Records of the Guthrie Family, of Pennsylvania, Connecticut, And
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V *^v *4 7 IRecorbe ot tbe (3utbrie jfamil^, of pennsplrania, Connecticut, an& IDicGinia, witb ances* trp of tbose wbo bav>e intermarried witb tbe family. Ibarrict 1R. ant) jBvclmc Gutbrtc Dunn. "O God, we with our ears have heard. Our fathers have us told, What works thou in their days hadst done, Ev'n in the days of old." publisbeO b^ lb. 1ft. anD S, %. ®unn, Cbicago, IFll. 1898. COPYRIGHT JULY, 1 898 BY H. N. AND E. G. DUNN CHICAGO. r^i\A nf>£!7 MISS EVELINE GUTHRIE DUNN. preface- have Appreciating to the full the kindness of all who wish especially to assisted us in collecting these records, we and Mrs. H. M. tender our thanks to Mrs. M. Harriet Griffin Tugby, of Martin, of Chicago, also Miss Harriette Mary valuable aid. Frampton, Cotterell, England, for much reluctantly been Other data of the Guthrie family we have in this publi- obliged to forego the pleasure of incorporating trust at no far cation by reason of indefinite connections. We also to publish a his- distant date to issue a second edition, and shall be pleased to torical record of the Dunn family, be interested. receive communications from any who may < H O u Pi < oPi wI H < u 5 H *1 CI z ^ Scotch. Scotch. STO PRO VERITATE STO PRO VERITATE English Scotcli. Scotch EX UNTTATE INCREMENTUM DITAT ET AI^IT GUTHRIE CRESTS 1Rccor^9 of The name of Guthrie is an ancient and honorable one, the name of a family of great antiquity in Scotland like the Chief most ancient is of local origin, being assumed by the when such designations were adopted from his lands in Forfarshire. In the year 1299, after the great Sir William Wallace had resigned the guardianship of Scotland and retired to France, Guthrie the Northern Lords of that Kingdom sent Squire the to desire his return, that he might assist in opposing English. Guthrie embarked at Aberbrothock, landed at retinue Sluis from whence they conveyed Wallace and his back to Montrose.— Life of Sir William Wallace. " Crawfurd in his lives of the officers of State says, That Charter from the Guthries held the Barony of Guthrie by King David the IL; but that they were men of rank and property long before the reign of James IL, is manifest by is a witness, in a the fact that Master Alexander of Guthrie, of Gorden, to charter granted by Alexander Seaton, Lord Aug. i, William Lord Keith, afterward Earl Marshall, dated lands of Kilkandrum in the 1442. and that he obtained the Forfar, to him- Barony of Lower Leslie, and Sheriffdom of spouse, by charter from self and Marjory Guthrie, his Superior, dated April George, Lord Leslie, of Leven, the Marjory, he had three 10, 1457. By the above-mentioned of whom the eldest, Sir sons, David, James, and William, of Forfar in David Guthrie, Baron of Guthrie, was Sheriff Armour Bearer to Kmg 1457 He held the situation of Lord Treasurer of Scotland James III., and was constituted continued until 1467, when he was in 1461; in which post he appointed Comptroller of the Exchequer." In 1469 he was made Lord Register of Scotland; and in the part of 1472, we find him one of the embassadors on Scotland, who met those of England on April 25, in that year, at New Castle, and concluded a truce until the month of July, 1473. In 1473 he was constituted Lord Chief Jus- tice of Scotland.—From Burke's History of the Landed Gentry. Guthrie Castle is still entire; an enshrined bell is pre- served within the castle. Anderson, in his "History of Scotland in Early Christian Times," describes the bell as follows: "The other example of an enshrined bell is that pre- served in Guthrie Castle in Forfarshire; the Church of Guthrie having been a dependency of the Cathedral of Brechin. "The bell is of hammered iron, measures S}4 inches high including the handle, and 5>^x4^ inches across the mouth. The decorations of the shrine or case which is of bronze or brass, consists of silver work, and niello with traces of gild- ing, and the remains of settings of precious stones; it pos- sesses none of the zoomorphic features which distinguish earlier work. " In the centre of the front of the shrine is a representa- tion of the crucifixion in the style of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. "Above the crucified figure is a representation of God the Father in the manner in which He was usually repre- sented as King in the fourteenth century, viz:—Crowned and bearded and half length. On each side is the figure of a bishop robed and mitred. "One figure on the side of the shrine is in a much ruder .style of