 1918), Godfrey StUhnan, B.A., (Yale, 1921), James Stillman,
John Sterling, and Ahnira Geraldine Rockefeller,
A memoir of Henry Herbert Edes may be foimd in the
Register of April 1923.
Memoirs of Viscount Brtce and George Robert White will
appear in futvure niunbers of the Register, and memoirs of several
other members of the Society whose deaths are reported in the Nec-
rology for 1922 will be published in 1924.
CVl
N. E. HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY
INDEX OF MEMOIRS
Abbot, William Fitzhale . . Ixxxv
Addison, Mary Elisabeth
(Newcomb) Ixxviii
Allen, Sir John Campbell . xli
Atwood, Hartley Frederic . Ixxii
Baker, Edward Howard . . xxxix
Beede, Abbie Susan (Jefts) . ci
Bell, Alexander Graham . . xcvi
Boardman, Waldo Elias . . xcix
Bradley, Charles Henry . . Ix
Brooks, Shepherd Ixv
Butterfield, A. Augustine . liv
Clapp, John Cotton . . . . Iv
Coohdge, Henry Dingley . Ixii
Cummings, Margaret (Kim-
ball) xciii
FUckinger, Ella Florence
(Hoyt) Ixxxix
Fowler, Sarah (Brown) . . xlviii
Hamilton, Victor Hugo . . xliii
Holbrook, Levi xcv
Hosmer, Jerome Carter . . Ixxiv
Jenks, Albert Alvin . . . . ciii
Johnson, Edward Francis . ci
Jordan, John Woolf .... xlix
KimbaU, Herbert Wood . . Ixxix
Lawrence, Lambert Bigelow xlix
Lyman, JuUa lix
Millspaugh, Edward Judson xciv
Milner-Gibson-Cullum,
George Gery li
Pattee, Eleanor Tracy
(Eustis) Ixxxviii
Potter, James Brown . . . Ixvii
Rockefeller, William . . . xc
Exjckefeller, WiUiam Goodsell civ
Saltonstall, Richard Middle-
cott Ixxxii
Savary, Alfred William . . xliv
Sawyer, George Augustus . Ivii
Schiff, Jacob Henry .... xlvii
Sinckler, Edward Goulbum xcii
Stevens, Alice Nichols
(Cobum) Ixiv
Stevens, Samuel Dale . . . Ixviii
Stewart, George Sawin . . Ixxxiv
Stowell, William Henry
Harrison Ixxxvi
Sweet, Lucy Carpenter . . Ixxvi
Thompson, Ebenezer . . . Ixi
Thomdike, Augustus Larkin bod
Torrey, Alice White (Shaw) c
Walker, Emily (Talbot) . . bdv
Walker, Williston Ixx
Ward, Ann Jane (Felton) . Ixxxviii
Warden, William Francis . Ixxv
Warren, Nathan Ixxx
Wentworth, Moses Jones . Ixxii
Wiggin, George Winslow . Ixxvii
Wilcox, Dorvil Miller . . . Iviii
CHARTER AND ENABLING ACTS
An Act to incorporate the New England Historic Genealo^oal Society.
Be it enacted hy the Senate and Rouse of Bepreaeniativea, in Oeneral Court aseembled, and by the
authority of the same, a» foUows:
Sbct. 1. Charles Ewer, J. Wingate Thornton, Joseph Willard, their associates and successors .
are hereby made a corporation, by the name of the New England Historic Genealo^cal Society,
for the purpose of collecting, preserving, and occasionally publishing, genealogical and historical
matter, relating to early New England families, and for the establishment and maintenance of
a cabinet; and for these purposes, shall have all the powers and privileges, and, be subject to all
the duties, requirements and liabilities, set forth in the forty-fourth chapter of the Revised
Statutes.
Sect. 2. The said corporation may hold and possess real and personal estate, to an amount
not exceeding twenty thousand dollars.
[Approved by the Oooemor, March IS, t845.\
Acta and Resolves of the General Court of JIassachxuetts, 184S, chapter ISS.
An Act to enable the New England Historic-Genealogical Society to hold an additional amount
of property.
Be it enacted, etc., as foUows:
Section 1. The New England Historic-Genealogical Society may take, by purchase, ^t,
grant or otherwise, and hold, real and personal estate not exceeding one hundred thousand dot
lars, in addition to the amount authorized by the second section of chapter one hundred and
fifty-two of the acts of the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-five.
Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved April 1, 1868,
Acts and Resolves, 1868, chapter 100.
An Act to enable the New England Historic-Genealogical Society to hold additional real and
personal property.
Be it enacted, etc., as foUows:
Section 1. The New England Historic-Genealogical Society may take by bequest, gift, grant,
or otherwise, and hold, real and personal estate not exceeding two hundred thousand dollars in
value in addition to the amount authorized by section two of chapter one himdred and fifty-two
of the acts of the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-five, and by section one of chapter
one hundred of the acts of the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, and exclusive
of the value of all books, papers, pictures and statuary now owned, or which may be hereafter
acquired by said society.
Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved April IS, 1888.
Acts and Resolves, 1888, chapter 227.
An Act to enable women to become members of the New England Historic Genealo^cal Society,
Be it enacted, etc., as foUows:
The New England Historic Genealogical Society, a corporation organized under the laws of
this Commonwealth, may admit women to membership, subject to such restrictions as the by-
laws of said corporation may from time to time impose.
Approved April 10, 1897.
Acts and Resolves, 1897, chapter S75.
The following is from the Revised Laws of 190S, Corporation Acts, chapter 1S5, section 8:
Any corporation organized imder general or si>ecial laws for any of the purposes mentioned
in section two [educational, charitable, antiquarian, historical, literary, scientific, etc.] . . . may
hold real and personal estate to an amount not exceeding one million five hundred thousand
dollars.
(cvii)
THE
NEW ENGLAND
HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL
REGISTER
JULY, 1923
THEODORE NEWTON VAIL, LL.D., S.D.
By Henht Edwabds Scott, A.B., of Medford, Mass.
Theodore Newton Vail, of Lyndonville, Vt., and of New York
City, a Pilgrim Tercentenary member of the New England Historic
Genealogical Society since 1919, was born in Carroll Co., Ohio, 16
July 1845, the son of Davis and Phebe (Quinby) Vail, and died in
Baltimore, Md., 16 April 1920.
Among the great "captains of industry" of the modern world
Theodore Newton Vail holds a foremost place, and in what he
accomplished he rendered a lasting service to his contemporaries
and to succeeding generations. From early manhood he took up
one task after another not chiefly for the purpose of enriching
himself but because he saw, or believed that he saw, in each new
enterprise an opportimity to benefit mankind. The better part of
his life was devoted to organizing and extending commimication by
telephone, and it was well said in later years: "Bell created the
telephone and Vail created the telephone business." His career
furnishes a most interesting example of the development, in the-
hard school of experience, of an easy-going, somewhat unambitious
lad first into a valued employee of the Government and afterwards
into a leader in the march of civilization.*
Though he was born in Ohio, his early American ancestors were of
Eastern stock. He was seventh in descent from Thomas^ Vail of
Westchester Co., N. Y., who was probably identical with the Thomas
Vayle who was at Southampton, Long Island, from 1649 to 1654.
The Southampton man may have been a brother of Jeremiah Vaile,
blacksmith, of Salem, Mass., 1639-1651, and afterwards of Long
Island, the ancestor of a widely-extended family. John^ Vail, grand-
son of Thomas,' settled at Woodbridge, N. J., about 1708, and was
a carpenter, farmer, and Quaker preacher. His grandson, Davis^
Vail, moved in 1783 to Morristown, N. J., where he held town and
county offices. Stephen® Vail, eldest son of Davis,^ established the
Speedwell Iron Works, near Morristown, where in 1818 were built
the engines of the Savannah, the steamship which in the following
year made the first voyage under steam across the Atlantic. At the
*The writer of this memoir wishes to acknowledge his indebtedness, in much that he has
written, to a most interesting and instructive biography of Mr. Vail, by Albert Bigelow Paine,
published by Harper & Brothers in 1921 and entitled "In One Man's Life."
TOL. LXXVll. 11
164 Theodore Newton Vail [July
Speedwell Iron Works, also, parts of the first American locomotives
were constructed, and Alfred^ Vail, son of Stephen,* was one of the
associates of Samuel F. B. Morse in the development of the electric
telegraph. Lewis* Vail, second son of Davis,* was a civil engineer in
Ohio, and was engaged in the construction of important public works;
and Davis^ Vail, son of Lewis,* born in Ohio in 1811, after working
for some time in his uncle's employ in the Speedwell Iron Works,
married, 27 November 1834, Phebe Quinby, daughter of Judge
Isaac Quinby of Parsippany, N. J., and on her mother's side a
descendant of French Huguenots. Davis Vail then, with his wife,
went back to Ohio, to set up ironworks on his own account; and they
were living in Carroll County, not far from Minerva in the adjoining
Stark County, when Theodore Newton,* their sixth child, was bom.
He was at first named Lewis, for his grandfather; but soon his name
was changed to Theodore Newton, for his mother's brother, who had
I died in childhood.
I When Theodore was about two years old, his father returned with
j his familj' to New Jersey, and again entered his uncle's employ, as
I the head of the Speedwell Iron Works. Davis Vail had been brought
I up as a Quaker, but his wife was a Presbyterian, and he attended her
I church. Theodore was sent, when very young, to a school kept by a
I Miss Kirk, and when he was about ten years old he began to attend
f the public school at Morristown. Later the famUy moved to a farm
I at Morris Plaiiis, and Theodore went to the public school there until
he was about sixteen, when he entered the Morristown Academy,
I three miles distant from his home, walking to and fro twice every
I day. Here he showed special interest in chemistry and other sciences,
I and for this reason was a favorite with the principal of the Academy.
I He attended church and Sunday school regularly, and at times
I thought of becoming a minister. He read extensively in fiction,
f . biography, and history.
i On leaving the Academy he went to work, at the age of seventeen,
I as a clerk in a drug store, and whUe there became much interested in
I telegraphy, for the American Magnetic Company had a telegraph
; office in the store. He had a room over the store, and hved there at
I • least a part of the time. But in ]May 1864, when he was almost
j nineteen years old, he went back to his home and began to study
I medicine with his uncle, Dr. Quinbj\ A diary which he began in
I September 1863, and which he kept up, with many intermissions,
for more than four years, has been preserved, and reveals many of
his activities and interests in that time of stirring events. In
1864 he wished to enlist in the Union Army, but his father opposed
this course, and he submitted to his judgment. In the summer of
that year something occurred — apparently some disturbance of
j domestic harmony — that led him to leave home and to go to work
! in a telegraph office in New York City.
I He had probably secured this position through the influence of
• his uncle, Isaac Quinby of Rochester, N. Y., who was connected
• with the Western Union Telegraph Company, and for more than a
• . year and a half he remained in the employ of the Company as an
i operator in one or another of its New York oflSces and, for a brief
1923] Theodore Newton Vail 165
period, at White Plains. His spare time seems to have been given,
in company with his fellow operators, to such amusements and means
of relaxation as the great city offered, and there was nothing in
his life at this time to indicate the remarkable achievements of his
later career. In the latter part of 1864, after an absence from
home of nearly three months, he seems to have become reconciled
with his family.
In the spring of 1866 he was done with New York and was off for
the West. His father had been seized by the desire to go West that,
like a fever, attacked so many in the years immediat-ely following
the Civil War, and with his wife and children — nine in all, although
they did not aU go at the same time — migrated to the prairies of
Iowa, where he bought land about nine miles from Waterloo and took
up farming. Theodore accompanied his father, and did his share in
the hard work of the farm, which they called Speedwell Grove. He
also speedily gained a reputation as a baseball player, and was chosen
catcher on the Empire Club, the best Waterloo team — there were
six baseball clubs there. In one game, with a nine from Cedar Falls,
the score was 84 to 30 in favor of the Waterloo team, and 33 runs
were made in a single inning. The Marshalltown club, the captain
i of which was "Pop" Anson, a celebrated baseball player of later
1 years, won two games out of three in a series played with the Empire
J Club, but voted to award a belt to Theodore Vail as the champion
I player of Iowa.
I In the second winter of his stay in Iowa young Vail, now in his
I twenty-third year, taught a coimtry school at Blakeville, about
! three miles distant from his home, and also became engaged to his
\ first cousin once removed, Emma Louise Righter of Newark, N. J.,
? daughter of his mother's avmt, at whose house he had occasionally
! spent an evening while he was emploj'ed as a telegrapher in New
j York.
\ But farming and school-teaching in Iowa did not appeal to him as
I permanent occupations; and in 1868, after the close of his school
• in March, he returned to telegraphy, and obtained a position at
Pinebluff, Wyo., near the Black Hills, as night operator for the
Union Pacific Railroad, then not completed. The place was on the
frontier of civiHzation, and soldiers were often needed to protect
from the Indians the rough woodcutters who worked there for
the railroad. Theodore himself and his brother Alonzo, who had
joined him there and was employed as a night watchman, encountered
one day a band of Indians and had a narrow escape from capture
or death. Theodore made such changes and improvements in the
work of the telegraph office at Pinebluff that he was soon made day
operator and station agent; but he continued to look for a better
position, and in the early part of 1869, through the influence of
Gen. GrenviUe M. Dodge, chief engineer of the Union Pacific,
he was appointed a clerk in the Railway Mail Service, a so-called
"route agent," at a salary of $900 a year, which was soon advanced
to $1000 and later to $1200 — the maximum salary for the position.
His run at first was from Omaha, Nebr., to Wasatch, Utah, almost
; as far as the Union Pacific was then opened. A little later the mails
166 Theodore Newton Vail [July
were carried by railroad from Omaha to Promontory Point, Utah,
a distance of about 1100 miles. It was a rough, hastily-constructed
road, through a wild country, with buffaloes and Indians to deal
with, and accidents were of common occurrence. One accident laid
young VaU up for a month.
In the summer of 1869 he was granted leave of absence for several
weeks, and returned to the East for his wedding with his cousin,
Emma Louise Righter, which took place at Newark, N. J., 3 August
1869. Taking his wife to a boarding house at Omaha, he resumed
his work in the Railway Mail Service on the Union Pacific, which had
by this time been opened to the Pacific coast, his run extending from
Omaha to Ogden, Utah. Somewhat later he was assigned to the nm
between Chicago and Iowa City, and he and his wife then resided
at Iowa City, where, on 18 July 1870, their son and only child,
Davis Righter Vail, was bom. Soon afterwards he was sent back
to Omaha and was promoted to be one of the chief clerks on the
Union Pacific, at a salary of $1400 a year. He built a small house,
with borrowed money, in the outskirts of Omaha, and he and his wife
were noted for their hospitality in their little circle of friends. In
these years he planned to become a lawyer, and began to read law
in his spare time in the oflBce of one of his friends, a young lawyer
named WilHam J. Connell.
The Railway Mail Service was at that time a chaotic and
undeveloped branch of the work of the Post Office Department.
Vail in his runs devised and put into effect a system of sorting the
mail into packages on the trains, so that delays at distributing points
were avoided and mail was delivered much more speedily than
formerly. His ability in this work was brought to the attention of
George S. Bangs, General Superintendent of the Railway Mail
Service, and in February 1873 Vail was ordered to Washington and
{ made special assistant to this official.
I His task was to develop the sj'stem of distributing mail matter in
1 transit and to extend it to all parts of the United States. Charts of
j railway connections had to be prepared for the guidance of the clerks,
t and examinations were introduced to make sure that the clerks
j studied and mastered the charts. With the hearty support of Bangs
' and the approval of Postmaster General John S. J. Creswell, Vail
grappled successfully with his great problems, and on 1 July 1874,
after some hesitation on Cresswell's part, arising from political
considerations, that nearly resulted in Vail's entering the postal
service of the Japanese Government, he was promoted to be Assistant
General Superintendent of the Railway Mail Service. His salary
now was nominally $1600 a year, but an allowance of S5 per day for
expenses while in Washington and additional allowances for travelling
brought up this sum to almost 83500 a year.
I For the next year Bangs and Vail were occupied with plans for
establishing fast mail service, by trains composed of maU cars only,
between New York and Chicago. Marshall Jewell, President Grant's
new Postmaster General, supported them in this project. Vail was
sent to England and returned with several new and helpful ideas,
and arrangements were made with the New York Central Railroad
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t
which resulted in the first fast mail train leaving New York City
at 4.15 A.M. on 16 September 1875 and arriving at Chicago at
6.47 A.M. the next day — eight minutes ahead of the allotted time.
Again, however, the Post Office Department almost lost the
services of Theodore N. Vail. Bangs was about to resign his position
as General Superintendent of the Railway Mail Service, which paid
him less than $4500 a year, including his $5 per day for expenses, in
order to accept a better position in the Treasury Department, and it
looked as if politics would stand in the way of Vail's promotion to
the position which Bangs was giving up. Again there came an ofifer
from Japan of the position of assistant superintendent of foreign
mails, and Vail accepted it. Postmaster General Jewell then gave
to Vail the promotion which he so well deserved, and he was appointed
at the beginning of 1876 General Superintendent of the Railway
Mail Service.
After a few months Congress reduced by ten per cent the amount
paid to the raiboads for the fast mail service, and in July 1876 the
New York Central discontinued thS fast mail trains. It was not
until the summer of 1877 that, through the efforts of Mr. Vail, a
special appropriation was made by Congress and the fast mail trains
were restored. The system was soon extended to other routes than
that between New York and Chicago, and became firmly established
as a part of the Railway Mail Service.
Theodore N. Vail, however, was not satisfied with the prospect of
remaining permanently in the employ of the Government. Alexander
Graham Bell* had invented the telephone; and a company had been
formed, of which Gardiner Greene Hubbard, a Boston lawyer, was
president, to bring this new means of communication into popular
use and to make a commercial success of the invention. The new
company was in dire need of capital to pay for the telephones it
was here and there installing, and it had a dangerous rival in the
powerful Western Union Telegraph Company, which, disregarding
the patent obtained by Dr. Bell, proceeded to organize a telephone
company of its own. Mr. Hubbard, who in 1876 had been appointed
by President Grant chairman of a commission to determine the
the proper rates to be paid by the Post Office Department for
the transportation of the mails, had been profoundly impressed with
Mr. Vail's ability as an organizer in the Railway Mail Service, and
succeeded at last, in May 1878, in inducing him to accept the position
of general manager of the Bell Telephone Company. Many of Vail's
friends sought to dissuade him from throwing in his lot with this
new enterprise, of which the future appeared to them so uncertain;
but he had become convinced of the great practical value of the
BeU telephone, and foresaw that in the not distant future it would
become almost indispensable in business life and in the home circle.
The salary promised was $3500 for the first year and $5000 for the
second year. Much later he jokingly referred to his willingness to
leave a Government job with a small salary for a telephone job with
no salary.
* A resident member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society from 1889 until his
death, 2 August 1922. Cf. memoir in the Supplement to the Reqisteb of April 1923.
168 Theodore Newton Vail [July
He was just completing his thirty-third year, when, in the last
days of June 1878, he took up with confident zeal his new duties in
• New York City. He gave all his energy and wonderful executive
abihty to the task of reorganizing the company, improving its
apparatus, and securing the capital necessary' for its expanding
business; and to him more than to any other man is due the rapid
development, the growth in popular favor, and the present general
use of the telephone.
The general financial scheme caUed for the formation of local
companies in towns and cities, the stock in which was to be taken
in the localities to be served. A percentage of the amounts paid in
for such stock was to go to the Bell Company for the franchise,
together with a rental charge for the use of the instruments. The
Bell Company was reorganized, with a capital of §450,000 and with
its executive offices in New York. Its officers were : Gardiner Greene
Hubbard, president; Thomas Sanders, treasurer; Alexander Graham
Bell, electrician; Thomas A. Watson, general superintendent;
Theodore N. Vail, general manager. With the exception of Mr.
j VaU all of these men had been with the telephone from its infancy.
I The competing company controlled by the Western Union Tele-
I graph Company was a serious menace to the Bell Company. Thomas
I A. Edison had made a transmitter that was superior to Bell's, and
I the Bell Company was able to keep up with its rival only after
I Francis Blake, Jr.,* of Boston, had invented a transmitter as good
I as Edison's and had agreed to let the BeU Company have it in
I exchange for stock. The new transmitter was in use by the autumn
I of 1878. The Bell Company also attacked its rival in the courts;
I but in November 1879, after prolonged negotiations, an arrangement
i for seventeen years was made, by which the Western Union Company
? recognized BeU as the inventor of the telephone, conceded the
I validity of his patents, and promised to withdraw from the public
i telephone business, while the Bell Company agreed to buy the
I telephone lines of the Western Union, to pay it a royalty, and to
I ' keep out of the telegraph business.
j Meanwhile, in February 1879, the Bell Telephone Company had
been combined with the New England Company to form the National
Bell Telephone Company, with a capital stock of S850,000. The
\ offices of the new company were in Boston, and William Hathaway
; Forbesf of Milton was president. The stock of the new company
! advanced in the market from SoO a share in the spring of 1879 to
i $100 a share in November, when the settlement with the Western
j Union was made. The National Company then secured control of
! the New York Company, and in ^March 188.0 another reorganization
I 'A life member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society from 3 April 1912 until
I his death, 19 January 1913. Cf. memoir in Regisitb, vol. 6S, p. Ixi.
i t^^illiam Hathaway Forbes. AB. (Harvard, 1S72, as of 1861), was born at Milton, Mass.,
• 1 November 1840, the son of John M. Forbes, the well-known merchant, and died 11 October
{ 1897. He was a distinguished oflScer in the Civil War, advancing to the rank of lieutenant
t colonel and undergoing a trying experience in Confederate prisons. He married Edith Emerson,
S daughter of the Concord philosopher and man of letters, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and among
their children are William Cameron Forbes, LL.D.. Governor General of the PhiUppine Islands,
1909-1913, and Edward Waldo Forbes, A.M., Director of the William Haj-es Fogg Art Museum
at Harvard University.
1923] Theodore Newton Vail 169
resulted in the formation of a new company, the American Bell Tele-
phone Company, which took the place of the National Bell Telephone
CJompany, but with officers and management unchanged. The new
company was capitalized at $7,350,000, and the new stock was
exchanged for that of the National Bell Company on the basis of
six shares for one. It was issued at par ($100 a share), and by the
end of 1881 it was selling at 170.
The new company, like its predecessors, was harassed by attacks
on the Bell patents. One person after another claimed credit for
inventing a telephone prior to Bell's achievement or for devising
essential parts of the apparatus. More than six hundred lawsuits
were brought against the validity of the patents, but only five of
them came before the Supreme Court of the United States and the
BeU Company won them all.
The improving of the mechanism of the telephone was the work
of years, and many inventors besides Dr. Bell contributed to it.
Mr. Vail was constantly seeking for and installing new devices for
better service. Having proved the practicability of the telephone
for short-distance conversations, he soon began experimenting with
long-distance calls. A line between Boston and Providence was
made to work successfully, and in 1884 service between Boston and
New York was opened and a great future for long-distance com-
munication was assured.
Meanwhile a more efficient operation of the telephone service in
New England had been brought abdut by the organization, in
October 1883, of the New England Telephone & Telegraph Company,
which at the present time, as an associated company of the Bell
System, carries on the telephone service in all the New England
States except Connecticut. Until 1883 the active operation of
telephone lines in New England had been in the hands of a large
niunber of small companies, except in the city of Boston, where the
business had been conducted directly by the American Bell Telephone
Company. The new company took over the business of the American
Bell Company in Boston and of numerous other companies through-
out the territory involved, and Mr. Vail, on 31 October 1883, became
its first president.
Mr. Vail's health, however, began to suffer from the strain imposed
by his many duties; and in September 1885 he resigned the general
management of the American Bell Telephone Company and the
presidency of the New England Company, but accepted the presi-
dency of a new organization, the American Telephone & Telegraph
Company, which was incorporated in that year under the laws of
the State of New York and was established especially to develop
long-distance communication. But soon it became apparent that
further relief from business cares was necessary, and on 19 September
1887 he withdrew from the presidency of this new company, although
he retained his interests in the telephone business. Nearly twenty
years were to elapse before he returned to the field of active telephone
management, a period partly of rest and recreation and partly of
new enterprises, of financial losses at home, and of financial success
in distant lands. Meanwhile he was always ready to give his financial
170 Theodore Newton Vail (July-
support to the development of any promising invention, and he
organized many stock companies, from which oftentimes he derived
no financial returns but rather suffered serious losses.
During the six months or more that the executive offices of the
Bell Telephone Company had been in New York, Mr. Vail had
resided in New Jersey. The first abode of his family in Boston,
whither he came in 1879, on the formation of the National Bell
Telephone Company, was a boarding house in West Chester Park,
now a part of Massachusetts Avenue. Later he rented a house on
Townsend Street, Roxbury, and in June 1881 purchased a large
house with extensive grounds — the Chadwick place — on Walnut
Avenue, Roxbury. This new home was adorned with all the furnish-
ings of wealth and luxury; paintings, statuary, books, prints,
autographs, and all sorts of bric-a-brac were gradually accumulated
there; and in the stables were kept blooded horses that it was his
especial delight to drive. The house became also the home of his
nearest relatives, his parents and some of his sisters. His father died
in 1885; but his mother survived her husband by many years, went
to live in Flatbush, N. Y., with her married daughter Mary, wife of
Dr. William S. Applegate, after the house at Roxbiuy had been given
up by her son, and died at Flatbush^S February 1894. In his Roxbury
home Mr. Vail was able to indulge without stint in what had been
from early manhood one of his greatest pleasures, that of enter-
taining with lavish hospitality his numerous friends.
In 1883 Mr. Vail acquired also an estate in the country. He
bought an old-fashioned Vermont farmhouse, with 250 acres of
land, on the Passumpsic River, near Lyndonville, a few miles above
St. Johnsbury , fitted it up for a summer home, and named it Speedwell
Farms, thus transplanting to Vermont a name that had already
I travelled from New Jersey to the prairies of Iowa, in, the service of
I the Vail family. He stocked it with horses and cattle, and j'ear after
\ year made alterations and additions to the original farmhouse and
I to the farm buildings and purchased more land, until Speedwell
j Farms became a wonderful country place of some 2500 acres.
I Hither he brought later many of the treasures of his Roxbury house,
and his collection of books and autographs was almost without a
rival in New England. Here, too, he not only entertained his friends
and business associates on a most liberal scale, with coaching parties,
musical performances, and other festivities, but he also interested
himself in the welfare of the community, subscribed at the very start
$2000 towards reconstructing and refitting the Ljmdon Literary and
I Biblical Institute, which was situated at Lyndon Centre and had
; been closed for lack of funds, and of which he became a trustee,
I provided for the building of good roads in the township of Ljmdon,
I and was most hospitable to his neighbors, especially the children,
s for whom parties were given at least once a month in all seasons.
\ He identified himself besides with the business development of that
ipart of Vermont, became a director in the Passumpsic Railroad and
in local banks, and joined with others in establishing the Lyndonville
- Creamery.
\ Part of his recreation was now found in yachting and in travel and
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residence abroad. In 1887 he bought a two-masted yacht, the
Noma, and took many of his friends with him in cruises along the
coast and in the Sound. In 1888 he went abroad with his wife and
son, and planned to spend the ensuing winter in Venice; but he was
called home from Venice by the financial difficulties in which one of
his companies, which was trying to introduce a, system of hot-water
heating in Boston, had become involved, and his losses in this venture
were so great that he sold his ya"cht and his Roxbury house and made
Speedwell Farms his only home. His health remaining impaired, he
spent the winter of 188&-90, with his wife, in Italy and Sicily,
travelled in Germany, France, and England in the following spring
and summer, and settled down in Paris for the winter of 1890-91.
There he enjoyed the social life of the French capital and pursued
i the study of the French language, in which he acquired the ability
to read with ease works of fiction. The summer of 1891 was spent
in the Channel Islands, and the following winter (1891-92) again in
Paris. Then Mr. and Mrs. Vail returned to Speedwell Farms, his
I health having been much improved by his prolonged stay in Europe.
i About two years later Mr. Vail was persuaded to imdertake the
I developing of electric power and the financing of street railways in
I the Argentine Republic. In February 1895 he sailed for South
;' America via England, and began to buUd a power plant at Cordoba,
I four or five hundred miles inland from Buenos Aires. This was
i followed by the electrifying and extending of the street railways in
I Buenos Aires and the introduction there of the best cars made in
] the United States. These projects occupied much of his time and
1 attention imtil 1907, when he sold his South American interests to
J ' a Belgian company in Buenos Aires for more than §3,000,000.
] While he was conducting these enterprises, he had occasion to make
i frequent trips to England, where he had the support of capitalists
I in his plans, and he usually spent the northern winter in Buenos
I Aires and the northern summer at Speedwell Farms.
I In 1907 Mr. Vail was induced to resume the active management of
'; the affairs of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company, which
I was then experiencing somewhat of a decline in its prosperity. In
the nineties independent companies had sprung up, especially in the
West, after the BeU patents had expired; and there began to arise a
popular outcry against what was called the "monopoly" held by the
American Telephone & Telegraph Company, into which in 1900 the
American Bell Telephone Company was merged. Therefore, on the
resignation of President Fish, Mr. Vail was made president of the
Telephone & Telegraph Company, and his election as such was
announced on 1 May 1907. Six years previously he had refused an
offer of this position, being then occupied with his South American
undertakings. The offices of the Company were now removed from
Boston to New York.
Under Mr. Vail's leadership the American Telephone & Telegraph
Company was strengthened and went through the storm of a financial
panic uniiarmed. Many independent companies were taken into the
, larger organization, and the telephone lines throughout the whole
country were brought in great measure under a single control. The
.172 Theodore Newton Vail [July
field of long-distance communication also was rapidly extended.
In the autumn of 1892 the long-distance lines had reached Chicago,
and visitors at the World's Fair in the following year were able to
carry on telephone conversations with New York and Boston. By
1911 a line between New York and Denver was in operation, and on
25 January 1915 telephone coromunication between New York and
San Francisco was opened with appropriate ceremonies.
Another important plan for serving the public which had long been
in Mr. Vail's mind had already been carried out. The American
Telephone & Telegraph Company had acquired a controlHng interest
in the Western Union Telegraph Company, and in 1909 Mr. Vail
became president of the latter company, while retaining his presi-
dency of the Telephone Company. The service rendered by the
Western Union Company was much improved by its new president,
and the now familiar night letters, day letters, and cable letters were
introduced at this time. But this afl&liation of the two companies
was of short duration. The United States Government held that the
single control of the telegraph and telephone lines was contrary to
the anti-trust laws, and in 1913 the Telephone Company disposed of
its holdings of Western Union stock and Mr. VaU resigned the
Western Union presidency.
Another project that received serious attention from Mr. Vail in
the later years of his presidency of the Telephone Company was the
introduction of the wireless telephone. The problem of the Telephone
Company was to devise and install a workable system of wireless
\ telephoning before outsiders could make good their claims that the
S wireless telephone would make obsolete the method of talking by
I wires and would drive the American Telephone & Telegraph Company
I . out of business. In spite of the difficulties in experimenting restdting
I from conditions imposed by the war in Europe, the work was carried
i on successfully in secret by the electrical experts of. the Telephone
I Company, and on 29 September 1915 President Vail, in his office
I in New York City, talked with Mare Island in California, his voice
I going over the wires to the naval station at Arlington (Washington)
I and thence through the air to the Pacific coast, and being heard not
I . only at Mare Island but also at San Diego, the Isthmus of Darien,
j and even Honolulu. In October Paris also received wireless telephone
i messages from New York. It was clear to Mr. Vail, however, that the
! wireless telephone would not supplant but would merely supplement
the system of communicating by wires.
On 7 March 1916, on the fortieth anniversary of the first telephone
patent granted to Alexander Graham Bell, a dinner was given by the
National Geographic Society in Washington, at which the guests
were entertained with long-distance conversations by wire with San
Francisco and with wireless music from New York by way of Arling-
ton. On this occasion President Vail and Dr. Bell met for the first
I ' time in more than thirty-five years, and in the course of his speech
Dr. Bell said:
j "Away back in the old days I dreamed of wires extending all over the
I country and of people in one part of America talking to people in another
I part of America. It was the dream of a dreamer, but Mr. Vail has made it
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I come true, and to-day we have been witnesses of the fact that there is no
I part of this continent that is unaccessible to the human voice. Mr. Vail
I has brought this instrument into every home. What would business be with-
I out it? It has even gone into warfare and into the trenches" in Europe; in
I fact, Mr. Vail is evidently trying to make the telephone 'first in war, first
1 in peace, first in the hearts of IIm countrymen.' "
I In 1917, on the tenth anniversary of his election to the presidency
I of the Telephone Company, a gold medal was presented to Mr. Vail,
I bearing the following inscription:
! "Presented by his friends and associates in recognition of forty years'
\ service, 1877-1917, to the Bell Telephone System, as pioneer, builder, coun-
! sellor, chief, on the tenth anniversary of his election as president of the
1 American Telephone & Tel^raph Company — April 30, 1917. He made
neighbors of a hundred million people.''
With the entry of the United States into the World War and the
sending of a vast army of Americans to aid the Allied Powers in their
struggle against their powerful foes, thousands of employees of the
American Telephone & Telegraph Company went to France to do
their part in winning the victory. At midnight on 31 July 1918 the
United States Government, as a war measure, took control of the
i telephone lines in the United States, and Postmaster General Burleson
! called on Mr. Vail to serve as his adviser and counsellor in telephone
I matters, a request with which Mr. Vail willingly complied. A year
I later the telephone wires were restored by the Government to the
I Company, but before that was done Mr. Vail had found it necessary,
I in June 1919, on account of failing health, to give up the presidency
-. of the Company, with which, however, he still retained an oflficial
j connection as chairman of its Board of Directors. Although in the
t last years of his incumbency of the ofl&ce of president Mr. Vail 'was
{ . over seventy years old, he was nevertheless the actual managing
I head of the largest telephone system in the world, a system which
] numbered more than eleven million telephone subscribers, with over "
I two hundred thousand employees, and represented an investment of
; one and a half billion dollars.
j Mr. Vail's interest in the welfare of the young men of his adopted
\ State had become greater and greater as the years passed by. In
1910 he established at Lyndon Centre the Lyndon School of Agri-
culture, which he aflfiliated with the old Lyndon Literary and Biblical
Institute; and in March 1915 he gave to the State of Vermont all
of the Speedwell Farms with their livestock, as the Theodore N. Vail
Agricultural School and Farms, on condition that the State would
appropriate yearly an amount sufficient to maintain the estate in
good condition for school and experimental purposes. He reserved
to himself only the right to occupy during his lifetime the house and
its immediate grounds.
Academic honors were showered upon him in these later years of
his life. He was admitted to the degree of Doctor of Laws by Dart-
mouth College in 1911, by Middlebiiry College in 1912, and by
■ Princeton University and Harvard University in 1915. In this last-
[ . mentioned year he received also the degree of Doctor of Science
i from the University of Vermont, and two years later a similar degree
174 Theodore Newton Vail [July
from New York University. He was a member of the corporation
of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to which he gave a
large collection of books on electrical subjects; and he was also a
trustee of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, a member of numerous
scientific societies, and a director in a long list of financial and
industrial organizations.
Mr. Vail was often spoken of as "the biggest telephone man on
earth, " a characterization which was true of him physically as well
as mentally, for he was over six feet in height, and weighed at one
time nearly two hundred and eighty pounds. The story of his life
reveals his tremendous energy and capacity both for work and for
play. He was, withal, among his intimate friends, a man of most
genial disposition, and continued as long as his health permitted to
extend his old-time hospitality to his numerous guests at Speedwell
Farms. In 1912 he bought another yacht, the Speedwell, a three-
masted craft with auxiliary power, built for deep-sea voyages, and
he often cruised in southern waters, tarrying sometimes for weeks
at the Jekyl Island Club, on the Georgia coast, of which he was a
member. He belonged also to many other city, country, and yacht
clubs. In politics he was a Republican.
His first wife, Mrs. Emma Louise (Righter) Vail, died at Speedwell
Farms 3 February 1905, before her husband had returned from a
business trip to England. Their only child, Davis Righter Vail,
was prepared for college at Phillips Academy, Exeter, N. H., entered
Harvard in the fall of 1889, and received from that university the
degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1893 and that of Bachelor of Laws in
1896. In college he was prominent in football and rowing, and rose
to be captain of the University crew; but his physical condition was
undoubtedly impaired by his activities in athletics, and after his
! admission to the New York bar his health gave way under the
I confinement of work in a law office. He made various journeys for the
I purpose of regaining his health — to South America, to Europe, to
) Egypt, and to the southwestern part of the United States, and was
r about to resume his professional work when he was attacked with
I typhoid fever and died in New York City, 20 December 1906, before
I his father could reach home from England. Mr. Vail's household,
j for a while after his wife's death, consisted of his sister, Mrs. Louise
j Brainard, a widow, and his niece, Katharine Louise Vail, daughter
I of his deceased brother Alonzo, who in 1913 was married to Arthur
AUen Marsters, A.B. (Harvard, 1893), A.M. (ib., 1894), LL.B.
(New York University, 1898), who entered the employ of the Ameri-
{ can Telephone & Telegraph Company in 1895 and in 1912 became
its secretary. On 27 July 1907 Mr. Vail married secondly Miss
I Mabel Rutledge Sanderson of Brookline, Mass., who survives
I him.
I In the latter part of February 1920 Mr. and Mrs. Vail left their
f apartment in New York for Jekyl Island, travelling as far as Bruns-
I wick, Ga., by rail. Mr. Vail grew ill on the journey, and, after a
stay of several weeks at the Island, during which his condition
became more serious, he was taken in a private car to the Johns
Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Md., where he arrived on 11 April.
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There, on the morning of 16 April 1920, he died, and two days later
was buried at Parsippany, N. J., where his first wife had been interred.
In his will Mr. Vail directed that his magnificent library, with its
rare editions of literary masters, its choice collection of Americana,
and its autographs and manuscripts, should be given to Morristown,
N. J., on condition that a suitable building should be erected by the
Morristown authorities in which the library might be kept. But
Morristown did not feel able to comply with this condition, and
some two years after Mr. Vail's death the library was sold at public
auction.
REV. CYRUS HYDE FAY'S RECORD OF MARRIAGES,
1840-1901
Communicated by Chahles Ehnest Fat, A.M., Litt.D., of Tufts College, Mass.
[Concluded from page 153]
I In this city,* Nov. 13, 1853, Mr. George H. Page of New York City and Miss
I Frances E. Crabtree of Nashua.
I In this city, Nov. 23, 1853, Mr. Leonard Winslow and Miss Emeline T.
I Morse, both of Biddeford, Me.
I In this city, Nov. 24, 1853, Mr. George J. Robinson of Boston, Mass., and
■J Miss Sarah L. Smith of Salem, Mass.
f In this city, Dec. 4, 1853, Mr. Wm. Hutchinson of Billerica, Mass., and Miss
i Eliza J. Smith of Hudson.
I In this city, Dec. 13, 1853, Mr. John Bedell of Washington, D. C, and Miss
•! Mary Augusta Boweis of Nashua.
I In this city, Dec. 29, 1853, Mr. Jessee Nichols of Weare and Miss Helen J.
I Johnson of Manchester.
I In this city, Jan. 2, 1854, Mr. Ira Stickney and Miss Frances C. Wentworth,
I both of Lowell, Mass.
i In this city, Jan. 5, 1854, Mr. George S. Tyler and Miss Mary L. B. Hay,
I both of Nashua.
I In this city, Jan. 28, 1854, Mr. William P. Butler and Miss Sarah A. Daniels,
[ both of Natick, Mass.
i In this city, Feb. 28, 1854, Mr. James Badger and Miss Mildred M. Gutter-
son, both of Milford.
In this city, Apr. 12, 1854, Mr. Otis Whipple and Miss Amanda M. Coomes,
both of Nashua.
In this city, Apr. 12, 1854, Mr. Horace Chase and Miss Ester Hill, both of
Nashua.
In this city, Apr. 19, 1854, Mr. John G. Wilder of Fitchbiu-g, M^., and
Miss Ruth Frost of Lowell, Mass.
In this city, Apr. 26, 1854, Mr. Wm. G. Hurd of Owego, N. Y., and Miss
I EUzabeth R. Wyman of Nashua.
In this city. May 31, 1854, Mr. Lincoln Parkhurst and Miss Eliza Ann
Pratt, both of Fitchbing, Mass.
; In this city. May 31, 1854, Mr. Andrew J. Roberts and Miss Sarah J. Greer,
both of Goffstown.
- *Id this and the following entries, as far as and including the entry of Sept. 12, 1855, the words
"this city" refer to Nashua, N. H.
176 Rev. Cyrus Hyde Fay's Record of Marriages {July
In this city, June 8, 1854, Mr, Johnson Noyes of Haverhill, Mass., and Mrs.
Louisa M. Macy of Nashua.
In this city, June 8, 1854, Mr. Nelson G. Eastman and Miss Adelaide N.
Gerald, both of Milford.
In this city, June 8, 1854, Mr. Charles R. McClary and Miss Elizabeth M.
Boutelle of Antrim.
In this city, July 1, 1854, Mr. James G. Allbe and Miss Sarah Jones, both
of Nashua.
In this city, July 1, 1854, Mr. James M. Eaton of Fitchburg, Mass., and
Miss Nancy Valentine of South Gardner, Mass.
In this city, July 1, 1854, Mr. Arnold Thrasher and Mrs. Delia F. Cady,
both of Nashua.
In this city, July 2, 1854, Mr. Henry M. Pillsbury and IVIiss Sophia Myrick,
both of Nashua.
In this city, July 3, 1854, Mr. Benjamin W. Burt and Miss Elizabeth F.
Warren, both of Nashua.
In this city, July 29, 1854, Mr. Wilson Dorr and Miss Roxanna S. Wheeler,
both of Nashua.
In this city, Sept. 10, 1854, Mr. Cyrus H. Colbum, aged 28 years, and Miss
Mercy Burrows, aged 23 years, both of Tyngsborough, Mass.
In this city, Sept. 28, 1854, Mr. Ezra C. Eastman and Miss Araienia Dear-
bom, both of Weare.
In this city, Oct. 4, 1854, Air. A. M. Eastman of East Cambridge, Mass.,
aged 24 years, and Miss H. I. Davis of Nashua, aged 24 years.
In this city, Oct. 22, 1854, Mr. Leonard R. Brown, aged 22 years, and Miss
Lucia E. Pabner, aged 19 years, both of Nashua.
In this city, Oct. 31, 1854, Mr. Franklin L. Keyes of Holdemess and Miss
Eliza Hay of Nashua.
In this city, Nov. 3, 1854, Mr. George E. Thompson, aged 20, and Miss
Eliza Blanding, 17, both of Nashua.
In this city, Nov. 3, 1854, Mr. Wm. R. Blanding, aged 21, of this city, and
Miss Adaline Barrett, 19 years, of Washington, N. H.
In this city, Nov. 28, 1854, Mr. George W. Hands, aged 25 years, and Miss
Ellen D. Cook, aged 19 years, both of Nashua.
In Merrimac, Nov. 30, 1854, Mr. Arthur G. Parker and Miss Lavina M.
Frost, both of Nashua.
In this city, Nov. 30, 1854, Mr. Arlon M. Cook, aged 26, and Miss Sarah J.
Adams, aged 17 years, both of Deny.
In this city, Dec. 16, 1854, Mr. John L. Mattoon, aged 23, and Miss Isabella
F. Whitcomb, aged 17, both of Nashua.
In this city, Jan. 2, 1855, Mr. Benjamin F. Cotton, aged 30 years, and Misa
Lydia Ann Harris, aged 22 years, both of Nashua.
In this city, Jan. 3, 1855, Mr. Henry A. Fiske and Miss Sophronia Kidder,
both of Wilton.
In this city, Jan. 10, 1855, Mr. A. M. Blanding of Nashua, aged 30 years,
and Miss Harriet A. Woods of Boylston, Mass., aged 22 years.
In this city. Mar. 1, 1855, Mr. Augustus Clark of Wilton and Miss Abby M.
Perham of Lyndeborough.
In this city, Apr. 4, 1855, Mr. Henry Rufeell, et 29 years, and Mrs. Henrietta
T. Hosley, et. 31, both of Hollis.
In this city, Apr. 5, 1855, Mr. Isaac P. Abbot and Miss L. Jane Hutchinson,
both of Wilton.
In this city, Apr. 5, 1855, Mr. Jonathan Burbank of Hudson and Miss Ann
Goodspeed of Litchfield.
In the City of New York, Apr. 12, 1855, Mr. Eleazer L, Cook (bom in
Bridgehampton, N. Y., Dec. 10, 1796, by occupation a builder) and
Mrs. Clarrissa Nash (bom in New York City Mar. 10, 1809).
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In this city, May 26, 1855, Mr. Freeman J. Woodward, aged 21 years, and
Miss Eliza J, Eaton, aged 19 years, both of Nashua.
In this city, May 26, 1855, Mr. George W. Reed, aged 21 years, and Miss
Sarah J. Balcom, aged 19 years, both of Nashua.
In this city, June 6, 1855, Mr. David Sargent, aged 21 years, and Miss Mary
Ann Woodbum, aged 19 years, both of Nashua.
In this city, June 13, 1855, Mr. M. F. Sprague, aged 37 years, and Miss
Philinda Ayer, aged 22 years, both of Nashua.
In this city, July 4, 1855, Mr. George Lufkin and Miss Elmira B. Loud,
both of Manchester.
In this city, Aug. 28, 1855, Mr. Ebenezer S. Newton, aged 41 years, and Miss
Julia H. Tolles, aged 35 years, both of Nashua.
I > In this city, Sept. 2, 1855, Mr. Wm. M. Stetson of Manchester and Miss
\ Eliza Jane Merrill of Nashua.
! In this city, Sept. 3, 1855, Mr. George W. Lang of Boston, aged 24 years,
and Miss Virginia A. Chatterdon of Michigan, aged 22 years.
In this city, Sept. 12, 1855, Mr. Charles Turner of Wentworth, aged 27
years, and Miss Elizabeth K. Goodspeed of Litchfield, aged 22 years.
In Litchfield, Sept. 30, 1855, Mr. George F. Guild of Boston and Miss Ade
Marsh of Litchfield.
In this city,* June 4, 1857, Mr. Lewis L. Crowell and Miss Laura A. Paddock,
j both of Middletown.
I In Portland, Oct. 22, 1857, Mr. David S. Williams and Miss Caroline D.
1 Smith, both of Portland.
I In Middletown, May 1, 1858, Mr. Robert Herman and Mrs. Maria Hayes
I Spencer, both of Middletown.
I In Middletown, June 23, 1858, Mr. William L. Neff of Haddam and Miss
I Hannah M. Prior of Middletown.
\ In Rye, Westchester Co., N. Y., Sept. 13, 1858, Mr. Samuel Gage and Mrs.
* Rachel Elizabeth Webb, both of Stamford, Conn.
i In this city.t Jan. 10, 1859, Mr. William T. W. Drake of Taunton, Mass.,
i and Miss Charlotte C. Hull of North Providence.
] In this city (Providence, R. I.), Apr. 4, 1859, Mr. Sampson G. Richmond
\ and Miss Harriet E. Webster, both of Providence.
i In this city, Apr. 21, 1859, Mr. Albert Hill and Miss (Mrs.) Isabella Chace,
! both of Providence.
'; In this city, Apr. 21, 1859, Mr. Wm. W. Webb and Miss Emeline D. Tibbitts,
both of Providence,
j In this city, May 9, 1859, Mr. Horatio N. Avery of Boston, Mass., and Miss
\ , Charlotte Southworth of Salem, Mass.
' In this city, May 17, 1859, Mr. Barton A. Ballou and Miss Delia A. Wesley,
both of Providence.
In this city, June 2, 1859, Mr. Henry Chaffin of Boston, Mass., and Miss
Sarah Elizabeth Ahny of Providence.
In this city, Aug. 9, 1859, Mr. Thomas T. Waite and Miss Ann E. Hopkins,
both of Providence.
In this city, Aug. 16, 1859, Mr. Samuel Arnold Briggs of Atlanta, 111., and
Miss Emily L. Barton of Providence.
In this city, Sept. 13, 1859, Mr. Calvin J. Adams and Miss Lucy B. Parkis,
both of Providence.
In this city, Sept. 25, 1859, Mr. Nathan B. Fisk and Miss Sarah Thompson
of Douglass, Mass.
•Middletown, Conn.
tin this and the following entries, as far aa and including the entry of May 26, 1869, the word
" this city " refer to Providence. R. I.
178 Rev. Cyrus Hyde Fay's Record of Marriages [July
In this city, Oct. 16, 1859, Mr. Thomas J. Hopkins and Miss Susan A.
Chandler, both of North Scituate.
In this city, Oct. 20, 1859, Mr. Joseph Abijah Fowler and Miss Carrie E. H.
Brown, both of Providence.
In this city, Nov. 9, 1859, Mr. Thomas B. Saunders and Miss Sarah Pettey,
both of Providence.
In this city, Nov. 14, 1859, Mr. Charles W. Harris and Miss Hattie F.
Arnold, both of Providence.
In this city, Nov. 16, 1859, Mr. Horace M. Peck, Jr., and Miss Mary E,
Alers, both of Providence.
In this city, Nov. 22, 1859, Mr. Daniel Hume and Miss Elizabeth Roylance,
both of North Providence.
In this city, Dec. 4, 1859, Mr. Henry Wm. Dean and Miss Eliza Baxter, both
of Providence.
In this city, Dec. 25, 1859, Mr. Lyman Stone and Miss H. Amanda Morse,
both of Providence.
In this city, Jan. 1, 1860, Mr. Joseph N. B. Wesley and Miss Laura C.
Sayles, both of Providence.
In this city, Jan. 2, 1860, Mr. George A. Whitford and Miss Amelia E.
Dennis, both of Providence.
In this city, Feb. 14, 1860, Mr. Wallace Chilson and Miss Hannah H.
Kenerson, both of Palmer, Mass.
In this city. Mar. 22, 1860, Mr. Charles C. Hubbard of Middletown, Conn.,
and Miss Mary A. Blossom of Providence.
In this city, Apr. 18, 1860, Mr. Thomas H. Brownell of Providence and Miss
Julia E. Angell of North Providence.
In this city, Apr. 29, 1860, Mr. Philip D. Pierce and Miss Margaret R.
Monroe, both of Providence.
In this city. May 1, 1860, Mr. Sterry L. Fry of North Providence and Miss
Susan A. Fenner of Coventry.
In this city (Providence), May 13, 1860, Mr. Wm. H. Allen and Mrs. Mary
E. Howard, both of Smithfield, R. I.
May 21, 1860, Mr. Wm. E. Remington of Warwick and Miss Caroline A.
Green of North Providence.
In Roxbury, Mass., May 31, 1860, Mr. Curtis Black and Mrs. Anna H.
Hodgdon, both of Roxbury.
In this city, June 20, 1860, Mr. Leander T. Johnson and Miss Marion F.
Williams, both of Providence.
In this city, June 25, 1860, Mr. Joseph C. Gage and Miss Annie Norton,
both of Providence.
In this city, July 1, 1860, Mr. Andrew J. Fenner and Miss Mary McKinnion, '
both of Fall River, Mass.
In this city, July 4, 1860, Mr. Moses B. Cheney and Miss Helen V. Stone,
both of Cranston.
In North Bridgewater, Mass., Aug. 5, 1860, Mr. Portus B. Hancock and
Miss Sarah W. Hayward, both of North Bridgewater.
In this city, Sept. 23, 1860, Mr. Hermann Dexter and Miss Maria Potter,
both of Providence.
In this city, Sept. 25, 1860, Mr. Aaron S. Drake of Stoughton, Mass., and
Mrs. Irene P. Roimsvill of Freetown, Mass.
In this city, Oct. 7, 1860, Mr. S. Allen Brightman of Providence and Miss
Laura L. Keyes of Ellsworth, Me.
In this city, Oct. 7, 1860, Mr. George Edwin Mathewson and Miss Amey
Ann Sprague, both of Providence.
In this city, Oct. 17, 1860, Mr. Ezra James Hubbard and Miss Mary E.
Saunders, both of Providence.
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In this city, Oct, 24, 1860, Mr. John Edward Men and Miss Susan Frances
Howland, both of Providence.
In this city, Oct. 24, 1860, Mr. Joseph A. Himes and Miss Harriet S. Paine,
both of Woonsocket.
In this city, Nov. 10, 1860, Mr. Sheldon Williams and Miss Caroline M. Cole,
both of North Scituate.
In this city, Nov. 13, 1860, Mr. George S. Karnes of Philadelphia, Pa., and
Mrs. Ann Louisa Morse of Providence.
In this city, Nov. 19, 1860, Mr. John McKalvey and Mrs. Bridget Harring-
\ ton, both of Providence.
1 In this city, Nov. 21, 1860, Mr. Henry R. Reed of Boston, Mass., and Miss
I Annie E. Crehore of Milton, Mass.
I In this city, Nov. 28, 1860, Mr. Charies M. Peirce, Jr., of New Bedford,
! Mass., and Miss Amanda E. Hill of Providence.
1 In this city, Dec. 17, 1860, Mr. John P. Peck and Miss ^Mary A. Brown,
both of Coventry.
In this city, Dec. 23, 1860, Mr. James F. Comesett and ]Mrs. Mary M.
Hopkins, both of Woonsocket.
In this city, Dec. 26, 1860, Mr. Wm. H. Esty and Miss Amanda M. Rathbum,
i both of Blackstone, Mass.
I In this city, Dec. 30, 1860, Mr. James W. Hayward and Miss Carrie M.
I Leary, both of Providence.
I In this city, Dec. 31, 1860, Mr. Wm. H. Hedly and IVIiss Joanna T. Potter,
I both of Providence.
I In this city, Jan. 24, 1861, Mr. Charles Henry Cowell and Miss Susan
I Amanda Peck, both of Providence.
I In this city. Mar. 8, 1861, Mr. George H. B. Divoll and Miss Mary Ann
I CarroU, both of Pawtucket.
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In this city. Mar. 28, 1861, Mr. Joseph A. Willis and Miss Melvina W.
Scribner, both of Boston, Mass.
In Woonsocket, Mar. 30, 1861, Mr. Leander White and Miss Harriet Sulli-
- van, both of Blackstone, Mass.
In this city, Apr. 4, 1861, Mr. Joseph Hojrt and Mrs. Margaret Ann Rickford,
both of Newburyport, Mass.
In this city, Apr; 25, 1861, Mr. Charles A. Tenney of Worcester, Mass., and
Miss Emeline P. Webster of Providence.
In this city. May 19, 1861, Mr. John E. Ogden of Pawtucket and Miss Louise
R. Giimore of Wrentham, Mass.
In Cranston, Aug. 12, 1861, Mr. Wm. L. Chase of Cranston and Miss Mary J.
Tyler of West Greenwich.
In this city, Sept. 10, 1861, Mr. Franklin Hardenburgh and ^liss Oriana
F. Marshall, both of Boston, Mass.
In this city, Oct. 5, 1861, Mr. George Hixon of Boston, Mass., and Mrs.
Mary Cargill of New London, Conn.
In this city, Nov. 27, 1861, Mr. Joseph W. Lewis of Providence and Miss
Annie E. Snow of Chicago, 111.
In this city, Dec. 9, 1861, Mr. Thomas J. Hill of Warwick and Miss Olive L.
Famham of Providence.
In this city, Dec. 14, 1861, Mr. William Henry Wightman and Miss Jane
White, both of Reading, Mass.
In this city, Dec. 17, 1861, Mr. Ira Olney of North Providence and Miss
Carolme Thurber of Providence.
In this city, Dec. 19, 1861, Mr. Wm. H. Crins and Miss Marion B. Whipple,
both of Providence.
In this city, Dec. 29, 1861, Mr. Henry P. Aylsworth and Nancy T. Slocum,
both of Providence.
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180 ' Rev. Cyrus Hyde Fay's Record of Marriages [July
In this city, Jan. 1, 1862, Mr. Amos W. Lane of Pawtucket and Mrs. Ann
Maria Bassett of Smithfield (Central Falls).
In this city, Jan. 1, 1862, Mr. Bainbridge A. "WTiitcomb of Providence and
Mjss Mary M. Smith of Chicago, ill.
In this city, Jan. 28, 1862, Mr. Emor H. Mowry of Providence and Miss
Amanda M. Slocum of Smithfield.
In this city, Apr. 30, 1862, Mr. Wm. W. Read of Providence and Miss
Carrie A. TUley of Newport.
In this city. May 5, 1862, Mr. Benjamin Buffum of Uxbridge, Mass., and
Mrs. Ester M. Warren of Providence.
In this city, July 21, 1862, Mr. Ezra Perry Lyon and Miss Sarah Young
Pike, both of Providence.
In this city, July 21, 1862, Mr. Jacob Ruoff and Miss Emma M. Becker,
both of Providence.
In this city, Aug. 2, 1862, Mr. Lyman M. TiUison of Boston, Mass., and
Miss Delia Russell of Canada.
In this city, Aug. 12, 1862, Mr. Wm. Hallyburton of North Providence and
Mrs. Eliza&th S. Hor of Pawtucket.
In this city, Aug. 14, 1862, Mr. John M. Dodge and Miss BLannah J. Fay,
I both of Upton, Mass.
I In this city, Sept. 5, 1862, Mr. Martin Sanford and Mrs. Sarah Rhodes, both
1 of Cranston.
I In this city, Sept. 28, 1862, Mr. Wm. H. Gibbs and Miss Annie E. Howland,
I both of Providence.
I In this city, Sept. 30, 1862, Mr. Samuel D. Bowen of Coventry and Miss
I Carolme S. Dawley of West Greenwich.
I In this city, Oct. 11, 1862, Mr. George Boon and Miss Ann A. Yoimg, both
I of Providence.
1 In this city, Oct. 13, 1862, Mr. Samuel Carr and Mrs. Mary Jane Randall,
I both of Providence.
I In this city, Oct. 13, 1862, Mr. Frank A. Flagg and Miss Martha E. Barrows,
>^ both of Worcester, Mass.
I In this city, Oct. 16, 1862, Mr. Charles Henry Sherman of San Francisco,
I Calif., and Miss Lucy Maria Whipple of Providence.
I In this city, Oct. 19, 1862, :Mr. Emanuel Price of Providence and Miss
I Amanda M. Richardson of South Providence.
I In Coventry, Oct. 28, 1862, Mr. Charles Fordom Pease of Boston, Mass.,
' and Rfiss Harriet Johnson Anthony of Coventry.
In this city, Nov. 17, 1862, Mr. Galen Poole, Jr., and Mrs. Lizzie S. Allen,
both of Boston, Mass.
In this city, Dec. 10, 1862, Mr. Samuel Gordon of Manchester, N. H., and
Miss Nellie Foster of Providence.
In this city, Dec. 27, 1862, Mr. Francis T. Knight and Miss Annie E. Cnrffs,
both of Thompson, Conn.
In this city, Jan. 1, 1863, Mr. Henry F. Johnson and Miss EsteUa S. Campbell,
both of Providence.
I In this city, Jan. 1, 1863, Mr. Joseph F. Blood and Miss Mary E. Jenks,
1 both of Providence.
j In this city, Jan. 9, 1863, Mr. Lloyd G. Evans of Easton, Mass., and Miss
\ Harriet L. Rogers of Norton, Mass.
In this city, Jan. 12, 1863, IMr. Wm. H. Monroe and Miss Elvira C. Baker,
both of Providence,
i In this city, Jan. 22, 1863, Mr. John A. Hamilton and Miss Mary Elizabeth
I Prentice, both of Providence.
In this city, Feb. 14, 1863, Mr. (Capt.) Sanford Terrell of City Island and
Mrs. Sarah Tilewood of Pro\'idence.
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In this city, Mar. 21, 1863, Mr. Wm. Henry Torek of Hanover, Germany,
and Miss Catharine Sheridan of Providence.
In this city, Mar. 26, 1863, Mr. J. Bradford Rlason of Providence and Miss
Carrie Bates of Wrentham, Mass.
In this city, Apr. 23, 1863, Mr. John E. Brown of Chicago, 111., and Miss
Mary E. Luther of Providence.
In this city, Apr. 24, 1863, Mr. Edward Hoffman of Providence and Mrs.
Charlotte Varian of New York City.
In Smithfield, June 17, 1863, Mr. Charles Edwin Harris of Providence and
Miss Sarah Amanda Smith of Snaithfield.
In this city, Sept. 1, 1863, Mr. James P. Taylor of Brookline, Mass., and
Miss Sophronia Higgins of Orleans, Mass.
In this city, Sept. 4, 1863, Rev. L. L. Briggs of Philadelphia, Pa., and Miss
Mary T. Howarth of Providence.
In this city, Nov. 4, 1863, Mr. Artemas B. Myrick and Miss JuUa Eveleth,
both of Providence.
In this city, Nov. 15, 1863, Mr. William Ellery Millard and Miss Abbie F.
Hobart, both of Providence.
In this city, Nov. 23, 1863, Mr. James H. Price of Smithfield, R. I., and
Miss Amey A. West of Centredale, North Providence.
In this city, Dec. 15, 1863, Mr. Henry W. Patt and Miss Emily L. Scott,
both of Providence.
In this city, Dec. 16, 1863, Mr. Robert M. Luckis and Miss Margaret Carroll,
both of Boston, Mass. (The bride was bom in Pictou, Nov. [i.e.. Nova
Scotia].)
In this city, Dec. 20, 1863, Mr. George A. Britton of North Providence and
Miss Meriby M. Dennis of Providence.
In this city, Dec. 31, 1863, Mr. John B. Cooke and Mrs. Hannah M. Barnard,
both of Providence.
In this city, Dec. 31, 1863, Mr. Roland R. Kelly of North Weare, N, H.,
and Miss Clementine Wesley of Providence.
In this city, Jan. 5, 1864, Mr. Jabez Lord and Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Learned,
both of Providence.
In this city, Feb. 3, 1864, Mr. Joseph S. Winsor of Providence and Mrs.
Carolme F. Mowry of North Providence.
In this city, Feb. 9, 1864, Mr. William H. Watson of Boston, Mass., and
Miss Mary E. Giles of Sanbornton, N. H.
In this city. Mar. 1, 1864, Mr. Charles Ernest Otto Gerlach and Miss
Catherine Louisa Maeller, both of Providence.
In this city. Mar. 3, 1864, Mr. Squire Livsey and Miss CeUa Anna Osbrey,
both of Providence.
In this city, Mar. 21, 1864, Mr. Forrest B. Chamberlain of Lawrence, IMass.,
and Miss Nancy J. SneU of Providence.
In this city, Apr. 17, 1864, Mr. Walter Scott and Miss Anna Kelly,* both of
Providence.
In this city, Apr. 26, 1864, Mr. Naaman Wallace WithereU and Miss Carrie
Eliza Marden, both of Providence.
In this city. May 1, 1864, Mr. John E. King of Obieyville and Miss (Mrs.?)
EUene M. Barnes of South Providence.
In this city, May 3, 1864, Mr. Charles Alexander Gerlach and Miss JuHanna
Carolina Rohrmann, both of Providence.
In this city. May 10, 1864, Mr. Charles Muller of Providence and Miss
Gertrude Berden of Albany, N. Y.
In this city. May 31, 1864, Mr. Thomas Broughton and Miss Bridget
Monichan, both of Cranston. (The groom bom Blackburn, Eng. The
bride in Pomroy, Ireland.)
•Had been divorced, but tcx)k her maiden name. [This note is by Rev. Dr. Fa}'.]
182 Rev. Cyrus Hyde Fay's Record of Marriages [July
In this city, June 20, 1864, Mr. Moses 0. Darling (1st. Ldeut.) and Miss
Mattie Gordon, both of Providence.
In this city, July 3, 1864, Mr. Jesse K. Webster of Canton, Mass., and Miss
Eliza T. Stone of Providence. (I married this couple about 1 o'clock,
this, Sunday morning.) The groom 19 years, bride 16 years.
In this city, July 4, 1864, Mr. Peter McClarance and Miss Anne Kelley,
both of River Point.
'In this city, July 12, 1864, Mr. James A. Cook and Miss Mary B. Morse,
both of Natick, Mass.
In this city, July 27, 1864, Mr. Fayette S. Robinson and Mrs. Elizabeth F.
Johnson, both of Boston, Mass.
In this city, July 31, 1864, Mr. John Van Valkenbury of New York and Miss
Mary Ann Moldoon of Providence.
In this city, Aug. 8, 1864, Mr. Joseph Field Langley and Mrs. CaroUne
Amelia Little, both of Newport.
In this city, Aug. 11, 1864, Mr. Manville Cushing and Miss Susan White,
both of Weymouth, Mass.
In this city, Aug. 14, 1864, I^Ir. Armand Despr^s of New York and Miss
Eugenie Gilbest [?] of Providence.
In this city, Sept. 22, 1864, Mr. Charles Theodore Peterson and Miss Mary
Annie Scott, both of Providence.
In this city, Sept. 23, 1864, Mr. Charles Thomas King and Miss PhUena
Hepsibah Locke, both of Phenix (Warwick).
Oct. 4, 1864, Mr. Charles Whitney Reed of New York City and Miss Susan
H. Allen of Providence.
In this city, Oct. 9, 1864, Mr. Thomas Mitchell Harker and Miss Christina
Anderson, both of Providence.
In this city, Oct. 10, 1864, Mr. James Martin Allen and Mrs. Janet Perkins,
both of Pawtucket.
In this city, Oct. 12, 1864, Mr. Charles Edward Thayer (student of Brown
University) of Mendon, Mass., and Miss Sarah Margaret Brown of
Uxbridge, Mass.
In this city, Oct. 25, 1864, Mr. Gustavus Adolphus Williamson and Miss
Harriet Shade Esterbrooks, both of Providence.
In this city, Oct. 27, 1864, Samuel Tjier Shattuck and Miss Sarah Elizabeth
Osborne, both of Providence.
In this city, Nov. 8, 1864, Mr. Henry E. Corbin of Franklin, Mass., and Miss
Carrie A. Barney of Rehoboth, Mass.
In this city, Nov. 9, 1864, Mr. Norman Leslee McCausland and Miss Ann
Eliza HuU, both of Providence.
In this city, Nov. 10, 1864, Mr. George Hartman Finckh of New York City
and Miss Louisa Gerlach of Providence.
In this city, Nov. 17, 1864, Mr. Samuel Hallett Mathison of Chicago, 111.,
and Miss Sarah Frances Nichols of Providence.
In this city, Nov. 20, 1864, Mr. George Arthur Olmsted of Providence and
Miss Mary Murphey of Pawtucket.
In this city, Nov. 20, 1864, Mr. Robert Ezekiel Smith and Miss Sarah
Adelaide Hayward, both of Providence.
In this city, Nov. 24, 1864, ]Mr. Henry Harrison Robinson of Raynham,
Mass., and Miss Emma Jane Lincoln of Taunton, Mass.
In this city, Nov. 29, 1864, Mr. Joseph M. Levy of Baltimore, Md., and
Mrs. Mary I. Hastings of Providence.
In this city, Jan. 1, 1865, Rlr. Henry Myers and Miss Ellen BoUman, both
of Providence.
In this city, Jan. 2, 1865, Mr. Wm. Henry Luther and ^liss Mary Emily
Blanding, both of Providence.
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In this city, Jan. 17, 1865, Mr. Joseph Andrew Baker of Providence and Misa
Ann Elizabeth MaSfield of Bristol.
In this city, Apr. 5, 1865, Mr. John B. Lesieur, Jr., and Mrs. Christiana
Spear Gale, both of New York City.
In this city, Apr. 5, 1865, Mr. Albert V. Goudailler of New York City and
Miss Laura Isidora Curtis of Providence.
In this city. May 11, 1865, Mr. Job Shaw and Miss Emily Harris Browne,
both of Providence.
In Elmwood, May 20, 1865, Mr. Cornelius Mahony Capron and Miss Eliza
Ann Winsor, both of Centerdale (North Providence).
In this city. May 22, 1865, Mr. Cutting Stevens Calef and Miss Anna Gene
Sandes, both of Providence.
In this city, June 1, 1865, Mr. Edward Laird of Providence and Miss Annie
Althea Gifford of New Bedford, Mass.
In this city, June 3, 1865, Mr. John Thomas Lewis of Providence (from
Wales) and Mrs. Mary MacGregor of Providence (from Scotland).
In this city, June 6, 1865, Mr. Charles Fox GriflSn and Miss Phebe Amanda
Manchester, both of Providence.
In this city, June 12, 1865, Mr. Godfrey Moffitt of Newport and Miss
Amanda Malvina Hoxsie of Providence.
In this city, Jime 15, 1865, Mr. Duncan Campbell and Miss Adalaide Frances
Adams, both of Providence.
In this city, June 22, 1865, Mr. George Steere and Miss Emma Frances
Daniels, both of Providence.
In this city, Jime 23, 1865, Mr. Jefferson Appleton Smith, Jr., and Miss
Ellen Mathewson, both of Providence.
In this city, July 10, 1865, Mr. Darius Edward Baker and Mrs. Eliza Rundall
Brown, both of Providence.
In this city, Aug. 15, 1865, Mr. Dean Smith Linnell, Jr., and Miss Abby
Sophronia Williams, both of Providence.
In this city, Aug. 17, 1865, Mr. John William Tharp and Miss Anne Bridget
Clark, both of Providence.
In this city, Aug. 29, 1865, Mr. William Liming of Philadelphia, Pa., and
Elizabeth Thayer of Bristol, R. I.
In this city, Sept. 5, 1865, Mr. Jesse Potter Eddy of North Providence and
Miss Josephine Agusta Wilbur of Providence.
In this city, Sept. 16, 1865, Mr. Henry Brooks and Mrs. Maria Booth, both
of Obeyville, R. I.
In this city, Oct. 3, 1865, Mr. Charles Lasell of Providence and Miss Susan
Maria WUlard of South Providence.
In this city, Oct. 5, 1865, Mr. Thomas Webster Potter and Miss Isabell
Elizabeth Morse, both of Warwick, R. I.
In this city, Oct. 14, 1865, Mr. Charles Doane Humphrey and Miss Christina
' Rowlson Smith, both of Providence.
In this city, Oct. 18, 1865, Mr. Samuel Taylor Damon and Miss Lydia Ann
Phipps, both of Boston, Mass.
In this city, Oct. 19, 1865, Mr. William Henry Reynolds and Miss Mary
Emma Witherell, both of Providence.
In this city, Oct. 26, 1865, Mr. Charles Henry Newell of Boston, Mass., and
Miss Isabel Spencer West of Providence.
In this city, Nov. 1, 1865, Mr. Thomas Parker Marshall and Miss Olive Jane
Cole, both of Providence.
In this city, Nov. 16, 1865, Mr. William Henry Harrison Gibbs and Miss
Delia Walford, both of Providence.
In this city, Nov. 21, 1865, Mr. William Clark Kenyon and Miss Mary
Louisa Seaver, both of Providence.
184 Rev. Cyrus Hyde Fay's Record of Marriages [July
In this city, Nov. 28, 1865, Mr. Benjamin Franklin Woreley and Miss Kate
Grace Duncan, both of Providence.
In this city, Nov. 29, 1865, Mr. Johnathan Nooning Brownell of Bristol and
Miss Artemisia Thurston Adams of Fall River, Mass.
In this city, Dec. 16, 1865, Mr. John Shaw, Jr., and Mrs. Abby Wilder
Sanborn, both of Boston, Mass.
In this city, Dec. 22, 1865, Mr. Moses Gilbert Kelly of Blackstone, Mass.,
and Miss Mary Anne Judkins of Kendall's Mills, Me.
In this city, Dec. 24, 1865, Mr. Ezra Perry Lyon and Miss Mary Ann Pike,
both of Providence.
In this city, Jan. 1, 1866, Mr, William Henry Scott of Bemardston, Mass.,
and Miss Mary Aima Cook of Holden, Mass.
In this city, Jan. 1, 1866, Mr. SUas Newton and Miss Mary Agnes Lamson,
both of West Boylston, Mass.
In this city, Jan. 3, 1866, Mr. James K. Drew and Mrs. Emma Jane Cameron,
both of Providence.
In this city, Jan. 3, 1866, Mr. Charles Parrott and Mrs. Nettie Frances
Briggs, both of Providence.
In this city, Jan. 8, 1866, Mr. Wm. Bunker Robinson and Miss Ada Byron
Coombs, both of Providence. "
In this city, Jan. 8, 1866, Mr. John Stoll, Jr., and Miss Katharina Held,
both of Wurttemberg, Germany.
In this city, Jan. 22, 1866, Mr. WUliam Henry Young of Providence and
Miss Sarah Kenyon of Olnejrville.
In this city, Jan. 23, 1866, Mr. Joseph Waldo Branch and Miss Jennie
McCrackan, both of Norwich, Conn.
In South Providence, Jan. 28, 1866, Mr. Benjamin Davis and Miss Louise
Frances Thurber, both of South Providence.
In this city, Feb. 7, 1866, Mr. Joseph Almon George of Sunnapee, N. H.,
and Miss Hannah Bemey of North SommerviUe, Mass.
In this city, Feb. 18, 1866, Mr. Duty James Greene and Miss Emily Jane
James, both of Providence.
In this city, Feb. 21, 1866, George Henry Hyde and Margaret Rannels, both
of Boston, Mass.
In this city. Mar. 1, 1866, Sylvester Warren Russell of Bridgewater, Mass.,
and Mary Ann White of Taimton, Mass.
In this city, Mar. 7, 1866, Mr. Edward Everett Hathom Heath and Miss
Frances Ann Russell, both of Boston, Mass.
In this city, Mar. 21, 1866, Mr. Newton Darling Arnold and Miss Caroline
Louisa Gee, both of Providence.
In this city, Mar. 25, 1866, Mr. Charles Octavius Green (formerly of Bristol,
Vt.) of Smithfield and Miss EmUy Harris of North Providence.
In this city, Mar. 29, 1866, WiUiam Bemey, Jr., of Somerville, Mass., and
Martha Ring of Boston, Mass.
In this city, Apr. 14, 1866, Mr. Parker Merrill and Miss Lydia E. B. Rhodes,
both of Boston, Mass.
In this city, Apr. 24, 1866, Mr. John Henry and Miss Mary Doherty, both
of North Providence.
In Cranston (Ebnwood), May 9, 1866, Mr. Henry Albert Horton of Provi-
dence and !Miss Elizabeth Hamilton of Cranston. '
In this city. May 10, 1866, Mr. Thomas M. Greene and Miss Jenette
McArthur, both of Attleboro, Mass.
In this city. May 28, 1866, Mr. Thomas W. Kelton and Miss Sarah F.
Gardner, both of Providence.
In this city, June 6, 1866, Mr. James Madison Kilbum and Miss Sarah
Sophia Hurd, both of Providence.
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In this city, June 7, 1866, Mr. John Harding Martin of Swansey, Mass., and
Miss Eleanor Thurber of Rehoboth, Mass.
In this city, June 7, 1866, Mr. Justin Andrews of Boston, Mass., and Miss
Elizabeth Jane Fawcett of Cambridge, Mass.
On Smith's Hill, Providence, June 14, 1866, Mr. Mason Barney Franklin
and Miss Rebbecca Orswell Messinger, both of Providence.
In this city, Sept. 13, 1866, Mr. George Clinton Calef and Miss Emma
Sanders, both of Providence.
f In this city, Sept. 15, 1866, Mr. George Moore Brown of Boston, Mass., and
Miss Frances Maria Angel of North Providence. (This couple were
married by Rev. L. L. Briggs of Philadelphia on the 20th of August
last.)
In this city, Sept. 20, 1866, Mr. Albert Green Robinson and Miss' Sarah
Frances Mason, both of Cmnberland. ,
In this city, Sept. 26, 1866, Mr. Arthur WeUington Dennis and Miss Annie
Isabel Smith, both of Providence.
In this city, Oct. 1, 1866, Mr. Dejcter Daniel Pearce and Miss Ellen Maria
BUven, both of Providence.
j In this city, Oct. 10, 1866, Mr. Henry Leprellet Pratt of Pawtucket and Mrs.
I Julana Stone of Pro^ddence.
I - In North Providence, Oct. 24, 1866, Mr. Pardon Bowen Smith Ford and
! Miss Ceria M. Smith, both of North Scituate.
I In this city, Nov. 7, 1866, ^Ir. George Alfred Hicks and Miss Isabel Josephine
I Blake, both of Providence.
I In this city, Nov. 10, 1866, Mr. Thomas Swan, Jr., of Providence and MiiK
I Maggie Sophia Rice of Coventry.
I In this city, Nov. 28, 1866, Mr. Thomas J. Peck and Miss Lydia Rose
I Sprague, both of Providence.
I In this city, Dec. 2, 1866, Mr. Alvah Ames Spofford and Miss Adelaide
I Grafton Luther, both of Providence.
I In this city, Dec. 2, 1866, Mr. Elihu N. Dart and Miss Marianna Luther,
I both of Providence.
I In this city, Dec. 19, 1866, Mr. John Warren Yeaw of Providence and Miea
I Minerva Ann Hunt of South Providence.
I In this city, Dec. 24, 1866, Mr. William Henry Hall of Providence and Miss
Cleora Narzette Hopkins of South Providence.
] In this city, Dec. 26, 1866, Mr. Henry David Smith and Miss Ellen Ehua-,
i Congdon Babcock, both of Providence.
\ In this city, Dec. 31, 1866, Capt. Samuel Freeman Hull of Providence and
■ Miss Mary Ann Fales of Bristol.
i In this city, Jan. 1, 1867, Mr. Jacob Almon Ferris of Boston, Mass., and
Miss Juha Seraphiue Nutting of Providence.
In this city, Feb. 2, 1867, Mr. Frank Eveleth of Providence and Mrs. Martha
Ann Burt of Grafton, Mass.
In this city, Feb. 13, 1867, Mr. Charles Henry Brown and Miss Amanda
Fitzalen Messinger, both of Providence.
In this city, Feb. 14, 1867, Mr. James Jefferson Ford of Pembroke, Mass.,
and Miss Louisa Maria Sawyer of Providence.
In this city, Feb. 19, 1867, Mr. George Warren Wilbur and Miss Freelove
Randall, both of Providence.
In this city, Feb. 25, 1867, Mr. Warren Chester Pettee and Miss Mary
Pierce CoflBn, both of Pawtucket.
In this city. Mar. 5, 1867, Mr. William Henry Poole and Miss Penelope
Rowe Hall, both of Milton, Mass.
In this city. Mar. 7, 1867, Mr. Thomas Henry Carrique and Miss Susaa
Slocum Luther, both of Pro^'idence.
186 Rev. Cyrus Hyde Fay^s Record of Marriages [July
In this city, Mar. 8, 1867, Mr. William Henry Blanchard and Miss Adeline
Osgood Phipps, both of Boston, Mass.
In this city. Mar. 9, 1867, Mr. William Sanford Lane of Norton, Mass., and
Miss Sybil Smith of North Rehoboth, Mass.
In this city, Mar. 12, 1867, Mr. Edward Lawrence Bowen of Boston, Mass.,
and Miss Mary Ellen Low of Providence.
In this city, Mar. 27, 1867, Mr. Edward Kalay of Harrisburg, Pa., and Miss
Louisa Thomas of Westerly, R. I. (Col'd).
In this city, Apr. 13, 1867, Mr. George Washington Kenison and Mrs. Abby
Jane Kenison, both of Quincy, Mass.
In this city, Apr. 21, 1867, Mr. John Abbott Wiley and Mrs. Harriet Adeline
Stone, both of Pro\'idence.
In this city, Apr. 22, 1867, Mr. Henry Alexander Page of Boston, Mass., and
* Mrs. Catharine Augusta Webster of Maiden, Mass.
In this city, May 2, 1867, Mr. Charles Everett Hills of New York City and
Miss CaroUne Frances Osborne of Providence.
In Cranston, May 9, 1867, Mr. Jirah Fay Brownell and Miss Adeline Wells
Chapin, both of Cranston.
In this city. May 14, 1867, Mr. Charles William Brown and Samantha Jane
Crosswell, both of Providence.
In North Providence, May 22, 1867, Mr. Benjamin Franklin Kenyon of
I North Providence and Miss Susan Basset Howland of Providence.
I In this city, June 6, 1867, Mr. Albert Corliss Winsor and Mrs. Mary Ann
;< Shephiard, both of Providence.
1 . In East Providence, June 27, 1867, Rev. Charles Fluhrer of Victor, N. Y.,
I and Miss Julia Almira Bishop of East Providence.
I , In this city, July 3, 1867, Mr. WilUam Henry Mavis of Providence and Miss
I Betsey Maynard of Solon, Me.
I In East Providence, Aug. 19, 1867, Mr. Selwyn Curtis Winchester of Indian-
i apolis, Ind., and Ruthie Elizabeth Martin of East Providence.
I . In this city, Aug. 22, 1867, Mr. William Henry Pike of Westerly, R. I., and
I Mrs. Lemira Avis Bellington of North Bridgewater, Mass.
I In this city, Aug. 27, 1867, Mr. Andrew Jackson Cartwright and Miss Mercy
f Maria Thomas, both of Providence.
I In this city, Sept. 8, 1867, Mr. George Miles Downing of Cranston and Mrs.
i Maria Louise Prosser of Providence.
I In this city, Sept. 14, 1867, Mr. Howard Augustus Porter and Miss Sarah
I Tompkins Whitton, both of Brooklyn, N. Y.
; In this city, Sept. 17, 1867, Frederick W. Mercer, M.D., of Boston, Mass.,
' and Lizzie Bennett Thornton of Providence.
In South Providence, Oct. 8, 1867, Mr. Marcellus Jacob Flanders of Provi-
, dence and Miss CaroUne Amelia Jones of South Providence.
! In this city, Oct. 17, 1867, Mr. Jason Prey Stone, Jr., and Miss Mary Ella
' Crowell, both of Providence.
In this city, Oct. 20, 1867, Mr. William Bradford Haile and Isabella Leonard
Comstock, both of Providence.
In this city, Oct. 29, 1867, Mr. Job Wilbur of Providence and Miss Sarah
Frances Tefift of Wyoming, R. I.
In this city, Oct. 29, 1867, Mr. John Robert Kerr and Miss Emma Roy
Brown, both of Johnson.
In this city, Oct. 30, 1867, Mr. Moses Phantray and Mrs. Helenora Stephen-
son, both of Providence (colored).
In this city, Nov. 21, 1867, Mr. William Francis SmaUey and Mrs. Asenath
Smalley, both of New Bedford, Mass.
In South Providence, Nov. 21, 1867, Mr. Jacob Barney Handy of Providence
and Miss Eleanor Maria Sherburne of South Providence.
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In this city, Nov. 28, 1867, Mr. Daniel Wilbur Mason and Miss Ida Menage
Read, both of Bristol.
In this city, Dec. 20, 1867, William G. Smith of Philadelphia, Pa., and
Annie Maria Lynch (2d marriage) of Providence, R. I.
In this city, Dec. 25, 1867, Mr. Jesse Taft and Miss Celestine Banning,
both of Worcester, Mass.
In this city, Jan. 1, 1868, Terrance McLaughlin and Mary Ann Meldronj
both of Providence, R. I.
In this city, Jan. 18, 1868, Mr. Frederick Nathaniel Fales and Miss Henrietta
Gladding Warren, both of Bristol.
I In this city, Jan. 22, 1868, Mr. Joseph Henry Rockwell of Lebanon, Conn.,
j and Miss Anna Eliza Brown of Exeter, R. I.
I In this city, Jan. 30, 1868, Mr. Henry Reed and Miss Isabell Farris Tucker,
I both of Providence, R. I.
■ In this city, Feb. 15, 1868, Mr. Bemis Hartwell of Walpole, Mass., and Misa
Carrie Frances Gatchell of Blackstone, Mass.
In this city, Feb. 19, 1868, Mr. William Odbur Tucker and Miss Minnie
Seabury Waite, both of Providence,
i In this city, Feb. 20, 1868, Samuel Ezra Groves and Mary Ellen Bromley,
I both of Providence.
1 In this city, Apr. 3, 1868, Mr. Samuel Francis Bliss and Miss Marion Mary
I Howe, both of Dover, Mass.
! In this city, Apr. 7, 1868, Mr. Henry Parker Clough and Miss Mary Ann
I Pearson, both of Providence.
I In this city, ]\lay 20, 1868, Mr. Henry Hunt and Mrs. Annie Sarah Arnold,
i both of Olneyville.
I In this city. May 20, 1868, Mr. Ruel Mills Trask and Miss Addie Lucy
j Joslen, both of Providence.
I In this city. May 21, 1868, Mr. George Jackson Boyd and Miss Maria Ann
] Blossom, both of Providence.
'i In North Providence, June 1, 1868, Mr. Charles Frederic Pierce of Paw-
t tucket and Miss Hattie Langley Howland of North Providence.
\ In this city, June 18, 1868, Mr. Palmer Dorrance and Miss Mary Ann Potter,
I both of Providence.
; In this city, June 25, 1868, Mr. Albert Jarvis Richardson of North Attleboro,
I Mass., and Miss Emily Amanda Mason of East Attleboro, Mass.
i In this city, July 7, 1868, Mr. Isaac Francis Crosby of Chicago, 111., and
r Miss Addie Clapp Higgins of Orleans, Mass.
5 In this city, July 7, 1868, Mr. John Henry Pettis and Miss Georgianna
; Andrews, both of Providence.
In this city, Aug. 4, 1868, Mr. Nelson Harris Doe and Miss Lizzie Jane
Drummond, both of Providence.
In this city, Aug. 6, 1868, Mr. Benjamin Franklin Chadboume and Miss
Anna Brool^, both of Boston, Mass.
In this city, Aug. 8, 1868, Mr. William S. Mann of Providence and Mrs.
Louisa SweetlMid of Sullivan, Me.
In this city, Sept. 17, 1868, Mr. George B. Anthony and Miss Fannie Ernest-
ine Burton, both of Adams, Mass.
In this city, Sept. 19, 1868, Mr. William Edwin Kelcher and Miss Lina
Nichols Lewis, both of Lynn, Mass. (Both the parties deaf and dumb.)
In this city, Sept. 28, 1868, Mr. Oscar Alonzo Newell of Central Falls and
Sarah Adelia Hall of Providence.
In this city, Sept. 30, 1868, Mr. Richard Henry Currier and Miss Emily
Sophia Hood, both of Norwich, Conn.
In this city, Oct. 3, 1868, Mr. Joseph Henry Spooner and Miss Amelia
Margaret Cherry, both of Providence.
188 Rev. Cyrus Hyde Fay's Record of Marriages [July
In this city, Oct. 10, 1868, Mr. Nathan P. Dawley and Syrena Gates, both
of Woonsocket, R. I.
In this city, Oct. 11, 1868, Mr. Rufus Shepard Dixon and Mrs. Amanda
Malvira Cook, both of Providence.
In this city, Oct. 12, 1868, Mr. John Mahony and Miss Margaret Rourke,
both of Fall River, Mass.
In this city, Oct. 13, 1868, IMr. Nathaniel Leprelate Newcomb of Brooklyn,
N. Y., and Sarah A. Story of Easton, Mass.
In this city, Oct. 15, 1868, Mr. William M. Bowen and Mrs. Louisa A.
Henry, both of Providence.
In Brooklyn, E. D., Oct. 25, 1868, Mr. Isaac Lopez Colton of Brooklyn,
E.D. (2d marriage), and Ann Eliza Holbrook (2d marraige) of Cambridge,
Mass.
In New York City, Oct. 27, 1868, Mr. James L. Crosby (2d marriage) and
Miss Abby M. Burton, both of New York City.
In this city, Nov. 1, 1868, Mr. WUliam Frederick Pearce and Miss Eliza
Jane Brown, both of Providence.
In this city, Nov. 3, 1868, Mr. William Henry Simmons and Miss Marguerite
Augusta Barrows, both of Providence.
In this city, Nov. 8, 1868, Mr. James Bunting and Mrs. Fannie Lockhart,
both of Providence.
In this city, Nov. 25, 1868, Mr. Allen Libby and Miss Agnes Pearson, both
of Providence.
In this city, Nov. 28, 1868, Mr. Oscar Byron Green and Mrs. Mary Frances
Rockwood, both of Coventry.
In this city, Dec. 3, 1868, Mr. Richard Dennis Mowry of Uxbridge, Mass.,
and Mrs. Lucy Malvina Taft of Mendon, Mass.
In this city, Dec. 16, 1868, Mr. Samuel Martin Warner of Providence and
Miss Mary Lyon of Hebronville, R. I.
In this city, Dec. 25, 1868, IMr. Asa Francis King and Mrs. Hannah Maria
Waitt, both of Taunton, Mass.
In this city, Dec. 28, 1868, Mr. Ezekiel Pettis Francis and Clarissa EmeUne
Macker, both of Providence.
In this city, Dec 31, 1868, Mr. Cassius Eugene yiali and Miss Mary Ellen
Atwood, both of Providence.
In this city, Jan. 1, 1869, Mr. Cah'iri Wheaton Rathbone of Pawtucket and
Miss Elizabeth Aldrich Hawley of Pro\ddence.
In this city, Jan. 7, 1869, Mr. John O'Brien of Fall River, Mass., and Miss
. Catharine DriscoU of the same place.
In this city, Jan. 13, 1869, Mr. Charles A. Lee of North Pro%'idenee and
Miss Phebe S. Wright of Smithfield, R. I.
In this city, Jan. 16, 1869, Mr. Joseph Field and Mrs. Lucy Ann Smith,
both of Providence.
In this city, Feb. 4, 1869, Mr. William Perkins Griffin and Ann Maria
Yerrinton, both of this city.
In this city, Feb. 6, 1869, Mr. John Tryon and Miss Mary Elizabeth Peters,
both of Providence.
In this city, Feb. 13, 1869, Mr. WUliam Gardner Reynolds of Foster and
Miss Mary Elizabeth Keech of Providence.
In this city, Mar. 26, 1869, Mr. Oscar Hatfield Monroe and ]\'Iiss Emma
Andrews, both of Providence.
In this city, Apr. 4, 1869, Mr. Lathrop "Bowers Shm-tleff and Miss Emily
■ Franes [sic] Webster, both of Providence.
In this city, Apr. 21, 1869, Mr. David CottreU Taylor and Imogene Adelaide
Hoppin, both of this city.
1923] Rev. Cyrus Hyde Fay's Record of Marriages 189
In this city, May 10, 1869, Mr. Mulford Waring Hayward and Mrs. Zelia
Aline Brownson, both of Brooklyn, N. Y.
In this city. May 26, 1869, Mr. Joseph Kelly and Miss Sarah Elizabeth
Sanders, both of Providence.
In this city,* Sept. 16, 1869, Mi-, Thomas P. Allen and Mrs. Mary J. Midgley,
both of Middletown.
At the Farms (Middletown), Oct. 5, 1869, Mr. Charles 0. Tryon and Miss
Martha S. Prior, both of Middletown.
In this city (Middletown), Feb. 13, 1870, Mr. Lewis Baldwin and Miss Jane
B. Roberts, both of Middletown.
In Middletown, June 26, 1870, Mr. Lincoln B. Stroud and Miss Horetta E,
Bingham, both of Middletown.
In this city, Jan. 31, 1871, Mr. George Balden and Miss ComeUa Hubbard,
both of Middletown.
In this city, Oct. 25, 1871, Mr. Eldridge S. Fefree and Miss Ellen H. Leonard,
both of Middletown.
In this city, Jan. 22, 1872, Mr. George S. Taylor of Middletown and Miss
Sophronia D. Doane of CollinsviUe, Conn.
In this city, Feb. 15, 1872, Mr. Winfeld E. Young and Miss Mary J. Welch,
both of Middletown.
At South Farms (Mddletown), Mar, 23, 1872, Mr. George A. Cowles and
Miss Ella G. Hills, both of Middletown.
In this city, June 6, 1872, Mr. Charles B. Bidwell and Miss Grace C. Douglass,
both of Middletown.
in this city, Oct. 2, 1872, Mr. S. Clarence Hastings of Hartford and Miss
EUen Douglas of Middletown.
In this city, Oct. 30, 1872, Mr. Franklin J. Dix and Miss Etta M. Bacon,
both of Middletown.
In this city, Nov. 28, 1872, Mr. William Jamieson, Jr., and Miss Elizabeth
M. Bacon, both of this town.
In this city (Middletown), Sept. 4, 1873, 'Mi. Jonathan B. KUbourne and
Miss Mary A. Douglas, both of Middletown.
In this city,t May 14, 1874, Mr. John William Lee and Miss Sarah Jane
Noyes, both of Washington.
In New York City, Oct. 14, 1874, Mr. Caleb A. Dyer and Miss Charlotte H.
Dimon, both of New York.
In Washington, D. C, Oct. 22, 1874, Mr. George Frederick Schayer and A'lrs.
JuHa Stosck, both of Washington, D. C.
In Georgetown, D. C, Nov. 25, 1875, Mr. Charles H. Sawyer and Miss
Edna S. Wilcox, both of Georgetown.
In this city,* Mar. 30, 1876, Mr. Edgar Janney of Loudon Co., Va., and
Miss Mary Brown McPherson of Washington, D. C.
In the Episcopal Church, Roselle, N. J., May 15, 1878, Frederic M. Cooper
and Isabel Fay, both of Roselle.
In New York City, July 31, 1878, Mr. Peter Hamilton of Baltimore, Md.,
and Miss Mary Russell of New York City.
In Elizabeth, N. J., Oct. 30, 1878, Mr. Wm. R. Bennett and Miss Abbie L.
Hatch, both of Elizabeth.
In Jersey City (Church of the Good Shepherd), Sept. 10, 1879, Mr. Frank H.
Westervelt and Miss Eunie M. Layden, both of Jersey City.
In Ehzabeth, N. J., Feb. 2, 1881, Mr. Charles P. HaU of Elizabeth, N. J.,
and Miss Carrie L. Ellis of Kingston, Ulster Co., N. Y.
In Brooklyn, E. D., Mar. 23, 1881, Mr. William H. Sutton of New York
City and Mrs. Maria A. Boyd of Brooklyn, E. D.
•In this and the following entries, as far as and including the entry of Sept. 4, 1873, the words
" this city " refer to Middletown, Conn.
tWaahington, D. C.
190 Genealogical Research in England [July
In Brooklyn, E. D., Mar. 23, 1881, Mr. Clinton Stanford Harris of Elizabeth,
N. J., and Miss Julia Smith Fay of Brooklyn, E. D.
In New York City, Mar. 29, 1881, Mr. John Franklin Connell and Miss
Emma Louise Reed, both of New York City.
In Middletown, Conn., Dec. 20, 1883, Mr. Fredk Bound Chaffee and Miss
Mary Mather Brewer, both of Rliddletown.
In Nyack, N. Y., Oct. 7, 1885, Mr. Peter G. MacMillan and Miss Josephine
Partridge, both of Nyack.
In the Universalist Church, in Newark, N. J., Nov. 11, 1885, Mr. WUliam
Meeker Littell and Miss Violet McGregor, both of Newark.
In this city (Brooklyn, E. D.), and in our home, 228 Keap St., Dec. 15, 1S85,
Mr. Henry H. Brewster of New Rochelle, N. Y., to Charlotte Fay of
Brooklyn, E. D.
In this city (Brooklyn, N. Y.), June 15, 1886, JNIr. Herman Eugene Piatt of
Rochester, N. Y., and Miss Ella Woolley of Brooklyn, E. D.
In the Universalist Church, Jersey City, N. J., Dec. 7, 1886, Mr. Edward
Grinsdale and Miss Annie Eldridge Smith, both of Jersey City.
In Arlington, Keaney Township, Hudson Co., N. J., June 7, 1888, Campbell
Valentine Schuyler and Sarah Tryon Hubbard, both of Arlington.
In Brooklyn, N. Y., Sept. 26, 1888, Mr. Robert H. Gibbs and Miss Emily R.
Holmes, both of Brooklyn.
In Hartford, Conn., Dec. 28, 1889, Mr. Fred T. Wetherbee of Springfield,
Mass., and Miss Agnes Hubbard of Hartford.
In this city (Brooklyn, N. Y.), Sept. 6, 1893, Mr. George A. Wild and Miss
Minnie Mildred Goshawk, both of this city.
In this city (Brooklyn), Jan. 10, 1894, Mr. George Henry Whitman and Mrs.
Elizabeth Coombs Bayley, both of Brooklyn.
In this city (Brooklyn, N. Y.), Apr. 25, 1894, ]\Ir. Edward Sherman Watkins
and Miss Frances AmeUa Fowler, both of Brooklyn.
In this city, Brooklyn, N. Y., Jan. 15, 1896, Mr. George Shipman Diossy
and Mrs. Maud Dorothea Brush, both of Brooklyn, N. Y.
In this city (Brooklyn, N. Y.), Apr. 22, 1897, Mr. Albert Thompson and Miss
I ' Lina Olsen, both of Brooklyn, N. Y.
I In Westfield, Union Co., N. J., Nov. 11, 1899, Mr. Joseph Cady Staples of
I Philadelphia, Pa., and Mrs. Annie Hubbard Wright of Westfield, N. J.
i In New York City (Borough of Brooklyn), June 30, 1900, Mr. Arthur Middle-
I ton Hubbard of this city and Miss Edith Hubbard of Westfield, N. J.
I In Borough of Brooklyn, New York City, Oct. 16, 1901, Mr. Roger C.
1 Aldrich of Passaic, N. J., and ]\Iiss Mary A. Locke of Brooklyn.
GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH IN ENGLAND
Communicated by the Committee on English Research
[Continued from page 133]
Sheffield
Contributed by G. Andrews Moriartt, Je., A.M., LL.B., of Newport, R. I.
In this article is given the parentage of Edmund, WiUiam, Amos,
and Ichabod Sheffield, early settlers of New England, with a brief
word as to the Sheffield family in England.
1923] Genealogical Research in England 191
The SheflBeld family is of Northern origin, the cradle of the race
being in and about Sheffield in Yorkshire. At a very early date a
gentle branch of the family was living in the neighboring county of
Rutland, and in the reign of Henry III tie Lincolnshire branch was
already settled around Butterwick. This family became very eminent.
Edmund Sheffield of Butterwick was raised to the peerage in the
reign of Henry VIII as Baron Sheffield of Butterwick, and his descend-
ant John Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham, a well-known statesman
in the reign of Queen Anne, built Buckingham House, which was
bought by King George III in 1761, was remodelled in the first part
of the nineteenth centuiy, and, as Buckingham Palace, is now the
j London residence of the EngUsh kings.
I The Sheffield family of New England came from Sudbury, co.
Suffolk; but the name occurs nowhere else in Suffolk, and at the
time of the emigration to New England they had been there but a
short time. It is probable that they were an offshoot of the Sheffields
who were settled in Essex. It may be noted that the name Edmimd,
i a favorite one in the Lincolnshire family, occurs constantly in the
i ^ Sudbury family and among their descendants in New England.
I
[ From Probate Records
I Administration on the estate of Edmund Sheiffeild, late of Ballingdon
5 in the Parish of All Saints, Sudbury, deceased, was granted 4 January 1630
I [1630/1] to Humphrey Sheiffeild, son of the deceased, with the consent of
I the widow, Thomazine. Inventory, £24. 6s. 6d. (Archdeaconry of Sudbury,
I Administrations [at Bury St. Edmunds], vol. 3, fo. 7.)
\ The Will of George Sheffeild of Sudbury [co. Suffollc], dated 10 July
s 1671. To my wife Mary aU my messuages and lands in the city of Norwich
I or elsewhere, for life, she paying to my two children, Elizabeth and Mary
\ Shefloield, and to my imbom child £3 each at the age of twenty-one years.
; After my said wife's death said estates are to be divided among my said
children. Residue to my said wife, whom I make executrix. Witnesses:
I Marke Salter, Sam. Pannill, John Catsby. Proved 12 March 1671/2 by the
executrix. (Archdeaconry of Sudbury [at Bury St. Edmunds], Register
f Franklin,' fo. 273.)
From the Registers of the Pamsh of All Saints,
Sudbury, co. Suffolk
Baptisms
1608 Humphrey son of Edmond Sheffeld 30 November.
1610 Thomasine daughter of Edmond Sheffeild 17 July.
1612 Edmond son of Edmond Sheffeild 16 August.
1619 William son of Edmond Sheffield 15 November.
1635 Elizabeth daughter of Edmond Sheffield 12 March [1635/6].
From the Transcripts of the Registers of the Parish of St. Peter,
Sudbury, co. Suffolk*
Baptisms
1627 Amos son of Edmond Sheffeld — December.
1630 Ichabod son of Edmond Sheffeld 23 December.
•The entries given under this heading were found on some loose sheets at Bury St. Edmunds
by Mr. J. Gardner Bartlett, who made the investigations regarding the Sheffield family.
192 Genealogical Research in England [July
Burial
1598 Thomas SheflBeld, last maker, 29 June.
From the Records of the Borough of Sudbury, co. Suffolk
3 September, 8 Charles I [1632]. Thomasine Sheffield, widow, presented
for not going to her parish church of All Saints.
18 January, 9 Charles I [1633/4]. Edward [sic] ShefifeUd presented for not
attending his parish church of All Saints.
From the foregoing English records and from New England sources
the following pedigree has been deduced.
1. Thomas Sheffield, of Sudbury, co. Suffolk, England, last
maker, born probably about 1550, was buried at St. Peter's, Sudbury,
29 June 1598. He married .
He was probably the father of
2. i. Edmund, b. about 1580.
2. Edmund Sheffield (? Thomas), of the parish of All Saints,
Sudbury, co. Suffolk, England, bom about 1580, died before
4 Jan. 1630/1, when administration on his estate was granted
. to his son Humphrey. He married, about 1607, Thomazine
, who was cited on 3 Sept. 1632 for not attending her
parish church of All Saints.
, ■ Children:
i. Humphrey, bapt. at All Saints', Sudbury, 30 Nov. 1608.
ii. Thomazine, bapt. at All Saints', Sudbury, 17 July 1610.
3. iii. Edmund, bapt. at All Saints', Sudbury, 16 Aug. 1612.
4. iv. William, bapt. at All Saints', Sudbury, 15 Nov. 1619.
V. Amos, bapt. at St. Peter's, Sudbury, — Dec. 1627; apparently the
Amos Sheffield who d. at Braintree, Mass., 31 Dec. 1708.
5. vi. IcHABOD, bapt. at St. Peter's, Sudbury, 23 Dec. 1630.
3. Edmund Sheffield (Edmund, ? Thomas), of the parish of All
Saints, Sudbury, co. Suffolk, England, and of Braintree, Mass.,
baptized at All Saints', Sudbury, 16 Aug. 1612, died at Braintree
13 Oct. 1705, "being about 90 years." He probably married
first, in England, , who probably died in England;*
i secondly, at Roxbury, Mass., 17 Apr. 1644, IMary Woodie,
I who died at Braintree 30 Mar. 1662, daughter of Richard; and
I thirdly, at Braintree, 5 Sept. 1662, Sarah (Beale) Marsh,
; who died at Braintree 9 Nov. 1710, "Aged about 84 years,"
daughter of John Beale of Hingham, Mass., and widow of
Thomas Marsh of the same town.
He was presented at Sudburj^, 18 Jan. 1633/4, for not attend-
ing his parish church of All Saints. He emigrated to New
England, settled at Roxbury, Mass., and was admitted a free-
man there 29 May 1644. He removed in 1645^ to Braintree,
■; and resided there the rest of his life. Judge Samuel SewaU, in
l his Diary, under date of 26 Mar. 1704, states that he heard
i preaching at Braintree and that "One Sheffield, a very good
I "That Edmund ShefBeld had a wife in England, before he came to New England, 13 inferred
] from the record of the baptism of his daughter Elizabeth at All Saints', Sudbury, 12 Mar. 1635/6.
1923] Genealogical Research in England 193
aged Christian, of about 90 years old, was there, who, as
was expected, was never like to have come abroad more."
Child by first wife :
i. EuzABETH, bapt. at All Saints', Sudbury, 12 Mar. 1635/6; probably
d. in England, since no record of her being in New England has been
found.
Children by second wife, the first child born at Roxbury, the
others at Braintree:
ii. John, b. 6 Mar. 1644/5.
iii. Edmund, b. 15 Dec. 1646.
iv. Ann, b. 1 Apr. 1649.
. V. Isaac, b. 15 Mar. 1650/1.
■ vi. Mart, b. 14 June 1653; d. at Braintree 7 Dec. 1660.
vii. Matthew, b. 26 May 1655.
viii. Samuel, b. 26 Nov. 1657.
ix. Sarah, b. 6 June 1660. f
Children by third wife, born at Braintree:
X. Mart, b. 20 June 1663.
i - xi. Nathaniel, b. 16 Mar. 1664/5.
I xii. Deborah, b. 23 June 1667; d. at Braintree 18 Jan. 1690/1.
i
j 4. William Sheffield (£?dwMnd, ? r^omas), of Sudbury, CO. Suffolk,
I England, and of New England, baptized at All Saints', Sudbury,
I 15 Nov. 1619, died at Sherbom, Mass., 6 Dec. 1700. He
5 married, about 1659, Mary , who died at Sherbom 31
I Oct. 1714, aged 78.
I It is not kiaown at what date he came to New England; but
\ he was residing at Dover, N. H., together with his brother
i Ichabod, in 1658. In 1660 he was of Braintree, Mass., in 1673
I he was among the first settlers of Holliston and Sherborn,
I Mass., and in 1686 he paid the third highest tax in the last-
"; mentioned town. He appears, with his brother Edmund, to
I have bought, prior to 1672, a tract of land of Lieut. Joshua
I Fisher of Dedham, Mass., at Chabboquasset, in what afterwards
- . became Sherborn. In his will, dated 14 Oct. 1698 and proved
at Cambridge 24 Mar. 1700/1, he mentions his house in Boston.
Children:
i. Rachel, b. at Braintree 24 May 1660; d. young.'
ii. Hannah, b. 18 Apr. 1663.*
iii. Daniel, b. 3 Mar. 1665.*
iv. William, b. 19 Mar. 1667.*
V. Martha, b. 8 Jan. 1668.*
vi. Joseph, b. 3 Mar. 1671;* o"f Dover, N. H., 9 May 1733.
vii. Thamasine, b. at Sherborn (?) 25 May 1673; m. Jonathan Admis.
viii. Susanna, b. at Sherborn 12 Dec. 1675; m. at Sherborn, 1 Sept. 1697,
Zuriel Hall.
ix. Elizabeth, b. at Sherborn 28 Nov. 1678.
X. Nathaniel, b. at Sherborn 7 Mar. 1681.
] xi. Mart, m. John Clark.
I xii. Rachel, m. .
I . 5. Ichabod Sheffield (Edmund, ? Thomas), of Portsmouth, R. I.,
I baptized at St. Peter's, Sudbury, co. Suffolk, England, 23 Dec.
i 1630, died at Newport, R. I., 4 Feb. 1712. He married at
f
\ *The birth of this child ia recorded at Sherborn. but the child was probably not born there.
194 Inscriptions at Old Lyme, Conn. [July
Portsmouth, in 1660, Mabt Pakker, daughter of George and
I Frances of that town.
I He first appears at Portsmouth on 10 July 1648, when he
I ■ was received as a freeman there. In 1658 he was taxed at
I " Dover, N. H., with his brother WUliam, In 1690 he was deputy
I to the Rhode Island Assembly from Portsmouth. He is buried
I in the Clifton Burying Groimd at Newport, where his grave-
I stone states incorrectly that he was eighty-six years old.
I Children, bom at Portsmouth, R. I.:
\ i. Joseph,* of Portsmouth, b. 22 Aug. 1661; d. in Feb. 1705/6; m. 12
J Feb. 1684/5 Mary Sheeiff, dau. of Thomas of Plymouth and
5 ' Portsmouth. He was assistant, 1696 and 1698-1705, and attorney
I general of Rhode Island, 1704-1706, and was appointed Colonial
agent to England, 2 Feb. 1702/3. Seven children,
ii. Maby, b. 30 Apr. 1664.
iii. Nathaniel, of Newport, R. I., merchant, b. 18 Apr. 1667; d. 12 Nov.
1729; m. (1) Mary Chamberlain, dau. of William of Hull, Mass.;
m. (2) Catherine (Clarke) Gould, dau. of Gov. Walter Clarke
of Newport and widow of James Gould. He was assistant, 1713-
14, and major for the Island, 1710, 1712, 1714-1716. He is bur. in
the Clifton Burying Ground at Newport. Five children.
I iv. IcHABOD,t of South Kin^town, R. I., b. 6 Mar. 1669/70; d. between
J 17 Sept. 1729, when his will was dated, and 4 June 1736, when it
I was proved; m. 27 Dec. 1694 Elizabeth Manchester, dau. of
• . William and Mary (Cook). Six children.
I v. Amos, of Tiverton, R. I., b. 25 June 1673; d. in 1710, while serving as
I . , a captain in the expedition against Canada; m. (1) 5 Mar. 1695/6
J Anne Peaece, dau. of John and Mary (Tallman) ; m. (2) 22 Dec.
I 1708 Sarah Davis, dau. of Aaron and Mary. He was selectman of
I Tiverton, 1705-1707, and town treasurer, 1709. His will, dated
I 17 Apr. 1707, was proved 7 June 1710. Four children by first wife
I and one son by second wife.
\ INSCRIPTIONS FROM GRAVESTONES AT OLD LYME,
i CONN.
I From a copy in the possession of the New England Historic
I Genealogical Society
I. The part of ancient Saybrook that lay east of the Connecticut
I River was first settled by white people in 1664, and was called East
i Saybrook. On 13 Feb. 1665 [1665/6], however, the inhabitants of
this region, "desiring to be a plantation by themselves," entered
into an agreement with the older settlment by which "a Loving
parting" was brought about, and in 1667 they organized the town
I of Lyme, which took its name from the parish of Ljnne-Regis, on
the south coast of Dorset, England. From time to time in the nine-
teenth century the territory forming the town of Lyme was dimin-
ished by setting off portions of it to form new towns or parts of new
towns. Thus, in 1819, part of northern Lyme was joined with parts
'Ancestor of the well-kaown Sheffield family of Rhode leland.
tAncestor of the Sheffields of New Haven. Conn.
i
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I of Colchester and Montville to form the town of Salem, in 1839 the
f town of East Lyme was organized out of the eastern part of Lyme,
and in 1855 the southern and oldest section of Lyme was established
as a separate town and called Old Lyme. Therefore the yoimgest
town formed from the territory of liyme contains the region where
the earliest white settlements were made, the most historic part of
the original town of Lyme.
