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 AMERICAN GENEALOGIST. 
 
 Catalofflue 0f |amiljj pfetori^;^ m\A ^nUmiiom 
 
 CONTAINING 
 
 GENEALOGICAL INFORMATION ISSUED IN THE UNITED STATES, 
 ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY. 
 
 WILLIAM H. WHITMORE, 
 
 MEMBER OF THE PUBLISHING COMMITTEE OF THE NEW ENGLAND 
 HISTORIC-GENEALOGICAL SOCIETT. 
 
 ALBANY : 
 JOEL MUNSELL. 
 
 1868.
 
 JOHN WARD DEAIT 
 
 OF BOSTON, 
 
 THIS VOLUME IS INSCRIBED 
 
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 m PROMOTING THE ADVANCEMENT 
 
 SCIENCE OF GENEALOGY IN NEW ENGLAND.
 
 PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. 
 
 JLHE first edition of this book was published in 1862, 
 under the title of A Handbook of American Genealogy. 
 It was published in pursuance with circulars issued in 1861, 
 though the writer having made arrangements to visit the 
 East Indies, was obliged to complete the work on ship-board, 
 and was deprived of the advantage of revising the sheets 
 as printed. This labor of revision was most kindly under- 
 taken by John Ward Dean, Esq., who also added several 
 critiques on works which had escaped the writer, and thus 
 greatly contributed to the completeness of the work. 
 
 The first edition having been exhausted, it has been 
 thought advisable to arrange the work anew, and to insert 
 in their order notices of all the genealogies which have 
 since appeared. A catalogue of this description can at 
 best be complete only to the date of its publication, and 
 must require periodical supplements or successive editions. 
 The imperfections consequent upon the first preparation 
 rendered it more judicious to issue a jiew edition in 
 which each book should be noticed in its chronological 
 order; hereafter, perhaps, supplements will sufiice to keep 
 the record complete. 
 
 Since the commencement of this catalogue several simi- 
 lar works have been undertaken in England. Moule's 
 Bihliotheca Heraldica is a very thorough guide to the earlier 
 books relative to English families, but it terminates with 
 1822. During the past year, J. Russell Smith, London,
 
 vi Preface to the Second Edition. 
 
 has issued in parts, An Index to the Printed Pedigrees con- 
 tained in County and Local Histories, Heralds'' Visitations, 
 and in the more important Genealogical Collections. By Charles 
 Briclger. It makes a volume of 388 pages. 
 
 R. Hardwicke, London, has issued An Index to the 
 Pedigrees contained in the ^winted Heralds' Visitations, &c. 
 By George W. Marshall. 
 
 The same author has also issued A Catalogue of Pedigrees 
 hitherto un-indexed. It contains 70 pages. 
 
 James Colman, London, has prepared and published a 
 General Index to Printed Pedigrees which are to he found in 
 all the standard County and Local Histories, and many Pri- 
 vately Printed Genealogies. 
 
 Mchols & Sons, London, have continued The Herald and 
 Genealogist, edited by John Gough Kichols, F. S. A., of 
 which the third volume was completed in June, 1866, and 
 which contains many bibliographical articles. 
 
 Lastly. J. E. Taylor & Co. commenced in July, 1866, 
 a new quarterly entitled Miscellanea Gcnealogica et Heraldica, 
 edited by Joseph Jackson Howard, LL.D., F. S. A. 
 
 The intimate connection between England and this 
 country renders the publication of these books a matter of 
 great importance to the American genealogist. 
 
 W. H. W. 
 
 Boston, Sept. 6, 1867.
 
 PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. 
 
 XT was the original intention of the compiler to give simply 
 a catalogue of the books treating on family history, mth- 
 out attempting a description of them, or an estimate of 
 their value. He has been led to deviate from his plan be- 
 cause many of these works are now very rare, and some 
 of his readers might be put to considerable trouble to 
 obtain a book on the list, which, when found, might contain 
 but little of real value. This reason induced him to attempt 
 a description of the contents, and it would be impossible 
 for any one to spend months in cataloguing these works, 
 without making an estimate of their comparative value. 
 Every one is liable to be prejudiced in such an estimate by 
 his acquaintance with difterent authors, or his interest in 
 certain families; but the compiler trusts he has censured 
 none but glaring errors, and if he be open to the charge 
 of too uniform praise of these histories, small as well as 
 large, he begs the reader to remember that many of them 
 were published at the expense of their authors; and, that 
 the writer who devotes his time to the collection of facts 
 before neglected, has performed a task meritorious in 
 degree, however limited in extent. 
 
 ^y. H. w. 
 
 Port Louis, Mauritius, June, 1861.
 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 J.T will be unnecessary to enter into a defense of the 
 science of genealogy: tlie pages which follow will prove 
 that many able writers have considered it of importance 
 sufficient to warrant them in seeking its advancement, and 
 that a large class of readers exists, desirous of the informa- 
 tion collected with so great industry. 
 
 jN"o one is insensible to the feeling of pride in a virtuous 
 and honorable parentage; it would be most unjust to in- 
 stance the wise and good of past generations as examples 
 for the emulation of all but those who inherit their name 
 and blood : family pride is offensive only when it renders 
 conspicuous the degeneracy of the offspring of the great. 
 
 A perfect equality of the members of a society can only 
 be a proof of its utter worthlessness; but no civilized com- 
 munity exists in which there are no social distinctions. 
 In many communities these distinctions are arbitrary and 
 hereditary; where they are not, nothing but ability in suc- 
 cessive generations can maintain the supremacy of any one 
 family. The former case existed in England and Ame- 
 rica until the Revolution ; the latter is now the condition 
 of the United States; and both states of society must 
 interest the genealogist here, as both are included in the 
 field of his researches. 
 
 The study of genealogy in England was a necessity, 
 since property and honors were both hereditary; the sci- 
 ence soon became bound by fixed rules, and attracted to 
 2
 
 10 Introduction. 
 
 it numerous students. One division of the science, that 
 which concerned property, became the subject of legisla- 
 tion, and the rights of primogeniture shaped the structure 
 of society for centuries: the other, concerning honors, 
 became permanent in the form of heraldry. The one 
 made rank dependent upon wealth, the other upon valor; 
 those who were neither rich nor brave, were subjects and 
 ignoble, suffered to exist only for the support and gratifi- 
 cation of their masters. 
 
 The heralds having established the distinctions of gentle 
 and base, next proceeded to assign the proper rank of the 
 members of the gentry. The sovereign, ruling by divine 
 right, was the fountain of all honor; and his nobles, no 
 longer as at first, equals of whom the king was first, were 
 elevated or degraded in proportion to their position in the 
 royal esteem and favor. Wealth and learning gradually 
 increased, but in the time of their growth, heraldry mis- 
 took prescription for immutability, and whilst the public 
 mind had discovered that great talents in times of peace 
 ennobled their possessor, the heralds commenced to doubt 
 if even the king could create a gentleman. 
 
 The result of these conflicting views was, that England 
 at the commencement of the seventeenth century, found 
 her soil in the possession of an untitled hereditary aristo- 
 cracy; but that class was one which was daily receiving 
 additions from that portion of its inferiors which evinced 
 its right by the exercise of its talents. The ignoble of 
 the heralds were now simply the ignorant; but no barrier 
 prevented a yeoman, an artisan, or a tradesman, from 
 employing his powers, and with his success come the re- 
 ward, then highly prized, of equality with any in the land. 
 
 Such was the state of England when our ancestors 
 commenced the colonization of this country; and in the 
 mother country the process of assimilation has gone on 
 under the old forms, until the present time. Wealth has
 
 Introduction. 11 
 
 assumed a thousand forms, and is no longer represented 
 by broad lands, exclusively; learning has acquired a thou- 
 sand new channels, and no longer pours forth its waters 
 for the few to receive in costly goblets; but those who 
 have the firm resolve to acquire wealth or knowledge, 
 earn by that exertion, a position above their fellows. 
 England is aristocratic, and to that feeling is due her 
 preeminence among nations; if her distinctions be still 
 oppressive towards any class, the fault is mainly owing to 
 her contracted physical boundaries. 
 
 At the time when ]N"ew England was colonized, the 
 emigrants br&ught with them opinions fully as liberal as 
 those professed by their associates at home. The whole 
 tone of the first government here was aristocratic, but it 
 also contained the germ of the freedom since become our 
 distinguishing characteristic. On a grave occasion the 
 question was propounded — "Whether our government be 
 a pure aristocracy, or mixed with a democracy ? If mixed 
 whether it should not be mixed in all the administrations 
 of the same?" The reply was — "Our government is not 
 a mere aristocracy, but mixed of an aristocracy and demo- 
 cracy, in respect of the general court ; notwithstanding it 
 be mixed in the general court, yet it followeth not neces- 
 sary thereupon, that it should be mixed in all other courts 
 and administrations thereof." 
 
 Such then was the beginning of our social government; 
 honor to those worthy of honor — no leveling of all to a 
 nominal equality, but no fetters for those who had the 
 will to rise — no oppression for those who were content to 
 form the bulwark of the state. 
 
 The aristocracy thus conceded was claimed by two par- 
 ties, the gentry and the clergy: the former claimed that 
 they and their heirs should be the gentlemen of the coun- 
 try, and on them alone should civil offices be conferred. 
 To this the colonists replied — " Two distinct ranks we
 
 12 Introduction. 
 
 willingly acknowledge from tlie liglit of nature and 
 scripture ; the one of tliem called princes, or nobles, or 
 elders, amongst whom gentlemen have their place — the 
 other, the people ; hereditary dignity and honors we will- 
 ingly allow to the former, unless by the scandalous and 
 base conversion of any of them they become degenerate : 
 hereditary liberty, an estate of freemen, we willingly 
 allow to the other, unless they also, by some unworthy and 
 slavish carriage, do disenfranchise themselves. But we 
 may not trammel ourselves ^d our posterity with a class 
 of hereditary rulers ; we purpose to select our governor 
 out of the rank of gentlemen, that high Ronors be not 
 belittled, but a spirit and gifts fit for government must join 
 in him, that by our choice unworthiness be not elevated." 
 
 The clergy on the other side aspired not only to the 
 reality of power, but its semblance also. I^ot content 
 with impressing the stamp of their stern theology, and by 
 the influence of their threats and their persuasions distort- 
 ing the shapely structure of the infant state to their own 
 deformed and impracticable standard, they sought to 
 render the state visibly subject to the church, and in the 
 latter to show the pastor as supreme above his flock. 
 
 In this attempt they were foiled, but not in the life-time 
 of the first generation. To those legislators who sought 
 to revive the Mosaical law, there seemed no incongruity 
 in the ofiices of preacher and magistrate ; there was even 
 a special reason why he who best understood the original 
 should apply the adaptation. But with the first generation 
 passed away that unwavering and unquestioning faith 
 in the church, and from that time the clergy ceased to 
 lead the community once so trustful. Many of their 
 sermons still remain to prove that the ministers felt the 
 loss of their power, but they had only the melancholy 
 satisfaction of prophesying the destruction of the degene- 
 rate commonwealth.
 
 Introduction. 13 
 
 Botli portions of the aristocracy then failed in their 
 attempt to grasp a power which the commonalty was 
 unwilling to concede, yet that body of freemen did not 
 refuse to establish that distinction, in whose good repute 
 it saw its own glory. 
 
 The governor, the judges, the assistants continued to 
 form an aristocracy honored with titles and the foremost 
 rank; the ministry, coequal with these, received those 
 becoming marks of respect due to their devout learning 
 and sacred duties; but no arbitrary line separated the 
 posterity of the gentry from the freemen. In every little 
 settlement there were infinite gradations, forming a gra- 
 dual ascent for those aspiring to honors. The free voice 
 of the community selected the various local officers, 
 the opinion of the church members indicated the most 
 devout and godly of their number as fit to order its con- 
 cerns ; and these distinctions, in a land where few men 
 cared to own more of the soil then their own arms had 
 reclaimed from the wilderness, and where a string of 
 beads might purchase a principality, were in reality as 
 honorable and desirable as a ribbon or a star would be in 
 Europe. In the continuous warfare with the Indians and 
 the French, the soldier might win fame and distinction; 
 in the rapidly increasing traffic at home and abroad, the 
 merchant might gain wealth and honor ; and in the pulpit 
 the preacher might cause an awakening of souls which 
 would bear his name across the Atlantic, and render it "a 
 household word in families famishing on the husks of 
 episcopacy. All those paths to success were open to 
 every child born in New England, and this freedom was 
 the most powerful stimulant to exertion. 
 
 In one condition of barbarous life a whole clan will 
 bear but one name ; in another each savage acquires a 
 distinguishing epithet, and dares any form of suffering or 
 death, that this may be an honorable one. In a newly
 
 14 Introduction. 
 
 settled country like the colonial 'New England, opportu- 
 nities arise impossible in more populous regions; and 
 hence nearly every one may acquire a distinctive rank, 
 each honorable in its kind. To obtain permanent titles, a 
 band of adventurers must conquer some people, rich and 
 comparatively civilized ; and by necessity a nobility will 
 be established, founded and supported by the sword, until 
 the day of retribution sweeps away the whole structure, or 
 until the people elect to continue and support it as a time- 
 hallowed and decorous form. 
 
 In this country no man earned a dukedom by his valor 
 against the aborigines ; and at a time, when, if ever, the 
 foundation of a hereditary aristocracy might have been laid, 
 a political warfare was commenced which rendered the 
 very word hateful to the public ear. Already a century 
 in advance of the mother country in political freedom, it 
 was impossible to replace the fetters of government ; and 
 the revolutionists seeing themselves involved in war by 
 the arrogance of an aristocracy forming one branch of the 
 government and controlling the others, became enraptured 
 with democracy ; whilst events then unforeseen have con- 
 firmed and continued their predilection. Suffering from 
 the defects of the English constitution, and not prescient 
 of its reformation, they decided to part from it or perish, 
 and their decision has proved a blessing to those they left 
 as well as to themselves. 
 
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 "We have seen then that our ancestors brought with 
 them ai'istocratic distinctions, that they enlarged and im- 
 proved their primary ideas, and that these distinctions 
 have been nearly obliterated. The genealogist, in tracing 
 a family, will find it reaching through these phases of 
 political progress, and our remarks may assist him in 
 deciding what positions have been esteemed in the commu- 
 nity, and how far his parentage is of that virtuous and 
 honorable nature in which he may feel a justifiable pride.
 
 Introduction. 15 
 
 The great attention wliicli has been given of late to 
 genealogy, will render easy, for nearly every descendant 
 of the first settlers, to trace his pedigree to the emigrant 
 hither. His next question will be as to the means of 
 tracing it in the mother country, which, in nearly every case, 
 is in England. Before touching on this point, however, we 
 may note that our New England pedigrees possess, in 
 themselves, a very respectable antiquity; and democratic 
 though we be, we need not be ashamed to challenge other 
 nations to the comparison. A spirit of rivalry makes 
 men unwilling to confess inferiority in any respect ; to the 
 French taunt of "a nation of shopkeepers," England 
 retorts, " "Waterloo and St. Helena ; " to the " gentlemen of 
 coat armor " of England, we reply that nine-tenths of our 
 citizens can prove their descent for eight generations, and 
 at each step find a man of a position here equivalent to 
 their own. 
 
 It is a fact easily verified, that not only is the historic 
 nobility of England becoming extinct, but such changes 
 are still in progress in her social condition, that the repre- 
 sentatives of her old families are rapidly disappearing from 
 her soil. The great progress of her manufacturing and 
 commercial interests in increasing the national wealth, has 
 created a great alteration in the position of her landholders. 
 For a time this was counterbalanced in part by the 
 reclamation of waste lands and the improvements in agri- 
 culture ; but now where the politician sees only the proba- 
 bility that England will become a vast manufactory, 
 dependent for support upon the products of virgin soils; 
 and advocating free trade to increase the national wealth, 
 sees with indiiFerence the farmer driven by ruinous com- 
 petition from the free air of heaven to the debilitating 
 atmosphere of the work-room, the genealogist sees in this 
 depreciation of the landed interest, the certain extinction 
 of the influence of the landed gentry, and with it the
 
 16 Introduction. 
 
 termination of that state of affairs whicli has added suc- 
 cessive generations to the longest pedigrees in Europe. 
 
 This may seem a kidicrous idea — this tracing in the 
 onward destiny of a nation the dechne of parchment dig- 
 nities — but the genealogist may regret the loss of his 
 bubble while wiser heads may find cause for reflection in 
 the spirit which has produced the change. It is not im- 
 possible to find parallel cases in history of a nature very 
 unpalatable to the "peace at any price" free traders; and 
 it is easy to cite the leaders of the English conservatives to 
 prove that great statesmen think that the feeling which 
 inspires the genealogist is not to be overlooked. 
 
 We have stated this much to show that no American 
 has reason to despise his genealogy as compared with 
 others, and to hint that the time is imaginable when no 
 others will surpass them ; in which belief let all American 
 genealogists find a proportionate dignity for their labors. 
 
 As to the probability of tracing our ancestors in Eng- 
 land, something may now be said. The colonists of 'New 
 England were nearly all persons of decided religious opi- 
 nions, and this fact alone will serve to prove that they 
 were not of the lowest rank in their native country. Many 
 of the leaders we know were fi^om the rank of the gentry, 
 the main body was composed of artisans and yeomen. 
 Every one of our colonial governors, and a large propor- 
 tion of the magistrates and clergy, were gentlemen of coat 
 .armor; the freemen may have been entitled to the distinc- 
 tion often, but have refrained from its insignia as unsuited 
 to their position. The ancestry of the former may easily 
 be traced in England : to recover the pedigree of the latter 
 we must depend to a great extent upon good fortune and 
 perseverance. 
 
 The local records in England vary very much in the 
 different counties and parishes, and their examination is 
 now attended with much expense, though access to them is
 
 Introduction. 17 
 
 being yearly rendered more easy. In cases where the 
 birthplace of an emigrant is known, a search may be made 
 intelligently, though often with small results; where no 
 clue exists, the field is so extensive that success must be 
 problematical. 
 
 There is one popular fallacy into which too many of 
 our genealogists have fallen, and that is the supposition 
 tha* all the bearers of a given name are descended from 
 a common stock. In repeated instances a compiler of 
 family histories has consulted a peerage or a list of gentry, 
 a chronicle or a county history, and finding a person there 
 mentioned, of the surname that a family here bears, has 
 assumed that they were of a common parentage, has 
 informed his friends here that they were of the English 
 family, and that they were entitled to use its armorial bear- 
 ings. A case might be cited where a family here was 
 informed that it was entitled to use arms granted to a 
 certain knight, when it was matter of record that this 
 English knight died without male issue ; and a score of 
 instances are known, where persons have selected a coat of 
 arms from a heraldric cyclopedia, when they were igno- 
 rant of the names of their ancestors in this countiy. 
 
 The fact is, that such writers are ignorant of the origin 
 of surnames; but when we turn to authorities on that 
 subject, we find that whilst surnames are mainly derived 
 from some distinguishing peculiarity of its first bearer, his 
 occupation or his residence, in each of these classes there 
 might be numerous founders of the same name. Browns, 
 Whites, Archers, Smiths, Clarks, Farmers, and Wrights, 
 might originate in every parish, and that they did do so is 
 proved by the frequent occurrence of these names. In 
 like manner, some names derived from places, as Hill, 
 Lake, Green, "Wood and Field, must have been assumed 
 by numerous individuals in localities widely apart, and 
 3
 
 18 Introduction. 
 
 without giving cause to presume any relationship between 
 the bearers of the same name. 
 
 Even names derived from specific localities were not 
 always appropriated by a single family. Many lords of 
 manors took their names from their lands, but so might the 
 lowest of their retainers. An artisan or yeoman removing 
 from the manor of Bristed to a village fifty miles away, 
 might find John the Smith, Brown John, Swift John-and 
 a dozen others to whose distinctive adjective he might pre- 
 fer an equal claim, but Bristed John would mark him 
 better then any other name. In time, their issue would 
 take the family name of Smith, Brown, and Swift, and his 
 of Bristed, even as the owners of the manor would become 
 Bristeds. 
 
 It may be assumed in fact as a rule for American gene- 
 alogists, that it is safest to assume that any given family here 
 is NOT descended from any distinguished English family of the 
 same name, now flourishing, and that the evidence of any 
 connection is always to be subject to severe scrutiny and 
 reasonable proofs. 
 
 If any instance be required in proof of this, allow the 
 writer to cite one case within his own experience. A 
 family of a rather uncommon name, one clearly derived 
 from some English locality, exists here, founded by an 
 emigrant about 1635 or 1640. Investigations in England 
 show that there are two families of gentry of the name in 
 different counties, each tracing its pedigree to about A. D. 
 1300, bearing diflierent arms, and regarded as distinct 
 families; and that other families of the same name were 
 extant between 1500 and 1600 in fourteen counties. What 
 is the probability, that the emigrant belonged to one of 
 the two noted families, rather than one of the fourteen of 
 more inferior stocks ? 
 
 Let our genealogists therefore receive in a kindly spirit 
 the following words of the Rev. Joseph Hunter, who has
 
 Introduction. 19 
 
 done such good service to them by tracing the birthplace 
 of the Plymouth colonists — " No genealogy is of the least 
 value that is not supported by sufficient evidence from 
 records or other contemporary writing. The mere posses- 
 sion of a surname which coincides with that of an English 
 family, is no proof of connection with that family. Claims 
 of alliance founded on this basis, are not the legitimate 
 offspring of laborious genealogical inquiry, but of self- 
 love and the desire of a reputation for ancestral honor, 
 where no such honor is really due. Search out the history 
 of your ancestors by all means ; but claim no more than 
 you can show to belong to you. As far as you can prove 
 you are safe, and you are doing a work that is good ; but 
 the assumption of the armorial distinctions of eminent 
 English families who happen to bear the same surname 
 with yom'selves is not to be approved, and still less the 
 attempt which is sometimes made to claim alliance with 
 the ancient nobility or gentry of England. When it can 
 be proved, well and good ; but no terms can be too severe 
 to reprobate it where there is no proof, or even where 
 there is no show of probability. It may lead to unfounded 
 claims not only to honor, but to property. 
 
 We have tried to show forth in plain terms the error 
 committed by too many of our genealogists, and we have 
 to repeat as a summary, that coincidence of names is no 
 proof of relationship, and to add that the accounts of 
 English families in peerages, county histories and records 
 of landed gentry, are almost invariably of no service to 
 the American genealogist. 
 
 Having demonstrated as we trust, to fiill conviction, 
 that some presumed sources of information are in reality 
 useless, we have now to inquire how our English ancestry 
 may be ascertained. Recently, certain records have been 
 discovered in England, containing lists of many of the emi- 
 grants, and in many instances giving also the place from
 
 20 Introduction. 
 
 which they emigrated. These lists were first published 
 by Hon. James Savage; a revised and corrected copy was 
 published in the Register for October, 1860, by Mr. Drake, 
 and has since been issued in book form. Our next author- 
 ity is found in the statements of Bradford, Mather and 
 Prince concerning their contemporaries, and the faneral 
 sermons and newspaper obituaries of colonial times, deserve 
 a careful scrutiny. The wills, deeds and depositions of the 
 first settlers now preserved in the state and county offices, 
 contain much of service ; and in some few instances, letters 
 have been preserved from relatives abroad to the settlers 
 here. This source of information is not nearly exhausted 
 yet, and fortunately a taste for collecting autographs has 
 arisen, which will insure the preservation and ultimate pub- 
 lication of these valuable manuscripts. 
 
 A last auxiliary remains to be described. Quite a 
 number of the early colonists, or their more immediate de- 
 scendants, will be found to have used armorial seals, and 
 thus their relationship with English families established. 
 To prove this we must show that these seals were not, 
 like our recent assumptions, founded on error and care- 
 lessness. In England, up to the time of the emigration, 
 the right to bear a coat of arms was highly prized and 
 carefully guarded ; its use by any person there would be 
 prima facie evidence of its validity. Though the Herald's 
 College had lost much of its authority, and the assumption 
 of armorial bearings by unauthorized persons was then a 
 subject of complaint during the reign of James I, this 
 abuse was almost entirely confined to the recently enriched 
 tradesmen, or the adventurers at court, or in the large 
 cities. The great middle class had no object in attempt- 
 ing a useless fraud, and in the case of our ancestors there 
 was a strong religious prejudice against the use of such 
 vanities, even when rightfully possessed. "We may fairly 
 presume that no Puritan brought with him a ring or a
 
 Introduction. 21 
 
 seal bearing a coat of arms to which he had no right by- 
 blood inheritance ; yet such trinkets as heirlooms he might 
 well bring and use at a befitting time. We may also 
 assume that any seal used before 1750, was of English 
 manufacture, since not only were there no artisans to 
 manufacture them here, but there were enough persons 
 interested to challenge any such assumption. Indeed, a 
 man in England who could prove that his ancestor in 
 1650 or 1700, used a particular coat of arms would probably 
 be warranted in using it by prescriptive right ; and we thus 
 have the material for a heraldic dictionar}^, more reliable 
 than that now in use in England. 
 
 Until quite recently no attempt had been made to classify 
 or preserve these interesting heraldic records. In 1864 
 the ISTew England Historic-Genealogical Society added to 
 its standing committees one on Heraldry ; and in January, 
 1865, the members of this committee commenced the pub- 
 lication of a little Heraldic Journal which has been reg:u- 
 larly issued till the present time. As this work will be 
 noticed in the proper place, it is suflicieut to state here 
 the main results. 
 
 It has been found that the use of coats of arms was 
 quite common during the colonial period, and that a very 
 considerable portion of these memorials are still preserved. 
 Several of our older grave-yards contain tombs thus de- 
 corated : many families possess silver thus inscribed. Our 
 probate ofl3.ces contain quite a number of wills and papers 
 impressed with armorial seals, and pictures and embroi- 
 deries of more or less authority have escaped the ravages 
 of time. 
 
 It must be confessed that these paintings are the least 
 satisfactory evidences remaining. In our first edition the 
 bad preeminence in constructing these fictions now remain- 
 ing was given to one John Gore. Farther examination 
 renders it probable that he was wrongly accused, and that the
 
 22 Introduction. 
 
 greater portion of the spurious coats were painted by John 
 Coles, who, with his son of the same name, probably painted 
 from 1776 to 1826. Earlier painters were Turner, John- 
 ston, Hurd, and possibly others. 
 
 If we concede then that the coats of arms first enume- 
 rated possess a genealogical value and authority, we have 
 in them most important aids towards tracing our pedigree. 
 Two things must however be borne in mind. First, it is by 
 no means a proof of the falsity of a coat of arms that it is 
 not mentioned by good authorities like Berry or Burke, 
 for there is no official nor complete list of arms extant. 
 Secondly, though our proofs may show that an emigrant 
 belonged to a certain family, it does not follow of necessity 
 that we can easily trace the offshoot. Most English pedi- 
 grees now in print show only the main stem, and the 
 branches nearest the inheritance. The records of the 
 peerage show that even the highest dignities have been 
 revived by claimants so remotely connected that tradition 
 was silent, and proof obtainable only at great cost and by 
 immense research. Among the gentry, of course, innu- 
 merable cases must have occurred where the younger 
 branches became tradesmen and yeomen, and lost all 
 recollection of their connection farther than was evidenced 
 by their retaining the family arms. 
 
 A large portion of the colonists of New England were 
 no doubt of this class, and, as in England, some preserved 
 their family memorials, others lost them. None are so apt 
 to seek foreign shores as those deprived by fortune of the 
 position of their ancestors, and it is easy to prove that our 
 ancestors were in advance of the average of Englishmen 
 of the day. Puritanism was no low and degrading 
 form of religion, it had no attractions for base minds; and 
 if the report of famous historians can be relied upon, the 
 adherents of that faith were men socially and intellectually 
 above the unlearned hinds. The great party which was
 
 Introduction. 23 
 
 controlled by the power of Cromwell was composed of 
 men of as good family as their competitors, and they 
 acknowledged the Puritans here as their friends and 
 equals. 
 
 We think that no one who studies the history of the 
 rise of the Puritan church will dispute that there is just 
 cause to expect the very state of society in New England 
 which did exist. The leaders, men of good family at 
 home ; the body of the people, members of that yeoman 
 class into which the younger members of old English 
 families had been absorbed. 
 
 We may fairly assume, then, that the American genealo- 
 gist has numerous aids to assist him to trace his ancestry 
 to the English yeomen, and through them in many cases 
 to families of a higher social position ; his chances being 
 better than those of the average of Englishmen now 
 living in the mother country. 
 
 So much may be said for the settlers in those colonies 
 where slavery was unprofitable and little used ; the south- 
 ern settlements, as in Virginia and the West Indies, differ 
 greatly from us. The pleasant climate and fertile soil of 
 those provinces, encouraged the settlement of a very dif- 
 ferent class of colonists. During the embittered contro- 
 versies which preceded and accompanied the late accursed 
 rebellion, it was often said that ISTew England was Puritan 
 and Virginia, Cavalier. Even granting to these terms the 
 distorted meaning now attached to them, this was not a 
 correct statement of the case. The origin of the founders 
 of ^ew England has been sufficiently discussed; the 
 southern colonies were peopled by an inferior class. A 
 small proportion of those colonists were men of wealth 
 and position, and after the introduction of slavery, they 
 were enabled to establish a form of society somewhat 
 resembling that of England. Virginia undoubtedly pos- 
 sessed more of these wealthy citizens than her sister slave
 
 24 Introduction. 
 
 colonies, but in all of them the greatest portion of the com- 
 munity was composed of adventurers and even convicts, 
 far below the poorest settlers in New England. 
 
 For many years Virginia and the Carolinas received the 
 convicts systematically sent from England; and to these 
 colonies came also swarms of the poor and depraved of all 
 Europe. 
 
 These facts are not paraded from any feeling of local 
 pride, but simply in correction of a popular error and in the 
 interest of all genuine students of history. 
 
 It seems evident that the English element has predomi- 
 nated throughout our country, and the greatest portion of 
 the English colonists settled in New England. Hence the 
 great activity of genealogists here has had more than a local 
 importance, and will be the means of preserving the records 
 of the greater portion of our nation. 
 
 There is hardly any difficulty in tracing the American 
 pedigree of any family. Mr. Savage's admirable Diction- 
 ary will furnish the inquirer with the first three genera- 
 tions of the name, and the indices of the Register will 
 enable him to examine numerous town and county records. 
 There are very few names which will not be found in one 
 or the other of these easily accessible works. The county 
 registers of wills and deeds are open to every inquirer, 
 free of expense, and it is rarely that any town clerk de- 
 mands a fee for the inspection of his books. It is safe to 
 say that nowhere else is the genealogist so favored as in 
 New England, and consequently no community exists 
 where so great a proportion of its families have had their 
 records preserved. 
 
 We have been fortunate in our historical records from 
 the first. Bradford and Winthrop have noted down even 
 the minute particulars of the settlement of their respective 
 colonies ; Mather and Prince have given us numerous 
 items concerning the lives and pedigrees of the clergy and
 
 Introduction, 25 
 
 magistrates. In establishing a registry of deeds, our fore- 
 fathers not only were in advance of England in political 
 science, but they gave the genealogist a source of informa- 
 tion elsewhere wanting. 
 
 Very soon after the Revolutionary war, an effort was 
 made to revive the former taste for historical research. 
 
 The Massachusetts Historical Society was formed, and 
 has continued slowly to acquire wealth and influence, hav- 
 ing greatly extended its usefulness within the past ten years. 
 John Farmer, secretary of the iTew Hampshire Historical 
 Society, early devoted ' himself to the study of genealogy 
 and biography, and by his Genealogical Register, attracted 
 public attention to the subject. Our list will show that little 
 progress was made for thirty years from the time when 
 he issued his Farmer Genealogy, but enough was done to 
 keep the tire alive. In 1844 the l!Tew England Historic- 
 Genealogical Society was formed, and in 1847, the Register 
 was established under its patronage ; since then the study of 
 history and genealogy has been greatly encouraged, and 
 with good results. We shall elsewhere describe the con- 
 tributions to the Register ; the formation of the society 
 demands a short notice. 
 
 When the new society was formed, the science of gene- 
 alogy was little understood. The wealth of our records 
 was hardly imagined, the necessity of severe examination 
 of traditions scarcely thought of, and the simplest and 
 most economical form of arrangement was not yet in- 
 vented. Soon, however, all these points were investigated; 
 old records were examined, old manuscripts published, and 
 the state authorities were persuaded to enact laws for 
 the preservation of its documents. Since 1845, numerous 
 local societies have been esta^blished or revived, over two 
 hundred distinct works on genealogy have been published, 
 and innumerable town histories and historical pamphlets 
 have been issued. In many instances these results are 
 4
 
 26 Intkoduction. 
 
 known to be due to the establishment of the new society, 
 and it is unquestionable that the spirit it fostered has been 
 the main-spring in all. Massachusetts, Connecticut and 
 Rhode Island have issued large volumes of their early- 
 annals, under the patronage of their respective govern- 
 ments. Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont possess 
 active historical societies; E"ew York has not only pub- 
 lished her own records but assisted her neighbors, and 
 established the largest and richest historical society in 
 existence. Similar associations exist in more than half 
 the states in the Union ; and a new magazine, the Ame- 
 rican Notes and Queries, established as their organ, has 
 continued till the present time. 
 
 The improvement in the subject matter of our genea- 
 logies has been very apparent. Twenty years ago nearly 
 every man who knew anything of his pedigree beyond his 
 grandfather, was firmly possessed with the idea that three 
 brothers of the name came over here ; every family was 
 confident that it was of noble descent ; nearly every family 
 was positive that it was the rightful inheritor of an im- 
 mense fortune in England. Many authors, even within a 
 few years, have given pedigrees commencing with a fabu- 
 lous afiiliation to some noble English family ; many more 
 have set forth a claim exactly equivalent by assuming 
 coats of arms ; many families have held public meetings 
 and collected funds to prosecute inquiries in England con- 
 cerning property of which the amount and form were not 
 even imagined. 
 
 Thanks to the extensive examination of our early re- 
 cords and the consequent exposure of the worthlessness of 
 tradition, these ludicrous mistakes are now seldom pub- 
 lished, and are dying out of the popular faith. "We have 
 already mentioned what valuable results have been at- 
 tained, and what expectations a genealogist may entertain 
 upon reasonable grounds.
 
 Introduction. 27 
 
 The reader who may examine any good collection of 
 American genealogies will notice the great advance made 
 in the arrangement of their contents. For a time every 
 author pursued his own plan, and some of these were 
 beyond the comprehension of any ordinary reader. As 
 the size of the volumes increased it became necessary to 
 combine clearness of method with economy of space. The 
 plan adopted in the Register was found to possess these 
 qualities, and became the general standard. 
 
 In English books of this class, only the main stem is 
 recorded, and any branch worth mention is treated as an 
 entirely distinct family. Our genealogies on the contrary 
 often contain the names of thousands of individuals, all 
 deserving of record and demanding a new system of ar- 
 rangement. In England, family pride is concentrated in 
 the actions and character of the head of the family; with 
 us any remote scion may bring the family name before the 
 eyes of the nation. To publish works of the size of some 
 of our genealogies, it is necessary to interest and record 
 all the widely spread branches; and this great mass of 
 collected facts is of value only when properly arranged on 
 a simple plan. 
 
 Our recent genealogical publications are much more 
 extensive than the early ones. The authors now never rely 
 upon tradition except provisionally in those cases where 
 documentary proof is wanting. Many of their notes rise 
 to the dignity of historical essays, and their summaries are 
 important contributions to the study of statistics. I^ot a 
 few of these family histories will be found as entertaining 
 as any general histories, and a few contain important 
 chapters of our history elsewhere unwritten. It is not 
 unusual for a writer to spend years on his work, to travel 
 hundreds of miles, and to explore half the old county 
 record offices of New England. The great colonization of 
 the west from the sea board, renders it necessary for him
 
 28 Introduction. 
 
 to maintain a correspondence with relatives a thousand 
 miles distant ; and the severe scrutiny which awaits his 
 book, forces him to use discretion in his research, modera- 
 tion in his descriptions, exactness and completeness in his 
 transcripts. Those who have read the works of Savage, 
 Bond, Drake, Goodwin, Shattuck, Ward, Fowler and a 
 score more whose names might be cited, will acknowledge 
 that it is not an easy task to prepare a genealogy worthy 
 of comparison with those now in print ; and they will feel 
 that genealogy has been elevated to the rank of a science 
 by the continued labors of many able students. 
 
 The study of genealogy must be governed by the tone 
 of public sentiment. In one age or country it may serve 
 only to foster a mistaken pride ; in our own, we trust it is 
 only active to encourage kindly feelings of relationship, 
 and to record the actions of deserving men. It is a study 
 not in itself unworthy of any intellect; it is suited to 
 our tastes and peculiarities ; it is in no way incompatible 
 with our republican institutions. There is no fear that 
 our respect for the ties of blood will ever enable any 
 family or class of families to become our hereditary rulers ; 
 but their recognition may do much to soften the hardships 
 of daily life. 
 
 Let it be avowed then, that Americans believe that they 
 have an ancestry worthy of their pride, and that as each 
 man is entitled to his own share of ancestral fame, it is a 
 laudable undertaking in any one to collect the evidences 
 and relate the exploits of his progenitors, protected by the 
 public voice from the imputation of unworthy and con- 
 temptible motives.
 
 AMERICAN GENEALOGIST. 
 
 1771. 
 
 A Genealogy of the family of Mr. Samuel Stebbins, 
 and Mrs. Hannah Stebbms, his wife, from the year 
 1707 to the year 1771, with their names, time of 
 their births, marriages, and deaths of those that 
 are deceased. Hartford : Printed by Ebenezer Wat- 
 son, for the use of the descendants now living. 
 1771. pp. 24. 
 
 Ttis I believe to be the earliest genealogy, in a distinct form, 
 published in the United States. I take the title from the Histori- 
 cal Magazine, vol. Ill, p. 315, never having seen the work. It is 
 referred to in an article by Dr. Daniel Stebbins, in the New Eng- 
 land Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. v, p. 353, as the 
 production of Luke Stebbins. 
 
 1787. 
 
 A Genealogical Table of the Family of Chauncy's, 
 taken partly from Sir Henry Chauncy's History of 
 Hertfordshire, pages 55 to 61, and partly from a 
 Genealogical Roll I have in my possession, and 
 other Information. — N. C, Jan. 1787. 
 
 Above is the heading of a large sheet containing a series of 
 tabular pedigrees relative to the Chauncy family. The main pedi- 
 gree begins with Charles de Chauncy, who " came into England in 
 the year 1066, with William the Conqueror, as both Stow and Hol- 
 lingshed affirm, from the Roll of Battle Abbey ; " and carries down
 
 30 American Genealogist. 
 
 the line through Rev. Charles Chauncy, president of Harvard 
 College, and his sons Isaac and Ichabod (excepting the descendants 
 of Charles, son of Isaac, who are given in another table), to the 
 date of publication. This pedigree also gives the descent of the 
 family from Robert de Roos, Lord of Hemesly, who married Isabel, 
 daughter and heir of William de Albiny, and whose great grand- 
 son, Sir Robert de Roos, had a daughter Margery, married to 
 Ralph Clifford J and their grandson, William Gifford, had a daughter 
 Margery, married to John Chauncy, who died 22 Henry VI. 
 
 The descendants of Nathaniel and Israel, sons of President 
 Chauncy, are given in separate tables appended as notes, with these 
 headings: The Descendants of the Rev. Mr. Nathaniel Chauncy 
 of Hatfield, N. E., fourth son of the Rev. Mr. Charles Chauncy; 
 The descendants from Israel the sixth and youngest son of Charles 
 Chauncy. A fourth table gives The Descendants of Charles 
 Chauncy, the third son of Isaac, and grandson of Charles, and 
 great-grandson of George Chauncy, Esq., of New-place, Herts; 
 born in New England or other parts in North America. 
 
 The compiler of this pedigree was Nathaniel Chauncy, born Feb. 
 23 1716-17, son of Charles and Martha (Brown) Chauncy, and 
 great-grandson of the president. 
 
 1813. 
 
 A Family Register of the Descendants of Edward 
 Farmer, in the Line of the Youngest Branch of 
 his Family. Concord : Printed by George Hough 
 for John Farmer. 1813. pp. 12. 
 
 This is a little ragged pamphlet, with no system of reference nor 
 any pretence to method ; and if the preceding work be equally rude, 
 they form as humble a beginning as the students of any science 
 could desire to prove the progress since made. On the reverse of 
 the title is a brief note, stating that the author seeks to trace but 
 one branch of the family ; which he proceeds to do, taking for his 
 starting point Edward, the emigrant, naming his children, seven in 
 number. He then gives the family of Oliver, son of Edward, and
 
 American Genealogist. 31 
 
 the families of nine of the children in separate paragraphs — one 
 being out of its proper place — and lastly the children (Oliver 
 John, and Hannah) of Oliver, Jr. The chief interest in the book 
 is the fact of its being the first essay of John Farmer, to whom 
 belongs the credit of reviving the public taste for genealogy, and 
 of whom we shall treat more fully hereafter. 
 
 1816. 
 
 Family Record ; containing the Settlement, and Gene- 
 alogy to the present time, of the Sharples Family 
 in North America. With an Appendix containing 
 Memorials of the Dying Sayings, &c., of several 
 Deceased Members of the Family ; not before pub- 
 lished. By Joseph Sharpless. Philadelphia : Pub- 
 lished and Sold by the Author, No. 30, Arch street: 
 sold also by Kimber & Sharpless, No. 93, Market 
 street. 1816. 12mo. pp. 132. 
 
 This essay is a great improvement on the preceding, being well 
 printed, and of a very respectable size, though not arranged on any 
 scientific plan. Pp. 3 — 6 contain a preface, in which the author 
 apologizes for writing at all, and for the defects caused by a reliance 
 upon tradition ; pp. 7-12 are devoted to a copy of a deed from 
 William Penn to John Sharpies of Ratherton, county of Chester, 
 dated in 1682, whereby the former sells one thousand acres of land 
 in his colony of Pennsylvania, for a quit rent of one shilling per one 
 hundred acres. John removed hither in the same year, with seven 
 children, of whom three sous left issue j pp. 16-36 contains the 
 part I, or descendants of John Sharpies ; pp. 37-4-4, part II, descend- 
 ants of James; pp. 45 -88, of Joseph. Then follows index, 4 pages, 
 and then, pp. 89-90, appendix, containing memorials of several 
 deceased members of the family. (Texts from John vi, 12 ; Matthew 
 xxvi, 13.) Philadelphia : published by Joseph Sharpless. 1816. 
 This portion contains 42 pages, mostly statements by members of 
 the family of the Christian character of several of their relatives, 
 all apparently being Quakers, or Friends. The record is quite
 
 32 American Genealogist. 
 
 extensive, embracing the female branches ; but thefe is a want of 
 particularity in the dates, the year only being given, in most cases. 
 However, it is much to be regretted that the example so well given 
 was not imitated by other writers, in that state, and a generous rivalry 
 established, whose fruits would have enriched our libraries, by 
 preserving so many interesting facts relative to the early history of 
 the colonies. 
 
 1819. 
 
 Genealogy of the Redfields. Printed by Lewis H. 
 Redfield, Onondaga, N. Y., June, 1819. 
 
 This is a slip of paper containing one branch only of the Red- 
 fields, and of course it is very scarce. It commences with Theophi- 
 lus R., and traces the family of his son George, and grandson Peleg. 
 We shall see, however, that this seed has produced since an abund- 
 ant yield. 
 
 1828. 
 
 A Genealogical Memoir of the Family by the name 
 of Farmer, who settled at Billerica, Mass. Hing- 
 ham : Farmer & Brown, Printers. 1828. 12mo. pp. 
 20. 
 
 On the reverse of the title is the dedication to .Jedediah Farmer, 
 brother of the author, dated Concord, N. H., 28 .Jan., 1828. The 
 record, 14 pages, is substantially the same as in the first edition, 
 excepting that the marriages in each generation are given, but no 
 new branches are traced out. The obituary on Edward, son of 
 Oliver, is omitted in this edition ; pp. 15 and 16 are blank; with 
 p. 17 the appendix commences, consisting of letters from persons 
 of the name in England, &c. In the first number (Jan. 1847) of 
 the iV". E. Hist, and Gen. Reg. this memoir is reprinted ; but great 
 changes have been made in the arrangement. As published by 
 Farmer, the disconnected notices of persons bearing the name, were
 
 American Genealogist. 33 
 
 given as foot notes, and the text free from these incumbrances, 
 mentions only Edward and John Farmer, before giving John of 
 Ansley, county of Warwick, whose son Edward came to New Eng- 
 land. That number of the Register^ besides this reprint, gave a 
 very valuable memoir of Farmer, from which I have prepared a 
 sketch of his life, feeling that the value of his labors entitles him 
 to such a portion of our space. 
 
 John Farmer was born at Chelmsford, Mass., June 12, 1789, 
 and was gi'andson of Oliver (son of Edward) Farmer of Billerica. 
 At the age of sixteen he became clerk in a store, and in 1810, 
 owing to feeble health, he quitted this employment to teach a 
 school. In 1820, he began the study of medicine, but again was 
 forced by his weak constitution to resign his plan, and, removing 
 to Concord, N. H., he became an apothecary. He soon however 
 devoted himself to historical researches, was corresponding secre- 
 tary to the New Hampshire Historical Society, and joint editor of 
 its publications; and in 1837, was appointed by the legislature to 
 arrange the State Papers. He died on the 18th of August, 1838, 
 at an age when his powers should have been in their greatest vigor ; 
 but the record he left behind him, is sufficient to justify our warm- 
 est praises. Besides writing several local histories, he annotated a 
 new edition of Belknap's History of New Hampshire, contributed 
 to the Historical Collections of the Massachusetts Society as well as 
 to the New Hampshire, wrote Registers and Collections and pub- 
 lished a Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of New England, 
 which we shall hereafter examine in detail, a work of incalculable 
 value, as pointing out a new field of research, and as the com- 
 mencement of our national taste for genealogy. We have had 
 many authors who have done more work in this field, but to the 
 pioneer is due the greatest praise; and John Farmer was not only 
 the first to show the way, but the first to enter and to prove its im- 
 portance.
 
 34 Amekican Genealogist. 
 
 The Genealogy of the Spkagues in Hingham, ar- 
 ranged in chronological order, to the Fourth Gene- 
 ration, counting from William Sprague, one of the 
 First Planters in Massachusetts, who arrived at 
 Naumkeag from England, in the year 1628. To 
 which is prefixed a short account of the first settle- 
 ment of this country before the arrival of the Old 
 Charter in 1630. Hingham : Published by Hosea 
 Sprague. 1828. 
 
 This is a very curious little volume, consisting, as I presume, of 
 48 pages, small octavo, as originally issued. Pp. 2-8 comprise notes ; 
 pp. 9 — 12, of genealogy, giving names but no dates; pp. 13-30, 
 notes; pp. 31 — 47, memoranda concerning members of the family 
 referred to in the previous list ; p. 48, errata, dated Hingham on 
 the Plain, November 1, 1828. I suppose that soon after this, seve- 
 ral pages of additional notes were printed, and perhaps bound up 
 in some copies remaining in the author's possession. My copy has 
 inserted in it, at the beginning, six pages, being " Additions to 
 the First Edition. Ealph Sprague, in Charlestown in 1628, and his 
 four sons, John, Richard, Phinehas, and Samuel, and his daughter 
 Mary. Printed for the Spragues, and those friendly to them." 
 P. 2 is a letter from Nahum Mitchell ; p 3, notes ; pp. 4-6, wills, 
 &c. A little farther on are inserted two pages of notes, and there 
 is an appendix, paged 49 - 60, of notes, including an alphabetical 
 list of names mentioned. This last is dated Hingham, May 1, 1829. 
 But few copies of this book were printed, and it is now very rarely 
 obtainable. 
 
 1832. 
 
 Memoir of John Whitman and his Descendants. By 
 Ezekiel Whitman. Portland : Printed by Charles 
 Day & Co. 1832. pp.44. 
 
 This work is a great improvement on its predecessors, being well 
 printed, and having a regular plan. A small figure over the name
 
 American Genealogist, 35 
 
 ofeacli liead of a family shows tlie generation, and these families 
 are arranged according to seniority, that is, all the children of the 
 oldest child of the founder, are placed first in the third generation, 
 then those of the second child, &c. A recapitulation of names 
 alone is also to be found at the end. There is hardly enough pre- 
 cision in the dates, but the book will be found a useful epitome 
 to any one who may hereafter desire to write the record of this 
 family. 
 
 1833. 
 
 A Genealogy of the Descendants of Edward Goddard. 
 By William Austin Goddard. Worcester : M. 
 Spooner, Printer. 1833. 12mo. pp. 99. 
 
 This work gives the descendants of Edward Goddard, a wealthy 
 farmer of Norfolk, Eng., through his son William, who came to 
 this country with a wife and three sons, in 1665, and settled at 
 Watertown, Mass. The first fifty-six pages are devoted to genea- 
 logy, and the remainder to an appendix of documents, epitaphs, etc. 
 Much labor appears to have been bestowed upon this book at a time 
 when such works were less appreciated than they now are. Quite a 
 full genealogy of the Goddard family has since been printed in 
 Bond's Watertown. 
 
 1834. 
 
 Goodhue. [Biography of the first Settlement of the 
 Family of the Name of Goodhue, at Ipswich, in 
 1636, and Genealogy to 1833 ; together with an 
 Address by Deacon Samuel Goodhue, to his De- 
 scendants.] pp. 16. 
 
 This little pamphlet was published, I presume, without a title 
 page. It was arranged by Stephen Goodhue of Newton, Mass., and 
 printed at Boston about 1833. It is very brief, but apparently com- 
 piled from authentic sources. The address was written by a grand-
 
 36 American G-enealogist. 
 
 son of the original settler (William Gr. of Ipswich) : and it was 
 perhaps inspired by the example of his father's first wife, Sarah 
 (Whipple) Goodhue, who left a monitory writing to her children 
 which was published in 1681, and has since been reprinted three 
 times; in 1770, 1805, and 1850. 
 
 1835. 
 
 Family Memorial. Parti — Genealogy of Fourteen 
 Families of the Early Settlers of New England, of 
 the names of Alden, Adams, Arnold, Bass, Bill- 
 ings, Capen, Copeland, French, Hobart, Jackson, 
 Paine, Thayer, Wales, and White, from their first 
 settlement in this country, to about the middle of 
 the last century. With occasional notes and refer- 
 ences, biographical sketches, memoirs of some dis- 
 tinguished individuals, &c., collected from ancient 
 records, manuscripts, and printed works. All these 
 families are more or less connected by marriage, 
 and most of them of late generations, the descend- 
 ants of John Alden. Part II — Genealogy of 
 Ephraim and Sarah Thayer, with their fourteen 
 children; from the time of their marriage to 1835, 
 with notes of reference, &c., as in part first. By 
 Elisha Thayer, Dedham, Mass. Hingham: J. 
 Farmer, Printer. 1835. 8vo. pp. 180 and 100. 
 
 Pp. i-viii, preface ; pp. 1 -176, contain the fii'st part; then fol- 
 low four pages of forms for a record; then title page of part second, 
 as printed on the general title page, and the record containing 
 ninety-six pages, with two sheets of forms. The title is so full 
 that little need be said of the contents, but the arrangement is to me 
 utterly incomprehensible. However, our author had much industry 
 and many opportunities to obtain information, and hence any one 
 really desirous to know about these families, can, by due research, 
 discover many valuable facts.
 
 American Genealogist. 37 
 
 1836. 
 Webster Genealogy, pp. 8. 
 
 This little pamphlet, written in 1836, by the celebrated lexico- 
 grapher, Noah Webster, and probably published in the same year, 
 contains considerable information concerning the progeny of John 
 Webster of Connecticut, governor in 165(5, &c. His oldest son 
 Robert was of Hartford, and his grandson Daniel was grandfather 
 of Noah, the author, who remembered Daniel's funeral. As Daniel 
 was five years old when his grandmother died, there was thus but 
 one link between Robert, who represented Hartford in 1656 and 
 Noah, who was alive and vigorous in 1836. The family is widely 
 spread, but this memoir must be of much service to those desirous 
 of tracing the family. Goodwin's Hartford Settlers contains a no- 
 tice of the Websters. In the Register, vii, 102, and ix, 159- 160. 
 will be found the pedigree of a distinct family of Websters, to 
 which Daniel Webster belonged, descended from Thomas Webster 
 of Hampton, N. H., who was born at Ormsby, county of Norfolk, 
 Ensland. 
 
 1837. 
 
 Genealogical History of the Families of Robin- 
 sous, Saefords, Harwoods, and Clarks. By Sarah 
 Robinson. Benninaton, Vt : 1837. small 8vo. pp. 
 96. 
 
 It is so seldom that we have been called on to acknowledge the 
 assistance of the ladies in preserving family records by the means 
 of the press, however many " old women's tales " may have crept 
 into books, that we should be inclined to be very lenient. But in 
 reality, Mrs. Robinson's history needs no apology, for it is evidently 
 the result of much patient investigation. As it is of so early a 
 date, we do not expect to see any attempt at a system of classifica- 
 tion of families, but we do find a very strict attention to the precept 
 of dating every fact. The female branches are traced in several 
 cases ; and we regret that so creditable an example has found so few 
 imitators in Vermont.
 
 38 American Genealogist. 
 
 Record of the Families in New England, of the name 
 of Hodges ; collected and published by Rufus 
 Hodges of Cincinnati, Ohio. Cincinnati : 1837. 
 small 8vo. pp. 22. 
 
 A record, almost entirely without dates, of tlie descendants of 
 William Hodges of Taunton in 1638. A curious incident is given 
 in a letter from Mr. Noah Woodward, who in 1833 remembered to 
 have seen two sons of the first settler, thus spanning almost the 
 entire time of our annals. The latter edition, which will be noticed 
 hereafter, will displace this book on the shelves of all but ardent 
 collectors. 
 
 1839. 
 
 A Family Record of Daniel Dod, who settled with 
 the Colony of Branford, 1644, where he died in 
 1665: and also of his Descendants in New Jersey. 
 Compiled by Stephen Dodd, Pastor of the Congre- 
 gational Church in East Haven. Printed for the 
 Author. 1839. 12mo. pp. 24. 
 
 As this is one of the earliest publications of this sort, the author 
 is to be praised for the evident zeal and perseverance he displayed. 
 More attention has been given in it to dates than in many which 
 have since appeared. Copies of this genealogy occur bound up with 
 the East Haven Records, by the same author. 
 
 Genealogy of the Redfield Family in the United 
 States. Stereotyped by J. S. Redfield. 1839. 
 
 Inasmuch as a new and greatly enlarged account of this family is 
 now in print, it will not be necessary to describe this very fully. 
 The author was William C. Redfield, who attained a great reputa- 
 tion by his publications on the laws of storms. When it was issued 
 the author knew of no similar work extant here, but the plan he
 
 American Genealogist. 39 
 
 adopted was simple and clear, and he collected many valuable facts 
 for his pages. The fomily was long settled in Connecticut, and 
 occupied a good position there. 
 
 1840. 
 
 A Genealogical Memoir of the Descendants of Robert 
 Day, of Hartford, Conn., who died in the year 
 1648. New Haven: Printed by William Storer 
 Jun. 1840. 8vo. pp. 44. 
 
 This memoir was compiled by George E. Day of New Haven, but 
 as he has since issued another edition with many additions, none 
 but the professed collector need search for this pamphlet, which is 
 now very rarely obtainable. I have only to add that this edition is 
 very creditable to the author, being well arranged and exact in the 
 matter of dates. 
 
 1841. 
 Genealogy of the Miles Family. • 
 
 This is a little square pamphlet of 12 pages, prepared by the 
 Rev. Henry A. Miles, and printed at Lowell in 1840 or 1841; the 
 preface bearing the former date. The progenitor here of this family 
 was John Miles of Concord, Mass. ; and seven generations are here 
 recorded, mostly in the line to which the author belonged. This 
 makes a very fair outline of the family record, and the dates and 
 marriages seem to be carefully noted. I believe that this pamphlet 
 has been issued only in sheets, and that it had no title page, except 
 the half title noted above.
 
 40 American Genealogist. 
 
 A Genealogy of John Thomson", who landed at Ply- 
 mouth, in the month of May, 1622. By Ignatius 
 Thomson. Taunton: Printed by E.Anthony. 1841. 
 pp. 84. 
 
 Besides the real merit of this little quarto, it has always possessed 
 an additional merit in my eyes, from the difficulty I experienced in 
 obtaining a copy. I learned that there was such a hook, and finally 
 I obtained it, after missing the auction sale, of the bookseller who 
 had purchased it with several others, including the first edition of 
 the Sprague Genealogy and a copy of the Drake Family. Three 
 rarer books of this class can hardly be mentioned, and I fear most 
 of my readers will find them unattainable. Should any member of 
 the family seek hereafter to prepare a systematic account of its 
 branches, he will find much interesting information already collected 
 for him in this volume. 
 
 Memoranda respecting the Families of Quincy and 
 
 Adams. 
 
 "Out of the old fieldes, as men saith, 
 
 Cometh all this new Corn, fro' year to year, 
 And out of old bookes, in good faith 
 
 Cometh all this new Science that men lere." — Chcmcer. 
 
 By the preface to this little octavo pamphlet of 9 pages, 1 learn 
 that it was written in Havana, in 1841. and doubtless printed there. 
 It is inscribed to Mrs. Charles Francis Adams, and was published 
 for the amusement of the author and a " few private friends." The 
 contents are mainly extracts from rare English books, being such 
 memoranda as a genealogist, having met, would wish to preserve as 
 possibly available in making extended researches. Following the 
 preface is a page containing the emblazoned shields of Robert de 
 Quincy and Roger de Quincy, earls of Winchester. My copy was 
 obtained of Mr. S. Gr. Drake of Boston. The only other copy I 
 have ever seen, was at the sale of the library of George Guild. 
 It may safely be called one of the rarest of our genealogical works.
 
 American Genealogist. 41 
 
 A History of the Emigration and Settlement of our 
 Predecessors. 
 
 This is a single leaf, of 2 octavo pages, compiled from tradition 
 by William Gould Sen., of Albany. It traces tbe family of Gould 
 from the year 1664, when John, Thomas and Kobert emigrated from 
 Dartmouth, England, and settled in different parts of New England. 
 It contains the names of that portion of the race only which de- 
 scended from John, now residing mostly in New Jersey. It was 
 printed at Albany, by J. Munsell, in 1841, for insertion in a few 
 family Bibles. 
 
 1842. 
 Preston Family. 
 
 It seems that a genealogy of this family was printed at Frankfort, 
 Ky. I have never seen it, but it was reprinted by Joel Munsell 
 in 1864 and will be reviewed under that date hereafter. 
 
 1843. 
 
 The Genealogy of the Descendants of Richard Haven 
 of Lynn, Massachusetts, who emigrated from 
 England about two hundred years ago : among 
 whom, through his sons John, Nathaniel, and 
 Moses, of Framingham, are all the Graduates of 
 that name, at Cambridge, Dartmouth, Providence 
 and Amherst, being twenty-five in number; and 
 twenty-nine others, of different names, who have 
 graduated at the same, or other colleges. By Jo- 
 siah Adams of Framingham. Boston: Printed by 
 William White & H. P. Lewis. 1843. 8vo. pp. 54. 
 
 This record contains many interesting facts, but it is not arranged 
 systematically. Richard Haven of Lynn, 1645, seems to be the 
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 42 American Genealogist. 
 
 starting point of tlie family ; he was a kinsman of John Wastol of 
 Saybrook, and named a child for him : other relatives here or 
 abroad are unknown. This genealogy shows a commendable accu- 
 racy in dates, and it will be found very useful to those tracing 
 families settled near any of the name, as the marriages are carefully 
 noted. 
 
 On page 49 will be found a note to the readers, dated Dec. 30, 
 1843, calling upon the family to meet on the 16th April, 1844, to 
 celebrate the second centennial anniversary of the landing of their 
 ancestor; and a meeting was accordingly held, a report of the pro- 
 ceedings was published in a pamphlet of 27 pages, with the follow- 
 ing title : Address at a Meeting of the Descendants of Richard 
 Haven of Lynn, at Framingham. Mass., August 29, 1844. Being 
 the Second Centennial Anniversary of his Lauding in New Eng- 
 land. By John C. Park of Boston. Also, an Account of the 
 Proceedings and Events of the Day, by the Committee of Arrange- 
 ments for the occasion. Printed by Direction of the Meeting, for 
 the use of the Family. Boston : Samuel N. Dickinson, printer. 
 1844. 
 
 Genealogical Register of the Descendants of Richaed 
 Faxon, from his Settlement in this Country to 
 August, 1843. Hartford. Compiled by William 
 Faxon, 1843. 
 
 Dr. D. Williams Patterson of West Winsted, Conn., to whom I 
 am indebted for several other notices in this work, has furnished 
 the following : 
 
 This is an ISmo pamphlet of 24 pages, containing besides the 
 account of the descendants of Richard Faxon, who died at Brain- 
 tree, Mass., in 1677, some account of Thomas Faxon, who mar- 
 ried April 11, 1653, Deborah Thayer, daughter of Richard Thayer; 
 with some extracts from the Whitman Genealogy ; and a copy of 
 the will of Thomas Faxon, son of Richard. The compiler not 
 being familiar with the old style of dating, fell into the very na- 
 tural mistake of calling the First Month, January, instead of 
 March, so that some occurrences are dated two months too early.
 
 American Genealogist. 43 
 
 Family Record of the Ancestors of Epliraim and Abi- 
 gal RoBBiNS and their descendants. 
 
 Oae page, 13 by IG inches, printed at Hartford. Prepared by 
 Gurdon, sou of Ephraim E-obbius. Date unknown. 
 
 1845. 
 
 A Table, showing the Date and Place of Birth; to 
 whom and when Married; Number of Sons and 
 Daughters; Date of Decease; Age and Place of 
 Burial of Jabez Bacon, late of Woodbury, deceased, 
 and of his Descendants bearing the name of Bacon. 
 Also of his Ancestors, so far as known, commencing 
 with the latter. Compiled by Nathaniel A. Bacon 
 (one of his grandsons) at New Haven, March, 1845. 
 New Haven: Printed by Hitchcock & Stafford. 
 1845. 
 
 The object of these 4 quarto pages is sufficiently expressed on 
 the title ; it being a genealogy of only one branch of the Bacon 
 family, descended from Jabez, who was grandson of Andrew Bacon 
 and Mehetable Wetmore. Andrew was the sixth child of Nathaniel 
 Bacon, and his family here given is not recorded by Mr Savage. 
 Nathaniel was of Middletown, Conn., 1653, and was probably son 
 of William B. of Stretton, county of Rutland. At least an affidavit 
 taken in 1661, at New Haven, says that a Nathaniel then present 
 was son of William, and it is more likely that this was the man, 
 than that another Nathaniel who lived at Barnstable, Mass., was 
 meant. There are several diflFerent families of the name in New 
 England. The best authorities, I believe, derive the name from 
 the Saxon word, meaning heecli tree.
 
 44 American Genealogist. 
 
 Family History. Notices of the Life of John Upham, 
 tlie first Inhabitant of New England who bore that 
 Name : together with an account of such of his de- 
 scendants as were the ancestors of Hon, Nathaniel 
 Upham of Rochester, New Hampshire : with a short 
 sketch of the life of the latter. By Albert G. 
 Upham, A. M., M. D. Concord, N. H. : Printed by 
 Asa McFarland. 1845. pp. 92. 
 
 As is shown by the title page, this little book is a record of only 
 one branch of the Uphams, but limited as the scope of it is, the 
 author has collected much which will interest any one of the name. 
 Some rather crude speculations are made as to the origin of the 
 name, and the bearers of it in England, but nothing can be traced 
 of the ancestor before his settlement at Weymouth in 1635. 
 
 Genealogical and Biographical Account of the Family 
 of Drake in America. With some Notices of the 
 Antiquities connected with the early times of per- 
 sons of the name in England. Printed at the Pri- 
 vate Press of George Coolidge, for Samuel Gardner 
 Drake. August, 1845. 12mo. pp. 51. 
 
 As might be expected, this little work by Mr. Drake, is a model 
 of neatness, exactness, and method. The plan he devised is the 
 one which has been adopted by succeeding writers as the best, and 
 is a most decided improvement on preceding publications. The 
 English notes refer to the family settled at Ashe, county of Devon, 
 to which the famous Sir Francis Drake belonged. The American 
 family commences with John of Windsor, Conn., and Robert of 
 Hampton, N. H.; but their birthplace and ancestry are still unknown, 
 though tradition asserts them to have been brothers. The record 
 here given is mainly in the direct line of descent of the author, a 
 limit imposed by the lack of records and the indiiference of many 
 to the imparting of information. We have elsewhere given a notice 
 of the labors of Mr. Drake, which have largely contributed to foster 
 the taste for genealogy in New England.
 
 American Genealogist. 45 
 
 Descendants of Thomas Olcott, one of the First Set- 
 tlers of Hartford, Connecticut. By Nathaniel 
 Goodwin, descendant of Ozias Goodwin, one of said 
 settlers. Hartford : Press of Case, Tiffany & Burn- 
 ham. 1845. 8vo. pp. 64. 
 
 This is a full and admirably arranged history of the descendants 
 of Thomas Olcott, a family of good fame and repute in Connecticut. 
 The descendants are traced, in many cases, in the female line ; and 
 this, like all the other works of Judge Groodwin, is a model of ac- 
 curacy and neatness. Perhaps the most noted descendant of the 
 emigrant was Hon. Peter Olcott, lieutenant governor of Vermont, a 
 distinguished politician. The number of descendants here recorded 
 is 713, and this number does not include the children of females of 
 the name. 
 
 The Family Memorial. A History and Genealogy of 
 the KiLBOURN Family, in the United States and 
 Canada, from the year 1635 to the present time. 
 Including extracts from ancient records, copies of 
 old wills, biographical sketches, epitaphs, anecdotes, 
 etc. With an engraving of the Kilburne coat of 
 arms. By Payne Kenyon Kilbourn, member of the 
 Connecticut Historical Society. Hartford : Brown 
 & Parsons. 1845. 12mo. pp. 150. 
 
 The second edition of this book, which will be noticed in its 
 place, is so much fuller, that it will render this of interest only to 
 the collector, except so far as the reader may find it amusing to 
 note the theories in the one, confirmed or contradicted by the other. 
 Although the title page .says this was printed in 1845, I believe it 
 was not issued until 1848 — at least not all the edition — as some of 
 the documents on the last pages are dated in May of the latter year. 
 
 Family Notices collected by William Gibbs of Lexing- 
 ton, pp. 8. 
 
