AN INTERIM TRACING OF THE ANCESTRY

OF VALERIE DALY KING

Privately Printed 1956 Printed in U.S.A. THE WILLIAM BYRD PRESS, INC. Richmond, Virginia TABLE OF CONTENTS

BOOK I The Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King (The Father of Valerie Daly King) Page I PART ONE Ancestors of Zadock King 7 PART TWO Ancestors of Hannah Mitchell PART THREE Ancestors of Silas Holbrook 17 PART FOUR Ancestors of Betsey Bridges 22 PART FIVE Ancestors of Andrew Deming 49 PART SIX Ancestors of Hannah Granger 61 PART SEVEN Ancestors of Thomas Botsford PART EIGHT Ancestors of Sarah Lay APPENDIX TO BOOK I The Pomeroy Controversy 86 The Seymour Controversy 99

BOOK II The Maternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King (The Father of Valerie Daly King) Page I2I PART ONE Ancestors of James Daly 123 PART TWO Ancestors of Emily Bloomer 132

111 lV Ancestry of Valerie Daly King

PART THREE Ancestors of William Dealing, 2nd. PART FOUR Ancestors of Mary Bourdette 157

BOOKIII The Paternal Ancestry of Mildred Sisson King (The Mother of Valerie Daly King) Page I85 PART ONE Ancestors of Asa Sisson PART TWO Ancestors of Pamelia Whitcomb PART THREE Ancestors of Reuben Learned 204 PART FOUR Ancestors of Nancy Clark Lovejoy 207

BOOK IV The Maternal Ancestry of Mildred Sisson King (The Mother of Valerie Daly King) Page 209 PART ONE Ancestors of Attilius Alexis Ladd 211 PART TWO Ancestors of Jane Anderson Russ 216 PART THREE Ancestors of John Tavennier 218 PART FOUR Ancestors of U ree Carter Drake 219

APPENDIX TO THE VOLUME Page 225 Ancestors of Valerie Daly King: with Colonial Service 225 Ancestors of Valerie Daly King: with Revolutionary Service 229 Ancestors of Valerie Daly King: with Service in the War of 1812 231 Ancestors of Valerie Daly King: with Service in the Civil War 232 Ancestors of Valerie Daly King: with Service in World War I 233 INDEX Page 235 BOOK I

The Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King Compiled and Arranged

by Ella Bourdette Daly King

(EDITOR: Charles Daly King, 19 5 3) These data were compiled by Ella Daly King, wife of Robert Courtney King, and dated 16 December, 1917. They were collected and arranged under the original supervision and with the assistance of Mr. Austin Morrison, M.A., and later with emendations and additions by Miss Martha Collins, both genealogists of repute. To Robert Courtney King In endeavoring to compile for you a short history of your ancestors I have taken your four great-grandfathers and your four great-grandmothers and have put them in the following order : Part I-Ancestors of Zadock King Part 2-Ancestors of Hannah Mitchell Part 3-Ancestors of Silas Holbrook Part 4-Ancestors of Betsey Bridges Part 5-Ancestors of Andrew Demming Part 6--Ancestors of Hannah Granger Part 7-Ancestors of Thomas Botsford Part 8-Ancestors of Sarah Lay Even if you do not take pleasure in reading all that has been written about them, you will perhaps be pleased to know that it has given me much pleasure to make their acquaintance and to write about them.

ELLA DALY KING December the sixteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen. "God sifted an whole nation, that He might send choice grain into the wilderness."

"While it cannot be pretended that our Pilgrim Fathers and Mothers were perfect in all respects, yet it must be admitted that they were a brave and virtuous set of men and women, possessing an ardent love of civil and religious liberty." THE FREEMAN'S OATH

The Freeman's Oath as established in Massachusetts in 1634 was the first paper published in New England, and was as follows: I, ( A.B.), being by God's providence an Inhabitant and Freeman within the Jurisdiction of this Commonwealth, do freely acknowledge my­ self to be subject to the Government thereof: And therefore do here swear by the great and dreadful Name of the Ever-living God, that I will be true and faithfull to the same, and will accordingly yield assistance & support thereunto, with my person and estate, as in equity I am bound; and will also truly endeavour to maintain and preserve all the liberties and privileges thereof, submitting my self to the wholesome Lawes & Orders made and established by the same. And further, that I will not plot or practice any evill against it, or consent to any that shall so do; but will timely discover and reveal the same to the lawfull Authority now here established, for the speedy preventing thereof. Moreover, I doe solemnly bind my self in the sight of God, that when I shal be called to give my voyce touching any such matter of this State, in which Freemen are to deal, I will give my vote and suffrage as I shall judge in mine own conscience may best conduct and tend to the public weal of the body, without respect of persons or favour of any man. So help me God in the Lord Jesus Christ.

REFERENCES Records of Massachusetts Bay, Vol. I, p. 117. A reprint of Mass. Bay Colony-The Oath of a Freeman-First Printed for the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Cambridge, 1639.

PART ONE

Ancestors of Zadock King

KING

COAT OF ARMS: sable, a lion rampant between three crosses, or, ducally crowned, argent; crest: out of a ducal coronet, or, a demi ostrich, wings endorsed beak of the first. MOTTO: Loyal au mort The King family of Westmoreland, England, trace their descent from Sir Ralph Kinge who fought at Agincourt. In America the Northampton Kings took an important part in early colonial times and long were prom­ inent at Northampton, Mass., where King Street still exists.

John King of Westmoreland, England, was born in Yorkshire; he was called Captain King. Hinman states that he came to America when 16 years of age. He was born in 1629 and died on 3 December, 1703, aged 74, leav­ ing a Will, dated 7 July, 1703, in which he mentions sons, Samuel, John and Jonathan, and daughters, Sarah and Thankful. He lived at Hartford, Conn., in 1645 with a Mr. Cole until he was 21 and then went to North­ ampton, Mass. He married, 18 November, 1656, Sarah, daughter of William (Deacon John?) Holton of Northampton. She died on 8 May, 1683. He then married, second, Sarah Mygatt, widow of Jacob Mygatt and daughter of William Whiting, who died at Windsor, Conn. John King was a Repre­ sentative, 1679-1689, and a Captain in the Colonial Militia. His marriage to Sarah Holton is the first recorded at Northampton and it is believed to have been the first to be solemnized there. Sarah Holton was the daughter of the Hon. William Holton, colonist, who was born in England and came to America in 1634; he came from Ipswich, England, in the ship, Francis, and was one of the early proprietors of Hartford, Conn. In 1655 he re­ moved to Northampton and was one of the Deacons in the church there, 1660-1671. He was also a Representative, serving one year for the neigh­ boring town of Hadley. John King had twelve children, of whom the third son was: z,,,, Thomas King, of Hatfield and Hartford, Conn. He was born on 14 July, 1662, and died on 26 December, 17u, son of John and Sarah (Holton) King. He was in Hartford, Conn., in 1688. An inventory of his estate was 8 Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King taken on 28 January, 1712, by Benjamin Graham, Joseph Mygatt and Edward Allyn, the total amounting to i 95.2. l l and then being distributed to Thomas, the eldest son, Robert, Abigail and Mary. On 17 November, 1683 he married Abigail Strong, daughter of Jedediah Strong, who. died in July, 1689. He then married, second, Mary Wolston, daughter of Robert Walston, who died on 27 September, 1706; and he then married for a third time but the name of this wife is unknown and she died on 2 January, 1712. His eldest son was: -; Thomas King (Jr.) of Hartford, Conn., later of Windsor, Conn. He was born on 3 December, 1684, the son of Thomas (Sr.) and Abigail (Strong) King. On 6 November, 1712, Thomas King of Hartford, Conn., at that place married Sarah Mygatt. The parentage of this Thomas King has never been fully attested by record but it is claimed by his descendants that he was identical with the Thomas King who was born at Hartford and was the son of that Thomas King of Hatfield and Hartford, Conn., · who in turn was the son of John King of Northampton. John King of Northampton married, second, Sarah Mygatt; among those who settled the estate of his son, Thomas, was Joseph Mygatt; and the present Thomas King, claimed to be the son of Thomas aforesaid, again married a Sarah Mygatt, thus implying a continuing relationship between the two families and outlawing an otherwise rather strained coincidence. The descendants of Thomas King base the claim in addition upon family tradition and upon an old pedigree chart long preserved in the family and now in the possession of Miss Julia R. King of Maxwelton, Durham, Ga. If on the other hand the question turns upon the identities of the two Thomas Kings who were at Hartford, Conn., in or about 1688, it is here assumed that they were identical. ,> Zadock King, son of Thomas and Sarah (Mygatt) King, of Deerfield, Mass., later removed to Windsor, Conn. He died 25 August, 1769. He married 3 July, 1751, Hannah, daughter of Joseph Mitchell. She married ( 2) John Bugbee. Children born to Zadock and Hannah at Deerfield : Hannah, Zadock, Josie and Abner.

✓ '-::, Zadock King, son of Zadock and Hannah (Mitchell) King, was born at Deerfield, 24 January, 1758; died at Waterford, Saratoga Co., N. Y., 12 June, 1836. At Deerfield he married, 2 May, 1781, Thankful, daughter of Joseph Mitchell. She was born 14 July, 1762, and died 5 August, 1843. He and his family are buried in the Old Cemetery at Waterford, N. Y. Children: Prudence, Foster D., Brainard, John Fuller, Daniel B., Joseph Mitchell; Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King 9 and presumably Earl Storrs, since John Fuller and Earl Storrs were in Troy in 1833 and Daniel was known to be a brother of Earl Storrs. (John F. and Earl Storrs King were Civil Engineers and were building a canal in Troy when Earl Storrs King died in the cholera epidemic of 1833.)

REFERENCES King Family in America, George Austin Morrison, A.M., N. Y. Genealogical and Biographical Society, N. Y., 1910, p. 10. Ibid., Vol. II. History of the Town of Northfield, Mass., for 150 Years, with an Account of the prior occupation of the territory by the Squakheags : and with Family Genealogies, Temple, J. H. and Sheldon, George, Albany, 1875; pp. 479, 480. A History of Deerfield, Mass. : The Times when the People by whom it was settled, unsettled and resettled, with a special Study of the Indian Wars in the Connec­ ticut Valley, with Genealogies by George Sheldon, Deerfield, Mass., 1896, Vol. II, pp. 228, 229. The American Genealogist, Vol. 22, pp. 147-149. €;i Earl Storrs King, born 6 October, 1799, died 1 July, 1833; buried at Coxsackie, N. Y., son of, presumably (see above), Zadock and Thankful (Mitchell) King. Notwithstanding an exhaustive search, as yet no definite knowledge of his parents or place of birth has been found. The naturalization papers of his eldest son, Storrs Leland King, are on file at Albany, N. Y., but the place of his birth is not given. There is a tradition in the family that at the time of the Revolution his father and grandfather, viz., Earl Storrs King and Zadock King, migrated to Canada, remaining loyal to the Crown, and that a price was put upon their heads by the American Government. If the tradition is true, it is very probable that his family was a prominent one in the Colonies. The Revolutionary data in the possession of the State De­ partment at Washington is very incomplete and no verification of the statement seems to be possible, but it offers an obvious explanation of the naturalization papers of Storrs Leland King who thus re-entered the United States after the war from Canada, since he did not come to America from England at that timt;. In an old Family Bible belonging to Mr. Harvey King of Brooklyn, N. Y., is found the following: "Earl Storrs King, born in New Hampshire, Oct. 6, 1799, died July 1, 1833." Earl Storrs King married Adeline Holbrook, daughter of Silas and Betsey (Bridges) Holbrook, probably in 1820 or 1821, but the record has not been found and the place is unknown, although very likely to have been Chester, Vermont. The following concerning Earl Storrs King is of record: (From the Report of the Council of Appointment, State of New York, 1783-1821, Oneida County)- IO Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King Earl S. King appointed Ensign, 1817; Earl S. King appointed Lieutenant, 1821. The Clerk states that no further mention is made of the name and it may be inferred that upon his marriage he returned to Canada where his first child was born "just across (over) the Vermont line," as the latter's daughter, Annie King Stimson of Brookline, Mass., says. She also states that she heard her father, Storrs Leland King, "tell many times of the cold winters in Canada when he was a boy and tramped to school waist-deep in snow." (In the Albany County Clerk's Office the following entries exist)­ Earl S. King and Adeline, his wife, Jan. 1, 1825, grantees to James Gibbons, lot in Albany St., W. Troy. Earl S. King and Adeline, his wife, grantees to Nathan Robbins, Nov., 1827. Earl S. King and Adeline, his wife, grantees, April 14, 1829, re­ corded May 21, 1842, lots on Washington, W. Troy. Earl S. King and Adeline, his wife, June 12, 1829, assignments of lots in Gibbonsville, Vv. Troy. Earl S. King and Adeline, his wife, to Margeret Reed, Dec. 13, 1825. Earl S. King and Adeline, his wife, to Henry Leach, April 14, 1828, same to Joseph King, 1829.

Mrs. John MacGeorge, another daughter of his eldest son ( Storrs Le­ land King), has stated that many years after the death of both Earl Storrs King and his wife, lawyers came to New York and sought to interest her father, Storrs Leland King, in a claim for property belonging to his father but that nothing came of it, as her father refused to enter into negotiations. Earl Storrs King was a civil engineer and at the time of his death is said to have been engaged in building a bridge at Cohoes, N. Y. He is known to have had a brother, Daniel, living in Albany, N. Y. At that time there were living in Albany John Fuller King and Daniel B. King, brothers, and the sons of Zadock King, above; and it was presumably this same Daniel B. King who was the "Uncle Daniel" in the family of Earl S. King. John King, above,-according to Mr. Austin Morrison who has made a very exhaustive record of the Kings in America-was a civil engineer and built the canal known at the present time as "King's Canal" between Cohoes and Troy. Although the relationship has not been definitely established, it is surmised that this John King and Earl Storrs King were close relatives and very probably associated professionally. Indeed it may be that the latter was constructing a canal instead of a bridge-or a bridge over this same canal-at the time of his death, the tale of the bridge being a family Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King II tradition only. The above John King traces his lineage to John King of Northampton, Mass., who emigrated from England early in the 17th. Cen­ tury. (Mr. Morrison has stated to the compiler of these notes that the name of Earl Storrs King is entirely unknown to him and has requested that any information secured be forwarded to him. Unfortunately the recent death of Mr. Morrison is a great loss regarding the search for the ancestor.) Earl Storrs King died of cholera, then epidemic, I July, 1833; and is buried at Coxsackie, N. Y., where his wife's parents were then living. His widow must have continued to live at Troy, for his daughter was educated at the Willard Seminary there. He had one daughter and three sons: Storrs Leland King George B. King Sara King, married Andrew Tuthill of New York Silas Holbrook, King Silas Holbrook King was born, probably at Troy, N. Y., 29 September, 1831, and died in Brooklyn, N. Y., 25 July, 1869. At the time of his marriage he was living in Brooklyn. He married, 18 September, 1855, Frances Anna Deming Granger, daughter of Captain Frederick Granger and Anne (Botsford) Deming of Coxsackie, N. Y. After his marriage he resided in Jersey City, N. J., where there were living his brother, Storrs Leland King, his sister, Mrs. Tuthill, and his mother; and there his three sons were born. He was a Mason of high standing, a member of Common­ wealth Lodge, Brooklyn, N. Y., and a member of the 12th. Regiment, N.G.N.Y. At the outbreak of the Civil War he offered his services to the Government. Much to his disappointment, owing to an injury to one foot received at the time of the visit of the Prince of Wales, later Edward VII­ when his regiment was detailed to receive the latter-he was not accepted for active service. At the time of his death he was a merchant in New York City and lived in Brooklyn. He died of pneumonia after a short ill­ ness, 25 July, 1869. He left three sons: Frederick Deming King Earl Storrs King Robert Courtney King "A leaf from childhood memories."-recollections of Mrs. Marion E. King MacGeorge, daughter of Storrs Leland King. "My sister was mistaken about my being present at the wedding of Courtney's (Robert Courtney King) father and mother. I was at the re­ ception, soon after they came to New York, given by Uncle Andrew Tuthill who then lived near the present Abingdon Square, at that time considered to 12 Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King be a fine neighborhood. Of course the memories of childhood are truly last­ ing and my memory serves me very well. This, of course, will not add to your book but will certainly interest Courtney. His father and mother were a handsome couple. His mother was dressed in a beautiful blue moire antique, matching her eyes, and a beautiful lace fichu, and a bunch of pink roses at the waist. The dresses at that time were much as to fullness like the present style of skirts without the hiking fronts and the grotesque appendages called trains. "The music was fine and Uncle Andrew Tuthill had then a colored butler named \Vashington ; but so amalgamated (sic) that his hair was a smooth silky blackness, closely curled at the ends around the head in a most becoming manner. \¥ith his deep olive complexion, his dress and his efficient courteous manners made him all that one could desire in a butler. "I had watched him in the early afternoon, in child fashion, arranging the table with the most beautiful gold and white china and the silver serv­ ice was beautiful, the music fine and the cotillion and the old-fashioned dances were danced with grace, vim and life. Of course the champagne flowed freely. Hovv long it lasted I do not know, for I went to dreamland long before."

Robert Courtney King, son of Silas Holbrook and Frances Anna (Granger) King, ,,vas born 5 April, 1861, in Jersey City, N. J. He was named for an uncle, Mr. Robert Courtney of Brooklyn, the husband of his mother's sister. He was graduated from the public Grammar and High School of Brooklyn, N. Y., where he went to live with his parents when very young. It had always been his wish to attend coIIege but, after the death of his father, he felt on graduating from the High School that he should no longer be wholly dependent upon his mother and immediately obtained a position in the notion house of Howard Sanger & Co. From there he went to Townsend and Yale, Commission :Merchants, and later formed a partnership with Roger Lamson; and upon the latter's death con­ tinued the business and was a prominent merchant in New York City. He was a member of the New York Chamber of Commerce and a member of the Arbitration Board. He married, 16 December, 18g1, EIIa, daughter of Charles and Charity (Dealing) Daly of New York. After his marriage he lived with his father-in-law, Mr. Charles Daly, who was then a widower, at 126 West 86 Street, New York City and there his only son was born. He later re­ moved to Summit, N. J., and on the death of Mr. Daly, to East Orange, N. J., where he became a member of the Grace Episcopal Church and of the Essex County Country Club. Later he also had a home outside Morris­ town, N. J. Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King 13 He died suddenly at Hot Springs, Va., 29 March, 1921, of angina, aged 59 years. He had one son, Charles Daly King. "He was senior member of the firm of Robert C. King and Company and started his underwear experience with Townsend and Yale about forty years ago. After establishing his reputation as a salesman, he left to go with Roger Lamson who was also leaving Townsend and Yale at that time, to go into business for himself. Within a very short time he became a partner in the firm, thereafter known as Lamson, King and Company. At Mr. Lamson's death ten years ago Mr. King succeeded in his own name until 1916, when he admitted to partnership William Ravner, forming the firm of Robert C. King and Company. "Mr. King was widely known in the women's and children's knit under­ wear trade and his passing leaves but few of the prominent underwear men of his time. He was selected to represent the Chamber of Commerce of New York as a member of the Arbitration Board. Mr. King had quilt a strong organization, consisting of men who had. been with him for a great many years and the business will be continued as heretofore. "He left a son, Charles Daly King, who was associated with him in business. He lived at East Orange and Morristown, N. J. and was a member of the Sons of the American Revolution, Chamber of Commerce of New York, the Wool Club and the Essex County Country Club. He was a Director of the Essex County Trust Company. He is survived by his widow and son."-Journal of Commerce, New York, 5 April, 1921.

Charles Daly King, only son of Robert Courtney and Ella (Daly) King, was born in New York City, 17 February, 1895, at 126 West 86 Street. He received his education first at Miss Baldwin's School, East Orange, N. J., from which he graduated with high standing, then at Newark Academy, Newark, N. J., graduating second in his class; from there he went to Yale University, taking the classical course and graduating in June, 1916. He received honors in each of the four years and on graduating was given the degree of B.A. and was elected a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He was also a member of the scholarship society of his preparatory school, Alpha Delta Tau. Later he took the degrees of M.A. at Columbia Univer­ sity, 1928, of M.A. at Yale University, 1943, and of Ph.D. at Yale Uni­ versity, 1945. While an undergraduate at Yale he became a member of the Yale Batteries, Conn. N.G., and was appointed gun corporal. He also became a member of the Plattsburg Association, attending the training camps there in the years, 1915 and 1916, and was sergeant in 1916. At our entrance 14 Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King into World War I he was admitted to the Fort Myer Training Camp for Reserve Officers and, on graduating, was commissioned Second Lieutenant of Field Artillery and assigned to the Leon Springs, Texas, training center; thence to 128 F.A., 35th. Division, then undergoing final training at Fort Sill, Okla. There he trained and qualified as an Aerial Observer for the field artillery, rejoining his regiment when it was ordered overseas, serving with this unit 1917-1920. Overseas two years, he saw service at the front as forward observation officer in the Vosges, instructor in field artillery at Bordeaux in 75mm. operation. After the war he remained in the Reserve, later promoted First Lieutenant, then Captain, 391 F.A. Resigned 1926. Also in 1926 he retired from Robert C. King and Company, of which he was junior partner, to continue his studies ( see degrees, above). From 1933 to 1935 he was Treasurer of Hampton, Weeks and Marston, Inc., advertising, New York City, then removed to Bermuda with his family to engage in writing. Publications: Beyond Behaviorism, 1928; Integrative Psychology, 1929 (with W. M. and E. H. Marston); The Psychology of Consciousness, 1931; Obelists at Sea, 1932; Obelists en Route, 1933; Obelists Fly High, 1934; The Curious Mr. Tarrant, 1935; Careless Corpse, 1936; Arrogant Alibi, 1937; Bermuda Burial, 1938; The Oragean Version, 1951 ; also contributor to numerous technical and popular magazines. He married, 23 October, 1923, Mildred Georgina, daughter of Edgar and Dixie (Ladd) Sisson, by whom he had one daughter, Valerie Daly King. He was a member of the American Psychological Association, New York Academy of Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Essex County Country Club, Somerset Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club (Bermuda), Authors Club (London), New Haven Lawn Club, Mory's Orange Lawn Tennis Club, Lotos Club, etc. In 1924 he became interested in the formulations of George I. Gurdjieff, then the head of the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man, at Fontainbleau, France; attended many meetings in New York devoted to the exposition of the ideas connected with it; and soon became an In­ structor of the American branch of the Institute under the direction of Mr. Alfred Richard Orage. After the deaths of Mr. Orage ( 1934) and of Mr. Gurdjieff (1949) he felt, however, that the movement had taken on an incorrectly religious flavor and thereafter he dissociated himself from it.

Valerie Daly King, daughter of Charles Daly and Mildred (Sisson) King, was born at Orange, N. J., 12 October, 1934. Her education took place successively at Somers College (Bermuda), Hamden Hall, New Haven Day School, Short Hills Country Day School, Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King 15 Oldfield's School, graduating June, 1952, from the last with High Honors. She entered Sweet Briar College, Va., in the fall of 1952 and made her debut in New York City at the Grosvenor Ball in November, 1952. On 8 June, 1955, she married Richard Hadley Brower of Pittsboro, N. C., at South Orange, N. J. PART TWO

Ancestors of Hannah Mitchell

(This Part has been left blank in the compilation) PART THREE

Ancestors of Silas Holbrook

HOLBROOK The name of Holbrook is ancient and distinguished ; and in the English world it has long since obtained a wide range. It does not, however, occur in Domesday Book, yet as early as the reign of Richard II, one of the name was advanced to the Order of Knighthood and "a chevron between two martlets" assigned as his coat of arms. Others of the name had equal claims of distinction by nine different coats of arms. John and Thomas Holbrook were the emigrant ancestors.

Thomas Holbrook, son of Thomas Holbrook, a Knight, was born at Broadway, Dorsetshire, England, in 1601 and died in 1677. This Thomas Holbrook came over in the Rev. Joseph Hull's company, 30 March, 1635. His family consisted of his wife, Jane, three sons and two daughters. It is claimed by some that Experience Leland or Layland, a sister of Henry Leland, was the wife of Thomas Holbrook, Sr., but later genealogists have proven that Jane Kingman was the mother of his children, although she may have been a second wife.* Thomas Holbrook settled in that part of Weymouth called Old Spain; it was chosen for its harbor and the form of the peninsula, convenient for confining cattle. He was advanced in years when the records of Weymouth began and then had talented sons to render public service. In 1641, immediately after the earliest preserved records began, he was chosen the second member of a Board of Selectmen and served as such in 1645, 1646, 1651, 1652 and 1654. As a citizen of standing and long ai,:quaintance with the country the General Court in 1649 appointed him the first member of a commission to lay out a county highway from Weymouth to Dorchester. His Will was dated 30 December, 1668. He died in 1677.

Thomas Holbrook (III ?), son of Thomas and Jane (Kingman) Hol­ brook, was born in 1624, died in 1697, resided at Weymouth, Scituate and Braintree, Mass., and was a man of enterprise and wealth. In 1653 he bought of Abraham Harding a farm at Braintree of 53 acres with house * The compilation is written as here quoted but appears to contain an unnecessary query. From the statement made, it seems plain that Experience Leland was the wife of Thomas Holbrook, Sr., whereas Jane Kingman was the wife of Thomas Holbrook, Jr., the man of whom it is here treated. 18 Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King and barn; in 1662 and 1663 he purchased more land and like his brother became owner of much real estate in Braintree. He married Joanna---, who survived him. He made his Will 25 July, 1695, giving his son, Peter, all that estate of land and meadow in Mendon, Mass., which he had pur­ chased from his brother, William. Administration was granted on his estate, 19 August, 1697, to his widow Joanna and his son, Thomas. He had two sons, Peter and Thomas.

Peter Holbrook, the deacon, was born at Braintree, Mass., 6 July, 1655, died at Mendon, Mass., 29 May, 1713. His \\Till was proved and adminis­ tration granted to his sons, John, Peter and Joseph. His first wife was Alice Godfrey, who died 29 April, 1705. He married, secondly, Elizabeth Pool, the mother of his daughter-in-law. The lands which Deacon Peter left to his sons, were most of them subsequently included in Bellingham. He was an important man of his day and laid the foundation of great good to his race, many of whom are still enjoying it within the circle of his former possessions and influence. His three sons were John, Peter and Joseph.

Peter Holbrook, Jr., was born at Mendon, Mass., 16 October, 1681, died at Bellingham, Mass., 24 December, 1728. He was a farmer and weaver. He married Hannah Pool, daughter of John and Elizabeth Pool, 23 March, 1713. He died intestate and administration of his estate was granted to his widow, Hannah, 12 February, 1729. He had a son, Daniel.

Daniel Holbrook, son of Peter and Hannah (Pool) Holbrook, was born at Mendon, Mass., 18 April, 1717, and died there in 1765. He married Catherine Holbrook. His estate was inventoried 16 April, 1765, at f 951 but, when completely settled, amounted to f 219 s. 13 and d. 8. He owned a forge with one Yater of Uxbridge and much land in the east part of Mendon and Bellingham. He left a son, Silas Holbrook.

Silas Holbrook was born in Mendon, Mass., II October, 1762. He settled in Windham Co., Vermont, Wardsborotown, southern district, now called West Dover. The records of the town show that he took deed of land from Noah Perry, 29 September, 1786, from Daniel Warner, 23 February, 1789, that he sold land to John Combs, 20 March, 1789, sold land to Joshua Kendall, 20 June, 1794, and to Asa Moore, 23 December, 1795. The United States census of 1790 gives Silas Holbrook as head of a household without family living in the southern district of Wardsboro and this shows that he was unmarried at that time. The town records of Men- Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King don, Mass., show that he married 28 February, 1792, Betsy Bridges of Mendon. The land records of Mendon in the Registry Office in Worcester show that Silas Holbrook bought land in Mendon, Mass., 17 December, 1789, from Noah Perry, the same man from whom he bought land in Vermont. After his marriage to Betsey Bridges in 1792 he returned to Vermont or, as he is in the census there of 1790, that he must have retained his home there, going to Mendon for his bride. The land records of Wards­ boro show that on 20 May, 1795, Silas Holbrook bought 100 acres from Thaddeus Waight, the price being £ 216 lawful money. \i\That appears to be the same property was deeded to Samuel Phillips by Silas Holbrook, 8 December, 1795, the price then being f 308. The land records of Chester, Windsor Co., Vermont, show Silas Holbrook of Wardsboro, Windham Co., Vermont, purchased a tract of land, II December, 1795, paying f 200 lawful money, from Moses Hutchinson. On 22 April, 1800, he deeded a part or the whole of this land to Eli Jacobs. On 9 May, 18o1, he took deed from Samuel Jacobs of a parcel of land and on 18 February, 1801, he took deed of land from John Stone, Jr. On 22 March, 1803, he sold and deeded a piece of land to Lewis Hill. He later went to Coxsackie, N. Y., where his tombstone record declares "died 7 May, 1827, age 67 years," although, as he was born in 1762, he was 65 years of age. Betsey (Bridges) Holbrook is also buried at Coxsackie; her record reads "died 25 November, 1844, age 78 years," but she was born in 1770, so she was 74. The land and probate records of Green Co., N. Y., at Catskill, have been searched and no mention found of Silas Holbrook, Sr., and it is not known how long he was a resi­ dent of Coxsackie. The vital records of the towns where Silas Holbrook lived contain no mention of the births of any of his children, although they were probably all born at Wardsboro or at Chester, Vermont. (Such records may possibly be found in the churches there).

Adeline Holbrook, daughter of Silas and Betsey (Bridges) Holbrook, was born at Chester, Vermont, in 1801, died at Jersey City, N. J., 27 February, 1867, aged 66 years, and is buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N. Y. She married, at some time before 1823, Earl Storrs King.

REFERENCES History of Sherborn and Holister, Rev. Abner Morse; pp. 107-109. A Genealogy of the Descendants of Several Ancient Puritans, Rev. Abner Morse, A.M., Boston, 1857; Part I, pp. 47-50, 65, 66, 68.

GODFREY ( allied with Holbrook) Richard Godfrey, the first of the family or the earliest one of it who can be traced genealogically, appears to have settled near Old Forge in 20 Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King Taunton, now called Raynham, where he owned lands. He was there in 1662, when the Leonards, in locating a forge, mention that their premises were bounded by the land of Richard Godfrey. He was born in 1631; his eldest son, Richard, was born in 1651; he married three times, but the genealogists have not yet come to any agreement about the names of his wives. It is generally accepted that Jan Turner, daughter of John Turner, the forge master of Taunton, was the second wife and the mother of his children. Richard Godfrey removed to Mendon, Mass., where in King Philip's War in 1675 he was a garrison man. He died in 1691, leaving a Will in which he mentions his daughter, Alice.

Alice Godfrey, date of birth unknown, died 29 April, 1705. She was the wife of Peter Holbrook.

REFERENCE Contributions, Biogral)hical, Genealogical and Historical; Ebenezer Weaver Pierce, Boston, 1874; p. 52.

TURNER ( allied with Godfrey) John Turner, the forge master of Taunton, is supposed to have had a daughter who married Richard Godfrey, whose lands were next to the forge. The supposition is based upon the fact that "at a time which does not exactly appear, John Turner gave his son-in-law, Richard Godfrey 6 acres of land." On the other hand it is claimed that John Turner had only one daughter, Mary, who married Benedict Arnold, Jr. However, John Turner had a wife, Jane, who the genealogists claim was the widowed mother of Richard Godfrey, which would have made him a stepson of John Turner, or as it was very often called in those days, son-in-law. It is also possible that the stepson might have married the daughter of his step­ father. There is apparently a relationship of some kind between John Turner and Richard Godfrey.

REFERENCE Contributions, Biographical, Genealogical and Historical; Ebenezer Weaver Pierce, Boston, 1874; p. 52.

POOL or POOLE ( allied with Holbrook) The Poole family is of Norman origin. The first form in which we find the name is de la Pole. "Pole" in the Parish of Tiverton was the family seat Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King 21 and in the possession of the family from the time of the Norman Conquest for several generations. Captain Edward Poole was born in England in 1609, in the neighbor­ hood of Weymouth, as the company with which he came in 1635 and which founded Weymouth, Mass., was made up from there and the neighboring towns, the Rev.Joseph Hull being the religious leader. The wife of Edward Poole was Sarah Penney. He fled from religious persecution in England, that he might worship God in his own way. He resided in Weymouth, Mass., all the rest of his life. The children of Edward and Sarah (Penney) Poole, as mentioned in his Will, were Samuel, Isaac, Joseph, Benjamin, John, Sarah and Jacob.

John Poole or Pool married Elizabeth---. He died in 1676. He was a soldier in Captain Wadsworth's company, 29 June, 1676, in King Philip's War, in which he may have been killed (?).He lived at Weymouth, Mass. His wife, Elizabeth, survived him and became the wife of Peter Holbrook, the father-in-law of her daughter, and after his death she married, 26 Feb­ ruary, 1719 or 1720, Robert Weare of Wrentham. Elizabeth Pool Hol­ brook Weare died on 28 July, 1723. Her will, dated, 1719, was executed by her son-in-law, Peter Holbrook, Jr.

Hannah Pool, daughter of John and Elizabeth Pool, was born at Wey­ mouth, Mass., married at Mendon, Mass., 23 March, 1713, Peter Holbrook. She was born 24 October, 1687.

REFERENCE

The Pool Family, Murray Edward Pool, Ithaca, N. Y., 1893; pp. 7, 8, IO. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers in New England, James Savage, Boston, 1861 ; pp. 454, 255. "Since the publication of the Poole Genealogy it has been discovered that the wife of Edward Poole of Weymouth, Mass., 1635, was Sarah, daughter of John and Jane (Porthesy) Pynney, son of John and Johane (---) Pynney, all of Broadway, County Somerset, England. She was a niece of Humphrey Pynney, the early settler of Windsor, Conn. Her name was learned from the Will of her uncle, Edward Pynney of Broadway. Aspinwall Notarial Records ( p. 12) mention a bequest to her by her said uncle. Stile's History of Windsor mentions the Will. "The only wife of Joseph Poole (Edward) was Elizabeth, daughter of John (Abraham) and Alice Shaw."-Note on Poole, Murray E.- Poole, New England Genealogical and Historical Magazine, Vol. 59, p. 328. PART FOUR

Ancestors of Betsey Bridges

BRIDGES Edmund Bridges, the emigrant ancestor, was born in England in 1612. He sailed from London in the ship, "James," 13 January, 1635, then aged 23 years. He was a blacksmith by trade. He was admitted a Freeman 7 September, 1639, and was a proprietor of Lynn, Mass., where he settled. He had a suit in court in Ipswich in 1641, ( 1647 ?) a curious incident. The General Court of Massachusetts, 26 May, 1647, ordered him to answer at the Essex Court for neglect to further the public service by delaying to shoe Mr. Symond's horse when he was about to come to court. Evidently noth­ ing serious resulted because Mr. Symonds was delayed, and history fails to tell us what the punishment for such an offense was. It may be said that the court records of those days were made up of such nonsensical charges as this one. Edmund Bridges removed to Ipswich and later to Topsfield. He died 13 January, 1684. He had three wives successively, Alice, Eliza­ beth and Mary Littlehale.

Edmund Bridges, Jr., son of Edmund, Sr., and Alice, was born 1637, died 1682. He settled at Topsfield and in 1668 he went to Salem, having been married, rr January, r66o, to Sarah, daughter of William Towne of Salem and his wife, Joanna (Blessing) Towne. Sarah (Towne) Bridges, after the death of her husband in 1682, married Peter Colyer, Sr., and came near to being hung for a witch during the witchcraft delusion. Edmund Bridges was a farmer.

Caleb Bridges, son of Edmund, Jr., and Sarah (Towne) Bridges, was born 3 June, 1667, at Salem, Mass. He afterward settled at Framingham in 1697, where he bought a farm of 45 acres in 1706. He married, 26 Novem­ ber, 1700, Sarah, daughter of John Brewer of Framingham, Mass.

Hackeliah Bridges, son of Caleb and Sarah (Brewer) Bridges, was born at Framingham, Mass., 20 May, 1705, died 27 September, 1739. He settled at Framingham and Southboro, an adjacent town. He married Sarah, daughter of Johnathon Rugg, II November, 1728.

Hackeliah Bridges, Jr., son of Hackeliah, Sr., and Sarah (Rugg) Bridges, was born r l October, 1737, at Southboro, Mass. He and several Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King 23 of his father's family settled at Holliston, a town set off from Sherborn. He is credited with services in the Revolutionary War in Colonel Cushing's Regiment. He married, 29 November, 1764, at Holliston, Elizabeth Under­ wood, daughter of Joseph and Jemima (Leland) Underwood.

Betsey Bridges, daughter of Hackeliah, Jr., and Elizabeth (Under­ wood) Bridges, was born 23 June, 1770. Evidently she was named for her mother but was always known as Betsey. She married Silas Holbrook at Mendon, Mass., 8 February, 1792, and died at Coxsackie, N. Y., 25 No­ vember, 1844. REFERENCES Essex Antiquarian; Vol. 12, pp. 26-28. History of Worcester County, Mass.; Hurd.

BREWER ( allied with Bridges) John Brewer came from England to America, although the date is not known. He was a resident of Cambridge, Mass., in 1642 and removed to Sudbury in 1643. The name of his wife was Ann. There are no dates of his birth, marriage or death, and very little is known about him. The family name is spelled Brewer and Bruer and it may be that they were originally from Holland or the Low Countries.

John Brewer, the first son of John and Ann Brewer, was born at Cam­ bridge, Mass., IO October, 1642. He married Elizabeth Rice, daughter of Henry and Elizabeth (Moore) Rice of Sudbury, Mass. He later removed to Framingham, Mass. He had a daughter, Sara.h.

Sarah Brewer, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Rice) Brewer, married Caleb Bridges of Framingham, Mass., 26 November, 1700. She was born, 14 January, 1678.

REFERENCE A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, James A. Savage; Vol. I, p. 244. RICE ( allied with Brewer) "By the Name of Rice" "1594 Deacon Edmund Rice-The Pilgrim 1663"-Charles Elmer Rice. 24 Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King (The following data, compiled under the direction of Mr. George Austin Morrison, A.M., is disputed by Miss Martha Collins, both being genealogists of good reputaton. This questioned data will be included between the two double stars, viz., * *, marking the beginning and the end of the passage.) * * An illuminated pedigree of the family of Rice, in the possession of Lord Dynevor, drawn and attested in the year, 1600, by Ralph Brooke, York Herald, and continued by different hands to the present day, makes Sir Rhys-ap-Thomas-Fitz-Urian, K.G., to be the 18th. in paternal descent from Vryan Reged, Lord of Kidwelly Carnullen and Yskenen in South Wales and Margeret-La-Faye, daughter of Gorlois, Duke of Cornwall; Sir Rhys­ ap-Thomas, 19th. in descent from Gorlois, was founder of the English House of Rice. Of this distinguished person Fuller in his "Worthies" writes: "Sir Rhys-ap-Thomas of Elmalin in Carmasthamshire was never more than a Knight, yet less than a prince in his native land." To Henry VII on his landing with a small force at Milfordhaven Sir Rhys repaired with a considerable accession of choice soldiers, marching with him to Bos­ worth Field, where he right valiantly behaved himself. That thrifty King after the battle made him Knight Bament and "well might he have given him a garter by whose effectual help he had received a crown." In the twenty-first year of that king's reign he was elected a "Knight Companion of the most noble Order of the Garter." In the next reign he was a Captain of Light Horse at the battle of ---and at the Siege of Tourney in 1513. Sir Rhys was the son of Thomas-ap-Griffith and his first wife was the daughter and heir of Sir John Griffith of Abermaslais. The latter was the son and heir of Sir Rhys-ap-Thomas ; he was made a knight of the Bath at the marriage of Arthur, Prince of Wales, in r5or. William Rice of Bohmer in Buckinghamshire was granted a coat of arms in the second year of Philip and Mary, May, 1555. William Rice was the grandson of Sir Griffith Rice. This William was the 22nd. generation from Gorlois, Duke of Cornwall, and the 21st. in the male line from Vryon Reged, Lord of Kidwelly; the 9th. in descent from Sir Griffith is the present Lord Dynevor. The branch of the family bearing the Dynevor name and succeeding to the peerage is in point of fact far behind the younger branch entitled to the arms granted by Philip and Mary in 1555 and used in Massachusetts by the descendants of Edmund Rice, for the reason that the elder branch ran out of male heirs in the year, 1756, and took a patent from the Crown to keep up the title by allowing the earldom to revert to the heirs male of Lady Cecil de Cardonnel Rice. Deacon Edmund Rice was "modestly descended from Sir Griffith, Knight of the Bath, 1501, being a grandson of William Rice of Bohmer and therefore great-great-grandson of Sir Griffith." He was 23rd. in the male Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King line from Vryon Reged and 24th. from Gorlois. It was a long and difficult search for the origin of the family and took much research in the British Museum and years of study. Deacon Edmund Rice was born at Buckhamp­ stead in Buckinghamshire, England, in the year, 1594, probably in the little town of Sudbury which is only eight miles from London, for he gave the name of Sudbury to his home in Massachusetts in 1638. When the future deacon was born, the wreckage of the Spanish Armada still strewed the shores of England and Elizabeth had yet a decade to reign. Shakespeare was thirty years old and Sir Walter Raleigh was in possession of his head. Sir Francis Drake was alive and Peter Paul Rubens was just beginning to dabble in paint, Francis Bacon and John Smith of Pocahontas fame were young men. Oliver Cromwell, William Penn, John Bunyan and John Milton were yet unborn. Edmund Rice lived in the time of Rembrant and as an ancestor was as great a success as Johnathon Edwards, who came a hundred years later. There exists no portrait of the Deacon. In 1627 he and his wife, Tamazine, were living in the village of Buckhampstead, twenty-eight miles north of London in Hertfordshire. Their first three children were born in Sudbury, Bucks, and the Parish Register of Buckhampstead contains the record of five others baptized there. * * REFERENCE By the Name of Rice, An Historical Sketch of Deacon Edmund Rice, the Pilgrim, Charles Ellmer Rice, Williams Printing Co., Alliance, Ohio, 1911. (The data upon the English antecedents of the Rice family, which follow, are supplied by Miss Martha K. Collins, genealogist, of Hartford, Conn. They also ap­ pear somewhat inconclusive to the editor and will be followed by the double asterisk, * *, at their conclusion.) "Much research has been done by interested persons to discover some­ thing about Edmund Rice previous to his appearance in Berkhamstead, Hertfordshire, about 1627 with a wife and three children, Henry, Edward and Thomas, but without anything authentic being found. It has been stated that his wife was a Thomasin Hosmer but, although her name was un­ doubtedly Thomasin, no one appears able to tell how her last name was established. A long pedigree has also been furnished him but proven er­ roneous by Donald L. Jacobus of New Haven, Conn., whose argument any genealogist familiar with the period must indorse. "The attention of the present compiler was called to an item in the Sowerby Papers by Marion C. Reed of Boston, who was examining them for her. Acting on the suggestion, the register of Stanstead, Suffolk, was searched and the result shows the appearance of the following Rices in the parish: Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King Baptisms 16o8 Edward Ryce, the son of Henry Rice May 1609 Henry Ryce, the son of Henry Ryce February (16og-16ro) 1612 Elizabeth Ryce, the daughter of Henry Ryce November 1615 Mary Ryce, the daughter of Henry Ryce June 1617 Ann Ryce, the daughter of Henry Ryce March (1617-1618) 1619 Marie Ryce, the daughter of Edmund Ryce 23 August 1620 Henry Ryce, the son of Edmund Ryce 13 February (1620-1621) 1622 Edmund Ryce, the son of Edmund Ryce 26 October 1625 Thomas Ryce, the son of Edmund Ryce 26 January (1625-1626)

Marriages 16o5 Henry Ryce to Elizabeth Frost November 16o8 Henry Ryce, the son of Henry Ryce September 1621 Henry Ryce was buried November "The rector who sent these records stated that there were no other men­ tions of the name, Ryce, but that the Frosts were a Stanstead family. He sent only the name of the month but a second time sent the day also of the baptisms of Edmund Rice's children. He states that he is positive that the Edmund baptized in 1622 is Edmund and not Edward and, if he is correct, the entry of the name in the register must be an error. Edmund Rice had no son, Edmund, and a deposition in the Middlesex Court files gives Ed­ ward's age as 70 in 1692. "It seems probable that Henry Rice came to Stanstead when he married Elizabeth Frost. He may have been father of Edmund who, in 1605, was about eleven years old and the marriage to Elizabeth a second marriage. Or he may have been an elder brother. No estate was found for him at Ip­ swich. It seems possible that Edmund may have married the sister of Elizabeth Frost. "Edward Frost of Standstead, County Suffolk, clothier, will dated 26 July, 1616, proved 4 October, 1616: 'I make bequests to Thomasine, my wife, WiIIiam Frost, my son; my five daughters, Elizabeth, now the wife of Henry Rice; Anne, now the wife of Lawrence Collin; Alice, wife of Thomas Blower, Mary Frost and Thomasine Frost; and to Edward Rice, son of my daughter, Elizabeth Rice. Executrix, my wife, Thomasine. Witnesses: Ambrose Bigges, senior, and Ambrose Bigges, junior.' (P.C.C. 129 Cope) Stanstead Baptisms 158g William Frost, son of Edward Frost 3 August 1592 Ann Frost, daughter of Edward Frost 3 December 1594 Alice Frost, daughter of Edward Frost 1 December 1596 Mary Frost, daughter of Edward Frost 21 September buried 23 November 1600 Thomasine Frost, daughter of Edward Frost rr August Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King

16o5 Edward Frost, son of Edward Frost II November 1007 Mary Frost, daughter of Edward Frost 21 January 1009 John Frost, son of Edward Frost 20 January 1615 Thomas Frost, son of Edward Frost buried 23 June 1616 Thomas Frost, son of Edward Frost 21 April Burials 1616 Edward Frost was buried 3 August "It is extremely probable that Henry Rice was the name of the father of Edmund Rice; it is possible that it was he who died in Stanstead in 1621 and that he married Elizabeth Frost as his second wife, that both Henry and Edmund Rice came from some near-by parish to Stanstead (sic), when Henry married in July, 1616. Edmund Rice married his wife, Thomasine, before December, 16r8; the marriage, however, was not found by the rector. Edmund named his second (son?) Edward, possibly after his wife's father. His third son was Thomas, and Edward Frost had two sons, Thomas, both of whom died before he made his Will. Edmund Rice is given in many accounts a son, Edmund, but he had no such son. Certain rights of his land were granted to him and divided after his death and, as the date was much later than his decease, a son by name of Edmund was created to account for what was at the time a very ordinary occurrence. "While there is no absolute proof that Edmund of Stanstead and Ed­ mund of Berkhamstead were the same, there can be no doubt that such is the case. The children born at Stanstead coincide with what is kpown of those children here, Edmund with these children leaves Stanstead at the same time that Edmund appears in Berkhamstead. The full list of Edmund Rice's children appears to have been:

Mary, bp. 23 August, 1619, Stanstead, Suffolk; died before her father; .unmarried ii Henry, bp. 13 February, 1620-1621, Stanstead; m. Elizabeth Moore iii Edward, bp. 26 October, 1622, Stanstead; deposed aged 70 in 1692; m. Agnes Bent iv Thomas, bp. 26 January, 1625-1626, Stanstead; aged about 44 in 1670-1671 ; m. Mary King v Lydia, bp. 9 March, 1627-1628, Berkhamstead; m. Hugh Drury v1 Mathew, bp. 28 February, 1629-1630; m. Martha Lamson; Berkhamstead vn Daniel bp. 1 November, 1632, Berkhamstead; buried there IO November, 1632 viii Samuel, bp. 12 November, 1634, Berkhamstead; m. Elizabeth King ix Joseph, bp. 13 March, 1637-1638, Berkhamstead; m. Martha King x Benjamin, b. 31 May, 1640, Sudbury, Mass.; m. Mary Brown and Mary (Cham­ berlain) Graves. By his second wife, Mercy (Hurd) Brigham. xi Ruth, b. 29 September, 1659, Sudbury; m. Samuel Wells "Edmund Rice was a proprietor and Selectman of Sudbury, Mass., in 1639. 4 September, 1639, 'The new plantation by Concord to be called Sudbury.' ( Mass. Rec., 1 : 271) Stanstead, England, is a village five and a Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King half miles from Sudbury, England. It seems possible that Edmund Rice named the town and equally possible that he may have been born in Sudbury in England. There were three churches, All Saints, register beg. in 1564, St. Gregory's, register beg. in 1653, and St. Peter's, register beg. in 1593. All Saints was searched from 1564 to 1619 for marriages, no mention of Rice; baptisms from 1590 to 1600 gave only that of Thomas, 'the sonne of Hughe ap Ryce,' on 17 June, 1583, and there were no burials. St. Peter's was searched from 1593-1610 (there is a hiatus in the register from 16o1 to 1639), with no Rice found. If Edmund belonged in Sudbury, he must have been christened in St. Gregory's where the registers for the period are gone. The Wills at Ipswich were examined from 1580-166o. As Stanstead and Sudbury are both on the border of Essex, the Wills in the Commissary of London, Essex and Herts were read, the Chancery proceedings have been also examined and the Feet of Fines for Suffolk, 1616-1625 ( these might have been done earlier). The Suffolk Lay Subsidies show the important family of Rice of Preston, near Sudbury, who were allied to the Appletons; and a family at Bures St. Mary. This parish is so exactly on the county line that it is sometimes called in Essex and sometimes in Suffolk. The railway station is in Essex but the main part of the town is in Suffolk. There were two emigrants from Bures who settled in Sudbury. The reg­ isters of Bures do not, however, give the baptism of Edmund Rice there in 1597 and 16o4-1605. In 1610-16u Thomas Rice appears in the Bures sub­ sidy. The Essex Lay Subsidies show Rices in various near-by parishes but apparently it will be as difficult to find anything more (of?) Edmund Rice as it was before the baptism of his first children in Stanstead was dis­ covered." -English Notes on Edmund Rice, Mary Lovering Holman, American Genealogist and New Haven Genealogical Magazine, Vol. IO, pp. 133-137. "The writer published an article in the American Genealogist, Vol. 10, pp. 133-137, in which records pertaining to the family of Edmund Rice of Sudbury, Mass., from English sources first appeared in print. It was then suggested as likely that his wife, Thomasine, was Thomasine Frost, daugh­ ter of Edward Frost, clothier, of Stanstead, Suffolk, who was baptized in that parish on 11 August, 1600. Confirmation of this has been found in the Marriage Register of St. Mary's, Bury, Suffolk: '1618 'October 'Edmunde Rise & Thomasin Frost-15' Thus we learn that Edmund Rice and Thomasine Frost were married 15 October, 1618. Their first child, as already known, was baptized at Stan­ stead, 24 August, 1619. Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King 29 "Bearing on the question of the social status of Edmund Rice and cer­ tain exalted but unsubstantial claims which have been made ( see American Genealogist, Vol. 1, pp. 14-21), the following item from Middlesex County Probate Records indicates that, while his contemporaries respected his judgment, they were ignorant of any pretension to rank on his part: '1678 ' ... about the year 56: theire was severall things wherin the in­ habitants of Lancaster Could not agree among themselves .... and did request the worshipful Mayor Willard, Capt. Johnson of Oborne and old goodman Rice of Sudberie and everie man bound . . . to stand theire award in all Cases brought before them .... this is a true Copie by me, Ralph houghton, Recorder for Lancaster.' "-The Wife of Edmund Rice, Mary Lovering Holman, American Genealo­ gist, Vol. 15, p. 227. "The statement in Ward's Genealogy of the Rice Family, p. 6, that Edward Rice's second wife, Anna, was the mother of all his children except the eldest, is contradicted by an unrecorded deed in my possession from Edward to his son, Jacob, signed by him and his wife, Agnes, with their marks, before Peter Rice, Benjamin Rice and John Banister, and dated 27 November, 1701. Edward Rice acknowledged the deed 22 March,_ 1703, before James Muvel, Justice. As Edward's children were born before 1672, his first wife, Agnes, is proved to have been their mother. According to Barry's History of Framingham, she was Agnes Bent."-Miss Elizabeth A. Rice, West Brookfield, Mass., New England Historical and Genealogi­ cal Magazine, Vol. 64, p. 79-

Edmund Rice with his wife and seven children ( one had died) landed in Massachusetts in 1638. They came in the early post-Mayflower period and the Deacon was always known as "Edmund Rice, the Pilgrim." Why did they leave Hertfordshire and come to New England ? We do not know ; probably because many of the younger sons who did not inherit titles and estates, hastened to put the seas between themselves and Old England. If they came purely from religious motives, they probably suffered many dis­ illusions, yet we are astonished at the way these people clung to their be­ liefs and we do not realize the pleasure they derived from it. The village of Tremont, now called Boston, was eight years old when Edmund Rice with his wife and children reached Plymouth. In 1633 (sic) the Rev. John Cotton came to Tremont and renamed the town in honor of his own birth­ place, Boston in Lincolnshire, England. Edmund first lived on the east side of Sudbury in the part now called Wayland. He was Selectman in 1644 and Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King for years thereafter, and was made a Deacon in the church in 1648. In 1656 he was one of the petitioners who sought a new plantation from the General Court. This being granted, he moved to the new town of Marlboro in 1660. Here he had 50 acres of land granted to him and here he lived and died on 3 May, 1663. His wife, Thomasine, died in Sudbury on 13 June, 1654; and on 12 March, 1655, he married Mercy (Hurd) Brigham, widow of Thomas Brigham of Cambridge. Edmund Rice may have come over with the Brighams in the "Susan and Ellen" in April, 1635, althought no record of the embarkation has been found. ( See also date of arrival, 1638, above -editor.) He took the Freeman's Oath on 13 May, 1640, was one of the first proprietors of Sudbury and was rated sixth in the number of acres granted to him. In 1652 he obtained grants within the bounds of Framing­ ham. He leased the Grove Farm and the Dunster Farm in 1653. He was frequently appointed by the General Court to locate grants and he appears conspicuous in the transactions of his times.

Henry Rice, son ()f Edmund and Thomasine Rice, was born in Berk­ hamstead, England, in June, 1617, and came with his parents to Massachu­ setts in 1638; he married Elizabeth Moore of Sudbury, 12 February, 1643. He resided in Sudbury and Framingham, Mass., where he died on ro Feb­ ruary, I7IO or 17u. His wife died on 3 August, 1705. He was the oldest son of Edmund and took the Oath of Fidelity at Sudbury on 7 July, 1645. In 1659 he received from his father a deed of land in the wilderness of "New Trouble" and at about the same time from the same source land south of Coehituate Brook, confirmed to him by an Indian grant on ro March, 1672 or 1673. He is noticed in the Boston News Letter of 25 August, 1712, in connection with his brother, Benjamin, as both being men of virtuous lives. Henry Rice called himself 50 years old as of 25 January, 1667, as appears by a deposition in the files of the Court House. He was admitted as a Free­ man in 1658.

His daughter, Elizabeth Rice, was born on 4 August, 1648; married John Brewer.

REFERENCE A Genealogical History of the Rice Family, Descendants of Deacon Edmund Rice, Andrew Henshaw Ward, A.M., Boston, 1858; pp. S, II, 14.

MOORE ( allied with Rice) John Moore of Sudbury, 1643, came to America in the "Planter" in 1635, aged 24 years, with his wife, Elizabeth. He bought a house and land Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King from Edmund Rice in 1642 in that part of Sudbury which afterward be­ came Wayland. He took the Oath of Fidelity on 9 July, 1645. He married Elizabeth Whale, daughter of Philemon Whale, who outlived him. He was a prominent citizen and a prosperous farmer. On 25 August, 1668, he made a Will in which.he refers to his age. He died on 6 January, 1673 or 1674; his Will was proved on 7 April, 1674; in it he mentions his daughter, Eliza­ beth, calling her "my eldest daughter."

Elizabeth Moore, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Whale) Moore, was married to Henry Rice in February, 1643; she died at Framingham, 3 Au­ gust, 1705.

REFERENCES

The New England Historical and Genealogical Register ; Vol. 57, p. 300 ; Vol. 58, pp. 176, 177. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, James A. Savage; The Moore Family.

WHALE ( allied with Moore) Philemon Whale of Chickney, County of Essex, England, made a Will which is in the Abstracts of Wills in the Prerogation Court of Canterbury at Somerset House, London, Register of 1620.

Philemon Whale (Jr.), son of Philemon Whale (Sr.), came from Col­ chester, County of Essex, England, to America and was one of the early settlers of Sudbury, Mass., coming at the same time as his son-in-law, John Moore. He bought land there in 1643. His wife, Elizabeth, died 20 June, 1647, and he married, second, Sarah, widow of Thomas Cakebread, on 7 November, 1649. She died in December, 1656, and he married, third, Elizabeth, widow of Hugh Griffin, on 9 November, 1657. She died on 8 November, 1688. Philemon Whale was a weaver. He died in 1676. Whale's Bridge is still known in Sudbury.

Elizabeth Whale, daughter of Philemon and Elizabeth ( the first wife) Whale, married John Moore, probably before they came to America. She died on 19 December, 1690, leaving for those days the large estate of £8o4.

REFERENCE A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, James A. Savage; Vol. IV, p. 493. 32 Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King

RUGG ( allied with Bridges)

The family of Rugg took its name from a lordship or hamlet in the township of Pattingham in Staffordshire, England, and were of good de­ gree. The younger branch settled in Norfolk, England, during the reign of Edward III. Concerning the ancestry of John Rugg of Lancaster, Mass., the most persistent efforts have failed to discover his parentage or place of birth; from the fact that he married two daughters of John Prescott, of England, it is presumed that he also came from England. He married, first, on 4 No­ vember, 1654, Martha Prescott, daughter of John and Mary (Platts) Prescott, who was baptized in Sowerby, Halifax Parish, England, 11 March, 1632. She died at Lancaster, Mass., 24 November, 1655; and he married her sister, Hannah Prescott, 4 May, 166o. The latter was born after her parents had left England, probably in the Barbadoes where the Pres­ cotts stayed for a time before coming to America. Hannah Rugg was killed at the time of the Indian Massacre, 11 September, 1696. No date of the death of John Rugg has been found but he made his Will on 9 December, 1696 and the inventory of his estate was taken on 19 January, 1697, which fixes the date of his death between these two points.

Johnathon Rugg, son of John and Hannah (Prescott) Rugg, was born 12 October, 166!. He married, first, 18 November, 1702, Sarah Newton. She was a daughter of John and Elizabeth (Larkin) Newton and was born in November, 1679. She died at Framingham, Mass., 7 May, 1710, and Johnathon then married, second, Hannah Singletery. Johnathon removed from Marlboro to Framingham near the Southboro line before the death of his first wife. He bought 50 acres of land from Joseph Buckminster and built a home and a blacksmith shop on the west side of the road. In 1708 he bought the Hearthstone meadow. He was Constable in 1772. No date of his death has been found.