The New England Historic Genealogical Society possesses a
verbatim copy, made by Mrs. M. M. LeBrun, of the inscriptions prior
to 1850 that are found on gravestones within the limits of the old
town of Lyme; and the genealogical, biographical, and historical
information imparted by these inscriptions will be published in con-
densed form in this and succeeding niunbers of the Register. In
editing the inscriptions such introductory phrases as "Sacred to the
Memory of," "In Memory of," "Here Ues the Body of," etc., have
been in most cases omitted, the word "died" has been substituted
for longer expressions, such as "departed this life," which some-
times occur, the dates have been given in uniform style, with the
usual abbreviations for the names of the months, and the verses or
additional lines so common on gravestones have been omitted, unless
they contain inforniation that should be preserved. All titles or forms
of address found in the inscriptions have been retained in the printed
copy, and names of persons are spelled as they are given in the manu-
script copy, but the punctuation has been inserted by the Editor.
In this article appears the first instalment of the inscriptions
found in the present town of Old Lyme.
Duck River Cemetery
Elisha, son of Jonathan Alger, died Apr. 12, 1742, aged 5 days.
Elizabeth, daughter of Jonathan Alger, died Mar. 7, 1741, aged 2,
Jane, wife of Jonathan Alger, died Feb. 26, 1745, in her 22d year.
John, son of Mr. John & Mary Alger, bom Aug. 13, 1729, died Nov, 5, 1729'.-
Mary, daughter of Mr. John & Mary Alger, bom Nov. 13, 1735, died Mar. 11,
1736.
Mr. Roger Alger died Aug. 2, 1759, in his 73d year.
Ruth, daughter of Mr. Jonathan & Mrs. Lydia Alger, died Apr. 20, 1764,
aged 7 months, 16 da}^.
Sarah Alger, daughter of Mr, Jonathan & Mjs. Iranah Alger, died Mar. 16,
1766, in her 21st year.
Susannat^ daughter of Mr, Jonathan & Mrs. Lydia Alger, died Mar, 13,
1764, in her 4th year.
Temperence, wife of Mr. John Alger, died Sept. 8, 1727, aged 23 years.
[Words missing] John & Mary Alger, died July 23, 1735, in his 5th year.*
Miss Sarah Alsop died Sept. 6, 1798, in her 38th year.
Mrs. Anna Anderson, wife of Daniel Anderson, died Oct. 6, 1802, aged 22
years, 7 months, 2 days.
Betsey J., daughter of John and Abbey Anderson, died Jan. 18, 1835, Ae. 20.
Daniel Anderson died Mar. 20, 1839, Ae. 63.
Mrs. Elizabeth Anderson, Relict of Mr. John Anderson, died Jan, 20, 1816,
in her 97th year,
Elizabeth D., daughter of Daniel & Francis P. Anderson, died May 14, 1842,
Ae, 7 weeks.
♦Evidently an inscription to a son of John and Mary Alger.
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196 Inscriptions at Old Lyme, Conn. [July
Hannah, wife [sic] of Thomas Anderson, died Feb. 25, 1734, aged 6 years and
half.^
Hannah Anderson, 1745, aged 77 years.
Hepzibah, wife of Capt. Daniel AJoderson, died Oct. 7, 1824, Aet. 38.
Jarusha, daughter of Daniel & Anna Anderson, died Mar. 31, 1802, aged
• 3 months, 1 day.
Joanne, daughter of John & Lydia Anderson, died Oct. 1, 1805, in her 10th
year.
Mr. John Anderson, Junr., died Sept. 29, 1805, in his 54th year.
Mr. John Anderson died Sept. 30, 1805, in his 94th year.
John, son of Daniel & Hepzibah Anderson, died Feb. 3, 1832, Ae. 11 years,
6 months.
John I., son of John & Abby Anderson, died July 17, 1822, aged 3 months.
Lydia, wife of John Anderson, died Aug. 2, 1838, aged 82.
An infant daughter of Daniel & Hepzibah Anderson died Oct. 3, 1805, aged
3 days.
Capt. David Avery died Sept. 13, 1816, Ae. 48.
Mary A. Avery died Oct. 5, 1849, aged 54 years.
Calvin M., son of Calvin & Eimice Banning, died Sept. 18, 1816, aged 2 years.
,Mrs. Eunice, wife of Calvin Banning, died Apr. 23, 1835, Ae. 49.
Esther Beckwith died Dec. 7, 1806, aged 47 years.
Mathew Beckwith died June 14, 1727, in his 84th year. "
Richard Bonlen, Junr., died Dec. 20, 1730, in his 24th year.
I Mr. William, son of Mj. William Borden, died Mar. 11, 1725, aged 20 years.
I Aaron S. Brockway died Nov. 1, 1849, Ae. 35 years.
I ■ Bridget, daughter of John & Mary Brockway, died Sept. 5, 1731, aged
1 23 years.
I Richard Brockway died July 24, 1843, Ae. 62.
I Woll'stan Brockway, Juner, died May 15, 1707, aged 38 years.
i Arnold Brown died suddenly Feb. 5, 1841, Ae. 66.
I Arnold Brown died Apr. 3, 1849, aged 63.
1 Mary R., widow of Arnold Brown, died Apr. 3, 1849, aged 63,
I Our Bessie, daughter of Rev. J. & E. N. Burnett, died Sept. 2, 1859, aged
i 4 years, 2 months.
f . Anna Bumham, Relict of Capt. John Bumham, died June 11, 1843, Ae. 68.
> Betsey Bumham, daughter of Capt. Josiah & Mrs. Thankful! Bumham, died
t Sept. 30, 1790, aged 23 years.
I Mrs. Elizabeth Bumham, wife of Capt. John Bumham, died Aug. 25, 1803,
? aged 31 years.
i Elizabeth, daughter of John & Anne Bumham, died Jime 7, 1820, Ae. 12.
■ Eunice Bumham, formerly wife of Joseph Smith ye 4th, died Aug. 17, 1810,
i . aged 37 years.
' James Bumham, son of Mr. Josiah & Mrs. Thankful Bumham, died Oct. 3,
1758, aged 1 year, 6 months.
Mr. James Bumham died Oct. 24,4807, in his 48th year.
I Capt. John Bumham, died Jan. 2, 1833, aged 67 years. "An affectionate
husband & kind parent. "
Joseph Bumham, son of Mr. Joseph & Mrs. Miriam Bumham, died Apr. 26,
1780, aged 14 months.
Joseph Bumham, 2d, son of IMr. Joseph & Mrs. Miriam Bumham, died
' Dec. 17, 1783, aged 13 years [sic].
■Capt. Joseph Bumham died Dec. 28, 1834, Ae. 80.
Capt. Josiah Bumham died June 3, 1861, Ae. 88.
Mrs. Lucy Bumham, wife of Capt. Josiah Bumham, died July 24, 1807,
aged 30 years.
Mehetable, widow of James Bumham, died Dec. 10, 1849, Ae. 89 years.
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Miss Meriam C. Bumham died July 6, 1814, aged 24 years, 5 months,
8 days. "Graceful in all her sfeps, Heaven in her eye, in every gesture
Dignity and Love. "
Mrs. Miriam Bumham, wife of Capt. Joseph Bumham, died Aug. 12, 1707
[sic], in her 4l8t year.
Polly Bumham, daughter of Joseph & Miriam Bumham, died Oct. 1, 1792,
aged 7 years, 8 months.
Polly, daughter of Capt. John & Mrs. Betsey Bumham, died May 10, 1799,
aged 1 year.
Rebecca Burnham, daughter of Joseph & Miriam Bumham, died May 17,
1792, aged 4 (kys.
Samuel G. Bumham, son of Mr. Joseph & Mrs. Miriam Bumham, died
Nov. 29, 1783, aged 11 months.
Samuel G. Bumham, son of Joseph & Eunice Bumham, died June 18, 1799,
aged 1 day.
William J., son of Capt. Josh Bumham, died in New York of the Cholera,
July 14, 1832, Ae. 23 years, 2 months, 14 days.
[Words missing] Capt. Josiah Bumham died Dec. 27, 1803, in his 8th year.*
Asa Button died Sept. 21, 1825, Ae. 69.
Clarrisa Fitch, his wife, died Aug. 22, 1845, Ae, 70.
Delia, wife of David Caulkins, died Dec. 15, 1833, Ae. 42.
Emelme, daughter of David & Mary Caulkins, died July 29, 1823, aged 12
years.
Francis died Apr. 20, 1819, Ae. 2 years.
Orrin died Oct. 30, 1828, Ae. 5 years, 10 months.
Mary Ann died Sept. 19, 1834, Ae. 5 years, 11 months.
Children of Roswell & Mary Caulkins.
Lebbeus Peck, son of David & Mary Caulkins, died Apr. 23, 1823, aged
2 years, 7 months.
Mary, wife of David Caulkins, died Aug. 21, 1828, aged 41 years.
Stephen L. Caulkins, son of David & Mary Caulkins, died at sea May 12,
1836, aged 20.
Amy Chadwick died Feb. 17, 1847, aged 53 years.
Anna, daughter of Mr. Daniel & Mrs. Cateriney Chadwick, died Oct. 8,
1767, in her 22d year.
Mr. Daniel Chadwick died Jan. 10, 1784, in his 45th year.
Elestheba [?] Chadwick died Sept. 12, 1719, aged 2 years.
Mrs. Elisabeth, only daughter of Mr. James & Mrs. Martha Chadwick, died
Sept. 27, 1776, in her 20th year.
Exmice Chadwick, widow of Guy Chadwick, died Apr. 25, 1813, Ae. 82.
Mr. Guy Chadwick died Dec. 17, 1792, in his 65th year.
Loruhamah, relict of Stephen Chadwick, died Apr. 20, 1835, aged 78 years.
Martha Chadwick, Relict of Reuben Chadwick, died Sept. 20, 1836, Ae. 86.
Mehetable, wife of George H. Chadwick, died Oct. 26, 1829, aged 29.
Mrs. Mehitable Chadwick died Sept. 25, 1821, Ae. 57 years.
Deacon Reuben Chadwick died July 17, 1836, Ae. 95.
Mr. Richard Chadwick died Jan. 26, 1836, Ae. 80.
Silas, son of Nath[a]n & Sarah Chadwick, died Nov. 25, 1743, in his 15th
year.
Stephen Chadwick died June 30, 1828, aged 76.
Ursula A. Raymond, wife of J. M. Chadwick, died Nov. 30, 1848, aged 42.
Infant Daughter of David & Nancy Chadwick died Jan. 21, 1839.
Mr. David Champion died Mar. 11, 1822, aged 23 years & 2 months.
EUsha, son of Capt. Elisha & Mrs. Phebe Champion, died at BamweU Court
House, So. Carolina, Aug. 26, 1812, Aet. 21.
*!EvideDtIy an inscriptioii to a child of Capt. Josiah Burnham. Verses beginning \«-ith the
words "Frail child" form part of the inscription.
198 Inscriptions at Old Lyme, Conn. [July
Capt. Elisha Champion died Apr. 23, 1815, in his 58th year.
Mr. Henry Champion ye 2d died in July 1704, in his 49th year.
Mr. Henry Champion, Senr., died in 1708, in his 97th year.
Henry, son of Lieut. Henry & Mrs. Sarah Champion, died Apr. 22, 1768,
in his 16th year.
Capt. Henry Champion died Apr. 3, 1780, in his 97th year.
Capt. Henry Champion died May 16, 1791, in his 63d year.
Mrs. Hepsabah, Consort of Mr. Lynde Champin [sic, Champion] died Apr.
22, 1786, in her 20th year.
Capt. Roswell Champion died Jan. 24, 1824, Ae. 58.
Mrs. Sarah, wife of Capt. Henry Champion, died Sept. 27, 1748, in her
62d year.
Mrs. Sarah Champion, wife of Capt. Henry Champion, died Aug. 7, 1769,
in her ■37th year.
Miss Sarah Champion died May 10, 1813, aged 48 years.
George Champlin died Mar. 17, 1848, Ae. 79.
Henry, son of Mr. George & Mrs. Eunes Champlin, died Dec. 3, 1816, Ae.
9 months.
Nathan Champlin died Jan. 10, 1816, Ae. 84.
Mrs. Phebe Champlin, wife of Mr. Silas Champlin, died Feb. 19, 1787, in
her 60th year.
Josephine, daughter of Benjamin F. & Nancy Chappell, died Oct. 30, 1845,
Ae. 6 weeks.
Abraham Clark died Aug. 1, 1847, aged 65 years.
Mrs. Elizabeth, relict of Mr. Sylvanus Clark, died May 21, 1817, aged
66 years.
Mr. Gurden Clark died Apr. 11, 1819, Ae. 70.
Mrs. Ruth, wife of Mr. Gurden Clark, died Aug. 11, 1809, Aet. 53.
Mr. Silvanus Clark died Mar. 8, 1800, in his 49th year.
Thede, wife of Stephen Collins, died Apr. 3, 1813, ^ed 34 years.
Mrs. Abigail, Relict of Mr. John Colt, died Mar. 12, 1820, aged 86 years.
Alaxander J. Comstock, Oct. 5, 1825, Jan. 22, 1835.
James A., son of Prentice & Lynda Comstock, died Jan. 21, 1836, Ae. 9 years.
James G., son of Nathaniel R. & Hetta H. Conklin, died Jime 22, 1834,
Ae. 3 years.
Capt. Nathl. ©onklin died Mar. 23, 1817, aged 60 years.
DoUy W., daughter of Capt. Nathaniel & Gemima Conkling, died July 21,
1822, aged 21 years.
Gordon Conkling died May 9, 1831, Ae. 28.
Jemima, wife of Nathaniel Conkling, died Jan. 24, 1833, Ae. 68.
Mrs. Deborah Cook died Dec. 7, 1768, in her 59th year.
Abby Marvin, daughter of John L. & Abbey Higby, an adopted child of
William & Mary Coult, died Dec. 29, 1846, Ae. 6 years.
Abigail M., daughter of William & Anna Coult, died Jan. 9, 1828, Ae. 27.
Anna, wife of William Coult, died Oct. 11, 1802, aged 29.
Anna Marvin, daughter of Wm. & Nancy Coult, died Oct. 5, 1802, aged
4 months.
Benjamin Coult died Sept. 24, 1838, aged 76. /
Mrs. Elizabeth, wife of Benjamin Coult, died Aug. 30, 1836, Ae. 67.
George Coult died Mar. 29, 1841, Ae. 36.
Capt. John Coult died Jan. 2, 1751, aged 90 years.
John, son of John & Mary Coult, died Feb. 17, 1754, in his 6th year.
Mr. John Coult died May 27, 1784, in his 60th year.
John D., son of Mr. Benjamin & ^^Irs. Betsy Coult, died Apr. 9, 1796, in
his 12th month.
Mrs. Mary Coult, wife of Mr. John Coult, died Aug. 9, 1759, in her 29th year.
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Mrs. Mary Coult, wife of Mr. John Goult, died Oct. 15, 1767, in her 26th
year.
Mary Ann, daughter of George & Catharine Coult, died Sept. 30, 1832,
Ae. 17 days.
Nancy Coult, daughter of WiUiam & Mary Coult, died Aug. 26, 1845, Ae. 36.
Mr. Samuel Coult died Feb. 23, 1743, in his 38th year.
An infant son of George & Catharine Coult, bom July 14, 1836,
Horace F., son of Thomas C. & EUza M. Daniels, died May 26, 1844, aged
2 years, 7 months.
Francis C. Darrow, son of James & Sally Darrow, died Jan. 10, 1810, aged
1 year, 3 months.
Richard, son of Richard & Lucy Ann Dean, died July 17, 1845, Ae. 14.
John, son of Mr. John Denison & Patience his wife, died Dec. 11, 1736, aged
5 years, 4 months, 24 days. '
Lieut. John Denison died Nov. 28, 1776, in his 79th year.
Mrs. Patience, Consort of Lieut. John Denison, died Nov. 8, 1776, in her
75th year.
Phebe, daughter of Mr. John Denison & Patience his wife, died Dec. 28,
1741, aged 2 years, 11 months, 7 days.
Mr. Robert Denison died Dec. 19, 1787, in his 38th year [duplicate inscnption:
Aet.38].
! Samuel, son of Mr. John Denison & Patience his wife, died Dec. 1, 1736,
1 aged 3 years, 3 months, 10 days.
\ Samuel, son of Mr. John Denison & Patience his wife, died July 15, 1741,
i aged 5 weeks.
I Mrs. Anna, wife of Mr. Josiah DeWolf, died Dec. 21, 1752, in her 63d year.
Mr. Daniel DeWolf, A. M., died Oct. 10, 1752, in his 26th year.
f. Mr. Edward DeWolf died Mar. 24, 1712, in his 66th year.
I Hannah, daughter of Josiah Dewolf , Jimr., & Martha his wife, died Sept. 23,
* 1753, in her 5th year.
'' Hester, daughter of Mr. Benjm. & Margeret DeWolf, died Aug. 6, 1736, in
i her 10th year.
; Jehiel, son of Mr. Benjm. & Margeret DeWolf, died Feb. 12, 1727, in his
i 2d year.
I Mrs. Margerit, wife of Mr. Benj. DeWolf, died Sept. 28, 1742, in her 46th
\ year.
I Phebe, daughter of Mr. Benjm. & Margret DeWolf, died Oct. 10, 1736, in
I her 5th year.
•- Phebe, daughter of Mr. Benjm. and Margeret Dewolf, died Sept. 15, 1742,
aged 1 year, 10 days.
Mrs. Sarah DeWolf, wife of Mr. Stephen DeWolf, died Jan. 12, 1777, in her
22d year.
Mrs. Theodey DeWolf, 2d wife of Mr. Stephen DeWolf, died July 20, 1798,
in her 40th year.
Winthrop DeWolf died Oct. 20, 1847, Ae. 40 years.
Hepzibah C, his wife, died Mar. 24, 1884, Ae. 70 years.
Winthrop Buck DeWolf, son of Mr. Stephen & Mrs. Theodey DeWolf, died
July 17, 1802, in his 7th year.
Thomas E., son of Joseph D. & Sarah H. Dimmock, died Mar. 12, 1850, aged
3 months, 19 days.
Mrs. Harriet Dorr, wife of Abraham Dorr, daughter of Lynde & Anna
i Champion, died Aug. 2, 1818, aged 23 years.
' Capt. David Dowzick died Apr. 7, 1747, Ae. 28.
Capt. Joel Dowzick died Nov. 19, 1813, Ae. 30.
Mrs. Abagall, formerly wife of Mr. Joseph Lord, died the wife of Mr.
Josiah Dwolf, Oct. 16, 1773, in her 73d year.
200 Inscriptions at Old Lyme, Conn. (July
Lucy Dwoolf, daughter of Mr. Benjamin & Mrs. Lucy Dwoolf, died Oct. 15,
1751, aged 6 years, 7 months.
Charles Henry Ely, son of John & Margaret S. Ely of Albany, died Apr. 30,
1818, ag&i 1 year, 3 months, 1 day.
Elisabeth Ely, wife of Deacon Richard Ely, died Oct. 8, 1730, in her 26th
year.
Elizabeth Ann, daughter of Mr. Oliver & Mrs. Louisa G. Ely, died Feb. 28,
1817, Ae. 4 weeks.
Mrs. Esther Lord, ReUct of Mr. Thomas Lord, died Relict of Mr. Jona-
than Emmons of E. Haddam, Feb. 3, 1792, in her 85th year.
Ann Lee, daughter of James and Elizabeth Fors3^h of Pensacola, Florida,
died in Lyme, aged 15 years.
Emma S., wife of Samuel S. Fowler of Albany & daughter of John Marvin,
Lyme, died Aug. 9, 1827, Ae. 22 years, 1 month, 3 days.
Kathaxin Freeman died Dec. 5, 1813, in her 85th year.
Nancy Freeman died Aug. 8, 1853, aged 82 years, daughter of Jenny Freeman,
who died Dec. 6, 1832, aged 84 years.
Pomp Freeman, son of Prince and Jenny Freeman, died Aug. 9, 1822, in his
16th year.
Prince Freeman died Jan. 31, 1826, aged 52 years.
Solem [sic] Freeman died Dec. 18, 1812, in his 60th year.
Edward L., son of Mr. James & Mrs. Abigail Greenfield, died Dec. 29, 1789,
aged 2 years.
James Greenfield died Aug. 28, 1842, Ae. 87.
Mr. Starr A. Greenfield died May 1, 1793, m his 76th year.
Charles C. died Jan. 25, 1824, Ae. 6 months.
John died Jan. 26, 1830, Ae. 13 months.
Children of Chas. C. & Elizabeth Griswold.
I Clarine Griswold died Apr. 9, 1732, aged 10 months, 10 days.
Diodate J. Griswold, bom Dec. 16, 1773, died Mar. 17, 1850, Ae. 76 years.
I Hannah, daughter of Capt. [Matthew &] Ursula Griswold, bom May 22,
I 1746, died Dec. 15, 1755, aged 9 years, 6 months.
} Hannah Griswold, the widow & relict of John Griswold, Esqir., died May 11,
j 1773, in her 70th year.
I John, son of John Griswold, Esqr., & Hannah his wife, died Jan. 4, 1742,
I aged 2 years, 7 months, 18 days.
[ John Griswold, Esqr., "after having sustained the Public office of Justice of
i the Peace and of the Quorum for many years," died Sept. 29, 1764, in
I his 74th year.
i Deacon John Griswold, bom at Lyme Feb. 20, 1752, died Nov. 22, 1812.
I "He was the eldest son of the first Governor Griswold & brother of the
j second. As a friend and a neighbour he was hospitable, and generous,
I honest, and honorable as a man, and in his faith & life exemplary as a
j Christian, to tell to those who knew liim the place that he was burned
and to offer his character for imitation to those who knew him not,
I This stone to his memory is erected."
j Louisa C, wife of Richard S. Griswold and daughter of James & Caroline
j Mather, bom at Lyme June 18, 1815, died at Brooklyn Mar. 21, 1840,
I and her infant son.
j Mrs. Mary, the Remains of Mr. Mathew Griswold, died Oct. 27, 1724, aged
! 68 years.
Mr. Matthew Griswold died Jan. 13, 1715/16, aged 63 years.
Matthew Griswold, Esqr., late Govemor of the State of Connecticut, died
j Apr. 28, 1799, aged 85 years, 28 days.
I Richard S. Griswold, bom at New York Aug. 20, 1809, died at Hartford,
i Conn., Apr. 2, 1849.
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Mr. Samuel Griswold died June 10, 1727, aged 29 years, 6 months, 10 days.
Mrs. Sarah Griswold, Single woman, died Jan. 4, 17^0, in her 74th year.
Mrs. Sarah Griswold, consort of Deacn. John Griswold, died Jan. 4, 1802,
aged 63 years, 10 months, 26 days.
Mrs. Susannah Griswold, wife of Ensn. Thomas Griswold, died Sept. 25,
1768, in her 46th year.
Thomas Griswold died July 27, 1716, aged 16 years, 5 months.
Ensign Thomas Griswold died July 16, 1770, in his 52d year.
Ursula, daughter of Capt. Matw. Griswold & Ursula his wife, Feb. 14, 1745,
aged 2 months, 27 days.
Mrs. Ursula Griswold, the amiable consort of Matthew Griswold, Esqr., late
Governor of the State of Connecticut, died Apr. 5, 1788, in her 64th
year.
Capt. DanieliHaU died Feb.^3, 1813, in his 69th year.
Ivlrs. Mehitable Hall, Relict of the late Capt. Daniel Hall, died Sept. 28,
1820, aged 69 years.
[Sarah (Sill) Hall, see monument to Silas SDL]
Darius Harding died Mar. 18, 1829, in his 48th year.
Lyman S. Harding died Jan. 25, 1848, Ae. 16. '
Nancy, wife of John Hart, died June 22, 1834, Ae. 44.
Sylvester Hart, son of John & Nancy Hart, died Dec. 7, 1816, Ae. 4 years,
6 months.
Candys Havens, wife of Reuben Havens, died Feb. 21,'1815, Ae. 35.
Edward Havens died Aug. 2, 1843, Ae. 44.
Edward Havens died July 4, 1847, Ae. 73 years.
t Harriet, wife of George Havens, died Apr. 4, 1848, Ae. 47.
Harriet Ann, daughter of George & Harriet Havens, died Aug. 28, 1844, Ae.
11 years, 4 months.
Mr. Reuben Havens died May 16, 1846, Ae. 68.
Wife of Israel Havens died Apr. 27, 1840, Ae. 28.
Mrs. Abby, Consort of Mr. Jonathan Hayes, died July 27, 1818, Ae. 33.
A child of James & Eunice Haynes, Still bom, Feb. 8, 1844.
[Abby Marvin Higby, see inscription to Abby Marvin Coult.]
Chrlstefor Higgins, son of Mr. Christian & Mrs. Dorothy Higgins, died
Jan. 1, 1756, aged 10 months.
Mrs. Elizabeth Higgins, relict of Mr. Sylvanus Higgins, died Dec. 23, 1816,
Ae. 59.
Enoch Higgins, son of Capt. Christian and Mrs. Dorothy Higgins, died
. Jan. 28, 1765, aged 2 years, 5 months.
Mrs. Fanny Higgins, wife of Mr. William Higgins, died Mar. 6, 1785, in her
28th year.
Jemima Higgins, daughter'of Mr. Joseph & Mrs. Marcy Higgins, died Dec.
3, 1758, in her 23d year.
Mr. Joseph Higgins died Dec. 21, 1783, in his 24th year.
Mr. Joseph Higgins died Mar. 21, 1814, in his 75th year.
Mrs. Marcy Higgins, wife of Mr. Joseph Higgins, died Nov. 22, 1768, in her
7l8t year.
Polly Higgins, daughter of WiUm. & Fanny ffiggins, died Feb. 10, 1707, aged
13 years.
Capt. Seth Higgins died May 26, 1797, aged 35 years.
Mr. Sylvanus BUggins died Jan. 30, 1802, in his 65th year.
Capt. Christopher Hill, died Sept. 5, 1800, on his passage from Charleston
to New York, in his 30th year.
Mrs. Edith, wife of Mr. Samuel Hill, died Nov. 16, 1814, Ae. 69.
Edward, son of Samuel & Edith Hill, died Oct. 4, 1777, aged 1 year.
Dea. Edward HiU died Apr. 15, 1828, Ae. 53. "
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Misa Mehetable Hill died Sept. 5, 1845, Ae. 66.
Mr. Samuel Hill died Dec, 8, 1818, Ae. 73.
Samuel L., son of Dea. Edward & Elizabeth Hill, died Sept. 2, 1820, Ae.
1 year, 11 months.
[Emaline Matilda Holmes, see inscription to Emaline Matilda Holmes SiU.]
Mrs. Sarah Hubbel died June 15, 1813, Aet. 67. [On stone between that of
Lieut. John Sill, Oct. 17, 1796, and that of Mrs. Phebe, wife of Mr.
Joseph Sm, Jan. 4, 1772.]
Jemima, wife of John Hughes, died Aug. 14, 1845, Ae. 82.
Capt. John Hughes died Oct. 30, 1843, Ae. 82.
John A. Hughes died Jan. 25, 1841, Ae. 23.
Infant daughter of Capt. John & Mrs. Jemima Hughes died Aug. 31, 1792,
aged 24 hours.
Capt. Michael Huntley died on his passage from Martinique to New York
Jan. 23, 1818, aged 40.
Loisa Maria, daughter of Capt. Michael & Mrs. Mercy R. Huntley,
died Mar. 25, 1818, Ae. 15 months.
Sylvanus H. Huntley died July 27, 1841, aged 32.
Mrs. Abigail, Relict of Rev. Stephen Johnson of Lyme, died Sept. 1, 1817, in
her 87th year.
Mrs. Anna Johnson died Oct. 29, 1838, aged 84, Relict of Capt. Stephen
Johnson.
Diodate Johnson, son of Stephen & Anna Johnson, died Dec. 9, 1783, aged
6 years.
Mrs. Elizabeth Johnson, wife of Rev. Mr. Stephen Johnson, died May 2,
1761, in her 39th year.
Mrs. Mary Johnson, wife of Revd. Stephen Johnson, died Dec. 10, 1772, in
her 33d year.
Nathaniel, son of Rev. Stephen & Mrs. Mary Johnson, bom Aug. 5, died
Mar. 4, 1771, aged 7 months.
Mrs. Rachel, wife of Timothy Johnson, died Oct. 5, 1844, Ae. 46.
Miss Sally Banks Johnson, daughter of the late Capt. Stephen & Anna
Johnson, died Sept. 25, 1802, aged 17 years.
PMonument to the early Pastors at Lyme]
Sacred to the memory of the Rev. Stephen Johnson, Fourth pastor of the
first chimdi in Lyme & member of the Corporation of Yale College.
He was bom at Newark, N. J., May 1724, graduated at Yale College in
1743, ordained Dec. 10, 1746, and died Nov. 8, 1786, in his 63d year.
"He was wise in counsil, mighty in scriptures, powerful in eloquence;
distinguished for his prudence, fortitude, hospitality, patience under
afflictions, Revered by his brethem in the Ministry, as a father in the
Churches & beloved by the people of his charge for his exemplary
fidelity in the service, . . . erected as a token of filial respect by Mrs.
Mary Noyes, wife of Rev. Mathew Noyes, and the ordy surviving
daughter of the deceased."
Pastor[s] of The first Church in this town.
Rev. Moses Noyes, "first pastor and member of the corporation of
Y. C. He officiated in the work of the ministry among his people
sixty three years," and died Nov. 9, 1729, in Ins 86th year.
Rev. Samuel Pierpont, second Pastor, was ordained Dec. 10, 1722,
drowned in passing Connecticut River Mar. 15, 1723, in his 23d
year, and buried on Fishers Island, where his remains were dis-
covered Apr. 28, 1723. •
Rev. Jonathan Parsons, third Pastor, was ordained in 1730, relin-
quished his charge in 1745, and died Pastor of a church in Newbmy--
port July 19, 1776, aged 70.-
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Rev. Edward Porter, fifth Pastor, was ordained Feb. 24, 1790, and
dismissed in consequence of ill health Sept. 19, 1792.
Gapt. Stephen Johnson died Sept. 30, 1791, in his 39th year.
Mr. William Johnson died Jan. 28, 1779, in his 22d year.
A son of Capt. Stephen & Mrs. Anna Johnson, still Bom, July 13, 1776,
Gapt. Benjamin King died Apr. 13, 1780, in his 30th year.
David Lay died Sept. 6, 1843, aged 74 years.
Eveleen, dau^ter of Oliver I. & Mary A. Lay, died 4pr. 22, 1835, Ae. 18
months.
Richard Lay died Aug. 20, 1845, Ae. 57.
Sarah Ann Lay, daughter of David & Lucy Lay, died Feb. 27, 1813.
i Mrs. Deborah, wife of Capt. Ezra Lee, bom Oct. 3, 1752, died June 30, 1826.
I Mrs. Elizabeth Lee, wife of Capt. Abner Lee, died Nov. 2, 1781, aged 57
years.
Ezra Lee, died Oct. 9, 1821, aged 72 years. "He was a Revolutionary officer
And esteemed by Washinton."
Harriet Lee, daughter of James & Hepzibah Lee, died Feb. 3, 1844, aged 47
years.
-Mrs. Luranna Lee, wife of Mr. Dan Lee, died May 14, 1783, aged 28 years.
1 Miss Phebe Lee, daughter of Ezra & Deborah Lee, died Aug. 2, 1805, aged
I 22 years.
I Capt. Richard Lee died Jan. 31, 1819, aged 35 years.
I Silas, son of Mr. Dan & Mrs. Luranna Lee, died June 16, 1781, aged 18
I months.
! Mr. William Lee died Apr.lO, 1737, aged 53 years.
t William R. H. Lee, son of Mr. Ezra & Mrs. Deborah Lee, died July 31, 1796,
I ■ in his 9th year.
I Eunice Lervia, daughter of Lewis & Mai^aret Lervia, died Jan. 7, 1833,
I Ae.27.
I John Henry, son of James & Harriet Lervia, died Oct. 4, 1849, aged 7 years,
'j 3 months.
j Margaret, wife of Lewis Lervia, died Sept. 22, 1845, Ae. 79 years. "
4 Elisebeth, wife of Mr. William Lewis, died Oct. 3, 1730, aged 35 years,
\ 2 months.
; Mr. Andrew Lord died Nov. 16, 1804, aged 49 years.
; Anna, wife of Dr. WiUiam Lord and daughter of Samuel Mather, Esq., of
\ Lyme, died at Stonington Oct. 31, 1818, aged 52. "No offspring."
;- Mrs. Anna Lord, ReUct of Richard Lord, Esq., died May 16, 1826, Aet. 60.
Mr.j^Benjamin Lord died Feb. 6, 1805, aged 76 years.
Mr.|Christopher Lord died at Charleston, S. Carolina, Aug. 29, 1801, aged
24 years.
Mrs. Elisabeth, ye Remains of Lieut. Richard Lord, died July 22, 1756,
aged 76 years.
Mrs. Elisabeth Lord, wife of the late Richard Lord, Esqr., died June 22,
1778, in her 85th year.
Elizabeth, daughter of Richd. Lord, died Apr. 23, 1731, aged 3 years, 5
months.
Elizabeth Lord, daughter of Mr. Sylvanus & Mrs. Huldah Lord, died July
17, 1750, aged 6 weeks, 3 days.
Capt. Enoch Lord died Feb. 16, 1814, Ae. 88.
I Enoch Lord died Dec. 22, 1834, aged 73.
I Mrs. Esther, wife of Mr. Enoch Lord, died Feb. 8, 1814, Aet. 41.
i Mrs. Hepzibah Lord, wife of Capt. Enoch Lord, died Oct. 19, 1813, Aet. 83.
1 John M., son of Richard & Anna Lord, died in N. Carolina Nov. 3, 1825,
i Ae. 23.
; Mr, Joseph Lord died July 25, 1736, in his 39th year.
204 Inscriptions at Old Lyme, Conn. [July
Joseph Lord, bom June 3, 1757, died Mar. 15, 1812. [Duplicate inscription:
Mr. Joseph Lord, Aet. 64.]
Phoebe Griffin Lord, wife of Joseph Lord, bom May 4, 1768, died
Nov. 26, 1841. [Duplicate inscription: Phebe G. Lord, Ae. 73.]
Hepsibah Lord, bom Mar. 17, 1799, died Mar. 29, 1844. [Duplicate
inscription: Hepsey Lord, daughter of Joseph & Phebe Lord, Ae.
44 years.]
Joseph Lord, bom June 16, 1801, died Sept. 8, 1802. [Duplicate
inscription: Joseph, son of Joseph & Phebe Lord, aged 1 year,
3 months.]
Lucy Lord, bom Mar. 6, 1805, died Aug. 31, 1884.
Phoebe Griffin Lord, -wife of Daniel R. Noyes.
Josephine Lord, wife of Alexr. McCurdy.
Catherine Lord, wife of Enoch Noyes.
Harriet Lord, bom Sept. 25, 1795, died Jan. 5, 1882.
Julia Ann Lord, bom Mar. 6, 1803, died Dec. 23, 1865.
Frances Jane Lord, bom Oct. 14, 1810, died Feb. 13, 1888.
Mr. Marvin Lord died May 2, 1801, aged 53 years.
Mrs. Mary, widow of Mr. Thomas Lord, died Feb. 28, 1734, aged 65 years.
Mary Y., daughter of Enoch & Esther Lord, died Dec. 13, 1828, Aet. 28.
Matthew Lord died Oct. 29, 1736, aged 1 year, 9 months, 9 days.
Eenold Lord died June 29, 1740, aged 10 months, 17 days.
Lieut. Richard Lord, died Aug. 20, 1727, aged 80 years, 3 months.
Richard Lord, son of Richd. Lord, Esqr., and Elizabeth his wife, died Sept. 3,
■ _ 1742, aged 20 years.
Richard Lord, Esqr., "Who in Life was an eminent example of piety, &
PubUck spirit & after sustaining the offices of Deacr, Justice of ye
peace, & Judge of the Quorum for many years," died Aug. 6, 1776, in
his 86th year. •.
Mr. Richard Lord died July 29, 1818, in his 66th year.
Mr. Thomas Lord died June 22, 1730, in his 66th year.
Thomas Lord, son of Mr. Thomas & Mrs. Easter Lord, died Oct. 1755, in
his 18th year.
Mrs. Ann McCurdy, Relict of Mr. John McCurdy, died Sept. 31 [sic], 1802,
aged 73 years.
John, son to Mr. Ljrade & Mrs. Ursula McCurdy, died Apr. 23, 1785, aged
4 years, 3 months.
Mr. John McCurdy, merchant, died Nov. 10, 1785, aged 61.
Mr. John McCurdy, ye yoimger, died Dec. 21, 1790, in his 24th year,
[Josephine (Lord) McCurdy, see monument to Joseph Lord, who died Mar. 15,
1812.]
Mary, daughter of Mr. John and Mrs. Anne McCurdy, died Sept. 27, 1773,
in her 16th month.
Richard McCurdy, bom Mar. 2, 1769, died Aug. 8, 1857. "His Ufe was one
of singular purity & propriety active & beneficent in manhood — serene
in Age & tranqml & hopeful at its close. "
Sarah Ann, wife of Charles J. McCurdy, died July 28, 1835, Ae. 35.
Ursula, daughter of John Griswold & wife of Richard McCurdy, bom Dec. 2,
1775, died May 25, 1811.
Betsey S., daughter of John J. & Harriet A. Manwaring, died Nov. 19, 1842,
Ae. 7 years.
Charles F., son of John'J. & Harriet A. Manwaring, died July 20, 1846, Ae.
16 years.
Charles F. Manwarring, son of John & Sarah Manwarring, died Mar. 29,
1826, aged 19 years.
Harriet A., wife of John J. Manwarring, died June 9, 1845, aged 36 years.
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John Manwarring died Jan. 3, 1840, Ae. 73.
Sarah, widow of John Manwarring, died Aug. 26, 1850, Ae. 83 years.
Mrs. Abbey Marvin, wife of Benjamin Marvin,' died Sept. 28, 1840, aged 73.
Benjamin Marvin died Jan. 21, 1776, in his 70th year.
Mr. Benjamin Marvin died Jxme 14, 1823, aged 79 years, 7 months, 7 days.
Charles Benjamin, son of John & Luciu [sic] M. Marvin, died Jan. 14, 1823,
aged 13 years.
Edward Lee Marvin died Oct. 16, 1820, aged 30 years.
[Illegible] Miss Elizabeth Marvin died Oct. 14, 1790, aged 3 years, 6 months.
Elizabeth, daughter of Mathew & Elizabeth Marvin, died Sept. 19, 1825,
Ae. 45.
Elizabeth Marvin, relict of Mathew Marvin, died June 22, 1839, Ae. 93.
John Marvin died Dec. 11, 1711, aged 47 years.
j Laurana, daughter of Mr. Mathew & Mrs. Elizabeth Marvin, died Oct. 14,
I 1790, aged 3 years, 6 months.
Mrs. Martha Marvin, Relict of Capt. Reynold Marvin, died Nov. 20, 1753,
in her 74th year.
Mr. Mathew Marvin died Aug. 29, 1806, aged 64 years.
Phebe Marvin, wife of Rennul Marvin, died Oct. 27, 1707, in her 31st year.
Mrs. Phebe Marvin, wife of Mr. Benjamin Marvin, 2nd, died Dec. 27, 1812,
j aged 67 years, 11 months, 8 days.
I 1676 Lent. Eienold Marvin, aged 42.
i ' "This Deacon A^ed 68
I Is freed on Earth from serving,
1 May for a crown no longer wait
ILjTne's Captain
Renold Marvin. "*
I Deacon Samuel Marvin died May 15, 1743, in his 72d year.
I Dec. Zechariah Marvin died Sept. 12, 1792, in his 91st year.
I Mrs. Deborah Mather, Relict of Capt. Richard Mather, died Oct. 10, 1803,
I in her 83d year.
if Capt. Elias Mather died Aug. 30, 1788, in his 39th year.
I Mrs. Eunice, widow of^Capt. Jehoida Mather, died Jan. 7, 1813, Aet. 70.
I Eunice Mather, wife of:Nathaniel Mather, died June 23, 1834, aged 74 years.
I Ms Eunice Mather, daughter of Capt. Timothy Mather, died May 16,t in
• her 49th year.
i Ezra, son of Mr. Richard & Mrs. Deborah Mather, died June 4, 1753, aged
I 3 months, 10 days.
! Ezra, son of Mr. Richard & Mrs. Deborah Mather, died Nov. 10, 1758, aged
I 2 years, 6 months, 13 da3^.
Capt. Ezra Mather died Feb. 27, 1808, in his 38th year.
' Frederick, son of Dr. Eleazer Mather & Anne his wife, died May 6, 1745,
aged 26 days.
Mr. Henry Mather died Aug, 24, 1802, aged 25 years, 24 days.
James Mather died Apr. 21, 1842, Aged 57.
Caroline, wife of James Mather, died at New Haven Mar. 23, 1865,
a^ed 74.
Capt. Jehoiada Mather died Mar. 11, 1811, Aet. 70.
Jenishia, Daut. of Mr. John & Mrs. Mercy Mather, died Mar. 3, 1760,'aged
i 7 years.
i Joanna Mather, daughter of Nathaniel & Eunice Mather, died Dec. 17,
1 1826, aged 31.
f Mr. John Mather died Jan. 1, 1804, aged 82 years.
i Lieut. Joseph Mather died Sept. 30, 1749, aged 63 years.
j I ;*He>aa son of Lieut. Renold Marvin, and died Oct. 18, 1737. Cf. Registeb, voL 16, p. 237.
i tThe year is not given in the manuscript copy.
206 , Inscriptions at Old Lyme, Conn. [July
Capt. Joseph Mather died Feb. 5, 1788, aged 76 years.
Mrs. Lois Mather, wife of Mr. Samuel Mather, Junr., died Nov. 17, 1804,
^ed 57 years.
Lucy, daughter of Mr. Richard & Mrs. Deborah Mather, died Aug. 22, 1763,
aged 17 months, 9 days.
Luther P. Mather, son of Mr. John & Mrs. Hephzibah Mather, died May 24,
1783, in his 2d year.
Mrs. Mehetable, daughter of Mr. Samll. & Mrs. Deborah Mather, died
Sept. 17, 1741, aged 17 years, 9 months, 10 days.
Mrs. Mercy Mather, wife of Mr. John Mather, died Oct. 20, 1782, in her
55th year.
Norman R. died Mar. 28, 1838, Aet. 1 year, 7 months. .
William B. died Mar. 2, 1839, Aet. 2 years, 7 months.
Children of Dan W. & Elizabeth Mather.
Orlando Mather, son of Ezra & Phebe Mather, died Sept. 5, 1804, aged
2 years, 3 months, 8 days.
Capt. Richard Mather died Jan. 11, 1790, in his 78th year.
Mr. Richard Mather, son of Mr. Samuel Mather, Junr., died Aug. 2, 1805,
aged 23 years, 3 months.
Sam, son of Lieut. Joseph Mather, died Oct. 7, 1739, in his 12th year.
Also Simon, bom Feb. 21, 1737, died the 26th.
Mr. Samuel Mather died July 17, 1725, in his 42d year.
Samuel, son of Tms. Mather, died July 31, 1725, aged 7 days.
Samuel Mather, Junr., Esqr., died Mar. 26, 1809, aged 64 years, 1 month.
Mrs. Sarah Mather, wife of Capt. Timothy Mather, died Aug. 16, 1756, in
her 73d year.
Mrs. Sarah Mather, wife of Capt. Timothy Mather, died May 25, 1761, in
her 43d year.
Sylvester Mather lost at sea in the year 1811, Ae. 53.
George, son of Sylvester & Elizabeth Mather, died in the State of
Georgia, Mar. 6, 1827, Ae. 35.
Sylvester Mather lost at sea Dec. 1831, aged 30.
Mary A., wife of Sylvester Mather, died July 18, 1831, aged 24.
Capt. Timothy Mather died July 25, 1755, in his 75th year.
Capt. Timothy Mather died Dec. 18, 1800, in his 90th year.
William, son of Mr. Richard and Mrs. Deborah Mather, died Sept. 27, 1748,
9 days old.
William, son of Sylvester & Elizabeth Mather, died on his passage from
North CaroUi^ Apr. 7, 1829. "His remains deposited here."
[PTom] 23, 1747, aged 25 days. [On stone between that of Jerushia Mather and
Frederick Mather.]
A daughter of Mr. Jehoiada & Mrs. Eunice Mather, Still Bom, Aug. 8, 1766.
A twin son of Sylvester & Ehzabeth Mather died Aug. 6, 1803, aged 29 days.
A son of Sylvester & Elizabeth Mather died Mar. 21, 1806, aged 4 days.
Miss Abigail Matson, daughter of Mr. Nathaniel & Mrs. Dinah Matson, died
Jan. 27, 1813, Aet. 49.
Mrs. Catharine Matson died Aug. 20, 1807, in her 25th year.
Dinah, daughter of Mr. Nath[a]n & Mrs. Dinah Matson, died Apr. 16, 1770,
in her 3d year.
Mrs. Dinah, wife of Mr. Nathaniel Matson, died Dec. 21, 1781, Aet. 51.
Mrs. Joanna, Consort of Mr. Nathaniel Matson, died Jan. 30, 1776, in her
76th year.
Miss Lois Matson died Oct. 16, 1825, Ae. 54.
Mr. Nathaniel Matson died Feb. 3, 1776, in his 92d year.
Mr. Nathaniel Matson died Aug. 27, 1787, Aet. 62. "
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Mrs. Polly Matson, wife of Nathaniel Matson, died Jan. 9, 1802, in her 34th
year. [Duplicate inscription: "Aged 34 years."]
An Infant son of Israel & Phebe Matson, bom Nov. 23, 1821.
Elizabetii, wife of Amos Maxon, died Feb. 8, 1825, Ae. 44 years, 7 months.
Mrs. Elizabeth Merrick, wife of Deacon Joseph Merrick of Eastham, died
Sept. 4, 1752, in her 80th year.
Mr. Ezra Miller died Jan. 23, 1796, in his 50th year.
Hepze, daughter of Lieut. Robert Miller & Mrs. Martha Miller, died Apr. 6,
1764, in her 16th year.
Joseph MUler died Aug. 15, 1830, Ae. 69.
Mrs. Lois, wife of Capt. Silas Miller, died Jan. 3, 1813, Ae. 60.
Mrs. Martha Miller, wife of Lieut. Robart MiUer, died Apr. 19, 1786, aged
67 years.
Mrs. Mary, wife of Mr. Joseph MiUer, died Dec. 31, 1822, aged 56 years.
Lieut. Robert Miller died Jan. 21, 1790, in his 76th year.
Mrs. Sarah Miller, wife of Mr. Ezra Miller, died Sept. 28, 1796, in her 58th
year.
Edward Bumham, son of Joel & Mary H. Miner, died Oct. 11, 1844, aged
3 years, 16 days.
John S., son of Samuel & Sarah Miner, died Oct. 20, 1822, Ae. 20.
Phebe, wife of Dr. Thomas Miner and daughter of Samuel Mather, bom
July 22, 1772, died Feb. 5, 1811, two hours after the birth of a stiU bora
male child.
Mr. EUas Minor died June 12, 1800, in his 52d year,
Mrs. Esther, wife of Mr. Elias Minor, died Jan. 6, 1786, in her 37th year.
Joseph Minor died May 30, 1781, in his 93d year.
George Moore, for many years master of a London Packet, died in New
York Nov. 18, 1848, aged 56 years.
Enuly M., his wife, bom Aug. 1, 1801, died Jan. 15, 1875.
John H. Moore, son of George & Emily M. Moore, died Dec. 19, 1838, aged
14 years, 10 months, 6 days,
Hannah, widow of Richard Morgan, died Feb. 11, 1845, aged 73.
David, son of David & Sarah G. Morley, died Sept. 30, 1841, aged 27 days.
Mrs. Sarah G., wife of David Morley, died Sept. 13, 1841, Ae. 28.
Hepzibah, wife of John Murdock, died Sept. 14, 1824, Aet. 55.
Jolm Murdock, Jr., son of John & Hepzibah Murdock, died July 7, 1824,
Aet. 27.
John Murdock died Aug. 28, 1824, Aet. 64.
Abby Sill, daughter of Enoch & Clarrissa Noyes, died July 21, 1822, Ae.
1 year, 2 months.
Anna Noyes, wife of Dr. John Noyes, died July 4, 1848, aged 30.
John, an infant.
Catharine B. Noyes, daughter of Wm. Noyes, Junr., & Sally Noyes, died
Sept. 12, 1806, in her 18th year.
[Catherine (Lord) Noyes, see monument to Joseph Lord, who died Mar. 15,
1812, and inscription to Enoch Noyes.]
Charles Townsend, son of William & Hannah Noyes, died Jan. 11, 1832,
aged 2 years.
Clarissa Dutton, daughter of Enoch & Clarissa Noyes, died Aug. 14, 1823,
Ae. 4 days.
Edward Griffin, son of Daniel R. & Phebe G. Noyes, died Nov. 27, 1835,
Ae. 5 years.
Enoch Noyes, bom Aug. 27, 1789, died Feb. 17, 1877.
Clarissa, wife of Enoch Noyes, died Aug. 8, 1838, Ae. 37.
Catharine L., wife of Enoch Noyes, died Nov. 25, 1844, Ae. 37. [See
also monument to Joseph Lord, who died Mar. 15, 1812.)
208 Inscriptions at Old Lyme, Conn. [July
Eunice, daut. of Lieut. Joseph & Mrs. Jane Noyes, died Feb. 28, 1789, in
her 4th year.
Mrs. Eunice Noyes, ReUct of the late William Noyes, Esqr., died Apr. 5,
to:1816, in her 81st year.
James, son of WiUiam Noyes, A.M., & Mrs. Sally his wife, bom Nov. 25,
died Nov. 28, .1787.
Jane Noyes, widow of Joseph Noyes, died June 18, 1843, in her 79th year.
Jane EKzabeth, daughter of Joseph & Sarah G. Noyes, died suddenly, Sept.
28, 1835, Ae. 8 years.
Dr. John Noyes died Aug. 5, 1733, in his 46th year.
John Noyes, Esqr., died Aug. 11, 1808, in his 52d year. "He was graduated
at Yale CoUege 1775 and officiated as a Physician & Surgeon in the
Army of the U. S. from 1778 to the close of the revolutionary war; from
that period he continued in this town untill his death Intelligent,
patriotic exemplary and skill'd in his profession he was eminently useful
throughout life, and left this world greatly lamented by a numerous
acquaintance. "
Mrs. Mary Ann Noyes, wife of Dr. John Noyes & daughter of Thomas
WiUiams, Esqr., of Brooklyn, bom Nov. 2, 1768, died Nov. 11,
1819, in her 52d year.
Joseph Noyes, Junr., son of Capt. Joseph & Mrs. Jane Noyes, died Oct. 8,
1796, aged 1 year, 11 months.
Capt. Joseph Noyes, bom Sept. 7, 1758, died Aug. 19, 1820, in his 62d year.
Joseph Noyes died Apr. 1, 1836, Ae.-37.
Joseph, son of Richard & Dorothy Noyes, died Oct. 31, 1842, ^ed 6 years,
8 months.
Mrs. Martha Noyes, wife of Dr. Richard Noyes, died Apr. 8, 1829, in her
36th year.
Mrs. Mary, wife of Mr. Moses Noyes, Esq., died Feb. 3, 1764, in her 74th
year.
"Here lies ye Body of that modest, learned, orthodox & pious Divine, the
Revd. Mr. Moses Noyes, Pastor of ye church of Christ in Lyme," who
died Nov. 10, 1729, in his 86th year. [See also monument to Rev. Stephen
, Johnson.]
Moses Noyes, Esqr., died Oct. 10, 1743, in his 67th year.
Mr. Moses Noyes died in Penn., Feb. 6, 1780, in his 72d year.
[Phoebe Griffin (Lord) Noyes, see monument to Joseph Lord, who died Mar. 15,
1812.]
Ms Ruth Noyes, 1690, aged 36, Sept. 14.
Ruth Noyes died Feb. 1, 1719, aged 2 years.
Ruth Noyes died May 14, 1725, aged 3 years.
Mrs. Sarah Noyes, wife of William Noyes, Esqr., died Aug. 8, 1812, Aet. 48.
Sarah, daughter of Enoch & Clarissa Noyes, died Sept. 29, 1836, Aet. 2
months..
Sarah Griswold, daughter of Joseph & Sarah Griswold Noyes, died Sept. 16,
1833, aged 1 month.
Sarah Griswold Noyes,* & daughter of Jacob B. Gurley, Esq., of New London,
died Mar. 21, 1835, Ae. 30.
Stephen L., son of William and Hannah Noyes, died June 12, 1828, Ae.
5 months.
William Noyes, Esqr., "for 30 years an associate Judge of the New London
County Court, endowed with strong mental powers, distinguished for
activity discretion, integrity & firmness: he filled various public offices
with honor to himself & much advantage to the community & the
Church of God: Exemplifying through a long life in various stations, the
'Undoubtedly a line of this insoription is missing here.
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domestic, social, public & Christian virtues: & not ashamed of the gospel
of Christ; he closed life with calmness & a well founded hope of immor-
tality through the Redeemer," Feb. 11, 1807, in his 80th year.
William, son of William & Hannah Noyes, died Sept. 12, 1816, aged 3 weeks.
William Noyes, Esqr., bom Oct. 30, 1760, "was graduated at Y. College
1781, & died Dec. 23, 1834," in his 75th year.
Mrs. Abigail Parsons, wife of Colnl. Marshfield Parsons, died Aug. 22, 1782,
in her 36th year.
Abigail, daughter of Mr. John & Mrs. Joanna Parsons, died Oct. 29, 1784,
aged 2 years.
Mrs. Abigail Parsons, wife of Col. Marshfield Parsons, died Mar. 14, 1793,
in her 54th year.
Ezra, son of Revd. Jonathan & Phebe Parsons, died Jan. 13, 1742, aged 11
days.
Mrs. Joanna Parsons, Consort of Mr. John Parsons, died Jan. 31, 1786, in
her 29th year.
Miss Joanna Parsons died May 23, 1847, Ae. 29.
^ Mr. John Parsons died May 22, 1813, Aet. 56.
[Rev. Jonathan Parsons, see monument to Rev. Stephen Johnson.]
Mrs. Lois Parsons, wife of Mr. Marshfield Parsons, died July 6, 1764, in her
29th year.
Miss Lucy Parsons died May 12, 1818, aged 25 years.
Col. Marshfield Parsons died Jan. 13, 1813, aged 80 years.
Phebe, daughter of Mr. Jonathan & Phebe Parsons, died Apr. 28, 1746,
aged 2 years, 6 months, 21 days.
Thomas, son of Brigadeer Gen. Samuel H. Parsons & Mrs. Mehetable his
wife, died Sept. 8, 1778, in his 11th year.
Thomas G., son of John & Lois Parsons, died Sept. 26, 1820, Ae. 17.
William Parsons, son of John & Lois Parsons, bom July 30, 1791, died May
31, 1813, Aet. 21.
Daughter of the Rev. Jonathan & Phebe Parsons, Still bom, Jan. 5, 1746.
Daughter of Mr. Marshfield & Mrs. Lois Parsons, Still bom. Mar. 20, 1761.
Amey, daughter of Willm. & Jemima Peck, died Nov. 5, 1736, aged 4 years,
3 months.
Augustus, son of Mr. Joseph & Deborah Peck, died Aug. 26, 1729, aged
6 months, 23 days.
Mrs. Azurah Peck, Consort of Mr. Mather Peck, died Feb. 24, 1819, aged
65 years.
Dan, son of Mr. Benjn. & Sarah Peck, died Dec. 1736, aged 1 year, 5 months.
Dan, son of Ensn. Benjamin Peck, died Oct. 30, 1746, in his 5th year.
Elisha Peck, son of Charles L. & Augusta Peck, died June 11, 1829, aged
1 year, 7 months.
Elizabeth, wife of Mr. Samuel Peck, died Aug. 29, 1731, aged 49 years,
10 months.
!Mrs. Elizabeth Beebe, wife of Stephen Peck, died Nov. 7, 1803, aged 23 years.
Mrs. Esther Peck, wife of Mr. Mather Peck, died Sept. 1, 1786, in her 36th
year.
Miss Esther Peck, daughter of Mr. Mather & Mrs. Esther Peck, died Jan. 19,
1806, Ae. 27.
Ezra M. Peck died in the City of New York Sept. 5, 1839, Ae. 55.
i Deken Joseph Peck died Nov. 25, 1718, aged 78 years.
I Mr. Joseph Peck died Aug. 12, 1757, in his 78th year.
} Joseph Peck died Feb. 26, 1825, Ae. 34 years.
I Mr. Joseph Peck died July 8, 1834, Ae. 78 years.
;• Mary Peck died May 29, 1725, aged 2 years.
\ Mather Peck died July 26, 1823, Ae. 74.
210 Inscriptions at Old Lyme, Conn. [July
Nancy, daughter of Mather & Azubah Peck, died Feb. 13, 1801, Ae. 5 years,
2 months.
Mr. Nathaniel Peck died July 8, 1780, in his 58th year. "His upright con-
duct ^nd real benevolence gained him the esteem of a numerous
aquaintance who sincerely lamented his death."
Orin Miller Peck died in Charleston, So. Ca., Mar. 21, 1848, in his 27th year.
Mrs. Rubaniah Peck, wife of Mr. Mather Peck, formerly wife of Mr. David
Hawell, died Dec. 17, 1789, in her 38th year.
Mr. Samuel Peck died Jan. 28, 1734, in his 56th year.
Mrs. Sarah, Relict of Mr. Joseph Peck, deacon, died Sept. 14, 1736, ^ed
90 years.
Sarah Peck, wife of Joseph Peck, died Apr. 13, 1843, Aet. 87.
Mrs. Susannah Peck, Relict of Mr. Joseph Peck, died Apr. 18, 1760, in her
78th year.
Mr. WiUiam Peck died Nov. 25, 1739, in his 31st year.
Mr. Henry Peeterson died Apr. 5, 1724, in his 77th year.
[Rev. Samuel Pierpont, see monument to Rev. Stephen Johnson.]
John Pierson, bom July 3, 1828, died of Cholera on his passage from Panama
■ to CaUfomia, Sept. 20, 1850.
(Rev. Edward Porter, see monument to Rev. Stephen Johnson.]
I Hannah RacMt, wife of Mr. Absalem King Rackit, died Feb. 23, 1777, in
I her 31st year.
I Albion, son of Mr. Clark & Mrs. Sabrina Ransom, died Nov. 24, 1822, aged
I 2 years.
f Jonathan, son of Mr. Jonathan & Mrs. Abagail Reed, died Apr. 8, 1759, aged
15 months, 8 days.
I Mr. Joseph Reid died Jime 7, 1825, aged 63 years.
Mrs. Phebe Reid, wife of Mr. Joseph Reid, died Feb. 11, 1816, aged 52 years.
Mrs. Elisabeth Robbins, wife of Mr. Ezra Robbins, died Nov. 5, 1794, in
her 53d j'ear.
Mr. Ezra Robbins died Mar. 3, 1813, in his 77th year.
Ezra Robbins, son of Ezra Robbins, died May 25, 1813, in his 33d year.
Martha N., wife of Henry Robbins, died Mar. 15, 1849, Ae. 24 years.
Elisha S. Robins died June 23, 1850, aged 77 years.
Ruth, wife of Mr. John Robins, died Apr. 15, 1733, in her 22d year.
Susan Robins, wife of Daniel Robins, bom Dec. 27, 1771, died Feb. 27, 1813.
Chauncey & Azel, children of Rev. Lathrop & Mrs. Olive Rockwell, were
bom June 21, 1806. Chauncey died Jime 27, aged 6 days. Azel died
July 2, aged 11 days.
Julia Rockwell, daughter of Rev. Lathrop Rockwell, died Oct. 23, 1861, ^ed
63 years.
Rev. Lathrop Rockwell was bom in Lebanon May 28, 1769, ordained to the
Pastoral Charge of the first Church of Christ in this place Jan. 15, 1794,
and died Mar. 14, 1828. .
A tribute of conjugal affection to Mrs. Olive Rockwell, who died Apr. 21,
1819, in her 17th [sic] year.
Mr. Asahel Rowland died Apr. 28, 1816, Ae. 47.
Jane V. Rowland, daughter of Asahel & Hannah Rowland, died Nov. 18,
1811, in her 2d year.
Capt. LjTide Rowland died Jan. 20, 1841, Ae. 55.
Mary Ann, daughter of Capt. Lynde & Susannah Y. Rowland, died Dec. 20,
1832, Ae. 2 years, 6 months.
Samuel Rowland died May 2, 1843, Ae. 69.
Susan Y., wife of Capt. Lynde Rowland, died Nov. 15, 1840, Ae. 46.
Mary Salter died Mar. 13, 1848, Ae. 20 years.
Edward L. Schieffelin died Oct. 5, 1850, aged 69.
1923] Inscriptions at Old Lyme, Conn. 211
Capt. John Sears, 2d, died Dec. 28, 1766, in his 32d year.
Mrs, Sarah Sears, formerly wife of Mr. John Marvin, died Relict of Richard
Sears, Dec. 14, 1760, in her 91st year.
Mary, daughter of Mr. Elisha & Mrs. Elisabeth Sheldon, bom June 6, died
Aug. 28, 1737.
Samuel, son of Elisha Sheldon, Esqr., & Elisabeth his wife, died Dee. 20, 1747,
aged 9 months, 11 days.
Thomas, son of Capt. Elisha Sheldon & Elizabeth his wife, died Nov. 5, 1743,
aged 24 days.
David, son of David F. SiU and Sarah Sill, died June 19, 1775, aged 6 months.
Lieut. Col. David F. Sill, Esq., died Jan. 8, 1813, Aet. 80.
E. M. Sill [worn].
Mrs. Elizabeth Sill, Relict of Capt. Joseph SiU, died June 27, 1818, in her
70th year.
Emaline Matilda Holmes, daughter by adoption of John L, Sill, died Nov. 16,
1816, aged 11 years, 9 months.
Mr. Enoch Sill died Aug. 29, 1777, in his 25th year.
Henry M., son of Capt. Thos. & Mehitable Sill, died Oct. 17, 1825, Ae. 22.
Mrs. Hepzibeth, wife of Mr. John Sill, died Jan. 21, 1782, in her 73d year.
Mr. John Sill drowned at Hartford Aug. 27, 1794, in his 22d year.
Lieut. John Sill died Oct. 17, 1796, in his 87th year.
Capt. Joseph Sill died Aug. 6, 1696, aged 60. [Duplicate inscription adds
"served in King Philip's war at Cambridge, Mass., from 1675 to 1677."]
Joseph Sill died Nov. 10, 1765, in his 38th year.
Joseph SiU, son of Mr. Joseph & Mrs. Azubah SiU, died Jan. 10, 1783, in his
15th year.
Capt. Joseph SUl died Feb. 28, 1813, Aet. 78.
Luce SiU died Jan. 26, 1715-16, aged 9 years, 11 months.
Mrs. Lucy SiU, ReUct of Mr. John SiU, formerly wife of Mr. Nathaniel Peck,
died Nov. 19, 1804, aged 84 years.
Mary, daughter of I\Ir. John & Mrs. Phebe SUl, died Aug. 8, 1753, in her
f 15th year.
I Mehetable SiU, wife of Capt. Thomas SUl, died Dec. 5, 1831, Ae. 57.
I Nat SiU, son of Mr. Joseph & Mrs. Ruth SUl, died Aug. 10, 1765, in his 16th
• year.
■ Mrs. Phebe, wife of Mr. John SiU, died May 23, 1751, in her 41st year.
Mrs. Phebe, wife of Mr. Joseph SUl, died Jan. 4, 1772, in her 86th year.
Pheebe, daughter of Mr. Joseph & Mrs. Ruth SUl, died July 13, 1765, in her
I 7th year.
Mrs. Ruth, wife of Mr. Joseph SiU, died Aug. 12, 1762, in her 45th year.
Mrs. Sarah SUl died Feb. 1, 1715-16, aged 74 years.
Mrs. Sarah G. SUl, ReUct of David F. SUl, Esq., died Nov. 20, 1815, Ae. 66.
SUas SUl [duplicate inscription: Mr. SUas SUl] died Oct. 26, 1801 [duplicate
inscription: 1811], Ae. 62 years.
Hannah, his widow, died Apr. 12, 1834, Ae. 74 years.
Richard, son of S. & H. SUl, died Sept. 10, 1809, Ae. 29 years.
Sarah, wife of Wm. HaU & dau. of S. & H. SUl, died Jan. 12, 1810,
I Ae. 24 years.
I Z. Sm [worn].
\ Abby M. Smith, wife of Livingston H. Smith and daughter of RemickA
i Susan Waite, bom July 24, 1804, died at Norwich May 31, 1838, aged 23.
I Capt. Ichabod Smith died Sept. 22, 1798, in his 66th year.
! Capt. Ichabod Smith died June 12, 1807, aged 35 years, 2 months, 5 days,
: Mr. Latham Smith was drowned July 2, 1803, in his 49th year.
! Mrs. Lois Smith, reUct of Latham Smith, died May 16, 1836, Ae. 78.
1 VOL.. LXXVII. 14
212 Inscriptions at Old Lyme, Conn. [July
Mrs. Nabby Smith, wife of Ichabod Smith, died May 14, 1802, aged 25 years,
1 month, 17 days.
Nathaniel Smith died Sept. 30, 1820, Ae. 59.
Lucinda, widow of Nathaniel Smith, died May 5, 1826, Ae. 62.
Sarah died Sept. 13, 1793, Ae. 3 years.
Abigail died Apr. 23, 1817, Ae. 24.
Daughters of Nathaniel & Lucinda Smith.
Ruth died Sept. 20, 1832, Ae. 48.
Lucinda died July 30, 1834, Ae. 36.
Daughters of Nathaniel & Lucinda Smith.
Erected by their four sons, 1845.
Miss Sally Smith, daughter of Ichabod Smith, died Sept. 21, 1841, aged 75.
William, son of Mr. Latham & Mrs. Lois Smith, died Apr. 12, 1796, in his
12th year.
Mrs. Zeruiah Smith, ReUct of Capt. Ichabod Smith, died Nov. 7, 1803, aged
67 years.
Mrs. Abigail, late wife of Capt. Samuel Southworth, died Aug. 15, 1745, in
her 58th year.
Mrs. Elizabeth Stewart, ReUct of Alexander Stewart of New York and
daughter of John & Elizabeth McCurdy, died June 24, 1830, in her 72d
year.
Charles I., son of Ira & Betsey M. Tillotson, died Sept. 21, 1844, Ae. 18
f months.
I Mrs. Abigail Tinker, wife of Joseph Tinker, Junr., died Apr. 26, 1811, in her
I 28th year.
1 Achsah, wife of Jonathan Tinker, died Oct. 11, 1841, aged 56.
Mr. Amos Tinker died Nov. 9, 1802, in his 83d year.
Mrs. Hannah Tinker, wife of Mr. Amos Tinker, died Apr. 11, 1790, in her
69th year.
Mrs. Jemima Tinker died May 5, 1753, aged 55 years.
Joseph Tinker died Nov. 28, 1836, aged 94 years.
Mrs. Lucretia Tinker, wife of Capt. Stephen Tinker, died Jan. 12, 1785, in
her 45th year.
"Mary, wife of Joseph Tinker, died A^Iay 5, 1850, aged 94 years.
Mehetable Tinker, Relict of Nathan Tinker, died Feb. 4, 1813, aged 49 years.
Mrs. Nancy E. Tinker, wife of Mr. Jonathan Tinker, died Feb. 14, 1815,
aged 32 years.
Mr. Nathan Tinker died Apr. 3, 1792, aged 34 years.
Nehemiah D. Tinker died Apr. 28, 1846, Ae. 29.
Mrs. Patience Tinker, wife of Joseph Tinker, died Jan. 21, 1811, in her
62d year.
Roxana, wife of Nehemiah D. Tinker, died Sept. 22, 1845, Ae. 22.
Mr. Samuel Tinker, Senr., died Apr. 28, 1733, in his 71st year.
Mr. Samll. Tinker died Feb. 28, 1755, aged 53 years.
Seth, son of Mr. Sam Tinker, died Apr. 10, 1740, Aet. 9 years.
Tamer, daughter of Mr. Sainll. Tinker & Mrs. Jemima his wife, died in
1743, aged 26 years.
Infant son of Reuben & Almira Tinker, bom Apr. 19, 1838.
Mrs. Asia Tuthil, Relict of Capt. Bamabus Tuthil, died Sept. 1, 1776, in her
75th year.
Capt. Barnabus Tuthill died Mar. 7, 1773, in his 75th year.
[IForn] A Bas[u;oTO]thiil died Feb. 10, 1764, in her 63d year. [This inscrip-
tion follows that of Capt. Bamabus TuthiU.]
David F., infant son of Edward & Frances Vernon, died Sept. 17, 1845, aged
3 months, 6 dajrs.
1923] The Polks of North Carolina and Tennessee 213
Henry S., infant son of Edward & Frances Vernon, died Feb, 3, 1843, Ae.
1 month.
Mrs. Azuba, relict of Capt. Elihu Wade, died Dec. 15, 1812, Aet. 73.
Mr. Dan Wade died May 24, 1794, in his 27th year.
Capt. Elihu Wade died Sept. 5, 1806, in his 69th year.
Mr. George Wade died Apr. 28, 1762, in his 79th year.
Mr. George Wade died Oct. 18, 1809, Aet. 17.
Phebe Wade died Mar. 7, 1843, in her 89th year.
Frances Ann, daughter of Nathaniel M. & Mehetable Wait, bom Oct. 5,
1829, died May 20, 1835.
Mary, wife of Charles W. Wait, bom Dec. 25, 1801, died July 17, 1835,
Ae. 33.
Nathaniel, son of Nathaniel M. & Mehetable Wait, died Jan. 15, 1843, Ae.
1 year.
Frederick William Waite, bom May 20, 1818, died June 25, 1819.
George Chapman Waite, bom Aug. 13, 1820, died Aug. 11, 1849.
Henry Waite, bom Jan. 23, 1822, died Nov. 10, 1845.
Joseph Waite, bom Feb. 9, 1824, died Feb. 10, 1825.
Remick Waite, bom Apr. 10, 1758, died Sept. 20, 1830, aged 72.
Susanna Waite, widow of Remick Waite, bom Dec. 10, 1761, died June 5,
1850, aged 88.
EUsabeth, wife of Mr. Isaac Watterous died Jan. 17, 1734/5, in her 52d year.
Mrs, Pmdy West, wife of Lemuel West, died July 7, 1835, Ae. 55.
Mary Susan, daughter of Simon & Catharine Whipp, died May 14, 1836,
Ae. 12 years,
Mr. Joseph Whitmore died Apr. 20, 1729, in his 42d year.
Mr.'Matthew Woller died Apr. 17, 1716, in his 55th year.
I Louisa, daughter of Sylvester & Louisa Cecelia Wooster, died Feb. 9, 1822,
Ae. 2 months.
Sylvester, son of Sylvester & Louisa CeceUa Wooster, died Aug. 29, 1820,
j Ae. 14 months, 22 days.
i Dr. Sylvester Wooster died Nov. 27, 1825, Ae. 35. "Ah widowed Partner."
I [Wom]kfull [worn] died [worn] 10th 1759, aged 6 months. [On stone between
that of Lucy Mather and that of James Bumham, Oct. 3, 1768,]
, [To be continued]
THE POLKS OF NORTH CAROLINA AND TENNESSEE
By Mrs. Frank M. Angellotti of San Rafael, Calif.
[Continued from page 145]
9. Lieut. Gol. William^ Polk (Brig. Gen. Thomas,^ William,^
William,^ Robert^), born in Mecldenburg Co., N. C, 9 July
1758, died at Raleigh, N. C, 4 Jan, 1834, and was buried
there. He married first, 15 Oct, 1789, Griselda Gilchrist,
born at Suffolk, Va,, 24 Oct. 1768, died at Willswood, near
Charlotte, N. C, 22 Oct. 1799, daughter of Thomas, a Scotch
merchant, and Martha (Jones) Gilchrist of Northampton Co.,
N. C, and granddaughter of Robert Jones, a lawj'er of Halifax,
N. C; and secondly, at Raleigh, 1 Jan. 1801, Sarah Hawkins,
' 214 The Polks of North Carolina and Tennessee [July
born at Pleasant Hill, Warren Co., N. C, died at Raleigh
10 Dec. 1843, buried beside her husband, daughter of Hon.
Philemon' and Lucy (Davis).*
He was educated at Queen's College, Charlotte, which he
left in Apr. 1775, without finishing the college course, to accept
a commission as second Ueutenant in Capt. Ezekiel Polk's
company, of the Third South Carolina Mounted Infantry,
imder Col. Wilham Thompson. He commanded several
expeditions in South Carolina, and was severely wounded
in the left shoulder at Great Cane Brake, 22 Dec. 1775, being
rendered imfit for service for eight or nine months. On 26
Nov. 1776, by the North Carolina Provincial Congress at
Halifax, he was elected major of the Ninth North Carolina
Regiment, a new regiment authorized at that time. Having
resigned his commission in the South Carolina Infantry, he
joined this regiment at Halifax in Mar. 1777, when the regi-
ments of the State assembled there; and in command of four
companies he marched, with this division of the Line, into
the Jerseys and joined Washington's Army. He was present
at the Battles of the Brandywine and Germantown, and in
the latter battle he was shot in the mouth. In Mar. 1778,
when the nine North Carolina regiments were consolidated
into four, he was left without a command; but, returning to
the South, he volunteered in the mihtia, and served as aide
to General Casweli when Gates was defeated at Camden.
In the fall and winter of 1780 he was heutenant colonel of the
Fourth Regiment, South Carolina Horse, and fought at
Guilford Court House and Eutaw Springs. His total active
5 service amoimted to five j^ears and two months,
i In 1783 he was appointed by the North Carolina Legislature
I surveyor general of the "Middle District," now a part of the
J State of Tennessee, and in that capacity resided at French
I Lick Fort, on the site of the present city of Nashville. He
.; remained there until 1786, and was elected twice from Davidson
{ County to the North Carolina House of Commons. In 1787
j he was elected to the Legislature from his native county,
j which he represented until President Washington appointed
him, in 1791, supervisor of internal revenue for the District
of North Carolina. This office he held for seventeen years,
♦Philemon' Hawkins, the founder of the Hawtins family in America, with his wife, Anna Eleanor
(Howard), emigrated to America in 1715 and settled on the James River, in \'irginia. He died in
1725, and his widow and her only child, Philemon' (1717-1801), moved to North Carolina and
resided at the mouth of Six Pounds Creek, Butte Co. Philemon' was a member from Butte County
of the Provincial Congress, Apr. to Nov. 1776, a colonel in the North Carolina Militia, 1776-1781,
, and councillor of state from Warren County, 9 May 1783, 19 Nov. 1790, and 2 Jan. 1792. He
served under Colonial Governor Tryon, in the Alamance campaign, in 1771, as captain of the Butte
' Light Horse and aide-de-camp to the Governor, .it the Provincial Congress of 1776, at Halifax,
f N. C, he was made a lieutenant colonel of Cavalry, at the fige of sixty. He resigned his seat in
1 the Congress, raised a battalion on his own account, and served his State with distinction. His
i son, Philemon' Hawkins (1752-1833), married Lucy Davis. He served under Governor Tryon in
his father's company of the Butte Light Horse against the Regulators, and was a colonel in the
Revolutionary Army, a councillor of state from Granville Co., N. C, 26 June 1781, representative
from the same county, 1779-80, 1782-1786, and from Warren County, 1787-1789, 1803, 1805,
1806, senator from Warren County, 1807, 1808, 1810, 1811, and a member of the Constitutional
Convention, 1789.
1923] The Polks of North Carolina and Tennessee 215
until the repeal of the internal revenue laws. He was a trustee
of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1790-1834,
a director and afterwards president of the State Bank of North
Carolina, 1811-1819, resigning this office in order to give more
of his personal attention to his extensive landholdings (100,000
acres) in Tennessee, one of the original members of the Order
of the Cincinnati, and a member of the committee appointed
by North Carolina to welcome Lafayette in 1824. In Mar.
1812 President Madison, with the consent of the Senate,
appointed Colonel Polk a brigadier general in the United
States Army, but, being a FederaUst and opposed to the
policy of the administration, he declined this commission.
He was a personal friend of Andrew Jackson, and is said to
have furnished him, from his notes as siuveyor, with informa-
tion that enabled Jackson to secure valuable lands in Ten-
nessee. His home was at first at Charlotte, but later he moved
to Raleigh. He outlived all the other field officers of the
North Carolina Line.
Children by first wife:
20. L Thomas Gilchbist,' b. in Mecklenburg Co., N. C, 22 Feb. 1791.
21. ii. William Julius, b. in Mecklenburg Gi., N. C, 21 Mar. 1793.
Children by second wife:
22. iii. Lucius Junius, b. at Raleigh, N. C, 16 Mar. 1802.
f?^ iv. LuciNDA Davis, d. in infancy.
I 23. V. Leonidas, b. at Raleigh, N. C, 10 Apr. 1806.
I vi. Mart Brown, b. at Raleigh, N. C, 28 May 1808; d. 1 Mar. 1835;
i bur. in the cemetery at Raleigh; m. 9 Nov. 1826 Hon. George
i Edmund Badger of Newbern and Raleigh, N. C, B.A. (Yale,
i 1825, as of 1813), M.A. {ib., 1825), LL.D. (University of North
I • Carolina, 1834, Yale, 1848), lawyer, member of the House of
I Commons of North Carolina, 1816, judge of the Superior Court
I of North Carolina, 1820-1825, Secretary of the Navy, 5 Mar.-
X 12 Sept. 1841, United States Senator from North Carohna, 1846-
' 1855, member of the State Convention of North Carolina, 1861,
't b. at Newbern 13 Apr. 1795, d. at Raleigh 11 May 1865. Children
i (surname Badger) : 1. Katherine Mdllon, b. at Raleigh 9 Aug. 1827;
\ bur. at Fayetteville', N. C; m. 6 May 1846 WilUam H. Haigh of
Raleigh; three children. 2. SaJly Polk, b. at Raleigh 25 May 1833;
• d. there 19 Dec. 1903; m. in Christ Church, Raleigh, 25 Sept. 1854,
Montford McGehee of Milton, Caswell Co., of "Woodburn"
(the family home of the McGehees), Person Co., and of Raleigh,
N. C, lawyer, who d. 31 Mar. 1895; four children.
vii. Alexander Hamilton, b. 10 Sept. 1810; d. unm. 8 Sept. 1830.
viii. John Hawkins, d. in childhood.
ix. RuFUs King, b. at Raleigh, N. C, 15 May 1814; d. at NashviUe,
Tenn., 25 Feb. 1843; bur. in St. John's Churchyard, Maury Co.,
Tenn.; m. at the Forks of the Cypress, near Florence, Ala., 3 Sept.
1840, Right Rev. Leonidas Polk, Bishop of Louisiana, officiating,
Sarah Moore Jackson, who d. at "Westbrook," Maury Co.,
. Tenn., 11 Julj' 1888, and was bur. beside her husband, dau. of
I James and Sarah (Moore) (McCulloch). Her mother, Mrs. Sarah
• (Moore) (McCulloch) Jackson, was dau. of George Moore, 2d.,
■; of South CkroUna and his wife, (Watters). Rufus King
: Polk called the land in Mamy Co., Tenn., which was allotted to
him by his father, "Westbrook," and he built his residence there.
■ Child: 1. Sally Mowe,'' h. at the Forks of the Cypress 1 Sept.
: 1841; m. there, 19 Aug. 1863, her first cousin, Maj. Gen. Lucius
216 The Polks of North Carolina and. Tennessee [July
Eugene' Polk (51), q. v., b. at Salisbury, N. C, 10 July 1833, d.
at ^'Westbrook" 1 Dec. 1892, s. of William Julius, M.D., and
Mary Rebecca A. (Long).
24.' X. Geobge Washington, b. at Raleigh, N. C, 12 July 1817.
xi. Philemon Hawkins, d. in infancy.
xii. Susan Spratt, b. at Raleigh, N. C, 25 May 1822; d. at San Antonio,
Tex., 10 July 1909; bur. beside her daughter, Mrs. Sallie Polk
(Rayner) Hyman, in the cemetery at Fort Worth, Tex.; m. 12
July 1842 Hon. Kenneth Ratneh of Hereford Ck)., N. C., lawyer,
member of the State Constitutional Convention of 1835, member
of the North Carolina House of Representatives from Hereford
County for seven years. Representative in Congress (as a W'hig),
1839-1845, presidential elector on the Taylor and Fillmore ticket
in 1848, judge of the Court of Commissioners of the Alabama
Claims (by appointment of President Grant), 1874, Solicitor of
the United States Treasury, 1877-1884, b. in Bertie Co.. N. C, in
1808, d. in Washington, D. C, 4 Mar. 1884, bur. at Raleigh. His
father was a clergyman and a soldier of the Revolution. Children
(surname Rayner): 1. SaRie Polk, b. at Raleigh 30 Mar. 1845; d.
10 Feb. 1905; bur. in the cemetery at Fort Worth; m. 13 Nov.
1867 Joseph H. Hyman; six children. 2. Henry .4., d. in childhood.
3. Kenneth, of Dallas, Tex., b. at Raleigh 1 Aug. 1847; d. at
Dallas; m. 16 Dec. 1878 Eugenia Leach; one daughter. 4. Fanny,
d. in childhood. 5. Susan Polk, b. at Raleigh 26 Mar. 1855; m.
(1) 28 Apr. 1881 Dr. Arthur Glennan; m.'(2) A. L. Silling; m. (3)
McMillan; three children by first husband. 6. William
Polk, h. at Raleigh 10 Dec. 1857; d. s. p. at El Paso, Tex.; m. 30
Jan. 1879 Lulu Ragsdale. 7. Hamilton Polk, b. at Raleigh about
1859; m. (1) Eliza Nelms; m. (2) Anna W. Armand; one child by
{ first wife. 8. Mary, d. yoimg.
I 25. xiii. Andhew Jackson, b. at Raleigh, N. C, 10 Aug. 1824.
{ xiv. Sarah, died in infancy.
J XV. Charles Junius, d. in infancy.
110. Charles^ Polk {Brig. Gen. Thomas,* William,^ William,^
Robert^), born near Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N. C, about
1762, died in the same county about 1830. He married, about
I 1785, Mary Alexander, daughter of Hezekiah, who was one
5 of the patriots of the Revolution and a signer of the Mecklen-
j burg Declaration.
\ At the eariy age of thirteen years he ran away from home,
i joined the Revolutionary Army, and served his country with
1 honor, attaining the rank of first heutenant in his father's
I regiment, the Fourth Carolina Line. He represented his
I county in the Lower House of the North Carolina Assembly
I in 1793-1795 and in 1800. He is known in local history as
i "Devil Charley."
j Children, born in Mecklenbiurg Co., N. C:
j 26. i. Thomas Independence,' b. 4 July 1786.
27. ii. Charles James, b. 15 Dec. 1790.
11. Michael* Polk {Caipt. Charles* William,^ William,^ Roberfi)
was born in Mecklenburg Co., N. C, 20 Jime 1774. He
married Susanna Pryon, born 26 Mar. 1774.
He moved to Georgia and then to Alabama.
Children :
i. Michael,' m. Cynthia Harkness, and moved to Arkansas.
ii. Susanna, d. 29 July 1848; m. John Rape. Children (surname
1923] The Polks of North Carolina and Tennessee 217
Rape): 1. Svsan P., m. Capt. D. F. Richardson. 2. Mary E., m.
Robert Fowler. 3. W. Clark, m. Martha Gordon; eight childi-en.
iji; Deboha, b. 11 Nov. 1811; d. in July 1898; m. in Aug. 1832 Dk.
James F. Lee of Virginia, who d. 30 July 1879. Children (surname
Lee): 1. Comdia Evelyn, b. 17 Apr. 1833; d. in Apr. 1890; m. in
Feb. 1857 Hilliard J. Wolfe; five children. 2. Mary (twin), b.
6 Dec. 1836; m. 22 May 1861 Wilson Austin, who was killed in the
Civil War. 3. Margaret (twin), b. 6 Dec. 1836; imm. 4. Irene
Dd)ora, h. 30 Oct. 1837; m. John A. Polk of Mineral Springs, N. C.-;
two children. 5. Susanna, b. 31 Mar. 1843; d. young. 6. Theresa,
b. 24 Nov. 1845; d. young. 7. Beatrice, b. 7 Mar. 1847; m. Alex-
ander Monroe Crowell of Monroe, N. C. ; f oxir children. 8. Virginia,
b. 14 Mar. 1850; m. WiUiam Constantine Wolfe of Monroe, N. C;
six children. 9. Elizabeth Coldough, h. 11 Dec. 1853; m. 25 Dec.
1873 Rev. Jason C. Moser, a Lutheran minister; four children.
10. James P., b. 10 Nov. 1856; d. in 1858.
iv. Mabgabet^ d. unm.
28. T. Chakles Clabk, b. in North Carolina 12 Mar. 1814.
12. Charles* Polk {Capt. Charles,* WiUiam,^ William,'^ Robert^),
bom in Mecklenburg Co., N. C, 15 Mar. 1784, died in
Union Co., N. C, about 1829. He married Eleanor Shelby,
daughter of Thomas, who was son of Thomas Shelby, Sr.
He settled on Clear Creek, in that part of Anson Co., N. C,
which is now Union Co. After his death his widow, about
1835, removed with her children to Campbell Co., Ga;, having
disposed of their property in North Carolina to their uncle,
George Washington Polk (6, xii).
Children, bom in Mecklenburg Co., N. C;
29. i. EzEKiEL,« b. 5 Sept. 1808.
ii. Mart (Polly), b. 13 Aug. 1810; d. in Douglas Co., Ga., 21 May
1848; m. 18 May 1826 SAMtTEL Wilson McLaett, the eldest of
twelve sons of Alexander McLarty, who emigrated from Scotland
I to America in 1774. She is buried in the old McLarty burying
i groimd. Children (surname McLarty): 1. Charles Bingley, b. in
I North Carolina 27 Nov. 1827; d. unm. 2. Mary Ainanda, b. in.
I North Carolina 1 July 1829; d. in Georgia 18 July 1906; bur. at^
\ Douglasville, Ga.; m. 1 May 1845 Williamson Parks Strickland;
? • twelve children. 3. John C., b. in North CaroUna 8 Nov. 1831?
\ d. in Georgia 26 Aug. 1862; m. Mary Hartsfield; three children,
4. George Washington, m. Martha Webb; six children. 5. Hannah,
I b. 18 Nov. 1836; d. unm. 11 Mar. 1852. 6. Samuel Marion, b,
] 5 Mar. 1839; d. 20 Aug. 1864. 7. Sophia Caroline, b. in Campbell
Co., Ga., 6 May 1841; m. Thomas Perkenson, b. 22 Feb. 1834;
residence. Villa Rica, Ga. 8. Harvey Ezekid, b. in 1843; d. in
1852. 9. Martha Jane, b. in Campbell Co., Ga., 4 Jan. 1846; m.
John D. Perkenson, b. 9 Sept. 1843; residence, Austell, Ga.; five
children.
iii. Hajojah, b. 1 Aug. 1812; d. at Douglasville, Ga., 27 Aug. 1874; m.
Alexander Green Waddington, who d. at Douglas\alle 2 Sept.
1893. Both are buried in Watson Cemetery. Children (surname
Waddington): 1. Jane, b. in Cabarrus Co., N. C; d. in Paulding
I Co., Ga.; m. Bamett White; nine children. 2. Polly Ann, m.
Washington Hawkins; six children. 3. Martha Elizabeth, b. in
Campbell Co., Ga., 9 Sept. 1834; d. 11 Sept. 1866; m. in 1853
'. Francis Marion Stewart, b. 23 May 1832, d. in Douglas Co., Ga.,
; 26 Dec. 1871; eight children. 4. Amanda, b. 11 Aug. 1837; m!
j 1 Sept. 1859 George Stewart, b. 13 Feb. 1838, d. at Douglasville
1 ~ 11 June 1914; eight children. 5. Alexander, b. 17 May 1839; d,
• at Douglasville 10 July 1890; m. Louisa Blanchard; four children.
6. Charles WiUiam, of Atlanta, Ga., b. in Campbell Co., Ga., in
}
218 The Polks of North Carolina and Tennessee [July
1843; m. Jennie Watson; four children. 7. Campie, b. in 1849;
d. 20 July 1917; m. Samuel McBrayer, b. 22 July 1847; eight
children. 8. Catherine, m. William Roach; resides near Fort
Worth, Tex.; six children.
30. iv. Charles Shelby, b. 14 May 1814.
13. Charles^ Polk {Capt. John,* William,^ William,'^ Robert^), born
in Mecklenburg Co., N. C, 18 Jan. 1760, died in San Augustine
• Co., Tex., 16 Oct. 1848, "aged 89." He married in North
Carolina Margaret Baxter, who died in San Augustine Co.
22 June 1840, "aged 70."
He moved first to Tennessee, and settled in the western
part of the State. After his son Alfred migrated to Texas,
he followed, about 1839, settled in San Augustine Co., and
lived there until his death. In a pension declaration on file
in Washington, made by him under the Act of Congress of
1832, he states that he served at various times during the
Revolution in the North Carolina troops imder Captains
James Jack, John Polk (his father), Charles Polk (his imcle),
Oliver Wiley, and Fletcher, and Colonels Adam Alexander
and- Thomas Polk (his imcle), and that he also served in a
mounted spy company for five months and twenty-eight
days in 1814. He is called in many old family records "Civil
Charley Polk, " probably to distinguish him from his cousin,
Charles Polk (10), son of Brig. Gen. Thomas Polk, who was
called "Devil Charley."
I Children:
i. Jane,« m. (1) John Potts; m. (2) Db. Fowlee. After her
first marriage she moved from Tennessee to Alabama, and after
her second marriage she moved to MississippL Child by first
husband (surname Potts): 1. Missoni, m. (1) lliomas McQuarler;
m. (2) Christopher Butchee; two children by second husband.
31. ii. John, b., probably in Mecklenbiu-g Co., N. C, about 1782.
iii. Andrew, m. Martha Kimball. They moved from Tennessee to
Missouri, and later settled in Cherokee Co., Tex. Child: 1. Minnie,^
m. James Anderson, a lawyer of high standing at Waco, Tex.
32. iv. William EInox, b. probably in Mecklenburg G>., N. C.
V. Ctnthia Springs, b., probably in western Tennessee, 25 Feb. 1801;
d. in San Augustine Co., Tex., 25 or 28 Aug. 1885; m., probably in
Tipton Co., Tenn., 28 Oct. 1825, her first cousin, John Polk (36),
q. v., b., probably in the Greenbrier District of Virginia, 25 Oct.
1798, d. in Madison Co., Tex., 14 Feb. 1864, s. of John and
Elizabeth (Alderson).
vi. Charles, m. Elizabeth Hatne. He migrated with his father to San
Augustine Co., Tex., in 1839, and later moved to Leon Co., Tex.
vii. Isaac Shelby, d. young.
33. viii. Alfred, b. in Stewart Co., Tenn., 15 Dec. 1808.
14. John* Polk {Capt. John,* William,^ William,^ Robeii^), born
probably in Mecklenburg Co., N. C, in 1767, died at his
home on Carter's Creek, near Columbia, Maury Co., Tenn., 24
May 1845. He married first Elizabeth Alderson (or Oldson,
as some authorities give it), born probably in 1766, died 24
Nov. 1829;* and secondly Mrs. Rebecca Brigos, widow.
*The tomb of John Polk and his first wife still stands on the land of the homestead on Carter's
Creek. On one side are the words: "In Memory of John Polk, died May 24 1845 aged 78."
On the other side is the inscription: " In memoiy of Elizabeth Polk, died Not. 24, 1829 aged 63. ' '
1923] The Polks of North Carolina and Tennessee 219
He lived for a while after his father's death in the Greenbrier
District of western Virginia, and an old history of that region
mentions him and his wife Elizabeth, calling him "Devil
John" and telling of his fighting as a mere boy in the Revolu-
tion. In this locality lived the Moores, Walkers (his brother
Taylor married here Jency Walker), Campbells, McPheterses,
and Spottiswoods. About 1806 he migrated to Tennessee;
and there is a deed on file in Maury Co., dated 25 Dec. 1806,
from Col. Ezekiel* Polk (8) to "my nephew John Polk,"
conveying to the latter 170 acres of land in Maury Co. He
lived until his death at this home on Carter's Creek. On
I ■ 28 Aug. 1828 he signed a deed, recorded in Mamy Co., con-
I vejang certain lands to his sons John and Evan Shelby "for
the love and affection" he bore them. In his will, on file in
Maury Co., he mentions his wife Rebecca and his children
Benjamin, deceased, Nancy Kirby, Elizabeth Campbell,
Robert, and F. A. [Franklin Armstead], who was his father's
executor.
j Children by first wife, bom probably in the Greenbrier
I District of western Virginia:
I 34. i. Benjamin D. A.,« b. 1 Jan. 1790.
I ii. Nancy, m. before 1845 Ethelbert Kiebt, who d. in Jan. 1878.
I 35. iii. Evan Shelby, b. 16 Dec. 1791.
I iv. Robeet, b. probably in 1792; d. 4 Aug. 1840; m. Melvina Porter.
j Two of ma children were devisees under his father's will. As
i . Ensign Robert Polk of the Tennessee Militia in the War of 1812
I he is mentioned in Buell's "History of Andrew Jackson," vol. 2.
I pp. 26, 27, 31, 317; and after the War he was appointed an Indian
; agent.
'- V. Elizabeth, b. 9 Oct. 1796; d. at Columbia, Tenn., 8 July 1856; m.
( her second cousin, Robert Campbell (8, ii, 2), b., probably in
} Mecklenburg Co., N. C, 5 July 1797, d. at Columbia, Tenn.,
!; . 1 Dec. 1852, s. of John and Matilda Golden (Polk). Eight children
(vide sujrra, 8, ii, 2).
36. vi. John, b. 25 Oct. 1798.
J 37. vii. Franklin Armstead, b. 10 Apr. 1804.
15. Tatlob* Polk (Capt. John,* William,^ William,^ Roberfi), born
• _ in North Carolina about 1780, died in Polk Co., Ark., 11 Dec.
1824. He married, 1 Nov. 1798,* Jency Walker," who died
at "The Wilds," in the Valley of the Ouachita, Ark., 3 Dec.
1814, daughter of Tandy.f
Taylor Polk was married when he was but seventeen years old, and boaated that he "stood
8a feet two in hia stockings" at that age.
■fTandy Walker was a great-grandson of John Walker of Wigtown, Scotland, who married in
Scotland, 7 Jan. 1702, Jane Rutherford, daughter of Rev. John, one of the "Border Rutherf ords, "
living on the Tweed. This John Walker sailed from Strangford Lough, Ireland, in May 1726,
landed in Maryland 2 Aug. 1726, and settled in Chester Co., Pa., where he died in Sept. 1734 and
his widow died in 1738. Both are buried at Nottingham meeting house, in Chester Co. Most of
his family of eleven children settled in Rockbridge Co., Va., and in adjoining counties. Walker's
Creek in Rockbridge Co. taking its name from them. John Walker, the immigrant ancestor of
the family, had a son named John, and the latter's son John, of the third generation of the American
family, married Nancy Tandy, whose surname reappears as the Christian name of her son, Tandy
Walker. In some genealogies this son is called Alexander Walker, probably because "Tandj-"
was mistaken for "Sandy," a common nickname for Alexander. In the Virginia census of 1782
and in that of 1790 Tandy Walker is recorded as the head of a family of nine whites and seven
slaves, in Mecklenburg Co. His brother, William Walker, was stolen by the Indians in the Green-
220 The Polks of North Carolina and Tennessee . [July
Taylor Polk and his wife went from North Carolina to
Tennessee and lived for a time in Davidson Co., whence they
migrated, with their children, in 1808 to the Valley of the
Ouachita, not far from Hot Springs, Ark. They named their
home there "The Wilds." They were one of the earliest
American' famihes to take up their residence in Arkansas,
after the acquisition of the vast Louisiana region by the
United States in 1803.
Children, all born near Nashville, Davidson Co., Tenn.,
except the last two, who were born at "The Wilds," Mont-
gomery Co., Ark.:
i. Benjamin,* b. in 1799; d. in Texas in 1847; m. in Arkansas Peggy
BoATHiGHT. He moved to Texas in 1836. Children (order of
births uncertain) : 1. Jency.'' 2. Benjamin. 3. James. 4. Charles.
5. William. 6. Richard. 7. PriscUla. There may have been
another child, Martha. Most of the children died in childhood,
but Benjamin left issue.
38. ii. Tatloh, b. in 1800.
39. iii. James, b. in 1801.
40. iv. CUMBEELAND, b. 7 Aug. 1803.
V. WiLLiAii, b. in 1805; d. in Arkansas; m. (1) Geitfith; m.
(2) Geiffith, a cousin of his first wjfe. Child by first wife:
1. Led,'' who served in the Confederate Army. Child by second
wife: 2. Cumberland, killed in battle in Arkansas while serving in
the Confederate Army.
vi. Jency, b. in 1810; d. in Oklahoma in 1897; m. in Arkansas Mitchell
Andeeson, s. of James* and brother of Prudence Anderson, who
m. Taylor Polk, 2d (38). Cinldrenis\xmsme Anderson):!. Fanny.
2. James. 3. Mitchdl. 4. Benjamin. 5. Abraham. 8. Eliza.
7. Stacy. 8. Jan^. 9. Henry. 10. Taylor. Several (perhaps five)
of the sons of Mitchell and Jency (Polk) Anderson were lolled in
Arkansas, while serving in the Confederate Army.
41. vii. Alfred, b. 3 Sept. 1814.
16. Thomas* Polk {Col Ezekiel,* WiUiam,^ William,^ Robert^), bom
probably in Trj'on Co., N. C, 5 Dec. 1770, died in Robertson
Ca, Term., 1 Nov. 1814. He married, 25 Dec. 1794, Abigail
Irvin, who d. 8 Mar. 1823.
He migrated with his father to middle Tennessee about
1790.
Children, born probably in Robertson Co., Tenn.:
i. Maey W. (? Wilson),« b. 28 Oct. 1795; probably m, twice, and
had issue,
ii. Ezekiel, b. 23 Oct. 1797; d. in childhood.
42. iii. James Irvin, b. 29 Oct. 1799.
iv. Clarissa Adaline, b. 27 Feb. 1802; d. 4 Apr. 1879; m. John H.
brier District of Virginia about 1771, the story being related in the histories of that region. Tandy
Walker's children were: 1. Jency, who married Taylor Polk (15). 2. Joel. 3. Tandy, 2d. 4. Syl-
vester. Tandy Walker, 2d, was at St. Stephens, Ala., in 1803. His wife, who was Mary Mayes of
Virginia, was a Methodist of the Tombigbee circuit (cf . West's History of Methodism in Alabama) ;
and his daughter, Sarah Newstep, born at St. Stephens 8 Nov. 1803 and baptized there in 1815,
married in 1820 Cassius Reynolds. Tandy Walker, 2d, was an Indian trader and scout, and served
nnder General Claiborne. In 1814, having been ordered, with Captain Erwine, to soout ahead of
the Mississippi Volunteers in the Creek Indian country, he was ambushed and wounded, and on
this account he was awarded a pension, 4 Sept. 1838. He died in 1843, and was buried on the edge
of what is known as Walker's Prairie, near Newbem, Ala. His son, Dr. Tandy Walker, 3d, a
physioian at Moulton, Ala., represented Lawrence County in the Alabama Legislature, 1838-1843,
and was a brilliant, popular, and much-loved man. (Cf. Garrett's Public Men of Alabama.)
*Jame3 Anderson went from North Carolina to Missouri and from there moved to Arkansas.
His children were: 1. Henry. 2. Mitchell. 3. Sarah. 4. Prudence.
i 1923] The Polks of North Carolina and Tennessee 221
i Arnold. Children (surname Arnold): 1. Thomas Polk, b. 31 Dec.
1824; d. 14 Apr. 1879; m. Susan Josephine Parr; nine children.
J 2. Emily, m. Johnson of New Orleans, La. 3. Jane, m.
I Pate. 4. Cattie, m. Birch. 5. Rufus. 6. Jim.
j 7. Richard K.
I 43. V. Thomas Jefferson, b, 22 Apr. 1805.
; vi. Susanna Amelia Caroline, b. 26 Mar. 1808; m. Jesse Darden.
I Children (surname Darden): 1. Jake. 2. Richard. 3. EmUy.
i Probably others.
\ vii. Lecib Norwood, b. 4 Jime 1810; m. Lucitrs Lennard. Children
I (surname Lennard): 1. Lucius. 2. Eliza. Perhaps others.
I viii. Louisa Blount, b. 17 May 1812; probably d. in infancy, although
I some accounts say that she m. Nicholas Whitehead and had issue.
! 17. Samuel* Polk {Col. Ezekiel,* William,^ William,^ Robert^), bom,
I probably in Tryon Co., N. C, 5 July 1772, died in Maury Ck).,
; Tenn., 5 Nov. 1827. He married at Hopewell Church, Meck-
lenburg Co., N. C, 25 Dec. 1794, Jane Knox, daughter of
James of Iredell Co., N. C, a captain in the Revolution.
He migrated with his father to Tennessee in the autumn of
1806, and settled in the rich valley of the Duck River, a tribu-
; tary of the Tennessee River, in the region which was organized
i ' the following year as Maury County. There he became in
j time a prosperous farmer and also increased his fortune by
\ following the occupation of surveyor. He acted also as agent
I for his cousin, Lieut. Col. WiUiam Polk (9), in the care of the
5 latter's extensive landholdings in Tennessee.
! Children:
i i. Hon. James EInox,* A.B. (University of North Carolina, 1818),
I A.M. (*., 1822), LL.D. (*., 1845), eleventh President of the
I United States, b. near lattle Sugar Creek, Mecklenburg Co.,
I N. C, 2 Nov. 1795;* d. s.p. at his home, Polk Place, in Nashville,
7 Teim., 15 June 1849; biu-. in the garden of Polk Place, but in
I 1893 his body and that of his wife were removed to the groimds
< of the State Capitol; m. 1 Jan. 1824 Sarah Childress, b. near
\ Murfreesboro, Rutherford Co., Term., 4 Sept. 1803, d. at Nashville,
,' 14 Aug. 1891, dau. of Joel, a prosperous fanner, and his wife
J Elizabeth. In 1806, when he was a boy of about eleven years, he
{ accompanied his parents to Tennessee, where he was brought up
on his father's farm, and, as he grew older, helped his father in its
management. He often went with his father on his surveying
expeditions, which sometimes kept them away from home for
weeks. He was fond of study and of reading, and took a great
interest in his father's mathematical calculations. He attended
school^ and had made much progress in the English brandies,
when ill health forced him to give up his studies. He then entered
the service of a merchant; but he disliked business, after a few
weeks was allowed to return home, and in July 1813 was placed
imder a private tutor, and was prepared for college. In 1815 he
entered the University of North Carolina as a sophomore, and
was graduated there in 1818, being recognized as the first scholar
, in classics and in mathematics and having the honor of delivering
the Latin salutatory oration. In 1819 he entered the law office
of Hon. Felix Grundy of Nashville, the leader of the Tennessee
bar, who had already been chief justice of the Supreme Court of
Kentucky and a Representative in Congress from Tennessee and
was later to become a United States Senator and Attorney General
*On 2 Not. 1846 President Polk noted in his diary: "This is my birthday. According to the
enti7 in my father's family Bible I was bom on the 2d. day of Nov. 1795 and my mother has told
me that the event occurred as near as she could tell about 12 o'clock, meridian, of that day."
222 The Polks of North Carolina and Tennessee [July
of the United States; and, while studying law, he gained the
friendship of Andrew Jackson. In 1820 he was admitted to the
Tennessee bar, and began practice at Columbia, the county seat
of Maury Co., where he soon became eminent in his profession.
He served in the Tennessee House of Representatives, 1823-1825,
represented the Sixth Tennessee District in Congress (as a Demo-
crat) for seven successive terms, 1825-1839, being Speaker of the
House of Representatives from 7 Dec. 1835 on, and was elected
Governor of Tennessee in 1839. He was defeated in his campaigns
for reelection as Grovemor in 1841 and 1843; but in 1844, at the
Democratic National Convention in Baltimore, after being men-
tioned first as a candidate for the nomination for Vice President
of the United States, he was brought forward as a "dark horse"
and nominated as the Democratic candidate for the Presidency.'
In the election that followed Mr. Polk was successful, receiving
170 electoral votes to 105 cast for his famous Whig opponent,
Henry Clay. The great achievements of his administration as
President, 1845-1849, and his own personal share in them are
discussed and described in extenso in various histories of the
United States and in a number of special works relating to his
career and policies. In domestic affairs the outstanding events
of these foiu* years were the final establishment of the Independent
Treasury system (1846) and the passage of the Walker Tariff Act
of 1846, in foreign affairs the settlement by treaty of the Oregon
boundary dispute with Great Britain (1846), the annexation of
Texas (1845), and the Mexican War (1846-1848). President Polk
decUned to be a candidate for a second presidential term; and
after leaving office, with health seriouslj' impaired, retired to his
s home in Nashville, where he died a few months later. His wife,
I who survived him for forty-two years, residing at Polk Place in
I Nashville, had been educated in a Moravian school at Salem,
I N. C, and was a gracious and stately lady, of excellent taste in
I dress, of wide reamng, and of much conversational ability. She
I performed her duties as mistress of the White House with con-
I scientious austerity, but was, nevertheless, very popular in Wash-
l ington society. She became a communicant of the Presbyterian
I Church in 1834.
I ii. Jane Maria, b. in Mecklenburg Co., N. C, 14 Jan. 1798; d. at
I ' Columbia, Tenn., 11 Oct. 1876; m. in Maury Co., Tenn., 24 Feb.
\ 1813, James Walker.* Children, b. at Columbia (surname
f TFoZfcer): 1. Samud Polk, b. 26 Jan. 1814; d. at Memphis, Tenn.,
! • 5 Nov. 1870; m. in Maury Co., Tenn., 22 Oct. 1834, Eleanor T.
Wormley; eleven or more children, of whom James was a Con-
federate soldier and was killed in the Battle of Belmont (Mo.),
7 Nov. 1861. 2. James Hayes, b. 4 May 1816; d. s.p. at Columbia
27 May 1902; m. at Corinth, Miss., 18 May 1869, Sophy Davis.
3. Joseph Knox, b. 19 July 1818; d. at Memphis, Tenn., 21 Dec.
1863; m. at Lynchburg, Va., 2 Dec. 1841, Augusta T. Tabb. He
was private secretary to his vmcle, President Polk, 1845-1849, and
colonel of the Second Tennessee Infantry, Confederate Army;
nine children. 4. Jane Clarissa, h. 7 Oct. 1820; d. at Colimibia
27 Nov. 1899; m. at Columbia, 21 June 1842, Isaac Newton Barnet;t ;
five children. 5. Mary Eliza, b. 8 Mar. 1823; d. at Memphis,
Tenn., 2 Nov. 1900; m. at Columbia, 12 July 1842, WilHam
Sanford Pickett, s. of James and Nancy (Smith); eight children.
6. Sarah Naomi, h. 20 Feb. 1825; d. at Nashville, Term., 5 Mar.
1916; m. at Columbia, 7 Jan. 1847, John Burton Green, s. of
Thomas Jefferson and Fanny (Burton); six children. 7. Annie
Maria, b. 8 Apr. 1827; m. at Columbia, 26 Dec. 1854, Lemuel M.
PhiUips; one child, who d. in infancy. 8. Lucius Marshall, b.
•He was a descendant of John Walker of Wigtown, Scotland, who married Jane Rutherford
in 1702 and emigrated to America in 1726, and whose descendants settled on Walker's Creek,
Rockbridge Co., Va. Vide supra, p. 219, second footnote.
1923] The Polks of North Carolina and Tennessee 223
18 Oct. 1829; d. at Little Rock, Ark., 6 Sept. 1863; m. at Charlottes-
ville, Va., 23 Nov. 1856, Celestine Garth, dau. of William and
Elizabeth (Martin); he was graduated at the United States
Military Academy, West Point, N. Y., in 1850, attained the rank
of major in the Confederate Anny, and was mortally womided at
Little Rock, 5 Sept. 1863, in a duel with Brigadier General
Marmaduke; two children. 9. Andrew Jackson, b. 9 JiJy 1834;
d. at Indianapolis, Ind., 16 June 1910; m. in Carroll Parish, La.,
8 Apr. 1856, Susan WiUcox Watts, dau. of Thomas and Susan
(Willcox); foin- children. 10. Ophdia Laeinska, b. 10 June 1837;
d. 11 May 1839. 11. Leonidas Polk, b. 15 Sept. 1839; d. 19 Aug.
1840.
iii. Lydia Eliza, b. in Mecklenburg Co., N. C, 17 Feb. 1800; d. in
Haywood Co., Tenn., 29 May 1864; m. (1) in Mamy Co., Tenn.,
5 Aug. 1817, Silas William Caldwell; m. (2) Edward Rich-
mond, widower. Children by first husband (surname CaldweU):
1. Samud Polk, b. at Columbia, Tenn., 20 June 1818; d. at Den-
mark, Tenn., 5 Dec. 1885; m. at Denmark, 15 May 1855, his
second cousin, Sarah Jane Taylor (18, i, 4), b. at Huntingdon,
Tenn., 15 Aug. 1839, d. at Jackson, Tenn., 9 Dec. 1909, dau. of
Abner and Laura Weston (Polk); twelve children. 2. James
Montgomery, b. in Haywood Co., Tenn., 28 May 1828; d. in
Hajrwood Co. 13 Dec. 1868; m. Edmonia Richmond, dau. of his
stepfather, Edward Richmond, by a former wife; three children.
, iv. Fhanklin Ezekiel, b. in Mecklenburg Co., N. C, 23 Aug. 1802;
d. unm. at Columbia, Tenn., 21 Jan. 1831.
44. V. Marshall Tate, b. in Mecklenburg Co., N. C, 17 Jan. 1805.
vi. John Lee, b. in Maury Co., Term., 23 Mar. 1807; d. unm. at Colum-
bia, Tenn., 28 Sept. 1831.
vii. Naomi Tate, b. in Maiuy Co., Tenn., 2 July 1809; d. at Memphis,
I Tenn., 6 Aug. 1836; m. at Columbia, Tenn., 18 Aug. 1825, Adlai
iO. Harris. Children (surname Harris): 1. Amelia. 2. Maria.
3. Laura. 4. Mcdvina.
f viii. Ophelia Clarissa, b. in Maury Co., Tenn., 6 Sept. 1812; d. at
I Columbia, Tenn., 18 Apr. 1851; m. at Columbia, 24 Sept. 1829,
I John B. Hays. Children (surname Hays): 1. Jane Virginia, h.
