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VOL. I. LAWRENCE, KANSAS, U.S.A., APRIL, 1907. NO. I.

MOFFATANA BULLETIN served under the Bruce banners. Clan Moffat has prospered in Amer- j Published by There are three or four Coats of ica and the name is creditably known , MAFFET. : GEORGE WEST Arms in existence among the Moffats. in every occupation and profession, Editor and Historian in Chief, In 1408 Annandale, the patrimony of in every business and activity. There " The Clan Moffat in America." the Bruces, was granted by the crown 1 are fifteen postofnces or railroad sta- (A Genealogy in Preparation to Earl Douglas. In 1547 and 1587 as tions in the United States named j Lawrence, - - Kansas, U.S.A. shown by records of Parliament, the Moffat of different spellings, in as

We hope to issue this, quarterly, if Moffats had become a numerous and many different states—there are three j our finances will permit. If not, then powerful border clan of Scotland;— postoffices in Canada. Many of the semi-occasionally. according to Burke, the Moffats had name hold positions of trust under j been influential clear back to the time the Government while others occupy ~~~ - Moffatana. of Wallace and Bruce. Doctor Thorn- elective offices. In the Revolutionaiy There are two principal theories as as Muffett 1553-1604 was a London war there were Moffats in nearly ev- to the origin of the Moffat family; physician of note and a writer of ery state to be found upon the im- one is that both the name and the merit. perfect In 1617 James Moffat was j army rolls; in the Mexican

family carrying it originated near listed among the tenants of John 1 war three different Moffats were offi- the present town of Moffat, Scot- Hamilton in the "Plantation of Ul-j cers; in the war of the Rebellion land, back to which most modern ster," Ireland. Upon the muster! there were 33 Moffats (officers) on lines trace; the other is that the fam- roll of Ulster about 1630 there are both sides; in the recent war with ily and the name originated in Italy, seven Mophets and one Moffett. Up- Spain there were four officers bearing came with the spread of the Chris- rolls the in on the Hearth Money 1660 there I name different spellings.

tian religion into France and thence were three Moffats. In 1650 Margrit 1 In the large libraries there are into Normandy, and finally came into Moffet was executed for Witchcraft. shown authors of nine different spell-' England with William the Conquer- In the great struggles in Scotland ings of the Moffat name, who have or and thence into Scotland. between the Episcopal Church of! written under fifty-five titles. Liv- Family tradition gives the oldest England and the Presbyterians, which ingstone, the great African explorer, mention of the name in 1066 when culminated 1630-1690, and the attend- married a Moffat, so did ''Coal-oil

the Norman knight, William de Mof- ant persecutions, many Presbyterian - Johnny"—but enough at this time, fette came with the invading force of Moffats were driven from Scotland surely I have already given you value William the Conqueror into England. into Ireland. William Moffat of received and it is your turn. Hart- | now Authentic church records show that fell (near the town of Moffat) was a Nicholde de Moffat, archdeacon of leader of Conventicles and was chas- There are forty-six physicians bear- Teviotdale, became Bishop of Glas- ed by mounted troops among the hills. ing the Clan name now in active prac- gow in 1263. Next comes the ancient hollows and marshes, making a series tice in the United States. record of those in Scotland who did of escapes over difficult ground. Jean homage to King Edward I of Eng- Moffat was banished 1687 to the Bar- Who Knows More of This? land as he progressed through Scot- badoes, along with thousands of oth- Newspaper clipping: '"'Murder. land in 1296 and on this roll are the er Presbyterians: A man has been arrested in Belle- names of Robert de Moffet and Thom- Many of the ancestors of American fonte, Pa., charged with killing, in the as Moffet, both of Dumfrieshire. Moffats were less than fifty years in "Seven Mountains," of a man D**aed The Norman Robert Bruce became Ireland before leaving for America. Maffit, of Stone Valley. Maffit] Lord of Annandale (the district of I others less neckcloth, and one glove haw Many were there than 100 | Scotland comprising within itself years before high rents, potato fam-i found, bloody, but the body i | Moffatdale and the town of Moffat) ines ing." Chautauqua, (N. Y) R j and religious unpleasantness — between 1124 and 1153; he was can, Apr. 4, 1832. the I made another move imperative. Wednesday, second of the name; Robert the Strong emigration to America began We appoint detective Cha' Bruce 1274-1329, finally King of Scot- 1729 ; in 1770-80 the yearly emigration Moffatt, of Los Angeles, CaL; j land, was the eighth of the name. from Ulster was a perfect flood of| C. Moffett, detective, of Cam Under King Robert the Bruce, Adam people. Many Moffats have come di- J., and detective Thomas M- Moffat held land under feudal rights rect from Scotland and others from Brooklyn, N. Y., a committee and the Moffat clan in time of war England. to act for the Clan in this my

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MOFFATANA BULLETIN. 'at" there will probably be GOO Sis Hundred Years.

—BY I Johns; of these say 7a will be John j GEORGE WEST MAFFET. |w.; put it John Woldorf Moffat and! A young clanswoman of Maryland, probably this the only name will be ! wno recently returned from a trip to Your Editor has to report that one in existence. Scotland, wrote in October just pass- j

three months the time of hav- 1 Do not give the onlv, but I , from vear ... . ' , ., ,, , „ ,, , ed, to her cousin, a lieutenant in the make it month, of month and day | ing sent out the first blue collecting j

j ea say clearly that exact date regular army; My Scotch blood had blanks, his directory of living adult j ? a chanee to esalt the next rwo weeks - .... unknown. An uncompleted date j Moffats has grown from 400 up t0 - Part of which 1 s P ent on the old Mof j means hours, maybe days, of research j addresses, every indication a at part in 2,400 with ! H- * farm Mid. Knock and to someone i n the future: it brings of a still more rapid increase. As a! ^ie ^hige of Moffat. ancestral tbe vear even jj> given correctlv. into Our first preliminary estimate we place the doubt, farm is one of the prettiest spot= I present living population carrying the ever saw. the pretty Esk river form- j Place is important; if locality is name at 12,000. We would place the in one boundary. I wonder if you j given, a search of local history; or of S number of emigrants who have cross- ever looked up the history of our town, countv or church records, mav i ed the ocean to America at say 300. lead to unexpected results. farm. In 1302 it was granted to One thing that has made an impres- Thomas Moffat and son. It remained Brothers, sisters cousins sion upon our mind, is the number of and own in the family until 1600, when times Moffats now living in the United all have the same grandparents; were so troublous that smaller farm- States, who were born across the wat- where one has forgotten, another may ers had to unite under some powerful remember. The maiden of er. Another thing we notice, is that names lord, giving up their land in return the Moffats now in Scotland and Ire- both the grandmothers should be ob- for protection. Our people took as tained if possible; grand- land seem not to be able to go so far your own protector the Duke of Buccleuch. He are the back in their ancestry as we do over parents great grandparents of has held Mid Knock ever since with children here. your and the great great the descendants of Thomas Moffat as grandparents of your grandchildren.

The more we work in Moffatana, ; his teuants unt n 1904, when the farm a the greater we admire the traits of We know lady who paid out $150 tenantry passed into the hands of to professional searchers discov- character of the Moffats as a tribe; to Robert Moffat of Cannonbie. He was j er the name of one of her great and the prouder we are to carry the ; theu nearing 70 years of age and had grandparents. Make the record thus name. Is our point of view expands, ; a prosperous business of his own and George West Maffet; parents, the greater we appreciate the show- Wil- Udn't care to go back to the farm. liam Ross Maffet and Martha Wash- ing made as a whole. ; He sublet ted for a vear. but found jington . Adelia West: grandparents, it j it so unsatisfactorv that he gave To those who have made full re- Samuel Maffet and Caroline Ann up entirely. It does seem too bad port we extend sincere thanks and|Ross; George Gustavus West and it should pass out of our family. The ask that you keep us posted the next ! Martha Kessler. Duke was very loth to have R< bert few years as to changes of street ad- j the Moffat give it up." dress, and report current births,! KeeP clan archives in view all of us when next vou have Photographs tak- So sav we ! marriages and deaths. j

en send alon an >" vou can s are - To those who have not yet answer- ^ ? ~ P Hugh, the Hero. ed letters asking for additional mat-| thev wiU be fulIy appreciated. If you !re afraid to take the risk ter, we ask that little by little the da-! on : / leirloom Dec. IS. 1864, was the date of a ta be gathered and finally reported. pictures or exclusive copies, any first class photographer will thrilling rescue upon the River Shan- To those under high pressure of make j Ireland, as a reward for which work, who have as yet had no time a single copy, cabinet size, for a dol-jnon, in lar youth of seven- or less. ; Moffatt. then a to make answer, we extend our sym- Hugh teen, now possesses a life-saving med- pathy, having worked at high pres- In regard to the note concerning al. It was a terribly bitter cold day sure all our business life. -To these divorces upon the blue blanks, change winter a storm had we would say that a change of of and sudden the word marriage to the word birth. formed a flood in Lake Allen, a short thought is a mental rest; to peg away We only desire the date of a divorce; distance stream. Mrs. Dolan. a gathering this material will prove a up when it has a bearing upon subse- crossing the Riv- recreation and a pleasure don't school mistress, was — (iLient births. " er Shannon upon a foot bridge con- make it a task. Answer only so farj i Wanted to communicate with Wil- necting county Roscommon with as you can do so accurately, it will | Iiam T Moffatt, lhe " son of Leitrim; without warning a dovetail in with the work of others. Wickham county Corwin Moffatt and Margaret J. Mc- swirl of angry waters tore the bridge j Do not use initials, but write out Crea, of Goshen, Orange County, N.I away and a section with the clinging names (especially middle names) in Y. Was last heard from at New York) lady lodged upon a small island in full. Upon the index of "Cla Mof- City, about 1895. midstream. A crowd soon collected

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upon both banks and in helpless ter- gained it and ain lost it, having Samuel Austin Moffett (of a Cou; ty finally ror waited for the rapidly rising wat- to retir- Were unuer fire all; Tyrone, Ireland—Maryland line) second day and at night retired with ers to carry away the victim. No has won renown as a foreign mission- army from the field. boat could live in the terrible swirl ary for the same church; the scene On the Federal side, Major Sam- , of ms wonderful successes is Pyen and mad rush of roaring water. i i ! uel A.a Moftett,ir ff n- ore the,1 94thmn Newxt -v-lorki „ Korea, Asia. Rev. Robert Mof- Just then Hugh Moffat t rushed up- Infantry, armv of the Potutnae, made fett, of Cleveland, Ohio, has served on the scene and took in the situation eport: "Arrived July first near Get- for thirty years as secretarv of the at a glance. Without a word he ran i tysburg and threw up breastworks board of missions of the Christian a short distance up stream and plung- near brick Seminarv. • * • Took; o ,.,, 3 , ,, ., , • , .' church, (his is a Virginiaw line). This

! hill it, ed into the icy flood. With an awful crest ot and held losing heav-i ..'.,,. ,

• : whole Bulletin could be devoted to the -i i -n i i i j ™ i struggle he gained the side of the lly m killed and wounded. The col- .

i /. ,i • . , , , unselfish labors of the numerous splea-

school mistress, seized her under his , onel ot tne regiment was wounded audi ... . .

: -rr- • • did men at work m the various church T\ left arm and then started a fight for capturea. ere in position near I

\ . xt-,1 : organizations, but space forbids. n t i o a jo j s ' r life that appalled all who saw it. As Cemetery Hill July 2nd and 3rd j

much of the time under water as i (1S63) constantly under fire." Clan Moffat has . been represented above it, he fought his way to the ] county Leitrim shore and placed the by five Congressman bearing its name, Besides the doctors, there is a very lady in the hands of her waiting hus- two from New York, two from Penn- strong list of lawyers and editors now band. Soon afterward a baby was sylvania and one from Michigan. One actively in the professions, all bear- born to Mrs. Dolan and the child grew came from a County Antrim, Ireland ing the Clan name. up and became in her turn a teacher. —Penna. line; one from a County The government tendered Hugh Down, Ireland—Penna. line; one from Those contemplating a trip across L County Leitrim, Ireland— New Moffat t any place within its gift that the ocean, a part of whose itinerary ; k line""; and the other two lines we he was qualified to fill; but he declin- Yor [will be over historical Clan grounds, ed the tender. For the heroic deed haVfl not yet put in p!aee . 0f the

! or the places from which their end- he holds a parchment from the Royal two ex-Congressmen now living, one grant ancestor started, will oblige by Humane Society, Patron Her Majesty has made bUie rep rts for all his col- communicating with us before start- the Queen. For the rescue of Joseph 1 lateral lines and the other has made

1 1D =- Campbell, on Dec. 7th. a year later acknowledgement and will soon have his in place. he holds the Society's life-saving I We are under obligations to C. C. medal; and for a third rescue, that of Moffett, M D., of Lorain. Ohio, for John McKeon, he holds still another A c i an5man residing at Newburgh, music of hi own composition and kr medal. y tfl in 1S92 C0I1C eming the publishing: a collection for male Hugh Moffatt is now a gentleman Muffats. 'I will venture the predic- quartettes and the Club House two- ( - farmer at Shannon Lodge and has an t Q t jia j. le will never find one in jail. step for piano. Both have acknowl-jj interesting family of five daughters. am not so egotistical as to have edged merit. He has made his report for "Clan this prediction' on purely moral | Moffatt," but the account of his res- grounds, but will base it about half- j cues we had from others; his men- Clan Moffat has had as yet (in its and-half upon morality and shrewd- tion of his honor medals was extreme- own name) no representation in the riess." ly modest. United States Senate, but we have: This man has great faith in the been told by those who know, that) dan, don't you think? We each owe At the Battle of Gettysburg. Colorado has a man it would delight Jbim a cooky for the compliment. But to honor in that way, would he but! a third reason why a Moffat might

On the Confederate side, Captain, give his consent. no t be found in jail might be that his Charles J. Moffett, commanding the; term had just expired and he not Second Georgia Battalion, Wright's Clan Moffat makes a very strong have had time enough to get back brigade, Anderson's division, Lee's showing various again. must not forget that we among the religious j We army of Northern Virginia, made re- denominations. In nearly every descend from one of the "unruly

J Iport that under orders he formed church organization are now officiat- clans" of Scotland. By ancestral im- skirmish line, drove back opposing ing clergymen, strong, capable men. pulse we are not angelic enough to skirmishers and took and held fence There were nine Presbyterian min- hurt. And that reminds us of a lady

and bottom at south side of Gettys-i isters upon the recent official roll. who writes that she believes that her burg; the Confederate line of battle Rev. James David Moffat, college branch traces back through Ireland, passed over him an hour later and his president, was unanimously elected because when a child if she got her force fell in at rear and engaged with Moderator of the Presbyterian Gen- spunk up her mother would say, line of battle in taking possession of eral Assembly last year; (he belongs "There! that is the Scotch-Irish crop- j

opposing battery; they lost it, re- to a Lockerbie, Scotland, line). Rev. ping out

'. his MOFFATAN A BULLETIN we appreciate it. Do your best with attention. Of first acquaintance Published by page three if you cannot go back of with Miss Moffat we have no account, GEORGE WEST MAFFET. that. We may have the balance al- but tradition gives the story that it ^ years was at the Episcopal church that the Editor and Historian in Chief. ready. In these most recent '' The Clan Moffat in America." where the postman brings the mail to most important crisis in their court-

