Nicholas Smith 1629 Genealogy by Richard J. Smith t\icholas Smith 1629 1968 Published by Richard Jeremiah Smith

Printed by Milton T. Martin Company Saugus, Massachusetts Errata Page 12 line 19 Henry Albert Karl Larm Page 12 line 38 Adelphi Page 17 line 36 Hannah not Elizabeth Page 30 line 12 1623 not 1603 Page 34 line 14 lodged not !edged Page 42 line 3 lame not lane Page 43 line 32 1206 not 1906 Page 44 line 10 Vernon Page 44 line 17 (his wife Isabel) Page 44 line 34 widow of John Botetcourt Page 46 line 22 Nov.1,1840 not July 20,1801 .Page 56 line 14 Broadoak Page 101 line 19 Munsey not Musey

TABLi: OF CONTENTS

I SMITH GENEALOGY 1 - 14 II SUTTON - DUDLEY GENEALOGY 15 - 18 Ill LISSEN GENEALOGY 19 IV DUDLEY - THORNE - HARCOURT GENEALOGY 20 - 21 V THORNE - PUREFOY GENEALOGY 22 ·v1 NOTES ON DUDLEY FAMILY 23 VIl Scottish Kings 24 - 25 V1Il GORDON GENEALOGY 26 - 27 IX MATTOON GENEALOGY 28 X WINTHROP GENEALOGY 29 Xl HILTON - MATTOON GENEALOGY 30 - 31 XII Queen Boadicea 32. - 38 XIIl Ancient British Descent 39 - 41 XIV Descent from Clovis & Charlemagne 42 - 47 xv Romance of the Great Charter 48 - 54 XVI Surety Barons 55 - 64 XVI! Vikings 65 - 67 XVlll GREELEY - SMITH GENEALOGY 68 XIX HOYT - SMITH GENEALOGY 69 - 71 xx WARREN GENEALOGY 72 XXI RAWLINS GENEALOGY 73 - 74 XXII GILMAN GENEALOGY 75 - 77 XXIII MAVERICK GENEALOGY 78 - 80 XXIV SMITH - LA THAM GENEALOGY 81 - 83 XXV ROSS - DARLING - LA THAM GENEALOGY 84 - 91 XXVI MELANSON GENEALOGY 92 - 95 XXVII MORGAN GENEALOGY 96 XXVIlI Newspaper Articles 97 - 101 XXIX Wills 105 - 114 XXX Cemetery Lots 115 XXX1 Bibliography 116 - 117 XXXII Acknowledgements 117 XXXIII Statistics - Massachusetts V. R. 118 XXXIV Additions ii9 - 120 XXXV Index 121 - 125

This is the documented record of one branch of the SMITH family of Exeter, New Hampshire descended from NICHOLAS SMITH (1629-1673) To RAYMOND EMERSON SMITH of Everett, Massachusetts 1968

By RICHARD JEREMIAH SMITH of Everett, Massachusetts

Smitn Family {1629 - 1968)

{ l) Nicholas Smith, progenitor b. 1629 England or New England d. 1673 Exeter, New Hampshire (2) Nicholas b. 1661 Exeter, New Hampshire d. 1 715 Exeter, New Hampshire (3) Richard b. 1693 Exeter, New Hampshire d. 1765 Exeter, New Hampshire (4) Joseph b. 1715 Exeter, New Hampshire d. 1797 Brentwood, New Hampshire (5) Timothy b. 1759 Brentwood, New Hampshire d. 1825 Gilmanton, New Hampshire (6) Noah Greeley b. 1801 Gilmanton, New Hampshire d. 1888 Charlestown, Massachusetts (7) Dyer Sanborn b. 1840 Gilmanton, New Hampshire d. 1904 Chelsea, Massachusetts (8) Raymond E:nerson b. 1883 Somerville, Massachusetts now residin•g in Everett, Massachusetts

CI-ilLDREN:

(9) William Philip b. 1905 Charlestown, Massachusetts (9) Raymond Emerson b. 1907 Everett, Massachusetts d. 1909 Everett, Massachusetts (9) Agnes Elizabeth b. 1908 Everett, Massachusetts (9) Richard Jeremiah b. 1910 Everett, Massachusetts {9) John Joseph b. 1912 Everett, Massachusetts (9) Ruth Frances b. 1914 Everett, Massachusetts (9) Francis Pershing i5. 1918 Everett, Massachusetts

GRANDCHILDREN:

(10) Raymond Gerald Smith b. 1941 Everett, Massachusetts {10) Richard Joseph Smith b. 1942 Everett, Massachusetts (10) David Arnold Smith b. 1950 Saugus, Massachusetts {10) Elizabeth Agnes de Groof b. 1942 Flushin1,1;, N. Y .. New Yo-rk ,.w,11"''r •., .. a.risd.rtli; oe.. vroo1- - b. 1944 Flushing, N. Y., New York (10) Peter Ferna:nd de Groof b. 194 7 Flushing, N. Y. , New York (10} Ruth Phyllis Lann b. 1943 Everett, Massachusetts (10} Vincent John Smith b. 1950 Springfield, Massachusetts (10) Patricia Louise Smith b. 1952 Springfield, Massachusetts (10) Zachary Smith b. 1955 Worcester, Massachusetts

GREAT GRANDCHILDREN:

( 11) Elizabeth Agnes Forsyth b. 19 65 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada (11) Michel Percy Forsyth, Jr. b. 19 6 7 Ontario, Canada ( 11) Sr14wn Anthony Smith b. 1967 Hartford, Connecticut

1 SMITH

This is the record of the SMITH FAMILY descended from :-.;ICHOIAS SMITH of Exeter, New Hampshire. He was born in 1629, either in England or !\ew England, his antecedents are unknown as yet (according to New Hampshire records). In the histories of New Hampshire it is stated that he was related to other families that settled there in the 17th century, but documented proof is lacking, only by the pattern of the relationship of family life in the community is it evident that such is the case. He is recorded as a taxpayer in 1658 and a home owner, having acquired a house from James Wall in that year. Licensed as a tavern keeper in 1659. His first wife's name is wiknown, she died sometime between 1663 and 1666. Nicholas married again in 1666 and had one son by his second wife, MARY (SATCHELL) DALE. The other three children were issue by his first wife.

Administration of the estate of NICHOLAS SMITH of Exeter was granted his widow, MARY SMITH, October 14, 1673. Norfolk, Massachusetts - Court records, Deeds, Vol. 4, page 22.

Inventory of the estate of NICHOLAS SMITH {died 22 June 1673) taken by JOHN CLARK and JONATHAN THING on the 1st of July 1673. Amount 'I/, 129. 5. O., Essex Cowity, Massachusetts, Probate files, Vol. 9, page 7.

SECOND GENERATION descended through NICHOLAS Sl-AITH

(2) NATHANIEL b. Jan. 9, 1660 Died by drowning in 1680, inquest held, since he had been witness to a crime; and was to appear in court to give testimony. A verdict of accidental death was brought in. (2) NICHOLAS* b. Sept. 3, 1661 Married first, MARY GORDON, daughter of ALEXANDER GORDON of Exeter, New Hampshire. Will of NICHOLAS SMITH in Vol. 1, 1635- 1717, Rockingham County records, Exeter, New Hampshire; also Vol. XXXI, New Hampshire State Papers by BATCHELLOR. (2) ANN b. Feb. 8, 1663 Married ISRAEL CLIFFORD. (2) THEOPHILUS b. Feb. 14, 166 7 Son of NICHOLAS SMITH by his second wife, W.ARY {SATCHELL) DALE.

2 THIRD GENERATION descended through NICHOLAS (2)

(3) RICHARD* b. lo93 First taxed by Exeter in 1714. A tanner by trade (referred to in records as the tanner of Exeter). Ma.rried MARY MATOON, daughter of HUYBRECKT MATOON and RUTH (BENNETT) MATTOON. He was buried on 22 April 1765, MARY died 21 January 1772. RICHA'llD 1S will was proved May 29, 1765. Inventory taken July 12, 1765, in amount of 'I/,, 984 7. O. O. , Rockingham County Court records, Exeter, New Hamp­ shire. (3) NATHANIEL b. Sept. 15, 169 5 Seven of his children are recorded at Exeter, New Hampshire. Ref: Page 43 of genealogical section of Bell's history of Exeter. (3) DANIEL b. (3) NICHOLAS b. (3) BENJAMIN b. Feb. 1, 1702 Son of NICHOLAS & MARY SMITH, page 64, Bell's history of Exeter. (3) EDWARD b. (3) JOHN b. (3) ELIZABETH b. Married THOMAS MUDGETT 2 May 1723, he was of Brentwood, New Hampshire. Widow, Oct. 1749. R~f: Noyes, Libby and Davis. (3) MARY b. Married DANIEL LOVERING. Same ref. (3) PATIENCE b. Married JOSEPH EASTMEN of Kingston, Feb. 9, 1729. Sarne ref. (3) COMFORT b. Married RICHARD LOVERING. (3) ABIGAIL b. Married RICHARD BERRY of Bedford. (3) ANNE b. Married CLARKE before 1716.

FOURTH GENFR A'T!O:': descended through RICHARD (3)

(4) RICHARD b. (4) JOSEPH* b. 1715 In Brentwood, New Hampshire, signed the ASSOCIATION TEST PAPERS there. His will is regis­ tered in the Probate Court, Rocking­ ham County, Exeter, );ev.- Hampshi~e. Vol. 33, 1798 - 1801.

3 (4) JOSEPH (cor.t 'd) CALEB and JOHN we re named executors. ELIZABETH (MRS. JOSEPH SMITH) is buried in Brentwood Cemetery and the head stone states that she died in l 799 Dec err.be r 21 at the age of 81 years. JOSEPH is listed in the 1790 census. (4) DOROTHY b. 1726 Married GENERAL NATHANIEL FOLSOM, they had seven children. NATHANIEL was buried 22 April 1765, DOROTHY died 22 Jan. 1772. Both are recorded as of Exeter. (4) JANE b. Married a LOVERING. (4) MARY b. Married a CHESSLEY. (4) SAMUEL b. (4) HUBARTUS b.

FIFTH GENERATION descended through JOSEPH (4)

(5) JOHN b. 1750 Brentwood, New Hampshire, married MEHITABLE. He died Sept. 1, 1837. MEHITABLE died April 18, 1834, aged 82 years. Both are buried in the SMITH LOT, Brentwood, New Hampshire. (5) TIMOTHY* b. 1759 Brentwood, New Hampshire, married MARY GREELEY of Kingston, New Hampshire. Mary was born Dec. 31, 1762, daughter of SAMUEL GREELEY (Samuel was a stubborn tory, adhering to the Royal Cause all his life. He was saved from unpleasant action by the fact that five of his brothers were officers in the revolutionary army). TIMOTHY and MARY married in Brentwood, then settled in Gilmanton. There they remained until their deaths, both are buried in the TIMOTHY SMITH LOT in the SMITH MEETING HOUSE CEMETERY. Four of their children are also buried there. TIMOTHY'S will is registered in the records of the Probate Court, Strafford County, New Hampshire. Vol. 32, page 134.

4 (5) CALEB b. 1761 Brentwood, New Hampshire, married MARY. CALEB died 12 Jan. 1854, MARY died 20 Nov. 1840, aged 76 years. Both are buried in the JOSEPH SMITH LOT in the Brentwood Cemetery. {5} ELIZABETH b. Married CHARLES CURRIER, son of WILLIAM CURRIER, grandson of WILLIAM CURRIER of Salisbury, Massachusetts. (5) ABIGAIL b. Married a man named MERRILL. (5) RACHEL b. Married a man named WI-ilTTIER. (5) JOSEPH b. Mentioned in his brother 1s will (TIMOTHY) - registered at the Probate Court in Strafford.

SIXTH GENERATION descended through TIMOTHY (5)

(6) DUDLEY b. Feb. 4, 1782 Died in infancy at Brentwood, New Hampshire, the place of his nativity. (6} TIMOTHY b. Mentioned in his father's will. (6) JOSEPH b. Mentioned in his father's will. (6) CHARLES b. Mentioned in his father's will, also his brother FREDERICK'S will. Last record stated he lived in Coat­ acook, Canada. (6) SAMUEL G. b. July 1789 Died Jan. 13, 1 791 and was buried in the TIMOTHY SMITH LOT in the Smith Meeting House Cemetery, Gilmanton, New Hampshire. (6) MARY b. Mentioned in her father's will, also in the will of her brother, FREDERICK. (6) SAMUEL G. b. Oct. 1795 Gilmanton, New Hampshire, died Oct. 8, 1823 and is buried with his parents in the TIMOTHY SMITH LOT at Gilmanton, New Hampshire. The ::::::::°:.3:.::.::ie ;:,ears foe ~egend · ~ns1gn". (6} FREDERICK b. Apr. 24, 1799 Gilmanton, New Hampshire, gradu­ ated from Dartmouth College in 182 6. Died in Boston, Massachusetts, and is buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (6) ::--.iOAH GREELEY* b. July 20, 1801 Gilmanton, New Hampshire, died at the home of his son, DYER SANBORN SMITH, on the 12th of March 1888.

5 (6) );'OAH GREELEY (cont 1d) :-.:OAH married ARABELL~ HOYT, daughter of MOULTON HOYT of Moultonborough, New Hampshire. ARABELL.t\. was born May 27, 1804 and died in Medford, Massachusetts on August 1, 1876. NOAH vras named co-executor of his father 1s will. (6) DUDLEY b. 1804 Died 5 Dec. 1857, mentioned in his father I s will. Born and died in Gilmanton, New Hampshire. He is buried with his parents in the Smith Meeting House Cemetery. He never married.

SEVENTH GENERATION descended through NOAH GREELEY ( 6)

(7) DIXIE CROSBY b. June 27, 1834 Gilmanton, New Hampshire, died in Melrose, Massachusetts, June 28, 1892. Buried in the FREDERICK SMITH LOT in Mount Auburn Ceme­ tery, Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was a slave holder and most likely fought for the southern cause. The elder members of the family claimed he had, although I have not been able to find his record. My knowledge is limited to tales told by people who knew him. A bachelor. (7) JOSEPH L. b. May 28, 1835 Gilmanton, New Hampshire, died Jan. 29, 1882 at Belmont, Massachu­ setts. He married MARY ELIZABETH LATHAM, daughter of THOMAS M. LATHAM and OLIVES. (DARLING) LATHAM. They had seven children, all died of plague. (7) ENOS E. b. Aug. 4, 183 7 Gilmanton, New Hampshire, died Aug. 5, 1883 at Bedford, Massachu­ setts. Married SERENA CAMPBELL, no issue resulted from this marriage. Both are buried in the Frederick Smith Lot at MoWlt Auburn. (7) DYER SANBORN* b. Nov. 1, 1840 Gilmanton, New Hampshire, died Mar. 11, 1904 at the Soldier 1 s Home in Chelsea, Massachusetts. DYER married SUSAN A. LATHAM, daugh­ ter of THOMAS M. LA THAM. DYER

6 (7) DYER SA~BOR~ (cont'd) worked as a candy butcher on trains between Laconia, New Hampshire and Boston, Massachusetts. Migrated to Boston after graduating from Gilmanton Academy. In 1861 he enlisted in the thirteenth Massachu­ setts Regiment. At the close of the war, he returned to Boston, Mass­ achusetts. From newspapers of Boston, Mass. comes information on him in reference to his places of employment and the fact that he lived in Charlestown, Mass. , anc was a member of the Francis Meagher Command, No. 3, Union Veteran's Union . .Records from the National Archives give the following data: #1091440 DYER SANBORN SMITH, D 13 Mass. Inf. Aug. 31 / 62 taken prisoner in action Aug. 30, now on parole. The medical records show him treated as iollows: DYER S. SMITH - COD 13 Mass. Inf. missing at the battles of Thoroughfare Gape & Bull Run, Va. Aug. 28 & 30 / 62. No record of treatment found. He received a saber wound on left leg and gunshot w..:>und on right leg. Records state that record of treatment have not been found. (Southern Records). The gun shot wound received on the right leg turned ulcerous and plagued DYER until his death. He returned to the war after his wounds healed, but he may have changed his name, since he was on parole and under threat of o;;;X<::.:: .... :.ivn ii capturea again. I have not found his service record after 1862. His daughter lvIA.UD had his service papers after his death and his son RAYMOND saw listed on one of these papers his battle record and it included engagements after 1862. DYER is buried in the Fred­ erick Smith Lot in Mount Auburn Cemetery. (7) NOAH BRANDON b. Oct. 16, 1842 Gilmanton, New Hampshire, died Feb. 22, 1915 at Winthrop, Massachu­ setts. Married SAPHO WELLS, a widow with children by a former marriage, no issue by NOAH. NOAH was a salesman and business promoter and made a number of fortunes in his lifet'ime. An inveterate gambler, he lost most of his money in speculative deals. He was a partner of L.B. Smith in the silversmith busine-as and once owned the Stanley House in Boston; to list some of his interests. RAYMOND received as gifts from UNCLE NOAH, property in Cambridge port as well as oil stocks worth at the time con­ siderable money. (7) NATHANIEL b. Gilmanton, New Hampshire, died somewhere in the Southwest, fought for the South during the Civil War, was an unruly member of the Smith Famµ y and died by the hand of an assassin in a frontier town. I have seen a picture of him in the past, but it has been lost. There are two NATHANIEL SMITHS on record as fighting for the CAROLINAS, but as one was in the habit of signing his papers with an X, that leaves one NATHANIEL and his records do not give enough information to prove his family connections.

EIGHTH GENERAT:tON descended through DYER (7)

(8) SYDNEY b. 1868 Died of Cholera at the age of six, Feb. 13, 1873 in Charlestown, Massachusetts. tti) .FRANK b. Attended school in Somerville, Mass. and worked for the Boston & Maine Railroad for many years. Lived fo..­ sometime in Saugus, Mass., moved to New York, where he worked for the Vermont Central R. R. until re­ tirement. He married MARY DODD, and they had three children, JAMES, FRANK and GERTRUDE. He resided

8 (8) FRA:-.lK (cont 1d) with his brother RA YMO:"-lD up to the time of his death, after retirement. He died in 1940 and is buried in the Frederick Smith Lot in Mount Auburn. His son, JAMES, is buried in Arling­ ton National Cemetery. (8) LUCIA MAUD b. Mar. 26, 1874 Birth Record, 1874, Vol. 261, page FAXON 240, line 10715, Boston, Mass. Married ARTHUR EDWARDS of Casco, Maine. They had three children, RUTH, KATE HILDRED and FOREST. (8) OLIVE ARABELLA b. June 26, 1876 Medford, Mass., State House record, 1876, Vol. 279, page 235, line 10564. Married THOMAS DECKER, who died Dec. 5, 1906. They had three children HAZEL, ARTHUR and DORIS. HAZEL and ARTHUR died young of plague (diptheria). DORIS married E. WARNER GOVE. (8) PHILIP LATHAM b. Nov. 17, 1878 State House record 1878, Vol. 296, page 192, line 469. He was a seaman most of his adult life and lived a roving one. There were a number of incidents in his life contained in newspaper reports that indicated it was not always a dull one. One such incident being the mishap to the 11 11 ship Rockland , Sept. 1923. He died at the home of his brother, RAYMOND, June 24, 1930. He is buried in a lot in the Woodland Cemetery owned by his mother. He was a bachelor. (8) KATE TARR b. May 6, 1880 Married JAMES a SHERIDAN and had one child, named EVELYN who died at the age of twenty-seven years in the home of her cousin, RUTH (EDWARDS} HITCHCOCK. KATE 7 A.RR (SMlT H) SHERIDAN died Nov. 22, 1907 and is buried in the Forest Hills Cemetery, Forest Hills, Massachusetts. (8) RAYMOND b. Apr. 24, 1883 Somerville, Massachusetts and EMERSON* State House records Vol. 341, page 212, line 10 6, list these facts. RAYMOND lived in Somerville, Melrose, Charles­ town and Everett, Massachusetts. As a

9 (8) RAYMOND EMERSON (cont'd) boy. did not attend school until he was about nine years old, his mother considered him too frail. He was surriptitiously trained from about his ninth yea.r until he was about fifteen years old, by a professional fight trainer named JIM (JAMES) CROWLEY, to handle himself in a professional manner when fighting. This training and his own inclin­ ations toward sports may have been why the fears of his mother and others were not realized and that he lived to see eighty-five birthdays at the time this was written. He worked for such companies as: Lombard Construction Co •• Glenwood Distilling Co. , Custom House Wine Co. , and the Boston Consolidated Gas Co. He retb:ed in 1948. He married AGNES ELIZABETH MELANSON, daughter of WILLIAM WALLACE MELANSON and MAR­ GARET {MORGA.N) MELANSON. The marriage took place in Charlestown, Massachusetts, April 30, 1905. No record of AGNES ELIZABETH'S birth, since that part of city hall, where the records were stored, burned. A baptismal record in the registry of St. Stephen's Church in the North End of Boston, still exists. In the national archives is a record of her birth in the papers listed under the name of WILLIAM WALLA CE MELANSON - her father. AGNES ELIZABETH graduated from the Frothingham School; RAYMOND EMERSON, from the Warren School, Charlestown, Massachusetts.

NINTH GENERATION descended through RAYMOND (8)

(9) WILLIAM PHILIP b. Nov. 25, 1905 Charlestown, Massachusetts. (9) RAYMOND EMERSON, JR. b. Jcly 12, 1907 Everett, Massachusetts.

10 (9) AGNES ELIZABETH b .•-.uv. 5, 1909 Everett, Massachusetts, graduated from Everett High School, received her BBA degree from Boston Univer­ sity. Married FERNAND de GROOF

of Whitestone. L. I. 1 New York. They bad three children, ELIZABETH, MARGARET and PETER. FERNAND died in an automobile accident.

April 5, 1963 1 on the Saugatuck Bridge, Connecticut. (9) RICHARD JEREMIAH b. Oct. 8, 191 O Everett, Massachusetts, graduated from Everett High SchooL Worked for Smith Patterson Co., C. F. Hovey Co. and finally for the Federal Gov­ ernment. Volunteered for service

with the Army Air Corps on June 141

1941, discharged Oct. 7 1 1945, awarded Air Medal with Oak Leaf clusters and the Distinquished Flying Cross. Was recalled to duty in the fall of 1950 and was rejected because of age after starting train­ ing for rear guard demolition duty. Requested discharge and was re- leased in the spring of 1951 (U.S. A. F. ) Accepted as a member of the Ma-

sonic Fraternity in 19461 also as a member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society as well as a member of the Massachusetts Society of The Sons of the Amer- ican Revolution. (9) JOHN JOSEPH b. Dec. 25, 1912 Everett, Massachusetts, graduated from Everett High School, studied art and worked in the advertising business before the second World War. Served in the Signal Corps (Army) until 1945. Married LOUISE MINASIAN of Watertown, Mass.,

a=..~ ::::-.c::,, lld.v~ foree cruiaren1 JOHN

VINCENT I PATRICIA LOUISE and ZACHARY. Worked in Boston, Springfield and Worcester in the display business, before moving to the west coast. They now live in North Hollywood, California. (9) RUTH FRANCES b. July 25, 1914 Everett, Massachusetts, graduated from Everett High School. Married

11 (9) RUTH FRANCES (cont'd} HENRY KARL LA.RM and they have one child, RUTH PHYLLIS. RUTH FRANCES attended Boston University and has interested her­ self in civic affairs. (9) FRANCIS PERSHING b. July 20, 1918 Everett, Massachusetts, graduated from Everett High School. Married MADELIENE CONNOLLY of Med­ ford, Massachusetts. They have three sons and were active in civic affairs in Saugus, Mass. , such as veteran's organizations, which included American Legion and the Sons of Union Veterans, etc. FRANK served in the Army Air Corps during World War II. He follows the same business as his brother JOHN, advertising. *foot note - - HENRY CARL LARM served in the Coast Guard, saw action in the Pacific Theater.

TENTH GENERATION descended through AGNES (9)

(10) ELIZABETH AGNES b. Nov. 3, 1942 Whitestone, L. L, New York, graduated from high school in College Point, L. L, N. Y. Received scholarship in matbamatics, but was unable to accept when evidence of Lupus Erithamatosis manifested it­ self. ELIZABETH continued on her own into the third year of college, at that time she became engaged to a student named MICHAEL PERCY FORSYTH and they were married on April 24, 1964, in Whitestone, L. L, N. Y. on her grandfather's eighty­ iirst 01rthday. After MICHAEL grad­ uated from Adolphi College, they moved to Pinawa, Canada. At the present time they live in Ottawa, Canada where MICHAEL is a member of the faculty at the UNIVERSITY of OTTAWA. (10) MARGARET b. jan. 20, 1944 Whitestone, L. L , New York, graduated from the same schools that

12 (10) MARGARET (cont'd) her sister attended. Aiter receiving a BA degree from St. John 1s Univer­ sity, joined a number of theatrical groups. Last contract was obtained through EQUITY. (10) PETER FERNAND b. Aug. 1, 1<;47 Whitestone, L. L, New York, graduated from high school in College Point, now continuing his education in Ottawa, Canada.

TENTH GENERATION descended through JOHN (9)

(10) VINCENT JOHN b. Mar. 27, 1950 Springfield, Massachusetts, at­ tended school in Worcester, Mass. after his father moved to that city. Now living in North Hollywood, California with his parents. (10) PATRICIA LOUISE b. May 6, 1952 Worcester, Massachusetts, at­ tended school there, now attending school in North Hollywood, Calif­ ornia. (10) ZACHARY b. April 2, 1955 Worcester, Massachusetts, at­ tending school in North Hollywood, California. He has also appeared in minor theatrical productions for some time.

TENTH GENERATION descended through RUTH (9)

(10) RUTH PHYLLIS b. May 4, 1943 Everett, Massachusetts, at­ tended school in Everett, Saugus and Woburn, graduating from Woburn High School with honors. Received her BA degree from the University of Massachusetts. Is now a social work­ er for the state of Connecticut.

TENTH GENERATION descended through FRANCIS (9)

(10) RAYMOND GERALD b. Jan. 23, 1940 Everett, Massachusetts and at­ tended school in Everett, Saugus and Holden, graduating from high school in Holden, Massachusetts. Joined

13 (10) RAYMOND GERALD (cont 1d) the Air Force. On returning to civilian life, moved to Hartford, Connecticut and worked for Pratt and Whitney Co. for a while, then, entered the Insurance business. He married ELAINE MARIE PASCA­ RELLA. The marriage took place in Syracuse, New York. They have one son at the present time. (10) RICHARD JOSEPH b. Sept. 25, 1942 Everett, Massachusetts, attended school in Saugus, Holden and Fitchburg, Massachusetts. Received his BA degree from Fitchburg State College. Married CAROL ANN RONDEAU, who also received her degree from Fitchburg State College. Both are employed as teachers in the Massachusetts school system. CAROL is the daughter of ROBERT RONDEAU. The marriage took place in Ware, Massachusetts. (10) DAVID ARNOLD b. Jan. 28, 1950 Saugus, Massachusetts, attended school in Saugus and Holden. At present time a student at the re­ gional high school in Holden.

ELEVENTH GENERATION descended through ELIZABETH (10)

(11) ELIZABETH AGNES b. Oct. 13, 1965 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, in the women's pavilion at the hospital there. (11) MICHAEL, JR. b. Dec. 14, 1967 Ontario, Canada.

ELEVENTH GENERATION

(11) SHAWN ANTHONY b. June 18, 1967 Hartford, Connecticut, St. Francis Hospital.

14 SUTTO~ - Dt:DLEY

( l) HER VIUS, man or tenant of Earl Alan of Richmand. Held Sutton, 14 Will s1 1079, from whom descended,

(2) HERVEY de SUTTON, Lord of Sutton-Upon-Trent Co., Notts., 22-Henry II, 1175. Had,

(3) ROWLAND de SUTTON, 3rd, son of HA VERSHA.M, Co., Notts., married 1211, ALICE, daughter of RICHARD de LEXINGTON. Had,

(4) WILLIAM de SUTTON, born 1217, died 1267. Had,

(5) ROBERT de SUTTON, born 1240, Lord of Warsop, married LUCY, daugh­ ter of SIR ROWLAND BERTRAM, who became possessed of all the BERTRAM estates in Lincoln and Nottingham, in 1290. Had,

(6) RICHARD de SUTTON, Knt. Lord of Warsop, born in 1265, married ISABEL, daughter of RODERIC, son of GIFFIN, Lord of Shockellack, Cheshire, by BEATIX, daughter of DA YID de Nf..APLAS. Had,

(7) SIR JOHN SUTTON, Knt. Lord of the castle of Dudley 1326, living in the time of EDWARD IIL Married MARGARET, daughter of ROGER(who died 1201). Had,

(8) JOHN SUTTON, Lord of Dudley, born 1338. Married MARGARET, daughter of ROGER de MOR TIMER, Baron of Wigmere. Had,

(9) JOHN SUTTON, died 1401. Had livery of his father's lands in 1382, married JANE, who died 1409. Had,

(10) JOHN SUTTON, Baron Dudley, born 1379, died 1407, married CONSTANCE, daughter of SIR WALTER BLOUNT, Knt. of Barton Co., County Berby, Belton and County Rutland. She died 1432. Had,

(11) JOHN SUTTON, who first assumed the name Dudley, as he was the son and ~e::.:- -:;: :3::.::-::::. !:;.:.:!!~;·, ·..,·a,~ '!::,.;:;.:;:.:. ~.. :~::;: c:1.nci c,wnmoneci to ?aruament as Baron, Sept. 26, 1439.

( 12) EDMUND DUDLEY, son of JOHN (SUTTON) and ELIZABETH (BERKELEY) DUDLEY was deputy Lieutenant to JOHN, Earl of Worcester-died 1487. He married JOYCE, daughter of JOHN TIPTOFF, Baron. Issue - EDWARD, JOHN and JOYCE.

(13) EDWARD DliDLEY, son of EDMUND and JOYCE (TIPTOFF) DUDLEY, 2nd Baron of Dudley, was born in 1457 and died 1513. He succeeded his grand­ father, married CECILE, daughter of SIR WILLIAM WILLOUGHBY, 2nd

15 son of SIR THOMA.S and grandson of BARO:'\ WILLOL'GHBY. Issue - JOH!\', ELIZABETH, ALICE, ELEA:'\OR, JOYCE, JOH.A..~~ES or JA~E, CATHERINE, GEOFFREY and AR THUR.

(14) THOMAS DUDLEY, son of EDWARD and CECILE (WILLOUGHBY) DUDLEY died in 1549 in London, England. His will dated Oct. 6, 1549, states his desire to be buried in the churchyard of St. Migill upon Cornhill, London. He was a citizen of London and draper, freeholder of draper's Guild. He married MARGARET, who died in 1551 in London. Issue - EDWARD and JOHN.

(15) JOHN DUDLEY, son of MARGARET and THOMAS DUDLEY died in 1545 and was buried at St. Migill Church, Cornhill, London. He was of the drapers Co. and a citizen and freeholder of London. Married ELIZABETH, daughter of JOHN CLARKE, died 1563.

(16) ROGER DUDLEY, son of JOHN and ELIZABETH (CLARKE) DUDLEY, married SUSANNE, daughter of THOMAS and MARY (PUREFOY) THORNE, baptized at Yardley Hastings, Co. Northampton, England, March 5, 1559 / 60. He was known as Captain ROGER DUDLEY and died in 1590. Captain ROGER DUDLEY, All Saints Parish, Northampton, killed at battle of Ivry, under King Henry of Navarre. Thus far, answers to the question of his parentage are considered unproven. Further search is being made. Likely he left no family records, or if he did, THOMAS never revealed them. What with the reformation, conflicting Royal Claiments, ·foreign aggression from Scotland, France and Spain, times were parlous in the 16th century. More than anything else, the nobility feared upheavals of the throne. Northum­ berland's ambition in that direction, with LADY JANE GREY, stamped the younger branch of DUDLEYS as dangerous. And, LEICESTER'S later in­ timacy with QUEEN ELIZABETH kept that feeling alive. Even Lord AMBROSE DUDLEY, husband of Lady RUSSELL, was not entirely freed of the attainder till on the brink of the grave in 1589. Likely it behooved both ROGER and his son THOMAS, to soft pedal family connections. That preju­ dice crossed the ocean is shown by the tone of Governor's WINTHROP 1S diary toward Governor DUDLEY during his twenty years of work with him i.."1. Massachusetts. Proof of his identify is in his will dated Oct. 7, 1588. He mentioned two children in this will, a daughter, prob., MARY, baptized o'-'. 16, 1580, ::I'"',:°!~ s~~ THC~Lll..S, !;2.t'!::;;:;.;;~ 8.:~. :z, ~576.