I 11 Sept. 1830; d. 20 Sept. 1857; m. at Columbia, Tenn., 26 Dec.
I 1854, E. F. Lee; one child. 2. Maria Naomi, h. at Columbia,
! Tenn., 28 Nov. 1838; d. at Helena, Ark.; m. at Columbia, 18 Dec.
\ 1864, WiUiam E. Moore; two children.
i 45. ix. William Hawkins, b. in Maury Co., Tenn., 24 May 1815.
t X. Samuel Wilson, b. in Maury Co., Tenn., 17 Oct. 1817; d. unm. at
I Columbia, Tenn., 24 Feb. 1839.
I 18. William Wilson* Polk (Col. Ezekiel,* WiUiam,^ William,^
Robert^), born, probably in York Co., S. C, a few miles over
the line from Mecklenbm-g Co., N. C.,* 10 Sept. 1776, died at
Walnut Bend, Phillips Co., Ark., 8 Oct. 1848. He married
Elizabeth Dodd.
He received a Uberal education, spent the first few years
of his manhood in teaching school, and then became a planter.
. In 1820, with his father and others, he helped to establish the
I , first white settlement in Hardeman Co., Tenn., where he
! remained until about 1828, when he crossed the Mississippi
; River and settled at Walnut Bend, Ark. He owned one of
j the largest plantations in the Mississippi Valley, the United
1 States Census of 1840 crediting him with being the largest
I producer of corn in the United States. Although nicknamed
I •There is a tradition that William Wilson Polk was bom in Mecklenburg Co., N. C, and it is
i poeB3i>le that his mother was at the home of her parents when his birth took place.
224 The Polks of North Carolina and Tennessee [July
"Stingy Bill, " he financed the campaign of his nephew, James
Knox Polk, for the Presidency.
Children:
i. Laura Weston,* b. in Maury Co., Term., 2 Feb. 1805; d. in Madison
Co., Tenn., 20 July 1879; m. (1) Chatman Manly; m. (2) Abneb
Taylor. Children by first husband (surname Manly): I. WiUiam
Burton, b. at Duck Hill, Miss., 12 Aug. 1823; d. near Jackson,
Tenn., 20 May 1875; m. at Pleasant ffiU, Tenn., 5 Oct. 1850,
Eliza Jane Johnson, dau. of Harrison and Jemima (Scruggs); ten
children. 2. Clarissa, h. at New Castle, Tenn., 23 Apr. 1824; d.
at Denmark, Tenn., 22 Aug. 1854; m. at New Castle John Lewis
Taylor, s. of John Adam and Frances (Reiley); two children. 3.
Ann Elizabeth, b. at New Castle, Tenn., 3 Aug. 1828; d. at Den-
mark, Tenn., 12 Jan. 1903; m. in Carroll Co., Tenn., in Feb. 1848,
Frank Taylor; three children-. Children by second husband
(surname Taylor): 4. Sarah Jane, b. at Huntingdon, Tenn., 15
Aug. 1839; d. at Jackson, Tenn., 9 Dec. 1909; m. at Denmark.
Tenn., 15 May 1855, her second cousin, Samuel Polk Caldwell
(17, iii, 1), b. at Columbia, Tenn., 20 June 1818, d. at Denmark
5 Dec. 1885, s. of SUas WilUam and Lydia Ehza (Polk); twelve
children. 5. Andrew, h. at Denmark, Tenn., 10 Mar. 1842; d.
there 29 Jan. 1894; m. there, 15 Sept. 1870, Susan Alexander
Utley, dau. of Paris Turner and Susan Carter (Alexander) ; seven
children. 6. Rebecca WiUiaTns, h. at Denmark, Term., 15 Mar.
1845; d. there 18 Nov. 1889; m. there, 15 May 1873, her brother-
in-law, Robert Henry French, s. of William Mason and Sarah
Hyacinth (Robertson) and widower of her sister, Mary Eliza
(Taylor) French (mde infra) ; six children. 7. Mary Eliza, b. near
Denmark, Tenn., 17 Jan. 1848; d. s.-p. near Denmark 29 Mar.
1869; m. Robert Henry French, s. of William Mason and Sarah
Hyacinth (Robertson), who survived her and m. her sister,
Rebecca WiUiams Taylor {vide supra). 8. Olivia Polk, b. near
Denmark, Tenn., 17 July 1850; d. s.p. at Medon, Tenn., 1 May
1881; m. in Jan. 1881 George W. Swink.
ii. Clarissa, b. in Maury Co., Tenn., 5 Aug. 1806; d. at Bailey, Tenn.,
30 Aug. 1844; m. at Bolivar, Tenn., 24 Jime 1824, Andrew-
Taylor. Children (surname Taylor): 1. William Polk, b. 3 Jan.,
1825; d. in 1835. 2. Jane Elizabeth, b. 30 Dec. 1826; d. in 1835.
3. Abner Cunningham, b. 20 Aug. 1827; d. in 1838. 4. Isaac, h.
at Bolivar 22 Feb. 1830; d. in May 1862; m. at CoUierville, Tenn.,
probably 10 Jvme 1851, Eliza Martin Talley, dau. of Martin
and Emily (Holland); he enlisted 10 Mar. 1861 in Co. D, Thirty-
eighth Tennessee Infantry, Confederate Army, was captured at
i the Battle of Shiloh, 7 Apr. 1862, and died in a Federal military
1 prison in May 1862; three children. 5. Benjamin Franklin, h.
I 4 July 1831; d. before 1839. 6. John Jackson, b. 30 Apr. 1833;
d. about 1837. 7. Olivia Berry, h. 30 Mar. 1835; d. in 18-39.
8. Laura Thressia, b. at Bohvar 15 Dec. 1837; d. at Bailey 21
June 1872; m. at Bailey, 25 Mar. 1856, Charles Robert Davis;
five children. 9. Mary Caroline, h. at Bohvar 2 Oct. 1839; m. at
I Bailey, 15 Mar. 1860, Dr. Benjamin Winchester Lauderdale, s.
I • of Samuel Holmes and Mary H. (Winchester); eleven children.
i 10. Thomas Le Roy, of Bailey, b. at Bohvar 24 July 1842; m. at
I Bailey, 3 July 1867, Annie M. Lauderdale, dau. of Frank and
! Mary (Duty) ; he enhsted 15 May 1861 in Co. C, Fourth Tennessee
; Infantry, Confederate Army, and served four years, being wounded
i three tmies; fom- children, b. at Bailey. 11. Clarissa Sarah, b.
I 6 Aug. 1844; d. at Red Banks, Miss., 11 Aug. 1885; m. (1) at
Bailey, 26 Jan. 1870, James M. Northcross; m. (2) at Forest Hill,
Tenn., 11 Aug. 1885, H. L. Bradford; three children by first
husband, of whom Andrew Taylor enlisted at Nashville, Tenn.,
12 May 1898, in Co. F, Second Tennessee Volunteer Infantry, for
1923] The Polks of North Carolina and Tennessee 225
service in the War with Spain, and d. at Camp Alger, Va., 1 Aug.
1898.
iii. Mabt Wilson, b. in Maury Co., Tenn., 21 July 1808; d. at Memphis,
Tenn., 13 July 1871; m. in Hardeman Co., Tenn., 27 Dec. 1834,
^ • Wabdlow Howard, s. of Thomas. Children (surname Howard) :*
1. William Thomas, b. at Memphis 26 Mar. 1836; d. at Rochester,
N. Y., 24 Jan. 1869; m. at Memphis, 1 Jan. 1859, AmeUa Hunger-
ford, dau. of Lafayette; they had issue. 2. Nicholas, b. 14 Aug.
1838; d. 15 Oct. 1840. 3. Charles, d. in childhood. 4. Louisa,
b. 24 July 1843; d. 20 Aug. 1843. 5. Joseph Kent, b. 23 Nov.
1846; d. 28 Feb. 1848. 6. SaUie Kent, h. 8 July 1848; m. (1) at
Memphis, 2 Feb. 1869, John Marshall Hewitt; m. (2) at Marianna,
Ark., 25 Apr. 1895, James Bohvar Grove; one child by first hus-
band. 7. Jackson Polk, h. 14 Aug. 1850; d. 23. Dec. 1854. 8.
Laura, b. 8 Oct. 1854; d. at Marianna, Ark., 6 Nov. 1903; m. at
Marianna, 20 Oct. 1880, Robert Handcock; six children, all of
whom d. unm. 9. Elizabeth Taylor, b. at La Grange, Tenn., 23
' . Feb. 1856; d. at Memphis 12 Nov. 1905; m. at Jackson, Tenn.,
13 Nov. 1875, Ripley Gates; two children. 10. Olivia, h. 18 Oct.
1856 [sic]; d. 28 July 1857. 11. Mary Wardlow, b. at Memphis
24 Dec. 1864 [sic]; m. at Marianna, Ark., 6 Dec. 1882, Dr. Vohiey
Edward Sumpter; residence, Brinkley, Ark.; seven children.
j iv. Caeoline, b. probably in Mainj' Co., Tenn.; d. in Fayette Co.,
} Tenn., 27 Nov. 1829; m., probably in Philhps Co., Ark., 20 Jan.
1 1829, John Wirt. Children, b. in Fayette Co. (simiame Wtrt) : 1.
Catherine (twin), b. 27 Nov. 1829; d. in Fayette Co. 7 Apr. 1884;
m. Dr. William J. Cannon; two children. 2. Caroline (twin), b.
27 Nov. 1829; d. unm.
V. Olivia Marburt, b, in Maury Co., Term., 13 July 1811; d. at
Springfield, Mo., 18 July 1850; m. in Hardeman Co., Term., 12
Apr. 1831, Daniel Dorset Beeet, b. at Baltimore, Md., 16 July
1805, d. 9 Oct. 1862, s. of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Dorsey). They
migrated to Greene Co., Mo., in 1831, and settled on the site of the
present city of Springfield. Children (surname Berry): 1. Eliza-
beth Dodd,j b. in Hardeman Co., Tenn.,t 9 July 1833; m. (1) at
Springfield, Mo., 5 Aug. 1851, her second cousin, Leonidas Cald-
well Campbell, later a captain and a colonel in the Confederate
Army, eldest child of William St. Clair (8, ii, 6) and Mildred Ann
(Blackman); m. (2) at Walnut Bend, Phillips (now Lee) Co.,
Ark., 15 Oct. 1868, George Martin Jones, b. in Shelby Co., Tenn.,
19 Oct. 1836, s. of Henry Tandy and Mary Edwards (Waller)
Jones and grandson of Capt. James Jones of Giles Co., Tenn.;
five children by first husband and three children by second hus-
band. 2. Laura Juliette, h. at Springfield, Mo., 10 Jan. 1835; d.
at Columbia, Mo., 12 July 1882; m. at Columbia, 9 June 1868,
John Thilo Fyfer, b. in Quebec, Canada, 3 Feb. 1835, d. at
Columbia 6 June 1907, s. of John Michel and Fredericka (Dietrick) ;
he migrated to Orange Co., Va., and in 1856 to Columbia, Mo.;
five cmldren, b. at Columbia. 3. William Polk, b. in 1837; d. in
1838. 4. Clarissa C.,§ b. at Springfield, Mo., 21 May 1838; d. at
. . Columbia, Mo., 27 Dec. 1916; m. at Springfield, 10 Aug. 1854,
Joseph Samuel Moss, b. in Logan Co., Ky., 31 Jan. 1831, d. at
Columbia 26 Aug. 1898, s. of Joseph and Sallie (Chastain); he
settled at Columbia in 1865, was for twenty-five years secretary
•' 'The tnith dates of the children of Wardlow and Mary Wilson (Polk) Eoward have been taken
1 from Bible records, but evidently those of the last two children are incorrect. — Editob.
i tSome accounts of the family g;ive no middle name. Others claim that she was named for her
! grandmother, Elizabeth Dodd. The Berry family records give her birth date as 4 July, but the
I Campbell family records give it as 5 July.
i tXhia ia inconsbtent with the fact that the family moved to Missouri in 1831, unless her mother
\ returned to the old family home in Tennessee.
I {The record furnished by members of the family gives her name as Clara, but it ia here given
I aa it appears in the Polk Tree of 1849.
226 The Polks of North Carolina and Tennessee [July
of the Christian College Board, and was curator at the State
University, 188&-1889; seven children. 5. John Thomas, h. at
Springfield, Mo., 4 Dec. 1839; d. at Terrell, Tex., 14 Apr. 1901;
m. at Columbia, Tenn., 4 Nov. 1872, Ellen Dupuy McKinneyj
dau. of Thomas and Jane (Dupuy); he served m the Missouri
Cavalry, in the Confederate Army, and migrated to Lamar Co.,
Tex.,inl870;fourchildren,b. in Paris, Tex. 6. WiUiam Benjamin,
of Paris, Tex., b. at Springfield, Mo., 3 May 1841; m. at Roxton,
Lamar Co., Tex., 23 Mar. 1882, Mary J. Gordon; he enlisted in
1861 in Capt. Leonidas Caldwell Cfampbell's company, Third
MissoiU"! Cavalr}[, Confederate Army, was transferred in 1863 to
Marmaduke's brigade battery, in the Trans-Mississippi Depart-
ment, was commissioned captain of ArtUlery in 1865, was sur-
rendered at Memphis, Tenn., 2 June 1865 and was paroled,
migrated to Lamar Co., Tex., in 1879, and was elected brigadier
general of the United Confederate Veterans in 1905; six children.
7. Danid Dorsey, b. at Springfield, Mo., 18 Oct. 1842; d. at
Springfield 21 Mar. 1915; m. at Columbia, Mo., 6 Nov. 1866,
Elizabeth Selby Matthews, dau. of Lawrence and Louisa (Ball);
three children, b. at Columbia. 8. Olivia Polk, b. at Springfield,
Mo., in Aug. 1844; d. in Phillips Co., Ark. in 1877; m. m Phillips
Co., Ark., 14 Nov. 1866, J. Ferdinand Rodgers; one daughter, Mary,
who d. in infancy. 9. Mary Eliza, b. at Springfield, Mo., 4 Mar.
1846; d. s.p. at Columbia, Mo., 14 Oct. 1870; m. 21 Dec. 1869
Arthur Walker McAlister. 10. Louise Matilda, h. 16 Sept. 1847;
. d. at Paris, Tex., 3 Dec. 1903; m. (1) in PhiUips Co., Ark., 15 Apr.
1867, John J. Clayton; m. (2) in 1877 Frank B. Rodgers; one son
by first husband, two children by second husband. 11. Christiana
Thressia, b. 8 Feb. 1850; d. in Aug. 1851.
46. vi. John Jackson, b. in Maury Co., Tenn., 5 Sept. 1813.
47. vii. Thomas Marlborough, b. near Columbia, Maury Co., Tenn., 11
Sept. 1815.
yiii. Sophia.*
ix. LoxjisA.*
X. Sarah Roach, b. in Hardeman Co., Tenn., in 1821; d. at New
Castle, Tenn., in Feb. 1902; m. in BEardeman Co. Joseph Kent.
Children (surname Kent): 1. Joseph Jackson, h. at Walnut Bend,
Ark., in 1847; d. unm. at Whiteville, Tenn., 13 Mar. 1914. 2.
Olivia Polk, b. at Walnut Bend, Ark., in Aug. 1854; d. at New
Castle, Tenn., 25 Mar. 1890; m. at New Castle, 24 Dec. 1874,
James Weston Bass; one daughter.
i 19. Chakles Perry* Polk {Col. Ezekiel,* William,^ William,^
\ Robert^), born in Maury Co., Tenn., 27 Oct. 1813, died at
I Corinth, Miss., 27 Oct. 1893. He married at Bolivar, Tenn.-,
5 8 Oct. 1835, Ellen Matilda Fitzhtjgh, daughter of Edmund
j Burdette and EUza (Roberts).
i He attained to the rank of colonel in the Confederate Army.
I Children, aU except the last one born at BoUvar, Tenn. :
i. Charles Edwin,* b. 30 Apr. 1838; d. at Corinth, Miss., 7 Nov.
; 1867; m. at Leighton, Ala., in June 1856, Cornelia Faibcloth.
\ Children: 1. Clara.'' m. Lane. 2. Perry. 3. Ellen.
j - ii. James Knox, b. 27 Dec. 1840; d. s.p.; m. Ellen Elam.
I iii. Ann Eliza, b. 9 June 1843; d. at Jackson, Tenn., 27 May 1873;
i m. M. L. Vesey. Child (surname Vesey): 1. Ellen Elizabeth, b. 17
; Nov. 1869; m. (1) at Memphis, Tenn., 6 Feb. 1888, George
i Henry McLeod, who d. at Gomez Palacio, Mexico, 4 Apr. 1906; m.
; (2) at Amarillo, Tex., 16 June 1908, S. W. Riggan; residence,
i Cimarron, N. Mex.; five children.
iv. Eugenia, b. 15 Feb. 1846; m. at Corinth, Miss., 9 Feb. 1869, David
The record is oot clear as to this child. If there was such a child, she died very yoojog.
1923] A Record of Deaths in Boston and Vicinity 227
Jacob Hyneman, s. of Robert Jesse and Elizabeth (Surratt).
They reside at Corinth. Children (surname Hyneman): 1. Annie
Lucy; b. 25 Nov. 1869; d. at St. Maurice, La., 23 Sept. 1890; m.
at Corinth, 30 Oct. 1888, Dr. Green Croft Chandler, s. of Green
Collier and Martha (Croft); one daughter. 2. Eugenia, b. at
Corinth 23 Feb. 1872; m. there, 11 Sept. 1896, Robert Cowden
Armstrong, s. of Clinton Adolphus and Margaret (Kercheval);
residence, Lewisburg, Tenn.; no children. 3. Nina May, b. at
Corinth 12 May 1874; m. there, 2 Jxine 1898, Frank Sanders
Elgin, s. of Charles Patton and Fashion (Duncan); residence,
Memphis, Tenn.; two children. 4. Maggie, b. at Corinth 8 Nov.
1876; m. there, 6 June 1899, Roy Leighton Young, s. of Tandy
Key and Ma^ (Hoyle) ; residence, Corinth; three children, b. at
Corinth. 5. EUen Elizabeth, b. 20 June 1879; d. unm. 31 Mar.
1907.
V. Pebbt, b. 11 Sept. 1848; d. unm.
vi. William Wood, b. 10 Dec. 1850; d. at Jackson, Tenn.; m. at Craw-
ford, Miss., Pattie Wheelock. -
vii. Samuel Walker, b. at Kossuth, Miss., 16 Oct. 1854; living unm.
• at Glen, Miss.
, ITo be continued]
A RECORD OF DEATHS IN BOSTON AND VICINITY,
1799-1815
From a manuscript in the possession of the New England Historic
Genealogical Societt
I The record of deaths of which the first instahnent begins below
j is written in a book bound in leather, which was given to the New
I England Historic Genealogical Society by the late Winslow Lewis,
I A.M., M.D., of Boston, who was President of the Society, 1861-1866,
{ and died in 1875. In the centre of the page facing the first page of
; records are the following words, written in pencil: "Supposed to be
Undertaker's Copy, from Cofiin Plates." It is not known when the
book was given to the Society by Dr. Lewis or when and by whom
these words in pencil were written.
The handwriting of the entries shows that one person wrote the
entire record, which extends from Aug. 26, 1799, to Apr. 28, 1815,
inclusive, ends in the middle of a page, and. is followed by several
blank pages. Under date of June 23, 1810, the writer enters the
• death of Mr. Allen Foster, aged 22, whom he describes in parentheses
: as "a faithfuU apprentice to me." As yet, however, it has not be^
; possible to identify positively the writer of the record, although it
■■ may be said that he was probably an engraver of coffin plates.
: In copying the manuscript for pubUcation the dates have been
i - given in uniform style, with the customary abbreviations for the
I names of the months, and the punctuation has been inserted by the
Editor.
VOL. LXXVIl. 15
228 A Record of Deaths in Boston and Vicinity {July
1799
Mrs. Susanna Walker, Died Aug. 26, Aged 65 yra.
Mr. Abijah Fiske, Died Aug. 28, Aged 23.
Mrs. Venus Hinche, Died Sept. 22, Aged 57.
Mrs. Martha Thompson, Died Sept. 30, Aged 89.
Mr. John Robbins, Died Oct. 2, Aged 53.
Mrs. D Young, Died Oct. 7, Aged 70.
Mr. Jonas Viles, Died Oct. 8, Aged 53.
Mrs. PoUy KendaU, Died Oct. 17, Aged 55.
Saml. French, Died Oct. 21, Aged 3.
Mr, Thomas Foot, Died Oct. 26, Aged 78.
Mrs. Hannah Dewhurst, Died Oct. 29, Aged 30.
Miss Ehxabeth Hall, Died Nov. 1, Aged 16.
Mrs. Lydia Mixer, Died Nov. 4, Aged 76.
George Robbins, Died Nov. 4, Aged 5.
Mrs. Elizabeth Bemis, Died Nov. 7, Aged 42.
Mrs. Millicent Nelson, Died Nov. 15, Aged 52.
Mr. Bradbury Robbinson, Died Nov. 18, Aged 47.
Mr. Jonas Fillebrown, Died Nov. 20, Aged 23 yrs.
Mr. William Parks, Died Nov. 26, Aged 18.
Peter Heating, Died Nov. 25, Aged 6.
Mr. William Hunt, Died Nov. 25, Aged 66.
Mr. Solomon Hayward, Died Nov. 27, Aged 25.
Mr. Henry Pidgeon, Died Dec. 2, Aged 40.
Mrs. Sarah Shute, Died Dec. 6, Aged 80.
Mrs. Mary Shed, Died Dec. 7, Aged 81.
Miss Polly Clap, Died Dec. 10, Aged 20.
Betsy Mansfield, Died Dec. 10, Aged 3 & 6 mo.
Mrs. Sarah Micklefield, Died Dec. — , Aged 26.
Mrs. Dorcas Baldwin, Died Dec. 15, Aged 58.
Josiah Dantforth, Died Dec. 19, Aged 8 mo.
Mrs. Rebecca Parker, Died Dec. 21, Aged 38.
Mr. Nathl. Titmash, Died Dec. 26, Aged 58. -
Mrs. Charry Bryant, Died Dec. 31, Aged 55.
1800
I Mrs. Sarah Clark, Died Jan. 1, Aged 29 yrs.
I Mary Page, Died Jan. 4, Aged 2 & 5 mo.
\ Mr. George Clark, Died Jan. 7, Aged 37.
I Mr. Richard Conning, Died Jan. 10, Aged 32.
I L. C. Tufts, Died Jan. 12, Aged 5.
i Mrs. Chloe NeweU, Died Jan. 18, Aged 45.
I Mary Baker, Died Jan. 28, Aged 25 days.
Rachel Cole, Died Jan. 27, Aged 3 mo.
Mrs. Jerusha Cutting, Di^ Jan. 31, Aged 53.
Mrs. OUe Nottage, Died Feb. 7, Aged 38.
I Gideon Norton, Died Feb. 12, Aged 5 mo.
j Mrs. Mary Teel, Died Feb. 13, Aged 76.
i Mr. John Maloney, Died Feb. 22, Aged 17.
( Mr. John Cookson, Died Feb. 23, Aged 63.
I Mrs. Susannah Hall, Died Feb. 27, Aged 63.
f Mrs. Abigail Bender, Died Feb. 26, Aged 81.
I Mrs. Mary Estabrook, Died Mar. 9, Aged 42.
I ■ Mr. John Blake, Died Mar. 9, Aged 80.
Mrs. Sarah Seward, Died Mar. 12, Aged 62.
Mr. John Driscoll, Died Mar. 16, Aged 17.
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Ann Mirick, Died Mar. 30, Aged 2 yrs.
Miss Sally Joslin, Died Apr. 5, Aged 31.
Mrs. Ly^a Robinson, Died Apr. 11, Aged 40.
Mrs. Elizabeth Gibbon, Died Apr. 29, Aged 32.
Mr. Ebenr. Hall, Died May 1, Aged 63.
Mrs. Thankfull Helpman, Died May 15, Aged 67.
Capt. Andrew Gardner, Died May 17, Aged 73.
Capt. HeziMah Welsh, Died May 22, Aged 80.
Mrs. Mary Ingraham, Died May 23, Aged 87.
Mr. John Morgan, Died May 24, Aged 33.
Peter F. Bailey, Died May 28, Aged 5 yrs.
Miss Hannah West, Died May 30, Aged 18.
Mrs. Anna Gale, Died June 2, Aged 66.
Mr. John Goff, Died June 3, Aged 63.
Mr. Jeremiah Murphy, Died June 4, Aged 43.
Miss Lucretia Perry, Died June 6, Aged 18.
Miss EUzabeth Molinaux, Died June 20, Aged 40.
Mrs. Martha Dickson, Died June 20, Aged 50.
Mr. Darius Paine, Died June 26, Aged 39.
Mrs. Nancy Simpson, Died July 2, Aged 25.
Mrs. Mary Lewis, Died July 4, Aged 81.
Mr. William Heam, Died July 9, Aged 28.
Mrs. Sarah Pease, Died July 10, Aged 65.
Mr. Joseph A. Mercier, Died July 11, Aged 36.
Capt. Jona. Hall, Died July 15, Aged 32.
I Mrs. Mary Caswell, Died July 18, Aged 35.
Wm. N. Callender, Died July 23, Aged 11 mo.
Eliza L. Rich, Died July 25, Aged 17 ds.
Mrs. Susanna Hill, Died July 28, Aged 27 yrs.
Mrs. EUzabeth Cocks, Died July 19, Aged 73.
Mrs. Deborah Andrews, Died July 28, Aged 28.
Mr. John Walker, Died Aug. 6, Aged 78.
I Mr. James Tilden, Died Aug. 9, Aged 20.
I . Sally L. Clough, Died Aug. 14, Aged 1 yr.
Luke Bemis, Died Aug. 19, Aged 6 mo.
i Miss Nkncy Kemp, Died Aug. 20, Aged 6 yrs.
: Mrs. Hannah Cutter, Died Aug. 23, Aged 48.
' Miss Maria A. Smith, Died Aug. 26, Aged 6.
■ Mrs. Anna Tufton, Died Aug. 29, Aged 67.
Mrs. Margaret WeUington, Died Sept. 7, Aged 83.
^rs. Margaret Starret, Died Sept. 10, Aged 48.
Mrs. Sarah Fisk, Died Sept. 17, Aged 42.
Charles F. Foster, Died Sept. 19, Aged 1 yr.
Charles H. Burnett, Died Sept. 18, Aged 16 mo.
Mr. William Billings, Died Sept. 26, Aged 60.
Mrs. Rebeckah Lee, Died Sept. 26, Aged 73.
Assa Hatch, Died Sept. 28, Aged 13 mo.
Mrs. Mary Barter, Died Sept. 27, Aged 53.
Mr. Joseph Boss, Died Sept. 30, Aged 78.
Eliza Wells, Died Sept. 29, Aged 1 yr.
Mary Binney, Died Oct. 4, Aged 14 mo.
Lucy S. Penniman, Died Oct. 5, Aged 1 yr.
Mr. Benjn. Bird, Died Oct. 6, Aged 58.
Mrs. EUzabeth Farrey, Died Oct. 10, Aged 76.
Clarissa Welsh, Died Oct. 10, Aged 3 yrs.
Mrs. Joanna Faxon, Died Oct. 13, Aged 22.
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Mrs. Mary Russell, Died Oct. 13, Aged 28. .
Miss Elizabeth Brown, Died Oct. 15. A^ed 36.
Mrs. Juddy Pendleton, Died Oct. 14, Aged 27.
Mrs. Susannah Frost, Died Oct. 15, Aged 50.
Elizabeth Thayer, Died Oct. 18, Aged 6 yrs.
Sarah S. Turner, Died Oct. 21, Aged 2.
Mr. Saml. French, Died Nov. 4, Aged 24.
Mrs. Lucy Huntting, Died Nov. 3, Aged 45.
Mrs. Rebbeca Sumner,, Died Nov. 6, Aged 58.
Mrs. Ruth Kingsbury, Died Nov. 13, Aged 34.
Miss Betsy More, Died Nov. 14, Aged 14.
Col. Thomas Marshall, Died Nov. 18, Aged ^2.
Mrs. Sarah Thayer, Died Nov. 20, Aged 103.
Mr. Thomas Grove, Died Nov. 21, Aged 27.
Mr. Prince Freeman, Died Nov. 24, Aged 21.
Mr. Benjn. Vincent, Died Dec. 1, Aged 52.
Mr. Saml. Coolidge, Died Dec. 3, Aged 44.
Mrs. Esther French, Died Dec. 13, Aged 95.
Mrs. Martha Pegen, Died Dec. 28, Aged 27.
Mr. Edmund Eaton, Died Dec. 30, Aged 65.
1801
Mrs. Catharine Seward, Died Jan. 1, Aged 65.
Henry Parasser, Died Jan. 3, Aged 7 mo.
Mr. Ebenr. Wait, Died Jan. 3, Aged 56.
Orlan Tyler, Died Jan. 25, Aged 17 mo.
Mrs. Mary Barker, Died Jan. 31, Aged 79.
Henry A. Caswell, Died Feb. 8, Aged 12.
Betsy Mayo, Died Feb. 14, Aged 17.
Mrs. Mary Pratt, Died Feb. 13, Aged 53.
Mrs. Sarah Watts, Died Feb. 16, Aged 67.
Joseph Hixon, Esqr., Died Feb. 15, Aged 55.
George W. Abbot, Died Feb. 21, Aged 2 yr.
John Griffith, Died Feb. 21, Aged 7 mo.
Miss Nancy Hunstable, Died Feb. 23, Aged 21 jts.
Mr. Robert Laflan, Died Feb. 25, Aged 53.
Mrs. Eleanor Vamum, Died Feb. 24, Aged 42.
John R. Thompson, Died Feb. 24, Aged 9 mo.
Mrs. Deborah Edes, Died Feb. 25, Aged 78.
Mr. William Mihis, Died Feb. 27, Aged 40.
Mrs. Mary Whitney, Died Feb. 27, Aged 34.
Mrs. Dorcas WiUington, Died !Mar. 8, Aged 86.
Mr. Giles Johnson, Died Mar. 8, Aged 24.
Dianer Bailey, Died Mar. 7, Aged 4 jts.
Mrs. Mary Laha, Died Mar. 10, Aged 71.
:Miss Lydia JKerce, Died Mar. 12, Aged 17.
Miss Elisa Harlow, Died Mar. 23, Aged 14.
Lieut. Jona. Smith, Died Mar. 23, Aged 88.
Mrs. Lydia Goodwin, Died Mar. 24, Aged 76.
Mrs. Elizabeth Bouve, Died Mar. 30, Aged 56.
Mr. John McElory, Died Mar. 31, Aged 27.
Miss Sarah Jennison, Died Apr. 2, Aged 25.
Mr. Jube Hill, Died Apr. 3, Aged 47.
Mr. Joseph Cazneau, limnor. Died Apr. 4, Aged 19.
Mrs. George McCrady, Died Apr. 3, Aged 26.
Mrs. Rachel Wallis, Died Apr. 9, Aged 75.
Frances Lewis, Died Apr. 8, Aged 28 mo.
1923] A Record of Deaths in Boston and Vicinity 231
Mrs, Margaret Loring, Died Apr. 13, Aged 68.
Mr. Abiel Learldn, Died Apr. 14, Aged 47.
Miss Sarah Shaw, Died Apr. 13, Aged 11 yr.
Mrs. Ann Arnold, Died Apr. 16, Aged 62.
Mrs. Sarah Newhall, Died Apr. 19, Aged 47.
Mr. Mathew Binney, Died Apr. 22, Aged 21.
Miss Mary Wheeler, Died Apr. 22, Aged 46.
Mrs. Phebe Sweetser, Died Apr. 23, Aged 53.
Mrs. Sarah Brown, Died Apr. 24, Aged 76.
Mr. William Mecameny, Died Apr. 28, Aged 28.
Capt. John Grozer, died Apr. 27, Aged 42.
Mr. John Morrison, Died Apr. 28, Aged 26.
Eliza W. Robbins, Died Apr. 28, Aged 6 mo.
Mrs. Hannah Neat, Died Apr. 28, Aged 77 & 6 mo.
Mrs. Silence Revere, Died May 3, Aged 46.
Nathl. Frobisher, Died May 5, Aged 25 mo.
Mrs. Hannah Brigham, Died May 7, Aged 26.
Mrs. Catherine Dodd, Died May 9, Aged 52.
Mrs. Martha Welsh, Died May 10, Aged 65.
John Woodward, Esqr., Died May 11, Aged 76.
Miss Mary Thayer, Died May 11, Aged 78.
Mr. Nicholas Brown, Died May 12, Aged 40.
Mrs. Margaret Kelby, Died-May 15, Aged 23.
Mrs. Catherine Small, Died May 16, Aged 34.
Mr. Benjamin Steams, Died May 26, Aged 73.
Sarah G. Clark, Died May 28, Aged 3 yrs.
: Miss Hannah Holbrook, Died May 28, Aged 33.
I Mrs. Sarah Nutt, Died May 28, Aged 50.
J Mrs. Abigail Fowle, Died May 29, Aged 76.
J Mrs. Lois Sargent, Died May 29, Aged 82.
\ Mr. Van Hamel, Died May 31, Aged 37.
1 Mr. Atherton Wales, Died May 31, Aged 80.
5 Mrs. Abigail Simpson, Died May 31, Aged 49.
\ Mrs. Mary F. Rowan, Died June 2, Aged 27.
I Mrs. Abigail Mead, Died June 5, Aged 33.
" Mrs. Joanna Fiars, Died June 4, Aged 51.
[ Master Nath. Chessman, Died June 9, Aged 12.
■ Mr. Ebenr. Brown, Died June 12, Aged 42.
•, Mrs. Deborah Bronsdon, Died June 12, Aged 40.
; Mrs. Elizabeth Cutter, Died June 13, Aged 28.
Helen A. Clark, Died June 14, Aged 2 jrrs.
Mr. James Okes, Died June 16, Aged 18. \ both killed by
Mr. Benjn. Dow, Died June 16, Aged 24. / Ughtnig at Maiden.
Mrs. Anna Gladding, Died June 18, Aged 66.
Mr. Josiah Bridge, Died June 19, Aged 62.
Harriot Evans, Died June 28, Aged 10 mo.
Mr. William Lovett, Died June 29, Aged 28.
Hannah Taylor, Died June 30, Aged 19 mo.
Mrs. AbigaU Belcher, Died July 1, Aged 74.
Naby Dissmore, Died July 10, aged 4 yr. 10 mo.
Mr. Zachariah Mills, Died July 17, Aged 36.
i Capt. Jeremiah Hill, Died July 17, Aged 45.
; Mrs. Nabby Lillie, Died July 17, Aged 32.
Mr. John Pidgeon, Died July 18, Aged 45.
Mr. Seth Brigg, Died July 18, Aged 80.
i Mr. John Dennison, Died July 21, Aged 27.
232 A Record of Deaths in Boston and Vicinity [July
Mr. Boston Monten, Died July 24, Aged 72.
Mr. John S. Ingersoll, Kil'd by Lightg on Spears WliaJf
instantly July 25, Aged 18.
Mr. Solomon Robbins, Died July 25, Aged 81.
Mr. Ebenr. Prentiss, Junr., Died July 28, Aged 23.
Mrs. Elizabeth Norcross, Died July 30, Aged 63.
Mrs. Sarah Newhall, Died July 30, Aged 32.
George R. Penniman, Died Aug. 1, Aged 2 yrs.
Mrs. Susannah Crane, Died Aug. 3, Aged 60.
Mrs. Elenor Fergurson, Died Aug. 7, Aged 65.
• Mr. John S. Mollett, Died Aug. 11, Aged 46.
Mrs. Sarah Hart, Died Aug. 11, Aged 83.
Miss Joanna Bussy, Died Aug. 12, Aged 23.
Mrs. Percis Kilton, Died Aug. 12, Aged 41.
Mr. Andrew Meushett, Died Aug. 12, Aged 30.
Miss Nancy Frothingham, Died Aug. 14, Aged 18.
Mrs. Sarah Eliot, Died Aug. 16, Aged 41.
Margaret Jaques, Died Aug. 19, Aged 14 mo.
Mr, Daniel Whitney, Died Aug. 19, Aged 23.
Miss Bethiah Lawrence, Died Aug. 19, Aged 34.
Miss Elizabeth Gordon, Died Aug. 19, Aged 68.
Mrs. Hannah Parkman, Died Aug. 20, Aged 85.
Mrs. Wm. Barber, Died Aug. 20, Aged 32.
Mrs. Hannah Bass, Died Aug. 21, Aged 60.
Master Abel Wheelock, Died Aug. 21, Aged 11 yrs.
Mr. Daniel Reed, Died Aug. 22, Aged 60.
Mrs. Elizabeth Glentworth, Died Aug. 24, Aged 77.
Mrs. Susannah Reed, Died Aug. 26, Aged 24.
Mary Richardson, Died Aug. 28, Aged 16 mo.
Gapt. Josiah Delano, Died Aug. 31, Aged 49.
Mr. Ebenezer Shute, Died Aug. 31, Aged 69.
Freeman Bagley, Died Sept. 1, Aged 18 mo.
George A. Baxter, Died Sept. 1, Aged 11 mo.
Mr. Elisha Brewster, Died Sept. 1, Aged 66.
Mrs. Sarah Hagar, Died Sept. 1, Aged 44.
Mrs. Eunice Coolidge, Died Sept. 2, Aged 74.
Miss Mary Kemball Whitney, Died Sept. 2, Aged 26.
Mrs. Abigail Billings, Died Sept. 4, Aged 67.
Mr. James Wall, Died Sept. 4, Aged 64.
' Mr. Francis Archbald, Died Sept. 4, Aged 78.
Mrs. Lydia Shute, Died Sept. 5, Aged 23.
Miss Sarah Eaton, Died Sept. 5, Aged 8 yrs.
Mr. David Hollis, Died Sept. 5, Aged 44.
Sarah Ann Barrell, Died Sept. 7, Aged 7 yrs. *
Mr. Nathl. Newell, Died Sept. 8, Aged 44.
Mrs. Sarah Cobbett, Died Sept. 8, Aged 56.
Mr. Nathl. Jarvis, Died Sept. 8, Aged 48.
John Emes, Died Sept. 7, Aged 2 yrs.
Mrs. Esther Wittemore, Died Sept. 9, Aged 85.
Phillip E. Amidon, Died Sept. 9, Aged 20 mo.
Miss Polly Hichbom, Died Sept. 11, Aged 22.
Mr. Thomas Bryan, Died Sept. 13, Aged 32.
James R. Morse, Died Sept. 13, Aged 7 mo.
Mr. Simeon Snow, Died Sept. 15, Aged 21.
Mr. Calvin Dammon, Died Sept. 16, Aged 41.
Mrs. Anna Sanderson, Died Sept. 16, Aged 89.
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Miss Sukey Cade, Died Sept. 18, Aged 71 yrs.
Mrs. Rachel Sprague, Died Sept. 18, Aged 34.
Eliza Hichbom, Died Sept. 19, Aged 18 mo.
Mrs. Mary Whitney, Died Sept. 21, Aged 53.
Mrs. Betsy Brown, Died Sept. 20, Aged 30.
Ebenezer Tileston, Died Sept. 21, Aged 14 mo.
Mary P. Hiller, Died Sept. 22, Aged 14 mo.
Ann B. Himt, Died Sept. 23, Aged 13 mo.
Wm. Pierce, Died Sept. 23, Aged 15 mo.
Rebecca Stone, Died Sept. 23, Aged 7 yrs.
Miss Sally Cotting, Died Sept. 20, Aged 20.
Mr. George Tompkins, Died Sept. 21, Aged 25. .
Mrs. Ann Hichbom, Died Sept. 22, Aged 23.
1 Miss Rebecca K. Tilden, Died Sept. 22, Aged 19.
I Miss Elii;abeth Hailley, Died Sept. 24, Aged 23.
1 David R. Rupp, Died Sept. 25, Aged 3H yrs.
Miss Eliza Willey, Died Oct. 25, Aged 15.
Mrs. Susannah Robbins, Died Oct. 24, Aged 34.
William C. Huimeman, Died Oct. 26, Aged 3 3rrs., 3 mo.
Ezra Town, Died Oct. 24, Aged 13 mo.
I Mrs. Zeniiah Coolidge, Died Oct. 25, Aged 85.
j Mrs. Mary Dniry, Died Oct. 27, Aged 54.
I Mrs. Elizabeth Harris, Died Oct. 27, Aged 58.
[ Mrs. Sarah Frost, Died Oct. 29, Aged 72.
Mrs. Mary Fowle, Died Oct. 29, Aged 40.
Mrs. Thankfull Hagannan, Died Oct. 31, Aged 29.
I Mi^ Elizabeth Harvey, died Oct. 30, Aged 74.
I Mrs. Hannah Wait, Died Nov. 1, Aged 54.
I Mr. Samuel WaUis, Died Nov. 3, Aged 60.
I Luther F. Garter, Died Nov. 5, Aged 18 mo.
I Mrs. Abigail Bacon, Died Nov. 5, Aged 36.
{ Mr. John Bainford, Died Nov. 5, Aged 30.
I Robt. L. TUden, Died Nov. 6, Aged 2 yr. ^.
\ Mr. David Jacobs, Died Nov. 7, Aged 55.
1 Mr. Wm. Green, Died Nov. 10, Aged 26.
! Ebenr. Larldn, Died Nov. 13, Aged 16 mo.
I Mr. Henry Coates, Native of old England, Died Nov. 14, Aged 40^
j Mr. Stephen Emery, Died Nov. 15, Aged 53.
1 Ann L. Clapp, Died Nov. 17, Aged 26 mo.
j . Mrs. Rachel Lynde, Died Nov. 18, Aged 82.
, Miss Mercy Luce, Died Nov. 20, Aged 29.
Mr. "VTilliam Rice, Died Nov. 23, Aged 42.
Mr. Charles French, Died Nov. 23, Aged 47.
Mrs. Judith Ferreter, Died Nov. 25, Aged 56.
Mr. Holmes Sargent, Died Nov. 27, Aged 19.
Mrs. Elizabeth Salter, Died Dec. 2, Aged 23.
Mr. Charles Farry, Died Dec. 1, Aged 36. •
Miss Harriot Smith, Died Dec. 11, Aged 20.
Mrs. Elizabeth Watson, Died Dec. 12, Aged'35.
Mr. Josiah Norcross, Died Dec. 13, Aged 67.
; Mr. Stephen Sprague, Died Dec. 18, Aged 37. ♦
Hannah S. Newman, Died Dec. 19, Aged 1 yr.
i Mrs. Rebeckah Perkins, Died Dec. 23, Aged 32.
■ Mrs. Elizabeth Stevens, Died Dec. 22, Aged 83.
Mr. Boston Faddy, Died Dec. 24, Aged 50.
; • Mrs. Sarah Camberford, Died Dec. 27, Aged 73. '
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Mrs. Mary Dolbear, Died Dec. 27, Aged 33.
Daniel Hunt, Died Dec. 27, Aged 6 mo.
Mr. William Frothingham, Died Dec. 26, Aged 73.
Mrs. Mary Baker, Died Dec. 27, Aged 59.
Mr. Benja. James, Died Dec. 28, Aged 42.
Capt. Jona. Carey, Died Dec. 29, Aged 85.
Mrs. Anna Carteret, Died Dec. 29, Aged 50.
Mr. Wallis Moncreft, Died Dec. 28, Aged 27.
Miss Hannah Emery, Died Dec. 31, Aged 19.
1802
Miss Johannah Buckley, Died Jan. 3, Aged 64.
Mr. John Viall, Died Jan. 3, Aged 33.
Harriot Dexter, Died Jan. 5, Aged 2 yrs. & 2 mo.
Mr. Moses Rhodes, Died Jan. 6, Aged 24.
Mr. Micah Thayer, Died Jan. 6, Aged 78.
Master Edwd. P. Dexter, Died Jan. 7, Aged 7 yrs. J^.
Mr. Joseph Green, Died Jan. 6, Aged 57.
Mr. Joshua Flagg, Died Jan. 7, Aged 81.
John H. Wainwright, Died Jan. 9, Aged 2 yrs.
I William Warren, Died Jan. 12, Aged 3 yrs.
J Miss Lydia G. Boyle, Died Jan. 15, Aged 21.
j ■ Mrs. Polly Hardie, Died Jan. 18, Aged 24.
I Benjn. H. Green, Died Jan. 18, Aged 5 yrs.
I Mrs. Hannah SulHvan, Died Jan. 20, Aged 27.
I Catherine L. Sivrett, Died Jan. 23, Aged 3 mo.
^ Ebenr. B. PJchardson, Died Jan. 25, Aged 4 yrs.
5 Mrs. Hannah Goff, Died Jan. 23, Aged 34.
I ^Ir. James IngoUs, Died Jan. 28, Aged 58.
I Mrs. Sarah Baker, Died Jan. 29, Aged 33.
I Mrs. Hannah Weld, Died Jan. 29, Aged 35.
I Mr. WiUiam Selby, Died Jan. 28, Aged 35.
I William HoUis, Died Jan. 29, Aged 2 yrs. 6 mo.
! Mr. Jona. C. Wood, Died Jan. 27, Aged 34.
I Capt. Amarriah Fuller, Died Feb. 2, Aged 73.
I Mr. John Mercer, Died Feb. 3, Aged 39.
i' Mrs. Margaret Wood, Died Feb. 4, Aged 26.
I Mr. John Blanchaxd, Died Feb. 6, Aged 34.
I Mrs. Ann James, Died Feb. 8, Aged 47.
f Mrs. Eunice Stearns, Died Feb. 8, Aged 64.
1 Mrs. Mercy Boies, Died Feb. 11, Aged 35.
i ' Mrs. Eunice HoUand, Died Feb. 12, Aged 69.
I Mr. Thomas DaMn, Died Feb. 12, Aged 71.
I I Mrs. Martha Tuckerman, Died Feb. 14, Aged 40.
! Mrs. Judith Greenleaf, Died Feb. 15, Aged 67.
! * Rebecca Cheimey, Died Feb. 14, Aged 4 yrs.
j Mr. W^illiam Baker, Died Feb. 15, Aged 20.
I Jane W. Green, Died Feb. 15, Aged 6 yrs.
i Mrs. Bulah Veazie, Died Feb. 16, Aged 47.
i Mrs. Betsy Bruce, Died Feb. 17, Aged 30.
Mr. John Walker, died IMar. 1, Aged 31.
Mr. Joseph Brown, Died Mar. 4, Aged 79.
Mr. Samuel Harris, Died Mar. 5, Aged 71.
1 Mr. Andrew Bradshaw, Died I\Iar. 6, Aged 49.
I ' Mrs. Joanna Bolt, Died Mar. 6, Aged 61.
! ■ Mrs. Elizabeth Cook, Died Mar. 7, Aged 25.
Susanna Hichborn, Died Mar. 8, Aged 6 yrs.
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Mr. William Mayhew, Died Mar. 9, Aged 46.
Eliza M. P^e, Died Mar. 10, Aged 3 yrs.
Mrs. Mary Callender, Died Mar. 10, Aged 22.
Mrs. Elizabeth Perkiiis, Died Mar. 10, Aged 64.
Caleb Fuller, Died Mar. 13, Aged 15 mo.
Mr. Joseph Mixture, Died Mar. 12, Aged 59.
Miss Famiy Williams, Died Mar. 14, Aged 8 yrs.
Mrs. Mary Snow, Died Mar. 16, Aged 80.
Miss Rebecca Perkiiis, Died Mar. 16, Aged 20.
. Mr. Michael Cosley, Died Mar. 17, Aged 31. -
Mr. John NeweU, Died Mar. 19, Aged 36.
Mrs. Hannah Haxthome, Died Mar. 18, Aged 74.
Edward H. Edes, Died Mar. 19, Aged 3 yrs.
Mrs. Betsy Frost, Died Mar. 19, Aged 51.
Jedediah Ashton, Died Mar. 19, Aged 4 jts.
Miss Elizabeth Sherburne, Died Mar. 20", Aged 33.
Mrs. Mary Sawyer, Died Mar. 20, Aged 62.
Mr. William Hilbert, Died Mar. 21, Aged 31.
• Mr. James Gardner, Died Mar. 22, Aged 38.
Samuel Allen, Died Mar. 22, Aged 2 jts.
Thomas Vollmtine, Died Mar. 23, Aged 18 mo.
Mr. Partrick Welsh, Died Mar. 23, Aged 32 (well cavd in on
him) — he with one other was 20 feet in the well, the other
not hurt.
Mrs. Mary Dobson, Died Mar. 25, Aged 49.
Miss Mary Ann McNeil, Died Mar. 26, Aged 26.
James Dyer, Died Mar. 26, Aged 6 yrs.
Mr. Benja. White, Died Mar. 28, Aged 54.
Miss Sarrah Mornll, Died Mar. 29, Aged 9 snra.
Mrs. Frances Trumble, Died Mar. 30, Aged 46.
Miss Sophia PhilUps, Died Apr. 1, Aged 21.
Caroline Cole, Died Apr. 1, Aged 11 mo.
Mrs. Rebeccah Brewer, Died Apr. 2, Aged 42.
I Mary Reding, Died Apr. 2, Aged 2 jts.
I Eliza Crosby, Died Apr. 3, Aged 4.
I David Adams, Died Apr. 5, Aged 1.
Charles T. Moore, Died Apr. 6, Aged 5 mo.
Mr. Isaac Alexander, Died Apr. 6, Aged 29.
Charles Turner, Died Apr. 6, Aged 2 \ts.
Mrs. Mary Blanchard, Died Apr. 7, Aged 46.
Sally Nottage, Died Apr. 7, Aged 2 yrs.
Mrs. Hannah Green, Died Apr. 6, Aged 41.
George Hitchbom, Died Apr. 6, Aged 6 jts.
Mr. Plato Alderson, Died Apr. 8, Aged 45.
Ebenr. Davis, Died Apr. 11, Aged 7 50^.
Mary Hearsey, Died Apr. 13, Aged 2.
Mrs. Isabella Stevens, Died Apr. 15, Aged 40.
Elizabeth More, Died Apr. 16, Aged 3 vrs.
Charles West, Died Apr. 17, Aged 2.
• Frances Tilden, Died Apr. 17, Aged 4.
I Elizabeth W. Games, Died Apr. 18, Aged 8 mo.
j Josiah B. Clough, Died Apr. 18, Aged 18 mo.
\ Capt. John Adams, Died Apr. 18, Aged 42.
I John Gealy, Died Apr. 19, Aged 6 jts.
1 Mr. Cato Freeborn, Died Apr. 19, Aged 62.
3 Eliza P. Lewis, Died Apr. 20, Aged 3 yrs.
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Mr. John Dugan, Died Apr. 21, Aged 31.
Miss Betsy Wood, Died Apr. 21, Aged 8 yrs.
Edward Holbrook, Died Apr. 23, Aged 17 mo.
Obedill[?] Boyd, Died Apr. 23, Aged 4 yrs.
Wm. J. GiU, Died Apr. 23, Aged 3.
Mrs. Sarah Rand, Died Apr. 24, Aged 33.
Mr. Samuel Green, Died Apr. 24, Aged 41.
Mrs. Elizabeth Livennore, Died, Apr. 25, Aged 44.
Mrs. Rebeccah Danna, Died Apr. 26, Aged 20.
Edward May, fell from a spout on a broken Chair which killed
him, Apr. 29, ^ged 7 yrs.
Mrs. Sarah Hastmgs, Died Apr. 29, Aged 40.
Mary Darling, Died Apr. 29, Aged 2 yrs.
Mr. William Smith, Died Apr. 30, Aged 30.
Lewis Leland,' Jur., Died Apr. 30, Aged 2 mo.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cole, Died May 1, Aged 63.
Jane Phillips, Died May 1, Aged 13 mo.
Master Benja. Green, Died May 3, Aged 11 yrs.
George Kemp, Died May 3, Aged 14 mo.
Thaddeus Mason, Esqr., Died May 1, Aged 96. , •
Wm. H. Jonah, Died May 4, Aged 6.
Mr. Edward Dwyer, Died May 4, Aged 19.
Miss Anna Greenwood, Died May 5, Aged 34.
Mr. Joseph Lewden, Died May 5, Aged 67.
J Amos Penniman, Died May 6, Aged 13 mo.
J Charles M. Sivrete, Died May 7, Aged 23 mo.
K Mrs. Elizabeth Child, Died May 7, Aged 51.
I Mrs. Lydia Adams, Died May 10, Aged 45.
I Henry A. Brewer, Died May 12, Aged 21 mo.
I Mrs. Hannah Rand [w. Caleb written in pencil], Died May 13,
I • Aged 57.
\ WiUiam Dennis, Died May 13, Aged 3 yrs.
I Mr. Samuel Jones, Died May 12, Aged 26.
i Mr. Edward H. Weaver, Died May 14, Aged 22,
1 Maria Barker, Died May 15, Aged 12 days.
I Mrs. Eleanor Spear, Died May 14, Aged 66.
I Mrs. Mercy Gleason, Died May 16, Aged 88.
\ John Brooks, Died May 15, Aged 4 yrs. & 6 mo.
j Mrs. Bethiah White, Died May 16, Aged 45.
1 Mrs. Dinah Russell, Died May 18, Aged 73.
Mr. John Smelledge, Died May 17, Aged 91.
Mrs. Eunice Sigoumy, Died May 17, Aged 61.
Mr. John Somes, Died May 17, Age 32.
Mrs. Anna Robb, Died May 19, Aged 53.
■ Mr. Jona. Spear, Died May 20, Aged 41.
Mrs. Hannah Howard, Died May 21, Aged 51.
Mrs. Unice Timble, Died May 21, Aged 53.
I Mr. Samuel Pierce, Died May 21, Aged 83.
\ Mr. Joshua Gram, Died May 22, Aged 39.
i Hannah Hall, Died May 24, Aged 3 yrs.
I Mrs. Betsy Lane, Died May 23, Aged 34.
Mrs. Sarah Hyler, Died May 23, Aged 26.
I Mr. John Jarvis, Died May 25, Aged 36.
Mr. WiUiam Howard, Died May 26, Aged 33.
Mrs. Esther Townsend, Died May 25, A%&diJ>l.
[To be continued]
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC
GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY
By_HBNBT Edwakds Scott, A.B., Eecording Secretary
Boston, Massachiisetts, 2 May 192S. A stated meeting of the Society was hdd
in Wilder Hall, 9 Ashburton Place, at 2.30 P.M., President Chase presiding.
The minutes of the April meeting were read and approved, and the reports of
the Corresponding Secretary, Librarian, Historian, and Council were accepted,
the Coimcil reporting that since the April meeting members of the Society had
been elected as follows:
Life Members
Mrs. Henry Southworth Shaw of Milton, Mass.
Esther Vinton Washburn of Worcester, Mass.
Mrs. Levi H. Greenwood of Boston, Mass.
Sarah Louise Guild of Boston, Mass.
Mrs. John Jay Hicks of Boston, Mass.
Resident Members
Mrs. Eugene Noble Foss of Jamaica Plain, Mass.
Mrs. David K. Horton of Brookline, Mass.
Frances Goodwin of Jamaica Plain, Mass. \
Mrs. John Ford Tyler of Boston, Mass.
Mrs. George A. Strong of Needham, Mass.
Mrs. Oliver W. Mink of Boston, Mass.
Charles H. WeUs of Fall River, Mass.
Mrs. Sidney Hosmer of Boston, Mass.
Mrs. John Jenks Thomas of Boston, Mas.
Charles A. Barnard of Plattsburgh, N. Y.
Mrs. Walter Keith Shaw of Concord, Mass.
Mrs. Norman McLeod of Boston, Mass.
Annie M. Bradeen of Berwick, Me.
William Ten Eyck Hardenbrook of New City, N. Y.
Eleanor H. Jones of Boston, Mass.
i ' Mrs. Eben S. Draper of Boston, Mass.
I Mrs. Elmer Jared Bliss of Brookline, Mass.
I Mrs. William Graydon Seeley of Brookline, Mass.
1 Mrs. Andrew G. Webster of Boston, Mas.
I Mrs. Lee Worthington Hall of Brookline, Mass.
I Helen Turner of Brookline, Mass.
i Mrs. Robert Dickson Weston of Cambridge, Mass.
' Gertrude R. White of Boston, Mass.
'; W. L. Clements of Bay City, Mich.
Albert B. RusseU of Ilion, N. Y.
Mrs. Charles S. Passmore of Butte, Mont.
Helen Wheeler of Boston, Mass.
Howard Walter Mann of Auburn, Me.
Frederick William Frazier of Greensburg, Pa.
i Sarah C. Paine of Boston, Mass.
{ Mrs. James Barr Ames of Cambridge, Mass.
j Mrs. Ivers Whitney Adams of Dorchester, Mass.
j Mrs. Edward R. Warren of Boston, Mass.
i Mrs. Edward M. ChamberUn of Boston, Mass.
I John L. Merrill of New York City
\ Mrs. John Bryant Paine of Weston, Mass.
I Mrs. Harden de V. Pratt of Cambridge, Mass.
I Mary Ray Winters of Boston, Mass.
{ Mrs. Frederick B. Allen of Boston, Mass.
238 Notes (July
Mrs. Leverett Saltonstall of Chestnut Hill, Mass.
Roscoe Eri Colby of Lawrence, Mass.
Mrs. John F. Moors of Boston, Mass.
Mrs. William E. Stone of Cambridge, Mass.
Mrs. Percy Vickery Hill of Augusta, Me.
Mrs. Horace M. Houser of Boston, Mass.
Mrs. George L. Fisher of Omaha, Nebr.
Arthur Messinger Comey of Cambridge, Mass.
The Chair then presented, as the speaker of the afternoon, Edward Irving
Farrington of Boston, editor, author, and practical gardener, who, taking for
his subject The Arnold Arboretum, a Museum of I/wing Trees and Shrubs, deUvered
a comprehensive, instructive, and entertaining address, illustrated with beautiful
stereopticon views.
On motion of Alfred Johnson the thanks of the Society were extended to Mr.
Farrington for his timely and enjoyable lecture.
No further business being presented, the Chair, at 3.45 P.M., declared the
meeting dissolved; and the large number of members and guests who were present
remained for the usual social hour, at which tea was served by Mrs. Charles
Knowlea Bolton, assisted by an eflScient staff of women members of the Society.
NOTES
It having come to the attention of this Society that certain geneal-
.ogists and publishers have used the name of the Society in con-
nection with their own enterprises, the Society again desires to
state that it has NO genealogical representatives in this coimtry
or in England, nor is it in any way coimected with any publications
other than those that it issues over its own name at 9 Ashburton
Place, Boston.
Banister. — In a note on "British Settlers in America," contributed by
Gerald Fothergill of London to Notes and Queries of 29 Apr. 1922 (p. 327), the
statement is made that Ansley, son of Thomas Banister, gent., merchant, of
Boston in New England, was baptized at Banbury parish church 1 July 1715,
and that Mr. John Banister, merchant, of New England, was buried at Banbury
25 June 1714.
From the Banister pedigree compiled by G. Andrews Moriarty, Jr., and pub-
lished in the Register, vol. 69, pp. 351-353, it appears that Thomas Banister
of Boston, merchant, died in Nov. 1716. He is No. 2 in the pedigree, and eight
children are there assigned to him, but the name of Ansley does not appyear among
them. Ansley was probably the eighth child, and Frances, given as the eighth
child in the pedigree, was probably the ninth and yoimgest child. All of these
children except John, Samuel, and Frances must have died s.p. before 28 Sept.
1747 (cf. Register, vol. 69, p. 351, second footnote). The John Banister who
was buried at Banbury 25 June 1714 was a brother of Thomas Banister of Boston,
merchant, and the only information available about him when the pedigree was
compiled for the Register was that he died s.p. in 1714. The information given
by Mr. Fothergill shows that he probably died in England. That Banburj', eo.
Oxford, was the home of John Banister, an uncle of the John who was buried there
in 1714, is proved by the vnll of Thomas Banister, the immigrant ancestor of the
New England family (cf. Register, vol. 69, p. 351).
West Somerville, Mass. Anson Titus.
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Notes
239
SoLDiKHS IN THE Fhench AND Indian Wak. — In the Boston Columbian
Centinel of Saturday morning, April 27, 1816, appears the following notice:
Old Soldiers' Lands.
NOTICE.
If either of the undernamed, who served the English Government, as Officers in
"The Old French War," in the Reduction of the Canadas, &c. from the year
1754 to 1763, and who had lands granted them for their services — ^^or the heirs of
either of them, will apply at Francis's Intelligence Office, Devonshire-street, near
the Old State-House, Boston, they will be directed where they may receive informa-
tion greatly to their advantage.
Phineas Atherton,
John Armstrong,
Thomas Adams,
William Allen,
John Allen,
Thomas AUen,
William Barron,
Ernest Barron,
Andrew Barron,
William Brown,
William Brown,
James Brown,
Henry Brown,
James Barker,
Joseph Barnes,
Hugh Barnes,
John Black,
Crean Brush,
John Butler,
William Butler,
William Barrows,
Thomas Bowden,
James Bradshaw,
William Bruce,
Archibald Bruce,
Joseph Beck,
David Buffington,
Wm. Cunningham,
James Clark,
John Clark,
Richard Collier,
John Clap,
James Coleman,
James Duncan,
John Dane,
Samuel Dole,
Morris Dodd,
Thomas Davis,
David Davis,
Andrew Elliot,
Thomas Ford,
William Ford,
Samuel Fowler,
William Friend,
Edward Fanning,
Hugh Frazer,
William Grant,
Robert Grant,
Henry Grant,
William Graves,
John Gill,
Robert Harris,
Thomas Hammond,
John Horton,
Robert Harding,
Jonathan Jones,
David Johnston,
William Johnson,
Joshua Locke,
John Lee,
John Lamb,
James M'Donald,
Jacob Muller,
Thomas Murry,
John Murry,
John Moore,
Thomas Moore,
Edward Morrison,
Hugh Maxwell,
Thomas Menzies,
Alexander Menzies,
Robert Mimroe,
William Munroe,
Joseph Mountfort,
John Mountfort,
John Osborn,
Noah Porter,
Benjamin Porter,
William Phillips,
John PhilHps,
James Putnam,
Thomas Dean Peirce,
Benjamin Roberts,
Thomas Roberts,
Joseph Roberts,
Joseph Robertson,
James Rose,
Joseph Randall,
John Reed,
David Stone,
William Smith,
William Smith,
David Smith,
Edward Smith,
Francis Stephens,
James Scott,
Thomas Scott,
John Swift,
John Small,
Wm. Stephenson,
James Stephenson,
Robert Stevens,
Robert Stewart,
David Standish,
240
Notes
[July
James Thomas,
Hemy Thomas,
Thomas Turner,
Davis Wooster,
Edward Wilkin,
James Wallace,
Hugh Wallace,
Alexander Wallace,
Robert Wallace,
John Williamson,
Edward Whitaker,
John White,
Daniel White,
John Wilson,
Thomas Wilson,
Alexander Wilson.
■t?" Information respecting many others who served the English Government,
previous to the Revolution, and had Lands Granted, Surveyed and Paterded, for
them, may be obtained by applying as above; or any letters, postage paid,
addressed to J. C. to the care of Mr. Stephen Francis, will be duly attended to.
Boston, April 24, 1816.
Historical Intelligence
Hebaldrt. — The Committee on Heraldry of the New England Historic
Genealogical Society strongly recommends that all coats of arms which can be
proved to be authentic be offered for record
with this Society. The arrangements for the
making and preservation of such records are
complete, and the volume of recorded arms has
been begun by the entry therein of a number of
well-authenticated coats. Printed forms and
directions for the making of applications may
be obtained from the Committee, and all com-
munications on this subject should be addressed
to the Committee on Heraldry, New England
Historic Genealogical Society, 9 Ashburtom
Place, Boston.
Without taking any position with reference to
the propriety of assuming arms, the Committee
will be glad to examine arms or heraldic devices
which any person or organisation desires to
assume, and give advice as to whether the same are heraldically correct or whether
they violate a right of exclusive use heretofore acquired by others.
Genealogies in Preparation. — Persons of the several names are advised
to furnish the compilers of these genealogies with records of their own families
and other information which they think may be useful. We would suggest that
all facts of interest illustrating family history or character be communicated,
especially service under the U. S. Government, the holding of other offices, gradu-
ation from college or professional schools, occupation, with places and dates
of birth, marriage, residence, and death. All names should be given in fvU, if
possible. No initials should be used when the full name is known.
Eddy. — John and Samuel, born at Cranbrook, co. Kent, England, arrived at
Plymouth in New England 29 Oct. 1630, by the Eddy Family Association,
James W. Eddy, Secretary, P. O. Box 1328, Boston, Mass.
FarweU. — Henry, born probably in England, the son of William Farwell of
London, died at Chelmsford, Mass., in Aug. 1670, by Lillian M. Wilson, M.A.
(University of Chicago), assisted by Jane H. Abbott. Information should be
sent to Miss Abbott, 333 East Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, Calif.
Pardee. — George, an early settler of New Haven, died at East Haven, Conn.,
in 1700, by the New Haven Colony Historical Society, 144 Grove Street, New
Haven, Conn.
Tillman. — Maj. John Christopher, said to have been born at Mannheim,
Germany, about 1725, died in Albany Co., N. Y., 9 July 1792, aged 67, by Mrs.
Russel Hastings, 925 Park Avenue, New York, N. Y.
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THE
NEW ENGLAND
HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL
REGISTER
OCTOBER, 1923
PRESIDENT WARREN GAMALIEL HARDING
By Lawkence Beainerd of Cambridge, Mass.
The Honorable Warren Gamaliel Harding, LL.D., President
of the United States of America and an honorary member of the
\ New England Historic Genealogical Society, passed from the sense
i of the transitory to the reaUzation of the immortal on the second of
I August, 1923. His death, which occurred at the Palace Hotel in
I San Francisco on his homeward journey from Alaska, caused a sorrow
I ' almost unprecedented in American history. The profound expressions
I of grief voiced by a vast majority of his fellow countrjmien,
I irrespective of class, creed, and color, furnish full assurance that
j we may still rely upon the judgment and discrimination of a great
I and heterogeneous public in its appreciation of high idealism, unselfish
I service, and moral grandeur.
i Mr. Harding, who had served as the Chief Executive of the coimtry
j for two years, four months, and twenty-nine days, was the sixth
) President to die in ofiice and the fourth from the State of Ohio
I destiaed not to complete his full term. Gen. William Henry Harrison,
I the first President to die in office, served but one month of his term,
j and died 4 April 1841; Gen. Zachary Taylor held the office one
I year and four months, and died 9 July 1850; Abraham Lincoln in
' the early part of his second administration was shot in Ford's
Theatre, Washington, 14 April 1865, and died the following day;
'• Gen. James Abram Garfield was wounded by an assassin's bullet in
the Pennsylvania Station in Washington 2 July 1881, and died at
Elberon, N. J., 19 September 1881, after a service of six and one-half
months; and Maj. William McKinley, the third martyred President,
was shot on 6 September 1901 while ia the Temple of Music at the
Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, and died eight days later, in
the first year of his second term.
President Harding was elected to honorary membership in the
New England Historic Genealogical Society 6 April 1921, one month
and two days after his inauguration, and accepted this membership
on the twentieth of that month, sending a graceful note of his
appreciation of the honor conferred upon him and accompanying
this letter with an outline of his paternal ancestral fine in America.
; That the President was deeply impressed with the significance of
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244 . Warren Gamaliel Harding [Oct.
family history and considered a knowledge of background as an
essential stepping-stone in one's career is fully demonstrated by his
. letter to the Roosevelt Memorial Association, commending that
organization on its notable exhibit of Roosevelt memorabilia, in
which he said:
"Such an endeavor is a public service. As a Nation we have a tendency to
give too little regard to historical matters, forgetting that our future depends
on what we have learned from our past."
A review of the family history of the Chief Executives who have
served our nation shows that all but three of them — our immortal
Lincoln, or more generously the world's immortal Lincoln, General
Jackson, and Andrew Johnson — were of privileged birth and came
from homes where the refined amenities of life were rendered possible
by a substantial competency and an inborn tendency for cultured
living. This fact should refute the platitudinous assertions of pseudo-
orators in their wearisome attempts to characterize all men of success
and achievement as examples of a rise from obscurity and even
abject poverty to a place of international distinction.
President Harding's background was no exception to this general
rule, and hia ancestral lines show an interesting confluence of the
best blood in America of English, Welsh, Scotch, and Dutch origin.
He represented the tenth generation of this particular branch of the
Harding family in America, being ninth in descent from Stephen^
Harding, a pioneer settler of Providence, in the Colony of Rhode
Island, who died 20 February 1697/8. He was an extensive landowner,
a man of local consideration, and a neighbor of Roger Williams, and
the two men were fellow members of the early Baptist Church in
Providence; and one of Stephen Harding's granddaughters married
Rev. Samuel Winsor, a grandson of Governor Williams.
The descent from the immigrant ancestor, Stephen^ Harding, to
the President is as follows : Abraham^ Harding of Providence ; Stephen'
Harding of Providence and Warwick, R. I.; Abraham* Harding of
Warwick, R. I., Waterford, Conn., and Wyoming Valley, Pa.;
Maj. Abraham^ Harding, Jr., of Port Jervis, N. Y., and Wyoming
Valley, Pa.; Amos^ Harding of Port Jervis, N. Y., Wyoming Valley,
■■ Pa., and Richland County, Ohio; George Tryon' Harding _ of
; Richland County, Ohio; Charles Alexander^ Harding of Blooming
! Grove, Morrow County, Ohio; Dr. George Tryon^ Harding of
; Blooming Grove and Marion, Ohio; Warren Gamaliel" Harding,
President of the United States.
Major Abraham^ Harding, Jr. (1740-1820), was born at Waterford,
j Conn., and removed with his parents, Abraham and Anna (Dolson)
i Harding, to Wyoming Valley. This last-named place is situated
i in a picturesque and remarkabh' fertile tract of country in Luzerne
; County, Pa. The Massacre of Wyoming, which has given the valley
I a melancholy prominence in history and forms the theme of Campbell's
I "Gertrude of Wyoming, " occurred 3 July 1778. Several members of
: the Harding family were \-ictims of this tragic episode, and for many
i years a familiar admonition and exclamation in the valley region
( was "Remember the Hardings!"
1923] Warren Gamaliel Harding 245
Abraham^ Harding, Jr., on attaining his majority, removed to
Port Jervis, Orange Coimty, N. Y., where he married Huldah Tryon
and entered the service of his country in the great struggle for
American independence, being commissioned a second lieutenant
in Col. WiUiam Allison's regiment of New York Militia, by the
New York Provincial Congress, 1 December 1775. After the war
he returned to Wyoming Valley, and there became successively a
captain and major in the Pennsylvania Militia.
His son, Amos' Harding (1764-1839), was born at Port Jervis,
N. Y., and during his youth and early manhood resided in Wyoming
Valley, where he married, in 1784, Phoebe Tripp, a descendant of Hon.
John Tripp (1611-1678), one of the founders of Portsmouth, R. I.,
' in 1638, for fifteen years a deputy to the Rhode Island General
Assembly, and for six years an assistant (or councillor) of that
Colony. Amos* Harding was the pioneer representative of the
Harding family in the Middle West, as he removed from Pennsylvania
to Richland County, Ohio, in 1800, accompanied by his wife and
children, among whom was President Harding's great-grandfather,
George Tryon" Harding, then a lad of ten.
: George Tryon' Harding (1790-1860) married, 1 May 1816,
I Elizabeth Madison (1799-1885), a kinswoman of President James
i Madison; and they were the parents of Charles Alexander* Harding
I (1820-1878), the President's grandfather, who married, in 1841,
I Mary Ann Crawford (1824-1895), daughter of Joshua Crawford,
I Esq., a native of Baltimore, Md., and a descendant of the Crawfords
\ of the parish of Crawford, Lanarkshire, Scotland.
I Their first son. Dr. George Tryon' Harding, the President's father,
i was bom in Blooming Grove (now Corsica), Morrow County, Ohio,
1 12 June 1843. He attended Ohio Central College at Iberia, served
! as a Union soldier in the Civil War, and received his medical education
I at the Cleveland Medical College, where he was graduated with the
j degree of Doctor of Medicine and is to-day among the oldest living
\ ■ alumni of this well-known institution. He married, in 1864, Phoebe
; EUzabeth Dickerson, who was born near Blooming Grove, Ohio,
i 21 December 1843, the daughter of Isaac and Charity (Van Kirk)
\ Dickerson. Mrs. Harding, a woman of strong individuality, unusual
personal charm, and great religious fervor, lived to see her talented
' son weU advanced in his career of usefulness and distinction, as her
death occurred 29 May 1910, four years after the close of his term as
Lieutenant Governor of his native State.
Warren Gamaliel Harding was born at Blooming Grove (now
Corsica), Morrow County, Ohio, 2 November 1865, a few months
after the close of the great Civil War. The incidents of his boyhood
were those common to a host of American youths whose lots are '
cast in a rural community. He was educated in the local schools
of his native town, and in 1879, in his fourteenth year, entered
Ohio Central College at Iberia, where he was graduated four years
; later with the degree of Bachelor of Science.
; Upon finishing his academic course he settled in the rapidly growing
town of Marion, Ohio, whither his father had moved his family.
During his college course he had determined to adopt the useful and
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honorable profession of journalism. His first step in this direction
was his affihation with the Marion Mirror, a Democratic journal,
and, after a short connection 'with this paper, he became the owner
!of the Marion Daily Star, and by his imtiring efforts and great
natural ability made this paper one of the strongest, cleanest, and
I most ably-edited journals of the Middle West. Mr. Harding's
I ■ instructions to his associates and subordinates for the conduct of his
I paper are familiar to all who have read his life, but in them the high
I ideals he maintained for honest journalism show so clearly the true
I and lofty character of this great American that they are here repeated.
I These instructions, which he compelled every man in his employ
to observe to the letter, were:
! "Remembertherearetwosides to every question. Get them both.
■] "Be truthful. Get the facts.
; "Mistakes are inevitable, but strive for accuracy. I would rather have
I one story exactly right than a hundred half wrong.
j " Be decent, be fair, be generous.
"Boost — don't knock.
j "There's good in everybody. Bring out the good and never needlessly
j hurt the feelings of anybody.
I "In reporting a political gathering give the facts, tell the story as it is, not
,; as you would like to have it. Treat all parties alike. If there's any politics
' to be played we wiU play it in our editorial columns,
j " Treat all religious matters reverently.
i "If it can possibly be avoided never bring ignominy to an innocent man or
j child in telhng of the misdeed or misfortime of a relative.
I "Don't wait to be asked, but do it without asking and, above all, be clean
and never let a dirty word or suggestive story get into type.
" I want this paper to be so conducted that it can go into any home without
destroying the innocence of children."
Mr. Harding married, 8 July 1891, Florence Kling, the daughter
of Amos H. Kling, Esq., a banker in Marion and a prominent figure
in the affairs of that city for many years. In his marriage I\Ir. Harding
was indeed most fortunate, for Mrs. Harding, while possessing
distinctively feminine charms, is endowed with a strong mentaUty
and an unusual degree of business perspicacity. She was the gracefiil
and tactful mistress of his private and official homes, his trusted
"lieutenant" in the field of journalism, his wise counselor in his
political career, his never-failing and appreciative comrade in the
hours of success or failure, and at the hour of his earthly dissolution
his sole companion.
President Harding's first political experience came in the stirring
campaign of 1899, when he was endorsed in the Ohio Republican
convention, by a majority of one vote, over ex-Congressman Grant E.
Mouser, as a candidate for the State Senate, to which he was elected
and where he served from 1900 to 1904. In the latter year he was
elected Lieutenant Governor of Ohio, serving under Gov. Myron T.
Herrick, now our ambassador to France. In 1910 he was the
Republican candidate for the chief magistracy of Ohio, but was
defeated by Hon. Judson Harmon. His defeat was but a temporary
one, however, for two years later he came into greater fame when, as
a delegate to the Republican national convention, he made his
I
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memorable speech renominating William Howard Taft for the
Presidency. This speech was one of the many brilliant forensic
utterances of Mr. Harding, in which he never allowed his eloquence
to interfere with the vigor of his argument. He aptly compared
•Judge Taft's wisdom and patience to the wisdom and patience of
Lincoln and his modesty to that of General Grant.
Two years later Mr. Harding was elected to the United States
Senate, for the term 1915-1921, being the first candidate elected to
the Senate from Ohio by popular vote. From the very beginning of
his term in the Senate Mr. Harding won the approval of the elder
statesmen of that body, who compared him to McKinley, and
i generously and justly praised his soimd, statesmanlike opinions on
! national issues. His membership in this body afforded him opportu-
nity to demonstrate his exceptional abiUty as an orator, and by many
he was considered the most accomplished debater in the Senate.
He was also recognized as one of the most assiduous "working
members" of that body, as he occupied the chairmanship of the
j Committee on the Phihppines, and was a member of the Committees
,; on Foreign Relations, Commerce, the Territories, Naval Affairs,
i Claims, Expenditures in the Treasmy Department, the Pacific
} Islands, Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands, Public Health and
I ' National Quarantine, and Standards, Weights, and Measures.
I In 1916 he was again a delegate from Ohio to the Republican
1 national convention and served as temporary chairman of that
I body. Four years later he delivered a speech ia the United States
I Senate which sounded the keynote of the forthcoming presidential
• campaign, and this was followed by the announcement of his candidacy
\ for the highest office in the land.
l How he swept the RepubHcan convention on 12 June 1920 is a
I matter of recent history. His candidacy was welcomed as being
I free from any intimation of financial irregularities, which had
I attended the primary campaigns of some of the other aspirants
• for this office. He was elected to the Presidency on his fifty-fifth
: birthday, 2 November 1920, by the largest popular vote ever given
to a President, and received 404 electoral votes against 127 cast for
the Democratic nominee, James M. Cox.
! It is not within the province of this memoir to enumerate in full
the accomplishments of Mr. Harding's all too short occupancy of the
. presidential office. The Washington Arms Conference and the
i treaties growing out of it constitute the outstanding features of his
administration.
It was Mr. Harding's own view, expressed before the plenipoten-
tiaries of the chief powers gathered in Washington on 12 November
1921, in response to his invitation, that the results attained at this
conference would, in a large measure, determine the place which his
: administration ultimately would hold in history. Five treaties
; and twelve resolutions were approved and adopted by this conference,
the result of which ended the long struggle for naval supremacy
by definitely limiting the strength of the sea power of the United
I States, Great Britain, Japan, France, and Italy, and established
the "Four-Power Pact," which dealt with the insular possessions
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in the Pacific of the United States, Great Britain, Japan, and France,
and replaced the Anglo-Japanese alliance, which had long been viewed
with distrust by the American people at large. This conference
also negotiated settlements of the Shantung and Yap questions;
in the one case Japan agreed with China to withdraw her troops
from and restore the province of Shantung to that country, while
in the other it agreed with the American Government that the
United States and Japan should have equal cable and communication
rights at Yap, over which Japan had been given a mandate under the
Treaty of Versailles.
Added to these accomplishments may be mentioned a vast number
of important domestic questions which demanded the President's
closest attention and most thoughtful consideration, the handling
of which demonstrated, in no small measure, his abihties as a sagacious
statesman and leader.
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge in a recent address has said :
"I have never seen a man in high office beset as our President was by
endless clamor and faced by countless questions, great and small, who met
I all difficulties in a spirit so purely disinterested as President Harding. . . .
1 I do not fear that history will not give the credit and render that justice
I to which he is fuUy entitled a,nd which was not accorded him in proper
I measure during his lifetime."
I President Harding's career was in no sense that of a "man of
} . destiny, " nor are the incidents of the same commanding in the Hght
I .of the striking or spectacular; but his achievements were won from
I his straightforward attempt to serve the whole people of the country,
I by unremitting toil, and enlightened understanding. His altruism,
I though of a lofty and idealistic nature, was one of safe practicabUity,
an altruism in the concrete not in the abstract, so devoid was it of
I the visionary and so adaptable did it prove to the exigencies of each
I individual problem in national life. Serenity and a fine imperturb-
ability of spirit were dominant features of his attractive and versatile
1 personality, and he was endowed with that priceless gift, without
which all other accomplishments count but naught, the power to
work with other people.
President Harding's last visit to New England occurred in July
' , 1921, when, accompanied by Mrs. Harding and his official suite,
he was the guest of the Pilgrim Tercentenary Commission at
■ Plymouth, Mass., and participated in the observance of that memo-
rable anniversary of the landing of the Mayflower Pilgrims.
Mr. Harding's religious affiUations were with the Baptist Church,
; in which his ancestors had been prominent for many generations.
His faith in the Omnipotent was simple and sincere, and on more than
I one occasion, without the shghtest affectation, he had pubhcly declared
I his absolute and abiding confidence in the power of praj'er.
I He was an active and influential member of the IMasonic order,
I and was connected with various other fraternal organizations. He^
I was a member of several societies of the arts and sciences and the
I recipient of various honorary degrees, notably among them that of
Doctor of Laws, which was conferred upon . him by Princeton
University in 1922.
1923] Warren Gamaliel Harding 249
The immediate surviving relatives of the late President are his
widow, Mrs. Florence (Khng) Harding, his venerable father, Dr.
George Tryon Harding of Marion, Ohio, three sisters, Mrs. Elton
Elsworth Remsberg (Charity Malvina Harding) of Santa Ana,
Calif., Mrs. Heber Herbert Votaw (Phoebe Carolyn Harding) of
Takoma Park, D. C, and Miss Abigail Victoria Harding of Marion,
Ohio, and one brother, Dr. George Tryon Harding of Worthington,
Ohio.
Countless memorial services, commemorating Mr. Harding's
influence as a world leader, were -held in America and in other
countries, conspicuous among these being one of great dignity and
impressiveness which was held at the "Shrine of British Immortals,"
Westminster Abbey, London. His Majesty King George V was
personally represented at this service by his second son, His Royal
Highness Prince Albert, Duke of York.
The body of the beloved and lamented President lay in state in
the rotunda of the national Capitol, where an imposing state funeral
was conducted on the eighth of August, and on the tenth of that
month all that was mortal of the Nation's chieftain was laid at
rest among the hills of his home country. By proclamation of the
newly, elevated President, Hon. Calvin Coolidge, this day was
set apart as one of national moiuxdng, and throughout the length
and breadth of the land, in crowded cities, in thriving manufacturing
centres, in rural villages arid sequestered hamlets, the solemn hush
and cessation of mundane activities were complete, typifjdng indeed
a nation's head bowed in reverence and thankfulness for the imperish-
able memory and enduring influence of a life so rich in its service
for mankind.
"Weep not for him, the Thracians wisely gave
- Tears to the birth couch,
Triumph to the grave.
Weep not for him,
Go mark his high career,
It knew no shame, no folly and no fear."
250 The Polks of North Carolina and Tennessee [Oct.
THE POLKS OF NORTH CAROLINA AND TENNESSEE
By Mrs. Fhank M. Angellotti of San Rafael, Calif.
[Continued from page 227]
20. Brig. Gen. Thomas Gilchrist^ Polk {Lievi. Col. William,^
Brig. Gen. Thomas,^ William,^ William,'^ Robert'^), A.B. (Uni-
versity of North Carolina, 1809), A.M. (*., 1816), born in
Mecklenburg Co., N. C, 22 Feb. 1791, died at Holly Springs,
Miss., 16 Mar. 1869. He married at Salisbury, N. C, 20 Oct.
I 1812, Maky Eloise Trotter, daughter of Richard.
i ^ He entered the University of North Carolina, where he was
! graduated in 1809, and later studied law at the law school at
; Litchfield, Conn., where he was graduated in 1813. Soon after-
wards he began the practice of his profession. He was a promi-
j nent member of the Lower House of the North Carolina
i Legislature from Mecklenburg County, 1823-1825, and from
j Rowan County; 1829-1832, an unsuccessful candidate for
■ governor in 1833, and a State senator in 1835-36. He was
I also a brigadier general in the State Mihtia. On the visit of
j Lafayette to North Carolina he commanded the troops that
-. met him at the State line. In 1838 he moved to a plantation
i at La Grange, Tenn., and soon afterwards moved from Tennes-
I see to HoUy Springs, Miss., where he resided until his death.
t In politics he was a Whig, and in 1844 actively supported
I Henry Clay for the Presidency against his own kinsman,
j James Knox Polk (17, i),
1 Children:
j i. Jane,' d. s.^.; m. Dr. Botjchelle.
i ii. Mart Adelaide, b. about 1818; m. in 1844 Hon. George Davis
-! of Wilmington, N. C, s. of Thomas and Mary (Moore).* Children
i . (surname Dam) : 1. Jane, d. in infancy. 2. Junius, h. 17 June
I 1845; d. at Wilmington 11 Apr. 1916; m. (1) 19 Jan. 1874 Mary
I Orme Walker, who d. 6 Nov. 1893, dau. of Thomas D. and Marj-
Vance; m. (2) Mary Walker Cowan, dau. of Col. Robert of
Wilmington; in 1863 he enhsted in the Confederate Army, and
served until the end of the War; after the War he practised law,
being associated with his father; he was an honorary member
• of the Society of the Cincinnati; seven children by first wife
and three children by second wife. 3. Mary. 4. Emily Polk, h. at
Wilmington, N. C; m. John E. Grow; five children. 5. Louis
Poisson, d. unm. 6. Isabel Eagles, b. in Wihnington; m. Spencer
Shotter; one daughter. 7. Meta Alexander, b. in Wilmington;
m. George Rountree; five children.
48. iii. William, b. at Sahsburj^ N. C., 17 Nov. 1821.
: iv. Emily, d. unm.
I V. Thomas, d. young.
I vi. Richard, d. young,
i vii. Gilbert, d. young.
I *Mary Moore was a daughter of George and Mary (Ashe) Moore, granddaughter of old "King"
i Roger Moore, and great-granddaughter of the first Gov. James Moore of South Carolina. Her
mother, Mary Aehe, was a daughter of John Baptiste Ashe and sister of Gov. Samuel Ashe and
Gen. John AshS.
1923] The Polks of North Carolina and Tennessee 251
21. William Julius* Polk (Lieut. Col. William,^ Brig. Gen. Thomas,*
William,^ William,'^ Robert), A.B. (University of North Caro-
lina, 1813), A.M. (ib., 1816), M.D. (Philadelphia Medical
University), born in Mecklenburg Co., N. C, 21 Mar. 1793,
died at "Buena Vista," his home, in the suburbs of Columbia,
Tenn., 27 June 1860. He married, 1 June 1818, his second
cousin, Mart Rebecca A. Long,* daughter of Lunsford and
Rebecca Edwards (Jones). f
After being graduated at the University of North Carolina,
he studied medicine at the Philadelphia Medical University,
I where he was admitted to the degree of Doctor of Medicine.
'; He settled first at Fayetteville, N. C, and began to practise
medicine there; but soon afterwards he became a planter in
Mecklenburg Co., and in 1836 he moved to Tennessee, where
he established himself on his plantation in Maury Co., north
of Duck River. A year later he moved to Columbia, Tenn.,
where his residence in the western suburbs was called "Buena
Vista." There he hved until his death. He was a member of
I the Protestant Episcopal Church, and was at one time president
of the Columbia branch of the Bank of Tennessee.
; Children :
!' i. Griselda Gilchrist,' b. at "Movmt Gallant," Northampton Co.,
N. C., 8 Mar. 1819; d. 7 Apr. 1901; bur. in Cave Hill Cemetery,
, Loiiisville, Ky.; m. 4 June 1844 Hon. Russell Houston, lawyer,
'( • who for many years was chief counsel of the Louisville & Nashville
\ Railroad Company. They resided at Columbia and Nashville,
I Tenn., and later at Louisville. Children (surname Houston) :
i 1. Mary Russell, m. Lytle Buchanan; no issue. 2. Louise Ross,
\ d. in childhood. 3. AUen Polk, b. at Columbia 1 Sept. 1851;
I m. 27 Nov. 1878 Mattie Belle Schreve (Shreve) of Louisville;
5 residence, Chicago, lU.; six children. 4. Luda Eugene, b. at
J Columbia in 1854; m. at Louisville, 30 Oct. 1877, George H. HuU;
"; *Mary Rebecca A. Long was a granddaughter of CoL Nicholas Long, the founder of the Long
,' family in Halifax Co., N. C. He was a wealthy planter on the Roanoke, and his home, "Quanky,"
' was a centre of both social and military activities. When Washington visited the CaroUnas, he
^ and his staff were guests for several days at that hospitable mansion. He married (1) Mary Rey-
I nolds of Virginia, and (2) 24 Aug. 1761 Mary McKinney, daughter of John. Children by first wife:
i 1. Gabriel. 2. Anne, married William Martin. Children by second wife: 3. Nicholas, a soldier of
the Revolution. 4. Mary, married Bassett Steth of Virginia. 5. Riehard, married Bessie Pasture.
6. Lunsford, married Rebecca Edwards Jones. 7. Martha, married Gen. William Gregory. 8.
George Washington. 9. John Joseph, married Frances Quintard. 10. Lemuel McKinney, married
Mary Amis.
tRebecca Edwards Jones was a daughter of Gen. Allen Jones of "Mount Gallant," at the head
of Roanoke Falls, in Northampton Co., N. C, who was born 24 Dec. 1739 and was educated at
Eton. He was a delegate from Northampton County to the First Provincial Congress at Newbern,
N. C, 25 Apr. 1774. He was a brigadier general in the Halifax District of North Carolina, and in
1779 he was selected as a delegate to the Continental Congress at Philadelphia, but declined to
serve, because he feared that the National Government would destroy the independence of the
States. He married (1) 21 Jan. 1762 Mary Haynes, and (2) Rebecca Edwards, daughter of Col.
Nicholas Edwards, whose wife was Jane (Eaton) Haynes, widow of Anthony Haynes. Children
by first wife: 1. Sarah, married Gen. William R. Davie. 2. Martha, married (1) James W. Green,
(2) Judge John Sitgreaves, and (3) Dr. Thomas Hall. 3. Mary, married Gen. Thomas Eaton.
Children by second wife: 4. Rebecca Edwards, married Lunsford Long and had issue: 1. Rebecca
Edwards Long, married her cousin. Col. Cadwallader Jones. 2. Mary Rebecca A. Long, married
: her second cousin, Dr. William JuUus Polk. In the museum at Washington's Headquarters,
Morristown, N. J., there is a punch bowl, to which is attached a card bearing the following legend:
"A punch bowl owned by George Washington. It was given by him to Mrs. AUen Jones of North
Carolina."
252 The Polks of North Carolina and Tennessee [Oct.
residence, Tuxedo Park, N. Y.; five children.* 5. Elise, b. at
Nashville in 1858; m. (1) at Lomsville, 10 Oct. 1883, Joseph
I Ferrell; m. (2) 12 Mar. 1908 Theodore Pressor of Germantown,
I Pa.; two children by first husband.
I 49. ii. Allen Jones, b. at FarmviUe, N. C, 5 Mar. 1824.
i 50. iii. Thomas Gilchrist, b. in Mecklenburg Co., N. C, 25 Dec. 1825.
I iv. Mary Jones, b. at Sahsbury, N. C, 28 Nov. 1831; d. at Nashville,
I Tenn., 2 Dec. 1919; bur. in St. John's Churchyard, Maury Co.,
I Tenn.; m. Joseph Gerald Branch of Arkansas. Children
I (surname Branch): 1. Mary Polk, b. at "Buena Vista," near
I Columbia, Tenn.; m. 16 June 1885 Dr. Charles Winn; no issue.
I 2. Laurence, unm. 3. Lucia Eugenia, h. at Columbia, Tenn.; m.
I 11 Dec. 1888 J. William Howard of Maury Co.; two sons.
\ 51. V. Lucius Eugene, b. at Salisbury, N. C, 10 July 1833.
I 52. vi. Cadwallader Long, b. at Columbia, Tenn., 16 Oct. 1837.
j 53. vii. RuFUS Julius, b. in Maury Co., Tenn., 30 July 1843.
22. Hon. Lucius Junius* Polk (Lieut. Col. William,^ Brig. Gen.
! Thomas* William,^ William,^ Roberf), A.B. (University of
' North Carolina, 1822), A.M. ({6., 1844), born at Raleigh, N. C,
I 16 Mar. 1802, died in Maury Co., Tenn., 3 Oct. 1870, and is
j buried in St. John's Churchyard, near Hamilton Place, Colum-
I bia, Tenn. He married first, in the White House, Washington,
I D. C, 10 Apr. 1832, Rev. Dr. Hawby officiating, Mary Ann
j Eastin, who died 1 Aug. 1847, oldest daughter of WiUiam
Eastin and his wife Rachel (Donelson), who was a grand-
daughter of Col. John^ Donelson, one of the early pioneers of
i Tennessee;! and secondly, at the home of her father, 15 Sept.
I •Griselda Houston Hull, eldest child of George H. and Lucia Eugenia (Houston) Hull, was bom
I at Louisville, Ky., 22 Aug. 1878, and married at Tuxedo Park, N. Y., 25 May 1905, Hon. Rioh-
I mond Pearson Hobson, LL.D. (Southern University, 1906), born at Greensboro, Ala., 17 Aug.
j 1870, son of James Marcellus and Sarah Groom (Pearson) Hobson. Mr. Hobson attended the
^ Southern University, 1882-1885, the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Mi, where he
4 was graduated in 1889, and two schools in France, the ficole National Sup^rieur des Mines and
V the ficole d'Application du G^nie Maritime (at which he was graduated) . He served in the United
; States Navy until Feb. 1903; in the War with Spain he was a lieutenant attached to the fleet under
{ Rear Admiral Sampson, that blockaded Santiago, where the Spanish fleet had taken refuge; and
he volunteered for the dangerous duty of sinking the collier Merrimac at the entrance to Santiago
Harbor, in an attempt to prevent the exit of the Spanish ships. He was captured with his men
by the Spaniards, and was held as a prisoner at Santiago for more than a month (3 June-6 July
1898). After resigning from the Navy he was elected in 1904, on the Democratic ticket, as a presi-
dential elector at large in Alabama, and served later as a Democratic Representative from Alabama
in the United States Congress for four terms (1907-1915). He has been prominent as a lecturer and
writer, especially on naval topics and on national prohibition, of which he has been an earnest ■
advocate. He resides at Los Angeles, Calif. ChUdren, born in Washington, D. C: 1. Richmond'
Pearson, Jr., b. 27 Nov. 1907. 2. Lucia, b. 7 July 1909. 3. George Hull, b. 29 Sept. 1910.
tThe progenitor of the Donelson family in America was John' Donelson, a native of London.
England, who emigrated to America in 1670 and settled first at Norfolk, Va. He married, about
1717, Catherine Davies, daughter of David Da\-ies of Summit Bridge, New Castle Co., Del., and
sister of Rev. Samuel Davies, A.M., a Presbyterian clergyman, who in 1759 was elected and installed
as president of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University). John' Donelson (John-'*,
born on the Delaware River about 1718, married Rachel Stokeley of Accomac Co., Va. He was
a surveyor, and moved to Pittsylvania Co., Va., where he took out a patent for 200 acres of land,
25 Nov. 1744. He was a vestryman of Camden Parish, a justice of the peace of Pittsylvania County,
a colonel of the militia in 1767, and head of the county militia. He represented Pittsylvania County
in the House of Burgesses, 1767-1774, and was repeatedly appointed a commissioner to treat with
the Indians. In 1779 he moved with his family to Tennessee, where he was one of the early settlers
of Nashville and was murdered by Indians or white desperadoes in the autumn of 17S5. He had
twelve children, of whom the fourth, Rachel, became the wife of Andrew Jackson, Prudent of
the United States. Among other prominent members of the family were Andrew Jackson
Donelson, private secretary to President Jackson, United States oharg^ d'affaires to the Republic
of Texas, and envoy extraordinary and minbter plenipotentiary to Prussia and to the German
Confederation, Andrew Jackson Donelson, Jr., a graduate of the United States Military .A.cademy
at West Point and an officer in the Confederate Army, Earl van Dorn, a general in the Confed-
erate Army, and Donelson Caffery, United States Senator from Louisiana.
1923] The Polks of North Carolina and Tennessee 253
1853, Rev. Dr. Edgar oflBciatiiig, Mrs. Anne (Erwin) Pope,
daughter of Col, Andrew Erwin of Wartrace, Bedford Co.,
Tenn.
After completing his college coiirse at the University of North
Carolina, he moved to Tennessee about 1823, and settled on
his plantation in Maury Co., on the waters of Carter's Creek.
Subsequently he and his three brothers, Leonidas, Rufus
King, and George Washington, received from their father four
tracts of land of about 1300 acres each, lying in a body six or
eight miles west of Columbia, Tenn., on the Mount Pleasant
turnpike. Where the tracts of land met, these brothers built,
on, a lot of 6 acres which they gave to the diocese, St. John's
Church (Protestant Episcopal), whose churchyard became the
family burying ground.* He represented his county in the
Upper House of the State Legislature several times, served as
adjutant general of the State, and was the second Eminent
Commander of the Grand Commandery of Masons in Tennes-
see.
Children by first wife, born at Hamilton Place, Maury Co.,
Tenn.:
i. Sabah Rachel,' b. 24 Jan. 1833; d. at Nashville, Term., 12 June
1905; bur. in St. John's Churchyard; m. 24 Apr. 1855, Right Rev.
James H. Otey, Bishop of Tennessee, officiating, Robin ap
Cadwallader Jones, b. 18 Jan. 1826, mortally wounded at
Brandy Station, Va., 9 June 1863, while serving in the Confederate
Army, s. of Col. Cadwallader and Rebecca Edwards (Long)
of "West HiU," Orange Co., N. C. Robin ap Cadwallader Jones
moved from North Carolina to the York District, S. C, in 1859.
At the beginning of the Civil War he raised and equipped a
company of Cavalry, which was attached to the First South
Carolina Regiment, of Gen. Wade Hampton's brigade, and he was
killed in this service. Children (surname Jones): 1. Mary Polk,
b. at Hillsboro, N. C, 18 Jan. 1856; d. at Nashville, Tenn., 20 Dec.
1893; bur. in Zion Church Cemetery, Maury Co.; m. 18 Jan.
1877 Duncan Brown Cooper; five children. 2. Rebecca Edwards,
b. 16 Jan. 1857; unm. 3. Robin ap Robin, h. 18 Feb. 1859; imm.;
member of the Society of the Cmcinnati. 4. Sarah Polk, b. at
Hillsboro, N. C, 10 Oct. I860; m. 27 June 1888 James C. Bradford
of Nashville, Tenn.; two childrefi.t 5. Lucy Cadwallader, h. at
Hillsboro, N. C, 3 Feb. 1862; m. at Nashville, Term., in 1888,
Stanley Bell Herndon; residence, Mobile, Ala.; four children.
ii. Mary Brown, b. 25 Mar. 1835; d. at Hamilton Place 27 Mar. 1890;
bur. in St. John's Churchyard; m. at St. John's Church, Ashwood,
2 Sept. 1858, Rev. James Hildebrand, Rector, officiating, Henry
Clay Yeatman of Nashville, Tenn., who d. 1 Aug. 1910, and is
bur. beside his wife. Children (surname Yeatman): 1. Mary
Eastin, h. at Hamiltpn Place 25 May 1861; d. s.p. 10 Jan. 1917;
m. at Hamilton Place, 7 Aug. 1897, Maj. Thomas S. Webb of
Knoxville, Tenn. 2. Henry Clay, h. 2 Mar. 1866; d. unm. 7 Aug.
•This church was consecrated on Sunday, 4 Sept. 1842, by Bishop Otey of Tennessee, Bishop
Leonidas Polk (23) and other clergymen participating in the ceremony.
tSarah Polk Bradford, one of the two children of James C. and Sarah Polk (Jones) Bradford,
married (1) Alfred Thomas Shaughnessy of Montreal, Canada, who was killed in action in the
World War in Mar. 1916, while serving in Flanders as a captain in the Sixtieth Canadian Regi-
ment; married (2) at St. Peter's, Eton Square, London, England, 15 Nov. 1920, Capt. Pier
Legh, youngest son of Baron Newton and equerry to the Prince of Wales. Children by first
husband (surname Shaughnessy): 1. Elizabeth, b. at Montreal 28 Jan. 1913. 2. Thomas Bradford,
b. at Montreal 14 Jan. 1915. 3. Alfred Thomas (posthumous), b. in London 19 May 1916. ■
i
254 The Polks of North Carolina and Tennessee [Oct.
* 1897; bur. in St. John's Churchyard. 3. Russdl Houston, b. 25 •
\ ■ Apr. 1869; d. unm. 26 Apr. 1893; bur. in St. John's Churchyard.
;■ 4. Trezevant Player, b. at Hamilton Place, 13 Oct. 1871; m. at
Ewell Farm, Maury Co., Tenn., 11 June 1913, Mary Wharton,
dau. of William and Mary (Currey) of Nashville; three children.
5. Jennie Bdl, b. at Hamilton Place 3 Mar. 187.5; unm" 6. Luda
Polk, b. at Hamilton Place 7 Aug. 1877; d. unm. 2 May 1908;
bur. in St. John's Churchyard.
iii. Emily Donelson, b. 29 Mar. 1837; d. at NashviDe, Tenn., 22 Dec.
1892; m. at Hamilton Place, 13 Nov. 1860, Joseph Minnick
Williams of Nashville, a descendant of the Shelby family of
Tennessee, who d. 18 Dec. 1899. Children (surname Williams):
1. Emily Polk, d. in infancy. 2. Henry Yeaiman, h. at Hamilton
Place 29 Mar. 1863; m. at Nashville, 8 Mar. 1894, Louise Pitcher;
residence, San Antonio, Tex. ; no issue. 3. Joseph Minnick, lawyer,
b. at "Planta Place," Maury Co., Tenn., 18 Feb. 1866; m. at
Shawnee, Okla., 17 Mar. 1913, Clara B. Turner; residence, Altus,
Okla. 4. Lucius Polk, b. in Nov. 1867; unm. 5. Nannie M., b. in
1870; d. unm. 9 Apr. 1890. 6. Eliza Polk, h. in Apr. 1872; d. unm.
3 July 1891. 7. PriscUla Shelhy, b. at "Planta Place," Maury Co.,
Tenn., 4 Jan. 1878; m. 7 Mar. 1901 George S. Briggs; residence,
Norfolk, Va.; one child.
iv. Maj. William, b. 1 Feb. 1839; d. s.p. at Memphis, Tenn., 5 Apr.
1906; bur. in St. John's Churchyard; m. Rebecca Mayes of
Columbia, Tenn., who is bur. beside her husband. At the outbreak
of the Civil War William Polk enlisted as a private in Capt. D. F.
Wade's company, which was recruited in Maury Co. and was
attached to the Third Tennessee Regiment, Confederate Army,
commanded by Col. John C. Brown. He was appointed sergeant
major of the regiment. At the fall of Fort Donelson the regiment
surrendered, with other troops, to the Federal forces under General
Grant; but he escaped capture, as he had been wounded and
removed from the field. In the reorganization of the Tennessee
regiments, after an exchange of prisoners, he was transferred
to the Forty-eighth Tennessee Infantry, was chosen adjutant
of the regiment, and was later promoted to be major. The regiment
was at the bombardment of Port Hudson, La., saw service at
Dalton, Ga., Mobile, Ala., New Hope Church, Pine Mountain,
Kenesaw Mountain, Peach Creek, Atlanta, and in aU the engage-
ments of General Hood's Tennessee campaign except that at
Franklin, and was surrendered at Bentonville, N. C, in the spring
of 1865. Major Polk never missed a battle in which his regiment
. fought, and was on duty constantly until the surrender. Returning
home, he engaged in farming and stock raising for several years
and afterwards m cotton planting in Mississippi. He was a member
of the Society of the Cincinnati.
V. Eliza Eastin, b. 5 Apr. 1841; d. unm. 3 July 1897.
vi. Frances Aistne, b. 4 Aug. 1844; d. 26 Mar. 1912; bur. at Lexington,
Va., beside her husband; m. at Hamilton Place, 29 Nov. 1863,
Col. Edward Dillon of Virginia, an officer of the old Army and a
distinguished Confederate soldier. They resided at Indian Rock
and Lexington, Va. ChQdren (surname Dillon): 1. James Royall,
b. 2 Sept. 1869; d. at Mineral 'Wells, Tex., 14 May 1914; bur. at
Lexington. 2 Edward, b. at Buchanan, Va., 19 Oct. 1871; m;
6 Oct. 1896 Susan Strachan Pendleton; residence, Indian Rock,
five children. 3 Lucius Polk, b. at Indian Rock 8 June 1873;
m. 25 Apr. 1899 Mary Evelyn Morton; residence, Indian Rock;
five children. 4. John Cunningham, h. at Indian Rock 17 May
1875; m. 18 Jan. 1911 Mae McClung Childress; residence, Norfolk,
Va.; in the World War he was assistant Federal food administrator
for Virginia and was stationed at Richmond; no issue. 5. Eliza
Polk, b. at Indian Rock 30 July 1878; m. 4 Apr. 1907 Robert Scott
Spillman; residence, Charleston, W. Va.; three children. Q.Frances
1923] The Polks of North Carolina and Tennessee 255
Polk, b. 20 Jan. 1880; in the World War she was attached to the
American Committee for Devastated France and was stationed
in Paris, and later she was in charge, of a Red Cross canteen unit
on the Western Front. 7. Francis Cunningham, mining engineer,
b. at Indian Rock 17 Sept. 1885; m. at Talca, Chile, in 1918,
Maria Parada, of Chilian parentage; in the World War he served
as a chemist in the Ordnance Department, United States Army,
at Saltville, Va.
• vii. Susan Rebecca (twin), b. 7 July 1847; d. at Pass Christian, Miss.,
19 Feb. 1922; bur. in St. John's Churchyard; m. at Hamilton
Place, 11 Sept. 1866, Maj. Campbell Brown, who d. 30 Aug.
1893 and is bur. in St. John's Churchyard. Children (surname
Brown): 1. Inicius Polk, captain. Sanitary Corps, United States
i Army, b. at Hamilton Place 1 Aug. 1867; m. (1) 30 Jan. 1895
! Jessie Roberts of Nashville, Tenn.; m. (2) 12 Dec. 1903 Susan
Massie of Virginia; he is director of the Bureau of Food Inspection,
New York Department of Health; residence, Staten Island, N. Y.;
one son by first wife and three children by second wife. 2. Dr.
Richard Ewdl, h. at Nashville, Tenn., 12 Jan. 1870; d. in New
York City 14 June 1919; bur. at Southampton, Long Island,
N. Y.; m. 10 Sept. 1901 Marion Lee of New York City; he was a
physician in New York City; three children. 3. George CampbeU,
b. 25 Sept. 1871; d. 23 Jan. 1912; bur. in St. John's Churchyard.
i 4. Percy (twin), b. at Elwell Farm, Maury Co., Tenn., 6 Apr.
I 1874; m. 6 Aug. 1907 Gertrude Plunkett of Nashville, Tenn.;
I residence, Elwell Farm; three children. 5. Lizinska (twin), b. at
■ Elwell Farm, Maury Co., Tenn., 6 Apr. 1874; d. 28 Aug. 1899;
; bur. in St. John's Churchyard.
5 54. viii. George Washington (twin), b. 7 July 1847.
' Children by second wife, born at Hamilton Place, Maury
I Co., Tenn.:
I 55. ix. Lucius Junius, b. 14 Aug. 1854.
i X. Elvira Juliette, b. 5 Sept. 1856; d. at Nashville, Tenn., 8 May
i 1923; bur. in St. John's Churchyard; m. 13 Jan. 1881 Horace
] Stephens Cooper of Columbia, Term. Child (surname Cooper) :
\ 1. Horace Polk, b. 2 Jan. 1887; unm.
•! 23. Right Rev. akd Lieut. Gen. LEO>aDAs® Polk {Lieut. Col.
' William,'^ Brig. Gen. Thomas,* William,^ William,'^ Robert^},
\ ' S.T.D. (Columbia CoUege, 1838), LL.D., born at Raleigh
1 N. C, 10 Apr. 1806, was killed, by a fragment of bursting sheU,
on Pine Mountain, near Marietta, Ga., 14 June 1864, while
reconnoitring in the field with his staff. He married, 6 May
1830, Frances A. Devereux, who died 16 Apr. 1875 and is
buried at Augusta, Ga., beside her husband, daughter of John
Devereux of The Ferns, co. Wexford, Ireland, and of The
Roanoke and Raleigh, N. C, and his wife, Frances (Pollok).*
He received his early education in the schools of Raleigh,
and entered the University of North CaroUna in 1821; but,
having been appointed a cadet in the United States Military
Academy at West Point, he entered there in June 1823, was
graduated 4 July 1827, and was brevetted a second lieutenant
; of Artillery. Shortly afterwards, however, in the following
December, he resigned from the Army, and on 4 Nov. 1828
♦Frances A. Devereux, wife of Leonidas Polk, was a great-granddaughter of Thomas Pollok of
; Balgra, Scotland, president of the Colony of North Carolina and major general of the Colonial
I forces. She was also a descendant of Rev. Jonathan Edwards, his sixth daughter, Eunice, being
her grandmother. On the death of her mother she inherited 400 slaves.
256 The Polks of North Carolina and Tennessee [Oct.
began his studies for the Protestant Episcopal ministry in the
seminary at Alexandria, Va. He was ordained to the diaconate
at Richmond, Va., 9 Apr. 1830, and was made a priest in May
1831. He was assistant in the Mommiental Church at Rich-
mond, but found it necessary in Aug. 1831, to go to Europe
for the benefit of his health. In 1832 he returned to the United
States, and in Apr. 1833, with his young wife, he left North
CaroUna and went to his brother Lucius's plantation in Maury
Co., Tenn., where he arrived on 15 May of that year. He
became rector of St. Peter's Church, Columbia, Tenn., in that
year, served as a clerical deputy to the General Convention
of the Protestant Episcopal Church in 1834, and in 1835 was
made a member of the Standing Committee of the Diocese.
He began to build a home on the lands allotted to him by his
j father, and this mansion, which was finished in 1837, was
called Ashwood HaU. In 1838 he was elected and consecrated
J Missionary Bishop of Arkansas and the Indian territory south
I of latitude 36° 30', with provisional charge of the Dioceses
I of Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana and the missions in the
I Republic of Texas. Later he bought a sugar plantation near
I Thibodaux, La., which he called Leighton, and to which he
I moved his family. In 1841 he resigned his missionary juris-
j ' diction and his provisional charges, and was elected and con-
I firmed Bishop of Louisiana. In 1854 he sold his plantation
I and moved with his family to New Orleans, where they
I remained until the outbreak of the Civil War. In 1856 and the
5 years immediately following he was engaged, with other South-
I em bishops, in founding the University of the South, which
i was opened at Sewanee, Term., after the Civil War.