Sarah Rugg, daughter of Johnathon and Elizabeth (Newton) Rugg, was born 5 October, 1705, at Framingham, Mass., and married II Novem­ ber, 1728, Hackliah Bridges.

REFERENCE The Descendants of John Rugg, Ellen R. Rugg of Leominster, Mass., published by Frederick H. Hitchcock, N. Y.; pp. 9, rs, 403, 404, 418, 426. Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King 33

NEWTON ( allied with Rugg) Richard Newton came from England to Sudbury, Mass., in 1640 and was made a Freeman in 1645. His land in the division of the township fell into what was Southboro. He was one of the petitioners of Marlborough. He probably had two wives, Ann and Hannah, but the record of his family is very imperfect. He was born in 1601 and died 24 August, 1701, having completed a century of life. His second wife, Hannah, died 5 December, 1697.

John Newton, son of Richard, married, 1666, Elizabeth, daughter of Edward and Joanna Larkin of Charlestown, Mass. Elizabeth was born 5 July, 1641, and died 15 October, 1719. John Newton died 16 October, 1723, aged 82. We have no record of his life other than that he was a proprietor of Marlboro in 1660.

Sarah Newton, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Larkin) Newton, was born 16 November, 1679, and married 18 November, 1702, Johnathan Rugg. She died 7 May, 1710.

REFERENCES History of the Town of Marlborough, Middlesex County, Mass., Charles Hudson, Boston, 1862; p. 421. The Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown in the County of Middlesex and Com­ monwealth of Massachusetts, 1629-1818, Thomas Bellows Wyman; p. 7o6.

LARKIN ( allied with Newton) Edward Larkin emigrated from England and settled in Charlestown, Mass., where he was admitted as an inhabitant 3 May, 1638. He was a wheel-maker by trade. He joined the church, 23 July, 1639; his wife, Joanna, had previously joined, 11 August, 1638. He sold a house to John Gave in 1647 and was granted by the town 2 acres at Sandy Bank in 1647 or 1648; his Will was dated 15 July, 1651, and proved 6 February, 1652. His estate consisted of 5 lots, house and garden and 1 cow, 1 acre Highfield Marsh, 5 acres of woods at Mystic Field, IO acres at Waterfield. His children were : John, Elizabeth, Hannah, Thomas, Joanna and Sarah.

Elizabeth Larkin, daughter of Edward and Joanna Larkin, was born 5 July, 1641. She married, 6 January, 1666, John Newton of Marlboro, 34 Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King Mass., and went there to live. She died the same day as her husband, 15 October, 1719, from what cause is unknown.

REFERENCE The Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown in the County of Middlesex and Com­ monwealth of Massachusetts, 1629-1818, Thomas Bellows Wyman, Boston, 1879; p. 599.

PRESCOTT ( allied with Rugg) The name of Prescott is of Saxon origin and is composed of the two Saxon words, priest and cottage. The old English way of spelling the name was Prestecote. Orders of Knighthood were conferred upon some branches of the family and they were among the nobility of England. The Prescott arms: Sable, a chevron between three owls, argent ( two in chief, one in base) ; crest, a cubit arm, couped, erect, vested, gules; cuff, ermine, holding in the hand a pitch pot or hand beacon, sable, fired proper; motto, Virtus atque Integritas. A metallic coat of mail or armor, such as was worn by ancient knights, was brought to this country by the emigrant, John Prescott. There is also preserved by the descendants in this country a family coat of arms which was conferred upon one of the remote ancestors for his bravery, courage and successful enterprise as a military officer. We are not able to trace the direct ancestry of the Prescotts who came to America, farther back than the time of Elizabeth I, yet it is well known as an ancient family in the town of Prescott, England, from whom descended James Prescott of Standish, one of the gentlemen of Lancashire, England, who was required by an order of Queen Elizabeth I, dated August, 1564, to keep in readiness horsemen and armor. James Prescott married Elizabeth, daughter of Roger Standish, who was 12th. in descent from Thurston de Standish, 1222.

James Prescott (Jr.), son of James and Elizabeth (Standish) Prescott, married Alice Molineaux. For his bravery and military prowess and achievements he was created Lord of the Manor of Dryby in Lincolnshire and had new arms granted to him, being afterwards known as Sir James Prescott. He died 15 March, 1583.

Roger Prescott, second son of James and Alice (Molineaux) Prescott (Jr.), through whom the line descends, married first Elizabeth in 1653 and, second, Ellen ( ?) Shaw of Standish, 20 August, 1568. He resided at Shev­ ington in the Parish of Standish, England. His Will is dated 20 September, 1594. He is buried in the church at Standish. Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King 35 Ralph Prescott, son of Roger and Ellen (Shaw) Prescott, married Ellen ---, who was co-executor of her husband's Will, which was proved 24 January, 1609. Ralph Prescott was born and lived at Sheving­ ton, England.

John Prescott, son of Ralph and Ellen Prescott, was baptized at Stand­ ish in 16o4 or 1605. He married, 21 January, 1629, Mary Platts, at Wygan in Lancashire. Her family appears to have been subsequently of the Parish of Halifax in Yorkshire. John Prescott sold his land at Shevington after his marriage, to Richard Prescott of W ygan and removed to the Parish of Halifax, residing for some time at Sowerby, where several of his children were born. From conscientious motives and to avoid persecution he left his native land, his cherished home in Yorkshire, to seek an asylum in the wilderness of America. He first went to the Barbadoes in 1638, where he became an owner of lands. In 1640 he came to New England, landing at Boston, and immediately settled at Watertown, Mass., where he had large grants of land assigned to him. In 1643 he associated himself with Thomas King and others for the purpose of purchasing from· Sholan, the Indian Sachem, a tract of land for a township, which tract was to be ten miles in length and eight miles in width. This afterward became the town of Lancaster, Mass. The Prescott Memorial and the History of Lancaster contain very interesting reading relating to the purchase. It has been stated and believed that John Prescott served the Commonwealth under Cromwell, (although how this could be, if he came to America in 1638, is not ex­ plained-C.D.K.)

Hannah Prescott, daughter of John and Mary (Platts) Prescott, was baptized in 1639. It is not positively known whether this daughter was born in England or the Barbadoes, West Indies, but it was probably at the latter place. She married, 4 May, r66o, John Rugg as his second wife. She was slain by the Indians, 11 September, 1697. According to the White Family Magazine John Prescott had twenty lines of royal descent, beginning with ..r A.D. with Henderic, King of the Saxons, also from King Alfred the Great and Otto, the first Emperor of Germany. The White Quarterly also has the following: Mary, wife of John Prescott, baptized 15 March, r6o6 or 16o7, was Mary Gawkroger or Platts. She was the daughter of James and Martha (Ainsworth) Gawkroger or Platts, who were married S September, 16or. James Platts' Will was proved in 1625. He was a clothier of Sowerby, England, the son of James and Janet (Fairbanks) Gawkroger or Platts, who were married 2 December, 1571. The only explanation of the name, Gawkroger, is that at some early Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King time it had been given to some awkward member of the Platts family and had been used so generally for several generations that it had become as much known as the surname of the Platts. In the records of Yorkshire the one name is used as much as the other. It is not strange, however, that Mary Platts should have discarded the name entirely after coming to America.

The Royal Descent of John Prescott, Founder of Lancaster, Mass. Generation r King Henry I, King of France, married Agnes of Russia. 2 Hugh the Great, married Adelaide of Vermandois. 3 Isabel of V ermandois, married Robert de Belloment, Earl of Leicester, 1096. 4 Robert Second, Earl, married Amicia, daughter of the Earl of Norfolk, III9. 5 Robert Third, Earl, married Petronilla de Grentemesnil. 6 Margeret de Belloment, married Saur de Quincy, Earl of Winchester. 7 Roger de Quincy, Earl, married Helen, daughter of Hugh of Galloway, died 1264. 8 Ela de Quincy, married Alan Zouche of Ashly, died 1269. 9 Roger Zouche, of Ashly, married ---, died 1285. IO Alan Zouche of Ashly, married---, born 1267. II Maude Zouche, married Sir Robert Holland of Holland, Lancashire. 12 Jennet Holland, married Sir John Radcliffe of Ordshall. 13 Sir Richard Radcliffe, married Matilda, daughter of John Leigh. 14 Sir John Radcliffe, married Mary, daughter of Sir Henry Trafford. 15 Sir John Radcliffe, married Clementina, daughter of Hugh Standish of Duxbury. r6 Alexander Radcliffe, married Agnes, daughter of Sir William Harrington. 17 Ann Radcliffe, married Sir James Harrington of Wolfage, Northampton. r8 Alice Harrington, married Ralph Standish. 19 Roger Standish, married ---. 20 Elizabeth Standish, married James Prescott of Standish and Coppul. 21 Roger Prescott of Shevington, married Ellen Shaw, 23 August, 1568. 22 Ral!}h Prescott of Shevington, born 1571, married Ellen---, died 1608. 23 John Prescott, born 1604, married Mary Platts.

The Standish Line 1 Thuerston de Standish, married Margeret, daughter of Robert de Hutton. 2 Thurston de Standish, living 1222, married Margeret de Hutton. 3 Ralph de Standish, married ---. 4 Jordan de Standish, living 1272, married Alianora ---. 5 William de Standish, married Margeret, daughter of John Euxton. 6 John de Standish, married ---. 7 Henry de Standish, married Joan, daughter of John Woosely. 8 Ralph Standish, married Cecelia, daughter of Robert Bradshaw. 9 Lawrence Standish, married Lora, daughter of Sir Roger Pilkington. IO Sir Alexander Standish, married Constance, daughter of John Gerard. I 1 Ralph Standish, married Margeret, daughter of Richard Radcliffe ( of royal de­ scent) 12 Sir Alexander Standish, married Sebella, daughter of Sir Henry Bold ( Sir Alex­ ander was knighted for service at the Battle of Hutton Field) 13 Ralph Standish, born 1458, married Alice, daughter of Sir James Harrington, died 1538. Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King 37 14 Roger Standish, married --. 15 Elizabeth Standish, married James Prescott of Standish and Coppul.

REFERENCES The Prescott Memorial, a Geuealogical Memoir of the Prescott Families in America, William Prescott, M.D., Boston, 1870; pp. 31-38, 4r. White Family Quarterly, Vol. II, No. 1, pp. 17 ff ; Vol. II, No. 3, p. 65 ; Vol. III, No. 1, pp. 80, 81; Vol. III, No. 2, p. 56.

From the History of Lancaster: Early in the 17th. Century, some eight years before the settlement of Plymouth, many of the tribes of Massachusetts Indians had been swept over by a dreadful pestilence, reducing their numbers from many thousands to a few hundreds. In this same affliction one thousand of the Nashaways suf­ fered. They had also been reduced by wars and incursions of the Mohawks, the scourge and terror of all New England Indians. These circumstances induced the peaceful Sholan, the Sachem of the N ashaways, to seek the friendship and protection of the English. Sholan ocassionally visited Water­ town for the purpose of trading with Mr. Thomas King who resided there. He recommended Nashawogg as a place well suited for a plantation. He told Mr. King of the choice intervales, the woods and waters abounding in supplies-that the Great Spirit had been very bountiful to the place and that his people would rejoice in the presence there of that great people who had come from a distant world. Finally King decided to visit the place, perilous though the undertaking might seem. He accordingly took the journey, became enamoured with the place and returned to Watertown, making such a favorable report that in 1643 he entered into an agreement with John Prescott of Watertown, Harmon Garrett of Charlestown, Thomas Skidmore of Cambridge, Stephen Day of Cambridge ( the earliest printer in the Colonies) and others for the purchase of a tract ten miles by eight. The deed of Sholan was sanctioned by the General Court but there were many circumstances which retarded the growth of the plantation, all of the associates except Mr. Prescott re­ fusing or neglecting to fulfill their contracts. Mr. Willard says that "only one of the associates, John Prescott, tHe stalwart blacksmith, was faithful among the faithless." He turned not back but vigorously pursued the in­ terests of the plantation until his exertions were crowned with success. Mr. Prescott, having chosen this for his future home, he with others petitioned for a bridge over the Sudbury River. But the subject being de­ layed by the General Court, Mr. Prescott, nothing daunted, attempted to swim his horse across the river in the autumn of 1646, losing his horse but fortunately escaping with his life. About one week later his wife and chil­ dren, attempting to cross the river in the same manner, were almost Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King drowned. Upon this narrow escape Mr. Willard uttered the significant re­ flection: "One plunge more by that last horse, or a little deeper water, and American Literature would not now be graced by the brilliant classic his­ tory of Ferdinand and Isabella, the Conquest of Mexico or the Conquest of Peru." To which may be added, The Life of Charles the Fifth. The settlement of N ashaway was treated by the General Court with indifference and culpable neglect. They ( the settlers) had repeatedly been denied those little helps and aids which are essential to all new settlements. The inhabitants petitioned for an act of incorporation and asked that it ( the new town) be known by the name of Prescott. The General Court objected and quibbled, saying "it smacked too much of man-worship and man-serv­ ice." The question was finally settled by a compromise and on May 28th., 1653, it was incorporated as Lancaster. This was in honor of Mr. Prescott's native county in England. Mr. Prescott has the reputation of being the first settler in Lancaster, although Mr. \Villard remarks that Richard Linton, Lawrence Waters, his son-in-law, and John Ball were the first inhabitants, who tilled the soil and made ready to receive Mr. Prescott on his arrival. At the time of the incorporation there were only nine families in the town. In one year, by the spring of 1654, there were twenty. In answer to a · petition of the inhabitants, John Prescott, Thomas Sawyer, Edward Breck, Nathaniel Hadlock, William Kerley and Ralph Houghton were appointed prudential managers of the town by the General Court. Mr. Prescott was a genuine and influential member of the original Puri­ tan stock of New England. Like most of the early emigrants, he left his native land to escape the relentless persecution with which the Puritans were harassed. He was a man of marked character, devoting his time to mechanical and agricultural pursuits, which were well calculated to fit him for the trials and hardships incident to, and inseparable from, (sic), the early settlers and pioneers of the American wilderness. He soon became dis­ tinguished among his compeers and had not long to wait for an opportunity to develop his genius and bravery. At a very early day he became a leading spirit and a prominent and in­ fluential map, as many of his descendants in each and every generation, and to him more than to any other is to be attributed the successful issue of that laborious and hazardous enterprise of settling on the Nashaway and of subduing the wilderness and converting the soil into fruitful fields and pro­ ductive meadows. Mr. Prescott was a man of strict integrity and of great energy and perseverance. Having also a commanding influence, he took an active part in all measures calculated to improve and enhance the interests of the town. He took the Oath of Fidelity in 1652 and was admitted a Freeman in 1669. Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King 39 By occupation he was not only an agriculturist but was a blacksmith and mill wright. In November, 1653, he received a grant of land from the in­ habitants on condition that he would build a "corn mill." He built the mill in season to commence grinding on 23 May, 1654. Its location was on the spot where the Lancaster Mfg. Co. now have extensive works. The stone of the mill was brought from England and now is in fragments in the vicin­ ity of the mill. Lancaster, like other frontier towns, suffered from Indians whenever there was war between England and France. In February, 1676, a body of 1500 Indians attacked the town, completely investing it. There were at this time more than fifty families in the town; of this band fifty persons were killed or taken prisoners. One-half at least were killed, among them Richard Wheeler and Jonas Fairbanks, son-in-law of John Prescott, and Joshua Fairbanks and Ephraim Sawyer, his grandsons. The three former were killed at Wheeler's garrison, the latter at Prescott's. The inhabitants, after destroying all but two of the houses, left the place under the protection of Captain Wadsworth's Company. The alarm of the people was so great that the return of peace on the death of King Philip, in August, 1676, did not restore their courage and confidence. For more than three years Lancaster remained uninhabited. In 1679 some of the first planters, including the Prescotts, Houghtons, Sawyers and Wilders returned, and the Carters came soon after. Mr. Prescott lived to see the town rebuilt and in a fair way to a pros­ perous condition. He died in 1683. But subsequently to this the town suf­ fered much from hostile Indians.

REFERENCES A Brief History of the Negotiations and Purchase from Sholan, Chief of the Nasha­ way Tribe of Indians, of the Territory of which the Town of Lancaster was after­ ward Composed; History of Lancaster. -- from the references op. cit. under Prescott.

TOWNE ( allied wi,th Bridges) The earliest existence of the name known to the writer is in 1274, when William de la Towne of Alvely, a village in Shropshire, was engaged in a law suit against an officer of the parish ; and the year following he was on a jury at AstJ.ey. William Towne, born in England in r6oo, is believed to be the son of Richard Towne and his wife, Ann of Branby, and came from either Yar­ mouth or Bristol, England, with his wife, Joanna (Blessing) Towne, and five or six children and took up his residence at Salem, Mass. William 40 Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King

Towne and Joanna Blessing were married, 25 November, 1620, in Saint Nicholas Church, founded in 1123, at Yarmouth, England. He died at Tops­ field, Mass., about 1672; his widow died in 1682. "Taken away from the evil to come" might well have been the epitaph on their tombstone, in view of the terrible fate of their daughters some time later. These daughters were Rebecca, Mary and Sarah.

Sarah Towne, daughter of William and Joanna (Blessing) Towne, was baptized 3 September, 1640; married Edmund Bridges II January, 1660. After his death she married Peter Colyer. The three daughters of William Towne-Rebecca (Towne) Nourse, Mary (Towne) Estey, and Sarah (Towne) Bridges Colyer-were among the first sufferers of the terrible delusion known as the "Salem witchcraft." Mrs. Nourse was executed 19 July, 1692, and her sister, Mrs. Estey, 22 September, 1692. The History of Framingham says that Sarah, the wife of Peter Cloyse, sic, (Colyer), was tried and found guilty of witchcraft and condemned to death. In Au­ gust she was committed to the jail at Ipswich to await execution. Her husband was allowed to visit her in prison and spent much of his time there. In some way they found means for her escape and she was concealed by friends until they removed to Framingham the next spring. As the witch­ craft frenzy abated in the fall of 1692, the authorities were not anxious to recapture the fugitives. She was the mother of Benjamin and Caleb Bridges, who were of the Salem Colony.

REFERENCE The Descendants of William Towne, Edwin Eugene Towne, Newtonville, Mass., I 901 ; pp. 6, 21.

UNDERWOOD ( allied to Bridges) The Underwoods are of a distinctly English origin and descent. It has been impossible, however, as concerns the older lines of Underwoods in America, to identify their origin or connection with any of the known Eng­ lish lines of the name, but no very exhaustive search of this line has been made. The name, Underwood, appears on the face of it to have arisen from some locality where the family lived. The earliest trace of the name is found in documents as far back as 1170, in the Pedigree of Underwood of Bixley, Norfolk, England. The principal families in England by the name of Underwood, of whom more or less extensive pedigrees have been pre­ served, are the Underwoods of Weston, Hertfordshire, of whom there are many branches, the Underwoods of Bixley, the Underwoods of Hereford and the Underwoods of Heningham. Besides these there is also an Irish Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King 41 branch, the extent of whose pedigree cannot be stated. The Duchess of Inverness, morganatic wife of the Duke of Essex, uncle of Queen Victoria, was descended through her mother from the Irish family and assumed the name and arms of the Underwoods. The arms in all the families are strik­ ingly alike and would seem to indicate a possible common origin. All are characterized by "a fess ermine between two annulets, a lion passant gardant." The crest is usually a hind's head.

Joseph Underwood, the founder of the Watertown (American) family, came from England in 1637. He settled first at Hingham, Mass., later he went to Watertown, where he was admitted a Freeman in 1645. He married Mary Wilder, a daughter of Widow Martha Wilder. A record states that Edward Wilder came from Lancashire, England, in 1638 with his mother, Martha, and his sisters, Elizabeth and Mary, and settled in Hingham, Mass. Martha is supposed to have been the widow of Thomas Wilder, but this is not certain. Joseph Underwood died 16 February, 1676 or 1677, aged 62 years; he was therefore born in 1614 or 16!5, and came to America when he was 23.

Joseph Underwood (Jr.), son of Joseph and Mary (Wilder) Under­ wood, was born at Watertown in 1650 and married, about 1672, Elizabeth ---. The Will of Joseph Underwood, of which we give an abstract, was dated 16 February, 1691, and proved 7 April, 1691. The Will is produced in the original, and rather remarkable, orthography: "I, Joseph Underwood, though weake in body yet sound of mind and memory, doo make this mi Last will, mi soule doo i comit unto the al­ mighty god, my creator, mi body to the earth to a comely burial in the assurance of a joiful resurrection through the free purchase of christ, mi redy monie and dispose of the estate god has sent me as follows, previus i make and appoint my dear and lovinge wife and Thomas Hammond execu­ tors of this my last will, i give mi wife the improvement of mi hole estate that i di seized of during the time of her widowhood and in case mi wife marri again i give unto her IO pounds out of the movable to be for her propper use in case the estate be leat out ; mi will is no tenant should cut ! any word of or mi descendant ti! mi son come of age i give to mi two sons, John and Joseph Underwood, mi housings, ¾ orchards and lands and meadows that i dide used of to be eqyalli devided between them twoue pass­ ing to my son, Joshua fifteen pounds my daughter Elizabeth, to my dafter hanna fifteen pounds, all of them paiments are to be simtri pai and as they come of age mi will is in case ani of mi two sons that i give my kand tooe di before thai come of age mi will is tha J ushua shud have half the above mensh and lands, should all the sons di then the property shood be devided 42 Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King equalli between mi four dafters, mi will is that my children moat be brout up in the fear and knowlig of god for thare eternal salvation and mi will is that even won of mi sons shoud have a trade and all cleats and simes truly chargie furst to be satisfied out of the estate. HIS Joseph Underwood MARK "Selid and subscribed in presence of us Feabburrari 16--1691 Elizabeth Lamb Joshua reffe Thomas Hammond"

Joshua Underwood, son of Joseph and Elizabeth, was born 31 Jan­ uary, 1683, at Watertown and married, 13 January, 1717, Mercy Fair­ banks, daughter of Eliezer Fairbanks of Sherborn. Joshua Underwood was one of the early settlers of Sherborn, living in that part of the town that was set off from Sherborn to form the town of Holliston, in 1724. The estate of Joshua Underwood appears from the inventory to have amounted to £I447, with debts of .fI43. After the death of Joshua, his wife, Mercy, married her cousin, Joshua Fairbanks.

Joseph Underwood, son of Joshua and Mercy (Fairbanks) Under­ wood, was born at Sherborn, Mass., 21 November, 1716. He married Jemima, daughter of Deacon Timothy Leland, of Holliston, Mass. He died 7 June, 1759.

Elizabeth Underwood, daughter of Joseph and Jemima (Leland) Un­ derwood, was born 20 October, 1746. She married, 29 November, 1764, Hackeliah Bridges; their fourth child was Betty or Betsey Bridges.

REFERENCE The Underwood Families of America, compiled by Marcus Underwood, edited by Howard J. Banker, Lancaster, Pa., 1913; pp. xiii, xiv, xv, 4, 5, 6, 16, 129, 130.

FAIRBANKS (allied with Underwood) The old English spelling of the name was Fayrebankes and is evidently derived from a locality, as are very many surnames.

Jonathan Fairbanks, the first American ancestor, was born before 16oo in England. He came from Sowerby in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England, to Boston in 1633, accompanied by his brother. They came with the Rev. John Cotton in the ship, Griffin, and in 1636, with others, signed Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King 43 the covenant when the town of Dedham was established and named. He built the noted "Old Fairbanks House" which is still standing as an ancient landmark, the oldest dwelling house in New England that for the same period of time has been continuously owned and occupied by the builder and his descendants. It is, moreover, a remarkable fact, perhaps unparalleled in the country, that during all the time, two and one-half centuries, the estate has never had a mortgage encumbered upon it. The house is now historically famous and an object of great interest to many visitors to the old town of Dedham. It has been claimed that the house was built in 1636 but the belief is that it was built in 1654. Tradition has it that the frame of the main part of the house, together with the bricks and tiles and windows, was imported from England and remained in Boston several months before it was carried to Dedham. In 1903 a search was made in England, resulting in the discovery of the original marriage record of Jonathan Fairbanks in the Parish Register of Halifax, West Riding, Yorkshire: "Married, Jona­ than Fairbanks and Grace Lee, May 20th., 1617, 'of Marly' ( a neighboring hamlet)." There, too, is found the baptism record of four children. Jona­ than was a son or nephew of John Fayrebanks of Tohaige, Parish of Thorn­ ton in Craven, West Riding, Yorkshire. He died in the Old Fairbanks· House, 5 December, 1668. His wife, Grace (Lee) Fairbanks, died 28 Oc­ tober, 1673, or 19 March, 1676.

George Fairbanks, second son of Jonathan and Grace (Lee) Fairbanks, was born in the Parish of Halifax, England, and baptized 28 November, 1619, and came with his father to America. He resided at Dedham until about 1657, when he removed to the southern part of Sherborn, afterward Medway. He was the first settler there and was an esteemed citizen and one of the Selectmen, a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company. The stone house occupied by him was originally a garrison house built by the residents of Bogestow Farm as a place of refuge and defense to which they could flee in times of danger from the attacks of hostile In­ dians. It was 65 feet to 70 feet long and two stories high, the walls built of flat stones laid in clay mortar. It had a double row of port holes on all sides and was lined with heavy oak plank. The stones have all been carried away and there is nothing left to mark the spot where the building stood. He married Mary Adams of Dedham, 26 August, 1646. He was drowned while trying to cross the river, IO January, 1682, and was a great loss to the settlement. His wife, Mary (Adams) Fairbanks, died II August, 17u, in Mendon, Mass.

Eliesur Fairbanks, son of George and Mary (Adams) Fairbanks, was born 8 April, 1655; lived in Sherborn, where he drew (sic) a house and lot 44 Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King in 1679 of 18 acres on the main street. He was a Selectman in 1703. He married Martha ---; one history says that she was Martha Bullard, daughter of Captain Samuel Bullard, but no mention is made of it in the Bullard Genealogy.

Mercey Fairbanks, daughter of Eliesur and Martha Fairbanks, was born 18 October, 1688; she married Lieutenant Joshua Underwood of Sherborn, 13 January, 1708. She died II September, 1742.

REFERENCES Genealogy of the Fairbanks Family in America, 1633-1897, Lorenzo Sayles Fairbanks, A.M., Boston, 1897; pp. 9, 31, 37, 38, 47, 48.

LELAND ( allied with Underwood) Baring-Gould in his book, English Family Names and their Meanings, states that "John Leland, the Antiquarian of the time of Henry VIII, de­ rived his name and was descended from the de-la-Lande family. He was one of the most accomplished and voluminous writers of the 16th. Century." The arms of the Lelands, used by the Laylands in England, are "gules, a salter, argent, charged with three pallets, azure; on chief or crest, with a crow vising transfixed by an arrow; Motto, Cui Debeo Fiden (To whom I owe, I am Faithful). Hopestill Leland was of the same family as John Leland or Laylande, the Royal Antiquarian.

Hopestill Leland was born in England in 1580, in Yorkshire it is be­ lieved, and married there. He was one of the most ancient (sic) men who ever settled in New England. Strong statements are found to the effect that Hopestill Leland was a Church of England Royalist who went to Wey­ mouth, Mass., about 1624 in company of the Englishmen brought over by Captain Robert Georges as an offset to the civic and religious influence of the Pilgrims of Plymouth. Of this company the most of them soon returned ( to England?) or went to Virginia. Little is known of those that remained until 1630, when they became a part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Dor­ chester became the home of many of them and at Dorchester Hopestill Le­ land was living in 1630. In the old burying-ground at Sherborn by the beautiful Charles River the first to be buried, in 1655, was the patriarch, Hopestill Leland.

Henry Leland, son of Hopestill Leland, was born in England about 1625 and there married Margeret Babcock. Henry did not come to America until 1654, the year before his father died. He lived at Sherborn, Mass. Tradi- Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King 45 tion has brought him a high character, kindness to the Indians and deep piety. His descendants became numerous and in time outnumbered those of any other settler in Sherborn. They inherited much land from his rights, which in later generations became known as "the great Leland farm." Henry Leland by Will gave to his wife one-half of this estate as long as she remained his widow, and all household furniture and, in case she mar­ ried again, one-third of the estate outright. Margeret (Babcock) Leland, his wife, was related to the Babcocks of Rhode Island, whose ancestors had been living in the family manor in England for nineteen generations. Henry Leland died in Sherborn 4 April, 1680.

Ebenezer Leland, son of Henry and Margeret (Babcock) Leland, was born 25 June, 1657; died in 1742. He was a farmer. He married twice, his second wife being Mary Hunt. Of the sons of Ebenezer Leland it is said that there was nothing known by which they were essentially distinguished from the other worthy citizens of their day. They appear to have been prudent and industrious farmers, manifesting a lively interest in the civil, moral and religious welfare of the early settlers of Sherborn.

Timothy Leland, son of Ebenezer and Mary (Hunt) Leland, was born in Sherborn, Mass., 22 February, 1684. He married, 27 June, 1710, Elizabeth Learned. He died in 1748.

Jemima Leland, daughter of Timothy and Elizabeth (Learned) Leland, was born 22 August, 1722. She married Joseph Underwood.

REFERENCE The Leland Magazine or a Genealogical Record of Henry Leland and the Descendants, Sherman Leland, Boston, 1850; pp. 9, 26.

LEARNED ( allied with Leland) There is a belief that the name is French in origin but a descendant who has made a study of the name, says that William Learned was a Ger­ man and a man of property. There is a tradition in the family that he was a Huguenot, that his home was on the Rhine in territory which recently belonged to France but now belongs to Germany, that he fled from persecu­ tion and went to Holland and thence to England. There is nothing to justify this but the absence of the name from any English records appears to indicate a foreign origin. William Learned and his wife were the first persons admitted to the First Church of Charlestown, Mass. The record is: "William Learned Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King and wife, Goodith, 1632, roth. month, day 6." The name, Goodith, is not a corrupt spelling of Judith but an old English name from the Saxon, Goditha. William Learned was a resident of Charlestown until 1642, when he was one of the seven men who formed the First Church of Woburn and gave up his lot for the use of the town. It was afterwards ordered that his son, Isaac, should have 72 acres for the 66 acres his father had given away. On 13 April, 1643, he was chosen Constable, and again in 1644-1645. He died r March, 1646. He left a widow called Jane but she was probably Goodith, there being no record that she had died or that he had married a second time. According to the records he left her an annuity.

Issac Learned, son of William and Goodith Learned, was born in Ber­ mondsey Parish, County of Surrey, England, 25 February, 1623. He came with his parents to America when about seven or eight years old. He mar­ ried at Woburn, Mass., 9 July, 1646, Mary, daughter of Isaac Stearns of Watertown. On 2 April, 1652, Issac Learned sold his land in Woburn and removed to Chelmsford, where he died 27 May, 1657.

Benoni Learned was probably so named because he was born on the day of his father's death or within a day or so of that event in November, 1657. ( So stated in the compilation, although obviously this does not match with the death-date just given, above-C.D.K.) He married at Sherborn, Mass., 18 June, 1680, Mary Fanning, who died 14 October, 1688. He mar­ ried, second, Sarah Wright of Sudbury, who was received in the church in 1690. "The excellent Deacon Benoni Learned," says Rev. Abner Morse, "served Sherborn as Treasurer, Selectman and Representative to the General Court, and for a long period in its early history his name was con­ spicuous and it is evident that he was a man of sound and consistent piety." He died ro April, 1738.

Elizabeth Learned, daughter of Benoni and Sarah (Wright) Learned, was born 28 April, 1694. She married, 27 January, 1710, Deacon Timothy Leland.

The Learned Genealogy contains the line of descent which shows that Emily Holbrook, sister of Adeline Holbrook, married George Learned and that both of the latter were descended from William Learned, Emily being 8th. in descent, her husband 7th. in descent. They were married 16 July, 1827. REFERENCES The Learned Family, being Descendants of William Learned who was of Charles­ town, Mass., 1632, William Law Learned, Albany, 1898; pp. 3, 4, ro, 13, 14, 18, 22, 28, 34, 35, 37. Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King 47 The Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown, in the County of Middlesex and Com­ monwealth of Massachusetts, 1629-1818, Thomas Bellows Wyman, Boston, 1879; p. 6II.

STEARNS ( allied with Learned)

Early on the morning of 8 April, 1630, Isaac Stearns and his family, Sir Richard Saltonstall and his family, Rev. George Phillips, Governor Winthrop and many others embarked at Yarmouth, England, in the good ship, Arabella, and arrived at Salem, Mass., 12 June, 1630. The passengers not being satisfied with Salem, as not possessing the desirable advantages of a permanent settlement, soon proceeded to Charlestown, Mass., and were also among the first settlers of Watertown, Mass., near Mt. Auburn. Isaac Stearns reached Salem, Mass., in 1630 and proceeded to Water­ town, Mass. His neighbors were John Warren and John Briscoe. He was admitted a Freeman on 18 May, 1631, which is the earliest date of any ad­ mission, and he was Selectman for several years. In 1647 he and Mr. Briscoe were appointed by the Selectmen to consider how a bridge over the river should be built and to agree with the workmen for doing it accord­ ing to their best discretion. This is the first mention of a bridge over the Charles River at Watertown. The English pedigree of Isaac Stearns has not been ascertained nor is it certainly known from what town he came but it has been found that his wife was from the Parish of N ayland in Suffolk and his first three children were born there. The Parish Register at Nay­ land gives the marriage data as follows: "1622, Isaac Stearns and Mary Barker; baptized 26 January, 1626, Mary, daughter of Isaac Stearns and Mary." It appears from the appraisal of his estate that he was in compara­ tive affluence for these early days, considering that he had previously given respectable portions to each of his son's children. His estate amounted to 467 acres with quantities of stock, farming utensils, provisions and house­ hold goods.

Mary Stearns, daughter of Isaac and Mary (Barker) Stearns, was baptized in the Parish of Nayland, England, 6 January, 1626. She married, 9 May, 1646, in Woburn, Mass., Isaac Learned, only child of William and Goodith Learned. After his death she married, second, John Burge of Weymouth, Mass.

REFERENCE Genealogy and Memoirs of Isaac Stearns and His Descendants, Mrs. A vis Van Wagenen, Syracuse, N. Y., 1901; pp. 17-19, 22. Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King

WRIGHT ( allied with Learned)

Captain Edward Wright of Sudbury, Mass., was brought from England by his widowed mother, Dorothy Wright, who afterward married, second, John Blanchard. He married in 18 June, 1659, Hannah Axtell, daughter of Thomas Axtell. Captain Edward Wright was engaged in King Philip's War. He died on 7 August, 1703. His Will was proved on 18 May, 1708. On 15 June, 1708, Sarah (Wright) Learned released her rights in her father's estate to her brother, Samuel Wright.

Sarah Wright, daughter of Edward and Hannah (Axtell) Wright, was born on 17 January, 1665, and married, as his second wife, Benoni Learned about 1690.

REFERENCES A History of Sudbury, Mass., 1638-1889, Alfred Sereno Hudson, 1889; p. 56. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, James A. Savage; Vol. IV, p. 656. PART FIVE

Ancestors of Andrew Deming

DEMING In spite of the fact that the Demings were among the earliest settlers in America, no record has been found of the arrival of any of them. During the early part of the 17th. Century the name is variously spelled as Dem­ ming, Demon, Dunman, and so on. By far the greater number were descend­ ants of John Deming of Wethersfield, Conn., others derived from Thomas Deman of Hartford, the Damon family of Scituate, Thomas Demond of Fairfield and John Demmon of Killingsworth. A careful examination of the published records of many English churches has been made and in no case has there been found the name of Deming; and the conclusion has been formed that it is a corruption of some other name. It is noticeable that the name which was most often changed to Deming, is Damon ; there are many in America who spell their name Deming, whose ancestors were of the Dammon family, and it is therefore a reasonable theory. that John Deming of Wethersfield, Conn., was a descendant of that family, the change in his name having occurred after his coming to America. The Damon Memorial relates the origin of that family and gives records of births, marriages and deaths in the English churches, where the name is spelled Damon, Dammon and Demon (John Deming signed his name as Demon on several occasions). According to authorities the name, Damon, is a corruption of d'Hammond and, if the above theory is correct, the Dem­ ings can trace their ancestry to the d'Hammond family, an ancient and illus­ trious family which has flourished in Surrey and Buckinghamshire m England and in Blois and Cherbourg in France. Of all the towns in Connecticut Wethersfield seems from the first to have been the most involved in difficulties and disputes, both civil and ecclesiastical. The settlement had been initiated by high-spirited and ex­ citable pepple, impatient of control, delighting in daring enterprise. This restlessness was attributed somewhat to the fact that they had left their pastor, Mr. Phillips, at Watertown, Mass., when they removed from Massachusetts to Connecticut. Among the principal gentlemen who re­ mained at Wethersfield, Coim., after the succeeding exodus to Stamford and Fairfield, Conn., were Wells, Talcot, Goodrich, Treat, Deming and Bacon. The early planters of Connecticut, far from being of humble an- 50 Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King cestry, could trace their descent backwards through the lines of knights and gentlemen of England by means of Heralds' visitations, parish records and county genealogy, to say nothing of family pedigrees that were often trans­ mitted from generation to generation to a remote day and some of them to that wavering horizon where history loses itself in fable. From actual ex­ amination more than four-fifths of the early landed proprietors of Wethers­ field and Windsor, Conn., had had arms granted to them in England. It seems strange that as early as 1635 complaints were made that all the towns in the Massachusetts Bay Colony were becoming crowded but such was the case. The first migration was to Wethersfield, Conn., where some from Watertown, Mass., who had before that obtained permission to go beyond the jurisdiction of the Massachusetts Government, "took the oppor­ tunity of seizing a brave piece of meadow." This brave piece of meadow was also courted by their neighbors of Cambridge, some of whom were about to move and had fixed their eyes upon this attractive spot, which accounts for much of the trouble at Wethersfield. In the course of three or four years the church there fell into such discord that the contemporary church at \iVatertown thought it necessary to confer with them; but in vain, the dissention was not quelled for years. In this migration to W ethers­ field were some who in later years became somewhat distinguished. The Rev. George Phillips, to whom reference has been made above as not com­ ing to Wethersfield, Conn., with those of his flock who had migrated, was born in Raymaon, Suffolk, England. He graduated A.B. from Gaius Col­ lege, Cambridge, in 16!3, A.M. in 1617. He came to America with Governor Winthrop, Sir Richard Saltonstall, Thomas Dudley and others, who per­ haps formed the most notable ship's company which left England. He ar­ rived at Boston, then Tremont, in 1630 and his church at Watertown, Mass., was organized 20 July, 1630. These people had come in the good ship, Arabella. We have seen that Watertown, Mass., soon became crowded and that many of its settlers dispersed to form other "plantations." It may have been that John Deming was of the company that came in the Arabella; we do not know but at all events he was of Mr. Phillips church in Water­ town, Mass., and from there he came to Wethersfield, Conn., between 1634 and 1636. The first name given to the settlement was Pyguay in 1634; the next year it was changed to Watertown and not long afterward the Court changed it to Wethersfield.

Mr. John Deming, the emigrant ancestor of most of the persons bear­ ing that name, was among the early settlers of Connecticut, at Weathers­ field, where he recorded his homestead in 164r, as a house, a barn and five acres of land bounded by "High Street west, the Great Meadow east, Thomas Standish' house south and Richard Crabbe's homestead north." Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King The date of his marriage has not been positively determined. He was born in 1615 and died in 1705. His wife was Honor, daughter of Richard Treat. In 1672 Mr. Deming was a Deputy to the General Court of Connecticut, as also in 1657. He is one of those named in the famous Charter of Connecti­ cut, granted 20 April, 1642, in which King Charles gave to them and to those who should become associated with them the lands of Connectiq1t "in free and common socage" and established a colonial government with unusual privileges. The actual day of his death is unknown. He signed a codicil to his Will on 3 February, 1692, and this is the last (known) act of his life. Trumbull speaks of John Deming as one of the Fathers of Con­ necticut. His name is frequently seen in the records of the Colony with the prefix, Mr., a courtesy paid only to men of prominence. The same authority states that he was a Representative at 57 sessions of the General Court. He surely bore his full share in the upbuilding of the Colony, serving his country as the opportunity presented itself and setting an example in good citizenship which has borne fruit in the loyalty of many of his descendants. v Samuel Deming, son of John and Honor (Treat) Deming, was born about 1646 at Wetherfield, Conn.; died there on 6 April, 1709. On 29 March, 1694, he married Sarah, daughter of Enoch and Mary (Kirby) Buck. Sarah Deming married, second, Captain Jonathan Churchill. The record of the death of Samuel Deming states that he was aged 63 "near out", which thus fixes the year of his birth.

~ John Deming, son of Samuel and Sarah (Buck) Deming, was born 27 December, 1694, at Wethersfield, Conn. ; he died at Norwich, Conn., in January, 1763. At Lisbon, Conn., he married Elizabeth, daughter of Cap­ tain Jabez and Hannah (Lothrop) Perkins and widow of Rev. Daniel Buck. John Deming moved from Wethersfield to Norwich, where he bought land in March, 1743. He appears to have had land also in Preston and Groton, Conn. His Will was proved 24 January, 1763; his wife's Will was proved the 22nd. of the same month, showing that she died in the same year.

Joh/Deming (Jr.), son of John and Elizabeth (Perkins) Deming, was born 19 October, 1728, at Wethersfield, Conn.; he died in 1790 at Sandisfield, Mass. His wife was Sibyl---. He was living at Norwich, Conn. in' 1752 but in May, 1764 he is called a resident of Wethersfield, Conn. He appears to have moved to Salisbury, Conn. and later to Sandis­ field, Mass. His Will, dated 14 December, 1789, named his wife, Sibyl. He may have been that John Deming of Sandisfield who enlisted as a Private in Captain Moses Soule's company (see: Massachusetts Men in the Revolu­ tion, p. 662) on 8 May, 1775. No public record has been found of the birth Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King of his children and family records give but little information of place or time. His children are named in his Will.

✓ ~' Andrew Deming, son of John and Sibyl Deming, was born 14 January, 1761, at Norwich, Conn.; died 25 November, 1828, at Avon, N. Y. He married at Sandisfield, Mass., in 1784, Hannah, daughter of Simeon and Abigail (Dudley) Granger. She was born 12 February, 1762, at Spring­ field, Mass. Andrew Deming became a sailor and his love for the sea seems to have been inherited by his decendants in succeeding generations. On 11 January, 1781, in a description of a list of men in the Revolutionary Army, he was described as 20 years old, stature 5 feet 7_½ inches, complexion dark, rank Matross, enlisted I November, 1779, term of service for the duration of the war. (See: Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors, p. 664). He was a grantee in Salisbury, Conn., in 1795 but does not appear in the records of that town after 1797, at which time he probably removed to Coxsackie, N. Y. According to family tradition he was present at the Battle of Long Island. He received both State and Continental bounties for his services. His wife, Hannah Granger, through her mother, Abigail Dudley, was a relation of Lord Dudley of England and related also, by marriage, to Alexander Hamilton of New York City. No record of the births of any of his children has been found and their names have been taken from the family records. b Frederick Granger Deming, son of Andrew and Hannah (Granger) Deming, was born 14 June, 1802, at Saybrook, Conn.; died at Coxsackie, N. Y., 22 September, 1875. He married at Athens, N. Y., Ann, daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Lay) Botsford. Captain Frederick G. Deming was a resident of Coxsackie for most of his life. He was captain of a steamboat on the Hudson River and Postmaster at Coxsackie, N. Y. At the time of his death he was the oldest Mason in the country. '1 Frances Anna Deming, daughter of Frederick Granger and Ann (Bots- ford) Deming, was born at Athens, N. Y. r January, 1833; died at Brook­ lyn, N. Y. 22 March, 19II. She married in Christ's Church, Coxsackie, N. Y., (Rev. Coe, Rector), 18 September, 1855, Silas Holbrook King. Frances Anna Deming King was a small woman, of great strength of character. She was a widow for many years, honored by all who knew her. She lived to the age of 79 years ; her mother was 87 at the time of her death, her grandmother 98 years of age.

Robert Courtney King was the son of Silas Holbrook and Frances Anna (Deming) King. Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King 53 REFERENCE Genealogy of the Descendants of John Deming of Wethersfield, Conn., compiled and edited by Judson Keith Deming, Dubuque, Io., 1904; pp. vii, viii, 3, 4, S, 9, 12, 25, 26, 49, I02, IOJ, 189.

BUCK ( allied with Deming)

The name, Le Bue, was bestowed upon Lyderic together with a coat of arms in very early times. The entry in the old Flemish Chronicle runs as follows: "Lyderic, the first of the name called Bue, only son of Saluart Geraid, Lord of Roscessilon, having conquered and killed Plunart the Tyrant, Lord of Bue, was appointed the first forester of the country of Flanders, by the King of France in 621 and carried the first arms that are emblazoned as being 'garonny or et azure of ten pieces in the middle of an escutcheon, gules.'" Lyderic Le Bue died in 682 ( ?). From Flanders the Lords of Bue came to England with the Conqueror. Their name does not appear in the Battle Abbey Rolls but Domesday Book enumerates their lands under the name of Le Bue. Many -0f the name have mention in the reigns of various kings, first as knights in the company of this or that prince, later as eminent in the professions. During the emigration to America some went to Virginia and others to New England. This history is of Enoch or Emanuel Buck, one of the two who came to Connecticut. Enoch or Emanuel Buck was born in 1623 and emigrated to Connecticut in the summer of 1647. Quite a cluster of rude dwellings had sprung up on the west bank of the river, four miles south of Hartford; and the people inhabiting these dwellings had begun to dignify themselves as "the town." They had already christened the hamlet Wethersfield in honor of a town of that name in Suffolkshire, England, and had begun to keep a record of matters of public interest such as town meetings, births, marriages, deaths, and so on. Among the settlers were two brothers, Enoch or Emanuel Buck and Henry Buck, respectively 21 and 23 years of age. Much time has been spent in an effort to ascertain their relationship to the English branches of the family, where they were born and reared, and the cause which im­ pelled them to leave England ; but the search has been in vain. There is evidence that they were natives of N orfolkshire. Both Henry and Enoch mastered. trades, Enoch that of a miller, Henry that of a blacksmith, and each of them plied his trade in conjunction with farming during the re­ mainder of his days. In 1647 Enoch was employed by the townsmen "to burn the woods belonging to the other end of the town," an undertaking for the public benefit. In 1648, having married his first wife, Sarah---, he was granted a home lot by the town of Wethersfield, described as "a piece 54 Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King of land containing two acres." On this lot he erected the house in which he dwelt for many years but the town did not give him a deed to it until 27 November, 1654. He labored and prospered. On 21 May, 1657, the General Court of Elections convened at Hartford and admitted him to the privileges of a Freeman. Enoch Buck's wife, Sarah, died shortly thereafter, leaving him with three small children; but in the spring of 1658 he married Mary Kirby. Enoch Buck became possessed of many tracts of land, some granted by the Colony; he was also the owner of a grist-mill and one or more saw­ mills. He served as a juror at the Hartford Quarters Court several times. In 1676 he represented Wethersfield and made and signed a list now on file in the office of the Secretary of State at Hartford, Conn. He was . a juror on the Grand Jury in 1676 and Constable in 1668. In 1669 he was Selectman for Wethersfield, to which office he was several times elected. He died intestate in 1700 and such property as he had not deeded to his wife and sons or sold, was divided among his sons.

Sarah Buck, daughter of Enoch and Mary (Kirby) Buck, was born 1 April, 1669. She married Samuel Deming on 29 March, 1694.

REFERENCE Origin, History and Genealogy of the Buck Family, Cornelius B. Harvey, Jersey City, N. J., 1889; pp. 8, 25-28, 30.

KIRBY ( allied with Buck)

John Kirby, the emigrant ancestor, was baptized 4 June, 1627, in Rowington, County Warwick, England. He was the son of Humphrey Kirbe. He was registered as John Kirbie, aged 12 years, on the passenger list of the Hopewell, Captain Babb, master, which sailed 11 September, 1635, from London to New England. In 1643 he was registered in Plym­ outh, Mass., as able to bear arms. Before April, 1645 he became a resident of Hartford, Conn., and in that year he and one Seth Grant had contracted to herd the cattle there. In 1655 he had settled north of the rivulet at a place later known as Middletown, Upper Houses, on Pleasant Street, now in the town of Cromwell, Conn. His homestead was situated at the bend of the Mattabasset River, now known as Kirby's Bridge. In May, 1658, he was made a Freeman by the General Court of Connecticut. He died in April, 1677, leaving an estate valued at £ 551 and 24 parcels of land, comprising 1068 acres. He married Elizabeth Hinds ; she, it is believed, was a niece of Sarah (Hinds) Cheplin, wife of Clement Cheplin of Bury Saint Edmunds, England, and Wethersfield, Conn., was born in Bury Saint Edmunds and Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King 55 accompanied her aunt to America, where she married John Kirby in 1643. She died in 1697.

Mary Kirby, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Hinds) Kirby, was born, probably at Hartford, Conn., in 1644 and married Enoch Buck, 17 April, 1658. She died 12 January, 1717.

REFERENCE The Kirbys of New England, Melatiah Everett Dwight, New York, MDCCCXCVIII pp. 7, 8, r4-r6.

PERKINS ( allied with Deming)

John Perkins of Ipswich, Mass., the emigrant ancestor, was born at Newent, Gloucestershire, England, in 1590. He was a direct descendant of "Peter Morley, Esq., alias Perkins", who lived in the time of Richard II and was an officer in the household of Sir Hugh Dispenser about 1300. The name is easily derived from the first Peter, whose children would be Peter's kin, afterwards Peterkin, and finally Perkins as now. John Perkins was among the earliest emigrants from the mother country, sailing from Bristol, England, 1, December, 1630, in the ship, Lion, bound for Boston, taking along his entire family including his wife and five children. Among the passengers was the famous divine, Rev. Roger Williams. After a stormy passage of 67 days they arrived at Nantucket, 5 February, 1631, and on the 6th. came to anchor at Boston. It is an historical fact that the arrival of the ship, Lion, saved the colony from starvation; the people had already been reduced to feeding on clams and mussels, ground nuts and acorns, which they got with much difficulty in the winter season and they were tired and discouraged, especially when they learned that the Governor him­ self then had his last batch of bread in the oven. The ship came laden with provisions, which the Governor distributed to the people according to their necessities, upon which joyful occasion the 22nd. of February was appointed a day of Thanksgiving. For about two years the Perkins family resided at Boston. In 1633 John Perkins removed to the colony then newly founded by Joh~ Winthrop and others at Ipswich, Mass. Here he engaged in agriculture and had several grants of land. John Perkins, besides holding office and occupying other places of trust, appears to have been one of the leading men of Ipswich. He was a Deputy to the General Court held in Boston 25 May, 1636. His wife's name was Judith. He died in 1654, his estate being valued at f 250,s. 5. Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King Jacob Perkins, son of John and Judith Perkins, was born in England in 1624; died 29 January, 1700. He married in 1648, Elizabeth Lovell, and after her death on 12 February, 1665, he married VVidow Pamaris Robin­ son. He was the youngest son but by his father's Will came into possession of the homestead and lands. He was chosen sergeant of the military company of the tov•m and wrote his name as Sergeant Jacob Perkins to distinguish himself from two others of the same names. He died at Ipswich, Mass., 27 January, 1699 or 1700, aged 76 years.

Jabez Perkins, son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Lovell) Perkins, was born 15 May, 1677. He married, first, Hannah Lathrop, 30 June, 1698, and sec­ ond, Charity Leonard in 1722. Jabez Perkins and his brother, Joseph, settled at Norwich, Conn., when they were young and unmarried, and seated themselves in that part of the town where the woods were yet un­ thinned and the soil unmellowed. He became the wealthiest and most honored citizen of Norwich. Hannah (Lathrop) Perkins died 14 April, 1721. Jabez Perkins died 15 January, 1742.

Elizabeth Perkins, daughter of Jabez and Hannah (Lathrop) Perkins, was born in October, 1703. She married, first, Daniel Buck and, second, 25 November, 1727, John Deming.

REFERENCE The Family of Perkins of Ipswich, Mass., George A. Perkins, M.D., 1889; pp. 1-7, 18-20; Part 3, pp. 7, 13.

LOTHROP ( allied with Perkins) The family name derived from Lowthrop, a small hamlet in the Parish of \Vapentake of Dickering, East Riding, Yorkshire. In and near the parish lived the earliest known Lowthroppes. The direct ancestry dates back to John Lowthroppe, 1545, although there are occasional records of earlier Lowthroppes, indicating an early origin of the family name. In the reign of Richard II the Co1legiate Church of St. Martin's had for one of the curates Robert de Lowthroppe. In 1216 vValter de Lowthroppe was Sheriff of Yorkshire and was summoned before Edward I. On 3 August, 1747, one Robert Lowthrop of Bridlington made a vVill leaving his estates to relatives in Cherry Burton.

John Lowthroppe early in the 16th. Century was living at Cherry Burton, a parish about four miles from Lowthrop. Although belonging to a junior branch of the family, he was a gentleman of quite extensive landed Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King 57 estates both in Cherry Burton and in various other parts of the county. In the 37th. year of the reign of Henry VIII, 1545, he appears on a Yorkshire subsidy roll as being assessed twice as much as any other inhabitant of the parish.

Robert Lowthroppe, son of John, above, who succeeded to the estates of his father, made considerable additions to them during his lifetime. He married Ellen, who survived him by 14 years. He died in 1558.

Thomas Lowthroppe, son of Robert and Ellen Lowthroppe, was born at Cherry Burton. He married, first, Elizabeth Clark, a widow; second, Mary; and third, Jane. He removed to Etton, East Riding, Yorkshire, about l 576; and died there in 1606. In his Will it is noticed that neither of his sons, who were educated, is mentioned in the document.

John Lowthrop, son of Thomas and Mary, the second wife, was bap­ tized at Etton, 20 December, 1584, and became the pioneer and founder of the Lothrop-Lathrop family in America. He was educated at Queen's College, Cambridge, where he matriculated in 1601, graduated B.A. in 1605 and M.A. in 1609. Records next locate him at Egerton, 48 miles from London, in County Kent, a curate of the parish church. To this living he was admitted about 16I1 by the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's. It was his first and last parish Gharge as a minister of the English Church. He labored faithfully as long as his judgment could approve the ritual of the Church but when he could no longer do this, he conscientiously renounced his orders, in 1623, and espoused the cause of the independents. For some years he was pastor of a private congregation in London. For this work he was thrown into prison, where he stayed until his wife fell sick ( of which sickness she died) ; then, on petition of his children, of which there were many, the Bishop of Lambeth released him and with his congregation he sailed for Boston. The Rev. John Lowthrop was thrown into prison in 1632, released in 1634, sailed to America in the ship, Griffin, and landed at Boston, 18 September, 1634. In September, 1634 he repaired to Scituate, where he, found a home awaiting him. Much has been written in laudation of Rev. John Lowthrop. He was distinguished for his worldly wisdom as well as for his piety. He was a good business man and so were all his sons. Where one of the family pitched his tent, that spot soon became a center of business, and land in its vicinity appreciated in value. Mr. Lowthrop fear­ lessly proclaimed in Old and New England that man is not responsible to his fellow-man in matters of faith and conscience. During the fourteen years he was pastor of the church at Barnstable on Cape Cod, such was his influence over the people that the power of the civil magistrate was not 58 Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King needed to restrain crime, and no pastor was ever more beloved by his peo­ ple, none ever had a greater influence for good. John Lowthrop died at Barnstable, Mass., 8 November, 1653. The name of his first wife was Hannah House, of Eastwell, County Kent, England. His second wife was Anna Hammond.

Samuel Lowthrop, son of Rev. John and Hannah (House) Lowthrop, came with his father to Scituate, Mass., in 1634, thence to Barnstable, Mass., where he married Elizabeth Scudder, a sister of John Scudder, 28 November, 1644. In 1648 he removed to New London, then called Pequot. His hamlet in the new plantation was the third in order from that of John Winthrop, Sr., and his name is one of the first thirteen to whom were assigned lands on the east side of the great river of Pequot, 1648-1649. In 1650 he appears with five townsmen in a town meeting "to arrange a sys­ tem of cooperation with Mr. Winthrop in establishing a mill to grind corn." He conducted a business of house building, afterwards combining this with extensive farming operations. In 1668 he removed to Norwich, Conn., where he erected a home on a lot of about 7 acres ; to this he added during his lifetime successive tracts of land amounting to 400 acres. He was born in 1620, in England, and died 29 February, 1700.

Samuel Lothrop (Jr.), son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Scudder) Loth­ rop, was born at New London in 16 50; died 9 December, 1732. He married, first, in 1675, Hannah, daughter of Thomas Adgate, and second, Mrs. Mary Edgerton. Samuel Lothrop settled in Norwich, Conn., where he al­ ways ranked high as a citizen.

Hannah Lothrop, daughter of Samuel (Jr.) and Hannah (Adgate) Lothrop, was born at Norwich, Conn., 6 January, 1677; married, 30 June, 1698, Jabez Perkins of Ipswich, Mass., who in 1695 purchased a large tract of land in that part of Norwich where he settled (now called Lisbon) and became one of the wealthiest and most honored citizens. Hannah (Lothrop) Perkins died 14 April, 1721; after which Jabez Perkins married a second wife. REFERENCE A Genealogical Memoir of the Lothrop-Lathrop Family, Rev. E. B. Huntington, 1884; pp. 2, 4, IS, 17, 23-28, 33, 38-40, 46, 57.

ADGATE ( allied with Lothrop) Thomas Adgate, born about 1623, died 21 July, 1707. The name of his wife is unknown. Whence he came, or where, whether he came alone or Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King 59 with a wife and children, is also unknown. It is seldom that any name ap­ pears so isolated and untraceable. He settled at Saybrook, Conn., where he was a Deacon in the First Congregational Church in 1646, Mr. Fitch, pastor. This office he resigned in 1660 and removed to Norwich, Conn. He returned to Saybrook, Conn., and died there, 21 July, 1707. His Will is dated 22 May, 1704.

Hannah Adgate, daughter of Thomas Adgate, was born 6 October, 1653. She married Samuel Lothrop (Jr.) of Norwich, Conn. in 1675 and died in 1695. REFERENCE A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, James A. Savage; Vol. I. SCUDDER ( allied with Lothrop) Elizabeth Scudder came from England to America with her brother, John Scudder, in 1635. She removed from Boston to Barnstable, Mass., where her brother had preceded her by a few years in 1644, and that same year she married Samuel Lothrop, the record of her marriage being in the handwriting of her father-in-law, Rev. John Lothrop.