(17) THOMAS DUDLEY, son of ROGER and SUSANNE{THORNE) DU'DLEY, was baptized in Yardley Hastings, England, Oct. 12, 1576. Received his early training in some Latin school - "he was as good a reader of latin as the best clerk in the Co. 11 Parish register of Hardington, near Northampton­ shire and eight miles from Yardley Hastings records his marriage in April 25, 1603, to DOROTHY YORKE. They sailed on the Arbella for America in 1630, THOMAS an assistant Governor. THOMAS was second Governor of Massachusetts, died in Roxbury, 1653. Studied law under his maternal rela­ tive, Judge Nicolls, of Faxton; managed the numerous possessions of his

16 young kinsman, Earl of Lincoln, 1617-27. Elected Governor of Massachu­ setts in 1634, 40, 45, 50. Elected Commander of Military Forces of Mass­ achusetts in 1644. Governor DUDLEY used the DUDLEY Coat-of-Arms, a lie::1 rampant vert with the crescent for difference.

(18) REV. SAMUEL DUDLEY, son of THOMAS, was born in Northamptonshire, England, about 1606, while his father was clerk of Judge Nicolls, and died February 10, 1683, at Exeter, New Hampshire. He came with his father to America in the Arbella in 1630. He married in 1632 to MARY WINTHROP, daughter of Governor Winthrop. He erected a house which stood at or near the corner of Dunster and Mount Auburn Streets in Cambridge, .Massachusetts. He removed to Ipswich in 1634, in company with his father. He founded with others the town of Salisbury in 1638. He represented Salisbury in the General Court in 1642, 1643, 1644 and 1645. He was associated in 1649 with RICHARD BELLINGHAM, and SAMUEL SIMONDS for the county of Norfolk. 2 His wife, MARY, after eleven years of companionship with him died April 12, 1643 at Salisbury. He married MARY BYLELY, of Salisbury. Mr. DUDLEY was pastor at Exeter, New Hampshire in 1650. He asked the town in 1655 to reduce his salary, it being a year of hardship and misfortune. In 1659, he preached at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, upon invitation, and received a call to settle there, with an offer of eighty pounds a year, which he declined, and continued at Exeter, at a smaller salary. He took an inter­ est in mills and farming. DEAN DUDLEY says that "he seems to have been the first in this country to attempt to improve the breed of horses, cattle and sheep. 11 He met with the lose of his second wife in 1651, and later married his last wife, ELIZABETH. His children, so far as known, number­ ed eighteen. He seems to have retained public confidence to the age of seventy-five, and died with the affectionate regard of all who knew him, and his memory has been kindly cherished by every writer since his day. The part of Exeter, New Hampshire in which he settled was later called Brentwood.

(19) SAMUEL DUDLEY, son of SAMUEL and ELIZABETH (third wife); prob. the youngest of her children. Born in Exeter, New Hampshire, about 1667 and married HANNAH THYNG, daughter of JONATHAN THYNG of Exeter. He died at Exeter in or about 1732, intestate. Belonged to the King's Garrison at Exeter 1696 and to a scouting party under Captain Nicholas Gilman in 1 7 l 2.

(20) JONATHAN DUDLEY, son of SAMUEL a::1d ELI'2ABETH, born at Exeter, New Hampshire. Married DINAH BEAN, daughter of JOHN BEAN, his will dated 1761 appointed his wife DINAH sole executrix. His estated was valued at 1/, 1966, 1. Issue - JOHN, JONATHAN, SAMUEL and seven daughters.

(21) ELIZABETH DUDLEY, born at Brentwood, Xew Ham?shire, Oct. 20, 1722, married JOSEPH GREELEY, Dec. 2, 1841. He died 5 June 1799, aged 84, she died May 27, 1809, at Gilmanton, ::\'ew Hampshire

17 (22) MARY GREELEY, daughter of ELIZABETH (DUDLEY) and JOSEPH GREELEY, married TIMOTHY SMITH, son of JOSEPH SMITH of Brentwood, New Hampshire.

Reference: New England Providence Papers. JONATHAN DUDLEY was a warrior in Captain JAMES DA VIS 1 Company (a scouting party in 1712).

Dudley Family, 1894 - Volume l - by D. Dudley

Dudley Family - A. M. Colwell - 1930

Winthrop ii - #259

Mass. Col. rec. ii. 266; see, also 242

Life and Letters of Winthrop, ii 321

Records at Exeter and Concord, New Hampshire

18 LISS EN - GORDON - SMITH

NICHOLAS LISSEN (1) millman, Exeter, New Hampshire, was about sixty years old in 1678, about 80 years old in 1694. Salem and Marblehead 163 7, of Gloucester, 10 Oct. 1648. Bought GEORGE BARLOW'S two houses and land in Exeter; took grant lZ Jan. l 648-9, the first of many, including town rent for sawmill, 1653; selectman 1654 - 56, 1662, 1666. Committeeman on Dover Exeter bounds 1671-2. He bought house and land at the waterside in 1654.

Dover history mentions him pp 402 - 4. Court litigation in lists 376B, 379, 380, 377, 383. 52.

Two wives in sight once each. ALICE, 1666, JANE, married in Exeter, 14 Dec. 1682. He spent his last years with NICHOLAS and MARY (GORDON) SMITH, and died when their son RICHARD was 8 or 9 years old. Called deceased in deed, 20 May 1697. Administration of estate, 8 Dec. 1714 to grandsons ALEXANDER MAGOON and NICHOLAS GORDON: late division to three daughters or representatives. HANNAH, eldest daughter, married JOHN BEAN. ELIZABETH (2), married by 1661 to HENRY MAGOON. MARY, 3rd daughter, married to ALEXANDER GORDON ( 1 ).

See GORDON FAMILY for SMITH - GORDON - LISSEN line of decent.

19 D~DLEY - THORNE - HARCOURT

DAVID I (ST. DA \TlD), succeeded his brother ALEXANDER, 1124. He was a wise and just prince. Married MAUD, daughter of WALDEOFUS, Earl of Northumberland, and his wife JUDITH, whose mother ADELAIDE de GAND, CoWltess of Albermarld, was a half sister of WILLIAM the conqueror. DA YID erected the Bishoprics of Ross, Dunblane, Dunkell and Brechin, and died 23 May 1153, reigned twenty-nine years, two months and three days and was buried at Dwi.fermling (which was built by his brother,ALEXANDER}. His son,

HENRY Prince of Scotland and Earl of Huntingdon, was one of the most accomplished princes of his times and a great favorite of KING STEPHEN. HENRY died before his father, 1152, to the universal grief of all Scotland. He married ADA, second daughter of WILLIAM, Earl of Warren and Surrey, in England, and his wife ISABEL de VERMANDOIS, daughter of Prince HUGH MAGNUS, Count of Vermandois, second son of Henry I, King of France.

DA \TlD Earl oi Huntingdon, third son, married MAUD, daughter of HUGH, Earl Palatine of Chester.

MARGARET Eldest daughter, married ALAN, Lord of Galloway.

HELEN McDONALmarried ROGER de QUINCEY, 2nd Earl of Winchester, son of SAIRE de QUINCEY, Earl of Winchester, a Magna Charta Surety.

EUDO LE ZOUCHE, married MILLICE::--JT de CANTILUPE.

ELLEN LE ZOUCHE, married JOHN HARCOURT, died 1330.

WILLIAM HARCOURT, married JANE GREY, died 1349.

THOW.... A.S HARCOURT, married MAUDE, daughter of JOHN, Lord GREY of Rothe rfield.

THO!v1A.S HA.RCOURT, married JANE FRANCIS, died 1420.

RICn..-\RD HARCOURT, married EDITH ST. CUIR, daughter 0£ THOMAS ST. CLAIR of Chalgrove, died 1486.

ALICE H.A .. RCO"CR T, married \\iILLL-\~f 3ESSILES.

ELIZA3.i::TE BESSILES, :narried RICP...A.RD PE::TTIPLAS or PHETIPL-\CE.

20 A="NE PETTIPLAS, 1496 - 1568; ma!'ried EDWARD PUREFOY, 1494- 1558, and had M-~RY PUREFOY, married THOMAS THORNE.

SUSA!\TNE THORNE, married Captain ROGER DUDLEY, died 1586.

THO:MAS DUDLEY, baptized October 12, 1576, Yardley Ha.stings, Northamp­ tonshire; a clerk to his mother's kinsman, Judge Nicolls; a captain in the low-countries; steward to the Earl of Lincoln; resident some time at Boston, England. One of the projectors of and later an undertaker in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1629; Assistant and Deputy Governor, March 23, 1629/30, at the last Court held in England. Came in the Arbella to Salem, then to Charlestown, in company with Governor Winthrop. Was Governor, or Assistant every year of his life thereafter. Sergeant Major, 1644. Resided successively at Charlestown, Cambridge and Roxbury. A man of large ability and noble character. "The family of Governor THOMAS DUDLEY was, at the end of three-quarters of a century, in complete undisputed ascendancy in Massachusetts. No other man had such hold on the government and the high places before or since." He married (1) DOROTHY YORKE, who was buried Dec. 27, 1643; married (2) 1644, KATHARINE DEIGHTON, widow of SAMUEL HAGBORNE. Governor DUDLEY was buried July 31, 1653, aged 76.

References: Your Family Tree - by Jordan - 1929, pages 50, 193 & 194

Anderson, Royal Genealogies

Stokes Records, Vol. 1, pp 99 - 102, etc.

Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists - by F. L. Weis 1964

21 THOR~E - PUREFOY

~t\.R Y {PUREFOY) THORNE, mother of THOMAS DUDLEY, daughter of EDWARD PUREFOY. She was born at Effield or. the 13th of January, 1494 - died i."l 1558.

ANNE PHETTIPIACE or FETTIPIACE, wife of EDWARD PUREFOY, daughter of RICHARD PHETTIPLACE, of Besslsleigh Co. Berks, was born in Shelford Parva, 16 July 1496, died 3 August 1558. They belonged to an ancient family whose pedigree may be found in Vol. l of the visitation of Berkshire.

Published by the Harleian Society, Vol. 58.

The PUREFOYS of Misterton,Co. Leicester and they married with prom­ inent families. PUREFOY pedigrees in visitations of Leicestershire and in the visitations of Buckinghamshire, published by the Harleian Society, Vol. 2 - pp 32 ff and Vol. 58 - p. 199. Also Sipsimes County History of Bucks.

22 HISTORICAL NOTES

The Dudley family produced in three successive generations three men whose careers, end to end, almost equaled the span of the dynasty of the Tudors, the great reigning house from whose fortunes they acquired their own.

The foundation of the Dudley enterprise was laid by Edmund Dudley, finar..cial minister to Henry VIL Henry VII wished to restore order, but the in­ ventive genius of his financial minister very nearly overset this calculation.

Edmund Dudley came of a professional family connected with the Barony of Dudley. He was a member of Grey's Inn, in a very small society where the qualities of each person was easily recognized, his uncommon ability attracted the notice of Henry VI I, who took over his entire services.

On the death of Henry VI I, public fury demanded vengeance on them (Dudley & Empsen). The young Henry VIII, who inherited the comfortable sum of four and one-half million pounds in money owing to the commissioners exertions, made a popular gesture by sacrificing them.

The three Dudleys who became eminent, Edmund, his son John, the Duke of Northumberland and his grandson, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, had these traits in common-they combined a degree of ruthless self-interest, rare even for the times in which they lived. But they were always known as loyal and devoted toward each other. Guilford was exonerated by the commission that tried his fater for treason, but died with him in preference to living in an England that tolerated (his own words) the rascals that tried his father.

While waiting execution, Edmund Dudley wrote the "Tree of Commonwealth" an admirable work, that in one portion explained the political necessity that Henry VI II was under in ordering the execution. At the time of Edmund 1s execution, John, his son, was eight years old. He was given in ward to Sir Edward Guilford, who was kind to him, whose daughter, Jane, he afterward married. He was a soldier, sailor and administrator under Henry VIII. On the death of Henry VIII, he attempted the seizure of the English throne and in defeat suffered execution with his cioT'I G,_rilfor~ a~c ~2-=-~~y :2-::.3 c.:. ~:!:e ~ea.~::. 0; :-a.y .j'ane Grey, tne wue oi Guilford Dudley.

Robert, son of John, was held prisoner (he was, as his father had been, eight years old when for political reasons his father died by execution) in the Tower of London. A fellow prisoner of Robert was Elizabeth Tudor, both, for- • tunately, were released and continued a friendship throughout their lives that was to irritate England for years to come. Robert Dudley was created Earl of Leicester in the reign of Elizabeth. Roger Dudley most likely served under the command of his Kinsman and died on the continent defending the Protestant Cause that so many of his Kinsmen died for.

23 THE SCOTTISH KI:---:GS

KIXG COLE, COEL or COLIUS I, son of MA.RIGS, who married the daughter of BOADICEA, \Vas not only father of ATHILIS, above,but also the great gradfather of

ALOFE, who married FIACHA STRABHTEINE, 120th Monarch of IrelanJ, died 322 and had

MUREDACH TIREACH, the 122th Monarch, who had

EOCHAIDE MUIGH MEADHOIN, the 124th Monarch, who had

NIALL MOR, known as NIALL of the Nine Hostages, the 126th Monarch, father of

EOGHAN, or OWEN, who had

MUREDACH, who had

FERGUS MOR MAC EARCA, the 131st Monarch, who in A. D. 498, with five of his brothers, went into Scotland with a complete army to assist his grand­ father LOARN, KING of Dalriada, in overcoming his enemies, the Picts. Upon the king's death, FERGUS was unanimously elected king, and became the first absolute king of all Scotland, of the Milesian Race. He had

DONART, who had

EOGHAIDE, father of

GABHRAN, who had

EOCHAIDE BUIDHE, from whose name the::.'~ of the BOYD family is de­ rived. He was the father of

DONALD BREAC, who had

DONGART, died 673, who had EACHAID II, died 698. Had EOCHAID III, died 733, who had

AODH (or HUGH) FIONN, who had

EOCP..AIDH RIN~.A1'1ALL, father of

ALPHIN, who died in t:ie year 834, leaving a son

KEXNETH .MACALPI:::--:, who died in 854. His son

CONSTANTINE, died in 878. He was the father of

24 DOXALD, who died in 903. His son was

~I\LCOLM I, who died in 958, leaving a son

KENNETH, died 994, the father of

MALCOLM I I, who died in 1040. He had no sons, of his two daughters, the younger DODA, became wife of SYNEL, Lord of Glammis, and had a son, MACBETH, who died in 1057. The elder daughter

BEATRICE, was married to CRINAN, Lord of the Isles, and by him had DUNCAN, King of Scotland, slain in 1041 by his cousin MACBETH, local chief of Moray.

"Dwican is in his grave, after life's fitful fever, he sleeps well. Nor steel, nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, Nothing can touch him further. "

MALCOLM III, king of Scotland, son of DUNCAN, called Cannore be­ cause of the large size of his head. He was born in 1024 and became king at the time of his victory over W~CBETH in 1057, remaining so until his death in 1093. He is buried at Icelmkill. His widow,whomhe had married in 1068 as his second wife, was Princess MARGARET, daughter of EDWARD the Exile. She died at Edinburgh Castle, of grief at the death of her husband, 16 Noverr.ber 1093, and was buried at Du.mferline. In 1250 MARGARET was declared a saint and on 19 June 1259~ her body was taken from the original stone coffin and placed in a shrine of pinewood set with gold and precious stones near the high altar. In Scotland, the grace cup is called ST. MARGARET'S blessing. When Scotland became Protestant, the remains of ST. MARGARET and her husband were carried to Spain and placed in a chapel in the Escurial built in her honor by King PHILIP IL Their only daughter was, MA TILDA, wife of HENRY I, of England. MALCOLM III and his wife Lady MARGARET had a son

ST. DAVID I, hallowed by his people but never canonized, who was born m 1080, died at Carlisle 24 May 1153. He was King of Scotland from 1024, until 1--_is ~e~~::. ~..:".. ~.~ ·.;·.:;..:, .:. ·.~ .:..,,c: .... :.J j ... s~ i:(ir.g. in .i. .i. .i. ,;, ne marriea MAT ILDA, who died-in 1131, daughter of WALTHEOF, Earl of Northumberland, and JUDITH, his wife, a niece of WiLLIAM T:he Co::que:::-or. King DA VI:) and 1-lA. TILDA we re par­ ents of

HE=--:R Y, Prince of Scotland and Earl of Huntingdon.

See Dudley - Thorne - Harcourt line of descent for continuation of Ge:-ie:-ation

25 THE GORDON FAMILY

Motto: "Do well and let them say"

Arms: Azure, three boar's heads, couped or.

Crest: A boar's head couped or.

Slogan: "A Gordon! A Gordon!"

Badge: Iadh-shlat, Eitheann (Ivy).

This family name is derived from the scottish word meanding a wedge shaped hill. The fact that the earliest records list the name as de Gordon suggests that the family originally came from France, probably during the Norman Invasion under William the Conqueror.

The Gordon arms commemorate the killing of a wild boar by a knight of the Gordon clan which had overrun the lands of king Malcolm Canmore; the king rewarded him with a grant in Berwickshire. Records of the times list Adam de Gordon and his son, Adam.

Richard de Gordon, a grandson of Adam de Gordon, attained many dis­ tinctions during the reign of King Malcolm the 4th, and King William the Lion, who succeeded to the throne in 1165. Adam de Gordon, a descendant of Richard, lost his life during one of the Crusades to the Holy Land in 1270.

The following is from Sir Thomas Innes of Learney's research on the name, in his book titled "Tartans of the Clans and Families of Scotland".

This surname is territorial. Richard, who was Baron of Gordon in Berwickshire in 1150 and 1160, granted land to the monks of St. Mary at Kelso.

For service at Slioch 's battle, King Robert the Bruce gave Sir Adam, Lord of Gordon, the lordship of Strathbogie in Aberdeenshire. His great grand­ son, Sir Adam, was slain in battle in 1402, leaving an heiress. Elizabeth; 'Wh0 ~~=-::-::.c.:! A:~xca..ncicr, secona son of Seton of Seton. Her only son, Alexander, was created Earl of Hwitly in 1449. He settled the Earldom on his second son, George, who took the :::a:-::e of Gordo:1 and became chief of the Clan which was declared by Lyon Court in 1727 to be in the Ducal line of Huntly-Gordon. In 1599, the sixth Earl of Huntly was created Marquis. His son, George 2nd, Marquis, beheaded by the Covenanters, declared ''you may take my head from my shoulders, but not my heart from my Ki::1i('. The 4th Marquis was in 1684 created Duke of Gordon by Charles the 2nd.

More detailed information regarding this ancient and distinquished family ::nay ':Je found ir: such references as:

26 1. Ancestral Records and Portraits - Vol. 1. 2. Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania - Vol. 4. 3. British Family Antiquity - Vol. 3. Scottish Peerage. 4. Savage Genealogical Dictionary - Vol. 2. page 280, 1860.

ALEXANDER GORDON (1), a scottish prisoner of war, captured at Tut­ hill Field, London, England. He was redeemed by DANIEL STONE of Cambridge, and came to New England with JOHN CLOYES (1) under verbal agreement, work­ ing passage with Captain JOHN ALLEN. CLOYES sold him to SAMUEL STRATTON on the 15th of October 16521 after a year's work without compensation, resulted in his appeal to the courts on February 1653-4, Massachusetts History Sea. Pree. 61. 25. His actions unknown for ten years. He was married to MARY LISSEN (2) before 10 October 1664, when he had an Exeter grant adjacent to land given him by his father LISSEN. Deposed twice in 1678 #40, Lists 383, 5367, 376B, 1668.

EUZABETH GORDON (2) born February 23, 16641 married 26 May 1686 to THOMAS EMERSON of Haverhill, Massachusetts. Both killed by Indians with two of their five children on March 15, 1696-7.

NICHOLAS born the 23 of March 1665 - 6. JOHN born the 26 of October 1670. JAMES born the 22 of July 1673. MARY born the 22 of May 1668, married NICHOLAS SMITH, son of NICHOLAS SMITH of Exeter, New Hampshire.

Inventory of the estate of ALEXANDER GORDON Aug. 7, 1697, amount 4 29. 1. O. signed by THEOPHILUS DUDLEY and SAMUEL THING. Attested by JOHN GORDON of Exeter, a son, Aug. 15, 1697, the widow, MARY GORDON and the eldest son, NICHOLAS GORDON, renouncing administration.

In Probate Records, Vol. 2, page 34, mention is made that JOHN GORDON, son of ALEXANDER GORDON, was cited to appear and give account of his admin­ istration; Mrs. SMITH,sister of said JOHN GORDON, to be notified to appear at said time, and NICHOLAS GORDON to be cited to give account of his guardianship of Sewal 's children, Sept. 6, 1718.

Reference: Vol. XXXI Probate Records, Vol. 1, 1635-1717. New Hampshire Papers Batcheller.

27 M.ATTOOX - SMITH FAMILIES

HUYBRECKT .M.A. TTOON came from Kittery, Maine in 1652, submitted to the jurisdiction of Massachusetts in 1675. Sold land to RICHARD CUTT of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Killed by Indians with his son RICHARD on or about the 23rd of July in 1706. He married MARGARET WASHINGTON, an early grantee of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Noted only in 1663, Feb. 5.

RICHARD MATTOON (2) married JANE HILTON, daughter of EDWARD HILTON, JR. Was from Ipswich, Massachusetts. Took oath of allegiance July 14, 1671. Granted 50 acres of land Feb. 21, l 699-also March 28, 1699, 20 acres up Pucorsich River. Died ab::>ut 25 July 1706. Widow Matun was taxed by Exeter 1716, dead Dec. 1735.

RICHARD MATOON (3) presented his claim against the estate of Col. WINTHROP HILTON on Oct. 3, 1717. He was of Newmarket, New Hampshire - Carpenter, Gentleman, Lt. at Louisburg - married RUTH BENNETT. Children were MARY, ANN m., WALTER NEAL, SARAH m., SAMUEL SINCLAIR, DOROTHY unmarried before 1753, married before 1758.

MARY MATTOON (4) married RICHARD SMITH, son of NICHOLAS SMITH of Exeter, New Hampshire.

Reference: Savage Genealogical Dictionary, page 4 70.

Greeley Family Genealogy.

28 WINTHROP - DUDLEY - I-llLTON

There was a persistent rumor that the Winthrop Family came from Northumberland, and afterward were settled at Winthrope in Nottinghamshire, but the authentic history of the family began with Adam Winthrop of Lavenham.

ADAM (2) WINTHROP, cloth worker, married first 16 Nov. 1527, ALICE HENNEY or HENRY, and had THOMAS, born 8 Nov. 1528, died April 1529; WILLIAM, born 12 Nov. 1529; BRIDGET, born 1 Jan. 1530,died Jan. 1530; CHRISTOPHER, born 4 Jan. 1530 - 1, died Jan. 1530 - l; THOMAS, born Jan. 1533, died 1537.

By his second wife, AGNES, daughter of ROBERT SHARPE of Islington, whom he married in 1534, he had: ALICE, born 15 Nov. 1539, married SIR THOMAS MILDMAY, and died 8 Nov. 1607; BRIDGET, born 3 May 1543, married ROGER ALABASTER; MARY, born Mar. 1544, married ABRAHAM VEYSIE; JOHN and ADAM, born 20 Jal"'_ 1546, died aged six months; ADAM, born 10 Aug. 1548; CATHARINE, born 17 May 1550; SUSANNA, born 10 Dec. 1552, married D. COTTIE who was master of the company of cloth workers, 1551 and in 1554 bought the Manor of Groton, in Suffolk, whither he retired.

ADAM (3) WINTHROP of Groton was a lawyer, auditor of Trinity College in Cambridge, etc. He married 16 Dec. 1574, ALICE, daughter of WILLIAM STILL, Esq. of Grantham, Co. Lincoln and sister of Dr. JOHN STILL, Bishop of Bath and Wells. She died 24 Dec. 1577, and he married secondly ANNE, daugh­ ter of HENRY BROWNE of Edwardston, Clothier. Their children were: ANNE, born 5 Jan. 1580 - 1, died 20 Jan. 1580 - l; ANNE, born 16 Jan. 1585 - 6, mar­ ried THOMAS FONES, 25 Feb. 1604; JOHN, born 12 Jan. 1587 -8; JANE, bapt. 17 June 1592, married THOMAS GOSTLIN; LUCY, born 9 Jan. 1600 - 1, married AMANUAL DOWNING, 10 April 1622.

JOHN (4) WINTHROP, Governor of Massachusetts, married first 16 April 1605, MARY, daughter of and sole heir of JOHN FOR TH, ~sq. of Great Stambridge, Co. Essex. Issue - JOHN, bo.rn 12 Feb. 1606; HENRY, bapt. 20 Jan. 1607 - 8; FORTH, born 30 Dec. 1609, died about 22 Nov. 1630 {buried 23 Nov. 1630): MARY. ma'?"T''ie,:! 'Re". SA~,1T_TS!.. !)t,T!)!..~~ • .:!.:e.:! c..~ s~:.:..s~~ry, :-;ew namp- shire April 12, 1634; ANNA, born 26 June 1615, was buried June 1615. MARY FOR TH, wife of JOHN (4) died about 24 June 1615, and was buried 26 June 1615 (born Jan. 1, 1583 - 4). Married second wife, THOMASINE, daughter of WILLIAM CLOPTON, Esq. of Asteine, near Groton. She died 8 Dec. 1616, and was buried on the 11th. Her stillborn child was buried with her. Married third wife, April 1618, MARGARET, daughter of SIR JOHN TYNDAL of Great Malpested, Co. Essex and had: STEPHEN, born 24 March 1618 - 19; ADAM, born 7 March 1625; NATHAK­ IEL, bapt. 20 Feb. 1624, died young; SAMUEL bapt. 26 Aug. 1627; ANNE, bapt. 29 Aug. 1630, died in infancy; WILLIAM, born 14 Aug. 1632, died young; SARAH, bapt. 29 JuI1e 1632. MARGARET TYNDAL WINTHROP (wife of JOHN (4) ) died 14 June 154 7. Married fourth wife, MARTHA NEWELL, widow of THOMAS COYT MORE, and had JOSHUA, bapt. 17 Dec. 1648, died young. JOHN (4) WINTHROP died 26 March 1649.

29 HILTON - MATTOON - SMlTH FAMILIES

The original name of the Hilton family was "Heltun" and is believed to be of Scandinavian origin. The first mention of the name Hilton was in 1157 A. D. when the name "Roman us", knight of Hilton was recorded. His estate, Hilton Castle, was situated on the old road to Newcastle in the county of Dur½am, England. A long line descended from him, beginning with his son, Sir Alexander, whose son was Sir Robert. They married well, thus enlarging their estate with the resultant quartering of the original Hilton coat-of-arms. It is recorded that the third generation Alexander and fourth generation Robert were swnmonned to Parliament under Edward I and Edward Ill, respectively.

About 1580, ROGER de I-ilLTON emerged in London as a leading figure in the fishing industry. His sons, WILLIAM and EDWARD came to the New World in 1603. They are known as the founders of New Hampshire, and Durham, N. H. is named after the county of their origin in England. They arrived on the ship "Providence" or "Fortune" with equipment for carrying on a plantation, and founded a settlement on the Piscataque River. WILLIAM I-ilLTON and his son, WILLIAM, Jr., obtained grants of land at Pennacook and later at Dover, N. H. WILLIAM, Sr. 's last days were spent at Kittery and York.

EDWARD (1) I-ilLTON was a friend of Gov. Winthrop of Massachusetts and EDWARD, Jr., married ANN DUDLEY, a granddaughter of THOMAS DUDLEY, second Governor of the Massachusetts Colony. The two lines of WILLIAM, Sr. and EDWARD, Sr. merged with the mar:riage of two of EDWARD, Jr's. daughters to RICHARD and JONATHAN, sons of WILLIAM, Jr. These families lives in the area of Pennacook, Exeter, Dover, Hampton, Newmarket, Newberry, Kittery and York. in what was then New Hampshire, most of which they founded. During the Revolu­ tion, WINTHROP I-ilLTON (fourth generation) served in the Continenal Army as an Officer with Col. Scammel 's Regiment.

EDWARD (1) HILTON was in command of a company of settlers sent out by the original proprietors of Laconia. He arrived from London, England early in 1623. Died 1671. His first wife, mother of his children, is unknown. Member of the Fishmongers Guild of London.

,.,..DWAPn~- _-- __ 1?,,-, -----t.TTT "T'A"'·...,., .:o.'l.;..,.ni.Leo'· • l1l· .c,xeter- and 1n· 1· b"-0v , J une 7 , pure hase d the lands of an Indian named Wadononamin. Mr. I-ilLTON married ANN DUDLEY, who was born 16 Oct. 1641, daughter of Rev. SAMUEL (2) DUDLEY of Exeter, granddaughter of THOMAS DUDLEY, the second Governor of Massachusetts and MARY, his wife, daughter of the first Governor of Massachusetts, JOHN WINTHROP. EDWARD HILTON died April 28, l 699. Issue - JOSEPH, JANE, ANN, MERCY and SOBRIETY.

JANE (3) HILTON married RICHARD MATTOON of Ipswich and New­ market, 1699.

30 RICH.~RD J.f.ATTOON, ">On of JANE and RICHARD MATTOON, presented his claim against the estate of Col. WLNTHROP HILTON, Oct. 3, 1717. Died about 1749.

MARY MATTOON married RICHARD SMITH, son of NICHOLAS SMITH of Exeter, New Hampshire

31 QUEEN BO.-'\.DICEA

45 Generations to King Edward III

Rule Britannia! Britannia rules the waves! Britons never shall be slaves! Thus sang JAMES THOMPSON two hundred years ago.

Sad indeed is the lament of the Ancient Briton: "We dwelt in a goodly land. By and by the Romans came and brought us new laws and a strange religion. Then the Romans went and the Saxons came, and the Danes came, and all manner of strange and fierce people landed on the eastern shores of Britain. With beguiling words, they entered our homes and with loving protestations they married our daughters. But soon, alas so soon! they trampled out our hearth fires and des­ poiled our alters; and they set up Kingdoms and kingships among us and now the shepard and the husband-man of the Cymry and the great and Sovereign Lords of the Cymry are gone, even the speech of our fathers has passed from us and the songs of our childhood are forgotten. Once happy,Britain has become the home of strangers!"

Knowledge of noble ancestry should be an incentive to noble living. - Diary, 18 June 1897.

Druidism was introduced into England more than two thousand years before CHRIST by HU GADARN, the MIGHTY, the first colonizer of Britain and for many generations, BOADICEA'S people had been druids. The whole population of southern England, including the ~stern coast inhabited by the ICENI, was under the control of the Druidical priesthood consisting of three orders: (l)The Druids, the guardians and interpreters of the laws and the religious guides and instructors of youth and the judges of the people; (2) The Eubates, the working clergy who per­ formed all the rites, and (3) The Bards, whose duty it was to preserve in verse the memory of any remarkable event, to celebrate the triu.."Tlph of their heroes and, by their exhortations and songs, excite the chiefs and people to deeds of courage and daring on the date of battle.

Notwithstanding its many errors, its terrible idolatry, superstition and cruel practices, Druidism had some points in its favor. For example, it made immol"f'~ lit:~r 0~ ~~e s :-·.:.l :~e ::..3:..3 :: 2.!! :.~-'> ~~4.:::~i.5, noi..ciing it to oe the principal incentive for a righteous life. The defense of one's country in a just wa:- was high virtue in its system. Yet, for a people of such !"e::-:1a:-kable civilization and cul­ ture, their conduct was barbarious and cruel. Druidism declined and at last dis­ appeared because,although it taught forgiveness and love, it lacked the power to perform these virtues. Christianity supplied this power and Druidism vanished, not, however, until it had accomplished its special mission, the preservation i:l Western Europe of the idea of the unity and trinity of God and in extension of this ?rinci:;:,al, it employed the triads, or trinities of li£e and worship, of which :nany hundreds were taught.

32 There is touching beauty in many of these ancient Druidic and later Welch triads, for example:

There are three obligation of every man: Justice, Love, Humility.