I A Southerner by birth, education, and feeling, a large land-
> owner, and a slaveholder. Bishop Polk was a zealous advocate
I of the doctrine of secession, and on 25 June 1861 he was com-
'; missioned a major general in the Confederate Army. In the
I early years of the War he held important commands in the
j Mississippi Valley, led the Confederate forces in the Battle of
I Belmont, 7 Nov. 1861, and commanded a corps the next year
at Shiloh and Corinth. He took -part in the Battle of Perry-
viUe, and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general in
Oct. 1862. He participated in the bloody battle at Murfrees-
boro, and commanded the Confederate right wing at Chicka-
mauga. Being blamed by General Bragg for the escape of the
Federal Army from annihilation in that battle, he was relieved
of his command, and later, having declined President Davis's
. offer of reinstatement, was ordered to take charge of a camp
of Confederate prisoners who had been paroled. In Dec. 1863
he was placed over the Department of Alabama, Mississippi,
and East Louisiana, where he redeemed his reputation, and
was ordered to unite his command with the army of Gen.
Joseph E. Johnston, who was opposing Sherman's march into
Georgia. He took part in the chief battles of this campaign,
until he was killed by an enemy shell near Kenesaw Mountain,
i
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Ga. His remains were taken to Augusta, Ga., and with simple
ceremony were interred beneath the chancel window in the
re^r of St. Paul's Church. In 1902 a monument to his memory
was erected to mark the spot where he fell. A biography en-
titled "Leonidas Polk, Bishop and General," in two volumes,
by his son. Dr. WUham Mecklenburg Polk, was published in
1893, and a new edition of this work appeared in 1915.
Children:
56. i. Alexander Hamilton,' b. at Richmond, Va., 27 Jan. 1831.
ii. Frances Devereux, b. at "Elderwood, " Maury Co., Tenn.,
27 Nov. 1835; d. 15 Mar. 1884; m. at St. John's Church, Maury
Co., 27 Nov. 1866, Peyton H. Skipwith. They resided at Oxford,
■ Miss. Children (surname Skipvdth): 1. Kate, h. 18 Sept. 1867;
unm. 2. Frank, h. 10 Oct. 1872; unm.
iii. Katherine, b. at Ashwood Hall, Maury Co., Tenn., 16 Aug. 1838;
d. 8 Feb. 1916; m. 14 Dec. 1858 William D. Gale, who d. at
Nashville, Tenn., 30 Jan. 1888 and is bur. beside his wife in
Mount Olivet Cemetery. Children (surname Gale) : 1. Frances,
h. near NashvUle 1 Apr. 1860; m. 30 Apr. 1895 Frank W. Ring,
who d. 17 July 1896 and is bur. at Portland, Me.; she resides near
Nashville; no children. 2. William Dudley, b. on the Yazoo
River, in Mississippi, 22 Apr. 1861; m. 18 Jan. 1894 Meta Ora
Jackson; he is in the insurance business at Nashville; two children.
3. Katherine, b. near Jackson, Miss., 29 Aug. 1862; d. unm. at
Nashville 24 Nov. 1889; bur. in Mount Olivet Cemetery.
4. Leonide, b. at Asheville, N. C, 10 May 1864; d. unm.
at Nashville 16 Sept. 1890; bur. in Moimt Olivet Cemetery.
5. Josephine, b. 22 Jan. 1867; d. 13 Nov. 1876. 6. Ethel, b. 19 Nov.
1869; d. 13 June 1870.
iv. Sarah H., b. about 1840; m. Francis Daniel Blake of South
Carolina. They reside at Asheville, N. C. Child (surname Blake) :
1. Francis Folk, h. 1 June 1872; d. aged about 20 years.
V. Susan R., b. at Raleigh, N. C, 16 Apr. 1842; m. 21 June 1870
Dr. Joseph Jones of New Orleans, La., who d. 16 Feb. 1896.
Residence, New Orleans. Children (surname Jones): 1. Fanny,
b. 18 May 1871; unm. 2. Hamilton Polk, physician, b. 26 Oct.
1872; m. 25 June 1901 Caroline E. Merrick; residence, New
Orleans; in the World War he was majorpMedical Division Base
Hospital,' Fort Bliss, El Paso, Tex. 3. Laura Maxwell, b. 26 Aug.
1876; d. at Springside, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pa., 17 Mar.
1917; bur. in White Marsh Cemetery.
vi. Elizabeth Devereux, b. 29 June 1843; d. at New Orleans, La.,
14 Nov. 1918; m. 27 Apr. 1864 Col. William E. Huger, b. at
Spring Hill, Ala., 27 Apr. 1841, d. in New York City 3 July 1901;
residence. New Orleans. Children (surname Huger): 1. Leonide,
d. in infancy. 2. Frances Devereux (twin), b. at New Orleans
24 Mar. 1867; m. 10 Jan. 1895 Henry Richardson Labouisse;
residence, New Orleans; three sons. 3. Emily Hamilton (twin),
b. 24 Mar. 1867; unm. ; head nurse in the Read Memorial Hospital,
Washington, D. C, and head supervisor of the Reconstruction
Hospital. 4. John Middleton, cotton broker, b. at New Orleans
1 May 1868; d. 7 May 1912; m. 18 Dec. 1900 Louise Woeste;
residence. New Orleans; two children. 5. Lvcia Folk, b. at New
Orleans 29 Oct. 1870; m. 31 Jan. 1894 Joseph Hardie; residence,
Dallas, Tex." two children. 6. Arthur Middleton, cotton buyer,
b. at New Orleans 26 Aug. 1878; m. 24 Apr. 1903 Lillie Charbounet;
residence, New Orleans; one daughter. 7. William Elliott, b. 22
Oct. 1882; unm.
57. vii. William Mecklenburg, b. at Ashwood Hall, Maury Co., Tenn.,
15 Aug. 1844.
viii. Lucia, b. at Leighton Plantation, La., 22 Oct. 1848; m. 8 Jan. 1870
258 The Polks of North Carolina and Tennessee [Oct.
Edwaed Chapman of New Orleans, who d. there 19 Mar. 1883.
She resides at Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pa. No issue.
24. Geobge Washington' Polk (Lieut. Col. William,^ Brig. Gen.
Thomas* William,^ William,'^ Robert^), born at Raleigh, N. C,
12 July 1817, died at the rectory of St. John's Church, Maury
Co., Tenn., 8 Jan. 1892, and is buried in St. John's Church-
yard. He married, at the residence of Mrs. Mary HiUiard,
near Franklin, N. C., 24 Nov. 1840, Sallie L. Hilliabd, who
died 2 July 1894.
He was a student at the University of North Carolina,
1833-1837. About 1839 or 1840 he removed from North
Carolina to Maury Co., Tenn., and settled on the tract of land
allotted to him by his father, which he called "Rattle and
Snap," the name bestowed on the original tract. He built his
home some distance from the turnpike, and later built a hand-
some residence near the highway.
Children:
58. i. James Hilliard,' b. in Maury Co., Tenn., 8 Jan. 1842.
59. ii. RuFUS King, b. at "Rattle and Snap," Maury Co., Tenn., 31 Oct.
1843.
iii. Sallie Hawkins, b. 18 June 1845; d. umn. at Fort Worth, Tex., 18
Nov. 1914; bur. in St. John's Churchyard, Maury Co., Tenn.
iv. Mary Muefree, b. at "Rattle and Snap," Maury Co., Tenn.,
25 June 1847; m. 29 Nov. 1870 Judge Jot-ius J. Dv Bose of
Memphis, Tenn. She resided at Memphis, Tenn., and at Berkeley
and San Francisco, Calif. Children (surname Du Bose) : 1. Juliet
Brevard, d. in infancy. 2. Tascar Polk, h. in Maury Co., Tenn.,
4 Jan. 1873; m. (1) in July 1905 Carrie Van Horn Culbert; m.
(2) 14 Feb. 1911 Louise MjTtle Haskin; one daughter by second
wife. 3. Mary HiUiard, b. at Memphis 26 Dec. 1875; in the World
War she was head nurse in charge of the United States Naval
Hospital, BrooTdyn, N. Y., and later was stationed at the United
States Hospital at Brest, France. 4. Alfred Bishop, b. 30 Sept.
1877; d. 23 Apr. 1892; bur. in Elmwood Cemeterv, Memphis.
5. Jessie Mclver, b. at Memphis 24 Nov. 1879; m. 15 July 1913
Daniel Edwin Newell; one son. 6. George Washington, b. at
Memphis 4 July 1881; m. 29 Sept. 1915 Harriet Jane Guernsey;
residence, Stockton, Calif.; in the World War he was major in the
Ordnance Department, United States Army, and served with the
American Expeditionary Forces in France. 7. Sarah Camilla,
b. at Memphis 17 June 1884; m. 22 Dec. 1903 George Trowbridge
Hackley of Los Angeles, Calif., lawyer, who d. in 1914; no issue.
8. Julius Jesse, h. 18 Aug. 1889; in the World War he was a private
in the Signal Reserve Corps, United States Air Service, at Fort
Omaha, Nebr.
V. George Brevard Mecklenburg, b. 15 Dec. 1848; d. umn. at
New Orleans, La., 25 Dec. 1877; bur. in St. John's Churchyard,
Maury Co., "Tenn.
vi. Susan Spratt, b. at "Rattle and Snap, " Maury Co., Tenn., 23 June
1851; m. 7 Mar. 1877 James Yeatman Player of St. Louis, Mo.
' Residence, St. Louis. Children (surname Player), b. in St. Louis:
I 1. Susan Polk, d. in infancy. 2. George Polk, b. 21 Jan. 1880;
I m. 17 June 1902 Eva Frank Lemmon of St. Louis; residence,
I Jefferson City, Mo.; in the World War he was first lieutenant,
{ Signal Corps, with the American Expeditionary Forces in France.
I 3. James Yeatman, b. 30 Mar. 1882; m. 1 Nov. 1911 Lucile N.
I Harris of San Antonio, Tex. ; residence, San Antonio; one daughter.
I .4. Susan Trezevant, b. 8 Aug. 1884; m. 12 Jan. 1907 WiUiam
1923] The Polks of North Carolina and Tennessee 259
Preston Graves; residence, St. Louis; one daughter. 6 Thomas
Trezevant, inspector of transportation, Texas Division, Southern
Pacific Railroad, b. 7 Sept. 1886; m. 22 Feb. 1916 Carita Green
of Houston, Tex., dau. of Samuel; residence, Houston. 6. ScJly
Hilliard, b. 28 Mar. 1889.
vii. Lucius Junius, b. 21 Apr. 1853; unm.
60. viii. Isaac Hilliakd, b. at "Rattle and Snap," Maiu^ Co., Tenn.,
8 Aug. 1854.
ix. Leonidas, d. in childhood.
X. William Hawkins, b. at "Rattle and Snap," Maury Co., Tenn.,
27 Jan. 1859; d. 26 Mar. 1896: bur. at Riverside, Cahf.; m. Mabel
Vanderboqabt. Child: 1. Anna Leah.^
xi. Caholinb, b. at "Rattle and Snap," Maury Co., Term., 26 June
1861; m. (1) her first cousin, Isaac Hilliahd; m. (2) Joseph H,
I HoETON. No issue.
25. Andrew Jackson" Polk (Ldeut. Col. William,^ Brig. Gen.
Thomas* William,^ William,^ Robert^), born at Raleigh, N. C,
10 Aug. 1824, died at Vevey, Switzerland, 10 Mar. 1867, and
is buried beside his wife in the Protestant cemetery there. He
married at Nashville, Tenn., 14 Jan. 1846, Right Rev. James
H. Otey, Bishop of Tennessee, oflBciating, Rebecca Van Leeb.
\ He was a student at the University of North Carolina,
i 1840-41. He acquired of his brother, Bishop Leonidas Polk
j (23), his plantation in Maury Co., Tenn., with the house called
I Ashwood Hall, which he remodelled and made into one of the
I ' finest homes in Tennessee.
I During the Civil War he made a fortune, when the ships
J laden with his cotton succeeded in running the blockade of the
• Southern ports. He was a captain in the Confederate Army,
\ and after the War he Uved abroad imtU his death.
\ Children:
I i. Antoinette Van Leer,^ b. at Nashville 27 Oct. 1847; d. at her
I home, the Chateau de la Basse Motte, Ch&teauneuf de BretagnCj
j Department of the Ille-et-Vilaine, France, 3 Feb. 1919; m. 1 Dec
I 1877 General Baron Athanase de Charettb db la ContrIib,
f who d. at the Ch&teau de la Basse Motte 10 Oct. 1911. He was
\ of an old and noble family of Nantes, France^ descended from
;• Guillamne de Charette, Seigneur de la Thomassi^re et Trevignac,
\ 1398, and was a grandnephew of Frangois Athanase de Charette, a
knight of the Military Order of St. Louis, who served at Yorktown
in the French Navy under the Count de Grasse, was general in
chief of the Catholic and Royal armies in the Vendde, commanded
the celebrated Vend6an Corps, and was shot at Nantes by the
Republicans, 29 Mar. 1796. The mother of General Baron
Athanase de Charette was Louise Marie Charlotte, dau. of H. R. H!-
Charles, Duke of Berry, s. of King Charles X of France. General
Baron de Charette served as ordnance oflBcer of the Duke of
Modena, was heutenant colonel and commander of the Pontifical
Zouaves, served in the Legion of the West in the Franco-German
War of 1870-71, was made a general of brigade, and in the struggle
with the Paris Commune commanded the troops that carried
the barrier of the Rue Saint-Antoine and thereby opened Paris.
He was elected an honorary member of the North Carolina Society
of the Cincinnati in 1909. The marriage of Antoinette Van Leer
Polk and General Baron de Charette was a great event, the beauty
of the bride and the high family and fine physique of the groom
making them a marked couple. Child (surname de Charette)'.
1. Antoine Polk Van Leer, b. in Paris, France, 3 July 1880; m. m
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260 The Polks cf North Carolina and Tennessee [Oct.
St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York City, 11 Nov. 1909, Susanne
Henning of Louisville, Ky., dau. of John and Susan (Thornton) ;
in the World War he served in the Tank Corps in the French Army,
and was wounded on the Western Front; his daughter, Susanne,
was b. in Paris 12 Apr. 1915.
ii. Hon. Van Leeh, b. at Ashwood Hall, Maury Co., Tenn. 9 July
1856; d. at Memphis, Tenn., 19 Dec. 1907; m. in New York City,
20 Feb. 1907, Mrs. Dorothy Kitchine Bodine. He was educated
at Sillig's School at Vevey, Switzerland, and at Rugby, England,
and spent most of his youth abroad. He returned to the United
States and occupied himself with looking after the family affairs.
He was elected from Maury County to the Senate of Tennessee,
was appointed consul general of the United States at Calcutta,
India, by President Cleveland, and was appointed by President
Roosevelt in 1906 one of the six commissioners of the United
States at the Pan-American Congress at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
At the time of his death he was editor of the Weekly News and
Scimitar of Memphis.
iiL Rebecca, b. at Nashville, Tenn., 26 Aug. 1858. She lived most of her
life abroad, making her home with her sister, Madame de Charette .
26. Thomas Independence^ Polk (Charles,^ Brig. Gen. Thomas*
William,^ William,'^ Roherf), born in Mecklenburg Co., N. C,
4 July 1786, died in Louisiana 4 Sept. 1863, and was buried
at Bastrop, La. He married, 14 July 1808, Sarah Isham
Moore, daughter of Col. Isham Moore of the Sumter District
of South Carolina.
He resided for many years in Mecklenburg Co., N. C, but
spent his winters in South Carolina, where he had a plantation,
to which he moved his family in 1827. As colonel of a regiment
of volunteers in South Carolina in 1832, at the time of the
Nullification controversy, he offered his services in defense
of that State when he thought that it would be invaded by
the Federal forces. In 1836 he moved to Fayette Co., Tenn.,
where he inherited a large tract of land from his father, on
which he settled. He finally moved in 1855 to Louisiana, and
lived there until his death.
Children, born in Mecklenburg Co., N. C:
61. i. Charles Bingley,' b. 23 Sept. 1809.
ii. Mary Ann, b. 11 Apr. 1811; d. 5 Mar. 1865; bur. with her husband
at Bastrop, La.; m. 1 May 1832 Judge John J. Potts. They
resided in Morehouse Parish, La. Children (surname Potts):
1. Thomas, h. at La Grange, Tenn., 9 Jan. 1838; d. in Louisiana
16 June 1904; m. 29 Sept. 1865 Lucy Lanier; resided in Honduras,
Central America; one son, who d. in infancy. 2. William N., b. at
La Grange, Tenn., 9 Mar. 1841; m. 9 Mar. 1871 Simmer Aiken
Hudson; residence, Monroe, La.; two children. 3. Horace B., d.
in childhood. 4. Edgar Nelson, b. at La Grange, Tenn., 17 Oct.
1843; d. 24 Jan. 1910; bur. at Bastrop, La.; m. 24 Dec. 1872
Miss F. F. Helmich; they reside in Morehouse Parish, La.; four
children, b. in Morehouse Parish. 5. Mary Octavia, h. 4 Mar. 1859.
62. iii. Thomas Richard, b. about 1813.
63. iv. Horace Moore, b. 11 Oct. 1819.
Vn Emma Octavia, b. about 1821; m. at La Grange, Tenn., about 1847,
Dr. Robert Matthews Botjchelle. Child (surname Bovchelle) :
1. Robert Julian, h. at La Grange, Tenn., 14 Dec. 1848; m. at
Columbia, Mo., 3 Dec. 1874, Virginia Hord Bradford, who d.
30 Dec. 1904; residence, Columbia; six children.
vi. Newton Napoleon, d. in infancy.
1923] The Polks of North Carolina and Tennessee 261
27. Chaeles James® Polk (Charles,^ Brig. Gen. Thomas* William,^
William,^ Robert^), born in Mecklenburg Co., N. C, 15 Dec.
1790, died at La Grange, Tenn., 15 Oct. 1837. He married, 24
Oct. 1824, Martha Hicks James, dau. of Taliaferro and
Frances (Hicks), born 27 Dec. 1804, died 24 June 1846.
Children:
i. Makt E.,' b. 22 Nov. 1825; d. 5 Aug. 1887; m. 8 Apr. 1846 Pouglas
R. Hunt, who d. in 1866. Children (surname Hunt): 1. Ella
Douglas, b. 1 Jan. 1847; m. James R. Hull, who d. 13 Sept. 1896;
residence, Beaumont, Tex. 2. Lillian, d. in childhood. 3. John
[ MelnoUe. 4. Douglas K. 5. James, d. in childhood. 6. Effi,e, b. in
I 1857; m. in 1872 Daniel S. Hawley. 7. Walter Hamilton, b. 30 Nov.
I 1859; m. 10 Jan. 1887 Emma Belle Blaylock.
: ii. Frances J., b. 4 July 1827; m. 13 Feb. 1852 Judge Drurt W.
Fields. Children (surname Fields): 1. Edmund Douglas, d.
young. 2. Jennie, d. young. 3. Caspar. 4. Drury W. 5. William.
6. Leonidas.
iii. Sarah Henrietta, b. in the Sumter District, S. C, 27 Dec. 1829;
d. at Memphis, Tenn., 25 May 1897; m. (1) at La Grange, Tenn.,
12 Apr. 1847, Alexander Hamilton Avery, b. at Buffalo, N. Y.,
I 31 Mar. 1823, d. 8 May 1859, s. of Ebenezer Root and Harriet
■j (Goodwin); m. (2) at Memphis Haiiil Bowen, b. in Smith Co.,
\ . Va., lO'Feb. 1818, d. at Memphis 26 May 1872. Her first husband
! removed, following his marriage, to Memphis, where he founded
I the Memphis Whig. Children by first husband (surname Avery) :
i 1. Walter Hamilton, b. 21 Apr. 1849; d. 13 July 1869. 2. Charles
i Polk, d. in childhood. 3. Norman Le Noir, b. at Memphis 1 Jan.
I 1853; d. at Mineral Wells, Tex., 9 Sept. 1907; m. at Memphis,
I 3 Nov. 1875, Minnie Fisher Pullen, b. at Richmond, Va., 25 Dec.
) 1856, dau. of Benjamin Kin| and Minerva Anner (Smith); he
\ controlled large mercantile mterests in Arkansas, Tennessee,
s Louisiana, and Texas. 4. Herbert, d. in infancy. 5. Lara Belle,
j . b. 8 Apr. 1857; d. 16 Oct. 1878. Children by second husband
i (surname Bowen): 6. Henrietta Polk, h. at Memphis 5 May 1866;
I ' m. 18 Sept. 1882 Leonard Warren Redford, b. at Memphis 21 July
\ 1862, s. of Moncure Warren and Lucy Jane (Holmes). 7. Effie
? Douglas, d. young.
• iv. Thomas James, d- in childhood.
' • V. Margaret Emma, b. 9 Apr. 1832; m. Thomas Allen of La Grange,
■ Tenn. Two children.
vi. Charles Taliaferro, b. 30 Jime 1834; m. Mrs. Belle Hughes.
Child: 1. Dow.»
vii. Martha Rebecca, d. in childhood.
I
28. Charles Clark* Polk {Michael,^ Capt. Charles,* William,^
William,'^ Robert^), born in North Carohna 12 Mar. 1814,
died at Alexander City, Ala., 3 Oct. 1888. He married first, in
North Carolina, Mary Stilwell; secondly, in Georgia, Phoebe
Wolf; and thirdly, in Alabama, in 'I860, Jane Elizabeth
Morris, who was born in South Carohna 7 Mar. 1821 and
died 26 Nov. 1901.
He removed from North Carohna to Georgia and thence to
■ . Alabama.
Children by first wife:
64. i. Thomas Marshall,^ b. in North Carolina 20 Mar. 1837.
ii. Susan Elizabeth, b. in North Carolina 8 July 1839; d. 14 Aug.
i 1900; m. Samuel Turner Rat. Children (surname Ray):
i 1. Marshall Gaines, b. 5 Oct. 1858; d. in Aug. 1889j m. in 1881
• Ann Crenshaw. 2. George W., h. 14 May 1860; d. m childhood
262 The Polks of North Carolina and Tennessee [Oct.
3. Mary Jane, b. 21 Sept. 1863 [sic]. 4. Mary Louisa, b. 15 May
1864; m. in Sept. 1879 John Garbough. 5. TabUha Belle, b. 8 June
1869; m. 3 May 1885 Robert Russell. 6. Ann Elizabeth, b. 27
Oct. 1871; d. 5 Oct. 1908; m. William Neighbors. 7. Ida Cornelia,
b. 26 Oct. 1874; d. young.
iii. Tabitha Josephine, b. in North Carolina 13 Apr. 1841; d. 22 Oct.
1884; m. (1) Andrew Hancock; m. (2) Chaeles Connok. Child
by first husband (surname Hancock) : 1. Andrew Jackson.
iv. Cornelia Jane, b. in Georgia in Mar. 1844; m. (1) about 1860
Wesley Hancock; m. (2) about 1865 William McLeod. Child
by first husband (surname Hancock): 1. Jeferson. Children by
second husband (surname McLeod): 2. Elizabeth, m. Calvin
McKinnon. 3. James, m. Hatley. 4. Catherine, m.
Blair. 5. Charles, d. young. 6. Michael Sanders.
V. James Knox, b. in Georgia 7 Jan. 1846; m. (1) Chessiee;
m. (2) Mart Jordan. Child by first wife: 1. Jimmie Belle,* m.
Henry Brockman of Atlanta, Ga.
Children by second wife :
65. vi. Michael Sanders, b. near McDonough, Ga., 12 Dec. 1848.
vii. John Hale, b. 8 Apr. 1851.
66. viii. Charles Clabk, b. at Tallapoosa, Ga., 13 June 1856.
Child by third wife:
I ix. Emma M., b. 15 Sept. 1861; m. 15 Nov. 1876 Henry Willis
I Pearson. Residence, Alexander City, Ala. Children (surname
I Pearson): 1. Ida Florence, b. 29 July 1877. 2. Clara Clyde, h.
f 7 Mar. 1879. 3. Cftorles Lewis, b. 28 June 1881. 4. Janie, b.
I 1 July 1883. 5. A child, b. 30 Aug. 1884. 6. Henry WiUis, h.
• 15 Jan. 1885 [sic]. 7. George Washington, b. 27 Nov. 1889. 8. Walter,
I b. 3 Aug. 1890. 9. Walter Washington, b. 7 Nov. 1891. 10. John
Hale, h. 10 Oct. 189i. n. Mary Emma, h. 30 Dec. 1897. 12. Leroy
I Morris, b. 11 Oct. 1900. 13. A child, b. 12 Mar. 1902. 14. Rvth
\ Elizabeth, b. 13 Dec. 1903.
\
i 29. EzEKiEL* Polk (Charles,^ Capt. Charles,* William,^ William,'^
j Robert), born in Mecklenburg Co., N. C, 5 Sept. 1808, died
I in Douglas Co., Ga., 6 June 1886. He married, in Oct. 1828,
I Malissa Jane Weddington, born 3 June 1809, died at Win-
[ ston, Ga., 19 Feb. 1893, daughter of WiUiam and Polly (Mc-
I Larty). Both are biu-ied at DouglasviUe, Ga.
I Children:
i. Mary Ellen,' b. in Cabarrus Co., N. C, in 1829; d. in Douglas Co.,
Ga.; m. Wesley Clonts. Children (surname Clonts): 1. Jane,
b. in Campbell Co., Ga.; m. Isham King; four children. 2. Thomas,
m. Foote; no issue. 3. Charles Asbury, m. (1) Fanny
King; m. (2) Mary Johnson; four children by first wife and three
children by second wife.
ii. Hannah Elizabeth, b. in Cabamis Co., N. C, 28 Jan. 1832; d. at
Douglasville, Ga., 13 June 1914; m. Isaac McKjelvey of Georgia.
Children (surname McKdvey): 1. Charles Pinckney, b. in Campbell
Co., Ga.; lived and d. at DouglasviUe, Ga.; m. in 1870 Sarah Bobo;
six children. 2. William Thomas, b. in Campbell Co., Ga.; m.
Frances Bobo; five children. 3. John, b. in Campbell Co., Ga.,
25 Aug. 1854; m. Savilla Winn, b. 27 Nov. 1859; residence, Joppa,
Ala. 4. Jane, m. Charles Peavey; two chUdren. 5. Ezekid A.,
m. Lulu Phillips; two children. 6. Ann, m. Peck Vandergrift;
no issue. 7. George, d. j'oung. 8. Lude, unm. 9. Ira (a daughter),
unm. 10. Flora.
iii. Sarah Evelyn, b. in Campbell Co., Ga., 8 May 1834; m. John
Henry Winn. Residence, Winston, Ga. Children (surname
1923] The Polks of North Carolina and Tennessee 263
Winn) : 1. Mary Ann, m. Ludie Entrekin- nine children. 2. William
Clark, m. Emma Haxtzfield; eight children. 3. Charles Wesley,
b. in Campbell Co., Ga.; d. at Winston in 1921; m. (1) Bettie
Kennedy; m. (2) Julia Ward; one son by first wife and four children
by second wife. 4. Henry Oscar, m. Mary Entrekin; four children.
5. Jennie DrusiUa, h. 5 Feb. 1861; m. 13 May 1875 George
Entrekin; two children. 6. Dr. John Thomas, b. in Campbell Co.,
Ga., 6 Jime 1866; m. Aurora McClellan Raney; six children.
67. iv. Chables Marion, b. in Campbell Co., Ga., in 1836.
V. Nancy, b. in 1841; d. unm.
vi. William Hale, b. in Campbell Co., Ga., 1 June 1843; d. «.p. at
TazeweU, Tenn., while in the Confederate service; m. Georgia
Darnell.
vii. Martha Ann, b. in Campbell Co., Ga.; m. John Thomas Feely.
Residence, DouglasviUe, Ga. Children (surname Feeiy) : 1. TFiZ^iam,
b. 8 Aug. 1867. 2. Oscar, b. 25 Aug. 1870; d. 5 Oct. 1898. 3. John
Thomas, b. 11 Nov. 1872; m. 13 Aug. 1894 his second cousin,
Kitty Morris (30, i, 2); eight children. 4. MoUie, b. 26 Mar. 1874.
5. Fayette, b. 14 Nov. 1877; m. 24 Sept. 1905 Lizzie Hunt. 6. Minnie,
b. 23 June 1880; d. 17 Apr. 1916; m, 27 Dec. 1905 Stephen Baggett;
one daughter.
viii. Amanda Pauline, b. in Campbell Co., Ga., 6 June 1850; m. (1) in
1870 William David McGuiee, who d. 30 Oct. 1884; m. (2)
WiLLLiM Taylor. Children by first husband (surname McGuire) :
1. Charles Polk, h. in Douglas Co., Ga., 29 Nov. 1871; m. 12 Oct.
1904 Fannie Jobe, b. at Columbus, Miss., 19 Oct. 1880; three
children. 2. Joel Seaborn, h. in Douglas Co., Ga., 11 Feb. 1874;
m. 20 Jan. 1904 Lena Sayer; no issue. 3. Mary Jane, b. in
Douglas Co., Ga., 9 Sept. 1876; m. Leonard Couch; three children.
4. Maggie Evelyn, b. in Douglas Co., Ga., 22 Sept. 1879; m. in
Nov. 1904 Esker Henderson; one son. 5. Edna Mae, b. in Douglas-
viUe, Ga., 22 Oct. 1882; m. in July 1900 Thomas VirgU Lee; five
children.
ix. Margaret Viana, b. in Campbell Co., Ga., 30 Sept. 1853 [sic];
m. (1) 9 Apr. 1866 James Melmeth Darnell; m. (2) 6 June
1883 Nicholas Jackson Nebly. Residence, Villa Rica, Ga.
Children by first husband (surname Dameli): 1. William Leonidas,
b. in Campbell Co., Ga., 8 Nov. 1867; m. (1) Minnie McGuire;
m. (2) in Dec. 1918 Mrs. Hattie Ward; residence, Atlanta, Ga.;
six chUdren by fij^t wife. 2. Robert Young, b. 4 June 1870; m.
Winnie Grubbs; residence, Mussel Shoals, Ala.; one son. 3. Alonzo
Ezekid, b. in 1873; m. Ora Dorsett; eight children. 4. Auzora.
Children by second husband (surname Neely) : 5. Haiden, m. Mary
Butler; five children. 6. Myrtle, m. Arthur Cole; ten children.
7. Bertha Amanda, m. Robert Cole; one child. 8. Nicholas Jackson,
m. Clemmie Puckett; no issue.
30. Charles Shelby' Polk (Charles,^ Capt. Charles,* William,^
William,'^ Robert^), born in Mecklenburg Co., N. C, 14 May
1814, died in Douglas Co., Ga., 10 July 1879. He married
Katie McLarty, born in North Carolina in 1817, died in
Douglas Co., Ga., in 1905, daughter of James and Sarah EUen
(Shelby).*
Children:
i. Sarah E.,» b. in Campbell Co., Ga., 16 Apr. 1843; d. 22 Oct. 1909;
m. James Morris, who d. 19 June 1903. They resided in Douglas
Co., Ga. Children (surname Morris): 1. Hattie, m. Mantell
Vansant; six children. 2. Kitty, m. 13 Sept. 1894 her second
♦Sarah Ellen Sbelby was a daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Helms) Shelby. Her father, Thomaa
Shelby, was a son of Moees Shelby and Isobel, his wife, whose will of 1776 is on file at Charlotte,
N. C.
264 The Polks of North Carolina and Tennessee [Oct.
cousin, John Thomas Feely (29, vii, 3), b. 11 Nov. 1872, b. of
■John Thomas and Martha Ann (Polk); eight children. 3. Nola,
unm. 4. Nellie, m. her second cousin once removed, Charles
Wesley Winn, s. of Charles Wesley (29, iii, 3) and Bettie (Kennedy) ;
one daughter. 5. Minnie, m. John Kemp; eight children.
ii. James E., b. in Campbell Co., Ga., in 1845; d. unm. 7 Nov. 1888.
68. iii. Charles Thomas, b. in Campbell Co., Ga., 23 Nov. 1850.
iv. Kate, b. in Campbell Co., Ga.; m. John Guy Maxwell. Residence,
Douglasville, Ga. Children (surname Maxwell): 1. Pauline,
m. Benjamin Morris; four children. 2. Anna, m. James Van
Davette, Jr.; one son. 3. Cornelia, m. Curley Baggett; two
children. 4. James Giboney, unm.
v. Elizabeth, m. Jaues Beasley.
31. JoHN^ Polk (Charles,^ Capt. John,* William,^ William,'^ Roherf),
farmer, born, probably in Mecklenburg Co., N. C, about 1782,
died in Nacogdoches Co., Tex., in 1866, "aged 84 years." He
married Elizabeth Allex of Kentucky, who died "aged 70
years."
He moved first to Tennessee, and lived near Bolivar; and
all of his children were bom in that State and most of them
married there. About 1840 he moved to Texas.
I Children :
69. i. Charles Grandison,' b. in Maury Co., Term., 12 Mar. 1811.
ii. William Allen, b. in Maury Co., Tenn., in 1813; m. Martha
Barrett. He remained in Tennessee when his parents moved to
Texas. Children: 1. Elizabeth Allen.^ 2. Henrietta B. 3. James
Knox. 4. John R. 5. Henry C. 6. Amanda, m. Ben A. Shepherd.
7. WUliam Charles.
iii. Margaret Benigna, b. in Tennessee 4 May 1819; d. at San
Augustine, Tex., 22 Dec. 1899; m. in Tennessee, 27 Dec. 1837,
Dr. W1LLIA.M S. Massey, who d. at San Augustine in 1889,
brother of Mary Ann Massey, who married Charles Grandison
Polk (69), brother of Margaret Benigna Polk. Dr. and Mrs.
Massey moved to Texas in 1839, buying land and settling in
Walker Co., near Waverly, where they resided twelve years.
Then they moved to Nacogdoches Co., and lived there until
1864, when they ihoved to San Augustine Co., and spent the rest
of their days there. Dr. Massey gave up the practice of medicine
and became a planter. He was a slaveholder, and bred and raised
fine stock. Children (surname Massey) : 1. John H., b. in Linn
Flat, Tex., 6 Aug. 1839; unm. ; killed in the Battle of the Wilderness,
1864; he was a student at the University of Lebanon at the out-
break of the Civil War, returned home and enhsted in the First
Texas Regiment, Hood's brigade, Confederate Army, and served
until his death in battle. 2. Joel Vincent, b. 8 Dec. 1841; d. at
Albany, Tex., in Feb. 1885; m. in 1869 Bettie Tucker; he served
in the Confederate Army, lost his left foot in battle at Suffolk,
Va., and was honorably discharged; he was a member of the Texas
Legislature for several terms; in 1883 he moved to Albany, Tex.,
where he was a merchant and engaged also in cattle and sheep
raising; five children. 3. Emily, h. 15 Feb. 1844; d. 23 May 1920;
m. in 1864 Professor Pe\i;on Irving; they had issue. 4. Charles
Polk, b. 27 Jan. 1846; m. in 1868 Eliza Jones of Rusk, Tex.; in 1864
he joined the Fourth Texas Cavalry, Confederate Armj% and
served until the end of the War; six children. 5. Cynthia Benigna,
h. 25. Aug. 1853; m. 25 Nov. 1886 George E. Gattling, alaw>-erof
San Augustine, Tex.; they have issue.
iv. Amanda M., b. in Tennessee in Apr. 1821; d. at Kemp, Tex., in
June 1912; m. at San Augustine, Tex., 12.Mar. 1840, Rev. Richard
Overton Watkins, b. near Clarksville, Term., 31 Mar. 1816,
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d. at Kemp 27 May 1897, s. of Capt. Jesse, who was killed by
Indians in Texas in Nov. 1838. He attended school in Sharon,
Miss., went to Texas with his father in 1833 and settled in Clarks-
ville in that State, and later moved to Nacogdoches Co. He was
the first Presbyterian minister ordained in the Republic of Texas,
the presbytery meeting on that occasion at old Fort Sam Houston.
He was a soldier in the early Indian wars and in the Mexican
War. He spent his adult years continuously in the ministry,
and was much interested in the higher educational problems of
his church in Texas. Children (surname Walkins): 1. John Polk,
b. 22 Dec. 1840; d. 30 Jan. 1908; m. Lorena McCallum; he was a
soldier in the Confederate Army; five children. 2. Jesse Allen,
I b. 1 May 1843; d. 21 Dec. 1911; m. Eudora Harr; four children.
I • 3. Richard Overton, h. 6 Aug. 1846; d. unm. 20 Apr. 1919. 4. Dr.
1 WUliam Archibald, b. 4 June 1849; d. 16 June 1920; m. Jennie
1 Noble; six children. 5. Robert Smith, b. 31 Jan. 1852; m. Morphia
Collins; no issue. 6. Mary Elizabeth, h. 31 Oct. 1854; d. imm,
14 Jan. 1870. 7. Judge Alfred Bacon, of Athens, Tex., b. 14 Aug.
1857; m. Laura Murchison: he was graduated at Trinity University,
Waxahachie, Tex., in 1877, studied law in Kaufman, Tex., was
, admitted to the bar in 1879, and is a lawyer of high standing; he
i served in 1892 and later as judge of the Third Judicial District
■ of Texas, comprising Houston, Anderson, and Henderson Coimties,
I and has held liigh oflSce in the Masonic fraternity; one son.
I v. Emily B., b. in Tennessee 25 Feb. 1827; d. 3 Jan. 1875; m. in San
I Augustine Co., Tex., 25 Feb. 1846, Josiah Tatlor Childers,
I b. in Giles Co., Tenn., 21 June 1817, d. in San Augustine Co.
I 10 Dec. 1879. He came to Texas in very early years, fought with
I the settlers against the Indians in Anderson Co., and served as
I captain in the Confederate Army. Children (surname Childers):
i 1. Mary Elizaieth, h. 3 Feb. 1847; m. 3 Oct. 1868 L. F. Branch:
i they had issue. 2. John Polk, h. 8 Feb. 1849; m. 27 Dec. 1874
I Jennie Gilbert; he served his county as a land conunissioner and
I for one term as a member of the State Legislature; residencei,
I Shiro, Tex.; eight children. 3. Charles Vavlton, b. 23 Aug. 1851;
I d. in Oct. 1912; m. 2 Dec. 1879 Julia Ann Matthews; four children,
s 4. Joseph William, b. 17 Dec. 1853. 5. James Micajah, b. 22 Aug.
I 1856; m. 29 Aug. 1880 Margaret M. Kirksey, dau. of Dr. W. S. A.
s Kirksey of Palestine, Tex.; eight children. 6. Richard Jackson,
\ b. 8 Apr. 1859; d. 14 Sept. 1860. 7. Margaret Benigna, b. 9 Aug.
! 1861; m. Frank Powell of ShelbyviUe, Tex. 8. Emily Blanche,
\ , b. 21 June 1864; m. at San Augustine, Tex., in Jan. 1881, J. William
! Gilbert. 9. Alfred Lee, h. 13 Aug. 1867; d. at San Augustine, Tex.,
; 10 Oct. 1872. 10. Ophelia Amanda, b. 19 June 1873; d. 24 June
i • ■ 1894; m. Henry McKinney.
vi. Nancy, m. in 1850 Norman P. Branch. Children (surname BrancA):
1. Elbert, d. at San Antonio, Tex.; m. Jessett Beeson; he was a
prominent lawyer of Nacogdoches, Tex., where he resided until
his health failed, when he moved to San Antonio; no issue._ 2. Hood,
m. Delia Kay of Starville, Tex, 3. Kline Polk, m. Flossie Smithj
residence, Nacogdoches, Tex. 4. Ella May.
vii. Victoria, m. 28 Jan. 1856 William Birdwell. They lived in
Nacogdoches Co., and both died when their children were
respectively seven and three years old. The children were brought
; up by their aunt, Mrs. Nancy (Polk) Branch (31, vi). Children
"; (surname Birdwell): 1. Charles Grandison, m. Mary Gorman of
; Big Sandy, 'Tex.; both are now dead; he attended school in
• Nashville, Tenn., and on returning to Texas he and his sister
j moved to Smith Co. and lived at Winona; three children. 2. Willie
AUen, m. 1 Jan.- 1885 J. S. Kay; residence. Mission, Tex.
266 The Polks of North Carolina and Tennessee [Oct.
32. William Knox* Polk (Charles,^ Ca-pt. John* William,^ William,^
Robert^), born probably in Mecklenburg Co., N. C, died near
Holly Springs, Miss. He married Nancy Petty.
They emigrated first to Tennessee and then, in later years,
to Mississippi, where he was a cotton planter.
Children :
i. Isabella,' b. 7 Oct. 1815,- d. in 1896; m. in 1834 Dk. C. S. Bowen.
Children (surname Bowen): 1. Emily, b. in 1835; d. in 1865; m.
in 1853 Dr. S. P. Lester of Batesville, Miss.; four children. 2. Eliza,
b. 13 Sept. 1837; d. 11 Oct. 1909; m. 21 Apr. 1861 Dr. Wilbur F.
Hyer; six children., 3. David, b. in 1839; d. in 1895; m. in 1870
Emma Kay; five children. 4. Amanda, b. in 1841; m. in 1865,
as his third wife, Van H. Potts {vide infra^ 32, ii, 1 and 2); five
children. 5. William Polk, b. in 1844; m. m 1866 Alice Best; he
resides in Texas; three children. 6. Matiie, b. in 1846; m. in 1869
James S. Taylor; five children. 7. Robert, b. in 1848; unm.
8. Christopher Strong, b. in 1850; d. in 1885; m. in 1879 Georgia
Mims; three children. 9. Charles, h. in 1852; d. in 1858. 10. Alice,
b. in 1856; unm. 11. Edward Reece, b. in 1862; m. in 1891 Rose
Eddins; one child.
ii. Emelinb, b. about 1817; m. Petee B. Jones. Children (surname
Jones): 1. Laura, m. as his first wife, Van H. Potts, who m. (2)
her sister Kate Jones (vide infra), and m. (3), in 1865, their first
cousin, Amanda Bowen (32, i, 4), b. in 1841, dau. of Dr. C. S. and
I , Isabella (Polk). 2. Kate, m. as his second wife. Van H. Potts,
I whose first wife was her sister, Laura Jones {vide supra); one
I daughter. 3. Marshall Branch, m. EUen Nesbit, living as his widow
I " at Memphis, Tenn.; six children. 4. Lucius Polk, m. Virginia
I Spencer, living as his widow in the West; four children. 5. MoUie,
I d. in 1897; m. W. W. Perkins; six children. 6. Kate [sic], m.
} Marshall Bouldin; one son. 7. Lily, now deceased; m. W. D.
i Porter of Oxford, Miss.; one son. 8. Sue, unm.
I iii. Jane, b. in 1819; d. in 1865; m. Dr. R. S. Lucas. Children (surname
I Lucas): 1. Mollie J. 2. Baza, d. imm.
5 iv. Laurentine S., b. about 1821; d. unm., aged 27.
I T. Amanda, b. about 1823; d. young.
[ vi. Willl&m L, b. about 1825; m. (1) Maggie Coopwood; m. (2)
s Mattie E. Moore. Children by first wife: 1. William C.» 2. Jessie
\ Lee Forest. 3. Frank. 4. Alice L.
s 33. Judge Alfeed* Polk (Charles,^ Ca-pt. John,* William,^ William,^
I Robert^), born in Stewart Co., Tenn.,- 15 Dec. 1808, died in
I San Augustine Co., Tex., 22 Jan. 1891. He married in Tipton
\ . Co., Tenn., 27 Dec. 1831, Nancy McIvor, born in Chatham
j Co., N. C, 11 Feb. 1800.
He removed from Tipton Co., Tenn., to San Augustine Co.,
i Tex,, arriving there about 1 Feb. 1837. He was chief justice
I during the existence of the Republic of Texas, and, after
: Texas entered the Union, he remained in office for nine yeare.
After eighteen years of pubhc life he retired to his farm in
j ' San Augustine Co., and spent the rest of his days there,
i Children :
j i. Charles Isaac' (twin), merchant, farmer, and real-estate dealer, b.
! in Tipton Co., Tenn., 9 Sept. 1832; d. in Texas 22 Mar. 1889,
m. 21 Mar. 1860 Victoria Thomas, b. in San Augustine Co., Tex;.
! 30 Jan. 1841, living (1923) at Beaumont, Tex., dau. of Iredell D.
and Penelope (Edwards). He went to Texas with his parents in
1839, and grew up, lived, and died there. He served in the
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C!oiifederate Army. Children: 1. Jvdge Harry K.,^ merchant,
farmer, and real-estate dealer, b. at San Augustine, Tex., 12 Feb.
1861; d. there 16 July 1915; m. there, 27 Dec. 1887, Ella Word
Burleson, dau. of James Marcus and his second wife, Mollie
(Alexander); he was a judge at San Augustine County at the
time of his death; seven children. 2. Iredell D., b. at San Augustine,
Tex., 21 Mar. 1863; d. at Beaumont^ Tex., 30 Aug. 1913; m. at
San Augiistine, 28 Mar. 1889, Mamie Sims, dau. of T. WilUam
and Bettie C; he was a real-estate dealer and was interested
in the oil busmess; he moved to Beaumont in 1892, promoted
development projects in that city, and built the street railway
and the waterworks there; two children. 3. James V., of Beau-
mont, Tex., real-estate dealer, unm.
ii. John Kenneth (twin), farmer, b. in Tipton Co., Tenn., 9 Sept.
1832; d. in Texas 2 Oct. 1905; m. 24 Nov. 1881 Mary Thomas,
who d. in 1909, dau. of a clergyman and cousin of Victoria Thomas,
wife of his twin brother, Charles Isaac Polk {vide supra). He
served in the Confederate Army. Children: 1. Ludie Gertrude,^
b. in 1882; m. in 1905 Murray B. Thomas; one child. 2. Charles
[sic] Wesley, b. in 1886; m. (1) in 1907 Charles Francis Sossman,
. who d. 22 Feb. 1913; m. (2) W. B. Sherman; two children by first
husband and one daughter by second husband. 3. John D., h. in
1892; d. in 1901.
iii. Ann Elizabeth, b. in Tipton Co., Tenn., 24 Feb. 1834; m. at San
Augustine, Tex., 29 Apr. 1858, Benjamin E. Smith, who d. 9 Feb.
1908. She resides at Coleman, Tex. Children (surname Smith):
1. James SHas, b. 4 Feb. 1859; d. 11 Apr. 1861. 2. Alfred Polk,
b. 28 Oct. 1860; d. 31 July 1905; m. 22 Dec. 1904 Ina Barfield;
one son, who d. in infancy. 3. Eva Tyus, b. 4 Nov. 1862; d. 31 Jan.
1885; m. in Feb. 1884 B. Hardeman. 4. Benjamin E., of Coleman,
real-estate dealer, b. 28 Oct. 1865; m. 26 May 1896 Bettie Lowrie.
5. L. Holman, of Dallas, Tex., real-estate dealer, b. 18 Sept. 1867;
m. 17 Jan. 1893 Anne Swor. 6. Nannie M., b. 3 Feb. 1870.
7. Stonewall Jackson, b. 27 Feb. 1872; m. 4 Mar. 1903 Emma
Margaret Lewis. 8. Marlin Rocdius, b. 8 Mar. 1874; m. 22 Aug.
1898 Mary E. Beard. 9. Bland, b. 28 May 1877; m. 24 May 1900
Jimmie Kate Dunn.
iv. Silas Gelaspt, a soldier in the Confederate Army, b. in Tipton Co.,
Term., 18 Feb. 1835; d. s.-p. at San Augustine, Tex., in 1905; m.
Althea McKnight.
V. Drew Smith, a soldier in the Confederate" Army, b. in Tipton Co.,
Tenn., in 1836; killed in action at Thompson's Station, Tenn.;
bur. in the Polk family burjnng ground near Columbia, Tenn.
vi. Margaret Catherine, b. in San Augustine Co., Tex., 20 Dec.
1839; m. at San Augustine, Tex., in 1860, Robert William
Browning, b. at Spartanburg, S. C, d. at San Augustine in 1865.
She resides at Orange, Tex. Her husband was a planter and
slaveholder, and rendered service to the Confederate forces in
the Civil War, superintending the construction of breastworks
at Sabine Pass and furnishing supplies to the Army. His slaves
remained loyal to the family, and assisted in this work. Children
(surname Browning): 1. Annie Robert, b. at San Augustine 21
Oct. 1862; m. in San Augustine Co., 10 Oct. 1888, Joseph H.
Porcher, farmer, b. in the Beaufort District, S. C, 26 Jan. 1844;
he served in the Confederate Arm}', first in Hampton's legion,
and after the reorganization in Company B, Second South Carolina
Cavalry. 2. Katherine PriscUla, b. 25 Feb. 1865; m. at San
Augustine, 19 Dec. 1883, John Albert Slaughter, b. 2 Apr. 1861,
s. of Thaddeus (who was killed in battle in the Confederate Army,
near Yazoo City, Miss.) and Ollie (Teel) (dau. of George and
Rebecca); three children.
vii. Mary Cynthia (twin), b. in San Augiistine Co., Tex., 21 Nov.
1841; d. 8 Aug. 1918; m. in San Augustine Co., 21 June 1867,
268 The Polks of North Carolina and Tennessee [Oct.
i LtTDWELL Rector Davis, b. five miles from San Augustine, Tex.,
I on the King's Highway, 10 Aug. 1828, d. 28 Aug. 1915. He was
1 a very young child, when, on General Santa Anna's advance into
Texas, his mother and other women, with their families and
servants, retreated across the Sabine River. He went to California
in 1852 and resided at San Francisco until 1859, when he returned
to Texas. He served in the Confederate Army throughout the Civil
, War, and after the War made his home in Texas. Children (surname
Davis): 1. Drew Smith, physician, b. 4 May 1868; d. 20 Oct. 1918;
m. in Apr. 1901 EfSe May Greer; five children. 2. William Thomas,
lawyer and former district judge, b. 1 Mar. 1870; m. 1 Oct. 1892
Fanny B. Price; six children. 3. Elias Kinchdoe, b. 17 Mav 1872;
d. s.p. 21 Oct. 1914; m. 2 Mar. 1908 Anna Hill. 4. Margaret
Isabella, h. 18 Mar. 1874. 5. Anna Brovming, b. 26 Apr. 1876;
m. 23 Oct. 1912 A. W. Xicholson. 6. Mary Johnnie, b. 13 June
1878. 7. Alfred Polk, b. 1 Nov. 1880; unm. 8. Ludwell Rector,
h. 16 Dec. 1882; m. 16 Dec. 1905 Hattie Anderson. 9. Kate
Winifred, b. 5 July 1888; d. 19 Mar. 1890.
viii. William Alfred (twin), b. in San Augustine Co., Tex., 21 Nov. 1841;
d. unm. at the old homestead near San Augustine, Tex., 19 July
1922. In the Civil War he served in Whitfield's legion in the
Confederate Army, in the First Cavalry Company, commanded
by Capt. John H. Broocks (vide infra, 36, iii), then, after Captain
Broocks was promoted to a colonelcy, by his brother, Capt.
James A. Broocks, until the latter was killed at the Battle of
{ • Thompson's Station, Tenn., and after that by Capt. James
I Ingram. He was taken prisoner, but escaped, and served to the
i end of the War. After the death of his father he owned and Uved
I on the family homestead. He was an elder of McRea Church.
I 70. ix. Andrew Tyler, b. in Texas 21 Mar. 1846.
I X. Sarah Isabella, b. at San Augustine, Tex., 21 Mar. 1848; d. at
f Shelbyville, Tex., 25 July 1916; m. 7 Feb. 1867 George Malone
I Smith, merchant, brother of Benjamin E. Smith, the husband of
i her sister, Ann Elizabeth (33, iii). ChUdren (surname Smith):
I 1. Charles Polk, b. 31 Dec. 1867; m. Benigna Massey. 2. Margaret
I * Isabella, b. 30 Nov. 1869; m. John W. Porcher. 3. Janie Elizabeth,
i b. 7 June 1872; deceased. 4. George Malone, physician, b. 13 Mar.
I 1874; m. Lousetta Sharp. 5. Gussie Evaline, b. 6 May 1876;
I , • deceased. 6. Robert Benjamin, b. 5 Mar. 1878. 7. Byron John,
I b. 7 Apr. 1880. 8. Thomas Huntington, b. 17 Jan. 1882. 9. Tolbert
I Tyus, b. 28 Jan. 1885. 10. Annie May, b. 16 Dec. 1887.
; 34. Benjamin D. A.^ Polk {John,^ Capt. John,* William,^ William,^
\ Robert^), born, probably in the Greenbrier District of western
I Virginia, 1 Jan. 1790, died at San -Augustine, Tex., 2 June 1840.
i He married in Tennessee, 23 Sept. 1816, Margaret R.
j Moore, born 10 Oct. 1797, li\'ing in 1842, daughter of James
! and Katherine.
He moved from Tennessee to Texas in 1839, and settled in
San Augustine Co.
There is on file in Maury Co., Tenn., the power of attorney
of his widow, as guardian of her minor children, issued by the
Probate Court of San Augustine Co., Tex., to collect money
due her children under the will of their grandfather, John
Polk of Carter's Creek, near Columbia, Tenn. The probate
records of San Augustine County show that on 28 Sept. 1840
Henry Brooks, husband of the oldest daughter of Benjamin
D. A. Polk, was appointed administrator of the estate of his
father-in-law, and that on 10 Nov. 1842 the petition of Henry
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Brooks for the partition of the estate between himself, Mar-
garet R. Polk, the widow, and the five minor children was
granted. The minors named in the partition were. Lucius,
Frankhn, Margaret Jane, Robert Green, and Sarah R.
Children :
i. Elizabeth Ann,' b. in Maury Co., Term., 19 Oct. 1817; d. in San
Augustine Co., Tex., 14 Oct. 1844; m. in Tennessee, 25 Feb. 1836,
Henry Brooks, b. in Tennessee 27 Dec. 1810, d. on his farm, six
miles west of San Augustine, Tex., 8 Oct. 1858, s. of Joseph,
who migrated to Texas in very early days. He A. (2) 28 Aug.
1845 Mary Jane Ellison; and m. (3) 3 Jan. 1856 Nancy Hollis.
Children (surname Brooks): 1. Joseph, b. 6 Dec. 1836; m. in 1865
Eliza Randal. 2. Sidney, b. 30 Oct. 1838. 3. Sarah Viola, b.
10 Apr. 1840; m. in San Augustine Co., Tex., 18 Apr. I860, John
Burleson, who d. 10 Mar. 1885, s. of Joseph; two children.
4. WiUiam, h. 1 Nov. 1842.
ii. Jaiies Moore, b. 19 Mar. 1820; d. unm. 24 Mar. 1840.
iii. John, b. 12 May 1822; d. 1 June 1822.
iv. Lucius B., b. 2 Jime 1823; d. in Feb. 1910; m. Maggie Miller.
Children: 1. Benjamin F.,^ h. in San Augustine Co. 3 Mar. 1862;
d. in San Augustine Co. 9 Nov. 1904; m. in San Augustine Co.,
! 11 Dec. 1900, Mary Runnels, dau. of Jason W. and Mary Elizabeth
I (Heusherling), who m. (2) J. W. Bryan; he was a stockman, owning
I and operating several farms; two children. 2. Matthew, m. Mary
{ Border. 3. MoUie, m. B. F. Sharp, s. of Dr. James. 4. Jane
t " . Margaret, b. 4 Aug. 1874; m. 12 Oct. 1893 William W. Johnson,
I b. at Decatur, Miss., 18 Nov. 1862. 5. Kate, m. Brune Wall.
\ 6. Edna, m. Randolph Nobles.
I V. Viola Catherine, b. 4 Sept. 1825; d. unm. 7 July 1840.
i vi. Franklin Armstead, b. 1 Dec. 1827; d. unm. 24 June 1843.
I vii. Mary Ophelia, b. 13 Oct. 1829; d. 28 July 1836.
I viii. John Thaddeus, b. 17 Mar. 1832; d. 16 Oct. 1832.
■j ix. Margaret Jane, b. 1 Nov. 1833; m. Wyatt F. Teel, one of Austin's
■ Texas colonists. They lived in Tenaha, Tex., and had issue,
i X. Robert Green, b. 13 Apr. 1836; d. 5 Aug. 1852.
f xi. Sarah Robina, b. 19 Apr. 1838; m. (1) Joseph Burleson; m.
(2) John C. Prttchett.
] 35. Evan Shelby^ Polk (John,^ Capt. John,* William,^ William,'^
] Robert^), born, probably in the Greenbrier District of western
.; Virginia, 16 Dec. 1791, died at Huntsville, Ark., 23 Oct. 1878.
He married, 18 July 1818, Jane Miller of Carter's Creek,
Maury Co., Tenn., born 17 Apr. 1804, died 29 Mar. 1872.
Both are buried at Huntsville.
He migrated to Tennessee with his father's family, and
moved thence to Arkansas' in 1836. He served in the War of
1812 as corporal in the Tennessee Mihtia, from 10 Dec. 1812
to 30 Apr. 1813 in Capt. Henry Newland's company and from
18 Dec. 1813 to 15 Feb. 1814 in Capt. James McMahon's
company.
Children :
i i. Thomas Calvin,' b. 27 Apr. 1820; d. in infancy.
i 71. ii. William Vincent, b. 9 Mar. 1822.
iii. Mary Elizabeth, b. 5 Nov. 1824; d. 22 Nov. 1867; bur. at
Huntsville, Ark.; m. (1) Sanders; m. (2) Dr. Isaac B.
McReynolds. Child by first husband (surname Sanders):
1. Drusilla, d. in childhood. Child by second husband (surname
• McReynolds): 2. Evan Shelby Polk, b. 31 Mar. 1855; living near
( Hollister, Okla.; m. (1) 25 July 1877 Laura S. Vandersickle, who
270 The New England CooUdges [Oct.
d. 5 Apr. 1893; m. (2) 3 Sept. 1894 Mary Elizabeth Coffee; four
children by first wife and two daughters by second wife.
72. iv. John Shelby, b. 9 Nov. 1827.
V. LoNZY Frances, b. 14 Sept. 1830; d. in childhood.
73. vi. Benjamin Rufus, b. in Maury Co., Tenn., 3 June 1833.
vii. Robert Bruce, b. 23 Feb. 1836; d. umn. 12 May 1876.
viii. Viola Tranquilla, b. at Huntsville, Ark., 22 June 1838; d. at
Fayetteville, Ark., 1 Oct. 1911; m. 11 Mar. 1853 Charles Bxieton
Sanders, b. at Huntsville 14 Feb. 1836, d. there 18 Sept. 1898.
Children (surname Sanders): 1. Isdbd Malvin, b. at Huntsville
15 Nov. 1855; d. at Portales, N. Mex., 7 Mar. 1909; m. 6 Mar.
1872 Albert A. Brodie, b. in 1848, d. in Aug. 1911; four children.
2. Bruce, h. 18 Oct. 1857; d. in 1859. 3. Cener Boon, b. 21 Feb.
1859; m. 23 Feb. 1902 Judge Jefferson Taylor Hight, b. at Rover,
Ark., 25 Aug. 1848, d. at Riverside, Calif., 24 Apr. 1917; no issue.
4. Mediline, h. in 1861; d. in 1866. 5. Collister, b. in 1863; d. in
1866. 6. Nathaniel Lee, h. 16 Mar. 1865; m. at Huntsville, Ark.,
25 Dec. 1884, Lutie Berry; five children. 7. Albert Bruce, b. 9 Aug.
1867; m. 25 Nov. 1886 Mary Skaggs; five children.
ix. Martha Jane, b. in 1840; d. in 1859; m. Young Beard. One child,
who d. in infancy.
X. Charles King, b. in 1843; d. in 1917; m. Drusilla Wiluams.
Child: 1. Elmer E.,' h. in 1875; m. Ollie Massie; one son, who d.
in infancy.
X. James Knox, b. in 1849; d. in infancy.
(To be continued]
THE EARLY NEW ENGLAND COOLIDGES
AND
' SOME OF THEIR DESCENDANTS
By Gbobgb Walter Chamberlain, MS., of Maiden, Mass.
With the succession of Vice President Calvin Coolidge to the Presi-
dency of the United States, on the death of President Harding, that
high office devolved for the fifth time upon a native of New England,
for the second time upon a native of Vermont, and for the third
time upon a citizen of Massachusetts. Of the five Presidents who
were born in New England, John Adams (1797-1801) and his son,
John Quincy Adams (1825-1829), were natives and citizens of Massa-
chusetts, Franklin Pierce (1853-1857) was a native and a citizen of
New Hampshire, Chester Alan Arthur (1881-1885) was a native of
Vermont and a citizen of New York, and Calvin Coolidge is a native
of Vermont and a citizen of Massachusetts. The two men of Vermont
birth who have been elevated to the Presidency were elected to the
Vice Presidency and succeeded to the presidential office in conse-
quence of the death in office of the President.
President Coolidge was born at Pl5Tnouth, Vt., the home of four
generations of his Coolidge ancestors; but the founder of the family
in New JEngland settled at Watertown, Mass., and many of his
descendants have continued to live in this Commonwealth, where
members of various branches of the family have been eminent in
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their several vocations and have rendered notable service in their
respective communities. President Coolidge, therefore, in establish-
ing his residence in Massachusetts, began his career in the State in
which five generations of his pre-Revolutionary forbears had lived
and died.
Although a considerable amount of genealogical information about
the Coolidges of Massachusetts has been printed, especially in Bond's
" Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers
of Watertown," a second edition of which was published by the New
England Historic Genealogical Society in Boston in 1860, yet it is
difficult to find in print the descent of the Plymouth (Vt.) branch
of the family from its Massachusetts progenitors, and Uttle has
been printed about some of the Massachusetts branches now repre-
sented by men of conspicuous merit, with the exception* of the well-
known Boston family which through the marriage of Joseph' Coolidge
of Boston with Eleonora Wayles Randolph of Virginia is enabled to
include President Thomas Jefferson among its ancestors. In this
article, therefore, the first four generations of the New England
family foimded by John^ Coohdge of Watertown are given in genea-
logical form, many incomplete or incorrect dates in Bond's work being
completed or corrected and additional information drawn from
probate records being supplied; and then from this Colonial back-
ground the fine of descent is continued through five more generations
i to Hon. Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States. A few
I other lines, also, are given, which show the descent of some of the
I present-day Coolidges of Boston and neighboring towns from their
I Colonial ancestors of the Coolidge name. In a future number of
i the Register records wiU be printed relating to the English family
I to which it is generally supposed that John^ Coolidge of Watertown
I belonged.
I The names of male ancestors of President Coolidge and the Presi-
] dent's own name, when they occur as heads of families or in the
f lists of children, are printed in bold-faced type.
I 1. John^ Coolidge, one of the proprietors and early settlers of
I Watertown in the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay,* died at Water-
i town 7 May 1691, aged 88. He married, probably in England,
about 1628, Mary , who was bom about 1603 and died at
Watertown 22 Aug. 1691, aged 88.
The earliest known record in New England of John Coolidge of
Watertown is found in the "Records of the Governor and Company
of the Massachusetts Bay," vol. 1, page 372, under date of 25 May
1636, when he was made a freeman of the Colony. He was one of
eleven men chosen, 10 Dec. 1638, "to order the Civill affaires of ye
Towne" of Watertown, a board later known as the selectmen. He
served in this capacity in 1638-1642, 1664-1669, 1677, 1680, and
1682. He was deputy from Watertown to the Great and General
Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1658.
*A11 places mentioned in this article are situated within the present limits of the Commonwealth
of Massachusetts, unless another State or region is indicated in the text or may be easily inferred
from the context.
272 The New England Coolidges [Oct.
His homestall of twelve acres was bounded by the Cambridge line
on the north, by David Fiske's homestall on the east, by the Pond
road on the south, and by William Paine's homestall on the west.
In his will, dated 19 Nov. 1681 and proved 16 June 1691, he
mentioned his wife, Mary Coolidge, his five surviving sons, John,
Simon, Stephen, Nathaniel, and Jonathan Coolidge, and his grand-
daughters Sarah and Mary Mixer. His son Stephen Coolidge was
to have "my house and lott I now live in," and he called Capt.
John Sherman of Watertown his "cousin."* The witnesses were
John Sherman and Martha Sherman, who made her mark. The
inventory showed property appraised at £237. 7s. (Middlesex
Probata Files, 5094.)
Children :
2. i. JoHN,^ b., probably in England, about 1630. Ancestor of the
Sherborn-Natick branch of the Coolidge family.
ii Elizabeth (perhaps dau. of John* Coohdge of Watertown), m. (1)
at Cambridge, 17 June 1656, as his second wife, Gilbert Crack-
bone of Cambridge, who was admitted freeman in Dec. 1636; m.
(2) at Cambridge, 26 Mar. 1673, Richard Robbins. If she was
a daughter of John Coohdge, she probably d. s.p. before her father
made his will. Positive proof that she was a daughter of John
y Coolidge is lacking.
^ 3. iii. Simon, b., probably in England, about 1632, since he deposed in
1659, aged about 27, and again on 11 June 1662, aged 30. Ances-
tor of the Coohdges of Plymouth, Vt.
iv. Mary, b. at Watertown 14 Oct. 1637; d. there 2 Mar. 1659/60; m.
there, 19 Sept. 1655, Isaac Mixer, s. of Isaac and Sarah of Water-
town. Children (surname Mirer): 1. Mary, b. at Watertown
18 May 1656. 2. Sarah, b. at Watertown 29 Nov. 1657.t
V. Stephen, b. at Watertown 28 Oct. 1639; d. there s.p. 20 Feb. 1710/11;
m. Rebecca , who d. at Watertown 15 Apr. 1702. He was
a soldier in King PhUip's War, and was stationed at the garrison
at BiUerica, 25 Jan. 1675/76. He served under Lieut. Edward
Oakes, and was credited with 19s. 8d. on 24 Apr. 1676. He also
served in Capt. John Cutler's company, for which he was credited
with 2s. 6d. on 24 July 1676. He was credited with £1. 20s. 2d.
to Watertown, 24 Aug. 1676. (Bodge's Soldiers in King Philip's
War, pp. 85, 286, 356, 376.) In accordance with the wiU of his
father he received the original Coohdge homestead in Watertown,
and was cared for in his old age by his nieces Mary and Martha
Coolidge, daughters of his brother Jonathan Coohdge, who was
appointed administrator of his estate 5 Mar. 1710/11, with Mun-
ning Sawin and W iUiam Shattuck as sureties. In the settlement
of'the estate Mr. Bright, Richard Coolidge, Nathaniel Coolidge,
Daniel Livermore, Mrs. Hagar, Elizabeth Poulter, Nathan Fiske,
Daniel Smith, Sarah Hastings, 'John Coohdge, and Joseph Cool-
idge were cited to appear at the Probate Court at Cambridge,
18 June 1711. The petition of the heirs, dated 21 Jan. 1711/12,
calls Stephen Coohdge "our Uncle," and is signed by Nathaniel
Bright, Richard Coohdge, Joseph Coolidge, Thomas Coohdge,
Nathan Fiske, Samuel Hastings, Daniel Smith, John Coohdge,
Jonathan Coohdge, Joseph Coohdge, and Daniel Livermore.
"Martha Coolidge of fuU age testifieth that she hved with her
Uncle Stephen Coohdge from the time his wife died which was
about eight or nine years and that he promised to pay her wages
and that she continued with him except about ten or eleven
*Grace ( ) (Sherman) (Rogers) Porter, mother of Capt. John Sherman of Watertown,
in her will made at Watertown in 1662, called John Coolidge her brother.
t After the death of his first wife, Mary (Coolidge), Isaac Mi^er married twice, and by his second
wife he had many children.
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weeks when she got her sister Mary to be with him. " She received
£41. 7s. for eight and one-half years' service. In the distribution,
made 26 May 1712, Jonathan Coolidge, surviving brother, the
children of John Coolidge, a deceased brother, the children of
Simon Coolidge, a deceased brother, the children of Nathaniel
CooUdge, a deceased brother, and Sarah Hagar, daughter of Mary
Mixer, sister of the deceased, were mentioned. (Middlesex Probate
Files, 5148.)
vi. Obadiah, b. at Watertown 15 Apr. 1642; d. there unm. 11 July 1663.
4. vii. Nathaniel, b., undoubtedly at Watertown, about, 1644. Ancestor
■ of the late Henry Dingley Coolidge, clerk of the Massachusetts
Senate, and of the David Hill Coohdge family of Boston.
|. 5. viii. Jonathan, b, at Watertown 10 Mar. 1646/7. Ancestor of the Joseph
I Coolidge family of Boston.
I 2. Ensign John^ Coolidge (John^), of Watertown, carpenter, born,
j probably in England, about 1630, died at Watertown 8 Feb.
1690/1. He married first, at Watertown, 14 Nov. 1655,
Hannah Livermore, born in England in 1633, died at Water-
town 23 Dec. 1678, aged 45, daugh'ter of John and Grace
' (Sherman); and secondly, at Watertown, 16 Sept. 1679, Mary
! (Wellington) Maddock, born at Watertown 10 Feb. 1640/1,
I . died there 21 Jan. 1690/1, only daughter of Roger and Mary
i (Palgrave) Wellington and widow of Henry Maddock, all of
I Watertown.
I He was chosen sergeant in June 1666, and was sent to
I Brookfield in King Phihp's War to buUd lodgings for the'
? soldiers, 25 Oct. 1675. He was credited with £2. 10s. to
? Watertown, 24 Aug. 1676, and was called sergeant in the
I military records, 23 Dec. 1678 and 16 Sept. 1679" (Bodge's
\ Soldiers in King Philip'sWar, pages 116, 376).
• He was selectman in 1684 and in 1686-1690.
i In his will, dated at Watertown 7 Feb. 1690 [1690/1] and
I proved 7 Apr. 1691, he described himseK as "aged sixty yers
\ or there about . . . being under the aflicting hand of god
1 sick and weak," and he directed that £10 be set aside to bring
I up his daughter Mary and that then his estate be divided into
] seven equal shares, of which his son John, living in Sherborn,
: was to have two shares, his son Richard two shares, and his
daughters Elisabeth Coolidge, S^rah Coolidge, and Mary
Coolidge (imder sixteen years of age), each one share. He
named his sons John and Richard as executors; and the will
was witnessed by William Shattuck and Simon Coolidge.
(Middlesex Probate Files, 5095.)
Children by first wife, born at Watertown:
i. Hai«^ah,3 b. 29 Jan. 1656/7; d. in 1698; m. 6 Aug. 1679 John Bond,
b. 2 Dec. 1652, d. 1 Mar. 1690/1, s. of William and Sarah (Biscoe)
of Watertown. Seven children.
ii. Mary (twin), b. 12 [sic] Sept. 1659; d. 24 Sept. 1659.
iii. Sahah (twin), b. 15 [sic] Sept. 1659; d. 14 Feb. 1659/60.
■; iv. John (twin), b. 22 Sept. 1660; d. 10 Dec. 1660.
' v. Jonathan (twin), b. 22 Sept. 1660; d. 18 Nov. 1660.
i 6. vi. John, b. 19 Feb. 1661/2.
:■ vii. Grace, b. 25 Feb. 1663/4; d. at Watertown 11 Apr. 1699, aged 35;
! m. 29 Jan. 1688/9 Col. Jonas Bo^^), b. 13 July 1664, d. 21 Apr.
274 The New England Coolidges [Oct.
I 1727, s. of William and Sarah (Biscoe) of Watertown. Four
* children.
I 7. viii. Richard, b. 13 Apr. 1666.
ix. Abigail, b. 3 Feb. 1668/9.
X. EuzABETH, b. 26 May 1671; d. young,
xi. Elizabeth, b. 1 Nov. 1673.
xii. Daniel, b. 24 Apr. 1676; d. 24 Sept. 1684.
xiii. Sabah, d. 27 Nov. 1723; m. 14 Oct. 1696 Dea. Nathan Fiske of
Watertown, b. 3 Jan. 1672/3, d. 26 Jan. 1741/2, s. of Lieut.
Nathan and Elizabeth. He m. (2) 22 May 1729 Hannah (Coolidge)
Smith (3, iv), q. v., first cousin of his first wife. Eight children.
Child by second wife, bom at Watertown:
xiv. Mart, b. 27 June 1680; d. 10 Dec. 1702; m. 28 May 1697 Daniel
LivERMORE of Watertown^ b. 3 Feb. 1674/5, d. 16 Nov. 1720,
s. of Samuel and Anna (Bridge). Three children.
*^ 3. Simon* Coolidge (John^), bom, probably in England, about
1632, since he deposed in 1659, aged about 27, and again on 11
June 1662, aged 30, died at Watertown 27 Dec. 1693. He
married first, at Watertown, 17 Nov. 1658, Hannah Barkon,
who died at Watertown 14 July 1680, aged 45, daughter of
EUis and Grace of Watertown; and secondly, at Watertown,
19 Jan. 1681/2, Priscilla Rogers, who died at Watertown
9 June 1717, in her 70th year, daughter of John and Priscilla
(Dawes) of Watertown and BUlerica.
Administration on the estate of Simon Coolidge, late of
Watertown, deceased, was granted 15 Jan. 1693/4 to Joseph
Coolidge and Nathaniel Bright, WiUiam Shattuck and John
I Warren being sureties. The estate was appraised 29 Jan.
I -1693/4 by Simon Stone, John Stratton, Sr., and Nathan Fiske,
I the inventory amounting to £66. 12s. 3d. On 11 Oct. 1694
I Priscilla CooUdge, the relict, Obadiah, Joseph and Stephen
I ' Coolidge, Nathaniel Bright, Daniel Smith, and Sarah CooUdge
i agreed that their brother Obadiah CooHdge should have the
I housing and lands and that Priscilla should have the west end
? of the dwelling, "so long as she doth remaine our said father's
I widdow." (Middlesex Probate Files, 5145.)
'. Administration on the estate of PrisciUa Coolidge, late of
I Watertown, deceased, was granted 2 July 1717 to Nathaniel
I Rogers, who on 29 July 1717 paid to the heirs, Daniel Rogers,
Samuel Rogers, William Peirce, John Rogers, and Nathan
Shedd, to each £7. (76., 5135.)
Children by first wife, bom at Watertown :
i. Mary,' b. 11 Dec. 1660; d. at Watertown 1 Dec. 1717; m. 21 July
1681 Nathaniel Bright of Watertown. Nine children.
' 8. ii. Obadiah, b. 20 July 1663.
* 9. iii. Joseph, b. 31 May 1686.
iv. Hannah, b. 2 Dec. 1671; d. 4 Oct. 1750; m. (1) at Watertown, 8 Nov.
1693, Daniel Smith, who d. about 1718; m. (2) 22 May 1729,
as his second wife, Dea. Nathan Fiske of Watertown, widower
of her first cousin, Sarah (Coolidge) Fiske (2, xiii), q.v. Her will,
dated 12 Sept. and proved 22 Oct. 1750, mentions three children
of her brother Joseph, children of her brother Obadiah, deceased,
children of her cousin [i.e., nephew] Obadiah Coolidge, deceased,
children of her kinsman Joshua Grant, children of her eldest sister
Mary, and children of her sister Sarah.
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V. Stephen, b. 1 June 1674; d., probably at Cambridge, in 1704; sup-
posed to be the Stephen Coolidge who m. at Cambridge, 30 Apr.
1702, Sahah Parker, b. 1 May 1683, dau. of Capt. Josiah and
Elizabeth (Saxton) of Groton, Wobum, and Cambridge. Sarah
(Parker) Coolidge m. (2) at Cambridge, 8 Aug. 1706. Nicholas
Fessenden, Jr., A.B. (Harvard, 1701), A.M. (ib., 1704), a noted
schoolmaster of Cambridge for eighteen years, who d. in 1719.
Stephen Coolidge, late of Watertown, now of Charlestown, made
choice of his brother Joseph Coolidge of Cambridge, tailor, to be
his guardian, 17 Sept. 1694 (Middlesex Probate Records, vol. 8,
p. 494). The wife of Stephen Coohdge owned the church covenant
of Cambridge, 23 Apr. 1704, "before she was brought to bed."
Child: 1. Sarah,* bapt. at Cambridge 14 May 1704; d. 3 Feb.
1704/5.
vi. Ltdia, b. 3 Feb. 1676/7: d. 24 Apr. 1677.
vii. Sarah, b. about 1679; d. at Watertown 25 Jan. 1723/4; m. 10 July
1701, as his third wife, Samtjel Hastings of Watertown, b. Ti2
Mar. 1665/6, d. between 11 Apr. 1722 and 19 Aug. 1723, s. of
Thomas and Margaret (Cheney). Three children.
4. Nathaniel^ Coolidge (John^), born, undoubtedly at Watertown,
about 1644, died there 3 Nov. 1711. He married at Water-
town, 15 Oct. 1657, Mary Bright, born at Watertown 23 Apr.
1639, died after 17 June 1712, daughter of Dea. Henry and
Anne (Goldstone) of Watertown.
He was admitted a freeman 29 Apr. 1668, was a husbandman
and a miller, and owned fishing weirs in the Charles River.
He was a selectman of Watertown in 1677.
I Administration on his estate was granted 11 Nov. 1711 to
I his sons Nathaniel and John Coolidge, in the presence of
I Thomas Coolidge and Jonathan Coolidge; and an agreement
I was made 17 June 1712 by Mrs. Mary Coolidge, "our hon-
J ored mother," and Nathaniel Coolidge, eldest son, Thomas
I Coolidge, John Coolidge, Jonathan Coolidge, Joseph Coolidge^
I Anna Adams, and Hephzibah Coolidge. (Middlesex Probate
I Files, 5130.)
■; Children, born at Watertown:
\ i. Abigail,' b. 21 Sept. 1658; d. 5 Jan. 1658/9.
I 10. ii, Nathaniel, b. 9 May 1660.
iii. Samuel, b. 14 Feb. 1661/2; probably d. young, as he is not mentioned
in the agreement about his father's estate, 17 June 1712.
iv. Henry, b. 16 May 1664; d. 6 Aug. 1665.
V. Mary, b. 16 June 1666.
vi. Elizabeth, b. 21 Mar. 1666/7; d. 30 July 1669.
11. vii. John, b. about 1668.
12. viii. Thomas, b. 24 Apr. 1670.
ix. Anna, b. about 1671; d. 28 Dec. 1718, aged 47; m. (1) Nathaniel
Adams of Charlestown, blacksmith, who d. 11 July 1710; m (2)
18 Nov. 1716, as his third wife, Benjamin Lawrence of CharleS^
town. Her will, dated 18 Dec. 1718 and proved 23 Jan. 1718/19,
mentions her only child, Anna Adams, her husband, Benjamin
Lawrence, sister Hepzibah Coolidge, brother Joseph and his dau.
Susanna, and brothers Nathaniel, John, Thomas, and Jonatlmn.
Inventory, dated 6 Jan. 1718/19, £185. 5s. Two daughters by
first husband.
13. X. Jonathan, b. about 1672.
xi. Hephzibah, b. 27 Feb. 1680/1; d. 25 Mar. 1763; m. 15 Nov. 1720,
i as his third wife, Jonathan Stone of Watertown, b. 26 Dec.
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276 The New England Coolidges [Oct.
1677, d. 7 Jan. 1754, s. of Simon and Mary (Whipple) of Water-
town. Three children.
14. xii. Joseph, b. about 1684.
5. Jonathan^ Coolidge (John^), born at Watertown 10 Mar. 1646/7,
died there in Feb. or Mar. 1723/4. He married at Watertown,
3 Dec. 1679, Martha Rice, born at Sudbury or Watertown
14 Jan. 1661/2, died at Watertown 10 Dec. 1695, daughter of
Joseph and Mercy (King) of Sudbury.
In his will, dated 12 Feb. 1723/4 and proved 16 Mar. 1723/4,
he bequeathed to his son Jonathan, his daughter Martha
Coolidge, his son John, and his grandchild Martha Spooner.
His son Jonathan and his daughter Martha were named as
executors, and the will was witnessed by Henry Godding and
Joseph Mason. On 10 Mar. 1731 [1731/2] Martha Coohdge
appears as the surviving executor, and on 27 Mar. 1732 she
rendered her account, John Coolidge, the widow of Jonathan
Coolidge, and the guardians of Jonathan Coohdge's children
being present in the Probate Court. Her account mentions
John Coolidge, Joseph Coolidge, Nathaniel Coolidge, Thomas
Coolidge, and Lieut. Richard Coolidge. (Middlesex Probate
Files, 5104.)
Children, born at Watertown:
i. Martha,' b. 6 June 1683; d. unm. about 1753. In her wiU, dated
22 May 1751, she mentioned Kezia Wood, dau. of her brother
Jonathan, deceased, the children of her brother John, viz., John,
Benjamin, Joseph, Hannah Burt, Martha Pool, Sarah Coohdge,
Mary Coolidge, and Lydia Coolidge, the children of her adopted
daughter, Martha Godding, viz., WiUiam Godding, Jr., Spencer
Godding, Martha Godding, and Jonathan Coolidge Godding, and
her beloved kinsman, William Godding. OUver Livermore and
Samuel Coolidge were named in the will as executors. (Middlesex
Probate Files, 5124.)
ii. Rebecca, b. 20 Apr. 1685; probably d. before 12 Feb. 1723/4; m.
Peter Spooner. Child (surname Spooner): 1. Martha, h. 6 Mar.
1715/15; adopted by her aunt, Martha Coolidge (5, i); d. 1 July
1749; m. William Godding, b. 24 Apr. 1703, s. of Henry and Maiy
(Pease), who m. (2) Mary Steams, widow; eight children.
iii. Mart, b. 16 Apr. 1687.
15. iv. Jonathan, b. 19 Jan. 1688/9.
16. v. John, b. 4 Feb. 1690/1.
vi. Joseph, b. about 1693 and bapt. 13 Nov. 1698; d., probably unm., in
1724. He was a soldier in the expedition to Canada. His estate
was administered 13 Aug. 1724.
vii. Josiah, b. 11 Aug. 1695; d. 22 Apr. 1699.
6. John* Coolidge (Ensign John,^ John^), carpenter, born at
Watertown 19 Feb. 1661/2, died at Sherborn 18 Jan. 1713/14,
aged 51 years, 11 months (gravestone), and was buried at
Sherborn Centre. He married, about 1683, Mary , who
died at Sherborn 13 Sept. 1724, aged 62 years, 9 months.
He was a soldier in King Philip's War, and removed from
Watertown to Sherborn before 1681, settling in the northern
part of the town. In 1855 Daniel Coohdge resided on his
homestead farm there. He was town clerk for five years and
a selectman of Sherborn for ten years.
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In his will, dated 19 Dec. 1713, when he was "veiy ill and
weak in body," and proved 9 Feb. 1713/14, he mentioned his
wife Mary, his four sons, Isaac, James, Peter, and Amos, and
his three daughters, Hannah, Sarah and Mary. The witnesses
were Benoni Larned, Jr., Moses Morse, and William Rider, Jr.
(Middlesex Probate Files, 5096.)
Mary Coolidge, widow of John of Sherborn, in her will dated
4 Sept. 1724 and proved 12 Oct. following, mentioned her
daughters Hannah, Sarah, and Mary, her son James, and her
four sons. The witnesses were James Whitney, Jonathan
Holbrook, and William Rider. (76., 5125.)
i Children, born at Sherborn:
1 17. i. Isaac,* b. 21 Apr. 1685.
ii. Daniel, b. 6 Jan. 1686/7; d. at Sherborn 20 May 1707.
iii. John, b. 31 Aug. 1689; d. at Sherborn 23 Jan. 1711/12.
iv. Hannah, b. 8 Jan. 1692; m. at Sherborn, 2 June 1726, Db. Jonathan
Fairbanks.
V. Sahah, b. 13 Oct. 1694; m. at Sherborn, 3 Feb. 1719/20, Nathanibi.
i Morse of Medfield.
i 18. vi. James, b. 17 Oct. 1696. ■
I vii, Mary, b. 13 May 1701; m. at Sherborn, 13 July 1727, Jonathan
1 Russell.
I 19. viii. Peter, b. 17 Feb. 1702/3.
I ix. Aiios, b. 16 May 1705; d. at Sherborn 27 Sept. 1783;* m. (1) at
f Sherborn, 25 Dec. 1728, Mart Lealand, b. at Sherborn 13 Sept.
I 1708, d. there 4 May 1767, dau. of Ensign Henry and Mary(Morse);
I m. (2) at Sudbury, 25 Feb. 1768, Zeruiah Brown of Sudbury,
t probably dau. of — Adams and widow of Samuel Brown of
? Sudbury. From 1767 to 1783 Amos Coolidge was called captain.
? Child by first wife, born at Sherborn: 1. Sarah,^ b. and d. 29 Nov.
i 1741.
\ 7. Lieut. Richard^ Coolidge (Ensign John,^ John^), born at
I Watertown 13 Apr. 1666, died there 23 or 25 Oct. 1732, in his
t 67th j'-ear. He married first, at Watertown, 21 June 1693,
; the bride's father, a magistrate, officiating, Mary Bond, who
; died at Watertown 21 May 1700, aged 31 years, daughter of
• William and Sarah (Biscoe) of Watertown; and secondly,
about 1701, Susanna , who died at Watertown 20 Oct.
; 1736, aged 67.
He was a selectman of Watertown in 1711, 1715, 1718-1720,
1722-1724, and 1726-1728, and a representative in the Great
and General Court in 1722.
Agreement as to the settlement of his estate was made
22 Mar. 1733/4 between Susanna, late wife of Lieut. Richard
Coolidge, late of Watertown, gentleman, deceased, and John
Coolidge, husbandman, Nathaniel Coolidge, housewright,
Samuel Coolidge, gentleman, Jonas Coolidge, housewright,
Thaddeus Coolidge, husbandman, and Elizabeth Coolidge,
spinster, all of Watertown, Richard Coolidge of Newton,
cordwainer, and John Reed of Medford, cooper. A memor-
; andum enclosed with the probate papers states that John,
\ Richard, Nathaniel, Samuel, Jonas, Thaddeus, Mary, and
( *Abner Morse, in his history of Sherborn families, p. 63, gives 27 Sept. 1782 as the date of Capt,
; Amos Coolidge's death.
I 278 The Nm England CooUdges [Oct.
I Elizabeth are children of Lieut. Richard Coolidge. (Middlesex
I Probate Files, 5136.)
f Children by first wife, born at Watertown:
I i. William,* b. 11 Mar. 1694/5; d. 8 Apr. 1695.
I 20. ii. John, b. 22 Oct. 1697 and bapt. 14 Nov. 1697.
j 21. iii. Richard, bapt. at Watertown 30 Apr. 1699.
I Children by second wife, born at Watertown:
I 22. iv. Nathaotel, b. 8 Mar. 1702/3 [sic].
I V. Samuel, A.B. (Harvard, 1724), A.M. (*., 1727), b. 16 Aug. 1703 [sic];
> d. unm. in Jan. 1767; bur. 13 Jan. 1767. He was schoolmaster at
; Watertown, 1725 and 1751, librarian of Harvard College, 1734-5,
i and for some time a chaplain on Castle Island in Boston Harbor.
I (Cf. Bond's Genealogies of the Families of Watertown, second
! edition, p. 168.)
23. vi. Jonas,* b. 28 Oct. 1704.
vii. Daniel, b. 9 Dec. 1707; d. 4 Mar. 1707/8.
viii. Thaddeus, b. 8 Aug. 1709; d. at Watertown 3 Aug. 1744.
ix. Mart, b. 6 Oct. 1710.
X. Elizabeth, b. 20 July 1712.
<j 8. Obadiah^ Coolidge {Simon,^ John^), bom at Watertown 20 July
j 1663, died there 16 May 1706. He married at Sudbury, 28
i Feb. 1686/7, Elizabeih Rouse of Hartford, Conn., who mar-
I ried secondly, at Watertown, 16 Feb. 1714/15, John Cunning-
1 ham of Watertown and died before 6 Nov. 1732.
I He resided in Sudbury a few years, but about 1694 retiUTied
i to Watertown, where he owned the church covenant 28 Aug.
i 1698.
i In his will, dated 18 Feb, 1705/6, when he was "weeke and
i sick of body," and proved 19 June 1706, he named his wife
i Elizabeth and mentioned his children without naming them.
I The witnesses were Nathaniel Bright, Nathaniel CooHdge,
f and Munings Sawin, and the inventory was taken 14 June
I 1706. (Middlesex Probate Files, 5134.)
I Children, the births of the last seven (except Mary) recorded
; V at Watertown:
i. Obadiah,* b. at Sudbury 28 Jan. 1687/8; d. young.
ii. Elizabeth, m. at Watertown, 6 Dec. 1711, John Sawin, b. 13 Aug.
1689, s. of Miuming and Sarah (Stone). Eight children.
' * iii. Joseph, b. about 1692; d. at Watertown 15 Aug. 1721.
iv. Hannah, d. about 1728; m. 29 Apr. 1714 her second cousin, Daniel
Bond of Watertown, b. 21 June 1690, s. of John and Hannah
(CooUdge) (2, i). Six children.
24. V. Obadiah, b. 27 .4ug. 1695.
vi. Sarah, b. 8 Apr. 1696; m. 4 June 1730 Samuel Furbush of
Westborough.
vii. Abigail, b. 17 Aug. 1698 and bapt. 28 Aug. 1698; m. (1) about 1721,
as his second wife, Joshua Grant of Watertown, b. 13 Dec. 1694,
d. 9 July 1731, s. of Joseph and Mary (Grafton); m. (2) 10 Jan.
1734/5 Joseph Crackbone. Five children by first husband and
two daughters by second husband.
i viii. Ltdia, b. 5 Feb. and bapt. 11 Feb. 1699/1700; d. before 1730.
[ ix. Mart, m. at Watertown, 20 Sept. 1733, John Reed of Medford.
* 25. X. Simon, b. 12 June 1704.
xi. Stephen, b. 2 Nov. 1705; d. young.
j *Savage, in his Genealogical Dictionary of New England, incorrectly calls him John.
!
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" 9. Dea. Joseph' Coolidge {Simon,^ John^), tailor, born at Water-
town 31 May 1666, died at Cambridge 17 Dec. 1737, in his
72d year. He married, about 1695, Rebecca Frost, born
3 Dec. 1669, died at Cambridge 1 July 1750, in her 82d [sic]
year, daughter of John and Rebecca (Andrews) of Watertown.
Both are buried in the old burying ground near Harvard
Square, Cambridge.
He removed to Cambridge as early as 1694, and was deacon
of the First Church there from 22 Jan. 1718 until his death.
He was a selectman in 1713, 1714, and 1730.
An agreement about his estate was made 13 Oct. 1747
between Rebecca Coohdge, widow, Stephen CooUdge, gentle-
man, Edward Wigglesworth, professor of divinity, Rebecca
Wigglesworth, his wife, and Samuel Porter of Sherborn, clerk,
and Mary his wife. Petition for the settlement of the estate
was made 13 Aug. 1754 by Stephen Coolidge of Cambridge,
physician, Edward Wigglesworth of Boston, merchant, Rebecca
Wigglesworth and Mary Wigglesworth, both of Cambridge,
spinsters, and Samuel Porter of Sherborn, clerk, father and
guardian of Samuel Porter and Mary Porter, minors, con-
cerning the estate which belonged to Joseph Coolidge, late
of Cambridge, deceased. Final settlement was made 15 Jan.
1759. (Middlesex Probate Files, 5109.)
Children, born at Cambridge:
i. Rebecca,* bapt. 8 Dec. 1697; d. young.
ii. Rebecca, bapt. 4 June 1699; d. 5 June 1754; m. at Cambridge,
10 Sept. 1729J as his second wife, Rev. Edward Wigglesworth,
A.B. (Harvard, 1710), A.M. (*., 1713), S.T.D. (University of
Edinburgh, 1730), s. of Rev. Michael of Maiden, A.B. (Harvard,
1651), A.M. (*., 1654), and the first Hollis Professor of Divinity
in Harvard College, 1721-1765. Four children.
iii. Joseph, bapt. 18 Jan. 1701/2; probably d. young, as he is not named
in the settlement of his father's estate.
iv. Mart, b. 14 or 15 Apr. 1706; d. 2 June 1707, aged 1 year, 1 month,
16 days.
V. Stephen, A.B. (Harvard, 1724), A.M. (*., 1727), b. 18 Apr. 1708;
d. unm. 5 May 1758. He was master of the Cambridge Grammar
School and a physician. His epitaph reads as follows: "Here
lyes the body of Stephen Coolhdge, M.A. sometimes Master of
the Free School in this Town Who departed this life May 5th
1758 in the 50th year of his age."
vi. Mart, b. 15 Jan. 1710/11; d. at Sherborn 10 Aug. 1752; m. at Cam-
bridge, 30 Oct. 1735, Rev. Samuel Porter of Sherborn, A.B.
(Harvard, 1730),. A.M. {ib., 1733), who d. 6 Sept. 1758, aged 49.
Five children.
10. Nathaniel' Coolidge {Nathaniel,^ John^), born at Watertown
9 May 1660, died at Weston 29 Jan. 1732/3, aged 73. He
married at Watertown, 2 Jan. 1687/8, Lydia Jones, born at
Watertown 25 Aug. 1668, died at Watertown Farms (now
Weston) 21 May 1718, daughter of Capt. Josiah and Lydia
(Treadway) of Watertowoi and Weston.
At the organization of the chiu-ch at Watertown Farms,
2 Oct. 1709, Nathaniel Coolidge was the first to be received,
by dismissal from the First Church of Watertown.
\ 280 The New England Coolidges [Oct.
I In the distribution of his estate, 1 Dec. 1735, Josiah Coolidge
I is called only son, Lydia Harrington, wife of Joseph Harrington
of Weston, eldest daughter, Mary Johnson, mfe of Samuel
Johnson of Lunenburg, second daughter, and Thankful Parks,
wife of Josiah Parks of Weston, third daughter (IMiddlesex
I Probate Files, 5131).
I Children, born at Watertown:
? i. Samttel,* b. 30 Sept. 1688; not mentioned in the distribution of
; his father's estate.
I ii. Ltdia, bapt. 20 Apr. 1690; m. Joseph Haeeington of Weston.
\ 26. iii. Josiah, b. about 1692.
;' iv. Mart, b. 6 Jan. 1694/5; m. at Weston, 12 Apr. 1732, Samuel John-
son of Lunenburg.
V. Abigail, bapt. 22 Sept. 1700; d. before 1 Dec. 1735.
vi. Thankful, m. at Weston, 5 Aug. 1730, as his second wife, Josiah
Parks of Concord and Weston.
11. Dea. John^ Coolidge {Nathaniel,^ John^), born at Watertown
about 1668, died there 26 Apr. 1755. He married at Water-
town, 16 Jan. 1699/1700, Margaret Bond, bom at Water-
j town 1 Oct. 1681, probably survived her husband, daughter of
I Dea. William and Hepzibah (Hastings) of Watertown.
I He was deacon of the First Church for many years, town
I clerk, 1725, and a selectman, 1738 and 1741.
I Children, born at Watertown:
\ i. John,* b. 8 Xov. 1702; d. 17 Nov. 1702.
' ii. Huldah, b. 10 Jan. 1704/5; m. 24 May 1733 Jacob Cxtmmings of
I Oxford.
1 , iii. Anna, b. 23 July 1706; m. at Watertown, 11 Feb. 1724/5, John
i Stearns of Watertown.
i iv. Melicent, b. 12 Sept. 1708; d. 7 Dec. 1725.
'■ V. Deborah, b. 29 May 1711; m. 15 Dec. 1731 Jonathan Peatt of
\ Oxford.
\ 27. vi. William, b. 13 Mar. 1712/13.
; vii. MiNDWELL, b. 17 Jan. 1715/16; d. s.p. 17 Feb. 1734/5; m. 11 Apr.
1734 Benjamin Bigelow of Weston.
28. viii. Henbt, b. 3 Nov. 1717.
29. ix. Elisha, b. 9 July 1720.
X. Hepzibah, b. in 1722; m. at Watertown, 21 Oct. 1742, James Hackle-
ton of Watertown. They had issue.
12. Thomas^ Coolidge {Nathaniel,^ John^), born at Watertown 24
Apr. 1670, died there 15 May 1737. He married first, at
Watertown, 15 or 16 Nov. 1699, Sarah Eddy, born at Water-
town 31 Oct. 1670, died there 7 Nov. 1711, daughter of Samuel
and Sarah of Watertown; and secondly, in Boston, 15 Jan.
1712/13, Mary Smith of Boston, who in her will, dated at
Sherborn 3 Dec. 1744, mentioned her stepdaughter, Tabitha
Stratton.
He was a selectman of Watertown, 1726 and 1733-1735,
and an innholder there, 1713-1737, his widow continuing the
business, 1738-1741.
In his will, dated 8 Apr. 1734, when he was "weak and
infirme in body," and proved 30 May 1737, he mentioned his
I wife Mary Coohdge, his son David Coohdge, and his daughter
j Tabitha Stratton. His wife Mary was appointed executrix and
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Nathaniel Harris, Esq., and Lieut. Joseph Coolidge, both of
Watertown, executors. He made a codicil 11 May 1737, in
which he mentioned his two cousins, Jemima and Ruth Cool-
idge, children of Jonathan Coolidge, late of Watertown, "who
now live with me." (Middlesex Probate Files, 5153.)
i Children by first wife, born at Watertown:
i. Sahah,< b. 8 Sept. 1700; m. at Watertown, 28 Apr. 1720, Jonathan
Parks, Jb., of Newton.
I ii. Tabitha, b. 2 Nov. 1702; m. at Watertown, 29 Apr. 1725, Jabez
I Stratton of Watertown. They removed to Sherborn about 1735.
I 30. iii. David, b. 25 Jan. 1704/5.
1 13. Jonathan' Coolidge {Nathaniel,^ John^), born at Watertown
I about 1672, died 7 Dec. 1729. He married first Mercy ,
who died 19 Sept. 1724; and secondly, in Boston, in 1724,
Experience (Thornton) Wakefield,* born in Boston
23 Feb. 1687, daughter of Timothy and Experience of Boston
and widow of Ebenezer Wakefield.
Administration on the estate of Jonathan Coolidge of Newton
was granted 19 Dec. 1729 to Oakes Angier of Newton, sad-
dler, and his account refers "to Elxperience sd deced's widow
1 per contract £220 due her and her son." (Middlesex Probate
I Files, 5105.)
i Children by first wife, born at Newton:
! i. Annable,* b. 26 May 1701; m. at Watertown, 26 Dec. 1723, Thomas
', Harbach, both being of Newton.
■' ii. Abigail, b. 16 Jan. 1702/3; m. at Newton, 12 Feb. 1730/1, Oakbs
\ Angier, saddler, of Newton, s. of Rev. Samuel and Hannah (Oakes).
I iii. Adam, b. 8 Oct. 1705; d. 15 Nov. 1708.
.' iv. Eunice, b. 4 Aug. 1706.
I v. Seth, b. 5 May 1708; d. 3 July 1708.
'r vi. Hannah, b. 6 Aug. 1710; d. s.p. at Newton 6 July 1745; probably
■; m. there, 21 July 1743, as his second wife, her second cousin,
i • Richard* Coolidge (21), q.v., bapt. at Watertown 30 Apr. 1699,
I d. at Newton 13 Aug. 1755, s. of Lieut. Richard and Mary (Bond).
- 14. Capt. Joseph' Coolidge {Nathaniel,^ John^), born at Water-
town about 1684, died there 17 Apr. 1749, in his 66th year.
He married first, at Watertown, 9 May 1717, his first cousin
once removed, Elizabeth Bond, bom at Watertown 20 Mar.
1684/5, died there 9 Nov. 1736, in her 52d year, daughter of
John and Hannah (Coolidge) (2, i); and secondly, at Water-
town, 10 Nov. 1737, Esther Mason, born at Watertown
8 July 1686, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Fiske) of
Watertown. She married secondly, 13 Dec. 1750, Edward
Johnson of Woburn, and died 7 Mar. 1754.
He was a selectman, 1732, 1739, and 1742, and a deacon of
the Watertown church, 1741-1749.
Administration on his estate was granted 22 May 1749 to
his son Samuel Coolidge, blacksmith, Joseph Mason, Esq., and
Ebenezer Stone, gentleman, being sureties. The inventory
mentions his books, viz., Willard on the Catechism, Watts,
Flavel's England's Duty, and sundry small books and pam-
*ln hiB history of Newton, Jackson gives to Jonathan Coolidge three wives, viz., Mercy, Mar-
Kuet, and Experience.
282 The New England CooUdges [Oct.
phlets, and also his military arms, gun, silver-hilted sword, and
cartridge box. In the distribution of the estate his widow
Esther, sons Samuel and Benoni, eldest daughter Susannah,
and second daughter Elizabeth are mentioned. The account
names daughter Susanna Bowman and John Bowman and
daughter Elizabeth Hoar and John Hoar. The settlement
shows that the widow, Esther, died before 11 Mar. 1754. On
2 Apr. 1754 order was issued to pay Benoni's heirs, and Moses
Coolidge and Samuel CooUdge, children of Samuel Coohdge,
deceased, who was the eldest son of the deceased Joseph, are
mentioned. The estate was finally settled 11 July 1757.
(Middlesex Probate Files, 5110.)
Children by first wife, born at Watertown:
i. Susanna,* b. 7 Apr. 1718; m. at Watertown, 14 Feb. 1735/6, John
Bowman of Lexington.
ii. Elizabeth, b. 5 Jan. 1719/20; m. at Watertown, 21 Aug. 1740,
John Hoar of Watertown.
31. iiL Samuel, b. 18 Jan. 1721/2.
iv. Benoni, b. 11 Nov. 1723; d. unm. 3 May 1754, in his 31st year.
I V. Mercy, b. 3 May 1725; d. 12 Apr. 1749; m. at Watertown, 6 Apr.
i 1749, Joshua Sthatton of Watertown.
I vi. Maky, b. 5 Mar. 1726/7.
« 15. Jonathan' Coolidge (Jonathan,^ John^), bom at Watertown 19
I Jan. 1688/9, was killed by a fall from a tree 17 Feb. 1730
i^ [1729/30]. He married in Boston, 15 Aug. 1718, Ruth Holland
of Dorchester, who married secondly, at Watertown, 16 Mar.
1731/2, Allen Brown of Boston and later of Watertown and
died at Watertown 1 Dec. 1736, aged 41.
\ Administration on the estate of Jonathan Coolidge of
I Watertown was granted 16 Mar. 1729/30 to his widow, Ruth
i Coolidge; and the inventory, taken 14 May 1730, amounted
I to £593. 9s. Id. On 27 Mar. 1731 John Hastings of Wat«r-
( town, cordwainer, was appointed guardian to Keziah in her
j 14th, Jemima in her 13th, and Jonathan in his 11th year, and
J Oliver Livermore of Watertown was appointed guardian to
j Mary in her 9th, Ruth in her 7th, and Rebecca in her 4th
; year, children of Jonathan Coolidge, late of Watertown. In
i the distribution of his estate, 2 Jan. 1743/4, the children
j named are Jonathan (if living), Jemima, the eldest daughter,
I wife of John White of Concord, Mary Coolidge, and Ruth
Coolidge. (Middlesex Probate Files, 5106, 5107.)
j Children, born at Watertown:
I i. Kezia,* b. about 1719; d. before 2 Jan. 1743/4; m. Wood.
ii. Jemima, b. about 1720; m. John White of Concord.
I iii. Jonathan, b. about 1721; probably d. or was killed in 1741, in the
i British expedition against the Spanish West Indies under Vice
i Admiral Vernon, for on 26 Dec. 1743 Ebenezer Lamson certified
I that Jonathan Coolidge belonged to Captain Goff's company in
I the late expedition to the Spanish West Indies, and that the
I army encamped in Cuba, near Cumberland Harbor [the name
given by Admiral Vernon to Guantdnamo Bay].*
iv. Mary, b. about 1723 and bap*. 6 July 1729.
V. Ruth, bapt. 14 Nov. 1725.
vi. Rebecca, bapt. 6 July 1729.
i
♦Daniel Goff of Boston raised a company under the command of Admiral Vernon in 1740.
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16. John' Coolidge (Jonathan,^ John'), of Boston, born at Water-
town 4 Feb. 1690/1, died in Boston. He married in Boston,
14 Apr. 1713, Hannah Ingram.
Children, born in Boston:
i. John,* b. 14 Feb. 1713/14; m. in Boston, 12 Oct. 1736, Mabgaret
Stoker.
ii. Joseph, b. 24 May 1715; d. young,
iii. Benjamin, b. 10 or 14 Apr. 1717; living in 1751.
32. iv. Joseph, b. 10 Feb. 1718/19.
V. Hannah, b. 11 Aug. 1721; m. in Boston, 27 Oct. 1743, James Buht.
vi. Martha, b. 1 Nov. 1724; m. in Boston, 15 Nov. 1744, Return Pool.
vii. Sarah, b. 30 Mar. 1727.
viii. Mart, b. 6 Mar. 1728/9; d. young.
ix. William, b. 5 Jan. 1730/1; d. young.
X. Jonathan, b. 18 Feb. 1732/3; d. young.
xi. Mart, b. 13 Nov. 1734; living in 1751.
xii. Lydla, b. 27 Nov. 1735; d. young,
xiii. Ltdia, b. 3 Oct. 1737; living in 1751.
17. Maj. Isaac* Coolidge (John,^ Ensign John,^ Johri^), born at
Sherborn 21 Apr. 1685, died there 2 June 1761, in his 77th
year. He married at Sherborn, 26 Apr. 1710, Hannah Morse,
born at Sherborn 5 Apr. 1689, died there 11 Dec. 1774, daughter
of Capt. Joseph and Hannah (Bad cock).
He was major of the militia, and served three years as a
selectman and five years as representative in the General
Court.
I In his will, dated 13 Mar. 1761 and proved 29 June 1761,
f he mentioned his wife Hannah, his sons John Coolidge and
i Joseph Coolidge, and his daughters Hannah Russell, Grace
f Holbrook, and Lucy Crackbone. The witnesses were Asa
I Morse, Mary Morse, and Bela Lincoln. The inventory names
i "Pool's Annotations on the Bible, three old Bibles, Statutes
I . and Temporary Acts and Laws, Gordon's Grammar, Salmon's
•• Gazetteer and 17 other books on various subjects." (Middle-
: sex Probate Files, 5092.)
Children, born at Sherborn:
: i. Hannah,' b. 18 Mar. 1710/11; m. Thomas Russell.
33. ii. John, b. 21 June 1714.
■ iii. Grace, b. 18 Mar. 1716/17; d. 5 Apr. 1780; m. at Sherborn, 30 Nov.
1738, Ezra Holbrook.
iv. LucT, b. 3 May 1719; d. 27 Mar. 1791; m. at Sherborn, 10 Oct.
1750, Joseph Crackbone.
V. Martha, b. 1 Nov. 1724.
vi. Joseph, of Sherborn, b. 22 Apr. 1725 [sic.]; m. 26 Jan. 1745/6
Elizabeth Frost. Twelve chOdreru
18. James* Coolidge (John,^ Ensign John,^ John'), born at Sherborn
17 Oct. 1696, died there 23 June 1757, in his 61st year. He
I married at Stoughton, 12 Sept. 1728, Freelove Monk, born
; at Dorchester 2 Apr. 1704, died at Sherborn 4 Dec. 1780,
\ daughter of Elias and Hope.
; An agreement between the heirs of his estate was signed 28
■ Aug. 1761 by Freelove Coohdge, Hezakiah Coolidge, Samuel
I Bullard, Mary Bullard, Joseph Fairbanks, and Abigail Fair-
! banks (Middlesex Probate Files, 5093).
284 The New England CooUdges [Oct.
Children, born at Sherbom:
I i. Hezekiah," A.B. (Harvard, 1750), A.M. (,ib., 1753), b. 18 July 1729;
I d. at Crown Point in Dec. 1761, while serving as an ensign in the
I French and Indian War.
I ii. James, b. and d. 8 Nov. 1730.
I ill. Mary, b. 7 Jan. 1731/2; m. Samuel Bullard.
•4 iv. Abigail, b. 3 July 1735; d. s.p.; m. at Sherborn, 25 June 1761,
I Joseph Fairbanks.
I 19. Dea. Peter* Coolidge (John,^ Ensign John,^ John^), born at
I Sherborn 17 Feb. 1702/3, died at Medfield 11 Feb. 1792. He
I married first, at Medfield, 12 Apr. 1723, Abigail Wheelock,
I born at Medfield 26 Feb. 1698/9, died there 23 June 1726,
] daughter of Eleazer and Mary of Medfield; and secondly, at
I Medfield, 2 Jan. 1728/9, Margaret Ellis, who died there
I ^ 10 Dec. 1780, daughter of Joseph of Dedham.
He was chosen deacon of the First Church of Medfield in
1753, and served as a selectman for eight years and as town
clerk for eighteen years.
Child by first wife, bom at Medfield:
I i. Peter,' b. 12 Sept. 1723; d. 28 Apr. 1724.
I - Children by second wife, born at Medfield:
I ii. Mart, b. 8 Dec. 1729; d. 23 Dec. 1729.
iii. Nathan, b. 5 Feb. 1730/1.
I iv. Sarah, b. 10 June 1732; d. 17 June 1732.
I V. Peter, b. 6 Nov. 1733; d. 21 Feb. 1733/4.
? vi. Lois, b. 19 Apr. 1735; d. 28 July 1735.
I vii. Daniel, b. 21 Mar. 1738; d. 26 July 1738.
1 viii. Peter, b. 3 Oct. 1739; d. 22 Dec. 1739.
iix. Abigail, b. 3 Oct. 1742; d. umn. 18 Aug. 1797.
X. Margaret, b. 22 Nov. 1743; d. 14 June 1744.
xi. Margaret, b. 8 May 1745; m. Nathan Adams.
f 20. John* Coolidge {Lieut. Richard,^ Ensign John,"^ John^), bom at
I Watertown 22 Oct. 1697 and baptized 14 Nov. 1697, died
\ before 10 Jan. 1763. He married at Watertown, 10 Feb.
I 1725/6, his second cousin, Mercy Bright, daughter of Na-
thaniel and Mary (CooUdge) of Watertown (cf. 3, i).
Administration on his estate was granted 10 Jan. 1763 to
i Nathan CooUdge, husbandman, Jonas Bond, Jr., and Ohver
: Livermore being sureties, all of Watertown. He possessed an
interesting library. (Middlesex Probate Files, 5097.)
