DOCSLIB.ORG

Four Brothers in the American Revolution

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Four Brothers in the American Revolution Four Brothers In The American Revolution The family background and the careers of Timothy, Darius, Bax­ ter, and Bezaleel Howe with a partial list of their descendants BY HERBERT BARBER HO\VE PRIVATELY PRINTED I 9 5 7 I !t-1 lw1 I l\:11 l)('J """ t· J ,,,,:..' I q·,; IN LOVING MEMORY We, the wife and children of the late Herbert Barber Howe, publish this manuscript in loving memory of the author, exactly as we found it at the time of his death, May 2, 1957. The only significant change in the text is the addition of the names of a few descendants which were sent to the author during his last illness. Elizabeth Blossom Runyon Howe Alice Runyon Howe Wendt Jane Eno Howe McGeary Emeline Barnard Howe Malpas David Fitz Randolph Howe August 1, 1957 These famifv notes are In memory of Colone.l Thomas Howe of Massachusetts Prominent during Queen Anne's War And the great grandfather of The Four Brothers V FOREWORD The purpose of this study is twofold; to depict realistically four men who served in the armed forces during the Revolution and to outline their descendants, widespread and various. Here is strange and far from conventional reading. The home ties of the fifth generation Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Puritans were disrupted, revealing its members, prior to the Lexington Alarm, resident in western Massachusetts, New York and New Hampshire. Yet, whereever they were, without taint of Loyalism, they served the cause of the United Colonies. One with his family endured the Wyoming Massacre. Three suffered at Valley Forge. Yorktown took the life of the third brother. After the conflict closed the survivors lived in western Massachusetts, New York-two on its frontier, another on Manhattan Island-and Vermont. Amid all these changes it was inevitable that blind spots should cloud the sources. But all the facts available have been used in the plain, unvarnished biographies. Basic to every study of the family is Daniel Wait Howe's monumental geneal­ ogy. Appreciation for this im·aluable work is unbounded. Since its publication, 1929, there has come to light much material not only carrying the list into the twelfth generation but also correcting errors. Nevertheless, the oldest daughter and the sec­ ond son of the Rernlutionary generation have only inadequate records of grand­ children and to date no living descendants are known. The only extant portrait is that of the youngest brother. Serious as are these shortcomings, it seems worthwhile to publish the information generously furnished by interested friends and history­ conscious members of the family. To them, one and all, for their cooperation are due most sincere thanks. H.B.H. Mount Kisco, :--ew York March I, 1957 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Descendants of Timothy Howe 29 Through his daughter, Lydia Howe Davis 47-Benjamin Thorne Gilbert 4:21, through his son Bezaleel Howe 3rd 48-Margaret Howe Strader Barth 555. Descendants of Baxter Howe 32 Through his son Brigham Howe 77-Walter Howe 561, Margaret Bruce Howe Crapo 562, Bruce Howe 563, Calderon Howe M. D. 564, William Travers Jerome 3rd 566. Descendants of Bezaleel Howe Jr. 33 Through his son George Cooper Howe 81-Russell Lowe Gilbert 469, Harriet Hul­ dah Gilbert Tougas 471, Evelyn Howe Townsend 473, Bezaleel Howe & Florence' Mae Piennan Whitmore 477, Rose Naomi Whitmore Gastmeyer 478. Through his son John Moffat Howe 83-Helen Batchelor Munroe 374, Ruth Eno Howe Wilder 387, Edith Howe Kip 388, John Canfield Howe Jr. 389, :Mary Howe vii \faxim Cowdrey 390, Ella Howe Halsted Cox 391. Emelcen Carlisle Hill 392, John Howe Carlisle M. D. 395, .\fargaret Armstrong Halsted 397. Roe Howe Lagarde 490, David Fitz Randolph Howe Sr. 495. Alice Joan Hinds Wilder 497, !\filo West \Yilder 3rd -J.98, Eleanor Smith Howe 502. Lorine Byles Howe .'i03. \farv Bartlett Cowdrey 505, Miriam Young Isherwood 'ill, Da,id Halsted Riege \L D. 51:;, John Hicks Riege 516. Through his daughter Catherine Howe Spelman 86-Jamcs \falcolm Belcher Sr. 520, Zachariah Belcher Jr. 'i21, .\fary Watts llckhcr Young 'i22. Jane .