There are three rights of every man: Life, Freedom, Achievement.

There are three duties of every man: Worship God, Be just to all men and Die for your country.

Believe in God who made thee; Love God who saved thee; Fear God who will judge thee.

Three persons have the claims of brothers and sisters: The widow, The orphan, The stranger.

A Twenty Years' College Course

There were in ancient Britain no less than forty Druidic universities which were also the capitals of the forty tribes, the originals of the modern counties, which preserve for the most part the ancient tribal limits. In these universities, was a total enrollment of sixty thousand souls, among whom were included the young nobility of Britain. It required twenty years' attendance at college to master the circle of Druidic knowledge, for they taught all that was known concerning natural philosophy, astronomy, arithmetic, botany, geometry, law, medicine, poetry, oratory and natural theology. Well informed on all known subjects were the graduates of a Druid university.

CAESAR records in his commentaries that they instructed their pupils in the movements of the heavenly bodies and the grandeur of the universe. Their knowledge of mathematics must have been considerable, since they applied it to the measurement of the earth and stars. In mechanics, they were equally advanced, judging from the huge monuments which remain. Of these, the most remarkable in England is Stonehenge (hanging stones) on Salisbury plain consisting of 139 enor­ mous blocks from five to twerit~r-t-wn f,:,.pf: ~:g~, 2.~~2.~~e~ ::: 2. :::.:-::::!.e. ~:::_3 ~:-::::.::.::.: temple and cairn is now nearly 3500 years old - older than the Ten Commandments!

In the clan times, the preservation of a pedigree was necessary to main­ tain all that was valuable in blood, station and property. Without a pedigree, a man was an outlaw; he had no clan, consequently, no legal rights or standing. Genea­ logies were guarded with extreme jealousy and recorded with painful exactitude by the herald-bards of each clan. On the public receptio:r. into the clan of a child, at the age of fifteen, his family genealogy was proclaimed, and all challengers of it commanded to come forward. By common law, every Briton held as his birthright ten acres of land.

33 The Order of Druids

No one could be a candidate for the Order who could not prove his descent from nine successive generations of free forefathers. No slave could be a Druid; becoming one, he forfeited his Order and privileges. Here is one of the chief reasons for the long, stubborn a!ld finally successful resistance to the Roman armies. They never conquered the island. It was not until A. D. 120, and then, only by treaty, that Britain became a part of the Roman dominions, the Britons retaining their Kings, their laws and their property, in return prom­ ising to furnish three legions for the defense of the common empire.

The ancient British slogan:

Y Gwir &n Erbyn & Byd

11The truth against the world"

Every congress was opened with the words "The country is above the King". Generally speaking, the authority and the influence of the Druids were as popular as they were great. The extreme penalty !edged in their hands and the one most dreaded was that of excommunication. The terror it inspired is proof that it was not abused and but rarely resorted to. Woe to the unfortunate upon whom this awful sentence fell. He was now no longer considered a human being. Like the beast of the forest, his life was at the mercy of anyone who chose to take it. He had no more civil rights and could neither inherit land, nor sue for the recovery of debts. Everyone was at liberty to spoil his property. None could feed or aid him, and even his nearest kin fled from him in horror and aversion.

It was thus performed: After a year and a day's allowance for the offe:lder to make amends, if he failed to do so, he was brought before the congress and the sword of the Tribe was unsheathed against the offender by name. His name was then erased from the tribal and family genealogies, his badge taken, his sword broken, bis head shaved and the executioner drew blood from his forehand and, pouring it on his head exclaimed ''the blood of this accursed man be on his own head". His forehead then branded, he was lead forth, the herald proclaiming, "this man ha.th no name, nor family, nor tribe, henceforth, let no man touch M~, ~-.:-'.!' S'?eak ~c rum, nor eye look upon him, nor hand bury him, and let perpetual darkness be upon him". Unable to sustain such horrors, worse than death, the excommunica:ted crawl­ ed away to become an unburied skeleton.

Clad in white and wearing ornaments of gold, they celebrated their mystic rites in the depths of the forest. Groves of oak were their chosen retreat. The Druids held the mistletoe in highest veneration, and when found growing upon the oak, it represented man, a creature entirely dependent on God for support and yet, with ar. individual existence and will of his own. Marriage to one woman was early established among the Britons. They treated their wives with a respect which could only have existed amongst people that elevated women to a level with men, and

34 of:en they were willingly governed !)y the widows oi their Kings who, in more than one instance, conducted the:n to battle.

CAESAR'S FIRST INVASION

Caesar found the people living in a very primidve state depending for support upon their farms, flocks and herds. Their houses were rather rudely built, formed of wicker and plastered with mud; and their cities consisted of a number of these huts arranged without order, and surrounded by a deep ditch.

The costume of the ancient Britons was equally primitive, being made from the spoils of the chase. Tertullian informs us, that in preparing for war, they were accustomed to throw off these skins and display with pride their tall, muscular bodies, tattooed in deep blue lines, as the British sailors still do. They cast off all superfluous clothing to fight, a thing which the British school boy con­ tinues to do and no other nation does.

These immemorial usages, rooted in something much deeper than taste or imagination, continue the memory of the true-blue ancient Britons. They were a handsome athletic race, wearing their hair long, and the moustache upon the upper lip also long and flowing; and scanty as their num.bers were, might have always bid defiance to the Romans or any other invaders, had they not been divided by internal factions. Such was the country and such the conditions its inhabitants when JULIUS CAESAR, the greatest man Rome has ever produced, undertook its conquest.

His first invasion occurred on 5 August B. C. 55. Eighty vessels fro:n Calais and eighteen galleys of cavalry sailed from a distant port at about the same time. The troops landed at Deal. A considerable force of the Britons under CaswaEon resisted the attack but the disciplined Romans overcame them. The eighteen galleys with cavalry were driven back on shore by a severe storm and the same night under a full noon at the equinox, the tide rose to an unusual height and destroyed many of CAESAR'S transports. After campaigning fifty-five days, in which time CAESAR failed to advance beyond seven miles from the coast, they attacked his camp, a t~in~ ·.•.-:~::::::~ ;:::-~:c:!c::.~, ;;.:-.~ :-:.c: ::c:ci ·.... i~r. ~us army oy nignt, taKing nostages with him.

ANOTHER INVASION

The second invasion took place the year following and lasted four months. On 10 May B. C. 54, more than a thousand ships, carrying five l:gions and two t:10usa:::,: horse~e:., easily landed at Ryde. The Britons overcame, retreated to the woods, where it ·.-,·as impossible for the Roman Legions to follow. The next mor:-iing, just as the victorious leader was about to follow in pursuit, news arrived from the camp that a vio:ent tem?est had seriously damaged the fleet. Many vessels were wrecked a:--.d others rendered uniit for service, JULIUS CAESAR was General-in-chief of

35 the Roman armies. After four months of the most desperate fighting, the furthest point CAESAR had penetrated from the coast was seventy miles, and having repaired his ships, he decided to pass the winter on the continent. Accord­ ingly, on 25 September, after imposing an annual tribute upon Britain and ex~cting more hostages, CAESAR again took his departure, by night. Leaving not a Roman soldier behind, CAESAR, flees with all his army, the one which afterwards com­ pleted the conquest of the world. CAESAR can."lot be said to have conquered the island. Although victorious in practically all battles, he made no permanent settle­ ment. More than one classic writer has borne witness to the superb bravery of the ancient Britons, and for nearly a century after, no Roman ventured to set hostile foot upon the island. This dual repulsion of the Romans by the Britons remains un­ paralleled in history.

He found the English tough in their resistance, as Napoleon did, many cen­ turies later, when he said they were such unreasonable fellows that they never knew when they were beaten. They never did know, and neve::r will.

L.\TER ATTEMPTS

It is true that 24 years later, in B. C. 30, a third attempt was made to invade Britain. The Emperor Augustus moved half the forces of the Empire to the Channel. Cynvelin (Cymbeline), who was educated in Rome by BRAN, swept the Channel. British diplomacy triumphed and the Emperor abandoned his designs. Later inva­ sions were accompanied with only limited success.

In A. D. 42, the Romans prepared to invade England with a large well-equip­ ped fleet, but the Roman army refused to embark and mutinied, saying, "We will march anywhere in the world, but not out of it", whereupon NARCISSUS was dis­ patched from Rome, declaring he would himself lead them into Britain, where two days later the army landed. King CARADOC headed the British army between the Kentish hills and the Thames, Britain matched in arms against the world, but the odors of the elephants imported by the Romans so frightened the horses of the British chariots that CARADOC suffered defeat and a treaty followed. On the recall of PLAUTIUS {who has married GLADYS, a sister of CARADOC) a truce was con­ cluded for six months during which CARADOC visited Rome.

When shown the public buildings, he said, "It is singular a people possessed of such magnificence at home should envy me my soldier's tent in Britain". After his return he was betrayed by AREGWEDD, Queen of the Brigantes, and while asleep as a guest in her palace, was seized and sent a prisoner to Rome in A. D. 52. "Rome trembled when she saw the Briton, though fast in chains .. , CARADuC 'S speech befo:::-e the Rome Senate is familiar to all. With great calm, hero of forty battles, great in arms, still greater in chains,stood before the court and said: ''Had my government in Britain bee:: directed solely \1:ith a view tc the preservation o: :ny hereditary d.omai:1s or the aggrandizement of my own family, I might long since have ente:::-ed this city an ally, not a prisoner; nor would you have disdained for a friend a king desce:1ded fro:n illust:::-ious ancestors and the so\·ereign of many

36 nations. My present condition, s':ript of its former majesty, is as adverse to me as it is a cause of triumph to you. What then! I was lord of men, horses, arms, and wealth; what wonder if at your derr.and, I refused to resign them? Does it follow that, because the Romans aspire to universal dominion, every nation is to accept the vessalage they would impose? I am now in your power: betrayed, not conquered. Had I, like others, yielded without resistance, where would have been the name of CARADOC 7 And where your glory? Oblivion would have buried both in the same tomb. Bid me live, and I shall survive for ever in history as one example at least of Roman clemency. "

The life of CARADOC was spared on condition of his never again bearing arms against Rome. A residence of seven years at Rome was imposed upon him. and while there, GLADYS, hi.:; daughter, was adopted by the Emperor CLAUDIUS and became CLAUDIA-BRITANNIA. In her seventeenth year, A. D. 53, she mar­ ried RUFUS PUDENS, a wealthy Roman senator, and she alone of a large family group, died a natural death, before any of her children, in A. D. 97. With their two sons and two daughters, they were instructed in the Christian faith by St. Paul and within a short time, around the year 100, all these except the mother, suffered martyrdom in Rome under Nero, who at age 16 succeeded CLAUDIUS as emperor on 28 September, A. D. 53.

BOADICEA 1S HUSBAND

Prasutagus had for many years under the CLAUDIAN treaty been the faith­ ful ally of Rome. He was ruler of the Iceni, inhabitants of the land now comprising the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, and in part Cambridgeshire and Huntingden­ shire. The capital was Venta, new Winchester.

After a war of about forty years, waged by the Emperor CLAUDIUS, NERO and DOMITIAN, much of the Icenian land was subject to Roman authority. Prasu­ tagus, thinking to protect his Queen, BOADICEA, and their daughters, made the Emperor NERO co-heir with them of his great wealth. The outcome was not as planned, for at his e.eath in A. D. 61, the Roman officers took complete possession of the palace, giving up the princesses to the licentious brutality of the soldiers, :..:-.:: ~.-..:..-:-.:::,:;.~:~• .,,: ~:-.-=: ~uc-=:,:. ~Y "' pu.o:i.ic scourging . .Stung to madness by the wrongs which most :1early affect womanhood, BOADICEA leads 120 thousand men to bat­ tle. The sense of i::;.jur-y !".ad c::.a:1ged ::er whole ::.ature and she lived only for re­ venge, at Leicester she ascended the general's tribunal. Her long golden tresses reac~ed nearly to her knees. In her hand she carried a spear. Her manner calm, ::er voice deep and pitiless, she thus in part addressed the Britons: ''I rule not ever beasts of burder. as are the effeminate r.atio:--.s o: ':.he East, :-:.or o·:er tradesrr.er. a:1d tr2.ffic:.Cers, nor like !::-:e rr.an-woma::. ~£RO, ever slaves; but I rule over 3:::-:to;-s.s, little versed::-: crafti:1ess a:1d di?lomacy, it is t!'ue, but born and trained to war: :ne:-: who :.:: t:-:e cac:.se of liberty w:11:i::gly risk their lives, t::eir lands a::d ?r0?ert;,, Quee::. of sc:.ch a race, I irr.?lore your a:d for freedom, for victory: ~eve::- le~ a foreig::.er bear rule over me or :::-r:.y cou..-:tryme::: :',;ever let slavery

3i reign in the land!"

Attacking their oppressors, they burned London, Colchester and other cities. Some say her army had now increased to 230 thousand men. Seventy to eighty thousand on each side were killed. These valiant lcenians were finally defeated by the Romans under SENTONIUS PAULINUS in A. D. 62, and rather than fall into the hands of the invaders, BOADICEA took her own life with a poisoned dagger and is buried in Flintshire.

38 ANCIENT BRITISH DESCENT

66. BOADICEA, British Queen, died A. D. 62.

65. Her daughter married MARIUS, son of AR VIRAGUS.

64. Old King COLE, King of British A. D. 125.

63. ATHILDIS married MARCONIR IV, king of Franconia, died 149.

62. CLODOMIR IV, King of the Franks, married HASILDA.

61. King FARABERT, died 186.

60. King SUNNO, died 213.

59. King HILDERIC, died 253.

58. King BARTHERUS, died 272.

57. King CLODIUS III, died 298.

56. King WALTER, died 306.

55. King DAGOBERT, died 317.

54. GENEBALD I, Duke of the East Franks, died 350.

53. King DAGOBERT, died 379.

52. King CLODIUS I, died 389.

51. King MARCOMIR, died 404.

SO. PHARAMOND, King of Westphalia, died 430, married ARGOTTA.

49. CLODIO, the Long Haired, King of Westphalia, married BASINA.

48. MEROVEE, King of France, died 458, married VERICA.

4 7. CHILD ERIC I, 43 6-481, King of France, married BASINA of Thuringia.

46. CLOVIS the Great, 465-511, King of France, married ST. CLOTHILDA.

45. CLOTHAIRE I, 497-561, King of France, married·INGONDE.

44. BLITI-ilLDES, married AUSBERT of Moselle, died 570.

39 43. ARNOUL, Bishop of Metz, died 601, married ODA de SAVOY.

42. ST. ARNOLPH, Bishop of Metz, died 641, married Lady DODO of Saxony.

41. ANCHISES, died 685, married BEGGA of Brabant, died 698.

40. PEPIN d 'HERISTAL, Mayor of the Palace, died 714, married ALPAIS.

39. CHARLES MARTEL, 689-741, King of France, married ROTRUDE, died 724.

38. PEPIN the Short, 714-768, King of France, married BERTHA of Laon.

37. CHARLEMAGNE, 742-814, Emperor of the West, married HILDEGARDE.

36. PEPIN, 776-810, King of Italy, married BERTHA of Toulouse.

35. BERNHARD, King of I-ombardy, died 812, married CUNNEGONDE.

34. PEPIN, a lay abbet in 840, married and had.

33. HERBERT I, Count of Vermandois, died 902, married and had.

32. HERBERT II, Count of Vermandois, died 943, married lilLDEBRAND.

31. ALBERT I, married GERBERGA, daughter of King LOUIS IV.

30. HERBERT Ill, Count of Vermandois, married ERMENGARDE.

29. OTHO, Count of Vermandois, died 1045, married PA VIE.

28. HERBERT IV, Count of Vermandois, married ADELE de VEXIN.

27. ADELHEID married HUGH MAGNUS, a leader of the first crusade, page 185.

26. ISABEL VERMANDOIS married (1) ROBERT de BEAUMONT, died 1118.

25. ROBERT de BEAUMONT, died 1168, married AMICIA de WAER.

24. ROBERT de BEAUMONT, died 1196, married PETRONELLA de GRANTMESNIL.

23. MARGARET de BEAUMONT married SAIRE de QUINCEY, the Surety.

22. ROGER de QUINCY, died 1264, married HELEN MacDONAL.

21. ELA QUINCEY married ALAN la ZOUCHE of Ashby.

20. EUDO la ZOUCHE married MILICENT CANTILUPE.

40 19. ELEANOR ZOUCHE married JOHN de HARCOURT, died 1330.

18. WILLIAM de HARCOURT, died 6 June 1349, married JANE GREY.

17. THOMAS HARCOURT, died 12 April 1417, married MAUD GREY.

16. THOMAS HARCOURT, married JOAN, daughter of ROBERT FRAUNCIS.

15. RICHARD HARCOURT married (1) EDITH, daughter of THOMAS St. CLERE.

14. ALICE HARCOURT married WILLIAM BESILLES.

13. ELIZABETH BESILLES married RICHARD FETTIPLACE, co. Bucks.

12. ANNE FETTIPLACE married EDWARD PUREFOY, born 1494, died 1558.

ll. MARY PUREFOY married THOMAS THORNE of Yardley.

10. SUSANNA THORNE married Capt. ROGER DUDLEY, died 1586.

9. THOMAS DUDLEY (2nd Governor of Massachusetts) born 1576, married ( l) DOROTHY YORK.

8. Rev. SAMUEL DUDLEY married (3) ELIZABETH.

7. JONATHAN DUDLEY married DINAH BEAN.

6. ELIZABETH DUDLEY married JOSEPH GREELEY.

5. MARY GREELEY married TIMOTHY SMITH.

4. NOAH GREELEY SMITH married ARABELLA HOYT.

3. DYER SANBORN SMITH married SUSAN A. LATHAM.

2. RAYMOND EMERSON SMITH married AGNES ELIZABETH MELANSON.

1. RICHARD JEREMIAH SMITH.

41 DESCENDANTS OF CLOVIS THE RIPARIAN KING OF COLOGNE, 420 PART II

Carpetian Line

ROBERT THE STRONG, COUNT OF PARIS

1. CHILDEBERT, King of Cologne, living 450, son of CLOVIS the Riparian, Frankish King of Cologne, living 420, a kinsman of CLOVIS L

2. SIEGBERT the Lane, King of Cologne - murdered 509.

3. CLODERlC the Parricide, King of Cologne, murdered 509. Married a kinswoman of St. CLOTHILDE (the Burgundian Queen of CLOVIS I, King of the Salic Franks).

4. BLITHILDE, m. ANSBERTUS, the Gallo-Roman Senator.

5. ERCHENAND (brother of MODERICUS, Bishop of Arisltum, 578).

6. LEUTHANUS, m. GERBERGA, daughter of Duke RICOMER of the Burgundian House.

7. A daughter, m. ANSOUD.

8. SIGRADA (mother of DIDO, Bishop of Peitiers, 656-670).

9. Count WARINUS, d. 677 (brother of St. LEGER, d. 677, Bishop of Autun) m. KUNZA, sister of BAZIN, Bishop of Treves.

(page 62 of "Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists" by F. L. Weis)

DESCENDANTS OF CHARLEMAGNE HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR SECTro:-; 2

DESCENDANTS OF ISABEL de VERMANDOIS AND ROBERT BEAUMONT

9. Count WARINUS, continued.

10. LEUTWINUS, d. 713 (St. LIEVIN, Bishop of Treves, 685-704).

11. RETROU, d. 724, m. CHARLES MARTEL, Mayor of the Palace in Austrasia­ victor over the Saracens at Tours, 732.

42 12. PEPIN the Short, b. 714, d. 768; Mayor of the Palace, first King of the Franks of the second race 751-768; m. BERTHA, d. 783, daughter of Count CANBERT of Leon.

13. CHARLEMAGNE, b. Apr. 2,747, d. Aix la Chapelle, Jan. 28, 813/4; King of France, 768-814, crowned Holy Roman Emperor, Dec. 25,800; m. ca. 771, IDLDEGARDE, b. 758, d. Apr. 30, 783, daughter of Count GEROUD of Swabia.

14. PEPIN, b. Apr. 773, bapt. at Rome, Apr. 12, 781 by Pope Adrian I, d. Milan July 8,810; King of Italy, 781-810; consecrated King of Lombardy, Apr. 15, 781.

15. BERNARD, natural son, b. 797, d. Milan, Apr. 17,818; King of Italy, 813-Dec. 817; m. CUNNIGUNDE, d. ca. 835.

16. PEPIN, b. 817 /8, d. after 840; Count of Senlis, Peronne and St. Quentin.

17. HERBERT I de Vermandois, b. ca. 840, murdered ca. 902; Count of Verman­ dois, Seigneur of Senlis, Peronne and St. Quentin; m. BERTHA de Morvois, daughter of GUARRI, Count of Morvois, and EVA de Rousillion, daughter of GERARD de Rousillion.

18. HERBERT II, b. 880-890, d. St. Quentin, ca. 943; Count of Vermandois and Troyes; m. LIEGARDE, daughter of ROBERT I, Duke of France, by his first wife, ADELE.

19. ALBERT I, the Pious, b. ca. 920, d. 988; Count de Vermandois; m. GERBAGA of Lorraine, daughter of GISELBERT, Duke of Lorraine and GERBER GA, daughter of HENRY I, the Fowler, of Saxony.

20. HERBERT III, b. ca. 955, d. ca. 1000; Count of Vermandois; m. ERMENGARDE, daughter of REINALD, Count of Bar.

21. OTHO (EUDES or OTTO), b. ca. 1000, d. May 25, 1045; Count of Vermandois; m. PARVIE.

22. HERBERT IV, b. ca. 1032, d. ca. 1080; Count de Vermandois; m. ADELE de Vexin, daughter of RAOUL m the Great, Count of Valois and Vexin.

23. ADELAIDE de Vermandois, d. ca. 1120; Countess of Vermandois and Valois; m. HUGH MAGNUS, d. 1101, Duke of France and Burgundy, Marquis of Orleans, Count of Amiens, Chaumont, Paris, Valois and Vermandois; leader of the first Crusade.

24. ISABEL de Vermandois, d. Feb. 13, 1131; Countess of Leicester; m. (1) 1906, Sir ROBERT de Beaumont, b. ca. 1049, d. June 5, 1118, Lord of Beaumont_ Pont-Audemer and Brionne, Count of Meulan, er. fir~t Earl of Leicester, Companion of WILLIAM the Conqueror at Hastings, 1066, son of ROGER de Beaumont and ADELISE, daughter of WALERAN, Count of Meulan; m. (2) WILLIAM de Warenne, d. May 11, 1138, second Earl of Surrey, son of

43 WILLIAM de Warenne and GUNDRED.

25. WALERAN de BEAUMONT, b.1104, d.April 10, 1166; Count de Meulan, Earl of Worcester, m. ca. 1141 AGNES d'EVREUX, d. Dec. 15, 1181, daughter of AMAURI de MONTFORT, Count d'EVREUX, and AGNES, niece of STEPHEN de GARLANDE.

26. SIR ROBERT de BEAUMONT, d. 1207, Count of Meul.an; m. 1165, MAUD, daughter of REGINALD FITZ-ROY, Earl of Cornwall, base son of King HENRY I of England by BEATRIX, daughter of WILLIAM FITZ-ROY and granddaughter of ROBERT de MORTAIN.

27. MAUD (MABEL) de BEAUMONT, living May 1, 1204; m. WILLIAM de VERVON, b. 1155, d. Sept. 1217, fifth Earl of Devon, son of BALDWIN de REVIERS and ADEl.JSE.

28. MARY de VERNON, m. (1) SIR ROBERT de COURTNEY, d. ca. July 27, 1242, Baron of Oakhampton; m. (2) SIR PETER de PROUZ of Changeford, Devon.

29. SIR JOHN de COURTNEY, d. May 3, 1274; Baron of Oakhampton; m. ISABEL de VERE, daughter of ROBERT de VERE, b. after 1164, d. before Oct. 25, 1221, 3rd Earl of Oxford, Lord Chamberlain of England, Magna Charta Surety, 1215; and his ISABEL de BOLBEC, d. Feb. 12, 1248, daugh­ ter of HUGH de BOLBEC.

30. SIR HUGH de COURTNEY, d. Feb. 20, 1291, Baron of Oakhampton; m. ELEANOR le DESPENSER, d. Oct. 1, 1328, daughter of HUGH le DESPENSER, Justiciar of England.

31. ELEANOR de COURTNEY (sister of SIR HUGH de COURTNEY, 9th Earl of Devon) m. SIR HENRY de GREY, d. Aylesford, Kent; Lord of Codnor, co. Derby, GREYS THURROCKS, Essex, Aylesford and Hoe, Kent.

32. SIR RICHARD de GREY, b. 1281, d. May 10, 1334/5; m. JOAN FITZPAYN, daughter of SIR ROBERT, Lord of Fitzpayn and ISABELLA de CLIFFORD.

33. SIR JOHN de GREY, Knight, d. Aylesford, Kent, Dec. 14, 1392; Lord Grey of Codnor; ~. ELEA!'rOR.

34. JANE de GREY, of Codnor, m. SIR WILLIAM de HARCOURT, Knight, d. June 6, 1349, of Stanton-Harcourt, co. Oxford.

35. SIR THOMAS de HARCOURT, Knt. of Stanton-Harcourt, co. Oxford, Market Bosworth, Co. Leicester, and Ellenhall, Co. Stafford; d. ca. April 12, 1417; Knt. 1366; M. P. for Co. of Oxford, 1376; m. ca. 1374 MAUD de GREY, daughter of JOHN de GREY of ROTHFIELD (and widow and JOHN BOTETOURT who d. s. p. 1369).

44 36. SIR THOMAS de HARCOURT, .Knt. of Stanton..-Harcourt, d. 1420; m. JANE FRANCEY$, daughter of SIR ROBERT FRANCEYS of Formark, Co. Derby.

37. SIR RICHARD HARCOURT, Knt., d. Oct. 1, 1486; m. (1) before Dec. 16, 1445, EDITH SEINT CLERE, living Sept. 16, 1462, d. before Nov. 8, 1472, daughter of THOMAS ST. CLAIRE of Wethersfield, Legham and Chalgrove, Suffolk.

38. A.LJCE HARCOURT, m. WILLIAM BESSILES, of Bessiles-Leigh, Berkshire, d. 1515.

39. EUZABETH BESSILES, m. RICHARD FETTIPLACE, of East Shetford, Berkshire, d. 1511.

40. ANNE PETTIPLACE, b. Shelford Parva, July 16, 1496, d. August 3, 1567; m. EDWARD PUREFOY, of Chalston, Co. Buckingham, b. Jan. 13, 1494, d. 1558.

41. MARY PUREFOY of Yardley-Hastings, Co. Northamptonshire, sister of JOHN PUREFOY and mentioned in his will 1579; m. THOMAS THORNE, gentleman, of Yardley-Hastings, will made Oct. 29, 1588, proved May 9, 1589 {Northampton Reg. of Wills, V. 328-330). THOMAS THORNE bequeaths "to the children of SUSAN DUDLEY, my daughter, widow, I/, 10, to be equal­ ly divided. " These children were {Gov.) THOMAS DUDLEY, bapt. Oct. 12, 1576, and MARY DUDLEY, bapt. Oct. 16, 1580.

42. SUSANNA THORNE, bapt. Yardley-Hastings, March 5, 1559-60, living Oct. 29, 1558 {Parish Reg. at Yarttley-Hastings, see N. E. Reg. 68, 341-342); m. Captain ROGER DUDLEY, d. 1585. The "'rill of JOHN PUREFOY, 1579, mentions THOMAS DUDLEY. The arms of THORNE are: Sable, three fusills in fess, argent.

43. Governor THOMAS DUDLEY, bapt. Yardley-Hastings, Co. Northampton, Oct. 12, 1576, d. {buried) Roxbury, Massachusetts, July 31, 1653, aged 76 years; m. (1) Hardingstone, near Northampton, April 25, 1603, DOROTHY YORKE, buri'"ed at Roxbury, Massachusetts, Dec. 27, 1643, daughter of EDMUND YORKE of Cotton End, Co. Northampton: m. (2) Roxbury, Ma.gga­ chusetts, April 14, 1644, KATHERINE (DEIGHTON) BLACKBURNE (84-40). The Reverend COTTON MATHER, D. D. of Boston, stated that THOMAS DUDLEY y.,as baptized at Yardley-Hastings. The will of EDMUND YORKE was dated Nov. 18, 1614, and mentions his grandchildren, SAMUEL and ANNE DUDLEY, a"nd appoints THOMAS DUDLEY as one of his overseers (N. E. Reg. 47, 120). Governor DUDLEY lived in Northampton as a young man; served under King HENRY IV of France at the siege of Amiens; settled in Massachu­ setts 1630; Governor and Deputy Governor of Massachusetts 1630-1653; a man of large and noble character.

44. Rev. SAMUEL DUDLEY, bapt. All Saints, Northampton, England, Nov.

45 30, 1608; matric, Emmanuel Co., Camb. 1626; came to New England 1630; minister at Exeter, New Hampshire, May 30, 1650-1683; d. Exeter, New Hampshire Feb. 10, 1682-3.

45. SAMUEL DUDLEY, son of SAMUEL and ELIZABETH (third wife); probably the youngest of her children. Born in Exeter, New Hampshire about 1667, and married HANNAH THYNG of Exeter. He died at Exeter in or about 1732, intestate. Belonging to the King's Garrison at Exeter 1696 and to a scouting party under Captain NICHOLAS GILMAN in 1712.

46. JONATHAN DUDLEY, son of SAMUEL and HANNAH, born at Exeter, New Hampshire; m. DINAH BEAN, daughter of JOHN BEAN. JONATHAN'S will dated 1761 appointed his wife DINAH sole executrix. He estate was valued at ~ 1966. 1. Issue - JOHN, JONATHAN, SAMUEL, and seven daughters.

47. ELIZABETH DUDLEY, born at Brentwood, New Hampshire, Oct. 20, 1722; m. JOSEPH GREELEY Dec. 2, 1741, d. June 5, 1799, aged 84. ELIZABETH died May 27, 1809 at Gilmanton, New Hampshire.

48. MARY GREELEY, daughter of ELIZABETH DUDLEY and JOSEPH GREELEY; m. TIMOTHY SMITH, son of JOSEPH SMITH of Brentwood, N. H. MARY GREELE.Y was born Dec. 31, 1762 at Kingston, New Hampshire.

49. NOAH GREELEY SMITH, b. July 20, 1801 at Gilmanton, New Hampshire; m. ARABELLA HOYT, daughter of MOULTON HOYT of Moultenborough, New Hampshire.

50. DYER SANBORN SMITH, b. July 20, 1801 at Gilmanton, New Hampshire; m. SUSAN A. LATHAM, daughter of THOMAS M. LATHAM and OLIVES. DARLlNG.

51. RAYMOND EMERSON SMITH, b. April 24, 1883 at Somerville, Massachu­ setts; m. AGNES ELIZABETH MELANSON, daughter of WILLIAM WALLACE MELANSON and MARGARET MORGAN.

52. WILLIAM PHILIP SMITH, RAYMOND EMERSON SMITH, and RICHARD JEREMIAH SMITH. AGNES ELIZABETH SMITH m. FERNAND de GROOF; JOHN JOSEPH SMITH m. LOUISE MINASIAN; RUTH FRANCES SMlT H m. HENRY KARL LARM; FRANCIS P. SMITH m. MADELEINE CONNOLLY.

Generations 34-43: Dudley Pedigree, Herald's College, Jan. 28, 1937, approved by A. T. Butler, Windsor Herald.

Generations 2-13: G. A. Moriary: Chart of the Robertins in N. E., Reg. 99, 130-131, corrected by chart 101-112; see also references under line 48-13.

Generations 13-24: D. L. Jacobus in Boston Evening - Transcript, Oct. 12, 1927, Part IX, Note 5980, Nov. 28, 1927; Pere Anselme: Histoire Genea­ logique de la Maison Royale de France ( 1726); Dr. Eric Branderburg: Die 46 Nachkemmen Karls dee Grossen, Leipsig, 1935; M. D.R. v Redlich of Some of the Emperor Charlemagne's Descendants, Chicago, 1941, 1 120. CP l 22, IV 670, 672-674, V 736, VIISZO, 737, X 531.

Generations 24-27: CP IV 317, 670 chart III, VII 520 708-737, N.E. Reg. 97, 342.

