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A JOURNAL OF AMERICAN ANCESTRY

VOLUMES ONE AND TWO
1912

EDITED BY
LYMAN HORACE WEEKS

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S INDEX TO VOLUME ONE

JANUARY— JUNE 1912

J^ Cemetery Inscriptions — Eddy 94

..,_^ 17^ Dumont, N. J 197 Edgett 183

Abbott 176 Fairton, N. J 140, 156, 157

Abel .54 .Lancaster, Penn 179 F

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Adams Family 60 stark Co., Ohio 197 lqGY 8

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Ames •••••••.• f^ Penn 29 peke 86 142

Ancestry, Female ..154 Vermont 11, 44 pellows 70^

^5:f,r %S Chalkley Mss 43 Female Ancesiry'.V.V.V. V.V...' 154

Andrus 1* chandler 166 pemale Line 194

Antiquarian Soaety... 207 churchill 15 pi^ 137 180

Arnold-Fltckmger J^mily . 32 ^an Chieftains of Ireland and inickinge;:.\'^,'lb^,'n9; lib; 188

Ashley..... 31, 71, ys, IM Scotland 133 powler 94

Austm Family 99, 177 ^lark. . . .7, 30, 47, 55, 102, 151, 182 Freeman' V.V.V.V.V.V.V.V.Vh'iTS

B Qayton 199 y^er 46,165

Backus 39 Qemens 14, 109, 139, 201

Bacon 39,55,102 Qevenger 142 G

Baker 71 Coddington 14 ^^^^ p5^ jlg

Baldwin 87 ^oe li Gamble 183

Bancroft 68 ^0%...^ .14 Genealogy, Uses for 44

Barnes 79 Colonial Mss 149 Genealogy Local 48

Bamnm .^ ^""ly^l^.n ^"'"'^'^ Graduates, Genealogy' 50 year's a^! ! .' ! ! [ .' .'60

Baxter 1^ _,1769-1810 12 Genealogy, Value of 88

Beardsley ..7 Connecticut- Genealogies, American 51,

Becker Cemetery 179 Original Signers of Bran- * ^7 g^ j23 155 170 204

Beebe 71,87 ford ^^ Gibson ' • ' ' ' ^^^

Belknap. . . .6, 54, 63, 135, 142, 174 Proprietors of Cornwall 75 Gilman 110

Benedict 110 Tax Payers of New Britain, Goodrich 'lliiil.'.'liil.'liii'.ii.ay

Bennett 70, 102 1799 107 Graves 14 173

Benson-Austin 99 Old Homes, History of. . . .207 Greens of 'Boston,* 1729.' I W . .'.184

Blake 166 Crapo 54,^ Qrinnell Ill

Boggs 6, 23 Croliiis 126 Griswold 95, 124

Borden 15 Grossman 85 GuHck ..166

Boydell 139 Curtis 95. W Gysbertsen 134

Brace 94 Cushman 150, 158 ^

Bradford ....86 jx H

Bradley 70 ^ „„ ^ha

Bray 124 Daniels 86 Hall 39, 110

Brown 54 I>ean 198 Harmon 148

Browne 78 De Gree 7,23 garrison 206

Burgess 87 Desmond 165 Hatch 127

Butler :..:.. .'..:. 183 Dodge 94,111 Hatfield 1^

Butterworth 206 Dow 115 Heath 174

^ Drew 158 Heirs Asked For 16, 96

^ ,_, ^ ^ Dunkleberger '*...' .'54, 71 Helm IS

Caldcrwood 54 Durkee 85 Herkimer Memoirs 194

Camcron..33, 65, 105, 150, 169, 203 ^ Herman Bible Record 186

Cannon 145 ^ Hill 6, 182

Castle 70, 79 Fames :.126 Holmes 134, 174, 190

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Holmes— Pearl 178

Hood 22, 31, 97

Horton 173

Howard 164

Hulett 22. 30

Hunt 185

Huntley 46

Hurlburt 46

Irish Soldiers in Revolution.. 181
Irish First American 122

Jackson 102

Jacobs 62

Jenkins 55, 71

Kaar 7

Keller 22

Ketchum 68

Kimball 182. 191

Kimberly 6, 31

Kiff 71

King 46

Knight 166

Lamb 95

Lamont 39

Lancaster. Penn.. Inscriptions. . 179

Lane 15?

Laraway — Payne 173

Law 182

Lawton 151

Lee 14. 122

Lentz 166

Macomber 95.143

Maine Vital Records 5

Makepeace HO

Marriages. 1852 181

Mass. Muster Roll 100

Mass. War 1812 Records 190

Mayflower 56. 83

McElwain 126

McGee 12/

Meeks 46

Mennonites 80

Merrill 81

Monroe 70

Montgomery 9

25, 57. 73, 125, 171, 191, 200

Moody 49. 121

Moul ....7,103

Mount 15

Munson 127

Needham 70, 87

Ncwburgh, N. Y., Pioneers.... 27

New Eng. Widows 208

New Jersey Settlers of Fair-
field 67,92

New York Wills 18?

Ohio Pioneers 27

Oviatt 0, 31

Owen 38

Page 79,87

Paine 7. 23

Palmer ISO

Park 39

Parker 39, 95

Payne 173

Pearl 7, 162, 178, 190, 203

Pennock 70

Penn. Dutch 80

Penn. Rev. Pensioners 2, 7.

13. 45, 52. 16, 117, 147. 189, 205

Perry 161

Pettingill 86

Phelps 183

Pierce 39,94, 119, 143

Poland 38

Porter 199

Pratt 18^

Pritchard 182. 190

Purdy 178

Quiggle 14, 109

Raymond 142

Reed 15

Richmond 151, 159

Rigby 102

Rockwell 198

Roosevelt 129

Russell 87, 111

Sage 14, 22

Saxton 134

Sherman 7

Silliman 30

Smith 46, 127. 165, 198

Soper 54

Soule 102

South Carolina Residents 146

Spaulding 39

Sprague 54. 63, 127, 143

Starr 86,151.159

Stevens 176

Stilwell 30.39,47,70

Stone 206

Stout 47, 55

Stuart 94, 118

Sumner 137

Surnames 34

Sweatland 46, 143

Sweeting 166

Swift 166, 206

Taft 13

Taylor 110

Thomas 151, 158

Thompson 30

Tiffany 14

Unkefere 190

Utley 166

Vail 158.175

Virginia Passengers for 1635

19, 43, 60

Waddams 70

Wadsworth 38

Wandell 109

Warner 30

Warren 1. 17,

41, 53, 89, 127, 135, 174

Was(hbume 142

Way 38

Webb 30

Weekes 15

Weeks 142

Wells : 39,79,199,207

West 54, 62

Whipple 6,22

Whitcomb 151

Willes 7,103

Williams 30, 46

Wills, Cortland. N. Y 187

Wills. Fayette Co.. Pa 195

Wilson 172

Winslow 94

Witherspoon 7

Wood 47, 150

Woodford— Howe 164

Woodward 36

Woodworth 127

Wortman 46

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INDEX TO VOLUME TWO

JULY— DECEMBER 1912

Adam, Back To 240

Alger 334

Allen 310

Ancestry, Scotch-French 235

Ancestry, Royal 330

Andrews 310

Applegate 230

Arnold 287. 305, 353

Austin Family 219, 267, 276

Autill Family 259

Bacon 301

Baer 333

Baker 293

Baptisms, Tioga Co., Pa 360

Barber 270

Barker 336

Barney 358

Bams 230

Bammn 365

Barrows 264

Bates 228, 337

Becker Inscriptions 331

Bennett 319

Bird 313

Bliss-Keep 362

Boston Bankers of 1789. . . .280-307

Bowman 342

Brooks 319

Brower 319

Brown 327

Burritt 336

Butler 365

Cameroa 209

Capes 318

Carskadden 348

Carswell 259

Ctry 268

Caswell 331

Cemetery Inscriptions —

Bristol Penn 229,

235. 242, 245, 260, 268. 278, 284
Burlington Co., N.J.27S, 286, 309

Canton. Ohio 353

Chelmsford, Mass 335

Groton, Conn 263

Lambertville, N. J 231.

237, 248, 251, 260, 262

Lancaster Co., Penn 211,

256, 270, 279, 287

Ledyard, Conn 275, 280

Lock Haven, Penn. .341, 348. 355

Mapleton, Ohio 311, 342

Nantucket, Mass... 342, 358, 367

New Orleans, La 256, 263

New York City.254, 261, 340, 365

North Stonington, Conn 278

Osnaburg, Ohio 276. 288

Paris, Ohio 279, 288

Pownell, Vt 262. 270

Preston, Conn 349

Rochester. N. Y 272. 277,

284, 292. 298, 307, 316^ 355, 366

Southhill, Vt 264

St. Albans, Vt 277

Stark Co.. Ohio 226. 272

Staten Island. N. Y.231, 235, 237

West Boxford, Mass 359

West Bridgewater, Mass... 243,
334, 342, 348, 355, 367

Windham. Conn 286, i333

Census U. S. 1790—

Conn 266

New York 211, 275, 283, 346

Vermont 228,

245, 260, 292, 307, 364

Chandler 260

Chapman 319

Chase 276

Church 301

Christian 254

Qark 251

Cements 331

Coffin 342

Cole 327

Colonial Ships and Masters... 339

Conant 293

Coryell 231

Cox 295,300

Cox-Simpson 293

Criswell 311

Cromwell 340

Cross 239

Crozier 236

Curtis 241, 265, 280

Darling 300, 316

Dawson-Christian 254

Deeds of Stark Co., Ohio 224

Deeds, Indian ^332

Devinney 286

Dickinson 293, 301

Dorsey 345

Dyre 268

Earl 275

Easton 343

Eby's Cemetery, Penn 211

Edson 359

Estes 323

Evcleth 273

Farrah 327

Fitch-Mason 236

Fitch-Wattles 251,323

Fletcher 264

Flickinger 236

Foster 340

French Emigrees 034

Gale 242

Genealogies, American 221,

229, 253, 285, 299. 317, 332, 350

Gibson 271 -

Gilbert 310

Gillette 319

Gisbertz 363

Gladden 318

Gleason 286

Gore 349

Gossard 292

Gunmion 341

Haines 279

Harris 214

Haskins 310

Hayes 335

Hayncs 254

Hayward 348

Hazen 267

Hervey 367

Hinman 319

Hodge 222

Holmes-Chapman 212

Hoover Inscriptions 303, 347

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Homer-Barns 230

Homer Family 343

Howard 333, 342, 355, 364

Howard, Sylvia 323

Hubbel 319

Hune 310

Hyne 318

Inman

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Janris 338

Jenckes 300

Jennings 36b

Jillson 300

Johnson 284, 355

Johnston 243, 327

Jones 331

Keep 362

Kellar 303

Kimball 268

Kline 347

Knight 223

Lambert 251

La Mothe—Poiret- Wells 22b

Lancaster County, Penn., Early

Settlers 220

Lancaster Co.. Penn., Marriage

Licenses, 1791-9 308

Lancaster Co., Penn., Inscrip-
tions 211, 256, 270, 279, 287

Lanes of Boston ^9

Large 292, 335

Leach 300

Lusk 355

Main Family 278

Marriages Early, Salem. N. Y. .267
Marriages Early, Lancaster Co.,

Penn 308

Marsh Family 362

Mason 236

llass. Minister's Tax 351

Mayflower 215, 267

McCobb 244

Meacham 321

Mersereau 363

Merrill 295

Mills 264. 288

Minton 301

Montgomery .217, 233, 257, 269. 341

Moody 238

More-Muir 329

Morgan 262, 324

Morton 235

Nelson 318

New Jersey Settlers of Pisca-

taway 261

Nichols 284, 366

Paine 270

Parker 301

Patton 353

Payne 272.300

Pearl 340, 359,366

Penn 267,293

Pennsylvania Rev. Pensioners. 227,

261. 277, 283, 295, 309, 316. 323,

333, 342, 346, 354, 367

Perry 213

Phelps 302

Phetteplace 298

Pidcock ^7

Pflce 330

Poiret 225

Purdy 316

Puritan Fathers 312

Randall 335

Ramsdall 355

Reed 292, 355

Reeder 267

Reynolds 268, 293

Richie 327

Robbins 335

Robinson 223

Rochester, N. Y., Church Rec-
ords 284. 343, 349

Rodgers 294

Rose 366

Ross 301

Rush 331

Rushmore 316

Salem, N. Y.. Marriages 267

Saum 310

Sawtell 318

Scherb 287

Sherman 294

Shreve 309

Signers* Descendants 334

Simpson 293. 295

Smith 247.255,301

Southgate 289

Starbuck 352

Stevens 293

Stewart 301

St. John 249

Streeter 362

Swift 223,258,367

Syke 287

Taft 261

Thayer 283, 316, 363

Thomas 222

Tigman 327

Tnyou 327

Tinker 357

Torresdall 254

Towne 251

Tracy 358

Trafford 318

Treadway 254

Truesdale 254

Tripp 327

Tyler 234.318, 366

Tyron 237

Utley 223. 366

Van Wormer 231

Vass 250

Wade 327

Wanless 222

Warren 297, 319, 365

Wattles 236, 251, 323

Weeks 235, 291

Welles 318

Wells 215, 225, 281, 309, 311

Welsh Origin 248

White-Thayer 363

Whitney 254

Whittlesey-Large 292

Williams 310

Wills. Stark Co., Ohio 237

Wilson 267.292

Witherspoon 226

Witter 301

Woodruff 232

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EVERY SATURDAY

A WKKKLV JOURKAL OP AMERICAN ANCESTRY

Volume 1

New York, January 6, 1912

Number 1

Warrens in America

Doubts still exist concerning^ the Eng-
lish derivation of the seversd Warrens
who founded families of their name in
America. That they were of English or
Irish origin is certain but beyond that
comparatively little is known. In the
case of several of them, notably Richard,
the Mayflower pilgrim, John of Water-
town, Mass., and William of Virginia,
the claim that they were descended from
the famous earls of Warren and Surrey
has been strongly and persistently argtied
and as strongly denied. An examina-
tion of these theories in the light of the
lafter-day discoveries has been entered
upon for this history and the results pro
and con will be given from time to time
as the work progresses. [lA] L.H.W.

Following is an account of some of
the Warrens who came to America in the
early years of the seventeenth century.
From them most of the Warrens in the
United States have descended.

Abraham Warren was in Salem, Mass.,
1637, and in Ipswich 1648, where he
died, 1654. He had a daughter Sarah.

Arthur Warren was in Weymouth,

Mass., March, 1638. He married .

His children were Arthur, bom Novem-
ber 17, 1639; Abigail, bom October 27,
1640; Jacob, bom October 26, 1642;
Joseph.

John Warren of Boston was a tobacco-
nist or cardmaker. The name of his first

wife is jiot known. Savage thinks that
he may have been early in Exeter and
married there October 21, 1650, De-
borah Wilson, who died June 26, 1668.
His children, by his first wife, were
Joshua, Thomas,. Mary, and perhaps
Sarah. He married, second, 1669, Eliza-
beth Barlow-Coombs, widow of Thomas
Barlow and of John Coombs. By this
wife, who died 1671 or 1672, he had one
son, Nathaniel, bom May 27, 1670. By
his third wife, Eliza, he had Abigail, bom
May 10, 1676, and John, bora Febmary
10, 1670 He di<^ July, 1677. His
widow married, second, Samuel Lendall,
and third, as his second wife, John Hay-
ward, and fourth, Phineas Wilson of
Hartford, Conn. See A Genealogical
Dictionary of the First Settlers of New
England. By James Savage.

John Warren, second son of Chris-
topher and Alice (Webb) Warren of
Headborough, England, came to Massa-
chusetts on the ship Arabella, in com-
pany with Govemor John Winthrop and
Sir Richard Saltonstall. He settled in
Watertown where he was admitted a
freeman, 1631. He died December 13,
1667, aged 82. His wife, Margaret, died
November 6, 1662. His children were
John, bom 1662; Mary; Daniel, bom
1628; Elizabeth, married James Knapp;
Mary, married John Bigelow.

James Warren was in Kittery, Me., be-
fore 1656. He is said to have been bom
in Berwick, Scotland, but was of English
descent. His wife, Margaret, was a na-

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tive of Ireland. He lived in that part of
Kittery which was afterward South Ber-
wick. He died 1702; his will was made
December 9, 1702, and was proved De-
cember 24, 1702. His wife, Margaret,
made her will December 13, 1712, and
it was probated October 15, 1713. The
children of James and Margaret Warren
were: Gilbert, born 1656; James, bom
1658; Margaret, born 1660; Grisel, bom
March 6, 1662; Jane.

Peter Warren, mariner, was in Boston,
1659. He married, first, August 1, 1660,
Sarah Tucker, daughter of Robert
Tucker of Dorchester, by whom he had :
John, bora September 8, 1661 ; Joseph,
bora February 19, 1663 ; Benjamin, bora
July 25, 1665; Elizabeth, bora January
4, 1668 ; Robert, bora December 14, 1670 ;
Ebenezer, bora February 11, 1673. By
his second wife, Hannah, he had : Peter,
baptized June 6, 1675, died soon ; Peter,
born April 20, 1676 ; Hannah, born May
19, 1680; Mary, born November 21,
1683; and Robert, bom December 27,
1684. He had a third wife, Esther, who
survived him. He died November 15,
1704. Through his second son, Joseph,
be was the great-grandfather of Major-
General Joseph Warren, who fell at
Bunker Hill.

Richard Warren was one of the May-
flower Company, which sailed from Ply-
mouth, England September 6, 1620, and
landed on the shores of Massachusetts
Bay, December 21, 1620. He died 1628,
having been one of the leading men in
the New Plymouth Colony. He married,

in England, Elizabeth , whose family

name is unknown. She followed her
husband to New England in the ship
Ann in 1623, and her five English-born
daughters came with her. The children
of Richard and Elizabeth Warren were^
Mary, married Robert Bartlett; Ann,
married Thomas Little; Sarah, married
John Cooke, Jr.; Elizabeth, married
Richard Church; Abigail, married An-
thony Snow ; Nathaniel, bora 1624, died
1667 ; Joseph, bora before May 22, 1627.

William Warren, mariner, was in Bos-
ton in 1690. On November 1 of that
year he married Abigail Rogers, by
whom he had Mary, born September 24,
1691. His will, which was made June
11, 1691, was probated July 10, 1706.

Thomas Warren was in Charles City,
Va., 1635. He was a burgess in James
City, 1644, and a large landowner in
Gurrey county, 1645-71. He died in
Kent county, Md., 1675. His wife was
Susan Greenleaf, widow of Robert
Greenleaf.

Thomas Warren, one of the cavaliers
who came to Virginia in 1649 with Sir
Thomas Lunsford, Bart, was a passenger
in the ship Virginia Merchant in Sep-
tember of that year.

Humphrey Warren, bora at Poynton,
Cheshire, England, July 7, 1632, was
"reared as a merchant," and came to
Maryland before 1662. A tract of three
hundred acres of land, called Frailty, in
Charles county was granted to him Feb-
raary 12, 1622-23. He was an active
Protestant, and was appointed a commis-
sioner of the peace September 16, 1670.
He died at his county seat, Halton's
Point, Charles county, 1673.

Humphrey Warren (2), son of
Humphrey (1), was born in England
about 1652 and was brought to Maryland
by his father. He was a commissioner
of the peace 1675, a colonel, a justice of
the quoram, and a coroner 1689, and one
of the seven Protestant freemen who
seized the goverament of Maryland from
the representative of the proprietor 1689.
He died before Febmary 25, 1694-95,
the date of the proving of his will.

Thomas Warren (2), son of Hum-
phrey (1), by his second wife, Eleanor,
was brought to Maryland, 1633. He was
a captain 1689, a commissioner of the
peace and in 1691 was recommended by
Lord Baltimore for a seat in the council.
He received from his father the Frailty
farm in Charles county. His will was
proved November 23, 1710.

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Pennsylvania Revolutionary
Soldiers

The following names are not included
in the regular muster JoUs.

Allen, William; lieutenant in Colonel
Timothy Green's battalion, 1776; wound-
ed at White Plains.

BrinkerhoflF, Jacob; ensign, Captain
Williams' company. Colonel Michael
Swope's battalion of the flying camp ; in
service, 1776.

Bamett, Joseph; second lieutenant in
Colonel Timothy Green's battalion, 1776.

Bell, William; ensign, flying camp;
Colonel Frederick Watts' battalion, 1776.

Boggs, Alexander; Lancaster county;
captain of independent compjiny of horse,
August, 1777..

Brodhcad, Garrett; ensign. Colonel
George Brini^h's battalion of Northamp-
ton county militia ; in service at Billings-
port, November 5, 1777.

Cowan, William; Cumberland county;
captain of company of foot in the third
battalion of Cumberland county associa-
tors; was in actual service on several
tours of duty, June, August and Decem-
ber, 1776, and again, 1777 and 1778.

Cox, Cornelius; lieutenant colonel of
the fourth battalion of Lancaster county,
associators, commanded by Colonel
James Burd ; in service, 1776.

Drennan, Daniel; ensign in Captain
William Findley's company, eighth bat-
talion Cumberland county militia; in
service March, 1778.

Davis, John; major third battalion
Cumberland county associators ; in actual
service on several tours of duty, June,
August and December, 1776, and again
on duty, 1777 and 1778.

Duncan, Jesse; Philadelphia coimty;
lieutenant in the flying camp, August,
1776.

Doughty, John; private, Northumbep
land county militia ; taken prisoner at the
capture of Fort Freeland, July 28, 1779.

Eckert, Valentine ; Berks county ; Cap-
tain, company of light horse, July, 1777.

Everts, Michael; private in Captain.
Christian Stake's company, York county
battalion of the flying camp, 1776.

Elder, Robert; major of fourth bat-
talion Lancaster county associators. Col-
onel James Burd; in service, March 25,
1776.

GloningjCr, John; in command of a
company of the flying camp. Colonel
Jacob Klotz, 1776.

Galbreath, Andrew ; major, September
10, 1776; signed by B. Franklin.

Graham, John, Jun'r; private in Cap-
tain Samuel Davidson's company in Col-
onel Smith's battalion, Bedford county
associators, March 22, 1776.

Graham, George; ensign in Captain
William McCall's ranging company, Bed-
ford militia, 1781 and 1782.

Geiger, Barnard; private in Captain
John Jones' company, Colonel Peter
Grubb's battalion of Lancaster county as-
sociators, August, 1776; also captain of
second company, ninth battalion, Lancas-
ter coimty militia, 1777-78.

Gentzel or Gensell, Adam; corporal in
Captain Joseph Hiester's company, flying
camp, from Berks county, August, 1776.

Griffen, James, Jun'r; private in Cap-
tain George Jenkins' company, second
regiment, Pennsylvania line.

Hummell, Frederick; appointed in
charge of the manufacture of guns at
Hammelstown, to rank as captain, Sep-
tember 13, 1777.

Heak, Jacob, Jun'r; captain of Chris-
tian Stake's company, York county bat-
talion of the flying camp, 1776.

Hottenstein, David; Berks county;
lieutenant in the flying camp. Colonel
Haller's battalion; in service on Long
Island, August 27, 1776.

Haverstock, George, Jr. ; in the flying
camp, Philadelphia biattalion, 1776; in
Jersey campaign, 1776.

Henderson, Richard ; second lieutenant
in Colonel Robert Lewis' Philadelphia
battalion of the flying camp; in service,
1776.

Humrichousc, Peter; served in the

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Philadelphia battalion of the flying camp
in the summer of 1776; two montfis as
private; six months as ensign; two
months as lieutenant.

Haldeman, Jacob; corporal of Captain
Joseph Work's company, first battalion,
of the flying camp of Lancaster county,
June, 1776.

Hamill, Robert; Westmoreland coun-
ty; in frontier service, December, 1776,
two months ; served in various tours up
to September, 1781.

•Harris, Samuel ; Northumberland
county, captain of a company of rangers
on the frontiers, 1776 and 1777.

Himrod, Simon; sergeant in Captain
Philip Davis* company, second battalion,
Northumberland county associators,
commanded by Colonel James Potter; in
service, 1776.

Heaton, Isaac; sergeant in Captain
Thompson's comtpany in Philadejbhia
battalion of the flying camp. Colonel Rob-
ert Lewis.

Hancock, Richard, Jr.; captain of
John Boyd's company, Cok>nel Thomas
Porter's battaHon of Lancaster coimty
associators; in service in the Jerseys;
mustered August 13, 1776.

Howell, John Ladd; Philadelphia; as-
sistant commissary of purchases with
lank of captain, 1/76-1777.

Johnston, Philip; of the flying camp;
killed in the battle of Long Island,
August 27, 1776. [See Pennsylvania
Archives, Third Series, Vol. II.J

Kelker, Anthony; ccnmnissioned, Au-
gust, 1775; first lieutenant second bat-
talion Lancaster county associators, June
29, 1778; wagon master, Colonel Greena-
walt's battalion.

Krause, David; lieutenant in battalion
of associators of Lancaster county, in the
Jersey campaign, 1776; commissary of
Colonel Greenawalt's battalion, 1777.

Kiester, Philip; corporal in Captain
Thomas Stokely's ranging company of
Westmoreland county, 1781.

Martin, David ; in the flying camp^
Klotz's battalion, 1776; on Long Island.

I^atta, Reverend James; priyate^ and
subsequently chaplain ia Colonel Thomas
Porter's battalion of Lancaster county
associators ; in service in the Jersey cam-
paign, 1776.

Lewis, Eli ; major, first battalion, York
cotmty associators, comirassioned, Octo-
ber 1, 1777.

Linn, James; sergeant, September,
1777; served wider General Armstrong
in the campaign around Philadelphia.

Longstreth, Bartholomew ; Bucks
county ; captain of militia company under
Colonel Jcfcn Lacw; was at the surprise
at the Crodced Billet, May 1, 1778.

Mickley, John Jacob; commissary of
issues, Northampton county militia, Jan-
uary, 1778.

McKee, Thomas; first lieutenant, sev-
enth battalion, Cumberland county mili-
tia, 1778.

Kenny, James ; ensign, 1776, in Colonel
Fred. Watts' battalion of the flying camp
f ron> Cumberland county.

Mitchell, David; commissioned. May
3, 1775, captain in fourth battalion, Cum-
berland county associators.

Miller, George; private Kichline's bat-
talion, 1776; at battle of Long Island.

Murray, Lecky; surgeon of the fifth
battalion, Lancaster count}' associators.
Colonel James Crawford; commissioned,

1776 and in active service.

Miller, Peter; private in Captain An-
drew Burkhard's company, Colonel
Jacob Morgan's third bat^lion of Phila-
delphia associators; in active service,

1777 and 1778.

McFarren, William ; ensign in Colonel
George Brinigh's battalion, Northampton
county militia ; in service at Billingsport,
November 5, 1777. (Bom November 26,
1757, in Bucks county ; died July 6, 1826,
in Washington county.)

Nauman, Charles, Jr.; Philadelphia
county battalion of associators, July,
1777.

Perry, ; lieutenant colonel,

Northampton county miUtia, February,
1778. {Te be conimutd)

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Following is a complete list of heads of families, from the Uoited ^tes
Census of 1790, for Harlem Division, New York county, New York:

De La Mater, Mary
Brady, William
White, Anthony W.
Kemble, John C.
Marston, Thomas
Pital, Matthew
Waldron, Benjamin
Grayson, James
Hopper, Jellis
Waldron, David
Waldron, Samuel
Waldron, John
Brale, George
Leggitt, J<*n
McGowan, Andrew
Crumb, John
De Witt, Peter
Ryer, Jvmis
Lana

Benson, Sampson
Benson, Peter
Storm, Catharine
Sickels, John
Waldron, Peter
Waldron, John P.
Pim, Israel
Hutton, Robert
Myers, Lawrence
Meers, Jacob
Boomer, Abraham
Mariner, William
Benson, Lawrence
Benson, Benjamin
Randal, Jonathan
Lawrence, William
Pestels, John
Adriance, John

Bamhart, John
Benson, Sampson B.
Myers, John
Grtmian, Moses
Hanmiond, James
Myers, Susanna
Whitemati, Isaac
Watkins, Leah
Bogardus, John
Eflint, Honnus
Brady, Thomas
Shurman, Heny
Bleene, John
Wilkins, Mary
Marony, John
Waldron, Samuel B.
Moore, Jacob
Shearman, Nicholas
Bogardus, Cornelius
Bodime, Andrew
Bowers, Bamet
Keeler, George
Wilson, David
Jacob,

Weirs, George
Francis, John
Shearman, John
Harsen, Cornelius
Myer, Jacob
Nagel, Jacob
Hyatt, Caleb
Primus,
Day, Susanna
Cuff,

Miller, William
Kortright, John
Van Braymer, 'Henry

Duryee, Charles
Bussing Abraham
Bussing, John
Langdon, Thomas
Bussing, Adolph
Haigfat, John B.
De Peyster, Nicholas
Reignear, James
Striker, James
Apthrop, Charles W.
Weeks, Zeno
Paul, Jacob
Oakley, Moses
Stout, Benjamin
Somerindyke, Tunis
Somerindyke, Richard
Ajrcherd, Ann
Lounsberry, Joshua
De Remer, Richard
Somerindyke, Jacob
Cozen, J<An
Hagaman, Peter
Pariceson, William
Lounsberry, Valentine
Hopper, John
KiWtJey, Stephen
Chevalier, John
Kelly, Charles
Rickman, Aaron
Smith, William S.
Slydel, Frederick
Webbers, PhUip
Craass, John
Anthony,
Burtis, Sarah
Boenover, Frederick
Havener, Michael

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viz., Farmingdale, Randolph and Pitts-
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direction of the Maine Historical Society.
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KiMBERLY. — Ephraim Kimberly was
settled in Ohio before 1800. Was he a
revolutionary soldier? [102] J. K. L.

BoGGS. — John Boggs, of Pennsylvania
and West Virginia, married Jane Irwin.
Wanted: date of his marriage, names
of Jane Irwin's parents with date of her
birth and death and dates of the
births and deaths of her parents; also
names of children of John and Jane (Ir-
win) Boggs, with dates of births, deaths
?nd marriages and names and parentage
of wives. [103] A. L. B.

Whipple. — Commodore Abraham
Whipple, of Rhode Island, who mar-
ried Sarah Hopkins, a niece of Governor
Stephen Hopkins, had two daughters.
Whom did these daughters marry and
what were the names of their children,
with dates of births, deaths and mar-
riages? [104] O. W. T.

Andrews. — Israel Ward Andrews, of
Connecticut, was a son of the Reverend
William and Sarah (Parkhill) Andrews.
I want the name of his wife, date of mar-
riage, and deaths of her parents; and
also the names with dates of the children
of this marriage. [105] W. A. C.

Barnum. — ^Joshua Bamum, of South-
east. Putnam county, N. Y., died
1777 or 1778. Whom did he marry?
[106] A, L. B.

OviATT. — Can any one give me infor-
mation concerning Eunice Newton who
married Herman Oviatt, of Ohio? I be-
lieve that she was a daughter of Isaac
Newton, of Connecticut. I also want
the names of her children, with dates of
births, deaths and marriages and also of
their children. [107] A. J. X.

Hill. — ^Artemas B. Hill, married
Eunice Potter, ojf Shaftsbury, Vt., about
1819. They were living in Bennington,
Vt., in 1820. Can any one give the Hill
or the Potter ancestory? [108] F. E. A.

Belknap. — ^Jesse Belknap, of Hebron,
was born 1760. He served in Captain
Norton's company of artificers, enlisting
August 6, 1777, from Hebron, and
helped to make the chain stretched
across the Hudson river at West Point
to keep out the British. He married
in Redding, Conn., April 28, 1779, Eu-
nice Hall, of that place, and lived after-
ward in Rome, N. Y., also other places
in New York state, and finally in North
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parents? [109] H. W. B.

Clevenger. — I want marriages, births
and deaths, with full names and dates, of
Clevengers in any spelling. [110] D. C.

Sherman. — Who were the parents of
Elisha Sherman, of Salem, Westchester
county, N. Y., who married Phebe,

daughter of Timothy and Keziah ( )

Canfield, October 9, 1754 Their chil-
dren were: Mary, baptized July 27,
1755, married Daniel Clark; Ebenezer,
baptized April 10, 1757; Phebe, baptized
December, 1758; Survigman (church
records spell this name Survignon), bap-
tized January 25, 1761 ; Peter, November
28, 1762, married Martha Haif; Solo-
mon, May 25, 1765; Keziah, January 22,
1769; Sarah, December 15, 1771; Chloe,
September 1 1, 1774. [Ill] S. M. S.

Kaar. — Information desired of the an-
cestry and descendants of Anthoni Kaar,
who married Annetje Huycken, about
1704. Children: Willem, married An-
netje Vredenburgh; Johannes, married
Margarets Wilson; Annetje, married
Isaac Chardavoine; Elysabet, married
John Lewis; Mary, married Abraham
Bockee. There were grandsons, An-
thoni, born 1746; Anthony, 1747; Jo-
hanne, 1747 ; others ? [132] W. V. K.

De Gree. — Information, of any char-
acter whatsoever, or advice where in-
formation may be looked for, concern-
ing the Degree (de Grae, de Grey and
Degray), and the Laforse (La Force)
famiUes of New York. [112] M. D. L.

pAiNtE. — Can any one give me the
American pedigree of Robert Treat
Paine, signer of the Declaration of In-
dependence? I am particularly looking
for information in regard to Anne Paine,
daughter of the Reverend Abraham
Paine, Sr. ; she married Uriah Cross, of
Connecticut. [115] J. E. L.

Witherspoon. — ^John Cameron mar-
ried Jane Witherspoon in Lancaster,
Penn., about 1806. They had children,
John, Leah and Isaac. I am seeking the
names of Jane's parents or information
concerning her family. The 1790 census
gives the names of David, John and
James Witherspoon as living in Penn-
sylvania. Were they related 'and who
were their parents ? [114] B. A. M.

Beardsley. — William Beardsley and
his wife, Marie, came from England,
1635. They were first heard from in
Stratford, Conn. Can any reader give
me information concerning their Eng-
lish ancestry. [113] P. P. B.

Clark. — ^John Clark and his wife,
Amy, lived in West Troy, N. Y., in 1855.
They had three sons and a daughter.
Amy, who married Azen D. Lord. In-
formation concerning descendants of
these children wanted. [116] C. G. M.

Flickinger. — Joseph Flickinger was
born April 21, 1797, in Lancaster, Ohio.
Can any reader give me the names of
his parents; his mother's maiden name,
and the names of his brothers and sis-
ters? [124] S.T. F.

Stilwell. — In 1850 Samuel Wilbur
Stilwell resided in Marlboro, N. Y. His
children are supposed to have settled in
Torrington, Conn. Who were children
or descendants? [118] D. E. S.

MouL. — Can any one trace the Moul
family of Pennsylvania? There was an
Isaac Moul who died, 1848, who had sis-
ters Nancy and Catherine. What were
names of their parents? [119] C. D. B.

Pearl.— Nathan Pearl, of West Ash-
ford, Conn., married Eliza Utley, from
Swansea, Wales. Did Nathan have
brothers or sisters? When was he bom
and what were the dates of his death and
marriage? [120] A. P. P.

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Number 2

Montgomery Family History

Montgomery emigrants were not
amon|^ the early comers to Colonial
Amenca. The name does not appear in
Savage's Genealogical Dictionary of the
First Settiers of New England, which
covered the records to 1700. They be-
gan to arrive in the 17th century and
many of them were here before the
Revolutionary period. All appear to
have been of §cotch-Irish origin and they
were settled principaly in New Hamp-
shire, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Vir-
ginia. The ancestry of tfiese first Mont-
gomerys has not in every case been ascer-
tained. One New Jersey and Pennsyl-
vania family was directly descended from
the family of the Earls of Eglinton of
Scotland, but less is definitely known
about the Scotch derivation of the others.
It is, however, more than probable that
nearly, if not all, of them were from the
same stock, the famous Montgomery or
Montgomerie family of Scotland, the
principal members of which in the sev-
enteenth century were located in' Ayr-
shire. The A)rrshire Montgomcries
were directly descended in the male line
from Roger de Montgomerie, who, in
Neustria, the north of France, was
"Count of Montgomerie before the com-
ing of RoUo.'* That was in the year 912,
when the Northmen, under Duke RoUo,
overran the country and made it thence-
forth and forever Normandy.

The family was established in England

by Roger de Montgomerie, cotmt of
Montgomerie and viscount d'Exmes in
Normandy, who was the head of the
house in tfie sixth generation from the
first known Roger de Montgomerie of
912. He accompanied William, Duke of
Normandy, in the invasion of England
in 1066 and fought in the battle of Has-
tings. Wood's Douglas' Peerage tells
that "Roger de Montgomerie was mu-
nificently rewarded by the Conqueror,
who first advanced him to the Earldom
of Chichester and Arundel, and soon aft-
erwards to that of Shrewsbury ; Chiches-
ter and Arundel being properly the Earl-
dom ot Sussex, though the earls of that
territory were usually demoninated of
those places, in regard of their residences
there ; and to these the Conqueror added
the honor of Rye in Sussex."

In the twelfth century Philip de Mont-
gomerie, who was bom about 1101, set-
tled in Scotland. His descendants became
the Earls of Eglinton and alike in the
main and the cadet lines wrote their
names large on the pages of Scottish his-
tory. [2A] L. H. W.

William Montgomerie, the eldest son
of Hugh Montgomerie, of Brigend, Scot-
land, was the founder of the Montgom-
ery family in New Jersey and Pennsyl-
vania. Brigend or Bridgend, as it was
formerly spelled, is in the parish of May-
bole, Ayrshire and is situated immediate-
ly on the banks of the river Doon. Hugh
Montgomerie was the lineal made repre-

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scntative of the family in the twenty-
eighth generation from Roger de Mont-
gomerie, although the title and honors
of the earldom of Eglinton had been di-
verted to a female branch of the family
by the sixth earl in 1611. He inherited
a valuable property, but passed the latter
years of his life in reduced circumstances,
being cared for by his younger son,
James. He married, in 1653, Katharine
Scott, daughter of Sir William Scott, of
Qerkington by his first wife, who was
Katherine Preston, daughter of Sir John
Preston, of Trenton Bams, Lord Presi-
dent from 1609 to 1616.

William Montgomerie married Janu-
ary 8, 1684, in Edinburgh, Isabel Burnett,
daughter of Robert Burnett, of Lethintie,
Aberdeenshire, of the family of the Leys
Burnetts, of which was Gilbert Burnett,
Bishop of Salisbury. Robert Burnett
was concerned in the Quaker settlement
of East Jersey and became one of the
proprietors of that province. That cir-
cumstance led William Montgomerie to
remove from Ayrshire in 1701-02, to the
New World. He settled in Monmouth
county. New Jersey, on lands which he
purchased from his father-in-law, about
two miles from AUentown ; he called his
estate Eglinton, after the title of his
Scotch ancestors. He lived until after
1721. He was a member of the Society
of Friends, though probably not before
he came to America. His sons and his
grandson, James, married Friends, and
many of his descendants — ^and possibly
though not certainly known, he himself
— ^were buried in the Old Meeting ceme-
tery at Crosswicks, in Burlington county,
which is only about four miles from
Eglinton.

William and Isabel (Burnett) Mont-
gomery had seven children, Robert, Anne,
Elizabeth, William, James, Alexander
and Jane. All these children were bom
in Scotland, before their parents came
to Jersey. From the sons of this family
descended the Montgomeries of New
Jersey and of Eastern Pennsylvania. The

daughter, Jane, married a Montgomery
of the Irish branch, and she and her hus-
band moved to Virginia. [2 B] J. A. M.

James Montgomery came to America
j.bout 1766 and settled in Philadelphia."

He was the second son of and Eliza

(Hamilton) Montgomery, of Newry,
Ireland. He brought with him from Ire-
land his father's coat-of-arms, properly
emblazoned, which were those of the
Earls of Mount Alexander, being the
Montgomery and Eglinton arms quarter-
ly, within a double tressure, with an es-
cutcheon for diflFerence, charged with a
sword and lance saltire; crest a mailed
hand grasping a dagger ; motto, "honneur
sans repos" This would indicate descent
from a branch of the Braidstone Mont-
gomeries.

James Montgomery lived and died in
Philadelphia. In 1776 he was appointed
a second lieutenant in one of the battal-
ions of the Pennsylvania Province; in
the same year was in command of the
armed boats Ranger and Chatham; in
1796-98 was captain of the revenue cut-
ter General Green; in 1809-10 was in-
spector of customs. He married, first,
Margaret Bowes, only daughter of Hu^h
and Charlotte Bowes, of Philadelphia.
His wife died July 4, 1774, and he mar-
ried, second, Hester Griffiths, of Phila-
delphia, daughter of William Griffiths
and granddaughter of Samuel Powel.
His descendants have been of Philadel-
phia, New Jersey, Kentucky, Alabama
and Georgia. [2 C] C. B. H.

John (1) Montgomery came from Ire-
land to Pennsylvania in the early part of
the seventeenth century. He was a mem-
ber of the Continental Congress and
fought in the Revolution, having the
rank of captain. In 1767 he was treas-
urer of Cumberland county, Penn., and
the Revolution was a burgess of Car-
lisle in tiiat county; and was otherwise
prominent. [2 D] H. M. O.

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Following is a complete list of heads of families from the United States
Census of 17^, for the town of South Hero, Chittenden County, Vermont:

Pearl, Col. Stephen
Phelps, Abel
Landon, Benjamin
Phelps, Joseph
Smitli, Majr Jacob
Janes, Htmiphrey
Campbell, William
Stewart, William
Fairchild, Jesse
Loyd, Thos. P., Esq.
Bumel, Solomon
Welch, Nathaniel
Morison, David
Pearl, Timothy
Duel, Ephraim
Griffin, Jonathan
Hacket, Allen
Griffin, David
Pelton, James
Pixley, Asa
Martin, Eleazar
Peters, Ebenezer
Blanchard, John
Allen, Col. Ebenezer
Allen, Cap. Timothy
Johnson, Samuel
Birdich, James
Lawrence, Horman
Hall, Alpheus
Janes, Herman
Peter, Valentine
McNaU, Uriah

Laslin, Matthew
Laslin, Charles
Dennis, Jesse
Hide, WilUam
Eldridge, Amos
Davidson, John
Sawyer, Col. Ephraim
Sawyer, Ephraim, Jimr.
Martin, Jonah
Fletcher, Isi.
Cady, William
Welch, Amos
Drake, Festus
Adams, Isaac
Fletcher, Samuel
Winters, Obadiah
Wonen, Bishop
Mincley, Barnabas
Slawson, Eleazar
Fisk, John
Ventine, Abraham
Jones, Joel
Hazen, Levi
Mincley, John
Bams, Robert
Rosmond, Colrod
Reynolds, Grinnel
Dody, Obadiah
Burns, Samuel
Gibson, John
Linsey, James
Williams, Alnariah

Hazens, William
Qarke, Ozial
Fulson, John
Famsworth, William
Norton, Jolm
Hyde, Jedadiah, Junr.
Butler, William
Closs, Reuben
Parker, Dennis
Oldridge, John
Wiley, Joseph
Hazen, Andrew
Coonley, David
Lent, Roswell
Moflfet, William
McBurgh, Wilson
Starks, Joseph
Hoig, Daniel
Starl^ Benajah
Lawrence, Susanna
Mincley, Kelcon
Graham, Aaron
Starks, Samuel
Allen, Lambertson
Graham, Hugh
Sampsom, Daniel
Mincley, John, Junr.
Campbell, William, Junr.
Hyde, Elijah
Adams, Joseph
Gordon, Alexander

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Jan. 20: 1667— forasmuch as yt appears yt the undertaking & the settle-
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principles as to church orders according to ye platforme of disceplaine agreed
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remaine hear can say we have found much peace & quiatnes to our great com-
fort for ye which we desire for to bless God & that it may so remaine unto such
as do continue thair abode in this place & to such as shall come in to fill up the
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of yt judgement shall be called in & settled amongste vs=The gathering of such
a church shall be Incouraged — ^The vpholdment of such Church officears shall
not want pporshanall supplye of maintenance according to Rull — ^We will not
in any waise Incroach upon or disturbe the liberties in so walking from time to
time & att all times Nor will we be any wayes Injurious vnto tiitm in civil or
Ecclesticall Respects & this wee freely & volentarily Ingage oursdves vnto
Joyntly & severally so long as we rema3me Inhabetants in this pkice & this we bind
ourselves unto by our subscription unto this agreement It is also agreed }rt
whosoever shall come for purchise or admitted a free planter hear shall so sub-
scribe before his admittance or his bargine vallid in law Amongst ua—

Jasper Crane
John Wilford
Tho. Blachly
Samuell Plum
Mich. Taintor

John CoUens
onathan Rose
George Adames
John Whithead
Samuell Ward
Edward Frisbe
Henry Gratwick
William Rosswell
Edward Barker
Peter Tyler
Anthony Howd

John Adames
Thomas Sargent
Mich. Palmer
John Ward
John Unsley
John Robins
Robert flfoott
George Page
Thomas Sutliflf
Daniel Swaine
Samuell Pond
Isaac Bradley
Mathew Bickatt
Thomas Harrison
Thomas Whedon
George Seward

Edward Ball
William Hoadlie
Eleazer Stent
John Rogers
Samuel Bradfeld
John Charles
Moses Blachly
Jan. Waters
John ffrisbe
John Linsley, Junr.
William Maltbie
John Rose

Bartholomew Goodrich
John Taintor
Frances Tyler

Graduates in Medicine from
Columbia College, New York

1769 : Samuel Kissam, Robert Tucker.

1771: Benjamin Onderdonk, Michael
Sebring.

1772: John Augustus Graham, A. B.
Yale and A. M. Yale; Uzal Johnson,
James Muirson, Richard Udall, William
Winterton.

1773: Jabez Doty.

1774: Samuel NicoU.

1794: David G. Abeel, Peter Irving.
Henry Mead.

1795 : William Morey Ross, Timothy
Fletcher Wetmore.

1796: Alexander Anderson, Winthrop
Saltonstall, A. B. Yale 1793.

1797: William Bay.

1802: Joseph Bailey, Richard L
Walker.

1803 : Isaac Foster, Samuel Scofield.
1804: William Barrow, Ezekicl
Ostrander, Daniel D. Walters.

1805:
sam.
1806:
1807:
1810:

Thomas Code, Benjamin Kis-

Valentine Mott.
Alire R. Delisle.
Robert Morrell.

Buried like so much rubbish in the
basement of the Comity Court House of
the City of New York are the records of
the Supreme Court of New York in the
colonial period. These are priceless
documents in their bearing upon history,
genealogy, property possessions, real
estate and personal — and the general
aflFairs of the colonial time. And yet
they are practically inaccessible and their
existence even is ahnost unknown.

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Pennsylvania Revolutionary
Soldiers

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Patterson, Samuel; third lieutenant in
Colonel Mathias Slough's battalion of
the flying camp from Lancaster, 1776,
and was on Long Island.

Parke, Joseph; sergeant, in the flying
camp of William Montgomery's Chester
county battalion, and was at battle of
Long Island, August, 1776.

Rogers, Andrew; ensign, 1775, of the
company of Hanover township associa-
tors, Lancaster county.

Rank, Samuel; corporal in Captain
George Graeflf's company of the first bat-
talion of the flying camp of Lancaster
county, commanded by Colonel James
Cunningham ; in service, 1776.

Reynolds, Nathaniel; ensign in the
Philadelphia battalkm of the flying camp,
commanded by Colonel Robert Lewis ; in
service on Long Island, 1776; captain in
General John Cadwalader's Philadelphia
brigade, 1777.

Shaff or Shoflf, Philip ; private in Cap-
tain Asa Hiirs company, Cumberland
county militia, July, 1/78.

Sands, Samuel ; ensign in Colonel Rob-
ert Curry's battalion of associators, 1777.

Stinson, Elijah; ensign in Colonel
Joseph Hart's battalion of the flying camp
from Bucks county, 1776.

Scott, John; lieutenant, in the Bucks
county battalion of the flying camp, under
Colonel Joseph Hart, and in the battle of
Long Island, August 27, 1776.

Spung, Frederick; ensign in Captain
John Fuller's company, second battalion,
Berks county militia, May 10, 1780.

Sechler, John; sergeant, in Colonel
Daniel Hiester's Jim'rs, Philadelphia
county battalion of associators ; in actual
service, 1776 and 1777.

Schantz, Jacob; corporal in Colonel
Hart's battalion of the fl)ang camp, com-
missioned, July, 1776; in the Jersey cam-
paign, 1776.

Torrence, Hugh; ensign in Captain

Shannon's company, Cumberland coimty
associators in 1776.

Truby, Christopher; captain, West-
moreland county militia, February, 1778.

Thompson, William; commissioned.
May 3, 1777; second lieutenant in fourth
battalion Cumberland county associators;
May 1, 1783, commissioned lieutenant of
a company in the seventh battalion of
Cumberland county militia.

Umberger, John; Lancaster; private
in Captain Aldenbruck's company of the
flying camp, from Lancaster county,
1776.

Vogdes, Jacob ; private in Colcmel Wil-
liam Montgomery's Chester county bat-
talion of the flying camp, 1776.

Van Poole [Von Phul], William; pri-
vate in Captain Andrew Graflf's com-
pany, Lancaster county associators; in
service, July 16, 1776.

Wilkinson, John; lieutenant colonel,
third battalion, Bucks county associators,
August 10, 1775.

Wright, Aaron; private, June, 1775;
second lieutenant, December 10, 1777;
fifth company, first battalion, Bedford
county militia; died in Meadville, Pa.,
November 20, 1811.

Wallace, Robert; private in Captain
James Morrison's company, Colonel
Thomas Porter's battalion of Lancaster
county associators; mustered August 15,
1776; ensign, third company, ninth bat-
talion, Lancaster county militia, Decem-
ber, 1777; lieutenant, seventh company,
third battalion, Lancaster county militia,
August 26, 1780.

Nearly all the presidents of the United
States from Washington to Taft have
been Anglo-Saxon in the main lines of
their ancestry. With two exceptions
only they have been of English or Scotch-
Irish stock. Van Buren and Roosevelt
were from Dutch forefathers. A like
dominance of Anglo-Saxon blood is seen
in all the candidates for the presidency
from 1789 to 1908, some one hundred
in ntunber.

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Questions

CoDDiNGTON. — ^Descendants wanted of
Gilbert Smith Coddington, of New
York, who married Amelia N. Stilwell
about 1860. [121] N. S. C.

Tiffany.— About 1854, Louis T. Tif-
fany and his wife, Elizabeth, lived at
Pittsford, Mich. Had they children and
are descendants living? [117] F.R-T.

Graves.— Dr. Nathan Graves, died
about 1800 in East Chazy, N. Y. He was
A well known physician in his neighbor-

hood. Who were his ancestors and who
were his children? [135] E. D. C

Quiggle. — Sarah Quiggle was mar-
ried to James Montgomery in Clinton
county, Pcnn., about 1799. They had a
daughter Fannie. I am seeking the
names of the parents and brothers and
sisters of Sarah. Also the parents of
James Montgomery. [136] C. S. C.

Clemens. — Peter Clemens, bom in
1755, was a pensioner of the Revolution
and was residing in Union county, Penn.,
1819. Who were his parents and did he
have brothers and sisters? One of his
sons, Nicholas, is supposed to have mar-
ried Wilhehnina Moul. [127] D. A. R.

Colby. — ^Moses Colby, of Sanbomton
and Canaan, N. H., bom January 26,
1775, died October 4, 1803, married Sally
Robinson or Roberson, bom Thetford,
Vt, May 15, 1809. Who were the par-
cuts and grandparents of Sally Robinson
and did she have brothers and sisters?
Moses Colby is said to have been des-
cended from Anthony Colby, of Boston,
Ipswich and Salisbury, Mass., who came
with Govemor John Winthrop. Has this
descent been fully established, and if so
what are the proofs of it and who were
the ancestors in direct male line of Moses
Colby back to Anthony ? [ 128] M. A. C.

Lee. — ^Ralph Lee was a witness of a
deed which is recorded in Chester county,
Penn., Book E, p. 55, dated September
2, 1727, executed in London by Eliza-
beth Green, wife of John Green, of Lon-
don, et al and acknowledged by Ralph
Lee, October 15, 1731, before Jeremiah
Langhom, Register and Recorder of
Bucks county, Penn., which appears to
show that Ralph Lee was in London in
1727, and in Bucks county, Penn., in
1731. Was he related and, if so, how, to
William Lee, who first appeared in Bucks
county, Penn., in 1725, was married 1727,
and had Ralph Lee? [129] N. L. B.

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Albertson. — ^Who were the ancestors
of Derick Albertson, niillwright, who
came to Musketa Cove, Lx>ng Island, be-
fore 1692. He married Dinah Coles,
daughter of Daniel and Maha-Shulal-
haslxiz (Gorton) Coles, of Musketa Cove,
whence they had come from Rhode Isl-
and. The children of Derick and Dinah
(Coles) Albertson were: Derick, mar-
ried Rebecca De Grove; Daniel, mar-
ried Elizabeth Doughty; Penelope, mar-
ried Jacob Doughty; Wilmot or Will-
mett, married Thomas Thomey-Craft;
Dinah, married Benjamin Carpenter;
Temperance, married Joseph Coles;
Mary, married William Dennis; Albert,
died unmarried [130] J. P. C.

Weekes. — Information is desired re-
garding the maiden name and ancestry
of Anna, wife of Samuel Weekes, of
Musketa Cove, Long Island. Samuel, in
making will (not his final one) dated De-
cember 13, 1729, gives wife Anna use
of home lot, eldest son Amos a cow, sons
Samuel and John equally the home lot,
etc., daughters to have movable estate.
Executors, wife Anna, son Samuel,
Thomas Kirby and Samuel Prince, of
Hempstead. Witnesses, Peter Tottcn,
Tho. Carpenter, and Mungo Cochran.
Children: Amos, married Abigail
Weekes; Samuel, married Elizabeth;
John, married Anne Coles; Sarah, mar-
ried Jacob Birdsall; Phebe, married
Thomas Kirby; Amy, married Isaac
Dean; Deborah, married Nicholas
Sneathen; Charity, married John Car-
penter; Freelove, married Joseph Coles.
[131] C.A.W.

Borden. — ^John Borden (2), son of
Richard (1)^ of Masachusetts and Rhode
Island, married December 25, 1670, in
Portsmouth, R. I., Mary Earl, bom 1655,
daughter William Earl, of Portsmouth.
Richard Borden (3), son of John (2),
bom October 25, 1671, married Septem-
ber. 1692, Innocent Wardell. Richard
Borden (5), son of Thomas and Mary

(Giflford) Borden, was bom Fall River,
Mass., 1722, and married March 12,
1747, Hope Cook. Thomas Borden (6),
son of Richard (5), was bom in Fail
River, 1750, and married Mary Hatha-
way, bom 1757 and died 1824. Who
were the parents and grandparents of
Mary Earl, Innocent Wardell, Hope
Cook and Mary Hathaway?
[133] H. W. L.

Churchill. — ^Josiah Churchill, of
Wethersfield, Conn., married Elizabeth
Foote, and one of their sons was Joseph
Churchill. Whom did Joseph Churchill
marry? [134] J. C. F.

CoE. — I want the descendants of Sam-
uel Coe and his wife, Mary. .They had
a daughter, Jane, who married David
Fuller. [122] R. P. C.

Mount. — Descendants wanted of Ben-
jamin Mount, who married daughter of
George W. IGng and Frances I. Field in
New York City. [123] F. B. M.

Helm. — ^Will some one give the his-
tory of the Helm family which was
originally in Virginia? Some of its mem-
bers moved to Lincoln county, Ky., and
one of the name settled near New York,
either in the state of New York or the
state of New Jersey. [124] H. B. H.

Reed. — ^Thomas Reed died in Hanson,
Mass., February 28, 1843. He was
probably bom in Boston in or about 1759.
His mother died in Scituate, Mass., in
1814. In the Vital Records of Scituate
she is written down as the "widow
Reed." Who were the parents and
grandparents of Thomas Reed?
[125] S. T. R.

Sage. — Lois Sage, daughter of Jona-
than and Hannah Sage, was born Au-
gust 22, 1743, and married Nathan Wil-
cox. Can any one furnish me with the
ancestry of Jonathan Sage. [126] B.G.N.

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Volume 1

New York, January 20, 1912

Number 3

Warrens In America

(Continued from page 2)

Thos Warren (2), son of Humphrey
(1), by his wife Eleanor, married,
as his first wife, before June 13, 1688,
Mary Barton, daughter of Captain Wil-
liam Barton, junr., of Port Tobacco
parish, Charles county, and from his wife
he received a farm called Strife. By his
wife Mary, he had Thomas, Sarah, Eliza-
beth and Barton.

William Warren, of Hartford, Conn.,
was a freeman 1658. He was twice
married, one of his wives being Eliza-
beth Crow, daughter of John Crow. By
his first wife he had three sons: John,
William and Thomas, and by his second
wife, Abraham and other children. He
died between October 20, 1689, the date
of his will, and November 1, 1689, the
date of the probate of his will.

William Warren was in Virginia be-
tween 1633 and 1640, and was speaker
of the house of burgesses. He is thought
to have been the fifth child of Sir Edward
and Anne (Davenport) Warren of Poyn-
ton, Baron of Stockport, bom 1563, died
1609.

Phineas Warren (4), John of Water-
town (1), Daniel (2), Joshua (3), by

his wife, Grace (Hastings) Warren, had
nine sons and six daughters. Five of the
sons were in the battle of Bunker Hill.
Children of Phineas and Grace (Hast-
ings) Warren:

1. Betsey, bom November 19, 1789,

died February, 1793.

2. Phineas, born May 29, 1741, died

May 20, 1823.

3. Jonathan, bom June 26, 1743, died

October 20, 1826.

4. Lydia, born January, 1745, died Sep-

tember 6, 1839.

5. Peter, born July 6, 1746, died De-

cember 24, 1828.

6. Joshua, bom April 9, 1748, died Jan-

uary 12, 1797.

7. Grace, bom January 11, 1749, died

January 21, 1753.

8. William, born September 18, 1751,

died July, 1831.

9. Rebecca, born January 26, 1753, died

February 19, 1797.

10. Infant, not named, born October 11,

1754, died 1754.

11. Grace Warren again, bom Febmary

15, 1756, died Febmary 27, 1831.

12. Eliphalet, bom September 19, 1757,

died December 3, 1827.

13. Moses, born June 25, 1759, died July

27, 1833.

14. Jonas, bom March 13, 1761, died

February 22, 1825.

15. Charles, born January 26, 1765.

Jonas Warren, youngest son of Phin-
eas and Grace (Hastings) Warren, mar-
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first wife, and Sarah Parker, as his sec-
ond wife. Apphia Stickney was bom
1764, and died 1794.

Children of Jonas and Apphia (Stick-
ney) Warren:

1. Betsey S., bom June 30, 1789, died

May 28, 1817.

2. Aaron W., born July 3, 1791, died Oc-

tober 15, 1813.

3. Jonas, bom in North Beverly July 29,

1787.

Jonas Warren, youngest son of Jonas
and Apphia (Stickney) Warren, died in
Danvers, Mass., November 18, 1876. He
married, February 13, 1817, Hannah
Kimball, daughter of Enoch Kimball, of
Boxf ord, Mass. ; she was bora March 23,
1787, and died 1842.

Children of Jonas and Hannah (Kim-
ball) Warren:

1. Aaron Wood, Bom 1817, died 1888.

2. Harrison Otis, bom November 8,

1820, died December 22, 1880.

3. Betsey Kimball, born 1823, died Oc-

tober, 1898.

Betsey Kimball Warren never married.
She occupied the Warren homestead in
Danvers.

Aaron Wood Warren married Hannah
Woodbury, of Danvers, and they had one
daughter, Anna Phippen Warren, bom
1858, died April, 1904. She married
Richard C. De Normandie of Danvers
and died without issue.

Harrison Otis Warren married Maria
Whittier, of Danvers, in 1842. They had
one son, Charles Harrison Warren, born
June 20, 1845, living in 1912. He mar-
ried Serafina Oakes, of Danvers, in 1871.

Children of Charles Harrison and
Serafina (Oakes) Warren:

1. Hannah Kimball, bom Febmary 23,

1873; married, 1901, Henry Fir-
man WilHamson, of New Jersey;
living 1912, in Ambler, Pa.; one
son, Henry Firman Williamson, jr.,
born April 1, 1902.

2. Margaret Lang, bom January 3, 1876 ;

married, 1899, Levi William Fox;
liviitg in Danvers, Mass., 1912 ; one

son, Warren Fox, bom Febmary
28, 1900. [ID.] CH.W.

L Solomon Warren, of Maryland and
Louden county, Va., was a soldier of the
Revolution.

II. Tilghman Warren was bom about
the time of the Revolution, but the exact
date is not known. He w?is either born
in Virginia or brought there as a young
child by his parents. He was twice mar-
ried. By his first wife he had one son,
Solomon. By his second wife he had
James, born in 1804; John, William,
Charles, Peter, Thomas, Mary, Sarah
and others. He moved to Pickaway
county, Ohio, about 1805, settling on a
farm, where he spent practically the re-
mainder of his life. He died in 1853.

III. Thomas Warren, born December
8, 1822, died October — , 1899. He
married, 1844, Pleasant Newhouse, and
three children of this union grew to ma-
turity, Henry, Jane and Melissa.

IV. Henr/ Warren, born May 8, 1846,
was living in 1912; married, November
2, 1867, Mary Ellen Rhoads.

V. M. C. Warren, son of Henry and

Ellen (Rhoads) Warren, was bom ,

18—. In 1911 he was in Mt. Gilead,
Ohio. [1 G] M. C. W.

William Warren came from County
Down, Ireland, to America soon after
1880 and settled in New York city ; chil-
dren: Mabel Warren and a son who
was a physician in New York city, 1860.

James Warren, a nephew of William
Warren, came from County Down, 1849 ;
living, Cherokee, la., 1911; son, F. S.
Warren, Cherokee, la.

William Warren, a brotlier of James
Warren preceding, also came from Ire-
land, 1849; in 1911, living. Worthing,
S. D. [lU] F. S. W.

(To be continued,)

Many American pioneers of the colo-
nial and later period lost all trace of their
European ancestors on the voyage to
this country.

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Passengers for Virginia

4th July, 1635. These under-written names are to be transported Virginica
inibarqued in the Transport of London Edward Walker Mr. p. Certificate
from the Minister of Gravesend of their comformitie to the orders & discipline
of the Church of England. [Figures following the several names are the years
of age.]

Ollivcr Van Heck, 35
uxor Katherin Van Heck,

34
Peter Van Heck, 7
Richard Maton, 23
Wm. Page, 18
Robert Kevyn, 19
Peter Smith, 25
Brian McGawyn, 3
Daniell Symson, 17
Patrick Breddy, 21
Henry Castell, 22
Steeven Block, 18
Gowen Lancaster, 28
Robert Farrar, 24
Bryan Glynn, 20
Humfrey Hadnet, 22
Jo: Woddall, 18
WiUm. Wallington, 32
Richard Sharp, 15
Marmaduke Kidson, 18
Jo: Godfrey, 21
Riclmrd Critch, 27
Henry Porter, 30
Patrick Woddall, 20
John Gee, 18
Richard Cooper, 28
Richard Eggleston, 24
Wm. Harbert, 15
John Wise, 18
Thomas Coles, 32
Tho: Williams, 18
George Ashon, 22
Peter Sexton, 20
Tho: Johnson, 23
Thomas Saunders, 20
John Lee, 16
Robert Farest, 20
Richard Bick, 18
Willm. Hardisse, 22
Daniell Rose, 25
Richard Anderson, 17

James Phillips, 26
Robert Tynman, 21
Peter WaUer, 24
Ellis Baker, 21
Jonathan Neale, 12
Jo; Bush, 17
Wm. Nesse, 23
Jo: Spreate, 20
Tho : Steevens, 25
Jo: Waters, 29
Robt. Fossett, 26
Walter Downes, 24
Symon Jones, 40
Robert Jenkinson, 18
Francis Clark, 28
Francis Bick, 23
Thomas Cranfield, 14
Tho: Payne, 23
Phillip Jones, 22
John GoodscHi, 21
Steeven Beane, 20
Geo: Barber, 20
Richard Wheatlie, 32
Richard Lloyd, 28
Henrie Barnes, 22
Tho: Moore, 21
John Harrison, 30
Wm. Hudson, 20
Wm. Mason, 30
Mark BriggoU, 21
Richard Petley, 22
Roger Hollidge, 19
Wm. Reddman, 18
Robert Greene, 20
Henry Meddowes, 20
George Johnson, 19
John Voss, 22
Andrew Adams, 18
John Wilson, 32
Nathan Anley, 28
Anthony Grimston, 20
Tho: Hatchet, 19

Robert Honnibom, 21
Jo: Parson, 18
Alexander Burlie, 18
Wm. Hart, 26
Nathaniell Patient, 16
Henry Armstrong, 22
Ralph Golthrop, 20
Edward Thompson, 24
Wm. White, 37
Robert Lewes, 38
Bamabie Barnes, 25
Edward Ison, 20
John Somerton, 24
Jo: Russell, 14
Robert Bateman, 20
Wm. Cooke, 20
Henry Bannister, 22
Tho: Richardson, 26
Jo: Waller, 19
Richard Weaver, 27
John Drue, 26
John Home, 21
Robert Medley, 16
Richard Atkinson, 21
Jo: Pownd, 20
Edward Rede, 17
Francis Webster, 27
Jo: Syard, 38
Geo: Midland, 19
Wm. Watson, 24
Harbert Judd, 16
John Fox, 33
Henry Burkett, 34
Bennet Freeman, 20
Edward Salter, 19
Robert Covett, 25
Tho: Moore, 18
Jo: Russell, 16
Edward Hunt, 19
Robert Beckwith, 21
Jo: Witton, 16
John Harris, 28

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Jo: Baylic, 42
Jo: Hathom, 20
Edward Drue, 18
Jo: Arp, 19
Edmond Pryme, 16

Women.
Katherin Long, 34
Elizabeth Sames, 19
Joan Hardiss, 18

Elizabeth Riley, 18
Ellin Rogerson, 20
Elizabeth Lincoln, 23
Elizabeth Corker, 19
Ann Wandall, 18
Sibbell Lakeland, 25
Ellin White, 26
Wm. White, 7 weeks old
EUener Rogers, 19

Dorothie Charles, 20
Hester Brotherton, 18
Margaret Watson, 18
Oliff Sprawe, 21
Ann Bristo, 22
Ann Gudderidge, 23
Rabecca Lane, 22
Elizabeth Yore, 23

Old Time Bank Accounts

The oldest savings banks in New York
city have unclaimed money on deposit
for the heirs of the following persons :
McMullen, Lucinda, daughter of John,

Greenwich St., 1819.
Lentz, Margaret, wife of John, Collect

PL, 1819.
Treadwell, David C. G., colored, Warren

St., 1819.
Vincent, Mary, Thames St., 1819.
Black, Mary, daughter of Alex., James

St., 1821.
Dows, Margaret, Grand St., 1819.
Williams, Levins, colored servant, Wall

St., 1819.
Adams, Mary, domestic. Gold St., 1821.
Adams, Robert, mason, Pelham St., 1823.
Kinsey, Thomas, son of Evan, Warren

St., 1825.
Cassidy, Hugh, type foundry, Washing-
ton St., 1828.
Bender, Christiana, widow of George,

cor. Broome and Orthard Sts., 1827.
Connor, John, tailor, John St., 1827.
Brown, Christiana C, widow of Thomas,

8th Ave., 1828.
Whitman, John, ship Illinois, 1828.
Kortwright, Susan, washer, Pitt St.,

1829.
Barney, Abraham, colored, Bedford, S.

L, 1829.
McGowren, Thomas, laborer. West

Machias, Me., 1829.
Nesbit, Maria, domestic, Hackensack, N.

J., 1829,

Lawrence, Charlotte, domestic, Bowery,

1830.
Brush, William, colored, son of Hannah,

child, 1830.
O'Donnell, James R., son of Mary, child,

1830.
Mills, Charles, of Journeymen's Bakers

Benefit Society, 1830.
Doran, Margaret or Jane Burns, Liberty

St., 1831.
Sullivan, John, laborer, Broome St.,

1831.
Batchelor, Ruth, widow of Josiah,

Marketfield, 1831.
Tygh, Winefred, domestic, Mott St.,

1831.
Jenkins, William, millwright. Vestry St.,

1831.
Bidobayle, John, cutter, Howard St.,

1831.
Leary, Murtock, laborer. Orange St.,

1831.
Wood, James, colored, domestic. Prince

St., 1832.
Tyson, Jane, widow of John, Hester St.,

1832.

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United States Census For 1790

Following is a complete list of heads of families for the town of Castleton,
Richmond County, New York, according to the United States Census of 1790:

Burbank, Anna (widow)
Stilwell, Joseph
Wandall, John
Scharit, Wm.
Colon, James
Housemon, Abrm.
Houghwout, Peter
Bancker, Adrian
Berdine, Vincent
Squire, Stephen
Van Debelt, Cornelius
Wood, John
Dongan, John C.
Kingston, Wm.
Crocheron, Abrm.
Freeland, W. Halimus
Housmon, Richard
Stretch, Saml.
Parker, Saml.
Mackey, Anna (widow)
Mercereau, John
Seward, Christopher
Post, Christian
Johnston, John
Degrote, Garret
Carlton, John
Degrote, John
Degrote, Peter
Cruse, Cornelius
Danniels, James
Rolph, Abrm.
Briton, Nathaniel
Jones, Abrm.
Bush, John
Martinno, Stephen
Wood, Stephen
Wright, John
Johnson, James
Haughwout, Nicholas
Christopher, John

Christopher, Joseph
Conner, Richard
Martinno, John
Haughwout, Peter
Prall, Peter
Blake, William
Simonson, John
Tyson, John
Wood, Timothy
Housmon, John
Breasted, Peter
Cosine, Willhalimus
Berdine, James
Le Forge, Peter
Breasted, John
Blaw, Cornelius
Barnes, George
Martilin, Benjn.
Martilin, Abrm.
Edinburgh, Peter
Marlin, John
Webb, Richard
Lackermon, Isaac
Barton, Joseph
Dey, David

Scharit, Richard, Senior
Scharit, Rchard, Junior
Lewis, James
Scharit, John
Stilwell, Abigail (widow)
Egburt, Tunis
Fountain, Anthony
Bedel, Israel
Baty, Edward
Baty, John
Dorsett, John
Cortelyaw, Jacob
Mary, John Frederick
Scharit, James
Baker, John
Neal, Anthony
Garretson, John
Pelyon, John
Drake, Jonathan
Ferine, James
Simmons, Thos.
Cripps, Thos.
Jennings, Lambert
Van Pelt, Saml.
Bushat, Rama

Kingston, Sarah (widow) Segoin, John

Marlin, Abrm. Simonson, Daniel

Housmon, John Butler, John

Dongan, Walter Buskirk, Cornelius

Lisk, John Buskirk, Philip

Butler, John Garretson, Daniel

Van Pelt, Wm. Bushkirk, John

Sanders, Peter Van Debelt, Jacob

Van Pelt, John Blake, Edward
Kelsey, Hannah (widow) Stilwell, Abrm.

Ferine, Peter Earo, Jeremiah

Burbanck, Abrm. Housmon, Peter

McSwine, John Lisk, John

Butler, Isaac Coson, Daniel

Butler, James Coson, John
Egburt, Abrm.

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Questions

Keller. — Who was the progenitor of
the Keller family of Maryland and
Pennsylvania. [141] A. M. K.

Hood. — What publications have there
been concerning the Hood family of
America and where can they be obtained?
[140] W. K. H.

Lee. — Ralph Lee, son of William Lee,
was bom in Bucks county, Penn., some-
time after 1727. Whom did he marry
and what were the names of his chil-
dren? [137] B. R. L.

HuLETT. — Members of the Hulett
family were early located in Massachu-
setts and later on in Vermont and north-
ern and central New York. It is be-
lieved that they were descended from
Sergeant Thomas Howlett, who came to
Massachusetts in the fleet of Governor
John Winthrop, 1635. He settled in

Ipswich, Mass., and his descendants were
in various towns in eastern Massachu-
setts. In the colonial records the name
was variously spelled Howlett, Hewlett
and Hulett and in other ways. The
family, so far as is known, was not con-
nected with the Hewletts of Long Island.
Can anyone give the line of descent from
the Massachusetts emigrant to the Hu-
letts of Virginia and New York? There
was a Charles Hulett in central New
York about the middle of the nineteenth
century. His daughter married John
Amot, Jr., of Elmira. Who was he?
Was he descended from Sergeant
Thomas Howlett, and if so, what is his
pedigree? [139] L. A. H.

Pennington. — Will some one give
me the names of the parents of Hannah
Pennington, who, about 1745, married
William Bradfield of New Jersey and
Pennsylvania. [142] B. C. A.

Sage. — ^Jonathan and Hannah Sage
were married before 1743. Can any one
give me the names of their children with
dates of birth ? Also who were the par-
ents of Hannah Sage? [138] V. P. S.

Answers

Whipple.— [104] O. W. T.— Commo-
dore Abraham Whipple was bom near
Providence, R. I., September 26, 1733.
At the age of thirteen he, with his par-
ents, removed to Providence. In 1761,
August 2, he married Sarah Hopkins, a
niece of Governor Stephen Hopkins. By
this marriage they had two daughters,
Catherine, who married Lieutenant
Colonel Sproat, and Polly, who married
Dr. Ezekial Comstock, of Smithfield,
R. I. By this last marriage there were
two children, Dr. W. W. Gomstock, who
died in Middleboro, Mass., and Sarah
Ann, who died in Wrentham, Mass., in
September, 1855. Colonel Sproat died
in Marietta, August 29, 1819, his wife
having died October 15, 1818. A. W. S.

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De Gree.— [112[ M. D. H.— William
Goforth, an officer in New York in the
Revolution, afterwards a judge of the
territorial court of the Northwest terri-
tory, married, in New York, May 18,
1760, Catharine Meeks, who was bom
at Parhamus, East Jersey, February 26,
1744. Catharine Meeks was the daugh-
ter of Samuel Meeks and Jemima De-
gree, daughter of Michael Degree, "a
French Protestant who fled from France
at the persecution of Paris." Under bap-
tisms, in the First and Second Presby-
terian churches of New York City : "Sep-
tember 11, 1785, Henry Youngs, son of
Thomas De Grey and Abigail Mosier, his
wife, bom December 11, 1769" and "No-
vember 13, 1785, Michael De Grey, an
adult." Under baptisms, in records of
the Reformed Dutch church in New York
City: "September 26, 1708, Charel, child
of Michiel de Grae and Catharina La-
forse, godparents, Jan Meserol Barber,
Mtiserol Jo, dochter.*'' In the Docu-
mentary History of New York in a rate
list of Bushwyck, Long Island, Septem-
ber 8, 1683, appears the name of an Ad-
riaen Laforse. The name La Force was
that of one of the great Protestant fami-
lies of France for nearly a century be-
fore 1683. Between 1762 and 1779 the
names of four women by the name of
De Grey or its variations are recorded in
a book of early New York marriage li-
censes. F. G. D.

Paine.— [115] J. E. L.— The Amer-
ican pedigree of Robert Treat Paine is
as follows:

I. — ^Thomas Paine, the American
founder of the Eastham, Mass., family,
was a native of England. He came to
Massachusetts, as tradition has it, in
1624. Probably he was the Thomas
Paine who settled in Yarmouth in 1639
and was living there as late as 1650, be-
ing the first deputy from that place to
the Colony Court at Plymouth.

II. — Thomas Paine of Eastham, Mass.,

born in England, was brought to the Ply-
mouth colony by his parents about 1624.
He was then about 10 years of age. He
settled in Eastham before 1653, was a
Selectman of Eastham, a representa-
tive to the General Court and a Deputy
in several years from 1672 to 1690. He
died August 16, 1706. He married,
about 1650, Mary Snow, daughter of
Nicholas and Constant Snow, of East-
ham, and granddaughter of Stephen
Hopkins, the Mayflower pilgrim. She
died April 28, 1704.

III. — ^James Paine, of Barnstable,
Mass., was born in Eastham, Mass., July
6, 1665, and died in Barnstable, Novem-
ber 12, 1728. He married, April 9, 1691,
Bethia Thatcher, daughter of Colonel
John Thatcher, of Yarmouth, and grand-
daughter of Anthony Thatcher, one of
the founders of Yarmouth ; she died No-
vember 12, 1728.

IV. — ^Thomas Paine, bom in Barn-
stable, Mass., April 9, 1694, died in
Braintree, Mass., May 30, 1756. A
minister in Weymouth, Mass., merchant
in Boston and iron manufacturer. He
married in Boston, April 21, 1721, fiunice
Treat, daughter of Reverend Samuel
Treat, of Eastham, Mass. ; she was born
in 1705 and died October 17, 1747.

V. — ^Robert Treat Paine, signer of the
Declaration of Independence, born in
Boston, March 11, 1731, died in Boston,
May 11, 1814, married in 1770, Sarah
Cobb, daughter of Thomas Cobb, of
Taunton, Mass; she died June 6, 1816,
aged 76. V. A. P.

BoGGS.— [103] A, L. B.— Captain John
Boggs, bom in Western Pennsylvania in
1738, married Jane Irwin and raised a
large family on the frontier, near Wheel-
ing, W. Va. One son, William, was
taken prisoner by the Indians and another
son, James, was killed b> the Indians
near Cambridge, Ohio. John Boggs was
in Ohio, 1789 and died, 1820. J. W. B.

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Number 4

Montgomery Family History

(Continued from page 10.)

Roger de Montgomerie, who has al-
ready been referred to as the founder of
this family in England, accompanying
William the Conqueror in the invasion
of England in 1066, continued a con-
spicuous figure in English history for a
generation. Following the death of the
Conqueror, in 1087, he participated in a
conspiracy against William Rufus, which
was unsuccessful. Later in life he
turned his attention to religious matters,
entering holy orders, and becoming a
monk of the Abbey of St. Peter and St.
Paul. His death occurred July 27, 1094.

He married, in 1048, Mabel, daughter
and heiress of WiUiam de Talvas, count
of Belesme and Alencon, to whose large
estates he succeeded in 1070. The monk-
ish chroniclers of the times say of the
countess that "she was a wicked, un-
natural and cruel woman/' and that she
was "haughty, worldly-minded, crafty,
and a babbler." Following her death, the
carl, Roger de Montgomerie, married,
seccffid, Adelaide, daughter of Everhard,
Seigneur of Puiset, son of Hugh, the
first; of that name, and lord of Puiset,
near Janville, who was the first of the
family who became a Crusader.

The children of Roger de Montgom-
erie, carl of Shrewsbury, were ten in
number, nine by the first wife and one by
the second. Six of these were sons. The
male lines of descent through the eldest

four sons, Robert, Hugh, Roger and
Philip, became finally exhausted with the
death, about 1221, of William de Mont-
gomerie, count of Ponthieu and Mont-
gomerie, who had, in 1195, married
Alice, sister of King Philip Augustus;
his children, three in number, were all
daughters.

The succession fell to the eldest living
male representative of Amulph de Mont-
gomerie, brother of his great-grand-
father, and fifth son of the first earl of
Shrewsbury. This son, Amulph, or Ar-
naud de Montgomerie, sometimes called
the earl of Pembroke, joined his broth-
ers in resistance to the usurpation of the
throne by Henry I, and was banished
from the kingdom. Crossing to Ireland
in 1100, he became united in marriage
to Lafracoth, daughter of Murckhart, or
Murtagh O'Brien, king of Munster. It
is from them the New Jersey and east-
ern Montgomerys are descended.

Philip de Montgomerie, son of Ar-
nulph de Montgomerie, by his wife, La-
fracoth O'Brien, settled in Scotland,
since which time the Montgomerics have
been closely identified with the history
of that country. He married Lady Mar-
garet Dunbar, daughter of Cospatric,
second earl of Dunbar and March. Their
great-great-grandson, Robert de Mont-
gomerie, became, on the death of his
kinsman, William de Montgomerie,
count of Ponthieu and Montgomerie, the
chief of the Montgomerics; and, dying
without issue, he was, in turn, succeeded

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by his brother, Sir John de Montgom-
crie.

The latter's great-grandson, Sir John
de Montgomerie, married, in 1361, Eliza-
beth, daughter and heiress of Sir Hugh
Eglinton of Eglinton, and by her ob-
tained the large possesions of that fam-
ily, in Ayrshire, upon the death of her
father, about 1374. Sir John de Mont-
gomerie was succeeded by his second son
knd namesake, Sir John, who was one of
the chiefs of the Scottish army which,
in 1402, invaded England, and was taken
prisoner at Halidon Hill. In after years
he was one of the leading nobles attached
to the court of James I, of Scotland.

Being succeeded by his son, Alexan-
der, the latter was distinguished for his
loyalty to James I, and served under him,
and under his successor as well, as a
member of the privy council. Burke
gives the date of the creation of the peer-
age of the lords of Montgomerie of Scot-
land, with Sir Alexander as the first lord,
as January 31, 1448-9. Sir Alexander
de Montgomerie died prior to October
14, 1465, and was succeeded by his
grandson, bearing the same name. Short-
ly before this, James II, by grant of
January 31, 1448-9, had conferred upon
the elder Sir Alexander the heritable
Bailliary of Cuninghame, as a result of
which sprung up a bitter feud between
the Montgomeries and Cuninghames,
which lasted more than a century, and
was attended by fatal consequences to
both houses. Hugh, third lord of Mont-
gomery, in 1508, was created earl of
Eglinton by James IV, and was also
made a member of the privy council by
the latter. Half a century later, April
12, 1586, Hugh de Montgomerie, fourth
carl of Eglinton, great-great-great-
grandson of Ae first earl, last mentioned,
was shot by a party of the Cuninghames
and their friends. His son, Hugh de
Montgomerie, succeeded as the fifth earl
of Eglinton, but died without issue. In
anticipation of leaving no direct heirs,
he resigned his earldom, July 27 and

August 1, 1611, and had a new grant
created, dated November 28, 1611,
wherein his cousin. Sir Alexander Seton,
of Foulstruther, the son of his aunt, Mar-
garet, countess of Winton, was named as
his heir, in prejudice of his cousin. Sir
Neil Montgomerie, of Lainshaw, who
was the legal heir male. King James
VI subsequently, by royal charter, dated
March 24, 1615, ratified and confirmed
Sir Alexander Seton's claim to the hon-
ors, dignities, etc., involved in the earl-
dom of Eglinton.

Thus the title was lost to the family of
Montgomeries, whose head, at the time,
was Sir Neil Montgomerie of Lainshaw.
The action of Hugh, the fifth earl, in
thus barring the male line, or Lainshaw
branch of the Montgomerie family, from
the title and estates of Eglinton, is said
to have been due to the fact that, at the
time of his father's murder by the Cun-
inghames, in 1586, Lady Lainshaw, who
was a Cuninghame, being a sister of the
then earl of Glencaim, and of John Cun-
inghame of Ross, the leader of the band
of assassins, had encouraged the war-
fare upon the Montgomeries.

It is from the second son of Sir Neil
Montgomerie of Lainshaw that the
American Montgomerys tracing to this
house are descended. [2 E] L. H. W.

William Montgomery and Joseph
Montgomery, sons of Joseph Montgom-
ery, of Ireland, who was of Scotch des-
cent, came to America before the Revo-
lution and settled in Virginia. Joseph
was a soldier in the patriot army, but
eventually returned to Ireland. William
also returned, but in 1805 he was again
in Virginia, where he settled in Ohio
county and lived there until he died.
William Montgomery, son of William
the pioneer, was bom in 1792 in Vir-
ginia. He moved to Pennsylvania in
1817 and lived in Washington county,
marrying Elizabeth Kelly. [2 E] J. K. E.
(To be continued,)

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Pioneers to Ohio

Following are the names on the subsistence roll of a company commanded
by Major John Bumham and engaged in the service of the Scioto Company to
niake a new settlement on the banks of the Ohio River in May, 1790. They were
from Massachusetts^ Vermont, Connecticut and New York :

William Potter, Ipswich
Isaac Choate, Leicester
Nathan Page, Danvers
Jacob Proctor, Danvers
Elijah Bodell, Mathuen
Ichiabud Olivant, Ipswich
Abraham Dodge, Ipswich
Aaron Brown, Ipswich
Thomas Silk, Ipswich
John Andrews, Ipswich
Roger Sergeant, Ipswich
John Moors, Cape Ann
John Hart, Wenham
Phineas Richardson, Leicester
Reuben Rice, Keen
Ebenezer Randol, Putna[m]
Zacheus Goldsmith, Andover
Isaac Dempsie, Danvers
Samuel Thomas, Danvers

Jonathan Sheldon, Danvers
lichael Carroll, Danvers
Gideon Batchelor, Danvers
Nathaniel Brown, Ipswich

Benjamin Potter, Ipswich
Robert Saflford, Woodstock
Samuel Lewis, Nev/burgh
William Dunlap, Newburgh
James Dorsey, Danvers
Frederick Palmer, West Springfield
Ithamer Shaw, West Springfield
Daniel Maynard, New Marlboro
Joseph Smith, West Springfield
David Butler, Suffield
William Bridge, Rutland
John Miles, Rutland
Asaph Pimuy, Simesbury
Aaron Pimuy, Simesbury
Asa Bullard, West Springfield
Jonathan Pimuy, Simsbury
Melancton Foster, Simesbury
Thaddeus Humphrey, Simesbury
Josephus Lee, Southwick
Silas Fowler, Southwick
Gamaliel Ingraham, Southwick
Luther Freman, Colchester
Joseph Thompson, Colchester

Pioneers of Newburgh, N. Y.

The settlement of what subsequently
became the town and then the city of
Newburgh, N. Y., on the west bank of
the Hudson river, was made in 1709 by
a company of immigrants from the Pala-
tinate of the Rhine. This company,
driven from their homes by the wars
which had devastated the Palatinate dur-
ing the reign of Louis XIV, reached
London in Ae spring of 1708, and were
sent to New York by Queen Anne in
September of that year. From New
York they were removed, in the spring
of 1709, to the district then described as
"Quassek creek and Thanskamer." The

company included the f ollowin^^ families :

1. Joshua Kockerthal, minister, aged
39; his wife Sibylle Charlotte, aged 39,
and their children, Benigna Sibylle, aged
10, Christian Joshua, aged 7, and Su-
sanna Sibylle, aged 3 years..

2. Lorentz Schwisser, husbandman
and viner, aged 25 ; his wife Anna Cath-
arine, aged 26, and their child Johannes,
aged 8.

3. Heinrich Rennau, stoddng-maker
and husbandman, aged 24; his wife Jo-
hanna, aged 26, and their children, Lor-
entz, aged 2 years, and Heinrich, aged 5
months. Also, Susanna and Maria Jo-
hanna Liboschain, sisters of his wife,
aged respectively 15 and 10 years.

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4. Andries Volck, husbandman and
viner, aged 30; his wife Ann Catharine,
aged 27, and their children, Maria Bar-
bara, aged 5, George and Hieronemus,
aged 4, and Anna Gertrude, aged 1 year.

5. Michael Weigand, husbandman,
aged 52; his wife Anna Catharine, aged
54, and their children, Anna Maria, aged
13, Tobias, aged 7, and George, aged 5
years.

6. Jacob Webber, husbandman and
viner, aged 30 ; his wife Anna Elizabeth,
aged 25, and their children, Eve Maria,
aged 5, and Eve Elizabeth, aged 1 year.

7. Johannes Jacob Plettel, husband-
man and viner, aged 40; his wife Ann
Elizabeth, aged 29, and their children,
Margaret, aged 10, Anna Sarah, aged 8,
and Catharine, aged 3 years.

8. Johannes Fischer, smith and hus-
bandman, aged 27; his wife Maria Bar-
bara, aged 26, and their son Andries,
aged 2 weeks.

9. Melchior Gulch, carpenter, aged
39; his wife Anna Catharine, aged 43,
and their children, Anna Catharine, aged
12, and Heinrich, aged 10 years.

10. Isaac Turck, husbandman, aged
23 years, unmarried.

11. Peter Rose (or LaRoss), cloth-
weaver, aged 34 ; his wife Johanna, aged
37, Mary Wierman, his mother-m-law,
aged 45, and Catharine, her child, aged
2 years.

12. Isaac Feder, husbandman and
viner, aged 33 ; his wife Catharine, aged
30, and their son Abram, aged 2 years.

13. Daniel Fiere, husbandman, aged
32; his wife, Anna Maria, aged 30, and
their children, Andrew, aged 7, and Jo-
hannes aged 6 years.

14. Herman Schuneman, clerk, aged
28, unmarried.

The land patent which had been prom-
ised to these emigrants was not issued
until 1719, and by that time several
changes had occurred in the company.
Johannes Jacob Plettel died on the pas-
sage to America, and his widow married
George Lockstead; Joshua Kockerthal

also died; Peter Rose removed to Penn-
sylvania and transferred his interest to
**one Burger Meynders, a blacksmith;*'
Lorentz Schwisser, Isaac Turck, Hein-
rich Rennau, and Daniel Fiere removed
elsewhere, and Christian Henricke and
Peter Johnson or Jansen had been added
to the company. These chsuiges were
recognized by the government, and the
patent was issued to the then occupants,
viz.: "Lot No. 1 to George Lockstead
and Anna Elizabeth his wife, Margaret,
Anna, Sarah, and Catharine, their chil-
dren, 250 acres — the interest being origi-
nally held by Johannes Jacob Plettel;
whose wife and children became his
heirs; No. 2 to Michael Weigand and
Anna Catharine his wife, and Tobias,
George, and Anna Maria, their children,
250 acres ; No. 3 to Hermam Schuneman
and Elizubeth his wife, 100 acres ; No. 4
to Christian Henricke, 100 acres; No. 5
to Sibylle Charlotte Kockerthal, the
widow of Joshua Kockerthal, and to
Christian Joshua, Benigna Sibylle, and
Susanna, Sibylle, their children, 250
acres; No. 6 to Burger Me)mders, 100
acres; No. 7 to Jacob Webber and Ann
Elizabeth his wife, and Eve Maria and
Eve Elizabeth, their children, 200 acres ;
No. 8 to Johannes Fischer and Maria
Barbara his wife, 100 acres; No. 9 to
Andries Volck and Anna Catharine his
wife, and George, Hieronemus, Maria
Barbara, and Anna Gertrude, their chil-
dren, 300 acres."

In an account of the murder of Thomas
Kidderminster in April, 1654, it is
stated that his wife heard that he had
died on the island of Jamaica, and com-
ing to London she met a person who
knew her husband, who assured her that
he never was there, "for he had inquired
of Mr. Hodges, who kept a register of
all the passengers to and from Jamaica ;
and she herself had searched the register
two or three times." This list very likely
contained the names of some emigrants
who afterward came to America.

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United States Census for 1790

Following is a complete list of heads of families in the town of Easton, North-
ampton county, Penn., according to the United States Census of 1790.

Miksel^ Christopher
Richard, Abraham
Lidy, Leonard
Knouse, Lewis
Mush, Catharin
Upp, Jacob
Berline, Abraham
Nunamaker, Jacob
Bamthouse, William
Shuke, John
Snyder, Henry
Hester, John
Ihoe, Adam
Upp, Michel
Wilkins, George
Backman, Abraham
Hertsel, Christopher
Tatclme, William
Hay, Adam
Hane, Henry
Barton, Frederick
Swele, George
Shipard, Mary
Sedman, Isaac
Sailor, David
Ihree, Conrod, Jun.
Ihree, Conrod
Ihree, Peter
Rapshare, Jacob
Tyson, Mary
Town, John
Simon, John
Nungaster, George
Harmen, Revd. Frederick
Pedigrue, James
Levy, Bamet
Kern, Henry
Upp, Jacob
Young, John
Pcrsald, Mordeca
Bickseler, Christian
Alshouse, Henry
Alshouse, John
Mikcsel, Jacob
Bishop, datarina

Speringer, Henry
Rattle, Jacob
Rise, Jacob
Bitenbender, Conrod
Moser, George
Rouk, Willisun
Sidgreves, Samuel
Shouk, Lewis
Rose, Anthony
Moyer, John
Nicholas, John
Shipe, Jacob
Tingler, George
Smith, Jacob
Daringer, Henry
Rone, Conrod
Bittenb«ider, Christopher
Wilfilt, Lanah
Hester, Daniel
Krutz, Jacob
Castor, Andrew
Smith, Christopher
Hercules, Thomas
Young, Elizabeth
Proksel, Nicholas
Criselbaugh, Christian
Miller, Peter
Lebar, Abraham
Ostertuck, Henry
Strouse, Henry
Kighline, Andrew
Garry, John
Ireman, Mates
Trisebaugh, Adam
Wiant, Jacob
Stetinger, John
Nicholas, John
Bamet, William
Bamet, Henry
Bamet, John
Reador, Jacob
Bittenbendor, George
Beth, John

Waggoner, Geo. Frederick
Ikehnire, Andrew

Ihoe, Michel
Snyder, Peter
Prutsman, John
Everhart, Margaret
Ludlow, Andrew
Ramsey, James
Hemp, Jacob
Kislet, Catrina
Trail, Robert
Arat, Jacob
Roberts, Joseph
Clayman, John
Blist, John
Green, John
More, Samuel
Strouse, Jacob
Riche, Revd. Frade
Colyard, James
Hose, Henry
Heap, Gutlip
Righter, Peter
Reader, Absolum
Hart, Michel
Toderter, Philip
Bush, Henry
Nungaster, Peter
Quiler, Frederick
Sythman, Jacob
Riser, Mary

Johnson, Robert
lacolt, Joseph
Umphind, Jacob
Grimes, James
Miller, Mathias
Crage, John
Able, Jacob
Snyder, George
McGill, John
Waggoner, David
Waggoner, Daniel
Peck, Sower
Kichline, Jacob
Walter, John
Kitenbender, Jacob

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Questions

Webb.— John Webb, married, (1) Ann

, and (2), Elizabeth Swift. His

daughter Sarah married, about 1677,
Robert Prince. I wish more informa-
tion regarding John Webb and his first
wife, his and her ancestry, dates of birth,
death and marriage. Had he other chil-
dren than Sarah ? [143] S. M.W.

SiLLiMAN.— The Christian name of
the wife of Daniel Silliman was Abigail.
What was her family name? Was she
his first or his second wife, aiid did he
have two wives named Abigail? [155]

D. S. A.

Thompson.— Richard Hubell, born
January 25, 1684, son of John and Pa-
tience Hubbell of New Haven, married
December 11, 1707, Abigail Thompson.
Who WHS Abigail? [156] C M. S.

Warner. — Information, in any char-
acter, is wanted concerning the Warner
family of Pawlet, Vermont. John, (1),
married Priscilla Symonds (he, supposed
to be descended from William Warner
of Ipswich, Mass.). Mark, (2), their
son, married Abigail Montagu, 1671, in
Hadley, Mass., died 1705. Their son,
Mark, (3), bom February 20, 1678, died
August 3, 1766, married April 16, 1701,
Lydia Phelps; and their son Mark, (4),
bom December 21, 1712, married Ex-
perience Wright, bom 1714. Was this
John (1), the ancestor of the Pawlet
Warners? Were any of the Connecti-
cut Warners of the line of Colonel Seth
Warner of Pawlet? [150] A. W. M.