(A Genealogy in Preparation) your bedside and places it in your ship took place. Sitting with her, in

Lawrence, - - Kansas, U.S.A. hands while asleep, it is necessary her father's pew, Mr. Rousselet hand- that we be kept posted as to your ed Miss Catherine the Bible in which We hope to issue this, quarterly, if street address. A record made ten he had pencilled, in the first verse of our finances will permit. If not, then years ago will not show your present the Second Epistle of John 'Unto the semi-occasionally. occupation; child on grow up, enter Elect Lady,' and the fifth verse en- business, marry and have the start of tire, 'And now I beseech thee, lady, Encouragement. a family of their own, all within ten not as though I wrote a new com- years. Besides, we are gathering the mandment unto thee, but that which A clansman (a banker) in Canada, parents and grandparents of all those we had from the beginning, that we writes: "I can assure you of my who marry into the Clan, which some love one another.' Miss Catherine, hearty sympathy with your work and historians have not considered neces- fully comprehending the appeal, turn- my co-operation and best endeavors sary. So get your own name down ed down a leaf in the first chapter of in doing my small part toward mak- on the blue blanks, then cudgel your Ruth, beginning in verse 16th, "In- ing it a success." brains to try to recollect the name of treat me not to leave thee or to re- Another Canadian now in the Unit- the girl you married; where and turn from following after thee; for ed States, writes: "Accept thanks when; then for the names of the whither thou goest I will go, and for 'leaflet' Moffatana; you certainly children and children-in-law. where thou lodgest I will lodge.' The have given me more than value re- There may be instances even, where Bible with the folded leaf was return- ceived." one may be excused for not remem- ed to him and after the appeal was A clanswoman of Minnesota signs bering a birthdate. For instance, thus silently and favorably answered herself "Enthusiastically yours for one lady wrote: "Mother never put the happy man doubtless 'kissed the " Clan Moffat," and volunteers to make down the dates of birth of her chil- book.' researches in the third largest Gen- dren, but depended upon her mem-

ealogical library in the United States. I ory. While we were small this did Have you been recently bereaved? Still another clanswoman in Minne- not matter, but when Mother's mem- One of the coats of arms of the clan sota says: Mr. Maffet; I hope to get she be- "Dear ory began uncertain depicts, high in the heavens, a bank that you can take us all back to old first herself in came mixed and then of black, lowering clouds, the clouds but please, please do not take! the rest Adam, turn mixed of us up; and of adversity; standing out in start- ns far enough back to connect with of us give exact date now none can an ling distinctness, partly reclining in tadpoles or monkeys." of which we are sure." their midst, is the Cross of Christ, clanswoman in State A New York dazzling white in the reflected unseen writes: I fond of the Clan The First National "As am bank of San glory from Above; the Cross in its and proud of the name, I writing Francisco, with a capital of and am one turn, throws the rays of Faith upon 1 you this to tell you that as soon as a half millions, has a Moffitt for vice the earth and its troubles below. Be this busy season is over I will fill out Moffitt president and a for cashier; comforted. the papers you sent." the First National, of Denver, with A young clanswoman on board an a capital of one million, has a Moffat R. Burnham Moffat, a prominent ocean Liner wrote: "My father gave for president and a Moffat for cash- attorney of New York, will issue next me your questions to answer, but in ier; the Bank of Commerce, with a year at his own expense and circulate the crush of preparation it entirely capital of ten millions, at Middleton,

privately, a book on the descendants | escaped me. When I get back to my Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada, has of Rev. John Moffat and Margaret 'little black record' again, I will give a Moffat for manager. And we can Little, known as "The Stonefield you with pleasure, the necessary mention several dozen more bankers Moffats." a County Antrim—New _yL-< data." of the name, all men who are worth ^ York State line. He has already pub-'- And a score or more of others have while. lished Barclays of New York,' : written in encouragement or appre- "The his mother's line. ciation, which more than ever nerves From "Rambles About Ports- us to our task. mouth" (N. H.) by Charles W. Brew- ster; 2nd. Series, 1869. "Nicholas If you are living in a small com- Do not send the blue blanks to Rousselet was a man of good exter- munity and there are others of the your family historian to fill out; he ior and when dressed in the official name not related to you, kindly fav- has probably done for us everything consular costume which he wore on or us with their addresses. Examine that an unselfish man could do, and public days, was a man to attract telephone lists and town directories.

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(An Occasional Publication.)

VOL. I. LAWRENCE. KANSAS. U.S.A.. JULY, 1907 NO. 2.

MOFFATANA BULLETIN Moffat, bv her children Samuel, "The hall seats three hundred per- Published by Charles, James. Mary. Henry, Fred- sons, and is used for all the purposes GEORGE WEST MAFFET. erick. Hunter and David. - on the of a public hall in a small place, such ground on which they were born.' as plays, lectures, balls, and club Editor anrt Historian in Chief. This window was designed and made meetings. It is heated by steam and "The Clan Moffat in America." at Tiffany's. lighted by gas. (A Genealogy in Preparation.; "The second window has two in- "The cost of site and building was scriptions, one rea.ling: 'In memory •r25.000. not including the books. Lawrence, - - Kansas, U. S. A. of Samuel Moffat who erected his which cost several thousand in addi- residence mi this site in 1S12. ' the tion. All this was borne by Mr. Mof- It is planned that this Bulletin be —

I other: 'In memory of David H. Mof- fat, and he has also maintained the received in the family of each Moffat or Moffat descendant, entirely without cost to them and without thought of obligation. It will be supported, in part, while its issues continue, by free will donations from those who realize the importance of the work in progress and who understand the costliness in money and in time of labor of this character.

Moffat Memorial Library. The illustration m this issue show's the Moffat Library and we present with it a short sketch kindly prepared at our request by the librarian. Mr. Raymond Belknap. Mr. Belknap says: "Moffat Library is the gift of Da- vid Holliday Moffat of Denver, Colo- rado, to his native place. Washington- ville, a small village in Orange county, New York. "The building, which is of brick, i was erected in 1S37 and stands on the site of the house in which Mr. Moffat was born. It contains two beautiful rooms, each twenty-four feet square, used for library pur- MOFFAT MEMORIAL LIBRARY, Wash X. Y poses, and a fine hall with stage, and is surmounted by a clock tower. It fat, son of Samuel Moffat:' Samuel library ever since it was opened. Moffat and David H. Moffat' being the is situated in the center of the vil- | Probably no other community of the grandfather and father respectively size of Washingtonville has such lage facing on Main street and is sur- j a of the donor, the present David H. building library, certainly rounded by a fine lawn, while the I and none

: front of the edifice is covered in sum- Moffat. The wails of this room are other has such entirely without cost mer with Boston ivy. jhung with pictures of authors', while to itself for maintenance."

*In the library are three thousand I over the mantel is a fine portrait of So much for the library. From an- three hundred volumes, free to the Mr. Moffat. other source we have it that David public for circulation and reference, the lobby, opposite Holliday Moffat's presentation speech j "In the main while the reading table is was the shortest on record. He said covered i entrance, are two tablets; that at the with the best — —"Here. Hector, take these keys, of the magazines and I ris:ht reading: 'This buildine erected

1 papers. The yearlv circulation 1887 by David H. Moffat, of Denver. and for goodness' sake ' keep still!" It is not to be supposed the amounts to from 5.000 to 6,000 vol- Colo., as a gift to his native town. ' by word- j umes. In one of the library ing of this discourse that his cousin, rooms j The other, in memory of a cousin of there are two memorial windows of Mr. David H. Moffat, who acted as Hector Moffat, was in an active con- stained glass. dition of unrest; but we interpret One of these bears ; one of the trustees of the fund for the, the Moffat coat of arms (four feet erection of the building, and who died : this language to mean that he had I square) with the motto, 'Spero Mel- it had all the eulogizing he could stand j while was in course of construe-, iora,' and in the lower part the fol- ition: — 'To the memory of John New-' and wanted no more of it. The same lowing inscription: source of information states that Da- 'Erected at the i ton Moffat, born June 3, 1820; died request and in • memory of Catherine Dec. 23. 1886.' . j (Continued on next page.)

MOFFATANA BULLETIN. An adopted child does not belong Moffat Memorial Library. j upon a Clan record. !!V~- I It belongs to the 'Continued from first page.) GEORGE WEST vid [Iol'liday Moffat cannot make a speech, but we know hotter. From a Colorado source we learn that he Your Editor has to report as the Be a little more careful, please, has a great wealth of vocabulary and result of the past three months' work with the addresses of your living rela- possesses an eloquence that will com- the increase in our directory of over tives —every little while our letters pel a mule to climb a tree or that will four hundred Moffats who are bread- come back undelivered because the carry a railroad through a solid moun- winners or heads of families and address is too stale. probably 1,200 children who have not tain of granite. His is a County Antrim, Ireland- yet been listed. There has been a The great interest shown in this* Blagg's Clove. Orange county, N. Y.. great flood of letters, hundreds of work is evidenced by the fact that 'line, which emigrated in 1729. If you blue reports and a great wealth of births are promptly reported within never heard of Blasg's Clove you do Moffatana received, some few frag- a couple of days of the occurrence, not belong to this line, lor its geneal- ments of which latter we herewith and that we are permitted to know ogy has been well worked over print. of approaching marriages long weeks among its membership. We are under many Up to date our expense account has before they occur. Remember the ar- I obligations to the historians of this reached $315. besides seven months of chives with your announcement cards. j persistent work; before this issue line: to Rev. Thomas Clemence Mof- j fatt. of Clyde, Kansas, the present reaches its readers the expense ac- A feud raged between the Moffat count will be nearly $450. To print active historian, who has the work in j and Johnstone Clans for nearly three

| fine shape: to Arthur Bingham Mof- Moffatana Bulletin four times during; centuries—still that is no excuse for fatt. of St. Joe, Michigan, who in the year will entail a total expense of you to go out and disarrange the toi- j

: 1S92-3 did much work, not only in his between four and five hundred dol- let of any Johnstone you may run

i own line but in Moffatana in general: lars, this is abnormal because a pub- across. Nor need >ou marry a John- to Almet Skeel Moffat, editor of the lication such as this cannot be mailed stone just because of being your he- Register, at Newburgh. X. Y., who seat pound rates, it must be enclosed in reditarv enemv. an envelope to carry well, and it is : cured an old family tree prepared by undesirable to accept advertisements. We now have six or seven differ- Samuel fourth of Blagg's Clove, To place a subscription price upon it; ent Moffat coats of arms. Sooner or brought it down to date, had it pho- would be to defeat the very purpose later we will have these in shape to tographed and sent it among the j print, of the Blatrg's Clove branch. for which it is issued—the awaken-! but we are making a close study members ing of a general interest by keeping of the different branches entitled to in touch with the movement; the sol-! the different coats of arms, and we One of the most deeply revered idifying of our historical interests do not want to spoil this work just at names honored by the young people's as a Clan; the overcoming of the nat- present by sending them broadcast. societies of religious circles of the ural distrust of those who only par-: Be a little patient as to them. United States, is that of Robert Mof- tially understand the movement; and fat, the noted South African mission- A branch of the family has emi- a frequent reminder to those Avhose : ary. We have just received the blue grated from Massachusetts west, duty it is to add little by little the report of his son, Rev. John Smith since 1776. first on one side of the fragments in their possession until Moffat, of South Africa, who has Canadian line and then on the other; the great general result is reached. himself been a missionary for twenty sometimes on both sides. Some mem- Since our hint in the last issue that; years and a government official for bers have now reached the Pacific our finances were not quite up to the ! fifteen Of his own eight children, coast. Better call a halt, friends, or strain that would be necessary, we one is a physician in London and the some dark night you will step off the have been importuned to set a sub- other seven are widely scattered over brink and get your hair wet. scription price or to will accept free j the southern half of Africa. Of donations. Several went further and Have you a "family skeleton in the these one is a missionary, another a sent checks and requested that Moffa- closet?" Let's get the thing out and doctor at Cape Town, another mana- tana Bulletin be kept going. We have see what it looks like. There, now ger of a mining company and still an- therefore concluded to allow those let it rattle! Is this your own sin? other is a government official. From who feel that they can afford it and; If it is not, then you are not respon- our Clan records we note that Rev. desire it and who will truly make a sible for it and in spite of your su- John Smith Moffat is a Companion of free will affair of it in fact as well as i per-sensitiveness in regard to it, oth- the Most Distinguished Order of St. in name, to aid the movement by do- ers do not hold it against you. Sup- Michael and St. George; and that his nations as large or as small as they pose it is your own sin. A sin ac- arms are '"Moberly quartered by see fit. It is distinctly understood knowledged is a sin half forgiven. Grosvenor and, Taunton." that no part of said donations are to! Are you allowing this one transgres- be paid out for salaries or emolu- : sion to color your whole life and in- Moffats reporting from Great Brit- ments, but shall be applied, 1st, to the! jure your usefulness to yourself and ain will please be particular in stat- support of Moffatana Bulletin; 2nd, to: to others ? Are you availing yourself ing the names of the emigrants from the payment of current postage, ex- of the blessed heritage of speaking their line, the year of emigration to press and printed stationery bills;! the right word at the right time to America and the place where they 3rd, to employment of additional la- those with whom you come in con- settled. This will help much in con- bor when it becomes imperative to get j tact —a word of comfort, of apprecia- necting the lines on both sides of the rid of an accumulation of matter that: tion or of inspiration ? Let us put ocean. must needs be promptly and methodi-, this skeleton back into its closet; nev- eallv eared for. er again will it be as formidable since Mrs. Elvira E. MofStt was elected this square look at it. There! Now on the board of managers of the Don't forget those photographs for! crowd the door shut and lock it for- Daughters of the Revolution, to rep- the Clan archives. ever! resent North Carolina.