\ugmta Rush­ more Houghton 52'i. Ralph Rushmore 528, :",orman Dodd 531. Counsellors and Researchers Elizabeth Brigham Cleavelano, Vermont Genealogist; Charles Kenneth Clinton. \:ew York State Society of the Cincinnati; Frances Coleman. Kentuckr Historical Society: Harry S. Douglass, Wyoming County Historian; Caroline Dunn. lndiana Historical Society; James J. Heslin, New York Historical Society; Edna Jacobsen, \:ew York State Library; Arthur S. Maynard, \:ew York Genealogical and Biographical Society; Elizabeth D. Meier, Drew l.iniversitv Library; Carlton 0. !\filler. Colgate l'niversity Alumni Corporation; Augusta Robinson, \fount Kisco Public Library; .\farv Smith. Town Clerk of \:ew Marlboro; :\atalie M. Seth, Westchester County Genealogist; Frank :\. Spencer, Sharon Historical Society; Henry C. Strippel and \fildred E. Struble, \1/estchester Count, Historical Society: Emilv-Mae Thomas. \'enuont Histor­ ical Society; M. Halsey Thomas, C0lumbia University Library; .\my Ver ;'liooy. Dutches, County Historical Society; also the staffs of the Evamille Public Library; of the Genealogical and Local History Room of the :'sew York Public Library; of the Rockport Public Library and of the Williams College Library. Abbreviations and Explanations a. adopted d. died b. born dau. daughter of bapt. baptized m. married bur. buried rem. removed to C. approximately res. residence cem. cemetery s. son of Index numbers indicate persons (not pages). Names marked with asterisk are carried forward for additional informa­ tion, viii CONTENTS Foreword and Acknowledgments vu The Wayside Inn x1 The American Forebears !st to 4th generations John and Mary Howe l Thomas and Sarah Hosmer Howe 3 Jonathan and Lydia Brigham Howe 5 Bezaleel and Anna Foster-Wilkins Howe 7 The Revolutionary War Generation-the 5th in America Susannah Howe and William Wood 14 Timothy Howe, Elizabeth Andrus and Zipporah Cash 14 Edith Howe and Timothy Bradford 24 Darius Howe and Louise Church 24 Baxter Howe, Levina Taylor and Mary Moone 31 Bezaleel Howe Jr., Hannah Merritt and Catherine ~foffat 4 l Their Descendants-6th to 12th Generations 55 Index 106 ILLUSTRATIONS Bezaleel Howe, Jr. 58 Catherine Moffat Howe 59 Catherine Howe Spelman 60 Jane Augusta Spelman Fuller 61 Bezaleel Howe IV 62 Harriet Augusta Howe Gilbert 63 Benjamin Howe Gilbert and Russell Lowe Gilbert 63 John Moffat Howe and his eight children 64 ix THE WAYSIDE INN • • • • • To place the Four Howe Brothers among eighteenth century Massachusetts families only three words are required-The Wayside Inn. That landmark was well descrihed in Longfellow's diary. "Drive with (James T.) Fields to the old Red Horse Tavern in Sudbury-alas no longer an inn. A lovely valley; the winding road shaded by grand old oaks hefore the house. A rambling, tumble down old building two hundred years old; and till now in the family of the Howes who have kept an inn for one hundred and seventy five years. In the old time it was a house of call for all travellers from Boston westward." Then the poet immortalized the place in the Prelude of his Tales of the Wayside Inn As ancient is this hostelry As any in the land may be, Built in the old colonial day, When men lived in a grander way, With ampler hospitality, • • • • • • Remote among the wooded hills! For there no noisy railway speeds, Its torch-race scattering smoke and gleeds; But noon and night, the panting teams Stop under the great oaks, that throw Tangles of light and shade below, On roofs and doors and window-sills. Across the road the barns display Their lines of stalls, their mows of hay, Through the wide doors the breezes blow, The wattled cocks strut to and fro, And, half effaced by rain and shine, The Red Horse prances on the sign. In 1692 Samuel Howe, great uncle of the Four Brothers, was re­ commended by one of Sudbury's Selectmen to have a license for the entertainment of travellers. "Our fathers came into this wilderness to enjoy the Gospel-in its purity and the conversion of the hethen but xi instead of converting them we have taught them to be druncherds." Apparently meeting the test, his descendants long controlled the Howe Tavern. His son, David Howe, built the original part of the structure soon to be known as the Red Horse Tavern. A Revolutionary officer, Col. Ezekiel Howe, became the next proprietor, followed by his son, Adams Howe, and he in turn by his son, Lyman Howe. the last of the family to entertain travellers, who died at the outbreak of the Civil War. Of him Longfellow wrote- But first the Landlord will I trace; Grace in his aspect and attire; A man of ancient pedigree, A Justice of the Peace was he, Known in all