 This little pamphlet, issued in 1845 without a title page, gives an 
 account of the ancestors and descendants of Robert Gibbs, a distin-
 
 46 American Genealogist. 
 
 guished merchant of Boston, 1660-1674. He was the fourth son 
 of Sir Henry Gribbs who married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas 
 Temple of Stowe, and was descended from the Gibbs family of 
 Honington, Co. Warwick. 
 
 It is believed that this family is extinct in the male line. 
 
 [ Note. — Some years ago a lithographic tabular pedigree of the family 
 was issued, tracing, however, only the English portion ; naming Robert, the 
 emigrant, in his due place, and continuing the main line for two genera- 
 tions after Mm. There is no date or place of publication upon this sheet.] 
 
 1846. 
 
 A Genealogical Register of the Name and Family of 
 Herrick, from the settlement of Henerie Hericke, 
 in Salem, Massachusetts, 1629, to 1846. With a 
 concise notice of their English ancestry. By Jede- 
 diah Herrick. Bangor: Samuel T. Smith, JDrinter. 
 1846. 8vo. pp. 69. 
 
 Henry Herrick of Salem had five sons, who married and left 
 issue, and the record here given is quite extensive, though not very 
 systematically arranged. The author gives an account of Herricks 
 settled in the county of Leicester, England, and claims that his 
 ancestor belonged to this family, identifying him with a Henry, 
 fifth son of Sir William H., who was knighted in 1605, ambassador 
 to Turkey, &c. He certainly makes a claim worthy of investiga- 
 tion, but the proofs are very slight, and must not be regarded as 
 decisive. Pp. 58-59 refer to descendants of a George H. of Salem, 
 in 1684, and p. 60 relates to those of James H. of Southampton, 
 L. I., who are not known to have been related to Henry. An en- 
 graved coat of arms forms the frontispiece.
 
 American Genealogist. 47 
 
 1847. 
 
 A Genealogical Register of the Descendants of George 
 Abbot of Andover, George Abbot of Rowley, 
 Thomas Abbot of Andover, Arthur Abbot of Ipsr 
 wich, Robert Abbot of Branford, Ct., and George 
 Abbot of Norwalk, Ct. Compiled by Rev. Abiel 
 Abbot, D. D., and Rev. Ephraim Abbot. Boston : 
 James Munroe& Co. 1847. 
 
 An octavo volume of 197 pages, including a good index of names 
 other than Abbot. Like many of our genealogies, the project of 
 publishing a family record originated at a meeting of descendants 
 of the immigrant. The work grew under the hands of the authors, 
 and as published, embraces several branches of the name whose 
 relationship to the Abbots of Audover was not ascertained. There 
 is a great amount of information relative to the family contained in 
 this book, but the lack of a clear system of arrangement will prove 
 a serious inconvenience to the student. There is no attempt to 
 trace the English pedigree of the family. 
 
 A Record of the Families of Robert Patterson (the 
 Elder), Emigrant from Ireland to America, 1774; 
 Thomas Ewing, from Ireland, 1718; and Louis Du 
 Bois from France, 1660; connected by the mar- 
 riage of Uriah Du Bois with Martha Patterson, 1798. 
 Part First, containing the Patterson Lineage. Edi- 
 tion of 150 copies ; printed for the use of the family 
 connection only. [Philadelphia:] 1847. 8vo. pp. 
 103. 
 
 The author of this first part is William Ewing Du Bois of Phila- 
 delphia. The second part — the Memorial of the Family of Thomas 
 Ewing — was printed in 1858, and was written by Robert Patterson 
 Du Bois of New London, Pa. The third part — the Record of the 
 Family of Louis Du Bois — was printed in 1860, being the joint 
 production of both of the preceding gentlemen. The work whose 
 title is given above, is well prepared and elegantly printed. The
 
 48 American Genealogist. 
 
 members of this family do not appear to be numerous, and consider- 
 ble space is devoted to the biography of the more distinguished 
 individuals. 
 
 A Genealogical Memoir of the Family of John Law- 
 rence of Watertown, 1636 ; with brief notices of 
 others of the name in England and America. 1847. 
 8vo. pp. 64. 
 
 As the author of this genealogy, Kev. John Lawrence, has since 
 published an enlarged edition, no esteuded notice is required here. 
 It is certainly a very vrell arranged register, and is now very scarce, 
 as certain members of the family desire to suppress the edition. 
 Some of the biographical sketches in this edition were not reprinted 
 in the second. 
 
 Biographical Sketches of the Moody Family : embrac-, 
 ing notices of ten ministers and several laymen, 
 from 1633 to 1842. By Charles C. P. Moody. 
 Boston : Published by Samuel G. Drake, No. 56 
 Cornhill. 1847. 8vo. pp. 167. 
 
 Though this can hardly.be classed among our genealogies, yet 
 as being connected throughout by the ties of blood existing between 
 the persons described, it is worthy of our notice. The more promi- 
 nent bearers of the name enumerated, are Rev. Joshua Moody, 
 noted in New Hampsliire Annals; Rev. Samuel Moody of York, 
 known as Father Moody ; his son and successor. Rev. Joseph M. ; 
 Handkerchief ^00 Ay ^ whose strange hallucination is mentioned by 
 Hawthorne in one of his finest tales ; and Paul Moody, a distin- 
 guished inventor, a pioneer in the constructing of machinery for 
 cotton spinning in New England. Of these and others, interesting 
 descriptions are given in this book, in which are preserved many 
 anecdotes and traditions.
 
 American Genealogist. 49 
 
 Memorial of the Sprague Family : a Poem recited at 
 a meeting in Duxburj, of the Descendants and Con- 
 nections of lion. Seth Sprague, on the occasion of 
 his eighty-sixth hirthday, July 4th, 1846. With 
 the Family Genealogy, and Biographical Sketches 
 in Notes. Boston: James Munroe & Co. 1847. 
 12mo. pp. 199. 
 
 The notes annexed to the poem commence on the 25th page, and 
 are mainly genealogical. Hon. Seth Sprague, in whose honor the 
 meeting was held, was son of Phineas Sprague and Mercy Chand- 
 ler. In him were united two distinct families of the same name, 
 he being by his fiither, grandson of Samuel Sprague, whose grand- 
 father, William Sprague, was a settler at Hingham, and brother of 
 Ralph and Richard Sprague of Charlestown. These three colonists 
 were sons, undoubtedly, of Edward Sprague of Upway, county of 
 Dorset; but, there was a Francis Sprague who came to Plymouth in 
 1623, of some distinct stock in England, and his grandson William 
 was the father of Zeruiah, wife of Nathaniel Chandler, and thus 
 grandfather of the above named Mercy Chandler. The author gives 
 many particulars in relation to the ancestors on both sides, and 
 though hardly a systematic genealogy, the family record is fairly 
 marked out. A good biography is given of the venerable head of 
 the family, and incidentally several interesting anecdotes of the last 
 war times. 
 
 A Genealogical and Biographical Sketch of the Name 
 and Family of STETSOisr, from the year 1634 to the 
 year 1847. By John Stetson Barry. Boston: 
 Printed for the Author, by William A. Hall & Co. 
 1847. 12mo. pp. 116. 
 
 The progenitor of this family was Robert Stetson of Scituate, 
 Mass., in 1634, who had six sons, whose numerous progeny is here 
 given. Nothing is known about the origin of the family in England, 
 though a coat of arms, said to have been fotmd among the papers of 
 the emigrant Robert, ought to afford a clue. The author gives an 
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 60 American Genealogist. 
 
 engraving of it on his title page, but does not explain the reasons 
 for presuming it to be of such antiquity as is alleged. The gene- 
 alogy is divided into six sections, each devoted to the descendants 
 of a son of Robert ; an arrangement which keeps the family relations 
 more clear and evident than most others. The record of five of the 
 sons seems to be quite full, and much care is given to exactness in 
 dates, and to the marriages of the females. 
 
 The Genealogy and History of the Taintor Family, 
 from the period of their emigration from Wales, to 
 the present time By Charles M. Taintor. Green- 
 field: Printed by Merriam & Mirick. 1847. ISmo. 
 pp. 82. 
 
 Commencing with Charles Taintor, who was here with his family 
 in 1643, our author gives a list which, though small, seems quite 
 full; though we regret to notice in most instances he has omitted 
 the day of the month in giving dates. A distinctive feature of this 
 book is the letters from members of the family, received by the 
 compiler in answer to his queries, which contain many little inci- 
 dents which could hardly be introduced into the body of the work, 
 and yet are of interest to the branches of the family nearest allied to 
 the writers. 
 
 A Genealogical Account of the Ancient Winsor Family 
 in the United States. Collected principally from 
 records in the several branches thereof, introduced 
 by an account of their progenitors in the male line, 
 for several generations previous to the emigration to 
 America. By the late Olney Winsor. Providence : 
 Published by L. W. Winsor. 1847. 8vo. pp. 12. 
 
 This little pamphlet contains no dates, and is simply a list of 
 families descended from Joshua Winsor of Providence. It is stated 
 that a certain Eobert Winsor flourished in Henry VIII's time, was 
 a Roman Catholic knight, and had a son Samuel, whose son John 
 had Samuel, father of the emigrant. This may be true, but un- 
 supported by proofs, the statement looks like an idle fable; and 
 as it has been repeated by several writers, it seems time to inquire as
 
 American Genealogist. 51 
 
 to the truth. I believe that the genealogy is quoted in the Ilisfoiy 
 of Duxbury, but I do not remember any proof given there. As* 
 recorded in this book, it i.s improbable, and almost impossible, that 
 the family tradition can have any basis. 
 
 The Genealogy and History of the Family of Williams 
 in America, more particularly of the Descendants 
 of Robert Williams of Roxbury. By Stephen W. 
 Williams, M. D., A. M., etc. Greenfield: Printed 
 by Merriam & Mirick. 1847. 12mo. pp. 424. 
 
 At the time of its publication this was the largest family record 
 issued here, and it certainly shows the zeal and correctness of its 
 author to have been great. The first twenty-four pages refer to 
 English or Welsh families of the name, but no proof is given of 
 the ancestry of Robert Williams of Roxbury. The record of the 
 descendants of the latter reaches to p. 307, and contains among 
 others the names of Rev. Warham Williams, Rev. Stephen of Deer- 
 field, Charles K. W., chief justice and governor of Vermont, Rev. 
 William of Hatfield, Hon. William W., a signer of the Declaration 
 of Independence, and many others of distinction in the pulpit, at the 
 bar, and in political life. Pp. 307-336 are filled with notes on 
 some of the name not descended from Robert; pp. 336 -345 embrace 
 the Maryland family; pp. 346-354, those of Long Island, North 
 Carolina, &c. The lists of graduates, members of congress, &c., 
 occupy pp. 355-378 ; and the rest of the book is devoted to English 
 Williamses of note. I do not think ^ny right to use a coat of arms 
 is established, though this point deserves further notice. The 
 illustrations are: coat of arms, and portraits of John C. W., Mrs. 
 Lucretia W., Rev. Stephen, Mrs. Sarah Pitkin, Hon. Elisha W., 
 Ezekiel, John, Hon. William, William, Joseph, John D., John 
 Davis W., and Rev. Elisha Williams. The plan of this work is 
 rather confused, but it was certainly a great advance on many pre- 
 vious works, and the whole is creditable to the author and the 
 family. A scandalous attempt was made to ridicule this book, but 
 it is as unassuming a history as can well be cited, and certainly no 
 one will dispute the talents or influence of the many able divines 
 belonging to thjs family.
 
 52 American Genealogist. 
 
 1848. 
 
 The Houghton Association. Report of the Agent to 
 England. New York: Jared W. Bell, printer. 
 1848. 8vo. pp. 27. 
 
 A report having been circulated among the branches of the 
 Houghton family, that there was an immense property in England 
 due them as heirs of John and Ralph Houghton, emigrants hither 
 in 1650, an association was formed, funds raised, and an agent, Mr, 
 F. M. Rice, was employed to visit England to learn the source of 
 these rumors. The report he had finally to make was, that there 
 were several families of Houghtons, or Hoghtons, among the Eng- 
 lish gentry, but that there was no large estate awaiting a claimant 
 from America; the directors of the association expressed their 
 acceptance of the report, and wisely dissolved the company. 
 
 We have noticed the above, mainly to remark upon the erroneous 
 ideas on the subject of fortunes thus left in England for which 
 owners may be found here, which are too prevalent. Almost every 
 family has some such absurd report about its ancestor, and this 
 fancy has repeatedly interfered with the objects of the genealogist. 
 We can hardly expect to be welcomed to the family records pre- 
 served in old manor-houses in England, if we go with the expecta- 
 tion expressed, of thereby ousting the proprietor ; and in this coun- 
 try, this insane hope of wealth has often led certain branches of a 
 family to withhold every document from the eye of the genealogist. 
 Few families have published much about their claims, but a list of 
 some which have may be found in the Galaxy for October, 1867. 
 
 Genealogy of the Adam Family, by William Adam of 
 Canaan, Litchfield co., Conn. Albany : Printed by 
 Joel Munsell. 1848. 
 
 A small octavo pamphlet of 16 pages. The progenitor of this 
 family was John Adam, who was born in Bowfield, Lochwionock, 
 Renfrewshire, Scotland, May 29, 1714, and who came to this country
 
 American Genealogist. 53 
 
 in 1737. Being a comparatively recent stand point from which to 
 date a genealogy, the small limits of this pamphlet contain a com- 
 plete record. The few bearers of the name will have little difficulty 
 in proving their pedigree. As we shall see, the name of Adams is 
 very common in New England, and its bearers are descended from 
 numerous distinct stocks. 
 
 A Genealogical Register of the Descendants in the 
 Male Line of Robert Day of Hartford, Conn., who 
 died in the year 1648. Second edition. North- 
 ampton: Printed by J. & L. Metcalf. 1848. 8vo. 
 pp. 129. 
 
 We have already noticed the first edition of this genealogy, 
 written in 1840 by George E. Day, and by comparison we see how 
 much new information he obtained in the time between the issue 
 of the two, and the improvements in the plan of the work suggested 
 by experience. Robert Day of Hartford, one of the first settlers 
 there, left two sons, Thomas and John, from whom have sprung 
 about three thousand of the name of Day ^ over twenty-four hun- 
 dred being recorded in this book. The first sixty pages are given 
 to the Springfield branch, descended from Thomas; and pp. 61- 
 107 record the issue of John Day : one good index enables us to 
 refer to any required individual name, another gives the intermar- 
 riages. Altogether, this is a very capital working genealogy, exact, 
 methodical, and copious ; nothing could improve it, except more bio- 
 graphical sketches; but the insertion of those is, after all, a matter 
 of opinion. 
 
 The Dudley Genealogies and Family Records. By 
 Dean Dadley. Boston: Published by the Author. 
 1848. 8vo. pp. 144. 
 
 Thomas Dudley, son of a Capt. Roger Dudley, was born at North- 
 ampton, 1576, and after spending the greater portion of his life as 
 steward to the earl of Lincoln, he embarked for New England in 
 1630. Here he was in the highest esteem, was chosen governor 
 four times, major general, and deputy governor. Of his family
 
 54 American Genealogist. 
 
 before his removal nothing positive is known, but he was 
 accustomed to use the arms belonging to the Barons Dudley; so we 
 may imagine that he was a cadot of that family. i These arms 
 are engraved on the title page of this book. The volume under 
 notice contains : pp. 5- 16, an account of the English Dudleys ; pp. 
 17 -72, genealogy of the Dudleys descended from Rev. Samuel, son 
 of Thomas ; pp. 73 - 74, a list of books by persons of the name ; pp. 
 75-78, epitaphs; pp. 79-82, an account of Dudley castle, an en- 
 graving of which forms the frontispiece ; these comprise the first 
 part. The second contains descendants of Joseph, son of the first 
 governor; pp. 107-111, notes on others of the name not belong- 
 ing to this family; pp. 113-140, descendants in the female line; 
 and lastly, an index. 
 
 Soon after the publication of this work, the author visited Eng- 
 land, and spent about a year in that country. While there he pur- 
 sued his genealogical researches very thoroughly, collecting a mass 
 of information relative to the Dudleys of England. He was not 
 successful, however, in tracing the ancestry of Grov. Thomas Dudley 
 farther back than his father, as given by Mather. In 1861 he 
 published, on a very large sheet, a lithographic pedigree of the 
 descendants of the Dudleys of Dudley castle. This is probably the 
 most complete pedigree of that family published. Mr. Dudley, I 
 am informed, has a large number of disconnected English families 
 of the name, some of whom, probably, belong to tlie same stock as 
 Dudley castle family. In the Genealogical Register for 1856, there 
 is an account of this family, by the same author, containing much 
 new information. There is also a sheet pedigree by him extant, 
 which was prepared for the folio edition of Drake's History of 
 Boston. 
 
 ^ Within tlie past two years the subject has been discussed by English 
 writers, as will be shown in our notice of another book on the Dudleys pub- 
 lished in 1863.
 
 American Genealogist. 65 
 
 Genealogy of the Ancestors and Posterity of Isaac 
 Lawrence. By Frederick S. Pease of Albany. 
 Albany : Printed by Joel Munsell. 1848. 8vo. pp. 
 20. 
 
 This, I presume, was the second of five genealogies of this family 
 now extant, and its contents have been embodied in subsequent 
 editions. This record relates to the descendants of Isaac, great- 
 grandson of John Lawrence, the emigrant. I understand that this 
 edition has been suppressed, and consequently it is extremely rare; 
 its valuable portion is contained in the second edition, however. 
 
 Genealogical Sketch of the Descendants of Reinold 
 and Matthew Marvin, who came to New England 
 in 1635. Compiled from authentic sources, by T. 
 R. Marvin. Boston : 1848. 12ino. pp. 56. 
 
 This book gives a portion of the descendants of Matthew and 
 Reinold Marvin, who are said to have been brothers, and who were 
 among the first settlers at Hartford, Conn. Pp. 5-33 refer to the 
 issue of Reinold ; pp. 34-36 contain a notice of the Mathers, with 
 which family the Marvins intermarried ; and pp. 37 - 56 relate to the 
 posterity of Matthew. We note on p. 23, that a biography was 
 published in 1846, of Mrs. Catherine Mather Diraick, daughter of 
 Elihu Marvin. The family has continued in high esteem in Con- 
 necticut, and our author promises to give a more extended account 
 of it hereafter. What he has already published seems to have been 
 prepared with much care and accuracy, and is repeatedly cited by 
 the genealogists of Connecticut, in which state the family has 
 always been highly esteemed. 
 
 Genealogy of the Mather Family, from about 1500 to 
 1847, with sundry Biographical Notices. Hartford : 
 Press of EUhu Geer. 1848. 12mo. pp. 76. 
 
 This little book, by John Mather of Manchester, Ct., is but an 
 outline of such a genealogy of the family as we trust will yet be 
 written. It is impossible to ignore the influence exercised by the
 
 66 American Genealogist. 
 
 Mathers upou the character of the Massachusetts colony, and to a 
 bearer of the name there can hardly be a more inviting task than 
 to relate the performances of his ancestors, and to preserve the 
 records of the race. The present volume is but the foreshadowing 
 of what is required, being too often defective in dates, and in the 
 biographical portion mostly composed of abstracts from well known 
 books. Rev. Richard Mather was grandson of John, and son of 
 Thomas M. of Lowton, in the parish of Winwick, county of Lancas- 
 ter. All of his sons but one were ministers, viz : Samuel and Na- 
 thaniel of Dublin, Eleazer of Northampton, Mass., and Increase 
 of Boston. The other son, Timothy, was father of Rev. Samuel of 
 Windsor, Conn. ; Increase was father of Rev. Cotton Mather, and 
 grandfather of Rev. Samuel of Boston. All these ministers were 
 of great repute, and all published many works, theological, histori- 
 cal, and political; the whole number being probably over seven 
 hundred. It is much to be regretted, that no complete collection 
 exists ; but the American Antiquarian Society has in its library at 
 Worcester, a great many, formerly belonging to a daughter of Samuel 
 Mather of Boston. Rev. Increase M. published a life of his father, 
 Cotton performed a like filial duty for Increase, and Samuel conti- 
 nued the chain by a Life of Cotton Mather^ which is still held in 
 high repute. From these sources, and the funeral sermons on dif- 
 ferent members of the family, as well as from the manuscripts still 
 remaining, a most interesting genealogy might be prepared ; and 
 though the Leveretts, Cushmans, Brewsters, Bradfords, Dudleys, 
 and Saltonstalls, have been duly remembered of late years, the 
 Mathers, Winthrops, and Winslows, whose names are second 
 to none on our records, and whose lives furnish the most interesting 
 chapters of our history, still remain without a proper memorial of 
 this nature. Perhaps they need none; but the science of genea- 
 logy would find in such work its best defence against the charge of 
 the unimportance or wearisomeness of its results.
 
 American Genealogist. 57 
 
 A Brief General History of the Welles, or Wells 
 Family. By Albert Welles. New York: Narine 
 & Co., Printers. 1848. 8vo. pp. 27. 
 
 This work was iutentled by the author as an introduction to the 
 genealogy of the issue of Thomas Welles of Connecticut, which he 
 proposed to publish. The book is made up of unconnected records 
 relative to bearers of the name, especially to the barons Welles; 
 but the only positive assertions discoverable are, that Thomas 
 Welles was of Essex, and that six of his sons followed him here, 
 where the eldest became governor of Connecticut, in 1655. It is 
 impossible to criticise the statements here made, as no authorities 
 are given, and the traditions cited are at once too vague and too 
 particular to secure a ready credence. The members of the family 
 who do not possess this book, can hardly claim much sympathy, but 
 the author's manuscript collections of some ten thousand of the 
 descendants here, might repay examination. 
 
 The Wight Family. Memoir of Thomas Wight of 
 Dedham, Mass., with Genealogical Notices of his 
 Descendants, from 1637 to 1840. By Danforth 
 Phipps Wight, M. D. Boston: Press of T. R. 
 Marvin. 1848. 12mo. pp. 119. 
 
 There is little calling for special remark in this little book, as it 
 is apparently well digested and quite complete. There is no attempt 
 at cross references, but as the number of families is small, this is of 
 less importance than usual. On pp. 114 and 115, are pedigrees of 
 the families of Brown of Waltham. and Fuller of Dedham. 
 
 A Biographical Memoir of the late Ichabod Norton, 
 Esq., of Edgartown, Mass. By J. Athearn Jones. 
 Printed for private distribation. Boston: Coolidge 
 & Wiley, Printers, 12 Water Street. 1848. pp. 26. 
 
 This memoir contains an account of the descendants of Nicholas 
 Norton of Tisbury. The family is not kuuwu to be connected 
 with the Boston -family.
 
 58 American Genealogist. 
 
 The Checkley Family, pp. 6. 
 
 This was a reprint from the Register of a sketch of the Checkley 
 family prepared by S. Gr. Drake, Esq. There were three settlers of 
 the name at Boston, John, Samuel and Anthony, though this 
 pamphlet called Anthony, son of John. In the Register^ xv, 13, is 
 an article containing later information and showing that Samuel and 
 Anthony were half-brothers and sons of William Checkley, of Pres- 
 ton-Capes, North-Hants, Eng. 
 
 This genealogy contains also an engraving of the arms on the 
 tomb of Dea. Richard Checkley in the Granary burying-ground in 
 Boston, which so closely resemble those of Archbishop Chicele, 
 that is probable that a claim to kindred was intended. 
 
 1849. 
 
 The Rawson Family. Memoir of Edward Rawson, 
 Secretary of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, from 
 1651 to 1686, with Genealogical Notices of his De- 
 ceiidants. By Sullivan S. Rawson. Boston : Pub- 
 lished by the Family. 1849. Svo. pp. 146 and 2. 
 
 Secretary Rawson was born in Gillingham, county of Dorset, 
 April 15, 1615. He married Rachel, daughter of Thomas Perne, 
 and granddaughter of John Hooker by his wife, a sister of Edmund 
 Grindal, archbishop of Canterbury. Another daughter of John 
 Hooker married Rev. John Wilson of Boston, and his nephew, 
 Rev. Thomas Hooker, was of Boston and Hartford. It is said that 
 Edward Rawson was paternally of a good family, and he certainly 
 used a coat of arms, of whieh many examples occur on our Probate 
 records. Two of his sons, William and Grindal, came to this coun- 
 try, and one daughter, Rebecca, is the heroine of one of the saddest 
 romances of our early history j a brief sketch of her life will be found 
 at p. 15, and is accompanied by her portrait. The record here given, 
 seems to be quite full, and the descendants in the female lines are 
 traced to an unusual extent, in the names of Reynolds, Burrill,
 
 American Genealogist. 69 
 
 Dorr, Usher. Emerson, &c. A good memoir of Edwcard Rawson 
 is still to be written, though in the Register for 1849, will be found 
 a very good outline. A review in the same volume gives the main 
 credit of preparing this volume to Mr. Reuben R. Dodge of Boston, 
 in whose possession then were the portraits here engraved, and the 
 family "Bible of the Secretary. 
 
 Family Register of the Descendants of Nathaniel 
 Smith Jr., to which is prefixed some Notices of his 
 Ancestors. D. Bennitt, Utica. 1849. 12mo. pp. 44. 
 
 This family is traced to the Rev. Henry Smith of Wetherstield, 
 whose son Samuel of Hadley, Mass., had several sons. Of these 
 Ichabod was of Suffield, Conn., and from him was descended John 
 Cotton Smith, governor of that state. Another son, Ebenezer, was 
 also of Suffield, and grandfather of Nathaniel Jun., who married 
 Sarah McCartee in 1750, and had fifteen children, whose issue is 
 here recorded, amounting to over eight hundred. This genealogy 
 comprises only four generations, and each generation is shown on 
 the page, by the style of type employed, as well as by its place: a 
 plan very well adapted to short records like this. The last six 
 pages consist of copies of epitaphs. I presume this book was 
 written by Harvey D. Smith of Gouverneur, N. Y., though no 
 name is given on the title page. 
 
 A Genealogy of the Family of Anthony Stoddard, of 
 Boston. Boston : Printed by Coolidge & Wiley. 
 1849. Svo. pp. 23. 
 
 The first of this name in America was Anthony Stoddard, who 
 married Mary, daughter of Emanuel Downing. He was a promi- 
 nent man in Boston, and his descendants have intermarried among 
 the most noted families here, besides occupying a high place at 
 the bar and in the pulpit. The record of the first generation I 
 believe is imperfectly given in this book, but will be found in 
 Savage's Dictionary. Many particulars of the descendants will be 
 found in the Register., in Sumner's History of East Boston, the 
 Williams Genealogy, &c. The marriages of females of the name
 
 60 American Genealogist. 
 
 are fully recorded, and the notes on the families thus allied will be 
 found useful. The work is said to have been prepared by the late 
 Charles Ewer, first President of the New England Historic- Genea- 
 logical Society. 
 
 The Genealogy of the Descendants of Richard Ha- 
 ven, of Lynn, bemg a repubUcation of the first 
 Edition without alteration; with additional pages, 
 containing Corrections of a few Errors, and the 
 addition of many other branches. By the same 
 Author. Boston : Printed by Elias Howe. 1849. 
 8vo. pp. 54 and 50. 
 
 The title gives the reader a very clear idea of the work, the first 
 portion being the book we have already noticed. The new matter 
 covers fifty pages, referring to the former part, and contains also a 
 very good index of the whole, highly serviceable to the student. 
 A note at the close informs us that a meeting of the descendants 
 was to be held on the 30th of August, 1849; and the account of 
 the former meeting in 1844 will be found bound up with a portion 
 of this edition. 
 
 Genealogy of the Family of Solomon Piper, of Dub- 
 lin, N. H. Boston: Dutton & Wentworth, printers. 
 1849. 8vo. pp. 20. 
 
 The descendants of Jonathan Piper of Ipswich, the first settler 
 of the name, are numerous and widely scattered over the country. 
 As the title page shows, this pamphlet relates chiefly to the imme- 
 diate relatives of Solomon, grandson of Jonathan, the youngest son 
 of the emigrant; and the record of this small portion is complete, 
 while several of the other branches are traced for one generation. 
 The record was compiled by Solomon Piper of Boston.
 
 American Genealogist. 61 
 
 Brief Memoirs of Jolin and Walter Deane, Two of 
 the First Settlers of Taunton, Mass., and of the 
 Early Generations of their Descendants. Preceded 
 by some remarks on the origin of the name, with 
 incidental notices of other Deanes in England and 
 America. By William Reed Deane, assisted by 
 others. Boston: Printed by Coolidge & Wiley. 
 1849. 8vo. pp. 16. 
 
 The two brothers who first settled iu this country, are said, by 
 Kev. Samuel Deane of Scituate, to have emigrated from Chard, 
 near Taunton, county of Somerset; and many circumstances corro- 
 borate this assertion. There was a Thomas Deane at Boston, in 
 166-4, of the family of Deane of Deanesland, who may have been 
 related to the others, though of this there is no proof. The pamph- 
 let is only a small portion of the collections of its authors, William 
 Reed Deane and John Ward Dean ; and the references show that 
 an extensive correspondence, with good i-esults, has been maintained 
 by them, with persons here and in England. The volume contains 
 portraits of Levi Woodbury, and Rev. Samuel Deane of Portland, 
 and a woodcut of the coat of arms of the Deanes of Deanesland ; 
 to which family Thomas Deane of Boston, here mentioned, belonged. 
 Numerous autographs are given. 
 
 The FooTE Family: or the Descendants of Nathaniel 
 Foote, one of the First Settlers of Wethersheld, 
 Conn., with Genealogical Notes of Pasco Foote, 
 who settled in Salem, Mass., and John Foote and 
 others of the name, who settled more recently in 
 New York. By Nathaniel Goodwin, descendant of 
 Ozias Goodwin, one of the first settlers of Hartford, 
 Conn. Hartford : Press of Case, Tiffany & Co. 
 1849. 8vo. pp. 360. 
 
 As Mr. Goodwin was one of the most industrious and sagacious 
 antiquaries of his state, we might feel assured that any work from 
 his pen would be replete with curious and valuable information
 
 62 American Genealogist. 
 
 Our expectations are not only realized in this book, but we find the 
 facts arranged in the clearest manner, so as to be easily avsilable ; 
 and we do it but justice in assigning the work a place in the first 
 rank. The introduction, pp. iii-xlv, contains memoranda relative 
 to the early settlers at Wethersfield and Hadley, many of which 
 facts are now printed for the first time. The register of the de- 
 scendants of Nathaniel Foote, both in the male and female lines, 
 occupies 288 pages, and contains much in relation to other allied 
 families, of interest to the genealogist, especially as the reader h;is 
 the assistance of a good index. Pp. 289 - 296 contain an account of 
 a branch of the family of Pasco Foote of Salem, in 1646, and notes 
 concerning others of the name. There have been several later 
 immigrations of Footes; one in 1774, another in 1778, and a third 
 is the result of the Revolution, and the desertions then so frequent 
 from the English army. Another family, to which the well known 
 senator from Mississippi belongs, is of Virginian origin, and was 
 founded, says tradition, by Richard Foote, an emigrant from Truro, 
 county of Cornwall, England. It adds that a sister of this Richard, 
 married the regicide Bradshaw, and that her picture is yet pre- 
 served in the family. The appendix, pp. 297-332, is filled with 
 biographical sketches of some of the more distinguished members of 
 the family, and should contain two portraits, those of Mrs. Sarah Louisa 
 Taylor and Dr. E. T. Foote. A good index in two parts extends from 
 p. 333 to p. 359, and the last page contains an important note, giving 
 the maiden name of the wife of iNathaniel Foote Jr. A tabular 
 pedigree, compiled from this book, was printed in the Register, ix, 
 272, and has been inserted by their owners in copies of the book. 
 
 Some Account of Deacon John Butler of Pelham, 
 N. H. and of his descendants. By Caleb Butler of 
 Groton. 8vo. pp. 15. 
 
 This pamphlet issued without title pages, in 1849, was reprinted 
 from a series of articles in the Register for October, 1848, and 
 January and October, 1849. John Butler, whose descendants are 
 here given, was a son of James Butler of Woburn, Mass., where he 
 was born July 22, 1677.
 
 American Genealogist. 63 
 
 An Historical and Genealogical Essay upon the Fami- 
 ly and Surname of Buchanan, to which is added a 
 brief inquiry into the genealogy and present state 
 of Ancient Scottish Surnames, and more particu- 
 larly of the Higliland Clans. By William Bucha- 
 nan, of Auchmar. Glasgow, 1723 : Printed by 
 William Duncan. Cincinnati : Reprinted bv I. A. 
 & U. P. James. 1849. 12mo. pp. 246. A plate of 
 Buchanan family arms as frontispiece. 
 
 I am indebted to Henry R. Stiles, M. D., for tlie following 
 description : 
 
 This rare and interesting volume comes within the scope of the 
 Handbook of Avierican Genealogy, simply by virtue of its repub- 
 lication in this country. In a note added by the American Editor, 
 we learn that this book was first published in 1723. A second edi- 
 tion appeared in 1773. (See Notes by Sir Walter Scott, in the 
 Lady of the Laics'). And in 1820 it was published in the fourth 
 volume of Miscellanea Scotica, by Robert Chapman, Grlasgow. 
 Both of the first editions are out of print, hence the necessity for 
 this reprint in 1^49, procured by a few of the name of Buchanan, 
 who wished to preserve it in their families. It is notofi'ered for sale 
 to the public. We have understood that another edition is contem- 
 plated by the family, which shall comprise the American branches. 
 
 Pp. 1-6 contain a preface in which the author states his mo- 
 tives, and recites the authorities which he consulted. An Essay 
 upon the Family and Surname of Buchanan (7-41), recounts 
 in terse but vigorous style the origin and progress of the clan 
 from remotest antiquity. Theu follow in regular order the history 
 of the several branches as follows : pp. 42-48, the Buchanans of 
 Auchmar; pp. 49-54, of Spittel ; pp. 55-60, of Arnpryor; pp. 
 61 - 73, of Drumskill ; pp. 74 - 77, an account of Mr. George Bucha- 
 nan ; pp. 78 - 85, the family of Carbeth ; pp. 86 - 97, of Lenny; pp. 
 98-10], of Auchneiven; pp. 102- 107, the families of Miltown, 
 Cashill, Arduill and Sallochie ; pp. 108-111, of Macauselans; pp. 
 112 - 116, of Macmillans ; pp. 117 - 119, of Maccolmans ; pp. 120 - 
 122, an account of the origin of the Spittcls ; pp. 123 - 126, an ac-
 
 64 American Genealogist. 
 
 count of the origin of the MacMaurices, Macandeoirs, Macchruit- 
 ers and Macgreusichs ; pp. 127-135, a brief account of the mar- 
 tial achievements of the family of Buchanan, and others of that 
 name in the public service of their prince and country, and other 
 occasions; pp. 136-137, a brief account of some learned men of 
 the name of Buchanan ; pp. 139 - 173, are occupied with an inquiry 
 into the genealogy and present state of ancient Scottish surnames, 
 followed (pp. 174- 234) by sketches of some of the more prominent 
 Scottish clans, viz. : MacDonald, MacDougal, MacNeil, Maclean or 
 Macgillean ; MacLeod, Macintosh, MacPherson, Robertson or Clan 
 Donnochie, MacFarlane, Cameron, MacLauchlan, MacNauchtan, 
 MacGregor, Colquhoun and the ancient Lairds of Luss before the 
 assumption of that surname, Lamond, Macauley. Pp. 235-240, 
 contain a note by the American editor, indices, etc. 
 
 The only copy which I have seen, and which was procured 
 through the courtesy of a friend who was related to the family, 
 contains a manuscript letter, giving a brief outline sketch of the 
 American family, in which it is stated "that four brothers of the 
 Carbeth, hranch (see p. 84 of the published genealogy) settled in 
 Ireland (after their ftither sold their estate of Blairluisk, in Scot- 
 land) viz. : John and William in the county of Tyrone ; George in 
 Munster, and Thomas in Donegall. William had one son, Patrick, 
 and Patrick had a son Robert, who had two sons, one the late 
 General Thomas Buchanan of Cumberland county, Pa., and Alex- 
 ander, the father of the present Robert Buchanan, Esq., of Pa. 
 George of Munster was the ancestor of George and Andrew Buch- 
 anan of Louisville, Ky. ; and Thomas of Donegall, the ancestor of 
 our late jji-esklent, James Buchanan. John of Tyrone is said to be 
 the ancestor of James Buchanan, the late British consul in New 
 York. 
 
 A Genealogy of the Benedict Family, taken from 
 a Manuscript kept by James Benedict, Esq. of 
 Ridgefield. 
 
 This resord consists of only four folio pages, and was issued 
 without a title in 1849. The record says that a certain William
 
 American Genealogist. 65 
 
 Benedict of Nottinghamsliire liad a sou and grandson of his name, 
 and this third William had in 1617 a son Thomas. The father mar- 
 ried again a widow Bridgman, who had a daughter Mary B., and 
 Thomas Benedict came to New England in 1637 with his step- 
 sister whom he married. They had five sons and four daughters 
 all of whom were married. 
 
 The genealogy though brief gives quite a valuable amount of 
 information in regard to this family. 
 
 Memorial of the late Honorable David S. Jones. With 
 an Appendix containing notices of the Jones Family 
 of Queen's County. New York : Stanford & Swords 
 137 Broadway and for sale by Banks, Gould & Co., 
 144 Nassau Street. 1849. square 8vo. pp. 99. 
 
 The volume is compiled by W. A. Jones, son of Hon. David S., 
 and, in addition to the brief memoir of his father by himself, Mr. 
 Jones has added several biographical notices of him from several 
 periodicals, which are succeeded by notices of the Jones family 
 of Queens county. The first American ancestor of this family, 
 from whom Hon. David S. Jones is descended, was Maj. Thomas 
 Jones, who emigrated from Ireland to Rhode Island, in 1692, and 
 who married Freelove, daughter of Thomas Townsend, from whom 
 in 1696 they received a large tract of land on Long Island, called Fort 
 Neck. The genealogical notices of the several families, which are 
 mostly from the History of Long Island^ by B. F. Thompson, Esq., 
 give a connected statement of the several generations down to Hon. 
 David S. Jones, and others of the same generation, among whom 
 are several individuals of distinction. The work is very deficient 
 in dates.
 
 66 American Genealogist. 
 
 1850. 
 
 Memorial of the Moeses ; containing the History of 
 Seven Persons of the Name, who settled in America 
 in the seventeenth century. With a catalogue of 
 ten thousand of their descendants, so arranged that 
 members of each race may trace their descent from 
 their common ancestor, and discover the degrees of 
 their relationship. To which are added Biographi- 
 cal Sketches of many of their number. By Rev. 
 Abner Morse, A.M., member of the N. E. Hist. 
 - Gen. Soc. Boston : Published by William Veazie. 
 1850. 
 
 These seven heads of families here recorded, are : Samuel of 
 Dedham, and Joseph of Ipswich, who are supposed to have been 
 brothers; Anthony of Marlboro', county of Wilts, and Newbury, 
 Mass., William of Newbury, and Robert of Elizabethtown, N. J., 
 three brothers; Joshua, a chaplain in 1689; and John Moss of 
 New Haven. The record is very full, but I confess my inability 
 to understand the plan on which it is arranged. This is the 
 more vexatious, as the author was reputed to be one of our most 
 exact and learned genealogists, and this history of his own family 
 should have been nearly perfect. The publication of this volume is an- 
 other puzzle: the title page says it was issued in 1850, and it was 
 noticed in the Register of that year, as containing about 350 pages j 
 and again in 1851, a notice is given in the same magazine, of ad- 
 ditions to it, being a genealogy of the Sangers, and an index. I 
 understand that all as far as p. 169, was part of the first edition ; 
 and from there to the appendix, being pp. 172 - 241, we have a sup- 
 plement dated May 15, 1854, which is inserted in some copies. The 
 original appendix consists of sixteen octavo sheets, and the second 
 edition has an additional appendix of one sheet, and an index. 
 This I believe to be the present form of this genealogy, but the 
 author has so often added a sheet of supplementary items to his 
 works, that I will not be positive. The illustrations in my copy 
 are : Arms of Morse ; Arms of Mosse ; Map of Sherborn ; Scene at 
 Medway ; and portraits of Rev. Dr. E., Abishai, and Hon. James
 
 American Genealogist. 67 
 
 S. Morse; William Eud ; Joshua V. H. Clark; Johu L. Sibley; 
 Hon. James K., Samuel F. B. (inventor of the magnetic telegraph), 
 Dr. Isaac, Hon. Nathan, Hon. Isaac E., Henry, and Abijah H. 
 Morse ; and a very good one of the author. Our list will show that 
 Mr. Morse has been one of the most persevering genealogists of the 
 time, devoting much time to the records of families settled near 
 Sherborn, Mass.; and those who had the pleasure of his acquaintance, 
 can testify to his great familiarity with our early records, and his 
 knowledge of such family traditions as have reached the present 
 time. His recent death was a serious loss to the science of genea- 
 logy, for few have pursued it with more enthusiasm or with greater 
 success. 
 
 A Genealogical Memoir of the Family of Elder 
 Thomas Leverett of Boston. By Nathaniel B. 
 Shurtleflf. Boston: Printed for the author. 1850. 
 8vo. pp. 20. 
 
 This pamphlet, republished from the Hist, and Gen. Reg. for 
 April, 1850 (one of the best papers ever contributed to that maga- 
 zine) has been superseded by the genealogy since published. It 
 contains a preface of two pages, which with the title page I believe 
 were set up and printed by the author at his house, and the edition 
 was undoubtedly small and now rare. An engraving of Gov. Johu 
 Leverett, from the Register, forms the frontispiece. 
 
 A Genealogical and Biographical Account of the 
 Descendants of Elder William Wentworth, one of 
 the First Settlers of Dover, in the State of New 
 Hampshire. Boston: Published by S. G. Drake. 
 1850. 8vo. pp. 20. 
 
 The name of Wentworth has been connected with the colony of 
 New Hampshire for nearly its entire existence. The ancestor of 
 most of the name was William Wentworth, who is said to have 
 been a cadet of the family of the earls of Strafford. One of his 
 grandsons, John, was lieutenant governor from 1717 to 1729, and 
 was father of Benning, governor from 1741 to 1766; and of Mark,
 
 68 American Genealogist. 
 
 whose son John was also governor. Besides these ofl&ces, the Went- 
 worths and their connections by marriage, the Hunkings, Jaffreys, 
 Solleys, Penhallows, and others, enjoyed nearly all the posts of 
 honor or profit in the colony ; and a striking proof of this is given 
 in a list printed on p. 16. This record was prepared, I believe, by 
 Hon. John Wentworth of Chicago, and was published first in the 
 Register. It is very closely printed, and is a valuable addition to 
 our knowledge of New Hampshire families ; it is far from being 
 complete, however, as the pages of the Register will show ; scarcely 
 one volume of that magazine being without some additional notes, 
 many corrective of errors published. Those interested in this 
 name must examine carefully the indices of the several volumes, 
 even to the last issued, before they can feel secure that they have 
 acquired all the information extant. 
 
 The Yale Family, or the Descendants of David Yale, 
 with Genealogical Notices of each family. BjElihu 
 Yale, one of the descendants. New Haven : Storer 
 & Stone, Printers. 1850. 8vo, pp. 201. 
 
 The ancestor of the Yales here, was David Yale, no doubt of 
 the family settled at Wrexham, county of Denbigh, Wales, who 
 married Ann, daughter of Bishop Thomas Morton, by his wife, a 
 daughter of Bishop Bonner. He had sons : David, who returned 
 to London, and Thomas. David's son Theophilus, born in Boston 
 in 1651, I suppose settled in Chester, Eng., as a bond from Edward 
 Kidder of Wrexham, to serve him four years at Boston, is printed 
 in the Register, xi, 112. Thomas, son of the first David had four 
 sons; John left no issue; Nathaniel has but a very few descendants 
 in the male line, and Thomas of AVallingford, Conn., is the ancestor 
 of most of the name now living. The remaining son of Thomas, 
 was Elihu, who was educated in England, went to India, was high 
 in office under the East India Company, of which corporation he 
 became governor, after his return to London. He acquired a large 
 fortune, and from his large donation to the college at New Haven 
 it received his name. He died at London, and was buried at Wrex- 
 ham, leaving three daughters.
 
 American Genealogist. 69 
 
 The book under notice is a. very full and clear acLOunt of the 
 family here, arranged on a very good plan. It is simply a genea- 
 logy with few notes, though in an appendix will be found a biogra- 
 phy of Moses Yale Beach, proprietor of the Sun journal in New 
 York, an inventor of several ingenious and valuable machines. 
 
 The Nash Family, in part, traced clown from Thomas 
 Nash, an Emigrant from England, in 1638. Com- 
 piled by the Rev. Sylvester Nash, Essex, Ct., with 
 Additions by Herman S. Noble, Watertown, N. Y., 
 1850. Watertown : Printed by Herman S. Noble, 
 pp. 17. 
 
 This pamphlet was prepared by Mr. Nash for circulation among 
 the scattered branches of the family, for the sake of obtaining the 
 information which he afterwards embodied in his genealogy of the 
 family. Being written for this purpose, and not for general circula- 
 tion, it is rather a collection of letters and data, than an attempt 
 at a genealogy ; but it is well worth preservation. 
 
 A Genealogical Memoir of the Descendants of Wil- 
 liam Bradford, second Governor of New Plymouth, 
 in New England. Principally collected by Guy M. 
 Fessenden, corresponding member of the N. E. Hist, 
 and Gen. Society. Boston : Printed by Coolidge & 
 Wiley. 1850. 8vo. pp. 27. 
 
 It is hardly necessary to tell any native of New England that 
 the name of Bradford is one of the most distinguished on our 
 annals. The researches of the Rev. Joseph Hunter, have esta- 
 blished that William Bradford, the Pilgrim, was born at Austerfield, 
 county of York, of a good yeoman family, and adopting the new, 
 Puritanic tenets, he removed to Holland and Plymouth. Here he 
 was chosen governor, and his Hlstori/ — long lost, but recently 
 recQvered mainly by the critical judgment of J. Wingate Thornton 
 Esq. of Boston — is the corner stone of our colonial records. His 
 son, William, was deputy governor, and from him has sprung a long 
 line of estimable bearers of the name, nearly all of whom are here
 
 70 American Genealogist. 
 
 recorded. Alden Bradford, one of the sixth generation, was the 
 well known secretary of state in Massachusetts, and as an author 
 obtained much reputation by his history of the state, and contribu- 
 tions to American biography. 
 
 This pamphlet was first issued in the Register, and a great 
 portion of it was prepared by the editor, Mr. Drake. Like most of 
 the papers published in that quarterly, the utmost economy of 
 space is exercised, and this work contains more information than 
 many of its rivals of twice the number of pages. 
 
 The Leland Magazine, or a Genealogical Record of 
 Henry Leland, and his Descendants, containing an 
 account of nine thousand six hundred and twenty- 
 four persons, in ten generations, and embracing 
 nearly every person of the name of Leland in Ame- 
 rica, from 1653 to 1850. By Sherman Leland. 
 Boston: Printed by Wier & White. 1850. 8vo. pp. 
 278. 
 
 This book contains the history of a large and widely scattered 
 family, and has all the material requisite for a very complete record. 
 It is to be regretted that the author has adopted a plan of cum- 
 brous cross references, which mars the appearance of the page, and 
 requires considerable patience on the part of the reader to compre- 
 hend. There is a good table of contents and index, and by perse- 
 verance, much valuable information may be found therein, especially 
 as very many of the descendants in the female lines are traced for 
 two or three generations. A list is given on p. ii, of thirty-two 
 lithographed portraits bound in this volume, and on p. viii, a 
 description of the Leland coat of arms concludes a sketch of some 
 English bearers of the name ; but no connection is shown between 
 these and the family here. This genealogy is one of the most ex- 
 tensive on our list, and it is certainly a proof of the author's zeal 
 and skill; but its plan is a grave error, as no dates of days or 
 months accompany the years, and in this, it is far below our present 
 standard.
 
 American Genealogist. 71 
 
 Memorial of Samuel Appleton of Ipswich, Massachu- 
 setts; with Genealogical Notices of some of his 
 Descendants. Compiled by Isaac Appleton Jewett. 
 Boston: 1850. Cambridge: Printed by Bolles & 
 Houghton. 
 
 A fine large octavo volume of 183 pages, containing engravings of 
 Little Waldinficld Church, Great Waldingfield Church, Appleton 
 pedigree and monument, and facsimile of Samuel Appleton's writ- 
 ing. The English portion of the pedigree is very complete and 
 satisfactory — this family, so distinguished in our annals, being also 
 of an ancient stock long settled in Suffolk. It is truly pleasant to 
 the genealogist to see what he regards as a most interesting study, 
 to wit, a long extending and clearly traced pedigree, thus preserved 
 by the pious care of its representative in a manner befitting its 
 value. For value in the points ascertained, and beauty of typo- 
 graphical garb, this book has few peers. 
 
 A Genealogical Memoir of the Gilbert Family, in 
 both Old and New England. By J. Wingate 
 Thornton. Boston: Printed for the Author. 1850. 
 8vo. pp. 23. 
 
 This work, of which fifty copies were reprinted from the Register 
 for April and October, 1850, is properly to be divided into two dis- 
 tinct parts ; the Gilberts in England being in no way connected 
 with those here. The first seven pages contain an account of the 
 celebrated Sir Humphrey Gilbert and his family, evidently the result 
 of a close comparison of all the accessible authorities. There were 
 several settlers of the name here, the name being one which must be 
 common in England, but our author treats chiefly of Jonathan of 
 Hartford, 1645, who had three brothers settled in Connecticut. 
 Pp. 18-19 contain a very neat tabular pedigree of a portion of his 
 descendants, and the notes subjoined are very interesting. 
 
 A very good notice of the Gilberts will be found in Mr. Savage's 
 Dictionary^ but he omits to note one fact here cited, viz., that Wil- 
 liam of Boston was connected with the Truesdales, and other clues 
 are given which may enable us to trace the family in England.
 
 72 American Genealogist. 
 
 A Genealogical and Historical Memoir of the Family 
 of Otis ; descended from John Otis, an Early Set- 
 tler at Hingham, in Massachusetts. By Horatio 
 Nelson Otis (of New York), member of the N. E. 
 Hist. Gen. Society. Boston : Printed by Coolidge 
 & Wiley. 8vo. pp. 39. 
 
 This is a reprint from the Register for 1850, and is the second 
 part of the genealogy which was commenced in that magazine in 
 1848. The first part was not reprinted. This part contains a notice 
 of Harrison Gray Otis, one of the most eloquent men of his time, 
 senator, judge, and mayor of Boston, and one of the leaders of the 
 Hartford convention. Some notes on this family, and especially on 
 the branch to which James Otis belonged, will be found in Free- 
 man's History of Cape God. It seems probable that John Otis 
 of Hingham was of Glastonbury, county of Somerset, but the con- 
 nection is hardly sufficiently proved. 
 
 1851. 
 
 A Genealogical Memoir of the Family of Richard 
 Otis, and collaterally of the Families of Baker, 
 Varney, Waldron, Watson, Bean, Smith, Stackpole, 
 Wentworth, Carr, Purrington, Beede, Newton, 
 Heard, Ham, Tuttle, Pinkham, Chesley, Coggswell, 
 Wallingford, &c., &c. Prepared and arranged for 
 publication by Horatio N. Otis of New York. Bos- 
 ton: N. E. Historical and Genealogical Register 
 Office, No. 56 Cornhill. Printed by Charles C. P. 
 Moody. 1851. 8vo. pp. 48. 
 
 This article on the Otis family traces the descendants of Richard 
 Otis of Dover, N. H., who was mentioned in the preceding accounts 
 {Register, 1848 and 1850) as son of John 0. of Hingham, but now 
 supposed to be a nephew. The recoi-d is very full and closely 
 printed, with many notes on the families mentioned on the title- 
 page. Much space is given to an account of Christine Otis, who 
 was captured by the Indians at Dover, carried to Canada, and was
 
 American Genealogist. 73 
 
 there married; but was afterwards exchanged with other prisoners, 
 and married secondly Capt. Thomas Baker of Brookfield. A 
 notice at the end of this volume promises the publication of all this 
 material in a new volume, but I presume it was never issued. 
 
 A Genealogical Register of the Descendants in the 
 male line of David Atwater, one of the original 
 Planters of New Haven, Conn., to the Fifth Gene-, 
 ration. New Haven : Printed by J. H. Benham. 
 1851. 8vo. pp. 30. 
 
 All of this name in New England are undoubtedly descendants 
 of two brothers, David and Joshua, the latter of whom is called by 
 Mr. Savage, a merchant from London. Joshua was assistant and 
 treasurer at New Haven, but removed to Boston. His son John 
 married into the Wainwright and Cotton families, and his daughter 
 was mother of famous Jeremy Dummer; items which show that 
 the family was of good standing. It is believed that the issue of 
 Joshua became extinct in the male line, and that all now living 
 are sprung from David, whose family is here recorded. This regis- 
 ter is very exact in dates, but the marriages of the' females seem 
 neglected. It is clearly arranged, and has a good index of Christian 
 names. I presume the author to be Rev. Edward E. Atwater of 
 New Haven. 
 
 A Genealogical Register of the Name of Bostwick, 
 with the Families in their respective Generations, 
 Births, Marriages and Deaths, as far as obtained, 
 from 1668 to 1850. By Erastus Bostwick. Burling- 
 ton : Printed by Tuttle & Stacy. 1851. 12nio. pp. 
 50. 
 
 This may fairly be classed in the second order of our genealogies, 
 containing much of interest to the family, but neither remarkable 
 for extent of plan or variety of antiquarian information. It is an 
 unpretending and tolerably full family record. The age of its 
 author, eighty-three years, may well be an excuse to him for not 
 pursuing all the wide-spreading branches of his family. 
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 74 American Genealogist. 
 
 Genealogy of a portion of the Brown Family ; princi- 
 pally from the Moses Brown Papers, and from 
 other Authentic Sources. Providence : Press of H. 
 H. Brown. 1851. 16mo. pp. 16. 
 
 A record of a few of the descendants of Chad Brown, who re- 
 moved from Salem to Providence in 1637, and was pastor of the 
 church there. One of his descendants, Elisha Brown, became 
 governor of the Khode Island colony. The work was prepared, I 
 am informed, by Henry Truman Beckwith, for several years secre- 
 tary of the Rhode Island Historical Society. 
 
 A Genealogical Memoir of the Leonard Family ; con- 
 taining a full Account of the first three Generations 
 of the Family of James Leonard, who was an early 
 Settler of Taunton, Ms. ; with incidental notices of 
 later descendants. [Prepared for the N. E. Hkt.- 
 Gen. Reg.'] By Wm. R. Deane, member of the New 
 England Historic-Genealogical Society. Boston : S. 
 G. Drake, No. 56 CornhiU. 1851. 8vo. 
 
 The frontispiece of this memoir is a portrait of Eev. Perez Fobes, 
 who prepared a sketch of the Leonard Family for the Mass. Hist. 
 Coll.^ in 1794. James and Henry Leonard were sons of a Thomas, 
 who did not accompany them to this country, and who is sai^ to 
 have lived at Pontypool. county of Monmouth, Wales. Some evi- 
 dence is offered to show that this family was an offshoot from the 
 Lennards, lords Dacre, but there is nothing amounting to proba- 
 bility. In this country the name has been of good repute, and the 
 bearers from the first have been concerned in the iron foundery 
 business; so much in fact as to have become proverbial. Among 
 the descendants of James may be named Daniel Leonard, a loyalist, 
 who became chief justice of Bermuda ; George, a prominent politi- 
 cian; and in the female line, judges Chipman, Cobb, and Wilde, 
 and many of distinction in public life. In 1853, an appendix, re- 
 printed from the Register for January of that year, and the portraits 
 before mentioned, were added. The appendix consists of a notice
 
 American Genealogist. 75 
 
 of Major Zephaniah Leonard, and a curious genealogy, taken in 
 1733, from the statements of Mrs. Hannah Deane, daughter of the 
 first James. 
 
 Genealogical Table of the Lee Family, from the First 
 Emigration to America in 1641. Brought down to 
 the year 1851. Compiled from information fur- 
 nished by Hon. Martin Lee of Granville, Washing- 
 ton county, N. Y., and from other sources, by the 
 Rev. William H. Hill, of Morris, Otsego county, N. 
 Y. (Printed for private circulation only) . Albany : 
 Weed, Parsons & Co.'s print. 1851. 8vo. pp. 31. 
 
 This is a tolerably full account of the descendants of Thomas Lee 
 of Saybrook, Conn., but it is deficient in dates. Enough informa- 
 tion is given of the difi"erent branches to make the book of value to 
 any one desirous to trace any ofishoot to the main stem, but the 
 special care of the author has been given to one line of descent. 
 Appendix C is given to the Ely family, springing from Richard 
 Ely of Lyme, Conn. ; and Appendix D has some notes relative to 
 the descendants of Michael Hill, who was undoxibtedly son of James 
 Hill of Guilford, and grandson of John of the same place. These 
 records are valuable additions to the main work, and might easily 
 escape notice, from their position. 
 
 A History and Genealogy of the Davenport Family 
 in England and America, from A. D. 1086 to 1850. 
 Compiled and prepared from Ormerod's History of 
 the County of Chester ; Collections from the Har- 
 leian Mss ; Parochial and Town Records in England 
 and America, etc., etc. By A. Benedict Davenport 
 (of the twenty-fourth generation), corresponding 
 member of the New England Historic-Genealogical 
 Society. New York: S.W.Benedict. 1851. 12mo. 
 pp. 398. 
 
 The progenitor of the family in this country, was the distin- 
 guished minister, John Davenport, who was born in Coventry, of
 
 76 American Genealogist. 
 
 which city his grandfather had been mayor. The Davenports have 
 long been a noted family in Cheshire, and the first eighty-two pages 
 of this book are devoted to an account of the family for some seven- 
 teen generations. Few families here or in England have a longer 
 or better pedigree than this to show, and the race has not deterio- 
 rated here. The genealogy as here given, is not very extensive, 
 but it is easily traced, and is enriched by various notes interspersed 
 throughout. A portrait of Rev. John Davenport forms the front- 
 ispiece, and there is also a view of the Davenport House, New 
 Haven, and one of the public squares of the same city. A large 
 portion of the volume is devoted to the first John and his grandson. 
 Rev. John of Stamford, and the appendix contains numerous letters, 
 wills and deeds. A very good tabular pedigree, compiled from 
 this book, will be found in the Register, ix, 146 - 148, with a very 
 interesting letter from Rev. John Davenport, dated 1639. 
 
 A Family Record of the Descendants of John Spof- 
 FORD, and Elizabeth his wife, who came from Eng- 
 land to America, and settled at Rowley, in 1638. 
 By Jeremiah Spoiford, M. D., Physician of Grove- 
 land, late Bradford, Mass. Haverhill : E. G. Froth- 
 ingham, Printer, 1851. 8vo, pp. 64. 
 
 This is a very fair record of this family, though the dates are 
 wanting in some of the latter generations. John Spofford, the emi- 
 grant, was of Rowley in 1643, but nothing is known of his birth- 
 place or parentage. The author gives here some notes on English 
 bearers of the name (and I think the same record is copied in 
 Burke's Visitation of Seats and ^rm.s), but there is no reason here 
 shown to imagine that the emigrant was in any way connected with 
 the persons named. The descendants of John have mostly resided 
 at or near Rowley, and have been held in esteem there; the de- 
 scendants in the female line are very numerous. The work was 
 reprinted, with additions by the author, in the Register for 1854 
 and 1855.
 
 American Genealogist. 77 
 
 Mementos of the Swett Family. By John Wingate 
 Thornton. In Memoriam. Roxbury, December, 
 1851. Privately printed, one hundred copies. 8vo, 
 pp. 26. 
 
 The record of this family commences with John Swett of New 
 Hampshire, I presume, for despite the coat of arms on the title page, 
 I find no trace recorded of his parentage. More than half of this 
 book is devoted to an account of Benjamin, son of John; and the 
 register of the family is given in a rather rambling manner, only a 
 part of it being traced; the whole being interspersed with anecdotes. 
 This account was reprinted in the Register for January, 1852. The 
 author is one of the best informed antiquaries of New England, 
 and as a genealogist, his name will be found in several places on our 
 list; he was one of the founders of the N. E. Hist.-Gen. Society, 
 and an early contributor to the Register. 
 
 A Genealogical and Historical Account of the De- 
 scendants of Henry Tucker. Collected from vari- 
 rious and authentic sources. By George H. Tucker, 
 M. D. In memoriam majorum. New York : Printed 
 by Wm. C. Martin, 111 John Street, June, 1851, 
 An. Domini, and year of Independence LXXV. 8vo, 
 pp. 37. 
 
 The Introduction, pp. vi-viii, after giving the origin of the name 
 from an obsolete word, tucker, a fuller of cloth, which Baily de- 
 rives from tuck, an old Teutonic noun, signifying cloth, has some 
 brief remarks on the early settlers of the name in this country. 
 From p. 9-29, is an account of Henry Tucker, who came to Ame- 
 rica in the seventeenth century, but of whom the precise date of 
 immigration, and the place where he settled, are unknown ; and a 
 genealogy of his descendants arranged, with cross references, in a 
 very clear manner. Several autographs are given. The appendix, 
 pp. 31-39, contains the will of Samuel Tucker of Deal, N. J., a 
 great-grandson of the immigrant, who died in 1818, aged 83 ; fol- 
 lowed by copies of old letters and inscriptions on gravestones. I 
 understand that the author. Dr. Tucker of New York, intends in
 
 78 American Genealogist. 
 
 the course of two or three years, to publish a second edition, which 
 will include several other branches of the Tucker family in New 
 York and New Jersey. 
 
 Genealogy of the Descendants of Richard Sanger, 
 the Puritan. By Rev. Abner Morse, A. M. Bos- 
 ton : George Coolidge. 1851. 8vo. pp. 12. 
 
 The progenitor of this family was an early settler of Hingham, 
 Mass., where he died Jan. 25, 1661. The present work contains a 
 portrait -of Rev. Zedekiah Sanger, D.D., of Bridgewater, and of 
 Hon. Calvin Sanger of Sherborn, Mass. The author afterwards 
 compiled an account of this family, which he published in his His- 
 tory of Sherhoi-n, and also in the first volume of his Genealogy of 
 Ancient Puritans. This pamphlet is frequently found bound up at 
 the end of the Memorial of the Horses. 
 
 Our Family Genealogy. Printed for the family, but 
 not published. Morgan (James sen. James jun., 
 William 1st, William 2d, William 3d) Avery (James 
 sen., James jun., Christopher Temperance) William 
 Avery Morgan * * * Hartford : Press 
 of Case, Tiffany & Co. 1851. pp. 16. 
 
 The first two pages are devoted to one Hue of the descendants of 
 Capt. James Avery of New London. The Morgans are traced from 
 James of Gloucester and New London, who left at least three sons. 
 The genealogy is quite brief, and probibly the most distinguished 
 member of the family, has been Edwin D. Morgan, Governor of 
 New York, and now U. S. Senator, who was son of Jasper, grandson 
 of William Avery and great-grandson of William Morgan 3d. 
 This William 3d, was son of William jr., grandson of William, who 
 was son of James jr., and grandson of James, the emigrant. 
 
 Genealogical Memoir of the Family of Rev. Nathaniel 
 Rogers. By a Descendant. 8vo. pp. 48. 
 
 This was a reissue of an article that appeared in the N^ew England 
 Historical and Genealogical Register for April, 1851, and probably
 
 American Genealogist. 79 
 
 appeared without a title page. It was certainly a laborious and 
 interesting memoir, but it proceeded upon the false assumption 
 that Nathaniel, who was sou of Rev. John Rogers of Dedham, 
 England, was the grandson of famous John Rogers, the martyr of 
 Queen Mary's reign. We sa.y false assumption, because as we shall 
 hereafter show, a most competent writer, after examining records in 
 England which have remained in obscurity for centuries, has decided 
 that the claim must be abandoned as unproved, and even improbable. 
 The undoubted portion of the pedigree is, however, sufficiently 
 honorable, and this careful family history is extremely creditable 
 to the industry of its compiler. 
 
 Ward Family ; Descendants of William Ward, who 
 settled in Sudbury, Mass., in 1639. With an Ap- 
 pendix, alphabetically arranged, of the Names of 
 the Families that have intermarried with them. 
 By Andrew Henshaw Ward, A. M., member of the 
 New England Historic and Genealogical Society. 
 Boston : Published by Samuel G. Drake. 1851. 8vo. 
 pp. 265. 
 
 This is a very full and well-arranged register of the descendants 
 of William Ward, both in the male and female lines, and as a good 
 index is added, it is a work likely to be serviceable to every genea- 
 logist. Very few biographical notes are given beyond the statement 
 of the occupation of any given individual, but the notes on persons 
 intermarrying with the Wards, are very valuable. The illustrations 
 are portraits of Gen. Artemus Ward, and of the author, who has 
 also written a valuable History of Shrewshury. On p. 146 is given 
 a note on the Henshaws, tracing the family of Joshua, who is 
 said to have come to Dorchester in 1653, aged 10, and to have been 
 son of William Henshaw, who served under Prince Rupert, and 
 was killed in 1644. It is farther said that William, who married 
 Catharine, dau. of Evan Houghton of Wavertree Hall, county of 
 
 Lancaster, was son of Thomas of Derby, by his wife, Kendrick 
 
 of Kendrick's Cross, Prescot, county of Lancaster; but Savage, in his 
 article on Henshaw, does not mention this pedigree, and calls the
 
 80 American Genealogist. 
 
 report of Joshua's emigration with his brother at so early an age, 
 '' a doubtful tradition." Q'he story above cited is so circumstantial, 
 that it ought easily to be verified. 
 
 Kecord of the descendants of Silence Holbrook of 
 Weymouth, Mass. Worcester : Printed by Henry 
 J. Howland, 199 Main Street. 8vo, pp. 19. 
 
 This pamphlet was published in the year 1851. It was compiled 
 by Charles W. Holbrook, while a student at Williams College, and 
 is very creditable to him, the arrangement being good and the dates 
 full and minute. The ancestor of this family was born in 1741, 
 consequently the families here recorded are of late date. Rev. 
 Abner Morse has since published in his History of Sherhorn, and 
 in the first volume of his Genealogy of Several Ancient Puritans, 
 a good genealogy of the Holbrooks from the settlement of the 
 country to the present time, which I think contains all the persons 
 named in this book. 
 
 Genealogical and Historical Notes of the Bowles 
 Family. By Samuel Bowles of Springfield. Janu- 
 ary 1, 1851. 8vo. pp. 8. 
 