Children, bom at Watertown:
i. Lucy,' b. 10 June 1726; m. Thomas Bradford of Boston.
ii. Hannah, b. 30 Oct. 1728.
iii. Abigail, b. 7 Dec. 1730; d. in 1731.
iv. Abigail, m. 16 Mar. 1763 Ezekiel Walker of Boston.
V. Daniel, b. 23 Feb. 1732/3; d. 1 Mar. 1732/3.
vi. Nathan, b. 13 Apr. 1734; m. (1) 8 May 1760 Elizabeth Learned,
bapt. 16 May 1741, d. 6 Nov. 1776, in her 43d year, dau. of
Joshua and EUzabeth (Goddard); m. (2) 10 June 1777 Kezia
i Prentice of Watertown, who d. 16 Mar. 1804, aged 59.
' vii. Silas, b. 28 June 1736.
) viii. Elijah, b. 4 June 1739.
j ix. Daniel, bapt. 10 Oct. 1742.
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21. Richard* Coolidge (Lieut. Richard,^ Ensign John,^ John^), bap-
tized at Watertown 30 Apr. 1699, died at Newton 13 Aug. 1755
He married first, at Newton, 6 Aug. 1729, Mary Trowbridge,
born at Newton 18 Sept. 1709, died there 28 Apr. 1734, aged
25 years, 7 months, daughter of Dea. William and Sarah (Ward)
of Newton; and secondly, at Newton, 21 July 1743, Hannah
Coolidge, probably his second cousin, born at Newton 6 Aug.
1710, died there 6 July 1745, daughter of Jonathan and Mercy.
(Cf. 13, vi.)
Children by first wife, born at Newton:
i. Elizabeth,' b. 23 Nov. 1729; m. 12 Dec. 1750 James Hat of Water-
[ town, who removed to Reading in 1774.
1 ii. Mart, b. 4 Nov. 1731; perhaps the Mary Coolidge who d. at Newton
i 1 Sept. 1784.
iii. Abigail, b. 3 Jan. 1733/4.
22. Lieut. Nathaniel* Coolidge {lAevt. Richard,^ Ensign John,^
John^), carpenter, born at Watertown 8 Mar. 1702/3, died
there between 22 June 1764 and 27 May 1766. He married
^ at Watertown, 10 Mar. 1726/7, Grace Bowman, baptized at
; Watertown 1 Oct. 1704, survived her husband, daughter of
■ Capt. Nathaniel and Anne (Barnard) of Cambridge.
{ He was an innholder in 1745 and 1746, and servedjas a
\ selectman of Watertown, 1751, 1755, and 1758-1760.
I In his will, dated 22 June 1764 and proved 27 May 1766,
I he mentioned his wife Grace, his son Nathaniel Coolidge, his
; daughter Mary Stratton, and his son-in-law John Stratton.
I The witnesses were Israel Whitney and Jonas Coolidge, Jr.
] His widow gave a bond, with Nathaniel Coolidge, 27 May 1766,
1 to settle the estate of Capt. Nathaniel Coolidge, late of Water-
I town. (Middlesex Probate Files, 5132.)
] Children, born and baptized at Watertown :
■; i. Nathaotel,* b. 7 Dec. and bapt. 8 Dec. 1728; d. 24 Dec. 1773; m.
I 19 Sept. 1751 DoROTHT Whitket, b. 31 May 1733, dau. of Daniel
•- and Dorothy of Watertown. He kept a public house at Watertown,
I on the south side of the Charles River, at the bridge, from 1764
to 1770. Six children, of whom the youngest, Nathan,^ b. 6 Dec.
1766, d. 14 July 1836, m. at Wmdsor, Vt., 20 Mar. 1791, Elizabeth
Curtis, b. 2 May 1768, d. 27 Dec. 1822; he was first a saddler, and
; was afterwards a merchant at Windsor; he had one son and two
daughters, of whom the son, Carlos,' of Windsor, lawyer, A.B.
(Middlebury College, 1811), A.M. (University of Vermont, 1835),
LL.D. (Middlebury, 1849), b. at Windsor 25 Jtme 1792, d. there
14 Aug. 1866, m. 22 Sept. 1817 Harriet Bingham of Claremont.
N._H.; he was a student at Dartmouth College in 1807-08, entered
Middlebury College in 1809 and was graduated there, studied law
with Hon. Peter Starr of Middlebury and with Hon. J. H. Hub-
bard of Windsor, was admitted to the bar in 1814, and practised
law at Windsor for fifty-two yeajs; he was State's attorney for
Windsor County, 1831-1836, representative in the Vermont Legis-
lature, 1834-1836 and 1839-1841, being speaker of the House in
1836 and in 1839-1841, a presidential elector in 1845, when Ver-
mont voted for Henry Clay, Governor of Vermont, 1848-1850,
being elected and reelected as a Whig by the Legislature, in
default of a choice by the people, and State senator, 1853-1855;
two daughters,
ii. Susanna, b. 15 Dec. and bapt. 20 Dec. 1730; d. unm. 18 Apr. 1750.
286 The New England Coolidges [Oct.
iii. Mart, b. 15 Oct. and bapt. 20 Oct. 1734; m. 28 Sept. 1752 John
Stratton.
iv. Samuel, b. 13 Feb. and bapt. 18 Feb. 1738/9; d. 12 Oct. 1741.
V. Samuel, b. 18 Oct. and bapt. 28 Oct. 1744; d. 2 Nov. 1748.
23. Jonas* Coolidge {Lieut. Richard,^ Ensign John,^ John^), car-
penter, born at Watertown 28 Oct. 1704, died before 27 Apr.
I 1767. He married at Watertown, 22 Feb. 1742/3, Elizabeth
I Thornton, bom, probably in Boston, 4 Mar. 1722, daughter of
I Ebenezer and Elizabeth (Gilbert) of Watertown.
5 He owned the church covenant at Watertown 8 Jan. 1743/4.
\ Children, born at Watertown:*
'r i. JoNAs,» b. 6 Feb. 1743/4; m. 12 Feb. 1767 Anna Hahhington, b.
j 20 Dec. 1749, dau. of Edward and Anna (Bullard). Three children.
iL Ebenezer, b. 4 Nov. 1745; d. 24 Oct. 1750.
iii. Elizabeth, b. 21 May 1747; d. 12 Sept. 1749.
; iv. Mart, bapt. 26 Mar. 1749.
V. Samuel, b. 31 Aug. 1756. Timothy Thornton, mast-maker^ was
appointed 4 May 1768 guardian unto Samuel Coolidge, m his
12th year, son of Jonas Coolidge, late of Watertown (Middlesex
Probate Files, 5101).
j 24. Obadiah* Coolidge (Obadiah,^ Simon, '^ John^), cordwainer, born
I at Watertown 27 Aug. 1695, died after 1739. He married at
I Watertown, 24 July 1717, Rachel Goddard of Watertown,
I born at Watertown 18 Apr. 1699, daughter of Josiah and
I Rachel (Davis).
] He was in His Majesty's service, under the command of
• Capt. Samuel Wright, from 10 June to 1 Sept. 1725, and his
I residence at that time is given as Watertown (Massachusetts
i Archives, vol. 91, page 213). At the time of his marriage he
I was a resident of Newton. He was an inhabitant of Framing-
I ham in 1728, of Marlborough in 1732, and of Westborough in
j 1740.
I Children :
I 34. i. Josiah,' b. at Watertown 17 July 1718.
;■ iL Hannah, b. at Watertown 2 June 1720.
i ■ iii. Ltdia, bapt. at Watertown 9 Jan. 1725/6; m. at Westborough, 5
Feb. 1745, Joseph Bartlett of Rutland.
iv. Obadlah, probably the Obadiah Coolidge who m. at Roxbury, 30
July 1750, Sarah Davis. Administration on the estate of Obadiah
Coolidge, victualler, of Roxbury, was granted 29 May 1767 to
the widow, Sarah Coohdge, and Caleb Davis of Boston, shopkeeper,
with the guardianship of eight children, all under 14 years of age,
viz., Joshua, Rebecca, Isaac, Davis, Asa, Sarah, Caleb, and Lmcy.
(Suffolk Probate Records, vol. 66, p. 12.)
V. Rachel, b. about 16 June 1731 ;t d. at Northborough 5 Jan. 1766,
aged 34 j'ears, 6 months, 20 days (gravestone); m. Seth Rice of
Northborough.
^ 25. Simon'* Coolidge (Obadiah,^ Simon,^ John^), bricklayer, was born
at Watertown 12 June 1704. He married there, 9 Jan. 1728/9,
j Abia Sanderson, born at Watertown 4 Feb. 1706/6, daughter
1 *The births of these children are given as in the Vital Records of Watertown, vol. .'?, pp. 122,
! ' 136. Each entry states that the child was of Jonas and Elizabeth Coolidge, but the town copy
5 of the Newton records calls them children of Jonas and Mercy Coolidge. The town copy of Newton
! was made about 1850 and is incorrect. The above-named children were not born at Newton.
; fThe Rice Genealogy, p. 141, states that she was born 6 Nov. 1737.
i
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of John and Hannah (Stratton) of Watertown and Leicester,
Children, born at Watertown:
■*' i. Joseph," b. 18 June 1730; killed in the Battle of Lexington, 19 Apr.
1775; m. 11 Sept. 1753 EtrNicE Stratton^ b. 27 Dec. 1727, d. in
1801, dau. of John and Mercy. Seven children.*
ii. Ltdia b. 31 Dec. 1731.
iii. Lois, b. 9 Nov. 1733; m. 14 Oct. 1765 Samuel Brown.
iv. Anna, b. 20 Nov. 1736; m. 18 Dec. 1756 Thomas Rand of Charles-
town.
V. SarAh, b. 11 Aug. 1738; m. 12 June 1759 Simon Hastings.
•i vi. Eunice, b. 20 Mar. 1739/40.
I vii. Simon, b. 29 Dec. 1741; m. 25 Dec. 1764 Mart Jennison, and
I settled in Jay, Me. They had issue.
, viii. Mehitable, b. 5 Feb. 1746/7.
i ix. Mercy, b. 9 June 1749.
26. JosiAH* CooLiDGE (Nathaniel,^ Nathaniel,^ John}), born at Water-
town about 1692, died at Weston 16 Jan. 1778, aged 83 or 85.
He married first, 11 June 1719, Deliverance Warren, born
at Watertown 10 Oct. 1699, died at Weston 25 Feb. 1764,
aged 70 [sic], daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth (Whitney);
j and secondly (intention recorded 20 June 1766) Mrs. Sarah
I Muzzy of Sudbury.
I He and his wife Deliverance owned the church covenant
I at Weston 27 Sept. 1724.
i Children, born at Weston:
:> i. Nathaniel," b. 20 Oct. and bapt. 25 Oct. 1724; m. 16 Apr. 1749
i Sarah Parker of Sudbury. Seven children.
\ ii. Paul, b. 8 May and bapt. 18 June 1727; d. 1 July 1731.
I iii. Ltdla, b. 20 Sept. and bapt. 26 Sept. 1731; m. 4 Feb. 1762 William
I Pope of Sudbury.
j iv. Anna, b. 13 Aug. and bapt. 18 Aug. 1734; d. unm. 21 Apr. 1756.
I V. Delight, b. 1 Feb. and bapt. 13 Feb. 1736/7; d. 7 Oct. 1753.
1 vi. Daniel, b. 23 Oct. and bapt. 25 Oct. 1741; m. (1) 19 Apr. 1764
? Lydia Hagar, b. 25 Aug. 1736, d. 26 Apr. 1771, dau. of John and
I Sarah; m. (2) Anna ; — . Three children by first wife and
I three children by second wife.
': vii. JosiAH, b. 6 July and bapt. 15 July 1744; m. 11 July 1764 Tabitha
♦Joshua* CooUdge, s. of Joseph (25. i), b. 11 Sept. 1759, m. 11 Dec. 1783 Jemima Norcross,
b. 11 May 1766, d. 18 Aug. 1849, dau. of Josiah and Ehzabeth (Child) of Watertown. Their son,
Dea. Josiah' Coolidge, b. 5 Apr. 1787, m. Mary Hastings; and they were the parents of Austin
Jacobs' Coolidge, of Cambridge and Watertown, A.B. (Harvard, 1847), A.M. and LL.B. (>"6.,
1850), who was b. at Cambridge 18 Apr. 1824, m. 23 Apr. 1862 Susan Gibson Marshall, and d.
e.p. at Watertown 20 Mar. 1895. Austin Jacobs Coolidge was a resident member of the New
England Historic Genealogical Society from 1859 until his death. Cf. memoir in Registeb, toL 50,
p. 94.
Joseph* Coolidge, another s. of Joseph (25, i), b. 4 Oct. 1761, d. 17 Oct. 1843, m. 19 Deo. 1783
Mary Adams, b. 4 Sept. 1760, d. 19 Mar. 1852, dau. of Samson of Lexington. This Joseph Coolidge
served in the Fourteenth Regiment, Continental Army, under Colonel Bradford, in 1780, and was
a pensioner from 16 Dec. 1833. In June 1790 he settled in that part of Jay, Me., which became
later the town of Canton. Joseph and Mary (Adams) Coolidge had thirteen children, of whom
the tenth was Cyrus Hamlin' Coolidge, of Canton and Buckfield, Me., A.B. (Bowdoin, 1825), A.M.
(»6., 1828), M.D. (Dartmouth, 1829), b. 11 May 1799, d. at Buckfield 20 June 1851, m. 20 Feb.
1831 Mary Holland Sabin, b. at Jay, Me., 10 Mar. 1811, and had issue a son and a daughter; and
the youngest child was Merrit' Coolidge, of Hallowell and Portland, Me., merchant, b. 10 Aug.
1806, d. in 1863, m. 18 Nov. 1833 Flora Chandler Bradford, b. 14 Apr. 1810, d. in 1885, dau. of
Dr. Benjamin of Livermore, Me. Merrit Bradford' Coolidge, of Portland, Me., A.B. (Tufts, 1861),
third child of Merrit' and Flora Chandler (Bradford), b. 8 Apr. 1839, m. in 1876 Lucy Greenwood
French, b. in 1844; and they are the parents of Hon. Richard Bradford" Coolidge, of Medford,
Mass., lawyer, A.B. (Tufts, 1902), A.M. (ib.), a member of the Massachusetts House of Repre-
; sentatives from the Twenty-fifth Middlesex District, 1920-1922, Mayor of Medford, 1923 — , b. at
Deering (now a part of Portland), Me., 14 Sept. 1879, m. Ruth Burleigh Dame of Medford, A.B.
(Tufts, 1902), A.M. (ib.).
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Ftjlham, b. 10 Mar. 1745/6, dau. of Elisha and Sarah (Hagar).
One daughter.
27. Capt. William* Coolidge {Dea. John,^ Nathaniel,^ John}), bom
at Watertown 13 Mar. 1712/13, died at Waltham 24 Jan.
1798, aged 85. He married at Watertown, 2 June 1743, Eliza-
beth Brown, born at Watertown 8 Feb. 1719/20, died at
Waltham 19 Nov. 1803, daughter of Jonathan and Elizabeth
(Simonds) of Watertown.
Capt. William Coolidge was an assessor, and a selectman of
Waltham, 1764-1768.
Children:
i. Elizabeth,* b. at Watertown 28 Mar. 1744; d. 15 May 1786; m.
15 Dec. 1767 Eyres Tainter.
ii. Eunice, b. at Watertown 12 Jan. 1747/8; m. 19 Mar. 1769 Samtjel
Cutting of Ashbumham.
iii. William, b. at Watertown 2 Oct. 1749; d. 25 Mar. 1779; m. 11 Jan.
1776 Mart Bridge, who m. (2) 26 Oct. 1780 Dea. Matthias
Bent of Framingham. Two children,
iv. LucT, b. at Watertown 1 Jan. 1750/1; d. 13 Nov. 1823; m. 22 Dec.
1774 Samuel ELarringtgn, Jr.
V. Anna, b. at Watertown 2 Oct. 1752; d. 30 Jan. 1846; m. 9 Apr. 1772
} Daniel Harrington.
I vi. Hepzibah, b. at Watertown 9 Mar. 1754; d. 14 Mar. 1795; m. 9 Apr.
I 1772 Capt. Francis Lane of Ashburnham.
I vii. John, b. at Waltham 7 Jan. 1758; d. there unm. 19 Apr. 1781, in his
I 24th year.
\ viii. Gen. Jonathan, of Waltham, b. at Waltham 21 Apr. 1759; d. 5 May
{ 1841; m. (1) 18 Dec. 1783 Hannah Clarke, who d. 26 Aug. 1804,
I aged 42, 4au. of John and Alice (Greenwood); m. (2) 27 Sept.
[ 1808 Elizabeth (Cooudge) Hammond, dau. of Jonas and Anna
I (Harrington) CooUdge (23, i) and widow of Jonathan Hammond.
I Eleven children by first wife.
( ix. Elias, b. at Waltham 22 Sept. 1762; d. there 30 Apr. 1779.
f 28. Henry* Coolidge (Dea. John,^ Nathaniel,^ John^), born at
I Watertown 3 Nov. 1717, died at Boxborough 28 Mar. 1812,
I aged 94 years and about 5 months. He married at Cambridge,
\ 12 Sept. 1747, Phebe Dana, born at Cambridge 12 July 1729,
i daughter of Caleb and Phebe (Chandler) of Cambridge.
Mrs. Phebe (Dana) CooUdge's father made his will 4 Mar.
1769, and in a second codicil, dated 28 Apr. 1769. gave to his
daughter Phebe £5, "if she return to dwell in New England,"
and to his grandsons Henry, Caleb, Robert, and James D.
Coohdge lands in the wilderness (Dana Family,. page 50),
Children, born and baptized at Cambridge:
i. Phebe,' bapt. 17 July 1748.
ii. Henry, bapt. 3 June 1750; settled in Waterford, Me.
iii. Caleb, bapt. 19 Apr. 1752.
iv. Robert, bapt. 1 Sept. 1754.
V. James Dana, living in 1769; settled in Madison, N. Y.
vi. Augustus.
29. Elisha* Coolidge (Dec. John,^ Nathaniel,^ John^), born at
Watertown 9 July 1720, died at Ashburnham 29 Aug. 1807,
in his 87th year. He married, about 1753, Sarah , who
was living in 1775.
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He was an innholder at Ashburnham, 1752, 1759, 1760, and
1761.
Children, all except the first one born at Ashburnham:
L Catherine,* b. 3 May 1755; m. John Gates.
ii. Sahah, b. 23 May 1757; m. Dea. Jacob Kiblingeb.
iii. Permelia, b. 3 Nov. 1758.
iv. Jonathan, b. 6 Sept. 1760.
V. Judith, b. 23 Sept. 1762; m. at Lunenburg, 14 Apr. 1784, Isaiah
Stone of Dummerston, Vt.
vi. John, b. 7 Nov. 1764; perhaps the John Coolidge of Leominster who
[ applied for a pension 10 July 1820, aged 55 years. The application
j states that he enlisted in Capt. John Fuller's company, in the
I Fourth Regiment of Infantry, Massachusetts Line, commanded
i by Col. William Shepherd, Glover's brigade, and was discharged
25 Dec. 1783.
vii. Elizabeth, b. 30 Nov. 1766.
viii. Elisha, b. 19 Nov. 1768.
ix. Relief, b. 26 Sept. 1770.
X. LucT, b. 8 Nov. and bapt. 15 Nov. 1772.
sd. Flavel, b. 19 Jan. and bapt. 22 Jan. 1775; d. 1 Feb. 1848; m, 30
Jan. 1806 Nancy Wildes.
; 30. David* Coolipge (Thomas,^ Nathaniel,^ John}), innholder, born
I at Watertown 25 Jan. 1704/5, died there 20 Dec. 1772. He
i married, about 1736, Mary Mixer, born at Watertown 25 Oct.
I 1714, died there 14 May 1786, daughter of Dea. Joseph and
I Anne (Jones),
f Children, born at Watertown:
1 35. i. David," b. 3 Sept. 1738.
I ii. Mary, bapt. 1 July 1739; d. young.
t iii. Sarah, b. 5 July 1741; m. 29 Nov. 1763 Ebenezeb Seaveb of
I Little Cambridge (later Brighton).
i iv. Mary, b. 8 Oct. and bapt. 9 Oct. 1743; m. 19 Apr. 1768 Nathaniel
: RoBBiNS of Cambridge.
5 v. Hephzibah, b. 8 Apr. and bapt. 20 Apr. 1746; m. 1 Dec. 1763 Amos
i LrvERMORE of WatertowD.
:; 36. vi. Thomas, b. 5 Mar. 1748/9.
f 31. Samuel* Coolidge (Capt. Joseph,^ Nathaniel,^ John^), blacksmith,
I born at Watertown 18 Jan. 1721/2, died there 27 Sept. 1753,
'■ aged 31. He married at Watertown, 1 June 1749, Ruth
Clarke, born at Watertown 5 July 1726, died there 23 Oct.
1753, daughter of Richard and Mary.
Administration on the estate of Samuel Coolidge, late of
Watertown, deceased, was granted 25 Nov. 1753 to Richard
Clark and Thomas Clark of Watertown; and on 14 Mar. 1763
Richard Clark was appointed guardian to the two surviving
children of Samuel Coolidge, blacksmith, late of Watertown.
(Middlesex Probate Files, 5141.)
Children, born at Watertown :
i. Joseph,' b. 12 Mar. 1749/50; d. 4 Mar. 1754.
ii. Samuel, A.B. (Harvard, 1769), b. 8 Aug. 1751; d. 28 Feb. 1790;
m. at Dorchester Elizabeth Tileston, dau. of EUsha, who m.
(2) 6 May 1802, as his fourth wife, her first husband's brother.
Col. Moses Coolidge, and d. 24 Aug. 1813. Samuel CooUd^ was
a well-known teacher of the classics in Dorchester. Three children.
iii. Col. Moses, of Watertown, b. 11 July 1753; d. 5 Nov. 1838; m,
(1) 25 Sept. 1777 Hannah Stowell, who d. 12 Dec. 1784; m.
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t
I (2) 19 May 1785 Elizabeth Mason, who d. 2 Apr. 1791; m. (3)
\ 5 Sept. 1793 Sahah (Abbot) Allen, widow, b. 25 July 1762, d.
I 14 Aug. 1801, dau. of Joseph and Hannah Abbot of Lincoln; m.
"i (4) 6 May 1802 Elizabeth (Tileston) Coolidge, who d. 24 Aug.
I 1813, widow of his brother, Samuel Coolidge. Four sons by first
I wife and three children by second wife. His eldest son was
I Cornelius,* of Boston, merchant, A.B. (Harvard, 1798), A.M. (i&.,
I 1801), b. 30 Aug. 1778, d. in 1843.
I 32. Joseph^ Coolidge* (John,^ Jonathan,'^ John^), of Boston, born
I in Boston 10 Feb. 1718/19, died 14 Sept. 1771. He married,
I 18 Nov. 1746, Marguerite Olivier, born at Annapolis, N. S.,
I 8 Nov. 1726, died 25 Oct. 1816, "aged 90 years," daughter of
Anthoine Olivier, a French Huguenot, who, with his relatives of
the Segourn6 (Sigourney) and Gennaine families, sailed from
La RocheUe, France, for New England, after the revocation of
j the Edict of Nantes in 1685, lived for many years in Boston,
j moved from Boston to Aimapolis Royal, N. S., and returned to
I Boston a few years later.f Mrs. Coolidge married secondly,
I 26 Dec. 1775, when she was said to be "of Boston, Resident in
1 Lancaster," Capt. Israel Jennison of Worcester, who died 19
I Dec. 1782; and thirdly, in 1783, Rev. Joseph Wheeler of
I Worcester, A. B. (Harvard, 1757), A.M. (ib., 1760), who died
i in 1793. She was buried in the tomb of her son Joseph Coolidge
I in King's Chapel, Boston, where her epitaph may be found.
I Children:
\ 37. i. Joseph,' b. 27 July 1747.
i ii. Margaret, b. in 1748; d. young.
f iii. John, of Boston, tailor, b. in 1750; d. 8 June 1798; m. 20 May 1772
i Lydla Dawes, b. 7 Feb. 1747, d. 22 July 1815, dau. of William and
I Lydia (Boone). He served in the Revolution as second Ueutenant
J in Capt. J. Stoddard's company, 1776-77. Children: 1. John Lucas,*
i b. 22 Feb. 1773; d. in 1791; he was an apprentice of Edward
I Tuckerman, Esq., of Boston. 2. Lydia, b. in 1774; d. yoimg. 3.
' William, b. in 1775; d. young. 4. Lydia, b. 18 Mar. 1776; d. 14
I Nov. .1813; m. 27 May 1798 Eben Farley of Boston, b. at Ipswich
I 24 Mar. 1775, d. 27 Sept. 1826; he was a member of the firm of
t Swett & Farley, merchants, of Boston; eight children. 5. William,
■ of Boston and Baltimore, Md., merchant, b. 20 Jan. 1780; d.
6 Feb. 1841; m. (1) 12 Mar. 1807 Matilda Curtis of Boston, who d.
2 Dec. 1814; m. (2) in Baltimore, 10 Mar. 1817, Mrs. Eliza (Pan-
nell) Mulliken, b. in 1792, d. 14 Aug. 1857, widow of Richard Mulli-
ken of Baltimore; he moved to Baltimore soon after the death of
his first wife; two children by first wife and nine children by second
♦Abundant genealogical information about Joseph* Coolidge of Boston and his descendants,
in both male and female lines, down ^o the first years of the present century, and about allied
families, is contained in a little book entitled "Genealogy of some of the Descendants of John
Coollidge of Watertown, Mass. 1630 tnrougn tne Brancb represented by Joseph Coolidge of Boston
and Marguerite Olivier," Boston, privately printed, 1903. To this book the compiler of this
article acknowledges his indebtedness, and to it he refers those looking for data on branches of
this Boston family that are not carried out in these pages. The book, however, gives comparatively
little biographical material. Cf. also a "Chart cf the Descendants of Joseph Coolidge," etc.,
which was prepared in 1897 by Lieut. CoL Charles Austin Coolidge, U. S. A. {vide infra, p. 291,
I second footnote).
I tThe first volume of Anthoine Olivier's French Bible, printed in Paris in 1675 and containing
I the birth dates of his fifteen children, is in the Boston Athenseum, to which it was given by Elisha
! Sigourney, 16 July 1810. jCf. "Genealogy of Some of the Descendants of John Coollidge," pp. 7,
i 34-36.
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wife.* 6. Olwer, b. in June 1782; d. in infancy. 7. Leuns, b. 16
Sept. 1783; d. at Brimfield, 111., in Aug. 1872; m. 13 Dec. 1818
Amanda Mills Dennison, who d. in 1858, dau. of Christopher,
Esq., of Waltham, Vt.; he was a clerk with Swett & Farley,
merchants, of Boston, afterwards followed the sea and was taken
prisoner by the British in 1814, later was a teacher in Vermont,
and in 1818 bought a farm in Waltham, Vt., and married; in 1834
he moved to Willow Brook, near ICickapoo, Peoria Co., 111.; six
children. 8. Charles Dawes, of Boston, merchant, b. 24 Oct. 1784;
d. 17 Mar. 1842; m. 3 Sept. 1811 EUza Austin, b. 23 Sept. 1792,
d. 22 Nov. 1865, dau. of Benjamin and Jane (Ivers) of Boston;
he was a member of the firm of Hammond & Coolidge, Boston,
and was afterwards deputy sheriff of Suffolk County; four chil-
dren, t 9. Betsey, b. 25 Oct. 1786; d. imm. 10. Mary, b. 15 July
1792; d. in infancy.
iv. Benjamin, of Boston, merchant, b. in 1752; d. at Wobum, his home
after his retirement from business, in 1819; m. in 1780 Mart
Carter Brewster, b. in 1761, d. 8 May 1823, aged 63, a descend-
ant of Elder WiUiam Brewster of the Plymouth Colony. Five
children.
V. Margaret, b. in Boston 23 Apr. 1753; d. at Lancaster 8 July 1838;
m. in Boston, in Mar. 1772, Jacob Sweetser of Lancaster, b. in
Boston 27 Dec. 1746, d. 23 Jan. 1823, s. of John and Sarah (Marey).
Twelve children.
vi. Mart, b. 4 Nov. 1758; d. 29 Oct. 1826; m. in 1779 Zachariah
Hicks of Boston, saddler, b. in 1755, d. in 1842, s. of John, a patriot
who was killed in the conflict of 19 Apr. 1775. Fourteen children.
vii. Anne, b. in 1759, d. young.
viii. William, b. in 1760; d. 17 Sept. 1762.
33. Capt. John^ Coolidge (Maj. Isaac,*^ John,^ Ensign John,^ John^),
of Sherborn and Natick, was born at Sherborn 21 June 1714.
♦William Dawes' Coolidge, oldest child of William* and Matilda (Curtia) Coolidge, b. 15 Feb.
1808, d. 12 Sept. 1885, m. 7 Nov. 1833 Caroline Bass Ingles, b. at Kingston 19 Nov. 1803, d. 16
July 1870. Caroline Matilda' CooUdge, the elder of their two daughters, b. in Boston 10 Sept.
1835, d. in Cambridge in Nov. 1920, m. 26 Oct. 1853 William Homer Lane, Jr., of Boston, b. in
1833. They were the parents of William CooUdge Lane, of Cambridge, A.B. (Harvard, 1881),
librarian of Harvard University and keeper of the University records, b. at Newtonville 29 July
1859, m. at Andover, 12 May 1903, Bertha Palmer, dau. of Jacob Peabody and Annie (ICimball)
of New York City, formerly of Brookline; he is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences and a member of the American Antiquarian Society, the Massachusetts Historical Society,
the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, and other historical and liter.^ry organisations; two daughters,
tChildren of Charles Dawes* and Eliza (Austin) Coolidge: 1. Jane Slim,^ b. in Boston 21 June
1812; m. 12 Oct. 1831 Dunmier Rogers Chapman of Boston, b. 6 Mar. 1808, d. 29 Apr. 1865, s.
of Jonathan; four children. 2. Charles Austin, commissary. United States Army, b. in Boston 22
Apr. 1815; lost in the Gulf of Mexico, on a voyage from Brazos, Tex., 5 Dec. 1847; m. 11 Oct.
1843 Anna Maria Rice, b. in Boston 10 Jan. 1817, d. in Detroit 15 July 1886, dau. of Henry and
Maria (Burrcugbs) of Marlborough, who m. (2) 16 Nov. 1853 John Godfrey Neil of Columbus,
Ohio; three children, of whom the eldest is Brig. Gen. Charles Austin' Coolidge, U. S. A., retired,
cf Detroit, Mich., B. S. (Norwich University, 1863), M.D. (Wooster Medical CoUer^, 1873),
b. in Boston 19 July 1844, m. at Tallahassee, Fla., 19 Nov. 1867, Sophie Wager Lowry of Phila-
delphia, Pa., b. 19 Nov. 1849, dau. of Philip and Caroline (Tilghman) of Maryland; he enlbted as
a private in the Sixteenth United States Infantry in 1862, and rose through the various ranks of
the service until he was retired with the grade of brigadier general, 9 Aug. 1903; he served in
the Civil War, in campaigns against the Indians, in Cuba in the War with Spain, in the Philippine
Islands, and in China in the Boxer uprising in 1900; he published in 1897 a chart showing the
descendants of Joseph Coolidge (32) of Boston. 3. Rev. James Ivers Trecnthick, of Cambridge,
A.B. (Harvard, 1838), graduate of the Harvard Divinity School (1841), S.T.D. (Hobart College,
1870), b. in Boston 1 Nov. 1817; d. at Cambridge 18 June 1913; m. 18 Apr. 1843 Mary Ruth
Channing Rogers, b. 16 July 1822, d. 1 June 1913, dau. of Robert and Mary (Channing); he was
first a Unitarian minister and afterwards a priest in the Protestant Episcopal Church, was head-
master of St. Mark's School, Southborough, 1873-1882, and from 1907 until his death was the
oldest living alumnus of Harvard College; three children. 4. Hannah Trecoihick Axistin, b. 12 June
1825; d. 19 July 1895; m. 13 June 1850 Reuben Jones Todd of Boston, merchant, who d. in New
York City in 1877; one son, who d. in infancj'.
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292 The New England Coolidges [Oct.
He married at Woburn, 29 May 1739, Anna Russell, who
died at Natick 18 Jan. 1782.
After the birth of their third child they moved from Sherbom
to Natick,
Children:
i. Anna,* b. 5 Aug. 1741; m. 23 May 1770 Aahon Moulton of Need-
ham.
ii. Mart, b. 20 July 1742.
iii. Elizabeth, b. 17 Dec. 1744; d. 5 Jan. 1750/1.
iv. Isaac, b. 29 Aug. 1747; d. 5 Mar. 1822; m. 23 May 1770 Abigali
Bacon of Needham. Eight children.
V. Abigail, b. 10 July 1749; m. 21 Oct. 1770 Isaac Bacon of Needham.
vi. Hannah, b. 28 Dec. 1750; d. 28 Jan. 1750/1.
vii. John, b. at Natick 11 Apr. 1752; d. 29 or 30 May 1835, aged 83;
m. 27 July 1780 Eunice Eames, who d. 24 June 1812, aged 53,
dau. of Samuel. He was a soldier of the Revolution.* Eight chil-
dren, t
viii. Samtjel, b. 13 Aug. 1753; m. at Sherbom 25 Mar. 1779, Hannah
Russell of Sherbom. Two children.
38. ix. Thomas, b. at Natick 8 Apr. 1755.
X. Elizabeth, b. 8 Nov. 1756; d. 6 Mar. 1757.
xi. Elizabeth, b. 16 Oct. 1758; m. 16 Apr. 1778 Ebenezeb Eames of
Framingham, s. of Samuel.
I 34. Josiah^ Coolidge {Obadiah* Obadiah,^ Simon,^ John^), born at
I Watertown 17 July 1718, died at Lancaster 25 Dec. 1780
I (Lancaster Vital Records, page 328) . He married Maey .
I
I •John' Coolidge of Natick, Middlesex Co., stated in 1819, in an application for a pension, that
I he sen-ed five days in the couipany commanded by Capt. Benj. Bullard, Colonel Pierce's regi-
f ment, at the Lexington alarm, and enlisted 24 Apr. 1775 in Bullard's company, CoL Jonathan
I Brewer's regiment, and served until 1 Aug. 1775, his enlistment being for eight months. David
I Morse and Benjamin Horton testified in 1818 that they served in the company commanded by
I Capt. Joseph Morse, Colonel Prescott's regiment, 1775-76, and that Coolidge served with them,
i Coolidge made another application on 13 Aug. 1832, being then aged — , and stated that after the
) Lexington alarm he enlisted for eight months in Brewer's regiment, Bullard's company, and that
I he immediately reenlisted for one year in the Continental Line imder "CoL Prescot who fougnt
j, BO bravely at Bunker Hill," Wood of Peppercll being major and Joseph Morse captain, and his
I total service at this time amounting to twenty months. In a declaration made in June 1818,
-[ practically the same as the one given above, he stated also that he was at White Plains. In June
\ 1823, aged 71 years, he made about the same declaration, adding that he was bom at Natick in
J 1752; and in a deposition dated in 1833, when he was aged more than 80, he stated that "General
I Putnam was active at Bunker Hill." He testified that he was a soldier at Bxmker Hill, that "Capt.
i Prescott was an active ofiicer on said occasion," and (in another deposition) that "CoL Prescott
1 was much distinguished in the battle of Bunker HilL" He was a corporal in Prescott's regiment,
j In 1779 he was twice called to Rhode Island, acting as sergeant in Capt. Joshua Fisk's company ,
I of which Abijah Stratton was lieutenant. On 29 June 1833 Abel Perry made affidavit that said
I Coolidge was sergeant in the company of Fiske of Natick in two alarms when the company was
called to Rhode Island. (Communicated by Eben Putnam of Wellesley Farms from papers in the
I Pension Bureau, Washington, D. C.)
I tAmos' Coolidge, seventh child of John and Eimice (Eames), b. at Natick 2 Feb. 1797, m. Louisa
I Hopkins of Boston, who d. about 1847. Their only child, Horace Hopkins' Coolidge, of Boston,
I lawyer, A.B. (Harvard, 1852), A.M. (»6., 1855), LL.B. (ii., 1856), b. in Boston 11 Feb. 1832, d.
! there 3 Feb. 1912. He m., 27 Oct. 1857, Eunice Maria Weeks, who is now living at Cambridge,
I dau. of William A. and Eunice Maria (Faxon) of Boston. He was eminent in his profession, was
; a master in chancery and a commissioner in insolvency, was for five years a member of the Massa-
1 chusetts Legislature, and served for three years (1870, 1871, 1872) as president of the Massachu-
setts Senate. Three children survived him, viz., William Williamson* (see below), Louise, who
pm. Alfred Dennis Hurd, and Alice, now deceased. Another son, Charles Cummings, d. some
years before his father.
William Williamson' Coolidge, son of Horace Hopkins, of Salem, lawyer, A.B. (Harvard, 1879),
J. B. (Boston University, 1903), b. in Boston 28 Sept. 1853, m. there, 13 Nov. 1883, Helen Whit-
tington Mills. He was in the commission business for a number of years and also made several
trips abroad. In 1901 he gave up business and entered the Boston University Law School, taking
his degree in law there in 1903. He has served in the Salem Common Council, of which he has been
resident.
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With his vsife Mary and family he was living in Bolton 12
May 1747. He, or his son of the same name, served in Capt.
Benjamin Hasting's company from Bolton at the Lexington
Alarm, 19 Apr. 1775 (Nourse's Annals of Lancaster, pages 115,
127).
Children, born probably at Bolton:
i. Mart,» m. at Bolton, 25 Mar. 1762, Amos Fuller. Five children,
b. at Bolton prior to 1775 (Fuller Genealogy, vol. 3, p. 119).
ii. JosiAH, m. at Bolton, 22 May 1772, Molly Houghton.
39. iii. John, b. about 1756.
iv. Obadiah, living in Saltash (Plymouth), Vt., in 1790, with his family,
consisting of one male over 16 years of age (himself), one male
under 16, and two females (United States Census of 1790, Vermont,
p. 64).
35. David^ Coolidge (David,* Thomas,^ Nathaniel,^ John^), of
Watertown, born at Watertown 3 Sept. 1738, died of smallpox
16 July 1788. He married, in 1765, Dorothy Stearns, who
died 2 Nov. 1815, aged 77.
Children:
i. Susanna,' b. 28 July 1766; d. of consumption 2 Apr. 1780.
ii, WiLLLAM, b. 12 Jan. 1768; d. at Watertown 27 Apr. 1820; m. 28 Nov.
1790 Mahia Mat, b. 29 Sept. 1771, d. in London, Eng., 6 Feb.
1797, dau. of Aaron and Elizabeth of Boston. He resided suc-
cessively in Boston, London (Eng.), Worcester, and Watertown,
Three children.
Peter, b. 1 Mar. 1770; d. 30 Oct. 1784.
Dorothy, b. 30 Jan. 1772; m. Thaddeus Richards of Newton.
Nine children.
Rhoda, b. 14 Mar. 1774; d. of cancer 19 Oct. 1823; m. 25 Nov. 1791
Eben Richardson, Uving a widower in 1847. Four children.
Lucy, b. 16 Feb. 1776; d. 9 Mar. 1812; m. Samuel Learned.
John Kittridge, b. 1 Feb. 1779; d. at Cincinnati, Ohio, in Apr.
1836; m. about 1800 Rebecca Wellington of Lexington. He
resided first in Watertown, but in 1811 he moved to the vicinity
of Bangor, Me., in 1815 to Waterford, Ohio, and in 1817 to Cin-
cinnati. Nine children.
40. viii. James, b. 25 May 1781.
ix. Mary, b. 29 Mar. 1783; d. at WheeUng, Va. (now W. Va.), in July
1842; m. in Nov. 1802 James Richards of Newton, farmer. In
1815 they moved to Bridgeport, Pa., and soon afterwards to
Wheehng, Va. Eight children.
X. Sally, b. 2 Feb. 1785; d. 4 June 1815; m. Martin Stone of Framing-
ham. One son.
xi. Peter, of Framingham, b. 2 July 1787; d. 3 Nov. 1851; m. (1) 28
June 1813 Sarah Taplet Munroe of Cambridge, who d. 4 Jan.
1823, aged 37; m. (2) 1 July 1824 Mary P. Fiske of Framingham.
Four children by first wife and three children by second wife.
36. Thomas* Coolidge (David* Thomas,^ Nathaniel,'^ John^), born
at Watertown 5 Mar. 1748/9, died at I;ivermore, Me., in 1834.
He married, in Apr. 1773, Lucy Wyeth, born 7 Feb. 1754,
died at Livermore 16 Oct. 1850, aged 96 years, 8 months,
daughter of Jonas and Hepzibah (Field) of Cambridge.
He moved to Livermore, Me., in 1790.
Children :
41. i. JoNAS,« b. 14 Feb. 1774.
ii, Capt. Daniel, of Livermore, farmer, b. 24 Apr. 1775; m. 21 Sept.
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1799 Jeeusha Fuller, b. 9 Mar. 1774, d. in 1848, dau. of Edward
of Newton. He was a captain of Cavalry. Eleven children.
iii. Cornelius, of Dexter, Me., b. 30 Sept. 1776; d. 4 Sept. 1843: m.
29 May 1812 Susan Fletcher of Wilton, N. H. Eight children.
iv. Thomas, of Livermore, b. 14 Feb. 1778; d. 23 June 1846; m. in
July 1810 Phebe Paul of Livermore, b. at Freetown, Mass.
'. Seven children.
? V. Lucy, b. 3 Aug. 1779; d. 8 July 1785.
i vi. Elisha, of Solon, Me., b. 30 May 1784; m. 2 Jan. 1825 Mehitabel
I Boyce of Madison, Me. Nine children.
yii. Lucy, b. 23 Aug. 1785; d. in 1787.
I viii. Hepzibah, b. 26 Jan. 1787; m. 1 Oct. 1830 Alden Chandler of
I Poland, Me.
i ix. Betsey, b. 24 May 1788; d. 25 Oct. 1841; m. 13 Aug. 1807 Artemas
i Leonard, then a trader of Livermore, afterwards a banker of
I Hallowell, Me. Four children.
37. Joseph^ Coolidge (Joseph,* John,^ Jonathan,^ John^), of Boston,
merchant, born 27 July 1747, died 6 Oct. 1820, "aged 74." He
married first, 1 June 1772, Elizabeth Boyer, born in 1754,
died in 1786, aged 32, daughter of Daniel and Ehzabeth (Bul-
finch);* and secondly, 2 Apr. 1788, Kathaeint: Boyer, born
in 1755, died 5 Dec. 1829, aged 74, sister of his first wife.
He was an ardent " Son of Liberty " and is said to have been
i one of the famous "Boston Tea Party." His epitaph and those
i of his wives and other members of the family may be found in
I King's Chapel.
I Children by first wife:
I 42. i. Joseph, b. 15 Mar. 1773.
\ ii. Daniel, b. in 1774; d. in London, Eng., 27 May 1801, aged 27.
j iii. Elizabeth, d. aged 4 years.
] iv. John, d. young,
I V. Ann, d. j'oung.
\ . 43. vi. Charles, b. about 1781.
\ vii. George Henry, d. young.
\ Child by second wife:
I viii. Edward, d. young.
38. Thomas® Coolidge {Capt. John,^ Maj. Isaac,* John,^ Ensign
John,^ John'-), of Natick, born at Natick 8 Apr. 1755, died there
: 2 or 5 Sept. 1830. He married at Natick, 19 Sept. 1776,
Molly Felch, born at Natick 4 June 1757, died there 12
July 1841, daughter of John and Mary (Bacon).
Children :
44. i. WiLLiAii,^ b. at Natick 3 Dec. 1777.
ii. Anna, b. 19 Dec. 1781.
iii. Timothy, b. 29 July 1784; d. 1 Dec. 1812 or 1813, aged 28.
iv. Molly, b. 4 Nov. 1787.
V. Zerviah, b. 22 Nov. 1791; d. in infancy,
vi. Zerviah, b. 15 June 1793.
vii. Cynthia, b. at Sherborn 1 Nov. 1796; m. at Natick, 5 July 1815,
William Hammon, Jr.
viii. Thomas, b. at Barre 1 Sept. 1800.
♦Daniel Boyer was son of James and Marianne (Johonnot) Boyer and was, through his mother,
J of French Huguenot descent; for Daniel Johonnot, father of Marianne (Johonnot) Boj er, was
I bom in France, came to Massachusetts in 1686, with his wife Serzane and other relatives, and
S settled in Oxford. Elizabeth Bulfinch, wife of Daniel Boyer, was daughter of John Bulfinch and
I granddaughter of Adino Bulfinch, who came to America in 1680.
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39. Capt. John* Coolidge (Josiah,^ Obadiah* Obadiah,^ Simon,^
John}), bom, probably at Bolton, about 1756, died at Plymouth,
Vt., 22 Mar. 1822. He married at Lancaster, 8 Sept. 1779,
Rev. Timothy Harrington officiating, Hannah Priest, daugh-
ter of James and Hannah (Lawrence) of Marlborough. (Lan-
caster Vital Records, page 126.)
John Coohdge of Bolton appears as a private in Capt.
Artemas Howe's company at the Lexington alarm, 19 Apr.
1775. He enlisted in Capt. Robert Longley's company. Col.
Asa Whitcomb's regiment, 25 Apr. 1775, and served for three
months and thirteen days in that year, being stationed in June
at Cambridge (Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the
Revolutionary War, vol. 3, pages 956, 965.) He was present
at the siege of Boston and at Bunker Hill, and may have
taken part in later miUtary movements of the Revolution. He
is probably the John Coolidge who served in Capt. David
Moore's company. Lieutenant Colonel Hallett's regiment,
which was raised for three months' service in Rhode Island,
the roll, dated 21 July 1781, stating that all the officers were
from Bolton.
In 1781 he removed to Saltash (now Plymouth), Vt., and
cleared a farm there; and he was elected a selectman there at
the first town meeting, in Mar. 1789. In the Vermont Census
of 1790 he appears as head of a family in Saltash, consisting
of one male over 16 years, three males under 16, and three
females.
Children:
45. i. Calvin,' b. 27 Mar. 1780.
ii. LuTHEE, b. 6 May 1781.
iii. Oliver.
iv. Polly, m. Sprague.
V. Catherine, m. Sawyer.
40. James* Coolidge (David,^ David* Thomas,^ Nathaniel,^ John^),
born 25 May 1781, died in May 1827. He married first, 1 Sept.
1802, Betsey Wild of Boston, who died 10 Apr. 1823; and
secondly, 20 June 1824, Frances (Burrill) Thurston of
Brighton.
Children by first wife:
i. James,' b. 21 Dec. 1802; m. Sarah Voax of Boston. Two children.
ii. Eliza, b. 8 Mar. 1804.
iii. David, b. 14 Aug. 1805; d. 15 Oct. 1806.
iv. Sarah, b. 25 Apr. 1808; d. 27 May 1808.
V. William, b. 2 July 1810; d. in Aug. 1827.
vi. Mary Jane, b. 3 Aug. 1813; d. 17 Apr. 1816.
vii. Mary, b. 13 Apr. 1816; d. 10 May 1816.
viii. Mary Caroline, b. 15 Oct. 1817; d. 20 Feb. 1827.
ix. Sarah Voax, b. and d. in June 1822.
Children by second wife:
X. Frances La Fayette, b. 2 Nov. 1825; d. 19 Nov. 1826.
xi. Henry James, b. in Boston 15 May 1827; m. Mary Martin Ding-
le y, b. in Boston 26 Nov. 1825, dau. of John Thomas Dingley of
Boston and Marshfield and his wife, Mary Coleman (Martin).
Their son, Henry Dingley^ Coolidge, of Concord, b. at Chelsea
296 The New England CooUdges [Oct.
26 Aug. 1858, d. at Cambridge 7 Feb. 1922, was clerk of the Massa-
chusetts Senate for more than thirty years and a resident member-
of the New England Historic Genealogical Society from 1913
until his death. (Cf. memoir of Henry Dmgley CkwUdge in Regis-
TEH, vol. 77, p. Ixii.)
41. Jonas* Coolidge {Thomas,^ David,"' Thomas,^ Nathaniel,'^ John}),
I of Boston, grocer, was bom 14 Feb. 1774. He married, 3 June
I 1799, Sally Rouse of Cambridge.
I Children:
I i. Samxtel Bahron,' b. 17 Apr. 1800.
I 46. ii. Charles Leonard, b. 29 Aug. 1801.
I iii. George, b. 20 May 1803; d. young.
i iv. Henry Atjgtjstus, b. 4 Nov. 1804; d. young.
V. Lttct Wteth, b. 7 Oct. 1806.
vi. Sarah, b. 25 Sept. 1809.
vii. Edwin, of Philadelphia, Pa., shoe-dealer, b. 16 Oct. 1811.
viii. Elizabeth French, b. 25 June 1813; m. Peter Hawes of Roxbury.
ix. Henrietta Jones, b. 29 Feb. 1816.
J X. Ann Nason, b.l June 1818; d. young.
I 42. Joseph® Coolidge (Joseph,^ Joseph,* John,^ Jonathan,^ John}), of
{ Boston, merchant, born 15 Mar. 1773, died 15 Nov. 1840. He
I married, 20 Sept. 1796, his second cousin once removed,
I Elizabeth Btilfinch, bom 29 Jan. 1777, died 17 Jan. 1837,
I daughter of Dr. Thomas Bulfinch, Jr., and Susan (Apthorp),
I granddaughter of Dr. Thomas Bulfinch, Sr., and Judith (Col-
I man), and great-granddaughter of Adino Bulfinch, the inuni-
I grant. She was a sister of Charles Bulfinch, the famous architect.
I He was educated at the royal military college at Sor^ze, in
I southern France, and afterwards travelled extensively in
I Europe. He owned a large estate in Boston, and the family
I name has been attached to the Coolidge Corner district in
:' Brookline.
Children:
i. Elizabeth Boter,^ b. in 1797; d. 27 Jan. 1880, aged 83; m. 15 Jan.
1822 Tasker Hazard Swett of Boston, merchant, b. 7 Jime
1795, d. 2 Sept. 1841, s. of Dr. John Barnard and Charlotte
(Bourne) of Newburyport. Children (surname jSweH): 1- •E'^isoftef A
Little, b. 3 Dec. 1822; d. 12 Jan. 1866; m. 31 Mar. 1846 Horace
Binney Sargent, A.B. (Harvard, 1843), LL.B. {ib., 1845), A.M.
{ih., 1846), b. 30 June 1821, d. in 1908, s. of Lucius Manhus and
Mary (Binney) ; four children, of whom the second son and child,
Lucius Manlius Sargent, m. his second cousin, Marian Appleton
Coolidge (47, vi, 1), q.v. 2. Joseph Coolidge, whose name was
changed by the Legislature, 23 May 1851, to Joseph Swett Coolidge,
A.B. (Harvard, 1849), b. 7 Mar. 1829; d. 1 Mar. 1887; m. 7 Nov.
1851 his second cousin, Mary Louisa Coohdge (43, iii, i), b. 21
Sept. 1832, dau. of John Templeman and Louisa (Tilden).* 3.
; *Children of Joseph Swett and Mary Louisa (Coolidge) Coolidge: 1. Elizabeth Boyer, b. in Paris ,
■' France, 16 Apr. 1853; m. 14 Oct. 1879 Richard John Hall, M.D., b. in co. Armagh, Ireland, d.
at Santa Barbara, Calif., 24 Jan. 1897, s. of Rev. Dr. John and Emily (Bolton) of Ireland; resi-
dence, Santa Barbara; they had issue. 2. John Templeman, of Boston and Portsmouth, N. H.,
artist, A.B. (Harvard, 1879), b. in Boston 1 Jan. 1856; m. (1) at BrookUne, 16 Sept. 1879, Catherine
\ ScoUay Parkman, b. 22 Aug. 1858, d. in Boston 12 Feb. 1900, dau. of Francis and Catherine SooUay
J (Bigelow), her father being the distinguished historian: m. (2) at Kennebunk, Me., 3 Sept. 1913,
i Mary Abigail Parsons; five children by first wife. 3. Rogi (originally Louise Rich§), b. 5 Feb.
I 1857; d. 30 Mar. 1895; m. 22 Nov. 1882 WilUam Duncan Mcliim, M.D., b. 14 Feb. 1855, s. of
5 Haslett and Sally (Birckhead) of Baltimore, Md.; residence. New York City.
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WiUiam Bourne, of Boston, b. 14 Nov. 1832; d. 19 Aug. 1888;
m. in King's Chapel, Boston, 4 Oct. 1858, Susan Heard Wmthrop,
who d. 4 Sept. 1886, dau. of Granville Temple and Frances Maria
(Heard).
47. ii. Joseph, b. 30 Oct. 1798.
iii. Thomas Bulfinch, of Boston, A.B. (Harvard and Yale, 1819), A.M.
(Harvard, 1822), b. about 1802; d. s.p. 3 Mar. 1850, aged 48; m.
Susan Elizabeth Goldsbohough, dau. of Robert H. and Henri-
etta Maria (Nichols) of Myrtle Grove, Easton, Md.
iv. Susan Apthorp, d. young.
V. Susan Bulfinch, b. 6 Mar. 1812; d. 23 Dec. 1898; m. 27 Apr. 1841
Joseph Lyman, b. 17 Aug. 1812, d. 14 Aug. 1871, s. of Judge
Joseph and his second wife, Anne Jean (Robbins), of Northampton.
No children.
vi. Anna, d. young.
vii. Anna Stober, b. 3 Aug. 1819; d. 13 July 1881; m., as his second
wife, Col. William Edgar Pbincb of New York, b. 19 Mar.
1816, d. 21 Jan. 1892. No children.
43. Charles® Coolidge (Joseph,^ Joseph* John,^ Jonathan,^ John^),
born about 1781, died 14 Sept. 1821, aged 40. He married,
1 Apr. 1805, Mehitable Templeman, bom about 1786, died
1 Feb. 1819, aged 33, daughter of John (a native of England)
{ and Mehitable (Bacon) (Lawless) of Boston and of George-
f town, D. C.
I Children:
I i, Charles,^ b. in Boston 30 May 1806; d. at Chester, N. H., 23 July
I 1877; m. (1) 14 June 1827 Louisa Ann Noble Dillingham, b.
\ at Holmes's Hole, Martha's Vineyard, 17 Aug. 1806, d. 14 Apr.
{ 1866, dau. of Asa and Drusilla Bonneau (Noble); m. (2) at Salem,
\ 26 Feb. 1868, Mrs. Frances D. (Pope) Palmer, who d. at Salem
\ in 189-. Ten children by first wife.
; ii. Catherine Boter, b. 29 Feb. 1808; d. 7 Nov. 1861; m. 22
i 1831 Samuel Wtllis Pomerot of Cincinnati, Ohio, s. of Samuel
i W. and Clarissa (Alsop) of Brighton. Seven children.
I iii. JohnTempleman, b. 26Jan. 1811;d. 28Dec. 1889;m. llNov. 1831
', Louisa Riche Tilden, b. 11 Nov. 1811, d. 10 Apr. 1899, dau. of
' William and Hannah (Inman). Children: 1. Mary Louisa,^ h. 21
: Sept. 1832; m. 7 Nov. 1851 her second cousin, Joseph Swett
• Coolidge (formerly Joseph Coolidge Swett) (42, i. 2), q.v., A.B.
I (Harvard, 1849), b. 7 Mar. 1829, d. 1 Mar. 1887, s. of Tasker
Hazard and Elizabeth (Coolidge) Swett. 2. John Templeman, b.
18 June 1834; m. in Mar. 1860 Anna Tucker Parker, b. 10 Dec.
1835, d. at Cotuit 18 Oct. 1899, dau. of James and Anna (Tucker);
no children.
iv. Hetty, b. 24 July 1812; d. 21 Feb. 1879; m. 29 July 1838 Rev.
Benjamin Isaacs Haight, D.D., of New York City, b. in 1809,
d. in 1879. He was assistant rector of Trinity Church, New York
City. One son.
V. Sarah Templeman, b. 7 June 1814; d. 8 Sept. 1874; m. 21 Sept.
1835 Uriah Tracy Howe of Cincinnati, Ohio, b. 25 June 1811,
d. 7 Apr. 1888, s. of Judge Samuel and Sarah (Robbins) Howe of
Northampton. Five children,
vi. Elizabeth Boyer, b. 20 Feb. 1817; d. unm. 7 July 1835.
44. Dea. William^ Coolidge (Thomas,^ Capt. John,^ Maj. Isaac*
John,^ Ensign John,'^ John^), of Natick, born at Natick 3 Dec.
1777, died there 3 Apr. 1859. He married first, at Natick
(intention recorded 4 Mar. 1799), Hannah Rice, born in 1779,
298 The New England CooUdges [Oct.
died at Natick 5 June 1819, aged 40; and secondly, at Natick,
15 Feb. 1821, Sally Washburn.
Children by first wife :
i. Oren,' b. 20 Feb. 1800; m. at Sherbom, 29 Dec. 1822, Rebecca
i Frost of Sherborn. Three children.
I ii. William, b. 21 Nov. 1801; m. at Westford, 8 Apr. 1824, Anna
i Leighton of Westford. Eight children.
I iii. Louisa, b. at Natick 12 Oct. 1805; d. 2 Sept. 1825.
I 48. iv. Timothy, b. at Natick 13 Nov. 1812.
I Perhaps others.
I 45. Calvin^ Coolidge (Capt. John,^ Josiah,^ Obadiah* Obadiah,^
j Simon? John^), born 27 Mar. 1780, died at Plymouth, Vt.,
i 30 Apr. 1853. He married, 21 Dec. 1814, Sarah Thompson,
I born 3 Apr. 1789, died at Plymouth 19 Nov. 1856.
He settled on a farm at Plymouth Notch, Vt., in 1801.
Children, born at Plymouth, Vt.:
49. i. Calvin Galusha,' b. 22 Sept. 1815.
i ii. Sally Maria, b. 19 Jan. 1822; d. 24 June 1849.
Several other children, who d. in infancy.
46. Charles Leonard^ Coolidge (Jonas, ^ Thomas,^ David,^ Thomas,^
Nathaniel,'^ John^), of Boston, born 29 Aug. 1801, died in
1842 or 1843. He married Elizabeth Lydia Hill, born 24
Apr. 1812, died 7 Jan. 1880, daughter of David, a soldier in
the Revolution.
Child:
i. David Hill,' of Boston, lawyer, A.B. (Harvard, 1854), A.M. (ib.,
1857), b. in Boston 7 Feb. 1833; d. there 7 Dec. 1907; m. in Brook-
line, 6 Jan. 1858, Isabella Shurtleff, b. in Boston 25 Oct. 1835,
d. 5 Mar. 1923, dau. of Dr. Samuel Atwood and Eliza (Carleton)
of Boston and later of Brookline. He was prepared for college at
the Boston Latin School, and after graduating at Harvard studied
law for a year at the Harvard Law School and for two j'ears in
the office of Hon. Peleg W. Chandler. He was admitted to the
Suffolk bar 15 Sept. 1857, and practised his profession in Boston.
In 1863 and 1864 he was a member of the Boston Common Council
for Ward 6, and in 1865 he represented the same ward in the
Lower House of the Massachusetts Legislature. In 1865, also, he
was elected one of the commissioners of insolvency for Suffolk
County for a term of three years, and was reelected for each of the
four following terms, his service in this office extending over a
period of fifteen years. For several }'ears he was a trustee of the
Boston City Hospital, and he was secretar>- of the Harvard Class
of 1854. Children, born in Boston: I. Charles Allerton,^ of Boston,
architect, A.B. (Harvard, 1881), Art.D. (ib., 1906), b. 30 Nov.
1858; m. in St. Louis, Mo., 30 Oct. 1SS9, Julia Shepley, b. in St.
Louis 6 Oct. 1856, dau. of John R. and Mary A. of St. Louis;
he was educated for his profession at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology (1881-82) and in the offices of Ware & Van Brunt
of Boston and H. H. Richardson of Brookline, and in 1886 became
a member of the firm of Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge, which suc-
ceeded to the business of Mr. Richardson, with headquarters in
Boston and branches in Chicago and St. Louis; in 1914 this firm
was succeeded by the present firms of CooUdge & Shattuck in
Boston and Coolidge & Hodgdon in Chicago; among the many
noteworthy buildings designed by the firms of which Dr. Coolidge
has been a member are those of the Hars'ard Medical School,
the Harvard Freshman dormitories, the Leland Stanford Junior
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University, and many other college buildings, libraries, hospitals,
banks, and mercantile buildings; he has visited Europe several
times, and in 1916 was sent to China by the Rockefeller Founda-
tion to report on a site for buildings for the China Medical Board
at Peking and Shanghai; he is a fellow of the American Academy
of Arts and Sciences, was made a chevalier of the Legion of Honor
in 1900, and received from Harvard University the honorary
degree of Doctor of Architecture in 1906; on Commencement Day,
1922, he was elected an overseer of Harvard University for a term
of six years; he resided in Chicago for most of the time from 1892
to 1900, and since 1900 has resided in Boston; four children. 2.
Isabella, h. 20 Mar. 1861; m. in Boston, 19 Dec. 1894, William
Thomas Councilman of Boston, physician, M.D. (University of
Maryland, 1878), honorary A.M. (Harvard, 1899, and Johns
! Hopkins, 1902), LL.D. (University of Maryland, 1907, and McGill
University, 1911), b. at PikesvUle, Baltimore Co., Md., 1 Jan.
1854, s. of Dr. John T. and Christiana Drummond (Mitchell);
he was associate professor of anatomy in the Johns Hopkins
University, 1886-1891, and Shattuck Professor of Pathological
Anatomy in Harvard University from 1892 on (now professor
emeritus); he is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and
i Sciences, a member of the National Academy of Sciences and of
I the American Philosophical Society, and the author of various
! medical monographs; three children. 3. David Hill, of Boston,
I landscape arcmtect, A.B. (Harvard, 1886), b. 2 Sept. 1863; m.
I in Boston, 25 Nov. 1890, Harriet Sears Crowninshield, b. in Boston
I 23 Sept. 1869, dau. of Gen. Caspar and Elizabeth Copley (Greene)
I of Boston; in 1886-87 he was a student at the Bussey Institution,
I and in 1888-1893 he studied landscape gardening with F. L. &
i J. C. Olmstead of Brookline; since 1893 he has followed the pro-
I fession of a landscape architect in Boston, first as a member of
I the firm of Coolidge & Titus and afterwards by himself; he has
I travelled much abroad; one daughter. 4. Frederick Shurtleff, A.B.
I (Harvard, 1887), M.D. (ib., 1891, and Rush Medical College,
i 1897), b. 19 Dec. 1865; d. in 1915; m. in Chicago, 111., 12
■ Nov. 1891, Elizabeth Penn Sprague, b. in Chicago 30 Oct. 1864,
j dau. of Albert Arnold and Nancy Ann (Atwood) ; he was assistant
I surgeon in the New York Orthopedic Hospital and Dispensary
i in the winter of 1891-92, travelled and studied in Europe, 1892-
93, and in Mar. 1893 became lecturer in orthopedic surgery in the
Rush Medical College, Chicago, where in 1900 he was made
■ assistant professor of orthopedic surgery; in 1902 he was compelled
by ill health to abandon his medical career in Chicago, and, after
; spending two and a half years at Saranac Lake, N. Y., settled at
Pittsfield, Mass., where he practised orthopedic surgery as far as
his health permitted; Mrs. Coolidge, who resides in New York
City, was elected a Pilgrim Tercentenary member of the New
England Historic Genealogical Society 1 Oct. 1919; one son.
47. Joseph^ Coolidge (Joseph,^ Joseph,' Joseph,^ John,^ Jonathan,'^
John'-), of Boston, merchant, A.B. (Harvard, 1817), A.M.
(lb., 1820), born 30 Oct. 1798, died 15 Dec. 1879. He married
at Monticello, Va., 27 May 1825, Eleonora Wayles Ran-
dolph, born 30 Oct. 1796, died 30 Apr. 1876, daughter of
Thomas Mann and Martha (Jefferson) Randolph of Albe-
marle Co., Va., and granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson of
Monticello, third President of the United States, and his wife,
Martha (Wayles) (Skelton).
After graduating at Harvard he travelled in Europe, and
;' became a friend of Lord Byron, who mentions hun in his
i journal in 1821.
300 The New England CooUdges [Oct.
Children :
L Ellen Randolph,' b. 30 Mar. 1826; d. s.p. 9 May 1894; m. 24 Jan.
I 1855 Edmund D wight of Boston, corporation treasurer, A.B.
I (Harvard, 1844), b. in Boston 30 Sept. 1824, d. 6 June 1900, s.
I of Edmund and Mary Harrison (Eliot).
I ii. Elizabeth Bulfinch, b. in 1827; d. 9 June 1832.
f iii. Joseph Randolph, of Boston, lawyer, LL.B. (Harvard, 1854), b.
I in Boston 29 Dec. 1828; m. 18 Dec. 1860 JtrnA Gardner, bom in
f Boston 4 Aug. 1841, d. 6 Jan. 1921, dau. of John Lowell and Cather-
j ine Elizabeth (Peabody) of Boston. He was a student at Harvard
■i College, 1848-1850. Children: 1. Joseph Randolph,' Jr., of Brook-
• line, architect, A.B. (Harvard, 1883), A.M. (ib., 1884), b. in Boston
I 17 May 1862; m. there, 28 Oct. 1886, Mary Hamilton Hill, dau.
) of Hamilton A. and Mary Eliza (Robbins); he is a member of the
I firm of Coolidge & Carlson, architects, of Boston; eight children,
r 2. John Gardner, of Boston, diplomat, A.B. (Harvard, 1884), b.
in Boston 4 July 1863; m. at North Andover, 29 Apr. 1909, Helen
Granger Stevens, b. in Boston, dau. of Henry James and Helen
(Granger) of North Andover; he has travelled much abroad, haa
been in the diplomatic service of the United States, and in 1908
was United States minister to Nicaragua; Mrs. Coolidge was
elected a resident member of the New England Historic Genealogi-
cal Society 3 Apr. 1923; no children. 3. Archibald Cary, of Boston,
j historian, A.B. (Harvard, 1887), Ph.D. (Freiburg in Baden, 1892),
5 LL.D. (Harvard, 1916), b. in Boston 6 Mar. 1866; unm.; he was
i in the diplomatic service of the United States in the early nineties,
I and has been for many years professor of history at Harvard
I University and director of the University Library; he is a member
f of the Massachusetts Historical Society and a fellow of the Ameri-
■} can Academy of Arts and Sciences; he served on various missions
I in Europe in and after the World War, and was attached to the
I Peace Conference in Paris in 1919; he is the author of "The United
I States as a World Power," 1908, "The Ori^ of the Triple
; Alliance," 1917, and numerous historical articles in periodical
I publications. 4. Harold Jefferson, of Boston, lawyer, A.B. (Har-
i vard, 1892), LL.B. (ib., 1896), b. at Nice, France, 22 Jan. 1870;
I m. in Boston, 19 Feb. 1903, Edith Lawrence, dau. of Amory
I Appleton and Emily Fairfax (Silsbee); he has been a resident
] member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society since
! Feb. 1917; three children. 5. Jidian Lowell, of Cambridge, mathe-
I matician, A.B. (Harvard, 1895), B.Sc. (Oxford, 1897), Ph.D.
i (Bonn, 1904), b. at Brookline 28 Sept. 1873; m. in Boston, 17 Jan.
I 1901, Theresa Reynolds of Boston, dau. of Dr. John Phillips and Jane
I Minot (Revere); he is professor of mathematics at Harvard Uni-
i versity, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,
I and the author of various works on mathematics; in the World
War he served as a major with the American Expeditionary Forces
in France, and received the cross of the Legion of Honor in 1919;
eight children.
iv. Algernon (originally Algernon Sidney) (twin), of Boston, physician,
M.D. (Harvard, 1853), honorary A.M. {ib., 1869), b. in Boston
22 Aug. 1830; d. 4 Jan. 1912; m. 15 July 1856 Mary Lowell, b.
at Waltham 26 July 1833, d. 11 Feb. 1915, dau. of Francis Cabot
and Mary Lowell (Gardner). He was a fellow of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in the spring of 1862 was an
acting assistant surgeon in the hospital service of the United States
in the Civil War. Children: 1. Algernon,^ of Boston, physician,
; A.B. (Harvard, 1881), M.D. (ib., 1886), b. in Boston 24 Jan.
j 1860; m. there, 15 Dec. 1896, Amy Peabody Lothrop, dau. of
! Thornton Kirkland and Anne Maria (Hooper) of Boston; he is
I professor of laryngology in Harvard University, a fellow of the
\ American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and author of various
I publications on medical subjects; three children. 2. Francis Lowdl,
I
i
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of Boston, merchant, A.B. (Princeton, 1884), b. in Boston 20 Nov.
1861; m. 19 Nov. 1901 Alice Brackett White of Boston, dau. of
Charles Tallman and Sarah Brackett (Richardson) ; he was a mem-
ber of the Boston School Committee, 1897-1903, and was elected
a resident member of the New England Historic Genealogical
Society3May 1916; no children. 3. (Sidriey, of Concord, corporation
treasurer, A.B. (Harvard, 1911, as of 1886), b. in Boston 8 Mar.
1864; m. at St. Joseph, Mo., 13 Aug. 1890, Mary Laura Colt of
St. Joseph, dau. of Benjamin Fletcher and Helen (Buckingham);
eight children. 4. EUen Wayles, of Boston, b. 24 Jan. 1866.
5. Man/ Lowell, b. 14 Aug. 1868; m. in Boston, 14 June 1898,
Frederick Otis Barton of New York City, merchant, A.B. (ELarvard,
1881), b. at Manchester, N. H., 20 Jan. 1858, d. in New York
City 14 Feb. 1904, s. of Otis and Sarah Jewett (Tuck); four chil-
j dren, b. in New "York City.
V. Maj. Sidney (originally Philip Sidney) (twin), scientist, soldier,
honorary A.M. (Harvard, 1857), b. in Boston 22 Aug. 1830; killed
in the Battle of Chickamauga, 19 Sept. 1863; d. unm. He was
educated abroad from 1839 to 1850 — at Geneva and Vevey in
Switzerland and at the royal mihtary academy in Dresden, Saxony,
and on his return to the United States followed for a while the
j profession of a civil engineer in Virginia and Minnesota. After-
j wards he was employed in the office of the Nautical Almanac and
i in the Harvard Astronomical Observatory. In 1853 he was attached
j as astronomer to Commodore Perry's expedition to Japan. In
{ 1854 he was a member of the staff of the Harvard Observatory,
I and in the following year he was in charge of an expedition to
I determine the difference in longitude between Greenwich, Eng.,
) and Cambridge, Mass. In 1856—57 he was studying the dialects
I and astronomical superstitions of the Indiana near the Saguenay
I River and Lake Mistassini in Canada. Being in Mexico in 1858,
I he took part in the civil war there, was taken prisoner, and was
I sentenced to be shot, but was released on parole. The next year
I he was engaged in tne land survey of Arizona. In May 1861 he
I was commissioned major in the Regular Army of the United
t States, and served in the Civil War with the Sixteenth Infantry.
I At the Battle of Chickamauga he was in command of this and
! two other regiments, and was killed while leading a charge. His
, body was never recovered; but his sword was taken from the
; CorSederate CJeneral Gowan, on his surrender at Jonesboro, Ga.,
} in Sept. 1864. For his meritorious conduct at Chickamauga
; Major Coolidge was brevetted lieutenant colonel.
! vi. Hon. Thomas Jefferson, of Boston, merchant, financier, diplomat,
A.B. (Harvard, 1850), A.M. (*., 1853), LL.D, (i6., 1902), b. in
Boston 26 Aug. 1831; d. there 17 Nov. 1920; m. there, 4 Nov.
■: 1852, Hetty Sullivan Appleton, b. 29 May 1831, d. 18 Mar.
1901, dau. of WiUiam and Mary Ann (Cutler) of Boston. He was
eminent in business and financial circles^ and was especially
interested in cotton manufacturing, performmg his most important
work in this field as a director, treasurer, and president of the
Amoskeag Manufacturing Company of Manchester, N. H. "In
the presidential campaign of 1884, alarmed by the antiprotection
tendencies of the Democratic party, with which he had been
affiliated from his early manhood, he went over to the Republican
party, and contributed liberally to the Republican campaign fund;
and ... in later campaigns he continued to give to the Republi-
cans his financial support." (Register, vol. 75, p. Ixxxvii.) He
was appointed to various commissions by the Governor of Massa-
chusetts and the President of the United States, and was United
States minister to France in 1892-93. He was a hberal benefactor
of Harvard University, and was a member of its Board of Over-
seers for eleven years, 1886-1897. He was a vice president of the
Massachusetts Historical Society and a Pilgrim Tercentenary
302 The New England Coolidges [Oct.
member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society from
1919 until his death. A memoir of Mr. Coolidge may be found in
the Register, vol. 75, p. Ixxxv. Children: 1. Marian AppleUm,*
b. 7 Sept. 1853; m. in Boston, 16 Nov. 1876^ her second cousin,
Lucius ManUus Sargent, lawyer, corporation treasurer, A.B.
(Harvard, 1870), LL.B. (i6., 187.5), b. at Roxbury 5 July 1848, d.
in Boston 14 Nov. 1893, s. of Horace Binney and Ehzabeth Little
(Swett) {vide supra. 42, i, 1); one daughter. 2. Eleonora Randolph, b.
21 Sept. 1856; d. m Boston 19 Dec. 1912; m. in Boston, 18 June
1879, Frederick Richard Sears of Boston, A.B. (Harvard, 1875), b.
in Boston 1 Mar. 1855, s. of Frederick Richard and Marian (Shaw);
two children. 3. Sarah Lawrence, b. 2 Jan. 1858; d. in New York
City 29 Dec. 1922; m. 2 June 1880 Thomas Newbold of New
York City, b. 19 May 1849, s. of Thomas Haines and Mary
EHzabeth (Rhinelander) ; three children. 4. Thomas Jefferson, Jr.,
of Boston, banker, A.B. (Harvard, 1884), b. in Boston 16 Mar.
1863; d. 14 Apr. 1912; m. in Boston, 30 Sept. 1891, Clara Amory,
dau. of Charles Walter and EUzabeth (Gardner) of Boston; with
the aid of his father he founded in 1890 the well-known Old Colony
Trust Company of Boston, of which he was the first president;
four children.
48. Timothy^ Coolidge {William', Thomas,^ Capt. John,^ Maj.
Isaac* John,^ Ensign John,'^ John^), of Natick, born at Natick
13 Nov. 1812, died there 3 Jan. 1893. He married there, 19
Apr. 1832, Lowly Ann Howe, born at Framingham 3 June
1810, died at Natick 20 Sept. 1861, daughter of Amasa and
Mary (Tombs).
ChUd:
i. William Leandee,» b. at Natick 21 Apr. 1833; d. there 4 Mar. 1904;
m. there, 17 Mar. 1858, Sahah Isabella Washburn, b. at Natick
3 Apr. 1836, d. in Dec. 1906. Children: 1. WiUiam Henry, ^^ of
Manchester, law>-er, A.B. (Harvard, 1881), b. at Natick 23 Feb.
1859; m. at Bergen Point, N. J., 3 Oct. 1887, May Humphre}'s,
dau. of George Decius and Sarah Frances (Young) of St. Loius,
Mo.; he studied law for two years at the Harvard Law School
and afterwards in a Boston law office, was admitted to the Suffolk
bar in Jan. 1885, and has since then practised his profession in
Boston, having been coimsel for the Boston & Maine Railroad,
the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, and other
raUroad companies and corporations, and serving also as a director
in many corporations; during the World War he was engaged in
secret work for the War and Navy Departments; since 1913 he
has been a resident member of the New England Historic Genea-
logical Society; residences: Winchester (until 1891), Newton
Centre (1S91-1906); "Bhmman Farm," Manchester (since 1906);
four children. 2. Hon. Louis Arthur, of Milton, A.B. (Harvard,
1883), b. at Natick 8 Oct. 1S61; m. at Washington, D. C, 2 Jan.
1890, Helen Irene Pickerill; he was a newspaper correspondent for
several years, residing chiefly in Washington, where also at one
time he was secretary to Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge, he was Assistant
Secretary' of the Treasury, 1908-09, and since then he has been
connected as treasurer with the United Shoe Machinery Company
in Boston and with other corporations and has been active in
Republican politics; three children. 3. Herman Timothy , A.B.
(Harvard, 1887), b. at Natick 5 Dec. 1864; d. there unm. 30 Sept.
1889. 4. Frederic Washburn, b. 1 Mar. 1867; d. 27 Oct. 1869.
5. Leander, A.B. (Harvard, 1894), b. at Natick 21 July 1870; d.
unm. at Liberty, N. Y., 29 Jan. 1899; he was a student at the
Union Theological Seminarj', New York City, in the year 1894^95,
and spent the next year, 1895-96, at the Yale Divinity School; he
1923] The New England CooUdges 303
entered upon a second year of study there, but in Dec. 1896 was
obliged by failing health to give up his theological course. 6.
Albert Edward, b. 19 Apr. 1872; d. 2 Aug. 1873. 7. Mary Isabella,
b. 24 Jan. 1874; d. 21 Apr. 1875. 8. Harry WashJburn, b. 1 Aug.
1876; d. 21 May 1882. 9. Edward Erwin, A.B. (Harvard, 1901),
LL.B. {jb., 1903), b. 11 Apr. 1879; d. at Altadena, Calif., 4 June
1906.
49. Calvin Galusha* Coolidge {Calvin,'' Capt. John,^ Josiah,^,
Obadiah,* Obadiah,^ Simon,'^ John}), born at Plymouth, Vt.,
22 Sept. 1815, died there 15 Dec. 1878. He married, 3 Mar.
1844, Sarah Almeda Brewer, born at Ludlow, Vt., 17 Dec.
1823, died at Plymouth 2 Jan. 1906.
He held the office of justice of the peace twenty years, was
agent for the town ten years, a constable six years, selectman
three years, and a representative in the Vermont Legislature
in 1860 and 1861.
Children, born at Plymouth, Vt.:
50. i. John Calvin,' b. 31 Mar. 1845.
ii. Julius C, b. 2 Jan. 1851; d. 14 Mar. 1870.
50. CoL John Calvin' Coolidge (Calvin Galusha,^ Calvin,'' Capt.
John,^ Josiah,^ Obadiah,* Obadiah,^ Simon,^ John^), of Plymouth,
Vt., farmer, was born at Plymouth 31 Mar. 1845. He married
first, 6 May 1868, Victoria. Josephine Moor, born at Plym-
outh, Vt., 14 Mar. 1846, died there 14 Mar. 1885, daughter
of Hiram D. and Abigail (Franklin) ;* and secondly, 9 Sept.
1891, Carrie A. Brown of Plymouth, born 22 Jan. 1857, died
in 1920.
He was educated in the public schools and at the Black
River Academy, Ludlow, Vt., and in 1868 entered mercantile
life at Plymouth. In 1875 he formed a partnei-ship with F. C.
Moore, but sold his share of the business to his partner in
1878. He has been constable, collector of taxes, superintendent
of schools, and selectman at Plymouth, was a member of the
Vermont House of Representatives, 1872-1878, and of the
Vermont Senate, 1910-1912, and was a colonel on the staff
of Gov. William Wallace Stickney, 1900-1902. He is a justice
of the peace, and has been vice president of the Ludlow Savings
Bank and Trust Company and a trustee of the Black River
Academy. He is a Republican and a Baptist.
Children by first wife, born at Plymouth, Vt. :
51. i. Calvini" (originally John Calvin), b. 4 July 1872.
ii. Abbie Grace, b. 15 Apr. 1875; d. 6 Mar. 1890.
51. Hon. Calvin" Coolidge {Col. John Calvin,^ Calvin Galusha,"
Calvin,'' Capt. John,^ Josiah,^ Obadiah,* Obadiah,^ Simon,^
John^), B.A. (Amherst College, 1895), LL.D. (Amherst Col-
lege, Tufts College, Williams College, Bates College, Wesleyan
University, University of Vermont), President of the United
*Hiram D. Moor settled in Plymouth in 1833 and was living there in 1880. Hia wife Abigail
was daughter of Luther* and Priscilla (Pinney) Franklin of Plymouth and granddaughter of Jabez'
and Sarah (Starr) Franklin, who removed from Rhode Island to Guilford, Vt., before 1794. Jabez'
Franklin was a descendant of James' Franklin, through James,' Philip,' and Aaron;* and Sarah
(Starr) Franklin was a descendant of Dr. Comfort' Starr, through John,* Comfort,' Comfort,* and
Capt. Comfort,' her father.
1
I 304 The New England CooUdges [Oct.
f States, was born at Plymouth, Vt., 4 July 1872, and was
I originally named John Calvin Coolidge. He married at Burling-
f ton, Vt., 4 Oct. 1905, Grace Anna Goodhue, who was gradu-
\ ated at the University of Vermont in 1902, daughter of Andrew
I I. and Lemira (Barrett) of Burlington.
I He read law in the office of Messrs. Hammond & Field, of
I Northampton, Mass., was admitted to the bar 29 June 1897,
J and began the practice of his profession in that city. He was a
I member of the City Council of Northampton in 1899, city soUc-
I itor, 1900-01, clerk of the courts, 1904, and chairman of the
I Repubhcan City Committee in the same year, representative
] in the Massachusetts General Court, 1907-08, mayor of North-
j ampton, 1910-11, and a member of the State Senate, 1912-
1915, being president of that body in 1914 and 1915. He
served as Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts for three
terms (1916, 1917, 1918) and as Governor for two terms
(1919, 1920). His firmness and vigorous action at the time of
the strike of the Boston poUcemen, in the autimm of 1919, gave
him a national reputation, and at the Republican national
I convention in Chicago, in June 1920, he received the votes of
I a small group of delegates as a candidate for the nomination
i for the Presidency. This nomination, however, on the tenth
I ballot, was given to Senator Warren Gamaliel Harding of
I Ohio; but by an overwhelming majority of the delegates
I ' Governor Coolidge was nominated as the Republican candi-
I date for the Vice Presidency on the first ballot for that office.
I The Republican ticket was elected by a sweeping majority of
\ the popular vote and by a large majority of the Electoral
I College, and Mr. CooUdge was inaugurated as Vice President
i . of the United States on 4 Mar. 1921. On the death of President
( Harding at San Francisco, after a brief illness, 2 Aug. 1923,
\ Vice President Coolidge succeeded to the Presidency, and the
i oath of office prescribed by the Constitution of the United
] States was administered to him by his father, a justice of the
I peace, at the paternal home in Plymouth, Vt., in the early
morning of Friday, 3 Aug. 1923.
On 3 Dec. 1919 Mr. Coolidge, then approaching the end of
his first term as Governor of Massachusetts, was elected an
honorary member of the New England Historic Genealogical
Society.
Children, born at Northampton, Mass. :
i. John," b. 7 Sept. 1906.
ii. Calvix, b. 13 Apr. 1908,
1923] Genealogical Research in England 305
GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH IN ENGLAND
Communicated by the Committee on English Research
[Continued from page 194]
BORDMAN (BoABDMAN)
Contributed by G. Andbews Mohiabtt, Jr., A.M., LL.B., of Newport, R. I.
Many years ago the late Henry FitzGilbert Waters contributed to
the Register (vol. 49, pages 496-^98, October 1895) abstracts
of three wills which shewed pretty conclusively the parent-
age of Maj. William Bordman or Boardman of Cambridge, Mass.,
the fourth steward of Harvard University and the founder of a
family which long occupied a prominent place among the Massa-
chusetts Colonial gentry. Several members of the family held
the oflBce of steward of Harvard and also high offices in the Colonial
government; they were large landowners in Cambridge; and they
retained their important position far down iuto the eighteenth
century, in the early part of which they were allied by marriage
with the well-known Spencer Phips, for many years Lieutenant
Governor of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay.
Since Mr. Waters's time considerable additional material relating
to this family has been gathered in England by the contributor of
this article; and the evidence now at hand proves that before Major
Bordman arrived in New England with his stepfather, Stephen Day,
the first printer in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the family had
attained some position in the old Cambridge beyond the Atlantic.
Its members belonged to the class of well-to-do tradesmen and mer-
chants, who were rapidly coming to the front in the days of the later
Tudors; and their property, transported into New England, laid the
foundation of the fortune of one of the prominent Colonial families
of Massachusetts.
It should be noted that the Boardman or Boreman family of
Connecticut and the Boardman famUy now prominent in Boston
are in no way related to this family.
The records collected by Mr. Waters and by the contributor of
this article concerning the English home and connections of Maj.
William Bordman are given below, and are followed by a brief
pedigree, in which the conclusions warranted by them in regard to
this family are set forth in genealogical form.
From Probate Records
The Will of Giles Boadman of Cambridge in the diocese of Ely, dated
28 September 1604. To be buried in the Church of All Hallows, Cambridge.
To my wife Elizabeth £100, the lease of the house I now dwell in, with all
the household stuff, etc., and my tenement, messuage, burgage, or cottage,
with the croft adjoining, in Ickelton, in Green Street there, in the county
of Cambridge. AH the rest of my goods to Robert Browne and Andrew
Boadman, my brothers, whom I make executors. Proved 17 October 1604
by Robert Browne, one of the executors, with power reserved to grant a
306 Genealogical Research in England [Oct.
commission to Andrew Boadman, the other executor, etc. (P.C.C., Harte, 81.)
[Adapted from the abstract of the will of Giles Boadman pubHshed in
Register, vol. 49, pp. 496^97, and reprinted in Waters's "Genealogical
Gleanings in England," vol. 2, p. 1076.]
The Will of Richard Wright of the parish of St. Edward, Cambridge,
"skynner, " dated 20 June, 3 James I [1605]. To my eldest son John Wright,
to my son Anthony Wright, and to my son Richard Wright, to each £40 at
the age of twentj^-one years. To my eldest daughter Rebecca, and to my
daughters Mary, Ann, and Susan, to each £20 at the age of twenty-one
years or at marriage. To each godchild 5s. Residue to my wife Mary.
Witnesses: Robert Sparrowe, N.P., John Symondes, and Walter Acteson.
Proved 19 July 1605. (P.C.C., Hayes, 54.)
The Will of Helline [afterwards written Helliner] Browne of Cambridge,
CO. Cambridge, widow, dated 11 November 1616. To Robert Browne my
son, besides the house which his father gave to him by will, £200, to be
paid to Mr. Oliver Grenough of Nanby in Lincolnshire within three years
after my decease, to the use of my said son Robert. To my son Andrew
Browne £200, over and above the £100 given him by his father to be paid
[as above] within two years aft«r my decease. To my son Samuel [a simila^r
bequest]. The said Oliver Grenough is to be "gardenier" imto my said three
children. To my sons John and William Browne, to each £200, to be paid
within six years after my decease. To my brother Andrewe Bordeman £5.
To Thomas Jury £5. To Alice Foote, wife of Foote, one of my best
gowns. To the poor of Bennett parish [the parish of St. Benedict] in
Cambridge 20s., at the day of my burial. To him that shall preach for me at
my funeral 10s. All the rest of my goods unbequeathed I give unto
Mr, John Jackesonne and Mr. Robert Birder, my sons-in-law, whom I make
executors. Witnesses: Andrew Bordman and Thomas Jewry. Proved
22 January 1616 [1616/17], the executors named in the wiU renouncing
and commission being issued to John Atkinson and Thomas Jewrie. (P.C.C.,
Weldon, 3.) [Adapted from the abstract of the will of Helline Browne
published in Register, vol. 49, p. 497, and reprinted in Waters's "Genea-
logical Gleanings in England," vol. 2, pp. 1076-1077.]
The Will of Andrewe Bordman of Cambridge, co. Cambridge, baker,
dated 10 February 1616 [1616/17]. To my eldest son Richard Bourdman
and to my sons Andrewe Bordman, Thomas Bordman, and William Bordman,
to each £40 at the age of one and twenty years. If any of my aforesaid
four children, viz., Richard, Andrewe, Thomas, and William Bordman,
depart this life before they or any of them shall attain to their several ages
of one and twenty years, then he or they survi\'ing shall be the others' heir.
To my wife Rebecca Bordman my house in fee simple, which I purchased
of Thomas Reade of Cambridge, carpenter, to have the same during her
life ; and after her decease the foresaid tenement or house is to be equally
divided amongst my foresaid four sons or so many of them as shall be then
living. All the rest of my goods unbequeathed I give unto my said wife.
Rebecca Bordman, whom I ordain sole executrix. Proved 19 April 1617.
(P.C.C., Weldon, 31.) [Adapted from the abstract of the wiU of Andrewe
Bordman published in Register, vol 49, pp. 497-498, and reprinted in
Waters's "Genealogical Gleanings in England," vol. 2, p. 1077.]
The WiU of Andrew Boardiian of Norwich [co. Norfolk], skinner, dated
28 September 1654. To my wife Grace, whom I make executrix. Lands
[mentioned] in the parish of St. George Tombland, Norwich. To my daughter
Rebecca Boardman. To Lidia Farther, daughter of Thomas Farther. To my
brother William Boardman. To my cousin Thomas Brooke and his wife.
1923] Genealogical Research in England 307
Supervisors: my kinsman Mr. Thomas Lovering and Mr. William Crabb.
Proved in London 9 May 1665. (P.C.C. and Archdeaconry of Norwich.)
[Cf. Jay's Register of St. George Tombland, Norwich, 1891, p. 189.]
Fkom the Registees of the Parish of All Saints, Cambridgb
Marriages*
1607 Mr. Oliver Gren[ough]t and Mrs. Elsebethe Bordman, widow, 3 Mar.
[1607/8].
1623 Georg Bownesse and Margarit Wright 27 April.
1627 Jolm Wright and Elzabeth Jakson 26 November.
From the Registers of the Parish of St. Clement, Cambridqb,
1567-1636
Baptisms
1607 Richard Bordman son of Andrew 14 September.
1609 Andrew Bordman son of Andrew 24 November.
1610 Andrew Bordman the younger son of Andrew 13 January [1610/11],
i 1612 Thomas Bordman son of Andrew 29 February [1612/13].
! 1615 William Bordman son of Andrew 6 January [1615/16].
i 1619 Elizabeth Wright daughter of John 5 December.
I 1633 Grace Day daughter of Stephen 18 August.
t Marriages
I 1589 Rychard Wakeling and Jane Day 21 November.
I 1593 Humfrey Averell and Alice Wright 19 November.
I 1604 Dennise Tyddeswell and Ann Day 13 August.
I 1605 Rowland Suken and Ann Wright 15 August.
i 1620 Anthony Wright and Jane Baker 15 January [1620/1].
I 1630 John Wright and Margaret Coward 22 February [1630/1].
; Burials
■' 1609 Andrew Buriman [sic] son of Andrew 26 November.
I 1616 Andrew Bordman 18 February [1616/17].
I 1633 Grace Day daughter of Stephen 2 February [1633/4].
f 1636 Ann Boureman [sic] daughter of Andrew and Grace 28 June.
I From the Registers op the Parish of St. Edward, Cambridgb
i Baptisms
\ 158[8]tRebecca Wright daughter of Richard Wright 2 October.
1589 Elizabeth Wright 14 March [1589/90].
1591 John Wright 7 February [1591/2].
1593 Mary Wright 28 November.
1595 John Wright son of Richard 4 January [1595/6].
1598 Ann Wright 9 April.
1599 Anthonie Wright son of Richard 24 February [1599/1600].
1602 Susanna Wright daughter of Richard 3 May.
1604 Abell Wright son of Richard 15 April.
1605 Richard Wright son of Richard 12 May.
; *Printed in Phillimore's "Cambridgeshire Parish Registers, Marriages," vol. 4.
tAlthough the editor of the "Cambridgeshire Parish Registers" suggests wud as the doubtful
syllable here and the transcripts at Ely give the surname as Greeneham, yet it seems probable,
from a passage in the will of Helliue Browne, widow, the testatrix of 11 Nov. 1616 (ride supra),
that this name should be Grenough.
tThe last digit in this date is missing, the margin of the page having been cut off.
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i 308 Genealogical Research in England [Oct.
c
Marriages*
1568 Thomas Wright and Hellin Anster 2 June.
1605 Edward WouJfe and Annes Wrighte, both of this parish, 4 June.
1605 Andrew Bordman of the parish of St. Clement and Rebecca daughter
of Richard Wright of this parish 24 August.
1609 Thomas Crabb and Mary Wright 25 July.
1616 Samuell Disher and Annes Wright 22 September.
1625 Henry Wright of Burwell and Julian Cooke of Swaffham Saint Man
13 March [1625/6].
\ Burials
I 1587 Ann Wright 9 November.
I 1592 John Wright 25 November.
I 1604 Abell son of Richard Wright 3 May.
I 1605 Mr. Richard Wright 30 June.
I 1605 Susan Wright daughter of Mr. Richard Wright 4 July.
Fkom the Registers of the Paeish of St. George Tombland, Norwich,
• CO. NOEFOLKf
Baptisms
1638 Ann daughter of Andrew Boandman [sic] 28 July.
; 1640 Rebecca daughter of Andrew Boardman 22 May.
i 1643 Thomas Bordman son of Andrew Bordman 13 September.
I Burial
] 1638 Ann daughter of Andrew Boardma 4 August.
I From Lay SuBSiDiEst
I 28 September, 40 Elizabeth [1598].
I Cambridge Town, the Market Ward. Giles Bordman in goods
I [valuation] £3 [tax] 8d,
!
I From the Records of Norwich, co. Norfolk
Andrew Boardman, locksmith, non-appr., admitted to freedom 21 September
1638. (Printed in Jay's Register of St. George Tombland, Norwich,
p. 65, 'footnote.)
I John linsey, worsted weaver, and Anne his wife released, 1 February 1647
[1647/8], to Andrew Boardman, skinner, and Grace his wife a tenement
late of Anne Harman, now occupied by the said Andrew Boardman.
(Mayoralty Court Rolls, ib., p. 204.)
Francis Aylmer, woolcomber, and Grace his wife, late wife of Andrew
Boardman, deceased, quitclaimed, 22 June 1661, to Richard Lynsey
of Norwich, woolcomber, and Rebecca his wife, daughter of said Andrew
Boardman, a messuage in Tombland where Francis and Grace Aylmer
dwell, [boimded by] the churchyard on the east, a messuage now of
Thomas Fairecloth and Prince's Inn on the west. King's Highway on
the south, and a garden late of Edmund Brice, deceased, on the north,
in default of £100 not paid as per legacy to the said Rebecca by her
father's will; and Richard and Rebecca surrendered the same, 24 Jime
1661, to Francis and Grace. (Mayoralty Court Rolls, ib., p. 206.)
Richard Linsey of Norwich, woolcomber, and Rebecca his wife, dau^ter of
Andrew Boardman, sold, 17 October 1661, to Francis Aylmer, wool-
comber, a messuage between the churchyard on the east, a messuage
♦Printed in Phillimore's "Cambridgeshire Parish Registers, Marriages," voL 1.
■jThe registers of this parish, 1538-1707, edited by G. B. Jay, were published at Norwich in 1891.
tPreserved in the Public Record OflSce, London.
1923] Genealogical Research in England 309
late of Thomas Fairecloth and Princes Inn on the west, King's Highway
on the south, and ground of Edward [sic] Brice, deceased, on the north,
(Mayoralty Court Rolls, ib., p. 206.)
The Bordman or Boardman family which forms the subject of
this article apparently did not settle in the EngUsh Cambridge
imtil the later years of the sixteenth century, for the surname is
not of common occurrence in the records of that town or, indeed,
in those of the county. The family was probably of Lancashire
origin, the surname is frequently found in the parish registers of
Bolton, near Manchester, which, vmfortunately, do not begin until
1592, and in this family the Christian names of Andrew and Giles
are often used. Rev. Andrew Bordman, who was born in Lancashire
about 1550, was admitted a scholar of St. John's College, Cambridge,
9 Nov. 1568 and matriculated there as a pensioner three days later
(12 Nov.). He received the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1571/2,
Master of Arts in 1575, Bachelor of Divinity in 1582, and Doctor
of Divinity in 1594. He was admitted to a fellowship 12 Mar.
1572/3, was ordained a deacon and priest at Ely 5 July 1579, was
appointed Greek lecturer of his college 5 Sept. 1580, and at the
following Michaelmas was elected one of the imiversity preachers.
He was made junior bursar of his college 27 Jan. 1581/2, and in
the same year was appointed minister of St. Mary's Church, in
Bury St. Edmunds, co. Suffolk. In 1586 he vacated this preferment,
and removed to a benefice then known as AUchurch, near Warwick
(or perhaps near Norwich), and on 11 Jan. 1590/1 he was appointed
by the municipaUty Aacar of St. Mary's Church in Norwich. This
united preferment he seems to have held for nearly half a century,
and to have died while holding it, shortly before 16 July 1639. He
was the author of various religious works. (Cf . Dictionary of National
Biography and Venn's Alumni Cantabrigienses.) There can be little
doubt that the brothers Giles and Andrew Bordman, the testators
respectively of 1604 and 1616/17, were closely related to Rev.
Andrew Bordman, D.D., and perhaps they were his nephews. The
younger Andrew resided in the parish of St. Clement, Cambridge,
a parish that adjoins St. John's College.
On the foregoing records and on New England authorities the
following pedigree, showing the English connections and the family
history of Maj. William Bordman of Cambridge, Mass., is basted.
1. Bordman, probably of Lancashire, England, and per-
haps a brother of the Rev. Andrew Bordman, D.D., who has been
mentioned above, was the father of
i. Giles, of the parish of All Saints, Cambridge, the testator of 1604,
d. s.p. between 28 Sept. and 17 Oct. 1604; m. Elizabeth ,
who m. again, in the parish of All Saints, Cambridge, 3 Mar. 1607/8,
Mr. Oliver Gren[ough]. Giles Boardman was taxed at Cambridge
in the subsidy of 1598, and owned lands at Ickelton, co.
Cambridge.
ii. Eleanor, of the parish of St. Benedict, Cambridge,''the testatrix of
1616, d. between 11 Nov. 1616 and 22 Jan. 1616/17; m. prior to
28 Sept. 1604 Robert Browne, whom she survived. Children (order
of births uncertain), mentioned in their mother's will: 1. Robert.
310 Genealogical Research in England [Oct.
2. Andrew. 3. Samuel. 4. John. 5. William. 6. A daughter,
m. Mr. John Jackesonne. 7. A daughter, m. Mr. Robert Birder.
2. iii. Andrew.
2. Andrew Bordman ( ), of the parish of St. Clement,
Cambridge, England, baker, the testator of 10 Feb. 1616/17,
was buried in that parish 18 Feb. 1616/17. He married in the
parish of St. Edward, Cambridge, 24 Aug. 1605, Rebecca
Wright, baptized in that parish 2 Oct. 158[8], daughter of
Richard of the same parish, skinner, the testator of 20 June
1605.* She married secondly, probably not long after the
death of her first husband, Stephen Day of the parish of
St. Clement, locksmith; and with him, with William Bordman,
her youngest child by her first husband, and with Stephen
and Matthew Day, two sons by her second husband, she
emigrated in 1638 to New England, where her husband, Stephen
Day, had charge of the first printing press in the Colonies,
which was set up at Cambridge, Mass., in Mar. 1638/9.t She
died at Cambridge, Mass., 17 Oct. 1658.
Children, baptized in the parish of St. Clement:
i. RiCHABp, bapt. 14 Sept. 1607; living 10 Feb. 1616/17, when he was
mentioned in his father's wUl.
ii. Andrew, bapt. 24 Nov. 1609; bur. in the parish of St. Clement
26 Nov. 1609.
iii. Andrew, of Norwich, co. Norfolk, skinner, the testator of 1654,
bapt. 13 Jan. 1610/11; d. between 28 Sept. 1654, when his will
was_ dated, and 22 June 1661, when his wife was already marri»i
again; m. Grace , who m. (2) before 22 June 1661 Francis
Aylmer of Norwich, woolcomber, who was hving 17 Oct. 1661.
Andrew Bordman resided in early life in the parish of St. Clement,
Cambridge, where a daughter named Ann was bur. 28 June 1636.
Afterwards he removed to Norwich, where another daughter named
Aim was bapt. 28 July 1638 and where he was admitted a freeman
21 Sept. 1638, being then styled a locksmith. On 1 Feb. 1647/8
Andrew Boardman, skinner, and Grace his wife bought a tenement
in Norwich, which they were already occupying at the time of the
purchase. Rev. Andrew Bordman, who was probably a great-
imcle of this younger Andrew, was settled as vicar of St. Mary's,
Norwich, from 1591 to 1639, dying in the latter year. Children:
1. Ann, bur. in the parish of St. Clement, Cambridge, 28 Jime
1636. 2. .4nn, bapt. in the parish of St. George Tombland, Norwich,
28 July 1638; bur. there 4 Aug. 1638. 3. Rebecca, bapt. at St. George
Tombland 22 May 1640; m. before 22 June 1661 Richard Linsey
♦Mr. Richard Wright was buried in the parish of St. Edward, Cambridge, 30 June 1605. For
him and his family see the abstract of his will and the records in the registers of the
various Cambridge parishes given above .
tStephen Day, the first printerin New England, resided in 1656 at the westerly corner of Harvard
and Dunster Streets, Cambridge. He was admitted to the church 28 Feb. 1660/1, but was never
admitted a freeman. He died 22 Dec. 1668, at the age of about 75 years, since he deposed in
Apr. 1656, aged 62. His son Stephen died 1 Dec. 1639, and his son Matthew died unm. 10 May
1649. This Matthew Day was the first known steward of Harvard University, holding this ofBce
as early as 1645 and apparently continuing in it until his death. He was admitted a freeman in
1646. In his nuncupative will, declared 10 May 1649, he gave his part "in the Garden" (a tract
of land containing about one acre and one rood and situated near the College) to "the fellowea
of Harvard Colledge for ever," and, besides other bequests, left "to my mother all the estate I
have in both the houses, together with all the furniture beds & all moveables (my debts being first
paid) to her for her life, & when she dies to the little childe Moyses," who was undoubtedly Mosea
Bordman, the son of the testator's half brother, William Bordman. (Cf. the will, in Registeb,
vol. 3, pp. 181-182.) Grace, another child of Stephen and Rebecca (Wright) (Bordman) Day,
was baptized in the parbh of St. Clement, Cambridge, England, 18 Aug. 1633, and was buried
there 2 Feb. 1633/4.
1923] Genealogical Research in England 311
of Norwich, woolcomber; both were living 17 Oct. 1661. 4. Thomas,
bapt. at St. George Tombland 13 Sept. 1643.
iv. Thomas, bapt. 29 Feb. 1612/13; livmg 10 Feb. 1616/17, when he
was mentioned in his father's will.
3. V. William, bapt. 6 Jan. 1615/16.
3. Maj. William Bordman (Andrew, ), of Cambridge,
Mass., tailor, baptized in the parish of St. Clement, Cambridge,
England, 6 Jan. 1615/16, died at Cambridge, Mass., 25 Mar.
1685, aged 71. He married at Cambridge, Mass., Frances
, who was living 24 Aug. 1688, when she was a passenger
on a sloop in which Samuel Sewall returned from Salem to
Boston. (Cf. Sewall's Diary.)
He accompanied his mother and stepfather, Stephen Day,
to New England in 1638, sailing in the John of London, and
settled in Cambridge.* He was admitted a freeman in 1652,
and, with his wife Frances, joined the church in Cambridge.
About 1659 his stepfather, Stephen Day, paid to him a legacy
of £50, left to him by his father, and acknowledged that it
should have been "paid to him twenty-three years agone."
(Cf. will of Andrewe Bordman, swpra, page 306.) "As early
as 1656, he owned and occupied the estate at the easterly
corner of Harvard Square and Dunster Street. At the death
of Day in 1668, he came into possession of the estate on the
opposite corner, to which his son Aaron added the adjoining
land, extending to Brighton Street. Both these .estates
remained in the Bordman family about a hundred and fifty
years." (Paige, History of Cambridge, page 490.) He was
appointed, probably in Dec. 1663, steward of Harvard College,
but resigned this position in Dec. 1667, and was thereafter,
until his death, employed as college cook. His title of major
was probably derived from his office of steward, the steward
being looked upon as a sort of major-domo. He deposed
26 Aug. 1672, aged 57.
Children:
i. Moses, b. probabljr about 1640; d. 16 Mar. 1661/2. He was probably
of age when he died, since he owned real estate. He is undoubtedly
the "little childe Moyses" who is mentioned in the nuncupative
will of Matthew Day, his father's half brother, 10 May 1649.
{Vide supra, p. 310, second footnote.)
ii. Rebecca, b. 1 Nov. 1643 and bapt. in the First Church, Cambridge;
m. at Cambridge, 4 Aug. 1664, John Palfret.
iii. Andrew, of Cambridge, tailor, b. about 1645 and bapt. in the First
Church, Cambridge; d. 15 July 1687, aged 42; m. at Cambridge,
15 Oct. 1669, Ruth Bttll, who d. 17 Dec. 1690, in her 40th year.
He was freeman, 1674, inherited his father's homestead, was
appointed steward of Harvard College in 1682, and succeeded his
father as cook of the College. On 23 July 1686 the Corporation
of the College voted that he "henceforward manage the oflBce of
Steward in the manner as of late, " and he held these two college
offices until his death. He also kept a shop or variety store. Five
children, t
♦Pope (Pioneers of Massachusetts, p. 57) is evidently in error in identifying a William Boreman
who appears in Lechford's Note-Book as an apprentice, in 1639, to Richard Gridley of Boston,
brickmaker, and to others in quick succession , with William Bordman (3) of Cambridge.
tCf. Paige's "History of Cambridge," p. 490, and the Bordman family record in Rbqistbr,
vol. 76, pp. 312-313.
; 312 A Record of Deaths in Boston and Vicinity [Oct.
I iv. LiETJT. Aaron, of Cambridge, locksmith, b. about 1649 and bapt.
I in the First Church, Cambridge: d. 15 Jan. 1702/3, in his 54th
I year; m. Mahy , who was living in 1717. "He inherited his
I father's estate on the westerly side of Dunster Street [Cambridge],
J to which he made large additions, and became an extensive land-
j holder in the town." (Paige, History of Cambridge, p. 491.) He
i was "appointed to take charge of the College clock, and also to
.| serve as College Smith, 1675; and succeeded his brother as College
f Cook and Steward. " (76., p. 490.) He remained in ofiBce as steward
\ until his death, and was succeeded by his nephew Andrew Bordman,
J son of Andrew, who was steward for more than forty-four years,
\ until his death, and was in turn succeeded in this office by his only
\ son, Andrew.* Seven children.
\ V. Frances, b. about 1650 and bapt. in the First Chiurch, Cambridge;
I d. unm. 16 Sept. 1718, in her 69th year,
i vi. Martha, b. about 1653 and bapt. in the First Church, Cambridge;
d. 9 Feb. 1692; m. 17 Apr. 1672 Daniel Epes of Salem,
vii. Mary, b. 9 Mar. 1655/6; d. before 17 July 1688; m. about 1682,
as his first wife, Robert Kitchen of Salem, Mass., merchant, bapt.
at the First Church, Salem, 15 Apr. 1655, d. at Salem 28 Oct. 1712,
s. of John and Elizabeth (Grafton) (Sanders). Three children.
(Cf. Essex Institute Historical Collections, vol. 51, pp. 128-129.)
viii. William, b. 6 Dec. 1657; perhaps the William Bordman of Maiden,
Mass., 1684, carpenter, who m. Sarah and d. at Rumney
Marsh, Mass., 14 Mar. 1695/6. He was freeman in 1690. One
;' daughter.
; ix. Elij^abeth, b. 17 Aug. 1660 and bapt. in the First Church, Cambridge,
I 26 Aug. 1660; d. 15 Nov. 1714; m. at Cambridge, 28 Apr. 1686,
1 John Cooper.
A RECORD OF DEATHS IN BOSTON AND VICINITY,
1799-1815
From a manuscript in the possession of the New England Historic
Genealogical Society
[Continued from page 236]
[1802]
Miss Mary Hooper, Died May 26, Aged 27.
Miss Rebbecca Snelling, Died May 26, Aged 63.
Mr. Moses Griggs, Died May 28, Aged 28.
Miss Betsy Page, Died May 28, Aged 20.
Mr. John R. Sigoumey, Died May 30, Aged 63.
Capt. Thomas H. ffinkley, Died May 31, Aged 34.
Mrs. Mary Dillaway, Died June 3, Aged 34.
Mrs. Mary Waters, Died June 6, Aged 78.
Mary Hall, Died June 7, Aged 14 mo.
Miss Dorray Pratt, Died June 6, Aged 26.
William Kapler, Died June 10, Aged 5 yrs.
James Lesslie, Esqr., Died June 10, Aged 53.
Mr. Sampson Reed, Died June 11, Aged 53.
Mrs. Jane Hastings, Died June 12, Aged 38.
Miss Nancy Vassall, Died June 14, Aged 27.
Robt. Gillman, Died Jime 15, Aged 4 yrs.
Capt. John Stanton, Died June 15, Aged 77.
•Cf. Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1860-1862, pp. 154-158.
1923] A Record of Deaths in Boston and Vicinity 313
Mrs. Catharine Page, Died June 17, Aged 41.
Mr. Robert Welch, Died June 18, Aged 39.
Mrs. Joan Buller, Died June 22, Aged 56.
Jason Spear, Died June 23, Aged 6 yrs.
May Coolidge, Died June 24, Aged 4 yrs.
Mrs. Rebeckah Davenport, Died June 25, Aged 65.
George Holmes, Died June 26, Aged 1 yr.
Mr. Christian L. Willie, Died June 26, Aged 33.
Mrs. Martha Prince, Died June 26, Aged 58.
Mr. John B. Ocherbloom, Died June 27, Aged 16.
Mrs. Elizabeth Donson, Died June 28, Aged 42.
Elizabeth Poole, Died June 28, Aged 19 mo.
Mary Clark, Died June 30, Aged 4 yrs.
EUsha T. Gillman, Died July 1, Aged 19 mo.
Miss Frances Hichborn, Died July 1, Aged 33.
Maria Sampson, Died July 1, Aged 3 yrs.
Isaac G. Eaton, Died July 2, Aged 4 yrs.
Mrs. AbigaU Gillman, Died July 3, Aged 29.
Capt. Joha Pownall, Died July 5, Aged 49.
Moody Whitney, Died July 7, Aged 4 yrs. & 6 mo.
Mr. Joshua Kimbell, Died July 8, Aged 33.
Mr. George G. Baxter, Died July 9, Aged 36.
Mrs. Mary Underwood, Died July 10, Aged 56.