REFERENCE A Genealogical Dictionary,of the First Settlers of New England, James A. Savage; Vol. IV, p. 43. TREAT ( allied with Deming) John Trott of Staplegrove, near Taunton, England. His name occurs in the Calendar of the Taunton Manor Rolls in 1458, 1463, 1473 and 1479. William Trott, son of John, above; name occurs in the Taunton Manor Rolls, Parish of Staplegrove, in 1503, 1504 and 1510. Richard Trott, son of William, above, died about 157r. He married Joanna-•--, who was buried at Otterford, England, 14 August, 1577. His name is in the Taunton Manor Rolls as living at Staplegrove in 1510. Robert Trott or Treat, son of Richard, above, was baptized probably in the hamlet of Trendle, Pitminster Parish; buried 16 February, 1599. He married Honour---, who was buried 17 September, 1627. Mr. Richard Treat, as the name was called at this time, was born in 1584 in Pitminster Parish, probably in the hamlet of South Trendle, now 60 Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King the Parish of Trull, Somerset, England. He was baptized in Pitminster Church, 28 August, r 584; and died at Wethersfield, Conn. in r 669 or r670. He was alive on r r October, r669, and the inventory of his estate was presented to court on 3 March, 1670. He married, 27 April, r615, in Pit­ minster, England, Alice Gaylord, who was baptized on IO May, 1594 in Pitminster, the daughter of Hugh Gaylord, who was buried 2r October, 1614, in Pitminster. \Vhen Alice (Gaylord) Treat died, is unknown but she survived her husband. The tradition that she was a second wife, has been proven upon investigation to have been unfounded. The family lived in the hamlet of Trendle, now the Parish of Trull, four and one-half miles south of Taunton, in the Diocese of Bath and Wells. Richard Treat emi­ grated to New England about r637 and with Mathew Treat was the founder of the Treat family in America. Mr. Treat was a man of high social standing and of much influence in the town of Wethersfield and in the Colony of Connecticut. In the list of Freeman only three besides Richard Treat are styled Mr. and he bore that title as early as r642. It was then a title fully as high as Honorable is now, and generally speaking not more than five Freemen in a hundred possessed the appellation, and very few of the deputies and magistrates. In April, r644, he was chosen Deputy and was elected annually for r4 years. He was elected Assistant, or Magistrate, eight times from 1657 to· 1665. Richard Treat and his two sons-in-law, John Deming and Mathew Canfield, were among the Patentees of the Connecticut Charter, granted 23 April, r662, by Charles II, King of Eng­ land.

His son, Governor Robert Treat, was of the party that came from Milford, Conn., to ::;few Jersey and founded Newark in 1666. Robert Treat remained in New Jersey six years, when he returned to Connecticut, where he became governor. It was through his sagacity that the famous charter was hidden at the time its surrender was demanded by Andros. He was by far the ablest governor of Connecticut. After his return from New Jersey the town which he founded there and called Milford, was renamed Newark by the Rev. Abraham Pierson, the spiritual leader of the party, in honor of his English home. (Rev. Abraham Pierson was later the first President of Yale College.) Mr. Treat was an extensive land owner in \Vethersfield, Conn., where he had several homesteads.

Honor Treat was baptized in Pitminster, England, 19 March, r6r5 or 1616; married John Deming.

REFERENCE The Treat Family, John Harvey Treat, A.M., Salem, Mass., 1893; pp. 13, 14, 15, 18, 26-28, 31, 147-166. PART SIX

Ancestors of Hannah Granger

GRANGER Launcelot Granger is said to have been a Welshman, a Scotsman, a North-of-Ireland man and an Englishman but the place of his birth and the date are unknown. There is a story concerning him which has come down through many years and through many hands-romantic, it is true, but the compiler of this book is inclined to give it credence. It is as follows : Launcelot Granger was born in the west of England and, when twelve years old, he was stolen from his mother, his father being dead, and brought to Plymouth, Mass., where he was sold or apprenticed to serve two years for his passage. He had served on the ship as a cabin boy. Being the eldest of the family, he later succeeded in returning to England to claim his in­ heritance. On the way from the port where he had landed, to his mother's home he was attacked by robbers and had to defend himself with the butt­ end of his quarter-staff ; he knocked down one of his assailants and the other ran away; but the inhabitants found the man that was slain to have been one of their "honest citizens." When he arrived at his mother's home, he found his younger brother in possession of the estate. His brother, much displeased to see him, hired assassins to dispatch him but again he defended himself with his quarter-staff and killed them. His return and what he had done, was made known to the magistrate of the district, who acquitted him of all blame. Having thus met with many difficulties in obtaining his in­ heritam:e, he then abandoned the greater part of it and returned to America. (Tradition;) During the first 20 years after the founding of the colonies in New England, 1620-1640, the influx of immigrants was great. The colonies were overcrowded and servants were in much demand; and they were obtained by fair means or foul. Men and ships were especially employed in supply­ ing this demand. Convicts were banished and men and boys were kidnapped in large numbers at the various English ports and then apprenticed in New England. There is no doubt that Launcelot Granger came to America in this way. The very name seems to show that he did not belong to the Puritan but, instead, to the Cavalier party, and his trip to New England would hardly have been a voluntary one "for religion's sake." It will be later seen that, when Launcelot was living at Ipswich, he courted and Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King married the daughter of a Puritan, an Elder and a man of position and wealth. The Puritans were bitter in their hatred of those outside the church of their own choice but in one respect they tolerated the latter. If the son of Belial were rich, they would permit their daughters to marry him. Thus it was that Launcelot Granger, "a child of Satan," married a daughter of Robert Adams, a Puritan of the strictest kind. When Launcelot married, he took his bride to a house of logs, newly built, 48 feet long, 22 feet wide, two stories high, with an attic built of sawed oak timber. There he lived until 1674, a matter of 20 years, after which he went to Suffield, Conn., where he was granted 60 acres of land. But the home to which he had taken his bride in 1654, was very pretentious for those early days and suggests that his trip to England for his fortune had not been altogether fruitless. It is pure conjecture as to what induced Launcelot to leave his home in the settled part of the colony and plunge into the wildnerness with a wife and ten children, but tradition has it that the society of Massachusetts was too severe for him and his pretty daughters. However, for 30 years the charming valley of the Connecticut River and the mild climate, its great river, its fair fields, the waters teeming with salmon and other fish, had offered a picture in great contrast to the stormy coast with its sand and rocks, a picture too alluring to be abandoned; and probably such reasons per­ suaded him to seek this new home in Suffield. During King Philip's War he was obliged to leave the town and move to Westfield, but he returned to Suffield in 1678 and lived there until his death, 3 September, 1689. He married Joanna Adams on 4 January, 1654.

Thomas Granger, son of Launcelot and Joanna (Adams) Granger, was born at Newbury, Mass.; he married, 14 November, 1683, Mindwell, daughter of Stephen Taylor; and died 14 March, 1729 or 1730, at Suffield, Conn. In September, 1674, he was granted 40 acres of land at Suffield, together with a hamlet (sic) on High Street, 12 rods wide and containing 8 acres. He was a man of much importance in the new town, Selectman in 1694, and later held other town offices. On 21 September, 1722, the town voted that "Thomas Granger, Sr., do take the second pew for his seat in the meeting house." As seats were allotted by the town officers according to estate, age, office, place and improvements made, the granting of the second seat would imply that the grantee was a man of the highest standing in the community. In 1708 or 1709 he was appointed one of a committee of three to build a bridge, the first in Suffield, over Stoney Brook. It was completed by this energetic committee in 1715, at an expense of 41 dollars (sic), and the town showed its appreciation of the engineering skill by voting to Thomas Granger 8 shillings for his six years' work. Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King Samuel Granger, son of Thomas and Mindwell (Taylor) Granger, was born at Suffield, Conn., 12 February, 1699; died ro June, 1775. He mar­ ried, 6 November, 1722, Hannah Pomeroy, daughter of Joseph and Hannah (Seymour) Pomeroy. Samuel was a farmer and lived on the homestead of his father on the Springfield Road, now called Crooked Lane. He gave little attention to town matters, rising no higher than a "fence viewer." He was called Captain, and it is presumed that he must have commanded the military company. To distinguish him from others of the same name he was also called "Samuel Granger ye first."

Simion Granger, son of Samuel and Hannah (Pomeroy) Granger, was born at Suffield, Conn., 28 December, 1728; married, 20 November, 1757, Abigail Dudley of Saybrook, Conn.; and died in May, 1815, at Sandisfield, Mass. He and his wife lived at Suffield, West Springfield, Springfield, Granville, Southwick and Sandisfield. He served with the Massachusetts troops during the Revolution.

Hannah Granger, daughter of Simion and Abigail (Dudley) Granger, was born 12 February, 1763, and died 15 April, 1832. In Sandisfield, Mass., in 1784, she married Andrew Deming (who had been born in Nor­ wich, Conn.) and died at Albany, N. Y.

REFERENCE Launcelot Granger of Newbury, Mass., and Suffield, Conn., A Genealogical History, James N. Granger, Hartford, Conn., 1893; pp. 57, 60. 6r, 76, 77.

ADAMS ( allied with Granger)

Robert Adams of Newbury, Mass., was born in England in r6o2 and came first to Ipswich in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1635, bringing his wife and two children, a son, John, and a daughter, Joanna. He was a tailor by trade, resided in Salem, Mass., in 1638-1639 and removed to Newbury, Mass., in 1640, where he acquired a large farm and valuable property. He died on 12 October, 1682, aged 8r years; his wife, Eleanor (Wilmot?) Adams died 12 June, 1677, and he married, second, Sarah (Glover) Short. He is believed by many to have come from Devonshire, England and to have been a son of Robert and Elizabeth ( Sharlon-Sharl­ and) Adams, connected with the Ap-Adams pedigree, and through that connection to have been a cousin of Henry Adams of Braintree, Mass., who was the ancestor of John Adams and John Quincey Adams. This famous Welsh pedigree began with Ap-Adams in the time of Edward I about the Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King close of the 13th. Century. A shears which Robert Adams wrought and which he brought with him from England, a large pair, hand-made, is now in the possession of his descendant, Stephan P. Hale of Newbury, Mass. At his death he left a large estate. His Will, made 7 March, 1680 or 1681, was proved 27 November, 1682, and gives to his loving wife, Sarah, "my great chest and the highest chair in the room where we live," both of which she is to restore at her death or if she marry again, "also all the money I have," she not to be accountable to anyone, and "to enjoy the parlor 'wholly' for one year." To his daughter, Joanna Granger, he gives one cow, his pewter tankard and a pewter bowl. When one realizes that Joanna then lived in far-away Suffield, one wonders if she ever received her inheritance.

Joanna Adams, daughter of Robert (the Puritan) and Eleanor (Wil­ mot?) Adams, was born in England in 1634, and married, 4 January, 1654, Launcelot Granger.

REFERENCE A Genealogical History of Robert Adams of Newbury, Mass., and his Descendants, Andrew N. Adams, Rutland, Vermont, 1900; pp. I-3, 6. The Adams Family In its earliest form Ap-Adams meant simply "son of Adam"; it was first assumed during the Crusades when surnames came into general use. The first known of this line was John Ap-Adams, who came out of the Marches of Wales. He married Elizabeth, daughter of John, Lord Gurney, of Tidenham and Bweston, Gloucester, and was called to Parliament as a Baron of the Realm, 1296-1307. This was in the time of Edward I. Arms granted him: "Ar. on a cross gu, fice mullets or." In the upper part of a Gothic window on the southeast side of Tidenham church, near Chopstow, there is the name Jonas Ap-Adams, 1310, and underneath it the above arms. The building was originally in Wales but came within the limits of England later by reason of a change in the boundary line between the two countries. The crest borne later by the family was "a demi-lion out of a ducal coronet", with the motto, "Loyal ay Mort." Two other mottoes used by this branch of the family are "Aspire, persevere and indulge not" and "Suberuce veritas." The first was preferred by Henry Adams of Braintree, Mass. The following is claimed as the English ancestry: Sir John Ap-Adams, Baron of the Realm, died 13rn, married Elizabeth Gurney Sir Thomas Ap-Adams William Ap-Adams Sir John Ap-Adams Thomas Ap-Adams, married Jane Inge Paternal Ancestry of .Charles Daly King Sir John Ap-Adams, married Mellicent Besyells Sir John Ap-Adams, married Clara Powell Roger Adams, married Jane Elliot Thomas Adams, married Maria Upton John Adams, married Jane Barmeleigh John Adams, married Catherine Stebling Nicholas (John) Adams, married Margeret Squire Richard Adams, married Margaret Armager; this Richard had two sons, Robert and William; William married --- Barring­ ton, and had two children, Sir Thomas and Henry ; Henry came to America and settled at Braintree, Mass., and became the ancestor of the Presidents of the United States. Robert · Adams, married Eleanor Wilmot, came to America and settled at Newbury, Mass. ; thus Robert Adams of Newbury, Mass., and Henry Adams of Braintree, Mass., were cousins.

REFERENCES Essex Historical Collection: Note of Robert Adams, Raymond Adams. The Book of Dignitaries, Joseph Hayden. History of London, Maitland, 1756.

DUDLEY ( allied with Granger) The ancestors of the Clapton Dudleys were the first family that bore the name in England. In the time of Henry II they were already a very ancient family. There was discovered an ancient owner of the castle in Saxon days named Dudd or Dudde, the Saxon, and so (sic) in the time of the Tudors the name was spelled Dudley; Northumberland and Leicester both spelled their names in that manner. Dudd, the Saxon, died in 725. He was Duke of Marcia and is described by Rudderin in his History of Gloucestershire and by Dugdale in his Monasticon. Dugdale thinks that he was the founder of Dudley Castle. The Clapton Dudleys have generally been considered to have had their name from the Dudley Castle barons, being descended from the Someries or the Paganals or from both of those houses. Some of them were seated at Sedgely, Tybington and Wolver­ hampton. They were a great and wealthy family at the town of Dudley in 1539. Erdeswick said that the "chevron between three lion heads" indicated that these Dudleys were descended from the Someries, Barons of Dudley Castle.

William Dudly, born at Sheen (later Richmond) in Surrey, England, came to Guilford, Conn., from Guilford, England, some thirty miles from 66 Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King London. He was married to Jane Lutman by the Rev. Henry Whitfield, Rector at Ockley in Surrey, 26 August, 1636. He and his wife, Jane (Lut­ man) Dudley came to America in 1639 with the Rev. Henry Whitfield as a part of the Eaton and Hopkins Expedition to Connecticut. They sailed from London, 20 May, 1639, with a company of distinguished men. "Mr." Dudley was a representative to the General Court at Guilford, Conn., and also held other offices. He and his wife both died in_ Guilford, Conn., he on 16 March, 1683 or 1684, she on I May, 1674. The Coat of Arms which by tradition was in the hands of William and which, by the same tradition, descended to the eldest son in every family, was: "two lions, one buck and buck's head with a dart through the throat." This would indicate that he was descended from the Dudleys of Clapton, although the direct line has not been traced to John de Sutton, Knight, Lord Dudley, who died in 1359 and was the first of the Dudleys. William Dudley was supposed to have been the cousin of Thomas Dudley. They represented the elder branch of that Norman family, to the younger branch of which belonged the unfortunate husband of Lady Jane Grey and the unscrupulous husband of Amy Robart. Thomas Dudley's Puritanism was black and stern, and for Christian charity he was not eminent. The coming to America, however, of two such important men as Thomas Dudley and John Winthrop, who was associated with him, was the signal for _a general movement on the part of the English Puritans. Thomas Dudley sailed in April, 1630. William Dudley was more modest and less stern than his cousin and he does not appear to have de­ sired office. He was a farmer, as appears by his Will. He made his mark on his Will, but this does not prove that he could not write, as he might have been palsied, lame in his hand, blind or sick or too feeble to write.

Deacon William Dudley, son of William and Jane (Lutman) Dudley, was born at sea on 8 June, 1639. He married Mary Stow on 4 November, 1661, and she was living in 1702. He died at Saybrook, Conn., in May, 1701. He was a cordwainer by trade. He was admitted as a Freeman at Guilford, Conn., 1670, and that same year he removed to Saybrook, Conn., where he became a Deacon in the church and a Representative to the General Court, 1682-1695. He was also Commissioner.

Lieutenant Joseph Dudley, son of William and Mary (Stow) Dudley, was born at Saybrook, Conn., on 14 September, 1674. He was a weaver, as he calls himself in 1718. He married Sarah Pratt, IO December, 1697. He was a Freeman of Saybrook in 1704 and a Representative in 1721. He was also Ensign and Lieutenant of militia at Saybrook. He died in 1743 or 1744, as of 14 March of that year, and the Court appointed his son, Cyprian Dudley, administrator of the estate of Lieutenant Joseph Dudley. Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King Isaac Dudley, son of Joseph and Sarah (Pratt) Dudley, was born at Saybrook, Conn., on 24 March, 1704; he married Hannah ---. His name is given (wrongly?) as Israel in the Dudley Genealogy and no further mention is made of him. The following reference to him is in the Land Records of Saybrook, Conn., Vol. 7, p. 514, in describing the parties to a transfer of property: "Abigail Granger, wife of Simion Granger, and Han­ nah Lamb, wife of Samuel Lamb, are the children and heirs of Isaac Dud­ ley, late of Saybrook, and Daniel Adams and Hannah, his wife, the said Hannah being the widow of said Isaac Dudley." This reference also states that Isaac Dudley was the son of Lieutenant Joseph Dudley.

Abigail Dudley, daughter of Isaac and Hannah (---) Dudley, was born in Saybrook, Conn., on 17 September, 1737, and married 26 Novem­ ber, 1757, in Springfield, Mass., Simion Granger. She died at Deerfield, Ohio. REFERENCES The History of the Dudley Family, Dean Dudley, Montrose, Mass., 1894; pp. 341, 343, 344, 348. • Land Records of Saybrook, Conn.; Vol. 7, p. SI4-

PRATT ( allied with Dudley) The nanie, Pratt, is a surname derived, like many Norman and Saxon names, from a locality. In the ancient records and enrollments the names entered were in Latin, French or Saxon at the pleasure of the clerk, and those occupying meadow lands were hence called de Prato, da Preor, Meades (Mead), etc. \Vith regard to the home of the English Pratts, in ancient times it was, as it is now, in the eastern and southern parts of Eng­ land. Nine distinct armorial bearings were granted by the Heralds College to families bearing the name of Pratt. The name occurs among the very early English surnames, the earliest being found in 1200.

Thomas Pratt of Baldeck, Hertfordshire, England, made his Will, dated 5 February, 1538 or 1539, in which he mentions his wife, Joan, sons Thomas, James and Andrew, and daughter, Agnes.

Andrew Pratt, son of Thomas and Joan (---) Pratt, was born in Baldeck, above; the name of his wife is unknown but he had three children baptized.

Rev. William Pratt, son of Andrew and (---) Pratt, was baptized in October, 1562, at Baldeck, England. He was rector of the Parish of 68 Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King Stevenage in Hertfordshire. In the church at Stevenage against the north wall is a memorial to the Rev. William Pratt in Latin, translated as fol­ lows: "Here lies v\Tilliam Pratt, Bachelor of Sacred Theology, and most illustrious rector of this church during thirty years. He had three sons, John, William and Richard, and the same number of daughters, Sarah, Mary and Elizabeth. At length, the course of his life being run and his age becoming burdensome, he emigrated to the celestial country in the year of salvation, 1629, aged 67 years." He was made rector of the Parish on 6 December, 1598.

Lieutenant \Villiam Pratt, son of the Rev. vVilliam, was born in Hert­ fordshire, England. He is supposed to have come with the Rev. Thomas Hooker to Newtown, now Cambridge, Mass., in 1633, and to have gone thence to Hartford, Conn., in June, 1636. He married Elizabeth, daughter of John Clark of Saybrook, Conn., afterwards of Milford, Conn. This is proved by his Will, found in the probate records of New Haven, Conn. The Clarks were from Great Mundon, Hertfordshire, England. William Pratt held many offices of trust. He was one of the band who went from Hartford on the expedition against the Pequots in 1637, which resulted in the destruction of their fort ·at Mystic and the annihilation of their power as a tribe. He received subsequently 100 acres of land by order of the General Court for services performed during that expedition. He was Lieutenant of the Saybrook, Conn., forces in that war and in 1642 was a member of the Council of \Var. He sold his land at Hartford, Conn., in 1645 and removed to Saybrook, Conn. It appears from the records that he was a man of considerable note in the Colony. He represented Say­ brook in the General Assembly for 23 sessions and was chosen a Commis­ sioner several times. He was a large landowner in Saybrook and New Haven, Conn. The exact date of his death is unknown but the year was 1678.

Ensign John Pratt, eldest son of William and Elizabeth (Clark) Pratt, was born on 20 February, 1644. He married Sarah, daughter of Thomas Jones of Guilford, Conn., 8 June, 1699. He was a large landowner and at the death of his father the homestead on Essex Point fell to him in the division of the property, and he removed there. He was a blacksmith by trade. That he was a man of some distinction is evident from the fact that he several times represented his town in the General Assembly of the state. In the list of Deputies in the Records of the Secretary of State is found: "Ensign John Pratt, Deputy, 9 October, 1684, 1689, 1691." He died in 1726. Paternal, Ancestry of Charles Daly King Sarah Pratt, daughter of John and Sarah (Jones) Pratt, was born on 5 June, 168o, at Saybrook, Conn. She married Joseph Dudley, IO December, 1697. REFERENCE The Pratt Family or the Descendants of Lieutenant William Pratt, Rev. F. '0/. Chap­ man, A.M., Hartford, Conn., MDCCCLXIV; pp. 13-15, 43-46, 53, 69, 71.

CLARK ( allied with Pratt) Mr. John Clark, 1608-1712, of Saybrook, Conn., was an early settler of Cambridge, Mass., from Great Mundon, Hertford, England, as noted by \Vinthrop in his Journal. He came to Hartford, Conn., from Cambridge, Mass., in 1636, perhaps with the Rev. Thomas Hooker's company. He was in the first division of lots in 1639, when he had :22 acres and was one of the Commissioners to apportion land. He was a juror at Hartford in 1641 and a soldier in the battle against the Pequots in 1637, Deputy to the General Court at Hartford in 1641 and also a juror in 1642. He was Deputy in 1644, 1649, 1651, 1652, 1653, 1654, 1655, 1656, two sessions in the last two years, four sessions in 1657, three in 1658, two in 1659, two in 1661, two in 1662, also 1663 and 1665. He was nominated Com­ missioner for Sayl:Jrook, Conn., in 1664. He with Major Mason and Hon. Mr. Chapman of Saybrook were appointed by the General Court in 1654 for the town to press men for an expedition then on foot against Ninigret at Karraganset. The exact time when he left Hartford, Conn., and re­ moved to Saybrook, Conn., is unknown but he remained at Hartford for several years and was there in 1640 in the west part of the town, his land bounded on the north by that of Robert Brichard or Birchard. He and Brichard or Birchard settled at "Seabrooke" and were appointed by the Court to go to "Pequett and view lands given to Captain Mason's soldiers which had been taken by the settlers there, and then go to :Nianticut to lay out land to the soldiers to make it equivalent to land taken at Pequett." In 1647 John Clark of Seabrooke and Captain Mason were desired by the General Court to carry on the building of a fort by hiring men, carts and other necessaries. In May, 1651, the General Court desired Mr. Culick and Mr. Clark to go to Stratford to hold a court and try Goodie Basset for witchcraft. In May, 1654 "Major Mason, Captain Culick and Mr. Clark are desired to go to Pequett with Mr. \Vinthrope to keep a particular court before winter." John Clark and Ensign Walter of Sea­ brooke were administrators of the estate of Joseph Clark in 1664. He was the first of the name at Saybrook, Conn., and was a large landowner. He Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King was appointed Magistrate, Commissioner, Judge and frequently a Deputy to the General Court of Connecticut.

Elizabeth Clark, daughter of John Clark, came to America with her father in 1632. In June, 1636, she married at Hartford, Conn., Lieutenant William Pratt; this is proven by the \Viii of John Clark, found in the pro­ bate records of New Haven, Conn.

REFERENCE New England Genealogical Records.

POMEROY ( allied with Granger)

EDITOR'S NOTE We now reach the first of the family lines-that of Pomeroy-concerning which dispute and controversy have been raised by genealogists. The genealogical profession is not one that in general demands any specialized skills but simply requires diligent research, ordinary intelligence and an acquaintance with various technicalities such as soon encumber any particular branch of research. The editor of these data is not a professional genealogist but he has been so considerably astonished by the nature and the details of these controversies-protestingly urged upon points that must seem to be mere hair-splitting to any impartial observer-that he feels it necessary to offer some comment upon them. The dispute in the case of the Pomeroy line centers upon the ancestry of Eltweed Pomeroy, from whom the present editor is of the tenth generation of descent and indeed in neither the direct paternal nor the direct maternal line. In other words, Eltweed Pomeroy is this writer's great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grand­ father, a relationship so remote that it is shared by no less than 246 other grandfathers of the same degree and, counting in also the ancestresses of the same degree, by 492 persons in all. In view of this distant nature of the link and because he believes that any discerning person is qualified to hold a rational judgment upon such matters after having acquainted himself with their details, the editor feels himself fully entitled to comment upon them. Briefly, the controversy focuses upon the identity of Richard Pomery, the undis­ puted father of Eltweed. Richard was born, lived and died in England; and the ques­ tion is whether or not he was a scion of the distinguished line of Berry-Pomeroy in England. Mr. Hoppin, a British genealogist of repute who has assembled a vast amount of data upon the English Pomeroy family, alleges that he was; Mr. Jacobus, a well­ known American genealogist of New Haven, Conn., holds the contrary opinion. In this editor's view a perusal of the details will lead most reasonable men to agree with Mr. Hoppin, who moreover is by far the greater authority in the matter. But since all the data first to be presented are undisputed to the best of the editor's knowledge, the Pomery genealogy now to be set forth will commence with Eltweed Pomeroy, the emi­ grant ancestor, and will follow the line of his unquestioned descendants in America. The earlier and disputed Pomeroy line, as well as the also questioned Seymour line of early times, will be separately presented in an Appendix, together with the details of the controversies and the editor's comments upon them. Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King Eltweed Pomeroy, son of Richard Pomeroy, was born in Beaminster, Dorset, England, and was christened on 4 July, 1585. At Beaminster he married, first, Johanna Keech in 1617; she died on 27 May, 1620, and he married, second, at Crewkerne, County Somerset, England, Margery Rock­ ett, who came with him to America. They were married on 7 May, 1629; and Margery (Rockett) Pomeroy died at Windsor, Conn., on 5 July, 1655. He married, third, Lydia, widow of Thomas Brown. Eltweed Pomeroy died at Northampton, Mass., in March, 1673, aged 88, and tradition says that he had become biind. He had sailed from England with his wife, Margery (Rockett) Pomeroy on 30 March, 1630, in the Mary-and-John. After 70 days they entered the harbor of Nantucket and landed at Matapan where they helped to lay (sic) the town of Dorchester. Eltweed Pomeroy, like most of the Dissenters of that age, was a mechanic, having for many years carried on the business in England of making guns, with considerable repu­ tation. Upon sailing for America he closed his business and, selling most of his stock, brought only his tools with him. After a residence of several years at Dorchester, the Province of Massachusetts Bay offered him a grant of 1000 acres of land on the Connecticut River on condition of his establishing his trade of gunsmith in the Province. He did so and it is a curious fact that during the seven generations that succeeded him there has at no time been lacking in the direct male line a follower of the original trade. The o~iginal anvil of the progenitor of the family, brought to this country in 1630, is now in possession of Lemuel Pomeroy of Pittsfield, Mass., who for more than 30 years was a contractor with the United States Government for arms.

Medad Pomeroy, son of Eltweed and Margery (Rockett) Pomeroy, was baptized at Windsor, Conn., on 19 August, 1638. He settled at Northamp­ ton in 1659 and was made a Freeman in 1661. He married, first, 21 May, 1661, Experience, daughter of Henry Woodward of Dorchester and North­ ampton; second, Elizabeth (Strong) Chauncy and, third, Hannah ( Mar­ riner) Noble.

Captain Joseph Pomeroy, son of Medad and Experience (Woodward) Pomeroy, was born at Northampton, 26 June, 1672; he married, 29 No­ vember, 1692, Hannah Seymour, daughter of Richard Seymour. This Han­ nah Seymour, grand-daughter of Captain Richard Seymour, thus united the Pomeroy and Seymour families in America by her marriage to Joseph Pomeroy. (According to the disputed data-see Appendix-Berry-Pom­ eroy in England, built by Sir Ralph de Pomery and for 500 years in the possession of the Pomeroy family, came by forfeiture or sale to the Pro­ tector Somerset in the reign of Edward VI, one of whose descendants, Sir Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King Edward Seymour, a grandson, inherited and lived at Berry-Pomeroy. This Sir Edward was the great-grandfather of Hannah (Seymour) Pomeroy.) In 1699 Joseph Pomeroy removed from Northampton to Suffield, Conn.; he was a metal worker like his grandfather and father and held many offices of trust. He died at Suffield, Conn., on 16 December, 1712. Joseph Pomeroy was a corporal in the Northampton company during the French and Indian War and took part in the Indian fight at Deerfield on 16 August, 1696. At a general meeting of the town on 7 March, 1698, it was voted to give to Joseph Pomeroy 40 acres of land on the condition that he settle, abide and remain in the town for 7 years and during said years that he follow his trade for the benefit of the town.

Hannah Pomeroy, daughter of Joseph and Hannah (Seymour) Pom­ eroy, was born on 12 April, 1700, and married, 6 November, 1722, Samuel Granger of Suffield, Conn.

REFERENCE Pomeroy Genealogy, a History; Albert A. Pomeroy.

ROCKETT ( allied with Pomeroy) John Rockett alias Wakeley of Holdeck, Parish of Thorton, Devon, made a Will on 7 November, 1615; in it he mentions his daughter, Eliza­ beth, sons Thomas and Nicholas, grandson John, son of Thomas, and other grandchildren, also servants and friends to whom he makes bequests. He gave to Thomas and Nicholas tenements called Chackridge, Parish of Hawkesworth, Dorset; to John, his namesake, lands called Harriges, W estlease and Little Pidmore. Executors were Thomas and Nicholas. In a codicil "a little before his death" he mentions Mary Rockett, daughter of Thomas. There was no reference to Wakeley in the nature of an explana­ tion as to why John carried that alias into his Will.

Thomas Rockett, son of John, as appears in his father's Will of 1615, does not seem to have come to America but three of his children did, leaving Robert, son of Thomas, to represent the family in England; John, the name­ sake of his grandfather, came with his sister, Mary or Margery.

Mary or Margery Rockett, daughter of Thomas Rockett, married Elt­ weed Pomeroy at Crewkerne, England, on 7 May, 1629. She was christened Mary, married as Margery and died as Margery. She died at Windsor, Conn., on 5 July, 1655. She and her husband had sailed in the Mary-and­ John, landed at Nantucket, Mass., in 1630, and were of the founders of Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King 73 Dorchester. The names, Rockett and Rockwood, are interchangeable in the records of the Colony.

REFERENCE The Pomeroy Genealogy, A. A. Pomeroy, Toledo, Ohio, 1912.

SEYMOUR ( allied with Pomeroy)

EDITOR'S NOTE We come now to the second of the challenged lines of descent, in the present case the Seymour line. The positive claim relies upon the data in a family Bible called the Bishop's Bible, printed in 1584; the negative assertion declares that the entries therein are forgeries. Upon this point the present editor holds no especial opinion one way or the other and the controversy will be presented later in the Appendix. The data now to follow will commence with Richard Seymour, the emigrant ancestor.

Richard Seymour, one of the first settlers of Hartford, Conn., was bap­ tized at Sawbridgeworth, County Herts, England, on 27 January, 16o4 or 16o5; and died at Norwalk, Conn., in 1655. His Will was dated 29 July and the Inventory dated IO October of that year. On 18 April, 1631, at Sawbridgeworth, England, he married Mercy Ruscoe, daughter of Roger and Hangah (---) Ruscoe; she was born about 1610 and died at Farm­ ington, Conn., 27 February, 1664 or 1665 ( ?) . After the death of Richard Seymour she married John Steele of Farmington, Conn. Richard Seymour removed from Hartford to Farmington and later to Norwalk, Conn.

Richard Seymour, son of Richard and Mercy (Ruscoe) Seymour, was born at Hartford, Conn., about 1645 and died at Farmington, Conn., before 29 November, 1710. He married Hannah, daughter of Mathew and Han­ nah (---) Woodruff, born about 1648 and died at Farmington, Conn., on 16 December, 1712. Richard Seymour, the son of Richard Seymour, was a Freeman at Farmington, Conn., in 1669 and one of the 84 proprietors of the town in 1672. His wife appears in a list of church members at Farming­ ton, dated l March, 1679 or 168o and he became a member on 31 May, 1685. He settled in that part of Farmington called Kensington (now the town of Berlin) and became a leader in the settlement. There the Seymour fort was built, within which were the cabins where the inhabitants sought refuge at night during the Indian alarms, Richard Seymour being the cap­ tain of the garrison. The well in front of the house still remains. Captain Richard and Hannah (Woodruff) Seymour had the following children, born at Farmington, Conn.: Hannah, Samuel, Mercy, Ebenezer and Jona­ than. 74 Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King Hannah Seymour, daughter of Captain Richard and Hannah (Wood­ ruff) Seymour, was born at Farmington, Conn. She married, first, on 29 November, 1692, Captain Joseph Pomeroy and, second, at Suffield, Conn., on 28 October, 1713, Josiah Hale.

REFERENCE A History of the Seymour Family: Descendants of Richard Seymour of Hartford, Conn. for Six Generations, complied and arranged under the direction of George Dudley Seymour by Donald Lines Jacobus, New Haven, Conn., 1939.

WOODRUFF ( allied with Seymour) Mathew Woodruff came from England to America and was one of the original proprietors of Farmington, Conn., in 1657. The date of his coming to America is not known. His wife's name was Hannah---. She joined the church in 1654. Mathew Woodruff died in 1682.

Hannah Woodruff, daughter of Mathew and Hannah (---) Wood­ ruff, was born in 1648; and married Captain Richard Seymour.

REFERENCE A Genealogical Dictionary of the.First Settlers of New England, James A. Savage; Vol. IV, p. 642.

WOODWARD ( allied with Pomeroy) Henry Woodward was the son of Thomas and Elizabeth Woodward of Much Woolton, England, five miles from Liverpool. He came to America in the ship, James, with Richard Mather in 1635. He was of Dorchester, a member of the church in 1639, Freeman and proprietor in 1643. With Clark and Gunecliffe he removed in 1647 to Northhampton. He was a man of force and character and was much in the public service. He was Com­ missioner and Townsman, a member of the board of "Tything men" and one of the "Seven Pillars of the Church." In 1665 the county authorities arranged with him to entertain the Court and, as part of his duties, he was granted leave to sell liquor. Most of the Courts were held in his house until 1689. He owned twelve acres in his home lot, one of the largest in the town, and roo acres of meadow and upland. Among his contributions to Harvard College from N orthhampton was "8 pounds of flax valued at 8 shillings, from Henry Woodward." He was Quartermaster of the Hampshire Troop in 1663 and is frequently referred to as Quarter-master Woodward. A troop of horsemen was not to exceed 70 soldiers; each trooper was to have a good Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King 75 horse, saddle, bridle, holster, pistol or carbine, and sword. A troop had a Captain, Lieutenant, Cornet, two Quartermasters. Each soldier was allowed by the Cavalry 5 shillings for keep for his horse. Henry Woodward built a grist mill where he was killed, struck by lightning in 1685. His wife's name was Elizabeth; she died on 7 April, 1690. They had three daughters, Free­ dom, Thankful and Experience.

Experience ·Woodward, daughter of Henry and Elizabeth (---) Woodward, married Medad Pomeroy on 21 November, 1661. She died 8 June, 1686.

REFERENCE A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, James A. Savage; Vol. IV, p,. 642.

TAYLOR ( allied with Granger) Stephen Taylor of Windsor, Conn., came from Haverhill, Suffolk County, England. He came with one of "\i\Tinthrop's fleets. His first wife was Sarah Hosford and, after her death, he married, second, on 25 October, 1649, Elizabeth Newall. Stephen Taylor was in the list of Freemen in October, 1669. Stiles calls him 66 years of age in 1684, which would make the year of his birth 16r8; and gives the date of his death as December, 1717, which, if true, would have him as 99 years old when he died. Other authorities give his death as in September, 1688, and that of his wife, Eliza­ beth (Newall) Taylor as in August, 1689.

Mindwell Taylor, daughter of Stephen and Elizabeth (Newall) Taylor, was born at Windsor, Conn., 5 November, 1663, and married Thomas Granger on 14 November, 1683.

REFERENCE A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, James A. Savage; Vol. IV, p. 264. PART SEVEN

Ancestors of Thomas Botsford

BOTSFORD The name of Botsford appears as a place-name in County Leicester, England, which is probably named for the family of Botsford, for it is a very ancient one, being recorded in Domesday Book, 1086, as that of the possessors of lands and tenements in Leicestershire and descendants of the Britons. A distinguished member of the family was Rev. John Botsford, a powerful preacher living in 1550; his sermons were published.

Henry Botsford was born in Leicestershire, England, in 1610 and emi­ grated to America in 1638, settling at Milford, Conn., and accompanied by his wife, Elizabeth --- and one son, Elnathan. Milford was settled in that year by a company from New Haven, Conn., and was, as described by Captain Staughton, a place "having a fair harbor and abounding in rich and goodly meadow surpassing 'all the New England region;" and he adds, "probably it is that the Dutch will seize it if the English do not, it is too good for any but friends." Dwight speaks of the Milford settlers as men "distinguished for their excellent characters" and Trumbull says, "The principal men deserved to be at the head of a colony." Most of these men had come to America in 1637, arriving at Boston in June of that year. They were part of the Davenport and Eaton company, "men of wealth and the highest respectability." They were led by two Puritan ministers of renown, John Davenport, pastor of one of London's wealthiest congregations, and Peter Prudden of Edgerton, Yorkshire. Winthrop tried to induce them to stay in Massachusetts but they preferred to form a separate colony and pro­ ceeded to Connecticut. Of this company were the settlers at Milford, Peter Prudden coming with them. Henry Botsford and his wife, Elizabeth, united with the church on 25 June, 1644. He was a Corporal in the expedition against the Dutch in 1654. Henry Botsford was recorded as owning a lot of over 2 acres in Milford in 1646. These original lots were allotted in pro­ portion to the amount given toward the purchase of the land from the In­ dians in 1639 and based also upon the number of the members of the family. In 168o he purchased a large tract of land in "Camp Mortgage;" his Will is dated I February, 1686, and is followed by an inventory made in April of the same year; in it he mentions his wife, Elizabeth, and his daughters. On Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King 77 the occasion of the 250th. anniversary of the settlement of Milford in 1889, a bridge was dedicated to the memory of the first settlers, on the north side of which are all their names, and there can be read: "Henry Botsford, obit., 1686; Elizabeth, his wife." The arms of Henry Botsford of Milford, Conn., are: A field argent, per bend of bend sable,· charged with three water bow gets argent ; surmounted by a gentleman's helmet, wreathed argent and sable; crest, a dove; motto, J e suis pret. A water bowget is a very conventionalized animal skin used to carry water in the armies of the Crusades, and it is a very ancient charge. The dove is the emblem of the Holy Spirit. The motto = I am prepared. All these symbols would indicate that the arms had been granted to some ancestor of Henry Botsford who had been a most ardent crusader. The colors, argent and sable (silver and black) are supposed to have been the colors of the liveries of the house of Botsford.

Elnathan Botsford, only son of Henry and Elizabeth Botsford, was born in England in 1636 and came to America with his parents in 1638. He was baptized at Milford, Conn., on 14 August, 1641. He married, first, on 12 December, 1655, Elizabeth Fletcher, who died in 166o, leaving three chil­ dren. On 14 October, 1667 he married, second, Hannah Baldwin, daughter of Timothy Baldwin. At the death of his father in 1686 he received the land included in the Camp Mortgage purchase, of which Henry Botsford had bought a large tract. His signature, one of the oldest at Milford as a witness to a deed in 1667, is owned by a descendant at the present time. Elnathan died in 1691.

Henry Botsford, Sr., son of Elnathan and Hannah (Baldwin) Botsford, was born on 12 September, 1676, at Milford, Conn. He married, 12 No­ vember, 1700, Christianna Gunn. He removed to Newton, living there until his death. He made a Will (Danbury Court Records) on 25 April, 1747, which was proved on the following 25 October, in which he mentions his wife, Christianna, and his children, Henry, Moses, Abel, Christianna, Ben­ net, Miriam Seeley and Jane Sherman.

Henry Botsford, Jr., son of Henry, Sr., and Christianna (Gunn) Bots­ ford, was born on 16 May, 1708. He married Sarah ---. Nothing is known of the life of Henry Botsford, Jr., of Newton. He made a Will (Danbury Court Records) on 22 April, 1779, probated 2 September, 1783, in which he mentions his wife, Sarah, and his children, Isaac, Susanna, Northrup, Jane, Lewis, James, Joel, and Ezra's (sic) four children, Kesiah, Polly, Eli and Thomas Gage and the heirs of Hepsibah Sherman. (Sic). Ezra was the son of Henry, Jr., and Christianna (Gunn) Botsford. Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King Ezra Botsford, son of Henry, Jr., and Sarah (--) Botsford, is estab­ lished as their child by the Will of his father. There is no date either of his birth or of his death in the town records of the time, these data having been lost in a destructive fire at Danbury, the county seat. It is known that he died before 1773, when his widow, Hepsibah (Hubbell) Botsford, who was born in 1749, went "from somewhere in Connecticut (since proven to have been Newtown) to Chatham, N. Y., with her four children, Kesiah, Polly, Eli and Thomas." Hepsibah Botsford went from Chatham, N. Y., to Athens, N. Y., where she became the wife of the pioneer of Athens, Joseph Colson. She died in 1813.

Thomas Gage Botsford, according to the "\i\Till of his grandfather, was the son of Ezra and Hepsibah (Hubbell) Botsford. About 1800 he married Sarah, daughter of the Rev. Reuben Lay of Chatham, N. Y. The date of his death is unknown but he died, when quite young, of smallpox in New York

Anne Botsford, daughter of Thomas Gage and Sarah (Lay) Botsford, was born on 27 June, 18o4; she married in Athens, N. Y., Captain Fred­ erick Granger Deming on 25 June, 1827. She was married by the Rev. Joseph Prentiss, Rector of Trinity Church ( in New York City?). She died in Brooklyn, N. Y., on 25 April, 1891.

Francis Anna Deming, daughter of Frederick Granger and Anne (Bots­ ford) Deming, was born on 1 January, 1833, at Athens, N. Y. She married Silas Holbrook King and was the mother of Robert Courtney King and grandmother of Charles Daly King.

REFERENCES A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, James A. Savage. Notes on Botsford, S. D. Woolley.

BALDVl!N ( allied with Botsford) Baldwin is an old name and was quite common as early as the Conquest of England. It appears in the roll of Battle Abbey and there was in England a Baldwin as early as 672. Everyone knows of the Baldwin, Earl of Flan­ ders, who married Elstruth, daughter of Alfred the Great, and Baldwin, the fifth Earl of Flanders, who married a daughter of Robert of France, whose daughter, Matilda, married William the Conqueror. The ancestors of many of the Baldwins living in the United States came from County Bucks, Eng­ land, and the name seems to have been common there from very early times, Baldwin de Hampden having been one of the Norman favorites of Edward Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly Ki'.ng 79 the Confessor. However, the descent of the divers Baldwins in America from royalty is purely traditional and rests upon no better ground than fancy.

Richard Baldwin, described as "of Donrigge" in the Parish of Ashton­ Clinton, County Bucks, England, yoeman, made his \\Till on 16 January, 1552, in the reign of Edward VI. In the body of his \i\Till his name is spelled Bawldwyn. The following is an abstract of the \i\Till: "To be buried in the church at Ashton-Clinton; to daughter, Alis, 20 marks when married; to daughter, Agnes, .fr2 when 19; to daughters, Cicely and Letise, fro when 19; to son, John, farm at Dungrove in Parish of Chesham, when 23; if he die before that, to son, Henry; to son, Richard, my tenements in Cholesbury and lands belonging thereto, when 23; to wife, Ellen, and son, Henry the rents of said houses and lands toward bringing up the children; to Hugh Baldwin, his brother's son, :£6.13.4." He gave small bequests to his god­ children, to tenants and servants; to his son, Henry, IO silver spoons and a maser ( a bowl or goblet of wood) ; the rest of his personal estate to his wife, Ellen, and son, Henry, who were Executors. He makes the Overseers of his Will his brother, John Baldwin, and John A. Puke. The Will was proved in the Court of the Archdeaconry of Bucks, England, on 21 Feb­ ruary, 1552 or 1553. The widow's original is among the records of that court but the date of probate is missing. The VVill was made in the 8th. year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I or between 24 October and 24 November, 1565. The parish records of Ashton-Clinton did not contain the date of her burial and she may have lived with her son, John, and been buried at Chesham. She may have been Ellen, sister of John A. Puke, named by her husband as his brother-in-law. If so, her family name is represented by the modern name, Pooke. Dundridge ~fanor is in Ashton-Clinton, which is a quiet little parish about four miles from Aylesbury, a country town. In the Chapel of St. Leonards are buried the Baldwins of Donrigge; it lies much nearer to Cholesbury than to the church at Ashton-Clinton.

Richard Baldwin, son of Richard and Ellen (Puke?) Baldwin, was un­ der 23 years of age when by his father's Will be was to have the tenements and lands at Cholesbury after reaching that age. He was a weaver in the latter town and made his Will, dated 23 May, 1630. He gave to his wife, Isabell one-third of his goods and chattels; to his son, Nathaniel, £ ro; to his son, Joseph, when 21, one-half acre of land called Huntswick; to his daughter, Mary Pratt, to.6.8; to his daughter, Hannah, ir3.6.8; and to his other daughters, Christian and Sarah, each tro, when 21 or married; all the rest to his son, Timothy, who was his Executor and proved the \\Till in the Court of the Archdeaconry of Bucks, England, on 16 May, 1633. 80 Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King Timothy Baldwin, son of Richard and Isabell Baldwin, was one of the first settlers of Milford, Conn., in 1639. He joined the church there with Mary, his wife, in 1643. His wife died on 31 July, 1647. Timothy lived for a while in Guilford, Conn. He married, second, on 5 March, 1645, Mary Mepham, the widow of John Mepham of Guilford, Conn. About 1651 or 1652 they sold the Mepham property and moved back to Milford, Conn., where Mary Baldwin joined the church in 1653. Timothy Baldwin died on 17 January, 1664 or 1665, and his widow married, for the third time, Thomas Tapping.

Hannah Baldwin, daughter of Timothy and Mary ( the first wife) Baldwin, was baptized in August, 1644. She married, as his second wife, Elnathan Botsford of Milford, Conn., on 14 October, 1667. The date of her death is unknown.

REFERENCE The Baldwin Genealogy, C. C. Baldwin, 1881 ; pp. 9, 20, 22, 67, 402, 404.

GUNN ( allied with Botsford)

Jasper Gunn, the emigrant ancestor, came to New England in the ship, Defence, in 1635, being then aged 29. He settled at Roxbury and after sev­ eral years removed to Milford, Conn., but was at Hartford, Conn., as early as 1648. He was a man of active temperament and versatile talent. In 1649 he was freed from watching during the time he attended his service at the mill. In 1656 he was "freed from training, watching and warding during his practice of phissicke." He removed to Milford, Conn., where he was Dea­ con and, it is said, schoolmaster, also practicing as an attorney. He was Representative from Milford, Conn., in 1663. He had wives, Mary and Christianna. In his Will he gives his sons lands and stocks and his daughter, Mehitable "one of Mr. Hooker's books and my Aynsworth's Communion of Saints." His widow, Christian Gunn, died in 1690.

Jobamah Gunn, son of Jasper and Christian Gunn, was born in 1641. He married Sarah, daughter of John Lane of Milford, Conn., on 30 Oc­ tober, 1663.

Christianna Gunn, daughter of Jobamah and Sarah (Lane) Gunn, was born at Milford, Conn., on 3 August, 1677. She married, in November, 1700, Henry Botsford, the ceremony being performed by Governor Robert Treat. Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King 81

REFERENCES History of Milford, Conn. An American Family, Botsford-Marble: Ancestral Lines of Otis Marble Botsford, Donald Lines Jacobus, New Haven, Conn., 1933.

LANE ( allied with Gunn) John Lane was a citizen of Milford, Conn., as early as 1642 and was one of the first settlers. He was a resident there "with wife and good estate." His first wife'~ name is not recorded but on II April, 1662, he was married by Robert Treat, Magistrate, to "Mary, the widow Camp," who lived at Chestnut Hill in New Haven, Conn. At a General Assembly held at Hart­ ford, Conn., on II May, 1665, John Lane was admitted a Freeman and sworn. He died in 1669, and his Will was proved on IO September, 1669. His widow died in 1680.

Sarah Lane, daughter of John Lane and his first wife, was baptized on 17 April, 1642; she married, on 30 October, 1663, Jobamah Gunn.

REFERENCE The Lane Genealogy, James Hill Fitts, Exeter, N. H., 1897; Vol. II, Part III, pp. 219, .221. PART EIGHT

Ancestors of Sarah Lay

LAY-LAYE The Lays in America are descended from three brothers, John Lay, Sr., of Lyme, Conn., Robert Lay of Saybrook, Conn., and Edward Lay of Portsmouth, R. I.

John Laye of Lyme, Conn., commonly called John Lay, Sr., who had emigrated in or prior to 1648, appeared at Saybrook, Conn.-"on the east side of the great river"-afterwards Lyme. He had, among others, two sons, John born in 16 54 and John born in 1670, the latter a child of his second marriage. The repetition of the name may be attributed to the desire of the second wife that her son should have his father's name or that of her own father. John Lay, Sr., made a Will on 16 January, 1675, in which he men­ tions: his wife, Abigail; "my son, John, that I had by my first wife;" daughter Abigail; "sons, James, Peter and John, whom I had by my pres­ ent wife;" daughters, Susanna and Elizabeth. The early Lays were among the largest landed proprietors of Lyme, Conn., owning on both sides of Meeting House Hill, overlaying it, in fact; while the graveyard at its top has many of their graves. The name of the first wife is unknown and the given name only of the second wife, Abigail, is known. John Lay, Sr., died between 16 January, 1675, and 16 February, 1675. (Probate Records)

John Lay, the first son, or John Lay, Jr., died 25 January, 17II or 1712, aged 57. He was therefore born in 1654 or 1655. The name of his first wife is unknown. He married, second Joanna ---.

Joseph Lay, son of John, Jr., and Joanna (---) Lay, was born at Lyme, Conn., in 1702; there, on 5 February, 1734 or 1735, he married Mercy Deming. Joseph Lay died in 1797, aged 95.

Rev. Reuben Lay, son of Joseph and Mercy (Deming) Lay, was born at Lyme, Conn., on IO September, 1751, and died at Chatham, N. Y. in 1835. Like his grandfather, David Deming, he became a clergyman. He married Elizabeth Southerland. From his Will on file at Hudson, N. Y., the names of his children have been found. Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King Sarah Lay, daughter of Reuben and Elizabeth ( Southerland) Lay, was born on IO September, 1781, at Chatham, N. Y. There she married, about 1800, Thomas Gage Botsford; and after his death she married Nathan Bouton of Troy, N. Y. She died at Coxsackie, N. Y., on 23 August, 1879, aged 98 years.

REFERENCE Family Histories and Genealogies, Edward Elbridge Salisbury and Evelyn McCurdy Salisbury, 1892; Vol. I, Part I, p. 333; Vol. III, Part II, Pedigree Chart VII.

DEMING (allied with Lay) The sketch of the first Deming, the emigrant ancestor, has already been given; thus these data begin with the second generation.

David Deming, son of John and Honor (Treat) Deming, was born about 1652 at Wethersfield, Conn. He died on 4 May, 1725, and was buried in Granary Burying Ground, Boston, Mass. On 14 August, 1678 in Wethersfield, Conn., he married Mary---, who died in Boston, Mass., on 14 October, 1724, aged 72 years. David Deming remained at Wethers­ field, Conn., as late as 1690, in which year he received a tract of land there from his father. In 1699 he was at Cambridge, Mass., where he is called a "fence-viewer," and in 1700 he was "tything man." He owned the Brattle estate, extending from Brattle Square to Ash Street. Before November, 1707, he removed to Boston, Mass:, at which date he sold the westerly por­ tion of this estate to Andrew Belcher and easterly portion, including the house, to the Rev. William Brattle. In the conveyance he is called Knacker, which has been defined as a maker of small work, "a rope maker." In his Will, dated 23 April, 1725, he discharges his son, David, of a debt of .£Too; to his grandson, Joseph Deming, son of Hannah Deming, Widow, he leaves "all that my dwelling house which I now dwell in, fronting Newbury Street, with all the garden and premises now belonging." In case of Joseph's death before he becomes 21, then his brother, John Deming, is to have the prop­ erty. The inventory lists 15 seal-skins, 17 sheep-skins and leather and tools. It also includes Benjamin Deming's time (sic) valued at £24 and the Indian boy, valued at £60. David Deming's first three children were born at Wethersfield, Conn. The family name of his wife is unknown.

David Deming (Jr.) son of David and Mary (---) Deming, was born at Wethersfield, Conn., on 20 July, 1681; and died on 6'February, 1745 or 1746 at North Lyme, Conn.; he married on 18 November, 1708, at Boston, Mass., Mercy Bridgham. Rev. David Deming was educated at Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King Harvard College, from which institution he graduated in 1700. Soon after his marriage he bought land at Middletown, Conn., and there his son, David, was born. It does not appear that he took charge of the church there, al­ though it is said that he preached there. It is probable that he moved back to the vicinity of Boston, Mass., after a few years and he may have been the pastor of a church at Needham, Mass., for at a meeting there on 29 October, 1712, it was voted "yt ye Town should give Robert Fuller 12 pence a week for his House Rent a year and Roome in his Barn for to lay hay for to keep the rev. Mr. Deming's Cattell, and that Robert Fuller should provide a con­ venient study for Mr. Deming in case that Robert Fuller should want his little roome in ye spring of ye year." David Deming (Jr.) was ordained Minister of the church of Medway, Mass., on 17 November, 1715, but on account of his wife disliking to reside in the vicinity of Boston he gave up his charge there on 24 September, 1722. After leaving Medway Mr. Deming settled at Lyme, Conn. He is said to have been a tall, handsome man and his wife, who was a few years his senior, to have been quite small but very much of a lady.

Mercy Deming, daughter of David (Jr.) and Mercy (Bridgham) Dem­ ing, was born probably at Needham, Mass. She married, 5 February, 1734, Joseph Lay of Lyme, Conn.

REFERENCE Genealogy of the Descendants of John Deming of Wethersfield, Judson Keith Deming, Dubuque, Io., 1904; pp. 9, 12, 14, 29, 30.

BRIDGHAM ( allied with Deming)

Henry Bridgham, tanner, was at Dorchester, Mass., in 1641 and was made a Freeman on IO May, 1643. He removed to Boston, Mass., where he was admitted to the church as a single man in 1644. He married Elizabeth Harding, daughter of John Harding of Boreham, England, yoeman. Henry Bridgham's Will is dated 8 September, 1670; probated in 1672. In it he directs his wife, Elizabeth, and son, Jonathan, to carry on the tan yard and complete the education of sons, Joseph, Benjamin, Samuel and James-son, John or Jonathan, having been "already educated." The estate inventories :£3608.19.0. His widow's Will was probated on 5 November, 1672.

Jonathan Bridgham was born in 1645, the son of Henry and Elizabeth (Harding) Bridgham. He married Elizabeth ---, and lived at Boston, Mass. Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King Mercy Bridgham, daughter of Jonathan and Elizabeth (---) Bridg­ ham, was baptized in the First Church of Boston, Mass., on 7 July, 1675. She was married by Mr. Benjamin Wadsworth to Rev. David Deming on 16 September, 1708. Mercy (Bridgham) Deming died in December, 176o, aged 85 years. Her father, Mr. Bridgham, bought a township within half a day's ride of Boston, Mass., and, dying, left one son and a daughter, Mercy or Mariah. The rights of the township were lost but Mrs. Deming received by her father's will £1500 at the age of 18. She was a few years older than her husband and "no bigger than a pint cup, but a complete lady as ever you did set eyes on. She had been brought up very delicately in Bos­ ton and, although she resided not more than 40 rods from the school, she had a negro to draw her there and back in a hand coach." (Reminiscences of Elizabeth Deming Marvin.)

Mercy Deming, daughter of David (Jr.) and Mercy (Bridgham) Dem­ ing, married Joseph Lay of Lyme, Conn.

REFERENCE The Pioneers of Massachusetts, Charles Henry Pope, Boston, Mass., 1900; p. 68. Appendix to Book I

Containing data on the controversies regarding the Pomeroy and Seymour pedigrees, also the disputed lines of descent of the respective families.

THE POMEROY CONTROVERSY As previously set forth, the question in dispute is the pedigree of Elt­ weed Pomeroy, the emigrant ancestor, who was born and baptized at Bea­ minster, Dorset, England. The Facts in the Matter The baptismal record of Eltweed Pomeroy reads as follows: "1585. "Beaminster: Eltwitt, son of Richarde Pomeraye, was christened the fowerth of Julie." Endorsed : "This is the first entry in the (surviving) records. signed : A. A. Leonard, Vicar. Beaminster Parish Church, Dorset." To which the Vicar later adds: "You may remember my giving you the date of the baptism of Eltweed Pomeroy, son of Richard. I have copied the Diocesan Records to the end of 1624 and find two other brothers of Eltweed who were christened in Beaminster Church. Yours faithfully, (signed) A. A. Leonard, Vicar." The thus established children of Richard Pomeroy were Eltweed, Edward and Henry. The immediate descent of Eltweed Pomeroy is therefore ascertained: he was the son of Richard Pomeroy. And the question is now pushed back by one generation, so that we must ask concerning the pedigree of this Richard Pomeroy, the father of Eltweed. We now go back a generation or so to Richard Pomeroy, son of Thomas and Agnes (Kellaway) Pomeroy, who was unquestionably of the distin­ guished Berry-Pomeroy line. He was not the Father of Eltweed, the man now in question. He married Eleanor, daughter of John Coker of May­ powder, Dorset, and by her had two sons, Henry and John Pomeroy. It is between this latter generation ( of Henry and John Pomeroy) and Richard Pomeroy, the father of Eltweed, that the gap in the discoverable records exists. In the original edition of the Pomeroy Genealogy it was claimed that Richard Pomeroy, the father of Eltweed, was either the son or the grand- Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King son of Henry Pomeroy, in turn the son of Richard Pomeroy, son of Thomas Pomeroy, above; and this of course connected him directly with the line of Berry-Pomeroy. But later research purported to show that the Henry Pomeroy, son of Richard Pomeroy of the Berry-Pomeroy line, had had no sons; and the descent of Eltweed Pomeroy, the emigrant ancestor, was thus then traced through John Pomeroy, the brother of Henry Pomeroy, above. It is this latter genealogical descent which is now in dispute.