 The author of this pamphlet is well known in Massachusetts as 
 the editor of the Springfield Republican. He gives here some of 
 the descendants of Elder John Bowles of Roxbury, who died, in 
 1680, but without any pretence to completeness. He remarks : "I 
 have prepared it simply to gratify myself and children, and have 
 been at no special pains to obtain facts touching other branches." 
 
 The Connecticut family bearing the name of Bolles is here said 
 to be descended from Thomas Bolles of New London, who, we 
 elsewhere learn, died May 26, 1727, aged 84. 
 
 It seems from a note on the first page, that a previous edition of 
 this pamphlet had been issued, which was incomplete and incorrect, 
 and which the author wished destroyed. The present pamphlet is 
 without title page.
 
 American Genealogist. 81 
 
 1852. 
 
 Genealogy of the Frost Family, Elliot, York county, 
 
 Maine. 
 
 This work was published after 1851, and was issued as a pamphlet, 
 without a title page. It contains 27 pages, and I believe was 'the 
 work of Dr. Usher Parsons. It is not very precise in dates, but the 
 family seems to be carefully traced out. The ancestor here was 
 Nicholas of Piscataqua, who died in 1663, aged about 74. His old- 
 est son, Charles, was born at Tiverton, Eng., July 30th, 1631, and 
 had Charles, who married Jane (Elliot) widow of Andrew Pepper- 
 rell (his son Charles married his stepsister, Sarah Pepperrell), and 
 Hon. John Frost, who married Mary Pepperrell. The family has 
 been one of the most distinguished in that portion of the country. 
 
 The following work may perhaps be noticed here : 
 
 The Life of Sir William Pepperrell, Bart., the only native of 
 New England who was created a Baronet during our connection 
 with the Mother Country. By Usher Parsons. Boston : Little, 
 Brown & Co., 1855. 12mo, pp. 352. 
 
 This work is compiled from original documents, and gives a very 
 interesting account of one of the most prominent merchants of New 
 England. His father William Pepperrell, came from Tavistock, 
 Wales, and settled at Kittery, where he made a large fortune, which 
 was increased by his son. Sir William was especially famous for 
 his services in the expedition against Louisburg, and the documents 
 here printed are very valuable. The Pepperrells are extinct in the 
 male line, though the females married into the best families of the 
 day. His grandson, William Pepperrell Sparhawk, succeeded to 
 the name and title, married a daughter of Col. Isaac Royall ; was a 
 refugee ; and with him ended the name. 
 
 A third edition with a portrait of Sir William was published in 
 1856. 
 
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 82 American Genealogist. 
 
 The Kidder Family in England and America. [Bos- 
 ton: 1852.] 8vo. pp. 21. 
 
 This pamphlet, which is without title page, or place or date of 
 publication, is a reprint from the History of New Ipswich, N. H. 
 It is by Frederic Kidder, the principal author of that history. The 
 descent is given from Richard Kidder of Maresfield, Eng., who was 
 born in 1440, to the third generation of the descendants of James 
 Kidder, born 1626, who emigrated to this country. Some of the 
 branches are brought down to the year 1850. The English pedi- 
 gree is arranged in tabular form, but the exact grounds of the affilia- 
 tion of the emigrant are not given. We do not see in this book any 
 certain proof though perhaps a reasonable probability is shown. 
 Another branch of the descendants of James Kidder will be found 
 in the Medford Genealogies. 
 
 The History and Genealogy of the Prentice or Pren- 
 tiss Family in New England, from 1631 to 1852. 
 Collected by C. J. F. Binney. Boston : Published 
 by the Author. 1852. 8vo. pp. 272 and 8. 
 
 There were several of the name of Prentice among the first set- 
 tlers here, as enumerated herein on pp. 1, 2, and the author gives 
 an account of the different branches, as follows : pp. 4 -1 J, issue of 
 Valentine of Roxbury, and his son John of New London ; the rest 
 of the volume recording the issue of Henry of Cambridge, and 
 eight pages extra relates to Thomas Prentice of Newton and his 
 family, settled at Preston, Conn. The account of the family of 
 Henry Prentice is very full, and is enriched with many valuable 
 notes, but the want of any clear system of arrangement disfigures it, 
 though by the index, any required individual may be hunted out. 
 Pp. 225-241 contain disconnected notes on different individuals of 
 the name ; pp. 27 and 248 make mention of the family of Nathaniel 
 Prentice Banks, the well known Governor of Massachusetts. 
 Appendix D, p. 249, treats of coats of arms ; pp. 257 - 262 relate to 
 the Binneys, descended from John Binney of Hull. The volume
 
 American Genealogist. 83 
 
 contains portraits of Sartell Prentice, Rev. Caleb, Henry, Joshua, 
 William H., Rev. Thomas, Hon. Samuel, and Rev. Joseph Pren- 
 tice, and one sheet containing two views of houses occupied by 
 Prentices. One of the most distinguished bearers of the name was 
 Sargent S. Prentiss, noticed on p. 144, a lawyer and politician, 
 whose oratory was conspicuous even in the days of Webster and 
 Clay, and whose popularity at the South was unbounded. 
 
 A Sermon preached at the Funeral of Martin Rock- 
 well, of Colebrook, December 11, 1851. By Rev. 
 Joseph Eldridge. With an Appendix and a Gene- 
 alogy of the Rockwell Family. Printed for the 
 Descendants of Samuel Rockwell of Colebrook. 
 New Haven : Printed by B. L. Hamlin. 1852. 8vo. 
 pp. 27. 
 
 The appendix contains a good account of Samuel Rockwell, of 
 the fifth generation from William R. of Windsor, Conn. He was 
 born in 1729, and was one of the earliest settlers at Colebrook. 
 Sketches are here given of his sons, and at the end we have three 
 pages of names of heads of families and their children, down to 
 1731, and two pages of Samuel's issue. There are no dates, but 
 the student will find herein a very useful outline of the whole race. 
 
 Genealogy of the Family of William Smith, of Peter- 
 borough, N. H. Keene : Printed by Horatio Kim- 
 ball. 1852. 8vo. pp. 24. 
 
 This is a very good account of a branch of the descendants of 
 Robert Smith, who came from Moneymore, county of Londonderry, 
 to this country, in 1736 ; being one of the well-known Scotch-Irish 
 emigrants. The family have been among the most esteemed citi- 
 zens of the state, and members of it have repeatedly held public 
 office — one grandson of Robert being Jeremiah Smith, chief justice 
 and governor of New Hampshire. The appendix contains some 
 information in relation to the Morrisons, and the whole work is 
 very exact in dates, and does credit to the compilers, L. W. Leonard 
 and Samuel Abbot Smith.
 
 84 American Genealogist. 
 
 Journal of an Expedition against Quebec, in 1775, 
 under Col. Benedict Arnold. By Joseph Ware, of 
 Needham, Mass. To which is appended Notes and 
 a Genealogy of the Ware Family. Prepared for 
 the New England Historical and Genealogical Re- 
 gister. Published for Joseph Ware, grandson of 
 the journalist. Boston : Thomas Prince, Printer. 
 1852. 8vo. pp. 24. 
 
 This reprint from the Register we iiote specially as containing a 
 genealogy of part of the descendants of Robert Ware of Wrentham, 
 Mass., prepared by Wm. B. Trask. The notes to the journal are 
 by Justin Winsor, author of the History of Duxhury. The record 
 makes a very fair outline, though lacking many dates. The most 
 prominent bearers of the name, perhaps, are Hon. Ashur Ware of 
 Maine, Rev. Henry Ware, Hollis Professor at Cambridge, and his 
 sons, Rev. Henry, also of Cambridge, and Rev. William Ware, an 
 author of much talent and learning. It is, perhaps, worthy of 
 notice, that this journal is claimed (^Book of the Lockes, p. 323) 
 for Ebenezer Tolman, who was in the same expedition, and whose 
 family are positive that he wrote it. I will not attempt to decide 
 the point, though Mr. Locke produces strong evidence. ^ 
 
 'Mr. J. W. Dean has furnished the following note on tliis subject : " In 
 the year 1853, I examined, with Messrs. Locke and Trask, the two manu- 
 scripts of this journal, referred to by Mr. Locke. Mr Trask thought, as I 
 did, that the manuscripts were in different handwritings. As for myself, 
 I had little doubt of it. The manuscript ascribed to Mr. Ware, showed a 
 much more practiced pen than did that ascribed to Mr Tolman. There 
 were other points of dissimilarity. The caj^ital A's in one manuscript, were 
 always begun at the top, while in the other they were always begun at the 
 bottom, other letters showed similar differences. If I remember aright, 
 the two journals were almost literally the same, to the date of the impri- 
 sonment of the company, after which they differed materially. My im- 
 pression at the time w^as, that Mr. Ware, who was clerk of his company, 
 kept the journal, but that during their mutual captivity, Mr. Tolman copied 
 what Mr. Ware had written, and continued it as his individual journal. 
 The occurrence of the personal pronoun /, in Mr. Tolman's manuscript, 
 which Mr. Locke lays stress upon, occurs in this latter portion. It is evi-
 
 American Genealogist. 85 
 
 A Genealogical Sketch of the Riddell Family, includ- 
 mg a List of the Descendants of the three brothers, 
 Hugh, Gawn, and Robert, who came to America in 
 1737. By W. P. Riddel, A.B. New Orleans: 
 1852. 8vo. pp. 44. 
 
 It will be noticed that this genealogy commences at quite a re- 
 cent date, and the record consequently is full and easily examined. 
 The author devotes his first eighteen pages to notes on the origin 
 of the name, and on the bearers of it in this country and elsewhere. 
 He shows it to be a name probably of Scotch origin, and establishes 
 a reasonable claim to regard the north of Ireland as the birth-place of 
 the emigrants. The register is creditable to the author, and the 
 anecdotes and biographies introduced, must be interesting to all of 
 the name. Though published at New Orleans, where the author 
 resided, the book was printed by John F. Trow of New York. The 
 edition consists of 250 copies, and the publication price was $1. 
 
 Genealogy of the Descendants of Humphrey Turner, 
 with family records. In two parts. Compiled by 
 Jacob Turner, Esq. Boston : Published by David 
 Turner, jr. 1852. 4to. pp. 63. 
 
 This record is pi'epared on a system very diflPerent from any other 
 published, the first part being a register of the descendants by gene- 
 rations ; but I must confess my inability to appreciate the merits of 
 the plan. The second part contains the family records, arranged 
 on some recondite system of series^ and very full of information, 
 which the reader will have to reconstruct for himself. The notes 
 are very good, and contain particulars concerning the families of 
 
 dent that one manuscript was copied from the other, or that both were 
 copied from some other manuscript. A grandson of Mr. Ware, who was 
 familiar with his writing, asserted that the manuscript from which the 
 above work was printed, was in liis grandfather's handwriting, and that he 
 had always heard it spoken of as his grandfather's journal. Mr. Locke 
 asserts that a son of Ebenezer Tolman's is equally sure that his father kept 
 the journal. The authorsliip must therefore remain in doubt, unless some 
 other e\'idence is produced. "
 
 86 American Genealogist. 
 
 Gushing, Porter, Dimick, Emerson, Jenks, and Drury, the latter in 
 a neat pedigree of the issue of Hugh Drury of Boston. I believe 
 that a large tabular pedigree, prepared by Charles Turner, should 
 accompany this book, to which it will prove a valuable key. This 
 genealogy, like one or two others we have noticed, shows the neces- 
 sity of a good arrangement in work of this kind, since the lack of 
 it not only interferes with the usefulness of the book, but deprives 
 the author of a large portion of the praise to which his industry 
 should entitle him. 
 
 1853. 
 
 Sesqui-Centennial Gathering of the Clan Darlington : 
 at the residence of Brinton Darlington, in East 
 Bradford, Chester county, Pennsylvania, on the 
 20th of August, 1853. Printed by request of the 
 Tribe. 
 
 This pamphlet gives the particulars of a meeting of the descend- 
 ants of Abraham Darlington, at which time the venerable Dr. Wm. 
 Darlington, one of the most distinguished botanists of the day, 
 delivered a very able and interesting account of the ancestors of 
 those he then welcomed. It seems by the letters here published 
 that two young men, Abraham and John Darlington, came to 
 Pennsylvania at a date previous to 1711. They were the sons of 
 Job and Mary Darlington of Darnhall, county of Chester, and a 
 visit to that village enabled one of the descendants to report that 
 there were ample records there of the race, some of the name re- 
 maining there still. The letters we have mentioned were written 
 by the parents to these children — one of the few cases in which 
 such records have been preserved — and they are sufficient proof 
 of the genealogy. Pp. 24- 52 contain the names of the descendants 
 of Abraham, arranged by generations in columns ; but unfortunately, 
 not a single date is joined to the names, though they are probably 
 preserved by the compiler. The families are traced in the female 
 line as well as the male, and the total of known descendants is over 
 fifteen hundred.
 
 American Genealogist. 87 
 
 Memoir of the Fa rear Family. By a Member of the 
 N. E. Hist. Gen. Society. Boston : Printed for pri- 
 vate distribution at the Press of Thomas Prince. 
 1853. 8vo. pp. 45. 
 
 This work is by the Hon. Timothy Farrar (D. C. 1807), vice- 
 president of the N. E. Historic-Genealogical Society from 1853 to 
 1858. Pp. 1-14 consist of an article contributed to the Register 
 in October, 1852; from p 15 to the middle of p. 33, is from the 
 History of New Ipsivich, N. H. ; and the remainder of the work is 
 new matter. A few copies only were printed, which were bound 
 up with the Rev. T. F. Clary's discourse on the centennial anni- 
 versary of the Hon. Timothy Farrar, July 11, 1847 (Andover, 
 1847). A portrait of the latter gentleman, who graduated at 
 Harvard College, 1767, and was father of the author, is prefixed. 
 The work has no title page. 
 
 Genealogical Record of the Hodges Family in New 
 England, containing the names of over 1500 per- 
 sons, from 1633 to 1853, numbering eight gene- 
 rations. By Almon D. Hodges, Member of the 
 Historic-Genealogical Society, Boston, November 1, 
 1853. Boston : Printed by Button and Wentworth, 
 1853. 8vo. pp. 71. 
 
 The author copies the preface of the former edition, and states 
 his attempt to continue the record from 1837; but though he has 
 added several new branches, he confesses that his record is far from 
 complete. There is a lack of arrangement visible in this book, but 
 it contains a large number of facts, and is a great improvement 
 on the first edition. Many of the descendants in the female line 
 are given, and numerous anecdotes and letters find a place here. 
 In many cases, a table of a family is given, followed by notes ; 
 and this plan, though it mars the appearance of the page, will be 
 found to have its advantages. The author has long been known 
 for his interest in this science, and has within a few years been 
 president of the ^. E. Hist. Gen. Society.
 
 88 American Genealogist. 
 
 The Nash Family ; or Records of the Descendants of 
 Thomas Nash of New Haven, Connecticut, 1640. 
 Collected and compiled hy the Rev. Sylvester Nash, 
 A. M., Rector of St. John's Church, Essex, Conn. 
 Hartford: Press of Case, Tiffany & Co. 1853. 8vo. 
 pp. 304. 
 
 The author states in his introduction, that prior to 1800, the 
 bearers of this name in New England might be divided into three 
 branches, descended respectively from James of Weymouth, Mass., 
 Thomas of New Haven, and Edward of Norwalk, Conn., and that 
 these three are not known to have been related. The descend- 
 ants of the first named are said to have been traced out by Mr. 
 Cyrus Nash of Abington, Mass., who died in 1850, and his manu- 
 scripts are probably still preserved; the present work relates 
 entirely to the progeny of Thomas. This Thomas probably married 
 Margery, daughter of Nicholas Baker, as is shown by an extract 
 from Berry's Hertfordshire Pedigrees ; and by her he had three sons, 
 John (who died s.p.m.^, Joseph, and Timothy. The record given 
 is clear and full, and the arrangement is convenient, though 
 different somewhat from our standard ; and in all respects the work 
 is highly creditable to the author. The illustrations are portraits 
 of Rev. Daniel Nash, Judge Simeon Nash, and the author; and 
 many autographs are inserted in the text. 
 
 A part of this record was published in 1850 as follows : The 
 J^ash Family, in part traced down from Thomas Nash, an Emi- 
 grant from England, &c. It will be found in its proper place. 
 
 A Historical Notice of Joseph Mygatt, one of the 
 Early Colonists of Cambridge, Mass., and afterward 
 one of the First Settlers of Hartford. Conn. ; with 
 a Record of his Descendants. By Frederick T. 
 Mygatt, a Descendant of the Ninth Generation. 
 Brooklyn, N. Y. : Printed by the Harmonial Asso- 
 ciation. 1853. pp. 116. 
 
 This book contains a well written sketch of Joseph Mygatt, 
 the progenitor of all bearing the name in this country, and a
 
 American GIenbalogist. 89 
 
 neat and careful account of the descendants. The plan of arrange- 
 ment is all that could be desired, and the page being a little 
 taller than is usual, the book is grateful to the eyes of a genealo- 
 gist. The family has not been very prolific ; probably less than six 
 hundred have been born in this country ; the bearers of the name, 
 however, have always occupied a good position, and many have 
 held offices of trust and honor. 
 
 Memoranda of the Descendants of Amos Morris, of 
 East Haven, Conn. New York: Published by A. 
 S. Barnes & Co. 1853. 12mo. pp. 103. 
 
 The compilers of this little work, E. L. Hart and 0. Street, state 
 that it was planned at a meeting of the descendants of Amos Morris, 
 held July 4, 1850. Amos was the son of James Morris, whose 
 father Eleazer was son of Thomas, the emigrant. The genealogy 
 traces the children and grandchildren of Amos, who married Lydia 
 Camp in 1745, and as so recent a starting point has been selected, 
 the record is nearly complete. It occupies 71 pages, and appendix 
 No. 1 gives an account of the family meeting in 1850, which 
 prompted the issue of this volume. Appendix No. 2 treats of the 
 arms borne by the Morris family of York, England, and the authors 
 say " we arrive then by a very certain process at the conclusion, 
 that the coat of arms of Morris of York, is also legitimately ours, 
 being common to all who bear the Morris name, and are of 
 Welsh descent." We must enter a most positive dissent to this 
 assertion, and say, that so far as evidence is concerned, they might 
 as well claim any coat recorded in heraldry ; and we hope no one 
 employing this coat, will do it on tlie authority of the book under 
 notice. The frontispiece of the volume is The Morris Tree, a gene- 
 alogical emblem now of rare occurrence. 
 
 Genealogy of the Ancestry and Posterity of Isaac 
 Lawrence, and Centennial Meeting of his Descend- 
 ants, November 27, 1851. Albany : Joel Munsell. 
 1853. 8vo. pp. 70. 
 
 The genealogical portion of this pamphlet has been embodied 
 since in the general record of the Lawrences. Isaac Lawrence, 
 12
 
 90 American Genealogist. 
 
 great-grandson of John of Watertown, removed from Groton 
 to Canaan, Conn., and had a large family born to him there. 
 The centennial meeting here recorded, seems to have been a very 
 pleasant occasion, some seventy-five relatives being present. Four 
 generations were represented, there being one grandson of Isaac 
 present, aged 72. This pamphlet was prepared by Frederick S. 
 Pease, whose wife was a Lawrence, and who, with Robert W. 
 Adam, was desired to prepare a report. 
 
 A Genealogical Table of the Family of and Descend- 
 ants from Mr. Jacob Leavitt of Turner, Maine. 
 Lewiston : Wm. H. Waldron. 1853. 18mo. pp. 16. 
 
 Mr. Leavitt, the patriarch of this family, was born in Pembroke, 
 Mass., 1732; removed to Turnef, Me., 1778; and died Jan. 25, 
 1814, aged 82 years. The genealogy consists of lists of names, 
 arranged, not very clearly, into families; but no dates are given, 
 except relative to the patriarch and his wife. A recapitulation 
 makes his lineal descendants, 797, and persons married into the 
 family, 226. The number of families is 228. 
 
 Book of the Lockes. A Genealogy and Historical 
 Record of the Descendants of William Locke, of 
 Woburn. With an Appendix, containing a History 
 of the Lockes in England, also of the Family of 
 John Locke of Hampton, N. H., and kindred fami- 
 lies and individuals. By John Goodwin Locke, 
 member of the New England Historic-Genealogical 
 Society. Boston and Cambridge : James Munroe & 
 Co. 1853. 8vo. pp. 406. 
 
 This book may be fairly esteemed one of the best genealogies yet 
 published, as it is very full of material, and the .system of reference 
 is simple and complete. The progenitor of most of the bearers of 
 the name in this country, was William Locke, who came over in 
 1634, at the age of six years, in charge of his relative, Nicholas 
 Davies. These emigrants were from Stepney, and a search in the 
 parish record there, makes it certain that the parents of this boy 
 were William Locke, mariner, and Elizabeth, his wife. Farther
 
 American Genealogist. 91 
 
 back the pedigree is not traced, ttough evidence is given on pp. 
 10 -11, and 358 -9, to show that this branch is possibly an offshoot 
 of the family of which the fiimous John Locke is the boast. The 
 record of the descendants of William Locke of Woburn, 1020 fami- 
 lies, occupies 296 pages, and comprises in many cases those families 
 related by the female side. This peculiarity, and the care which 
 has been taken to give an account of the persons intermarrying with 
 the Lockes, render this genealogy of much service to many not 
 nearly related to them. The addition of copious indices enables 
 one to examine this storehouse of antiquarian information conve- 
 niently, and few will leave it uuenriched. Appendices A and B are 
 wills ; C, D, and E, relate to the Clarkes and Munroes ; F, to the 
 Fessendens; G, to Pierces; H and I, to the Tolmans ; J, pp. 
 324—341, is devoted to the family record of John Locke, who was 
 at Portsmouth in 1660, and whose progeny have mostly remained 
 in New Hampshire; J mentions the Lockes of Rhode Island, but 
 as the information received was entirely traditionai-y, our author 
 only refers to it; K and L, p. 342, are devoted to such items of 
 information concerning the Lockes in England, as the author had 
 obtained, chiefly referring to the family to which John Locke, the 
 celebrated philosopher, belonged ; N, is a sketch of the Rev. Samuel 
 Locke, president of Harvard College for four years; 0, is an anec- 
 dote of revolutionary date ; and P is a biographical sketch of Mrs. 
 Mary Sanderson ; R and S are respectively biographies of the Rev. 
 John Pierce and Frances Sargent Osgood, the poetess. The index, 
 pp. 379-406, is in four parts, and is deserving of the greatest 
 praise ; those who have wandered through some genealogies, will 
 fully appreciate the feeling which tempts us to consider a good 
 index as doubling the value of the book. The illustrations in this 
 volume are : House of William Locke, arms of Locke, and portraits 
 of John M. Fessenden, Hon. John Locke, Rev. Nathaniel C. Locke, 
 James Munroe, Rev. John Pierce, Mrs. Mary Sanderson, Hon. 
 Marshall P. Wilder, and the author, John G. Locke ; some copies 
 also contain that of his wife, Mrs. Jane Erminia Locke, a writer of 
 cousiderable local reputation. Our author states that he devoted 
 seven years to the preparation of this record, nor will this length 
 of time seem unreasonable to those familiar with the difficulties 
 attendant upon such undertakings.
 
 92 American Genealogist. 
 
 1854. 
 
 The Chapman Family : or the Descendants of Robert 
 Chapman, one of the first settlers of Say-Brook, 
 Conn. With Genealogical Notes of William Chap- 
 man, who settled in New London, Conn. ; Edward 
 Chapman, who settled at Windsor, Conn.; John 
 Chapman, of Stonington, Conn, ; and Rev. Benja- 
 min Chapman, of Southington, Conn. By Rev. F. 
 W. Chapman, A.M., a descendant of Robert Chap- 
 man of Saybrook. Hartford : PriRted by Case, 
 Tiffany & Co. 1854. 8vo. pp. 413. 
 
 The greater portion of this volume relates to the family of Robert 
 Chapman, and a full table of contents, prefixed to the genealogy, 
 enables the reader to turn at once to any branch or generation. 
 Pp. 19-26 are devoted to notes on the bearers of the name in Eng- 
 land, and an engraving is given of the tomb of one, but there is 
 not the slightest evidence of connection between any of them and 
 the emigrant, though the coat of arms is stamped on the cover of 
 this book, and engraved on p. 37. The genealogy of Robert's family 
 is very extensive, and well arranged, 3660 of his descendants being 
 enumerated; and enough is traced of the progeny of the other 
 Chapmans, to be of great service to any of the family. The illus- 
 trations are portraits of the author, of Rev. Robert H. Chapman, 
 George H., Lebbeus, Charles, Nathan F., Allen A., Joseph, and 
 George M. Chapman, besides the engraving of the tomb of Alex- 
 ander Chapman, arch-deacon of Stowe, county of Lincoln. The 
 extent and correctness of this work must always retain for it a posi- 
 tion in the first rank of our histories. 
 
 Memorials of the Families of Mr. James Thompson, 
 and of Dea. Augustus Thompson, of Goshen, Con- 
 necticut. Hartford : Press of Case, Tiffany & Co. 
 1854. 8vo. pp. 106. 
 
 Notwithstanding that a notes prefixed to this work says that 
 " these sketches are in no sense published," it can hardly be 
 thought improper to note that it was written by Edward W. Hooker,
 
 American Genealogist. 93 
 
 and contains many interesting notices of the descendants of James 
 Thompson, who was born at Goshen, Conn., in 1741. Pp. 93-103 
 contain a good account of the family, tracing it to Anthony Thomp- 
 son of New Haven, whose brothers, John and William, died without 
 male issue. The last three pages contain notes on the Hopkins 
 family. 
 
 Memoir of Increase Sumner, Governor of Massachu- 
 setts. By his son, William H. Sumner. Together 
 with a Genealogy of the Sumner Family. Prepared 
 for the New England Historical and Genealogical 
 Register. Boston : Samuel G. Drake, publisher. 
 1854. 8vo. pp. 70. 
 
 The first forty pages of this volume contain th* memoir of Gov. 
 Sumner, a very interesting and valuable biography. The genealogy 
 was prepared by William B. Trask, and is full and well arranged. 
 Prom this record and a supplement published in the Register, ix, 
 297-306, it seems that the ancestor here was William, son of Roger 
 Sumner and Joan Franklin, baptized at Bicester, Oxfordshire, 27th 
 Jan., 1604-5, who married Mary West in 1625, and had William, 
 Roger, and George, born there before his removal to this country. 
 Nothing is known of the family prior to this Roger, but a letter 
 cited on p. 43 of the record, says that portraits of the emigrant 
 and his wife are still preserved, surmounted with the coat of 
 arms, and I presume it to be the same as that herein engraved, 
 being the arms of the Somners of Kent. Roger, second son 
 of the emigrant, had with other issue, William, ancestor of the Hon. 
 Charles Sumner, the well known senator, and of Brig. Gen. Edwin 
 Vose Sumner, of the United States army ; and Edward, grandfather 
 of the governor. Pp. 61-68 contain notes on the Shrimptou, Yea- 
 mans, and Hyslop families : and p. 69 furnishes a list of portraits 
 preserved in the family. Gen. Sumner also published a large and 
 very interesting Hlatory of East Boston, of which portion of the 
 city he was the founder, and has contributed to the Register several 
 valuable papers concerning Revolutionary times.
 
 94 American Genealogist. 
 
 A Genealogy of the Greenleaf Family. By Jona- 
 than Greenleaf, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Printed for 
 the use of the Family, by Edward 0. Jenkins, New 
 York. 1854. 8vo. pp. 116. 
 
 It appears from the preface that it was proposed by the author to 
 issue this genealogy in fourteen large charts, and that he issued a 
 specimen sheet in August, 1853. He changed his plan, and here 
 gives forty-one charts, each occupying one page, and notes on the 
 same, filling pp. 48-116. The ancestor of all of the name here 
 probably, was Edmund Greenleaf, who is here said to have been 
 born in the parish of Brixham, county of Devon ; though the au- 
 thority is not given. His descendants are here traced through his 
 son Stephen of Newbury, but recent investigations show that Enoch, 
 mentioned on p. l05, was also his son and settled at Maiden, Mass. 
 The charts can hardly meet approval, as no simple plan of cross- 
 references is adopted, but the notes are very full and interesting. 
 The author imagines that the name Greenleaf is a translation of 
 Feuilleverte, and that his ancestors were Huguenots; but this idea 
 seems unsupported by any authority. The very unusual name of 
 Kooksby was used as a Christian name in the earlier generations, 
 and this may prove of service in tracing the family in England. 
 
 Several of the name have been graduates of New England col- 
 leges, and the family has always preserved a good position. Two 
 brothers, Stephen and William, held the office of sheriflF of Suffolk 
 at the time of the Revolution, one for the crown, the other ap- 
 pointed by the provincial congress; and many of the Greenleafs 
 have held posts of honor and trust, as these pages bear witness. 
 
 Genealogy of the Eliot Family. Originally compiled 
 by William H. Eliot, Jr. Revised and enlarged by 
 William S. Porter, Member of Conn. Hist. Society, 
 &c. New Haven, Conn : George B. Bassett & Co. 
 1854. 8vo. pp. 1854. 
 
 John Eliot, the Apostle to the Indians, will remain forever, pro- 
 bably, the most distinguished of the bearers of the name. Little, 
 however, is known of his progenitors, but he was born at Nasing,
 
 American Genealogist. 95 
 
 county of Essex, and a coat of arms is said to have been handed 
 down in his family, which wouUl show his relationship to the Eliots 
 of Port Eliot, Cornwall; this point needs confirmation. It would 
 be unnecessary to give any account here of the Rev. John Eliot, 
 as his biography is extant in several different forms; of his descend- 
 ants a very good record will be found iq this volume. The author, 
 Mr. W. H. Eliot, devoted much time to the subject, and after 
 his death, his collection found a competent editor. The family has 
 produced many able and distinguished men since the founder, and 
 has always occupied a high social position. Jacob, Philip, and 
 Francis Eliot, were brothers of John ; but their progeny has yet to 
 be recorded, beyond the admirable account of the first generation in 
 Savage's Register. Philip left only daughters, and his descendants 
 are of the name of Withington, Aldis, and Smith; whilst Francis's 
 progeny, from the same reason, are, I believe, Hobarts, Poulters, 
 Whitmores, and Willises. 
 
 There were other early settlers of the name, or the similar one of 
 Elliot, in New England, and I may specially note, Andrew of 
 Beverly, Mass., ancestor of the distinguished Boston family ; but 
 none of these were relatives of John. The name is quite common 
 in Scotland, and one family there has been ennobled. Much con- 
 cerning these bearers of the name will be found in this book. 
 
 A Declaration of Remarkable Providences in the 
 course of my Life. By John Dane of Ipswich, 
 1682. To which is added a Pedigree of the Dane 
 Family, and a few notes. By a member of the 
 New England Historic-Genealogical Society. Pre- 
 pared for the N. E. H. and G. Register. Boston : 
 Samuel G. Drake. 1854. 8vo. pp. 16. 
 
 This is a very curious autobiography written by John Dane, who 
 came here as early as 1638, and was followed by his father, of the 
 same name. He was probably born at Berkhampstead or Bishop's 
 Stortford, county of Herts; and his narrative shows that he early 
 embraced Puritan tenets, probably being confirmed therein by the 
 Rev. John Norton, then a curate at Stortford, who befriended him. 
 iiis brother Francis was minister at Andover; and his sister, Eliza-
 
 96 American Genealogist. 
 
 betli, married James Howe of Ipswich, whose father, it seems from 
 a passage in this work, resided at or near Hatfield, county of Essex. 
 Of the numerous descendants of the emigrant perhaps the most 
 distinguished have been, the Hon. Nathan Dane, who founded the 
 Dane law professorship at Harvard, and the Hon. Joseph Dane of 
 Maine. The name must not be confounded with the somewhat 
 similar names of Dana, Deane or Denny. 
 
 The editor of this journal was John Ward Dean, and it was 
 published in the Register, vill, 147. 
 
 Genealogy of the Family of Deacon James Trow- 
 bridge, born in Dorchester, Mass, 1636. Married 
 and settled there in 1659. Removed to Newton, 
 about 1664. Collected and arranged by Otis Trow- 
 bridge, Newton, Mass. May, 1854. Boston: Wright 
 & Hasty, printers. 1854. 8vo. pp. 32. 
 
 Thomas Trowbridge, first of the name here, was of Taunton, 
 county of Somerset, and was apparently of good family there. He 
 had three sons, Thomas, William, and James; the descendants of 
 the two former are mostly to be found in Connecticut, and are not 
 treated of in this register, which gives the issue of James. Ed- 
 mund Trowbridge, chief justice of Massachusetts, belonged to the 
 youngest branch of the family, and nearly all of the bearers of the 
 name in this state have been settled near Newton. The pamphlet 
 is very carefully prepared, and is confessedly of small extent. The 
 author mentions Philo M. Trowbridge of Woodbury, Conn., as 
 being well informed as to the genealogy of the whole race in this 
 country. 
 
 Genealogy of Warren, with some Historical Sketches. 
 By John C. Warren, M. D., Emeritus Professor of 
 Harvard University. Boston: Printed by John 
 Wilson and Son. 1854. 4to. pp. 113. 
 
 In respect to its typographical execution, this book is by far the 
 most elegant genealogy yet issued in this country. The large pages, 
 the beautiful engravings, the clear type and heavy paper, will con- 
 vince the reader that taste and wealth have been employed in its
 
 American Genealogist. 97 
 
 production. As to its contents, the first tliirty-two panics are given 
 to a description of the earls of Warren sprung from William, first 
 earl of Warren and Surrey, son-in-law of William the Conqueror 
 or his wife. Pp. 37-41 contain an account of a branch of this 
 family, settled at Stokeport and Poynton, county of Chester, un- 
 questionably descended from the first earl, though authorities diff'er 
 as to the point at which it connects with the main stem. On p. 
 42 commences the attempt to trace the American family, a John 
 Warren of Headboro, county of Devon (said to be a cadet of the 
 Poynton branch, though the authority is not given), is recorded as 
 great-grandfather of a Christopher who had six sons, as appears by 
 the extract from the Herald's Visitation of Devonshire^ 1620. One 
 of these sons was John who is said to be identical with the John 
 Warren who came here in 1630, in Winthrop's company. Here I 
 believe there is a break in the chain, as the next step is to prove 
 that Peter Warren of Boston, 1659, who was certainly the proge- 
 nitor of this branch of the Warrens, was the son of John the emi- 
 grant. Joseph, second son of Peter, was grandfather of Dr. Joseph 
 Warren, the patriot of the Revolution, and of Dr. John Warren of 
 Boston. The son of this latter was Dr. John Collins Warren, a 
 distinguished surgeon of Boston, the author of this book, and the 
 hereditary tastes and genius of the family were perpetuated in his son, 
 Dr. J. Mason Warren. These difi"erent generations are duly re- 
 corded here, and are shown on a large folding pedigree inserted in 
 it. Pp. 53-57 relate to descendants of Richard Warren, one of the 
 Plymouth Pilgrims, and, as it is said, a brother of John of Boston. 
 The remainder of the volume refers chiefly to Joseph and John 
 Warren, but pp. 100 — 113 are transcripts of English herald's visit- 
 ations. On subjecting this pedigree to the usual tests, and pre- 
 suming we have all the evidence known to the writer, we find it 
 requires bold hypotheses to maintain it. Allowing that the Warrens 
 of Poynton were descended from some one of the earls of Warren 
 we find it necessary to prove that John of Headboro was of that 
 family, as we find no proof in the authority cited in the text. Next 
 we find no reason given for the assumption that John Warren of 
 Boston, and Richard Warren of Plymouth, were of the Headboro 
 family; and, last, we see no reason for supposing that Peter of 
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 98 American Genealogist. 
 
 Boston, was any way related to John. In all these cases, the verdict 
 must be, not 'proven. Still, it is plea.5ant to find on our list such a 
 name as Warren — a name which, with Franklin, Otis, and Adams, 
 is dear to every native of New England. 
 
 1855. 
 
 Genealogy of the Descendants of Lawrence Litchfield, 
 the Puritan. By Rev. Abner Morse, A. M. Bos- 
 ton : Printed for the Author. 1855. 8vo. pp. 18. 
 
 This work is a reprint from the N. E. Hist, and Gen. Register 
 for April, 1855. The progenitor of this family was an early settler 
 of Scituate, but afterwards removed to Barnstable, Mass. Portraits 
 are given of the Hon. Elisha Litchfield of Cazenovia, N. Y., and 
 of Edwin C Litchfield of New York city. 
 
 [Notices of the Sears Family.] 
 
 This little pamphlet of fourteen pages I believe was printed at 
 Cambridge, Mass., in 1855, without a title page. The same matter 
 will be found in Burke's Visitation of Seats and Arms, and is 
 mainly composed of information obtained by Mr. Somerby. The 
 Searses are descended from John Sayer, alderman of Colchester, of 
 an old family, whose son John died in 1562, and whose tomb, with 
 that of his father, are still preserved there. This latter John had 
 two sons: Richard, who married Anne Bourchier Knyvet, and 
 George, who remained at Colchester. Richard was a Puritan, and 
 was obliged to fly to Holland, where he had an only son, John 
 Bourchier, born 1528, married Elizabeth Hiiwkins, and left issue, 
 of whom the eldest, John Bourchier Sears, married Maria van 
 Egmonde, and had issue Richard and others. Richard removed to 
 this country and settled at Yarmouth, and left large issue, which 
 will be elswhere noticed. This book contains three engravings, 
 the first of the family arms, which stands for the title page, and on 
 the reverse a monumental record of four generations. P. 14 con- 
 tains inscriptions, and is faced by an engraving of monuments of 
 the family at Yarmouth and Chatham.
 
 American Genealogist. 99 
 
 Record of the Descendants of Francis Wiiitmore, of 
 Cambridge, Mass. Compiled by W. H. Wiiitmore, 
 Boston : Printed for private circulation only, by 
 John Wilson & Son. 1855. 8vo. pp. 24. 
 
 This is the same record as that at the end of my Medford 
 Families. I believe it has not a great many errors, but I have 
 since succeeded in tracing many branches here omitted. Nothing 
 definite is known of the ancestry of Francis Whitmore, who married 
 Isabel, daughter of Richard Farke of Cambridge, about 1648. His 
 descendants have been numerous at Middletown and Killingly, 
 Conn., Medford, Newton, and Leominster, Mass., Bath, Bowdoinham, 
 and Castine, Me. The Wetmores of Connecticut are descended from 
 a Thomas W. of Middletown, who spelt his name sometimes Whit- 
 more, as did some of his descendants ; but no connection is traced 
 between him and Francis, though a son of the latter also settled 
 and left issue at Middletown. A genealogy of the Wetmores, 
 written by James C. Wetmore of Columbus, Ohio, is noticed in 
 another place. The Whittemores are another distinct family, de- 
 scended from Thomas Whittemore of Maiden. I had the pleasure, 
 some time since, of presenting to my friend Thomas J. Whittemore 
 of Cambridge, who is preparing a genealogy of the race, the Eng- 
 lish ancestry for three generations ; the only instance of the occur- 
 rence of the name there between A. D. 1500 and 1600 on the 
 records of some fourteen will ofiices. 
 
 [The following work was published to correct some fancied errors 
 in Burke's account of an English family of the name, but finding 
 I was in error, I have suppressed nearly all the edition. It has no 
 reference to any of the name here : 
 
 Notes on the Manor and Family of Whitmore. Compiled by W. 
 H. Whitmore. Boston : Printed for private circulation only, by 
 John Wilson & Son. 1856. 8vo. pp. 14. 
 
 I have also printed a few pages of English wills, which may per- 
 haps reach some collectors. In the Herald and Genealogist part 
 XIX (London, 1866), will be found an account of the English family 
 of Whitmore of Staffordshire. Some copies were struck ofi" for sepa- 
 rate distribution.]
 
 100 American Genealogist. 
 
 Memorials of the Descendants of William Shattuck, 
 the Progenitor of the Families in America that have 
 borne his Name : including an Introduction and an 
 Appendix containing collateral information. By 
 Lemuel Shattuck, member of the Massachusetts 
 Historical Society, &c., &c. Boston : Printed by 
 Button & Wentworth for the Family. 1855. 8vo, 
 pp. 414. 
 
 This is a very elaborate account of the family descended from 
 William Shattuck of Watertown, a widely extended race, yet not 
 comprising the pedigree of all of the name here, as the Chadwicks, 
 another large family, have in many cases figured on our records as 
 Shattucks. The work is one of the most complete of its kind, 
 very well arranged, exact in dates, illustrated by numerous biogra- 
 phies, and rendered easy of investigation by a good index. Mr. 
 Shattuck, the author, acquired considerable reputation as a statician, 
 and this genealogy contains many curious and valuable notes on the 
 longevity of families, and the increase of difi'erent branches. A 
 good autobiography will be found at p. 302, and a very faithful 
 likeness faces the title page. In the appendix will be found gene- 
 alogies of the families of Blood, Chamberlin, and Parker. It is 
 impossible to do full justice to this work in the brief space here 
 given to it, but it is certainly to be ranked among the best of 
 American genealogies, and will remain a conclusive proof of the 
 industry, learning and judgment of the author. 
 
 Genealogical Chart of the Sill Family, as continued 
 in the male line, from A. D. 1637 to A. D. 1855. 
 Compiled by Henry A. Sill, Cuyahoga Falls, 0. 
 Folio, 12 sheets. 
 
 The plan adopted in this work differs from any other I have 
 seen. Page 1 contains a statement of the first four generations, 
 viz: John of Cambridge, said to be from Lyme, Eng.; Capt. 
 Joseph, his only son, and his family ; and the families of Joseph 
 Jun., and Zechariah, sons of Joseph. To each of the seven sons 
 of Joseph Jun., and the two sons of Zechariah, a sheet is given ;
 
 American Genealogist. 101 
 
 their childrea occupying the left hand column, grandchildren the 
 next column, &c., the families being bracketed together and joined 
 to their respective heads. This plan is very simple and plain, but 
 it requires a large and cumbrous page, and can only be used in 
 cases where the families are few and small. I presume, from the 
 title, that the book was issued in 1855, or 1856. 
 
 Genealogy of the Hobbs Family of Massachusetts. 
 Compiled by George Hobbs, Esq., Eastport, Me. 
 Boston: Button & Wentworth. printers. 1855. 8vo. 
 pp. 16. 
 
 This pamphlet, reprinted from the Register for July, 1855, is a 
 very fair account of the descendants of Josiah Hobbs of Boston 
 and Lexington, who died in 1741 aged 92. He was one of the 
 later emigrants, coming here in 1671. Only one son, Josiah, left 
 issue, and these are of Brookfield, Weston, Lincoln, and Boston. 
 The family has always held a good position, several members of it 
 being graduates at various colleges. This record is quite full in 
 respect to names, as the starting point is so recent as to prevent a 
 very great extension of the name ; but it is defective in dates in 
 some branches. 
 
 The Family of Leck, of Bedlington, in the County of 
 Durham, and the Charity of John George Leake, in 
 New York, U. S. pp. 14. 
 
 This work, written and published in 1855 by M. A. Richardson 
 of Newcastle-on-Tyne, is worth notice, as several Americans claimed 
 to be the heirs of Mr. Leake at his death in 1827. Robert Leck, 
 son of William Leck or Lake of Newcastle, was baptized in 1722 
 was commissary at Cape Breton in 1747, and left issue two sons 
 and a daughter. One son and the daughter died without issue, and 
 the eldest son, John George, resided in New York, where he 
 acquired a very large property, and died unmarried. He left an 
 unsigned will, devising his property to Robert Watts on condition 
 of his taking the name of Leake; in default of whom, it was to be 
 used to endow a home for orphans, where they might be taught
 
 102 American Genealogist. 
 
 some trade. The real estate escheated to the state, but the will was 
 held valid for the disposition of the personal property. Mr. Watts 
 died without fulfilling the conditions of the will; but his father, 
 waiving all claims, obtained a charter for the Orphan House, which 
 was opened in 1843. Twentj-six claimants preferred a claim to 
 the estates, but no one could show who were the commissary's 
 parents, and the benevolent design of Mr. Leake was therefore 
 suffered to be executed. 
 
 The Christian Mother. An Address, Delivered in the 
 First Church, Brighton, Feb. 14, 1855, at the 
 Funeral of Mrs. Susanna [Park] Champney, who 
 died Feb. 10, in her 95th year. With an Appen- 
 dix, containing a Genealogical Notice of the Champ- 
 NEY and Park Families. By Frederic Augustus 
 Whitney, Pastor of the Church. Boston : Crosby, 
 Nichols & Co. 1855. 8vo. pp. 36. 
 
 This sermon, which was published by the request of the family, 
 occupies only eleven pages, the remainder being given to genealogy. 
 The Champneys and Parks were both families long settled at Cam- 
 bridge, and a very good account of them will be found herein; the 
 author having delayed the publication of the pamphlet, in order to 
 make his account as complete as possible. The Parks are also well 
 recorded in Jackson's History of Newton. 
 
 Memorial of the Whittlesey Family in the United 
 States. Published by the Whittlesey Association. 
 1855. 8vo. pp. 125. 
 
 This volume was printed by Case, Tiffany & Co. of Hartford, and 
 the committee of publication consisted of John S. Whittlesey of 
 New Britain, and Henry N. and Charles B. of New Haven. It is a 
 very full record of the descendants in the male line of John Whittle- 
 sey, who married Ruth Dudley in 1664. Nothing is known of him 
 before his settlement at Saybrook. He left his six sons, whose 
 posterity has continued to the present time, and to each son is 
 assigned a separate part in this book. The families are arranged in
 
 American Genealogist. 103 
 
 a rather novel form, being formed into a table under the heads of 
 births, marriages, &c., but the information is very full and exact. 
 The notes are very short, but give a clear outline of the lives of 
 the subjects. The index, in three parts, is the most elaborate one 
 I have ever noticed. The volume should be accompanied by a 
 large tabular pedigree, shov?ing the different generations in the 
 different branches. This is a very capital specimen of a strict 
 genealogy, no space being wasted, and few omissions to be detected. 
 An address at the Family Meeting, by E. Whittlesey, was pub- 
 lished at Washington, D. C, 1855. 
 
 A list of some of the Descendants of Mr. Edward 
 Woodman, who settled at Newbury, Mass., A. D. 
 1635. Compiled by Joshua Coffin. Printed for 
 Cyrus Woodman (of Mineral Point, Wisconsin), at 
 the Union Job Office, Newburyport, Mass. 1855. 
 16mo. pp. 16. 
 
 As a larger genealogy of the family was printed the next year, 
 no extended notice need be given here. It contains much that is 
 not embraced in the other list, and is a very fair record of the 
 earlier generations of the family. The fact that Mr. Coffin was the 
 compiler will be a sufficient guaranty of its accuracy. 
 
 A Historical and Biographical Genealogy of the Cush- 
 MANS, the Descendants of Robert Cushman, the 
 Puritan, from the year 1617 to 1855. By Henry 
 Wyles Cushman. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. 
 1855. 8vo. pp. 665. 
 
 This volume is probably the largest one devoted to the history of 
 a single family, which has been published in this country. It is 
 impossible within our limits to give more than an outline of its 
 plan, but its arrangement is so clear and its indices so complete, 
 that the investigator can tell the contents in a brief examination. 
 Much space is devoted to the progenitor, who was one of the chief 
 pillars of that church at Leyden which planted the colony at Ply- 
 mouth; and the biographical sketches of different individuals
 
 104 American Genealogist. 
 
 among his descendants are very extensive and interesting. The 
 children of the daughters of the race also find a place on these 
 pages, and these memoranda are always of special service to gene- 
 alogists in general. On the last page of the book will be found a 
 list of portraits inserted, being thirty in number, all but four of 
 of them being Cushmans. One of the others is that of Dr, Na- 
 thaniel B. ShurtleflF, whom we have elsewhere mentioned as a gene- 
 alogist, and it is accompanied by a good biography. We regret 
 that we can not give more space to a description of this book, 
 because in most respects it may claim better than any other, the 
 title of the best American genealogy; but it will suffice to say, 
 that the author devoted nearly ten years to his work, and that 
 it bears on every page the evidence of well directed research. The 
 author of this history was actively engaged in political life in 
 Massachusetts, having been representative and senator in the state 
 legislature, and for two years lieutenant governor; he was favorably 
 known as a writer and orator. A fine portrait of him will be found 
 at p. 439, and a good biography, reprinted, under protest, from 
 Livingston's Portraits and Memoirs of Eminent Americans. 
 
 The following work may perhaps be best mentioned here : 
 
 The Proceedings at the Cushman Celebration, at Plymouth, Au- 
 gust 15, 1855, in Commemoration of the Embarkation of the 
 Plymouth Pilgrims from Southampton, England ; together with 
 an Account of the Services at the Grave of Elder Thomas Cush- 
 man, August 16, 1855. Boston: J. M. Hewes, printer, 81 
 Cornhill, 1855. 8vo. pp. 76. 
 
 The call for this meeting was issued at the suggestion of the Hon. 
 Henry W. Cushman, who had then nearly completed his genealogy; 
 and the ceremonies, occupying two days, are here .duly recorded. 
 The address, a very able and appropriate one, was delivered by the 
 Rev. Robert W. Cushman of Boston, and at a collation which fol- 
 lowed, many good speeches were made, and creditable poems recited. 
 Nearly one thousand persons were gatheerd to this family meeting 
 and it fulfilled, in every respect, the wishes of its originators.
 
 American Genealogist. 105 
 
 The Hall Family, settled at the town of Medforcl, 
 Mass. Compiled by W. H. Whitmore. Reprinted 
 from the History of Medford, by Rev. Charles Brooks. 
 Boston: Printed by John Wilson & Son. 1855. 8vo. 
 pp. 12. 
 
 This was one of the families I prepared for the Register of Fami- 
 lies at Medford, and feeling a special interest in this family I had 
 a few copies struck oif in this form. It relates to the descendants 
 of a widow Mary Hall, of Cambridge. This record was made from 
 the town and county records, and the collections of the Rev. A. H. 
 Quint ; but it was defective in many places, and erroneous also on 
 some points. Corrections will be found in the Register, xill, 15-6, 
 and XV, 59; referring especially to a curious repetition of one 
 Christian name, Stephen. John and Stephen were sons of Mary 
 Hall; John had a son Stephen, and three grandsons Stephens; 
 each of the latter having a son, and two of them grandsons of the 
 name. Stephen had one son, two grandsons, two great-grandsons, 
 and one great-great-grandson, Stephens all : making sixteen Stephen 
 Halls from 1670 to 1770, most of them resident at Medford, Mass. 
 
 A Genealogical Register of the Descendants of John 
 ScRANTON of Guilford, Conn., who died in the year 
 1671. Compiled by Rev. Erastus Scranton, A. M., 
 of Burlington, Conn. Hartford: Press of Case, 
 Tifllmy & Co. 1855. 8vo. pp. 104. 
 
 This is a very good account of the Scranton family (whose pro- 
 genitor was one of the first settlers of Guilford), arranged on the 
 plan of the Foote Genealogy, and accompanied by a good index. 
 Only the male descendants are traced throughout, the females 
 being duly recorded as heads of families, and their children given, 
 but not included in the numbering, or traced farther. Prefixed to 
 the genealogy is a sketch of the settlement of Guilford, and a list 
 of the first planters. The whole execution of the book is highly 
 creditable to the author, who was installed at Milford, just fifty 
 years before the date of this publication, and whose age might well 
 be pleaded to excuse any defects, were any excuse needed. 
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 106 American Genealogist. 
 
 Historical Sketch of Col. Benjamin Bellows, Founder 
 of Walpole : An Address, on occasion of the gather- 
 ing of his descendants to the Consecration of his 
 Monument, at Walpole, N. H., Oct. 11, 1854. By 
 Henry W. Bellows. With an Appendix, containing 
 an account of the Family Meeting. New York: 
 John A. Gray, printer, 95 and 97 Cliff Street, Cor. 
 Frankfort. 1855. 
 
 The illustrations, &c., are a view of the monument of Col. Bel- 
 lows and two pages of inscriptions thereon, a colored plate of arms, 
 and tabular pedigree. There is no attempt to trace an English 
 pedigree. Even those who consider genealogical works dry read- 
 ing, will find in the animated descriptions of the mode of life and 
 tone of society a hundred years ago, with which this book is en- 
 riched, a most interesting field of study. I regard this work as a 
 model in many respects, and hope its perusal will tempt other com- 
 pilers of family records, to enliven the dry details of dates by a 
 judicious use of tradition and anecdote. 
 
 Genealogical Sketch of the Bird Family, having its 
 origin in Hartford, Conn. Hartford: Elihu Geer. 
 1855. pp. 24. 
 
 This little pamphlet contains quite an outline of the family de- 
 scendants from Thomas Bird of Hartford. He left sons Joseph 
 and James ; but of the descendants of Joseph only two bearing the 
 name were known to the author. Thomas Bird, son of James, was 
 of Avon, and had three sons, John, Joseph, and Jonathan, from 
 whom have come those bearing the name, some fifty in all. The 
 family must be one of the smallest on our records. 
 
 1856. 
 Amory. Amor y Amistad. 1856. 8vo. pp. 30. 
 
 This account of the Amory family is a reprint from the Register, x, 
 59 (1856), with many additions, chiefly biographical. Only twenty- 
 seven copies were printed in this form, and it is of coui'se extremely
 
 American Genealogist. 107 
 
 rare. The fiimily is traced to Thomas Amory of Somersetshire, 
 whose eldest son Thomas Amory of Galy, county of Kerry, re- 
 moved thither probably on his marriage with the d:iughter of the 
 nineteenth Lord Kerry, and was grandfather of Thomas Amory, 
 author of the Life of John Bunde. Jonathan, youngest son of the 
 first Thomas, removed to South Carolina, and was Speaker of the 
 legislature and treasurer of the province. Thomas, his son, was a 
 mei'chant at the Azores, but settled at Boston in 1721. Two of his 
 sons, Thomas and John, left issue; and besides descendants of the 
 name, there are many by the names of Dexter, Deblois, Sohier, 
 Davis, Codman, Cunningham, Lowell, Jeffries, and Prescott. The 
 family has been one of the highest social position in Boston since 
 the time of John and Jonathan, who were great merchants before 
 and during the Revolution. In the second volume of the Heraldic 
 Journal (Boston, 1866), is a copy of a pedigree recorded at the 
 College of Arms at Dublin. 
 
 Thomas C. Amory, the writer of this pamphlet, has since pub- 
 lished a very able life of his grandfather, Governor James Sullivan. 
 
 A List of the Descendants of Mr. Joshua "Woodman, 
 who settled at Kingston, N. H., about 1736. By 
 J. H. Woodman. From the Press of J. GrifKn, 
 Brunswick, Me. 1856. 8vo. pp. 64. 
 
 This book is chiefly composed of a record of the descendants of 
 Joshua Woodman, son of Archelaus, who was grandson of Edward 
 Woodman of Newbury, 1635. There was a Hercules Woodman who 
 came from Malford (probably Christian Malford, county of Wilts), 
 who was no doubt the Archelaus Woodman who settled at New- 
 bury, and left no issue. As these two emigrants lived in the same 
 town, and Edward had a grandson named Archelaus, it is highly 
 probable that they were brothers. Edward had four sons, from 
 whom have sprung a numerous progeny. This record is full only 
 from the comparatively late date of Joshua's marriage in 1736, 
 though some account of the other branches will here be found. 
 The family seems remarkable for longevity, the father of Joshua 
 living tofce 94, himself attaining the age of 82, and of his children, 
 twelve in number, the combined ages amount to 996 years.
 
 108 Amekican Genealogist. 
 
 An Imperfect List of Descendants from Job Lane, 
 Wm. Lane of Dorchester, and William Lane of 
 Boston. With notices of some others of the same 
 name. 
 
 This account fills six quarto pages, and was prepared by E. Lane, 
 Esq., of Chicago, in which city it was printed in 1856, and contains 
 short notices of the families of Job of Maiden, and William of 
 Boston, but a very good account of the Dorchester and Hingham 
 family. This was intended, I believe, as a means of interesting the 
 different members of the family in their family history, and a farther 
 genealogy may be expected. Elsewhere will be found an account 
 of Job Lane and his family ; he is here said to have been from 
 Dorchester, Eng., but no authority is quoted. Gren. Joseph Lane 
 of Oregon, and Gen. James H. Lane of Kansas, names familiar to 
 politicians, are here said to be sons of Amos Lane of Westchester, 
 N. Y., but the previous pedigree is untraced. 
 
 A Historical and Genealogical Record of the Descend- 
 ants of Timothy Rockwood. Born in Medway, 
 July 5, 1727. Died in Holliston, Feb. 21, 1806. 
 Compiled from Authentic Sources. By E. L. Rock- 
 wood. Boston, Mass. : Published by the Compiler. 
 1856. 12mo. pp. 146 and v. 
 
 This record comprises only one branch of the Rockwood family, 
 Timothy being grandson of John R., who was a grandson of Rich- 
 ard Rocket or Rockwood of Dorchester and Braintree. A valuable 
 genealogy of other branches of this family will be found in Morse's 
 History of Holliston and Sherhorn. This record seems very com- 
 plete for the limited extent embraced in its plan, and contains the 
 descendants in the female line, as well as those of the name of 
 Rockwood ; the biographies contain many particulars of the indi- 
 viduals cited, of interest chiefly to relatives. The frontispiece is a 
 view of the old homestead. This book was printed at Boston by 
 Bazin & Chandler. The reader will note the error of geneological, 
 in more places in this book probably than in any other extant. The 
 index is very good.
 
 American Genealogist. 109 
 
 A Family Eecorcl of the Descendants of Sergt. Edward 
 Hjnman, who first appeared at Stratford in Connec- 
 ticut about 1(350. Collected from State, Colony, 
 Town and Church Records ; also from old Bibles 
 and aged people. By R. R. Hinman, Esq., of New 
 York. 1856. 
 
 This is the sixth part of Mr. tlinman's Puritan Settlers of Con- 
 necticut, of" which it forms pp. 805-884; but as it is also issued 
 separately with a title page I notice it here. It has been supposed 
 that Edward Inman, an early settler of Providence, R. I., was 
 identical with the above Edward Hinman, but such the author 
 states is not the case. Mr. Hinman, however, considers the names 
 Inman and Hinman to have the same origin. The illustrations are 
 portraits of the author, of E. Hinman, and of Col. John E. Hin- 
 man of Utica, N. Y.) and the coat of arms of Inman, as described 
 by Burke, but which is here called Hinman. The genealogy is 
 very thoroughly prepared. 
 
 An Account of the Temple Family, with Notes and 
 Pedigree of the Family of Bowdoin. Reprinted 
 from the New England Historical and Genealogical 
 Register, with Corrections and Additions, by W. H. 
 Whitmore. Boston : Printed for private circulation 
 only, by Button & Wentworth. 1856. 8vo. pp. 15. 
 
 The Temples here recorded belong to the well known English 
 family, from which sprung Peter Temple of Stow, who died in 
 1577, leaving two sons, John and Anthony. This last named was 
 ancestor of Sir William Temple, the famous statesman, and of the 
 Temples, viscounts Palmerston. From the elder son John was de- 
 scended Sir Thomas Temple, baronet, and the eldest line is now 
 represented through female descent, by the duke of Buckingham. 
 The baronetcy descended to Sir John Temple, born at Ten Hills, 
 Maiden, Mass., who married a daughter of Gov. Bowdoin of Mass., 
 and who is largely noticed in the Revolutionary history. His son 
 succeeded to the title; his daughter married the Hon. Thomas L. 
 Winthrop. This record contains much new matter from family
 
 110 American Genealogist. 
 
 papers, and includes notes on the Nelson and Emmett families. 
 In the third and fourth volumes of the Herald and Genealogist 
 (London, 1866), are several articles on the Temples, adding much to 
 our previous knowledge. The Heraldic Journal, vol. il, has 
 also some new items. The Bowdoins are descended from Pierre 
 Baudouin, a Huguenot, whose grandson was governor of Massachu- 
 setts ; and the college at Brunswick, Me., perpetuates the name. 
 No legitimate descendants of James, son of Pierre, now remain, 
 who have inherited the name of Bowdoin, but John, a younger son 
 of the emigrant, removed to Virginia, and the family still flourishes 
 there. Several of the descendants of Sir John Temple have 
 assumed the name of Bowdoin, according to the will of James B., 
 son of the governor. 
 
 Thomas Judd and his Descendants. By Sylvester 
 Judd, of Northampton, Mass. Northampton: 
 Prmted by J. & L. Metcalf. 1856. 8vo. pp. 112. 
 
 This is an admirable account of the family descended from 
 Thomas Judd of Cambridge, 1634, Hartford, 1636, and Farming- 
 ton, Conn., 1644. He was a deputy to the general court many 
 times, deacon of the church at Farmington, and a large proprietor 
 of lands there. He had six sons, all of whom have had large issue, 
 and this genealogy is divided in six parts, in correspondence with 
 this fact ; an index prefixed to the record enables the reader to 
 refer to the diiferent branches and generations. The names re- 
 corded amount to 1882. This register is very full, and well arranged, 
 as might have been expected from the reputation of the author, 
 who was the standard authority on all points of genealogy relating 
 to families settled in the Connecticut valley. Very many persons 
 who have felt interested in family history, will acknowledge the 
 liberality and patience with which Mr. Judd answered the queries 
 propounded him concerning any family of which he had a know- 
 ledge. His son, Sylvester, was a minister at Augusta, Me., where 
 he died in 1853, author of Margaret, and Richard Edney, two of 
 the most remarkable American novels ever issued. The former 
 work has been beautifully illustrated by Darley.
 
 American Genealogist. Ill 
 
 The Worcester Family; or the Descendants of Rev. 
 William Worcester, wilh a Brief Notice of the 
 Connecticut Wooster Family. Collected by J. F. 
 Worcester, Ljam: W. W. Kellogg, Printer. 1856. 
 8vo. pp. 111. 
 
 The Rev. William Worcester was pastor of the first church at 
 SaHsbuvy, Mass , from its formation ia 1638, to his death in 1662. 
 He had three sons who left issue, viz: Samuel, William, and Moses: 
 the former being the progenitor of the branch traced in this book 
 in a very complete manner. At p. 87 will be found a partial record 
 of the descendants of Moses, which the compiler has not had the 
 material to finish. Pp. 107-8 contain a few generations of the family 
 of Edward Wooster of Milford and Derby, Conn., but no connection 
 is known to exist between the two emigrants, Edward and William. 
 There have been several ministers in the family of Samuel Worcester, 
 and in this book are portraits of the Rev. Noah of Thornton, N. H., 
 and the Rev. Samuel of Salem ; another distinguished member of the 
 family is Joseph E. Worcester, the compiler of the well known 
 dictionaries. An engraving of a coat of arms is given, according 
 to a memorandum found among the papers of the Rev. Francis 
 W. of Hollis, who was born in 1698 ; the age of the document is 
 much in favor of its validity. 
 
 Historical Sketch and Genealogy of George and 
 Thomas Geer, from 1621 to 1856. By James 
 Geer. Hartford: Elihu Geer, printer. 1856. 12mo. 
 pp. 84. 
 
 For these emigrants, tradition claims a descent from John Geer 
 of Hevitree, county of Devon, or from a family settled at Shore- 
 ham in the same county; but no proof is found of either report. 
 Part I, pp. 21-78. relate to the issue of George Geer of New 
 London, Conn., subdividing the account into six parts, in each of 
 which one of the sons of George is considered the head and his 
 descendants are numbered from him. These records begin as fol- 
 lows : Jonathan, 'p. 22; Joseph, p. 27; Daniel, p. 33; Robert, p.
 
 112 American Genealogist. 
 
 38 ; Isaac, p. 61 ; Jeremiah, p. 74. Part ii gives us the family of 
 Thomas Greer of Enfield, whose only son Shubael was married in 
 1703, a fact which will account" for the small number of descend- 
 ants recorded in this branch. The genealogy makes a very neat 
 little record, and is apparently quite full. The frontispiece is a 
 Geer coat of arms, printed in colors ; but of course as no pedigree is 
 found of the emigrant, the family here can have no right to the arms. 
 
 A Genealogical Memoir of the Families of Lawrences, 
 with a direct male line from Sir Robert Lawrence 
 of Lancashire, A. D. 1190: down to John Law- 
 rence of Watertown, A. D. 1636 : with notices of 
 others of same name in different states. By Mercy 
 Hale Stowe, Mass. Boston : Printed for the 
 Author. 1856. 8vo. pp. 20. 
 
 This pamphlet relates of one branch chiefly, that of which 
 Amos Lawrence of Fitchburg was the head. His descendants are 
 recorded both in the male and female lines, and the work speaks 
 well for the perseverance of the compiler, who is, moreover, ex- 
 empted by her sex from any harsh criticism. 
 
 Genealogy of the Sanborn" Family. By Nathan San- 
 horn, M. D., Henniker. N. H. From the N. Eng- 
 land Hist. & Gen. Register, July and October, 1856. 
 Boston : Printed by H. W. Button & Son. 1856. 
 8vo. pp. 21. 
 
 It is supposed that the name of Sanborn, is a corruption of that 
 of Samhorn, which is still to be found in England, though no con- 
 nection can be traced to the family herein recorded, descended from 
 John and William S. of Hampton. The record here given is a very 
 well arranged genealogy, in the strict meaning of the terra, enumer- 
 ating over six hundred and fifty of the name. The members of 
 the family have formed an Association, of which Dr. Sanborn is 
 recording secretary, and farther publications are promised, though 
 none, I believe, have yet been issued. An English coat of arms is 
 given on p. 1, as a matter of curiosity solely, copied from Burke's 
 Armori/.
 
 American Genealogist. 
 
 113 
 
 A Memoir, Biographical and Genealogical,. of Sir John 
 Leverett, Knt., Governor of Massachusetts, 1673- 
 79; of Hon. John Leverett, F. R. S. Judge of the 
 Supreme Court, and President of Harvard College; 
 and of the Familv generally. Boston : Crosby, 
 Nichols & Co. ISdQ. 8vo. pp. 203. 
 