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MOFFATAN A BULLETIN A letter itten twontv-tom s Another time he paid $4,000 for a a-o a; W lingtou. D.' C. says: trac

"The last urs of my father's life sold ; out in lots for $25,000. An- GEORGE WEST MAFFET. were embit ed because he could not othe tract he bought for $12,000. Editor and Historian in Chief. find any of brothers or sisters, nor and laid it out in five acre tracts and "The Clan Moffat in America." their child and together with a in a two days' sale disposed of it for he fact that he had $40,000. These are but unimportant (A Genealogy in Preparation. knowledge list not treated father right in not go- J deals in a great of transactions Lawrence. - - Kansas. U. S. A. ing to see him bef e he died, ti'ou- that have been considered worthy of bled him and cause him a good deal a magazine article. His is a County

It is planned that this Bulletin he of sorrow." j Leitrim line. Mr. Moffit returned received in the family of each Moffat dian Territory letter says: from Europe about April 1st. To or Moffat descendant, entirely with- >ther has returned from his' prove that he is not French we make out cost to them and without thought trip and i> now busy fittingja couple of very short extracts from of obligation. It will be supported. out Ins new Home just completed for the "'travel talk" he gave one of his in part, while its issues continue, by him. He is going to be very com- clubs as it appeared in the daily pa- free will donations from those who fortably located. I showed your let- pers : realize the importance of the work in ter to his wife and she remarked that '•One day I was out in the market progress and who understand the cost- she -was very fflad that she was mar- and a man tried to sell me a camel. liness in money ami in time of labor rie- i in time to c;et in on the family but I did not see how I could fold it of this character. tree. up and secrete it so I could get it A clansman sending a package through the customs house and I did of Moffatana letters by express not buy it. It reminded me of the Excerpts From Letters. writes: "There may be some things story told by Eddie Foy, the actor, A letter from a Cleveland, Ohio, in these letters that should not be who said that a camel could go eight clansman, dated some years ago con- published in the history. Your judg-'days without a drink, but who wants tained: "So far as the Moffets are ment is as good as mine on this line, to be a camel? The camel market in concerned, you need have no fears of so govern yourself accordingly." Cairo was quite steady-—in fact it their standing in any community A~ Brooklyn Moffat whose son en- was a much better market than the j

where they have lived." ters Princeton University this fall at . stock market of the United States A clanswoman at Washingtonville, the age of seventeen says: "At his while I was away. A good terra cot- X. Y., writes: "I am proud to know age I was scrambling in order to get ta camel about fifty to sixty hands j that many of our ancestors are peace- grub. What chances some of the high, trained to singlefoot. will sell fully resting not far away in an old youngsters have that their fathers for $150. The common, or garden churchyard and so far as I can learn did not." camel, trained to collapse like a pock- they all lived sober, honest and in- A County Leitrim, Ireland, Mof- et camera and to carry about eight dustrious lives, died natural deaths fett, a resident now of California, tons of cargo, will sell for about and were decently buried with their wrote: "Today I received Moffatana! $100. You know riding a camel is

kin, in the shadow of the old meeting Bulletin which on second page con- j like sitting on a high trestle, expeet- house where they for so many years tained 'Hugh the Hero.' This l|ing it at any moment to collapse and worshipped. ' for is to give way, dis- heartily cherish, Hugh my j the joints and the An historian in a county Monag- uncle. " He further said that he hadjtance to the ground when you are up nev- to han, Ireland, line, says: "I have emigrated at the agp of seventeen and | in the air is about ten feet, but er known a Moffett that was a dis- knew little family pedigree yet we you it seems about fifty feet in the — j grace to the name."' had his pedigree back for six genera- air." * * * ''Twelve hours out, the An Okland. California, line writes: tions which we had received from Mediterranean sea was visited by one "I feel that I am prepared to show Ireland; and opening a drawer in a of the worst storms in its history. that the Moffatts (my grandfather's filing cabinet, we turned up his pho- and the 'Rolling Billy' as Americans way of spelling it) were not origin- graph, which had reached us from had nick-named the ship, simply did ally of the Scotch, but that they New York City. He is Financier of the two-step to the great discomfit- came with the Romans." the A. O. U. W. lodge at Tracy. ure of the passengers. Many of them A clansman at Burton Station, had no desire to partake of break- Ohio, (since deceased) in a letter William H. Moffitt, the great real fast, lunch or dinner, particularly dated 1890, says: "1 have always un- estate exploiter of New York City, Mrs. Moffitt. who has had charge of derstood that we were of Irish de- is doing more than his share of re- me for the past twenty-eight years, scent; and it looks as if we might lieving the congested condition of his After two days' illness she said to be, from the fact that we all have city. By means of the instalment me: 'If I ever had anything in for marked Irish traits of character—we plan, free excursion trains and an| anybody, it has absolutely disap- *- all love fun. Pigs and Potatoes and auctioneer, he is settling the distant peared now.' " * * do not bother ourselves very much suburbs with thrifty young couples about the future; living for ourselves from the city flat districts. Mr. Mof- A finishing school for young ladies and the good that we can do in the fitt was a New York state man who 'is to be opened October first next at world, leaving the events in the hands went west and started into real es-|Groton, Mass., by Mrs. Caroline Tay- of One who never does anything tate. With a whiff of the ozone of, lor Boutwell, of a County Sligo-New

' wrong. the great prairies in his nostrils, he! York City line of Moffats. It is to An Arkansas lady's letter shows: went east and was soon setting the; be called "The Boutwell School," "The history I herewith enclose is pace to the wonderment of the great and is to be of high character with a that of our lamented and respected city. It is related that among his strong faculty. Mrs. Boutwell is ancestors—lamented more particular- many deals was one where he paid talking of dedicating one of the main ly that they have left nothing to tell (on Tuesday) $7,000 for seven acres buildings as "Moffatana Hall," and to their posterity, the tale of their of land; advertised it on Thursday desires pupils from every state in the wanderings and struggles. and on Saturday sold it for $22,0UU. Union.

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in Met Sudden Death. "Estates ii Chancery' Swindle. have a littl pp.li jree of Indiana! family that in A. Next to u North Carolina t< an unnamed Local- Matlit was teaming along the streets "green goods swindles, probably tin ity in Ireland. This claims agent. >f Wichita. Kansas, carelessly perch- most popular swindle is the estates | under date of IS 10. claims to repre-i ed upon the front of his wagon with in Chancery" swindle that "is await- other, he sent the Moffitt 1 eirs in this matter, one knee thrown across the ing to be claimed by American heirs.'' Next we have, endorsed across ai turned down a side street. As the Every few years the English govern- communication fr n: a lady in Arkan- front wheels of the heavily loaded ment" deems it a duty to inform the sas to a lady ii Miehigan, "don't wagon left the paved street with a United States government at Wash- send him a fee sent him a V and sudden lurch, he was thrown directly ington that there are no such estates this is all I have to show for it."' (a under one of the front wheels, which awaiting distribution— it has been on- page of pedigree). passed over his chest. He was at ly a fewmonths since that the "Metz- And now conies fresh and hot on once picked up and lifted to his feet ger Millions" awaiting distribution the trail of the ".Moffat Millions" ai and took a step or two. but was so in Holland, was attracting attention clipping made a few weeks ago by an badly crushed that he was carried in this county of Kansas. First one Akron, Ohio, clansman from the Ak- across the street into a lumber office, family name and then- another is used

ron Beacon Journal of May 12. 1907 i but died before he could be laid and the prevailing idea is for the sup- —"James C. Moffit. a Toledo bill dis- down. posed heirs to unite and raise a purse tributor, has just received word that He was a member of the G. A. R. to prosecute or to investigate the the chancery court of England has having been a corporal during the claim. This little "purse" is the accepted the proof of his claim to a Civil War in Co. E., 145th Illinois milk in the coeoanut. share ill the Mollil estate and had: Volunteer Infantry; was a member In correspondence between William his lather's interest. of A. U. lodge of Wichita awarded him \ the O. W. Ross Maffet, of Wilkes-Barre. Pa., amounting to eight million dollars."; and a member of the Central Chris- and his cousin 'Wickham Corwin Mof- We immediately wrote to this ad- tian church, from which he was bur- fatt. of Goshen, N. Y., we find, 1871- dress and asked for particulars, but ied. 2, that a claim agent named Benedict our Toledo friend was too busy get-; Samuel Abraham Maffit was born of Havana. X. Y., undertakes for a . tmg together some ey to send on near Decatur. Ills., June 14, 1845 and consideration to connect them with [ xpenses." or Plv-| t0 n eet necessa soon after he was married in 1S69 the estate of Thomas Moffatt, of \ ' to else he tc ok " tlu wanted | came to Kansas and took up land mouth. England, who left an estate ofj : scra e relationship, .iceount of his near Wichita in 1871. His grand- three millions of dollars; the said P :::., j. But it is a bald fact that we parents were James Maffit and Elean- Thomas having left a son, George, and —-«— - ould theT bave lus edl ree back or Smith (the latter of County An- a Next "find ™ P S daughter. Mary. we a|T , | for twelve or fifteen generat i ns thai trim. Ireland) and his parents were suggestion from Benedict, who is then all the "Moffat Millions" t Robert Smith Maffit and Elizabeth abroad, that $25 is about the proper ever come across the ocean. Miller. His was a line that came remittance. Next comes a newspaper, from Ireland and worked west clipping that shows that Benedict L " * ^ "? fiiul^ X I from a Chicago Tclansman through Pennsylvania. Ohio and Ill- committed suicide in a Glasgow. Scot-!

8 ' never cau r b " a e inois. He left a wife and nine living land, hotel and that the police made \™ ? ^ °V^ - sharks connected^ with the "Mofirett children, the latter all grown and report that Benedict was suspected Millions." well placed in the industrial world. of being an imposter who had been Yet every once in a while we get a His brothers and sisters are in half realizing a golden harvest from fees letter that seems to imply that there; dozen different states. he had been receiving through the a is a belief in the Moffat millions and! mails from people, chiefly resident in in receipt the that our efforts in the pedigree line We are of quarterly the United States, for t he purpose are in that direction. Surely we hope bulletin of the Elon College of Elon of establishing their claims to proper- that no one may labor under that mis-, College, North Carolina, of which ty which he had represented to them take. If you do not understand what Emmett Leonidas Moffitt. M. A.. LL. left in various parts had been them of D.. is president. This college is the we are at, go to a public library and England. property the ask to be shown a family genealogy of Christian church and Next we find from a newspaper and look the book carefully over. among its honor medals we note the clipping sent us by a New York state Moffitt Medal, established in memory ladv, the following of about the date of E. A. Moffitt, who was for many 1889:— Mr. Johnstone Moffitt. of Trenton, years a trustee of the college. It is "Heirs to S46.000.000 in Ireland. New Jersey, started across the ocean awarded for the best graduation the- "Eau Claire. Wis.. Nov. 27.—W. S. May 18th. intent upon a ramble sis bv a voting woman. Moffitt, of this city, a middle-aged among the old ancestral haunts in At last a Moffett has discov- gentleman of means, has been notified i^ unty Fermanagh. Ireland. He will been in jail, that he is one of the heirs of the eel- ie leavor to perfect his line for ered and right here in Kansas, ebrated Moffitt estate in Ireland, val-j "Clan Moffat." William Moffatt, of worse luck! It is a Cora Moffett who ued at $4(3.000,000 which goes to only: PawPaw, Ills., of a County Cumber- was so fortunate as to have married five families, all in this country. land, England-Canada line, was a man who afterward became the There is another W. S. Moffitt at Car- across last year and will go over present sheriff of the county, and now. course, in thage, Illinois, who is also an heir." again next year. William H. Moffitt, of she has to reside of New York City, returned from the jail residence. Now this is more comfortable Europe, April 1st, of which more forty-six millions is something like— December 11, 190b', a patent was elsewhere. On while a paltry three millions would bej granted to Carmelous Corwin Moffet, no inducement at all to the average! of Barney, North Dakota, being Pat- Moffat to attempt to reap where he Don't become impatient if you get ent No. S37.945 on a Nut Lock, de- did not sow. more than one set of blue blanks—we signed to keep the nut upon a bolt Then we have a book of a foreign would rather hit you a dozen times from loosening through "creeping" claims agent in Ohio, who seems to than miss you once. from constant jarring.

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Murdered and Scalped in Kansas. tive that one of the four settlers was lost their lives and their cattle herd In an official report to the Govern- an experienced plainsman—he it was almost without warning, were David ment, from the headquarters of the who turned to the nearpst rocks and Moffit of Countv Antrim. Ireland, 11th Voiameer Cavalry at Salina, and Elizabeth Nicholl of the [sland of Kansas. Captain Henry Booth — of Co.: works—he it was who remained un- Guernsey; both parents died in Illin- L, states: "I have the honor to re- scalped and. when capture was inois. port the following facts in regard to evitable, and death by torture cer- From the last letter received bv the killing of four men by Indians, tain, turned his last shot upon him- Robert Xicholl Moffit. from his near Beaver Creek, about 40 miles self, for an Indian will not scalp a brother John, dated May 13, 1864. from this place, on the north bank of suicide nor touch a demented man. the latter says: "We came here the Saline river. Amlndian will face a thousand deaths March Kith. We are 25 or 30 miles "Saturday evening August 6, 1864,1 to obtain a scalp, so the scalp left ly- from Salina up the Saline river. We four men, viz: two men (brothers) ing upon the rocks is evidence that are now thirteen miles from the near- j Moffit. one Tyler and one Hueston,! the Indian who secured the trophy; est house. We put up a stable 35 started from their ranch to kill a buf- his j was shot dead in tracks and cov- feet in length, a house 22 feet, of falo for meat, taking a two-horse! ored the scalp in falling, which was i logs." All this is authentic Kansas team with ;hem. reaching Upon the! never noticed when his comrades bore i history. top of a hill about three-quarters of i him off in the whirl of whooping sav- We are told from Illinois that the a mile from lie house, the Indians; ages, circling horses, fluttering war- woman in the log house was the were discovered rushing down upon i bonnets and plunging arrows. The daughter of the old man, the wife of them. The horses were turned and Cheyennes. when they found the one of the men killed and the sister

| ranch house defended and another added to their many casualties, madej off with all the horses and cattle on the place and fled westward. Many other settlers were killed in Kansas that year and the next; the overland stages were so often attacked that drivers could not be obtained and the soldiers themselves drove them ; through with heavy escorts. The 11th

Kansas Cavalry did wonders in hold- : ing them in check and sometimes soundly punished them, and sometimes small detachments were over- powered by the Cheyennes, Arapa-j hoes and Sioux and were wiped out. j The power of the Indians was finally

broken forever when General Custer 1 with his regulars attacked them at night in the middle, of winter at the \ "Black Kettle Fight," in the Indian' Territory, drove them from their camps and destroyed everything they had. The scene of the awful trasedy where two of our clan were filled with John Leetch Moffitt. 1837-1864. arrows, scalped and left naked and Thomas Moffitt, 1841-1864. Killed by Indians in Kansas. dead on the prairies, was in wh^t is Killed by Indians in Kansas. j now Lincoln county, Kansas, the run toward a ledge of rocks, where rocky ledge being upon the northeast j of the other: all four, with two chil- the men took a position. They ap- quarter of section nine, township dren, had come on a day's visit to pear to have fought desperately twelve, range seven in Elkhorn town- and John and Thomas Moffit; the buffa- must have killed several Indians. ship. The brothers belonged to a lo hunt was organized partly for Three of the killed Antrim, Ireland-Philadelphia ; men were scalped, County sport and partly for meat, for the but one of the scalps was left upon a line, being John Leetch Moffit, born j visitors. After dark that night the rock close by. The horses were both Jan. 29, 1837, at Gracehill, County old man and his daughter, with the shot through the head. This was Antrim, Ireland and Thomas Moffit, children, left the ranch and made probably done by the ranchmen to born , 1841, at the same place. their way on foot to the distant set- prevent above, them falling into the hands Both were killed as Aug. 6, tlements. of the Indians. The wagon was burn- 1864. Their portraits are given here- ed. The Indians made a descent up- with. Robert Xichol Moffit, an elder on the house, in which were an old brother, came from Illinois to Kansas A young patriot at Brooklyn, N. man and a woman. The old man shot to recover the bodies. On September Y., in sending in his blue report puts one of the Indians through a hole in 20, with an escort of soldiers from after the question concerning place the wall, whereupon they all fled. headquarters at Salina, he went up and date of marriage "coming soon;" They judge the number of Indians to the river to his brothers' ranch, dis- and after wife's maiden name in be about 100 * * * • The Indians re- interred the remains and removed full, "don't know yet." We beg to * treated up the Saline river (west). them to Wethersfield, Ills., where they remind our young compatriot that it * * * All settlers have left." rest in the family lot in the cemetery. is considered good form to ask the It is evident from the above narra- The parents of the brothers who thus ladv's consent before marrying her.

