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The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2008 with funding from The Library of Congress http://www.archive.org/details/newyorkgenealog36newy THE NEW YORK Genealogical and Biographical Reqord. DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF AMERICAN GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY. ISSUED QUARTERLY. VOLUME XXXVI, 1905. PUBLISHED BY THE NEW YORK GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY, 226 West 58TH Street, New York. p Publication Committee : Rev. MELATIAH EVERETT DWIGHT, Editor. Dr. HENRY R. STILES. H. CALKINS. JR. TOBIAS A. WRIGHT. —— — INDEX OF SUBJECTS. — Accessions to the Library, 80, 161, 239, Book Notices (continued) 320 Collections of the N. Y. Historical Amenia, N. Y., Church Records, 15 Soc. for 1897, 315 American Revolution, Loyalists of, see Connecticut Magazine, Vol. IX, New Brunswick No. 3, 316. Ancestry of Garret Clopper, The, 138 Cummings Memorial, 235 Authors and Contributors De Riemer Family, The, 161 Botsford, H. G.. 138 Devon and Cornwall Record Soc. Brainard, H. W., 33, 53, 97 (Part 0,235 Clearwater, A. T., 245 Dexter Genealogy, 159 of De Riemer, W. E., 5 Digest Early Conn. Probate De Vinne, Theo. L., I Records, Vol. II, 161 Dwight, Rev. M. E., 15 Documents Relating to the Colon- Fitch, Winchester, 118, 207, 302 ial History of New Jersey, Vol. Griffen, Zeno T., 197, 276 XXIII, 73 Hance, Rev. Wm. W, 17, 102, 220 Eagle's History of Poughkeepsie, Harris Edward D., 279 The, 318 Hill, Edward A., 213, 291 Family of Rev. Solomon Mead, Horton, B. B., 38, 104 159 Jack, D. R., 27, 185, 286 Forman Genealogy, 160 Jones, E. S., 38, 104 Genealogical and Biographical Morrison, Geo. A., Jr., 222, 263 Record of the Savery Family, Mott, H. S., 58, 135 317 Schermerhorn, Wm. C, 141, 200, Genealogy and Descendants of 254 Henry Kingsbury of Ipswich Smith, Mrs. Geo. W., 53, 97 and Haverhill, 238 Story, Geo. H., 85 Genealogy of the Crane Family, Suydam, W. L., 141, 200, 254 Vol. II, 73 Thomas, Geo. W., 308 Genealogy of the Descendants of Wemple, Wm. B., Jr., 47, 91, 191 John White of Wenham, etc., 248 Vol. III,3i8 Wilson, Jas. G., 169 Genealogy of the Descendants of Withington, Lothrop, 22, 114, 172, Nicholas Hodgson of Hingham, 260 Mass., 75 Avery Query, 150 Genealogy of the Family of Tim- Avery, Samuel Putnam, Biograpical othy and Eunice Green, 318 Sketch, 1 Genealogy of the Wells Family, 160 Beuell Correction, 314 Genealogy of the Westervelt Bible Record of Johannes Lott, 205 Family, 315 Biographies Het Brabantsche en liet Gelder- Avery, Samuel P., 1 sche geslacht Van Vlierden, 233 Cesnola, Louis P. di, 85 Historical Records of Cornwall, De Lancey, Edw. F., 169 Ct., 238 Evans, Thos. G., 245 Historical Sketch of Bruton Ch. Mott, Anne, 58 Williamsburg, Va., 160 White, Philip, 220 History and Genealogy of the Book Notices Stackpole Family, 237 Aldis Family of Dedham, etc., 233 History of Ancient Wethersfield, Ancestry of Bridget Yonge, 317 Ct., 71 Andrew Moore of Poquonock, Ct., History of Berks County, Pa., in 239 the Revolution, 74 Book of Blanks, 315 History of Capt. John Kathan, 239 Branch of the Woodruff Stock History of Marshfield, 238 (Part 3), 233 History of old Pine Street, 318 — 1 Index of Subjects. Notices {continued)— Book Notices {continued)— Book Comstock of Providence, R. I., History of Old Tennent Church, (2d ed.), 316 239 of the Ancestors and Child- History of the Arnold Tavern, Some ren of Nathaniel Wilson, Esq., Morristown, N. J., 316 Howard Genealogy, 236 317 Suffolk Manorial Families, Vol. John Crowe and his Descendants, II (Part 6), 234 234 Tenney Family, 314 Johnstone Family Chart, Amer. Transactions of the Huguenot Branch, 150 So. Carolina, X,75; XII, Lexington, Mass., Births, Mar- Soc. of riages and Deaths, 316 316 Records of Massachusetts, Lincoln Family of Wareham, The, Vital 234 75 Vital Records of Rhode Island, of History, July, 1005, Magazine Vol. XIV, 237 317 Volume of Records Relating to Licences of Carolina Marriage the Early History of Boston, 317 Co., Md., 75 Walt Whitman, 236 the Stearns Fam- Memoranda of Weston Births, Deaths and Mar- ily, 234 , , riages, Proclamations ot 75 Messages and White Family Quarterly, Vol. Ill the Governors of Iowa, Vol. VI, (No. 2), 315 . 