HuLETT. — Family tradition Says that
one or more Hulett families were living
in or near Hadley, Mass., in the latter
part of the seventeenth century and that
several of them moved to Vermont and
settled in Rutland county. Can anyone
give the names of the heads of these
families, the names of their wives and
children, with dates? [151] H. C. D.

Williams. — ^Thomas Williams and
his wife, Rebecca, lived in Wethersfield,
Conn., where he died Febmary 5, 1692.
Their daughter Mary married, June 2,
1698, Thomas Demming. Who was
Thomas Williams and who was his wife
Rebecca? [152] B. C. H.

Stillwell. — Can any one inform me
concerning the Stillwell family of New
York, descended from Nicholas Still-
well, who was on Manhattan Island,
about 1639 or 1640. I believe that a
history of the family, or of some branch
of it, has been published, but I cannot
now recall. I will be obliged for any in-
formation. [153] S. A. C.

Clark.— Who was John Clark of Pres-
ton, Conn., his parents, his wife and his
children? [154] A. B. C

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John Ashley, father of Jane, who mar-
ried, first, Dr. William Bull of Western,
Conn., in the vicinity of Litchfield or
Caanan ; second, Captain RuloflF Dutcher
(1762); third, Judge Joshua Porter of
Salisbury. Jane Ashley had a brother,
Lieutenant-Colonel John Ashley; her
mother's name was Hanah Hogaboom.
When and where was John Ashley bom
and when and where did he die? He is
spoken of as Judge and Colonel John
Ashley; when and where did he gain
*e title of colonel? [157] B. W. H.

Answers

Hood.— [140] W. K. H. Very little
has been published concerning the Hood
families of America. The principal
present sources of information are: A
Genealogical Dictionary of the Early
Settlers of New England, by James Sav-
age; Smith's History of Delaware
County, Penn,; John Hood of Lynn,
Mass,, in The Essex Institute Historical
Collections, vol. 45, 1909; Genealogy of
the Dunwoody and Hood Families, by
Gilbert Cope, 1899, and Genealogy of
Richard Hood, by C. E. Whipple, 1899.

H. W. L.

Andrews.— [105] A. L. B. — Israel
Ward Andrews was bom in Danbury,
Conn., January 3, 1815, one of six sons
of William and Sarah (Parkhill) An-
drews. The father, the Reverend Wil-
liam Andrews, — descendant of William
Andrews, one of the first settlers of New
Haven — was graduated with high honor
from Middlebury College in 1806, was
settled as pastor in WindUiam, Conn., aft-
erwards in Danbury and finally in Corn-
wall, where he died in 1838. W. A. C

KiMBERLEY.— [102] J. K. L.— The
first deed recorded in Jefferson county,
Ohio, was for land in Warren township,
being that of the United States to Eph-

raim Kimberly for 300 acres near In-
dian Short creek. The warrant was is-
sued to Kimberly for services as a sol-
dier in the Revolutionary War. The deed
was given under seal in Philadelphia,
1795, and was signed by George Wash-
mgton. The tract was surveyed by Ab-
salom Martin, and included the mouth
of Short creek. The southwest comer
was marked by a stone monument.
Among the first settlers in the territory
then included in Warren township were:
Alexander and James McConnell, David
Rush, David Barton, John Winters, Sam-
uel Patton, James Campbell, John Ed-
wards, Peter Snedeker, John Henderson,
Robert and William McCullough, Joseph
Moore ; all these in 1798-99. The Alex-
anders, Mitchells, Clarks and Pickens
also came before 1800 and settled on
what is now known as Scotch-Ridge, in
Belmont county, where is located per-
haps the oldest graveyard in the original
county. A. D. T.

OviATT.— [107] A. J. X.— Eunice
Newton, daughter of Isaac Newton and
granddaughter of John Newton, all of
Goshen, Conn., where she was born, No-
vember 15, 1777, and married Heman
Oviatt, June 10, 1797, was one of the
most remarkable women among the first
settlers of the Western Reserve. An in-
teresting recital of some of the pioneer
experiences of Heman Oviatt and Eu-
nice (Newton) Oviatt, is preserved in
the history of the Newton and Oviatt
families, written (1875) by Mrs. Har-
riet Oviatt Randall, bom in Hudson,
May 26, 1808, died in Columbus, Ohio,
September 12, 1885, daughter of Heman
and Eunice (Newton) Oviatt and wife of
the Reverend D. A. Randall, D. D., bom
January 14, 1813, in Colchester, Conn.,
died June 27, 1884, in Columbus, Ohio,
son of James and Joanna (Pemberton)
Randall and grandson of John Randall
and of Patrick Grant Pemberton, both
Revolutionary soldiers in the Connecticut
volunteers. H. O. P.

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The Camerons in America

Camerons were not among the early
comers to America. James Savage, in
his Genealogical Dictionary of the First
Settlers of New England, which records
those who arrived before May, 1692,
docs not have one of the name. Repre-
sentatives of the family appeared in
Pennsylvania and in Virginia in the mid-
dle of the eighteenth century and there-
after and from these most of the name
who trace back to the colonial period are
descended.

The early American Camerons were
of the Scottish Cameron clan that has
been famous as far back as the annals of
Scottish history go. By the best Celtic
authorities the Camerons are believed to
have been of the same origin as the Clan
Chattan. The Lochiel family, from
which the American emigrants to Vir-
ginia and Pennsylvania were derived,
belonged to the Strone branch of the
Clan Chattan, which declaring itself in-
dependent became the head of the clan
and maintained that position ever after.
The arms of this branch of the Camerons
were emblazoned:

Arms. — Gules, two bars or. Crest. — A
sheaf of five arrows tied with a band
gules. Supporters. — Two savages,
wreathed head and middle with oak, each
holding in his exterior hand a Lochaber
axe proper. Mottoes. — ^Above the crest :
Unite. Under the arms: Pro rege et
pairia.

These were the arms which were borne

by Lochiel, the most famous chieftain of
the clan, in the eighteenth century. Dur-
ing the Scottish civil wars the Camerons
were ever loyal to the royal house of
Stewart, in common with most of the
other Highlanders, and were leaders in
all the fitting of that period. Lochiel
was one of the most conspicuous figures
in that time. Poetry has preserved re-
membrance of him in Campbell's verse
beginning, "Lochiel, Lochiel, beware of
the day." His declaration to Prince
Charlie, "Come weal, come woe, FU fol-
low thee," became historic and fully ex-
pressed the courage and the loyalty of
himself and his clan. Lochiel was called
both the "Gentle Lochiel" and the "Great
Lochiel." He was a son of John the
Tanister, tanister meaning a land owner
or governor.

Concerning an early chieftain of the
clan, Johnston's Scottish Clans and Their
Tartans says: "An eminent native of
Kilmalie was the famous Sir Evan of
Lochiel, who was bom in 1629 and died
in 1719 and was a famous cavalier in his
time. From his swarthy complexion he
was named Evan Dhu. At the head of
his clan Sir Evan is said to have made no
less than thirty-five armed forays into
the territories of his enemies."

Evan Cameron, of Fassifem, was a
younger brother of Lochiel. He married
Lucy Campbell of Barcoldane. The
father of Lucy Campbell held the estate
of Glenmorc, to which he succeeded on
the death of his brother, who was shot
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Allan Braec Stewart, otherwise knpwn
as Vic Jan VicAlaster; for this crime
the laird of Ardshiel was executed by
order of the duke of Argyle at the ca3tle
of Inverary. It was from this Evan
Cameron that the first Virginia emigrant
of the name descended. [3A] L. H. W.

According to the United States census
for 1790, the Camerons who were heads
of families in Pennsylvania were: Wil-
liam Cameron, Nottingham township,
Chester county, with a family of seven
adults and two children; Samuel Cam-
eron, Nenallen township, Fayette coun-
ty, with a family of eight adults, two chil-
dren and one slave; Duncan Cameron,
Northumberland county, with a family
of six adults and two children; Robert
Cameron, Philadelphia county, with a
family of two adults and one diild; Al-
len Cameron, Allegheny county, with a
family of two adults and one child ; Dun-
can Cameron, Mifflin county, with a fam-
ily of five adults and two children ; James
Cameron, Washington county, with a
family of four adults and six children.
[3 B] D. C M.

Cameron, whose Christian

name and name of wife arc not known.
He was early settled in Pennsylvania.
His sons emigrated to Ohio soon after
1800.

II.

Robert Cameron, who moved to Paris,
Ohio. A sergeant of volunteers in the
war of 1812.

John Cameron, who moved to Paris
in 1808. He married Jane Witherspoon.

Alexander Cameron, also of Paris, was
a volunteer in the war of 1812. He set-
tled near Mapleton in 1807. He was a
leader in the Methodist Episcopal Sun-
day school of Paris in 1827.

III.

John Cameron, son of John and Jane
(Witherspoon) Cameron, died in Paris
and left a daughter Sarah.

Leah Cameron, daughter of John and
Jane (Witherspoon) Cameron, was
bom May 17, 1810, and died June 25,
1880. She married, first, Daniel Clem-
ens, and, second, George Sponseller. By
her first husband Leah (Cameron) Qem-
ens, had three children: John S.,
Amanda and William Clemens. By her
second husband she had six children:
Ella, Emory, Joseph, Emeline, Julia and
Leah Sponseller. [3C] C. M. W.
(To be continued.)

Surnames

A common prefix to Dutch family
names is the word "de," which is here
generally supposed to mean of, and to
denote a French extraction. This is,
however, incorrect, it being in the former
language the article the, as, for example,
-de Wit, the White; de Bruyn, the
Brown ; de Kock, the Cook ; de Jong, the
Young ; de Koster, the Sexton ; de Vries,
the Frisian ; de Waal, the Walloon, etc.,
synonymous with the English names
White, Brown, Cook, Young, &c. It is
also prefixed, in its different genders and
cases, as, — 't Hooft, (het Hoofd) the
Head; J. in 't Veld (in het Veld) J. in
the Field ; F. L. der Kinderen, F. L. of
the Children; van der Hegge, of the
Hedge; van den Berg, of the Hill; uil
den Boogaard, out or from the Orchard ;
equivalent to our Head, Field, etc. Te,
ten, and ter, meaning at or to, are also
often used as, — ^te Water, at the Water;
ten Heugel, at the Hill ; ter Winkel, at
the shop.

The Dutch preposition van before
family names answers to the French
"de," of, and was in early times seldom
borne but by nobles, being placed before
the names of their castles or estates. In
later days, however, when family names
came more generally into use, many
added to their Christian names their
places of birth, or residence, which were
retained as family names; as van Gent,
of Ghent; van Bern, of Berne; van den
Haag, of the Hague.

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United States Census for 1790

Following is a complete list of heads of families for the town of Northfield,
Richmond county. New York, according to the United States Census of 1790:

Haughwoot, Eleanor
(widow)

Morrell, Lambert

Hyliard, John

Breasted, John

Decker, Catharine (wi-
dow)

Christopher, Peter

Egburt, Abraham, Junr.

L^e, Joseph

Remson, Jacob

Mcrrell, Richard

Clendenny, Walter

Nichols, John

Klapp, Henry

Harinbeck, Edward

Rowen, Edward

Jaquess, David

Van Sise, Charles

Vansise, Joseph

Freeman, Lewis

Hetfield, James

Simonson, John

Garretson, Daniel

Garretson, Charles

Johnson, Nathaniel

Kruse, John

Prall, Benjamin

Jones, Abraham

Crocheron, Daniel

Jones, Obediah

Decker, Benjamin

Wood, Abraham

Crocheron, Nicholas

Robins, Nathaniel

Morgan, John

Simonson, Isaac

Simonson, Bamet

Wood, Stephen

Decker, Matthias

Crocheron, John

Crocheron, Henry

Dennis, Thos.

Crocheron, Abraham

Cannon, Isaac

McConyell, Patrick
Bowman, Wm.
Haughwaut, Francis
Decker, Matthias
Decker, Charles
Decker, Matthew
Price, Benjamin
Dupey, Peter
Tyson, John
Dupey, Bamet
Decker, Moses
Decker, James
Decker, Matthew, Junr.
Cole, Benjamin
Christopher, John
Christopher, John G.
Van Cleft, Cornelius
Lisk, Daniel
Wood, Sarah (widow)
Eynard, Matthias
Martinno, Stephen
Barton, Austin
Lackerman, Nathaniel
Briton, Nathaniel
Coberly, Joseph
Mercereau, Jacob
Myers, Richard
Christopher, Hester

(widow)
Merrell, John
Haughwout, Peter
Hall, Edward
Ryerss, Gozen
Reilley, Terrence
Ryerss, Aris
Ross, David
Wood, Joseph
Ryerss, Lewis
Sharp, William
Swaine, Matthias
Swaine, Martines
Moore, Richard C.
Begell, Samuel
Hylliger, Lawrence
Wood, John

Alston, David

Decker, Abraham

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Egourt, Abraham

Decker, Samuel

Decker, Jacob

Dupey, John

Decker, Richard

Decker, Matthew, Senr.

Begell, Cornelius

Begell, Silas

Begell, Joseph

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Cannon, David

Vroom, Matthias

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Prall, Benjamin

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Jones, Edward

Upton, Wm.

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Post, Garret

Post, Peter

De Hart, Samuel, Senr.

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Van Name, Aaron, Junr.

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Cemetery Inscriptions

Following are some inscriptions from old tombstones in the bur)ring-gfround
on the hill in Salem, Mass. :

Here lyes buried the Body of Mrs.
Elizabeth Bacon, wife to Mr. Samuel
Bacon, aged 59 years, she died June ye
17th, 1753.

Here lyes buried the Body of Mrs.
Anne Bacon, wife to Mr. Samuel Bacon,
who departed this life May ye 10th, 1761,
in ye 43d year of her age.

Here lies buried the Body of Mr. Sam-
uel Bacon, who departed this Life July
29th, 1765, in ye 56th year of his age.

Susanna, Dawt. to Mr. George and
Mrs. Elizabeth Bickford, who died No-
vemr. the 5th 1738 in (— )

Here lyes Buried the Body of Mr.
George Bickford, who departed this Life
on May the 30th, 1760, aged 61 years.

Here lies Buried the Body of Mrs.
Elizabeth Bickford, wife of Deacon John
Bickford, who died October the 22d
1760, aged 61 years.

Mary Brewer, Daut. of Mr. Thomas
& Mrs. Mary Brewer, Died Jany. 18th,
1754, aged 13 years.

Here lie Interred the Bodies of Mrs.
Mary Cabot, the wife of Mr. Francis
Cabot, who died June 18, 1756, aged 32
years.

Hear lies the body of Gibson Qough,
son of Ebener, and Ann Clough, who de-
parted this life August the 1 Day, aged
12 years, 1736.

Here lies the body of John Qough,
son of Ebenezer and Ann Clough, how
died Aprel the 13 day, aged six years,
1750. And also Susanna Clough, dafter
to William & Susanna Clough, aged Five
months; died Novembr the 24th, 1750.

Here Lies Buried the Body of Mr.
Joseph Clough, who Departed this Life
April the 13th, 1766, aged 57 years and
8 months.

Here lyes the Body of Capt. Thomas
Eden, who departed this Life, July the
1st, 1768, in the 45th year of his age.

William Eppes, Esq., died Oct. ye 1st
1756, aged 39 years.

Jonathan son to Joseph & Experience
Flint, aged 5 weeks, died Feb. 17th, 1702.

Here Lyes the Body of Benjamin Flint,
who died ye 28th of Dec. 1732 in ye 54th
year of his age.

Here lyes buried ye body of Mrs.' Eliza-
beth Foster, wife to Capt. John Foster,
who departed this Life March ye 6th,
1752, aged 26 years.

Here lyes the Body of Mrs. Eliza
Gardner, Daut. to Capt. John Gardner &
Elizabeth his wife, she died April 20th,
1754, in the 21st year of her age.

Here lies buried the Body of Mrs.
Elizabeth Gardner, the wife of Mr. John
Gardner, she died May 24th, 1755, in
the 27th year of her age.

Here lies buried the tody of Mrs. Mary
Gavet, wife to Mr. Joseph Gavet, aged
43 years, Dec'd. June the 11th, 1743.

Here lies the Body of Martha, the wife
of Benjamin Goodhue, who died 9th
Septr. 1760, Aged 58 years.

Here lies ye body of Mrs. Elizabeth
Hay ward, wife of Mr. Joshiah Hay ward,
who died Jany. 1st, 1767, in ye 34th year
of her age.

Here lyes ye body of Mr. Gabriel Hol-
man, who departed this Life July the
9th, 1756, in the 42d year of his age.

Here Lyes the Body of Mr. John Hol-
man, son of Mr. Gabriel & Mrs. Eliza-
beth Holman, who departed this Life
August ye 13th, 1767, Inn the 24th year
of his age.

Here lies Interred the Body of Mrs.
Sarah Holman, the Virtuous Consort of
Mr. Gabriel Holman, who departed this
Life April the 21st, 1773, aged 31 years.

Here lies ye body of Francis Joseph,
son of Mr. Francis & Mrs. Mary Joseph,
died Janry. 17th, 1767. aged 4 years 11

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Questions

Poland. — Francis Poland, Goshen,
Conn., married, April 2, 1810, Nancy
Jenkins, daughter Captain Josiah Jen-
kins, a Revolutionary officer. Who were
the parents and grandparents of Francis
Poland? When was he bom? What
was date of birth? [144] J. J. P.

Woodward. — Henry Lorenzo Chapin,
married, February 23, 1857, in Syracuse,
N. Y., Theresa Anne Woodward. Who
were her parents and when and where
was she bom? Can any one give me
the Woodward history? [145] H. W. C.

Owen. — Phineas Owen married Ra-
chel Smith, March 24, 1784, in Litchfield,
Conn. Their three children were: Eas-
ton, bom July 5, 1785; Phineas Smith,
February 20, 1787; Tubal Cain, March
4, 1791. Phineas Owen (1) and his
brother, Daniel, were of Gloucester, R.
L, and settled in Sangerfield, N. Y., hav-

ing been for a short time in Connecticut,
probably in Goshen or Litchfield, and
also in Berkshire county, Mass. Daniel
was also in Wyoming, Pa., and escaped
the massacre of July 5, 1778. Later he
married Lois Tucker of Warren, R. L,
and died about 1826, seventy years old.
Wanted, the parentage of Phineas and
Daniel and other information concem-
ing either of them. [146] B. W. D.

Wads WORTH. — What was the Chris-
tian name of Captain Wadsworth, who
hid the Connecticut charter in the char-
ter oak? Was it William Joseph? Was
he related to the Captain Wadsworth
who, with his company, was killed by
the Indians in Sudbury, Mass., 1676?
Did Captain Wadsworth of charter oak
fame leave any descendants? Was
Christopher Wadsworth, said to have
been the ancestor of the Maine and Mas-
sachusetts Wadsworths, related to either
of the foregoing? Who were the an-
cestors of the Wadsworth of central
New York state and of General Wads-
worth of the Revolutionary army, who
was captured and imprisoned at Castine,
Me., June 18, 1781? [147] W. W. W.

Way. — ^There is a great deal of con-
fusion in regard to the Way family of
Connecticut. Authorities differ in re-
gard to many of the essential facts, con-
cerning, especially, George Way. Can
any one clear away the doubts? Was
George Way, called of Lyme and Say-
brook, a permanent resident of those
towns? Was he a son of George Way
of Dorchester, Eng.? Was his wife,
Elizabeth, a daughter of John Smith, and
was John Smith's wife Joanna a widow ?
Did George Way, Jr., marry twice and
was his widow, Susanna, also widow of
Joseph Beckwith? The first known
child of George Way, Jr., was Susannah,
bom in Lyme, July 9, 1682, and The
Beckwith Geneaology states that this
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Beckwith. She appears to have died
childless before 1716, for she is not men-
tioned in father's will. [148] B..W. J.

Wells. — Mary Wells or Welles, said
to have been born about 1760, married
George Gorham, a Revcdutionary soldier.
George Gorham (5), bom, Groton,
Conn., July 19, 1759, died, Montgom-
ery, Mass., November 17, 1848, is on
the records of Canterbury, Conn., and
married Mary Wells. Who was this
Mary Wells or Welles, and who were
her ancestors? [149] P. A. M.

Goodrich. — Rhoda Goodrich was bom
March 23, 1750. Whom did she marry
and what are the dates of her marriage
and her death and the names of her
children, if any? [158] S. R. R.

Bacon. — Who was James Bacon who
was in New Braintree, Worcester coun-
ty, Mass., in the middle of the eighteenth
century? Was he of the same family
as Joshua Bacon of Billerica and Bed-
ford, Mass.? [159] B. M. E.

Park. — William Park, of Roxbury,
Mass., 1636, married Martha Holgrave.
Who were the ancestors of William
Park? [160] R. P. W.

Pierce. — Ruth Pierce, of Swansea,
daughter of Elder John (3) Pierce and
his wife Patience, (Ephraim 2, Michael
1), married June 18. 1719, Stephen Cor-
nell; died about 1765. The children
(Cornell) were: Israel, born about 1720,
died about 1785; Elisha, born about
1722, died about 1806; Stephen, bom
about 1730, died about 1804; Gideon,
bom October 25, 1728, died December
25, 1817; Elijah, (born when?), married
Sarah Miller; Ruth, twin of above;
Mary, married June 19, 1746, James (4)
Mason; (Elisha 3, Pelatiah 2, Sampson
1), died November 1, 1772. Elder John
Pierce bequeathed land to his three
daughters, Ruth, Jael and Mary in 1750,

at Swansea. Can anyone give maiden
name of Elder John Pierce's wife, Pa-
tience, and date of birth or death or mar-
riage ?

Ephraim Pierce (2), father of Elder
John Pierce (3), married Hannah Hol-
brooke, daughter Captain John and Eliza-
beth (Stream) Holbrooke. Can anyone
give the dates of their births, deaths and
marriage and the names and birth dates
of their children? [161] E. P. J.

Backus. — ^John Bailey, married a
daughter of William and Sarah
(Charles) Backus. John Reynolds mar-
ried Sarah, daughter of William and
Sarah Backus. Benjamin Crane married
Mary, daughter of William Backus, and
she died July 8, 1717. What was the

christian name of (Backus) who

married John Bailey and where did John
Bailey live? [162] C. S. B.

Stilwell. — Samuel Wilbur Stilwell
lived in Marlboro, New York, in 1855.
He had children who married and are
supposed to have removed to Torrington,
Conn. I want information regarding
these descendants. [163] S. T. W.

Hall. — Olivia Wandell married An-
drew A. Hall and removed to South
Dakota about 1860. Did they have chil-
dren and who are they and where arc
they? [164] D. W. O.

Spaulding. — Mary Wandell married
Joseph Spaulding at Whitewater, Wis-
consin, prior to 1860. I am looking for
any issue of this marriage. Mary had
a brother, Thomas Wandell, one of
whose daughters married a Daggett.
Had he descendants? [165] W. J. S.

Lamont. — Who were the descendants
of Hiram Lamont, whose parents were
Samuel and Jane Lamont and where did
they live? [167] S. L. J.

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Warrens in America

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John Warren and his wife, Margaret,
came to America with Governor John
Winthrop and Sir Richard Saltonstall in
1630 and settled in Watertown, Mass.;
he died 1667.

Daniel Warren, third son of John and
Margaret Warren, was bom in Water-
town, 1638 and married Mary Barron,
daughter of Ellis Barron.

Joshua Warren, bom in Waltham,
Mass., July 4, 1663, married Rebecca
Church, daughter of Caleb and Joanna
(Sprague) Church. Caleb Church was
the son of Richard and Elizabeth (War-
ren) Church, his wife being a daughter
of Richard Warren, of the Mayflower.

Phinehas Warren, twelfth son of
Joshua and Rebecca (Church) Warren,
was bom in Waltham June 9, 1710, and
died in Waltham June 30, 1797. He was
a soldier in the Continental army. He
married, May 3, 1731, Grace Hastings,
daughter of Thomas Hastings; she died
September 7, 1805.

William Warren, son of Phinehas
and Grace (Hastings) Warren, was
bom in Waltham September 7, 1751. He
married, April 7, 1777, Robey (or Re-
becca) Hathaway, daughter of Joshua
Hathaway of Freetown, Mass. The
Hathaways were diescended in the female
line from Richard Warren, the May-
flower pilgrim. [IC] P. H. W.

Luther Warren, a descendant in direct
line from John Warren, a brother of
General Joseph Warren, who fell at
Bunker Hill, was born about 1800 in
Marblehead, Mass.

Children :

1. John, bom Shapleigh, Me.; lived La

Harpe, 111. ; married and had issue ;
died .

2. Benjamin, bora Shapleigh, Me. ; lived

La Harpe, 111.; married and had
issue; died .

3. Edmund.

4. Luther, born Shapleigh, Me.; lived

La Harpe, 111.; married and had
issue ; died .

5. Hannah, born Shapleigh, Me.; died

Edmund Warren, son of Luther War-
ren, bom in Kennebunk, Me.; married
; bom ; living in 1912.

Children :

1. Hannah A., bom Shapleigh, Me.,

, 1850.

2. Lillie M., bom Shapleigh, Me., ,

1852; died , 1861.

3. Alvah H.

4. Charles F., bom Shapleigh, Me., ,

1856; living, Brookline, Mass,
1912; married and had three
daughters.

5. Willis E., bom Kennebunk, Me., ,

1859; living, Kennebunk, Me.,
1912; married and had one son,
Emest.

6. Lillie M., born Kennebunk, Me., ,

1866; married L. M. Curtis and

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had one son, Harlan Curtis ; living,
Swampscott, Mass., 1912.
Alvah H. Warren, son of Edmund

and Warren,* bom Shapleigh, Me.,

June 9, 1854; married ; living at

St. Paul, Minn., in 1912. Children:

1. Edmimd Leving Warren, born New

York city June — , 1884; a physi-
cian of St. Paul, Minn., 1912.

2. William Allen Warren, born New

York city, December — , 1885.

3. Alvah Hall, Jr., bom St. Paul, Minn.,

August — , 1887.
4 Louise Leving, bom St. Paul, Minn.,

August — , 1889.
5. Phoebe Allen, bom St. Paul, Minn.,

October — , 1893.
6 Alice, bom St. Paul, Minn., August

— , 1895. [IE] A. H. W.

Benjamin Warren (1), before 1750,
bought a large tract of land in Mother-
kill (now called Murderkill) Hundred,
Kent county, Del. His son, Benjamin
Warren (2), in 1756 was an ensign in
the militia for the Lower district of
Mother Kill Hundred, 1756. Informa-
tion is wanted conceming the ancestry
of Benjamin Warren (1). Where was
he born and where did he live before he
settled in Delaware? Was he the Ben-
jamin Warren, of Red Bank, N. J. ? Or
did he belong to the family of Virginia
Warrens? Or was he a direct emigrant,
England to Delaware? [IL] M. L W.

I. Henry Warren, bom about 1800,
married Isabella I>e Coursey, bom
about 1800. Henry Warren is believed
to have been of Holland descent. The
father of Isabella De Coursey, bom
about 1775, was of the French de Cour-
sey family and her mother, bom about
1775, was of the Irish Fitzpatrick fam-
ily.

II. Charles Le Roy Warren, son of
Henry and Isabella (De Coursey) War-
ren, born in Waverly, N. Y., 1832, died

1888. He married, 1861, Amelia Ross,
of Troy, N. Y., bom 1840, died 1902.

The father of Amelia Ross was

Ross, bom about 1880, and her patemal
grandfather was Dr. Ross, of Scot-
land. The mother of Amelia Ross was

Hainer, born about 1800.

III. Howard Ross Warren, son of
Charles Le Roy and Amelia (Ross)
Warren, bom in Amboy, 111., in 1866.
He married in 1910 Ethel Evelyn
(Holmes) Sutherland, of Toronto, Ont.,

born 1869, daughter of Holmes and

Morris, of Canada. Howard Ross

Warren resides (1912) in Kansas City,
Mo., and is the secretary and treasurer
of the Kansas City Bolt and Nut Com-
pany. [IF] H. R.W.

Orlando James W. Warren, bom near
Lake Champlain, N. Y., Febmary 4,
1818, died, Joplin, Mo., 1873. He had
two brothers livmg in New York, 1869,
Horatio Warren and Henry Warren.
Children :

1. George W. Warren, Parsons, Kan.,

bom, Brooklyn, N. Y., April 29,
1862; living, 1912.

2. W. H. Warren, Creede, Colo., living,

1912.

3. 4, 5. Three daughters, living, 1912.
[IT] G. W. W.

Henry Warren, bom, near Keene, N.
H., 1794, died, Portland, Mich., 1872;
married, Middlebuiy, Conn., 1804, Eme-
line Tyler, who died, Portland, Mich.,
November, 1880.

Chauncey J. Warren, son of Henry
and Emeline (Tyler) Warren, Was bom,
Watertown, N. Y., August 1, 1831, and
died, Portland, Mich., March, 1908;
married, October 5, 1854, Mary Ann
Kimball, bom September 23, 1833, and
living, May, 1911, Portland, Mich.

Henry K. Warren, son of Chauncey J.
and Mary Ann (Kimball) Warren, in
Pankton, S. D., 1911. [1 V] H. K. W.
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Thomas Wakefield, 17
Thomas Bennett, 22
Steeven Read, 24
Wilhn. Stanbridge, 27
Henry Barker, 18
James Foster, 21
Thomas Talbott, 20
Rkhard Young, 31
Robert Thomas, 20
John Farepoynt, 20
Robert Askyn, 22
Samuel Awde, 24
Miles Fletcher, 27
William Evans," 23
Lawrence Farebem, 23
Mathew Robinson, 24
Isack Bull, 27
Phillipp Remington, 29
Radulph Spragmy, 37
George Chaundler, 29
Richard Hersey, 22
Benjamin Wragg, 24
Henry Embrie, 20
Robert Sabyn, 40
George Brookes, 35
Thomas Holland, 34
Humfrey Belt, 20
John Mace, 20
Walter Jewell, 19

WiUm. Bucland, 19
Launcelot Jackson, 18
John Williamson, 12
Phillip Parsons, 10
Henry Parsons, 14
Andrew Morgan, 26
Wilbn. Brodas, 17
Richard Harrison, 15
Thomas Pratt, 17
John Ecles, 16
Richard Miller, 12
Robert Lamb, 16
Thomas Boomer, 13
George Dulmare, 8
John Robinson, 32
Edmond Chipps, 19
ThorPrichard, 32
Jonathan Bronsford, 21
Wilhn. Cowley, 20
John Shawe, 16
Richard Gummy, 21
Bartholomew Holton, 25
John White, 21
Thomas Chappell, 33
Hugh Fox, 24
David Morris, 32
Rowland Cotton, 22
William Thomas, 22
John Yates, 20
Richard Wood, 36

James Somers, 22
David Bromley, 15
Walter Brookes, 15
S)mion Richardson, 23
Thomas Jno. son, 19
Jo: Averie, 20
John Croftes, 20
Thomas Broughton, 19
John Underwood, 19
Wilhn. Bernard, 27
Charles Wallinger, 24
Thomas Dymett, 23
Ryce Hooe, 36
John Carter, 54
Women.
Elizabeth Remington, 20
Katherin Hibbotts, 20
Elizabeth Willis, 18
Joan Jobe, 18
Ann Nash, 22
Elizabeth Phillips, 22
Dorothy Standich, 22
Susan Death, 22
Elizabeth Death, 3
Alice Remington, 26
Dorothy Baker, 18
Elizabeth Baker, 18
Sara Colebank, 20
Mary Thurrogood, 19

THE CHALKLEY MANUSCRIPT.

One of the most important recent addi-
tions to the genealogical literature of the-
United States will be the publication,
some time during the current year, of
the Chalkley Manuscrijpts. These manu-
scripts are abstracts from all the old
records of Augusta county, Va., from
1745 to 1820, including the records of
the dd district court whose sessions were
held in Augusta, but whose jurisdiction

extended to West Virginia, western
Pennsylvania, part of Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois, all of Kentucky, and part of
Tennessee. They were copied by Judge
Lyman Chalkley of Staunton, Va., and
their publication will throw much gene-
alogical light upon a section of the coun-
try where research has heretofore been
uncommonly difficult and ultimately has
been found to a considerable and la-
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United States Census for 1790

Following is a complete list of heads of families for the town of Fair
Haven, Rutland County, Vermont, according to the United States Census of 1790:

Arvin, David
Austin, Shubail
Braynard, Timy.
BiddeU Richard
Ballard, Joseph
Ballard, M. John
Buell, William
Boyle, Charles
Barlow, Nathan
Qeveland, Josiah
Cleveland, Oliver
Chilson, Elihu
Clark, Ashbel
Chamberlain, Josh.
Cuttin, Isaac
Carter, Elijah
Cushman, Danl.
Cranmer, Henry
Cranmer, Henry, Jr.
Cole, Samuel
Cranmer, John
Cook, H. Ebenezcr
Cone, Asabel
Church, Oliver
Debile, Thomas
Doghasty, Cornelius
Darrar, Jeremiah
Dixon, Thomas
Everetts, Eli
Freleigh, John
Goodrich, Timothy
Gibbs, Shelden
Holmes, Moses
Holt, Stephen

Hill, Frederick
Handy, James
Calkins, Charles
Hambieton, Ezra
Hambieton, Joel
Uows, John
Hyde, Lemuel
Horton, Jesse
Hurlburt, William
Hinman, Josiah
Jones, Horace
Jones, Ezekiel
Kilsy, Curtiss
Leonard, Gamaliel
Lee, John
Lyon, Matthew
Lay, Amos
McCarter, James
Mitchell, Ichabod
Merrit, Michael
McCarter, Alexander
Malcolm, Israel
Munger, David
McLuiry, James
McCarthy, Charles
McCarthy, Daniel
Meecham, John
Newton, Jonathan
Newland, Jabcz
Orms, Jonathan
Orton, Elisaba
Priest, Noah
Petty, Benjamin

Priest, Philip
Phippany, Benjamin
Richard, William
Rogers, Stephen
Rice, Charles
Querry, Simeon
Skinner, Thomas
Spooner, John
Safford, Silas
Snow, Joseph
Sharpe, James
Stephens, Nathan
Stannard, Samuel
Smith, Simeon
Smith, Daniel
Smith, Russell
Strong, Worham
Sanford, David
Smith, Joseph
Tryon, Elijah
Taft, Gideon
Trowbridge, Levi
Trowbridge, Israel
Taylor, Elijah
Weller, Benjamin
Weller, Cooley
Wetherell, James
Wilkes, Thomas
Whipple, Ethan
Utler, Abraham
Keeler, Hezekiah
Brownson, Cornelius
Quevy, David

"Even those who have no kindly sen-
timent in the matter of genealogy are
beginning to apprehend some of its mani-
fold uses and applications. The life in-
surance agent finds a guide in taking
his risks. The conveyancer is aided in
taking his land titles. The lawer is fur-
nished with facts in cases of medico ju-

risprudence. The teacher may more
wisely direct his efforts by knowledge
of hereditary aptitudes and tendencies.
The physician may feel more assured of
the correctness of his diagnosis of mor-
bid physiological conditions." — George
Frederick Tuttle, in The Descendants
of William and Elizabeth Tuttle, p. 3.

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Pennsylvania Pensioners

The following statement gives the names, rank, and other details concern-
ing the persons residing in the state of Pennsylvania who were inscribed on the
pension list under the act of Congress passed March 18, 1818 :

Adams County.
Allison, Fobt., It. O. Con. L., June 30,

1818.
Allison, John, ser. maj. Jan. 20, 1819;

87.

Adams County.
Allison, Robt.,, It. O. Con. L., June 30,

1818.
Allison, John, ser. maj., Jan. 20, 1819;

87.
Baker, James, pr., Oct. 21, 1818.
Carleton, Edw., pr., Oct. 21, 1818; 105.
Johnston, Wm., pr., March 25, 1822 ; 76.
Jacoby, Nicholas, pr., Dec. 5, 1832 ; 7 ; d.

Nov. 1, 1832.
McGinnis, Wm., pr., Oct. 20, 1818; 90.
McLaughlin, Robt., pr.. May 2, 1818; 80.
McKinly, James, pr., March 25, 1822; 77,
Shugart, Eli, pr., July 28, 1830; 80.
Weaver, Jacob, pr., May 6, 1826 ; 85.

Allegheny County.
Roberts, John, serg.. May 4, 1819; 86;

d. Dec. 30, 1819.
Clendening, James, pr.. May 7, 1819 ; 74.
Castilo, Samuel, pr., July 11, 1819; 94.
Curry, James, pr., Feb. 15, 1822; 94; d.

Dec. 10, 1825.
Crawford, John, It., Nov. 9, 1819; 100.
Cochran, Robt., pr., April 22, 1820; 74.
Dixon, Jacob, pr.. May 7, 1819; 74; d.

May 18, 1833.
Gray, Alex., pr., Sept. 13, 1819; 88.
Kerr, John, pr.. May 23, 1820; 84; d.

June 14, 1826.
Leary, Wm., pr., July 22, 1819; 64.
Lauman, Philip, pr., Oct. 31, 1818; 75;

d. May 5, 1833.
Logan, John, pr.. Oct. 13, 1823; 81.
Morris, George, pr., Oct. 24, 1818 ; 68.
McMurdy, John, pr., Oct. 28, 1818 ; 89.

Murphy, Owen, pr., June 1, 1819; 90.
McCoy, Charles, pr., March 8, 1821 ; 85.
McGerry, Neal, pr., Feb. 16, 1819; 80.
Murray, James, pr., Sept. 29, 1819; 82;

d. Dec. 14, 1831.
Roselbaugh, John, pr., Dec. 24, 1818; 79;

d. Aug. 6, 1831.
Vangardner, John, pr., Oct. 7, 1818; 85.

Armstrong County.
Brown, James, Sr., pr., Sept. 25, 1818;

92; d. Dec. 6, 1820.
Boyle, Daniel, pr., Sept. 14, 1828; 86.
Clark, John, 5th Maj., July 8, 1819; 85.
Hegin, Edward, pr., April 28, 1820; 83.
Kerr, Wm., pr., July 26, 1819; 79.
McKee, Andrew, pr., Feb. 4, 1820; 88.
Lemon, John, pr., June 19, 1830 ; 75.
Leech, Archibald, pr., Sept. 6, 1819; 76.
Meredith, Thos., pr., Dec. 4, 1826; 80.
Sloan, James, sergt., March 10, 1819 ; 62 ;

d. Sept. 27, 1818.

Beaver County.
Carson, Wm., pr.. May 30, 1820; 85.
Conly, Nicholas, pr., Jan 13, 1819; 80.
Eckels, Arthur, pr., April 17, 1820; 82.
Glendy, Wm., pr., Feb. 8, 1819; 84.
Hennon, Abel, pr., Feb. 9, 1819; 76; d.

Jan. 20, 1826.
Johnson, Joseph, pr., Feb. 9, 1819; 79.
Justice, Jacob, pr., Feb. 9, 1819; 71.
Littell, Wm., pr., Dec. 19, 1818; 86.
Miller, Conrad, pr., March 5, 1819; 82
Wilson, Robt, 2d pr., Feb. 9, 1819; 80,

d. Oct. 20, 1824.
Wilson, John, pr., Feb. 9, 1819; 73; d

Oct. 2, 1824.
Bevington, Thomas, pr., May 30, 1820

77,
Beatty, John, 1st pr., Feb. 9, 1819; 77

d. July 17, 1829.
Comegay, Wm., pr., April 17, 1820; 79
Cuning. Robt, pr., May 30, 1820; 79.

McMurdy, John, pr., Oct. 28, 1818; 89.

McCann, Daniel, pr., March 12, 1819; Dill, Thomas, pr., Feb. 9, 1819; 83.
64; d. Jan. 26, 1823. {To he continued,)

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Questions

Huntley. — Amy and Samuel Hunt-
ley, were the children of Daniel and
Catherine Huntley, of ElHcottville, New
York. Whom did they marry and did
they leave issue? [166] H. E. N.

SwEATLAND. — Wanted, the death date
of Daniel Sweatland, born July 3, 1787,
son of Joseph and Salome (Hall) Sweat-
land; also date of his marriage to Lucy
Gates, daughter of Nathaniel and Lucy
(Gallup) Gates. They were probably
married in Kingston or in Wilkes-Barre,
Pa. [178] W. B. P.

Alexander. — Marshall Pratt Alexan-
der was born at Cambridgeport, Mass.,
in September, 1829. His father was
Henry Foster Alexander, born about
1800. What was the maiden name of
his mother? Who were his parents and

grandparents, and did he have brothers
or sisters? [179] S. A. B.

Smith. — ^John Smith of Oneonta, New
York, married Hannah Van Buren,
daughter of John B. and Jemima Van
Buren. Did John and Hannah Smith
leave any descendants? [168] J. V. B.

HuRLBURT. — ^Jane Ann Stilwell mar-
ried a Hurlburt in Ulster county, New
York, about 1850. They had children,
Samuel, Stephen and Catherine. Whom
did Catherine marry? Who were the
descendants of Samuel and Stephen
Hurlburt? [169] L. C. S.

WoRTMAN.— In 1846 Robert Wort-
man removed to the far west from Long
Island. I am seeking data on this fam-
ily. Who were Robert's parents, whom
did he marry and did he leave any de-
scendants? [170] W. R. L.

Williams. — ^Who were the ancestors
of Captain John Williams and his wife
Mary, natives of the north of England?
They had one child, Mary Jane Williams,
bom at sea about 1844. [171] CW.M.

Meeks. — Information wanted about
the Meeks family of Long Island. I want
all possible descendants and dates of
births, deaths, marriages. [172] E.F.S.

King. — Greorge W. King married
Frances D. Field in New York City
about 1850. Who were his ancestors and
who were his descendants? A dsiughter
is supposed to have married Benjamin
Mount. [173] K. M. B.

Fuller. — Who was David Fuller who
married Jane Coe in New York state
about the year 1848? Did he leave any
children and if so, whom did they marry ?
Fannie Coe, a sister of Jane, married

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1855. [174] R. L. V.

Clark. — I am seeking information of
the Clark family of Troy, New York.
John Clark who married Amy Stilwell
before 1850, had children, Stephen, Jud-
son, Samuel S. and Amy C. The latter
married Azen Lord. Who are the de-
scendants of these brothers and sister?
[175] T. S. N.

Stilwell. — Mary Stilwell was a
daughter of Samuel Stilwell, who in 1855,
lived at New Paltz, Ulster county, New
York. Whom did she marry and when
did she die? [176] N. P. U.

Wood. — Can anyone give me any in-
formation concerning Samuel Wood who
married Rebecca Weeks? Some of his
descendants were living on Long Island
in the latter part of the nineteenth cen-
tury. [177] W. W. S.

Stout. — ^Who can tell me anything
about Benjamin Stout who lived in Dela-
ware and possibly in Maryland early in
the eighteenth century? [180] A. F. M.

Answers

Stillwell.— [153] S. A. C— Nich-
olas Stillwell is supposed to have been a
native of Surrey, England. Religious
persecution drove him to Holland. He
came to America from Leyden about
1638, and about 1639 or shortly after
was on Manhattan Island. He is fre-
quently referred to in early records of
New Netherlands as "Nicholas the to-
bacco planter." In June, 1643, he joined
Lady Deborah Moody in the settlement
of Gravesend, Long Island, where he
spent most of the remainder of his life,
going to Staten Island shortly before his
death, December 28, 1671.

The first wife of Nicholas Stillwell was
Abigail Hopton, sister of Ralph Hopton,
and a maid of honor to Queen Elizabeth

of Bohemia. By her he had two sons —
Richard (2), bom 1634, died about 1688,
married first, May, 1655, Mary, daughter
of Obadiah Holmes, and second, his
cousin Freelove (or Mercy), daughter
of John Cooke; and Nicholas (2), bom
1636, died 1715, married first, Catharine,
widow of Charles Morgan, and second,
Elizabeth Corwin.

The second wife of Nicholas Stillwell
was Ann Van Dyke, and by her he had :
Anne, bom 1643; Abigail, born 1645;
William, baptized May 11, 1648; Thomas,
baptized July 9, 1651 ; Daniel, baptized
Nov. 13, 1653; Jeremiah, baptized Jan.
13, 1661. His widow, Anne, married a
second time, William Wilkins.

The principal printed sources of in-
formation relating to Nicholas Stillwell
and his descendants are "Early Memoirs
of the Stillwell Family" by Benjamin
Marshall Stillwell; "Notes on the De-
scendants of Nicholas Stillwell, the An-
cestor of the Stillwell Family" by Wil-
liam H. Stillwell; and "Historical and
Genealogical Miscelany" by John E. Still-
well. P. A. S.

Wood.— [177] W. W. S.— Samuel
Wood married Rebecca Weeks and had
Epenetus, Stephen, Miles, Samuel, Mar-
tin, David, Nellie, and Elsie. Epenetus
Wood, son of Samuel and Rebecca
(Weeks) Wood, married Kate Simonson
and had Samuel, Abram, David, Epere-
tus, Nellie, and Maria; Stephen Wood

married and had Louisa, Mary, and

Phebe; Miles Wood married a sister of
the wife of his brother Samuel, and had
Nancy, Samuel, and Stephen; Samuel
Wood married and l\ad Miles, Re-
becca, Anna, and Katharine; Martin

Wood married Mary and had Pris-

cilla, Lucy, Rebecca, Clarissa, Stephen,
Thomas, and William ; David Wood and
Nellie Wood never married ; Elsie Wood
married Adam Pearsall and had Nancy,
Elsie, Katharine, Polly, Rebecca, Betsey,
Hannah, Sally, Adam, and Samuel.

S. T. W.

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Number 7

The Moody Family

In early colonial New England there
were two principal Moody families, those
of William Moody, of Newbury, Mass.,
and John Moody, of Roxbury, Mass.
Savage, in A Genealogical Dictionary of
the Early Settlers of New England, in-
cludes those two pioneers, their children
and their grandchildren and also the fol-
lowing: Eleazer Moody, of Boston, a
freeman in 1690; Lady Deborah Moody,
of Salem, and afterward of Gravesend,
Long Island, and Sir Henry Moody, of
Gravesend, son of Lady Deborah Moody.
[Mdl] W. H. L.

I.
George Moody, of Moulton, county
Suffolk, England, was "famous for his
housekeping and just and plain deal-
ing." He married Lydia Houil als.
Smith, of Ipswich. His children were:
1 — George, of Moulton; 2 — ^John, who
"went into New England," and 3 — Sam-
uel, a woollen draper in Bury, an alder-
man, a justice of the peace and a member
of parliament, who married Mary Bol-
din, daughter of John Boldin, of Bury
St. Edmunds. — The Candler Manuscript
in the British Museum.

John Moody, son of George and Lydia
Moody, of Moulton, England, came to
the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1633
with the first pioneers who settled in Ips-
wich. With him came his wife Sarah,

but they do not appear to have brought
any children. He was made a freeman
November 5, 1665, and was a man of
good standing in the community. In
1636 he was one of the company which
was led by the Reverend Thomas Hooker
across the country to the banks of the
Connecticut river, where they founded
the settlement of Hartford. In his will
of July 25, 1655, he mentions his wife
Sarah, his son Samuel, and Elizabeth
Segar, who is believed to have been his
daughter. His widow, Sarah Moody,
died at the residence of her son, in Had-
ley, Mass., in 1671.

III.
Samuel Moody, of Hartford, was
probably the only son of John and Sarah
Moody. About 1660 he moved to Had-
ley, Mass., where he died in 1689. He
married Sarah Deming, probably a
daughter of John Deming. She died in
1714. Their children were six in num-
ber, as follows:
1. — Sarah, born, about 1660.
2. — ^John, bom, July 4, 1661, died in

Hartford in 1732 ; nine children.
3. — Hannah, born, March 5, 1663.
4. — Mary.

5. — Samuel, Born, November 28, 1670,
died in Hadley, Mass., in 1745,
leaving six children.
6. — Ebenezer, born, October 23, 1675,
died in South Hadley, Mass., No-
vember 11, 1757, leaving eight chil-
dren. [Md2] H. W. L.

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William Moody, according to tradition
and early records, was a native of Wales.
He removed to Ipswich, England, in his
mature years, and in 1633 joined the
migration which followed Governor John
Winthrop, who had come three years be-
fore. He wintered in Ipswich, Mass., in
1634, and in the following year was one
of the company of first settlers of Ould
Newbury. He took the oath of freeman
May 6, 1635. By occupation he was a
saddler and blacksmith, and is said to
have been the first in New England to
shoe oxen so as to keep them from
slipping on the ice. He died, in New-
bury, October 25, 1673. His first wife,
Sarah Moody, died, in Newbury, Janu-
ary 13, 1672-3. His children were
Samuel, Joshua and Caleb.

II.
Samuel Moody, eldest son of William
and Sarah Moody, was born in Newbury.
He was a freeman in 1666. His will was
dated March 22, 1675, and was proved
April 21, 1675. He died, in Newbury.
April 4, 1675. On November 30, 1657,
he married Mary Cutting. Both he and
his wife were members of the Newbury
church in 1674, he having joined in 1670.
His widow married, second, in New-
bury, June 24, 1679, Daniel Lunt. His
children, all born in Newbury, and all
referred to as then living, in his will of
1675, were:

1. — Sarah, born, November 16, 1658;
probably the Sarah Moody who mar-
ried Silvanus Plummer, in Newbury,
in January 1681-2.
2._William, born, July 22, 1661, mar-
ried, first, November 15, 1684, Me-
hitable Sewall, and probably, second,
Abigail Frost.
3. — John, born, April 1, 1663, married,

before 1693, Hannah , by whom

he had two children ; died, probably,
in 1727.
4. — Mary, bom, February 28, 1664-5;
probably the Mary Moody who mar-

ried, in Newbury, June 23, 1683,
Henry Somerby.

5. — Lydia, born, August 5, 1667.

6. — Hannah, bom, January 4, 1669.

7. — Samuel, bom, December 6, 1671,
married, April 16, 1700, in Newbury,
Sarah Knight.

8. — Cutting, born, April 8, 1674, mar-
ried, March 25, 1696, in Newbury,
Judith Little, daughter Lieutenant
Joseph Little. He lived in Newbury
and his will of 1747 mentions two
children.

(To be continued,)

In September, 1788, on the second
Tuesday of the month, the first session
of the court of quarter sessions of the
Northwest Territory was held in Mari-
etta, Washington county, Ohio. General
Rufus Putnam and General B. Tucker
were appointed justices of the quorum,
and Isaac Pearce, Thomas Lord, R. G.
Meigs, assistant justices. Paul Fearing
was admitted as an attorney, being the
first lawyer ever admitted to practice in
the Northwest Territory. He was also
appointed attorney for the United States
in Washington county. The grand jury
consisted of: William Stacy, Nathaniel
Cushing, Nathaniel Goodale, Charles
Knowles, Aselm Tupper, Jonathan Stone,
Oliver Rice, Ezra Lunt, John Matthews,
George Ingersol, Jonathan Devol, Sam-
uel Stebbins, Jethro Putnam and Jabez
True. William Stacv was foreman.

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American Genealogies

This is a list of the genealogies of American families, published in book or
pamphlet form, with date of publication. Most of these works that are of early
date are now very rare. Copies of them are in most public libraries in the
larger cities of the United States and in the libraries of historical societies.
Copies also find their way, in very small number, into book auction sales and
into the hands of dealers in second-hand books. Genealogies of recent date are
generally procurable from the publishers. Inquiries in regard to these or any
other genealogical works may be addressed to the editor of Genealogy.

AcKERLY. — Early Wills of Westchest-
er County, New York. By W. S. Pel-
letreau. New York, 1898.

AcKLEY. — ^John Hale, of Wallingford,
Conn. A Monograph by James Shep-
ard. New Britain, Conn., 1902.

Adam. — Genealogy of the Adam Fam-
ily. [Descendants of John Adam, who
came from Scotland in 1737 and settled
in Taunton, Mass.]. By William Adam.
Albany, N. Y., 1848.

Adams. — Family Memorial [Thayer].
Part I. Genealogy of Fourteen Families
of the Early Settlers of New England,
of the names of Alden, Adams, Arnold,
Bass, Billings, Capen, Copeland, French,
Hobart, Jackson, Paine, Thayer, Wales
and White. ♦ * * Part II. Genealogy
of Ephraim and Sarah Thayer, with their
Fourteen Children. By Elisha Thayer.
Hingham, 1835.

Adams. — The Genealogy of the Des-
cendants of Several Ancient Puritans by
the name of Adams, Bullard, Holbrook,
Rockwood, Sanger, Wood, Grant, Gould-
ing and Twitchell. By Rev. Abner
Morse. Boston, 1857.

Adams. — The Vinton Memorial, com-
prising a Genealogy of the Descendants
of John Vinton of Lynn, 1648: also.
Genealogical Sketches of several allied
Families. By John Adams Vinton. Bos-
ton, 1858.

Adams. — History of the Thomas

Adams and Thomas Hastings Families,

of Amherst, Massachusetts. By Herbert

Baxter Adams. Amherst, Mass., 1880.

(To be continued,)

Abbot. — A Genealogical Register of
the Descendants of George Abbot, of
Andover; George Abbot, of Rowley;
Thomas Abbot, of Andover ; Arthur Ab-
bot, of Ipswich ; Robert Abbot, of Bran-
ford, Ct., and George Abbot, of Nor-
walk, Ct. Compiled by Rev. Abiel Ab-
bot, D.D., and Rev. Ephraim Abbot.
Boston, 1847.

Abbott. — Descendants of George Ab-
bott, of Rowley, Mass., of his Joint Des-
cendants with George Abbott, Sr., of An-
dover, Mass., of the Descendants of Dan-
iel Abbott, of Providence, R. I. ; of Some
of the Descendants of Capt. Thomas Ab-
bott, of Andover, Mass. ; of George Ab-
bott, of Norwalk, Ct. ; of Robert Abbott,
of Bran ford, Ct.; With Brief Notes of
Many Others of the Name, Original Set-
tlers in the United States. By Major
Lemuel Abijah Abbott. Boston, 1906.

Abeel. — The Abeel and Allied Fami-
lies. [Descendants of Christopher Janse
Abeel, of Albany, N. Y., 1647.] Com-
piled by Henry Whittemore. New York,
1899.

AcHENBACH. — Family memorial of
John Philip Achenbach and Descendants
in the United States. Compiled by Mrs.
Sarah Jane (Kline) Houtz. Topeka,
Kan., 189—.

AcHESON. — A History of the Acheson
Family on the Paternal Side. By A. W.
Acheson. Pittsburgh, 1878.

AcHESON. — A History of the Acheson
Family on the Maternal Side. Pitts-
burgh, 1879.

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(Continued from page 45.)
Davis, Wm,, 2d pr., Sept. 9, 1819; 77 \

d. Feb. 10, 1834.
Lorrain, John, ensign, Sept. 18, 1820 ; 74.
Liggitt, Thomas, pr., Dec. 3, 1819; 74.
McKim, James, pr., Feb. 9, 1819; 96;

d. Aug. 7, 1826.
McCord, Wm., sergt.. May 30, 1820; 87;

d. March 1, 1832.
Osbum, James, pr., Feb. 8, 1819; 82.
Partridge, John, pr., Sept. 6, 1819; 83.
Stewart, John, pr., Feb. 9, 1819; 79; d.

July 17, 1829.

Bedford County.
Burd, Benj., capt, April 30, 1819; 80.
Bloom, Daniel, pr., Sept. 26, 1818; 73;

d. May 29, 1819.
Cooper, Joseph, pr., Oct. 30, 1818; 63 ; d.

Jan. 16, 1825.
Cresson, John, pr., Oct. 30, 1818; 79; d.

March 4, 1830.
Corl, Leonard, pr., Sept. IS, 1819 jl 76.
Harbolt, Adam, pr., April 29, 1819; 61.
Lucas, George, sergt., Jan. 20, 1819 ; 84.
McCracken, John, pr., Oct. 23, 1819; 82.
Shryock, Christian, pr., Jan. 25, 1819 ; 81.
Tipper, Charles, pr., Sept. 26, 1818; 81.

Berks County.
Antreen, John, pr., Dec. 10, 1818; 82; d.

Aug. 24, 1833.
Bower, Jacob, capt., April 12, 1818; d.

Aug. 4, 1818.
Betts, Charles, pr., Aug. 7, 1818 ; d. Jan.

15, 1819.
Becker, John, pr., Feb. 3, 1819; 57; d.

March 2, 1819.
Beckarth, John R, pr., Feb. 3, 1819; 77]

d. Jan. 21, 1823.
Buckter, Mathias, pr., June 22, 1819; 86.
Bemhurt, Daniel, pr., July 22, 1819; 79.
Barnes, Wm., pr., Nov. 29, 1819; 80.
Barth, Stephen, pr., Jan. 17, 1826; 81.
Clarke, Thomas, pr., Nov. 2, 1819; 68; d.

Aug. 19, 1821.

Doddridge, Jacob, pr.. May 7, 1819; 90,
Davidhiser, Hy., pr., July 9, 1819; 74.
Everson, Geo. R., capt., March 24, 1819

87 ;d. June 23, 1820.
Felix, Peter, pr., Dec. 11, 1818; 74; d

Sept. 29, 1825.
Firing, George, pr., Feb. 3, 1819; 68; d

June 8, 1819.
Gilbert, Stephen, pr., Dec. 10, 1818; 63

d. Nov. 8, 1819.
Glassmyer, Jacob, pr., March 5, 1819 ; 81
House, George, pr., Dec. 10, 1818; 84.
Holden, Jacob, pr., Feb. 8, 1819; 75.
Heblinger, Peter, pr., Feb. 4, 1819; 64.
Heaton, James, pr., June 12, 181)8; 79;

d. Dec. 29, 1825.
Huffman, Christen, pr., July 9, 1819; 79.
Idle, Barney, pr., Nov. 9, 1818; 83; d.

June 30, 1832.
King, Francis, pr., Nov. 2, 1818 ; 85 ; d.

July 3, 1828.
Keesy, John, pr., Dec. 10, 1818; 87.
Koveler, Adam, pr.. May 31, 1820; 72;

d. Sept. 17, 1826.
Lathiser, Hartman, ensign, Feb. 3, 1819 ;

77.
Mills, Wm., pr., Nov. 6, 1818; 78.
Miller, Christian, 2d pr., April 23, 1819;

64.
Mellon, Samuel, pr., July 21, 1819; 80.
Marx, Wm., drummer, March 11, 1820;

74.
Nagle, Philip, pr., Aug. 4, 1830; 81.
Oneur, Angus, pr., Feb. 3, 1821 ; 83.
Preise, George, pr., Feb. 3, 1819 ; 77.
Steiger, Abraham, pr., Feb. 3, 1819; 69;

d. Feb. 4, 1824.
Seivert, Jacob, pr., Sept. 20, 1819 ; 77.
Werts, Jacob, pr., Nov. 3, 1818; 77.
Youse, John, pr., Oct. 14, 1819; 87.
Zeller, Mich1, pr., Oct. 29, 1819; 83; d.

Aug. 30, 1831.

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A Discredited Pedigree

In the Genealogy of Warren, by John
Collins Warren, M. D., of Boston, pub-
lished in 1854, the pedigree of Richard
Warren, the Mayflower pilgrim, and his
brother, John Warren, of Watertown,
is given as traced back through the earls
of Warren and Surrey to William de
Warren or Warrenne, who came from
Normandy with William the Conqueror.
That pedigree was promptly accepted by
genealogists, general writers and all oth-
ers interested in the subject. The falsity
of the pedigree has long been known, but
to the present time most of the Warrens,
of the Richard Warren and John War-
ren line, fully believe that they are really
descended from the earls of Warren and
Surrey. Nearly every Warren publica-
tion or manuscript compilation for the
more than half a century that has elapsed
since Dr. Warren's book appeared has
perpetuated this error.

This pedigree is based upon the claim
that Richard Warren and John Warren,
the American pioneers, were the sons of
Christopher Warren, of Ashburton,
Headboro, who, without doubt, belonged
to the family of the earls of Warren and
Surrey. But Richard Warren and John
Warren were not sons of this Christo-
pher Warren.

The line from John Warren, of Ash-
burton, Headboro, through Christopher
Warren to Richard and John Warren
depends upon an entry to that effect in
the Devonshire Visitations of 1620. But
it is now well established that the War-
ren pedigree there printed was an inter-
polation and not the work of the heralds
of 1620. In the Harleian edition of the
Devonshire Visitations, published in 1872,
it is expressly stated this pedigree was
"inserted by later hand."

There is additional confirming evi-
dence. Christopher Warren married
Alice Webb June 15, 1613. His son
John was bom in 1617,. and therefore

could not have been the John Warren, of
Watertown, Mass., who was aged "about
forty-five years" when he emigrated to
America in 1630. Richard Warren, of
Greenwich, county Kent, the third son
of Christopher and Alice (Webb) War-
ren, was baptized in Sydenham, Dam-
rell, August 15, 1619. Naturally he
could not have had a wife Elizabeth and
several children a year later, in 1620, as
is recorded of the Richard Warren who
came in that year on the Mayflower.
Both Richard Warren, of Greenwich,
and Richard Warren of the Mayflower
had wives named Elizabeth, and the con-
clusion was jumped at that, for that rea-
son, the two men must have been identi-
cal, a very tenuous and ludicrous assump-
tion.

Richard Warren, the true son of Chris-
topher Warren, married Elizabeth (Ivatt
or Jouatt) March, widow of Francis
March. The marriage of Elizabeth Ivatt
to her first husband did not occur until
1629, and then Richard Warren of the
Mayflower, who must have been her sec-
ond husband, if he is to be recognized
as the son of Christopher Warren, had
been dead for a year. The license for
Elizabeth Ivatt's first marriage reads:

"March, Francis, gent., of Stepney, bachelor,
26, and Elizabeth Ivatt of St Botolph, Aid-
gate, spinster, 15, daughter of Oliver Ivatt,
deceased, consent of Hugh Bourman, her
father (in law) at Westham, Essex, 20,
August, 1529." — London Marriage Licenses,

The Elizabeth who was the wife of
Richard Warren of the Mayflower, and
who came to America, was not Elizabeth
Ivatt, and her husband was not the son
of Christopher Warren, and of the fam-
ily of the earls of Warren and Surrey. —
This conclusion is now freely accepted
as established beyond all question of
doubt, by the recognized genealogists and
historians of Great Britain and America.
Richard Warren and Some of His Des-
cendants. By Mrs. Washington A. Roeb-
ling; Mayilozver Descendant, vol. II,
p. 63 and vol. Ill, p. 45.

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Questions

Calderwood. — Thomas Calderwood
was born in Bristol, Me., November 16,
1789. Who were his parents and grand-
parents? [182] M. A. T.

SoPER. — Henry Soper was settled in
Huntington, Long Island, early in the
seventeenth century. I am seeking in-
formation of him, his ancestry and his
descendants. [183] W. S. H.

DuNKLEBERGER. — Can anyone give me
any information in regard to the Dun-
kleberger family, which was in Pennsyl-
vania in the middle of the eighteenth
century? I think that the christian name
of one member of the family was Johan.
[184] P. A. B.

Crapo. — Who were the parents of
Peter Crapo, Freetown, Mass, who mar-
ried Sarah West, 1766? [185] M. O. P.

West. — Who was John West, a Revo-
lutionary soldier of New York, whose
wife was Charity West? Had he chil-
dren? [186] J. A. N.

Sprague. — Francis Sprague was an
innholder in Duxbury, Mass., about 1630
or 1640. I would like to have his des-
cendants for as many generations as pos-
sible. [187] H. B. A.

Abel. — Who were the ancestors of
Caleb Abel, who died August 17, 1731,
married in July, 1669, Margaret Post,
born February 21, 1653? [188] C. A. M.

Ames. — Can any one tell me the par-
entage of Polly Ames, of New London,
Conn., who married Jeremiah Page, of
England, about 1760, and lived in New
London until 1797? [189] M. S. H.

Belknap. — Where did Jesse Belknap,
Jr., die? He was of Castleton, Vt., and
of Michigan. [190] A. L. M.

Brown. — I would like information
concerning several of the Hampton, N.
H., Browns, of the Revolutionary and
pre-Revolutionary periods. Especially I
wish to trace the line of John (1), Jacob
(2), Joshua (3), and Joshua (4), in
generations after the Revolution. I
would like to place the following: Joshua
Brown, who served in the French and
Indian war and signed the petition from
North Hampton in 1718; Joshua Brown,
who married Abigail Huse, bom 1783;

Brown, who married a daughter,

born in 1750, of Elisha Smith, son of
Joseph Smith, of Sanbornton, N. H. ;
Joshua Brown in Captain Moulton's
Scouts, 1745, who was at the battle of
Bunker Hill. Were Joshua Brown and
Elisha Brown of the period preceding
the Revolution related? [191] N. O. B.

Alexander. — I wish to find something
about Ebenezer Alexander, of Massa-
chusetts and Connecticut, and other mem-
bers of the family. [192] R. A. A.

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Jenkins. — Who were the ancestors of
Nancy Jenkins, daughter of Captain
Josiah and Mary (Chipman) Jenkins,
who married Francis Poland, of Port-
land, and Gorham, Me.? [193] P. A. Z.

Answers

Poland.— [144] J. J. P.— Francis Po-
land was not of Goshen, Conn. He was
born in Portland, Me., April 19, 1788>
and married, April 2, 1810, Nancy,
daughter of Captain Josiah and Mary
(Chipman) Jenkins, who was bom June
3, 1791. He served in the war of 1812
on board of a privateer, supposed lost,
but traced to coast of Spain. His wife
died in Gorham, Me., June 6, 1861. His
parents were Benjamin and Sarah
(Magory?) Poland. Aurelia Poland,
daughter of Francis and Nancy Poland,
bom August 16, 1811, married Captain
Jonathan Buck, Jr., of Buckfield, Me.,
March 20, 1837. She died in October,
1902. A. P. D.

Clark.— [154] A. B. C— John Qark
of Preston was the son of John of Ips-
wich, Mass., who came to Norwich, be-
tween 1670 and 1680. He was born in
Ipswich probably September 24, 1679,
and married Deborah Parke, daughter of
Thomas and Mary (Allyn) Parke, bom
December 1, 1680. They were married
before June, 1707. He died in 1748.

D. C. P.

Bacon.— [159] B. M. E.— James
Bacon of New Braintree, Worcester
county, Mass., was probably the James
Bacon, Jr., of Wrentham, Norfolk county,
Mass., born June 30, 1728, in Wrentham,
eldest son of the James Bacon, Sr., who
married Mercy Man, a daughter of the
clergyman in that town. This James
Bacon, Jr., * named his first child and
daughter Mercy, his own mother's name.
The father, James Bacon, Sr., of Wren-
tham, had three brothers : Thomas, Jacob,
and John, but not one of these had a son

James. Probably more could be learned
concerning these Bacohs, father and son,
by searching the records of Wrentham,
Halifax, Greenbush, and New Braintree,
and adjacent towns in eastern Massa-
chusetts. F. B. A.

Stout.— [180] A. F. M.— Concerning
Benjamin Stout, it has been said by one
of his descendants — Nathan Stout — in A
Small Account of the Family Called
Stout: "He [Benjamin] moved from
Pennsylvania and, it is said, from there
to the state of Delaware, and from there
to Maryland and it is added that he and
his son followed the sea. In this account
Benjamin appears to have been confused
with Joseph, son of James, son of Rich-
ard (1), who, according to the same
authority, lived in Philadelphia and "fol-
lowed the seas," "as also did a son."
There is evidence that Joseph Stout and
his son Joseph lived in Philadelphia, and
were captains of vessels sailing from that
port. It is doubtful if Benjamin Stout
ever lived in Maryland. The statement
to this effect may have originated from
the fact that he owned land on the Mary-
land road (it is so called in deeds), mn-
ning from Appoquinimink Creek (Dela-
ware) to Bohemia (Maryland). He is
described in deeds as of Georges Creek,
in the vicinity of the Dragon Swamp. He
afterward moved further down the coun-
ty to Appoquinimink Creek. In 1721 (he
was then of George's Creek) he conveyed
land by deeds of gift to his sons, Charles
and Benjamin, Jr. He called the former
"his son and heir." These deeds were
doubtless executed just before his second
marriage, as he signed them alone. In
1727 he conveyed land on Georges Creek
that he had purchased in 1715, and 1715
is the earliest date associated with his
name, discovered in the Delaware
records.

Benjamin Stout's will is very brief and
is dated 25 April, 1734, and then he was
living in Appoquinimink Hundred on
Blackbird Creek. T. H. S.

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the Mayflower must have been more
crowded with passengers than history
has recorded, because of the large num-
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Mayflower ancestry. As a matter of fact,
the number of actual descendants of the
Mayflower is greater than is generally
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on an estimate of two and one-half or
three descendants from a royal person-
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William the Conqueror, so often referred
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low estimate for them. But an esti-
mate averaging^ only two descendants to
each of the 102 passenjs^ers who came in
the Mayflower, and allowing that same
small estimate for each succeeding gen-
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in the United States in 1900 no less than
1,671,168 persons, who were real des-
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Montgomery Family History

(Continued from page ^6.)
Robert Montgomerie (II), was the
eldest son of William and Isabel (Bur-
nett) Montgomerie, of Scotland and New
Jersey, who brought the family name
and fortune to America in 1701-2. He
was born in Scotland in 1687 and was
fifteen years old when his parents came
to the new world. Although, as is
known by his correspondence, he had
from time to time some thought of re-
turning to Scotland to claim the title arid
lands rightly belonging to his father, he
never carried such plans into execution,
but remained in New Jersey throughout
his life, accumulating there a consider-
able fortune.

He married, in Burlington, New Jer-
sey. February 8, 1709-10, "at ye house
of Nathan Allen, fn ye presence of Mi-
chael Newbold" — Sarah Stacy, who is
thought to have been a daughter of
"Henry Stacy, of the Hamlet of Spital-
fields, parish of Stepney, Middlesex."
Henry Stacy was doubtless closely re-
lated to Mahlon Stacy, one of the most
prominent of the early settlers of Bur-
lington county — probably a brother. Mrs.
Montgomerie, died March 9, 1743-44,
but her husband survived her over a
score of years, his will, dated August 28.
1762, having been probated October 1,
1766. He was then nearly eighty years
of age. He was probably buried at the
Friends' burial ground, at Crosswicks,
beside his wife.

The children of Robert and Sarah
Stacy (Montgomerie) were ten in num-
ber : Mary, Elizabeth, William, Sarah, a
second William, Anna, James, Annah,
Jean and John. Four of the daughters
married, the eldest, Mary, who became
the wife of James Debow, being the
mother of James Debow, Jr., who was a
captain in the militia service during the
Revolution.

James Montgomery (III), eldest son
of Robert and Sarah Stacy (Montgom-
erie), was the only son who married and
left issue. It was in his generation, — the
third, — that the spelling of the family
name was changed from old Scottish
form of Montgomerie to Montgomery.
He was born at Eglinton, the family
homestead, in Monmouth county, N. J.,
February 26, 1720, and there his entire
life was spent, his death taking place in
1759-60, shortly before that of his father.

He married. May 15, 1746. Esther
Wood, daughter of John and Susan
Wood. John Wood was a son of Wil-
liam Wood, a native of Leicestershire,
who came to America in the "Flie-boat
Martha," in the autumn of 1677, and set-
tled in the neighborhood of Burlington,
West Jersey, where he shortly afterward
married Mary Pamell, who he is said
to have fallen in love with and courted
on shipboard. Esther Wood's mother,
Susan Wood, following the death of her
husband, married, secondly, Willi^in

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Mdntgomery, James Montgomery's
uncle, the second son of William Mont-
gomerie, the pioneer.

Seven children were born to James
and Esther (Wood) Montgomery: Re-
becca, Robert, John, William, Sarah,
James and Joseph. Four of the five sons
married and left issue. The youngest,
Joseph Montgomery, bom August 30,
1758, died in 1776, when eighteen years
of age, of a disease contracted in the
military service, during the early stages
of the Revolutionary War.

Robert Montgomery (IV), eldest son
of James and Esther (Wood) Montgom-
ery, was bom October 22, 1748, and re-
mained on the ancestral estate, Eglinton,
throughout his life. This property was
within the zone of hostilities during the
Revolution, the battlefield of Monmouth
being not many miles away. The estate,
both real and personal, suffered from the
depredations of the troops, and among
the old Montgomery papers is one en-
dorsed by him, "Inventory of property
destroyed, June, 1778, belonging to Rob-
ert Montgomery, amounting to £249.10."
This represented the damage to personal
property, while the real estate was in-
jured to the extent of quite £1000, it has
been stated.

Robert Montgomery was taken pris-
oner by the British, but was subsequent-
ly liberated when it was discovered that,
like most of the Quakers, he was a non-
combatant. In 1797 he was a member of
the New Jersey Assembly, and served a
second time in 1808.

He was twice married, first, November
14, 1771, to Margaret Leonard, daugh-
ter of John Leonard. She died Septem-
ber 17, 1780, and he married, second,
June 22, 1788, Elizabeth Newell, daugh-
ter of Dr. James and Elizabeth (Law-
rence) Newell; she died May 21, 1845.
Mr. Montgomery's death took place July
5, 1828.

The children of Robert Montgomery
were seven in number, five by the first

wife and two by the second, as follows :
Elizabeth, Sarah, Susan, Robert, Mar-
garet, Lucy and Esther. The male line
from Robert Montgomery is extinct, his
only son, Robert, having died unmar-
ried.

John Montgomery (IV), second son
of James and Esther (Wood) Montgom-
ery, born at Eglinton, July 7, 1750, re-
moved to Philadelphia when still a
minor. Engaging in mercantile pursuits
— his younger brother, William Mont-
gomery, eventually becoming his partner,
he became in due course of time promi-
nent in commercial circles, at the same
time acquiring a considerable estate.

In March, 1777, he was elected a mem-
ber of the Philadelphia Troop of Light
Horse — with which he served in New
Jersey in the summers of 1779 and 1780,
and again, in January, 1781, when the
troop aided in the quelling of a mutiny
in the Pennsylvania Line. He was made
an honorary member of the command
May 6, 1792. He became a member of
the common council of the city in 1692,
and held the office at the time of his
decease.

John Montgomery married, Novem-
ber 3, 1785, Mary Crathorae, born Au-
gust 4, 1765, daughter of Jonathan and
Mary (Keen) Crathome. Mary Cra-
thorne was descended, on her mother's
side, from Joran Kyn, a Swede, who
came to America in 1642, and was the
ancestor of an extensive offspring — bear-
ing the sumame of Keen— -embracing
many people of distinction. Her sister,
Dorothy Crathome, became the wife of
Richard Dale, John Paul Jones' lieuten-
ant, on the Bon Homme Richard. Her
cousin, Sarah Austin, became the wife
of another naval hero. Captain John
Barry.

Mrs. Montgomery died October 15,
1848, having survived her husband over
half a century. His death occurred March
16, 1794, in Philadelphia.

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War Records of the Revolution and 1812

A bill have been introduced in the na-
tional senate and house of representa-
tives providing for the collecting, pre-
serving and publishing of the army and
navy records of the Revolution and War
of 1812. Various attempts have been
made to bring together the military rec-
ords of the United States, but little has
ever been accomplished. Particularly,
acts of Congress in 1892 and subsequent-
ly, provided for transfering all such rec-
ords from several government depart-
ments to the war department. It was
then the evident intent of Congress to
have all the military records of the Revo-
lutionary War brought together in the
war department with a view to printing
them when the collection should be made
as complete as possible. Still, however,
the collection of records of the Revolu-
tionary War now in the war depart-
ment, although large, is far from com-
plete. Many military records of the
Revolution, of which there are no other
copies in existence, are known to be in
the custody of the Library of Congress,
the authorities of the several States, as
well as in historical societies and indi-
viduals. In addition to this, military
records of the Revolutionary War, of
which no copies are in the possession of
the United States or any of the States,
are in possession of the British and
French governments.

Systematic efforts have already been
begun to make the war department col-
lection as complete as possible by ob-
taining the temporary loan of records in
the possession of the States and historical
societies in order that they may be copied
and that the historical information con-
tained in them may be incorporated with
that obtained from the records in the
possession of the war department. Some
of the States have loaned their records to
be copied, but this work had finally to be
suspended because of the lack of funds,
and the pressure of other work.

General Ainsworth, in writing to the
senate on this matter, said : "It is clear-
ly not advisable to undertake the publi-
cation of any portion of the military rec-
ords of the Revolutionary War, espe-
cially those relating to the individual his-
tories of officers and enHsted men, until
every available source of information
shall have been exhausted. Too many
hasty, incomplete, and inaccurate his-
torical publications have already been
made, and that number ought not to be
increased by the premature publication
of these military records."

The Library of Congress already pub-
lishes The Naval Records of the Revo-
lutionary War, a calendar of papers in-
cluding a large proportion of records of
privateers. The library also publishes
a list of the letters of John Paul Jones.
In the library of the navy department
there are some two hundred manuscripts,
letters, papers, lists of privateers, and so
on, all relating to this subject, also copies
of John Paul Jones' correspondence at
St. Mary's Isle, and copies, of logs of the
several ships Ranger, Bonhomme Rich-
ard, Queen of France, Alliance, Serapis,
and' Ariel, while Jones was on those ves-
sels. So far as relates to the naval rec-
ords which the proposed act would have
compiled, indexed, and published, the au-
thorities in the navy department call
particular attention to original manu-
scripts, etc., now in the collections of va-
rious State historical societies, or in the
State archives, as well as to the private
collections of men like Dr. Moffat, of
Brookline, Mass., Mr. Havemeyer, of
New York, and others.

Should the house and senate agree
that an appropriation should be made for
the purposes outlined above, every evi-
dence points to a monumental historical
work. The naval material alone, so it is
calculated, will probably make three large
octavo volumes of not less than a thous-
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by the minister of the towne of Gravesend of their conformitie to the orders &
disipline of the Church of England : And tooke the oath of Alleg die et A« pred.
[Figures following the several names are the years of age.]

John Hart, 33
John Coachman, 28
John Reddam, 32
John Shawe, 30
George Hill, 23
George Bonham, 31
Wm. Rogers, 35
Edward Halock, 32
Ric: Dawson, 31
Peter Johnson 36
William Bransby, 34
Nicholas Rippen, 31
James Quarrier, 22
Wm. Taylor, 36
James York, 21

Thomas Gorham, 19
Nathaniell Disnall, 23
John Taylor, 16
John Gorham, 18
Richard Wilson, 19
Robert Morgan, 33
Samuel Milner, 18
Tymothie Featlie, 23
Wm. Arundell, 32
Alexander Leake, 22
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Some Notable Members of the Adams Family

Henry Adams, of Braintree, Mass., in
1632, a native of England and founder
of the famous Adams family in America.

John Adams, of Cambridge, Mass., a
native of England and founder of an-
other Adams family in New England.

Abigail Smith Adams, born in 1744,
died in 1818, wife of John Adams, the
second president of the United States,
and daughter of the Reverend William
Smith, of Weymouth, Mass.

Alvin Adams, born in 1804, died in
1877. Founder of the Adams Express
Company.

Charles Francis Adams, bom in 1807,
died in 1886, diplomat, statesman and
author, son of John Quincy Adams, sixth
president of the United States.

Charles B. Adams, bom in 1814, died
in 1853, naturalist and educator.

Hannah Adams, bom in 1755, died in
1832, one of the earliest American writ-
ers, author of a History of New Eng-
land and a History of the Jews,

Frederick W. Adams, bom in 1787,
died in 1859, a physician and violin
maker of Vermont.

John Adams, born in 1735, died in
1826, diplomat and statesman, second
president of the United States.

John Adams, born in 1712, died in
1863, for twenty-three years principal of
Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass.

John Quincy Adams, born in 1767,
died in 1848, diplomat and statesman,
sixth president of the United States.

Samuel Adams, of Boston, bom in
1722, died in 1802, Revolutionary patriot.
He had no male descendants.

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Cemetery Inscriptions

Following are some inscriptions from old tombstones in the burying-ground
on the hill in Salem, Mass.

{Continued from page j/.)

Judith wife of E. A. Holyoke, Esq.,
died Novr. ye 19th, 1756, aged 19 years.

Tabitha King, daugr. of Mr. Dan, &
Eliza'th King, bom October 18th, 1732,
Died Septber. 5th, 1737.

Here lies Interred the Remains of
Elizabeth King, wife of Daniel King,
who departed this Life August the 13th,
1766, Aged 60 years.

Here lyes inter'd ye body of Mr. Rob-
ert Kitchen, who departed this Life
Octr. ye 28th, 1712, AEtatis 56.

Here lies the Body of David Neeal,
son of Mr. David & Mrs. Hannah Neeal,
aged 1 year & 10 mo. Died August ye
1st, 1754.

Robt; Kitchen, bom Octobr. ye 1st,
1735. Dec'd. Deer, ye 20th, 1736.

Mary Kitchen, born Octr. ye 2d, 1731,
Deed. Oct. ye 28th, 1738.

Here lyeth Interred the body of Mrs.
Freek Kitchen, wife unto Edward Kitch-
en, Esq., and Daughter To the Honor-
able Josiah Wolcott, Esq., who departed
this Life January 17th, 1746-7, aged 34
years.

Here lies buried the body of Edward
Kitchen, Esq., who departed this Life
August the 17th, 1766, aged 66 years.

Mary Lambert, aged 3 years and 7 mo.
Died Sept. ye 4th, 1702.

Ebenezer Lambert, aged 1 year and 10
mo. Died Sept. ye 21st, 1702.

Here lyeth ye Body of Martha Lee,
Dau'r of Thomas & Mrs. Deborah Lee,
aged 20 years, who died October ye 20th,
1721.

Here lye the Bodies of Timothy Lin-
dall, Esq., Aged 82 years. Deceased Oc-
tober 25th, Anno Domini 1760.

Bethia, his wife, aged 31 years. De-
ceased June 20th, Anno Domini 1720.

Mary, wife of Timothy Lindall, aged
80 years. Deceased February 8th, Anno
Domini 1767.

Here lies buried the Body of Mrs.
Elizabeth Mackey, wife of Capt. Daniel
Mackey, Died July 20, 1701, Aged 36
years.

Here lyes Interred ye Body of Mrs.
Mehetable Marston, wife to Benjamin
Martson, Esq., and Daur. to ye late
Rev'd Mr. Henry Gibbs of Watertown,
who departed this Life August ye 21st,
1727, in ye 22d year of her age.

Here lyes Interred the body of Mrs.
Patience Marston, Relict of Mr. Benja-
min Marston, late of Salem, Merch Deed,
she departed this life the 22d day of May,
1731, Aged 55 years and 9 days.

Here lies ye Body of Winslow Mars-
ton, son of Colnl. Benjamin Marston,
Esq., & Mrs. Elizabeth his wife. Died
Sept. ye 6th, 1755, aged 6 year§.

In memory of John Marston, the sec-
ond son of Benja. Marston, Esq. & Mrs.
Elizabeth Marston. He died April 22d,
1761, in his 21st year and is here buried.

Here lies reposited in hope of a res-
surrection to an Immortal Life, the Re-
mains of Madam Elizabeth Marston, the
wife of the hon'ble. Benjamin Marston,
Esq., one of this place, and daughter of
the honble. Isaac Winslow, Esq., of
Marshfield. she died September 20, 1761,
in her 53d year.

Here lyeth buried ye body of Leut.
John Pickering. Dec'd. ye 5th of May,
1694, in ye 57th year of his age.

Here lyes the Body of John Norman,
who died May ye 6th, 1713, in ye 77th
year of his Age.

Here lyes ye Body of Mary Norman,
who died Octobr. 24th, 1713, Aged 68.
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Questions

Jacob. — Christian Jacob immigrated to
this country on October 20, 1764, from
Wurtemburg, Germany. Securing a
patent from the government he settled
on a large farm, about a mile southeast
of Schnecksville, Pa. That farm re-
mained in the direct possession of the
Jacob family until 1900, a period of 119
years. Where can I find something about
his descendants ? Is his German ancestry
known? [181] P.B.J.

Answers

Crapo.— [185] M. O. P.— Peter (3)
Crapo and Sarah West were married,
1766. They moved to Freetown, where
Peter died, March 3, 1822. The grand-
father of Peter (3), John (2), Peter (1)
Crapo married, May 31, 1704, in Roch-
ester, Mass., Penelope White, born
March 12, 1687. She was the seventh

child of Samuel (3) and Rebecca White,
Resolved (2), William (1), the May-
flower pilgrim. W. R. C.

West.— [186] J. A. N.— John West,
who served in the Revolution under Gen-
eral Putnam, and was present at the
hanging of Major John Andr6, Septem-
ber 1780, married Charity . Their

children were: Sarah, Betsey, Andrew
and Mary. Sarah married Philip Carr,
1809; he died 1829, New York city;
children: Benjamin Jackson, Charity,
Eliza, John and Katherine, twins, Abby,
Andrew, Cornelius, Margaret, born in
New York city. Benjamin Jackson Carr
married, 1831, New York city, Hester
Ann Stryker, bom November 3, 1812,
died March 15, 1890, New York city;
daughter Sarah Ann Carr, born Septem-
ber 14, 1832, married, July 26, 1849, Wil-
liam Chenoweth.

Alexander. — [192] R. A. A. — Henry
Foster (8) Alexander, bom October 24,
1797, died December 17, 1852, son of
Ebenezer (7) Alexander, bom April 24,
1765, Winchester, N. H., died Decem-
ber 6, 1843, Boston, married June 3,
1788. Rhoda Scott. Ebenezer lived in
Winchester and Chesterfield, N. H., until
about 1800, when he removed to Mon-
tague, Mass. Abput 1820 he removed to
Boston. He was son of Asa (6) Alex-
ander, born October 17, 1742, Winches-
ter, N. H., died November 4, 1811, mar-
ried, November 13, 1762, Mary Bond,
served in the French and Indian War.

Asa (6) Alexander was son of Ebe-
nezer (5) Alexander, bom about 1715,
Northfield, Mass., died July 29, 1788,
married, Abigail Rockwood, lived in
Northfield, Mass., and Winchester,
N. H., served in the French and Indian
War.

Ebenezer (5) Alexander was son of
Ebenezer (4) Alexander, born October
17, 1684, died January 22, 1768, married,
October 10, 1709, Mehitable Buck. This
Ebenezer Alexander lived in Wethers-

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field and Coventry, Conn., and then set-
tled in Northfield, Mass. He was in the
Louisburg expedition in 1745. Was dea-
con of the Northfield church for forty
years, known as the "fighting deacon.",

John (3) Alexander, bom July 25,
1645, Windsor, Conn., died December 31,
1733, Northampton, Mass., married,
November 18, 1671, Sarah Gaylord. He
lived several years in Northfield, Mass.,
and elsewhere in Massachusetts.

George (2) Alexander, bom probably
in Scotland ; died May 5, 1703, married,
March 18, 1644, Susanna Sage. He re-
sided first in Windsor, Conn., removing
to Northampton, and later to Northfield.
Said to be a son of John ( 1 ) Alexander,
who came from Scotland, prior to 1644,
and settled in Windsor, Conn. Temple
and Sheldon's History of Northfield,
Mass, B. E. T.

Sprague. — [187] H. B. A. — Francis
(1) Sprague, with his wife (Lylia or
Lydia), came in the ship Anne, July,
1623. His only son, John (2) Sprague,
married, 1655, Ruth Bassett, daughter of
William and Elizabeth (Tilden) Bassett.
He was killed March 26, 1676, in King
Philip's War, at Pawtucket. His eldest
son, Lieutenant John (3) Sprague, born

about 1656, married, first, Lydia ( ),

who died July 18, 1725 ; married, second,
March 21, 1726-7, Lois Abel. He re-
moved from Duxbury to Lebanon, Conn.,
about 1702, and January 19, 1713-14, he
deeded 120 acres to his son, John (4)
Sprague. Lieutenant John (3) died
March 6, 1727-8.

Captain John (4) Sprague, John (3),
John (2), Francis (1), born about 1690
at Duxbury, Mass. ; married, first, Febru-
ary 22, 1710-11, in Lebanon, Conn., Mary
Babcock, who died January 5, 1721-2,
daughter of Jonathan Babcock ; married,
second, Hannah Burt, daughter of
Thomas Burt, of Swansea, Mass. He
died 1760, in Canaan, Conn. His will,
dated July 31, 1754, mentions his sons:
Ebenczcr and Jonathan, and other chil-

dren. See Probate Records, Sharon,
Conn.

Captain John (4) Sprague was living
in Salisbury, Conn., February 7, 1748-9,
where he and his brother, Ephraim (4)
Sprague, of Lebanon, deeded certain
land formerly owned by their father,
John (3) Sprague. Lebanon Deeds, vii,
232.

December 23, 1735, Ephraim (4)
Sprague of Lebanon, Conn., declares he
is a great-grandson of Francis Sprague,
of Duxbury, deceased; a grandson of
John Sprague, of said Duxbury, also
deceased, (the son of said Francis), and
the eldest son of John Sprague (of
Lebanon, Conn.), deceased. See copy of
deed in the Bristol County, Massachu-
seits, Deeds, xxiii, 509.

Ebenezer (5) Sprague, Captain John
(4), Lieutenant John (3), John (2),
Francis (1), bom December 12, 1711, in
Lebanon, Conn., married, first, Decem-
ber 12, 1734, Elizabeth Thatcher, who
died February 28, 1744-5, in Sharon;
married, second, Febmary 20, 1745-6,
Hannah (5) St. John, bora Febmary 7,
1729-30, in Wilton, Conn., daughter of
Matthew (4), Mathias (3, 2, 1) and
Anna (Whitney) St. John.

Jonathan (5) Sprague (brother of
Ebenezer), was born April 30, 1716 ; mar-
ried Lydia Barrows, who died in Sharon
October 21, 1767; married, second,
March 4, 1773, Mary Hollister. He died
January 17, 1807. Ebenezer and his
brother, Jonathan, both served in the
French and Indian war. W. S. S.

Belknap.— [190] A. L. M.— Jesse
Belknap, Jr., born May 21, 1784, Castle-
ton, Vt., died February 23, 1859, Vassar,

Mich. He married, 1810, Betsey ,

born April 22, 1787, Rchoboth, Mass.,
died July 11, 1866, Vassar. He removed
to Western New York in 1819, and to
Michigan in 1852, where he was a mail
and express carrier. He had five sons
and seven daughters. R. A. B.

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Number 9

The Gamerons in America

By M. D. Cameron

History of the Cameron family as nar-
rated to his grandson, M. D. Cameron,
by Alexander Cameron who was a grand-
son of John Cameron, the emigrant.

Some time between the years 1735 and
1755 (probably near the latter date)
there landed on American soil a Scotch
family by the name of Cameron. This
family consisted of a mother and her
children ; how many children there were
I have no means of knowing but there
was one son by the name of John. This
boy is supposed to have lived with his
mother until he grew to manhood. Even-
tually he married a German girl whose
name is now unknown, the date of the
marriage also being unknown. To this
couple were born eight children:
1. John 2. Hugh 3. Nancy

4. Betsy 5. Alexander 6. Margaret
7. Susan 8. Peter

John Cameron, eldest son of John
( 1 ) Cameron, was twice married, his first
wife, — date of marriage unknown, — be-
ing Catherine Rhuenhart. [This is prob-
ably a mistake. I think his first wife
may have been Jane Witherspoon as that
name sounds familiar to me. — M. D. C.].
[The name of this wife was Jane

Witherspoon, as M. D. C. has supposed.
— W. M. C.]. Three children:
1. John 2. Leah 3. Isaac
The second wife of John Cameron was
Barbera Summerman; there were no
children by the second marriage.

Hugh Cameron, second son of John
(I) Cameron, married. The name of his
wife, and the date of his marriage is not
known to me. Of his children I have
little knowledge ; there was one son by
the name of John, and Simon Cam.eron,
the statesman, is supposed to have been
a son. [Some authorities say that the
father of Simon Cameron was Charles
Cameron, a tailor of Donegal, Penn.,
where Simon was born. — W. M. C.].

Nancy Cameron, eldest daughter of
John (I) Cameron, married Stephen
Ridinger. To them seven children were
born, of whom three lived to grow up.
1. Jacob 2. Samuel 3. Catherine
The other four met tragic deaths in
childhood, two being burned to death in
the house while the mother was at work
in the field while two were drowned in
the Ohio river by falling off or being
tipped off a raft. There may have been
other children but these are all I know of.

Betsy Cameron, second daughter of
John (I) Cameron, married a man by
the name of Michael Coons and to them
nine children were bom.
1. John 2. George 3. Michael

4. Betsy 5. Susan 6. Margaret
7. David 8. Polly 9. Catherine

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Alexander Cameron, third son of John

(I) Cameron, married Elizabeth Sum-
merman. Nine children were born to
them.

1. Samuel 2. Susan 3. Elizabeth

4. Mary 5. Alexander 6. David

7. Joseph 8. Nancy 9. Sarah

Margaret Cameron, third daughter of
John (I) Cameron, married Jonathan
Guess. To them were born nine chil-
dren.

1. Brice 2. Polly 3. Sarah

4. Margaret 5. Ruth 6. John

7. Basil 8. Alexander 9. Rachel

Susan Cameron, fourth daughter of
John (f) Cameron, married Conrad
Brandbary. To them five children were
bom.

1. Samuel 2. John 3. Jessie

4. Mary 5. Conrad

Of Peter Cameron, youngest child of
John (I) Cameron, I know but little. I
was told that he was a great wrestler
being more than a match for any of his
adversaries. Upon a certain New Year's
day he met a man by the name of Kibler
and defeated him in a match. Kibler
became angry and, securing a gun,
warned Peter that he intended to shoot
him. Peter thought he was jesting and
made no effort to save himself. Kibler
made his word good and shot Peter with
a tow wad which lodged in his leg just
below the knee, passing down along the
bone. Blood poison ensued (or as
grandfather stated mortifycation set in)
and he died.

Ill

John Cameron, son of John (II) and
Jane (Witherspoon) Cameron, married

Tumipseed. To them were bom

three children but I know nothing of
their names or history. [John (III)
Cameron died in Paris, Stark county,
Ohio. One of his children was a daugh-
ter, named Sarah. — W. M. C.].

Leah Cameron, onl^^ daughter of John

(II) and Jane Witherspoon (Cameron),
married twice. Her first husband was

Daniel Clemens and her second [George]
Sponseller. A number of children were
born to them of whom I know nothing.

[Eeah Cameron was born May 17, 1810,
and died in Paris, Ohio, June 25, 1880.
She was a large portly woman, resem-
bling Martha Washington. By Daniel
Clemens, she had three children, John S.,
Amanda, and William Clemens. By
George Sponseller, she had Ella, Emory,
Joseph, Emeline, Julia and Leah.

William (IV) Clemens had a son Har-
'ey (V), who in 1912 resided in Canton,
Ohio.