 Thomas Leverett, unquestionably of a good family and an alder- 
 man of Boston, England, came here in 1633, in company with Rev. 
 John Cotton. He was highly esteemed in his new home, and 
 dying in 1650, left issue : Jane, who probably died unmarried, 
 Anne, wife of Isaac Addington, and one son John. Pp. 31 -48 are 
 devoted to the descendants of Addington, in the female line, Isaac 
 Jun., the only son, dying s. p., being in the names of Davenport, 
 Townsend, Sale, Hickling, Mosely, &c. John Leverett married 
 first Hannah, daughter of Ralph Hudson, by whom he had an only 
 son, and secondly Sarah Sedgwick. In 1614 he went to England, 
 and served under Cromwell, returning to Boston about 1648, and 
 filled various important and honorable offices, being agent to Eng- 
 land, speaker of the house, major-general, deputy-governor, and 
 governor. He was knighted by Charles II, but probably never 
 assumed the title, and dying in 1679, was honored by the universal 
 regret of the colony. Three portraits of him have been preserved, 
 two of which are engraved for this record. His only son, Hudson, 
 did not attain to any distinction; but the descendants of his 
 daughters here recorded, Cookes, Saltonstalls, Hubbards, Dudleys, 
 Olivers, and others, have been among our most prominent citizens. 
 John, son of Hudson Leverett, became speaker, councillor, judge 
 of probate and of the superior court, and president of Harvard 
 College. He was twice married, but left no sons : his descendants 
 being now in the Denison and Rogers Family. Thomas Leverett 
 th# other son of Hudson L. and sole heir male, was a surgeon and 
 died young, leaving an only son Knight Leverett, who had issue 
 John and Thomas. The latter was father of Benjamin, and grand- 
 father of the author of this book — Rev. Charles Edward Leverett 
 rector of Prince William's parish. South Carolina. A brother of the 
 author was Frederic Percival L., a distinguished scholar, principal 
 15
 
 114 American Genealogist. 
 
 of the Latin School at Boston, and compiler of the well known 
 Latin Lexicon which bears his name. A good portrait and memoir 
 will be found in this book. We have been a little more explicit in 
 our notice of this family, since there are others of the name not 
 descended from Thomas. The genealogy is very full, and a tabu- 
 lar pedigree inserted at p. 193, renders it very easy of examination. 
 The notes on the marriages are very interesting, as are the biogra- 
 phies and family documents. 
 
 I have in my possession, a coat of arms, the same as described in 
 this book, formerly owned by the father of the late James Munroe 
 the well known publisher of Boston. The elder gentleman lived 
 at Cambridge and bought many curious articles, and probably ob- 
 tained this relic from President Leverett's family. It was a water- 
 color painting on vellum, and at least a hundred and fifty years 
 old, judging from its appearance when I obtained it. On the 
 wooden back were several leverets or hares, stamped with a hot 
 ■iron, as if a brand for marking wood or leather. I regret that an 
 ignorant picture restorer, to whom I incautiously entrusted it to 
 clean, improved it by repainting it in oil : but several gentlemen 
 saw it in its primitive state. 
 
 The History and Antiquities of the Name and Family 
 of KiLBOURN (in its varied orthography). By Payne 
 Kenyon Kilbourne, A. M., member of the New 
 England Historic-Genealogical Society. New Ha- 
 ven: Durrie & Peck. 1856. 8vo. pp. 488. 
 
 We have already noticed the first form in which Mr. Kilbourne's 
 collections were published. Some seven years afterwards he tells 
 us, he found in a volume of Wills from the Register of Bury St. 
 Edmunds, published by the Camden Society, an incidental notice 
 of certain persons of the name located, early in the seventeeilth 
 century, at Wood Ditton, county of Cambridge, Eng., and searches 
 at that place proved that this was the birth place of Thomas Kil- 
 borne, the emigrant. Pp. 9-33 contain notes relative to different 
 persons and places in England bearing the Kilburn name, of little 
 use to the genealogist, but indications of the patient and continued
 
 American Genealogist. 115 
 
 labor of the compiler ; and some iutcrpolated pages; 34 - 38, are de- 
 voted to extracts from English parish records ; pp. 39-46, are like 
 the first notes, and pp. 47-53, give us the records at Wood Ditton, 
 and an account of a visit to it. with an engraving of the church 
 there; pp. 54-72, contain more biographies and registers; pp. 33- 
 38, contain the genealogy of the issue of Thomas Kilbourn in the 
 line of his son John, and this part of the book is enlivened by the 
 introduction of biographies and anecdotes to a greater degree than 
 are most of our fjimily histories ; pp. 339 - 365, are given to the 
 posterity of George, another son of Thomas, who settled at Rowley, 
 Mass., but owing to the difficulty of obtaining information this part 
 is much inferior in extent to the preceding. Several appendices 
 follow, containing memoranda of interest, and the volume closes 
 with a very complete index. The reader will notice, perhaps, an 
 excess of data unconnected with the object of the book ; but where 
 so much has been collected, it is hard to fix a limit to the publica- 
 tion. Many of these notes from English records and books may 
 yet prove of service, if any one desires to trace the pedigree to a 
 more remote time. 
 
 The late Mr. Kilbourne, the author, was a zealous antiquary, 
 and owing to his exertions, a family historical society was formed, 
 and accounts of their annual meetings were published for several 
 years. It was as agent for this society that he visited England 
 to trace out the early recoi'ds of the name, and its support enabled 
 the writer to produce so complete and valuable a genealogy. 
 
 The Neal Record : being a list of the Descendants of 
 John Neale, one of the early settlers of Salem, 
 Mass. Compiled by Theodore Augustus Neal. 
 Boston: Henry W. Button & Son, Printers. 1856. 
 8vo. pp. 30. 
 
 This is an account of the issue of one of the name only, of those 
 here at an early date ; of the other emigrants, Henry of Braintree 
 is credited with twenty-one children, and Walter of New Hamp- 
 shire is thought to have been the ancestor of the family in that 
 state : so that the present list covers but a small portion of the 
 bearers of the name. Mr. Neal thinks his ancestor may have
 
 116 American Genealogist. 
 
 belonged to tbe Neales of Dean, county of Bedford, because one of 
 that family married a cousin of Oliver Cromwell, and there is a 
 tradition in his family of their descent from the protector. We do 
 not put any reliance however on this coincidence, less even than 
 the author, because we have found the same report in other fami- 
 lies, and because the error admits of any easy solution, as there 
 were several Cromwells in New England, one being a settler at 
 Salem. There is a folding sheet pedigree at the commencement of 
 the book ; and the appearance of the whole is neat and workman- 
 like. The plan is substantially that used in the Register. 
 
 Record of the Coe Family, 1596-1865. New York: 
 John A. Gray's Fire-Proof Printing Office, 16 and 
 18 Jacob St. 1856. 8vo. pp. 14. 
 
 The author of this little pamphlet, Rev. David B. Coe, D.D., 
 does not claim for it the merit of completeness, but to preserve an 
 outline of the family history, he published such portions of the 
 information he had gained as might enable others to trace their 
 descent from Robert Coe of Stamford, Conn. This Robert was of 
 Watertown, but went to Wethersfield with the party that colonized 
 that town. He was also a leader in the division at the latter place, set- 
 tled at Stamford, then went to Newtown, L. I., and finally rested at 
 Jamaica, L. I. He was a magistrate and evidently one of the lead- 
 ing men in the colony. He left three sons, from whom has sprung 
 a numerous progeny. The contents of this book are strictly of a 
 genealogical nature, but are clearly arranged and full in respect to 
 dates. 
 
 1857. 
 
 Genealogy of the descendants of Several Ancient 
 Puritans by the names of Adams, Bullard, Hol- 
 BROOK, RocKWOOD, SANGER, Grout, Goulding and 
 TwiTCHELL. By Rev. Abner Morse, A. M. Boston : 
 Printed for the Author. 1857. 8vo. pp. 358. 
 
 This is the first volume of a series. It contains the Adams, 
 Bullard, Holbrook, Rockwood and Sanger families, reprinted from
 
 American Genealogist, 117 
 
 the author's History of Sherhorn, Holliston and Medway, aud 
 apparently with the same types, though additions to the several 
 families are made, sometimes to the extent of two or three pages. 
 To these are added the Grout, Goulding, and Twitchell families, 
 which are but slightly noticed in the history. There are three 
 coats of arms, viz. : those of certain Grout, Holbrook, and Rock- 
 wood families ; but they probably do not belong to the families 
 here. There are also 20 portraits, viz. : of J. Q. Adams; A., Hon. H. 
 M., Rev. Malachi, and John Bullard ; J. G., Jno. C, and Amos 
 Holbrook; Ebenezer, and Rev. Otis Rockwood ; L. D. Gale, Mrs. 
 Abigail (Grout) Hale, Harry Hale, Harry Grout, Jonathan Grout, 
 Rev. Geo. G. Hapgood, Geo. Sprague, Capt. Peter Almon, and 
 Genery Twitchell; and an outline profile of Hon. Jonathan Grout. 
 To some copies of this volume the author's Litchfield Genealogy 
 (1855) is added. 
 
 Chief of the Pilgrims; or the Life and Time of William 
 Brewster, RuUng Elder of the Pilgrim Company 
 that founded New Plymouth, the Parent Colony 
 of New England, in 1620. By the Rev. Ashbel 
 Steele, A. M., Washington City. Illustrated with 
 five steel and four other engravings. Philadelphia: 
 J. B. Lippincott & Co. 1857. 
 
 We learn from the preface, that at a meeting of the descendants 
 of William Brewster, held in 1853, a committee was appointed to 
 procure the publication of a biography of the pilgrim, and that Mr. 
 Steele, who had already made some collections, was accordingly 
 chosen to do the work. This biography contains probably all that 
 is now known concerning Brewster, the valuable portions being 
 those taken from Mr. Hunter's Founders, and Bradford's History ; 
 but the author makes a good use of materials familiar only to the 
 student, and has prepared a very interesting account for general 
 circulation. Mr. Hunter has informed us that William Brewster 
 was of Scrooby, county of Notts; but farther back in the pedigree 
 than his supposed father William B., nothing is yet known. The 
 author says an old coat of arms is preserved in a family at Ports-
 
 118 American Genealogist. 
 
 mouth, N. H., the same as that borne by the Brewsters of Wrent- 
 ham, county of Suffolk. 
 
 Mr. Steele promises another volume of the genealogy of the de- 
 scendants of William Brewster, and consequently gives only the 
 particulai'S of the sons and daughters of the elder. Yet even in 
 this generation he seems to have been led into error, as at p. 350 
 he gives a place to Wrestling Brewster, who, all accounts agree in 
 saying, died unmarried ; but who is here placed at the head of a 
 New Hampshire branch. Mr. Savage, in his Dictionary, declares 
 this pedigree to be fictitious, founded on deeds and accounts forged 
 during the last century, and his authority will be held suflB.cient 
 by all. He makes the New Hampshire family spring from a John 
 Bruster of Portsmouth, 1665, and probably earlier. There was 
 also a Francis Brewster of New Haven, early, and a Nathaniel, pro- 
 bably his son, descendants of whom are still to be found on Long 
 Island. 
 
 As the coat of arms before mentioned is found in the family 
 whose origin is thus disputed, it can hardly be considered of any 
 authority in tracing the English pedigree ; and I believe the name 
 of Brewster is far from being an uncommon one in England. 
 
 A Brief Genealogy of the Whipple Family ; compiled 
 for Oliver Mayhew Whipple, Esq., of Lowell. 1857. 
 [On reverse of title, Compiled by John H. Boutelle, 
 of Woburn. Printed by E. D. Green & Co., Lowell.] 
 large 12 mo. pp. 36. 
 
 Matthew and John Whipple, brothers, were early settled at Ips- 
 wich, and were the ancestors of a large and esteemed family in 
 New England. This record contains a portion of these descend- 
 ants, though those sprung from Matthew occupy the greater part of 
 the book, and the register is not very convenient for reference, as 
 no plan of cross-enumeration is used.i Still the early generations 
 of both branches are well traced, and some very valuable extracts 
 from wills and deeds are given, which correct previous errors. In 
 
 'It is but justice to Mr. John Alonzo Boutelle, who is one of the moat 
 careful genealogists, to state that his manuscript, which he says had cross- 
 references, was not printed vinder his superintendence.
 
 American Genealogist. 119 
 
 a notice of this work in the Register (xi, 360), I noted some cor- 
 rections of statements of mine in the Lane Genealogy. Elder 
 John "Whipple, the emigrant, had a son John who married Martha 
 Reyner, and by her had Susanna, who married her second cousin, 
 John Lane. A brother of this Susanna was Major Matthew W., 
 whose grandson, William, was a signer of the Declaration of Inde- 
 pendence, and brigadier general at the capture of Burgoyne. As 
 John and Matthew are names used in both branches of the family, 
 this book needs to be carefully examined by those wishing to 
 identify one of the name. The record from Elder John occupies 
 pp. 29 - 34 ; and on the latter page is a note concerning the Whip- 
 pies of Rhode Island, sprung from a David W., probably not re- 
 lated to the foregoing. Felt's History of Ipswich notices several of 
 the name, but confuses the families, that should be collated with 
 this genealogy. 
 
 Hoyt Family. A Genealogical History of John Hott 
 of Salisbury, and David Hoyt of Deerfield (Massa- 
 chusetts), and their Descendants: with Some Ac- 
 count of the Early Connecticut Hoyts, and an 
 Appendix containing the Family Record of William 
 Barnes of Salisbury, a List of the First Settlers of 
 Salisbury and Amesbury, etc. By David W. Hoyt, 
 member of the New England Historical and Genea- 
 logical Society. Boston : C. Benjamin Richardson, 
 1857. 8vo. pp. 144. 
 
 The title of this volume renders any long explanation of its con- 
 tents unnecessary. The great portion, pp. 15-122, is devoted to 
 the family of John Hoyt, and it is in all respects a thorough, well 
 arranged work, creditable to the author. The introduction con- 
 tains an account of the early settlers in New England of the name, 
 and the author shows a commendable judgment in his estimate of 
 the traditions and coats of arms preserved in the family. 'The 
 illustrations are portraits of A. G. Hoit, the artist, and David 
 Starr Hoyt, who served in Mexico under Gen. Scott, and was killed 
 during the Kansas troubles; and an engraving of an old house in 
 Deerfield, long occupied by the iloyts.
 
 120 American Genealogist. 
 
 Origin and Genealogy of the American Hildreths ; a 
 Letter to D. M. Hildreth, Esq., New Orleans, from 
 Richard Hildreth. [From the New England His- 
 torical and Genealogical Register.] Boston : Henry 
 W. Button & Son, Printers. 1857. pp. 8. 
 
 This little pamphlet gives considerable information concerning 
 the family, tracing it from Richard H. of Woburn, 1643, and after- 
 wards of Chelmsford, Mass. The bearers of the name have resided 
 in that town, at Westford, Dracut, and Methuen ; and branches have 
 spread out into New Hampshire and Vermont, Ohio, Long Island, 
 and Virginia. Nothing is known of the family of the emigrant 
 before he came here. 
 
 Memoranda relating to the Lane, Retner and Whip- 
 ple Families, Yorkshire and Massachusetts. Re- 
 printed from the New England Historical and 
 Genealogical Register for April and July, 1857. 
 By W. H. Whitmore. Boston : Henry W. Button 
 & Son, Printers. 1857. 8vo. pp. 24. 
 
 This is a collection of very curious and valuable papers preserved 
 in the Lane family, relating to some property owned by the Reyners 
 and Lanes in Yorkshire. Job Lane of Maiden, married a daughter 
 of the Rev. John Reyner of Plymouth, Mass., a minister of good 
 repute here, who emigrated with his brother, Humphrey R., from 
 Gildersome, county of York. His wife was of the family of Boyes 
 of Edgton, county of York ; one brother was killed near Leeds in 
 1643, at Seacroft fight, and others lived near Gildersome, as did 
 the Reyners. Job Lane purchased from his brother-in-law, Jachin 
 Reyner, all his right, and the earliest and most important of these 
 letters are from John Dickinson of Gildersome, whose wife was 
 probably a niece of John Reyner, and who writes many interesting 
 items about the family aod property. The Rev. Peter Prudden, born 
 at Edgton, married Joanna Boys, sister of Reyner's wife, and two 
 other sisters seem to have married, respectively, Robinson, and 
 Symonds. This case is, perhaps, the only one in New England, 
 where a family kept any property in England, from the first settle-
 
 American Genealogist. 121 
 
 meat here till after the Revolution. The Lane family has remained 
 settled mainly at Bedford, Mass., and is connected with the Whip- 
 pies, Whitmores. Pages, Chandlers, and others. I have always felt 
 thankful for having been the means of making public these docu- 
 ments, and I trust my good fortune will stimulate others to trace 
 out all the collections of old papers of which they may hear. 
 
 Brief Memoir of the Family of Shelton of Connecticut. 
 [Reprinted from the New England Historical and 
 Genealogical Register.] Boston: 1857, pp. 5. 
 
 This memoir was prepared by B. Homer Dixon, Esq., and after 
 mentioning some instances in which the name occurs on English 
 records, he mentions Daniel Shelton of Stratford, Conn., 1680, the 
 ancestor of the family here. The genealogy of one branch only is 
 given, and that is traced to the present day. 
 
 Mr. Dixon has devoted much attention to the subject of the 
 derivation of surnames, and has privately published two editions of 
 a work bearing the title. Surnames, both printed in 1857. In the 
 latter will be found some notes on the ancestry of the Homers. 
 
 Genealogy of the Sigourney Family. By Henry H. 
 W. Sigourney. Boston and Cambridge : James 
 Munroe & Co. 1857. 8vo. pp. 31. 
 
 Andrew Sigourney, or Andre Sejourne, was one of the Hugue- 
 nots who came to Boston in 1686, and here constituted a church. 
 He had a son Andrew, who married Mary Germaine, and had 
 Andrew, Anthony, and Daniel; from whom is descended quite a 
 large and well known family. The register of these descendants is 
 apparently nearly complete, and is full in dates and well arranged. 
 Two daughters of this Andrew Jun., married respectively Martin 
 Brimmer and Samuel Dexter, and their issue is recorded on pp. 
 22-24. Martin Brimmer was born at Osten, near Hamburg, in 
 1697 ; the name has been perpetuated to the present day, one of 
 the most distinguished mayors of Boston bearing it. The notes, pp. 
 22-31, also contain notices of the families of Brimmer, Sloan, Jep- 
 son, Butler, Oliver, Bond, Sohier, Inches, and Otis, all connected 
 by marriage with the Sigourneys. 
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 122 American Genealogist. 
 
 The Genealogy of the Family of John Lawrence, of 
 Wisset, in Sufiblk, England, and of Watertown and 
 Groton, Massachusetts. Boston : Puhlished for the 
 Author by S. K. Whipple & Co. 1857. 8vo. pp. 
 191. 
 
 This work, the fifth we have recorded devoted to the history of 
 this family, comprises a very extensive record of the descendants 
 of John Lawrence in the male line, and of one generation in the 
 female line. The researches of Mr. H. Gr. Somerby, have shown 
 that John, the emigrant, was the son of Henry of Wisset, county 
 of Suifulk, and that his ancestors had lived for seven generations 
 at that place, and Rumburg, in the same county. It is possible 
 that this family was a branch of the Lawrences of Ashton Hall, 
 concerning whom see the Herald and Genealogist and Miscellanea 
 Genealogica et Heraldica for 1867. The first twelve pages of this 
 memoir refer to the English pedigree, and the record which follows is 
 admirably arranged and unusually full in respect to dates. The most 
 distinguished bearers of the name, probably, have been Abbott, 
 Amos, Samuel, William, and Luther, sons of Samuel Lawrence of 
 Groton, and of whom the first four were distinguished merchants 
 and manufacturers. A life of Amos Lawrence has been published 
 by his son, and had a very large circulation. A good memoir of 
 Abbott Lawrence will be found in the Register, Oct. 1856, with a 
 portrait and tabular pedigree of the family; the latter prepared by 
 Mr. Somerby, for a private edition of the life of Amos Lawrence. 
 
 A Brief Account of the Descendants of John and Eli- 
 nor Whitney of Watertown, Mass. Eeprinted, 
 with Additions, from the New England Historical 
 and Genealogical Register, for A^iril and July, 
 1857. Boston : Henry W. Button & Son, Printers. 
 1857. 8vo. pp. 26. 
 
 This genealogy by Henry Austin Whitney of Boston, is mainly 
 intended to trace the first three generations of the family, and is 
 additional to Bond's account in the Watertown Record, correcting 
 also some errors in that book. A few of the branches, especially
 
 American Genealogist. 123 
 
 of the graduates of Harvard College, are traced to the present gene- 
 ration, and the book will be found of great service to any of the 
 name who may be trying to trace out their American lineage. One 
 of the most prominent members of the family was Eli Whitney, 
 the inventor of the cotton gin. 
 
 A brief Account of the QumcY Family of Boston, 
 Mass. Reprinted from the New England Histori- 
 cal and Genealogical Register, for January, 1857. 
 With Additions and Corrections. Boston: Henry 
 W. Button and Son, Printers. 1857, Svo. pp. 8. 
 
 This little sketch I prepared originally for the Register, as one 
 of the series of Biographies of Prince's Suhscrihers ; but a small 
 edition, with some changes, was afterwards published. Edmund 
 Quincv, the ancestor in this country, was son of Edmund of Wigs- 
 thorpe, county of Northampton. He was a freeman here in 1634, 
 and received a large grant of land at Mount Wollaston, now called 
 Quincy. His grandson, John, was a distinguished man, speaker of 
 the house, &c.; and another grandson was judge of the supreme 
 court. This judge, Edmund, had a son of the same name, also a 
 judge ; and the other son was Josiah, father of the famous patriot, 
 Josiah Jun. A third and fourth Josiah in the same line, are well 
 known to my Boston readers, the elder long enjoying, in a vigorous 
 old age, that respect and admiration from his fellow citizens, to 
 which his important public services entitled him. A valuable addi- 
 tion will be found in the Register^ xi, 157. A life of Josiah Quincy, 
 the first mayor, has appeared this year. 
 
 The Genealogy of the Brainerd Family in the United 
 States, with numerous Sketches of Individuals. By 
 Rev. David D. Field, D. D., member of the Histo- 
 rical Societies of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and 
 Pennsylvania. New York: John F. Trow, Printer. 
 1857. 8vo. pp. 303. 
 
 The ancestor of this family was Daniel Brainerd, or Brainwood 
 of Hartford and Haddam, Conn. ; and his numerous descendants 
 have been located chiefly in that state. Mr. Field's record contains
 
 124 American Genealogist. 
 
 many interesting particulars of the bearers of the name, but the 
 merits of his book are greatly obscured by the lack of any arrange- 
 ment, so that the amount of the information he has laboriously col- 
 lected, depreciates its value. Much may be learned from his pages, 
 but in many cases only by patient study. The illustrations are 
 portraits of John Gr. C. Brainerd, the poet; Rev. Thomas B., Dr. 
 Austin B., Ezra and Lawrence B., merchants; and Dr. Daniel B., 
 a distinguished surgeon at Chicago. 
 
 Blake Family. A Genealogical History of William 
 Blake of Dorchester, and his descendants, compris- 
 ing all the descendants of Samuel and Patience 
 (White) Blake. With an appendix containing 
 wills, &c., of members of the family and other in- 
 teresting matter. By Samuel Blake, member of 
 the Dorchester Antiquarian and Historical Society, 
 " One generation passeth away and another genera- 
 tion Cometh : but the earth abideth forever." Bos- 
 ton : Ebenezer Clapp, Jr., 184 Washington st. 
 Printed by David Clapp. 1857. 8vo. pp. 140. 
 
 This book contains the Dorchester branch of the family, with but 
 slight mention of those offshoots which were settled in other towns. 
 To remedy this defect in one point, I would refer the reader to a 
 review of the book in the Register, xi, 181, which was reprinted, 
 and may occur bound up in some copies of the genealogy. I am 
 free to praise the execution of the somewhat limited work which 
 the author decided to perform, but must remind my readers that 
 the English portion of the pedigree is as yet very uncertain and 
 should be received with due caution, until the proof of it is pub- 
 lished; especially as Mr. Savage has been led into introducing it 
 into his Dictionary. The book contains a view of a house built 
 probably by James Blake of the second generation, and several 
 facsimile autographs. The index is very good, and many wills 
 and other documents are embodied in the genealogy, which they 
 strengthen and enrich.
 
 American GtEnealogist. 125 
 
 A Genealogical Memoir of the Descendants of Am- 
 brose FoTVLER of Windsor, and Capt. Wm. Fowler 
 of New Haven, Connecticut. Reprinted, with 
 Additions, from the New England Historical and 
 Genealogical Register, for July, 1857. Boston : H. 
 W. Button & Son, Printers. 1857. 8vo. pp. 27. 
 
 This memoir contains many facts not included in the article 
 published in the Register^ and is a very good and well arranged 
 genealogy of a portion of the family bearing the name. The author 
 gives first a notice of several early settlers not known to be rela- 
 tives, from whom have sprung several distinct families of Fowlers. 
 Pp. 7-18 contain the descendants of Ambrose Fowler; pp. 19-27 
 record those of William Fowler, the latter being certainly the son 
 of William Fowler, early a magistrate of the New Haven colony. 
 It is suppu>ied that Ambrose was another son, and that a John 
 Fowler of Milford and Guilford, Conn., was a third. This genea- 
 logy is very compact, and is arranged on the clear plan adopted for 
 most of the recent memoirs in the Register. 
 
 The very Singular Life of John Bruen, Esquire, of 
 Bruen Stapleford, Cheshire : exhibiting a variety of 
 memorable and exemplary circumstances which 
 may be of great utility to all persons ; but princi- 
 pally intended as a precedent of Piety and Charity 
 for the inhabitants of the County of Chester. By 
 the Rev. William Hinde, Fellow of Queens' College, 
 Oxford, and Preacher of God's Word at Bunbury 
 in the aforesaid county. Originally published in 
 1641, by the Author's Son, Samuel Hinde ; revised, 
 corrected, and republished. By William Codding- 
 ton, of Chester, 1799. New York: Printed by 
 Edward 0. Jenkins, No. 26 Frankfort Street. 1857. 
 18mo. pp. 116. 
 
 John Bruen, the subject of this memoir, was born in 15G0 and 
 died in 1625. His portrait is prefixed to the volume. To this 
 edition is added a preface of 4 pages and a folding tabular pedi-
 
 126 ' American Genealogist. 
 
 gree of Bruea of Bruen Stapleford. The preface gives an account 
 of a recent visit of the editor, Alexander McWhorter Bruen to 
 Bruen Stapleford, and closes with a brief notice of Obadiah Bruea, 
 who is said by the American editor, by Savage and by others, to 
 have been a son of the above John Bruen. Obadiah Bruen emi- 
 grated to this country, and in 1640 was admitted a freeman of 
 Plymouth Colony. Thence he removed to Gloucester, Mass., and 
 afterwards to Pequot, now New London, Conn., and Milford, now 
 Newark, N. J. 
 
 The pedigree is " taken from Ormerod's Riatory of Cheshire and 
 Records in this Country." The first person here named is Robert 
 le Bruen of Stapleford, Anno 1230, and the last persons are the 
 editor's children (born 1851-1855) of the twenty-first generation. 
 John Bruen to whose memoir this pedigree is appended, was of the 
 thirteenth generation. 
 
 Memories, Counsels, and Reflections. By an Octoge- 
 nary. Addressed to his Children and Descendants, 
 and printed for their use. Cambridge : Metcalf & 
 Company. 1857. pp. 119. 
 
 This volume contains two sermons by the Rev. Dan. Huntington 
 of Hadley, with an autobiography and genealogical notes, &c. 
 He was eighty years old Oct. 11th, 1855, and rightly estimating the 
 value of his reminiscences, be has here recorded the memories of his 
 long life. Tempting as the subject is, the limits of this book 
 prevent extracts from the autobiography. In the genealogies we 
 find brief notes on the Huntington, Throop, Phelps, Pitkin, Porter, 
 and Whiting families, and on other families resident at Lebanon, Ct. 
 
 As a proof of the longevity of the family we may note that the 
 writer's grandfather lived to be ninety-four years of age, his father 
 eighty-four, and of his father's six children, three of whom were living 
 when the sermons were written, the average age was eighty-four. 
 
 As a genealogy, this book was superseded by the large work pub- 
 lished some six years afterwards , as a very interesting description 
 of New England life during the early part of this century its value 
 is undiminished.
 
 American Genealogist. 127 
 
 Narrative of a Tour made into the county of Lincoln, 
 in October, 1857, for the purpose of hunting up 
 some Memorials of that Branch of the Hutchinson 
 Family called " Hutchinson of Lincolnshire " in the 
 old coat of arms on vellum. By Peter Orlando 
 Hutchinson. Printed for private distribution among 
 the members of the family, by John Harvey, Fore 
 street, Sidmouth. 1857. pp. 26. 
 
 This little tract was written by one of the descendants of Gov. 
 Thomas Hutchinson, and records his search among the parish registers 
 at Boston, Alford, Gainsborough, &c., for data in reference to his 
 ancestors. It was well known that the first emigrant hither, Wil- 
 liam Hutchinson, was from Alford. This search proved that his 
 father was samed Edward, and added many dates to the pedigree, 
 but farther back the pedigree cannot be traced. In noticing two 
 later works on this family we shall have more to say about the 
 earlier bi'anches. The present little book is of value mainly 
 from the extracts from parish records; and the omission of any 
 searches in the will offices after so much had been gained will seem 
 unaccountable to antiquaries here. As a pleasant contribution to 
 the history of a noted family, the book is worthy a place in the 
 genealogist's library. 
 
 1858. 
 
 The Genealogy of the Descendants of Capt. John 
 Grout. By Rev. Abner Morse, A. M., Member of 
 the New England Historical and Genealogical 
 Society. Boston : Printed for the author. 8vo. pp. 
 86. 
 
 In the first edition of this Handbook this pamphlet was given 
 with a slightly difiierent title, as furnished by the author, Mr. Morse. 
 The present title is copied from a copy wliich I have examined, 
 but I feel no confidence that it is the only title printed. The subject 
 matter of the genealogy is the same as is to be found in the author's
 
 128 American Genealogist. 
 
 Ancient Puritans, but he had a custom of printing copies of 
 different parts of his volumes with additions and variations, and 
 usually but a limited edition of such amended copies. 
 
 Genealogy of the Sarge(a)nt Family. Descendants 
 of William, of Maiden, Mass. Bj Aaron Sargent, 
 Boston: S. G. Drake. 1858. 12mo. pp. 108. 
 
 This genealogy is one of the most exact and concise histories yet 
 published. It is simply a genealogy with no biograjjhical notes, 
 but in its way it is certainly a model — well arranged, with full 
 dates, and convenient indices. The author has been a frequent 
 and highly valued contributor to the Register ; his copies of the 
 Maiden Records are very useful and exact. 
 
 The Levering Family ; or a Genealogical Account of 
 Wigard Levering and Gerhard Levering, Two of 
 the Pioneer Settlers of Roxborough Township, 
 Philadelphia County (Pennsylvania), and their 
 Descendants; and an Appendix, containing brief 
 Sketches of Roxborough and Manayunk. By Ho- 
 ratio Gates Jones, member of the Historical Society 
 of Pennsylvania, and corresponding member of the 
 New England Historical and Genealogical Society, 
 and of the Historical Societies of New York, Wis- 
 consin, etc., etc. Philadelphia : Printed for the 
 Author, by King and Baird. 1858. 8vo. pp. 193. 
 
 These emigrants were sons of Rosier Levering, as ie shown by a 
 record made by Wigard L. in his family Bible, in which he farther 
 states that he was born in Gamen, in the district of Munster, in 
 Westphalia. His wife was Magdalen Boker, daughter of William 
 B. of Leyden. The descendants of this Wigard Levering are very 
 fully traced on pp. 17-148; those of his brother Gerhard, or Gar- 
 rett L., occupy pp. 149-184; and the arrangement is clear and 
 simple. As there has been no law in Pennsylvania for the regis- 
 tration of births, marriages, and deaths, the genealogist has great 
 disadvantages to contend with ; but in this case the author, who 
 is well known as a judicious antiquary, has supplied deficiencies
 
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 admirably by persevering research among old deeds, wills, and 
 tombstones, and a skillful use of such traditions as he has collected. 
 The typographical execution of the book is very good, and it con- 
 tains views of the church, scbool-house, and hotel at Roxborough, 
 and portraits of John Levering, Peter Keyser, and Charles Lever- 
 ing. The indices at the beginning of the book are copious, and of 
 great use to the reader. 
 
 The Genealogy of the Makepeace Families in the 
 United States. From 1637 to 1857. By William 
 Makepeace, member of the N. E. Hist.-Gen. Society. 
 Boston : David Clapp. 1858.^ 12mo. pp. 107. 
 
 This little book relates chiefly to the branch of the family to 
 which the author belongs, and is inconvenient for examination, 
 there being no cross-references. The record of the early genera- 
 tions, however, is very good, and contains many abstracts of deeds 
 and wills. The progenitor of the family was Thomas Makepeace 
 of Boston, 1637, a man of considerable importance, who had sons 
 Thomas, William, and Joseph; and four daughters, of whom one 
 was named Waitawhile. From William is descended the family 
 here noticed. There is an engraving given of the Makepeace arms, 
 but as the author says nothing is known of his ancestor prior to 
 his emigration, this can hardly be of any authority. 
 
 Memorials of the Chauncets, including President 
 Chauncey, his Ancestors and Descendants. By 
 William Chauncey Fowler. Boston : Henry W. 
 Dutton & Son, Printers. 1858. 
 
 The ancestor of all those bearing the name of Chauncey in the 
 United States was Charles Chauncy, one of the distinguished family 
 of Hertfordshire, which has given a historian to that county. He 
 was born in 1592, was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, be- 
 came vicar at Ware, in 1627, and as a clergyman became obnoxious 
 for his opposition to the novelties sanctioned by Laud. Suspended 
 
 ' The title page of this pamphlet says published in 1858, the cover says 
 1859. 
 
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 130 American Genealogist. 
 
 from office, cast into prison, and released only on probation, he 
 determined to seek a refuge in New England, and arrived at Ply- 
 mouth in 1638. Here and in Scituate he long remained as a 
 minister, but having finally decided to return to England, he was 
 in Boston making preparations for the voyage, when, in November, 
 1654, he was offered the position of president of Harvard College. 
 He married Catharine, daughter of Robert Eyre of Sarum, county 
 of Wilts, and granddaughter of Bishop Still, by whom he had six 
 sons and two daughters. Much space is devoted in this book to 
 the ancestry and the life of this Charles Chauncy, and a full account 
 is given also of the labors of his great-grandson and namesake, the 
 pastor of the First Church in Boston. Of the six sons of the emi- 
 grant, Barnabas and Elnathan left no issue; the descendants of the 
 others are very fully given in this book, both in the male and 
 female lines, and the simple framework of genealogy is so overlaid 
 with wealth of anecdote and antiquarian lore, as to incur some risk 
 of being undistinguishable. The plan, however, of giving a tabu- 
 lar sketch of the different branches, will prevent any serious trouble 
 in tracing the relations. These sheet pedigrees are placed as fol- 
 lows : that of Isaac at p. 46 ; Nathaniel at p. 89 ; and Israel at 
 p. 206 ; whilst the descendants of Ichabod are recorded at p. 79. At 
 p. 36 will be found folded, a large pedigree of the English Chaun- 
 ceys, and of the families which by intermarriage were represented 
 in the person of the emigrant; and a portrait of the Rev. Charles 
 Chauncy of Boston, faces the title page. We can not well par- 
 ticularize the many admirable portions of this work, but it is suf- 
 ficient to say that the author has had a noble subject and great 
 advantages, and that he has used them in a befitting manner. In 
 all respects the book is worthy of a first place in our classification, 
 and it is to be regretted that only a small edition was printed, and 
 that for private distribution. 
 
 Descendants of Richard Gardner of Woburn, of the 
 name of Gardner. Boston : Printed for private cir- 
 culation. 1858. 8vo. pp. 14. 
 
 This pamphlet, from the press of Rand & Avery, Boston, was 
 written by W. W. Greenough of Boston, and contains a record of
 
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 part of the descendants of Richard Gardner of Woburn, Mass., 
 1642. It is very accurate in respect to dates, and among the per- 
 sons included in the pedigree are, Henry Gardner, first state trea- 
 surer of Massachusetts; his grandson, Henry J. Gardner, governor, 
 1855-57 ; and Rev. Francis Gardner, of Leominster, whose descend- 
 ants will be found in the names of Gardner, Greenough, White, &c. 
 A grandson and namesake is the learned principal of the Boston 
 Latin School. There are many distinct families of Gardners and 
 Gardiners in New England, as Savage's Dictionary shows. 
 
 Genealogy of the McKinstry Family, with a preHmi- 
 nary Essay on the Scotch-Irish Immigrations to 
 America. By William Willis, of Portland, Me. 
 Boston : Henry W. Button & Son, Printers. 1858. 
 8vo. pp '28. 
 
 The large immigration of colonists from the north of Ireland, in 
 1718, is a very noticeable event in our annals. These settlers were 
 not Irish, but descendants of Scotchmen, all protestants, and nearly 
 all presbyterians. In 1718, five vessels, with one hundred and 
 twenty families, reached Boston, and were soon followed by five 
 ships more. These colonists settled at Londonderry, N. H., Pel- 
 ham, and Worcester, Mass., and many removed to Maine. Ten 
 years later, some four thousand emigrants came from Ireland, settling 
 chiefly in Pennsylvania. John McKinstry, the American ancestor, 
 was born in Brode parish, county of Antrim, but his parents, 
 Roger McKinstry and Mary Wilson, were from Edinburgh, and he 
 was educated at the university there. He qualified himself for the 
 ministry, and was settled at East Windsor, Conn., for twenty-one 
 years. The family has always maintained a good position here, and 
 its members are fully recorded in this book. 
 
 The author also traces two other families of the name, descended 
 respectively from Capt. John McKinstry of Londonderry, N. H., 
 and William McK. of Southbridge, Mass. ; the latter of whom was 
 born at Carrickfergus, and the former was probably a relative of 
 the above mentioned John. 
 
 Mr. Willis is well known as an accurate and learned writer, and 
 his preliminary essay is well worth a careful perusal.
 
 132 American Genealogist. 
 
 Willard Memoir ; or, Life and Times of Major Simon 
 WiLLARD : with Notices of Three Generations of 
 his Descendants, and two collateral Branches in the 
 United States ; also. Some Account of the Name 
 and Family in Europe, from an Early Day. By 
 Joseph Willard. With three engravings. Boston : 
 Phillips, Sampson & Co., 13 Winter Street. 1858. 
 8vo. pp. 471. 
 
 The title page of this book gives a very good description of its 
 contents, as so large a portion of it is devoted to the actions of 
 Simon Willard, from whom most of the name here are descended. 
 Simon Willard was the son of Richard Willard of Horsmonden, 
 county of Kent, by his second wife. The father seems to have 
 been a yeoman in good circumstances, but no trace has been disco- 
 vered to connect him with others of the same name in Sussex and 
 Kent, though a more extensive search would probably be success- 
 ful. Simon Willard came to this country in 1634, in company with 
 his sister Margery, wife of Dolor Davis, and soon rose to distinction 
 here, in the service of the colony. His descendants have been 
 numerous, and the family has always maintained a high social posi- 
 tion, due to the talents of many of the bearers of the name. The 
 first chapter of this book treats of the origin of the name, which 
 appears to be incontestably Saxon. The second, pp. 21-80, em- 
 bodies the results of searches made in the will offices in England, 
 and of the author's study of topographical and antiquarian works. 
 Abstracts of many wills are given, showing that a large number of 
 persons of the name lived in Kent and Sussex, one family at least 
 ranking among the gentry and using a coat of arms, which is 
 given in this book. Of course the American family have no claim 
 to them, on the ground of similarity of name. Chapter third 
 relates to Willards not related to Major Simon, such as those in 
 Maryland, of German descent, and the family at Newton, Mass., of 
 which Jacob Willard was the progenitor. Chapter fourth contains 
 an account of George Willard and Margery Davis, brother and 
 sister of Simon, and of some of their descendants. The next chapter 
 treats of the native county and parish of these emigrants; and
 
 American Genealogist. 133 
 
 chapter six to fourteen inclusive, describe the "life and times" of 
 the distinguished Puritan. The fifteenth section gives the particu- 
 lars of Simon's marriages, and of the ancestry of the Dunsters, to 
 which family he was indebted for one, if not two, helpmeets; and 
 thi» portion of the work especially displays the critical judgment 
 in weighing evidence, for which our author enjoys so large a repu- 
 tation. The sixteenth chapter, pp.' 353-440, contains a register of 
 four generations of the descendants of Simon, interspersed with 
 many interesting biographical notes, though of the latter we have 
 but a small portion of those collected by the author. He promises, 
 if the interest manifested in the present work warrant it, hereafter 
 to resume his account. Among the persons mentioned as descended 
 by the female line, are Robert Treat Paine, Gov. Gore, and the 
 celebrated Amsterdam banker, Henry Hope. Of the many distin- 
 guished men who have perpetuated the fame of the Willards, we 
 find here a full enumeration; and there are few families in the 
 country which can show a brighter roll. The memoir will well 
 repay perusal by all interested in the early history of Massachusetts, 
 and it is in nearly every respect a model genealogy. The illustra- 
 tions are two views of the church at Horsmouden, and a tricking of 
 the coat of arms before cited. 
 
 The Vinton Memorial, comprising a Genealogy of the 
 Descendants of John Vinton of Lynn, 1648; also 
 Genealogical Sketches of several allied Families, 
 namely, those bearing the names of Alden, Adams, 
 Allen, Boylston, Faxon, French, Hayden, Holbrook, 
 Mills, Niles, Penniman, Thayer, White, Richardson, 
 Baldwin, Carpenter, Safford, Putnam, and Green. 
 Interspersed with Notices of many other ancient 
 families. With an appendix, containing a History 
 of the Brain tree Iron Works, and other historical 
 matter. By John Adams Vinton. Boston : Pub- 
 lished for the Author, by S. K. Whipple & Co. 1858. 
 8vo. pp. 532. 
 
 This is another of our most finished genealogies, whose extent 
 and completeness render almost useless any brief description . Every
 
 134 American Gtenealogist. 
 
 page is so loaded with facts, and every digression is excused by 
 such valuable information, that it is impossible to give any synopsis 
 of its character, sufficient to be of much use. The ancestor of the 
 family was John Vinton of Lynn, 1648, who is supposed to have 
 been of Huguenot parentage, a surmise which is strengthened by 
 the fact that he named a son Blaise. The record is evidently very 
 extensive, the descendants being traced in numerous instances in 
 the female lines as well as the male. On almost every page will 
 be found valuable notes on persons intermarrying with the Vintons, 
 and the biographical sketches inserted in the text are very minute 
 and full. The author gives authorities for his statements, showing 
 that he has carefully examined town and county records, wills, and 
 deeds. A very thorough index, in several parts, will enable the 
 student to examine these valuable collections to advantage. As 
 there are two other volumes to be noticed, formed of portions of 
 this one, it will not be necessary to notice here the allied families. 
 The engravings in this volume are portraits of the author, John A. 
 Vinton, David Hale, B. V. French, Samuel F. Vinton, Nathan W. 
 Dickerman, and Bev. Francis Vinton. 
 
 The Descendants of Peter Hill of York County, 
 Maine, with some Incidents relating to the French 
 and Indian Wars, gleaned from old manuscripts of 
 the time. By Usher Parsons. Reprinted from the 
 New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 
 for April and July, 1858. Boston: Henry W. 
 Dutton and Son, Printers. 1858. 8vo. pp. 16. 
 
 Peter Hill and his son Roger Hill were among the earliest set- 
 tlers of Ligonia, or Maine. Boger's sons were engaged in the wars 
 with the French, and one of them, John, being stationed at Saco, 
 acquired much reputation for his bravery. A number of letters 
 addressed to him are here published. His son John became chief 
 justice of the court of common pleas, and the genealogy contains a 
 list of his descendants, but brief mention being made of the other 
 branches. Savage records several distinct branches of the name, 
 and one of them is partially traced in the appendix to the Lee 
 Genealogy, being that to which Gov. Hiland Hill belonged.
 
 American Genealogist. 135 
 
 Family Meeting of the Descendants of Charles Kel- 
 logg, of Kelloggsville, N. Y., witii some Genealogi- 
 cal Items of the Kellogg Family. Reprinted from 
 the New England Historical and Genealogical Re- 
 gister, for July, 1858. Boston : Henry W. Dutton 
 and Son, Printers. 1858. 8vo. pp. 8. 
 
 Stephen Kellogg, probably of Scotch descent, was the earliest 
 known ancestor of the family, at the time of the publication of this 
 pamphlet, but it has since been found that he was son of Joseph 
 of Farmington, Conn., as appears by a second number of the work 
 published in 1860. His son Silas was born at Westfield, Mass., in 
 1714, and had with other children, Asa, whose descendants are 
 here traced. Charles Kellogg, son of Asa, was of New York, and 
 afterwards of Michigan. The family meeting was held in October, 
 1857, by his eleven children, who had only once before been all 
 assembled together. The notice of the meeting here given occu- 
 pies two pages, the remainder of the pamphlet consisting of the 
 genealogy prepared by D. 0. Kellogg of Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 A Genealogical Sketch of the Descendants of Thomas 
 Green [e] of Maiden, Mass. By Samuel S. Greene, 
 Providence, R. I. Boston : Henry W. Dutton & 
 Son, Printers. 1858. 8vo. pp. 80. 
 
 As we have seen, this genealogy was included in both the pre- 
 ceding works, due credit being given to the author by Mr. Vinton. 
 There are several distinct families of this name, very fully noted in 
 Savage's work ; the family here noticed was long settled at Maiden, 
 and an appendix gives a brief account of the Hills family of Maiden, 
 with which it intermarried. Other branches have settled at Read- 
 ing, Stoneham, Leicester, and Worcester. Though the author dates 
 his book from Providence, the reader must not expect here to find 
 the records of the Greenes of Rhode Island, descended from John 
 Green of Narragansett, to which family belonged Gen. Nathaniel 
 Greene, and Gardiner Greene of Boston, as recorded in the Register, 
 IV, 75. This register is very well arranged, and apparently full, 
 with a iirood index.
 
 186 American Genealogist. 
 
 Pedigree of the Odin Family. Reprinted from the 
 New Enghmd Historical and Genealogical Register 
 for July, 1858. pp. 4. 
 
 This family history, though so very brief, seems to contain all 
 the bearers of the name here. John Odin, the first of the name, 
 was born in Kent, Eng., 1722, and was master of a Boston ship. 
 His only son, John, had but two sons, John and George, both highly 
 respected merchants of Boston; and this latter John has an only 
 son of the same name. 
 
 Genealogical Sketches of the Descendants of John 
 Vinton of Lynn, 1648 ; and of several Allied Fami- 
 lies, namely, those bearing the names of Alden, 
 Adams, Allen, Boylston, Faxon, French, Hay den, 
 Holbrook, Mills, Niles, Penniman, Thayer, White, 
 Richardson, Baldwin, and Green. Interspersed 
 with Notices of other ancient families. With an 
 Appendix, containing a History of the Braintree 
 Iron Works, and other historical matter. By John 
 Adams Vinton. Boston : published for the author, 
 by S. K. Whipple & Co. 1858. pp. 236. 
 
 This is a portion of the book, before noticed, repaged. The first 
 twenty pages contain a short genealogy of the Vintons, and the 
 remainder treats of the difi"erent families enumerated in the title. 
 The Aldens are descended from the famous John Alden of the 
 Mayflower. The Adams family here traced commences with Henry 
 A. of Braintree, from whom came Samuel Adams the patriot, and 
 John Adams the president, i The Aliens are from Samuel Allen 
 of Braintree ; the Boylstons from Thomas B. of Watertown ; the 
 
 ^Neither this author nor Mr. Savage notice the English ancestry of 
 this Henry Adams, as published in the Register, vii, 39-40, furnished by 
 William Downing Bruce, F. S. A., and which traces the family through 
 some fifteen generations, to a Welsh source. Although it has never been 
 formally contradicted, I am assured by a competent authority that the whole 
 statement is absurd and impossible.
 
 American Genealogist. 137 
 
 Faxons from Thomas Faxon of Braintree; the French family from 
 John French of Braintree. John Hayden of Braintree founded 
 the family here noticed; Thomas Holbrook of Weymouth, John 
 Mills of Braintree, John Niles of Braintree, James Penniman of 
 Braintree, Richard Thayer of Braintree, and Thomas White of 
 Weymouth, are here recorded with their issue. Ezekiel, Samuel, 
 and Thomas Richardson, were of Woburn, brothers, and from them 
 has come a large family. Pp. 126-188, comprise the Green pedi- 
 gree, hereafter to be noticed, and the appendix is a portion of that 
 of the Vinton Memorial. There is also a good index. 
 
 A Genealogical History of the Rice Family: De- 
 scendants of Deacon Edmund Rice, who came from 
 Berkhamstead, England, and settled at Sudbury, 
 Massachusetts, in 1638 or 9 ; with an Index, 
 alphabetically arranged, of the names of husbands 
 and wives of the name of Rice; also an Index, 
 alphabetically arranged, of the names of husbands 
 and wives of families other than Rice, but have 
 intermarried with them, and also of the names of 
 husbands and wives of their descendants. By 
 Andrew Ilenshaw Ward, A. M., member of the New 
 England Historibal and Genealogical Society, &c., 
 &c. Boston : C. Benjamin Richardson. 1858. 8vo. 
 pp. 379. 
 
 This is a full and interesting account of the Rice family, descended 
 from Edmund of Sudbury, who had lived apparently atBarkhamstead, 
 county of Herts, where several of his children were baptized. The 
 family has been located chiefly in Sudbury, Leicester, Marlboro, 
 Brookfield, and Worcester, though one prominent branch was of 
 Boston and Hingham. The record is well arranged, and of great 
 extent, many of the descendants in the female lines being traced. 
 There are many valuable notes relative to the pedigree of persons 
 intermarrying with the Rices, and among these are the names of 
 Blake, Bradford, Furbush, Goodnow, Howe, White, Stone, Moore, 
 Maynard, Goulding, Clark, Baldwin, and Allen. 
 
 The preface to this genealogy states that it has been usual, for 
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 138 American Genealogist. 
 
 several years past, to have a family rueeting annually at the old 
 homestead. In 1.S51 an address was delivered, and afterwards 
 published, with the following title : 
 
 An Address, delivered at the Annual Meetins: of the Rice Family 
 at Wayland. on Friday, September 5th, 1851. By Abner Rice, 
 A. M., of Woburn. Boston: press of Joseph L. Hallworth. 
 1851. pp. 14. 
 
 A Branch of the Whitney Family. Reprinted from 
 the New England Historical and Genealogical 
 Eegister, for July, 1858. pp. 7' 
 
 This article, by Dr. L. M. Harris, is in addition to the preceding 
 articles in the Register^ and traces the family of John, grandson of 
 John and Elinor Whitney, by his wife Elizabeth Harris. She was 
 daughter of Robert Harris and Elizabeth Boughey, and two letters 
 published in the Register, V, 307, give some particulars of the 
 Bougheys. From it we learn that her brother was Bold Boughey 
 (warden of the Fleet prison, London, 1662); another brother, Ti- 
 mothy, was chaplain at Dunkirk, Thomas was of London, Hannah 
 married Mr. Wilding of Shrewsbury, Mary m. Thomas Roe of 
 London, Priscilla m. Mr. Bruce, chaplain at the Fleet, Katherine 
 m. a Thorpe, and lived in Aldersgate street in London. The name 
 is also spelt BofFee. Fifty copies only printai. 
 
 Record of the Family of Thomas Ewing who emi- 
 grated from Ireland to America in 1718. Edition 
 of 150 copies; printed for the use of the family 
 connexion only. Press of James H. Bryson. 1858. 
 8vo. pp. 38. 
 
 This is the second of a series of three works, of 4vhich the other 
 two have already been noticed — the Patterson family on p. 47, and 
 the Du Bois family on p. 155. These works have the same charac- 
 teristics. The fullness of the biographic details, renders them 
 quite interesting to the general reader as well as to relatives. A 
 system of cross-references might have been introduced that would 
 have facilitated the use of the books, without marring their appear- 
 ance or breaking the connection of the narratives; but as the num- 
 ber of individuals noticed is not large, the want of these valuable
 
 American Genealogist. 139 
 
 auxiliaries is not felt as tliey would be if the family were more 
 numerous. Besides a lithoi;Taphic tabular pedigree is appended 
 which is a great help in tracing the different lines. 
 
 Thomas Evving, the i^rsepositm of this family, was a son of 
 Findley Ewing, a Presbyterian of Scotch descent, who lived in 
 Londonderry, Ireland, and distinguished himself at the battle of 
 Boyne in 1690. Thomas was born at Londonderry in 1695, and 
 emigrating to this country in 1718, settled in Grreenwich, West 
 Jersey. A tradition exists in the family that Thomas Ewing had 
 brothers who also emigrated to America, but as the brothers are 
 represented by the mythical number three, no reliance should be 
 placed upon it ; for it would be difficult to find a family that has 
 been any length of time in the country, that has not the same tra- 
 dition, varied as to the places in which the brothers settled. It 
 appears, however, from the statement of Amos Ewing of Cecil 
 county, Md., that four brothers, John, Alexander, Henry and 
 Samuel Ewing, came about 1700 from Londonderry, and settled in 
 Cecil county. As they are reported to have come from the same 
 place as Thomas, it is not improbable that they may have been his 
 relatives, and possibly his brothers. All of them have posterity 
 now living. Rev. John Ewing, D.D., provost of the college of 
 Philadelphia, who died Sept. 8, 1802, aged 70, was a son of Alex- 
 ander. 
 
 The most distinguished of the descendants of Thomas Ewing are 
 Hon. Thomas Ewing of Ohio, and the late Hon. Charles Ewing, 
 # LL. D., of New Jersey. Hon. Thomas Ewing was born in Virginia 
 and went at an early age with his parents to Ohio, from which state 
 he has been a member of the U. S. Senate. He has also been 
 secretary of the treasury under Pres. Harrison, and secretary of the 
 interior under Pres. Taylor. Hon. Charles Ewing was born in 
 Burlington county, N. J., July 8, 1780, and died at Trenton, N. J., 
 Aug. 5, 1832. He was chief justice of his native state, from 1824 
 till his death. 
 
 There is in this book a brief notice of the Maskell family de- 
 secended from Thomas Maskell, who settled in Connecticut as early 
 as 1658. Thomas Maskell of Louisiana, a descendant, is here 
 reported as having investigated very thoroughly the family history. 
 He finds the name in English records with the spelling Mascall.
 
 140 American Genealogist. 
 
 The Brights of Suffolk, England: Represented in 
 America by the descendants of Henry Bright, Jun., 
 who came to New England in 16 oO, and Settled in 
 Watertown, Massachusetts. By J. B. Bright. For 
 Private Distribution. Boston : printed by John 
 Wilson & Son. 1858. 8vo. pp. 345. 
 
 " Among the many handsome genealogical works that have been 
 produced in New England," says the editor of the Herald and 
 Genealogist, " this may deservedly be placed in the foremost rank, 
 whilst it has this peculiar characteristic, that it is wholly devoted 
 to the history of those members of an American family who either 
 lived before the emigration across the Atlantic, or who belonged 
 to the branches who still remained in England." 
 
 The Brights have long been resident of Watertown, Mass., but 
 possessed no special knowledge of their English ancestry, till the 
 discovery of a legacy paid to Henry, the emigrant, by the executor of 
 his sister Elizabeth Dell, of Stratford-le-Bow, gave a clew to research. 
 Mr. Somerby diligently followed the trace, and the result of his 
 labors is the present handsome volume. 
 
 The first name fully identified in the pedigree was that of John 
 Bright, of Bury St. Edmunds, in 1539. His son Walter was wealthy 
 and died in 1551, leaving three sons, of two of these the issue is 
 probably extinct. 
 
 Thomas, son of Walter, was a draper of Bury St. Edmunds, and 
 acquired a large property. He died in 1587, having had fifteen 
 children, of whom Henry, third son, was baptized in 1560. Henry's 
 third son, Henry Bright, Jr., bap., 1602, m. Anne, dau. of Henry 
 Goldstone, and came to New England. 
 
 The family has increased here and maintained a good position. 
 This volume is devoted to tracing the branches which remained in 
 England and became extinct there, and is embellished with many 
 engravings of manor-halls, churches, and hamlets, as well as 
 enriched with pedigrees of allied families. For an account of the 
 American branch, our readers are referred to Bond's History of 
 Watertown. 
 
 We remember but few works of a similar nature, but it is probable
 
 American Genealogist. 141 
 
 that the investigations now yearly made in England by Americans, 
 will lead to an increase in the number, especially as the English 
 government is rapidly opening new sources of information to the 
 public. 
 
 1859. 
 
 Historical Notices of Thomas Fuller and his Descend- 
 ants, with a Genealogy of the Fuller Family. 
 Reprinted from the New England Historical and 
 Genealogical Reirister for October. 1859. Boston : 
 Henry W. Button & Son, Printers. 1859. 8vo. 
 pp. 16. 
 
 Thomas Fuller was of Woburn and Middletown, Mass., and pro- 
 genitor of a large family here recorded in part. The notices are of 
 Rev. Timothy Fuller of Princeton, and his five sons; Timothy 
 (who was distinguished in political life, and was father of Margaret 
 Fuller Ossoli, a writer of remarkable powers, and of Rev. Arthur 
 B. Fuller), Henry H., William W., Abraham W., and Elisha, all 
 five distinguished lawyers. An engraving is given of a coat of 
 arms long in the possession of the family, but the compiler frankly 
 adds there is no other proof of the right to use them. 
 
 Genealogy of the Descendants of Banfield Capron, 
 from A. D. 1660 to A. D. 1859. By Frederic A. 
 Holden. " Remember the days of old, consider the 
 years of many generations." Boston : Printed by 
 Geo. C. Rand & Avery. 1859. 12mo. pp. 263. 
 
 The introduction, pp. 5-22, is "A short historical account of 
 Banfield Capron, who came from Old England and settled in New 
 England; of his descendants; and of the original families of Scotts 
 and Jenkses, with whom the Caprons became connected by mar- 
 riage, and by blood akin, written by Philip Capron, in the year 
 1817, and in the 73d year of his age." The rest of the work is 
 divided into eleven parts, each part giving descendants of the im- 
 migrant through one of his children. Part I, pp. 26-111, gives 
 the descendants' of his son, Banfield Jun. ; part ii, pp. 112-145,
 
 142 American Genealogist. 
 
 ttose of his son Joseph; part iii, pp. 146-148, those of his son 
 Edward; partly, pp. 149-155, those of his son Walter; part v, 
 p. 156-160, those of his son John ; part vi, pp. 161-186, those 
 of his son Jonathan ; part vii, pp. 187-190, those of his daughter 
 Betsey, who married Capt. John Brown ; part viil, p. 91, those of 
 his daughter Mary, who m. Capt. Samuel Tyler ; part ix, pp. 192- 
 250, those of his daughter Hannah, who m. David Aldrich ; part 
 X, p. 251, those of his daughter Margaret, who m. William Arnold; 
 and part xi, pp. 252-263, those of his daughter Sarah, who m. 
 Ralph Freeman. The descendants of other names than Capron, 
 are given in all the lines. There are portraits of the author, and 
 of John, Effingham L., Hiram, William C, John W., B. S., and 
 William Capron. The book seems to have been carefully prepared, 
 but needs an index. 
 
 A Genealogy of the Norton Family, with Miscellane- 
 ous Notes. Reprinted from the New England His- 
 torical and Genealogical Register for July, 1859. 
 Boston : Henry W. Button & Son, Printers. 1859. 
 8vo. pp. 10. 
 
 This is a copy which I made of an old parchment pedigree pre- 
 served in the Norton family, tracing the ancestry in England for 
 many generations. I examined the original roll, which is certified 
 to by John Philpott, Somersett Herald, collating with a copy made 
 in 1802. This family of Norton was long settled at Sharpenhow, 
 county of Bedford, and the Herald connects them with a family of 
 Noruile, giving proofs from old wills, etc. ; and the intermarriages 
 in each generation are illustrated by the impalement of the wife's 
 arms. John Norton of Sharpenhow, the tenth in the line of de- 
 scent, had issue, with others, Thomas and Richard. Thomas had 
 a son, Thomas Jun., who married first, Margaret, daughter of 
 Thomas Cranmer, archbishop of Canterbury ; and secondly, Alice, 
 daughter of Edmond Cranmer, brother of Thomas; and his son 
 Robert^seems to have had this pedigree prepared. Richard had a 
 son William, whose two sons, John and William, came to New 
 England. Of these, John was minister at Ipswich and Boston, and 
 William, who probably married Lucy Downing, had children, Rev.
 
 American Genealogist. 143 
 
 John Norton of Hingham, and Bonus Norton. The family has 
 been one of distinction, and its reputation has been mantained of 
 late years by Rev. Andrews Norton, professor of sacred literature 
 at Harvard Collef2;e, whose son Charles Eliot Norton, the well known 
 author, is the present custodian of the parchment roll above cited. 
 
 In the Herald and Genealogist (London 1865-6) is a review 
 of this book, confirming it in most respects, and adding some interest- 
 ing particulars. 
 
 Charles B. Norton of New York has announced a genealogy of 
 the family as being in course of preparation. 
 
 Steele Family. A Genealogical History of John and 
 George Steele (Settlers of Hartford, Conn.), 1635- 
 36, and their Descendants. With an Appendix, 
 containing genealogical information concerning other 
 families of the name, who settled in different parts 
 of the United States. By Daniel Steele Durrie, 
 Librarian of Wisconsin State Historical Society. 
 Albany, N. Y. : Munsell & Rowland. 1859. Royal 
 8vo. pp. 145. 
 
 The first eighty-five pages contain a full and well arranged account 
 of the families descended from John and George Steele, who were 
 probably brothers. John was of Dorchester 1630, Cambridge 1632, 
 representative 1635, and joining Mr. Hooker's party of colonists, 
 settled at Hartford, where and at Farmington afterwards, he held a 
 very high position. Pp. 89-90 contain an account of the Tolland 
 (Conn.) branch of this family; pp. 91-94 contain the posterity of 
 Thomas Steele of Boston, 1710; pp. 95-97, the issue of Thomas 
 Steel of Londonderry, N. 11.; pp. 98-118 contain notes on the 
 families of the name settled in New Jersey, New York, Virginia, 
 North Carolina, Tennessee, Nova Scotia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, 
 and Ireland — most of them, however, being established in this 
 country within the last hundred years; pp. 121- 125 commemorate 
 two heroines of the name, in North Carolina, famous for their pa- 
 triotism. A good index completes the volume, which is one of the 
 best arranged and most handsomely printed of our genealogies. 
 The author gives much praise to the late Dr. Avery J. Skiltou of
 
 144 American Genealogist. 
 
 Troy, who assisted in the collection of the fticts here given. This 
 work was published mainly by subscription, at $2 per copy, the 
 edition being limited to three hundred copies. 
 
 A Historical Sketch of Hon. William Hubbard, and 
 his Descendants, since 1630. By Edmund Tuttle. 
 West Meriden, Sep. 7th, 1859. F. E. Hinman, 
 Printer. 
 
 This is a 12mo pamphlet of 27 pages, in flexible covers. It 
 traces the descendants of William Hubbard of Ipswich and Boston. 
 through one of his sons, the E,ev. William Hubbard the historian. 
 The appendix contains a brief account of Kev. Ezra Stiles, D. D., 
 and his descendants. 
 
 Sketch of an Anniversary Festival of the Mitchell 
 Family, held at South Britain, New Haven Co., 
 Ct., October 5th, 1858, with an Historical Notice of 
 the Life and Character of Dea. Eleazar Mitchell. 
 Published for Private Use by his Descendants. New 
 York : Henderson & Stoothoflf, Book and Job Print- 
 ers, No. 64 Duane Street. 1859. 
 
 This is an 18mo pamphlet of 28 pages, containing an account of 
 the celebration at his homestead, by his descendants, of the one 
 hundredth anniversary of the marriage of Deacon Eleazar Mitchell, 
 who was born November 27, 1732, son of Jonathan and Hannah 
 (.Tenners) Mitchell; married Oct. 5, 1758, Olive Hickock, daughter 
 of Dea. Benjamin Hickok Jun. of Southbury. It also has a list 
 of four generations of his descendants, the principal part of which 
 may be found in Cothren's History of Woodhury, pp. 633, 642. 
 This little book was carelessly printed, and needs some corrections. 
 
 The Hinckley Family, pp. 7. 
 
 This pamphlet is without a title page, and is a reprint by Corne- 
 lius Wendell of Washington, D. C, of an article published in the 
 Register, for April, 1859, p. 208, by George W. Messinger. 
 
 The progenitor of the family here was Samuel Hinckley of Ten- 
 terden, county of Kent, who came here in 1634, and settled at
 
 American Genealogist. 145 
 
 Scituate. His son Thomas was a prominent man in the Plymouth 
 colon}'^, and was the hist governor of it. The record here given is 
 of the family of the governor's youngest son Ebenezer, and is very 
 good so far as it professes to extend ; but the descendants are nu- 
 merous, especially in the towns on Cape Cod. 
 
 Henry Kingsbury and his Descendants. By John 
 Ward Dean of Boston, pp. 4. 
 
 This is a reprint from the Register, xili, 157, giving a part of 
 the family descended from Henry Kingsbury of Ipswich and Ha- 
 verhill. The family is now widely spread, and there are also many 
 of the name descended from Joseph Kingsbury of Dedham, Mass. 
 A branch of the descendants of Henry, not given in the above 
 work, will be found in Bronson's History of Watei'bury, Conn., p. 
 617. 
 
 The Genealogy of Richard Nason. Compiled by J. 
 Caldwell. Boston : July 1, 1859. 18mo. pp. 8. 
 
 This pamphlet gives one line of descent from Richard Nason, 
 who settled in South Berwick, Me., in 1648. 
 
 Genealogy of the Bissell Family. From Stiles's His- 
 tory of Ancient Windsor. [Albany : J. Munsell. 
 1859.] 8vo. pp. 16. 
 
 This and the three following pamphlets are reprinted from the 
 very elaborate History of Windsor, Conn., by Dr. Henry R. Stiles. 
 It has no title page, but is issued in a pamphlet, stitched. This 
 family is traced to John Bissell of Windsor, about 1640, who died 
 in 1677, aged 86. The record is very exact and full, and is printed 
 in a very neat, small type, so that each page contains a great amount 
 of matter. ■ A coat of arms is engraved, but as no English pedigree 
 can be traced, this is of no authority. 
 
 The Windsor Family of Munsell. From Stiles's 
 Windsor. [Albany: J. Mmisell. 1859.] 8vo. pp. 8. 
 
 The progenitor of the Munsells was Jacob Monsell of East Wind- 
 sor, about 1700 ; -but the family does not appear to have spread very 
 19
 
 146 American Genealogist. 
 
 widely. A large portion of this pamplilet consists of a very inte- 
 resting sketch of Hezekiah Munsell, a soldier of the Revolution. 
 This record was prepared by his grandson, Joel Munsell, the well 
 known author and publisher, of Albany, N. Y., whose Historical 
 Series, in particular, may be cited as among the most beautiful spe- 
 cimens of American typography. 
 