Generations 27-30: CP IV 317, 673VI 124, VII 737-771, X 210-213; Jackson: Falaise Roll, Table IX; Waters: Pedigrees of Courtney and Cha.mp­ ernoun, in Essex Institute Proceedings, XVII 16.

Generations 30-34: CP IV 676, VI 123-126; Dudley Pedigree; Collins (1757) IV 240-241; Stokes Records I 99-102.

Generations 38-43: Visitations of Berks I; Publications of the Harleian Soc. Vol. 56 (Visitations of Bucks) Vol. 58, p. 199; Purefoy Pedigree in British Museum Harleian ms. 1189, folios 18 and 19; Michols: History of Leices­ tershire, IV Part II, pp. 5192-520-a; Stokes Records, 1 93; Mary K. TalcottinN.E., Reg. 66, 340-343, also47:120, 49:507, 56:189, 206;Water Gleanings, II 1087; Publications of the Dudley Family Association, N. E. Reg. 97, 342.

47 THE ROMANCE OF THE GREAT CHARTER

Remarks of JOHN S. WURTS before

THE NATIONAL SOCIETY MAGNA CHARTA DAMES-1939

The English-speaking race was born free. It never had to purchase free­ dom from anyone, although it has ti.me and again been faced by the necessity of keeping a tyrant from invading its freedoms. Such a tyrant was King Jon, and the MAGNA CHARTA was the price he paid for his arrogance and greed. Th~ story of the MAGNA CHARTA is a Romance. A Romance in its highest sense is de­ fined to be a blending of the heroic, the marvelous and the mysterious, and used in this sense, the word Romance exactly describes what I would say about this piece of parchment, around which we are gathered today. The story of MAGNA CHARTA is indeed a Romance: it is a blending of the heroic, the marvelous and the mysterious, the full significance of which only the imagination can grasp. It is wonderful in its history, it transcends the ordinary. Hence it is a Romance. But who were the heroes? And what was their marvelous achievement?

In case we have forgotten our English history, let us be reminded that King John was a horrid person, an arbitrary and mercenary ruler, who threw people into dungeons at the drop of a hat. He married off wards of the Crown, young widows and pretty girls, to foreign adventurers and then collected a nice percentage of the wards fortnnes from their husbands. He had a tiresome habit of forcing the peasants to build bridges over streams he might wish to cross while hunting, and at one time he made tlle whole of England his own private game pre­ serve, so that none of the starving peasantry could kill even a rabbit for supper. He greatly increased the royal taxes and replenished his exchequer with the con­ fiscated property of the clergy. While "a King can do no wrong", he certainly can make mistakes. While brave Richard the Lion Hearted was leading a crusade to the walls of Jerusalem, John vainly tried to usurp the crown, declaring falsely that King Richard was dead. Once, when fighting in France, King John entertained his foes at dinner, then treacherously murdered them all and took their fortunes and, when some ye.a.rs later Richard died, John indeed seized the throne, although Arthur, the son of his brother Geoffrey, was the rightful heir. Prince Arthur, aged 12, after a time of imprisonment was stabbed, presumably by John. Such treacher­ ous success however, did not last lo~g.

Shortly after John became King, in 1199, he quarrelled with the Pope who promptly laid an interdict upon his kingdom, prohibiting services in all the churches and the administration of the sacraments. The Church bells were not rung. The dead were refused Christian burial. He then excommwiicated all England. This lasted over six years, till it was lifted in June 1213, during which time no one had been rightly married, or buried and few baptized. Pope Innocent III found John hard to control, for he was always forgetting the "divine authority" of the Church.

Then the Pope deposed John, proclaiming him no longer King, and set Philip

48 of France to war against him. To c.heckmate Philip's invasion, John, 'ignoring the deposing, made a gift to the Pope of all the realm, crown and revenue by written indenture dated Monday, 13 May 1213. But John, at once, received the crown back as the Pope's tenant and vassal at a ferm or annual rental of a theu­ sand marks for the whole kingdom; 700 for England and 300 for Ireland, payable semi-annually in advance to Master Pandulf, the Pope's Delegate. The Pope then must protect John against Philip and instructs Philip to desist but, ignoring the Pope, Philip fights on.

In writing the historic play "King John", it is rather remarkable that Shakespeare emitted, perhaps intentionally, to make any allusion whatever to that greatest event of King John's reign, the procuring from him the grant of MAGNA CHARTA. But the same writer in the play "HENRY VIII", also forebore mention­ ing any of the unpleasant features of that King's personal character. Nor did he mention that great event of his reign, t.ne Reformation. However, the "King John" play has much to do with other affairs of the realm in which our Barons were con­ cerned, and this introduced as characters in the play, several of the prominent men of England and of France; strange to say, only one of them, Roger Bigod, the Earl of Norfolk and Sufulk, was on the side of the Barons when they contended with King John for the Great Charter. The Earl has but a small part in the play. He came on and went off in four scenes and spoke only fifty words, and they never became a quotation from Shakespeare.

Instead, the dramatist could have better made an interesting farce, with amusing situations if he had more largely portrayed the state of public affairs in England. Through this act of surrender of his crown to the Pope, John brought about a remarkable condition in his realm, for thereupon the bend of feudalism in England was broken, and he was feudally extinct, when all feudal obligations to him ceased, and the Baronage died with him. Yet, he did this with the consent of sixteen Earls and many wealthy Barons, which may be understood as doing it with­ out protest, as it may have been viewed as harmless political measure, for the act protected England from the threatened French invasion, since it made England taboo; it being new "Church property," and the French, being faithful to the Church, dared not trespass. And this scheme of defense and protection obtained for 150 years.

But what should most interest us, descendants of many of the Barons affected by _;"'ohn )s act, is tnat tne Barons did not do homage for their fees to the new Lord Paramount, the Pope, and hence, did not receive from him renewal, by letters pa­ tent, of the Baronies. On the contrary, the Pope, as the head of the fee, excommun­ icated them.

Under this condition, the Barons were only yeoman, or freeholders, or copyholders of King John, now the freeholder of the Pope, and therefore, when the Barons met on Runnemede, they were outlaws against the Pope, the Lord Paramount, and the Pope's freeholder, John. Therefore these yeomen, erstwhile Barons of the realm, being now only sub-tenants, could not legislate, if that is what they did, as Barons, and the Magna Charta was without life or force and wholly invalid!

49 The Baronage, thus broken in 1213 (as far as feudal law was concerned, and it was still the supreme system) so remained for 150 years, while rent was paid annually to the Pope. The famous "Chronicle" of the monk, Matthew of Westminister (in printed volume II, page 116) gives the full text of the King's surrender to the Pope, and tells of John's reception of the realm as a freeholder, the feudatory of the Church of Rome, witnessed on Wednesday, 15 May 1213, by many prominent Englishmen. When their peculiar status after the surrender was fully recognized by the Barons, they wished to know where they actually stood, and Magna Charta was in part to assure them, and it may be seen that in the intro­ duction our Barons wrote themselves as "Liberia Hominibus regni nostri", the freemen of the Kingdom. But they really were then only sub-tenants of John, the tenant-in-chief.

And they wrote of Earls and Barons holding "in chief military service" of John. John was a tenant, paying rent., and the Earls and Barons were only his sub­ tenants. And it was also absurd to say that John would for a certain purpose., "sum­ mon Earls and Great Barons of the realm singly by our letters". This was John's custom while Lord Paramount before 15 May 1213, but now he had no such right, having surrended it to the Pope. Nor could there be Baron's Courts; and many other feudal perogatives allowed Barons became extinct or inoperative under this peculiar condition imposed upon England by John., and by his Majesty the Pope., who was in affect the real King of England.

It is interesting to note that the Nobles, ever ready to follow John's ban­ ner against any foe of England., now refused to fight for him abroad and because of this refusal., John's tyranny at home knew no bounds. At the battle of Bouvines on Sunday., 27 July 1214, John being utterly defeated, never again attempted to regain his Norman provinces.

For many years, the wretched people had been most unjustly oppressed; first, they were despoiled of their possessions, then murdered. Those who had had any property lost it by heavy taxes and unjust decrees. Justice was bought and sold; an heir and his land were disposed of to the highest bidder; permission to mar­ ry had to be purchased from the king; and the monarch demanded what taxes he thought fit to levy. All this reached its climax in the reign of John, a prince "utter­ ly contemptible for his folly". We recall in particular., his infamous conduct in Sherwood Forest toward Maid Marion, Baron FitzWalter's daughter, whom he des­ poiled and causec ~o be po:.so:ied. When to his exactions he added the debauchery of his Nobles' wives and daughters, the storm burst.

And a part of that storm broke on the walls of Colchester Castle. When the Barons learned that their King was raising forces for their repression, they each undertook the defense of a definite district of the country, in pursuit of which, obligation it fell to the lot of SAIRE de QUINCEY, the first Earl of Wincester, to attack the Castle of Colchester. For John had the forethought to dismiss the custo­ dian of that fortress and give it into the charge of a Fleming upon whose faithfulness he could rely, besides sending from London a good supply of miliary engines and engineers. Nothwithstanding that preparation,. the Castle seems to have fallen an

50 easy prey to de QUINCEY, who, however, was in turn attacked by the siege train which had been so successf·.11 in reducing Rochester Castle. The defense was stubborn, so stubborn that John himself came to direct the operations; but de QUINCEY held out for nearly two months, and then seems to have escaped safely to France.

As we contemplate the long struggle and the dramatic circumstances in which Magna Charta was secured, we instantly recall STEPHEN LANGTON, one of the noblest men of his time, a wise and learned ecclesiastic, who seemed specially raised U? by heaven to oppose and subdue the King. An English Cardinal was STEPHEN !..ANGTON, Archbishop of Canterbury, a true English Patriot for all that he was appointed by a foreign Pope without the consultation of the English Church. He assembled the Barons in conference at the Abbey at Sa.int Edmunds­ Bury to devise means to resist the impositions of King John. And here, John re­ luctantly met them on Tuesday, 4 November 1214, but the Barons got nothing from him except his assurance that he most certainly expected them to pay the war tax he had lev::.ec!. Accordinc; to Matthew of Weatminister, after the King left the Abbey, the B:iror.s, declaring they had no faith in John's promises, were called to order by STEPHEN LANGTON. One by one, they took a solemn oath on the high altar that they would stand united and not relinquish their efforts until they would compel the King to confirm their liberties or they would wage war against him to the death.

A rough draft containing the principal items they desired had been prepared and this was submitted and approved by formal proceedings. John must consent to its proposals and confirm them by his seal or take the consequences. When shown to the King, his only reply was that as it was a great and difficult thing which they asked, he must have more time for its consideration. ROGER of Wendover tells us that when John saw the Articles, he swore by "God's teeth, 11 his favorite oath, that he would never agree to auch demands or any part of them. To further delay the issue, the resourceful John, just before Easter 1215, announced that he was preparing for the Holy Crusade, when of course he would have it understood that he could not be disturbed for many months with even the matter of the Charter. During all this time, there was general confusion throughout England. The Barons had closed all courts. No man was even allowed to serve a writ in the King's name. John was deceived by his apparent successes. He underestimated the powers ar­ rayed against him. The struggle was inevitable; to the modern mind the chief mar­ vel is that it was so long delayed. The causes which led to the charter of British Liberties were many, but they all had their rest in the intolerable tyranny of -the Norman Kings.

Easter day, 19 April 1215, arrived and the Baror.~· who always kept their engagements, assembled according to their promise at Stamford in Lincolnshire, with a well-equipped army of more than two thousand knights. But as the place was not of his own selection, John found it not convenient to meet them and sent word that he would await their coming at Oxford. But upon learning of their numbers, John decided not to attend there in person, sending instead, two of his representa­ tives, STEPHEN LANGTON and WILLIAM MARSHALL, Earl of Pembroke who

51 received the articles with the understanding that if the King still refused, the Barons would force his lingering consent by seizing his fortresses. When John received the Barons I Articles he replies, "They might as well ask for my Kingdom", completely ignoring the fact that he had already surrended his crown to the Pope. But indeed, the only alternative was the loss of his Kingdom!

On Tuesday. 5 May 1215, the Barons chose ROBERT FITZWALTER their leader, with the title of "Marshal of the Army of God and Holy Church. " Theirs was a holy crusade against John to recover the liberties their forefathers had enjoyed and to restore the good old customs violated by a base and innovating King. The towns of Exeter and Lincoln soon surrended to the Baronial a.i-my, John, now at Windsor Castle, was informed that they were preparing to besiege the Castle and Tower of London, his strongest fortress, where they arrived Sunday. 24 May 1215. Of the Peers who had been neutral or faithful to the King, very few continued to side with him. Virtually powerless, with businesses of all kind at a standstill, and with nearly his whole Baronage, and the majority of his subjects of all degrees in arms against him, he seems to have decided to surrender, at least for the time being. He finally called his Barons to a conference. They said, "then let the day be the 15th of June and the place Runnemede".

Runnemede is within sight of Windsor Castle and of St. George 1s Chapel, the shrine of the knights of the Garter, built by King Edward Ill, about 1344. The towing-path on the surrey bank skirting the field of Runnemede gives a beautiful five-mile ramble from Win~sor to Staines. For ages the meadow called Runnemede has been crownland and rented for pasturage, a portion being reserved for a race track; where the Egham races were run each year on a two-mile track in August and September, and this has been the only annual celebration on the historic field; but the events of 1215 are recalled by the racing for the "Magna Charta, 11 the "Runnemede, '' and the "King John" stakes.

On the Dachet Road, there is an old farm house known as King John's Lodge, but having no more connection with King John than has the so-called Magna Charta Island, which lies off Wraybury. At Ankerwyke House near Wraybury still stands an immense yew tree, said to be older than the Magna Charta.

Did King John ride out daily on horseback from Windsor Castle? Or did he travel four or five miles to the scene by boat? If we follow the latter route today, we pass unde'!" the t'..!::-::-e:s c: ~;;..e Royc:1.l Castle, and the grounds of Eton College, and drift in the shade of the huge riverside trees in Windsor Park. Navigation shall be free, says the Charter. A quaint thought that young people, how 3p1.ashing round the bend of the river in bathing costumes or boating in summer dresses, should have a clause to themselves in Magna Charta. Presently, we come to Runnemede, a long stretch of green meadow without hedges or fences, lying along the south bank at a curve in the river Thames, about thirty miles west of London. It is indeed a tranquil English scene. In the distance one can see a village and hear the tinkling of the cowbells.

At the tiny Norman church in the hamlet of Egham, STEPHEN LANGTON,

52 the fearless Archbishop of Cant1;rbury, gathered the Barons on a June day in 1215 to pray for strength to humble the arrogant King John. Today, in the church at Egham, may be seen the set of Barons' shields and placques presented to it by the National Society - Magna Charta Dames.

When it was proposed to sell the field of Runnemede to the highest bidder, a great outcry was made. The former Cara Rogers, now Lady Fairhaven, a member of the Magna Charta Dames, an American girl, bought and presented to the British people the field of Runnemede as a memorial to her husband to be kept for all tL-rnes as a sacred, historic spot.

On the day appointed, Trinity Monday, the 15th of June 1215, King John met his Barons on the field of Runnemede, the ancient meadow of council. His followers were few because John's injustices and selfishness had increased his unpopularity beyond all bounds. With him were but a score of persons, most of whom despised him and were his advisors only in form. Encamped on the field of Runnemede more than two thousand Knights and Barons in arms awaited his coming.

We are told the Barons could at this time have demanded even more from John, for he now was in no position to refuse them anything they asked for, but they bent on having only what was just and right, and they simply remained firm to their first demands and asked no more.

The Barons had their demands carefully written on parchment. These John had seen seven months before. From what we know of John's character, he may have argued stubbornly for a time,but at all events he now knew that he was ther.e to yield and that he was opposed by overwhelming force and so ••

KING JOHN SURRENDERED

Before the day passed, he affixed his seal to the original but preliminary draft known as the "Articles of the Barons". The immediate forerunner of Magna Charta. These forty-nine articles contained the main principles of the Charter. The King has now promised to rule according to law. The King must keep the law and if he will not, he may now be compelled to do so.

The exact te'!"ms of the Cha!"te!" its el! •.ve:-e dec:.dec a::..c e::..g:rossed durir.. g four subsequent days of negotiation, and it was on the 19th that the great seal was affixed to all copies. Doubtless, twenty-five duplicate originals were made, per­ haps one for each of the Sureties. These were all dated back to the 15th of June, and duly sealed by the King. John didn't sign any of them with his autograph. As a matter of fact, he could neither read no!" write, nor could the Barons, nor Knights, except a few, of whom was the noted RICHARD de GILPIN, the scholar. He was the Secretary and adviser of IVO de TALBOYS, Baron of Kendal, whom he accompanied to Runnemede. No one signed Magna Charta, it wasn 1t necessary as a common law sealing was sufficient to authenticate any formal document.

No doubt each of the twenty-five Surety Barons carried a copy home and had

53 it read at the principal crossroads by order of the King, where the people swore by uplifted hand to support the Sureties in their determination to make the King keep all his promises.

The obligations written in the Charter constituted one of the very early examples of a company surety bond.

Foot note: The undoubted original of the preliznina.ry rough draft of Magna Charta, with a fragment of King John's seal in brown wax attached may still be seen preserved in the British Museum. This supremely interesting original had been retained in the possession of King John. It was later captured by the Dauphin of France, reclaimed by the Protector, William Marshall, then Bishop Laud and later Dr. Warner had it, and thereafter, it came into the more appreciative hands of Bishop Gilbert Burnet, the distinquished historian. This priceless manuscript was later owned by that Bishop's son's executor, who's daughter sold it, with proof of this chain of ownership, to the Earl of Stanhope, and he, in 1769, presented it to the British Museum, where this, the original prelim­ inary draft, known as the "Forty-nine Articles of the Barons", the fore-runner of the Magna Charta may now be seen.

54 SURETY BARON

A Surety for Magna Charta "ROBERT de VERE 11

The family of de VERE. the noblest in England and indeed as Englishmen love to say. "the noblest in all Europe". derive their title through an uninterrupted male descent from a time when the Nevilles and Percys enjoyed only a local cele­ brity and when even the great name of Plantagenet Ji,ad not yet been heard in Eng­ land. We are all familiar with Alfred, Lord Tennyson's advice to Lady Clara Vere de Vere:

"A simple maiden in her flower Is worth a hundred coats-of-arms.

The daughter of a hundred Earls, •••You fix 1d a vacant stare And slew him with your noble birth.

Trust me, Clara Vere de Vere From yon blue heavens above us bent The gardner Adam and his wife Smile at the claims of long des cent, Howe 'er it is, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman Blood"

1. ALPHONSO, Count de Ghesnes appears to be the earliest known paternal ancester of this Surety, his son.

2. ALBERIC de VERE, Count Aubrey, "Sanglier", married before 1039, BEA TRIX de GR ENT, daughter of HENRY and his wife SIBYLLA, and they had,

3. ALBERIC de VERE, who died in 1140. He, being in high favor with King HENRY I, .;as constituted great high chamberlain of the Kingdom in 1133, to hold the same in fee to himself and heirs. STEPHEN, 1140, while a joint sneriii oi several counties with RICi:iARD BASSET, Justiciary oi England, was slain in a popular tumult at London. He married ADELIZA, also called ALICE, daughter of GILBERT de TONEBRUGE, (see Chapter 5) and granddaughter of HUGH, Connt of Clermont and his wife MARGUERITA; their oldest son was,

4. AUBREY de VERE, born before 1120, third Baron by tenure, of Kensington, Count of Ghisners. For his fidelity to the Empress MAUD, he was confirmed by her in his inheritance and all his father's possessions. He was also given the choice of several earldoms, and selected that of Oxford, and was so created by HEJ'.,"R Y II :...n 1155, and died in 1194. He married first, EUFAMIA, daughter of WILLIAM le CANTILUPE, by whom he had no issue, and married

55 secondly, LUCIA, daughter of HENRY de ESSEX, and they had,

5. ROBERT de VERE, the Surety, second son, who suceeded and became heir to his brother, AUBREY de VERE, who died without issue before September 1214, reputed to be one of the "evil councillors" of King John. Although hereditary Lord great Chamberlain of the kingdom, ROBERT pursued a different course in politics from that of his brother, and was one of the principal Barons in arms against King John; a party to that covenant which resigned to the Barons the custody of the city and tower of London, and one of those excommunicated by the Pope. In the beginning of the reign of King HENRY I I I, having made his peace with that yowig monarch after the battle of Lincoln, he was received into his favor, and was appointed one of the judges in the Court of King's Bench, but died a few months afterwards, 25 October 1221, and was buried in the priory of Hatfield, Bread Oak, in Essex.

56 SURE'!'Y BARONS

DESCENT from King EDWARD IV, Knights of the Garter, and from Fourteen Sureties for the Magna Charta of A. D. 1215.

WILLIAM d 'ALBINI ROBERT FITZWALTER HUGH BIGOD JOHN de LACIE ROGER BIGOD WILLIAM de LANVALLEI HENRY de BOHUN WILLIAM MALET GILBERT de CLARE SAIRE de QUINCEY RICHARD de CLARE ROBERT de ROOS JOHN FITZROBERT ROBERT de VERE

26. ROBERT de VERE, the Surety, was hereditary Lord great Chamberlain of England, and 8th in descent from HUGH CAPET. He died 25 October 1221, having married !SABEL BOLEBEC. Their son,

25. HUGH de VERE, married HA WISE, daughter of SAIRE de QUINCEY, the Surety, Earl of Winchester, born before 1154, died 3 November 1219 on the way to Jerusalem. His wife was MARGARET BELLOMONT (BEAUMONT).

24. ROBERT de VERE, married ALICE SAUNFORD, who died 1317.

23. JOAN VERE, married to WILLIAM de WARREN.

22. ALICE WARREN, died 1338, married 1305 to EDMUND FITZALAN, Earl of Arundel.

21. ALAIVE FITZALAN, married to ROGER le STRANGE of Knockyn.

20. LUCY STRANGE, wife of WILLIAM, 5th Baron, WILLOUGHBY of Eresby (son of ROBERT WILLOUGHBY and his first wife ALICE SKIPWITH) one of the Peers in the Parliament of the 22nd of King RICHARD I I, when that monarch made a formal resignation of his royal dignity. He died in 1433 leaving, with two sons and three other daughters by his first wife, a daughter.

19. MARGERY WILLOUGHBY, married at Ravensworth before 18 November 1406 to WILLIAM FITZHUGH, born 1398, died 22 October 1452, an eminent soldier and statesman.

He was descended as follows:

26. ROBERT FITZWALTER, the Surety, was leader of the Magna Charta and their army and is shown to be 27th in descent from PHARAMOND. He married first GUNORA, daughter of ROBERT VALOINES, and had,

25. WALTER FIT ZR OBERT, eldest son, married IDA LONGESEPEE.

57 24. .EU FITZWALTER, married to WILLIAM ODINGSELLS, died 1295.

23. MARGARET ODINGSELLS, married to JOHN de GREY of Rotherfield, died 1 7 October 1311.

22. JOHN de GR£ Y, born 9 October 1300, died 1 September 1359, an original Knight of the Garter, married second A VICE MARMION.

21. ROBERT de GREY de MARMION, died 1367, married LORA ST. QUENTIN.

20. ELIZABETH MARMION, married to HENRY FITZHUGH, K. G., died 1424.

19. WILLIAM FITZHUGH, as above, married MARGERY WILLOUGHBY.

18. MAUD FITZHUGH, married to WILLIAM BOWES of Streatham, Durham, died 28 July 1466, also of Baronial descent.

17. MARGERY BOWES, died before 4 June 1503, became the wife of WILLIAM HILTON (HYLTON) died before 31 May 1506, also of Baronial descent.

16. WILLIAM EilLTON, died 13 October 1457 and was buried in Hilton Chapel. His wife was MARY, elder daughter of WILLIAM STAPLETON of Edenhall, co. Cumberland, and his wife MARGARET, daughter of NICHOLAS VEPAUNT of Alston.

15. WILLIAM HILTON, was at the battle of Flodden, 9 September 1513 and was living 2 December 1526. He married SIBYL LUMLY.

She was descended as follows:

26. WILLIAM d 'ALBINI, the Surety, was Lord of Belvoir Castle and 9th in descent from Louis IV, King of France. He married MARGERY UMFRA VILLE and died 1 May 1236, their son,

25. WILLIAM d 'ALBINI, married first ALBREDA.

24. ISABEL d 'ALBINI, married to ROBERT de ROOS.

He was descended as follows:

26. ROBERT de ROOS, the Surety, was born in 1197 and died in 1226/7. He was 4th baron of Hamlake Manor. His wife, ISABEL, was daughter of WILLIAM the Lion, King of Scotland, and they had,

25. WILLIAM de ROOS, married LUCIA FIT ZPIERS.

24. ROBERT de ROOS, as above, married ISABEL d 'ALBINL

23. ISABEL ROOS, became the wife of MARMADUKE THWENG of Kilton Castle,

58 co. York, one of the most distinquished soldiers of his day; died in 1323, leaving a daughter,

22. LUCIA THWENG, who was married to ROBERT de LUMLY, and they bad,

21. MARMADUKE de LUMLEY, who first used the arms of his mother's family, the ancient THWENG arms, which have been borne over since by his descend­ ants. His second son was,

20. RALPH de LUMLEY, who for three years was governor of Berwick-upon­ Tweed, until he was taken prisoner by the Scots. In 1399,. joining in the insurrection of THOMAS de HOLAND, Earl of Kent, for the restoration of RICHARD II to the throne, Lord LUMLEY was slain at Cirencester and in the following year his lands were seized by the Crown. His wife was ELEANOR NEVILL, also of Baronial descent.

19. JOHN de LUMLEY, born 1384, died 13 April 1421, married FELICIA, daughter of MATTHEW REDMAN, governor of Berwick. Their only son,

18. THOMAS de LUMLEY, born 1048, died about 1497, married MARGARET, daughter of JAMES HARRINGTON.

17. GEORGE de LUMLEY, sheriff of Northumberland in 1462, took part in the expedition into Scotland in 1492 and died in 1508, having married ELIZABETH THORNTON, daughter of ROGER THORNTON and his wife ELIZABETH GREYSTOCK, also of Baronial descent.

16. THOMAS de LUMLEY, died in his father's lifetime, in 1487, having married ELIZABETH PLANTAGENET, natural daughter of King EDWARD IV. Beside their son, RICHARD, and two other daughters, they had,

15. SIBYL LUMLEY, as above, wife of WILLIAM HILTON.

14. WILLIAM HILTON of Bidick, died 1562, married MARGARET, daughter of JAMES METCALFE.

13. ROGER HILTON of London, fourth i,on, mentioned in the will of his mother, according to records of the family, he was a merchant, citizen and fishmonger, married, and had,

12. EDWARD HILTON, who early left home to follow the sea, engaged in the fishing industry, eventually became Master, in 1621 became a member of the Fishmonger's Guild at London; visited the fishing banks off the New England coast. Early in 1623, he brought a colony with servants and cattle to what was called Hilton's point, later Dover, six miles up the Piscataqua. The first settler in what is now New Hampshire, it is said he named neigh­ boring localities in memory of his home land; Durham, Newcastle and Stratham; in 1640 he removed to Exeter. An ardent supporter of the church of England and a man of wealth, enterprise and influence, he died in Exeter

59 early in 1671. He married first, name unknown and had,

11. Col. EDWARD HILTON, who was prominent in the Indian wars. His hom:e was a garrison for the community. He married ANN DUDLEY, born 16 October 1641.

She was descended as follows:

28. WILLIAM de LANVALLEI, the Surety, whose biography states he was governor of Colchester Castle and married HAWISE BASSETT. He died in 1217, leaving an only daughter,

27. HAWISE LANVALLEI, married JOHN de BURGH, died 1275.

26. JOHN de BURGH, died 1279, married CECILY BALIOL.

25. MARGARET BURGH, married to RICHARD, son of WALTER de BURGH.

24. JOHN de BURGH, died 1313, married ELIZABETH CLARE.

She was descended as follows:

28. RICHARD de CLARE, the Surety, a record of. whose ancestry and achieve­ ments appears in "Magna Charta" by Wurts. He was 4th Earl of Hertford, dying in 1217. His des·cent from Sveide the Viking is traced in Pedigree C. He married AMICIA of Gloucester and they were the parents of,

27. GILBERT de CLARE, the Surety, who was born about 1180 and died 25 October 1250. His wife ISABELLA was one of the sisters of WILLIAM MARSHALL, the Surety, whose royal ancestry is recorded in Pedigree F. (Magna Charta)

26. RICHARD de CLARE, was Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, born 1222 and died 1262. :His wife MAUD was daughter of JOHN de LACIE, the Surety, a record of wllose ancestry and achievements appear in "Magna Charta" was 15th in descent from ALFRED the Great and 28th in descent from CEDRIC; married second, MARGARET, granddaughter of the Surety SAIRE de QUINCEY.

25. GILBERT de CLARE, married JOAN of ACRE, daughter of KING EDWARD I.

24. ELIZABETH CLARE, as above, wife of JOHN de BURGH.

23. WILLIAM de BURGH, married MAUD of Lancaster.

She was descended as follows:

29. ROGER BIGOD, the Surety, was Earl of Norfolk and Sufolk and 15th in descent from SVEIDE the Viking. Born about 1150, he died in 1221, having married ISABELLA, daughter of .HA.MALINE PLANTAGENET.

60 28. HUGH BIGOD was also a s~rety, and Earl of Norfolk and Sufolk. He married about 1212 MAUD, another of the sisters of the Surety WILLIAM MARSHALL, who was also 16th in descent from SVEIDE the Viking.

27. ISABEL BIGOD, who second husband was JOHN FITZGEOFFREY, Sherill of Yorkshire and Justice of Ireland, died 1258.

26. MAUD FITZJOHN FITZGEOFFREY, whose husband was WILLIAM de BEAUCHAMP, Baron of Elmly and Earl of Warwick. He as her second hus­ band and died in 12 9 8.

25. ISABEL BEAUCHAMP, was married to PATRICK CHA.WORTH, who died in 1298.

24. MAUD CHA.WORTH, married to HENRY PLANTAGENET, Earl of Lancaster, a descendant of JOHN, King of England.

23. MAUD of Lancaster, as above, wife of WILLIAM de BURGH

22. ELIZABETH BURGH, married to LIONEL of Antwerp, K. G., son of King EDWARD IIL

21. PHILIPPA PLANTAGENET, married to EDMUND MORTIMER.

20. ELIZABETH MORTIMER, married to HENRY PERCY "Hotspur".

He was descended as follows:

26. JOHN FITZROBERT, the Surety, was high sheriff of co. Northumberland and governor of New-Castle-upon-Tyne. He married ADA BALIOL and died in 1240.

25. ROGER FITZJOHN, was Lord of Warkworth and died in 1249, having married !SABEL.

24. ROBERT FITZROGER, married MARGARET ZOUCHE.

23. ANASTASIA FITZROBERT, married to RALPH de NEVILLE.

22. RALPH de NEVILLE, died 1367, married ALICE AUDLEY.

21. MARGARET NEVILL, married second to HENRY PERCY.

20. HENRY PERCY - "Hotspur", as above, married ELIZABETH MOR TIMER.

19. ELIZABETH PERCY, married JOHN de CLIFFORD, K. G., slain 1422.

18. THOMAS, Lord CLIFFORD, born 1415, died 22 May 1455, married JOAN DACRE, daughter of THOMAS, Lord Dacre, and his wife PHILIPPA NEVILL,

61 also of Baronial descent.

17. MAUD CLIFFORD, second wife of EDMUND SUTTON, who died in the lifetime of his father, JOHN SUTTON, K. G.

He was descended as follows:

27. WILLIAM MALLET, the Surety. was 24th in descent from CLOVIS. He was sheriff of Somerset and of Dorset, and married ALICE BASSET, who survived him.

26. MABEL MALET. married to HUGH de VIVONIA, Baron of Chewton

25. WILLIAM de VIVONIA de FORTIBUS, married MAUD FERRERS of Kyme.

24. CECILY VIVONIA, married to JOHN de BEAUCHAMP, died 1283.

23. JOHN de BEAUCHAMP, died 1336.

22. JOHN de BEAUCHAMP of Hacche, died 1343, married MARGARET.

21. ELEANOR BEAUCHAMP, as widow of JOHN de MERIET, became the second wife of JOHN le BLOUNT, son of WILLIAM of Sedington.