Amanda (IV) Clemens died without
issue.

John S. (IV) Clemens, was born in
Paris Ohio, August 30, 1832, and died
April 16, 1895. He married Sarah Eliza-
beth Flickinger, November 4, 1854, and
had William (V) Montgomery, Harry
M. (V), and Frances (V) Clemens. The
daughter died in 1858 at the age of two
years. Harry M. Clemens married and
had two children, both of whom died in
infancy.

William M. (V) Clemens, bom Jan-
uary 16, 1860, married, first, Rose Gar-
field, who died April 7, 1886, by whom
he had Rhea (VI), married Richard
Sheldon, and Nina (VI^, married
Samuel McComb. He married, second,
Kate Fowler Lott who died June 28,
1900, by whom he had Florence (VI)
and Marian (VI) Clemens.

The children of George and Leah
(Cameron) Sponseller were : Ella (IV),
married John Foltz; Emory (IV),
Joseph (IV), Emeline (IV), married
Putnam Zimmer; Julia (IV), married
Seifer; Leah (IV). W. M. C]

Isaac Cameron, youngest child of
John (II) and Jane (Witherspoon)
Cameron, married Margaret Rogers. I
do not know whether or not fliey had a
family. [He also married a second
wife.— W. M. C].

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Settlers of Fairfield, N. J.

By Frank D. Andrews

Among the early New England settlers
of West Jersey, were a number of the
inhabitants of Fairfield, in the Connecti-
cut Colony, who located on the south side
of Cohansey river, a dozen miles or more
from its entrance into the Delaware bay.
The exact date of their arrival is un-
known, but with characteristic regard for
their religious duty they organized a
church about 1690. The Reverend
Thomas Bridge, a graduate of Harvard
College, became their spiritual adviser
and teacher, remaining with them until
about 1703, when he returned to Boston,
where he was pastor of the First church,
from 1705 until his death, September 26,
1715.

May 12, 1697, the New Jersey as-
sembly duly authorized "the former in-
habitants of Fairfield in New England,"
to name the township after their home
town in Connecticut. Families from
other parts of New England, Long Is-
land and East Jersey joined the settlers,
or found new homes in the vicinity, and
the fertile land about the Cohansey river
was early taken up and improved.

That the settlers on the Cohansey were
of good repute, we are assured by the
Reverend Jedediah Andrews, pastor of
the First Presbyterian church of Phila-
delphia, who called them "the best people
in his neighborhood." He prevailed upon
his Harvard classmate, the Reverend
Joseph Smith, to become their pastor in
1709. Mr. Smith was soon succeeded by
Samuel Exall. Howell Powell followed
him and remained until his death in 1717.
Henry Hook served from 1718 to 1722.
The Reverend Noyes Parris, another
graduate of Harvard College, preached
from 1724 to 1728 or 1729, when the
Reverend Daniel Elmer, a graduate of
Yale College in 1713, began his ministry,
which end^ only with his death in 1755.
The Reverend William Ramsey, a gradu-
ate of the College of New Jersey, served

until he died in 1771. The Reverend
William HoUingshead was the next
pastor, preaching from 1773 to 1783,
when he removed to Charleston, S. C.

The first meeting house of logs was
replaced by a building of New England
pattern with shingled roof, ends and sides.
During the ministry of Mr. HoUingshead
this was deemed unsafe and the pulpit
and benches were removed to a wide
spreading oak near by where services
were held in pleasant weather until the
completion of the stone church which
still stands about one mile south. Burials
were made in the yard at the new church,
and the old burying ground being little
used, was neglected, and trees grew
among the graves.

In 1909 the Presbyterian synod of New
Jersey erected a granite memorial com-
memorating the founding of the early
church and perpetuating the memory of
the men who, in 1697, bound themselves
to "obtain and mainetaine a Sound &
Orthodox Ministr of the Gospell to
preach the Gospell amongst uss," and
further agreed, "That a school for the
teaching of Children to read & write
English shall be mainetained from time
to time."

They agreed to set aside a certain num-
ber of acres for the minister who should
settle among them, and a like amount for
a parsonage. The agreement then made
is now known as the Cohansey Com-
pact, and the names of twenty-six sign-
ers are cut upon the monument. In the
body of the agreement the names of John
Fairchild and Zachariah Ferris appear
among the others, and their names should
be preserved with the early settlers of
Fairfield. The monument bears the fol-
lowing inscription:

"IN MEMORY of the true and good
men and women who coming in the sev-
enteenth century founded here on the
Cohansey, THE CHURCH OF
CHRIST IN FAIRFIELD. It came
under the care of the Presbytery of West
Jersey, May 19, 1708.

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This monument is erected by their
descendants and the Presbytery of West
Jersey, June 15, 1909.

REV. THOMAS BRIDGE WAS
THEIR MINISTER."
"Signers of Agreement in Fairfield,

June 10, 1697."
Thomas Jones John Chatfield

Jonathan Morehouse John Mills
Joseph Seelye Thomas Bennett

Joseph Sayre Joseph Smith

Robert Dallglesh Thomas Kernes
Joseph Wheeler Joshua Curtis

Daniel Westcott John Griffin

Joseph Grimes Nicholas Johnson

John Roberts Michael Hanna

Eleazer Smith JohnOgden

John Bennett Samuel Foster

Samuel Bellnap Edward Lummis

John Bateman John Smith

(To be continued.)

8. Sylvia, bom April 1, 1767, married
Jonathan Lane.

9. Joel, born May 11, 1771.

10. Sarah, bom November 5, 1772.

11. James, bom August 6, 1774.

Ketchums of Plattsburgh, N. Y.

The children of Joseph and Elizabeth
(Hurlburt) Ketchum, who were living
in Plattsburgh, N. Y., before or in the
middle of the eighteenth century, were
eleven in number.

1. Joseph, Jr., of Plattsburgh, N. Y.,
born October 1, 1754, died September 6,
1794; married Phebe Moore, born July
3, 1777, died October 24, 1816. They
had children: Polly, married Nathan
Averill; Betsey, married Henry De
Lord; Phebe, married, 1811, Bela Eggar-
ton ; Harry, not known to have married.

2. Hezekiah, born July 14, 1756, mar-
ried Mary Barlow.

3. Elizabeth, born April 27, 1758, mar-
ried Culver.

4. Lydia, born April 27, 1760.

5. Noah, born November 10, 1761, be-
came insane and committed suicide.

6. Daniel, bom November 2, 1763,
had daughter, Maria, who married Davis
Noble.

7. Amos, born April 11, 1765, had son,
Morris.

George Bancroft, Historian

Lieutenant Thomas (1) Bancroft of
Reading, Mass., born about 1622; mar-
ried, second wife, in Dedham, Septem-
ber 15, 1648, Elizabeth Metcalf, daugh-
ter of Michael Metcalf; she was bom in
England, October 4, 1626. Thomas
Bancroft died August 19, 1691; his
widow died May 1, 1711.

Captain Thomas (2) Bancroft, Jr., of
Reading was born in Dedham, July 14,
1649; married, April 10, 1673, Sarah
Poole, daughter of Jonathan Poole; she
was bom July 11, 1656. Thomas Ban-
croft, Jr., died June 12, 1718; his widow
died May 27, 1723.

Captain Samuel (3) Bancroft of Read-
ing was bom December 26, 1693; mar-
ried, November 22, 1713, Sarah Lamson,
daughter of Samuel Lamson; she was
bom in 1689. Samuel Bancroft died
July 13, 1772. His wife, Sarah, had died
January 3, 1733, and he married two
other wives. All his children were by
his first wife.

Esquire Samuel (4) Bancroft, Jr.,
born July 21, 1715; married October 30,
1735, Lydia Parker, daughter of Nath-
aniel Parker; she was born February,
1716. Samuel Bancroft, Jr., died No-
vember 15 or 25, 1782; his widow, Lydia,
died November, 1813.

Reverend Aaron (5) Bancroft was
born November 10, 1755 ; married Octo-
ber 24, 1786, Lucretia Chandler, daugh-
ter of the Honorable John Chandler;
she was born June 9, 1765, died April
27, 1839. After her funeral Dr. Ban-
croft never left the house, and died
August 19 following.

George (6) Bancroft, bom, in Wor-
cester, Mass., October 3, 1800; died,
January 17, 1891.

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United States Census for 1790

The following is a complete list of heads of families for the town of Cham-
plain, Clinton county, New York, according as they were taken and recorded in
the United States Census of 1790:

Beaumont, William
Rogers, Elnathan
Bullis, James
Thomas, Caleb
Ashman, Samuel
Row, Lavina
Moor, Pliny
Landru, Honore
Chackee, Simon
Trahan, Stephen
La Rocht, Joseph
Poling, Andrew
Paul, Robert
Willson, Peter
Rouse, Lewis
Rippin, Andrew
Landru, Baptist
McPherson, Murdock
Gooslin, Clement
Gooslin, Lewis
Marney, Lewis
Marney, Lewis, Jun.
Buydo, Peter
Rouse, James
Oliver, Lawrence
AsHne, Pryx
Belongee, Noel
Favina, Joseph
Buylo, Amable
Ayott, Peter
Belongee, Joseph
Amlong, John Baptist
Amlong, Baptist
Laframbois, Baptist
De La Valanier, Peter TL
Montey, Francis .
Lezolle. Lewis
Blanchard, William
Knap, Abraham
Knap, Abraham, Junr.
Fisk, Ichabod
Hall, Enoch

Wait, Gardner
Laframbois, James
Mott, Samuel
Soule, William
Able, Henry
Griggs, Abraham
Legard, John
Kelly, Thomas
Scut, Alexander
Auberry, Charles
Le Long, Ezekiel
Covey, Samuel
Marvin, Benjamin
Miller, Henry
Manning, Joshua
Mott, Joseph
Mott, Jacob
Garlick, Ruben
Dervel, Michael
Starr, George
Van Vleet, John
Fear, Simon
Griggs, John
Haminger, Michael
Andrew, Thomas '
Fischer, James
Logan, David
Noxin, Simon
Mott, Joseph, Junr.
Mott, Richard
Conroy, Patrick
Clerk, Titus
Ledue, John
McGrigor, Duncan
Young, James
Wait, Nathaniel
Savage, John
Holebrook, Abraham
Holebrook, Nathaniel
Carrigan, Peter
Burgit, Coonradt
Denier, Eli
Clerk, Daniel

Danow, James
Freeman, Peter
Conklen, Abraham
Hilliker, Abraham
Wagener, Francis
Cook, Philip
Cook, George
Hogen, Edward
Hadin, Joseph
Munroe, Elijah
Myers, William
Hamond, Benjamin
Babcock, Ichabod
Smith, Humphrey
Smith, Daniel
Brandigo, William
Pickle, John
Force, Timothy
Beedle, Daniel
Smith, John
Chitten, John
Bremer, George
Niles, Nathan
Runnolds, James
Runnolds, Elisha
Helmes, Samuel
Pickle, Jacob
Pickle, Christopher
Soule, Timothy
Soule, Joseph
Chambers, John
Gibson, John
Miller, Samuel
Miller, John
Leverware, Nathan
Sweet, James
Lewis, John
McLean, Hugh
Garner, Asa
Cummins, John
Hyde, Ebenezer
Hewey, David

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Questions

Monroe. — Information wanted con-
cerning the descendants of Cornelius
Monroe, son of Amasa Monroe of Can-
terbury, Conn. He was born about
1808; married Hannah Beebe; had five
children (Amelia, VVillard, Charles, and
two other boys) ; was a Methodist evan-
gelist, and is reported to have "gone out
west" before the civil war. [194] W.S.M.

Bennett. — ^James Bennett, married
Hannah Wheeler, and a daughter, or a
granddaughter, Sarah Bennett, married
Peleg Burritt' in Stratford, Conn., 1705.
James Bennett moved from Concord,
Mass., to Fairfield, Conn., with his wife
Hannah and several children in 1644.
His children would have been too old
for any one of them to marry a young
husband in 1705. James Bennett jr.,
married Rebecca ( ). I want in-
formation concerning the family of the

first James Bennett and also the name of
the wife of the second James Bennett,
and her. parents. [195] B. A. D.

Waddams. — Wanted, the ancestry of
Caleb Waddams, bom January 14, 1754;
Revolutionary soldier; resided in Free-
hold, N. Y., 1790; of Unadilla, N. Y.,
and later of Scipio, N. Y., where he died
May 18, 1835; married, first, in Sharon,
Conn., February 28, 1782, Eunice Farr,
born February 28, 1762, died March 13,
1813, in Scipio; married, second, Mary
(Rude) Hammond, bom November 30,
1757, died October 4, 1832, widow of
Luthan Hammond. [196] N. M. R: R.

Castle. — Wanted, information con-
cerning Henry Castle, of Stratfield,
Conn., and his descendants in the male
line in early generations. [197] P. B. C.

Fellows. — I am trying to find the an-
cestry of David Fellows of Canaan,
Conn., who 'married Susannah Baker in
1762. Can any one help me? [198] B.S.F.

Bradley. — I want the ancestry of
Margaret Bradley who, in 1715, married
John Liscomb, a resident of Gloucester,
Mass. [199] M. B. J. "

Pen NOCK. — Joseph Pennock, born
February 23, 1765, was the son of Joseph
and Margaret (Seeley) Pennock, of
New Mil ford. Conn. He changed his
name to Seeley. He was a druggist, and
it is a family tradition that for a mistake
made by his clerk, which had a fatal re-
sult, he assumed the name of his mother.
He lived in Staflford, Vt., (?) West
Stockbridge, Mass., and Athens, N. Y.,
where he lived about forty years, and
died in 1844, being buried there.

Can any one tell me who was Mar-
garet Seeley? Also ancestry of Joseph
Pennock, Sen., of New Milford, Conn.,
or anything definite about the changing
of Jos. Pennock*s name to Seeley?
[200] M. L. P.

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Baker. — Sebas Jackson Edmund, sr.,
of Newtown, Mass., married February
19, 1671, Sarah (3) Baker of Roxbury,
Mass., daughter of Thomas (2) John
( 1 ) . Can any one tell me the names and
parents of the wives of John (1) and
Thomas (2) Baker? [201] W. P. M.

Beebe. — Wanted, information about
William Beebe of East Haddam, Conn.,
and his wife and children. [202] P. S. T.

Need?iam. — Who was John Needham,
who, by the records, died in Boston,
January 14, 1689? [203] F. A. G.

WiLLES. — Abner (5) Hyde (Abner 4,
Thomas 3, Samuel 2, William 1), of
Norwich West Farms (Franklin),
Conn., was born April 1, 1738. His
mother was Mehitable Smith, born about
1713, probably the daughter of Captain
Obadiah Smith, and the second wife of
Abner Hyde, (4). He married, January 3,
1760, Temperance Willes, born in Nor-
wich, May 19, 1738, and died in Frank-
lin, April 2, 1809. What was the ances-
try of Temperance Willes? [204] T.N.H.

Ashley. — I want the ancestry of John
Ashley, father of Jane Ashley, who mar-
ried, first. Dr. William Bull of western
Conn., in the vicinity of Litchfield or
Canaan; second, in 1762, Captain Ruloff
Dutcher; third. Judge Joshua Porter of
Salisbury. Jane Ashley had a brother,
Lieutenant-Colonel John Ashley; her
mother's name was Hannah Hogaboom.
When and where was John Ashley born,
and when and where did he die? He is
spoken of as a judge and colonel ; when
and where did he gain the title of colo-
nel? From what family was his wife
Hannah Hogaboom? [205] C. K. R.

KiFF. — Can any one give me informa-
tion concerning the ancestry of John
KiflF, or KieflF, who was in Thomaston,
Union and Belmont, Me.? He married
Mary, or Betsey Peabody, daughter of

Samuel Peabody, a descendant from En-
sign Thomas Peabody, of Ipswich,
Mass., the founder of the famous Pea-
body family of eastern Massachusetts.
Samuel Peabody lived in Gorham and in
Union, Me., and died in 1804. He mar-
ried Ruth Trask, who died in 1814.
[206] K. P. W.

Answers

Dunkleberger. — [184] P. A. B. —
The Dunkleberger family originated in
Wurtemburg, Germany. The American
emigrants arrived in this country in 1728
and settled at Jacksonwald, Berks county,
Penn. J. D. P.

Jenkins.— [193] P. A. Z.— The Jenk-
ins family, to which belonged Mary
Jenkins, who married Francis Poland,
of Portland, Me., in 1810, trace their
line from John Jenkins, who married
Mary Ewer, February 2, 1652. Thomas
(2) Jenkins, born July 15, 1666, married
Experience Hamblen, August 24, 1687.
Their child, Samuel (3) Jenkins, born
January 7, 1690, married, November 9,
1721, Mary Hinckley. Samuel (4)
Jenkins, born October 20, 1727, married,
March 11, 1749, Mary Chipman, daugh-
ter of Deacon Samuel and Elizabeth
Chipman, of Barnstable. They moved
to Gorham.

Mrs. Jenkins was a woman of talent.
They had six children, three of whom
were sons who served in the Revolu-
tionary war. Josiah, the- oldest son, was
captain in the Twelfth Massachusetts
regiment, was at the siege of Boston,
and at the battle of Monmouth. Sam-
uel was a sergeant and settled in Buck-
field. He was twice married. Joseph,
the youngest child, died in the army at
West Point. Captain Josiah Jenkins
married Prudence, daughter of Prince
and Sarah (Colman) Davis, of Barn-
stable. They had seven children. The
fifth child, Nancy, married Francis Po-
land. F. P. J.

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Number 10

Montgomery Family History

(Continued from pcge 58)

When John Montgomery (IV), son
of James and Esther (Wood) Mont-
gomery, died the Philadelphia American
Daily Advertiser, of March 20, 1794, con-
tained this obituary notice:

On Monday afternoon were interred in
Christ Church graveyard the remains of John
Montgomery, merchanit, of this city. The
numerous and respectable body of citizens,
who attended his plain and republican funeral,
evinced the high ideas entertained of the public
and private merits of this excellent citizen.

As a merchant, he exhibited for twenty years
uniform industry, integrity, and punctuality.
His word was a bond to all who transacted
business with him. His virtues of a citizen
commanded esteem and respect wherever they
were known. The weakness of his constitu-
tion, which laid the foundation of the disorder
which conveyed him to the grave, was thought
to have been induced by the toils and dangers
to which he exposed himself as a member of
the Philadelphia troop of horse during the late
war. He loved order, as well as liberty, and
was no less attached to the present wise and
equal government of his country, than he was
to its Independence. As a son, a brother, a
husband, a father, and a friend, he will never
cease to live in the bosoms of those to whom
he sustained these tender relations.

John and Mary (Crathome) Mont-
gomery had three children, all sons : Aus-
tin, James and John Crathorne.

William Montgomery (IV), third son
of James and Esther (Wood) Montgom-
ery, was bom January 30, 1752. Remov-
ing to Philadelphia when a young man,

he entered into partnership with his
brother John. Following the elder
brother's death, March 16, 1794, William
Montgomery continued to carry on the
mercantile business established by the
firm, over a score of years previously,
and remained actively connected with
the house until a short time prior to his
death, which occurred in Philadelphia,
March 4, 1831.

He married, October 25, 1781, Rachel
Harvey, daughter of Sampson Harvey, a
well-known Philadelphia merchant. By
her he had a family of ten children : Sam-
uel Samuel Hall, Esther, Harvey, Joseph,
a second Harvey, William, Mary, Emily
and William Rogers. Of these five died
young and without issue, Samuel, Sam-
uel Hall, Harvey, William and William
Rogers.

James Montgomery (IV), the young-
est surviving son of James and Esther
(Wood) Montgomery, was born No-
vember 22, 1755. He was reading law
when the Revolution broke out, and
abandoning his scholastic pursuits, he
gave his services to the colonial cause,
receiving a commission as lieutenant in
the New Jersey militia. He was under
General Richard Montgomery in his ex-
pedition against Quebec, December,
1775, and participated in the battles of
Brandywine, Germantown and Mon-
mouth. After the war he went to sea as
a supercargo, and later became a mer-
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and died on his farm, near Eglinton, the
old family estate, in June, 1832.

He married Ellen (Reading) Rogers,
widow of Benjamin Rogers, daughter of
Daniel and Euphemia (Reid) Reading,
and granddaughter of John Reading,
colonial governor of New Jersey. Three
children were bom of this marriage:
Esther Wood, William Reading and
John.

Austin Montgomery (V.), eldest son
of James and Mary (Crathorne) Mont-
gomery, was born in Philadelphia Sep-
tember 16, 1786. He died November 5,
1855, "much beloved and respected by
his relatives and friends, and with the
reputation of having spent a life of great
probity and uprightness,*' according to
the words of a writer. He married, Sep-
tember 5, 1809, Isabel Bowen, daughter
of John Bowen, of Bowen Hall, in the
Island of Jamaica, but left no issue.

James Montgomery (V.), second son
of James and Mary (Crathorne) Mont-
gomery, born November 25, 1787, was
graduated from Princeton College in
1805, received the degree of A. M. in
1808, read law with Judge Joseph Hop-
kinson, and was admitted to the Phila-
delphia bar, June 3, 1811. After prac-
ticing his profession for seven years, he
prepared for the ministry of the Prot-
estant Episcopal church, being ordained
deacon August 25, 1816, and priest, Oc-
tober 7, 1817. He was successively rec-
tor of St. Michael's church, Trenton,
N. J. ; Grace church, New York city, and
St. Stephen's church, Philadelphia, which
latter post he held at the time of his
decease, March 17, 1834. From 1823
until his death he was a trustee of the
General Theological Seminary, New
York. The degree of D.D. was con-
ferred upon him by Hobart College in
1827. He has been denominated: "A
learned divine, a cogent preacher, an un-
wearied pastor; ... in life. He adorned,
through grace, the doctrine of the Gospel
by a consistent practice, and, in death,

was more than a conquerer, through its
saving faith."

Dr. Montgomery married, first, June
27, 1815, Eliza Dennis Teackle, daughter
of John and Elizabeth (Dennis) Teackle,
of Accomac county, Va. Mrs. Mont-
gomery died January 16, 1823, and her
husband married, second, May 30^ 1827,
Mary Harrison White, daughter of
Thomas and Mary Key (Heath) White,
and granddaughter of the celebrated
Bishop William White. She was born
November 9, 1805, and died August 2,
1875.

Dr. Montgomery had three children
by his first wife, John, James, Henry and
Mary ; and four by his second wife, Wil-
liam White, Thomas Harrison, John
Henry Hobart and Austin. Only four
survived infancy.

John Crathorne Montgomery (V.),
youngest of the three sons of John and
Mary (Crathorne) Montgomery, born
November 1, 1792, was a resident of his
native city, Philadelphia, for many years,
and actively enjs^aq^ed in business. From
January 18, 1819, to January 20, 1823,
he was a director of the Pennsylvania
Company for Insurances on Lives and
Granting Annuities. He was appointed
postmaster of Philadelphia, March 23,
1841, and served until June 26, 1844. He
finally removed to New York city, where,
and at his estate, Eglinton, on the North
river, the remainder of his life was spent.
He died August 5, 1867, and was buried
in the family vault, in St. Peter's Prot-
estant Episcopal church, Philadelphia.

Mr. Montgomery married, first, No-
vember 25, 1817, Elizabeth Henrietta
Philips, daughter of Henry and Sophia
(Chew) Philips, and a granddaughter of
Benjamin Chew, chief justice of Penn-
sylvania. She was bom August 31, 1797,
and died July 11, 1850. Mr. Montgom-
ery married, second, November 27, 1855,
Caroline Rogers, daughter of Nehemiah
Rogers ; she died December 6, 1889. He
had ten children, all by his first wife.
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Proprietors of Cornwall Conn.

Following is a list of the first proprietors of the Town of Cornwall, Conn.,
in 1740 and the names added in 1742 to the general list of polls and rateables :

Nathan Lyon

Stephen Burr

Johnathan Squires

J. Sherwood

James Smedley

James Dennie or Dennis,

or Donnil
Reuben Dibble
Nathaniel Spaulding
Samuel Bryant
Joseph Frost
Andrus Frisby
Gideon Allen
Stephen Burroughs
John Dibble
William Gaylord
Sam'l Roberts
Timothy Pierce
Ebenezer Seeley
Benjamin Douglass
Sammie Hall
Peter Eastman
Thomas Harris
Joseph Kilbom
Samuel Kilbom
Timothy Collins

Joseph Allen
Daniel Allen
Eliphalet Seely
Jacob Patchen
Elizur Seely
Benjamin Osbom
Isaac Bissel
Samuel Smedley
Ephraim Smedley
Joseph Waller
Ebenezer Whittney
Samuel Butler
Thomas Ballard

In 1742.

Estate Samuel Abbott
Eleazer Barrett
Benjamin Bisssel
David Baldwin
Jonathan Blinn
Jonathan Clothier
William Chittester
Jonathan Dibble
Benjamin Dibble
Reuben Deem
E. Woodruff Emmory

David Frisbie
Nathaniel Green
Moses Harris
George HoUoway
Jno. Holloway
Benjamin Hough
David Jewell
Richard Lovejoy
Nathaniel MiUard
Peter Mallory
Timothy Pangbon
Sam Roberts
Wm. Tanner
Johnathan Sqxiier
Wm. Smiley
Nathaniel Jewell
Samuel Hartford
Joshua Jewell
Stephen Lee
Sam Messenger
Jas. Pickett
Benoni Palmeter
Thos. Tanner
Ebenezer Tyler
Phinchas Walker
Jno. Young

Roman Catholics in New York

Prior to the close of the Revolution
few Roman Catholics had reached New
York. While the Jews had a synagogue
from 1730, there was no avowed Cath-
olic place of worship from the time when
Governor Dongan brought his chaplain,
the Reverend Father Thomas Harvey,
S. J., who celebrated mass at the Fort,
August 26, 1683, until the year 1786.
From 1775 on, however, mass had been
celebrated in secret in the house of one
Idley, a German, in Wall street, by
Father Ferdinand Farmer, S. J. (Steen-
meyer, S. J.), who had travelled through
the colonies of New York, Pennsylvania
and New Jersey at a time when the pun-

ishment for a priest entering the prov-
ince was death. A congregation had met
at the Vaux Hall in Warren street, where
a Capuchin, the Reverend Charles
Whelan, who had been a chaplain with
the fleet of De Grasse, administered to
them. But the great numbers of Irish
Catholics who entered the colony after
the peace with Great Britain necessitated
a church, and, accordingly, St. Peter's,
the first Roman Catholic church in New
Yoric, was incorporated June 10, 1785.
Among its incorporators were the French
consul. Hector St. Jean de Crevecoeur;
the Portuguese consul general, Don Jose
Roiz Silva, and James Stewart.

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Bradford County.
Hoff, Jacob, pr., June 23, 1820; 80.
Miller, Valentine, pr.. May 9, 1823; 80.
Wilcot, Silas, pr., Jan. 8, 1822; 79.

Bucks County.
Alshouse, David, pr., Jan. 8, 1822.
Ballard, Stephen, pr.. May 24, 1819; 67;
d. Dec. 22, 1829.

Maxwell, James, pr., Oct. 18, 1818; 79.
Stevenson, Nathaniel, pr., Sept. 6, 1819;

92.
Welsh, John, pr., Dec. 11, 1818; 85.
Fletcher, Simon, pr., March 19, 1819;

96;d. Aug. 2, 1824.
Graham, Daniel, pr., Oct. 19, 1818; 71.
Green, John, pr., May 7, 1819; 81.
McLeod, John, pr., June 7, 1822; 76.
Cambria County.

Bryson, Andrew, pr., Nov. 14, 1820; 71; Carrigan, Peter, pr., July 21, 1819; 81.
d. June 6, 1824. .. - ^. - - -^

Crow, George, pr., Feb. 29, 1820; 81.
Dorland, Lambert, pr., Nov. 4, 1818; 80.
Hogge, James, pr., Feb. 12, 1821 ; 81.
Kirk, James, pr., Oct. 21, 1823; 81.
Martin, Claudius, pr.. May 24, 1819; 83

d. Aug. 19, 1821.
Murphy, John, pr., Oct. 12, 1819; 70

d. Dec. 19, 1830.
Murray, Jeremiah, pr., March IS, 1820

82.
McKinney, John, pr., March 15, 1820

85; d. June 10, 1833.
Patton, John, pr., April 3, 1818; 80.
Swager, Adam, pr., July 28, 1819; 95.
Scott, George, pr., Jan. 14, 1820; 75; d.

Jan. 15, 1826.
Scott, Jonathan, pr., Feb. 12, 1821; 78;

d. Dec. 24, 1826.
Holt, Andrew, pr.. May 12, 1828; 79.
Weasy, John, pr.; Aug. 25, 1819; 70.
Watson, Benj., pr.. May 26, 1819; 62.
Williard, Wm., pr., Oct. 12, 1819; 70.

Butler County.
Buyers, George, sergt., March 15, 1819;

78.
Buchanan, James, pr., March 26, 1819;

79.
Carothers, John, pr., Sept. 22, 1819; 90.
Dunn, Andrew, pr., March 24, 1826; 86;

d. Feb. 9, 1834.
Jamison, John, pr., Dec. 11, 1818; 84.
Kenney, Peter, pr., July 14, 1819; 70.

Nagle, Richard, pr., Sept. 8, 1830; 87.
Turner, Daniel, pr., Nov. 7, 1821 ; 80.

Centre County.
Carson, Benj., pr., July 23, 1819; 87.
Dougherty, James, pr., April 23, 1819;

84.
Flory, Peter, pr., July 21, 1819; 79.
Lindsey, Mungo, pr., Oct. 21, 1818; 60.
McLain, Charles, pr., Oct. 21, 1818; 67

d. Dec. 21, 1822.
Mason, William, pr., March 20, 1819

87.
McEwen, Henry, pr., March 20, 1819

82.
Miller, Jacob, 2d pr., Oct. 9, 1820; 70

d. May 21, 1823.
Peters, Anthony, pr., March 20, 1819

72.
Quigley, Edw., pr., Aug. 3, 1818; 82

d. April 13, 1819.
Rimmee, Conrad, pr., Oct. 21, 1818; 64.
Shenefelt, Nicholas, pr., May 13, 1820

63;d. Aug. 30, 1825.
White, Joseph, dragoon, March 20, 1819

77.
Young, Robt., pr., Oct. 21, 1818; 74; d.

Nov. 19, 1824.

Chester County.
Brown, Wm., pr., March 19, 1819; 67;

d. March 12, 1820.
Blake, Wm., pr., March 19, 1819; 79.

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American Genealogies

Adams. — Genealogy and History of a
Part of the Newbury Adams Family,
formerly of Devonshire, England, being
the Descendants of Robert Adams and
wife, Eleanor. By I. Smith Adams.
Calais, Me., 1895.

(Continued from page 51.)

Adams. — Genealogy of the Adams
Family, of Kingston, Mass. Collected
and Compiled by George Adams. Bos-
ton, 1861. [Descendants of Richard
Adams, of Boston, 1688, through his
son, Francis Adams, of Kingston.]

Adams. — One Branch of the Family ,
of Adams. By William S. Appleton.
Albany, N. Y., 1864.

Adams. — Genealogy of John Adams
and his Descendants. Compiled by Gard-
ner Adams. Franklin, Mass., 1874.

Adams. — Ancestry of Samuel Adams
Bavis. Maternal. Philadelphia, 1880.

Adams. — Some Descendants of Wil-
liam Adams, of Ipswich, Mass. By W.
S. Appleton. Boston, 1881.

Adams. — History of the Adams Fam-
ily. With biographical sketches of dis-
tinguished descendants of the several
American ancestors, including collateral
branches. Compiled by Henry Whitte-
more. New York, 1893.

Adams. — The Descendants of James
and William Adams, of Londonderry,
now Derry, N. H. Compiled by Andrew
N. Adams. Rutland, Vt., 1894.

Adams. — Rev. William Adams, of
Madison Square Church, New York
City, with his Adams and Bradford Lines
of Descent. By Emily Wilder Leavitt.
1894.

Adams. — A History of the Adams and
Evarts Famdlies. By J. M. Adams.
Chatham, N. Y., 1894.

Adams. — A Genealogical History of
Henry Adams, of Braintree, Mass., and
his Descendants; also John Adams, of
Cambridge, Mass. Compiled and edited
by Andrew N. Adams. Rutland, Vt., 1898.

Adams. — Adams Pedigree. [Descend-
ants of Roger Adams, of Brookline,
Mass., 1636.] Boston, 1899.

Adams. — A Genealogical History of
Robert Adams, of Newbury, Mass., and
his Descendants. Compiled and edited
by Andrew N. Adams. Rutland, Vt.,
1900.

Adams. — Founding and Organization
of the Daughters of the American Revo-
lution and the Daughters of the Revolu-
tion. Philadelphia, 1901.

Adams. — A History and Genealogy of
the Habersham Family, in Connection
with the History, Genealogy and Men-
tion of the Families of Clay, Stiles, Gum-
ming, King, and many other names. By
Joseph Gaston Baillie Bulloch. Colum-
bia, S. C, 1901.

Adams. — Memoir of Charles Kendall
Adams. By James Davie Butler. Wor-
cester, Mass., 1905.

Adgate. — Old Families of Norwich,
Connecticut. Compiled by Mary E. Per-
kins. Norwich, Conn., 1900.
(To be continued.)

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Questions

York. — Jonathan York, was born Sep-
tember 16, 1777, and removed from
Claremont, N. H., where presumably he
was bom, to Vermont. His father was
also named Jonathan, and is said, by a
grandson, to have had tlie following
children: William, David, Jonathan,
Qara and Comfort. The elder Jonathan
York evidently is the Jonathan York who
is mentioned in the History of Clare-
mont as a soldier in the Revolutionary
war and whose son, Amos, was drowned
in the Connecticut river in 1788, age 21.
The same authority states that Comfort
York married Ephraim French, April 6,
1775. The gravestone of Comfort
(York) French in the Sugar Hill ceme-
tery, Wallingford, Vt., says that she
"died Sept. 10, 1832, M 72 years." This
would make the date of her birth 1760
and her marriage at the age of 15, not
impossible, but perhaps doubtful. Evi-

dently the father was not married later
than 1760 and probably about 1755 or
1756. The Claremont Yorks came from
Stonington, Conn. In Wheeler's His-
tory of^ Stonington is a record of the
birth of a Jonathan York, August 29,
1735. As he has a brother named
Amos, and as the date fits, it may
be reasonably assumed that he is
Jonathan York, the elder. But there is
no record of his marriage or any clue to
the name of his wife. As Qaremont was
not settled until about 1768 it is possible
that Jonathan left Stonington as a young
man and was for a time resident in
northern Connecticut, perhaps in Preston
or in Voluntown, before migrating to
New Hampshire. I want any item of in-
formation on the life of Jonathan York
from 1735 to 1768 or later date, records
of births of children, land transfers, pro-
bate records, church records, or anything
affording a clue to his residence amd
life. [208] G. E. C.

Browne. — Who were the parents of
John Browne, who was in Plymouth by
1636, had a wife Dorothy and three chil-
dren, John, Jr., James and Mary ? Many
facts are known about him, for he was
one of the most active and most promi-
nent men in the colony. In his younger
years he was in the "low countries"
(Holland); was well educated; owned
considerable property ; was bom between
the years 1562 and 1603; his wife was
born about the year 1585, and had cous-
ins, JcAn Tisdale and James Walker. He
was elected a magistrate about 1636 in
Plymouth, and was an assistant governor
of Plymouth Colony. He moved from
Plymouth to Taunton and from Taunton
to Rehobeth. where he died in 1662.
About 1659 he returned to England to
become the steward of Sir Harry Vane,
but returned before 1662. When and
where was he born? When and where
did he marry his wife Dorothy? What
were the names of the parents of his
wife, and when and where was she .

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born? From what part of England did
he come? When and where were his
children born? [207] V. B. W.

Page. — Moses Page, born about 1829,
in Buxton, Me., son of James and Eliza
(Woodman) Page, is supposed to be
grandson of Benjamin Page of Water-
ville^ Me. Moses Page married Qara
McQuesten of Saco, Me. His brothers
were: Amos and John, twins, and
Thomas. His sisters were: Abigail,
Eliza and Harriet. Can any one give me
information r^arding the Page ances-
try. [209] M. A. D.

Barnes. — Who was Abigail Barties of
Middletown, Conn., who married Daniel
(3) Harris? [210] A. B. B.

Wells. — Hannah Wells, married in
Hebron, Conn., November, 1772, Ed-
ward Grannis, and died in Weathersfield,
Vt., August, 1776. Who were her par-
ents and grandparents and what were the
names of her children, if she had any?
[211] H. W. G.

Answers

Castle.— [197] P. B. C— Henry Cas-
tle of Stratfield, Fairfield and Woodbury,
Conn., married Abigail Finch. The first
wife of Isaac 2 (Henry 1), was Sarah
Adams, who died, 1708, in Fairfield,
leaving three children, Isaac, Samuel and
Sarah. His second wife was Joanna
Richardson (Thomas), born, 1683. Isaac
died July 25, 1727, in Woodbury, Comi.

Samuel 3 (Isaac 2, Henry 1) Casde,
baptized August 29, 1707, with his
mother, Sarah (Adams) Castle, married
Martha Seeley, as given by the family
Bible.

Isaac 4 (Samuel 3, Isaac 2. Henry 1)
Castle, married January 24, 1750, in Rox-
bury. Conn., Anna Hurd (Adam), whom
he divorced at the birth of her child. Sec-
ond, he married Mary Hawley, daughter

of Jehiel and Sarah (Deming) [Dun-
ning] ? Hawley, born 1739, of New Mil-
ford, Comi., by whom he had six chil-
dren. She died and he married, third.
Grizzle (Grisel), widow of Isaac Hunt,
who had several children by her first
husband. They married about 1770 or
1771.

Chloe 5 (Isaac 4, Samuel 3, Isaac 2,
Henry 1) Castle, born in Roxbury, 1763,
married Joseph Pennock. In several
papers his name is given as Penwick,
but that is incorrect. B. A. P.

Fellows.— [198] B. S. F.— David (5)
Fellows was bom November 23, 1738,
died 1780: married, first, June 2, 1762,
Susanna Baker, who died April 5, 1763 ;
married, second, December 23, 1763, Lois
Stevens. Children of David (5) Fellows
and Lois Stevens, all born in Canaan,
Conn., were: James, bom September 13,
1765, died, 1767; Asa, born January 31,
1768; Henry, born March 24, 1770; Al-
bana, born October 22, 1772; Susanna,
bom January 3, 1776. The line of David
(5) Fellows is: David (5), Ephraim (4),
Ephraim (3), Ephraim (2), William
(1). David (5) was bom in Plainfield,
Conn. Ephraim (4), was born June 12,
1715, and married in Plainfield, Novem-
ber 10, 1737, Mary Dill. Ephraim (3),
was born about 1671, and died about
1757; married, December 3, 1711, Mary

, who died December 16, 1774; had

nine children: Mary, Ephraim, Joanna,
William, Thomas, Miriam, Jonathan,
Joseph and Abiel. His will, probated
April, 1757, mentions wife Mary, chil-
dren Ephraim, Jonathan, Abiel, Mary
(Marsh), Miriam (Stevens), and grand-
son Jonathan Dean. Ephraim (2) was
born in Ipswich, Mass., son of William
(1) Fellows, who was bom about 1609,

in England, married Ayres, and

died im Ipswich, November 29, 1676.
William ( 1 ) Fellows had eight children,
all of whom were bom in Ipswich, ex-
cept his first son, Isaac, who came with
him from England in 1636. A. B. C.

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The Merrills of America

Nearly, if not all, American Merrills
of colonial descent come from Nathaniel
Merrill who, with his wife Susanne, was
in Ipswich and Newbury, Mass., as early
as 1633. Savage in his Genealogical Dic-
tionary of the First Settlers of New Eng-
land mentions eight of the name, heads
of families and one only was not of this
line, Jeremiah Merrill of Boston, who,
by his wife Sarah, had Jeremiah, born
August 22, 1652, and Sarah, bom Au-
gust 14, 1655.

The two brothers, John and Nathaniel
Merrill, who came to Massachusetts in
1633, are believed to have been de-
scended from the Huguenot family of
De Merle, several members of which
escaped from the St. Bartholomew Day
massacre in 1572 and fled to England.
The family belonged to the nobility of
Auvergne and had its ancestral estate
near Place-de-Dombes in that province.
In England the name ultimately was
anglicized to Merrill. Families of the
name were settled particularly in Essex
and Suffolk. The emigrants to America
used these heraldic bearings:

Arms. — ^Argent, a bar azure between
three peacocks' heads, proper.

Crest. — A peacock's head, erased,
proper.

These arms are unlike those of the
Merrills of England, according to
Burke's General Armory^ but the crest is
the same. Nearly all the branches of

the De Merle family in France carried
peacocks on their arms. A seal of
Thomas Merrill, grandson of Nathaniel
(1) Merrill and son of Abel (2) Mer-
rill, afKxed to a deed dated 1726, had the
arms as above.

Nathaniel Merrill, who was born in
England, came from Salisbury, county
Wilts, to the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
He landed in Ipswich in 1633 and be-
came one of the first settlers of Newbury
in 1638. He received a grant of land
in Newbury on the Neck, south of the
Parker river, May 5, 1638. He died in
Newbury March 16, 1655, his will being
dated March 8, and proved March 27 of
that year. His wife, whom he married
in England, was Susanna, who died in
Newbury January 25, 1673. She is
named Susanna Jordan in Hoyt's The
Old Families of Salisbury and Ames-
bury, Massachusetts; Susannah Wilter-
ton, in William Merrill's pamphlet The
American Ancestors of George W. Mer-
rill; in Frederick Wilcox Merrill's A
Contribution to the Genealogy of the
Merrill Family in America her surname
is not given. The fact is that her name
was Wilterton or Wolterton, and after
the death of her first husband, Nathaniel
Merrill, she married, second, prior to
August 16, 1661, Stephen Jordan who
came on the ship Mary and John in 1634.
She had no children by her second hus-
band.

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Merrill, came to Massachusetts from
England in 1633 and was a proprietor
of Newbury, in 1636. His name was on
the list of land holders of Newbury in
1636 and of Ipswich the same year. He
was a freeman in 1640 and a member of
the Newbury church in 1670. He died
in Newbury September 12, 1673, his will
being dated September 8, 1670, and
proved September 30, 1673. His widow,
Elizabetlr Merrill, family name unknown,
died in Newbury July 14, 1682, her will
being dated December 17, 1860, and
proved September 26, 1682. John and
Elizabeth Merrill had an only child,
Hannah Merrill, who married in New-
bury, May 24, 1647, Stephen Swett, and
died April 4, 1662, and had issue, Swett.

Children of Nathaniel and Susanna
(Wolterton) Merrill:

1. — Nathaniel Merrill, the eldest son
and the executor of his father's estate,
was perhaps bom in England and
brought to Massachusetts, an infant, by
his parents. At the time of the proving
of his father's will, in 1655, he was of
age, which would make his birth prior
to 1634. He was a freeman in 1688 and
died in Newbury, January 1, 1683, his
will being dated December 1, 1682, and
proved April 10, 1683. He married Oc-
tober 15, 1661, Joanna Ninny — not Kin-
ney, as given in Ho)rt's Old Families of
Salisbury and Amesbury, His children
were, John, Nathaniel, Joanna, Joanna
(again), Hannah, and Mary.

2. — John Merrill, bom between 1633
and 1635, removed from Newbury to
Hartford, Conn., before 1657 and, in the
following year. May 20, at the first ses-
sion of the general court, was admitted
to be a freeman. He was associated in
business with Gregory Wolterton, a
wealthy citizen, and evidently related to
his mother, by some supposed to have
been her brother. John Merrill inherited
a considerable estate from his relative,
thus acquiring a tanyard and a house.

He was a deacon of the Second Con-
gregational church and died in Hartford,
July 18, 1712. He married Sarah Wat-
son, daughter of John and Margaret
Watson, of Hartford. John Watson,
born in England, settled in Hartford in
1644, and died there in 1650. His
widow died in Hartford in 1683. He
had eight sons and two daughters;
Sarah, Nathaniel, John, Abraham,
Daniel, Wolterton, Susanna, Abel, Isaac
and Jacob.

3. — Abraham Merrill, born in 1636 or
1637, remained in Newbury and was a
weaver by trade. He took the oath of
allegiance in Newbury in 1678, and later
in life was a deacon. He married, Jan-
uary 18, 1681, Abigail Webster. His
wife was a daughter of John and Mary
(Shotswell) Webster and an aunt of
Hannah Dustin the Indian captive. John
and Mary Webster were among the first
settlers of Ipswich, and their daughter
was bom there or in Newbury. The
children of Abraham and Abigail (Webs-
ter) Merrill were: Abraham, Abigail,
Mary, Elizabeth, Hannah, John, Jona-
than, David, Sarah, Susanna and Pru-
dence.

4. — Susanna Merrill, born in 1640,
married, October 15, 1661, John Bur-
bank.

5. — Daniel Merrill, sergeant, was born
August 20, 1642, and lived in Newbury
and Salisbury. He subscribed to the
oath of fidelity and allegiance in 1668 and
1678, and was admitted a freeman in
1683 and 1684. He was a member of
the church in Newbury in 1681 and in
1692 and in Salisbury later. He mar-
ried, first, in Newbury, May 14, 1667,
Sarah Clough, daughter of John and
Jane Clough; her parents probably carne
over on the ship Elisabeth. She died in
Salisbury March 18, 1706, and he mar-
ried, second, in Salisbury, May 29, 1708,
Sarah (Morrill) Rowell-Page, daughter
of Abraham and Sarah (Clement) Mor-

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rill, and widow, first, of Philip Rowell,
and second, of Onesiphorus Page. He
died June 27, 1717, and his wife sur-
vived him. His children, all by his first
wife, were: Daniel, John, Sarah, Ruth,
Moses, Martha and Stephen.

6. — ^Abel Merrill was bom February
20, 1645. In 1668 and in 1678 he took
the oath of fidelity and allegiance. He
was a freeman and a deacon of the
church in Newbury. He died, probably,
in 1690, his widow being appomted ad-
ministrator of his estate March 25 of
that year. He married, February 10,
. 1671, Priscilla Chase, daughter of Aquila
and Anne (Wheeler) Chase. The chil-
dren of this union were : Abel, Susanna,
Nathan, Thomas, Joseph, Nathaniel,
Priscilla and James.

One writer— Sargent's The Merrill
Family, in the Maine Historical and
Genealogical Record — ^mentions Thomas
Merrill, bom in 1648, as possibly another
child of this family. Although several
genealogists have made this claim, there
are no records in support of it. Another
writer says, as perhaps bearing upon this
point: "There was a Thomas Merrill in
Kennebunkport, Maine, in 1680. He
married there, in 1674, Mary Barrett.
He removed to Portsmouth, N. H., and
disappears from history. I think this
was also a son of Nathaniel. But no
children of the pair are mentioned, and
they contribute nothing to family his-
tory."

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Tracing Mayflower Descent

A method of tracing Mayflower de-
scent that has been arranged by the his-
torian of the Society of Mayflower De-
scendants in the state of Connecticut
may be generally commended. The plan
presupposes that there are many resi-
dents and non-residents, tracing their
lineage to old Connecticut, who are not
aware that their lines run back to May-
flower stock, because they pass through
several successive lines of female descent
which they have never yet investigated.
In order to cover a considerable extent
of ground, the dictionary or index plan,
is used rather than to present genealog-
ical articles on specific families.

The historian takes up the families of
Mayflower stock, such as Alden, Aller-
ton, Bradford, from whom descents have
been traced, and indicates the Connecti-
cut towns in which heads of families of
these names settled and left posterity,
giving the printed authority in which the
descendants are traced at length, but
omitting mention of the descendants
themselves except where they have re-

moved to other towns; in order to re-
serve this space for more useful data.
Thus, if one's ancestry is traced back to
an Alden in Stafford, Conn., the fact that
David Alden of Stafford married Abigail
Shaw in 1717 (as cited in the Biograph-
ical Record of Tolland and Windham
counties, page 613), is sufficient to enable
the ancestry to be traced back to John
of the Mayflower.

In addition, the marriages of all fe-
males of Alden descent with the resi-
dences of their husbands are given in the
foi*n of an alphabetical index of mar-
riages (forming part of each note),
either the date of the marriage or some
other data being given to aid in identify-
ing the individuals. If one of the Alden
females of the Stafford stock married a
Jones, that marriage also is indexed with
the town to which they removed, if they
left Stafford; and so on down to about
the year 1870, marriages since that date
not being taken into account. When a
family removes from Connecticut, no
further notice is taken of it.

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March 16, 1912

Following are some inscriptions from old tombstones in the burying-ground
on the hill in Salem, Mass. :

(Continued from page 6i.)

Here lies buried ye body of Mrs. Sarah
Pickering, widow of Mr. John Picker-
ing. Died Deer, ye 27th, 1714.

Here's interr'd ye body of Mr. John
Pickering, who died June 9th, A. Dom.
1732, AEtatisq;64.

Elizabeth, wife of Saml. Pickman, Esq.
died Decemr ye 16th, 1761, Aged 47.

Samuel Porter, son of ye Revd. Mr.
Aaron Porter & Susannah his wife, died
Octobr. ye 16th, 1728, Aged 7 years.

Here lyes inter'd ye remains of Mr.
Thomas Robie, born at Boston, Educat-
ed in Harvard College, of which for sev-
eral! years he was a Fellow. Practised
Physick in this town, where he died on
ye 2Sth of August, 1729, in the 41st year
of bis age.

Also William Robie, ye son of Thomas
and Mehitabel Robie, who died Novbr.
ye 22d, 1730, in ye 6th year of his age.

Here lyes interr'd the Body of Robert
Kitchen, son Mr. Robert & Mrs. Bethia
Kitchen, and student of Harvard Col-

lege in Cambridge, aged 17 years, de-
parted this Life, Septr. the 20th, 1716.

Here lyes Buried the Body of Mr.
Nathaniel Ropes, who Departed this Life,
Octobr. ye 22d, Anno Dom'i. 1752,
AEtatis 60.

Here lies buried the Body of Mr.
Nathaniel Swasey, who died Novemr. ye
Uth, 1762, in the 45th year of his age.

Here lyeth ye body of Daniel Weld,
aged 11 tnonths. died March ( — ) 1701.

Here lyeth buried ye Body of Dr. Ed-
ward Weld, Aged 36 years. Dec'd Oc-
tober ye 3d, 1702.

Here lyes ye body of Bethyah Weld.
Died October ye 24th, 1719, in ye 70th
year of her age.

Here Lyes ye Body of Elizabeth West,
wife to Henry West, aged 50 years,
dyed 26th August, 1691.

Here lyes Buried ye Body of Mrs.
Esther West, wife to Mr. Samuel West,
who Departed this Lifp, Feby. 14th, Anno
Dom. 1743-4, Aged 41 years, 7 months
& 9 D's.

A Freeman Branch

Barnabas (6) Freeman (Barnabas 5,
Samuel 4, 3, 2, 1 ) , bom, Eastham, Mass.,
1768, married, Eastham, May 1795.
Rhoda Atwood, daughter of Captain
Stevens and Rhoda (Sears) Atwood.
Children: Mary, bom July, 1796, died
May 29, 1881, married Joseph Nye,
Fairfield, Me. ; Joshua, bom October 14,
1797, died October 11, 1855, married,

first, Sarah Brown, and, second,

Calef ; Eliza, bom January 29, 1800, died
February, 1890, married Alden Nye;
Rhoda, bom September 1, 1802, died Au-
gust 26, 1840, married Rigby;

Alice, born April 3, 1805, died January
30, 1880, married Bray Wilkins; Bethia,
bom September 17, 1807, died Gales-
burg, 111., December 14, 1884, married
Captain Willard Wheeler, Hampden,
Me.; Rebecca Sears, born November 21,
1810, died December 28, 1902, married
Jacob Curtis, Jr., Hampden, Me. ; Barna-
bas, bom October 17, 1814, married,
first, Sarah Dudley, and, second, Mrs.
De Pew and had Elias Freeman, bom
August 31, 1853, died November 27,
1895; and Mary Freeman, married the
Reverend De Pew.

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United States Census For 1790

Following is a complete list of heads of families for the town of Platts-
burgh, Clinton county, New York, according to the United States Census of
1790:

Piatt, Charles
McCready, Charles
Bedlam, WilUn
Allen, Jonas
Allen, Isaac

Woolsey, Melancthon S.
Pomeroy, Abner
Wait, John
Morris, Robert
Mix, Stephen
Newcomb, Cyrenus
Newcomb, Kinner
Ostrander, Henry
Reynolds, Lucius
Buman, Samuel
Buman, Abraham
Buman, Nathan
Kelly, John
Allen, Thomas
Soper, Moses
Turner, Ezra
Piatt, Nathaniel
Averill, Nathan
Wickham, Jonathan
Hartwick, John Burke
Webb, Dirck
Stephenson, John
Chapman, Daniel
Stephenson, James

Ruger, Gideon
Ferris, Lewis
Hopper, Lambert
Hebbard, Elisha
Clerke, John
Ferris, Jacob
Thurber, Joseph
Thew, Gilbert
Thew, Gerrit
Piatt, Theodorus
Ransom, John
Frostfreyde, John
Salley, Peter

Dessord, Marinus Francis
Campbell, Alexander
Martin, Richard
Mallery, Nathaniel
Martin, George
Cochran, John
Lockwood, Ezekiel
Newcomb, Simon
Finch, Isaac
Smith, Phineas
Jackson, Samuel
Paliper, Silvanus
Palmer, Uriah
Wells, Joshua
French, Peter
French, Ruben

Allen, Jabez
Elmore, Lott
Clinhart, John
Dixon, Moses
Elmore, John
Wheeler, John
Stanton, John
Everitt, Edward
Everitt, George
Sanbum, Ebenezer
Hobart, Velah
Westcoat, Samuel
Hubbard, John
Hamlin, Ruben
Keese, Willm.
Green, Henry
West, Benjamin
Moore, Benjamin
Kerr, James
Tibau, Michael
Tredwell, Nathaniel
Ward, John
Hoskins, Eliphalet
Soper, Jesse
Renny, John
How, John
Turner, Lemuel
Aikin, Step^gp

Charles Abner Durkee, bom January
14, 1865, in Chateaugay, N. Y., son of
Horace W. and Adalme (Shepherd)
Durkee, married Luella Grossman,
March 13, 1886. She was daughter of
Nathan and Martha Jane (Duncklee)
Grossman, bom December 16, 1866, in
Ticonderoga, N. Y. Charles A. Durkee
died September 23, 1893, in Crown
Point, N. Y., and Luella Durkee mar-
ried, second, Roy B. Guile, August 20,
1899. It is not known who were the an-
cestors of Horace W. Durkee.

"A people which takes no pride in the
noble achievements of remote ancestors
will never achieve anything worthy to be
remembered with pride by remote
descendants." — T. B. Macauley.

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to them.

Questions

Daniels. — Can any one tell me the
parentage of Tabitha Daniels, who was
married May 4, 1780, in Chatham, Mid-
dlesex county, Conn., by the Reverend
Benjami-n Boardman in the Second Con-
gregational church, to John Meacham of
Enfield, Conn. Early Conn, Marriages,
vol. 3, page 101, gives the marriage of

Daniels to a daughter of Samuel

Fuller, jun., April 16, 1752. Can any
one tell who he was and his first name?
[212] M. A. D.

Starr. — ^John (2) Starr was the old-
est son of Dr. Comfort Starr of Ashford,
Eng., and Cambridge, Duxbury and
Boston, Mass. Whom did he marry, and
when and where ? What were the names
of his children ? Did he have a son Com-
fort (3), and did this son marry, in 1683,
Mary Stone, daughter of Deacon Simon

and Mary (Whipple) Stone? One
writer says: *Thomas (Dr.) (2) was
born in England, 1616 ; died October 26,
1658; married Rachel Harris." The
New England Historical and Genea-
logical Register, Vol. ix., page 223, gives
the following in the will of Comfort (l)
Starr: "to the children of deceased son,
Thomas Starr, and to his widow,
Hannah, in England." [213] P.A.B.

Treadway. — Nathaniel Treadway of
Sudbury and Watertown, Mass., mar-
ried SuflFrany (Sufferance) Hane, daugh-
ter of Edward Hane of Watertown.
Date of marriage desired, also date of
birth of each. Information desired of
Edward Hane. [214] T.N.H.

Feke. — Robert Feke married Eliza-
beth (Fones) Winthrop, 1632, Water-
town, Mass. Had: Hannah, Robert,
Sarah, and John. Is this the John Feke
who married Elizabeth Priar? What
about John Feke? [215] J.S.F.

Petti ngill. — Richard ( 1 ) Pettengill
had Matthew (2) ; he married Sarah
Noyes, daughter of Nicholas Noyes.

Their son, Matthew, married (?).

Matthew (3) had Benjamin (4), whose
wife is wanted, the mother of Captain
Benjamin, who married in 1757 Mehit-
able Kimball, who first married, 1755,
Thomas Hale. He died, 1756. Lack all
dates here, except date of birth of Meh-
itable, August 28, 1739. Their son,
Amos, born November 5, 1760; married
Charlotte True, 1786. [217] A.R.H.

Bradford. — Robert Bradford of Bev-
erly, Mass., born about 1626, died Jan-
uary 13, 1707. Children: Robert, bom

16—, married Hannah ; William,

born about 1640, died, June 15, 1717,
married, November 14, 1676, Rachel,
daughter of John Rayment (now Ray-
mond) of Beverly. He was a rope
maker. Children: Abigail, born Sep-
tember 15, 1682, published to Philip De-

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land July 10, 1708; Rachel, born July
13, 1684; William, baptized October 3,
1686; John, born February 26, 1689-90,
died March 29, 1751, in Beverly, Mass.,
married, first, Annis Lovett, December
26, 1717, and had several children, born
in Beverly; second, married Hannah

, who survived him. He was a

mariner. Wanted, the names of their
children, dates of birth, marriage and
death, if possible. [216] A.L.M.

Burgess. — Who was Patience

Little Compton, R. I., who, in 1721, be-
came third wife of Thomas Burgess (son
of second Thomas) ? [218] W.A.A.

Baldwin. — Richard Piatt is said to
have been the second husband of Mary
(Baldwin) Plumb, who was a daughter
of Sylvester Baldwin, who died June 21,
1638, on the way from England? It is
also asserted that she married, second.
Sergeant William East of Milford in
1676. Her name was East when she died
in 1708 in Milford. The will of her first
husband, Robert Plum, was proved in
Milford, December 17, 1655, over twenty
years before her marriage to East. Was
there a second marriage to Richard Piatt
between these dates? Milford records
give her, in 1676, as "widow Mary
Plum." [219] B.P.B.

Sweetings. — ^John Sweeting was in
Rehoboth, Mass., in the middle of the
eighteenth century. I would like to know
something about his parents and his
family generally. [220] B.P.S.

Russell. — Peter and Deborah Russell
of Billerica, Mass., were living there be-
fore 1715 or 1720. What was her
maiden name and the names of their
children? [221] R.P.R.

Page. — Simeon Merrill and his wife,
Nancy (Page) Merrill, resided in the
town of Sullivan, Genesee county, N. Y.,
in the beginning of the year 1811. What

were the Christian names of the father
and grandfather of Nancy Page, and in
what year did the Merrill family move
to Canada? [224] J.P.M.

Answers

Beebe.— [202] P. S. T.— William
Beebe was a son of Jonathan and Bridget
(Brock way) Beebe of New London and
East Haddam, Conn., and grandson of
Samuel Beebe of New Londom. Jona-
than Beebe was born in New London,
about 1674, and died in East Haddam,
October 12, 1761, aged 87. He was the
first settler in Millington parish, East
Haddam. His wife, Bridget, died in
East Haddam, April 5, 1756, aged 86.
The birth of their son William is not
found recorded in East Haddam, but the
town records there (deeds) prove that
William was a son of Jonathan. William
died in Millington, January 29, 1788,
aged 88. The name of his wife was
Phoebe. W. B. H.

Needham.— [203] F. A. G.— John
Needham, married, April 11, 1782, De-
sire Duncklee, bom February 27, 1756,
in Danvers, Mass., daughter of Hezekiah
and Desire (March) Duncklee, both
buried in the Needham private burial
ground, Lynnfield street, Peabody, Mass.
John Needham was 77 years old at his
death. Tune, 1831, and therefore was bom
in 1754.

John Needham of Billerica, Mass.,
married Pmdence Steams of Bedford,
Mass. Their oldest child was born in
1743. They had a son, John, bom in
Tewksbury, Mass., August 3, 1759; mar-
ried (but wife's name not given), and
had children : Mary, who married Dudley
Marston; Hannah; John; Lydia, who
married Amos Marston; Levi, William,
Jefferson, Alice, Clarrissa, and Rachel
Perhaps this may assist in tracing the
John Needham of the earlier genera-
tion. M. D. A.

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Number 12

Warrens in America

(Continued from page 42.)

Representatives of one branch of the
Warren family came to the United States
in 1834 from County Meath, Ireland,
where the family has resided since the
thirteenth century, having originally
come from England. Tradition and rec-
ords trace their origin to Sir William de
Warren, . who married Gundreda, the
daughter of William, the Conqueror.
Under King Henry, Colonel Harry de
Warren (probably a grandson of Sir
William de Warren), for prowess in bat-
tle received estates in County Meath, and
since then his descendants have always
had representatives in that part of Ire-
land. Documents show that as far back
as 1700 the eldest sons in each genera-
tion, in signing their names, affixed the
title "gentleman," which showed them to
be landholders and men of position.

I. John Grant Warren, gentleman, son
of James Warren, gentleman, was bom
in 1733. He married Ellen Montgom-
ery in 1756, and th^n went to France to
escape proseaition for marrying a ward
in chancery without the chancellor's per-
mission. Returning in 1760, after his
first son John was born, he built the pres-
ent stone dwelling on Gillinstown farm,
six miles west of Drogheda, at the foot
or on the slope of the celebrated Hill of
Tara. The river Boyne runs through
Gillinstown farm and the decisive bat-
tle between Cromwell ^nd Kin^ James

H, known as the Battle of the Boyne,
was there fought. In 1798 John Grant
Warren had eight grown sons, and the
youngest, Mervyn, being a college chum
of Lord Fitzgerald, espoused the cause
of the well-planned but poorly executed
'^Rebellion of 1798" and, being captured,
was court-martialed and summarily con-
demned to death, at Drogheda. As his
other seven sons were suspected, it took
a large part of the wealth of John Grant
Warren to purchase immunity for them
and himself.

II. John Warren, the eldest son of
John Grant Warren (I), inherited tbe
leasehold of Gillinstown and lived there,
dying, 1840. His first marriage was to
Miss Dyas, of Kingscourt, County Ca-
van, by whom he had one son, James, who
settled in County Monahan, and two
daughters; Rosetta, who married the
Reverend Robert L. Collier,^ of England,
and Esther, who died young. By his
second wife, who was Elinor Duffie,
daughter of Dr. John Duffie, of Kings-
court, he had eleven children who emi-
grated to America, settling in Northern
Alabama, Louisville, Ky., and New Or-
leans, La. Also he had one son, Henry,
who remained in Ireland, and one of his
sons now owns, as a summer home, the
farm adjoining Gillinstown, known as
Drummin Lodge. The children of John
Warren, gentleman, of Gillinstown, who
came to America in 1834 and after, were,
in the order of age, as fojlows;

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1. Elinor, married John Dyas and set-

tled later in Toronto, Canada.

2. John Grant, first lived in Tuscumbia,

Ala., and later settled in Louis-
ville, Ky.

3. William, lived in TuscumWa, Ala.,

and died, 1896, unmarried.

4. Jane, married John Nolan and lived

in Louisville, Ky.

5. Thomas, married Margaret Evans, of

Louisville, Ky., and lived in New
Orleans, La.

6. Robert, married Josephine A. Schnotz,

and lived in Louisville, Ky.

7. Martha, died in Tuscumbia, Ala., un-

married.

8. Merv)m J.

9. Edward, married Emma Woods, of

Versailles, Ky., and first lived in
Louisville, Ky., and after in the
state of Texas.

10. Susan, married Dr. Thomas Fairfax

Keller, of Tuscumbia, Ala., and
after lived in Pine Bluffs, Ark.

11. Rose Anna, married Dr. Henry F.

Newsum, of Tuscumbia, Ala.

III. Mervyn J. Warren, son of John
Warren (II), married Mary Louisa
Sloss, daughter of the Reverend James
Long Sloss, of Florence, Ala. His chil-
dren were:

1. Thomas, married twice and has

four children: Emma, who mar-
ried William Showers, of New
York; William Ruth and Marvyn
James, all by the first wife.

2. Letitia, married James E. Keenan, of

Tuscumbia, Ala., and died in 1897.
Issue: Mervyn W., William S.,
Mary, Letitia (Mrs. William C.
Morgan, of Guatemala, C A.),
John, Margaret Belle, Delia and
Alfred O'Neal Keenan.

3. William, married Lena Jackson, and

lives in New Orleans, La.

4. Anna E., married Alfred M. O'Neal,

of Florence, Ala. Issue: Alfred
M. and Annie Warren O'Neal.

5. Margaret, married Judge Joseph E.

Gilbert, of Dallas, Tex., and has

three children: Louise, who mar-
ried Dr. Harris, of Dallas, Tex.;
Warren, who married Miss Saw-
telle, of Weatherford, Tex., and
Annie Kate Gilbert, unmarried.

6. Mervyn J., died, 1878, unmarried.

7. James S., lives in Memphis, Tenn.,

unmarried.

8. Mary, married Robert C. Newsum,

Memphis, Tenn. ; had one son, Wil-
liam Warren Newsum, and two
daughters, who died in infancy.
9 Kate Warren, lives in Memphis,
Tenn., unmarried.

10. Rosa Belle, married first Alexander

Erskine, of Huntsville, Ala., and
had May Warren, who married
Frank W. Irvine, of Florence, Ala.,
and Albert A. Erskine, married
Nellie Craig, of Memphb, Tenn.
Married second Dr. Charles M.
Watson, of Florence, Ala.

11. Harry G. Warren, lives in New Or-

leans, unmarried. [IK] W. W.

Abidgu Warren, lived in Virginia and
moved from there to Nelsonville, Ohio,
where he died.

Fred W. Warren, son of Abidgu War-
ren, was the managing editor of the Ap-
peal to Reason in Girard, Kan., 1911.
[IS] F. D. W.

Joshua Brewster Warren, died, Ab-
ington, Mass., July 9, 1911.

William H. Warren, formerly of Bos-
ton, died, Peotone, 111., August 18, 1911.

Thomas Warren and sisters, children
of George Bartholomew Warren, West-
morland and Cork, Ireland, were settled
in New York and Brooklyn, N. Y., about
1902.

Mary . Elizabeth Pendexter Warren,
formery of Bath, Me., wife of Dr. Mor-
timer Warren, died, New York city, Au-
gust 8, 1911.

Dorothy EHse, only child of Charles
J., Jr., and Malvene D. Warren, died,
Brooklyn, N. Y., March 30, 1909.
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Agnew. — The Irvines and their Kin
♦ ♦ * a History of the Irvine Family
and their Descendants. Also, short
sketches of their kindred ♦ * * Com-
piled by Mrs. L. Boyd. Chicago, 1908.

AiNSWORTH. — Genealogy of the Ains-
worth Families in America. [Chiefly
descendants of Edward Ainsworth, of
Woodstock, Conn., 1702.] Compiled by
Francis J. Parker. Boston, 1894.

Akerman. — Items of Ancestry by a
Descendant, I. M. R. [Ida May Frost
Robinson.] Boston, 1894.

Albertson. — Long Island Genealo-
gies. By Mary Powell Bunker. Albany,
N. Y., 1895.

Albree.— The Tradition of the Old
Weaver's Clock; a study of colonial
time-keeping. By John Albree, Jr. Med-
ford, Mass., 1903.

Alcock. — ^Descent of Comfort Sands
and of his children, with notes on the
Families of Ray, Thomas, Guthrie, Al-
cock, Palgrave, Cornell, Dodge, Hunt,
Jessup. By Temple Prime. New York,
1897.

Alcott. — Family of Asa Allcott [of
Waterbury, Conn., 1766 and to Thomas
Allcott of Boston, 1630.] Compiled by
Charles Allcott Flagg. Albany, New
York, 1899.

Alcott. — ^The Alcotts in Harvard.
By Annie M. L. Clark. Lancaster, Mass.,
1902.

Alden. — ^Memorial of the Descend-

ants of the Hon. John Alden. By Ebe-
nezer Alden, M. D. Randolph, Mass.,
1867 and 1869.

Alden. — The Story of a Pilgrim Fam-
ily. From the Mayflower to the Present
time. * *^ ♦ Genealogy of the Author,
Rev. John Alden. Introduction by Rev.
Frederick Denison. Boston, 1890.

Alden. — Pilgrim Alden: the Story of
the Life of the First John Alden in
America * * ♦ and Some Account ot
the Later Aldens. Prepared under the
Direction of Augustus E. Alden. Bos-
ton, 1902.

Alden. — ^The Descendants of Polly
and Ebcnezer Alden who were Sixth in
Descent from John Alden, the Pilgrim.
By Their Grandsons, Ebenezer Alden
and Henry Shaw, M. D. Boston, 1903.

Alden. — ^The Ancestors and Descend-
ants of Isaac Alden and Irene Smith,
His Wife. By Harriet Chapin Felding.
East Orange (?), N. J., 1903.

Alden. — Eliab Alden of Middlebor-
ough, Massachusetts, and Cairo, N. Y.:
His Alden Ancestors and His Descend-
ants. Compiled by Charles Henry Al-
den. Boston, 1905.

Alden. — ^John Alden of Ashfield,
Mass., and Chautauqua County, New
York. His Alden Ancestors and His
Descendants. .Compiled by Frank Wes-
ley Alden. Delaware, Ohio, 1909.

Alden. — ^A Bit of Ames Genealogy.
Compiled by Fisher Ames. 1898.
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Settlers of Fairfield, N. J.

By Frank D. Andrews.
(Continued from page 68.)

In addition to the names upon the
monument a partial list of the heads of
families who early settled within the
limits of Fairfield township, or in the
immediate vicinity is here given. Not
all were Presbyterians however; some
were Friends, others Baptists, and others
worshipped elsewhere. A few among
the number removed to other settlements
after a few years residence.
Thomas Abbott, died in 1718.
Thomas and Mary Alderman ; Thomas

died in 1715.
Francis, James, and Samuel Alexan-
der.
Ebenezer and Mary Allen; Ebenezer

died in 1716.
Robert and Hester Ayars. Removed

to Shiloh.
Charles Bagley.

Samuel Bams; Patience Barns> wid-
ow, died in 1716.
Jeremiah Bennett.
Leonard Berriman.
Nathaniel and Sarah Bishop; he died

April 24, 1723.
John Bishop.
Isaac and John Brooks; Josiah

Brooks died about 1732.
Henry and Rachel Buck ; he died Feb-
ruary 1725-26.
Henry Buck, Jun., and wife Ruth; he

died March 1725-26.
William Button.
William and Patience Clarke; he died

about 17Q2.
Captain William Dare and William

Dare, Jun.
Benjamin Davis. Removed, and set-
tled in Deerfield.
Thomas Diament.
Anthony Dixson, died about 1728.
Robert Douglas.
Joseph and Ann Eastland ; Joseph died

in 1728.
James Peirce ; he died in 1694.

Thomas Fairbanks.

John, and Jonathan Fithian ; John died
about 1702.

Samuel and Priscilla Fithian; Samuel
died in 1702.

Samuel Fithian, Jun., and Josiah
Fithian. Removed to Greenwich.

James FuUerton, merchant, died about
1729.

Thomas Furbush; be died in 1701 or
1702.

Garret Garrison.

Jacob Garrison and wife Christiana;
he died in 1708 or 1709.

John Garrison.

Edmund Gilman and wife Haimah;
he died in 1715.

John Gilman, Sen., died in 1695.

Rachel Gilman, widow of John, died
in 1695 or 1696.

John Green and wife Ursula; he died
in 1696.

Stephen Halford.

Richard Hancock ; he died in 1689.

Thomas Harris.

Robert Hood.

William Johnson and wife Frances;
he died in 1694.

Hezekiah Lare.

Nathan Lorrance.

Thomas Maskell. Removed to Green-
wich, died in 1732.

William and Mary Mulford; William
died in 1719.

Joseph and Joyce Newcomb; he died
in 1732, or 1733.

Jeremiah Nixon ; he died about 1727.

John Nixon.

Jonathan Ogden.

Richard and Elizabeth Ogden; Rich-
ard died in 1726.

Samuel Ogden. Removed to Deer-
field.

Nicholas Osborn.

James Padgett.

Thomas Parvin.

William Paulin.

Capt. Ezekiel Eldridge and wife
Sarah; he died in 1710.

William and Ruth Pope; he died in
1715.

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Howell and Elizabeth Powell; he died

in 1716.
Levi Preston.
Mark Reeve and wife Ann; he died

in 1694.
Joseph Riley.
David Sayre.

Ebenezer Sayre, died in 1725 or 1726.
Elisha Sayre, died in 1726, probably

unmarried.
Ephraim Seelye and wife Sarah; he

died in 1715-16.
Joseph Sayre and wife Priscilla; he

died in 1710.
Joseph Sayre and wife Margaret; he

died in 1715 or 1716.
Benjamin Seely.
Ephraim Seelye and wife Mary; he

died in 1722-23.
Edmund Shaw, Sen., and wife Rachel ;

he kept the first inn in Fairfield, as

early as 1698; died in 1719.
John Shaw.
William Shattock. Removed to East

Jersey.
David Shepherd and wife Eve ; he died

in 1695, she in 1710.
Dickeson Shepherd.
Enoch Shepherd and wife Elizabeth;

he died in 1717.
James Shepherd; he died in 1690.
James and Eve Shepherd; he died in

1713.
John Shepherd, died in 1710.
John Shephard, died in 1715-16, un-
married.
Joseph and Ann Shepherd ; he died in

1728.
Mary Shepherd; she died in 1713-14.
Jonathan Smith.

Solomon Smith. Removed to Burling-
ton.
Thomas and Ann Smith; he died in

1692; she married Thomas Yard,

who left her a widow in 1695.
Benjamin and Mary Stratton ; he died

in 1716.
Philip and Hannah Vickary ; he died

in 1703.
Joseph Wheeler.

Richard and Elizabeth Whitacar; he
died about 1709.

Richard and Abigail Whitacar; he
died in 1718-19.

William Worth. Removed to Shrews-
bury.

Other names from early Fairfield
documents are: — ^Abigail, Rebecca and
Peter Bateman; Mary Bowen; Edward
Burrows; Richard Butcher; Hugh
Chard; John Clarke; William Cousens;
David Foster; Joseph Hodge; James
Hudson; Samuel Hunter; John Jones;
Stephen Leek; Restore Lippencott;
Richard Mathis; James Moir; John
Peirpoint; Israel and William Petty;
Joseph Rogers; James Robbenson;
Roger Ryderwood ; James Silver ; Alex-
ander Smith ; Thomas Vaughn ; William
Waithman and Samuel Wescott.

The settlement of the New England
people in Fairfield was early called New
England Town, and New England Cross
Roads, names now seldom heard.

Difficulties in the Sears family history
still continue perplexing. Richard Sears
did not marry Dorothy Thacher (not
Thatcher) ; her name is not in list of
passengers by ship Bevis, and diligent
search by Thacher and Sears genea-
logists has failed to find any one of the
name at that period. On the contrary,
it is certain that Anthony Thacher did
not have a sister Dorothy. Richard
Sears married a sister of Richard Jones
of Dinder, county Somerset, England,
and she was a sister of Elizabeth Jones,
second wife of Anthony Thacher. Hence
the "uncle" and "brother" in Richard
Sears' will, from which arose the errone-
ous statement that his wife was a sister
of Anthony Thacher. She was in fact
his sister-in-law.

"Those who do not treasure up the
memory of their ancestors do not deserve
to be remembered by posterity." — Ed-
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Questions

Eddy. — ^What was the maiden name
and the date of birth of Jae! Eddy, wife
of Michael Eddy, of Swansea, Mass.,
who died about 1800? [222] E.S.M.

Brace. — Who were the parents and
grandparents of Mary Brace of Harm-
inton, Conn., who married Captain Jacob
Hinsdale, May 11, 1758? She had. a
brother, Jonathan, "who was a great law-
yer in Hartford." [223] J.B.H.

Pierce. — Michael Pierce, one of the
first settlers of Hingham, Mass., had a
son John who married Patience Dodson.
Wanted, the names and dates of the
children of both Michael and John
Pierce. [225] K.L.W.

Stuart. — The names, with dates of
birth, death and marriage, and other
dates, are wanted of the children of

Richard and Judith (Poor) Stuart of
Rowley, Mass. [226] D.E.P.

Dodge. — ^William Dodge was one of
the founders of Salem, Mass. What were
the names of his children and his grand-
children? [227] B.O.O.

Fowler. — Simeon Fowler came to
this coimtry when about twelve years of
age, and, about the year 1757, with his
widowed mother settled in Westerly,
R. I. The mother afterwards married a
man by the name of Peckham. Simeon
Fowler left Westerly, R. I., and went to
Orrington, Me., about the year 1771.
There was a Simeon Fowler, second lieu-
tenant (Captain Solomon Higgins's
company, Eastham, who enlisted July 1,
1775, and served six months in defence
of seacoast. There was also a Captain
Simeon Fowler (Colonel Jonathan
Reed's regiment of guards), stationed
at Cambridge, three months from April
2, 1778. There was also Simeon Fowler,
private (Captain Benjamin Godfrey's
company. Colonel Zenoth Winslow's
regiment), service five days in 1778.
Who were these several Simeon Fow-
lers? [228] F.A.M.

Murray. — Information desired in re-
gard to parents and ancestry of Robert
Murray, 1721-1786, the great merchant,
also name and ancestry of his wife. Are
there any descendants bearing the name
and is there any known portrait or like-
ness of him in existence? His daughter
Susan, 1763-1808, married Captain Gil-
bert Golden Willett. Date of marriage
wanted. [229] E.H.H.

WiNSLOw. — ^The Dighton records say
that George Ware (or Waer), son of
George Ware and Mary Winslow, was
born in Dighton in 1755. Who will give
me the parents of George Ware and
Mary Winslow, also their children and
whom they married? A private record,
from the account book of John Stone,

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Historic Genealogical Society, contains
the following marriage : "Waer, George
(a transient Person) and Lucy Littlefield
married in HoUiston, November 13,
1788." Was this George the George
Ware born in Dighton in 1755? This
George would be about the right age to
be the George bom in Dighton in 1775,
but was he? The same marriage record
is also in the Middlesex G)unty Record
of East Cambridge. [230] W.W.W.

Curtis. — ^What was the maiden name
of Mehitable Curtis, wife of Hezekiah
Curtis of Stratford, Conn.? He was
bom there in 1711, and died in 1771,
leaving a widow, Mehitable, and five
children. Widow Mehitable Curtis died
in Stratford, Conn., in 1790, aged 77
years. [231] B.A.C.

CuRTiss. — Can any one give me the
names and date of marriage of the
parents of Rebecca Curtiss, wife of Is-
rael Curtiss, of Woodbury? He was
born April 3, 1644. [232] E.F.C.

Gage. — I am seeking information of
any kind about the Gage family of Put-
nam and adjacent counties in New York
State. There was, I think, a John Gage
who served in the continental armv in
the Revolution. [233] A.P.G.

Read.— Titus and Mary (Hill) Read
of Simsbury, Conn., had a son, John
Read, who was born in Simsbury in
1728. What became of John Read? I
do not find that he continued to live in
Simsbury. Did he marry, and if so, what
was the name of his wife and the names
of his children? [234] M.T.H.

Macomber. — Wanted, all the informa-
tion obtainable about the Macombers of
southeastern Massachusetts. William
Macomber was in Marshfield and Dart-
mouth, and John Macomber was of
Taunton. [235] J.A.P.

Ashley. — ^Jonathan Ashley, minister
of Deerfield, Mass., married Dorothy
Williams, daughter of the Reverend Wil-
liam and Christiana (Stoddard) Wil-
liams, and had a son, William Ashley.
Did William Ashley marry Elizabeth
Macomber? [236] K.M.R.

Lamb.— David Lamb was bom in Gro-
ton, Conn., 1756, and married there,
1781, Amy Wightman, born in the same
town. Who were their parents and their
grandparents? [236^ G.W.L.

Griswold. — Birth, death, residence
and ancestry wanted of Reuben Gris-
wold, who married, February 25, 1776,
Mary Rockwell ; would also like the vital
records and ancestry of Mary Rockwell.
Their children were: Abigail, born Jan-
uary 11, 1777, died August 10, 1859;
Phebe, born December 10, 1778; Weal-
thy, born December 11, 1780; Betsy,
born February 23, 1783; Warren, bom
June 22, 1785, died September 5, 1827;
William, born May 17, 1789; Manus,
bom September 20, 1790, died 1849;
Amy, bom Noverhber 24, 1791, died
March 20, 1856; Reuben and Sally. Abi-
gail, the oldest, married, July 27, 1796;
Seth Snow, bom September 13, 1768,
died June 12, 1841. Their children were:
William Stone, bom 1798; George W.,
bom 1800; Samuel, 1802; Abigail, 1804;
Reuben, 1805; Seth, 1807; Sarah Ann,
1811 ; Manus, 1814; Mary, 1816; Rhoda,
1820. The father of Seth Snow was
Seth Snow, Sr., who married Ruth Hol-
den; he died November 22, 1815, and his
wife April 10, 1820. [237] S.A.P.

Parker. — Ithamar Ward, bom in
Shrewsbury, Mass., April 24, 1752, son
of General Artemas Ward of Revolu-
tionary fame, married, as his first wife,
December 7, 1778, Phebe Parker, bom
Shrewsbury, June 4, 17 — , daughter of

Stephen Parker and wife Abigail

(?). Ancestry of both Stephen Parker
and his wife desired. [240] P.H.W.

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Number 15

The Ancestry of William Howard Taf t

Robert Taft, who was born in Eng-
land about 1640, came to Massachusetts
and settled in Braintree before 1667.
In that year he was one of the original
proprietors of the village of Mendon,
which was then formed from Braintree.
He was a carpenter, became the owner
of much land and traded with the In-
dians. His landed property included
holdings in the towns of Braintree, Men-
don and Sutton. He died February 8,
1725, and his wife Sarah Taft died in
November of the same year.

His sons were Thomas, Robert, Dan-
iel, Joseph and Benjamin.

II.

Joseph Taft was born in Mendon in
1680. He was one of the first settlers
in the town of Uxbridge, which was set
off from Mendon, and he owned a large
farm in that place. He was a lieutenant
and captain in the militia. He died in
Uxbridge, June 18, 1747.

He married, in 1708, Elizabeth Emer-
son, daughter of James and Sarah Emer-
son of Ipswich, Mass., and Mendon. She
was born in Ipswich, March 6, 1687,
and died in Uxbridge in 1760. Her
father, James Emerson, who was born in
Wells, Me., and died in Mendon in 1756,
was a son of the Reverend Joseph
Emerson of Ipswich, and minister in
York, Me., Milton, Mass., and Concord,

Mass. He died in Concord, January 3,
1680. He was twice married, first, to
Elizabeth Woodmansey, daughter of
Robert Woodmansey of Boston and, sec-
ond, to Elizabeth Bulkley, daughter of the
Reverend Edward Bulkley of Concord.
It is not known which wife was the
mother of the son, James Emerson. The
maternal great-grandparents of Eliza-
beth Emerson, who married Thomas
Taft, were Thomas and Elizabeth Emer-
son, who came from the county Durham,
England, to America before 1638 and*
settled in Ipswich, Mass.

The children of Thomas and Eliza-
beth (Emerson Taft) were nine in num-
ber, among them Moses, Peter, Joseph
and Aaron.

III.

Peter Taft was bom in Uxbridge in
1715. He was a prosperous farmer and
a captain of the militia. Either he or
his son Peter was a sergeant, ensign and
second lieutenant io service in 1775.

He married Elizabeth Cheney, daugh-
ter of Josiah and Hannah Cheney; she
was born in Medfield, Mass., September
21, 1707. Josiah Cheney was bom in
Medfield, July 26, 1685, and died in
1754, the death of his wife Hannah
Cheney occurring April 22, 1717. He
was the son of Joseph and Hannah
(Thurston) Cheney of Roxbury, Mass.,
and Medfield. Joseph Cheney was bora
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Mary (Gillespie) Warren, wife Ste-
phen Warren, died, New York city, No-
vember, 1909.

Pierre V. Warren, aged 52, died. New
York city, March 29, 1909.

Emma Harbinson Warren, wife
Charles E. Warren, died, Brooklyn, N.
Y., December 18, 1910.

John E. Warren, in his 87th year,
died. New York city, February 7, 1911.
His daughter married Harry Firth.

Eliza R. (Berrian) Warren, wife
George B. Warren, died, Newark, N. J.,
May 14,1911. [IP] O. P. W.

Joshua R. Warren, married. May li^
1816, Harriet Way.
Children :

1. Mehitable, bom. East Lyme, Conn.,
July 22, 1817; died April 7, 1821.

2. William Watts Jones, born. East

Lyme, April 14, 1819 ; died. North
Lyme, August 27, 1858.

3. John Warren, born, Lyme, Conn.,

April 21, 1821; died, Lyme, De-
cember 10, 1852; married Eliza
Champlin, who survived her hus-
10, 1852; married Eliza Champlin,
band, and in 1912 was living in
Nisentic, Conn.

4. Eunice Warren, born, Lyme, June 16,

1823 ; died, Lyme ; married Eleazer
C Peck.

5. Sarah Mehitable, bom, Lyme, Janu-

ary 10, 1825; died, Washington,

D. C, April 7, 1887; married Rich-
ard Roberts.

6. Caleb Raymond, bom, Lyme, June 25,

1829; died. New Lyme, Ashtabula
county, Ohio, January 10, 1898;
married.

7. Thomas Jefferson, bom, Lyme, April

7, 1831; married Louisa Peck,
Lyme; living, 1912, in Girard,
Crawford county, Kan.

8. Ellen E., born, Lyme, July 27, 1833;

died, North Lyme, December 17,
1875 ; married Lucius Stark, Lyme.

9. Jane E., born, Lyme, May 5, 1835;

died, Lyme; married John Way,

New Lyme, Ohio.
William Watts Jones Warren, M. D.,
son of Joshua R. and Harriet (Way)
Warren ; married, Lyme, Conn., Novem-
ber 2, 1841, Maria E. Peck, Lyme. Chil-
dren :

1. Walter Scott, born. North Lyme,

April 13, 1844; living, 1912, New
London, Conn.

2. William Watts Jones, Jr., bom. North

Lyme, April 13, 1844; living, 1912,
Brooklyn, N. Y.

3. Maria E., twin, born. North Lyme,

April 13, 1844; living, 1912, Provi-
dence, R. I,

4. Joshua Raymond, bom. North Lyme,

March 5, 1850 ; living, 1912, Lyme.

5. Jennie E., born, North Lyme, January

7, 1858 ; married, March 10, 1892,
Dr. J. Raymond Morgan; living,
1912, Providence, R. L [IR]
M. E. W.

The Value of Female Ancestry

Lord Brougham was one of the first
public men in England to recognize the
value of female ancestry. His father
had been engaged to be married to a
Miss Mary Whelpdale, "the last of a
purely Saxon race," who died shortly
before the day fixed for the wedding.
Her affianced bridegroom consoled him-
self a little later by marrying the niece
of Robertson, the historian. Lord

Brougham declared his belief that if his
mother had been Miss Whelpdale he
would have remained in the state of re-
spectable mediocrity in which his fore-
fathers had lived and died. He traced
the power of achievement which had
raised him from an obscure Scottish ad-
vocate to be a great tribune of the Eng-
lish people to the energy hereditary to
the Scottish clans from his mother.

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American Genealogies

This is a list of the genealogies of American families, published in book or
pamphlet form, with date of publication. Most of these works that arc of early
date are now very rare. Copies of them are in most public libraries in the larger
cities of the United States and in the libraries of historical societies. Copies also
find their way, in very small number, into book auction sales and into the hands
of dealers in second-hand books. Genealogies of recent date are generally
procurable from the publishers. Inquiries in regard to these or any other
genealogical works may be addressed to the editor of Genealogy.

(Continued from page 123.)

Alexander. — Memorial of the Earl of
Stirling and of the House of Alexander.
By Rev. Charles Rogers. Edinburgh,
1877.

Alexander. — ^A Record of the Des-
cendants of John Alexander of Lanark-
shire, Scotland, and His Wife Margaret
Glasson, who Emigrated from County
Armagh, Ireland, to Chester County),,
Pennsylvania, A. D., 1736. By Rev.
John E. Alexander. Published, 1878.

Alexander. Records of a Family of
the House of Alexander, from 1640 to
1909. [Descendants of William Alex-
ander of Maryland, 1670]. By Frances
Alexander Butterworth. Chicago, 1909,

Alexander. The Alexander Letters,
1787-1900. [Correspondence of the
Children of Adam Leopold and Sarah
Hillhouse (Gilbert) Alexander], Se-
lected and Arranged by Marion Alex-
ander Bogge. Savannah, Ga., 1910.

Alexander. The Dinkins and Springs
Families in Connection with the Ken-
drick. Ball, Alexander, Riddick, Smith,
Hart and Others. By Captain James
Dinkins. New Orleans, 1908.

Alexander. Genealogical Chart
Showing the Descent from Several Lines
and Some Interesting Family Connec-
tions of the Virginia Families of Alex-
ander. * * * By Francis T. Junkin.
1908.

Alford. a Genealogy of the Descend-
ants of Alexander Alvord, an Early Set-
tler of Windsor, Conn., and Northamp-

ton, Mass. By Samuel Morgan Alvord.
Webster, N. Y., 1908.

Alfriend. Pocahontas, alias Mataoka,
and her Descendants. * * * With Bio-
graphical Sketches by Wyndham Rob-
ertson, and Illustrative Historical Notes
by R. A. Brock. Richmond, Va., 1887.

Alger. A Genealogical History of
that Branch of the Alger family Which
Springs from Thomas Alger of Taunton
and Bridgewater, in Massachusetts. 1665-
1875. By Arthur M. Alger. Boston,
1876.

Alison. The History of the Alison
or Allison Family in Europe and Amer-
ica, A. D. 1135 to 1893. * * * By Leon-
ard Allison Morrison. Boston, 1893.

Allan. Memoir of Colonel John Al-
lan, an Officer of the Revolution. * * *
By George H. Allen. Albany, N. Y.,
1867.

Allcott. Family of Asa Allcott. [Of
Waterbury, Conn., 1716, and Ancestry to
Thomas Allcott of Boston, 1630]. Com-
piled by Charles Allcott Flagg. Albany,
N. Y., 1899.

Allen. Genealogy of Allen from
1568. [Descendants of George Allen of
Boston, 1648]. By William Allen. Skow-
hegan, Maine, 1868.

Allen. Genealogy of the Allen and
Witter Families. * * * [Descendants of
Samuel Allen, of Braintree, Mass., 1588-
1648, and Ebenezer Witter, 1668-1712].
By Asa W. Allen.

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Cemetery Inscriptions, Fairton, N. J.

By Frank D. Andrews.
(Continued from page J 41.)

In memory of Capt Thomas Harris
who departed this life April 27th 1783
Aged 72 Years & 5 Mo

V. H. died Febry 25 1759 Aged 3
Years

In Memory of JONATHAN LO-
RANC who departed this Life February
19th 1764 In the 41 year of his Age

W M died August 30 1769 Aged 9
Months

W M died August 27 1770 Aged near
2 Years

In Memory of William Meek who de-
parted this Life December 23 1773 Aged
48 Years

In Memory of ABIGAL NIXON the
Wife of REUBEN NIXON who de-
parted this Life December the 25 1770
in the 21st Year of her Age

In Memory of Reuben Nixon who de-
parted this Life October 29' 1773 Aged
27 Years

In Memory of JEREMIAH NIXON
who departed this Life August the 2d
1766 Aged 50 Years & 6 Mo

Here lieth the Body of ABDON OG-
DEN who departed this Life March 3d
1773 Aged 23

In Memory of DAVID OGDEN ESQ
who departed this Life December 1st
1760 Aged 53 Years

In Memory of HANNAH the wife of
David Ogden who departed this Life
April 29th 1742 In the 36th Year of her
age

In Memory of JOHN OGDEN ESQ
who jdeparted this Life December 22
1745 In the 75 Year of his Age

In Memory of JOHN OGDEN JUN
ESQ who departed this Life May 10
1759 Aged 52 Years

In Memory of JOSEPH OGDEN
ESQ who died July 21 1772 Aged 48
years

In Memory of SARAH the wife of
Thomas Ogden: who departed this Life
March 23 1760 Aged 38 Years

In Memory of THOMAS OGDEN
Junr who died January 10 1768 Aged 25
Years

In Memory of VIOLETTA wife of
THOMAS OGDEN who departed this
Life November 9 1760 Aged 25 Years
One Month

In Memory of ZEPHANIAH OG-
DEN who departed this Life March 24
Aged 52 Years

In memory of ZEPHANIAH OG-
DEN who departed this Life March 20th
1771 in the 30 Year of his Age

In Memory of RUTH wife of Capt
DAVID PAGE who departed this Life
March the 30th 1777 in the 29 year of
her age

In Memory of Benjamin Parvin who
Deprd this Life March ye 28 1775 Aged
31 years

Here Lieth the Body of THOMAS
PARVIN who Departed this Life Au-
gust ye 28th 1743 Aged 80 Years 1
month & 3 days

In Memory of Israel Petty Junr who
died Oct 11 1763 In the 34 Year of his
Age

In memory of DAVID POWELL
who died April 24 1772 In his 38th Year

In Memory of RICHARD POWELL
who departed this Life September 9th
1764 Aged near 36 Years

Richard Powell Died Sept 9 1764
Aged near 36 Years

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[On a large stone near the original
gravestone.]

For Family Record see County Clerks
Office Book 1 Misl Records Page 357

In Memory of Levi Preston who Died
Jan ry 17th 1752 Aged 91 Years

Ephraim son of the Revd Wm Ramsey
& SARAH his Wife died Jany 28 1765
Aged 9 Months

Beneath this Stone lies interred

the Remains of

the Rev'd WILLIAM RAMSAY, M. A.