 Genealogy of the Hayden Family. From Stiles's His- 
 tory of Ancient Windsor. [Albany : J. Munsell. 
 1859.] 8vo. pp. 15. 
 
 This genealogy, by Jabez H. Hayden of Windsor Locks, Conn., 
 gives the descendants of William Hayden, who settled in Dorches- 
 ter, Mass., 1630, and afterwards removed to Windsor and Fairfield, 
 and finally to Killingworth, Conn., where he died Sept. 27, 1669. 
 Here also is a coat of arms, without proof of descent from or even 
 connection with, the family entitled to bear it. 
 
 A History and Genealogy of the Descendants of 
 Joseph Taynter, who sailed from England, April, 
 A. D. 1638, and settled in Watertown, Mass. Pre- 
 pared by Dean W. Tainter, member of the New 
 England Historic-Genealogical Society. For Private 
 distribution. Boston : Printed by David Clapp. 
 1859. 8vo. pp. 100. 
 
 A very well arranged account of the family, especially to be 
 commended for the precision of the dates and the notes on families 
 with which the Taintors allied themselves. There are also in it 
 numerous extracts from letters, journals, and deeds, more than I 
 remember in any other work of its size, and these, with the bio- 
 graphies inserted, render the account very interesting. There are 
 534 persons here enumerated, besides the issue of marriages of 
 females, which are given in many cases. 
 
 The volume being intended especially for the family, it contains 
 an unusually large number of biographies and private letters. 
 There will be found at p. 92 a pedigree of Taintors descended from 
 Charles, an early settler of Connecticut, and the author promises to 
 print a full account hereafter.
 
 American Genealogist. 147 
 
 The Connecticut Family of Stiles. From Stiles's His- 
 tory of Ancient Windsor. [Albany : J. Munsell. 
 1859.] 8vo. pp. 31. 
 
 This family is traced to John Styles of Windsor, who was bap- 
 tized at Milbrooke, county of Bedford, 1595, and who was accom- 
 panied here by his brothers, Francis, Henry, and Thomas. The 
 record of baptism was discovered by the llev. Ezra Stiles, among 
 some old papers, and research has established that these were the 
 children of Thomas Styles, baptized in that parish. This record 
 consists of four parts, three devoted to the three sons of John Stiles, 
 and the fourth to the family of Ephraim, son of the settler, Francis. 
 The record is very complete and precise in dates; the author quotes 
 many notes made by President Stiles, who investigated the family 
 history about a century ago. There is an engraved coat of arms, 
 but no authority for its use is recorded. 
 
 A Genealogical Register of the Descendants of Several 
 Ancient Puritans. Vol. II. By Rev. Abner Morse, 
 A. M., member of the N. E. Hist.-Gen. Soc. Bos- 
 ton: Press of H. W. Button & Son. 1859. 8vo. pp. 
 96. 
 
 The first volume, relating to the Adams, Bullard, and other 
 families, is noticed under date of 1857. The second, whose title is 
 given above, is devoted to the genealogy of the Brighams, sprung 
 from Thomas Brigham of Cambridge. The author appropriates the 
 first two pages of his sketch to some account of persons of the name 
 of Brigham in England, and arrives at the conclusion that " from 
 the manor of Brigham and the lords of Allerdale, have no doubt 
 sprung the name and blood of the New England Brighams ; " from 
 which conclusion we strongly dissent, as there is not the faintest 
 authority for the supposition. 
 
 The record of the family is very full, but the cross references 
 are not so plain as we now expect in these works. However, with 
 the exception of this trifling defect, it is in all respects of the first 
 class; the dates being full, the biographical notes numerous, and 
 the illustration's handsomely executed. These last are portraits of
 
 148 American Genealogist. 
 
 Hon. Paul Brigham, Ebenezer, Elijah, Lincoln F., Josiah, Otis, 
 Francis D., Charles H., Peter B., Francis, and William Brigham, 
 and the coat of arms of some one of the name. The first sixty- 
 three pages are given to the progeny of the oldest son of the emi- 
 grant; pp. 64-67, to that of the second son; and pp. 68-94, to the 
 issue of the third son. The author proposes to issue a supplement 
 in fly leaves to subscribers, and my copy has one such after the 
 pagination ceases ; others may have been issued, and not improbably 
 the work will occur bound up with other genealogies. The vagaries 
 of the late author in this respect were so numerous, that his volumes 
 are the terror of collectors. 
 
 Stemmata "Rosellana; compiled from Inquisitiones 
 post mortem, Parliamentary Records, Rotuli Hun- 
 dredorum, Chancery Reports, etc., etc. By Clifford 
 Stanley Sims, member of the Historical Society of 
 Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: William F. Geddes, 
 Printer. 1859. pp. 8. 
 
 This little work is a collection of facts relative to different per- 
 sons of the name of Rosel, of no particular value to the American 
 genealogist, being nearly all prior to 1200. The only genealogy 
 worth our notice is that of Zechariah Rossell, born at Eayrstown, 
 N. J., in 1723, whose son William was judge of the supreme court 
 of New Jersey, and whose descendants are given. It is difiicult to 
 imagine the reason of the publication of the early notes, as there is 
 nothing connecting them with the latter part. 
 
 The Dexter Genealogy ; being a record of the families 
 descended from Rev. Gregory Dexter; with Notes 
 and Biographical Sketches of each parent. By S. 
 C. Newman, A. M. Providence: Printed by A. 
 Crawford Greene. 1859. 12mo. pp. 108. 
 
 Mr. Newman, the author of this work, is one of our most tho- 
 rough genealogists. He has published various charts, but this is, 
 I think, the only volume that has appeared from his pen. The 
 arrangement of the genealogy is very clear, but as there are neither 
 cross references nor an index, the lines are not so easily traced as
 
 American Genealogist. 149 
 
 they are in some other books. The Rev. Gregory Dexter, whose de- 
 scendants are here given, was born at Olney, in Northamptonshire, 
 Eng., 1610 ; was a printer and stationer in London, Eng., at which 
 place in 1643, he printed the first edition of Roger Williams's Key 
 to the Indian Language. While at London, he was connected with 
 the Baptist ministry. In 1644 he came to this country, and in 
 1650 succeeded Rev. Mr. Wickenden as pastor of the First Baptist 
 Church, being the fourth in order. He died at the age of ninety, 
 in 1700. The volume was executed under the patronage of the 
 venerable Col. Edward Dexter of Seekonk, Mass., then in his nine- 
 tieth year, of whom an account will be found at pp. 61-5. 
 
 Memoir of the Rev. William Robinson, formerly 
 Pastor of the Congregational Church in Southing- 
 ton, Conn. With some account of his ancestors in 
 this country. By his son, Edward Robinson, Pro- 
 fessor in Union Theological Seminary, New York. 
 Printed as Manuscript, for private distribution. 
 New York: John F. Trow, Printer. 1859. 8vo. pp. 
 214. 
 
 The contents of this volume are of so much value, that we may 
 be pardoned for neglecting the intimation on the title page, that it 
 is not fairlj? a subject for criticism. William Robinson was the 
 grandson of the Rev. John Robinson of Duxbury, and we are here 
 presented with conclusive proofs that the latter was grandson of 
 William Robinson of Dorchester, and probably not related to the 
 famous John Robinson of Leyden. The genealogical note's on these 
 four generations occupy the first sixty pages, and show not only 
 that the writer has carefully sought out the truth, but that he has 
 been ready to publish it, though it demolishes a very pleasing 
 fiction. It contains, besides the new information concerning the main 
 family, much incidental notice of the Wiswalls and Peabodys. 
 The second part, pp. 65 - 190, contains the memoir of the Rev. 
 Wm. Robinson, a very interesting sketch, of which pp. 186 - 189 are 
 given to the descendants of this minister. In appendices D, E, F, 
 H, and K, will be found valuable accounts of the families of Wol- 
 cott, Mosely, Mills, Norton, Strong, and Hooker.
 
 150 American GENEALoaisT. 
 
 Genealogy of the Descendants of John Sill, who set- 
 tled in Cambridge, Mass., in 1637. Albany : Mun- 
 sell & Rowland, 78 State Street. 1859. 12mo. pp. 
 106. 
 
 John Sill of Cambridge had an only son, Joseph, who occupies 
 a prominent figure in our early annals, as a captain in the Indian 
 war of 1G76. He had several children by his wife Jemima Belcher, 
 but they died young; and the father removing to Lyme, Conn., 
 married again and had two sons, Joseph and Zechariah. Joseph 
 had seven sons, and Zechariah two; and our compiler accordingly 
 divides his work into nine sections, giving in each the issue of one 
 of these sons. There is no attempt at a system of enumeration and 
 references, but the sections are so short that no inconvenience is 
 caused by this plan. The preface is signed by the author, the 
 Kev. George Gr. Sill of Lyme, Conn., but a note appended by his 
 daughter, shows that his death took place before he had made public 
 his collections on this subject. 
 
 Family Register. 
 
 This consists of 4 pages, 12mo, printed in Albany, 1859, by J. 
 Munsell. It traces one branch of the lineage of Simeon Crandall 
 of Washington county, R. I., and of Aaron Ott, both of whom 
 lived about the middle of the last century, and whose descendants 
 intermarried. It was designed only for insertion in Bibles. 
 
 To the descendants of Timothy Ingraham. Informa- 
 tion respecting the great Ingraham Estate in the 
 Kingdom of Great Britain. By G. R. Gladding.. 
 Providence, R. I. : Printed by Henry L. Tillinghast, 
 No. 9 Market Square. 1859. 12mo. pp. 79. 
 
 This is the report of an agent who visited England a few years 
 ago in search of the estate of a certain Joseph Wilson of Yorkshire, 
 Eng., who, according to tradition, died in 1680, and left a fabulous 
 amount of property in that county to an only daughter, who mar- 
 ried one Edward Cowell, who emigrated to this country and also 
 left an only daughter, who married Timothy Ingraham, who settled
 
 American Genealogist. 151 
 
 at Bristol, R. I. Of late the excitement has heen renewed, and I do 
 not hesitate to pronounce the whole matter a most melancholy de- 
 lusion, to be greatly regretted. It does not appear that Mr. Glad- 
 ding found in what part of that very large county the estate was 
 situated, or obtained proof that any such person as the tradition 
 described ever lived in Yorkshire or anywhere else. One good result 
 has been derived from this research, though not proportioned to the 
 time and money expended. The genealogy of the descendants of 
 Timothy Ingraham has been collected and is here printed on pp. 
 69-75. These descendants bear the names of Ingraham, Spalding, 
 Gladding, Waldron, James, Coit, and Manchester. 
 
 A wood cut of a Chinese portrait of Capt. Solomon Ingraham, a 
 descendant of Timothy, taken in Canton about 1790, and several 
 other wood cuts, chiefly coats of arms, are given. 
 
 Record of the Coe Family. 1596 - 1856. New York, 
 John A Gray's Fire-Proof Printing Office, 16 and 18 
 Jacob St. 1856. 8vo. pp. 16. 
 
 We have already noticed this work at p. 116, and have only to add 
 that the first fourteen pages are an exact reprint of the first edition. 
 This issue was prepared by Ebenezer Coe of Bangor, Me., and is 
 dated in that city, June 1, 1859. It was printed by Wheeler & 
 Lynde, and, as noted above, contains two pages additional, recording 
 the descendants of Rev. Curtis Coe, of Durham, N. H. 
 
 1860. 
 
 The Genealogy of the Cragin Family, being the de- 
 scendants of John Cragin of Woburn, Massachu- 
 setts, from 1652 to 1858. By Charles H. Cragin, 
 A. M., M. D. Washington, D. C. : W. H. Moore, 
 Printer. [I860.] 8vo. pp. 38. 
 
 This work is arranged in tables, printed across the pages, and is 
 tolerably easily followed ; for though there are no cross references 
 in the body of the pamphlet, there is a folding genealogical chart
 
 152 American Genealogist. 
 
 appended, in whicli the individuals are named with references by 
 numbers to their families. Prefixed is a wood cut engraving of the 
 farm of John Cragin. The copy in the library of the N. E. Hist- 
 Gen. Society contains photographic portraits of the author, who 
 resides in Georgetown, D. C., and of Dea. Simon Cragin and his wife 
 and Isaiah Cragin. It has also a photographic view of the home- 
 stead of Dea. Simon Cragin, at Mason, N. H. 
 
 Genealogical and Biographical Sketch of the Name 
 and Family of Brackett; from the year 1630 to 
 the year 1860. By Jeffrey Richardson jr. Boston : 
 Printed by Alfred Mudge & Son, for the author, 
 1860. 8vo. pp. 56. 
 
 This is a very handsome volume, recording the descendants of 
 one branch of the Brackett family, sprung from James, third son 
 of Capt. Richard B. of Braiotree. The two sons of James, viz., 
 Joseph and Nathan, are here taken as heads of families, and the 
 genealogy is divided into two parts, one beginning on p. 25, No. 
 xxii, and the other on p. 32, No. xxiii. This record is very good 
 in the later generations, but it is greatly to be regretted that the 
 author did not examine Savage's account of the early portion of the 
 race, as it adds much to what is here given. 
 
 The Family of Rev. David D. Field, D. D. of Stock- 
 bridge, Mass., with their Ancestors, from the time 
 of Emigration to America. By his youngest son, 
 Henry M. Field. Not published, but printed pri- 
 vately for the use of the Family. 1860. 12mo. pp. 
 105. 
 
 This work is, as its title denotes, chiefly devoted to the family of 
 Eev. David Dudley Field, D. D., whose genealogy of the Brainard 
 family has already been noticed. Pp. 3-4 are on the origin of the 
 name ; pp. 5-13 are on the Fields of England ; on p. 14 is a wood 
 cut of the arms of .John Field, the astronomer; pp. 15-32 give the 
 descent of the Rev. Dr. Field from Zacheriah Field, one of the settlers 
 of Hartford, Conn. ; pp. 33-38 give the descendants of Rev. Timothy
 
 American Genealogist. 153 
 
 Field, brother of the Rev. Dr. F. ; and the remainder of the work 
 is devoted to the doctor's own descendants. Among his sons are 
 David D. Field, a well known New York politician, Cyrus W. Field, 
 whose connection with the Atlantic telegraph has rendered him 
 famous, and Rev. Henry M. Field, the author of this book, one of 
 the editors of the New York Evangelist. 
 
 A Genealogical Register of the Descendants of Thomas 
 Flint, of Salem, with a Copy of the Wills and In- 
 ventories of the Estates of the first two Generations. 
 Compiled by John Flint and John H. Stone. An- 
 dover: Printed by Warren F. Draper. 1860. 8vo. 
 pp. 150. 
 
 Thomas and William Flint, who early settled at Salem, were 
 brothers; the descendants of the latter are few, but of the former 
 many have borne the name, this record enumerating 1950. The 
 genealogy has evidently been prepared with great care, the dates 
 being very fully given, the arrangement clear, and in many instances 
 interesting biographical notes give the reader an insight into the 
 manners and actions of the past. It is certainly very creditable to 
 the authors, and must prove satisfactory to the family. The intro- 
 duction informs us that besides these two brothers, there were two 
 other early emigrants of the name, who are not known to have been 
 connected with them. These are Rev. Henry Flint of Braintree, 
 Mass., and Thomas his brother, the latter of whom came from 
 Matlock, county of Derby, and settled at Concord, Mass., in 1638. 
 The family is said to have been long settled at Matlock, and it has 
 spread quite widely on this side of the Atlantic. 
 
 Genealogical History of the Redfield Family in the 
 United States. By John Howard Redfield. Being 
 a Revision and Extension of the Genealogical 
 Tables compiled in 1839 by William C. Redfield. 
 Albany : Mansell & Rowland. New York : C. B. 
 Richardson. 18G0. 8vo. pp. 337. 
 
 The previously issued accounts of the Redfields, traced the family 
 only of Theophilu's of Killingworth, Conn., 1705; but the present 
 20
 
 154 American Genealogist. 
 
 author has succeeded in establishing the pedigree for two genera- 
 tions earlier. The head of the family was William Redfin or Red- 
 field of Cambridge, 1646, and New London. His only son was 
 James of New London, New Haven, Martha's Vineyard, and Say- 
 brook, who had issue Theophilus and James, the former, of Killing- 
 worth, the latter of Fairfield, Conn. The discovery of the early por- 
 tion of this pedigree and its verification, are proofs of the author's 
 zeal and judgment; and he has certainly established as clear a case 
 as any critic can desire. The genealogy is full, and is arranged 
 on a good plan, enumerating over sixteen hundred of the name, 
 one thousand of whom are supposed now to be liwug. The notes 
 contain a curious summary of statistics of birth, longevity, &c.; 
 as also extracts from deeds and records, and a list of sixty-two 
 papers, published by William C. Redfield, on scientific subjects. 
 The volume contains beautifully engraved portraits of Peleg Red- 
 field, Luther, Heman J., Lewis H., George, William C, Isaac 
 F., and Theophilus Redfield. The whole execution of the work is 
 very neat, and as it has a good index, it will be a valuable and 
 ornamental addition to the genealogist's library. 
 
 Memorials of Elder John White, one of the first 
 Settlers of Hartford, Conn., and of his Descendants. 
 By Allyn H. Kellogg. Hartford : Printed for the 
 Family, by Case, Lockwood & Co. 1860. 8vo. pp. 
 322. 
 
 This genealogy is in all respects one of the best yet published, 
 being extensive, exact in dates, well arranged, and throu^'hout bear- 
 ing the marks of careful and extensive examination of old records. 
 The descendants in the female line, are also noticed in many cases, 
 and the biographical sketches of the more prominent members of 
 the family show that it has preserved a good station in the estima- 
 tion of the community. The name, as might be expected, is very 
 common in New England, there being over twenty emigrants of the 
 name not known to be connected to each other ; and a similar fre- 
 quency of occurrence in England, will render any attempt to trace 
 the pedigree of John White, very difiicult. Some extracts from 
 English records, furnished by the liberality of iion. Henry White
 
 American Genealogist. 155 
 
 of New Haven, are printed, not as referring to this family, but to 
 aid others of the name. The table of heads of families is a good 
 feature in the book, and the analyses of the duration of the different 
 generations, and the extent of the several branches, are instructive 
 and interesting. The author in his preface acknowledges valuable 
 aid rendered by Norman, Henry, and Ebenezer B. White; the 
 former gentleman having borne a large share of the expense of 
 publication. 
 
 The Jewell Register, containing a List of the De- 
 scendants of Thomas Jewell of Braintree, near 
 Boston, Mass. Hartford : Case, Lock wood & Co. 
 1860. 8vo. pp. 104. 
 
 This is a compactly printed pamphlet, giving 1868 of the descend- 
 ants of Thomas Jewell. It is arranged on the plan of the late 
 Judge Groodwin of Hartford, Conn., which is one of the best that 
 are used. The authors appear to be Pliny Jewell of Hartford, 
 Conn., and the Rev. Joel Jewell of French Mills, Pa. They sup- 
 pose the progenitor of this family, who was at Mt. Wollaston, now 
 Braintree, as early as 1639, and died there in 1654, to have been of 
 the same stock as Bishop Jewell (1522-71), but give no reasons 
 for this supposition. The arms of Bishop Jewell are prefixed to 
 the book. 
 
 Record of the Family of Louis Du Bois, who emi- 
 grated from France to America in 1660. Edition 
 of 150 copies; printed for the use of the family 
 connection only. [Philadelphia :] Press of John 
 C. Clark & Son. 1860. 8vo. pp. 76. 
 
 " This narrative,'' says the preface, " is one of a series of family 
 records, distinct from each other, yet in some respects united." 
 The first is the Patterson family, 1847 ; the second, the Ewing, 
 1858, and the third and last the present work, which is the joint 
 production of Robert P. Du Bois of New London, Pa., and William 
 E. Du Bois of Philadelphia. The work is admirably adapted for 
 what it is intended to be — a repository of facts that will interest
 
 156 American Genealogist. 
 
 members of the family. A folding lithographic tabular pedigree of 
 the descendants of Robert Du Bois and his wife Catherine Blangon, 
 is appended. A facsimile of the first page of the Register of the 
 French Church of Nevi Paltz, commencing 1683, in the handwriting 
 of Louis Du Bois, the first elder and clerk of the session, is also given, 
 besides which there is a page of autographs. 
 
 Genealogy of the Everett Family. By Edward F. 
 Everett, of Charlestown, Mass. Reprinted from the 
 New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 
 for July, 1860. Boston; Henry W. Button & Son, 
 Printers. 1860. 8vo. pp. 7. 
 
 This record contains a portion of the descendants of Richard 
 Everett of Dedham, 1636, being sufficiently extended to enable any 
 one to connect and trace the remaining branches. From this an- 
 cestor are descended, Alexander H. Everett, and Edward Everett 
 the late distinguished orator and statesman. 
 
 Genealogical Items of the Kellogg Family. No. II. 
 By D. 0. Kellogg, member of the New England 
 Hist. Gen. Societ3^ Boston : H. W. Button & Son. 
 1860. 8vo. pp. 88. 
 
 This pamphlet, by Mr. Kellogg of Brooklyn, N. Y., was reprinted 
 from the N. E. Hist, and Gen. Register, for April, 1860. The first 
 part is noticed under the date of 1858. The progenitor of the family 
 here recorded was Lieut. Joseph Kellogg, who joined the church 
 at Farmington, Conn., Oct. 9, 1653, removed to Boston, Mass., 
 1659, and thence removed to Hadley, Mass., about 1662, where he 
 died about 1707. 
 
 Fiftieth Anniversary of the Marriage of James and 
 Mary North, Middletown, Conn., Oct. 24, 1860. 
 Hartford : Press of Case, Lockwood and Company, 
 1860. 
 
 This is a privately printed 12mo pamphlet of 30 pages, containing 
 a pleasant account of proceedings at the celebration of the golden 
 wedding oi \)Qdi<ion James North, born Sep. 16, 1788, son of Simeon
 
 American Genealogist. 157 
 
 North; married Oct. 24, 1810, Mary Doud, born Aug. 7, 1792, 
 daughter of Richard Doud. No clue is given to their ancestry, 
 except the above, but a full account is given of the descendants of 
 Deacon North. 
 
 The Washingtons: A Tale of a Country Parish in 
 the Seventeenth Century. By John Nassau Simp- 
 kinson, Rector of Brington, Northants. London : 
 Longmans. 1860. 8vo. pp. 326 and 89. 
 
 This is an interesting account of the Washington family, compiled 
 from the parish records and certain manuscripts preserved at Althorpe, 
 the seat of Earl Spencer. It was undertaken under the mistaken 
 idea that George Washington was descended from this branch. It 
 seems that Laurence Washington of Sulgrave, Northants, having 
 been forced to part with his property, removed to Brington, near 
 Althorp Park, probably because he was related to the Spencers. The 
 house in which he lived, and which his brother Robert afterwards 
 occupied, has been identified, and in the church-yard will be found 
 his epitaph, dated 13th Dec, 1616, showing that by his wife Marga- 
 ret, daughter of William Tees of Sussex, he had eight sons and 
 nine daughters. Of these sons, Sir William married Anne Villiers, 
 half sister of the duke of Buckingham, and had a son Sir Henry, a 
 soldier of distinction, and two daughters, Susanna, wife of Reginald 
 Graham, and Elizabeth, who married George Legge, lord Dartmouth. 
 Another son was probably page to Prince Charles, and died at Mad- 
 rid, 1623. John and Lawrence were wrongly supposed to have 
 emigrated to Virginia. Elizabeth, one of the daughters, married 
 Francis Mewce ; another married Francis Pill; Amy married Philip 
 Curtis, and Barbara married Simon Butler. Our author gave proofs 
 sufficient that John, one of these sons, was knighted in 1623, and that 
 he married Mary Curtis (sister of Amy Washington's husband), who 
 died January 1, 1624, and was buried in Islip Church, and had by 
 her sons Mordaunt, John, and Philip. At least our author finds on 
 the Althorp household books, that among the frequent guests of 
 Lord Spencer, were Sir William, John, and Lawrence Washington, 
 the Curtisses, Mewces and Pills, and that John is termed Sir John 
 after March, 1623, and is accompanied by a son Mordaunt. From
 
 158 American Genealogist. 
 
 this beginning others have followed up the trace, and as we shall 
 hereafter show, have proved that the American family is not from 
 this branch. Still the book will possess a certain interest as an 
 antiquarian romance. 
 
 It is certainly surprising that no genealogist has compiled a full 
 account of the Washingtons in America. 
 
 Bishop Meade's Old Families, and Mr. Custis's Recollections, con- 
 tain much interesting information on the point ; the Heraldic Jour- 
 nal (Boston, 1866), containsareprintof all that is known at present. 
 
 Perkins Family of Connecticut. By Fred. B. Perkins 
 of Hartford, Conn. [Boston : I860.] 8vo. pp. 8. 
 
 This is a reprint from the N. E. Hist, and Gen. Register, for 
 April, 1860. It gives only descendants of Joseph and Jabez Per- 
 kins, who settled in Connecticut, and who were grandsons of John 
 Perkins, who emigrated from England, and settled at Ipswich, Mass. 
 The previous generations of this family, and the early generations 
 of other Perkins families, are given in an article by H. N. Perkins 
 of Boston, published in the Register, for July, 1856, and a fuller 
 account of the Hampton Perkinses by Asa W. Brown, in the same 
 work, Jan., 1858. Neither of the latter articles were reprinted sepa- 
 rately. 
 
 Incidents in the Life of Samuel Whitney, born in 
 Marlborough, Massachusetts, 1734. Died at Cas- 
 tine, Maine, 1808. Together with some Account 
 of his Descendants, and other Family Memorials. 
 Collected by his Great-Grandson, Henry Austin 
 Whitney. Boston ; Printed for private distribution. 
 1860. folio, pp. 142. 
 
 One hundred and twenty-five copies were struck off at the River- 
 side press, Cambridge. On the title page of twenty-five copies, the 
 vignette was printed in different tints. Head and tail pieces to the 
 different chapters and divisions, of scroll work, and the initial let- 
 ters, cut for this book, are printed in red relief. In the appendix, 
 the initial letters are in black relief. There are two plates — Samuel
 
 American Genealogist. 159 
 
 Whitney's residences at Concord and Castiue, with several facsimiles 
 of signatures. 
 
 This book, beautifully printed, is especially of interest to the 
 immediate family of which it treats, giving a very full genealogical 
 account of Samuel Whitney's descendants, and of those of David 
 Howe, lilsq., of Castine. On pp. 74 and 75, will be found a genea- 
 logical outline of the descendants of Col. William Smith, born in 
 Newton, near Higham Ferris, in Northampton, England, November 
 6, 1675 ; married Martha Ferristall of Putney, in the county of 
 Surrey, in the Protestant church at Tangier, Africa, and whose 
 twelve children were born in Tangier, London, Youghall (Ireland), 
 New York, and Brookhaven, L. I., where he died Sept. 27, 1705. 
 Epitaphs and monumental insci'iptions are given from Castine and 
 Waldoboro, Me., New Orleans, La., Bolton, Mass., Swedesboro', 
 N. J., and the Granary burial ground, Boston. The appendix 
 contains genealogical outlines of the descendants of John Bridge of 
 Cambridge, Mass., 1632, who died 1665 ; of Abraham Belknap of 
 Essex county, who died about 1644 ; and of David Cutler, who died 
 in Boston 1710 ; all of which sketches contain some material which 
 I have not met with in print elsewhere. Also a notice of Samuel 
 Austin of Boston, born 1721, died 1792, with his descent from 
 Richard Austin of Charlestown, and an account of the somewhat 
 remarkable recapture of the American ship Hiram, from the French, 
 in the year 1800. 
 
 Pratt Memorial. By Eev. Stillman Pratt, Middle- 
 bo ro', Mass. small 4 to. pp. 8. 
 
 This is a pamphlet without title page, and was published in 1860. 
 It gives a genealogy of the Pratts descended from John Pratt of 
 Dorchester, Mass., admitted a freeman of the Massachusetts colony, 
 May 14, 1634. His descendants, we are here informed, reside 
 chiefly in 3Iedfield, Reading, and Woodend, ]\Iass., Temple, N. H., 
 Buffalo, N. Y., and Prattsville, Ala. Besides John there are other 
 immigrants mentioned here, viz., Phineas of Weymouth, Plymouth, 
 and Charlestown, whose descendants may be found at Cohasset, Mid- 
 dleboro, Taunton, Boston, and many other places; Joshua of Ply- 
 mouth (supposed to be a brother of Phineas), whose descendants
 
 160 American Genealogist. 
 
 are settled in the old colony, Sudbury, Shutesbury, and elsewhere ; 
 William, of Hartford and Saybrook, Conn., whose descendants re- 
 side at Saybrook and vicinity ; and Edward, from London, Eng., 
 who settled at Sutton, Mass., and whose descendants are found in 
 Sherborn and vicinity. It is here stated that the genealogy of the 
 Saybrook family has been thoroughly traced, and is ready for pub- 
 lication. 
 
 Pedigree of Miner. By W. H. Whitraore. Reprinted 
 from the New England Historical and Genealogi- 
 cal Register for April, 1859. Boston : H. W. But- 
 ton & Son. 1860. 8vo. pp. 9. 
 
 This is probably the rarest of American genealogies, as but one 
 copy remains. After the type had stood for some months, it was 
 accidentally distributed, and a single proof remains. 
 
 As to the family, which has been of good reputation in Connecti- 
 cut, we may say that it claims a good origin in England. This 
 essay was written by Thomas Miner of Stonington, Conn., in 1683, 
 when he was seventy-five years old, for the purpose of preserving 
 a knowledge of the pedigree. He claims that his father Clement, 
 was son of William Miner of Chew-Magna, who died in 1585, and 
 that William was son of another and more noted William. 
 
 The family is traced back for several generations with much zeal 
 and a considerable display of heraldic pedantry. 
 
 The family seem to have given full credence to the pedigree, for 
 the arms depicted in the manuscripts are found on the tomb-stones of 
 three of the sons of this Thomas. 
 
 Merrick Genealogy. A Genealogical Circular, Very 
 Respectfully Addressed to all the Merricks in Ame- 
 rica. Large 4 to. pp. 9. 
 
 The title of this pamphlet and the small number of its pages 
 will give those who have not seen it a very inadequate idea of its 
 extent. Though there are but nine pages here, yet these pages — 
 being printed in small type, three columns to a page — contain as 
 much matter as 50 common octavo pages ; and though the work is 
 called a circular, it is in the regular form of a genealogy and gives
 
 \ 
 
 American Genealogist. ) 161 
 
 a greater number of persons than do many books that profess to be 
 full genealogies. 
 
 The pamphlet was published in 1860 ; but the p^'.nter's name is 
 not given, nor is the place where it was printed. We learn from the 
 introduction, that the author is the Kev. James L. Merrick of South 
 Amherst, Mass., and that he intends soon to publish a genealogy in 
 book form. The basis of this work, the author informs us, is a 
 genealogy compiled in 1815-16, by the late Tilly Merrick Jr., of 
 West Springfield, Mass. Eight of these nine pages are devoted to 
 the descendants of Thomas Merrick, who settled in 1638, at Spring- 
 field, Mass., where he had thirteen children born. Besides this 
 family, there are several others in America, namely, the Methuen 
 family, descended from Timothy Merrick, who there married Mary 
 Bodwell in 1728 ; the Philadelphia and Hallowell families de- 
 scended from two brothers : Samuel, born 1762, and John, born 
 1766, who emigrated from London to this country, the former set- 
 tling at Philadelphia, Pa., and the latter at Hallowell, Me. ; the 
 Maryland family, who trace their descent to Thomas Duhuret Mer- 
 rick who settled at Annapolis, Md., where he died Dec, 1794; and 
 the Marblehead family descended from Michael Merrick, who with 
 a brother emigrated from Ireland and settled at Marblehead, Mass. 
 about 1770. Some account of all these families is given. 
 
 A Letter concerning Family History. By Andrew 
 Brown. 1812. [Printed at Albany by J. Munsell. 
 I860.] pp. 12. 
 
 This is an autobiographical letter written by Andrew Brown to 
 his son Silas, in 1812. It contains some genealogical notes, and 
 the editor has prefixed a short tabular pedigree showing that 
 Andrew was grandson of Ichabod, who was the son of John Brown 
 of Stonington, Conn. We presume the letter remained in manuscript 
 until printed at this time. 
 
 Genealogy of the Freeman Family. 
 
 This little book of 92 pages is almost entirely filled with one or 
 two biographies. The genealogy is traced back to Samuel Free- 
 man of Watertown, A. D. 1630, and thence downward through 
 21
 
 162 j?American Genealogist. 
 
 / 
 
 Samuel of Eastham, whose graudsou, Enoch, II. C. 1729, removed 
 to Fahuouth, Me'.Jn 1742. 
 
 This hist na||Ded held various offices, was judge of probate in 
 1770, and died in 1788. His son, Samuel, was also judge of pro- 
 bate and filled other responsible positions. The greater portion of 
 this book is devoted to the biography of this Samuel Freeman, 
 and of his son, Samuel D. Freeman, and the whole seems to be an 
 appendix to certain lectures prepared for delivery before the Wash- 
 ingtonian Society at Portland. 
 
 We find no date of f)ublication, but have ventured to assign it 
 to 18G0 or ISol. 
 
 1861. 
 
 Genealogy of the Adams Family of Kingston, Mass. 
 Collected and compiled by George Adams of Boston. 
 Boston : Published by the Descendants of Francis 
 Adams. Printed by David Clapp. 1861. 8vo. pp. 
 64. 
 
 This is a well arranged and thoroughly prepared work. There 
 are two letters here from Kichard Adams, brother of Francis, the 
 immigrant, addressed to him from Chester, Eng., one dated Jan. 
 26, 1697, and the other May 20, 1700. The well known lines on 
 The Family Bible, which have been supposed to be a parody on 
 Woodworth's Old Oaken Bucket, are here claimed as the production 
 of the above named Francis x\dams. The author brings forward 
 in support of this claim the testimony of Dr. Ezekiel Holmes of 
 Winthrop, Me., and others. Dr. Holmes says : " During the years 
 1814 to 1817, I often listened to Mrs. Mercy Adams while she 
 recited The Family Bible." The Old Oaken Bucket was written in 
 1818, and if this statement is correct, the Family Bible must have 
 been written first. Mr. Adams does not, however, find the latter 
 in print till 1818, and the internal evidence i« against so early an 
 origin as is claimed. 
 
 The Babcock Family. Svo. pp. 4. 
 
 This is a pamphlet without title page, reprinted in 1861, at 
 Albany, N. Y., by Messrs. Muusell & liowland, from a half sheet
 
 Amekican Genealogist. 163 
 
 foolscap, without dcte, but probably printed in 1844, a.s a note at 
 the end signed S. L«,bcock, is dated at New Haven, Conn., that 
 year. Mr. Babcock staes that he had been permitted by the author, 
 Albert Wells of Palmyn N. Y., to copy this account of the Bab- 
 cock family from a sheet p-inted by Mr Wells himself, for bis own 
 gratification and amusement. Mr. Babcock added to Mr. Wells's 
 account a coat of arms figurel, with a description in heraldic lan- 
 guage, and its explanation, furn^hed by a friend, all of which have 
 been copied in the present editiDn ; but no evidence is furnished 
 that the arms belong to this famiy. The ancestor of this family 
 is here said to have been James Bibcock, who changed his name 
 from Badcock, at his emigration. It in asserted that he was " bora 
 in Essex, England, about the year 1580 ; was one of the Puritans ; 
 and in the year 1620, removed with his limily to Leyden, in Hol- 
 land, to emigrate with the pilgrims to America. He embarked in 
 the ship Anne, early in the year 1623, and arrived at Plymouth, 
 Mass., in July, where he lived the residue of his lifetime, and died." 
 The facts here stated are said to have been derived from "traditions 
 and national recoi'ds." They may be supported by tradition, but I 
 think it would be diflBcult to find any confirmation in national 
 records. Mr. Hinman, in his Puritan Settlers of Connecticut (1st 
 ed., p. Ill ; 2d ed., p. 106), gives a similar statement. Mr. Savage, 
 in his Genealogical Dictionary, vol. I, p. 87, referring to Hinman's 
 account, calls it a '' strange combination of errors. Now," he con- 
 tinues. " we know that no passenger of this name came in that ship 
 [the Anne] ; and 1 have strong reason, after much inquiry, to doubt 
 that any such man lived in the [Plymouth] Colony for its earliest 
 forty years." Mr. Savage gives a James Babcock of Westerly, 
 1661, who had removed thither from Newport, and who had child- 
 ren named James, John, Job, and Mary. The writer of this sketch 
 states that James Babcock of Plymouth, had children bearing the 
 same names, and a fifth child, Joseph ; of whom James, Job, and 
 Mary, remained with their father in Plymouth ; John settled at 
 Westerly, R. I., about the year 1648, and Joseph removed to Con- 
 necticut, near Saybrook.
 
 164 American Genealogist. 
 
 Percival and Ellen Green. [Boston. Press of H. W. 
 Button & Son. 1861.] 8'0. pp. 5. 
 
 This pamphlet is without title page. I have supplied within 
 brackets, the place aud date of publication- It contains one line of 
 the descendants of Percival Green, vUo came to this country in 
 1635. and settled at Cambridge, Mo^s., carried down to the sixth 
 generation. The author is Samuel A. Green, M. D., of Boston, of 
 the eighth generation. This account is reprinted, with a few addi- 
 tional particulars, in the Regkto' for April, 1861. To some copies 
 is added an article by Dr. Grc^n, from the American AnnaU of the 
 Deaf and Dumb, for April, 1861, containing a sketch of the life 
 of Francis Green of this family, " the earliest advocate of the edu- 
 cation of deaf mutes in Imerica, " and a translation by the latter, 
 of some extracts from the Institution des Sourds et Miiets of the 
 Abbe De L 'Epee, which translation was first published in 1803, in 
 the Ne^o England Palladium, a Boston newspaper. 
 
 Sketch of the Chipman Family communicated to the 
 New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 
 by Rev. R. Manning Chipman of Wolcottville, Ct. 
 [Boston: 1861.J 8vo. pp. 4. 
 
 This is a reprint, without title page, of the brief article bearing 
 the above title in the Registei\^ox 3-An. 1861, to which is appended 
 the obituary of Capt. Zachariah Chipman of Yarmouth, Nova 
 Scotia, from the same work. 
 
 A Genealogical Account of the Noyes Family, to- 
 gether with the Dike Farail}^ and the Fuller and 
 Edson Families. Compiled by Jacob Noyes of 
 Abington. Abington : C. G. Easterbrook, Printer. 
 1861. 8vo. pp. 13. 
 
 These are brief genealogies only of the families named in the 
 title. The Noyes family here given is descended from Nicholas 
 Noyes, who with his brother Hev. James, came from Choulderton, 
 Wiltshire, England, in 1634. Both of them finally settled in New- 
 bury. It is here asserted that " they were descended from a knight
 
 American Genealogist. 165 
 
 by the name of James, who was with William at the battle of Hast- 
 ings ; " but as no authority is given, the statjment maybe safely 
 doubted. The Noyes family fills pp. 3 - 6 ; the Dike family de- 
 scended from Samuel, born in Scotland, 1722, fills pp. 7-9; the 
 Fuller family from Dr. Samuel of the Mayflover, has only p. 10 
 devoted to it; and the Edson family from Dea. Samuel, born 1612, 
 of Salem and Bridgewater, fills pp. 11-13. A crudle, said to have 
 been brought by Dr. Samuel Fuller in the Mayflower, is owned by 
 the author. 
 
 A Genealogical Register of the Descendants of several 
 Ancient Puritans. By Rev. Abner Morse, A. M. 
 Vol. III. Boston : Press of H. W. Button & Son. 
 1861. 8vo. pp. 243. 
 
 The third volume, unlike the second published in 1859, is com- 
 plete. It is devoted to the different families of Richards in this 
 country, of which the author gives twelve; the progenitors being 
 Thomas of Dorchester, Mass., 1630-6, Weymouth, 1636 -50 ; Tho- 
 mas of Hartford, Ct., 1636-9(?); Nathaniel of Caubridge, Mass., 
 1632-6, Hartford, Conn., 1636-53 (?) ; Norwalk, Conn., 1653- 
 82 (?); William of Plymouth, Mass., 1632-6, Scituate, 1632-45, 
 Weymouth, Mass., 1645-82; John of Plymouth, Mass., 1632-52 
 (?),New London, Conn., 1652-87 (?); Edward of Dedham, Mass., 
 1637 - 84; Richard of Lynn, Mass.. 1633 - 78 (?) ; Paul of New York, 
 1667-80; Humphrey of Boston, 1695-1727; John of Newbury, 
 Mass., 1694-9; Piscataqua, N. H., 1701 (?) ; Samuel of Norwalk, 
 Conn., 1714-61; and Charles of Marblehead, Mass, 1728. A 
 separate chapter is devoted to each of these twelve families. This 
 is perhaps the best of Mr. Morses publications. The book is dedi- 
 cated to the memory of the late Rev. John Richards, D. D., who had 
 begun to collect materials for a similar work, but was prevented by 
 death from preparing it. A portrait of Rev. Dr. Richards is given 
 as a frontispiece. There are also portraits of Samuel, Rev. Jonas D. 
 F., Rev. Wm. C., Reuben Jun., Benjamin and James Richards. A 
 coat of arms is also given without authority ; and besides an index of 
 residences, which the author's previous works possess, this has also 
 an index of iuteirmarriases. •
 
 166 Ai^RiCAN Genealogist. 
 
 Memorial of the Walkers of the Old Plymouth Co- 
 lony, embraciiig Genealogical and Biographical 
 Sketches of James, of Taunton ; Philip, of Reho- 
 both ; WilliaiJa, of Eastham ; John, of Marshfield ; 
 and Thomas, of Bristol ; and of their descendants 
 from 1620 to 1S60. By J. B. R. Walker, Member 
 of the Old Colon}'^ Historical Society. Northamp- 
 ton: Metciiif & Co., Printers. 1861. 8vo. pp. xix 
 and 451. 
 
 Glenealogies of families bearing common names, like the present, 
 are much more difficult to compile than of those traced to but one 
 or two contemporaries among our early settlers. The successful ac- 
 complishment of such an undertaking as this, is therefore deserving 
 of great praise. This work, which seems to have been carefully pre- 
 pared, is by Eev, Mr. Walker of Holyoke, Mass. The printer has 
 also done his part well. The preface and introduction fill nineteen 
 pages; pp. 1-3 relate to Widow Walker of Rehoboth, the head 
 of the Taunton family; pp. 4-17, to James Walker of Taunton; 
 p. 18, to Sarak (Walker) Tisdill ; pp. 21-116, to descendants of 
 James Walker of Taunton ; pp. 117 - 329, to Philip Walker of Reho- 
 both and his descendants ; p. 330, to Samuel Walker of Rehoboth; 
 pp. 331 -367, to William Walker of Eastham, and his descendants ; 
 pp. 368-396, to John Walker of Marshfield, and his descendants; 
 p. 397, to John Walker of Marshfield, and Francis Walker of Mid- 
 dleboro; and pp. 398-400, to Thomas Walker of Bristol, R. I., 
 and his descendants. In the appendix, six pages are devoted to the 
 Walkers of the Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut colo- 
 nies, a compilation which will be very useful to persons tracing 
 other families of the name ; six pages are given to members of con- 
 gress, graduates of colleges, authors and inventors named Walker, 
 classified under these heads ; and ten pages, to miscellaneous matter. 
 There are two indices, viz : one of persons of the name, and the 
 other of intermarriages with other families. These fill twenty-seven 
 pages. There are portraits of the author, and James, George, Rich- 
 mond, Bradford, Joseph, James 0., William, Thomas A., Whitfield, 
 Abel, William P., Thomas R., George W., Darwin G., Hiram N., 
 De Witt C, and Charles I. Walker.
 
 American Genealogist. 167 
 
 TU Wetmoke Family of America, and its collateral 
 bhiiches ; with Genealogical, Biographical and His- 
 torical Notices. By James Carnahan Wetmore. 
 Albany: Mmisell & Rowland. 1861. royal 8vo. pp. 
 670. ^ J 11 
 
 It IS suffici,jt praise of the literary merits of the book to say 
 that they are woi-i^y Qf j^s exterior. Its typographical execution is 
 in the highest stjiv Qf t^jjg ^j.^ ffj^g introductiou occupies pp. 1 - 9 ; 
 pp. 11-26 give biographic items relative to the first settler, Thomas 
 Whitmore, whose xl^ayQ j^^s been corrupted by his descendants to 
 Wetmore; pp. 27 -V^ ^^^^ ^[^ descendants; pp. 531-610 are de- 
 voted to an appendix, at^ pp. 611-670 contain the indices, which 
 are very full and well pKpared. The introduction treats of the 
 Whitmore families in Ameri«=, . of a coat of arms said to have been 
 used by the descendants of Thom^ Whitmore for upwards of a century, 
 of which a wood cut is given ; and tf- the origin of the name. Thomas 
 Whitmore, to the descendants of \4iom the bulk of this work is 
 devoted, came to this country in 1625, according to a genealogical 
 record made in 1792, but the first noti«e found of him in this 
 country, is in 1639-40, at Wethersfield, Colq. He subsequently 
 removed to Hartford and Middletown, Conn., ind died Dec. 11 
 1681, aged about 68. The individuals in this gmealoo-y are not 
 numbered, but a plan, first used in print, I think, ^y Mr. Dudley 
 in his Dudley Genealogies^ of giving the line of devcent of the 
 parent at the head of the several families, is used insteul. This 
 with a subdivision of the lines, an excellent table of coutants a 
 tabular pedigree referring to the pages where descendants are fo-^nd 
 and good indices, make it tolerably easy to follow the descent or 
 ascent, as well as to find the various persons noticed in the book. 
 
 A very thorough research appears to have been made for mate- 
 rials to illustrate the biography of the members of this family; and 
 extracts from records, newspapers, &c., and copies of inscriptions on 
 gravestones, are quite numerous on these pages. Gen. Prosper 
 Montgomery Wetmore of New York, the poet, who is also distin- 
 guished in political, benevolent, and commercial circles, is of tliis 
 family. His memoir will be found at pp. 127-33. The appendix
 
 168 American Genealogist. 
 
 contains the following articles, viz: Historical sketch of Joh^ 
 Whitmore of Stamford ; armorial bearings and lineage of Engl^" 
 Whitmores ; abstract of wills in England ; biographical sketc^s oi 
 President Edwards, Elder Brewster, Governor Treadwelj i^sv. 
 Samuel Kirkland, and Capt. Miles Standish, with records o^^^^<^^^^" 
 ants. 
 
 History of the Reed Family in Europe ai^^ America. 
 By Jacob Wliittemore Reed, membf>' of the New 
 England Historic-Genealooical Soc^^J- -Boston : 
 Printed for John Wilson ''ife Son. -'§61. 8vo. pp. 
 588. 
 
 The English portion occupies only 40 p&es, but it would not be 
 easy to collect more errors in the same sp'^^ ^^"^ ^"J similar work. 
 Not only has this portion nothing to do ^ith the American part, but 
 the mistakes are too absurd to requ-e correction. Dismissing the 
 English part as not deserving cr^icism, we find the rest worthy 
 of commendation. 
 
 The portraits are those of ^^^ author, of Keuben Reed, Lucius 
 R. Paige, Hon. Nathan Ree^', Col. Jesse Reed, Mrs. Mehitable Deane, 
 David Reed, Levi Reed ^ohn M. Reed, Wm. B. Reed, Thomas Reed, 
 and James Reed. F-*^^ of the different stocks occupies a chapter; 
 but the arran"-em'<it of families iti the chapters, is not the best, 
 there being no c^'o^^ references. 
 
 A Record of the Cope Family, as established in Ame- 
 rica ty Oliver Cope, who came from England to 
 Pepnsylvania about the year 1682; with the resi- 
 dences, dates of births, deaths and marriages, of his 
 descendants as fiir as ascertained. By Gilbert Cope. 
 Phihidelphia : King & Baird, Printers. 1861. 8vo. 
 pp. 251. 
 
 There is evidence on record at Philadelphia, that the ancestor of 
 this family came from Avebury, in Wiltshire. After his removal 
 to this country, he settled in the county of New Castle, Penn., 
 where he died, in the year 1697. The author has gleaned all the 
 facts he was able to collect about him, but as is often the case in 
 such investigations, the record obtained is far from being full. The
 
 American Genealogist. 169 
 
 book is well printed, and has the appearance of having been care- 
 fully prepared. The dates are minute and full. The plan of ar- 
 rangement is substantially that adopted by the late Mr. Goodwin 
 of Hartford, Conn., and has the same deficiency that is so marked 
 in his books, there being no sign to show at a glance whether the 
 persons whose names appear in the regular series, have children 
 recorded in the book or not. This want is supplied in the Vinton Me- 
 morial, and in some of the genealogies published in 1859 and 1860, 
 in the N. E. Hist, and Gen. Register. The plan is an excellent 
 one in other respects. The book has an index of marriages, but 
 lacks a general index of names. The author thinks, from the spell- 
 ing and pronunciation of the name, that it is of German origin; the 
 more so from the fact that there have been many Copes among the 
 Germans. I have some doubt of the correctness of this opinion. 
 
 A Paper read at a Family Meeting of some of the de- 
 scendants (comprising children, grandchildren, and 
 great-grandchildren) of Samuel Hurlbut, born at 
 Chatham, Conn., 1748, and his wife Jerusha (Hig- 
 gins) Hurlbut, born at Haddam, Conn., 1750, held 
 at Racine, Wis., September 20, 1860. By Henry 
 Higgins Hurlbut. Racine, Wis. : Printed for the 
 Author at the Journal Office. 1861. 8vo. pp. 22^ 
 
 Besides the genealogical paper read at the meeting, an appendix 
 of notes and a table displaying the ancestry of Samuel Hurlbut and 
 his wife Jerusha, will be found here. Mr. Hurlbut was descended 
 from Thomas ' H. of Wethersfield, Conn., who was wounded in the 
 Pequot war, 1637, through John,'- David, "^ and David, ^ his father. 
 
 Robert Harris and his descendants ; with notices of 
 the Morey and Metcalf Families. Compiled by 
 Luther M. Harris, M. D. Boston : Printed by 
 Henry W. Button & Son. 1861. 8vo. pp. 56. 
 
 Robert Harris, the ancestor of this family, came to New England 
 
 as early as 1643, and settled at Roxbury. The book is arranged 
 
 on the plan of Mr. Drake, and is of course clear and satisfactory. 
 
 There are two good indices. The Morey family occupies only a 
 
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 170 American Genealogist. 
 
 page and a half, and the Metcalf family, which is an abridgment of 
 Dr. Harris's article in the Register^ giving his own line of descent, 
 fills less than two pages. 
 
 Reunion of the Family of Joseph Taylor at Middle- 
 town, New Jersey, in 1861. . . . Printed for private 
 circulation. Wm. Everdill's Sons, Printers, 104 
 Fulton St., N. Y. 1861. 8vo. pp. 9. [Printed on one 
 side of the leaf only.] 
 
 The very interesting account of a thanksgiving party held Nov. 
 28th, 1861, here presented, contains the record of the descendants 
 of Edward Taylor a large proprietor of lands at Middletown in 
 1692. The family is said to be clearly traced from John Taylor, 
 who was living in the time of King Edward III. From him was 
 descended Matthew Taylor, who married about 1600 the heiress of 
 Richard Freeland, and whose grandson, Matthew, was the father 
 of the emigrant. 
 
 The book is beautifully printed, and the genealogy begins at so 
 late a period that it is probably complete. 
 
 Genealogy of the Hosmer Family. By James B. Hos- 
 mer. Hartford : Steam press of Elihu Geer. 1861. 
 8vo. pp. 16. 
 
 This brief record commences with Thomas Hosmer, son of Stephen 
 and Dorothy Hosmer of Hawkhurst, Co. Kent, Eng., who came to 
 Cambridge, Mass., as early as 1632, and afterwards settled at Hart- 
 ford. 
 
 As will be inferred from the size of the book, the family is not 
 very extensively traced out; but among the notables of the name 
 are recorded Hon. Titus Hosmer, who was an ardent champion of 
 the popular side in the Revolution, an assistant, speaker of the 
 Connecticut house of representatives, and appointed by congress 
 one of the three judges of appeals. He d. in 1780, aged 44, His 
 sou, Stephen Titus Hosmer, b. 1763, d. 1834, was chief justice of 
 Connecticut.
 
 American Genealogist. 171 
 
 John Eogers : the Compiler of the first Authorized 
 Enghsh Bible; the Pioneer of the English Reform- 
 ation ; and its First Martyr. Embracing a Genea- 
 logical Account of his Famil3% Biographical Sketches 
 of some of his principal descendants, his own writings, 
 etc. By Joseph Lemuel Chester. London : Long- 
 man, Green, Lonsjman & Roberts. 1861. 8vo. pp. 
 452. 
 
 This elaborate work, though published in London, was the pro- 
 duction of an American antiquary, and is one of the best and most 
 exhaustive biographies extant. Mr. Chester, in common with most 
 of the descendants of the Rev. John Rogers of Dedham, England, 
 believed himself to be also descended from the famous martyr. 
 
 In attempting to prove this relationship by examining the Eng- 
 lish records, Mr. Chester effectually disproved it; but he wisely 
 decided to publish the new and deeply interesting material he had 
 gathered. It would be foreign to our subject to enter upon the 
 biography of an Englishman in no way connected with this country, 
 but owing to the popular mistake we will specify the points which 
 have been proved. 
 
 John Rogers was probably born at Deritend, now a portion of 
 Birmingham, and, according to the Herald's visitations, married 
 Adriana de Weyden, alias Pratt, by whom he had children: 
 Daniel, John, Ambrose^ Samuel, Philip, Bernard, Augustine, Bar- 
 naby, Susan, Elizabeth, and Hester. Of these, Daniel was clerk 
 of the council to Queen Elizabeth, and John was a doctor of laws. 
 Descendants of both can be traced for a little distance, but then 
 disappear, and there is no person living who can present the neces- 
 sary evidence of descent from the martyr. 
 
 On the other hand it is rendered certain that Rev. Richard 
 Rogers of Wethersfield, Eng., was not a descendant, nor was his 
 kinsman (not nephew, as is sometimes said), the Rev. John Rogers 
 of Dedham. 
 
 Mr. Chester's book abounds in evidence of patient and careful 
 investigation, a rare ability to connect and understand dissevered 
 facts, and a full appreciation of the importance of scrupulously 
 clinging to the exact truth.
 
 172 American Genealogist. 
 
 1862. 
 
 Facsimiles of the Memorial Stones of the last English 
 ancestors of George Washington in the Parish 
 Church of Brington, Northamptonshire, England ; 
 permanently placed in the State House of Massa- 
 chusetts. Boston : William White, printer to the 
 State. 1862. folio, pp. 15. 
 
 This curious pamphlet, a reprint of the House Document, No. 
 199, for 1861, contains the record of transactions based upon Mr. 
 Simkinson's book previously mentioned. Supposing that the Bring- 
 ton grave yard contained the tombs of the ancestors of George 
 Washington, Earl Spencer had facsimiles made of two of them, and 
 presented these copies to Hon. Charles Sumner. By the latter they 
 were presented to the state, the gift was announced by Gov. John 
 A. Andrew in a message, and by vote they were directed to be placed 
 in the Doric Hall of the State House, and were so erected. 
 
 Unfortunately as Mr. Chester has shown, in a book hereafter 
 reviewed, these were not the ancestors or near relatives of our 
 Washington, and the tablets will probably be soon removed. 
 
 The Chapin Genealogy, containing a very large pro- 
 portion of the descendants of Dea. Samuel Chapin, 
 who settled in Springfield, Mass., in 1642. Collected 
 and Compiled by Orange Chapin. To which is added 
 a "Centennial Discourse delivered before the First 
 Congregational Society in Chicopee, September 26, 
 1852, by E. B. Clark, Pastor of the Church which 
 was organized Sept. 27, 1752." Also, an Address 
 delivered at the opening of the Town Hall in 
 Springfield, March 24, 1828, containing Sketches 
 of the Early History of that Town, and those in 
 that vicinity. With an Appendix, by George Bliss. 
 Northampton : printed by Metcalf & Company, 
 1862. 8vo. pp. 368. 
 
 This is a very good family history, one which would do credit to 
 any author, and especially noteworthy as the work of one who had
 
 American Genealogist. 173 
 
 passed " three score and ten " before its publication. The work is 
 divided into several parts. The 1st, p. 1-171, contains the record 
 of the descendants of Samuel Chapin. 2d, 174-221, families con- 
 nected with the Chapins. 3d, p. 225-238, descendants of Josiah 
 Chapin, son of Samuel. 4th, p. 237-256, Clark's Centennial Dis- 
 course. 5th, p. 259-328, Bliss's address. Two large indices and 
 the addenda complete the volume. 
 
 It contains a number of biographical sketches, and as so many of 
 the family have continued to reside near Springfield, the republica- 
 tion of the historical discourses was very appropriate to the subject. 
 The book is certainly to be put in the first rank. 
 
 [Note. — We may liere mention the following book : The Chapin Gather- 
 ing. Proceedings at the Meeting of the Chapin Family, in Springfield, 
 Mass., September 17, 1862. Springfield : printed by Samuel Bowles & 
 Company. 1862. 8vo. pp. 97. It was evidently a very pleasant celebration 
 and largely attended. The only special item we note in respect to genea- 
 logy, is the coi)y of a document dated in 1779, which says that Samuel 
 Chapin was born in Dartmouth, England.] 
 
 The True Genealogy of the Dunnel and Dwinnel 
 Family of New England. By Henry Gale Dunnell, 
 M. D. of New York City. New York : Charles B. 
 Richardson, No. 264 Canal street. 1862. royal 8vo. 
 pp. 84. 
 
 This is a very well written account of the descendants of Michael 
 Dunnel or Dwinell of Topsfield, Mass. It is strictly a genealogy, 
 the biographical notes being very brief, and is clearly arranged. 
 The family tradition is that the name is of French origin. It 
 has been variously spelt Doniel, Dunwell, Donell, Dunnell, and 
 Dwinnel, but probably always was pronounced Dunnel. 
 
 The ToppANS of Toppan's Lane, with their Descendants 
 and Relations. Collected and arranged by Joshua 
 Coffin. Newburyport: William H. Huse & Co., 
 printers, 42 State street. 1862. 8vo. pp. 30. 
 
 This pamphlet commences with an account of a family meeting 
 held June 24, 1846. At p. 10., we have an account of the Knglish 
 ancestry of Abraham Toppan, the emigrant, tracing the family to
 
 174 American Genealogist. 
 
 Kobert Topham of Linton, Co. York, whose will is dated in 1550. 
 His second son, Edward,'- was of Aiglethorpe near Linton, and is 
 said to have been the father of William 3 Toppan who lived at 
 Calbridge, where his son Abraham was baptized April 10, 1606. 
 Abraham removed to Yarmouth and there married Susanna Taylor. 
 He was the first of the name here. We must say, however, that 
 notwithstanding the usual accuracy of Mr. Coffin, this pedigree 
 does not seem sufficiently fortified with proofs, to be at once ac- 
 cepted. 
 
 The record of the American family is exact in dates, but has no 
 system of numbering or reference. 
 
 Genealogy of a portion of the Pope Family, together 
 with Biographical Notices of Col. William Pope, of 
 Boston, and some of his descendants. Boston: 
 David Clapp, printer, 334 Washington street. 1862. 
 8vo. pp. 68. 
 
 From a prefatory note it appears that the author has large col- 
 lections relating to the Pope family history, but this brief summary 
 of one branch was published for a special reason. Not only were 
 there several different families of the name here, but in Dorchester, 
 Mass., at an early date there were two named John Pope. Of these, 
 one left descendants only in the line of his daughter Patience, wife 
 of Edward Blake of Milton. The other John has left a numerous 
 posterity. 
 
 Genealogy of Othniel Phelps, Esq., of Aylmer, Canada 
 West. Prepared expressly for him, by request, by 
 his esteemed friend and distant relative, Oliver Sey- 
 mour Phelps, Esq., of St. Catharine's, C. W. St. 
 Catharines : H. F. Leavenworther's Herald Power 
 Press. 1862. 8vo. pp. 44. 
 
 Othniel Phelps was born in Montgomery county. New York, and 
 his pedigree is traced to William Phelps of Dorchester, Mass., and 
 Windsor, Conn. There is some probability that the emigrant was 
 from Porlock, near Minehead, Co. Somerset, England. This record
 
 American Genealogist. 175 
 
 traces a few branches of a widely spreading race. The rest of this 
 pamphlet is made up of miscellaneous jottings concerning the name, 
 and of copies of private letters to the author, many of which seem 
 hardly intended by the writers for publication. 
 
 Mr. 0. S. Phelps, it seems, has in press a "big book entitled 
 History and Genealogy of the Universal Phelps Family." If, as is 
 probable, the name is a variation of Philips, and belongs to the same 
 class of surnames, as Williams, Harris, Jones, etc., he will have a 
 great work to accomplish if all of the name are to be recorded. 
 
 Genealogical and Biographical Account of the Family 
 of Bolton in England and America. Deduced from 
 an early period, and continued down to the present 
 time. Collected chiefly from original papers and 
 records: with an Appendix. By Robert Bolton, 
 A. M., Author of the ''History of Westchester 
 County," also "History of the Protestant Episcopal 
 Church in the County of Westchester," " Guide to 
 New Rochelle," a Member of the Protestant Epis- 
 copal Society, and of the New York and Georgia 
 
 Historical Societies New York : John 
 
 A. Gray, printer, stereotyper and binder. Fire-proof 
 Buildings, corner of Frankfort and Jacob streets. 
 8vo. ppV222. 
 
 Of this elaborate work of the well known historian of Westchester 
 county, but fifty copies were printed. The family in this country 
 is descended from Robert Bolton of Philadelphia, A. D. 1718, whose 
 ancestor was Adam Bolton of Brookhouse in Blackburn, Co. Lanca- 
 shire in 1570. The most distinguished members of the family were 
 Rev. Samuel Bolton, rector of Broughton, a prominent Puritan 
 author, and his son. Rev. Samuel Bolton, prebendary of Westminster. 
 
 The bearers of the name here have . been few in number, and 
 have been chiefly merchants. Rev. Robert Bolton, however, father 
 of the author, abandoned trade for the ministry and was long settled 
 in England. He died in 1857. 
 
 The book contains also a short pedigree of the Woodhull family 
 of Long Island, to which race the author's second wife belongs,
 
 176 American Genealogist. 
 
 showing the American branch to be nearly related to the Barons 
 Crewe of Stene. 
 
 The illustrations in the volume are some twenty wood cuts of Bol- 
 ton arms, as also of the arms of Curtis, Mauve, McClean, Le Jay, 
 Woodhull and Clay, wood cuts of the house of Brookhouse, map of 
 the town of Blackburn, monument of Bev. Bobert Bolton, monu- 
 ment of Bobert Bolton of Savannah, Pelham Priory; Christ Church, 
 Pelham, New York ; Parochial School at Pelham : and many auto- 
 graphs. 
 
 Altogether the book is most enjoyable, being evidently the work 
 of a thorough antiquary, fortunate in having a familiar and interest- 
 ing subject to discuss. 
 
 The SuTTON-DuDLEYS of England, and the Dudleys of 
 Massachusetts in New-England. From the Nor- 
 man Conquest to the present time. By George 
 Adlard. London : Printed for the author. May 
 be had of John Russell Smith, 36 Soho Square. 
 MDCCCLXII. 8vo. pp. 160. 
 
 As many descendants of Gov. Thomas Dudley are interested in 
 this question of his ancestry, we will endeavor to give the present 
 condition of the problem. 
 
 The English family of the name has been of eminent rank. The 
 main line is traced to Hervey de Sutton, living A. D. 1175. A 
 descendant, Sir John Sutton, married about 1325, Margaret, sister 
 and coheiress of John de Somery, Baron of Dudley, and thus ac- 
 quired that lordship but not a title. Long after John Sutton, alias 
 Dudley, was made, in 1439, Baron Dudley, and the family seems 
 generally to have assumed the name of Dudley. The fifth Baron 
 Dudley died in 1643, and his grand-daughter and heiress, Frances 
 Dudley, carried the title to the Ward family. It is believed that 
 from the first baron was descended the famous Dudley, Earl of 
 Northumberland, and Bobert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, Elizabeth's 
 favorite, yet English authorities pronounce the affiliation as doubt- 
 ful. 
 
 Mr. Adlard, who is an Englishman who has resided in New York 
 for some years, endeavors in this book to prove our Gov. Thomas
 
 American Genealogist. 177 
 
 Dudley the descendant of Thomas, son of Edward Sutton, second 
 Baron Dudley. To do this he refers to a manuscript life of Thomas 
 Dudley, now in the possession of J. Wingate Thornton of Boston, 
 which very probably was written by Cotton Mather, and is an enlarge- 
 ment of his life in the Magnalia. The only genealogical facts there 
 stated are that he was born in the town of Northampton in the year 
 1574 : that his father was Capt. Roger Dudley who was slain in the 
 wars when this his son, and one only daughter, were very young; 
 and that Judge Nichols was his kinsman by the mother's side. 
 
 These are the only known facts except that the governor used as a 
 seal, the Dudley arms, differenced with a crescent. 
 
 Several interesting articles have appeared in the Herald and Ge- 
 nealogist on this point, and the universal decision seems to be that 
 Mr. Adlard fails in every point to establish the parentage of Thomas 
 Dudley. He shows, indeed, that Thomas Dudley, a draper of Lon- 
 don, died in 1549, and his son, John, died in 1545, also that this John 
 probably was the father of Katharine Dudley whose will, of date of 
 1563, mentions brothers Roger and Francis, the latter not of age. 
 
 There is no evidence to show that the first Thomas was identical 
 with Thomas Dudley, son of the second Baron, nor that this Roger 
 had anything to do with our Captain Roger. In fact, there is only 
 a coincidence of names, altogether too usual a circumstance to be of 
 the slightest value. There were many Dudleys in London and 
 other places in England, and the ancestor of our American branch 
 is yet to be discovered. 
 
 Some portions of the book are quite valuable, as the copies of 
 English wills, the record of descendants, etc. Among the latter 
 will be found some account of the Woodbridge, Wanton, Saltonstall 
 and Winthrop families, in those branches which have become allied 
 to the Dudleys. 
 
 The volume contains also an engraving of the Great Seal of New 
 England from 1686 to 1689, taken from an impression supposed 
 by Mr. Adlard to be unique, though another has since been dis- 
 covered. 
 
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 178 American Genealogist. 
 