MOFFATANA BULLETIN. minds of our clanspeople. Study this -BY- photograph until it . is so impressed upon your memory that if you run GEORGE WEST MAFFET. across the original you will at once say to yourself, "where did I ever ENCOURAGEMENT. see that face?" If you find loose slips in this Bulletin, you are re- A elanswoman at Alma, Wiscon- quested to send one to your nearest sin, says: ''I am very glad to know- police headquarters and ask for a that a Moffat genealogy is to be put search and for advice as to other in book form." sources of information and follow A clansman in Colorado (an as- these latter up. Be sure that state sayer) wrote: "This movement and county institutions are given a strongly appeals to me, and would chance to report, and whatever the

-with will I like to keep in touch it and \ report mav be, send it at once to the gladly furnish further information.'' HISTORIAN IN CHIEF.

clansman in Rhode Island says : A | Clan Moffat in America. "I hope and trust that your labors Lawrence. Kans. will meet with the greatest success." Chicago lawyer writes: in- A "My Notice—Thomas Milburn Moffat t, terest in genealogy, heretofore very born November 19. 1855,' at New- slight, has been greatly increased by castle-on-Tyne. will please take no- your efforts to compile a record of the tice that his sister's present address clan, and I regret I cannot do more to is Mrs. Margaret Hickling, 417 Mor- assist you." rison Avenue, Hot Springs, Ark. A physician at Blue Mound, Illin-: Write. ois, wrote: "I believe that you will Wallace Beveridge Moffett, disap this undertaking a pretty large find Robert Foster Moffatt (his was a peared October, 1899. task. Don't you think you will have] County Tyrone, Ireland-Maryland material enough for an 'Encyclopedia

j line) was a captain in the 100th Pen- to Moffatana' before you are ready i ATTENTION CLAN!! This is the na. Regiment during the Civil war go to press? In view of the taskj last photograph of Wallace Beveridge fought under General Burnside in I and

which looms larger and larger before i ^XoffeP a >erv well known educator a number of important engagements, you, do you feel able to assume the) of Iowa, who absolutely disappeared including Hilton Head, Fort" Stead- financial stress alone? you wish j Do without leaving a single clue in Oc-jman (where he was wounded by a to do so?" j tober, 1899. He ranked high a musket ball), seige of Knoxville, A Mofitt iu Iowa wrote: "I want| j I teacher and was principal of schools Yicksburg, and smaller engagements. one of the books if I am living and i at various places. He was born in Near Hilton Head he was taken pris- have .money enough to get one. I Illinois, December 20. 1861, and be- oner after all of his men were shot have no notion of giving up the P e longed to a powerful County Antrim. down around him, leaving him alone.

ghost vet a while I expect to e ' — ^X Ireland-South Carolina line. His refused to surrender and his gun i He one hundred years or die trying—this father i s a minister, his two brothers was taken out of his hands bv the a d want t0 * editors of standing and his sisters Confederates, who admired his "cour- S.v«iJ?istay as long as«-IfKpossible. 1 teachers of high merit. He has a age too much to shoot him in cold A clansman at Portland, Maine. lovely wife and three sons. blood. He was guarded for two or says: "Compiling these records and In October. 1S99 (only eight years three weeks in a school house in Geor- history is a grand good work and I ago) Wallace Beveridge Moffet was gia and was in the city jail at sincerely wish you the greatest meas- 1 avins trouble with his head, par- Charleston for six months, after ure of success with it.' tially from mental overwork and from which he spent several months in Lib- A elanswoman in Philadelphia j , a partial sunstroke. After consulting by prison before he was paroled. His writes: "As you seen to be interest- .,„.,,... his family physician he started from death was caused from the results of ed in the honor of the family, I think | Dexteri Iowa , t0 consult speeialists a bullet wound received durine the t is^only^nght I should give you all at St joseph, Mo., and the next day war. At the time he was in the army.

the help I can. I must say I have i mailed a letter from Kansas City, his father was having his big barn always been proud of the name, but . Mo to his father rivin? the gloomy 'on the homestead near New Castle, had no idea they were so numerous. view of his ease as given by the doc^ Penna., painted, and as one of the A Californian who surely has kissed tors. He has never been seen nor painters engaged in the work was the Blarney stone, manages to write: heard from since. ; somewhat of an artist and a loyal "The more I see of your work, the It may be that while in a more or patriot, he painted a large flag and more I admire it. * * * * I think you less dazed condition, he met a vio- war eagle in colors on the side of the are a God send among us. Your man- lent death, if so police records or cor- barn facing the road, where it re- ner of drawing families closer to- this hav- ,. , oner's records will show. It mav be mains to day, the painting n """^ T » * ^ that he ™dered clear across " the ing been renewed from time to time. SeSdv adn£e ' ° y During the war the old veterans pas<- " United States and was finally locked i n off i along take . up in a sanitarium or asylum or oth- ? the road would ' ^'.| ,::: .,-:. m a small ^com- 1 er place of detention. It'may be that their hats and cheer when passing munity and there are others of the | he holds an honorable place in socie- that barn, and occasionally one will name not related to you, kindly fa- ty with his past a complete mental do so to this day. vor us with their addresses. Exam- blank. ine telephone lists and town direc- Attention Clan! Let us try to lift! Please do not forget those blue tories. this burden from off the hearts and blanks, f not already sent in.

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LAWRENCE, KANSAS, U. S A., FEBRUARY, 1908

This is a birds-eye view of the [scenery becnmes wildly romantic and (There is a Moffat coat of arms sail

J town of Moffat. Scotland, from a attracts the tourist from afar; the! to have been given to a Moffat by | recent photograph. This is the an- curative waters of Moffat Well has Constantiue the Great). In A. D. | j

cestral rally center for Clan Moffat | made the modern town a fashionable 410, when the Romans evacuated which 1547-1587 was listed by rec- I spa. and manv fine villas dot its hill- Britain after notice to the inhabit- ords of Parliament as a Border Clan sides. ants, there were 11.000 Roman sold- | of Scotland. Every foot this iers the southern wall. of j Annandale, at the head of which guarding scene is sacred to the name Moffat is Moffatdale. is historic ground. In Since then many hostile armies have | will and be gazed irpon with reveren- ; the year 7S A. D. two Roman roads passed up and down through Annan- tial eyes bv American Moffats. The ! were built through Scotland, and one dale. The authentic history of the

town Moffat; the Moffat Hills; the ! of them is in use today only a couple town Moffat begins 1100-1200 and is Moffat Water (stream); the Moffat id' miles out from Moffat. In 120 wrapped up with the history of the Well (sulphur springs;) the parish A. D. the Romans built a defensive Bruces, Normans; the story starts — Moffat and Moffatdale, all center at wall thirty miles south east of Mof- David I, king of Scotland, married this locality, and back across Ire- fat : in the year 139 A. D. they built Judith, niece of William the Con- land and England trace most Moffat another forty miles to the northwest*. queror; their daughter Isobel married |

lines to this ancestral home. : both walls were to keep back the wild Robert de Brus, Lord of Annandale. The surroundings of the town are ; tribes of the Highlands. Constan- and with the Bruces the Moffats rose pastoral (sheep breeding and feeding tius. the father of Constantiue the and fell. being the leading industry) ; in the Great, defeated the wild tribes be- hills and adens in the environs the ' tween these two walls A. D. 305. Who knows the Clan yell?

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MOFFATANA BULLETIN cents. Total Steamer 50_ ^ .t">7.00. Besides this "City of Brussels" on April Published by quite a few postage stamps have 22, 1881. having emlirrated from come in here GEORGE WEST MAFFET.. and there. county Roscommon. Ireland. Hugh We have been urged time and Moffet has had twelve children (los- Editor and Historian in Chief. again to set a subscription price on ing three) his father had ten, (all "The'Clan Moffat in America." Moffatana Bulletin, but this cannot living) ; his grandfather ten and his (A Geuealogy in Preparation.! be. The Bulletin is but an incident great grandfather also ten children. in a great work. It is composed of a Of his great great uncle it is said Lawrence, - - Kansas, U. S. A. few fragments served up to keep "John Moffatt was a physician and a alive the interest and keep the blue musician of note; he was twice mar- It is planned that this Bulletin be teports coming in. To accept sub- red and had twenty-four sons, twelve received in the family of each Moffat script ions would be a pledge to issue by each wife: his first wife's name 01 Moffat descendant, entirely with- the Bulletin at stated times and to is not given but the second wife was out cost to them and without thought continue its issue in the future. Its named Delia Clark. Each son went of obligation. It will be supported, value would be fixed by comparison to seek his fortune as he got able and in part, while its issues continue, by with other publications whose profits the last son of all went to Edinburgh free will donations from those who are- front the advertisements, and Scotland. The father remained as realize the importance of the work in which have a subscription price only long as he lived, at his home in the progress and who understand the because the law compels it. Those Townland of Drumboyland, county costliness in money and in time of who felt that they were not getting Roscommon, Ireland. labor of this character. value received would refuse the Bul- Hugh did not give us this informa- letin, as would those whose interest tion, other than as to his own child- was at low ebb—the very people Your editor has to report, after ren ; the other information came from whom we wish to reach. On the oth- thirteen months of honest work, that his father aged seventy years, a dear er hand, the Bulletin can go into all the Clan Directory now contains 3,- old gentleman across the water. known families, without thought of 300 Moffat breadwinners and heads (Your editor wishes to remark riclit obligation. To tin:se who wish to of families, making' a living- popula- here, that it was certainly a dispen- help .-hove along, the free-will dona- tion of some 12.000 little and big. sation of providence that those twen- tion can be based entirely upon what ty-four sons showed a desire to travel We are confident that the Clan roll, I value has already been received and when written up with all living- Mof-i when they became big enough—had the Bulletin can make its appearance fats now in the Archives, will show they not, they would soon have begun at such times as the pressure of the ac least 10,000 when children are in- to suck door-knobs, chew the wood- main work is the lowest or the inter- cluded. The roll can certainly be ex- « ork and gnaw the table legs, seek- est is running low. In this way we pected to creep up to 15,000 and pos- ing nourishment. Your editor has v ill grow into a clan all together; sibly may reach 20,000 living Mof- only one son, but he has an internal j and in the end a genealogy of the fats. While the interlacing of lines' capacity of I don't know how many Moffat Clan will be an accomplished has made some headway, every few thousand cubic inches—and twenty- fact. weeks we get trace of an entirely new four sons ! Goodness gracious me

j line. The very thought of it makes my toes The expense account still persists Hugh The Policeman. curl up in alarm! Wonder if we can j in demanding attention; besides thir- gather in all the descendants of this historic twenty-four for Clan Mof- teen months of persistent work, there It is with pleasure that we present at.) has been a cash outlay to date oft the photograph of Hugh Moffat a Hugh has a brother Thomas, who $547.66 divided as follows:— New York City policeman, who land- is also a New York policeman; also Postage and express $160.14 ed at Old Castle Garden from the Stationery and printing 215.70 two second cousins who are police- Equipment 108.95 men in Ireland, Thomas in county Fees for searches 5.00 Sligo and Patrick in county Long- Fhotos and illustrating; 57.87 ford.

Total $547.66. Rev. Lacy Irvine Moffett, Presby- When this edition reaches the terian missionary at Soochow, China, mails this will be at least $100.00 who, with his sister also a missionary, more. made recent report to Clan head- Free-will donations have reached quarters, made a notation in Chinese us of $57.00, which has been placed hieroglyphics upon the margin of the in bank to accumulate; if used on blue report. We are not accustomed, this edition it will reduce the outgo ether than on our wash list, to re- to some $600.00. ceive communications in the Chinese The source of the free-will con- language—all such read alike to us tributions has been; a real estate "delicious stewed rats at all hours man, New York. $25; a Pennsylvania at this restaurant." If Rev. Moffett college president, $10.00; a Michigan wishes to leave a message to posterity manufacturer, a Tennessee merchant in the Chinese language, about six and a South African missionary, each inches square; or wishes to reproduce $5; a Pennsylvania lady $2; an Ill- some classic concerning the Chinese inois physician, a South Carolina veneration for one's ancestors, we lawyer, a Wisconsin lady and a Texas will take pleasure in making it of editor, each $1; a South Carolina permanent record. (His is a Virgin- lady and a Texas lithographer, each ia-Kentucky line.)

MOFFATANA BULLETIN Costly Experience. toward giving an alarm", he would Published by dash it down and blow both of them and the bank with them into a mil- GEORGE WEST MAFFET. Those of our clan who been have lion atoms. He then ordered Mr. Editor and Historian in Chief. well enough off to have meat on t he Moffat to go through the doorway "The Clan Moffat in America." table at least once every day. have into the bank and bring him ten been having tough times since our (A Genealogy in Freparaf.on.) thousand dollars in bills and leave last issue. James A. presi- Moffett, the door open behind him. Mr. - - S. A. Mof- Lawrence, Kansas, U. dent of the Standard Oil Company, fat recognized the situation and did has been fined $29,240,000.00 for ac- as lie was bid and the robber stood is planned this Bulletin be cepting rebates from a railroad com- It that partially behind the door and watch- received in the family of each Moffat pany, concessions on oil shipments. I ed him get the money. When it was or Moffat descendant, entirely with- This is the largest fine ever assessed j delivered him the robber ran from cost to them and without thought against a business concern in the out the building and was immediately of obligation. It will be supported, history of the world. Hence our pursued. What became of the ter- in part, while its issues continue, by clansman (whose blue report was one | rible bottle of explosive and whether free will donations from those who of the first of all sent in) can be ex- the man was caught and the money realize the importance of the work in cused if he is not feeling quite so lecovered, we cannot now tell from progress and who understand the bright as usual twenty nine million — memory. With two such instances in costliness in money and in time of dollars of a fine would make most of i his experience it is not to be expected labor of this character. us feel rather weak in the pocket- that Mr. Moffat has that faith in his book. If worse comes to worse, we fellowman that would make him par- Excerpts From Letters. must help our clansman out in this ticularly cordial to strangers. matter, and it would be- well for all From Astoria, Oregon, a clansman of us to economize on neckties and Not a single clue has turned up writes: "I see that you already cut down on shoeleather and see if concerning the disappearance of know more about my family connec- we cannot help pay the fine. And Wallace Beveridge Moffett, whose tions than I do myself, as I did not maybe our friend would take in part picture was given last issue. On the know my great grandparents names the word for the deed and manage to other hand we have lost four or five nor also the first name of my grand- scrape through somehow. Come to more members of the clan. Among mother as she died when I was think of it, the "word for the deed" them was a Professor Moffat, in small." may not pass for 'asset currency' on Pennsylvania, who was reported mis- A Moffit in Texas after perusing Wall street. But rather than see a sing in June 1907 and whom we trust the Bulletins, gets so ecstatic that he clansman pinched, we will pay the was found, as the newspaper clipping writes: "I would like to state that fine alone, if someone will keep us was onlv three davs old. Then there Moftitts, Moffits and Mafits and Mof- in postage stamps and stationery was Joseph A. Moffet, a lad of 1G, fetts and Moffets and Moffats and while we are accumulating the twen- who disappeared Dec. 24, 1873, whose Mofatts and Maffatts are the best ty nine millions. people in the World today, at least father Jacob Ridgeway Moffett was Then there is David Halliday Mof- I think so. If everybody were like killed bv the Indians in Wise Countv, fat, of Denver; when Harry Orchard the Moffats this world would be Texas, Sept., 4, 1865 (This was a was telling his horrible tale on the Heaven." Xewburgh, Maine line.) Another witness stand in Idaho, after hav- A clansman, a foreign missionary was John A. Moffett, an exconfeder- . ing killed the Governor of that state at Trinidad, British West Indies, one ate soldier, who, his wife having by fixing a bomb in the gate of his of a family of seven who has furnish- died, left his infant daughter with home, he said the miners union had ed three brothers, Presbyterian min- the grandparents and went off to planned the death of Moffat, the mil- isters, one of them in the foreign seek work. His fate is unknown to lionaire mine owner of Denver. The missionary field, and two sisters also his daughter. Then there is Thomas officials of the union promptly de- in the foreign missions, writes in Milburn Moffatt, born at Newcastle- nied the assertion and said that not August: "Though I am not rich, nor on-Tyne as per notice in last issue. only was it not true, but that the ever expect to be, I would be pleased Then there is a railroad trainman headquarter depository of the union to assist in any way possible to fur- Lewis E. Moffett, whose last known * was the Moffat bank at Denver. ther the interests of Moffatana. * address was in Canada. 4 Next in order was the mailing of a Thanks for the Bulletin, I will be A disappearance of historical note, to Mr. Moffat through the grateful for other copies, and for any bomb was that of John Moffett, the ances- mails by a boy crank, who hoped to sort of information which will keep tor of a celebrated Virginia line. become a hero by giving a warning us in touch with the onward march of He w-ent on a visit to relatives in in advance, which proceeded to do the Clan. I feel certain there are de- he North Carolina, leaving his wife and was punished for his crime. And tails which will not find a place in He a family of little ones at home. He this was not the only instance in the the more public documents, since the j never got through and never was life David H., Denver. Han's lines go back to the early of of Some heard from again, and as his trip was or twenty years as days of history; but I would be glad, fifteen ago we on foot through the primeval forest, recollect it, he was sitting at a table if you do not need them, if you will it was supposed he was killed by the in the directors room of the bank, send me some of the earlier forms of | Indians. After seven years his wife, fetish worship? The specimens of when a caller was shown in and seat- Mary Christian Moffett administered himself at the table. Taking a tadpules and monkeys I will not ex- ed his estate and remarried and by this pect—the Clan has had few of either, bottle of nitro-glycerine from his second marriage became the grand- but it must have had Reverend gen- pocket and holding it poised over the mother of a governor of Ohio. tlemen at the very start. You do not table, he looked Mr. Moffat in the hint at the battle cry of the Clan. eyes and told him what it was and The word 'Moffatana' means 'mat- What is it?" told him if he made the least move ters and things relating to Moffat.'