For sixteen years a faithful Pastor of the

Presbyterian Church of this Place

Whose superior Genius and native

Eloquence

Shone so conspicuously in the Pulpit

As to command the attention and

Gain the esteem of all his Hearers

In every station of Life he discharged

His duty faithfully

He lived greatly respected

And died universally lamented

November 5th 1771 in the 39th year

Of his Age

Here was deposited the Body

SARAH SMITH

Successively the Wife

of the Rev*d William Ramsey

of this Place
& the Rev'd Dr Robt Smith

of Pequea
She was highly distinguished

for the exercise of the

Estimable and amiable qualities

in various relations of

wife mother friend and Christian

Having survived her last

worthy husband a few years

In great weakness of body

she fell asleep in Jesus

August 9th 1801 aged 63 years

In Memory of DAVID SAYRE ESQ
who departed this Life April 11th Anno
Domini 1767 And in the 47th Year of his
age

In Memory of EPHRAIM SEELEY
Esquire who departed this Life June the
22d 1774 Aged 62 Years

In Memory of ROHADA the wife
of Henry Sparks who died December
28th 1760 Aged 25 Years

Here lieth the Body of Preston Strat-
ten who departed this Life November
18th 1759 Aged 18 Years

In memory of BENJAMIN STRAT-
TON who departed this Life July 20
1751 In the 50 Year of his age

In Memory of Benjamin son of Ben-
jamin and Sarah Stratton who departed
this Life Oct 2d 1760 Aged 7 Years

In memory of THOMAS WALLING
who departed this Life May 10th 1761
Aged 29 Years

In Memory of ELIZABETH WIFE
of JOSEPH WESCOT who departed
this Life October 14 1770 Aged 57 Years

In Memory of Ezekiel Wescote who
Died March 20th 1763 in ye 19th Year
of his Age

In Memory of Rachel Westcote who
departed this Life May the 3d 1757 aged
38 Years

In Memory of DAVID WESTCOTE
who departed this Life July 16 1778 In
the 37th Year of his Age

In memory of Henry Wescoat Who
Departed this Life the 20th of February
1760 Aged Forty Years

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Questions

Lane. — Wanted, information concern-
ing Thomas Lane, supposedly of Charles-
town, Montgomery county, N. Y., who
served in the Revolution in the First
Regiment, New York line and Dutchess
county militia. Date of his birth, birth-
place, names of his parents and their
dates of birth and death and birthplaces.
Date of marriage of Thomas Lane and
name of wife. Date of Thomas Lane's
death and place, also place of burial.
Names of his children. Information as
to his services in the Revolution is very
much desired. [276] L.T.V.

Drew. — Vincen or Vincent Drew was
a proprietor in Hingham, Mass., in 1634.
He had a son, John, baptized April, 1641.
He removed to Boston in 1655, and set-
tled on a farm at Muddy River, now
Brookline, and died August 30, 1658.
His will contained bequests : to son, Vin-
cent; to son, John and his wife, Mary,
and their children; to Rozman Druce.

Has this family a Mayflower record?
Did Martha Drew, who married John
Thwing of Boston, come from this family
of Drews? [277] V. D. C.

Vail. — Branches of the Vail family
were settled in Westchester county,
N. Y., in the eighteenth century. Who
can give me reliable information con-
cerning any of the name? There are
many conflicting and uncertain claims
about many of them. [259] P.L.M.

Answers

CusHMAN.— [255] p. G. C— James
Cushman's granddaughter married Caleb
(5) GiflFord. James (3) Cushman mar-
ried, 1722, Sarah Hatch, and had' chil-
dren: James, bom 1725; Ebenezer, bom
June 4, 1727; Thomas, bom January 28,
1728; Mary, born November 1, 1730;
Sarah, bom December 1, 1732; Seth,
born October 16, 1734; Elizabeth, bom
July 29, 1739. Aulden or Alden GiflFord
was a brother to Mary (6) GiflFord, who
married Isaac Shearman. Mary (6) Gif-
ford, Caleb 5, Peleg 4, Jeremiah 3,
named one of her sons for her brother,
but in the bible record it is spelled
Aulden. J. O. D.

Thomas.— [257] O. M. B.— Captain
William Thomas was born in Marshfield,
Mass., December 4, 1672. He died in
Boston in 1747. His will was proved
August 18, 1747. His gravestone does
not give the date of his death, but says
only "aged 76." He was a son of the
Honorable Nathaniel Thomas of Marsh-
field and Deborah Jacobs, his wife. The
Honorable Nathaniel Thomas was a son
of Captain Nathaniel Thomas, who was
a son of William Thomas of Marshfield.
Deborah Jacobs was a daughter of Nich-
olas and Mary Jacobs of Hingham, Mass.
Ann Patteshall, wife of Captain William
Thomas, died in Boston, November 27,
1767, aged eighty-nine. She had former-

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ly been the wife of John Breck, and was
the daughter of Richard and Martha
(Moody) Pattcshall. Both Captain Wil-
liam Thomas and his wife were buried in
the Copp's Hill Burying Ground in Bos-
ton. B. G. H.

Richmond.— [262] P. D. R.— Abigail
Richmond, wife of John Remington, was
a daughter of Captain Edward Richmond
and his first wife, Abigail Davis. Ed-
ward Richmond was bom in England
about 1632, and died in Little Compton,
R. I., November, 1696. He was general
solicitor, attorney general, deputy to the
Rhode Island assembly, lieutenant in
King Philip's war, and. May 20, 1690,
captain. His second wife was Amey Bull,
daughter of Henry Bull. Captain Ed-
ward Richmond was a son of John Rich-
mond of Taunton, Mass., bom 1594, died
March 20, 1664. The name of his wife
is undiscovered, but his children were:
John, Edward, Mary and Sarah. He has
been identified with John Richmond, an
officer of distinction during the civil wars
in England, son of Henry Richmond alias
Webb, representative of a family long
settled in Wiltshire, wTiose great-grand-
father married Alice Webb, an heiress,
quartered her arms and assumed her
name. The line goes back to Roaldus
Musard de Richmond of the time of the
Conqueror. There is no record of John
Richmond in New England from 1643 to
16SS.

Abigail Davis was a daughter of Wil-
liam Davis of Boston, who died in 1664.
Mary Davis, his widow, married, second,
John Cowdall. In 1657 Abigail sent a
petition to the Rhode Island assembly, as
a result of which her marriage to Rich-
ard Ussell was annulled, because her par-
ents forced her to do it. Thus she was
enabled to marry Edward Richmond, the
man of her choice. B. H. D.

Starr.— [261] W. B. M.— Sarah Starr
was not a descendant of William Brew^

ster. She was not the daughter of
George but of Jehosaphat Starr, and her
descent though six generations from the
American pioneer Comfort Starr and his
parents of Kent county, England, is as
follows :

Sarah Starr, bom November 16, 1746,
died July 22, 1806, daughter of Jehosa-
phat and Sarah (Stow) Starr. Jehosa-
phat Starr, bom September 20, 1718,
died May 1, 1798, married, November
24, 1737, son of Joseph and Abigail
C Baldwin) Starr. Joseph Starr, born
September 23, 1676, died July 13, 1758,
married, June 24, 1697, son of Comfort
and Marah (Weld) Starr. Comfort
Starr, bora 1644, died October 18, 1693,

married , son of Thomas and Rachel

(Harris) Starr. Thomas Starr, born
1621 ( ?), died October 26, 1658, mar-
ried , son of Comfort and Elizabeth

( ) Starr. Comfort Starr, born 1589,

died January 2, 1659-60, married ,

son of Thomas Starr of Cranebrooke
county, Kent, England.

Sarah Stow, bora March 20, 1719, died
August 31, 1784, daughter of Nathaniel
and Sarah (Sumner) Stow. Nathaniel
Stow, bora February 22, 1675, died 1727,
married, Febraary 11, 1703, son of John
and Mary or Hannah (Wetmore) Stow.
John Stow, bora February 3, 1640-41,
died October 18, 1688, married, Novem-
ber 13, 1668, son of Thomas and Mary
(Cragg) Stow. Thomas Stow, bora
after May 3, 1617, died Febraary, 1683-
84, married December 4, 1639, son of
John and Elizabeth (Biggs) Stow. John
Stow, born 1595 (?), died October 26,
1643 ( ?), married September 13, 1608.

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The American Perry Family

In its first American generations Perry
was essentially a New England family.
Several of the name were among the
early comers to Massachusetts, and they
were also among the pioneers in the
other New England colonies.

Anthony Perry was of Roboboth,
Mass., 1658-1678. He died March 1,
1683.

Arthur Perry, a tailor, was of Boston,
1638, and died there October 9, 1652.
By his wife, Elizabeth Perry, he had
these children: Elishua, a daughter,
bom December 20, 1637; Seth, born
March 7, 1639 ; John, born April 6, 1642 ;
Elizabeth, bom January 28, 1647 ; Sarah,
baptized December 16, 1747; Deborah,
baptized July 1, 1649.

Edward Perry was of Sandwich,
Mass. By his wife, Mary, he had a son,
Samuel, and probably other children.
His son, Samuel Perry, born about 1664,
moved to Newport, R. I., where he was
a freeman in 1701, and died July 2,
1716. This Samuel Perry married, first,
December 12, 1678, Mary Miller, and by
her had Mehitable, born April 30, 1680,
and Jacial, bom May 6, 1682. He mar-
ried, second, May 9, 1690, Mary Tucker,
born August 16, 1668, died in 1716,
daughter of Henry and Martha Tucker
of Sandwich. The children of this
marriage were: James, died 1774; Ed-
ward; Samuel, bom 1695, died Decem-

ber 21, 1775; Simeon; Benjamin, bom
1701. Many of the descendants of this
Samuel Perry became famous in the his-
tory of Rhode Island. Among them was
Commodore Perry, the naval hero of
Lake Erie.

Ezra Perry of Sandwich married,
Febmary 12, 1652, Elizabeth Burge,
only daughter of Thomas Burge of Sand-
wich. Their children were: Ezra, born
Febmary 11, 1653; Deborah, born No-
vember 28, 1654; John, born January 1,
1657; Samuel, bora March 15, 1667;
Benjamin, born January 15, 1670; Re-
membrance, bom January 1, 1677.

Francis Perry, a wheelwright, was of
Salem, M'ass., in 1631. By his wife,
Jane, he had Sarah, Benjamin, David,
Samuel and Elisha.

Isaac Perry was in Boston in 1631,
and Savage in his Genealogical Dic-
tionary of the First Settlers of New
England says that he probably arrived in
November of that year with the apostle
John Eliot in the ship Lion.

John Perry of Roxbury, Mass., came
probably on the ship Lion, Savage
thinks that perhaps he was a brother of
Isaac Perry. He died September 21,
1642. His children were: Elizabeth,
born January 25, 1638; John, born Sep-
tember 5, 1639; Samuel, born March 1,
1641.

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John Perry and his wife, Damaris,
were of Newbury, Mass., in 1651.

John Perry of Medfield, Mass., 1678.
married. May 23, 1665, Bethia Morse,
daughter of Daniel Morse, and had:
John, bom December 24(?), 1667;
Samuel and Joseph, twins, born August
25, 1674; Nathaniel, born May 18, 1681;
Nathaniel, again; Bethia, born 1685;
Eleazer, born June 1, 1680.

John Perry was of Taunton, Mass., in
1643.

John Pefry was a proprietor of New
Haven in 1685.

John Perry came to Watertown,
Mass., about 1666. He was born in
London, England, in November, 1604,
the son of John and Edith Perry of Fore-
ham, Hampshire county. He died in
Watertown in 1674. He married Jo-
hanna Holland, daughter of Joseph
Holland of London; she 4\ed in 1667.
The children were: John, bom in Eng-
land in 1644; Elizabeth, and Josiah. The
son, John Perry, married, December 13,
1667, Sarah Clary, daughter of John and
Mary (Cassell) Clary of Watertown;
and they had John, Johannah, Sarah,
Joseph, Elizabeth, Josiah, Joseph and
Sarah.

Nathaniel Perry of Reboboth, Mass.,
married, May 17, 1683, Sarah Carpenter,
daughter of Samuel Carpenter.

Joseph Perry was of Rehohoth, 1651.

Richard Perry was of New Haven in
1640. He had these children: Mary,
baptized October 4, 1640; Micajob, born
October 31, 1641 ; Samuel, born June 8,
1645; John, born July 11, 1647; Grace,
born September 2, 1649. He was in
Fairfield, Conn., in 1650, there married
Grace Nichols, widow, and died in 1658.

Thomas Perry of Scituate, Mass.,
1643, married Sarah Stedman, daughter
of Isaac Stedman, and had Thomas, Wil-
liam, Henry, Joseph, John and perhaps
others.

Thomas Perry of Ipswich, Mass.,
1648, had a son, Thomas, who married,
in 1671, Susannah Whiston, daughter of
John Whiston, and had Thomas, John,
James and Daniel. William Perry, an-
other son of Thomas of Ipswich, mar-
ried, in 1681, Elizabeth Lobdell and is
said to have had eleven children.

William Perry was of Scituate in
1638 and is thought to have moved to
Watertown in 1640. By his wife, Ann,
he had: Elizabeth, born August 12, 1641 ;
Obadiah, Samuel, Sarah, Ann and Abia.
He died September 9, 1683.

The Pearls of Boxford, Mass.

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

Genealogical facts relating to the
Pearl family of Boxford, Mass., as they
stand in the registry of wills in the Es-
sex county probate records.

Will of Elizabeth Pearl, widow, of
Boxford, dated March 3, 1743. Prop-
erty left to her six children, Timothy
Pearl, Richard Pearl, Alice Peabody,
Mary Pearl, and Eleanor Stiles.

Will of Richard Pearl, son of Eliza-
beth Pearl, dated September 5, 1787.
Property left to his son John Pearl;
daughter Abigail, wife of Amos Spaf-
ford ; daughter Hannah Runnels ; daugh-
ter Phoebe, wife of Jesse Morrill;
daughter Lucy, wife of Phineas Kim-
ball; gfrandchildren Sarah and Simeon,
children of Sarah Kimball; daughter
Esther, wife of Thomas Spafford;
grandson, child of Elizabeth Peabody;
granddaughter Sarah Peabody, wife of
Ebenezer Peabody.

Will of John Pearl, son of Richard
Peari, dated March 20, 1805. Estate left
to wife Eunice, sons Peter, Simeon, John
and Benjamin; daughter Sarah, wife of
James Buswell, daughter Esenah, wife
of Stephen Barker; daughter Mehitablc,
wife of William Haggett, and daughters
Eunice and Rebecca Pearl. E. W. P.

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Cemetery Inscriptions in Wheelersburg, Ohio

[Contributed to Genealogy.]
By J. J. Warren.

Benjamin Savage, born, October 6, 1798,

died, January 3, 1885.
Mercy, his wife, born, March 8, 1805,

died, January IS, 1885.
Our children.
Martha A., bom, October 29, 1842, died,

December 13, 1842.
Sarah H., died, June IS, 18SS. Age, 17

years 5 months.
Benj. R, died, January 17, 1858. Age,

27 years.
Josiah M., died, November 2, 1858. Age,

23 years 6 months.
Joseph W., died, February 9, 1864. Age,

23 years 3 months.

William Ramsey, died, August 13, 1851.

Age, 73 years.
Mary, his consort, died, January 6, 1850,

in the 76th year of her age.

Theodore Bliss, died, July 24, 1855. Age,

75 years.
Abigil, his wife, died, September, 1822,

in the 38th year of her age.
Nancy, his wife, died, June 21, 1859.

Age, 68 years.
Betsy Bliss, died, September, 1822, in

her 17th year.
Betsy Jane, daughter of T. and N. Bliss,

died, September 12, 1832. Age, 9

years 25 days.
Esther, wife of Jonathan Bliss, died,

August 16, 1826, in the 41st year of

her age.
Frederic Reed, born, February 15, 1793,

died, April 16, 1843.
Roxena, his wife, born, July 15, 1799,

died, December 10, 1872.

Natives of Scotland.
David Creighton, born, July 8, 1784,

died, July 23, 1833.
Elizabeth Creighton, bom, April 1, 1792,

died, July 28, 1864.
Ann Creighton, bom, September 11,

1815, died, August 24, 1833.

James C. Creighton, born, December 31,
1823, died, January 30, 1861.

Rezin Enslow, died, August 30, 1844.

Age, 48 years 2 months 26 days.
Mary, his wife, died, September 7, 1858.

Age, 57 years 8 months 9 days.
Jane, their daughter, died, July 17, 1836.

Age, 3 months 23 days.
John T., their son, died, December 22,

1841. Age, 4 months 8 days.
Elizabeth J., their daughter. Age, 6

months 7 days.

Grove B. Powell, died, March 23, 1858.

Age, 82 years 9 months 1 day.
Annis G., his consort, died, March 12,

1849. Age, 71 years 5 months 25 days.

Sally Whitcomb, died, April, 1856. Age,
76 years.

Ezekiel Powers, born, October 11, 1793,

died, January 15, 1876.
Jane, his consort, died, August 28, 1838.

Age, 41 years 9 months.

Ezikdel Flanders, died, March 10, 1850.

Age, 75 years 4 months 4 days.
Isabel, his wife, died, February 7, 1862.

Age, 79 years 4 months.
Dan H. S., their son, died, November 9,

1833. Age, 17 years 3 months 13

days.
Nathan, their son, died, December 7,

1835. Age, 22 years 24 days.

Mrs. Bathsheba, wife of Ahijah Warren,
died in Wheelersburg, May 7, 1844.
Age, 55 years.

Mary, consort of William C. Corns, died,
January 31, 1849, in her 54th year.

Isaac Fkmming, Sr., died, December 28,
1849. Age, 81 years 6 months.

James, son of Isaac and Margaret
Flemming, died, September 5, 1838.
Age, 22 years 10 months 9 days.

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James Salber, died, June 6, 1842, in the
eighty-fifth year of his age.

In memory of one of the first 100
I. O. O. F. in Ohio, David Bamett
Edward, a native of Dundee, Scot-
land, and his consort, Eliza Pene-
lope Bollinger, native of Carlisle, Pa.
Born, married and died between the
years 1789 and 1897. Their grand
parents praise them and their grand
children bless them. A part of their oflf-
spring for three generations lie here be-
side them. Their only son, Wallace
Edred Bollinger, served three years in the
federal army; was severely wounded in
the shoulder, received an honorable dis-
charge with pension from date, August
8th, 1864. Nature made him a poet. He
is author of two himdred published
poems, patriotic and rural. Died, age
26, 1866.

In memory of Mrs. Rhoda, consort of

Captain Thomas H. Brown, died,
October 25, 1821. Age, 25 years.

Charles C. Boynton, died, August 28,
1837, in his 45th year.

Mrs. Ruby Young, died, November 1,
1821, in the 65th year of her age.

Mrs. Eliza Young, died, November 1,
1821, in the 23rd year of her age.

Gabriel Reeve, died, February 24, 1824,

in the 48th year of his age.
Hugh B., his son, died, July 22, 1822, in

the 10th year of his age.
Elijah B., his son, died, July 31, 1824, in

the 15th year of his age.
Volney Reeve, died, February 6, 1840,

on the Bayon, Lafourche, La. Intered

here. May 12, 1843.

Edward C. Sumner, died, September 20,
1821. Age, 56 years 11 months, 27
days.

Abigail, his wife, died, October 19, 1821.
Age, 52 years 6 months 24 days.

A Woodford-Howe Line

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

General William Woodford came to
America from Ireland in 1760. He mar-
ried the daughter of Sir William Howe,
afterwards General Howe. The marri-
age was opposed by her father, so Wood-
ford left England with his wife, and
came to America and made his home in
the Shenandoah Valley, Va. He was
one of the earliest to take up arms against
the British for independence and on De-
cember 9, 1776, he defeated the British
under Gen. Fordyce at Great Bridge.
His father-in-law. Gen. William Howe,
was commander-in-chief of the British
army from 1775 to 1778. William Wood-
ford, the pioneer of Barbour county, was
his only son, but he had seven daughters.

William Woodford, Jr., married Hanna
Moss and settled near Bull Pasture
River now in Highland county, Va. When
he came to Barbour county he carried all

his household goods on pack horses. His
children were John Howe, Jacob, Wil-
liam, George and Mary.

John Howe Woodford, the eldest child
of William and Hanna (Moss) Wood-
ford, was bom in Rickingham coun-
ty, Va., in the year 1796, and
when eight years old was taken
by his father to Barbour county. He
married Nancy Manier, and had fourteen
children, all of whom reached maturity.

Asa Wesley Woodford, son of John
Howe Woodford, was bom two miles
west of Philipy, May 20, 1833.
In 1855, near Flemington, Taylor
county, he married Rebecca, daugh-
ter of the Reverend Jasper Cotfiher.
To them were born six children: Iris
Columbia, Phoebe Jane, Flora S. N.
Clarkson J., Bruce S., and John Howe.
Three are now dead ; the living are, Mrs.
J. C. Smith, Cleveland, Ohio; Phoebe J.
Mills, Warsaw, Ind., and John Howe
Woodford, of Elsinore, Cal. W. B. H.

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Philadelphia Desmonds

[Contributed to Genealogy.]
Daniel Joseph Desmond, a native of
Philadelphia, Pa., was a prominent law-
yer, and from June 21, 1841, until about
January 1, 1850, was consul general in
Philadelphia of his holiness Pope Pius
IX. The records of the state department
show that he was appointed consul gen-
eral June 21, 1841, and that the presi-
dent recognized him as such by an act
issued December 15, 1841. He married
Pink Blyden, a daughter of Governor
General Blyden of the West Indies. They
had eight children, five of whom died in
infancy. The three surviving children
were: Mary Desmond, born September,
1833, in Philadelphia; Henry Etesmond,
correct birth date not known, died single,
of pneumonia, in New York city in 1867 ;
Edward Joseph Desmond, born No-
vember 12, 1846.

Daniel Joseph Desmond died in Phila-
delphia of cholera during the early fifties.
Mrs. Pink (Blyden) Desmond died in
New York city in October, 1868.

Edward Joseph Desmond, youngest son
of Daniel Joseph Desmond, enlisted in
the United States regular army Novem-
ber 16, 1865, and re-enlisted on Novem-
ber 16, 1868. He died January 3, 1908.
His widow is still living in Virginia.

B. P. D.

A Nation of Smiths?

A statistic expert has been studying
city directories and has figured out that
in the course of time all the people of
the United States will be Smiths. He
points out that already the Smiths have
the preponderance of population as far
as names go and that therefore they are
bound to increase faster, all things being
equal. There are in this country fifty-
one cities of more than 100,000 popula-
tion, and the directories of these cities
show "Smith" as the most common name
except in four, where Brown and John-
son predominate. In 174 cities with a

population above 25,000 Smith is, to a
degree that can be considered nothing
short of extraordinary, the commonest
name in 160 of them. These are statistics
from city directories, and in the smaller
towns and villages Smiths are just as
common as in the big cities.

In 1850 the Smiths were less than one
per cent, of the country's population.
This is proved by the city directories of
the time. But each decade shows them
increasing in numbers by just one-eighth
of one per cent. In 1880 there came a
temporary halt. Between then and 1910
there came to these shores some 18,000,-
000 of immigrants. Few of them were
of the name of Smith. But there were
Schmidts and there were those who
changed their names to Smith. This
helped to keep up the average. But now
again the Smiths are ^beginning their
silent, irresistible conquest of numbers —
one-quarter of a per cent, every ten years
or one per cent every forty years. And as
they gain so will the rate of progression-
increase. In the year 3890 fully fifty per
cent, of the country's population will an-
swer to the name of Smith.

A Fuller Line

John Fuller (1) came from England
in the ship Abigail in 1644, and settled in
Framingham, Mass. Probably he was
bom in 1620. His wife Elizabeth (prob-
ably married in England) died in 1723.
He purchased eight himdred acres on the
south side of the Charles river, and after-
wards added two hundred acres. By Bis
will heleft this property to his sons, undi-
vided, on the condition they were not to
dispose of it outside the Fuller family.
His son, John (2) Fuller, born, 1645,
died, 1720, married, June 30, 16682, Abi-
gail Balstone (or Boylston).

Their son, Isaac (3) Fuller, bom,
1695, died, 1745, married, in 1722,
Hannah Greenwood, daughter of
Thomas and Hannah (Ward) Green-
wood.

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Questions

Blake. — Greenfield Blake (Edward
Samuel of Dorchester, William, William
who came in 1630 to Dorchester) was
born December 30, 1721. He was third
child and eldest son of Edward and Anne
Hanover Blake, who were married in

1716. He married Crooker.

Wanted, his wife's maiden name and an-
cestry; also to know if Samuel Blake
(born in Taunton, 1747, died in Turner,
Me., 1802) was his son. The wife of Ed-
ward Blake was "daughter of Ann Grin-
fil." Their eldest son was named Green-
field. Another descendant was Grenf ell ;
and others Grinfil. [260] D. B. A.

Lentz. — I am somewhat in doubt as
to the correct way to spell my name,
whether Lents or Lentz. I would be very
glad to be informed. My forefathers
came from Germany and settled in North
Carolina. [280] W. S. L.

GuLicK. — A Dutch bible, printed in
Amsterdam, 1754, contains the following

record: Gisberd Gulick, died August 1,
1779; Sarah Gulick, bom January 25,
1763 ; Charity Gulick, bom February 14,
1765; Cornelius Gulick, bom March 3,
1767; Derick Gulick, bom March 23,
1769, died July 12, 1779; Anna Gulick,
born March 11, 1771; Henry Gulick,
born Febmary 29, 1773; Peter Gulick,
bom March 6, 1776, died July 27, 1779;
Abraham Gulick, born April 6, 1779;
Margret Williamson, born Febmary 6,
1783; Elizabeth Williamson, born Sep-
tember 17, 1785; EUenor Williamson,
born February 29, 1788. The bible is in-
scribed, in front and back, "Comelius
Williamson, His Book." I believe that
he married Sarah Gulick, and that they
had, beside the above three daughters, a
son, Cornelius. The family probably
lived in Hunterdon county, N. J. Any
information on the subject will be ap-
preciated. [281] H.E.D.

Swift. — Who were the parents of
Sarah Swift, who married Timothy
Pearl, in West Ashford, Conn., Septem-
ber 15, 1739? They had 11 children and
60 grandchildren. [282] S. S. T.

Utley. — Who were the parents of
Elizabeth Utley, who was married
March 7, 1748, to Nathan Pearl of
Windham, Conn. ? [283] W. C. U.

Chandler. — Who were the parents of
Hannah Chandler who married George
Abbott of Andover, Mass., about 1675?
[284] A.G.A.

Knight. — What was the maiden name
of Mrs. Alice Knight, widow, who mar-
ried Richard Holmes of Rowley, Mass.,
about 1680? [285] K.R.H.

Answers

Sweeting.— [220] B. P. S.— Rachel
Sweeting was daughter of John Sweet-
ing, born in Rehoboth, near Attleboro.
Her mother was Rachel Chaffee Arnold.

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Vital Statistics of Rehoboth say that
John Sweeting, the father, died Janu-
ary 25, 1762. He was a son of Henry
and Martha (Cole) Sweeting. Henry
Sweeting was born in Oisey Stowey,
Somersetshire, England. He and his
brother, Lewis, were involved in the
Monmouth Rebellion, captured at the
battle of Bridgewater, and were on the
way to execution when the father, Lewis,
who was not involved, and a man of
means, bribed Judge Jeflfries, and the
two brothers escaped to this country in
a sloop from Bristol. They hid in Reho-
both until William and Mary ascended
the throne, when they registered their
families. Lewis left a son Henry, a doc-
tor, of Providence, but the name has be-
come extinct in that branch.

•Henry Sweeting, grandfather of Ra-
chel Sweeting, had a first wife Joanna,
and two daughters by her; Mary, who
married Noah Mason, and another, Jo-
anna, who married a Martin and went
back to Leviston, County Devon, a Bap-
tist minister. By his second wife, who
was Martha Cole, Henry Sweeting had :
Henry, who went to Providence, and
Lewis, who owned a mill site in or near
Pawtucket. Lewis Sweeting died a
young man. He married Zebiah Whit-
ing (John, Nathaniel). She afterwards
married Dr. William Ware of Norton.
Their only child that survived was Dr.
Lewis Sweeting, who married Abiah (4)
Cobb (Benjamin, Morgan, Augustine),
and had Nathaniel Sweeting, married
Mary Tyrrell (Alexander, Samuel, Gid-
eon, William) and had Chloe Sweeting,
married George Langford, who lived in
Utica, N. Y.

The Sweetings were originally Dutch,
and lived in Leyden. Henry Van Sweet-
en was banished, or fled from the perse-
cution of the Duke of Alva, and settled
in Somersetshire, England. Henry, the
first, was a clothier, and changed the
family name to Sweeting, first of Staple-
grove, then of Stogumbee, then of Kelse,
and last of Oisey Stowey, all in Somer-

setshire, England, and not far from
Taunton. When the two brothers came
to America the youngest, John, remained
with his father and inherited the home-
stead. T. H. M.

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The Gamerons in America

By M. D. Cameron.
(Continued from page 106)

Children of Wallen (IV) and Sarah
Jane (Woods) Cameron:

1. Melville DeLeal Cameron, born on
a farm near Arlington, Ohio, July 10,
1858, is still living, in 1912, a citizen of
Omaha, Neb. He has been three times
married. His first wife was Mattie T.
Brigham who died in 1891 ; there were
no children. In November, 1893, he
married Florence Wyckoff, who died in
October, 1894 ; to them one son was born.
Ward DeLeal Cameron, born in Octo-
ber, 1894, died in infancy. On Septem-
ber 8, 1898, he married Viola Jennings;
there are no children to this union.

2. Lydia Jane Cameron, born on a
farm near Arlington, Ohio, Novem-
ber 28, 1861, is still, in 1912, living, a
resident of Valentine, Neb. On Novem-
ber 30, 1882, she married the Reverend
Walter Woodsworth Wells, an Episcopal
minister. To them have been born four
children: Clay Cameron, died in child-
hood ; Claudia, Chester, and Sarah Wells.

3. Horace A. Cameron, born on a
farm near Arlington, Ohio, July 10,
1866, is living, in 1912, in Omaha, Neb.
On October 21, 1892, he married, in
Camden, N. J., Elbertine Grace Lans-
dale, of Washington, D. C. ; they have
no children.

4. Alexander B. Cameron, born on a
farm near Arlington, Ohio, November
14, 1870, is living, in 19i2, on a farm in
Tripp county. South Dakota. In 1898,
in Schuyler, Neb., he married Maud
Perkins. To them four children have
been born: Ethelbert, Elizabeth, who
was born January 28, 1900; Wallen, and
Mary Ellen.

Margaret Lydia (V) Cameron, daugh-
ter of John (IV) and Catherine (Kib-
ler) Cameroni, married Philip Wilch.
Both she and her husband are dead. To
them one daughter was born, Eva
Wilch, married.

Children of Dr. LeRoy S. and Mary
(IV) ( Cameron ) Laff erty :

Etta Lafferty married Frank Huff. To
them several children have been born .
they are living, in 1912, in Findlay, Ohio.

Sarah Lafferty married Peter Dillman,
who survives her; they had no children.

Bert Lafferty married Wilch.

They have several children and are liv-
ing, in 1912, in Findlay, Ohio.

Alexander Lafferty married a widow,

by the name of . They are living,

in 1912, in Findlay, Ohio; no children.

Claudia Wells, daughter of Walter W.
(VI) and Lydia Jane (Cameron) Wells
and great-granddaughter of Alexander
and Elizabeth (Miller) Cameron, mar-
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Living in Ewing, Neb. ; one child, Mary
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American Genealogies

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Allen. Genealogical Sketches of the
Allen Family of Medfield (Mass.)
[Descendants of James Allen, died 1676].

Allen. A Genealogy of Samuel Allen
of Windsor, Conn, and Some of his De-
scendants. By Willard S. Allen. Bos-
ton, 1876.

Allen, An Account of a Part of the
Sufferings and Losses of Jolley, a Native
of London. [An American Loyalist, set-
tled in Boston, 1754-5]. With a Preface
and Notes by Mrs. Frances Mary Stod-
dard. Boston, 1883.

Allen. Genealogical Sketches of
Roger Ailing of New Haven, Conn, 1639,
Gilbert Allen of Morristown, N. J., 1736,
and Thomas Bancroft of Dedham, Mass.,
1640, and Some of their Descendants.
Prepared by Jno. K. Allen and Edwin
Salter. Lansing, Mich., 1883.

Allen. Family and Descendants of
Stephen Allen. [Of New Bedford,
Mass. '1785] Compiled by Stephen A.
Brownell. New Bedford, Mass, 1887.

Allen. Genealogy of the Allen Fam-
ily of Manchester, Mass., from the Earli-
est Settlement to the year 1886. [De-
scendants of William Allen of Salem,
Mass., and Manchester] . By John Price.
Salem, Mass., 1888.

Allen. Biography of Deacon James
Allen, by Hiram Knight, with Genealog-
ical Register and Testimonials. Wor-
cester, Mass., 1889.

Allen. — ^Historic Families of Ken-

tucky. By Thomas Marshall Green.
Cincinnati, 1889.

Allen. — Genealogical History of the
Allen Family and of Some of their Con-
nections. [Descendants of Nathaniel
Allen of Boston, 1699-1770.] By Mrs.
Frances M. Stoddard. Boston, 1891.

Allen. — A Supplement to the Allen
Family and Relating Especially to the
Beverly [Mass.] Lines. By A. A. Gal-
laupe and John Price. Salem, Mass.,
1891.

Allen. — Memorial of Joseph and
Lucy Clark Allen. [Of Northborough,
Mass.]. Boston, 1891.

Allen. — Genealogical and Historical
Sketches of the Allen Family of Dedham
and Medfield, Mass., 1637-1890. Com-
piled by Frank Allen Hutchinson.
Lowell, Mass., 1896.

Allen. — Walter Allen of Newbury,
Mass., and some of his Descendants.
* * * * By Allen H. Bent. Boston,
1896.

Allen. — John Allen and Phoebe Duel
of Cambridge and Peru, N. Y. [1772].
By Charles J. North. Buffalo, N. Y.,
1897.

Allen. — Phenehas Allen's Descend-
ants. Benjamin, jr., Benjamin, John,
Walter of Lincoln, Mass., 1745, and a
Complete Genealogy of the Descendants
of Benjamin Allen of Ashby, Mass.,
1777. By George Henry Allen, Boston,
1898.

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Montgomery Family History

(Continued from page 126)

John T. Montgomery (VI), eldest son
of James and Eliza D. (Teackle) Mont-
gomery, assumed the letter "T*' to dis-
tinguish him from others of the same
name; some authorities give him the
middle name of "Teackle," his mother's
maiden name. He was born April 3,
1817; was a prominent member of the
Philadelphia bar, to which he was ad-
mitted March 8, 1844 ; married, June 25,
1856, Alida Gouverneur Wharton, and
died without issue February 20, 1895.

James Henry Montgomery (VI), sec-
ond son of James and Eliza D. (Teackle)
Montgomery, was bom February 27,
1819, and was actively engaged in mer-
cntile pursuits for many years. He died
unmarried December 22, 1858.

William White Montgomery (VI),
eldest son of James and Mary 'Harrison
(White) Montgomery, was bom May
21, 1828, graduated from the University
of Pennsylvania in 1847, and from the
General Theological Seminary in 1852.
He was ordained to the ministry of the
Protestant Episcopal denomination in
September, 1852, and filled the rector-,
ship of various churches in Pennsylvania
and New York state, the last, at Mama-
roneck, N. Y., where he died December
28, 1889. He married, April 15, 1857,
Gaynor Smith Lazarus. Their only sur-
viving son is Dr. James Henry Mont-
gomery, Erie, Pa.

Thomas Harrison Montgomery (VI),
the youngest surviving son of James and
Mary Harrison (White) Montgomery,
was born Febmary 23, 1830. He was
engaged in the insurance business dur-
ing the greater portion of his life, being
president of the American Fire Insur-
ance company at the time of his decease.
He was interested in historical and gene-
alogical research, his most noted work
being a history of the University of
Pennsylvania, which institution con-

ferred upon him the degree of Litt. D.
in 1901. He married, October 31, 1860,
Anna Morton, and died April 4, 1905.
Living representatives of this branch
of the family are the following: Rev-
erend James Alan Montgomery, D. D.,;
Thomas Harrison Montgomery, Ph. D.,
Professor of Zoology at the University
of Pennsylvania; and William White
Montgomery, Charles Mortimer Mont-
gomery, M. D., and the Misses Mont-
gomery, children of Thomas Harrison
Montgomery.

John Philips Montgomery (VI), eld-
est son of John Crathorne and Elizabeth
Henrietta (Philips) Montgomery, was
born September 28, 1818; was graduated
from the University of Pennsylvania in
1837; was admitted to the Philadelphia
bar April 11, 1840; married, November
13, 1851, Anna Bowker Clayton, by
whom he had issue, and died Febmary
15, 1875.

The Reverend Henry Eglinton Mont-
gomery (VI), second son of John Cra-
thorne and Elizabeth Henrietta ('Phil-
ips) Montgomery, was born December
9, 1820; graduated from the University
of Pennsylvania in 1839 ; was an attache
at the United States Legation in Den-
mark, 1841-42 ; graduated from the Gen-
eral Theological Seminary, New York,
in 1843, and was ordained to the min-
istry of the Protestant Episcopal Church
the same year ; was rector of All Saints'
Church, Philadelphia, 1846-55; of the
Church of the Incarnation, New York
city, 1855-74; received the degree of
D.b. from his alma mater in 1863 ; was
vice-president of the New York City
Missionary Society and a manager of
various religious and benevolent institu-
tions; married, September 10, 1846,
Margaret Augusta Lynch, daughter of
Judge James Lynch, who died October
15, 1874, having had issue.

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Oswald Crathorae Montgomery (VI),
third son of John Crathome and
Elizabeth Henrietta (Philips) Montgom-
ery, was born August 24, 1822, and was
a resident of Germantown, Philadelphia,
for many years ; was paying teller of the
Commercial National bank; served as a
vestryman of St. Michael's Protestant
Episcopal Church, Germantown; mar-
ried, October 3, 1849, Catharine Ger-
trude Lynch, daughter of George W.
Lynch, and died January 17, 1871, hav-
ing had issue.

Austin James Montgomery (VI),
fourth son of John Crathorne and Eliza-
beth Henrietta (Philips) Montgomery,
was bom October 27, 1824; lived for a
time in Chester county and subsequently
in Philadelphia, where he was engaged
in business as a real estate broker ; mar-
ried, November 10, 1858, Sarah Cordelia
Riche, daughter of Charles Swift Riche,
and died without issue January 19, 1898.

James Eglinton Montgomery (VI),
fifth son of John Crathorne and Eliza-
beth Henrietta (Philips) Montgomery,
was bom September 20, 1826; graduated
from Princeton College in 1845; was
captain of a volunteer infantry company
in the early part of 1861 ; assistant adju-
tant general. United States volunteers,
1861-66, first with rank of captain and
finally of major; participated in numer-
ous important battles, including those of

West Point and Gaines' Mills, being se-
verely wounded in the latter engage-
ment ; was United States consul to Gen-
eva, 1877-79; Leipsic, 1879-81; Brussels,
1881-82; Trieste, 1883; married, first,
November 10, 1851, Nina Tilghman,
daughter of James Tilghman, and, sec-
ond, Mary S. Walker, daughter of
Thomas Read Walker; died April 17,
1909, having had issue by both wives.

Benjamin Chew Montgomery (VI),
the eighth child of John Crathorne and
Elizabeth Henrietta (Philips) Montgom-
ery, was bom January 3, 1833; was ad-
mitted to the Philadelphia bar, December
29, 1855, and died unmarried, July 16,
1856.

Hardman Philips Montgomery (VI),
the youngest son of John Crathorne and
Elizabeth Henrietta (Philips) Montgom-
ery, was born September 25, 1834 ; spent
two years at the University of Pennsyl-
vania, 1851-52; was admitted to the Phil-
adelphia bar, July 10, 1858, and died un-
married, January 22, 1870.

Mary Crathome Montgomery (VI),
the youngest of the ten children and the
second daughter of John Crathorne and
Elizabeth Henrietta (Philips) Montgom-
ery, was born January 20, 1837, mar-
ried, April 26, 1859, Eugene Tillotson
Lynch, of Flushing, L. I., son of Judge
James Lynch.

A Loyalist Wilson Line

[Contributed to Genealogy.]
George Wilson, son of Sir John Wil-
son, of England, settled in Stanbridge
Borough, province of Quebec, about
1720. His brother John, son of Sir John,
settled in New York city about 1730 and
took up a large tract of land. Being a
loyalist he left New York just before the
Revolution, and settled on Missisquo
Bay, Lake Champlain. The children of
John Wilson were David and Wil-
liam. The marriages of his descendants,

who have been many, are unknown.

The children of George Wilson were:
(1) Abraham, (2) George, (3) Isaac,
(4) Ezra, (5) Sallie, (6) Eleanor.

George (2) Wilson married Catherine
Stinehour. They had (1) George, who
married Helen Herns; (2) Sallie, who
married Morancy Gardener. The chil-
dren of George Wilson and Helen Herns
were George, Bertha, Charles and Kath-
erine. Bertha married Byron Cronkrite ;
Charles married Josephine Spelz; Kath-
erine married Harrv Pearl. P. K. H.

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Hortons of Massachusetts

Benjamin (3) Horton, son of Jere-
miah (2) and Mary (Gilbert) Horton,
born, Springfield (at Skipnaugh), Mass.,
October 2, 1682, married, Springfield,
November 8, 1716, Mary Glover, daugh-
ter of Peletiah, Jr., and Hannah (Par-
sons) Glover. Benjamin Horton died
August 29, 1747. His wife was born
August 25, 1695, and died May 16, 1751.
Their children were: Benjamin, bom
February 27, 1718; Gideon, bom August
13, 1720; Mary, born June 20, 1722;
Margaret, bom June 16, 1724; Timothy,
born April 29, 1726; Stephen, born April
29, 1728; Gideon, born October 5, 1730.
The will of Benjamin Horton, August
12, 1747, has no reference to his son
Gideon, which would indicate that the
son was dead at that time.

Benjamin (4) Horton, son of Benja-
min (3) and Mary (Glover) Horton,
born, Springfield, Mass., February 27,
1718, married there, November 1, 1736,
Abigail Parsons. Children: Gideon,
born December 4, 1737; Naomi, born
October 19, 1741 ; Moses, born June 15,
1743; Enoch, born August 22, 1747.
Captain Benjamin Horton removed to
Colebrook, Conn., about 1757. He in-
herited a large property from his uncle
Timothy Horton, who died unmarried in
1740.

Gideon (5) Horton, son of Benjamin
and Abigail (Parsons) Horton, born De-
cember 4, 1737, in Springfield, married

, and had recorded in Springfield

these children : Anna, born June 6, 1762,
and Hiram, born March 5, 1764. Prob-
ably he was the Gideon Horton who
bought land in Colebrook of Daniel Bid-
well in 1764 and settled there beside his
father. The probate records of Cole-
brook from 1732 to May, 1769, are re-
corded in Hartford. From May, 1769,
to May, 1779, they are recorded in Sims-
bury. From May, 1779, to May, 1838,
they are recorded in Norfolk. Since that
time they have been recorded in Win-

chester. A search of Simsbury or Nor-
folk probates might reveal the settlement
of Gideon's estate. No Gideon Horton
appears in the Massachusetts or Con-
necticut census of 1790. A Benjamin
Horton, with a family of five females,
appears in New London county. Conn.,
in the census of 1790, town not given.

A Laraway-Payne Branch

[Contributed to Genealogy.]
Jacob Lara way, bom September 1,
1796; died April 1, 1875. He married
Mariah Cronk. They had a daughter,
Jane, who married Rufus Payne in 1848
at Battle Creek, Mich. Victor Thomas
Payne, son of Rufus and Jane (Lara-
way) Payne, was born September 1,
1851, and married Frances I. Pearl at
Battle Creek, Mich., September 1, 1875.
Their children were: Grace, born July

1, 1878; Carol, bom January 30, 1881;
John Howard, born April 19, 1884.
Carol Payne married Orson Fenn
Spaulding, December 30, 1881. They
had, Carlton, born March 27, 1905, and
Isadene Loretta, born June 26, 1911.

J. L. S.

A New York Graves Line

[Contributed to Genealogy.]
Dr. Nathan Graves of East Chazy,
N. Y., married Molly Jones about 1794.
They had six children: 1. De Calvos;

2. Cassius; 3. Horace; 4. Nathan; 5.
Chester ; 6. Minerva. Horace Graves, son
of Nathan and Molly (Jones) Graves,
born March 10, 1809, died August 6,
1876. He married Anna Brown. They had
Mary, who married John Shinville ; Wil-
liam, who married Katherine Wither-
spoon; Sarah, unmarried; Henry Sey-
mour, who married Elzada Pearl ; Rhoda,
who married Milton Amrine. William
Graves, son of Horace and Anna
(Brown) Graves, had Anna, who mar-
ried Walter Littlefield; and Nettie and
Joseph. W. A. H.

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Questions

Warren. — Benjamin L. Warren was
in Delaware soon after 1700 and mar-
ried an Edmunds. The family was in-
fluential. We have not yet been able to
find if Benjamin came from Maryland or
som€ part of New England, or if he was
an original emigrant zna Lewes, Del.
Attempts have been made to find a con-
nection with the New England Warrens,
and one investigator believes that he was
of the General Joseph Warren family.
This, however, is not authentically estab-
lished. If it could be found positively
whether any member of that family
moved to the South, I think that we
might be able to make the connection.
[286] F. D. S.

Heath.— March 25, 1750, Tryphena
Heath was baptized in Newport, R. I.,
daughter of Jonathan and Hannah (Wil-
bour) Heath. This baptism is on the
records of First Congregational Church
of Newport, (printed). In the volume
of Friends* and Ministers' Records of
Rhode Island there is found the mar-

riage, December 15, 1789, of John Read
and Phinney Heath. In the Read Gene-
alogy this same marriage is given, ex-
cept that she is called Frifenda Heath.
Frifenda seems an almost impossible
name. Can any one tell if it should be
Tryphena, and is she the same Tryphena
who was the daughter of Jonathan and
Hannah Heath? Phinney may easily
have been a nickname; might it not?
[287] J.H.G.

Holmes. — Samuel Holmes was one of
two brothers who came from England
and settled in New London county,
Conn., about the middle or in the later
part of the eighteenth century. His son,
Samuel Holmes, born August 27, 1762,
died April 22, 1852, married, in Mont-
ville. Conn., in 1787, Lucy Patten and
had twelve children — nine sons and three
daughters. Who was the senior Samuel
Holmes? From what part of England
did he come, and who were his parents?
[288] F. O. C.

Answers

Belknap.— [257] H. W. B.— I de-
sire to supplement what I wrote on
April 3d [printed in Genealogy April
27] as well as to make a correction. In
re-reading more carefully than before
the small book on the Belknap family,
published in 1889 by William E. Warren,
a note which is of value attracted my at-
tention. Mr. Warren speaks of seeing
a bible of the date of 1723-24, on the
blank leaf o( which was written: "Eliza-
beth Belknap, her Bible, new bound in
New York, in the year 1757." Under-
neath this, "Samuel Belknap departed
this life September 30, 1765, being 81
years and 6 months old." This can hard-
ly be any one but the Samuel of the
West Jersey colony, and for the first
time establishes the dates of his birth and
death. In my former letter I spoke of
his having a possible son, Jesse. By
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the Jesse of Hebron was born too late to
be a son of his.

The known children of Samuel and
Elizabeth (Jones) Belknap are: Samuel,
born September 27, 1707, supposed to be
he who was a grantee at Fairlee, Vt.,
September 9, 1761 ; John, born May 17,
1710; James, born January 11, 1712-13;
and Elisha, born December 1, 1718.
From none of these has any descent been
traced nor are marriages recorded. Did
one of them or some other son have Jesse
of Hebron? A small clue is afforded by
the fact that Eunice Hall, whom Jesse
married, was from Redding, near Fair-
field, Conn., whence came the West
Jersey settlers. I am making an effort
to find this old bible to see if any other
records are contained in it. H. W. B.

Vail.— [259] P. L. M.-^According to
record collected a half century ago by a
member of the family, Catherine Vail,
who married Mortimer Gage, was the
daughter of Sampson Vail and Sarah
Warren; granddaughter of Arthur Vail
and Hannah Causten, great-granddaugh-
ter of Thomas Vail and his wife Sarah
of Eastchester. The history of Arthur
Vail is told in Westchester county, N. Y.,
records and his name Arthur, Aster,
After. He was bom, 1691, and married,
before 1722, Hannah Causten, daughter
of Samuel Causten and Hannah Shute.
Their children were: Aaron, born 1722,
married Martha Ward; Sampson, mar-
ried Sarah Warren ; Ruth ; Esther, mar-
ried John Travis ; Isaac, bom 1736, mar-
ried Lydia Sherman ; Arthur, born 1738,
mentioned as enlisting from Rye, 1758,
aged twenty. The children of Sampson
Vail and Sarah Warren were: Esther,
married Silas Germain; Phebe, married
Ormand Doty; Sarah, married Joseph

Duel; Hannah, married first Duel.

second James Titus; Isaac, married and
went to Canada ; Stephen, married Susan

Materson; Elisabeth, married first

Bennett, second or third Davis;

Catherine, married Mortimer Gage, bom

1757; Aaron, married Mary Raleigh;
Sampson, died unmarried ; John, married
Freelove Colvin. It is only fair to add,
however, that the connection of these
children of Sampson Vail with Arthur
Vail has been questioned.

In 1698 there was the family of
Thomas Vail, wife, Sarah, children : John,
After and Mary, while in the neighbor-
hood, with the family of Alexander
Moore, was a Ruth Vail. The wife of
Alexander was also named Ruth; was
she a relative of the Vails? In 1710
Ruth Vail sold land in White Plains
Purchase in Rye, to John Vail.

John Vail married Dorcas ? The

will of Moses Ward of Philipsburgh,
N. Y., leaves property to his wife Sarah,
after her death to go to William Vail
(spelled Veale), "son of my brother-in-
law John Veale." The will February 12,
1763, was witnessed by Ezekiel Vail.
Did John Vail marry Dorcas Ward?
Was Ezekiel of this family also? Dorcas
was left administratrix of the estate of
John Vail, June 9, 1761. H. V. K.

Freeman

The son of Barnahas and Sarah (Dud-
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man, a lawyer of Yarmouth, Me. He
was born August 31, 1853, and lost his
life by the wreck of the steamship Port-
land, off the coast of Massachusetts,
in the great storm of November 28,
1898. See Genealogy, March 16, 1912,
No. 11, page 84.

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A Stevens-Abbott Branch

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had married Hannah Barnard. Their
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Abbott, whose father was George Abbott
of Andover, Mass., and whose mother
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The Austin Family in America

Austins were numerous in New Eng-
land in the first colonial century. All
the pioneers were of English origin.
There were various spellings of the
name, but probably all were of the same
family originally. In early records the
surnames appear as Asten, Astin, Astine,
Asting, Aston, Austen, Auston, Austone
and Oston.

Anthony Austin of Rowley, Mass.,
was a freeman in 1669, and afterwards
was in Suffield, Conn. He died in 1708.
His children were: Richard, born 1666
Anthony, born 1668; John, born 1672
Nathaniel, born 1678; Elizabeth, botn
1681 ; and Esther, bom 1686. His de-
scendants have been many.

Francis Austin was first of Dedham
and afterwards of Hampton, Mass., in
1640. By his wife, Isabella, he had two
daughters, Jemima and Sophia.

John Austin was of New London,
Conn., in 1647, in Greenwich after 1651,
and later in Stamford. He died in Stam-
ford August 25, 1657, leaving a widow,
Catherine Austin, son, Samuel, and
daughter, Elizabeth, who married Joseph
Finch, and perhaps a son, John.

John Austin of New Haven, Conn.,
married, first, November 5, 1667, Mercy
Atwater, daughter of Joseph Atwater.
His children were: John, born April 23,
1669; David, born February 23, 1671;

Joshua, born September 3, 1673 ; Mary ;
John and Hannah, twins, born October
14. 1677; Mercy, born April 17, 1680;
a son, born April 5, 1683, and died with-
in a few days. His wife died in April,
1683, and he married, second, January
21, 1685, Elizabeth Brackett, by whom
he had Sarah, born January 23, 1686,
and Elizabeth, born in 1687. He died in
1690, and his widow died before 1695.

John Austin of Scarborough, Me., was
more commonly known as John Ashton,
although it is not certainly known that
the two were identical. He married a
daughter of Andrew Alger and was of
Marblehead, Mass., in 1675.

John Austin came to America in the
ship Hercules from Tenterden, England,
John Austin, the mayor of Tenterden at
that time, was probably his father. With
him came his wife, Constance Austin.
He settled first in Cambridge, Mass.,
— then called Newtown — was in Hing-
ham, Mass., in 1635 and in Taunton,
Mass., in 1643. He died in Taunton,
July 30, 1683. With other children he
left a son, Jonah Austin of Taunton.

Joseph Austin of Hampton, Mass.,
1642 and Dover 1648 died in 1663. His
second wife, whom he married in 1659,
was Sarah (Starbuck) Story, daughter
of Edward Starbuck and widow of Wil-
liam Story. He left a son, Thomas, and
other children.

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Leonard Austin of New Haven,
brother of John Austin of New Haven,
was a weaver and died in 1678.

Matthew Austin of York, Me., was
killed by the Indians about 1704.

Richard Austin came from Southamp-
ton, England, in the ship Bevis in 1638
with his wife and two children. He
settled in Charlestown, Mass. He had
lived in Bishopstoke, county Hants.

Robert Austin was the founder of the
family in Rhode Island. Little is known
concerning him. His home was in
Kings Town, and in 1661 his name ap-
pears on a list of persons to whom land
was granted. Probably he died before
1687, as his name does not appear on
the tax list of that year. Sons: Jere-
miah, Edward, Joseph and John.

Samuel Austin was of Dover, N. H.,
in 1649 and afterwards of Wells, Me.,
being a representative to the general
court in 1682.

John Austin, bom in London, Eng-
land, and there trained as a merchant by
his father, came to Boston and subse-

quently removed to Hartford, Conn. He
married, in Hartford, December 8, 1713,
Mary (Stanley) Hooker, widow. He
died in Hartford in 1743, and his widow,
Mary, died August 23, 1756, aged 76.
He had a son, John, bom October 15,
1714, died young, and a daughter, Mary,
who married John Ellery of Boston.

John Austin — sometimes called John
Astin — was in Philadelphia in 1683, re-
ceiving on November 1 of that year a
patent of confirmation of a lot of ground.
Part of this land he sold in August, 1686,
and in the deed he is styled "Of the
Town and County of Philadelphia, ship-
carpenter." In a later deed, August 4,
1687, he is styled "ship carpenter of the
County Bucks." He married, November
11, 1686, by Friends ceremony, Jane
Potts of Philadelphia and probably re-
moved to Bucks county soon after. He
retumed to Philadelphia in a few years
and followed the business of ship-wright,
having a yard on the banks of the Dela-
ware river. He died before February
25, 1708, that being the date of the
granting of letters of administration on
his estate.

A Holmes-Pearl Branch

[Contributed to Genealogy.]
Richard Holmes of Rowley, Mass.,
married Mrs. Alice Knight of the same
place about 1660. Their daughter, Eliza-
beth Holmes, born in Rowley, Mass., in
1662, was married, in 1682, to John
Pearl, who came from Skidby, England,
in 1671. He was born in 1650, and died
in 1720 in Bradford, Mass. He was a
son of the widow, Alice Pearl, who died
in England about 1670. The children of
John and Elizabeth (Holmes) Pearl
were: Alice, born 1683, who married
John Peabody; Mary, bom 1686;
Eleanor, bom 1690, who married John
Styles; John, bom 1692; Timothy, born
1694; Jane, bom 1698, who married
Thomas Messer ; Richard, born 1702.

New York Purdys

Following are tombstone records of
several Purdys, who were buried in the
cemetery of Farmington, Ontario coun-
ty, N. Y. The Purdy family was orig-
inally of Westchester county.

Mary Purdy, 1872-1894.

Ruth L. Purdy, 1889-1901.

Christiana C. N. Purdy, born Septem-
ber 29th, 1812, died June 2d, 1874.

Eddie Purdy, son of A. M. and P. J.,
died 11th month, 25, 1880. Aged, 11
months 2 days.

Ann Augusta Purdy, died 4th month,
18, 1876. Aged, 17 years 7 months.

Mary R. Purdy, wife of A. M., died
3d month, 2, 1874. Aged, 37 years 11
months.

Alexander M. Purdy, 1835-1908.

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A Pennsylvania Family Graveyard

[Contributed to Genealogy.]
By S. H. Flickinger

The following inscriptions are from tombstones in the Becker family grave-
yard on the Martin Becker farm in Clay township, Lancaster county, Penn.

Joseph Heaffly, born, Sept. 20, 1816,
died, Oct. 30, 1863, aged, 47—1—10.

Jacob Heaffley, born, Dec. 26, 1773, died,
Oct. 11, 1850, aged, 77—9—16.

Elizabeth Haffly, (wife of Jacob), bom,
Sept. 19, 1776, died, Apr. 25, 1855.

Polly Haffly, born, July 29, 1803, died,
Jan. 19, 1832.

Maria Heffly, born. Mar. 11, 1769, died,
Aug. 8, 1849.

Elizabeth Paul, daughter of Wilhelm H.
and Susanna Paul, born, Feb. 23, 1827,
died, June 9, 1832.

Isaac Paul, son of W. H. and Susanna
Paul (nee Ilefley), born, Jan. 13,
1829, died, Dec. 16, 1836.

Susanna Ileisey, daughter of Daniel and
Rachel Heisey, born, Sept. 11, 1853,
died, Nov. 14, 1856.

Son of Jacob and Maria Mellinger, bom
and died, Mar. 3, 1857. (Sohlein von).

Daughter of Marten and Hannah
Becker, born and died July 27, 1863.

Johannes Becker, born, Oct. 12, 1797,
died, Aug. 26, 1870.

Elizabeth (wife of Johannes), born,
Feb. 7, 1802, died, Jan. 20, 1879.

Sarah Becker (daughter of Johannes
and Elizabeth), born, July 28, 1824,
died, July 14, 1839.

Isaac Becker, son of Johannes and Eliza-
beth, born, Jan. 29, 1838, died, July 6,
1839.

Samuel Becker, son of Johannes and
Elizabeth, born, July 25, 1829, died,
Apr. 21, 1839.

Martin Becker, born, Jan. 17, 1769, died,
Jan. 18, 1844.

Susanna Becker, wife of Martin Becker,
born, Feb. 5, 1769, died, Feb. 10, 1839.

Solomon Becker, born Oct. 25, 1795,
died. May 7, 1798.

Martin Becker, born, Oct. 20, 1806, died,
Dec. 6, 1806.

Maria Becker, died, XXX JUN.,
MDCCLXL, aged, LIX VIIL, XD
( ?) Almost illegible.

Peter Becker, born, Aug. 10, 1724, died,
Oct. 13, 1802, aged, 78—2—3:

Peter Becker, born, Feb. 20, 1758, died,
Sept. 30, 1820, aged, 62—7—10.

Valentine Becker, born, Apr. 22, 1763,
died. Mar. 11, 1825, aged, 62—10—22.

Heinrich Becker, born, July 23, 1771,
died, Aug. 24, 1839, aged, 68—1—1.

Hier Ruhen Noa Scherk, born, Aug. 12,
1812, died, Sept., 1812.

Benjamin E., son of John and Elizabeth
Becker, born, Dec. 31, 1848, died.
Mar. 7, 1849.

Jacob Heise, son of Daniel and Esabel
Heise, born. Mar. 15, 1845, died, Feb.
5, 1847.

Rachel, wife of Daniel Heisey, (nee
Haffli), born, Feb. 4, 1814, died, Apr.
24, 1865.

Eleven graves are noticeable that have
no inscriptions, only limestone markers
at head and foot of the grave.

Town and city vital records of the
Colonial and early state periods are now
collected and printed in Massachusetts
and Maine. Transcribe those of your
town — marriages, births and deaths —
and send to us to be similarly preserved
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The Fitch Family History

(Continued from page 138)

Abigail Fitch, born in August, 1650,
married Captain John Mason, son of
John and Anna (Peck) Mason. He was
one of the six Connecticut captains killed
in the swamp fight with the Indians.

Elizabeth Fitch, born in January, 1652,
died in 1689, married, September 5, 1674,
the Reverend Edward Taylor of West-
field, Mass.

Hannah Fitch, bom in September,
1663, married Thomas Mix of New
Haven.

Samuel Fitch, born in April, 1665.
Settled in East Norwich, afterward Boz-
rah. Conn. He was the ancestor of the
Bozrah Fitch families.

Dorothy Fitch, born in April, 1658,
died June 28, 1681, married, as his sec-
ond wife, Nathaniel Bissell of Windsor.

Daniel Fitch, born August 16, 1665.
Settled in Montville, afterward part of
New London, Conn. He was a captain
of the troops and active in the Indian
wars. From him are descended the
Montville, Colchester, Preston and other
Fitch families.

John Fitch, bom in January, 1667, set-
tled in Windham. He was town clerk
from 1704 to the time of his death in
1743. He was also a judge of the pro-
bate court, a captain in the militia, and
a representative to the general assembly
in twenty different sessions. He mar-
ried, in 1695, Elizabeth Waterman, eld-
est daughter of Thomas and Miriam
(Tracy) Waterman. His children were:
Elizabeth, Miriam, Priscilla and John.

Jeremiah Fitch, born in September,
16/0. He was an active and prominent
man in Windham county and the an-
cestor of the Coventry, Columbia, And-
over, Williamantie and Bolton Fitch fam-
ilies.

Jabez Fitch, born in September, 1670,
was graduated from Harvard College in

1694. He was a tutor and fellow of
Harvard and in 1703 became the col-
league of the Reverend John Rogers in
Ipswich, Mass. About 1725 he was in-
stalled as minister in Portsmouth, N. H.
He died in 1746.

Ann Fitch, bom in April, 1675, mar-
ried Joseph Bradford, only son of Major
William Bradford of Plymouth. She re-
moved to Lebanon, Conn., and died there
in 1715, leaving Bradford descendants.

Nathaniel Fitch, bom in October,
1679, removed to Lebanon, where he was
one of the first settlers. He married,
first, December 10, 1701, Ann Abel,
daughter of Joshua Abel of Norwich.
She died July 3, 1728, aged 47 years,
and he married, second, September 17,
1729, Mindwell Tisdale of Lebanon. He
died May 4, 1759. His children were.:
Ann, Joshua, Nathan, Nehemiah, James,
John, Nathaniel, Mehitable, Elizabeth,
Rachel, Abel, Caleb, Jabez and Isaac.

Joseph Fitch, bom in November, 1681,
became a resident of Stonington, Conn.,
and afterwards of Lebanon, where he
died in 1741. He was twice married.

Eleazer Fitch, born May 14, 1683, set-
tled in Lebanon and died there about
1747. He married but left no issue.

Some Fitch Authorities. Stearns'
Fitch Genealogy [Descendants of Zach-
ary Fitch of Reading, Mass.] ; Stiles*
Genealogies of the Stranahan, Josselyn,
Fitch and Dow Families; Selleck's Nor-
walk [Conn.] ; Caulkins' History of Nor-
mch, Connecticut; The New York Ge-
nealogical and Biographical Record, vols.
XV., XVI., XXXIV.; The New Eng-
land Historical and Genealogical Regis-
ter, vols. LV. and LVI. ; Stiles' Histories
and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor,
Connecticut, vol. II.; Perkins' Old
Houses of the Antient Town of Nor-
wich.

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Irish Soldiers in the Revolution

It is not true, as is often said^ that
one-half of the patriot army in the Amer-
ican revolution was composed of Irish-
men. This much-repeated assertion is
based upon the testimony of Joseph Gal-
loway, given in England. Galloway had
been an American patriot and speaker
of the Pennsylvania assembly. He said
that judging "by the deserters who came
in," about one-half of Washington's
army was composed of natives of Ire-
land. The time referred to was when
Washington was at Valley Forge and
the British were in Philadelphia.

There were many Irish in Pennsyl-
vania, and some of the regiments from
that state were very largely composed of
Irishmen. Galloway's testimony ana-
lyzed is not strong enough to give justi-
fication to the claim that of the whole
Continental forces one-half was com-
posed of Irishmen. Nevertheless there
were plenty of Irishmen in the Revolu-
tion. On the rolls of the minute men of
Lexington are 266 unmistakable irish
names. Ten were Welsh, eight were
Kelly, seven were Kenney, six were Col-
lins. The muster roll of Bunker Hill
shows 258 Irish names. Eighteen of
them were Welsh, seven were Connors,
six were Sullivan, six were Dougherty.

General Stephen Moylan was first
muster master-general of the Revolu-
tionary army and afterward brigadier-
general of cavalry. He was a native of
Cork, and first president of the Friendly
Sons of St. Patrick of Philadelphia.
General William Irvine, who served
under Anthony Wayne, was bom in
County Fermanagh, Ireland, on Novem-
ber 3, 1741. General Edward Hand was
born in King's county, Ireland, in 1744.
He became brigadier-general on April 7,
1777. General William Thompson, who
became brigadier-general on March 1,
1776, was bom in Ireland in 1725. Gen-
eral George Read, who signed the Decla-
ration of Independence, was the son of
John Read of Dublin. General Henry
Knox was the son of Andrew Knox, a
native Irishman, the second of the orig-
inal members of the Irish Charitable So-
ciety of Boston, organized on St. Pa-
trick's Day, 1737. General George Qin-
ton, brigadier-general, first governor of
New York state and afterward vice-
president of the United States, and his
brother. General James H. Clinton,
major-general in the Revolution, were
the sons of Charles Clinton of County
Longford, Ireland. And there were
others scarcely less noteworthy.

Marriage Announcement

Following is a German marriage an-
nouncement in Lancaster county, Penn.,
in 1852.

Am 28sten Martz, durch den Ehrw.
Herm Kohler, Hr. Samuel Wenger, von
Earl Taunschip, mit Misz Elisabetha
Wittmer, von Ost Earl Taunschip, in
diesem County.

Nun, 's ist gut, es ist voUbracht,
Die Beze ist zur Frau gemacht,
Der Seme hat gedenkt bey sich:
Ich musz geh'n, sie schickt fiir mich,
Es ist nur die grosze Liebe —
Beze, thu dicb net betrube

Weil es thut sich so verhalten.
Drum, Beze, lasz du mich nur walten
Dem Seme macht das all nichts aus,
Er Kann jetzt zu der Frau ins Haus
Bez, du bist mein, und ich bin dein,
Wer mochte sonst dagegen Seyn,
Nau lieb die Bez und sey ihr treu —
Well Sem, was ist noch mehr dabey?
Noch was zum Zeitvertreib dazu —
Ein dicker, Schoner, fetter Bu
Und sollte es ein Madchen seyn.
So leg' es in die Wieg hinein,

Schockel, sing das Lied Bey-O "

Bis iibers Jahr gehts wieder so.
[Eingesandt] B. S.

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Questions

Clark. — Who can tell me if Samuel
Clark of Milford, Conn., was related to
the Samuel Qark who married Mercy
Towne in Sutton, Mass., in 1750? It is
not impossible that the wives of John
Clark and Samuel Croly were sisters.
[289] F. B. H.

Baxter. — Captain John Baxter, born,
it is said, in Scotland, came to America
and married Mary Schuyler about 1760,
Their only child, Schuyler Baxter, was
born April 10, 1761 ; married, first,
Penelope Dodge, and second, Magdalen
Bogart, both Long Island people, and
died in Cincinnati, Ohio, December 5,
1843. He was a Revolutionary soldier.
I want date and place of marriage of
John Baxter to Mary Schuyler, and
dates of his birth and death. It is said
that he died in Scotland while visiting
there. [290] S. E. B.

Kimball. — Where can I find informa-
tion regarding Richard Kimball of

Watertown, Mass., 1634, and Ipswich,
1636? Whom did he marry, and what
were the names of his children ?

[292] K. M. K.

Pritchard. — Who was the widow
Pritchard, who married John Lovejoy
of Andover, Mass., in 1677.

[291] A.H.C.

Hill. — James Hill was of Maiden,
Mass., when he married Lois Upham in
1725 or 1726. He immediately settled in
Stoneham leaving descendants. Re-
search does not show connection with
any Maiden family. He was born prob-
ably about 1700-05. No other Hill
family appears to be related, yet some
circumstances are suggestive of his be-
ing a member of a Boston family. Can
any one tell me who h^ was?

[293] B. F. W.

Hatfield. — Thomas Hatfield, an early
settler of Westchester county, N. Y.,
left two sons, Peter and Thomas.
Thomas, Jr., died intestate in 1724, and
his widow, Eunice, was appointed ad-
ministratrix. Peter left a will, to which
Abraham Hatfield, probably son of one
of these two men, was a witness. Who
was the father of this Abraham Hat-
field? [294] Y.E.F.

Law — Can any reader of Genealogy

inform me who were the ancestors

of Sarah Law, who married William

Sherman, eldest son of Roger Sherman ?

[295] A. P. S.

Pratt. — Wanted, the parentage, birth-
place and date of birth of William Pratt,

whose wife was Inez . He had a

sister, Sophia (Pratt) Gellett, born June
27, 1791. He was father of six children,
and the oldest daughter was born Jan-
uary 15, 1809. He lived near Cold
Spring, Putnam county, N. Y., and at
the time of his death (about 1842),
word was taken by messenger to Water-

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town, Conn. Who was Inez, wife of
William Pratt ? [296] P. H. L.

Edgett.— Joel Edgett, a royalist,
went from New York to New Bruns-
wick and died there February 11,
1841, aged eighty. He was therefore
bom about 1760. His parents, accord-
ing to tradition, were: Joel Edgett and
Esther Mann, and his early home on
Long Island according to one branch of
the family, or near White Plains, West-
chester county, others say. The muster
rolls of New York provincial troops give
a Joel Adgett, enlisted 1759, age nine-
teen, born in North Castle, Westchester
county, and a Joel Edgett, 1761, age
twenty-one, etc. This Joel was there-
fore bom about 1740. Was he father of
the one born about 1760? Can any one
give any more information about either
of them or about Esther Mann?

[297] P. E. M.

Gamble. — Wanted, the ancestry of
Mary Gamble, bom February 25, 1752,
of Westchester county, N. Y., married
John (5) Harris, Jr., in 1772 and re-
moved to Pine Plains, N. Y. She had
two sisters, Elizabeth and Isabella, and
two brothers, John and Hugh. It is
thought that Isaac Gamble, who was of
Westchester county, N. Y., and removed
to Pine Plains or near there about 1772,
was the father of this family.

[298] W. L. M.

Butler. — Would it be possible for
any one to tell me who the parents of
Austin Butler were? Austin Butler was
born somewhere in Massachusetts,
March 28, 1794, married, January 31,
1824, Mrs. Jemima (Butler) Pratt, the
widow of Abel Pratt. Austin and Jemi-
ma perhaps were cousins. Austin was
a carpenter, and when Mormonism was
founded, he was one of the first con-
verts, devoting much of his time to the
ministry. The earliest traces I find of
this family were in Hector, then a part

of Tompkins county, N. Y. Here were
born: Afred in 1828, Rhoda in 1830,
Hannah in 1832, and Almira, Joseph,
Anna Marie Winslow and Mary. Austin
and two of the children died in Dayton,
O., July, 1839. Harris Elkeny Butler
was a brother of Austin, and on their
way westward they separated at Lake
Erie, one journe3ring by land and the
other by water, never again to hear of
each other. Uriah Butler was the father
of either Austin or Jemima, and Eliza-
beth Plumely was the maiden name of
one of their parents. Jemima often
mentioned a place in the East called
Danby, perhaps Danby, Vt.

1299] J.B.A.

Phelps. — ^Joseph Phelps, born in Tol-
land, Conn., 1734, married, in Pomfret,
Conn., June 6, 1749, Lydia Osgood.
Their children were : Joseph, died young ;
Lydia, died young; Joseph, Lydia, Han-
nah, bom July 18, 1761. The mother
died July 20, 1761, and he married, sec-
ond, Elizabeth Abbott, September 28,
1761. Their children were: Elizabeth,
bom March 4, 1765; Lydia, born Feb-
ruary 5, 1767. Is this the Lydia who
married Philip De Carteret Whittemore
of West Cambridge, whose sister, Han-
nah (originally of Andover), married
John Adams, and whose sister, Eliza-
beth, married Nathan Harrington of
Lexington? [300] L. W. P.

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American origin constitute a material
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Abrams of Boston

The following records of the Abrams
family of Boston were found in an old
Bible, on a piece of paper, brown with
age; also a copy made in 1833.

John and Margaret ( ) Abrams

had children as follows : John, bom July
22, 1737; Jonathan, born February 22,
1739; Mille( ?), born December 23, 1740;
William, born January 16, 1743 ( ?) ;
Samuel, born August 24, 1745; Ralph,
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The American Hunt Family

Records of the Hunt family found in
the English archives as far back as the
twelfth century show that the family was
one of remote antiquity in England. The
French construction of the name appear-
ing in the early records indicates that
the family may have come from Nor-
mandy and possibly was contemporane-
ous with William the Conqueror. One
of the earliest of whom there is men-
tion bore the name of Ralph le Hunt,
the same Christian name as that of the
founder of the New Jersey branch more
than five hundred years later. The sur-
name as well as the coat of arms indi-
cates its origin, meaning "to pursue" as
applied to the sports of the chase. He
who first received the name and handed
it down, as the family designation, to
his descendants was probably a famous
hunter.

Parliamentary writs refer to Adam le
Hunte of Nottingham, 1295; John le
Hunte of Shaftsbury, 1302; Ralph le
Hunte of Sussex; Ralph le Hunte of
Southampton, 1305 ; Walter le Hunte of
Sussex, and Waher le Hunte of Cam-
bridgeshire, 1297, Rymer's Foedera
mentions Robert Le Hunt in Lancashire,
1327.

In the Inquisitiones Post Mortem of
the time of King Edward H., 1327-77,
Johannes Hunt de Spryngfeld ten vocat
le Huntes et de honore de Pevere, Of
Essex county were John and his wife,

Juliana, Southampton. John, son of
Richard le Hunte, left five acres of land
in Kirkley and Laverton, Yorkshire. The
Reverend Thomas Hunt left sixty acres
of land in Lancashire. In the time of
King Edward VI., 1547-53, Richard
Hunt was plaintiff against Thomas Hyde
in a suit for land in Lyme Hurst.

The Long Island and New Jersey
family is said to have come from Devon-
shire, and this name is found in the
records of Exeter and Chudleigh,
county Devonshire. Tuckett's Devon-
shire Pedigrees, page 146, mentions the
name of Thomas Hunt, who was mayor
of Exeter, 1517, 1523, and 1527. The
name is traced in the Visitation, 1560 to
1620. The coat armour described in this
work as belonging to the Hunts is sub-
stantially the same as that given by
Burke in his General Armory, as fol-
lows:

Arms — Or, on a bend sable between
two water bourgets azure, three leop-
ard's faces gules.

Crest — On a mount vert, against a
halbert, erect in pale gules, headed
arg^ent, a talbot sejant or, collared and
tiejd to the halbert of the second.

Palph Hunt, the founder of the Long
Isl id and New Jersey families, was
anf ng the first settlers in what is now
Niwtown, Long Island, in 1652. His
name appears on the Indian Rate in 1658,

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On June 9, 1653, he was one of the seven
citnens of trutt appointed tp conduct the
affairs of the town for the ensuiag yttr.
He ieems to have been a leader in mil
public affairs and was foremost among
his neighbors in defying the authority
of the Dutch governor, Stuyvesant, on
Manhattan Islsmd. He was one of the
seven men who went across the Long
Island Sound to Westchester in the night
and brought Panton with a company of
men over to beat arms against the Dutch.
When the English finally acquired New
Netherland and drove the Dutch away,
he was one of the first two magistrates
appointed under the English rme. On
April 21, 1665, he was commissioned
Lieutenant by the English governor,
Nicoll.

When the Indian title was extin-
guished and the new town, now named
Newtown, erected, March 1, 1664, he was
one of the patentees included in the royal
charter. He was one of the three first
surveyors appointed to lay out the lots

for the new settlers; was appointed 0ne
of the mafistfttes in 1673; and wts
named as one of the patentees wlien the
charter of the town was confirmed by
Governor Dongan. Il has be^i said of
him that he enjoyed the confidence of
the people and was their guide and
counselor in all matters of importance in
the infant community.

He died early in 1677, leaving sons
Ralph, Edward, John and Samud, and
daughters Anna and May. The name of
his wife is not known.

Edward Hunt, son of Ralph Hunt, the
pioneer, became a man of estate and was
prominent in the affairs of Newtown,
where he was bom, died and buried.
He married Sarah Betts, daughter of
Richard and Joanna Betts, who came
from Ipswich, Mass., in 1648 and were
among the founders of Newtown. By
this marriage the children were: Ed-
ward, Riclutrd, Ralph, Thomas, Jon-
athan, Sarah, Martha, Elizabeth, Han-
nah, Abigail.

A Herman Bible Record

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

By S. H. Flickinger.

These births are copied from an old
record in the Landis family Bible, which
was printed at Nurnburg, 1692, and
brought from Switzerland to Lancaster
county, Penn., about 1718.

George Herman (son of Solomon Her-
man and wife Susanna Dewalt) bom,
Jan 13-1784, died Oct 6-1863 aged 79
—8—23.
Eve Herman (dau. of David Landis
1762-1852) bom. Mar 7-1789, died
Oct 19-1863 aged 74—7—12 [ •

Children : — |

Sallie Herman, bom, Mar 2-1810, djed
—Feb 14-1892 a^:ed
81—11—12
Israel " bom, Apr 8-1812, d ed
—Aug 17-1889 agted,
77-4-9

Katie Herman, bom. May 11-1815, died

—Dec 24-1899 aged,

84—7—13
John " bom. Mar 15-1818, died

—July 21-1888 aged,

70_4_6
George " bom, June 19-1820,

died— June 22-1821

aged, 1—0—3
Mary " bom, Dec 9-1822, died

—Oct 28-1889 aged,

66—10—19
Elizabeth " born. Sept 3-1824, died

—Mar 12-1905 aged,

80-6—9
Susan " bom, Sept. 2-1829, died

Oct. 24-1901 aged, 72

—1—22
All the above buried in the Landis'
family grave yard near Stevens, Lan-
caster county, Penn., excepting Israel,
who is buried in Mohler's near Ephrata,
Penn., and Katie, who is buried in David
City, Neb.

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Early Wills of Ck>rtland County, N. Y., 1832-1836

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

Daniel Mallery, May 31, 1832. Estate
left to Salome and Ransome Mallery, his
children, and to Hiram Betts. Wit-
nesses: Miles Goodyear, Richard Pat-
ridge and Job Densmore.

John Keeps, July 2, 1832. To Eunice
Dibble, Luna Dibble. Joseph Darby, ex-
ecutor.

Noah Hopkins, August 6, 1832. To
eldest son, James Hopkins; children of
daughter, Nancy Qark; son, Isaac Hop-
kins; daughter, Hannah Tyler; daugh-
ter, Phoebe Clark; daughter, Roba
Powers; daughter, Tilph Shearman;
daughter, Polly Hopkins; son, Daniel
Hopkins. Witnesses: Joseph Caldwell,
Betsey Caldwell and William M. Pow-
ers.

Martin Keeler of Truxton, August 30,
1832. Small bequests to Polly Murch,
Sally Bascom, Betsy Allin, Huldah Allin,
Smithy Keeler, Susan Keeler, Melisa
Webster, Martin Keeler, Jr. Also to his
wife, Amy, and his four children, Alson,
Warren, Nelson and Rachael Keeler.

Jeremy Hull of Homer, November 5,

1832. To wife, Lois; daughter, Luan-
da; son, Joel, and bequests to Louisa
and Angeline Black.

Rhoda Sabin, November 17, 1832. To
son, Harry S. Beebe, entire estate.

Isaac Rindge, December 31, 1832. To
wife, Hannah; eldest son, Truman
Rindge; eldest daughter, Hannah; son,
Isaac Rindge, Jr.; son, Lester Rindge;
daughter, Sophia ; sons, Septy and War-
ren, minors.

Henry Stephens of Homer, March 18,

1833. To wife, Jerusha; sons, Riley,
Chester, Chauncey, Henry, and daugh-
ters, Jerusha and Parmela.

Alexander Hunter of Homer, July 15,
1833. To sons, William, Charles H.,

James, John and Alexander; daughters,
Nancy and Margaret, and nieces, Di-
ana and Sally, daughters of James
Hunter.

Medad Sperry of Homer, September
3, 1833. To four daughters and son,
Ambrose Sperry.

George King, November 5, 1833. To
wife, Anna, to children, George, Harriet,
Amelia, Chesterfield, Roswell and Wil-
liam.

John Hoyes of Truxton, February 4,
1834. To wife, Catherine; daughter,
Catherine Gardner; daughter, Hannah
Winney; daughter, Byancy Hoyes;
daughter, Polly Crawford; grandson,
Peter Wallace Hoyes; son, John Hoyes.

Henry Dains of Truxton, July 14, 1834.
To his mother, Cunance Dains; sons,
Adin and Henry, and wife, Asenath.

Stephen Couch of Truxton, July 7,
1834. To wife, Abigail ; sons, Aaron and
Noah; daughters, i^na, Polly, Phelphie,
Elma and Abigail.

Thomas Russell of Virgil, August 4,

1834. To wife Elizabeth ; chiWren of his
deceased daughter, Sally Williams; son,
John; daughter, Parthena.

Stephen Sherman of Homer, August
25, 1834. To wife, Rebecca; son, Caleb;
Grandson, Stephen Powers.

Aaron Schermerhom of Homer, Sep-
tember 8, 1834. To wife, Gertrude ; son,
Erastus; daughters, Maria, Elizabeth,
Catherine, Sarah and Barbara.

John Flint of Cortlandville, Septem-
ber 15, 1834. To wife, Rachael, entire
estate.

Andrew Dickson of Homer, March 9,

1835. To wife, Ruth ; daughter, Clarissa
White ; son, Andrew ; grandson, Andrew
Dkkson White ; nephew, Henry E. Dick-
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Nathaniel Gay of Preble, October 13,

1834. To wife, Mary; sons, John, Rob-
ert, Albert, Thomas and William ; daugh-
ters, Comfort, Catherine and Ity.

Solomon Baker of Solon, January 26,

1835. To wife, Nancy; sons, Isaac, Ira
and Solomon, Jr.

Joseph Darby of Cortlandville, April
16, 1835. To wife, Acenith; sons. Eld-
win, Joseph, Lucius, Thomas and
Chauncy; daughters, Dilla, Ann and
Ceneth.

Jesse Searl of Homer, April 20, 1835.
To wife, Naomi.

Hiram Rockwell of Solon, June 4,
1835. To wife, Polly, and children, not
named.

Henry Hogaboom of Virgil, July 6,
1835. To Nicholas Hogaboom, Polly
Miller, Anson Miller and Lydia Winters.

Latham Brightman of Cortlandville,
July 18, 1835. To wife, Abby; daugh-
ters, Abby Boynton, Lucy Ann and Mary
Frances Brightman; sons, Henry,
Latham, Joseph and George.

John Benton of Virgil, October 5,
1835. To wife, Lucinda; son, Stephen.

Lucius Bennet of Homer, October 12,
1835. To wife, Ann; mother, Chloe.

William Houghton of Homer, Octo-
ber 21, 1835. To wife, Margaret, to son,
William.

Arnold S. Richardson of Solon, July
13, 1835. To wife, Delie; daughter,
Sarah.

John S. Squires of Virgil, November
28, 1835. To sons, John A., Dan C. and
Samuel J.; daughters, Celeste, Huldah,
Cynthia, Harriet, Ruth and Marrietta,
and wife, Huldah.

Illinois Flickingers

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

In issue of Genealogy for April 13
I notice "New York Flickingers" by
J. H. F. He mentions Charles Flick-
inger as settling in Illinois and having a
large family.

This Charles Flickinger was bom De-
cember 6, 1780, died April 14, 1861, and
was buried in Loran, 111. He married,

first, Miss Reese and, second, Mary

Norman, who died January 17, 1840.
Their children were: Charles, 1818-
1900; John, 1820-1910; Jacob, 1822-
1899; Mary Ann, 1824-1876; Catharine,
1826-1894; Aaron, 1828-1905; Thonias,
1832-1912; Sarah, 1835-1842.

Thomas Flickinger, born October [l2,
1832, in Union county, Penn., died . in
Freeport, 111., April 12, 1912, and is
buried in the Dunkard cemetery, Kent,
111., beside his wife, Harriet (Seamain)
Flickinger, who died February 19, 18^2.
Thomas Flickinger participated in a nutn-

ber of Indian battles. He was one of
the original vigilantes in Montana in the
early days and helped to clean out the
bad men that held forth in those days.
He helped to do away with Plummer's
gang and many other noted gangs of
road agents. He served under that
noted marshall, Beidler. He was a well
known and highly respected resident of
Stephenson county, 111., the past sixty
years. He had the following named chil-
dren : John K. ; Ai Girard ; Charles, who
is in the war department in San Fran-
cisco; Florence J.; Nora, dec'd; Cora,
dec'd ; Aaron. S. H. F.

Town and city vital records of the
Colonial and early state periods are now
collected and printed in Massachusetts
and Maine. Transcribe those of your
town — ^marriages, births and deaths —
and send to us tp be similarly preserved
in the columns of Genealogy and in files
of our Manuscript Library of American
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Pennsylvania Pensioners

The following statement gives the names, rank, and other details concerning
the persons residing in the state of Pennsylvania who were inscribed on the
pension list under the act of Congress passed March 18, 1818:

(Continued from page 147.)

Ritchie, Robt., pr.. Sept 29, 1818; 75; d.

Aug. 17, 1825.
Rice, Frederick, pr., Oct. 30, 1818; 73;

d. June 24, 1826.
Reese, Peter, pr., Nov. 3, 1818, 69.
Reese, Peter, pr., Nov. 3, 1818, 69.
Smith, Edward, pr., Oct. 22, 1818; 78.
Slotterback, Geo., pr., Jan. 26, 1819; 79.
Steever, Daniel, pr., April 23, 1819; 77.
Smith, Edward, pr., Oct. 13, 1819; 69;

d. Sept. 29, 1829.
Stone, John, capt., Dec. 1, 1818.
Tibben, Henry, pr., June 18, 1819; 78;

d. Feb. 24, 1822.
Trump, Geo., pr., Dec. 14, 1826; 76.
Wierick, Val., pr., Sept. 22, 1818; 89.

Waltz, Michael, pr., 30, 1818; 81.

Delaware County.
Boon, John, pr., June 8, 1819; 69; d.

Feb. 21, 1832.
Griffith, John, pr., Dec. 1, 1818; 73; d.

Aug. 19, 1821.
Lyon, Jediah, sergt.. May 13, 1818; 66;

d. June 10, 1824.
Lynch, Michael, pr., June 8, 1819; 79;

d. March 4, 1833.
McLachlin, Collin, sergt., May 13, 1818;

84; d. Jan. 14, 1831.
Marshall, David, It., June 9, 1819; 80.
Mahoney, David, It., April 29, 1820; 67;

d. Sept. 27, 1820.
Murray^ Jacob, pr., Dec. 7, 1818; 74; d.

June 5, 1832.
Stephenson, John, pr., Dec. 22, 1818; 83.
Thomas, David, pr., Sept. 25, 1818; 79.
Williamson, John, pr., Sept. 26, 1818;

66; d. Feb. 25, 1819.
Welsh, John, pr.. May 7, 1819; 81.

Erie County.
Coe, Ebenezer, It., Sept. 15, 1819; 96; d.

July 25, 1827.
Howe, William, pr., Jan. 25, 1819; 86.
King, Robert, It., Nov. 12, 1818; 79.

Wear, Cornelius, pr., Jan. 25, 1819; 75;

d. Dec. 27, 1831.

Fayette County.
Boon, Ralph, pr., Sept. 18, 1822; 74.
Cromlin, Caleb or CutHp, pr., April 16,

1823 '81 *r IT 7 r

Griffith, Levi, It., March 22, 1819; 87;

d. Jan. 30, 1825.
Harper, James, pr., July 2, 1821 ; 73.
Henning, John, pr., Dec. 7, 1822; 83.
Moon, James, pr., Feb. 10, 1819; 81.
March, Charles, pr., March 15, 1819;

93; d. July 25, 1825.
McDowell, John (2d), pr., April 15,

1819; 78; d. Dec. 19, 1825.
Mushier, Adam, pr., Sept. 7, 1820; 86.
McKee, John, pr., Nov. 27, 1821 ; 76.
McKee, WiUiam, pr., Aug. 31, 1829; 89;

d. Dec. 2, 1831.
Roberts, Amos, pr., July 2, 1821 ; 85.
Ruffcom, Samuel, pr., March 12, 1822;

85.
Snyder, Adam, pr., Nov. 25, 1819; 79;

d. May 13, 1828.
Sutton, Ephraim, pr., July 5, 1822; 75;

d. Nov. 25, 1830.
Turner, Wm. G., pr., Jan. 14, 1819; 81.
Varner, Philip, pr., No. 13, 1818; 82.
West, Thomas, pr., Dec. 11, 1818; 102.

Franklin County.
Andreson, Robt, pr., April 29; 80.
Allison, Robt., It., June 30, 1818; 76.
Brown, Alexander, pr., Jan. 26, 1819;

67; d. July 1, 1823.
Brim, Henry, sergt., Oct. 14, 1820; 81.
Burk, Wm., pr., Oct. 4, 1821; 75; d.

Feb. 29, 1824.
Beaver, Benj., May 15, 1823; 77,
Beaver, George, pr., Nov. 30, 1819; 79.
Black, Wm. (2d), pr., Oct. 14, 1818; 91.
Cavin, William, pr., July 12, 1821 ; 81.
Chase, Samuel, pr., Oct. 30, 1822; 81.
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Questions

Unkefere. — Who are the parents of
Philip Unkefere? He and his wife,
Mowery (maiden name), came from
Saxony, Germany, and the first trace 1
find of them was in Loudon county, Va.,
when Philip and his two sons, George,
bom 1772, and John, bom 1780, leased
from George W. Fairfax 113 acres of
land, January IS, 1786. Philip had one
brother, Frederick, who settled in Mary-
Ijttid, and another brother, John, who
settled in York county, Pa. Each spelled
his name in a little different way. Unke-
fair, Ungerfer and Unkefere were varia-
tions of the name. Philip's son, George,
married Catherine Eddleman, and emi-
grated to Westmoreland county. Pa.,
where he prospered both in family and
in wealth. Philip's son, John, married
Mary Miller, and emigrated to Marion
county, Ohio. Philip had a daughter,
Mary, bora in Loudon county, Va., in
1774, who married Jacob Miller. His
daughter, Elizabeth, married Solomon
Shoemaker in Loudon county, Va.
Pricella, his daughter, died unmarr'ed.

Adam, Peter, Andrew and Philip were
sons of his. I am informed that there
was a Colonel Unkefere in the colonial
wars. If so, who was he? Would like
to know something about Frederick and
his brother, John, as well as other mem-
bers of the family. [301] W. B. H. R.

Answers

Holmes.— [239] B. H. R.— Amasa
W. Hobnes was born July 20, 1798, in
Colchester, Conn., died in Mineral coun-
ty, Missouri, November 23, 1839. He
was the eleventh child of John and Anna
Rathbone Holmes. His grandfather
was Captain George Hohnes, and his
grandmother, Lucy Nichols.. If further
detailed information in regard to the
early history of this family is desired I
can give it. F. O. C.

Pritchard— [291] A. H. C— The
woman who married John Love joy
of Andover, January 12, 1677, was
the widow of William Pritchard, and
married John Lovejoy, an elderly
widower, the father of Joseph (2), who
married his step-sister, Sarah (2) Pritch-
ard, in 1685. H. P. P.

Pearl— [120] A. P. P.— Nathan
Pearl of West Ashford, Conn., did have
two brothers and three sisters. The
family were as follows: Timothy Pearl,
Jr., born October 24, 1723; John Peari,
bom January 20, 1725; Nathan Peari,
born November 22, 1727; Elizabeth
Peari, bom January 18, 1729; Phebe
Pearl, born May 12, 1732; Lydia Pearl,
born July 31, 1734.

Nathan Pearl was son of Timothy and
Elizabeth (Stevens) Pearl, and he was
a grandson of John Pearl, the emigrant,
who came to this country from England
in 1670 and settled in Marblehead, Mass.
Nathan Pearl married Elizabeth Utley,
March 7, 1748, and they lived in West
Ashford and Windham, Conn. They
had seven children, one of whom was

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Timothy Pearl, who lived on Grand Isle,
Vermont, and died there, aged 88 years.
This Timothy and his two brothers,
Stephen and James, were soldiers in the
revolution and left a record of honorable
military service. C. W. P.

Kimball— [292] K. M. K.— Rich-
ard Kimball resided in the parish of
Rattlesden, Suffolk county, England.
He sailed with his family from Ipswich,
England, April 10, 1634, ship Elisabeth,
William Andrews, master, landed at Bos-
ton, settled first in Watertown, Mass.,
removin^^ to Ipswich in 1636. He was a
wheelwright, and owned forty-three
shares in Plumb Island. Estate inven-
toried £737 3s 6d. He was born before
1595; died June 22, 1675, in Ipswich;
married, first, Ursula Scott, daughter of
Henry and Martha Scott; second, Octo-
ber 23, 1661, Margaret Dow, widow of
Henry Dow of Hampton, N. H.; she
died March 1, 1675-76. His children,
the first eight of whom were bom in
England, were: Ursula, died, Salisbury,
Mass., June 17, 1658; Henry, baptized
April 12, 1615; Elizabeth, bom 1621;
Richard, bom 1623, died, Wenham,
Mass., May 26, 1676; Mary, bora 1625,
married Robert Dutch of Ipswich and
Gloucester; Martha, born 1629, married
Joseph Fowler; John, born 1631;
Thomas, born 1633, died May 3, 1676;
Sarah, born, Watertown, 1635, died June
12, 1690, married, November 24, 1658,
Edward Allen of Ipswich; Benjamin,
born, Ipswich, 1637, died June 11, 1695,
married Mercy Hazeltine, daughter of
Robert and Ann Hazeltine; Caleb, born,
Ipswich, 1639, died 1682, married Anne
Hazeltine, daughter of Robert and Ann
Hazeltine of Bradford; John (2) Kim-
ball, married, first, about 1655, Mary
Bradstreet, bora, England, 1633, daugh-
ter of Humphrey and Bridget Bradstreet ;
second, October 8, 1666, Mary Fletcher
Jordan, daughter of Francis and Jane
(Wilson) Jordan. They had thirteen
children. B. E. T.

Kentucky Montgomerys

Several Montgomerys were among the
Scotch-Irish Presbyterians who early
peopled the Virginia Valley. They and
their descendants were active in the pio-
neer work of wresting that part of Vir-
ginia and Kentucky from the Indians.