Sudbury as "The Squire." Proud was he of his name and race, The scroll reads, "By the name of Howe." And over this, no longer bright, Though glimmering with a latent light, Was hung the sword his grandsire bore In the rebellious days of yore, Down there at Concord in the fight. xii FIRST GENERATION l. John Howe born in England, settled in Sudbury, Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1638, married :\fary - - - - ,removed to Marlborough 1657, died there I 680 and his widow in 1698. Almost a century and a half before the firing of "the shot heard around the world" and over sixty years before Sudbury's tavern was built, the great-great grandfather of the Four Brothers, John Howe, came to the :\fassachusetts Bay Colony. Vague traditions mention War­ wickshire as his birthplace and glover as his old world occupation. There is no confirmation of these claims, but in Massachusetts he was a successful pioneer. In 1638 he settled in Sudbury, was duly admitted freeman and probablv married his wife there.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • David Fairchild's Plant Hunting Expeditions in Haiti
    Working Papers Series David Fairchild’s plant hunting expeditions in Haiti Javier Francisco‐Ortega Marianne Swan William Cinea Natacha Beaussejour Nancy Korber Janet Mosely Latham Brett Jestrow LACC Working Paper No. 2/2017 Miami, FL Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center Florida International University 2 LACC Working Papers Edited by the Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center, School of International and Public Affairs, Florida International University The LACC Working Papers Series disseminates research works in progress by FIU Faculty and by scholars working under LACC sponsored research. It aims to promote the exchange of scientific research conducive to policy‐oriented debate in Latin America and the Caribbean. LACC and/or FIU are not responsible for errors or any consequences arising from the use of information contained in this Working Paper. The views and opinions expressed are solely those of the author or authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the Center. KIMBERLY GREEN LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN CENTER School of International and Public Affairs • College of Arts and Sciences Modesto A. Maidique Campus, DM 353 • Miami, FL 33199 • Tel: 305‐348‐2894 • Fax: 305‐348‐3593 • [email protected] • http://lacc.fiu.edu Florida International University is an Equal Opportunity/Access Employer and Institution • TDD via FRS 800‐955‐8771 3 David Fairchild’s plant hunting expeditions in Haiti Javier Francisco‐Ortega1,2,*, Marianne Swan2, William Cinea3, Natacha Beaussejour3, Nancy Korber2, Janet Mosely Latham4,2,
    [Show full text]
  • OFFICIAL BULLETIN Penna.' Militia, Delegate to State Constitutional Convention of 76
    Ol"l"ICIAL BULLETIN N y k C't N y (35648). Son of Samuel and Aurelia EDWARD DALY WRIGHT, ew or 1 Yd C j- (Wells) Fleming· great-grandson of (Fleming) Wright; grandson of H~nry an • aro t~e f John and 'Mary (Slaymaker) Henr! and ~titia ~~p::k:1onFl:t~~~osgr~!~~:;er:onpr~vate, Lancaster County, Penna. Flemmg, Jr. • great gr f H Sl ker Member Fifth Battalion, Lancaster County, 1t-1ilitia · great'· grandson o enry ayma , . , OFFICIAL BULLETIN Penna.' Militia, Delegate to State Constitutional Convention of 76. ALVIN LESKE WYNNE Philadelphia, Penna. (35464). Son of Samuel ~d Nettle N. ~J--j OF THE Wynne, Jr.; grandso; of Samuel Wynne; great-grandson of_ !~mes ynne; great -gran - son of Jonatluln Wynne, private, Chester County, Penna, Mthtla. y k c· N y (35632) Son of Thomas McKeen and Ida National Society THO:AS BY~UN~~u~=~ gra~~son '~· Wiilia~ and Reb~cca (Goodrich) Baker; great-grandson /YE~-:h e:~d Rachel (Lloyd) Goodrich; great•-grandson of Jol•n !:loyd,. Lieutenant, of the Sons of the American Revolution 0New ~ork Militia and Cont'l Line; greatl..grandson of Miclwel Goodrtch, pnvate, Conn. Militia and Cont'l Troops. R THOMAS RINEK ZULICH, Paterson, N. J. (36015). Son of Henry B. and Emma · (Hesser) Zulicb; grandson of Henry and Margaret (_S_h.oemake~) Hesser; great-grandson of Frederick Hesser. drummer and ~rivate, Penna. Mthtla, pensiOned. President General Orsranized April 30, 1889 WALLACE McCAMANT Incorporated by Northwestern Bank Buildinsr Act of Consrress, June 9, 1906 Portland, Orellon Published at Washinsrton, D. C., in June, October, December, and Marcb.