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A treat that reached us recently For Our Posterity. Tt is more than likely that Clan Mof- was a handsomely illustrated pamph- fat reports have been this "Grant. Lord, that all of our caught in let of sixteen pages, with a family Children and our Children's Children, Cre. Write us if you think your re- tree of the County Antrini-Blasrg's port may have been at to the last one left on Earth when that place Clove, New York Moffats inserted. about THOU shalt come again, may be Jan. 13, and we will iiotify von This splendid offering was with the if it reached among Thy Redeemed ones— their us safelv. compliments of Mr. Hector Moffat. names written in Thy Book of Life, Washington ville. X. Y. and is en- of for Thy Name's Sake, Amen." Don't forget those photographs titled ''Story of Blooming Grove and The above was the daily petition of for the Clan Archives. Tribe "of (Moffat)." the Samuel Andrew Moffet, a retired merchant Henry Moffat Fitch, of New York of Dunse. Berwickshire. Scotland, at Another report on the "Moffat City, of this line, wn*ie the leading family prayers. Of his sons and Millions" has reached us from which is of the "'Samuel sketch, daughters, one went to Australia, oth- Georgia. What a pity it is that one Branch" of the Blague's Clove line. ers to Charleston, South Carolina, and hundred and twenty millions cannot We wish to add to this the follow- still others remained in Scotland. One find the Moffitts j for which it is seeking sprightly sketch of the scene in I of his American descendants com- \ ing—why with only some $000 we interest, from the pen of a descend- ments, "it was well worth our trip; have cornered nearly every Moffat in third, upon whose ant of Samuel across the ocean to have heard this America land the present city of Washing- prayer." j

tonville was laid out ; and above the We have received from Rev. farm of this latter (Samuel third) We now have ten coats of arms Thomas Clemence Moffatt, of Clyde, was, on one side of the road, the and crests that belong to Moffat j Kansas, a copy of "The Moffat Two- farm of David H., the father of Clan. Be patient about them at step" a piece of sheet music compos- Hector who issues the pamphlet; and present. To give them out at this ed by Alice Maynard Griggs, of Den- above on the other side of the road, time would just interfere with our ver, Colo. On its title page is a view was the farm of Joseph, whose study of their origin as to the dif- in colors of "The famous Moffat daughter, Mrs. Curreuce Moffat ferent familv lines. Road." an imposing piece of mount- Shons held the land as mentioned. am scenery and the music commem- and down the road separating the Up Rev. Oscea Edmund Moffet, of orated the building of that railroad. farms of these three brothers, each of Streator, 111., who was in Scotland in i:ow in course of construction from whom had 400 acres, tramped the June, returned with many Moffatana Denver northwest, its builder and Washington, as it campaign- army of treasures, which he was kind enough promoter being David Halliday Mof- ed up and down the Hudson river to loan us. His is a Northfield, Mass., fat; and this is his third or fourth during the Revolution. She writes: lire of Moffets. Former Congress- successful railroad building venture. "All the land once owned by the man Hon. James Thompson Maffett, descendants of Samuels 2nd, and Martin Moffatt, a merchant at of Clarion. Penn., returned from 3rd., has gone out of the family. The Grange, County Sligo, Ireland, sent Europe in August. His is a county old long brown house (now white) us some samples of Irish handmade Down Ireland-Pennsylvania liue. built and owned and lived in all his lace that set the ladies wild who ex- amined them. Mrs. Moffatt has a life by David Halliday Moffat, Sr.. ^ treasured addition to our library j class of Irish girls at that is still standing. When it was only Ins reached us from the publishers work in a log house and occupied by Samuel industry and will make lace on spec- ii. England— it is ••The Lives of ial orders by mail. Our samples were 2nd., he used to give Washington's Robert and Mary Moffat" (the Afri- soldiers buttermilk out at the big can missionaries) by John Smith priced, S7 cents per yard, $1.12 per swing gate. A man by the name of Moffat, (their son). The publisher yard; and a set of collar and cuffs was $1.87. The little matter of Roe owns it now. Just across the is T. Fisher Unwin, Paternoster tariff will add to the cost. This is road was Joseph Moffat's share Square. E. E. C, London. Its price is see, David H., on one side, Joseph on about 02 cents, with postage added. your chance for a lace bridal-veil. the other—then my great grand- Have your dealer send for it for you. What greater test of the supreme father's (Samuel 3rd.) just below; christian can there be than that a and the latter started the village of There are some twenty-five Moffats | man send his dying forgiveness to Washingtouville his, built now in America who are policemen, on thej | the man who assassinated him? Yet store, tavern and mill; bought all thej constables, detectives, sheriffs or j deputies. On Nov. 29th just passed, this was done by Rev. John Roberts produce of the farmers as they | Moffett, the Baptist minister and brought it to him in their covered deputy sheriff W. J. Moffitt, of j editor who was shot down on the wagons. Then he took it to New Oakland, California, got into a scrim-! streets of Danville. Virginia, as the York by sloop from Cornwall, a mage at midnight with desperadoes!

'. prohibition cam- place below Newburgh. Joseph Mof- and in the resulting duel two officers result of a red hot \ paign in 1892. Send to Mrs. Pearl fat's daughter Currence Moffat were shot "down and a Chinaman kill- i Bruce Moffett, of Salem, Virginia, Shons still holds her father's land cd. There was a perfect rain of bul- j the book lives lets, but Moffit escaped without in- for the life of this martyr, and in the new house with her i Moffett" by Rev. S. children and grandchildren. They jury, although the Chinaman had being "John R. A. M. had about 400 acres apiece." opened fire on him at the start of! H. Thompson,

the melee. Moffatana Hall is now an accom- Don't forget to return to us blue' A fire in Kansas City union station plished fact—being the name of one blanks sent you partially filled out,' r.n Jan. 13th., destroyed 300 sacks of of the main buildings at the Boutwell j so they can be passed along to others, somnion mail, '35 sacks of registered School for 'finishing young ladies at j j each to add what he can. jaail and considerable express matter Groton, Mass.

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GRANDSON. Lieutenant Maffitt had discovered, I fit said, "Mr. Kell, take my life pre- surveyed and charted. Just previous! server, sir; you are almost exhaust- John Newland Maffitt. the revival- to the Rebellion he was in command ed." The gallant boy did not con- ist was born and reared under the of the brig Dolphin and captured and sider his own condition, but his pal- shadow of Trinity College, Dublin, brought into Charleston the slaver lid face told me his heroism was j Echo, with nearly five hundred-, slaves superior to his bodily suffering and I Ireland. In America he became a |

Methodist minister of such power, on board, direct from the coast of i refused it." They were both soon that we have seen a history of Boston Africa. In 1SG0. while in command picked up by the English yacht -which states that the pressure to hear of the U. S. S. Crusader he captured Deerhound. him was so great that people clam- another slave ship, the bark Bogota; Within the year, a book by the bered into the windows of the within a month or two he also captur- Neale Publishing Co.. of Flatiron It is related that at one ed the slavers Kibley and Young Building. New York City, has made church. | time he made so strong a crusade Antonio. its appearance. It is "The Life and against the gamblers of the river He soon resigns and enters the Services of John Newland Maffitt," steamers of the Mississippi river that Confederate navy and has command by Emma Martin Maffitt, his widow. they resolved to assassinate him. of numerous vessels, the most im- It costs three dollars prepaid bj' mail, Their leader entered the church while portant being the C. S. S. Florida,! and all who can afford this expendi- Mr. Maffitt was in the midst of his with which he captured fifty-five! ture should send for this book, for sermon and fired a pistol point blank prizes. Because of his coast survey we believe it to be, after a careful

j at him, coming so close as to sever a experience he became invaluable to perusal, reliably historical. lcck of hair from his head. It is the Confederate government in bringing in blockade runners with war supplies of clothing, medicines, powder and other munitions of war. Two incidents will show the animus of the man: In getting the Florida into commission his crew became dec- imated with the yellow fever and he became tuo short-handed to work thei vessel and entered a Cuban harbor. He had doctored his crew until he himself was taken down and his case became so hopeless that three doctors, standing over him, announc- ed that he could not survive more or two. The supposed than an hour j dead man suddenly came to life and said "that is a lie; I have too much; to do and cannot afford to die." And ten days afterward, with hardly enough men to handle the steamer and without fighting force, he started to take- his vessel into the blockaded port of Mobile. As the port was sighted he was carried on deck and took command and without hesitancy

j MIDSHIPMAN EUGENE ANDERSON steered straight between two of the MAFFITT, | LIEUT. JOHN NEWLAND MAFFITT, his Of the Confederate "Alabama," who blockading fleet and although i U. S. NAVY. Swam from the Sinking Vessel. Afterward Capt. Maffitt of C. S. N., who vessel was badly riddled, he carried as commander of Confederate S. S. her into Mobile Bay without answer-' Florida, destroyed 55 Union Whose Ancestor is This? Vessels. ing a shot.

And as to the grandson : —Eugene On September 24, 1716 the ship told that Rev. Maffitt never hesitat- Anderson Maffitt was a midshipman 'Anna & Mary,' from Bristol, Eng- ed but continued his sermon to the on board the historic Alabama. In land, entered the port of Boston, end and then coolly gave out the the duel off the coast of France be- Mass. Among the ten passengers on hymn. In 1841 he was Chaplain of tween the Alabama and the Kear- board was John Moffat. Congress. So much for the father. sarge, the Alabama was sunk. Capt. Whose ancestor is this?—we now John Newland Maffitt the son was Kell, its executive officer, in an ar-j have enough unclassified Johns on born upon the ocean, enroute to tide in the Century Magazine of hand to give a dozen or two to any- America. At the age of thirteen he April, 18S0 says: "Partly undress- one that may have need of them. became a midshipman in the United ing, we plunged into the sea, and on top of this 'comes a North States navy and in less than three made an offing from the sinking ship, And Carolina line that has six Johns in years was detailed to duty upon the Captain Semmes with a life-preserv- succession in the chain of ancestry. historic vessel U. S. frigate Constitu- er and I on a grating. The young j tion. He rose rapidly in his profes- Midshipman Maffit swam to me and! sion and served for fourteen years offered his life-preserver. My grat- The census of 1790 shows that upon the coast survey, during which ing was not proving a very buoyant there were in Kent county, Maryland, L time his bureau chief gave the name float, and the white caps breaking six. heads of families by name Mof- cf I Maffitt 's Channel to one of the en- over my head were distressingly un- fett, most of them slaveholders.

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GEORGE WEST MAFFET. "- ; i. /&&**> ENCOURAGEMENT. A clansman in Texas writes: "Suc- cess to you, and if you have the gen- X uine Moffett WILL you will suc- ceed." A Tennessee physician says: "I should be pleased to hear more of you and your noble cause." j A elanswoman in Massachusetts suggests, "and I do not think it is becoming of a Moffat to fail."