William Montgomery who had been
of Pennsylvania and Virginia, went to
Kentucky in the autumn of 1779, follow-
ing the fortunes of his son-in-law, Gen-
eral Benjamin Logan, the intrepid pioneer
and soldier, who was one of the leaders
in the military operations against the In-
dians. In 1781 William Montgomery, at
his home in Green River, was killed by
die Indians. At the same time his son,
John Montgomery, who lived in a near-
by cabin, was also killed. His son, Wil-
liam, and his daughters, Jane and Betsy,
escaped. Jane Montgomery afterward
married General William Casey, of Adair,
Ky., after whom a county in Kentucky
was named, and she was the grand-
mother of Mark Twain. Her elder sis-
ter, Anne, married General Benjamin
Logan, and after his death she married
General James Knox, of Scotch-Irish
descent, one of the earliest explorers of
the Kentucky wilderaess, and a soldier
of the Revolution; be died in Shelby
county, Ky., December 14, 1822. Anne
(Montgomery) Logan-Knox died in
Shelby county October 18, 1825, a^ed 73
years. The members of this family be-
came connected in marriage with th€
Caseys, Russells, Qemens, Adairs,
Helms, Bells, Monroes, Wheats and oth-
ers. [2F] C. R. A.

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The Gibsons in America

Christopher Gibson probably came to
Massachusetts on the ship Mary and
John, for he was in Dorchester in 1630.
His wife was Margaret Bates, daugh-
ter of John Bates. He was in Boston
after 1646 and was one of the founders
of the second church there in 1650. He
died October 3, 1650.

John Gibson of Cambridge, Mass.,
was the founder of a large American
family. He was probably of immediate
English derivation, although it is be-
lieved by some that the family to which
he belonged was originally Scottish. He
was in Cambridge in 1634. He died in
1694. By his first wife, Rebecca Gib-
son, who died in November, 1661, he
had these children: Rebecca, born about
1635; Mary, born March 29, 1637;
Martha, born April 29, 1639 ; John, born
about 1641 ; Samuel, born October 28,
1644. The second wife of John Gibson,
whom he married, July 24, 1662, was
Joanna Prentiss, widow of Henry Pren-
tiss.

John Gibson was in Watertown, Mass.,
before 1680. On October 14 of that
year he married Hannah Underwood,
daughter of Joseph Underwood. His
children were Silence and Mary.

Richard Gibson, a graduate from
Magdalen College, Cambridge, England,
in 1636, was in Portsmouth, N. H., in
1637 and preached there for several

years. He returned to his old home in
England in 1642.

Roger Gibson, said to have been first
m Rhode Island, was in New London,
Conn., in 1675. He had a son, William,
and a daughter, Thankful, who married
George Smith.

William Gibson was in Boston or
Lynn, Mass., in 1665. He was a free-
man in 1677. His son, Purchas, died in
Lynn, June 15, 1665, and his son, Aquila,
NovemJjer 4, 1671. It is supposed that
William Gibson of Boston, who married
Hannah Phippen, daughter of Gamaliel
Phippen, was another son of this Wil-
liam.

William Gibson, born in England in
1638, died in Newport, R. I., March 12,
1717, came with his wife and two chil-
dren to Newport, R. I., by the way of
Boston in October, 1675. For several
years, 1679-1685, he resided in New
London, Conn., but from 1685 to the
time of his death he was again a resident
of Newport. In 1696, 1697 and 1698 he
was an assistant to the governor; in
1702 was a deputy to the general court ;
in 1704 succeeded the Reverend William
Hiscox in the pastorate of the Seventh
Day Baptist Church of Newport. His
son, Christopher Gibson, born in July,
1658, died November 22, 1748, married
Deborah Perry, daughter of Edward and
Mary (Freeman) Perry.

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There were Gibsons in Pennsylvania
in the middle of the eighteenth century.
John Gibson and his wife, Ann Gibson,
were in Hopewell township, Cumber-
land county, and he died there in Octo-
ber, 1750. Robert Gibson of Hopewell
township died in May, 1756, leaving a
wife, Ann, and several children. James
Gibson of Hopewell township died in
June, 1758, leaving a wife, Jean, and a
son, William. John Gibson died prior to
April, 1761, leaving a wife and children.
David Gibson died prior to August, 1762.
His widow, Agnes Gibson, married, sec-
ond, Joseph Gordon. His children were
James, Elizabeth and Martha. William
Gibson of Newton township died in Jan-
uary, 1771, leaving a wife and eleven
children, Robert, John, William, Samuel,

James, George, Gideon, Charles, Jannett,
Ann and a posthumous (son?). Andrew
Gibson of Antrim township died in
March, 1783, leaving a wife, Elizabeth,
and children.

George Gibson, who emigrated from
the County Derry, Ireland, early in the
eighteenth century, was first in Lancaster
county, Penn., and died in Cumberland
county in 1761, leaving a wife, Martha,
and several children. One of his sons
was General John Gibson of the Revolu-
tion, and another son was Colonel
George Gibson, who fought in the Revo-
lution and lost his life in the campaign
against the Indians under General St.
Clair in the northwest territory, De-
cember 14, 1791. His other children
Mary, Thomas, Frances, Jean and Ann.

Herkimer Memorials

Fourteen bronze tablets, strung along
a distance of forty miles, now commem-
orate the march of an army that turned
the tide of fortune against the BritisH
in the American Revolution. The forty
miles of historic road thus marked are
those traversed in August, 1777, by Gen-
eral Nicholas Herkimer and his men,
when they went through the Mohawk
valley to the relief of Fort Stanwix,
which was being bravely defended
against a force of British, Tories and
Indians by Colonel Peter Gansevoort,
and to prevent the reinforcement of Bur-
goyne by the British troops under St.
Legar, the loss of which contributed to
the defeat of Burgoyne at Saratoga. The
fourteen tablets are placed at intervals
from the Herkimer homestead, from
which the General set out to take com-
mand of the relief force, to the site of
Fort Stanwix, which is now the city of
Rome, N. Y. In connection with the
placing of the memorials a complete map
of the historic march has been prepared
by William Pierrepont White, a lawyer
of Utica, which is reproduced on each
one of the tablets. On each also is an

inscription, and the fourteen inscriptions,
taken together, form a complete though
brief description of Herkimer's forty-
mile march. The ceremonies incident to
the unveiling of the tablets were held on
June 14.

Tlie Female Line

In the days when property rights were
vested solely in men, and when women
had little share in the distribution of
wealth, the law recognized only the male
issue, and, therefore, interested itself
only in the tracing of the male line of
descent. But the evolution of public
opinion has modified this condition so
that the rights of property now, espe-
cially in the United States, are practi-
cally the same for men and women.
Therefore, modem genealogy recognizes
the importance of the female line of
descent, and it has been scientifically
established that the hereditary influence
of the female ancestors upon posterity is
fully equal to that of the male. In most
of the prominent modern societies based
upon genealogical descent the female line
has equal standing with the male, despite
the fact that it does not perpetuate the
family name.

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Early Wills of Fayette County, Pennsylvania

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

1784, February 6. William Harrison of
the county of Westmoreland. To wife
Sarah, brother Benjamin, daughter
Martha.

1783, December 6. Thomas Lawson. To
wife and eight children, and to son
John particularly.

1783, November 14. William Smith of
the colony of Virginia. To son Wil-
liam Augustus, son Amos, daughter
Mary Holton, son Joel.

1784, February 9. Nicholas Gilbert of
German township. To wife Margaret,
son Christian, and other children.

1784, April 10. David Hafield. To son
Pete, wife Elizabeth, daughter Mary
Catrin, son Matthias.

1783, May 17. Ann Connal of county of
Westmoreland. To son John, son Wil-
liam, son James, daughters, Nancy and
Polly.

1784, April 9. Ulrich Keener. To
granddaughter Elizabeth, child of de-
ceased son John; son Samuel Keener,
daughter Elizabeth Miller daughter
Barbara Souter, sons Boston, David
and Peter.

1784, April 24. John Peters. To wife
and children, names not given.

1784, April 23. Providence Mounts of
the county of Westmoreland. To wife
Rachael, son Joseph, son Providence,
sons William and Thomas, sons Caleb
and Joshua, daughter Ann Anderson
and Sarah White.

1784, June 19. George Williams of
Fayette county. To wife Ann, sons
Samuel and George, daughters Abigail
and Elonar Effe.

1784, June 7. John Hester. To wife
Mary.

1784, September 19. Walter Brisco. To
wife Elizabeth, son Stephen, and his
daughters.

1784, September 20. George Clark of
Augusta county, Virginia. To wife

Mary, daughter Linne, brother Sam-
uel, daughter Eleanor.

1784, October 25. Robert Smith. To
wife Margret, son Robert, daughter
Margret, son James, son George,
daughter Mary.

1784, March 1. Peter Backus of Fayette
county. To wife Sarah, nephew Peter,
son of John, to Catherine widow of
John, daughter Anna.

1786, March 9. Peter Pickenbough of
Fayette county. To wife Caterin, son
Peter.

1781, October 18. Aaron Moore of the
state of Virginia. To daughters Eliza-
beth and Sarah, sons Hosea, Aaron
and Henry.

1786, December 14. John McDonald of
Fayette county. To wife Mary, daugh-
ter Rachael, grandson John Springer.

1786, May 2. John Warum. To sons
James, John and Joshua, daughter
Mary, son Stephen.

1786, July 21. William Colvin of Fay-
ette county. To sons William and
Thomas, daughter Rachel, daughter
Ruth Brashears, granddaughter Mary
Davis, son-in-law James Lynch.

1787, February 6. Thomas Battin. To
sons Thomas, Henry and Joseph,
daughters Lydia, Elizabeth and Jemi-

ma.

1788, January 17. Thomas Gist of Bed-
ford county. To brother Richard, sis-
ter Ann, daughter Elizabeth Johnson,
sister Violet, brother Nathaniel.

1788, March 19. James McMillan of
Sandy Creek. To sons Robert, Wil-
liam and James, daughters Margaret,
Sarah and Elizabeth.

1788, April 21. John Wise. To wife
Elizabeth, son John, daughters Doudc,
Rosina, and Elizabeth.

1788, May 1. Richard Robins. To wife
Sarah, sons Daniel and Samuel,
daughter Jemina.

1787, May 4. John Dean of Union town-
ship. To brothers Richard and John.

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and Mary, to sons Thomas, Lewis,
Samuel, William, James, Jethro and
Joshua.
1792, January 7. John Kerr. To wife
Elizabeth, sons Elisha, Absalom and
Thomas.
1792, February 11. Arthur Watson. To

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Leonard, brother James, "to my h^ James, daughter Hanny and Nancy,
ored mother-in-law" Mrs. MarM^ ^^^' February 29. Jonathan Chambers,
button. ^ . To wife Anne, and to Thomas and

fio A^-:, . ^ - .. , Pressly Chambers.

1790, October 21. Mary Highlands of
Tyrone township. To daughters Eliza-
beth, Mary, sons James, Anthony, Wil-
liam, Andrew, Michael, Alexander
John and Robert.

1792, July 3. Samuel Workman of
Brownsville. To wife Nancy and two
sons brother Hugh.

1792, July 18. Edward Tutle. To wife
Margaret, son Francis, daughter jane.

1791, October 17. Joshua Hunt. To
wife and children.

1792, December 7. William Salisbury.
To wife Sarah, sons Thomas, William,
Samuel and James, daughters Sarah
and Elizabeth.

1791, February 19. William Carson. To
daughters, Elizabeth, Jane and Sarah,
sons John and Alexander.

1789, June 18. Andrew Byers. To wife
Martha and sons Benjamin, Thomas,

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Heads of Families, Census 1790, Scarsdale Town,
Westcliester County, New York

Griffin, Bartholomew
Townsend, John
Crompton, John
Cornel, Ferris
Angevine, John
Angevine, Eli
Secord, Joshua
Secord, Francis
Cornell, Thomas
Cornell, Benjamin
Griffin, William

Barker, Gilbert
McFarling, Peter
McFarling, John
Cornell, John
Lawrence, Charleis
Lawrence, James
Adams, Jesse
Tompkins, Jonathan G.
Angevine, James
Popham, William, Esq.
Underhill, Benjamin

Varian, James
Fisher, William
Fisher, Samuel
Roe, John

Townsend, Elizabeth
Carpenter, Jonathan
Cudnard, Elijah
Cudnard, Reuben
Barker, John
Rich, Thomas
Joe (Free)

From tlie Sprague Farm Cemetery, near Minerva,
Stark County, Ohio

[Contributed to

David Shively, born March 25, 1789,
died October 9, 1865.

Magdalena Shively, wife of David,
died May 13, 1856, aged 61 years.

Jacob B. Myers, died June 14, 1864,
aged 76 years.

Susanna, wife of J. B. Myers, died
May 18, 1862, aged 66 vears.

William L. Myers, died July 4, 1854,
aged 30 years.

Josiah Myers, son of J. and S. Myers,
died February 28, 1836, aged 17 years.

Michael Growl, died March 2, 1841,
aged 65 years.

Elizabeth, wife of Michael ' Growl,
died April 16, 1841, aged 63 years.

Samuel Growl, died June 15, 1839,
aged 39 years.

Elizabeth, daughter of W. and A.
Alexander, died January 12, 1832, aged
14 years.

Ann, wife of William Alexander, died
December 3, 1827, aged 42 years.

Eleanor Myers, died July 27, 1841,
aged 43 years.

Joseph Myers, died May 13, 1845,
aged 59 years.

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Samuel Caskey, died July 24, 1859,
aged 72 years.

John S. Myers, bom March 26, 1795,
died June 16, 1877.

Catherine, wife of John S. Myers,
bom March 3, 1799, died September 2,
1863.

John Fissel, died June 17, 1855, aged
71 years.

Mary Fissel, died June 17, 1^55, aged
71 years.

Christian Shively, died May 1, 1827,
aged 28 years.

Susan Shively, died May 10, 1827,
aged 19 years.

Elizabeth, daughter of D. and M.
Shively, died Augusf 17, 1824, aged 2
years. D. F. S.

A New Jersey Tombstone

In the Ehimont, N. J., cemetery ap-
pears this inscription :

In Memory of Wibey Debaun,
wife of DAVID PEA—
— CK. She was born January 13
A. D. 1802, and departed this life
Sept. 23, 1831, aged 29 years.

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Questions

Allen. — Samuel Allen married Sarah
Hammond, daughter of William and
Elizabeth (Shepard) Hammond of Pitts-
town, N. Y., earlier of New Bedford
(then Dartmouth), Mass. She was born
in Dartmouth, April 19, 1748. The cen-
sus of 1790 gives Samuel Allen with a
family of seven sons under 16 years of
age, three sons over 16 years, and three
daughters, resident of Beekman, Dutch-
ess county, N. Y. The census of 1800
gives him one daughter under 10, one
daughter between 10 and 16, resident of
Pittstown, N. Y. The census of 1810
gives him a resident of Hosack, Rennsa-
laer county, N. Y. Samuel Allen's will
is dated August 1, 1816; recorded No-
vember 4, 1816. He gives land to
William Allen, living in Hosack ; also to
Jacob Allen, married and living in Ho-
sack; to sons Shepard, Samuel, John,
Abraham, Peter, and daughters Mar|:ha
Tallman, Sally Rose, Ruth Swift, dne
dollar each. The remainder of the (es-
tate and personal property is divided be-

tween sons Isaac, Henry and Ethan, sub-
ject to a stipulated support of wife Sarah
and daughter Phebe. Only four daugh-
ters are mentioned; the daughter Lucy
died before 1816 and after 1810. Want-
ed, names of the parents of Samuel Al-
len, place and date of birth and date of
marriage. It is earnestly hoped some
reader may be able to furnish this data.
[302] O. P. A.

Allen. — Who were the parents of
John Allen, bom 1717, died 1796, in
Sandisfield, Mass. ? Where was he born,
and where were his parents born ? Who
were the parents of Keren (Kerenhap-
puch) , wife of the above John Al-
len, who was born 1725 and died 1789
at Sandisfield, Mass.? Where was she
bom and where were her parents born?
[303] H. H, B.

Smith. — Who were the parents of
Hannah Smith, who married Peter
Hitchcock, June 18, 1737, and died 1774?
The house in which they lived in still
standing, and in good condition, in
Cheshire, Conn. Where was she born
and where were her parents born ? [304]

H. H. B.

Dean. — ^Who were the parents of Lot
Dean, who lived in Stafford, Conn., and
who was made a freemason there April
4, 1822? He removed to Hartford about
1827, where he was a hotel proprietor,
and there he died, December 8, 1846.
Where was he bom and where were his
parents born ? [305] H. H. B.

Rockwell. — Who were the parents of
Mary (Polly) Rockwell, wife of Lot
Dean of Stafford and Hartford, Conn.?
Where was she born and where were her
parents bom? [306] H. H. B.

Andrus. — Who were the parents of
Sarah (Sally) Andrus (uss, or os, or
Andrews), born 1764 (aprox.), died No-
vember 9, 1851 ; married, in Farmington,

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Conn., 1787, Eliakim Hull? Where was
she born and where were her parents
born? [307] H. H. B.

Porter. — Who were the parents of
Mary Porter, wife of Joseph Royce; he
was born about 1660 and died in 1704?
They were married by the Hon. J. Wads-
worth, October 1, 1684, and resided in
Wallingford, Conn., where Joseph Royce
was town clerk in 1696 and 1697. Where
was Mary Porter bom and where were
her parents born ? [308] H. H. B.

Wells. — ^Who was Anne Wells, who
married J. H. Northrup of Kingston,
R. I.? [309] S. M. W.

The Claytons of Virginia

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

Sir John Clayton was of Hawkhurst,
Kent county, England.

John Clayton, son of Sir John Clay-
ton, was born in England, 1665, and died,
in Virginia, November 18, 1737. He
came to Virginia in 1705; was attorney-
general of Virginia, 1714-37; member of
the Virginia house of burgesses ; a judge
of the court of admiralty; presiding
justice of the James City council; re-
corder of Williamsburg. He married
Page.

Samuel Qayton, son of John and

(Page) Clayton, was of Caroline county,
Va. He married Elizabeth Pendleton,
born about 1684r85, daughter of Philip
and Isabella (Hurt) (or Hart) Pendle-
ton, the father born in Norwich, Eng-
land, in 1650, married in 1682, died in
1721.

Major Philip Cla)rton, son of Samuel
and Elizabeth (Pendleton) Clayton, died
in 1786. He was a vestryman in St.
Mark's parish, Culpeper county, Va., in
1745; married Ann Coleman.

Samuel Clayton, son of Major Philip
and Ann (Coleman) Qa)rton, was also
a vestryman of St. Mark's parish, Cul-

peper county. He married, Ann, daugh-
ter of Robert Coleman of Culpeper coun-
ty.

Samuel Clayton, Jr., son of Samuel
and Ann (Coleman) Qayton, married
Harriet .

Philip Clayton, son of Samuel and
Harriet Clayton, was born in 1780, and
died June 22, 1868. He married, Octo-
ber 24, 1809, Mary Ann Brewer, born
April 11, 1785, died November 22, 1863.

Philip Coleman Clayton, son of Philip
and Mary Ann (Brewer) Qayton, was
bom November 7, 1812, and died in
1882. He married, November 8, 1837,
Catherine Guest Schwarrar, born 1819,
died May 19, 1901, daughter of John
George and Keturah (Watts) Schwarar,
her father bom September 24, 1794, died
February 23, 1862, and her mother the

daughter of and (Watkins)

Watts.

Kate Watts Clayton, daughter of
Philip Coleman and Catherine Guest
(Schwarar) Clayton, married Charles
Ebenezer Hill.

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chusetts has signed a bill for the printing
of the records of the soldiers and sailors
in the commonwealth of Massachusetts
who fought in the war of 1812. These
records have been in charge of Captain
Baker of the adjutant general's office for
a long period of years, and as he retires
on the age limit within two years it was
the desire of the adjutant general that
these records be printed while Captain
Baker is in office.

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James Montgomery was born October
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married Charlotte Steinel^«-of Fayette
county, and had four j^ns and two
daughters: Arcilla, Victoria, Alexander,
Alfred, McQelland and John. He died
December 20, 1896.

Captain James Montgomery died Au-
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sided in Westmoreland county, Penn., in
1824.

The will of Oliver Montgomery of
Tyrone township, Fayette county, Penn. ;
dated December 12, 1808, mentioned
wife, Margaret, eight children: Thomas,
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becca and Margaret, and brother-in-law,
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The Clemens Family in America

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

The various forms of spelling the name
Clemens, includes Qemans, Clamens,
Clemmens, demons, Clemmons, Clem-
ence and Qemins. Genealogically the
correct usage is Qemens. The family is
distinctly Anglo-Saxon. The earliest
American settlers came from Holland,
Germany and England. Later several
families came from Ireland.

Of the Clement or Clements family,
there were early settlers in the first
colonial century in New England, vari-
ous pioneers including Abraham in New-
bury and Hampton, Mass., 1677; Austin
or Augustine, Dorchester, Mass, 1635;
Daniel, Haverhill, Mass., 1677; James,
Marshfield, Mass., 1674; Jasper, Middle-
town, Mass., 1660 ; Job, Haverhill, 1646 ;
John, Haverhill, 1645; Richard, Provi-
dence, R. I., 1687; Robert, Haverhill,
1642; Salmon, Boston, 1660; Thomas,
Providence, 1645; William, Cambridge,
Mass., 1636; William, Boston, 1662.
There does not seem to have been any re-
lationship between these pioneers and
those of the name Clemens.

The will of John Qemens, seaman,
was recorded in Suffolk county, Mass.,
in 1655. He left his estate to his sister
Mary Clemens.

Gerhardt Clemens came from Ger-
many in 1709, and settled in Skippack,
Montgomery county, Penn. His brother,

John Qemens, settled in New York state
the same year.

Jonathan Clemens was bom in South-
bridge, Mass., in 1732, and married
Hannah Woodward.

James Qemens and Anna White were
married in Boston, May 20, 1736. He
was bom in Boston in 1717.

Peter Clemens was living in Lancaster
county, Penn., as early as 1740. His son
Nicholas emigrated to Ohio in 1806, and
had children: Daniel, Abraham, Nancy,
John, Elizabeth, Sally and Delilah. Peter
came originally from Holland with his
two brothers, William and Nicholas.

Jacob and Philip Clemens came from
Germany and settled in Frankfort,
N. Y., in 1749. Philip was killed by In-
dians at Fort Schuyler. Jacob had sons
Michael, Jacob and Philip.

About 1750, Judith Clemens of Boston,
married Jeremiah Hack, and had five
children. She was a widow in 1770, and
in the following year married Peter
Hack, a brother of her first husband.

Dorcas Clemens was settled in Cul-
peper county, Va., from Ireland, as
early as 1751. The family removed to
Cave Ridge, Ky., about 1800.

In January 1754, John Frederick
Qemens, son of Peter and Magdalen,
was baptized in the first reiFormed
Lutheran Qiurch at Lancaster, Penn.

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Another Peter Clemens was bom in
Union county, Penn., in 1745.

Augustus M. Clemens, said to be of
Spanish descent, was living in Southern
Virginia in 1760. His descendants
settled in Ohio and West Virginia. He
had a son Samuel A., and daughters
Jane and Cornelia.

George Clemens who was born in Lan-
caster county, Pa., in 1761, married a
Miss Kramer and had: Peter, George,
Michael, Jacob, John, Sophie, Elizabeth,
and Katherine.

Samuel Clemens grandfather of Mark
Twain, settled in Virginia from England,
in 1770. He is supposedly descended
from Gregory Clemens, an English land
owner and member of Parliament under
Cromwell. Mark Twain's father, John
Marshall Clemens, married Jane Lamp-
ton, whose mother was a Montgomery.

Another Clemens branch in Texas and
the South is descended from Richard
Clemens, who was an extensive farmer
near St. Keyne, Cornwall, England, .about
the year 1770. He was descended from
Clemens ap Brodre, one of the Cornish
Kings. He was married twice, first to
Ann Rogers and second to Betsy Blake.
He had sons, Philip, William, Charles
Henry, and daughters, Ann and Betsy.

Another Clemens branch in Central
New York is descended from Robert
Clemens who lived at Sheffield, England.

In New York state, in 1780, Daniel
Qemens, a man of large family was re-
siding at New Windsor, Ulster county.
In 1785, two brothers, William and
Aaron Clemens were living in Yorktown,
Westchester county. The Reverend
Silas Constant in his diary of York-
town, wrote this entry: "Feb. 25, 1801,
Rode to Aaron Clemens' house and mar-
ried Simeon Jacobs to Polly Clemens."

James Clemens who was born in Vir-
ginia in 1780, was the father of the Hon-
orable Jeremiah Clemens, senator from
Alabama, who was born in Huntsville, in
1814. The family removed to Alabama

in 1812. James Clemens married a sister
of the Honorable Archibald E. Mills.

At the taking of the first census in
1790, the Clemens family in Pennsyl-
vania, was located in no less than eight
counties. John, Nicholas, and Alexander
were in Washington county; Peter,
Nicholas and Abraham in Berks county ;
George in Chester county; David in
Delaware county; John in Lancaster
county ; and there were Jacob Clemenses
in Philadelphia, Montgomery and Bucks.

Christian Clemens emigrated from
Boston to Michigan in 1805. His brother
George Clemens was a Boston Minute
man and was in Colonel Nathaniel
Wood's Company in April 1775.

The Qemens family of Rochester and
Syracuse, N. Y., is descended from Rob-
ert Clemens who was bom in Harby,
England, December 4, 1812, and mar-
ried Martha Twelves in Lincoln, Eng-
land. They had seven children: John,
Robert, William, George, Walter, Frank
and Anna.

The Canadian branch from which
Lewis W. Qemens of Toronto is de-
scended, traces back to England, 1677.

John Clemens who was bom in the
county Tyrone, Ireland, came to Amer-
ica in the latter part of the eighteenth
century. First settled in eastern Penn-
sylvania, he afterward moved to Wash-
ington county in that state, and then to
Harrison county and Tuscaravas county
in Ohio. He was in Harrison county in
1837 and died in Tuscaravas county at
the age of 100 years. His wife, whom
he married in Ireland, was Frances
Scott, daughter of a sister of Alexander
Scott, who came from Ireland and settled
in Tuscaravas county, Ohio. The chil-
dren of John and Frances (Scott) Clem-
ens were: David, John, Joseph, William,
and James, and possibly daughters.

Samuel Clemens, a brother of the fore-
going, married Eliza Campbell. He had
children: Robert, Isabelle, Oliver, James
and John. W. M. C

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Five Generations of Pearls

[Contributed to Genealogy.]
I

Timothy Pearl married Sarah Swift at
Grand Isle, Vt., about 1772. Timothy
was descended from John Pearl, who
settled in Boxford, Mass., 1671.

Children of Timothy and Sarah:

1. Aseph, bom September 26, 1787,
died December 26, 1866, in Antrim,
Mich., married Hannah Wood ; 2. Sophia
married Alex Phelps ; 3. Theodosia, mar-
ried Theron Graham; 4. Clarissa, mar-
ried, first, Edmond Barnes, and second,
Joseph Phelps; 5. Stephen, married
Rhoda Griffiths; 6. Chauncy, married
Eunice Allen; 7. Sally, married, first,
Jerome Segur, and second, Luther Dix-
on; 8. Charlotte, married Alpheus Hall;
9. Betsy, married Harmon Graves.
II

The children of Aseph Pearl were: 1.
Cassius ; 2. John ; 3. Sophia ; 4. Lura ; 5.
Eliza ; 6. Elzada ; 7. Lucius.
Ill

Cassius Pearl, born June 14, 1810, in
North Hero, Vermont; died May 14,
1881, in Battle Creek, Mich. Married,
April 30, 1830, in Chazy, N. Y., Rozilla
Stafford. Their children were: 1. El-
zada, born October 17, 1840; 2, Melinda;
3. Alverna; 4. Horatio; 5. Emma; 6.
Frances; 7. John; 8. Hannah; 9. Wil-
liam; 10. Lucius; 11. Almira.
IV

John Pearl, born October 7, 1838,
married, first, Addie Z. Harris, and sec-
ond, Alice Hadcock. By the first mar-
riage he had Norton, bom November 6,
1878, in Eastport, Mich., and Ethel B.,
born 1874.

Alvema Pearl, born April 14, 1844,
married Sarah Carter. They had Harry,
born April 17, 1870.

Lucius Pearl, bom April 18, 1832,
married Christina Hodges. They had:
Myron C, born September 26, 1866,
married Julia Cox; and Annie Laurie,

born January 22, 1870, married Dr.
Thaddeus Lewis.

William Pearl, born November 20,
1834, married Juliette Carter of Chazy,
N. Y. They had: 1. Hiram; 2. Eulalia;
3. Charles ; 4. Ben. ; 5. Wesley.
V

Charles Pearl, son of William and
Juliette (Carter) Pearl, born December
6, 1863, married Anastasia S. Cummings.
They had: 1. Ward, born July 4, 1892,
in Charlevoix, Mich.; 2. Irene, born
January 25, 1889, married Robert
Thurber Duffy.

Ben Pearl, son of William and Juliette
(Carter) Pearl, born June 23, 1870,
married Eva Yettau, in Norwood, Mich.,
October 10, 1890. M. B. P.

Pennsylvania Gamerons

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Alexander Cameron, who emigrated
from Scotland, to near Berryville, Clarke
county, Va., shortly after the Revolu-
tion, had four children: Hugh, Moses,
James and Mary.

Hugh Cameron was bora in Martins-
burg, Va., in 1792, was a farmer and
shoemaker and served in the War of
1812. He married Jane White and had
fourteen children: George W., Sophia
Devan, William L., Hugh, James, Al-
bert S., Daniel K., Charles, Nancy, Mar-
tin, Mary Pope, Eliza Dunaway, Mar-
garet Dobson and Phoebe.
Ill

Daniel Kellar Cameron was born in
North Union township, Fayette county,
Penn., July 24, 1836. He was a notary
public and tax collector for Dunbar,
Penn., for many years. He married
Roberta W. Sampson July 2, 1862, in
Grafton, W. Va. Their children are:
Mary B. Foltz, Belle, Henry N., Emily
J., Rodibaugh, Jessie E. Walls and Al-
bert T. Cameron. W. P. C

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American Genealogies

This is a list of the genealogies of American families, published in book or
pamphlet form, with date of jpublication. Most of these works that are of early
date are now very rare. Copies of them are in most public libraries in the
larger cities of the United States and in the libraries of historical societies.
Copies also find their way in very small number into book auction sales and
into the hands of dealers in second-hand books. Genealogies of recent date are
generally procurable from the publishers. Inquiries in regard to these or any
other genealogical works may be addressed to the editor of Genealogy.

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Allen. — Memorial of Joseph and
Lucy Clark Allen. [Of Northborough,
Mass.], Boston, 1891.

Allen. — ^A History and Genealogical
Record of the AUing-Allens of New
Haven, Conn., the Descendants of Roger
Ailing, first, and John Ailing, Sen., from
1639 to the present time. * * * * By
George P. Allen. New Haven, Conn.,
1899.

Allen. — ^A Record of the Allen
Family from the First Settlement in
Pennsylvania. [Samuel Allen of Chester
county, Penn., 1681.] Commenced

* * * * 1856, by Samuel Allen. [By
William N. Allen. Philadelphia, 1899.]

Allen. — ^Lewis Allen of Watertown
Farms [Weston], Mass., 1665, and his
Descendants, including the Walpole and
Lancaster Aliens. By Allen H. Bent.
Boston, 1900.

Allen. — Origin and History of the
Name of Allen, with Biographies of: the
Most Noted Persons of that Nafme,

* * * Chicago, 1901.

Allen. — The Allen Memorial. First
Series. Descendants of Edward Allien
of Nantucket, Mass., 1690-1905. By Or-
rin Peer Allen. Palmer, Mass., 190i^.

Allen. — The Allen Memorial. Sec-
ond Series. Descendants of Sanfiuel
Allen of Windsor, Conn., 1640-1907. j By
Orrin Peer Allen. Palmer, Mass., 19307.

Allen. — ^The Candee Genealogy ; livith
notices of Allied Families of Allyn, ^-at-
lin, Cooke, Malery, Newell, Morton, ^ yn-

chon, and Wadsworth. By Charles Can-
dee Baldwin, Cleveland, O., 1882.

Allen. — Some of the Ancestors and
Descendants of Samuel Converse, jr., of
Thompson Parish, Killingly, Conn.;
Major James Convers of Woburn,
Mass. ; Hon. Heman Allen, M. C. of Mil-
ton and Burlington, Vermont; Captain
Jonathan Bixby, sr., of Killingly, Conn.
By Charles Allen Converse. Boston,
Mass (1905).

Allen. — ^A Genealogical History of
the Jennings Families in England and
America. Vol. 2. The American Fami-
lies. By William Henry Jennings. Col-
umbus, O., 1899.

Allen. — ^A Genealogy of the descen-
dants of John Thomson of Plymouth,
Mass. Also Sketches of Families of Al-
len, Cooke and Hutchinson. By Charles
Hutchinson Thompson. Lansing, Mich.,
1890.

Allen. — The Vinton memorial. Com-
prising a Genealogy of the Descendants
of John Vinton of Lynn, 1648; also,
Genealogical Sketches of several Allied
Families. By John Adams Vinton. Bos-
ton, 1858.

Allen. — ^The Weitzel Memorial. His-
torical and Genealogical Record of the
Descendants of Paul Weitzel, of Lan-
caster, Pa., 1740. Including Brief
Sketches of the Families of Allen, * *
* * others. By Rev. Horace Hayden,
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

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Pennsylvania Pensioners

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Franklin County.
Duncan, Alex., pr., Feb. 21, 1822; 81 ; d.

April 2, 1822.
Geyer or Gier, John, drummer, Oct. 19,

1824; 70.
Greenewalt, Nicholas, pr., June 14, 1826 ;

79.
Ferrell, Wm., pr., June 31, 1818; 82; d.

June 27, 1828.

Lattimore, Wm., pr., Dec. 1, 1823; 78.
Hicks, Joseph, pr., April 24, 1823; 75.
McCann, James, June 1, 1821 ; 76.
Martin, Patrick, pr., April 14, 1819; 84;

d. Jan. 2, 1825.
Tuttle, Isaiah, pr., Sept. 25, 1818; 88.
Tanner, WiUiam, pr., June 8, 1819; 88.

Huntingdon County.
Brecker, Peter, pr., June 8, 1819; 77.

Henesy, John, pr., Nov. 10, 1818; 70; d. Boyle, John, pr., Sept. 27, 1819; 70

June 10, 1819.
Hamilton, James, hos. surg., June 11,

1819; 59.
Long, Benjamin, pr., Sept. 24, 1827 ; 76.
McCarr, John, pr., June 21, 1819; 90.
Murray, Thomas, pr., July 17, 1819; 80.
Nicholson, John, sergt., April 4, 1818;

79.
Nagel, Philip, pr., Nov. 28, 1822; 74.
Pennsinger, Henry, pr., April 27, 1819;

60.
Rowan, John, pr., Feb. 4, 1819; 60; d.

Jan. 31, 1823.

Claughbaugh, Martin, pr., Sept. 21,

1818; 91.
Duncan, James, pr., Sept. 21, 1818; 80;

d. Aug. 29; 1832.
Fink, Michael, pr., Dec. 24, 1818; 76.
Fleck, Peter, pr., Dec. 24, 1818; 75.
Geddes, Joseph, pr., April 19, 1820; 84;

d. Jan. 17, 1829.
Hutchinson, John, drummer, Dec. 24,

1818; 82; d. Feb. 11, 1827.
Hamilton, John, pr., Dec. 24, 1818; 88.
HoUiday, John, capt., March 20, 1819;

74; d. Aug. 19, 1823.

Runyan, George, pr.. May 12, 1819; 74. ]^ Smuif "^ ' F^^^^^ ^ml^%^'

Roemer, Philip, pr., Oct. 12, 1825; 75; HT' t^^^' ^ ' t i 7o iqio q^

d Mav 27 1831 Lmdsey, David, pr., July 22, 1819; 80.

Qf.,^,^^ rJLr-^J *.- h^u 11 ^Qor\ aq. McPherson, Andrew, pr., Dec. 24, 1818;

?' wfs' ?«?/ ' ' ' 75; d. June 16,1829.

ShoveV/prands. prf-Nov. 13. 1818; 83. Myer, Jacob, pr, Dec. 24,_1818; 7d

Salehammer, Nicholas, pr., Dec. 27,

1821 ; 82.
Stewart, Hugh, pr., March 22, 1822; 74;

d. Jan. 20, 1823.
Thrush, Jacob, pr., May 26, 1823; 81.
Welker, Daniel, pr., Jan. 17, 1820; 72;

d. March 8, 1824.

Greene County.
Davis, Thomas, pr., Nov. 6, 1819; 79.
Davis, Joseph, pr., April 5, 1822 ; 80.

Moyer, Jacob (2d), pr.. May 12, 1818;

. 69.
Ourhand, Dedrick, pr., Sept. 27, 1819;

74.
Smith, Thomas (2d), pr., Dec. 24, 1818;

64.
Smith, Adam, It. P. R., July 26, 1819;

81.
Sands, Andrew, pr., Sept. 22, 1820; 80.
Steed, James, pr., Jan. 13, 1824; 73; d.

March 21, 1828.

Gardiner, James, pr., Dec. 15, 1820; 72; Troops, Leonard, pr., Dec. 24, 1818; 74.

d. Aug. 11, 1822. Trees, John, pr., Dec. 24, 1818; 70; d.

Klinesmith, Andrew, pr., Jan. 7, 1822; March 4, 1826.

85. (To be continued.)

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Questions

Harrison. — I would like to have the
parentage of Joseph Harrison from
Berkeley, on the James river, in Vir-
ginia, and to learn if he has a record in
the archives of the American Revolu-
tion. He married a Miss Mary Gibson,
in North Carolina, before 1790. Who
was the mother of Zachary Taylor and
how was he related to William Henry
Harrison, the President? [310] B.K.H.

BuTTERWORTH. — Dcacou Johu Butter-
worth was probably of Swansea, Mass.
I want the names of his wife and names
of both their parents. Jane Butterworth,
his daughter, married Deacon Philip
Walker. What were the birth dates of
John Butterworth and his wife? Give
names of their children and birth dates
if possible. [311] H.J. B.

Stone. — ^Who was Elizabeth Allen of
Boston, who married Rev. Samuel Stone
in 1641 ? Was she connected with Lydia
Allen of Boston who married, about
1650, John Benjamin of Watertown, son

of John Benjamin, and had : John, Lydia,
Abigail, Mary, Daniel, Ann, Sarah and
Abel? Lydia Allen is said to have been
daughter of William Allen of Boston.
[312] W. A. B.

HoLYOKE. — Edward Holyoke married
Prudence Stockton, and their daughter
Mary Holyoke, living in 1687, married,
in 1646-47, John Tuttle or Tuttell of
Romney Marsh (now part of Chelsea),
Mass. He was born in 1625, in England,
and came to New England in the Planter
with his father in 1635. Children : John ;
Edward; Mary, born April, 1653, mar-
ried Caleb Carter, died 1727; Elisha;
Sarah, married Joseph Newell and died
February, 1718; Rebecca, bom June,
1660, was unmarried in 1706; Jonathan,
born August, 1664. Wanted, any con-
nection between Mary Holyoke, who
married John Tuttle, and the Mary
(Pynchon) Holyoke. [313] P.M.H.

Answers

Swift.— [282] S. S. T.— In the Swift
Genealogy I find as follows: Reuben
Swift, fourth son of Samuel and Ruth
Swift, was bom October 27, 1719, in
Sandwich, Mass. He married Hannah
Dexter of Falmouth, January 21, 1741-2.
In 1743 he removed to Kent, Conn.,
where all his children were born and
where he died, March 2, 1773. His
widow, Hannah, survived him 22 years,
dying in February, 1795. Their children
were: Joanna, born November 8, 1743,
married Aaron Payne; Barzillai, bom
September 21, 1745, married Prudence
Hopson ; Ruth, born June 30, 1747, mar-
ried David Beardsley; Elizabeth, born
March 18, 1749, married Asa Hall;
Chloe, born February 6, 1751, married
Wm. Frapp; Hannah, bom March 26,
1753, married Joe Giddings; Sarah,
bom March 26, 1755, married Timothy
Pearl; Moses, born April 1, 1757, died
unmarried; Lydia, born March 31, 17S9,

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married John Hopson; Asoph, bom
March 24, 1763, married Theodosia Hop-
son. I think that Swift above must be
the Sarah referred to in the question,
although the dates do not agree. If
S. S. T. wishes a Swift Genealogy and
will address me, I will be glad to tell him
where one can be procured. There are
less than 20 that can be secured. Or, if
he wishes, he can address me, and I can
give him the records of Reuben Swift's
ancestors back to the first Swift in Amer-
ica, as he is of my line and am sure 1
have it correct. E. M. S.

Wells.— [309] S. M. W.— Ann Wells,
born 1775, who married J. H. Northrup
of Kingston, R. I., may be of the line of
Peter (2) Wells (Peter 1), born 1681,
in North Kingston, who married Ann
Watson and had: James, 1706; Ann,
1708; Rebecca, 1710; Peter, 1713; John,
1716, and Samuel, 1725. Many of the
records of North Kingston were de-
stroyed by fire. The records of South
Kingston are at Wakefield. H. H. C.

American Antiquarian Society

The American Antiquarian Society of
Worcester, Mass., has nearly completed
plans for the celebration of the one hun-
dredth anniversary of the organization
•on October 15 and 16, 1912. The plans
provide for bringing to Worcester a no-
table gathering of notable men. Official
delegates from more than two hundred
of the oldest and most prominent histori-
cal societies of the world are to be in-
vited, as well as representatives from
the most prominent educational institu-
tions of the world. Every college in
America that was established before 1812
will also be asked to send an official dele-
gate, and about thirty of such institutions
will be represented.

The celebration will be opened with a
reception to the distinguished visitors in
the building of the Antiquarian Society

on Tuesday evening, October 15. The
society will have a business meeting in
the building on Wednesday, October 16,
for members only, and this will be fol-
lowed by a public meeting, during which
Ex-Congressman Charles G. Washburn
of Worcester will give an historical ad-
dress. A luncheon and reception for mem-
bers and guests will be held at the home of
the Honorable Waldo Lincoln, president
of the Society, after the session of the
forenoon, and in the afternon there will
be a public meeting in Association Hall,
where addresses will be made by United
States Senator Lodge and Andrew Cun-
ningham McLaughlin. The celebration
will be brought to a close with a dinner
at the Worcester Club Wednesday even-
ing.

History of Old Houses

The Connecticut Society of Colonial
Dames of America is making plans to
preserve the histories of old colonial
houses still standing in Connecticut.
These records have been collected by the
society in the past few years and are now
temporarily deposited with the state li-
brarian. The question of best arranging
the records so that they will be readily
accessible to all those interested in the
domestic architecture of colonial times
or in the histories connected with houses
built in colonial times is being considered.
The Society is also considering how Best
to gain further information from the
state at large in regard to other old
houses whose histories it has not, as yet,
been possible to obtain.

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The Gamerons in America'^

By M. D. Cameron.

The emigrant Cameron mother and
her children settled in Pennsylvania, not
far from Sharpsburg. Of their general
occupation we know nothing except that
the son, John Cameron, made an honor-
able living by farming. The father of
this family is supposed to have died in
Scotland.

When the American colonies rebelled
against England the son John Cameron
cast his lot with the colonial army and
fought through the Revolution. He was
with both General Green and General
Washington and was with Washington
at Valley Forge. He was twice
wounded, once being shot through the
top of his skull, the ball carrying away a
portion of the skull and laying bare the
brain. Grandfather told me that the
surgeons placed a piece of silver as large
as a half dollar over the wound. The
other time he was shot through the thigh,
and the wound was so large that a silk
handkerchief was drawn through to
cleanse it.

Of the children of this John Cameron,
John was a farmer; Hugh was a tailor,
it is thought ; the husband of Nancy was
a veterinary surgeon; Betsy married a
farmer ; Alexander was a miller by trade
but followed farming most of his life.

♦See Genealogy, February 3, 1912, March
2, 1912, April 6, 1912, June 1, 1912.

Alexander was the great grandfather of
the writer. He was born in Sharpsburg,
Penn., and died in Ohio, on the "Big
Sandy River," at the age of 77 years.
He was a soldier in the war of 1812.
After his marriage he moved to Stark
county, Ohio, about the year 1800, where
he improved and sold several farms, later
building a grist mill on the "Big Sandy"
which, with the help of his sons David
and Alexander, he operated for twelve
years. Later he sold the mill but re-
tained his farm where he died. He lived
a long, honest and honorable life, and
left to his heirs a considerable fortime,
for those days. He had been dead about
one year when his wife followed him.
They were married nearly fifty years.

Margaret (Cameron) Guess was al-
ways poor. She had a large family of
children, and her husband was intemper-
ate.

Susan (Cameron) Brandbery (or
Bradberry) had a husband who was a
farmer and they lived near Steubenville.

Alexander Cameron, the grandfather
of the narrator, moved to Hancock coun-
ty, Ohio, about the year 1850, and there
he owned 240 acres of land in the forest,
which he and his boys cleared of timber.
I have heard my father tell of cutting
down bjack-walnut, hickory and oak
trees, rolling them into immense log
heaps and burning them. He was the

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father of the town of Arlington, Ohio,
and owned the greater part of the town
site. He was born July 8, 1810 j married
November 8, 1831, and died in Arling-
ton, April 4, 1885, in his seventy-fifth
year. His widow, Elizabeth (Miller)
Cameron, bom June 26, 1813, died in
Arlington, Ohio, August 18, 1897, in her
eighty-fifth year. They were married
and lived together over fifty-three years.
In 1881 they celebrated their golden wed-
ding. They contributed three sons to the
Union Army during the civil war, only
one of whom returned to them.

Concerning the brothers and sisters of
Alexander Cameron the writer knows
very little. Samuel moved to Cedar
Falls, Iowa, before the civil war, and
some of his descendants still reside there.
Mrs. Mary Snyder, a daughter, resides
in Cedar Falls. I was well acquainted
with Aunt Sarah Downing and her hus-
band, as well as their children, some of
whom are still living at Dunkirk, Ohio.

Of the children of Alexander Cameron
and Elizabeth (Miller) Cameron,
Wallen, the oldest child, was bom Octo-
ber 1, 1833, and is still living at Schuyler,
Nebraska, in his eightieth year. He en-
listed in the Union army at Arlington,
Ohio, in the fall of 1861 and left for the
front on November 29, 1861, leaving be-
hind a little daughter but eight hours old.
He was assigned to Company H of the
sixty-sixth Illinois regiment, Western
Sharp Shooters, which was a picked
regiment. He was in many engagements
and skirmishes, the principal battles be-
ing — Fort Donaldson, Shiloh, and siege
and battle of Corinth. After the battle
of Corinth he did garrison and scouting
duty for a time and then marched to
Pulaski, Tenn., where he re-enlisted, De-
cember 24, 1863, thus becominer a veteran
volunteer. He took part in the seige of
Atlanta, and marched with Sherman to
the sea. His last engagement was at
Bentonville, S. C. He took part in the
grand review in Washington at the close
of the war, where he was discharged.

Having served his country well, his sons
and grandsons point with pride to the
war record of this patriot. In the fall
of 1872 he emigrated from Ohio to
Nebraska, driving the entire distance, in
covered wagons, accompanied by his
wife and four children. The incidents of
that eventful trip are still fresh in the
memory of the writer. He settled on a
homestead, 160 acres of land, in Col-
fax county, Nebraska. Indians were
then numerous, though they were not
hostile. All kinds of game was in
abundance, wild geese, ducks and
prairie chickens, and deer and antelope
often came on the farm. He prospered
and in a few years owned one of the
largest and finest farms in Colfax county,
1,000 acres lying in the great Platte val-
ley. This farm he later sold and pur-
chased a residence in the town of Schuy-
ler and 320 acres of land within one-half
mile of town. He is still living in Schuy-
ler, in comfort, with the wife of his
youth; on April 17, 1912, they completed
their fifty-fifth year of wedlock. They
are both devout Christians and have been
members of the Methodist Episcopal
Church for more than fifty years.

In the opening paragraph of my
Cameron history in Genealogy, Feb-
ruary 3, 1912, I said "John eventually
married a German girl whose name is
now unknown." Of the second John
Cameron I said "he was twice married,
his first wife being Catherine Rhuen-
hart." It has been thirty-six years since
I received the verbal story from my
grandfather Cameron, and it is possible
that he or I got the names mixed. I
now believe that the wife of John Cam-
eron, the emigrant, was Katherine
Rhuenhart, and the wife of his son John
Cameron, Jr., Jane Weatherspoon. The
name Weatherspoon is very familiar in
our family although I have not been able
to connect it surely with any one of our
name.

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Heads of FamilieSt Census 1790, New Utrecht, Kings
County, New York

Cowenhoven, Nicholas
Cowcnhoven, George
Van Pelt, Reni
Groondyck, Nicholas
Van Brunt, Rutgort A.
Johnston, Johannes
Blake, John
Dennyce, Jaques
Barry, William
Hagaman, Adrian
Cotelyou, Isaac
Houston, David
Cotlyou, Simeon
Cotelyou, Jaques
Dennise, Dennise, Sr.
Suygang, Jacob
Duryee, Abrahim
Bennet, John
Britton, Nathaniel
Thompson, Elisabeth

Idegroff, Isaac
Taylor, John
Barkuloo, Elisabeth
Van Brunt, Nicholas
Van Brunt, Rutgert
Van Brunt, Jaques
Dennise, Dennise, Jr.
Cropcy, Andrew
Barkuloo, Jaques
Cropcy, James
Bennet, Wynant
Cropcy, Casper
Bennet, James
Lapp, Jeri

Van Brunt, Abrahim
Smith, Samuel
Cowenhoven, Johnanes
Van Meyer, Jacobus
Van Pelt, John
Cowenhoven, Nelly

Van Duryee, John
Van Nyce, Sarah
Vanderbelt, Peter
Van Pelt, Peter
Van Nyce, John V. K.
Van Nyce, William
Dennise, William
Suydam, Evert
Suydam, Tunis
Van Pelt, Aurt
Lott, Abert
Cropcy, Harman
Van Court, Michael
Van Brunt, Isaac
Lefferts, James
Stillwell, Grace
Stillwell, Daniel
Stillwell, Christopher
Osboum, Jacob

From a Pennsylvania Family Graveyard

[Contributed to Genealogy.]
By S. H. Flickinger.

These tombstone inscriptions are from
the Eby family graveyard, one mile west
of the town of Stevens, Lancaster county,
Penn., on the Mentzer farm, formerly
the farm of John Herman. Most of the
inscriptions are in German :

Jonas Eby. Bom November 12, 1802,
died January 15, 1877, aged 74 years,
2 months, 3 days.

Mary, wife of Jonas Eby (born Wolf).
Born May 6, 1807, died August 17,
1878, aged 71 years, 3 months, 11 days.

Joseph Eby. Bom June 30, 1772, died
July 13, 1854, aged 82 years, 13 days.

Barbara, wife of Joseph Eby. Born
March 14, 1770, died January 15, 1844,
aged 73 years, 10 months, 1 day.

Susan, wife of Abraham Eby. Bora
October 1, 1795, died September 26,

1858, aged 62 years, 11 months, 26
days.

Catharina, wife of Jacob Scherck (bora
Erb) . Bora March 21, 1799, died Oc-
tober 7, 1842, aged 43 years, 6 months
17 days. In the original German this
inscription reads : Hier Ruhet Catha-
rina Scherck das weib von Jacob
Scherck. Eine geborae Erb. Sie
word geborenden 21 Merz 1799 und
starb 7 Oct. 1842 is alt worden 43 jahr
6 monot & 17 tag.

Johannes Scherck. Born August 17,
1779, died, February 11, 1837, aged 57
years, 5 months, 22 days.

Elizabeth, wife of Johannes Sherck
(bora Hasker). Bora October 17,
1783, died January 17, 1828, aged 44
years, 3 months.

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Johannes Scherck. Born November 19,
1806, died January 14, 1839, aged 32
years, 1 month, 25 days.

Elizabeth, wife of Peter Brunner
(daughter of William and Susanna
Bentz). Born August 15, 1815, died
April 11, 1848, aged 32 years, 7
months, 26 days.

Anna, wife of Jacob Scherk (bom Bru-
baker). Bom October 26, 1810, died
November 28, 1835, aged 25 years, 1
month, 2 days.

Jacob Scherk. Bom October 9, 1803.
died April 12, 1839, aged 35 years, 10
months, 3 days.

Fianna Shirk (daughter of Emanuel and
Sally). Born Febmary 24, 1861, died
September 29, 1865.

Emanuel Sherck (son of Emanuel and
Sally). Born March 12, 1856, died
July 17, 1858.

There are a few graves with lime-
stone marks which bear no inscrip-
tions.

The Puritan Fathers

Professor Bliss Perry, of Harvard
University, in recent address said of
the Puritans and Pilgrims, the found-
ers of the Massachusetts Bay colony,
that they were not the narrow, big-
oted men, without human love for the
beautiful, as they have generally been
considered, but that they were broad-
minded, progressive men. He said among
other things : "As a rule, they were Cal-
vinists, and it was the Calvinists who
first declared for two of the fundamental
principles of the American government,
the right of man to life and liberty.
Thomas Jeflferson more than a century
and a half afterwards added to these his
right to the pursuit of happiness. So
these men laid the foundation for life and.
liberty. And they clearly defined liberty,
too, founded in law and order.

"It has been said that they had no art,
no pictures, no music. But it was not be-
cause of a morbid, gloomy abhorrence for
these things, but rather because they had
not the time to indulge in esthetic tastes.
They had a wilderness to conquer and to
convert into a fair and happy land. These
men, who had braved the perils of the
sea in frail craft and who plunged into
the unknown wilderness to build their
homes, braving dangers of savages and
beasts, and who sometimes took their

walks with God, loved the beautiful
things of life; but they had a duty to
perform first, and they performed it.
They were dignified, they were religious
and they were strong. But they were
not narrow bigots. They were warm-
hearted, tolerant, gentle men, whose
broad views gave stability to the colony
that they founded."

Holmes-Chapman

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

1. — Samuel Holmes came to America
from England.

2. — Samuel Holmes, born in 1763,
married Lucy Patten in 1787 and died
April 22, 1852. He was a native of New
London county. Conn.

3. — Calvin Holmes, born April 29,
1796, married, first, Mary Kelso, July
18, 1819, and second, Anna Howe, March
23, 1853. He died March 20, 1869, in
Westford, N. Y.

4. — ^Julia Sophia Holmes, born March
1, 1836, in Westford, N. Y., married
A. B. Chapman, September 28, 1857, and
died Feb. 29, 1908, in Kankakee, 111.

5. — Frank Orson Chapman, bom June
27, 1868, in Martinton, 111., married
Cody R. Colton, September 24, 1901.

6. — Colton Holmes Chapman, bom
February 10, 1903, in Kankakee, III.

F. O. C.

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Pierce-Greenaway-Herring .

John Pierce came to America in 1637
from Norwich, Norfolk county, England,
and settled in Dedham, Mass. His wife
Elizabeth, born about 1591, died March
12, 1666-67. His children were:
Anthony, born 1609; Esther (or Hester)
married Joseph Morse in 1636; Mary,
Robert, born about 1620; John, Barbara,
Elizabeth, married John Ball in 1643;
and Judith.

Mary (Pierce), wife of Thomas (1)
Herring, was not the daughter of John
(1) Pierce of Dedham, but of Robert
(1) Pierce of Dorchester, who married
Ann Greenaway. Children: Thomas,
born about 1635, married Mary Proctor ;
Deborah, bom in 1638, died in 1640;
Mary , married Thomas (1) Her-
ring; Sarah, died before 1658. The will
of Robert (1) Pierce probated January
5, 1664-65, bequeathed to wife, and to
son Thomas ; to daughter, Mary Herring
of Dedham, £10, to be divided among
her five children.

John (1) Greenaway, with his wife
Mary, came in the Mary and John, 1629-
30, and was a freeman of Dorchester,
May 18, 1631. Children: Ann, married
Robert (1) Pearce or Pierce; Elizabeth,
married Allen ; Ursula, aged thirty-
two, in 1635, married Hugh Batten;
Susannah, married Nathaniel Wales;
Katharine, married William Daniels;
Mary, married Thomas (1) Millett of
Dorchester, Gloucester and North
Brookfield, Mass. In 1651-52 John
Greenaway deeds land to his daughter,
Ann Pearce ; he died soon after.

A Southern Perry Family

[Contributed to Genealogy.]
Samuel Perry died in Chowan county,
N. C, in 1760, leaving: his wife Sus-
annah, and children: Samuel, Amos,
Mordecai, Ann, Leah and Grace.

Amos Perry, son of Samuel Perry,
married, February 10, 1783, his cousin,
Elizabeth Perry of Perquimans county.

He died in 1804, leaving his wife, one
son, Amos, and two daughters, Treasy
Perry and Sarah Hurdle.

Samuel Perry, Jr., died in 1842, leav-
ing his wife Christiana, a son Willis, and
daughters, Millie Perry and Feriby By-
rum, of Chowan county.

Hester Perry, a widow, died in 1850,
leaving three sons and two daughters.
The sons were: Starkey, John and Wil-
liam. One daughter, Charlotte Perry,
married, August 28, 1845, Cullen A.
Halsey of her native county, and the
other daughter, Winifred Perry, mar-
ried. May 4, 1839, Miles Ashley of Cho-
wan. There are descendants of these
families still living in Chowan and ad-
joining counties.

New Jersey Manuscripts

The Somerset County, N. J., Historical
Quarterly will soon begin to publish in
instalments the contents of the two note-
books of Andrew Johnston, owned by
the 'New Jersey Historical Society.
These manuscript journals are valuable
documents, and they contain much mat-
ter relating to the neighborhood of Pea-
pack and Basking Ridge. There is also
much in them relating to Perth Amboy,
Woodbridge and Elizabethtown. Johns-
town has considerable to say about the
land riots between 1745 and 1758. He
was a member of Governor Belcher's
council, and was also at one time Mayor
of Perth Amboy.

Abigail Marble Found

Abigail Marble, wife of John Marble,
has been found. The Merriam Geneon
logy states, "Abigail Merriam, born Octo-
ber 19, 1684, at Concord, daughter of
Samuel and Elizabeth (Townsend) Mer-
riam," granddaughter of George Mer-
riam, great-granddaughter of William
Merriam, "married John Marble of
Stow." This concludes a very long
search for Abigail Marble.

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Questions

Harris. — Can any one give me the an-
cestry of Jonathan Harris, who married
Elsie Conly early in 1800? Jonathan
died in 1860-63 and is buried in Vestal,
New York. I presume his wife is also
buried there. He had a brother Thomas
and sisters Hanna and Susan, Family
tradition says that Jonathan Harris' an-
cestors came from Rhode Island to Con-
necticut and that his father, also named
Jonathan, died young, his widow after-
wards marrying a King.

Is it possible that the Jonathan, Sr.,
who died young, could be son of Richard
(Thomas (2), Thomas (1)) of Rhode
Island? This Jonathan, son of Richard
of the Rhode Island line, seems to have
disappeared.

Jonathan Harris (2) was in some way
connected with Apalachan, N. Y., either
living there or having relatives there, and
I note that the Gazetteer of Tioga county,
N. Y., says that the earliest settler of
Apalachan was Isaac Harris, a Quaker,
from Rhode Island, who died about 1835,

aged 74. He could not have been the
father of Jonathan (2), however, as a
grandson of the latter remembers him as
having died young, although he is not
absolutely certain that his name was
Jonathan, but always "supposed so." A
sister of Jonathan (2) Harris, Susan,
married Benedict Aldrich of Apalachan,
N. Y. Hannah Harris, another sister,
married Marshall Anderson, son of
Ahira Anderson, who came to Candor,
N. Y., irom Connecticut in 1810. Mar-
shall and Hannah Anderson had eight
children: James, Stephen, Mariette,
Eliza, John, Albert, Amos and Enos.

Jonathan (2) Harris left Connecticut
and moved to Candor, N. Y., and from
there to Vestal, where he lived many
years. He had by his wife Elsie Conly
seven children: (1) Asa, married and
went west and all trace of him has been
lost. (2) Henry, married Ann Scoville.

(3) Thomas, married Mary Coleman.

(4) Margaret, married Job Layton
Burdge. (5) Lucy, married Charles
Milton White. (6) Susan, married Peter
White. (7) Mary, married Jesse Jen-
nings.

Elsie (Conly) Harris was a daughter
of Patrick Conly and MoUie Hughes of
Armagh county, Ireland. Elsie had a
brother Henry Conly, who was for years
a teacher in New York city. I do not
know whether he taught in a public
school or in a private Catholic school. I
know that he had a daughter Maggie
who was educated in the Convent of 3ie
Sacred Heart in New York. The name
is also spelled Connoly and Conelly. Any
information which will help me in tracing
the ancestry of the Harris and Conly
families will be gratefully received. They
may have lived for a time in Lycoming,
or Luzerne county, Penn., as there seem
to be relatives in that section of the state
at the present time. [314] L. R. F.

Perry. — ^John Raymond, born Novem-
ber 26, 1677, son of John and Martha
(Woodin) Raymond of Beverly and

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Middleborough, Mass., married, January
26, 1699, Deborah Perry. When did
John Raymond die? When and where
was his wife Deborah (Perry) Raymond
bom and when and where did she die?
Who were her parents? and all genealogi-
cal data concerning them. [315] B.H.R.

Wells. — I should like assistance in
straightening out a few Wells tangles.
I will say that I have the Severance
Genealogy, also Sheldon's Genealogies,
and although both books, as well as the
various Wells Genealogies, treat of my
family, not one of them settles my own
problem satisfactorily.

Captain Ebenezer Wells of Greenfield,
Mass., was born in 1723, died January 11,
1787, having married, February 14, 1745,
Elizabeth Field, daughter of Ebenezer
Field. Their ninth child was Simeon,
born October 17, 1762, married, April 26,
1790, Abigail Stebbins, daughter of Sam-
uel Stebbins. They lived in Shelbume
and Leyden, Mass., but died in New
Haven, N. Y., August 27, 1827. The
above is from Sheldon's History, vol. II.,
p. 362. He carries the family no farther.
I should like to know when and where
the wife of Simeon Wells died. I should
also like a full list of their children, with
dates of births, marriages and deaths.
Following is a partial list : ( 1 ) Laura L.,
married, first, Donald McPherson and,
second, Henry Matthews, and lived in
Oswego, N. Y. (2) Fanny, married, as
his second wife, Seth Severance, and
died in New Haven, N. Y., in 1861. The
first wife of Seth Severance was also a
Wells She was Abigail Wells and was
married to him in 1811 and died in 1821.
Was she of the same family as his second
wife, Fanny Wells, and, if so, what was
the relationship? (3) Lephe Louisa
married Cyrus Severance. (4) Another

daughter of Simeon Wells married

Hawley and had a daughter Frances who
married Captain Daggett, who lived near
New Haven, N. Y. (5) Willard Wells
was a doctor in Caledonia, N. Y.; he

married Frances

(6) Horace

Wells died unmarried; lived in Oswego
and Caledonia. (7) Another daughter

married Cherry and had a daughter

Helen, who married Daniel Couch of
Oswego and moved to Ohio.

Abigail Wells, the first wife of Seth
Severance, had a son, Avery W. Sever-
ance, born February 23, 1819, died Feb-
ruary 15, 1874. Fanny Wells, the second
wife of Seth Severance, had a daughter,
Antoinette Severance, born August 13.
1825, married German Reynolds and had
two children, Fanny and Charles. She
lived in Fulton, N. Y. There was also
another daughter of Seth and Fanny
Severance, Camilla, who was bom April
4, 1826, and married. May 9, 1850, B. S.
McDonald. She died in March, 1863,
having three sons, Henry, William and
one other. [316] L. R. F.

Mayflower Lines

Are there any Mayflower connections
with any of these early Americans?

John Dingley of Marshfield

Comet Robert Stetson of Plymouth.

Martha Ford, widow, who came on the
Fortune, 1621.

James Hamlin of Barnstable, Mass.

Francis Crooker of Barnstable and
later Marshfield.

George Pardee of New Haven, Conn.

Hon. Richard Miles of New Haven,
Conn.

Thomas Fitch, Norwalk, Conn.

Matthias St. John, Dorchester, Mass.,
and later Norwalk, Conn.

Henry Kingsbury, Boston, 1630.

John Lawrence, Watertown, Mass.,
and later Groton, Mass.

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An Irish-American Montgomery Line

[Contributed to Genealogy.]
By Thomas McBurney Montgomery.

William Montgomery was descended
from one of the Scottish branches of that
name who came to Ireland prior to or
about the middle of the seventeenth cen-
tury. He inherited a tract of land of
one thousand acres under lease from the
Sackingham family located in county An-
trim and lying to the north and east of
what is now the village of Crumlin.

This William Montgomery was mar-
ried three times, and by his first or sec-
ond marriages, which is uncertain, he
had four sons :

1. William.

2. John.

3. Henry.

4. James.

By his third marriage to a sister of Sir
Henry Montgomery, baronet of county
Londondery, he had one son :

5. Archibald.

To his son Archibald he devised his
family seat known as Boltna-Connell,
having previously given his other chil-
dren other portions of his one thousand
acre tract.

William Montgomery of Crosslog-
drum in county Antrim, parish of Kil-
lead, eldest son of William Montgomery,
left a will dated August 30, 1723, and
proved September 28, 1723, mentioning

five children but only naming one of
them, Thomas, and his wife Ann. He
appointed his brothers John and Henry
executors, and his friend John Wilson
and brother James overseers of his ex-
ecutors.

John Montgomery, second son of Wil-
liam Montgomery, is mentioned in the bi-
ography of the Reverend Henry Mont-
gomery as having settled in county Down
at Bunker Hill near Belfast.

Henry Montgomery, third son of Wil-
liam Montgomery, was of Crossbill. He
made his will dated September 5, 1751,
in which he gives the names of his chil-
dren:

1. Thomas.

2. Alexander.

3. Deceased wife of Samuel Shaw,
having left three daughters surviving
her.

4. John.

5. Henry

6. William.

After giving sundry legacies and other
land to certain of his children he further
willed as follows: "I leave my lease of
the land now held by Richard Belshey at
the expiration of the lease to my son
Thomas Montgomery and my son Wil-
liam Montgomery equally between them."

The lands so devised to Thomas and

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William Montgomery were subsequently
divided between them so that Thomas
came into possession of that portion ly-
ing on the left hand of a road running
north and dividing the two parcels and
called Glen Darragh, while William was
in possession of that portion lying on the
right hand of said road and called Ben
Neagh ; both the pieces of land are but a
short distance north of Crumlin.

James Montgomery of Crossbill,
county Antrim and parish of Killead,
fourth son of William Montgomery,
made his will without date but proved
December 9, 1728, mentioning two sons,
John and William, devising his lease to
his sons and referring to the rest of his
children, six in number, as daughters.

Archibald Montgomery, fifth son of
William Montgomery, married, in 1767,
Sarah Campbell, daughter of John and

(Cunningham) Campbell of Kil-

lealy in Killead. By his will dated Jan-
uary 13, 1816, and proved September 20,
1823, he makes sundry bequests to his
children :

1. William.

2. John.

3. Margaret.

4. Elizabeth Kirker (this name evi-
dently her marriage name).

5. Josias, otherwise Joshua.

6. Alexander.

7. Henry.

8. Archibald not mentioned in will, but
elsewhere named as a son.

Of the first six above named no posi-
tive information is at hand.
Ill

Thomas Montgomery who was pos-
sessed, under devise from his father
Henry Montgomery and by subsequent
partition with his brother William, of
the land known as Glen Darragh left to
survive him sons and daughters, but the
only two directly traced were:

1. Thomas.

2. John.

Thomas seems to have come into pos-

session of Glen Darragh, but becoming
embarrassed, it was re-entered for non-
payment of rent and absorbed into the
original demesne.

William Montgomery of the parish of
Killead and county Antrim, youngest son
of Henry Montgomery, made his will
June 2, 1764, whereby he provided prin-
cipally for his wife Sarah, but by codicil
he provided as follows:

"Mem: before signing: the upper part
land which contains 37 acres I leave to
my son, Robert Montgomery, with th6
houses thereon except that I have left
to my wife Sarah, and as to the under-
part of my lands containing 37 acres, I
leave to be divided among my four
daughters and in case any of them should
die same to be divided equally among the
survivors." Of these children:

1. Robert, left no issue.

2. Bessie, married Thomas Kennedy
and had numerous descendants.

3. Sady or Sarah, married a Davidson
and left issue.

4. Not known. 5. Not known.

Henry Montgomery, eldest son of
Archibald and Sarah (Campbell) Mont-
gomery, born January 16, 1788, married,
April 6, 1812, Elizabeth Swan, bom in
1794 and died in 1872, daughter of Hugh
and Lillian (Dickey) Swan. The Rev-
erend Henry Montgomery was a Presby-
terian minister, who led a secession move-
ment and formed what is known as the
non-comformant branch of that church.
This movement with some references to
his genealogy, is set out in a biography,
the first volume only of which was pub-
lished. He was settled over a church in
Dunmurray, Ireland, and his death oc-
curred December 18, 1865, previous to
which, on November 25, 1864, he ex-
ecuted his will which was duly proved
and recorded. The children as appears
by the will were :

1. Lilly.

2. Archibald, whose daughter Lydia
is also named.

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3. Sally, wife of William Saunderson.

4. Lizzie, wife of the Reverend John
A. Crozier, whose son, Henry Mont-
gomery Crozier, is also named.

5. Another grandson, William Herd-
man Ash, is also named, but whose son
he was is not mentioned.

Archibald Montgomery, youngest son

of Archibald and Sarah (Campbell)
Montgomery, left surviving five children :

1. Archibald, born December 11, 1821.

2. A daughter, married John Carlile.

3. A daughter, married Moore.

4. Margaret, born 1817, married

John R. Neill, and died May 4, 1903.

5. Eliza, married James A. Pirrie.

{To he continued.)

Some Western Austins

[Contributed to Genealogy.]
I

Nathaniel Austin was twice married.
By his first wife he had two children,
Sarah and Jacob DuBois. By his sec-
ond wife he had two sons, Thomas and
Bartholomew.

Jacob Du Bois Austin was born in
Union county, Ind., in 1841, or about
that date. He remained there until he
attained his majority, when he went to
Kansas, being in that state at the time of
Quantreirs raid. It is said that in order
to get away from the raiders he ex-
changed a section of land on which a
portion of Lawrence now stands for a
pocket knife, and then returned to Indi-
ana. He married Cynthia Ball, and they
moved westward into Warren county.
Mo. After a year or two, they moved
one county to the west, Montgomery
county, and continued the life of a
farmer having ^bought several hundred
acres of land. He discontinued farm life
after a number of years, entering the
hardware business at Jonesburg, Mo.,
which he followed successfully for five
years and then again returned to the
farm. He died in November, 1895, and
was buried in Prices Branch, Mo., in
the cemetery which adjoins the Christian
church of that place. His wife survived
him dying in January, 1911.

The children of Jacob Du Bois and
Cynthia (Ball) Austin were:

1. — Hallie May Austin married Daniel
F. Kiser; lives Plattsmouth, Neb.

2. — ^James Stanton Austin married
Mary Graham, and lives on a ranch near
Twin Falls, Idaho.

3. — Nettie Bell Austin married James
Vallier, a minister, in Taylorville, 111.

4. — Merritt Eugene Austin married
Maud May Lynn of Emporia, Kans.,
while he was teaching in the Central
Business College of Kansas City. He
is vice-president and principal of the
commercial department of the Woodbury
Business College of Los Angeles, Calif.

5. — Frank Du Bois Austin married
Emma Lavender and lives on a ranch
near Ripley, Okla. He taught school for
a short time.

6. — Walter Leland Austin married
Myrtle Lawrence and lives on a ranch
near Hutley, Mont. M. E. A.

The Grave An Inn

In the burying ground attached to St.
James' Episcopal Church, Piscatawney
Town, Middlesex county, three miles
east of New Brunswick, N. J., may be
seen the following epitaph to the memory
of Thomas Harper, a native of England,
who lost his life in the great hurricane
which destroyed this church in 1835 :
Tired with wandering through a world

of sin.
Hither we come to Nature's common inn
To rest our wearied bodies for a night.
In hopes to rise in Nature's truest light.
This world's a city with many a crooked

street,
And death the market place where all

men meet.

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Early Settlers of Lancaster County^ Pennsylvania

[Contributed to Genealogy.]
By S. H. Fuckinger.

This is a list of Lancaster county settlers who came between the years
1700 and 1718 and had purchased and held lands there before 1729:

Abye, John
Abye, Peter
Ashleman, Daniel
Bare, Henry
Bare, Jacob
Bare, Jacob, Jr.
Bare, Jno. Henry
Bheme, Jacob
Biere, Jacob
Bohman, John
Bowman, Michael
Brand, Adam
Brubaker, John
Buckwalter, Joseph
Bimigartner, Peter
Burldholder, Abrm.
Burkholder, John
Burkholder, John, Jr.
Carpenter, Emanuel
Carpenter, Gabriel
Carpenter, Henry
Christopher, Charles
Churts, Jacob
Ferie, Jdin
Fiera, Philip
Franciscus, Christopher
Frederick, John
Funk, Henry
Funk, Jacob
Funk, John
Goot, Hans
Goot, Jacob
Graaf, Hans
Graaf, Martin
Hare, Abrm.

Hamist, Martin
Herman, Christian
Herman, Daniel
Hess, John
Houser, John
Houser, Woolrick
Hover, Jno. Woolrick
Hufford, Melchior
Kindeck, George
King, Simeon
Landes, Felix, Jr.
Coff man, Andrew
Coffman, Isaac
Coffman, John
Croyder, John
Doneder, Michael
Erisman, Melchior
Loughman, Casper
Meylin, Martin
Miller, Jacob (blk.)
Miller, Jacob
Miller, Jacob, Jr.
Miller, Martin
Mire, Abrm.
Mire, Jacob
Mire, John
Mire, Michael
Mire, Rudy
Musselman, Henry
Mylin, John
Neiff, Francis
Neiff, Francis, Jr.
NeifF, Jno. Henry
Neiff, Jnp. Henry, Jr.
Newcom<jr, Peter

Nissly, Jacob
Peelman, Christian
Preniman, Adam
Preniman, Christian
Preniman, Christopher
Ream, Everhard
Rodte, Woolrick
Royer, Sebastian
Shank, Big John
Shank, Michael
Shultz, Andrew
Slaremaker, Mathias
Leamon, Peter
Leeghter, John
Lerow, Jonas
Light, Jno. Jacob
Line, John
Longanicker, David
Snevely, Hans
Snevely, Hans Jacob
Snevely, Jacob, Jr.
Sowers, Christopher
Staner, Christian
Stampher, John
Stay, Fred'k
Stoneman, Christian
Stoneman, Joseph
Swope, John
Taylor, John
Weaver, George
Weaver, Henry
Weaver, Jacob
Weaver, John
Woolslegle, John
Yordea, Peter

Town and city vital records of the
colonial and early state periods are now
collected and printed in Massachusetts
and Maine. Transcribe those of y our
town — ^marriages, births and death's —

and send to us to be similarly preserved
in the columns of Genealogy and in files
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American Genealogies

This is a list of the genealogies of American families, published in ly)ok or
pamphlet form, with date of publication. Most of these works that are of early
date are now very rare. Copies of them are in most public libraries in the
larger cities of the United States and in the libraries of historical societies.
Copies also find their way, in very small number, into book auction sales and
into the hands of dealers in second-hand books. Genealogies of recent date are
generally procurable from the publishers. Inquiries in regard to these or any
other genealogical works may be addressed to the editor of Genealogy.

(Continued from page 204.)

Allerton. — ^A History of the AUerton
family in the United States. 1585 to
1885. And a Genealogy of the Descend-
ants of Isaac Allerton. By Walter S.
Allerton. New York, 1888.

Allerton. — ^Allertons of New Eng-
land and Virginia. By Isaac J. Green-
wood. Boston, 1890.

Allerton. — ^The Brewster Genealogy,
1566-1907: A Record of the Descend-
ants of William Brewster of the "May-
flower," Ruling Elder of the Pilgrim
Church which Founded Plymouth Col-
ony in 1620. By Emma C. Brewster
Jones. New York, 1908.

Allerton. — A History of the Aller-
\ ton Family in the United States, 1585-
\ 1885, and a Genealogy of the Descend-
Njints of Isaac Allerton, "Mayflower Pil-
^/rim," Plymouth, Mass., 1620. By Wal-
ter S. Allerton. Revised and enlarged
by Horace True Currier. Chicago, 1900.

Allerton. — Some Notable Families of
America. By Anah Robinson Watson.
New York, 1898.

Allison. — The History of the Alison,
or Allison Family in Europe and Amer-
ica, A. D. 1135 to 1893; Giving an Ac-
count of the Family in Scotland, Eng-
land, Ireland, Australia, Canada, and
the United States. [Descendants of Sam-
uel Allison of Londonberry, N, H.,
1718.] By Leonard Allison Morrison.
Boston, 1893.

Allison. — Family Genealogy Com-
prising the Ancestry and Descendants of

Jonathan Barlow and Plain Rogers, of
Delaware County, N. Y., and Allied
Families. By George Barlow. Brook-
lyn, N. Y., 1891.

Allison. — Bronsdon and Box Fami-
lies. Part I. Robert Bronsdon, Merchant,
and his Descendants. Part II. John Box,
Ropemaker, and his Descendants. By
Col. Lucius B. Marsh, and Mrs. Harriet
F. Parker. Lynn, Mass., 1902.

Allston. — ^The Alstons and AUstons
of North and South Carolina; Compiled
from English, Colonial and Family
records, with Personal Reminiscences,
also Notes of some Allied Families. By
Joseph A. Groves, Atlanta, Ga., 1901.

Almy. — Historic Families of America,
William Almy of Portsmouth, R. I.,
1630. By Charles Kingsbury Miller.
Chicago, 1897.

Alvord. — A Genealogy of the De-
scendants of Alexander Alvord, an Early
Settler of Windsor, Conn., and North-
ampton, Mass. By Samuel Morgan Al-
vord. Webster, N. Y., 1908.

Alvord. — The Burke and Alvord Me-
morial. A Genealogical Account of the
Descendants of Richard Burke of Sud-
bury, Mass. Compiled by John Alonzo
Boutelle of Woburn, Mass., for William
A. Burke of Lowell, Mass. Boston, 1864.

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Questions

Thomas. — ^William Thomas of Middle-
boro, Mass., married, February 28, 1704-
5, Sarah Barden, daughter of William
and Deborah (Barker) Barden of Marsh-
field and Middleboro. William Thomas
was the son of David Thomas of Salem,
Middleboro and Thomastown, Mass.
When and where was David Thomas
born and married and when and where
did he die ? What was his wife's maiden
name ? Dates wanted and where she was
born and where she died. Dates of
birth and death of their son William.
William and Sarah (Barden) Thomas
had among other children, Jabez Thomas,
born December 8, 1710, died November
8, 1784, of Thomastown and Middleboro,

Mass. He married Phebe , who died

May 21, 1772, aged 59 years. What was
Phebe Thomas* maiden name? Daces
and where was she born and married?
Who were her parents and ancestry, w,ith
dates of births, marriages and*deatl|is?
And any further information will ibe
very gratefully received.

[317] B.H.R^

Hodge. — Samuel Hodge, in his will,
recorded in Augusta county Va., May 4,
1773, named his wife, Elizabeth, and
children, Elinor, John, James, Sarah
McDonal, Agnes Martin, Margaret Mc-
Elvain, Catherine Kelly, Elizabeth Mc-
Cutcheon, who died in Augusta county in
1833, wife of John McCutcheon, a Revo-
lutionary soldier ; and a grandson, Sam-
uel Hodge. When and where was
Samuel Hodge born and married?
Maiden name of his wife, Elizabeth, with
dates, and where she was bom and died?
Dates of births of these children, with
dates of their marriages and full name of
whom they married? Would like the
ancestry of this Samuel Hodge and his
wife, Elizabeth. [318] B. H. R.

Wanless. — Margaret ^ widow of

— Wanless, married John Carlisle. He
died in Augusta county, Va,, and his will

is dated June 15, 1796. Margaret

Wanless-Carlisle died in Augusta county,
Va., testate. 1807. Her will was dated
February 9, 1807, but not recorded. The
children of Margaret, supposed to be all

by her first husband, Wanless were :

1. Margaret Wanless, married, first,

Rice, said to have been killed in bat-

tfe of Guilford Court House; married,
second, in 1785, Ralph Clayton. Mar-
garet (Wanless) Rice-Qayton died in
Augusta county, Va.. after December,
1821. 2. Mary, married, Abel Arm-
strong, and died between 1807 and 1821.
3. Ralph Wanless. of Bath, Va. 4.
Stephen Wanless, of Bath, Va. She also
mentions granddaughters, Peggy Qayton,
Elizabeth Black, born. Rice, in 1779; a
grandson, Ralph Qayton, all three chil-
dren of Margaret (Wanless) Rice-Qay-
ton, Can anyone give me the maiden
name of Margaret, widow, first, Wanless ;
widow, second, Carlisle? I want dates
and where she was born and married;

Christian name of her husband,

Wanless, with dates, and where he was
bom and died ; date of births, marriages
and deathsof theirjchildren ; Rice's Christ-

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tian name ; only the wie child, Elizabeth
(Rice) Black; dates and where Rice was
born, married and died; the ancestry of
Margaret ( ?) Wanless Carlisle, of her
first husband, Wanless, and of Rice, first
husband of her daughter, Margaret Wan-
less. [319] B. H. R.

Robinson. — Mary Robinson married
Jeremiah Kirtley. They were living in
Madison county, Va., in 1794, at the time
of the formjvtion of that county. They
moved to Kentucky, and late in life Jere-
miah Kirtley became a Baptist minister.
Both arc buried in Bullitsville, Ky. Jere-
miah died March 6, 1806, aged 52. Mary
(Robinson) Kirtley died February 4,
1837, in the 85th year of her age. Among
their children was Sarah Kirtley, who
married John Rogers, and died in 1833
in Kentucky. There was also a Jeremiah,
Jr. Jeremiah Kirtley, Sr., was a son of
William and Sarah (Early) Kirtley. Can
anyone give me date and where Jeremiah
Kirtley and Mary Robinson were born
and married? Names of their children,
with dates of births and marriages and
names of whom they married, arc wanted.
Names of parents of Mary (Robinson)
Kirtley, with dates and where they were
bom, married and died, and names of
their children, etc. [320] B. H. R.

Answers

Swift.— [282] S. S. T. Reuben
Swift and Hannah Dexter were the par-
ents of Sarah Swift, but the date given,
September 15, 1739, was not the date of
her marriage to Timothy Pearl, as she
was not born until 1755, and Timothy
Pearl, her husband, was not born until
1752, old style. They were married in or
just before 1775, and their oldest child,
Theodosia Pearl, who married Aaron
Graham, was bom in 1776. C. W. P.

Utley.— [283] W. C U. The ques-
tion is asked. Who were the parents of

Elizabeth Utley, who married Nathan
Pearl, November 7, 1748? Now I note
that A. P. P. answers in Genealogy,
No. 22, page 176, in Steven- Abbott Notes,
that Elizabeth Stevens, only daughter of
Nathan and Elizabeth (Abbott) Stevens
married A. N. Utley, and that their
daughter, Elizabeth Utley, married Na-
than Pearl. Our records are that Eliza-
beth Stevens, daughter of Nathan and
Elizabeth (Abbott) Stevens, married
Timothy Pearl, son of John Pearl, the
first, and was the mother of Nathan
Pearl, instead of his wife, as stated by
A. P. P. Our records were duly verified
by the proper recording clerks. C.W.P.

Chandler.— [284] A. G. A. Han-
nah Chandler, who married George Ab-
bott, the first, of Andover, Mass., was
a daughter of William Chandler.

C W. P.

Knight.— [285] K. R. H. The
maiden name of Mrs. Alice Knight, who
married Richard Holmes, of Rowley,
Mass., was Northend, but they were
married in 1647, instead of 1680, as
stated in the question. She is supposed
to have been the sister of Ezekiel North-
end, of Rowley, Mass. C. W. P.

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Deeds of Stark County, Ohio

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

July 16, 1810. Andrew Rappoe to Alex-
ander Cameron, Canton township.
Christian Flickinger, witness.

December 13, 1809. Bezeleh Wells and
wife Sally to Alexander Cameron of
Stark county. Canton township.

February 10, 1812. Thomas C. Shields
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Whole No. 29

Line of La Mothe-Poiret-Wells

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

I should like to know something about
one Colonel La Mothe, a French marquis,
exiled for political reasons from France.
He is supposed to have emigrated to
Canada from which country he went to
Vincennes, Ind., and later came to New
Orleans, where he died January 1, 1775.
He married Jeannette Poiret, daughter
of the chevalier de Brie of the army of
France and later commandant of Fort
Kaskaskia and Fort Chartres of Illinois.

The father of Jeannette (Poiret) La
Mothe was Claude Baptiste Poiret,
chevalier de Brie, and* her mother was
Francoise Le Kintreck. Claude Baptiste
Poiret (1) and Francoise Le Kintreck
were married in St. Louis cathedral, New
Orleans, La.

Their eldest child was Anne Marie
(2), bom January 1, 1774. Their second
child was Francoise (2), who married
Don Juan Filhiol in Opelousas, La., in
1782. Don Juan Filhiol was appointed
by the Spanish king as commandant of
upper Louisiana and was probably the
founder of Monroe, La.

Another daughter of the chevalier de
Brie and Francoise Le Kintreck was
Jeannette (2), born April 6, 1752, bap-
tized at Kaskaskia. Her godfather was
M. Janvier, a royal engineer, and her
godmother was Miss Bustel. This Jean-
nette (2) Poiret was the one who was
married to the marquis La Mothe, the
French exile. Four children w'ere bom

to them. Jacques (3), the eldest son,
died, unmarried, in early manhood. Next
there were two daughters and last a son
Polycarpe (3), born January 1, 1775, the
same night his father La Mothe died.
After the death of La Mothe an effort
was made by his heirs to recover the
French spoliation claim, an attorney com-
ing from France for that purpose.

Jeannette (Poiret) La Mothe married,
as her second husband. Dr. Ennemond
Meullion, a distinguished surgeon, and
a personal friend of Tallyrand, the states-
man. Dr. Meullion and his wife Jean-
nette lived in Rapides Parish, La., on a
large cotton plantation, where six chil-
dren were born to them. In 1803 he
was appointed commandant for the king
of Spain and was afterwards appointed
commandant of the port of New Orleans
by the governor-general of the Province
of Louisiana.

Francoise Le Kintreck, wife of the
chevalier de Brie, died in 1757, and in
1758 her husband married Marie Magde-
laine Voiret of Fort Chartres.

Polycarpe La Mothe, the youngest
child of the marquis La Mothe and Jean-
nette Poiret, married, January 1, 1800,
Editha Wells, daughter of Samuel Wells
and Dorcas Hine. Editha was bom July
16, 1781.

An effort is being made to connect
Samuel Wells, emigrant to South Caro-
lina and Louisiana, with the New Eng-

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land Wells families. The notes given here
are furnished by a descendant, very ad-
vanced in years, of Samuel Wells. There
are numerous other descendants living in
Rapides Parish and other portions of the
South.

The family tradition is that these
Wells brothers were of Irish descent.
One or more went to New England, one
came to South Carolina and one, Samuel,
came to Louisiana. He married Dorcas
Hine of South Carolina, and they had
ten children. The Hine family, sup-
posed to be of Dutch descent, came over-
land from South Carolina to Louisiana.

The eldest son of Samuel (1) Wells
was Samuel Levi (2) Wells, born June
26, 1764. He married Elizabeth Calvit,
who had two sisters, Mary and Melissa;
one of these sisters married a Bowie and
the other a Stewart. I do not know
which sister married which man. Sam-
uel Levi (2) Wells was a delegate from
Rapides Parish to the state constitutional
convention of Louisiana in New Orleans,
in 1811. He and his wife Elizabeth had
a large family, some of whose names I
append here, although these may be all
of them, however: Governor James
Madison (3) Wells, Montfort (3) Wells,
and Thomas Jefferson (3) Wells, all of
Rapides Parish; Mary (3) Wells, who
married Dr. Henry Libley,' surgeon in
the United States army; Elizabeth (3)
Wells who married Smith Gordon.

Governor James Madison (3) Wells
said that his great-grandfather was a
graduate of Trinity College, Dublin. An
extract taken recently from the college
register shows "Wells [ ]. En-

trance not recorded. B.A. 1638." In
1640 a Wells was lord chancellor of Ire-
land. Some of the family think that he
was the one who took his degree at
Trinity College.

To return to the children of Samuel
CI) Wells and Dorcas Hine; Henrietta
(2), bom August 30, 1778, married
Alexander Fulton. He was associated
with Judge William Miller in the pur-

chase of forty thousand acres of land
from the Cherokee and Chocktaw Indi-
ans in Rapides Parish. The town of
Alexandria in that parish was named in
honor of Fulton. Editha (2) Wells,
daughter of Samuel and Dorcas (Hines)
Wells, I have mentioned already as wife
of Polycarpe La Mothe. There were
other children of Samuel (1) Wells, but
I have not their names.

The name Mont ford is supposed to
come from the Calvit family. Elizabeth
Calvit, wife of Samuel Levi (2) Wells,
had a brother named Montfort.

An energetic search covering a num-
ber of years, has failed to connect Sam-
uel Wells with any New England family,
unless he is son or grandson of the
Thomas Welles, who came to America in
1629, landing in New England and later
purchasing a tract of land in Rhode
Island. This Thomas Welles had seven
sons, the youngest of which was "sup-
posed" to be Samuel, of whom all record
seems to be lost.

Any data which may point to the "lost"
Samuel, son of Thomas, or to the Sam-
uel of Louisiana, will be gratefully re-
ceived. L. R. F.

Witherspoon Cemetery Record

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

In a small cemetery on the McKinley
farm, near Bayard, Stark county, Ohio,
are the following Witherspoon inscrip-
tions :

David Witherspoon, died October 19,

1864, aged 69 years.

Amanda M., daughter of E. G. and
S. A. Witherspoon, died November 21,

1865, aged 10 years.

Lawrence, son of E. G. and S. A.
Witherspoon, died September 21, 1863,
aged 2 years. W. L. G.

In the public libraries of the United
States no books and periodicals are more
in demand by readers than those treat-
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Indiana County.

Hamilton, John (2d), pr., June 24, 1819

63; d. Dec. 1, 1818.
Harbison, Francis, pr., July 23, 1819

84.
Montgomery, John, pr., June 23, 1819

74.
McCoy, Daniel, pr., July 10, 1820; 68

d. June 30, 1821.
Coleman, John, pr.. May 12, 1820; 84

d. Dec. 5, 1830.
Hutchinson, Cor., pr., May 12, 1820; 77
Mullen, Michael, pr., Oct. 20, 1819; 91.
Newcome, Samuel, pr., July 7, 1819; 75

d. July 26, 1826.
Shoup, Henry, Sr., Aug. 26, 1819; 81.

Lancaster County.
Baylor, George, pr., Sept. 30, 1818; 87.
Bitz, Michael, pr., Sept. 30, 1819; 64; d.

Nov. 8, 1821.
Balmer, Jacob, pr., Oct. 25, 1822; 76; d.

Aug. 15, 1822.
Carman, Andrew, pr., Nov. 17, 1818; 71.
Dougless, Robt., pr., Sept. 22, 1818; 78.
Eickhols, John, pr., Oct. 21, 1818; 77; d.

May 29, 1821

Morris, John, pr., Oct. 29, 1818; 72; d.

Jan. 1, 1832.
Miller, John (2d), pr., Nov. 17, 1818;

76; d. Dec. 11, 1818.
Marks, Jacob, pr., Aug. 11, 1819; 81.
Musketmuss, Adam, pr., Sept. 20, 1819

75; d. April 1, 1821.
Popst, Christian, pr.. May 7, 1818; 70

d. June 20, 1821.
Powell, Frederick, pr., Aug. 11, 1819

78.
Poor, William, pr., Sept. 25, 1820; 79

d. April 12, 1826.
Russell, James, pr., Nov. 17, 1818; 82.
Roberts, Thomas, pr., Oct. 2, 1819 ; 65 ;

d. Oct. 12, 1821.
Rice, John, pr., Dec. 17, 1825 ; 75.
Shruber, Frederick, pr., June 30, 1818

73; d. April 6, 1826.
Steinhyser, Christ., pr., Nov. 17, 1818

79.
Sweeney, Edward, pr., Sept. 20, 1819

76.
Shrott, Samuel, pr., Sept. 20, 1819; 74

d. Dec. 4, 1825.
Strohl, Jacob, pr., Jan. 9, 1826; 69; d.

May 3, 1830.
Tenant, Wm., pr., Nov. 17, 1818;

Foltz, George, pr., Sept. 30, 1819; 70; Tryer, Andrew, sergt., Sept. 30, 1819;

d. May 26, 1826. 72.

Grubb, Jacob, pr., Sept. 30, 1819; 74; d. Up John, James, pr., Nov. 22, 1828; 75.

July 12, 1829. Wills, Conrad, pr., Sept. 30, 1819; 69;
Hoofnoggle, Geo., dragoon, Nov. 17, d. Oct. 23, 1822.

1818; 71. Wisler, Michael, pr., June 25; 1822; 78.
Harris, John, pr., May 13, 1819; 72. Lebanon County.

Kelly, Wm., pr., May 13, 1819; 67; d. Blucher, Yost, pr., Sept. 10, 1823; 83;

June 8, 1824. d. Jan. 11, 1829.

Kappes, George, pr., July 7, 1819; 93. Cook, Henry, pr., Sept. 11, 1820; 80.

Kersche, George (alias Kirst), pr., June Detrich, George, pr., Nov. 9, 1819; 68;

20. 1822; 63; d. March 19, 1822. d. Aug. 10, 1826.

Lindsey, Jacob, pr., Oct. 21, 1818; 80. Gigher, or Geiger, Jacob, pr., Sept. 17,
Lindensmith, George, pr., Dec. 15, 1829; igig. 73; d. Aug. 9, 1822.

76; d. June 8, 1826. Henry, George, pr., Aug. 2, 1819; 81.

Lott, Philip, Jacob, pr., May 29, 1823; Ruber, Geo., pr., Feb. 8, 1820; 68.

89. (To be continued.)

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Heads of Families, Census 1790, Addison, Addison
County, Vermont

Whitney, David
Murray, Joseph
Newton, John
Newton, John, Jr.
Bartlet, Ichabod
Picket, Ebenezer
Whitney, Joshua
Paine, Benj.
Strong, Sam.
Case, Jonah
Strong, John
Case, Bessel
Gale, John
Davis, David
Vallance, David
Pangbourn, Stephen
Champion, Daniel
Bliss, Daniel
Fountain, Joseph
Martin, Francis
Strong, John, Jr.
Dexter, Thomas
Storrs, Seth

Everest, Zadock
Woodford, Timothy
Walner, Aaron
Clerk, Isaiah
Bills, Azariah
Doran, James
Squier, Daniel
Bradley, Moses
Robinson, Qaghorn
Reynold, Benj.
Bates, James
Everest, Joseph
Merrills, Eben.
Pangborn, Tim.
Vallance, John
Everest, Benj.
Belding, Titus
Andrus, Theodore
Chattock, Henry
Ward, John
Wilmot, John
Wilmot, Asa
Pond, Sam.

