Be 35 [y*J »S ffl s t^ e^ 1 in \t*7 m n,' HI — = i r» w = Jk = tfir (A (/) 111 O> = C O is *!= — 8 Q s— U. I 0 > 00­00- <a. a: a <D = v X **E |3* **E **E •*E !•— *¦* E= )l> { J t \ (. I < t/7 «/ 1 .' "Uip*!"1^ ( f r J (¦ 4! [ < es. Quarterly 1st and 4th: Argent, a fees gules between double cottises, wavy azure, for Eliot. 2d and 3d: Argent, a chevron gules between 3 castles embattled, sable, for Sigdon. CREST: An elephant's head, couped. MOTTO: Praecedentibus in star. See " TheGovernor/' by Sir Thos. Elyot,pre­ sented to Sir Oliver Cromwell, now in library of British Museum. d Mss 5639 f»l 451 ||lns' ?..r«Sc Vol.8.K l r S / •'- » «P oo 2 i •« ARMS.—Anciently.—Azure, in bend aba­ ton, or, CBEST: A hand couped at the wrist in armor holding a cutlass in bend. m MOTTO: Fortiter et recte. Playfair, Vol.IE. 79868 7 98 63 i8i*JOSEPH S. &.^ £ D. iX CD HON. ANDREW 8 EDITH JUDITH MARIE SiifS&l&M JOHN GRACE GRACE 183 JAMES HENRY 17. is. 10^7. Bap. t3. •. i6.w. Bap. 31. ja (?) 1641. WILLIAM fcap. 2. 1603. Final and corrected chart Mar. Emma of the male members of the 1GNES ELIZABETH KATHARINE WILLIAM HENRY WILLIAM HENRY WILLIAM JOHN MARGARET ELIOT FAMILY, of DevonhDevonshirei . ClCornwal l l and SSomerset, England, mid descendants in F. S. of Andrew Eliot, Sr.,of Sketcli of the imprweion of Andrew Bliot*g Beverly, Mass., (1) soul. From his will dated 1703-4 on file in Joan.daui. JohnNorbroke, ".',- M Grace, d,au. John Fitz of Tavistoc who settled in America, at Beveriy, abont1668. f Ft " ^) Mane Brewyn, dau. John Brewyn, Salem, Mass. f Plymouth. designed to accompany a "Sketch of the Eliot n Sir THOMAS* w i"," Family (1886) by Walter O. Eliot, D. ab't J Esq., of New York City. Sty. from I* l/ol Jbuwdy JOHN MYCHELL y&£ *The asterisk denotes death without male issue. ab't M79­ WILLIAM SYMON 11. Joan Coteiand, dau. Jtt. !oh.iae, dau. of John We , Nicholas Coteiand, of odervvise Basset, son 01 1'""" WALTER m. Margerj 1 % 1 I 1 r *£ « i H '* / t 4 \ i A SKETCH OF THE ELIOT FAMILY i &WALTER ELI6T. ¦** GRAEME *; «¦?-» NEW YORK: PRESS OF LIVINGSTON MIDDLEDITCH, 26 CORTI.ANDT ST. C^ 1 <£. if7~ SUBSCRIBERS TO THIS WORK. ¦f^=! William Richards Eliot. John Wheelock Elliot. Charles Eliot. Henry Ware Eliot. John Frederick Elliot. George F.Elliot. John LlewellynEliot. Henry A.Elliot. Charles Samuel Elliot. Henry Rutherford Elliot. Charles Addison Elliott. John D. Elliott. Clarence Powhattan Elliott. Amory Eliot. George Tracy Elliot. Percival Elliot. George Warren Elliot. Mrs. Jesse Elliot;. Mrs. Thomas LVaves Eliot. Miss Louise Eiliot. Fred'k Elliot Long. Robert Clifford Cornell. Sanford Sidney Smith. [Note.— Each male member, of the family is known by the numeral which precedes his name. The numbers followingrefer to his ancestors indirect succession, beginning with his father. (Except in the cases of(No. i)to (No. 17) inclusive. In these the first numeral following refers to the most remote ancestor and the last number to the man's father.)— Editor.] 4 \ X 3 ? INTRODUCTORY. TN presenting this brief memoir to those of his kin who, ¦*¦ either from general interest or family pride in an hon­ orable name, desire to preserve the written and traditional records of several centuries, the writer feels it a pleasure to record the motive of its inception. To Lucy Elliot, wife of Augustus F. Smith, Esq., of New York, a woman of rare talent as well as grace of mind and manner, is due whatever of credit there may be for the accuracy and com­ pleteness of the facts and dates hereafter recited. A deep and lasting friendship having sprung" up in girlhood for her cousin, John Henry Elliot (91), of Keene, N. H., then a student at Harvard, she inspired him with a love of family history, reproaching him for his ignorance of their remote ancestry ; moved by her earn­ estness, he applied his leisure to collecting and collating facts and traditions with such success that in 1835 c issued a .pamphlet giving extended information of his own direct line and much of collateral branches from 1 the first appearance in Puritan New England of the pro­ genitor of the American stock. One of these pamphlets falling into the writer's hands in 1886, awaked in him a desire to extend it to embrace the names and records of every descendant born of the American line. While engaged in this work he developed facts con­ cerning the parent stock in England quite remarkable and most unexpected. How far back into the shadows of the past a careful and systematic search will carry the line, it is impossible to say. As yet, that most valuable source of such information, the probate and land