The Case for the Opposition This will be stated by quoting at length from an abstract provided to the editor by Miss Martha Collins, a genealogist, of Hartford, Conn. It is headed: "The American Genealogist, Vol. 9, pp. 235-239. By Donald Lines Jacobus, M.A., of New Haven, Conn." And it proceeds as follows: "The History and Genealogy of the Pomeroy Family, a handsome vol­ ume by Albert A. Pomeroy, published in 1912, purported to trace the an­ cestry of Eltvveed Pomeroy, the American settler, to the armorial family of Pomeroy of Berry-Pomeroy, County Devon. Eltweed was baptized at Bea­ minster, County Dorset, 4 July, 1585, as son of Richard Pomeroy, and the Pomeroy book claimed that this Richard was identical with Richard, son of Henry Pomeroy of Totnes, County Devon, a descendant of the Berry­ Pomeroy family. "In conne_ction with the Pomeroy heraldry a facsimile of a manuscript pedigree was inserted opposite page 108 of the Pomeroy book, with a certi­ fication at the bottom which read: 'I certify that the above is a true reading of the words shown in the photograph of Harleian MS 1091 submitted to me this day, and that the heraldic interpretation is correct, after the repre­ sentation in the said photograph supplied to me by CoL A. A. Pomeroy. (signed) C. A. Hoppin, London, May 15, 1911.' "In fairness to Mr. Hoppin, a genealogist of repute, we must digress to point out that his certificate applied to the photograph- submitted to him, not to the original manuscript in the British Museum; also that in the course of the controversy which ens\led, Mr. Hoppin stated in print that he had not seen the original manuscript at the time he gave the above certificate; and finally that Col. Pomeroy, also in print, assumed entire personal respon­ sibility for certain changes and additions in the pedigree before the photo­ graph was made. "The pedigree, as printed in the Pomeroy book, contained the name of Eltweed Pomeroy, with lines drawn to indicate that he was the son of Richard and with another line drawn to indicate that the said Richard was son of Henry, whose ancestry was charted for several generations, showing his descent from the Berry-Pomeroy family. In January, 1914, The New England Historfral and Genealogical Register (Vol. 68, pp. 47-56) printed 88 Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King an article on the Pomeroy family, contributed by Miss Elizabeth French ( afterwards Mrs. J. Gardner Bartlett), illustrated with a photographic reproduction of Harleian MS ro91 as it actually reads in the original in the British Museum. The pedigree really stops with Henry and his brother, John, and no children of Henry are named ; the alleged son, Richard, and grandson, Eltweed, do not appear. "Furthermore, the Register article printed abstracts of Wills and other records which proved that the above-mentioned Henry did have a son, Richard, but that this Richard died in Cornworthy, County Devon, in 1621, leaving no surviving issue, as convincingly indicated by the Wills of him­ self, of his widow and of others. "It became quite clear, therefore, that the names of Richard and Elt­ weed, as son and grandson of Henry Pomeroy, were added to the original pedigree, which in consequence lost any evidential value it might have had towards establishing the ancestral line of Eltweed, if his name had actually appeared on it. A bitter controversy followed, in which many points were raised that were not germane to the real issue and which we have no wish to revive. It need only be said that Col. Pomeroy accepted the responsibility for correcting certain errors which the original pedigree contained and (by implication, if not explicitly) for adding two generations to the pedi­ gree, bringing it down to include Eltweed. He was not, so far as we know, a genealogist by profession; doubtless (he)· made only such alterations and additions as he then believed to be true ; and quite likely did not pause to reflect that the printing of an altered pedigree in such guise that it could be mistaken for an original one might render his motives liable to an un­ pleasant construction. "That the position taken in the Register article was essentially just as tacitly admitted by Albert A. Pomeroy, in The History and Genealogy of the Pomeroy Family, Part 3, which was published in 1922, for the line of Eltweed's father, Richard, through Henry, as previously alleged, is there abandoned, and we find instead that Henry's known brother, John, appears as the father of Richard and grandfather of Eltweed." (Editor's note : The foregoing sentence is hopelessly ungrammatical ; it seems to mean that the later substitution of John for Henry as the father or grandfather of Richard, father of Eltweed, indicates an admission of all the previous allegations. It indicates, of course, nothing of the kind; on its face it shows simply that an incorrect line of descent has been changed to a correct one.) "On page 41, where the new line of descent is set forth, we read: 'While we had strong reasons for the statement that John Pomeroy's elder brother, Henry, was the grandfather of Eltweed, our commissioner in England has demonstrated by record that John Pomeroy, the younger brother, was the vital man in the connection; therefore, the proper correction of the alleged Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King weak link in the Pomeroy pedigree has been made to the best of our knowl­ edge and belief.' "When we seek in this volume the evidence on which the new claim is based, we fail to find full and positive proof or anything approaching it. A John Pomeroy, gent., was located in Netherbury, County Dorset, not far from Beaminster, and it is assumed that he was identical with John, the brother of Henry of Totnes, County Devon, above referred to, and it is also assumed that this John, gent., of N etherbury was father or grand­ father of Richard, the known father of Eltweed. The evidence for both of these vital points seems to be entirely circumstantial and (may we say?) somewhat vague. "For example, in Mr. Hoppin's report accompanying the vast amount of English Pomeroy data which he diligently collected for publication in this volume, we read: 'John Pomeroy, Gent., of the tithing of Borwood in the parish of Netherby in 1539, a man of arms and armor, must be our man.' It is claimed that this gentleman was the progenitor of all the numer­ ous Pomeroys who appear in Dorsetshire shortly after, or only of the Elt­ weed Pomeroy family? Again we read: 'Richard Pomeroy, father of Elt­ weed was (how can we doubt it?) son or grandson of the said John; and I expect that the said John's widow ( or a widow of a son of his) married Wrixon, or that the said John ( or a son of his) married first a widow W rixon who had children named W rixon who became called "Wrixon alias Pomeroy." ' "This theory is offered to explain certain records found in Symonds­ bury, a parish very close to Beaminster, where Eltweed was born. In Symondsbury Mr. Hoppin found burials recorded of a Richard Pomeroy and of Elinor, wife of Richard, both in 1612, and these he believes to be identical with the parents of Eltweed, whose father was known to be named Richard. But in Symondsbury there are numerous entries relating to a family whose name variously appears as 'Pomeroy,' 'Wrixon' and 'Wrixon alias Pomeroy.' Hence the above theory offered in explanation, that a group of W rixon children whose mother had been or became the wife of a Pomeroy, adopted an alias. But granting the validity of the theory, is there not danger in it? Just how can we be certain that the father of Eltweed was not a Wrixon, or son of a Wrixon, who thus adopted the name Pomeroy as an alias? "It is not my purpose to raise obstacles. But while realizing that the genealogist in the field is often better qualified to form a correct opinion, and despite my admiration for the brilliant analytical powers of Mr. Hop­ pin, I must confess my inability to see any tangible proof, or any cogent reason, for making Richard, the father of Eltweed, a son or grandson of John Pomeroy of Netherbury. The problem admits of more than one 90 Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King solution; Mr. Hoppin's opinion is entitled to respect but others may con­ scientiously arrive at a contrary opinion ; and the parentage of Richard would seem to remain a matter of opinion rather than of proof or even of really strong circumstantial evidence. "Mr. Allaben in his polemic article which was reprinted in Part 3 of the Pomeroy book, made the claim that all of the Pomeroy family were entitled to use the arms of the Berry-Pomeroy family, since he regarded it as certain that all the Pomeroys descended from that family, whether or not their exact lineage could be traced. This claim is quite effectively neg­ atived by the discovery of the 'Wrixon alias Pomeroy' family of Sym­ ondsbury, especially if we accept Mr. Hoppin's conclusion that they were Wrixons by blood. It is always a wise precaution to establish descent from the armigerous family by irrefragable proof before adopting their arms. "The History and Genealogy of the Pomeroy Family stated that Elt­ weed Pomeroy was called 'Mr.' in contemporary records and drew the proper inference that this signified the 'gentility' of his family. However, neither in the published Colonial Records of Massachusetts or Connecticut nor in the Windsor records of Mathew Grant nor in the published Dor­ chester Town Records nor in Winthrop's Journal have we seen the ap­ pellation of 'Mr.' applied to Eltweed Pomeroy. On the other hand, in Stile's History of Ancient Windsor, Vol. 1, near the top of page 154, 'Goodman Pomeroy' is mentioned in a quoted deed. The inference of gentility therefore fails, unless the statement in the Pomeroy book is borne out by reference to the specific record in which Eltweed was called 'Mr.' If any reader can supply such quotation and reference, we shall be happy to print them in a subsequent issue of the Genealogist and to withdraw the present tentative objection. That Eltweed was a citizen of good standing, there can be no doubt; but it is noticeable that in 1634, at a time when he was Constable of Dorchester, we find official Massachusetts records group­ ing him with others in the following terms: 'Mr. Hull, Willm Gallerd, Elt­ weed Pomeroy, Mr. Willm Hill & Mr. Willm Haythorne ;" where three out of five were dignified with the prefix which was withheld from his name. In most public records he is mentioned thus, by his full name.'' The abstract continues with the following from the American Genealo­ gist and New Haven Genealogical Magazine, Vol. II, p. 52, signed by "D.L.J.": "Pomeroy. In reviewing the two claims or statements which have been put forward relative to the descent of Eltweed Pomeroy from the Berry­ Pomeroy family (Vol. 9, pp. 235-239) we inquired whether any reader could supply the reference to the record in which Eltweed was called 'Mr.' Mr. Clarence A. Torrey of Dorchester, Mass., has kindly supplied it. It is in the Dorchester Town Records in 1633 (Fourth Report of the Record Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King 91 Commissioners, Boston, p. 3) ; and he is mentioned three other times in the same records but without the dignifying prefix ( ibid., pp. 2, 4, 16). The social standing of Eltweed, we affirm without hesitation, does not preclude the belief that he may. have been descended from a younger branch of the Berry-Pomeroy family. Record evidence for the exact line of descent back of his father, Richard, seems to be lacking, as we were unable to find in the third part of The History and Genealogy of the Pomeroy Family any evi­ dence that said Richard was son of John Pomeroy of Netherbury or even that that gentleman had a son, Richard; and if we understand correctly the statements made in that volume (q. v., pp. 41, 172), the claim that Eltweed's father, Richard, was son of John, was put forward as a matter of belief or of opinion rather than of proved fact, for it was suggested therein (p. 172) that Richard might have been son 'or grandson' of John. Since that much of uncertainty was admitted by those responsible for the Pom­ eroy book, we cannot understand the passionate insistence of some descend­ ants that the tentative pedigree put forward therein must be accepted with­ out question, study or argument. We are still 'from Missouri.' " This concludes the points submitted to the editor in dispute of the Eltweed Pomeroy claim by Miss Martha Collins of Hartford, Conn. and, as she was specifically commissioned to supply the negative evidence to him upon which the disputation rests, he assumes that all the data substantial to the alleged refutation have been included.

Comment To begin with, it must be granted thatJ scarcely any of the data to which genealogical research has access, is of an impressively trustworthy nature. They consist first of written records and, second, of such circum­ stantial evidence as may be drawn from the known facts by properly con­ trolled inductive and deductive logical processes. As to the former, they are · chiefly comprised of illiterate scrawls upon ill-preserved or actually decay­ ing sheets or manuscripts, for the most part haphazardly and carelessly kept in old church files or early town documentation; that is certainly the case in the United States and the reproductions of similar English data show them to be little, if any, better. The interpretation of such data is often a matter of personal opinion, of necessity involving deductive and other logical steps referable solely to the interpreter in question and going beyond the surface actuality of the relics themselves. No doubt professional genealogists deprecate this circumstance as greatly as does anyone else­ and certainly they are not responsible for it-but it remains that the raw material with which they must work, is hardly of an unquestionable or irrefragible kind. As to the circumstantial testimony, it is usually of so common sense and obvious a nature as to be equivalent to the famous Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King fish-in-the-milk variety. For instance, if the same name is found in the same small locality during a short and specific interval of time, the evidential weight that it belongs to the same person or persons is so heavy as to place the burden of strikingly direct counter-evidence upon the challenger. And in the estimation of all data of this circumstantial sort an equal obligation rests both upon the proponents and upon the opponents of a given proposition to employ a strict and rigorous syllogistic logic in the construction of the rational grounds upon which they rest their re­ spective cases. This last requirement is so plainly absent from the American Geneal­ ogist article, abstracted above, as to demand an analysis. Thus on page 236 of the article evidence is adduced "that the above-mentioned Henry did have a son, Richard, but that this Richard died in Cornworthy, County Devon, in r62r, leaving no issue;" but the statement is not only irrelevant, in its brief span it is irrelevant three times. In the first place the case which it is here sought to refute, does not state that Henry had a son, Richard, but instead that he had a son or grandson, Richard; in the second place the son or grandson, Richard, is no longer imputed to Henry but now to John, so that Henry does not in fact enter into the question ; and that makes two irrelevancies. The third consists in the statement about "this Richard" who left no issue; but "this Richard" has nothing to do with the case either, since the Richard with whom we are concerned certainly did leave issue, namely, Eltweed. Thus the statement, whether true or false, has no bearing upon the contention either one way or another and, in turn, it invalidates the logical "therefore" in the succeeding sentence which opens the next para­ graph. In the same next paragraph it is admitted that Col. Pomeroy corrected certain errors in the original pedigree ; and we must ask whether these errors, had they been uncorrected, would have been accepted as "irref­ ragible proof" simply because they continued to exist in writing. The test of irrefragibility seems to be the presence of a written record but, if such records contain errors as in the present instance, what becomes of the irrefragibility? Another minor doubt is raised by the later use of the place-name, Netherbury, by Mr. Jacobus, whereas Mr. Hoppin speaks of N etherby. Are these gentlemen referring to the same or to two different places? And if the same place, what is its actual name? The logically incorrect implication in the next following paragraph of the article has been dealt with by a note in the text. In the succeeding paragraph we find the purely rhetorical query: "Is it claimed that this gentleman was the progenitor of all the numerous Pome­ roys . . . or only of the Eltweed Pomeroy family?" And this, again, is completely irrelevant, since the plaintiff may have it either way he wishes Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King 93 and his choice cannot in any way weaken the case for the defense. The claim is that "this gentleman" was the progenitor of the Eltweed Pomeroy family; and whether or not he held the same position in relation to other Pomeroys, is not germane to the issue. We come rww to the Wrixon question, where the reasoning is likewise faulty and the ·question-"How can we be certain that the father of Eltweed was not a W rixon ?" -does not logically arise from the data set before us. In this respect there exist three classes of persons : those of the Pomeroy blood who called themselves Pomeroy; those of the Wrixon blood who called themselves W rixon ; and those Pomeroy step-children of the W rixon blood who called themselves Wrixon alias Pomeroy when they used the Pomeroy name at all. The father of Eltweed did not call himself either Wrixon or Wrixon alias Pomeroy; to the contrary he called himself, and was called, Pomeroy and thus falls into the first class mentioned, viz., those of the Pomeroy blood. The same circumstance applies to Mr. Allaben's position, next mentioned. What basis he may have had for his assertion re­ garding the general Pomeroy descent, is not known to this editor but, what­ ever it was, it certainly is not "effectively negatived" by the Wrixon de­ tail, for the reaS"On that the W rixons, even when using the Pomeroy suffix, are easily distinguishable from the Pomeroys proper. The final objection concerning the title, Mr., in connection with Eltweed Pomeroy is of no import, since it was withdrawn in the subsequent article quoted; but it can scarcely fail to unsettle our confidence in the accuracy of the underlying research. On page 238 of the American Genealogist article it is stated unambiguously that the title could not be found to be applied to Eltweed Pomeroy, among other references in the published Dorchester Town Records. Yet we discover immediately afterwards that there is just where it is to be found, located by Mr. Clarence A. Torrey through the Fourth Report of the Record Commissioners, Boston, p. 3, Dorchester Town Records. It would seem that adequate research should have uncov­ ered this point at least, before the original article was written. In this short article we therefore find no less than four instances of illogical reasoning and one demonstrated instance of incompetent research. They do not tend to give us confidence in the conclusion to which the article comes, viz., that the alleged connection between Eltweed Pomeroy and the Pomeroy family of Berry-Pomeroy is non-existent. But while we must say that the refutation of the claim is very far from having been established, it still remains for us to examine the grounds for its validity and to deal with the question of motives raised at the conclusion of the above-quoted ab­ stracts. The there mentioned "passionate insistence of some descendants" upon 94 Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King acceptance of the claim very probably is not exaggerated. Unfortunately it is not unusual for us to seek a surrogate for inward emptiness in some ex­ ternal superiority; personal or inherited wealth is often made to serve this purpose, or an entry in a so-called "social register," and so is an illustrious ancestry. When such substitutes for our own real being are threatened or seem to be threatened, there automatically arises an insistence that they be left unquestioned and even in lesser instances the cherishing of such exter­ nal compensations leads to an undoubted bias in their favor and an inability impartially to weigh the evidence for or against them. Thus the proponents of such a claim as is here considered, may reasonably be suspected of a subjectively biased attitude toward it, especially if their own attributes in this respect are personally involved, although naturally there will be many others also whose perfectly legitimate pride in their ancestry will resent an unfounded attack upon reasonable claims. As to all of these persons, their positions are not difficult to understand nor is it hard to make the necessary allowances in what they urge upon us. But what are we to say in the case of those, with no personal stake in the issue, who seem strangely motivated at all costs to attack and to seek to destroy very reasonable claims, to all appearances well-founded? When the circumstantial evidence upon which such claims rest, is considerably better than could well be expected after the lapse of so many years, it is denounced as "somewhat vague" and its upshot as "a matter of opinion rather than proof or even of strong circumstantial evidence." In the present instance it is difficult to see how the circumstances could offer stronger evidence, but in any case the mystery remains as to the motivation at work in the be­ havior of the dissenters. The present editor has had a very small acquaintance or contact with professional genealogists but, although the sample is so meagre, he has found a certain attitude among them to be unanimous and thus perhaps worthy of remark. In his experience American genealogists without exception appear to resent the attempt to trace a line of descent farther back than the ancestor who happened to emigrate to America, "the founder," as they call him. They react to any such suggestion with an instant hostility, as if an exposed nerve had been touched inadvertantly. As to why this should be, the writer is un­ able to offer any demonstrable explanation-and he thinks the matter scarcely of sufficient importance to warrant a further investigation-but it may go some way toward elucidating the present dispute and others like it. Plainly our own interest in the matter is simply to ascertain the facts and to see what conclusion may logically be drawn from them; and the present editor has already shown that his own stake in the issue is so minute that he does not feel personally involved in the outcome. Then let us sum up the situation. Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King 95 The locale of the problem is Beaminster, County Dorset, England, where Eltweed Pomeroy was born, baptized and first married, the last two events being matters of record. In the immediate vicinity is the town of N etherby ( or is it Netherbury?), County Dorset; here lived John Pomeroy, Gent., "a man of arms and armor," alleged to be the John Pomeroy who is known to have been of the direct Berry-Pomeroy descent. In the first instance this is an assumption; but nothing whatever of a definite nature is brought against it and the grounds for accepting it are compelling. John Pomeroy did not rely upon his relationship to his brother, Henry, in order to estab­ lish his family claims ; for that he relied upon the fact that he was the son of Richard Pomeroy, the elder, who was son of Thomas Pomeroy. But if we are searching for a John Pomeroy, Gent., a man of arms and armor, who is the brother of Henry Pomeroy of Totnes, Devon, and if we find John Pomeroy, Gent., a man of arms and armor, living at the exactly proper time at Netherby, Dorset (Devon and Dorset are contiguous and on the map N etherby is some 70 miles distant from Totnes), it is no longer a mere as­ sumption that our discovered John Pomeroy is in fact John Pomeroy, the brother of Henry. It is an assumption now reinforced by strong circum­ stantial evidence. If the force of this argument be not immediately apparent, let its denial be tried upon the Bureau of Internal Revenue the next time that tax agency has located you after a move to the suburbs. It is true that cases of mistaken identity occur; but when two items out of three coincide perfectly ( and moreover within the limits of so, small a locality), the full burden of proof must rest upon those who deny the identity. Such proof should not be impossible to obtain: it is necessary only to show that the John Pomeroy, brother of Henry, was at that time residing somewhere else than at Netherby. Not the slightest evidence of that kind is advanced, perhaps for the simple reason that, if he was then at N etherby, he could not at the same time be somewhere else; only the general occurrence of mis­ taken identity is offered, and in these circumstances that is by no means logically sufficient. On the evidence before us it must be our rational conclu­ sion that John Pomeroy, Gent., of Netherby, Dorset, a man of arms and armor, was likewise John Pomeroy, Gent., a man of arms and armor, brother of Henry Pomeroy of Totnes, Devon. But now what is the evidence that this John Pomeroy, Gent., of Netherby, Dorset, was the forebear of Eltweed Pomeroy of Beaminster, Dorset? Again it is circumstantial. Its first point is that the two towns are almost immediately adjacent; its second point is that within this confined locale it is entirely natural to expect to find these two Pomeroys, grandpere et garandfils. It is a different outcome, not this one, which would demand explanation. On the other hand, from whom is the descent of Eltweed to be deriv~d, if not from this John Pomeroy of the same neighborhood two gen- Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King erations before? The assumption is then further strengthened by the dis­ covery of the burials of Richard Pomeroy and of Elinor, his wife ( of the same name as that of the known parents of Eltweed) at Symonds bury, "a parish very close to Beaminster." The succession now becomes quite clear - John Pomeroy of Netherby, Richard Pomeroy of Symondsbury, Elt­ weed Pomeroy of Beaminster, all in Dorset and all within the same small radius. Surely all this cannot be said to be weak circumstantial evidence and only some equally strong counter-proof could suffice to shake it. The ob­ vious rejoinder is to ask why, since Eltweed's records are extant, no similar records are found relating to his assumed forebears, John and Richard. But this objection, too, is conclusively answered in the testimony of A. A. Leon­ ard, Vicar of the Beaminster Church: he tells us that those records have vanished, that the record of Eltweed's baptism is the first now remaining. Plainly enough such an absence of records by no means proves, or even suggests, that the comparable records of John and Richard did not at some time exist ; the proper inference is clearly that they are among those which have disappeared. Certainly the succession, John Pomeroy-Richard Pom­ eroy-Eltweed Pomeroy, is not conclusively demonstrated by record: but it is also shown why this is too much to demand in the present case. We are confronted by a situation in which all the known circumstances combine to assure us of the correctness of the logical inference from them; and there is not shown to be even a single instance of any comparably spe­ cific fact to the contrary. Under these conditions it appears to the editor that the affirmative contention has by far the better of the argument and that Eltweed's descent from the Pomeroys of Berry-Pomeroy is established at least with a reasonable probability approaching certitude of the genea­ logical kind. It should be noted that this conclusion is not reached by ac­ cepting anything "without question, study or argument," but precisely by a careful consideration of the question and of the arguments so far as they are available to the analyst. The Pomeroy line previous to Eltweed Pomeroy, the emigrant ancestor, will now be presented.

THE LINE OF THE POMEROYS OF BERRY-POMEROY The Pomeroy history begins with Roger, the father of Rudolphus, who is assumed to have been a descendant of some member of that part of the Gothic tribe which landed in Norway and in the course of time became later possessed of Normandy. Freeman in his History of Europe says that "the Normans in the time of William were the most turbulent and aggressive class in Europe" but those war-sons of the mysterious north were a mag­ nificent race of men and eventually produced the noblest elements of civili­ zation, a tribute to their persistent energy and determination to improve Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King 97 their conditions. A fragment of a Norman stronghold still exists in the Anglais not far from Felaise. It is there called Chateau Ganne (Gannelon's Castle), a name given in Normandy to more than one such ruin and com­ memorating the. infamous traitor who betrayed the Christian hosts-"When Charlemagne with all his peerage fell, by Fontarabia." It is really the Chateau de la Pomeraie and here no doubt was the original "pomeraie" or orchard which gave the name to the family and their stronghold. Roger (no surname), living in moo in Normandy. Rudolphus de la Pomeraie was born at Saint Sauveur de la Pomeraie in the Province of La Manche, Normandy, about 1030 (1035-roSo), a son of Roger; was a companion of William the Conqueror in the subjugation of England at the Battle of Hastings, 14 October, 1066, his rank in the army being equivalent to that of Chief of Staff at the present day. His name is on the tablet in the Church at Dives, giving the lists of Knights and Gentlemen who accompanied William, he there being called Raoul de la Pomeraie. He received for his assistance in that fateful battle 58 lordships in County Devon, 3 in Somerset and 2 in Cornwall, besides 16 entered upon. He was one of tb-e first to acquire a surname and was prominent in his native province. His name is in Domesday Book and was in turn conferred upon Berry-Pomeroy, County Devon, England. This celebrated stronghold, which still bears his name, is not far from the River Dart. The castle stands upon a rocky eminence and cannot successfully be attacked except from in front because of the precipitous nature of the other approaches. This was the chief seat of the Pomeroy family for 500 years. The following were living during the periods given: Sir Jocelyn (William) de la Pomeraie (rn80-1133), son of Rudolphus, made many gifts to churches, became refunder of the Diocese of Bert, Bra­ rordin and Clisson in Devon, founded the Abbey de Val to which he gave property. His wife's name was Emma. Sir Henry de la Pomeraie, eldest son of Sir Jocelyn and Emma ( l 120- u66), is mentioned in the reigns of Henry I and Henry II as paying the danegelt in Devon. He married Rohesia, a daughter of Henry I by Sidella, daughter of Sir Robert Corbert, Lord of Alcester, County Warwick. Ro­ hesia was the sister of Reginald, Earl of Cornwall, and had a grant from him of the Manor of Ridiwari in Cornwall. Sir Henry de la Pomeraie, eldest son of Henry and Rohesia ( 1 l 50- 1 197), held the Castle of Le Pomerai and was a follower of King John, de­ fending the Castle of Mount Saint Michael. He married twice; his first wife was Matilda, daughter of Andre de Vitris, his second was Agnes, Countess of Cornwa.ll, by whom he had one son. Sir Henry de la Pomeraie, only son of Henry and Matilda (u80-1216), Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King married Alicia de Vere, daughter of Robert de Vere, Earl of Guisnese in Normandy. He had one son. Sir Henry de la Pomeraie, only son of Henry and Alicia ( r 209-r 226), was Governor of Exeter Castle in the reign of John and Sheriff of Devon in the reign of Henry III. He married Joanna, daughter of Reginald de Valletort and sister of Roger de Valletort. They had one son. Sir Henry de la Pomeraie, son of Henry and Joanna ( 1211-1237) was a minor at the time of his father's death and was a ward of Ralph de Turbe­ ville in the reign of Henry III. He did homage on coming of age for the lands of his father and died at the age of 25. H~ married Margeria de Vernon, who survived him and was guardian of their only son on payment of 400 marks. Sir Henry de la Pomeraie, son of Henry and Margeria ( 1230-1281), confirmed the grants made by his father to the Abbey of Ford. He was ordered by Henry III to be at -Salop with horses and arms against Llewel­ lyn Ap-Griffiths and acknowledged the summons by one Knight's fee in Berry-Pomeroy. He married Isolda, a widow. She was again left a widow with one-third dower in Pomeroy and Stokeley. She died in 1333. Sir Henry de la Pomeraie, only son of Henry and Isolda (1265-1305) was born at Tragoney, County Cornwall, and baptized in the church there on 23 April, 1265. He claimed land and Knight's fees in Cornwall and Devon as co-heir of Roger de Valletort in the reign of Edward I. He mar­ ried Ameria, daughter of Sir Geoffrey de Camville, at the Feast of Pente­ cost in 1287. She held the Manor of Stokeley de Pomeroy in dower in 1328. Sir Henry de la Pomeraie, only son of Henry and Ameria (1292-1367), renewed the suit commenced by his father for a share in the estate of Roger de Valletort. He had licence to entail the Manors of Stokeley, Byrye, Har­ burton, etc., on himself and his wife for life, with remainder to their sons, of whom he had five. He married Johanna, daughter of John, Lord Mules, and after her death Elizabeth, daughter of John de Bowderham, by whom he had one daughter. Thomas de la Pomeray, the youngest son of Henry and Johanna (1330- 1372), acquired lands in Sandridge. The name of his wife is unknown. Sir Edward de la Pomeray, only son of Thomas and (---), repre­ senting the 12th. generation in direct line, succeeded to Berry-Pomeroy on the death of the heirs of his uncles in 1426. He was Sheriff of Devon. His wife was Margeret de Bevile, who died on IO September, 1461, having out­ lived her husband. Edward died on 6 May, 1446, and at the time of his death possessed Berry-Pomeroy, Stokeley, Pomeroy and half of the Manor of Harburton and one-third of the Manor of Brixton. Sir Henry de la Pomeray, only son of Edward and Margaret ( 1416- 1481), was over thirty years of age at the death of his father. He married, Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King 99 first, Alice, daughter of John Rahleigh of Fardell, Devon, by whom he had six children. His second wife was Anna, daughter of Robert Cammel of Titleford, Dorset. The children of Henry and Alice were Sir Saint Oair who died without leaving children, Sir Richard who succeeded his brother, and Thomas. At this time the name had come to be spelled Pomeroy. Thomas Pbmeroy, son of Henry and Alice ( 1451-1493), married Agnes, daughter of John Killoway or Kellaway of Dorset, who settled lands upon him and his wife at Chareton and Fitzpanne in that county. Richard Pomeroy, the second son of Thomas and Agnes (1480-1531), married Eleanor Coker, daughter of John Coker of Maypowder, Dorset. They had two sons, Henry and John. Richard Pomeroy, son of John and (---), was under age at the time of his father's death and in ward to an uncle. Our authorities do not give the name of his wife. He had three children, Eltweed, Edward and Henry. Eltweed Pomeroy, son of Richard and 18th. in descent from Rudolphus, was the ancestor emigrant from England, of whom and his descendants we have treated earlier.

THE SEYMOUR CONTROVERSY The nature of this dispute is entirely comparable to that concerning the Pomeroy line, for it centers upon the ancestry of Richard Seymour, the emi­ grant ancestor who came to America from England in 1639 or 1640. In the midst of the disagreement, and once again on the negative side, we like­ wise find Mr. Jacobus, the genealogist of New Haven, Conn. This time, however, he is supported by George Dudley Seymour, a contemporary member of the Seymour family, whose compilation of the data in respect of the Seymour line was made under the direction of Mr. Jacobus.

The Facts in the M after These are few, there being no dispute concerning the line of descent in .America from Richard Seymour, the emigrant ancestor, or concerning the earlier Seymour line in England and Europe. The sole question at issue is whether or not the Richard Seymour who emigrated from England, Wfl.S a scion of the celebrated English house. But if the earlier Pomeroy line was a distinguished one, the earlier Sey­ mour pedigree is illustrious to the final degree, being allied with the lines of Charlemagne, of Alfred The Great and of William the Conqueror, not to mention the Plantagenets, numerous English royalties, and so forth. Simi­ larly, while the objection to the Pomeroy claim is the rather weak one that it has not been proven to the satisfaction of all concerned, the charge brought against the Seymour claim is that it is based upon plain "forgery." The claim rests upon certain entries in a so-called Bishop's Bible, itself IOO Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King

a legitimate volume printed in I 58 5-as is not disputed-but now some­ what mutilated. This came into the possession of a member of the Seymour family in 1880 or slightly earlier and it contains "inserts of drawing and written material that, if true, connected Richard with the highest English nobility." The problem, then, is simply whether these entries are correct or counterfeits; and the details will appear more fully in:

The Case for the Opposition This case is perhaps a little stronger than would appear from the ex­ traordinary manner in which it is put. But since there can be no injustice in presenting any man's position in his own words-and because there might well arise acute objections, were this not done-the question will be set forth as it appears in the Introduction to A History of the Seymour Family; Descendants of Richard Seymour of Hartford, Conn. for Six Gen­ erations, compiled and arranged for publication under the direction of George Dudley Seymour by Donald Lines Jacobus, New Haven, Conn., 1939. Coy quotation marks, other preciousnesses and all, it proceeds thus:

SEYMOUR

INTRODUCTION In which the author under the influence of the immortal Cervantes tells the story of this book, and introduces to the reader a Professor of Greek, a big-game hunter, a professional genealogist, a Chief Justice of Connecticut, a Governor of New York, a General in the United States Army, a member of Congress, a well-known feminist, the first mayor of Hartford, an antiquarian, English searchers, other interested persons, a parody, a verse of poetry, and a verse of scripture. To many members of the family this will be an unwelcome story. Alas, but the author feels that he has no option but to tell it,-For did not Cervantes say, "History is a sacred kind of writing, because truth is essential to it." The author's passion for genealogy goes back to his earliest years, when as a small boy he stood by his maternal grandmother's chair and listened, entranced, to stories of her "background with figures"-the background being her grandfather's fine farm in the outskirts of Newington, and the figures her grandfather and grandmother Wells and their large household. Born Laura Wells, she was doubly descended from Governor Thomas Welles of Connecticut, a connection that brought in the W olcotts and Apple­ tons, of which she was also proud. The author's first desire as a collector was some­ time to acquire the gold loop earrings shown in her portrait, and ultimately he did acquire them, but only by acquiring the canvas itself, a primitive, if you please, but greatly admired by no less a judge than the late John LaFarge. The author also well remembers a fruitless boyhood search with his own father among the tombstones in the ancient burying-ground on Town Hill, New Hartford, for some memorial of John Seymour, 3d, one of the first settlers of the town, where he died in 1758, and that search, perhaps, began the taste for tombstones, evidenced in this volume, that the author has always had. How he came, at the end of life, to be the author of this volume will appear in the course of its Introduction. Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King IOI Upwards of a hundred years ago, Nathan Perkins Seymour (1813-1891), a native of Hartford, in the line of John Seymour, grandson of Richard Seymour, the Colonist, began the collection of data for a History of the Seymour Family. About 1870 the work was taken up and carried on by his niece, Miss Mary Kingsbury Talcott (1847- 1917), a born genealogist· and antiquarian, who was greatly assisted by contributions of data from other members of the family; among them Judge Origen S. Seymour of Litchfield, sometime Justice of Connecticut; Governor Horatio Seymour of New York; General Truman Seymour, U.S.A.; Mrs. Clara E. Seymour ~orris of Chicago, mother of Mr. Seymour Morris; and many others, including the author, another born antiquarian, collector and genealogist. Miss Talcott's ma.st active years in collecting data about the family seem to have been from 1880 to 1900. Even before the latter date she was already busy as profes­ sional genealogist and as author of historical articles for books and periodicals, but attempts made from time to time to get her to prepare her Seymour Family material for publication all failed, and one reason for her thus holding back the compilation of her material is certainly to be found in a story which the author has now to relate, not for pleasure, but for the reason that, Cervantes said, "the writing of history is a sort of sacred writing, because truth is essential to it." Miss Talcott, throughout her lifetime, had a high reputation as an accurate genealogi,t, and it may well be thought that she was unwilling to publish any History of the Seymour Family until an alleged family Bible that purported to connect Richard Seymour, the Colonist, with the ducal family of Somerset should be either disproved or confirmed. About r88o, a member of the family who was wholly unknown to the Hartford or Litchfield or Utica branches of it appeared "out of the blue," as it were, in Hartford, with what purported to be a Bible that had been handed down through the generations, even from Richard Seymour, the Colonist. It was a mutilated copy of the so"called "Bishop's Bible," printed in 1584, and it contained inserts in the form of drawings and written material that, if true, connected Richard Seymour with the highest English nobility. At the time of its production the Bible was, most unfortunately, not subjected to even the ordinary rules of evidence as to its history and as to the intrinsic character of its insertions, but it was, also most unfortunately, made known to the family at large throughout the country and was accepted "as Gospel" by many of them. That even Miss Talcott, indeed, was in a measure responsible for circulating the story of the Bible her own correspondence appears to indicate, and to claim that the present author had wholly escaped the infection or had always refused to follow leading members of the family in falling for the "strawberry leaves" and the ducal family would be idle. He does not, however, recall any time when he did not have misgivings about it all, and from the moment that he learned of certain entries, soon to be described, in the Parish Records of Sawbridgeworth, County Herts, he was entirely disillusioned. It should here be made clear, perhaps, that, in 1880, the science of genealogy was still in its infancy in this country, that few Americans were then qualified to pass on claims as to the English connections of American colonists, and that Miss Talcott her­ self was only beginning her career in the field. Later. indeed, she felt the need of sub­ stantiating the allegation of the Bible through British documentary sources, and when in 1914 she went to England, one of the objects of her visit was definitely either to confirm or to disaflirm the ancestry set forth in the Bible. At the behest of other de­ scendants of Richard Seymour, among them the Hon. Henry W. Seymour, M.C., with whom the author became acquainted while he was a resident of vVashington, the most exhaustive researches, over the course of the years, were undertaken abroad by several competent genealogists, but all of them failed utterly to establish the connection alleged 102 Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King in the Bible. On the contrary, half a dozen genealogists of repute, including Colonel Vivian, in his day the best known authority on Devonshire families, and Henry F. Waters, an expert never excelled in the Anglo-American field, to whom photographs of the Bible entries were submitted, unanimously declined to accept the handwriting as script of the period when Richard Seymour and his son John flourished. Meanwhile, the whole matter of the publication of a history of the family lay in abeyance, and it so happened that in 1914 Mr. J. Gardner Bartlett, an American pro­ fessional genealogist, then living in England, was commissioned to investigate the English ancestry of the celebrated Chauncey family. His search took him to Sawbridge­ worth, County Herts, where he found in the parish records entries regarding one Richard Seymour, his wife Mercy Ruscoe, and his son Thomas, and other members of both families. The dates of this Richard Seymour, his wife Mercy, and his son Thomas, when compared with corresponding dates of a Richard and his wife Mercy and his son Thomas, all as contained in Connecticut Records, together with other significant facts, left no room for doubt that Mr. Bartlett had found the English home of Richard Sey­ mour, the Colonist, who appeared in Hartford about 1639. Mr. Bartlett forthwith embodied his discoveries in a comprehensive report, which for a consideration he offered in turn to two or three branches of the Seymour family in America, but all of them were unwilling to give it any credence or attention, until at length it was brought to the attention of the present author, always a "doubting Thomas" about the entries in the so-called "Seymour Bible." He was enabled to buy the report, and he ultimately published it, in substance, in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register of 1917. Due, in part at least, to the publication of Mr. Bartlett's report, the late Mr. Sey­ mour Morris of Chicago, who accepted it without question and who despaired of the publication of the material collected by Miss Talcott, went ahead on his own account, collected data, and published in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register in 1918 and 1919 three installments of a proposed history of the family. Mr. Morris's work was unfortunately brought to a close by his death in 1921. In 1934 the present author, whose active interest in a History of the Seymour Family had begun at least as early as when he went to Washington to live in 1878 and began corresponding with Miss Talcott, determined to carry Mr. Morris's work to a conclusion. Mr. Morris's widow deposited his papers, including his unpublished data, with the New England Historic-Genealogical Society of Boston; through the good offices of Mr. Jacobus, editor of the present work, the papers were made available by the Society. Mr. Jacobus then at long last began to prepare a comprehensive History of the Seymour Family, at first based on Mr. Morris's published and unpublished work. After the work was well under way Miss Katherine Seymour Day of Hartford, who had inherited a trunkfull of Miss Talcott's correspondence, consented to make it, too, available to Mr. Jacobus, and he then went forward to compile the present work, combining the collections of Miss Talcott with the work of Mr. Morris. No attempt was made to collect any large amount of new material, but it was decided to carry all of the descendants of the Colonist down to the sixth generation, in order that subse­ quent workers in the field should have no difficulty in bringing the lines down to date. From the first, however, the author determined not to go to publication with any History of the Seymour Family until the authenticity of the so-called "Seymour Bible'' had been settled for good or for ill. When, in the "revolving years," the person who had sprung the Bible "out of the blue" in Hartford died in Brookline ( 1900) and was "gathered to his fathers," the Bible was acquired from his widow by two members of the Connecticut family, but they too implicitly believed in its authenticity, and in their Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King hands it was still unavaible for subjection to ordinary rules of evidence. Thirty years and more passed and the problem presented by the Bible remained unsolved, until at last the Bible came to the hands of its present owner, happily cooperative, who allowed it to be put into the hands of the Librarian of Yale University, who in turn put it into the hands of competent experts for examination. The unequivocal report of the experts is that the Bible entries were forgeries. And so we come to the story of the Bible itself, but first it must be explained that in June, 1881, the Bible's first owner was in funds, bought a house in Newport, on which the mortgage was foreclosed three years later, in 1884. During those few years, as is supposed, the owner of the Bible had a die made with the full ducal arms, which he used for embossing his own personal stationery; he had a similar seal cut, of which he sent impressions to Mr. Nathan Perkins Seymour, then a professor at Western Reserve College, at Hudson, Ohio; he had a handsome book-plate engraved with the full ducal arms; and he had the arms displayed on his Newport house. How much the display of the ducal arms in these several forms contributed to his Newport establish­ ment may easily be surmised. Also in the summer of 1881, probably in August, Professor Nathan Perkins Sey­ mour was visiting in his native Hartford, and the Bible was shown to him and of course excited his great interest and curiosity. He was even allowed to remove bits of a sheet of paper thaj: was pasted over what appeared to be writing on the inside of the front cover of the book, and had the owner, supposedly present, cooperated with him and allowed him to remove all the paper, the great delusion about the Bible would have been dispelled then and there, over half a century ago, and Professor Nathan Perkins Seymour would be the hero of this narrative. The owner, however, seems to have lacked curiosity, or to have begun even then to suspect that he had been "taken in" when (as will shortly appear) he bought the Bible, and although in a letter to Professor Sey­ mour, dated Newport, August 12, 1881, he announced his intention of peeling off all the paper, he never did so. His letter to Professor Seymour, embossed with the full arms of the ducal family of Somerset, contained this paragraph: When I have peeled off all the paper and laid bare the wntmg upon the cover of the Bible, I will send you a transcript, but from what you took of it I judge that it is nothing but someone's careless scribbling during the present century and of no account whatever.

When the paper was finally peeled off by an expert employed by the Librarian of Yale University, the following inscription was uncovered: George Cole's Book the Gift of his dear friend Richard the twenty third of the Eleventh Month One Thousand Eight Hundred Twenty One.

On February 2, 1882, about six months after the near-revealing session between Professor Nathan Perkins Seymour and the owner of the Bible, the latter deposited the Bible (and took a receipt for it) in the vault of a Boston bank, and there it re­ mained until after his death in 1906. As far as is known, it was seen during all of this period by only one member of the family. In the latter part of 1901 or in 1902 it was 104 Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King shown to Henry W. Seymour of Washington, but only in the ante-room of the vault. Some time about 1891 the author made a special trip to Boston for the purpose of seeing the Bible with his own eyes, but all he saw was its owner, then living in Brook­ line, apparently in reduced circumstances. The author had, of course, long had photo­ graphs of the significant pages of the Bible, secured from a Newport photographer, and he explained to the owner the object of his visit and his own belief that the Bible ought to be submitted to expert examination, but he was obliged to return to New Haven without seeing it. The reason seems obvious enough. Had he appeared, not as a "doubting Thomas," but as a true believer, his journey to Boston might not have been in vain. Since the actual examination of the Bible by experts, the author, not content with that alone, has undertaken further to unravel its history and has learned from persons close to the family of the owner's widow that the owner did not acquire the Bible by descent. He bought it. About the owner himself the author learned that he had a good record in the Civil War; that he had hunted big game in South America; and had hunted a fortune in Java; and none of these experiences can have prepared him to p,ass on the authenticity of the Bible when it was offered to him for purchase. It may be surmised that he was persuaded by the dealer of the genuineness of the entries in the Bible, and that he therefore welcomed the chance, as he viewed it, to bring the owner­ ship of the Bible back into the family. That the Bible could not have gone to the owner by descent ought, in fact, long since to have been apparent, especially to Miss Talcott. In the trunk containing her papers, as may now be told, was found a sheet of the Bible owner's correspondence paper, embossed with the ducal arms of Somerset, and on the paper, in the owner's handwriting, is a schedule of his claimed descent from Richard the Colonist, but the schedule is incorrect. It postulates his descent from Thomas2 Seymour of Hartford, the grandfather of the First Mayor, rather than from Zachariah3 Seymour, youngest son of John2, a younger son of the Colonist. In other words, the owner's own concep­ tion of his place in the family was entirely wrong. The improbability that a family Bible of the highest import should have descended through the younger sons in nearly every generation ought alone, it must be thought, to have been enough to put Miss Talcott, and others in the family who accepted the Bible, on their guard. The schedule of the owner's claimed descent is not dated and not accompanied by any letter, but pre­ sumably, it was submitted to Miss Talcott at the same time that the Bible itself was called to her attention, back about 1880 or 188I. Nor is this the only evidence long available that denies the ancestry set forth in the Bible. On September 2, I8I6, Thomas Seymour, the venerable First Mayor of Hartford, then in his eighty-first year, entered in a "Memorandum Book" that had be­ longed to his father an attested statement ·which he called "a summary of the origin of my ancestors from their very first coming from England and settlement in this Town"; and since 1802, when Dr. Parker's "History of the Second Church in Hart­ ford" was published, the First Mayor's statement has been easily accessible to all. "For more than two hundred years," says Dr. Parker in his History, "this Seymour family maintained an unbroken continuity of membership in this Church or Society which John Seamer helped to found, and for the greater part of that time exercised a com­ manding influence in its affairs"; and he quotes the First Mayor's statement, which is in part as follows :

A summary of the origin of my ancestors from England and settlement in this Town, and of the time of their births and deaths, so far as appears from Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King ms old Books and entries found and now in my possession, and the information of old people now deceased. Richard Seymour, from England was the first of the name, and amongst the early settlers of the Town, and from whom the numerous families of that name (it is said) have descended in America, particularly in this Town and in Con­ necticut. He had several sons, one of which was named John, my great-grand­ father, and settled in this Town. Another of them settled in Norwalk, whose posterity remain there till this day. Capt. Thomas Seymour, the son of John, died August 30, 1740, aged 72. His mother's name was Watson. Thomas Seymour, Esq., my Father, died March, 1767, aged 62. He was a Deacon of the 2d Church, Justice of the Peace, King's attorney, &c, &c.: mar­ ried in the year 1730 to Hepzibah Merrel, Daughter of Deacon Daniel Merrel ... Attest, Sept. 2d 1816. T. Seymour, aged 81 years, & 6 months, the 17th day of this month.

As to what purpose the First Mayor had in mind in making this sworn statement there is no evidence, but it is clear that he was very serious about it, as he specifically says that he consulted "old Books and entries found and now in my possession, and the information of old people now deceased." The statement itself, moreover, appears to be in every respect correct, and no doubt exists either as to the authenticity of the "Memorandum Book," which is dated 1747, or as to the fact that the First Mayor him­ self made the statement quoted from it ... he had been the First Mayor of Hartford, which position he held for twenty-seven years: ... he was great-grandson of John Seymour, through whom the so-called "Seymour Bible" purported to have descended to the person who produced it about 1880. Yet in the carefully worded and attested statement of the distinguished man there is not the least suggestion of the existence of any family Bible or of any knowledge about Richard the Colonist except the bare statement that he came from England. The First Mayor was grandson of Richard's grandson, his branch of the family had resided continuously in Hartford, and if there had been among the "old people now deceased" any knowledge or tradition of a family Bible or of noble descent or connections, it is inconceivable that he would not have referred to it in his statement. The lack of any such reference is almost conclusive evidence that no tradition of the kind was known among the older members of the family, even though they were, both in line and descent, close to Richard the Colonist.

Comment The account, so far as concerns the problem, consists chiefly of the usual irrelevancies, completely lacking any bearing upon the question at issue. Among the points thus raised are : a) A concealed inscription on the inside cover of the Bible, which, when disclosed, was revealed as stating, "George Cole's book, the gift of his dear friend, Richard.... 1821." This writing, although it may be valuable in tracing the later adventures of the Bible, can­ not be relevant to the authenticity of quite other entries made in it, allegedly nearly two hundred years previously. b) The deposit of the Bible in the vaults of a Boston bank by its later owner. rn6 Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King c) The fact that for a number of years thereafter it was seen by only one other member of the family. d) The fact that it was seen in the anteroom of the Bank's vaults. e) The fact that Mr. George Dudley Seymour did not succeed in seeing it in or about 1891. f) The acquisition of the Bible by its later owner not through inherit­ ance but through purchase. This allegation is made on the most slender and questionable of indirect hearsay evidence and appears to be as doubtful as possible; but, granting it, it has no more logical or scientific relation to the question of the authenticity of the entries than have points b), c), d) and e), above. g) The later owner's error in tracing his own family descent. No evi­ dence is offered for this allegation but again it is irrelevant, being put forward to show the improbability of the later owner's acquisition of the Bible by inheritance. In other words, it is advanced to bolster point f) and thus partakes of the same irrelevancy as does point f). h) The circumstance of the later owner's affluence, mansion at New­ port, and so on, and his subsequent decline from this prosperous condition, situations which have no more connection with the prob­ lem than has the color of the later owner's hair. i) The fact that Thomas Seymour, the first mayor of Hartford, Conn., made no mention of the Bible, although he had made some attempt to collect data referring to the Seymour descent. According to the data of this vintage which are quoted, however, they had to do only with the American history of the Seymour family and were not concerned with the earlier English descent. The assumption is made that the Bible, if a genuine part of the Seymour tradition, must have descended through the said Thomas Seymour and have been in his possession; but that assumption is gratuitous and has no logical necessity beneath it. The valid inference is that Thomas Seymour of Hartford, Conn., had no personal knowledge of the Bible, a premise which, if granted, remains irrelevant to the Bible's authenticity. Disregarding this ennead of irrelevancies, which serve to swell the quoted Introduction to a respectable size but which have no rational con­ nection with the case, we come to the two points which are made, having a real bearing upon the problem. They are: 1) that an expert examination of the pertinent entries has shown them to be "forgeries ;" 2) that Richard Seymour, the emigrant ancestor, is shown to have been born and married at Sawbridgeworth, County Herts, England. Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King 107 Let us examine these points seriatim : I) rests upon the testimony of two sets of experts, the first group comprising two named genealogists, the second consisting of certain unidentified persons whose services were secured through the good offices of the Librarian of the Yale University Library. The first two were Colonel Vivian, "in his day the best known authority on Devonshire families," and Henry F. Waters, "an expert never excelled in the Anglo-American field." We are told that these gentlemen both testified that the handwriting in which the Bible entries appeared, was not that of the period of Richard Seymour, the emigrant ancestor, or of his son. It may be that both of the mentioned gentlemen were in fact experts on handwriting and script but, if so, it is unfortunate that we are not so informed; the basis advanced for their authority must remind us of an at­ tempt to qualify an expert in psychology on the ground that he is an out­ standingly competent chemist. The second group of experts called the entries "forgeries ;" but this must be simply an inaccurate use of language. A forger is primarily one who counterfeits the signature of another and in every forgery there must be both a forger and a forgee. \iVho was or were the forgee or forgees in the present case? What is doubtless meant, is that the Bible entries are counterfeits or false in the sense that the informa­ tion they convey, is either deliberately or undeliberately incorrect. This may or may not be so-indeed it is the very point under discussion-but forgery is certainly not the circumstance that will decide it. To substantiate the at least partly irrelevant point of forgery it must be shown, first, that the entries are actually alleged to be in the handwriting of Richard Seymour, the emigrant, or of his son and, second, that such handwriting is demonstrably not that of Richard Seymour or of his son. No evidence of this sort is presented nor will mere "period" style suffice, since at any period there are many different sorts of individual script to be found. Moreover, presum­ ing the forgery to be much better established than it seems to be, in itself it still cannot settle the question. In fact the whole reliance upon expert testimony is a very shaky pro­ cedure at best. It is true that, when possible, we ought to obtain it but, hav­ ing done so, it can be given no more than a fractional weight in the final decision. Out of a considerable experience this editor has never known a single instance in which expert testimonies of exactly opposite purport could not easily be obtained from persons of equal so-called authority in any field desired. The trouble with authority of this kind is that it is al­ ways equiva.lent to personal opinion and, whereas it is true in general that some persons' opinions are manifestly better than others', in any specific case we can never be certain that we have obtained the best opinion or that other equally good ones will not be to the reverse effect. In the present instance there is not the slightest doubt in the editor's mind that experts 108 Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King could be secured who would willingly and sincerely swear to the authenti­ city of the entries in question. And, after all, the allegation of authenticity, whether true or false, can never provide a final decision. A counterfeited entry can still set forth cor­ rect facts and a genuine entry incorrect ones. The matter in dispute re­ mains the ancestry of Richard Seymour, the emigrant ancestor, and on this, the only real point at issue, the rest of the evidence appears to be singularly inconclusive. Mr. George Dudley Seymour's book is not the only one on the Seymour genealogy and in an earlier writing (Pedigree of the Seymour Family, Grafton Press, N. Y., 1906) Richard Seymour, the emigrant, is given as fifth son of Sir Edward and Elizabeth ( Champernowne) Seymour, of Berry-Pomeroy, born in County Devon in 1596. This of course would make him a direct descendant of the illustrious Seymour line in England. Rich­ ard Seymour's wife is there given as Mercy Rashleigh, daughter of Thomas Rashleigh. But Mr. J. Gardner Bartlett-the husband of the lady who contributed the Register article opposing the preceding Pomeroy claim-has produced a different derivation for Richard Seymour, according to which he was baptized at Sawbridgeworth, County Herts, England, on 27 January, 1604 or 1605, and at the same place on 18 April, 1631, married Mercy Ruscoe, daughter of Roger and Hannah (---) Ruscoe. A son, Thomas, is also recorded in this derivation, who does pot appear in the former genealogy or for that matter in the American descent as here traced. The identification of this Richard Seymour with the emigrant from England is based upon the similarity of the names and dates involved. The conclusion then drawn is that the emigrant Richard Seymour was not connected with the English Seymour line. There are a number of aspects of this second derivation deserving of remark. In the first place the identification of Richard, the emigrant, with Richard of Sawbridgeworth is just as circumstantial as, and but little stronger than, the previously denied Pomeroy identification. Given the facts as stated, the inference is overwhelmingly reasonable to this writer but it would not appear that it could seem equally so to those who deprecate the same conclusion in the Pomeroy case. In the second place, these Saw­ bridgeworth data were not inherited by the Seymour family member who places them confidently before us ; they did not come to him by descent but instead they were bought. He himself seems to feel that the acquisition of the Bible by purchase casts some doubt upon its standing; then why is not the same doubt cast upon these data by the same circumstance? In both cases the respective data were offered to several members of the Seymour family in vain and finally someone was found who paid the requested price, Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King 109 thereafter feeling a supreme confidence in their authenticity; it is difficult to find the slightest difference in the two instances. Of course to the present writer the circumstance of purchase has no bearing upon the question of authenticity but that is not the case as respects the views of the opposition, and this second point resembles the preceding one in shaking our confidence in the arguments of the disputants. In the third place, presuming that the emigrant Richard was baptized at Sawbridgeworth, that does not pre­ clude his having been born in County Devon nor, even if he were born at Sawbridgeworth, does it establish that he had no connection with the given English Seymour line. Such negative conclusion is not rationally inherent in the data put forward but instead it comprises a well-known logical fallacy of an inverse type. These negative proofs are very much more difficult to obtain; and it would seem almost a certainty that a man named and baptized as Seymour, and moreover surrounded on all sides by other Seymours whose lineage was well recognized, must have been genealogically connected with them in some way. Indeed it is totally incredible to this editor, knowing something of the British respect for lineage, more especially before the British became socialistic, that any man in Devon or Dorset at the given time could have been baptized and subsequently called himself Seymour except with the full approbation and confirmation of the legitim­ ate member of that line most immediately involved. This point may also have some bearing upon the contentions of Mr. Allaben regarding the Pomeroy descent previously discussed, although the editor has not read that gentleman's opinions upon the matter. There are therefore no less than three ways in which the new evidence does not suffice to break the previously alleged connection of Richard Sey­ mour with the English Seymour line. First, there is the possibility that the circumstantial identification of Richard, the emigrant, with Richard of Sawbridgeworth is misleading; this possibility, if the facts are as alleged, is so remote as to be negligible for the editor but it cannot be negligible for the proponents of the opposition to the Seymour claim. Second, the evi­ dence does not rationally preclude the birth in Devon of the later Saw­ bridgeworth Richard, as the son of Sir Edward Seymour. Third, assuming that Richard was not the son of Sir Edward, there is still nothing to show that he was not otherwise connected with the given Seymour line. In this last case, however, it would seem that the burden must revert to the propon­ ents of the claim, to show how he was so connected. The above considerations are all based upon the acceptance of the Saw­ bridgeworth data as final. But there exists the earlier derivation and of course there was always some basis for its advancement. And there appears to be a crucial distinction between the two variations whereby a decision may be reached as between them. A Sawbridgeworth verdict would not IIO Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King dispose of Richard's possible connection with the given Seymour line but at least it would determine the conditions under which such a connection must be sought. The distinction between the two derivations lies in the name of Richard Seymour's wife, in the one case given as Mercy Rash­ leigh, in the other as Mercy Ruscoe. To resolve the question only American evidence would suffice; but can it not be obtained in indisputable form? If we could discover a Will or some other document in which the lady, now in America, evidenced what her name really was before her marriage in England, surely that would determine with finality whether or not the Sawbridgeworth data applied to the emigrant Richard. Perhaps such evi­ dence is available without having been cited in the above Introduction. In that case the Seymour claim must rest upon the alternative possibilities listed in the preceding paragraph. As the matter now stands, as based upon the points here considered, the editor cannot cast his vote pro or contra the Seymour claim. No conclusive proofs have been presented sufficient even finally to deny the earlier deriva­ tion which, denied, would yet not outlaw another, though different and not presently established, connection. The analysis, while disclosing irrelevan­ cies and inconsistencies on the part of the opponents of the claim, has yielded no proper decision. It can correctly be said that much legitimate doubt has been cast upon the original claim as represented in the earlier pedigree of Richard Seymour but does this mean that his connection with the cele­ brated Seymour line in England has been conclusively disproven? In this editor's opinion no such logical result can be adduced from the evidence cited and he must confess that he does not see how anyone can make a dogmatic pronouncement to either effect. He will only add that his own relation to the dispute is as remote as that which he possesses to the Pomeroy controversy and that once more his absence of any personal interest in the outcome is profound. He sees only that a great deal of false reasoning has gone into these disagreements, prob­ ably on both sides, and that a training in the discipline of scientific evidence and the rigorous nature of genuine proof would go a great way toward simplifying them and perhaps in producing decisions deserving of confi­ dence. Although, therefore, the connection of Richard, the emigrant ancestor, with the English Seymour line cannot be asserted here, that genealogy with its remarkable connections will be given below, as a matter of interest to all who find benefit in the investigation of such related human phenomena.