    [Show full text]
  • All Hands Are Enjoined to Spin : Textile Production in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts." (1996)
    University of Massachusetts Amherst ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst Doctoral Dissertations 1896 - February 2014 1-1-1996 All hands are enjoined to spin : textile production in seventeenth- century Massachusetts. Susan M. Ouellette University of Massachusetts Amherst Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations_1 Recommended Citation Ouellette, Susan M., "All hands are enjoined to spin : textile production in seventeenth-century Massachusetts." (1996). Doctoral Dissertations 1896 - February 2014. 1224. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations_1/1224 This Open Access Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. It has been accepted for inclusion in Doctoral Dissertations 1896 - February 2014 by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. For more information, please contact [email protected]. UMASS/AMHERST c c: 315DLDb0133T[] i !3 ALL HANDS ARE ENJOINED TO SPIN: TEXTILE PRODUCTION IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY MASSACHUSETTS A Dissertation Presented by SUSAN M. OUELLETTE Submitted to the Graduate School of the University of Massachusetts Amherst in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY February 1996 History ALL HANDS ARE ENJOINED TO SPIN: TEXTILE PRODUCTION IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY MASSACHUSETTS A Dissertation Presented by SUSAN M. OUELLETTE Approved as to style and content by: So Barry/ J . Levy^/ Chair c konJL WI_ Xa LaaAj Gerald McFarland, Member Neal Salisbury, Member Patricia Warner, Member Bruce Laurie, Department Head History (^Copyright by Susan Poland Ouellette 1996 All Rights Reserved ABSTRACT ALL HANDS ARE ENJOINED TO SPIN: TEXTILE PRODUCTION IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY MASSACHUSETTS FEBRUARY 1996 SUSAN M. OUELLETTE, B.A., STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PLATTSBURGH M.A., UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST Ph.D., UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST Directed by: Professor Barry J.
    [Show full text]
  • When Dr. Fairchild Visited Miss Sessions: San Diego 19191
    Front side of Meyer Medal. Courtesy of the San Diego Historical Society. 74 WHEN DR. FAIRCHILD VISITED MISS SESSIONS: SAN DIEGO 19191 ■ By Nancy Carol Carter n 1939, Kate Sessions received the prestigious Frank N. Meyer Medal for distinguished services in plant introduction by the American Genetics Association. IShe joined the ranks of previously recognized male botanists, including Louis Charles Trabut, a French doctor teaching at the University of Algiers; Henry Nicholas Ridley, an Englishman who learned to tap the rubber tree for latex; Palemon Howard Dorsett, who spent the 1920s identifying plants in China and Japan; and wealthy amateur plant explorers Barbour Lathrop and Allison V. Armour. It was thirty years before another woman received the same honor.2 Sessions was nominated for the award by David Fairchild, plant explorer, botanist and United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) official. A newly-explored archive of letters, photographs and manuscripts at the Fairchild Tropical Botanical Garden expands our knowledge of their relationship. Their seventeen-year-long correspon- dence suggests that he was the most enduring and influential of her professional contacts.3 This article reveals both the professional and the personal nature of their relationship, giving us a more nuanced understanding of Kate Sessions herself. By the end of the nineteenth century, botany had moved almost entirely from its Enlightenment origins as a proper and recommended activity for women and children to a professionalized and almost exclusively male pursuit within the science culture. Some exceptional women made a place for themselves in the field at this early date, but had to overcome barriers.