Hanks, Levi
Low, Sam.
Fountain, Peter
Kimball, Wm.
Pangbourn, Sam.
Post, Caleb
Corey, John
Smith, Simon
Day, Jeremiah
Spencer, Joseph
Snell, Samuel
Wright, Ebenezer
Buck, Isaac
Bates, Walter
Smith, Henry
Segar, Gideon
Olin, Caleb
Smith, Rachel
Sanford, Robert
Molly, Kilburn
Sacket, Joseph
Sacket, Reuben

Lydia Bates

From recent published documents and
inscriptions at Chelsford and Westford
the following items throw light upon the
identity of Lydia Bates (1).

Edward Bates of Boston, Lincolnshire,
England, came in the ship GrifHn in 1633,
with Thomas Leverett as his apprentice.
He was a freeman May, 1637. John
Bates, son of Edward Bates, was bap-
tized January 23, 1641-42, aged abjout
fourteen days, in the First Church, Bos-
ton. William (2) Fletcher (Robert 11),
married, second, Lydia Bates, November
11, 1645, according to the Concjord
Registers. February 1, 1656-57, ^he
brethren of the First Church of Chehns-
ford presented their children's names imd
ages as follows : \

Born to William Fletcher at this tinne :
John Bates, about fifteen years q!/ld;
Joshua Fletcher, twelve years; LitHia,

nine years; Samuel, four years; Paulc,
two years. The foregoing according
to the Rev. John Fiske's Notebook,
John (2) Bates (Henry 1), married,
December 22, 1665, Mary Farwell and
had a fourth child, Lydia. John Bates,
Sr., died April 17, 1722, aged about
eighty years, by his gravestone in Chelms-
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American Genealogies

This is a list of the genealogies of American families, published in book or
pamphlet form, with date of publication. Most of these works that are of early
date are now very rare. Copies of them are in most public libraries in the
larger cities of the United States and in the libraries of historical societies.
Copies also find their way in very small number into book auction sales and
into the hands of dealers in second-hand books. Genealogies of recent date are
generally procurable from the publishers. Inquiries in regard to these or any
other genealogical works may be addressed to the editor of Genealogy.

(Continued from page 221.)

Ambler. — Descendants of Jaquelin of
Virginia, with Letters from his Daugh-
ter, Mrs. Colonel Ambler 3rd Carring-
ton, and Extracts from his Funeral Ser-
mon Delivered by Rev. John Buchanan.
By George D. Fisher. Richmond, Va.,
1890.

Ambler. — A Sketch of the Willis
Family of Virginia, and of Their Kin-
dred in Other States. With Brief Biog-
raphies of the Reades, Warners, Lew-
ises. By Byrd Charles Willis and Rich-
ard Henry Willis. Richmond, Va., 1898.

Ambler. — Some Prominent Virginia
Families. By Louise Pecquet du Bellet.
Lynchburg, Va., 1907.

Ames. — The Samuel Ames Family: A
Genealogical Memoir of the Descendants
of Samuel Ames of Canterbury, N. H.
Six Generations: 1723-1891. Compiled
by John Kimball, A.M. Concord, N. H.,
1890.

Ames. — A Bit of Ames Genealogy.
Compiled by Fisher Ames. 1898.

Ames. — Some Genealogical Notes. By
Pelham W. Ames. San Francisco, 1900.

Ames. — Chart of Descendants of Wil-
liam Ames. Compiled by Ellis Ames of
Canton, Mass. Easton, Mass., 1851.

Ammidown. — Genealogical Memorial
and Family Record of the Ammidown
Family, and a Partial Record of Some
Other Families of Southbridge, Mass.
By Holmes Ammidown. Albany, 1877.

Ammidown. — The Amidon Family; a
Record of the Descendants of Roger

Amadowne of Rehoboth, Mass. By
Frank E. Best. Chicago, 1904.

Amory. — Amory. Amistad. [By T. C.
Amory.] Boston, 1856.

Amory. — The Amory Family of Bos-
ton. [By George T. Dexter.] 1897.

Amory.— The Amory Family of Bos-
ton, 1720-1900. By George Ticknor
Dexter. London, 1901.

Amory. — The Descendents of Hugh
Amory, 1605-1805. By Gertrude
Euphemia Meredith. London, 1901.

Amos. — Descendants of Henry Wal-
bridge, who married Anna Amos, De-
cember 25th, 1688, at Preston, Conn.,
with Some Notes on the Allied Families
of Brush, Fassett, Dewey, Forbes, Gager,
Lehman, Meech, Stafford, Scott. By
William Gedney Wallbridge. Phila-
delphia, 1898.

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Larzelere Family Tombs

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

From the St. James Episcopal ceme-
tery, Bristol, Penn. :

Benjamin Larzelere, died September
7, 1850, aged 84 years.

Sarah, his wife, died March 10, 1839,
aged 74 years.

Hannah Larzelere, died November 12,
1802, aged 54 years.

Nicholas Larzelere, died January 14,
1818, aged 75 years. W. M. C.

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Applegate Queries

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

My records go back to 1635 to Thomas
and Elizabeth Applegate whose names
are in the Massachusetts court records
at Weymouth. Thomas Applegate was
a ferryman between Weymouth and
Braintree. Later they removed to
Gravesend, L. I., bought one of the
original thirty-nine lots there and reared
a family of four boys and one girl, John,
Thomas, Ares, Bartholomew and Han-
nah. Ilie parents came from England
through Holland, probably with the Puri-
tans, and one of the children, at least
John, was bom abroad. The son,
Thomas, married Johanna Gibbons and
moved to New Jersey, probably at or
near what is Applegate's landing. Their
children and descendants lived arotmd
South Amboy and Perth Amboy and
Cranberry. The children of Thomas
(2) and Johannah (Gibbons) Applegate
were: Thomas, John, Daniel, Joseph,
Elizabeth, Benjamin and Richard. The
father died about 1699. Thomas (3)

Applegate, son, married Ann and

had four, children : Thomas, John, James
and Andrew. Andrew (4) Applegate,
born in 1732, married about 1754 and
left six children: Andrew, born Feb-
ruary 4, 1756; Ebenezer, Francis,
Zacharias, Phebe Walton and Tanson or
Fanson. This Andrew (5) Applegate
was a revolutionary soldier in New
Jersey under Captain Peter Perrine.
After the war he married Lydia Perrine,
and by her had ten children, bom be-
tween 1780 and 1800. John Perrine,
Peter, Margaret and Phebe married and
lived in New Jersey, probably around
Cranberry, South Amboy and Perth
Amboy and Princeton. After the death
of his wife Lydia, Andrew Applegate
married Elizabeth Pew, by whom he had
several children ; whom I have no trace.
Of the children of Lydia my grand-
father went to Ohio in 1816; Andrew
went to Pittsburgh ; William, the young-

est, also lived in Pittsburgh; Wilson
probably married in Brooklyn, N. Y.;
Enoch married in Hamilton county,
Ohio. I find by my records that Andrew
(5) Applegate and Elizabeth, his wife,
had six children : Tamasen, bom in 1806 :
Abigail, born in 1808; James, bom in
1811; Elizabeth, born in 1813; Fenwick,
bom in 1815, and Spafford Woodhull,
bom in 1817. My father was John (7)
Applegate, who married Anne Emery in
1838. If any one can give me the names
of any of the descendants of Andrew and
Lydia Applegate, also of Andrew and
Elizabeth Applegate's children or any
history of the New Jersey Applegates, I
will be grateful. [320] W. B. A.

The Fitch Family

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

In The Fitch Fmnily, in Genealogy,
No. 18, page 137, James Fitch married
Abigail W. Litchfield and had these chil-
dren, James, Abigail, Elizabeth, Hannah,
Samuel and Dorothy. Abigail (Whit-
field) Fitch died September 9, 1659.
James married Priscilla Mason and had
other children. On page 180, Vol. I, No.
23, of Genealogy, the birth of Hannah
is given September, 1663, and Samuel
April, 1665; both are children of the
first wife. It should be 1653 for 1663,
and 1655 for 1665. Also it would ap-
pear from the dates of the births of
Jeremiah Fitch and Jabez Fitch, sons of
James Fitch, and Priscilla Mason that
they were twins, the date, September,
1670, given as birth date for both. Were
they twins ? K. C. G.

Homer — Bams

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

I would be greatly pleased to learn
the parentage of Joseph Horner, bom
in 1760, and Sarah Barns, bom in 1776.
They were married some time during
1791 and tradition says somewhere in
New Jersey. [321] M. H. S.

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Coryell Family Burials

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

In the cemetery of the First Presby-
terian Church, Lambertville, N. J., arc
the following inscriptions:

George Coryell, died February 18,
1850, aged 91. He was a brother mem-
ber of George Washington in Masonic
lodge, No. 22, and was one of Wash-
ington's pall bearers.

Abraham Coryell, died May 28, 1836,
aged 90 years.

Cornelius Coryell, died July 1, 1831,
aged 99 years.

Joseph Smith, son of John and Re-
becca S. Coryell, born May 19, 1815;
died July 17, 1855.

John Coryell, born May 24, 1772; died
October 3, 1861.

Ann, wife of John Coryell, died May
31, 1810, aged 40 years.

John Warner, son of John and Ann
Coryell, bom September 14, 1797; died
February 5, 1834.

George W. Coryell, died September
14, 1847, aged 41 years.

Susan, wife of Joseph Coryell, died
October 27, 1868, aged 84.

Sarah D. Coryell, daughter of Joseph
and Susan Coryell, died July 8, 1830,
aged 28. R. T. S.

Van Wormer

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

Aaron Van Wormer, born in 1808 in
Cayuga county, N. Y., was the son of
Jeremiah Van Wormer (or Wormer),
bom in 1783, died in 1851, and his wife
Eunice Wattles (1788-1878). Eunice
Wattles was a daughter of William Wat-
tles, bom in 1757 in Connecticut, died
in 1841 in Locke, N. Y. William Wat-
tles' will mentions his wife Levina,
daughters Eunice Wormer, Lois Bur-
nette, Rhoda, Corn (?), Fanny Allen,
and sons William W., Sheman M., and
White I. Was Levina, mother or step-
mother of Eunice (Wattles) Van

Wormer. What was the maiden name
of Eunice's mother? I want her parent-
age, dates of birth, marriage and death;
also the parents of Jeremiah Van
Wormer, with dates and where they
were born, married and died; names of
children, with dates of birth. Did Jere-
miah Van Wormer's father serve in the
Revolution? Jeremiah was in the War
of 1812. [322] B. H. R.

Staten Island Tombs

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

In an abandoned cemetery on the south
shore of Staten Island, N. Y., near Great
Kills, are the following inscriptions:

In memory of Susan, wife of Samuel
Barton, who departed this life 18 Feb.
1819, aged 26 years, 3 months and 7 days.

Elizabeth, wife of John Wood, died
25th of August, 1797, aged 32 years and
2 months.

Sacred to the memory of Joseph B.
Holmes who died March 28, 1825, aged
28 years and 12 days.

In memory of John Merceau who de-
parted this life, August 8, 1799, aged 25
years, and 5 months.

Lewis Andrew Ovett, Jr., bom August
6, 1777, died April 1, 1811. W. M. C.

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To New Subscribers

WoodnifFs of New Jersey

This work by Francis E. Woodruff, of
Morristown, N. J., is a revised and en-
larged edition of A Branch of the Wood-
ruff Stock, published in pamphlet form
some time ago. It connects for the first
time the immigrant ancestor, John
Woodruff, with his forebears of the
town of Fordwich, Kent, England, as
far back as 1508. Something is said of
the earlier generations in Fordwich,
until, in 1638, Mr. Gosmer — ^who had
married the widowed mother of the im-
migrant (John Woodruff) — as mayor of

that town resisted King Charles' illegal
exaction of ship-money, in 1639 had
warning, and in 1640 appeared, with his
family, in America. Next is an account
of Southampton, L. I., with its whaling
squadron, land division and political
vicissitudes until, in the latter half of
the seventeenth century, the two sons of
the immigrant John Woodruff became
the progenitors of the Elizabeth branch
and of the Westfield branch of the New
Jersey family.

Genealogies in Preparation

Ralph J. Beevor, Esq., M.A. (Trinity
College, Cambridge), of Langley, Lems-
ford road, Saint Albans, England, is in-
terested in the genealogy of the English
families of Hare and Lee, as well as in
many other families in England.

Eugene F. McPike, Chicago, 111., has
nearly ready a pamphlet entitled Ro-
mance of Genealogy, with contents as
follows: "Genealogy in America";
"Origin of Surname Pike or Pyke;"
"Pike or Pyke Family in England";
"Halley Family in England"; "Stuart,
Freeman, Day and Parry Families";
"Dumont, Traverrier and Rezeau Fami-
lies"; "Guest Family of New Jersey";
"McPike Family in the United States" ;
"Denton Family in England and the
United States"; and "Lyon, Fairfield
and Thurber Families."

Deeds f^om Indians

On May 25, 1756, the Stockbridge In-
dians sold at Springrfield, Mass., lands
valued at two hundred pounds to Rol>-
ert Noble, Thomas Whitney, Japhet
Hunt, and John McArthur. Oil Septem-
ber 27, the same year, lands were sold to
Truman Powell, Joseph Chillenden, Joel
Spencer, and on March 15, 1757, lands
were sold to John Halmbeck, William
Halmbeck, Andrew Reas, Samuel Rob-
bins, Asa Douglass, Benjamin Willard,
Andrew Stevens.

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An Irish-American Montgomery Line

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

By Thomas McBurney Montgomery.

(Continued from page 219.)

IV.
Thomas Montgomery, eldest son of
Thomas Montgomery, married Ann
Jane Sinclair, daughter of John Sinclair
of Bally Kennedy, county Antrim, and
their children are entered in the registry
of the Presbyterian now non-conforming
church in Crumlin. They are as follows :

1. William John, born April 25, 1795,
died April 9, 1843.

2. Mary, bom in 1796, died January
14, 1864.

3. James Henry, born in 1797; re-
moved to Canada, where he married Jane
Hull who died in September 1876; he
died April 11, 1847, but left no issue.

4. Hugh Robert, bom November 28,
1801 ; died July 14, 1887.

5. Margaret, born October 18, 1803;
died, unmarried, Febmary 27, 1900.

6. Thomas Alexander, bora January
27, 1807; married but left no issue; a
sergeant in the army, and died in India
May 4, 1839.

7. Ann Jane, bom August 18, 1805;
died in infancy.

8. Kennedy Sinclair, born May, 1810;
died in infancy.

9. Isabella, born October 18, 1812;
died, unmarried, November 17, 1883.

John Montgomery, second son of

Thomas Montgomery, had descendants
but there is no certain information con-
cerning them. It is, however, believed
that the following is correct :

John Montgomery of Bally Donaghy,
in county Antrim, by his will dated April
6, 1888, devised all his lands in Bally-
donaghy to his three daughters specific-
ally as follows:

1. Ellen, 6 acres, 3 rods and house.

2. Anne, 6 acres.

3. Sarah, 4 acres, 3 rods and house.

Archibald Montgomery, eldest child of
Archibald Montgomery, bom December
11, 1821, in Ireland, emigrated to Amer-
ica in the ship Henry Clay. He landed
in New York, in 1904, and is still living
there.

Montgomery, eldest daughter

of Archibald Montgomery, married John
Carlisle of Ashbourne Strandtowne, Ire-
land. She died in March, 1902. Their
children were :

1. Margaret, married her cousin, Wil-
liam James Pirrie.

2. Alexander.

3. Agnes.

Montgomery, second daughter

of Archibald Montgomery, married

Moore. Their children were:

1. James Moore of Finaghy.

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2. Anna Moore of Dundesert.

Margaret Montgomery, third daugh-
ter of Archibald Montgomery, bom in
1817, married John R. Neill. She died
May 4, 1903. Issue :

Eliza Montgomery, fourth daughter of
Archibald Montgomery, married James
Alexander Pirrie of Little Chandeloye,
county Down, and had: William James
Pirrie.

William John Montgomery, eldest son
of Thomas and Anna Jane (Sinclair)
Montgomery, bom in county Antrim,
near Crumlin, Ireland, April 25, 1795.
He sailed from Belfast April 27, 1818,
and arrived at St. Andrews, New Bruns-
wick, June 4, 1818, and in Philadelphia,
Penn., July 3, 1818, where he settled, and
on August 24, 1813, married Sarah Man-
derson daughter of Andrew and Eliza-
beth (McBurney) Manderson, both of
whom were natives of county Antrim,
Ireland. He died April 9, 1843, and his
widow, who was born May 16, 1797, died
May 30, 1868. Their children were:

1. Mary Letitia.

2. Arthur Harper, born December 1,
1830; died, unmarried, December 1,
1860.

3. Thomas McBurney, bora Novem-
ber 26, 1831.

4. James Sinclair, born August 11,
1833; died June 30, 1834.

5. Elizabeth Manderson, born January
21, 1835; died June 15, 1838.

6. William Henry, bom November 6,
1837; died July 14, 1838.

Mary Montgomery, bom in 1796, mar-
ried George Burleigh who was bom in
1790 and died July 5, 1865. Their chil-
dren were : Mary, died in Glasgow with-
out issue ; George, died in Glasgow with-
out issue ; Robert, who was in the sixty-
ninth regiment and died in Bermuda with-
out issue; Margaret, died, June 6, 1901,
in Crumelin, unmarried; Isabella, died
December 12, 1901, in Crumelin, unmar-
ried; Thomas Henry Alexander, who

had children : Isabella, George, Margaret,
John, Thomas, Mary, Agnes and James.

Hugh Robert Montgomery born No-
vember 28, 1800, married November 5,
1828, Fanny Eleanor Wade who was
born July 14, 1801. Hugh Robert Mont-
gomery emigrated from Ireland to Amer-
ica and settled near Russelltown in Can-
ada, where he died July 14, 1887. He
had one child only, Ann Jane Mont-
gomery, bom August 26, 1829; died
February 27, 1901. Married, December
18, 1848, Adam J. L. Reay, who was
born December 26, 1819, and died in
1908. son of John and Jennet Reay.

William James Pirrie, only son of
James Alexander and Eliza (Mont-
gomery) Pirrie, was bom in Quebec,
Canada, May 21, 1847. He was educated
in the Belfast Royal Academical Insti-
tute and entered the Harlahd & Wolff's
Shipbuilding and Engineering establish-
ment in 1862; became a partner in that
concern in 1874 and is now chairman.
He was lord mayor of Belfast, 1896-97 :
high sheriff, county Antrim, 1898 and
county Down 1899, and first honorable
freeman of the city of Belfast, 1898. In
1906 he was created Baron Pirrie. He
married, in 1879, his cousin, Margaret

Carlisle, daughter of John and -•

(Montgomery) Carlisle of Ashboume.
No issue.

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Tyler

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

Timothy Tyler, son of Bezaleel and
and Abigail (Johnson) Tyler, was born
in 1719, in Branford, Conn. Bezaleel
died in Sharon, in 1760, leaving Timothy
and several other children. I want the
parentage of Bezaleel Tyler and Abigail
(Johnson) Tyler; the dates of their
birth ; the dates and where Timothy was
married and died; maiden name of his
wife ; their children, with dates of birth.
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A North Carolina Weeks
Family

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

Lemuel Weeks of Chowan county,
North Carolina, who married Sallie
Perry in 1790, left six children: John,
James, Hugh, Polly, who married Cor-
nelius Raper; a daughter, who married
a Benton; and Nancy.

James Weeks and Hugh Weeks died
young and without issue. Lemuel Weeks
died in 1803, leaving his wife Sally, a
son John, and several grandchildren sur-
viving him. The widow died in 1826 at
the home of her son, John Weeks, on
Little River in Pasquotank county,
N. C.

Lemuel Weeks was the son of Thomas
Weeks of Perquimans county, who died
in 1808. John Weeks, the son of Lem-
uel and Sally Weeks, was the grand-
father of Stephen B. Weeks, the distin-
guished writer and historian of North
Carolina. A. B. W.

Scotch-French Ancestry

The Scotch and French kings at one
time were closely allied. Consequently
genealogists frequently find that a fam-
ily supposed to be Scotch is really
French, if it is traced back to its roysJ
ancestor. There is one family of Car-
penters from a French royal line, al-
though most of the Carpenters, like the
Meigs, Baxters, and Lindseys, are de-
scended from David I. of Scotland. The
Claiboumes of Virginia are descendants
of Malcolm IL, as are also the Chatm-
ceys, while the descendants of Robert
Bruce are found under many names.

Morton Family Tombs

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

In the Episcopal cemetery, Bristol,
Penn., are the following:

Hugh Morton, bom May 19, 1740,
died December 1, 1812.

Ann Morton, born July 16, 1804, died
March 22, 1883.

William Morton, died April 15, 1814,
aged 35 years, 4 months and 17 days.

Andre, son of Hugh and Ann Morton,
died October 14, 17&5, aged 14 years.

Hugh Morton, died December 28,
1814 aged 30 years, 9 months and 20
days.

Ann Morton, died Jtme 9, 1821, aged
74 years, 2 months and 2 days.

Mary, daughter of Hugh and Ann
Morton, died January 7, 1796, aged 8
years and 7 months. W. M. C.

Forgotten Perrine Graves

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

Tombstones in an ancient cemetery
located on a hilltop near Great Kills,
Staten Island, New York, bear the fol-
lowing inscriptions:

Anne Perrme died the fifth day of
April, 1806, aged 67 years.

In memory of Annie, daughter of
Henry and Mary Perrine, who died June
8, 1790.

Sacred to the memory of Mr. Edward
Perrine, who died April 21, 1797, in the
45th year of his age. W. M. C.

John Augustus Ernst and Jean Andre
de Luc, natives of Geneva, Switzerland,
were granted 20,000 acres of land in
East Florida, on May 13, 1767.

The records of every family of early
American origin constitute a material
part in the history of the American peo-
ple. These records are fast disappear-
ing and the importance of assembling
them where they can be forever available
for future consultation is now every-
where recognized. Send us the history
of your immediate family, with dates
and places of birth, marriage and death.
These records will be permanently pre-
served in the columns of Genealogy and
in the files of our Manuscript Library
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Heads of Families, Census 1790, Wallen Papack,
' Northampton County, Pennsylvania

Woodward, Enos
Chapman, Simeon
Kimble, Jacob
Bingham, Hezekiah, Jr.
Ensley, Simon
Purdy, Silas
Stanton, Jacob
Stanton, William
Goodrich, William
Welles, Gedediah

Jones, Ruben
Bennet, Stephen
Witty, Elijah
Lester, Phenias
Ensley, John
Bryan, Prince
Kellen, Sadoc
Kellen, Silis
Pellet, John
Kellen, Epharam

Kimble, Epharem
Woodworth, Abisha
Kellem, Moses
Kellem, John
Kimble, Abel
Chapman, Uriah
Vanannon, Ephraram
Masterson, Domini
Munrow, Ann.

Crozier Graves in Bristol, Penn.

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

In St. James Episcopal cemetery, Bris-
tol, Penn., are the following:

Andrew Crozier, died October 24,
1776, aged 76.

Mary, wife of Andrew Crozier, died
November 22, 1785, in her 63d year.

Sarah Crozier, died May 10, 1768, aged
14 years.

Hector S., son of Samuel and Martha
Crozier, died August 20, 1817, aged 6
years and 10 months.

John M., son of Samuel and Martha
Crozier, died August 17, 1817, aged 2
years.

Samuel Crozier, died April 12, 1847,
aged 47 years. . W. M. C.

Pennsylvania Flickingers

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

In the issue of Genealogy for April
27, Susanna (Flickinger) Arnold's name
appeared. She was a daughter of John
D. Flickinger and his wife Susan Witt.
Susan Witt died January 1, 1840. John
D. Flickinger was bom in 1758 and died
March 8, 1820. He was a son of Peter
Flickinger, 1730-1807, who arrived in
America September 14, 1753, at the age
of 23 years. John D. Flickinger had
brothers and sisters: Christian, George,
Henry, Peter, Elizabeth, Catharine and

Hannah. The brothers and sisters of
Susanna Flickinger were: George, 1783-
1858; Peter, 1787-1849; Jacob, died aged
36; Abraham, 1793-1841; John, 1795-
1872; Daniel, 1800-1885; Katie, 1803-
1888; Samuel, 1805-1873; Leah, died
aged 37; Polly, died aged 84. Susanna
(Flickinger) Arnold died in December
1880, aged 96 years 1 month 24 days.

S. H. F.

Fitch— Mason— Wattles

[Contributed to Genealogy.]
Judith Fitch was a daughter of Joseph
Fitch, who died in 1741 and whose will
mentions his first and second wives and
their children. His first wife seems to
have been Sarah Mason, daughter of
John Mason, and his second wife was

Ann (Whiting?). Which wife

was the mother of Judith? Judith Fitch
married John Wattles of Windham
county, Conn., in 1722. Want data of
this John Wattles and this Joseph Fitch.
[324] B.H.R.

Johnny — Say, pop, what are ances-
tors?

Father — Er — well — er — ^your grand-
father, for instance, is your ancestor.
And I'm your ancestor. Now you under-
stand ?

Johnny — ^Yes, but what do people want
to brag about their ancestors for, then?

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Lake Family Burials

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

In a neglected and forgotten farm
cemetery on Southfield boulevard, near
Great Kills, Staten Island, N. Y., are
the following tombstone inscriptions :

In memory of Captain William Lake
who died March 31, 1783, aged 33 years
and 2 months.

In memory of Daniel Lake who died
August 30, 1792, aged 73 years.

In memory of Cornelius Lake who
departed this life September 5, 1803, aged
33 years and 7 months.

In memory of John Lake, son of Wil-
liam Lake, who departed this life Jan-
uary 27, 1807, aged 25 years and 8 days.

In memory of Mary, wife of William
Lake, who died November 12, 1805, aged
S3 years, 4 months, and 7 days.

In memory of William Lake who de-
parted this life October 22, 1805, aged 77
years.

In memory of Sarah, wife of William
Lake, who died April 5, 1810, aged 83
years, and 4 months.

Samuel Lake, son of Lewis P. and
Mary Lake, died October 10, 1811, aged
18 years.

In memory of William Lake who died
October 25, 17 — , aged 32 years.

In memory of Daniel Lake who died
March 16, 1807, aged 65 years and 7
months.

In memory of Ann Lake, wife of
Daniel Lake, who died March 15, 1822,
aged 76 years, 17 months and 15 days.

W. M. C.

Govemor Tryon's Household

In January, 1774, at the time of the
fire at Fort George, New York, Gov-
emor Tryon sent the following list of his
household to Lord Dartmouth: Patty
Hatch, housekeeper, Benjamin Johnson,
Malcolm Mclsaac, Ann Patterson, Isaac
De Perry, Elizabeth Dudley, Elizabeth
Laycock, Moses Mardon.

Pidcock Family Graves

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

In Lambertville, N. J., in the cemetery
of the First Presbyterian Church are the
following :

Martha Pidcock, consort of Charles
Pidcock, died August 21, 1821, aged 64
years.

John Pidcock, died February 2, 1861,
aged 77 years, 1 month, 27 days.

Mary, wife of Jonathan Pidcock, died
June 22, 1876, aged 51 years, 10 months.

Elizabeth, daughter of Jonathan, and
Mary Pidcock, died December 30, 1860,
aged 48 years, 4 months and 29 days.

P. M. W.

Wills of StarkXounty, Ohio

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

Joseph Flickinger to his wife Eliza-
beth. Will dated December 5, 1839, pro-
bated April 20, 1840. Witnesses, Michael
Croft and Henry Fronk.

Jeremiah Clemens of the town of Mas-
sillon, to his wife Melinda, son Joseph
and daughter Caroline. Will dated
April 16, 1861, probated September 27,
1866.

John Clemens of Bethlehem township.
Stark county. To his wife, daughter
Barbara Emeline, and division between
his children and heirs of wife's first hus-
band, David Henry. Will dated May 12,
1871, probated July 19, 1871.

Samuel Flickinger of Washington
township to his wife. June 22, 1875.

Elizabeth Clemens of Minerva to her
husband Abraham and her children. June
20, 1896.

Samuel H. Montgomery of Osnaberg
to his wife. January 20, 1896.

John Clemens of Bethlehem township
to his wife. April 16, 1902.

Among the organizers of the Sons ot
Liberty, New York, 1766, were Thomas
Robinson, Isaac Sears, John Lamb, Wil-
liam Willey and Gresham Mott.

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A Moody Line of Pennsylvania

[Contributed to Genealogy.]
By Price Moody.

July 27, 191Z

John Moody wa« born in Ireland, and
he married there Betsy Richie, a widow,
whose maiden name was Betsy Wright.
They had one child, a son, David Moody,
who was born on shipboard on their way
to America. He was born on June 25,
1785. John Moody was accompanied to
America by his two brothers, one of them
named David. They settled in Fayette
county, Penn.

II
David Moody, son of John and Betsy
(Wright-Richie) Moody, married Re-
becca Daugherty in Fayette county,
Penn. John Daugherty, father of Re-
becca Daugherty, was born in Ireland.
He was married three times, and by his
first wife had one child named John. His
first wife died, and he married, second,

McCurdy. To this union were

bom Rebecca, Martha, Elizabeth, Mar-
garet, Jane and Sarah. Rebecca
Daugherty, who married David Moody,
was bom May 18, 1780. The children
of David and Rebecca (Daugherty)
Moody were: John Moody, bom July
15, 1806; Andrew; Elizabeth; James;
David, bom November 4, 1812; Martin
N.; Martha Jane; Eli Wilkinson; and
Rebecca. The first six were bom in
Fayette county, and Martha Jane and
Eli W. were born in another part of the
state of Pennsylvania. Rebecca was
born in Belmont county, Ohio. The
father, David Moody, bom June 25,
1785, died December 29, 1850; the
mother, Rebecca Moody, born May 18,
1780, died April 18, .1864.

John Moody married Mary Hart, Feb-
ruary 4, 1847, and had a son, bom in
September, 1848, died same day.

Andrew Moody died in boyhood.

Elizabeth Moody married William
Newell, and had Emily, Mary and two
other daughters.

James Moody died in boyhood.

David Moody married Nancy Moore
Price, February 14, 1850. They had:
John, bom November 30, 1850; Marcy,
bcjtn July 1, 1852 ; Rebecca, born March
3, 1854; Susannah, bom April 15, 1856;
Price, born February 6, 1858; Zach, bora
July 13, 1860; Emma, born September
27, 1862; Nancy, bom November 25,
1864; Lauwretta, bom July 19, 1867.

Martin Neeley Moody married Sarah
Ann Schnyder and had: Rebecca,
Frances, James W., David, John H.,
Mary E., Anna, Adelaide, Samuel ; May
and one other child that died in infancy.

Martha Jane Moody married William
Peugh and had : Rebecca, Mary, Letish,
Sarah, Otie, Lucy, Gustie and Rurie.

Eli Wilkinson Moody, born November
10, 1819, married Rose Ann Gardener,
born May 5, 1826. They had: Jeramie,
born July 1, 1851 ; Mary R., born Sep-
tember 11, 1853; Eva, born July 21,
1856; Jane, born April 29, 1861; Ella,
born Febmary 6, 1863.

Rebecca Moody married Jasper
Daugherty. They had: James, David,
William, Andrew, Alva, and several
others.

The children of David and Nancy
Moore (Price) Moody were: John
Moody, bom November 30, 1850; Mary
Moody, bom July 1, 1852; Rebecca J.
Moody, born March 3, 1854; Susannah
Moody, born April 15, 1856; Price
Moody, bom Febmary 6, 1858; Zach
Moody, born July 13, 1860; Emma V.
Moody, bom September 27, 1862;
Nancy Bell Moody, born November 25,
1864; Lauwretta Moody, bom July 19,
1867. David Moody, the father, died

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near Mountsville, Morgan county, Ohio,
July 25, 1880. Nancy (Moore) Moody,
the mother, died near Mountsville,
Morgan county, Ohio, April 7, 1896.

John Moody married Mary Jane
Crawford in Malta, Morgan county,
Ohio, in January, 1871. They had:
Qarence E., bom in April, 1872; Fred-
rick D., bom in 1875; Howard, born in
1880 and died in 1881.

Mary Moody married John Stephen-
son, September 4, 1874. They had:
David Oakley, bora in 1875 and died in
1899; Alvin, born in 1882.

Rebecca J. Moody married John
Daugherty, September 4, 1874. They
had Hattie and Mary.

Susannah Moody married Aaron
Wells, February 29, 1876. They had
one daughter and three sons.

Price Moody married Moriah C. Ivers,
September 27, 1884. They had: Vit-
toria, born January 26, 1888; Beatrice,
bom November 7, 1889, died November
10, 1892; Fannie, born May 7, 1898;
Marie, baptized December 14, 1899.

Zach Moody married Viola Hambel in
1883 and had one son and four daugh-
ters.

Nancy B. Moody married Nathaniel
Hart and had two daughters.

Lauwretta Moody married Silas Giin
and had one son.

A Tangled Tangle

The problem of the Uriah Cross who,
according to records, appears to have
had two distinct lots of brothers, has
been a standing genealogical puzzle for
years. Investigations diligently pursued
in a variety of directions have brought
no conclusive results. One list of brothers
of Uriah, said to be from a family Bible,
was: Abel, Noah, Uriah, Joel, Joseph
and Solomon, with Uriah born in Coven-
try, Conn., April 3, 1750. The other
list gives : Ichabol, Daniel, John, Shubal,
Theophilus and Uriah, bom June 9,
1752. The Uriah Cross of Coventry,

Conn., married Anne Payne. The other
Uriah was son of Daniel (5) Cross
(Daniel 4, Peter 3, Peter 2, William 1),
and married Elizabeth Abbe. Children
bora to Uriah Cross and Mary, his wife,
were: Uriah, bom August 21, 1778;
Sarah Abbie, bora April 2, 1781 ; Eliza-
beth, bom November 8, 1782; Moses,
bom August 7, 1784, recorded at Lunen-
burg, Vt., January 22, 1785, poneers; one
son still-bom, bom March 2, 1780;
Hazen, born August 2, 1786; James, born
April 14, 1789.

This is without doubt the Uriah of the
second list of brothers with Daniel and
Elizabeth Abbe Cross for parents. One
investigator has notes that Anne, daugh-
ter of Moulton Cross, son of Uriah, mar-
ried her cousin, Noah Cross, son of Joel.
There is also the birth of Abel, May 28,
1738, who married Mary Lyndrea at
Sherbom Falls, town of Buckland,
Franklin county, Mass. Mary Lyndrea
was born February 1, 1741, in Sherbom
Falls.

Both of these Uriahs lived in Vermont
during the Revolution. One received a
pension and died at Georgetown, August
4, 1835. Tombstone record coincides
with birth April 9, 1750, but it is said that
county records show no such birth.

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To New Subscribers

From the Irish Kings

Many Irish-American citizens take
great pride in a line of descent carrying
them straight back to the old Irish kings,
who reigned even before the time of
William the Conqueror. Notwithstand-
ing the time which has elapsed since Ire-
land had a government of its own there
are prominent families both in America
and Ireland who possess authentic gene-
alogical records, going back for cen-
turies, which are clearer than many of
the most boasted English records. The
real O'SuUivans are descendants from

Louis VII. of France through Odo
O'Connor, the last king of Connaught,
as are also the Burkes and several other
well-known families, whose names seem
to entitle them to Irish birth.

Back to Adam

The Venerable Bede, in his life of
Alfred the Great, gives a genealogical
record of the royal families of Europe
back to Adam. Josephus also partially
substantiates some parts of this record.
There are now several tables covering
this ground, and the one carrying the
descent to Alfred the Great is frequently
referred to. It takes thirty-four genera-
tions to go back to Egbert, the first king
of England, who was the grandfather
of Alfred the Great, and from him forty-
six generations are supposed to lead
back to Adam.

The table begins with Adam and has
Scriptural authority for eleven genera-
tions ; the Biblical authority ending with
Shem, the son of Noah.

After Shem come twenty-one genera-
tions of Saxon chiefs. Among these is
Woden, who, under different names, is
identified in Roman history and in the
traditions of several other nations. The
Saxon records come down to the year
495, when the Saxon King Cedric landed
in Britain. His descendants ruled for
twenty-one generations, until Egbert was
crowned as the first real English mon-
arch. Much of this record is, however,
purely mythical.

Quakers to the King

In May, 1775, no less than sixty Amer-
ican Quakers signed a petition to the
British Crown praying that the sword
might be stayed and other means tried
for a lasting union with the Americans.
Among the signers of the petition were
John Fry, William Storrs Fry, Robert
Howard, John Fothergill and Thomas
and Robert Letwoith.

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Vol. 2., No. 5

New York, August 3, 1912

Whole No. 31

The Curtis Ancestors

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

The American founders of the Curtis
families in America were of English
origin. They were among the earliest
emigrants, and they settled in nearly all
the colonies. The principal pioneers are
in the list herewith.

Deodate Curtis was settled in Brain-
tree, Mass., about 1643. By his first
wife he had a son Solomon; by his sec-
ond wife, Rebecca, he had Ruth, bom in
Braintree, January 8, 1648.

Elizabeth Curtiss, widow, was a prop-
erty owner in Stratford, Conn., about
1650. She was the mother of John and
William Curtiss of Stratford.

Francis Curtis settled in Plymouth,
Mass., in 1671 and married Hannah
Smith, daughter of John Smith of Ply-
mouth, December 28, 1671. Issue^ all
bom in Plymouth: John, born July 16,
1673; Benjamin, bora August 11, 1675,
married Mary Besse, daughter of Nehe-
miah Besse of Sandwich, 1700; Francis,
bom* in April, 1679, married Hannah
Bosworth in 1700; Elizabeth, bom June
15, 1681 ; Elisha, bora in March, 1683,
married Amy West; Ebenezer, married,
first, Mary Pinkham, daughter of Heze-
kiah Pinkham of Plymouth in 1710, and
married, second, Martha Doty, daughter
of John Doty of Plymouth in 1718.

George Curtis settled in Boston, where

he was made a freeman May 13, 1640.
He was a servant to John Cotton.

Henry Curtis was bora in England,
1608. He sailed for New England in
the ship Elizabeth and Ann May 6, 1635,
and settled in Watertown, Mass., in 1636 ;
married Mary Guy, daughter of Nicholas
Guy of Watertown, Mass. In 1641 he
removed to Sudbury, Mass., where he
died May 8, 1678. The Topsfield and
Worcester families were descended from
him. Issue : Ephraim, bora in Sudbury,
Mass., March 31, 1642, a freeman in
Topsfield in 1686, and prominent in King
Phillip's war; John, bora in Sudbury in
1642, married Sarah Locke of Topsfield,
December 4, 1672, and died in 1679;
Joseph, bora in Sudbury, 1647, married
Abigail Grout — and died November 26,
1700.

Henry Curtis bora in Stratford-on-
Avon or Coventry, England, 1621. He
settled in Windsor, Conn., May 13, 1645,
and removed to Northampton, Mass., in
1633, where he died November 30, 1661.
His descendants are in Coventry, Conn.,
and Northampton, Mass. Issue: Row-
land, bom in Windsor, Conn., in 1647,
died yotmg; Samuel, bora in Windsor,
Conn., April 26, 1649, married Sarah
Alexander, daughter of George Alex-
ander of Northfield, Mass. July 23 1678,
aiid died July 28, 1721 ; Nathaniel, bom

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in Windsor, Conn., July 15, 1651, and
was killed by the Indians at Northfield
September 2, 1675.

Henry Curtis of Boston married Jane

. His descendants are found in

Braintree, Quincy and Stoughton, Mass.
Issue: John, born in Boston, July 2,
1657; Theophilus; Jane.

John Curtiss bom in England, 1611.
He settled in Stratford, Conn.

John Corteis owned fifteen acres of
land in Roxbury, Mass., in 1638-40 and
had five persons in his family. No
further record is found of him on the
records of that town. He is supposed to
have been the husband of Elizabeth Cur-
tiss of Stratford, Conn., and father of
John and William Curtiss.

John Curtis owned land in Wethers-
field, Conn., in 1639-40, but disappeared,
leaving no trace. In the Memorial His-
tory of Hartford County it is said that
he left in 1639-40 for Cupheag (Strat-
ford), Conn. He may be the John Cor-
teis of Stratford.

John Curtis, "ex-representative," was
accepted into the town of Dover, N. H.,
in 1657.

John Curtis settled in Scituate, Mass.,
in 1640; was probably brother of
Thomas, Richard and William of Scitu-
ate.

Richard Curtis settled in Scituate,
Mass., in 1640, probably with his
brothers John, Thomas and William. He
removed to Marblehead, Mass., in 1648,
but returned to Scituate the following
year; married, first, Ann Hallett, daugh-
ter of John Hallett, in 1649, and married,
second, Lydia . He died in Scitu-
ate, Mass., in 1693. His descendants are
found in Scituate and Hanover, Mass.
Issue: Ann, born in Scituate in 1649;
Elizabeth, bom in Scituate in 1651, mar-
ried Nathaniel Brooks of Scituate in
1678; John, born in Scituate December
1, 1653, married Miriam Brooks, daugh-

ter of William Brooks of Scituate, in
1678; Mary, born in Scituate in 1655,
married Mr. Bradcocke; Martha, bora
in Scituate in 1657, married Thomas
Clark of Scituate in 1676 ; Thomas, born
in Scituate March 18, 1659, married
Mary Cooke, daughter of William Cooke
of Scituate, in 1694; Deborah, bora in
Scituate in 1661 ; Sarah, bora in Scitu-
ate in 1663.

Richard Curtice of Salem, Mass., mar-
ried Sarah . His descendants are in

Southold, L. I., and Hebron, and Sharon,
Conn. Issue, all bora in Salem: Caleb,
bom July 24, 1646, married Elizabeth
Rider, daughter of Thomas and Abigail
Terry Rider of Southold, L. I., Decepi-
ber 1, 1670, and died in Southold March
18, 1730; Samuel, born February 1,
1651 ; Richard, born December 14, 1652;
Sarah, bora January 19, 1654; Hannah,
bora July 16, 1656; John, bora Decem-
ber 2, 1658, died young; John, born
April 4, 1660, died young; Mary, bora
December 11, 1662.

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Gale Family Graves

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

The following inscriptions come from
the St. James Episcopal Church ceme-
tery, Bristol, Penn. :

Isaac Gale, died November 11, 1811,
aged 51 years and 20 days.

Abigail, wife of Isaac Gale, died July
9, 1823, aged 62 years.

Hannah Gale, wife of William Gale,
died September 13, 1822, aged 23 years,
2 months, and 17 days. W. M. C.

Early New York Land Grants

On October 24, 1708, Governor Cora-
bury at the Fort at New York issued
letters patent for grants of land to Peter
Schuyler, Derick Wessels, John Abeel,
Jan Bleecker, Ebenezer Willson, Peter
Van Connier, Doctor Daniell Cock,
Thomas Whenham, and Henry Smith.

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From an Old Massachusetts Cemetery

[Contributed to Ginealogy.]
By C. Wyman Pearl.

The following inscrip- ye 24th. year of his age. Richards who died Dec.

tions are from gravestones In Memory of Martha 26th. 1812 in the 90th. year

in the old Mattfield Street Daughter of Lent. Jonathan of his age.

Cemetery in West Bridge- Packard and Martha his In Memory of Mrs.

water, Mass. wife who departed this life Keziah wife of Mr. John

Lent. Jonathan Packard Jan. ye 19th. 1784 in ye Richards who died June

Died May 27th 1805 in his 19th. year of her age. 9th. 1807 in her 73d. year.

7Sth year. In Memory of Mr. Jona- In Memory of Mr. Caleb

Mrs. Martha wife of than Snell who died Nov. Kingman bom Sept. 25th.
Leut. Jonathan Packard 22d. 1800— in his 83 year— 1744 died Sept. 16th. 1807
Died March 1810 in her In Memory of Mrs. Mar- aged 63.
82d year. tha wife of Mr. Jonathan In Memory of Deac. Jo-
Mrs. Aletha Packard Snell. She died Nov. ye siah Richards who died
Died Dec. 30th. 1805 in 16th 1781 in ye S4th. year Apr. 6th. 1815. Aged 90
her 52d year. of her age. years.

In Memory of Abagal In Memory of Mr. Jona- In Memory of Mrs.

Daughter of Leut. Jona- than Snell Son of Mr. Jona- Anne wife of Dea. Josiah

than Packard and Martha than Snell and Martha his Richards died Aug. 12th

his wife pased this life May wife he died Mar. ye 9th. 1828 aged 81

ye 20th. 1786 in ye 17th 1782 in ye 30th year of his In Memory of Mr. Ezra

year of her age. age — Richards who died Sept.

In Memory of Susanna In Memory of Edward ye 26th. 1786 in ye 52d.

Daughter of Leut. Jonathan Snell son of Mr. Jonathan year of his, age.

Packard and Maitha his Snell and Martha his wife In Memory of Mrs.

wife who departed this Life who died Dec. ye 223. 1782 Lyda Richards widow of

Aug. ye 5th. 1785 in ye 24th in ye 18th year of his age — Mr. Benjamin Richards

year of her age. In Memory of Capt. Jo- who died Apr. ye 23d.

In Memory of Caleb siah Snell who died Feb. 1788 in ye 93d year of her

Packard who departed this 17th. 1803 his age 73 age. ,

Life May ye 27th. 1783 in In Memory of Mr. John

Andrew Johnston of New Jersey

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

Andrew Johnston was born in New in New York for a while, and after 1717

York, December 20, 1694. His father, moved to Amboy, N. J. His place in the

Dr. John Johnstone, had been a druggist New Jersey town went by the name

in Edinburgh and came to America in "Edinboro Castle." He inherited the

1685. Dr. Johnstone went bail for proprietary rights of his father, and was

Rev. Francis Makemie, when that at one time the president of the board of

Presbyterian preacher was arrested in proprietors. He was for several years

New York by Lord Combury for preach- speaker of the assembly, aitd was treas-

ing without permission from his lord- urer of the College of New Jersey. He

ship. Andrew Johnston was in business died June 24, 1762, in Perth Amboy.

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The McGobb Family of Maine

The McCobb family came from Eng-
land and settled in Phippsburg, Maine,
before the Revolution. James McCobb,
who with his mother and his first and
second wives and a son are buried in the
cemetery in Dromore, Phippsburg,
Maine, was born in Londonderry, Ire-
land, 1710, came to New England in
1731, bringing with him his mother and
three younger brothers. They landed
first at Boston. The younger brother
Samuel settled in Massachusetts, William
settled in Townsend (Boothbay), Gieorge
settled in St. George, and James himself
settled in Georgetown on the Kennebec
River.

He commenced business in lumber and
in commerce, and was at one time jus-
tice of the first court of common pleas
for the county of Lincoln. He lived to
the advanced age of eighty-two years.
In 1737 he married his cousin, Bettress
Rodgers (daughter of George Rodgers),
for his first wife. She came to this coun-
try with him and by her he had the fol-
lowing issue:

John McCobb, bom in Georgetown,
Me., October 8, 1738, and in 1759, No-
vember 10, killed by the French at the
siege of Quebec, in a vessel owned by
his father. No issue.

Isabellah McCobb bom 1740, March
21 ; died 1811 ; married Jacob Parker.

George McCobb, born 1742, March 23,
and died on his passage after the expe-
dition of Quebec, November 22, 1760, he
then being captain of a transport vessel
belonging to his father. Unmarried.

Samuel McCobb, born 1744, Novem-
ber 20, died 1791. Married Rachel
Denny.

James McCobb, bom 1746, July 9, died
in 1782. He was master of one of his
father's vessels at the time of his death.
No issue.

Bettress McCobb, born 1748, died
1816. Married Mains of Woolwich.

Thomas McCobb, bom 1751, October

7, died March 25, 1776, aged twenty-
four years, at sea on his passage from
England, and was brought home and in-
terred in the family burying ground in
Dromore. No issue.

Margaret and Frances, bom January
7, 1754. Margaret died 1810, Frances
died 1811. Margaret married William
Lee. Frances married Ezekiel Gushing.

(Ann) or Nancy McCobb, born April
15, 1756, died 1825. Married Levi
Leathers.

Bettress McCobb, first wife of James
McCobb, died 1772, February 11, aged
fifty-five.

James McCobb, married his second
wife, Mrs. Hannah Miller of Bristol, in
1774. She was the daughter of Alexan-
der Nickels, Sr., and sister to Captain
Alexander Nickels. By her he had the
following children:

Mary and Jane, who were born Sep-
tember 24, 1775. Mary married Mark
Langdon Hill and Jane married Captain
Nickels of Wiscasset. Jane died 1812.
Mary in 1817.

Thomas McCobb was bom 1778, Feb.
25, died in 1815. Was a member of the
legislature of Massachusetts at the time
of his death. Married Rebecca Hill.

Hannah Miller McCobb, second wife
of James McCobb, died July 17, 1779.

James McCobb, married, for his third
wife, Mrs. Mary (Langdon) (Storer)
Hill of Biddeford. They were published
August 28, 1782, and a certificate issued
September 11, 1782. She was a sister
of Govemor John Langdon of Ports-
mouth, N. H., who was the first president
of the United States Senate. She had
been twice married. (1) To John Storer,
by whom she was the mother of Ebene-
zer and the first Woodbury Storer of
Portland. (2) To Jeremiah Hill of Bid-
deford, by whom she was the mother of
Mark Langdon Hill, who was the first
representative to Congress from that dis-
trict, and who married Mary McCobb;

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and of Rebecca Hill, who married
Thomas McCobb, children of her third
husband by his second wife.

Mrs. Mary McCobb died 1806, March
24, without issue by James McCobb.

James McCobb died July 7, 1788, aged
78 years.

The will of James McCobb, dated
September 10, 1787, mentions wife Mary,
son Samuel, daughters Isabel Parker,
Elizabeth Mains, Frances Gushing, Mar-
garet Lee, Nancy McCobb; son-in-law
(step-son) Mark Langdon Hill and
"three youngest children, son Thomas,
and daughters Polly and Jenny."

The will was contested and disallowed
by the judge of probate, and, on appeal,
his decree was confirmed ; her dower was
set off to the widow and the estate di-
vided among the heirs, Rachel McCobb,
Isabella Parker, Beatrice Mains, Mar-
garet Lee, Frances Cushing, Nancy Mc-
Cobb, Mary McCobb, Jane McCobb and
Thomas McCobb, August 7, 1792.

In Dromore burying ground there is
a stone with the following inscription :

"Here lies buried the body of Mrs.
Bettrice Blackburn, wife of Mr. Robert
Blackburn and mother to Capt. James
McCobb. Died Oct. 15, 1750. Aged 66
years."

James McCobb became owner of the
greater part of the territory comprising
the town of Phippsburg, the settlement
of which he assiduously promoted. He
was a merchant and shipbuilder ; held re-
sponsible offices ; was justice of the peace,
a judge in the court of common pleas of
Lincoln county, a member of the com-
mittee of safety of Georgetown during
the Revolution; was captain of a mili-
tary company at the time of the Revolu-
tion and during the Colonial Wars. At
the time of the siege of Quebec in 1759
he sent two transport vessels to the aid
of the English forces and two of his
sons lost their lives in the expedition.
Another son, James, was captain of a
company in a regiment of which Samuel
McCobb was colonel under Washington
in 1776 in the New Jersey campaign in
General Sullivan's army.

Heads of Families, Census 1790, Bromley, Bennington County,

Vermont

Gilbert, John
Dewey, Aaron
Hollibert, Zacheriah
Dewey, James
Boland, William

Molten, Joseph
Colten, William
Miller, Thomas
Hollibert, Ebenezer
Saxton, George

Butterfield, Jonathan
Cheney, Joseph
Dewey, Aaron
White, David
Graham, David

Murray Graves in Bristol

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

In Bristol, Penn., in the St. James
Episcopal cemetery are the following:

John Murray, died November 11, 1750,
aged 53 years and 3 months.

Mary Murray, died October 2, 1742,
aged 14 months.

David Murray, died June 21, 1743,
aged 38 years. W. M. C

Green Mountain Boys

In a letter of Lieutenant Joycelyn Felt-
ham to Major-General Haldiman, dated
Ticonderoga, May 11, 1775, are given
particulars concerning "Benedict Arnold,
Ethan Allen, who raised what he calls his
Green Mountain Boys, Colonel Eston,
John Brown, and the Reverend Allen,
Seth Warren, Baker and Romans, Elgin
Phelps, Bird and Epaphras Bull."

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Pike and Washington

A recently published volume of Wilt-
shire, England, Parish Register (mar-
riages) gives the marriage, among
others, of John Pike and Dorothy Daye,
of Landford June 17, 1612-13. The
date is about right for the marriage of
John Pike of Salisbury, Mass., but it
has always been said that his wife's
name was Sarah, and in general believed
to have been Sarah Washington.

The Pike family has claimed that she
was of the same family as George Wash-
ington. In Waters's Genealogical
Gleanings in England there are some
facts recorded that go to show that John
Pike's wife was probably Sarah Wash-
ington and that she belonged to that
family, as the Pike, Heywood and Wash-
ington families have many interests in
common, also that the Pope and Curtis
families intermarry with these three
families.

John Pike, with his wife and five chil-
dren, came to New England in 1635.
He sailed from South Hampton, and reg-
istered as a laborer, but he must have
been a man of education, and of marked
ability. The next year (1636) he ap-
pears on the Essex county court records,
as attorney for a "Mr. Eson, plaintiff
versus Robert Cole, defendant, obtaining
a verdict from the jury of £4 10s 6d
damages and 40s cost." At Salem in
1637, he is again attorney for Mr. Eson.
His two oldest sons, John Pike, Jr., and
Robert Pike, must have received their
education before leaving England, as
they at once took prominent places in
the colony. Coffin says, in his History
of Newbury, "No laborer of those days
had two such educated sons."

John Pike, Jr., was twenty-one years
old and Robert Pike nineteen. It was
this Robert Pike who so ably defended
Mary Bradbury, the alleged witch, in
1692, he being seventy-six years old at
the time.

In Waters's Genealogical Gleanings

in England, Vol. I, page 714, we find
John Pike as a witness of the will of
Martha Heyward, who was a sister of
John and Lawrence Washington, the
emigrants. In the same volume, on page
537, Lawrence Washington, half-brother
of George Washington, made his will in
1752, in which he mentions several tracts
of land, owned by his wife, near Salis-
bury Hains. He also mentions a tract
of land adjoining his wife's tract, near
Salisbury Plains, that he wills to be sold
with other property. Lawrence Wash-
ington's only daughter was named Sarah
Washington (page 100). William
Pikes of the Parish of Temple, in the
city of Bristol, appoints Mr. John Pikes
and Thomas Heywood overseers of his
will, October 30, 1592.

Again referring to the same author-
ity, on page 1107, John Barton of Hunt-
ingdon wills that the Reverend John
Pike, the minister of All Saints in Hunt-
ingdon, preach his funeral sermon. Wit-
nessed by Richard Pike. Robert Owen,
of Bristol, brother-in-law to William
Pitt, in his will, 1665 (page 1004), men-
tions his cousins, Sarah Pope and John
Pittes.

On page 562 of this volume is a deed,
dated 1657, signed by John Washington,
citizen and draper, and by his wife Mar-
garet, who was a daughter of Henry
Haywood, gentleman. On page 414, in
an abstract from the will of John Wash-
ington, the immigrant, dated February
26, 1675-6, in which he mentions his
brother-in-law, Thomas Pope. John
Washington married for his second wife
Anne (Pope) Broadhurst. These wills
and deeds show how these families inter-
married.

Now Sarah (Washington) Pike must
have been bom in the last of the six-
teenth century, as in 1635 her son, John
Pike, Jr., was twenty-one years old.
Might she not have been one of the sev-
enteen children of Lawrence Washing-

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ton (the elder), who was married in 1588
and died in 1616, a sister of Lawrence
Washington of Sulgrave, or a daughter
of some of his brothers? The name of
Dorothy occurs in the family of the son
of John Pike. Dorothy was also a
Washington family name.

Some Smiths of Maine

Stephen Smith of Machias, Me., was
descended from John ( 1 ) Smith of Barn-
stable, Mass., who came from England in
1630, was pastor of the Barnstable
church, 1675, and then pastor in Sand-
wich, 1676-1688. He had Quaker pro-
pensities, and went to New Jersey and
Long Island, but returned to Sandwich
and there died October 2, 1710, aged
ninety-six. He married, 1643, Susannah,
daughter of Samuel Hinckley (brother of
Governor Thomas Hinckley, of Ply-
mouth.

His eighth son, Thomas (2) Smith,
bom February, 1644, married Abigail

(?) Their eldest son, Samuel (3)

Smith, bom January, 1688, married, Oc-
tober 6, 1717, Bethiah (3) Chipman,
daughter of John (2) and first wife,
Mary Skiffe, daughter of Captain Ste-
phen Skiff e; John (1) Chipman and
Hope (Howland) ; John (1) Howland
and Elizabeth Tilly ; John Tilly and wife.
Elizabeth.

The children of Samuel and Bethiah
(Chipman) Smith, bom in Sandwich,
Mass., were: Thomas, bom September
17, 1718; Samuel, bora February 19,
1720; Abigail, born December 16, 1722.
married Samuel Thaxter of Hingham;
Bethiah, born December 10, 1724; mar-
ried Thomas Loring of Hingham ; Mary,
bom May 8, 1727, married Calvin Gay
of Hingham; John, bom September 12,
1729; Rebecca, born July 19, 1731, mar-
ried Elisha Bisby of Pembroke ; Shuabel,
bom June 10, 1733; Deborah, bom May
6, 1737; Stephen, born May 30, 1739;
Lucy and Lydia, born November 3, 1740,
Lucy died in three weeks; Lydia mar-
ried Joseph Loring of Hinghrm.

Stephen (4) Smith, bom in Sandwich,
May 30, 1739, married, 1762, Deborah
Ellis, daughter of Jonathan and Patience
Ellis of Plymouth. The children of Ste-
phen and Deborah (Ellis) Smith, first
five bom in Sandwich, others in Machias,
Me., were: Stephen, born November 6,
1763, married Hannah Hill; Deborah,
born February 22, 1766, married Joseph
Wallace; William Ellis, bom December
8, 1767, married Hannah Lyon; Samuel,
born December 28, 1769, married Sally
Kelly; Joseph Otis, bom January 31,
1772, married Betsey (Strout) Coffin;
Jane, bom November 16, 1774, married
Silas Turner; Lydia, bora January 18,
1777, married Samuel P. Clark; Elizabeth
Otis, bom August 11, 1779, married
Ebenezer Inglee.

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Welsh Origin

The Evans are all supposed to be of
royal line, tracing their descent from
Conal, King of All Wales, who began
his reign in 843. From Meredidd, an-
other king of Wales, descend the Lloyds,
Copes, Hydes, Chases, and Collinses.
Many of the families bearing these
names in America may claim descent
from England or Scotland, but a careful
quest is quite likely to prove that the
founder of the house in any other coun-
try was a descendant of the early king
of Wales.

A New Jersey Cemetery

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

In the rear of the First Baptist Church
at Lambertville, N. J., six lonely and neg-
lected graves bear the following inscrip-
tions :

Elizabeth, wife of Frank L. Cooch,
bom September 19, 1776; died March
30, 1840.

Sarah Cooch, died December 21, 1831,
aged 82 years.

Levi Stout, died March 6, 1845, aged
71.

Samuel Blodgett, died October 12,
1828, aged 58 years.

Lavinia, wife of John C. Todd, died
June 28, 1848, aged 29 years and 5
months.

Sophie, wife of John G. Todd, died
July 12, 1846, aged 23 years. M.R.R.

From William the Conqueror

There are more claims of descent from
William the Conqueror than from any
young monarch in the world, and in most
cases a descendant of this king comes
down a line of fifteen or twenty other
royal personages, although sometimes
the descent from monarch to plain un-
titled yeoman seems to have been accom-
plished in two or three generations.
There is practically no limit to his de-
scendants to-day, and one genealogist
says this fact is accounted for by the
statement that according to the regular
proportion of increase in each generation
since his time the descendants of William
the Conqueror would now number more
than twice the present population of the
British Isles.

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Vol. 2, No. 6.

New York, August 10, 1912

Whole No. 32

The St. Johns of England and America

[Contributed to Genealogy.]
By Mathilda St. John Clemens

Thomas St. John was a crusader. He
fought under King Richard, Couer-de-
Lion, at the siege of Acre, in 1191. His
son Thomas was killed in the battle of
Evesham, Worcestershire, in 1265.
Thomas St. John, who fought at Acre,
is said to have been one of a number
of knights who received from King
Richard a leather thong, bound about
the leg, as a token of superior courage.
This is believed to have suggested the
Order of the Garter.

The St. Johns are of Norman-French
origin, and took their name from a par-
ish called St. John, near Rouen. Wil-
liam St. John was in the train of the
Conqueror, and was called grand quar-
ter of artillery and supervisor of the
wagon and carriages. His sons and
grandsons distinguished themselves in
the wars of William Rufus and Henry I.
A daughter of the house of St. John
married Adam de Port, the great feudal
baron of Baring, near Southampton.
Her son inherited the possessions of both
families and assumed the maternal name.
The St. Johns of olden time were good
fighting men, crusaders, many of th«n,
and gallant knights in the days of chiv-
alry. They were royalists, and many
sons fell fighting for their king. Lydiard
Tregoze, one scat of the St. Johns, came
into the family in the reign of Henry

VI. and the little church there is full of
monuments to the St. Johns. The older
branch of the St. Johns is now repre-
sented by Lord St. John of Bletro, or
Bletshoe, of Melchboume, who has nine
daughters and three sons. Lord St.
John, or Beauchamp Mowbray, is the
sixteenth to bear the title. The barony
of Bletro was brought into the St. John
family in 1558 by Margaret Beauchamp,
the grandmother of King Henry VH.

There was an Elizabeth St. John who
united in her person the lineage of ten
sovereigns, to say nothing of dukes and
earls. She was sixth cousin to Henry
VIL She married the Rev. Samuel
Whiting in England in 1629 and soon
after came to America with her hus-
band, making a home in L3mn, Mass.

In American colonial records the name
was frequently spelled Sension, or Sen-
tion, also Singen.

The following is from the record
handed down to my great-grandfather,
John St. John. During the Norman con-
quest the St. Johns went to England,
and in 1632 came to America. They set-
tled in Connecticut, bought land from
the Indians in 1708, and founded Ridge-
field, Conn. These names appear in his
record "Maatthias or Mattias 1 ; Mat-
thias 2; Ebenezer 1, 2 and 3; Nehemiah
1, 2 and 3, 4 and 5." With Nehemiah

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5 began the first American marriages.
He married Lois Comelle. They were
my great-great-grandfather and mother.
Their son, John St. John, my great-
grandfather, went to Poughkeepsie, New
York, where he married Anna Lock-
wood, whose old Bible is still in the fam-
ily. Great grandfather John served in
the patriot army in the war of the Revo-
lution.

At Poughkeepsie, my grandfather,
Seth St. John, was bom October 29,
1792. When he was eight years old he
removed with his parents to Cincinnati,
Ohio, when that place was only a fort.
Here he grew up and married Sarah
Haliday in 1812. They went to Pine
village, Indiana, in 1820, where he
bought land. This land is still, owned
by his youngest son, Joseph Seth. My
grandfather was a Methodist minister.
He was in the war of 1812, also at
Hull's surrender at Detroit. My father,
John St. John, was the fourth child. He
was bom March 29, 1819, in Ohio. He
married Emily Carswell, who was bom
in Ohio, near Cincinnati, January 17,
1819. My parents were married June
17, 1841, at Pinevillage, Ind. To them
were bom one son, Joseph, and ten
daughters, I being the seventh daughter.
The son was the oldest child, bom April
5, 1842. He died March 22, 1859.
Three of the daughters died in infancy.
One daughter, Ida S. St. John, married
L. P. Lace and died December 23, 1903,
leaving three children. Edith (Mrs. E.
Pickens), Mabel and John, all of Wal-
reka, 111. There are six daughters liv-

ing: Sarah Jane St John, unmarried;
Martha, married John Wade and has
seven children; Rhoda E., married W.
C. Ctfemens and has three children;
Earle Clemens; Mary Qemens, who
married C. L. Harvey, and Dr. Orville
Qemens; Margarette Emily, married
W. S. Closter and had one child, who
died in infancy; Laura S., married J. A.
Brown and has two sons, Lloyd St.
John and Gayle, and Mathilda M. St.
John, married James T. Clemens and
has two children, Claude C. and Ida
Carswell. Dr. Claude C. Clemens was
bom August 26, 1879. He married
Evelyn Irvine, October 26, 1904, and
they have one son, James Irvine Qem-
ens, bom September 29, 1905. Ida Cars-
well Qemens was bom May 29, 1884..
and died Febmary 24, 1906. James
Thompson Qemens and Mathilda M.
(St. John) Qemens, were married De-
cember 7, 1875. James Thompson
Clemens was bom December 7, 1849,
and died September 15, 1890.

Great-grandfather, John St. John,
died May 3, 1819; my great-grand-
mother died August 23, l&S); both are
buried in Fort Ancient, Ohio. Of the
family of my grandfather, Seth St. John,
there are three still living: Mrs. Sarah
Van Horn, Mrs. Hannah Ambler and
Joseph St. John of Pine Village, Ind.
My father, John St. John, came to Il-
linois in the year 1848 and bought land
from the govemment. This land is still
in the family. He died August 27, 1874.
My mother, Emily (Carswell) St. John,
died January 14, 1901.

The Va88 Family of New Jersey

John Vass was bom on the ocean in
1764, while his parents were on their
way to this country from Germany.
They settled in Sussex county, N. J...
and when a young man John moved to
Hardwick township, where in 1802 h«
purchased the White Pond farm, con-
taining 548 acres. The records show

that he owned slaves. He married four
times, and it was from his union with
Margaret Flock that there was bom to
him six children, one of whom, Isaac,
succeeded him in the ownership of the
homestead farm. John Vass died in
1852 at the age of eighty-eight years.
Isaac Vass occupied the farm during his
life time, and his son Frank purchased it
from the heirs.

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The Lamberts of Lambertvllle

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The fpUowing tombstone inscriptions
are taken from the cemetery of the First
Presbyterian church, Lambertville, New
Jersey :

Captain John Lambert, died February
6, 1828, aged 51 years, 9 months, 10
days.

Mary, wife of Captain John Lambert,
died April 11, 1831, aged 57 years.

Joseph Lambert, died February 18,
1821, aged 71 years.

Mary, wife of Joseph Lambert, and
daughter of Jacob and Rachel Holcombc,
died October 4, 1857, aged 76 years.

Aaron Lambert, bom November 5,
1789, died December 1, 1868.

Lydia, wife of Aaron Lambert, died
June 8, 1817, aged 30 years.

Eliza W. Varian, wife of Edward D.
Varian, and daughter of John and Mary
Lambert, died I^ember 17, 1830, aged
30 years, 1 month, 10 days. W. M. C.

A Fitch- Wattles Branch

[Contributed to Genealogy.]
Joseph (2) Fitch, mentioned on page
180 (June 8, 1912), Vol. I, No. 23, of
Genealogy, son of the Reverend James
Fitch, was "bom in November, 1681, be-
came a resident of Stonington, Conn.,
and afterwards of Lebanon, where he
died in 1741. He was twice married.

Joseph (2) Fitch married, first, Sarah
Mason, and their children were Joseph,
Judith, Sarah, who died before 1741,
leaving children; Mason, died in 1734.
Joseph Fitch married, second, December
29, 1721, Mrs. Ann Whiting. The chil-
dren of this marriage were: Samuel,
bom December 16, 1723-24; Eleazer,
bora August 29, 1726; Azel, bora No-
vember 7, 1728; Ichabod, bora May 17,
1734; Ann, bora July 12, 1737; Thomas,
bora June 11, 1739, died Febraary 27,
1746-47. With the exception of Mason
Fitch all of these children are mentioned
in the will of Joseph (2) Fitch. The

will was recorded in Windham county,
Conn., June 30, 1741.

Judith (3) Fitch, daughter of Joseph
(2) Fitch, was bora in 1704. She mar-
ried Captain John Wattles of Lebanon,
Conn., in 1722. They had these chil-
dren: Sarah Wattles, bora January 15,
1724, married a Mr. West and had one
child, Susanna Mason; John Wattles,
bora October 26, 1725, married Betty
Sluman; Mason Wattles, bora June 25,
1727, married Irene Chandler, June 29,
1747; Samuel Wattles, bora March 22,
1729, married Sarah Sluman, daughter
of David Sluman; William and Joseph
Wattles, twins, were bora June 6, 1730.
Mrs. Judith (Fitch) Wattles died Feb-
raary 4, 1743. Captain John Wattles
married, second, Sarah Sluman ; she died
January 16, 1795, at the age of 82. The
children of this marriage were : Thomas
Wattles, bora October 19, 1744; Roswell
Wattles, bora April 28, 1746; Elijah
Wattles, bora March 21, 1748; Joshua
Wattles, bora June 15, 1750, married
Sarah Ann Hyde, December 9, 1781;
Oliver Wattles; Charles Wattles, mar-
ried Olive Williams, December 6, 1780.

K. C. G.

Clark— Towne

Clark.— [289] F. B. H.— Samuel
Clark, who married Mercy Towne, was
my great-great-great-grandfather. Who
his parents were I have been unable to
find. He died in Gilsum, N. H., in 1812,
"aged 83," consequently was bora about
1729. I have found possibilities in Dover
Point and Portsmouth, N. H., and also
a Samuel bora January 21, 1729, in Wells
or Yorke, Maine. I have been under
the impression that he came from this
vicinity, as he is called "of Chester,
N. H.," in the vital records of Sutton,
at the time of his marriage. This Sam-
uel had a son Jonathan, who married De-
lilah Thompson of Alstead, daughter of

William and Lydia ( ) Thompson,

bora 1771. Can F. H. B. or anyone else
give me her ancestry? [326] G. S. F.

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Heads of Families, Ceasus 179t, Birmingham, Delaware County,

Pennsylvania

Chamberlin, William
Chamberliiiy Isaac
Chamberlin, John
iPainter, Samuel
Weaver, Benjamin
Chapman, Samuel
Morrison, Joseph
Smith, Thomas
Frame, Robert
Steel, Samuel
Reed, John
Green, Jesse
Hatton, Peter
Norrett, Daniel
Gibson, Thomas
Smith (Widow)
Simonson, Will
Yearsly, Jacob
Twaddle, William
Walker, John
Maden, Michael

Jacobs, Philips
Chandler, Thomas
Woodard, Eli
Porter, Amer
Davis, Joseph
Hannum, James
Ring, Susanah
West, William
Chadd, Elizebth
Atue, Peter
Logan, Robert
Davis, Benjamin
Ralph, Archibald
Harvy, William
Thatcher, John
Ring, Benjamin
McCordick, William
Prattue, Peter
Ring, Nath.
Gilflen, Gideon
Rath, William
Crosley, Samuel

Storky, Christion
Logan, Will
Smith, Joshua
Thatcher, John
Perry, John
Hambleton, John
Brinton, George
Fips, Jonathan
Frame, Thomas
Chapman, William
Bonsall, Obadiah
Pyle, Ralph
Porter (Widow)
Wason, Hennery
Middleton, John
Russell, Samuel
Ecoff, Samuel
Bulleck, Thomas
Jacob (Black)
Chapman, Samuel
Speakman, Thos.

Some Warrens of Maine

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

Luther and Charlotte (Roberts) War-
ren lived for many years in Shapleigh,
Me. Where they were bom I do not
know, nor the dates of their birth. They
were about the same age, and I think,
must have been bom about 1794. To
them were bom six children : two daugh-
ters, who died young, and four sons, all
of whom lived till advanced in years.
These sons were John, Edmund, Benja-
min and Luther.

John Warren, the eldest son, was bom
in Maine in 1815, and died in Denver,
Col., in 1901, at the age of 86. He lo-
cated in La Harpe, 111., in 1838, spend-
ing the greater part of his life there.
About 1^9 he married Sophronia Bur-
bank Ricker, who was bom in Maine in
1834, and who had come to La Harpe in
1838. He crossed the plains during the
year 1851, but after remaining in San

Francisco two years he returned to his
old home. La Harpe.

To John and Sophronia B. (Ricker)
Warren were bom eleven children — ^two
sons and nine daughters. Five daugh-
ters are living at the present time : Mrs.
Arline Challender of Los Angeles, Cal.;
Mrs. Mabel Jolly of Denver, Col. ; Mrs.
Lenore Bristol of Denver; Mrs. Abbie
Burg of Denver, and Mrs. Ruth Selover
of Mexico City.

Edmund Warren, the second son of
Luther and Charlotte (Roberts) War-
ren lived and died in Kennebunk, Me.
He had three sons and two daughters.
Alvah H. Warren, his oldest son, lives
in St. Paul, Minn. His widow and the
youngest son still live in Kennebunk.

Benjamin (Roberts) Warren, third
son of Luther and Charlotte, also the
youngest son Luther Warren, both lived
and died in La Harpe, having married
and leaving children. M. W. J.

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American Genealogies

This is a list of the genealogies of American families, published in book or
pamphlet form, with date of publication. Most of these works that are of early
date are now very rare. Copies of them are in most public libraries in the
larger cities of the United States and in the libraries of historical societies.
Copies also find their way in very small number into book auction sales and
in to the hands of dealers of second-hand books. Genealogies of recent date are
generally procurable from the publishers. Inquiries in regard to these or any
other genealogical works may be addressed to the editor of Genealogy.

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Anable. — Anable Family Record.
[One line of the Descendants of An-
thony Annable of Barnstable, Mass.,
1639, who came from England in 1623.]
Compiled from Records of Plymouth
and Barnstable, Mass., and East Had-
dam. Conn. By Henry Sheldon Anable.
Long Island city, N. Y., 1879.

Anderson. — Anderson Family His-
tory. Containing a brief account of the
famiHes of Anderson, Davies and Wers-
ler [of Chester county. Pa., 1707]. By
Julius A. Lloyd. Dixon, 111., 1880.

Anderson. — A Monograph of the
Anderson, Qark, Marshall and Mc-
Arthur connection. Compiled by Thomas
McArthur Anderson.

Anderson. — An Inverness Lawyer
and his sons, 1796-1878. By Isabel
Harriet Anderson. Aberdeen, [Scot-
land], 1900.

Anderson. — The Anderson, Perrine,
Barbour-Smith, Howell-Qark, Porter
and Savery families, with a Genealogical
and Biographical Record of some who
were Pioneers in America; also Genea-
logical Sketches of Allied Families. By
Henrietta E. Savery Smith. Detroit,
1902.

Anderson. — Grenealogical Chart show-
ing the descent from several lines and
some interesting family connections of
the Virginia FamiHes of Alexander,
Anderson, Aylett, Bruce, Dandridge,

Fontaine, Henry, Junkin, Moore, Poin-
dexter, Spottswood, West, etc. etc.
Compiled and printed for private distri-
bution by Francis T. A. Junkin, 1908.

Anderson. — Family-memorials. A
Series of Genealogical and Biographical
Monographs on the Families of Salis-
bury, Aldworth-Elbridge, Sewall, Pyl-
dren-Dummer, Walley, Quincy, Grookin,
Wendell, Breese, Chevalier-Anderson,
and Phillips. With Fifteen Pedigrees
and an Appendix. By Edward Elbridge
Salisbury. Privately printed. New
Haven, 1885.

Andrews. — Genealogical Register. By
Jas. P. Andrews, M.D., Colerain, Lan-
caster county. Pa., 1867.

Andrews. — Hon. John Albion
Andrew. By Samuel Burnham. [Bos-
ton, 1869.]

Andrews. — Genealogical History of
John and Mary Andrews, who settled
in Farmington, Connecticut, 1640: em-
bracing their Descendants to 1872; with
an introduction of miscellaneous names
of Andrews, with their Progenitors as
far as known. By Alfred Andrews.
Chicago, 1872.

Andrews. — Genealogy of the Andrews
of Taunton and Stoughton, Mass., de-
scendants of John and Hannah Andrews,
of Boston, Massachusetts, 1656 to 1886.
Compiled by Lieut. George Andrews.
Rochester, N. Y., 1887.

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Dawson— Ghrittian

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

Pleasant Dawson, bom Albemarle
County, Va., in 1771, married in Am-
herst Coimty, Va., in 1791 Sarah Chris-
tian, his first wife. He married, second,
Mrs. Jamima Sahnon, after 1811. The
children of Pleasant and Sarah (Chris-
tian) Dawson were: Russell, bom Octo-
ber 12, 1795, married Margaret Scott;
Jane, bom June 7, 1797, married Edward
Tinsley; Braxton, bom November 20,
1799, married Jane Bimch ; Rhoda, born
June 18, 1802, married Drewey Mo<m-
nan; Judith, bom October 12, 1804;
Rhoderick, bom March 7, 1807, mar-
ried Lucy Reese; John P., bom April 4,
1809; Elizabeth, bom October 23, 1811,
married Jesse Salmons. The children of
Reasant Dawson by his second wife
were: George, Mary, Susan and Sarah.
Of these I have no data. I want dates
and where Pleasant Dawson and Sarah
(Christian) Dawson died; date and
where Sarah Christian was bom; names
of parents of Pleasant Dawson, with
dates and places of their births, deaths,
and marriage. Also names of children,
with dates of birth and whom they mar-
ried; names of parents of Sarah Chris-
tian, with dates and where they were
bom, married and died. Names of their
children, with dates of births and names
of whom they married. [326] B.H.R.

Poole Family Burials

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

Inscriptions from a neglected cemetery
in the rear of the Fordham Manor Re-
formed church, King^sbridge road. New
York city:
Solomon Poole, died May 4, 1858, aged

68 years, 3 mos., 29 days.
Deborah Poole, wife of Solomon Poole,

died January 7, 1862, aged 63 years.

8 mos., 28 days.
Euphemia, wife of Townsend Poole, died

November 3, 1852, aged 80 years.

W. M. C

Traesdale— Whitney

[Contributed to Genealogy.]
Can you give me any information in
regard to the ancestry of John Tmes-
dell, who married Mary Whitney, daugh-
ter of Daniel Whitney of Ridgefield,
Conn.? They were married August 8,
1741, in Ridgewood. For a while they
lived in or near Warwick, N. Y., and
then went to Wyoming, Pa. They had
several children, of whom Sarah was
bom September 16, 1786, in Luzeme
County, Pa. John Truesdell had a
brother, Gamaliel, who married Anne
Whitney, a sister of Mary Whitney.
They also moved to Wyoming, Pa., and
lived there at the time of the massacre.

[327] F. T.

Sufferance (Haynes) Treadway

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Treadway.— [214] T. N. H.— If T.
N. H. and B. P. B. will read the article
on Suflferance, the wife of Nathaniel
Treadway, by Ella F. Elliot in The New
England Historical and Genealogical
Register of July, 1911, they will be quite
convinced that Suflferance was the
daughter of Walter Haynes, unless proof
has been discovered since to the om-
trary. If new proofs have been discov-
ered I will greatly appreciate the in-
formation. G. S. F.

The Clarks of Boston

In the Boston Directory for the year
1789 are listed the following Clarks:

Thomas, shopkeeper, 22 Cornhill.

William, apothecary, 6 Marlborough
«bt«

Cutler, store, 32 State St.

John, coppersmith, 3 Newbury St.

James, truckman. Pleasant St.

Gregory, truckman, Pleasant St.

Rev. John, Summer Street.

Samuel, tailor. Fish street.

John, boarding house, Ann Street.

Joseph, shipwright, Clark Street.

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Some Smiths of Connecticut

Following are baptisms of persons of
the name of Smith in St. John's church,
Stamford, Conn., between 1749 and
1804:

Esther, dau. of Ebenr. and Elizabeth
of Canaan, October 25, 1749.

John M., son of Lenod and Ruth,
April 22, 1750.

Deborah, daughter of Thomas and
Mary, September 10, 1750.

Jonathan, Rebecca and Elizabeth and
Reliance, children of Ephraim, of the
Oblong, May 4, 1753.

Mary, daughter of Austin and Sarah
of Stamford, April 10, 1757.

Elizabeth, daughter of Ezekiel and
Martha of Stamford, March 5, 1758.

Isaiah, son of Ephraim of Canaan,
March 29, 1758.

Joseph, son of Ephraim and Eliza-
beth, October 28, 1758.

William and Sarah, children of
Gabriel, December 3, 1758.

Elizabeth, daughter of Austin and
Sarah, February 18, 1759.

Zenus, son of Austin and Elizabeth,
August 3, 1760.

Deborah, daughter of Gabriel and
Jemima, October 4, 1761.

Sarah, daughter of Austin, December
25, 1763.

Sarah, daughter of Daniel and Sarah,
August 11, 1763.

James, son of James and Hannah, De-
cember 5, 1764.

Ralph, son of Nathan and Elizabeth,
of Stamford, June 2, 1765.

Samuel, son of I>aniel, Jr., April 16,
1766.

Rufus, son of Nathan and Elizabeth
of Stamford, January 4, 1767.

Hannah, daughter of Austin, February
16, 1769.

Fanny, daughter of Nathan and Eliza-
beth, May 7, 1769.

James, September 24, 1770.

Mary, daughter of Joseph and Mary,
October 24, 1770.

Polly, daughter of Dr. Nathan and
Elizabeth, September 8, 1771.

Elizabeth Bartell, daughter of Joseph
and Mary, November 26, 1771.

Jeremiah, son of Austin, December 26,
1771.

Thomas and Henry, children of Dr.
Nathan and Elizabeth, Decemlber 26,
1775.

Joseph, son of Joseph and Mary of
Norwalk, April 13, 1774.

James, son of John and Ann, April
5, 1786,

John and Anna, infants of John, 1783.

Hannah, daughter of Joseph and
Mary, February 24, 1786.

John Wells, son of Jeremiah and
Lydia, April 23, 1787.

Sophia, daughter of Joseph, January
28, 1790.

Lorana, daughter of Joseph and Mary,
December 26. 1791.

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Oberlin Family Graves

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From the family grave yard on the
Paul farm, along Indian Creek, West
Cocalico township, Lancester county. Pa.

Elizabeth Oberlin (daughter of Obed
and Catharina), bom June 22, 1852.
died September 20, 1857.

John Oberlin, born February 26, 1786,
died June 9, 1870, at the age of 84 years,
3 months and 13 days.

Susanna Oberlin (nee Scherb, wife of
John), bom April 26, 1789, died Septem-

ber 1, 1853, at the age of 64 years, 4
months, and 5 days.

Michael Oberlin, bora May 13, 1815,
died October 16, 1854.

Mary Oberlin (wife of Michael), bom
August 3, 1822, died August 26, 1895,
at the age of 73 years and 23 days.

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New Orleans Cemetery Records

The following inscriptions are from
the Girod cemetery. New Orleans, La.

Lloyd J. Bryan, a native of Norfolk,
Va., died 27th of March, 1843, aged 30
years.

James Daniels, native of Connecticut,
died Febmary 24, 1859, aged 42 years.

Mrs. Murilia S. Smith, wife of Noah
E. Smith, who died in this city, Novem-
ber 28, 1847, on her way from the City
of Mexico to her home in Boston.

Thomas Woods, a native of Wheeling,
Va., who died March, 1832.

N. Franklin, who departed this life
April 10, 1852, aged 45 years.

John Nugent, formerly of New York.
Died August 7, 1832, aged 54 years.

John Nicholson, who was bora in
Philadelphia, Pa., September 20, 1787,
and died in New Orleans, May 17, 1848.
He was forty years a citizen of New
Orleans, a veteran of 1814-1815.

Mrs. Elizabeth Hamblet, consort of
Phillip S. Hamblet, bora in Salem, Mass.,
23d of March, 1788, and died of the
yellow fever in the city of New Orleans,
October the 1st, 1822, aged 34 years.

John Dewhurst, who was bom in
Massachusetts in the year 1810, died on
the 9th of October, 1851, aged 41 years.

R. G. Lines, of Utica, N. Y., operator
in the telegraph office in New York.
Drowned in Chef Menteur Pass, March
16, 1848.

Here lies the body of William Fenncr,
whose life was much respected and
whose death was much lamented. Aged
73 years, and deceased on the 12th of
May, 1832.

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An Iristi-Amerlcan Montgomery Line

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

By Thomas McBurney Montgomery

(Continued from page 234)

Mary Letitia Montgomery, daughter
of William John and Sarah (Mandcr-
son) Montgomery, was bom April 15,
1825, and married. May 21, 1849, Caspar
Robeau Gregory, son of Captain

and Mary Gregory. Caspar R. Grcgoiy

was a Presbyterian minister. After his

marriage he went to Indian Territoi^, ^^^^^ v^iuuci -r lo/o jlukhh

was cajed to a church in Oneida, N. Y., tHckson, bom March 2, 1884.

National Library, Washington, D. C,
married, November 29, 1900, Hattie
Sophia Kellogg, bom September 18,
1869, daughter of Richard E. and
Matilda (Loree) Kellogg, and has chil-
dren: Elizabeth Loree, bom December
25, 1901, and Mary Eleanor, bom
September 4, 1907 ; Ann Moore Dickson,
bom October 4, 1878; Thomas Hunter

from thence went to the First Church,

3. William Montgomery Gregory, bom

^:!^S^u^- b TfJ.r ??^.^i*1J D-^ber 2. 1852;"marrik Febru^Vy 12.

professorship in Lincoln University,
Pennsylvania, where he died Febmary

14, 1882. His wife then removed to
Beverly, N. J., where she died April 21,
1898. Their children were:

1. Henry Stuart Gregory, bom in
Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) Feb-
mary 15, 1850, and now is residing in
Osboum, Idaho, unmarried.
• 2. Elizabeth Manderson Gregory, born
February 23, 1851 ; married, November

15, 1870, son of James and Caroline
(Steuart) Dickson. He resides in
McAllister, a suburb of St. Paul, Minnc-
sota. Their children are: Hugh Mont*
gomery Dickson, bom September 27,
1871; Alexander Reid EHckson, bom
June 10, 1874; died July 19, 1875.
Caspar Gregory Dickson, bom October
23, 1875, assistant librarian in the

1885. Lenore Sparks. They reside in
Portland, Oregfon, where he is an attor-
ney. Their children are: William Lair
Hill, bora May 18, 1886 ; Caspar Robeau,
bom October 17, 1887; died July 8,
1888. Lenore, bom April 4, 1889,
Mary Edith, bom January 12, 1890.

4. Agnes Bradford Gregory, bom "
November 2, 1854; died May 21, 1858.

5. Comelius Cuyler Gregory, bom
June 8, 1856; died December 4, 1901;
married, first, Harriet Le Fetre, who died
in June, 1886, and, second, to Florence
Lindsley, who survived him. No issue
of cither marriage.

6. Jane Haines Gregory, born Janu-
ary 7, 1858; died October 23, 1863.

7. Caspar Robeau Gregory, bom De-
cember 13, 1860; died December 3, 1891 ;

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married, May 7, 1870, Elizabeth Wells,
who survived him, and died in 1911.

8. Mary Wilber, bom July 2, 1862;
unmarried.

9. Helen Breeze, bom April 27, 1864;
died September 5, 1868.

10. Edith Holmes, born September 2,
1866; is unmarried.

11. Anna Montgomery, born Decem-
ber 18, 1869; died, unmarried, January
19, 1900.

Thomas McBuraey Montgomery, sec-
ond son of William John and Sarah
(Manderson) Montgomery, was bom in
Philadelphia, Penn., November 26, 1831.
He married, January 23, 1867, Anne
IJoyd Borden who was born April 16,
1838, daughter of Joseph Levis and Hul-
dah (Combs) Borden, of Rumson, Mon-
mouth county. New Jersey. He com-
piled this Montgomery pedigree from
local information, from the life of the
Reverend Henry Montgomery, and from
sundry wills and deeds on file and re-
corded in Dublin, Ireland. His address
is: Office, 1135 Shackamaxon St.,
Philadelphia, Pa. Issue:

1. Mary Borden Montgomery, bom in
Philadelphia April 3, \S68, married in
New York city, August 6, 1890, Robert
Peter, who was bom in Dundee, Scot-
land, November 30, 1863, son of Robert
and Mary (Ewan) Peter. The family
name, as now used, is Montgomery-
Peter. Their children are: ifcirgaret,
bom June 29, 1892 ; Jean McAdam, bom
August 11, 1893, died July 14, 1894;

^ Thomas Montgomery, bom October 24,
1894 ; Donald Ewan, born October 16,
1896.

2. Arthur Monell, born August 9,
1869, died September 4, 1869.

Children of Adam J. L. and Anna Jane
Montgomery (Reay) and grandchildren
of Hugh Robert and Fanny Eleanor
(Wade) Montgomery.

1. Frances Ellen Reay, born Novem-
ber 18, 1849, married, October 7, 1877,
William Robb, who died September 22,
1886. Their children were: John Lclslie,

born Febmary 16, 1879; Jessie Euphc-
mia, born July 2, 1880; Hugh Mont-
gomery, born March 15, 1882; James,
born September 17, 1883, died June 29,
1903; Annie Gertmde, bom May 20,
1886.

2. James Henry Reay, bom Febmary
8, 1852; married, November 28, 1876,
Jeanie Stewart ; died June 9, 1900. Their
children were: Frederick Stewart Reay,
bom December 3, 1877, married, Sep-
tember 7, 1904, Grace Lillian Wilson;
Hugh Adam, born April 30, 1882, died
December 16, 1886.

3. John Leslie Reay, bom December
31, 1853; married, June 20, 1882, Anna
Gordon Stevens. He resides in Mon-
treal, Canada. Their children are:
Blanche Ruberta Reay, bom September
23, 1883; Percival Montgomery Reay,
bom June 1, 1888, died July 17 1890;
Cecil Brand Reay, born August 18, 1891 ;
Ernest Ainsworth Reay, bom July 8,
1894.

4. Hugh Robert Montgomery Reay,
born January 30, 1859; died August 16,
1862.

5. Frederick William Reay, born
April 25, 1861 ; died September 1, 1862.

6. Annie Gertrude Reay, born April
13, 1873 ; resides in Newton, Mass.

William Montgomery of the town-
land of Bolt-na-Connell and parish of
Killead was, it is believed, descended
from one of the elder sons of Archibald
and Sara (Campbell) Montgomery. By
his will dated September 14, 1892, and
proved January 6, 1896, bequeathed inter
alia to his niece, Margaret Cunningham,
and George C. Gilmore (then living with
him) "all that farm which I new occupy
in the townland of Bolt-na-Connell,
Parish of Killead," etc.

In the Boston Directory, for the year
1789, appear three Swifts as follows:
Elijah, shipwright, Henchman's Lane.
Elijah, Jr., shipwright, Lynn Street.
Henry, shipwright, Hull Street.

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The Carswell Family

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In County Cavan, Ireland, Anna Bell
married Samuel Wilson. Their son,
Joel Wilson, married Nancy Morrison.
Their daughter, Jennie Wilson, married
John Carswell; their daughter, Emily
Carswell, married John St. John. I am
their daughter, Mathilda M., and I mar-
ried James T. Clemens. Our son,
Claude C. Clemens, born August 26,
1879, married Evelyn Irvine. They have
one son, James Clemens, born Septem-
ber 29, 1905. My daughter, Ida Cars-
well Clemens, born May 29, 1884, died
February 24, 1906.

Moes Carswell, my great-grandfather,
married Isabelle McCoy, daughter of
Joseph McCoy. Isabelle McCoy was
Scotch and when she married Moes
Carswell they went to Ireland to live,
but each time a child was to be bom
she went to Scotland. Their son, John
Carswell, married Jennie Wilson. They
came to America. I cannot find the
dates, as the family record is not in
my possession, but my mother, Emily
Carswell, was bom near Cincinnati,
Ohio, January 17, 1819, and there were
several older children also bom in
America. My grandmother, Jennie
Wilson Carswell, had a brother con-
nected with the Shakers. One of her
sisters married a sea captain named
Booth, but I do not know anything more
about him or about any members of his
family.

Mathilda M. St. John Clemens.

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The Autill Family of New Jersey

[Contributed to Genealogy.]
Edward Autill, bom in 1659 in Eng-
land, at 27 years of age married, in New
Jersey, September 10, 1686, Elizabeth
Bowne. His second wife was named
Sarah. He had six children, three of
whom, William, Charles and Annie, are
assigned to his first wife, and three, Ed-
ward, Elizabeth and George, to the sec-
ond wife. His will, in 1704, mentions
his wife Sarah and his six children, and
was proven in 1725. Autill bought a
one-quarter interest of one of the twenty-
four proprietors of East Jersey, James,
Earl of Perth. He also bought one of
the twelve Ranton lots. No. 11, of
Thomas Matthews, December 20, 1686.
In 1688 he acquired, as a proprietor, the
tract known as Ross Hall in New Bruns-
wick, Middlesex county.

The eldest son of Edward Autill, also
named Edward, was bom June 17, 1701.

By his first wife, Catherine , he

had no children. He, second, married
Anne Moriss, daughter of Governor
Lewis Morris, June 10, 1739. She was
bora in 1706 and was a sister of Eliza-
beth (Morris) White. He now decided
to settle on the tract his father acquired
fifty years before, and built a house at
Piscataway Landing, or the present dty
of New Bmnswick. He described it as
land inherited of his father, a farm of
370 acres, a mile from New Bmnswick,
Raritan River on the south, Raritan
Landing on the west, and comprising an
easy, well built farm house and brew
house. That he built just before or im-
mediately after his marriage, which was
in 1739, is evident, as the records show
that his first child was "born in the
house in 1740."

Edward Autill was judge of the Mid-
dlesex court of common pleas in 1739,
and a member of the council in 1741 and
1761. His will, made in 1768, describes
himself as "late of Piscataway, but now
of Shrewsbury."

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The New Jersey Holcombes

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Inscriptions from the cemetery of tho
First Presbyterian church of Lambert-
ville, N. J., include the following:
Lewis Holcombe, died March 1, 1831,

aged 26 years.
Atkinson Holcombe, died September 19,

1830, aged 44 years.
Richard Holcombe, died November 21,

1824, aged 38 years.
Elizabeth, wife of Richard Hblcombe,

died February 27, 1825, aged 54 years.
Samuel Holcombe, died February 6,

1847, aged 74 years and 10 months.
Sarah Holcombe, died January 8, 1832,

aged 72 years.
John Atkinson Holcombe, died October

17, 1840, aged 25 years and 11 days.
Richard Holcombe, died December 14,

1859, aged 76 years, 2 months.
Sarah, wife of Richard Holcombe, died

January 21, 1856, aged 64 years.
Jacob Holcombe, died January 11, 1820,

aged 80 years.
Rachel, wife of Jacob Holcombe, died

February 7, 1814, aged 73 years.
Thomas A. Holcombe, died July 9, 1825,

aged 58 years.
Major Emley Holcombe, died July 11,

1846, in his 69th year.
Mary Skillman, wife of Emley Hol-
combe, died April 7, 1842, aged 63

years. W. M. C.