20. WALTER BLOUNT, renowned for his heroism in the wars of King EDWARD III, RICHARD II, and HENRY IV, slain at the battle of Shrewsbury, 22 June 1403, married Lady SANCHE de AYALA, died 1418, daughter of DON DIEGO GOMEZ de TOLEDO of Castile.

19. CONSTANCE BLOUNT, married to JOHN SUTTON, Lord, died 1407.

18. JOHN SUTTON, 4th Baron DUDLEY, K. G., died 1487, married ELIZABETH VERKELEY (widow of EDWARD CHARLTON) also of Baronial descent.

17. EDMUND SUTTON, as above, married MAUD CLIFFORD.

16. THOMAS SUTTON, alias DUDLEY, younger son, will dated 18 Oct. 1549, married MARGARET (GRACE) THRELKELD. Thei::- son,

15. JOHN DUDLEY, will dated 29 July 1545, died in his father's lifetime, asswned to have married ELIZABETH CLERKE, and had,

14. Capt. ROGER DUDLEY of Cannon's Abbey, co. Northampton, died 1586, married SUSANNA THORNE, who ancestry appears in pedigree 2B{Magna Charta).

13. Gov. THOMAS DUDLEY, an eminent Puritan, second Governor of Massachu­ setts, was baptized 12 October 1576. At age 21, he was a captain at the siege of Amiens, came with Governor WINTHROP in the "Arbella", arriving at

62 Salem 22 June 1630; settled firsi: in Boston, where in 1630 he founded the first Church; a founder of Harvard College in 1637; owned very large estate. He was Assistant to Massachusetts Bay Colony at intervals from 1629 to 1644; Deputy Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony at invervals from 1630 to 1652; Governor at intervals from 1634 to 1650; chosen in 1636 for the Standing Council for the term of his life; appointed in 164 7 Lieutenant Colonel of Regiment in the jurisdiction of Boston, Roxbury, Dorchester, Weymouth and Hingham. He was commissioned Sergeant Major General of all military forces in Massachusetts Bay Colony 1644 (the highest military office in the Colony) and was Commissioner for the United Colonies in 1647 and 1649. He used the SUTTON-DUDLEY Arms to seal his will and died at Roxbury.31 July 1653. He married first, in England, 25 April 1603, DOROTHY YORKE, born 1582, buried at Roxbury, 27 December 1643.

She was descended as follows:

26. HENRY de BOHUN, the Surety, was Earl of Hereford and was 5th in descent from MALCOLM III, King of Scotland. He died on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1220. His wife was MAUD FIT ZGEOFFREY.

25. HUMPHREY de BOHUN, died 1275, married MAUD of EU.

24. HUMPHREY de BOHUN, married first ALIA.NORE BRAOS.

23. AGNES (ALIA.NORE) BOHUN, married 1269 to ROBERT de FERRERS, born about 1239, died 1279.

22. JOHN de FERRERS, born 1271, married HAWISE MUSCEGROS, also of Baronial descent.

21. EUZABETH FERRERS, "Lady of Wern", died 1434, married to JOHN. Lord GRAYSTOCK, died 8 August 1436. also of Baronial descent.

20. JOAN GREYSTOCK became the wife of JOHN DARCY, second son of JOHN DARCY and his wife MARGARET GREY, also of Baronial descent.

19. RICHARD DARCY, married ELEANOR, daughter of JOHN, Lord SCROPE of Upsal.

18. WILLIAM DARCY, died 1488, married EUPHEMIA, daughter of THOMAS LANGTON of Farnly, co. York.

17. JOAN DARCY, married to RICHARD YORKE of Yorkshire.

16. EDMUND YORKE of Bugbrooke, co. Northampton, .married GRACE.

15. GILBERT YORKE of Hardingstone, co. Northampton, married AMYE BOND.

63 14. EDMUND YORKE of Cotton End, Hardingstone, co. Northampton, married KATHERINE.

13. DOROTHY YORKE. as above,married to Gov. THOMAS DUDLEY. Their five children, all born in England.

12. Rev. SAMUEL DUDLEY, baptized 30 Nov. 1608, died 10 Feb. 1683, a Founder in 1638 of the town of Salisbury, Massachusetts, which he repre­ sented in the General Court; in 1650 was the pastor at Exeter, New Hamp­ shire. He married first in 1632., MARY, died lZ April 1643, daughter of JOHN WINTHROP, first Governor of Ma•sachuaetts.

11. ANN DUDLEY, as above, married Col. EDWARD HILTON.

10. JANE HILTON, born 1668, died 1738, was married to RICHARD MATTOON, who died in 1706.

9. MARY MATTOON, married RICHARD SMITH, son of NICHOLAS SMITH of Exeter.

8. JOSEPH SMITH of Brentwood, New Hampshire, married ELIZABETH.

7. TIMOTHY SMITH, married MARY GREELEY of Kingston, New Hampshire.

6. NOAH GREELEY SMITH of Gilmanton, New Hampshire, married ARABELLh, daughte.r of MOULTON HOYT and JOANNA WARREN of Moultonborough, New Hampshire.

5. DYER SANBORN SMITH of Gilmanton, New Hampshire, married SUSAN A. LATHAM, daughter of the Rev. THOMAS M. LATHAM and OLIVES. (DARLING) LATHAM.

4. RAYMOND EMERSON SMITH, son of DYER, married AGNES EUZABETH MELANSON, daughter of WILLIAM WALLACE MELANSON and MARGARET MORGAN.

3. AGNES ELIZABETH SMITH, married FERNAND PIERRE de GROOF.

2. ELIZABETH AGNES de GROOF, married MICHAEL PERCY FORSYTH.

1. ELIZABETH AGNES FORSYTH, born in Winnipeg, Canada, October 13, 1965.

64 THE VIKINGS

''I was a Viking old ! My deeds, though manifold, No Skald in song has told, No saga taught thee ! " ••• There for my lady's bower Built I the lofty tower, Which, to this very hour, Stands looking seaward, "

- - - - Long!ell ow

The viking outbreak was part of a progressive 11.ational movement for colonization. Many of England's original settlers were •ikings, Scandinavian sea rovers, pirates, predatory voyagers. Bold and reckless in adventure, they were not a lawless folk in their internal relations. Indeed, a system of laws existed among them which was generally respected. It contained provisions for partition of booty, with punishments for theft, desertion and treachery. They professed a Republican form of Self-Government and in war and naval adventure, were far ahead of other nations. They were also adept in shipbuilding and navigation, steering the vessel by an oar at the right, the steerboard (Starboard) side. The round painted shields of the warriors hung outside over the bulwarks, and some­ times forty oarsmen and as many fighters, dressed in shirts of mail and with sword, axe, spear, javelin, bows and arrows, manned each ship.

SVEIDE THE VIKING

Here follows a remarkable uninterrupted all-male descent (not a daughter in the line) shared in common by Barons, RICHARD and GILBERT de CLARE, ROGER and HUGH BIGOD, and ROBERT FITZWALTER, also STRONG-BOW and WILLIAM the Conqueror.

PEDIGREE of 'RIC'R'...ARD and GILBERT de CLA...t:t:S

1. SVEIDE the VIKING, a Norse King, A. D. 760.

2. HALFDAN the Old, died 800.

3. IVAR, Earl of the Uplands, married the daughter of EYSTEIN GLUMRA.

4. EYSTEIN, Earl of More, married ASEDA of Jutland.

5. ROGNVALD, Earl of More, died 890, married HILDA.

6. ROLLO, Duke of Normandy, born 846, died 931, married Lady POPPA (puppet, or little doll), sister of BERNARD of St. Liz (Senlis).

65 7. WILLIAM LONGSWORD, died 942, married ESPRIOTA.

8. RICHARD the Fearless, born 933, died 996, married GUNNORA CREPON.

9. GROFFREY (Godfrey), Count of d 'Eu.

10. GILBERT, Count d'Eu, died about 1040.

11. RICHARD FITZGILBERT de CLARE (Bientfaite), died 1090, married ROHESE, daughter of WALTER GIFFARD de BOLEBEC. lZ. GILBERT de TONEBUGE de CLARE, married ADELIZA, daughter of HUGH, Count of Clermont, a descendant of HUGH CAPET and LOUIS IV, Kings of France.

13. RICHARD FIT ZGILBER T de CLARE, married AD ELIZA, daughter of RANULPH de MESCHINES, Earl of Chester, (also descended from SVEIDE the Viking through RICHARD II the Good), whose wife LUCIA TAILBOIS was a great grandmother of Lady GODIVA and also of King ETHELRED IL

14. ROGER de CLARE, "the Good Earl of Hertford, 11 died 1173, married MAUD, daughter of JAMES de ST. HILLARY, whose ancestry has apparently not b_een preserved. Their daughter MABEL was the mother of WILLIAM de MOWBRAY, the Surety.

15. RICHARD de CLARE, the Surety, married AMICE (Amicia) whose mother HAWISE BEAUMONT was descended from rulers of France and Russia.

16. GILBERT de CLARE, the Surety, son of RICHARD de CLARE, the preceding Surety, born in 1180, married the daughter of WILLIAM MARSHALL.

PEDIGREE of ROBERT FITZWALTER

1. to 4,SVEIDE the VIKING and his descendants down to,

11. RICHARD FITZGILBERT de CLARE, married ROHESE.

12. ROBERT FITZRICHARD de TONEBRUGE, married MAUD ST. LIZ, descended from French Kings.

13. WALTER FITZROBERT, married MARGARET and had,

14. ROBERT FITZWALTER, the Surety.

PEDIGREE of ROBERT de VERE

1. to 11, SVEIDE the Viking and his descendants down to,

66 12. GILBERT de CLARE, married ADELIZA CLERMONT.

13. ADELIZA CLARE, wife of ALBERIC de VERE.

14. AUBREY de VERE, married LUCIA (Alice) of Essex, great granddaughter of ROGER BIGOD and his wife, ADELIZA GRANTMESNIL.

15. ROBERT de VERE, the Surety.

67 GREELEY - SMITH FAMILIES

ANDREW (1) GREELEY born about 1617, married MARY MOYES, daug~ter of JOSEPH and HANNAH MOYES. Was first recorded in Salisbury, Massachusetts in 1640 and in 1650 built a grist and saw mill. This mill was run by a GREELEY for a hundred years. He died at Salisbury on June 30, 1697; she died at Salisbury on Dec. 24, 1703.

ANDREW (2) GREELEY born Salisbury, Massachusetts on Dec. 10, 1646, married at Salisbury to SARAH BROWN, daughter of HENRY and ABIGAIL BROWN, June 12, 1673 at Salisbury. SARAH was born at Salisbury, Massachusetts on Dec. 6, 1673 and died at Salisbury on June 23, 1787. ANDREW died at Salisbury, Massachu­ setts.

JOSEPH (3} GREELEY born at Salisbury, Massachusetts, Nov. 24, 1683, married ELIZABETH GILMAN, daughter of EDWARD GILMAN and ABIGAIL (MAVERICK) GILMAN. JOSEPH died at East Kingston, New Hampshire on June 15, 1761. He had been a blacksmith and had moved to East Kingston in 1728 and was very active in civic affairs during his life there. ELIZABETH died at East Kingston on Aug. 22, 1757.

JOSEPH (4) GREELEY born at Gloucester, Massachusetts on Oct. 8, 1715, married at Kingston, New Hampshire on Dec. 2, 1741 to ELIZABETH DUDLEY, who was born at Brentwood, New Hampshire on Oct. 20, 1727. ELIZABETH was the daughter of JONATHAN and DORIAH (BEAN} DUDLEY. JOSEPH died at Gilman­ ~on, New Hampshire June 5, 1792. ELIZABETH died at Gilmanton, New Hampshire May 27, 1809. They had ten children. JOSEPH was parish clerk at Brentwood from 1765 to 1782, then moved to Gilmanton, New Hampshire.

MARY (5) GREELEY born at Kingston, New Hampshire Dec. 31, 1762, married TIMOTHY SMITH, son of JOSEPH SMITH of Brentwood, New Hampshire.

Reference: Greeley Family Genealogy by G. H. Greeley, 1903, Page 123

68 HOYT - SMITH FAMILIES l. The earliest information concerning JOHN HOYT, which has yet been obtained is that he was one of the original settlers of Salisbury, Massachu­ setts. His age at that time cannot be accurrately determined, but, from the fact that he had at least two children born previous to 1639, it seems prob­ able that he was born about 1610-15. He was selectman and was acting town moderator in 1687, the same year in which he died. Whether he came directly from England, or had previously lived in other towns in America, is uncer­ tain. His name does not appear among the passengers on any of the early emigrant ships of which we have seen any record, and is not found on any of the lists of freemen contained in the Massachusetts records.

"At a meeting at Merrimack of MR. SIMONE BRADSTREET, MR. SAMUEL DUDLEY, MR. DANIEL DENNISON, CHRISTOPHER BATT, SAMUEL WINSLEY, JOHN SANDERS: it was ordered that there shall be two (2) divisions of meadow, the one nerrer, the other farther; the nerrer shall have fower acres to each 100" ( 1 ); the other left to further considerations, etc. Oct. 1639 was the year mentioned. JOHN HOYT had a family at that time, and must have been in Salisbury previous to the above date. The date* of the "first division" of land is not given, but the earliest subsequent grants ar~ dated October 1640. JOHN HOYT was almost the only individual who received only two vi three lots at that time, and the remainder some months after. This would rather seem to indicate that he was among the earliest to move into the i.uwn. The following is a copy of the twenty-third page* of the original book of land records for the town of Salisbury: "According unto the first de­ vision of the town of Salisbury, there was granted unto Jno Hoyt a house lott conteining - estimacon one acre more or lesse, Hying betweene the hause lotts of Willi Holdred & JnOJ)ickison, butting upon the streett & Anthony Sadlers house Iott, etc." From this time on he was mentioned many times in the records of Salisbury and Amesbury. He was referred to as a "Planter" or "husbandman" but it is possible he was in some other employment at times. Mirick, in his history of Haverhill, calls this JOHN HOYT a brickmaker, and seems to imply that he became an inhabitant of the town and worked the clay pits; but we find nothing in the town records to justify such a conclusion, - save th~ lines just quoted. We !--..ave bee~ able to .find no other record which seems to indicate that there was any HOYT in the Province at that time except JOHN of Salisbury, and we are inclined to regard this as an offer made to him which he did not accept. His name is listed in all the activities of Salisbury, Amesbury and other towns that were in existence during his life as well as on the rolls of the military records of Massachusetts. He was referred to as Sargeant HOYT in many of the records, having that rate in the Salisbury Military Company.

Both his wives I name was FRANCES. He probably married his first wife about 1635, though we found no record of it. She died Feb. 23, 1642-3 and he married his second wife in 1643 or 44 (7). His second wife survived him, and

69 was living in 1697. The town records of Amesbury state that "Sargeant" Jn° Hoyt died on ye 28th day and was buried on ye 29th day of February An. Dom. 1687-88", the county records at Salem state that he died on the 29th day of February, but the town records are probably correct. His eldest son (3) JOH."'l 2, had the homestead, paying his step-mother a certain sum annual­ ly; but his grandson JOSEPH received the deed of it, on the same condition, in 1689. There are quite a number of deeds on record from ( l) JOHN HOYT to his sons, (3) JOHN 2 and (4) THOMAS 2, especially the former, his eldest son; and it would seem that he deeded most of his property to his children during his lifetime. If he died possessed of any estate, it must have been disposed of before an administrator was appointed, - nearly ten years after his death. His sons were both dead at that time, and the husband of his eldest daughter was appointed to settle the estate.

2. THOMAS HOYT, born Jan. 1, 1640; married MARY BROWN, daughter of WILLIAM and ELIZABETH BROWN of Salisbury (25). He worked for one WALTER TAYLOR, who was such a moisy and turbulant a character, as to be frequently obliged to appear before the court. The following is from the records of the Salisbury Court, 12 April 1664: "The: Hoyt & The: Jonson are judged by this Court to haue a legall admonicon & to pay five shillings a peace for going away from their Master WALTER: to be payd to ye treasur- er," "And Walter Taylor for using cursing speaches to his servants: is judged to have to pay 10 8 : to ye treasurer of ye county: 11 "And Jn° Hoyt Senior to be admonished for enterteining his son being servant to Walter Taylor."

We have been wiable to find any record of the date of his marriage, or of the birth of his eldest son. The eldest of his children recorded at Salisbury was born in 1670. The name of THOMAS HOYT stands first on the list of those who took "ye oath of Allegiance & Fidelity" before The: BRADBURY, Captain of the Military Company of Salisbury, Dec. 5, 1677". The last of his children recorded on the Salisbury books was born in 1689, and he shortly after remo·.:ed to Amesbury. The birth and death of a daughter of THOMAS 2 are recorded in Amesbury, 1688. There was a THOMAS HOYT who married MARY ASH in Amesbury, Nov. 29, 1689, according to the town books, - the county records read Nov. 29, 1690. It seems that THOMAS HOYT referred to must have been (4) THOMAS 2, as it could not have been his son, and we know of no othe:- ~divid...al bearing the name oi that time. There was a daughter of "Thomas and Mary Hoyt" b. Oct. 1, 1690. Both wives named Mary, this must have been child of the second wife, if the town record of the marriage is correct. If the county record is correct, he must have married speedily after the death of his first wife. There is a re­ cord of the death of two daughters and THOMAS HOYT, himself; but no record of the death of his first wife. (4) THOMAS HOYT died Jan. 3, 1690-1. His son THOMAS 3 was administrator of his estate.

3. EPHAIM HOYT 3, born Oct. 16, 1671; married first HANNAH GODFREY of Hampton, April 25, 1695, second HANNAH GODFREY, Aug. 12, 1736, and third, El.JZABETH MACREST, Sept. 4, 1738; died in 1741 or 42. In Jan.

70 1702 - 3, he petitioned the town of Hampton for permission to cultivate a lot of land for two or three years, promising to lay it down common again at the end of said term. He must have lived in that part of Hampton which was incorporated as Hampton Falls in 1712. We find him taxed at Hampton Falls, in 1727, for "2 head, 2 oxen, 2 cows, l swine, l house, 7 acres of tilling land, a acre of meadow; 11 "also in 1732, similar type of property. " See (95} JOSEPH (4) in June, 1741, he deeded his son, (76) EPHRAL~ 4, the homestead in Hampton Falls. In Aug. l 742; Wid. ELLIS, relinquished her right of dower.

4. NATHAN 4, b. -;bpt. 23 Sept. 1722; m. REBECCA RAWLINS (or ROLLINS), Aug. 4, 1735. His marriage is 'recorded in Hampton Falls, but he moved to Epping and probably died there. The name of "Nathan Hoight" is on the "List of the parish rate" in Epping, Oct. 1742. A NATHAN HOYT was recd - to the Epping Chh., April 10, 1774; and a deed of NATHAN HOYT, of Epping, yeoman, 1774, is on records; - either NATHAN 4, or NATHAN 5.

5. NATHAN, (Col.) born about 1754; m. MOLLY PAGE (598). He was a tanner by trade; Lieutenant in revolution; afterwards Judge, Court of Common pleas for Strafford Co •• till disabled by age, about 1813; was a member of the legis­ lature; lived in Moultonborough, New Hampshire; d. Jan. 9, 1820.

6. MOULTON (6), b. - ;m. JOANNA WARREN, June 17, 1798; lived in Moulton­ borough, New Hampshi:~·e; administration of his estate granted EXEKIEL, Aug. 1807. Children died young, with the exception of CLARRISSA, BENJAMIN and ARABELLA. CLARRISSA married JOHN HEARD and ARABELLA married NOAH GREELEY SMITH of GUmanton, New Hampshire. ARABELLA was born May 27, 1804 (no record of birth) and died Aug. 1, 1876, age 72 yrs. 1 mo. and 7 days, in Medford, Massachusetts. Both ARABELLA and NOAH are buried in the Frederick Smith lot in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.

References: Hoyt Family by D. W. Hoyt, 1871

Hoyt :. Haight & Hight Families

Death records of Arabella, State House, Boston, Massachusetts

71 WARREN FAMILY

I. WALTER WARREN, married in Nov. 1714 at Portsmouth. Will: 27 Oct. 1736 - 26 Jan. 1742/ 3.

2. WALTER WARREN, married probably in Portsmouth about 1743, to MARY.

3. WILLIAM COTTON WARREN, born 13 July 1752 at Scarboro, Maine; died 10 Oct. 1824; served in revolution. Married in 1777-8 (D. A. R. record). In Moultonborough by 1800 census. Wife DORCAS SMITH born in 1753.

4. JOANNA WAR REN, married in Moultonborough, 17 June 1798 to MOULTON HOYT.

Reference: Noyes, Libby and Davis. New England Families.

72 RAWLINS

JAMES (1), (New England Historical Genealogical Register, Vol. 8, pag& 257) emig_rated to America in 1632 with the settlers of Ipswish, Massachusetts. He did not, however, remain long at Ipswich, for he is mentioned by Farmer as being at Newbury in 1634; being probably, one of a small party who went there for the purpose of looking out a favorable spot for settlement. We next hear of him at Dover, where he was located as early as 1644, and he received a grant of land from the town, July 10th of that year; another grant of one hundred acres "was layed out for him", Nov. 26, 1656. This last named lot is so accurately described, and the position and boundaries are so clearly defined, that the des­ cription is copied here for the benefit of descendants who may, in future, desire to visit the old place, and explore the paternal acres:

"Giun and granted unto JAMES RAWLINS, his heirs and assigns, one hundred acres of upland next to his one lot, as so layed out and bounded by Capt. HALL and Sargeant RANSON, who's hause bounded it as followeth: that is to say, by the waterside 109 rodde; upon the S. E., 80 rodde; upon the N. W. sied 240 rodde, upon S. W. and by W. line; and the S. E. sied in upon a S. W. and by W. line. La.yed 26th 11th no., 1656. "

MR. ROLLINS resided in the part of ancient Dover called Bloody Point (now Newington) till his death, received grants of land at various times. His will dated Dover, Dec. 16, 1685, gave property to his wife, HANNAH, to his son, ICHABOD (the eldest), to BENJAMIN, and to his "other children"• not named in his will. The will was proved July 25, 169 I. OBADIAH MORS, of Strawberry Bank, was executor. He was fined for a number of independent acts, one, being friendly to Quakers. He and many of the people of Bloody Point did not see why they should risk exposure to Indian war parties just to go to church in Portsmouth.

THOMAS (2), lived, also, at Bloody Point; was taxed there in 1662 and 1668, and removed to Exeter, New Hampshire, where he remained till death. His farm appears to have been located on the road leading from Exeter to Hampton. We know but little of him - but one passage in his life has been preserved, which tends to show that he possessed something of his father's independence, and his ideas of justice were something in advance of those of his neigh½o~s. !-!e '.1:2.s ~:-:e -:: ~::e Company of EDWARD GOVE, a member of the dissolved assembly of New Hamp­ shire, 1683, who were found in arms, endeavoring to excite an insurrection for the overthrow of the arbitrary government of the Royal Governor - EDWARD CRANFIELD. This was the trouble over MASON'S claim to royal grants and re­ sulted in the indictment of EDWARD GOVE and his company in a charge of high treason. EDWARD GOVE was executed in the usual hideous manner, the rest had their sentences commuted. THOMAS RAWLINS' name was attached to one of the later petitions for the removal of CRA::--;FIELD as Governor. The name rebel was acquired in this manner. RA WLI~S was justice of the peace in 1683. He married, about 1670, RACHEL COX, daughter of MOSES and ALICE COX, of Hampton. The predse date of his death is not known; his inventory was returned to the Probate

73 Office Nov. 7, 1706.

BENJAMIN (3), born July 6, 1678, resident of Exeter, New Hampshire; married ELIZABETH. He seems to have lived in Exeter till his death, Sept. l 1, 1712; he conveyed 22 acres of land, house, orchard and barn to JOSEPH HOYT, who lived in the part of Exeter, afterward called Stratham. His will, dated Sept. 7, 1736, was proved April 30, 1740. All his children are named in the will, and by it, he bequested to ELIZABETH, his wife, his "home place" in Exeter, at a place called the brook on the south side of the way leading to Hampton; and to his son, JOSIAH, land adjoining the same, and the land in Gilmanton.

He was one of the original proprietors of the town of Gilmanton, granted in 1727; was the first constable chosen by the proprietors, and a member of several committees for surveying and laying out the township. He did not live long enough to see the new town occupied, as the two Indian wars prevented the settlement of Gilmanton till 1761 or later.

JOHN (4), resident of Stratham, New Hampshire; married SARAH. Issue,

SARAH b. May 31, 1707 MARY b. July 10, 1709 JOHN b. Sept. 14, 1711 REBECCA b. Feb. 20, 1713; married Aug. 4, 1735, NATHAN HOYT of Epping, a son of EPHRAIM and HANNAH HOYT of Hampton Falls. Their children were: (1) WINTHROP, of Epping, a soldier of the French and Indian Wars, at one time a prisoner at Montreal; (2) Col. NATHAN HOYT, born about 1745, a Lieu­ tenant in the Revolution, was in Scamrnel 's Regiment 1777, 78, 79, was afterward a member of the Legis­ lature, and Judge CCP., Strafford Co., residence, Moultenborough; (3) ELISHA, a soldier of the Revolution at Bunker Hill, residence, Groton, Massachusetts, died Nov. 4, 1827; (4) REBECCA

References: Rawlins, Rollins Family Rollins 1874 Lawrence, Mass. Geo. Merrill Crocker, printers

74 THE IDSTOR Y OF THE PROGENITOR OF ALL GILMANS

About the year 843 there lived in Glynnllyson, North Wales, a Knight lqiown as Cilmin-Troed-Dhu, or Gilmin of the Black Leg. He came there with his father 1s brother Mervyn, either from the Isle of Man or from Mervyn's possessions in the North of Britain and founded the Fourth Mable Table of Wales, probably known as the Cilmins. Cilmin 's uncle Mervyn Vryshe, King of the Isle of Man, married Esylit, only daughter and heir of Conan, son of Roderick, King of the Britains. Conan died and Mervyn and Esylit became King and Queen of Wales in 818. Their son was the last Roderick the Great and ancestor of the Tudors.

The following is quoted from the Cambrian Register, published in 1790: 1 1 " Cilmin-Troed-Dhu lived in the time of Mervyn Vryshe, King of Man, being his brother's son, with whom he came from the North of Britain. His posterity were wise and discreet men in all their ages and many of them learned in the laws and judges under the Kings and princes of Wales, as Mongene Ynad and Apnerth his son, whose law book is still extant, fairly written on parchment. 11

There is a tale 11 myth11 of this Cilmin-Troed-Dhu and indicated that there was some sort of religious disputation at the time, and the story was told in such a form that it would not be banned. The locale of the story is still named as it was to identify the places that the action was supposed to take place. However, one may interpret the story, there was in truth a knight, Cilmin-Troed-Dhu living in this spot in the year 843.

Cilmin 's stronghold was not far from Carnarvon, close to the beautiful mountain Yr Eifl {the rivals) and once dedicated to fire worship. The whole district is reminiscent of the Druid, and the town of Fortresses is the finest example of an ancient British "station". The remains of a great number of small houses or cells are spread over the mountain. Nearby are several circles of stones. Below is a Cromlech or ancient tomb, the whole being surrounded by a double range of walls. On the summit is a Carned. This was the scene of the legend of Cilmin-Troed-Dhu.

The Coat of Arms used for centuries by the Gilmans is given by Vincent, the Herald in "Welch Coats of Arms" written about 1620, as the coat of arms borne by C:1..-:-J.:i-Troed-Dhu. At the close oi the 15th century, the control of the use of arms had become very lax and some had assumed arms without the proper sanction. To rectify this state of affairs, the Crown appointed Officers of Arms, requiring them, either in person or by deputy, to"Make visitations throughout the whole of England and examine the coats of arms in use, deface or rectify those borne improperly and record those which were then borne properly by inheritance". At least three visita­ tions passed through the country and genuine arms originating before that date and properly in use at that period were then registered. It is an established fact that these visitations weeded out all those not entitled to bear arms. At this time, the Gilman arms were officially recorded. The Anglo-Saxon "C" originally had the sound of "G", so Cilmin became Gilmin, then Gilman, etc.

Reference: The Gilmans of Hingham, England - by Constance LeNeve Gilman Ames.

75 PEDIGREE of CILMIN or CILMIN-TROED-DHU

(from the "Her~ldic Visitation of Wales", by Lewys Dwnn, in 1586 and the report of Henry VII' s Commission circa A. D. 1490 and "Caradoc's History of Wales", written in 1150)

COEL GODEBOC

King of Britain and Duke of Colchester (circa A. D. 300)

Cenaw or Genaw ab Coel Godeboc Helena Constantine Chlorus, wife of the Gorwst Ledlwn or grwst ab Genaw Roman Governor of Britain, A. D. 292, Meirchien ab Grwst died at York, A. D. 306. Their son was Elidur Lydanwin ab Meirchion Constantine th~ Great, Roman Emperor Llewarch-Hen arglwdd Pennllyn (306 - 377 A. D. ). He was at one time Dwywg ab Llowarch- Hen Governor of Britain Gwywg ab Dwywg Tegid ab Gwywg Alser ab Tegid Sandde ab Alser Handear Algwn, according to Henry Vll's Elidur Commission,. Elidur was the son of Handear Gwriad ab Elidur-Nest but according to Lewy Dwnn, Elidur was the Cadrod ab Gwriad son of Sandde ab Alser, in either case, Cilmin ab Cad rod Elidur was the grandson of Alser ab Tegid.

Cilmin ab Cadrod Mervyn Vrych, uncle of Cilmin, was King from whom descended of the Isle of Man and married Esyltt, all the Cilmins, Gilmins, daughter of Conan Tindaethury, King of Gilmans, etc. Wales in 755 A. D. When Conan died, Mervyn and Esyltt became King and Queen of Wales in 818 A. D. From them descended through their son Roderick (the last of the Britains) the great house of Tudors. Traced through Owen Tudor.

76 GILMAN - MAVERICK - GREELEY

EDWARD GILMAN, b. about 1525, Caston, England; m. June 22, 1550 ROSSE R YSSE at Caston. They had four sons and five daughters. By his will he left a large estate to be divided between his children. His widow remarried in 1578. The parish register did not begin before 1539. The:: children were: MARGARET, KATHERINE. ROSE. JOAN and ELIZABETH, JOHN, EDWARD and ROBERT. JOHN was left a mansion and lands in Caston. No further record of him. ROBERT, bapt. 1559, buried Mar. 6, 1631, Caston. wife MARY. He inherited lands from his father. EDWARD, bapt. Apr. 20, 1557, wife's name unknown. He was the father of EDWARD the emigrant. The late Charles E. Banks, Genealogist, discovered a deposition made by EDWARD the emigrant in 163 7 at the age of 50, shortly before he left England. referring to his father as EDWARD. An incomplete list of children is furnished by Mr. Torrey, Genealogist.

EDWARD the EMIGRANT, bapt. 1587, England; died 1654 Exeter, New Hampshire; married MARY CLARK and emigrated to America in 1683. locating in Hingham, Massachusetts.

EDWARD (Z) eldest son of EDWARD the EMIGRANT; bapt. Dec. 26, 1617, Hingham. England; died 1653 at sea; married about 1646 at Ipswich ELIZABETH SMITH, daughter of RICHARD SMITH of Ipswich. Massachusetts. who presented them with a place in that time. EDWARD later sold this to his own father, having moved to Exeter in 1647, where he obtained rights to erect and operate saw mills. In 1651, he had upon the stocks a vessel of about 50 tons burden. probably for the export of lumber along the coast. He was active, enterprising and judicious and immediately became popular and leading citizen. Grants of land were repeatedly made to him, the last of which was on May 10, 1652, which was the same day his father and young brother MOSES were accepted as townsmen. In 1653, EDWARD went to England for mill gearing and was lost at sea. His business was taken over by his brother JOHN, and his family, consisting of his wife and three small sons, were cared for by both his brothers. It is not known how long his wife survived him. His father died a short time later.

EDWARD (3), b. about 1648, Exeter, New Hampshire; d. 1692; m. Dec. ZO, 1674 ABIGAIL MAVERICK, daughter of ANTIPAS MAVERICK who died in Exeter, New Hampshire 1678. Administration of his estate was granted to EDWARD and ABIGAIL, who inherited the considerable property. The MAVERICKS were an English family, prominent in Boston in the very early days. EDWARD was six years old when his father died, but was evidently well cared for. He, himself, died when his eldest son was only 17. His will reads "I do appoint my Hon. Uncle, Capt. JOHN GILMAN, JONATHAN THING, MOSES LEA VITT and JOHN FOLSOM, over- seers".