THE SEYMOUR LINE PROPER Saint Maur sur Loire in Touraine near Saumeur, France, was the site of an tarly Benedictine monastery, founded by Saint Marrus and by the Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King II I Normans in the Ninth Century. From this place it is believed that de St. Maur derived his name. Wido de St. Maur came into England with the Conqueror in ro66 and is believed to be an ancestor of the de St. Maurs, later the Seymours of England. Wido died before ro86, leaving a son, William de Fitz-Wido. He inherited the lands given to his father, which shows that he must have given some service to the Conqueror in order to have merited such a reward. He left a son, Roger de St. Maur, living in n29, who appears as a witness to a charter given by one Richard de Corneil to the Priory of Monmouth. He therefore must have had connection with the county and probably he had settled at Penhow, for it is known that the family owned the place not many years afterwards. He left two sons, one of whom, Bartholemew, was witness to a charter given by William, Earl of Gloucester, to Keynham Abbey in l 170. Bartholemew had a son, Wil­ liam, who was one of the King's Esquires in 1175. This William apparently had a son, Milo, 1217. Little is known about him except that he took part with the rebellious Barons against King John on the occasion when the latter was forced to sign the Magna Carta. He left two sons, Geoffrey and William .. William de St. Maur, Knight, was living in 1240 at about which time, with the help of Gilbert Marshall, Earl of Pembroke, he reverted Maundy and Penhow in Monmouthshire from the Welsh and became Lord of the Manor of Maundy and Lord of Penhow, fixing his family seat at the latter place, where were located Seymour Park and St. Maur Castle and the church that was dedicated to St. Marrus. Sir Roger de St. Maur, Knight, alias de Seimor, son and heir of Wil­ liam, above, was Lord of the Manor of Maundy in the 23rd. year of the reign of Henry III, 1269. He died before 1300. Sir Roger de St. Maur, alias Seymour, son and heir of Sir Roger, Lord of Penhow and Maundy, married Joan, daughter of Dameral of Devon­ shire. He was also heir of Dameral. His first son and heir, John Seymour, died, leaving Roger, his son, as the heir; and at his de1J.th the inheritance passed by his daughter to the Bowlays of Penhow, who took the Seymour arms. The line thence descends through : Sir Roger de St. Maur, 1358, alias Seymour, of County Wilts, Knight. He married Cecilia, daughter of John of Beauchamp, Baron of Hache, County Somerset, who was descended from Sybil, one of the co-heiresses of William Marshall, Earl of Pembroke, of \Villiam Fewan, Earl of Derby, of Hugh de \riron and of William Malet. On the partition of the Beauchamp estate Cecilia inherited the Manors of Hache, Shipton-Beauchamp, Muri­ field in County Somerset and lands in Devon, Dorset and Bucks. She died in 1393, Roger Seymour (below) being her grandson and heir, aged 27 years. II2 Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King Sir William Seymour, son of Sir Roger and Lady Cecilia, accompanied the Prince of Wales into Gascony in 1362 in the reign of Edward III. He married Margeret, daughter and heir of Simon de Brockburn, County Hert­ ford, and his wife, Joan, sister and heir of Peter de la Mare. He died before his mother, Lady Cecilia, in 1390. Roger Seymour of Evan Swindon, County Wilts, Esquire, son of Sir William and Joan, was born in 1366; he died in 1420. He married Maud, daughter and co-heiress of Sir William Esturney of Chadham, County Wilts, whose ancestors by right of inheritance were Bailiffs and Guardians of the Forest of Savernake from the time of Henry II. Sir John Seymour of Wolf's Hall, County Wilts, Knight, was born in 1402, died in 1464. He was a minor at the death of his father. He married in 1424, Isobel ( died 14 April, 1485), daughter and sole heiress of Mark Williams, Mayor of Bristol, County Gloucester. They were married on 30 July, 1424. At the death of Isobel she owned divers messuages, cottages and gardens in the town and suburbs of Bristol, leaving as her heir her grandson, John of Wolf's Hall, then 34 years old. John Seymour, Esquire, son of Isobel and Sir John, was Sheriff of Wiltshire. He died on 29 September, 1463, a year previous to his father's death. He married Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Sir Robert Coker of Lawrence Lydiard County Somerset, Knight. Sir John Seymour of Wolf's Hall, son of the above, was born in 1450 and died in 1491. He married Elizabeth (died, 1474), daughter of Sir George Davell of Littlecote, Wilts, and his wife, Margeret, daughter of Sir John, first Lord of Stourton, of a family older than the Conquest. Sir John Seymour of Wolf's Hall, Knight, son of John and Elizabeth, above, was born in 1474 and succeeded his father in the 7th. year of Henry VII. He was one of the commanders who vanquished the Cornish rebels at Black Heath in Kent, where for valiant conduct he was knighted by the King on the field of battle; he served in the wars against France and Flanders and in 151 3 was made Knight Bament by Henry VIII for gallant behavior at the sieges of Therburg and Tournay and in the "Battle of the Spurs." He was Sheriff of Dorset and Somerset and was made Constable of Bristol Castle, granted to himself and his son, Edward. He attended Henry VIII in 1518 at the interview with Francis, King of France, and at Canterbury on 27 May, 1522, when the Emperor Charles V came into England. He was one of the five from Wiltshire, appointed to inquire into the possessions of Cardinal Wolsey. He died on 21 December, 1536, aged 6o years, and was buried in the church at Easton Priory ; but in 1590 his body was removed to the church at Great Bedwyn where a monument was erected to his memory by his grandson, the Earl of Hertford. He married Margery Wentworth, second daughter of Sir Henry Wenworth of Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King 113 N ettlestead, County Suffolk, Knight of the Bath. She was the fifth genera­ tion from Edward III, King of England, through Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Henry Percy, the Hotspur of Shakespeare. She died in 1550. Sir John and Lady Margery were the parents of Jane Seymour, wife of Henry VIII and mother of Edward VI. Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, Earl of Hertford, Viscount Beau­ champ and Baron Seymour, Lord Protector of England, was the second and eldest surviving son of Sir John and Margery, above. He was knighted at Roy on 1 November, 1523; made Esquire of the King's Household in 1524; a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber in March, 1525; created Viscount Beauchamp and Hache, Somerset, 1536; Earl of Hertford on 18 October, 1537; and the same year had livery of his father's hands. He was given the following honors: Knight of the Garter in January, 1540; Great Lord Ad­ miral of England on 28 December, 1542; Lieutenant General of the North in March, 1544; Lieutenant and Captain General of Boulogne, 1545; cre­ ated Protector of all the Realm and Domain of the King's Majesty and Governor of His Most Royal Person on 31 January, 1546; High Steward of England for the coronation of Edward VI ; Lord Treasurer of England in 1546; Earl Marshall of England for Life on IO February, 1546; created Baron Seymour of Bache and Duke of Somerset in 1 546; Protector and Governor of the King by patent, 1546-1547. He was victor over the Scots at Musselburgh in September, 1547; and was deposed from the Protecto­ rate and deprived of all his offices on 14 January, 1549, through the machi­ nations of the Earl of Warwick. He was then made Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire and Berkshire on IO May, 1551. He was condemned for felony on II December, 1551, and beheaded at Tower Hill, London, on 22 January, 1552, being buried in St. Peter's Chapel in the Tower between Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard. His first wife was Catherine, daughter and sole heiress of Sir William Tilliol of Tilliol Hall, Langton, Essex, and of Woodslands, Dorset, Knight, and great-granddaughter of Sir John Tilliol or Tilliol Hall, Essex. His second wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Foulk Bouchier, Lord Fitz-Warren. It was during the reign of Edward VI that Berry Pomeroy, the ancestral home of the Pomeroys, was given to the Duke of Somerset but historians differ widely as to the manner in which the Seymours succeeded to the ownership of this ancient domain. At the present time the twelfth Duke of Somerset has stated that it was purchased from Sir Thomas Pomeroy ; but it has also been stated that it was forfeited by the treason of Sir Thomas. Berry Pomeroy was settled on the children of Lady Catherine Tilliol, the first wife of the Edward Seymour of whom we treat. Sir Edward Seymour of Berry Pomeroy, Devon, Knight, Lord Sey­ mour's second and eldest surviving son, was born in 1529. He was knighted I 14 Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King for his valor at the battle of Musselburgh on IO September, 1547. He was heir of his brother, John Seymour, restored in blood by Act of Parliament in the 7th. year of Edward VI, which Act described him as Sir Edward Seymour, Knight, son of Edward, Duke of Somerset. At that time he had a grant of the King of the Lordships of Stowey, Stowey Park and the Hun­ dred of Water Stock in Somerset, lately the possessions of his father. He died on 6 May, 1 593, and is buried at Berry Pomeroy. He married Mary, daughter and heiress of John Walsh of Calengar, Somerset, Justice of Common Pleas. Sir Edward Seymour of Berry Pomeroy, Knight, son of Edward and Mary, above, was born in 1562. He was one of the knights of Devon; Mem­ ber of the first Parliament of James I; created Baronet on II June, 16II, died on II April, 1613, and was buried at Berry Pomeroy on 27 May, 1613. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Arthur Champerdowne of Darling­ ton, Devon, Knight, to whom he was betrothed when he was three years old and married ten years later. The reason for this early marriage was that in case of the death of his father, leaving a minor son, the guardian had a right to marry the son to whom he chose. When but twenty, he was ap­ pointed Deputy Vice-Admiral of Devon and was one of the officers in charge of the coast defenses at the time of the Spanish Armada. Richard Seymour, the emigrant ancestor, of whom and his descendants we have treated previously. According to The Pedigree of the Seymour Family he was the fifth son of Sir Edward and Elizabeth, above, and was born in Devon in or about 1596; according to A History of the Seymour Family he was born at Sawbridgeworth, County Herts, on 27 January, 16o4 or 1605, and was presumably not the son of the above Sir Edward and Elizabeth.

THE LINE OF WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR ( allied with Seymour)

William I, surnamed the Conqueror, was born at Falaise in 1027 or 1028 and died at St. Gervaise near Rouen on 9 September, 1087, King of England, 1066. He was the natural son of Robert, Duke of Normandy, whom he succeeded in 1035, and of Herleva, daughter of Fulbert, a tanner of Falaise. In 1051 he visited his childless kinsman, Edward the Confessor, from whom he afterward claimed to have received a promise of the acces­ sion to the English throne. During the period, 1052-1054, he married Ma­ tilda of Flanders, who was descended from Alfred the Great. In 1o64 he captured Harold, Earl of Wessex, who had been shipwrecked on the Normandy coast and compelled him to take an oath to assist him, William, in obtaining the English succession. Edward the Confessor died on 5 June, Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King 1066, and Harold of Wessex procured his own election as King of England. William landed in England and defeated Harold at Hastings on r4 October, ro66, and was then proclaimed King of England. His reign was one of almost continuous war at home and abroad. He died from an internal in­ jury when his horse plunged into burning cinders. He made few changes in English law but abolished the four great earldoms which had made so much trouble in previous reigns; and in ro86 he completed Domesday Book, the first census of England. He was the most powerful sovereign of his time, possessing both superior and martial talents which he used with re­ markable vigor. He left three sons: Robert, to whom he gave Normandy; William, who inherited England; and Henry, who received only his mother's portion of Flanders. He also had five daughters. ·Henry I, sofi of "\i\Tilliam and Matilda, was born at Selby, Yorkshire, in 1068 and died on r December, rr35. He was elected King of England by the Witan on the death of his brother, vVilliam II. He married Matilda ( or Maud) of Scotland in rrno. His only son, William, was drowned in the Channel in rr20 and the throne passed to his grandson, Henry, son of his daughter, Matilda. Matilda, daughter of Henry I and Matilda of Scotland, was born in I ro2 and died on IO September, rr67. She married Geoffrey Plantagenet, who was born in rro3, died in rr50, Count of Anjou in rr29, Duke of Normandy, rr44. Henry II, son of Matilda and of Geoffrey Plantagenet, was born in rr33 and died on 6 July, rr89. He was the first Plantagenet King of Eng­ land. He became King on the death of Stephen on 25 October, rr54. He waged successful wars against Scotland, Wales and Ireland, improved the coinage, established regular Circuit Courts of itinerant judges and inaugu­ rated -commutation of military service on payment of money or seutage, re­ vival of the national militia ( F ryed) and extension of the jurisdiction of secular courts to church offenders. His reforms were vigorously opposed by Thomas a Becket insofar as they related to the church. He married Elinor of Aquitaine, who was born in rr23 and died in June, r204; and by her he had two sons, Richard and John. Henry II could meet and master external foes but he could not keep his own family in subjection, and one of his sons said that "the only way we can have peace and unity is to unite and fight our father." The King's preference was for John, who received an English education and was kept with his father, while Elinor fostered Rich­ ard's rights and brought him up in her own domain. Chinon was the com­ mon meeting place of the family and the only one they could call home, and there took place many of those angry encounters and agonized repentances of which we read. Henry and Elinor were both buried there, united at last in a long reconciliation. I r6 Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King John, son of Henry and Elinor, surnamed Lakeland, was born on 24 December, n66 or u67, probably at Oxford, and died at Newark on 19 October, 1216. He succeeded his brother, Richard, in u99; Normandy also recognized him but Anjou, Maine and Touraine declared in favor of Arthur, Richard's son. Having put Arthur to death in 1203, he was defeated by Philip II of France, who took Chateau Gaillard, the last of his strong­ holds in France, in March, 1204. During his reign the barons with whom he had been embroiled, combined to secure a reform in the government and compelled him to sign the Magna Carta at Runnymede on 5 June, 1215. On 24 August, 1200, he married Isobel, daughter of Ademar, Count of Angouleme. Henry III, son of John and Isobel, was born at Winchester on I Oc­ tober, 1207, and died at Westminster on 16 November, 1272. He succeeded his father at nine years of age under the regency of William, Earl of Pem­ broke. He personally assumed the direction of affairs in 1232. He became involved with the barons who rose in revolt and defeated him at Lewes on 14 May, 1264, and he was kept a prisoner until rescued by his son at Eve­ sham on 4 August, 1265. He married Elinor of Provence on 14 January, 1236, who was born in 1222 and died in 1291; she was a sister of Mar­ guerite, who married Louis IX of France. Edward I, son of Henry and Elinor, was born at Westminster on 7 June, 1239, and died at Burgh-on-the-Sands on 7 July, 1307. He was on a crusade at the time of his father's death in 1272. He conquered Wales, 1276- 1284, and expelled the Jews from England in 1290. Becoming involved in war against Scotland, he invaded that country and carried the Scotch Coronation Stone to England, where it has ever since remained. He died on his way home from Scotland. During his reign there were many reforms in the courts. His first wife was Elinor of Castile, daughter of Ferdinand III of Spain, and their fourth son was Edward II. Edward II was born at Carnarvon, 25 April, 1284, and was murdered at Berkeley Castle on 12 September, 1327. He was the first Prince of Wales, 1301. He was completely ruled by his favorite, Gaveston, and the barons in­ trusted the government to twenty-one "Ordainers", who established annual Parliaments. His Queen, on going to France to negotiate with Charles IV, intrigued with Richard Mortimer, landed in England, executed the two favorites of the King, the Dispensers, and imprisoned Edward, who was deposed by Parliament. In 1308 he had married Isabella of France, who was a descendant of Charlemagne. Edward III, son of Edward and Isabella, was born at Windsor on 1 November, 1312, and died at Skene on 21 June, 1377. He was proclaimed King under a Council, the actual government, however, being in the hands of his mother and her favorite, Mortimer. In 1330 he took over the govern- Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King II7 ment, securing the execution of Mortimer and imprisoning the Queen Mother. He was at war with Scotland and France, where with his son he was victor at the Battle of Crecy in 1346 and reduced Calais in 1347. Peace was concluded with the French in 136o. During his reign several visitations of the plague occurred. In 1338 he married Phillipa of Hainault, who died in 1369. Lionel Plantagenet of Antwerp was the third son of Edward III and Phillipa. He was born on 29 November, 1338, at Antwerp and died at Alba, Italy, on 7 October, 1368. He was King's Lieutenant in Ireland, 1361-1366. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Philip de Burgh, Lord of Connaught and Earl of Ulster, in 1352. Phillipa Plantagenet, daughter of Lionel and Elizabeth, was born on 13 August, 1355, and died on 27 December, 1381. In 1368 she married Edmund Mortimer, Earl of March, who was born in 1351 and died in 1381. By this marriage were created the Y orkist claims to the throne. Elizabeth Mortimer, daughter of Edmund and Phillipa, was born on 12 February, 1371, and died in 1403. She married Henry, Lord Percy, Earl of Northumberland, surnamed Hotspur. He fought with his father at Ham­ ilton Hill and, resenting the injustice of Henry IV to his brother-in-law, Edmund Mortimer, he associated himself with Owen Glendower in the war against Henry and was killed at Shrewsbury in 1403. Shakespeare introduces him as a gay, jesting, fiery-tempered fellow in his play, Henry IV. Elizabeth Percy, daughter of Henry and Elizabeth, above, was born in 1390 and died on 26 October, 1436. She married Lord John Clifford, who was killed at the siege of Meaux on 13 March, 1422. Elizabeth was buried at Staindorp Church. Mary Clifford, daughter of John and Elizabeth, married Philip Went­ worth of N ettlestead, who was born in 1421 and died in 1464. Mary ( Clif­ ford) Wentworth was buried at the Friars Manors, Ipswich. Sir Henry \Ventworth, son of Philip and Mary, was born in 1448 and died in 1500. He married Ann, daughter of Sir John Saye, Knight. Margery Wentworth, daughter of Sir Henry and Ann (Saye) Went­ worth, married Sir John Seymour of Wolf's Hall, aforesaid.

REFERENCES Burke's Peerage. Dictionary of Royal Lineage, Allstrom. Century Dictionary. II8 Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King

THE LINE OF ALFRED THE GREAT ( allied with William)

Egbert, born in 775, died in 836, King of all England, son of Caecoline, a Gothic nobleman, married Redbyrge, first Queen of England. Their son: Ethelwulf, King of England, 836-857, married (first) Artburge, daugh­ ter of the Earl of Oslac. Their son : Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons and foremost figure in early English history, was born at Wantage in 849, died and was buried at Win­ chester on 26 October, 900. Separated from the mass of myth and legend that has clustered around him, the following are the facts upon which the best scholars agree as being well authenticated. He was sent to Rome in 853, there remaining at the court of Charles the Bold. This education and experience helped to give him that broadness of view which so marked him among the men of his time. In 868 he married Elswith, daughter of Ethelred the Mickle. In 869 he fought against the Danes ; he had three elder brothers, all of whom died during his own youth, and he then became King at only 22 years of age. He continued to fight against the Danes and in 886 he occupied and fortified London. Fourteen years later he died, survived by his wife, two sons and three daughters. He left behind him great results, having converted ill-trained soldiers into a well-organized national army, and he was the only one of his time to recognize that England must be strong on the seas, for this purpose creating a national navy. His laws are but a compilation of those of his predecessors, for in his own words he declared: "I durst not venture to set down in writing much of my own, since it was unknown to me what of it should please those who should come after me ;" and again : "Those things I met with which seemed rightest, those have I gathered together and rejected the others." He was an author and translator. It is due to his efforts that England has a richer and earlier history than any other European nation. Their daughter: Alfritha died in 920; she married Baldwin II, Count of Flanders. Their son: Arnold I, 873-965, married Alix, daughter of Herbert II, Count of Vermandois. Their grandson : Arnold II, Count of Boulogne and Flanders, married Suzanna, daughter of Berengarius II of Italy. Their son: Baldwin IV died in 1036. He married Otriga, daughter of Frederick, Count of Luxemburg. Their son: Baldwin V died in 1067. He was Regent of France, ro60-ro67, and in 1028 married Adela, daughter of Robert II, King of France. Their daughter: Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King II9 Matilda, 1035-1085, in 1054 married William, Duke of Normandy, King of England, 1066.

THE LINE OF MALCOLM OF SCOTLAND (allied with Henry I)

Malcolm II, who died on 25 November, 1034, King of Scotland, 1003- 1034, son of Kennith III, married Elgifee. Their daughter: Beatrix married Crimen, Abbot of Dunkeld and Lord of Isles. Their son: Duncan I, King of Scotland, 1034-1049, was killed by MacBeth, who was his cousin. He married a daughter of Seward, Earl of Northumber­ land. Their son: Malcolm III was born in 1024 and killed in 1093 ; he was King of Scot­ land, 1057-1093. He married (second), in 1067, Margeret of England, who was born in 1046 and died in 1093. Their daughter: Matilda was born in 108o and died in II 18. In IIOI she married Henry I of England.

THE LINE OF CHARLEMAGNE ( allied with Edward II)

Charlemagne, son of Pepin the Short, King of the Franks, 752-768, and Bertha, daughter of Carebert, Count of Laon, was born on 2 Apr,il, 742, and died at Aachen on 28 January, 814. His mother, Bertha, has been cele­ brated in poem and legend for many centuries. Charlemagne conquered Saxony, Lombardy and Bavaria and was crowned Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire at St. Peter's in Rome on 25 December, Soo. He was a determined patron of learning and from the officials of his regime was descended the later aristocracy of Europe. For most of his reign his capitol was at Aachen ( Aix-la-Chapelle). He married (second) Hildegarde, daughter of Geoffrey, Duke of Schwaben. Their son: Louis I, King of France and Italy, was born in 778 and died in 840; was German-Roman Emperor, 814-840. He married (first) Hermangarde, daughter of Ingerman, Duke of Haabaigne. Their daughter: Alfraida married (second) Robert the Strong, Count of Anjou (died 866) . Their son : Robert I died on 16 June, 923; was King of France, 922; married Beatrix, daughter of Herbert, Count of V ermandois. Their son: Hugo the Great died on 6 June, 956; and married (third) Hedwig, daughter of Heinrich I, German-Roman Emperor. Their son: Hugh Capet was born in 940 and died on 24 October, 996. He was 120 Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King elected King of France in 987. In 970 he married Adelaide of Guienne, daughter of William, Count of Poitou. Their son: Robert II was born in 970 and died in 1031. He was Duke of Burgundy, 1015, and King of France, 996-1031. He married (second), in 1005, Con­ stance, daughter of William I, Count of Provence. Their son: Henri I, was born in 1005 and died in 1060. He became King of France in 1031; and in 1051 married Agnes, daughter of Jaroslaw of Russia. Their son: Philip I was born in 1052 and died on 29 July, 1108. He became King of France in 1060; and married Bertha, daughter of Florence I, Count of Holland. Their son: Louis VI was born in 1078 and died in 1136. He became King of France and married, in 1115, Adelaide, daughter of Humbert II of Savoy. Their son: Louis VII was born in 1119 and died in rr8o. He became King of France in 1137; and married (third) Alice (born 1140 and died on 4 July, 1206), daughter of Theobald II, Count of Champagne. Their son: Philip II, Augustus, was born in 1165 and died in 1223. He became King of France in 1180; and married (first) Isobel of Artois, daughter of Baldwin VIII of Flanders. Their son: Louis VIII of Bourbon was born in 1187 and died in 1226. He became King of France in 1223; and in 1200 he married Blanche (born 1188, died 1252), daughter of Alphonse VIII of Castile. Their son: Louis IX, "St. Louis," was born in 1215 and died in 1270. He became King of France in 1226; and married Margeret of Provence. Their son: Philippe III, was born_ in 1245 and died in 1285. He became King of France in 1270; and married Isabella (born 1243, died 1271), daughter of James I, King of Aragon. Their son: Philippe IV was born in 1268 and died in November, 1314. He became King of France in 1285; and in 1284 married Jeanne, Queen of Navarre, who was born in 1270 and died in 1304. Their daughter: Isabella was born in 1290 and died in 1357. In 1308 she married Edward II, King of England. BOOK II

The Maternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King Compiled and Arranged

by Ella Bourdette Daly King

1932

(EDITOR: Charles Daly King, 1953)

PART ONE

Ancestors of James Daly

DALY

EDITOR'S NOTE: So far it has provet1 impossible to trace in detail the Irish antecedents of James Daly, the emigrant ancestor. In 1942, ten years after the completion of these data, the Compiler had correspondence with the Ulster King of Arms at Dublin Castle, Ireland, seeking information on the matter, with the results detailed below. The information, although doubtful, may not be totally irrelevant and is reproduced as being all that is now available on the subject. "4 March, 1943. Office of Arms Ulster's Office The Castle, Dublin. Dear Madam: We have failed to ascertain the ancestry of the Daly family of Coleraine, though there were several of the name resident in County Londonderry, as you will see by the enclosed. However, as the name was originally that of the Connaught family represented by the late Lord Dunsandle, I enclose his pedigree. It must, I think, be assumed that the Coleraine branch was an offshoot of the Connaught stock. Yours very truly, (signed) Thos. N. Sadleir, Deputy Ulster." Two enclosures were received with the above letter, the first comprising excerpts from Griffiths Land Survey of Ireland, 1853, the second tracing the lineage of the "Connaught stock," above mentioned. These enclosures are reproduced below:

Griffiths Land Survey of Ireland-1853 County Derry Townland Barony and Occupant Acreage Parish Coleraine Aghadowey Bovagh John Daly Keenaght Balteagh Drumsurn, Upper John Daly 2½ Keenaght Borenagh Gortnahey Beg Bryan Daly Derryard Henry Daly 22 124 Maternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King County Derry Townland Barony and Occupant Acreage Parish Derryard Daniel Daly 4 Drumadreen Robert Daly N.E. Liberties of Coleraine Coleraine & Suburbs Charles Daly 7 Coleraine, Town of Charles Daly and Son Keenaght Drumachose Newtown Limavady Frederick Daly Keenaght Dungiven Dungiven, Town of Margeret Daly Loughinsholin Artrea BalJyronanmore James Daly 31 Ballyronanmore James Daly Loughinsholin Ballinderry

Killymuck John Daly 12 Loughinsholin Ballynascreen Cahore Draperstown, Town of Peter Daly Loughinsholin BaJlyscullion BaJlymacombsmore Thomas Daly 3 BaJlysculJion West Thomas Daly 8½ BaJlyscullion West Thomas Daly Ballyscullion West Thomas Daly 18 Ballyscullion West James Daly 18 BaJlyscullion West Charles Daly I Ballyscullion West James and Thomas Daly Loughinsholin BaJlyscullion BaJlymacombsmore Thomas Daly 1½ Ballymacombsmore James Daly 2 Loughinsholin Killelagh Tirnony Bernard Daly 6 Tirnony Daniel Daly IO Tirnony Bernard Daly ½ Tirnony Daniel Daly I Tirnony John Daly s½ Carrowmenagh Patrick Daly 18 Carrowmenagh Patrick Daly 3 Carrowmenagh Rosina Daly 3 Carrowmenagh Rosina Daly 5 Carrowmenagh Rosina Daly ¼ Carrowmenagh Patrick Daly ¼ Maternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King 125 County Derry Townland Barony amd Occupant Acreage Parish Carrowmenagh Philip Daly 14 Carrowmenagh Philip Daly ½ Loughinsholin Maghera Drumconready Tamnymullan James Daly 20 Maghera, Town of Patrick Dawley Loughinsholin Magherafelt Dunamoney John Daly 5 Magherafelt, Town of John Daley ¾ John Daly Loughinsholin Tamlaght O'Crilly Inishrush Bryan Daly Glenone William Daly 38 Glenone Daniel Daly 26 Glenone Daniel Daly Moneyslaghanellis James Daley 17½ Moneyslaghanellis Thomas Daly 12½ Moneyslaghanellis James Daly Moneyslaghanellis William Daly II

The following is the descent of the Connaught stock of Daly, as re­ ceived from the Ulster King of Arms at Dublin : Donagh O'Daly of Laragh was the third son of the first Dermot O'Daly of Killimer. He was Patentee of Galway Islands in 1620. The name of his wife is unknown ; they had one son : James Daly of Carrownekelly ( later Dunsandle) ; Patentee of estates in 1669. He married Anstase Darcy, third daughter of Anthony Darcy by Jennet, daughter of Robert Brown. Their children were Denis, Charles and James. Denis Daly of Carrownekelly was Judge of the Common Pleas, 1638- 1714. He died on II March, 1720 or 1721 and his Will was proven in 1727. He married Mary, daughter of James Power of Park, Limerick. He had children: James, Thomas Power, Denis, Peter, Anstase and Mary. Charles Daly, son of James and Anstase (Darcy) Daly, of Calla, other­ wise Harwood, was Captain in the army of James II. He was Member of Parliament for Athenry, Galway, and was attainted in 1691. He married Anne, daughter of James Darcy of Kiltullagh and sister of Hyancinth Darcy. James Daly, son of James and Anstase (Darcy) Daly, of Raford in Galway. 126 Maternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King James Daly, son of Denis and Mary (Power) Daly, married Honora, daughter of Sir Stephen Rice. They had one son, Denis. James Daly died before the death of his father, Denis. Thomas Power Daly, son of Denis and Mary (Power) Daly, of Car­ rownekelly, married ---; and had two daughters, Mary and Anstase. Denis Daly, son of Denis and Mary (Power) Daly, of Greyford, mar­ ried ---, heiress of George French, Esquire, of French Brook, Mayo. Their son was James. Peter Daly, son of Denis and Mary (Power) Daly, of Quansberry, left a Will in 1757. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Blake of Ardpy, by whom he had children: Denis, Honora, Anstase and Margeret. Anstase Daly, daughter of Denis and Mary (Power) Daly, married Robert Blake of Ardpy. Mary Daly, daughter of Denis and Mary (Power) Daly, married, first, Captain John Moore and, second, Peter Browne of Westport. Denis Daly, son of James and Honora (Rice) Daly, of Carrownekelly married Catherine, daughter of Sir Walter Blake of Menlo, the sixth baronet. He died without issue on 26 July, 1723. Mary Daly, daughter of Thomas Power Daly of Carrownekelly, mar­ ried Malachy Donnellan. Anstase Daly, daughter of Thomas Power Daly of Carrownekelly, mar­ ried Robert Blake, son of Sir Robert Blake. James Daly, son of Denis and --- Daly, in June, 1744, married Cath­ erine, daughter of Sir Ralph Gore, Baronet. Their children were : Denis, Ralph, St. George, Peter, James, Richard, Elizabeth and Ellen. Denis Daly, son of Peter and Elizabeth (Blake) Daly, died unmarried. Honora Daly, daughter of Peter and Elizabeth (Blake) Daly, in 1735 married ---, fourth Viscount Kingsland. Anstase Daly, daughter of Peter and Elizabeth (Blake) Daly, married, first, Charles Daly of Calla and, second, Francis, fifth Earl of Kerry. Margeret Daly, daughter of Peter and Elizabeth (Blake) Daly, on IO June, 1760, married Thomas, Lord Athenry, twenty-second Baron Athenry, created Earl of Louth. The Right Honorable Denis Daly of Dunsandle, son of James and Catherine (Gore) Daly, was Mayor of Galway in 1772 and Member of Parliament for Galway. He died in 1798. He married Henrietta Maxwell, daughter of Robert, Earl of Farnham, by Henrietta, Countess of Stafford. Their children were: James, Robert and five daughters, unnamed in this list. The Reverend Ralph Daly, son of James and Catherine (Gore) Daly, was Clerk and Warden of Galway. He married Miss Kilkelly, by whom he had one son, James. Maternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King' 127 The Right Honorable St. George Daly, son of James and Catherine (Gore) Daly, was Member of Parliament for Galway and Judge of the King's Bench. He married Louise, sister of Sir Ralph Gore, Baronet, and died without issue in 1829. Lieutenant Colonel Peter Daly was the son of James and Catherine (Gore) Daly. James Daly was the son of James and Catherine (Gore) Daly. Richard Daly was the son of James and Catherine (Gore) Daly. Elisabeth Daly, the daughter of James and Catherine (Gore) Daly, married Peter Daly of Lismore. Ellen Daly was the daughter of James and Catherine (Gore) Daly. The Right Honorable James Daly of Dunsandle, son of Denis and Henrietta (Maxwell) Daly, was Member of Parliament for County Galway. He was born in 1782 and died in 1847. He was created Baron Dunsandle on 6 June, 1825; and in March, 1808, he married Maria, second daughter of Sir Skeffington Smyth, Baronet, by whom he had children: Denis St. George, Skeffington James, Charles, Bowes, Robert, Eleanor and Rosa. The Reverend Robert Daly, son of Denis and Henrietta (Maxwell) Daly, was Lord Bishop of Cashel and Waterford. The Reverend James Daly, son of The Reverend Ralph and --­ ( Kilkelly) Daly, was Clerk and Warden of Galway. The Honorable Denis St. George Daly, second Baron Dunsandle, son of James and Maria (Smyth) Daly, was born in 1810. In 1864 he married Mary, daughter of William Broderick. Skeffington James Daly, third Baron Dunsandle, son of James and Maria (Smyth) Daly, died unmarried. Charles Daly was the son of James and Maria ( Smyth) Daly. Bowes Daly was the son of James and Maria (Smyth) Daly. Robert Daly, son of James and Maria (Smyth) Daly, in 1845 married Cecelia A'Courte, daughter of the first Baron Heytesbury. He died on 15 June, 1892. He had one son, James Frederick. Eleanor Daly was the daughter of James and Maria (Smyth) Daly. Rosa Daly was the daughter of James and Maria (Smyth) Daly. James Frederick Daly, fourth Baron Dunstable, son of Robert and Cecelia (A'Courte) Daly, died unmarried on 25 November, 1911, and the title thereby became extinct. ( This completes the data furnished by the Ulster Office) * * James Daly, son of Charles and Ellen (---) Daly, was born in Colraine, County Galway, Ireland, on 28 February, 1818. At the present time the writer (compiler) knows very little of the early life of James Daly, save that he came of an old and well known family, tradition claiming 128 Maternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King descent from an early king of ancient Erin. It is not known when or why he left his native country and came to America, nor the date. In those days America was the bright and alluring star drawing the youth of the Mother Country to the New W orId ; and it is to be presumed that he, like other younger sons, saw opportunities here not to be had in the homeland. (Edi­ tor's Note : There is a story which the editor has had from his aunt, Mrs. Charles Howard Daly, that James Daly ran away from home to come to America, at the same time leaving the Roman Catholic Church which there­ fore excommunicated him, and that for these acts he was cut off in his father's Will with one shilling. This story being hearsay, it is not known how much truth there may be in it.) James Daly had cousins in Charleston, S. C. and in New York City. Judge Charles P. Daly of New York and Charles Daly of Coleraine, Ireland, both claimed to be the head of their branch of the family. James Daly must have been quite a young man when he came to America, for his first son was born when he was only 21 years of age. James Daly was an architect-builder of prominence in New York City and made a fortune at that profession, being one of the builders of the Astor mansions. He was very fond of horses and drove many beautiful and fast ones. It was his love of this sport that was the cause of the loss of much of his fortune in later years. In 1838 he married (first) Emily, daughter of Thomas and Marie (Goffet) Bloomer; she died in 1851 and he married (second) Antoinette ---. The children of James and Emily (Bloomer) Daly were Charles, Emily Bloomer and Ann Eliza; those of James and Antoinette (---) Daly were Elisabeth, Eleanor, Frank and William. The naturalization papers of James Daly read : "James Daly, son of Charles Daly, Sr., of Colrain, Ireland. July 22, 1865. Superior Court of New York City, County of New York." He died on 22 June, 1900, aged 82 years, 3 months and 21 days, in Brooklyn, N. Y., where he had made his home with two of his daughters at 840 Green A venue.

Charles Daly, son of James and Emily (Bloomer) Daly, was born on 12 October, 1839, in New York City, the family home being on 14th. Street. His mother died when he was a lad of 12 years of age. He was unusual in his school life, always being far in advance of those of his own age, yet en­ joying all their sports and games. Life in New York in his boyhood days was far different from that of the present time. The little boys who formed his boyish circle delighted to spend their play hours on the shores of the Hudson River at the foot of 14th. Street, jumping from rock to rock, throw­ ing stones-"Skipping-stones," they used to call it-out into the river and enjoying all the delights of the real country. He graduated from New York University, then called the Free Academy, at the early age of sixteen years, receiving the degree of B.A. and being the youngest graduate of that col- Maternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King 129 lege. He began his business career in 1856 with the firm of Tufts and Colley. He was later with Sargent and Company and with Herman Baker and Company, which firm he left in 1865 to form with Mr. Schoverling the firm of Schoverling and Daly, importers of firearms, starting in Barclay Street and the following year moving to Beekman Street. Their business compelled them at a subsequent date to take the larger and more important location at 84-86 Chambers Street and they finally located at 302 Broadway under the name of Schoverling, Daly and Gales, where the firm became one of the leading sporting goods houses of the country. The business continued in the family until the death of Charles Howard Daly, Mr. Charles Daly's only son, in 1924; in 1926 it was sold to Davega andCompany. Charles Daly was one of the incorporators and for many years the President of the Marlin Arms Company of New Haven, Conn. He was one of the active organizers of the Hardware Club in New York City, always manifesting the greatest interest in its career and he enjoyed the pleasure of serving on its Board of Governors until his death. He was also Vice-President of the Sportsmen's Association, the Hardware Association and a Director of the Frankling Savings Bank. In his young days he was a member of the Episco­ pal Church but after his marriage he joined the Methodist Church. Always active in the work of the church, he was first a Trustee of St. James in West 34th. Street and later a Trustee and Treasurer of the West 53rd. Street Church. In later years he became a member of the Broadway Taber­ nacle Presbyterian Church. As a lad he lived on \Vest 14th. Street but later the family built in 19th. Street in the Chelsea section, moving from what had earlier been a fashionable location. After his marriage he lived first on 12th. Street, moving from there to Madison Avenue, and when the tramcars in­ vaded that thoroughfare, he moved to 126 West 86 Street, subsequently going to Summit, N. J., where he died suddenly of apoplexy on 12 Jan­ uary, 1899, in the fifty-ninth year of his age. "Charles Daly was an important and active member of the Sporting Goods Trade. He was instrumental in shaping the policy under which most of the business of the country was done. There was seldom any scheme of importance inaugurated or perfected until the promoters first knew what Daly thought of it and his judgment was rarely at fault. His loss will be felt as keenly as that of anyone in the business."-The Sporting Goods. "Mr. Daly was a thoroughly conscientious merchant and was devoted to his chosen vocation. Upright and honorable in all his walks of life, a firm and lifelong friend, with a warm heart for those he loved and even an extended hand for those who might fail to appreciate his uniform kindness of motive and honesty of purpose. To a stranger his natural demeanor seemed diffident and reserved at first, but upon warmer relations springing from acquaintanceship he soon showed the possession of noble qualities that 130 Ma.ternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King engender friendship, annihilate selfishness and make life worth possessing. He was a man of quiet tastes and his happiest hours were in his home sur­ rounded by those he loved. He possessed a large circle of friends who were endeared to him by his sincerity of character and generosity of affectionate impulse."-The Hardware Magazine. On 26 December, 1860, Charles Daly was married in St. James Church, New York City, to Charity Dealing, daughter of William, 2nd., and Mary ( Bourdette) Dealing. He survived his wife by 12 years. His children were Ella, Herbert and Charles Howard.

Ella Bourdette Daly, daughter of Charles and Charity (Dealing) Daly, was born in New York City on 3 August, 1865. She was educated at private schools in New York City and later attended Miss Comstock's School at Rye, N. Y., from which she graduated with high standing in her studies and deportment. Being of a social disposition, she took part in many entertain­ ments in the city as a young lady and on 16 December, 1891, at her home in New York married Robert Courtney King, then of Brooklyn, N. Y. At this time her father was already a widower and she and her husband made their home with him first in New York City, later moving with him to Summit, N. J., where he died on 12 January, 1899. Subsequently she removed with her husband to East Orange, N. J., where they resided at 59 Prospect Street, then a desirable section of the town. At that time she was active in the Woman's Club of the Oranges, serving as Chairman of several of its Committees, and also held the position of Treasurer of the Women's Ex­ change of the Oranges. She was a member of the Daughters of the Ameri­ can Revolution, Essex Chapter· of New Jersey (National membership Number 142524), and became the ninth Regent of the Chapter, serving in the capacity from 1939 until her death in 1943 ; the qualifying ancestor whom she listed upon her admission was William Bloomer. She was also a member of the New Jersey Society of the Colonial Dames of America (New Jersey Registration Number 773) ; and in this instance she listed the follow­ ing qualifying ancestors: John Berry, Michael Smith, Paulus Van der Beek, Derrick Banta, Edward Earle, Jr., Michael Jansen Vreeland and Enoch Vreeland. At this time she and her husband regularly spent the summer months at Rangeley, Maine, where they had a large number of close friends in the community of summer visitors. Shortly before her husband's death on 29 March, 1921, he had purchased a country property on the Mendham Road outside Morristown, N. J. and, when she became a widow and her son had married, she moved to that residence and sold the East Orange property. A few years later she sold the Morristown property also and pur­ chased Woodcrest House in Summit, N. J., where she lived for the rest of her life, preferring that neighborhood because of the presence there of her Maternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King 131 sister-in-law, Mrs. Charles Howard Daly, and of several of her closest girl­ hood friends. She greatly enjoyed travelling and after her husband's death visited Europe on numerous occasions and went as far afield as the Ha­ waiian Islands. She contributed to many charities and was a woman of wide interests, artistic, literary and social. Her nature was generous, intelligent and affectionate; she was the active centre of her family's life and made a host of steadfast, loyal friends. She died of angina at her home in Summit, N. J. on 9 February, 1943, leaving one son, Charles Daly King, and a grand-daughter, Valerie Daly King, of whom this compilation treats else­ where. PART TWO

Ancestors of Emily Bloomer

BLOOMER The first settlement at what is now called Rye, N. Y., took place when four men from Greenwich, Conn., purchased Peningo Neck and Manussing Island from the Indians. The leader of the party was Peter Disbrow and in his honor the little colony was called Hastings. About 1664 the colony was joined by several new families. They were men of substance who came at about the time that New Amsterdam was surrendered to the English and when there was no further danger of the Dutch laying claim to the locality. This new party was headed by two men, Thomas and Hackeliah Brown, sons of Mr. Thomas Brown, a gentleman of good family from Rye, in Sus­ sex, England, who had removed to New England in 1632, settling at Cam­ bridge, Mass. The new part of the colony was on the mainland and was called Rye in honor of the two Browns; and on 1 l May, 1665, the Court of Connecticut merged the two parts of the settlement into one and called it Rye. The name of Bloomer does not appear among the early settlers of New England. In 1662 one, Bloomer, had a dispute with one, John Scott, of Setauket, Long Island, which the commissioners were asked to settle.

Robert Bloomer in 1672 bought land at Rye from Philip Galpin. He became a proprietor of Peningo N eek, sharing in one equal part ( l / r 8) with Thomas Merritt, who came to Rye at about the same time. From 1682 to 1684 he was engaged in law suits in connection with some of his fellow-townsmen and these seem to have been settled against his interest; hence, perhaps, he removed in 1684 to Mr. Ridgbell's "greate Neck" and before 1703 to New Rochelle: In the latter year he and his wife, Rachel, conveyed to their son Robert, of Rye, their "great lotment of land, and one­ quarter of the 18th. part of land undivided below the marked trees."

Robert Bloomer, son of Robert and Rachel Bloomer, was active in town affairs. He was Constable in 1697, Townsman from 1701 to 1711, Trustee in 1718 and again in 1729. He was still living in 1738, when he gave to his grandson, Robert, son of Robert, Jr., of Rye, the home where his father had lived and 45 acres of land. In 1680 Robert Bloomer and others bought from Maternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King 133 Maramaking or "Lame Will" the land known as Hogpen Ridge. In 1698 the proprietors gave him the island known as Bloomer's /and in 1701 the town gave him land "on the lower end of Hogpen Ridge, being near the lower falls of Blind Brook." In 1703 he was given 5 acres on the Ridge and in 1703 also he was one of a committee of three to settle the boundary line. In 1707 the town granted him the falls and stream of Blind Brook to erect a mill or mills within ten years; Bloomer's Mill, now Park's Mill, was long known by the former name. In 1697 and again in 1729 he was appointed to head a committee to lay out the land of the proprietors and the highways through them; and in 1733 he was appointed on a committee to regulate and renew the bound marls of "Will's Purchase." His home was on the Milton Road. He had one son, Robert; John, apparently a younger brother, was living at Mamaroneck in 1714.

Robert Bloomer, Jr., son of Robert and --- Bloomer, died about 1738. In 1727 he was among those who petitioned the Assembly of Con­ necticut Colony for leave to beg on all towns and villages for money to erect a Presbyterian Church at Rye. The petition was denied. But the Trustees of Yale College supported the movement and a parcel of land was given by Robert Bloomer, Sr., and others for a building site in May of that year. The 'plot was situated on Pulpit Hill and there the church was built and stood until the Revolution. On 9 October, 1727, Mr. Robert Bloomer, Jr., was chosen as "agent for the Presbyterian Society of Rye and White Plains." The name of his wife is unknown. He left four sons : Robert, John, Gilbert and Joseph. Robert was given the house occupied by his father and was liv­ ing in 1764; he was Captain Robert Bloomer, in command of the Southern Battalion, Westchester County Militia. Gilbert was Justice of the Peace at Rye in 1743 and Town Clerk in 1751. Joseph was mentioned in the town records of 1738-1748; he went from there to Newburg, being granted land in German patent in 1743; he was a miller like his grandfather and was the first settler in Newburg bearing the name of Bloomer.

John Bloomer, son of Robert, Jr., and --- Bloomer, is mentioned in town records in 1735 and 1740. He was after_,;ards in the northern part of Westchester County and from there he joined his brother at Newburg. This section was settled by people of English stock from Westchester County and Long Island, who were related to each other either by birth or by mar­ riage. John Bloomer married Bethia ---; and both are buried in the ancient burying ground at Marlboro. In 1759 John and Joseph Bloomer were witnesses to the Wills of George and Glorande Merritt, of Highland Precinct. 134 Maternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King William Bloomer, son of John and Bethia (---) Bloomer, was born on II April, 1749, and died on 31 October, 1824. In 1762 he was appren­ ticed to Samuel Brewster, who owned a forge at "Murderer's Creek," now caIIed Moodna. He lived first on the property granted to Joseph Bloomer and very probably with his uncle on the King's Highway at BalmviIIe. There he had a forge and a blacksmith shop. Besides being a blacksmith and a farmer he owned an inn cailed the "Balm of Gilead Tree" where, during the Revolution, General Washington used to stay, his headquarters being in that vicinity. He also owned a farm on what was known as the "Dans Kamer" ( Dance Chamber). His home in Balmville, it is said, stood where the residence of Mr. Bush-Brown now is, and his blacksmith shop was nearly opposite the "Balm of Gilead Tree" on the west side of the road. At the close of the Revolution he became a member of the Society of Friends. The highway to Fostertown, used in very early times, led from a point near William Bloomer's house to the river. Among those assessed for highway taxes was William Bloomer. He served in the Revolution in the militia, in the Fifth Regiment, Colonel Lewis Du Bois, in the Third Regiment, Colonel Allison, in the Fourth Regiment and in an Independent Company (New York Men in the Revolution, Roberts, 2nd. Edition). "An Account of French Arms and Accoutrements Delivered to my Company, Colonel Lewis Du Bois' Regiment, Fort Montgomery, June 10th; 1777: to WiIIiam Bloomer, 1 gun, l bayonet, r scabbard, r belt, 1 cartouche box. Clothing delivered to my Company during the year, 1771: 1 hat, 2 frocks, 2 shirts, 2 overaIIs, 1 breeches, 2 stockings, 2 shoes." William Bloomer married Rachel Cosman. It is not known when she died but on 3 r March, 1813, he married, second, Sarah Sprague, a widow. (Quaker Marriages, Marlboro, Ulster County, N. Y.): "WiIIiam Bloomer of Newburg, son of John and Bethia Bloomer, married Sarah Sprague, daughter of Henry Evans and Abigail, of New Platz, 3rd. month, 31st. day, 1813, at New Platz." The children of William and Rachel (Cosman) Bloomer were John, Jacob, Thomas, Mary, Abigail, Rachel and Bethia.

Thomas Bloomer, son of WiIIiam and Rachel (Cosman) Bloomer, was born in May, 1800, at Newburg. He died at Greenwich, Conn., on 5 June, 1850. He served in the War of 1812 in a battalion of New York ArtiIIery, Captain Alanson Austin, r8 August-r8 September, r8r4 (Dibblee's) and in Captain Austin's Company, 5th. Artillery and Infantry ( Colden's), 18 September-13 December, 1814. (War Department Records, Washington, D. C.) These troops were raised in the counties of Dutchess, Rockland and Orange. At the close of the war he settled in New York City and married, first, Maria Goffett, who was born in New York City. The New York Directory first gives his residence as 403 Greenwich Street, in 1815. Maternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King 135 In 1842, at the death of his first wife, he was living at 10_½ Vanderwater Street. He married, second, Glovina Bassett, a widow, daughter of Mr. Christopher Ryder of New York City, who survived him. At the time of his death he was living at his home lately purchased at Greenwich, Conn., and had also a house at 40 Gold Street, New York City. Maria Goffett, his first wife, died on 16 April, 1842, in the 43rd. year of her life and is buried in Greenwood Cemetery. The children of Thomas and Maria (Goffett) Bloomer were Maria, Emily and Thomas.

Emily Bloomer, daughter of Thomas and Maria ( Goffett) Bloomer, was born in --- and died in 1851. In 1838 she married James Daly, afore­ said.

REFERENCES Chronicle of a Border Town, History of Rye, \Vestchester County, N. Y., r66o-r870, Charles W. Baird, N. Y., r87r; pp. 9, 20, 21, 27, 28, 30, 57, 396, 397.

Articles of Association, 22, I775 In support of the cause of the Colonies the Committee of New York, of which Newburg had three members, drew up a Pledge to observe and maintain the orders and resolutions of the Continental Congress. This Pledge was sent to aII Precincts and Counties. All who signed it, were known as supporters and devoted friends of the cause of the Colonies : "Persuaded that the salvation and rights of America depend, under God, in the firm union of its inhabitants in a vigorous prosecution of the meas­ ures necessary for its safety and convinced of the necessity of preventing anarchy and confusion, which attend the dissolution of the powers of gov­ ernment, we, the freeholders and inhabitants of Newburg, being greatly alarmed at the avowed design of the minority to raise a tevenue in America and shocked by the bloody scenes now being enacted in Massachusett's Bay, do in the most solemn manner resolve never to become Slaves and associate under all ties of religion, honor and love of our Country to adopt and endeavor to carry into execution whatever measures may be recom­ mended by the Continental Congress or resolved upon by our Provincial Convention, and opposing the execution of several acts of the British Government until a reconciliation between Great Britain and America on Constitutional principles ( we most ardently desire) can be obtained, and that we will in all things foIIow the advice of our General Committee re­ specting the purpose aforesaid, the preservation of peace, good order and safety in the individual and property." Maternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King

The King's Highway "The ancient highways of the country, the roads that were opened through the country and traversed by the pioneers with guns on their shoulders, the roads through the clearings bordered by wild flowers, berry bushes and rail and stone fences, are always a pleasant memory to tkose who were born among them, and especially in association with the names and lives of the old folks at home who resided on them. With a feeling of rever­ ence for our most ancient highway I pen something of its history and some­ thing of the early residents along its line. Primarily the road was opened by the Palatines in 1709, running through the settlement from Quassaick on Chambers Creek to what is now called Balmville, and thence through New Platz and later to Marlboro. The most interesting section of King's Street was that described in the road list of 1789, "Robert Carskaddin, overseer, beginning opposite to William Bloomer's house north of ye bridge, then south to St. George's Church." It was the section which we now call "Old Town," the centre of the settlement. The bridge then known as Bloomer's was just south of the Bush-Brown place, which was then William Bloomer's house. It remains where it was then. The bound marks on the north of old St. George's Church were Bloomer's Bridge, the ?Id Stone School House and Acker's Mills. The most noted of the bound marks was probably the residence and blacksmith of William Bloomer. A great change has occurred in its environment during the century and a quarter since the old house was erected. In pioneer days the section was thickly populated. William Bloomer's house was on the north corner; "Joseph Bloomer, miller," was the first settler bearing the name of Bloomer who located on it. His land title dates from 1754. There is no reasonable doubt that William Bloomer was his son, a boy of three or four years of age in 1754, altho' none of his descendants seem to have any knowledge of his existence and trace their lineage from William Bloomer." (Note : Mr. Ruttenber is wrong. in supposing that William Bloomer was the son of Joseph Bloomer; it is proven in the marriage records of Marlboro that he was the son of John and Bethia Bloomer.) "William Bloomer departed this life October 31st., 1824, aged 75 years, 6 months and 24 days, and was buried on his farm at the Dans Kamer, to which he had removed. In 1762, when 13 years of age, he was apprenticed to a blacksmith at Murder­ er's Creek, no doubt to Samuel Brewster who had a forge at what is now known as Moodna, and the only one that was there. He served in the Militia during the Revolution and in 1790 united with the Society of Friends at Canterbury. He seemed to have been married twice, the second marriage occurring in 1813, eleven years before his death. Curious was-the marriage settlement with his second wife and eventful was his life as Maternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King 1 37 shown by a paper written by himself at the age of 71 years."-Newburg Historical Papers, Newburg and Highland Historical Society; No. IO: The King's Highway, E. M. Ruttenber.

Balm of Gilead Tree '1The local name of Balmville was given to a tract on the west side of Newburg Bay. It was called after the giant poplar tree of the Balm of Gilead species, standing in the old King's Highway, now the Balmville Road, about a mile north of the city. But little is known of the early history of the tree that gave its name to the locality. Several traditions as to its origin are mentioned. One is that Humphrey Merritt brought it from the mountains near New Jersey, when a small branch at the beginning of the Revolution. Another is that it originated from a riding switch which was stuck in the ground and there took root. John Cosman, who was an ap­ prentice to William Bloomer, the blacksmith, before the Revolution, stated that he had often shod horses under the tree, which was then large. In the old times an extract from the buds was supposed to have consider­ able medicinal virtue, · and was used in curing wounds, rheumatism and other ailments. The tree now ( 1901) measures 21 feet and 8 inches in circumference two feet from the ground." De Dans Kamer "At an early period the Dutch navigators of the Hudson named a point of land on Newburg Bay the Dans Kamer; it was so named prior to 1640, for De Vries, who made a voyage along the river in that year, states in his journal: 'At night came by the Dance Chamber where there was a party of Indians who were very riotous, seeking mischief, so that we were on our guard.' The nations frequented the head-land to perform their religious rites and the dance they called 'Kni tikaeye.' Lieutenant Couvenhaven, while at anchor in his sloop off the Dans Kamer in 1663, observed some of these ceremonies and wrote that 'the Indians who lay thereabouts on the river, made a great uproar every night firing guns and knitikaeying so that the woods rang again.' The dances were finally ordered stopped by the English Governor. The place, however, retains its name given over two hundred and fifty years ago."-Newburg Historical Papers, Newburg and Highland Historical Society, Vol.s 7, 12: Balm of Gilead Tree, De Dans Kamer, David Barclay. PART THREE

Ancestors of William Dealing, 2nd.

DEALING There is very little that can be learned of the origin or native place of the Dealings in the Old World. That the emigrant ancestor was French is certain and that the name is a corruption of the original family name is an established fact. There is no record of anyone by the name of Dealing emi­ grating to America and in the earliest records obtainable only once is the name, Dealing, spelled correctly, at all other times being Deland, Dieland, Deelen, Delyn, Dieliens, and so forth. We have a sketch of the ancestors of Benjamin Dealing, written by Mr. Harvey De Line of Syracuse, N. Y., but the connecting link is not there and hence it is only tradition at present. Samuel, a brother of my grandfather's ( the Compiler's grandfather), al­ ways maintained that the name was De Line and that the family were Huguenots. Such meagre facts as have been collected, I have endeavored to weave into a brief sketch and the letter of Mr. De Line will be quoted, although there is no proof of the authenticity of its allegations.

Benjamin Dealing was probably born about 1700 and was the emigrant ancestor. From the fact that a marriage license was granted to John Deal­ ing, Jr., and Penelope D'Arcy in June, 1769, we assume that John Dealing, Sr., was of the same generation as Benjamin and very probably a brother. Benjamin Dealing and Elizabeth Vredenburg were married on Ir August, 1738, or rather the marriage was granted on that date. (Vol. I, p. ro, New York Marriages.) The baptismal records of their children in the Dutch Church read :

Abraham July rst., 1739 son of Benjamin Deland and Elizabeth Vredenburg sponsors: William and Apollonia Vredenburg, h.v., James Boyes Benjamin Feb. 25th., r74r son of Benjamin Deland and Elizabeth Vredenburg sponsors: Richard Caker and Margrietje Vredenburg, h.v. Benjamin Aug. rst., 1744 son of Benjamin Dieland and Elizabeth Vredenburg sponsors: Issaac De Mild, Margeret Van de Yoast, z.h.v. Maternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King 1 39 Jannet May 17th., 1747 daughter of Benjamin Deelen and Elizabeth Vredenburg sponsors: Abraham Persel and J annetje, z.h.v. Daniel Jan., 1750 son of Benjamin Deelen and Elizabeth Vredenburg sponsors: Richard Kip, and Jannetje Persel, z.h.v. Catherine July 10th., 1751 daughter of Benjamin Delen and Elizabeth Vredenburg sponsors: Benjamin Coch and Catherine Benson, h.v., van John Hale William Feb. 12th., 1755 son of Benjamin Daland and Elizabeth Vredenburg sponsors : William Cornelius and Elizabeth Vredenburg, z.h.v. In the Dutch records of these baptisms the father's name is spelled five different ways but never once as Dealing. It is only because the mother's name is spelled the same each time that these records give proof. Truly the Knickerbockers had bewildering ways, especially in spelling.

William Dealing, Sr., the sixth child of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Vredenburg) Dealing, was born in January or February, 1755. He married Ann Moore on 8 July, 1776. (Trinity Church Records, New York Genealogical Society, Vol. 3, p. 91). From the fact that William and John Curtis were sponsors for two of their children, they may have been some relation of the wife, Ann. Their four children were baptized in Trinity Church and William is buried in Trinity Church Yard. He sided with England in the Revolution, although he must have been content to abide by the fortunes of war, for he remained in New Yark City afterwards as a good citizen of the Republic. When a little girl I ( the Compiler) was very fond of hearing my grandmother tell of how my great-great-great­ grandmother Dealing danced at a very beautiful ball given on an English man-of-war in New Yark Harbor during the English occupation of the city. The baptismal records of the children of William and Ann (Moore) Dealing in Trinity Church read as follows : (Vol. I, p. 71) June 19th., 1778 Hester, born May 25th., 1778. parents : William and Ann Dealing sponsors : William Curtis, Silas Bourdette, Hester Moore (Vol. I, p. 106) Oct. 15th., 1779 William, Jr., born Oct. 4th., 1779. parents : William and Ann Moore sponsors: John Burt, Hester Long, John Curtis (Vol. I, p. 160) Dec. 23rd., 1781 Elizabeth, born Dec. 1st., 1781. parents : William and Ann Moore sponsors: Joshua and Naomi Slidell, Rachel Cooper 140 Ma.fernal Ancestry of Charles Daly King Burials July 21st., 1783; Mr. Dealing's child, Elizabeth, aged r8 months, buried in Trinity Church Yard. William Dealing, Jr., son of William and Ann (Moore) Dealing, was born on 4 October, 1779. He married Charity, daughter of Michael and Catherine Moore; they had four sons and two daughters: William, 2nd., Samuel, Michael, Edward, Ann and Georgeanna.