Scott Family Graves

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

The following inscriptions are from
St. James Episcopal cemetery, Bristol,
Penn.:

Robert Scott, died September 6, 1823,
aged 71 years.

Mary, consort of Robert Scott, died 21
February, 1825, aged 65 years.

Elizabeth Scott, daughter of Theodore
and Elizabeth Scott, died September 6,
1822, aged 2 years and 9 months.

Mary Ann Erin, daughter of Thomas
M. and Elizabeth Scott, died November
1, 1850.

A Chandler Genealogy

A genealogy of many branches of the
Edmond Chandler family of Duxbury,
and the Geoffrey Parsons family of Glou-
cester, Mass., has just been published.
To a large degree it is biographical as
well as historical, and contains copies of
wills, private letters and public papers
written in the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries. Besides the braaches bearing
the family names, are those by the name
of Fessenden, Whitman, Anderson and
Haskell, and also allied families, as War-
ren, Snow and Winslow of Plymouth and
Marshiield and Vincent, Chase, Merrill
and Haskell of Gloucester and Newbury,
Mass.

Heads of Families, Census 1790, Williamstown, Orange County,

Vermont

Baker, Edmond
Buck, Isaac
Chaffee, John
Cheney, Joseph
Clark, Abijah
Clark, Benjamin
Cobum, Hezekiah
Colman, Eliphalet
Crane, Joseph
Franklin, Samuel

Gould, Waterman
How, Perley
How, Samson
Huling, Alexander
Jeffords, Jacob
Jeffords, Moses
Johnson, Henry
Luce, Ephraim
Lyman, Josiah
Lynde, Cornelius
Morse, Moses

Payne, Elijah
Paul, James
Robinson, Ezekiel
Rust, Joseph
Smith, James
Smith, Levi
Smith, Sylvester
Thwing, James
Walcott, Elijah
Wise, Abner

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From a New York Cemetery

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

One of the oldest churches in New
York city is the Fordham Manor Re-
formed church in Kingsbridge road,
established in 1656. In the rear of the
present edifice is a neglected comer plot,
overgrown with we^s, where a few
tombstones, some badly broken, still re-
main. The inscriptions on these neglect-
ed gravestones are as follows :
Elisha Webb, died April 9, 1843, aged

42 years.
Ann Webb, wife of Elisha, died July 1,

1864, aged 64 years.
Henry Amouth, died March 23, 1860,

aged 57 years, 5 months.
Sarah Busscy, bom October 5, 1792,

died April 21, 1870.
Comelius B., son of Comelius and Anab

Archer, died October 7, 1851, aged I

year, 11 months.
Catherine Horton, wife of Benjamin

Horton, died July 9, 1853, aged 24

years, 7 days.
Benjamin, son of Benjamin and Cath-
erine Horton, died July 1, 1853, aged

1 day.
Daniel M., son of Benjamin and Cath-
erine Horton, died September 6, 1852,

aged three months.
Harriet Louisa, wife of James WilUams,

died April 10, 1854, aged 36 years, 21

days.
Eliza, wife of Isaac Corse, died Febm-

ary 19, 1850, aged 64 years, 6 months,

7 days.
Stephen, son of David and Mary Walker,

died Febmary 20, 1853, aged 3 years.
Martha Chamberlain, died November 28«

1856, in her 87th year.
John Clay Stamp, a native of Amold,

England, died Febmary 17, 1866, aged

21 years.
Mary Ann, wife of Benjamin Moseley,

a native of Nottingham, England, died

July 13, 1868, aged 62 years.
Margaret Maria Fortune, a native of

Scotland, died May 5, 1863, aged 36.

Phoebe Woode, relict of Anthony
Woode, died March 4, 1853, aged 87
years, 8 months, 7 days.

Hannah Woode, died December 10, 1851,
aged 57 years, 3 months, 16 days.

Pennsylvania Pensioners

Following are the names, rank and
other details concerning soldiers residing
in Lebanon county. Pa., who were in-
scribed on the pension list under the
Act of Congress passed March 18, 1818.

(Continued from page 227.)
Mayer, Peter, pr., Oct. 23, 1818; 77.
Mick, Philip, pr., Dec. 16, 1820; 83.
Moart, John, July 7, 1819; 78.
Ribbert, Abraham, sergt., Oct. 20, 1818;

81.
Stewart, James, pr., April 12, 1818; 79.
Stewart, James (2d), pr., June 30, 1818;

95; d. June 14, 1833.
Statzer, David, pr., March 5, 1819; 84.
Smith, John, 4th pr., Nov. 6, 1819; 79,
Weaver, Henry, pr., April 29, 1819; 76.

Settlers of Piscataway, N. J.

Piscataway was settled under a grant
dated December 18, 1661, the grantees
being John Martin, Charles Oilman,
Hu^ Dunn and Hopewell Hull, and on
Majr 30, 1668, Robert Dennis, John
Smith, John Oilman and Benjamin Hull
were annoimced associates. They came
principally from Piscataqua, in New
Hampshire, but were originally from
Britain. They conferred upon their
township the name of the place from
whence they came, it being known as
Piscataqua for some time after the set-
tlement

A Taf t Query

Will some reader of Genealogy please
give me the names of the parents of
Sylvia Howard, who married Peter Raw-
son Taft, the grandfather of President
William Howard Taft, in 1810? Also
where she was bom? [325] C.W.P.

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LambertvUle, N. Jm Burials 3^

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Inscriptions in the cemetery of the
First Presbyterian church, Lambertville,
N. J., include the following:

Andrew D. W. Stout, died October
10, 1833, aged 55 years and 11 months.

Jeannette Qausen, widow of Cornelius
Clausen, died December 9, 1825, in the
— th year of her age.

Charles McGuire, died May 21, 1817,
aged 50 years.

Martha, wife of Amos Rose, died
March 2, 1848, in her 60th year.

Margaret Kilpatrick, wife of Alex-
ander Kilpatrick, died November 16,
1821, aged 76 years.

Richard Ransavell, died August 30,
1865, aged 76 years.

Rebecca, wife of Richard Ransavell,
died December 24, 1837, in her 40th
year.

Joshua Anderson, died April 20, 1827,
aged 51 years.

Elizabeth, widow of Joshua Anderson,
died April 12, 1842, aged 70 years.

George B. Young, son of Henry T.,
and Elizabeth B. Young, died March 10,
1856, aged 11 years.

Rosina, daughter of William and Mary
Ann Griswold, died September 17, 1833.
aged 6 months.

Helen, wife of Thomas B. Fidler, died
January 24, 1842, aged 25 years.

George Henry, son of Thomas B., and
Helen Fidler, died September 19, 1841,
aged 1 year, 7 days.

William Waters, died March 19, 1859,
aged 52 years, 7 months.

Mary Ann, wife of William Waters,
died February 14, 1849, aged 39 years.

Thomas L. Southard, Esq., died
March 5, 1843.

Ann Eveline, daughter of Joseph and
Elizabeth Craven, died August 9, 1846,
aged 21 years, 3 months, 8 days.

William Edgar Studdiford, son of
Henry and Jane N. Studdiford, died
October 20, 1812, aged 11 years.

Abner Wilson, died May 10, 1857,
aged 35 years.

Amos. Wilson, died September 21,
1818, aged 70 years, 1 month.

Abigail, wife of Amos Wilson, died
November 20, 1802, aged 87 years, 6
months, 20 days. W. M. C.

Vermont Morgan Family

From cemetery records at Pownal,
Vermont :

Ezra Morgan, born April 26, 1770,
died January 8, 1849.

Abigail Morgan, wife of Ezra, bom
June 25, 1775, died May 6, 1848.

Caleb Morgan, died December 23.
1775, age fifty-nine years.

Benjamin Morgan, died January 30,
1834, age eighty-four years.

Lucy Morgan, wife of Benjamin, died
October 9, 1823, age sixty-five years,
eight months, two days.

Ezra Morgan, Jr., bom Febmary 7,
1801, died Febmary 16, 1849.

Lydia, daughter of Ezra and Eliza
Morgan, died April 20, 1830, age two
years.

Benjamin, son of Ezra and Eliza Mor-
gan, died April 18, 1830, age four years.

Harriet, daughter of Ezra and Eliza
Morgan, died June 20, 1833, age eleven
years.

Joseph Morgan, a soldier of the Revo-
lution, died about 1785.

Levi Morgan, died March 27, 1785,
age twenty-three years.

Lydia Morgan, died September 18.
1820, age ninety-four years, twenty days.

The Wells Family of Boston

From the Boston City Directory for
the year 1789 are taken the following of
the names of Wells:

Thomas, winebroker. Old South.

Arnold, Jr., shopkeeper, 19 Corahill.

Thomas, vintner, Ann Street.

Ebenezer, sailmaker, Cold Lane.

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New Orleans Cemetery Records

The following inscriptions are from
the old Girod cemetery in New Orleans,
Tvouisiana :

Charles Henderson Cook, a native of
Massachusetts, died April 9, 1818, aged
15.

John K. Van Houten, from New York,
died October 19, 1832, of yellow fever,
aged 30 years and 6 months.

Benjamin B. Withington, a native of
Camden, Me., died October 28, 1832,
aged 22 years.

William Homer, a native of Boston,
Mass., died September 18, 1847, aged
46 years.

Richard T. Polk, bom in MecWen-
burgh, N. C, February 6, 1824, died
April 11, 1844.

Josh. H. Nicholson, of Maryland, died
August 9, 1832, aged 25.

Peter C. Harrison, a native of Vir-
ginia, who died March 28, 1832, aged
42 years.

Charles Bagley, a native of Newport,
R. I., died October 23, 1832.

Major C. Willard, native of Boston,
Mass., died July 6, 1831, aged 31 years,

A. M. Willard, died October 22, 1841,
aged 22 years.

Charles Chandler, a native of Ver-
mont, died of yellow fever, September,
1832, aged 29 years.

James Murphy, a native of Pittsburgh
Pa., died January 31, 1848, aged 30
years.

Wood Family Burials

From the cemetery in Groton, Conn.

Here lieth the body of Mr. John Wood,
who died December ve 20th, 1738, aged
90 odd.

Mary Wood, relict of John Wood, who
died May the 3d, 1744, a^ed 77 years.

In memory of Mr. William Wood,
who died December 2d, 1794, in the 93
year of his age.

In memory of Mrs. Anner Wood, wife
of Mr. William Wood, who died March
8th, 1796, in the 90th year of her age.

In memory of Mr. William Wood,
who died November 2, 1800, in the 51st
year of his age.

In memory of Mr. John Wood, who
died April 12, 1798, in the 63d years
of his age.

In memory of Mrs. Eunice Wood,
relict of Mr. John Wood, who died Feb-
ruary 24, 1832, aged 95 years.

In memory of Hannah Wood, who
died June 6th, A. D. 1818, aged 74 years.

"Precious in the sight of the Lord is
the death of his saints."

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The Fletchers of Massachusetts

Inscriptions from the cemetery in
Chelmsford, Middlesex county, Mass.:

Samuel Fletcher, died December 9,
1697, aged sixty^five years.

Samuel, son of Samuel and Mary
Fletcher, died February 1, 1697, "aged
eleven dayes."

Thomas, son of Samuel and Mary
Fletcher, died April 3, 1698, aged four
years and ten months.

Joshua, son of Mr. Joshua and Mrs.
Elizabeth Fletcher, died November 5,

1737, aged thirteen years, three months
and twenty-six days.

Esther Fletcher, daughter of Mr.
Joshua and Mrs. Elizabeth Fletcher, died
October 27, 1737, aged eleven years, one
month and thirteen days.

Mary Fletcher, wife of Samuel
Fletcher, died January 30, 17 — , aged
twenty-eight years.

Mrs. Lydia Fletcher, wife of Mr. An-
drew Fletcher, died February 9, 1746,
aged twenty-four years and four days.

Samuel Fletcher, died January 24,
1704-5, aged forty years and six months.

The Barrows Family

The following inscriptions are from
the burial ground at South Hill, Wind-
ham county, Vermont:

Hannah C., wife of Isaac Barrows,
died February 26, 1852. Age seventy
year, nine months.

Isaac Barrows, died May 20, 1854.
Aged seventy-five years, three months.

William Barrows, died May 27, 1841.
Aged thirty years, ten months and
twenty-eight days.

Pliny Barrows, died July 7, 1877.
Aged seventy years, seven months and
twenty days.

Cynthia, wife of Pliny Barrows, died
October 14, 1873. Aged sixty-three
years, seven months and twenty-five days.

Charles L. Barrows, died April 12,
1870. Aged twenty-five years, three
months.

Mary W., daughter of Pliny and Cyn-
thia Barrows, died April 4, 1837. Aged
four years, three months, twenty-nine
days.

Mills Family in Vermont

The United States census for 1790
gives the following heads of families
living in Vermont: Daniel Mills, John
Mills, Nathaniel Mills, Samuel Milk,
Timothy Mills and the Widow Mills.

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Whole No. 34

Richard Curtis was born in England
in 1610. He settled in Dorchester,
Mass., in 1642. He married, first, Eliza-
beth , She died May 28, 1657, and

he married, second^ Sarah in Sep-
tember, 1657. He was a shoemaker, and
in 1678 he removed to Wallingford,
Conn., where he died September 17,
1681. His descendants are found in
Wallingford, New Haven, Watertown
and Framington, Conn. Issue: Eliza-
beth, bom in Dorcester, Mass., July 17,
1643 ; Isaac, bom in Dorchester June 17,
1658, married Sarah Foote, daughter of
Robert and Sarah Foote of Branford,
Conn., August 13, 1682, and died in Wal-
lingford July 15, 1712; Joseph, born in
Dorchester September 4, 1661.

Samuel Curtis was born in Sheffield,
England. He emigrated to this country
in 1690 and settled in Windsor, Conn.,
where he married Lois Wentworth. Is-
sue: Elnathan, bom in Windsor April
10, 1712, married Rose Weller of Guil-
ford, Conn., March 10, 1737, and died in
Stockbridge, Mass., August 20, 1781, his
wife dying June 1, 1808, aged 94 years.

Thomas Curtis, born in England in

1598, married Elizabeth . He settled

in Wethersfield, Conn., in 1639, where
he died November 13, 1681, leaving an
estate of £171 13s. 9d., a large estate for

The American Curtis Ancestors

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that time. His descendants are found in
Hartford, Farmington and through
Litchfield county, Conij. Issue: John,
bora in Wethersfield January 1, 1693,

married Lydia , November 20., 1666,

and died in Wethersfield November 8,
1712; James, bom in Wethersfield Sep-
tember 15, 1641 married Abigail

July 8, 1686, and died in Wethersfield
September 5, 1690; Joseph, born in
Wethersfield March 31, 1644, married

Mercy , Febmary 8, 1674, and died

in Wethersfield December 31, 1683;
Samuel, born in Wethersfield in April,

1645, married Sarah , February 20,

1683, and died in Wethersfield Novem-
ber 26, 1688 ; Isaac, bora in Wethersfield
in 1647 and settled in Wallingford ; Ruth,
bora in Wethersfield, married Eleazer
Kimberly of Hartford, Conn. ; Elizabeth,
bora in Wethersfield, married John Stod-
dard, Jr., May 26, 1674.

Thomas Curtis settled in York, Me.,
and in 1648 removed to Scituate, Mass.,
but in 1663 returned to York. He was
probably a brother of John, William and
Richard Curtis of Scituate. He married
and had issue: Elizabeth, born in Scitu-
ate in 1649; Samuel, bora in Scituate in

1659, married Elizabeth ; Benjamin,

bora in York, Me., and owned land in
Portsmouth and in Newcastle, 1681;

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Joseph, married Sarah Foxwell, daugh-
ter of Richard Foxwcll, m 1678.

William Curtis, born in England, 1618,
settled in Stratford, Conn.

William Curtis settled in Scituate in
1645; probably a brother of Richard,
John and Thomas. His descendants are
found in Scituate, Hanover, and Bos-
ton, Mass. Issue, all bom in Scituate:
Joseph, bom in May, 1664, and married

Rebecca in 1692; Benjamin, born

in January, 1667, married Mary Sylves-
ter, daughter of Captain Joseph Sylves-
ter of Scituate, in 1689; William, bora
in January, 1669 ; John, born in 1674 and
married Experience Palmer, daughter of
John Palmer of Scituate, March 4, 1708;
Miriam, bom in April, 1673 ; Mehitable,
bom in December, 1675; Stephen, born
in September, 1677; Sarah, born in Au-
gust, 1679, married William Cook, Au-
gust 30, 1705; Samuel, born in June,
1681 and married Anne Barstow, Sep-
tember 11, 1707.

William Curtis of Salem, Mass., mar-
ried Alice . Issue, all born in

Salem: Ann, born August 30, 1658;
Sarah, born October 13, 1660, and died
August 25, 1860; William, born Octo-
ber 26, 1662; Abigail, born August 15,
1664; John, born May 14, 1666; Eliza-
beth, bom in January, 1668; Hannah,
bom in August, 1670.

William Curtiss (so spelled on the
Roxbury records) was born in Nazing,
England, November 13, 1592. He mar-
ried Sarah Eliot, daughter of Bennett
Eliot of Nazing, November 13, 1592, and
married, second, Sarah Eliot, daughter
of Bennett Eliot of Nazing, August 6,

1618. He sailed for this country in the
ship Lyon on June 22, 1632, and landed
at Boston, Mass., on Sunday, September
16, 1632. He settled in Roxbury, Mass.,
where he was made a freeman, March 4,
1633. He died in Roxbury December 8,
1672. His wife died in Roxbury March
26, 1672. He was probably the brother
of John Curtiss of Wethersfield who was
supposed to have been the husband of
the widow, Elizabeth Curtiss, of Strat-
ford, Conn. His descendants are found
in Boston and Sharon, Mass. Issue:
William, born in Nazing, England, in
1618, came to New England in 1631 with
Reverend John Eliot, settled in Roxbury
and died in 1634 ; Mary, baptized in Naz-
ing March 11, 1620-21 ; Thomas, baptized
in Nazing January 19, 1622-23, and died
probably June 26, 1650; Elizabeth, bap-
tized in Nazing February 13, 1624-25,
and married Isaac Newhall of Roxbury,
December 14, 1659; John, baptized in
Nazing July 17, 1629, married, first, Re-
becca Wheeler, daughter of Thomas
Wheeler of Boston, December 26, 1661,
and second, Dorcas Peak, daughter of
Charles and Dorcas Peak of Roxbury
and died in 1654 ; Philip, baptized in Naz-
ing March 28, 1632, married Obedience
Holland, daughter of John Holland of
Dorchester, Mass., October 20, 1658, and
was killed by the Indians in King Phil-
lip's war November 9, 1675 ; Sarah, bap-
tized in Nazing August 5, 1627; Hannah,
born in Roxbury, Mass., married William
Geary, August 25, 1651 ; Isaac, born in
Roxbury July 22, 1641-42, married Han-
nah Palley daughter of John Palley of
Roxbury, May 10, 1670, and died in Rox-
bury May 31, 1695, his widow dying
February 6, 1720. W. H. L.

Heads of Families, Census 1790, Woodford, Vermont

Scott, Mathew
Scott, Noah
Scott, Zerish
Wilson, Joseph
Forgeson, Hezekiah

Hunt, Joseph
Reed, Benj.
Moore, Caleb
Peirce, Zadock
Peirce, Eli

Grover, Benj.
Bigelow, Noah, Ju.
Bigelow, Noah
Dant, Sam

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Early Marriages in Salem, New York

Marriages from the records of the
Church of Christ in Salem, Westchester
county, N. Y.:

1752.

Aug. 13 — ^Jabez Little and Jane
Brooks.

1753.

May 24 — Ebenezer Brooks and Eliza-
beth Loder.

June 27 — Jacob Vancoit and Martha
Price.

Aug. 12 — Samuel St. John and Annah
Palmer.

1754.

Jan. 28 — ^Abraham Vancoit and Pris-
cilla Wauser.

Feb. 5— Thomas Michell and Lydia
Kindrick.

Feb. 12— Jabez Tyler and Mercy
Clark.

April 14 — ^Arnold Dickens and Catron
Mitchel; Bether Lyon and Jemima
Wood.

Aug. 8— John Todd and Mary Brush..

Sept. 18— John Dickson and Susan-
nah Benedict.

Oct. 9— Elisha Sherman and Phebc
Canfield (Cheshire).

Mayflower Descendants

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

The question on page 215 of Gene-
alogy, July 6, No. 27, is not quite clear
to me; but if it means — are there any
descendants of the persons named who
are also descendants from the first com-
ers on the Mayflower? — then I think I
can name some who are descended from
Henry Kingsbury. His son, Joseph (2)
Kingsbury, 1656-1741, married Love
Ayer, 1663-1735; their son, Joseph (3)
Kingsbury, 1682-1757, married Ruth
Denison, 1628-1779; their daughter,
Hannah, 1709-1770, married Capt. Jacob
Hyde, 1703-1782; their son, Joseph
Hyde, 1736-1802, married Abigail Abel,
who died 1774; their son, the Reverend
Alvan Hyde, 1768-1831, married Lucy

Tersenden, 1770-1852; their son, Alex-
ander Hyde. 1814-1881, married Cornelia
Hull, 1818-1885.

Cornelia Hull was a daughter of Lieu-
tenant Governor George Hull, 1788-1866,
and Sarah Allen, 1792-1881 ; Sarah AUen
was a daughter of John H. Allen, 1760-
1812, and Sarah Kilboume, 1758-1851;
Sarah Kilboume was a daughter of
Elisha Kilboume, 1727-1813, and Sarah
Robbins, 1729-1810; Elisha Kilboume
was a son of Hezekiah Kilboume, who
married December 19, 1722, Elizabeth
AUyn, daughter of Captain Joseph Allyn,
who married Mary Dotey, daughter of
Edward Doty 2d, son of Edward, who
came on the Mayflower.

Lucy Fessenden was a daughter of
Benjamin and Sarah (Newcomb) Fes-
senden ; Sarah Newcomb was a daughter
of William and Bathsheba (Bourne)
Newcomb; Bathsheba Bourne was a
daughter of Colonel Melatiah and Desire
(Chipman) Boume; Desire Chipman
was a daughter of Elder John and Hope
(Howland) Chipman; Hope Howland
was a daughter of John Howland and
(Elizabeth Tilly), both of the May-
flower. G. W. B.

Austins of Boston

The Boston City Directory for tho
year 1789, gave the following Austins as
living in that city:

Daniel, grocer, 47 Cornhill.

Samuel, Jr., founder, Market Square.

Jonal L., rope walk, 37 Long Walk.

Benjamin, Jr., rope walk, 37 Long
Walk.

Nathaniel, goldsmith, Back Street.

Joseph, baker. Ship Street.

Eunice (Hazen) Reeder

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

I would like to know the ancestry of
Eunice Hazen, who was married to
Jacob Reeder, in Newport, Luzeme
County, Pa., January 22, 1767; she was
born 1753, died 1817. [328] T. F.

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KimbaU

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

Answering Kimball [292] K. M. K„
and referring to B. E. T/s answers in
the June 15, 1912, number of Genealogy,
the latter is probably mistaken in omit-
ting Abigail as the eldest daughter of
John (1) Kimball. She is said to have
married John Severans, gf Salisbury,
Mass. B. E. T. seems also mistaken in
substituting for Abigail a daughter Ur-
sula; this he evidently deduced from a
Salisbury death record of one Ursula
Kimball, 1658. This must be Richard's
wife, for he married a second wife in
1661. This is confirmed by the com-
parative improbability of the suppositious
Ursula retaining her family name in the
new colony to her death at evidently 45
years of age or thereabouts; finally, her
name is not recorded as baptised at Rat-
tlesden as are the numerous children of
Richard. Let's hear from B. E. T. again.

H. C Q.

Gary

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

Who was the wife of the Reverend
Henry Cary, of Ashford, Conn., and
Pawling, Dutchess county, N. Y.? The
births of their eight children are recorded
in Ashford, the first in 1735. Henry
Cary was born in 1711, the son of David
Cary, of Bristol, R. I. He was gradu-
ated from Harvard College in 1733.

[332] I}. L.S.

WUcoz

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

Who are the parents of Eliab Wilcox,
of Dover, Dutchess county, N. Y.? He
was bom February 23, 1732, died Janu-
ary 28, 1810, and is buried in Dover.
He married, before 1758, Jerusha Spen-
cer. They had ten children, most of
whom moved to Harpersfield, Delaware
county, N.Y. [331] H. L. S.

Dyre

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

Who are the parents of Henry Dyre,
of Lebanon, Conn. ? He married, Janu-
ary 28, 1724-25, Mary Rice. His marri-
age and the births of his children ^re re-
corded in Lebanon. His will, dated in
1748-49 and probated in 1753, called him
"of Lebanon." An Elisha I)yre helped
in the settlement of his estate. His sur-
viving children were: Henry, Hannah,
wife of Abner Woodworth ; Sarah, wife
of Phineas Sprague; and Rhoda. Who
were the parents of Mary (Rice) Dyer?
[329] H.L.S.

Rejmolds

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

Who are the parents of the Reverend
James Reynolds, of Hector, N. Y., bom
m Delaware county, N. Y., in 1771 ? He
had a brother, the Reverend Israel Rey-
nolds, who was bom in Horseneck,
Conn., April 21, 1782, and settled near
Cortland, N. Y. Another brother set-
tled near Lyons, N. Y. James Reynolds
married Esther Nash, of Harpersfield,
Delaware county, N. Y. Israel Reynolds
married Rachel Seward, supposed to be
an aunt of Wm. H. Seward, the states-
man. [330] H. L. S.

The Sandoz Family

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

From the Episcopal cemetery, Bristol,
Pcnn. :

Francis Sandoz, died November 11,
1811, aged 42 years.

Leopold Sandoz, died January 15,
1841, aged 33 years, 9 months and 14
days.

Lewis Sandoz, died November 30,
1830, aged 19 years, 5 days.

William Sandoz, died January 19,
1841, aged 32 years, 5 months and 4
days. W. M. C

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A Montgomery Branch

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

Richard Montgomery was born in
Paisley, near Glasgow, Scotland, about
the year 1778. He married, in Paisley,
Annabell Clarkson, in the latter part of
the year 1808. Prior to his removal to
America he was a peddler of goods. In
1811 he moved with his family from
Glasgow to Philadelphia, Pa., where he
engaged in mercantile business. He
brought with him from Scotland a thread
machine and, during the war of 1812,
manufactured thread with profit, but
after the war abandoned that business.
He had a sister, who also came to Phila-
delphia, and married a man named Lee.
She died young, leaving two sons in
Philadelphia, named Richard Lee and
William Henry Lee.

In 1817 or 1818, Richard Montgomery,
with his family, crossed the mountains
of Pennsylvania to Pittsburg, by means
of the old-time stage. At Pittsburg he
procured a boat and descended the Ohio
river, stopping a few days in Cincinnati,
and finally landing at Louisville, Ky. He
remained in Louisville, New Albany and
Jeffersonville, Ind., about two years, con-
ducting a store business. While in Jef-
fersonville he met John Fischli, who had
purchased a large quantity of land from
the Government in Jackson county, In-
diana, and persuaded him to remove to
the new region. Accordingly he entered
an eighty-acre tract of land near Rock-
ford, Ind., on September 27, 1820, and
immediately removed to his new pur-
chase. He took with him a stock of
goods, valued at perhaps $800, which
was subsequently burned while stored in
a log building on the farm. The family
records were also destroyed by fire, and
the precise date of the birth of some of
the children is not certainly known.
From this time forward he was engaged
in clearing and tilling his land. He had
poetic ability, and wrote a number of
verses. A volume of manuscript had

been placed with a Louisville house for
publication, but unfortunately this firm
was burned out and his manuscript de-
stroyed. None of his productions, so
far as known, remain in existence. He
died in February, 1849, at Spring Glen
Farm, the name he had given to his
home.

These children, ten in number, were
bom to Richard and Annabell (Clark-
son) Montgomery:

Annabell, born in Glasgow, June 20,
1810; died January 2, 1819.

Richard, bom in Philadelphia, Febru-
ary 26, 1813.

John Clarkson, bora in Philadelphia in
November, 1814.

William, bom in Philadelphia in
March, 1817.

Theophilus Wylic, bora in Jefferson-
ville, Ind., May 15, 1819.

Thomas Kell, bora at Spring Glei^
Ind., April 17, 1822.

Henry, born at Spring Glen, InA,
January 7, 1825.

Mary Jane, born at Spring Glen, Ind.,
April 14, 1827.

James Renwick, born at Spring Glen»
Ind., November 15, 1829.

Robert Hughie, bom at Spring Glen,
Ind., June 20, 1834.

All these children left descendants ex-
cept Annabell, Henry and William, and
all are dead except James R., who re-
sides in Seymour, Indiana, and Robert
M., who resides in Troy, Kansas.

O. H. M.

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LancMter Tombetone Inscriptions

[Contributed to Ginealogy.]

From the family grave yard on the
Paul farm, along Indian creek, West
Cocalico Township, Lancaster County,
Pa.

George Boffenmeyer, bom March 29,
1809, died May 5, 1865.

Lilia Boffenmeyer (wife of George,
nee Scherbe), bom March 15, 1807, died
December 13, 1851.

Elenora Bohder (daughter of Wilhelm
and EHzabeth), bora February 21, 1821,
died September 10, 1832.

George Druckenbroad, bom August
18, 1784, died March 6, 1841.

William HaU, bom May 4, 1836, died
June 11, 1861.

Peter Heinley (son of Andreas and
Matilda), bom August 5^ 1856, died Feb*
mary 25, 1857.

Christian Heinley, bom May 9, 1803,
died May 19, 1849.

Margaret Heinley (wife of Christian)
(nee Scherb), bora August 26, 1797,
died May 19, 1873, at 75 years, eight
months, and 23 days.

Christian Heinley (son of Christian
and Margaret), died November 11, 1838,
at 4 years, 4 months, and 4 days.

Twin sons of Levi and Catherine
Levis, born October, 1834, died same
day. Three more children of Levi &
Catherine, inscriptions illegible.

Von Frictrich Mentzer, lx)rn April 22^
1770, died June 10, 1843, at 78 years, 3
months, and 8 days.

Christina Mentzer, wife of Friedrich,
bom November 25, 1771, died October
31, 1843, at 71 years, 11 months and 6
days.

Samuel Oberley, son of John and
Susanna, bora October 30, 1819, died
July 23, 1842.

Margaretha Oberly, daughter of
Johannes Oberly and wife Susanna, nee
Scherbin, bora September 2, 1816, died
March 15, 1836. S. H. F.

Barber Family of Vermont

Inscriptions of Barber tombstones in
the cemetery of Pownal, Vermont, are
as follows:

Joseph Barber, bora August 12, 1744,
died December 31, 1806.

Benjamin Barber, died January 11,
1857, aged seventy-nine years two
months.

Sybcl Barber, wife of Benjamin, died
June 23, 1820, aged forty-five years.

Joseph A. Barber, died August 6, 1897,
aged eighty-four years, six months.

Electra Barber, wife of Joseph, died
March 23, 1904, aged seventy-three
years.

Joseph Barber, died December 6,
1839, aged seventy-one years.

Marinda Barber, wife of Joseph, died
May 9, 1864, aged eighty-eight years,
ten months.

William Barber, son of Joseph and
Marinda, died Febmary 7, 1825, aged
sixteen years.

Phoebe Barber, bora December 31,
1785, died March 18, 1857.

Timothy Barber, born February 10,
1783, died September 18, 1854.

Andrew Barber, drowned June 16,
1832, aged twenty-five years.

Daniel Barber, died April 16, 1821,
aged twenty-five years.

Samuel Barber, died March 2, 1821,
aged forty-two years.

Mrs. Nancy Barber, first wife of Sam-
uel, died Febmary IS, 1813, aged thirty
years.

Mrs. Polly Barber, second wife of
Samuel, died March 24, 1816, aged
twenty-nine years.

The Paines of Boston

The Boston Directory for the year
1789, gives the names of three Paines, as
follows :

Samuel, merchant, Rainsfords Lane.

Robert E., Esq., Atty. Gen., Milk
Street.

Pierce, tailor. Prince Street.

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Pennsylvania— Kansas Gibsons

[Contributed to Genealogy.]
I.

Gideon Gibson, of Butler county,
Pennsylvania, married Abigail Colter.

II.

Issue of Gideon and Abigail (Colter)
Gibson :

1. William Gibson, moved to Illinois.
His children were: Samuel Gibson,
George Gibson and William Gibson.

2. Thomas Gibson. His children
were: Colter Gibson and Qements Gib-
son.

3. John Gibson. His children wpre:
William Gibson and Walter Gibson.

4. George G. Gibson, of Butler
county, Pennsylvania, married Nancy
Anderson.

III.

Issue of George G. and Nancy (An-
derson) Gibson:

1. Gideon W. Gibson, born in Oc-
tober, 1843, of Butler county, Kansas,
married Margaret McCulley. Jheir chil-
dren were: Abbie Gibson, Howard Gib-
son, Samuel Gibson, George Gibson,
Charles Gibson, Ines Gibson, Addie Gib-
son, Clarie Gibson and Homer Gibson.

2. Samuel F. Gibson, born July 29,
1848, of Butler county, Kansas ; married
Sarah Prosser. Their children were:
George Gibson, Edith Gibson, Benjamin
Gibson and Roy Gibson.

3. James H. Gibson, bom March 18,
1850, of McKean county, Pennsylvania;

married Kittie . Their children

were: Edith Gibson, Mabel Gibson and
James Gibson.

4. Norman A. Gibson, bom April 11,
1853, of Butler county, Kansas; married
M. Elizabeth Plummer and had these
children :

1. John H. Gibson, bom October
19, 1878; married Grace V. Noble.
Issue : Leland N. Gibson, bora October
S ; Virginia L. Gibson, who was bom
July 22.

2. Maud M. Gibson, married Her-
man Ellis and had Ruth Ellis.

3. Qeo N. Gibson, married Aubra
Craft and had one soft, Robert Norman
Craft.

Eli Gibson, of Colorado; died ;

married Tillie ; no children.

George Gibson, born October 3, 1861,
of Butler county, Pennsylvania ; died un-
married.

William D. Gibson, of Colorado; mar-
ried and had one child. J. H. G.

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Paris, Ohio, Burials

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

The following inscriptions are from
the village cemetery in Paris, Stark
county, Ohio:

Sarah Thomas, died Sept. 5, 1839,
aged 60 years.

Catherine, wife of Abraham Yant, died
April 30, 1850.

John, son of Catherine Flickinger, died
Jan. 1, 1815, aged 11 years, 2 months, i

Montgomery Flickinger, died March
11, 1838, aged 11 years, 5 months. \

Aaron B. Freer, born March 18, 1811,
died Aug. 5, 1846, aged 35 years, 4
months, 18 days.

Elizabeth, wife of George Sponseller,
died July 13, 1842, aged 38 years, 5
months, 25 days.

Mena Catherine, wife of Nicholas
Qemens, died Sept. 2, 1858, aged 71
years.

Daniel Clemens, died July 26, 1835,
aged 25 years.

Isaac Mowl, died July 23, 1847, aged
53 years.

Henry Wartman, died Dec. 5, 1854,
aged 47 years.

Joseph Flickinger, died Aug. 10, 1865,
aged 68 years, 3 months, 19 days.

Henry E., son of I. and B. Wartman,
died Jan. 21, 1859, aged 12 years, 5
months.

William W.. son of P. and B. Mont-
Pfomery, died Jan. 14, 1852, aged 4 years,
10 months. W. M. C.

Payne Family Tombs

The following are from Farmington
cemetery in Rochester, N. Y. :

Payne, Gideon, died November 23,
1848, aged 83 years, 10 months, 13 davs.

Payne, Georgfe, died July 22, 1847,
aged 37 years, 8 months. 24 days.

Payne, Chauncev, died 1853, aged 13
years, 1 month, 20 days.

Pavne, Joseph, died August 18, 1862,
aeed 88 years.

Payne, Phebe, wife of Gideon.

Pa3me, Reuben.

Pavne, Nancy Jane Brown, wife of
George Pavne, bom March 11, 1811;
died March 4, 1907.

Pa5me, Gideon B.. aged 42' years.

Payne. Florence L., bom December
26, 1846; died May 19, 1905.

Pavne, George C, born May 21, 1877;
died Februarv 27, 1901.

Payne, Charlie L., 1883-1900.

Payne, Wetha A., 1844-1904.

Payne, Lucinda, 1806-1897.

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The Eveleth Family in New En^and

Sylvester Eveleth, founder of the New
England family bearing his name, was
one of the early colonists in Boston, one
of two brothers who came from Eng-
land. Possibly his appearance in 1642
may have been after a sojourn for some
time in Virginia or Maryland. A Syl-
vester Evelyn married in 1694 Agnes
Dryden, Stamford, England. Sheriff
George Evelyn, who married Margaret
Vincent, was during the reign of Eliza-
beth sheriff of Suffolk and Surry shires.
His paternal ancestor was John Evelyn
of Kingston, England, and the families
in Virginia and South Carolina have
used the spelling Evelyn or Eveleigh.
The spelling Eveleth is distinctly of New
England.

Sylvester Eveleth appeared in Boston
with a family. On March 23, 1643, he,
with his wife, Susan^ and son, Joseph,
bom June, 1641, united with the First
Church. Hannah, born that years, was
baptized in October, 1643. In 1645, Syl-
vester and Susan were dismissed to the
church in Gloucester, and there they con-
tinued to reside. Sylvester was twice a
selectman in Gloucester, constable, com-
missioner and lieutenant. In May, 1673,
he was deputy for Gloucester to the
Massachusetts general court, and dur-
ing the following ten years appears to
have been a resident of Boston.

Susan Eveleth died September 14,
1669, being then above sixty years of
age. In 1672 Sylvester married again.

For his second wife he took Bridget
Parkman, widow of Elias, a mariner,
who was lost about 1662. The families
so far as they can now be arranged were
as follows:

Elizabeth Eveleth married, 1635, John
Perkins, son of John and Judith Perkins.
They lived in Ipswich, where she died in
1684. They had nine children: John,

married Lidia ; Abraham, married

Hannah Beamsley; Jacob, married, first,
Sarah Wainwright, and second, Sarah
Kinsman; Luke, married Elizabeth
Jaques; Isaac, married Hannah Knight;
Nathaniel, Thomas and Sarah.

Susan Eveleth married James Stevens
of Gloucester, 1655, and died in 1687.
They had eleven children : William, mar-
ried Abigail Sargent ; John, James, Isaac,
Samuel, Ebenezer, Mary, Hannah, David
and Jonathan.

Margaret Eveleth married, June, 1652,
Nathaniel Gallop of Boston, son of John
and Christobel. She died August 11,
1698, in Boston. They had four chil-
dren: Nathaniel, Joseph, married, first,

Hannah , who bore two children

and died in 1690, and, second, in 1694,
Elizabeth Dwight; Benjamin, married
Hannah Sharpe, who bore him three
children; Mary Eveleth Gallop died an
infant.

Mary Eveleth married, May, 1655,
Thomas Millett of Manchester and

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Gloucester. She died January 7, 1687,
childless.

Hannah Eveleth, whose baptismal
register was of October, 1643, married,
June, 1669, Nathaniel Kettell of Bos-
ton, son of Richard of Charlestown.
Nathaniel Eveleth Kettell, their only
child, married, October, 1692, Joanna
Ellis (Ellise), who bore: Nathaniel, who
married Mary Decoster; John, Joseph,
Henry, Hannah, James, Mehitable,
Joanna, Mary and three sons who died
infants. Their Joseph was a carpenter,
1745, at Louisburg, C. B.

Isaac Eveleth, master of the ketch
Nubery, was probably older than Joseph.
He was a son of Sylvester and Susan.
He was a freeman, October, 1684. He
married, November, 1677, Abigail Coyte,
daughter of John Coyte and Mary
Stevens, and granddaughter of John
Coyte and Mary Jenners of Gloucester.
Isaac bought a house and orchard, 1682,
in Gloucester, of John Davis, and died
in that town January, 1685. He left a
widow, who, in 1686, became the second
wife of Thomas Millett of Gloucester.

The children of Isaac Eveleth and Abi-
gail Coyte were: Isaac, who went to
South Carolina, 1697, whose son George
was the graduate of Harvard College,
1742, and another son, Nicholas Eveleth,
captain of the Second South Carolina,
1775, and September, 1789, appointed
comptroller of the United States treasury
by President George Washington; Han-
nah married, February, 1704, Peter Ben-
nett, son of Anthony of Gloucester, their
son, Peter Eveleth Bennett, being killed
at Falmouth, 1725, in the attack on Fort
Loyall ; Job, a ship carpenter in Glouces-
ter, married, 1708, Abigail Sargent, and
had a numerous family; Mary, born
April, 1685, died the following year, a
few days less than one year old.

Joseph Eveleth, the centenarian, son
of Sylvester and Susan, was born June,
1641, and died in Ipswich, Mass., De-
cember, 1745. He was a yeoman, tyth-
ingman and one of the jurors on the

trials at Salem, 1692. He married,
January, 1668, Mary Bragge, daughter
of Edward and Elizabeth Wit ridge of
Ipswich. For some years they lived in
Gloucester, where three children were
bom to them. In 1673 they moved to
Ipswich, occupied the Bragge homestead,
and both died there, Mary Bragge Eve-
leth in 1714, and Joseph in 1745.

Rev. John Eveleth, son of Joseph and
Mary (Bragge) Eveleth was bom Janu-
ary, 1670, in Gloucester, Mass. He was
graduated, 1689, at Harvard College,
was pastor, 1689-95, in Manchester;
1695-99, was in Enfield, Mass. ; 1700-17,
pastor in Stow, Mass. Then, until his
death, August, 1734, he was at Arundel,
Biddeford and Kittery, Maine, as mis-
sionary, laboring as far east as Fal-
mouth, and chaplain of Fort William at
the mobth of the Saco River. He mar-
ried, January, 1692, Mary Bowman of
Cambridge Farms (Lexington, Mass.).
She was a daughter of Francis and Mar-
tha Sherman, daughter of Captain John
Sherman. Joseph Bowman Eveleth,
their oldest son, died December, 1714,
a student in Harvard College, at the age
of eighteen years. John, the next son,
married, 1722, Hannah Haynes, Sud-
bury, and died March, 1743, aged forty-
five years leaving a widow and five chil-
dren.

Francis Eveleth married Mary Hunt
and died in Stow November, 1776, aged
seventy-five years. They had four sons
and four daughters who grew to adult
age. Sarah married, 1732, Cord Cordis,
a sugar baker, Boston, and died March,
1740, leaving three sons and a daughter.
Hannah married, 1724, Edward Ayres,
Boston, and Martha married, 1721,
Joshua Thornton Boston. Abigail, prob-
ably his oldest daughter, married

Marble of Stow, and Mary, whose data
have not yet appeared, completes the list
of children. As to Abigail and Mary,
the question' will probably be fully an-
swered in the vital statistics which are
soon to be issued.

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Heads of Families, Census 1790, Gravesend, Kings County, New York

Van Brunt, Rutgert
Van Clieff, Henrick
Van Clieff, John
Stillwcll, Yoost
Boyce, Cornelius
Johnston, William
Stillwell, Richard
Emmans, Conelius
Johnston, Barrent
Emmans, Abrahim
Ryder, John
Bouyss, John
Stillwell, Daniel
Stillwell, Anne
Buis, Cornelius
Donly, Stephen

Williamson, Rem
Hubbard, James
Hubbard, Samuel
Van Sicklen, Ferdinand
Hankins, John
Lake, Daniel
Lake, Court
Johnston, Court
Hubbard, James
Emmans, John
Strieker, Samuel
Voorhis, Albert
Emmans, Stephen
Dennise, Isaac
Stillwell, Richard
Stillwell, Anne

I^ke, Derick
Voorhis, John
Voorhis, Stephen
Pierce, William
Edrick, John
Ryder, Lawrence
Jones, Daniel
Van Dyke, William
Stillwell, Rutgert
Garrison, Samuel
Ryder, Bemardus
Teurhune, Albert
WycoflF, Hendrick
Stillwcll, John
Sherman, Evert
Williamson, Peter

Connecticut Halletts

Inscriptions from a burial ground near
Ledyard, Conn., are as follows:

Henry Hallet, died November 16, 1865,
aged 66 years.

Julia Ann, wife of Henry Hallctt, died
August 15, 1871, aged 70 years.

Deborah A., wife of Henry Hiallett,
died June 7, 1825, aged 26 years.

In memory of Thomas Hallett, who
died September 26, 1838, aged 78.

In memory of Sarah Hallett, who died
November 22, 1804, in the 42d year of
her age.

In memory of Mary Hallett, who died
July 21, 1841, aged 79.

Emily B., daughter of Henry and Julia
A. Hallett, died July 11, 1865, aged 22
years.

James G., son of Henry and Julia Ann
Hallett, died February 6, 1863, aged 18
years and 15 days.

Julia Ann, wife of Theophilus Brown,
daughter of Henry and Julia A. Hallett,
died May 13, 1859, M, 20 years.

In memory of Austen, son of Capt.
Henry and Deborah Hallett, who died
September 6, 1834, aged 11 years and
6 months.

The Earl Family

The following inscriptions are from
the Quaker graveyard, Old Springfield
Meeting, Burlington county, N. J.

Earl, Anna Craig, bom April 1, 1767,
died July 23, 1827.

Earl, Anna Craig, daughter of Wil-
liam W. Earl, and Anna Maria Earl, his
wife, born June 22, 1829; died May 10,
1845.

Earl, John, bom December 30, 1766;
died October 18, 1834.

Earl, John Wells, son of William W.
and Anna Maria, born September 1,
1832; died June 13, 1833.

Earl, Letitia, died 12 mo. 21, 1835.

Earl, Mary, died 5 mo. 1854, aged
seventy years.

Earl, Michael, died January 25, 1850,
aged eighty-four years.

Earl, Rebecca, wife of Michael and
Rebecca, died May 4, 1858.

Earl, Sally, daughter of Michael and
Rebecca, died December 6, 1828, in her
twenty-fourth year.

Earl, Thomas, died July 2, 1846.

Earl, William Wells, bom January 6,
1853; died October 1, 1839.

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Cb^e of N^w Hampshire

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

I. Aquila Chase of Hampton, N. H.,
and Newberry, Mass., was bom in Eng-
land in 1618; he married Ann Wheeler.

II. Daniel Chase, married Martha
Kimball.

III. Daniel Chase, married Elizabeth
Collins.

IV. Jonathan Chase, married Sarah
Stickney.

V. Sarah Chase, married John Sleeper.

VI. Sarah Stickney Sleeper, married
Caleb Mills.

VII. George Westgate Mills, married
Anna Burke Pratt, born in 1854 in Med-
ford, Mass.

Issue :

1. Helen Saville Mills, born in 1882,
married Edward Hall Sargent, of Lex-
ington, Mass.

2. Laura Westgate Mills, born in
1883.

3. Hermon Franklin Mills, bom in
1886; died in 1899.

4. Sarah Chase Mills, died in '1893.

5. Edith Waitt Mills, born in 1894.

G.W.M.

An Austin Branch

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

Joshua Austin, born, in Wallingford,
Conn., October 22, 1772; died August 16,
1848 ; married, February 12, 1794, Esther
Newton, born April 18, 1773, and died
January 9, 1846.

II.

1. Harry Sperry Austin, born May
12, 1796; died April 2, 1859.

2. Sylvester Austin, born April 14,
1801 ; died July 27, 1881.

3. Sally Austin, bom August 12,
1803 ; died August 4, 1886.

4. Esther Austin, born May 5, 1806;
died May 28, 1882.

5. Eveline Austin, born May 30, 1808 ;
died January 14, 1882.

6. Moses Benham Austin, bora, in
Durham, Greene county, N. Y., October
7, 1810; died November 13, 1893; mar-
ried, March 21, 1837, Eliza Brown, bora
January 7, 1811 ; died February 16, 1857.

7. Benoni Austin, bora September 9,
1812; died April 12, 1885.

8. Joel Newton Austin, bora Septem-
ber 3, 1815.

9. Joshua Porter Austin, born Oc-
tober 29, 1821.

III.
Issue of Moses Benham and Eliza
(Brown) Austin:

1. Zalmon Newton Austin, bom May
13, 1838.

2. Rockwell Austin, born, in Wind-
ham, Greene county, N. Y., February 7,
1847; died July 11, 1884; married, Janu-
ary 7, 1872, Selina Stitt, born August 14,
1851, living in 1912.

3. Susan Emma Austin, bom January
5, 1849.

IV.

Issue of Rockwell and Selina (Stitt)
Austin :

Herbert Leroy Rockwell Austin, born,
in Catskill, N. Y., November 8, 1873;
married, June 14, 1899, Ela Mary
Hughes, born December 15, 1878.

Issue, Rockwell Hughes Austin, bom,
in Catskill, N. Y., March 25, 1900.

H. L. R. A.

The Ohio Numan Family

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

The following inscriptions are from
the cemetery in Osnaburg, Stark county,
Ohio:

Henry Numan, bom May 17, 1762,
died May 7, 1847.

Effie, wife of Henry Numan, bom Jan.
15, 1772, died Dec. 23, 1843.

Mary Ann, daughter of J. and C. Nu-
man, died Oct. 18, 1862, aged 2 years.

John Numan, died March 10, 1868,
aged 74 years.

Catherine, wife of John Numan, died
Oct. 6, 1874, aged 67 years. J. N. B.

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Rochester, New York, Burials

From Farmington cemetery, Roch-
ester.

Pound, Mary, died September 9, 1879,
aged /6 years.

Pouna, Emeline J., died December 23,.
1844, aged 16 years, 9 months, 2 days.

Podgham, Willie, son of D. and M.,
died March 30, 1873, aged 5 months, 8
days.

Porland, Phebe J., 1849-1906.

Peckham, Randall J., died February 3,
1885, aged 23 years.

Pickering, Phineas, died 1st month,
25th day, 1890, aged 71 years.

Richardson, Emma H., wife of Fran-
cis, died August 2, 1868, also infant son,
Charlie.

Richardson, Margaret, died 9th month,
28th day, 1840, aged 79 years.

Reynolds, Ann E^ wife of John, died
November, 1890, aged 83 years.

Reynolds, Isaac, died 10th month, 4,
1878, aged 76 years, 3 months.

Reynolds, Sarah E., wife of Isaac C,
died 12th month, 16, 1891, aged 89 years.

Robinson, Vr or Isabella B. P., died
5th month, 22d day, 1855, aged 64 years.

Robinson, Baxter, 1830-19?

Ross, William G., died 5th of 5th
month, 1856, aged 21 years, 5 months, 2
days.

Reynolds, John, died 18th of 1st
month, 1852, aged 51 years, 9 months,
11 days.

Rider, Mehitable T., wife of Jarvis M.,
died 15th of 6th month, 1879, aged 83
years.

Rider, Jarvis M., died April 7, 1888,
aged 97 years, 2 months, 7 days.

Pardee, Henry L., 1845-1904.

Pardee, Elizabeth. 1849- ?

Pardee, Frankie, 1879-1880.

Cynthia Philomena, daughter of Ben-
jamin H. and Julia C. Smalley, di«4
March 2, 1853, aged 17 years.

[Tomb] Ebenczer Marvin, died at
Hammond St., Lawrence County, N. Y.,
August 1, 1827, in the forty-ninth year
of his age. Cynthia, his wife, died at
the residence of her son-in-law, Benja-
min H. Smalley, at Swanton, August 16,
1854, in her seventy-second year.

Julia Anne, daughter of Benjamin H.
and Julia C. Smalley, died February 2,
1835, aged 16 months.

Imri Smalley, died April 6, 1827,
aged 65 years — "An honest man and a
Christian."

Louise Smalley, wife of Imri Smalley,
died December 11, 1830, JE. 71 years.

Laura Pomeroy, daughter of Imri and
Louis Smalley, bom November 21, 1794,
died July 21, 1863.

The Smalleys of Vermont

From the cemetery in St. Albans,
Franklin county, Vt., are the following:

Benjamin H. Smallev, born May 18,
1797, died June 15, 1877.

Pennsylvania Pensioners

Following are the names, rank and
other details concerning the persons re-
siding in Lycoming county, Penn., who
were inscribed on the pension list under
the act of congress passed March 18,
1818:

Campbell, Robert, pr., Oct. 8, 1818; 74.
Callaghan, Daniel, pr., Oct. 8, 1818.
Chapman, George, Sr., pr., March 17,

1826; 78.
Clark, Francis, pr., Nov. 8, 1830; 80.
Donaldson, John, sergt., Oct. 26, 1819;

76, d. Sept. 2, 1824.
English, James, pr., Oct. 8, 1818; 99.
Hill, Frederick, pr., Oct. 20, 1818; 75.
Lebo, Henry, pr., Dec. 10, 1818; 80.
Lushbaugh, Henry, pr., March 20, 1819 ;

84.
Ledyard, Joseph, Sr., pr., March 6, 1819.
McMasters, Edward, pr., Oct. 8, 1818;

62.
McCartney, Henry, pr., March 5, 1819;

89,
Shaffer, Frederick, pr., Oct. 16, 1819;

91 ; d, July 29, 1822.
Sickler, Mich'l, pr., March 7, 1826: 72.
Wilson, Andrew, pr., Oct. 21, 1818; 75.

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Burials at Bristol, Pennsylvania

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

Among the inscriptions in the ceme-
tery of St. James Episcopal church, Bris-
tol, Penn., are the following:

Benjamin F. Green, died January 28,
1848, aged 29 years.

Abaziah Evaul Green, died April 13,
1879, aged 56 years.

John P. Hood, died May 19, 1848,
aged 82 years.

Mary, wife of John P. Hood, died
January 30, 1862, aged 87 years.

Isaac Parsons, bom November 2, 1748,
died September 26, 1818, aged 69 years,
10 months and 14 days.

Elizabeth Parsons, widow of Isaac,
died January IS, 1827, aged 72 years.

Isaac Van Blonk, died January 7, 1792,
aged 54 years.

Sarah, his wife, died July 12, 1796,
aged 67 years.

Bailey Crawford, died March 24, 1795,
aged 4 years.

Mary Coxe Crawford, died October
20, 1799, aged 6 years, 6 months.

Henry Mitchell, died November, 20,
1797, aged 53 years.

Martha, his wife, died July 18, 1796,
aged 48 years.

Eleanor Erin, died June 11, 1828,
aged 15 years.

Mary Hewson, relict of William Hew-
son, F. R. S., professor of anatomy in
London, died 14th October, 1795, aged
56 years.

Alexander Cain of Plymouth, Eng-
land, died June 12, 1808, aged 27 years.

Mary McElroy, died December 2,
1794, aged 75 years.

Joseph Van Zandt, born July 5, 1775,
died September 23, 1821.

Rebecca, wife of Joseph Van Zandt,
born September 25, 1772, died Novem-
ber 8, 1848.

William Rodman, died July 22, 1821,
aged 67 years.

Esther, his wife, died Januari(^ 25,
1840, aged 79 years.

Dr. John Ruan/ died July 2, 1815,
aged 74 years.

Susan Ruan, died February 22, 1849,
aged 62 years.

Charles Swift, died October 8, 1813,
aged 57 years.

Mary Swift, died April 7, 1835, aged
71 years.

Joseph Clunn, Esq., died May 18,
1816, aged 75 years, 11 days.

Mary, his wife, died May 11, 1816,
aged 55 years.

Johann Phillip Nottnagel, a native of
Scarburck, Germany, born 10 July, 1714,
died 7 October, 1799. W. M. C.

The Main Family

Inscriptions from a cemetery near
North Stonington, Conn., are as fol-
lows:

Samuel L. Main, born July 6, 1824,
died March 1, 1898.

Catherine, wife of Samuel L. Main,
died November 30, 1861, aged 32 years
and 5 months.

Orrin T. Main, bom July 4, 1835, died
September 15, 1889.

Martha A., daughter of Samuel L. and
Catharine Main, died March 27, 1857,
age 4 years.

Lucy C, daughter of Samuel L. and
Catherine Main, died March 23, 1857,
aged 8 years and 4 months.

Samuel Main, died July 18, 1886, aged
83 years and 4 months.

Martha, his wife, died March 9, 1869,
aged 68 years.

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The Haines Family in Ohio

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

The following inscriptions are from
the Paris cemetery, Stark county, Ohio:

John Haines, died May 6, 1860, aged
74 years, 10 months, 1 day.

Sarah, wife of Isaac Haines, Jr., died
April 24, 1856, aged 34 years, 4 months.

Elizabeth Ruff, wife of Isaac Haines,
born Jan. 27, 1830; died Aug. 25, 1899,
aged 69 years, 6 months, 28 days.

John Haines, died Sept. 10, 1851,
aged 79 years.

Edwin C, son of J. H. and L. Haines,
died Feb. 5, 1858, aged 6 years, 5 months.

Jacob, son of Isaac and B. Haines,
died Dec. 10, 1862, aged 15 years, 3
months.

Barbara, wife of Isaac Haines, died
Sept. 26, 1865, aged 82 years, 3 months,
17 days.

Isaac Haines, died Sept. 12, 1868, aged
82 years, 8 months, 29 days.

Margaret, daughter of Isaac and B.
Haines, died Sept. 7, 1868, aged 45 years,
3 months.

Elizabeth Haines, died Jan. 8, 1889,
aged 76 years, 7 months, 11 days.

Susanna E.. died March 8, 1856, asred
34 years, and Sarah, died July 29, 1877,
aged 56 years, wives of Abraham Haines.

Isaac Haines, bom July 5, 1819, died
Dec. 22, 1901, aged 82 years. 5 months,
17 days. W. M. C.

Zern Family Burials

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

From the family grave yard on the
Paul farm, along Indian Creek, West
Cocalico township, Lancaster county. Pa.

Jonas Zern, born May 15, 1815, died
January 29, 1899, at 83 yrs., 8 mos., and
14 days.

MolHe Zern (wife of Jonas), born
Febniary 19, 1807, died May 4, 1888,
at 81 years, 2 months, and 15 days.

Christina Zern (daughter of Jonas and
Mollie), bom June 19, 1840, died July
11, 1865.

Susanna Zern (daughter of Jonas &
Mollie), died November, 1838, aged
eight days. S. H. F.

The Lanes of Boston

From the Boston Directory for the
year 1789 are taken the following names
of the Lane family:

Levi, sailmaker, Gardner's Wbarf.

John M., hairdresser, State Street.

Oliver W., schoolmaster, Staniford St.

John, merchant, 46 Newbury St.

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Boston Bankers in 1789

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The Latham Family

Inscriptions from the cemetery in
Shewille, Ledyard, Connecticut :

In memory of Mr. Joseph Latham,
who died April 2, 1798, aged fifty-two.

In memory of Mrs. Deborah, wife of
Joesph Latham, who died March 10,
1835, aged 88.

In memory of Mr. Jonas Latham, who
died Aug. 14, 1842, aged 72.

In memory of Eunice, wife of Jonas
Latham, who died Jan. 12, 1858, aged 76.

In memory of Giles Latham, who died
Sept. 5, 1830, aged 22 years.

Albert, son of Jonas and Eunice La-
tham, died June 17, 1815, aged 13
months, and 17 days.

Erastus W., son of Erastus H., and
Charlotte T. Latham, died March 5,
1840, aged 2 years and three months.

In memory of Robert Latham, who
died Feb. 7, 1827. AE. 40.

In memory of Theodav Lajham, who
died Oct. 3, 1853, aged 69.

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Whole No. 36

The Wells Family in America

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

In England the Wells oj Welles fam-
ily was of ancient origin, tracing to the
time of the Norman conquest. The gen-
erally accepted opinion is that still further
back the family began in the house of
Vaux in the ancient province, of Neu-
stria. The earliest record of the English
branch of that house is of Harold de
Vaux, lord of Vaux in Nprmandy. His
sons came to England and took the name
de Vallibus, and their descendents in the
course of time became de Welles and
later on Welles and Wells. Difference
of opinion exists concerning the correct
spelling of the name, but most authorities
agree that the families using the names
in these two forms were originally de-
rived from the same stem, but probably
had been disassociated for so many gen-
erations that there was probably little, if
any, tangible relationship between them.

Representatives of the family, some
spelling their name Wells and^ others
spelling it Welles, were early in New
England. Several of the pioneers were
related to each other, but others were
heads of entirely distinct families.

Edward Wells was in Boston in 1644
and by his wife Sarah Wells had a son
Hooestill Wells, born October 13, 1645.

Georgfe Wells, of Lynn. Mass., re-
moved to South Hampton, L. I., in the
great migration of 1640.

Huerh Wells, a son of Thomas Wells,
a wealthy Englishman and a zealous Pu-

ritan, was descended from Robert de
Welles, of Rayne Hall, Essex county,
England. He arrived in Boston in 1630,
lived a short time in Watertown, Mass.,
was afterward in Hartford, Conn., and
may have been subsequently a resident of
Hadley, Mass. He married, in Hartford,
in 1647, Mary Rusco, daughter of Wil-
liam Rusco. His children were: John,
1648; Mary, 1649; Mary, 1650 ; Tlebepca,
1652, and Sarah. He died December 22,
1678.'

James Wells was in Springfield, Mass.,
in 1650 and afterward in Haddam, Conn.
He died before January 5, 1698. His
wife was Elizabeth Wells, and his chil-
dren were: James, Thomas, Elizabeth,
Mary and Susan.

John Wells, of Hatfield, Mass., had
first lived in Stratfield, Conn. H^ was a
freeman in 1690 and died in 1692. His
children were: Sarah, Mary, Abigail,
Hannah, Esther, John, Elizabeth, Doro-
thy and Elizabeth again.

John Wells, of Newbury, Mass., took
the oath of allegiance in May, 1669. He
married, in March, 1669, Mary Green-
leaf, and had Mary, Mary again, and
William.

John Wells was sworn a freeman in
Roxbury, Mass., October 10, 1677.

Richard Wells was in Lynn, Mass., in
1638 and was sworn as a freeman, March
14, 1639. He removed to Salisbury,

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Mass., and died July 12, 1672. He had a
wife Elizabeth Wells.

Thomas Welles was an original pro-
prietor of Hartford, Conn., and was also
in Weathersfield. He was the celebrated
Governor Wells of Connecticut whose
name was conspicuously identified with
the early history of the colony. He died
January 4, 1659. His second wife, v«ho
he married about 1645, was EHzabith
(Haynes) Foote, daughter of Governor
John Haynes and widow of Nathaijel
Foote, of Weathersfield.

Thomas Wells came in the ship SuMn
and Ellen from London, and settlingiin
Ipswich, Mass., was made a freentn
May 17, 1637. He had three sons, Ib-
thaniel, John and Thomas, and fire
daughters, Sarah, Abigail, Elizab^fi,
Hannah and Lydia. He married Abi^il
Warner, daughter of William Warilr,
of Boxted, Essex county, England, ^d
sister of I)aniel Warner and John W^-
ner, the Warners being among the f^t
settlers in Ipswich. i

Thomas Wells was in New Lond|
Conn., in 1648. He was a ship buil
• Afterward he was of Westerly, R,
where he died, February 12, 1700. jpis
wife was Naomi Wells, and his childm
were: Joseph, Thomas, Mary, Ri>i,
Sarah, John and Nathaniel. '

William Wells was in Lynn, Mass.Jn
1638, and some authorities think thatic
was in New England as earhr as 165.
He was in New Haven, Conn., -Jfl
Southhold, L. I., in 1639-40, participajd
in the great emigration to Long Isl^d
in the subsequent year and was perti-
nently settled in Southhold before 16&.
He was much engaged in public servfc,
being a deputy to the general courtb
New Haven, and for many years ci-
stable and town clerk of Southhold. p
died November 13, 1671. He marril,
first, as early as 1653, Bridget TutW,
of Southhold, widow of Henry TuthI ;
he married, second, about 1654, Mjy
, whose maiden name is not (t*-
tainly known, but by some is though^

have been Youngs. His children, all by
his second wife, were: Bethia, Abigail,
Patience, William, Mary, Joshua, Mehe-
dial and perhaps Anna.

William Wells, founder of a family in
western Massachusetts, was a later comer
to America. He was born in or near
Londonderry, England, in 1755, and tra-
dition says that he came to America with
some English troops about the time of
the breaking out of the Revolution,
However that may have been, he served
the patriot cause in the Revolution, being
at the battle of Bunker Hill and remain-
ing in the service until 1781. He mar-
ried, in 1778 or 1779, Eleanor Hickey,
who was born in the north of Ireland in
1760 of Scotch-Irish ancestors and died
in Pownal, Vt., March 6, 1840. His
children were : Stephen, Betsey, William,
Calvin, Polly, Luther, George, Joseph
and Nancy Ann. He was originally a
resident of Chesterfield, Hampshire
county, Mass., where he was married and
from which town he enlisted. After the
Revolution he removed to Pownal, Ben-
nington county, Vt., and in 1798 to
Hampton, Washington county, N. Y.

Moses Wells, married Rebecca How-
ell; Rebecca Wells, married Thomas
Phillips; Lydia Wells, married Richard
Tomlinson, of Oxford township.

Contemporary with John Wells, of
Philadelphia county, Penn., were Henry,
William, Edmond and Arthur Wells, but
there is nothing to show relationship be-
tween the five. Henry Wells arrived in
Pennsylvania in the ship Bristol Met-
chant, September 10, 1685. Henry. Wil-
liam and Edmond Wells are all assessed
in Dublin township, Philadelphia county,
in 1693. Henry Wells married Mary
Wilkinson, daughter of Gabriel Wilkin-
son, and had a son Henry. In 1696 Ed-
mond Wells, who was then said to be of
Burlington, N. J., purchased land in
Lower Dublin. Arthur Wells, black-
smith, who does not seem to have lived
outside of the city of Philadelphia, had
sons Arthur and Thomj^3.

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Heads of Families, Census 1790, Flatlands, Kings County, New York

Lott, Jcromus
Stoothoff, Abrahim
Lott, John
Basset, Nehemiah
Dooly, Nicholas
Wykoff , Sarah
Schoonmaker, John
Johnston, Bard
Slover, Isaac
Slover, Daniel
Van Sindercn, Ulpiamus
Sprung, Fulkirk
Voorhis, Abrahim
Childs, Fanny
Voorhis, Peter
Harris, Samuel

Cowenhoven, William

Stoothopf, Peter

Cowcnhover, Luke

Blanshaw, Joseph

Lott, Johnanes

Voorhis, John
Stoothopf, Johnanes

Ditmus, Joanes

Wykoflf, Peter

Stoothopf, William

Schenck, Nicholas

Vanderbelt, Peter

Remsen, Johnanes

Ammerman, William,

Remsen, Derick

Abrahim Teurhune,

Lott, Catty

and Peter Duryee

Voorhis, Stephen

Elsworth, Thomas

nus Van Pelt, Aaron

Vanuyce, George, and

Htibbard, Elias

Jacobus Vanuyce

Wykoff, Garret, Peter

Bennet, Benjamin

Wykoff and Bont

Curtis, Elisba

Wykoff

Swedeland, Christopher

Oaky, Jenny
Stoothoof, Mary

Stoothopf, William

Pennsylvania Pensioners

Following are the names, rank and
other details concerning the persons re-
siding in Mifflin county, Penn., who were
inscribed on the pension lisL under the
act of congress passed March 18. 1818
Akaley, John, pr., Dec. 22, 1818; 71.
Cunningham, Joseph, pr., Nov. 3, 1818

82.
Hoven, Henry, pr., March 6, 1820; 77

d. Nov. 13, 1822.
Jacob, James, pr., Jan. 21, 1819; 78.
Keller, Frederick, pr., Nov. 28, 1818; 77.
Lyon, Benj., It., Nov. 5, 1818; 82.
McMullen, Wm., pr., Nov. 4, 1818; 84.
McMullen, John, pr., Nov. 3, 1818 ; 81 ;

d. Jan. 3, 1832.
Martin, Wm., pr., March 23, 1819; 70;

d. April 4, 1820.
Marks, John, pr., May 10, 1820; 78.
McMullen, Mich'l, pr., June 8, 1820; 71 ;

d. April 4, 1823.
Solliday, or Salliday, Daniel, pr., Nov.

28, 1818; 76.
Stayner, Royer, pr., March 23, 1819; 68.
Sturgeon, Robt., sergt., Jan. 11^ 1820;

83.
Wharton, Samuel, pr.. May 21, 1819; 81 ;

d. Aug. 18, 1823.

Winning, James, pr., Jan. 7, 1820; 79; d.

Dec. 31, 1823.
Taylor, Simon, pr., June 21, 1819; 86;

d. April 21, 1831.

The Thayers of Boston

The Boston Directory for the year
1789 gives the following Thayers:
Moses, tailor. Pond St.
Ephriam, wheelwright. Orange St.
Obadiah, Jr., Orange St.
Ziphion, upholsterer, 4 Comhill.
N. and F., shopkeepers, 9 Comhill.

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Rochester Church Records

Records of the First Presbyterian
Church, Rochester, N. Y.
February 24, 1825 :

1. Abijah Blanchard.

2. Lydia White Blanchar^

3. Catharine S. Russell.

4. Timothy L. Bacon.

5. Lydia Bacon.

Arabella Granger dismissed at her own
request
June 24, 1825:

1. Mrs. Hannah Griffin.

2. Miss Rebecca Bishop.

3. Spencer Woodworth.

4. Mrs. Amanda Woodworth.

5. Ela Bumap.

6. Sophronia Wilson.

7. Sarah Wilson.

8. Julia Brewster.

9. Charlotte Jenks.
10. Sarah Bates.

November 21, 1825:

John H. Brown violated the Sabbath,
called to account for laboring and per-
mitting his servants to labor on that day
by burning lime, planting trees and cut-
ting and drawing wood. Witnesses:
Mrs. Bickford, Mrs. Adams, Mrs. Hill,
Benjamin Wilson and his wife, Samuel
and William Balentine.

December session, 1825:

1. Caroline Rogers.

2. Deborah Williams.

3. George Bostwick.

4. Orpha Crane.

5. Emily Kempshall.

6. Betsey White.

7. Sarah Miner.

Johnson Family Burials

In the St. James Episcopal cemetery
in Bristol, Pa., are the following inscrip-
tions :
James Johnson, Sr., bom August 20,

1778, died December 29, 1863.
Mary Ann, his wife, bom April 20, 1/99,

died August 4, 1866.

Margaret Johns(Mi, wife of James John-
son, Jr., died September 25, 1825, aged
21 years.

Edward Franklin Johnson, son of James
and Margaret Johnson, died Septem-
ber 11, 1825, aged 3 years.

Ann Eliza, wife of James A. Neal, and
daughter of James Johnson, died Feb-
ruary 21, 1847, aged 34 years.

W. M. C

The Greens of Boston

Greens appearing in the Boston Direc-
tory for the year 1789 were as follows :
Edward, gentleman. Court St.
James, shopkeeper. Union St.
John, tailor. Federal St.
John, tin plate, Market Square.
Joshua, gent.. Court St.
Nathan, shoemaker, Leverett's Lane.
William, millwright. Prince St.
John, hairdresser. Brattle Square.
Francis, glazier, Ann St.
Timothy, shopkeeper, Ann St.
Andrew, carpenter. Temple St.
Peter, auctioneer, Market Square.

Joseph, merchant, Green's Wharf.
Jathaniel, reg. of deeds, 42 Cornhill.

Nichols Family Graves

The following are from Farmington
cemetery, in Rochester, New York:

Nichols, John H., died June 29, 1890,
aged 81 years.

Nichols, Greenway, died December 6.
1896, aged 41 years.

Nichols, Lucy J., wife of Percy V.
Nichols, died December 30, 1886, aged
21 years.

Nichols, Jacob, died July 7, 1881, aged
70 years.

Nichols, Edward H., died October 3.
1888, aged 69 years.

Nichols, Mary A., wife of E. H., died
April 4^ 1844, aged 21 years, 3 months,
4 days.

Nichols, Rhoda, wife of Charles H.,
died 1878, aged 92 years.

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Amwlcan Genealogies

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pamphlet form, with date of publication. Most of these works that are of early
date are now very rare. Copies of them are in most public libraries in tlie
larger cities of the United States and in the libraries of historical societies.
Copies also find their way in very small number into book auction sales and
into the hands of dealers in second-hand books. Genealogies of recent date are
generally procurable from the publishers. Inquiries in regard to these or any
other genealogical works may be addressed to the editor of Genealogy.

{Continued from page 253) sel families. Compiled by Anna Russell

Andrews.— History of the Andrews Vance. Milwaukee, 1898.

d^ws^^oM^fS^^^ d!JI ^ ANDREWS^John Hall of Wallinrford.

scendants, 1635 to 1890. By H. Frank- Conn. A Monograph. By James Shep-
lin Andrews. Audubon, la., 1890. a^^' New Bntam, Conn, 1902.

Andrews. — Lewis, with cdlateral
lines: Andrews, Belden, Bronson, But-
ler, Gillett, Newell, Peck, Stanleyv
Wright, and others ; Ancestral Record of
Henry Martyn Lewis. Compiled and
prepared by Harriet Southworth
(Lewis) Barnes. Philadelphia, 1910.

Andrews. — ^Long Island genealogies.
Families of Albertson, Andrews, Bedell,
Birdsall ♦ ♦ ♦ Willets. Williams, WilUs.
Wright, and other families. Being
Kindred Descendants of Thomas Powell,
of Bethpage, L. I., 1688. Compiled by
Mary Powell Bunker. Albany, 1895.

Angell. — Genealogy of the Descend-
ants of Thomas Angell, who settled in
Providence, 1636. By Avery F. Angell.
Providence, R. L, 1^2.

Anjou. — ^The Life and Times of Mar-
garet of Anjou, Queen of England and
France; and of her father Rene "the
Good," King of Sicily, Naples, and Jeru-
salem. With Memoirs of the Houses
of Anjou. By Mary Ann Hooldiam.
London, 1872.

Annin. — Centennial Celebration by
the Annin Family at the old Stone House
in Somerset County, N. J., August 15th,
1866. Philadelphia, [1866].
{To be continued,)

Andrews. — Henry Andrews of Taun-
ton and the Calves Pasture. By Almon
D. Hedges, Jr. Reprinted from the
New England Historical and Genealogi^
cat Register. Boston, 1898.

Andrews. — Henry Andrews of Taun-
ton. By J. H. Drummond of Portland,
Me. Reprinted from the New England
Historical and Genealogical Register.
Boston, 1897.

Andrews. — Genealogy of the Andrews
Family and Alliances [Descendants of
John, who settled in Maryland about
1654], with Biographical Sketches. Com-
piled by Robert Andrews. East Orange,
N. J., 1893.

Andrews. — ^Ancestry of Henry Levi
Andrews, Wobum, Massachusetts. Wo-
bum, Mass., 1900.

Andrews. — The Duncan and Gibson
families. [Los Angeles, Cal., 1905.]

Andrews. — Eaton Grange, and Notes
of Andrews, Kimball and Eaton Family ;
Collated by C. L. Eaton from History of
Sutton, N. H. Concord, N. H., 1890.

Andrews. — Records of the Griswold,
Crane, Paddock, Howes, Smith and Rus-

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Curtis Pioneers

Zacheus Curtis of Salem came in the
ship James from Southampton, England,
in 1653. His native town was Down-
ton, in Wiltshire, England.

Among those who were listed as sail-
ing from Great Britain to the American
plantations 1600-1700 were the follow-
ing:

Elizabeth Curtis, aged 22 years, sailed
to Barbadoes in the ship Faulcon from
London April 25, 1635.

Henry Curtis, aged 27 years, sailed in
the ship Elisabeth May 6, 1635.

James Curtis, aged 21 years, sailed to
Virginia in the ship Safety August 10,
1635.

John Curtis, aged 22 years, sailed in
the Flying Harte in 1621 and appears on
the muster rolls of Elizabeth City, Va.

John Curtis was living in Virginia
February 16, 1623.

Thomas Curtis, aged 24 years, a serv-
ant, came in the Flying Harte in 1621
and settled in Newport News, Va.

Thomas Curtis was living in Virginia
in February 16, 1623.

William Curtis, aged 19 years, sailed
to Virginia in the ship Georges August
2, 1635.

William Curtis sailed from London to
New England June 22, 1632.

Tlie Devinney Family

The following inscriptions are from
the Quaker graveyard, Old Springfield
Meeting, Burlington county, N. J. :

Devinney, Ann S., bom March 27,
1796; died April 12, 1875.

De Vinney, W. S., died January 16,
1861, aged fifteen years nine months and
twenty-seven days.

Devinney, Michael, born February 14,
1796, died March 8, 1871. ;

Tlie Gleasons of Vermont

The following inscriptions are from a
family lot in the South Hill Cemetery,
Windham county, Vermont:

Squire Gleason, died in 1804. Age 3
years; Katherine M. d. in 1814 Aged 1
year; Susannah died in 1814 aged 6
years ; Children of Josiah & Lydia Glea-
son.

Josiah Gleason died 26 June, 1836,
aged 70 years.

Lydia, wife of Josiah Gleason, died IS
March 1838, aged 70 years.

Squire Gleason died 29 March 1877,
aged 70 years, 4 months, and 8 days.

Emery V., son of Squire and Candace
Gleason, died 9 March, 1860, aged nine-
teen years, eight months.

Benjamin Gleason died Dec. 28, 1831,
in seventy-first year of his age.

Sarah, wife of Benjamin Gleason, died
July 25, 1823, in her sixty-second year.

Elisha, died May 18, 1796 in the third
year of his age; Polly, died June 19,
1798.

Phinias, died Oct. 28, 1804, in the sec-
ond year of his age.

Children of Benjamin and Sarah Glea-
son.

Jonas, son of Benjamin and Sarah
Gleason, died March 1, 1826, in twenty-
eighth year of age.

Jona Gleason, bom Sept. 20, 1790, died
Tan. 3, 1832 : Lydia his wife, bom Oct. 6,
1790, died Dec. 15, 1857. Erected by
General Newell Gleason.

The Boston Jarvis Family

In the Boston Directory for the year
1789 appeared the following of the Jarvis
name:

Leonard, comptroller. South St.

Ann, shopkeeper, Middle St.

Charles, Esq., physician. Common St.

John, cabinetmaker, 76 Newbury St.

Mercy, shopkeeper, Middle St.

Samuel, sugar house, South St.

Benjamin and Phillip, wines, State St.

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Graves of the Scherb Family

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From the family grave yard on the
Paul farm, along Indian Creek, West
Cocalico township, Lancaster county,
Pa.

Catherine Scherb (nee Oberlin), wife
of Adam Scherb, born February 2, 1784,
died January 2, 1842.

Catharina Sherb, born September 8,
1794, died October 4, 1874, at the age of
80 years, and 26 days.

Johannes Scherb, bom September 6,
1767, died May 4, 1841, at the age of
73 years, 7 months, and 28 days.

Margaretta Scherb (daughter of
George and Eva Stober, wife of
Johannes Scherb), bom Febmary 16,
1771, died June 5, 1848, at the age of
17 years, 3 months and 19 days.

Jacob Scherb, bom 1760, died March
28, 1824.

Catherine Scherb (wife of Jacob),
died Febmary 24, 1838, at the age of
72 years.

Susanna Scherb (daughter of Jacob
and Catherine), bom May 7, 1804, died
August 3, 1842.

Samuel Scherb (son of Adam &
Susanna), bom July 16, 1823, died Janu-
ary 13, 1842. S. H. F.

The Sykes Family

The following inscriptions are from
the Quaker graveyard. Old Springfield
Meeting, Burlington county, N. J.

Sykes, Anthony, departed this life
October 19, 1821, aged sixty-two years
and sixteen days.

Sykes, Beulah S., born 4 mo. 28, 1804 ;
died 2 mo. 14, 1826.

Sykes, Catherine, bom 7 mo. 15, 1768;
died 4 mo. 3, 1836.

Sykes, Mary L., bom 1 mo. 6, 1771 ;
died 3 mo. 9, 1831.

Sykes, Mary, widow of Anthony, de-
parted this life October 23, 1849, aged
eighty-four years, seven months and nine
days.

Arnolds of Kentucky

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Jane Bryant, born June 29, 1800, died
October 18, 1866, married Isaac Arnold
of Kentucky. He was born March 10,
1793, and died November 26. 1849.
Reuben Arnold, son of Isaac and Jane
(Bryant) Arnold, bom November 13,
1817, died August 24, 1838. Both these
are buried on the farm formerly owned
by Isaac Arnold, near Lancaster, Ky.

G. W. K.

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Mills of New Hampshire

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I. Thomas Mills, of Dunbarton, New
Hampshire, bom in Scotland, in 1720;
married Elizabeth Hoag, of Dunbarton.

II. Caleb Mills, of Dunbarton, bom
in 1765, married Tamar Cheney.

III. John Mills, of Dunbarton, born
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From a Farm Cemetery

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Inscriptions from a burial plot on the
Walker farm, near Osnaburg, Ohio:

William Qinton Myers, died May 2,
1822.

Jacob Baughmati, died May 18, 1831,
aged 41 years, 2 months.

John Neidigh, died Sept. 25, 1854,
aged 75 years. J. N. B.

Fox Family Burials

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The following inscriptions are from
the cemetery in Paris, Stark county,
Ohio:

John Fox, died Sept. 9, 1866, aged 62
years.

Nancy, wife of John Fox, died Oct.
18, 1876, aged 66 years, 3 months^

Huldah, daughter of J. and N. Fox,
died Sept. 29, 1869, aged 25 years, 2
months, 8 days. W. M. C.

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The South^te Family in America

[ContrilMited to Gbnbalogy.]
By Mrs. B. H. Rucker.

Richard (1) Southgate, son of John
and Elizabeth (Bennet) Southgate, was
born in Combs, Suffolk county, England,
and baptized March 7, 1670. He mar-
ried, in England, in 1700, Elizabeth
Steward. In 1715 he came to Leicester,
Mass., returning to England the next
year, but in 1717 came again bringing
his family to Leicester, his brother
James Southgate also coming. Of Rich-
ard Southgate's children, one staid in
England and these came over:

1. Steward, bom in 1703.

2. Elizabeth, bom in 1705; died Au-
gust 11, 1788; unmarried.

3. Hannah, bom in 1709; died in
1754; married, in 1737, Nathaniel Waite.

4. Mary, bom in 1712; married, in
1732, Daniel Livermore.

5. Richard, bom July 11, 1714.

Richard (1) Southgate died in Lei-
cester April 1, 1758. He came to Lei-
cester with the Denny family and was
the third largest taxpayer in the town.
In 1737 he owned 770 acres of land. He
was high way surveyor and selectman,
1725-1731. According to the tax list of
1731 he owned slaves, or as there stated
"negcrs." He was also first "treasture"
of Leicester. The Boston Gazette, in its
issue of April 10, 1758, after a sketch of
his life, states: "He left surviving two

and twenty-five

sons, two daughters,
grandchildren."

II
Richard (2) Southgate, called Elder
Richard Southgate, was bom in England
July 11, 1714 and died in Leicester in
1798, "aged 85 years." He came with his
parents to Leicester. He became a Bap-
tist minister and held meeting in the old
school-house, on the site of the Brick
factory in the south-west part of Lei-
cester near the Spencer line; the meet-
ing was discontinued at his death. He
was also a farmer. He married, Jan-
uary 22, 1740-41, Eunice Brown, bom
April 19, 1722, daughter of Samuel and
Mary (Patterson) Brown. He served
on a committee of four, appointed to
draw up instructions for Captain Seth
Washburn, who represented the town in
the general court in 1776. His children
were:

1. Richard, bom Febmary 20, 1742-
43.

2. Isaac, bom in 1744; lived in Spen-
cer, his descendants living now, or lately,
in Worcester, Mass.

3. Samuel, bom in 1747; died m 1773
in Scarborough, Me.

4. Elijah, bom in 1751 ; died in 1837
in Shrewsbury; married Polly Hastings.

5. Jonas, bom in 1752; married Mary
Whiting.

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6. Eunice, born in 1757; unmarried.

7. Judah, born in 1761; died in 1799;
married Susannah Taylor.

8. Mercy, unmarried.

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Richard (3) Southgate (also called
Jr.), was bom, in Leicester, February
20, 1742-43, and died in Bridgewater, Vt.,
February 25, 1822. He married, in Lei-
cester (also recorded in Spencer, Mass.),
June 2, 1762, Sarah Sprague, bom April
1, 1738, died in 1831, daughter of Knight
Sprague, Sr., and his first wife, Mary
Lewis. Richard (3) Southgate was in
the Revolution as were also his brothers
Jonas and Isaac. He moved to Bridge-
water, Vt., in 1784. He was one of the
highway surveyors appointed by the
court to lay out a road between Wood-
stock, Vt., and Bridgewater, Vt., was
selectman 1785-86-87-88 Tything man in
1790. He built the old Southgate home
in 1797, which is still there, and also
built the first grist mill in the town. His
children were:

1. Thomas, born in 1763; died March
31, 1837; married December 11, 1822,
Delcinia Marsh.

2. James, born in 1765 ; died June 16,
1845 ; married, first, Mary Upham ; mar-
ried, second, Phebe (Cobb) Raymond,
widow of George Raymond; married,
third, Velinda (Palmer) Goff, widow.

3. Sarah, married Stowe.

4. Richard, bom in 1773.
According to Child's History of

Bridaewater, Vt, there were two more
children, but in the will of Richard (3)
Southgate, recorded in Woodstock, Vt.,
he only mentions wife Sarah and son
Richard.

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Richard (4) ISouthgate was born in
1773 and died in Bridgewater, Vt., May
13, 1842. He married, first, March 1,
1799, in Bridgewater, Phebe Ra)rmond,
bom in Middleborough, Mass., February
13, 1778, and died in Bridgewater, Vt.,
December 15, 1829, daughter of William
and Phebe (Thomas) Raymond of

Woodstock, Vt. He married, second,
Qarissa Montague but had no children
by this second marriage. He was select-
man of Bridgewater 1822-23-24-25-26
and 1828; was lister for the year 1824,
and was highway surveyor in several
years before he was elected selectman.
His children were :

1. Richard W., born January 31, 1800;
died April 4, 1870; unmarried.

2. Phebe, bom April 3, 1802; died
March 21, 1865; unmarried.

3. Napoleon B., bom March 14, 1804;
married, in 1840, Mary Moulton.

4. Marquis Lafayette, bom March 21,
1806; died in 1859; married Louisa
Curtis.

5. Caroline Elizabeth, bom January
11, 1808; died in November, 1877; un-
married.

6. Julia, born February 11, 1810; died
August 20, 1813.

7. William B. Giles, bom March 5,
1812; died July 20, 1814.

8. Winfield Scott, bom October 14,
1813 ; died June 7, 1855 ; married Octo-
ber 10, 1837, Elizabeth Mason, bom in
1814.

9. Porter B., bom November 2, 1816 ;
married Martha Williamson of Brandon,
Vt.

10. Mercy Emily, born May 8, 1823 ;
died September 9, 1826.

Marquis Lafayette Southgate was
born in Bridgewater, Vt., March 21,
1806, and died in Bridgewater May 29,
1859. He married in Woodstock, Vt.,
January 18, 1831, Louisa Curtis, bom in
Woodstock Febmary 24, 1807, died in
Bridgewater February 27, 1838, daugh-
ter of Francis Curtis and his second wife
Sarah Emerson. The children were:

1. Caroline Louisa, bom November
18, 1831; died September 14, 1904, in
Claremont, N. H.; married May 31,
1861, the Honorable Hosea W. Parker,
son of Benjamin and Olive (Nichols)
Parker.

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2. William Wallace, bom in 1834;
died in 1896.

3. Thomas Benton, born February 27,
1838; died February 29, 1838.

William Wallace Southgate was bom
in Bridgewater, Vt., September 20, 1834,
and died in Rolla, Phelps county. Mo.,
February 21, 1896. He married, in
Dillon, Phelps county, Mo., the Reverend
James H. Darrah officiating, December
25, 1873, Annie McKnight Black, daugh-
ter of Samuel and Amanda Jane (Mc-
Cutqhan) Black. W. W. Southgate
(called by family Wallace, although he
always wrote his name either W. W. or
Wm. W.), served in the war of 1861 as
a private in company B of the First Ver-
mont Volunteers, mustered out August
15, 1861, and also as sergeant in com-
pany B, Twelfth Vermont Volunteers,
mustered out July 14, 1863. He was
probate judge of rhelps county, Mo., one

term, 1878 to 1882. He was a lawyer
and a farmer. His children were :

1. Margaret Barron, bom November
17, 1874; married, June 24, 1903, Booker
Hall Rucker, bora in Sturgeon, Boone
county. Mo., August 14, 1868, son of
Major John Fleming and Julia (Rucker)
Rucker.

2. Caroline Elizabeth, born April 11,
1877; died March 2, 1885.

3. John McKnight, bom in 1881.

John McKnight Southgate was bom
in Rolla, Phelps county. Mo., September
17, 1881. He married in St. Louis, Mo.,
October 2, 1905, the Reverend Dr. Can-
non, officiating, Elizabeth Baker, daugh-
ter of Frank Marquis and Louisa Dun-
bar (Hagatman) Baker. He lives in St.
Louis and is a civil engineer. He has
one child:

1. Hallie Baker, born, St. Louis, De-
cember 3, 1907.

A Weeks Family of Vermont

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

William Dyer Weeks, bora July 18,
1769, probably in Vermont, married
there Lucretia Senter. A Weeks family
was located in Vermont in the middle of
the eighteenth century. The following
pedigree shows that in later generations
they married with a Dyer family. The
appearance of this Dyer surname in the
given name of William Dyer Weeks sug-
gest that he may very likely been of this
Weeks family.-

1. Joseph Weeks came from England
to Connecticut.

2. Ebenezer Weeks of Connecticut,
born probably in 1717, died March 3,
1788, married Anna Holland, who died
in 1803.

3. Holland Weeks, born January 29,
1744, of Pomfret, Conn., moved to Salis-
bury, Vt., married, September 4, 1766, in
Hampton, Conn., Hannah, Mosely,
daughter of Nathaniel and Sarah
(Capin) Mosely. Sarah Capin^ was

daughter of John Capin and Ruth
(Thayer) Capin; Ruth Thayer was
daughter of Ephraim Thayer and Sarah
Bass; Sarah Bass was daughter of John
Bass and Ruth Alden; Ruth Alden was
daughter of John Alden and Priscilla
MuUins.

4. Eliakum Weeks, bom in Brooklyn,
Conn., March 6, 1771, died September
20, 1830, went to Salisbury, Vt.; mar-
ried, in 1793, Rebeckah Cook, daughter
of Ephraim and Fanny Cook of West-
minster, Vt. She was bom October 5,
1780, and died July 3, 1835, in Salis-
bury.

5. Ebenezer Holland Weeks, bom
September 14, 1812, in Salisbury, died
May 19, 1881, married Elizabeth Dyer,
daughter of Gideon Dyer, bora in Lei-
cester, Addison county, Vt.

6. John E. Weeks, bora in Salisbury
June, 14, 1853, married, in 1879, Hattie
J. Dyer, daughter of Frank L. and Lu-
cretia (Graves) Dyer, bora in Salisbury.

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Head8 of FamilieSt Census 179*t Bristol, Addison CSounty, Vermont

Gap, Benjamin
Munson, Ephraim
Darton, Ezekiel
Franklin, Joshua
Rossetter, Josiah
Thomas, Elijah
Gilmore, Adam
Ranney, Sam.
Allen, Timothy
Henry, Hewey
Danchey, Robert
Bunn, John
Arnold, John

Henry, John
Alurdock, Hezekiah
Scott, Amos
Sprague, Abram
Bell, Robert
Griswold, Benj.
Bartholomew, Benj.
Bride, James O.
Stewart, Sam.
Eastman, Oliver
Eastman, Cyphrain
Dudley, Simeon
Eastman, Calvin

Munsil, Gordon
Miller, Dan
Barns, Benj.
Maxim, Ellis
McGlanelin, Henry
Brooks, Sam., Jr.
Brooks, Sam.
Terrill, Josiah
Hull, Sam.
Deane, Daniel
Covey, Nathan
Bond, Seth
Johnson, Eden

Whittlesey— Large

[Contribttted to Ginkalogt.]

Hannah Shipman, daughter of Ed-
ward and Mary (Anderson) Shipman,
was bom in the middle of February,
1666. Edward Shipman, father-in-law,
and the relict were appointed to settle
the estate of John Large, late of Had-
dam, deceased. See Hartford Probate
Records, 1691. John Whittlesey and
Hannah Large (widow) married in
1693. John Whittlesey was made guard*
ian for Phebe and John Large, children
of John Large, late of Haddam, de-
ceased. In the will of John Whittlesey
he gives "to the daughter of my wife,
Phebe Large," a chest which belonged
to her grandfather Large. Hannah
Large came to live with John Whittle-
sey in 1697 a few weeks before Edward
Shipman died. It seems to me that the
Whittlesey book is wrong in giving
Hannah the name of Long, as no person
of that name can be found and the above
answers every condition. The birth as
pven is from the Saybrook Land Rec-
ords, the appointment as guardian from
the New London Probate Records, 1704.
The marriage of Hannah Long and
Simon Large is all right, they had two
children and the family is easily traced;
this Hannah Large married a second
time soon after becoming a widow.

J. T. S.

Graves of the Reed Family

Burials in Farmington cemetery, Ro-
chester, N. Y.

Reed, Charles E., son of J. S. and
M. E., died 7th month, 2d day, 1881, aged
14 years, 9 months, 13 days.

Reed, Albert S., son of J. S. and M.
E., died October 5, 1873, aged 1 year, 2
months, 3 days.

Reed, Edwin J., son of J. S. and M.
E., died 5th month, 22d day, 1866, aged
11 months, 22 days.

Reed, John, 1807-1888.

Reed, Mary S. Shotwell, wife of John,
1817-1893.

Reed, John S., 1842.

Reed, Mary E. Shotwell, wife of John
S., 1848(?).

Reed, D. Smith, their son, 1880-1904.

Gossard— Wilson

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

The Reverend Thomas Gossard, son
of Joshua Frieze Gossard and Asenath
Brown, and grandson of John and Eliza-
beth (Valentine) Gossard, married
Amelia Wilson, daughter of Ashley Wil-
son and his second wife, Miranda Rey-
nolds. Would be glad to have the Valen-
tine line, and further data on all the
above families. Ashley Wilson was the
son of William, who lived in or near
Chazy, N. Y. [337] CR.H.

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Penn— Conant

[Contributed to Gbnxalogy.]

Emery (8) Conant (Simeon, Wiliam,
Job, John, Lot, Roger), bom January
20, 1791, probably in Harvard, Mass.,
lived in Vestal and Oswego, N. Y. He
had a son Emery (9), bom January 5,
1821, who married (date wanted) Julia
Lent and died (date wanted) in Little
Meadows, Pa. Alice Conant, daughter
of Emery (9), married Al (full name
wanted) Card and lived, in 1907, in
Little Meadows, Penn., or South Apa-
lachin, N. Y. Simeon (7) Conant was
in Captain William Scott's company in
the Revolutionary army and was dis-
charged December 15, 1780. In 1790 he
lived in Harvard, but later removed to
Grafton, Vt. Particulars of the family
of Emery (9) is desired. [333] L. M. C.