A elanswoman in Georgia writes : ^^•*>* * j ^ "I am very much interested in this! A work and am surely proud of my

Moffett ancestry; will do all I can i to assist." /.- A county Sligo, Ireland, clansman ; recently wrote: "I will write anything I hear about the name. Your work deserves support from everv Moffat." A Virginia elanswoman says: "I am greatly interested in your efforts —this has long been a cherished pro- FIFTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY ject of my own and it will give me 1852—NOVEMBER 25—1907 great satisfaction to aid you in any way I can." David Bins'ham Moffatt was born which she did by teaching country A elanswoman in Lane county, in Elmira. N. Y. Aug. 11. 1828. In school. Kansas writes: "Any inquiries you 1835 his father, David Wilson Mof- On Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 24, may make of us will be cheerfully fatt, and uncle and a neighbor, built 1852. (fifty-five years ago) this answered, as you are undertaking a a large raft, and with their families couple was married at Rockton, 111., tedious problem and I congratulate floated down the Allegheny River to and soon after settled on a farm you on your pluck." Pittsburg, where they sold the raft near Polo. In 1870 they moved to a A New York City clansman says: and went by boat to Alton, settling farm near Onarga and from there to "'Your Moffatana Bulletins have been in the wilds of Greene Co., Illinois. Chicago in 1891, living most of the read by me with much interest, and The Moffatts moved to Aurora in time on Polk Street, near Western I think they must be much appreciat- 1837 and helped to organize the first Ave., but now at 305 Forty-second ed by all the Clansmen. You are en- church in the village, going later to Avenue. Five children, threa boys gaged in a good work, and may suc- Byron, 111. and two girls, were born to them, all cess attend your efforts." Mary Jane Jones was born in of whom are now living. Every A staff correspondent of the Louis- Rochester, N. Y. June 7, 1832, and community in which Mr. and Mrs. ville (Ky.) Courier-Journal (his is a came west, via Buffalo and the Great Moffatt have lived has felt the im- County Down, Ireland-Kentucky Lakes to Chicago in 1846. Her press of their strong, upright char- line) recently wrote: "I tender great father was one of those who voted acters, and every good cause has had hopes and best wishes for the success for Jas. G. Burney, the first Anti- their support. They are now active of 'The Clan Moffat in America.' Slavery candidate for President. He members of Calvary Presbyterian *" * although late in falling into also helped to organize and carry on church, corner of Jackson and Forty- rank, I am nevertheless earnest in the Washingtonian movement in second Avenue, Chicago. 111. spirit with the cosmopolitan army 1840. Soon after coming West he (This couple belongs to the "Isaac marching on in history. I have en- started on a sea voyage in the hope Branch" of the Countv Antrim- joyed reading the Moffatana Bul- of regaining his failing health, but Blagg's Clove, N. Y. line. "One of the letin." the vessel on which he sailed, bound treasures of the Clan archives is a A Canadian minister says: "I am for Calcutta, was lost with all on 'four generation photo,' giving Mr. delighted to know that a member of board. Her mother dying soon after, Moffatt. his son. grandson and great the great Moffat family has under- she was obliged to maintain herself, grandson.) taken the difficult task, but very important duty, of working out correct- ly a genealogy of the Clan Moffat. for telling me more of my people hope and pray your work will be a deserves to be. I have often thought that some one than I ever knew before. I wish to i Sreat success, as it of the Moffat family ought to do get right into harness and help you If I could get talking to you on these-

this." all I can. for I consider this work one I matters it would be an unbounded A New York state man writes of the grandest that was ever thought pleasure. What a lot of Moffats you "Received your Bulletins, also let of." must know. It is an immense work ters and blue reports; was surprised A elanswoman in Dromod, County to ^undertake, but you have the but greatly pleased. I wish to say Leitrim, Ireland, says: "I am very strength and courage to accomplish right here I am very grateful to you interested in family traditions and do it."

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(An Occasional Publication.)

VOL. 1. LAWRENCE, KANSAS, U. S. A., JULY, 1909

Through the courtesy of J. Weir, these things are interesting in the a large building wherein they had photographer at Moffat, Scotland, we discussion as to whether the locality met for Council or prayer. The are enabled to give two more land- gave the name to the people, or Johnstones set fire to the building scapes of that land so dear to us as a whether the Moffat people gave their and on the Moffats attempting to es- Clan. name to the localities that they fre- cape from the flames, attacked and The view on this page is of Mof- quented. killed many of their 'principals/ fatdale and Moffat Water, the valley This beautiful valley of Moffat- This disaster deprived the clan of and the stream that carries the name dale, as clearly shown in the picture. its leaders and ultimately led to its Moffat; on another pajre will be seen is well stocked with sheep. breaking up. At nils time many of the "Grey Mare's Tail," the cele- the Moffats were undergoing a condi- j brated cascade that falls 300 feet in tion of affairs common enough to making its escape from Loch Skene The Moffat-Johnstone Feud. every border family in turn, viz.,

on its way to the sea; 1300 feet From the "Moffats of that Ilk" by : outlawry. And as killing outlaws above the level of which it towers Robert Maxwell Moffat, M. D. we was no murder, the Johnstones do not on Whitecomb Hill. This is the start glean the following: appear to have been called upon to of Moffat Water and this stream, after "When the Johnstones extended answer for their act, and the Moffats its escape from the lake, flows south- their were possessions to upper Annan- ! apparently then too weak to west for ten miles or more, emptying dale, about the beginning of the 15th avenge it privately. There had been into the Annan river a couple of century, the Moffats looked upon no recognized Chief since about 1560,

miles below the town of Moffat and them as interlopers and resented ! and it was probably some time after not getting nearer than a mile and a their growing influence and hence that this event took place. Previous- half of the town at any point. It is arose a keen struggle for local ly the Chieftainship was vested in interesting to note that the "Well power, and the feud between the two the family of Moffat of Grantoun. i. Burn'' the stream that takes the clans continued through several gen- e.. of that Ilk. From 1569 the Mof- drainage of Moffat Well, flows erations and only ended when the fats of Knock appear to have been through the town of Moffat, as does the Moffat clan became 'broken' and , most influential until 160S. After also the river Annan. But Moffat ultimately dispersed. final -over- this time some of the surviving The j Water keepts its distance, although throw of the Moffats appears to have branches settled in Glencairne, Laud- "Auldtown" the site of the ancient been brought about by the John- erdale, and other parts, while some town, is a little nearer to Moffat stones taking advantage of an as- went to England . and Ireland, and Water than the present town. All sembling together of the Moffats in some to the Continent."

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A SERIOUS WORD WITH YOU. effort to bring to America the re- Graveyard has been drawn up and As the scope of this Moffatana mains of the naval hero, Capt. any grave that has not been registered work seems not well understood, we John Paul Jones, had to tunnel un- at the mapping of the ground has are induced to make the following der mammoth buildings in Paris. been forfeited. I cannot find any- -explanation. Most of us have had shore up the foundations of these one bearing your name in our Grave- experience with the county history buildings and after traveling hun- yard book and I infer that if yon canvassers, who will give a sketch of dreds of feet finally recovered the ever had grounds in our place you did your life and possihly your portrait body. And yet this grave was at one not see your way to register it. for so much money—and without the time in a prominent cemetery. Again, Sorry I can be of no use to you. money your history will not appear. one of our clansmen, in an effort to Yours, This Moffatana work does not enter •jet to the grave of his ancestors in (Signed) R, SCOTT. this field. Others know of the sup- an old graveyard in one of the middle Did anything more brazen ever oc- posed permanent record made on states, was obliged to go through a cur in all the history of this earth the expensive tombstones supposed trap-door in the church with the sex- than this—confiscation of the graves to last forever, but which in fact last ton and with lanterns travel on hands behind the backs of the living des- but 150 years or less. This is more and knees and read the tombstones cendants? the scope of the Moffatana work, under an addition of the church, the Within a mile or more from these but the record is made in books that new building having been extended headquarters we know of an old -will last in the big libraries for ten over the graves without their being cemetery whose fences have been re- thousand years or more, if our civili- moved or disturbed. moved and among the cattle in whose sation endures. In the case of another historian, pasture it now has no protection, are We take the stand that the arrival working up a family genealogy like two fine white marble monuments, and departure of each human soul this, he found the ancient graveyard both prostrate. upon this earth is well worth record- in the outskirts of a village in one And now no more. We have just ing. So far as in us lies, no Moffat of the New England states and the this to say—if you will do your part descendant will ever have existed monuments, many of them of white in getting into our hands the records Dut that a permanent record is made marble, were, part of a chicken yard. of your beloved dead, as well as the his birth, marriage and death, the this data of the living, we will every of And in same old graveyard was | make places he has resided and the avoca- an elegant iron fence enclosing a effort to perpetuate the record for- tions he has followed: the honors he lot, supposed to protect its graves ever. has held. He is not dealt with as an from desecration forever; and within individual, but it handled twice in this iron fence was an old sow, her One Dollar Tor a Human Life. the great chain of ancestry, once as young running in and out under the Paris, Ills. Mch. 1, 1907, Press Dis-

an infant when he is born, then again iron fence. This historian repur- patch—"Rev. M. B. Moffett, a ! as a parent when he becomes the head chased this land and restored this preacher of predestinarianism, was of a family. No charge is made any- burial ground, but if a deed does not awarded a verdict of one dollar todav one for making this record and this protect a grave forever, what can be in a suit for $10,000 against the Big chain of ancestry is kept up regard- expected of even this graveyard hun- Four Railroad growing out of the less of whether you do or do not like dreds of years hence? death of his father. The attorney it. If you have the patience to get And from one of our own clans- for the railroad emphasized the fact the record complete and accurate, so men in the state of Illinois came the that both father and son were predes- much the better: if not. then the re- following recently tinarians, and he did not consider a cord of you and your family is left •I am sorry to say that the proud suit for damages consistent with their more or less incomplete or incorrect city of Springfield, Ills., has desecrat- preachings." as is made by others of your line or ed the grave of Judge Thomas Moffett This in a country where a man's as"dug out of existing records. and about 200 other graves by ap- religion is sacred; and yet the mana- Your descendants can get at this propriating the ground, removing the gers of the railroads would have us record in the big libraries hundreds stones and leaving the bodies. It is believe that they cannot understand of years from now without expense; the old Hutchison burying ground in the rapidly increasing hostility of the | so can you, by going to the larger h he heart, of the city about three people toward the railroads. Our I public libraries and asking for the blocks northwest of the Capitol clansman, Rev. Silas H. Moffatt, who I books after published. If you want the buildings. The city illegally con- was killed by the cars, was of a Vir- book you can arrange to buy it when demned the grounds, razed the mon- ginia-Kentucky line. He was of it comes out, plenty of notice will be uments and turned the ground into a commanding presence, was six feet

given and you will be kept posted. If park. The city now proposes to sell i one inch tall, dark complexion, black not is you do want the books, there the ground for residence sites and I hair, grey eyes. He was a thrifty no obligation whatever for you to has asked the heirs to quit-claim farmer and had accumulated an es- I buy them and you need not. Nor which they will not do.'' tate of sixty thousand dollars | some -does this affect your record. In fact Why did not this city remove the at the time of his death. All his life you are just one unit in a great chain bodies, as is the custom? he was a volunteer preacher, but nev- of ancestry. And still more recently this reach- er held a salaried pastorate. Two of With this chain of ancestry more es us from across the water: his sons are bankers and of his or less brief, one can take the record Postal Card dated: eleven children but one is dead; and and find the last resting place if still Clou^h Co Down, Ireland, there are some twenty-five grand- marked by its tombstone; can hunt Oct. 6, 1908. children. in the various localities and finally "The Manse," Cloiigh, Down :— write a very creditable book about am sorry I have no information about Does anyone know of the existence .any individual or family. your family in any of our books. of a portrait of Colonel George Mof- And now as to the tombstones. Our records only go back to the year fett, of Augusta county, Virginia, of It was only a year or so ago since 1842. It is only since I came to Clough Revolutionary fame ? We would like this Government, in its successful 2-3 years ago, that a register of our much to copy it.

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MOFFATAXA BULLETIN. honor and justice: may this always brother David who came to America Published by be true, and may the brotherly feel- and settled out west somewhere. GEORGE WEST MAFFET. ing extend until The day Samuel's father (or grandfather) Editor and Historian in Chief. 'When man to man the warld o'er came from Scotland and made bon- Moffat in America." " •'The Clan Shall brothers be for a" that.' nets for the Yoemen and was grant- (A Genealogy in Preparation.) An Indiana man wrote: —"I have ed as a recompense several hundred Lawrence, - - Kansas. U. S. A. exhausted every avenue of informa- acres of land "as long as grass grew JULY. 1909. ion and find that an old maid aunt and water ran" for half a crown an cut the family records out of two acre in County Tyrone. Ireland, at EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS Bibles, which I am informed was Minemire. Samuel lost this land on lone to keep people from knowing a security debt. This family was A Moffett in Indiana, a bachelor in her age. She has been dead for sev- Episcopalian in Scotland." a reprehensible frame of mind. Who eral years now." can report knowledge of writes:—"Your advice is good and this tradi- A lady in Virginia says in a re- tion or the David who settled in the I'll follow it (sometime); polities sent letter: —"The Clan have been West 7 This would and women are both interesting, but have been be- good clever people, but I do not agree tween 1825-1860. then a tall. slim, red-headed grouchy with one of your correspondents who A tradition exists in old bachelor, further handicapped by an Arkansas says, 'if everybody was like the Mof- line:—"Our ancestress, being a democrat is a hard proposi- widow with 5 t'etts, this would be Heaven.' Some two sons, was taking ship tion for a "splendid girl even in leap to come to that I have known were pretty America; there were year. But 1*11 compromise with you great crowds on queer." the shore and much confusion, by promising, if Bryan is elected, I — as A lady writes: "My sister lost several ships were taking off mav set married.'' pass- three children in infancy; she said An Indiana Moffett writes:—"I engers at the same time. By mis- she hoped you would not ask any- take one of the boys am going to try to find out about the was placed on a thing about them. You know some different ship from folks in Tennessee (.County Armagh, the mother and people never want to speak of their other son and Ireland-Tenn. line) and write them came through to Xew dead, and I would not myself if it Orleans, while the and I am going to take a trip down mother with the was not necessary. She lost one little other son landed at there next winter. Xew York. This boy of six and she kept his little family lost trace of Still another Indiana Moffett the one landing shoes in a glass case on the mantle at writes:—"I close by asking you to Xew Orleans." Who can tell ^helf for some years after his death. more of this? be careful and not trace our lineage Surely this striking Many persons glanced at the little experience should enable the to Adam. My wife's people have two shoes, but no one ever mentioned his lines to be reunited. back to Adam already traced theirs name." as the laws of Indiana do not and What line is this?—"There seems permit relatives to many, you know PLUCKY LITTLE RUTH. to have been a Mrs. Moffit whose —ha!" Two Moffetts in Indiana, one be- husband may have been killed in the another Clansman in In- - And still longing to a County Armagh, Ire- Revolutionary war. She had a writes:— place of busi- diana "My land-Tennessee line, the other of an daughter Margaret. To escape the out on Feby 4th, 1908 ness burned Ireland-Maryland-Ohio line, in ex- Tories during the war the mother and just recovering from the and I am changing letters in 1904 wrote: daughter, who must have been a effects; but am pleased to add that "My little Ruth will be eleven young girl, took refuge on an Island I "am still at it." this — years old on the 22nd of coming supposed to have been about ten California Moffett writes: "I her A April. She had both bones of miles from Charleston. S. C. They admire my clansmen quite a little. I left arm broken and it is a surprise seemed to have lived previously in feel just like this: We always affil- to all that it was no worse; however what was then known as the Abbe- mingle with those who are iate and it was without her fault in the ville district, South Carolina. The deserving of honor and respect. Xo least." mother died and was buried on the man ever knew a man of the name of '"'You little can say to your Ruth Island. Later, when it was safe to the Moffett (no matter how he spelled that my Ruth when her arm was return, the daughter Margaret Mof- name) to do an unmanly act or who broken got up herself and carried it fit returned with others on horseback throw a slur on that honorable could (being broken about one inch above to Abbeville district and married a name. the wrist) and went into the school man by name John Hall and had two- A dotin, each other for nearly the name of Moffat has stood for dition:—"Samuel Moffat had a a hundred years

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The realestate holdings of Clan himself should suddenly throw up a A railroad policeman in California Moffat seem to be quite extensive trapdoor in the soil and take a look says in a letter: —" Now Mr. Maffet when even a balloon race cannot come out at James, that our tribesman 1 assure you. candidly speaking, you would now be able to off on this continent without one of avoid showing need not be afraid to enter any town, undue surprise, but would take it city, county or state where there is a the airships coming down on a Mof- purely as a matter of course. policeman by the name Moffett. or fat farm. In the balloon race that holding any other office. I venture took place July 4th. 190S from Chi- There are more Moffats to the to say we would save your shoes for •eago. one of the contestants landed square inch in Illinois than in any a little while and carry you on our five hundred miles away in Canada on oilier sraie. Philadelphia lakes the little shoulders, and then would not the farm of James Moffatt. In the lead of ail other cities with 155 consider we were doing half enough press dispatches next day. after a Moffat breadwinners upon the city for you, while vou wuiild be in our directory. description of the flight the aeronaut Chicago comes next with city." stated. "Thinking that we might soon 115. Philadelphia has been the most These policemen are so warm and reach Lake Ontario, (we had already backward in sending in blue reports, pressing in their invitations that we passed over Lake Huron) and know- while New York City Moffats. well are getting afraid to go into any large ing if we did we would hardly have aware of the ease in which all iden-j city for fear of them. Just imagine enough ballast to go lengthwise of ir. lity is lost in a great city, have been your historian going down the street •we decided to make a landing, which the most prompt. There is scarcely! in a patrol wagon with a policeman -was exceptionally rough, due to high n Moffat in New City has York but on each side of him. and people on winds. tore down fences with made prompt report on blue blanks.! We the sidewalks exclaiming, "My! But our basket and anctior. and dragged As many lines have traced back into those are a handsome pair of cops! for nearly a mile, but were only Philadelphia from other parts of Wonder what desperado they have slightly bruised.'' It is to be hoped the United States we trust that caught now—looks tough, doesn't that James Moffatt did the honors of Philadelphia Moffats will come for- the order in due form to these angels ward and join the movement for per- who arrived thus roughshod upon his manent clan records. It is well worth Don't forget tho; photographs for farm. It is likely that if the Devil while. the Clan Archives.