William Dealing, 3rd., son of William, Jr., and Charity (Moore) Deal­ ing, was born on 15 May, 1805, (family Bible record), and baptized on 30 June, 1805, (Methodist Episcopal Church Records, New York Genealogical Society). On 19 March, 1829, at the Bourdette Homestead, Fort Lee, N. J., he married Mary, daughter of Benjamin and Rachel Bourdette. He died on II February, 1877 and is buried in Green-Wood Cemetery. He lived in New York City on West 42 street, his home having been on the site of the present Catholic Church and School. After the sale of this land to the Catholic Church he built a home a little to the east of that property, where he died. The neighborhood has entirely changed in character and is no longer a desirable residential district. William, 3rd., was an insurance and real estate broker and had charge of much of the property in that section of the city. The children of William, 3rd., and Mary ( Bourdette) Dealing were Mary, Martha, Benjamin and Charity.

Charity Dealing, youngest child of William, 3rd., and Mary (Bourdette) Dealing, was born on IO December, 1837. On 26 December, 186o, she married Charles Daly. They were married in Trinity Methodist Church on West 34 Street, New York City, by the Reverend J. L. G. McKown at twelve o'clock, noon. Charity Dealing Daly was all her life active in church and charitable work in New York City. She was a woman of very sti;-ong personality and determination. She was fond of travel, which fortunately she was able to enjoy to a considerable degree. She was also an amateur in art, painting in both oils and water colors, and was a perfect German scholar. She died after a long illness from an internal injury caused by a fall in the Doge's Palace, Venice, Italy, her death taking place at Palatica, Florida; she is buried in Green-Wood Cemetery.

REFERENCES Dutch Church, Records, New York City. Trinity Church Records, New York City. New York Genealogical Society.

Extract from a letter of 12 July, 1912, written by Mr. Harvey De Line of Syracuse, N. Y., who has traced his line to Benjamin and Elizabeth Maternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King (Vredenburg) Dealing through their son, Benjamin, baptized on 4 August, 1774, in the Dutch Church (now Trinity Church), New York City. The later Benjamin is supposed to have settled in the Mohawk Valley and his descendants are recorded in the old Caughmawaga Church as De­ line, Delyne, Delones, De Line, De Lein, Dielines, De Lune, Dielin, Deling and Delin. The letter follows : "I have been looking up the family somewhat and am going to find out more about it, if I can. Away back in the year, 1200, two brothers by name of Albert came to France from Germany (James and Charles). Charles Albert was a priest and later became Cardinal and still later was appointed Pope of Rome as Pius II. James was one of the finest muscians of his day and was appointed by the King leader of the Court Orchestra, became a great favorite of the King and a very rich man. He had two sons; one studied for a Doctor and became Court Physician and married the Duchess of Lyons, was made Duke and took the name of James Albert de Luynes of Chartres. The other was Captain of the King's Archers and had three sons who were adopted by the Doctor, their uncle, who had no children, and given the name of De Luynes. The eldest son, James Albert De Luynes, was Marshall of France and died on the battle field. Two of them were created Dukes; the third I have not traced. One of them was a close friend of Louis XIV from boyhood up and the only one that in his whole life Louis remained true to-so history says. His son married one of the King's daughters. One brother was created Duke of Orleans and his grandson was Louis Philippe De Luynes. I think from what I can trace out so far that Charles Philip De Luynes, Duke of Chevres, who married Mary De Rohan Montdayau, was my great-grandfather's father. Mary De Rohan was a niece of the Emperor of Germany and a Protestant and secretly taught protestantism to her children, some of them accepting the faith. I think my great-great-grandfather was one of the younger sons. After the death of Charles Philip, his widow married the Duke of Lorain. Our great-grand­ father emigrated to America and married Elizabeth V reedenburg, a niece of Baron von V reed en burg of Holland in New York, then New Amster­ dam. He had three sons and three daughters; the latter I have not traced. The boys were John, our grandfather, Lewis Philip and Cornelius. John and Cornelius had children, the others did not marry and are buried in Syracuse. Benjamin, our great-grandfather, spelled his name in two ways, DeLyne and DeLuynes." Note by Alice E. Pray: "The writer of the above has learned since that his great-grandfather, Benjamin, was the son of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Vredenburg) Dealing instead of being husband to Elizabeth. The second Benjamin's wife was Angentije Philipsen, married July 24th., 1767, the record being in the Maternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King Dutch Church in Stone Arabia. His name is given there as De Lein. There is nothing in the letter that gives any definite clue to the parents of the first Benjamin Dealing, married in 1738. He was probably born about 1700 and may have been a younger son as claimed, but the first mention of him is the marriage. It is supposed that the John Dealing, Jr., who married Penelope D'Arcy, was probably a nephew of Benjamin. The will of Sarah Durhen (Dueshen) made Jan. 4th., 1764, proved Nov. 6th., 1769, mentions the Rev. Albert W eygand and John Dealing of New York as heirs and executors of share in Patent granted to Christine Ger log ( Gar­ lock), Andreas Finck, et al., Oct. 19th., 1723, at Stone Arabia, Albany Co., N. Y. This will is the only connecting link found that mentions the New York family with the Stone: Arabia branch. The letter of Mr. Harvey De Line may be correct in its deductions as to the origin of the name and family but his statements are not correct, as the following will show, al­ though I am inclined to believe he is on the right track." "The Peers of France are of three classes: rst., those made by Parlia­ ment of Paris; 2nd., those made by other Parliaments; 3rd., those made by Letters Patent under the Great Seal. Among the Dukes and Peers of France made by Parliament of Paris are those of the House of Albert, originally Italian. James Alberti came into France to sue for aid of King Lewis Sanctus against the Florentines, who had expelled his father, Na­ poleon, from his estates of Montecarelle and Cerbaga. He took up his seat in Auvergne, where he begat James, Lord of Montarac and Gaiffac, the father of Guido and Stephen, first Bishop of Clermont, afterwards elected Pope by the name of Innocent VI, 1632. From Guido is descended in the 4th. Degree Thomas d'Albert, whose great-grandson, Leo d'Albert of Sagries, was slain in the battle of Cerisoles, 14th. of April, 1544. Leo is the father of Honoratus d'Albert, Lord of Luines, Brantes, etc., who died 1592; married, r 573, Ann, daughter of Honoratus, Lord of Lunans. Their· son, Charles d'Albert, made Duke of Luynes and Peer of France, 1619. His grandson, Charles Honorius, Duke of Luynes and Chevreux, died 1712. He is the grandfather of Charles Philip, born 1695, the present ( 1732) Duke de Luynes, whose wife, Louise Leontine Jacqueline, was daughter of Lewis Henry, legitimate Prince of Bourbon-Soissions, married 1710. Charles d' Albert, first Duke of Luynes, had a brother, Honoratus, who died in 1649 and whose son, Henry Lewis, died without male issue, and Leo d'Albert, Duke of Luxemburg-Piney, whose line became extinct in 1677."­ Royal Genealogies or the Genealogical Tables of Emperors, Kings and Princes from Adam to these Times, James Anderson, DD., London, MDCCCXXXII. "Luynes: a territorial name belonging to a noble French house. The family of Albert, which sprang from Thomas Alberti ( d. 1455), seigneur Maternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King 143 de Boussargnes, balli of Viviers and Valence, and vignier of Bagnols and Pont St. Esprit in Languedoc, acquired the estate of Luynes (Department of Indre-et-Loire) in the 16th. Century. Honore d' Albert ( d. I 592), seigneur de Luynes, was in the service of the three last Valois kings and of Henry IV, and became colonel of the French bands, commissary of artillery in Languedoc and governor of Beaucaire. He had three sons: Charles (1578-1621), first Duke of Luynes and favorite of Louis XIII; Honore (1581-1649), seigneur de Cadenet, who married Charlotte Eugenie d'Ailly, Countess of Chaulnes, in 1619 and was created Duke of Chaulnes in 1621; and Leon, seigneur de Brantes, who became Duke of Luxemburg­ Piney by his marriage in 1620 with Margeret Charlotte of Luxemburg. Charles, the first Duke de Luynes, was brought up at Court and attended the Dauphin, who later became Louis XIII. The King shared his fond­ ness for hunting and rapidly advanced him in favor. In 1615 he was ap­ pointed Commander of the Louvre and Councillor, and the following year Grand Falconer of France. In 1617 he was appointed Captain of the Bastille and Lieutenant General of Normandy. He married Mary de Rohan, daughter of the Duke de Montbazon. He was made a Peer of France and Duke de Luynes in 1619. Honore, brother of Charles, was first Duke of Picardy and a Marshall of France. By her marriage with Claude of Lorraine, Duke of Chevreuse, Mary de Rohan, widow of the first Duke de Luynes, acquired in 1655 the Duchy of Chevreuse, which she gave in 1633 to Louis Charles d' Albert, her son by her first husband."-Encydopaedia Britannica, IIth. Edition, Cambridge, 1911, Vol. XVII, p. 147.

MOORE ( allied with Dealing) Samuel Moore and his wife, Naomi, emigrated to America from the Island of Barbadoes in 1671. They landed at Boston, Mass., and lived there for three years, during which time their son, Francis, was born. In 1674 they came to New York, in which place their second son, Samuel, was born. The land records of Bergen, N. J., show that in 1669 Samuel Moore, merchant, purchased of Samuel Edsall lots in the town of Bergen, although he does not appear to have been in America at that time. One lot was in the northwest corner of the village plot, having on it "a kitchen, barn and brew-house." The dealings between Mr. Edsall and this group of English­ men from Barbadoes would indicate that he had something to do with their coming to America. He may have induced these gentlemen, Captain Berry, Mr. Kingsland, Mr. Sanford and Mr. Moore, who appear to have been men of substantial fortune, to transfer their investments and their homes from the overcrowded island, then said to have been the most popu- 144 Maternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King lous spot in either Europe or America, to the more sparsely settled Ameri­ can Colonies. The first official record of Samuel Moore, the emigrant an­ cestor of the Moore family of English Neighborhood, Bergen County, N. J., is dated 20 July, 1669, on which date "a Patent was granted by Governor Philip Carteret to Mark Noble and Samuel Moore, merchants, of Barbadoes for sundry parcels of land lying in and about the Town of Bergen." Mark Noble appears to have remained at St. Michaells, Bar­ badoes. The maiden name of the wife of Samuel Moore was Naomi Chris­ tine Day. Samuel Moore died in 1675 and, in 1676, his widow married Samuel Edsall as the latter's second wife. After his second marriage Mr. Edsall removed to English Neighborhood, where he owned a tract of 2000 acres, extending from Bull's Ferry 2;½ miles inland to the Hackensack River. Children of Samuel and Naomi (Day) Moore were Francis, born in 1672 (married Jannetje Lawrence), and Samuel, born in 1674.

Samuel Moore, Jr., son of Samuel and Naomi (Day) Moore, was born in New York in 1674. On 4 September, 1705, he married Sarah Smith, daughter of Lieutenant Michael and Francina (Berry) Smith, the record reading: "Samuel Moore, y.m., born in New York, and Sara Smith, y.d., born in Bergen." In 1723 he acquired from the heirs of Major Thomas Noel and others a large plantation which Noel had purchased from Major Berry in 1699. Major Berry in his Will appointed Samuel Moore, Jr., to assist the executors in the settlement of his large estate. Samuel Moore, Jr., and his wife were admitted to the Dutch Church at Hackensack on 6 July, 1718. The children of Samuel and Sarah (Smith) Moore were Michael, d.y., 1706, Naomi, 1708, Samuel, 1712, Michael, 1715, John, 1717, Francis, 1719, and Edward, 1722.

Samuel Moore, 3rd., son of Samuel, Jr., and Sarah (Smith) Moore, was born in 1712, and baptized on 4 October, 1712, having as sponsors Major Thomas Lawrence (grandmother's second husband), Anna Law­ rence (step-aunt). On 26 February, 1736, Samuel Moore, 3rd., married Hester Lozier. Four of the children of Samuel and Hester (Lozier) Moore are mentioned in the Banta Genealogy and three in the Schraalenburg Church records: Maritjin, bp. 4 May, 1738; Niclaes, 23 December, 1739; Sara, 18 July, 1742; Frenke (Francis), 3 December, 1749; Naomi, 26 April, 1746; Hester, 27 October, 1751; and Annetji, 28 October, 1753. Samuel Moore, 3rd., was one of the Justices of the Court of Bergen.

Ann (Annetji) Moore, daughter of Samuel, 3rd., and Hester (Lozier) Moore, was baptized on 28 October, 1753. She married, on 8 July, 1776, William Dealing, Sr. ( Trinity Church records, New York). Maternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King 1 45 Michael Moore, son of Samuel, Jr., and Sarah (Smith) Moore, third above, was born in 1715 and was baptized on 20 February, 1715. He was brother to Samuel Moore, 3rd., whose daughter Hester, above, married William Dealing, Sr. There is very little data obtainable relating to Michael Moore but it is known that he was instrumental in establishing the Dutch Church in English Neighborhood and was at one time an Elder. Baptism records show that his first wife's name was Annetje Day and his Will, pro­ bated on 27 May, 1782, mentions his wife, "Caty." The history of the Moore family is much involved due to the repetition of names in the various branches. Family records give "Michael Moore, the Elder," as father of Charity Moore and Charity Moore was own cousin to William Dealing, Jr., who later became her husband. Michael Moore died in New York City in 1781 or 1782, leaving a wife, Catherine, and three sons and one daughter: Michael and Jacob, sons of the first wife ( Annetje Day), and Samuel and Charity, children of the second wife, (Catherine).

Charity Moore, daughter of Michael and Catherine (---) Moore, married William Dealing, Jr., probably about 1803. The records of the Methodist Episcopal Church for marriages for the years, 1804-18rn, are missing, but the baptism of the first child in June, 1805, is recorded as that of William Dealing, 3rd.

REFERENCES History of Bergen, Van Valen. History of Hudson and Bergen Counties, Baird. Church Records of English Neighborhood, Theological Seminary, New Brunswick, N. J. New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol. 15.

The Reformed Church of the English Neighborhood The Reformed Church of the English Neighborhood can trace its written history only to a few years prior to the Revolution, the records of its most interesting period of existence having been lost. Two churches, located at Hackensack and Bergen Hill, were the easiest of access from this part of the country. The church at Hackensack, called the "Church on the Green," was attended by many of the settlers at English Neighborhood prior to 1678, when the church at the latter place was established. The petition for the erection of a congregation (sic) was signed by the follow­ ing: Abraham Montany, Stephen Bourdette, John Day, Michael Moore, Thomas Moore and John Moore. A record, dated I July, 1770, says: "There were constituted members of the Reformed Church in the congrega­ tion of the English Neighborhood the following persons after due examina­ tion, viz.: Michael Moore, Abraham Montany, John Lozier, John Day, 146 Maternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King David Day, Thomas Moore, Edward Bylestead, Samuel Moore, Benjamin Bourdette, John Cahy ( and nine females). At the same time were nomin­ ated and chosen Michael Moore and Abraham Montany as Elders." In 1793 a new church was built but, before it was begun, the following docu­ ment was issued as a precautionary measure: "That Catherine, widow of Michael Moore, deceased, and Michael, Jacob and Samuel Moore, his sons, give full power to the Elders and Deacons for building up or pulling down or removing the old church without any molestation from them or any person claiming under them." Thomas Moore, probably a brother or more likely a cousin of Samuel and Michael Moore, gave one acre of land on which the church was built, the Deed being dated on 18 November, 1765.

The Will of Michael Moore "In the name of God, Amen, the 6 day of October in the Year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and Eighty-one, I, Michael Moore of New-York, being sick of body but of perfect mind and memory, thanks therefore to God, Colen to mind the mortality of my Body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to Dy, Do make and ordain this, my last will and Testament, that is to say Principally and first of all I give and Recommend my soul unto the hands of God that gave it and, for my Body, I recommend it to the Earth to be Buried in Christian like and Decent Manner at the Discretion of my Executors, nothing Doubting but at the General Resurrection I Shall Receive the same again by the Mighty Power of God, as touching Such worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me in this Life, I give, Devise and dispose of the same in the follow­ ing manner and form : Item-It is my will and I order that all my Just Debts be payed and Satisfied, and funeral charges; Item-I give and be­ queth unto my well beloved son, Michael Moore, £ 50 for his Birth Right; Item-I give and bequeth unto my well beloved son, Michael Moore, one­ third part of my whole Estate, both Real and Personal ; Item-I give and bequeth unto my well beloved son, Jacob Moore, one-third of my whole Estate, both Real and Personal; I give unto my Dear and well beloved wife, Caty Moore, and her son, Samuel Moore, the other third part of my hole Estate, both Real and Personal to them, their heirs and assigns for­ ever, whom I also appoint my Executors, Namely Michael Moore, Jacob Moore and Caty Moore. Now it is my will that my Estate is to Continue in all your hands until my youngest son is of age, then I give and Bequeth unto my well beloved Daughter £ roo out of my Estate and no other part of the Estate to medal with and I do accordingly one (own) this my last will and testament in the presence of us, the Subscribers, sealed, whereof I have put my hand and Seal the Day and the year above written. Signed and Sealed, published, pronounced and Declared by the said Michael M.a.ternat Ancestry oj cnarles Ualy King 1 47 Moore as his last will and testament in the presence of Benjamin Huggett, John Hardenburgh, John Devine."-Wills and Probates, No. 1, 1787- 1796, Court of Appeals, Clerk's Office, Albany, N. Y.

LESUEUR, LESIER, LOZIER ( allied with Moore) The Le Sueur family has been well established in Normandy, France, for seven centuries and well known in the cities of Paris, Dieppe and Rouen; and for hundreds of years were among the best manufacturers of cloth in the last named city, where the business is still conducted by their descend.­ ants. They were well known in the liberal arts: Eustace Le Sueur, the celebrated painter, born in Paris in 16!7, and Jean F. Le Sueur, the composer of music, born in Abbeville in 1673, were respectively brother and nephew of Francois Le Sueur, the founder of the family in America.

Francois Le Sueur, born in Dieppe in 1625, was by profession a civil engineer and surveyor, his name taking such form with his descendants as Leseur, Lesier, Lazier and Lozier. He came from Dieppe to New Amster­ dam in April, 1657, and was accompanied by his sister, Jeanne, neither be­ ing married. In 1659 Francois married Jannetje Pieterson, daughter of Hilderbrant Pieterson of Amsterdam, Holland. New Amsterdam was not to be the permanent home of Francois Le Sueur; he with about twenty others, mostly heads of families and freeholders desiring to continue the language and customs of their mother country, applied to the Director and Council of New Amsterdam for permission to purchase a tract of land ad­ joining the Great Kill or Harlem River. The number of applicants being sufficient for a beginning, the Council granted their request. Ground was broken for a new settlement on 14 August, 1658, and it was named New Haarlem by request of Governor Peter Stuyvesant. In 1663 Francois Le Sueur with several others became dissatisfied, owing to heavy taxes levied by the Dutch authorities, sold their property and in the fall of the year went up the Hudson River to Esopus, now Kingston, but in the spring of 1669 Francois returned to New Haarlem, now known as Harlem, a portion of the City of New York. In Ulster County, N. Y., the descendants of Francois Le Sueur are known as Le Suer, Lushueur, Lashiere and Lasher. They were loyal to the Colonial Government and intensely patriotic. In the documentary history of the State of New York we find the names of Hilderbrant, John and Nicholas, sons of Francois, among those who be­ fore 1680 were supporters of the local authorities in Ulster County. On a high elevation of land overlooking the Hackensack River, r8 miles from New York City, are located the buildings of the Oradell Stock Farm, one Maternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King of the best establishments in America. This property is owned by John B. Lozier ; the land comprising the farm has been owned by the Lozier family since the time of George III, the present owner having in his possession the original Deed from the King. The whole farm has been kept intact and consists of 300 acres, nearly mo of which is virgin forest. The children of Francois and Jannetje (Pieterson) Le Sueur were Jannetje, born 1660, Hilderbrant, born 1663, John, born 1665, and Nicholas, born 1668.

Claes Nicholas Lozier, son of Francois and Jannetje (Pieterson) Le Sueur, was born in 1668 at Esopus (Kingston). His branch of the family write their name as Lozier and on 8 May, 1691, in New York City he married Tryntje, daughter of Peter Slot. After his marriage he removed to Hackensack. He married, second, Antie Direckse Banta on 26 January, 1709. Nicholas Lozier was a man of importance in local and church affairs. He was elected Omrch Master in 1712, Deacon in 1713 and Elder in 1723. His children were Tryntje, Hester, Rachel, Jacob, Abram, Leya and Marretje.

Hester Lozier, daughter of Claes Nicholas and Antie (Banta) Lozier, was born on 16 December, 17rr. As his second wife, she married Samuel Moore, 3rd., on 26 February, 1736.

REFERENCES History of Hudson and Bergen Counties, Baird; pp. 505, 6o4. New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol. 55 ; pp. 360, 361. A Frisian Family, the Banta Genealogy, Theodore M. Banta, N. Y., 1893; p. 33.

BANTA ( allied with Lozier) The progenitor of the Banta family in this country did not bear that surname on his arrival in America. In all the records yet found his name appears as Epke Jacobs, which means simply Epke (Egbert), son of Jacob. The sons of Epke Jacobs-Cornelius, Seba, Hendrkk, Derrick and Weart-appear in the earliest records as Cornelius Epke, Seba Epke, and so on. The first appearance of the family surname, Banta, so far as is known, is in the record of the marriage of J annetj e, the first born of Cornelius, to Johannes Meyer. We cannot determine whether the family ever bore this name in Holland and, if not, why it was first assumed in this country. The name itself is very ancient. The Reverend William Arthur in his work, Origen of Names, states that Banta is from the Gaelic, de­ rived from beaunta, meaning hills. Maternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King' 1 49 Epke Jacobs, the ancestor of the Banta family in America, was a farmer who lived in the vicinity of Haarlingen, an important seaport of Friesland, the most northern of the provinces of Holland. Haarlingen is at the en­ trance of the Zuyder Zee, 65 miles north-north-east from Amsterdam. It stands on the site of a former town which was engulfed by the sea in I 134. It is protected by a dyke 40 feet high, one of the largest in Holland. In Colonial Manuscripts, Vol. 14, page 90, there is preserved the first record we have of the forefather of the Bantas, being the bill of charges for pas­ sage to America :

"Epke Jacobs, from Haarlingen, farmer (boumann) Debet: For passage when he came over in the ship, De Trouw, 1659, Jan Jansen Bestevaer, skipper, Feb. 12th., 1659, Fl. 36 For wife and five sons, of ¾, 2, 3, 4 and 6 years of age Fl. ro8 Cash received from the Lords Directors Fl. 15

total Fl. 159"

Upon his arrival in this country he settled probably at Flushing, N. Y., on the north shore of Long Island, about 11 miles from New York City. The earliest records of Flushing were destroyed by fire in the Town Clerk's house in 1789 but according to records in the Common Council, City Hall, New York City, there is a document which mentions Epke Jacobs and gives his signature. It is in a book labelled Burgomasters and Schepenen, 1661- 1663. In this he is called "worthy Epke Jacobs, innkeeper living at Flush­ ing on Long Island." In 1669 he was still living at Flushing and after­ wards at Jamaica. Subsequently he removed to New Jersey, settling at Bergen. At what date this removal occurred we do not know but infer it was before 1675. On 18 February, 1679, he was appointed one of the Special Court of Oyer and Terminer to be held at Bergen, beginning the first Tues­ day of March, 1679, the other members of the Court being Major John Berry, President, and Elias Michaelson Vreeland. In 1681 he purchased land at Hackensack and with his sons became among the earliest settlers of that ancient village. The name of the wife of Epke Jacobs nowhere ap­ pears. It is probable that she died prior to the removal to New Jersey, as otherwise the name would be found as witness to the baptism of her grand­ children. Neither her name nor that of her husband appears on the member­ ship of any of the churches whose records are extant. It may be observed that there was no Dutch church at Flushing nor at Jamaica at the time of their residence there. The children of Epke Jacobs and his wife, all born in Holland, were Cornelius, 1652, Seba, 1654, Hendrick, 1655, Derrick, 1657, and Wearts, 1658. Maternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King Derrick Epke Banta, son of Epke Jacobs and wife, (---), was born in 1657 in Haarlingen, Holland. He married at Bergen, N. J., on 7 October, 1681, Ester, daughter of Hans and Margriete Dedrick. Hans Dedrick kept an inn at Bergen, which was the second one licensed in the town, on 13 February, 1671. He was a Lieutenant of the Bergen Militia and was one of the patentees of Acquackenonck on 28 May, 1679. The record in the Bergen Church Register states that the marriage of Derrick and of his brother, Wearts, on the same day, were the first to be celebrated in the church. Derrick joined in the purchase, with his brothers and others, of land on the Palisades in 1695. The tract comprised about 3000 acres, for which £ mo was paid. It included within its bounds a large portion of the present township of Englewood and Palisades. Derrick and his wife united with the church at Hackensack on 1 May, 1689. He was elected Deacon in 1699 and Church Warden in 1707. In May, 1715, he was chosen an Elder. On 15 October, 1717, he was appointed Surveyor of the Highways "by two of His Majesty's Justices." At that time he lived at Winkleman, which was on the east side of the Hackensack River. The children of Derrick and Ester (Dedrick) Banta were Margriete, 1682, Antie, Jacob, Johannes, Lea, Sitske and Rachel.

Antie Banta, daughter of Derrick and Ester (Dedrick) Banta, was born very probably in Bergen, N. J. She married, as his second wife, Nicholas Lozier on 26 January, 1709. Antie Banta joined the church at Hackensack in October, 1708.

REFERENCE A Frisian Family, the Banta Genealogy, Theodore M. Banta, N. Y., 1893; pp. 1-6, 9, IO, 16, 33.

SMITH ( allied with Moore)

Michael Smith, an Englishman, came while quite young with Captain Berry, Major William Sandford and the Kingslands from the Island of Barbadoes in the West Indies. He first settled in English Neighborhood, Bergen County, N. J., where he married Francina Berry. He was at one time a merchant and later a planter. He had extensive estates in Bergen County near Overpeck's Creek, adjoining his father-in-law's plantation. On 22 June, 1677, Mr. Smith was appointed Lieutenant of the Bergen Foot Company, of which John Berry was Captain. In 1683 he was the first High Sheriff of Bergen County under the Twenty-four Proprietors. He died in 1685. His children were Mary (married Major William Sandford Maternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King in r696), Charity (married John Edsall in r69r), Sarah (married Samuel Moore in r705) and John (married Deborah Lawrence in r7rr).

Sarah Smith, daughter of Lieutenant Michael and Francina (Berry) Smith), married Samuel Moore, Jr., on 14 September, r705, in the Dutch Church, Bergen, N. J.

REFERENCE New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol. II; pp. 52-54.

BERRY ( allied with Smith)

Deputy Governor Major John Berry was one of the earliest settlers of Bergen, N. J. He was an Englishman and came from Christ Church Parish in the Island of Barbadoes. He came to America first in r667, returning to Barbadoes a few years later to get his wife and family. On ro June, r669, Governor Philip Carteret and the Council of East Jersey granted to "Captain John Berry of Barbadoes, Gentleman," a tract of about ro,ooo acres "to­ ward the head of Pasawack (Passaic) Neck, now called New Barbadoes, beginning at the east end of Captain Sandford's bounds at the great spring called Sandford's Spring and thence with the whole breadth of the Neck between the Hackensack and Pasawack Rivers six miles up country." On r2 June Berry received another large grant from the Governor and Coun­ cil of East Jersey, consisting of r 500 acres lying along the Palisades of the Hudson, "lying north of the bounds of Mr. Edsall and Captain Nicholas Varlett and extending one and a half miles inland from Overpeck's Creek." In July he bought from Mr. Edsall some lots in the Village and Town of Bergen, where he soon afterwards took up his residence. After receiving the grants aforesaid, "being a man of good estate," he was made a member of the Council. In 1670, after returning from Barbadoes with his family, he bought two parcels of land in New York City but continued to live in Bergen and to cultivate his land with the aid of negroes brought from Barbadoes. In 1673 he removed to his plantation, as his house was made "ye prison of ye province." On the death of Colonel Richard Morris, Cap­ tain Berry was appointed Trustee of his estate, which was inherited by his infant son, Lewis Morris, afterwards Chief Justice. In 1672, when Governor Carteret went to England to lay before the Lords Proprietors the grievances of himself and Council at the attempted usurpation of authority by the Assembly and Captain James Carteret, he appointed Captain Berry Deputy Governor in his absence from the Province. While so serving, Cap­ tain Berry received a letter confirming the authority by the King of him- Maternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King self and Council in the government of East Jersey. During the Dutch re­ occupation Captain Berry and his neighbors, Mr. Sandford and Mr. Edsall, were confirmed in their plantations but Captain Berry held no office dur­ ing this time, going back to the Council on the return of English rule. In 1673 he was President of the Bergen Court of Judicature and during 1677- 1679 President of the County Court. From 1670 through 1685 he was Captain of the Bergen Foot Company. In 1680 he was re-appointed to the Council and continued to be a member until the sale of the Province to the Twelve Proprietors in 1682. At this time he was residing on the west side of his plantation. "There was a great house thereon and a quantity of land cleared and improved by the twenty negroes." Upon the great tract of land at New Barbadoes N eek the Labidists at the time of their visit in 1680 came to another of Captain Berry's houses on the east side of the Hackensack, which was "long enough but poorly furnished." In December, 1682, Deputy Governor Rudyard assumed the government of the Province for the Twenty-four Proprietors and Captain Berry was made "to bee one of the Council." He took the oath of office on 28 February, 1683, and on 1 March attended the meeting, William Penn, one of the Proprietors, being present. On 24 March he was appointed Justice at the Quorum and in August commissioned Justice of the "Court of Common Right." On 3 December he was made Major of the Company of Bergen and the same day Chief Ranger for the County of Bergen and "Corp'ac'on." Major Berry was appointed to the Council by Governor Lawrie in 1684, by Governor Lord Campbell in 1686 and by Governor Hamilton in 1687. His last rec­ orded attendance at a meeting was in May, 1687, although he remained a member of the body until 1692. In 1692 Major Berry donated one mor­ gen of land for a church at Hackensack and subsequently in 1712 confirmed the gift by deed absolute for the consideration of love and good will toward his neighbors and friends in the township of Hackensack, New Barbadoes and Hackquackenong. On this spot was erected in 1696 the First Reformed Church of Hackensack and a part of the plot now forms a large portion of Hackensack Village Green. Among the old memorial stones, contributed to the First Church according to Dutch custom and now set in the wall of the present building, is one of free stone, having the initials, "J. B.," in monogram above the date, Anno 1696. Major Berry was recommended by Lord Clarendon for the Council of Governor Carnbury but does not seem to have been appointed. During a few years after the beginning of the century Major Berry had controversies about some parts of his extensive landed possessions and for a time lived in New York City but in 1709 he returned to his plantation. He continued to reside there until his death, which oc­ curred at an advanced age. His Will was dated on 16 May, 1712, and was proved in February, 1714 or 1715. Of Major Berry's ancestry nothing Maternal. Ancestry of Charles Daly King 1 53 has been positively learned. In a petition on 7 July, 1674, he mentions "the highly prized pledge of an honorable name which I esteem far more than all riches." He may have been of the ancient Devonshire family whose ancestor, Ralph de Bury, possessed Berry Narbor in that county in the early part of the 13th. Century during the reign of Henry III. Of a younger branch of that family was Sir John Berry, 1635-1691, an eminent naval officer in the reign of William III, who was sent to Virginia in 1676 to re­ duce the sedition of Bacon. There was a Seargent-Major John Berry in the 16th. Regiment commanded by Colonel, the Marquess of Hamilton, in Northumberland's expedition. In 1642 there was a Captain John Berry in the 7th. Regiment of Charles I and a Captain Berry of the Horse was in General Fairfax's army. Many of the inhabitants of Barbadoes were Eng­ lishmen of good birth and station who went thither during the troublous times of the Commonwealth or upon the Restoration, and it is more than probable that the title Captain Berry bore, designated the rank he had in one of the armies of England. Major Berry's wife was named Francina and she was living in 1682, when she joined with her husband in a deed of land to their son, Richard. Their children were Sarah, Francina, Richard, Hannah and John.

Francina Berry, daughter of John and Francina (---) Berry, was born in 1643 and was twenty-seven years of age when she came to America. She was probably born in England. She married Michael Smith, who came in company with her father from Barbadoes. After his death she married Major Thomas Lawrence on 2 August, 1685, the old record in the Dutch Church reading: "Tammes Larens, y.m., from Southold, L. I. and Fran­ cyntje Berrys (wid. of Michiel Smit)." For some reason she did not ad­ minister the estate of her first husband until nearly a year after she had married Major Lawrence, doing so on 9 June, 1686. She died in 1737 at the age of 97 years.

REFERENCES Life of John Berry. History of Hudson and Bergen Counties, Baird; p. roo. New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol. 15; pp. 149 ff.

VREDENBURG ( allied with Dealing) William Isaaczen Vredenburg or Van Vredenburg arrived in New Amsterdam from the Hague in May, 1658, in the ship, Gilded Beaver. He was a soldier in the service of the Dutch West India Company, as shown by a petition on r6 June, 1661, of William Van Vredenburg and Cornelius 154 Maternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King Andriessen Hoogland, discharged soldiers, for a remission of the prices of their passages to this country. On 19 October, 1664, Willem Isaaczen Vredenburg, utten Hage (from the Hague) and Apollonia Barents, Uyt. N. Nederlandt, were married in the Dutch Church at New Amsterdam. In the baptismal records of the church his name is sometimes William Isaaczen and sometimes William Vredenburg, and his wife's Apollonia Barents and also alias Apollonia Kool. They had ten children; seven are recorded in the Dutch Church at New Amsterdam from 4 October, 1665, to 22 December, 1677, and three in Kingston from 27 January, 1682 to 27 December, 1687. We learn from colonial documents that in 1673 William Van Vredenburg was living under the walls of Fort William Hendrick and the new fortifications of New Orange. It having become necessary to remove the houses so situated, the owners were ordered to move and pro­ vision was made for them elsewhere. The surveyor was ordered to set off Lot # 1 on the west side of Broadway, in what was formerly the garden of the West India Company, to William Van Vredenburg. This lot he sold to David Ackerman (New York Deeds). About the same time he moved to Esopus (Kingston), where he was a freeholder and a Trustee in 1695. His children was Isaac, Cornelia, Maria, Johannes, Annatjie, Ariaentje, Willem, Abraham, Jannetje and Rachel.

Abraham Vredenburg, son of William and Apollonia (Kool) Vreden­ burg, was born at Kingston and baptized there on 27 January, 1682. At New Amsterdam on 17 January, 1706, he married, first, Isabella Paersil, who died in 1711 ; and second, Dorothea Colyer of Kinderhook, having come back to New Amsterdam to live.

Elizabeth Vredenburg, daughter of Abraham and Dorothea (Colyer) Vredenburg, was baptized at New Amsterdam on l January, 1719. On II August, 1738, she married Benjamin Dealing.

REFERENCE New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol. 21, pp. 164, 165, 167.

COLYER, KAUER, COLLIER (allied with Vredenburg) Jochem Colyer (Kalier) and his wife, Magdalena, were from Holland and emigrated prior to 1644. They were among the early members of the Dutch Church in Albany and later settled in Kinderhook. He died in 1659.

Michael Colyer was baptized on 13 March, 1644, son of Jochem and Magdalena Colyer. He was a freeholder of Kinderhook. He married, first, Maternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King 1 55 Engeltje Dirck and, second, Fietje (Sophie), daughter of J urrian Van Hoesen.

Jurrian (George) Colyer, son of Michael and Fietje (Van Hoesen) Colyer, was also a freeholder of Kinderhook. He did not long remain there, going early to Coxsackie, N. Y., where he settled and became the an­ cestor of the Greene County families of that name. He married Lysbeth --- in 1683.

Dorothea Colyer, daughter of J urrian and Lysbeth (---) Colyer, was baptized on 19 May, 1689. As his second wife, she married Abraham Vredenburg.

REFERENCE A History of Old Kinderhook, Edward A. Collier, D.D., Knickerbocker Press, 1914; p. 99.

KOOL, COOL, COLE ( allied with V red en burg) There are two Kools who appear upon the civil records in New Amster­ dam in 1630 and 1633: Leenderts and Barent-Jacobsen. They were prob­ ably brothers, Leendert (Leonard) being Deputy Secretary to Peter Minuit.

Barent Jacobsen Kool, it is very likely, came over with Peter Minuit in 1625. Taking into consideration that in 1633 he was prominent in public office, it seems that he could not have been born later than 1605 and that his father, the last ancestor in Holland, Jacob Kool, was born not far from 1580. Beginning with 1633 Barent Jacobsen Kool can be traced through the civil records of New Amsterdam and, after 1665, the year of the sur­ render to the English, through civil and church records. The Directory of the City of New York is extant after the latter date and gives Barent Jacobsen as occupying property belonging to the Dutch West India Com­ pany on Brugh Straat ( Bridge Street). His name appears on the list of those who took the Oath of Allegiance during the period, 21-24 October, 1664. Any idea of the man's character, intellectually, morally or religiously, must be wholly inferential. He was a public man and had the confidence of the West India Company, which is saying much. He had his children bap­ tized in the Dutch Church but that does not prove him to have been a member of it. What is really known, makes it certain that he was a re­ spectable and influential Holland burgher of the early American period. Under the Act of the Burghermasters of New Amsterdam he was ap- Maternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King pointed one of two Excisemen, which office he still held in 1661. Whether he owned real estate, is not known; being a government officer, he lived on government property and perhaps never owned any of his own. His family records are in the Dutch Church. This church was organized in Holland in 1619 but no records date back before 1639; they were kept very indifferently in the church in New Amsterdam until 1682, when the Rever­ end Henricus Selyns became pastor and remained so until his death. He collected all material, put it in orderly form and transcribed it in beautiful writing, which is a monument to his industry, accuracy and good taste. The work contains baptisms from 1639 and marriages from December of the same year. Barent Jacobsen Kool is not mentioned in New York City after 1680 and he may have gone to Kingston, N. Y., at the same time as his daughter. He married Marretje Leenderts about 1638. The latter has not been identified but from the fact that Barent Jacobsen Kool had a brother and also a son of the same name, it is believed that he and Marretje were cousins.

Apollonia Kool, daughter of Barent Jacobsen and Marretje (Leend­ erts) Kool, was baptized on 29 January, 1645 in New Amsterdam. On r6 October, 1664 she married William Vredenburg.

REFERENCES Hayden Samuei Cole and his Ancestry, Hayden Samuel Cole, St. Paul, Mich., 1935 ; p. 3. Reverend David Cole, 1876. New York Genealogical and Biographical Record; Vol. 21, p. 164. PART FOUR

Ancestors of Mary Bourdette

BOURDETTE A French gentleman of La Rochelle by name of Bourdette left his na­ tive land many years before the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes ( 1595- 1685) and settled in one of the West India islands. From there his sons came to New York City and possibly he with them, as the Will of Pierre leaves two-thirds of his estate for the use of his father as long as he lived. Etienne, Pierre and Samuel were members of the French Church in New York City as early as 1689. Samuel Bourdette married Judith Piaud of La Rochelle. Pierre did not marry and the name of the wife of Etienne, our ancestor, is not known. From the Calendar of Historical Events we learn that on IO March, 1686, Pierre Bourdette was given liberty to trade and traffic in New York City. The list of Burghers and Freemen in New York in 1702 mentions Samuel Bourdette as a mariner and Etienne ( Stephen) is called a goldsmith. Hackensack records also mention "Stephen Bourd­ ette, Sr., goldsmith" Pierre Bourdette had no children, as shown by his Will; the records of the Eglise Francaise show that Samuel had no son, Etienne, so from these facts it is assumed that Etienne, the third brother, married and that through him the line descends.

Etienne Bourdette, Jr., the son of Etienne, Sr., and ---, married m Hackensack Hannah Earle. The record in the Dutch Church reads : "Hackensack, Steven Bordeth, young man of New Yark, and Hannah Earle, widow of Peter Stoutenburg." They were married on 11 April, 1720. The baptism of their first son in April, 1721, is also recorded. The records likewise tell that Stevanus had a younger brother and Dr. Dixon, whose mother was Hannah Bourdette, states in his History of Fort Lee that she had two aunts living in New York, one of whom "served tea from a griffen­ footed tea chest." Stephen Bourdette is mentioned in the List of Freeman of New York on 4 August, 1730, as "Stephen Bourdette, silversmith."

Stephen Bourdette, son of Etienne and Hannah (Earle) Bourdette, was baptized on 20 April, 1721. On 25 September, 1741, he married Gusuie De Groot, daughter of J orst Stats De Groot and Martha Banta. Their children were Catrina, 1742, Sarah, 1744, Marie, 1746, Olivard, 1750, Maternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King John, 1752, and Hester 1755. The marriage is recorded thus: "Steven Borded, young man, born in New York, mar. Gusjin De Groot, born in Hackensack, September 25th., 1741." There is no record of when this first wife died but on 1 March, 1764, Steven Bourdette married Nellie Banta, widow of Jacob Banta and daughter of John and Naomi Carsteen. A partial record of the births of their children has been found : Carsteen, baptized on 31 March, 1765, sponsor, John Carsteen; John, 1769; Johannes (Jacob); Peter, 1776. No record has been found of the other children. However, there is on file at the Court House in Hackensack a document which gives the names of all the sons with their wives, a document of trans­ fer of property. Copy: "This indenture was made April 23rd., 1798. Steven Bourdette and Catie, his wife, John Bourdette, Abraham Bourdette and Naomy, his wife, Benjamin Bourdette and Rachel, his wife, Jacob Bourdette, Peter Bourdette, of the first part, for the consideration of seven thousand dollars paid to the said parties mentioned above by the said Christien ( Carsteen) Bourdette, do grant, bargain and sell to the said Chritien Bourdette and his heirs forever several lots of land in Bergen County, containing 20 acres." This transaction was evidently among brothers and therefore we take it as proof that Benjamin, who married Rachel, was the son of Stephen and Helena ( Carsteen) Bourdette. Stephen, in connection with William Bayard, had received a grant of a large tract of land from the King, comprising Weehawken and Hoboken. With his father, Stephen, who lived on Pine Street, New York, he made con­ stant excursions to the country and about 20 years before the Revolu­ tion he purchased the property which is now Fort Lee. There he built a stone mansion and established his father in it. His mother, Hannah, being dead, a younger brother with his wife, Rachel, came from Hackensack to take charge of the aged father, who died there at 80 years of age. From papers on file at Hackensack we find that Stephen Bourdette sold land in Hackensack on 2 July, 1776, and that he and Nellie, his wife, transferred property in November, 1772. He also helped to establish a church in 1788.

Benjamin Bourdette, son of Stephen and Nellie ( Carsteen) Bourdette, is not mentioned in regard to the dates of his birth, marriage or death in any records that have been found. He married Rachel, daughter of Peter and Rachel (Bush) Bourdette; they were first cousins and probably for that reason their marriage was opposed by their parents. At any rate they eloped one summer day, Rachel riding away with her lover on the horse which had brought him to her home. They must have been forgiven by the, irate parents, for subsequently they were living at the Homestead and there their children were born. Benjamin died in January, 1830, and on 26 Jan­ uary, 1830, Rachel Bourdette petitioned the Orphans Court that, Benjamin Maternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King 1 59 Bourdette having died intestate, leaving Stephen, his son, above 14 years of age and Benjamin, his child, under 14 years of age, she be made their guardian. The baptism of the eldest son of Benjamin and Rachel Bourdette is recorded in the records of baptisms of the Methodist Episcopal Church as follows: "Peter Bourdette, son of Banjamin and Rachel, baptized May 11th., 1798."

Mary Bourdette, daughter of Benjamin and Rachel (Bourdette) Bour­ dette, was born on 25 July, 1808. On 25 March, 1829, she married William Dealing of New York. She died on II November, 1872.

REFERENCES Huguenot Emigration to America, Chas. W. Baird, Vol. I, p. 288. Calendar of Historical Events. List of Burghers and Freeman of New York. Records of the Dutch Church of Hackensack, N. J. History of Fort Lee, Dr. Edward Dixon; The Scalpel, Vol. 6, 1854, pp. 501 ff. Record in the Court House of Hackensack, N. J. New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol. 18; p. 14. Will of Pierre Bourdette "In the name of God, Amen. I, Peter Bourdette, being very sick, I leave to my dear father, Etienne Bourdette, two-thirds of my whole estate during his life and, after his decease, to the children of my brothers. 'I leave the other one-third to my brother, Samuel, and make him sole executor. Dated: November 7, 1698." Register of the Eglise Francaise a la Nouvelle York

"Bapt. Suzanne, dau. of Samuel Bourdet and J udig Piaud, April II, 1689; sponsors, Pierre Bourdett and Jeane Piaud. Bapt. Samuel, son of Samuel and Judig Bordet, May 17, 1691. Bapt. Samuel, son of Samuel and Judig Bordet, Feb. 24, 1695. Bapt. Jeane Ester, dau. of Samuel and Judith, Jan. 17, 1699; sponsors, Pierre Bontecou, Marie Ester Charron. Bapt. Judith, dau. of Samuel and Judith Piaud, Jan., 1693. Bapt. Judith, dau. of Samuel and Judith Bourdet, June, 1707. Bapt. Aug. 18, 1737, Judith Bourdette, born in New York, Aug. 13, dau. of Mr. Samuel Bourdette and Judith Blagg, his wife; sponsors, Samuel Bourdette and wife. Bapt. Feb. 9, 1735, Samuel, born Jan. 22, son of Captain Samuel Bour­ dette, the younger, and Judith Blag. Sponsors, Simeon Soumaine and Etienne Bourdette. Bapt. May l 1, 1738, Susanna Bourdet, born in N. Y., April 28, dau. of 160 Maternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King Capt. Samuel and Judith Blagg, his wife; sponsors, Samuel Bourdette, Estienne Bourdette, Allette Blagge. Bapt. Jan., 1743, Ester, born Dec., 1742, dau. of Samuel and Judith Bour- dette. Bapt. Aug., 1740, Eduard Bourdette, son of Samuel and Judith Blagg. Married: Joanna Burdette and Guilliame Albrespy, Sept., 1756. Married: In virtue of a license given by James de Laney, Lt. Gov., dated April 12th., 1759, being the 32nd. year of the reign of George 2nd., I have in my chamber in the presence of several members of the family of Bourdet at eight and one-half hours du soir married Samuel Bour­ dette and Sara Van V oorst." Extracts from Boston Ne'Ws Letter, October and 5 November, r7I6 "New York: His Excellency, our Governor, designs to go this week for his other government of New Jersey, when Samuel Bourdet is arrived at Amboy from Medera. "Perth Amboy, October 24, 1721: Last night the sloop, John and Mary, from Barbadoes and Anguilla in 24 days; whereof Samuel Bourdet is Master."

Peter Bourdette, son of Stephen and Hannah (Earle) Bourdette, was born in 1735 (tombstone record in private cemetery at Edgewater, N. J., just below Fort Lee on the river). On 18 June, 1762, he married at Hacken­ sack, Rachel Bush (Bosch). They lived in Hackensack, N. J., until his fa­ ther, then a widower, went to live at Fort Lee, when they moved there to keep house for him. After his father's death his older brother, to whom the property belonged, gave it to Peter and there in 1776 was built the fort, commenced on 12 September. It was situated on the western side of the road which leads up the hill from the landing, the southern bastion being directly behind the Episcopal Church. The fort was about one-quarter of an acre in extent and surrounded by an embankment. The story of the ac­ tivities of Peter and his wife is told by Dr. Edward Dixon, a grandson, in the History of Fort Lee. "Peter Bourdette donated the land for the fort and assisted in building the fortifications." ( General Register of the Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution.) The children of Peter and Rachel (Bush) Bourdette were Peter, Leah, Hannah, Henry, ~ester and Rachel. Peter Bourdette died on 31 May, 1826, aged 91 years and some months ( the record is not well enough preserved on the tombstone to be certain in the last respect). He and his wife are both buried in the private Burying Ground of the Vreelands at Edgewater, N. J. The right to bury there evidently came to Peter Bourdette as an inheritance from his grand­ mother, who was Elsie Vreeland (married Edward Earle, Jr.) Maternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King 161 (Peter Bourdette, Jr., son of Peter and Rachel (Bush) Bourdette, served at the Highlands of Navesink, 1814, as corporal of a rifle company from Middletown Point, Monmouth County. Reference: correspondence with Ross K. Cook, Esq., President, New Jersey Chapter, Society of the War of 1812.)

Rachel Bourdette, daughter of Peter and Rachel (Bush) Bourdette, was born probably in 1770, as she is mentioned as among the children living at Fort Lee at the time of the Revolution by Dr. Dixon. She married her first cousin, Benjamin; this fact is proven by the Will of her father, who makes his "son-in-law, Benjamin I. Bourdette" to be one of the executors of his Will. The marriage was an elopment, due probably to the opposition of the sturdy Peter and his wife on account of the close relationship. No dates have been found in the records, of the births, marriages or deaths of either Rachel or her husband. Rachel outlived her husband, as is proven by the petition in the Orphans Court asking that she be made the guardian of her two minor sons. It is known that for some reason Rachel and her husband went to the Methodist Church, very probably a compromise between the Episcopal Church of the Bourdettes and the Dutch Church inheritance of Rachel's mother. Their children were Mary, Stephen and Benjamin. The ancestors of Mary Bourdette on the maternal side will follow ; those on the paternal side are the same as have preceded this sketch.

REFERENCES : SAME AS UNDER BOURDETTE, ABOVE

Extract from the History of Fort Lee "It has been said of the American, and we fear with truth, that he has little attachment to his native place. The allurements of wealth and love of change seem to engulf so much of his attention that he appears to rever­ ence scarcely that spot of earth that may be hallowed by the most tender associations. Without attempting to defend our countrymen or to eulogize their enterprise or their bravery we propose simply to contribute a few facts in relation to this beautiful and romantic suburb with which we have been familiar since our infancy, by those who were personally engaged in them during the exciting period of the Revolution. This spot is associated with a being we most revered on earth, whose lips never spoke falsehood. We shall, however, commence twenty-five years anterior to that period in order to trace its early history. "The site of Fort Lee is not generally known to those who visit the place on excursions. Many suppose it to have been situated directly on the river but this is an error. There were two large cannon stationed there upon a raised platform of earth. There was also a small fort there, called Fort Constitution, mounting three or four guns. These cannon were placed there Maternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King to annoy the shipping and prevent it from ascending the river. A cheveaux de £rise of considerable strength had been constructed of chains and sunken posts and timber for the purpose of obstructing navigation, and this ex­ tended from the shore directly beneath the batteries to that in front of Fort Washington on the other, or city, side of the river. These defences were erected some time before Fort Lee. "The prophetic eye of \11/ ashington, after the victory of the English on Long Island, realizing that the war would have to be fought by alternately retreating and fighting the enemy, selected the first natural position for a fort which offered on the Jersey side. "Brig. Gen. Mercer was accordingly selected to occupy the position of Fort Lee with the militia and such troops as could be gathered. It was named for Gen. Lee, then in command of a detachment of the army. "Some four hundred acres, comprising the sites of these two forts, the whole of the village proper now above and below them, the landing and the hill were purchased by Stephen Bourdette about twenty years before the Revolution. He had received in connection with William Bayard, before the purchase, a grant of a large tract of land comprising Weehawken and Ho­ boken. The house is still standing (1854) at Weehawken Hill, where he lived. The father of Stephen was Etienne (Stephen) Bourdette, the grand­ son of a French gentleman who had left his native land before the repeal of the Edict of Nantes caused the exodus of so many Huguenots. "Stephen Bourdette, finding the habits of his father ( whose wife was then dead) were of a contemplative and religious character and led him to make constant excursions from the city (where.he lived in Pine Street) to the beautiful region of which we wrij, purchased the place and erected a spacious stone house for him. This house was the only one for nearly a mile north. It was the headquarters of Washington and, after the death of Etienne, was given to his son, Peter, and his wife, who had been living in Hackensack and came to take charge of their father in his extreme old age. Etienne died there aged eighty years. "Peter Bourdette and his excellent wife, a woman gifted with a noble soul and a most energetic and commanding character, came to the place about fifteen years before the war and soon made it an abode of comfort and hospitality. There the miserable and afflicted always found comfort. There was no end to the requirements of hospitality, as such a thing as an hotel was not known until within the memory of the writer. The social and gentle­ man farmer rarely visited the city and delighted in learning the news from the wayfarer. It was the custom of the farmer to have around him a number of slaves and the master was always at leisure for a friendly chat. Although wild and mountainous, the land was very productive and there was always Maternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King abundance for the hungry man and his horse. If a gentleman, he was invited to the table ; if not, the kitchen was ample and the servants as fond of news as their master. Some idea of the wildness of the place may be formed from the necessity of enclosing the sheep at night in order to keep them from being devoured by the wolves. Foxes were a great pest and were hunted and trapped by the negroes with some profit. It may be supposed that few social and educational advantages were offered to the family of a farmer of such a wild region as existed ten miles from New York a hundred years ago. Indeed there was not a house visible but boats and horses were plenty and there were lithe limbs and strong arms to govern them. Both boys and girls owned their horses and a ride over the hill of ten miles was a trifle to a revolutionary mother or an early morning breakfast with the relatives in New York after a row in a little egg shell oft times starting before breakfast. We have before us now the richly clasped and griffen foot tea chest the great-aunt who reached her eightieth year, served tea from. It contained a compartment for tea and by its side the old and quaint spoons. It was the gift of a lover. "The sister of this lady, the great-grandmother of the writer, was a devout Episcopalian and illuminated with her pencil, with which she was skilfull, a panel with some scriptural device over the clergyman's pew in the old church du Saint Esprit which still stood, as well as the family man­ sion, in Pine Street within the memory of the writer. "The great-grandfather on the maternal side was a Hollander who left his farm where Hanover Square now is, to reside in Hackensack; and it was to visit the relatives in the city that the excursions were made. "A few curious books in natural history and botany which were gathered up after the plundering of the old house at Fort Lee, still remain and attest the intellectual habits and tastes which governed Etienne in the choice of his abode. He was eminently religious and, when the lightning would paint its notes upon the thunder cloud and the storm anthem would throw the grand diapason upon the ear, the old man would bare his aged head and walk forth in the midst of the storm. The mother of the writer, who would attempt to detain him, always received the reply: 'Be still, my child, and listen to the voice of God.' "The rock has often been pointed out to me on which he would sit and, when the hollow murmur of the thunder could be faintly heard in the dis­ tance, a fine old sonorous voice could be heard, sometimes in French, some­ times in English, chanting the Episcopal service, 'We praise the Lord.' The man of four score years, the son and grandson of ninety-four and ninety­ five and the grand-daughter of eighty-five owed that early life force which led them so far beyond the allotted years of man, to the pure air of this Maternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King romantic spot. The toils of city life and the cunning devices of man to cut short its little thread will not permit many of their descendants to reach so distant a goal. "But the son had his trials; Etienne, the father, died and the place was given by the senior brother, who was called Stephen by the English, to his brother, Peter. He with his eldest son, Peter, his excellent wife, Rachel Bush, and Hannah, the mother of the writer, then seven years old, and three other children, Leah, Rachel and Henry, passed through the stormy period of the Revolution at their lovely mountain home. "One day early in November, 1776, with some of the younger children my mother was summoned from the school room in the English Neighbor­ hood; as she came in sight of the winding road which leads down the moun­ tain to the river and the old farm house, hundreds of tents appeared on the high ground that commands the river. Gen. Washington had issued orders to Gen. Mercer to summon all the available troops and erect a fort there as early as September 6th. so as to command the river in case Col. Magaw should be obliged to retreat and cross the river from Fort Washington, then threatened by Gen. Howe, Sir Henry Clinton and Gen. Kniphausen. Fort Lee was also intended for a depot if a reinforcement should be neces­ sary for the defence of thjt fort, but how they could be transported, the writer could never underttand. This post was first occupied between the rst. and the roth. of November; and on the 18th. the illustrious Gen. W~sh­ ington first appeared at the farm house. It was a period of great gloom throughout the country, for our means of payment prevented anything like permanent enlistment and Washington was sadly disappointed at not being able to obstruct the river. As early as October 3rd. British ships had passed the fort, receiving but little damage from the batteries on the heights, and it was evident the reinforcements for the British army could not be pre­ vented from passing up the river. Washington was the object of childish admiration by my mother; and her brother, a youth of sixteen, was a great favorite. On more than one occasion he rowed to the city at midnight and brought papers and intelligence of the movements of the enemy. The Il­ lustrious would then retire to his room and, after perusing the papers, would walk up to the fort and inspect through his glasses the movements at Fort Washington. One night when my brave uncle was approaching the shore after one of his night visits to the city, the wind prevented his signals being heard by the sentinels and, supposing him to be an enemy, a rifle shot cut his oar in two pieces. He managed his boat as well as he could with one oar and landed at great risk about a mile down the river and made his way home on foot. On this occasion the Chief stood by while his mother ripped the lining of his great coat and, receiving the papers, complimented him on his bravery. Maternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King "At it proved entirely impossible to prevent the English from ascending the river and as they had landed in full force on the Sound, it was very evident that they had the means of speedily cutting off all communication with the city and the country north of Fort Washington. This post it was resolved to hold at all hazards. Congress passed a resolution on the I 1th. of October to incur any possible expense to obstruct the river and, as Fort Washington and the batteries on the Palisades were to aid this plan, there was a prospect of stirring times around the old house. "The Fort Field, as the grandchildren always called it, was divided into streets called for the most part after the noted streets of the city, Broadway, Pearl Street, etc. The streets were made by lines of tents and many of the soldiers had built huts of stone with doorways to the south. Within the cir­ cuit of one of these, but four years ago, we assembled a large family party, my mother giving us with great spirit and perfect recollection many inci­ dents of the wa,r. One of these huts was given to Gen. Greene and near it the great chief met in council with the officers when it was concluded to evacuate the fort. "On October 15th. the battle of White Plains was so nearly equal in results as to give our countrymen some encouragement but our miserable appliances and the determination of Gen. Howe to command New York Island induced him to approach Fort Washington. He directed Gen. Knip­ hausen to cross the creek and occupy the north-western end of the Island. As Gen. Howe approached King's Bridge, three ships of war passed up the river notwithstanding the cheveaux de £rise and firing batteries. This was answered by the ships and a ball cut off the tops of several trees just be­ yond the house. It moved the hearty mirth of a favorite black servant who was ascending the hill and she shouted at each fire in great glee, "At 'em again, bluejacket," and it was long a by-word among the servants of the family. Such was the force with the British that Gen. Washington sent orders to Gen. Greene to direct Col. Magaw to evacuate the fort and cross the river, should he judge it expedient, but the brave Magaw was in high spirits with his two thousand all told against at least ten. Gen. Howe sum­ moned him to surrender. Gen. Washington was then in Hackensack and he immediately returned; and late at night in crossing the river my brave uncle delighted with an oar to give Magaw the necessary instructions, when they met Gens. Greene and Putnam returning from that post in order to make arrangements for reinforcements. The British resolved to carry the place by storm. The event is a matter of history, though few know how great a carnage occurred. The brave Col. Rawlings left 600 of the enemy dead on the north side of the fort alone and there were 200 slain in the southern ap­ proach. The account gives little idea of the American losses but it could not have been many, for Gen. Howe states that 26oo prisoners were taken. My r66 Maternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King uncle, who was on the ground after the battle, informed me that heaps of men lay dead, so close was the attack on the north under Rawlings. But this was the precipitous part. On the other side the ascent is but slight and the overwhelming numbers and perfect military equipment of the enemy will account for the victory. When the attack was at the highest, Gen. Washing­ ton sent a boat over to request Magaw to hold out until night, when he would send reinforcements. My uncle remained with him on the Palisades inspecting the movements of the be!ligerants and, when the flag was struck, handing his glass to his young companion with looks of greatest dejection, he said, 'Look, my boy, all is over. Alas, my poor country.' Descending the hill, Gen. Washington made immediate arrangements to evacuate Fort Lee which by no means was as strong as Fort Washington, and the General saw the British would invest it at once. Accordingly Cornwallis crossed the river with 6000 men at Dobb's Ferry and advanced by a forced march. It would have been madness to attempt to fight such a force and the garrison moved off on November r8th., compelled to abandon their cannon, tents and military stores. The j.mpossibility of obtaining wagons was the cause of this sacrifice. "My grandmother and her children were obliged to flee to the English Neighborhood two miles away so as to escape the immediate consequences of the plunder which they knew was to come. My grandfather and his son remained so as to co11ect if possible any of the property that might be spared. What valuables and money they possessed, were buried and they soon had occasion to summon all their fortitude. Some thousand of Hessians and merceneries devastated the place. A perfect saturnalia now commenced. A barrel of whiskey and another of sugar were rolled out of the cellar and thrown into a rainwater cask standing at the corner of the house. My grand­ mother's dairy room yielded its aid and a milk punch was made and stirred with a rail. My grandfather begged a British officer to try and at least save a single pail of milk for his children's evening meal. Overcome with sym­ pathy by the nature of the request, he was too much excited to carry out his benevolent intentions judiciously. Approaching a Hessian soldier who was coming up the cellar steps with a flat vessel of milk called a 'keeler' in dairy phrase, he struck him lightly on the back with the flat of his sword. The cowardly creature jumped to one side at his officer's frown, the bottom of the vessel broke and became in a moment the personification of plenty­ literally flowing with milk. There was a shout of laughter in which my grandfather was too much of a Frenchman not to join. When the punch was prepared, my grandfather was impudently requested to drink the health of the King by those wretched creatures, the Hessians, they using their shoes for drinking cups. Several British officers were present and it is but doing them justice to say that they seemed to sympathize with my grand- Maternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King father. One of them immediately stepped up to him and advised him to go through with the formality only, as the soldiers continued to call loudly for him; he said he feared it would be the cause of personal danger if he did not. But he had stern Huguenot blood in him and he replied that, if he drank at all, he would say what he pleased. They immediately made way for him to approach the puncheon and the officers, who well knew his bold­ ness, surrounded him completely. Uncovering his head and dipping his hand into the liquor, which he only pretended to drink, he bowed to the name he was about to utter rather than the officers and exclaimed in clearest tones, throwing a Frenchman's kiss over the mountains where he had that morn­ ing taken leave of his great friend: 'The health of Gen. Washington, con­ fusion to King George and destruction to his hirelings, the Hessians.' It was well for him that the officers were attached to him or he would have been cut to pieces by the infuriated soldiers. Why he was not killed by some of them when the officers were not present, is a wonder, for his fearless utter­ ances were always exasperating. At the end of ten days the British troops had evacuated the place and were proceeding toward Newark under Corn­ wallis. Washington had crossed the Passaic and was on his way to New Brunswick and my grandfather and his son went to bring the family to their ruined home. My mother and the other children were brought home and were about being sent supperless to such beds as could be prepared from the torn fragments, when my good grandmother appeared coming down the hill on an old wood sled drawn by a beautiful horse, the only living animal they now possessed, drawn (led?) by a black man. All the cattle and other horses were carried off by the British troops; and she had herself driven this horse to the English Neighborhood and secreted him in the cellar of a deserted house which I have often seen. Here he remained for three days without meat or drink and would have died except for the kindness of a British officer who was attached to my grandfather and to whom she communicated the hiding place of her beautiful pet. "Hearing their mother below stairs, the children were clamorous for food, for they had not eaten since morning. The poor little creatures were obliged to content themselves with a raw turnip. The wholesome milk and the pet cows, each having its own name and its owner, were gone and, had it not been for the providence of a mother who combined all the affections of a woman with the firmness of a most determined man, they might well nigh have starved to death. As we have already said, there was no other house near and the people for miles were robbed of everything. 'Bless God for all His mercies, here you are and here are all together,' said the excellent woman to her husband. 'I feared your tongue would cost you your life.' She little knew how nearly true her fears had been. My mother, who was but seven, and her sister mounted the old sled and begged a turnip to appease 168 Maternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King their hunger. She had found her old doll and her pet cat near the wood pile and, seating herself, was perfectly happy eating her turnip. "'This is hard to bear,' said my grandmother, 'but God will yet prosper our cause if we follow the counsels of Washington.' 'Yes,' said her husband, 'and they know my sentiments,' adding an expletive in French. 'What's that?' said she. 'Some more impudence, I dare say.' A few days later my uncle told her the story of the punch and the toast, to which she replied, looking nevertheless proudly at her husband, 'Pity it is your father has not a little Dutch blood in him; these Frenchmen are always half-crazy. Thank God your father was not killed before your eyes.' "The family were now in far greater danger than before, for they were entirely unprotected and the country was continually ravaged by Tories and robbers. What money and valuables they had, were buried and only enough was taken from time to time to procure food. It was useless to purchase cattle, for he could not be sure of keeping them overnight. The family man­ aged to subsist during this hard winter but it was necessary for my uncle often at great risk to visit the city to procure food. And when I last saw him at ninety years of age, firm and erect with the voice and will of a lion, his immense features and grey hair adding great dignity to his appearance, I could not but think that the sage was right when he said, 'Difficulty is good for m

CARSTYNE (CARSTEEN) ( allied with Bourdette) John Christianse was from Amsterdam, Holland. In r668 Captain, afterwards Major, Berry received from Governor Carteret a patent of Sec­ tion Two, being all the lands between Hackensack and Saddle River. Berry settled and built his home mansion on the southerly tract and, on his death, most of it went to his heirs. The northern part he had conveyed in parcels at various times to sundry persons; among the number was John Chris­ tianse, whose wife was Naomi, widow of Michael Moore. They were mar­ ried on 17 November, 1728.