ELIZABETH (4), b. about 1685; m. JOSEPH GREELEY of Salisbury, Mass.

Reference: Gilman Genealogy - by Constance LeNeve Gilman Ames, Yakima, Wash.

77 Historical Notes

THE MAVERICK FAMILY OF NEW ENGLAND

Of more interest, however, than these petitions for the righting of individual wrongs was the information and advice given by Samuel Maverick, who happened to be in England at the return of Charles. Maverick, as we have seen, had been living in Massachusetts some years before John Endicott or John Winthrop had throught of going there. For nearly forty years, since 1624, he had watched its development and, as he possessed considerable ability and a fairly sound judgment, in addition to his almost unique personal knowledge of the colony's history, his opinion would naturally carry weight with the English authorities. He had steadily opposed the political and religious policy of the Massachusetts leaders, and had been one of the signers of the Childe petition in 1646. In the letters, which for some years following 1660, he frequently wrote to Lord Clarendon, his complaints of the past occupying a minor position, and his plans for the reorganization of the colonies evidently either coincided with those of the minister or largely helped to form them.

The above article taken from the book "Founding of N. E. ", by James Truslow Adams.

In the meantime, the Massachusetts patentees followed the Plymouth custom of granting lands without tenurial obligation. As with other incorporated trading companies interested in colonization. The Massachusetts Bay Colony at first held its lands in common, subject to division. When allotments were made, no quit­ rents were reserved on the lands given to the adventurers or to the towns or pro­ prietors for settlement. Other lands, reserved for the support of government or for some public service, were granted under a quit-rent tenure. All islands of any importance along the coast were granted with rent payable to the General Court. Noddles Island (East Boston) was given to Samuel Maverick in 1633, on condition that he pay yearly "att the General Court, to the Government for the time being, either a fat weather or a fatt hogg, or eleven shilling in money", reserving to Boston and Charlestown the right to fetch wood from the southern part of the island.

The above article taken from the book "Dominion of New England", by Viola Florence Barnes.

Samuel Maverick came over in 1624, in the interest of Gorges, and settled at Winnissimmet, where he built a dwelling and trading house which was protected by palisades and cannon. With him came a number of servants, including some negro slaves. He engaged in trade with indians, and in commerce along the coast. He was of good family, well educated, and very generous and hospitable. Although a sturdy churchman, he had for some years the confidence of the people, was appointed by the General Court on several committees, and in 1633 received a grant of Noddles Island, new East Boston. He applied for admission as freeman in October 1630, and took the oath in October l '632. But in the troubles which subse­ quently threatened the colony, his known connection with Gorges created suspicion;

78 and when, in 1635, preparations were being made to prevent landing of a general governor, he was ordered to remove with his family to Boston and forbidden to entertain any stranger more than one night, without the consent of an assistant. He became dissatisfied with the conduct of the government and churches, and in 1648, signed the petition of Doctor Childe and others, for which he was fined and and imprisoned. Two years later he sold Noddles Island and removed from the colony.

Above article taken from "The Bay Colony", by Northend (William Dummer Northend) LL. D.

79 MAVERICK

ANTIPAS MAVERICK is recorded as "belonging to ye Ile of Shoals" in October in 1641. In 1652, we find him at Kittery, Maine appearing before the Commissioners and submitting to the Governor of Massachusetts. This circum­ stance gives plausibility to the conjecture that the different individuals by the name Maverick were of the same family, for we know that MARY HOOK, the daughter of SAMUEL MAVERICK, lived in Kittery. ANTIPAS married and had a daughter. ABIGAIL, who was married to EDWARD GILMAN, of Exeter.

All the known circumstances connected with births, lives, business relations and residences of SAMUEL, ELIAS, MOSES and ANTIPAS lead to the conclusion that they were brothers.

The name MAVERICK has become extinct in New England, although descend­ ants still remain in New York. However, numerous persons perpetuate it. It is highly probable that SAMUEL, the royal commissioner, removed his residence to New York after the Duke of York had presented him with a house, and subsequent to the siege of the Boston branch by the citizens of Boston. -

EDWARD GILMAN married ABIGAIL MAVERICK, the daughter of ANTIPAS MAVERICK, and they moved to Ipswich and finally to Exeter, New Hampshire, 1652.

References: Budington 's History of The First Church in Charlestown.

History of East Boston - by William H. Summer, A. M. Printed 1869.

New York Col. Hist. Vol. III, page 185.

Gen. Reg. Vol. VIII, page 270 Mass. records, VoL 11, page 299.

Gen. Reg. Vol. III, page 193.

80 SMITH - LATHAM

THOMAS M. LA THAM married OLIVE S. DARLING in Canterbury, Copn. in 1826. The record states that THOMAS LATHROP and OLIVE S. DARLING were married by J.P. SAM. L. HOUGH. THOMAS LATHROP was listed as from Griswold, Conn.

Griswold records of vital statistics list the following births:

GEORGE LATHAM b. Oct. 6, 1827 Son of THOMAS and OLIVE HENRY T. LATHAM b. Jan. 20, 1830 Son of THOMAS and OLIVE LYDIA ANN LATHAM b. Dec. 15, 1831 Daughter of THOMAS and OLIVE ANDREW M. LA THAM b. Apr. 16, 1833. Son of THOMAS and OLIVE

Norwich, Connecticut,

MARY ELIZABETH LATHAM b. Oct. 15, 1839

Mansefield, Massachusetts,?

SUSAN A. LATHAM b. Apr. 11, 1844

No traceable record,

THOMAS LA THAM

SUSAN A. LATHAM married DYER SANBORN SMITH, Oct. 1, 1867 at Charlestown, Massachusetts; SUSAN died May 16, 1933, Norwood, Ohio in the home of her daughter MAUD.

HENRY T. LATHAM married twice, a record of his first marriage is regis­ tered in Concord, Mass., stating that the marriage was performed in Nashville, New Hampshire. THOMAS M. LA THAM signed as the minister performing the marriage in July 1851,on the 8th day. Age of groom, 21 years. No record of children by this marriage. A record of HENRY'S children lists CHARLOTTE BEADE as mother.

LYDIA ANN LATHAM married JAMES E. MESSER of Methuen, Mass. , one child, HATTIE E. MESSE::R, who married LAURENCE 0. DARLING. Not a member of the OLIVE DARLING family line.

MARY E. LA THAM married JOSEPH L. SMITH, brother of DYER SANBORN SMITH. They had seven children, all died of plague. MARY died Oct. 19, 1913 in Charlestown, Mass.

ANDREW J. LATHAM married and worked in Lynn, Mass.; died in Stoneham, Mass. , 1903.

81 LATHAM

This is a line believed to be the correct line of THOMAS M. LATHAM, until the record is more complete it is not proven.

All of this material can be found in the genealogy of the LA THAM family centering in the Connecticut area of New London and Groton. One branch of the family went up to Massachusetts, probate re<. -,rds may be found in the court house in Northampton, in the early 1800 's.

CARY LA THAM ( 1) b. England d. New London, 1685 m. in England, MRS. ELIZABETH MASTER LOCKWOOD

JOSEPH (2) b. Boston, Oct. 2, 1642 d. before Jan. 10, 1705/ 6 m. Newfoundland, MARY---who died New London; June 23, 1727.

THOMAS (3) b. New London, (bapt.) July 30, 1693 d. Groton, Aug. 23, 174 7 m. New London about 1716, ANN FOSDICK, daughter of Capt. SAMUEL & MARCY(PICKETT) FOSDICK, who was b. Dec. 8, 1691 and d. in 1761.

THOMAS (4) b. Groton, Oct. 15, l 716 d. Groton, 174 7 m. Groton, HANNAH CHESTER, daughter of ABRAHAM CHESTER.

THOMAS (5) b. April 8, 1744 d. Burlington, Vermont, Oct. 17, 1801 m. Groton, July 15, 1770, EUNICE PERKINS, daughter of EBENEZER PERKINS.

THOMAS (6) b. Groton, March 28, 1771 d. Groton, jan. 7, 1796 (at sea) m.

THOMAS (7) b. d. Somewhere in the West, set out in wagon train, believed to have reached Wisconsin. m. OLIVE S. DARLING, record in Canterbury, Conn., V. R. 2: 51. LUCY LATHAM married LEMUEL DARLING, Jan. 1, 1829; Griswold V. R. 1:227

BZ SUSAN (8) b. Mansefield, Mass., Apr. 11, 1844 d. Norwood, Qhio, May 16, 1933 m. DYER SANBORN SMITH, son of NOAH GREELEY SMITH of Gilmanton, New Hampshire

83 ROSS - DARLING - LATHAM FAMILIES

LEMUAL ROSS Died April 16, 1833 - age 76 years - buried at Thompson, Conn.; his wife OLIVE died July 14, 1840, aged 77 yrs. They had,

JERUSHA Married ANDREW DARLL"-:G, died in Wales, Mass., 1850. They had,

1. LEMUAL DARLING Married at Griswold, Jan. 1, 1829, to LUCY LA THAM.

2. OLIVE DARLING Married at Canterbury, Conn, THOMAS LATHAM of Griswold, Conn., Feb. 19, 1826. (In: Griswold V. R. 1: 227} also (In: Canterbury V. R. 2. 51}

3. SARAH Died single.

4. LYDIA Married (1) JAMES FRIZELL at Norwich, Mar. 20, 1836, both of Norwich. Married (2} SMITH.

5. JERUSHA Married FRIZELL.

6. ANDREW Married at Stafford, Conn., Feb. 14, 1841, HARRIET WILLARD.

7. EBENEZER Married HARRIET CHASE, of Killingly, Conn., be was of Ware, Mass. Thompson, Conn. V. R. 2. 9. His will at Hartford, Conn. Killingly, 1888, no. 576. Sons, Dr. ASAHEL E. and Dr. CASSIUS DARLING. Will of HARRIET DARLING, Killingly, 1879, no. 577. Cemetery headstone index for Killingly gives the death dates of EBENEZER DARLING, Feb. 18, 1888, aged 73 years, HARRIET, wife of EBENEZER, Dec. 11, 1879, aged 56 • Dr. ASAHEL E. DARLING, b. Dec. 4, 1844; d. July 27, 1911.

8. MARIETTE Married BENJAMIN ADAMS of Taunton, Mass. MARIETTE was born in Greenville. Conn. Captab ADAMS lived in Whittinsville, Mass., Sup. of Rockdale Mills, died 1916. His daughter, Mrs. Hiram L. Reynolds lives in Oreenland, New Hampshire with her daughter Mrs. Rand. Mrs. Reynolds supplied information on the ROSS, DARLING and LATHAM• families.

9. WILLIAM No record.

10. LUCY Married at Stafford, April 30, 1848, PERCY CLARK, both of Worcester.

84 DARLING - LATHAM

EBENEZER DARUNG Enlisted from the town of Killingly, Connecticut in June 1776 - private - Capt. STEPHEN CROSBY'S company - Col. COMFORT LAGE 1S regiment, WADSWORTH brigade (from Rev. records 9-401 found in Killingly, Conn.). This Battalion was raised in Killingly June 1776 to reinforce WASH­ INGTON at N. Y., L. L They were caught in the retreat from the city and suffered some loses. The time expired Dec. 25, 1776. (Ref: Am. Men in the Rev. at Killingly, Conn.) EBENEZER was born Feb. 25, 1745. Wife, MARY HALSES.

EBENEZER (2) Son, died in Gloucester, R. L Wife, LYDIA BOWEN.

ANDREW (3) Married in 1800 to JER USHA ROSS, daughter of LEMUEL ROSS, of Thompson, Connecticut. Both ANDREW and JERUSHA died in Wales, Mass., 18 Oct. 1850. Daughter, MARRIETTE DARLING died Oct. 18, 1883 in Worcester, Mass., was born in Greenville, Connecticut.

85 CASSIUS HARRIOT DARLING

Cassius, physician, surgeon, was born at Chestnut Hill, East Killingly,. Connecticut, July 10, 1859, son of Ebenezer and Harriot (Chase) Darling. He began his schooling in District No. 13 of his native town, and afterward attended the grade school at Chestnut Hill and then Danielsonville (now Danielson) High School, graduating in the class of 1879 of which he was class orator. During the school term of 1870-80 he taught the Green Hollow District School in Plainfield, Connecticut, and in the following year, 1880-81, the valley District School No. 13, in East Killingly. In the meantime, he began his medical studies while still a student in the high school under the instruction of his brother, Dr. Asahel Ebenezer Darling, of Dayvelle, Killingly. He attended the summer term of 1880 at Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, N. H. From 1881 to 1883, he was a student in the Medical School of the University of New York, receiving his degree of Dr. of Medicine, Mar. 3, 1883. For four months after he graduated he was associated in practice with his brother. He came to Worcester, Mass.• July 27, 1883, and since that time has been actively engaged in the general practice of Medicine here. He has been Med­ ical Examiner for various insurance companies and Fraternal Ins. Organizations. In politics, he is a Republican, against liquor, a free will Baptist (East Killingly Church); his family are members of the Old South Congregational Church. Dr. Darling married (first) May 21, 1886, at Norwich, Connecticut, Mary Etta Water­ house, daughter of John B. and Melvin (Green) Waterhouse. He married (second), October 28, 1896, in Worcester, Mary Jane Gertrude Kelly, daughter of John and Honora (Stevens) Kelly.

Ebenezer Darling, his father, was cotton and wool manufacturer, beginning as a small boy in the mills, becoming in time master mechanic and finally agent, superintendant and owner. His eyesight was nearly destroyed by an accident while he was at work in a mill and he bought the Dr. Hammond farm in East Killingly, Connecticut and followed farming for the rest of his life. He was active in public affairs, selectman and member of the school committee, and a local leader of the Republican party. Dr. Darling is descended from early pioneer stock.

86 THE ROSS IN NEW ENGLAND by E. E. Fewkes, Newtonville, Mass.

In searching the records of the old Massachusetts Bay Colony, we find that the earliest of the ROSSES to arrive on these shores were nine men by that name who came into Charlestown, Massachusetts, in the latter part of the year 1651. Of these, three were listed as JOHN ROSS, two as JAMES ROSS, and one each as DAN ROSS, JONAS ROSS, ALESTER ROSS and DAVID ROSS_. The last four names do not appear again on any record yet found, and it is supposed that they left no desc_endants, or that their names became so changed that they cannot be recognized.

It is true the name appears in a few instances earlier than 1651, but plenty of proof is also found that these men's true names were other than ROSS. In studying the old records of this section, much difficulty is encountered, from the fact that the clerks or scribes were careless in recording, and also in spelling the name, and also from the fact that the name often became confused with other family names, such as, ROFFE, ROLFE, ROSE, RUSS, ROFF, etc.

Within a space of from three to ten years from 1651, we find appearing on the records, JAMES ROSS of Sudbury, 1654; JAMES ROSS, of Falmouth, Maine, about 1657; JOHN ROSS, of Kittery, Maine,about 1660; JOHN ROSS, of Boston, 1658; THOMAS ROSS, of Cambridge, 1656; KILICROSS ROSS, of Ipswich, 1654; FENNELL (probably FINLAY) ROSS, of Ipswich, 1662 and lastly JOHN ROSS, of Plymouth, Mass., 1658.

The births are recorded of 62 children of these men and of this number, ten were sons who lived to grow to manhood and leave traces of themselves in the record books of the several towns in which they lived. Many of the ROSS families in Massachusetts today find their ancestors among these pioneers. Four of these pioneer ROSSES of 1651 have left a large number of descendants, which have be­ come scattered all over New England and probably to other places where they have not yet been traced out. Of one family, that of JAMES ROSS of Sudbury, about four hundred descendants who retain the name of ROSS have been traced out, and they are found to have lived in Sudbury, Lancaster, Sterling, Bolton, Deerfield, Newton, Templeton and several other towns in Massachusetts, in considerable numbers, as well as some in Jaffrey, New Hampshire, and in St. Johnsbury, Vermont. Descend­ ants of JOHN ROSS of Ipswich are found in large numbers in Winham County, Conn. THOMAS ROSS of Cambridge, removed to Billerica, Mass., where the name was known for more than one hundred years, and his descendants have been known in the towns of Concord, Lancaster and Pete.,.sham in Massachusetts. KILLICROSS ROSS of Ipswich {whose real name was doubtless GILCHRIST) left descendants, recorded on the town's books to the number of more than 150. a few of which remain residents of the old town, while others have settled in Maine and in New Hampshire.

From the year 1652 to about 1720 there was apparently no immigrant Scotch settler by the name of ROSS to come into the Massachusetts Colony. About this latter date many Scotch-Irish came to America and among them was JOHN ROSS, from Slige, Ireland, who settled in the neighboring town of Berwick, Maine. JAMES

87 ROSS. was born in Stroma1 Scotland, also his brother ALEXANDER ROSS, about 1750 settled in Maine. ALEXANDER in Portland and JAMES in Gorham; this latter left nine children and many descendants. All those ROSSES whose names we find inscribed in the records, up to the year 1700, without exception yet found, were children Ol' grandchildren of one or other of the before mentioned ten pioneers. After this time there appeared in several towns in New England a ROSS ancestor whose origin cannot be traced; thus, we find that in 1711 WILLIAM ROSS was living in Westerly, Rhode Island, and records of him begin about this time. He left many descendants. In 1714 DA YID ROSS appears in Killingly, Conn. Records begin in 1745, in Brookfield, Mass., of JAMES ROSS, whose origin is unknown, but many of his line can be found in towns in Central Massachusetts. In 1776, SANFORD ROSS was in Providence, Rhode Island where is still found families who trace back to him. And so it is in many small towns throughout Massachusetts and neighboring Colonies, from 1700 to the Revolution, one or more entries on the record books appear and then, after a time, no more is known of them; but when all the records of all the towns and counties be copied, gathered together and com­ pared, then without doubt, a complete story can be written which will include the origin of all these pioneers whose names deserve to be saved from oblivion.

ROSS FAMILIES

The recent complete redistribution of Britain's naval forces has made the Cromarty Firth a chief rendezvous and base for maneuvers and training of her most formidable fleet, the Main Fleet. On a rising ground, overlooking the waters of that finest of deep land locked harbours, where "Dreadnought and Indomitable" can be nearer a pier than anywhere else except at Porstmouth, stands the lofty old baronial castle of Balnagown, the ancestral home of SIR CHARLES ROSS. While the ground, beautifully weeded, slopes gradually in front towards the First, it falls at the back precipitously to the deep, wooded, picturesque glen of the Balnagown River. Though the site was no doubt originally chosen like those of other medieval castles, for its possibilities of defense rather than of beauty, yet both are largely combined in its site.

There seems to be no record of the first founding of a castle or residence there, it is lost in the mists of antiquity - and Balnagown vies with Dunvegan for the honor of being the oldest inhabited castle in Scotland. When we first know of Balna­ gown, it was a seat of the Earls of ROSS. The first mention of that ancient gtock is :.:: ::!.-~.:; :.a.:.dnd.mabo:i:< Saga, the oldest Norse poem relating to Scotland, and it runs thus: "Helgi, son of Ottar, made war upon Scotland and carried off prisoner Nidbjorga, the daugther of King Bjolan and of Kadliner, daughter of Ganga Rolf." This ROLF the ganga - ROLLA-the- WALKER - who was too tall to ride - or RALPH the Rover as he may be freely rendered, tried many descents on British coasts - got many a hot reception and at last passed on to the north of France, where he found an easier prey. He, there, carved out for his Norsemen, or Mormans as they began to be called, the duchy of Normandy, and with him began a line of dukes of whom came WILLIAM the Conqueror. Whether GANGA ROLF took any booty from the Cromarty Firth 2-.nd other shore of ROSS or not, he left behind him his Norse damsel KADLINER as a bride for the Celtic chief. We may suppose her blue-eyed

88 fair-haired - like most of her race - and of her father's stalward build. At least she had the will to give her daugl-.ter a Norse name. Which may have been all the better for that maiden when along came another Viking, a most unceremonious wooer, as gentlemen of the pirate profession are apt to be, but, let us hope, all the likelier to treat her kindly for her Norse name. Her father, the Celtic chief, was to his Celts, -Gileon, to the Norsemen -King Bjolan, then to his clan, his family were the O'Bealans, later, the Gille-Anrias Gillanders - Landries. Lastly, ROSS, from the territory and title, assumed as name by the Balnagown branch when the male line and the title of the original stock of the Earls failed. One of Bealan 's successors at a distance of several generations was FERCHARD or FARQUHAR as we now have it. He came to the front early in the thirteen.ill century, giving timely and powerful aid to King ALEXANDER II, in this enterprise of sub­ duing the rival power of DONALD BANE 1S sons and of the Earl of MORAY. After defeating these, FERCHARD caught their leaders, beheaded them, and sent their heads in the grim old savage fashion as a present to the monarch.

For this, the pleased and grateful ALEXANDER continued FERCHARD in his wide Earldom and admitted him to the rank of - Chivalry! as a dubbed knight. In another of ALEXANDER'S wars, FER CHARD - Macin - agart or descendant of the priest, and his by-name went - "Came up and attacked the Gallowegians in the rear, followed them up, and put them to the sword as long as daylight lasted. 11 If he had any qualms of conscience for all this bloodshed, he compounded for it in the approved fashion of his time, by founding an abbey at Fearn. There he said to have died - doubtless in the order of santity, in 1251. FERCHARD'S grandson, WILLIAM, Earl of ROSS, had. a pretty chequered career kuring the War of Independ­ ence, kept up first by WALLACE and then by BRUCE against EDWARD I, and EDWARD IL By the third of Februa-ry, the Earl is set free to go home, but mean­ time on the sixth of September, he gets from Dunferline this outfit: gambessorn (coat), aketune (tunic), pissone and gorger (throat armour), Chapel de fer bacinet (knight helmet), pair of jamberis and poleyns (leg and knee pieces), and a colret of iron (neckband. Also he buys from WALTER deR YE "a mail coat of iron for his body". Two years after he is fully reconciled to EDWARD, and appointed Warden north of the Spey. EDWARD was long-headed as well as long shanked, for within a year, the new-made Warden has a loathly thing to do for his new master - and does it.

BRUCE, in his time of distress after the battle of Methuen, had to send his wiie and daughter and other ladies to the north with a few knights as escort. First they sought refuge at Kildrummie in Aberdeen-shire, but even that proving unsafe they went on to the sanctuary of St. Duthac at Tain. On EDWARD'S demand, the Earl took them thence by force and delivered them up to the English. EDWARD sent the knights to immediate execution, imprisoned the Countess of Buchan in an iron cage hung over the walls of Berwick and exposed to the gaze of passers by, and consigned the other ladies to a less awful but still rigorous imprisonment. In three years, the Earl had again changed sides and supported BRUCE, and his son HUGH married BRUCE'S younger daughter MAUD. Later when this HUGH had succeeded as fifth Earl, he led his clansmen to the war against EDWARD II I and EDWARD BALIOL, whom the English were determined to make King of Scotland. Before leaving, Earl HUGH took from the shrine at Cain the historic shirt of

89 St. Duthac and wore it under his armor, relying on its miraculous power to shield him from the weapons of the enemy. In the battle of Halidone-Hill, near Berwick in February, 1333-4 {that is 1333 in the old reckoning when the year be- gan the first of March, but 1334 in our reckoning when it begins in January}, the Earl led the Scottish reserves to an attack on BALIOL'S own wing of the enemy. If he took this dangerous post, relying on the saintly garment, he had a terrible disillusioning, for he was slain in the attack, and the shirt found on his body was sent back to Tain by the English. His son and successor WILLIAM, by MAUD, was, of course, grandson of KING ROBERT the BRUCE and nephew of DA YID IL But long before the fatal battle, MAUD had died and Earl HUGH had married again and had another son, HUGH, and a daughter EUPHEMIA. EUPHEMIA ultimately became queen, as second wife of ROBERT STEWART, who was son of BRUCE'S daughter MARJORY, and later, succeeded as KING ROBERT IL Just before leaving for the war, Earl HUGH executed two deeds conveying to his second son HUGH, the lands of Rarichies on the Moray Firth shore of Easter Ross, and the lands of Philorth, Aberdour, Tyrie and Crimond on the shore of East Aberdeen­ shire or Buchan. Next, HUGH got from his brother, Earl WILLIAM, the lands of Balnagown, Achahanyt and Gorthy and a right to 'I/, 4 yearly out of the rents of Tarbat. Thus, HUGH became the first of the long separate line of Lairds of Balnagown which has now continued for nearly six centuries. It is a curious instance of the persistence of feudal dues that the 'I/, payment has gone on for the same period and is at this day regularly made by the Countess of Cromartie to Balnagown. The Aberdeenshire lands were seen exchanged for other in Ross. During the unspeakable wretched time of English invasion and civil war after the great BRUCE'S death, and while his son, DAVID, was a minor, ROBERT STEWART, Balnagown's brother­ in-law, acted ably and faithfully ad regent and was vigorously backed by the Earl and HUGH of Balnagown. One of his operations was a siege of Perth, then held by the English. The Earl took a leading part, for he headed a body of miners who cut a passage under the walls and drained off the water of the fosse to make the assault easier. This is remarkable as one of the few events in history whose time is fixed to the minute by astronomy. Besiegers and besieged were paralysed by seeing the sun gradually blackened out, till the merest fraction remained bright. Such an omen seemed likely to lead to the abandonment of the siege. Curiously enough, the chief man among the Scots to rise superior to superstition was WILLIAM BULLOCK, an ex-priest who had doffed the cassock and donned the habergeon and taken to soldier­ ing. Under his vigorous exhortation, the siege was pressed and Perth was won. The time when such an eclipse was visible in its greatest phase at Perth was 1: 28 p. z:n. the seventh of July 1339. One naturally recalls along with the noted passage in the Hellenics which recites that to Agesilaus and his Spartans, crossing from Phocis into Boeotia just before the great battle of Coroneia, the sun appeared cres­ cent shaped - a passage which has supplied the key to the chronology of Greek His­ tory. In 1346, when King DAVID mustered his forces at Perth for an invasion of England, the Earl of Ross was among them, but meeting at Elche Monastery with RONALD, Lord of the Isles, with whom he had a feud, slew him. Fearing the King's vengeance, the Earl went off home with all his men, while the men of the Isles, being without a chief, dispersed. After DAVID'S expedition ended disastrously in his defeat and capture at Duehan, and all through the miserable time of his captiv­ ity, the brothers Earl of Ross and HUGH of Balnagown acted faithfully together. In 1366, along with JOHN of Lorn and JOHN, Lord of the Isles, they renounced their

90 allegiance, and refused to contribute to the heavy ransom for DAVID 1S release and absented themselves from Pariiament till 1369. The Earl died in 1371. and HUGH of Balnagown, a few months after.

In 1375 WILLIAM, the next Laird of Balnagown got from KING ROBERT II, his uncle by marriage, a charter continuing him in possession of Balnagown, which charter is still preserved at the castle. WALTER, the next Laird, added to the estates Strathcarren, Stratheykel and the forest of Freewater by marrying the daughter and heiress of PAUL MacTYR, a great cateran chief of whom an old chronicle says "He was a valiant man and caused Caithness to pay him blackmail nyne scoir of cowes yearly out of the Caithness so long as he was able to travel". MacTYR 'S stronghold was the Dun of Creich, an isolated rock standing out in the upper Dorneck Firth. It has one of those mysterious "vitrified" forts, and a local tradition gives PAUL the name of being the inventor of them.

WALTER'S great grandson, ALEXANDER, sixth Laird, suffered the greatest disaster in the history of the Rosses. They had then a feud with the MacKAYS, one of whom, "AUGUS MacKA Y, son of ANGUS DUBH", often raided their lands and herds. At last, however, the ROSSES surprised him at Tarbat, shut up him and his men in the church there and burnt them to death in it. His son, JOHN RAIBHAICH MacKA Y, was bound by the clan code of honor to take up the feud and avenge him. JOHN, as soon as he was old enough, applied for help to the Earl's uncle. This was in 1486 and the combined bands made a raid into Stratheykell, wasting it with fire and sword. ALEXANDER of Balnagown gathered his clansmen at once and met the raiders at Alt na Charrais, a small northern tributary of the Oykell, the spot being since called Doir a Chatha, or Grove of the fight, from the event. The fight was obstinate, bloody, and long undecided, but at last ALEXANDER was -killed, and the want of their chief decided the day against the ROSSES. They had to flee, no quarter was given, and the slaughter was terrible. Among their leaders who fell SIR ROBERT GORDON names: WILLIAM ROSS, ALEXANDER TERRELL, AUGUS McCULLOCH, WILLIAM ROSS, JOHN VAUS, WILLIAM VAUS, HUCHEON VAUS and JOHN MITCHELL. The victors had great booty, and among them were men of Assint, who instigated JOHN RAIBHAICH to take Sutherland and his company unawares, cut them all off, appropriate their share of the booty and give out that they had been killed in the fight, but this atrocious proposal was too much even for most of the reiving Caterans. The Sutherlands were warned and on their guard. MacKA Y saw the scheme was frustrated and slunk off home to Stratbnaver. ALEXANDER of Balnagown, who thus fell, had a daughter ISABELLA, who married GORDON MUNRO, tenth Baron of Fowlis, near Dingwall. Sutherland had for wife MARGARET, ·daughter of DONALD, Lord of the Isles, and great granddaughter of WILLIAM, Earl of Ross, above mentioned. The ancient ROSSES of Balna.gown failed, and by an unusual circumstance the estate came, by purchase, to another family o'f the name, the lords of Hawkhead, an old and very honorable branch of the clan, which failed on the death of GEORGE, twelfth Lord ROSS, in 1754, at Ross House, and of his son, the Master of Mount Teviot, when his title went to the Earls of Glasgow.

Reference: ROSS FAMILY, E.P.Read, 1908 The Argus Company,Albany,N. Y. Nov. 1, 1908

91 MOLONSON (Melanson)

PUBLIC ARCHIVES OF NOVA SCOTIA-1968 History of Digby County by I. W. Wilson - Chapter XXIV Biographies of General Conway and Admiral Digby ---Sketches of Prominent Early Settlers.

Page 318. Among the two hundred and twenty-seven Acadiens of that origin who took the oath of Fidelity in 1730 were the following who were themselves among the pioneers --- BAPTISTE MARTIN, PIERRE MAR TIN, FRANCIS ROlUCHAUD, LOUISE ROBICHAUD, J. BAPTISTE RICHARD, PAUL LEBLANC, CLAUDE GAUDET, CHARLES MELANSON, CHARLES MELANSON, JR.

Letter dated November 12, 1964 from C. Bruce Fergusson, Provincial Archivist of Nova Scotia,

Dear Sir:

We do not have any records in our files of a family named Molonson. I wonder if perhaps this might be Melanson, but we do not have any genealogies of that family either. The Melansons are an old Acadian family and are mentioned in some of the old Acadien church records. However, we do not have an index to these and our staff is not large enough to undertake extensive genealogical search.

The Province of Nova Scotia did not keep Vital Statistics until 1865, and births, marriages and deaths were. recorded in the individual church records. We have microfilm copies of some church records, but none for Clements in the 1840 's.

Yours truly,

C.Bruce Fergusson Provincial Archivist

P. S. The original .Melanson in Nova Scotia was a Scottish settler who lived among the Acadiens.

Public Archives of Nova Scotia

A Geography and History of the County of Digby, Nova Scotia by ISAIAH W. WILSON

Page 41. May 18, 1775, the Basterache Concession was issued, granting unto the following Acadiens resident in Clare who had taken the Oath of Allegiance according to a return made by JOSEPH WINNIETT, Esquire, J. P. for the County of Digby, the number of lot set opposite their several names containing the comple­ ment of acres attached thereto, viz:

92 Name No. of Lot No. of Acres in Lot

JEAN BASTARACHE l 360 ****************************************** PAUL MELANSON 28 ****************************************** JEAN MELANSON 33 300 JEAN MELANCCN 33 300 AM.AND MELANCON 34 200 PIERRE MELANCON 35 200

Page 318. Among the Acadiens of that origin who took the Oath of Allegiance in 1730 were the following and were probably Ancestors the pioneers of Clare or were themselves among its pioneers: BAPTISTE MARTIN •••••••••••••••••.•••• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • JOHN MELANCON, JEAN MELANCON (two persons of that name) CHARLES MELANSON, CHARLES MELANSON, JR.