Mrs. Mary Phillips, Died July 10, Aged 54.
Mrs. Abigail Coimant, Died July 12, Aged 33.
Mrs. Esther Brown, Died July 13, Aged 77.
Mr. Timothy Phillips, Died July 14, Aged 59.
Mr. Danl. Adams, Died July 15, Aged 46.
i Mr. John Mcintosh, Died July 15, Aged 49.
i Miss PrisciUa Wiswall, Died July 15, Aged 74.
j Ezekiel Price, Esqr., Died July 16, Aged 74.
I Mary Ruggles, Died July 16, Aged 19 mo.
\ Mr. James Welsh, Died July 17, Aged 60.
) John Thomas, Died July 18, Aged 3 mo.
I Mr. Henry L. Smith, Died July 19, Aged 32.
I Mrs. Ehzabeth Barrett, Died July 20, Aged 30.
• Mr. James Freeland, Died July 20, Aged 64.
] John A. Hewes, Died July 20, Aged 3 yrs.
i Francis Bridge, Died July 23, Aged 3 mo.
I Mr. Quaco ColUns, Died July 23, Aged 25.
Mr. Benja. Waine, Died July 23, Aged 58.
: Mrs. Betsy Duff, Died July 24, Aged 24.
Mr. Benja. Livermore, Died July 24, Aged 52.
Rebeckah Pilsbery, Died July 25, Aged 10 mo.
Mr. John Hooton, Died July 27, Aged 80.
Mr. John Gorman, Died July 29, Aged 28.
Susanna Milk, Died Aug. 4, Aged 7 yrs.
Miss Betsy Howard, Died Aug. 3, Aged 17.
Miss Betsy Raddin, Died Aug. 5, Aged 25.
' Mr. Abijah Livermore, Died Aug. 8, Aged 57.
i Mr. Richard Day, Died Aug. 8, Aged 20.
I Mrs. Sarah Burrill, Died Aug. 8, Aged 55.
! Miss Sarah Rumrell, Died Aug. 9, Aged- 20.
Mr. Josiah Hastings, Died Aug. 10, Aged 75.
Miss Sally L. Merry, Died Aug. 13, Aged 14.
j Thomas Kendall, Junr., Died Aug. 14, Aged 14 mo.
I 314 A Record of Deaths in Boston and Vicinity [Oct.
I Mrs. Elizabeth Games, Died Aug. 16, Aged 45.
John Y. Crooker, Died Aug. 19, Aged 8 mo.
Mrs. Salley Sawin, Died Aug. 18, Aged 28.
I Lydia C. Humphries, Died Aug. 20, Aged 11 mo.
f Mr. Joseph Venchner, Died Aug. 20, Aged 65.
\ Mrs. Sarah Davis, Died Aug. 21, Aged 78.
I Mrs. Mary Butterfield, Died Aug. 22, Aged 30.
I Mrs. Amia Richardson, Died Aug. 22, Aged 28.
i Eliza Norcross, Died Aug. 22, Aged 3 yrs.
I Ann Hart, Died Aug. 25, Aged 6 mo.
I Lemuel Tileston, Died Aug. 25, Aged 3 mo.
Mrs. Priscilla Curtis, Died Aug. 26, Aged 24.
I Joshua Grover, Died Aug. 27, Aged 1 yr. 14 days.
] Mr. Joseph Wiswell, Died Aug. 27, Aged 26,
|. Mr. George Nowell, Died Aug. 29, Aged 65.
I Mrs. Mary Wendell, Died Aug. 30, Aged 29.
Revd. Danl. Shute, Died Aug. 31, Aged 80.
Frederick Wm. Graves, Died Aug. 31, Aged 13 mo.
Capt. Joseph Pratt, Died Aug. 31, Aged 65.
j Sarah M. Brown, Died Sept. 1, Aged 2 yr., 1 mo.
; William Clark, Died Sept. 1, Aged 22 mo.
I V Mathew Lodge, Died Sept. 2, Aged 15 mo.
I Fredrick Capen, Died Sept. 4, Aged 1 yr.
I Mr. Edmimd Connor, Died Sept. 3, Aged 68.
I Mr. Gilbert Hall, Died Sept. 3, Aged 30.
I Mr. Christian Allby, Died Sept. 3, Aged 57.
I Mr. Nathl. Colesworthy, Died Sept. 6, Aged 53.
I Mr. John Eastabrook, Died Sept. 7, Aged 27.
I Mr. Joel Mixer, Died Sept. 7, Aged 23.
f Master Edward Blanchard, Died Sept. 7, Aged 12.
/ Mrs. Elizabeth Lambord, Died Sept. 8, Aged 27.
\ Mrs. Susanna Reed, Died Sept. 8, Aged 42.
\ . Miss Sarah Saunders, Died Sept. 8, Aged 23.
I Mr. John Swan, Died Sept. 8, Aged 18.
J Mr. Henry Davis, Died Sept. 10, Aged 54.
; Mr. Isaac Bell, Died Sept. 10, Aged 37.
Mrs. Mary True, Died Sept. 11, Aged 68.
Mr. Jeremiah Smelledge, Died Sept. 12, Aged 75.
Emeline E. Whiston, Died Sept. 11, Aged 22 mo.
Francis C. Smithwick, Died Sept. 13, Aged 16 mo.
John F. Fowler, Died Sept. 13, Aged 17 mo.
Mr. John Piemont, Died Sept. 14, Aged 85.
Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague, Died Sept. 13, Aged 75.
Mrs. Rebecca Bull, Died Sept. 15, Aged 72.
Charlotte Sumner, Died Sept. 16, Aged 10 mo.
Robt. Dixon, Junr., Died Sept. 17, Aged 11.
Hubbard Carr, Junr., Died Sept. 17, Aged 11 mo.
Saml. C. Carter, Died Sept. 17, Aged 17 mo.
.• Mrs. Elizabeth Cleavland, Died Sept. 17, Aged 38.
: Doct. Wm. Thomas, Died Sept. 20, Aged 84.
Mary S. Marshall, Died Dec. 22, Aged 16 mo.
Christopher C. Jones, Died Dec. 21, Aged 20 mo.
Mrs. ThankfuU Gardner, Died Dec. 22, Aged 30.
John Foxcroft, Esqr., Died Dec. 23, Aged 63.
I George French, Died Dec. 21, Aged 3 yr.J^.
Mr. Nathl. Sumner, Died Dec. 23, Aged 83.
1923] A Record of Deaths in Boston and Vicinity 315
Mr. Thadeus Brown, Died Dec. 25, Aged 67.
Mr. Saml. McCIeary, Died Dec, 25, Aged 57.
Henry H. Williams, Esqr., Died Dec. 26, Aged 66.
Mr. Phineus Wright, Died Dec. 26, Aged 56.
Mrs. Ruthy Barnes, Died Dec. 28, Aged 36.
Miss Mary Beal, Died Dec. 29, Aged 11 yrs.
Miss Fanny Stitson, Died Dec. 29, Aged 15.
Mr. Hezikiah Wyman, Died Dec. 31, Aged 56.
1803
Mr. Elias Thomas, Died Jan. 1, Aged 67.
I Mr. Michael Dyer, Died Jan. 2, Aged 47.
I Atkins Clark, Junr., Died Jan. 2, Aged 5 mo.
Mr. John Hale, Died Jan. 2, Aged 28.
i Mrs. Abigail Moore, Died Jan. 4, Aged 81.
Benja. H. Fitch, Died Jan. 4, Aged 3 yrs.
Mrs. Hannah Farmer, Died Jan. 6, Aged 29.
Mrs. Elizabeth Hobart, Died Jan. 6, Aged 82.
Mrs. Fanny Buckman, Died Jan. 7, Aged 44.
j David Pratt, Died Jan. 7, Aged 12.
Mr. Edward Hall, Died Jan. 10, Aged 32.
I Mrs. Diana Adams, Died Jan. 10, Aged 54.
j Miss Lucy Clap, Died Jan. 8, Aged 21.
r Mr. Nathan Wait, Died Jan. 10, Aged 74,
! Mr. Daniel Rea, Senr., Died Jan. 12, Aged 60.
I Doct. Saml. Blodget, Died Jan. 12, Aged 76.
j Mrs. Hannah Greenwood, Died Jan, 13, Aged 52.
i Mrs. Hannah Eastabrook, Died Jan. 12, Aged 67.
I George Adams, Died Jan. 14, Aged 2 yr.J^.
I Mrs. Susannah Field, Died Jan. 15, Aged 22.
1 Mrs. Christen Andrews, Died Jan. 15, Aged 56.
i Mary Baker, Died Jan. 16, Aged 15 mo.
} Mrs. Hannah Greenough, Died Jan. 20, aged 52.
f Mr. Peter Vose, Died Jan. 20, Aged 26,
\ Mrs. Mary Seargent, Died Jan. 20, Aged 56.
t Harriot Fenno, Died Jan. 20, aged 8 mo.
I Sarah Curtis, Died Jan. 21, aged 9 days.
I Mrs. Tamisen Shaw, Died Jan, 23, Aged 46,
* Mrs, Sarah Connant, Died Jan, 23, Aged 65,
i Mrs, Lydia Clark, Died Jan. 24, Aged 55.
I Capt. William Cowell, Died Jan. 25, Aged 57.
Mrs. Abigail Johnson, Died Jan. 25, Aged 65,
Miss Eunice Mixer, Died Jan. 26, Aged 27.
Hannah R. Homer, Died Jan. 26, Aged 2 yrs.
Mr. Daniel Pratt, Died Jan. 26, Aged 67.
Mrs. Sarah Rand, Died Jan. 30, aged 53.
Revd. Joseph Roby, Died Jan. 31, Aged 80.
Caroline Clark, Died Feb, 1, Aged 3 yrs.
Mrs. Eunice Paine, Died Feb. 2, Aged 70,
Mrs. Margaret Condon, Died Feb, 2, Aged 36.
; Miss Betsy Calder, Died Feb, 2, Aged 22.
1 Mr. Joseph Gardner, Died Feb. 2, Aged 67.
''■ Jona, Stearns, Died Feb, 6, Aged 10 yrs.
Sarah L. Blanchard, Died Feb. 7, Aged 6 yrs.
; Mrs. Hannah Fotts, Died Feb. 7, Aged 66.
! Mrs, Ann Kidder, Died Feb, 7, Aged 57,
I Revd. Caleb Prentiss, Died Feb. 7, Aged 56.
1
316 A Record of Deaths in Boston and Vicinity [Oct.
Miss Betsy Bull, Died Feb. 8, Aged 31.
Mr. EUsha Leamard, Died Feb. 10, Aged 66.
Mr. John Bradford, Died Feb. 9, Aged 43.
Mrs. Sarah Powers, Died Feb. 10, Aged 82.
Mrs. Elizabeth Madson, Died Feb. 10, Aged 39.
Mre. Sarah Craft, Died Feb. 10, Aged 91.
Mrs. Catherme Mead, Died Feb. 13, Aged 38.
Mr. Joseph Bird, Died Feb. 15, Aged 52.
Mr. Andrew McDonnel, Died Feb. 20, Aged 23.
Mr. Nathl. Spear, Died Feb. 22, Aged 40.
Mrs. Joanna Williston, Died Feb. 23, Aged 28.
Mrs. Perses Foster, Died Feb. 25, Aged 26.
Mrs. Susanna Hyde, Died Feb. 28, Aged 83.
Mrs. Ruth Coats, Died Feb. 27, Aged 39.
Miss Rebecca Popkin, Died Feb. 28, Aged 28.
Mr. James Trask, Junr., Died Feb. 28, Aged 20.
Mrs. Elizabeth Page, Died Mar. 1, Aged 83.
Mrs. Ann Gassin, Died Mar. 2, Aged 21.
Mr. Enoch Harrington, Died Mar. 1, Aged 20.
Mrs. Mary Bumford, Died Mar. 3, Aged 21.
Mr. George Siders, Died Mar. 4, Aged 30.
George W. Walker, Died Mar. 5, Aged 2 yrs.
Miss Abiah Clough, Died Mar. 6, Aged 32.
Mrs. Catherine Harris, Died Mar. 7, Aged 70.
Mr. James Temple, Died Mar. 7, Aged 34.
Mrs. Elizabeth Lewis, Died Mar. 7, Aged 29,
Mr. Benja. Easterbrook, Died Mar. 8, Aged 74.
Capt. Joseph Smith, Died Mar. 9, Aged 87.
Miss Ann Bradford, Died Mar. 8, Aged 14 yrs.
Saml. T. C. Kendall, Died Mar. 9, Aged 7 mo.
Mr. James Adams, Died Mar. 10, Aged 71.
Mr. Thos. Robbins, Died Mar. 11, Aged 49.
Miss Martha Haslett, Died Mar. 14, Aged 55.
:Mrs. Elizabeth Rhoades, Died Mar. 20, Aged 33.
Mr. William Pook, Died Mar. 21, Aged 43.
Mr. Edward Thomas, Died Mar. 22, Aged 47.
Mrs. Polly Clark, Died Mar. 24, Aged 22.
Sally Hutchinson, Died Mar. 25, Aged 5 yrs.
Samuel R. French, Died Mar. 24, Aged 2 yr. }4-
Mr. Richard Motley, Died Mar. 26, Aged 43.
Mr. Greorge Swan, Died Mar. 29, Aged 53.
Mr. James C. Barton, Died Apr. 2, Aged 14.
Mr. James Bancroft, Died Apr. 2, Aged 47.
^Irs. Sarah Brown, Died Apr. 5, Aged 58.
Mrs. iMartha Gault, Died Apr. 6, Aged 36.
^liss Abigail Whitman, Died Apr. 6, Aged 72.
Mrs. Deborah Knight, Died Apr. 8, Aged 74.
Mrs. Sarah Bennett, Died Apr. 9, Aged 20.
Mr. Enoch Wiswall, Died Apr. 10, Aged 37.
Miss Mary Brooks, Died Apr. 10, Aged 30.
Betsy Fisher, Died Apr. 15, Aged 13 mo.
Mrs. IMartha Adams, Died Apr. 15, Aged 35.
Mrs. Sarah Hales, Died Apr. 15, Aged 76.
Mrs. Dianer P. Bayley, Died Apr. 17, Aged 26.
Master John Todd, Died Apr. 18, Aged 12 y. 11 mo.
:Mrs. Mary Barker, Died Apr. 20, Aged 76.
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Mrs. Mary Barrett, Died Apr. 23, Aged 91.
Mr. Ebenr. Prentiss, Died Apr. 23, Aged 67.
Miss Betsy Lincoln, Died Apr. 23, Aged 16.
Mr. John B. Boardman, Died Apr. 24, Aged 22.
Mrs. Eunice Kent, Died Apr. 26, Aged 23.
Mr. William Harris, Died Apr, 26, Aged 28.
Mary Weser, Died Apr, 25, Aged 11 yrs,
Mrs. Love Gray, Died Apr. 30, Aged 68,
Mrs. Elizabeth Gould, Died May 1, Aged 41,
Ebenr, W. Letherbe, Died May 2, Aged \jt.&,^ mo,
Warren Curtis, Died May 3, Aged 6 yr. J^.
Capt. Alden Bass, Died May 4, Aged 69.
Capt. Samuel Dexter, Died May 5, Aged 41,
Wm. Hunt, Junr., Esqr., Died May 5, Aged 24.
Harriot Breed, Died May 5, Aged 7 yrs.
Mrs. Abigail Rand [in Boston written in pencil], Died May 9,
Aged 74.
Madam Elizabeth Bowdoin, Relict of the late Govr. Bowdoin,
Died May 7, Aged 72.
Mr. Elijah Swift, Died May 9, Aged 73.
Mr, James W, Peddor, Died May 10, Aged 42.
i Mrs. Elizabeth Eustis, Died May 13, Aged 70,
I Saml. Carter, Died May 15, Aged 9 weks,
( Mr. Samuel Frazier, Died May 17, Aged 43.
I Mr, Thomas Barron, Died May 16, Aged 71.
I Mrs. Mary Newcomb, Died May 17, Aged 68.
I Mary L. Wilson, Died May 18, Aged 8 mo.
I Honl. John Codman, Esqr., Died May 17, Aged 48.
• Mr, John Caswell, Died May 18, Aged 58.
Mrs, Sarah Roby, Died May 19, Aged 78.
i Mr. John McClench, Died May 20, Aged 72.
\ Mrs, Lydia Reid, Died May 20, Aged 37,
I Sabra J, Whiting, Died May 22, Aged 2 yrs.
I Mrs. Martha Williams, Died May 24, Aged 50.
'j Mrs. Hannah Majmard, Died May 25, Aged 32.
I Mrs. Anna Swift, Died May 24, Aged 43.
Nicholas Pierce, tirts. Died May 26, Aged 7 mo.
Mr. William Millequet, Died May 27, Aged 19.
Mrs, Elenor Gardner, Died May 29, Aged 60,
Mrs. Mary Frost, Died May 28, Aged 72.
Mrs. Sela Dammon, Died May 28, Aged 46,
Miss Lucy Dammon, Died May 29, Aged 18,
Mr. Saml. Vinning, Died May 31, Aged 51.
Mrs. Hannah Stone, Died June 1, Aged 80,
Mr. WilUam DaU, Died May 31, Aged 87,
Mr. Joshua Winship, Died May 31, Aged 51.
Mrs. Mary Kendall, Died June 3, Aged 57,
Mrs. Sarah Whitney, Died June 3, Aged 82.
Mr. Isaac Wentworth, Died June 3, Aged 56.
Mr. David Eliot, Died June 5, Aged 44.
Miss Lucy Jones, Died June 5, Aged 22.
Mrs. Mary Daniel, Died Jime 5, Aged 56.
Mr. Stephen Small, Died June 8, Aged 26.
Mrs, Sarah Henderson, Died June 9, Aged 78.
James Foster, 3d, Died June 10, Aged 14.
Miss Hannah Sturgis, Died June 10, Aged 10.
318 A Record of Deaths in Boston and Vicinity [Oct.
Mrs. Hannah Breed, Died June 11, Aged 48.
Mrs. Judith Adams, Died June 10, Aged 34.
Mr. P. Wm. M. J. Bailey, Died June 11, Aged 19.
Mrs. Sarah Sprague, Died June 12, Aged 47.
Wm. R. Withington, Died June 12, Aged 2 yrs.
Mr. Saml. Rolf, Died June 12, Aged 22.
Mrs. Ehapheal Baker, Died June 12, Aged 55.
Mr. Stephen Bradley, Died June 14, Aged 33.
Capt. William Downes, Died June 13, Aged 48.
Mr. Daniel Calef, Died June 14, Aged 53.
Mrs. Grace Frost, Died June 14, Aged 41.
John Dogget, Died June 14, Aged 2 yrs.
Mr. John Clapham, Died June 19.
J. B. S , Died Jime — , Aged 11 mo.
Capt. George Mead, Died June 21, Aged 28.
Saml. J. G. Graupner, Died June 25, Aged 5 mo.
Capt. David Spear, Died July 8, Aged 77.
Mrs. Catherine Hutchinson, Died July 7, Aged 33.
Mrs. Mary Turner, Died July 3, Aged 61.
Mr. William Harris, Died July 4.
Wm. Piercy, Died July 9, Aged 10 yrs.
John Little, Died July 9, Aged 7.
Mrs. Elizabeth Lemon, Died July 9, Aged 62.
Rhoda C. Baker, Died July 11, Aged 6 yrs.
Mrs. Allice Smith, Died July 11, Aged 42.
Mr. Elijah Swift, Died July 14, Aged 45.
Miss Sarah Jones, Died July 13, Aged 32.
Mrs. Elizabeth Morgan, Died July 17, Aged 27.
Mr. John Hobart, Died July 19, Aged 67.
Mr. Michael Carry, Died July 22, Aged 68.
Mr. John Grover, Died July 22, Aged 69.
Miss Priscilla Lawrence, Died July 24, Aged 23.
Mr. Moses Stone, Died July 25, Aged 54.
Mr. Jabez Townsend, Died July 24, Aged 23.
Mr. David Carnes, Died July 27, Aged 43.
Mrs. Prudence Swan, Died July 29, Aged 48.
Mrs. Anna Baker, Died July 30, Aged 56.
IMrs. Mary Eayres, Died July 30, Aged 95.
]Mrs. Abigail Davis, Died Aug. 3, Aged 42.
Anna L. Jacobs, Died Aug. 3, Aged 10 mo.
Mrs. Mary Champney, Died Aug. 4, Aged 32.
Mr. Jona. Abrams, Died Aug. 4, Aged 53.
Mrs. Ursula Wells, Died Aug. 5, Aged 66.
Mr. Joseph Jackson, Died Aug. 9, Aged 74.
Mr. Thomas Murphy, Died Aug. 8, Aged 42.
William Fisk, Esqr., Died Aug. 13, Aged 50.
Mrs. Hannah Adams, Died Aug. 13, Aged 72.
Mr. Nathl. Ridgway, Died Aug. 13, Aged 48.
John Remington, Esqr., Died Aug. 13, Aged 84.
Mr. Joseph WilHston, Died Aug. 14, Aged 60.
Mr. Thos. Low, Died Aug. 13, Aged 56.
Mrs. Margaret Geyer, Died Aug. 14, Aged 62.
Mrs. Anna Noyes, Died Aug. 16, Aged 69.
Mrs. Elizabeth Dewing, Died Aug. 17, Aged 41.
Mr. Vital Temple, Died Aug. 16, Aged 42.
Mrs. Sarah Breed, Died Aug. 20, Aged 57.
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Mr. Michael Collins, Died Aug. 22, Aged 28.
Mr. Joseph Lemas, Died Aug. 21, Aged 25.
Martha Sprague, Died Aug. 23, Aged 13 mo.
Mr. Hezekiah Blanchard [Medford written in pencil\, Died
Aug. 24, Aged 76.
Mr. John Jones, Died Aug. 25, Aged 59.
Mrs. Abigail Smith, Died Aug. 26, Aged 69.
Revd. David Tappan, S. T. D. Theologoe Hollis Professer Natus
Apr. 21mo, 1753, Obt Augt. 27mo, 1803, ^tatis 51.
Mrs. Nancy Bean, Died Aug. 27, Aged 35.
Revd. Stephen Badger, Died Aug. 28, Aged 78.
A. A. F , Died Aug. — , Aged 17 mo.
Miss Harriot Green, Died Aug. 28, Aged 17 yrs.
Miss Lydia Gushing, Died Aug. 30, Aged 19.
Mrs. Mary Howe, Died Sept. 1, Aged 29.
Isaac Breed, Died Sept. 1, Aged 10 mo.
Elizabeth Reed, Died Sept, 1, Aged 14 mo.
Mrs. Abigail Hall, Died Sept. 2,- Aged 37.
Mr. Joseph Bates, Died Sept. 4, Aged 58.
i Mrs. Amity Wilson, Died Sept. 5, Aged 21.
i Mrs. Lucy Kitteridge, Died Sept. 5, Aged.44.
s Mrs. Mary Miller, Died Sept. 6, Aged 34.
I Mr. John Freeland, Died Sept. 7, Aged 28.
\ John B, Simmonds, Died Sept. 8, Aged 14 mo.
I Mary French, Died Sept. 8, Aged 6 yrs.
\ Mrs. Susannah Kendall, Died Sept. 9, Aged 48.
I Edward Edes, Esqr., Died Sept. 8, Aged 57.
S Mrs. Susannah Frost, Died Sept. 10, Aged 29.
I Mr. Jona. Balch, Jur., Died Sept. 11, Aged 29.
•• Mrs. Martha Marrett, Died Sept. 11, Aged 45.
\ Mr. Benja. Seward, Died Sept. 12, Aged 36.
t Miss EUza Roberts, Died Sept. 12, Aged 13.
t Mrs. Elizabeth Doubliday, Died Sept. 12, Aged 66.
f Mrs. Eunice Pierce, Died Sept. 14, Aged 97.
'■ Capt. Thomas Barnard, Died Sept. 14, Aged 62.
Hepzh. B. Williston, Died Sept. 15, Aged 10 mo.
Mrs. Rachel Acres, Died Sept. 17, Aged 42.
Mrs. Gatherine Wood, Died Sept. 16, Aged 74.
Mr. Elisha Poinsett of G. S. Garola., Died Sept. 18, Aged'64.
Mrs. Ann Rand, Died Sept. 18, Aged 40.
Mr. Thos. Shute, Died Sept. 19, Aged 23.
Mr. John Bull, Died Sept. 19, Aged 16.
Mrs. Mary T. Floyd, Died Sept. 20, Aged 26.
Miss Lydia Harrington, Died Sept. 20, Aged 23.
Mr. Ebenr. Gushing, Died Sept. 21, Aged 68.
Mary Heath, Died Sept. 23, Aged 15 mo.
Andrew M. Passenger, Died Sept. 25, Aged 13 mo.
Eliza S. Richards, Died Sept. 26, Aged 2 yrs.
Mrs. Mary Gammon, Died Sept. 26, Aged 18.
Robt. Garter, Died Sept. 25, Aged 8 mo.
Saml. Tufts, Died Sept. 27, Aged 12 mo.
•; Mr. James Baker, Died Sept. 26, Aged 61.
• Mrs. Mary Gleason, Died Sept. 29, Aged 45.
Henry Plumback, Died Sept. 26, Aged 16 mo.
i Mr. Saml. Minot, Died Sept. 26, Aged 70.
? Lost from this date to Novr. 16th.
320 A Record of Deaths in Boston and Vicinity [Oct.
Miss Eliza Wait, Died Nov. 16, Aged 26.
Mrs. Elizabeth Coolidge, Died Nov. 19, Aged 84.
Miss Fanny Bent, Died Nov. 18, Aged 15.
James Perkins, Esqr., Died Nov. 18, Aged 85.
Mrs. Rebeckah Ingalls, Died Nov. 19, Aged 30,
Doct. David Fisk, Died Nov. 20, Aged 55.
Mrs. Lydia Livermore, Died Nov. 23, Aged 37.
Mrs. Fanny Fielder, Died Nov. 23, Aged 37.
Mrs. Azubah Leavitt, Died Nov. 24, Aged 44.
Mrs. Nancy Bittle, Died Nov. 22, Aged 25.
Mr. Alexr. Faincy, Died Nov. 24, Aged 81.
Mr. Wm. Johnson, Died Nov. 24, Aged 62.
Miss Nabby Lanson, Died Nov. 27, Aged 14.
Mr. Samuel Jackson, Died Nov. 28.
Capt. Richard Weldon, Died Nov. 28, Aged 68.
Mr. Nathl. Copland, Died Nov. 28, Aged 38.
Mr. Jonas Pond, Died Nov. 28, Aged 74.
Mrs. Elizabeth Holden, Died Nov. 28, Aged 76.
Mr. Benja. Evans, Died Nov. 29, Aged 29.
Mr. Thomas Appleton, Died Dec. 1, Aged 60.
Mrs. Mary Coffin, Died Dec. 1, Aged 76.
Mrs. Joanna Skilton, Died Dec. 3, Aged 55.
Mrs. Sarah Brinley, Died Dec. 3, Aged 66.
Mrs. Rebecca Robins, Died Dec. 3, Aged 54.
Malcom Fullerton, Esqr., Died Dec. 5, Aged 45.
Mr. Wm. Verstille, Died Dec. 6, Aged 45.
Capt. Alden Nichols, Died Dec. 6, Aged 39.
Joseph Cashing, Died Dec. 7, Aged 3 yrs.
Mrs. Hannah Stanton, Died Dec. 7, Aged 46.
Jane B. Hunt, Died Dec. 7, Aged 7 yrs.
Mr. Wm. Hall, Died Dec. 9, Aged 30.
Miss Mehitable Cutter, Died Dec. 9, Aged 24.
Mrs. Hannah Luckis, Died Dec. 9, Aged 67.
Mr. Francis Whittemore, Died Dec. 3, Aged 60.
Mrs. Desias Burgham, Died Dec. 7, Aged 27.
Mrs. Betsy Brown, Died Dec. 11, Aged 35.
Mr. Benja. Edes, Died Dec. 11, Aged 71.
Mr. Edward Jones, Died Dec. 12, Aged 57.
Mr. Ezeldel WjTnan, Died Dec. 13, Aged 24.
Mr. George Barber, Died Dec. 14, Aged 35.
Mr. George Edwards, Died Dec. 13, Aged 25.
Capt. Amos Follensbee, Died Dec. 15, Aged 27.
Mr. Isaac D. Vose, Died Dec. 13, Aged 18.
Miss Love Rhodes, Died Dec. 14, Aged 18.
]\lr. Martin Farrell, Died Dec. 14, Aged 27.
Alfred McNeill, Died Dec. 15, Aged 15 mo.
Miss Hannah IMitchell, Died Dec. 15, Aged 20.
Mrs. Salley King, Died Dec. 14, Aged 22.
Mr. Edward Cabot, Died Dec. 17, Aged 20.
Mrs. Elizabeth Warner, Died Dec. 16, Aged 50.
Mrs. Sarah Bell, Died Dec. 19, Aged 48.
Mrs. Experince Bridge, Died Dec. 20, Aged 84.
Mr. James Barnard, Died Dec. 21, Aged 40.
Mr. Thomas Shimmin, Died Dec. 20, Aged 20.
Miss Rebecca Mitchell, Died Dec. 21, Aged 21.
Mr. Patrick White, Died Dec. 21, Aged 26.
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]Mr. William Darracott, Jur., Died Dec. 22, Aged 23.
Mr. John James, Died Dec. 23, Aged 47.
) Mrs. Hepzibah Hayward, Died Dec. 24, Aged 68.
Mrs. Mary H. Ford, Died Dec. 24, Aged 33.
Mr. John F. Jenison, Died Dec. 24, Aged 33.
Mrs. Mary Himes, Died Dec. 24, Aged 27.
Mr. Malcom Nicholson, Died Dec. 23, Aged 24.
Miss Nancy Watson, Died Dec. 24, Aged 22.
Mrs. Lydia Bradley, Died Dec. 25, Aged 56.
Mr. Da\'id Williams, Jur., Died Dec. 25, Aged 20.
Mr. Adam Rupp, Died Dec. 26, Aged 82.
Mr. Saml. T. Rogers, Died Dec. 27, Aged 26.
Miss Rebecca Hayden, Died Dec. 29, Aged 74.
Mrs. Sally Foy, Died Dec. 29, Aged 49.
Mrs. Hannah Spear, Died Dec. 30, Aged 66.
[To be continued]
I PROCEEDINGS OF THE NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC
i GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY
>
i By Henet Edwabds Scott, A.B., Recording Secretary
I Boston, Massachusetts, S October 192'i. A stated meeting of the Society was
I held in Wilder Hall, 9 Ashbmton Place, at 2.30 P.M., Alfred Johnson, Vice
I President for Maine, presiding.
\ The minutes of the May meeting were read and approved, and the reports
j of the Corresponding Secretary, Librarian, Historian, and Coimcil were accepted,
; the Council reporting that since the May meeting one Corresponding Member,
; ten Life Members, and one himdred and fourteen Resident Members had been
j elected to membership in the Society, as follows:
I Corresponding Member
' Alexander Boyd Andrews of Raleigh, N. C.
■ Life Members
; Nellie P. Carter of Boston, Mass.
I Mrs. Benjamin Franklin Pitman of Brookline, Mass.
• Margaret A. Fish of Brookhne, Mass.
Muriel C. Heywood of Worcester, Mass.
Mrs. Henry W. de Forest of Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, N. Y.
Mrs. Frank A. Sayles of Pawtucket, R. I.
Bradlee Rogers of Boston, Mass.
Helen Clay Frick of New York City
Mrs. Nathaniel T. Bacon of Peace Dale, R. I.
Mrs. Walter Phelps Bliss of Bernardsville, N. J.
Resident Members
Anne P. King of Boston, Mass.
Mrs. Samuel S. Curry of Boston, Mass.
A. A. Holden of Hillsborough, N. H.
Margaret Cummings of Boston, Mass.
Mrs. Willard H. Haff of Newton Highlands, Mass.
Mrs. J. W. Chesnutt of Engelwood, Tenn.
Emma J. Fitz of Boston, Mass.
Mrs. Robert Roger Haydock of Milton, Mass.
Mrs. Jesse P. Ljnman of Boston, Mass.
Mrs. Irvin Norton of Webster Groves, Mo.
322 Proceedings of the N. E. Hist. Gen. Society [Oct.
William Alcott of Watertown, Mass.
Mrs. Charles G. Mixter of Boston, Mass.
Lucy W. Burr of Boston, Mass.
Mrs. Alton Brooks Parker of New York City
Henry Angier Jenks of Cambridge, Mass.
Mrs. Henry Angier Jenks of Cambridge, Mass.
William' Edward Gould of Muskegon, Mich.
Mrs. C. H. Sayre Merrill of Milton, Mass.
George A. Merrill of San Francisco, Calif.
Mrs. Frederick Silsbee WhitweU of Boston, Mass.
Ralph C. Estes of Attleboro, Mass.
Mrs. Clarence Henry Poor of Beverly Farms, Mass.
William Nichols Goddard of Wellesley Hills, Mass.
Mrs. William E. Rice of Worcester, Mass.
Mrs. William Bennett Munro of Pasadena, Calif.
Mrs. Christopher R. Eliot of Boston, Mass.
Phyllis Robbins of Boston, Mass.
Mrs. Arthur W. Peirce of Franklin, Mass.
Mrs. John S. Curtis of Boston, Mass.
Mrs. Thomas Russell Watson of Cambridge, Mass.
Mrs. George R. Fearing of Boston, Mass.
Walter F. Willcox of Ithaca, N. Y.
Mrs. Franklin W. DoUber of Brookline, Mass.
Mrs. Randall Clifford of Brookline, Mass.
Mrs. William Whitman, Jr., of Boston, Mass.
Mrs. Albert B. Bates of Boston, Mass.
Mrs. Huntington Saville of Cambridge, Mass.
Mrs. John W. Bartol of Boston, Mass.
Mrs. George Thomas Keyes of Boston, Mass.
Mrs. H. H. Murray of Riverton, N. J.
Mrs. William R. Buckminster of Boston, Mass.
William R. Buckminster of Boston, Mass.
Mary Sturtevant of Newport, R. I.
Perley E. Davis of Granby, Mass.
Mrs. Grace M. Stokes of Streator, HI.
Mrs. Jonathan Brown, Jr., of Boston, Mass.
Mrs. Daniel Folger Barker of Plattsburgh, N. Y.
Mrs. Barrett P. Tyler of Brookline, Mass.
Mrs. Solomon P. Stratton of Boston, Mass.
Mrs. Sanford C. Douglas of Rochester, N. Y.
Mrs. Thomas J. Emery of Cincinnati, Ohio
Eugene Willard Montgomerj' of Galena, 111.
Eliza W. Avery of Norwich, Conn.
Mrs. Robert C. Black of Pelham Manor, N. Y.
Mrs. Robert Ashton Macready of New YorkCity
Mrs. George A. Milton of Waltham, Mass.
Mrs. Edwin Corning of Albany, N. Y.
Mrs. Howard S. Borden of New York City
Marion Greeley of Boston, Mass.
Mrs. Harry L. Hamhn of New York City
Mrs. James D. Layng of New York City
Mrs. Jordan L. Mott of New York City
Mrs. Nathaniel Morton Vose of Providence, R. I.
Fanny G. Ely of New York City
Mrs. Frederick S. Peck of Barrington, R. I.
Mrs. William Prall of New York City
Mrs. George L. Cheney of New York City
Mrs. Joseph A. Blake of Tarrj'town, N. Y.
Mrs. Walter J. Comstock of Providence, R. I.
Mrs. Otis Weld Richardson of Brookline, Mass.
Mrs. R. W. Oliver of Charlestown, Mass.
Mrs. Douglas L. Elliman of New York City
Mrs. Walter Hidden of Providence, R. I.
1923] Proceedings of the N. E. Hist Gen. Society 323
Mrs. Everett C. Cannon of Princess Anne, Md.
Mrs. D. Hunter McAlpin, Jr., of New York City-
Mrs. Herbert J. Wells of Kingston, R. I.
Maud M. Price of Rochester, N. Y.
Mrs. George W. Carr of Providence, R. I.
Anna R. Rathbun of Woonsocket, R. I.
Mrs. Charles H. Ferry of New York City
Mrs. Warner W. Bayley of Morristown, N. J.
t Maud B. Tewksbury of Readville, Mass.
I R. Maynard Monroe of Washington, D. C.
! Mrs. Hugh D. Auchincloss of New York City
i Mrs. Morris Woods Abbott of New Haven, Conn.
I Arnold Noble Weeks of Jamaica Plain, Mass.
Mrs. John T. Pratt of New York City
j Mrs. J. Warren Fobes of Princeton, N. J.
! Mrs. Louis P. Tower of Providence, R. I.
Mrs. Lawrence F. Abbott of Forest Hills Gardens, Long Island, N. Y.
Mrs. Philip H. Cooper of Morristown, N. J.
Mrs. Robert Cunningham Myles of New York City
Mrs. John H. Iselin of New York City
Martha Garfield of Dedham, Mass.
Edwin Lemist Furber of Cohasset, Mass.
Mrs. Edward D. Pearce, Jr., of Providence R. I.
Mrs. George Draper of New York City
Mrs. Webster Knight of Providence, R. I.
Mrs. Walter Chester Jarvis of San Diego, Calif.
Hon. John T. Adams of Washington, D. C.
,• Mrs. John A. Davis of New York City
? John J. Chase of Point Pleasant, W. Va.
j Mrs. Carl A. Knowles of Brookline, Mass.
} Mrs. John Sturgis of Auburn, Me.
I Clifford Melville Swan of Mt. Vernon, N. Y.
1 Webb Bogart White of Cambridge, Mass.
1 Mrs. Helen Hartley Jenkins of New York City
« William Augustus Raddin of Cliftondale, Mass.
i Mrs. Mary 0. Fraprie of Brookline, Mass.
? Mrs. Edward F. Hutton of New York City
{ Mrs. William Adams Brown of London, England
I Joe Kenton Billingsley of Cambridge, Mass.
■;. Mrs. B. A. Tyler of Dalton, Ga.
I Walter D. McKinney of Colimibus, Ohio
t The Chair then stated that, when the news of the recent Japanese disaster
1 was received, the ofiScers of the Society sent to Messrs. Frazar & Company of
New York a letter expressing concern for the safety of Mr. Everett W. Frazarj
the head of that company in Yokohama and Tokio, a Pilgrim Tercentenary
Member of the Society, and the donor of the tablet which has been erected
in the Society's building to the memory of John Alden. In reply to this letter the
company has sent to the Society from time to time bulletins, from which it
has been learned that Mr. Frazar was in this country at the time of the earth-
quake, that he hastened to Washington to confer with the authorities there in
regard to reUef work, that he sailed for Japan on 23 September, and that since
his departure news has reached the New York office that His Imperial Majesty
the Emperor of Japan, in recognition of Mr. Frazar's years of labor in fostering
Japanese progress and in promoting a better international vmderstanding, has
conferred on Mr. Frazar, by a special decree, the Third Degree Order of the
Rising Sun.
The Chair then presented, as the speaker of the afternoon. Rev. Glenn Tilley
Morse, A.B., S.T.B., of West Newbury, Mass., President of the Bay State
Historical League and of the Historical Society of Old Newbury, who read an
unusually instructive and interesting paper on SUhoiiettes. Mr. Morse gave a
brief history of silhouettes, pointed out their importance in the development
of the art of portraiture, mentioned some of the more noted silhouettists, and
VOL. Lxxvn. 21
324 Recent Books [Oct.
exhibited more than two hundred specimens of silhouettes selected with great
care from his own large and valuable collection.
On motion of Albert Henry Lamson the thanks of the Society were extended
to Mr. Morse for his deUghtful lecture, and the members and their guests, at the
request of the Chair, rose to express their appreciation of the speaker's work.
No further business being presented, the Chair, at 4 P.M., declared the meeting
dissolved; and the members and their friends remained to examine the silhouettes
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17, 1841. Printed by order of the Society. [New York, Tobias A. Wright] 1923.
227 p. il. por. 4°
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INDEX OF PERSONS
Note. — Roman numerals refer to the pages of the Supplement.
ABBOT Abbott Abbut
Abiel Ixxxv
Betsey 151
Caroline Howard Ixx
Caroline Ward Ixxxvi
Daniel 29
Edmund Quincy Ixxxvi
Edwin Hale IxxJxvi
Ezra but Ixxxv
Fannj; Ellingwood Ixxxv
Francis Ellingwood Ixxxvi
Frederick 26 31
George Ixxxv
George W. 230
Hale Wellington Ixxxvi
Hannah 290
Henry 31
Henry Larcom Ixxxvi
Isaac P. 176
Jane H. 240
Jason 33
John Ixxxv
John Howard 82
Joseph 290
Joseph Hale Ixxxv
L. Jane 176
Larcom Ixxxvi
Lawrence F. 323
Lucy Amelia Ixx
Mary 33
Miriam Ixxxvi
Morris Woods (Mrs.) 323
Rebecca Ixxxv
Sarah 290
Theodore Bewail Ixxxvi
V^lliam Fitzhale xxxvi Ixxxv
Ixxxvi
ABRAMS Jonathan 318
ACRES Rachel 319
ACSTENS Arstens
George 111
John 111
Thomas 111
ACTESON Walter 306
ADAMS 277
Capt. 63
Abigail Brown Ixvi
Adelaide Frances 183
Anna 275
Artemisia Thurston 184
Calvin J. 177
Charles Francis Ixvi
Charles Prentice 57
Charlotte Ixix
Constantine W. 153
Daniel 313
David 235
Deborah Ixxix Ixxx
Diana 315
George 315
Hannah 318
Helen Frances xxxvi
Henry Ixi
Ivers Whitney (Mrs.) 237
J. K. 57
James 316
John 235 270
John (Juincy 270 Ixvi
ADAMS cont'd
John T. 323
Jonathan 193
Judith 318
Karl Joseph 57
L. S. 57
Laura xlviii
Louisa M. 153
Lucy B. 177
Lydia 236
Margaret 57 284
Martha 316
Mary 287
Melvin Ohio (Mrs.) 155
Nathan 284
Nathaniel 275
Nettie xxviii
Philip Lucius 57
Samson 287
Sarah 55
Sarah J. 176
Theodore Parker xxv
Thomas 239
Thomasine 193
William 65 67 95 102 106
Zeniiah 277
ADDISON John Ixxix
Mary Ixxix
Mary Elisabeth xxxvi Ixxviii
Ixxix
Thomas Alfred Ixxix
ADKINS Rebecca Patton 142
AHLQUIST Harold (Mrs.)
Ixxxix
ALBREE John 154
ALCOTT WilUam 322
ALDEN Daniel 324
Frank Wentworth 324
John 323 324
ALDERSON Elizabeth 142 218
Plato 235
ALDRICH AbigaU Ixxx
Mary A. 190
Roger C. 190
William Truman vii viii
ALEMAN Jo. 130
ALERS Mary E. 178
ALEXANDER Abden Inde-
pendence 142
Adam 138 139 218
Benjamin 136
Charles 136 139
Eleazer 142
Eliza Eugenia 142
Hezekiah 216
Isaac 235
J. B. 140
Margaret 138 142
Mary 139 216 267
Nathaniel 138
Susan 136
Susan Carter 224
Taylor 136
Thomas 136
William 136
William Sir Earl of Stirling
see Stirling Earl of
ALGER Elisha 195
Elizabeth 195
Iranah 195
Jane 195
John 195
Jonathan 195
Lydia 195
Mary 195
Roger 195
Ruth 195
Sarah 195
Susannah 195
Temperence 195
ALLBE AUby
Christian 314
James G. 176
Sarah 176
ALLEN Ailing
— Mr. 63 95
Adeline 147
Amelia 42
Ann Maria 148
Asaph xliii
Augustus 147
Charles Drury xliii
Climena xliii
Edmvmd Head xliii
EUsha 28
Elizabeth 264
Ephraim 27 28 31 32
Frances xliii
Frances E. 148
Frederick B. (Mrs.) 237
Gardner Weld 160
George Winthrop xliii
Henry xliii
Hervey D. 148
Huldah32
Isaac xli
James Martin 182
Jane xli
Janet 182
John 239 xli xliii
John Campbell Sir xxxviii
xli xlii xliii
John Edward 179
Lizzie S. 180
Lucy Jane 148
Marahel 81
Margaret Austin xliii
Margaret Emma 261
Marshal 81
Mary E. 178
Mary J. 189
Nathan 81
Nathaniel 81
Samuel 235
Sarah 290 xli xliii
Susan Frances 179
Susan H. 182
Thomas 239 261
Thomas Carleton xliii
Thoinas P. 189
William 239
WiUiam H. 178
William K. xliii
Allen van see Van AUea
ALLERTON Mary 157
VOL. LXXVII.
23
ex
Index of Persons
Ailing see Allen
ALLISON William 245
ALMY Emma Frances xxxviii
Sarah Elizabeth 177
ALSOP Clarissa 297
Sarah 195
AMES James Barr (Mrs.) 237
AMIDON PhiUp E. 232
AMIS Mary 251
AMORY Charles Walter 302
Clara 302
Elizabeth 302
ANDERSON Abby 195 196
Abraham 220
Anna 195 196
Benjamin 220
Betsey J. 195
Christina 182
Daniel 195 196
Eliza 220
Elizabeth 195
Elizabeth D. 195
Fanny 220
Francis P. 195
Hannah 196
Hattie 268
Henry 220
Hephzibah 196
James 218 220
Jane 220
Jency 220
Jerusha 196
Joanne 196
John 195 196
John I. 196
Lydia 196
Minnie 218
Mitchell 220
Prudence 220
Rebecca F. 149
Sarah 220
Stacy 220
Taylor 220
Thomas 196
ANDREWS Andrew
Alexander Boyd 321
Asa 26
Bertha xrvii
Christen 315
Clarissa J. 57
David 31
Deborah 229
Elizabeth 24
Elizabeth Jane 185
Emma 188
Eneas 80
Enos 80
Frank De Wette 325 xxii
Georgiana 187
Herbert B. (Mrs.) ix xxvii
John 4 24
Jotham 29
Justin 185
Lucy 25
Rebecca 279
Robert 22 24 25 26 29 31
Samuel 22
ANGELL Angel
Frances Maria 185
Julia E. 178
ANGELLOTTI Frank Marion
(Mrs.) 133 213 250 ix
ANGIER Abigail 281
Hannah 281
Cakes 281
Samuel 281
ANNETT James 152
Mary C. S. 152
ANSON Pop 165
ANSTER H^llin 308
ANTHONY Fanny Ernestine
187
George B. 187
Harriet Johnson 180
APPLEGATE Mary 170
William S. 170
APPLETON Hetty Sullivan 301
Mary Ann 301
Thomas 320
William 301
WiUiam Sumner xxxiv
APTHORP Susan 296
ARCHBALD Francis 232
ARCHDUKE Peter Ferdinand
93
ARMAND Anna W. 216
ARMENT Martha C. 152
ARMSTRONG Clinton Adol-
phus 227
Eugenia 227
John 239
Margaret 227
Robert Cowden 227
Thomas 107
ARNO — Capt. 70 95
ARNOLD Ann 231
Annie Sarah 187
Caroline Louisa 184
Cattie 221
Clarissa Adeline 220
Emily 221
Godsgif t 94
Hattie F. 178
Jane 221
Jim 221
John H. 220
Newton Darling 184
Richard K. 221
Rufus 221
Susan Josephine 221
Thomas Polk 221
Arstens see Acstens
ARTHUR Chester Alan 270
ASHE John 250
John Baptiste 250
Mary 250
Samuel 250
ASHTON Jedediah 235
ASTEN Anne E. 152
ATHERTON Phineas 239
ATKINSON Hannah btv
Hannah Elizabeth Ixxxviii
John 306
Susannah Ixv
Thomas Ixv
ATWOOD David Ixxii
Eldad Ixxii
Hartley Frederic xxxvii Ixxii
John Ixxii
Mary Abigail Ixxii
Mary Catherine 144
Mary Ellen 188
Nancy Ann 299
Rufus King Ixxii
Rufus Neely 144
Stephen Ixxii
Timothy Ixxii
William Woods 144
AUCHmCLOSS Hugh D.
(Mrs.) 323
AUSTIN Benjamin 291
Eliza 291
James L. 55
Jane 291
Mary 217
Sarah Ann 55
Wilson 217
AVERELL AveriU
Alice 307
Emma Clara Ixxxviii
Hannah Elizabeth Ixxxviii
Humphrey 307
John Thomas Ixxxviii
AVERY Alexander HamiltonE61
Charles Polk 261
Charlotte 177
David 196
Ebenezer Root 261
AVERY cont'd
Eliza Ann 54
Eliza W. 322
George S. 54
Harriet 261
Herbert 261
Horatio N. 177
Lora BeUe 261
Lucy xc
Mary A. 196
Minnie Fisher 261
Norman Le Noir 261
Sarah Henrietta 261
Walter Hamilton 261
AYER Charles Fanning (Mrs.)
156
Philinda 177
AYLMER Francis 308 310
Grace 308 310
AYLSWORTH Henry P. 179
Nancy T. 179
AYRAULT Daniel 60
BABCOCK Badcock
43
Amy 38 39
Anna 42
Asa 40 43
Betsey 43
Content 44
Ellen Eliza Ckingdon 185
George 44
Hannah 44 283
Harmah Desire 44
Henry 40 43
Isaac 38 39 42
James 40 44
John 38
John Prentice 42
Joseph 44
Keturah 44
Mary 38 39 40 42 43 44
Phebe 38
Prudence 40 43
Rhoda 39
Sarah 44 49
Stanton 42
Susan 44
BACON AbigaU 233 292
Charlotte Ixxxii
Charlotte Elizabeth Ixxxii
EUzabeth M. 189
Etta M. 189
Francis Sir 115
Francis B. Ixxxii
Isaac 292
Mary 294
Mehitable 297
Nathaniel T. (Mrs.) 321
Robert Ixxxiii
BACOT John Vacher 82 xxvii
Badcock see Babcock
BADGER George Edmund 215
James 175
Katharine Mallon 215
Mary Brown 215
Mildred M. 175
SaUy Polk 215
Stephen 319
BAGGETT Cxjmelia 264
Curley 264
Miimie 263
Stephen 263
BAGLEY Freeman 232
BAILEY Bayley
Diana 230
Diana P. 316
Elizabeth Coombs 190
Frank W. 79 xxiii
Israel 64
P. William M. J. 318
Peter F. 229
Robert Maurice xxv
Warner W. (Mrs.) 323
Index of Persons
CXI
BAINFORD John 233
SAINTON John 116 117
BAIKD Patty Ixxix
BAKER Abner 46
Alexander xxxix xl
Ann Elizabeth 183
Anna 318
C. K. (Mrs.) 77
Catherine 46
Charles G. xli
Charles Henry xli
Charles Kelley (Mrs.) xxvii
Darius Edward 183
Edward Howard xxxviii
xzxix xl xli
Edward William xli
EUapheal 318
Elisha xxxix
Eliza Rundall 183
Elizabeth xxxix
Elvira C. 180
Henry N. xli
Ira Watson xxxix
James 319
Jane 46 307
John xxxix
Joseph Andrew 183
Joshua xxxix
Lucy Frances xl xli
Mary 52 228 234 315..
Maude Maybelle xxvii
Mira xxxix
Myra Frances xli
Rhoda C. 318
Sarah 234
William 234
William B. xli
BALCH Francis Noyes xxxiv
Jonathan 319
BALCOM Sarah J. 177
BALDWIN Dorcas 228
P. W. xcviii
George William xxv
Jane B. 189
Lewis 189
Simeon Eben xxv
BALL Aaron 24
Anna Cushman 158
Daniel 19 24 26 28 30
Elijah 31
Elizabeth 84
Eunice 19 24
Ezekiel 30
Ezra 23
Francis Dixon 158
Jonathan 19 21 22 23 24
Louisa 226
Mary 84
Moses 24
Posey Dixon 158
Robert 84
Sally 26
Silence 24
Submit 22
Thankful 28
Unice see Eunice
William 21
BALLANTINE Mary Ann 151
BALLOU Barton A. 177
Delia A. 177
Hosea Starr 79 vii xv
Hosea Starr (Mrs.) 156
Mary Chase viii
BANACK WiUiam 20
BANCROFT James 316
Rachel L. 58
William Amos cii
BANGS Adelaide Pauline xxix
Edward Ixi
George S. 166 167
Lydia Matthews x
BANISTER Ansley 238
Frances 238
John 238
BANISTER cont'd
Samuel 238
Thomas 238
BANKS Charles Edward xxi
BANNING Calvin 196
Calvin M. 196 .
Celestine 187
Eunice 196
BARBER Barbour
Charles P. 45
George 320
Keturah 45
Lois 45
Louisa P. 148
Lucius Albert xxxviii
Lucius Barnes Viiii
Peleg Sherman 45
WilUam 232
BARB Frances Elizabeth 58
BAREFOOTE Sarah Ixxvii
Walter Ixxvii
BARFIELD Ina 267
BARKER Daniel Folger (Mrs.)
322
James 239
Josiah 84
Lewis Appleton 78 xxiii
Maria 236
Mary 230 306
Penelope 84
Sarah 84
BARNARD Anne 285
Charles A. 237
George E. (Mrs.) 156
Hannah M. 181
James 320
James H. 148
Mary N. 148
Thomas 319
BARNES EUen M. 181
Franklin 51
Hugh 239
Jared 81
Jerry 81
Joseph 239
Lydia Ann 51
Maybe 12
Ruthy 315
Samuel 63 102
BARNETT Isaac Newton 222
Jane Clarissa 222
BARNEY Carrie A. 182
BARRELL Sarah Ann 232
BARRETT Adeline 176
Elizabeth 313
Lemira 304
Martha 264
Mary 84 317
BARRON Andrew 239
Ellis 274
Ernest 239
Grace 274
Hannah 274
Thomas 317
William 239
BARROWS Marguerite Au-
gusta 188
Martha E. 180
William 239
BARRY Elizabeth Walker 143
BARSTOW Yet-Once 94
BARTER Arthur E. (Mrs.) 78
xxvii
Ida S. xxvii
Mary 229
BARTHOLOMEW Isaac 14
BARTLETT Ann Johnson 56
Annie G. 56
Elizabeth xx
Joseph 286
Joseph Gardner 191
Lydia 286
Richard A. 56
BARTOL John W. (Mrs.) 322
BARTON — Capt. 106
Emily L. 177
Frederick Otis 301
George Hunt vii
Harriet A. 147
James C. 316
Mary Lowell 301
Otis 301
Sarah Jewett 301
William 147
BASCOM Joseph Dayton ix
xxvii
BASKERVILL Patrick Hamil-
ton 82
BASS Alden 317
Hannah 232
James Weston 226
Olivia Polk 226
Phebe 33
Stephen 33
BASSETT Ann Maria 180
Jehu 81
Jesse 81
BASTIDE John H. 100
BATCHELDER Winifred Weld
viii
BATES Albert B. (Mrs.) 322
Carrie 181
Daniel 43
Daniel C. 146
Ellen M. civ
Emeline D. 149
John Lewis 3
Joseph 319
Joseph C. Ixxx
Mary H. 146
Phebe 43
Ruth 42
BATH Granville John Earl of
130
BAVLEY — Rev. Mr. 19
BAXTER — Rev. Mr. 20
Eliza 178
George A. 232
George G. 313
James Phinney xviii
John 81
Margaret 218
Martha xxix
Percival Proctor xviii
Sarah Ixxviii
Bayley see Bailey
BAYLIES Walter C. (Mrs.) 155
BAYLOR George 45
BEACH Beech
Benajah 81
Benjamin 81
Mary E. 151
Phineas 80
Samuel 80
BEAL Beale Beall
Boylston Adams vii
Elmer Ellsworth (Mrs.) 153
John 192
Mary 315
Sarah 192
BEAMAN Betty 29
Ephraim 28 29 32
Eunice 31
Ezra 25 26 29 31
Jabez 19 22
Levina 25
Persis 26 32
Sarah 28
Silas 28 32
Tamar 28 29 32
Unice see Eunice
BEAN Beans
Charles Addison xxvii
Elizabeth 38
Nancy 319
BEARD Martha Jane 270
Mary E. 267
Young 270
cxu
Index of Persons
BEASLEY Elizabeth 264
James 264
BEAUFORT — Cardinal liii
BECK Charles C. J. 152
Joseph 239
Phebe A. 152
BECKER Emma M. 180
BECKET Robert 62 65 66 70 9G
98 99 100 103
BECKWITH Esther 196
Matthew 196
Robert 62
BEDELL John 175
Mary Augusta 175
Beech see Beach
BEECHER Justus 81
Nicholas 81
Nichols 81
BEEDE Abby Susan xxxvii ci
Eli ci
Everett Jefts vi ci
Frank Taylor ci
Irene Quimby ci
Luman Jefts ci__
Mehitable Ixxvii _
William Taylor ci
BEESON Jessett 265
BELCHER Abigail 231
BELDEN Cornelia 189
George 189
BELKNAP Ebenezer 28
Louisa 28
Silence 28
BELL Adela Clarissa 144
Alexander xcvi
Alexander Graham 167 168
169 172 xxxviii xcvi xcvii
xcviii xcix
Alexander Meh-ille xcvi
xcvii
Anna C. 150
Chichester xcviii
David xcvi
Eliza Grace xcvi
Elsie May xcix
Harriet B. 147
Helen xcvi
Isaac 314
James 144 xcvi
Mabel Gardiner xcix
Marian Hubbard xcix
Sarah 320
Sarah Gross viii
Sarah Hemenway 79
Stoughton (Mrs.) 156
BELLINGTON Lemira Avis
186
BEAnS Elizabeth 228
Luke 229
BENCH Phineas 80
Samuel 80
BENCHER Justus 81
BENDER Abigail 228
BENHAM Benjamin 81
UriSO
Uriah SO
BENNER Mary 3
Robert 3
BENNETT Bennet
Abbv L. 169
Abigail 26
Abner 20
Bettv 23
Bezaleel 23
Da\-id 22 33
Hannah 18
John 24
Jonas 21 33
Jonathan 19 20 22 23
Josiah 19 20 21 23 24
Martha 18
Mary 18 20 21 33
Moses 63 64 71 99 102 106 108
Fersis 33
BENNETT cont'd
Phineas 20 21
ReUef 27
Rhoda21
Samuel 26
Sarah 316
William R. 189
BENT Fanny 320
Mary 288
Matthias 288
BENTLEY Dexter F. 53
Sarah M. 53
William 35
BERDEN Gertrude 181
BERLIN Josephine V. 153
BERNARD Isaac 30
BERNEY Alfred 152
Hannah 184
Martha 184
MatUda A. 152
WilUam 184
BERRY Charles Duke of 259
BERRY Bery
Benjamin 225
Catherine M. 147
Christiana Thressia 226
Clara 225
Clarissa C. 225
Daniel Dorsey 225 226
EUzabeth 225
Elizabeth Dodd 225
EUzabeth Selby 226
Ellen Depuy 226
Hannah 44
John 147
John Thomas 226
Laura Juliette 225
Louise Matilda 226
Lutie 270
Mary Ehza 226
Mary J. 226
Olivia Marbury 225
Olivia Polk 226
Sarah Meredith 144
William Benjamin 226
WUliain Polk 225
BESSE Frank Alden (Mrs.)
78 xxvii
Mary Bryant xxvii
BEST WilUam Hall 78 xxvii
BETRAM Benjamin 81
Better le see Le Better
BEVERSTOCK Francis P. 150
Laura Ann 150
BICKNELL CaroUne 146
James T. 146
BIDWELL Adouijah 59 60 98
99
Charles B. 189
Grace C. 189
BIGELOW Biglo Biglow
Abel 24
Achsah 26
Ada Genevieve xlix
Amariah 19 21 23 24 25 26
28 29
Andrew 27
Annis 30
Benjamin 21 22 31 280
Catherine Scollay 296
Charles 26 27 28 32
Dinah 24
Edmund 22
Elnathan 29
Eunice 31
Francis 23
James 32
James F. 155
John 32
Joseph 21 22 23 24 25 26 28
30 31 32
Lavina 21
Levi 26 28
Lucretia 26
BIGELOW cont'd
Lucy 26
Lydia 21
Martha 18 23
Mary 21 32
MindweU 280
Miriam 19 32
OUve 22 24
ReUef 22 33
Sarah 19 23 25
Solomon 32
Stephen 25
Umce see Eunice
William Thomas 21
BIGHAM Jemima 29
Patty 29
Stephen 29
Biglo see Bigelow
Biglow see Bigelow
BILLINGS Abigail 232
William 229
BILLINGSLEY Joe Kenton 323
BILLS Isaac 143
John Houston 143
LilUas 143
Lillias Olivia 145
Prudence Tate 143
BINGHAM — Capt. 110
George 117
Harriet 285
Horetta E. 189
BINNEY Mary 229 295
Matthew 231
BIRCH 221
Cattie 221
BIRCKHEAD Sally 296
BIRD Benjamin 229
Calvin 150
Charles Sumner (Mrs.) 155
Joseph 316
Mary H. 150
BIRDER Robert 306 310
BIRD SE YE Nathan Ixx
BIRD WELL J. S. 265
Mary 265
Victoria 265
William 265
WUlie Allen 265
BISCOE Sarah 273 274 277
BISHOP Amos 158
Julia Almira 186
Pamela 158
BISSINTON Heil 81
Robert 81
BITTLE Nancy 320
BIXBY Bixbe Bixbey
Aaron 22
Adonijah 23
Daniel 19 21 22 23 24 27
David 24
Elizabeth 20
Ephraim 20 23
Hannah 21
Jerusha 20 26
John 21 30 32
Joseph 30 31 32
Lois 22
Manassah 20 29
Martha 22 23
Mary 32
Mephibosheth 19
Nathaniel 19 20 22 23 26
Priscilla 21 31
Relief 26
Rhuami 24
Samuel 20 21 22 23 24
Sarah 23
Tabitha 27
BLACK Anna H. 178
Curtis 178
Daniel M. 149
Eliza 157
EmeUne D. 149
John 239
Index of Persons
cxiu
BLACK cont'd
Robert C. (Mrs.) 322
Rudolph 157
BLACKMAN Matilda Golden
142
Mildred Ann 142 225
Stephen 142
BLACKSTONE Jessie Edna 77
xxviii
BLACKWELL Mary Ann 142
BLAINE Emma Burt 79
BLAIR 262
Catherine 262
Jane xli
Mary 143
BLAKE Aurelia J. 153
Eliza A. W. 150
Francis 168
Francis Daniel 257
Francis Polk 257
Isabel Josephine 185
Jeremiah 150
John 228
Joseph A. (Mrs.) 322
Sarah H. 257
BLAKESLEE Careful 13
Job 81
Matthew 13
Rhoda 13
BLANC Louis liii
BLANCHARD Adeline Osgood
186
Edward 314
Hezekiah 319
John 234
John W. 148
Louisa 217
Louisa P. 148
Mary 235
Sarah L. 315
William Henry 186
BLANDING A. M. 176
Adeline 176
Eliza 176
Harriet A. 176
Mary Emily 182
William R. 176
BLANEY Dwight (Mrs.) xxviii
Edith White xxviii
BLAYLOCK Emma Belle 261
BLISS C. B. 242
Elmer Jared (Mrs.) 237
Marion Mary 187
Samuel Francis 187
Walter Phelps (Mrs.) 321
BLrVEN Ann 39
Edward 39
Eleanor 53
Elizabeth 51
Ellen Maria 185
George 39
John 51
Lucy 51
Thankful 53
Vashti 39
William 53
BLOCKET Catherine 30
Lydia 30
Samuel 30
Thomas 31
BLODGET Blodgett
John Henry (Mrs.) Ixxxviii
Ruth Sargent Lxxxviii
Samuel 315
William (Mrs.) 156
BLOOD Joseph F. 180
Mary E. ISO
BLOOMER EUzabeth 47 48
Rachel 46
Thomas 47 48
William 46
BLOSSOM Maria Ann 187
Mary A. 178
BLOUNT \raiiam 141
BOARD MAN BoadmanBoand-
man Bordeman Bord-
man Bourdman Boureman
Buriman
Aaron 312
Abiah xcix
Amos xcix
Andrew 305 306 307 308 309
310 311312
Ann 307 308 310
Eleanor 309
Elias xcix
Elisabeth 307
Elizabeth 305 309 312 xcix
Florence Porter 3
Frances 311 312 xcix
Giles 305 306 308 309
Grace 306 307 308 310
Hannah xcix
Huldah xcix
John B. 317
Josephine Porter 3
Margaret Elisabeth c
Martha 312
Mary 312
Mary E. c
Moses 310 311
Rebecca 306 308 310 311
Richard 306 307 310
Ruth 311
Sarah 312 xcix
Sarah Hartshorn xcix
Thomas 306 307 308 311
Waldo Elias xxii xxxvi xcix c
William 305 306 307 309 310
311 312 xcix
William Jarvis 3
BOATRIGHT Peggy 220
BOBO Frances 262
Sarah 262
BODINE Dorothy Kitchine 260
BOGART Ernest L. 162
Boies see Boyce
Boisdescourt Alexandre Mar-
quis de la Maisonfort see
Maisonfort Marquis
BOLE Benjamin Paterson
(Mrs.) 78 xxviii
Roberta xxviii
BOLLES — Capt. 115 130
BOLLMAN EUen 182
BOLT Joanna 234
BOLTON Charles Knowles vii
Charles Knowles (Mrs.) 238
Emily 296
Ethel vii
BOND Daniel 278
Elizabeth 281
Grace 273
Hannah 273 278 281
Hephzibah 280
John 273 278 281
Jonas 273 284
Margaret 280
Mary 277 281
Sarah 273 274 277
William 273 274 277 280
BONLEN Richard 196
BOONE Boon
Ann A. 180
Daniel 82
George 82 180
Lydia 290
Mary 82
BOOTH Henry Slader 159
Maria 183
Bordeman see Boardman
BORDEN Howard S. (Mrs.)
322
William 196
BORDER Mary 269
Bordman see Boardman
BOSCH — Capt. 63
Bose du see Du Bose
BOSMAN Rachel 46
BOSS Joseph 229
BOST Alice 266
BOSWORTH Hannah How-
land ciii
BOUCHELLE 250
Emma Octavia 260
Jane 250
Robert Julian 260
Robert Matthews 260
Virginia Hord 260
Bouker see Bowker
BOULDIN Kate 266
Marshall 266
Bourdman see Boardman
Boureman see Boardman
BOURNE Charlotte 296
BOUTWELL BouteUe
Elizabeth M. 176
Mary Ixv
BOXJVE Elizabeth 230
Bowden see Bowdoin
BOWDITCH Harold vii
BOWDOIN Bowden
Elizabeth 317
James 317
Thomas 239
William 62
BOWEN Alice 266
Amanda 266
C. S. 266
Caroline S. 180
Charles 266
Christopher Strong 266
David 266
Edward Lawrence 186
Edward Reece 266
Effie Douglas 261
Elisha Ixxxvi
EUza 266
Emily 266
Emma 266
Fanny Ixxxvi
Fanny Chandler Ixxxvi
Georgia 266
Hamil 261
Henrietta Polk 261
Isabella 266
Lovusa A. 188
Mary Ellen 186
Mattie 266
Robert 266
Rose 266
Samuel D. 180
Sarah Henrietta 261
William M. 188
William Polk 266
BOWERS Mary Augusta 175
BOWKER Bouker
Antipas 26 27 29
EbuT29
Esther 26
Francis 21
Freedom 21
John 21 22
Jotham 22
Lucena 29
Sophia 27 29
William H. (Mrs.) 156
BOWMAN Anne 285
Charles D. 150
Grace 285
John 282
John Elliot xxii
Nathaniel 285
Sarah H. 150
Susannah 282
BOWNESSE George 307
Margaret 307
BOXTON John 81
BOYCE Boies
Mehitable 294
Mercy 234
CXIV
BOYD George Jackson 187
Maria A. 189
Maria Ann 187
Mary Frances 152
Obedill 236
BOYER Daniel 294
Elizabeth 294
James 294
Katharine 294
Marianne 294
Serzane 294
BOYLE Lydia G. 234
BOYLSTON Sarah Ixv
Thomas Ixv
BOYNTON Hannah Ixxxi
Sarah 32
BRADBURY Phebe 147
BRADDOCK Edward 1
BRADEEN Annie M. 237
BRADFORD — Capt. 70
Ann 316
Benjamin 287
Clarissa Sarah 224
Flora Chandler 287
Gamaliel 287
H. L. 224
James C. 253
John 316
Lucy 284
Sarah Polk 253
Thomas 284
_ Virginia Hord 260
BRADISH Chloe 56
BRADLEY Charles Henry
xxxvii Ix Ixi
Eberlx
Eli Judson Ix
Harmon Howe Ix
Lewis 81
Lois 81
Lydia 321
Mary Chilton Ixi
Sarah Grout Ix
Stephen 318 Ix
Theophilus 81
Thomas 81
BRADSHAW Andrew 234
James 239
BRADSTREET Dudley 31 59
97 98 99 IQO
Mary Ixxix
BRADY Anthony N. 57
Flora Myers 57
Marcia 57
BRAGG Amelia E. 49
Braxton 256
H. W. 49
Susannah Ixix
BRAINARD Brainerd
Lawrence 159 160 243 vii
Louise 174
Marion vii
BRAMHAM — Capt. 95 101
102
BRANCH Delia 265
Elbert 265
EUa May 265
Flossie 265
Hood 265
Jennie 184
Jessett 265
Joseph Gerald 252
Joseph Waldo 184
KUne Polk 265
L. F. 265
Laurence 252
Lucia Eugenia 252
Mary Elizabeth 265
Mary Jones 252
Mary Polk 252
Xancy 265
Norman P. 265
BRANSCOME — Capt. 107 103
BRECK Edward viii
Index of Persons
BREED Hannah 318
Harriet 317
Isaac 319
Sarah 318
BREVARD Ephraim 138
Martha 138
Mary 138
BREWER Henry A. 236
Jonathan 292
Mary Mather 190
Rebecca 235
Sarah Almeda 303
BREWSTER Charlotte 190
Elisha 232
Henry H. 190
Huldah 43
Love 12
Mary Carter 291
Mary Chilton Ixi
William 12 291 xlv bci
BRIARD Ann 21
Anna 33
Lydia 18
Nicholas 21 22
Rachel 22
Brice see Bryce
BRIDGE Anna 274
Experience 320
Francis 313
Josiah 231
Mary 288
BRIDWELL Charies Grandison
265
BRIGGS Brigg
Emily L. 177
George 8. 254
L. L. 181 185
Mary T. 181
Nettie Frances 184
Priscilla Shelby 254
Rebecca 218
Samuel Arnold 177
Sarah xcii
Seth 231
Susan Vining xii
William Churchill v vi x\-i
BRIGHAM Alice 54
Clarence Saimders 54 vii
Edmund 30
Hannah 231
Herbert Clin 54
John Olin 54
Mary 21
Mindwell 21
Sally 31
Silas 21
Stephen 30 31
BRIGHT Anne 275
Henry 275
Mary 274 275 284
Mercy 284
Nathaniel 272 274 278 284
BRIGHTMAW Laura L. 178
S. Allen 178
BRIMBLECOMB— Capt.;65 66
BRINLEY Sarah 320
BRITTON BriUin
Esther 32
George A. 181
John 32
Meriby M. 181
BROAD HURST Marj- Jane 152
BROCKETT Be-Fruiuul 12
BROCKMAN Henry 262
Jimmie Belle 262
BROCKWAY Aaron S. 196
Bridget 196
John 196
Mary 196
Richard 196
Wollastan 196
BRODIE Albert A. 270
Isabel Malvin 270
BROMLEY Mary Ellen 187 |
BRONSDON Deborah 231
Broocks see Brooks
BROOK GreviUe Robert Lord
Ixxxu
BROOKS Broocks Brooke
— Col. Ixxxi
— Mr. lix
Abigail xlvi
Abigail Brown Ixvi
Ann Ixvi
Arma 187
Caleb Ixv
Catherine 46
Charlotte Gray Ixvi
Clara Ixvii
Ebenezer Ixv
Edward Ixv Ixvi
Eleanor Ixxxiv
Eliza 269
Elizabeth Ann 269
Ellen Ixv Ixvi
Gorham Ixv Ixvi Ixvii
Grace Ixv
Hannah Ixv
Helen brvii
Henry 183 268 269
James A. 268
John 138 236 Ixv
John H. 268
Joseph 269
Mana 183
Mary 138 316 Ixv Ixxix
Mary Jane 269
Nancy 269
Octavia 145
Peter Chardon Ixvi Ixxxiv
Rachel Ixvii
Reuben J. Iviii
Samuel Ixv
Sarah Ixv Ixvi Ixxxiv
Sarah 'Wola 269
Shepherd xxxv Ixv Ixvi Ixvii
Ixxxiv
Sidney 269
Susannah Ixv
Thomas 306 Ixv
Tudor F. 145
William 269
William F. (Mrs.) 155
BROUGH John 150
Mary 150
BROUGHTON Bridget 181
Thomas 181
BROWN Browne
Abby 147
Abby Jane 54
Abigail Ixvi
Allen 2S2
Amanda 150
Amanda Fitzalen 185
Andrew 306 310
Anna Eliza 187
Arnold 196
B. 54
Belle Gilman xxviii
Betsey 233 320
Campbell 255
Carrie A. 303
Carrie E. H. 178
Charles Henry 185
Charles William 186
Cora Elizabeth xxix
David 138
David Franklin 143
Ebenezer 231
Elbridge Gerry (Mrs.) x.\viii
Eleanor 309
Elisha Rhodes xxx^lii
Eliza 55
Eliza Jane ISS
Eliza Rundall 183
Elizabeth 230 288 liv
Ellen 148
Elvira Evelina Ixxx
Index of Persons
cxv
BROWN cont'd
Emily Harris 183
Emma Roy 186
Esther 313
Fanny Wilder xii
Frances Maria 185
George Campbell 255
George Moore 185
Gertrude 255
Hannah xlviii
Helliner 306 307
Henry 239
James 239 xlviii
Jane Frances 143
Jessie 255
Joanna Ixvi
John 306 310 Ixvi
John C. 254
John E. 181
Jonathan 288
Jonathan (Mrs.) 322
Joseph 143 234
Julia xxviii c
Julia Watkins 78
Leonard R. 176
Lizinska 255
Lois 287
Lucia E. 176
Lucius Polk 255
Marcia Sophia liv
Margaret Elisabeth c
Margaret K. xxviii
Mana 52
Marion 255
Martha 55
Mary 138
Mary A. 179
Mary E. 181
Mary I^iuisa Ixvii
Mary R. 196
Nicholas 231
Percy 255
Richard Ewell 255
Robert 305 306 309
Rufus liv
Ruth'282
Samantha Jane 186
Samuel 131 277 287 306 310
xlviii
Samuel William xlviii
Sarah 231 316 xxxviii xlviii
Sarah M. 314
Sarah Margaret 182
Susan 255
Susan Rebecca 255
Thaddeus 315
Thomas 123 124 125 c
William 239 306 310 xlviii
William Adams (Mrs.) 323
William Bradford vii
Winthrop (Mrs.) 78 xxviii
Zeruiah 277
BROWNELL Adeline Wells 186
Artemisia Thurston 184
Jirah Fay 186
Jonathan Nooning 184
Julia E. 178
Sarah Jane 51
Thomas H. 178
W. R. 51
BROWNING Abijah 44
Annie Robert 267
Elizabeth Barrett liii
Katharine Priscilla 267
Margaret Catherine 267
Robert liii
Robert William 267
Susannah 44
BROWNSON Zelia Aline 189
BRUCE Archibald 239
Betsey 234
S. H. (Mrs.) 155
William 239
BRUMBAUGH Gaius M. 326
Brun le see Le Brun
Brunt van see Van Brunt
BRUSH Crean 239
Maud Dorothea 190
BRYAN J. W. 269
Mary 38
Thomas 232
BRYANT Charles B. 149
Charry 228
Elizabeth S. 149
Mary A. Ixxyiii
William Sohier 78 xxviii
BRYCE Bryce James Viscount
XXXV cv
BRYCE Brice
Edmund 308
Edward 309
James Viscount Bryce see
Bryce Viscount
BRYNE John 75
BUCHANAN Lytle 251
Mary Russell 251
BUCKINGHAM Sheffield John
Duke of 191
BUCKINGHAM Helen 301
BUCKLEY Bulkeley
Frank Cornelius (Mrs.) ix
xxviii
Job 81
Johanna 234
Mary Frances 151
Morgan Gardner xxxvii
Olive Randall xxviii
BUCKMAN Fanny 315
BUCKMINSTER— Rev. Mr. 20
William R. 322
William R. (Mrs.) 322
BUCKNAM Mary Caroline 79
xxviii
BUDLONG Adelaide 52
Judiah 53
Lucy M. 53
BUFFINGTON David 239
BUFFUM Benjamin 180
Esther M. 180
BUGBEE Mary H. 146
BUGGIS Hannah 112
Mary 112
Nicholas 111 112 122 123 125
BULFINCH Adino 294 296
Amos Breed cii
Charles 296
Elizabeth 294 296
Hannah cii
John 294 cii
Judith 296 _
Julia Ann ci cii
Susan 296
Thomas 296
Bulkeley see Buckley
BULL Aaron 67 108 110
Betsey 316
John 319
Rebecca 314
Rhoda 13
Ruth 311
BULLARD Anna 286
Benjamin 292
Frances M. 147
Mary 283 284
Newell Cutler 154 xxviii
Samuel 283 284
William Norton (Mrs.) 156
BULLEN Emily H. 147
Thaddeus 147
BULLER Joan 313
BULLOCK James D. 148
Nancy Mason Ixxvi
Olive 148
BUMFORD Mary 316
BUMPUS Deborah xliv xlv
Isaac xliv
Mary xliv xlv
BUNKER Olive N. 148
BUNTING Fanny 188
James 188
BUHBANK Ann 176
Gardner 4
Jonathan 176
BURDETT Burditt
Ellen Augusta Lord xii
Mary C. S. 152
BURDICK Esther 38
Peter 38
Burditt see Burdett
BURGE Rebecca 75
Richard 75
BURGHAM Desias 320
Buriman see Boardman
BXJRKE Arabella E. 153
BURLESON Albert Sidney 173
Ella Word 267
James Marcus 267
John 269
Joseph 144 269
Mary 267
Sarah Robina 269
Sarah Viola 269
Susan Anna 144
BURLEY Sarah Ixxix
BURNETT Burnet
Bessie 196
Charles H. 229
E. N. 196
Edmund C. 242
J. 196
Robert Manton (Mrs.) 156
Mary 113
BURNHAM Anna 196
Anne 196
Betsey 196 197
Elizabeth 196
Eunice 196 197
James 196 213
John 196 197
Joseph 196 197
Josiah 196 197
Lucy 196
Mehitable 196
Miriam 196 197
Miriam C. 197
Polly 197
Rebecca 197
Samuel G. 197
Thankful 196
William J. 197
BURNISH Mary Jane 162
William 152
BURR LiKy W. 322
BURRAGE 67
BURRILL Charles L. 154
Frances 295
Isaac S. 150
Maria A. 150
Sarah 313
BURROUGHS Burrows
Maria 291
Mercy 176
BURT Benjamin W. 176
EUzab'eth P. 176
Hannah 276 283
James 283
Martha Ann 185
BURTON — Capt. 106
Abby M. 188
Fanny 222
Fanny Ernestine 187
George H. 151
Hannah 129
Hannah D. 151
Sarah J. 149
BUSH —Capt. 63 69 99 100 102
— Mrs. 20
Abigail Wilder 32
Anna Eva xciv
Charitv 32
David 23
CXVl
Index of Persons
BUSH cont'd
Deborah 35
Hephzibeth 19 22 23 33
Jemima 32
John 17 24
Jotham 19 22 23 24 26 27 31
32
Levi 27 32
Lucy 26
Martha 17 18 31 32
Mary 32
Patty see Martha
Persis 17
BUSSY Joanna 232
BUTCHEE Christopher 218
Missoni 218
BUTLER Asaph 27
Ezra 27
John 239
Mary 263
Sarah A. 175
William 239
William P. 175
BUTTERFIELD A. Augustine
xxxvi liv
Alice Adele liv »
Benjamin liv
Clara Julia liv
Estella Elizabeth liv
Ezra liv
Ezra Turner liv
ioseph liv
,. A. Iv
Marcia Amelia liv
Marcia Sophia liv
Marcius Augustine liv
Mary 314 liv
Mary Blanche liv
May liv
O. E. Iv
Ossian Rufus liv
Zenas liv
BUTTON Asa 197
Clarissa 197
BYINGTON Jehiel 81
Robert 81
BYLES — Capt. 67 95 102
Elizabeth 121
William 121
BlTRON Gordon George Lord
299
CABOT Edward 320
Ella Ix
Godfrey Lowell (Mrs.) 155
Richard Clarke Ix
CADE Sukey 233
CADY Delia F. 176
CAFFERY Donelson 252
CAHOONE — Capt. 106 108
10?
CALDER Abby L. 148
Betsey 315
CALDWELL Edmonia 223
{ames Montgomery 223
,ydia Eliza 223 224
Samuel Polk 223 224
Sarah Jane 223 224
Silas William 223 224
CALEF Anna Gene 183
Cutting Stevens 183
Daniel 318
Emma 185
George Clinton 185
CALLENDER Mary 235
William N. 229
CALLUM David 38
Elizabeth 38
John 38
Mary 38
CALMADY Warwick 67 96
CALNEK W. A. xlvi
CALPEN John 75 112
Mary 75
CALPEW cont'd
Richard 112
William 112
CAMBERFORD Sarah 233
CAMERON Emma Jane 184
CAMMON Mary 319
CAMPBELL Adelaide Frances
183
Caroline Huntley 142
Duncan 183
Eliza Eugenia 142
Elizabeth 142 219
Elizabeth Dodd 225
Estella S. 180
Ezekiel Madison 142
James Madison 142
John 141 219
John Nathaniel 142
John Polk 142
Junius Tennessee 142
Leonidas Adolphus Cadwal-
lader 142
Leonidas Caldwell 142 225
226
Louise TerriU 142
Margaret 152
Mary 141
Mary Ann 142
Matilda Golden 141 142 219
Matilda Jane 142
Mildred Ann 142 225
Polly 140
Rebecca Fatten 142
Robert 142 219
Robert Bruce 142
Samuel Independence 142
Samuel Polk 142
Sarah 142 xli
Thomas Polk 142
William St. Clair 142 225
CANDIE Isaac 81
Zaccheus 81
CANNON Catherine 225
Everett C. (Mrs.) 323
WiUiam J. 225
CAPEN Ephraim M6
Frederick 314
Mary T. 146
CAPRON Cornelius Mahoney
183
Eliza Ann 183
CAREY Carry
Jonathan 234
Michael 318
CARGILL Mary 179
CARHART Jeremiah 151
Lydia 151
CARLETON Eliza 298
CARLEY Carly
Alice 123 124 125
CARLISLE Carlyle
David bcxxv
Mary B. 149
Wilham 149
Carly see Carley
Carlyle see Carlisle
CARMICHAEL Elizabeth ksi
CARMIDA Da\-id 63
CARNES Da\-id 318
Elizabeth 314
Elizabeth W. 235
CARPENTER Clarissa 42
Francis Wood xxxvi
Joseph kxvi
Lucy Bliss Ixxvi
Nancy Mason Urvi
Timothy 42
CARR George W. (Mrs.) 323
Hubbard 314
Keturah 45
Mary Jane 180
Matilda 145
Robert Robinson 45
Samuel 180
CARR cont'd
Sarah 45
Susan Waters v vii
Underwood 45
CARRICK Anna Valentine
xxviii
Richard Charles (Mrs.) xxviii
CARRIQUE Susan Slocum 185
Thomas Henry 185
CARROLL Eliza V. 153
Margaret 181
Mary Ann 179
Carry see Carey
CARSON Edward Sir Ixxxvii
CARTER Charles Blanchard
xxviii
Elno AUston (Mrs.) xxviii
Ephraim Ixxiv
George R. 325
John 38 Ixxiv
Lillian xxviii
Luther F. 233
Margaret 142
Mary 31 38 badv
Nelhe P. 321
Robert 319
Samuel 317 Ixxiv
Samuel C. 314
Sarah 38
Stanton 31
Susannah Ixxiv
Thomas Ixxiv
CARTERET Anna 234
CARTWRIGHT Andrew Jack-
son 186
Mercy Maria 186
CARWICK Elizabeth 41
John 41
Susannah 38
CASE Hannah 37
Immanuel 37
CASTLE George Parmelee 159
160
Mary 160
Samuel Northrup 160
CASWELL Henry A. 230
John 317
Mary 229
Richard 214
CATES Syrena 188
CATSBY John 191
CAULKINS Da\-id 197
Delia 197
Emeline 197
Francis 197
Lebbeus Peck 197
Mary 197
Mary Ann 197
Orrin 197
Roswell 197
Stephen L. 197
CAZNEAU Joseph 230
CEAUELL — Dr. 72
CERL — Capt. lOi
CHADBOURNE Anna 187
Benjamin Franklin 187
CHADDOCK Ephraim 148
Hannah 148
CHAD WICK Amy 197
Anna 197
Cateriney 197
Daniel 197
David 197
Elisabeth 197
Eunice 197
(George H. 197
Guy 197
J. M. 197
James 197
Loruhamah 197
Martha 197
Mehitable 197
Nancy 197
Nathan 197
Index oj Persons
cxvu
CHADWICK cont'd
Reuben 197
Richard 197
Sarah 197
Silas 197
Stephen 197
Ursula A, 197
CHAFFEE Frederick Bound
190
Mary Mather 190
CELAFFIN Henry 177
Sarah Ehzabeth 177
CHALONER Eliza bdv
CHAMBERLAIN Chamberlin
Edward M. (Mrs.) 237
Forrest B. 181
George Walter 82 270 326
xxiii
Mary 194
Matilda A. 152
Nancy J. 181
"William 194
CHAMBLISS Adela Clarissa
144
Thomas 144
CHAMPION Champin
Anna 199
David 197
EUsha 197 198
Harriet 199
Henry 198
Hephzibah 198
Lynde 198 199
Phebe 197
Roswell 198
Sarah 198
CHAMPLIN Abby 39
Eunice 198
George 198
Hannah 42
Henry 198
James 55
John 39
Mary 38 42
Nathan 198
Oliver 39
Phebe 198
Phebe Ann 55
Samuel 39 42
Silas 198
Thankful 39
CHAMPNEY Mary 318
CHANDLER Alden 294
Annie Lucy 227
Green Collier 227
Green Croft 227
Hephzibah 294
Martha 227
Peleg W. 298
Phebe 288
Susan A. 178
CELANDOLL Joan 73
William 73
CHANNING Mary 291
CHAPIN Adeline Wells 186
Howard Millar 59 95 325
CHAPMAN — Capt. 106
Dummer Rogers 291
Edward 258
Israel 44
Jane Eliza 291
Jonathan 291
Lucia 257
Marv 44 52
CHAPPELL Benjamin F. 198
Josephine 198
Nancy 198
Sarah M. 50
Susan 50
Thomas 50
CHARBOTTNET LilUe 257
CHARDON Peter Ixvi
CHARETTE Antoine Polk Van
Leer de 259
CHARETTE cont'd
Antoinette Van Leer de 259
260
Athanase de General Baron
de la Contr6e see Contr6e
Baron
Francois Athanase de 259
Guillaume de Seigneur de la
Thomassiere et Trevignac
see _ Thomassiere et
Trevignac
Louise Marie Charlotte de
259
Susanne de 260
CHARINGTON Epa 130
CHARLES Emperor of Austria
92 93
CHARLES X King of France
25.9
CHASE Esther 175
Horace 175
Isabella 177
John Carroll 77 78 79 154 237
V vi vii viii ix x xv ivi
John J. 323
Levi Badger 78 xxviii
Mary J. 179
Susan B. 150
William L. 179
CHASTAIN SaUy 225
CHATSON Dominick 97
CHATTERDON Virginia A. 177
CHEAIRS Louise Terrill 142
Nathaniel 142
Sarah 142
Cheeny see Cheney
CHEEVER David (Mrs.) 156
CHENEY Cheeny Chenney
Abby 147
Elizabeth Stickney xxxvi i
George L. (Mrs.) 322
Helen V. 178
Joseph 147
Margaret 275
Moses B. 178
Rebecca 234
Simon 24
Thankful 19 24
CHERRY Amelia Margaret 187
CHESEBROUGH Amos 38
Anna 38
Priscilla 52
Chesnut see Chestnut
CHESSIRE 262
CHESSMAN Nathaniel 231
CHESTNUT Chesnut Chest-
nutt
Huldah 32
J. W. (Mrs.) 321
Mary 24
William 24
CHICHESTER Mary 153
CHILD Amherst 30
Daniel 30
David 20
Elizabeth 236
S. R. (Mrs.) 160
Samuel Mitchell via
CHILDERS Alfred Lee 265
Charles Vaulton 265
Emily B. 265
Emily Blanche 265
James Micajah 265
Jennie 265
John Polk 265
Joseph William 265
Josiah Taylor 265
Julia Ann 265
Margaret Benigna 265
Margaret M. 265
Mary Elizabeth 265
Ophelia Amanda 265
Richard Jackson 265
CHILDRESS Elizabeth 221
Joel 221
Mae McClung 254
Sarah 221
CHILSON Hannah H. 178
Wallace 178
CHILTON Mary 79
CHIPPMAN Richard 75
CHOATE — Col. 104 105
CLAIBORNE — Gen. 220
Clap see Clapp
CLAPHAM John 318
CLAPP Clap
Ann L. 233
Daniel 149 _
David Iv Ivi
David Athertonlvii
David Capen Ivi
Elizabeth Stickney xxxvii
Ellen Gertrude Ivii
Fanny 149
Fobes 56
Frances 56
Frances Cordelia 56
Homer Crane Ivii
John 239
John Cotton xxxvii Iv Ivi Ivii
Jonathan Iv
Julia Curtis Ivii
Lucy 315
Mary Elizabeth Iv
Nathaniel Iv
Nicholas Iv
Polly 228
Sally 325
CLARK Clarke
— Capt. 95 102 110
Abby M. 176
Abraham 198
Alice 288
Anne Bridget 183
Atkins 315
Augustus 176
Caroline 315
Catherine 33 194
Charles M. 149
Elizabeth 198
George 228
George Kuhn xxv
Gurden 198
Hannah 288
Helen A. 231
James 239
John 239 288
LarSl
Lazarus 81
Lydia 315
Mary 90 138 289 313
Polly 316
Richard 289
Ruth 198 289
Sarah 228 Ixxiii
Sarah A. 149
Sarah G. 231
Sarah Jane 153
Sylvamis 198
Thomas 33 113 289 Ixi
Thomas M. Ixii
Walter 194
William 314
CLAY Henry 222 250 285
CLAYTON John J. 226
Louise Matilda 226
CLEAVES Cleves
Benjamin 59 61 62 64 65 66
67 68 98 99 100 102 104
Cleavland see Cleveland
CLEMENTS W. L. 237
CLEVELAND Cleavland
Elizabeth 314
Grover 260
Cleves see Cleaves
CLIFFORD Randall (Mrs.) 322
CLIFT Mary Bell xxviii
CXVlll
Index oj Persons
CLONTS Charles Asbury 262
Fanny 262
Jane 262
Mary 262
Mary Ellen 262
Thomas 262
Wesley 262
CLOUGH Abiah 316
Elizabeth W. 149
Henry Parker 187
Tosiah B. 235
Mary Ann 187
Sally L. 229
COAXES Coats
Henry 233
Ruth 316
COBB Andrew Jackson 149
Eliza Ann 149
George W. 148
John Ixxxv
Joseph Warren 149
Mary Ann 149
Mary L. 148
Philip L. 324
Richard 324
Sarah 146
Sylvanus 64
Thomas 324
COBBETT Sarah 232
COBDEN lu
Cobum see Colbum
COCKRELL Lyttleton 159
Cocks see Cox
CODE Mary Ixii
CODMAW John 317
COFFEE Mary EUzabeth 270
COFFIN Charles 84
Charles F. 324
John xli
Mary 84 320
Mary Pierce 185
Percival Brooks 324
Sarah 84
COGGESHALL John xx
COGGSWELL Ruth c
COIT — Capt. 67 102 104
Coke Thomas William Earl
of Leicester see Leicester
Earl of
COLBURN Cobum
Alice Nichols xxxvii Ixiv
Charles Butterfield Ixiv
Cyrus H. 176
Edward Ixiv
Elizabeth Ixiv
Ephraim Ixiv
Henry Ixiv
Mercy 176
Rebecca Tubbs c
Ruthc
Samuel Woods c
Thomas Ixiv
Winifred 137
COLBY Caroline 148
Roscoe Eri 238
COLE Arthur 263
Bertha Amanda 263
Caroline 235
Caroline M. 179
Elizabeth 236
Emilie xxviii
Emilie Maris 77
Myrtle 263
Olive Jane 183
Rachel 228
Robert 263
William Henry (Mrs.) xxviii
COLEBROOK William Sir xU
COLEMAN James 239
Judith 296
Sarah L. 53
COLESWORTHY Nathaniel
314
COLLIER Clinton C. 144
Louisa 144
Richard 239
COLLINS Mary Elizabeth 144
Michael 319
Morphia 265
Ouaco 313
Stephen 198
Thede 198
COLLIS John 75
Rose 75
William 75
COLT Coult
Abby Man-in 198 201
Abigail 198
Abigail M. 198
Anna 198
Anna Marvin 198
Benjamin 198
Benjamin Fletcher 301
Betsey 198
Catherine 199
EUzabeth 198
George 198 199
Helen 301
John 198 199
John D. 198
Mary 198 199
Mary Ann 199
Mary Laura 301
Nancy 198 199
Samuel 199
William 198 199
COLTON Ann EUza 188
Isaac Lopez 188
COMERRE Uon Ixxvi
COMES Michael 129
COMESETT James F. 179
Mary M. 179
COMEY Arthur Messinger 238
COMFORT Susannah xciv
COMSTOCK Alexander J. 198
Isabella Leonard 186
James A. 198
Lynda 198
Prentice 198
Walter J. (Mrs.) 322
\TOliam Ogilvie vi x
CONANT Connant
Abigail 313
Florence Reynolds 155 v vi
viii XV xvi xxiii xxiv
Martha Ixxiv
Roger Ixxiv
Sarah 315
CONDON Margaret 315
CONE Kate Eugenia viii
CONELY EUza 151
CONGDON Anna Frances xxix
G. E. 82 159
CONKLING Conklin
Abby 152
Angeline 57
Dolly W. 198
Gemima see Jemima
Gordon 198
Hetta H. 198
James G. 198
Jemima 198
Nathaniel 198
Nathaniel R. 198
Sarah J. 152
Connant see Conaat
CONNELL Emma Louise 190
John Franklin 190
WilUam J. 166
CONNING Richard 228
CONNOR Charles 262
Edmund 314
Tabitha Josephine 2G2
CONSTANT Benjamin Ixxvi
CONTRtE Charette Athanase
de General Baron de la 259
COOK Cooke
Abby 50
Almu-a L. 146
Amanda Malvira 188
Arlon M. 176
Clarissa 176
ClumSO
Deborah 198
ElamSO
Eleazer L. 176
EUzabeth 234
Ellen D. 176
Hannah M. 181
James A. 182
Jesse 241
John B. 181
JuUan 308
Marie 57
Martha Elizabeth 153
Mary 194
Mary Anna 184
Mary B. 182
Sarah J. 176
Spencer 146
COOKSON John 228
COOLIDGE Abby Grace 303
Abia 286
Abigail 274 275 278 280 281
284 285 292
Adam 281
Albert Edward 303
Algernon 300
Algernon Sidney see Algernon
Alice 292
AUce Brackett 301
Amanda Mills 291
Amos 277 292
Amv Peabody 300
Ann 294
Ann Nason 296
Anna 275 280 286 287 288 292
294 297 298
Anna Maria 291
Anna Storer 297
Anna Tucker 297
Annable 281
Anne 291
Archibald Gary 300
Asa 286
Augiistus 288
Austin Jacobs 287
Benjamin 276 283 291
Benoni 282
Betsey 291 294 295
Caleb 286 288
Calvin 249 270 271 295 298
303 304
Calvin Galasha 298 303
Carlos 285
CaroUne Bass 291
Caroline Matilda 291
Carrie A. 303
Catherine 2S9 295
Catherine Boyer 297
Catherine ScoUay 296
Charles 294 297
Charles AUerton 298
Charles Austin 290 291
Charles Cummings 292
Charles Dawes 291
Charles Leonard 296 298
Clara 302
Cornelius 290 294
Cyrus HamUn 2S7
Daniel 274 276 277 278 284
287 293 294
David 280 281 289 293 295
Ixiii
Da%-id Hill 273 298 299
Davis 2S6
Deborah 280
Delight 287
DeUverance 287
Dorothy 285 293
Index of Persons
cxix
COOLIDGE cont'd
Ebenezer 286
Edith 300
Edward 294
Edward Erwin 303
Edwin 296
Eleonora Randolph 302
Eleonora Wayles 271 299
Elias288
EUjah 284
Elisabeth 273
Elisha 280 288 289 294
Eliza 290 291 295
Elizabeth 272 274 275 277 278
281 282 283 284 285 286
287 288 289 290 292 294
296 297 320
Elizabeth Boyer 296 297
Elizabeth Bulfiuch 300
Elizabeth French 296
Elizabeth Lydia 298
Elizabeth Penn 299
EUen Randolph 300
EUen Wavles 301
Elvira Juliette 255
Esther 281 282
Eunice 232 281 287 288 292
Eunice Maria 292
Experience 281
Flavel 289
Flora Chandler 287
Frances 295
Frances D. 297
Frances La Fayette 295
Francis Lowell 300
Frank Pelham Ixiv
Frederic Washburn 302
Frederick Shurtleff 299
Freelove 283
George 296
George Henry 294
Grace 273 283 285
Grace Anna 304
Hannah 273 274 276 277 278
281 2S3 284 285 286 288
289 292 295 297
Hannah Trecothick Austin
291
Harold Jefferson 300
Harriet 285
Harriet Seafs 299
Harry Washburn 303
Helen Granger 300
Helen Irene 302
Helen Whittington 292
Henrietta Jones 296
Henry 275 280 288
Henry Augustus 296
Henry Dingley 273 295 296
xxxvii bdi Ixiii Ixiv
Henry James 295 Ixii Ixiii Ixiv
Hephzibah 275 280 288 289
294
Herman Timothy 302
Hetty 297
Hetty Sullivan 301
Hezekiah 283 284
Horace Hopkins 292
Huldah2S0
Isaac 277 283 286 292
Isabella 298 299
James 277 283 284 293 295
Ixiii
James Dana 288
James Iveis Trecothick 291
Jane Eliza 291
Jemima 281 282 287
John 271 272 273 275 276 277
278 280 281 283 284 288
289 290 291 292 293 294
295 304 Ixiii
John Cah-in 303 304
John Gardner 300
COOLIDGE cont'd
John Gardner (Mrs.) 155
John Kittridge 293
John Lucas 290
John Templeman 296 297
Jonas 277 278 285 286 288
293 296
Jonathan 272 273 275 276 281
282 283 285 288 289
Joseph 271 272 273 274 275
276 278 279 281 282 283
287 289 290 291 294 296
297 299
Joseph Randolph 300
Joseph Swett 296 297
Joshua 286 287
Josiah 276 280 286 287 292
293
Judith 289
Julia 298 300
Julian Lowell 300
Julius C. 303
Katharine 294
Keziah 276 282 284
Leander 302
Lewis 291
Lois 284 287
Louis Arthur 302
Louisa 292 296 298
Louisa Ann Noble 297
Louisa Richd 297
Louise 292
Louise Riche see Rog6
Lowly Ann 302
Lucy 283 284 286 288 289 293
294
Lucy Greenwood 287
Lucy Wyeth 296
Luther 295
Lydia 275 276 278 279 280
283 286 287 290
Margaret 280 281 283 284 290
291
Margaret Wood Ixiv
Marguerite 290
Maria 293
Marian Appleton 296 302
Martha 272 276 283
Mary 271 272 273 274 275 276
277 278 279 280 281 282
283 284 285 286 287 288
289 291 292 293 295 300
Mary Abigail 296
Mary Caroline 295
Mary Carter 291
Mary Hamilton 300
Mary Holland 287
Mary Isabella 303
Mary Jane 295
Mary Laura 301
Mary Louisa 296 297
Mary Lowell 301
Mary Martin 295 Ixii
Mary P. 293
Mary Ruth Channing 291
Matilda 290 291
May 302 313
Mehitable 287 294 297
Melicent 280
Mercy 281 282 284 285 286
287
Merrit 287
Merrit Bradford 287
Mindwell 280
Molly 293 294
Moses 282 289
Nancy 289
Nathan 284 285
Nathaniel 272 273 275 276
277 278 279 285 287 Ixiii
Obadiah 273 274 278 286 293
Oliver 291 295
Oren 298
Pamela 289
COOLIDGE cont'd
Paul 287
Pelham Dingley Ixiv
Permelia see Pamela
Peter 277 284 293
Phebe 288 294
Philip Sidney see Sidney
Polly 295
Priscilla 274
Rachel 286
Rebecca 272 276 279 282 286
293 298
Relief 289
Rhoda 293
Richard 272 273 274 276 277
278 281 285
Richard Bradford 287
Robert 288
Rog6 296
Rose Margaret Ixiii
Ruth 281 282 289
Ruth Burleigh 287
Sally 293 296 298
Sally Maria 298
Samuel 230 275 276 277 278
280 281 282 286 289 290
292
Samuel Barron 296
Sarah 273 274 275 276 277
278 280 281 283 284 286
287 288 289 290 295 296
298
Sarah Almeda 303
Sarah Isabella 302
Sarah Lawrence 302
Sarah Tapley 293
Sarah Templeman 297
Sarah Voax 295
Seth 281
Sidney 301
Silas 284
Simon 272 273 274 278 286
287
Sophie Wager 291
Stephen 272 274 275 278 279
Susan 294
Susan Apthorp 297
Susan Bulfinch 297
Susan Elizabeth 297
Susan Gibson 287
Susannah 275 277 282 285 293
Tabitha 280 287
Thaddeus 277 278
Thankful 280
Theresa 300
Thomas 272 275 276 280 289
292 293 294 Ixiii
Thomas Bulfinch 297
Thomas Jefferson 301 302
Timothy 294 298 302
Victoria Josephine 303
William 278 280 283 288 290
291 293 294 295 297 298
William Dawes 291
William Henry 302
William Leander 302
William Williamson 292
Zeruiah 233 277
Zerviah 294
COOMBS Coomes
Ada Byron 184
Amanda M. 175
Hannah cii
COOPER Duncan Brown 253
Elizabeth 312
Frederic M. 189
Horace Polk 255
Horace Stephens 255
Isabel 189
John 312
Mary Polk 253
Philip H. (Mrs.) 323
COOPWOOD Maggie 266
COPLAND Nathaniel 320
cxx
Index of Persons
CORBIN Carrie A. 182
Henry E. 182 •
CORDIS Adelaide Elizabeth
xii
CORONER Caroline Parkman
156
Elizabeth Parkman 156
CORNELL Caroline 57
CORNING Edwin (Mrs.) 322
CORNWALL — Capt. 103
CORPORAL Lucy S. 150
CORVINTJS Matthias xcv
CORWIN David Wells xcv
Dorothy xciv
Jane Elizabeth xcv
CORY 50
Ruth 60
COSLEY Michael 235
COTTING Sally 233
COTTMAN Betty 136
Mary 135
COTTON Benjamin F. 176
Frederic J. (Mrs.) 156
Joanna Ixvi
John Iv Ivii Ixvi
Lydia Ann 176
COTTRELL Abigail 53
Elias 40
Harriet 53
Pardon 53
Phalley 40
COtJCH Leonard 263
Mary Jane 263
COUGH Thomas 47
Coult see Colt
COUNCILMAN Christiana
Drummond 299
Isabella 299
John T. 299
William Thomas 299
Courtis see Curtis
COVERT Charlotte S. 58
George C. 58
COWAN Mary Walker 250
Robert 250
COWARD Margaret 307
COWELL Charles Henry 179
Susan Amanda 179
William 315
COWLES Ella G. 189
George A. 189
COX Cocks
Elizabeth 147 229
George 76 145
James M. 247
Le Roy Benjamin (Mrs.) 77
xxviii
Letitia 139
Mary Bell xxviii
Sophia 145
COYE Frances E. 148
James M. 148
COYLE John G. 242
CRABB Mar>' 308 ■
Thomas 308
William 307
CRABTREE Frances E. 175
CRACKBONE Abigail 278
Elizabeth 272
Gilbert 272
Joseph 278 283
Lucy 283
CRAFFORD John 22
William 19
CRAFTS Craft
Benjamin 59 64
Henry 151
Mary Jane 151
Sarah 316
Sarah J. 150
Thaddeus C. 150
William Francis xxv
Craine see Crane
CRAMTON Anna Valentine
xxviii
CRANDALL Crandal
Arnold 40
Dinah 40
Eunice 50
Joseph 37
Sally 39
CRANE Craine
Benjamin 3
Brice3
Caroline Baxter Ixxviii
Henry 3 Ivii Ixxviii
Horatio Nelson Ivii
Jerusha 45
John 41
Josephine Porter 3
Judith 111
Julia Curtis Ivii
Louise 3
Louise Fanny 3
Mary 3 xliii
Mary Ann Ivii _
Sarah 41 Ixxviii
Stephen 3
Susannah 232 _
Thomas Ixxviii
Verner W. 161
Winthrop Murray 3 6 7 8 9
xvii
Winthrop Murray (Mrs.) xvii
Zenas3 4
Zenas Marshall 3 4
CRAWFORD Crawfford
143
Angelina 143
Eleanor 26
Elizabeth 77
James 29
Jane 29
John 25 28
Joshua 245
Levi 30
Lydia Elizabeth xxviii
Mary 32
Mary Ann 245
William 25 26 28 29 30 32
CREHORE Annie E. 179
CRESSY Job 40
Lucy 40
Rebecca 40
CRESWELL John S. J. 166
CRINS Marion B. 179
William H. 179
CROCKER Alvah 241
Henry Graham 324
Nathaniel 324
CROCKETT William HiU xxiii
CROFT Martha 227
Croix la see La Croix
CROLIUS Allen Potter xxviii
CROOKER John Y. 314
Martha xcix
CROSBY Abby M. 188
Addie Clapp 187
David 19
Eliza 235
Isaac Francis 187
James L. 188
CROSSWELL Samantha Jane
186
CROW Emily Polk 250
John E. 250
CROWELL Alexander Monroe
217
Beatrice 217
Elizabeth Ixxv
Laura A. 177
Lewis L. 177
Mary Ella 186
CROWNINSHIELD Caspar
299
Elizabeth Copley 299
Harriet Sears 299
CRUFFS Annie E. 180
CRUMSEY Uwis 112 114 122
123 125 127 128
Ludes see Lewis
Ludse see Lewis
Liizde see Lewis
Mar>' 112 113 114 122 123 125
127 128
CULBERT Carrie Van Horn
258
CULLUM Eggers Mary Anne
Lady lii
CULLUM Dudley Sir li
Susannah Arethusa li
Thomas Sir li
Thomas Gery Sir li
CULVER Fred W. (Mrs.) 155
Lydia 40
CUMMINGS Cumin
Amos xciii
Charles Amos xciii
Charles Kimball xciii
Francis Hathaway xciv
Huldah 280
Jacob 280
Margaret 321 xxxviii xciii
xciv
Rebecca xciii
Robert 20
CUNNINGHAM Elizabeth 278
John 278
Melinda 51
William 239
CURD Asa 43
Susan 43
CURRAN John Ixii
Julia Emily Ixii
Mary Ixii
Currey see Curry
CURRIER Emily Sophia 187
Richard Henry 187
Wilheim Anna Ixxxv
CURRY Currey
Mary 254
Samuel S. (Mrs.) 321
CURTIS Courtis
Ambrose 41
Deliverance 41
Elizabeth 285
John S. (Mrs.) 322
John Silsbee Ixxxiv
Joseph Henry ix
Laura Isidora 183
Mary Elisabeth Ixxxiv
MatOda 290 291
Priscilla 314
Sarah 315
Warren 317
CURWEN Curwin
George 59 65 106 129
CUSHING Amelia Ixxi
Ebenezer 319
James 152
Job 19 20 21 22 23 24
Joseph 320
Lvdia 319
Man\-ille 182
Mary Jane 152
Morgan B. Ixxi
Susan 182
CUSHMAN Ann 157
Da\-id 157 158
Dorcas 157 158
Eliza 157
Joseph 157
ilary 157
Robert 157
Ruth 157
SaUy 157
Sarah Ehzabeth xii
Thomas 157
CUSSER Rebecca 152
CUSTER — Gen. Ixxxi
Index of Persons
cxxi
CUTLER John 272
Mary Aim 301
CUTTER — Capt. 95 98 103
Eliza S. 146
Elizabeth 231
Ezekiel W. 146
Frank Adele xxviii
Hannah 229
Isaac Jones Ixiii
James Hutchinson (Mrs.) 77
xxviii
Margaret Farmer Ixiii
MehTtable 320
Rose Margaret Ixiii
William Richard Iv
CUTTING Cuttng
Abigail 21 26
Alpheus 29
David 32
Ebenezer 25
Eliphalet 26
Eunice 31 288
Jerusha 228
Joel 30
Jonathan 21 22 25 28 29
Josiah 30 31 33
Mary 26
Nathaniel 32
Persis 33
Samuel 288
Sarah 22
Thanael see Nathaniel
XJnice see Eunice
Daggett see Dogget
DAKIN Arthur H. (Mrs.) 156
Thomas 234
DALL William 317
DAME Ruth Burleigh 287
DAMMERS Edward A. 150
Sarah E. 150
DAMON Dammon
Calvin 232
Lucy 317
Lydia Ann 183
Samuel Taylor 183
Sela 317
DAN — Mr. 115
DANA Caleb 288 ...