    [Show full text]
  • Courier Gazette : May 27, 1939
    H The Courier-Gazette f = Entered u Secend cUi« M»ll Matt* Established January, 1846. By The Courier-Gazette, MS M ala Mt Rockland, Maine, Saturday, May 27, 1939 THREE CENTS A COPT Volum e 9 4 ...................Number 63. - The Courier-Gazette Wins A Scholarship Talented Youths [EDITORIAL] THREE-TIMES-A-WEEK “A. C.” RUBS ALADDIN’S LAMP SIZING 'EM UP Editor Son of Ex-Mayor M. M. Philip M&lpas, P ianist, “The Black Cat” WM. O FULLER The American Institute of Public Opinion has been sound­ A'soclate Editor Daggett Making Good In Comes To Rockland Con­ ing out the strength of Cordell Hull. Secretary of State, as a FRANK A WINSLOW_ Auburn (Mats.) H. S. cert with Francis Havener And Most Beautiful Service Station In New Presidential possibility and finds that the Tennessee states­ Subacrlptlona S3 CO ner year payable man would apparently make a very good run. Voters asked In advance; single copiea three cents Advertising rates baaed upon circula­ Editor of The Ccurler-Gazette:— The pianist who will play and England Replaces Old Carriage Factory to express a preference between Dewey, the Republican, and tion and very reasonable. "Charles F. Ross, principal of the accompany Francis Havener at his Hull, the Democrat, expressed themselves as 52 percent in NEWSPAPER HISTORY Auburn, Mass.. High School, re­ favor of the New York district attorney and 48 percent in favor The Rockland Gazette was estab­ concert is Philip Malpas of Detroit, If an award for civic Improvement of the four Texaco pumps, air lished In ’846 In 1174 the Courier was ceived a notice from Dean Howe of of Hull.
    [Show full text]
  • Loyalist Literary Activity in the Maritimes
    GWENDOLYN DA VIES Consolation To Distress: Loyalist Literary Activity in the Maritimes THE LOYALIST MIGRATION INTO THE Maritime provinces has often been examined for its social, economic, and political impact, but it is also to the Loyalists that literary historians must turn in any discussion of creative activity in the area during the early years of its cultural development. Among the approximately 30,000 refugees settling in the region were a number of the most active literary figures of the Revolutionary war period, including such well- respected Tory satirists as Jonathan Odell, Jacob Bailey, and Joseph Stansbury, and a number of lesser-known occasional writers like Mather By les, Jr., Roger Viets, Joshua Wingate Weeks, and Deborah How Cottnam. Bringing with them a sophistication of literary experience and a taste for lyric and satiric writing hitherto unknown in the region, these authors were part of a wider Loyalist cultural phenomenon that saw the founding of a literary periodical, the establishment of schools and classical colleges, the endorsement of theatrical performances, the development of newspapers and printing shops, the organiza­ tion of agricultural and reading societies, and the writing of polite literature as part of the fabric of conventional society. Looking to their old life as a measure of their new, Loyalist exiles in the Maritimes did much to develop the expectations, structures, and standards of taste necessary for the growth of a literary environment. Although economics, geography, politics, and personal differences militated against their founding a literary movement between 1776 and 1814 or leaving behind an identifiable literary tradition, the Loyalists did illustrate the imaginative and cultural possibilities awaiting a later, more securely-established generation of writers.