Page 319. AMAND MELANCON, ancestor of many bearing that name in Clare, lived in 1755 at Port Royal, being descended from CHARLES MELANSON or MELANCAN elsewhere named.

PUBLIC ARCHIVES OF NOVA SCOTIA

Return of Census for the Township of Clare in the County of Digby, made pursuant to the Act passed in the first year of the Reign of Her Majesty, Queen VICTORIA, entitled an Act for the taking of the Census of the Province.

Page 1 Names of Heads of Families Occupation

PETER MELANSON farmer Number of Males above six years of age 1 Number of Females above six years of age 1 Number of Males above fourteen years of age 2 Number of Females above fourteen years of age 1 Total in Family 7

Page 4 Names of Heads of Families Occupation

PETER MELANSON farmer Number of Males under six years of age 1 Number of Females under six years of age 1 Total in Family 3

Page 9 Names of Heads of Families Occupation

SUPRIEN MELANSON farmer Number of Males above fourteen years of age 1 Number of Females above fourteen years of age 3 Total in Family 5

93 MOLONSON FAMILY (Melanson)

WILLIAM WALLACE MOLONSON, born April 2, 1843, Soneyville, Clements or Clare, Digby County, Nova Scotia. Son of SUPRIEN and GERTRUDE (GOTTRIA) MELANSON. Married MARGARET MORGAN on Nov. 1, 1865 at St. Stephen's Church, North End, Boston, Massachusetts. The records are in the registry of St. Stephen's and in book number 182, State House, Boston, Mass. Witnesses listed in the records and in the family bible are, SUSAN MORGAN and PETER MELANSON, (uncle).

There are a number of discharge papers in possession of the SMITH family that state the following facts: WILLIAM was dark complexioned, grey eyes, height five feet eight and three quarter inches tall, weighing 144 pounds and had a girl tattooed on his left arm.

He was a veteran of the CIVIL WAR, enlisting as WALLACE BLONSON, C.H. on the "Ohio" Jan. 7, 1863 and served to Feb. 26, 1863; on "Nantucket" to Feb. 13, 1864; on the "Mohawk" to Mar. 31, 1864 and was discharged from the "Ohio" May 6, 1864. Served as JOHN ROGERS, 2 C. F., enlisted on the "Vandalia" Dec. 5, 1864 and served to Dec. 31, 1864; on "Cohassett" to May 31, 1864, and was discharged from the 11 Ohio 11 Dec. 4, 1867. Enlisted for one year each time and served continu­ ously on the "Wabash" from July 1882 to June 1892. Fourth Auditor's Office, Treasury Department. Dec. 8, 1893.

Record verification obtained from: General Service Administration Military Personnel Record Center 9700 Page Boulevard St. Louis 32, Missouri

ELANSON, WILLIAM, Ser. No. 125 55 34. Born Apr. 2, 1843 at Soneyville, Nova Scotia. Date of birth also shown as April 3. First enlistment served under the name of WALLACE BLONSON. Second enlistment served under the name of JOHN ROGERS. All other enlistments served under the name of WILLIAM ELANSON.

He received a pension, or rather, his widow received it, under the name WILLIAM WALLA.CE ~1:E!.•. A.NSOX, which wa.s his true name and cleared any doubt as to his eligibility to receive an honorable termination to his military career. He died in his forty-ninth year of Phthisis, indicating he was not a robust man. His use of several names can be explained by the fact that he was a foreign national and under age the first enlistment. In the second incident of enlistment he had jumped ship while in sick bay, since his ailment had not been cured and he was being returned to duty, the doctor was unable to get him a longer period of hospitalization, thus his return as JOHN ROGERS is explained. The third name (ELANSON) was the result of error in pronounciation since WILLIAM gave his name verbally.

In the records of the department of the Interior, Bureau of Pensions, Wash­ ington, D. C. on Sept. 10, 1892 is recorded a request for a pension by WILLIAM

94 WALLACE MOLONSON in which he gives the names and birth dates of his children as follows:

MARY J. MOLONSON Born August 8, 1866 MARGARET G. MOLONSON Born July 12, 1868 AGNESE. MOLONSON Born January 1, 1876

Death record, W.W. MOLONSON, Boston, Mass., 1893, Vol. 438, page 409, line 8977.

95 MORGAN

The MORGANS of Ireland are of Welsh origin and were in Ireland before the Commonwealth period. They claim descent from Bely, a king of Britain, through his descendant KYDVIOR VAWR, Lord of Kilsant, who was born A. D. 1000 and died 1084. Page 316 - Irish pedigrees - MOR (Part V) O'HART.

The recorded history of the family lists several sovereign princes of ·this line as early as the fourth century, and the name appears in such old records as the Battle Abbey Roll and the Domesday book.

Celtic, "From the sea" literally - "one who lives by the sea." This was a powerful name in the middle ages among the Welsh and Irish. MORGAN, English; MORGWN, Celtic.

The coat of arms most used by the MORGANS is as follows: Arms: A Griffin Segreant Sable Crest: A reindeer head couped or, attired gules. Motto: "Dum Spire Spere"

MICHAEL MORGAN, born 1824 (Jan.) in Clair County, Ireland; died Jan. 23, 1884 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Mother, BRIDGET, Father, JOHN. Book 51, page 356, State House, Boston, Mass. Uncle of MARGARET MORGAN.

MARGARET MORGAN, born in Clair County, Ireland 1842. Married WILLIAM WALLACE MELANSON, St. Stephen's• Church, Boston, Mass., Nov. 1, 1865, Rev • G. F. Ha.skins officiating. State House record, book 182, page 121. She died Oct. 24, 1904, recorded in book 2.1, page 333. Death record states MARGARET was daughter of JOHN MORGAN and BRIDGET McGRATH of Clair Cowity, Ireland.

96 NEWSPAPER ARTICLES

From the Boston Papers, just after the Civil War, comes this article.

"DICK" SMITH

Dyer S. Smith, familiarly called by those who knew him "Dick", was born in Laconia, N. H. He located in Manchester when quite a young man and came to Boston in 1857. In 1861 he enlisted in the Thirteen Massachusetts Regiment, and at the close of the war returned to Boston in 1865, and entered the employ of John Billings, Clothier, where he was fellow salesman with the father of Bernard M. Wolf, with whom he is now connected. He remained with Mr. Phillips several years, then associated himself with George C. Richards and Gilman F. Boyes. He has been associated with Bernard M. Wolf, "My Clothier, 11 l O years. He is a resident of Charlestown and is now Lieutenant- Colonel of the Francis Meagher Command, No. 3, Union Veteran's Union.

LATHAM, Baseball's Oldest Player, Dies

Garden City, N. Y., Nov. 29 (AP) -- Arlie Latham, who broke into major league in 1879, died here today after a year's illness. He was 92. Latham, baseball's oldest major leaguer, played in the first world series game in 1885 with St. Louis Browns. A third baseman, he also was a member of the champion Brown teams of 1886-88.

Born in West Lebanon, N. H. 1 Latham began playing ball at the age of 16 with a Stockton, Mass. semi-pro club. Three years later he joined the Buffalo club in the old National.

Arlie Latham, Ex-Big Leaguer Dies in N. Y. at age 92

Garden City, N. Y., Nov. 29 (AP) -- Arlie Latham, who broke into major league baseball in 1879 died here today after a year's illness. He was 92. Latham, baseball's oldest major leaguer, played in the first World Series game in 1885 with the St. Louis Browns. A third basement, he also was a member of the cham­ pion Brown teams of 1886-88.

Born in West Lebanon, N. H. 1 Latham lived as a youth in Lynn, Mass., and began playing ball at the age of 16 with a semi-pro club. Three years later he joined the Buffalo club in the old National league. Following his big-league career, Latham turned to umpiring, calling them for 10 years in the South Atlantic League. In 1909, John McGraw called him to New York to coach for the Giants and his horseplay soon endeared him to the fans. He would do cartwheels down the third base line, in the tradition of Al Schact and Nick Altrock. After the first World War, Latham spent 17 years in England as administrator of baseball (equivalent to our commissioner). It was while there that he was called to

97 Buckingham Palace to teach the late King George V to throw a baseball. Upon his return to this country he couldn't stay away from the game. For 16 years, up to October, 1950, he served as press box custodian in New York's Stadium. But ill health set in and he was forced to retire.

FAREWELL PARTY

Mr. & Mrs. Francis Smith of 15 Marion Road were tendered a surprise farewell dinner party Saturday night at Legion Hall. More than 65 attended to honor the couple, who have been active in both civic and veteran activities of the town. Mr. Smith is the commander of Camp. 104, Sons of the Union Veterans, as well as judge advocate of the American Legion Post 210. Mrs. Smith served as president of the Legion Auxiliary, Unit 210.

EVERETT EVENING NEWS - GAZETTE (Everett's only daily newspaper) Everett, Mass., Wednesday, Mar. 3, 1943

LOWELL THOMAS DESCRIBES FLIGHTS OF LOCAL MAN IN FL YING FOR TRESSES DICK SMITH GETS MENTION IN BROADCAST

Youth is Awarded Medal for Bravery Richard J. Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond E. Smith of 12 Mount Washington Street, Everett, was disclosed by Lowell Thomas, noted radio newscaster to have been a member of "The Fortunate Flying Fortress, blessed by the Stars". Thomas, in a recent broadcast, paid tribute to the men in the fortress, and gave an interest­ ing story about the ship and crew from information furnished him by Smith. Smith was recently awarded a medal for exceptionally meritorious service with the Air Forces in England, Smith is a radio operator with the rating of Technical Ser­ geant. In discussing the story as told him by the Everett youth, Thomas declared: Over in England there is a lucky flying fortress and a lucky crew. Together, the plane and its airmen have made nine bombing raids against powerfully defended Nazi positions --St. Nazaire, Lorient and Brest. They've gone through storms of anti-aircraft fire, and have been furiously attacked by German flyers, but never has either the fortress or the crew received any injury. The luck, however, holds good only for that particular combination of plane and per­ sonnel. If somebody other than the regular crew is aboard, then trouble is sure to develop. "On every occasion that we have had some stranger with us, the ship failed to get off the ground, " relates Radio operator Smith of Everett, Mass. "A couple of times we got stuck in the mud,"he adds,"and another time the radio went out. Maybe six or seven times we've had strangers aboard, but never took off." In other w,,rds - no luck. Worst of all, was when the substantially lucky crew went out bombing in another fortress - not the fortunate fortress. Then they ran into clouds of bursting anti-air craft shells and a swarm of Nazi Mes serschmidts. A big hole was shot in the planes belly. One engine was knocked out. The radio was put out of commission. The co-

98 pilot's controls were shattered. They were barely able to limp home. They said goodbye to that ship - and the next time it went out, it was shot down. The lucky crew, back in their own fortunate fortress, went on with their record of being blessed by the Stars.

SUPPLEMENT OF THE BOSTON JOURNAL WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 1887

DEATH OF COL. NOAH E. SMITH

Col. Noah E. Smith of Laconia, N. H., died Tuesday morning. He was a native of Meredith, now Laconia, N. H., and was born Feb. 8, 1808. He was a son of Col. Daniel Smith of the old State militia, a farmer, and a grandson of Judge Ebenezer Smith. The latter emigrated from Exeter to Meredith, going on horse­ back, with his wife behind, and kept bis way be means of "spotted" trees, being one of the first settlers of the place. He was many years Judge of Probate, sat on the bench of the Supreme Court, and was President of the State Senate. Daniel Smith Wd.S the first male child born in Meredith, and the town granted him 100 acres of land. Noah was educated at the academy in Gilmanton, where his parents were then residing. At the age of 18, he went to Dover and for two years was second overseer in No. 4 cotton factory. He then started for the West, but on arriving in New York city he secured the position of cashier in the Tontine Coffee House, at the corner of Wall and Water Streets, owned by Jonathan Lovejoy, who was alsc the proprietor of Lovejoy's Hotel in that city. After two years service there, he accidentally met some acquaintances who had been travelling in Mexico. They earnestly advised Mr. Smith to go to Mexico and start a stage line. He had already saved some money and consulted Mr. Lovejoy, who said, "I'll back you, Noah, for all the money you want". Others joined with him in the enterprise, among them being a Mr. Smart, of Concord, N. H., Mr. Coyne, an Irishman, and Senor Manuel Escandone, a native of the city of Mexico, who happened to be in New York. They contracted for Troy coaches, purchased 20 horses to use in breaking in native Mexican ones, and laid in a supply of harnesses, and all other materials necessary to start them in the proposed business. They chartered a vessel for Vera Cruz, from which port they set out with their coach teams for the City of Mexico.

On the second day, they met the army of Gen. Santa Anna, who had pronounced against the Emperor Iturbide and conquered the l.Ountry. At Perote, they encounter­ ed a bandit and his followers, who made bold to demand some of the American horses. When the bandit learned how well the Americans were armed, he withdrew. All along the route, the horses were the objects of surprise and curiosity to the natives. Up to that time, the Mexicans had never broken horses to harness, but made use of mules and did not drive them by reins. Col. Smith and the party took the old national Road, over which Cortes passed in his memorable expedition from the Gulf to the home of Montezuma, as far as t'he valley of Mexico, where they went on to a new road to the city. The journey overland required about 20 days.

On arriving in the capital, Col. Smith informed several prominent Mexicans of the character of his project. No opposition was shown him; in fact he was treated in a friendly way. He secured real estate for a stable and stage house on Cale De

99 Deloris and broke in horses at San Augus, formerly the capital of Mexico. At the end of three months, he started his first line of eight or ten teams from the city to Puebla, about 100 ••••••.•• The coaches departed at 4 A. M. and got in about 6 P. M. The fare was $ •••••• one way with 25 pounds of baggage free and $3. 00 for every 25 pounds extra. The route was soon extended from Puebla to the coast via Perote· Castle and Jalapa, it requiring three days to reach the last named place from Puebla, and one night from Jalapa to Vera Cruz. Other routes were soon arranged from the capital tE> the Valley of Toluca, about 25 leagues; also to Queretare and San Lues Potosi, with a branch to Guanajuato. Another run was made to Cuernavaca, and branches were established from Puebla to Orizaba and from the Capital to the English mines a Pachuca. Col. Smith then employed 50 men, and used, including extra animals, 1300 horses. After a number of years of suc­ cessful business, all the partners but Col. Smith sold out, but he continued with the new firm until 1841, when he disposed of his interest in the coaching business. He then bought from an Englishman a stable in the City of Mexico, expended 20, 000 in putting it into good shape, and then started the business of importing horses from New Orleans, and selling them. He sometimes bought 500 horses in one consignment and his stable would accomodate double that number. He continued in that business until war between the United States and Mexico broke out.

One day, in returning to his stable, he found 500 excited Mexicans. Count Don Juan Feris Jalvis, learning of Col. Smith's situation, offered to protect his person and to furnish him money if needed. The English and French Ministers also proffered kindly aid, and the former tendered Col. Smith a suite of rooms in his official residence. Jalvis secured permission of the city authorites for Col. Smith to continue his business and municipal protection was granted. As the excitement continued to increase, Colonel Smith thought his safety depended upon flight. An order was issued that no 1..mericans should be allowed to leave the city after the expiration of 24 hours. The Count who was estimated to be worth $11,000,000 •• and his wife as much more, set about to secure permission for Col. Smith to depart. Sir Edward Thornton, than an attache of the English Embassy, was included to issue a passport for Col. Smith, which was subsequently endorsed by the Mexican Minister of Foreign Relations and the Governor of the City. The document gave permission for a guard of ten men. Colonel Smith went to a cotton mill where he found a friend by whose assistance he disguised himself as a french spinner searching for work. He deemed this ruse prudent, well knowing the lawless character of many of the Mexican soldiers. By offering a large sum of money, he secured for his escort, the leader of a gang oi robbers and several oi his men, who agreed to escort him through the mountains to Puebla, which city General Scott's army had reached. Before leaving the City of Mexico, the English Minister handed to Col. Smith a sealed document, directing him to wear it under his belt and if necessary to use it for his personal safety; if the occasion did not arise, return it by packet express to him. At Lake Chalse, Col. Smith and party encountered a detachment of the Mexican Army, and unknown, he saw numerous officers whom he personally knew. He reached Puebla safely in the dead of night, happily not having to make use of the English Minister's document.

He had no sooner got inside of the American lines than he met an officer with whom he was personally acquainted. That officer immediately carried the intelli-

100 gence of Col. Smith's arrival to Gen. Scott and told the latter that Col. Smith was just the man he needed to pilot him into the capital. A message soon came that Col. Smith would report at the commanding officer's headquarters, and on reach­ ing there he was warmly welcomed by Gen. Scott, who said: "Smith I want you to go on my staff and ride close to me until we get into the City of Mexico." Col. Smith was only too happy to be of assistance to the American troops. His complete knowledge of the country enabled him to pilot the army over an old and almost aban­ doned road, which the Mexicans never supposed th& American army would find, into the City of Mexico.

In 1848 Col. Smith made preparations to return to the United States. His wife had preceded him and died in New Orleans. Although Col. Smith had lost over $50, 000 through the confiscation of his property by the Mexican Government, he was enabled from his own means and what he could raise on credit to loan quite a large sum to the American Army, which was out of money. In return, he received notes from Gen. Scott, which in due time, were paid. On returning to this country, he went to Gilmanton, purchased a large farm and engaged extensively in stock raising. A few years ago, he removed to Laconia, where he was made custodian of the County Court House. He had his home there with his daughter, Mrs. Benjamin Musey, living in an attractive resident which he owned. His closing years were passed quietly and pleasantly. By an upright life and honorable career, he secured the respect and esteem of all whom he associated with. He possessed in his later years, a striking personal appearance, having an erect and commanding figure, silvery hair, a clear, fresh complexion, and genial,· agreeable and courteous manners.

101 NAMES

LA. THAM - Teutonic, "from the storehouse. 11 Place name, from the source, meaning a granary.

GORDON - Old English, "from the gored, or cornered hill. " This name began as an early place name, in meaning. But it was taken from the latin Gordius, "of Gordium ", Gordius was king of Phrygia and his capital was Gordium. He was the tier of the Gordian knot that Alexander the Great cut with his sword.

SMITH - Anglo-Saxon, "a smith. " English "occupational" name that has become a leading surname.

DUDLEY - Anglo-Saxon, "from the dodder lea or meadow. " Dialect "place" name, from Dudley, England. The doder (dodder) or dudder is a prasitic plant.

MORGAN - Celtic "from the sea" literally, "one who lives by the sea. " This was a powerful name in the Middle Ages among the Welch and Irish. Morgan - English Morgwn - Celtic

Treasury of Names, by Evelyn Wells Essential Books, Duell, Sloan & Pearce. STAY BITS

THE MAD BULL by Stewart McLeisch

"I was here, where were you" It said in Smith's note "Dick to my friends'' Once again may I quote this sterling character Whom we all like and know Stamps into your houa e like a mad buffalo He stamps his feet And he shakes his head With a noise to shake one Out of one I s bed "I'll be there Monday, never fear" But he forgets to say what year If he'd stop checking his family tree Perhaps his time would be more free He's living back in ancient ti.mes He even hears those London chimes So Smith, just toss those books away For genealogy will never pay Just heed your dad's old clarion call And buy yourself a bowling ball.

103 IN MEMORY - FOREST EDWARD - taken from Cincinnati, Ohio Of Forest Edwards, who died May 3, 1961, in Amelia, Ohio

Amelia once sported and wore on her chest A twinkling-eyed imp You could tuck in your vest This bread-A Bostonian's Mischievous grin With laughter his motto Made frowning a sin. Gracious and charming So courtly and fine Among those who knew him The privilege was mine. Whatever your mood Or your fate for the day, He challenged your gloom Set your spirits to play. The lowliest cur was "Brave dog'' and .''how smart , 11 Any louse was "all heart, 11 Whatever his weather He'd never complain, However he felt, He never showed pain. Although he is sleeping We'll never quite part Amelia won 1t let him Die out of her heart. - Joye Cloone, Amelia, Ohio

104 WILL OF EDWARD YORKE

Vol. 4 7, page 120 and 121 New England Register 1893.

Edmonde Yorke of Cotton End in the County of Northampton, Yeoman, 18 November 1614, proved 17 April 1614. My body is to be buried in the churchyard of Hardington. I give to Nathaniel, my eldest son, a certain bowl called the 11 Mazzar' to be delivered unto him after the decease of Katharine, my wife, over and above the goods heretofore given unto him, as by certain writings thereof made betwixt me and the said Nathaniel may appear. I do give to Bartholomew, my second son, twenty pounds to be emploed as a stock for the keeping him. And when he shall be able to employ the same, in the judgement of my overseers, the same money shall be deliv­ ered unto his own hands (some bedding also to him). I do give and bequethe unto my daughter Dudley one guilt bole; to my daughter Greene one silver bowl. These to be delivered unto them after the decease of Katharine my wife.

"ltm. I do geue to my three grandchildren, that is to say to Samuell Dudley and Abygaill Greene forty shillings apec and one silver spoon apec and to Anne Dudley twenty shillings and one silver spone to be delivered unto them at their seurall ages of one and twenty years or before if my wife shall think fytt. 11 To Abigail Hills my servant three shillings and four pence and to everyone of my ser­ vants that shall dwell with me at my decease two shillings apiece. To the poor in West Cotton six shillings eight pence, and to the poor in East Cotton six shillings eight pence. I do also give six shillings and eight pence toward the repair of the cawaye leading from my house to Northampton. To Samuell Osmonde and to Joseph Boyse five shillings. All my other goods and chattels, whatsoever and wheresoever they may be, I give unto Katharine my wife and Joseph my son, when I so make full executors, and I do constitute and appoint Robert Tanfield, Thomas Dudley, William Sharpes and Lewes Thomas my overseers.

Wit: By Stephen Henchmen and others

Northampton Will, Book F, 117-118

Note: From the parish register of All Saints, Northampton

0 Nov. 1608, Samuell Filieu Thomas Dudley Baptexat. fuit xxx die - H.F. Waters WILL OF THOM.AS DOR~£ (THORNE)

The will of Thomas Dorne of Yardley Hastings, Gent. 29, Oct. 1588. Tu the reparacons of tht:: church of Yardley Hastings 20s. Toward the reparacons of the church of Syershams 20s. To the pocre and most needye in Yeardlie 20s. To the poore and most needye in Syershams 15s. To the poore and most needye of Olney l0s. To the poore of Easten Mauditt 3s 4d. To the poore and most needye of Frenton 3s 4d. To the poore of Ashby David 3s 4d. To the poore of Denton 2s 6d. To Mary Dorne, my loving wiffe, 10 pounds of English money to be paid to heI" out of the manor of Syersham aforesaid, the wholle linnen in my house, my windmill, and the Dorne house which I have of Rayno1d Hull of Yeardly, during her natural life on condition that the said Marye shall give a bond of 10 pounds that she will not give :iway the said furniture, etc. but give it all to the children and heirs of the said Thomas; also to the Seid Ma::-ye the wholle furniture of my chamber where I do now lye, to her owne use, a.nd to dispose that at her own pleasure to whom she seeth it good. If my sonne Robert Dorne should come home, my said wiffo shall suffer him to have a convenient chamber within my said house, and also to have meat and drink for himself, and sufficient keeping for his horse, on the condition that he shall be obedient until his mother in everything during her naturall life.

To the children of Andrew Plume as before 1f, 3, l ls, 8d. To the children of Frauncis Morsly 3!f,, 8d. To the children of Arthur Dorne 31f,, 11s, 8d. To the child­ ren of Susan Dudley, my daughter, widow, 1oi,. to be equally divided. To McLeonard brothers, my nephew 20s in gold to make him a ring of remembrance. To every one of my servants one quarters wages. To every on~ of my god-children 12d. To Thomas Strelley, my god sonne, towards his exhibition in the University of Cam­ bridge .J;l,3, 11 s, 8d. To my sonne, Arthur Dorne, all meine apparille and all mine artillary, one crossbow excepted, which I do give to my sonne Robert Dorne. After all legacies are paid and all debts, all the remainder to Edward Dorne and they to be executors.

Paule Strelley and William Thorne, Gent., overseers

Proved 9 May 1589

Northampton Registry of Wills, England - Book 5, pp 328-330.

106 WILL OF NICHOLAS SMITH (1661 - 1715)

I. Nicholas Smith of Exeter, in the Province of New Hampshire. being weak of body.

ITEM - I give unto my beloved son, Richard Smith, my dw€lling house and all my land thereto adjoining & the right yt I have or ought to have to yt estate of my father. Nicholas Smith, deceased. ITEM - I give unto my beloved son, Nathaniel Smith. twenty acres of upland next adjoining to ye cattle swamp so called. ITEM - I give Wlto my five daughters: Mary, Elizabeth, Patience, Comfort and Abigail Smith all my other lands & meadows to be equally divided amongst them paying what is hereafter mentioned. ITEM - I give unto my beloved daughter, Ann Clarke, twenty shillings to be paid her by her five brothers and five sisters above specified, she having re­ ceived ;>art of her share all ready. ITEM - My will is that none of my children receive the portions before after mine & my wife's decease. ITEM - I give unto my beloved wife, Mary Smith, the use of my dwelling house and all my upland and meadows for her life, and all my house hold goods and stock for her own proper use and to dispose of according to her pleasure.

Finally my will is and I doe hereby appoint my loving wife and my son, Richard Smith, to be the full and joynt Executors of this my last will and testament. S I doe hereby revoke and disannuall and make voyde this my last will and testament. S testament by me heretofor made. In witness whereof I, the said Nicholas Smith, Thurteenth day of Feb. Anno Domini one thousand seven hundred & fiftt::en/ sbcteen sc. Signed Sealed and owned in ye presence of us Ca rte r Gilman Edward Stevens Jeremiah Hubbard Proved June 6, 1716 Probate records Vol. 9, page 7. Bond of Mary Smith, widow and her son, Richard Smith, with Carter Gilman and Jeremiah Hubbard surities, all of Exeter in the sum of J; 500. June 6, 1715 for the Administration of the estate, witnesses. Richard Gerrish, Jr. & Jerem1an Thompson

State Papers, New Hampshire Batchellor Vol. XXXI Probate Records Vol. l 1635-1717 Nicholas Smith 1715 / 16 Exeter

107 WILL OF RICHARD SMITH (1693 - 1765)

In the name of God amen the twelfth day of May annoque domini one thousar.d seven hundred and sixty three, I, Richard Smith of Exeter in the Province of New Hampshire in New England, Tanner -

ITEM - I give and bequeath to my beloved wife,. Mary Smith, the improvement of my dwelling house and barn and my homelands, and my two pastures lying on the westerly side of the little River (so called) and one half of my personnall Estate with liberty of disposing of Selling so much of the said half of said Personnall Estate as she may have occasion off for her Comfortable support so long as she shafl. remain my widow. ITEM - I give and bequeath to my son, Hubartus Smith, Twenty Shillings Equal to old tenor bills of Publick Credit, I having given him the rest of his portion hereto­ fore. ITEM - I give and bequeath to my three daughters viz: Jane Loverin, Dorothy Foul.sham and Mary Chessley, their heirs and assigns forever, about sixteen acres more or else, it being the whole of that land which I bought of Samuel Stevens and Edward Stevens, and lays at the upper end of my land on the westerly side of the little River aforesaid, and to be equally divided between my said three daughters. ITEM - I give and bequeath to my two grand daughters viz: Mary Smith and Dolly Smith, the children of my son Samuel Smith, deceased, one hundred pounds each equal to old tenor bills of Publick Credit, to be paid each of them when they arrive at the age of eighteen yf!ars, and if either of them decease before they arrive to that age, then the said two hundred pounds to be paid her that may live to that age, and if both happen to decease before they arrive to the age of eighteen years then my executor to have the said two hundred pounds.

And my will is that if my wife aforesaid shall happen to be my widow at the time of her decease then she shall have a decent Christian burial at the disscretion of my Executor and the charge thereof paid by him out of what I shall hereafter give to him in this my will.

ITEM - I give and bequeath to my son, Richard Smith, his heirs and assigns forever, my dwelling house and barn and all my lands on which they stand and all my other lands lying and being in Exeter aforesaid or else where and my Pew in the :.ev,; .Meeting hous~ and all my ?ersonnall Estate which I have not other ways disposed of in this my will, he paying all my just debts, legacys and funerall charges as afore­ said and not interrupted his mother in the improvements given to her in this my will.

Finally I do hereby constitute, appoint, make and ordain my son, Richard Smith of Exeter aforesaid my sole Executor. signed Richard Smith Witnesses: John Dean, Daniel 4th John Wd Gilman Proved May 29, 1765 Warrant May 29, 1765 authorizing Ephraim Robinson and Nicholas Gilman both of Exeter, Gentlemen, to appraise the estate. Inventory July 12, 1765; amount If, 9847, 00; signed by Ephraim Robinson and Nicholas Gilman.

108 WILL of JOSEPH SMITH of BRENTWOOD, N. H.

In the name of God Amen, I, Joseph Smith of Brentwood, in the County of Rockingham, State of New Hampshire, husbandman, being of sound and disposing mind, but c~lling to mind the mortality of my body, knowing it appointed for all men once to die, not knowing how soon I may be called to put off this earthly tabernacle, do this twenty seventh day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand, seven hundred and ninety-seven make and ordain this my last will and testament, hereby recommending my soul to the Lord who give it and my body to the earth from whence it proceeded, to be buried in such decent manner as my executor hereafter named shall think proper, and as touching such worldly es- tate as hath pleased God to bless me with in this life. I do hereby give and dispose of the same in the following order. Imprimis my will is that my just debts and funeral charges be paid and discharged by my executors hereafter named, immedi­ ately after my decease.

ITEM - I give and bequeath to my well-beloved wife, Elizabeth Smith, the use and Improvement of half my dwelling house via the easterly and the one-half my cellar; also third part of all my lands in Brentwood and Poplin during her natural life; also all my household stuff and during her life and what she leaves at her decease of said stuff to be divided between my three daughters, viz: Abigail, Rachel and Elizabeth. I also give to my wife two cows, two sheep and one hog at my decease and one-third part of the provisions that shall be in my house at the time of my decease. I also order my executor to find and provide my wife a horse to be kept on her own interest as long as she lives to use the same. My will is that what stock of cattle she shall leave at her decease shall return to my two sons, Caleb and John Smith. ITEM - I give and bequeath to my son, Timothy Smith, eighty-three cents to be paid by executors hereafter named in one year after my decease, he having re­ ceived his portion of my estate already. ITEM - I give and bequeath to my daughters Abigail Merrill, Rachel Whittier and Elizabeth Currier, eighty-three cents each, to be paid by my executors here­ after named in one year after my decease and also the household stuff my wife afore­ said shall leave after decease to be equally divided between them, they having re­ ceived their portions of my estate already. And also I give to my daughter, Elizabeth one oval table if not delivered to her in my lifetime, to be paid to her by my executors immediately after my decease. ITEM - I give and bequeath to my sons John Smith and Caleb Smith, their heirs and assignees forever, my lands in Brentwood and Poplin, with the house and barn standing on the same. They to allow their mother the improvement of aforesaid. Also I give .my sons John and Caleb all my stock of cattle, sheep, horses and swine, and my movable estates within doors and out, and all other estate, whether in possession reversion not mentioned in my last will and testament.

Lastly, I do hereby constitute and appoint my well-beloved sons, John Smith and Caleb Smith joint executors of this my last will and testament, and I hereby re­ voke and annual all former wills by me heretofore made, I notifying and establishing this only to be my last will and testament.

109 In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this day and year before witnesses I signed, sealed, published and declared by the said Jost::ph Smith to be his last will and testament in the presence of John Gordon, Edward Tucker and Ez Godfrey.

Record of will at Exeter Probate Court, Rockingham County, New Hampshire.

Vol. 33, Year 1798 to 1801.

110 WILL OF TIMOTHY SMITH

I, Timothy Smith of Gilmanton in the county of Strafford of New Hampshire, do make, ordain and declare this instrument to be my last will and testament, re­ voking all others, and all my debts are to be punctually and speedily paid, and the legacies hereinafter bequeathed are to be discharged as soon as circumstances will permit and in the manner directed.