Dennison D. xxiii
James B. 149
Lucy B. 149
Phebe 288
Richard Henry (Mrs.) 155
DANE John 239
DANIELS Daniel
— Capt. 106
Eliza M. 199
Emma Frances 183
Horace F. 199
Josephus 161
Mary 317
Sarah A. 175
Thomas C. 199
DANNA Rebecca 236
DANTFORTH Josiah 228
DARDEN Emily 221
Jake 221
Jesse 221
Richard 221
Susannah Amelia Caroline
221
DARLING Mary 236
Mattie 182
Moses O. 182
DARNELL Alonzo Ezekiel 263
Auzora 263
Georgia 263
Hattie 263
James Melmeth 263
Margaret Viana 263
Minnie 263
Ora 263
Robert Young 263
DARNELL cont'd
William Leonidas 263
Winnie 263
DARRACOTT William 321
DARROW Francis C. 199
James 199
Sally 199
DART.Elihu N. 185
Marianna 185
DASSET William 123
DAVENPORT Davenportt
Davnpot
Bennett Franklin rrv
Catherine 21
Charles N. liv
Dolly 30
Dorcas 28
Eleazer 129
Elisabeth 32
Elizabeth C. 151
James 149
Mary 21
Nathaniel 18 19 20 21 22 28
30 32 Ixxxi
Rebecca 313
Sarah A. A. 149
Tamar 28 32
Davette van see Van Davette
DAVID Jefferson xc
Riggs 80
DAVIDGE Anthony 73
Mary 73
DAVIDSON John 140
Nettie xxviii
Violet 140
William Mehard (Mrs.)
xxviii
DAVIE Sarah 251
William R. 251
DAVIS Da^'ies
256
— Capt. 95
— Rev. Mr. 21
Aaron 194
Abigail 318
Alfred Polk 268
Anna 268
Anna Browning 268
Barbara A. 52
Benjamin 184
Bessie 140
C. 54
Caleb 286
Catherine 139 252
Charles cMrs.) 156
Charles Robert 224
Dan 90 91
David 239 252
Drew Smith 268
Ebenezer 235
Effie May 268
Elias Kincheloe 26S
Elliot F. liv
Emeline 148
Emily Polk 250
Fanny B. 268
George 250
George Henry ix
H. I. 176
Hattie 268
Henry 314
Isabel Eagles 250
Jane 260
Jefferson Ixii
John 91
John A. (Mrs.) 323
Junius 250
Kate Winifred 268
Laura Thressia 224
Louis Poisson 250
Louise Frances 184
Lucy 214
Ludwell Rector 268
Lydia Susannah Ixxv
DAVIS cont'd
Marcia Amelia liv
Margaret Isabella 268
Martha. A. 148
Mary 194 250
Mary Adelaide 250
Mary Cynthia 267
Mary Johnnie 268
Mary Orme 250
Mary Walker 250
Meta Alexander 25()
Nicholas Darnell xciii
Perley E. 322
Rachel 286
Samuel 252
Sarah 194 286 314
Sophy 222
Susan 54
Thomas 239 250
William Thomas 268
DAVISON Allen Stewart xxviii
Cynthia xci
Eliza xc
John xci
William xci
Davnpot see Davenport
DAWES Lydia 290
Priscilla 274
William 290
DAWLEY CaroUne S. 180
Nathan P. 188
Svrena 188
DAY Ann 307
Grace 307 310
Jane 307
Matthew 310 311
Rebecca 310
Richard 313
Stephen 305 307 310 311
DAYTON John 81
Jonathan 81
DEACON William 130
DEAD MAN Eunice 40
William 40
DEAN EUza 178
Henry William 178
John Ward xiv
Lucy Ann 199
Richard 199
DEARBORN Armenia 176
De Charette see Charette
DECKER David Alston 152
Emily Julia 152
DEERING Charles xvii
DE FOREST Henry W. (Mrs.)
321
De Grasse see Grasse
De la Contr6e see Contrfie
De Lafayette see Lafayette
De la Maisonfort see Maison-
fort
DELANO Emeline 147
George 147
Josiah 232
DELAWAY Dellaway
Elizabeth 36
Matthew 36
DENBY Edwin 161
DENHAM Eleanor Cotton v
viii Ixxvi
Melinda Carr Ixxvi
Weston Tate Ixxvi
DENISON Dennison
Amanda Mills 291
Christopher 291
George xxiii
John 199 231
Patience 199
Phebe 199
Robert 199
Samuel 199
DENNIS Amelia E. 178
Annie Isabel 185
Arthur Wellington 185
cxxu
Index of Persons
DENNIS cont'd
Meriby M. 181
WilUam 236
Dennison see Denison
DEPAH Abigail 48
DEPRES Armand 182
Eugenie 182
DERBY Ann 130
Elias Hasket 131
Elizabeth 129 131
John 131
Lucretia 131
Margaret 129
Martha 130 131
Mary 131
Richard 131
Roger 129 131
Samuel C. xxi
Sarah 131
De Salvert see Salvert
DEVEREAUX Devereux
Anna 49
Frances 255
Frances A. 255
John 255
DEWEY Clara Hyde 78 xxviii
DEWHURST Hannah 228
DEWING Elizabeth 318
DE WOLF Dwolf Dwoolf
Abigail 199
Anna 199
Benjamin 199 200
Daniel 199
Edward 199
Hannah 199
Hephzibah C. 199
Hester 199
Jehiel 199
Josiah 199
Lucy 200
Margaret 199
Martha 199
Phebe 199
Sarah 199
Stephen 199
Theodey 199
Winthrop 199
Winthrop Buck 199
DEXTER Edward P. 234
Harriet 234
Hermann 178
Maria 178
Samuel 317
DIAMOND Rebecca 40
DIBBLE Mary 75
DICKENS Dicken
Charles lui
Josias 130
DICKERSON Dickesou
Charity 245
Isaac 245
Phebe Elizabeth 245
Polly Ann 158
DICKINSON 138
James Polk 138
Mary 138
Dickson see Dixon
DIETRICK Fredericka 225
DIKE — Col. Ixxxi
DILLAWAY Mary 312
DILLEHAY Hannah 36
Thomas 36
DILLINGHAM Asa 297
Drusilla Bonneau 297
Louisa Ann Noble 297
DILLON Edward 254
EUza Polk 254
Frances Anne 254
Frances PoUc 254
Francis Cunningham 255
James Royall 254
John Cunningham 254
Lucius Polk 254
Mae McClung 254
DILLON cont'd
Maria 255
Mary Evelyn 254
Susan Strachan 254
DIMOCK Dimmock
— ^Rev. Mr. 90
Joseph D. 199
Sarah H. 199
Thomas E. 199
Weston Pettit Brewster 79
xxvii
DIMON Charlotte H. 189
DINGLEY Anna bdU
Jacob Ijdii
John Ixiii
John Thomas 295 iTJii
Mary Coleman 295 Ixiii
Mary Martin 295 Ixii
Thomas Ixiii
DINSMORE Dinsmere Dun-
more Dunsmore
Armis 31
Elizabeth 20
Helen Frances xxxvi
Ira 30
John 29 31
Joseph 31
Mary 32
OKve 24 31
Sarah 29
Sylvanus 30
William 20 23 24 28 30
DIOSSY George Shipman 190
Maud Dorothea 190
DISHER Annis 308
Samuel 308
DISSMORE Nabby 231
DIVOLL George H. B. 179
Mary Ann 179
DIX Etta M. 189
Franklin J. 189
DIXON Dickson
Amanda Malvira 188
Elizabeth C. 151
George 151
Martha 229
Robert 314
Rufus Shepard 188
DOANE Ephraim 67 104
Sophroma D. 189
DOBSON Mary 235
DODD — Mr. 63 69
Catherine 231
Elizabeth 223
Morris 239
DODGE Caroline P. 152
Edwin N. 152
Ethel Geraldine xci
Grenville M. 165
Hannah J. 180
John M. 180
Marcellus Hartley xci
DOE Carrie Cook 241
Elmer Ellsworth xxviii
Lizzie Jane 187
Nelson Harris 187
DOGGET Daggett
— Capt. 63 98
John 318
DOHERTY Mary 184
DOLBEAR Mary 234
DOLE Samuel 239
DOLIBER Franklin W. (Mrs.)
322
Sarah 41
DOLSON Anna 244
DOM PEDRO Emperor of
Brazil xcvii
DONAHUE David 62 64 65 66
69 70 71 95 99 100 101 102
103 104 105
DONELSON Andrew Jackson
252
Catherine 252
DONELSON cont'd
John 252
Rachel 252
DONIPHAN — Col. 142
DONNEL — Capt. 67 98 100
DONSON Elizabeth 313
DOOLITTLE — Capt. 158
DORE Robert 117
Dom van see Van Dom
DORR Abraham 199
George Bucknam 77 xxviii
Harriet 199
Roxana S. 176
Wilson 176
DORRANCE Mary Ann 187
Palmer 187
Dorsay see Dorsey
DORSETT Ora 263
DORSEY Dorsay
Elizabeth 225
Emeline 148
Thomas C. 148
DOUBLIDAY Elizabeth 319
DOUGLAS Douglass
Daniel xciii
Elizabeth 147
Ellen 189
Grace C. 189
James 67 97 xciii
Mary A. 189
Mary Elizabeth xciii
Robert J. 147
Sanford C. (Mrs.) 322
DOW Benjamin 231
George Francis 325 vii
Downes see Downs
DOWNING George MUes 186
Maria Louise 186
Mary 147
DOWNS Downes
Jacob 81
Jareb 81
William 318
DOWZICK David 199
Joel 199
DOYLE Frani Edward 79
xxviii
DRAKE Aaron S. 178
Charlotte C. 177
Delia F. 150
Elizabeth A. 149
Irene P. 178
Samuel T. 149
William T. W. 177
DRAPER Eben Sumner (Mrs.)
237
George (Mrs.) 323
DRELINCOURT Charles 35
DREW Emma Jane 184
James K. 184
Mary E. 147
DRISCOLL Catherine 188
John 228
DRUMM Eliza 54
DRUMMOND Lizzie Jane 187
DRURY Charles xliii
Mars-aret Austin xliii
Marv' 233
DU BdSE Alfred Bishop 258
Carrie Van Horn 258
(ieorge Washington 258
Harriet Jane 258
Jessie Mclver 258
Juliet Brevard 258
Julius J. 258
Julius Jesse 258
Louise Myrtle 258
Mary Hilliard 258
Mary Murfree 258
Sarah Camilla 258
Tascar Polk 258
DUFF Betsey 313
DUFFETT Duffet
Charles 75
Index of Persons
CXXlll
DUPTETT cont'd
Elias 112
Martha 75
Rebecca 75
Waiiam 111 112
DUGAN John 236
DUMSDAY Eliza V. 153
Michael 153
DUNBAR Louise Bumham l!62
Margaret 153
Samuel 153
DUNCAN Fashion 227
Helen xcvi
James 239
Kate Grace 184
Mary 55
DUNHAM Lydia 151
DUNLAP Mary 143
Mary Jane 143
Dunmore see Dinsmore
DUNN Desire A. 54
Edward M. 54
Jimmie Kate 267
Dunsmore see Dinsmore
DUNTON Lydia Crosby Ixxii
DUPUY Jane 226
DURAND Andrew 80
Samuel 80
DURANY Andrew 80
DURELL DurreU
Harold Clarke 79 viii xxii
xxjuv
Philip 66 96
DURFEE Elias 55
Harriet 54
Mercy 55
DURGY Benjamin 130
DURRANY Samuel 80
DurreU see Durell
DUSSET Dussett
Elias 122 123 125 128
Elizabeth 72
Ellis 125
George 72 125 128
Henry 125 128
James 125 128
Mary 124 127 128
Sarah 72
William 122 123 124 125 127
128 130 131
DUTTON Ann Eliza Bradlee
Ixxxix
Henry Worthington Ixxxix
Osee 13
Martha Gilbert Ixxxviii
Ixxxix
Sebastian Maria Ximenes
Petruchio 13
Thomas Albert Buonaparte
Jefferson 13
DUTY Mary 224
DUVTVIER Dupont ;04
DWIGHT Edmund 300
Ellen Randolph 300
Mary Harrison 300
DWINELL Carroll Amos (Mrs.)
79 xxviii
Mary Eliza xxviii
Dwolf see De Wolf
Dwoolf see De Wolf
DWYER Edward 236
DYER Dyar
Caleb A. 189
Charlotte H. 189
James 235
Joseph 33
Michael 315
Susarmah 33
DYNN Elizabeth 129 131
John 129
William 129
EAGER Abigail 26
Benjamin 27
EAGER cont'd
Fortunatus 29
Lovisa 26
Lydia 29
Nathan 29
Zachariah 26 27 29
EAMES Emes
Ebenezer 292
Elizabeth 292
Eunice 292
John 232
Samuel 292
EASTERBROOK Eastabrook
Estabrook Esterbrooks
Abigail ci
Benjamin 316
Hannah 315
Harriet Shade 182
John 314
John F. 147
Mary 228
Mary E. 147
Sarah J. 149
Silas 149
EASTIN Mary Ann 252
Rachel 252
William 252
EASTMAN A. M. 176
Adelaide N. 176
Armenia 176
Ezra C. 176
H. I. 176
Nelson G. 176
EATON Arthur Wentworth
Hamilton xlvi
Charlotte S. 152
Edmund 230
Eliza J. 177
George Thomas 78 vii rxviii
Isaac G. 313
James M. 176
Jane 251
Martha xx
Mary 251
Nancy 176
Sarah 232
Thomas 251
William xx
EAYRES Mary 318
EBURNE Richard 77
ECKEL Catherine xlix
EDDINS Rose 266
EDDY Clifford R. bcxii
Elizabeth W. 149
James Williamson 78 240
xrviii
Jesse L. xcv
Jesse Potter 183
John 240
Josephine Augusta 183
Louise Ixxii
Martin 149
Samuel 240 280
Sarah 280
EDES Benjamin 84 320
Deborah 230
Edward 319
Edward H. 235
Esther 84
Grace 83 85 160
Henry 83
Henry Augustus 83 84
Henry Herbert 83 84 85 86 87
88 241 xxxvii cv
John 83 84
Mary 83 84
Peter 84
Robert Ball 84
Sarah 84
Sarah Louise 83 84
Thomas 84
EDGAR — Rev. Dr. 253
EDISON Thomas Alva 168
EDMAN — Capt. 104
EDMONDS John Henry 325
EDSON Susannah Ixxix
EDWARDS — Capt. 98
Elizabeth liv
Eunice 54 255
George 320
Jane 251
Jonathan 15 255
Nicholas 251
Penelope 266
Phebe Aim 55
Rebecca 251
Sarah 40
Tay 19 xxii
Eggers Mary Anne Lady
Cullum see Cullum Lady
ELAM Ellen 226
ELDRED Grayce Undena Eliza
77 xxviii
Sidney Albert (Mrs.) xxviii
ELDRIDGE Esther 39
Jennie M. 53
ELGIN Charles Patton 227
Fashion 227
Frank Sanders 227
Nina May 227
ELIOT Elliot Elliott
Andrew 239
Charles 86
Charles William xvii
Christopher R. (Mrs.) 322
David 317
Isabella 139
Mary Elvira x xii
Mary Harrison 300
Samuel Ixvi
Sarah 232
Ward C. 242
ELKINS Martha 131
Thomas 131
ELLERY John 115
William 105
ELLIMAN Douglas L. (Mrs.
322
ELLINGWOOD Fanny Ixxxv
Elliot see Eliot
Elliott see Eliot
ELLIS Beulah A. 146
Carrie L. 189
Charles Lyman xxviii
Emeline S. Iviii
Florence Emeline Iviii
Grace xxviii
J. Russell Iviii
Joseph 284
Margaret 284
ELLISON Frank Dexter (Mrs.)
162 xxii
Mary Jane 269
ELLSWORTH Eliza 54
Laura O. 53
ELWELL Zebulun 106 108
ELY Charles Henry 200
Elisabeth 200
Elizabeth Ann 200
Fanny G. 322
John 200
Louisa G. 200
Margaret S. 200
Oliver 200
Richard 200
EMERSON Alexander Morton
78 xxviii
Edith 168
Joseph 59 66
P. H. 324
Ralph Waldo 168
EMERY Hannah 234
Louisa M. 153
Stephen 233
Thomas J. (Mrs.) 322
Emes see Eames
EMMONS Esther 200
Helen Ixvii
CXXVl
Index of Persons
Gaffet see Gavet
Gaffit su Gavet
Gaffitt see Gavet
GAGE Alice Louise zxiz
Annie 178
John 241
Joseph C. 178
Rachel EUzabeth 177
Robert 241
Samuel 177
Thomas 241
Walker Miller 241
William 241
GALE AbigaU 19 24
Abraham 31 32
Amsden 30
Anna 229
Betty 29
Christiana Spear 183
BU25
Ethel 257
Eunice 24
Frances 257
John 28 29 32
Jonathan 23 24 25 27 29
Josephine 257
Katharine 257
Leonide 257
Lucy 23
Lydia Hammond 155
Margaret 26
Mary 31
Mercy 24
Meta Ora 257
OUve 148
Rhoda28
Unice see Eunice
William D. 257
William Dudley 257
GALEND Benjamin 81
GAMMONS Mary Bryant xxvii
GANKETT Thomas Brattle
(Mrs.) 156
GARBOUGH John 262
Mary Louisa 262
GARDNER Andrew 229
Catherine Elizabeth 300
Clara bnTi
Eleanor 317
Elizabeth 302
George Ixvii
Hannah 41 42 49
Helen M. Ixvii
James 235
John Lowell 300
Joseph 315
Julia 300
Mary Lowell 300
Nancy 41 49
Sarah F. 184
Susan 48
Thankful 314
GARFIELD James Abram 243
xci-iii
Martha 323
GARIBALDI Giuseppe Ixxxvii
GARMAN Margaret 139
GARRETT Mary Winder 133
134
GARRISON Daniel 153
Phebe A. 153
GARTH Celestine 223
Elizabeth 223
■Vraiiam223
GARY Elbert Henry xvii
GASSART Lousia C. 151
GASSET John 46
GASSm Ann 316
GASTON William Alexander
Ixxjdii
William Alexander (Mrs.) 156
Gatchell see Getchell
GATES Catherine 2S9
Elizabeth Taylor 225
GATES cont'd
Horatio 214
John 289
Milo Hudson 57
Pauline 57
Ripley 225
GATTLING Cynthia Benigna
264
George E. 264
GAXILPIN Ann 113
Richard 112 113 122
Thomas 113
GAULT Martha 316
GAVET Gaffet GafBt Gaffitt
Gavett Gavit Gavitt
Gawet
Abby 42 43 50 51 52
Abby Jane 54
Abigail 40 41 43 48 53
Adelaide 52 55
Albert 44
Albert N. 54
AJfred E. 53
Alice 44 49 57
Almira 52
Amanda 49
Amelia 42 43
Amelia E. 49
Amos 44 55
Amy 38 39
Amy Angeline 51
Andrew Jackson 55 58
Angeline 52 57
Ann 40 46 47 48 56
AnnE. 53
Ann Elizabeth 53
Ann Johnson 56
Ann Rebecca 56
Anna 38 42 49
Antoinette Nicholls 54
Arnold 42 50 51
Arnold Saunders 43 52
Asa 43 52
Asa Babcock 49
Asa Joel 49
Barbara 50
Barbara A. 52
Benajah 37 38 40 44 45 54
Benjamin 42
Benjamin Franklin 49
Benjamin Gardner 49
Benjamin N. 50
Bethia 40
Betsey 39 41 43 50 51
Betsey C. 50
Caroline 47 56
Caroline L. 52
Catherine 46 47 50 55
Catherine Dexter 51
Catherine Lewis 49
Catherine M. E. 56
Charles 41 45 47 48 49
Charles H. 48
Charles Henry 41 49
Charles P. 45 55
Charles Sullivan 45
Charles William 55
Charlotte M. 53
Charlotte S. 5S
Chauncy 52
Chloe Bradish 57
Clarissa 42 48
Clarissa J. 57
Clark 43 53
Clark J. 53
Clark Robinson 57
Clementine 44
Cordelia 52
Cornelia M. 55
Daniel 47 52
Daniel E. 55 57
Daniel F. 52
Daniel Lee 44
Daniel Pearce 42
GAVET cont'd
David 39
Deliverance 41
Desire 44 45
Desire A. 54
Dinah 40
Dudley S. G. 58
E. M. 50
Edna Lavinia 51
Edward 39 41 42 43 50
Edward J. 51
Edwin 43 52
Eleanor 54
Elijah 38 39 43
Elijah C. 50
Eliza 51 54 55
Eliza Ann 52 54
EUza C. 51
Elizabeth 36 40 41 42 4. •
5152 53
Elizabeth Bard 58 ■
Elizabeth G. 57
Ella M. 55
Ellen Riddle 56
EUery 43
Eluathan Corrington 50
Emeline 53
Emily D. 52
Emma C. 58
Ephraim 43 52
Erastus Palmer 57
Esther 37 38 39 42
Esther Leonard 58
Esther Rowe 55
Eunice 39 40 50 54
Ezekiel 34 35 36 37 38 42 43
50
Ezekiel Stanton 49
Fanny Breese 57
Flora Myers 57
Frances Cordelia 56
Frances Elizabeth 58
Frances Motley 56
Francis 54
Francis A. 53
Franklin 51 55
Franklin N. 53
Fred A. 44
Freelove V. 45
Gardner Denison 50
George 39 40 43 47 48 51
George Benedict 49
George Bradish 48 56
George C. 53
George Champlin 51
George Henry 55
George W. 53
George Washington 51
Gorton 54
Halsey Corrington 50
Hannah 34 35 36 37 38 39 41
42 43 44 49 55
Hannah Maria 51
Harriet 53 54 57
Harriet B. 52
Hazard 50
Helen Elizabeth 57
Helen Palmer 57
Henry C. 44 58
Henry Fassett 57
Henry Tatem 51
Hezekiah 37 38 39 40
Homer 44
Isaac Bliven 51
Isaac P. 45 55
Isaac Phillips 46
Isaac Robinson 55
Isabella S. 50
Isaiah 39 43 52 53
Isaiah W. 53
James 41 47 48 50
James H. 58
James Hay 48
Jane 47 48
Index of Persons
cxxvii
GAVET cont'd
Jennie M. 53
John 35 36 37 38 40 41 42 44
45 46 47 49 57
John A. 54
John Bliven 51
John Champlin 43 51
John E. 58
John Edmonds 46 47 55 56
John Emory 54
John G. 53
John Palmer 57
John Smith 49
John Whiting 46
Jonathan 38 41 46 48 55 56
Joseph 34 35 36 37 38 39 40
41 42 44 47 48 49 50 53 54
56 57 159
Joseph Bloomer 48 55
Joseph Warren 49
Joseph Williams 58
Joshua 39
Julia 54 58
JuKa A. 58
Julia Niles 57
Katharine 35 57
• Keturah 44 45 54
Keturah Mary 55
Ketuiah P. 54
Laura M. 53
Laura O. 53
Lewis Cass 49
Libeus 39
Lois 40 45
Louis Fobes 35 58
Louisa Barker 55
Lucrece 40
Lucy 38 40 42 51 57
Lucy M. 53
Lydia 39 40 42 48 53
Lydia Ann 51
Mabel Maud 57
Marcus A. 49
Marcus Aurelius 49
Margaret 47 50 57
Margaret Robinson 57
Margaret Sophia 56
Margaret Strout 48
Margery 40
Maria 48 52
Marie 57
Marietta E. 58
Marjory 42
Marsie 54
Martha 39 48
Martha Rhodes 52
Mary 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44
45 47 48 50 52 54 55
Mary Ann 42 52 56
Mary Anna 49
Mary Augusta 48
Mary R 45
Mary E. 52
Mary Elizabeth 51
Mary Hix 51
Mary Isabel 57
Mary L. 53
Mary M. 50
Mary Motley 56
Mary Wallace 46
MeUnda 51
Melissa 53
Melissa R. 53
Mercy 39 50
Miriam Gushing 49
MoUy 39
Montgomery W. 55
Nancy 39 41 43 44 49 50.53
Nancy Catherine 51
Nancy Foster 44
Nancy L. 53
Nancy M. 53
Nelson 54
Nelson E. 52
GAVET cont'd
OUver 39 40 42
Paul 39 1
Pauline 57
Perry 42
Peter 44
Phalley 40
Phebe 38 43 50
Phebe Ann 55^
Philena 50
PhiUp 34 35 36 41 42 49 159
Polly 43 51 52
Prentice A. 43
Prudence 37 39 40 43
Rachel 46 47 48
Rachel Thayer 58
Rebecca 43 44 47
Rebecca Oliver 58
Rebecca Thomas 56
Renewed 50
Reuben 50
Rhoda 39 45 54
Rhoda Adams 55
Richard Motley 56
Richmond 39 43
Robert 50
Robert S. 49
Ruth 41 42 50
SaUy 39 41 43 48 52
Samuel 36 37 38 39 40 41 42
43 44 46 49 50 54
Sanford 40 44
Sarah 35 38 40 41 44 45 46
47 48 49 50 51 55 56
Sarah Ann 48 55
Sarah E. 54
Sarah F. 56
Sarah Hay 55
Sarah Jane 51 55
Sarah L. 51 53
Sarah M. 50 53
Sarah P. 52
Saunders 44
Saxton 54
Saxton Berry 44 54
Simeon T. 50
Sophia J. 50
Stephen 37 39
Stephen H. 53
Susan 43 48 50 54
Stisan E. 56
Susan H. 48 55
Susannah 38 39 41 44
Sylvester 40 44 45 54 55
Sylvester Franklin 45
Sylvia 40
Temperance 43
Thankful 37 39 40 42 53
Thankful S. 44
Theodore 55
Theresa 58
Thomas 43 51
Thomas Jefferson 51
Timothy P. 45
Vashti 39
W. S. (Mrs.) 36
Walter Palmer 57
Welles 39
William 35 38 41 42 45 48 49
51 55
William C. 48
William E. 53
WiUiam Edmonds 57
William Fobes 34 35 56 58
William Leonard 56 58
William Richardson 48 56
William Seward 55
William Sidney 54
GAYLORD Benjamin 81
Milly 14
GAYTON Clark 70 71 96 97 98
100 101
GEALY John 235
GEE Caroline Louisa 184
GEORGE V of England 249
GEORGE Hannah 84
Joseph Almon 184
GERALD Adelaide N. 176
GERLACH Catherine Louisa
181
Charles Alexander 181
Charles Ernest Otto 181
Julianna Carolina 181
Louisa 182
GETCHELLTGatcheU
Carrie Frances 187
H. Sophia 149
Moses A. 149
Phebe Jane 148
GEYER Margaret 318
GIBBON Elizabeth 229
GIBBS Annie E. 180
Delia 183
Emily R. 190
Robert Adams 78 xxviii
Robert H. 190
William H. 180
William Henry Harrison 183
GIBSON George Alonzo xxxvi
Isabella li
Kirkland Hopkins xxxvi
Thomas li
Thomas Milner li
GIDDINGS Daniel 59 63 64 71
99 101 104
GIFFORD Annie Althea 183
GILBERT David 80
Elizabeth 286
Emily Blanche 265
J. William 265
Jennie 265
John Gibbs 55
Sarah Hay 55
GILBEST Eugenie 182
GILCHRIST Griselda 213
Martha 213
Thomas 213
GILES Mary E. 181
GILL Isabella 149
John 239
WUliam 149
William J. 236
GILLET GiUette
Charles M. 151
David 80
Louisa C. 151
Mary Hix 51
W. B. 51
GILLIS Betsey 136
GILLMAN Abigail 313
Elisha T. 313
Robert 312
GILMORE Louise R. 179
GIUSEPPI Montague Spencer
xxvii
GLADDING Anna 231
GLAWSON Mary 47
GLAZIER Glazr
Aaron 21
Calvin 25
Candice 27
Eliakim29
Eunice 19 20 22
John 29 31
Joseph 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
25 27 29
Lavina 23
Lems 31
Mary 24
OUve 24
Persis 33
Sarah 29
Unice see Eunice
GLEASON Gleazon
— Mr. 25
Betty 25
Eliab 25
Isaac 25 28
cxxvm
Index of Persons
GLEASON cont'd
Mary 27 319
Mercy 236
Winsor 26
GLENNAN Arthur 216
Susan Polk 216
GLENTWORTH EUzabeth 232
GLOSSBRENNER Harry Wish-
ard 77 xxviii
GLOVER 289
Henry li
Isabella 11
Jerusha 45
Mary 45
Moses 45
GOCHA Edward 152
Sarah Jane 152
GODDARD Godard
Elizabeth 284
George A. (Mrs.) 156
George Seymour v vii xv
Josiah 286
Rachel 286
■tt'illiam Nichols 322
GODDING Henry 276
Jonathan Coolidge 276
Martha 276
Mary 276
Spencer 276
William 276
GOFF Daniel 282
Hannah 234
John 229
GOLDSBOROTJGH Heuriette
Maria 297
Robert H. 297
Susan Elizabeth 297
GOLDSTONE Anne 275
GOOD Ann 144
GOODALE Goodell
Aaron 30 31
David 22
Edward 21 22
Lucy 31
Paul 21
Sarah 18
GOODENOW Goodenough
Goodenouh Goodnough
EUjah 29
James 27 28
Jonah 29
Jonas 29
Jonathan 26
Lucy 26 29
Mary 29
Timothy 27
GOODHUE Andrew I. 304
Grace Aima 304
Lemira 304
Goodnough see Goodenow
GOODRICH Bertha xxvii
GOODSELL Almira Geraldine
xci civ cv
David Judson xci
Ellen xci
Thomas xci
GOODSPEED Ann 176
Charles Eliot 79 vi xix
Ehzabeth K. 177
GOODWIN Frances 237
George K. 150
Harriet 261
Lydia 230
Mabel Buzzell xxviii
Sarah Louisa 150
GORDON Amanda M. 157
Donald 241
Elizabeth 232
EUzabeth F. 77 xxviii
George Lord Byron see Byron
Lord
George Augustus xiv
M. Lafayette 241
Martha 217
GORDON cont'd
Mary J. 226
Mattie 182
Nellie 180
Samuel 180
Sarah 49
GORHAM — Col. 106 110
Ann Ixvi
George E. 44
Jane Ross 44
Lucy Ixvi
Nathaniel bcvi
GORMAN John 313
Mary 265
Sarah Bridge Ixxv
GOSHAWK Minnie Mildred
190
GOSS — Rev. Mr. 22 26
Benoni 30
Elizabeth 25
Joshua 23
L. 21
Lucy 19 22
Mary N. 148
Oliver 26
Patience 23 30
William 19 21 22 23 24 25
26 32
GOUDAILLER Albert V. 183
Laura Isidora 183
GOULD Catherine 194
EUzabeth 317,
George Lambert xviii xxiii
James 194
Susan Cheever 155
WilUam Edward 322
GOVE Sarah Ann 147
WilUam Henry 159
GOVER Mary 151
GOWAN 301
GO WELL Lovey 150
GRAFTON EUzabeth 312
Mary 278
GRAM Joshua 236
GRANDIN John Livingston
(Mrs.) 156
GRANGER Helen 300
GRANT Abigail 278
Frank 82
Frederick Ayer 78 xvii xxvii
Henry 239
Henry Reuben (Mrs.) ix xxviii
Joseph 278
Joshua 274 278
Mary 278
NelUe Izetta xxviii
Robert 239
Ulysses Simpson 82 166 167
216 247 254 lx\-iii
WilUam 239
Granville John Earl of Bath
see Bath Earl of
GRASSE Francois Joseph Paul
Count de 259
GRAUPNER Samuel J. G. 318
GRAVES Frederick William
314
Kate 27
Mary Hannah xii
Sarah 27
Susan Trezevant 259
WilUam 239
William Preston 258
GRAY 135
Allen 135
James Cunningham (Mrs.)
156
Love 317
GREELEY Marion 322
GREEN Greene
144
— Gen. 141
AmeUa 43
Benjamin 236
GREEN cont'd
Benjamin H. 234
Carita 259
CaroUne A. 178
Catherine 55
Charles Octavius 184
Duty James 184
EUzabeth 21
EUzabeth Copley 299
Emily 184
Emily Jane 184
Esther 33
Fanny 222
Hannah 235
Harriet 319
Harriet B. 52
Huldah xcix
James W. 251
Jane W. 234
Jennet 184
John 43
John Burton 222
Jonathan 20 21 29 31
Joseph 43 234
Martha 251
Mary Frances 188
Nathan 20
Oscar Byron 188
Phebe 31
PoUy 43
Samuel 236 259
Sarah Naomi 222
Spicer 43
Thomas Jefferson 222
Thomas M. 184
WilUam 52 233
GREENESTRETE George 76
GREENFIELD AbigaU 200
Edward L. 200
James 200
Starr A. 200
GREENLAW Lucy Hall x xii xv
'ttllliam Prescott v vi vii viii
XVl XXIV XXV
GREENLEAF Edward Hale
xxii
Judith 234
GREENOUGH Grenough
Charles Pelham xxv
David S. (Mrs.) 156
EUzabeth 307 309
Hannah 315
Henry V. (Mrs.) 156
OUver 306 307 309
GREENWOOD AUce 288
Aima236
EUza Rudd 154 xxviii
Hannah 315
Isaac J. 160
John 160
Le^•i H. 237
GREER EfEe May 268
Sarah J. 175
GREGORY Martha 251
WilUam 251
Grenough see Greenough
Gre'v'ille Robert Lord Brook see
Brook Lord
GRIBHAM Thomas 123
GRIDLEY — Col. 84
Richard 311
GRIFFIN Ann Maria 188
Charies Fox 1S3
Phebe Amanda 183
William Perkins 1S8
GRIFFIS William ElUot 242
GRIFFITH 220
(ieorge 101
James 130
fohn 60 66 68 99 101 230
GRIGGS Edward Howard 158
157
Jacob 62
Moses 312
Index of Persons
cxxix
GEINSDALE Annie Eldridge
190
Edward 190
GRISWOLD Charles C. 200
Clarine 200
Diodate J. 200
Elizabeth 200
Hannah 200
John 200 201
Louisa C. 200
Mary 200
Matthew 200 201
Mildred G. 155
Notwithstanding 11
Richard S. 200
Samuel 201
Sarah 201
Susannah 201
Thomas 201
Ursula 200 201
GROESBECK Cassie 57
GROOMS EUjah 147
Elizabeth 147
GROSVENOR Clara bd
Elsie May xcix
Eunice Ixi
Gilbert Hovey xcix
Lemuel Ixi
Lemuel Putnam bd
GROUT Eliza xcv
Henry Whittemore 159
John 159
Seth xcv
Susannah xcv
GROVE James Bolivar 225
John 118
SaUy Kent 225
Thomas 230
GROVER John 318
Joshua 314
Martha 48
GROVES Mary EUen 187
Samuel Ezra 187
GROZER John 231
GRUBBS Winnie 263
GRUNDY Felix 221
GRUSH Abby 147
GUERNSEY Adelia B. 153
Harriet Jane 258
GUILD Ade 177
George F. 177
Sarah Louise 237
GULLIVER Mary 147
Mary H. 150
Stephen 147
GURLEY Jacob B. 208
Sarah Griswold 208
GURNEY Susan Ixxxviii
GUTTERSON Mildred M. 175
GUYON Ann xciv
Jacques xciv
HACKLETON Hephzibah 280
James 280
HACKLEY George Trowbridge
258
Sarah Camilla 258
HAFF Abigail 43
Merchant 43
WiUard (Mrs.) 321
EAGAR Hager
— (Mrs.) 272
Charlotte A. 150
John 287
Lydia 287
Sarah 232 273 287 288
HAGARMAN Thankful 233
Hager see Hagar
HAIGH Katharine Mallon 215
William H. 215
HAIGHT Benjamin Isaacs 297
Betty 297
Haile see Hale
HAILLEY EUzabeth 233
HALE. Haile Hales
Harriet Ixix
Isabella Leonard 186
John 315
Joseph Ixxxv
Moses Ixix
Nathan Ixxxv
Rebecca Ixxxv
Sarah 316
Susannah Ixix
William Bradford 186
HALIBURTON HaUyburton
Elizabeth S. 180
Thomas C. 104
William 180
HALL Abigail 43 319
Abraham 47 48
Andrew 62
Carrie L. 189
Charies P. 189
Cleora Narzette 185
Daniel 201
Ebenezer 229
Edward 315
Elizabeth 228
Elizabeth Boyer 296
Elizabeth R. 146
Emily 296
Esther 84
Gilbert 314
Grace 84
Hannah 236
Herbert Wilder (Mrs.) xxviii
John 146 296
Jonathan 229
Lee Worthington (Mrs.) 237
Mabel Buzzell xxviii
Martha 39 251
Mary 312
Mehitable 201
Merchant 43
Penelope Rowe 185
Rachel 47 48
Richard John 296
Sarah 142 201 211
Sarah AdeUa 187
Stephen 84
Susannah 193 228
Thomas 251
William 211 320
William Henry 185
Zuriel 193
HALLETT — Col. 295
Egidius 113
Maude Maybelle xxvii
HALLOWELL Jemima 32
HaUyburton see Haliburtou
HALSEY Sophia J. 50
Hamel van see Van Hamel
HAMILTON Ann 144 xliii
Climena xliii
Cora Dell xliii
Donald xliv
Donna xliv
Elizabeth 184
Fremont C. xliii
Gretchen H. xliv
Hugh xliii
James xliii
James Walker xliii
John 144
John A. 144 180
{ohn Lawson xliv
.ucy xliv
Mary 189 xliii
Mary Elizabeth 180
Peter 189
Richard xliii
Sarah Ann 144
Tullius Leonora 144
Victor Hugo xxxviii xliii xliv
HAMLIN Hamlen
Harry L. (Mrs.) 322
Maria Patten 155
HAMMOND Hammon
— Capt. 105
— Mr. 63 95
Cynthia 294
Elizabeth 288
Jonathan 288
Otis Grant viii
Thomas 239
William 294
HAMPTON Wade 253
HANAM James 117
HANCOCK Handcock
Andrew 262
Andrew Jackson 262
Cornelia Jane 262
Jefferson 262
Laura 225
Portus B. 178
Robert 225
Sarah W. 178
Tabitha Josephine 262
Wesley 262
Winfield S. Ixviii
HAND Clarence Foster (Mrs.)
155
Handcock see Hancock
HANDY Eleanor Maria 186
J. A. Ixviii
Jacob Barney 186
Mary Ixviii
HANNAFORD Albert Swan 79
xxviii
HARBACH Annable 281
Thomas 281
HARD Abigail 48
Jehial 48
HARDCASTLE J. A. liu
HARDEMAN 142
B. 267
Bailey 143
Eva Tyus 267
Leonidas Polk 144
Mary 143
Mary Elizabeth 144
Mary Ophelia 144
Owen Bailey 144
Rebecca Amanda 144
Sarah Ann 144
Sarah Meredith 144
Susan Anna 144
Thomas Jones 141 143
Thomas Monroe 144
Tullius Leonora 144
William P. 144
HARDENBROOK William Ten
Eyck 237
HARDENBURGH FrankUn 179
Oriana F. 179
Hardie see Hardy
HARDING AbigaU Victoria 249
Abraham 244 245
Amos 244 245
Anna 244
Charity Malvina 249
Charles Alexander 244 245
Darius 201
Elizabeth 245
Florence 246 248 249
George Tryon 244 245 249
Huldah 245
Lyman S. 201
Mary Ann 245
Phebe 245
Phebe Carolyn 249
Phebe Elizabeth 245
Robert 239
Stephen 244
Warren Gamaliel 243 244 245
246 247 248 249 270 304
HARDY Hardie
Elizabeth 131
Joseph 257
Lucia Polk 257
PoUy 234
cxxx
Index of Persons
HARE Charlotte Ixxxii
HARIGAN Julia 58
HARKER Christina 182
Thomas MitcheU 182
HARKNESS Cynthia 216
HARLOW Catherine R. 148
Elisa 230
Lydia 151
Nathaniel B. 151
William H. 148
HARMAK Harmon Herman
Anne 308
Judson 246
Maria Hayes 177
Robert 177
Harod see Harrod
HARR Eudora 265
HARRIMAN Edward Henry
xlvii
HARRINGTON — Rev. Mr. 23
Anna 286 288
Bridget 179
Daniel 288
Edward 286
Enoch 316
Joseph 280
Lucy 288
Lydia 280 319
Samuel 288
Timothy 295
HARRIS Adlai O. 223
Amelia 223
Asa 27 28 29
Catherine 316
Charles Edwin 181
Charles W. 178
Clinton Stanford 190
Ebenezer 23
Elizabeth 233
Ellen D. 176
Emily 184
George W. 176
Hattie F. 178
Julia Smith 190
Laura 223
Levi 28
Lucile N. 258
Luke 27
Lydia Ann 176
Malvina 223
Maria 223
Marian 75
Naomi Tate 223
Nathaniel 281
Oliver 23
Rebecca Ixxxv
Richard 75
Robert 239
Samuel 234
Sarah Amanda 181
William 317 318
HARRISON xlii
William Henrv 243
HARROD Harod
Catherine D. 149
Sarah A. 146
HART Harte
Albert Bushnell Ixxxiii
Ann 314
Annis 75
Tohn 201
Nancy 201
Sally Amelia xlix
Sarah 232
Sylvester 201
Harthorne see Hathome
HARTSFIELD Mary 217
HARTSHORN Stewart Henry
78 xxviii
HARTWELL Bemis 187
Carrie Frances 187
HARTZFIELD Emma 263
HARVEY Elizabeth 233
PIARWOOD Olive Harriet xxii
HASKELL Jessica Josephine 77
nviii
Olive xliv xlv
Susannah icv
William xlv
HASKETT Hasket Haskette
Haskitt Haskot Haskott
Hescott Heskott
Aditha see Edith
Alice 74 128
Ambrose 74 132
Anna 73 132
Anne 74 76 132
Annetta 73 132
Christian 72 120 127
Deane 73 75 127
Dionisia set Deane
Edith 72 74 127
Eleanor 73 113 114 127
Eleonora 72
Elias see Ellis
Elizabeth 71 72 73 74 111 114
115 128 129 130 131 132
Elize see Ellis
Elizeno set Ellis
Ehzer see EHis
Elizog su Ellis
EUen 74
Ellioc see Ellis
Ellis 72 73 74 75 76 111 112
113 114 115 117 118 119
120 121 122 123 124 125
126 128 130 131 132
Frances 74 132
Hannah 72 115 131
Henry 74
James 74 117
Jane 73 132
Joan 72 73 74 76 111 127 132
133
Joanna 127
Johanna 73
John 73 74 76 111 121 126
128 132 133
Jonathan 73 74 127 132
Margaret 74 115 116 117 128
Martha 72 73 115 131
Mary 72 73 74 75 76 111 112
113 114 115 121 122 123
125 126 127 128 131 132
133
Michael 76 133
Rebecca 73 127
Robert 73 74 76 127 133
Samuel 73 132
Sarah 72 73 112 115 131 132
Stephen 71 72 73 74 76 111
112 113 114 115 122 123
124 125 126 128 129 130
132
Susan 127
Susannah 73 112 132
Thomas 73 74 76 132 133
William 72 73 74 75 76 111
112 113 114 115 116 117
118 119 120 121 126 127
128 132 133
HASKINS Hasl±i
Da\'id Greece sxv
Emeline 53
J. S. 53
Louise Myrtle 25S
Haskitt see Haskett
Haskot see Haskett
Haskott see Haskert
HASLETT Martha 316
HASSAM Jonathan 151
Marv 151
HASTINGS Abigail 28
Ann 25
Antipas_2S
Benjamin 293
Bettv 27 28 32
Cha/les 26
HASTINGS cont'd
Daniel 19 23 25
David 28
Eliakim 27
EUen 189
Fanny L. 148
Hannah 32
Henry 32
Hephzibah 280
Jane 312
John 27 28 32 282
Jonathan 32
Josiah 313
Margaret 275
Mary 287
Mary I. 182
Mary Jane 148
Nathaniel 20 22 23
Priscilla 25
Rachel 28
Russel (Mrs.) 240
Ruth 23
S. Clarence 189
Samuel 25 26 272 275
Sarah 236 272 275 287
Silas 22
Simon 287
Stephen 25 28
Thaddeus 20
Thomas 23 275
HATCH Abby L. 189
Asa 229
Betsey Ann Ixxvi
Edna Lavinia 51
Edwin 148
John 51 148
Margaret J. W. 148
Martha A. 148
Penelope 84
HATHAWAY Frances xdv
Frances Lavinia Angier xciii
HATHERN Eunice 31
Lucy 28 30
Lydia 28
Micah 27 28 29 30 31
Samuel 29
Sarah 27
Unice see Eunice
HATHORNE Harthorne
Hannah 235
■ John 72
William bti
HATLEY 262
HA0SELKUSE CaroUne L. 52
Dencey 52
John P. 52
Timothy L. P. 52
HAVENS Candace 201
Edward 201
George 201
Hamet 201
Harriet Ann 201
Israel 201
Reuben 201
HAVILAND Frank (Mrs.) xxii
HAWBY — Rev. Dr. 252
HA WELL David 210
Rubaniah 210
HAWES Haws
Catherine R. 148
Elizabeth French 296
Peter 296
Sarah Jane 152
Susan M. 147
WiUard 147
HAWKINS Anna Eleanor 214
Lucy 214
Philemon 214
PoUy Ann 217
Sarah 213
Washington 217
HAWLEY Daniel S. 261
Effie 261
EUzabeth Aldrich 188
Index of Persons
cxxxi
Haws see Hawes
HAY Eliza 176
Elizabeth 285
Tames 285
Mary L. B. 175
Sal]v48
HAYDEN Rebecca 321
Ruthy Jones Ixv
HAYDOCK Robert Roger
(Mrs.) 321
HAYES Hays
Abby 201
Emily Bailie 57
Esther 152
Harriette Estelle xii
Jane Virginia 223
John B. 223
Jonathan 201
Margaret xxix
Mana Naomi 223
Ophelia Clarissa 223
Hayne see Haynes
HAYNER Mary 153
HAYNES Hayne
Anthony 251
Elizabeth 218
Eunice 201
James 201
Jane 251
Mary 251
Sarah 146
Susan M. 147
Hays see Hayes
HAYWARD Haywood Hey-
wood
Carrie M. 179
Hephzibah 321
James W. 179
Mulford Waring 189
Muriel C. 321
Phineas 31
Sarah Adelaide 182
Sarah W. 178
Solomon 228
Zelia Aline 189
HAZARD Caroline 154
HAZELTON Hazleton
Abigail 80
Ann 151
George 151
HEAD George S. 150
Sarah A. 149
Susan B. 150
HEALD Eliza bcv
HEALY Bashaby 51
Elizabeth 51
Joseph 51
Heard see Hurd
HEARN William 229
Hearsey see Kersey
HEATH Aurora Alice xlix
Edward Everett Hathron 184
Frances Ann 184
Mary 319
HEATING Peter 228
HEATON Calhoun 81
Calvin 81
John 81
Jonathan 81
Joseph 81
Nathaniel 81
HECKEWELDER John U
HECKMAN John Franklin
Ixxxv
Mary Alice Ixxxv
Wilheim Anna Ixxxv
HEDDITCH Heddeech Hedich
Hodditch
Anne 111
Dorothy 111 112 113 121 122
128
Henry 111
Robert 111
William 111 114
HEDLY Joanna T. 179
William H. 179
HEGLETON Abigail 80
HEID Katharina 184
HELLIER Hellyar Hellyer
Hillier
Dorothy 76
Elizabeth 115 117
John 76 115 116 117 126
Margaret 115 116
Mary 73
Robert 73
HELMICH F. F. 260
HELMS Jacob 138
Philopena 138
Sarah 263
HELPMAN Thankful 229
HEMENWAY Sarah Gross viii
HENDERSON Archibald 57
Esker 263
Maggie Evelyn 263
Margaret Robinson 57
Sarah 317
HENDRICK Charles T. 241
Daniel 241
HENDRICKSON Benjamin 47
48
Sarah 47 48
HENHING John 260
Susan 260
Susanne 260
HENRY EUzabeth xlix 1
John 184
Louisa A. 188
Mary 184
Mary A. 1
Reginald Buchanan 159
Robert 1
Sabrina 1
WUliam 1
Herman see Harman
HERNDON Lucy Cadwallader
253
Stanley BeU 253
HERRICK Myron'.T. 246 xvii
HERSEY Hearsey
Ezekiel 131
Mary 235
Sarah 131
Hescott see Haskett
Heskott see Haskett
HESS Sally 157
HEUSHERLING Mary EUza-
beth 269
HEUSTIS Eliza Josephine
XX viii
Frank Reed (Mrs.) 77 xxviii
Hewes see Hughes
HEWITT John MarshaU 225
SaUy Kent 225
Hews see Hughes
HEYSHAM Robert 130
Hevwood see HajTrard
HIGHBORN Hitchbom
Ann 233
Eliza 233
Frances 313
George 235
Polly 232
Susannah 234
HICKS Frances 261
George Alfred 185
Isabel Josephine 185
John 291
John Jay (Mrs.) 237
Joshua 129 130
Lewis Wilder vi xxxv xxxix
Martha 130
Mary 291
Zachariah 291
HIDDEN Walter (Mrs.) 322
HIGBY Abby 198
Abby Marvin 198 201
John L. 198
HIGGINS Addie Clapp 187
Ann Maria xxvii xxxv
Christian 201
Christopher 201
Dorothy 201
EUzabeth 201
Enoch 201
Fanny 201
George Henry 153
Hannah W. 153
Jemima 201
Joseph 201
Marcy 201
Polly 201
Seth 201
Sophronia 181
Sylvanus 201
WilUam 201
HIGHT Cener Boon 270
Jeflferson Taylor 270
HILBERT WiUiam 235
HILDEBRAND James 253
HILDRETH Richard 324
Thomas 324
HILL Hills
Albert 177
Amanda E. 179
Anna 268
CaroUne Frances 186
Charles Everett 186
Christopher 201
David 298
Duncan 145
Edith 201
Edith White xxviii
Edward 201 202
EUzabeth 114 128 202
EUzabeth Lydia 298
EUa G. 189
Esther 175
George Henry 48
Hamilton A. 300
Helen CornweU xxix
IsabeUa 177
James J. xlvii
Jeremiah 231
Tube 230
Katharine Amanda xxviii
LUlias OUvia 145
Martha 48
Martha Richardson 48
Mary EUza 300
Mary Hamilton 300
Mary Morton 145
Mehitable 202
Napoleon 145
GUve L. 179
Percy Vickery (Mrs.) 238
Samuel 201 202
Samuel L. 202
Susan 149
Susannah 41 229
Thomas J. 179
WilUam 48
WilUam A. 48
HILLER Mary P. 233
HILLIARD Caroline 259
Isaac 259
Mary 268
SalUe L. 258
Hillier see HelUer
Hills see Hill
HILMAN Lucretia 131
HIMES Harriet S. 179
Joseph A. 179
Mary 321
HINCHE Venus 228
HINDS Hind Hine Hynds
Abigail 23
Abner 22
Ashur 25
Beniamin 21 22 23 24 25 26
29 30 32
Betty 21
cxxxu
Index of Persons
HINDS cont'd
Daniel 21
Elizabeth 21 32
Henry F. 80
Jacob 19 29
Jason 24
Joseph 19 22
Nimrod 25
Pamela 158
Patty 26
Tabitha 26
HINKLEY Thomas H. 312
HINTON Joseph 81
Nathaniel 81
mSCOX 43
Abigail 40 43
Hitchbom see Hichborn
HITCHCOCK Bela 80
Dan 80
Daniel 80
Joseph 81
Timothy 81
HIXON George 179
Joseph 230
Mary 179
HOAR Elizabeth 282
George Frisbie 6
John 282
Samuel (Mrs.) 156
HOBART Abby F. 181
Ehzabeth 315
John 318
HOBBS Hobbes
Joan 118
Julia A. 58
Susannah 112 132
HOBSON George Hull 252
Griselda Houston 252
James Marcellus 252
Lucia 252
Richmond Pearson 252
Sarah Croom 252
HODDmOTT Hoddinot
Mary 111 112 113 127
William 113 127
Hodditch see Hedditch
HODGDON Anna H. 178
Mark E. 148
Phebe Jane 148
HODGES Hodge
— Capt. 107
Gamaliel 131
Mary 131
Michael 63
Sarah 131
HODGKINS — Capt. 101
HOFFMAN Charlotte 181
Edward 181
Mira Hettie xxviii
Williani Henry (Mrs.) 77
xxviii
HOGG Charles Mather (Mrs.)
xxviii
Clara Hyde 78 xxviii
HOHENLOHE-SCHtLLING-
FURST Elizabeth Princess
of 94
Victor Prince of 94
HOHENZOLLERN Frederick
Victor Prince of 93
Hoit see Hoyt
HOLBROOK Holbroke Hol-
brooke
Ann Eliza 188
Clark xcvi
David xcv
Edward 236
Eliza xcv
Ezra 283
Grace 283
Hannah 231
Helen xcvi
John xcv
Jonathan 277
HOLBROOK cont'd
Levi xxxvi xcv
Micah xcv
Nathaniel xcv
Susannah 33
Thomas xcv
Viola xcvi
HOLDENA.A.321
Elizabeth 320
Perry Oliver 77 xxviii
Roberta xxviii
HOLDER Mel. 130
HOLLAND Abigail 22
Bathsheba 18
EUzabeth 20
Emily 224
Ephraim 20 21 23 24 25 26
Esther 20
Eunice 20 234
James 25
John 18 30
Jonah 23
Jonas 18 20 22 25
Joseph 21
Lavma 23
Luther 22
Mara 28
Nathaniel 26
Paul 26
Reuben 24
Ruth 282
Samuel 20 22 23 24 25 26
Sarah 20 28
Unice see Eunice
HOLLIDAY 157
Ann 157
HOLLIS David 232
Nancy 269
William 234
HOLLY Edward 152
Esther 152
HOLMAN Winifred xxviii
HOLMES Emeline Matilda
202 211
Emily R. 190
George 313
John Albert x
Lucy Jane 261
Martha EUzabeth 153
William Dally 153
HOLSEY George 151
Henrietta T. 176
Sarah E. 151
HOLSTEIN-WIESENBURG
Elisabeth Duchess of 94
Leopold Duke of 94
HOLT Abel 22 29
Abiel 27
Barzillai 22 23 27
Bezaleel 28
Elizabeth 23
Eunice 29
James 22
Jotham 28
Lois 29
Silas 22
Unice see Eunice
HOMER Hannah R. 315
Mary Ann li-ii
HOND John 80
HoniweU see Hunnewell
HOOD 143 144 264
— Gen. 254
Emily Sophia 187
Louisa 147
HOOPER Anne Maria 300
Mary 312
HOOTON John 313
HOPKINS Ann E. 177
Cleora Narzette 185
Hannah Desire 44
Jane Ross 44
Joseph xcix
Lemuel Jenkins 44
HOPKINS cont'd
Louisa 292
Martha xcix
Mary M. 179
Rebecca xciii
Sarah Hartshorn xcix
Stephen Ixxvi
Susan A. 178
Susan Babcock 44
Thomas J. 178
HOPPIN Imogene Adelaide 188
HOR Elizabeth S. 180
HORNBLOWER Ralph (Mrs.)
156
HORSEY Eunice 80
HORSFORD Katharine 156
HORTON Benjamin 292
CaroUne 259
David K. (Mrs.) 237
Ehzabeth 184
Harriet J. 153
Henry Albert 184
John 239
Joseph H. 259
HORVEY Eunice 80
HOSMER Charies Ixziv
Ephraim Ixxiv
Frederick Charles Ixxv
Frederick Lucian Ixxv
James Ixxiv
James Kendall Ixxv
Jerome Carter xxxvi liiiv
Ixxv
Jonathan badv
Martha Ixxiv
Martha Ann Ixxv
Mary Agnes Ixxv
Sadie Sherman Ixxv
Samuel Ixxiv
Sarah Ixxiv
Sidney (Mrs.) 237
Stephen Ixxiv
Susannah Ixxiv
Susie Carter Ixxv
HOTCHKISS BeU 80
Cyrus 14
Elijah 80
EUzabeth 80
Israel 80
Merrinnan 80
Mineman SO
HOTCHWICK Israel 80
HOUD John 80
HOUGHTON Albert P. 152
Annis 31
Deliverance 23
Henry Oscar (Mrs.) 156
Joshua 19 22
Lot 28
MoHy 23 293
Nahum 28
Philemon 26
Rebecca 152
SaUy 32
Solomon 23 26 30 31 32
Tamar 23
HOUSER Horace M. (Mrs.) 238
HOUSTON Allen Polk 251
EUse 252
Griselda Gilchrist 251
Lillias 143
Louise Ross 251
Lucia Eugene 251
Lucia Eugenia 252
Mary Russell 251
Mattie Belle 251
RusseU 251
Sam 143
How see Howe
HOWARD Alonzo B. 53
Amelia 225
Anna Eleanor 214
Betsey 313
Charles 225
Index of Persons
cxxxiu
HOWARD cont'd
Elizabeth 53
Elizabeth Taylor 225
Hannah 236
Henrietta Briggs xcii
Henry F. 53
J. William 252
Jackson Polk 225
Joseph Kent 225
Laura 225
Lemuel S3
Louisa 225
Lucia Eugenia 252
Lucy Blanchard Ixxii
Mary E. 178
Mary Wardlow 225
Mary Wilson 225
Nicholas 225
Olivia 225
SaUy Kent 225
Sarah xcii
Thomas 225
Wardlow 225
William 236
William Murrell xcii
William Thomas 225
HOWARTH Mary T. 181
HOWE How
— Col. Ixxxi
Abigail 18 28
Amasa 302
Aretmas 295
Betty 32
Bezaleel 27 28
Daniel Waite xxi
Edward Willard v vi
Ephraim 29
Hannah 32
Hetty xlvi
Levi 28
Lois 20
Lowly Ann 302
M. A. DeWolfe (Mrs.) 156
Marion Mary 187
Mary 302 319
Phineas 19 20 28
Nancy M. xliii
Sally 30
Samuel 297
Sarah 33 297
Sarah Templeman 297
Silas 28 29 31
Tamar 31 32
Uriah Tracy 297
HOWELL Chauncey 81
Cheney 81
Joseph 81
HOWES Florence Reynolds
155 V vi viii xv xvi xxiii
xxiv
Nancy Kellogg xxviii
Nelson Everett (Mrs.) 79
xxviii
HOWETT Joseph 81
HOWLAWD Annie E. 180
Elizabeth civ
Hattie Langley 187
John xliv Ixi civ
Ruth 157
Susan Basset 186
Susan Frances 179
HOXSIE Amanda Malvina 183
HOYLE Mary 227
HOYT Hoit
Albert Harrison xi
Azor 152
Benjamin 21 22
Clarence xc
Ella Florence xxxviii Ixxxix
Ella Groat Ixxxix
George Willis Ixxxix
Jessie Ruth xxviii
Joseph 179
Kate 21
HOYT cont'd
Margaret Ann 179
Mary A. 152
Mary Jane 151
Sarah 22
HUBBARD Agnes 190
Arthur Middleton 190
Charles C. 178
Charles Wells xxv
Cornelia 189
Ebenezer 151
Edith 190
Ezra James 178
Gardmer Greene 167 168 xcvii
xcix
Gertrude Mercer xcix
J. H. 285 ..
Mabel xcvii
Mabel Gardiner xcix
Mary A. 178
Mary E. 178
Nancy 151
Nancy Kellogg xxviii
Sarah Tryon 190
HUBBEL Sarah 202
HUDSON Sumner Aiken 260
Hues see Hughes
HUFFMASTER James T. 159
HUGER Arthur Middleton 257
Elizabeth Devereux 257
Emily Hamilton 257
Frances Devereux 257
John Middleton 257
Leonide 257
Lillie 257
Louise 257
Lucia Polk 257
William E. 257
William Elliott 257
HUGGINS Mamie Elizabeth
xxviii
HUGHES Hewes Hews Hues
Ann 90
BeUe 261
Charles Evans 7
Edwin Holt xxiii
Elizabeth 90
Jemima 202
John 90 202
John A. 202 313
Mary 90
Philip 90
HUGHSON EUzabeth 115 116
117
Ralph 115 116 117
HUGO Victor liii
HULETT Marcia Ann 53
HULL Ann Eliza 182
Charlotte C. 177
Ella Douglas 261
George H. 251 252
Griselda Houston 252
Henry S. Iv
James R. 261
Lucia Eugene 251
Lucia Eugenia 252
Mary Ann 185
Samuel Freeman 185 .
HULST Caroline 57
Katharine 57
Peter H. 57
HUME Daniel 178
Elizabeth 178
HUMPHREY Humphreys
Humphries
Charles Doane 183
Cliristina Rowlson 183
Decius xlviii
George Decius 302
Hannah xlviii
Laura xlviii
Lydia C. 314
May 302
Sarah Ann 146
HUMPHREY cont'd
Sarah Frances 302
HUWGERFORD Amelia 225
HUNNEMAN WiUiam C. 233
HUNNEWELL Honiwell
— Capt. 63 64
James Melville v vi vii xvi
xviii XXXI V
HUNSTABLE Nancy 230
HUNT Abraham Spurr xlvi
Ann B. 233
Annie Sarah 187
Catherine xliv
Charles H. Ixxiv
Daniel 234
Douglas K. 261
Douglas R. 261
Effie 261
Eleanora Ixxiv
Eliza Theresa xliv
Ella Douglas 261
Emma BeUe 261
Henry 187
James 261
Jane B. 320
John Melnotte 261
LiUian 261
Lizzie 263
Lizzie Shaw Ixxiv
Margaret 152
Mary E. 261
Minerva Ann 185
Theodosius 152
Walter Hamilton 261
William 228 317
William F. (Mrs.) 155
Wilham Morris 86
HUNTLEY Loisa Maria 202
Mercy R. 202
Michael 202
Sylvanus H. 202
HUNTTING Lucy 230
HUBD Heard
Alfred Dennis 292
EUzabeth R. 175
Frances Maria 297
George 111
Joan 111
Joanna 73 127
Louise 292
Sarah Sophia 184
Thomas 111
Wilham 110 111 127
WUUam G. 175
HURLBUTT Annie Wadsworth
xxix
HUSE Henry F. 80
HUTCmNS Edward W. (Mrs.)
155
HUTCHINSON — Rev. Mr. 31
Catherine 318
EUza J. 175
L. Jane 176
Sally 316
Thomas 60
WilUam 175
HUTTON Edward F. (Mrs.)
323
HYDE George Henry 184
Jonathan Ixxxviii
Margaret 184
Samuel Ixxxviii
Susannah 316
HYER Catherine 47
EUza 266
George W. 48
Wilbur F. 266
HYLAWD EUzabeth A. 149
HYLER Sarah 236
HYMAN Joseph H. 216
SaUy Polk 216
Hynds see Hinds
HYNEMAN Annie Lucy 227
David Jacob 226 227
CXXXIV
Index of Persons
HYNEMAN cont'd
Elizabeth 227
Ellen Elizabeth 227
Eugenia 226 227
Maggie 227
Nina May 227
Robert Jesse 227
lASIGI Oscar (Mrs.) 155
INGALLS Ingles IngoUs
Caroline Bass 291
James 234
Rebecca 320
INGERSOLL John S. 232
Samuel 131
Sarah 131
Ingles see Ingalls
INGLESBY Inglesbe Inglesbee
Anna 25
Ebenezer 23 24 25 26 27
Eunice 26
John 23
Joseph 24
MoUy 25
Unice see Eunice
IngoUs see Ingalls
INGRAHAM Ingram
Hannah 283
James 268
Mary 229
INMAN Arthur Crew 77 xxviii
Hannah 297
IRVIN Abigail 220
IRVING Emily 264
Peyton 264
ISABELLA I of Spain 93
ISELIN John H. (Mrs.) 323
ISHAM Jane 262
Norman Morrison xjdii
rVERS Jane 291
Lucy Jane 148
William H. 148
IVES Ann 130
Benjamin 130
Elizabeth 130
Thomas 130
JACK James 218
Margaret 140
JACKSON Jackesonne Jakson
Andrew 215 219 222 244 252
Elizabeth 307
Henry Clay xxxvi
HoweU E. 142
James 215 Ixvii
John 306 310
Joseph 318
Meta Ora 257
Rachel 252 Ixvii
Samuel 320
Sarah 215
Sarah Moore 215
JACOBS Jacob
Anna L. 318
David 233
John Sir 119
JACOBUS Donald Lines 10 81
89 158
Jacques see Jaques
Jakson see Jackson
JAMES Ann 234
Benjamin 234
Benjamin F. 146
Cora Dell xliii
Emily Jane 184
Frances 261
John 321
Martha Hicks 261
Nancy M. xUii
Sarah 146
Spain N. xliii
Taliaferro 261
JAMIESON EUzabeth M. 189
William 189
JANWEY Edgar 189
Mary Brown 189
JAQTJES Jacques
— Maj. Ixxxi
Margaret 232
Richard 69
JARVIS John 236
Nathaniel 232
Walter Chester (Mrs.) 323
JAY G. B. 308
JEFFERSON Martha 299
Thomas 271 299
JEFTS Abby Susan xxxvij ci
Benjamin ci
David ci
Emily Susan ci
Luman Thompson ci
Jenings see Jenmngs
Jenison see Jennison
JENKINS jfenHn
Helen Hartley 323
Martha xx
Matilda Golden 141
Philip 141
JENKS Albert Alvin xxxv ciii
civ
Alvin ciii civ
Alvin Fales ciii
Annie Cleveland civ
EUza ciii
Hannah Howland ciii
Henry Angier 322
Henry Angier (Mrs.) 322
Toseph ciii civ
Mary E. 180
Nathaniel nii
Richard Alvin civ
Robert Rice civ
Stephen ciii
JENNEY Charles Francis 161
JENNINGS Jenings
Isaac 33
PoUy 32
Thankful 33
JENNISON Jenison
Israel 290
John F. 321
Marguerite 290
Mary 287
Sarah 230
JEWELL Marshall 166 167
JEWETT Carrie BeUe 78 xxviii
Jewrie see Jury
Jewry see Jury
JINNET Rebecca S. U
JOBE Fanny 263
JOHNSON 221
Abigail 202 315
Alfred 79 82 S3 155 238 241
321 326 vvii XV ciii
Andrew 244
Anna 202 203
Antius F. 58
Arthur S. (Mrs.) 156
Diodate 202
Ebenezer B. 80
Eber B. 80
Edward 281 ci cii
Edward Francis xxxviii ci cii
Eleanor ciii
Eliza Jane 224
EUzabeth 202
EUzabeth F. 182
Emily 221
EsteUa S. ISO
Esther 281
Giles 230
Harold Pendexter ciii
Harrison 224
Helen J. 175
Henry F. 180
Ivie xxix
Jane Margaret 269
Jemima 224
JOHNSON cont'd
John d cii
Julia Ann ci cii
Kenneth Simonds ciii
Leander T. 178
Margaret 153
Marietta E. 58
Marion F. 178
Mary 202 262 280
Mary Cof&n 324
Mary Elizabeth ciii
Nathaniel 202
Rachel 202
Reuben cii
Ruth Miranda Ixxxviii
Sally Banks 202
Samuel 280 cii
Sarah Osgood 149
Stella EmeUne 77 xxviii
Stephen 202 203 208 209 210
Susan ci
Timothy 202
WilUam 203 239 320 d cii
WilHam Sir 241
WilHam W. 269
Zoeth 28
JOHNSTON Catherine xlvi
David 239
Joseph E. 256
JOHONNOT Daniel 294
Marianne 294
JOLLIFFE Thomas 118
JONAH WilUam H. 236
JONES — Capt. 95
Abby 152
Allen 251
Anne 289
Cadwallader 251 253
Cah-in 145
Caroline Amelia 186
CaroUne E. 257
Christopher C. 314
Clarence W. 56
Edward 320
Eleanor H. 237
EUza 264
EUzabeth Dodd 225
EUzabeth E. Boice 159
EUen 266
EmeUne 266
Emily 146
Fanny 257
George Martin 225
Hamilton Polk 257
Henry Tandy 225
James 225
John 319
John Clark (Mrs.) 156
Jonathan 239
Joseph 257
Joshua S. 152
Josiah 279
Kate 266
Laura 266
Laura Maxwell 257
Lily 266
Lucius Polk 266
Lucy 312
Lucy C^dwaUader 253
Lydia 279
MarshaU Branch 266
Martha 213 251
Mary 251
Mary Edwards 225
Mary Polk 253
MoUie 266 _
Moses Ixxiii
Octavia Rowena 145
Percival 77 xxviii
Peter B. 266
Philander A. 146
Rebecca 251
Rebecca Edwards 251 253
Robert 213
Index of Persons
cxxxv
JONES cont'd
Robin ap Cadwallader 253
Robin ap Robin 253
Samuel 236
Samuel Minot 159
Sarah 56 176 251 318 Ixxiii
Sarah Payson Ixxii
Sarah Polk 253
Sarah Rachel 253
Sue 266
Susan R. 257
Virginia 266
Wayne Van Leer 78 xxviii
JORDAN Jordon
Anne U
Bevan Page Yeates li
Catherine xlix
Elizabeth xlix 1
Emily xHx 1
Francis xlix 1
Frederick xlix
Helen U
James 105
John xlix 1
John Woolf xxviii xlix 1 li
Mary 262
"Wilfred li
JO SSELYN Joslen Joslin Joslyn
Addie Lucy 187
Alonzo 149
Anna 27
Caroline A. 149
Dorothy 27
Mary 24
Persis 26
Peter 24 26 27
Sally 229
JOY Peter 129
JTJDD Gerrit P. 325
JUDKINS Mary Anne 184
JURY Jewrie Jewry
Thomas 306
KALAY Edward 186
Louisa 186
KAMES Ann Louisa 179
George S. 179
KAPLER William 312
KAST Philip Godfrid xxii
KAY Delia 265
Emma 266
J. S. 265
KEECH Mary Elizabeth 188
KEENEY Ebenezer SO
Medad 80
KEESE Chloe Bradish 57
Emily Bailie 57
Theodore 57
B:EITH Abigail Ixxx
Deborah Ixxix Ixxx
James Ixxix
Louisa Ixxix
Mary Ixxix
Rebecca Ixxx
Royal Ixxix Ixxx
Simeon Ixxx
Susannah Ixxix
KELBY Margaret 231
KELCHER Lina Nichols 187
William Edwin 187
KELLER Orinda I. 150
KELLEY Kelly
Anna 181
Anne 182
Clementine 181
Joseph 189
Mary Anne 184
Moses Gilbert 184
Roland R. 181
Sarah Elizabeth 189
KELLOWAY Anna 73 132
William 73 132
Kelly see Kelley
KELTON Sarah F. 184
Thomas W. 184
KEMP George 236
John 264
Minnie 264
Nancy 229
KENDALL Ann Elizabeth 53
Erastus 53
Mary 317
PoUy 228
Samuel T. C. 316
Susannah 319
Thomas 313
KENDRICK Margaret W. 150
KENERSON Hannah H. 178
KENISON Abby Jane 186
George Washington 186
KENNEDY Betty 263 264
Thomas (Mrs.) 156
KENSINGTON Thomas 114
KENT Eunice 317
Joseph 226
Joseph Jackson 226
OUvia Polk 226
Sarah Roach 226
William 134
KENYON Benjamin Franklin
186
Mary Louisa 183
Sarah 184
Susan Basset 186
William Clark 183
KERCHEVAL Margaret 227
KERR Emma Rov 186
John Robert 186
KERSAINT — Capt. 65
KETCHUM Phebe A- 152
KEYES Keys
AbigaU 18 19 21
Abijah 20
Benjamin 30
Betty 29
Catherine 20 33
Cyprian 19 24 25 26 27 29 30
Daniel 28
David 24 29
Dinah 20 24
Ebenezer 26
EU 18 19 20 21 22 27 28 32
Eliza 176
EUzabeth 20 27
Ephraim 26
Esther 20
Ezra 22 27
Francis 28
Franklin L. 176
George Thomas (Mrs.) 322
Hannah 32
Henry 20 29
Hephzibeth 18
Idelle vii
Ivory 13
Joel 30
John 19 20 21 23 24 26
Jonathan 19 20 21 23 24 25
26 28
Laura L. 178
Levina 26
Lucy 30 31
Lydia 30
Martha 19 24
Mary 19 20
Miriam 24 32
Oliver 19 20
Patience 18
Patty 26
Peabody 27
Persis 19 24
Phebe 18 20 30 33
PriscUla 19 22
Rebecca 18
Relief 27
Ruth 18 19 22
Sarah 18 21 24 27 30
KEYES cont'd
Simeon 29
Solomon 23 26
Stephen 26 27
Submit 30
Thomas 24 29
KIBLINGER Jacob 289
Sarah 289
KIDD Rhoda C. 151
KIDDER Andrew Marcellus
xxxviii
Ann 315
Charles Archibald (Mrs.) 156
Nathaniel Thayer 78
Sophronia 176
KILBOURNE Kilbum
James Madison 184
Jonathan B. 189
Mary A. 189
Sarah Sophia 184
KILGORE Harold Dustin 78
xxviii
Mary 157
KILMAN Lucretia 131
KILTON Persis 232
KIMBALL Kimbal Kimbell
— Mr. 27
— Mrs. 31
Aaron Ixxix
Abby Rice Brown Ixxx
Annie 291
Caleb xciii
Daniel Ixxix
David 31 xciii
Elvira Evelina Ixxx
Ephraim Ixxx
Evelyn Louisa Ixxx
Frances xciv
Frances Lavinia Angier xciii
Hannah Hathway xciii
Helen Frances xii xiii xciii
Herbert Sawyer Ixxx
Herbert Wood xxxvii Ixxix
Ixxx
John Ixxix xciii
Joshua 313
Kathrina Prescott Ixxx
Leonard Ixxix
Louisa Ixxix
Lulu xciii
Lydia Ixxix
Margaret xxxviii xciii
Martha 218
Mary Ixxix
Moses xciii
Nabby 151
Nathaniel xciii
Patty Ixxix
Phineas Sawyer Ixxx _
Richard Ixxix Ixxx xciii
Richard Davenport Ixxx
Sarah Ixxix
Sarah Abigail Clarke xii
Sylvester 151
Thomas Ixxx
Ursula Ixxix xciii
KIMBER Sidney Arthur 241
Thomas 241
KINCAID Winifred Weld viii
KING Anne P. 321
Asa Francis 188
Benjamin 203
Charles Thomas 182
Ellen M. 181
Fanny 262
Hannah Maria 188
Isham 262
John E. 181
Mercy 276
Philena Hephsibah 182
Richard 111
Sally 320
William Basil (Mrs.) 165
CXXXVl
Index of Persons
KINGSBURY Mary 54
Ruth 230
S. 54
KINSLEY Enoch 26
Sarah 26
KIRBY Ethelbert 219
Nancy 219
KIRK — Miss 164
Mary 157
Richard 157
Kirk van see Van Kirk
EaRKSEY Margaret M. 265
W. 8. A. 265
KITCHEM Elizabeth 312
John 312
Mary 312
Robert 312
KITCHENMAN Kitcherman
— Capt. 101 104
KITE Mary 150
KITTREDGE Kitteridge
Edward Holmes vi
Lucy 319
KLING Amos H. 246
Florence 246 248 249
KNAP — Capt. 158
Betsey 158
KNIGHT Annie E. 180
Axistin Melvin 78 xxviii
Deborah 316
EUen P. 146
Francis T. 180
Webster (Mrs.) 323
William A. 146
KNOWLES Carl A. (Mrs.) 323
KNOX James 221
Jane 221
Joanna 134
Nancy 134 135
KOREN John 242
KUHN Fanny xlviii
Kuren van see Van Kuren
LABOTJISSE Frances Devereux
257
Henry Richardson 257
LA CROIX Esther Humphrey
kxxviii
Morris Felton (Mrs.) Ixxxviii
LAFAYETTE Marie Jean Paul
Marquis de 160 215
LAFLAN Robert 230
LAFLIN Fanny 3
Lc'uis Ellsworth xxxvi
Louise Fanny 3
Winthrop 3
LAHA Mary 230
LAIRD Annie Althea 183
Edward 183
LAIS — Capt. 67 109
LAKE Huldah E. 146
LAMB Charies 141
John 239
LAMBERT William Thomas
XXV
LAMBORD Elizabeth 314
LAMONT Lucy 57
Thomas 57
LAMPHIER Eunice 39
LAMSON Albert Henry 154
324 V vii XV
Ebenezer 282
Mary Agnes 184
LANE 226
Amos W. 180
Ann Maria 180
Bertha 291
Betsey 236
Caroline Matilda 291
Clara 226
Francis 288
Hephzibah 288
John H. 153
Lavina 153
LANE cont'd
Sarah Ann 48
Sibyl 186
William CooUdge 291
William Homer 291
William Sanford 186
LANG George W. 177
Virginia A. 177
LANGDON John 129
LANGLEY Carohne Amelia 182
Charles (Mrs.) 154 xxviii
Joseph Field 182
Laura EUzabeth xxviii
Sarah 131
LANGMAID Margaret A. 151
LANGTON Mary Ann 153
LANIER Lucy 260
LANNING Edward Ixxv
Susie Carter Ixxv
LAN SON Nabby 320
LARGO M Fanny Ixxxv
Fanny Ellingwood Ixxxv
Henry Ixxxv
LARISON Eldon Lee (Mrs.)
xxviii
Jessie Ruth xxviii
LARKIN Larking Learkiu
Abel 52
Abiel 231
Abigail 28
Azubah 22
Ebenezer 233
Edmund 27 28
Peter 22
Sally 43 52
Sarah 52
Lamed see I-eamed
LASELL Charles 183
Susan Maria 183
LAUDERDALE Annie M. 224
Benjamin Winchester 224
Frank 224
Mary 224
Mary Caroline 224
Mary H. 224
Samuel Holmes 224
LAUGHTON Sarah E. 149
LAURIAT Charles EmUe vi
LAURIE Harriet Westcott xii
LAWLESS Mehitable 297
LAWRENCE Ada Genevieve
xlix
Amory Appleton 300
Amos Adams Ixvi
Anna 275
Aurora Alice xlix
Benjamin 275
Bethia 232
Edith 300
Elizabeth 83
Ellen B. xlix
Emily Fairfax 300
Enoch xlix
Evelyn Heath xlix
George 83
Grace 83
Hannah 295
Henry xUx
Henry Otis xlix
{ohn xlix
.ambert Bigelow xxx\-iii xlix
Nathaniel xlix
Parker xlix
Priscilla 318
Sarah Ixvi Irxxiv
Susan A. 152
Thomas xlix
LAWS EUzabeth 135
John 135
LAWSON Gretchen H. xKv
Rosa xliv
Thomas E. xliv
Lay see Lee
LAYDEN Eunie M. 189
LAYNG James D. (Mrs.) 322
Lea see Lee
LEACH Caroline Eastman 241
Eugenia 216
John 84
Josiah Granville xxxviii
Sarah 84
Lealand see Leland
Learkin see Larldn
LEARNED Lamed Leamard
Benoni 277
Elisha 316
EUzabeth 284
Joshua 284
Lucy 293
Mary EUzabeth 181
Samuel 293
LEARY Carrie M. 179
LEASE Rosa xUv
LEASK AUce 57
LEAVITT Azubah 320
Emily Wilder xii
LE BETTER Daniel 150
EUzabeth J. 150
LEBRUN M. M. (Mrs.) 195
LEE Lay Lea Legh
Abner 203
Alfred Ixii
Beatrice 217
Benoni 28
Beulah 28
Catherine 144
Charies A. 188
ComeUa Evelyn 217
Dan 203
David 203
Deborah 203 217
E. F. 223
Edna Mae 263
EUzabeth 144 203
EUzabeth Coldough 217
Evelyn 203
Ezra 203
Harriet 203
Harriet Paine Ixxxiil
Hephzibah 203
Irene Deborah 217
James 203
James F. 217
James Henry xi
Jane Virginia 223
John 239
John Clarke bcxxiii
John M. 144
John WilUam 189
Lucy 203
Luranna 203
Margaret 217
Maria 158
Marion 255
Mary 217
Mary A. 203
OUver I. 203
Phebe 203
Phebe S. 188
Pier 253
Rebecca 229
Richard 203
Rose Smith Ixxxii Ixxxiii
Sara White xii
Sarah Ann 203
Sarah Jane 189
Sarah Polk 253
Silas 203
Susannah 217
Theresa 217
Thomas Amory Ixxxiii
Thomas Virgil 263
Thomas Wodehouse Baron
Newton see Newton Baron
Virginia 217
WilUam 203
WiUiam R. H. 203
Index of Persons
cxxxvii
LEEDS Ednmnd Ingersoll viii
Leer van see Van Leer
Legh see Lee
LEICESTER Coke Thomas
William Earl of 91
LEIGHTON Anna 298
Emily A. 149
LELAND Lealand
Charles F. (Mrs.) 155
Henry 277
Lewis 236
Mary 277
Rebecca Ixxx
LEMAS Joseph 319
LEMON Lemmon
EUzabeth 318
Eva Frank 258
LEONARD Lennard
Artemas 294
Betsey 294
Clarence Ettienne 324
Eliza 221
Ellen H. 189
Esther Rowe 55
Lecie Norwood 221
Lucius 221
Mary liv
Sophia 140
William 55
LEROY Charles 146
Sarah Ann 146
LERVIA Eunice 203
Harriet 203
James 203
John Henry 203
Lewis 203
Margaret 203
LESH Charles Perry (Mrs.) 78
xxviii
Oraxxviii
LESHER Emily Sniffen xxxviii
LESIEDR Christiana Spear 183
John B. 183
LESSLIE James 312
LESTER Claud Frederick 77
xxviii
Emily 266
S. P. 266
LETHERBE Ebenezer W. 317
LE VALLEY Susannah xUv
LEVY Joseph M. 182
Mary I. 182
LEWDEN Joseph 236
LEWIS Annie E. 179
Ebenezer 80
Eleazer 80
Elisebeth 203
Eliza P. 235
Elizabeth 316
Emma Margaret 267
Frances 230
George 45
Hannah xcix
John Thomas 183
Joseph W. 179
Lina Nichols 187
Mary 37 39 183 229
WilUam 37 203
Winslow 227
LIBBY Agnes 188
Allen 188
Frederick M. 78 xxviii
LIECHTENSTEIN Ehsabeth
Princess of 94
LILLJE Nabby 231
LIMING Elizabeth 183
William 183
LINCOLN Abraham 243 244
247 xvii xxiv
Bela 283
Betsey 317
Caroline Howard Ixx
Emma Jane 182
George 84
LINCOLN cont'd
Hawkes 84
Robert Todd xvii
Samuel 241
Sarah 84
Sarah Louise 83 84
Thomas 84
Waldo 241 viii
LINES Ashael 81
Ashbel 81
H. Wales 241
LINNELL Abby Sophronia
183
Dean Smith 183
LINSEY Lynsey
Anne 308
John 308
Rebecca 308 310
Richard 308 310
LIPPINCOTT Susan 54
LITAN Pierre 108
LITCHFIELD Edwin 148
Emily 148
Mary E. 148
LITTLE LitteU
Caroline Amelia 182
John 318
Violet 190
William Meeker 190
LITTLEFIELD Hannah Maria
51
Nathan 51
LIVERMORE Abijah 313
Amos 289
Anna 274
Benjamin 313
Daniel 272 274
Elizabeth 236
Grace 273
Hannah 273
Hephzibah 289
John 273
Lydia 320
Mary 274
OUver 276 282 284
Samuel 274
LIVSEY Celia Anna 181
Squire 181
LLOYD Frances Lusk 158
Henry 158
Lydia A. 151
LOCKE Francis 139
Joshua 239
Mary 50
Mary A. 190
Nicholas 76
Philena Hephzibah 182
LOCKHART Fanny 188
LODEN William 112
LODGE Henry Cabot 248 302
xvii
Matthew 314
LOEB Fanny xlviii
Solomon rivii xlviii
Therese xlviii
LOMBARD Percival Hall 79
LONG Anne 251
Bessie 251
Frances 251
Gabriel 251
George Washington 251
John Joseph 251
Lemuel McKinney 251
Lunsford 251
Martha 251
Mary 251
Mary Rebecca A. 216 251
Nicholas 251
Rebecca Edwards 251 253
Richard 251
LONGLEY Robert 295
LONGWORTH Israel xlvi
LORD Abigail 199
Andrew 203
LORD cont'd
Anna 203
Arthur 78 79 xxiii *
Benjamin 203
Catherine 204 207
Christopher 203
Elizabeth 203 204
Enoch 203 204
Esther 200 203 204
Frances Jane 204
Harriet 204
Hephzibah 203 204
Huldah 203
Jabez 181
John M. 203
Joseph 199 203 204 207 208
Josephine 204
Julia Ann 204
Lucy 204
Marvin 204
Mary 204
Mary Elizabeth 181
Mary Y. 204
Matthew 204
, Phebe GrifiSn 204 208
Renold 204
Richard 203 204
Sylvanus 203
T. 84
Thomas 200 204
William 203
LORING — Capt. 63 65 98 100
Margaret 231
William Caleb Ixxxiii
LOTHROP Amy Peabody 300
Anne Maria 300
Thornton Kirkland 300 v viii
xvi xvii xxvii
LOUD Elmira B. 177
LOUGEE Greenleaf T. 148
Mary A. 148
LOVE JOY — Capt. 46
Lovel see Lovell
LOVELAND George 153
Lewis 80
Mary Jane 153
LOVELL Lovel
Edmund 118
Edward 118
LOVEMOND Lewis 80
LOVERING Thomas 307
LOVETT — Capt. 63 64 107
Louisa Kilham Ixxxvi
William 231
LOW Mary Ellen 186
Thomas 318
LOWELL Ella Bancroft lix
Francis Cabot 300
John 90
Mary 300
Percival Ix
LOWRY Lowrie
Betty 267
Caroline 291
Philip 291
Sophie Wager 291
LUCAS Amanda M. 151
Baza 266
James A. 151
Jane 266
Lavina 153
Mary T. 146
Mollie J. 266
R. S. 266
LUCE Mercy 233
LUCKIS Hannah 320
Margaret 181
Robert M. 181
LUDENTON Betsey 158
LUFKIN Elmu-a B. 177
George 177
LUSK Eliza Jennings 157
LUTHER Adelaide Grafton 185
Marianna 185
CXXXVlll
Index of Persons
LUTHER cont'd
Mary E. 181
Mary Emily 182
Susan Slocum 185
William Henry 182
LYBYER Albert H. 162
LYMAN Anne Jean 297
Arthur Ix
Arthur Theodore 1x1 ix
Daniel 325
Ella Ix
Ella Bancroft lix
Eunice A. 325
Harriet 44
Herbert Ix
Jesse P. (Mrs.) 321
Joseph 297
Julia XXXV lix Ix
Mabel Ix
Richard Ix
Ronald Theodore Ix
Susan Bulfinch 297
LYNCH Annie Maria 187
LYNDE Rachel 233
Lynsey see Linsey
LYON Ezra Perry 180 184
Huldah E. 146
Mary 188
Mary Ann 184
Sarah Young 180
Walter 146
LYTE John 113
McAllister McAiister
Arthur Walker 226
James B. 153
Mary Eliza 226
Rebecca W. 153
McALPIN David Hunter xci
David Hunter (Mrs.) 323
Emma xci
McARTHUR Jennet 184
McBRAYER Campie 218
Samuel 218
McCALLUM Lorena 265
McCANCE Andrew vi
MCCARTHY Mecarty
— Rev. Mr. 26
Denis Aloysius xv
McCAUSLAND Ann Eliza
182
Norman Leslie 182
Macchone see Macoone
McCLARANCE Anne 182
Peter 182
McCLEARY McClary
Charles R. 176
Elizabeth M. 176
Samuel 315
McCLENCH John 317
Katharine Amanda xxviii
WilUam WaUace (Mrs.)
78 xxviii
McCLINCH Frances 56
Mary 56
McCloud see McLeod
McCLYMENT Catherine 144
McCRACKAN Jennie 184
McCRADY George 230
McCULLOCH Sarah 215
McCURDY Alexander 204
Anne 204
Charies J. 204
Elizabeth 212
Gertrude Mercer xcix
John 204 212
Josephine 204
Lynde 204
Mary 204
Richard 204
Sarah Ann 204
Ursula 204
McDERMOTT Mary Ann 56
M'DONALD James 239
McDONNEL Andrew 316
Mcdowell Erasmus 143
Evelina Louisa 143
McELORY John 230
McFARLAN Catherine 153
McGEHEE Montford 215
Sally Polk 215
MacGREGOR Mary 183
Violet 190
McGUIRE Amanda Pauline
263
Charles Polk 263
Edna Mae 263
Edward J. 242
Fanny 263
Joel Seaborn 263
Lena 263
Maggie Evelyn 263
Mary Jane 263
Minnie 263
William David 263
McINTOSH John 313
McIVOR Nancy 266
MACK Ellen B. xlix
McKELVEY McKalvey '
Ann 262
Bridget 179
Charies Pinckney 262
Ezekiel A. 262
Flora 262
Frances 262
George 262
Hannah Elizabeth 262
Ira 262
Isaac 262
Jane 202
John 179 262
Lude 262
Lulu 262
Sarah 262
Sa villa 262
William Thomas 262
MacKENZIE Alexander xlLii
MACKER Clarissa EmeUne 18S
McKIM Haslett 296
Rog6 296
Sally 296
William Duncan 296
McKINLEY William 243 247
McKINNEY Ellen Depuy 226
Henrv 265
Jane 226
John 251
Mary 251
Ophelia Amanda 285
Thomas 226
Walter D. 323
McKINNION Mary 178
McKINNON Calvin 262
Elizabeth 262
MACKINTOSH EUza Ann 149
McKNlGHT Althea 267
McLANE Rebecca W. 147
McLARTY Alexander 217
Charles Bingley 217
George Washington 217
Hannah 217
Harvey Ezekiel 217
James 263
John C. 217
Katie 263
Martha 217
Martha Jane 217
Mary 217
Mary Amanda 217
Polly 262
Samuel Marion 217
Samuel Wilson 217
Sarah Ellen 263
Sophia CaroUne 217
McLaughlin Mary Ann 187
Terrance 187
McLEARY Deborah 136
Samuel 136
McLEOD McCloud
Catherine 262
Charles 262
Cornelia Jane 262
Elizabeth 262
Ellen EUzabeth 226
George Henry 226
James 262
Michael Sanders 262
Norman (Mrs.) 237
Sarah xliii
William 262
McMAHON James 269
MacMILLAN Josephine 190
Peter G. 190
Susan Polk 216
McNAUGHT Nancy M. 53
McNEIL McNeal McNeill
Albert Thomas 143
Alfred 320
Anne 143
Bethia 40
Clarissa 143
EUzabeth Walker 143
Evelina Louisa 143
Ezekiel Polk 143
Hector 160
Jane Frances 143
John 40
Lycurgus 143
Mary Ann 235
Mary Eliza 143
Mary Jane 143
Priscilla 143
Prudence 143
Prudence Tate 143
Samuel L. 143
T,homas 141 143
WilUam Wallace 143
MACOMBER Macumber
Abiel 81
Frank Gair (Mrs.) 156
MACOONE Macchone
Deborah 35
Hannah 34 35
John 35
McPHERSON Mary Brown
189
McQUARLER Missoni 218
Thomas 218
MACREADY Robert Ashton
(Mrs.) 322
McREE Deborah 136
Dinah 136
Harriet 136
James 136
Margaret 136
Mary 136
Rachel 136
Robert 136
Susan 136
Thomas 136
William 138
McREYNOLDS Evan Shelby
Polk 269
Isaac B. 269
Laura S. 269
Mary Elizabeth 269
Macumber see Macomber
MACY Louisa M. 176
MADDOCK Henry 273
Mary 273
MADISON Madson
Elizabeth 245 316
James 215 245
MAELLER Catherine Louisa
181
MAHAWNY Hannah 28
Jemima 28
MAHONY John 188
Margaret 1S8
MAIN Abel 39
Martha 39
Index of Persons
cxxxix
MAISONFORT Boisdescourt
Alexandre Marquis de la 97
MALONEY Mallony
Francis 153
John 228
Mary 153
MALTBY — Mr. 13
Manard see Maynard
MANCHESTER Elizabeth 194
Mary 194
Phebe Amanda 183
William 194
MANLY Ann Elizabeth 224
Chatman 224
Clarissa 224
Eliza Jane 224
Laura Weston 224
William Burton 224
MANN Howard Walter 237
Louisa 187
William S. 187
MANNEN 157
Mary 157
MANNING Earl G. 162
Francis Henry xxxvii
Margaret 129
WilUam 162
MANSFIELD Betsey 228
Gideon M. xxxiv
Kierstead 81
Richstead 81
MANSOR William 81
IdANWARING Manwarring
Betsey S. 204
Charles F. 204
Harriet A. 204
John 204 205
John J. 204
Sarah 204 205
MARCH — Mr. 30
MARDEN Carrie Eliza 181
MAREY Sarah 291
MARIN M. 103
MARIS Erailie xxviii
MARMADXJKE John Sapping-
ton 223
MARRETT Martha 319
MARSH Ade 177
C. C. 161
Celia F. 146
Harriet Moore xl
Jason xl
Lucy Frances xl
Sarah 192
Thomas 192
MARSHALL Marshal
Mary S. 314
Olive xliv
Olive Jane 183
Oriana F. 179
Samuel xliv
Susan Gibson 287
Thomas 230
Thomas Parker 183
MARSTERS Arthur Allen 174
Katharine Louise 174
MARSTON Ellen M. 149
John M. 149
Sarah. 41
Zechariah 41
MARTIN Marty Martyn
— Rev. Mr. 21 23 24 26 27
Amanda M. 151
Anne 251
Benigna Dunlap 145
Eleanor 185
Elizabeth 223
James Henry 145
John A. 145
John Harding 185
Mary Coleman 295 Ixiii
Nancy 145
Ruthie EUzabeth 186
William 251
MARUMBERG Abiel 81
MARVIN Abby 205
Benjamin 205
Charles Benjamin 205
Edward Lee 205
Elizabeth 205
Emma S. 200
George Ritchie vii
John 200 205 211
Laurana 205
Luciu M. 205
Martha 205
Matthew 205
Phebe 205
Reynold 205
Samuel 205
Sarah 211
Zachariah 205
MASE Anna Belle xcv
Jane Elizabeth xcv
Willard Horace xcv
MASON Carrie 181
Daniel Wilbur 187
Elizabeth 290
Emily Amanda 187
Esther 281
Ida Menage 187
J. Bradford 181
Joseph 276 281
Mary 281
Mary Eliza 153
Sarah Frances 185
Thaddeus 236
MASSEY Massie Massy
Benigna 268
Betty 264
Charies Polk 264
Cynthia Benigna 264
EUza 264
Emily 264
Joel Vincent 264
John H. 264
Margaret Benigna 264
Mary Ann 264
Ollie 270
Sarah B. 147
Susan 255
William S. 264
MASTINES Theresa 58
MATHER Alice Ixxi
Anna 203
Anne 205
Caroline 200 205
Dan W. 206
Deborah 205 206
Eleazer 205
Ehas 205
Elizabeth 206 Ixxi
Eunice 205 206
Ezra 205 206
Frederick 205 206
George 206
Georgia 206
Henry 205
Hephzibah 206
James 200 205
Jehoiada 205 206
Jerusha 205 206
Joanna 205
John 205 206
Joseph 205 206
Lois 206
Louisa C. 200
Lucy 206 213
Luther P. 206
Mary A. 206
Mehitable 206
Mercy 205 206
Nathaniel 205
Norman R. 206
Orlando 206
Phebe 206 207
Richard 205 206
Richard Henry Ixxi
MATHER cont'd
Sam 206
Samuel 203 206 207
Sarah 206
Simon 206
Sylvester 206
T. 206
Timothy 205 206
William 206
William B. 206
MATHEWSON Amy Ann 178
EUen 183
George Edwin 178
MATHISON Samuel HaUett
182
Sarah Frances 182
MATSON AbigaU 206
Catherine 206
Christian 136
Dinah 206
Israel 207
Joanna 206
Lois 206
Nathan 206
Nathaniel 206 207
Phebe 207
PoUy 207
Ralph 136
MATTHEWS EEzabeth Selby
226
Julia Ann 265
Lawrence 226
Louisa 226
Nathan v xv
MATTOON Isabella F. 176
John L. 176
MAVIS Betsey 186
William Henry 186
MAXFIELD Ann Elizabeth 183
Betsey C. 50
Samuel 149
Sarah E. S. 149
MAXON Amos 207
Elizabeth 207
MAXWELL Anna 264
Cornelia 264
Hugh 239
James Giboney 264
John Guy 264
Kate 284
Margaret 47
Pauhne 264
MAY Mayes
Aaron 293
Edward 236
Elizabeth 293
Maria 293
Martha Louise xxviii
Mary 220
Rebecca 254
William Hyatt (Mrs.) 77
xxviii
MAYCOCK John 76
Mayes see May
MAYHEW — Capt. 1 10
William 235
MAYNARD Manard
Artemas 27 28 32
Banister 26
Betsey 186
Bezaleel 24 25 26 27 28 29
Elisha 19 20 21
EUzabeth 19 24
Francis 27
Gardner 20
Hannah 317
Louisa 25
Lucy 27 28 29
Mary Ixxiv
Miriam 32
Ruth 24
Thomas 28 _
William Ixxiv
MAYO Betsey 230
cxl
Index of Persons
MAZZINI Giuseppe liii
MEAD Abigail 231
Catherine 316
George 318
MEANS James (Mrs.) 156
MEARS Neal Francis xxviii
Sarah E. 150
MECAMEWY William 231
Mecarty see McCarthy
MEECH Susan BUUngs 325
MELDROH Mary Ann 187
MELLEN — Rev. Mr. 20 22 23
24
Melsbag see Millspaugh
MENCER William 81
MEKZIES Alexander 239
Thomas 239
MERCER Merrier
Frederick W. 186
John 234
Joseph A. 229
Lizzie Bennett 186
MERRIAM Aaron 81
Asaph 81
Benjamin 81
Edmond 81
Ephraim 81
Joseph 81
Nathaniel 81
Samuel 81
William 81
MERRICK Mirick Myrick
Ann 239
Artemas B. 181
Caroline E. 257
Elizabeth 207
Joseph 207
Julia 181
Sarah 146
Sophia 176
MERRILL Amanda 150
C. H. Sayre (Mrs.) 322
Eliza Jane 177
George A. 322
John L. 237
Lydia E. B. 184
Nathan 150
Parker 184
MERRIMAN Aaron 81
Asaph 81
Benjamin 81
Edmond 81
Ephraim 81
Joseph 81
Nathaniel 81
Samuel 81
William 81
MERRITT Percival 242
MERRY Sally L. 313
MERSKAN Edwin 152
Marv Frances 152
MESSiNGER Amanda Fitza-
len 185
Rebecca Orswell 185
METCALF EUzabeth 130
METTERNICH — WINFTE-
BURG Clemens Wenzel
Nepomuk Lotbar von
Prince 94
MEUSHETT -Andrew 232
MEWS Samuel 122
MEZZARA Joseph Ixxvi
MICKLEFIELD Sarah 228
MIDGLEY Mary J. 189
MILBOURNE Sally 48
Thomas 48
MILES Mvles
— Capt. 110
John 81
Robert Cunningham (Mrs.)
323
MILFORD Humphrey 82
MILK Susannah 313
MILLEQUET WUham 317
MILLER Millard
Abby F. 181
Ann 151
David 151
Delmar James (Mrs.) 154
xxviii
Eliza 151
Ezra 207
Harriet L. 146
Henry F. 56
Hepze 207
Ida Louise vi x xii xiii xv
Jane 269
John F. 146
Joseph 142 207
Lois 207
Lucy xliv
Maggie 269
Mamie Elizabeth xxviii
Margaret Ixx
Martha 207
Mary 141 207 319
Mary Ann 56
Robert 207
Sarah 207
Silas 207
Susannah Iviii
William Alexander xxviii
William EUery 181
MTLLIKEN Charlotte JeUison
xii
MILLS Calvin Rawson (Mrs.)
xxviii
Christopher S. 149
Helen Whittington 292
James civ
Sarah E. 149
Sarah J. 152
Stella Emeline 77 xxviii
Zechariah 231
MILLSPAUGH Melsbag
Adam xciv
Anna Belle xcv
Anna Eva xciv
Deborah Barron xciv
Dorothy xciv
Edward Judson xxvii xxxv
xriv xcv
Francis Corwin xxvii xcv
Isaac Little xciv
Jane xriv
Matheis xciv
Pieter xciv
Samuel xciv
Susannah xciv
MILNER Robert lii
MILNER-GIBSON Jasper lii
Susannah Arethusa li
Thomas li lii
MILNER-GIBSGN-CULLUM
George Gery li lii liii
MTLNS WilUam 230
MILTON George A. (Mrs.) 322
MIM3 Georgia 266
MINER Minor
Edward Burnham 207
EUas 207
Esther 207
Joel 207
John S. 207
Joseph 207
Mar>- H. 207
Phebe 207
Samuel 207
Sarah 207
Thomas 207
MINK OUver W. (Mrs.) 237
Minor see Miner
MINOT Samuel 319
Mirick see Merrick
MITCHELL Mitchel
— Capt. 63 105
Andrew 153
Christiana Drummcnd 299
MITCHELL cont'd
Hannah 320
Rebecca 320
Sarah E. 148
Sarah Jane 153
MIXER Mixter
Anne 289
Charles Galloupe (Mrs.) 322
Eunice 315
Isaac 272
Joel 314
Joseph 289
Lydia 228
Mary 272 273 289
Samuel J. (Mrs.) 324
Sarah 272 273
MIXTURE Joseph 235
MODENA — Duke of 259
MOFFITT Amanda Malvina
183
Godfrey 183
MOGG Mogge Moggs
Dorothy 76 115 116 117
Richard 115 116 117
William 76 115 116 117
MOLDOON Mary Ann 182
MOLINAUX Elizabeth 229
MOLLETT John S. 232
MONCREFT Wallis 234
MONICHAN Bridget 181
MONK Elias 283
Freelove 283
Hope 283
MONROE Munro Munroe
— Capt. 47
Cyrus 148
Elvira C. 180
Emma 188
George B. 147
Isaac 30
Jacob 30
Margaret R. 178
Oscar Hatfield 188
R. Majmard 323
Robert 239
Sarah B. 147
Sarah E. 148
Sarah Tapley 293
William 239
William Bennett (Mrs.) 322
WuUam H. 180
MONTAGUE — Capt. 97 102
Arthur E. 57
Cassie 57
EUzabeth G. 57
MONTEN Boston 232
MONTGOMERY Eugene
WiUard 322
MOORE Moor Moores Moors
More Mores
233
— Col. 137 138
— Widcw 25
Abigail 25 303 315
Arthur W. (Mrs.) 156
Betsey 230
Charles T. 235
David 295
Elizabeth 235
Emily M. 207
Ezra 27
F. C. 303
George 207 215 250
Hiram D. 303
Isham 260
James 25 250 268
John 75 239
John F. (Mrs.) 238
John H. 207
Katharine 26S
Levi 19 24 25 26 27
Margaret R. 268
Maria Naomi 223
Mary 250
Index of Persons
cxli
•
MOORE cont'd
Mattie E. 266
1
MoUy 26
'^
Nancy Foster 44
Reuben 24 25
1 .
Robert 49
i
Roger 250
Sarah 49 215
Sarah Isham 260
»;
Tamar 32
j
Thomas 239
!
Victoria Josephine 303
William E. 223
i
Morey see Mowry
MORGAN Edwin Denison ix
xxvii
Elizabeth 318
Hannah 207
John 229
John Pierpont xvii
Luodovic 113
Mary 113
Richard 207
Robert 149
Sarah Osgood 149
MORIARTY George Andrews
71 110 160 190 238 305 325
V vii XV XX
Morison see Morrison
MORLEY David 207
Sarah G. 207
MOROT Aim6 Ixxvi
MORRILL Sarah 235
MORRIS Benjamin 264
Dorcas 157 158
Fanny Ixxxvi
J
Hattie 263
James 263
.*
Jane Elizabeth 261
Kate Eugenia viii
Kitty 263
Minnie 264
Nellie 264
Nola 264
Pauline 264
Sarah E. 263
Thomas 76
MORRISON Morison
Edward 239
John 231
Samuel Eliot 162 xxiii
MORSE Moss
Abner 277
'
Alpheus 22
Amherst 26 33
Ann Louisa 179
Annis 27 33
Asa 283
Azubah 33
Benajah 81
Carohne A. 149
Clarissa C. 225
David 292
Ebenezer 17 18 19 23 24 33
Eliakim 22 25 33
EUzabeth 30
Emeline T. 175
Glenn Tilley 323 324 viii
H. Amanda 178
Hannah 283
Isabel EUzabeth 183
James R. 232
John 20 30 31 33
Joseph 17 22 23 24 29 33 225
283 292
Joseph Samuel 225
Joshua 17 23 33
'-
Mary 17 21 28 33 277 283
Mary B. 182
Moses 277
Nathaniel 277
Persis 17 19 21 33
Rebecca 24
SaUy 225
VOL. LXXVII. 25
MORSE cont'd
Samuel 17
Samuel F. B. 164
Sarah 277
Sophia 23
William 29
MORTON Mary Evelyn 254
MOSER Elizabeth Colclough
217
Jason C. 217
Moss see Morse
MOTLEY Catherine M. E. 56
Mary 56
Richard 316
William W. 56
MOTT Jordan L. (Mrs.) 322
MOULTON Aaron 292
Anna 292
Augustus F. 161
David 153
Elizabeth J. 153
Jeremiah 68 70
Polly 146
MOTJNTFORT John 239
Joseph 239
MOUSER Grant E. 246
MOWRY Morey
Amanda M. 180
Caroline F. 181
Emor H. 180
Lucy Malvina 188
Mary Agnes Ixxv
Richard Dennis 188
Walter G. bcxv
MtJDGE Harriet 147
MUGFORD George 131
Mary 131
MUGRIDGE Eliza Ann 146
WiUiam 146
MXJLLER Charles 181
Gertrude 181
Jacob 239
MTJLLIKEN Eliza 290
Richard 290
MTJMFORD — Capt. 67 102
104
MTJNDY Ann xciv
Crowell xciv
Deborah Barron xciv
Munro see Monroe
Munroe see Monroe
MUNSON Garry 44
Harriet 44
Mabel 92
Samuel Lyman 44
Susan Babcock 44
MURCmSON Laura 265
MURDOCK Frances E. 15
Hephzibah 207
John 207
Rebecca W. 153
WiUiam A. 151
MURPHY Murphey
Eliza 54
EUzabeth 52
Jeremiah 229
Mary 182
Mary EUza 153
Thomas 318
WilUam J. 153
MURRAY Murry
Albert Nickerson xxvii
H. H. (Mrs.) 322
John 239
Thomas 239
MUZZY Sarah 287
MYERS Ellen 182
Henry 182
Jacob L. 151
Marcia 57
Mary Frances 151
Myles see Miles
Myrick see Merrick
NAPOLEON m Uu
NASH Clarissa 176
James S. 52
John 52
Mary Ann 52
SaUy 52
NAZRO Arthur P. (Mrs.) 156
NEAT Hannah 231
NEELY Adela Clarissa 144
Bertha Amanda 263
Charles Lea 144
Charles Rufus 144
Clemmie 263
EUzabeth 144
Fanny 144
Haiden 263
James 140
James Jackson 144
Louisa 144
Margaret Viana 263
Mary 263
Mary Catherine 144
Myrtle 263
Nicholas lackson 263
Rufus Polk 144
Sarah 144
Sophia 140
Thomas 144
WiUiam 144
NEFF Hannah M. 177
WiUiam L. 177
NEIGHBORS Ann EUzabeth
262
WiUiam 262
NEIL — Col. 141
Anna Maria 291
John Godfrey 291
NeUson see Nelson
NELMS EUza 216
NELSON NeUson
Ada 145
Alexander 145
Benigna EUen 145
Charles 145
Eugenia 145
Hattie 145
Hugh 145
MiUicent 228
Sarah 145
Sophia 145
WiUiam 145
NESBIT EUen 266
NESMITH Robert 130
NETTLETON Jonah 80
Josiah 80
NEUSTADT Adele Gertrude
xlviii
Agnes xlviii
Sigmund xlviii
NEVE Edna xlvii
Reginald xlvii
NEWBOLD Mary EUzabeth
302
Sarah Lawrence 302
Thomas 302
Thomas Haines 302
NEWCASTLE Holies Thomas
Pelham — Duke of 102
NEWCOMB AUce Loring viii
Bryant Ixxviii
Bryant Barter Ixxviii
Caroline Baxter Ixxviii
Francis Ixxviii
Isaac Ixxviii _
James Ixxviii
Jo'.n Ixxviii
Mary 317
Mary Elizabeth xxxvi Ixxviii
Nathaniel Leprelate 188
Rachel Ixxviii
Sarah A. 188 _
Thomas Ixxviii
NEWELL CaroUne 146
Charles Henry 183
cxlii
Index oj Persons
NEWELL cont'd
Chloe 228
Daniel Edwin 258
Isabel Spencer 183
Jessie Mclver 258
John 235
Maria A. 150
Nathaniel 232
Oscar Alonzo 187
Sarah Adelia 187
William Allen (Mrs.) 156
KEWHALL Sarah 231 232
NEWLAND Henry 269
NEWMAN Eliza S. 150
Hannah S. 233
Sarah J. 150
NEWMARCH— Capt. 63 69 98
NEWSTEP Sarah 220
NEWTON Legh Thomas Wode-
house Baron 253
NEWTON Aaron 18 20
Betty 27
Ebenezer S. 177
Edward 25 26 27
Elijah 24
Eliza Taft 77 xxvii
Esther 32
Francis Albert 148
Hannah 32
Julia H. 177
Lemuel 24
Mary Agnes 184
Mary Jane 148
Naomi 26
Sarah 19 24
Silas 184
Solomon 32
NICHOLS Nichol
Alden 320
Helen J. 175
Henrietta Maria 297
Jesse 175
Sarah 142
Sarah Frances 182
NICHOLSON A. W. 268
Anna Browning 268
Malcom 321
NICRERSON Cora Ixxii
Frederick Ixxii
Frederick William Ixxii
Lucy Blanchard Ixxii
NINEGRET Charles 34 37
NOBLE Nobles
Alansen 41
Drusilla Bonneau 297
Edna 269
George Washington Copp
Ixxiii Ixxxiii Ixxxvi
Jennie 265
Matthew xxxix
Mira xxxix
Obadiah xxxix
Peter xxxix
Randolph 269
SaUy 41
Solomon xxxix
Thomas xxxix
NORCROSS Eliza 314
Elizabeth 232 287
Grenville Howland xxv
Jemima 287
Josiah 233 287
Sarah 21
Waiiam 21
NORTHCROSS Andrew Taylor
224
Clarissa Sarah 224
James M. 224
NORTON Annie 178
Gideon 228
Irvin (Mrs.) 321
Margaret W. 150
Willam A. 150
NOTT Eliphalet Ixvii
NOTTAGE Olle 228
Sally 235
NOWELL George 314
NOYES Abby Sill 207
Anna 207 318
Catherine 204 207
Catherine B. 207
Catherine L. 207
Charles Townsend 207
Clarissa 207 208
Clarbsa Dutton 207
Daniel R. 204 207
Dorothy 208
Edward Griffin 207
Enoch 204 207 208
Eunice 208
Hannah 207 208 209
James 208
Jane 208
Jane Elizabeth 208
Jesse D. 52
John 52 207 208
Johnson 176
Joseph 208
Louisa M. 176
Martha 208
Mary 202 208
Mary Ann 208
Mary E. 52
Matthew 202
Moses 202 208
Phebe GrifEn 204 207 208
Priscilla 52
Richard 208
Ruth 208
SaUy 207 208
Sarah 208
Sarah Griswold 208
Sarah Jane 189
Silence 13
Stephen L. 208
William 207 208 209
NUTE Charlotte A. 150
Isaac F. 150
NUTT Sarah 231
NTJTTER 135
Christopher 135
NUTTING Julia Seraphine 185
NYE Elizabeth Ixiv
Mary 50
Walter B. (Mrs.) 155
OAKES Oaks Okes
Edward 272
Hannah 281
James 231
Thankful 33
O'BRIEN Catherine 188
Ellen xci
John 188
Mabel Maud 57
Richard Sylvester 57
Obume see Osbom
OCHERBLOOM John B. 313
OETTINGEN Elisabeth Prin-
cess of 94
OGDEN John E. 179
Louise R. 179
Okes see Oakes
OLDSON Elizabeth 218
OLIVER DUvier
Abby J. B. 147
Anthoine 290
Jacob Ixxii
Lydia Crosby Lxxii
Marguerite 290
Mary Abigail Ixjdi
R. W. (Mrs.) 322
William M. 147
OLMSTED George Arthur 182
Mary 182
OLNEY CaroHne 179
Ira 179
OLSEN Lina 190
ONDERDONK Robert 152
Sarah J. 152
ONGER 46
Mary Wallace 46
O'REILLY Vincent F. 242
OSBORN Obume Osborne
Osboume
Caroline Frances 186
Hannah 129
Hannah W. 153
Jean 140
John 239
Margaret 129
Sarah Elizabeth 182
Thomas 72 128
William 129
OSBREY Celia Anna 181
OSGOOD Charlotte Ixix
Charlotte Emeline Ixviii Ixix
Isaac Ixix
OSTRANDER Alice 44
James S. 44
OTEY James H. 253 259
OTTY Elizabeth Crookshank
Ixvi
Henry Phipps xlvi
Hetty xlvi
OWENS Nancy 134 135
PADDOCK Laura A. 177
PAGE Alfred li
Anne li
Betsey ,312
Catherine 313
Catherine Augiista 186
EHza M. 235
Elizabeth 316
Emily H. 147
Frances E. 175
George H. 175
Henry Alexander 186
Jeremiah Ixiv _
Jonathan Ixxxi
Mary 228
Rebecca S. li
Walter Hines (Mrs.) 155
PAINE Albert Bigelow 163
Darius 229
Dorothy Bo wen Ixxxviii
Esther Humphrey Ixxxviii
Eunice 315
Francis Ward Ixxxviii
Harriet S. 179
John Bryant (Mrs.) 237
Robert Treat (Mrs.) 156
Ruth Felton Ixxxviii
Ruth Sargent Ixxxviii
Sarah C. 237
Stephen Ixxxviii
William 272
William Alfred (Mrs.) Ixxxviii
PALFREY Palfray
Elizabeth 129
George W. 49
John 311
Margaret 129
Rebecca 311
Sarah 49
Thomas 129
Walter 129
PALGRAVE Mary 273
PALMER Annie 291
Bertha 291
Erastus Dow 57
Fanny Breese 57
Frances D. 297
Isaiah 151
Jacob Peabody 291
Lucia E. 176
Margaret A. 151
^Iary Jane 57
Sarah 149
Thomas K. 149
Index of Persons
cxliii
PALMERSTON Temple Henry
John Viscount lii
PAWNELL PannUl
Eliza 290
Samuel 191
PABADA Maria 255
PARASSER Henry 230
PARDEE George 240
PARISH John C. 161
PARK Parke Parkis Parks
Arthur 82
Charles Edwards 89
Frank Sylvester 82 160 325
Jonathan 281
Josiah 280
Lucy 30
Lucy B. 177
Sarah 281
Thankful 280
William 228
PARKER Alton Brooks (Mrs.)