 Genealogy of the Name and Family of Hunt, early 
 established in America from Europe. Exhibiting 
 pedigrees of ten thousand persons. Enlarged by re- 
 ligious and historic readings. Enriched with indices 
 of names and places. Authorized by W. L. G. 
 Hunt. Compiled by T. B. Wyman, jr. Boston : 
 printed by John Wilson & Son, 5 Water street. 
 1S62- 3. crown 8vo. pp. xvi and 414. 
 
 Those familiar with Mr. Wynian's writing will expect herein to 
 find the evidence of patient search and exact record, with not a 
 little of quaint expression. The different families of the name here 
 noticed seem to be those of Edward of Amesbury, 1687, William of 
 Concord. 1641, Edmund of Duxbury, 1637, John of Hopedale, 
 N. J., 1700, Thomas of Westchester, N. Y., Jonathan of Northamp- 
 ton, Bartholomew of Newport, R. I., 1654, Lewis of Salem, 1686, 
 Enoch of Weymouth, and some smaller families. 
 
 It must be confessed, however, that the value of the book is 
 greatly lessened by the lack of a good system of arrangement. It 
 is certainly a great storehouse of facts interesting to those of the 
 name, but it demands from the reader an amount of labor which 
 few but those thus interested will be disposed to give. It is always 
 to be regretted when any special fancy of any author thus deprives 
 him at the close of his labors, of the due reward of his zeal and 
 industry. 
 
 [Sketch of the Family of Field of the West Riding of 
 Yorkshire, England, and of Flushing and Newtown, 
 Long Island, New York. By Osgood Field, Esq., 
 of London, England.] 1863. 
 
 As the entire impression of the reprint of this article in the 
 Register for April, 1863, was sent to England, we have not been 
 able to give the exact title, and have copied the heading of the ori- 
 ginal issue. It is here shown that Robert Field of Flushing, 1645, 
 was the son of William Field of Sowerby and North Ouram in 
 the parish of Halifax, who was son of William Field of Great
 
 •American Genealogist. 179 
 
 Horton. This William was the son of John Field of Ilorton, living 
 in 1577. 
 
 Robert Field of Flushing died probably before 1666, leaving a 
 son, Robert, from whom was descended Moses Field, who married 
 Susan K., daughter of Samuel Osgood, and died, in 1883. 
 
 Nearly all of the pamphlet is devoted to the early history of the 
 family in England. 
 
 Contributions towards a Genealogy of the (Massachu- 
 setts) Family of Stiles, descended from Robert of 
 Rowley, Mass., 1659 - 1860. By Henry R. Stiles, 
 M.D. Albany : J. Munsell, 78 State street. 1863. 
 8vo. pp. 48. 
 
 Mention has already been made of the Genealogy of the Connec- 
 ticut family of Stiles, prepared and published by Dr. Stiles in 1859. 
 This pamphlet contains the record of a totally diiFerent family, but 
 the material having been collected it was wisely decided to print it. 
 
 The work is strictly genealogical, and seems to have been carefully 
 performed. 
 
 A Genealogical and Biographical Record of the Branch 
 of the Family of Gilman, descended from the Ho- 
 nourable Counsellor John Gilman of Exeter, N. H. 
 With which is incorporated some account of his 
 ancestors and the English branch of the Gilman 
 Family. Compiled by Arthur Gilman. Printed 
 for the use of the family, by J, Munsell, Albany. 
 1863. 8vo. p. 51. 
 
 It is understood that Mr. Gilman has made large collections for 
 the history of his family, and this is but a brief portion sent out to 
 aid in obtaining data. 
 
 The ancestor of those here was Edward Gilman of Hingham, Co. 
 Norfolk, England, who came hither in 1638, with wife, five child- 
 ren and three servants. He seems to have been a man of good 
 position here, and his descendants have been especially prominent 
 in New Hampshire.
 
 180 American Genealogist. 
 
 A Genealogical History of the Family of MOxYtgomery, 
 including the Montgomery Pedigree. Compiled by 
 
 Thomas Harrison Montgomery Philadelphia : 
 
 printed for private circulation. 1863. royal 8vo. 
 pp. 158. 
 
 This well written volume has attracted much attention in England 
 as well as here, from its well-substantiated claim that the represen- 
 tative of the male line of the famous family of Montgomery is to be 
 found in America. 
 
 The family is of Norman origin, being traced to Roger, Count of 
 Montgomery in A. D. 912. The sixth count served under William 
 the Conqueror, was made Earl of Shrewsbury, and died in 1094. 
 His third son Arnulph, Earl of Pembroke, was the father of Philip 
 de Montgomerie who established himself in Scotland. Thence the 
 family, being one of note, is traced to Alexander, created Lord 
 Montgomerie about 1448, and the third lord, Hugh, was created 
 Earl of Eglinton in 1508. 
 
 The fifth earl died in 1612, and by virtue of a new charter which 
 he had obtained the title went to his cousin. Sir Alexander Seton. 
 The succession to the representation of the family had to be sought 
 among the descendants of Sir Neil Montgomerie of Lainshaw, third 
 son of the first Earl of Eglinton, who had carried on a bloody feud 
 with the older and ennobled branch, which culminated in the mur- 
 der of the fourth earl. 
 
 At this time there were four sons of Neil Montgomerie of Lain- 
 shaw, of whom William of Brigend was the second. The oldest 
 son sold the estate of Lainshaw to the youngest son, and as this 
 oldest line terminated in the next generation in daughters, the 
 second branch succeeded to the honor of the representation. This 
 younger, substituted line, however, was long supposed to be the heir, 
 especially as holding the ancestral seat. The true heir being in a 
 distant colony and the honor being but a barren one, the error has 
 hitherto remained uncorrected. 
 
 Mr. Montgomery, however, seems clearly to show that William of 
 Brigend stood next in the succession on the death of his nephews.
 
 American Genealogist. 181 
 
 and Lis oldest son, John, was father of Hugh M. of Brigend who 
 died in 1710. 
 
 William Montgomery, son of this Hugh, married in 1684, Isabel, 
 daughter of Robert Burnett, and in 1702 removed to East Jersey, 
 where his father-in-law had large estates, and where he named his 
 plantation Eglintown. 
 
 From this time the genealogy of the family is easily traced, and 
 the present representative is James T. Montgomery of l-'hiladclphia. 
 
 From the number of documents cited there cannot be a doubt 
 that the claim has been proved, and, we believe, the Lyon King of 
 Arms of Scotland, the highest authority, has confirmed it by granting 
 the arms of the main line to Mr. Montgomery. 
 
 A Sketch of the Family of Dumaresq, to Avhich are 
 added, Reminiscences of James Dumaresq, and an 
 Appendix of documents. Albany: J. Munsell, 78 
 State street. 1863. 8vo. pp. 23. 
 
 In this pamphlet, Mr. Augustus T. Perkins has given an account 
 of a branch of a very ancient family settled in Jersey. The histo- 
 rian of that island says of the family, " It is one of the few 
 patrician houses of the island, the representatives of which, have, 
 from the earliest historic periods, held offices of trust and distinction 
 in the public service of Jersey." 
 
 The family has acquired many estates in the island, and spread 
 out into numerous ramifications. Elias Dumaresq, Seigneur des 
 Augres, b. 1648, had several children, of whom the second son was 
 Capt. Philip Dumaresq, commander of the Young Eagle letter of 
 marque, in 1739, who settled in Boston. His son Philip married 
 Rebecca Gardiner, and though he was a Royalist refugee, his son 
 James returned to America and settled at Swan island, Maine. 
 Descendants still remain at Boston. 
 
 The reminiscences were written by J. H. Sheppard, Esq., and give 
 a delightful picture of the life of one of the large land-owners of 
 New England. 
 
 Although this is the only separate publication of Mr. Perkins, he 
 has contributed many articles to the Heraldic Journal, of which he 
 has been one of 'the managers.
 
 182 American Genealogist. 
 
 A Genealogical Memoir of the Huntington Family 
 in this country : embracing all the known descend- 
 ants of Simon and Margaret Huntington, who have 
 retained the family name, and the first generations 
 of the descendants of other names. By Rev. E. B. 
 Huntington, A. M. Stamford, Conn. : published by 
 the author. 1863. 8vo. pp. 428. 
 
 The first fifty-five pages of this interesting volume are filled with 
 an account of a family meeting held at Norwich, Conn., Sept. 3d, 1857. 
 The genealogy proper covers pp. 59 - 368 and the last sixty pages 
 consist of the appendix and index. 
 
 The ancestor of the family is supposed to have been a Simon Hunt- 
 ington who died on his passage here. Certainly his widow, Margaret, 
 and children, Christopher, Simon, Thomas, and Ann, arrived at Rox- 
 bury, and after the marriage of the widow with Thomas Stoughton 
 they removed to Windsor. A William Huntington, presumed to be 
 a brother of Simon, came here and settled at Salisbury. Probably 
 Simon was from Norwich, Eng., as his wife was the sister of Peter 
 Baret of that city. 
 
 We have only to say of this genealogy that it deserves a high 
 place on our list, being exact in dates, and copious in detail, embody- 
 ing many biographies of the more distinguished members of the 
 family. 
 
 The illustrations are portraits of Gov. Samuel, Hon. Benjamin, 
 Hon. Henry, Gen. Jedediah, Jedediah and wife, Rev. Dr. Ezra A., 
 Ralph, Judge E. M., and Sarah Lanman Huntington. 
 
 Genealogy of the Messinger Family, compiled by Hon. 
 George W. Messinger. Albany : J. Munsell, 78 State 
 street. 1863. 8vo. pp. 13. 
 
 This is a good account of the family descended from Henry Mes- 
 singer of Boston, 1640. The emigrant, who died in 1681, was a 
 man of considerable propei'ty, and his wife's will bequeaths to one 
 eon the " Messinger coat of arms," a very unusual circumstance, indi- 
 cative of a good position heretofore in England. There have been 
 comparatively few bearers of the name.
 
 American Genealogist. 183 
 
 Brief Memoir of Dr. Winslow Lewis. By John H. 
 Sheppard, Esq. From the New England Historical 
 and Genealogical Register. Albany, N. Y. : J. Mun- 
 sell, 78 State street. 1863, 8vo. pp. 33. 
 
 Although mainly intended as a memoir of the President of the 
 New England Genealogic-Historical Society, this pamphlet contains 
 four pages of genealogy relating to one branch of the Winslow 
 family, four to the Lewis family, and as many to the Grreenough 
 family, all drawn with the precision of the practiced antiquary. 
 
 The memoir, which is embellished by a capital portrait of its sub- 
 ject, is a very pleasant tribute to a gentleman who has devoted the 
 abilities of a highly cultivated intellect to the advancement of the 
 study of history, and who has received from his fellow citizens the 
 highest evidences of their gratitude. 
 
 The Hallock Ancestry. For the Memoir of Rev. Jere- 
 miah Hallock of Connecticut and Rev. Moses Hallock 
 of Massachusetts. 1863. 12mo. pp. 8. 
 
 This is an extract from some book appai-ently, being paged .S89 - 
 396, yet copies were issued in this form. It is signed by Rev. Wm. 
 A. Hallock, senior secretary American Tract Society. It contains a 
 brief account of the descendants of Peter Hallock of New Haven, 
 1640. 
 
 Sketch of the Life of Rev. Michael Wigglesworth, 
 A.M., Author of the Day of Doom. By John Ward 
 Dean, Editor of the New England Historical and 
 Genealogical Register. To which is appended a 
 Fragment of his Autobiography, some of his Letters 
 and a Catalogue of his Library. Reprinted from the 
 Register for April, 1863. Afbany : J. Munsell, 78 
 State street. 1863. 8vo. pp. 20. 
 
 Whatever Mr. Uean essays is certain to be well done, and we ac- 
 cordingly find in this Memoir the promise of the title more than 
 fulfilled. The sketch embraces all the facts which probably will
 
 184 American Genealogist. 
 
 ever be recovered, and the bibliography of Wigglesworth's two works, 
 the Day of Doom^ and Meat out of the Eater, is nearly complete. 
 A record of the family will be found in the Re(jister, xv, 334. 
 
 A seventh edition of the Day of Doom, containing most of Mr. 
 Dean's Memoir as a preface, has been published this year (1867), 
 by the American News Company of New York. 
 
 1864. 
 
 A Discourse at the Funeral of Dea. Tyler Batcheller, 
 at North Brookfield, Mass., Oct. 10, 1862. ^y Rev. 
 Christoi3her Gushing. Boston : Wright & Porter, 
 Printers, 4 Spring Lane. 1864. 8vo. pp. 32. 
 
 At the end will be found a brief account of the Batchellers, com- 
 mencing with Joseph B. of Wenham, 1636. 
 
 A Genealogical Register of the descendants of Several 
 Ancient Puritans, Vol. IV. By Rev. Abner Morse, 
 A. M., Member of the New England Historic-Genea- 
 logical Society Boston : press of H. W. 
 
 Button & Son. 1864. 
 
 The Haeding Family. 8vo. pp. 84. 
 
 This part is all that was published by Mr. Morse of his proposed 
 volume, but this portion is complete in itself. The chapters treat 
 of Richard of Braintree; widow Martha of Plymouth; Abraham 
 of Dedham ; Stephen of Providence ; llichard of Reading ; and 
 Edward Harradou of Ipswich. 
 
 The book, as is usual with Mr. Morse's compilations, is exact in 
 dates, and gives proof of great industry. It, is, however, injured by 
 his too confident assumptions of possibilities of facts. Thus, in chap- 
 ter iv, he coolly assumes that the widow Martha Harding had a hus- 
 band, Joseph, though there is no evidence of his existence, simply 
 because the second son was named Joseph. This he confessed to the 
 writer. 
 
 We are compelled to regard Mr. Morse's affiliations, unless he cites
 
 American Genealogist. 185 
 
 the proof, as the mere opinions of a man who had an unconquerable 
 aversion to admit anything to seem incomplete in his work. He 
 preferred to assert boldly and in trust that his reputation for accu- 
 racy would prevent inquiry. 
 
 Notes on the Wintiirop Family and its English connec- 
 tions before its Emigration to New EngLand. By 
 William H. Wliitmore. Reprinted with additions 
 from the New England Historical and Genealogical 
 Register for April, 1864. Albany : J. Munsell, 78 
 State street. 1864. 8vo. jDp. 10. 
 
 This is but a collection of the facts contained in the volume 
 reviewed on the next page, together with certain other items con- 
 nected therewith, for many of which I was indebted to the kindness 
 of Mr. Winthrop. It may be considered simply as a genealogical 
 index prepared for his book. 
 
 The Burke and Alvord Memorial. A Genealogical 
 Account of the descendants of Richard Burke of 
 Sudbury, Mass., Compiled by John Alonzo Bou telle 
 of Woburn, Mass., for VViUiam A. Burke of Lowell, 
 Mass. [Burke arms.] Boston : printed by Henry 
 W. Button & Son, 90 and 92 Washington street. 
 1864. 8vo. pp. 240.- 
 
 This appears to be a careful and well written genealogy, consisting 
 of the following parts: p. 1-12 preliminary; 13-76 issue of 
 Richard Burke of Sudbury, 1610; 77-86, descendants of Richard 
 Burke of Northampton, 1700; p. 87, second title as follows: 
 
 The Burke and Alvord Memorial : a Genealogical account of the 
 descendants of Alexander Alvord, of Windsor, Conn., Com- 
 piled by John A. Boutelle for William A. Burke. [Alvord arms.] 
 Boston : Printed by Henry W. Duttou & Son, 90 and 92 Wash- 
 ington street. 1864. 
 
 P. 89-169, Alvord family; 170-177, descendants of Benedict 
 Alvord of W^indsor ; 178 - 186, appendix ; 187 - 194, the Benjamin 
 family; 195- 218. appendix ; 219 - 240, index. 
 
 It will be noticed that each title page has a coat of arms, but not 
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 186 American Genealogist. 
 
 tlie slightest authority is given for the use. We regret that Mr. 
 Burke, who evidently is disposed to question the utility of printing 
 the preliminary twelve pages of irrelevant matter ahout the DeBurghs 
 of Ireland, should not have known that people here have no more 
 right to claim English arms than to appropriate English ancestors. 
 This abuse of heraldry is, however, we trust, upon the wane here, 
 as a more correct idea is spreading among our genealogists. 
 
 Life and Letters of John Wintheop, Governor of 
 the Massachusetts Bay Company at their emigra- 
 tion to New England, 1 630. By Robert C. Winthrop. 
 Boston : Ticknor & Fields. 1864. 8vo. pp. 452. 
 
 This most admirable account of the great leaders of the colonists, 
 who, in reality founded New England, deserves a place on our list, 
 since it contains the material for a full account of the earlier genera- 
 tions of the Winthrop fttmily. The author, so well known for his 
 historical studies, was fortunate enough to obtain an immense collec- 
 tion of papers belonging to Gov. John Winthrop, and from these and 
 other sources of information laboriously sought for many years, he 
 has been enabled to present a full and vivid picture of the life of 
 John Winthrop up to the day of his departure for New England. 
 
 Of the merits of the book it is not necessary to speak, as it has 
 passed into the standard literature of the country. In regard to 
 the genealogy we may say that the first of the family was Adam 
 Winthrop of Lavenham, Co. Suffolk, whose son, Adam, was born 
 there in 1498. Adam Jr., went to London and was one of the guild 
 of clothiers, being master therein in 1551. In 1544 he acquired 
 the manor of Groton, Co. Suffolk, and died there in 1562. Adam 
 Winthrop, third of the name, lived at Groton, and there his son, 
 John, the famous governor, was born in 1588. Throughout the 
 volume we find memoranda relative to the different branches which, 
 in these four generations had been sent forth, and in many instances 
 these are copied from the family papers and are not elsewhere obtain- 
 able. We have also full notes upon the families connected with 
 the Wiuthrops by marriage, so that even as a genealogy the book 
 possesses great value. 
 
 A second volume will be noticed in its appropriate place.
 
 American Genealogist. 187 
 
 The Giles Memorial. Genealogical Memoirs of the 
 Families bearing the names of Giles, Gould, Holmes, 
 Jennison, Leonard, Lindall, Curwen, Marshall, 
 Robinson, Sampson and Webb ; also Genealogical 
 Sketches of the Pool, Very, Farr and other Families; 
 with a History of Pemaquid, ancient and modern : 
 
 and some details of Indian warfare 
 
 B)^ John Adams Vinton, Author of the Vinton 
 
 Memorial, etc., Boston : printed for the 
 
 Author, by Henry W. Button & Son, Nos. 90 and 
 92 Washington street. 1864. 8vo. pp. 600. 
 
 The copious title which we have copied gives a good idea of the 
 contents of this collection of o;enealoa;ies. Of all of the families a 
 fair record is made, and, as is customary with Mr. Vinton, he has 
 been exact in dates and clear in arrangement. The reader will 
 also thank him for thorough indices and in all respects will place 
 this book in the first rank. 
 
 The frontispiece is an engraving of the Giles arms, of which 
 several old paintings are preserved, though we cannot quite agree 
 with the author in accepting them as sufficient proof. Other illus- 
 trations are portraits of J. A. Vinton and Deborah Sampson, the 
 female soldier of the revolution. 
 
 Mr. Vinton has long been recognized as one of our most thorough 
 genealogists, and this book is one which will add to his previous 
 reputation. 
 
 Hyde Genealogy : or the Descendants, in the female 
 a/B well as in the male lines, from William Hyde of 
 Norwich, with their places of residence, and dates of 
 births, marriages, etc., and other particulars of them 
 and their families and ancestry. By Reuben H. 
 Walworth, LL.D. In two volumes. Albany : J. 
 Munsell, 78 State street. 1864. 8vo. pp. 1446. 
 
 Chancellor Walworth has in these two volumes given us the most 
 extensive genealogy yet published in the United States, and, in fact, 
 from the multiplicity of notes, it contains numerous smaller genealo- 
 gies of families allied with the Hydes.
 
 188 American Genealogist. 
 
 The first of the family was William Hyde of Hartford, 1636, and 
 Norwich, Conn., of whose ancestry nothing is known. He had a 
 son, Samuel, and a daughter, Esther, wife of John Post, both of whose 
 descendants seem impartially traced. As the plan of following out 
 female branches is adopted, it will be seen that the Hyde element 
 is but a small portion of this immense work. So many other fami- 
 lies also are mentioned, as in the case of husbands and wives of the 
 descendants their ancestry is traced, that it would be impossible for 
 us to attempt to enumerate them. The book is in itself a genealogi- 
 cal library, and must be indispensable to every collector. 
 
 In the appendix, indeed, we may mention accounts of the ancestry 
 of Mabel Harlakenden, and of the Tracy family who are traced to 
 the family of the name at Toddington in Gloucestershire. 
 
 The illustrations are portraits of R. H. Walworth, Rev. Jona. 
 Parsons, Rev. E. A. Huntington, James Hyde, John Tracy, Mans- 
 field T. Walworth, John M. Barbour, H. R. Selden, Rev. Alvan 
 Hyde, Lewis Hyde, Samuel L. Selden, S. E. Earl, A. D. Fillmore, 
 E. A. Elliot, Alfred Ely, Major Gen. J. K. F. Mansfield, Enoch 
 Parsons, Major Gen. J. A. Pope, Marvin Wait, George A. Wood- 
 rufi", and Major Gen. John Sedgwick. 
 
 Some Remarks on the Life and Character of General 
 David Cobb, delivered at the Taunton Lyceum, July 
 2d, 1830. By Hon. Francis Baylies. From the 
 New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 
 Albany: J. Munsell, 78 State street. 1864. 8vo. 
 pp. 18. 
 
 This is an eloquent tribute by the late historian of Plymouth 
 Colony, to one of its most distinguished citizens. David Cobb was 
 born at Attleborough in 1748, and was educated as a physician. 
 When tlie revolution commenced he joined the army as lieutenant 
 colonel, served with distinction and left it as brevet brigadier gene- 
 ral. He was appointed judge of the court of common pleas, and 
 also major general of the state militia. In his double capacity he 
 was of great service in 1786, when riots were threatened in Taunton ; 
 and it was owing mainly to his firmness and courage that the mob 
 was dispersed without bloodshed. He was afterwards speaker of
 
 Amekican Genealogist. 189 
 
 the legislature and a member of congress. He removed to Maine 
 in 1796, and there was president of the senate, major general, chief 
 justice court of common pleas and lieutenant governor. He died 
 April 17, 1830. 
 
 At the end of the pamphlet are two pages of the genealogy of the 
 Cobb family, prepared by W. B. Trask, Esq. 
 
 The Sampson Family. Genealogical Memoirs of the 
 Sampson Family in America, from the arrival of the 
 Mayflower in 1(320, to the present time. Including 
 a Biographical Sketch of Deborah Sampson, the 
 Heroine of the Revolution. By John Adams Vin- 
 ton, Author of the Vinton Memorial and of the 
 
 Giles Memorial, etc., Boston : printed for 
 
 the Author, by Henry W. Button & Son, Nos. 90 
 and 92 Washington street. 1864. 8vo. pp. 136. 
 
 This is a reprint of the Sampson matter from the Giles volume, 
 and contains a separate index. In regard to the famous Deborah it 
 will be remembered that she enlisted in the Continental army in 
 1781, and served until Oct., 1783, being several times wounded. 
 Her sex was discovered only when taken to a hospital, and she was 
 honorably discharged without the slightest blemish upon her cha- 
 racter, so strictly had she preserved her disguise. She married 
 Benjamin Gannett, and left three children. 
 
 A Genealogical History of the Holt Fa.milt in the 
 United States: more particularly the Descendants 
 of .Nicholas Holt of Newljurj^ and Andover, Mass., 
 1631-1644, and of WiUiam Holt of New Haven, 
 Conn. By Daniel S. Durrie, Librarian of State His- 
 torical Society of Wisconsin, author of Steele Family 
 
 Genealogy, etc., Albany : J. Munsell, 78 
 
 State street. 1864. 8vo. pp. 367. 
 
 This is a very good record of the Holt Family, the genealogical 
 portion being interspersed with biographical notes. Nicholas Holt 
 of Romsey, tanner, was a passenger hither in 1635; but nothing is 
 known of his ancestry, nor of his relationship to William Holt of
 
 190 American Genealogist. 
 
 New Haven, 1644 ; in this volume the record of each family is 
 kept distinct. 
 
 A passage in the introduction, and a short appendix of English 
 Holts serve to call our attention to the fact that certain of the family 
 here are trying to prove a claim to the property left by Sir John 
 Holt, chief justice, who died in 1709. We are at a loss to imagine 
 why the American family should suppose themselves in any way 
 connected with tbe English family, and still more surprised at the 
 supposition that they can be heirs-at-law. As a proof of the evi- 
 dence of the delusion, however, we have seen a printed form of agree- 
 ment by which the Holts are to make common cause to recover the 
 property and to divide it equally. We doubt not they will do the 
 latter when they succeed in the former part of the enterprise. 
 
 Notes respecting the Family of Waldo. Printed for 
 private circulation only. IGmo. pp. 35. 
 
 This little pamphlet prepared by Morris Charles Jones, Esq., of 
 Liverpool, deserves notice here, since the author expresses his belief 
 that it is the same family as that of Cornells Waldo, an early settler 
 here. Concerning tbe family of this latter, a family noted in our 
 annals especially as large land owners in Maine, some account will 
 be found in the Register, xviil, 176. A branch of the American 
 family, indeed, removed to England and is recorded in this volume. 
 
 The book is one of considerable interest, especially as an evidence 
 of the increasing importance which English genealogists attach to 
 our family records. 
 
 [One branch of a Family of Adams. By William S. 
 Appleton, A. B., of Boston. Reprinted from the 
 Historical and Genealogical Register for July, 1864.] 
 8vo. p. 1. 
 
 Among the numerous families of Adams to be found in New 
 England is that descended from William of Cambridge, 1635. It 
 has been stated that the male line of his descendants became long 
 ago extinct, but Mr. Appleton here proves that this is an error. He 
 shows that William had William, Nathaniel, and Samuel ; of whom
 
 American Genealogist. 191 
 
 Nathaniel had Nathaniel,' and Thomas, both fathers of families. 
 Thomas had four sons and one of these Thomas Jr. had four; so 
 that in all probability the representatives of the name are numerous. 
 Any assistance like this, in disentangling families of a name often 
 found in our records, is of great service. 
 
 Memoranda of the Preston Family. By Orlando 
 Brown. Albany : J. Munsell, 78 State street. 
 1864. 8vo. pp. 26. 
 
 Mr. Munsell says that a first edition was printed in 1842 for 
 the family, and another of this date in Cincinnati. This edition 
 consists of 25 copies only. The record is of the family of John 
 Preston, who came from Londonderry in 1740 to Virginia. He left 
 three daughters, married to Breckinridge, Brown, and Smith, and 
 two sons. The descendants of all are traced, but without dates. Still, 
 in the scarcity of Southern genealogies this little pamphlet acquires 
 a certain value. 
 
 [Genealogy of the Gale Family. By Hon. George 
 Gale of Galesville, Wisconsin.] 8vo. pp. 9. 
 
 This is a reprint from the Register for April, 1864, but as the 
 author has since published a larger history of his family, we will 
 reserve a notice until we reach the latter in due course. This 
 pamphlet has no title page. 
 
 Genealogy of the Gilman Family in England and 
 America; traced in the line of Hon. John Gilman, 
 of Exeter, N. H. By Arthur Gilman of Glynllyn. 
 Albany: J. Munsell, 78 State street, 1864. 8vo. pp. 
 24. 
 
 In his preface the author refers to the pamphlet issued by him in 
 1863, and addressed to tlie family here, for the purpose of obtaining 
 the information needed in preparing a complete genealogy. This 
 pamphlet is sent for the same reason to that branch of the descendants 
 of the common ancestor, which remains in England.
 
 192 American Genealogist. 
 
 The family is now traced to Edward Gilman of Caston, who, by 
 will dated in 1573, left his mansion house to his oldest son, John: 
 The second son, Robert, had sons: Robert of Hinghani, England, 
 Edward, who came to New England, Lawrence and John. Of these, 
 Robert had Samuel of Hingham, England; whose son, Samuel Jr., 
 died in 1741, and is styled gentleman on his tomb. 
 
 It is to be hoped that with such progress already made, the com- 
 pleted Grilman Genealogy^will soon make its appearance. 
 
 A Biographical Sketch of Elkanah Watson, Founder 
 of Agricultural Societies io America, and the Pro- 
 jector of Canal Communication in New York State. 
 With a brief Genealogy of the Watson Family early 
 settled in Plymouth Colony. By Wm. R. Deane, 
 member of the New England Historic-Genealogical 
 Society, etc Reprinted from the New Eng- 
 land Historical and Genealogical Register. Albany : 
 J. Munsell, 78 State street. 1864. 8vo. pp. 16. 
 
 In addition to a good biography of Elkanah Watson, who was a 
 noted pioneer agriculturist, this pamphlet contains the record of the 
 Watsons descended from George Watson of Plymouth 1633. It 
 seems to be carefully prepared, and will be of interest to the family. 
 
 Report to the Willoughby Association, U. S. A., made 
 by Columbus Smith, A. D. 1864. Containing the 
 Willoughby Constitution, and Information relative 
 to the Willoughby Property in England, and the 
 Family Relics brought to America by the Willoughby 
 Family: likewise several Genealogies of difierent 
 Branches of the Family in America and England. 
 Published by order of the Willoughby Association. 
 Middlebury: printed at the Register Office. 1864. 
 pp. 28. 
 
 It seems almost incredible that, at the present stage of information 
 on genealogical points, any one could be found credulous enough to 
 spend money in searching for property in England. Yet here is a
 
 American Genealogist. 193 
 
 society of such, the descendauts apparently of Joseph Willoughby 
 of New London, who died in 1751, aged GO. 
 
 We have not patience to wander through the stupidities of this 
 short pamplilet; it is enough to say that it is even more marvelous 
 than the Ingraham claim, in which the same Mr. Smith heretofore 
 figured. The whole matter is below criticism, and the only 
 result will be a useless expenditure of money, and a fresh example 
 furnished to Englishmen of the credulity of their American name- 
 sakes. 
 
 1865. 
 
 John Watson of Hartford, Conn., and his Descendants. 
 A Genealogy by Thomas Watson. New York : 
 printed for the U. Q. Ciub. 1865. 8vo. pp. 48. 
 
 This is a beautifully printed volume, from the press of J. M. 
 Bradstreet & Son, and contains a record of a Connecticut family 
 entirely distinct from the preceding. The progenitor of this was 
 John Watson of Hartford, 1644. He left a son, John, and two 
 daughters ; the descendants of all seem fjxithfully traced and re- 
 corded with precision. 
 
 We are unable to explain the meaning of the title of the U. Q. 
 Club, but it was apparently a printing club and issued two or three 
 volumes. 
 
 A Memorial of JoiiiSr Henry and Richard Townsend, 
 and their Descendants. [Arms.] New York : W. A. 
 Townsend, publisher. 1865. 8vo. pp. 233. 
 
 The first seventy-nine pages of this handsome volume are taken 
 up with an account of the settlement of Oyster Bay and notices of 
 the first colonists. We have then a somewhat rambling account 
 of the families descended from the three brothers above named, who 
 were Quakers, and by tradition are said to have come from near 
 Norwich, England. We do not find any authority given for the 
 use of the arms, and the whole genealogy, though agreeably written 
 and containing very many useful facts, lacks arrangement and a 
 system of references. 
 
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 194 American Genealogist. 
 
 Burgess Genealogy. Memorials of the Family of 
 Thomas and Dorothy Burgess, who were settled at 
 Sandwich, in the Plymouth Colony, in .1637. 
 Boston : press of T. R. Marvin & Son, 42 Congress 
 street. 1865. 8vo. pp. 196. 
 
 After a ministry of forty years at Dedham, the author, Rev. Ebe- 
 nezer Burgess, fortunately decided to devote a portion of his 
 remaining time to the preparation of a history of his family. 
 Though not one which has been much in public office, except in the 
 case of the distinguished Tristram Burgess, the family has been 
 one of good standing and repute. The author has been evidently 
 faithful in searching out the branches, and the result is a copious 
 and well arranged genealogy, entitled to a high position. Notice- 
 able among the descendants have been Benjamin Burgess of Wayne, 
 Me., who attained the age of 101 years and 9 months, and Benja- 
 min Burgess of Boston, long known and respected as a merchant. 
 
 The illustrations are portraits of Benjamin of Wayne, Hon. Tris- 
 tram, Thomas, Benjamin of Boston, Capt. William, John, and Rev. 
 Dyer Burgess. 
 
 [Appendix to the Field Genealogy. 1864.] 12mo. 
 
 pp. 15. 
 
 This is an addition to Henry M. Field's book already noticed, and 
 is an attempt to prove that Zecheriah Field, the emigrant ancestor of 
 the Massachusetts family was the grandson of John Field the 
 astronomer. 
 
 The theory is in direct opposition to Mr. Osgood Field's supposi- 
 tion, as it claims that John Field of Ardsley, had grandsons : James 
 (who was father of Robert of Flushing), Zecheriah of Boston 
 (ancestor of David D. Field), William, and John, both of Rhode 
 Island. The proof is mainly tradition, but is quite strong, and is 
 strengthened by the discovery of an old seal supposed to have 
 belonged to Robert F. of Flushing, now preserved by Hon. Richard 
 Field, which bears the astronomer's arms and the peculiar crest 
 which was granted to him. We do not feel, however, able to decide 
 which view of the pedigree is correct.
 
 American Genealogist. 195 
 
 A Letter of Directions to liis Father's Birthplace, by 
 John Hohiies. With Nates and a Genealogy by 
 D. Williams Patterson. New York : Printed for 
 the U. Q. Club. 1865. 8vo. pp. 76. 
 
 This is another of the beautiful publications of the mysteriously 
 named club which issued the Watson (jenealogy. The Letter of 
 Directions was dictated by John Holmes of New London on his 
 death-bed, so that his children might trace their lineage. He says 
 that his father, Thomas, also of New London, was born in London, 
 and was the son of Thomas Holmes, a counsellor of Gray's Inn, 
 who lived in St. Andrew's parish in Holborn, in Rose and Crown 
 court, in Gray's Inn lane, upper side. This Thomas married 
 Mary Thetford, and was killed at the siege of Oxford. He owned 
 a piece of land in Lynn, in Norfolk, of which Edmond Beel was 
 tenant. His son, Thomas, left London, during the plague, went to 
 Virginia and New York, and there married Lucretia, daughter of a 
 Thomas Dodley who kept a tennis-court in Clare street, in Covent 
 Garden, London. He adds, that the arms of the family are " three 
 spurred cocks fighting in a golden field." 
 
 Dr. Patterson, a skillful genealogist, to whom I am under many 
 obligations, has enriched this book with valuable notes and a history 
 of the descendants of this John Holmes. It is a very curious and 
 valuable contribution to our literature. 
 
 Notes on the Lincoln Families of Massachusetts, with 
 some account of Abraham Lincoln, late President 
 of the United States. By Solomon Lincoln of 
 Hingham. Reprinted ftom the Historical and Ge- 
 nealogical Register for October, 1865. Boston : 
 David Clapp & Son, Printers, 334 Washington 
 street. 1865. 8vo. pp. 10. 
 
 At the time when the murder of our lamented president at- 
 tracted attention to every detail of his life, one of the same name, a 
 distinguished antiquary, made this attempt to trace the pedigree of 
 the greatest ornament of the race.
 
 196 American Genealogist. 
 
 Nearly all of the name can be traced to settlers at Hingham, 
 Mass., and in no case can a family be traced to an early settler 
 elsewhere. At Hingham, there were seve^ emigrants prior to 
 1644, four named Thomas, one each named Stephen, Daniel, and 
 Samuel. 
 
 The president, son of Thomas, was the grandson of Abraham 
 Lincoln, who went from Virginia to Kentucky about 1782, and the 
 name of Mordecai occurs in his immediate family. 
 
 Now, the first Samuel Lincoln of Hingham had among other sons, 
 Mordecai, and Thomas, and grandsons Abraham, Mordecai, and 
 Thomas. From this repetition of names it seems highly probable 
 that the president's ancestor was an offshoot from this branch. We 
 know at all events in this line were the two Levi Lincolns, go- 
 vernors of Massachusetts, and Gov. Enoch Lincoln of Maine. 
 
 Thomas Lincoln of Hingham, was the ancestor of Gen. Benjamin 
 Lincoln, lieutenant governor of Massachusetts. The various other 
 families can also poiat to eminent lawyers and divines, and all com- 
 bined render this name one of truly historical importance. 
 
 No attempts apparently have been made to trace these emigrants 
 to their English home. The name in fact being that of an English 
 county, is one which, at the time names were adopted, was proba- 
 bly given tQ many persons, not connected by ties of kiadred. No 
 bearer of the name has ever risen to distinction in England ; but we 
 may surely claim for it in America a preeminence only excelled by 
 that of Washington. 
 
 Genealogies of the LyxMAns of Middlefieid, of the 
 Dickinsons of Montreal, and of the Partridges of 
 Hatfield. Boston : David Clapp & Son, printers, 334 
 Washington street. 1865. 8vo. pp. 32. 
 
 This pamphlet is compiled by Jas. T. Dickinson, who acknowledges 
 himself indebted to S. D. Partridge, Esq., for the genealogy of the 
 Partridges. The first part is an attempt to trace the family of John 
 Lyman of Middletown who died in 1763, back to the presumed 
 common ancestor of all of the name, Richard Lyman, who came 
 from High Ougar in 1631 and died at Hartford. He succeeds in 
 showing that Thomas Lyman of Durham, grandson of liichard, had a
 
 American Genealogist. 197 
 
 son, Ebenezer, who was father of this John, and of Ebenezer of Tor- 
 riugton. He adds a table which shows llev. Lyman Beecher's place 
 in this branch. 
 
 We have next an account of the Dickinsons in one line, and the 
 Moseleys; and a table of the ancestry of Horace Dickinson, one of 
 Col. James Taylor, and one of Mary Ann Moseley. 
 
 The third part is devoted to the issue of William Partridge of 
 Hartford, and fills three pages. We presume it is intended to trace 
 only one line, and it seems exact. 
 
 [Family of Nathaniel Sparhattk of Cambridge. 
 From the New England Historical and Genealo- 
 gical Register for April, 1SG5.] 8vo. pp. 3. 
 
 [Descendants of Rev. Thomas Jenner. Communi- 
 cated by Vv^illiam S. Appleton to the New England 
 Historical and Genealogical Register for July, 
 1865.] 8vo. pp. 3. 
 
 [Family of Badcock of Milton, Mass. By William 
 S. Appleton, A. M. From the New England 
 Historical and Genealogical Register for July, 
 18G-5.] 8vo. pp. 5. 
 
 We have classed these three little reprints from the Register 
 tfogether, all being issued without title pages, and being the work 
 of the same author. 
 
 The Sparhawk contains extracts from the parish records at Ded- 
 bam, Co. Essex, England, which show that Nathaniel Sparhawk, 
 the emigrant, was the son of Samuel S. of that place and born in 
 1598. He had but one son, and, though the name may yet remain, 
 the most distinguished branch assumed the name of Pepperrell, 
 and was raised to the second baronetcy of that name. The pamphlet 
 has a tabular pedigree of the ancestv}^ of Dorothy Merriam, a 
 descendant, showing her progenitors in other lines. 
 
 The Rev. Thomas Jenner of Weymouth and Saco is well known to 
 antiquaries. The fact of his having descendants here is, however, 
 for the first time brought to light by Mr. Appleton. His grandson, 
 John, was of Brookhaveu L. I., and had Thomas of Charlestown, a
 
 198 American Genealogist. 
 
 sea-captain, with wliom John Dun ton came here. He had a large 
 family, and, though the name is doubtless extinct, there are many 
 who trace to him through the numerous female branches. 
 
 The Badcocks are traced to George, and Robert, who were settled 
 in Dorchester about 1650. Nothing is known of their ancestry, 
 despite Hinman's account, although Mr. Appleton believes they 
 were from the county of Essex in England. The children of the 
 name are here traced for three generations, or till about 1730. 
 
 These genealogies all bear the mark of careful investigation, and 
 deal with that portion of the genealogy which it is most difficult to 
 render complete. Other of Mr. Appleton's writings will be found 
 in the Heraldic Journal which he edited in 1867. 
 
 Keminiscences of the Yaughan Family, and more 
 particularly of Benjamin Vaughan, LL.D. Read 
 before the New England Historic-Genealogical So- 
 ciety, August '2, 1865. By John H. Sheppard, A.M., 
 Librarian of the Society. With a few additions, a 
 Genealogy and Notes. Boston : David Clapp & Son, 
 printers, 334 Washington street. 1885. 8vo. pp. 40. 
 
 To this eloquent tribute to the memory of a departed friend, we 
 are indebted for a most delightful picture of a phase of New Eng- 
 land life, to which most of our readers have been strangers. In th6 
 comparatively obscure village of Hallowell, Me., there existed, fifty 
 years ago, a reproduction of that English country life which has 
 so rarely been imitated with success here. Families connected by 
 marriage resided here in a delightful seclusion, and saw within their 
 reach all the pleasures that wealth, refinement and culture could 
 bestow. The Hallowells, Gardiners, Vaughans, Agrys and Duma- 
 resqs formed a society sufficiently large to prevent ennui ; and, free 
 from the tumult of the city, they enjoyed the freedom and invigorat- 
 ing eff"ect of a country life. 
 
 Benjamin Vaughan was the son of Samuel Vaughan an eminent 
 merchant of London, and Sarah Hallowell of Boston. He was 
 born in Jamaica, educated in England, and came to America to reside 
 on lands inherited from his grandfather, Gardiner. Here he spent
 
 American Genealogist. 199 
 
 a long and useful life as a country gentleman, one of the few who 
 have deserved the name in New England. 
 
 Besides this interesting biography Mr. Sheppard has given a vivid 
 sketch of other members of the society, and has annexed a good 
 account of the Vaughan family. 
 
 Memoranda of some of the Descendants of Eichard 
 Dana. Compiled by Rev. John Jay Dana. "We 
 are all one man's sons," Genesis xlii, 11. Boston : 
 printed by Wm. H. Chandler & Co., 21 CornhilL 
 1865. 8vo. pp. 04. 
 
 The author states that probably every one of the name in this 
 country is descended from Richard Dana of Cambridge, 1640, and 
 adds, that the name is not to be found in England. It has hence 
 been thought that the family was of French origin, but this is only 
 a tradition. The most distinguished members of the family were 
 Richard (H. C. 1718), an eminent lawyer, whose son, Edmund, went 
 to England and left issue. Another son was Francis, chief justice 
 of Massachusetts, whose son, Richard Henry Dana, the poet, is the 
 father of Hon. Richard H. Dana Jr., the eminent author and 
 lawyer. In other branches we find Rev. Joseph Dana, D.D.. whose 
 son, Rev. Daniel, was president of Dartmouth College, and another 
 son, Rev. Samuel, was of Marblehead. Another Rev. Samuel of 
 Groton was a state senator, and his son, Samuel, president of the 
 senate, and a representative in congress. 
 
 Altogether the family has been a thriving one, and is here well 
 recorded, except that the plan of references is unnecessarily cum- 
 bersome and involved. 
 
 Genealogy of the Bolles Family in America. By 
 John A. Bolles. Boston: Henry W. Dutton & Son. 
 18G5. 4to. pp. 64. 
 
 This is a large and peculiarly arranged volume devoted to the family 
 of Joseph Bolles of Wells, Me. It seems to be prepared with care, 
 and certainly contains a great collection of facts ; but the arrange- 
 ment seems needlessly expensive and cumbrous'.
 
 200 American Genealogist. 
 
 Anthony Stoddard of Boston, Mass., and his Descend- 
 ants. A Genealogy originally compiled by Charles 
 Stoddard and Elijah W. Stoddard, and republished in 
 1865. Eevised and enlarged by Elijah W. Stod- 
 dard, and republished in 1865. New York : Press 
 of J. M. Bradstreet & Son, 9 Spruce street. 1865. 
 Svo. pp. 95. 
 
 Not having seen a copy, I transcribe the title from the Historical 
 Magazine for November, 1866, p. 354. It is there stated that the 
 illustrations are portraits of Mrs. Benedict, Gen. Wm. T. Sherman, 
 and of John, Henry, Phineas, Hiram, Maria-Theresa, G., Rev. E. 
 W., J. F., Solomon, and Rev. David T. Stoddard. 
 
 Hutchinson, Angieterre, Etats-Unis d'Amerique, et 
 France. Seigneurs de Cowlam, de Colston-Basset, 
 de Cropwell-Bishop, d'Owethorpe, proprietaires d' 
 Arnold et de Tollerton, en Angieterre; de Hawthorn- 
 Hill, Beaver Brook en Massachusetts ; de Bunker- 
 Hill et Washington a Singapore, dans la province 
 de Malacca, aux Indes Orientales folio, pp. 9. 
 
 The journal from which this is taken is entitled, Le NobUaire 
 Universel de France. Recueil general des genealogies historique des 
 Maisons Nobles et Fitrees de la France. Publie sous la direction de 
 L. de Magny. Paris, a la direction de la Bibliotheque Heraldique. 
 9 rue Buffault. 
 
 We have already said that the noted family of Hutchinson could 
 not be traced to the family of gentry of that name in England. 
 This account, compiled from facts obtained by J. S. Chester, Esq., 
 shows that this distinction did beloog to a comparatively obscure 
 branch. Richard Hutchinson of Salem 1634, the progenitor of a 
 numerous race, was the son of Thomas Hutchinson of Arnold, 
 grandson of Lawrence of Tollerton. The family is thence traced 
 back to Anthony Hutchinson of Cowlam, Co. York, fourth in 
 descent from Bernard of Cowlam in 1282. 
 
 The names in the title refer also to the present generation, of 
 whom Alcander Hutchinson, Esq.. was U. S. consul at Singapore.
 
 American Genealogist. 201 
 
 He married in 1858 the oldest daughter and coheiress of Henri- 
 Louis, Comte de Layaut6, and niece of the Duchess of Montmorcncy- 
 Luxembourg. For this reason the pedigree appears in a collection 
 of French ijenealogies. 
 
 The Autobiography of Levi Hutchins ; with a Preface, 
 
 Notes, and Addenda, by his youngest son 
 
 Private edition. Cambridge : Printed at the River- 
 side Press. M Dccc lxv. l6mo. pp. 188. 
 
 This is a somewhat rambling memoir of Levi Hutchins, whose 
 claims to distinction we have not exactly discovered, but it also con- 
 tains a great number of genealogical items. The family seems 
 traced to William Hutchins of Rowley, 1657, whose son, John, was 
 of Bradford. The book is quite entertaining, but was evidently 
 intended chiefly for the immediate relatives. 
 
 A Brief Genealogy of the Descendants of William 
 Hutchinson and Thomas Oliver. Families closely 
 allied by Intermarriage, and prominent at every 
 Period of the Colonial History of Massachusetts. 
 Reprinted, with Additions, from the New England 
 Historical and Genealoa;ical Register for 1865. By 
 W. H. Whitmore. S.^G. Drake. Boston, N. E. : 
 1865. 4to. pp. 38. 
 
 The main incitement to the preparation of this volume, by one in 
 no way allied to either family, was the apparent lack of representa- 
 tives to perform the duty. The Hutchinsons, once so prominent, 
 are only represented in England, and of the Olivers but one branch 
 remains. To the great-grandson of Lt. Gen. Andrew Oliver, one 
 of the few of the name remaining here, 1 was indebted for a hearty 
 cooperation and invaluable information. 
 
 It will not be necessary to speak of the ancestry of the emigrant, 
 
 since it has been satisfactorily shown in the more recent book of 
 
 Mr. Chester, that all the family traditions were wrong. It is sufli- 
 
 cient to say that the family here has had but few males in each 
 
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 202 American Genealogist. * 
 
 generation, though they were men of ability and high position, and 
 that the governor's issue are all in England. 
 
 As to the Olivers, only two branches remain here, though in 
 England they are more numerous, and have repeatedly intermarried 
 with the Hutchinsons. • 
 
 No reader of our history will need more than the mere mention 
 of Anne Hutchinson, Elisha, Edward, Thomas, and Foster Hutchin- 
 son, and the Andrews and Thomases of the Oliver family, to recall 
 at once those who were among the most conspicuous and influential 
 of our colonial mag-nates. 
 
 Biographical Sketches of the Bordley Family, of Mary- 
 land, for their descendants. Part first. By Mrs. 
 Elizabeth Bordley Gibson, edited by her niece, 
 Elizabeth Mifflin. Philadelphia: Printed by Henry 
 B. Ashmead, Nos. 1102 and 1104 Sansom street. 
 1865. pp. 158. 
 
 Although divided into two parts, the work is paged consecutively, 
 and there is no second title. The family in this country was founded 
 by Thomas Bordley, born about 1682, who was son of Rev. Stephen 
 Bordley, prebendary of St. Paul's, London, and who came to Mary- 
 land in 1694, with an elder brother. Rev. Stephen B. of Kent 
 county, Maryland. Thomas Bordley was a lawyer, and became 
 attorney general in 1715, which office he held till his death, in 1726. 
 He married, first, Rachel Beard, and had children : Stephen, 
 William, Elizabeth and John; and secondly, widow Ariana (Van- 
 derheyden) Frisby, by whom he had Thomas, Mathias, and John 
 Beale. Of these, only the youngest son, John Beale Bordley, has 
 left any descendants. He was a lawyer, judge of the provincial 
 court and of the admiralty, a member of the council, etc. He mar- 
 ried twice ; first, Margaret, daughter of Samuel Chew, and secondly 
 the widow Sarah (Fishbourne) Mifflin, mother of John F. MiflElin, 
 and step-mother of Gov. Thomas Mifflin. 
 
 It will be seen that the genealogical portion of this book is 
 necessarily quite limited, but the biographies are very full and 
 interesting.
 
 American Genealogist. 203 
 
 Genealogy of Chaeles Myrick Thurston-, and of his 
 wife, Rachel Hall Pitman, formerly of Newport, 
 R. I., after December, 1840, of New York. Col- 
 lected for the family by their son, Charles Myrick 
 Thurston. 1865. With an Appendix, containing 
 the names of many descendants of Edward Thurston 
 and Henry Pitman. New York : Printed by John 
 F. Trow & Co., 50 Greene street. 1865. pp. SO. 
 
 In this very interesting book we have the records of some of the 
 descendants of Edward Thurston of Newport, R. I., 1647, the plan 
 being to give a brief tabular pedigree in one line, and then to print 
 the full record of the family of the person who represented it in each 
 generation. This comprises five generations, and we have next the 
 same detail in the families of their wives, viz : those of Mott, Clarke 
 (Wilber, Porter); Coffin (Bunker, Coleman, Allen); Smith (Way, 
 Smith, Myrick, Trowbridge, Atherton, Rogers, Stanton, Lord, 
 Williams) ; and in this account the names in parenthesis are of the 
 maternal ancestors of the wives of the Thurstons. 
 
 The second portion is a similar account of the ancestors of Rachel 
 Hall (Pitman) Thurston, wife of the author. It relates to the 
 families of Pitman, Sanders, Nichols (Plaisted) ; Hall (Parker, 
 Brownell, Pearce, Babcock, Peckham, Clarke, Gould, Coggeshall, 
 Freeborn, Boomer). The appendix, pp. 56-80, contains a number 
 of genealogical facts relative to the Thurstons and Pitmans. 
 
 Viewed as a book intended to trace the ancestry of two persons 
 now living, it is well executed, and will prove very suggestive to 
 those interested in the allied families above enumerated. 
 
 [The MuDGE Family.] pp. 8. 1865. 
 
 This is a preliminary essay designed to call the attention of members 
 of the family to the proposed history of the family, projected by Alfred 
 Mudge of Boston. The first two pages contain a letter explaining the 
 plan, and six pages contain the Connecticut branch of the Mudges. 
 The author has evidently been assiduous in collecting facts, which 
 will be duly examined in the completed volume.
 
 204 American Genealogist. 
 
 1866. 
 
 Genealogy of the McKinstry Family, with a Prehmin- 
 ary Essay on the Scotch-Irish Immigration to 
 America. By WilUam WilHs of Portland, Me. 
 Second Edition : corrected and enlarged. Portland : 
 printed by David Tucker. 1866. 8vo. pp. 46. 
 
 As we have already noticed this work, it will sufl&ce to state that 
 in this new edition the essay is but slightly changed. The genealo- 
 gies have been corrected and con.=>iderably augmented, so that 
 members of the family before omitted here resume their proper place. 
 The additions are sufl&cient to add materially to the value of this 
 edition. 
 
 Notes upon the Ancestry of William Hutchinson and 
 Anna Marbury. From researches recently made 
 in England. By Joseph Lemuel Chester, Member 
 of the New England Historic-Genealogical Society. 
 Boston : printed by D. Clapp & Son. 1866. 4to. 
 pp. 24. 
 
 In this book, closely compacted with facts, Mr Chester has per- 
 formed the thankless but necessary work of tracing the true origin 
 of one of the most famous families of New England. 
 
 From the day that Anne Hutchinson commenced her expound- 
 ings until the time when the once respected aud trusted governor 
 sailed from his native land, this family of Hutchinson had been 
 among the most favored of the colony. Wealth, rank, influence had 
 been the portion of successive generations, and had in truth been 
 merited by the ability of many of the race. It has been a common 
 opinion that they were of good family in England before the emigra- 
 tion, since there was a family of gentry to which the American race 
 was supposed to be traced. Mr. Chester, however, in investigating 
 the history of another branch, has discovered the true pedigree, 
 and shown the improbability of any such connection. 
 
 He finds that the emigrant, William, who was the son of Edward 
 Hutchinson, was the grandson of a John Hutchinson, mayor of 
 Lincoln in 1556 and 1565. This John was the youngest of four
 
 American Genealogist. 205 
 
 brothers, of whom William was also mayor of Lincoln in 1552, and 
 Christopher, a clergyman. Their father's name cannot be ascer- 
 tained, and Mr. Chester adds, that he was certainly of a very hum- 
 ble rank in life. It is the more surprising since the Hutchinsons 
 here used coats-of-arms in the most conspicuous way, and one 
 branch now represented by the Hely-Hutchinson family, earls of 
 Donoughmore, carry them in the first quarter. 
 
 On the other hand, it is sbown that the wife of the emigrant, 
 Anne Hutchinson, who is one of the typical women of New Eng- 
 land, was of gentle descent. Her father was Rev. Francis Marbury 
 of Grisby, Co. Lincoln, of a family of good position there; and her 
 mother was Bridget, daughter of John Dryden, of Canons Ashby, 
 Co. Northampton. Erasmus Dryden, grandfather of the poet, was 
 brother of this Bridget, and was created a baronet in 1619. 
 
 The whole essay is replete with information, and is in most wel- 
 come and striking contrast to the vague and meagre accounts which 
 comprise the bulk of English genealogies. The recital of the 
 various steps by which the pedigree was made out, is full of interest, 
 and the field has evidently been so patiently and thoroughly 
 examined that the future investigator will glean but a scanty return. 
 
 Eecords of the Descendants of Hugh Clark of Wa- 
 tertown, Mass., 1640-1866. By John Clark, A. 
 B. Boston : printed for the Author. 1866. Svo, 
 pp. 260. 
 
 The name of Clai'k is quite common in New England, and a 
 glance at Savage's Dictionary shows that there were many emigrants 
 of the name, probably not relatives. In the present very handsome 
 volume we have the record of the descendants of Hugh Clark of 
 Watertown, of whose ancestry nothing is known. 
 
 The volume is well arranged, thoroughly indexed and beautifully 
 printed ; it contains many biographies, and records of families allied 
 to the Clarks ; and it is in all respects worthy a place among the 
 best of our family histories. 
 
 The portraits contained in the volume are those of John (the 
 author), Simpson, John (of Waltham), Jonas, James W., Harvey K., 
 Luther, Dr. Henry Gr., Eev. Benjamin F., Benjamin, Peter, Wil-
 
 206 American Genealogist. 
 
 Ham, Luther K., George Jr., Charles P. Clark Jr., and Mrs. H. 
 D. C. Gilmore. 
 
 The book is from the press of Alfred Mudge & Son, Boston. On 
 the cover is impressed a Clark coat-of-arms, but the author with 
 commendable frankness says that he has no authority for it, beyond 
 the fact that copies have been in the family for the past seventy 
 years. Of course this it not a sufficient title for its assumption here. 
 
 A Preliminary Investigation of the Alleged Ancestry 
 of George Washington, First President of the 
 United States of America : exposing a serious error 
 in the existing Pedigree. By Joseph Lemuel Ches- 
 ter, Honorary Member of the New England Historic- 
 Genealogical Society, and the Essex Archasological 
 Society of England, Member of the Historical 
 Society of Pennsylvania, the Surrey Archaeological 
 Society of England, etc. Author of the Life of John 
 Kogers, the Marian Protomartyr, etc. Reprinted 
 from the Herald and Genealogist, London, and the 
 Heraldic Journal, Boston. Boston : H. W. Button 
 & Son, printers, 92, Washington street. 1866. 8vo. 
 pp. -io. 
 
 This most interesting and valuable communication was made first 
 to the English magazine above cited, then issued as a pamphlet of 
 15 pages with the imprint, " Westminster : Nichols & Sons, printers, 
 25 Parliament street, 1866 ; " then published here in a magazine 
 and reissued as a pamphlet, but without alteration or addition. 
 
 It is very interesting, since it completely disproves the false 
 pedigree of the Washingtons which was published by Baker in his 
 History of JVorthamptonshire, and since copied by innumerable 
 writers. It was supposed that John and Lawrence Washington, the 
 emigrants to Virginia, were sons of Lawrence W. of Sulgrave, whose 
 ancestry was well known. 
 
 Mr. Chester proves, on the contrary, that of these two sons of 
 Lawrence Washington, John was knighted January 17, 1622-3, 
 married Mary Curtis, 1621, was of Thrapston, and in 1678 left a 
 widow Dorothy. His first wife's monument is still standing in the
 
 Amekican Genealogist. 207 
 
 church at Islip, and mentions her three sons, Mordaunt, John, and 
 Philip. 
 
 On the other hand, John of Virginia says in his will in 1675, that 
 lie brought his first wife from England, that she died in Virginia, 
 and was buried on his plantation, and his second wife, Anne, was his 
 executrix. Evidently he was not the Sir John, nor is there any 
 probability that he was the son of the knight, as that son was in 
 England in 1662. 
 
 Again the Lawrence, son of Lawrence of Sulgrave, was a clergy- 
 man, and had the living of Purleigh in Essex. He was ejected in 
 in 1643, but undoubtedly remained in that neighborhood after the 
 restoration. He cannot, therefore, be the Virginian planter. 
 
 It seems, therefore, that the Washingtons are, like the great 
 majority of families in this country, unable to prove an English 
 pedigree. On examination, it seems that George Washington never 
 asserted more than that his ancestors were said to have come from 
 the north of England ; but English genealogists, misled by the coin- 
 cidence of names, invented the pedigree hitherto accepted. 
 
 Mr. Chester hopes to discover the true pedigree yet; but in the 
 meantime he is entitled to our thanks for having exposed the mis- 
 takes of his predecessors in a manner so thorough and convincing. 
 
 The Bergen Family: or the Descendants of Hans 
 Hansen Bergen, one of the early settlers of New 
 York and Brooklyn, L. I. With notes on the 
 Genealogy of some of the branches of the Cowen- 
 hoven Voorhees, Eldert, Stoothoof, Cortelyou, Stry- 
 ker, Suydam, Lott, WyckoflP, Barkeloo, Lefferts, 
 Martense, Hubbard, Van Brunt, Vanderbilt, Van- 
 derveer, Van Nuyse, and other Long Island Families. 
 By Teunis G. Bergen. New York : Bergen & Tripp, 
 114 Nassau street. 1866. 8vo. pp. 302. 
 
 It is not easy to criticise a work whose elements are so unlike 
 those of ordinary genealogies. The Dutch method of nomenclature 
 is so different from our own, that the smartest Yankee might well 
 despair of ever compiling a pedigree from such records as remain 
 of the first European settlers in New York. Mr. Bergen, however,
 
 208 American Genealogist. 
 
 seems perfectly at home in these mysteries, and has transcribed and 
 transformed them into simple English. The work is evidently the 
 result of patient examination, and despite the strange names in the 
 earlier generations, it can be easily understood and enjoyed. We 
 are especially glad to see this commencement in a hitherto neglected 
 department of our genealogy, and hope it will incite others to 
 attempt similar tasks. 
 
 As the title page shows, the notes contain much information in 
 regard to other families, and have been prepared with the same 
 care which characterizes the test. 
 
 The Hastings Memorial. A Genealogical Account of 
 the Descendants of Thomas Hastings of Watertown, 
 Mass. From 1634 to 1864. With an Appendix 
 and Index. Boston : Samuel G. Drake, publisher, 
 13 Bromfield street. 1866. 8vo. pp. 183. 
 
 This book contains the record of the progeny of Thomas Hast- 
 ings who was one of the principal settlers at Watertown, being 
 town clerk and representative. The author intimates that he was 
 allied to the noble family of the name, which enjoyed the title of 
 Huntington. We need hardly add that not a single word of proof 
 is added, and the claim may be summarily dismissed. 
 
 The book contains a great amount of information concerning the 
 Hastings family and others connected with it. It is to be regretted, 
 however, that the author did not follow one of the well known and 
 approved modes of arrangement, as, by so doing, he would have 
 added much to the value of his book. It possesses, however, a good 
 index, and is a work of substantial value. 
 
 [Genealogy of a part of the Ripley Family, compiled 
 by H. W. Ripley, Harlem, N. Y.] 8vo. pp. 7. 
 
 This is a little sketch of one branch of the descendants of William 
 Ripley of Hingham, Mass. -It is of course of very little importance, 
 but the dates are full and exact. Another edition was published 
 the succeeding year.
 
 American Genealogist. 209 
 
 Genealogy of the Stone Family, originating in Rhode 
 Island. By Richard C. Stone. Providence : Knowles, 
 Anthony & Co., printers. 1866. pp. 193. 
 
 In this book are traced the descendants of Hugh Stone of War- 
 wick, E,. I., 1665, who married Abigail Busecot, and had four sons. 
 The family record occupies 86 pages, and is defective in two import- 
 ant particulars; first, only the year is given in all the dates; and 
 secondly, the arrangement is very poor. On the other hand we 
 have p. 87-181, nearly one hundred pages of biographical notes, 
 and a good index. It may be considered as a useful book, of the 
 second class in our gradation. The illustrations are portraits of the 
 author, of James L. Stone, Pardon M. Stone, and Asa Stone. 
 
 The Gale Family Records in England and the United 
 States : to which are added, the Tottenham Family 
 of New England, and some account of the Bogardus, 
 Waldron, and Young Families of New York. By 
 George Gale, LL.D. Gales ville, Wisconsin : Leith 
 k Gale, printers. 1866. 16mo. pp. 254. 
 
 The first twenty-two pages of this book are filled with various 
 notes about persons of thename in England, but there is no pretence 
 of any connection between them and the emigrant, Richard Gale of 
 Watertown, in 1640. The record of his descendants is extensive, 
 the dates are given in full, and the biographical sketches are numer- 
 ous and interesting. 
 
 The author was born in Burlington, Vt., studied law, and removed 
 to Wisconsin in 1841. In 1853 he bought land and founded the 
 town of Galesville, and was the principal founder and patron of 
 Galesville University, of which he was the first pi-esident. He 
 received on resigning that position the honorary degree of LL.D., 
 and from the Vermont University that of A.M., in 1857. 
 
 The Tottenhams are traced to Henry of Woburo, 1646, and 
 their genealogy covers pp. 173-181. The Bogardus family record 
 is on pp. 182-187. Pp. 188-241 are devoted to another family of 
 Gales springing from Edmond Gale of Cambridge and Boston, 1634. 
 
 The illustrations are portraits of George Gale, Nahum Gale, 
 George W. Gale, and John F. Henry. 
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 210 American Genealogist. 
 
 1867. 
 
 Life and Letters of John Winthrop, from his embark- 
 ation for New England in 1630, with the Charter 
 and Company of the Massachusetts Bay, to his 
 Death in 1649. By Robert C. Winthrop. Boston : 
 Ticknor & Fields. 1867. 8vo. pp. 483. 
 
 This is the second and concluding volume of Mr. Winthrop's 
 biography of his distinguished ancestor. In it he has of course made 
 use of the journal heretofore published under the title of the His- 
 tory of New England, but he has also been able to draw largely 
 upon hitherto unknown manuscripts. The history of the colony 
 during its most trying period, when it was struggling for existence 
 is fully examined and narrated, and no one can claim a clear under- 
 standing of the rise and progress of the settlement, who has not 
 attentively perused this volume. 
 
 The publication of these volumes, and the collections of papers 
 addressed to Winthrop, have been the cause of a revival and fuller 
 recognition of his merits. It is now evident that he was indeed a 
 man born to exert an influence upon the human race, which seems 
 now iacalculable. The more we learn of his acts and intentions, the 
 more we are impressed with the greatness of his mental ability and 
 his religious fervor. A Puritan or reformer within the Church of 
 England, his greatest opponent Roger Williams quarreled with him 
 because Winthrop would not be a Separatist. Inheriting a good 
 estate and social position, well educated and highly connected, 
 esteemed by his associates and those men of no ordinary abilities, so 
 situated that in England he might have anticipated a career of use- 
 fulness in the ways most consonant with his own convictions of duty, 
 he yet accepted the responsibility, and placed himself at the head of 
 the movement which was destined to result in the foundation of this 
 Western empire. 
 
 The proof is clear that for a time the fate of the scheme of 
 colonization hung trembling in the balance, and nothing less than 
 the accession of one so qualified by worth and station, could have 
 insured its success.
 
 American Genealogist. 211 
 
 Whoever reflects upon the immense influence which the settlement 
 of New England has had upon the whole subsequent histoi'v of the 
 country, will concede that the leader and father of the Massachusetts 
 colony must forever be the foremost figure in our early annals. 
 
 It is indeed fortunate that at the time when the materials for a 
 proper biography were discovered, there was a writer so competent 
 for the task, so nearly allied to the governor as to esteem it a pious 
 duty. Mr. Winthrop's ability is too well known to render it necessary 
 for us to say more than that he has left nothing to be desired. 
 
 A Sketch of "William Beardsley : one of the original 
 settlers of Stratford, Conn., and a Record of his 
 Descendants to the third generation ; and of some 
 who bear his name to the present time. By E. 
 Edwards Beardsley, D.D., Rector of St. Thomas's 
 Church, New Haven. New Haven : Bassett & 
 Barnett. 1867. 8vo. pp. 32. 
 
 The author of this genealogy is favorably known by his History 
 of the Episcopal Church in Connecticut^ and it was during the prepa- 
 ration of that volume that he was led to investigate his own pedigree. 
 