records, are untouched. The section of England where they re­ sided, viz., Somerset, Cornwall and Devon, is reputed to be the richest in such records in the kingdom. This field of research, therefore, promises most interesting results to any one with leisure to investigate. So full and accurate have been the sources of infor­ mation opened up to the writer among our American branches, that he challenges the reader to find an impor­ tant error. He will always be pleased to correct any that may be found. His heartiest thanks are due for the aid rendered by Rev. John E. Elliott, of Bridgewater, Conn., and of dis­ tinctly different family, near and remote, whose collection 2 1 v '. of notes and pedigrees of every family of the name of Eliot, Elliot, Elliott and Eliott is the most remarkable of any family record extant. The many hundred letters received in connection with this search willultimately be filed among the archives of the New England Geneal. and Biographical Society at Boston. At his leisure, after the completion of this volume of American Eliots, the writer will issue to all who hold a copy of it a supplement, giving similar facts and histo­ rical data relative to the parent English stock, and he doubts not that it will prove of interest to all of the name. As far as possible throughout the work, the name has been spelled as the individual himself wrote it. In all doubtful cases El(l)iot. It is hoped that those living in Beverly and Salem, and who are descendants of the same man, willtake it upon themselves to examine the records in those towns and discover the descendants of the one or two members whose posterity is not given on the key chart. By send­ ing information to the writer he will do the principal part of the work in completing. The author hopes that whoever receives this volume will send him what they can to improve it for a second 3 — edition. Suggestions, facts, clippings anything of inter­ — will duly acknowledged. est be » He would feel doubly indebted if every male mem­ ber of the family given on the chart would send him his likeness, and those of his Eliot ancestors, if only as a loan. It is intended to perpetuate them by copying in miniature ten to twenty on a page by photography, after which the originals will be returned if desired, or filed with all other originals in the archives of the Mass. Gen. and Biog. Society in Boston. J^cngificeiiegs of trje c/lrrjericecr) 1527 KLIOT 557 jp^ee. It has been disappointing to find how little import­ ance has been attached to the spelling of the family name. A few branches have adhered to one orthography consistently through several generations, but by far the larger number, including the writer's immediate ances­ tor, have departed from it upon what appear to be en­ tirely insufficient grounds. It is therefore desirable that in this volume should be given the proper spelling and the authority therefor. Beginning with the original emigrant to this country, viz., Hon. Andrew (i), of Beverly, we find in his will, which is still in perfect preservation and on file in the 5 Register's office in Salem, that the name is spelled many times throughout the body of the will "Eliott." It is signed in an infirm hand, thus : [Seal.] Andrew MElliot. His mark. The diphthong and seal are by the testator himself, the latter being an impression from his ring ; but the words "Andrew Elliot" and "His mark" are in the same hand as the body of the will. The penman of the will may have been some assistant to the testator when the latter held the office of Town Clerk. Why such a per­ knowing well, have it "son, " Andrew Eliot" "should written Eliott in the will and Elliot in the signature, can only be surmised, or based upon the assumption that upon signing it for him he asked Eliot how he should " " spell the name, and wrote it Andrew Elliot by his direction. Upon this theory rests the only basis for the use of the "Elliot" orthography. On the other hand, Andrew Eliot, who was for many years Town Clerk, and who "wrote a fair hand," inva­ riably signed his name Eliott to all papers of conse­ quence, notably in the Recantation paper signed by the twelve jurors after the Salem Witchcraft Trials. His grandsons on all sides have dropped the extra "t." In the writer's mind this would seem to settle the matter 6 beyond any "possible" doubt, and he reluctantly abandons the use of Elliot as followed by his father (and by his grandfather during the latter years of his life— he, with his brother, having abandoned their father David's practice of spelling his name Eliot for that of Elliot).