322
Anna 297
Anna Tucker 297
Arthur G. 176
Bridget Ixxxv
Elizabeth 275
Frances 194
George 194
Isaac Ixxxv
James 297
James M. 151
John 147
Josiah 275
Lavina M. 176
Mary 194
Nancy Abigail Ixxxiv
Rebecca 147 228
Sarah 275 287
Sarah Louisa 151
Stanley Brampton 78 xxix
PARKHURST Eliza Ann 175
Lincoln 175
Parkis see Park
PARKMAN — Rev. Mr. 19
Catherine Scollay 296
Francis 67 296
Hannah 232
Parks see Park
PARMELEE Parmlee
Ashley 147
Caroline L. 52
Dencey 52
Diana P. 149
Gilbert 148
H. Sophia 149
Hannah 52
Harriet 147
Lyman L. 149
Mary E. 148
Susan 149
Timothy 52
Timothv L. P. 52
PARMENTER James Parker
79 vii viii xx
Parmlee see Parmelee
PARR Susan Josephine 221
PARROTT Charles 184
Nettie Frances 184
PARSONS Abigail 209
Ezra 209
Joanna 209
John 209
Jonathan 202 209
Lois 209
Lucy 209
MarshSeld 209
Mary A. 148
Mary Abigail 296
Mehitable 209
Phebe 209
Samuel H. 209
Thomas 209
Thomas G. 209
PARSONS cont'd
Usher 63
"William 209
PARTRIDGE George Homer
xxvii
Josephine 190
PASSENGER Andrew M. 319
PASSMORE Charles Sumner
(MrsO 237
PASTURE Bessie 251
PATE Jane 221
PATT Emily L. 181
Henry W. 181
PATTEE Eleanor Tracy xxxvi
Ixxxviii Ixxxix
Frank Hargrave Ixxxix
PATTERSON John 48
Margaret Strout 48
Susannah 48
William Davis 82 326 viii
PAUL Phebe 294
PAYNE Amy Angeline 51
Betsey Ann Ixxvi
Harriet Hatch Ixxv Ixxvi
Nathaniel 51
William Elisha Ixxvi
PEABODY— Col. 46
Catherine Elizabeth 300
James C. (Mrs.) 162
Pearce see Pierce
PEARSON Pierson
262
Agnes 188
Charles Lewis 262
Clara Clyde 262
Elizabeth A .150
Emma M. 262
George Washington 262
Henry WiUis 262
Ida Florence 262
Jane 32
Janie 262
John 210
John Hale 262
Leroy Morris 262
Mary Ann 187
Mary E. 148
Mary Emma 262
Ruth Elizabeth 262
Sarah Croom 252
Walter 262
Walter Washington 262
PEASE Charles Fordom 180
Harriet Johnson 180
Mary 276
Sarah 229
PEAVEY Charles 262
Jane 262
John N. 148
Olive N. 148
PECK Alpheus 152
Amos 241
Amy 209
Augusta 209
Augustus 209
Azubah 210
Azurah 209
Benjamin 209
Charles L. 209
Dan 209
Deborah 209
Elisha 209
Elizabeth 209
Elizabeth Beebe 209
Ezra M. 209
Esther 209
Frederick S. (Mrs.) 322
Horace M. 178
Jemima 209
John P. 179
Joseph 209 210
Louisa A. 152
Lucy 211
Lucy B. 149
PECK cont'd
Lydia Rose 185
Mary 209
Mary A. 179
Mary E. 178
Mather 209 210
Nancy 210
Nathaniel 210 211
Orin Miller 210
Rubaniah 210
Samuel 209 210
Sarah 209 210
Stephen 209
Susan Amanda 179
Susannah 210
Thomas J. 185
WilUam 209 210
PECKHAM Mary B. 45
PEDDOR James W. 317
Peeterson see Peterson
PEGEN Martha 230
Peirce see Pierce
Pelham Thomas Holles-Duke
of Newcastle see Newcastle
Duke of
PENDLETON Esther 39
John 40
Juddy 230
Keturah 45 54
Lois 40
Mary 45
Nathan 39
Rhoda 39
Sarah 40
Susan Strachan 254
William 45
Pennie see Penny
PENNIMAN Amos 236
George R. 232
Lucy S. 229
PENNOYER Charles Hunting-
ton 79 xxix
PENNY Pennie
Dorothy 75
John 75
PENTECOST Ernest H. 325
PEPPERELL William Sir 59
63 64 65 68 69 71 95 96 97
98 99 100 101 102 103
PERET Georgiana 153
Jules 153
PERHAM Abby M. 176
PERKENSEN John D. 217
Martha Jane_217
Sophia Caroline 217
Thomas 217
PERKINS Charles Floyd xxix
EUjah 81
Elizabeth 81 235
Frank Elmer (Mrs.) xx
James 320
Janet 182
Lucy 51
Mollie 266
Rebecca 233 235
W. P. 51
W. W. 266
PERLEY Sidney 159 xxv
PERRIN Joseph 73 132
Mary 73 132
PERRY Abel 292
Benjamin F. 149
Emily A. 149
Ezra xlv
Grace xxviii
Lucretia 229
Mary xliv xlv
Matthew Calbraith 301
Rebecca xlv
PERTH Andrew 81
PETERS Elizabeth 40
Evelina Louisa 143
George Boddie 143
James Arthur 143
cxliv
Index of Persons
PETERS cont'd
Mary Elizabeth 188
Thomas McNeal 143
PETERSON Peeterson
Charles Theodore 182
Henry 210
Mary Annie 182
PETTEE Petty
Mary Pierce 185
Nancy 266
Sarah 178
Warren Chester 185
PETTINGELL Frank Hervey
162
PETTIS Georgiana 187
John Henry 187
Petty see Pettee
PHANTRAY Helenora 186
Moses 186
PHILBRICK PhUbrook
Charles G. 148
Eliza M. 148
Mary Eliza xxviii
PHILLIPS PhiUps
Anna Ixiii
Anne E. 152
Annie Maria 222
Edward 152
Jane 236
John 239
Lemuel M. 222
Lulu 262
Mary 145 313
Sophia 235
Timothy 313
William 239
PHIPPEN Abigail 41
Elizabeth 41
James H. 41
Robert 41
PHIPPS Phips
Adeline Osgood 186
Frances Bowman 78 rxix
Lydia Ann 183
Spencer 305
Walter Bowen (Mrs.) xxix
PICKERILL Helen Irene 302
PICiLETT James 222
Mary Ehza 222
Nancy 222
William Sanf ord 222
PICKMAN Benjamin 131
Elizabeth 131
John 131
Mary 131
PIDGEON Henry 228
John 231
PIEMONT John 314
PIERCE Pearce Peirce
— Col. 292
Amanda E. 179
Anne 194
Annie G. 56
Arthur Winslow v vi viii
Arthur Winslow (Mrs.) 322
Charles Frederic 187
Charles M. 179
Dexter Daniel 185
Edward D. (Mrs.) 323
Eliza Jane 188
Ellen Maria 185
Eunice 319
Franklin 270
George 56
Hannah D. 151
Hattie Langley 187
John 194
Lydia 230
Margaret R. 178
Mary 194
Michael 49
Nancy 49
Nicholas 317
Philip D. 178
PIERCE cont'd
Samuel 236
Thomas Dean 239
William 233 274
WUliam Frederick 188
PIERCY William 318
PEERPOKT Samuel 202 210
Pierson see Pearson
PIETY Sarah 136
PIKE — Widow 32
Annis 31
Dai.-id 25
Ebenezer 25 26 27 28 31
Ephraim 26
Jacob 23 24 31
Jane 24
Lemira Avis 186
Mary 23
Mary Ann 184
Nathan 30
Samuel 30
Sarah Young 180
WiUiam Henry 186
PILSBURY Fillsbury Pilsbery
Henry M. 176
Job 35
Katharine 35
Rebecca 313
Sophia 176
PINKHAM Eliza M. 148
PIWNEY Priscilla 303
PITCHER Louise 254
PITMAN Pittman
Benjamin Franklin (Mrs.)
321
William 75
PLATT Ella 190
Herman Eugene 190
PLAYER Carita 259
Eva Frank 258
George Polk 258
James Yeatman 258
LucUe X. 258
SaUy EiUiard 259
Susan Polk 258
Susan Spratt 258
Susan Trezevant 258
Thomas Trezevant 259
PLC ANT Osmond 111
PLUMB Green 13
PLUMBACK Henry 319
PLUNKETT Gertrude 255
POINSETT EUsha 319
POLEEMUS Ella Groat lxxxi.\
POLK see oho Pollock
Abigail 220
Albert 143
Alexander Hamilton 215 257
Alfred 218 220 266
Alice L. 266
Allen Jones 252
Alphonso 139
Althea 267
Amanda 264 266
Amanda >f. 264
Amanda Pauline 263
Andrew 137 218
Andrew Jac'sson 216 259
Andrew Tyler 268
Angelma 143
Ann 134 135
Ann Eliza 226
Ann EUzabeth 267 268
Anna 135
Anna Leah 259
Anne 253
Antoinette Van Leer 259
Belle 261
Benigna 145
Benjamin 219 220
Eeniamin D. A. 219 268
Benjamin F. 269
Benjamin Rulus 270
Bessie 140
POLK cont'd
Betsey 136
Betty 136
Cadwallader Long 252
Caroline 225 259
Charles 133 134 1.35 136 138
139 140 216 217 218 220
Charles Btngley 260
Charles Clark 217 261 262
Charles Edwin 226
Charles Grandison 264
Charies H. 139
Charles Isaac 266 267
Charles James 216 261
Charles Jimius 216
Charles King 270
(iharles Marion 263
Charles Perry 145 226
Charles Shelby 218 263
Charles Taliaferro 261
Charles Thomas 264
Charies Wesley 267
Christian 136
Clara 226
Clarissa 143 224
Clarissa Adeline 220
Cornelia 226
Cornelia Jane 262
Cumberland 220
Cynthia 216
Cynthia Springs 218
David 134 135 136
Deborah 136 138 217
Dehlah 136
Dicy 137
Dorothy Kitchine 260
Dow 261
Drew Smith 267
Drusilla 270
Edmond 136
Edna 269
Edwin Fitzhugh 145
Eleanor 139 140 217
Eliza Eastin 254
Elizabeth 135 136 137 142 218
219 223 264
Elizabeth Allen 264
Elizabeth Ann 269
Elizabeth Devereux 257
Ella Word 267
Ellen 226
Ellen Matilda 226
Elmer E. 270
Eh-ira Juliette 255
Emeline 266
Emily 250
Emily B. 265 "
Emily Donelson 254
Emma M. 262
Emma Octa%'ia 260
Ephraim 134 135
Esther 138
Eugenia 145 226
Evan Shelby 219 269
Ezekiel 133 137 138 139 140
141 145 214 217 219 220
262
Frances A. 255
Frances Anne 254
Frances Devereux 257
Frances J. 261
Frank 266
Franklin 269
Franklin Armstead 219 269
Franklin Ezek-iel 223
George Brevard Mecklen-
burg 258
George W. 139
George Washington 133 138
139.216 217 253 255 258
Georgia 263
Gilbert 250
Griselda 213
Griselda Gilchrist 251
Index of Persons
cxlv
POLK cont'd
Hannah 137 217
Hannah Elizabeth 262
Harry K. 267
Henrietta B. 264
Henry 135
Henry C. 264
Henry M. 139
Horace Moore 260
Iredell D. 267
Irene Deborah 217
Isaac HilUard 259
Isaac Shelby 218
Isabella 266
James 134 135 136 138 139
220
James E. 264
James HiUiard 258
James Irvin 220
James Knox 133 142 221
222 224 226 250 262 2d4
270
James Moore 269
James V. 267
Jane 134 135 136 218 221
250 266 269
Jane Elizabeth 261
Jane Margaret 269
Jane Mana 222
Jency 219 220
Jessie Lee Forest 266
Jimmie Belle 262
Joanna 134
Job 137
John 134 135 137 138 139
140 142 143 218 219 264
268 269
John A. 217
John D. 267
John Hale 262
John Hawkins 215
John Jackson 226
John Kenneth 267
John Lee 223
John P. 139
John R. 264
John Shelby 270
John Thaddeus 269
Joseph 134 135
&te 264 269
Katharine 257
Katie 263
Keziah 138
Laura Weston 223 224
Laurentine S. 266
Lecie Norwood 221
Leonidas 133 215 253 255 256
257 259
Levi 220
Lonzy Frances 270
Louisa 144 226
Louisa Blount 221
Lucia 257
Lucinda Davis 215
Lucius 256 269
Lucius B. 269
Lucius Eugene 215 252
Lucius Junius 215 252 255
259
Ludie Gertrude 267
Lydia Eliza 223 224
Mabel 259
Magdalen 134 135
Maggie 266 269
Mamie 267
Margaret 136 138 139 217 218
Margaret Benigna 264
Margaret Catherine 267
Margaret Emma 261
Margaret Jane 269
Margaret R. 268 269
Margaret Viana 263
MarshaU T. 143
MarshaU Tate 223
POLK cont'd
Martha 135 138 139 218 220
264
Martha Ann 263 264
Martha Hicks 261
Martha Jane 270
Martha Rebecca 261
Martha Washington 139
Mary 135 136 137 138 140
143 216 217 261 262 267
269
Mary Adelaide 250
Mary Ann 252 260 264
Mary Brown 215 253
Mary Cynthia 267
Mary E. 261
Mary Elizabeth 269 270
Mary Ellen 262
Mary Eloise 250
Mary Jones 252
Mary Murfree 258
Mary OpheUa 269
Mary Rebecca A. 216 251
Mary S. 139
Mary W. 220
Mary Wilson 220 225
Matilda Golden 141 219
Matthew 269
Mattie E. 266
Melissa Jane 262
Melvina 219
Michael 138 216
Michael Sandera 262
Minnie 218
Mollie 269
Nancy 134 135 219 263 265
266
Naomi Tate 223
Newton Napoleon 260
Octavia 145
Octavia Rowena 145
Olivia Marbury 225
Ohvia Mary 143
OlUe 270
Ophelia Clarissa 223
Patsy 137
Patty 227
Pauline 145
Peggy 138 220
Perry 226 227
Phebe 139 261
Philemon Hawkins 216
Philopena 138
PoUy 140
Priscilla 134 135 220
Prudence 220
Rebecca 218 219 254 259 260
Richard 220 250
Robert 133 134 135 219
Robert Bruce 270
Robert Green 269
Rufus Julius 252
Rufus King 215 253 258
Sallie Hawkins 258
Sallie L. 258
Sally Moore 215
Samuel 141 142 221
Samuel Walker 227
Samuel Wilson 223
Sarah 135 136 213 216 221
Sarah E. 263
Sarah Evelyn 262
Sarah H. 257
Sarah Henrietta 261
Sarah IsabeUa 268
Sarah Isham 260
Sarah Moore 215
Sarah Rachel 253
Sarah Roach 226
Sarah Robina 269
Shelby 137 140
Silas Gelaspy 267
Sophia 140 226
Susan 136
POLK cont'd
Susan Elizabeth 261
Susan R. 257
Susan Rebecca 255
Susan Spratt 216 258
Susannah 137 139 216
Susannah Amelia Caroline
221
Tabitha 139
Tabitha Josephine 262
Taylor 140 219 220
Thomas 133 136 137 138 141
218 220 250
Thomas Calvin 269
Thomas Gilchrist 215 250 252
Thomaslndependence216260
Thomas James 261
Thomas Jeflferson 221
Thomas Marlborough 226
Thomas Marshall 261
Thomas Richard 260
Van Leer 260
Victoria 265 266 267
Viola Catherine 269
Viola Tranquilla 270
William 133 134 135 136 137
138 139 141 213 220 221
250 254
William Alfred 268
WilUam Allen 264
Wiffiam C. 266
WiUiam Charles 264
William Hale_263
WilUam Harrison 133
WiUiam Hawkins 223 259
WiUiam I. 266
WiUiam Julius 215 216 251
William Knox 218 266
WUliam Mecklenburg 257
WiUiam S. 139
WilUam Vincent 269
WiUiam WUson 142 143 223
WUliam Wood 227
Winifred 137
POLLARD James B. 104
POLLETT PoUitt
Martha 135
Thomas 134 135
POLLOCK PoUok see also Polk
Frances 255
Joseph 134
Magdalen 134
Mary Louisa 148
Robert 134
Robert M. 148
Thomas 255
Zephaniah 135
POMEROY Catherine Boyer
297
Clarissa 297
Samuel W. 297
Samuel Wyllis 297
Seth 59 64 66
POND Dan 92
Jonas 320
Mabel 92
Mene Mene Tekel XJpharsia
11
Samuel 11
POOK WUUam 316
POOL Poole
Elizabeth 313
Esther 138
Galen 180
Lizzie S. 180
Martha 276 283
Nahum 56
Penelope Rowe 185
Rebecca Thomas 56
Return 283
WilUam Henry 185
POOR Clarence Henry (Mrs.)
322
Enoch 46
cxlvi
Index of Persons
POPE Adela Clarissa 144
Alexander 15
Anne (Mrs.) 253
Frances D. 297
John 144
Lemuel xxv
Lydia287
William 287
POPKIN Rebecca 316
PORCH Andrew 81
PORCHER Annie Robert 267
John W. 268
Joseph H. 267
Margaret Isabella 268
PORREDGE Susan ci
PORTER — Col. 134
Adelia B. 153
Benjamin 239
Edward 203 210
Grace 272
Howard Augustus 186
James 150
Jessie Alice viii xxii
John Lyman 325
Joseph T. 153
Lily 266
Magdalen 134
Maria 150
Mary 279
• Meh-ina 219
Noah 239
Samuel 279
Sarah Tompkins ld6
W. D. 266
POTTER Alonzo Ixvii Ixviii
Anne Urquhart Ixviii
Clarkson Nott Ixviii
Cora Ixviii
Edward Tuckerman Ixviii
Eliphalet Nott Ixviii
EUza 151
Henry Codrna n Ixviii
Horatio Ixviii
Howard Isvii Ixviii
Isabel Elizabeth 183
James Brown xxxv Ixvii Ixviii
Joanna T. 179
Joseph lx\-ii
Maria 178
Mary lx\Tii
Mary Ann 187
Mary Louisa Ixvii _
Melinda Carr Ixxvi _
Robert Brown Ixviii
Sarah F. 56
Thomas Webster 183
V. W. 151
POTTS Amanda 266
Edgar Kelson 260
F. F. 260
Horace B. 260
Jane 218
John 218
John J. 260
Kate 266
Laura 206
Lucy 260
Mary Ann 260
ilarj' Octavia 260
Missoni 218
Sumner Aiken 260
Thomas 260
Van H. 266
William N. 260
POULTER EUzabeth 272
POWELL — Capt. 108
Frank 265
Margaret Benigna 265
Robert 76
POWERS Anna 33
John 33
R. F. 151
Rhoda C. 151
Sarah 316
POWNALL John 313
PRALL William (Mrs.) 322
PRATT Charies 146
Daniel 315
David 315
Deborah 280
Dorray 312
Eliza Ann 175
Harden de Valson (Mrs.) 237
Henry Leprellet 185
John T. (Mrs.) 323
Jonathan 280
Joseph 314
Juliana 183
Mary 230
Sarah 146
PRAY Benjamin S. 56
Frances Motley 56
James Sturgis 56
PREBLE George Henry 101
Prence see Prince
PRENTICE Prentiss
— Capt. 67 101
Caleb 315
Ebenezer 232 317
Jonathan 20
Keziah 284
Mary Elizabeth 180
PRESCOTT Prescot
Ebenezer 23
Joseph 23
■Rllliam 292
PRESSER EUse 252
Theodore 252
PRICE Amanda M. ISO
Amy A. 181
Emanuel 180
Ezekie! 313
Fanny B. 268
Ivie xxix
James H. 181
Mark Cordier (Mrs.) 77 xxix
Maud M. 323
Sterling 142
PRICHARD A. H. (Mrs.) 325
PRIDE Absalom 43
Huldah 43
Polly 43 52
PRIEST Hannah 295
James 295
PRINALE Charles 81
PRINCE Prence
Anna Storer 297
Martha 313
Thomas xlv
William Edgar 297
PRTNDLE Asa 153
Catherine 153
Charles 81
PRIOR 143
Hannah M. 177
Keziah 133
Martha S. 189
01i\-ia Mary 143
PRITCHETT John C. 269
Sarah Robina 269
PROSSER Maria Louise 186
PRYON Susannah 216
PUCKETT Clemmie 263
PULLEN Benjamin King 261
Minerva Anner 261
Minnie Fisher 261
PUTNAM Eben 292 xx
Israel Ixi
James 239
QUARITCH Bernard 162
QUINBY Henry Cole xxxvii
Isaac 164
Phebe 163 164
QTJINCY Josiah Ixxxiii
Mar3- Perkins xii
Thomas Dennie xxv
QUINT Isabella 8. 50
QUINTARDIFrances 251
RACKIT Absalem King 210
Hannah 210 .ri^:$^f,<*-^tM *
RACKWOOD — Capt. 95 ■'^~r;
RADCLIFFE ElizabethiWUls
Vernon 325 r ^T^r^j
RADDIN Betsey 313
William Augustus 323
RAGSDALE Lulu 216
RAND AbigaU 317
Ann 319
Anna 287
Caleb 236
Hannah 236
Mary 18
Sarah 23G 315
Thomas 287
RANDALL Randal
Eliza 269
Freelove 185
Joseph 239
Mary Jane 180
RANDERSON Je£Ery£Howard
ix xiix .3Si« C '
RANDOLPH Eleonora Wayles
271 299
Martha 299
Samuel F. 47
Thomas Mann 299
RAWEY Aurora McClellan 263
Rannels see Reynolds
RANSOM Ransome
Albion 210
CUrk 210
Daniel L. 79
Sabrina 210
RAPE John 216
Martha 217
Mary E. 217
Susan P. 217
Susannah 216
W. Clark 217
RATHBONE Rathbun'£Rath-
bum
Amanda M. 179
Anna R. 323
Calvin Wheaton 188
Elizabeth Aldrich 188
RAWE Judith 111
Thomas 111
RAYRea
Ann Crenshaw 261
Ann Elizabeth 262
Daniel 315
George W. 261
Ida Cornelia 262
MarshaU Gaines 261
Mary Jane 262
Mary Louisa 262
Nelle Elizabeth 155
Samuel Turner 261
Susan EUzabeth 261
Tabitha Belle 262'i
RAYlYlOliD Edward 33
Hephzibeth 33
Ursula A. 197
RAYNE Josephine Elizabeth 78
viii
RAYNER Anna W. 216
Eliza 216
Eugenia 216
Fanny 216
HamUton Polk 216
Henry A. 216
Kenneth 216
Lulu 216
Mary 216
Sally Polk 216
Susan Polk 216
Susan Spratt 216
William Polk.216
Rea see Ray
Index of Persons
cxlvii
READ Reade Reed Reid
Abigail 210
Alden M. 48
Annie E. 179
Annie Wadsworth xxix
Benigna Ellen 145
Carrie A. 180
Charles Clarence (Mrs.) xxix
Charles French 154
Charles Henry 145
Charles R. 153
Charles Whitney 182
Daniel 232
Elizabeth 319
Emma Louise 190
George 146
George (Mrs.) 156
George H. 152
George W. 177
Helen M. Ixvii
Henry 187
Henry Beecher 78 vi x
Henry R. 179
Ida Menage 187
Isabel Farris 187
James Crownover 145
John 239 277 278
Jonathan 210
Joseph 210
Josephine V. 153
Lydia 317
Maria 48
Mary 145 278
Phebe 210
Sampson 312
Sarah Ann 144
Sarah J. 152 177
Susan H. 182
Susannah 232 314
Tabitha 146
Thomas 306
William W. 180
REDFORD Henrietta Polk 261
Leonard Warren 261
Lucy Jane 261
Moncure Warren 261
REDING Mary 235
REDSTONE Vincent Burrough
vii
Reed see Read
REES Arthur FrithjoflE (Mrs.)
78 xxix
Martha xxix
REEVE Louise Tanner 77 xxix
Reid see Read
REXLEY Frances 224
REMEGAN Elizabeth Margaret
xci
REMINGTON Caroline A. 178
John 318
William E. 178
REMSBERG Charity Malvina
249
Elton Elsworth (Mrs.) 249
RENNY Ebenezer 80
■ Medad 80
RENSHAW Ann 135
John 135
REVERE Jane Minot 300
Silence 231
REYNOLDS Rannels Reynold
— Capt. 46
Ann jjiii
Cassius 220
Jane Minot 300
John 130
John Fewell 325
John Phillips 300
Lydia xliii
Margaret 184
Manon H. 160
Mary 251
Mary Elizabeth 188
Mary Emma 183
REYNOLDS cont'd
Sarah Newstep 220
Theresa 300
William xliii
William Gardner 188
William Henry 183
RHINELANDER Mary Eliza-
beth 302
RHODES Rhoades
Elizabeth 316
Love 320
Lydia E. B. 184
Moses 234
Sarah 180
Riall see Royall
RICE — Rev. Mr. 28
Aaron 30
Adonijah 30 31
Anna Maria 291
Annie Cleveland civ
Benjamin 31
Copia21
Ebenezer 24
Eliakim24
EUjah 18 20 22 23 24 25 27
Ellen M. civ_
Emerson xxii
Franklin Pierce xix xxiii
Hannah 297
Henry 32 291
Huldah 19 22
John T. civ
Joseph 25 30 276
Josiah 22
Lettice 27
Lois 22
Lucy 26
Luke 28
Maggie Sophia 185
Maria 291
Martha 276
Mercy 276
Rachel 286
Samuel 19 24 26
Sarah 32
Seth286
Shepherd 31
Silas 21 22
Simeon 29
Susannah 25
Tryphena 23
Wilfiam 233
William E. (Mrs.) 322
Zebulun 19 22 23 24 25 28 29
30 31
RICH Eliza L. 229
Elizabeth 115 130
George 160
Jonathan 160
Tabitha 146
RICHARDS Richard
Agnes xlviii
Dorothy 293
Eliza S. 146 319 ..
Eva Douglas xciii
James 293
John Christopher xciii
Mary 293
Mary Elizabeth xciii
Sarah 149
Thaddeus 293
Thomas 130
RICHARDSON — Capt. 95
Abijah 150
Albert Jarvis 187
Amanda M. 180
Anna 314
Azubah 31
Caroline 150
Celia F. 146
D. F. 217
Eben 293
Ebenezer B. 234
Edward 325
RICHARDSON cont'd
EUen M. 149
Emily Amanda 187
H. H. 298
Hannah M. 150
Henry H. 146
Isabella 149
Jonas 31
Joseph 103 105 109 110
Josiah 150
Martha 48
Mary 232
Mary E. 148
Otis Weld (Mrs.) 322
Peter 48
Relief 33
Rhoda 293
Sarah Brackett 301
Susan P. 217
Thomas 33
William Streeter vi vii viii xix
RICHMOND Edmonia 223
Edward 223
Evelyn Louisa Ixxx
Harold Anthony Ixxx
Harriet E. 177
Lydia Eliza 223
Sampson G. 177
RICKETSON Sarah Howland
85
RICKFORD Margaret Ann 179
RIDEOUT William 113
RIDER Ann Maria 148
William 277
RLDET William 118
RIDGWAY Nathaniel 318
RIGGAN Ellen EUzabeth 226
S W 226
RIGGS' David 80
RIGHTER Emma Louise 165
166 174
RILEY Anna Margaret xii
RING Ringe
Frances 257
Frank W. 257
Martha 184
Mary 37
Oliver 34 37
RIPPIER Alfred Charles (Mrs.)
77 xxix
Anna C. 160
Anna Frances xxix
RITCHIE William J. xlii
RIXFORD George 146
Sarah A. 146
ROACH Catherine 218
William 218
ROBB Anna 236
ROBBINS Robins
— Capt. 67 102 104
Anne Jean 297
Daniel 21Q
Elisabeth 210
Elisha S. 210
Eliza W. 231
Elizabeth 272
Ezra 210
George 228
Henry 210
John 210 228
Martha N. 210
Mary 289
Mary Eliza 300
Nathaniel 289
Phyllis 322
Rebecca 320
Richard 272
Ruth 210
Sarah 297
Sarah Jane 51
Solomon 232
Susan 19 210
Susannah 22 233
Thomas 316
cxlviii
ROBBmS cont'd
W. R. 51
Robbinson see Robinson
Roberson see Robinson
ROBERT-FLEURY Joseph
Nicolas butvi
ROBERTS Andrew J. 175
Ann 134 135
Benjamin 239
Edward 134 135
Eliza 226 319
Francis 134 135
George 147
Jane B. 189
Jessie 255
Joseph 239
Louisa 147
Mark R. 143
Mary Eliza 143
PrisciUa 134 135
Sarah J. 175
Thomas 239
Robertson see Robinson
Robins see Robbins
ROBINSON Robbinson Rober-
son Robertson
A. (Mrs.) 77
Ada Byron 184
Albert Green 185
Alonzo (Mrs.) xxix
Bradbury 228
Chloe 56
Elizabeth F. 182
Emma Jane 182
Fayette S. 182
Gain 56
George D. 4
George J. 175
Harriet Hanson xii
Henry A. 149
Henry Harrison 182
Joseph 239
Lydia 229
Margaret xxix _
Margaret Sophia 56
Rebecca F. 149
Sarah Frances 185
Sarah Hyacinth 224
Sarah Jane 55
Sarah L. 175
William Bunker 184
ROBY Amanda 153
Joseph 315
Sarah 317
ROCKEFELLER Almira
Geraldine xci civ cv
Christina xc
Eliza xc
Elsie cv
Emma xci
Ethel Geraldine xci
Godfrey xc
Godfrey Stillman cv
James Stillman cv
John Davison xci
John Peter xc
John Sterling cv
Lucy xc
Percy Avery xci
Peter xc
"William xxxv xc xci civ
William Avery xc cv
William Goodsell xxxvii xci
xciiciv cv
ROCKWELL Anna EHza 187
Azel 210
Chauncey 210
Joseph Henry 187
JuUa 210
Lathrop 210
Olive 210
ROCKWOOD Mary Frances
188
Rodgers see Rogers
Index of Persons
RODMAN Mercy 50
Robert 50
ROGERS Rodgers
115 122
— Mr. 114
Bradlee 321
Daniel 274
Edwin A. (Mrs.) 156
Frank B. 226
Grace 272
Harriet L. 180
J. Ferdinand 226
John 274
Louise Matilda 226
Mary 226 291
Mary Ruth Channing 291
Nathaniel 274
Olivia Polk 226
PrisciUa 274
Robert 291
Samuel 274
Samuel T. 321
Wilmot Polk 133
ROHRMANN Julianna Caro-
lina 181
ROLAinj 53
Charlotte M. 53
ROLF Samuel 318
ROLT Thomas 118 119
ROOSEVELT Theodore 7 260
Ixxjtiii
ROQUEFEUILLE Roquefeuil
Elizabeth Margaret xci
Jean xci
ROSS Rose
Hannah 44
Harriet Paine Ixxxiii
James 239
Jonathan 13
Rachel Ixxv
Sharon 13
Thankful 39 42
ROUND J. Horace xxi
ROUNSVILL Irene P. 178
ROUNTREE George 250
Meta Alexander 250
ROtlRKE Margaret 188
ROTTSE Rous
John 62 63 65 66 68 95 96 97
99 102 105 110
Sally 296
ROWAN Mary F. 231
ROWLAND Asahel 210
Hannah 210
Jane V. 210
Lynde 210
Mary Ann 210
Samuel 210
Susan Y. 210
Susannah Y. 210
ROYALL RiaU Royal Ryall
AUce 75
Cicely 75
Dorothy 75
Gregory 75
John 75
Margery 75
Mary 75
Richard 75
William 118 119
ROYLANCE Elizabeth 178
ROYSE E. M. 50
RUGGLES Mary 313
RUMRILL Rumrell Rumril
Elizabeth C. 148
Nancy 146
Sarah 313
Sarah Elizabeth cv
William 146
RUNNELS Jason W. 269
Mary 269
Mary Elizabeth 269
RUOFF Emma M. 180
Jacob 180 i
RUPP Adam 321
David R. 233
RUSSELL Abel 160
Albert B. 237
Anna 292
Arthur J. 160
Delia 180
Dinah 236
Emma C. 58
Frances Ann 184
George F. 58
Hannah 283 292
Henrietta T. 176
Henry 176
John Lord lii
Jonathan 277
Josiah M. 147
Martha 160
Mary 189 230 277
Mary Ann 184
Robert 262
Susan M. 147
Sylvester Warren 184
Tabitha Belle 262
Thomas 107 283
William 160
William H. 241
RUST Hannah M. 150
RUTHERFORD Jane 219 222
John 219
Ryall see Royall
RYAN Charles H. 149
Mary E. 149
RYON — Capt. 108
SABIN Deidamia xliv
Jeremiah xliv
Mary Holland 287
Susannah xliv
SADD Happy 13
SALISBURY Evelyn McCurdy
SALTER Elizabeth 233
Mark 191
Mary 210
SALTON George 81
SALTONSTALL Eleanor
Ixxxiv
Endicott Peabody Ixxxiv
Leverett IxTTJi Ixxrn'i
Ixxxiv
Leverett (Mrs.) 238
Mary Elizabeth Ixxxiv
Muriel Gurdon Ixxxiv
Nathaniel Ixxxii
Richard Ixxxii Ixxxiv
Richard Sir Ixxxii
Richard Middlecqtt xxxvi
Ixxxii Ixxxiii Ixxxiv
Richard Middlecott (Mrs.)
156
Rose Smith Ixxxii Ixxxiii
SALVERT de 97 109 110
SAMMIS George W. 153
Harriet J. 153
SAMPSON Edith 76
Emily 148
Henry 77
Jane 76
Joan 76
John 76
Katharine 76 77
Maria 313
Mary 76
Richard 76
Susan 76
Theodore A. 148
William 76
William T. 252
SANBORN Abby Wilder 184
Sanders see Saunders
SANDERSON Abia 286
Anna 232
Hannah 287
Index of Persons
cxlix
SANDERSON cont'd
John 287
Mabel Rutledge 174
SANDES Anna Gene 183
SANFORD — Capt. 110
Martin 180
Sarah 180
SANGER Charles R. (Mrs.) 156
SANTA ANNA Antonio Lopez
268
SARGENT Sargeant Seargent
Sergeant
Alice Loring viii
David 177
Elizabeth Ixxv
Elizabeth Little 296 302
Frederick LeRoy 56
George F. 56
Holmes 233
Horace Binney 296 302
Lois 231
Lucius Manlius 296 302
Marian Appleton 296 302
Mary 296 315
Mary Ann 177
Mary Motley 56
Nellie Pray 56
SATTERLEE Horace 53
Melissa R. 53
SATTERTHWAITE Thomas E.
241
SAUNDERS Sanders
269
Albert Bruce 270
Alice 54
Bruce 270
Cener Boon 270
Charles Burton 270
Collister 270
Daniel 37
Drusilla 269
Elizabeth 312
Emma 185
Isabel Malvin 270
John Simcoe xli
Keturah P. 54
Lutie 270
Mary 270
Mary E. 178
Mary Elizabeth 269
Mediline 270
Nathaniel Lee 270
Peleg 54
Sarah 178 314
Sarah Elizabeth 189
Thomas 61 62 63 65 66 68 69
98 99 104 106 168
Thomas B. 178
Viola Tranquilla 270
SAVAGE Enoch T. 51
IsabeUa 147
Nancy Catherine 51
SAVERY Savary Savory
Alfred William xliv xlv xlvi
xlvii
Ann xliv
Deborah xliv xlv
Deidamia xliv
Edna xlvii
Ef5e Howe xlvii
EUza Theresa xlvi
Elizabeth xliv
Elizabeth Crookshank xlvi
Henry Phipps Otty xlvii
John Howe xlvii
Olive xliv
Sabine xUv xlv
Thomas William xlvii
Nathan xliv
Samuel xliv
Uriah xUv
Thomas xliv
SAVILLE Huntington (Mrs.)
322
Savory see Savery
SAWIN Elizabeth 278
John 278
Munning 272 278
SaUy 314
Sarah 278
SAWYER 295
Aaron 19 24 26 27
Abigail 24 27
Amariah 28 _
Caroline Iviii
Catherine 295
Charles H. 189
Edna S. 189_
Ellen M. xxi
Florence EmeUne Iviii
George Augustus xxivii Ivii
Jabez Augustus Ivii
Joseph 28
Joseph Dillaway 242
Lillian Iviii
Louisa Maria 185
Mary 235
Mary Cummings xii xiii xiv
Pamae 26
Sarah Caroline Ivii .
Susan York 146
SAXTON Arabella E. 153
Charies G. 153
Elizabeth 275
SAYE AND SELE Fiennes
William Viscount of Ixxxii
Sayer see Sears
SAYLES Frank A. (Mrs.) 321
Laura C. 178
SAYWARD Jonathan 63
SCALES John 159
SCANLIN Frances E. 151
SCHAYER George Frederick
189
Julia 189
SCHENCK Catherine W. 153
SCHIEFFELIN Edward L. 210
SCHIFF Adele Gertrude xlviii
Jacob Henry xlvii xlviii
Ludwig xlviii __
Mortimer xlvii
Mortimer Leo xlviii
Philip xlviii
Therese xlviii
SCHMITT Albert Felix (Mrs.)
156
SCHOONMAKER Elizabeth
152
Schreve see Shreve
SCHUYLER Campbell Valen-
tine 190
Sarah Tryon 190
SCOTT Anna 181
Caroline 158
Ebenezer W. 146
Emily L. 181
Henry Ixxix
Henry Edwards 77 154 163
237 321 V vi vii xvi xlvii
liv Ivii
James 239
Martha Ixxix
Mary Anna 184
Mary Annie 182
Phebe A. 153
Sarepta 146
Stephen 158
Thomas 239
Ursula Ixxix xciii
Walter 181
William Henry 184
SCRTBNER Melvina W. 179
SCRUGGS Jemima 224
SEAMANS Seamens
Maria Amelia 152
Mary Jane 57
Seargent see Sargent
SEARS Sayer
Annie L. 155
Eleonora Randolph 302
Frederick Richard 302
John 211
Lena 263
Marian 302
Mary P. 155
Richard 211
Sarah 211
SEAVER Seavier Sever Sevier
Aaron 19
Abner 18 20
Alice 75
Ann 56
Callice 75
Daniel 29
Ebenezer 289
Ethon 28
Hannah Wilder 20
Isaac 27
Jesse 20
Joel 20
John 75
Lucy 20
Margaret 75
Manane 75 126 127
Martha P. 147
Mary 126
Mary Elizabeth 149
Mary Louisa 183
Norman 27 28 29
Presley 75
Reynold 75
Richard 75
Sarah 289
Thomas 75
WUham 75 125 126 127 147
SEAVEY Belle Augusta viii
Seavier see Seaver
SEELEY Abraham 81
William Graydon (Mrs.) 237
SELBY Abraham 81
William 234
SELLECK Mary Ann 153
WilHam H. 153
SELLERS Edwin Jaquett 159
SELOVER Cynthia xci
Sergeant see Sargent
SERGEL Charles H. ix
Sever see Seaver
Sevier see Seaver
SEWALL SeweU
Caroline Ward Ixxxvi
Edmund Quincy Ixxxvi
Louisa Kilham Ixxxvi
Samuel 192 311
Stephen 129
Theodore Lovett Ixxxvi
SEWARD Benjamin 319
Catherine 230
Sarah 228
SeweU see Sewall
SHACKFORD Samuel Bumham
vii
SHARP B. F. 269
James 269
Lousetta 268
MoUy 269
SHATTUCK Samuel Tyler 182
Sarah Elizabeth 182
William 272 273 274
Shaue su Sheene
SHAUGHNESSY Alfred
Thomas 253
Elizabeth 253
Sarah Polk 253
Thomas Bradford 253
SHAW Abby Wilder 184
Alice White xxxv c
Barbara 50
Eleanora Ixxiv
Emily Harris 183
Henrj' Southworth (Mrs.) 237
cl
Index of Persons
SHAW cont'd
Job 183
John 184
1/Ouis Agassiz Ixxxiv
Marian 302
Mary Elizabeth Ixxxiv
Rebecca Tubbs c
Sarah 231
Tamzine 315
Theron Vinson c
Walter Keith (Mrs.) 237
Sheane see Sheene
SHED Shedd
Charles Levi 78 1 60 xxix
Mary 228
Miriam Symonds 160
Nathan 274
SHEENE Shaue Sheane
Richard 111 113 122
SHEETS John W. (Mrs.) xc
SHEFFIELD Sheffeild Sheffeld
Sheiffeild
Amos 190 191 192 194
Ann 193
Anne 194
Betsey 51
Catherine 194
Daniel 193
Deborah 193
Edmund 190 191 192 193
Edward 192
Elizabeth 191 192 193 194
George 191
Hannah 193
Humphrey 191 192
Ichabod 190 191 192 193 194
Isaac 193
John 193
John Duke of Buckingham
see Buckingham Duke of
Joseph 193 194
Martha 193
Mary 191 192 193 194
Matthew 193
Nathaniel 193 194
Rachel 193
Samuel 193
Sarah 192 193 194
Susannah 193
Thomas 192
Thomasine 191 192 193
William 190 191 192 193 194
SHELBY Catherine 139
Eleanor 139 217
Evan 139
Isaac 139
Isabella 139
Isobel 263
James 139
John 139
Letitia 139
Martha Washington 139
Mary 137 139
Moses 139 263
Reese 137
Sarah 263
Sarah Ellen 263
Susannah 139
Thomas 137 217 263
SHELDON Addison E. 162
EUsabeth 211
Elisha 211
Esther 42
Mary 211
Samuel 211
Thomas 211
Wilham 42
SHELLEY Mary WoUstone-
craft liii
SHEPHERD Shephard
Amanda 264
Ben A. 264
Ellen Ixv Ixvi
SHEPHERD cont'd
Lucy Ixvi
Mary Ann 186
Resin Davis Ixvi
William 289
SHEPLEY George L. 161
John R. 298
Julia 298
Mary A. 298
SHERBURNE Sherbum
— Capt. 108
Eleanor Maria 186
Elizabeth 235
SHERIDAN Catherine 181
SHERIFF Mary 194
Thomas 194
SHERIVE Elizabeth A. 151
George 151
SHERMAN — Mr. 25
Charles Henry 180
Charles Pomeroy 160
Charles Wesley 267
Elizabeth civ
Grace 272 273
John 160 272
Lucy Maria 180
Martha 272
Sarah Waite Ixxv
Thomas 160
W. B. 267
William Tecmnseh 256
SHIMMIN Thomas 320
SHIPMAN — Mr. 101
SHIRLEY— Mrs. 109
William 59 60 64 70 96 99 102
108 109
SHOTTER Isabel Eagles 250
Spencer 250
SHREVE Schreve
Mattie Belle 251
SHURTLEFF EUza 298
Emily Franes 188
Isabella 298
Lathrop Bowers 188
Samuel Atwood 298
SHUTE Daniel 314
Ebenezer 232
Jeremiah M. 41
Lydia 232
Mary 41
Sarah 228
Thomas 319
SIDERS George 316
SIGOURNEY Sigoumy
Elisha 290
Eunice 236
John R. 312
SILL Sills
Azubah 211
David 211
David F. 211
E. M. 211
Elizabeth 211
Emeline Matilda 202 211
Enoch 211
Hannah 211
Henry M. 211
Hephzibeth 211
John 202 211
John L. 211
Joseph 202 211
Kenneth C. M. 161
Lucy 211
Mary 211
Mehitable 211
Nat 211
Phebe 202 211
Richard 211
Ruth 211
Sarah 201 211
Sarah G. 211
Silas 201 211
Thomas 211
Z. 211
SILLING A. L. 216
Susan Polk 216
Sills see Sill
SILSBY Silsbee
Emily Fairfax 300
Thomas Julien 79 vii
SIMMONS Simmonds Simonds
Symondes Symonds
Edward ciii
Eliza Grace xcvi
Elizabeth 288
Emeline Bridge x xii
John 306
John B. 319
Marguerite Augusta 188
Mary 40 xcvi ciii
Mary Elizabeth ciii
Samuel xcvi
William Henry 188
SIMPSON Abigail 231
Nancy 229
Sims see Symmes
SINCKLER Edward Goulbum
XXXV xcii xciii
Edward GriflSth xcii
Eva Beatrice xciii
Eva Douglas xciii
Henrietta Briggs xcii
James xcii
James Wilham xcii
SITGREAVES John 251
Martha 251
SIVRETT Sivrete
Catherine L. 234
Charles M. 236
SKAGGS Mary 270
SKEEL Benjamin 33
Sarah 33
SKELTON Skiltoa
Joanna 320
Martha 299
Mary Ixxxviii
Samuel Ixxxviii
SKIPWITH Frances Devereui
257
Frank 257
Kate 257
Pe>ton H. 257
SLADE Margaret Bromfield
156
SLAUGHTER John Albert 267
Katharine Priscilla 267
Ollie 267
Thaddeus 267
SLOAN Clarence Reuben
(Mrs.) 77 xxix
Helen Comwell xxix
SLOCUM Amanda M. 180
Anna 42
Nancy T. 179
SMALL Betsey 147
Catherine 231
John 239
Stephen 317
SMALLEY Asenath 186
William Francis 186
SMELLEDGE Jeremiah 314
John 236
SMITH — Dea. 158
Abby M. 211
AbigaU 212 319
Adeline 147
Albert J. Sir xlii
Alfred Polk 267
Ahce 49 318
Alice Louise xxix
Almira L. 146
Andrew H. 148
Ann Elizabeth 267 268
Anne 267
Annie Eldridge 190
Annie Isabel 185
Annie Maria 187
Annie May 268
Index of Persons
cli
SMITH cont'd
Bemgna268
Benjamin E. 267 268
Betty 267
Bland 267
Byron John 268
Caroline 148
Caroline D. 177
Catherine 33
Catherine M. 147
Ceria M. 185
Charles Polk 268
Charlotte S. 152
Christina Rowlson 183
Daniel 272 274
David 239
Ebenezer Uxi
Edward 239
Edward S. 152
Eliza Ixxi
Eliza J. 175
Elizabeth xcix
Ellen 183
Ellen Eliza Congdon 185
Emma Margaret 267
Esther 33
Eunice 196
Eva Tyus 267
Flossie 265
Floyd K. (Mre.) ix
Frances Bowman xxix
George Malone 268
Gussie Evaline 268
H. Augustine 155
Hannah 274
Harriet 233
Harriet L. 146
Helen xcvi
Henry 33
Henry David 185
Henry L. 313
Ichabod 211 212
Ina 267
Irene Quimby ex
James Silas 267
Janie Elizabeth 268
Jefferson Appleton 183
Jimmie Kate 267
Joab 22
John 24
John E. 42
Jonathan 230
Joseph 63 98 101 107 196 316
Julian Pearce (Mrs.) xcvi
L. Hohnan 267
Latham 211 212
Livingston H. 211
Lois 211 212
Lousetta 268
Lucinda 212
Lucy Ann 188
Margaret Isabella 268
Mana A. 229
Marlin Rocelius 267
Mary 151 280
Mary A. 152
Mary Ann 42
Mary E. 267
Mary M. 180
Minerva Ari-ner 261
Molly 33
Moses 22 24
Nabby 212
Nancy 222
Nannie M. 267
Nathaniel 212
Olive Randall xxviii
Phineas 33
Robert Benjamin 268
Robert Ezekiel 182
Ruth 212
Sally 212
Sarah 18 212
Sarah Adelaide 182
SMITH cont'd
Sarah Amanda 181
Sarah H. 150
Sarah Isabella 268
Sarah L. 175
Sarah Wayland Ixxi
Sibyl 186
Simeon C. 161
Stonewall Jackson 267
Theodore Lincoln (Mrs.) 77
xxix
Thomas 47
Thomas Huntington 268
Tolbert Tyus 268
Walter H. 151
Warren 33
William 212 236 239
WiUiam G. 187
Zeruiah 212
SMITHITRST Joseph 60 66 96
SMITHWICK Francis C. 314
SMYTHERS — Capt. 96
SNELL Fanny 149
Nancv J. 181
SNELLiNG Jonathan 61 63 66
101 103 106
Rebecca 312
SNOOKE Snook
John 111
Martha 75
SNOW Abby L. 148
Annie E. 179
Levi F. 148
Mary 235
Simeon 232
SOMES John 236
SOPER 40
Sylvia 40
SOSSMAN Charles Francis 267
Charles Wesley 267
SOULE Sherrod xxiii
SOULLEYET Emily Julia 152
SOUTHGATE Napoleon B. 146
Polly 146
SOUTHWORTH Abigail 212
Charlotte 177
Consider A. 150
Samuel 212
Serena 150
Spafford see Spofford
SPALDING Daniel 146
Dora 156
Francis R. (Mrs.) 156
Julia M. J. 146
SPANGENBURG — Bp. K
SPARHAWK Nathaniel 63
SPARROWE Robert 306
SPEAR Ann Eliza Bradlee
Ixxxix
David 318
Eleanor 236
Hannah 321
Jason 313
Jonathan 236
Nathaniel 316
SPENCER Emily D. 52
James N. 52
Maria Hayes 177
Virginia 266
SPICER George Thurston 154
Peter 325
SPILLMAN EUza Polk 254
Robert Scott 254
SPOFFORD Spafford
Adelaide Grafton 185
Alvah Ames 185
Harriet Moore xl
SPOOrfER Amelia Margaret
187
Joseph Henry 187
Martha 276
Peter 276
Rebecca 276
SPRAGtJE Sprage
295
Abiah xcix
Albert Arnold 299
Amy Ann 178
Elizabeth 314
Elizabeth Penn 299
Lydia Rose 185
M. P. 177
Martha 319
Nancy Ann 299
Philinda 177
Phineas Warren 154
PoUy 295
Rachel 233
Sarah 318
Stephen 233
SPRAKER Hazel Atterbury 82
James R. (Mrs.) 82
SPRATT Susannah 137
Thomas 137
SPRY — Capt. 109 110
Stacey see Stacy
STACKPOLE Frederick
Dabney (Mrs.) 156
STACY Stacey
Anna 33
- Nathan 81
STANDISH David 239
Myles 79 V vi viii xvii xix
STANFORD EUzabeth 33
Richard 33
STANTON Fanny L. 148
Hannah 320
John 312
John L. 148
Mary L. 148
STANWOOD Ethel vii
STAPLES Annie Hubbard 190
Joseph Cady 190
STARR Comfort 303
John 303
Joseph A. 152
Peter 285
Sarah 303
Susan A. 152
STARRET Margaret 229
STARRY Nathan 81
STEARNS Anna 280
Benjamin 59 65 231
Dorothy 293
Eunice 234
James Pierce xxxv
John 280
Jonathan 315
Mary 276
STEDMAN Spencer 152
Sylva D. 152
STEELE Sarah L. 51
STEERE Emma Frances 183
George 183
STEITZ Louisa A. 152
Stephens see Stevens
Stephenson see Stevenson
STETH Bassett 251
Mary 251
STETSON Stitson
Eliza Jane 177
Fanny 315
Lucinda W. 152
William M. 177
STEVENS Stephens
Abbot Ixx
Alice Nichols xxxvii Ixiv
Caroline Ixx
Charles Abbott Ixiv
Charlotte Emeline Ixviii Ixix
EUsha 241
EUza Ann 146
Elizabeth 233
Fanny 144
Francis 239 "
George Ixix
Harriet Ixix
clii
Index of Persons
STEVENS cont'd
Helen 300
Helen Granger 300
Henry James 300
Horace N. Ixix
IsabeUa 235
Jonathan Ixix
Jonathan Tyler Ixiv
Julia West Ixiv
Lucy Amelia Ixx
Maria Ixiv
Maria Tyler bdv
Moses Tyler Ixviii btix
Nathaniel Ixix
Oliver Ixiv
Robert 239
Samuel Dale rxvii X2xv Ixviii
Ixix Ixx
Susannah Ixix
Tyler Abbott Ixiv
STEVENSON Stephenson
— Capt. 106
Elizabeth 147
Elizabeth Stranahan 159
Helenora 186
Henry Joseph vi
James 239
Martha Ixxxix
Walter Briant (Mrs.) 159
Ixxxix
WilUam 239
STEWART Steward Stuart
Alexander 212 Ixxxv
Amanda 217 _
Amherst Ixxxiv
Daniel Ixxxiv
Duncan Ixxxiv Ixxxv
Edward Amherst Ixxxv
Elizabeth 212
Francis Marion 217
George 217
George Sawin xxxvii Ixxxiv
Ixxxv
Gilbert 79 xxiii
James Ixxxiv
John Brigham Ixxxiv
John Heckman Uxxv
Katharine Ixxxv
Margaret Ixxxv
Manon Ixxxv
Martha Ehzabeth 217
Mary Alice Ixxxv
Nancy Abigail Ixxxiv
Robert 239
Solomon Ixxxiv
Thomas Carlisle Ixxxiv
STIBBS Agnes 72 73
Ann 72 113
Edith 72 113
Eleanor 72 113 127
Margaret 113
Richard 73
Susannah 113
William 72 73 113 125 126 127
STICKNEY Frances C. 175
Ira 175
William Wallace 303 v xv
STILES Hosea B. 146
Sarah 146
STELLMAN Abigail 53
Ann E. 53
Anne Urquhart Ixviii
Braddock 53
Elsie cv
James cv
James Alexander lx\-iii
Sarah Elizabeth cv
Welcome 51
STILSON Abel 158
Rebecca 158
STILWELL Mary 261
STINSON John 70
Stirling Alexander William
Earl of 137
Stitson see Stetson
STODDARD Abishai liv
J. 290
STOKELEY Rachel 252
STOKES Grace M. 322
STOLL John 184
Katharina 184
STONE — Capt. 63
Albert 50
Betty 29
David 239
Ebenezer 281
Eliza T. 182
Esther 29
H. Amanda 178
Hannah 317
Harriet Adeline 186
Harriet Hodges xii
Helen V. 178
Hephzibah 275
Isaac 29
Isaiah 289
Jason Prey 186
Jonathan 275
Judith 289
Juliana 185
Lyman 178
Martin 293
Mary 276
Mary Ella 186
Moses 318
Rachel 29
Rebecca 233
SaUy 293
Sarah 50 278
Simon 274 276
William Eben (Mrs.) 238
STOKER Margaret 283
Nathaniel 81
STORM Cora Elizabeth xxix
John T. (Mrs.) 77 xxix
STORROW Edward Cabot
(Mrs.) 156
STORY Nathaniel 81
Sarah A. 188
STOSCK JuUa 189
STOWELL Emma Clara
Ixxxviii
Fanny Chandler Ixxxvi
Hannah 289
Israel Ixxxvi
Jacob Ixxxvi
Joel Ixxxvi
Samuel Ixxxvi
Sylvester bcxxvi
William Averill Ixxxviii
William Henry Harrison
xxxvi Ixxxvi Ixxxvii
STRATTON Abijah 292
Eunice 287
Hannah 287
Jabez 281
John 274 285 286 287
Joshua 282
Man' 285 286
Mercy 2S2 287
Solomon P. (Mrs.) 322
Tabitha 280
STRAWBRIDGE James 136
Jane 136
STREATOR Helen Gertrude
xxix
STRETET John 130
STRICKLAND Mary Amanda
217
Williamson Parks 217
STRODE John 76
STRONG Edward Angell
(Mrs.) xxii
George Alexander (Mrs.) 237
STROUD Horetta E. 189
Lincoln B. 189
Stuart see Stewart
STURGIS StuTges
Edward Ixi
Hannah 317
John (Mrs.) 323
Mary Fuller xxix
STURTEVAWT Mary 322
SUKEN Ann 307
Rowland 307
SULLIVAN Hannah 234
Harriet 179
James 241
James William xxxviii
SUMNER Charlotte 314
Nathaniel 314
Rebecca 230
SUMPTER Mary Wardlow 225
Volney Edward 225
SURETTE Thomas Whitney
Ixiii
SURRATT Ehzabeth 227
SUTER John Wallace vii
SUTTON George 81
Maria A. 189
William H. 189
SWAIN Charles D. 150
Eliza S. 150
SWALLOW Susan Eliza xxix
SWAN — Capt. 63 65 65 6S
CUfford Melville 323
George 316
Helen Palmer 57
John 314
Maggie Sophia 185
Paul 57
Prudence 318
Thomas 185
SWANTON — Mr. 116
SWASEY Augustus C. 147
Sarah Ann 147
Sylva D. 152
Sweet see Swert
SWEETLAND Louisa 187
SWEETSER Jacob 291
John 291
Margaret 291
Phebe 231
Sarah 291
SWETT Sweet
Charlotte 296
Elizabeth 297
Elizabeth Boyer 296
Ehzabeth Little 296 302
Everett Leprilete Lxxvi
Gideon Ixxvi
Henry Ixxvi
John Ixxvi
John Barnard 296
Joseph Coolidge see Joseph
Swert Coolidge
Leprilete Ixxvi
Lucy Bliss Ixxvi
Lucy Carpenter xxxvii Ixxvi
Susan Heard 297
Tasker Hazard 296 297
Thomas Ixxvi
William Bourne 297
SWIFT Ann Maria xxvii xxxv
Anna 317
Edward Foster xxvii
EUjah 317 318
Grayce Undena Eliza xxviii
John 239
SWINK George W. 224
OUvia Polk 224
SWOR Anne 267
SYDAM Elizabeth 152
John R. 152
SYMMES Sims Symms
Betty C. 267
Hannah 131
Mamie 267
Rebecca 17
Richard 131
T. WiUiam 267
Index of Persons
cliii
I
J
SYMMES cont'd
Thomas 17
Symondes see Simmons
Symonds see Simmons
T ABB Augusta T. 222
TATT Charles Phelps xvii
Celestine 187
Jesse 187
John Ailes xxix
Lucy Malvina 188
Susan E. 56
Susan H. 55
William Howard 6 7 247
TAINTER Taintor
C. Sumner xcviii
Elizabeth 288
Eyres 288
TALBOT Eliza Ixiv
Emily xxxvi Ixiv
George Ixiv
Peter Ixiv
Sophia Gleason Ixiv
William Chaloner bdv
TALCOTT — Capt. 67 107
TALLEY Eliza Martin 224
Emily 224
Martin 224
TALLMAN Mary 194
TALMADGE Daniel 81
TANDY Nancy 219
TANNER Nancy Catherine 51
Oscar 51
TAPLEY Elvena S. 147
TAPPAN Toppan
David 319
John 90
Mary 90
Samuel 90
TAEBOX Susan Waters v vii
TASKER — Col. 134
Barbara 134
Magdalene 134
TATE Florence 156
TAYLOR Abner 223 224
Abner Cunningham 224
Adelaide 55
Amanda Pauline 263
Andrew 224
Ann Elizabeth 224
Annie M. 224
Anthony 22
Benjamin Franklin 224
Beulah 18 23
Charles 55
Clarissa 224
Clarissa Sarah 224
David 19 21 25 26 27
David Cottrell 188
Ebenezer 19 23
Eleazer 19 22 23
Eliza Martin 224
Esther 25
Frances 224
Frank 224
George S. 189
Hannah 18 19 22 26 231
Harold Murdock 155
Hasadiah 19 21
Henry R. 146
HoUowell 25
Imogene Adelaide 188
Isaac 20 224
James P. 181
James S. 266
Jane Elizabeth 224
John 25 26
John Adam 224
John Jackson 224
John Lewis 224
Laura Thressia 224
Laura Weston 223 224
Louisa Barker 55
Lucy 27
TAYLOR cont'd
Margaret 136
Mary 23 26
Man' Caroline 224
Mary Eliza 224
Mattie 266
Nathan 20
Olivia Berry 224
OUvia Polk 224
Rebecca 44
Rebecca Williams 224
Samuel 44
Sarah 19 21
Sarah Jane 223 224
Sophronia 181
Sophronia D. 189
Susan Alexander 224
Susan York 146
Thomas Le Roy 224
William 263
William Polk 224
Zachary 216 243
Zillah 26
TEALL Teal
George 267
Margaret Jane 269
Mary 228
Oliver 160
Ollie 267
Rebecca 267
Wyatt F. 269
TEFFT Sarah Frances 186
TEMPLE Aaron 29
Abigail 20
Ahio28
Amos 21
Annis 27
Benjamin 20 21 22 23 25
Damans 25
Elizabeth 29 31 32
Ephraim 25 26 28 29
Ezra 26
Francis 25
Henry John Viscount
Palmerston see Palmerston
Viscount
Isaac 20 21 25 26
James 316
John 26
Jonas 25 26 27 28
Loami 29
Lucy 20
Mary 25
Olive 25
Pama 30
Persis 28
Sarah 21
Solomon 20 23
TiUey 22
Timothy 30
Vital 318
Zebadiah 25
TEMPLEMAN John 297
Mehitable 297
TENNEY Charles A. 179
Emeline P. 179
Mary 160
TERRELL Sanford 180
Sarah 180
TEWKSBURY Maud B. 323
THACKERAY William Make-
peace liii
THARP Anne Bridget 183
John William 183
THATCHER Amelia Elizabeth
xxLx
John Sturtevant (Mrs.) 79
THAYER Abraham 19
Charles Edward 182
Elizabeth 183 230
Henry 19
John 242
Mary 231 Ixxix
THAYER cont'd
Micah 234
OUver 58
Rachel L. 58
Rebecca Oliver 58
Sarah 230
Sarah Margaret 182
THOMAS— Col. 141
Eben Briggs (Mrs.) 77 xxix
Edward 316
Elias 315
Gershom 81
Helen Gertrude xxix
Henry 240
IredeU D. 266
James 240
John 313
John Jenks (Mrs.) 237
Louisa 188
Ludie Gertrude 267
Lydia xliii
Mary 39 153 267
Mercy Maria 186
Murray B. 267
Penelope 266
Thomas Fred 153
Victoria 266 267
William 314
THOMASSEERE ET TREVIG-
NAC Charette Guillaume
de Seigneur de la 259
THOMPSON — Capt. 105
— Col. 140
Albert 190
Anthony Ixi
Charles Curran Ixii
Charles O. Ixii
Charles Stockbridge Ixi
Clara Ixi
Ebenezer xxxvii Ixi l.xii
Elijah 81
Ehsha 81
Eliza 176
Eliza Josephine xxviii
Eunice 39
Freelove V. 45
George E. 176
Howard Goodell 154 xxix
John 48 bd
John Ebenezer Grosvenor Ixii
John R. 230
Joseph Ixi
Julia Emily bui
Lina 190
Martha 228 _
Paul Stockbridge Ixii
Rockmary 80
Rosana 80
Sarah 177 298
Susan H. 48
Thomas 60
William 39 214
THORNDIKE Albert (Mrs.)
156
Alden Augustus (Mrs.) 155
Augustus Larkin xxx^vii Ixxi
Ixxii
Cora Ixxii
Grace T. Ixxii
James l.x.'d
John Ixxi
Larkin Ixxi
Louise Ixxii
Paul Ixxi
Sarah Wayland Ixxi
Townsend William Ixxii
William Henry Ixxi
THORNTON Ebenezer 286
Edward Sir xUi
EUzabeth 286
Experience 281
John Wingate cvii
Lizzie Bennett 186
Susan 260
cliv
THORNTON cont'd
Timothy 281 286
THORON Ward (Mrs.) 156
THRASHER Arnold 176
Delia F. 176
THTJRBER Caroline 179
Eleanor 185
Louise Frances 184
THURSTON Frances 295
George 44
Lucy 42
Susannah 44
TIBBETS Tibbitts
Caroline P. 152
Emeline D. 177
TIDD Mary ciii
TroDEMAN Richard 67 96 104
TIER Martha 55
TttDEN Frances 235
Hannah 297
James 229
Louisa 296
Louisa Riche 297
Nathaniel Ixi
Rebecca K. 233
Robert L. 233
William 297
TILESTON Annette 151
Ebenezer 233
Elisha 289
Elizabeth 289 290
Lemuel 314
TILEWOOD Sarah ISO
TILGHMAN CaroHne 291
TILLEBROWN Thomas 62
Tn,LEY Carrie A. ISO
Edith May viii
Elizabeth civ
John Graham 152
Maria Amelia 152
TILLINGHAST Philip 106
TH-LISON DeHa ISO
Lyman M. 180
TILLMAN John Christopher
240
TILLOTSON Betsey M. 212
Charles I. 212
Ira 212
TIMBLE Eunice 236
TINKER AbigaU 212
Achsah 212
Almira 212
Amos 212
Hannah 212
Jemima 212
Jonathan 212
Joseph 212
Lucretia 212
Mary 212
Mehitable 212
Nancy E. 212
Nathan 212
Nehemiah D. 212
Patience 212
Reuben 212
Roxana 212
Samuel 212
Seth 212
Stephen 212
Tamer 212
TITMASH Nathaniel 228
TITUS Anson 238 vii x.w
TODD Hannah Trecothick
Austin 291
John 316
Reuben Jones 291
TOLLES Julia H. 177
TOLMAN Betsey 147
Desire 18
Hewett 147
TOLMAP Daniel 81
TOMBS Mary 302
TOMPKINS George 233
TOOGOOD Anna 114
Index of Persons
Toppan see Tappan
TORCK Catherine 181
WilUam Henry 181
TORREY Alice White xxxv c ci
Elbndge c ci
Harriet c
Joseph c
l8SilWfa^%°°'^=-"
Amos 40
Arthur French xxv
Edwin Chester Ixxxii
Ezra 233
Margaret Uxxii
Mary 40
TOWNSEND Achsah 31
Eliza Ixxi
Esther 236
Jabez 318
Joshua 25 26 30 31
Lucy 30
Mary 26
Mary E. c
Reuben 25
TRACY David D. 55
Eleanor St. Barbe Ixxxix
Keturah Mary 55
TRASK Addie Lucy 187
James 316
James W. 152
Martha C. 152
Ruel Mills 187
Susan F. 149
William Blake Iv
TREADWAY Lydia 279
TREFETHEN 105
TR^LYAN George Otto Sir 1
TRIPP John 245
Phebe 245
TROTTER Mary Eloise 250
Richard 250
TROWBRIDGE Mary 285
Sarah 285
William 285
TRUE Marj' 314
TRUMAN Nathan Elbert 77
xxix
TRUMBULL Trumble
— Miss 143
Frances 235
TRYON Charles 0. 189
James 158
John 188
Lucinda 158
Martha S. 189
Mary Elizabeth 188
Rowld 130
WilUam 140 214
TUCK Sarah Jewett 301
TUCKER Anna 297
Atherton Iv
Betty 264
Ebenezer Iv
Isabel Farris 187
Jonah 80
josiah 80
Lucy W. 150
Manasseh Iv
Mary Elizabeth Iv
Mmnie Seabury 187
Robert Iv
Ruf us Stickney 93 xx
William Iv
William Odbur 187
Zapthali 80
Zephaniah SO
TUCKERMAN Edward 290
Martha 234
TUDOR Frederic (Mrs.) 156
TUFTON Anna 229
TUFTS L. C. 228
Mary 83
Peter 83
Samuel 319
TULL Martha 135
Richard 135
TULLER Walter Melvin 77
XXIX
TURNER Charles 177 235
Clara B. 254
Elizabeth K. 177
Emory S. 57
Helen 237
Marie 57
Mary 318
Mary Ann 151
Sarah S. 230
Thomas 240
Warren Marion Waite 151
Tuthil see Tuttle
TUTON Harvey 46
Jane 46 47
William 46 47
TUTTLE Tuthil
Asia 212
Barnabas 212
Hezekiah 81
Hoy 81
Ichabod 80
Jecobed 80
Lazerus 80
Lucius 80
TWOMBLY Beulah A. 146
James F. 146
Joseph Q. 149
Phebe 147
Susan F. 149
WilUam C. 147
TYDDESWELL Ann 307
Dennis 307
TYLER Barrett Prettyman
(Mrs.) 322
Bert Albert (Mrs.) 323
DeUlah 136
EmeUne Bridge x
George S. 175
Heruietta S. 153
John Ford (Mrs.) 237
Maria Ixiv
Mary J. 179
Mary L. B. 175
Nelson F. 153
Orlan 230
TYNG Edward 60 61 65 97 103
109
TYRON Huldah 245
UNDERHILL Lora Altine x xii
UNDERWOOD Mary 313
UPHAM Emma Frances xxxviii
URQUHART Cora lx%-iii
David lx\'iii
USHER Edward Preston xxv
UTLEY Paris Turner 224
Susan Alexander 224
Susan Carter 224
UTTER G. B. 51
Welcome 51
VAa Vaile
Alfred 164
Alice Benjamin 78 xxix
Alonzo 165 174
Davis 163 164
Davis Righter 165 174
Emma Louise 165 166 171
174
Henry Hobart xxii
Jeremiah 163
John 163
Katharine Louise 174
Lewis 164
Louise 174
Mabel Rutledge 174
Index of Persons
civ
VAIL cont'd
Mary 170
Phebe 163 164
Stephen 163 164
Theodore Newton 163 164
165 166 167 169 170 171
172 173 174 175 xcviu
Thomas 163
VALENTINE Nancy 176
Valkenbury van see Van
Valkenbury
Valley le see Le Valley
VALPEY Joseph 242
VAN ALLEN Ann 47 48
Cornelius 47 48
VAN BRUNT Lydia 151
VAN DAVETTE Anna 264
James 264
VANDAWATER EUza 151
VANDERBILT Cornelius xci
VANDERBOGART Mabel 259
VANDERGRIFT Ann 262
Peck 262
VANDERPOEL 41
VANDERSICKLE Laura S. 269
VAN DORN Earl 252
VAN HAMEL — Mr. 231
VAN EJRK Charity 245
VAN KORTRYK Bastian 82
VAN KUREN Eliza C. 51
VAN LEER Rebecca 259
VANSANT Hattie 263
Mantell 263
VAN VALKENBURY John 182
Mary Ann 182
VARIAN Charlotte 181
VARNUM Eleanor 230
VASSALL Nancy 312
VAUGECAN Bertha H. 156
VEAL Michael 41
Susaimah 41
VEAZIE Beulah 234
VENCHNER Joseph 314
VENN John 77 xxvii
VERNON David F. 212
Edward 212 213 282
Frances 212 213
Henry S. 213
VERSTILLE William 320
VESEY Ann EUza 226
EUen Elizabeth 226
M. L. 226
VETTIRCKE Aurelia J. 153
Frederick G. 153
Theophil 153
VIALL Cassius Eugene 188
John 234
Mary Ellen 188
VICKARY John 107
Roger 107
VILES Jonas 228
VINCENT Benjamin 230
VTNNING Samuel 317
VOAX Sarah 295
VOLLINTINE Thomas 235
Von Mettemich see Metternich
VOSE Isaac D. 320
Nathaniel Morton (Mrs.) 322
Peter 315
VOTAW Heber Herbert (Mrs.)
249
Phebe Carolyn 249
VOWERS Elizabeth Melissa
xcvi
John Andrew xcvi
Viola xcvi
WADDINGTON Alexander 217
Alexander Green 217
Amanda 217
Campie 218
Catherine 218
Charles William 217
Hannah 217
WADDINGTON cont'd
Jane 217
Jenny 218
Louisa 217
Martha Elizabeth 217
PoUy Ann 217
WADE Azubah 213
Dan 213
Elihu 213
George 213
Harriet c
Phebe 213
WADLIN — Capt. 63 95
WADSWORTH Harry xxii
WAINE Benjamin 313
WAINWRIGHT John H. 234
WAITE Wait Waitt
Abby M. 211
Ann E. 177
Annette 151
Charles W. 213
Ebenezer 230
Eliza 320
Elizabeth 84
Frances Ann 213
Frederick William 213
George Chapman 213
Hannah 233
Hannah Maria 188
Henry 213
Hephzibeth 20
Jason 21
John 21
Joseph 213
Mary 213
Mehitable 213
Minnie Seabury 187
Nathan 315
Nathaniel 213
Nathaniel M. 213
Remick 211 213
Susan 211
Susannah 213
Thomas T. 177
WUbor B. 151
WAKEFIELD Ebenezer 281
Experience 281
WAKELING Jane 307
Richard 307
WALDO Samuel 69 97
WALDRON Mary btxix
WALES Wayles
Atherton 231
Martha 299
WALFORD DeUa 183
WALKER xliii
Abigail 284
Adelaide Pauline xxix
Alexander see Tandy
Alice Ixxi
Amelia bud
Andrew Jackson 223
Annie Maria 222
Augusta T. 222
C«lestine 223
Charles Ixx
Charles S. 159
CjTUS Ixv
Eleanor T. 222
Eliza Ixv
Emily xxxvi Ixiv
Emily Pope Ixv
Ezekiel 2S4
George Leon Ixx
George W. 316
Hannah 18
Hezekiah 19 21
James 87 222
James Hayes 222
James Martin Ixv
Jane 219 222
Jane Clarissa 222
Jane Maria 222
Jency 219 220
WALKER cont'd
Joel 220
John 219 222 229 234 Ixx
John G. (Mrs.) 156
Joseph Knox 222
Leonard Ixx
Leonidas Polk 223
Lucius Marshall 222
Maria Ixx
Mary 220
Mary Eliza 222
Mary Orme 250
Mary Vance 250
Nancy 219
Nathaniel Ixx
Ophelia Lazinska 223
Phineas Ixx
Rachel 21
Richard Ixx
Robert Burns (Mrs.) xxix
Samuel Ixx
Samuel Polk 222
Sandy see Tandy
Sarah Naomi 222
Sarah Newstep 220
Sophy 222
Susan Willcox 223
Susannah 228
Sylvester 220
Talbot Cyrus Ixv
Tandy 219 220
Thomas D. 250
WilUam 219
WUliston xxxvii Ixx Ixxi
WALL Brune 269
James 232
Kate 269
WALLACE Wallis
Alexander 240
Elvena S. 147
Frances lone Abbe xii
Hugh 240
James 240
Rachel 230
Robert 240
Ruth 41 42
Samuel 233
WilHam O. 147
WALLER WoUer
Mary Edwards 225
Matthew 213
Wallis see Wallace
WALTER Walters
Julian Hazelhurst 155
Laura Elizabeth xxviii
WALTON S. (Mrs.) x.xii
WANDELL Jane 47 43
Samuel 47 48
WARBURG Felix M. (Mrs.)
xlviii
WARD — Capt. 95, 108
Ann Jane xxxviii Ixxxviii
Catherine 33
Daniel 30
Esther Humphrey Ixxxviii
Francis Jackson Ixxxviii
Hattie 263
Jonas 25 26 28 30 31
Julia 263
Lucretia 28
Mary E. 149
Nabby 151
Nahum Ixxxviii
Polly 31
R-.-.fus 25
Ruth Fe'ton Ixxxviii
Sarah 285
Susan Ixxxviii
Tnaddeus 26
WARDEN Worden
Clarence Ixxv I.xxvi
Dora Pope 160
Eleanor Cotton v viii Ixxvi
Eleanor Ixxv
clvi
WARDEK cont'd
Francis lixv
Gideon 43
Harriet Eleanor bcxvi
Harriet Hatch Ixxv Ixxvi
John Ixxv
Lucy 42
Lydia Susannah Ixxv
Mar>- 38 39 42
Phebe 43
Rachel Ixxv
Sarah Bridge Ixxv
Thomas Ixxv
William Francis xxxvii Ixxv
Ixx^-i
WARE Hannah 148
WARIKG Catherine W. 153
Selleck W. 153
WARKER Eben 50
EUzabeth 320
Margaret 50
Mary 188
Robert L. (Mrs.) ix
Samuel lxxvii_
Samuel Martin 188
WARREN — Mrs. 109
Charlotte EUzabeth Ixxxii
Daniel 2S7 Ixxx Ixxxi
Deliverance 287
Edward R. (Mrs.) 237
Elisha Ixxxi
Elizabeth 287
EHzabeth P. 176
Esther M. 180
George W. 152
Henrietta Gladding 187
John 274 Ixxx Ixxxi
John Collins xxv
Lucinda W. 152
Margaret Ixxxii
Mary A. Ixxviii
Nathan xxxvii Ixxx Ixxxi
Ixxxii
Nehemiah kxx Ixxxi
Nicholas 111
Peter 59 67 68 69 71 96 97 98
99 100 101 102 103 104 107
110
Richard Ixi Ixxxi Ixxxii
Sally k.YX Lxxxi
Samuel Demiis (Mrs.) 156
William 234
WASHBURN Washboun
Bowen 80
Bowers SO
Charles Grenfill Ixxxiii
Diana P. 149
Esther \nnton 237
George W. C. 149
Sally 293
Sarah Isabella 302
WASHINGTON George 46 203
214 251 326
WATERS Watters
215
Henr>' FitzGilbert 72 305 306
Marv 312
WATKINS AUred Bacon 265
Amanda M. 264
Edward Shennan 190
Eudora 265
Frances .Amelia 190
Tames Y. 152
Jane EUza 152
Jennie 265
Jesse 265
Jesse Allen 265
John Polk 265
Julia xx\Tii
Laura 265
Lorena 265
Mary Elizabeth 265
Morphia 265
Richard Gi-erton 264 265
Index of Persons
WATKINS cont'd
Robert Smith 265
Walter Kendall 18 vii xxi
William Archibald 265
WATSON EUzabeth 233
Henrietta S. 153
Jenny 218
Mary E. 181
Nancy 321
Thomas A. 168 xcvii xcviii
Thomas Russell (Mrs.) 322
WiUiam H. 181
WATTEROUS EUsabeth 213
Isaac 213
Watters see Waters
WATTS Harriet 57
Sarah 230
Susan 223
Susan Willcox 223
Thomas 223
WAY Rhoda 13
Wavles see Wales
WEAVER Edward H. 236
Lydia 53
WEBB EmeUne D. 177
Martha 217
Mary Eastin 253
Rachel EUzabeth 177
Sarah 84
Tnomas S. 253
WiUiam 114
WiUiam W. 177
WEBBER Gushing 151
EUen L. 151
EUen P. 146
John Whiting 78 xxix
Samuel Gilbert xxii
WEBSTER Andrew G. (Mrs.)
237
Catherine Augusta ISO
Edwin Sibley (Mrs.) 156
EUza T. 182
Emeline P. 179
EmUy Franes 188
Harriet E. 177
Jesse K. 182
WEDDINGTON Melissa Jane
262
PoUy 262
William 262
WEEKS Arnold Noble 323
Eunice Maria 292
Warren Bailey Potter (Mrs.)
156
WilUam A. 292
WEtKEL Henry H. (Mrs.) ix
WELCH Welsh
Clarissa 229
Kezeldah 229
James 313
Martha 231
Mary J. 189
Patrick 235
Robert 313
WELD Hannah 234
WELDON Richard 320
WELLINGTON WiUington
Dorcas 230
Margaret 229
Mary 273
Rebecca 293
Roger 273
WELLS Abby 51 147
Betsey 51
Charles 147
Charies H. 237
D. Lee 51
EUza 229
Frederic Palmer 242
Herbert J. (Mrs.) 323
James 51
Lucy 51
Lydia kxix
Ursula 318
WELLS cont'd
Welcome 51
William 51
WELMAN James 27 28
Joshua 28
Martha 28
Welsh see Welch
WENDELL Mary 314
WENTWORTH Benjamin
Ixxiii
EUzabeth J.. 153
Ezekiel Ixxiii
Frances C. 175
Hannah M. 150
Hunt Ixxiv
Isaac 317
John Ixxiii Ixxiv
Joseph Ixxii Ixxiu
Lizzie Shaw Ixxiv
Marcia Aim 53
Martha P. 147
Moses Jones xxxvi Ixxii
Ixxiii
Nancy L. 53
Orson 53
Paul Ixxiii
Samuel Hidden Ixxiii
Sarah Payson Ixxii
William Ixxii
WERTENBAKER Thomas J.
82
WESER Mary 317
WESLEY Charies 264
Clementine 181
DeUa A. 177
Joseph N. B. 178
Laura C. 178
WEST — Capt. 63 64
Amelia EUzabeth xxix
Amy A. 181
Benjamin 1
Charles 235
EUzabeth Ixiv
Hannah 229 Ixiv
Isabel Spencer 183
Joel 52
Lemuel 213
Mercy 39
Prudy 213
Samuel Ixiv
WESTCOTT John 43
Susan 43
WESTERVELT Eunie M. 189
Frank H. 189
WESTON Robert Dickson v vii
viii xvi xxi xxiii xxiv
Robert Dickson (Mrs.) 237
WETHERBEE Agnes 190
Fred T. 190_
LiUian xxviii
WHARTON Mary 254
Nathan Earl 325
Nina Legge 325
William 254
WHEATLAND Richard (Mrs.)
156
WHEELER Aaron 20
Abner 56
Arthur D. Uv
Betty 20 -
Caroline 56
Emily 146
Ephraim 19 20 22 23
Estella Elizabeth liv
Helen 237
Ithamar 23
Joseph 290
Laura Ann 150
Marguerite 290
Mary 231
Roxana S. 176
Timothy Uv
WHEELOCK Abel 232
Abigail 2S4
Index of Persons
clvii
WHKELOCK cont'd
Eleazer 284
Mary 284
Patty 227
WHEELWMGHT William
Bond 241
WHIPP Catherine 213
Mary Susan 213
Simon 213
WHIPPLE Amanda M. 175
Lucy Maria 180
Marion B. 179
Mary 276
Otis 175
WHISTON Emeline E. 314
WHITAKDR Edward 240
WHITCOMB Asa 295
Bainbridge A. 180
Isabella F. 176
Mary M. 180
WHITE Wight Wite
Abby42
Abigail 53
Alice Brackett 301
Barnett 217
Benjamin 235
Bethia 236
Charles Tallman 301
Daniel 240
David F. 51
Delano 155
Delia F. 150
Emma Story xii
George Robert cv xxxv
Gertrude R. 237
Harriet 179
Harriet J. 150
Harry Kidder 161
James 32
James T. 150
Jane 179 217 xciv
Jemima 282
John 240 282
Joseph Foster (Mrs.) xxii
Joseph Harvey 79 vi xxxiv
Leander 179
Mary xcvi
Mary Ann 184
Mary Elizabeth 51
Maxson 42
Orinda I. 150
Patrick 320
Peregrine Ixiii
PoUy 43
Robert 63 102
Samuel L. 150
Sarah Brackett 301
Sarepta 146
Susan 182
Webb Bogart 323
WHITEFDELD George 62
WHITEHEAD Louisa Blount
221
Nicholas 221
Whitemore see Whitmore
WHITFORD Amelia E. 178
Benjamin civ
Eliza ciii
Elizabeth civ
George A. 178
WHITING Sabra J. 317
WHITLEY Mary 47 48
William 47 48
WHITMAN Abigail 316
Allan Hiram 77 xxix
Elizabeth Coombs 190
George Henry 190
William xxv
William (Mrs.) 322
WmTMORE Whitemore
Whittemore Wittemore
Ann 40 46
Charles Octavius Ixxxvii
Esther 232
WHITMORE cont'd
Frances M. 147
Francis 320
Grace T. Ixxii
Hannah 29
Joseph 213
Molfy25
Oliver H. 147
Sarah 41 46
William Henry Ixxxvii
WHITNEY Daniel 20 22 31 232
285
Dorothy 285
Elizabeth 287
Frank xxxviii
Hannah 23
Israel 285
James 277
Jane 32
Job 19 24
Jonas 31
Lucy 30
Mary 230 233
Mary Kemball 232
Moody 313
Peter 30 31
Sarah 22 317
Silas 32
Timothy 30
William 23
Whittemore see Whitmore
WHITTHORNE Eliza Joyce
142
Jarvis 142
Matilda Jane 142
Washington Curran 142
WHITTLE Amanda 153
J. T. 153
WHITTON Sarah Tompkins
186
WHITWELL Frederick Silsbee
(Mrs.) 322
WICKHAM — Capt. 105
WIDDICOMB William xxxv
WIGGIN Alice bcxvi ii
Andrew Ixxyii
Chase Ixxvii
George Winslow xxxvi Ixxvii
Ixxviii
Mary A. Ixxviii
Mehitable Ixxvii
Richard Ixxvii
Sarah Ixxvii
Thomas Ixxvii
WIGGLESWORTH Edward
279
Mary 279
Michael 279
Rebecca 279
Wight see White
WIGHTMAN Jane 179
William Henrj' 179
WILBUR Freelove 185
George Warren 185
Job 186
Josephine Augusta 183
Sarah Frances 186
WILCOX Willcocks Willcox
43
Benajah 44
Desire 44 45
Dorvil Miller xxxv Iviii lix
Edna S. 189
Edward 36
Hannah 36 42
Henry Iviii
Jehiel IviU
Mary 43
Nathaniel Iviii
Stephen 37
Susan 223
Susannah Iviii
Walter F. 322
William A. 160
WILCUTT Catherine Lewis 49
Miriam Gushing 49
WILD Wildes
Betsey 295
George A. 190
Minnie Mildred 190
Nancy 289
WILDER John G. 175
Ruth 175
Wildes see Wild
WILEY Harriet Adeline 186
John Abbott 186
Oliver 218
WILKINS Wilkin
Edward 240
Ora xxviii
WILKINSON EUen 148
John G. 148
PhiUp 60
WILLARD Elisabeth 32
Joseph cvii
Susan Maria 183
Thomas 32
Willcocks see Wilcox
Willcox see Wilcox
Willes see Willis
WILLEY WilUe
Christian L. 313
Eliza 233
WILLIAMS Abby Sophronia
183
Anne 143
Caroline 150
Caroline D. 177
CaroUne M. 179
Charles 150 xcvii xcviii
Clara B. 254
David 321
David S. 177
Drusilla 270
Eliza Polk 254
Elizabeth 135 136
Elizabeth S. 149
Emily Donelson 254
Emily Polk 254
Fanny 235
Franklin 149
Hannah M. 150
Hattie 145
Henry H. 315
Henry Yeatman 254
Isaac 38
James E. 39
John 136 _
Joseph Minnick 254
Julia M. J. 146
Louise 254
Lucius Polk 254
Maria 150
Marion F. 178
Martha 317
Mary 33 38 135 136
Mary Ann 208
Mary Ehzabeth 149
Nancy 39
Nannie M. 254
Priscilla Shelby 254
Rebecca 43
Roger 244
Sarah 131
Sheldon 179
Thomas 208
WilUam Fenwick xlvi
WILLIAMSON Grace 85 160
Gustavus Adolphus 182
Harriet Shade 182
John 240
Joseph 85
Mary Jane 153
Sarah Howland 85
William Cross 85
WiUiam Durkee 85
Willie see Willey
Willington see Wellington
VOL. Lxxvn.
26
clviii
Index of Persons
WILLIS "Willes
Grace 84
Joseph A. 179
Melvina W. 179
Thomas 118
WILLISTON Hephzibah B. 319
Joanna 316
Joseph 318
Margaret Ixx
Manalxx
WILLOWBV Ann 113
WILMARTH Elizabeth Jose-
phine xii
WILMOT Wilmott
xlii
Elijah 80
Elisha 80
WILSON A. D. 47
Alexander 240
Amity 319
Andrew Chalmers (Mrs.) 78
xxix
Harris 47
James Jay 156
John 143 240
Lillian M. 240
Margaret 140
Mary 140 143
Mary Fuller xxix
Mary L. 317
Rebecca Amanda 144
Robert Sir 140
Samuel 140
Thomas 240
Violet 140
Wn-T Mary Ann 152
Win see Winn
WINCH— Mrs. 29
Achsah 31
Benjamin 29
David 23 26
Elizabeth 33
James 31
Rachel 23
Sarah 31
Silence 19 24
WINCHESTER Mary H. 224
Ruthie Elizabeth 186
Selwj'n Curtis 186
WINN Win
Anna 33
Aurora McClellan 263
Betty 263 264
Charles 252
Charles Wesley 263 264
Elizabeth liv
Emma 263
Henry Oscar 263
Jennie Drusilla 263
John Henry 262
John Thomas 263
Julia 263
Mary 263
Mary Ann 263
Mary Polk 252
Nellie 264
Rhoda 31
Sarah Evelyn 262
Savilla 262
Wilham 31 33
WUHam Clark 263
WINSmPJoshua 317
WINSLOW EmeUne T. 175
Jean 140
Leonard 175
Mary 140
Moses 140_
Sarah Louisa 150
WINSOR 101
Albert Corliss 186
CaroUne F. 181
Eliza Ann 183
Joseph S. 181
Mary Ann 186
WINSOR cont'd
Samuel 244
WINTERS Mary Ray 237
WINTHROP Frances Maria
297.
Grenville Temple 297
John Ixxxii
Susan Heard 297
WIRT Caroline 225
Catherine 225
John 225
WISE AVyse
Francis Octavius 58
John 106
John Francis Henry 58
Rachel Thaver 58
WISENER Ehza Joyce 142
WISWALLWisweU
Enoch 316
Joseph 314
Priscilla 313
Sarah A. A. 149
Wite see White
WITHERBEE Sarah 23
WITHERELL Carrie Eliza 181
Mary Emma 183
Naaman Wallace 181
WITHERS Mary Arm 149
WITHINGTON Susan M. 147
William R. 318
WITT AbigaU d
Dwight ci
Emily Susan ci
Wittemore see Whitmore
WITTENBERG Joseph W. 151
Lydia A. 151
WITTER Georgetta Barton xi
WOESTE Louise 257
WOLCOTT Roger 59 98 99 101
WOLFE Wolf Woolf WouKe
Annis 308
Cornelia EveljTi 217
Edward 308
Emily xlix 1
Hilliard J. 217
John Lewis 1
Lewis 1
Margaret 1
Phebe 261
Virginia 217
William Constantine 217
WOLFRES John 75
Woller see WaUer
WOOD 282 292
Benigna 145
Benigna DurJap 145
Betsey 236
Catherine 319
Charles 23 24
David 84
Drury 145
George xxvii
James 145
Jonathan C. 234
Keziah 276 282
Margaret 234
Margaret Farmer Ixiii
Mary 84
Mary Morton 145
Matilda 145
Ruth 84
Stephen 23
William Henrv 145
WOODBURN Mari' Ann 177
Rhoda Adams 55
Robert 55
WOODBURY Lori Altine x xii
WOODEN EHjah 81
Elizabeth 81
WOODHOUSE Harriet J. 150
John V. 150
WOODIE Marj- 192
Richard 192
•WOODISSE Ebenezer 27
WOODISSE cont'd
Edward 27
WOODMAN Benjamin 40
Daniel 40
Lucy 40
Lydia 40
•WOODS Harriet A. 176
Jessie AUce %'iii
WOODWARD Eliza J. 177
Freeman J. 177
John 231
Martha Louise xxviii
Woolf see Wolfe
WOOLLEY Ella 190
Wooster set Worcester
WOOTTON Wooten
Isabella li
Thomas V. 154
Thomas Whiting U
WORCESTER Wooster
Davis 240
Louisa 213
Louisa Cecelia 213
Nathan 80
Nathaniel 80
Sarah Caroline Ivii
Sylvester 213
Worden see Warden
WORMLEY Eleanor T. 222
WORSLEY Benjamin Franklin
184
Kate Grace 184
WORTHEN Hannah 147
Nelson 147
Woulfe see Wolfe
WRIGHT Wrighte
135
Abel 307 308
Alice 307
Ann 306 307 308
Anna C. 150
Annie Hubbard 190
Annis 308
Anthony 306 307
Elizabeth 307
Frederick E. 150
Hellin 308
Henry 308
Jane 307
John 306 307 308
Julian 308
Margaret 307
Mary 306 307 308
Phebe S. 188
Phineas 315
Rachel 307
Rebecca 306 307 308 310
Richard 306 307 308 310
Samuel 286
Susan 306 308
Susannah 307
Thomas 135 308
Tobias Alexander 324 326
WYETH Hephzibah 293
Jonas 293
Lucy 293
WYMAN Benjamin Ixxxi
Elizabeth R. 175
Ezekiel320
Hannah Ixxxi
Hezekiah 315
JuHa A. 148
Sally Ixxx Ixxxi
Thomas Bellows 85
Wj^e see Wise
YATES Nancy 151
YEATMAN Henry Clay 253
Jennie Bell 254
Lucia Polk 254
Mary 254
Mary Brown 253
Mary Eastin 253
Russell Houston 254
Index oj Persons
clix
rEATMAN confd
Trezevant Player 254
YEAW John Warren 185
Minerva Ann 185
YERiUNTON Ana Maria 188
YORK Albert Duke of 249
Anna 38
Stanton 38
YOUNG 128
— Capt 107
Ann A. 180
D. (Mrs.) 228
Elizabeth 111 128
YOUNG cont'd
Elizabeth C. 148
Ellen Jane 151
George 148
George W. 152
Hannah 147
James 111 128
Maggie 227
Mary 227
Mary Ann 152
Mary J. 189
Nancy 146
YOUNG confd
Rebecca 147
Roy Leighton 227
Samuel 119
Sarah 184
Sarah Frances 302
Tandy Key 227
WiUiam 151
William Henry 184
Winfield E. 189
ZITA Empress of Austria 92
MISCELLANEOUS
C. J. 240
INITIALS
F. A. A. 319
S. J. B. 318
DINAH 23
GILFREY 22
SURNAMES UNKNOWN
I JOHN 92
I LORANA 29
I THANKFUL 213
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I. Memoir of Henry- Herbert Edes, A.M. By Alfred Johnson, A.M., - •
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"11. Genealogical Byways. I. By Donald Lines Jacobus, M.A^ ..."
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HARRY F. AMMIDOWN
20 Chestnut Street, Sonthbridge, Mass.
Hms notes on old funnies of Sonthbiidce,
Stnrbridge, Dodley, and
Charlton, Mass.
MRS. MARY LOVERING HOLMAN
MISS WINIFRED HOLMAN, S.B.
39 WinsoT Avenue, Watertown, Mass.
Genealogists
LAWRENCE BRAINERD
9 Ashburton Place, Boston, Mass.
Genealogist Family Trees Prepared
Research Work Terms on Application
GILMAN BIGELOW HOWE
3217 Thirteenth Street, N. W., Washington, D. C.
Genealogist
Member of the National Genealogical Society,
Life Member of the New England Historic Genea-
logical Society, Compiler of the Bigelow Genealogy.
Over thirty years' experience in Historical and
Genealogical Research. Examination of United
States Census Records a Specialty.
WILLIAM BRADFORD BROWNE
Box 432. North Adams, Mass.
Historical and genealogical research, especially
ia Northern Berkshire and Eastern New York.
Large collection of data from Plymouth and Bris-
tol Connties and Northern Rhode Island.
MRS. WILLIAM S. KELSEY
62 Allston Heights, Allston District,
Boston, Mass.
GENEALOGIST
Connecticut Research a Specialty '
THE MISSES CURRY
1020 Monroe Street, N. W., Washington, D. C.
Genealogists and Researchers
United States Census and Pension Records
County Records in Maryland and Virginia
MRS. FRANK B. KINGSBURY
Surry Road, Eeene, N. H.
Research work in Southwestern New Hampshire.
Cheshire County Land and Probate Records
copied. New Hampshire State Papers, Vital
Statistics, and Revolutionary War Records exam-
ined. Family records compiled.
REBECCA DODD
M Wales Street, Dorchester, Mass.
Genealogist
MRS. JESSIE A. PORTER
95 Euclid Avenue, Springfield, Mass.
Records of Western Massachusetts and Coimect-
icut: Springfield, Northampton, Greenfield, Nortii
Adams, Pittsfield, Great Barrington, and Hartford,
examined.
LUCIA RUSSELL FELLOWS
30 U Street
Salt Lake City, Utah
Summer Address: Ellsworth, Me.
Specialist in migrations from New England
Families Traced Genealogies prepared
FRANK FARNSWORTH STARR
Middletown, Conn.
Connecticut Research a Specialty
Has genealogical notes on the families of
Ancient Middletown and copies of over
11,000 gravestone inscriptions in
Middlesex Coun^
VIRGINIA HALL
19 West Cedar Street, Boston, Mass.
MRS. SUSAN COTTON TUFTS
9 Ashburton Place, Boston, Mass.
GENEALOGIST
ELLA S. WOOD
79 Central Avenue, Hyde Park, Mass.
Genealogist Researcher
Membership Lines for Hereditary-Patriotic Societies a Specialty
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ENGLISH GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH
MRS. ELIZABETH (FRENCH) BARTLETT
Life Member of N. E. Historic Genealogical Society, Historical Society of Penn., British Record Society.
GENEALOGIST OF THE MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY OF COLONIAL DAMES.
Record Searcher for the Committee on Ene lish Research of the Kew England Historic Genealogical
Society, 1908-1917, makes researches in England and America, and compiles and edits genealogies.
MS. Collections on English Homes of American Settlers (hitherto unknown), including Brackett, Cheney,
Child, Eggleston, Frost, Gridley, Grover, Mellowes, Hewcomb, Patten, Potter, Sikes, Vinal, etc
9 ASHBURTON PLACE, BOSTON
6 HAYMARKET, LONDON
J. GARDNER BARTLETT
Life Member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society
RESEARCH IN ENGLAND
Expert Specialist on English Ancestry of Early Settlers of New England
9 ASHBURTON PLACE, BOSTON and 6 HAYMARKET. LONDON
Author of Coe, Newberry, Talbot, Hill, Wilson, Jones, Belcher, and Stone genealogies
DEALERS IN GENEALOGICAL BOOKS
COLESWORTHY'S BOOKSTORE
66 Comhill, Boston, Mass.
f J Historical and Genealogical Books
bought, sold, and exchanged.
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Established 1838
A. J. HUSTON
02 Exchange Street, Portland, Me.
Genealogy, Americana, and
Books on Maine
NOAH F. MORRISON
314 W. Jersey Street, Elizabeth. N. J., (> j
Genealogies and Americana '
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Please send five cents for postage for special
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WILDER'S BOOKSHOP
28 Warren Avenue, SomerviUe. Boston 42. Mass.
Makes a Specialty of Dealing in and Search-
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FAMILY HISTORY. Genealogical Researches
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The Tuttlb Company, Rutland, Vt.
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Our expert service in printing an accurate, handsome genealogy is well
worth our price.
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V Books Printed Gencalogies and Town ffistorics ^'^"^^ °°"°'*
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THE TUTTLE COMPANY
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Correspondence solicited. References given. Write for prices if you are planning to
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Established 1832 — Over 85 Years' Experience
S. D. WARREN COMPANY
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Manufacturers of Warren's Standard
Coated and Uncoated Printing Papers
Also manufacturers of the papers for The New England His-
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Write for Samples
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In this store will be found our entire stock
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^TOL. LXXYII. OCTOBER, 1923
-Whole Number 308
PUBLISHED QUARTERLY BY THE'
NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY
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January,' 1919, which was authorized by a vote of the Council of 6
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HENRY EDWARDS SCOTT
CONTENTS — O CT OB ER, 19 2,3
* Illustration; : . ' . ' ,
Portrait of President Warren Gamaliel Harding (to face page 243)
II.
111.
IV.
'VI.
VII.
Memoir of President Warren JGamaliel' Harding.
Brainerd . . . . . T . . ; .
By -Lawrence
By Mrs.
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The Polks of North Carolina and Tennessee (Continued).
Frank M. Angellotti . /. . . -. . . .. . '-. .-.-250
The Early New England Coolidges and Some of Their Descend- l .
-ants. 'Qy George Walter Ch.amberlain,lAS>. . .'. ,. . > 270'
Genealogical Research in England {Continued). Com. by the Com- --
mittee on English Research . . . . . . . . .. . 305>;
A Record of Deaths m Boston and Vicinity, 1799-1815 {Continued) 312 .
Proceedings of the New England Historic Genealogical Society.
By Jfenry Edwards iScoW, A.B., Recording Secretary . . . -.'321
Recent Books . . . .. _ . . . ^ . . . .' . 324
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DIRECTORY OF GENEALOGISTS
HARRY F. AMMIDOWN
20 Chestnut Street, Southbridge. Mass.
Has Qotes on old families of Southbridge,
Sturbridge, Dudley, and
Charlton, Mass.
MRS. MARY LOVERING HOLMAN
MISS WINIFRED HOLMAN, S.B.
39 Winsor Avenue, Watertown, Mass.
Genealogists
LAWRENCE BRAINERD
9 Ashburton Place, Boston. Mass.
Genealogist Family Trees Prepared
Research Work Terms on Application
GILMAN BIGELOW HOWE
3217 Thirteenth Street, N. W.. Washington, D. C.
Genealogist
Member of the National Genealogical Society,
Life Member of the New England Historic Genea-
logical Society, Compiler of the Bigelow Genealogy.
Over thirty years' experience in Historical and
Genealogical Research. Examination of United
States Census Records a Specialty.
WILLIAM BRADFORD BROWNE
. Box 432, North Adams. Mass.
Historical and genealogical research, especially
in Northern Berkshire and Eastern New York.
Large collection of data from Plymouth and Bris-
tol Counties and Northern Rhode Island.
MRS. WILLIAM S. KELSEY
52 Allston Heights, AUston District,
Boston, Mass.
GENEALOGIST
Connecticut Research a Specialty
THE MISSES CURRY
1420 Girard Street, N. W., Was'.-.in^'ton, D. C.
Genealogists and Researchers
United States Census and Pension Records
County Records in Maryland and Virginia
MRS. FRANK B. KINGSBURY
Surry Road, Keene. N. H.
Research work in Southwestern New Hampshire.
Cheshire County Land and Probate Records
copied. New Hampshire State Papers, Vital
Statistics, and Revolutionary War Records exam-
ined. Family records compiled.
REBECCA DODD
14 Wales Street, Dorchester, Mass.
Genealogist
MRS. JESSIE A. PORTER
95 Euclid Avenue, Springfield, Mass.
Records of Western Massachusetts and Connect-
icut: Springfield, Northampton, Greenfield, North
Adams, Pittsfield, Great Harrington, and Hartford,
examined.
LUCIA RUSSELL FELLOWS
30 U Street
Salt Lake City, Utah
Summer Address: Ellsworth, Me.
Specialist in migrations from New England
Families Traced Genealogies prepared
FRANK FARNSWORTH STARR
Middletown, Conn.
Connecticut Research a Specialty
Has genealogical notes on the fAmilies of
Ancient Middletown and copies of over
11,000 gravestone inscriptions in
Middlesex County
VIRGINIA HALL
19 West Cedar Street, Boston, Mass.
MRS. SUSAN CO'l"l'ON TUFTS
9 Ashburton Place, Boston, Mass.
GENEALOGIST
ELLA S. WOOD
79 Central Avenue, Hyde Park, Mass.
Genealogist Researcher
Membership Lines for Hereditary-Patriotic Societies a Specialty
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ENGLISH GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH
MRS. ELIZABETH (FRENCH) BARTLETT
Life Member of N. E. Historic Genealogical Society, Historical Societ\' of Penn., British Record Society.
GENEALOGIST OF THE MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY OF COLONIAL DAMES.
Record Searcher for the Committee on English Research of the New England Historic Genealogical
Society, 1908-1917) makes researches in England and America, and compiles and edits genealogies.
MS. Collections on English Homes of American Settlers (hitherto unknovn), including Brackett, Cheney,
Child, Eggleston, Frost, Gridley, Grover, Mellowes, Newcomb, Patten, Potter, Sikes, Vinal, etc.
9 ASIIBURTON PLACE, BOSTON 6 HAYMARKET, LONDON
J. GARDNER BARTLETT
Life Member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society
RESEARCH IN ENGLAND
Expert Specialist on English Ancestry of Early Settlers of New England
9 ASHBURTON PLACE, BOSTON and 6 HAYMARKET, LONDON
Author of Coe, Newberry, Talbot, Hill, Wilson, Jones, Belcher, and Stone genealogies
DEALERS IN GENEALOGICAL BOOKS
COLESWORTHY'S BOOKSTORE
68 Comhill, Boston, Mass.
Historical and Genealogical Books
bought, sold, and exchanged.
Remainders of Genealogies, Town Histories,
and Historical Books wanted.
Established 1838
A.J.HUSTON
»2 Exchange Street, Portland, Me.
Genealogy, Americana, and
Books on Maine
NOAH F. MORRISON
314 W. Jersey Street, Elizabeth, N. J.
Genealogies and Americana
Please send fire cents for postage for special
genealogical catalogue. Other catalogues sent free
on request.
WILDER'S BOOKSHOP
28 Warren Avenue, SomerviUe, Boston 42, Mass,
Makes a Specialty of Dealing in and Search-
ing for books on GENEALOGICAL AND HIS-
TORICAL SUBJECTS. Carries in stock from
4000 to 6000 books on AMERICAN LOCAL AND
FAMILY HISTORY. Genealogical Researches
Conducted.
Send for TUTTLE'S CATALOGUE, No. 90, of Books, Pamphlets, Old, Rare, Curious, Unusual and
Important, Useful, and Useless, mostly long out of print and now difficult to obtain. American Revolu-
tion, American Indians, Genealogy, Western America, Mormons, Canada, and Other Miscellaneous Items.
Thb Tuttle Company. Rutland, Vt.
A. W. ELSON & COMPANY
School Street, Belmont, Mass.
PHOTOGRAVURE REPRODUCTIONS
of Portraits, Manuscripts, Views, etc., for Gene-
alogies, Town Histories, and the Illustration of
Books in general. Send for samples, free, stating
your requirements.
The
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=== Established 1800 ===
"The, Oldest Commercial Printers in New England"
28 Renne Avenue, Pittsfield, Massachusetts
/^OMPLETE modern equipment and an experienced corps of work-
men and proofreaders enable us to deliver exceptionally well
printed and typographically accurate books at a reasonable price.
Write us for our proposition before you decide where your book
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OUR book will show the result of your work; a typo-
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work and careful proof-reading enables us to avoid mistakes. We print
from hand-set type, and the product of our presses cannot be excelled.
Our expert service in printing an accurate, handsome genealogy is well
worth our price.
MAY WE NOT PRINT YOUR BOOK?
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Books Printed Genealogics and TowH Historfes ^"^^^ ^"""'^
Under the Supervision of an Expert Proofreader and Genealogist
Composition, Presswork, Binding
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THE TUTTLE COMPANY
11-13 CENTER STREET, RUTLAND, VT.
Correspondence solicited. References given. Write for prices if you are planning to
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Established 1832 — Over 85 Years' Experience
S. D. WARREN COMPANY
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Manufacturers of Warren's Standard
Coated and Uncoated Printing Papers
Also manufacturers of the papers for The New England His-
torical and Genealogical Register, Vital Records of
Massachusetts, and man}'- genealogies
Write for Samples
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