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The Family ' of ' ' ' and ' AZEL- THOMAS' - MOFFITTtT .... , • , SARAH , , ANN MORROW (both deceased ut Quaker linene Ranrlolnh from Randolph County, North?\oith Carolina. Out of this family of twelve, one died in ini ancy, the balance are living and very mi ich alive at Dallas. Texas.

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Kindness for Kindness. a 1003 etfei * Rev. Samuel John Moi'litl. and Lydia Cox had e married at the extreme age A ust Moffett, miss nary to Korea, moved from Randolph county. X. C. indred years and had one Asia, we -lean this striking para- into Tennessee. "Lydia. whose life son T illbovmv Maffett. : — whose wife was jraph Xo w otice that Rev. was of that noble stamp that sees Maria whit This latter couple Francis I Moffat t i father was James with pity and kindness the distress of with a ve large family of sons and Moffatt, born county Tyrone; mother all or any human beings had, during daughters is supposed to have set- was Hannah Moffat 'Moffatt born the life in Tennessee, been kind to an tied in America. (Who can tell us 1-ermanagh; mother's father was Indian squaw, allowing her to sit by more of this?) Another Moffat who James Moffat born Fermanagh: moth- the big fire in the cabin on cold days, a trained extreme acre was Thomas er 's^ mother was Hannah Moffett and in many ways befriending her. Moli'att. of Upper Toneywall. coun- Moffatt born Tyrone: mother's moth- Soon after John's departure for the ty Fermanagh Ireland. who died er's father was John Moffett, born mill (two clays distance), the young- 1S50 at tn Ivaneed a

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MOFFATANA BULLETIN. Iowa county attorney, and an Iowa Single reports unconnected because of lack of information 20 Published by abstractor, each $5; a Pennslyvania GEORGE WEST MAFFET. salt manufacturer, a Massachusetts Total different Moffat lines .181 Editor and Historian In Chief. jewler, an Illinois clergyman, a South Classified from a different standpoint "The Clan Moffat in America." Carolina college president, a Texas they show: 'A Genealogy in Preparation.) Heavv lines 23 banker, a Canadian lady, a Philadel- Lawrence. - - Kansas. U. S. A. Light lines SI phia schoolteacher, each $1; a Kan- Single reports of all kinds 77 JULY, 1909. sas City lady and a Nebraska farmer, each 50 cents; a Kansas lady 25 Total TlSl Few if any of the heavy lines will Sean this number of the Bulletin cents. Total $38.25; total donations dovetail with more information; of carefully, and if you feel that you from all sources to date $94.6S. the light lines many can expected have had value received, please send As is now generally understood, be to connect into heavier lines as they us a dollar for the expense account the Bulletin is but a side issue in the grow and absorb others. The singles of the Clan Archives. If you do not work. The returns from the work in genealogy have been rich indeed. should all be absorbed into other lines feel that you have had value reeeiv- , with further detail. At present how- ed, or if you cannot afford it, do not Taking the different Moffat lines now ever there are 104 well denned and send anything—there is absolutely in our hands and classifying them ac- growing lines, all different. The not a cent's obligation to do so. cording to the localities furthest heaviest line with our present light is Those who have already made contri- back to which thev can be traced, we undoubtedly the Quaker line bution are not included in these re- from Randolph marks. county, North Carolina; this line starts with six brothers, emigrants about 1760. Your editor has to report, after Our directory of Moffat addresses years and eight months of time two and addresses of Moffat descendants covered in the Moffatana work, twen- continually grows; we now have 3,- ty-seven months of faithful work put 800 live addresses of bread-winners, in at desk, three months sickness un- indicating a possible population of able to work, two months absence 14,000, the living Clan. from desk. This office needs further filing- There has been no Bulletin since cabinet additions to the amount of Feby. 190S, the first six months be- about $62, which would place the ar- cause of flood of reports, the last chives in a case upon wheels which year because of flatness of pocket could be run out upon the portico in book. Several different times letters case of fire and taken rapidly out of have been held for several days or a danger. Our present equipment is week because of lack of postage jammed full to overflowing and there stamps. Personal finances have been is no cessation of the blue reports very discouraging, yet the work has coming in daily Our outgoing gone steadily onward. turned We mail often runs from twelve to down an offered newspaper job and twenty letters daily. Every working a chance at a Statehouse job because day, month in and month out, finds felt in honor bound to carry this we us busv at the archives. Muflatana work to a successful con- reminded clusion. The past year has "The Moffett Family Reunion As- us strongly of our first few years sociation" is the name under which out the nest, when several of home was held a family reunion of the times we were so hard up that we County Armagh, Ireland-Tennessee- could not raise the necessary postage Indiana line of Moffets, with 150 to tell the home people how- stamp people present. It was a great pic- hard up we were. In this instance Your Editor and Historian. GEORGE WEST nic of a great family, held July 30, we could not get out a Bulletin to MAFFET. ! Born June 10, 1S56, at Wilkes-Barre, 1908 at Muncie, Indiana and a splen- dis- Penna. (County Tyrone. tell the Clan about this terrible Ireland-Linden, did program was had. The president I Penna. line.) ease flatness of the pocketbook. — of the association is William Simp- The expense account totals $786.17 Lines son Moffett, of Kennard, Ind., and divided as follows: Germany-Canada 1 the secretary is Linden Byron Mof- Postage, express, etc $280.84 France-Canada 1 Australia 1 fett, of Muncie, Indiana. The an- Stationerv and printing 297.20 Norway 1 nual reunion will take place this Equipment 123.8S Scotland-South Africa 1 Syria (Turkev) -Massachusetts 1 year the last Thursdav in July (the Fees for searches 6.50 England 17 29th) at the West Side Park, Muncie. Photos and illustrating 77.75 Scotland 28 Ireland as follows: Indiana. This is the first organiza- County Down 11 tion in what will become in time a Total $786.17 County Antrim 9 Countv Tyrone 8 great series of like associations. County Fermanagh .. 7 When this edition reaches the Welcome No. 1. How would "Mof- Countv Slisro 6 mails there will be at least $100.00 County Longford 4 fat Lodge No 104" sound? more to add to this. County Armagh 3 County Cavan 3 Free-will donations have reached Other Irish counties.. 8 Be a little more careful, please, Total for Ireland us of $38.25 since last report. The 59 with the addresses of your living New England states 13 source of these has been: Mary- A Middle states .- 19 relatives; every little while our let- Virginia land lady $10; a South African min- 9 ters come back undelivered because Other Southern states 5 ing engineer, a Kansas banker, an Western states 5 the address is too stale.

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MARTYRS THREE ville. Kentucky, independent eandi-i Rev. Moffett died Nov. 12, 1S02 We present in this issue the por- dates were introduced, the regular after two days of intense suffering traits of three members of the clan party nominees were opposed and all and because he had been christian who have suffered in the cause of the power of machine politics was enough to send a message of forgiv- law enforcement: fighting the proposed legislation for eness to the man who killed him, no Judge Henry Parson Moffett was a which Rev. Moffett was agitating. adequate punishment was given his powerfully built man, of command- An outside temperance speaker was murderer. His church at Danville ing features and wholly oblivious to being egged while speaking from has been rededicated "'The Moffett fear. He was at home with his the platform, when Rev Moffett step- Memorial Church." (This was a family, reading the evening paper, ped before him to protect him from Fauquier county, Virginia, line and when a crowd of drunken feudists the shower At another time while a great granduncle of Rev. Moffett rode into the town (Corbin, Ken- Moffett was speaking a drunken was also obliged to suffer for his re- tucky) and commenced to shoot and rough stepped up to him and snapped ligion. Elder Anderson being con- yell in a saloon fight. Judge Moffett a pistol pressed against Moffett 's fined in the Culpeper jail and tortur- laid aside his newspaper and an- breast, luckily it did not go off His ed with burning brimstone and red- ] nounced that he would go out and life was openly threatened, but this pepper because he dared to preach command the peace. His wife beg- did not prevent our clansman fighting other than the established religion).

j ged him not to go. fearing for the re- all the harder Finally on the morn- In our third example of martyr- sult, but the Judge would not listen ing of the election a shyster lawyer! dom, the victim still lives, a lieuten- and went out into the darkness; in- accused Rev. Moffett of circulating! ant in the regular army. Yet Will- side of fifteen minutes he was car- bogus tickets, as Moffett was passing) iam Porter Moffet. as a North Da- ied in again, mortallv wounded, and one of the polls. Moffett promptly; kota editor in 1897, dared to act un- struck him a stunning blow and then mounted the steps and repelled the untrue accusation. This incident was given as a pretext for all sorts of newspaper abuse of Moffett and several days afterward, the shyster lawyer waylaid him on the way to a church service and shot him down. Inside of thirty minutes the assassin had surrendered to the officers and was allowed to give bail and be at large. Popular opinion grew so hot that the assassin was soon glad for the shelter of the jail.

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MOFFATANA BULLETIN. — Carolina line of Moffets). writes:- "'I am wishing you great of the Motfataiiii Bulb tin which de-

Your historian wishes to call the I success in your great undertaking; it lighted me very much. I am in with attention of every thinking American will require time, patience, care and you heart and hand. You have noth- to these three cases. Are you keep- in the aggregate a considerable ex- ing to fear in the grand ' work you I ing silent and allowing such traves- 'pcnditure of inoiiev. have undertaken, excepting a little ties of justice to exist in our blessed A Maffitt of Florida states:—"1 tardiness, for I never heard of a country without protest of tongue confess I was not much interested in Moffat to undertake anything yet and pen? the papers when they came to me, but he succeeded with it. I am not but after reading them over carefully rich but will freely contribute my I became more enthused and am very mite to help the noble work along. * s anxious now to help you all I can in * * I will get the dates for you. your work." but did not want to keep you wait- A Clansman who has been a coun- ing so long without an acknowledg- ty surveyor in Indiana and is inter- ment of your papers and Moffataua. ested in a Louisiana lumber com- that money would not buy from me. pany, writes from the latter state:— ' * * Please rind enclosed a photo "I am much interested in this mag- of myself. * * *. nificent work you have undertaken A Massachusetts clansman writes: and want to assure you that I will be —"I am certainly delighted, at the pleased to assist you in any way I work you have taken up, at the ap- t* can. I realize what an undertaking parent wide-spread interest of the it is for I have been thinking consid- family in the subject, and with the erably of undertaking to write the most interesting little Bulletins." r-**^.: genealogy of our family." — i ' A lady in Canada asks: "I would A clanswoman in Ohio was kind like very much to get one look at ike enough to end her letter: —"Wish- face of the man who has taken such ing you the greatest of success in a warm interest in the name Moffat. your undertaking; and also thanking If you have a photo of yourself that I you in the name of the whole Moffet you can send me to look at, I will Clan for your interest in our ante- take good care of it and return it to cedents, I remain, etc." you." A clansman, a clergyman of the A St. Louis clansman belonging at Reformed Presbyterian Church of Boston says: —"You are engaged in Ireland, writes from County Donegal. a most interesting and fascinating i J — Ireland: "I quite appreciate the occupation keeping track of the elan, magnitude of the work you have on "MOFFETT MEMORIAL CHURCH," but I must confess that I do not envy Virginia. Rededicated by hands, but it is At Danville, a work worthy of head you the job. I should think it would and heart, and from what I can read be so complex and bewildering as to between the lines, I feel that you are drive the average person crazy. To

I the man to gather the many many di- the average person the matter of ENCOURAGEMENT. visions of the great Clan together and kinship is perplexing enough to say A Michigan clansman says: "I do present the Clan in genealogical and | nothing of how bad it becomes for historical array to the world." not see how you get any time when you start to trace all the cer- your own business, but I know just A clansman belonging to a French- tain lines of a certain clan." how interesting this kind of work is; Canadian line that came over from and wish it were so I could visit youj France between 1632 and 1654, and "We are not so angelic by natural and see the interesting things that whose name was originally spelled impulse; in order to keep the clan have been sent you." Maufay, changed to Maufait and from swelling up with self-laudation The aged pastor of the Holly! ended with Moufet and Moffet, to the danger point, we produce the Springs Quaker Church, North Car- writes. after suggesting print- following from "Highways and By- olina, writes: "As it has been somej ing some blue blanks in French with ways in Devon and Cornwall" by Ar- time since I wrote thee, will now say which to gather statistics: "J'ai thur H. Norway, (London; McMillan. I have enquired all around to see if| recu votre bulletin et les blances de 1900) page 357: there is a man by the name of Mof-I rapport que je vous retourne partiel- "John Moffat was a smuggler on

fitt in any of the Police forces hands. I lement remplis. Je vous felieite the English coast something over a or in any lockup or almshouse, in I chaleureusement de votre magnifique hundred years ago and commanded a any of the adjoining counties and entreprise et je souhaite que vous schooner known as the Black Prince. find not one." prussiz la mener a bonne fin."— He lived at St. Columb. Somewhere A Moffitt of Indianapolis, says:— A Moffet t in Texas wrote: "Lit- in the neighborhood of Perth he met "Well, keep the good work going. I erature and blanks sent me * * * a revenue cutter. The Black Prince will take some photos this summer arrived Xmas at 10:30 a. m., and out had the heels of most of the vessels for you— the old log house is still on • if several presents received by me I on the coast, but either Moffat did | my grandfather's place." praise this above all." not choose to run or he had not time. A Moffitt of Indianapolis, says: A Moffit in Texas who had been for he fired into the cutter, took and "I want to be one of the working; sick said:—"Received February Bul- scuttled her and slew or drowned Clan and shall do all I can to make letin anil was very glad to get it. every soul among her crew save one your undertaking a success. Call on The paper made me feel so good that small midshipman, who swam ashore me with any questions you desire, 1 had to get out of bed and have not and was rescued for a time by a wo- and if I cannot answer them I will been back since." man named Jessy Varcoe who hid try to find someone who can." A clanswoman in Canada writes: him in a cave. He was, however, af- A clansman at Newcastle, Indiana. "A few days ago I received a copy terwards discovered and slain."