    [Show full text]
  • Plant Invasions: Policies, Politics, and Practices
    Plant Invasions: Policies, Politics, and Practices PLANT INVASIONS: POLICIES, POLITICS, AND PRACTICES Proceedings of the 5th Biennial Weeds Across Borders Conference Edited by Emily Rindos 1– 4 JUNE 2010 NATIONAL CONSERVATION TRAINING CENTER SHEPHERDSTOWN, WEST VIRGINIA, USA Suggested citation: Name of author(s). 2011. Paper title. Page(s) __ in E. Rindos, ed., Plant Invasions: Policies, Politics, and Practices, Proceedings of the 2010 Weeds Across Borders Conference, 1–4 June 2010, National Conservation Training Center, Shepherdstown, West Virginia. Bozeman, Montana: Montana State University, Center for Invasive Plant Management. Design: Emily Rindos Copyright © 2011 Montana State University, Center for Invasive Plant Management Weeds Across Borders 2010 Coordinating Committee Stephen Darbyshire, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Jenny Ericson, US Fish and Wildlife Service Francisco Espinosa García, UNAM–National University of Mexico Russell Jones, US Environmental Protection Agency Cory Lindgren, Canadian Food Inspection Agency Les Mehrhoff, Invasive Plant Atlas of New England Gina Ramos, US Bureau of Land Management www.weedcenter.org/wab/2010 Produced by: Center for Invasive Plant Management 235 Linfield Hall, PO Box 173120 Montana State University Bozeman, MT 59717-3120 www.weedcenter.org Table of Contents Acknowledgments .............................................................................................................................................vii Weeds Across Borders 2010 Sponsors .....................................................................................................viii
    [Show full text]
  • Working Riders
    June 2001 $1.50 WORKING RIDERS Cycling in Northeastern Ohio P.O. Box 33249 • Cleveland, Ohio 44133-0249 • (440) 877-0373 On The Web @ http://www.crankmail.com Editor & Publisher James Guilford : (440) 877-0373 Club Editors Cleveland Touring Club ..................... Martin Cooperman ...................... (216) 932-6159 Lake Erie Wheelers ............................. John Whitaker ............................. (216) 485-9184 Lorain Wheelmen ................................ David Krebs ................................ (440) 988-9326 Medina County Bicycle Club ............. Tom Dease .................................. (330) 725-1058 PDQ Cleveland .................................... Charles Howe .............................. (440) 235-4458 Western Reserve Wheelers .................. Ed Reichek .................................. (216) 371-5618 Business Matters OUR ADDRESS: Send all copy, payments, correspondence, address changes to the address given above. ELECTRONIC ACCESS: Via email: [email protected]. Fax: (440) 877-0373. To sub- scribe to the forum email list (free), from the email account where you want to receive mes- sages, send a blank email message to: [email protected] ISSUES are published 10 times a year dated: Jan./Feb., March, April, May, June, July, Aug., Sept., Oct., Nov./Dec. DEADLINE for copy: the SECOND Friday of each month before publication. Copy or ad materials must be received on or before the deadline in order to assure inclusion in the intended issue. Next Deadline: June 15. CRANKMAIL (ISSN 1060-085X) is made possible, in part, by a portion of club dues allo- cated to its publication and distribution by the bicycle clubs listed above. The support of com- mercial advertisers who appear in these pages is also vital to the continued publication of Crank- Mail. Shop and buy locally first! “If we all knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?” — Albert Einstein Sign Me Up.
    [Show full text]
  • Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents, July 1914
    Monthly Catalogue United States Public Documents Nos. 235-246 July, 1914-June, 1915 ISSUED BY THE SUPERINTENDENT OF DOCUMENTS WASHINGTON 1914-1915 Monthly Catalogue United States Public Documents No. 235 July, 1914 ISSUED BY THE SUPERINTENDENT OF DOCUMENTS WASHINGTON 1914 Abbreviations Appendix......................................................app. Part, parts...............................................pt., pts. Congress............... Cong. Plate, plates..................................................... pl. Department.................................................Dept. Portrait, portraits.......................................... por. Document......................................................doc. Quarto.............................................. 4- Facsimile, facsimiles...................................facsim. Report.............................................................rp. Folio................................................................. f° Saint................................................................St. House.............................................................. H. Section, sections.............................................. seo. House concurrent resolution.....................H. C. R. Senate............................................................... S. House document........................................H. doc. Senate concurrent resolution.................... S. C. R. House executive document...................H. ex. doc. Senate document....................................... S.
    [Show full text]
  • 70Years After David Fairchild's Famous Exploration, We Return to the Spice
    fa l l 2 0 1 0 70 years after David Fairchild’s famous exploration, we retu n to the Spice Islands published by fairchild tropical botanic garden tropical gourmet foods home décor accessories The Shop eco-friendly and fair trade products gardening supplies unique tropical gifts AT FAIRCHILD books on tropical gardening, cuisine and more Painted Sparrow, $10 Starling Salt and Pepper Shakers, $18 fairchild tropical botanic garden 10901 Old Cutler Road, Coral Gables, FL 33156 • 305.667.1651, ext. 3305 • www.fairchildgarden.org • shop online at www.fairchildonline.com Photo by Gaby Orihuela FTBG contents The trip of David Fairchild’s Lifetime: Fairchild’s Work in the Caribbean: Jamaica A Return to the Spice Islands, 32 23 Melissa E. Abdo, Pamela McLaughlin, Keron Campbell, Carl Lewis Brett Jestrow, Eric von Wettberg 5 FROM THE DIRECTOR 8 EVENTS 9 NEWS 11 TROPICAL CUISINE 13 WHAT’S BLOOMING 15 EXPLAINING 17 VIS-A-VIS VOLUNTEERS 20 PLANT SOCIETIES 49 PLANTS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD 51 BUG BEAT 52 GIFTS AND DONORS 53 WISH LIST My Encounter in the Galapagos, 54 VISTAS Georgia Tasker 42 55 WHAT’S IN STORE 56 GARDEN VIEWS 60 FROM THE ARCHIVES 10901 Old Cutler Road, Coral Gables, FL 33156 • 305.667.1651, ext. 3305 • www.fairchildgarden.org • shop online at www.fairchildonline.com www.fairchildgarden.org 3 MATCH AND RIDE New Trams for Fairchild The Donald and Terry Blechman Tribute Fund: Match and Ride What do you remember most about your visit to Fairchild? The beauty? The vistas? The palms? Probably all of these. But you’re most likely to remember enjoying a tram tour of Fairchild insightfully narrated by one of our dedicated and knowledgeable volunteers.