Helena Carstyne, daughter of John and Naomi Christianse, was baptized on 27 November, 173r. At Schraalenburg on 8 July, 1756, she married Jacob Banta. Jacob Banta died prior to r March, 1764, at which time his widow, "Nellie" Banta, became the wife of Stephen Bourdette. Nellie Car­ styne Banta Bourdette probably inherited from her father, John Christianse, the property conveyed by her son and grandson in 1798 and in which the children of Stephen Bourdette and Gussie De Groot had no part. Maternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King

EARLE ( allied with Bourdette) Edward Earle, an Englishman, came in the spring of 1676 from Mary­ land to Bergen, now Jersey City, with his wife, Hannah and son, Edward. On 24 April following his arrival he purchased Secaucus Island, taking deed therefor from Samuel Edsall and Petrus Stoutenburg, Executors of the Will of Nicholas Varlett, who first purchased it from the Indians. Earle's deed recites that the area of the island was about 2000 acres. Three years later he sold one-half of the island to Judge Pinhom for £500, in­ cluding one-half of the stock with "Christian and negro servants." A sched­ ule attached to the deed discloses what improvements and personal chat­ tels were on the island at the time and enumerates "one dwelling house containing two lower rooms and a lean-to below stairs and a loft above; five tobacco houses, one horse, one mare, two colts, eight oxen, ten cows, one bull, four yearlings, seven calves, thirty to forty hogs, four negro and five Christian servants." Edward Earle died on 15 December, 171 I. His wife, Hannah, survived him.

Edward Earle, Jr., son of Edward and Hannah (---) Earle, was probably born in England. He came with his parents to New Jersey as a lad. On the death of his father he inherited all of his large estate in Bergen and Secaucus. He was appointed Tax Commissioner of Bergen in 1693 and the following year was made Commissioner of Highways. In 1695 he was elected to the House of Deputies of East Jersey. On 13 February, 1688, he married Elsie, daughter of Enoch Michaels and Dirksje (Myers) Vreeland; they were married in the Dutch Church at Bergen by the Reverend Henricus Selyns of the New Amsterdam and Bergen churches. The marriage record reads: "Edward Earle, y.m., op. Marienlant en Elsie Vreelandt, y.d., op. Goemoenepa ( Communipaw), met Atestatie van Bergen, Feb., 13th., 1688" (record in Dutch Church, New York). He died in 1729 or 1730, as in that year a petition was made to the Governor, John Montgomery, for his children regarding their inheritance, the eldest son, Edward Earle, 3rd., apparently having taken the lion's share, since he is not mentioned as a party to the suit.

Hannah Earle, daughter of Edward, Jr., and Elsie (Vreeland) Earle, was born in 1693 and baptized on 26 March, 1694. She married, first, Petrus van Stoutenburg and, after his death, on I I April, 1720, she became the wife of Etienne Bourdette of New York City. The marriage record reads: "Steven Bordet, y.m., op. New York, and Hanna Earle, y.d., widow of Petrus Stoutenburg of Hackensack." Hannah (Earle) Bourdette died 172 Maternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King about 1755, prior to her husband's going to Fort Lee, where his son, Peter Bourdette, came to live with him.

REFERENCE

History of Bergen, Harvey; p. 232.

New York Wills "Whereas Edward Earle of Bergen, N. J. died intestate, Letters of Administration were granted to his wife, Hannah, by Robert Hunter, Esq., his Will, made in 1709, having by some underhand manner been taken from her possession and cannot be found." These papers were granted on 29 May, 1712. New York Wills "In 1730 John Montgomery, Captain General and Governor, received a petition from the following: Marmaduke and John Earle, Hannah, wife of Stephen Bourdette, William and Alice Earle, Thomasen, wife of Garret Hallenbeck, Philip, Theodora, Silvester and Nathaniel Earle, some of the children of Edward Earle, Jr., Deceased, who was the son of Edward Earle, Sr., late of Secaucus, Bergen, N. J. and Hannah, his wife, stating that their grandfather made a Will, May 16th., 1709, and therein made his wife Executrix, who divided a great part of the personal estate among her grandchildren and that she has died intestate, leaving divers goods, and some of her grandchildren having more than their share and the others little or nothing, petition that an Administrator be appointed." Letters of Ad­ ministration were granted to Richard Edsall on 14 January, 1730.

VREELAND ( allied with Earle)

Michael Jansen Vreeland was the pioneer and progenitor of the great family of today, numbering up into the thousands and spread all over the United States and further. Under the liberty and customs of those days of selecting their own names, he had taken his father's Christian name with the addition of "Zoon" and his sons in turn called themselves "Michael­ sons" but the third generation went back to first principles and from then on Vreeland it has been and Vreeland it will remain until eternity, just as it had been Vreeland in the old country for many years before.

Michael Jansen Vreeland was born in 1610 and came from Scrabbekirk, a corruption of s'Herr Abtskerke ( Church of the Lord Abbot) Island of South Beveland, Province of Zeeland, Netherlands, by way of Amsterdam Maternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King 1 73 in the ship, Het Waf en van Norwegan (Arms of Norway). He arrived on 4 August, 1638, and received permission to leave the Colony and re­ side in Manhattan. He was, however, a resident of New Amsterdam in 1644, on which date he empowered Arant van Curier to settle with Patroon Van Rensselaer all accounts and differences. He settled on the Bowerie, buying a plot of ground owned by Jan Evertsen Bout, for which and part of the stock he paid 800 guilders. Here the sturdy old governor, Peter Stuyvesant, a prime judge of character, selected Jansen Vreeland as one of the Nine Men, the advisory council or cabinet of the Governor, on which council he represented Pavonia in 1647, 1649 and 1650. He joined with other of the Nine in their crusade and was appointed one of the delegates to go to Holland against the colonial policy of Stuyvesant. This appoint­ ment he declined. It was at his house that the journal of Van der Donck, entitled "Vertoogh," was published ; it was seized and he was charged with giving the information but the charge could not be proven. He was a signer of the application for the first municipal government of New Amsterdam on 26 July, 1649. Looking around for new worlds to conquer, Jansen Vreeland, believing as Hudson did, made no extended stop at Manhattan but with his wife, Fitje (Sophie) Hartman Vreeland, one son, Claes, and two serv­ ants he sailed for Fort Orange (Albany), where he leased a farm from Patroon Kilean Van Rensselear for 400 guilders ( about 160 dollars) a year. In his new domicile he must have made good, for we find in an old letter from Van Rensselear that he is mentioned as "one of the most upright farmers in the colony." The energy and force inborn in Oom Michael forbade his being tied down to ordinary farm work and he took to the more profitable line of fur trading with the Indians and prospered mightily, for he made a fortune in two years; but his good luck was cut short by the interdict of the West India Company, which claimed a monopoly of the business. Here was the initial evidence of a "trust" in this country, a custom which, like some others, has existed down to date. Vreeland, finding himself prevented from exercising the full bent of his make-up, added to a determination to be rid for all time of the feudal ideas of the old country, which had been imported over here in the idea of the patroonship, decided to strike out for himself and in 1646, feeling that the west side of the river was "a very good land to fall in with," come over to Gomoenpan ( Communipaw) and settled down for a measure; but his public duties continued as Representative of his section on the Council. He made friends with the Indians to such good effect that in the massacre of 1655, when every other white person in the neighborhood was either killed or cap­ tured, Jansen Vreeland and his family were spared. He sailed over to Manhattan in his "periaugua" and engaged in mercantile pursuits for a while but, as soon as matters settled down again, he returned to his 174 Maternal Ancestry of Charles Daly' King

"bowerie" in Communipaw on 22 January, 1658 and lived there until his death in 1663. Michael Jansen Vreeland was one of the first magistrates appointed for the Court of Bergen. In December, 1662, he joined with his neighbors in asking the Governor for a minister of the Gospel, for whose support he subscribed 25 florins. He is also found in the list of subscribers for and contributors of materials for the first school, and in these and many other matters he proved himself a leader among men. Michael Jansen Vreeland in 1631 married Fitje Hartman. They had six sons and two daughters; Nicholas, Elias, Enoch, Hartman, Johannes, Cornelius, Annetje and Pryntje. In 1678 Hartman Vreeland bought a tract of land covering what is now Passaic, thereby constituting himself a founder of Passaic County. The next year he interested three of his brothers, Elias, Johannes and Cornelius, and with two others bought a large tract from the Indians, comprising 15,000 acres. The payment was in coats, blankets, kettles, powder and other goods, a currency satisfactory to the redskins.

Enoch Vreeland, third son of Michael and Sophie (Hartman) Vree­ land, through whom the line descends, was baptized on 26 October, 1649. He was a member of the General Assembly of the Province from 1675 through 1688, in 1707, 1708 and 1709; in the last year he was not prompt in his attendance and the sergeant-at-arms was directed to bring him forth­ with before the House. He was commissioned Ensign in the Bergen Militia on 4 July, 1681; was Associate Judge of the Court of Bergen in 1673, 1674, 1682 and 1683; Commissioner of Highways for the County of Bergen in 1682 and 1692 and Assistant Judge of the Court of Common Pleas on 22 May, 1705. He lived at what is called Stony Point, on the bluff overlooking the bay at about the foot of Myrtle Avenue, where the Central Rail Road now crosses the canal. Enoch Vreeland married, first, Dirkse (Frederica) Myers of New Amsterdam on 3 June, 1673; second, Grietje Wessels, widow of Jan Langedycke, who died on 27 November, 1697; and third, Aegte Van Horn. He died in 1714.

Elsie Vreeland, daughter of Enoch and Dirkse (Myers) Vreeland, was baptized on 12 November, 1672. On 23 February, 1688, she married Ed­ ward Earle, Jr., of Secuacus, N. J. Elsie Vreeland died about 1729.

REFERENCES History and Genealogy of the Vreeland Family, Nicholas Garretsen Vreeland. New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol. 9; pp. 62 ff. Maternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King 1 75 HARTMANN (HARTMAN) ( allied with Vreeland) The Hartmann family in Holland was one of great distinction. Many of its members were seamen of renown and Dutch histories are full of their achievements on the water.

Sophie Hartmann was born in Holland in 161 I. She married Michael Jansen Vreeland in 1631 and came to this country with her husband and eldest son in 1638, surviving him in her new home by 34 years and main­ taining her place at the head of her household. After her husband's death she continued to live at Goemenepen ( Communipaw), her farm being marked on the field maps as lots #14 and #15. The Labadists dined with her shortly before her death. An old lady in Breucklin told them that she was born in Koln. They have left this quaint description of her: "We found her a little pious after the manner of the country and you could discover that there was something of the Lord in her but very well covered up and defiled (sic)." This is no light testimony to the old lady's attain­ ments, considering that it is given by two who seemed to have looked upon all mankind except that small portion who accepted their own particular views, as destined fuel for the everlasting bonfire. Sophie Hart­ mann was a member of the Dutch Church at Bergen in 1662 and she died on 21 September, 1697. On 12 May, 1688, Governor Carteret confirmed by grant to Sophie Hartmann part of the farm that Michael Jansen V ree­ land had bought from Bout.

REFERENCE History of Hudson County, Winfield.

MEYER (MYER) ( allied with Vreeland) Jan Dirkszen Meyer and his wife, Tryntje Grevenraet, came to New Amsterdam prior to 1652 but the exact date of their arrival is unknown. Their names are recorded in the list of members of the Dutch Church, many of whom had settled here before 1649. There is reason to believe that he was by trade a painter and that he was the Jan Dereken who was ad­ mitted to the rights of a small burgher on 14 April, 1657. His wealth at the time of the final cession of New York to the English was estimated at $2000. He then resided in the present Bridge Street and in 1686 was living on Stone Street between Whitehall and Broad Streets. Tryntje (Catherine) Grevenraet was, as the name indicates, the daughter of An- Mat~rnal Ancestry of Charles Daly King dries and Lysbeth Grevenraet. The word, gestorven (died), is written opposite Tryntje Grevenraet's name in the church membership book but no clue is given as to the time of her death. Jan Meyer married, second, Baertje Kip. He died on 12 June, 1700.

Dirkje Meyer, daughter of Jan and Tryntje (Grevenraet) Meyer, was born in Amsterdam and came to New Amsterdam with her parents. She joined the church in New York in January, 1660. On 3 June, 1670, she married Enoch Michaelson Vreeland and went to live with him in Bergen, N.]. REFERENCE History of Ancient Families of New Amsterdam and New York.

BOSCH: BOS: BUSH ( allied with Bourdette) Henricus Albertsen Bosch, the founder of the family, was born at Leyden, Holland. He was the son of Albertus Bosch of Leyden. He emi­ grated to this country in the ship, Faith, in December, 1658, with his wife and two children. He was a sword cutler by trade. His home in New Amsterdam was on Pearl Street, the second lot east from the corner of Broad Street, and was opposite Faunces Tavern. He died in New Amster­ dam some time later than 23 April, 1701, the date of the signing of his Will, in which he speaks of his great age. He married, first, at Leyden, Holland, Anna Maria Rembach, who emigrated to America with him. His second wife was Maria Eshuysen and his third was Egbertke (Dirks) Bruynsen, who survived him.

Hendricus Bosch was the eldest son of Hendrick ( Henricus) and Egbertke (Dirks) Bruynsen Bosch and was baptized in the old Dutch Church on 2 December, 1674. He lived in New Amsterdam, following his father's trade, and married on 30 September, 1698, Maria, daughter of Conradus Van der Beek of Breucklin, N. Y. He lived on Beaver Street between Broad Street and Bowling Green, and was a member of the Dutch Church in 1686. The record of his marriage reads: "Hendrick Bosch en zyn h.v. Maria Van der Beek."

Hendricus Bosch, Jr., son of Hendricus and Maria (Van der Beek) Bosch was baptized on 25 June, 1699. He removed from New Amsterdam to Hackensack, where on 27 October, 1725, he married Lea, daughter of Johannes and Metje Jans (Symensen) Van Blarcom. Hendricus Bos was admitted to the Dutch Church of Hackensack by Confession of Faith on Maternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King 177 24 February, 1732. He had five children, all baptized in the Dutch Church of Hackensack, N. J.:

Hendricus 23 September, 1727 Metje 8 October, 1732 Catrina 1 May, 1737 Willentje 24 January, 1741 Rachel 19 August, 1744 Rachel Bosch, fourth daughter of Hendricus and Lea (Van Blarcom) Bosch, was born on 23 August, 1743. On 8 June, 1762, she married Peter Bourdette. She died on II November, 1829, and is buried in the Vreeland Private Cemetery, a family burying ground ( Peter Bourdette being a descendant of the Vreelands on his mother's side), at Edgewater, N. J., not far from Fort Lee, N. J., where her tombstone and that of her husband are still standing ( 1920) in excellent condition. Rachel Bosch Bourdette was a very unusual woman, brave and capable of facing any emergency. She lived during the stirring days of the Revolution and, with her husband, took an active part in the events around Fort Lee. Her home was the headquarters of General Washington while he was in that vicinity and in the Register of the Daughters of the American Revolution she is named as a Patriot of the Revolution.

REFERENCE Southern New York Families, Lewis Publishing Company. Will of Hendricus Bosch, Sr. "In the name of God, Amen. Be it known unto all people that I, Hen­ dricus Bosch of New York, sword cutler, considering my age and other bodily infirmities, etc., leave to the co-heirs of my son, Albertus Bosch, de­ ceased, procreated by my wife, Anna Maria Rembach, viz., Jurian, Justus, Casparus, Albertus and Anna Maria, wife of Mr. Marshall of this city, taylor, the sum of six shillings to be equally divided among them in full of any pretense of my estate, I declaring that I have heretofore during the life of said Albertus, their father, sufficiently provided for him. I leave my daughter, Dorothea, procreated by my second wife, Maria Eshuysen, and now the wife of Isaac Karpares of Albany, one shilling, in full of her part and that for and by reason of her stubborn and disobedient carriage to­ ward me, these many years. I leave to my daughter, Hillegant, procreated by my second wife and now the wife of Lodwyck Ackerman, one shilling, · and this by reason of her stubborn and disobedient carriage toward me these many years, and her scandalous and unclean way of living. "I leave to my dear and entirely beloved wife, Egbertsie, all my estate, real and personal, with full power to sell or mortgage without giving ac- Maternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King count to any of my children or to anyone else. After her death what is left is to be divided among my sons, Hendricus, Samuel and Joshua and my daughter, Cornelia, wife of Peter Cavalier, all procreated by my wife, Egbertsie, in four equal parts among them. But my son, Hendrick, is to have besides the sum of seven pounds, IO shillings, for the particular service he has done for me some years past. I make my wife Executor. Dated : April, 23rd. r7or. Witnesses: Gerardus Ketelas, Abraham Gowerman." (This Will was not proved.) Minutes of the Ezecutive Board, New York City "This eighth day of April, 1664, appeared Walewyn van der Veen, Notary Public, etc., the worthy Jelles Pietersen of Fort Orange, who de­ clared to have leased to the worthy Hendricus Bosch, cutler and Burgher of this city who, also appearing, acknowledged to have rented a house and lot on Pearl Street in the city for a term of years for the sum of 250 fi. in good current wampum a year, one-half payable half-yearly. "Lessor promises to deliver said house to him when he enters upon the lease in good repair and keep it so during the years of his lease, while the lessee promises on his side to occupy the house decently."

DIRCKS ( allied with Bosch) Egbertsie Dircks, daughter of --- Dircks of Holland and her sister, Barentje, went with other colonists from Drenthe in r66o. They came to join their sister, Geertje, who had come to New Netherlands some years before with her husband, Jan Metselaer. Scarcely a year passed when both found their daring rewarded and the highest aspirations of their womanly hearts realized in marriage; Egbertsie with Hage Bruynsen, Barentje with Niles Matteysen, two honest Swedes, the latter called to be Magis­ trate of Haarlem and the former the first miller. Hage Bruynsen died in r668 and his widow became the third wife of Hendricus Bosch of New Amsterdam.

REFERENCE History of Harlem, N. Y., Riker.

VAN BLARCOM (VAN BLURKUM) (allied with Bush) Lubert Gysbertze, son of Johannes Van Blarcom of Blaricom, Holland, was the founder of the family in America and was born in Holland in r6oo or r6or. At the time of his emigration he was married, had three sons and Maternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King 1 79 was living in the village of Blaricom in the Goeylant, a district of North Holland. On 15 April, 1634, the Patroon Kilean Van Rennselear made a contract with him according to the terms of which Lubert Gysbertze was to come over to the Patroon's colony of Rennselaerwyck and settle him­ self and his family there as the wagon-maker or wheelwright of the colony; and in return the Patroon was to give him the fourth farm which he sur­ veyed and laid out in his western manor. Lubert or Lubbert embarked for the new world with his wife and three sons in the ship, De Eendracht, which sailed from the Texel in the beginning of May, 1634, and arrived at Rennselaerwyck about two months later, as Lubbert's accounts with the colony begin on 15 July, 1634. From that date they continue steadily until the year, 1647, when, or perhaps a little later, he removed to New Amster­ dam, where he remained for several years. "Renselear's party of colonists, consisting mostly of farmers, had been carefully selected and instructed and very completely equipped. Industry throve at Rennselaerwyck and the value of the property came to be enormous. This great prosperity was due to Van Rennselear's intelligent policy and, for education and re­ spectability, the standard was much higher than in Manhattan. Kilean Van Rennselear died in 1646 and it was after that event that Lubbert separated from the colony." (Dutch and Quaker Colonies, Fiske.) On 5 December, 1654, he and his sons, Gysbert and Jan, and his son-in-law, Hendrick Jansen Van Schalckwyck, received their patents for the land "between Gemoenepaen and Kill van Kull" with the other original patentees of the town of Bergen, Lubbert being granted fifty morgens and each of his sons and his son-in-law twenty-five morgens. It is noteworthy that Lubbert's tract was the only one of fifty morgens among those of the patentees. Lub­ bert married Divertigen Cornelis in Holland in 1620.

Jan Lubbertse Van Blarcom, son of Lubbert and Divertigen ( Cornelis) Van Blarcom, was born in Holland in 1632. He is sometimes known as Jan Captyn (Jan, the Captain), so it is probable that he served at one time in the colonial soldiery. An additional circumstance rendering this more probable is the fact that the Bergen Patents were most of them rewards to soldiers for military service; further corroboration is his signature, "Jan Captyn," to the petition of the Gomoenpa farmers in 1658 to the Director­ General for permission to return to their boweries, from which they had been driven by the Indians. Jan Lubbertse was brought over to Rennselaer­ wyck by his father when he was only eighteen months old. He went with him to New Amsterdam, where he probably served his term of mili­ tary service and where he received the appointment of clerk in the office of the Secretary of the Colony on 8 September, 1654. Four years later, on 12 August, 1658, he was "licensed to teach reading, writing and cyphering" 180 Maternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King in the town and in 1663 he was one of the commissioners appointed to fortify Bergen Hill and Town. On 7 June, 1659, in New Amsterdam he married Magdaleentje Jans Theuniss, the daughter of Jan Theuniss from Voorsthuijsen, Holland, who came to this country in the ship, De Trouro (The Faith) on 12 February, 1659. She was buried on rr September, r7II, "the 140th. with pall." (Bergen Dutch Church record.)

Johannes Van Blarcom, son of Jan Lubbertse and Magdaleentje (Theuniss) Van Blarcom, was born or baptized on 3 November, 1667. On 16 July, 1693, he married Metje Jans Symensen. "Metje Jans, wife of Ho. Janse Van Blurkum, was buried October 22nd., 1706, the n7th. with pall." ( Bergen Dutch Church ~ecord.)

Leah Van Blarcom, as the name is given on the record, was the daughter of Johannes and Metje (Symensen) Van Blarcom. She was born on or before 22 October, 17o6, at which date her mother died. Al­ though her exact date has never been found, there is no doubt of the above statement as, when she was sponsor at the baptism of her brother's and sister's children, her name was recorded as Leah Jans Van Blarcom, it being the Dutch custom to add the father's name to the given names of the children. On 27 October, 1727, she married Hendricus Bosch, son of Hendricus and Marie Bosch.

REFERENCE Genealogical and Memorial History of New Jersey, Francis B. Lee; Vol. 4, p. 1317.

VAN DER BEEK ( allied with Bosch)

This name is distinctly Dutch in form and appears with many forms of spelling in the Dutch records. The original emigrant to New Amsterdam came from Bremen, Germany, but it is presumable that he was of Dutch parentage, since the name still exists in Holland while it cannot be found in Germany. Paulus Van der Beek may have been born in Germany of Dutch parents or he may merely have sailed from the German port of Bremen on his journey to the new world.

Paulus Van der Beek came to America in 1643 and died at his home on Long Island in 1680. He resided in Breucklin (Brooklyn), N. Y., in 1655 and was engaged in the butchering business in New Amsterdam. He was farming on Long Island in 1661 and was ferry master in 1662. He purchased plantation lot # r 7 at Gravesend, the deed bearing the date of Maternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King 181 4 October, 1633. On 9 October, 1644, he married Maria Tomas, a widow. Maria had been married twice before, first to Jacob Verdon and second to William Andreasense Bennet. Bennet had purchased from the Indians in 1636 a tract of land extending from what is now Twenty-Eighth Street along Gowan us Cove and the bay to New Utrecht. Green-Wood Cemetery now forms part of the original purchase. When Maria married Paulus Van der Beek, much of this land was added to the Van der Beek pos­ sessions. The marriage record reads: "Mr. Paulus Van der Beek, surgeon and farmer, and Maria Thomas, widow, Oct. 9th., 1644." He sold one-half of the property at Gowanus on 6 August, 1679, for 3000 guilders. His farm was subsequently in the possession of the Bergen family, down to a comparatively recent date. Paulus Van der Beek was one of the Patentees of Breucklin mentioned in the charter given by Governor Nicholls in 1667. Later, when the behavior of Governor Stuyvesant became too overbearing and distasteful to the good citizens of New Amsterdam and Breucklin, a convention was held in New Amsterdam to make a protest. The Delegates from Breucklin were Frederic Lubberts, Paulus Van der Beek and Wil­ liam Beekman, all men of position and ability. Mr. Paulus Van der Beek's name appears on a list of those taxed to support the minister, his tax be­ ing IO fl. This tax was levied by order of the Schepens of the Court of Breucklin with the previous approbation of the Director-General and Schepens Council in New Netherlands and only upon those in "cosy cir­ cumstances."

Conradus Van der Beek, eldest son of Paulus and Maria (Tomas) Van der Beek, was baptized on I September, 1647 at Gowanus. He lived there and was a member of the Dutch Church at Gowanus in 1677. He was on the assessment rolls from 16;73 through 1676 but within a few years he moved to New York where he was a "measurer" in 1699. The first man who served the public in New Amsterdam as an "inviter to funerals" was Conradus Van der Beek, with Robert Chapman as his assistant. The holder of this office was appointed by the Mayor. They were compelled to serve the poor gratis. The custom of the people in respect of funerals was pe­ culiar: no one of any caste would have thought of attending a funeral with­ out an invitation; the bearers were presented with mourning rings, silk scarves and handkerchiefs and in some cases all the guests were given gloves ; after the ceremonial of burial they returned to the house to partake of a banquet at which, if the means of the family allowed, the choicest wines were served. Paulus Van der Beek died probably in the latter part of 1708, as his Will was made on 17 July, 1706, and proved on 9 January, 1709. He married, first, Elsie Janse Schaer and, second, on 12 July, 1702, Catherine Cook, a widow. Maternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King Marie Van Der Beek, daughter of Conrad us of Elsie (Schaer) Van der Beek, was baptized on IO May, 1679. On 30 September, 1698, she married Hendricus Bosch.

REFERENCE Southern New York Families, Lewis Publishing Company.

Notes from the Dutch Church Records in the City Clerk's Office, New York City, published by the Holland Society. "1662, Feb. 3rd.: Paulus Van der Beek makes contract with Syman Harmense Cort, carpenter, to build him a house 40 feet long, 20 feet wide and cellar 6 feet high at Gowanus. Witness: Gerret Hendrycks, Claes Tesin. "1663, Feb. 5th.: Marretje Tomas, formerly widow of Jacob Verdon and afterward of William Ariaense Bennet, at present wife of Paulus Van der Beek, she makes a declaration about property contributed to her by her third husband. This at the request of her two sons, Tomas Jacobsen Verden and William Williamsen Bennet." ( In the Indian War of 1647 Bennet's house, which had passed to Maria, had been burned.) "1654, April 30th.: Fransoys Paschet, born at Lausanne, Switzerland, widower of Annetje Jans, deceased, makes a Will, appoints a guardian for his wife's daughter by a former husband, Anna Maria Janse, now about 14 years. Said girl is at present living at the house of Paulus Van der Beek and said girl to be his heir. Witnesses: Pieter Koch and Johannes, Monsieur de la Montagne, Jr. "1654, July 25th.: Fransoys Paschoat (Pachod), who is sick in the house of Mr. Paulus Van der Beek, adds a codicil to his Will and leaves a legacy to Mr. Van der Beek. Fransoys died on 11 August.

Dutch Church Records "Conradus Van der Beek en zyn h.v. Elsie Jans. "List of Inhabitants: Van der Beek, Conrad, I male, r female, 2 chil­ dren."

Extract from Historic New Yark, Putnam, I899

"Paulus Van der Beek: In the Indian War of I 643, so rashly brought on by Kieft, it was necessary to bring to the colony a company of soldiers and with them came Surgeon Paulus Van der Beek. At the close of the war he married the Widow Bennet, who owned a farm of 930 acres at Gowanus. The farm had been devastated and the house burned in the war. There the newly married reclaimed the land and built a house, Van der Beek dividing his time between farming and his profession, thus becoming Maternal Ancestry of Ch(J;rles Daly King the first medicine man of Breucklin. He seems to have been a man of enterprise, acting in later years as the collector and ferry master. He was one time reprimanded by the Council for keeping would-be passengers "half the day and night before he would carry them across the river." In 1675 he was assessed 2 polls, 2 horses, 4 cows, 3 ditto of three years, 1 ditto of one year and 20 moegens of land of the value of 133 pounds, ro shillings."

New York Wills "Conradus Van der Beek of New York, measurer, leaves to his Cath­ erine all the household stuff and other things whatsoever she brought with her or belonging to her at the time of her marriage. I also give her six silver spoons and one feather bed, one cupboard and one negro girl. To my daughter, Margeret, one cupboard and one feather bed. To my son, Con­ radus, all my clothing and joiner's tools. To my eldest son, Paulus, 40 shillings in case he returns a silver cup belonging to me and now in his possession. If my personal property should pay my debts, I nevertheless order my real estate to be sold and the proceeds to be divided among my wife, my son, Paulus, the children of my son, John, deceased, the children of my daughter, Mary Bush, and Elsie Van der Beek, daughter of my son, Abraham, deceased, to my son, Isaac, son, Conradus, to my daughter, Anna Margeret, also to Burger and Jacob Van der Beek, sons of my present wife. July 17th., 1706."

SCHAERS ( allied with Van der Beek)

Elise J anse Schaers was the daughter of Johannes Christoffel Schaers of Gowanus and Maria Willemse Bennet of the same place. He called him­ self Johannes Christoffel and was on the assessment roll of Brooklyn in 1675 and 1683. After his death in 1690 his widow married Tysen Lanen Van Pelt. Elsie Janse Schaers married Conradus Van der Beek.

REFERENCE King's County Settlers, Bergen; pp. 248, 249.

BOOK III

The Paternal Ancestry of Mildred Sisson King

Compiled by Edgar Grant Sisson

(ARRANGED AND EDITED BY Charles Daly King, 1953)

NOTE BY THE COMPILER These notes have been concerned with the American lines only. All the families have English lines which also can be traced easily.

PART ONE

Ancestors of Asa Sisson

SISSON According to the compiler's information the Sisson family coat of arms is listed in Burke's General Armourie, published at London in 1846; but he has not examined that reproduction. The family name is supposed to have been derived from the city of Soissons, France; the name, Sisson, itself exists in France today, a family in Paris being headed by one, Theo­ bald Sisson. The English branch, or group, settled in Yorkshire. Poll tax returns of Howdenshire (Howden?), Yorkshire, for 1379 show Johannes Sisson, Henricus Sisson, Thomas Cyson, Robert Cission and Will1am Cis­ son; and the family name is also found in Leicestershire.

Richard Sisson, the emigrant ancestor, came to America at a date which is no longer known; probably it was not before 1640 and certainly not later than 1644 when his son, George, was born at Dartmouth, Mass. His wife's name was Mary, her maiden name unknown; she died in 1692. Richard Sisson is said to have been born in 16o8 and to have died in 1684; it is also reported that Wales was the actual locality of his emigration from Great Britain. He was a landowner and Freeman at Dartmouth, Mass., in 1653 and sen,ed on the Grand Jury during the same year; in 1658 he bought a part of Conanient and Dutch Islands and shortly afterwards established himself at Portsmouth, R. I., of which place he is to be con­ sidered as much a citizen as of Dartmouth, Mass., on the opposite shore. "Richard Sisson is received inhabitant among us and hath given his en­ gagement-165 r." (Records of Portsmouth, R. I.) His Will was dated on 18 October, 1683, and was entered for probate on 26 February, 1684, so that apparently he died early in the latter year. His estate inventoried £ 6oo and settlement was not completed until r December, 1692. Included in his property was "r negro servant, f 28" and " 1 Indian servant, £ ro." He left to his son, James, the lands at Dartmouth, Mass., and (apparently at Portsmouth, R. I.) "a burial place to be kept well fenced by my son, James, his heirs and assigns forever." He left the negro man, Abraham, and his wife, Lucy (who seems to have had no value) to his son, James. To his son, George, he left £ 35 and to his son, John, the lands at Portsmouth, 188 Paternal Ancestry of Mildred Sisson King R. I. His children were George, born in 1644, Elizabeth, James (appar­ ently born about 1650), John, Anne and Mary.

James Sisson, son of Richard and Mary (---) Sisson, was born probably about 1650 and died in 1734. He married Lydia Hathaway, daughter of Arthur and Sarah (Cook) Hathaway; her mother, Sarah Cook, was the daughter of John and Sarah (Warren) Cook and grand­ daughter of Francis and Hester Cook of the Mayflower passengers and the Plymouth settlement of 1620; Sarah Warren, wife of John Cook (who came with his parents in the Mayflower) was the daughter of Richard Warren, who was also of the Mayflower group. Lydia (Hathaway) Sis­ son was born in 1662 and died on 23 June, 1714. James Sisson was surveyor of highways in 1685 and Selectman in 1689. As an echo of some of the political troubles of the day or in consequence of a church schism he took the Oath of Fidelity to the Plymouth authorities in 1686; and in 1694 he received a confirmatory deed for his lands from Governor Bradford, dated on 13 November, being then at Dartmouth, Mass. James Sisson's wife died at the age of 52 years ; he lived to be 80 or more years old. James Sisson's Will was probated on 17 December, 1734, and disposed of property valued at £ 172. His children were Richard, born 1682, Mary, 1685, James, Jonathan, Philip, Thomas, Content, Sarah, Hannah and Rebecca.

His son or grandson, also an Asa Sisson, married a daughter of Arthur Hathaway, whose wife was Sarah White, daughter of John and Sarah (\Varren) White; John White was the son of Francis and Hester White, of the first Plymouth (Mayflower) group.

Richard Sisson, son of James and Lydia (Hathaway) Sisson, was born in 1682 either at Portsmouth, R. I., or at Dartmouth, Mass. He married Mehitable ---.

Richard Sisson, Jr., son of Richard and Mehitable (---) Sisson, date of birth unascertained, married Alice Soule.

Joseph Sisson, son of Richard and Alice (Soule) Sisson, was born on 2 September, 1728 at Portsmouth, R. I., and died at Seekonk, R. I., on ro January, 1823, aged 94 years. On 7 October, 1759, he married Ruth Shearman at Portsmouth, R. I. She was born on I May, 1734 and died on II September, 1823, aged 89 years. He had nine children, of whom only three were sons, Asa, Joseph and Isaac. The eldest was Joseph, born IO June, 1765, and married Priscilla Taylor, daughter of Peter Taylor of Paternal Ancestry of Mildred Sisson King Portsmouth, R. I. on 7 December, 1791; and had by her two sons, Joseph and Silas. No record of the marriage of Isaac has yet been found ; he was born on 20 December, 1775. Asa was born on 7 January, 1770, at Middle­ town, R. I., and married Mercy Dennis, as his second wife, on 15 August 1798, at Portsmouth, R. I., his first wife, Alice Anthony, having died in 1794 shortly after their marriage; Asa, Jr., the son of this Asa and Mercy (Dennis) Sisson, married Mary Ann Peck in 1839 and continued as a resident of Rhode Island. On the assumption that John Sisson (below) was a grandson of Joseph Sisson, above, this Asa Sisson, Jr., was a second cousin of the compiler's grandfather, Asa, the son of John, and Asa Sis­ son, Sr., above was a first cousin of John; the records at Crown Point, N. Y. or at Schroon, N. Y. will establish the link between the Dartmouth and Portsmouth Sissons and the New York line, of which John Sisson, below, was an early member, although these records have not been ade­ quately examined as yet. The migration of a number of the Sissons to New York from Massa­ chusetts and Rhode Island was made immediately after the Revolutionary War, Crown Point, Schroon and Ticonderoga being then resettled from New England. John and Hiram Sisson were early Crown Point, N. Y., names. The Schroon district was opened in 1797, as the first settlements expanded. "A strong current of emigration from New England rapidly diffused a hardy and valuable population along the western shore of Lake Champlain and gradually penetrated the interior. Ticonderoga and Crown Point were settled by American emigrants at the close of the Revolution." ( Military and Political History @f Essex County, Winslow C. Watson ; p. 203). The Crown Point and Schroon Sissons appear to be a different branch than the Glens Falls Sissons; all, however, are collateral in descent from the first Richard Sisson and James, his son. The Binghampton Sis­ sons are also descended from Richard Sisson but through his son, George. The descent of the Glens Falls and Tupper Lake Sissons is as follows: Jonathan, son of James Sisson, married Mary Wood; William, son of Jonathan and Mary (Wood) Sisson, born 9 November, 1723, married Lydia Potter ; Nathaniel, son of William and Lydia (Potter) Sisson, born II November, 1756, married Grace Gifford on 2 February, 1781, died at Queensbury, N. Y. on 1 May, 1840, being born at Dartmouth, R. I. and one of the New York emigrants ; his children were Stephen, Nathaniel, Daniel, James and Lemuel. This therefore is not the present direct line, unless John Sisson, below, was a son of William Sisson, aforesaid, which the compiler thinks unlikely, though not impossible.-( Genealogy of Northern New York Families, Cutter). Paternal Ancestry of Mildred Sisson King (The link between the Dartmouth and Portsmouth Sissons and the New York Line, aforesaid, has not been established by document as yet, 1956- C.D.K.) Paternal Ancestry of Mildred Sisson King 191 Paternal Ancestry of Mildred Sisson King John Sisson, grandson of Joseph and Ruth (Shearman) Sisson, above, was either born in the New York settlement or brought there by his parents as a very young child. He died at Schroon, N. Y., on 30 January, 1860. The name of his wife is unknown and he left a son, Asa Sisson.

Asa Sisson, son of John and --- Sisson, was born at Schroon, N. Y., on 20 June, 1822, and died at Ripon, Wisc., on 9 August, 1899. He married Pamelia Whitcomb, who was born at Granville, N. Y., on 12 July, 1833 and died on IO April, 1920, at Ripon Wisc. Their children were Earl Truman ( the eldest), Wilbur, Marietta, Ida, Orlen, Emma. Of these Orlen died about 1934 a Ripon, Wisc.; Wilbur, Ida ( Sisson) Pinch and Marietta were alive at Rosendale, Wisc., in 1934, the last dying the follow­ ing year. Pamelia Sisson, their mother, was an associate of Frances Willard in the W.C.T.U. organization and later work.

Earl Truman Sisson, son of Asa and Pamelia (Whitcomb) Sisson, was born at Rosendale, Wisc., on 25 October, 1853, and died at Orange, Cal., on 19 May, 1926. He married Lucy Learned, daughter of Reuben and Nancy Clark (Lovejoy) Learned; she was born near Fox Lake, Wisc. on 28 October, 1848, and died at Orange, Cal., on 25 May, 1937. The children of Earl Truman and Lucy (Learned) Sisson were Edgar (the eldest), Ralph, Arthur, Clarence, Leon, Maude, Herbert and Orlen; of these (as of 1953) Edgar and Leon have died and Ralph, Clarence, Maude, Herbert and Orlen are living.

Edgar Grant Sisson, son of Earl Truman and Lucy (Learned) Sisson, was born on 23 December, 1875, in Alto Township, Fond du Lac County, Wisc. On 27 April, 1898, he married Jane Dixon Ladd at Chicago, Ill.; she was born on 20 September, 1876, at Detroit, Mich., the daughter of Ralph A. and Frances (Tavennier) Ladd; by her father she was called Charles Dickens, shortened in her girlhood to Dick, and called later by her husband Dixie, so that for most of her life she was known as Dixie Ladd Sisson. They had two children, Mildred Georgina, born 7 February, 1899, and Edgar Grant, Jr., born 4 November, 1902. Edgar Grant Sisson was an editor and author, attended Northwestern University, 1894-1897, and graduated in 1897. He was staff reporter on the Chicago Chronicle, 1895- 1898; reporter, 1898-1899, and dramatic editor, 1899-1901, on the Chicago Tribune; assistant city editor, Chicago American, 1902, city editor, 1903; assistant city editor, Chicago Tribune, 1903-1909, city editor, 1909-1911; managing editor, Colliers Weekly, 1911-1914; editor Cosmopolitan Maga­ zine, 1914-1917. He was Associate Chairman of the Committee on Public Paternal Ancestry of Mildred Sisson King 1 93 Information, Washington, D. C. from r3 May, r9r7 to 1 April, 1919, and in this capacity organized the publication and distribution of President Wilson's speeches throughout Russia during the winter of 1917-1918, being the General Director of the Committee's Foreign Section; and made to President Wilson the personal report published by the United States Gov­ ernment in September, 1918, under the title of "The German-Bolshevik Conspiracy;" he also organized the Committee's service at the Paris Peace Conference, 1918-1919. As a result of his personal experiences with the Bolsheviks in Russia during the winter of 1917-1918, he wrote the book titled 100 Red Days, Yale University Press, 1931; and has left a further, so far ( 1953) unpublished manuscript dealing with the later details of the Communist conspiracy, with the House Collection of historical docu­ ments at Yale University. He was decorated a Cavalier of the Order of the Crown (Italy) in 1919; and was a member of Delta Upsilon Fraternity, the Players Club and the Dutch Treat Club of New York City. He was with the Office of War Information during World War II, 1942-1945, and a member of the editorial staff of the Magazine Corporation of America, 1946. He died at New York City, where he then lived at 210 East 73 Street, on 12 March, 1948, having resided in the east since 191 r.

Mildred Georgina Sisson, daughter of Edgar Grant and Jane Dixon (Ladd) Sisson, was born at Chicago, Ill., on 7 February, 1899, and on 23 October, 1923, married Charles Daly King at Maplewood, N. J. She removed from Chicago, Ill., to Montclair, N. J., with her parents in 19rr and later to Washington, D. C., where her father's work in World War I took the family and where she made her debut during the war years; later the family returned to Montclair, N. J. and then went to Maplewood, N. J., where she was married. She was educated at the Chicago Latin School and the Montclair, N. J. High School from which she graduated with the high­ est grades; her schooling was then interrupted by World War I and the removal of her parents to Washington, D. C., after which she evinced no interest in further college courses. From 1924 through 1931 she with her husband was a member of the New York Branch of the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man at Fontainbleau, France, headed by Georges Ivanovitch Gurdjieff, the New York subdivision being under the direction of Alfred Richard Orage, who became a close friend of her and her husband. She had one daughter, Valerie Daly King, born at Orange, N. J. on 12 October, 1934. After her marriage she lived first at Orange, N. J., 1923-1935, then in Bermuda, 1936-1940, at Pine Orchard and New Haven, Conn., 1941-1943, at Summit, N. J., 1943-1948, and now (r953) at Long Valley, N. J. She has travelled or visited in France, 194 Paternal Ancestry of Mildred Sisson King Switzerland, Italy, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Germany, England, Bermuda, Cuba and the Panama Canal Zone. Being weII versed in litera­ ture, she has given her husband much assistance in his own writings,

Valerie Daly King, daughter of Charles Daly and Mildred Georgina (Sisson) King, was born at Orange, N. J., on 23 October, 1934. Of her we have treated under King, above.

REFERENCES Genealogy of Northern New York Families, Cutter. Allied Families of Rhode Island, Austin. Compendium of American Genealogy, Institute of American Genealogy, Chicago, Ill. ; Vol. VI (1937), p. 805. Early Records of Portsmouth, R. I., Clarence S. Brigham, Rhode Island Historical Society ; p. 53. Personal knowledge and family records.

HATHAWAY ( aIIied with Sisson) Arthur Hathaway was one of the early settlers of Massachusetts. He married Sarah Cook. No further details have been ascertained by the compiler.

Lydia Hathaway, daughter of Arthur and Sarah (Cook) Hathaway, married James Sisson, aforesaid. She was born in 1662 and died on 23 June, 1714. By her husband she had ten children: Richard, Mary, James, Jonathan, Philip, Thomas, Content, Sarah, Hannah and Rebecca.

COOK ( aIIied with Hathaway) Francis Cook was born in England, where he married his wife, Hester, and where his son, John, was born. He came to America with his family in the ship, Mayflower, and was a member of the Plymouth Colony in 1620.

John Cook, son of Francis and Hester (---) Cook, married Sarah Warren, daughter of Richard and --- Warren. John Cook had been born in England and had come to America with his parents in the ship, Mayflower, as above.

Sarah Cook, daughter of John and Sarah (Warren) Cook, was born in America and married Arthur Hathaway, aforesaid. Paternal Ancestry of Mildred Sisson King 195

Lydia Hathaway, daughter of Arthur and Sarah (Cook) Hathaway, married James Sisson, aforesaid.

WARREN ( allied with Cook) Richard Warren was born and married in England. He came to America with the Mayflower group of settlers in 1620. No further details concerning him have been ascertained by the compiler.

Sarah Warren, daughter of Richard and --- Warren, married John Cook, aforesaid. PART TWO

Ancestors of Pamelia Whitcomb

WHITCOMB John Whetcombe, the emigrant ancestor, came from England to Boston, Mass., about 1630 or 1633. According to The Whitcomb Family in Amer­ ica (Charlotte Whitcomb, Minneapolis, Minn., 1904) the English fore-line of the family is known in Great Britain but was not included among the present data by the compiler. John Whetcombe may have come to America with John Winthrop in the ship, Arabella; apparently he came from busi­ ness rather than religious impulses, for he did not join the church until 1635. He was a property-holder in Dorchester, across from Boston, in 1633. He removed to Scituate in 1640, was given a land grant and presently was the Constable ( the modern Sheriff) of that community. In 1654 he moved on again to Lancaster. He was, says the annal, "much given to the buying and selling of land." He died at Lancaster on 24 September, 1662. In England he had married his wife, Frances (family name unknown), and his eldest son, John, was born in England. His wife survived him, as 1s shown by the legal appraisal of his 300 acre property in her favor.

Robert Whetcombe, son of John and Frances (---) Whetcombe, was born about 1634 at either Dorchester or Scituate, Mass. He remained at Scituate when his father moved on to Lancaster, Mass., and he changed the spelling of the family name to Whitcomb. Young Robert was a strong­ headed, or stubborn, man who got himself into trouble with the authorities on affairs of romance and religion but who ended by conforming philo­ sophically. John, his father and the first Whitcomb in America, a restless sort, decided in 1654, when Robert was 20 years old, to remove from Scituate to Lancaster and to allow Robert to remain at Scituate, where an elder sister already had married. He took his first son, John, with him and deeded the Scituate property of 108 acres to Robert, also a share in the valuable Gonihasset Grant. The matter has the aspect of a solemn separation of the family group. It never re-assembled. The Lancaster line died out in three generations. Religion may have been at the bottom of the family division, for this was the time of the second, and more serious, schism between the Puritans and the Quakers. Robert was either minded toward Quakerism or else was influenced to it by Mary Cudworth, who Paternal Ancestry of Mi"ldred Sisson King 197 was the daughter of James Cudworth, Commissioner of the United Colonies of Boston and Plymouth from 1650 to 1657, when he resigned because he was unwilling to sign the decree of persecution against the Quakers. No­ w here, however, has the compiler found any evidence that James Cudworth became a Quaker himself or was more than tolerant and just to that sect; his later official career, in fact, is proof that his church membership was unbroken. The open question is whether Robert Whitcomb or Mary Cud­ worth joined the Quakers; one of them did. The fact is that they ran away toward Rhode Island early in 1660 and married themselves by a Quaker ceremony, which consisted in the taking of each other as husband and wife in the presence of Quaker witnesses, a rite that was not recognized as a genuine marriage by the Plymouth Congregation. Moreover in Scituate such a ceremony was no marriage at all ; the fugitives were pursued and seized, the marriage was declared illegal and Robert was tried and sen­ tenced to pay a fine of f IO and to be imprisoned "during the pleasure of the Court." However much the young people may have had the sympathy of James Cudworth at this time, he was unable to help them, being already himself in disfavor for friendliness to the Quakers. But both Robert and Mary, "being desirous to bee orderly married," the penalties were lifted and, as the Court record reads, "they accordingly were married this 9th. day of March, 1660." The bride and groom then rejoined the church; and they lived thenceforth in peace but perhaps less interestingly. Robert grew in wealth and established an estate to which he gave the name of Beech­ wood. Mary Cudworth was born on 23 July, 1637, at Plymouth, Mass.; she was an only daughter and evidently her father's favorite, for he willed the balance of his property to her children. Robert and Mary had several children besides James, below.

James Whitcomb, son of Robert and Mary (Cudworth) Whitcomb, was born in 1668 at Scituate, Mass. and died on 26 June, 1728 at Rochester, Mass. He married Mary Parker, who died at Rochester, Mass., on 30 November, 1729. James Whitcomb removed from Scituate first to Hard­ wick, Mass. and then to Rochester, Mass. He and his wife had a son, James.

James Whitcomb, Jr., son of James and Mary (Parker) Whitcomb, was born on 2 August, 1697, either at Hardwick or Rochester, Mass., probably the latter. He married Sarah Lincoln of Hardwick, widow of Thomas Lincoln and daughter of Edward Winslow. He died on 16 November, 1763 at Rochester, Mass., leaving a son, Scottoway.

Scottoway Whitcomb, son of James and Sarah (Winslow) Whitcomb, was born on 18 June, 1739, at Rochester, Mass. He had three years of active Paternal Ancestry of Mildred Sisson King service in the Revolution, first as Ensign in Captain Isaac Bolster's Com­ pany of the Third Regiment of Continentals, Colonel Ebenezer Learned commanding, in 1776; then as a Lieutenant in Captain Joel Green's Company of Colonel Ezra Wood's Regiment of Massachusetts Militia from 1778 through 1779. "Scottoway Whitcomb: Quartermaster; regi­ mental pay abstract of Col. Danforth Keyes regiment, made up from Dec. 1, 1777, to end of service, including travel allowance home; also muster roll of field and staff officers of Col. Danforth Keyes' regt., dated Provi­ dence, Dec. 22, 1776; appointed June 27, 1777; term 6 months from July I, 1777; also Lieutenant, Capt. Joel Green's Company, Col. Ezra Wood's Regt.; engaged June r, 1778; discharged Jan. 31, 1779; service 8 mo.s, 8 days, at Peekskill and White Plains, including 8 days ( 16o miles) travel home; regiment raised for 8 months." The words, also, are underscored in the record, indicating two, or possibly three, periods of service. (Massachu­ setts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War, a Compilation from the Archives Prepared and Published by the Secretary of the Common­ wealth, Wright and Potter Printing Co., State Printers, Boston, 1908; Vol. XVII, p. 36). In 1788 he was Assessor in Granville N. Y.; after the war he had re­ moved first to Western, Mass. and then to Granville, N. Y. As a Revolu­ tionary soldier he received a New York grant of land and was an upstanding man in the community. The name of his wife in unknown; by her he had a son, Pliny. Scottoway Whitcomb died at Granville, N. Y., on 28 July, 1812.

Pliny Whitcomb, son of Scottoway and --- Whitcomb, was born 7 March, 1775, either at Western, Mass. or at Rochester, Mass., in the latter case removing with his father first to Western, Mass. and then to Granville, N. Y., where he died on 1 August, 1858, aged 83 years. Accord­ ing to The Whitcomb Family in America, op. cit., "he was a farmer and a speculator," so that his son came naturally by the latter trait. He was married twice but had no children by his first wife ; his second wife was Margeret Knapp and by her he had a son, Truman.