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A lady in New York state wrote A monument erected by public carefully tied one end of a rope I August, .1908 to a lady at Washing- subscription was unveiled at Lin- around her favorite's neck and the

tonn, D. C. : "Do you know a George coln. Kansas, on Memorial Day, 1909. other around her own waist, while her West Maffef? He is editor and in memory of the settlers who lost household slept. Pulling down the historian in chief, lives in Lawrence, their lives in the early history of the wa^ron curtains and lighting a candle Kansas, U. S. A. He has written to country by the Indian raids. Chisel- in her little travelling parlor, she sat me several times, the first writing ed upon it is found the names of the down in her easy chair to knit. "Ah! said there was a large sum waiting to two Moffitt young men who died des- ! a tug as Blossom's rope!" She drew be divided with the Moffett Heirs; perately fighting not over a mile it in, about two feet of it. cut short,

the next time he wrote he said there away from the monument, which is ! the rest gone with mare and colt. was nothing: said he wanted to get up in a park at the county seat. We Soon after arriving in Oregon she es- j a book of the Moffat family. Do you have already given this tragic his- ' tablished an orphanage, which in time know that there is anything waiting tory in these columns. A cut of the [grew into the great Pacitic Univers- to be divided?" monument is here uiven. ity. (This is the Killinglv,-Conn., The attention of this lady, and all line.) others interested, is invited to the kr-v ! Cumberland, Md. Rev. James Ers- fact that I never wrote a letter on — kine Moffatt. D. D., celebrated the Moffat pedigree until 1904—and nev- --.^ «v thirtieth anniversary of his pastorate er to others except my own line pre- on Feb. 1908. During this time vious to 1906, just about 2^ years 9, the church has prospered in every ago. Not only have I not written way, and is now one of the most sub- anyone about any large sum to be stantial in the Presbytery of Balti- divided, but I do not even believe in any unclaimed Moffat Estate await- more. Dr. Moffatt was born in rj - Bloomington, Ind., graduated ing heirs. All I have ever written from about the ''Moffat Millions" has Monmouth College in 1866. and Mc- been printed in Moffatana Bulletin Cormick Seminary in 1S69 ; was lic- I ^ ensed by Monmouth Presbytery in turn to it and read it yourself "Es- Spring- tates in Chancery Swindle." May 1868; and ordained by field Presbytery in June, Please, oh please do not get me con- 1869; was pastor at Decatur, 111., 1S69-73, and fused with others who were at work years ago upon that or any other at the First Church of Ottawa, 111., subject. 1873-77, comin? to Cumberland early in Herald Presbyter. (This A new version as to the "Moffat 1878.— & is a Antrim, Ireland-South Millions" makes a much more artis- County line). tic tale: "Cousin Frank knows Carolina more of the tale of the fifty millions Before us is the annual catalogue of (this time of the House of Mar) " -.- : 1 Erskine College, at Due West, South than anyone of the family. I have Carolina, whose president is Rev. heard him tell it with the addition of a lawyer, who was sent from James Strong Moffatt, D. D., who was pastor at Chester, America to England in the quest. for twenty years Erskine is the de- and was decoyed into some dark spot South Carolina. , nominational college of the Associate in London and stabbed to death." gg Reformed Presbyterian Synod of the In a recent letter from an Ohio - j South. Its president belongs to a ii— ^_^_.,, -1 . clanswoman, whose letter was nearly j powerful County Antrim, Ireland- a year out of date because a trip to South Carolina line that emigrated .,.*-> Europe . — intervened between the start I 1772. With the aid of Rev. Moffatt and finish of the letter, says:—"My and others of this line, we are get- father was named for his grandfath- ting this branch into place. er Moffett, and has 1 never loved his first name, sign-j The fifty-fifth anniversary of a ing himself except wedding is a rare thing—how rare is on - y legal papers. His story is that* m shown by the fact that both the old on being named for his grandfather, PIONEER MONUMENT, LINCOLN, KS. people whose pictures were given in killed by I his Erected in memory of citizens grandfather presented him with Indians. Base 5 feet square, height 14 ! the Feby 1908 Bulletin, both appar- a fine buck-sheep; at the age of f eet. Cost $600. ently hale and hearty and destined to three years the buck-sheep cornered pass many more anniversaries, are of the emigrants to Oregon in I him in a lot, nearly killing him, and One jdead. Mrs. Marv Jane Jones Mof- the was "Aunt" between the two dowers from his 1846 with Boon.es, fatt died April 20, 1908: David Bing- a widow grandfather, the name and the buck- Tabitha Moffett Brown, then :ham Moffatt, the husband, only sur- aged 66 who, to an accident on sheep, he has been hardly able to owing vived until Jany 11, 1909, and con-

: " : ice, permanently on one survive, altho he today tips the the was stantly expressed his longing to join with her scales at 210 pounds crutch She came through his wife upon the other side. Both and does not ; so endured hardships 1 look as if he were likely to succumb children and died iu all the calm resignation of a

historical ' to either the name or the memory." severe that she became an triumphant faith. character of Oregon. At the start

Thomas Marfut, aged twenty-two, the wagon trains suffered many losses i A book of the year is "Queen

[ arrived in January over 100 cattle Louisa of Prussia" bv Mary Maxwell 1634, as a pas-! from Indian thieves, j «*ngef from London to St. Christo-! being gone in a single night. "I'll Moffat, published by"E. P. Dutton & |

' Pher, Barbadoes. not lose my mare!" Aunt Tabitha I Co., New York.

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THAT AWFUL FINE nearest the pile that is not there, al- the clan upon the genealogy of the A clanswbman in Canada, who sus- though it may seem to be. to send us clan. Elsewhere will be found an tains herself by painting in oils and one little postage stamp purchased extract from the work. Send for the wat'ercolors, savs under date of Nov. with an actr.sl part of the millions, book. 6, 190S: "That James A. Moffett when lie

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TRAGEDIES. the timber before he could be freed. lives ober tuar," pointing to a large May 15, 1907 at Cadillac, Mich., He lingered in delirium until the home in the distance. want to On j "You

was killed the two-year-old daughter I next day before he died. All were see Massa Moffat, you come long o' Freeman Mof fit. being run over taken on the train to Hattiesburg. me." So Uncle of by | went and found automobile driven by a fifteen (This we believe to be the County them charming people. The daughter an j

vear old son of a phvsician. | Down. Ireland-Kentuckv line of of the family was named Mary (same On Nov. 30. 1907, "at Clinton, Ills..! Moffetts.) name as mine, you see) and still Jesse Waldo Moffett was instantly! In May. 1908, at an elevator fire more strange she was my double and killed while attempting to board a in Houston. Texas. Barney C. Mof- Uncle told me of our wonderful removing freight train. He was the fatt. a member of the fire depart- semblance. He said even our man-

son of Joseph Edwin Moffett, chief . ment, lost his life. With a compan- nerisms were exactly alike. I think of police, who belongs to a County : ion and the pipe and hose he went in- he was told the master of the house

Down, Ireland-Kentucky line of Mof- ; to the burning elevator to try to get was named Thomas and he was a

fetts. ! control of the fire smouldering in a descendant of the branch that went

On Feb. 20, 1908. at Pittsburg, ! great stack of feed in sacks, when South. How odd things come Kansas, Thomas Moffett was killed in 'the great pile gave away and crushed about!" a mine accident by the premature ex- him to death. Mr. Moffatt had had We are in touch with the one side plosion of a blast he was firing. A; two legs broken not many months of this story and would like much to companion with him was badly ', previously by being thrown from a be informed by the Southern branch fire engine on a to fire. burned. j run a who may recognize this incident as

On Feb. 21, 1908 occurred a touch- 1 On July 16. 190S. at Clealum, belonging to their line, so as to see ing incident bearing directly upon Kittitas Co., Washington, occurred a if the connection can be or has been the Moffatana work. Thomas Jeff- 1 terrific explosion of two carloads of already made at these headquarters. erson Moffitt, the son of Zimri Mof- powder in a magazine. Nine persons This may be a Tennessee line, as fitt of the North Carolina Quaker were blown to atoms and human Corinth is but a few miles from the line, had arrived at Winchester, flesh and bones were in fragments border. Indiana, from Oakland, California, over a large tract. In a tent near j after an absence of forty years or the magazine lived Peter Moffatt, Benjamin F. Moffett was, in 1884, wife more. Only a few miles away were I and two children. He was a in the Pension Bureau at Washing- his brother brickmaker. Mrs. Moffatt, her in- William and the wife of j ton, D. C. His father Hugh was the latter, who were anxiously await- fant child and the tent disappeared born 17S4 in Orange Co., N. Y., ser- ing the brother who had been lost to and could not be found. The other ved in the War of 1S12 and was twice his family for nearly a lifetime, hav- child, a little girl was seriously hurt. married, residing in Loudoun county, ing. written last he was on his way; On August 1, 1908, while bathing Virginia and in Maryland, having in to Australia. Only a year previously in the ocean at Normandie-by-the- all fifteen children. Who can give he had made his presence known at Sea, New Jersey, Samuel Erasmus us a full list of these children, their

Oakland, California. As the return- 1 Moffett. the brilliant editor of birthdates, etc. ed wanderer left the depot to cross ''Collier's" was stricken and al- to a hotel, the flood of memories was though immediate help was at hand he ON HONOR. too much for him and he fell dead in was dead when brought to shore. He From a letter we glean "This let- the first few moments of his home- was an editorial writer of great note ter is strictly confidential, and not coming. The news of the sudden and belonged to a Fauquier County, for history'. You will probably have death came as such a shock to his Virginia line. to make some historical variations relatives that both Mr. and Mrs. along this line to prevent exposing William Ward Moffitt died soon af-' Who can tell us more concerning skeletons." ter, the wife on Mch. 27th, the hus-the Moffetts to whom this incident These few lines please us much; band on Mch. 30th. 'befell? Please report :—" John A. this gentleman places full trust in us In May, 1908, a cyclone at Hatties- Moffett was an exconfederate soldier, and seems to realize that we stand burg, Mississippi, destroyed the home who has been lost to his family since, for the honor of a great tribe. No of the Moffetts and killed three peo- 1S85, a year after the death of his 1 eye other than his and ours shall ever pie. After the storm Mrs. J. H. wife in "Indiana. The mother of, see this letter. We are not delving

: Moffett and her daughter Lucy suc- John A. Moffett above, owned a plan- 1 for dirt; blackmail is no object of ceeded in crawling out from under tation which was embraced within; ours; we are not asking impertinent the ruins and hearing James, the .the battleground of Shiloh, in Har- questions as an annoyance; we are son, call, went to him and pried some ; den county. Tennessee. Two of her not seeking relationship; we are not j of the wreckage from off him sons, even after money. Strange as it and then but mere lads, had been I may found his sister Sally still below him trigged out in grey uniforms and! seem, we have deliberately consecrat- in the wreck. Sally lived but fifteen were shot down before their moth- ed a term of years out of our life to minutes. The girl in the family was er's eyes. She did not long survive accomplish this work. How many instantly killed by being crushed uu- the awful experience. John, then years we care not to tell, because der the big refrigerator. Unable to but a lad of fifteen, fought through rou may say 'there is plenty of time.' free the victims, the heroic mother, the war in the Confederate army." YOUR data must come in long before although herself with three ribs brok- A lady of a New York line wrote our work can begin. The quicker en and a severe scalp wound, took, in 1905:—" When mv uncle Robert l'OU act, the quicker we can get to the bloody bandage from off her head Hunter Moffat, now "dead, was with a finish. In the meantime the accu- and rushed to stop a coming freight the Northern army at Corinth, Miss., mulations are systematically cared train, fainting on the track. The he having a half day off took a long for and even the death of your editor tramcrew recovered the dead and j walk into the country and met on the and historian will not stop the work. round James pinned to the earth with ! way a young darkie, and naturally Another will step from the ranks to a scantling driven through his leg in-! asked him "whom he belonded too'"' take our place and the work will go to the ground and had to saw through I and was told "Massa Moffat and we forward to completion.

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MOFFATANA BULLETIN. Published bv GEORGE WEST MAFFET.

Claimant to English Throne. Under the above head and bearing date New York. June 14. 1909, a press dispatch has been circulating as follows "The body of Edmund Montgom- ery Moffett,* who ail his life claimed to be the rightful king of England, was buried yesterday near his home at Woodeliff." N. J. *Dr. Moffett. who was 62 years old. was born of a good family in Cincinnati and for many years had a large medical practice in this city from which he accumulated quite a fortune. "He and his immediate ancestors traced their genealogy back to 400 B- C, and Dr. Moffett claims to be the true lineal descendant of King James II. His claim to the throne of Great Britain came through Fergus I. first king of Scotland, and down to Rob- ert Bruce and the Stuarts. "Dr. Moffett was a highly educat- ed man and only to his imm ediate friends did he discuss his relationship with royalty. He never made

;•' ' >-' ('• •/ ' ', - '"''.... any formal claim for the throne of '• ; , ' England, con renting himself with

' ' % ' *-' ''-' ' ! : -' the belief that the crown rightfully . / • belonged to him." Ij '•'" : '. • ;•' Doctor Moffett belonged to a .'--' • -• ' i

County Tyrone. Ireland-Maryland '

. line and under date of April 27. 1905 • • /'• ....'" . he wrote us: "My branch of the .

Moffett family are descended from < i •_-- ' . *'.'' Walter 6th Steward of Scotland and -- ' - ,. Margery daughter of Robert Bruce. The name was changed in 1545 from " 'deMoffat.' As this is the start of - '-- the Stuart family we afterwards ' • wrote him and in reply he wrote

' June 13, 1907: "It has "been handed •-• • - - down from father to son in our fam- " ' • . • . / ily, that we are descended from Rob- ... - . ert II of Scotland and than we were

-:. .'. driven out of that ... , country for try- L__--... % ...... X\. : .,..,. .:. ing to put Charles HI (or Edward II) upon the throne The family ( See front page oi" this reeords were thrown into the Irish sea by my kinsmen when hard pressed. Some years ago a dentist, a Mr. reach us through our Moffat blood or had been in this position since some- Crane, showed my mother a small Stuart blood we were never able to time during the day, with a detach- book (which contained the history tell. Ours is a County Tyrone, Ire- ment of Third Michigan Cavalry to of our family) and called to her at- land-Linden. Penn. line. prevent them crossing the bridge. tention that we were direct descend- It was near midnight when Captain ants of the Crown Prince of Scot- Moffitt arrived, and. finding where Moffitt Forgot land. None of us took interest A How to Stop. the enemy was posted, ordered his enough in the matter to look it up. I The official records state, concern- men to charge, which they did in gal- have cousins by name of Stuart in ing a skirmish near Dyersburg, Tenn.. lant style. Captain Moffitt leading Indianapolis, Indiana, but do not with Dawson's guerilla band, on Jan. the advance, completely routing them, know the address." 30, 1863:—"Captain Hush C. Mof- killing two, wounded four and cap- Your historian has taken much in- fitt" (of 11th Illinois Vol Cavalry) turing seventeen, when the Rebels terest in the Doctor's traditions, be- "was first to arrive and found enemy broke and fled in every direction. cause in our own line we find about posted in house at west end of bridge Captain Moffitt was severely wound- the same traditions, but whether they across the Forked Deer river. Rebels ed in the thigh — our only casualty." r