    [Show full text]
  • Early Nineteenth-Century Printing in Rural Massachusetts: John Howe of Greenwich and Enfield^ Ca. Isoj with a Transcription of His 'Primeras Book,' Ca
    Early Nineteenth-Century Printing in Rural Massachusetts: John Howe of Greenwich and Enfield^ ca. iSoj with a Transcription of His 'Primeras Book,' ca. PHILIP F. GURA ISTORIANS of the book in America who study the pro- fession of authorship in reladon to the business of pub- H lishing have gready enriched our understanding of an- tebellum literature and culture. But to focus, as many do, only on the new nadon's urban entrepreneurs—the Mathew Careys and the Isaiah Thomases, among others—is to offer a pardal por- trait. ' We must balance such scholarship against studies of printers and booksellers who performed a cridcal role in the proliferadon and disseminadon of the printed word in rural America. This is pardcularly important because, as William J. Gilmore points out in his painstaking study of material and cultural life in early nineteenth-century Vermont, the apparent uniformity of cultural life in any area ofren hid enormous diversity. He argues that dif- ferent living situadons shaped disdncdve reading communides, 1. On Carey, for example, see James N. Green, Mathew Carey: Publisher and Patriot (Philadelphia: Library Company of Philadelphia, 1985) and David Kaser, Messrs. Carey & Lea of Philadelphia: A Study in the History ofthe Booktrade (Philadelphia: University of Penn- sylvania Press, 1957). On Thomas, see Clifford K. Shipton, Isaiah Thomas: Printer, Patriot, and Philanthropist, 1749-1831 (Rochester, N.Y.: Hart, 1948), and Karl Kroeger, 'Isaiah Thomas as a Music Publisher,' Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 86 (1976): 321-41. PHILIP F. GURA is professor of English and American studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
    [Show full text]
  • Crucible of War: Conflict in North America 1757–1792
    CATALOGUE THREE HUNDRED SEVENTEEN Crucible of War: Conflict in North America 1757–1792 WILLIAM REESE COMPANY 409 Temple Street New Haven, CT 06511 (203) 789-8081 A Note This catalogue derives its title from Fred Anderson’s superb history of the French and Indian War, The Crucible of War. That colonial war shaped an aftermath of colonial dis- sent and imperial struggle which led directly to the American Revolution and ultimately to the federal government of the United States as we know it. The third of a century covered in this catalogue is the crucible out of which the United States emerged. We are pleased to offer many landmark books here, among them the Paris 1785 edi- tion of Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia; a wonderful James Sharples portrait of Alexander Hamilton; Simcoe’s Journal..., a legendary Revolutionary rarity; and General Gage’s proclamation of martial law after Lexington and Concord. Also offered are sets of the Journals of the Continental Congress and The Pennsylvania Magazine of 1775-76; a series of crucial Revolutionary pamphlets; a set of the Intolerable Acts; and much more. Available on request or via our website are our recent catalogues 311 American Women, 313 World Travel & Voyages, 314 Recent Acquisitions in Americana, and 315 The Only Copy For Sale, as well as Bulletins 33 American Natural History, 34 Adams & Jefferson, 35 American Travel, 36 American Views & Cartography, 37 Flat: Single Significant Sheets, and many more topical lists. Some of our catalogues, as well as some recent topical lists, are now posted on the internet at www.reeseco.com.
    [Show full text]