 The ancestor of this line was William Beardsley of Stratford, and 
 a number of his descendants are recorded. It does not profess to 
 give all of the family, and will not prevent others from making a 
 more extensive history of the family. Within its prescribed limits 
 the work seems carefully executed. 
 
 Monumental Memorials of the Appleton Family. 
 [Arms.] Boston : privately printed. 1867. 4to. pp. 
 29. 
 
 Of this very beautiful volume, compiled by Dr. John Appleton, 
 only 150 copies were printed. The idea is quite original, as the 
 book consists of engravings of various monuments and tomb stones, 
 with biographical notes, the folios being printed on one side only. 
 The list is as follows : Appleton Chapel, Cambridge ; Little Wald- 
 ingfield Church, Eng., mural tablet there; and tombstones of Col. 
 Samuel, 1696; Mary, his wife, 1697; Capt. John, 1699; Mary,
 
 212 American Genealogist. 
 
 wife of Samuel, 1710; John, 1724; Col. Samuel, 1725; Benjamin, 
 1731; Hon. John, 1739, his wife and two grand-children ; Major 
 Isaac, 1747, and wife Priscilla, 1731; Eev. Nathaniel, 1734; Isaac 
 1774, and wife Elizabeth, 1785; Rev. Joseph, 1795; John, 1802; 
 Samuel, 1819 ; Eev. Jesse, 1819; William Sullivan, 1836; Samuel, 
 1853 ; Samuel (mural tablet in King's chapel) ; Nathan, 1861 ; 
 William, 1862, and his family; and James, 1862. The last page is 
 a view of St. Stephen's Chapel, Boston, built and endowed by 
 William Appleton. 
 
 These memorials are very interesting, and show that the Appletona 
 were not only of good stock in England, but that they have been 
 distinguished and valuable citizens here. The great merchants of 
 the name of the last generation have passed away so recently that 
 their good deeds are still fresh in our recollections. 
 
 Memoir of Marshall P. Wilder. By John H. Shep- 
 pard, A.M., Librarian. From the New England 
 Historical and GenealogicalRegister for April, 1867. 
 Boston : David Clapp & Son, printers, 334 Wash- 
 ington street. 1867. 8vo. pp. 54. 
 
 The greater portion of this pamphlet is devoted to the memoir of 
 Marshall P. Wilder, an excellent portraitjof whom faces the title page. 
 Mr. Wilder has held high political offices, but his chief fame is owing 
 to his zeal for horticulture, in which department he ranks among 
 the most learned and earnest. His various speeches and addresses 
 have been availed of by his biographer, and show with what per- 
 sistence Mr. Wilder has labored to advance his favorite science. 
 
 The last four pages contain a brief genealogy tracing the family 
 to a widow Martha Wilder of Hingham, 1638. 
 
 Ancestry of Mary Oliver, who lived 1640-1698, and 
 was wife of Samuel Appleton of Ipswich. By 
 William S. Appleton. Cambridge : press of John 
 Wilson & Son. 1867. royal 8vo. pp. 36. 
 
 In many respects this very handsome volume is a curiosity. It 
 contains the English pedigree of John Oliver who came to this 
 country and died early, leaving an only child, Mary. The name thus
 
 American Genealogist. 213 
 
 ceased from our records, and his posterity can be traced only through 
 the Appletons. It is proved that John was the son of James, grand- 
 son of John, and great-grandson of Thomas Oliver of Bristol who 
 died in 1557. In evidence thereof we find extracts from the records 
 of the parishes in Bristol, and the wills of Simon, Thomas, John, 
 Elizabeth (Ham), James, and Francis Oliver, the record of the appren- 
 ticing of John, and an affidavit by him dated here, in which he 
 styles himself late of the city of Bristol. The appendix shows the 
 probability that the wife of John Oliver was Joanna, daughter of 
 Percival Lowell; and three tabular pedigrees of the Olivers, Carys, 
 and Lowells complete the volume. 
 
 The wills are printed in full, and proper types are used to mark 
 the contractions employed in the old manuscripts; a typographical 
 nicety which we do not remember to have seen in any other Ameri- 
 can genealogy. In all its details it reflects great credit upon the 
 author, and we trust will be followed soon by other similar works. 
 
 It should be noted that there is no probable connection between 
 this family and other settlers of the name. 
 
 Glover Memorials and Genealogies. An Account of 
 John Glover of Dorchester and his Descendants. 
 With a brief sketch of some of the Glovers who 
 first settled in New Jersey, Virginia and other 
 places. By Anna Glover. Boston : David Clapp 
 & Son, printers. 1867. 8vo. pp. 602. 
 
 The first twenty-eight pages of this book comprise various mis- 
 cellaneous notes about English Glovers, of very little value to any 
 one. On p. 29 begins an account of the Glovers of Rainhill, parish 
 in Prescott, Co. Lane, Eng., and it appears that Thomas, who owned 
 land there, and whose will is dated in 1619, was the father of John 
 the emigrant. John Glover was one of the Massachusetts company, 
 and is often mentioned on its records. He settled at Dorchester, 
 and was evidently one of the gentry, being styled Mr. and gentle- 
 man. 
 
 On pp. 51 -3, we find a deed recorded in our Sufi"olk registry of 
 John Glover of Dorchester to his son, Thomas, of the lands in 
 Rainhill, which he had inherited from his father, Thomas.
 
 214 American Genealogist. 
 
 Up to p. 80, we have a full record of the various estates in this 
 country owned by John Glover, who must have ranked among the 
 wealthiest land owners here. Pp. 81 - 99, relate to Thomas Grlover, 
 son of John who remained in England; pp. 99-148, the descend- 
 ants of Habackuk Glover through his only daughter Rebecca; pp. 
 149 - 162, refer to John Glover who was married but died s. p. ; pp. 
 162 - 452 to Nathaniel Glover who had two sons and one daughter, 
 and numerous descendants thereby; pp. 453 - 502, treats of Rev. 
 Peletiah Glover and his issue, which was hardly one-twentieth of 
 Nathaniel's. 
 
 Of these five sons of the emigrant, four left issue, and as the 
 author writes on p. 502, she has recorded 2,180 persons, viz : 
 descendants of Thomas, 21 ; of Habackuk, 152; of Nathaniel, 1,911; 
 and of Peletiah, 96. 
 
 Pp. 505 - 546, relate to Henry Glover of Milton, a brother of John 
 and his descendants, 383 in number; pp. 546 - 559, give a presumed 
 branch of the same; pp. 550-553, are filled with the record of the 
 New Jersey family, recent emigrants ; pp. 554-579, refer to Ralph 
 Glover of Watertown, Rev. Joseph of Cambridge, Richard of Vir- 
 ginia, and a few other scattered families. The additions and index 
 complete the volume. 
 
 We must give the writer of this volume high praise for the 
 thorough manner in which the task has been performed. The 
 evidence is conclusive of extensive search and incessant labor, and 
 we can recall no genealogy possessing more original documents in 
 support of every assertion. Deeds, wills and inventories abound, 
 and as the Glovers by name comprise so small a proportion of the 
 whole, many other families will find this a storehouse of history. 
 
 We must criticise the heraldic portion, as the author was evidently 
 not familiar with the subject.'- She has given an engraving of 
 Glover arms, and we feel confident that the London branch at 
 least must have had a coat. Yet she nowhere gives the requisite 
 proof of its use by any of the family, and the opinion of the late 
 Mr. Cole, cited by her, will provoke only incredulity in the minds 
 of the present generation. The subject is interesting and deserves 
 a fuller investigation.
 
 American Genealogist. 215 
 
 [Descent of the Family of Whitmore.] 8vo. pp. 12. 
 
 This is a reprint from the Herald and Genealogist published 
 in London. It is an attempt to trace a family of the name settled 
 at Whitmore in Staffordshire, a county whose local history has 
 been strangely neglected. The fticts were nearly all communicated 
 to me by an English antiquary who preferred not to appear in his 
 own person. The pedigree was constructed from the higliest au- 
 thorities and has not been questioned. 
 
 I would, however, say here that no connection has yet been traced 
 between the American families and those in England. All that the 
 above pamphlet contains is of antiquarian interest solely. The 
 Bubject has been further discussed in the fourth volume of the same 
 magazine. 
 
 Sawin : Summary notes concerning John Sawin, and 
 his Posterity. By Thomas E. Sawin. Wendell: 
 published by the Author. Athol Depot : Rufus Put- 
 
 . nam, printer. 1867. Svo. pp. 48. 
 
 The ancestor of all of this name in New England, was John 
 Sawin of Watertown 1652, son of Robert Sawin of Bosford, Co. 
 Suffolk, Eng. He married the daughter of George Munnings, and 
 had three sons. This record seems to contain a fair account of the 
 descendants. The plan of arrangement is not the best, and the 
 dates are given in years only; a great mistake. 
 
 The Descendants of John Piicenix, an early settler in 
 
 Kittery, Maine. By S. Whitney Phoenix 
 
 New York : Privately printed. 1867. pp.53. 
 
 The name here given to this family is confessedly merely a cor- 
 ruption of the well known English name of Fenwick. In this 
 volume the author has traced as many of the descendants of John 
 Fenwick of Kittery, as could be found. He promises another edi- 
 tion in case he should receive additional facts, and also two more 
 volumes given respectively to the families of Alexander Phoenix of 
 New York, and John Phoenix of New Jersey.
 
 216 American Genealogist. 
 
 To the mechanical execution of the work, of which 100 copies 
 8vo, and 5 quarto were printed at the Bradstreet press, too much 
 praise can hardly be given. It is printed on one side only of each 
 leaf, and is a most beautiful specimen of the art typographical. 
 
 Mr. Phoenix has shown not only his taste in this book, but a 
 strong interest in genealogy, and capability of preparing a family 
 history. We trust his other volumes will soon be issued. 
 
 An Account of some of the Descendants of Capt. 
 Thomas Brattle, Compiled by Edward Doubleday 
 Harris. 1867. 4to. pp. 90. 
 
 The name of Brattle figures largely in the annals of Massachusetts 
 for four generations, when it disappears with the failure of the male 
 line. Descendants through female lines are, however, quite numei*- 
 ous, and in this charming little volume, Mr. Harris has given a 
 very copious account of the family. 
 
 The first of the name here was Thomas Brattle, who was esteemed 
 the wealthiest man of New England at the time of his death in 1683. 
 He left sons, Thomas, William, and Edward ; of whom Thomas was 
 Treasurer of Harvard and F.R.S.j he died unmarried. Rev. 
 William of Cambridge died in 1727, leaving an only son, William. 
 Edward died in 1719, probably without surviving issue. 
 
 William Brattle, the only grandson of the name, was brigadier 
 general and member of the council. He was a royalist and went 
 with the British troops to Halifax, where he died in 1776, leaving 
 one son and one daughter. The son, Thomas Brattle, last of the 
 name, was in Europe when the revolution began, but was strongly in 
 favor of the Americans. After the war he returned to America, and 
 recovered much of his father's estate. He died unmarried in 1801. 
 
 The daughters of the family married into the most distinguished 
 families here, and Mr. Harris has traced the various branches most 
 successfully. As was said in noticing the author's Vassall Genea- 
 logy, the book is crowded with facts, and must have caused him 
 great labor in accumulating so many interesting items. 
 
 The engraving of the Brattle arms shows the coat they used for 
 Feveral generations, and undoubtedly they had good warrant for so 
 doing.
 
 American Genealogist. 217 
 
 A Genealogy of the Peabody Family, as compiled by 
 the Late C. M. Eiidicott, of Salem. Revised and 
 corrected by William S. Peabody, of Salem. With 
 a partial Record of the Rhode Island Branch, by 
 
 B. Frank Pabodie of Providence Boston : 
 
 David Clapp & Son, printers of the New England His- 
 torical and Genealogical Register, 334: Washington 
 street. 1867. 8vo. pp. Gl. 
 
 This is professedly based upon the first edition of 1849, but with 
 corrections and additions. It is indeed a very good record of the 
 descendants of Francis Peabody who came here in 1634, probably 
 from St. Albans, Co. Hertford, Eng. He became a large land- 
 holder, and the family has been quite prominent in Essex county. 
 Pp. 54 - 80 of the volume are devoted to an account of the family of 
 John Paybody of Plymouth, who is said to have been the father of 
 the above Francis, though we do not see the proof given. It is 
 intended only as a preliminary sketch. 
 
 We must demur, however, to the Peabody coat of arms of which 
 a colored engraving is given, as we see no authority therefor. Pp. 
 1 and 2 indeed contain a repetition of the absurd fable palmed off 
 on some member of the family by one of the innumerable spurious 
 heraldry ofiices in London, in 1796. We find no arms recorded in 
 Burke as ever having belonged to any one of the name, and the 
 lack of an English pedigree or any proof of the use of arms, is 
 conclusive against the right of the American family to use any coat 
 of arms. 
 
 The Coleman Family, Descendants of Thomas Cole- 
 man, in line of the oldest son. IX Generation. 
 1598 to 1867, 269 years. Philadelphia: J. B. 
 Lippincott & Co. 1867. 8vo. pp. 24. 
 
 Although published in Philadelphia, this is the history of a New 
 England family, the progenitor being Thomas Coleman of Wethers- 
 field, Conn., 1636. His descendants have been numerous in Con- 
 necticut and Western Massachusetts, and a good proportion of them 
 are here printed. The record is well arranged, and will prove ac- 
 ceptable to all interested in the name. 
 28
 
 218 American Gtenealogist. 
 
 Genealogy and History of the Wellmans of New 
 England. By James Wellman. Salem : printed 
 at the Observer Office. 1867. 12mo. pp. 68. 
 
 The age of the author, eighty-five years, renders this little volume 
 quite a curiosity of literature, and disarms hostile criticism. The 
 book is rather a collection of material than a formal genealogy, being 
 largely composed of letters and accounts of scattered branches. It 
 contains, however, a great many facts which are worth preservation. 
 
 A Golden Wedding, and the Dinsmore Genealogy, 
 from about 16'20 to 1865. Augusta : printed at the 
 Maine Farmer Office. 1867. 8vo. pp. 24. 
 
 The golden wedding was celebrated in Anson, Me., Sept. 10, 
 1865, in honor of Mr. Arthur and Mrs. Patty Dinsmore. The 
 genealogy begins with a traditional account of the Dinsmores, who 
 seem to have been a part of the Scotch-Irish colony at London- 
 derry, N. H. 
 
 The genealogy prepared by J. Dinsmore of Winslow, Me., seems 
 tolerably full, though lacking many essential dates. It is computed 
 that Arthur, son of David of Londonderry, had 8 children, 72 
 grandchildren, 199 great-grandchildren, and already 108 in the 
 next generation. 
 
 History of the Champney Family, containing Bio- 
 graphical Sketches, Letters, Reminiscences, etc. Il- 
 lustrated. Chicago: P. L. Hanscom & Co., printers. 
 1867. 8vo. pp. 76. 
 
 The author, Julius B. Champney, makes the excuse that he has 
 been more familiar with machinery than composition, and this book 
 is an unpretending attempt to note down facts of family history 
 which have transpired within the past two generations. He traces the 
 family directly from Richard Champney of Cambridge, 1634, to the 
 sixth generation when Ebenezer C. removed to New Ipswich. He 
 was a judge of probate there, and the author is his grandson. 
 
 The illustrations are a view of the judge's house, and two other
 
 American Genealogist. 219 
 
 homesteads, portraits of the author and his brother and sister, and a 
 cut of Champney arms. 
 
 As the author refers in mistake, though in evident good faith, to 
 the family arms, we must warn him that there is not an atom of 
 evidence to warrant their use. Until he has traced the family of 
 Richard in England, and found them using arms there, no mere 
 coincidence of names is a sufficient reason for descendants here to 
 use them. Possibly an early use here would justify it, but there is 
 no evidence of this, and the family will be wise in avoiding the 
 assumption of these arms. 
 
 r 
 
 Genealogy of a part of the Ripley Family, compiled 
 by H. W. Ripley. " One generation passeth away, 
 and another generation cometh." Newark, N. J. : 
 A. Stephen Holbrook, printer, No. 3 Mechanic 
 street. 1867. 12mo. pp. 48. 
 
 The preceding edition of this has been already noted. The 
 ancestor of the family was William Ripley of Hingham who had 
 two sons, and as the family of one son is not found, the five grand- 
 sons are each taken as heads of separate lines. The record seems 
 carefully made and as full as the author could find the material to 
 make it. On p. 38 begins the record of the family of William 
 Ripley whose origin is unknown. He was an early settler at West 
 Bridgewater, Mass., and left a numerous progeny. 
 
 Genealogy of a Branch of the Metcalf Family, who 
 originated in West Wrentham, Mass. ; with their 
 Coiniections by Marriage. Prepared by E. W. 
 Metcalf for distribution at the celebration of the 
 ninetieth birthday of Caleb Metcalf, 23 July, 1867. 
 8vo. pp. 12. 
 
 The family is traced to Michael Metcalf, born at Tatterford, Co. 
 Norfolk in 1586. He was of Dedham in 1687, and his descendants 
 six generations later were Caleb M. here noticed and his brothers 
 and gisters. The whole of the next generation seems to be recorded, 
 and as a special task for a particular occasion it seems well executed.
 
 220 American Genealogist. 
 
 A Genealogy of the Fenton Family, Descendants of 
 Robert Fenton, an Early Settler of Ancient Wind- 
 ham, Conn., (now Mansfield) compiled by William 
 L. Weaver, Editor of the Willimantic Journal, Wil- 
 limantic, Conn. 1867. 8vo. pp. 34. 
 
 Robert Fenton of Woburn, 1688, seems to have been the founder 
 of the family here noticed. About 1694 he removed to Windham, 
 and in that vicinity his descendants remained, as the careful inves- 
 tigations of Mr. Weaver show. One branch removed to Chautauqua, 
 N. Y., and^here in 1819 was born Reuben Eaton Fenton, who has 
 been governor of New York, and undoubtedly the most distinguished 
 member of the family. 
 
 Mr. Weaver had become favorably known as a thorough genealo- 
 gist, and the present volume wafe in all respects highly creditable to 
 him ; his death will be a serious loss to genealogists. 
 
 [Notice of some of the Descendants of Joseph Pope of 
 Salem. By Henry Wheatland.] 4to. pp. 14. 1867. 
 
 This is a reprint from the Historical Collections of the Essex 
 Institute, and is a thorough account of the descendants of one of the 
 early settlers at Salem. The records of Essex county have been 
 thoroughly examined by various members of the Institute, but here- 
 tofore not many genealogies have been published of a size suflScient 
 to warrant a separate issue. It is to be hoped that this careful and 
 well arranged pamphlet will have many successors. 
 
 Memoir of Colonel John Allan, an Officer of the 
 Revolution, born in Edinburgh Castle, Scotland, Jan. 
 3, 1746. Died in Lubec, Maine, Feb., 7. 1805. With 
 a Genealogy by George H. Allan, of New York. 
 Albany : Joel Munsell. 1867. 8vo. pp. 32. 
 
 Colonel William Allan was an officer to whom the country was 
 greatly indebted for his success in securing the neutrality of the 
 Indians on the borders of Maine. Mr. Frederic Kidder has lately 
 given a full history of the transaction, and we need only note the
 
 American Genealogist. 221 
 
 fact. Allan was the son of an English officer who was employed in 
 Nova Scotia and eventually settled there in Cumberland county. 
 
 The genealogy is quite exact in dates, and as its starting point is 
 so recent, it probably contains nearly all the descendants of William 
 Allan. 
 
 History of tlie Bill Family. Edited by Ledyard 
 
 Bill 75 Fulton street. New York. 1867. 
 
 8vo. pp. 368. 
 
 This large volume was prepared solely for the family, and the 
 author claims an immunity from criticism therefor. It is, however, 
 totally unnecessary. When we say that the connection of the early 
 settlers and their relation to their supposed English ancestor are 
 perhaps stated in too positive words, the proofs being very slight, 
 we have found all the fault we can with it. In other respects the 
 hook is very good. It is admirably arranged and handsomely 
 printed, and it contains a great amount of biography. 
 
 The documents cited are often printed in full, and the book is 
 enriched by numerous photographic portraits. We presume the 
 Bill coat of arms figures on the title page through misapprehension, 
 as the present state of the pedigree does not warrant its use. 
 
 [Pedigree of Chase.] p. 1. 
 
 This sheet is signed Nahum Chase, Albany, April 3, 1867. It is 
 a letter addressed to his son, and giving him an account of his 
 ancestors by the name of Chase. Of course it is of value only to 
 one branch of the family, but being a distinct publication it has 
 claimed a place here. 
 
 Genealogy of the Van Brunt Family 1653-1867. 
 By Teunis G. Bergen, Bay Ridge, New Utrecht, N. 
 Y. Albany: Joel Munsell. 1867. 8vo. pp. 79. 
 
 As we have said in relation to the Bergen family, the record of 
 one of the old Dutch families of New York takes us into regions 
 hitherto unexplored. The family seems to have thriven vigorously 
 in the New World, and the members acquired both competency and
 
 222 American Genealogist, 
 
 consideration. We cannot of course criticise Mr. Bergen's accuracy, 
 but from his evident familiarity with the old records, and his care 
 in tracing and verifying facts, we feel assured that this is a very 
 full genealogy of the family. 
 
 A Genealogical Record of several families bearing' the 
 name of Cutler: in the United States. By Rev. 
 Abner Morse, A.M. Boston: Samuel G. Drake, 17 
 Bromfield street. 1867. 8vo. pp. 80. 
 
 The late Abner Morse was engaged in publishing this book at 
 the time of his decease, and as the printing had been begun it was 
 decided to complete it, though it was thus deprived of the author's 
 corrections of the proofs. The book contains four chapters, each 
 devoted to a family as follows: 1st, pp. 4-14, John Cutler or De 
 Mumaker, of Hingham and Boston; 2d, pp. 15-40, John Cutler of 
 Hingham; 3d, pp. 41-46, Robert Cutler of Charlestown; 4th, pp. 
 47 - 80, James Cutler of Watertown and Lexington. The first John 
 was a physician from Holland, who translated his name into English; 
 the others are doubtless of English origin. Robert Cutler was the 
 ancestor of Rev. Timothy Cutler, president of Yale College 1719, 
 who became an Episcopalian, was ordained and settled at Christ 
 Church, Boston, Mass. 
 
 A Genealogy of a Fiske Family. Sixteen Genera- 
 tions. Period 1399 - 1867. [From Historical Col- 
 lections of the Essex Institute. Vol. VIII, No. 3.] 
 Salem, Mass. : Published by the Essex Institute. 
 4to. pp. 20. 
 
 This a'ccount, prepared by Alfred Poor of Salem, contains the 
 descendants of William Fiske of Wenham, Mass., through his grand- 
 son Theophilus, which includes all his posterity of the name, who 
 are now residents of this county and vicinity. There is no doubt 
 that the family has been traced in England, though, owing to the 
 numerous branches, a few trifling mistakes may have occurred. 
 This portion of the pedigree and an engraving of the coat-of-arms 
 will be found in the Heraldic Journal for July, 1867.
 
 American Genealogist. 223 
 
 The American portion of the genealogy has been thoroughly 
 traced by Mr. Poor, who possesses an extensive knowledge of the 
 records of Essex county, and who has in this gi^ven us a favorable 
 specimen of his ability to prepare a good family history. 
 
 The FiSKE Family. A History of the Family (ances- 
 tral and Descendant) of William Fiske, Senr., of 
 Amherst, N.H., with Brief Notices of other Branches 
 springing from the same Ancestry. Second and 
 complete edition. Compiled and published by Albert 
 A. Fiske, a Descendant. Chicago, 111. 1867. 8vo. 
 pp. 209. 
 
 The first few pages of this book contain the English portion of 
 the genealogy, being mainly the same as that in Mr. Poor's account. 
 Several branches of the family, cousins more or less nearly allied, 
 settled in New England. William Fiske of Wenham, brother of 
 Rev. John F., had a son, "William, and grandson, Ebenezer. Dea. 
 Ebenezer was the father of William, who moved to Amherst, N. 
 H., in 1773-4, and to the family of this latter much of the volume 
 is devoted. In fact pp. 12-134, are given entirely to extensive 
 biographies of various members of the families of Jonathan and 
 William F., and the record is probably complete. Pp. 135-151, 
 treat of the persons who have intermarried with the family. As 
 we understand it, the first edition ended here, and this edition con- 
 tains the original pages with additional matter and a new title page. 
 Pp. 155-158, give the family of David Fiske; pp. 161-178 of 
 Ebenezer Fiske, the other two sons of William of Amherst. The 
 rest of the book is given to miscellaneous notes on other branches 
 of this very extensive family. 
 
 Genealogy of the Descendants of John Guild, Dedham, 
 Massachusetts. By Calvin Guild. Providence : 
 printed by the Providence Press Company. 1867. 
 12mo. pp. 132. 
 
 This little unpretending volume is the genealogical record of 
 upwards of twelve hundred persons, the descendants of John Guild, 
 who came from Scotland, and settled in Dedham about the year
 
 224 American Genealogist. 
 
 1636. It is in two parts, the first comprising the Dedham branch 
 of the fluuily, and the second, the Wrentham branch. The work 
 is well arranged, handsomely printed on heavy tinted paper, and 
 accompanied by a twofold index. The author has been engaged 
 more or less in the preparation of this volume for upwards of 
 twenty years, and the result is a genealogy deservedly to be placed 
 in the first rank. It is edited, as the preface shows, by Reuben A. 
 Gruild, Esq., Librarian of Brown University, and the author of 
 several important works, including a History of Brown University^ 
 recently published in a splendid quarto of 456 pages. 
 
 Genealogy of the Eastman Family, for the first four 
 generations. Compiled by Rev. Lucius Root East- 
 man, Amherst, Mass., member of the New England 
 Historic-Genealogical Society. Reprinted from the 
 New England Historical and Genealogical Register 
 for July, 18(37. Boston: David Clapp & Son, 334 
 Washington street. 1867. 8vo. pp. 11. 
 
 This is a history of a part of the descendants of Roger Eastman 
 of Salisbury, Mass. The dates are carefully given when obtained; 
 but the author requests members of the family to furnish additional 
 data, and we may hope for another edition. 
 
 The Genealogy of the Descendants of Richard Bailey, 
 an early settler of Rowley, Mass., including the 
 posterity of most of the females, and the ances- 
 tral lines of many of their husbands. By Alfred 
 Poor Salem, Mass. 1867. 4to. p. 90. 
 
 This was originally published as a part of the author's Records of 
 Merrimack Valley, pp. 77-167, though even in that form it had a 
 separate index. The title page fully explains the plan of the work, 
 and the book makes good its promise. Its pages are filled with 
 facts and it will be of service to many bearing names other than 
 Bailey.
 
 American Genealogist. 225 
 
 Memorial of the Descendants of the Hon. John Alden. 
 By Ebenezer Alden, M, D., member of the Ameri- 
 can Antiquarian Society, New England Historic- 
 Genealogical Societ}^, etc. Eandolph, Mass. : Printed 
 by Samuel P. Brown, for the family. 1867. 8vo. pp. 
 164. 
 
 This is a good account of one of the noted families of Plymouth 
 colony, and is strictly genealogical, containing very few biographies. 
 The system is not the best in use, but it enables the reader to trace 
 the several branches quite easily. The dates are given with preci- 
 sion when obtainable, and the index seems to have been carefully 
 prepared. Nothing has been found of the ancestry of the emigrant, 
 but his marriage will be remembered in history for many generations. 
 
 History of the Hart Family of Warminster, Buck's 
 county, Pennsylvania. To which is added the 
 Genealogy of the family from its first settlement in 
 America, by W. W. H. Davis. Privately printed. 
 1867. 8vo. pp. 139 and 20. 
 
 This book we are informed by a correspondent, is printed by the 
 author. Gen. W. W. Hart Davis at Doylestown, Buck's county. Pa., and 
 traces the family from John Hart, of Witney. Co. Oxford, Eng. 
 He was born Nov. 16, 1651, and came hither with William Penn 
 in Oct., 1682. The volume is embellished with an illuminated 
 plate of the Hart coat of arms. 
 
 1868. 
 
 Memorials : being a Genealogical, Biographical and 
 Historical Account of the name of Mudge, in Ame- 
 rica, from 1638 to 1868. By Alfred Mudge 
 
 Boston : printed by Alfred Mudge & Son. 1868. 
 8vo. pp. about 400. 
 
 As this work was nearly all printed in 18G7, we have thought it 
 best to place it at the head of the volumes for the current year. 
 The English portion of the record covers 24 pages, and gives informa- 
 29
 
 226 American Genealogist; 
 
 tion in regard to several families of the name, althougli no con- 
 nection is established with the emigrants. 
 
 The work of tracing the different families has been thoroughly 
 performed, and the book will be a welcome addition to our collec- 
 tions. Though not of especial mark, the different members of the 
 family seem to have been worthy members of society, and several 
 have been enrolled among the martyrs of the late war. 
 
 The volume is beautifully printed, and will contain a number of 
 engraved portraits. 
 
 A Genealogical account of the Towne Family, more 
 particularly of William Towne, of Cambridge, Mass., 
 in 1635 ; and of William Towne, of Yarmouth, Nor- 
 folk County, England, in 1620, and Salem, Essex 
 County, Mass., in 1640. By Wm. B. Towne. Bos- 
 ton: Privately printed. 1868. pp. about 75. 
 
 Like the Mudge genealogy this book has been nearly completed 
 in 1867, and may claim a place here. The ancestor of those bearing 
 the name in this country was William Towne of Yarmouth, who 
 had several children baptized there prior to his emigration. 
 
 The record seems full and precise in detail of dates, and will 
 comprise all the different branches of the family.
 
 ADDENDA. 
 
 [TJie existence of the foUoining eleven hooks was not discovered in season to 
 insert tJiere rieirs in the proper flaees. In addition, the following two are 
 prohahli/ extant, though we hace failed to procure copies: Dodd of New 
 Jersey (1864), and Elmer.'] 
 
 Report of a Search made in England for a Property 
 reported to belong to the Gibbs's in U. S. A., in the 
 years 1847-48, by Columbus Smith, Esq., Agent for 
 the Acting Gibbs Association of Vermont. Con- 
 taining a short History of the Gibbs's in England : 
 likewise several Genealosries of different branches of 
 the Gibbs Famil3^ [Published by order of the Di- 
 rectors of the Acting Gibbs Association of Vermont.] 
 Middlebury: Justus Cobb, Printer. 1848. 8vo. pp. 
 28. 
 
 I am indebted to a friend for this title of a book which I have 
 not seen. He adds that the title sufficiently explains the contents, 
 and on the last page is an advertisement of Columbus Smith, dated 
 Salisbury, Vt , June, 1848, offering to make similar searches for any 
 parties who may wish to employ him. 
 
 A Catalogue of the Descendants of Thomas Watkins 
 of Chickahominy, Va., who was the common Ances- 
 tor of many of the Families of the name in Prince 
 Edward, Charlotte and Chesterfield counties, Vir- 
 ginia. Bj^ Francis N. Watkins of Prince Edward 
 Co., Va. Printed for private circulation. New 
 York : John F. Trow, printer, 49 Ann street. 1849. 
 12mo. pp. 50. 
 
 I am indebted to a correspondent for the following note of this 
 book, which he says is defective in the dates of births, marriages and
 
 228 American Genealogist. 
 
 deaths. No dates whatever are given of the former, but one of 
 marriages, and very few of deaths. The author says that " the 
 extremely migratory character of the early settlers of Virginia, and 
 the absence of parish and even of family registers render success 
 in genealogical investigations almost impossible." Nothing is known 
 of Thomas Watkins except what is gleaned from his will, which 
 bears date in March, 1760, and was recorded in Cumberland county. 
 Four sons and four daughters are mentioned in the will, and their 
 offspring, so far as their names could be ascertained, are given down 
 to A. D. 1852. From this date 1 am inclined to believe that two 
 editions or a supplement were printed. 
 
 A Genealogical Sketch of the Peeble Families resident 
 
 in Portland, Me., A. D. 1S50 Printed 
 
 but not published. Portland : Harmon & Williams, 
 Printers. A. D. 1850. 8vo. pp. 28. 
 
 As this pamphlet was not printed for circulation beyond the 
 family, we will merely note such matters of general interest as 
 might be easily obtained from other sources. The first of the 
 name here was Abraham Preble, who married a daughter of 
 Nathaniel Tilden and moved to York, Me., where he was the first 
 mayor. The family was one of much influence in the province, 
 Abraham and his son both being judges of the county, and others 
 of the family have held important positions. 
 
 Perhaps the best known bearer of the name was Commodore 
 Edward Preble, b. 1761, d. 1807. His nephew, Captain George H. 
 Preble, U. S. N., has also achieved a high place in the service. It 
 may be added that the latter gentleman has made large collections 
 for a genealogy of the family which deserve to be made public. 
 
 [The Bearss Family.] pp. 2. 
 
 This little sheet is dated Elgin, 111 , Aug. 8, 1852, and signed by 
 John B. Newcomb. It traces one line of the family from Austin 
 Bearss of Barnstable, 1638, to John Bearss, m. 1784, of New 
 Fairfield, Conn., His familj is given in full, one daughter being the 
 mother of the compiler of the record.
 
 American Genealogist. 229 
 
 [Descendants of Matthew Griswold.] 4 to. pp. G. 
 
 There is uo date or author's name to this pamphlet, wliich was 
 printed by Kand, 148 Lake street, Chicago; but it was probably 
 issued in 1856, and presumably is to be attributed to E. S. Lane, 
 the author of a similar genealogy of the Lanes. It contains many 
 names but very few dates. 
 
 [Descendants of Samuel Hayward of Taunton, Mass.] 
 folio, p. 1. 
 
 This sheet is dated Chelsea, Mass., October 1, 1863, and is 
 signed by John S. Howard. I believe but one copy was printed, 
 now in the library of the New England Historic-Genealogical Society, 
 as the author died before publishing it. It contains the record of one 
 branch of the descendants of Thomas Hay ward of Bridgewater, 
 A. D. 1645. Samuel H. died about 1795, and his children geuerally 
 adopted the name of Howard, 
 
 Report to the Brown Association, U. S. A. made by 
 Columbus Smith, A. D. 1864. Containing the 
 Brown Constitution and information in his posses- 
 sion relative to the Brown Property in England. 
 Published by order of the Brown Association. 
 Middlebury : printed at the Registry Office. 1864. 
 8vo. pp. 8. 
 
 The contents of this pamphlet require little discussion. It is 
 shown that various Browns in England have left sums greater or 
 smaller, as unclaimed dividends on public stocks. Why any sane 
 man should hence conclude that he was the heir to these amounts, 
 simply because his name is Brown, is incomprehensible. The 
 whole subject is a scandal to the science of genealogy. 
 
 [Memoranda of the Preston Family.] 8vo. pp. 16. 
 
 This pamphlet, issued without a title-page, and printed by 
 Wrightson & Co. of Cincinnati, is undoubtedly the second edition 
 of 1864, mentioned already at p. 191 in the notice of Mr. Munsell's 
 reprint of the first edition. The contents seem identical, with the 
 exception of two or three brief foot-notes added by Mr. Munsell.
 
 230 American Genealogist. 
 
 The FiSKE Family, a History of the Family (Ancestral, 
 and Descendant) of the Hon. William Fiske of 
 Amherst, N. H., with brief notices of those con- 
 nected with them by marriage. Compiled and pub- 
 lished by Albert A. Fiske, a grandson. Chicago, 
 111. 1865. 12mo. pp. 151. 
 
 From p. 33, this edition is identical with the second edition ah-eady 
 noticed. In the latter, however, the contents of th first 32 pages 
 of this have been revised, and pp. 24a to 24A inserted. The 
 present volume, of course, will be sought for only to render collec- 
 tions complete. 
 
 Report to the Brown Association, U. S. A., made by 
 C. M. Fisher, A. D. 1866. Published by order of 
 the Brown Association. Middlebury : printed at the 
 Register Book and Job office. 1866. 8vo. pp. 8. 
 
 We have already noticed the first report made to the association, 
 and by this plaintive appeal it seems their funds are exhausted. 
 Offers to sell $100 of scrip for $5 each, have proved ineffectual, but 
 the agent says the " case looks so well that I think the scrip ought 
 to sell readily." It seems the Brownes are now trying to prove 
 themselves the heirs of Sir Anthony Browne, Viscount Montague. 
 It would no doubt be satisfactory to establish the fact, but in the 
 meantime the Browns will be fully justified in not suspending their 
 usual avocations in the expectation of receiving this English property. 
 It is difficult to criticise a book with so little basis of facts; but so 
 far as we can judge the claim is utterly preposterous. 
 
 Ludwig Genealogy : Sketch of Joseph Ludwig, who 
 was born in Germany in 1699, and his wife and 
 Family, who settled at Broad Bay, Waldoboro, 
 Maine, 1753. By M. R. Ludwig, Member of the 
 Maine Historical Society, Augusta. Ib66. 8vo. pp. 
 223. With portraits and other illustrations. 
 
 Though I have not seen a copy, I am assured by competent 
 critics that this genealogy is well executed, and worthy of honor- 
 able mention.
 
 TABULAR PEDIGREES. 
 
 X HIS form of publishing genealogies has not been used much in 
 this country, and these sheets are necessarily much more difficult to 
 keep trace of, than books on the same subject. A list of such as I 
 have met with, is as follows : 
 
 Ames, by Ellis Ames, published by 0. Ames & Co., at Easton, 
 Mass. 1851. 
 
 Appleton, Boston, 1864. A fac simile of an Appleton pedigree 
 from a Herald's Visitation of about A. D. 1600. 
 
 Appleton, by Dr. John Appleton of Boston, 1864. It is a large 
 sheet, giving few dates, but embracing nearly all of the name. 
 
 Borden, a folding pedigree of the Borden family appended to 
 Fowler's Historical Sketch of Fall River (8vo. pp. 64, Fall 
 River, 1841), it is possible may have been also issued separately. 
 
 Bowles, by J. Wingate Thornton, printed by Dutton & Went- 
 worth, Boston, 1854. This is a large sheet, giving a good ac- 
 count of one branch of the family, a biographical sketch of each 
 individual being inserted in the pedigree. 
 
 Brown, by Samuel Brown, printed in 1852 at Lowell, by S. J. 
 Varney. 
 
 Collins. A lithographed ' tree giving 252 descendants of Isaac 
 Collins, son of Charles and Sarah Collins of New Castle Co., Del., 
 born in 1746. Designed and drawn by John Collins of Burling- 
 ton, N. J., 1867. The sheet is three feet four inches by two feet 
 five and one half inches.
 
 232 American Genealogist. 
 
 Dexter, by S. C. Newman, printed by Knowles, Anthony & Co., 
 Providence, 1857. 
 
 Drake, by S. G-. Drake, Boston, 1867, a very full record of the 
 Drakes in this country, concerning whom the author had before 
 printed a pamphlet. 
 
 Eager and Davis, by E. A.Davis, 1859; the place of publication 
 not specified. 
 
 Eliot, by W. H. Whitmore, printed by Dutton & Wentworth, 
 1857. This pedigree traces the descendants of Francis Eliot 
 and his brother Rev. John Eliot. Only ten copies were printed, 
 and the type was altered before the impression for Drake's 
 History of Boston was printed. 
 
 GriLBERT, Wells, Thornton and Belcher, a folio sheet prepared 
 by J. W. Thornton, and printed in 1850 by Geo. Cooledge at 
 Boston. More extended notices of these families will be found 
 mentioned in our first part. 
 
 Gilpin of England. A large sheet lithographed by A. Kollner, 
 Philadelphia, 1852. It shows the English family to which 
 belonged Joseph Gilpin, who came to Pennsylvania in 1696. The 
 chart was prepared by Thomas Gilpin of Philadelphia. 
 
 Jackson, by Francis Jackson, 1839. A very large lithographed 
 pedigree, but the information is probably contained in the His- 
 tory of Neicton, by the same writer. I am informed that Mr. 
 Jackson issued a Quincy pedigree in the same form. 
 
 Jones, by William Henry Jones of Boston, 1834. This consists 
 of two large sheets, one page containing a lithographed tree^ 
 literally a tree with the difi^erent branches and leaves marked 
 with the names of the descendants. The other page contains a 
 very fair account of the family descended from Josiah Jones of 
 Weston, Mass. 
 
 Lawrence, prepared by Horatio G. Somerby, and printed by 
 Dutton & Wentworth, 1856. A very neat pedigree showing 
 fifteen generations in England, in the direct line of descent of
 
 American Genealogist. 233 
 
 John Lawrence of Watertown, Mass., and thence to the child- 
 ren of Samuel L. of Groton, viz : Luther, William, Amos, Abbott, 
 and Samuel, the well known merchants. It contains also a 
 branch of the Bigelow and Prescott families, with which the 
 Lawrences intermarried. This pedigree was also published in 
 the Register for October, 1856. 
 
 Morris. The Morris tree compiled by Anthony Saunders Morris, 
 1861, covers nine generations. This chart is about eight feet by 
 six feet, and was drawn by Thomasine Harris of Philadelphia. 
 
 Padelford, by S. C. Newman, published by A. C. Green & Bro., 
 Providence, 1859. 
 
 Page. A large lithographic tabular pedigree is in the library of 
 the Historical and Genealogical Society, Boston, bearing the title 
 Family Chart^ and purporting to give the descendants of a Sir 
 John Page ; but of what place we are not informed. According 
 to the chart his son Matthew had a son Mann, who had three sons, 
 Mann of Rosewell, John of Northend, and Robert of Broadneck, 
 The descendants of these sons are given for several generations, 
 but without dates or residences. The different lines are sepa- 
 rated and called the Rosewell, the North River, and Broadneck 
 branches. The chart was lithographed by L. F. Citti, Richmond, 
 Va., but bears no date. 
 
 Penn. William Penn, proprietary of Pennsylvania, his ancestry 
 and descendants. Philadelphia, 1 June. 1852, Thomas Gilpin. 
 
 Read, by S. C. Newman, published by A. C. Greene & Bro., Provi- 
 dence, 1859. An immense sheet. 
 
 Sargent, by Samuel Andrews, Boston, 1851. The largest sheet 
 pedigree yet issued I presume, being formed of several sheets 
 pasted together, about two feet high and the roll reaching some 
 fourteen feet. The table is a very neat lithograph, but of course 
 too bulky for convenience. 
 
 Thomas, published by N. Thomas & Son, Eden, Me., undated, 
 but about 1850. 
 
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 234 American Genealogist. 
 
 Thornton, by J. W. Thornton, Boston, 1845. This pedigree traces 
 one branch of the descendants of liev. Thomas Thornton of Yar- . 
 mouth and six generations of the family in England from which 
 he was descended, two of his ancestors having- been mayors of 
 York. 
 
 Washington. T. Sinclair of Philadelphia published a handsome 
 pedigree of the Washingtons, printed in colors, prepared by T. 
 W. Gwilt Mapleson, author of a work on Heraldry; and I am 
 informed that an earlier one was issued by a so-called Herald's 
 College in New York. 
 
 WiSTAR. The Wistar tree. Prepared by Mrs. Mary Ann (Wis- 
 tar) Chase. Size four feet by three feet, drawn by T. Harris, 
 Philadelphia. The family is traced to Caspar Wistar born at 
 Hilspach in the electorate of Heidelburg, 1696, who came to 
 Philadelphia in 1717. 
 
 [Note. The Saltonstall pedigree, by G. D. Phippen, was 
 published by S. G. Drake, Boston, 1857; and the Sumner, pre- 
 pared by W. B. Trask, was printed by Button & Wentworth, 
 Boston, 1856. J. B. Burke's pedigree of the Somerbys was 
 printed by Henry Colburu in London, 1853 ; and that of the 
 Sturgis family — tracing it to Roger Sturgis of Clipston, county 
 of Northampton, who died in 1530 — was published some years 
 since in England. The Adams, Bradstreet, Cotton, and 
 Sewall pedigrees were printed for Drake's folio edition of the 
 History of Boston^ and some copies may have been circulated in 
 single sheets. The Leverett pedigree in the same work was 
 prepared by Rev. C. E. Leverett for his Leverett Genealogy. 
 The Chauncey, Cradock, Deane, Dudley, Hancock, Lane 
 and Waldron pedigrees have been reprinted from the Register, 
 and to these may be added the Whitmore from the History of 
 MeJford, and Savage from Bridgman's Kimjs Chapel. 
 
 I am also assured that a Parsons pedigree has been issued by 
 Dr. Usher Parsons ; a pedigree of the Rice family of Marlboro 
 was published by C. C. P. Moody in Boston, 1851, written by 
 Henry Rice; and a Turner pedigree is reported.]
 
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 COLLECTIONS OF GENEALOGIES, 
 
 INCLUDING BIOGRAPHIES AND MEMOIRS WHICH CONTAIN 
 EXTENDED GENEALOGIES.* 
 
 List of Books Noticed. — Bills of Mortality, 180G ; Carv's Bridgrewater, 
 1824; East Haven Register, 1834; Farmer's Register, 'l 839 ; Mitchell's 
 Bridgewater, 1840 ; Porter's Early Settlers of Conn., 1823 ; Ward's Shrews- 
 bury, 1847 ; Holgate's American Genealogy, 1848 ; Gilbert's Captivity, 
 1848 ; Life of Mrs. Boardman, 1849 ; Settlers'at Elliot, Me., 1850 ; Littell's 
 Passaic Valley, 1853 ; Hinman's Settlers of Conn., 1853 ; Hill's Letters, 
 1854 ; Sheldon Magazine, 1855 ; Whitmore's Medford, 1855 ; Morse's Slier- 
 born, 1855 ; Bond's Watertovvn, 1855 ; Goodwin's Hartford, 1856 ; Settlers 
 at West Simsbury, Conn., 185(5 ; Meade's Virginia, 1857 ; Sears's Pilgrims, 
 1857 ; Vail Magazine, 1857 ; Paine Magazine, 1857 ; Lawrence Will, 1857 ; 
 Savage's Dictionary of the Settlers of New-England, 1860 ; Hadley Fami- 
 lies, 1863; Wolff" Centennial, 1863; Browns of Penn., 1864; Pierce 
 Ancestry, 1864 ; Price Centennial, 1865 ; Historical Collections Esses In- 
 stitute, 1867 ; Heraldic Journal, 1867 ; New England Historical and 
 Genealogical Journal, 1867. 
 
 Bill of Mortality. Being a Register of the Deaths 
 which have occurred in the Presbj^terian and Bap- 
 tist Congregations of Morris-town, New Jersey, for 
 thirty-eight years past, containing (with few excep- 
 tions), the cause of every decease. This Register, 
 for the first twenty-two years was kept by the Rev. 
 Doctor Johnes, since which time, by William Cherry, 
 the present Sexton of the Presbyterian Church at 
 
 Morris-town Morris-town : Printed by Jacob 
 
 Mann. 1806. 
 
 The title explains the purpose of this book, and it is to be re- 
 gretted that so few church records have since been published. 
 
 ' The histories of many towns contain the genealogies of their inhabitants, 
 and some were noticed under this title in our first edition. As a book 
 specially devoted to this subject is announced by D. S. Durrie, Esq., of 
 Madison, Wis., we. have not reprinted our reviews.
 
 252 American Genealogist. 
 
 Genealogy of the Families who have settled in the 
 North Parish in Bridge water, Mass., to which is 
 added a Historical Sketch of North Bridgewater. 
 By Moses Gary. Boston : Printed by Bannister & 
 Marvin. 1824. 8vo. pp. 48. 
 
 This pamphlet contains a very valuable collection of materials ; 
 but it is somewhat confused in its arrangement. Judge Mitchell 
 has incorporated most of the facts into his Hhtory of Bridgewater. 
 The principal families here given are those of Alden, Ames, Battles, 
 Brett, Bryant, Beals, Gary, Cole, Crafts, Curtis, Dike, Downie, 
 Edson, Field, Ford, French, Grurney, Hayward, Howard, Keith, 
 Kingman, Manly, Packard, Perkins, Porter, Pratt, Reynolds, Syl- 
 vester, Snell, Snow, Southworth, Warren, Wales, Willis. 
 
 The East-Haven Register : in three Parts. Part I. 
 Containing a History of the Town of East-Haven, 
 from its first settlement in 1644, to the year 1800. 
 Also an account of its boundaries, iron-works and 
 mills, division of land, controversies with New- 
 Haven and Branford, town charters, ecclesiastical 
 affliirs, schools, population and taxes, losses by war, 
 natural histor\' and curiosities, roads and public 
 lands. Part II. Containing an Account of the 
 names, marriages, and births of the fixmilies which 
 have first settled, or which have resided in East- 
 Haven, from its settlement in 1644, to the year 
 1800. Part III. Containing an Account of the 
 deaths in the families named in the second part, 
 from the year 1647 to the end of the year, 1823. 
 Compiled by Stephen Dodd, Pastor of the Congre- 
 gational Church in East-Haven. New Haven : 
 Published for the Author. T. G. Woodward & Co., 
 Print. 1824. 12mo. pp. 200. 
 
 The object and extent of this volume are so well indicated by the 
 title, that there remains only to be added the names of the families 
 herein recorded. The names of most frequent occurrence are 
 Andrews, Austen, Barnes, Bradley, Chedsey, Davenport, Denison,
 
 American Genealogist. 25B 
 
 Forbes, Goodsell, Graunis, Ilemiuiuway, Hitchcock, Holt, Hotch- 
 kiss, Ludington, Mallory, 3]orris, JMoulthrop, Pardee, Potter, Ro- 
 binson, Rowe, Russel, Shephard, Smith, Thompson, Tuttle, and 
 Woodward. The dates are given in full in many instances, and the 
 book forms a valuable addition to the genealogies of Connecticut 
 families. My copy has bound with it the Genealogy of the Dodd 
 family, and a portrait of the author dated June, 1851, aged 74 ; 
 but I know not how many were thus issued. 
 
 A Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of Ne^y- 
 Eiigland : containing an Alphabetical List of the 
 Governours, Deputy-Governoiirs, Assistants or Coun- 
 sellors, Ministers of the Gospel in the several Colo- 
 nies from 1G20 to 1692 ; Representatives of the 
 General Court of Massachusetts from 1634 to 1692 ; 
 Graduates of Harvard College to 1662 ; Members of 
 the Ancient and Honourable Artillery Company to 
 1662 ; Freemen admitted to the Massachusetts 
 Colony from 1680 to 1692 ; with many other of 
 the early inhabitants of New England and Long 
 Island, N. Y., from 1620 to the year 1675 : to 
 which are added various Genealogical and Bio- 
 graphical Notes, collected from ancient records, 
 manuscripts, and printed works. By John Farmer, 
 Corresponding Secretary of the New Hampshire 
 Historical Society. Lancaster, Mass., published by 
 Carter, Andrews & Co. : sold by Hilliard, Gray & 
 Co. and Carter and Hendee, Boston. 1829. 8vo. pp. 
 351. 
 
 This work will of course be superseded by Savage's new edition, 
 but it is entitled to respect as the corner-stone of New England 
 Genealogy. Elsewhere will be found mention of John Farmer, to 
 whose exertions is due the present flourishing state of the science : 
 and this book, for so many years the chief authority on family his- 
 tory, is a witness to his industry and capability.
 
 254 American Genealogist. 
 
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 History of the Early Settlement of Bridgewater, in 
 Plymouth county, Massachusetts, including an ex- 
 tensive Family Register. Jiy Nahum Mitchell. 
 Boston : Printed for the author, by Kidder & 
 Wright. 1840. 8vo. pp. 402. 
 
 In this mo?! valuable register of families, which occupies nearly 
 300 pages, we have only to regret that the author did not give the 
 day of the month in the cases where he gives the year in which 
 any event occurred. The record of the vai'ious families is very 
 full, and is enriched with notes on their origin, and the removal of 
 the different branches who have settled in other towns. The names 
 most fully investigated are Alden, Allen, Ames, Angier, Bayley, 
 Barrell, Bartlett, Bass, Bassett, Beal, Benson, Bisbee, Bolton, Bow- 
 ditch, Bosworth, Brett, Bradford, Brown, Bryant, Burr, Byram, 
 Carver, Gary, Chamberlin, Church, Churchill, Cole, Conant, Cope- 
 land, Curtis, Cushing, Dawes, Dunbar, Edson, Field, Fobes, Ford, 
 French, Gannett, Gurney, Harden, Harris, Harvey, Hayward, Hill, 
 Hobart, Holmes, Hooper, Howard, Rowland, Hudson, Jackson, 
 Johnson, Joslyn, Keith, Kingman, Kinsley, Latham, Lathrop, 
 Lazell, Leach, Leonard, Loring, Mitchell, Orcutt, Orr, Packard, 
 Parris, Perkins, Pettingill, Phillips, Porter, Pratt, Prince, Reed, 
 Reynolds, Richards, Ripley, Robinson, Sampson, Shaw, Smith, 
 Snell, Snow, Southworth, Sprague, Standish, Stetson, Sturtevant, 
 Thayer, Thompson, Turner, Wade, Warren, Washburn, Whitman, 
 Williams, AVillis, Winslow, Wood and Young. 
 
 It is impossible to value too highly this work of Judge Mitchell, 
 for Bridgewater was one of the colonizing towns ; and many fami- 
 lies will here find their early records, who are now located in Maine 
 or in the western part of the state. In repeated instances these 
 emigrations are noted in the text, and thus the clue is preserved.
 
 American Genealogist. 255 
 
 Historical Notices of Connecticut ; published under 
 the patronage of the Connecticut Historical Society. 
 No. 1. Containing Hartford in IGIO. By William 
 S. Porter, Member Connecticut Historical Society. 
 Hartford, April, 1842. Elihu Geer's Press. No. 2. 
 June, 1842. pp. 48. 
 
 These two parts were issued as the commcnceuient of a series of 
 town histories, but I believe that no subsequent numbers appeared. 
 The author has collected many facts here which will not be found 
 in any other publication, and it is certainly a matter of regret that 
 he did not continue the work. He gives some genealogical notes on 
 the names of Adams, Church, Crow, Haynes, Lord, Pantry, Pratt, 
 Standley and Willis ; and a list of settlers between 1640 and 1700, 
 which contains many names not elsewhere mentioned, but gleaned 
 from the records of deeds and wills. 
 
 Family Register of the Inhabitants of the Town of 
 Shrewsbury, Mass., from its settlement in 1717 to 
 1829, and of some of them to a later period. By 
 Andrew H. Ward, member of the New Eugland 
 Historical and Genealogical Society. Boston : Pub- 
 lished by Samuel G. Drake. 1847. 8vo. pp. 294. 
 
 This work originally formed part of j\Ir. Ward's History of 
 Shrewsbury^ and I believe only a small edition was repaged and 
 bound in this form. The principal families here recorded are those 
 of Alexander, Allen, Andrews, Bouker, Bragg, Bigelow, Brigham, 
 Baker, Bush, Bellows, Baldwin, Gushing, Crosby, Cutting, Drury, 
 Eager, Flint, Goddard, Garfield, Goodenow, Goodale, Green, Hey- 
 wood, Hastings, Hapgood, Hemenway, Howe, Harrington, Harlow, 
 Johnson, Keyes, Knowlton, Maynard, Mixer, Miles, Morse, Muzzy, 
 Munroe, Nurse, Newton, Noyes, Nelson, Pratt, Parker, Plympton, 
 "Rand, Rice, Stone, Smith, Sumner, Selfridge, Taylor, Temple, 
 Tucker, Ward, Wheelock, Wheeler, Whitney, Witherby, Wyman, 
 Whittemore. * 
 
 These genealogies, with many shorter ones, cover all the entries 
 upon the town records, and in repeated instances the author has 
 added notes concerning the origin of the family or the locality of 
 emigrants from the town, so that the work is one of unusual value.
 
 256 American Genealogist. 
 
 The volume has for a frontispiece a fine portrait of Gen. Artemus 
 Ward, of whom a biography is given, a native of the town, and 
 perhaps the most distinguished of its citizens. He was the grand- 
 father of the author, Andrew Henshaw Ward of Newton, a gentle- 
 man who always evinced a great interest in genealogy, and much 
 assisted its progress here. 
 
 American Genealogy, being a History of Some of the 
 Early Settlers of North America, and their Descend- 
 ants, from their first Emigration to the present time, 
 \^ith their intermarriages and collateral branches, 
 including Notices of Prominent families and distin- 
 guished individuals ; with Anecdotes, Reminiscences, 
 Traditions, Sketches of the Founding of Cities, Vil- 
 lages, Manors, and progressive improvements of the 
 country, from its wilderness state to the present era. 
 Illustrated by Genealogical Tables. By Jerome B. 
 Holgate, A. M., &c. Albany: Printed by Joel 
 Munsell. 1848. 4to. pp. 244. 
 
 This rather formidable title describes a collection of the genealogies 
 of several New York families, with some biographical notes. These 
 families are Rapalje, Van Rensselaer, etc.. and we will essay a 
 notice of them. 
 
 The Rapalje family are here stated to spring from the marriage 
 of Victor Honorius Janssen of Antwerp, with his cousin Breckje, 
 daughter of Gaspard Colet de Rapalje of Chatillon-sur-Loire, France. 
 The issue of this marriage was Abram Janssen, a painter of consid- 
 erable eminence, whose three sons came to New York. The eld- 
 est died unmarried, the second was Joris Jansen de Rapalje, and 
 the third was Antonie Janssen van Salers ; their descendants are 
 here given, though the latter are represented to have changed the 
 name to Johnson ; the pedigree given under that name, however, is 
 utterly worthless, as Antonie Janssen had no sons. 
 
 Kiliaen Van Rensselaer was the founder of the well known family 
 of that name, and having obtained a grant of land in New Y^ork, in 
 a locality which has since become of immense value, the title of 
 patroon has been connected with the name of the head of this
 
 American Genealogist. 257 
 
 family, to the exclusion of the other owners of manors. The record 
 here given occupies eight pages. 
 
 The next fimiily is tliat of Gardiner, de-cended from Lion Gardi- 
 ner; and the next, one family of Beekmans. 
 
 William Beekman of Statselt, Overijssel, was son of Hendrick B., 
 and grandson of Cornelis B , and thus belonged to a family of good 
 standing. He emigrated to New York, where he gained wealth and 
 honors, and has left a numerous posterity, as is here shown ; but 
 there are many of the name here, who are descendants from other 
 emigrant Beekmans. 
 
 Jan Janssen Bleecker, who was born at Meppel, was the founder 
 of the large and influential family of that name, and the register of 
 his descendants is very full. 
 
 The De Graaf family is recorded on pp. 99 - 102. 
 
 The Hoffmans descended from Martinus H., a Swede, have always 
 been distinguished in the state. 
 
 The Kips are another old New York family, and like the next 
 recorded family, the De Lancej^s, were attached to the side of the 
 royalists at the Revolution, 
 
 The Barclays trace their pedigree to the distinguished Scottish 
 family, through John, who settled here probably in consequence of 
 his brother, Robert, being appointed governor of East New Jersey. 
 
 The Roosevelts and Van Schaicks occupy the next eighteen 
 pages. 
 
 The Livingstones are next recorded, and the tables and memoirs 
 are the most extensive in the volume. There are three branches of 
 the family descended respectively from Robert, whose father and 
 grandfather were ministers at Monyabroek, in Stirlingshire, and 
 belonged to the well known family of Livingstone in Scotland ; 
 Robert. 2d, a nephew of the first ; and a James, whose ancestry is 
 not here given. There are few families in the country which have 
 produced so many distinguished men. Philip Livingston, Brock- 
 hoist, William and Robert, the chancellor, are names most promin- 
 ent among the great men of the Revolution. 
 
 The Lawrences, whose i'amily register occupies pp. 201 -227, are 
 descended from three brothers, John, William, and Thomas; for 
 whom is claimed a descent from the Lawrences of Ashton, county 
 
 33
 
 258 American Genealogist. 
 
 of Lancaster, and if they used the coat of arms in 1680, the claim is 
 worth investigating. John was born at Great St. Albans, county of 
 Hertford, was of Ipswich, Mass., and Hempstead, L. I., and finally 
 mayor of New York. His issue survives only in the Whitting- 
 hams. William was of Flushing, L. I., and left many descendants; 
 Thomas was of Newtown, L. I,, and ancestor of many distinguished 
 bearers of the name. It should be noted that the Lawrences of New 
 England of whom much has been said in this Handbook, constitute 
 a different family here. 
 
 The Osgoods (pp. 228-234) are a branch of the Massachusetts 
 family, founded by John Osgood, of Newbury. 
 
 The remainder ot this book is given to a biography of John Jay, 
 but no account is given of his family. 
 
 This book must have been published at an unnecessarily great 
 expense, as the tabular form is used, requiring a large page, and 
 causing a great waste of space. Still it is valuable as containing 
 nearly the only record of the genealogies of the old New York 
 families, and is evidently the result of much laborious research. 
 
 I have a few pages of a book apparently containing the genealogy 
 of the Jays and allied families, but I can not discover its title. In 
 the Register for January, 1856, will be found an account of the 
 Phillipses of New York ; Burke's Peerage and Commoners contain 
 data of royalist families : and the Heraldic Journal records some. 
 
 A Narrative of the Captivity and Suffering of Ben- 
 jamin Gilbert and his family, who were taken by 
 tlie Indians in the spring of 1780. Third Edition, 
 revised and enlarged. To which is prefixed a short 
 Account of the Gilbert Family who settled at By- 
 berry. And an Appendix, giving some account of 
 the Captives after their return. Philadelphia : 
 Printed by John Richards, No. 299 Market Street. 
 1848. 12mo- pp. 240. 
 
 The family is herein traced to John Gilbert, a Quaker of Corn- 
 wall, who came to Pennsylvania about 1682. He had sons, John, 
 Joseph, Samuel and Joshua, of whom Joseph moved to Byberry, 
 and died in 1765, leaving a son Benjamin. This last named was
 
 American Genealogist. 259 
 
 somewhat noted as a writer, and published several controversial 
 books. In 1774, he removed to Mahoninji- creek in Northampton 
 county, and then in 1780 the little settlement was captured by 
 Indians. After many hardships the whole party was taken to Niagara 
 and gradually ransomed, so that all returned in safety, within two 
 years, except Benjamin, who died on his way home. 
 
 Besides the record of the adventures of the captives, this book 
 contains much genealogical information concerning the different 
 branches of the family. 
 
 Memoir of the Life and Character of Mrs. Mary Anna 
 BoARD^rAN. with an Historical Account of Her 
 Forefathers, and Biographical and Genealogical 
 Notices of many of her kindred and relatives. By 
 her son-in-law John Frederick Schroeder, D. D. 
 Printed for Private Distribution. New Haven: 
 1849. 8vo. pp. 478. 
 
 This elaborate biography enters largely into the genealogy of 
 several families from which Mrs. Boardman was descended. Her 
 paternal and maternal ancestors are thus given by Rev. Dr. Schroe- 
 der : " Her father was Dr. William Whiting of Hartford, who was 
 the son of Col. William Whiting of Bozrah, who was the son of 
 the Rev. Samuel Whiting of Windham, who was the son of the 
 Rev. John Whiting of Hartford, who was the son of the Hon. 
 William Whiting of Hartford. Her mother was Anna Mason of 
 Franklin, who was the daughter of Jeremiah Mason of Franklin, 
 who was the son of Rev. Daniel Mason of Lebanon, who was the 
 son of Daniel Mason of Stonington, who was the son of Maj. Gen. 
 John Mason of Windsor." Pp. 14-35 are devoted to an account of 
 Maj. John Mason, the hero of the Pequot war and some of his 
 descendants; and pp. 35-75 give a biographical sketch of William 
 Whiting one of the founders of Hartford, Conn., and his descend- 
 ants. In the Appendix a fuller genealogy of the Mason family is 
 given, pp. 365-71 ; and of the Whiting family, pp. 372- 80 ; while 
 a genealogical account of the Boardman family fills pp. 388-415. 
 Fifty-eight pages are devoted to a full and well prepared index. 
 The book is elegantly printed and has a fine portrait of Mrs. Board-
 
 260 American Genealogist. 
 
 man. A more extensive genealogy of the descendants of Major 
 John Mason, prepared by Hon. Reuben H. Walworth, formerly 
 chancellor of New York state, is printed in the N'ew Enfjland Histori- 
 cal and Genealogical RegisUr, vol. xv, pp. 117, 217, H18 ; and another 
 Whiting family, descended from Rev. Samuel Whiting of Lynn, a 
 native of Boston, Eng., of which place his father, John Whiting, was 
 mayor in 1600 and in 1608, is well displayed in a tabular pedigree in 
 Drake's History of Boston, p. 363. To the latter family belongs 
 William Whiting, Esq., of Roxbury, Mass., an eloquent advocate, 
 who formerly filled the office of President of the New England 
 Historic-Genealogical Society. One of the most distinguished 
 descendants of Major Mason, was Hon. Jeremiah Mason, the emi- 
 nent jurist, who was born April 27,1768, graduated at Yale Col- 
 lege, 1788, was United States Senator from New Hampshire 1813- 
 17, and died Oct. 4, 1848. 
 
 A Sliort Genealogical Account of a few families of the 
 Early Settlers- in Eliot, and of a branch of the 
 Moody Family : from the time they emigrated to 
 this country to the j-ear 1850. Printed at Saco by 
 A. A. Hanscomb. IcjSO. iGmo. pp. 22. 
 
 This pamphlet, which contains brief genealogies of the Fogg, 
 Hill and Moody families, was compiled by the late William Fogg of 
 Eliot, Maine. There are nine pages devoted to Fogg, three to Hill, 
 and six to Moody. 
 
 Family Records : or Genealogies of the First Settlers 
 of Passaic Valley and vicinity, above Chatham. 
 With their Ancestors and Descendants as far as can 
 now be ascertained. By John Littell, Stationer's 
 Hall Press, Feltville, N. J. : David Felt & Co., 
 stationers and printers. 1851. 8vo. pp. 504. 
 
 The families herein recorded are those of Allen, Alward, Ander- 
 son, Badgley, Bailey, Baker, Baldwin, Ball, Beach, Bebout, Bedell, 
 Bedford, Bonnel. Boyle, Brittin, Broadwell, Brown, Burrows, Byram, 
 Carle, Cauldwell, Clark, Cole, Conklin, Cooper, Corwin, Cory, 
 Craig, Crane, Davis, Day, Dickerson, Dod, Doty, Drake, Dunham,
 
 American Genealogist. 261 
 
 Elmer, Finley, Flinn, Frazee, French, GriflQn, Hall, Halleck, Hal- 
 sey, Hand, Hart, Heath, Hed2;es, High, Hole, Hurin, Jennings, 
 Johnson, Jones, Kirkpatrick, Lacy, Lamb, Lambert, Little, Long, 
 Ludlow, Ludlum, Lyon, Marshall, Martin, Maxwell, Meeker, 
 Miller, Morehouse, Mulford, Noe. Oakley, Osborn, Parrot, Parsons, 
 Pettit, Potter, Price, Raddin, Randolph, Riggs, Roff, Roll, Ross, 
 Runyon, Rutan, Samson, Sayre, Scudder, Shipman, Shotwell, Van 
 Sickle, Simoson, Suialley, Smith, Spencer, Squire, Stelle, Stevens, 
 Stewart, Stiles, Terril, Thompson, Titus, Todd, Totten, Towneley, 
 Tucker, Vail, Valentine, Walker, Ward, Williams, Willcox, and 
 Ward. 
 