ITEM - I give and bequeath to my beloved wife, Mary Smith, the one half of my homestead farm where I now live in said Gilmanton as long as she remains my widow, but in case she shall remarry after my decease then and in that case she shall relinquish all her right, title, interest and claim in and unto my said real estate as aforesaid, but in case she should return after marriage, if that event should happen, then and in that case my said Widow shall use, occupy and enjoy the full one half of my said farm as though she never had married. Also I give and bequeath to my said wife all my house hold furniture, excepting my clock. Also I give and bequeath to my said wife one horse, one chaise and harness, one sleigh, one side saddle, two cows, six sheep, one half of a yoke of oxen, one fourth part of all my farming utentials, and good weed to be cut and (illegible) up to the doors fit for the use of the fire sufficient to keep one fire comfortable through the years. ITEM - I give and bequeath to Timothy Smith, Jr. and Betsy his wife the use and occupation of the premises where they now live at the Iron Works corner so called in Gilmanton so long as either of them shall live, and after their decease my will is that the premises be equally divided among their children. Also I give and bequeath to said Timothy one cow which he has now in keeping, together with five dollars in money to be paid him by my executors hereinafter named in one year after my decease. ITEM - I give and bequeath to my son, Joseph Smith fifty dollars to be paid by my executors hereinafter named in one year after my decease; also one French gun formally owned by his uncle, Joseph Smith, now deceased. ITEM - I give and bequeath to my son, Charles C. Smith, Five dollars in two years after my decease to be paid by my executors hereinafter named. ITEM - I give and bequeath to my daughter, Mary Lougee, wife of Joseph Lougee, eight dollars to be paid her by my executors hereinafter named in one year after my decease. ITEM - I give and bequeath to Lydia Smith, widow of my deceased son Samuel G. Smith, her board and clothing, and also the board and clothing of her two daughters, Adeline and Mary, until Mary shall arrive to the age of seven years. She making no charge against my estate the said Lydia is to take from the house when she pleases all her household furniture as good as when received by me, the usual natural decay excepted. Also I give and bequeath unto the said Lydia sixty dollars to be paid her by my executors hereinafter named in one year after my decease. Also I give and bequeath to Adeline and Mary Smith, daughters of the said Lydia, sixty dollars each to be paid them by my executors hereinafter named when they shall arrive to the age of fourteen years. ITEM - I give and bequeath to my son Frederick Smith four hundred dollars to be paid him by my executors in one year after my decease, if not paid by me and receipted for previous.

111 ITEM - I give and bequeath to my daughter, Eliza Smith, one hundred and seventy-five dollars to be paid her by my executors hereinafter named in one year after my decease and my will is that she, said Eliza, have and enjoy a privilege in my house so long as she remains single and unmarried. ITEM - I give, devise and bequeath to my two sons, Noah G. and Dudley Smith all my real estate and personal property not heretofore disposed of after paying my funeral charges, debts and so forth, to be equally divided between them, excepting my clock and one yoke of oxen which are to be given to my son Noah. Should my decease happen before my son Dudley shall arrive to the age of Twenty-one years then and in that case my will is that he serve out his time upon the farm before he has the possession use or benefit of his gelacy to be at the disposal of executors hereinafter mentioned and to be supported out of my estate.

And I do hereby appoint my wife, Mary Smith and my son Noah G. Smith joint Executors of this my last will and testament in all things to see the same performed, revoking all former wills by me made or signed and conferming this to be my last will and testament.

Signed, sealed, pronounced and declared by the said Timothy Smith to be his last will and testament in the presence of us the subscribers who signed as witnesses in his presents and in the presence of each other this twenty ninth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty four. Timothy Smith Rufus Parrish Joseph Edgerly John Bean

Strafford ss. At a Court of Probate for the county of Strafford in the State of New Hampshire, holden at Sanbornton in said county, on the eleventh day of March, Anno Domini 182 5 -

The foregoing instrument purporting the last will of Timothy Smith late of Gilmanton in said county deceased having been presented for probate in common form by Mary Smith and Noah G. Smith the Executors therein named.

It appears to me the Judge of Probate for said county by the testimony of Rufus Parrish, one of the Witnesses whose name is to the said instrument subscribed, that at the time of the execution thereof the said deceased was ~o?'e tha~ t•.•:e~ty-o~e years of age and of sane mind; that he did sign, seal and publish the same as his last will and that the said Rufus Parrish with John Ham and Joseph Edgerly attested and subscribed the same together as witnesses to and execution thereof in the presence of the said Deviser.

I do therefore decree that the said instrument be and it is hereby proved approved and allowed as the last will of the said Devisor. Daniel C. Atkinson, Judge of Probate

112 WILL OF FREDERICK SMITH

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS

That I, FREDERICK SMITH, of Cambridge in the county of Middlesex and Common­ wealth of Massachusetts, being of sound mind and memory, but knowing the uncer­ tainty of life, do this eighteenth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy three make and publish this, my last Will and Testament, in manner and form following, that is to say:

1st - I give and bequeath to my brother, Charles Smith and Wife, of Coaticook, Canada east, Seven hundred and fifty dollars to be paid to H. Cutting, Post Master of said Coaticook and to be held by him as Trustee for said Charles Smith and Wife to be paid to them at such times as will do them most good. 2nd - I give and bequeath to Mary Smith, daughter of Charles Smith of Coaticook, Canada East, Seven hundred and fifty dollars. 3rd - I give and bequeath to my brother, Noah G. Smith and Wife of East Boston, Six thousai:.d dollars, to be paid to John Cottle of Boston as Trustee for said Noah G. Smith and Wife, and to be invested by him or expended in accordance with his best judgement in such manner as will do said Noah G. Smith and Wife the most good; and any balance in his hands of principal or increase thereof at the decease of said Noah G. Smith and Wife, to be equally divided and paid Noah's G. Smith's four youngest sons. 4th - I give and bequeath to my sister Eliza of Gilford, N. H. my homestead place containing 3/4 acre of land with house, woodshed and stable thereon, situated opposite the Hotel in the town of Gilford, N. H. now occupied by said Eliza Smith, valued at Thirty five hundred crollars - as long as she shall live; and at her de­ cease I give and devise said estate to the Unitarian Society of Laconia, N. H. I also give and bequeath to said Eliza Smith, Three thousand dollars during her lifetime and she is to have the increase thereof only; the money to be placed in the hands of John C. Moulton and Benjamin Gale of Laconia, as Trustees, who are requested to invest or bank it safely and pay over the inr.rease thereof quarterly or semi-annually to said Eliza Smith; and at her decease I give and bequeath the said sum of Three thousand dollars to the Unitarian Society of Laconia, N. H. • If said Eliza Smith shall at any time desire to have said real estate sold after she has come in possession of the same under the provisions o:. thls will, .s;ie i.s authorized to do bu by having the said proceeds oi such a sale placed in the hands of said John C. Moulton and Benjamin Gale,as Trustees, who are to pay the said Eliza Smith quarterly or semi-annually all the increase from said trust fund, and at her decease to pay the principal sum to said Unitarian Society in Lanconia. 5th - I give and bequeath to Mrs. Charles Lougee of Boston One thousand dollars and to each of her four daughters, One thousand dollars each. 6tr. - I give and bequeath to Mary G. Smith of New York City, daughter of Samuel Smith of Gilmanton, N. H. , Two thousand dollars. 7th - I give and bequeath to Mrs. Mary Woodard of Sherbrook Canada East, One thousand dollars. 8th - I give and bequeath to Mrs. Mary E. Sanborn of Pittsfield, N. H. One thousand

113 dollars including her note of hand to me dated October 14, 1867 for the sum of Two hundred seventy two 82/ 100 dollars (at its face value, not costing the interest accrued on the same) for her sole and separate use. 9th - I give and bequeath to Thomas Cogswell of Gilmanton, N. H. Attorney at law, One thousand five hundred dollars, in trust to pay Five hundred dollars to each of two daughters of Augustus Smith of same Gilmanton; and the residue thereof equally among the other children of same Augustus Smith by his first wife. 10th• I give and bequeath to my nephew, Dr. Jeremiah Smith, One thousand five hundred dollars. 11th- I give and bequeath to Dudley Smith, son of Augustus Smith, Five hundred dollars. 12th- l give and bequeath to Mary Smith, daughter of Timothy Smith of Gilmanton, N. ff. , One thousand dollars. 13th- I give and bequeath to Mrs. Emily N. Percival of Cambridge, One thousand dollars to be paid to them respectively within one year after my decease. 14th- I give and bequeath all the rest and residue of my property of which I shall die seized or to which I shall be entitled at the time of my decease to the Home for Aged Women, a corporation in the City of Boston in the Common­ wealth aforesaid.

Lastly, I nominate, constitute and appoint Franklin N. Poor of Somerville is said county of Middlesex to be Executor of this my last will and testament and I direct that no bond shall be required of him for the discharge of this trust.

In witness whereof, I, the said Frederick Smith, have hereunto set up hand and seal this day and year first hereinbefore written. FREDERICK SMITH

Signed, sealed, published and declared by the aforesaid testator as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of us who at his request and in his prensence and in the presence of each other have subscribed our names as witnesses hereto.

J. Healy G. Buss ell Ellis Ellen Wagner

114 CEMETERY LOTS

HOLY CROSS CEMETERY 4 SO. WALNUT 20-21 EAST MALDEN, MASSACHUSETTS

May 25, 1897 William Wallace Melanson 52 years Grave 20 Oct. 28, 1904 Margaret Melanson (wife) 59 years Grave 21 June l, 1921 Margaret Melanson (dau.) 51 years Grave 21 May 28, 1909 Raymond Emerson Smith 11/2 yrs Grave 2.0 Jan. 6, 1937 Mary Melanson 70 years Grave 2.1

MOUNT AUBURN CEMETERY Lot 3979 Ash Avenue CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS

Frederick Smith Aug. 17. 1873 74-31/2-0 Arabella G. Smith Aug. 3, 1876 72-1-7 Emily M. Percival Jan. 26, 1878 58-5-4 Joseph L. Smith Jan. 29, 1882 47-6-0 Enos H. Smith Aug. 5, 1883 46-0-0 Noah G. Smith Mar. 12, 1888 86-9-23 Dixie C. Smith June 28, 1892 62-0-0 Dyer S. Smith Mar. 11, 1904 63-4-8 Sappho H. Smith Aug. 11, 1926 81-5-6 Noah B. Smith Feb. 2.2, 1915 72.-4-6 Frank Smith May 2.0, 1940 Serena Campbell Smith Apr. 14, 1941 (Aleana)

WOODLAWN CEMETERY Lot No. 3917 Laurel Hill EVERETT, MASSACHUSETTS

Mary Elizabeth ( Latham) Smith Oct. 19, 1 913 Philip Latham Smith June 27, 1930

115 BIB LIO GRAP HY

Origainal Record Book, Town, Hall, Exeter, New Hampshire. Norfolk, Massachusetts, Court Records, Deeds, Vol. 4, page 22. Essex County, Massachusetts, Probate Files, Vol. 9, page 7. Rockingham Probate Court, Exeter, New Hampshire, Vol. 1, 1635-1717. Tax Roll of Exeter, New Hampshire, Nicholas (1) Nicholas (2) Richard (3). 1731 Assessment on Trade and Incomes, Exeter, New Hampshire. Tax Records of 1725, page 1433 - Richard Smith of Exeter, New Hampshire. Rockingham Probate Court records, 1735. Bell's History of Exeter, New Hampshire. Noyes, Libby and Davis, Maine and New Hampshire Families. Land records on Joseph Smith, Gilmanton, New Hampshire. Brentwood Association Test Papers, New Hampshire, Joseph Smith. Rockingham County Probate Court, Vol. 33, 1798-1801. Brentwood, New Hampshire census of 1790. Folsom Genealogy, Vol. 1, Ch. 27, page 108. Record of Samuel Greeley of Kingston, New Hampshire. Brentwood Cemetery Records. Smith Meeting House Cemetery. Probate records, Rockingham, New Hampshire, Vol. 3, page 137. Nicholas Smith, Comp. Magn. VI I, despatch in Genea. Reg. I I I, 165. Savage Genealogical Dictionary 4, S-Z, page 128, Line 5. Salisbury, Amesbury and Hampton Falls records. Probate records at Rockingham, New Hampshire, Vol. 2, page 34. Margaret Washington, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Feb. 5, 1663. Kittery land grants, Richard Mattoon. Tax Roll, Exeter, New Hampshire. Wid. Ma.tun. Hoyt Family - D. W. Hoyt, 1871 Hoyt - Haight & Hight Families. Smith - Hoyt, Record, State House, Boston, Mass. 1876, Vol. 14, page 274. Dartmouth College records, 1826. Probate Court, Middlesex County, Mass. 1873. Mount Auburn Cemetery records, Cambridge, Mass. Lot 3979, Ash Ave. Land records, Probate Court, Middlesex County, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Woodlawn, Holy Cross and Forest Hills Cemeteries in Massachusetts. State Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, New Hampshire. Division of Vital Statistics, Massachusetts. Department of Health, Division of Vital Statistics, Ohio. Savage, Vol. 2, p. 280, 1860 - Gordon. Savage, Mattoon, page 4 70 Noyes, Libby and Davis, page 721 - Warren. Canterbury, Connecticut, Vital Statistics, Vol2, page 51, Latham. Griswold, Connecticut, V. R. l: 227. Griswold, Connecticut, V. R. 1826 to 1836 - Vol. l, page 29&. Thompson V. R. , Connecticut Rawlins, Rollins, Family by Rollins 1864. Gilmans of Hingham, England - by Constance LeNeve Gilman Ames.

116 History of East Boston, Mass., by William Sumer, A. M. 1869. New York Col. History. Vol. I I I, page 18r:;. Gen.Reg. Vol. VIII, page 270, Mass. records, Vol.11, page 299. Gen. Reg. Vol. III, page 193. Ross in New England, By E. E. Fowkes, Newtonville, Mass. Ross Families, by W. Macgill "Clan Ross in America". Ross Family, by H.P. Read, 1908, The Argus Co. Albany, N. Y. Nov. 1, 1908. Darling, Rev., Records 9-401, Killingly, Connecticut. Darling, Wales, Mass., 1850, V. R. Gen. of The Latham Family, Connecticut; Parkhurst manuscript and Family records. Lt. Richard Mattoon, Louisburg. Nicholas Lissen, Exeter, New Hampshire. Exeter Garrison, James Davis' Scouting party, 1712. Dudley Family, 1894, Vol. l, by D. Dudley. Dudley Family 1930, by A. M. Colwell. Dudley, 1848, Savage - N. E. Reg. Vol. 10, page 133: Vol. 4 7, page 121; Vol. 49, page 506; Vol. 54, page 95; Vol. 65, page 206; Vol. 56, page 189; Vol. 66, page 340-343. Col.Dames of New York, 1913. Life and Letters of Winthrop. Vital Statistics, Hartford, Connecticut. Vital Statistics of Norwich, New London, Danielson and Kinngly, Connecticut. History of Worcester, Vol. 3, by Nutt, Portrait of Dr. Cassius Darling. Buddington 's History of First Church in Charlestown. Records on Dyer Sanborn Smith, National Archives, Washington, D. C. Records on William Wallace Melanson, National Archives, Washington, D. C. Record on James Smith, buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Military Personnal Record Center, St. Louis, Missouri. i?ublic Archives, Halifax, Nova Scotia. History of Digby County, Nova Scotia. Census of Nova Scotia, 1838, Vol. 448. Harleian Society Vol. 58, Vol. 2 pp 32, Purefoy. Sipsimes County History of Bucks. Northampton Registry of Wills, England, Book 5, pp. 328-330. Strafford Probate Court, New Hampshire, Vol. 32, page 134. Soldiers and Sailors of Massachusetts, Vol. 11, page 95. History of Gilmanton, New Hampshire by Rev. Lancaster.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Mrs. Franklin C. Thompson, Concord, New Hampshire. Mrs. Earle R. Powers, Bloomfield, Connecticut. Mrs. Hazel P. Brook, Boston, Massachusetts. Miss Myrtle M. Jillson, Waterbury, Connecticut. Miss Muriel Edwards, Halifax, Nova Scotia. M. Dorothy Woodruff, Res. Lib., Methodist Church. Mr. Elmer Munson Hunt, Director of the New Hampshire Society. Mr. C. Bruce Fergusson, Provincial Archivist, Nova Scotia. Mrs. J. S. Zibell, Librarian (Sup) Whittinsville, Massachusetts.

117 THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS Division of Vital Statistics - Some records of the Smith Family

Hattis E. Messer 1864 Vol. 168 page 222 No. 28 B. William Wallace Melanson 1865 Vol. 182 page 121 No. 2171 M. Lydia A. Messer (Latham) 1865 Vol. 183 page 234 No. 66 D. Mary Jane Melanson 1866 Vol. 188 page 103 No. 501 B. Dyer Sanborn Smith 1867 Vol. 200 page 156 No. 238 M. Noah G. Smith 1888 Vol. 393 page 93 No. 66 D. Margaret G. Melanson 1868 Vol. 207 page 137 No.19 B. Lucia Maud Faxen Smith 1874 Vol. 261 page 240 No. 10715 B. Olive Arabella Smith 1876 Vol. 279 page 235 No. 10564 B. Arabella G. Smith (Hoyt) 1876 Vol. 14 page 274 No. 87 D. Philip Latham Smith 1878 Vol. 296 page 192 No. 469 B. Ruth Francis Edwards 1893 Vol. 431 page 301 No.12 B. William W. Melanson 1893 Vol. 438 page 409 No. 8977 D. Andrew J. Latham 1903 Vol. 51 page 398 No. 94 D. Margaret Melanson 1904 Vol. 21 page 333 No. 8834 D. William Philip Smith 1905 Vol. 553 page 305 No. 13616 B. Raymond Erne rs on Smith 1905 Vol. 557 page 145 No. 3328 M. Hattie E. Darling 1914 Vol. 99 page 514 No. 136 D. Mary E. Smith (Latham) 1913 Vol. 18 page 715 No. 9572 D. Noah Brandon Smith 1914 Vol. 89 page 233 No. 30 D. Alfred E. Adams 1916 Vol. 67 page 131 No. 114 D. Philip Latham Smith 1930 Vol. 39 page 358 No. 285 D. Frank E. Smith 1940 Vol. 38 page 169 No. 208 D.

118 ADDITIONS

THOMAS DECKER, born Richebucta, New Brunswick, about the yea:- 1869 and died in 1906, aged 37 years, 3 months and 13 days. Son of JAMES M. DECKER and MARY KEOUGI-L MRS. MARY (KEOUGH) DECKER was from Richebucta, New Brunswick, JAMES M. DECKER was from St. Johns, New Brunswick. Massachusetts V. R. s 1906, book 34, page 240.

RAYMOND GERALD SMITH married ELAINE MARIE PASCARELLA in St. Charles Borromee's Church, Syracuse, New York. ELAINE was born September 20, 1941, Syracuse, New York.

NICHOLAS SMITH, Exeter 1658 perhaps father of that NICHOLAS who was killed by Indians 5 July 1697. Comp. Magn. VII, despatch in Genea. Reg. III 165 - Savage Genealogical Dictionary 4 S-Z, page 128, line 5.

The above report was in error, this NICHOLAS recovered from the wound or wounds and returned to his home, since the only SMITH family was of Exeter, New Hampshire; that is recorded as using the name NICHOLAS as a given name; thus NICHOLAS did not die in 1697.

MICHAEL PERCY FORSYTH, born July 11, 1942, Barton, Hampshire, England. Son of PERCY GEORGE FORSYTH and KATHLEEN NELLIE DAVISON. PERCY GEORGE was born Jan. 28, 1914 in London and KATHLEEN was born Feb. 5, 1913 (Hounslow) London. GEORGE PERCY FORSYTH born London, died June 1964 while at work. KATHLEEN'S mother was surnamed DREW.

Additional facts about the MELANSON FAMILY: in 1621 JAMES I gave Acadia to Sir WILLIAM ALJ:;XANDER (Earl of Sterling) and the country received the name it was ultimately to retain. MELANSON is the only name traceable to this Scotch period of rule, forming a numerous family. The first Scotch came to Nova Scotia in 1623, among them was the settler, MELANSON. The peace of St. Germain-en-laye, in 1632 gave Nova Scotia to France, when effort was made with success to establish colonies in the country. In 1654 MELANSON was Captain Commandant of the King at Port Royal. The MELANSON FAMILY of Clare is a branch of the original family at Port Royal.

119 FREDERICK SMITH (1799 - 1873)

Frederick Smith, son of Timothy and Mary (Greeley) Smith, born Gilmanton, New Hampshire April 29, 1799; Dartmouth College 1826; practiced Boscawen, New Hampshire; died Cambridge, Massachusetts 1873.

Mr. Smith was fitted for college at Gilmanton Academy, and gained his legal preparation in the office of Stephen Moody of Gilmanton, and Stephen C. Lyford of Meredith, New Hampshire. In 1829 he began to practice law at Boscawen, but at the end of a half dozen years he abandoned the law and removed to Boston, Massachu­ setts and engaged in trade.

His career as a lawyer was not particularly successful. Of tolerable schlorship, he was eager after gain, and not too particular in his schemes to obtain it. Legal bus­ iness in Boscawen was small, and Smith and his deputy sheriff devised a plan for in­ creasing it. An old man in that vicinity had taken out a patent on a sort of mantel of of sheet iron for keeping dishes warm, and many persons were using the device with­ out the license of the patentee. They made arrangements with the latter, who was without means, to bring suits in his name for infringement of the patent, the fruits of which were to be in great part for their benefit. A number of actions were commenced and Judge Nesmith was retained by the parties sued and gave them the benefit of his sagacity and sound sense. He learned upon inquiry that the invention, far being a novelty, had been in use for years before the patent was granted. This fact being proved left the plaintiff no case. and the defendant had judgement. But as the plaintiff was worthless. their indignation was strong against his attorney. who they doubted not only instigated the suits, but evaded liability for the costs. The feeling thus arous­ ed against Smith was such that he thought proper to quit the place and the profession as well.

The Bench and Bar, by C. N. Bell New Hampshire

120 INDEX of SMITH

Benjamin 3 Sydney 8 Caleb 4, 5 Timothy 4,5,68 Charles 5 Theophilus 2 Daniel 3 Vincent John 11, 13 David 14 William P. 10 Dixie 6 Zachary 11, 13 Dudley 5, 6 Dyer Sanborn 5, 6, 7, 81, 83 Female names Edward 3 Enos 6 Abigail 3, 5 Francis 12, 13 Agnes E. 11, 12 Frank 8, 9 Ann 2 Frederick 5, 6 Anne 3 Hubartus 4 Comfort 3 James 8, 9, 11 Dorcas 72 John 3, 4, 11, 13 Dorothy 4 Joseph 3, 4, 5, 6, 68, 81 Elizabeth 3, 4, 5, 77 Nathaniel 2, 3, 8 Gertrude 8 Nicholas 2, 3, 19, 28, 31 Kate T. 9 Noah Brandon 8 Jane 4 Noah Greeley 5, 6, 71, 83 Mary 2,3,4,5,19 Philip 9 Maud 7,9,81 Raymond E. 7,8,9, 10 Mehitable 4 Raymond E. Jr. 10 Olive A. 9 Raymond G. 13, 14 Patience 3 Richard 3, 11, 14, 19, 28, 31, 77 Patricia L. 11, 12 Samuel 4,5 Rachel 5 Shawn A. 14 Ruth Frances 11,12,13

121 INDEX of NAMES

Adams, John 29 Dale, Mary (Satchell) 2 Alabaster, John 29 Darling, Andrew 84,85 Allan, John 27 Darling, Asahel 84 Ash, Mary 70 Darling, Ebenezer 84,85 Darling, Harriette 84 Batt, Christopher 69 Darling, J erusha 84,85 Blanc, Le Paul 92 Darling, Lawrence 81 Barlow, George 19 Darling, Lucy 84 Basterache, Jean 93 Darling, Lemuel 82,84 Berry, Richard 3 Darling, Marriette 84,85 Bean, John 19 Darling, Olive S. 81,82 Beade, Charlotte 81 Darling, Sarah 84 Bennett, Ruth 28 Darling, William 84 Blonson, Wallace 94 Decker, Arthur 9 Bower, Lydia 85 Decker, Doris 9 Bradstreet, Simone 69 Decker, Hazel 9 Brown, Abigail 68 Decker, James 119 Brown, Anne 29 Decker, Thomas 9, 119 Brown, Elizabeth 70 Dennison, Daniel 69 Brown, Henry 68 Dickison, John 69 Brown, Mary 70 Dodd, Mary 8 Brown, Sarah 68 Downing, Amanual 29 Brown, William 70 Dudley, Ann 30 Browne, Henry 29 Dudley, Do riah 68 Dudley, Elizabeth 68 Campbell, Serena 6 Dudley, Jonathan 68 Canfield, Edward 73 Dudley, Samuel 29,30,69 Chase, Harriette 82,84 Dudley, Theophilus 27 Chester, Abraham 82 Dudley, Thomas 30 Chester, Hannah 82 Clarke 3 Eastman, Joseph 3 Clarke, John 2 Edward, Arthur 9 Clifford, Israel 2 Edward, Forest 9 Clopton, Thomasine 29 Edward, Kate H. 9 29 Edward, Ruth 9 Connolly, Madeleine 12 Ellis, Widow 71 Coytmore, Thomas 29 Emerson, James 27 Crowley, James 10 Emerson, John 27 Cottie, D. 29 Emerson, Mary 27 Currier, Charles 5 Emerson, Nicholas 27 Currier, William 5 Emerson, Thomas 27 Cox, Alice 73 Cox, Moses 73 Folsom, Nathaniel 4 Cox, Rachel 73 Fones, Jane 29 Cutt, Richard 28 Fones, John 29

122 Fones, Thomas 29 Hilton, Mercy 30 Forsyth, Elizabeth 12, 14 Hilton, Richard 30 Forsyth, Michel 12, 14 Hilton, Robert 30 Forth, John 29 Hilton, Roger 30 Forth, Mary 29 Hilton, Roma.nus 30 Fosdick, Ann 82 Hilton, Sobriety 30 Fosdick, Samuel 82 Hilton, William 30 Frizzle, James 84 Hilton, Winthrop 28, 30, 31 Hook, Mary 80 Gilman, Abigail 68,77 Hough, Sam L. 81 Gilman, Edward 58,77,80 Hoyt, Arabella 6, 71 Gilman, Elizabeth 68,77 Hoyt, Benjamin 71 Gilman, Joan 77 Hoyt, Clarrissa 71 Gilman, John 77 Hoyt, Elisha 74 Gilman, Katharine 77 Hoyt, Ephraim 70,71,74 Gilman, Mary 77 Hoyt, Exekial 71 Gilman, Robert 77 Hoyt, Frances 60 Gilman, Rose 77 Hoyt, Hannah 74 Gordan, Adam 26 Hoyt, John 69, 70 Gordan, Alexander 2,19,27 Hoyt, Joseph 70,71,74 Gordan, Elizabeth 26, 27 Hoyt, Josiah 74 Gordan, George 26 ~oyt, Moulton 6, 71, 72 Gordan, John 27 Hoyt, Mary 70 Gordan, Mary 2,27 Hoyt, Nathan 71,74 Gordan, Nicholas 19,27 Hoyt, Rebecca 74 Gordan, Richard 26 Hoyt, Thomas 70 Gostlin, Thomas 29 Hoyt, Winthrop 74 Gove, Edward 73 Gove, Warner E. 9 Larm, Henry K. 12 Greeley, Andrew 68 Larm, Ruth P. 12, 13 Greeley, Joseph 68,77 Latham, Andrew 81 Greeley, Mary 4,68 Latham, Cary 82 Greeley, Samuel 4 Latham, George 81 Groof, de Agnes E. 12 Latham, Henry T. 81 Groof, de Elizabeth 11,12,14 Latham, Joseph 82 Groof, de Fernand P. 11 Latham, Lucy 82 Groof, de Margaret 11,12,13 Latham, Lydia Ann 81 Groof, de Peter F. 11, 13 Latham, Mary E. 6, 81 Latham, Mary 86 Halses, Mary 84 Latham, Thomas M. 6, 81, 82 Heard, John 71 Latham, T!l~=~ s 82 Henny, Alice 29 Latham, Susan A. 6,81,83 Hilton, Alexander 30 Liss en, Alice 19 Hilton, Ann 30 Liss en, Elizabeth 19 Hilton, Edward 28,30 Liss en, Hannah 19 Hilton, Jane 28,30 Liss en, Jane 19 Hilton, Jonathan 30 Liss en, Mary 19, 27 Hilton, Joseph 30 Liss en, Nicholas 19,27

123 Lovering, Daniel 3 Moyes, Joseph 68 Lovering, Richard 3 Moyes, Joseph 68 Lockwood, Masters 82 Mudgett, Thomas 3

Macrest, Elizabeth 70 Neal, Ann 28 Magoon, Alexander 19 Neal, Mary 28 Magoon, Henry 19 Neal, Walter 28 Martin, Baptiste 92 Martin, Pierre 92 Page, Molly 71 Mattoon, Dorothy 28 Pascarella, Elaine M. 14 Mattoon, Jane 28,31 Perkins, Ebenezer 82 Mattoon, Huybreckt 3,28 Perkins, Eunice 82 Mattoon, Mary 3,30,31 Mattoon, Ric ha rd 28,30,31 Rand, Mrs. 84 Mattoon, Ruth (Bennett) 3 Rawlins, Benjamin 73,74 Mattoon, Sa.rah 28 Rawlins, Elizabeth 74 Maverick, Abigail 68,77,80 Rawlins, Hannah 73 Maverick, Antipas 77,80 Rawlins, Icabod 73 Maverick, Elias 80 Rawlins, James 73 Maverick, Mary 80 Rawlins, John 74 Maverick, Moses 80 Rawlins, Josiah 74 Maverick, Samuel 80 Rawlins, Mary 74 Melanson, Agnes E. 10 Rawlins, Nathan 74 Melanson, Armand 93 Rawlins, Rebecca 71,74 Melanson, Baptiste 92 Rawlins, Thomas 73 Melanson, Charles 92 Rawlins, Sa.rah 74 Melanson, Charles Jr. 92 Reynolds, Mrs. Hiram 84 Melanson, Gertrude 94 Riche baud, Baptiste 92 Melanson, John 93 Richebaud, Frances 92 Melanson, Peter 93,94 Rondeau, Carol 14 Melanson, Paul 93 Rondeau, Robert 14 Melanson, Margaret 10 Ross, Jerusha 84,85 Melanson, Margaret G. 95 Ross, Lemuel 84 Melanson, Suprien 92,93 Ross, Olive 84 Melanson, William W. 10,94,95 Rysse, Rose 77 Melancon, Armand 95 Melancon, Pierre 94 Sa.dlers, Anthony 69 Merrill :> Sanders, Jo.hn 69 Messer, James 81 Seton, Alexander 26 Messer, Hattie 81 Sharpe, Agnes 29 Mildmay, Thomas 29 Sharpe, Robert 29 Minasian, Louise 11 Sinclair, Samuel 28 Mirick 69 Still, Alice 29 Morgan, John 96 Still, John 29 Morgan, Michael 96 Still, William 29 Morgan, Margaret 10,96 Sheridan, Evelyn 9 Morgan, Susan 94 Sheridan, James 9 Mors, Obadiah 73 Stone, Daniel 27

124 Stratton, Samuel 27 Sewal 27

Taylor, Walter 70 Thing, John 2 Thing, Samuel 27 Thyng, Jonathan 2,77 Tyndal, John 29 Tyndal, Margaret 29

Vawr, Kydvior 96 Veysie, Abraham 29 Veysie, Adam 29 Veysie, Catharine 29 Veysie, John 29

Wall, James 2 Warren, Joanna 71,72 Warren, Walter 72 Warren, William Cotton 72 Washington, Margaret 28 Wells, Sapho 8 Whittier 5 Wilson, L W. 92 Winnissett, Joseph 92 Winsley, Samuel 69 Winthrop, Abraham 29 Winthrop, Adam 29 Winthrop, Alice 29 Winthrop, Ann 29 Winthrop, Bridgett 29 Winthrop, Catharine 29 Winthrop, Christopher 29 Winthrop, Forth 29 Winthrop, Henry 29 Winthrop, Jane 29 Winthrop, John 29 Winthrop, Joshua 29 Winthrop, Katharine 21 Winthrop, Lucy 29 Winthrop, Mary 29 Winthrop, Nathaniel 29 Winthrop, Sarah 29 Winthrop, Samuel 29 Winthrop, Stephen 29 Winthrop, Susanna 29 Winthrop, Thomas 29 Winthrop, William 29

125