Truman Whitcomb, son of Pliny and Margeret (Knapp) Whitcomb, was born on 30 May, 18ro, at Granville, N. Y., and died in 1878 at Boulder, Colo. On 30 May, 1830, he married Lura Dibble at Granville, N. Y. who was born on 25 January, 1813, and died at Rosendale, Wisc., 1854; they had three children, Orlen Pliny, Pamelia and another daughter who died in early life. The book entry of Truman Whitcomb is: "He was a miner at Pike's Peak and Leadville, Colorado. He owned the Red Cloud and Cold Spring mines. He died at Boulder. His estate was appraised at Paternal Ancestry of Mildred Sisson King 199 $180,000. He was a man of great energy and decision. His wife died at Granville, N. Y.," the last statement being in error, as she died at Rosen­ dale, Wisc., where she is buried. The circumstances, however, concerning both Truman Whitcomb and his wife were purposely shrouded in obscurity by the family. If Truman Whitcomb was "a man of energy and decision," his actions appear also to have been self-centered and they certainly brought tragedy to two generations of his family. But "because," says the compiler, "I know that (my) great-uncle, Orlen, would not judge him, I also do not do so,'' The son, Orlen, (the compiler has a transcription of his short-hand notes) protected his father for more than a score of years, withholding knowledge even from his mother until his father's death. The facts, or some of them, are these. Truman Whitcomb was too adventurous to be a farmer. He set out with a settler group from New York State in the early 184o's, along with his wife and family, to take up lands in Wisconsin. The trip had been by the Erie Canal to Buffalo, N. Y., then by lake boat to Detroit and by wagons afterwards. Either before they reached Chicago or at Chicago Truman Whitcomb disappeared. His wife and daughter never saw him afterwards; but his son did, twelve or thirteen years later for the first time since he had vanished. His wife, believing him dead, re­ married, her second husband ( as she thought him to be) being Walter Kenyon ; and by him she had other children. The compiler knew one of these sons, his half-great-uncle, well; he was Moses Kenyon who, like his half-brother, was a State Auditor of Minnesota. In the 185o's the first son, Orlen Whitcomb, learned that his father was alive, met him in Chicago and kept track of him afterwards ; but he held his tongue in order to keep his mother from pain and harm. She died in 1854 but Orlen Whitcomb still kept silent; he was one of the most reticent of men. According to the Whitcomb record, Orlen Whitcomb "removed from Granville, N. Y., to Wisconsin in 1845" (note: when he was 14 years old). "Educated at Appleton, Wisc. Removed to Rochester, Olmstead County, Minnesota, in 1855. Was County Treasurer, Olmstead County, 1861-1869, member of the Educational Board of Commissioners in Rochester, 1866-1868, President of the State Agricultural Society for three years, State Auditor from 1873 to 1882. His barn and part of his house was destroyed in the great cyclone of 21 August, 1883." (at Rochester.) "He died on 7 February, 1898, at Mankato, Minn. He was a man of fine character, a respected citizen and a useful and trusted official of Minnesota. No children." He deserved the tribute. He was one of the builders of Minnesota. To the compiler he was an awesome, remote but benevolent great-uncle. He was short but so digni­ fied that he seemed tall. He wore a frock coat and high hat and carried a silver-headed cane. A slight droop of his right eyelid made him appear sterner than he was. In a day when many men were bearded, he grew only 200 Paternal Ancestry of Mildred Sisson King a moustache, gray and rather straggly. (The statement about the cyclone is an error. Orlen Whitcomb was not at Rochester then but in St. Paul at that time. The compiler's father and his family were living on one of the Whitcomb farms, a mile out of Rochester; and they were in the cyclone. The house went out over their heads, while all of them except the father and the son, Leon, were in the cellar. Leon was blown from his crib into the storm ; the father was trying to close a door and was blown back into the only corner of the room that was left when the wind passed. He followed the path of the cyclone then and found Leon, naked and black but not much hurt, several hundred feet away. The cyclone date, the compiler thinks, was 23 August, not 21 August.) The compiler's great-uncle, Orlen, believed himself wealthy until he realized that he was property-poor. His father's death had brought to him and his sister the silver mine fortune, as it was considered. He was Executor of his father's estate and he told his sister that she was wealthy at the same time that he told her that her father had long lived in Colorado and was now dead. Orlen Piney Whit­ comb, who died without issue although twice married, was born on 18 December, 1831, at Granville, N. Y., and died on 7 February, 1898, at Mankato, Minn.

Pamelia Whitcomb, daughter of Truman and Lura (Dibble) Whitcomb, was born on 12 July, 1833, at Granville, N. Y., and died on IO April, 1920, at Ripon, Wisc. She married Asa Sisson, aforesaid. With her inheritance (see Orlen, her brother, above) she took her husband, Asa Sisson, from the Rosendale farm, bought a house in Ripon, Wisc., and lived comfortably until her death in 1920, when she was 87 years of age, her husband having died in 1899. She lost most of her money and her brother did, also, for they joined their capital to retimber the mines and the bottom dropped out of the silver market while they were at the job. The money came out of the ground and it went back there. It is doubtful whether she cared much about the outcome, except for what benefit might have come to her children. She raised seven sons and daughters and, after they were grown, she was an active helper of Frances Willard in the organization of the W.C.T.U. She was often at the Temple headquarters; she was a serene, religious woman, having her father's decision of character but in her it ran in a quieter stream.

REFERENCES Memoirs of Plymouth Francis, Baylies, Wiggin and Lunt, Boston, 1886. History of the Town of Plymouth, William T. Davis, J. W. Lewis and Co., Phila., Pa., 1885. The Whitcomb Family in America, Charlotte Whitcomb, Minneapolis, Minn., 1904. Pa.ternal Ancestry of Mildred Sisson King 201 Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolutionary War, Boston, 1908; Vol. XVII, p. 36. Register of the Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. (In the Whit­ comb record the name, Orlen, appears as Orlan, but this is not the Sisson tradition; ibid., Permelia is an error for Pamelia)

CUDWORTH ( allied with Whitcomb)

James Cudworth, the emigrant, was a man good enough to be the first American ancestor of any family. It is to be desired that the memory of his sturdiness and fairness be not lost and to be hoped that it has continued and will continue in the breed. He was born in England, probably at Lon­ don, in the first decade of the Seventeenth Century. He was educated both for arms and the law. He was one of the three signers, as witnesses, in London in 1629 of the new Patent issued to William Bradford and his associates of the Plymouth Colony, his fellow-signers being William Oark_e and Nathaniel Morton. Whether he came from Plymouth with Commis­ sioner Allerton- for these negotiations or was still in London. at the time, is not apparent from the records. On account of his youth, for he could not have been more than 25 years old, it is likely that he had not then been to America and that he emigrated soon afterwards in consequence of the transactions in which he had participated. His name is not on the original list of Plymouth Freemen ( members of the General Court), compiled soon after the original settlement in 1620 but it is on the first added list, com­ piled either in 1630 or a little later, at any rate before 1633. From the time his name appears, and for nearly fifty years thereafter, he was an important member of the Colony. He removed a short distance away from Plymouth, Mass., to Scituate, Mass., in 1634, and was a Freeman of Scituate in that year. In 1638 he was granted land at Seipican (now Rochester, Mass.) but returned soon to Scituate. He was the Scituate Deputy to the Plymouth Court for several years and was also an officer in the colonial military force, first Captain and later Major. He was a friend and associate of Miles Stand­ ish and a witness to the latter's Will. His last year as Scituate Deputy was 1649. The following year, 1650, he became one of the two Commis­ sioners of the Plymouth Colony to the United Colonies of Plymouth and Boston. The session of the Commissioners was held at Boston once a year and in the interval the Commissioners sat as Magistrates in their com­ munities. The officials, though named annually, were rarely changed. Middle-aged and securely placed, Commissioner Cudworth apparently was rounding out his career. So it seemed for seven years, until 1657. In that year Puritan feeling burst out again against the Quakers. The Pilgrims at 202 Paternal Ancestry of Mildred Sisson King Plymouth were not as violent as their brethren at Boston but nevertheless looked upon Quakers as disturbers. The missionary spirit of the Quakers themselves was considerably to blame. They had their own settlement at Providence, R. I., whither Roger Williams had led them earlier but their missionaries came back continually to the older colonies, seeking converts. When they were expelled, they always sought to return. Plymouth was rather an exception, exiling few. But at their annual meeting at Boston on 12 September, 1657, the Commissioners of the United Colonies, in the majority, decided upon a general persecution and issued a manifesto con­ taining the order to the colonies "that you remove those Quakers that have been received and for the future prohibit their coming amongst you." James Cudworth would not sign the order. Says Baylies: "Mr. Cudworth, one of the Commissioners from Plymouth, dissented and refused to affix his signature." The next year, on 23 September, 1658, the Commissioners, not satisfied with the effect of the Manifesto, passed a new resolution against the Quakers, first of banishment and then of the death sentence, if they returned. James Cudworth had resigned as Commissioner and during the year he was tried and deprived of his honors as Magistrate and as military officer. Davis says: "James Cudworth, one of the Commissioners of the United Colonies from Plymouth, refused to sign the manifesto of the Commissioners warning the colonies of the dangers of the irruptions of the heretics within their jurisdiction and was tried as 'an opposer of the laws' and sentenced to be deprived of the freedom of the Commonwealth and to lose his military command. But," adds the historian, "the prosecu­ tion was not carried on by the Pilgrims and their heart and hand were not in it." Josias Quincy, also Commissioner from Plymouth, refused in 1658 to sign the second order but he was not forced from office and eventually, fifteen years later, in 1673, became Governor of Plymouth. One of his first acts was to call Cudworth, his old-time colleague, from retirement and to put him in high place. All these years Cudworth had lived quietly in Scituate, Mass. His own family, as we have seen from the story of Mary Cudworth and Robert Whitcomb, had become involved in the Quaker troubles. The indications are that his daughter had his sympathy and such support as he could give. The affair, however, probably isolated both families and Cudworth, too, was aging. Not only was his recall a surprise; to him but at first he resisted it, declining the military command offered him in a letter remarkable for its human tone. The request had been that he lead an expedition against the Dutch at New York. Early in 1673 he wrote: "Being persauded to myself of my own insufficiency, it appears clearly and indubitably to me that I have no call of God thereto, for vo:c populi is not always vo:c dei. My wife, as is well known to the whole town, is not only a weak woman and has been so all along but now by reason of her age, Paternal Ancestry of Mildred Sisson King 203 being 67 years and upwards and nature decaying, so her illness grows more strongly upon her; never a day passes but she is forced to rise at break of day or before; she cannot lay for want of breath; and when she is up, she cannot light a pipe of tobacco but it must be lighted for her and, until she has taken two or three pipes, for want of breath she is not able to stir." But the husband did not add the name of his wife to this picture, and the compiler has been unable to find it elsewhere. Governor Quincy accepted Cudworth's refusal; but almost immediately the colony forgot its quarrel with the Dutch and was faced with Indian warfare. Cudworth was sum­ moned again and took command of the colonial forces. Says Baylies: "Previous to the Indian war Cudworth had been elected Commandant or Major of the Colony. At the commencement of the war he received the title and office of General and was the chief Commander of the forces." The war lasted more than a year, 1675 and 1676, and was ended by King Philip's death. General Cudworth was elevated to the Deputy Governorship of Plymouth a year or so later, and was returned to the office in alternate years until 1781, the last year of his service in that post. Even then he could not escape further official duty and in 1782 was sent as Commissioner to London to plead for more liberty for the Colony. That service was his last ; he died in London of smallpox before the year was out, being then nearly 80 years of age. Besides his daughter, Mary, he left one son, James Cudworth, Jr., who died at Freetown, Mass., in 1720. That line dwindled and, the compiler believes, is now extinct, whereas the Whitcomb line en­ dured and increased, one branch of it being represented by the children and grandchildren of Edgar and Jane Dixon (Ladd) Sisson.

Mary Cudworth, daughter of James and --- Cudworth, was born at Scituate, Mass., on 23 July, 1637. On 9 March, 1660, she married Robert Whitcomb, aforesaid.

REFERENCES The History of Plymouth, William T. Davis. Contemporary Memoirs of Francis Baylies of Plymouth, Wiggin and Lunt, Boston, 1866; Vol. II, p,. 43, Vol. IV, p. 13. PART THREE

Ancestors of Reuben Learned

Learned. (see also Learned, allied with Leland, under Ancestry of Betsey Bridges in King-Paternal Line.)

William Learned, the emigrant ancestor, was born about 1590 in County Surrey, England, probably in Bermondsey Parish, where he grew up and married his wife, Goodith (Judith), of unknown family name. He lived there until 1630 or 1631 and there his son, Isaac, was born in 1623, as shown by the parish records. He brought his family to Boston in 1632 or possibly a year earlier, settling at Charlestown, Mass., across the Charles River from Boston. "He was admitted with Goodith, his wife, to the Charlestown Church on 6 October, 1632." He was given rank as a Freeman (member of the governing board of the community) in 1634. He removed to Woburn, Mass., in 1640, was named as a Selectman and was in office as such when he died, aged about 56, in 1646.

Isaac Learned, son of William and Judith_(---) Learned, was born on 25 February, 1623, at Bermondsey, County Surrey, England. He came with his parents to Boston and Charles-Town, Mass., when he was about eight years old, and removed with his father to Woburn, Mass., in 1640; he removed to Chelmsford, Mass., in 1652 and lived there to an old age. On 9 July, 1646, he married Mary Stearns, daughter of Isaac Stearns. (Editor's note: see also Stearns, allied with Learned, under Ancestry of Betsey Bridges in King-Paternal Line.)

Isaac Learned, Jr., son of Isaac and Mary (Stearns) Learned, was born on 16 September, 1655, at Chelmsford, Mass. He married Sarah Bigelow on 29 September, 1679. He was a soldier in Captain Davenport's Company in the Narragansett (Indian) fight and was there wounded. He was in Captain Sill's Company in 1675 (King Philip's War). He removed to Framingham, Mass. and was a land-owner there, Learned's Pond at Framingham being named for him. He was a Selectman of Framingham, Mass., from 1692 through 17u; and he died at Framingham, Mass., on 15 September, 1737, aged 82 years. Paternal Ancestry of Mildred Sisson King 205 Isaac Learned, "2nd.," the third of the name, son of Isaac and Sarah (Bigelow) Learned, was born on IO May, 1680, at Framingham, Mass. He married Sarah How of Framingham, Mass. ; three of their eleven children were born at Framingham, Mass., and the rest at Oxford, N. H., whither the family removed prior to 1690. He died at Oxford, N. H., on 20 May, 1753.

Josiah Learned, son of Isaac, 2nd., and Sarah (How) Learned, was born on 1 December, 1707, at Oxford, N. H. He married Katherine Rice on 31 January, 1730. He removed from Oxford, N. H., to New Salem, Mass. and died there on 28 January, 1793; both he and his wife are buried in Central Cemetery, New Salem, Mass. (Editor's note: see also Rice, allied with Brewer, under Ancestry of Betsey Bridges in King-Paternal Line, as this is almost certainly the same Rice family or a collateral branch thereof, of which we there treat).

Moses Learned, son of Josiah. and Katherine (Rice) Learned, was born on 29 August, 1740, at New Salem, Mass. He married Thankful Powers. His younger brother, Ezekiel Learned, was a Minute Man in the Lexington, Mass. fight on 19 April, 1775, and was also at Cambridge, Mass., as a member of Captain Nathan Hall's Cor.npany; he likewise took part in the assault on Fort Ticonderoga. (History of Rindge, N. H.). When Moses Learned was 62 years old, he removed to the earlier family home at Oxford, N. H., and died there on 18 December, 1823, aged 83 years; he is buried in Dame Hill Cemetery.

David Learned, son of Moses and Thankful (Powers) Learned, was born on 7 October, 1771, at New Salem, Mass. His wife was also from New Salem, Mass., but the compiler has been unable to ascertain her name. He removed from New Salem, Mass., to Oxford, N. H. in 1802. He died in 1856, aged 85 years.

Reuben Learned, son of David and --- Learned, was born about 18oz at Oxford, N. H. He married Nancy Clark Lovejoy in 1827 and removed to Wisconsin in 1847, settling in the vicinity of Fox Lake. He and his wife had twelve children, eleven of whom reached maturity and most of whom married and had families. He was a farmer on a large scale. His son, Monroe, became head of the family, established his brothers on different farms, induced his aging parents to make their home in the Vil­ lage of Fox Lake, Wisc., and made their life easy. The compiler, as a child, can recall Grandfather Learned as a tall old man, beginning to be bent 206 Paternal Ancestry of Mildred Sisson King with rheumatism but cheerful toward the world. He died at Fox Lake, Wisc. on I September, 1884. (Editor's note: data on the Learned family, compiled by Ella Daly King, assert that Reuben Learned died on 12 June, 1892). The compiler's small and active Grandmother Learned lived until 12 January, 1884, entertaining broods of grandchildren each year until the last. Besides Lucy, through whom the Sisson line descends, the children of Reuben Learned included: Adeline, who married H. H. Darling; Mon­ roe, who married Martha Robinson and whose descendants live ( 1934) at Waupun and Milwaukee, Wisc.; Amanda, who married S. M. William­ son of Milwaukee, Wisc. ; George, of whom the compiler knew nothing; Britann, who married J. S. Boynton and lived at Beaver Dam, Wisc.; Gratia, who did not marry and lived most of her life in the compiler's household, being his childhood nurse, and who died while he was at college, in 1894; Samuel, who was a pioneer in Dakota, where he married and had a son and who, in later life, removed to Hammond, La.; Luther, who did not marry; Eliza, who married William Wilkinson; and John, who was associated with his brother, Monroe.

Lucy Learned, daughter of Reuben and Nancy Clark (Lovejoy) Learned, was born on 28 October, 1848. This date is five years at variance with the compiler's family records, which give her date of birth as 28 October, 1853. (Editor's note: the latter date has probably been attributed to her incorrectly or through a confusion with the date of her husband's birth, which was 25 October, 1853.) By the dates of birth of her younger brother and sister in the same volume, it would appear that 28 October, 1848, is correct, and that accordingly she was nearly 79 years old when she died on 25 May, 1927. She was the tenth child of her parents. She lived with her husband on a farm at Alto Cross-roads, in Alto Township, Fond du Lac, Wisc., until 1882, when the family removed to Rochester, Minn. Her four eldest children, Edgar, Ralph, Arthur and Clarence, were born in Minnesota. The first Minnesota year was spent on a farm near Roches­ ter; the home afterwards was in the town of Rochester, Minn. until about 1909, when removal was made to Los Angeles, Cal. The last few years of her life were spent at Orange, Cal., with her children, Orlen and Maude. She closely resembled her own mother, weighing only about 90 lbs.; she was a tiny, keen and gentle person, of pioneer vitality. In December, 1874, she married Earl Truman Sisson, aforesaid.

REFERENCE The Learned Family, William Law Learned, Parsons Co., Albany, N. Y., 1898. PART FOUR

Ancestors of Nancy Clark Lovejoy

EDITOR'S NOTE: No data have been supplied by the compiler for this Line.

BOOK IV

The Maternal Ancestry of Mildred Sisson King

Compiled by Edgar Grant Sisson

(ARRANGED AND EDITED BY Charles Daly King, 1953)

PART ONE

Ancestors of Attilius Alexis Ladd

LADD The name of Ladd, brought to America by Daniel Ladd, who was one of the twelve founders of Haverhill, Mass., in 1633, is of Norse derivation. It means chief or ruler and was borne by a powerful family in the province of Trondjem; the heads of the house were the Earls of Ladd. During the reign of King Harold Fairhair, Norway was divided into provinces and the king placed over each province an earl whose duty was to defend it and whose office was military and administrative. The King gave to Hakon, the first Earl of Ladd, the Province of Trondjem as a reward for his services in subduing Ganlardal in 867 A.D. The king himself was closely connected with this family of earls, as he married Ase, daughter of Hakon. Earl Hakon II became King of Norway in 977, although he still retained his title of earl. His son, Eric, married a sister of Canute of Denmark and joined the Danes in their invasion of England. The Ladd family of an early English day was thus connected with the royal families of both Norway and Denmark. One branch descended in a line of Danish kings to the middle of the Fifteenth Century. The English family of Ladd prospered and multiplied; Daniel Ladd was one of the descendants of the Eric of the Danish invasion. The Ladd arms are: Argent, a fesse, between three scal­ lops, sable; crest--=in a cloud a crescent ensigned with a star, all between two palm branches in orle. Or in plainer reading: the shield carries three silver pheasants, set in a band between a pair of scallops above and a single scallop below; "from the sea to the land" might be the meaning. The crest, with the crescent, the star of Bethlehem and the palms, evidently was added by a Ladd who fought in the Crusades.

Daniel Ladd, the emigrant ancestor, was born in England, the exact date being unknown. He came to New England in 1633 in the ship, Mary and John, which arrived on 24 March. He settled at Ipswich, Mass., where it is recorded that 6 acres of land was granted to him in 1637. Later, about 1640, he removed to Haverhill, where he died on 27 July, 1693. His wife, Ann, maiden name unknown, died at Haverhill on 9 February, 1694.

Samuel Ladd, son of Daniel and Ann (---) Ladd, was born at Haverhill on 1 November, 1649, the fifth of their eight children. He married 2I2 Maternal Ancestry of Mildred Sisson King Mary Corliss of Haverhill in 1674. The date and place of his death are un­ known but it probably occurred at Haverhill.

John Ladd, son of Samuel and Mary (Corliss) Ladd, was born as their ninth child on 22 June, 1694. (Editor's note: in the data compiled by Ella Daly King the year is given as 1697.) On 17 October, 1707, he married Mary Merrill. The date and place of his death are unknown.

Timothy Ladd, son of John and Mary (Merrill) Ladd, was born on l November, 1719, the second of nine children. He married Lydia Marble on 12 November, 1740. The date and place of his death are unknown.

Eliphalet Ladd, son of Timothy and Mary (Merrill) Ladd, was born on 19 February, 1755, the sixth of nine children. He married Mary Park of Windham, N. H. on 13 May, 1778. The date and place of his death are unknown.

Joseph Park Ladd, son of Eliphalet and Mary (Park) Ladd, was born on 22 July, 1781, the second of nine children. He married Mehitable Towne on 26 July, 1808; and died on 4 February, 1830.

Attilius Alexis Ladd, son of Joseph Park and Mehitable (Towne) Ladd, was born on 6 December, 1815, the fourth of eight children. On 2 February, 1840, he married Jane Anderson Russ of Belfast, Maine, who was born on 3 February, 18n, and died at St. Louis, Mo., on 28 May, 1889. He died at St. Louis, Mo., in March, 1890.

Ralph Atticus Ladd, son of Attilius Alexis and Jane Anderson (Russ) Ladd, was born at St. Louis, Mo., on 15 August, 1846 and died at Chicago, Ill., on 13 September, 1913. He married Frances Tavennier, who was born on 6 June, 1846, while her family was moving from Leesburg, Va., to. Illinois; she was the daughter of John and Uree Carter (Drake) Tavennier. When he was fifteen years old, in 1861, Ralph tried to run away with his elder brother, John Ladd, and to join the Confederates as a drummer boy; John had to escape from St. Louis, having shot at the Federals, but after a few days of flight he sent his younger brother back home. After the war Ralph, like his brother, went into the tobacco business with the Lorillard Company. After 1883 he lived in Chicago to the end of his life. Not as tall as John Ladd, he was still six feet and one inch ; and was a fine looking man of gracious manners.

Jane Dixon ( otherwise known as Charles Dickens, Dick and Dixie) Ladd, daughter of Ralph Atticus and Frances (Tavennier) Ladd, was born Maternal Ancestry of Mildred Sisson King 213 at Detroit, Mich., on 20 September, 1876. She was an only child; and on 27 April, 1898, married Edgar Grant Sisson, aforesaid. They had two chil­ dren, Mildred Georgina and Edgar Grant, Jr., both born at Chicago, Ill., respectively on 7 February, 1899, and on 4 November, 1902. Mildred Georgina Sisson married Charles Daly King at Maplewood, N. J., on 23 October, 1923; she had one child, Valerie Daly King, born at Orange, N. J. on 12 October, 1934. Edgar Grant Sisson, Jr., on 30 June, 1929, married, first, Martha Kainula, daughter of Andrew and Katherine Kainula; she was born on 24 May, 1905, at Kuopio, District of Savo, Finland; they had two children, John Ladd Sisson, born 17 April, 1930, at New York City, and Andrea Sisson, born at Montclair, N. J. on 19 December, 1936. Edgar Grant Sisson, Jr., and Martha (Kainula) Sisson were divorced in 1942; and he married, second, Elizabeth Rice in August, 1942; she was the di­ vorced wife of Edward Howard, by whom she had one daughter, Mary Lowe Howard, born in January, 1930.

REFERENCES The .Ladd Genealogy. Private papers of Jane Dixon (Ladd) Sisson. Personal knowledge of the editor, Charles Daly King.

The peculiarity of the Ladd Line is that nine generations of it com­ passed ten generations of the other lines of the family; children born to parents late in life in several generations is the explanation. The family centered in Massachusetts until after the Revolution: Eliphalet Ladd was the first to go to Maine; Attilius Ladd was the first to go to the west-to St. Louis, Mo.

Index of the Ladd Line

The First Generation in America: Daniel Ladd No. 1 in the Ladd Genealogy The Second Generation in America: Samuel Ladd No. 6 in the Ladd Genealogy The Third Generation in America : John Ladd No. 18 in the Ladd Genealogy The Fourth Generation in America : Timothy Ladd No. 67 in the Ladd Genealogy The Fifth Generation in America: Eliphalet Ladd No. 231 in the Ladd Genealogy The Sixth Generation in America : Joseph Park Ladd No. 1492 in the Ladd Genealogy The Seventh Generation in America: Attilius Alexis Ladd No. 1857 in the Ladd Genealogy The Eighth Generation in America: Ralph Atticus Ladd No. 2g69 in the Ladd Genealogy The Ninth Generation in America: Jane Dixon Ladd No. 37 43 in the Ladd Genealogy The Tenth Generation in America: Mildred Georgina ( Sisson) King in this Line The Eleventh Generation in America: Valerie Daly King in this Line 214 Maternal Ancestry of Mildred Sisson King

Note on John Albert Ladd, elder brother of Ralph Atticus Ladd John Albert Ladd, the great-uncle for whom John Ladd Sisson was named, was the elder brother of Ralph A. Ladd, father of Dixie Ladd Sis­ son ; and was the first child of Attilius Alexis Ladd and Jane Anderson (Russ) Ladd. During the first year of the Civil War John Ladd discharged a shot or shots into the ranks of the Union German Home Guard Regiment of St. Louis under the command of General Lyon. He escaped to Little Rock, Arkansas, and there met Captain Dick Ashby ( who had just resigned his commission in the United States Army.) He went with Ashby to the latter's home in Virginia, was proposed by Ashby and by ballot admitted to the Black Horse Cavalry, commanded by General Turner Ashby. In one of the first skirmishes in Virginia with Wallace's Zouaves Dick Ashby, who had been commissioned Colonel Ashby, was killed; and John Ladd, himself shot through the arm, carried Ashby's body off the field. John Ladd lived at General Turner Ashby's home in Farquier County, Vir­ ginia, for six months during his convalescence. In that interval he fought a duel ( with his right arm in a sling) with Edward Marshall, grandson of Chief Justice Marshall. Later he received a furlough for one year from General Stonewall Jackson, approved by General Robert E. Lee, granting him permission to visit friends in the Western Army. He remained in the West. After passing an examination he was made Lieutenant in the Sixth Missouri Confederate Regiment of Infantry. The regiment was stationed some distance north of Vicksburg. He volunteered to go on the Arkansas, the armored ram that ran the federal batteries before Vicksburg in 1863. As the siege of Vicksburg advanced, his regiment was in the defending force of Fort Hill. John Ladd was in command at Fort Hill when it was blown up by Grant's army. He was badly wounded, taken prisoner and, during convalescence, was sent under parole to Lauderdale, Mississippi. He was exchanged presently and rejoined the southern forces. He was taken prisoner again while he and his men were tearing up railroad tracks outside Atlanta in an effort to delay General Sherman's advance. That was the end of the War for him. He was taken north and confined as a prisoner of war at Johnson's Island near Sandusky, Ohio. From this prison he was pardoned by Abraham Lincoln for "all crimes and misdemeanors" and sent in 1865 to his home in St. Louis. He was then about 2 5 years old. He was six feet, four inches in height and in maturity weighed 250 pounds, a big, agile and handsome man, without appearance of fleshiness. He was representative of the P. Lorillard Tobacco Company in St. Louis Maternal Ancestry of Mildred Sisson King 215 throughout the balance of his life and was particularly popular with the Germans into whose ranks he had fired as a boy. On his death in 1896 he was given the next largest funeral that ever had been held in St. Louis ; the largest had been in honor of General Sherman, five years before. The Confederate Veterans and the Union Veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic joined in escort of his body. He was high in Masonry, 33rd. Degree, and was buried with its ritual. Lieutenant Ladd married Pelagie Berthold, a member of an old French family of St. Louis. One son, Pierre Berthold Ladd, was born. When grown, the latter married Edwina Bixby, daughter of Captain Bixby, a Mississippi River steamboat captain who was a friend of Mark Twain. Pierre Berthold Ladd had a short life, dying prematurely of yellow fever at Panama. He had no son. John Albert Ladd is buried in the Catholic Cemetery at St. Louis, in his wife's plot. She was a Roman Catholic ; he was not. His parents ( father and mother of Ralph A. Ladd as well) are buried in Bellefontaine Ceme­ tery, St. Louis. Ralph A. Ladd and Frances, his wife, are buried in the Edgar G. Sisson lot at Rose Hill Cemetery, Chicago.-Edgar G. Sisson, Dec., 16, 1934, Montclair, N. J. PART TWO

Ancestors of Jane Anderson Russ

RUSS (RUST) Henry Rust, the founder of the American family, came from Hingham in Norfolk County, England, in 1633 or 1634 with a group of eight or ten families from his native town. They founded Hingham, Mass. Henry Rust received land from the town in 1635; and as movements outward from Boston were not immediate, the colony certainly came over earlier, a year earlier at least, possibly two or three years earlier. Henry Rust also held property in Boston, spent his later life in that city and died there in 1684 or 1685, as shown by land conveyances in the latter year referring to him as recently deceased, also by property divisions at the same time. The name of his wife is not known.

Nathaniel Rust, son of Henry and --- Rust, was baptized at Hing­ ham, Mass., on 2 February, 1639, and probably had been born a few weeks earlier. He removed to Ipswich, Mass., in early manhood and was a glover or maker of gloves, as was his son, Joseph. He died at Ipswich, Mass., on 23 December, 1713. (Editor's note: in the data compiled by Ella Daly King his date of death is given as 3 December, 1713.) He married Mary Wardell of Ipswich, Mass.

Joseph Rust, son of Nathaniel and Mary (Wardell) Rust, was born at Ipswich, Mass., on 16 March, 1667. When he was 17 years old, he married Joanna Kinsman, who was 19 years old, born on 25 April, 1665; the date of their marriage was 22 February, 1684. He was a Lieutenant in the Colonial Militia and fought against the French in Canada in 1690. Like his father he was a glover and prosperous. He died at Chebacco, Mass., on 9 Septem­ ber, 1711; his wife died on 28 January, 1733.

Joseph Rust, Jr., son of Joseph and Joanna (Kinsman) Rust, was born on 22 March, 1696, at Ipswich, Mass. He married Rachel Choate, daughter of Governor Thomas and Mary (Varney) Choate. He died when only 38 years old on 3 February, 1734; and his widow later married, second, Isaac Martin. Joseph Rust, Jr., was an inn keeper and farmer at Chebacco, Mass. Maternal Ancestry of Mildred Sisson King 217 Joseph Rust, 3rd., son of Joseph and Mary (Choate) Rust, was born on 14 October, 1728, at Chebacco, Mass. He married Mary Eveleth. He died at Ipswich, Mass., in 1771; his widow later married the Reverend Paul Park and lived to the unusual age of rr5 years and 5 months.

Joseph Rust, 4th., son of Joseph, 3rd., and Mary (Eveleth) Rust, was born at Ipswich, Mass., in 1749. He removed to Booth Bay, Maine, where he married Mary Reed about 1767. He was a Revolutionary soldier, prob­ ably in a New Hampshire regiment, in which many Maine men served. He died at Wiscasset, Maine, on 24 October, 1844, aged 95 years.

John Russ, son of Joseph, 4th. and Mary (Reed) Russ, was born at Nobelesboro, Maine, in 1768. He changed the spelling of the family name from Rust to Russ. He married Sally Ulmer, daughter of General George and Mary (Anderson) Ulmer; her father served in the Revolutionary War. John Russ was a shipbuilder at Belfast, Maine, and served in the War of 1812 with the rank of Major; when the war broke out, he left a new brig, just finished, at its dock, mustered the men of his townsfolk and set off for the conflict. He was a man of "great physical strength but mild temper." He died on 18 June, 1857, at Belfast, Maine.

Jane Anderson Russ, daughter of Major John and Mary (Anderson) Russ, was born at Belfast, Maine, on 3 February, 18II, as the eighth child of her parents. She died at St. Louis, Mo., on 28 May, 1889. On 2 Feb­ ruary, 1840, she married Attilius Alexis Ladd, aforesaid. Her husband, a lumber mill owner, was active in the business life of St. Louis, as was she in its social life, where she was much respected.

REFERENCES The Record of the Rust Family, Albert D. Rust, 1891. Register of the General Society of Colonial Dames. Register of the Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. CHOATE ( allied with Russ) Thomas Choate was one of the early Governors of Massachusetts. He married Mary Varney. No other details concerning him have been ascer­ tained by the compiler.

Rachel Choate, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Varney) Choate, mar­ ried James Rust, Jr., aforesaid, son of Joseph and Joanna (Kinsman) Rust. He died when he was only 38 years old and his wife, Rachel (Choate) Rust, Jr., subsequently married, second, Isaac Martin. PART THREE

Ancestors of John T avennier

TAVENNIER John Tavennier of Leesburg, Loudon County, Va. married Uree Carter Drake, also of Virginia, daughter of Jacob and Sarah (Carter) Drake. He later removed to Illinois.

Frances Tavennier, daughter of John and Uree Carter (Drake) Taven­ nier, was born on 6 June, r846, while her family was in transit from Lees­ burg, Va. to Illinois. She married, first, Walter Rutherford and had by him a child who died in early life. Her first husband also died and she married, second, Ralph Atticus Ladd, aforesaid, although she was still in her twen­ ties at the time of her second marriage. Her hair was prematurely grey, due to shock at the sudden death from meningitis of her first child and also, no doubt, by reason of her first husband's unexpected death. She had the reputation of being a charming and capable woman. The data respecting the Tavennier Line prior to, and fully including, John Tavennier, above, have not been compiled. PART FOUR

Ancestors of U ree Carter Drake

DRAKE Jacob Drake of Loudon County, Va., married Sarah Carter, also of Vir­ ginia. He was a commissioned officer in the service of the United States during the War of 1812 and died in camp during that conflict. His daugh­ ter was U ree Carter Drake.

Uree Carter Drake, daughter of Jacob and Sarah (Carter) Drake, mar­ ried John Tavennier, aforesaid. Her daughter was Frances Tavennier, who· married Ralph Atticus Ladd, aforesaid. The data respecting the Drake Line prior to, and fully including, Jacob Drake, above, have not been compiled. 220 Maternal Ancestry of Mildred Sisson King Maternal Ancestry of Mildred Sisson King 221 222 Maternal Ancestry of Mildred Sisson King

CARTER ( allied with Drake) Sarah Carter of Virginia married Jacob Drake of Loudon County in the same State. Their daughter was Uree Carter Drake, who married John Tavennier, aforesaid and by him had a daughter, Frances Tavennier, who married Ralph Atticus Ladd, aforesaid. The data respecting the Carter Line prior to Sarah Carter, above, have not been compiled.

APPENDIX

Colonial Ancestors of v AL ERIE o AL Y K ING with Service

N.B.: entries marked * are registered with the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of New Jersey.

KING, HOLBROOK AND ALLIED FAMILIES Brewer, John, 1642-1691; Sudbury, Mass., suffered great damage from the Indians, 21 April, 1676. *Fairbanks, George, 1619-1682; Sherborn, Mass., Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, 1644. *Godfrey, Richard, 1631-1691; Garrison man, King Philip's War. Holbrook, Thomas, Sr., 1601-1677; Braintree, Mass., Highway Commis­ sioner, Selectman, 1645-1646, 1651-1652. *Holbrook, Thomas, Jr., 1624-1697; Braintree, Mass., Representative, 1645-1652. *Larkin, Edward, ?-1652; Charlestown, Mass., Ancient and Honorable Ar­ tillery Company, 1645, *Learned, Benoni, 1657-1738; Sherborn, Mass., Deputy, 1701; King Philip's War. Newton, Richard, 1601-1701; Marlboro, Mass., King Philip's War. *Prescott, John, 1604~1681; Lancaster, Mass., Garrison man. *Pool, Joseph, ?-1676; Captain Wadsworth's Company, King Philip's War. *Rice, Edmund, 1594-1663; Sudbury, Mass., Deputy. *Rice, Henry, 1617-17n; Sudbury, Mass., Corporal. *Rugg, John, ?-1697; Lancaster, Mass., Garrison man, 1675. *Wright, Captain Edward, ?-1703; Sudbury, Mass., King Philip's War.

BOTTSFORD, DEMING AND ALLIED FAMILIES *Botsford, Henry, 1610-1686; Corporal, Expedition against the Dutch, 1654; a Founder of Milford, Conn. *Clark, John, 1608-1712; Saybrook, Conn., Pequot War. Deming, John, 1615-1705; Wethersfield, Conn., Representative, 1649- 1661. *Dudley, William, 1639-1710; Saybrook, Conn., Deputy, 1682, 1685, 1687, 1692, 1695. *Dudley, Lieutenant Joseph, 1674-1743; Saybrook, Conn., Ensign and Lieutenant. *Granger, Launcelot, ?-1689; King Philip's War. 226 Appendi% *Gunn, Dr. Jasper, 1610-1671; Milford, Conn., Deputy, 1663. Lothrop, Rev. John, 1584-1653; Barnstable, Mass., Military Company. *Lothrop, Judge Samuel, 1620-1700; Barnstable, Mass., Military Com­ pany, 1643; Expedition against Ninigret, 1654; relief of Uncas under Lieutenant Avery. *Kirby, John, 1624-1677; Middletown, Hartford and Wethersfield, Conn., Military Company. *Perkins, John, 1590-1654: Ipswich, Mass., Sergeant, Allied English and Friendly Indians under Masconoma in war with Tarratine, 1631. *Perkins, Jacob, 1624-1701; Sergeant, Ipswich, Mass., Military Company. *Pomeroy, Medad, 1638-1716; Northampton, Mass., Deputy, 1677 et seq.; in Falls fight. *Pomeroy, Joseph, 1672-1712; Northampton, Mass., Corporal, Military Company; French and Indian War; King William's War; engagement at Deerfield, 1696. *Pratt, William, 1622-1678; Saybrook, Conn., Lieutenant, Pequot War; Council of War, 1664; Deputy, 1666 et seq. *Pratt, John, 1644-1726; Saybrook, Conn., Ensign and Deputy. Rowe, Hugh, 1645-1689; King Philip's War. Seymour, Captain Richard, 1596-1655; Hartford and Farmington, Conn.; Fort Seymour, Kensington. *Seymour, Captain Richard, Jr., ?-1710; Fort Seymour, Kensington. *Treat, Hon. Richard, 1584-1669; Deputy, 1637-1644; Assistant Deputy, 1657-1665; Governor Winthrop's Council, 1663-1665. *Woodward, Henry, ?-1683; Dorchester and Northampton, Mass., 1663; Quartermaster, Hampshire Troop. Reference: Register of the Society of Colonial Wars.

DEALING, BERRY AND ALLIED FAMILIES *Banta, Derrick, 1657-(after 1717); Bergen, N. J. Militia, Lieutenant; Patentee of Acquackenock, 28 May, 1679. Authorities: History of Bergen County, Van Valen; A Frisian Family, the Banta Genealogy, Theodore M. Banta, 1893; Schraalenburg Dutch Church records. *Berry, John, ?-1713 or 1714; New Jersey, Member of the Governor's Council, 1670-1673; 168o-1692; Acting Governor of New Jersey, 1672-1673, appointed by Sir Philip Carteret and confirmed by Letter from the King; Member of the Colonial Assembly; Justice of Bergen County, 1683; Captain and Major, Colonial Militia, 1671-1685; Com­ mander of the Bergen Rangers, 1683; President of the Bergen Court of Judicature, 1673; President of the County Court, 1677-1679. Appendi% Authorities: History of Hudson and Bergen Counties, Harvey; Life of John Berry, Deputy Governor of New Jersey and his Fam- ily, T. H. Edsall; New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol. 15, pp. 50-54; Hackensack Dutch Church Records, Part I, pp. 29-ro3, Part II, p. 26; Trinity Church, N. Y., Records, Vol. I, p. ro6, Vol. 3, p. 91; Methodist Episcopal Church, N. Y., Records, Vol. 21, p. 30 (Genea- logical Society, N. Y.) *Smith, Michael, ?-1685; first High Sheriff of Bergen County, N. J., 1683; Lieutenant, Colonial Militia ( Bergen Foot), commissioned, 22 June, 1677. Authorities: Life of J o4n Berry, Deputy Governor of New Jersey and his Family, T >1'{. Edsall; New York Gert~alogical and Biographical Record, Vol. II, pp. 52-54 . ." BOURDETTE, EARtE-AND ALLIED FAMILIES *Earle, Edward, Jr., ?-1729 or 1730; Tax Commissioner, Bergen County, N. J., 1693; Member of the House of Deputies for East Jersey, 1695. Authorities: History of Bergen and Hudson Counties, Harvey; New York Dutch Church records. Van der Beek, Paulus, ?-1680; Delegate from Brooklyn to the Conven­ tion in New Amsterdam, 1653; Patentee of Brooklyn, named in Char­ ter granted by Governor Nichols, 1667. Authorities: Southern Families of New York, Lewis Publ. Co. Register of the Society of Colonial Dames in the State of New York, p. 400. Vreeland, Michael Jansen, 1610-1663; Member ·of the Representative Body of Nieuw Netherlands known as the Nine Men, 1647-1652; Signer of the first Application to the States General for a Municipal Government in Nieuw Amsterdam; one of the first Magistrates ap­ pointed for the Court of Bergen, N. J. *Vreeland, Enoch Michaelson, 1649-1714; Member of the General Assem­ bly, 1675-1688, 1707-1709; Ensign of the Bergen, N. J., Militia, com­ missioned 4 July, 1681; Associate Judge of the Court of Bergen, 1672- 1674, 1681-1683; Commissioner of Highways for Bergen County, 1682-1692; Associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, 1705. Authorities (for both Vreeland, above) : History and Genealogy of the Vreeland Family, Nicholas Garretsen Vree- land; New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol. 9, pp. 62 ff; History of Bergen and Hudson Counties, Harvey; New York Dutch Church records ; Hackensack, N. J., Dutch Church records; Register of the Society of Colonial Dames in the State of New York, p. 405. 228 Appendix

SISSON, HATHAWAY AND ALLIED FAMILIES Cook, Francis and Hester: Mayflower, r620. Cook, John: Mayflower, r62o. Warren, Richard: Mayflower, 1620.

WHITCOMB, CUDWORTH AND ALLIED FAMILIES Cudworth, James, 171 ?-1782; Scituate, Mass., Deputy to the Plymouth Court, 1647-1649; Captain, later Major, Colonial Militia; Commis­ sioner for the Plymouth Colony to the United Colonies of Plymouth and Boston, 1650-1657; General commanding the Plymouth forces in King Philip's War, 1675-1676; Deputy Governor of Plymouth Colony, 1679, 1681. Authorities: History of Plymouth, Davis; Contemporary Memoirs of Frances Baylies of Plymouth, Mass.

LEARNED AND ALLIED FAMILIES Learned, Isaac, Jr., 1655-1737; Captain Davenport's Company, engage­ ment against the Indians at Naragansett; Captain Sill's Company, King Philip's War, 1675. Authority: The Learned Family, W. L. Learned, 1898.

RUSS, CHOATE AND ALLIED FAMILIES Choate, Thomas; Governor of Massachusetts. Rust, Joseph, Sr., 1667-17II; Lieutenant, Colonial Militia, war against the French in Canada, 1690. Authority: Register of the General Society of Colonial Dames. Revolutionary Ancestors of v ALER IE o ALY KING with Service

Bloomer, William, 1749-1824; Revolutionary Militia-Fifth Regiment, Colonel Lewis Dubois; Third Regiment, Colonel Allison; Fourth Regi­ ment; also served in an Independent Command. Authority:_ New York Men in the Revolution, 2nd Edition, Roberts. Bourdette, Peter, 1735-1826; donated land for the fort and assisted m building the fortifications at Fort Lee, N. J. Bourdette, Rachel (Bosch), 1743-1829; assisted her husband in above ac­ tivities and offered her home as headquarters of General Washington at this period; named a "Patriot of the Revolution." Authorities (for both Bourdette, above) : General Register of the Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution; Article on the Village of Fort Lee, Edward M. Dixon, M.D., The Scalpel, Vol. 6, pp. 502 ff. Bridges, Hackeliah, Jr., 1737-?; Colonel Cushing's Regiment. Deming, John, 1728-1790; Private, Captain Moses Saule's Company. Authority: Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors.

Deming, Andrew, 1761-1828; Matross, enlisted I November, 1779, for term of war; Battle of Long Island; received both State and Conti­ nental bounties. Authority: Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors. Granger, Simeon, 1728-1815; Massachusetts troops in the Revolution. Lay, Reuben, 1751-1835; Albany Company, Militia, 17th. Regiment; Land Bounty rights. Authority: New York Men in the Revolution, 2nd. Edition, Roberts. Learned, Ezekiel; Minute Man, Lexington, Mass., engagement; Captain Nathan Hall's Company, Cambridge, Mass.; assault on Fort Ticon­ deroga. Authority: History of Rindge, N. H. Rust, Joseph, IV, 1749-1844; served in a New Hampshire regiment. Authority: Register of the Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Ulmer, George: General in the Revolutionary Army. Whitcomb, Scottoway, 1739-1812; Quartermaster, Colonel Danforth Keyes' Regiment, 1 December, 1777; muster roll of field and staff offi- 230 Appendix cers of above regiment, appointed 27 June, 1777, term 6 months from r July, 1777; Lieutenant, Captain Joel Green's Company, Colonel Ezra Wood's Regiment, r June, 1778-31 January, 1779. Authority: Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors, Vol. XVII, p. 36. Ancestors of VALERIE DALY KING with Service m the War of 1812

Bloomer, Thomas, May, 1800-5 June, 1850; Private, Captain Alanson Austin's Company, Dibblee's Battalion, N. Y. Artillery, 18 August­ r8 September, 1814; Private, Captain Alanson Austin's Company, Colden's 5th. Artillery and Infantry, 18 September-12 December, 1814. Authorities: War Department letter of 23 November, 1916; History of Orange County, N. Y.; Claims of Soldiers, War of 1812, a War Dept. publication. Bourdette, Peter, Jr., 1763 or 1764-?: Corporal, Rifle Company from Middletown Point, Monmouth County, N. J., stationed at the High­ lands of the Navesink, 1814. Authority: Register of the New Jersey Society of the War of 1812. Drake, Jacob, ?- ? ; commissioned officer of the United States Army, died in camp during service. Russ, John, 1768-1857; Major in the United States Army. Ancestors of v ALERIE DALY KING with Service in the Civil War

Ladd, John Albert, ?-1896; served in Black Horse Cavalry, a Virginia unit of the Confederate Army, commanded by General Turner Ashby, un­ der the immediate command of Colonel Richard Ashby, his personal friend; 1st. Lieutenant, Company B, 6th. Missouri Confederate Regi­ ment; wounded and taken prisoner at Vicksburg; later exchanged and again taken prisoner while in command of troops outside Atlanta, Ga. Authorities: personal records of the Sisson family; War Department photostats. Ancestors of VALERIE DALY KING with Service m World War I

King, Charles Daly, 17 February, 1895- ; 2nd. Lt., 128 Field Artillery, 35th. Division, American Expeditionary Force, Feb., 1918-April, 1919. King, Mildred Georgina (Sisson), 7 February, 1899- ; Private, United States Marine Corps Reserve, Headquarters, Adjutant General's De­ partment, Washington, D. C., 2 November-19 December, 1918, on active service.

INDEX

ADAMS: 63 BoURDETTE: 157 Joanna, 64 Benjamin, 158 Robert, 63 Etienne, 157 ADGATE: 58 Etienne (Jr.), 157, 162 ff. Hannah, 59 Mary, 159 Thomas, 58 Peter, 16o, 162, 164 ff. AP-ADAMS: (see Adams) Peter (Jr.), 161 ARTICLES OF AssOCIATION': 135 Rachel, 161, 164 ff. Stephen, 157, 162, 164 BALDWIN: 78 BREWER: 23 Hannah, 80 John, 23 Richard, 79 John (Jr.), 23 Richard (Jr.), 79 Sarah, 23 Timothy, 80 BRIDGES: 22 BALM OF GILEAD TREE: 137 Betsey, 23 BANTA: 148 Caleb, 22 Antie, 150 Edmund, 22 Derrick Epke, l 50 Edmund (Jr.), 22 Epke Jacobs, 149 Hackeliah, 22 BERRY: 151 Hackeliah (Jr.) , 22 Francina, 153 BRIDGHAM : 84 John, 151 Henry, 84 BLOOMER: 132 Jonathan, 84 Emily, 135 Mercy, 85 John, 133 BRUER: (see Brewer) Robert, 132 BUCK: 53 Robert (Jr.), 132 Enoch or Emanuel, 53 Robert (III), 133 Sarah, 54 Thomas, 134 BusH: (see Bosch) William, 134, 136 Bos: (see Bosch) CARSTEEN: (see Carstyne) BOSCH: 176 CARSTYNE: 170 Albertus, 176 Helena, 170 Hendricus, 176 John, 170 Hendricus (Jr.), 176 CARTER: 222 Henricus, 176 Sarah, 222 BOTSFORD : 76 CHOATE: 217 Anne, 78 Rachel, 217 Elnathan, 77 Thomas, 217 Ezra, ?l~ CHRISTIAN SE: ( see Carstyne) Henry, 76 CHRISTOFFEL: (see Schaers) Henry, 77 CLARK: 6g Henry (Jr.), 77 Elizabeth, 70 John, 76 John, 6g Thomas Gage, 78 COLE : ( see Kool) 236 Index COLLIER : ( see Colyer) DUDLY: (see Dudley) COLYER: 154 Dorothea, 155 EARLE: 171 Jochem, 154 Edward, 171 Jurrian, 155 Edward (Jr.), 171 Michael, 154 Hannah, 171 CooK: 194 EPKE: ( see Banta) Francis, 194 John, 194 FAIRBANKS : 42 Sarah, 194 Eliesur, 43 CooL: (see Kool) George, 43 CUDWORTH : 201 Jonathan, 42 James, 201 Mercey, 44 Mary, 203 FoRT LEE, HrsTORY OF, 161 FREEMAN'S OATH, front part DALY: 123 Charles, 128 GODFREY: 19 Charles Howard, 129 Alice, 20 Ella Bourdette, 130 Richard, 19 James, 128 GRANGER: 61 DANS KAMER: 137 Hannah, 63 DEALING: 138 Launcelot, 61 Benjamin, 138 Samuel, 63 Charity, 140 Simion, 63 William, 139 Thomas, 62 William (Jr.), 140 GUNN: 80 William (III), 140 Christianna, 80 DEMING: 49 Jasper, 80 Andrew, 52 Jobamah, 80 David, 83 David (Jr.) , 83 HARTMAN: (see Hartmann) Frances Anna, 52, 78 HARTMANN: 175 Frederick Granger, 52 Sophie, 175 John, 50 HATHAWAY: 194 John, SI Arthur, 194 John (Jr.), 51 Lydia, 194 Mercy, 84, 85 HOLBROOK: 17 Samuel, 51 Adeline, 19 DIRCKS: 178 Daniel, 18 Egbertsie, 178 John, 17 DRAKE: 219 Peter, 18 Jacob, 219 Peter (Jr.), 18 Uree Carter, 219 Silas, 18 DuDD: (see Dudley) Sir Thomas, 17 DUDLEY: 65 Thomas (Jr.), 17 Abigail, 67 Thomas (III), 17 Isaac, 67 Joseph, 66 JACOBS : ( see Banta) William, 65 William (Jr.), 66 KAUER : ( see Colyer) Index 2 37 KING: 7 Elizabeth, 46 Charles Daly, 13 Isaac, 46, 204 Earl Storrs, 9 Isaac (Jr.), 204 John, 7 Isaac ("II"), 205 Sir Ralph, 7 Josiah, 205 Robert Courtney, 12 Lucy, 2o6 Silas Holbrook, I I Moses, 205 Thomas, 7 Reuben, 205 Thomas (Jr.), 8 William, 45, 204 Valerie Daly, 14 LELAND: 44 Zadock, 8 Ebenezer, 45 Zadock (Jr.), 8 Henry, 44 KIRBY: 54 Hopestill, 44 John, 54 Jemima, 45 Mary, 55 John, 44 KooL: 155 Timothy, 45 Apollonia, 156 LESEUR : ( see Lozier) Barent Jacobsen, 155 LEsIER : ( see Lozier) Jacob, 155 LESUEUR: ( see Lozier) LoTHROP: 56 LADD: 2II Hannah, 58 Attilius Alexis, 212 John, 56 Daniel, 2II John, 57 Eliphalet, 212 Robert, 57 Jane Dixon (Dixie), 212 Samuel, 58 John, 212 Samuel (Jr.), 58 John Albert, 214 Thomas, 57 Joseph Park, 212 LoWTHR0PPE : ( see Lothrop) Ralph Atticus, 212 ,LoZIER: 147 Samuel, 2II Claes Nicholas, 148 Timothy, 212 Francois, 147 LANE: 81 Hester, 148 John, 81 Sarah, 81 MEYER: 175 LARKIN: 33 Dirkje, 176 Edward, 33 Jan Dirkszen, 175 Elizabeth, 33 MICHAELSON: (see Vreeland) LASHER: (see Lozier) MITCHELL: 16 LATHROP ( see Lothrop) Hannah, 16 LAY: 82 MOORE: 30 John, 8z Elizabeth, 31 John (Jr.), 82 John, 30 Joseph, 82 MOORE: 143 Reuben, 82 Ann, 144 Sarah, 83 Charity, 144 LAYE: (See Lay) Michael, 145, 146 LAZIER : ( see Lozier) Samuel, 143 LEARNED : 45, 204 Samuel (Jr.), 144 Benoni, 46 Samuel (III), 144 David, 205 MYER: (see Meyer) Index NEWTON: 33 Sir James, 34 John, 33 John, 35 Richard, 33 Mary, 35 Sarah, 33 Ralph, 35 Roger, 34 PERKINS: 55 Elizabeth, 56 RICE: 23 Jabez, 56 Edmund, 24, 27 ff. Jacob, 56 Elizabeth, 30 John, 55 Henry, 27 PoMERAYE: (see Pomeroy) Henry, 30 POMEROY: 70 Sir Rhys-ap-Thomas-Fitz-Urian, 24 Albert A., 87 ff. Sir Rhys-ap-Thomas, 24 Sir Edward, g8 Sir Rhys, 24 Eltweed, 71, 86 ff., 99 William, 24 Hannah, 72 ROCKETT: 72 Sir Henry, 97 John, 72 Sir Henry, 97 Mary ( or Margery) , 72 Sir Henry, 97 Thomas, 72 Sir Henry, 98 ROCKWOOD : ( see Rockett) Sir Henry, 98 RUGG: 32 Sir Henry, g8 John, 32 Sir Henry, 98 Jonathan, 32 Sir Henry, 98 Sarah, 32 Sir Henry, 98 Russ: 216 Henry, 86 ff. Henry, 216 Sir Jocelyn, 97 Jane Anderson, 217 John, 86 ff. John, 217 Joseph, 71 Joseph, 216 Medad, 71 Joseph (Jr.), 216 Richard, 71 Joseph (III), 217 Richard, 86, 87, 99 Joseph (IV), 217 Roger, 96, 97 Nathaniel, 216 Thomas, g8 RusT: (see Russ) Thomas, 95, 99 PooL: 20 SCHAERS : 183 Edward, 21 Elsie Janse, 183 Hannah, 21 SCUDDER: 59 John, 21 Elizabeth, 59 PooLE: (see Pool) SEYMOUR: 73, IIO PRATT: 67 Bartholemew, II I Andrew, 67 Sir Edward, 108 ff. John, 68 Baron Edward, II3 Sarah, 6g Sir Edward, I 13 Thomas, 67 Sir Edward, n4 William, 67 George Dudley, 99, 100, 106, 108 William (Jr.), 68 Hannah, 74 PRESCOTT : 34 Henry W., 104 Hannah, 35 Sir John, II2 James, 34 Sir John, II2 Index 2 39 John, II2 Richard, 59 John (III), mo, !04 ff. Robert, 59 Milo, III Robert, 60 Nathan Perkins, IOI, !03 William, 59 Richard, 73, 99, IOI ff., ms, ro8 ff., TROTT: (see Treat) Il4 TURNER: 20 Richard (Jr.), 73 John, 20 Sir Roger, III Mary, 20 Sir Roger, II I Sir Roger, III UNDERWOOD: 40 Roger, III Elizabeth, 42 Roger, III Joseph, 41 Roger, III Joseph (Jr.), 41 Thomas, !04 ff., rn8 Joseph, 42 Wido, III Joshua, 42 Sir William, II I Sir William, II2 VAN BLARCOM : 178 William, II I Jan Lubbertse, 179 SISSO>N: 187 Johannes, 178 Asa, 192 Johannes, 180 Earl Truman, 192 Leah, 180 Edgar Grant, 192 Lubert Gysbertze, 173 James, 188 VAN BLURKUM: (see Van Blarcom) John, 192 VAN DER BEEK : r8o Joseph, 188 Conradus, r8r Mildred Georgina, 193 Marie, 182 Richard, 187 Paulus, 180 Richard, 188 VREDENBURG: I53 Richard (Jr.), 188 Abraham, 154 SMITH: 150 Elizabeth, 154 Michael, 150 William Isaaczen, 153 Sarah, 151 VREEELAND: 172 STEARNS: 47 Elsie, 174 Isaac, 47 Enoch, 174 Mary, 47 Michael Jansen, 172

T AVENNIER: 218 WARREN: 195 Frances, 218 Richard, 195 John, 218 Sarah, 195 TAYLOR: 75 WHALE: 31 Mindwell, 75 Elizabeth, 31 Stephen, 75 Philemon, 31 TOWNE: 39 Philemon (Jr.), 31 Richard, 39 WHETCOMBE: (see Whitcomb) Sarah, 40 WHITCOMB: 196 William, 39 James, 197 TREAT: 59 James (Jr.), 197 Honor, 60 John, 196 John, 59 Pamelia, 200 Richard, 59 Pliny, 198 Index

Robert, 196 WOODWARD: 74 Scottoway, 197 Experience, 75 Truman, 198 Henry, 74 WOODRUFF: 74 WRIGHT: 48 Hannah, 74 Edward, 48 Mathew, 74 Sarah, 48