art than the others, and may have belonged to an earlier covering than that which now encloses the bell. At the bottom of the case is an inscription in lettering, appar- ently of the fourteenth century:" " Johatmes Alexa?idri Me Fieri FecitT The Rev. Thomas Guthrie in his autobiography says: "The name of Guthrie is an ancient one; the name of a very old family in Forfarshire." Greater honor still in these words: " Famous Guthrie's Head." It stands on the Martj'r's Monument in the Greyfriars Church-yard of Edinburgh, being, with the exception of Q < H o u IT! k" O Pi D 5 w X u c^ X u en < 5 >^ w Argyle's, and Renvvick's, the only name of the eighteen thousand who perished in the days of the Cov^enant that has the honor of standing on that famous and sacred stone. Chambers' describes Greyfriars Church-yard, Edinburgh, in the following manner: '•This old cemetery,—the burial-place of Buchanan, George Jameson, the painter, ])r. Blair, and many other men of note,—whose walls are a circle of aristocratic sepul- chers, will ever be memorable as the scene of the Signing of the Covenant; the document having first been produced in the church, after a sermon by Alexander Henderson, and signed b}' all the congregation from the Earl of Sutherland downward, after which it was handed out to the multitudes assembled in the kirk-yard, and signed on the flat monu- ments amidst tears, prayers, and aspirations, which could find no words; some writing with their blood. Near by, resting well from all these struggles, lies the preacher under a square obelisk-like monument; near also rest in equal peace, the Covenants enem}-. Sir George Mackenzie. " The inscriptions on Henderson's stone was ordered by Parliament, to be erased at the restoration, and small de- pressions are pointed out in it, as having been inflicted by bullets from the soldiery when executing this order. With the 88 came a new order of things, and the inscriptions were then quietly reinstated." James Guthrie was described by Oliver Cromwell as "The short man that would not bow." Chambers in his " History of Eminent Scotsmen," says: " James Guthrie, the Martyr, one of the most zealous of the protesters as they were called during the religious troubles of the seventeenth centur\', was the son of the Laird of Guthrie. He became teacher of philosophy, and was much esteemed, as well for the equanimity of his temper as for his erudition. " He was minister at Stirling and executed on account of his writings in Edinburgh June i, i66i." On account of the religious persecutions under which the famil\- suffered, James, John and Robert Guthrie decided to leave Edinburgh and seek security and repose in the New World. of They first settled in Boston. The earliest record James Guthrie we find from Suff. Pro. VI. 416, in the will of John says, " I give Richardson, dated May 7, 1683, in which he and bequeath unto James Guthrie all I have in the world except twenty shillings to buy John Harris a ring and ten shillings to buy John Kyte a ring." Raynsford. iJOHN John Ramsey. John Guthrie removed from Boston to Litchfield Co., Conn., where he died about 1730. 2. John Guthrie, son of John, removed from Durham, Conn., to Stratford, Conn., where he purchased the homestead of Samuel Beardsley, Nov. i, 1726. He returned to Durham about 1734, later to Woodbury, Conn., where he became an honored and wealthy citizen, owning large tracts of land in Woodbury and adjoining towns. He married first, Abigail Coe, of Stratford, in June, 1727. He married second, Susan- na . Abigail Coe was born Nov. ii, 1702, and was the daughter of John and Mary (Hawley) Coe. She united with the First Congregational church in Stratford, in 1726; her father, Captain John Coe, son of Robert and Susanna Coe, was bornin Stratford, May 10, 1658; married Mary Hawley, Dec. 20, 1682. He became a distinguished citizen of Strat- ford, was appointed by General Assembly respectively: En- sign, Lieutenant and Captain, and was a Deput}' from ijO' to 1715. He died April 19, 1741, aged 83 years. Robert Coe, father of Captain John Coe. and grand-father of Abigail (Coe) Guthrie, was born in 1627, in England, mar- ried at Hempstead, L. L, Susanna . He died in 165Q. The following lines were written at the time of his death, by the Rev. Abraham Pierson, of Branford, Conn., the father r' the first president of Yale College: " Rest blessed Coe, upon thy bed of ease, r the quiet grave with thee is no decease, 4 CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, Stratford, Conn. All, all our anguish hath its period fixed, Ere hence we go; not any joy but mixed.