Dickinson— R^nold8

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

Probably of the Howland line may be
John Dickinson whose daughter Mary
married, in North Kingstown, R. I.,
Elisha Re3molds, son of John and
Hannah Re)molds, February 19, 1758.

Wife of John Dickinson was Maiy .

As Elisha is called colonel in 1/58, he
must have been bom about 1720-24. In
1752 he petitioned to have the court-
house moved. He was then of South
Kingstown. In May, 1753-54-55 he was
on a military court of enquiry. In Feb-
ruary, 1764, he was one of the incorpora-
tors of Brown University. From the
war department we have this: Elisha
Reynolds of Exeter, R. I., enlisted in the
revolutionary war, and his son substi-
tuted for him part of the time. Elisha,
Junior, was bom in North Kingstown,
L I., August 29, 1763. In 1780 he
served in the army in New York, and in
1781 in Vermont, in 1776 in Rhode
Island. His first wife is said to have
been "Miss Gates." Want her lineage.
He died at Isle LaMotte, Vt, November
15, 1840. He had a son, Thomas P.,

who was in the war of 1812, was called
captain, and married Elsie Bell, whose
mother was Lizzie Deuel. Her sisters
were Jane and Susan, brother Sewall,
others unknown to me. Elsie was bom
in 1797. Her father's Christian name
wanted, and all data possible on all of
the above persons. [334] C. R. H.

Baker

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

Mason Baker, born in 1821, had broth-
ers : Lucius, who lived in Willoby, Ohio ;
Hyram, and another, who ran away from
home. I think that all bom in New
York. What was the name of Mason
Baker's father? Some say it was
Mason. What was his mother's full
maiden name? Dates where his parents
were bom, married and died are wanted
and names of all children. Also, full
names of Mason Baker's grandparents,
with names of places and dates where
they were born, married and died ; names
of their children and names of whom
said children married. Was either
grandfather of Mason Baker in the Re-
volutionary War ? [335] B. H. R.

Stevens of Maryland

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

Three brothers came to Maryland
about two hundred years ago. One was
Emanuel Stevens, who had a son Elijah
who settled in Georgia. William settled
in Alabama. Thomas went to Kentucky,
from there to Arkansas, and finally died
in San Jacinto county, Texas, in 1849,
aged'* 81. His wife was Eliza Calk, and
many of the children had odd names.
Fidelia married Jefferson Messick, and
had a daughter Zarsko Zelo— named for
a sister of Fidelia — who married, Sep-
tember 28, 1859, Samuel Falwell, bom
March 12, 1825. He had an uncle Henry
Falwell of Rappahannock county, Va.
Would like data on all of above families.
[336] C.R.H.

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Rodgers of Maine

George Rodgers came to America with
his family from Londonderry, Ireland^
and came to Georgetown, Me., abcKit
1737. They probably came over about
1720, and settled in Londonderry, N. H.
They were Scotch Irish people. On the
gravestones in burial ground at Phipps-
burg. Me., are these inscriptions ; George
Rodgers, died October 30, 1743, aged
eighty-one, Isabella his wife, died De-
cember 15, 1743, aged sixty-five y«ars.

George (1) Rodgers and wife had six
children, as follows: William (2), bom
in Ireland, married Dinah Ranken, bom
about 1710, died Febmary 15, 1749, aged
thirty-nine, and he then married Ruth
Gray in 1750; he died February 23, 1763,
aged sixty-one, leaving his wife and
children; his first four children, born in
Londonderry, N. H., others in George-
town, Me.

George (2) Rodgers, born in 1729,
married, in 1751, Margaret Campbell,
daughter of Alexander and Frances D.
Campl^ell. She died in 1759. He then
married Alice Phinney Means, in 1762,
and moved to Freeport, Me., about 1765.
There he died in November, 1818. His
wife died Febmary 28, 1807. Children
by first wife were: Margaret, Dinah,
born July 29, 1752; Alexander, bom
January 23, 1754 ; William, born August
15, 1755; James, bom July 6, 1757, had
three wives, Mary Mustard, Lydia
Thompson, and, third, Mary Ridley.

By his second wife George had:
George, bom June 24, 1765, married
Mary Pennell; Agnes, born May 17,
1767, married Philip Stanwood, Decem-
ber 27, 1787.

Thomas Rodgers, bom in London-
derry, N. H., in 1731, married Hanna
Lahn, and died March 28, 1816. His
children were : Samuel, married Caroline
Hopkins; William, died young; Eliza-
beth, married James Gushing; Hannah,
married Isaac Corbett; Margaret, mar-
ried John Barton; Nancy, married
Brooks McKenny.

Jenny Rodgers (2), bom June 25^
1783, married Benjamin Kendall, bom
September 22, 1732. He died February
28, 1805; she died April 1, 1808. Chil-
dren bom in Dresden and Georgetown.

Hugh (2) Rodgers, bom in London-
derry, N. H., in 1736, married Hiannah
Hallowell, daughter of Samuel Hallo-
well of Boston, bom 1736. She died Feb.
3, 1789, and is buried at Phij^burg, Me.
He died August 10, 1790. Children by
first wife: William, born December 30,
1770, died 1778; Hannah H., bom De-
cember 23, 1773, married John Grace in
1799, no children; Samuel Hallowell,
bom June 11, 1776.

Samuel Hallowell Rodgers (3) mar-
ried Martha Wyler in 1799, Phippsburg,
and had nine children. His wife died
October 5, 1826, buried in Phippsburg,
Me. He married, second, Elcy Donnell.
in 1837, and they had: Susan R., bom
February 29, 1828, married Henry Cut-
tin ; Hester Ann, born Febmary 15, 1830,
married Hiram Coombs; William A.
Church, bom May 11, 1837, married
Martha Cutting and lived on the old
homestead, Phippsburg, Me. Samuel
Hallowell Rodgers died May 14, 1849;
Elcy, his wife, died August 16, 1854;
both buried in Phippsburg.

Margaret Rodgers (2), bom February
9, 1738, married Reverend John Miller
of Brunswick, 1764, and had children.

William Rodgers, first child of George
Rodgers (1) by second wife, Ruth Gray,
had: Robert, bom April 10, 1752; he
married Jane Grace in 1775, a grand-
daughter of Alexander Drummond ; they
left ten children.

Shermans in Pennsylvania

The United States Census for 1790
gives the following heads of families in
Pennsylvania :

Conrad Sherman Peter Shermin
Jacob Sherman John Shermon
Nicholas Sherman Robert Shermon
Margaret Sherman Simon Shermon
Thomas Sherman Thomas Shermon

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A MerriU Une

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Benjamin Merrill of Harmony, Me.

Jesse Merrill married Hallett and

had Benjamin Franklin, Julius, Frank,
Charles, Cassius, another son who died
young, and two daughters.

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Benjamin Franklin Merrill, born in
Harmony, Me., June 4, 1837, married
Josephine Helliwell, born in Milwaukee,
Wis., April 30, 1848.

Theodore Qarkson Merrill, bom in
Taunton, Mass., August 25, 1872, now in
Colorado, Texas, married Mary Louise
Lightfoot.

Leslie Robeson Merrill bom, in Taun-
ton, Mass., November 22, 1874.

Rodney Armitage Merrill, born in
Taunton, Mass., September 25, 1878,
now in Melrose Highlands, Mass., mar-
ried and has several children.

James Harrison Lightfoot Merrill,
bom in Colorado, Texas, September 5,
1908.

Frances Qarkson Merrill, bom in
Colorado, Texas, January 14, 1912.

T. C M.

Pennsylvania Pensioners

Following are the names, rank, and
other details conceming the persons re-
siding in Montgomery county, Penn.,
who were inscribed on the pension list
under the act of congress passed March
18, 1818.
Bumes, Samuel, pr., Oct. 21, 1818; 80;

d. Oct. 21, 1818.
Bison or Bisson, Charles, pr., Nov. 10,

1819' 82
Bumhart,' H'y, pr., Feb. 21, 1822; 81.
Campbell, Samuel, pr., Nov. 2, 1818; 89.
Conway, John, pr., Oct. 29, 1819; 81.

Dickey, Charles, pr., Oct. 22, 1818; 63;

d. Aug. 20, 1823.
Davis, Samuel, It, Oct. 21, 1818; 78; d.

April 6, 1824.
Grey, Jonathan, pr., Oct. 21, 1818; 82;

d. Oct. 1, 1823.
Hallman, George, pr.. May 6, 1819; 91.
Harple, John, pr., March 1, 1821; 80; d.

June 22, 1832.
Herbaugh, David, dmmmer, Feb. 5,

1825 ; 75 ;d. June 8, 1830.
Lloyd, John, pr., Jan. 25, 1819; 76.
Linebock, Joseph, pr., Jan. 25, 1819 ; 70.
Lockman, Matthias, pr., D^c. 20, 1820

84.
Meggs, Richard, pr., Oct. 21, 1818; 87

d. Feb. 27, 1834.
Mahoney, James, pr., Dec. 5, 1818; 87

d. Aug. 14, 1823.
MuUin, Wm., pr., March 6, 1820; 81.
Nevil, Henry, pr., April 26, 1832; 81.
Neilson, Joseph, pr., July 9, 1830; 81.
Roberts, Joseph, pr., Nov. 24, 1821; 86;

d. Feb. 1, 1831.
St. Clair, Daniel, capt., April 17, 1818.
Sax, Andrew, pr., Oct. 21, 1818; 63; d.

April 23, 1826.
Spering, John, pr., Nov. 3, 1818; 74.
Shiveley, Jacob, pr., Jan. 25, 1819; 66;

d. Oct. 20, 1824.
Stillwagon, Fred'k, pr., Dec. 3, 1819; 68;

d. March 31, 1822.
Schantz, Henry, pr., March 5, 1831 ; 82.

Ciox— Simpson

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Fannie Cox, born in 1806, died in 1897,
married, March 4, 1827, Ira Simpson.
Their eldest child, Deborah Simpson,
bom, in New York, December 25, 1827,
married Henry Collins. When and
where was Ira Simpson bom? Full
names of his parents with dates and
where they were bora, married and died ;
also full names of the parents of Fannie
Cox, with dates and where they were
bom, married and died; also full names
of grandparents of Fannie Cox, with
dates and where they were bom, married
and died. [338] B. H. R.

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A WKKKLY JOURNAL OP AMERICAN ANCESTRY

Vol. 2. No. 12

New York, September 21, 1912

Whole No. 38

The Warrens in America

[Gmtributed to Genealogy.]

One branch of the Warren family de-
scends from Captain Thomas Warren,
who was first cousin to General Joseph
Warren of Bunker Hill fame. He lived
in Townsend^ Worcester county, Mass.,
married a Dodge, and lived to be over
eighty years old. He was captain of a
company at the battle of Bunker Hill.
His children were Thomas, Simon,
Oliver, Peter, Stephen, Jonas, Philip,
Ester, Nabbey or Abigail, and Nancy.

Thomas, Jr., had no children. Of
Simon and Oliver there is no record.
Peter had twin sons, Daniel and David
both whom died in Illinois. The children
of Stephen were: Stephen, Eliphalet,
James, Thomas, and Polly. Philip went
to Canada and never rettutied; his chil-
dren were Parson, Gorham, and Nancy.
Ester married a Merrill, Nabbey married
Cqmmings, and Nancy married a Carv-
ing.

Jonas Warren, our great-grandfather,
married Betsey Gilchrist. He died when
his children were very young. They
were: Betsey, William, Philip, Jonas,
Wright, Noah, Silas, Salley, and Luther.
Betsey, born in 1786, married Calvin
Fish. William, bom in Townsend,
Mass., in 1787, married Naomi Bishop.
Philip, born in Townsend, Mass., in 1788,
married Electa Northrup. Jonas, bom
in Fitzwilliam, N. H., in 1791, was un-
married; he left home in 1826 and never
was heard of after. Wright, bera in

Fitzwilliam, N. H., in 1792, married
Cynthia Patterson. Noah, born in Fitz-
william, N. H., in 1793, married Lulu
Cole. Silas, bom in Fitzwilliam, N. H.,
in 1794, married Lucinda Reed; their
children were Reuben N., Willard F.,
William C, Washington, and Welling-
ton (twins) and Silas L. Salley, born m
Belchertown, Mass., in 1796, married
Schuyler Thompson. Luther, born in
Cheshire, Mass., in 1801, married Susan
Merrick.

Our grandfather Philip Warren, third
child of a family of nine, was bom in
Townsend, Mass., July 16, 1788. He
married Electa Northmp January 7,
1812. He was a carpenter by trade and
one of the early settlers in Schroon,
N. Y., moving there on horseback from
Cheshire, Mass. In the war of 1812 he
commanded a company of volunteer
militia at the Plattsburgh battle in Sep-
tember, 1814. He removed to Orwell,
Vt., in 1819, purchasing, in the west part,
near Lake Champlain, a farm, which is
still owned by his descendants. Four
children were bom to him : Stephen N.,
bom in Schroon, N. Y., May 26, 1815 ;
Almeda T., bom in Orwell, Vt., January
26, 1819; Electa, bom October 19, 1826,
and Earl Le Roi, bom in Orwell August
7, 1837. Hiilip Warren died at his farm
home June 6, 1865, at the age of 76. His
wife, Electa Warren, died there Octo-
ber 18, 1837, aged 85 years.

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Stephen N. Warren, the eldest son of
Philip and Electa (Northrup) Warren,
was educated in Norwich military acad-
emy, Norwich, Vt. He acquired the title
of colonel in training the militia. He
married Jane Rice September 10, 1846,
and had one daughter, Jennie N., born
February 3, 1861, now Mrs. W. A. Jen-
nings. He died in Orwell March 8,
1898, aged 82 years.

Almeda T. Warren married Sheron B.
Smith, November 20, 1844. They lived
in Brandon, Vt., and had three daugh-
ters born in Orwell: Alma, born April
29, 1849; Electa, born February 3, 1852,
and Cora, bom November 24, 1857. Al-
meda T. (Warren) Smith died in Bran-
don, Vt., December 18, 1902, aged 83
years.

Electa Warren died October 9, 1829,
four years old.

Earl Le Roi Warren, our father, lived
on the home farm and was accidentally
killed there October 20, 1883. He mar-
ried Amanda Ray, November 10, 1863,
and had three children: 1. Eva R. War-
ren, bom in Orwell June 1, 1865, married
George H. Cutts, January 26, 1887, and
had twin sons, bom in Orwell August 5,
1895, Henry Warren Cutts, died August
5, 1900, and Earl Warren Cutts, died
October 10, 1895 ; 2. Earl Philip Warren,
bom in Orwell, Vt., December 25, 1872,
now a practicing physician in Niagara
Falls, N. Y., having graduated from the
College of Physicians and Surgeons in
New York city, N. Y., in 1902, and serv-
ing two years as interne in Bellevue hos-
pital; 3. Jennie Alice Warren, bora in
Orwell June 29, 1879. E. H. C.

John Bowles Warren was bom in
Walterboro, ( ?) S. C, June 8, 1848. He
married Caroline Mary Schafer in 1874
and now resides in Berkeley, Cal, a re-
tired minister of the gospel.

Thomas Charles Warren, eldest son of
John Bowles Warren, was bom January
5, 1876. He married Bemice Owsley,
December 17, 1910, and resides in Oak-

land, Cal., where he is with the law firm
of Gibson: and ;AVoolner; one son,
Thomas Charles, Jr., bom April 13, 1911.

Louis John Warren, second son of
John Bowles Warren, was born in San
Francisco June 9, 1877. He married
Elizabeth Parrish of Avondale, Penn., in
August, 1902, and has one child, Wini-
fred Louise, bom in Honolulu, Hawaii,
May 15, 1904. His wife died, and he
married, second, September 22, 1909, in
Philadelfrfiia, Penn., Sara Blanche
Eynon; living in Honolulu; of the law
firm of Smith, Warren & Hemenway.

John Trenholm Warren, third son of
John Bowles Warren, was born in San
Francisco, Cal, January 27, 1879. He
married, March 1, 1909, Grace Hortense
Tower of Pasadena, Cal., and has one
child, Katharine Tower Warren, bora
October 15, 1910, in Honolulu.

Emma Caroline Warren, only daugh-
ter of John Bowles Warren, was born
November 21, 1880. She married, July
12, 1905, in Berkeley, Cal., Frank Leigh-
ton Gibson and has one child, Alfred
Leighton Gibson, born December 31,
1909; resides in Hawaii.

George Reid Warren, fourth son of
John Bowles Warren, was bom in Chico,
Cal., August 31, 1882.

William Lawrence Warren, fifth son
of John Bowles Warren, was bom Au-
gust 29, 1884; lives in Berkeley, Cal.

Frank Schafer Warren, sixth son of
John Bowles Warren, was bora in Hol-
lister, Cal., October 22, 1888, and is now
living in Berkeley, Cal. J. T. W.

The Phetteplace Family

Burials in Farmington, Rochester, N.
Y.

Phetteplace, Randall, died January 14,
1862, aged 4 years 11 months, 4 days.

Phetteplace, Hannah T., wife of Ran-
dall, died 1st month, 20, 1876, aged 73.

Phetteplace, Robert B., 1832-1886.

Phetteplace, Mary C, 1833-1897.

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American Genealogies

Tb^s is a list of the genealogies of American families, published in book or
pamphlet form, with date of publication. Most of these works that are of early
date are now very rare. Copies of them are in most public libraries in rtie
larger cities of the United States and in the libraries of historical societies.
Copies also find their way in very small number into book auction sales and
into the hands of dealers in second-hand books. Genealogies of recent date are
generally procurable from the publishers. Inquiries in regard to these or any
other genealogical works may be addressed to the editor of Genealogy.

(Continued from page 285.)

Antes. — ^A German Hero of the Co-
lonial Times of Pennsylvania: or, The
Life and Times of Henry Antes. By
Rev. Edwin McMinn. Moorestown,
N. J., 1886.

Anthon. — Narrative of the Settle-
ment of George Christian Anthon in
America, and of the Removal of the
Family from Detroit, and its Establish-
ment in New York City. By Charles
Edward Anthon. * * * New York, 1872.

Anthony. — Introduction to Genea-
logical History, Anthony family. 1550-
1895. [Franklm Grove, III, 189- .]

Anthony. — Genealogy of the An-
thony family from 1495 to 1904, traced
from William Anthony, Cologne, Ger-
many, to London, England. John An-
thony, a Descendant, from England to
America. Compiled and published by
Charles L. Anthony. Sterling, 111., 1904.

Anthony. — Descendants of Peter
Wilemse Roome. [Compiled by Peter
Roome Warner.] New York, 1883.

Antill. — Edward Antill, [of New
York and New Jersey, 1681]. A New
York merchant of the Seventeenth Cen-
tury, and his Descendants: particularly
Edward Antill, 2d. of Piscataway, New
Jersey; Lieutenant Colonel Edward An-
till, 3d., of Quebec and Montreal; Dr.
Lewis Antill of Perth Amboy; and
Major John Antill, of New York. By
WiUiam Nelson. Paterson, N. J., 1899.

Antisell. — ^The Genealogy of the
Descendants of Lawrence and Mary
Antisell of Norwich and Willington,
Conn., including some records of Qiris-
topher Antisell of Sraduff, Birr (Kings
Co.), Ireland. By Mary Elizabetfi Tis-
del Wyman. Columbus, O., 1908.'

Antrim. — Records of the Antrim
family of America. Burlington, N. J.,
H. S. Antrim, 1899.

Antrim. — ^Ancestry of Samuel Adams
Bavis. Maternal. [Philadelphia, 1880.]

Antrim. — ^Earls of the Ancient Fran-
ciscan Friary of Bun-na-margie, Bally-
castle, on the north coast of Antrim:
being a Descriptive and Historical Notice
of this once celebrated Friary, so inti-
mately associated with the Family of
Macdonnell, Earls of Antrim. By
Francis Joseph Bigger. * * * With plans
and drawings by William J. Fennell.
* * * Belfast [1898] and New York.

Appleton. — Memorial of Samuel Ap-
pleton, of Ipswich, Massachusetts; with
Genealogical Notices of some of his De-
scendants. Compiled by Isaac Appleton
Jewett. Boston, 1850.

Appletok. — Pedigree of Appleton
[from Samuel of Ipswich, 1635]. By
John Appleton, M.D. [Boston] 1864.

Appleton. — Monumental Memorials
of the Appleton family. Boston, 1867.
(To be continued.)

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Payne and Leach

[Contrilrated to Genealogy.]

In the Revolution, from Berkshire
county, Mass., was Stephen Payne and
son Ebenezer L. (said to be for Leach).
His daughter said his grandmother was
Sarah Leach, who married Stephen
Payne, Sr. Proofs needed, for others
say that this is the Stephen bom June
26, 1735, to Benjamin and Mary (Brew-
ster) Payne. We know that our Stephen
married, in Lebanon, Conn., September
23, 1756, Rebecca Bushnell, daughter of
Nathan Bushnell of Lebanon. As her
mother had rdatives by marriage named
Leach this name may have come from
that, or Stephen may have named his
first son Ebenezer, born September 27,
1762, for his captain. For from Coven-
try, Conn., near Lebanon, and the town
where the records of the births of this
Stephen's children are, we find in the
French and Indian wars a company in
which Stej^en Payne is corporal and
Ebenezer Leach is captain. Any aid on
this puzzle will be appreciated. Marriage
is on both the Coventry and Lebanon
records. There was a Sarah Leach mar-
ried in Pomfret, Conn., in 1727 to
Stephen Payne, but only two children
are recorded there, Noah and Judith.
Did they have a Stephen?

[339] C R. H.

Darlings of Long Island

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

Ancestors desired of Samuel Darling,
born in Jamaica, L. L, died in New
riaven, Conn., April 29, 1760, in the
sixty-fifth year of 'his age. Wife was
the widow of Abial Macomber, and had
two children by Macomber, and one only
by Darling. She was Susanna Childs.
An old record said that the mother of
Samuel Darling was "Miss Burrows."
Proofs of the marriage of the parents
and record of birth of Samuel wanted
very much, for a work is about to be
issued. There was in Jamaica a Samuel

Eferliftg, who deeded land in 1697-98.
Can name of his wife be ascertained, or
name of wife of his brodier Thomas
who was living there in 1690? The only
son of Samuel was named Thomas, and
these two names are used in the next
generation and the following. A Thomas
Darling, in Elizabethtown, N. J., about
1700, may be the one sought.

[340] C. R. H.

Cox— Gills

(Contribtited to Genealogy.]

James W. Cox married, m Bedford
county, Va., November 14, 1811, Eliza-
beth Gills. Both died in Missouri. Eliza-
beth (Gills) Cox was bom near Lynch-
burg, Va. Their children were: Lucy
Ann Cox, married Saunders; Ma-
tilda Cox, married Price; Eliza

Cox, married Sharp; Martha Cox,

married Crutcher ; Sallie Cox, died

yoimg; Samuel Cox, married Mary Los-
ley; James Cox, never married; John
Cox, married Martha Howel. Emily
Parks Cox, bom in 1812, married Amasa
Welch Holmes. Who were the parents
of James W. Cox, with all dates of their
birtii, death and marriage, and where did
they live ? The same data is desired con-
ceming the parents of Elizabeth Gills.
[341] B.H.R.

Jlllson— Jenckes

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

Mary Jillson, or as the name is some
times spelled, Gillson, married — —
Jenckes, probably about 1770. They had
two daughters: Mercy, bom December
16, 1772 ; Olive, bom December 17, 1774,
at Smithfield; Mary, widow, married
Loami Day, her second husband, at
Attleboro, probably 1776. Can anyone
furnish any data conceming her first hus-
band, giving his full name, when and
where born, with names of his parents,
etc. ? Also, would like the birth date of
Mary Tillson and names of her parents,
with all details possible. [342] J. J. J.

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Stewart — Church

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

In Stonington, Conn., May 5, 1713,
William Stewart married Sarah Church.
She died March 2, 1745. Date of his
death unknown. His grandson, Colonel
Elisha Stewart, said they were from the
royal Stewarts of Scotland. Want an-
cestry of both families. Think the
Church is a line from Mayflower fami-
lies. [343] C. R. H.

Dickinson

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

Parents are wanted of Zebulon Dick-
inson, who was born about 1749-1750, in
or near Oyster Bay, L. I., and served in
the Revolution. Had a son named Town-
send, and these two names appear often
in this family. He moved to Dearborn
county, Ind., and is buried at Wright's
Corners. Either his mother or grand-
mother was a Townsend, and there were
frequent marriages between these two
families. It is said that he was a de-
scendent of John Dickinson, who mar-
ried Elizabeth Howland of Mayflower
parentage. Want proofs of this and
name of wife of this Zebulon.

[344] C.R.H.

Bacon

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

Who were the parents of Joseph
Bacon of Skeneateles, N. Y.? His wife

was Mabel . He had a daughter,

who married Orange Stoddard Spalding.
Her name was Mabelia. She married
March 1, 1827, so probably was bom
about 1800-1810. The mother of Or-
ange Spalding was Betsey Tubbs. Is
this line known? [345] C. R. H.

Witter— Parke

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

Elijah Witter married in Preston,
Conn., November 18, 1756, Lucy Parke,

whose parents are desired. Was she
from E>eacon Thomas Parke? Elijah
Witter was bom September 15, 1734,
and he was from that line of Parkes.
[346] C. R. H.

Ro88 of Pennsylvania

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

Three sons of James Ross of Carrick-
fergus, county Antrim, Ireland, came to
Pennsylvania about 1723. Hugh Ross
settled in York county. William in Ches-
ter county, where his brother John was.
The will of John Ross, made in August,
1757, mentions his wife Margaret, sons
John and James, and granddaughter
Isabel Calbraith. James died February
22, 1780, and was the first person buried
at Canonsburg, Washington county. His
wife Mary died October 18, 1807, aged
72. Information is wanted concerning
her line. [347] C. R. H.

Minton— VaU

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

Nathan Minton married Nancy John-
son, daughter of a revolutionary soldier
from Morris county, N. J. Her mother
was Martha Vail, daughter of Thomas
and Sarah (Davis) Vail. Want all these
lines. Also the lines of Hannah Thomas,
wife of David Willison, son of Lawrence
Willison and his second wife, Joanna
Pollard. All of Morris county, N. J.
Minton data needed. [348] C. R. H.

Smitli of Pennsylvania

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

William Smith, born in 1735, married
Mary Lester, born in 1744. Their son
Thomas married, March 7, 1793, Joanna
More, daughter of Htnty and Hannah
More. He had twelve cnildren by first
wife, all bom at Harrisburg, Penn.
Want all of these lines. Tradition says
Smith came from Maryland.

[349] CR.H.

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Phelps Family Records

[Contributed to Genealogy.]
I.

Daniel Phelps, born March 20, 1789,
married, March 2, 1809, Nancy Mc-
Combe, and settled in Rocky Hill, Conn.
Removed about 1840 to Lyons, N. Y.
and thence in 1844 to Buffalo, where he
died May 21, 1847. His wife died
March 22, 1866.

Children :

1. — ^Andrew Brown, bom February
16, 1810; died at sea March 9. 1834.

2. — ^James Daniel, born April 13, 1811 ;
married Athalinda Wright.

3.— Sarah A., bom April 21, 1812;
married George N. Slocum, of Martha's
Vineyard, Mass. She died May 17, 1880,
in Buffalo, N. Y.

4. — Eugene Waldo, bora December 9,
1816; married Gertrude Closs.

5. — Emily Rebecca, born Febmary 16,
1818; married Luther White, of Middle-
town, Conn.

James Daniel Phelps, born April 13,
1811; married July 6, 1834, in Troy,
N. Y., Athalinda Wright, daughter of
John and Ruth (Willard) Wright. Re-
moved to Buffalo in 1842, and to De-
troit, Mich., in 1863; died December 8,
1865. His wife died December 7, 1880.

Children :

1. — ^James Andrew, born April 20,
1835, in Troy; married Rebecca Page
Goodale.

2. — ^Ellen, born February 4, 1837 ; died
May 28.

3— Ellen, born July 29, 1839; died
October 12, 1840.

4 — George Easterly, bom August 12,
1843, in Buffalo; died July 11, 1844.

5.— Harriet, born May 19, 1845 ; died
August 7, 1845.

6. — ^Jane Alice, born March 4, 1855;
married Dr. Ansley Smith, in Detroit,
Mich.

Eugene Waldo Phelps, born December
9, 1816; married May 23, 1839, Gertrude

Qoss. He died July 30, 1893, in Grif-
fin's Mills, N. Y. She died June 27,
1897, in Brooklyn, N. Y.

Children :

1.— Sarah A., bora August 30, 1840.'
in Lock Berlin, N. Y.; married James
Neeper. She died September 20, 1895.

2. — George Norman, bora May 5,
1843; died October 12, 1844.

3. — George Edward, born August 7.
1848, in Buffalo.

4.— Daniel Lord, born July 23, 1851;
died March 8, 1852.

5.— Nancy E., born March 27. 1855;
died August 17, 1858.

6.— Emily R., born November 1, 1862;
died October 1, 1865.

James Andrew Phelps, bom April 20,
1835, in Troy, N. Y. ; married March 3,
1880, in Aurora, 111., Rebecca Page
Goodale, daughter of Joshua S. and
Elizabeth (Cook) Goodale, of Salem,
Mass. They resided in Detroit, Mich.,
until November, 1900, then removing to
New York city, where they have since
continued to reside.

Children :

1. — Edgar Bartlett, born December 2,
1880; married March 15, 1905, Eugenia
Lux.

2. — Elizabeth, born November 27,
1885 ; died December 24. 1886.

George Edward Phelps, bora August
7, 1848; married, first, June 9, 1875,
Pauline Elizabeth Sandford. who died
December 30, 1876; married, second.
Adelaide Candace Couch. Settled in
Buffalo, where the children were born,
removing later to New York cityr.

Children :

1. — Gertmde Celina, born August 20,
1878; married Robert F. Horn, of Pitts-
burg, Pa.

2. — Edward Couch, born April 21,
1880.

3. — Greorge Eugene, born November
26, 1881 ; married Katherine Dring
Snowden. J. H. P.

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Cemetery Inscriptions, LeRay, Jefferson County* New Yorls

[Contributed to Genealogy.]
By M. L. Kellogg.

In the northwestern part of the town
of LeRay, between the villages of Evans
Mills and Theresa, is a territory called
variously "Joachim" and "Dutch Settle-
ment." The first name was given from
a son of Joachim Murat, who attempted
a settlement here, and the second name
was used to designate the early settlers,
many of whom were of the Palatines of
the Mohawk Valley ancestry, and not
Dutch at all.

The Hoover cemetery is about two
miles north of Evans Mills on the cross-
road from Theresa to the military road.
It is one-quarter of an acre taken orig-
inally from the farm of Peter Hoover.
The first trustees were Alfred Vebber,
Isaac Walradt and Alexander Van
Brocklin, all of whom are buried within
it. The oldest date found in this ceme-
tery is 1831.

The Caswell cemetery is about four
miles from Evans Mills, near Chaufty's
Comers, on the Theresa road, and is
one-quarter of an acre taken from the
farm of Jonathan Caswell.

HOOVER CEMETERY

Van Brocklin.

Alexander Van Brocklin, died May
21, 1852, age 64 years, 5 months.

Catherine, his wife, died January 14,
1843, age 51 years, 3 months.

Abram H. Van Brocklin, died March
21, 1852, age 63 years, 6 months.

Abram Van Brocklin, bom in 1820,
died in 1897.

Maria, wife of Abram, died January
30, 1890, age 65 years.

Catherine, died July 8, 1863, age 9
years, 7 months^ 25 days.

Martha, died July 2, 1863, age 7
years, 6 months.

Alice L., died June 25, 1862, age 4
years, 4 months, 9 days.

The last three were children of Abram
and Maria Van Brocklin.

Ensign.

iPamelia, wife of Amos Ensign, died
September 25, 1838, age 75 years, 10
days.

Horace Ensign, died April 20, 1871,
age 77 years, 8 months, 19 days, on the
Murphy lot.
Hoover.

Abram Hoover, died July 29, 1859,
age 42 years, 1 month, 24 days.

Mary Ann, adopted daughter 6f
Abram and Philetta Hoover, died July
28, 1850, age 12 years, 10 months, 29
days.

Martha Ann, adopted daughter of
Abram and Philetta Hoover, died Feb-
ruary 19, 1862, age 11 years.

Elizabeth, wife of Henry Hoover, died
March 7, 1839, age 87 years.

Peter Hoover, died Febmary 19, 1879,
age 92 years.

Magdalena, wife of Peter Hoover,
died June 26, 1847, age 59 years.

Silas, son of Peter and Magdalena,
died November 27, 1851, age 32 years.

Simon R. Hoover, died March 4, 1876,
age 53 years.
Kellar.

Aaron Kellar, died December 21,
1886, age 60 years, 10 months.

Louisa, his wife, died September 16,
1872, age 38 years, 5 months.

Almerin Kellar, died January 21,
1890, age 33 years, 3 months.

Jacob Kellar, died September 25, 1873,
age 80 years, 11 months, 14 days.

Nancy Petrie, his wife, died Septem-
ber 13, 1854, age 56 years, 7 months, 26
days.

Joseph Kellar, died July 9, 1864, age
29 years, 7 months, 12 days.

Catherine, his wife, died October 4,
1860, age 29 years, 2 months, 15 days.

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inquiry. Wm. M. Qemens, 45 William St.,
New York.

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A complete name index to the 52 issues of
"Genealogy" for the year 1912, volumes one
and two, containing over 30,000 names. Bound
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now being booked. William M. Qemens. Pub-
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Austin Family $1.00

Cameron Family 175

Qemens Family LOO

Curtis Family 75

Fitch Family 1.25

Flickinger Family. 125

Montgomery Family 2.75

Moody Family 75

Peari Family 75

Warren Family 225

Wells Family 75

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Vol, 2, No. 15

New York, October 12, 1912

Whole No, 41

A Line of Meacfaam Descent

[Contributed to Genialogy.]

Jeremiah Meacham of Salem, Mass.,
was there as early as 1660. He married,

first, Margaret , who died in 1679.

He married, second, Alice Dutch,
daughter of Osmond and Grace Dutch
of Ipswich. He died in 1695, his will
being proved March 18, 1695. By his
first wife, Margaret Meacham, he had
seven children.*

1. — ^Jeremiah, bom in 1651 ; married,
March 11, 1672, Mary Trask, bom in
1652, died in 1683, daughter of Henry
and Mary (Southwick) Trask. Their
children were Jere, and Mary, who was
bom December 21, 1673.

2. — Isaac, married in 1669, Deborah
Perkins, widow of John Perkins.

3. — ^Rhoda, married West, and

had a son, Samuel.

4.— Sarah, married Febmary 4, 1668,
Joseph Boyce, bom in 1644. They had
a daughter, Sarah, bom December 4,
1669.

5. — Hannah, married in 1677 William
Hill.

6. — Bethia, bora in 1650; married,
first, in 1672, George Hadcer, and mar-
ried, second, in 1709, John Darling.

7. — ^Rebecca, marrfed January 27,
1674, John Mecarter.

Isaac [Jeremiah I] Meacham, married
Deborah Perkins, and moved to Enfield,

*New England Genealogical Register, Vol.
53, p. 29.

Conn. She was a daughter of Thomas
Browning of England. He died May
29, 1715.

Issue :

1. — Deborah, bora December 15, 1670;
died in 1675.

2. — Isaac, bom November 13, 1672.

3. — ^Jeremiah, bora November 13,
1674; died in 1749, without issue.

4. — Israel, bora September 28, 167;
married Thankful Killam, 1737. He died
in 1760 in Salisbury, Mass., without is-
sue.

5. — Ebenezer, born February 21, 1677;
died in 1744.

6. — Ichabod, bora June 11, 1679; died
in 1766.

7. — ^Deborah, bora April 8, 1681 ; mar-
ried, in 1703, Daniel Markham. He died
in 1761, aged 88. They had five sons.

8. — ^John, bora June 11, 1682; died in
1765. He settled in Enfield, Conn., and
Iiad two sons.

9. — Mary, born in 1684; married
Thomas Janes.

10. — ^Joseph, born Febmary 18, 1686;
married Esther Williams. He was grad-
uated from Harvard College in 1710, and
was the first minister of Enfield, Conn,
lie died there in 1713.

11. — Benjamin, bora September 25,
1687; died in 1692.

12. — Mary, born in Enfield, Conn.

13. — ^Joseph, bora in Enfield, Conn.

14. — Benjamin, born in Enfield, Conn.

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III.

Ichabod Meacham was bom in Salem,
Mass., and moved to Enfield, Conn. He

married Esther , who died there

in 1766.

Issue :

1, — ^John, born December 18, 1728;
married Lucy Parsons, daughter of
Philip and Mary Cotton Parsons. She
was bom March 12, 1734, and married
November IS, 1753. Issue.

2. — ^John Meacham was bom May 31,
1754. He married. May 4, 1780, Tabitha
Daniels, daughter of Lemuel and Hannah
(Fuller) Daniels (Mayflower line). She
was bom in 1763, and died in Hartford,
Conn., September 25, 1823. He died in
Albany, N. Y., October 19, 1839. Their
children were: Lemuel, bom December
3, 1783; John, bora May 2, 1785, mar-
ried Martha Collier, who was born in
1791 and died May 31, 1858; Horace,
bom July 19, 1789; Tabitha, bom April
16, 1792 ; Minerva, born October 4, 1825 ;
marired, first, Dennis Parsons, and sec-
ond, Ethan Coe ; died in Qeveland, Ohio,
in 1890; issue: Ann Eliza, who married
Crowell ; Lusius, Chas. B., J. Bur-
ton, and Frances, who married

Waite.

IV.

Horace Meacham, son of John and
Tabitha (Daniels) Meacham, was bom
in 1789. He married Sarah White,
daughter of Nathaniel and Sara (Steele)
White. She was bom in 1788 and died
December 2, 1839.

Issue :

1. — Roswell Steele, bom December 5,
1810; married Sarah Ward, January 10,
1832. He died in Williamstown, Mass.;
January 18, 1889, leaving two children.

2. — Mary Anne, bom January 27,
1813; married George Davis.

3.— Elizabeth, born Febmary 25, 1815 ;
married Amos Castle Page, July 15,
1844.

4. — ^John, bom 1817, died in infancy.

5. — Sarah, born 1819, died in infancy.

6. — ^John Horace, bom Sept. 6, 1821.

7. — Sarah, bom April 6, 1824; married
Henry Dykeman.

8.— Martha, bom October 7, 1826;
married William Sutton.

9. — ^James Sibley, born November 17,
1829; died August 7, 1843.

John Horace Meacham, son of Horace
and Sarah (White) Meacham, was born
in 1821. He married, October 19, 1848,
Mary Emma Page, daughter of Nicholas
and Huldah (Seeley) Page. They died
by accident in Germantown, Philadelphia,
November 22, 1894.

Issue :

1. John Chester, born April 2, 1850.

2.— Edmund, born April 19, 1853.

3.— Frank White, born May 31, 1856.

4. — Mary Isabel, bom September 22,
1859 ; married Frank Fay, of Worcester,
Mass., and had one son.

5. — Fred Castle, born January 27,
1863 ; married Annie Ironmonger.

VI.

John Chester Meacham, son of John
Horace and Mary Emma (P^e)
Meacham, was bom in 1850; married,
December 10, 1872, Ida Uoyd Miller,
daughter of William Bradley and Anne
(Lloyd) Miller of England. He died
suddenly, March 22, 1895.

Issue :

1. — Ida Blyth, bora September 22,
1873; married Maurice Walsh Fagan,
son of Captain Louis Estelle and Mary
Zell (CoUahan) Fagan. They had one
child, Molly, bom March 20, 1898, died
July 10, 1899.

2.— John Lloyd, bom May 30, 1875;

married, first, Frances ; issue,

Louis Page Meacham; married, second.
May 6, 1903, Marie F. Brown, bom in
Lynchburg, Va., daughter of Frank
Crossmand and De Etta (Loomis)
Brown; issue, John Lloyd, Jr., bora
August 19, 1904, died July 12, 1905, and
Ida Lloyd, bom July 7, 1906. John
Lloyd Meacham, died suddenly Febm-
ary 13, 1911. L M.

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The Fitch FamUy

[Contril>uted to Genealogy.]
In the item regarding the Fitch family,
published in Genealogy, July 20, 1912,
you say that the Reverend James Fitch
married Abigail W. Litchfield. It should
be Abigail Whitfield, instead of Litch-
field. You further state as follows:
"Also it would appear from the dates of
the births of Jeremiah Fitch and Jabez
Fitch, sons of James Fitch and Priscilla
Mason, that they were twins, the date,
September, 1670, given as birth date for
both. Were they twins?" They were
not twins. Jeremiah was born in 1670
and Jabez in 1672. W. L. M.

The Southgate Family

[Contributed to Genealogy.]
I have just received the following,
concerning my Richard (2) Southgate
(Richard, 1). This is the Richard
Southgate who married Eunice Brown.
"1757, August, Richard Southgate
marched from Spencer [Mass.] in the
expedition for the relief of Fort William
Henry and was allowed pay for *horse
keep.' He was a corporal in Captain
John Newhairs company. Colonel John
Chandler's regiment." See French and
Indian War Records, Vol. 96, p. 9.

M. S. R.

An Estes Line

[Contributed to Genealogy.]
Jason L. Estes was bom in South
Adams, Mass., October 1, 1817, son of
John and Sarah Estes. When he was
fifteen years old he moved with his par-
ents to Manlius, Onondaga county,
N. Y., and two years later to Genesee
county, N. Y. He studied civil engi-
neering in Rochester, N. Y., and moved
to Dupage county. 111., in 1838. Engaged
in surveying as civil engineer, he was
first in Illinois, then in California, in 1851.
and finally located in Iowa Falls, Iowa,
in 1855. In the last mentioned place

he was one of the three original proprie-
tors of the town plat and one of the
builders of the first flour mill there, in
1857. He married, in Illinois, in 1843,
Sarah M. Sargent, who was bom in
Colesburg, N. Y. From this union were
two daughters. One died in 1864, and
the other, Abbie J. Estes, married John
Hamilton Foster, a pioneer of Hardin
county, Iowa, and a practicing physician
for forty years. F. E. F.

Pennsylvania Pensioners

Following are the names, rank and
other details conceming the persons re-
siding in Mercer county, Penn., who were
inscribed on the pension list imder the
act of congress passed March 18, 1818:
Amberson, Wm., ensign, April 22, 1818.
Berry, John, pr., May 8, 1818; 71; d.

Sept. 4, 1826.
Bingham, Thomas, pr., June 19, 1821;

88.
Campbell, Alexander, pr., June 22, 1830;

78.
Carringer, Martin, pr., June 19, 1824; 75.
Daley, John, pr., March 29, 1819.
Isenhoar, Philip, gunner, Sept. 16^ 1819;

Lock, Wm., pr., Dec. 14, 1819; 67; d.

Nov. 29, 1823.
McDonald, Rob't., pr., June 14, 1820; 77.
Nelson, William, pr., June 19, 1820; 68;

d. Aug. 3, 1824.
Smith, Thomas (1st), pr., Oct. 20, 1818;

76; d. March 5, 1826.

Sylvia Howard's Parents

[Contributed to Ginealogy.)
In answer to query (325) conceming
Sylvia Howard, her parents were Levi
Howard 5 (Benjamin 4, Benjamin 3,
Samuel 2, William 1), and Bethiah
(Chapin) Howard. They were married
in 1776 and lived in Jamaica, Vermont.
I do not know the date of Sylvia's birth
or where she was bom. E. P. W.

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Morgan of New England and New York

The Ancestral Line of John Picipont Morgan ftrom Milee Morgan
the American Pioneer

[Contribatcd to Ginialogy.]

By Lyman Horace Weeks

Arms — Or, a griffin segreant sable Crest — ^A reindeer's head couped or, at-
tired gules. Motto — Onward and Upward.

/^ELTIC in origin, the name Morgan is older than the advent of the Saxon race
^^ or language in Great Britain. Its derivation is not certain. Dixon, an author-
ity on surnames, says that it means by sea, or, by the sea, which is probably as
nearly accurate as any explanation may be. The name is allied to the Scotch
ceann mor, meaning big head, or perhaps big headland. Another possible deriva-
tion is from the Welsh more can, meaning sea bum.

As a surname, Morgan was common throughout Wales as early as the first
years of the Christian era. One authority says: "The founder of the Pelagian
heresy in the fourth century, about A. D. 360, was a true Welshman, a monk
of Bangor. His name was Morgan, which signifies 'of the sea,' and this was
correctly Latinized Pelagus/' * The name had became common before the time
of the Conquest and appears in the Domesday Book and in the Battle Abbey
Roll. Princes and other potentates of Wales bearing the name of Morgan were
living as far back as the year 300 or 400. One of these princes, Morgan of Gla-
morgan, in 725, is said to have invented trial by jury, which he called the apos-
tolic law. "As Christ and the twelve apostles are finally to judge the world,
so human tribunals should be composed of the king and twelve wise men."

Some time in the latter part of the sixteenth century, the family from which
were derived the ancestors of the American branch, moved from Wales, across
the channel, to Bristol, England. There they settled and became substantial
citizens of that part of Great Britain. The immediate family of Miles Morgan
who came to Massachusetts was of Glamorgan county, Wales. Records indicate
that his father was William Morgan of Llandaff.

I
Miles Morgan was bom about 1615, probably in LlandafF, Glamorgan county,
Wales. Accompanying his brother James Morgan, who settled in New London,
Conn., and another brother John Morgan, who went to Virginia, he sailed from
Bristol, England, and arrived in Boston in April, 1636. His first residence was
in Roxbury, Mass., but soon he joined the company that had been led by Sir
William Pynchon and had founded Agawan (Springfield) on the banks of the
Connecticut river. He was in Agawam before 1643 and became one of the lead-
ing men of that place. He acquired a large tract of land ; was a trader, sailing
up and down the Connecticut river; owned one of the few fortified houses in
Agawam ; was one of the leaders of the militia, having the rank of sergeant, and
was a famous Indian hunter. In all the fighting to protect the little settlement
from the attack of the savages, he was much depended upon for his valor and
his skill. In the "record or list of ye names of the Townsmen or men of this
Towne of Springfield in Febmary, 1664, written by Elizur Holyoke," he appears
as Serj. Miles Morgan. In 1655, 1657, 1660, 1662 and 1668, he was a selectman

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of Springfield. He served as a constable, a fence viewer, a highway surveyor
and overseer of highway.

He married, first, in 1643, Prudence Gill^rt of Beverly, Mass. The tradition
is that on the vessel on which he came to Boston, Prudence Gilbert was also a
passenger, coming to join members of her family already located in Beverly.
After he had settled in Springfield he sent word to her and proposed marriage.
She accepted the offer and the young man, with two friends and an Indian guide
with pack horses, marched across Massachusetts from the Connecticut river to
the "land of the people of the east," where the two were married. After the
marriage the household goods of the young couple were laden on the pack horses,
and the bride, on foot, tramped back to Springfield, one hundred and twenty miles,
escorted by the bridegroom and his friends. She died January 14, 1660. He
married, second, in February 15, 1670, Elizabeth Bliss, who was bom in Boston
about 1637, daughter of Thomas and Margaret Bliss. Thomas Bliss and his
wife Margaret came from Devonshire, England, to Massachusetts in 1635. They
lived in Braintree, Mass., and Hartford, Conn., where he died in 1640. Mar-
garet Bliss lived in Springfield from about 1643 and died there in 1684.

Miles Morgan died May 28, 1699. His children by his first wife were: 1.
May Morgan; 2. Jonathan Morgan; 3. David Morgan; 4. Pelatiah Morgan;
5. Isaac Morgan; 6. Liddia Morgan; 7. Hannah Morgan; 8. Mercy Morgan.
By his second wife he had one child, Nathaniel Morgan.

Nathaniel Morgan, only child of Miles and Elizabeth (Bliss) Morgan, was
bom in Springfield, June 14, 1671. He settled in West Sprin^eld and there
was a successful farmer.

He married, January 19, 1691, Hannah Bird, who died June 7, 1751. He
died August 30, 1752. His children were: 1. Nathaniel Morgan; 2. Samuel
Morgan ; 3. Ebenezer Morgan ; 4. Hannah Morgan ; 5. Miles Morgan ; 6. Joseph
Morgan ; 7. James Morgan ; 8. Isaac Morgan ; 9. Elizabeth Morgan.

Ill

Joseph Morgan, son of Nathaniel and Hannah (Bird) Morgan, was born
December 3, 1702. He lived on the paternal farm in West Springfield.

He married, in 1735, Mary Stebbins, daughter of Benjamin Stebbins. She
was bom July 6, 1712, and died December 6, 1798. He died November 7, 1773.
His children were: 1. Joseph Morgan; 2. Titus Morgan; 3. Titus Morgan; 4.
Lucas Morgan; 5. Elizabeth Morgan; 6. Judah Morgan; 7. Jesse Morgan;
8. Hannah Morgan.

Joseph Morgan, son of Joseph and Mary (Stebbins) Morgan, was bom Feb-
ruary 19, 1736. He was a captain of the militia and one of the staunchest men
of westem Massachusetts.

He married, September 9, 1765, Experience Smith, who was bom October 23,
1741. He died in 1813. His children were: 1. Eurydice Morgan; 2. Huldah
Morgan; 3. Huldah Morgan; Nancy Morgan; 5. Achsah Morgan; 6. Joseph
Morgan ; 7. Betsey Morgan.

Joseph Morgan, youngest son of Joseph and Experience (Smith) Morgan^
was bom January 4, 1780. Leaving home when he was a young man, he settled
in Hartford and there became a successful and respected hotel keeper.

He married Sarah Spencer of Middletown, Conn. He died in July, 1847.

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His children were: 1. Mary Morgan; 2. Lucy Morgan; 3. Junius Sp£NCEr
Morgan.

Junius Spencer Morgan, only son of Joseph and Sarah (Spencer) Morgan,
was born in West Springfield, April 14, 1813. His early years were spent in
Hartford, Conn. When he had grown up and completed his education, he went
to Boston and there entered the banking house of Albert Wells. In 1834 he left
Boston and, removing to New York, entered the banking house of Morgan,
Ketchum & Ccnnpany. Subsequently he was in the dry goods business in his
native city and in Boston. In 1854 he became a partner of George Peabody,
then the great banker of England. In ten years he succeeded entirely to the
business of the Peabody banking house and established the house of J. S. Morgan
and Company, which shortly ^came one of the largest banking houses in the
world. The later years of his life were spent largely abroad, but he never lost
his love for his native cotmtry, and dunng the civil war he gave substantial
assistance to the cause of the government.

He married, in Boston, in 1836, Juliet Pierpont, who was bom July 30, 1816,
daughter of the Reverend John and Mary Sheldon (Lord) Pierpont of Boston,
Baltimore and Washington. He died in Nice, France, April 8, 1^0. His chil-
dren were: 1. John Pierpont Mokgan; 2. Sarah Spencer Morgan; 3. Mary
Lyman Morgan ; 4. Junius Spencer Morgan ; 5. Juliet Pierpont Morgan.

VII

John Pierpont Morgan, only son of Junius Spencer and Juliet (Pierpont)
Mor^^an, was bom in Hartford, Conn., April 17, 1837. He was educated in the
English High School, in Boston, and then studied in the University of Gottingen,
Germany, where he completed a full course. He returned to the United States
when he was twenty years of age and immediately entered upon that banking
career which he has followed for more than half a century and in which he has
attained undisputed pre-eminence as one of the greatest financiers that the world
has ever known. He is a generous patron of art and one of the most famous
art connoisseurs and collectors of the world. He has a New York city residence, a
country seat, Cragston, at Highland Falls, N. Y.; a house in Roehampton, near
Wimbledon, a suburb of London, and one near Kensington.

He married, first, Amelia Sturges, daughter of Jonathan and Mary (Cady)
Sturges of New York. She died February 7, 1862, and he married, second, in
1865, Frances Louise Tracy, bom Mav IS, 1842, daughter of Charles and Louise
(Kiricland) Tracy of New York. She was descended from Thomas Tracy of
Tewksbury, England, Salem, Mass., and Norwich, Conn., who died in Norwich
in 1685, his English ancestors being of the ennobled family of Tracy or de Traci
of Gloucestershire and Warwickshire. His children are: 1. John Pierpont
Morgan; 2. Louise Pierpont Morgan, married Herbert L. Satterlee; 3. Juliet
Pierpont Morgan, married W. Pierson Hamilton; 4. Anne Tracy Morgan.

VIII
John Pierpont Morgan, only son of John Pierpont and Frances Louise
(Tracy) Morgan, was born in 1867. He was graduated from Harvard Uni-
versity in the class of 1889 and since then has been engaged in the banking busi-
ness with his father. He resides in New York city. He married, in 1891, Jane
Norton Grew, daughter of Henry Sturgis and Jane Norton (Wigglesworth)
Grew of Boston. She was bom in Boston, September 30, 1868. They have two
children, Junius Spencer Morgan and Jane Morgan.

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Richie— Tlgnau—Tllyou

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

The ancestry is desired of George
Ritchie, or Richey, who on April 26,
1760, married, in New York, Catherine
Tillou, Tilyou, daughter of Vincent Van
Yoe or Vigneau Tilyou. Can any one
tell me if this Vincent Tilyou was a de-
scendant or relative of the Elizabeth Til-
you who made her will as follows:

"In the name of God, Amen, the 28
day of May, 1704, I, Elizabeth, widow
of John Tilyou of New York, being
sick, I leave to my grand-daughter Anne
Tilyou my bed, and 4 pewter dishes of
the middle size, to be kept by her mother
till she is of age. To my dau. Ann Mace
1 shilling. All the rest of estate to my
daughter Elizabeth, widow of Vincent
Tillou. Witnesses Giles Gaudineau, John
Le Chevalier, Egbert Van Bursum."

This will was proved September 27,
1709. The following is an imaginary
pedigree formed by putting together iso-
lated facts. I would be greatly pleased
to have it either corrected or approved :

I. — Pierce Tilyou came from France
before 1685. He married, probably in
France, Hester Pelletreau.

n. — ^Vincent Tilyou married Elizabeth
Vignau and died before 1704.

HI. — ^Vincent Vignau Tilyou, bom be-
for 1705; married Sara Mesier.

IV.— Catherine Vimau Tilyou, bom
in 1739, married Apnl 26, 1760, George
Ritelna. [369] O.M.

Johnston

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

Judge Samuel Johnston, son of Wil-
liam Johnston of Trenton, N. J., by his
wife , was bom . He mar-
ried, first, 1728, Sarah Oakley, of Tren-
ton, by whom he had seven children. She
died June 1, 1739. He married, second,
in 1740, Mary Cozier, by whom he had
nine children. He died in 1785. He
resided in Sidney, Kingwood township.

Hunterdon county, N. J., and for more
than thirty years was chief magistrate
of Hunterdon. I would be glad to have
information relating to Samuel Johnston
and Sarah Oakley. [370] O. M.

Farrar

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

What was the maiden name of Re-
becca , who married Jonathan

Farrar in Concord, Mass., in 1724, and
who were her parents? Vital dates de-
sired. [371] D.W.S.

Wade

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

Robert Wade, son of Benjamin and
Ann (Tooker) Wade, died in August,
1766, in Elizabeth, N. J.; married first

; married, second, Sarah .

His son Robert married Elizabeth
I should be glad to learn the

maiden names of Sarah, the wife of
Robert Wade, Sr., and of Elizabeth, the
wife of Robert Wade, Jr. [372] O. M.

Cole

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

Information desired regarding the an-
cestry of Daniel Cole and also of his
wife Ann , who were married be-
fore 1753, and who lived in Concord,
Mass. Was he a descendant of James
Cole, 1633, of Plymouth, Mass.? Does
he have any Mayflower ancestry?

[373] D.W.S.

Brown— Tripp

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

Who were the parents of Joseph
Brown, who married Anna Tripp, bom
about 1780, daughter of Robert Tripp
of Woods Falls, N. Y. Had Joseph
brothers or sisters? He lived for many
years in Sciota, N. Y. Anna Tripp
Brown died in Sciota 1884, aged 104
y«rs. [374] A. B. T.

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More— Mure— Mulr of Scotland

[Contributed to Geitsaldgy.]

1.— David de More, of Polkelli Castle,
mentioned in a charter of Alexander
III. between 1214 and 1249.

2. — Sir Gilchrest More of Bowallon
Castle, 1200-1280, fought at the battle
of Larges, 1263; married Isabel, daugh-
ter of Sir Walter Cumyn.

3. — Sir Archibald, slain at the battle
of Berwick, 1297; married a daughter
of Sir John Montgomerie of Essies-
hame.

4. — Sir William, married a daughter
of the house of Cragie, then called Lind-
say.

5. — Sir Adam, married Janet More,
heiress of Polkelli, grand-daughter of
Ronold More. Sir Adam and Janet
More had Sir Adam Jr., heir of Rowal-
lan; Elizabeth, who married her cousin,
who became King Robert II. of Scotland,
and Andrew Mure, of Muir, of Mony-
hagen. About this time More became
Mure or Muir by court dialect.

6. — ^Andrew Muir of Monyhagen is
mentioned in a charter as "uncle of the
kmg," Robert III. of Scotland. Accord-
ing to Sir William Mure of Rowallan,
who died before 1657, Andrew of Mony-
hagen was ancestor of the Mures of
both Anchindraine and Qoncaird.

7. — Edward de Mure of Qenchard
and Barnvilli, sometimes caUed Qon-
caird and Barnvilli, was livine in 1450.
Cloncaird Castle renaained in me posses-

sion of the descendants of Edward for
several centuries. It is now owned b^
Hugh Wallace, Esq., who inherited it
from his grandmother, the beautiful
Fanny Ritchie. It is now modernized
into one of the most el^[ant seats in
Ayrshire. It is in two parts, the old
tower, which was probably occupied by
Edward, and the middle or intermediate
part, built by Patrick, the grandson of
Edward. This part contains an old stone
engraved with the arms of Patrick Muire
and his wife, McDowell. Ac-
cording to the present owner the old
tower is not the least beautiful and at-
tractive part of the whole structure.

8. — ^John Muir was witness to a char-
ter dated Linlithgow, 27 July 1457. John
of Linlithgow in 1468 had three sons:
Archibald, who died before 1548; Pat-
rick of Qoncaird Castle, and Robert.

9. — Robert, living in 1553, married
Margaret, daughter of the Reverend
Robert Peblis, minister at Kirkunskaell.

10. — ^James of Glasgow, married Mar-
garet Miller.

11.— John died in 1602.

12. — ^Robert of Glasgow, 1616, married
Margaret, daughter of George Fergu-
son.

13. — ^Robert, living in 1689, married
Agenta Simpson.

14. — ^Andrew, married about 1730,
Kathertne, daughter of John Govan.

15. — ^Robert, bom in 1731, married
Elizabeth, daughter of David Muchle-
worth.

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years later, when she sold her right in
the homestead to Joseph Rolling.
George Durant, father of Sarah and Abi-
gail Durant, was of Maiden, Mass., and
removed about 1666 to Middletown,
Conn. He died about 1690.

Amos Tinker (3) [Amos (2), John
( 1 ) ] was the fourth child. He was bom
in Lyme about 1695 and died there in
1760. He married, first, January 17,
1717, Lucy Lee, who was bom in Lyme
June 20, 1699, a daughter of John and
Elizabeth (Smith) Lee, and died before
1759. Elizabeth Smith was a daughter
of Richard and Bathshiba (Rogers)
Smith, married in 1690. Bathshiba
Rogers was a daughter of James
Rogers, one of the men who took the
inventory of John Tinker's estate.

Martin Tinker (4) [Amos (3), Amos
(2), John (1)], tenth child, was born in
Lyme June 26, 1739, was baptized there

July 15, 1739, and died in Westfield,
lass., December 20, 1811. He married,
in Lyme, November 2, 1769, Mary Peck,
who was bom in Lyme May 29, 1753,
and who survived her husband. She was
a daughter of John and Catherine (La)r)
Peck. She joined the First Church in
Lyme in February or March, 1773.
Martin Tinker bought out the interest
of at least four of his brothers in their
father's estate in Lyme. He was com-
missioned captain of the seventh com-
pany of the Third Hampshire county

regiment of Massachusetts militia, Sep-
tember 4, 1780.

William Tinker (5) [Martin (4),
Amos (3), Amos (2), John (1)] was
the twelfth child. Bom in Westfield,
Mass., November 28, 1795; he died in
Indianapolis, Ind., January 6, 1862. He
married, in Washington, Ky., March 4,
1822, Elizabeth Coram, bom in Wil-
mington, Del., March 23, 1795, died in
Indianapolis, Ind., September 27, 1872,
a daughter of Robert and Rhoda (Cle-
neay) Coram. Robert Coram was a mid-
shipman under Paul Jones on the ship
Le Bonhomme Richard.

Mary Tinker (6) [William (5), Mar-
tin (4), Amos (3), Amos (2), John
(1)1 was bom December 22, 1822. She
married William Herbert Morrison,
June 4, 1851. Issue: A daughter, Mary
Talbott Morrison, bom March 17, 1860,
and a son, Ernest Wakefield Morrison.

Elizabeth Tinker (6) [William (5),
Martin (4), Amos (3), Amos (2), Jolm
(1)] was born November 24, 1827, and
married, March 22, 1845, Washington
Houston Talbott. Issue: Living, Mary
Clews Talbott, married James Terry
Howe; William Houston Talbott (died),
married Katherine Wright, daughter of
John Cook and Louise (Wilev) Wright,
and left an only child, Mabel Louise Tal-
bott, who married Lawrence Belding
Cummings and has one son, Talbott
€ummings, bom in July, 1912.

Nantucket Quaker Burials

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

Inscriptions from the Quaker ceme-
tery, Nantucket, Mass. :

Levi Starbuck, bom November 10,
1769, died September 21, 1849.

Charles H. Chase, 1820—1901. Mar-
garet, his wife, 1810—1882.

Rueben Swain, died January 4, 1859,
aged 76,

Susan C, widow of Henry Paddock,
born Febmary 19, 1807; died January
19, 1858.

Nancy S., wife of Mark Folger, died
Mav 3, 1859, aged 62 years.

Joseph Bamey, died December 31,
1878, aged 71.

Charles Tracy, died November 16.
1876, aged 68 years. /

Delia M., widow of Charles Tracy,
died November 24, 1880, aged 71 yeans,
6 months.

Huldah H. Bonwill, daughter of
George Bonwill, and Anna Stanton, his
wife, bom in Lemington, Kent county,
Del, in 1826, died Feb. 10, 1905.

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Some Early Pearls

[Contributed to Genealogy.]
By C. Wyman Pearl

In the Old Cemetery on Mount Ver-
non Road, near West Boxford, Mass.,
are these:

Here lies the body of Elizabeth Pearl,
died March 26, 1744, in ye 82 year of
her age.

Here lies buried the body of Richard
Pearl, who departed this life December
7, 1760, in ye 21 year of his Hfe.

In the Elmwood Avenue cemetery of
Burlington, Vt., lot No. 456, are these :
S. A. R. 1775.

Col. Stephen Pearl, born in Connecti-
cut the 28th day of April, Old Style
Anno Domini 1749. Died at Burlington
the 21st day of November Anno Domini
1816, aged 68 years.

Abigail Pearl, wife of Col. Stephen
Pearl, died April 22d 1822 aged 64 years.

In the Cemetery at Grand Isle., Vt.,
are found the graves of Col. Stephen's
brother Timothy and his wife marked as
follows :

S. A. R. 1775.

Timothy Pearl, Esq., died September
15, 1839, aged 88 years,

Sarah Swift, wife of Timothy Pearl,
died July the 24th, 1843, aged 88 years.

Stephen Pearl, died October 31, 1859,
aged 75 years.

Rhoda Pearl, wife of Stephen PearJ,
died July 24, 1836, in her 51st year. *

Almira, relict of Stephen Pearl, died
February 14, 1860, aged 66 years.

In the cemetery in South Hero, Vt.,
are these:

Theodosia Pearl, wife of Aaron Gra-
ham, died September 17, 1811, aged 35
years.

Clarissa Pearl, wife of Joseph Phelps,
died December 16, 1857, aged 67 years.

In the cemetery in Constable, N. Y.,
are these:

George Pearl, died March 9, 1888,
aged 75 years.

Claresa Hastings, widow of George
Pearl, died February 13, 1905, aged 80.

In the cemetery at Lawrenceville,
N. Y.:

Mary Cobb, wife of George Pearl, died
March 10, 1862, aged 46 years.

In Hailville cemetery, Lawrence,
N. Y., are:

James Pearl, born December 10, 1823,
died August 22, 1895.

Augusta Burt, widow of James Pearl,
born March 16, 1826, died August 20^
1903.

Edson Family Graves

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

Inscriptions from the old Mattfield
cemetery, West Bridgewater, Mass.

Here lies buried Dea. Joseph Edson,
who died August 26, 1768, in ye 90th
year of his age.

Here lies buried Mrs. Lydia Edson,
wife of Dea. Joseph Edson, who died
January 24, 1762, in ye 80th year of her
age.

In memory of Mr. Jesse Edson, who
died November 18, 1783, in ye 60th year
of his age.

Here lies buried Mrs.. Lydia Edson,
wife of Mr. Jesse Edson, who died Jan-
uary 25, 1762, in ye 36th year of her
age.

Jesse, son of Jesse Edson, died Au-
gust 12, 1763, in ye 4th year of his age.

Here lies Miss Lydia Edson, died
August 18, 1793, in her 83rd year.

In memory of Mr. Joseph Edson, who
died August 27, 1791, in ye 36th year of
his age. C. W. P.

Subscribers will do well to preserve
all their copies of Genealogy. The suc-
cessive issues of the periodical will con-
tain more and more information that will
increase in value as the work goes on:
and it should always be kept at hand for
ready reference. Volumes of one or two
years issues bound or unbound will be
worth much more than the original sub-
scription price, and will be salable at an
advanced figure.

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Pennsylvania Baptisms

[Contributed to Genealogy.]
By Carlos P. Darling

Following is a transcript of baptisms
from the parish records of St. John's
Protestant Episcopal Churcn, I^wrence-
ville, Tioga county, Penn. Those in
1843 were by the Reverend Charles
Breck; those in 1845, by the Reverend
Thomas Cullen; those of 1867-1868, by
the Reverend J. H. Hobart De Mille;
those in 1872, by the Reverend B. F.
Taylor; those of 1874-1882, by the Rev-
erend John London ; those of 1883-1886,
by the Reverend Percy C Webber ; those
of 1888, by the Reverend Percy J. Ro-
bottom ; those of 1890, by the Reverend

Broadwell; that of 1891, by the

Reverend S. P. Kelly; those of 1898-
1908, by the Reverend John Coulson
Skottowe ; that of 1909, by the Reverend
Jesse A. Ryan; those of 1910, by the
Right Reverend James H. Darlington,
D.D.; that of December, 1910, by the
Reverend W.C. Charlton:

Wells Kilbum, February 1, 1843.

Knox Kilburn, July 16, 1843.

Dwight Weeden, October 8, 1843.

Emily Eliza Weeden, October 8, 1843.

Ida Kilbum, December 20, 1845.

Emily Rosalia Chapman, September 7,
1867.

Adeline Slosson, daughter of Clark
Slosson, September 7, 1867.

Cynthia Matilda Slosson, daughter of
Clark Slosson, September 7, 1867.

Susan Louisa Slosson, daughter of
Clark Slosson, September 7, 1867.

Kate Wylie Baldwin, daughter of
Moses and Milicent (Wylie) Baldwin,
January 19, 1868.

Daniel Wylie Baldwin, son of Moses
and Milicent (Wylie) Baldwin, January
19, 1868.

Lucy Davenport Baldwin, daughter of
Moses and Milicent (Wylie) Baldwin,
January 19, 1868.

Lemuel Grant Baldwin, son of Moses
and Milicent (Wylie) Baldwin, January
19, 1868.

Brittania Tompkins, August 24, 1868.
Charles Millard Tompkins, August 24,
1868.

Calvin Ray Tompkins, August 24,
1868. ^ *- 8 *

Lewis Darling, Sr., son of Seth and
Chloe (Marsh) Darling, bom March 5,
1804, in Woodstock, Vt., September 15,
1868.

Nellie Augusta Repass, November 15,
1868.

Juliet Holdridge Odell, November 15,
1868.

Mary Eliza Lindsley, November 15,
1868.

Esther Warner Chapman, November
15, 1868.

Mary Ella Miller, November 15, 1868.

Thomas Carlson Chapman Miller, No-
vember 15, 1868.

Emma May Case, November 15, 1868.

Arland Lewis Darling, son of Dr.
Lewis and Julia L. (Day) Darling, bom
June 22, 1870, in Lawrenceville, Pa., in
1872.

Lucy D. Darling, daughter of Thomas
V. and Delphine (Charles) Darling, bom
July 27, 1874, in Lawrenceville, Pa., No-
vember 16, 1874.

Horace Mason Darling, son of Thomas
V. and Delphine (Charles) Darling, bom
June 6, 1870, in Lawrenceville, Penn.,
baptized in 1872.

Ellen Smith, January 31, 1875.

John Smith, January 31, 1875.

Harriet M. Smith, January 31, 1875.

Anna Eliza Smith, January 31, 1875.

John C. Lathrop, April 11, 1875.

Annie Lathrop, April 11, 1875.

Clarence John London, July 8, 1875.

Martha E. Kelts, May 2, 1876.

Ada May Stewart, May 2, 1876.

Martha Bird Kelts, daughter of Delos
Kelts, May 24, 1876.

William Wilson Stewart, son of James
Stewart, May 24, 1876.

Lucina Maud Kelts, daughter of Mrs.
Edward Kelts, May 24, 1876.

Clara Granger, daughter of Dr.
Granger, May 4, 1876.

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Cora Granger, daughter of Dr.
Granger, May 4, 1876.

May Ker London, January 29, 1877.

Richard Alexander Ker, February 2D,
1878.

Bessie Rusling Kelts,May 12, 1878.

Mary Lathrop, daughter of Austin and
Amy (Walker) Lathrop, September 14,
1879.

Mary Branch, September 21, 1879.

James Wales, September 23, 1879.

Samuel Case, October 10, 1879.

Helen Wells, Knoxville, Penn., May
11, 1880.

Grace Wells, Knoxville, Penn., May
11, 1880.

Abram Walker, November 7, 1880.

Daniel Benjamin Walker, son of
Abram and Amy (Reep) Walker, No-
vember 7, 1880.

Julia (Mantor) Walker, wife of
Daniel Walker, November 7, 1880.

Frank Walker, son of Abram and
Amy (Reep) Walker, November 7, 1880.

Archibald Stewart Brant, son of
Charles P. and Lizzie (Stewart) Brant,
August 26, 1881.

Alma M. McDonel, September 25,
1881.

Bertha L. McDonel, September 25,
1881.

Stella Knapp, daughter of Andrew
Knapp, September 25, 1881.

Emma Frances Losey, daughter of
George T. Losey, April 20, 1882.

Myrtie Daggett, adopted daughter of
Lewis and Samantha (Wells) Daggett,
April 20, 1882.

Nellie Stewart, April 20, 1882.

Effie Grace McDonel, April 20, 1882.

Edna Dell Benn, daughter of Martin
and Lyda (Buchanan) Benn, April 20,
1882.

Gardner Hawley Benn, son of Martin
and Lyda Benn, April 20, 1882.

Lena May Benn, daughter of Martin
and Lyda Benn, April 20, 1882.

Fred Abram Walker, son of Frank
Walker, April 20, 1882,

Jane Knapp, April 20, 1882.

Jessie Case, April 20, 1882.

Jennie Traverse, daughter of Isaac
and Fanny (Hill) Traverse, April 20.
1882.

Mamie Traverse, daughter of Isaac
and Fanny (Hill) Traverse, April 20,
1882.

Carlos Parsons Darling, bom May 8,
1876, son of Dr. Lewis and Julia L.
(Day) Darling, July 22, 1883.

Waher William Darling, born March
20, 1880, son of Dr. Lewis and Julia L.
(Day) Darling, July 22, 1883.

Gertrude Orr, daughter of James C.
Orr, at Erwin Center, N. Y., in October,
1883.

Helen (Mantor) Leonard, June 29,
1884.

Alice F. Vermilyea, at Westfield,
Penn., November 11, 1884.

Jane A. Phillips, at Westfield, Penn.,
November 11, 1884.

Richard Bulkeley Brundage, son of
Richard B. and Elizabeth L. (Rusling)
Brundage, in September, 1885.

Lewis Darling, son of Thomas V. and
Delphine (Charles) Darling, born June
11, 1884, in Canisteo, N. Y., in Septem-
ber, 1885.

Floyd Harris, son of George and Effie
(Tucker) Harris, Epiphany, in 1886.

Edgar Leonard, Epiphany, in 1886.

Cora Anna Shepard, Epiphany, in
1886.

Adah Smith, daughter of Lucien
Smith, Epiphany, in 1886.

Mabel Guiles, Epiphany, in 1886.

George Harris, Epiphany, in 1886.

Theresa Jordan, Epiphany, in 1886.

Maud Cameron, daughter of James
Cameron, Epiphany, in 1886.

George Byron Colby, October 10, 1886.

Frank G. Kirkland, October 10, 1886.

Albert M. Ferguson, October 10, 1886.

Kitty M. Ferguson, October 10, 1886.

Nancy L. White, October 10, 1886.

Eva Maud Crowl, October 10, 1886.

Nora McKane, at Painted Post, N. Y.,
in October, 1886.

L)mne Hutchinson Tichnor, October
24, 18—.

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Streeter— Inman

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

Can anyone tell the maiden name and
dates of Mary, wife of Stephen inman
of Gloucester and Cumberland, R. L?
She had three children by Stephen In-
man, as follows : Stephen, bom April 19,
1750 in Cumberland; Joseph; born Sep-
tember 23, 1745, and Deborah, born Au-
gust 16, 1748 in Gloucester. Stephen In-
man died May 19, 1750, in Cumberland,
and his widow, Mary, married, second,
March 2, 1752, Lieutenant Joseph Street-
er, born in Wrentham, Mass., July 5,
1719, son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Ti-
tus) Streeter. Deborah Inman, daughter
of Stephen and Mary, lived with her
mother and step-father. Lieutenant Jo-
seph Streeter, as shown by the will of
the latter. Am very desirous of learn-
ing the maiden name of Mary, wife of
the above Stephen Inman and Lieutenant
Joseph Streeter. [382] C. P. D.

Marsh

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

Can anyone give anything concerning
the parents of the Joseph Marsh who
married, in Mendon, Mass., April 26,
1759, Deborah Staples, born in Mendon,
June 26, 1741, daughter of Abraham
Staples, 3rd, and his third wife, Lydia
White, whom he married in 1740? Jo-
seph and Deborah (Staples) Marsh had
two children born in Douglas, Mass.:
Beulah, born April 10, 1760, and Daniel,
born, February 1, 1763. They had sev-
eral other children, among them being
Jason, Polly, Lydia, Royal, and probably
others. They also had a daughter, Chloe
Marsh, born in Mendon April 30, 1768,
who married, in Mendon, October 6,
1786, Seth Darling, born in Mendon
March 21, 1764, son of Thomas and
Rachel (White) Darling. I have
searched in vain for the full record of
the children of Joseph and Deborah
(Staples) Marsh, but can only find the
births of the first two children recorded ;

the birth of Chloe is from an old Bible
record. Joseph and Deborah were liv-
ing in 1790 in Woodstock, Vt., where
several of their children wer^ living, but
I have never been able to obtain the dates
and places of their deaths, which are
much desired. Perhaps this Joseph
Marsh was the Joseph, son of Deacon
John and Martha (Hartshorn) Marsh,
of Douglas, but from association in
Woodstock, Vt., I should judge that per-
haps he may have been a son of a Job
Marsh, who evidently comes from the
line of John Marsh, of Hartford, Conn.

Bliss — Keep

[Contributed to Gbnealogy.]

Information is desired correcting the
following discrepancies :

Thomas Bliss, bom in 1550-60 or 1580-
85, died in 1635-40 or 1650; married, in
1612-15, Margaret Lawrence, bom in
1594, died August 28, 1684.

John Bliss, born about 1640, died Sep-
tember 10, 1702, September 20, 1702, or
November 4, 1702; married, October 7,
1667, Patience Burt, born August 18,
1643, or 1645, and died October 2, 1732,
October 25, 1732, or May 18, 1768. Burt,
in his book, on page 534, gives the first,
and on page 539, gives the last, while the
Bliss Ancestry gives the middle date.
She was the daughter of Nathaniel Burt,
born in 1636, married, January 15, 1662-
63, or December 26, 1662 (Burt gives
both dates), Rebecca Sikes, born in 1640,
died in 1712, January 28.

Anne Bliss, born July 14, 1771, died
June 2, 12, or 20, 1834; married, Jan-
uary 30, 1800, Samuel Keep, born Feb-
ruary 10, 1774, died May 7, 17, 1849, or
April 23, 1850.

Samuel Keep, born May 26, 1739
(Longmeadow Book), June 6 (tomb-
stone), died October 20, 1823; married,
second, June 4, 1767, Sabina Cooley, born
March 9, 1747, or February 26, 1747,
died December 12, 1823.

[396] W.D.K.

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Seyeral Colonial Families

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

Information is desired concerning the
families of Denson, Greenough and
Parks, who lived in Chemung county,
N. Y., and intermarried.

Also about the families of Barrett and
Jarrett of Germantown, Penn., and Mil-
ton, Penn. (?), and vicinity. The
Walker genealogy is the only clew re-
garding the latter family, but lacks their
ancestry. Families of Bruner and Cald-
well, who also married into these fami-
lies.

In Hinman's First Puritan Settlers, on
page 180, one gets the following infor-
mation that I have not found in any
other work, so one or the other is in the
wrong :

"Isaac Morgan settled in Enfield 1682,
was drowned November, 1706 age 56;
had one daughter, who married Capt.
Samuel Terry;" and on page 176 we
read that Samuel Terry married Hannah
Morgan, daughter of Isaac Morgan, in
1682." As all other books give Hannah
as the daughter of Miles Morgan, the
early settler of Springfield, Mass., will
some one kindly tell me which is right?
Then, too, we read, on page 170, that
Priscilla Markham married Thomas Hale
in 1695, whereas I have understood the
year to be 1675, as his son, Thomas Hale,
was married to Experience Burt, Feb-
ruary 15, 1705. She was born in 1667
(Burt's Book), 1677 (Longmeadow
Book and Keep and Town Records).
Died September 12, 1719. And I have
also understood this Thomas Hale to be
the son of John Heald [(pronounced
Haled), born in 1634, in Concord, and
died May 24, 1662] and Dorothy (?).
[395] W. D. K.

married Sophia de La Grange, and their
first child was born in 1758 or 1759.
Give date and place of marriage.

Joshua (4) Mersereau was bom on
Staten Island, June 8, 1759, and died in
Tioga, Penn., January 20, 1857. He
married Dinah Garrison, who died in
Chenango county, N. Y., October 19,
1822, aged 53 years. Their first child
was bom August 24, 1786. When and
where were they married ? [393] J. D. M.

Mersereau

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

Joshua (3) Mersereau was born on
Staten Island, September 26, 1728, and
died in Union, N. Y., June 10, 1804. He

White— Thayer

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

Can anyone tell the name of the
Thayer who married, probably in Men-
don, Mass., Susannah Benson, daughter
of Benoni Benson? She, as a widow
Thayer, married, December IS, 1739, in
Mendon, Aaron White, born in Mendon
May 22, 1717, son of Joseph and Pru-
dence (Smith) White. Aaron and Su-
sannah White had three children : Aaron,
Prudence, wife of Stephen Darling, and
Silva, wife of Seva Pond. The mother,
Susannah ( Benson-Thayer ) White,
April 17, 1760, married, for her third
husband, and his second wife, Benjamin
Darling, born in Mendon February 11,
1687, son of Dennis and Hannah (Fran-
cis) Darling. Wanted dates of Susannah
Benson and record of her first husband.
Also name and dates of Benoni Benson,
who, for his second wife, married in
Mendon September 3, 1739, Prudence
(Smith) White, widow of Joseph White,
who died in 1737. [388] C. P. D.

Gisbertz

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

Theus, son of Culbert Gisbertz, born
in 1628, married, in New Amsterdam,
October 10, 1655, Thijntje Jans. He re-
moved to Midwout and later to Brook-
lyn, and became one of the ancestors of
the Thys, Tice or Tise family. Who
were his children and grandchildren?
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Howards of Massachusetts

[Contributed to Gbnealogy.]

On page 354 of the November number
of Genealogy, under the caption, "The
Howards of Massachusetts," I find
Lydia mentioned as daughter of Ben-
jamin and Martha Howard, while above
his wife is mentioned as Mary, as she
also is mentioned as wife of Benjamin
in paragraph below in connection with
Nathaniel, son of Benjamin and Mary
Howard. Evidently Mary is right. In
the last paragraph it reads that Nath-
aniel Howard, Sr., "aged about sixty-
seven years," died January 21, 1709-10.
Some six years ago, January 20, 1906, I
had a letter from the town clerk of
Chelmsford, and he said that Nathaniel
Howard died January 24, 1709, which
would make a discrepancy of three days.
With the added information in your ac-
count of the ages of Benjamin and Mary
Howard at their deaths, I will give what
information I have in hopes that through
the medium of your paper some one else
may be benefited and at the same time
may be able to further enlighten me with
what I lack.

Howard, Robert, born in 1641.
Whether related to Simon, and where
married, and to whom, and date of his
death I know not.

Nathaniel, son of Howard, born (?),
died January 24, 1709, married, July 1,
1678, Sarah Parker, daughter of Jacob
and Sarah Parker, bom January 14,
1653. Their son Benjamin was bom

April 9, 1691, died January 19, 1760,
aged 68 years 9 months. Where or when
married, and to what Mary, I don't know.
She died January 27, 1741-42 in the
forty-seventh year of her age.

Rebecca, daughter of* Benjamin and
Mary, was born November 26, 1733, and
married, September 26, 1759, Ezekiel
Haskell, born May 21, 1733, son and
grandson of Joseph Haskell, the latter
Joseph being a son of William Haskell
and Mary Walker Brown, and grandson
of William Haskell and Mary Tybotts.
The dates of the death of Rebecca and
Ezekiel Haskell I should be glad to leam.
The second Joseph Haskell, bom April
20-1, 1673, died April 11, 1718, married
Rachel Elwell, but of her I know noth-
ing. Perhaps your readers can enlighten
me further regarding her and the others.
The first Joseph Haskell, born December
16, 1698, died August 7, 1791, married
Mary Woodward, May 17, 1720. She
was a daughter of Ezekiel Woodward
and Hannah Perkins. Of Ezekiel it is
said he was bom August 9, 1666, but
there is no mention of the date of mar-
riage or death, except that he was living
in 1761 and had five wives. Hannah
Perkins was born January 31, 1673, and
died Febmary 2, 1719. One record says
she was aged 48 years, so there is some
son of Ezekiel, bom (?), died January
29, 1698-99; married, about 1650, Anne
Deamsley, born ( ?), died ( ?). She was
a daughter of William Beamsley, or
Deamsley.

William Dickinson Keep.

Heads of Families,

Beebe, Asa
Beebe, Asa, Jr.
Wheeler, Moses
Wheeler, Beriah
Williams, Isaac
Williams, Isaac
Taylor, Moses
Brooks, John
Fyller, Shubil
Whitney, Ephraim

Census 1790, Winhall,

Rose, Nathaniel
Rose, Joseph
Rose, Benjamin
Taylor, Jonathan
Eaton, Ebenezer
Eaton, Nathan
Efey, Russel
Taylor, Seth
Whitney, Ebenezer
Barnard, John

Benniiigton Co., Vermont

Foot, Addenijah
Sprage, Jonathan
Day, Oliver
Brown, Nathaniel
Day, Ephraim
Barrit, Benj.
Wheeler, Aaron
Williams, James
Whitney, Elisha

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A New York Cemetery

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

The following inscriptions are in an
old cemetery at Boone street and 172d
street, Bronx, New York city:

Webb Jennings, died November 21,
1857, aged 70 years, 9 months, 12 days.

Mary L., daughter of Webb and Han-
nah Jennings, died September 5, 1858,
aged 24 years and 9 days.

Caroline, daughter of Webb and Han-
nah Jennings, died July 24, 1859, aged
22 years, 3 months and 19 days.

Mary M. Butler, wife of Thomas But-
ler, died October 6, 1852, in the 78th
year of her age.

T. B.

Thomas Butler, died December 11,
1845, aged 85 years.

James Mapes, died June 3, 1852, aged
39 years, 7 months, 29 days.

Charlotte Sophia,wife of Daniel Des-
mond, died October 21, 1864, aged 42
years, 2 months, 15 days.

William Corsa, died February 10,
1843, aged 50 years, 1 month, 3 days.

Ann Corsa, died March 13, 1858, aged
65 years, 3 months, 16 days.

Albert, son of Andrew and Albertenia
Liechte, died January 13, 1863, aged 8
years, 11 months, 23 days.

Josephine, daughter of George and
Jennet Houston, died August 4, 1848,
aged 9 years, 1 month, 16 days.

Mary E. Gardener, daughter of
George and Emma Gardener, bom Sep-
tember 4, 1858, died January 10, 1860.

(Same stone) George Gardener, born
June 21, 1835, died June 12, 1860.

Timothy C. Kelly, died April 28, 1853,
aged 62 years.

William C. Kelly, died June 9, 1851,
aged 33 years, 3 months, 22 days.

Leonard K. Wilson, died April 11,
1856, aged 26 years, 10 months, 6 days.

Hetty E., wife of Thomas Ward
(broken off).

C.B. (?) A.

James Austin, died March 17, 1852,
aged 62 years, 4 months, 20 days.

James Austin, died March 25, 1858,
aged 70 years, 6 months.

Lavinus Austin, died February 3, 1866,
aged 53 years, 6 months, 9 days.

,Mary Kellett, wife of Samuel Kellett,
died April 5, 1852, aged 50 years, 6
months, 13 days.

(Same stone) Henry M. Kellett, only
son (illegible), died June 2, 1852, aged
(illegible) 1 month, 4 days.

Abijah Rogers, died April 5, 1847,
aged 76 years.

Charies Everd, died October 28, 1854,
aged 2 years, 9 days.

(Same stone) Frances Adelaide, died
August 20, 1852, aged 1 year, 1 month.
Children of William A. and Hester Ann
Mitchell.

Elizabeth, wife of James Cortelyou,
died February 14, 1866, aged 74 years, 1
month, 20 days.

Thomas Edwards, died August 18,
1807, in the 40th year of his age.

L. N. N.

Warren

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

Answering 366. H. C. E. The maid-
en name of the wife of John Warren

was Mary . Their daughter,

Elizabeth Warren, married Benjamin
Hills (not Hilk), and they were the par-
ents of John Hills of the Revolution. I
am glad to see these queries appear, as*
I have worked on them and have failed
to get anything in addition to data given
by H. C. E. other than the little I have
given above. Can some one not help
us? D.W.S.

Bamum

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

Answering 106, A. L. B. Joshua Bar-
num, of South East, Dutchess county,
N. Y., married Em Bamum, his cousin,
daughter of Samuel Bamum. JSee
Joshua's will in New York Historical
Society's WUls. W. B. E.

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Pearl

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Theodosia Pearl, oldest child of Tim-
othy Pearl and Sarah Swift, his wife,
of Grand Isle, Vt., married Aaron Gra-
ham about 1793. They had four chil-
dren: Ethen, bom in 1794; Amanda;
Stephen, bom in 1799 ; Julia Pearl, born
in 1802. I want the date of birth, mar-
riage and death of Aaron Graham, also
of his daughter Amanda, and names of
her descendants, if any. [385] C. W. P.

Nichols

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

Mercy Nichols married Josiah Matte-
son, March 5, 1746, in Coventry, R. I.
She was born March 22, 1722, in Coven-
try, R. I. Her parents were Stephen and
Sarah Nichols, of Coventry, (Conn.?)
Stephen Nichols cannot be traced to the
Rhode Island branch and may be a de-
scendant of the Connecticut Nichols fam-
ily. Sarah is not on the Coventry,

R. I., records. Did they come from Cov-
entry, Conn.? [386] D.W. S.

Utley

[CoD<^ributed to Genealogy.]

Elizabeth Utley married Nathan Pearl
March 7, 1748. They lived in Wind-
ham, Conn., in 1749, and in West Ash-
ford, Conn., from 1752 to 1762, and per-
haps longer. I want the names of her
parents and place and date of her birth ;
also date and place of her death and that
of her husband, Nathan Pearl.

[387] C W. P.

Amos lyier

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

Answering [358] D. W. S., who in-
quires about the ancestry of Amos Tyler.
Having a Tyler line, I have collected
considerable Tyler data. I find two
Amos Tylers in Connecticut, uncle and
nephew, and believe the ancestor of

D. W. S. to be Amos Tyler, bora in
Sharon, Conn., March 6, 1767, making
him about twenty years old at the date
given for his marriage. I here give three
generations of Tylers, Amos Tyler (3),
son of Bezaleel Tyler, Jr. (2), son of
Bezaleel Tyler, Sr. (1).

Bezaleel Tyler (1), born some time
during the year 1683, married Abigail
Johnson at Branford, Conn., January 23,
1711-12, the Reverend Samuel Russell
officiating. Bezaleel Tyler (1) died in
1760. His will, recorded in Sharon,
names the following children: 1. Timo-
thy's (2) daughter Lais (3) (Timothy
died before his father) my ancestor; 2.
Bezaleel, Jr. (2) ; 3. Benjamen (3) ; 4.
Amos (2) ; 5. Charles (2) ; 6. Gideon
(2); 7. Nathaniel (2). Timothy was
born in Branford, Conn., November 7,
1719.

The line of D. W. S. comes through
Bezaleel (2) (Bezaleel (1)), who mar-
ried Sarah . Bezaleel, Jr. (2) and

Sarah had the following children, all
whose births are recorded in Sharon,
Conn: 1. Bezaleel, Jr. (3); 2. Hannah
(3) ; 3. Sarah (3) ; 4. Paul (3) and Silas
(3), twins, Paul dying aged 1 year; 5.
Paul (3), again ; 6. Abigail (3) ; 7. Timo-
thy (3); 8. William (3); 9. Nathaniel
(3): 10. Charles (3); 11. Mary (3);
12. Rebecca (3) ; 13. Zerviah (3) ; 14.
Amos (3). Amos Tyler (3) was born
, March 6, 1769, presumably in Sharon,
Conn. K. C. G.

Rose Family Burials

From the Farmington cemetery,
Rochester, N. Y.

Rose, Henry, born March 28, 1821;
died June 18, 1888.

Rose, Lydia E., wife of Henry, died
June 5, 1882, aged 58 years, 5 months,
18 days.

Rose, Jacquelina M., wife of E. P.,
died February 3, 1879, aged 24 years,
5 months.

Rose, Mabel L., died November 5,
1878, aged 5 months, 11 days.

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PemMylyania Pensioners

The following statement gives the
names, rank, and other details concern-
ing the persons residing in the state of
Pennsylvania who were inscribed on the
pension list under the act of Congress
passed March 18, 1818:
Anderson, Thomas, pr., Oct. 20, 1818;

87;d. Oct. 19, 1832.
Anderson, Adam, pr., April 20, 1818;

84.
Anderson, George, pr., Oct. 30, 1818 ; 74.
Brunthefcr, or Bruthever, Adam, pr.,

Sept. 5, 1821 ; 84.
Brennon, John, pr., June 18, 1819 ; 85 ; d.

July 11, 1826.
Carney, Patrick, pr., April 2, 1819; 86.
Campbell, Thomas, pr., Feb. 23, 1820;

74.
Davis, John, pr., May 12, 1820; 86.
Donelly, John, pr., Sept 6, 1819; 97; d.

April 6, 1828.
Dych, Peter,,pr., March 23, 1819; 79.
Ebner, Casper, pr., June 20, 1822 ; 77 ; d.

Dec. 21, 1821.
Freeman, Philip, pr., March 20, 1819;

73; d. July 5, 1829.
Guthrie, Wm., pr., June 9, 1819; 84; d.

Aug. 1, 1829.
Howell, Wm., pr., Oct. 22, 1818; 78; d.

Feb. 11, 1827.
McCurdy, Alex., pr., April 17, 1818; 81.
McConnell, John, pr., Aug. 4, 1826; 78;

d. Dec. 14, 1831.
Newhouse, Anthony, pr., April 20, 1819 ;

82.
Smith, Jacob, pr., April 7, 1825 ; 79.
Stull, Frederick, pr., Aug. 14, 1830; 80.
Weaver, Adam, pr., July 1, 1819; 81.
Beatty, James, sergt., Oct. 20, 1818; 62;

d. April 3, 1833.
Churchfield, John, pr., July 22, 1819.
Greenland, James, pr., Oct. 20, 1818.
Grannis, Enos, It., Nov. 11, 1818; 79.
Garbey, John, pr., May 8, 1820; 102.
Houts, Jacob, pr., April 20, 1819; d.

March 9, 1820.
Hazlett, Robert, pr., Sept. 20, 1820; 80;

d. July 21, 1831.
Kelly, James, pr., Oct. 20, 1818; 70; d.

April 21, 1820.
Lawson, James, pr., April 20, 1819; 84.
McGuire, Barney, pr., Sept. 22, 1818;

90.
McMath, Daniel, pr., Oct. 20, 1818; 68;

d. March 10, 1824.
Martin, Peter, pr., Nov. 4, 1818; 72; d.

May 20, 1822.
McLane, Alexander, pr., March 20, 1819;

96; d. Feb. 26, 1826.
Ralston, Andrew, pr., Nov. 8, 1818; d.

Aug. 1, 1819.
Smith, John (2d), pr., Nov. 4, 1818.
Waddell, Wm., pr., Oct. 22, 1818; 86.
White, Wm., pr., Dec. 30, 1820; 82.

The Harvey Family

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Inscriptions from the Cochessett cem-
etery, West Bridgewater, Mass.

In memory of Mr. David Hervey, who
died April 13, 1828, aged 57 years.

In memory of Mrs. Olive, wife of Mr.
David Hervey, who died April 11, 1820,
aged 38 years.

In memory of Mrs. Buhamah, second
wife of Mr. David Hervey, who was
bom in Boston, February 18, 1780, died
in North Bridgewater, November 7, 1836,
aged 56 years. "To die is gain."

Mr. Nathan Hervey, died April 12,
1815, iEt. 56.

In memory of Content B., daughter of
Nathan and Mehitable Hervey, who died
January 25, 1842, in her 43rd year..

In memory of Mr. Oliver Hervey.
He died March 17, 1813, in his 26th year.

The Swift Family

[Contributed to Genealogy.]

Inscriptions from the Quaker ceme-
tery, Nantucket, Mass. :

Susan, wife of Alexander Swift, bom
September 21 1803; died January 31.
1876. J y ^

Alexander S. Swift, bom 2d month,
22, 1797; died 10th month, 19, 1861.

Henry Swift, died March 13, 1862,
aged 68.

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