 The book sefims carefully prepared, as to dates, and is of great 
 value as the only publication in regard to the families of this part 
 of New Jersey. 
 
 A Catalogue of the Names of the Early Puritan Set- 
 tlers of the Colony of Connecticut ; with the Time 
 of their Arrival in the Country and Colony, their 
 Standing in Society, Place of Residence, Condition 
 in Life, where from. Business, &c., as far as is found 
 on record. Collected from records by Royal R. 
 Ilinman, of Hartford. Hartford : Press of Case, 
 Tifiany & Co. 1852. 8vo. pp. 801. 
 
 This work was issued in parts, six in number. The first five 
 numbers cover the first three letters of the alphabet only ; and the 
 sixth, omitting the intermediate letters, is devoted entirely to the 
 Hinman genealogy. This is noticed among the genealogies. The 
 author, I am informed, has decided not to continue the work. 
 Mr. Hinman was amply qualified to make a most valuable account 
 of Connecticut families, and he has here given many facts not 
 elsewhere in print ; but it is much to be regretted that so large a 
 portion of his space is occupied by notices of Massachusetts fami- 
 lies, now more fully given by Savage, and by notes on arms borne 
 by families in England, but of no value or interest here. There 
 is much to interest the genealogist in the volume ; much more 
 than is required to ofi"set the faults we note. The ftimilies more 
 particularly recorded are those of Abby, Abbot, Abernethy, Ackly,
 
 262 American Genealogist. 
 
 Adams, Adkins, Alford, Allyn, Ames, Andrews, Arnold, Ashley, 
 Atwood, Austin, Avery, Babcock, Backus, Bacon, Baldwin, Ballan- 
 tine, Bancroft, Barber, Barlow, Barnard, Barnes, Bartlett, Bassett, 
 Beauchamp, and Sigourney, Beckley, Belden, Bellamy, Beraent, 
 Benedict, Benjamin, Bennet, Benton, Betts, Bigelow, Billings, 
 Bingbam, Bird, Birge, Bishop, Bissell, Blake, Blinn, Bliss, Boreman, 
 or Boardman, Bolles, Booth, Bostwick, Brace, Bradford, Brewer, 
 Brewster, Bruen, Bronson, Brown, Bryant, Buck, Buill, Bucking- 
 ham, Buckland, Bulkeley, Bull, Bunce, Burnham, Burrall, Burr, 
 Bushnell, Butler, Caldwell, Camp, Canada, Canfield, Carter, Case, 
 Catlin, Champion, Chauncey, Chandler, Chapin, Chaplin, Chapman, 
 Chappell, Chenevard, Chester, Cheesborough, Chipman, Church, 
 Churchill, Clark, Cleveland, Coe, Cogswell, Coit, Coleman, Collier, 
 Collins, Colt, Colton, Comstock, Cone, Cooke, Cooper, Copley, Corn- 
 ing, Cothren, Crane, Crocker, Crow, Curtis, Daniels. 
 
 Many of these family records are extensive and continued to the 
 present time. The work contains portraits of the author, and of 
 Mrs. L. H. Sigourney, J. L. Comstock, Richard Goodman, A. W. 
 Birge, and William Cothren. 
 
 A previous work by Mr. Hinman, in five parts, was published 
 with the following title : 
 
 A Catalogue of the names of the First Puritan Settlers of the 
 Colony of Connecticut; with the Time of their arrival in the 
 Colony, and their standing in society, together with their place of 
 residence as far as can be discovered by the records. Collected 
 from the State and Town Records, by R. R. Hinman. Hartford : 
 Printed by E. Gleason. 1846. 8vo. pp. 336. 
 
 This was more of the nature of a collection of notes than a cata- 
 loo-ue. Pp. 1-109 contained an alphabetical list of settlers, with 
 short notes on some of them; pp. 110-160, an appendix similarly 
 arranged, with an account of the Hinmans ; pp. 167 - 181, Enfield 
 settlers; pp. 182- 247, a third alphabetical list; pp. 257-269, early 
 marriages and births at Hartford ; pp. 270-332, a fourth alphabeti- 
 cal list, with notices of the families of Dixwell, Eells, King, Mann, 
 Marvin, Bobbins, and Wadsworth.
 
 American Genealogist. 263 
 
 Letters of Doctor Richard Hill and his children, or 
 the History of a famil}^ as told by themselves?. 
 Collected and arranged by John Jay Smith. Pri- 
 vately printed for the descendants. Philadelphia, 
 1854. 8vo. pp. XLV, 466. 6 portraits, 2 views. 
 
 The introduction contains a brief genealogy of the Hills which is 
 followed by an account of the Lloyd family, covering pages xxvii- 
 xiv. Dr. Hill's wife was a grand-daughter of Thomas Lloyd the 
 confidential friend of William Penn, and the first governor of 
 Pennsylvania. 
 
 The book is very rare, but is described as one of great value to 
 those interested in the social life of the first colonist. 
 
 Letters and Papers relating chiefly to the Provincial 
 History of Pennsylvania, with some Notices of the 
 Writers. Privately printed. Philadelphia : Cris- 
 sey & Marklev, printers. 1855. 2 vols. pp. 138 and 
 312. 
 
 The first volume consists of genealogical notes concerning the 
 •writers of the letters, prepared by Thomas Balch, Esq., of Phila- 
 delphia, one of the most learned antiquaries of the state. The 
 families here noticed are the Shippen, and others connected with it. 
 The first of the name was Edward of Boston, ]668, whose brother 
 was William Shippen, rector of Stockport, county of Chester; 
 he became a Quaker and was first mayor of Philadelphia. The 
 Francis family commences with Philip, mayor of Plymouth, Eno-., 
 whose grandson, Tench F., was uncle of Sir Philip F., whose name 
 appears so often in the Junius controversy. Tench Francis settled 
 at Philadelphia, and his great-grandson was governor of Rhode 
 Island. The Swifts, McCalls, Willings (of whom Charles W. was 
 great-grandson of Harrison and Mayne, two of the regicides, and 
 great-grandfather of Lady Ashburton), JacksouSj Sterlings and 
 Byrds are here recorded, and form in fact a very admirable outline 
 of the pedigrees of the most noted Pennsylvania families. Of the
 
 264 American Genealogist. 
 
 letters it is impossible to say much, because the editor has restricted 
 the circulation of his work, and his wishes ought to be respected. 
 They will be of great service to the future historian. 
 
 The Life of Esther de Berdt, afterwards Esther Reed of Pennsyl- 
 vania. Privately printed. Philadelphia : C. Sherman, printer, 
 185B. 
 
 This is a volume of family letters written about the date of the 
 Kevolution, and probably edited by W. B. Reed, Esq. 
 
 The Sheldon Magazine ; or, a Genealogical List of the 
 Sheldons in America, with Biographical and His- 
 torical Notes, and Notices of other Families with 
 which this intermarried. By Eev. Henry Olcott 
 Sheldon. Loudon ville, Ashland Co., Ohio. 1855. 
 8vo. pp. 112. 
 
 This work of which four parts have been published, is a list of 
 names or outline of a promised genealogy, issued for the purpose of 
 corrections, and is therefore only to be considered as a collection of 
 genealogical items. I believe the genealogy is soon to appear. 
 The first part published in June, 1855, contains pp. 1-28; the 
 second, Jan. 1857, pp. 28-55; the third, April, 1857, pp. 55-82; 
 and the fourth, Oct., 1857, pp. 82 - 122. There are duplicate pages 
 bearing the same number. A notice in the fourth number informs 
 us that another number will complete what was intended to be pub- 
 lished " in this edition of the list." 
 
 Register of Families settled at the Town of Medford, 
 Mass. Compiled by W. H. Whitmore. Reprinted 
 from the History of Medford, by Rev. Charles 
 Brooks. Boston : Printed by John Wilson & Son. 
 1855. pp. 96. 
 
 This register was prepared for the history of the town, and it 
 comprises all the records previous to 1750, in relation to the princi- 
 pal families. The limits prescribed did not admit of a more com- 
 plete transcript, though in many cases, the genealogies are traced 
 to the present generation. The more extended genealogies in this
 
 American Genealogist. 265 
 
 book are those of the following families : Albree, Blancliavd, Erad- 
 shaw, Brooks, Cradock, Francis, Hall, Reeves, Royall, Tufts, Tiirell, 
 Usher, Wade, Willis and Whitmore. The last twenty pages are 
 given to au account of the Whitmores, considerably enlarged from 
 the record given in the history ; it has been already noticed as a 
 separate publication. About one hundred copies of this edition 
 were issued, and as it contains a number of engravings from the 
 History of Medford, and the typography is worthy of the reputa- 
 tion of the printers, I may venture to call it a pretty book for the 
 collector's shelf. 
 
 A Genealogical Register of the Descendants of the 
 Early Planters of Sherborn, HoUiston, and Med- 
 waj, Massachusetts. By Rev. Abner Morse, A. M., 
 Member of New England Historic-Genealogical 
 Society. Boston: Press of Damrell & Moore. 1855. 
 8vo. pp. 264. 
 
 These genealogies are very copious and exact, but some of the 
 traditions recorded must be read with due allowance, especially 
 those on the derivation of families from English stock, for few 
 writers of equal ability have recorded more unreliable stories. On 
 his own ground however of facts and dates here, Mr. Morse is 
 excelled by no genealogist. The principal families noticed in this 
 book ai'e those of Adums, Bullard, Clark. Coolidge, Cutler, Daniel, 
 Fitch, Harding, Hill, Holbrook, Lelaud, Morse, Partridge, Perry, 
 Phipps, Richardson, Rockwood, Sanger, Twitchel, Whitney and 
 Wood. The illustrations arc portraits of John Quiucy Adams, 
 Charles Adams Bullard, Otis Bullard, Rev. Amos Clark, Rev. 
 Charles Fitch, Edward Holbrook, Joseph, Abner and Dr. Horatio 
 Holbrook, Joseph Phipps, Rev. Zedekiah Sanger, and coats of arms 
 of Phipps and Holbrook, the former being that of Gov. Pliips, 
 whose nephew settled at Wrentliam, the latter in no way connected 
 with the family here. 
 
 This work was published again in 1850, with a new title page, 
 
 and additions pp. 2G5 - 840. Pages 5o - 7 were also remodeled, and 
 
 seven pages of new matter inserted between pp. 57 — 8, all relating to 
 
 the Bullards. The illustrations also are very different, being por- 
 
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 266 American Genealogist, 
 
 traits of George and John Bullard, Elihu Cutler, Tiiuotliy Fisk, 
 Charles Fitch, John Gr. Holbrook, Abner Morse and Joseph Phipps; 
 and a map of Sherborn, view of Mt. Ilollis Seminary, and the fight 
 at Medway. 
 
 As the reader will observe, Mr. Morse has been one of the most 
 diligent and useful genealogists of the day, and this record sbows 
 on every page that he has neglected no probable source of in- 
 formation. His habit of publishing a few pages of additions and 
 binding them in a small number of his large histories, renders it 
 impossible almost to describe his works accurately. 
 
 Rev. Mr. Morse writes thus to a friend under date Oct. 8, 1861 : 
 " In my History of Sherborn and Holliston., I have given the gene- 
 alogy of all the families who settled in those places between 
 1654 and 1800, and of several families down to 1854. I have 
 collected the Fay race with a view to publication in a volume by 
 itself. My second volume of the Descendants of several Ancient 
 Puritans, now being completed, will include the Brigham, the 
 Hapgood, Frary, Pettee and Hewins races. My third volume is 
 finished with a supplement to the Richards race, and is confined 
 to the several races of the name of Richards." 
 
 Family Memorials. Genealogies of the Families and 
 Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, 
 Massachusetts, including Waltham and Weston; to 
 which is appended the early history of the town. 
 With illustrations, maps, and notes. By Henry 
 Bond, M. D. Boston : Little, Brown & Co., etc. 
 1855. 2 vols. 8vo. pp. 1094. 
 
 This work is by far the largest and most important town history 
 yet issued. Nearly one thousand pages, very closely printed, are 
 devoted to the genealogy of the Watertown settlers, tracing their 
 posterity to the present time, and in almost every instance embrac- 
 ing an account of the descendants not resident in that town. It 
 would be useless to attempt to give proper praise to this immense 
 work, which could only have been produced by a person of great 
 industry, per.^everance, and judgment, careless of expense of labor. 
 
 The families especially noticed are, in the first volume, those of
 
 American Genealogist. 267 
 
 Allen, Barnard, Bemis, Bigelow, Biscoe, Bond, Bowman, Bridge, 
 Bright, Browne, Child, Coolidge (and Wigglesworth), Cutler, Cut- 
 ting, Dix, Easterbrook, Fiske, Flagg, Garfield, Goddard, Gove, 
 Hagar, Hammond, Harrington, Hastings, Hoar, Hyde, Jennison, 
 Jones, Kimball, Lawrence, Learned, Livermore, Mason, Mixer, 
 Morse, Norcross, Park, Parkhurst, Peirce, Sanderson, Sanger, 
 Sherman, Smith, Spring, Stearns (Stone, Talbot, Bellows, Johnson, 
 Redington, Sparhawk, Newcomb, Pratt — all in appendices to 
 Stearns), Stone, Stratton, Tarball, Thornton, Upham, Warren, Wel- 
 lington, White, Whitney, Woodward and Wyman. 
 
 In the second volume will be found additions and corrections, 
 chiefly in the names of Barstow, Biscoe, Bond, Bowman, Boylston, 
 Bright, Brooks, Browne, Chester, Coolidge, Dix, Eddy, Eyre, 
 Fiske, Fuller, Goldstone, Hammond, Harris, Hastings, Hubbard, 
 Jennison, Lawrence, Oldham, Park, Phillips (White, Abbot, Jewitt, 
 Spooner, Tillinghast, Quincy — all in appendices to Phillips), Sal- 
 tonstall, Spring, Stearns, Stone, Warren, Whitmore, Whitney, 
 Whittemore and Woodward. 
 
 The volumes are each arranged alphabetically, and contain short 
 notices of many other names, besides the great number inserted 
 in the text, as descendants in the female line. 
 
 Mr. Bond was enabled to have access to the collections of Mr. 
 Somerby, and thus to give the English pedegree of several of these 
 settlers. We give the names of those concerning whom there is 
 full proof here given. The Barstows were from Shelf, a parish of 
 Halifax, county of York ; the Bonds are traced to Jonas Bond 
 of Bury St. Edmunds, county of Suffolk; the Brights and Gold- 
 stones to the same place, the former family being traced to John 
 Bright who died in 1545. The Brownes, descended from two brothers 
 Richard and Abraham and their nephew John, were from a family 
 settled at Swan Hall, county of Suffolk, and Stamford, county of 
 Lincoln. The Bigelows were from Wrentham, county of Suffolk, 
 and earlier from Cheshire, the name being Baguly. Leonard 
 Chester, progenitor of the family here, was from a good family, 
 settled at Blaby, county of Leicester. Ephraim Child was a near 
 relative of the Bonds, and no doubt from the same locality. The 
 Coolidges are here traced with all desirable probability to the Cool-
 
 268 American Genealogist. 
 
 edge or Colynge family, of Cottenham, county of Cambridge ; and the 
 Groddards are known to have come from London. The Saltonstalls 
 are descended from Sir Richard S.,. whose grandfather was Gilbert 
 Saltonstall of Halifax, county of York, and whose uncle was lord 
 mayor of London, 1597. 
 
 Mr. Bond gives at the end of the second volume, much valuable 
 information concerning the early history of the town, and its first 
 settlers. Watertown has always been a colonizing town ; in 1634 — 5, 
 many went to Connecticut and settled Wethersfield, and afterwards 
 Stamford, Milford, and Branford ; in 1636, many settled at Ded- 
 ham, and in 1637, Sudbury ; whilst Concord, Lancaster and 
 Martha's Vineyard were largely increased by emigrants frosn this 
 town. 
 
 These volumes contain portraits of Sir Richard Saltonstall, 
 Thomas Bond, Thomas Bright, Moses Brown, William Coolidge 
 Richards, Benjamin Goddard, Samuel Phillips and John Phillips, 
 besides several woodcuts of residences, sepulchral monuments, coats 
 of arras, and maps. 
 
 Dr. Bond was born at Watertown, but he resided the last forty 
 years of his life at Philadelphia, where he was highly esteemed. 
 By his will he left to the New England Historic-Genealogical So- 
 ciety his very valuable collection of manuscripts, and about one 
 thousand unbound copies of the History of Watertown. The 
 society appointed a board of trustees to attend to the sale of the 
 history, and a second edition has accordingly been issued with a 
 memoir of the author, by Horatio Gates Jones, Esq. A portrait 
 of the author was also added. 
 
 Genealogical Notes, or Contributions to the Family 
 History of some of the First Settlers of Connecti- 
 cut and Massachusetts. By the late Nathaniel 
 Goodwin. Hartford : F. A. Brown. 1856. 8vo. pp. 
 362. 
 
 This work contains a selection from his collections made by 
 Judge Goodwin, just previous to his death, and now published in 
 charge of Charles J. Hoadly, Esq., state librarian. The families 
 here traced are those of Blakeman, Chester, Clark, Case, Dwight,
 
 American Genealogist. 269 
 
 Edwards, Goodrich, Goodwin, Gurley, Ilollister, Hopkins, Tnger- 
 soll, Jones, Judson, Kent, Lord, Mather, Metcalf, Mygatt, Nott, 
 Porter, Sedgwick, Smith, Spencer, Stone, Storrs, Terry, Treat, 
 Ward, Webster, Wells, and Whiting. 
 
 It is hardly necessary to add that these genealogies are clear, 
 full, and in every respect satisfactory. None of our authors have 
 ever excelled 3Ir. Goodwin in the method of displaying their acqui- 
 sitions, and no one probably was so familiar as he, with the early 
 records of his state. There is a good memoir of him in this volume 
 prepared by his friend, Henry Barnard, Esq., from which we learn 
 that his upright character and unceasing industry obtained for him 
 a large share of the esteem and confidence of his fellow citizens. 
 Pie was long time clerk and judge of probate for Hartford, and 
 his antiquarian zeal was not only here encouraged, but it was of 
 great service to the public. He was one of the original incor- 
 porators of the Connecticut Historical Society, and at the time of 
 his death, was vice-president of the New England Historic-Genea- 
 logical Society. 
 
 Genealogical History with Short Sketches and Family 
 Records of the Early Settlers of West Sinisbiny, 
 now Canton, Conn. By Abiel Brown, Esq., with 
 an Introductory and Commendatory Notice by 
 Rev. J. Burt. Hartford : Press of Case, TifRiny 
 & Co. 1856. 8vo. pp. 151. 
 
 The families recorded in this very accurate and interesting book 
 are those of Adams, Alfoi-d, Bacon, Bronson, Brown, Barber, 
 Buel, Case, Curtis, Dyer, Everest, Foote, Garrett, Hill, Humphrey, 
 Higly, Mills, Moses, Merrell, Mossinger, Phelps, Segur, and Wilcox. 
 
 It is much to be regretted that the autliur did not give full dates, 
 as he has given us only the year and not added the day and month; 
 it will however be of much service to those tracing Connecticut 
 families.
 
 270 American Genealogist. 
 
 Old Churches, Ministers and Families of Virginia. 
 By Bishop Meade. In two volumes. Philadelphia : 
 J. B. Lippincott & Co. 1857. 8vo. pp. 480 and 495. 
 
 These two volumes contain a fund of information extremely valu- 
 able and interesting to the genealogist. Notwithstanding that Epis- 
 copacy was engrafted upon the earliest established government 
 in Virginia, and for a century or more, ruled undisputed, yet the 
 character of the establishment was long of a poor kind. Many able 
 and devoted men became her ministers, but there was a lack of 
 centralization in the settlements, which prevented the prosperity 
 that attended the independent churches in New England. In the 
 latter place the clergy was the predominant class in the community, 
 but in Virginia the glebes and tithes attracted few members of the 
 patrician families. The lowest point of the fortunes of the church 
 was probably just at the beginning of this century, when the glebes 
 were declared forfeited, the communion plate seized in many cases, 
 and churches in many parishes were abandoned and desecrated. A 
 reaction, however, took place, and no inconsiderable portion of the 
 advance of the church has been due to the author of these volumes, 
 the Rt. Rev. William Meade. 
 
 In these sketches of the old churches and families, he has been 
 obliged to draw a sad picture of the decay of both ; but it is well 
 indeed thiit some one has felt impelled to gather up the memorials 
 of the past, ere they had suffered a farther neglect. We find herein 
 an account of pilgrimages to the different parishes, in which are 
 recorded the remains of the past glories of the first settlers of 
 Virginia. In too many cases, the historian has found the parish 
 churches unroofed and decayed, the tombstones broken, or even dis- 
 covered that the plough-share has obliterated all trace of some former 
 place of sepulture. He has persevered, however, nobly, and has 
 given us the history of many families from the recollections of per- 
 sons long deceased, supplying what deficiencies he could from the 
 vestry books. Of course, this method of relating family history, 
 leaves many dates unsupplied, and forms but a skeleton of the gene- 
 alogy : but enough is given to show that an opulent and well-born 
 class occupied the prominent place in colonial times. A brief list
 
 American Genealogist. 271 
 
 is here given of the more extended genealogies iu the book, though 
 every page, nearly, contains some interesting fact : 
 
 Ambler, i, 103 ; Barradal, i, 198 ; Baylor, ii, 460 ; Beverly, ii, 481 ; 
 Bland, i, 446; Boiling, i, 78-9; Bowdoin,i, 259; Bridger, i, 305 ; 
 Erokenbrough, ii, 474; Burwell, i, 353; Carter, ii, 110, 120; 
 Cabell, ii, 61; Campbell, ii, 159; Carrington, ii, 28; Coles, i, 238 ; 
 Corbin, ii, 145; Gustis, i, 202; Dangerfield, i, 405; Digges, i, 238, 
 244; Dupuy, i, 467; Kllis, ii, 460; Eyre, i, 259; Fairfax, ii, 105; 
 Fauntleroy, ii, 474; Fitzhugh, il, 192; Fontaine, i, 465; Fowke, 
 ii,482; Grimes, i, 370 ; Harrison,!, 311 ; Hopkins, i, 460; Jacqueline, 
 i, 97; Latane, i, 393; Lee, ii, 136, 144; Lewis, ii, 232, 324 ; Lud- 
 well, i, 195; Madison, ii, 96; Maury, i, 465; ii, 44; Mason, ii, 
 229; Meade, i, 291; Morgan, ii, 302; Nelson, i, 205; Newton, ii, 
 151 ; Page, i, 147, 195, 331, 349, 351; Peyton, ii, 464; Pendleton, 
 ii, 298 ; Phillips, ii, 482 ; Powell, ii, 277 ; Rose, i, 402 ; Randolph, 
 i, 138 ; Robinson, i, 378; Spottswood, i, 465; Taylor, ii, 98; Tay- 
 loe, ii, 181 ; Turner, ii, 186; Washington, ii, 166; Watkins, i, 450. 
 
 The fact seems indisputable, that the more wealthy portion of 
 the early colonists of Virginia, were generally of a higher social 
 position in England than were the settlers of New England. 
 Bishop Meade has given but a small portion of the families form- 
 erly possessed of wealth and rank, but this little will confirm the 
 assertion. Thus the Amblers were from Yorkshire, the Jacque- 
 lines from Kent, and originally from the Vendeean family; the 
 Barradalls and Brays were of the gentry; the Spottswoods are de- 
 scended from Sir Robert S., distinguished in Scottish history ; 
 Thomas Ludwell was born at Bruton, county of Somerset, England, 
 and left a numerous progeny. The Nelsons were from PeuriflF; 
 Edward Digges was son of Sir Dudley Digges, bart., master of the 
 rolls. The Bowdoins were a branch of the Huguenot family which 
 settled in New England; the Dupuys, Maurys, Fontaines and 
 Latanes were also Huguenots. The Burwells were descended from 
 an old family in Bedfordshire, and the Bacons and Harrisons 
 were of like good stock. The Robinsons trace their pedigree to 
 Christopher, the emigrant, who was brother to Dr. John R. Bishop 
 of Bristol. The Blands and Dangerfields were high in office in the 
 earliest days of the colony. Robert Boiling married the only grand-
 
 272 American Genealogist. 
 
 child of Pocahontas, and every descendant from that marriage is 
 proud of his ancestry ; tlie progenitor of the Arches was from 
 Kipon, -county of York. The Carringtons and Mayos were from 
 Barbados; Grov. Clement Read married a Hill of the family of the 
 Marquis of Lansdowne. The Taylors were from Carlisle, and the 
 Madisons probably were of equal rank as they early intermarried. 
 Richard Lee was of Stratford-Langton, in Essex, and belonged to 
 the Shropshire family of Lees, settled at Merton-Regis. The 
 Carters, Pages, Randolphs and Washingtons were all of the gentry, 
 as were many more not recorded in this book. 
 
 We have only glanced at a portion of the families here recorded, 
 and the list given above is only of the longer notices. In almost 
 every parish some vestry book has been preserved, showing who 
 were the prominent parishioners; or the esteem in which the 
 Bishop is deservedly held, enabled him to obtain access to family 
 documents, and thus learn concerning the past. It is certainly to 
 be hoped that the example herein set will be followed, and that 
 local antiquaries and societies will prevent any farther destruction 
 of the remaining relics of the past, and will combine to make 
 public that which is now shut up in private collections. 
 
 Pictures of the Olclen Time, as shown in the fortunes 
 of a family of the Pilgrims. By Edmund H. Sears. 
 With a Genealogy. Private edition. Boston: 
 Crosby, Nichols & Co. 1857. 8vo. pp. 327 and 96. 
 
 The family, whose real vicissitudes are here presented in a garb 
 of fiction, is that of Sears. How much a genealogy is improved by 
 such a treatment is of course a matter on which opinions will 
 widely differ, but Mr. Sears has certainly written a very interesting 
 historical novel, and many of his readers will be thankful for his 
 representations of life in England and Holland in the sixteenth and 
 seventeenth centuries. Richard Sears, the elder of two brothers, 
 was of a family of distinction in Colchester, as the records and 
 monuments existing clearly prove. He married Anne, daughter of 
 Sir Edmund Knyvett and Jane Bourchier his wife, heiress of Lord 
 Berners, but having adopted the Reformed religion, he was obliged 
 to seek refuge in Holland, where he died in 1540, aged 32. His
 
 American Genealogist. 273 
 
 only son, John Bourchier Sayer, married Elizabeth, daughter of 
 Admiral Sir John Hawkins, and had four sons, the eldest of whom, 
 John Bourchier, married Marie L., daughter of Philip Lamoral van 
 Egmond. of a family distinguished in the history of Holland. 
 This latter John Bourchier was father of Richard Sears, who set- 
 tled at Plymouth, Mass., and was the ancestor of the large family 
 here recorded in the second part. The genealogical portion of the 
 book is very well executed and contains some interesting notes on 
 the bearers of the name. 
 
 Vail Family. 
 
 I have seen several circulars issued by Alfred Vail of Morris- 
 town, N. J., containing many items relative to families of the uame. 
 The first page dated March 27, 1857, its reverse, May 5th, contain- 
 ing the Vailes of Ludlow, Vt., and of Virginia. The second, two 
 pages. May 12, Vailes of North Carolina; third sheet, May 21, 
 map of the author's pedigree ; fourth sheet, June 3, circular of 
 • questions about the family; fii'th, four pages relative to John Vail, 
 a Quaker of Plainfield, N. J.; sixth, a circular dated January, 
 1858. There are also two sheets, printed on yellow paper, of obitu- 
 aries and wills, and a printed form to be filled and returned to the 
 compiler. I am not sure that these were all the sheets issued, but 
 they contain much information concerning the family. In 1863, a 
 friend wrote me that he had thirty-one separate items of these 
 circulars, of which one was a genealogy of ten pages, and another 
 one of eight pages. 
 
 The Paine Family Register, or, Genealogical Notes 
 and Queries. Nos. 1 to 8. Albany, N. Y. : J. 
 Munsell. 1857-59. 4to. 
 
 This work, of which eight numbers have appeared, and which 
 will probably be completed in four more numbers, was undertaken 
 by Dr. Henry D. Paine, as a convenient method of disseminating 
 and collecting information concerning the numerous families of the 
 name. It is certainly a very good plan, though involving some 
 expense, and secures to the family a great amount of information, 
 35
 
 274 American Genealogist. 
 
 whose publication elsewise would depend on the chances of the 
 completion of a good genealogy. The work was continued quar- 
 terly in April, July and October to July, 1858, in numbers of 
 8 pages each. The eighth number was issued Jan., 1859, and I 
 have not heard of the completion of the work. 
 
 The Will of William Lawrence, born in Groton, 1783, 
 died in Boston 1848, to which are prefixed the 
 wills of William Bordman Senior, who died in 1806 ; 
 of his daughter Susannah Bordman, who died the 
 same year, and of his son William Bordman, born 
 1760, died 1842; also the will of Mrs. Susan Rug- 
 gles Lawrence, born 1787, died 1858. [The Law- 
 rence Arms.] Boston. Six copies printed for the 
 use of the Trustees. 1860. folio, pp. 48. 
 
 This compilation is beautifully printed, and is from the Riverside 
 Press of H. 0. Houghton and Company, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 
 There is a head piece to each division of the book, and nine initial 
 letters printed in red. The W of William and L of Lawrence, on 
 the title page, are mediaeval letters, printed in red, and were cut 
 for the book. Besides the wills mentioned in the title, and a brief 
 introduction by the compiler, signed H. A. W., the book contains 
 memoranda relating to the families of William Bordman, and of 
 Caleb Davis, the son of Joshua and Sarah Davis, born in Wood- 
 stock, Conn., Oct. 25, 1738; died in Boston, July 6, 1797; and who 
 was the first speaker of the Massachusetts house of representatives, 
 under the constitution, in 1780 : Memoranda relating to the family 
 of William Lawrence, giving his descent from John Lawrence of 
 Wisset, county of Suffolk, England, and of Watertown and Grroton, 
 Mass., with two generations of his descendants, being all of his 
 descendants born to the date, October, 1861; and a list of family 
 portraits.
 
 American Genealogist. 275 
 
 A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New 
 England, showing Three Generations of those who 
 came before Ma}^, 1692, on the basis of Farmer's 
 Register. By James Savage, former President of 
 the Massachusetts Historical Society, and Editor of 
 Winthrop's History of New England. In four 
 volumes. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. 1860. Vols. 
 I and II. pp. 516 and 599 : Vol. III. 1861. pp. 
 664 : Vol. IV. 1862. pp. 714. 
 
 This is a work of the highest value to the genealogist, and is 
 indeed the foundation of every library in which family histories are 
 to claim a place. It is as necessary as a dictionary of any language 
 is to a student thereof, and partakes necessarily of such defects as 
 are inseparable from this condensed form of supplying information. 
 In these volumes it is intended to give the dates of marriage and 
 death of every immigrant hither previous to 1692, dates of the 
 birth, marriage and death of his children and of the birth of his 
 grandchildren, thus recording the first three generations. This 
 plan of course produces a seeming inequality, as a child brough: 
 here by its parents is assumed as a head of a family, though one 
 born here twenty years before is not; but a limit was of necessity to 
 be fixed somewhere, and it would be difficult to suggest one better 
 than that adopted. 
 
 The limit of time, 1692, is a very judicious one, since, as the 
 author states, " nineteen-twentieths of the people in New England, 
 in 1775, were descendants of those found here at that time." 
 
 As to the execution of the plan, every reader must give Mr. 
 Savage unqualified praise. It is impossible that there should not 
 be numerous omissions, but there will be found but very few errors. 
 There must be so many sources of information yet unexamined, so 
 many manuscripts yet unpublished, that we may reasonably expect 
 to fill up many gaps in the account; still the main portion of the 
 work has been performed, under the most favorable circumstances. 
 Mr. Savage has devoted fifteen years to his Dictionary, and, in 
 addition to his own researches, he has maintained an extensive 
 correspondence, and thus obtained the results of a dozen careful
 
 276 American Genealogist. 
 
 antiquaries. Indeed for the last_ five or six years, nearly every 
 genealogist lias taken pains to communicate to him such new items 
 as might be discovered in tracing any special family. 
 
 This work is one intended for the student, and hence economy of 
 space has been studied, by the use of abbreviations, easily under- 
 stood. It may be well to note, however, that the old orthography 
 of surnames was very variable, and a name may be on this list in a 
 place not warranted by the modern spelling. 
 
 One great excellence of the work remains to be noted ; as he 
 has embraced all New England in the plan of investigation, he has 
 been able to collect the different settlers of the same surname into 
 one field of vision ; and as so many Massachusetts men removed 
 from the sea-board, farther inland, and disappeared from record 
 there, the genealogist will now often discover the location else- 
 where of some long-missing branch of his family. 
 
 This Dictionary will long remain a monument to the industry 
 and public spirit of the author, and a witness of his freedom from 
 prejudice, and his ability to discover and confute the numerous ridi- 
 culous traditions heretofore current amongr us. 
 
 Genealogies of Hadley Families, embracing the early 
 settlers of the Towns of Hatfield, South Hadley, 
 Amherst and Granby. Northampton: Metcalf & 
 Company, printers. 1862, 8vo. pp. 168. 
 
 This is a reissue of a portion of Judd's History of the town, but 
 all this part was the work of Hon. Lucius M. Boltwood. Mr. Judd 
 had made large collections, but having left them in a confused state, 
 the editor was obliged to do all the work anew, and is entitled to the 
 whole credit. 
 
 The families here recorded are those of Allis, Alvord, Ayres, 
 Baldwin, Barnard, Bartlett, Belding, Billings, Boltwood, Chauncy, 
 Church, Clark, Coleman, Cook, Cole, Dickinson, Eastman, Field, Fook, 
 Frary, Gaylord, Goodman, Graves, Green, Hastings, Hawley, Hins- 
 dale, Hopkins, Hovey, Hubbard, Ingram, Judd, Kellogg, Lewis, 
 Lyman, Marsh, Mattoon, Montague, Moody, Nash, Parsons, Part- 
 ridge, Perkins, Pierce, Pomeroy, Porter, Preston, Russell, Selden,
 
 American Genealogist. 277 
 
 Seymour, Smith, Strong, Taylor, Vinton, Wait, Warner, Wells, 
 White, Williams, Woodbridge, Wright, Younglove. 
 
 These are only the titles of the more prominent families, and the 
 book contains numerous short articles concerning the settlers in the 
 western part of Massachusetts. 
 
 A Centennial Memorial of Christian and Anna Maria 
 Wolff, March twenty-fifth, 18G3. With brief Re- 
 cords of their children and Relatives 
 
 Philadelphia. 1863. Svo. pp. viii. 113. 
 
 This work was written by George Wolff Fahnestock, and one 
 hundred copies were privately printed for the use of descendants. 
 It traces the family to John Greorge Wolff, born in Oberhochstadt 
 in the Palatinate, August 10th, 1676, whose son, George Michael 
 Wolff, removed to Pennsylvania in 1739. 
 
 The Browns of Nottingham. 
 
 An octavo pamphlet, writes my informant, of 18 pages, with the 
 above for its only title, was issued in 1864, by Gilbert Cope, of West 
 Chester, who himself set the type and printed the edition. It con- 
 tains a list of 243 descendants of James and William Brown, sons 
 of William Brown of Bedfordshire or Northamptonshire, England. 
 They emigrated to this country about 1680, and settled in West 
 Nottingham, Chester county, Pennsylvania. 
 
 My Ancestors in America. Compiled, printed and pub- 
 lished for gratuitous distribution among near rela- 
 tives, by Wm. Blake Pierce. Chicago. 1864. 8vo. 
 pp. 48. 
 
 The families embraced in this record are those of Blake, Pierce, 
 Tappen, and Homes. Concerning all of these, many interesting 
 facts are given, though as the author is investigating only his own 
 line of ancestry, the collateral branches are untraced. We do 
 not know of any similiar publication, though the plan of tracing all 
 of one's progenitors on the maternal side, as well as the paternal, has
 
 278 American Genealogist. 
 
 often been attempted by genealogists. Tbe great space necessary 
 to do tbis well, and tbe lack of any good system, bave prevented 
 sucb tables from seeing tbe ligbt in print. 
 
 Centennial Meeting of the Descendants of Philip and 
 Rachel Price. Philadelphia: Caxton Press of C. 
 Sherman, Son & Co. 1865. 12mo. pp. 86. 
 
 This memorial is by tbe Hon. Eli K. Price, president of tbe 
 Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Pbiladelpbia. Tbe meet- 
 ing was beld at tbe old bomestead in East Bradford. Pennsylvania. 
 Tbe family is traced to Pbilip Price, wbo was settled in Haverford, 
 about six miles from Pbiladelpbia, prior to 1697, and wbo was tbe 
 great-great-gran dfatber of tbe Pbilip Price, tbe centennial anniver- 
 sary of wbose birtb was tbus celebrated. 
 
 The Davis Family Record, edited by Charles H. S. 
 Davis, M.D. A Monthly Journal devoted to the 
 History and Genealogy of the Davis Family. Meri- 
 den. Conn. November, 1867. Vol. 1, No. 1. 8vo. 
 pp. 8. 
 
 Tbree parts of tbis magazine bave appeared, but we fail to see 
 any proof of tbe necessity or value of sucb a publication. It con- 
 tains numerous scraps of genealogy in relation to tbe various Davises 
 in America, but tbese bad better bave remained in manuscript 
 until some proper use could be made of tbe material. Tbe printing 
 is simply execrable, and tbe work will be valued ratberas a curiosity 
 tban as a valuable contribution to genealogy. 
 
 Historical Collections of the Essex Institute. Vol. I - 
 VIII. Salem : Published for the Essex Institute. 
 1859-1867. 
 
 Tbere is a great deal of material bere tbat will be of service to 
 tbe genealogist. Two series of contributions by Mr. Ira J. Patch, 
 are deserving of particular notice. Tbese are tbe records of births, 
 marriages and deaths in Salem, began in tbe first number, and cim- 
 tinued in nearly every number since ; and abstracts from wills,
 
 American Genealogist. 279 
 
 inventories, etc., on file in the office of the clerk of courts, Salem, 
 Mass., some of which have been published in every number. The 
 first probate document on file, is a will, proved 1640, and from this 
 date, to November, 1681, abstracts of all the documents are given. 
 The Institute has recently been largely aided by the bounty of 
 Greorge Peabody, Esq., and having incorporated with itself the 
 Marine Society of Salem, it has been enabled to divide and classify 
 the objects to which it is devoted. 
 
 The Heraldic Journal: recording the Armorial Bearings 
 and Genealogies of American Families. Boston: 
 Wiggin & Lunt, publishers. Vol. I -III. 1865, 
 1866, 1867. 8vo. pp. 192, in each volume. 
 
 This quarterly magazine, the first devoted to this subject ever 
 published here, was established by the committee on heraldry, of 
 the New England Historic-Genealogical Society. The second vo- 
 lume was edited by W. S. Appleton, the others by W. H. Whitmore, 
 editor of the volume for 1868, now in progress. The necessity 
 of such a work is evident, since eoats-of-arms, when properly used, 
 are the best possible aids to the genealogist in tracing a family. 
 Yet so little is known in this country of the science of heraldry, 
 that such proofs have been for jears neglected, chiefly because the 
 genealogists could not understand their value. From tomb-stones 
 have been copied the words of an inscription, and the more import- 
 ant symbolical statement overlooked. 
 
 The publishers of this journal have brought together such scat- 
 tered facts as they could find, have printed the epitaphs from 
 numerous grave-yards, and given engravings of many seals and 
 paintings. In many cases the genealogies of families have been 
 printed here for the first time, and the work is one which no gene- 
 alogist can afford to pass over without consulting.
 
 280 American Genealogist. 
 
 The New England Historical & Genealogical Kegister, 
 published quarterlj^, under the patronage of the 
 New England Historic-Genealogical Society. For 
 the year 1847. Volume I. Boston: Samuel G. 
 Drake, publisher. 1847; Volume XXI, 1867. 
 
 In 1845, Charles Ewer, J. Wingate Thornton, Joseph Willard, 
 and their associates, were incorporated as the New England His- 
 toric-Grenealogical Society ; the first steps towards the formation of 
 the society having been taken by Mr. Ewer, S. G. Drake, Mr. 
 Thorton, Lemuel Shattuck, and W. H. Montague. In 1847, it was 
 determined to issue a quarterly magazine, and the first number" 
 appeared with Rev. Dr. William Cogswell as editor, and S. Gr. Drake 
 as publisher. The Register has since been regularly issued, and has 
 completed its twenty-first year, a longevity never before attained in 
 this country, or in England, by any work on the science of Genealogy. 
 The magazine has been issued under the care of a committee of the 
 Society, and nearly the whole time Mr. Drake has been connected 
 with the management, having edited many of the volumes. To his 
 exertions, indeed, the success of the magazine may be mainly attri- 
 buted, as it has never been a source of profit to the publisher, and no 
 one would devote the labor necessary for its editing, but an enthu- 
 siast in the cause. 
 
 I mu^ here find space to record the labors also of John Ward 
 Dean and William B. Trask, who have been on the publishing com- 
 mittee for several years. Their work does not appear to so much 
 advantage as that of the compiler of a large genealogy, but the 
 necessary work of revising the proofs, verifying statements, and ob- 
 taining documents, has been cheerfully performed by them, and has 
 greatly enhanced the value of the magazine. 
 
 It is impossible to overrate the impetus given to the study of 
 genealogy by the establishment of this periodical. Not only by the 
 numerous genealogies published in its pages has this been eflFected, 
 but it has formed a rallying point for students, and their collections 
 slowly aggregating, now constitute an important item in the list of 
 accessible authorities. Genealogists have been shown the value of 
 even the smallest items, and they have also been informed of the
 
 American Genealogist. 281 
 
 simplest and most concise method of publishing the information 
 they have acquired. To estimate the progress made, it is suflScient 
 to compare the Farmer, Sprague, and Thayer Genealogies, with 
 those of Drake, Foote, Shattuck, White, and Chauncey. 
 
 Each volume contains an index of names, including every sur- 
 name in the book, and a classified index of subjects. The tenth 
 volume also contains a general index of subjects in the first ten 
 volumes, and the fifteenth a similar index for the five volumes pre- 
 ceding and including it. An effort is now being make to prepare 
 and publish an index of names for the whole twenty volumes. 
 I give a list of the principal genealogies, many of them occupying 
 over ten pages, but the genealogist will find it worth while to consult 
 the Memoirs of Suhscrihers to Prince's Annals, and the various 
 biographies and obituaries. Other very important features, also, 
 are the synopsis of early wills for Suff"olk and Plymouth counties, 
 and the copies of the early records of Boston, Maiden, Haddam, 
 Middletown, Westerly, and many other towns. In short the stu- 
 dent desirous of tracing any familj"^ in New England, should search 
 Savage first, and then the indices of the volumes of the Register. 
 
 List of Genealogies in the first twenty-one Volumes. 
 
 Adams, vii, 30, 351 ; viii, 41 ; Bowdoin, viii, 247 ; x, 78. 
 
 X, 89; xi, 53; xiv, 360. Bowes, x, 82, 129. 
 
 Addington, iv, 117. Bowles, ii, 192. 
 
 Allen, X, 225. Boylston, vii, 145, 351. 
 
 Allerton, viii, 270. Bradford, iv, 39, 233 ; ix, 127, 
 Ames, xvi, 255. 218; xiv, 174. 
 
 Amory, x, 59. Bradstreet, viii, 312; ix, 113. 
 
 Amsden. xv, 21. Brastow, xiii, 249. 
 
 Ashley, ii, 394. Bridges, viii, 252. 
 
 Ayres, xv, 56; xvii, 307. Brooks, v, 355. 
 
 Babcock, xix, 215. Brown, vi, 232; ix, 219. 
 
 Bache, viii, 374. Burr, v, 472. 
 
 Balch, ix, 233. Butler, i, 167; ii, 355; iii, 73, 
 Ballantine, vi, 371. 353. 
 
 Bangs, viii, 368; x, 157. Capen, xx, 246. , 
 
 Barnaby, xviii, 361. Carpenter, ix, 52. 
 
 Belknap, xiii, 17. Carter, xvii, 51. 
 
 Boughey, v, 307. Chadbourne, xiii, 339. 
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 282 
 
 American Genealogist, 
 
 Chapin, xv, 352. 
 
 Chase, i, 68. 
 
 Chauncey, x, 105, 256 ; xi, 148. 
 
 Checkley, ii, 349 ; xv, 13. 
 
 Chipman, xv, 79. 
 
 Choate, XV, 293. 
 
 Church, xi, 154. 
 
 Chute, xiii, 123. 
 
 Clapp, xiv, 275; xv, 215. 
 
 Clopton, xviii, 184. 
 
 Coffin, ii, 337. 
 
 Colesworthy, xv, 320. 
 
 Collins, ix, 335. 
 
 Colraan, xii, 129. 
 
 Cotton, i, 164; iv, 92. 
 
 Cradock, viii, 27 ; ix, 122 ; x, 
 
 231. 
 Crooker, xii, 68. 
 Curwen, x, 305. 
 Cushing, viii, 41 ; xix, 39. 
 Dane, viii, 148 ; xviii, 263. 
 Danforth, vii, 315. 
 Davenport, iii, 351 ; ix, 146. 
 Davis, XX, 212, 299 ; xxi, 65. 
 Deane, iii, 375; ix, 93; xviii, 
 
 263. 
 Dearborn, ii, 81,297.' 
 Delamater, xiv, 41. 
 Dexter, viii, 248. 
 Dodge, XV, 254. 
 Doolittle, vi, 293. 
 Dudley, i, 71 ; x, 130. 
 Dumaresq, xvii, 317. 
 Eastman, xxi, 229. 
 Edgerly, xv, 337. 
 Eliot, viii, 45, 259; x, 355. 
 Endecott, i, 335. 
 ■ Eppes, xiii, 115. 
 Everett, xiv, 215. 
 Eyre, xv, 13, 58. 
 
 Farmer, i, 21, 360. 
 
 Farrar, vi, 313. 
 
 Field, xvii, 106, 112. 
 
 Fillmore, xi, 141. 
 
 Flint, xiv, 58. 
 
 Folger, xiv, 269. 
 
 Foote, ix, 272. 
 
 Forth, xxiii, 184. 
 
 Foster, i, 352 ; xx, 227, 308. 
 
 Fowler, vii, 131 ; xi, 247. 
 
 Fownes, xviii, 185. 
 
 Foxcroft, viii, 171, 260. 
 
 Franklin, xi, 17 ; xvi, 273. 
 
 Freeman, xx, 59, 353. 
 
 Frost, V, 165. 
 
 Frye, viii, 226. 
 
 Fuller, xiii, 351. 
 
 Gachet, i, 344. 
 
 Gale, xviii, 189. 
 
 Gassett, i, 344. 
 
 Gillam, xix, 254. 
 
 Gilbert, iv, 223, 329. 
 
 Gilman, xviii, 258. 
 
 Gookin, i, 345; ii, 167. 
 
 Gorges, xv, 18. 
 
 Grant, xxi, 173. 
 
 Greene, iv, 75 ; xv, 105; xvi, 12. 
 
 Greenough, xvii, 167. 
 
 Greenwood, xiv, 171; xv, 239. 
 
 Griffin, xiii, 108. 
 
 Gusshee, i, 344. 
 
 Hall, vi, 259; xiii, 15; xv, 59; 
 
 XV, 238. 
 Hancock, ix, 352. 
 Harlackenden, x, 129 ; xiv, 319 ; 
 
 XV, 327. 
 Harlow, xiv, 227. 
 Harris, ii, 218. 
 Harvey, xii, 313. 
 Hatch, xiv, 197
 
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 283 
 
 Haynes, ix, 349. 
 
 Hildreth, xi, 7. 
 
 Hill, xii, 139, 258. 
 
 Hinds, xviii, 267. 
 
 Hinckley, xiii, 208. 
 
 Hoar, xvii, 149. 
 
 Hobbs, ix, 255. 
 
 Huntington, V, 163. 
 
 Hutchinson, xix, 13 ; xx, 355. 
 
 Jaffrey, xv, 16. 
 
 Jeffi'ies, XV, 14. 
 
 Jenks, ix, 201. 
 
 Jenner, xix, 246. 
 
 Jessop, X, 357. 
 
 Johnson, viii, 202, 359. 
 
 Johonnot, vi, 357; vii, 141. 
 
 Jones, vi, 200, 278. 
 
 Josselyn, ii, 306; siv, 15. 
 
 Kellogg, xii, 201; xiv, 125. 
 
 Kent, XV, 273. 
 
 King, xi, 357. 
 
 Kingsbury, xiii, 157 ; xvi, 327. 
 
 Kirtland, xiv, 241. 
 
 Knowlton, xv, 344. 
 
 Lane, x, 356 ; xi, 360. 
 
 Lawrence, x, 297. 
 
 Lee, xi, 329. 
 
 Lewis, xvii, 162. 
 
 Leonard, v, 403. 
 
 Leverett, iv, 121 ; xii, 289. 
 
 Lindall, vii, 15. 
 
 Lombard, xii, 249. 
 
 Loring, vii, 163, 326. 
 
 Mac Kinstry, xii, 231, 321 ; xiii, 
 
 39. 
 Mann, xiii, 325, 364. 
 Marvin, xvi, 235. 
 Mascarene, ix, 239 ; x, 143. 
 Mason, xv, 117, 217, 318; xvii, 
 
 39,214; xviii, 245. 
 
 Mather, v, 460; vi-20. 
 
 Meigs, iv, 91. 
 
 Messenger, xvi, 308. 
 
 Metcalf, vi, 171. 
 
 Miner, xiii, 161. 
 
 Minot, i, 171. 
 
 Nichols, xiv, 27. 
 
 Norton, xiii, 225. 
 
 Gates, vi, 150. 
 
 Odin, xii, 223. 
 
 Oliver, xix, 100. 
 
 Osgood, xiii, 117, 200 ; xx, 22. 
 
 Otis, ii, 281; iv, 143; v, 171. 
 
 Paddock, xii, 220. 
 
 Pain, XV, 235. 
 
 Parker, xvi, 41. 
 
 Parsons, i, 263; xii, 175. 
 
 Payne, v, 331. 
 
 Peabody, ii, 153, 261; iii, 259. 
 
 Pearce, vi, 276. 
 
 Pease, iii, 27, 169, 233, 390. 
 
 Peirce, xxi, 61, 157, 257, 340. 
 
 Pepperrell, xx, 1. 
 
 Perkins, xi, 315; xii, 79; xiv, 
 
 113 ; xvii, 63. 
 Peters, ii, 58. 
 Phillipse, X, 25. 
 Preston, xiv, 26. 
 Prince, v, 375. 
 Quincy, xi, 71, 157. 
 llalegh, xvi, 107. 
 Rawson, iii, 297. 
 lleyner, xi, 300. 
 llichardson, ix, 68. 
 Ricker, v, 308, 464. 
 Roberts, viii, 63. 
 Robinson, xiv, 17. 
 Rogers, v, 105, 224, 311; xii, 
 
 337; xiii, 61. 
 Rolfe, iii, 149.
 
 284 
 
 American Genealogist. 
 
 Rollins, viii, 253. 
 
 Rounsevill, xix, 47. 
 
 Sanborn, x, 271. 
 
 St. John, xiv, 61. 
 
 Sliaplei<i;h, v, 345. 
 
 Shelton, xi, 271. 
 
 Sherburne, ix, 180. 
 
 Shirley, x, 47. 
 
 Smith, xiv, 28. 
 
 Spofford, viii, 335; ix, 61, 273. 
 
 Strange, xix, 324. 
 
 Stebbins, v, 71, 351. 
 
 Stedman, xiv, 69. 
 
 Stone, x, 229. 
 
 Stoughton, V, 350. 
 
 Strong, viii, 180. 
 
 Sullivan, xix, 289. 
 
 Sumner, viii, 128 ; ix, 297. 
 
 Swett, vi, 49. 
 
 Symmes, xiii, 135. 
 
 Taintor, iii, 154. 
 
 Talbot, ix, 129. 
 
 Taylor, ii, 398. 
 
 Temple, x, 73. 
 
 Thatcher, xiii, 245; xiv, 11. 
 
 Tibbets, viii, 130. 
 
 Tileston, xiii, 121. 
 
 Tolman, xiv, 247. 
 
 Tompsou, XV, 113. 
 
 Towne, xx, 367; xxi, 12, 217. 
 
 Tozer, xvi, 133. 
 
 Tully, iii, 157. 
 
 Tuttle, viii, 132 ; xxi, 133. 
 
 Twombly, viii, 263. 
 
 Tyndale, xviii, 185. 
 
 Vane, ii, 143. 
 
 Varnum, v, 79, 250. 
 
 Vassal], xvii, 56, 113. 
 
 Vaughn, v, 245 ; xix, 354. 
 
 Vickery, xviii, 186. 
 
 Wade, xi, 163, 210. 
 
 Waldron, viii, 78. 
 
 Walter, viii, 209. 
 
 Wallingtbrd, xx, 335. 
 
 Ward, xvii, 339. 
 
 Ware, vi, 145. 
 
 Warner, xx, 64. 
 
 Washington, vi, 384; xvii, 248. 
 
 Watson, xviii, 363. 
 
 Weaver, xviii, 257. 
 
 Webster, ix, 159. 
 
 Weld, vii, 309; viii, 207; ix, 42. 
 
 Wells, xii, 157. 
 
 Wentworth, iv, 321; vi, 213, 
 
 291; vii, 265, 304; viii, 48, 
 
 246. 
 Whitney, xi, 113; xii, 215. 
 Whitmore, x, 356 ; xiii, 301. 
 Whittemore, xxi, l69. 
 Wigglesworth, xv, 324. 
 Wilder, xxi, 120. 
 Willard, iv, 305. 
 Williams, xii, 297. 
 Wingate, ix, 143. 
 Winslow, iv, 297 ; xvii, 159. 
 Winthrop, xviii, 182. 
 Wolcott,i, 251. 
 Woodward, xviii, 265. 
 Wright, iv, 355. 
 Wyman, iii, 33.
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Abbot, 47. . 
 
 Adams, 36, 40, IIG, 133, 
 
 162, 190, 234. 
 Alcleii, 30, 133, 235. 
 Allan, 220. 
 Allen, 133. 
 Alvord, 185. 
 Ames, 231. 
 Amoi-v, 106. 
 Applelon, 71,211, 231. 
 Arnold, 3G. 
 Atwater, 73. 
 
 Babcock, 162. 
 Bacon, 43. 
 Badcock, 197. 
 Bailey, 224. 
 Baker, 72. 
 Baldwin, 133. 
 Barrj', 49. 
 Bass, 36. 
 Batclieller, 184. 
 Bean, 72. 
 Beardslev, 211. 
 Bearss, 228. 
 Beede, 72. 
 Belcher, 232. 
 Bellows, 106. 
 Benedict, 64. 
 Bergen, 207. 
 Bin, 221. 
 Billings, 36. 
 Binney, 82. 
 Bird, 106. 
 Bissell, 145. 
 Blake, 124, 277. 
 BoUes, 199. 
 Bolton, 175. 
 Boltwood, 276. 
 Bond, 266. 
 Borden, 231. 
 Bordley, 202. 
 Bordman, 259, 274. 
 Bostwick, 73. 
 Bowdoin, 109. 
 Bowles, 80, 231. 
 Boyleston, 133. 
 Brackett, 152. , 
 Bradford, 67. 
 
 Bradstreet, 284. 
 Braiuard, 123. 
 Brattles, 216. 
 Brewster, 117. 
 Bridgewater, 252. 
 Brigham, 147. 
 Bright, 140. 
 Brimmer, 121. 
 Brown, 74, 161, 229, 230, 
 
 231,269,277. 
 Bruen, 125. 
 Buchanan, 63. 
 Ballard, 116. 
 Burgess, 194. 
 Burke, 185. 
 Butler, 62. 
 
 Capen, 36. 
 Capron, 141. 
 Carpenter, 133. 
 Carr, 72. 
 Carey, 252. 
 Champnev, 102, 218. 
 Chapin, 172. 
 Chapman, 92. 
 Chase, 221. 
 Chauncey, 127, 234. 
 Checkley, 58. 
 Chesley, 72. 
 Cliipman, 164. 
 Clark, 37, 205. 
 Cobb, 188. 
 Coe, 116, 151. 
 Coffin. 
 
 Cogswell, 27. 
 Coleman, 217. 
 Collins, 231. 
 Cope, 168. 
 Copeland, 36. 
 Cotton,. 234. 
 Cradock, 234. 
 Cragin, 151. 
 Crandall, 150. 
 Cnrwin, 187. 
 Cushman, 103. 
 Cutler, 222. 
 
 Dana, 199. 
 Dane, 95. 
 
 Darlington, 86. 
 Davenport, 75. 
 Davis, 233, 278. 
 Day, 39, 53. 
 Deane, 61, 74,234,280. 
 Dexter, 148, 232. 
 Dickinson, 196. 
 Dinsmore, 218. 
 Dodd, 38. 
 
 Drake, 44, 232, 280. 
 Dubois, 47, 155. 
 Dudley, 53, 176, 234. 
 Dumaresq, 181. 
 Dunnell, 173. 
 
 Eager, 234. 
 Eastman, 224. 
 Eliot, 94, 2.32. 
 Emmett, 110. 
 Everett, 156. 
 Ewer, 60. 
 Ewing, 138. 
 
 Farmer, 30, 32, 33, 36, 
 
 253. 
 Farr, 187. 
 Farrar, 87. 
 Faxon, 42, 133. 
 Fenton, 220. 
 Fessenden, 69. 
 Field, 152, 178, 194. 
 Fiske, 222, 223, 230. 
 Flint, 153. 
 Foote, 61. 
 Fowler, 125. 
 Freeman, 161. 
 French, 36, 133. 
 Frost, 81. 
 Frothiualiam, 70. 
 Fuller, i41. 
 
 Gale, 191, 209. 
 Gardner, 130. 
 Geer, 111. 
 Gibbs, 45, 227. 
 Gilbert, 71, 232, 258. 
 Giles, 187. 
 Gilman, 179, 191. 
 Gilpin, 2;52.
 
 286 
 
 Index. 
 
 Glover, 313. 
 Goddard, 35. 
 Goodhue, 35. 
 Goodwin, 45, 61, 268. 
 Gould, 41, 187. 
 Goulding, 116. 
 Green, 133, 135, 164. 
 Greenleaf, 94. 
 Greenough, 183. 
 Griswold, 229. 
 Grout, 1.16, 127. 
 Guild, 223. 
 
 Hall, 105. 
 Ham, 72. 
 Hancock, 234. 
 Harding, 185. 
 Harris, 169. 
 Hart, 225. 
 Harwood, 37. 
 Hastings, 207. 
 Haven, 41, 60. 
 Haydeu, 133, 146. 
 Hayward, 229. 
 Heard, 72. 
 Herrick, 46. 
 Hildreth, 120. 
 Hill, 75, 134, 263. 
 Hinckley, 144. 
 Hinman, 109, 261. 
 Hobart, 36. 
 Hobbs, 101. 
 Hodges, 38, 87. 
 Holbrook, 80, 116, 133. 
 liolgate, 256. 
 Holmes, 187, 195. 
 Holt, 189. 
 Homes, 277. 
 Hosmer, 170. 
 Houghton, 52. 
 Hoyt, 119. 
 Hubbard, 144. 
 Hunt, 178. 
 
 Huntington, 126, 182. 
 Hurlburt, 169. 
 Hutchins, 201. 
 Hutchinson, 127, 200, 
 
 201,204. 
 Hyde, 187. 
 Hyslop, 93. 
 
 .Inches, 121. 
 Ingraham, 150. 
 
 Jackson, 36, 232. 
 Jeuner, 197. 
 Jennison, 187. 
 Jewell, 155. 
 Jones, 37, 65, 232. 
 Judd, 110. 
 
 Kellogg, 135, 156. 
 Kidder, 82. 
 Kilbourn, 45, 114. 
 Kimball, 83. 
 Kingsbury, 145. 
 
 Lane, 108, 120. 
 Lawrence, 48, 55, 89, 
 
 112, 122, 232, 274. 
 Lake, 101. 
 Leavitt, 90. 
 Lee, 75. 
 Lelaud, 70. 
 Leonard, 74, 187. 
 Leverett, 67, 113. 
 Levering, 128. 
 Lewis, 183. 
 Lincoln, 195. 
 Lindall, 187. 
 Litchfield, 98. 
 Littell, 260. 
 Locke, 90. 
 Lowell, 39. 
 Ludwig, 230. 
 Lyman, 196. 
 
 McKinstry, 131, 204. 
 Makepeace, 129. 
 Marshall, 187. 
 Marvin, 55. 
 ]\Iaskell, 139. 
 Mather, 55. 
 Meade, 270. 
 Merrick, 160. 
 Messinger, 182. 
 Metcalf, 169, 219. 
 Miles, 39. 
 Mills, 133. 
 Miner, 100. 
 Mitchell, 144, 254. 
 Montgomery, 180. 
 Morey, 169. 
 Morgan, 78. 
 Morris, 89, 233. 
 Morristown,251. 
 Morse, 66, 78, 98, 265. 
 Mudge, 203, 255. 
 Munsell, 145. 
 Mygatt, 88. 
 
 Nash, 09, 88. 
 Nason, 145. 
 Neal, 115. 
 Nelson, 110. 
 Newton, 72. 
 Niles, 133. 
 Noble, 69. 
 North, 156. 
 Norton, 142. 
 Noyes, 164. 
 
 Odin, 136. 
 Olcott, 45. 
 Oliver, 201, 212. 
 Otis, 72. 
 Ott, 150. 
 
 Padelford, 233. 
 Page, 233. 
 Paine, 36, 373. 
 Park, 42, 103. 
 Parsons, 81, 334. 
 Partridge, 196. 
 Patterson, 47. 
 Peabody, 149, 317. 
 Pease, 55. 
 Penn, 333. 
 Penniman, 133. 
 Perkins, 158. 
 Phelps, 174. 
 Phoenix, 215. 
 Pierce, 277. 
 Pinkham, 72. 
 Piper, 60. 
 Pitman, 203. 
 Pool, 187. 
 Pope, 174, 320. 
 Porter, 94, 355. 
 Pratt, 159. 
 Preble, 338. 
 Prentice, 83. 
 Preston, 41, 191, 339. 
 Price, 378. 
 Purrington, 73. 
 Putnam, 133. 
 
 Quincy, 40, 123. 
 
 Rawson, 58. 
 Redfield, 32, 88, 153. 
 Reed, 168, 233. 
 Reyner, 120. 
 Rice, 137, 234. 
 Richards, 165. 
 Richardson, 101, 133. 
 Riddell, 85. 
 Ripley, 308, 319. 
 Robbins, 43. 
 Robinson, 37, 149, 187. 
 Rockwell, 83. 
 Rockwood, 108, 116. 
 Rogers, 78, 171. 
 Rosel, 148. 
 
 Safford, 37, 133. 
 Saltonstall, 334. 
 Sampson, 187, 189. 
 Sanborn, 113. 
 Sanger, 78, 116. 
 Sargent, 128, 233. 
 Savage, 234, 275.
 
 Index. 
 
 287 
 
 Sawin, 215. 
 ScrantoQ, 105. 
 Sears, 98, 272. 
 Sewell, 284. 
 Sharpless, 31. 
 Shattuck, 100. 
 Sheldon, 2()4. 
 Sheltou, 121. 
 Shippen, 263. 
 Shrimpton, 93. 
 Shurtletr, 67. 
 Si£!:ournej', 121. 
 Sm, 100. 150. 
 Smith, 59, 72, 83. 
 Sohier, 121. 
 Somerbj^ 234. 
 Sparhawk, 197. 
 Spofford, 76. 
 Sprague. 34. 49. 
 Stackpole, 72. 
 Stebbins, 29. 
 Steele, 143. 
 Stetson, 49. . 
 Stiles, 147, 179. 
 Stoddard, 59, 200. 
 Stone, 209. 
 Sturgis, 234. 
 Sumner, 93, 234. 
 Swett, 77. 
 
 Taintor, 50, 146. 
 Tappan, 173, 277. 
 Taj'lor, 170. 
 Temple, 109. 
 
 Thayer, 36, 133. 
 
 Thomas, 233. 
 [Tliomson, 49. 
 vThornton, 71, 77, 232, 
 
 Thurston, 203. 
 Towne, 226. 
 To^vnsend, 193. 
 Tracy, 188. 
 Trask, 84, 93, 280. 
 Trowbridge, 96. 
 Tucker, 77. 
 Turner, 85. 
 Tuttle, 72. 
 Twitchell,116. 
 
 Upham, 44. 
 
 Vail, 273. 
 Van Brunt, 221. 
 Varney, 72. 
 Vaughn, 198. 
 Very, 187. 
 Vinton, 133, 136. 
 
 Waldo, 190. 
 
 Waldron, 72, 234. 
 Wales, 36. 
 Walker, 166. 
 Wallingford, 72. 
 Ward, 79. 
 Ware, 84. 
 Warren, 96. 
 
 Washington, 157, 172, 
 
 206, 234. 
 Watkins, 227. 
 Watson, 29, 72, 192, 193. 
 Watts, 101. 
 Webb, 187, 
 Webster, 37. 
 Wellman, 218. 
 Wells, 57, 232. 
 Wetmore, 99, 167. 
 Whipple, 118, 120. 
 White, 36, 133, 154. 
 Whitman, 34. 
 Whitmore, 99, 105,215, 
 
 264. 
 Whitney, 102, 122, 138, 
 
 158. 
 Whittemore, 99. 
 Whittlesey, 102. 
 Wigglesworth, 183. 
 Wight, 57. 
 Wilder, 212. 
 Willard, 132. 
 Williams, 51. 
 Willoughby, 193. 
 Winslow, 183. 
 Winsor, 50. 
 
 Winthrop, 185, 186, 210. 
 Wistar, 234. 
 Wiswall, 149. 
 Wolff, 577. 
 Woodman, 103, 107. 
 Worcester 111.
 
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