7; VII, 233 Soldiers of the Worcester, Mass , Family History, Molyneux 159 Revolution, 238 England Cox Families, 73, New Year Book of the Holland Society, 315- 73 York and the War with New Books for Sale or Exchange, 81, 164, Spain, 74 241, 321 Old Kittery and her Families, 236 Ontario Historical Society, Pap- Books in Preparation, 239, 319 ers and Records, Vol. VI, 235 Order of the Cincinnati in France, Cesnola, Louis Palma di, Biograph- The, 318 ical Sketch, 85 Papers of Capt. Rufus Lincoln of Cesnola, Luigi Palma di, Obituary, 65 Wareham, Mass, 74 Clark, Charles Finney, Obituary, 64 Parish Register of St. Peter's, Va., Clopper Ancestry (see genealogies) 236 Cone, Edward Payson, Obituary, 228 Personal Names of Indians of Contributors (see authors) B., Obituary, 66 New Jersey, 74 Cornell, Alonzo Public Papers of Daniel D. Tomp- Corrections kins, Vols. II, III, 72 Beuell, 314 Public Papers of Geo. Clinton, Yonge, 230 Vols. VII, VIII, 317 Record of a Century of Church Darling, Charles W., Obituary, 313 Life in the Ref'd Church at De Lancey, Edward F., Biographical Warsaw, N. Y., 316 Sketch, 169 Record of My Ancestry. Adden- De Riemer Family, The, 5 da et Corrigenda, 316 Descendants of William and Eliza- Records of the Court of Assist- beth Mott of Great Neck, L. I., ants, Colony of Mass. Bay, 237 279 Archives, Report on Canadian 72 Donations to the Library (see Acces- of Revolutionary Soldiers Red- sions) ding, Ct., 237 Roosevelt Genealogy, 159 Early Hortons of Westchester Co., Samuel Griffen of New Castle N. Y., 38 Co., Del., and his Descendants, 311 315 Editorials, 63, 148, 227, English Ancestry of Richard More of Series of Plans of Boston, 317 the Mayflower, 213, 29 Shaw Records, 234 Some Allied Familes of Kent Co., Evans, Thomas Grier, Biographical Notice of Death, Del. (No. 1), 74 Sketch, 245 ; Some Descendants of Samuel 148 (inset) THE NEW YORK Ibealogital anb ^tograpljical %tm)i. Vol. XXXVI. NEW YORK, JANUARY, 1905. No. 1. SAMUEL PUTNAM AVERY. By Theodore L. DeVinne. Samuel Putnam Avery, the eldest son of Samuel P. and Hannah Parke Avery, was born in the city of New York on March 17, 1822. His father, of old New England stock, (a de- scendant of Dr. William Avery who settled in 1650, at Dedham, Mass.), died during the cholera season of 1832, leaving his oldest son, then a boy but ten years old, with a brother and three sisters, to begin the struggle for existence. At a very early age he found employment in the office of a bank-note engraver, where he had opportunities to cultivate his inclination for the art of design. While yet a boy he began to fill in his spare time with engraving on wood, at which he soon became proficient. Abandoning engraving on copper and steel—an art then most difficult to enter as a master to one who was young in years and of slender purse—he undertook to make wood cuts for publishers and printers. He entered this field too soon. Printing was then in a state of transition. The hand press was still used for the printing of wood cuts, but the pressmen who could properly print wood cuts were few in number. What was worse, the result of the financial panic of 1836, and of the great fire of 1835 were still felt, and New York printers had to be economical to the verge of penuri- ousness. There were not many who could or would pay a proper price for a good design or engraving. Orders for engraving did not come unsought. The positions of artist and printer were then reversed. The few illustrated books of merit then published like Harper's Pictorial Bible and Lossing and Barrett's Field Book were really planned by the artists, and were accepted by the publishers only after much importunity. The period between 1840 and 1850 was that of the comic almanac and the Dave Crockett picture book, the carica- tured valentine and the coarsest kind of wood cut, and the out- look for a better appreciation of good prints was not encourag- ing. During these dreary years of hard work and mean pay, Mr. Avery was qualifying himself for better things. He studied an -> 2 Samuel Putnam Avery. [J govern with zeal and thoroughness the rules and principles that the study ot all kinds of good art and good workmanship. From know prints and painting he derived instruction of value. To appre- why some pictures and prints had been rising steadily in into per- ciation, while others after brief popularity had fallen pop- manent neglect, was not to be ascertained by accepting the the undenn- ular verdict Nor was it safe to trust too much to search for able quality known as inherent good taste. He had to work, to the many causes that helped to create meritorious thoughtfully read the writings and patiently listen to the teach- to be eager to ings of the critics of all ages and countries, had the productions hear and slow to decide, had to critically compare standards of many masters before he could make for himself just proportion. of . , Many years passed before Mr. Avery met with proper recog- William nition as a competent judge of pictures and prints. Mr. T. Walters, a great collector was the first to discern his fitness, induced to abandon and it was by his advice that Mr.
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