.^^ Cornell University Library The original of this book is in the Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924103686527 3 1924 103 686 527 Family-Histories AND Genealogies Press of Tiiitle^ Morehouse £r= Taylor^ New Haven. Family-Histories AND Genealogies A SERIES OF ON THE FAMILIES OF MacCURDY, MITCHELL, LORD, LYNDE, DIGBY, NEWDIGATE, HOO, WILLOUGHBY, GRISWOLD, WOLCOTT, PITKIN, OGDEN, JOHNSON, DIODATI, LEE AND MARVIN AND NOTES ON THE FAMILIES OF BUCHANAN, PARMELEE, BOARDMAN, LAY, LOCKE, COLE, DeWOLF, DRAKE, BOND AND SWAYNE, DUNBAR AND CLARKE AND A NOTICE OF CHIEF JUSTICE MORRISON REMICK WAITE WITH TWENTY-NINE PEDIGREE-CHARTS AND TWO CHARTS OF COMBINED DESCENTS IN THREE VOLUMES BY ^trtuatir ^lUritrge Salistiuts AND 1892 PRIVATELY PRINTED COPYRIGHT, 1892 BY EDWARD ELBRIDGE SALISBURY AND EVELYN MoCURDY SALISBURY tj&jj^ .//-/'. (7c t--€<^-^ //, ^^ t^^r tov tJie m\tt of tUtiv et^iixivm unn movt tmttmis to tt^t mtmovs of Hfm fvotn tufjom om of ws m^ infitviun Jiet tastf for Umils=fiintots nnXf Uifio si^atrelr out interest anti )ilea(!!iitttr( fn tJ|t inittutiQation of it— ttie ittttJioirs affettiouatelff treBfftate tJjfs SHotft THE EDITION CONSISTS OF IIFTY COPIES ON LARGE PAPER AND TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY OF THIS SIZE OF WHICH THIS IS No. iOZ PREFACE The writer cannot tell hoiv long ago she began to record genealogicalfacts. She had been collecting them front early childhood. Ever since she can remem- ber, her father discussed such siibjects, especially with her mother's cousin Miss Harriet Lord, ivJiose strong mind and exceedingly retentive memory were mucJi occupied zvith them. Lijics of life from Lyme seemed almost literally to have "gone out into all the earth." References to persons who had gone aivay brought up questions as to their descents from, or connections with, the old Lyme families. Then these emigrants or their descendants were constantly coming back to visit the homes and graves of their ancestors, and to learn from the older people the lost facts concerning their earlier generations. While Chancellor Wahvorth was collecting the materials for his "Hyde Genealogy" he made his home at the house of Judge Mc Curdy, the writer s father, for two weeks, while he searched the records, the graveyards, the family Bibles, and the memories of the oldest inhabifauts. The descents and relationships of the families included in his work were the constant topics of conversation, and his book became finally the great authority on such matters. With this as a text-book, it seemed quite a matter of course to continue the genealogical studies it had stimulated. These were soon most cordially and effectively assisted by the late Henry White Esq. of New Llaven ; and acquaintance or correspondence was oradually begun zvith many other persons interested in such studies; amotig ivhomwere: the late Hon. Ralph D. Smith, Rev. William G. Andrews and the late Dr. A Ivan Talcott, of Guilford, Conn.; Hon. J. Hammond Trumbull, Dr. Fitch Edward Mr. Charles J. Jloadly, State Librarian, of Hartford ; Oliver, Mrs. Samuel Martin Weston and Mrs. William B. Richards, of Boston; the editor of "Notes and Queries" in the " Boston Evening Tran- script ;" Hon. Ebenezer Bissell Lynde of West Brookfield, Mass.; Dr. James R. DeWolf of Nova Scotia ; I\fr. Lleury Fits-Gilbert Waters, now of London; Prof. Simeon E. Baldwin of Yale University ; Miss Mary K. Talcott of PREFACE Hartford; the late Rev. Dr. Sanniel Wolcott of Longmeadow., Mass.; the late Mr. Frederick H. Wolcott of Astoria, L. I.; fohn Ward Dean Esq. the former editor of "The New England Hist, and Geneal. Register" throttgh which queries have been sent out, and much valuable information has been obtained; and the editor of the "Magazine of American History," Mrs. Martha J. Lamb, a constant friend and helper. As will be more particzdarly noticed in its place, our Marvin monograph is wholly the work of our friend and relative William T. R. Marvin Esq. of Boston. Most of our remote families we have not attempted to trace except in tlieir early generations in this country. It is only in our nearer families that we have had the data for the purpose, or that we have tried to follozu out. the branches. Some of them we have made as complete as we couldfrom the facts ivhich reached us. We therefore regret to find, zvhen it is too late to insert them in their proper place, that there are full Griswold descents, which are known, through Colton, Chandler and Backus lines. It woiild be 7iseless to attempt to recall, at this time, all the names of the geneal- ogists, 7nembers of the families described, and other persons, who have kindly answered letters and given assistance in this country. Of course, meanwhile, graveyards, and public and private records in many towjis were searched, wherever ififormation 77iight be hoped for. Continued examinations have been made in the Astor and Society Libraries of New York, the Boston Public Library and the Library of Yale University. Important clues led to England ; and the late distingttished genealogist Col. Chester was for a long time sticcessfully employed i7i our family researches. No dotibt farther investigations would have connected several more of the families with heraldic families in England; but they ivere deferred on account of the expense, and Col. Chester's death afterivard deprived us of his services. Several oilier s'enealooists mve siizsiestions : amonz whom were Sir Bernard Burke ; George E. Cokayne Esq., Norroy King of Arms, College of Ar7ns, London ; William Duncombe Pink Esq. of Leigh, Lancashire ; and several of the Genealogical Magazines, including "Notes and Queries," pziblisJied qzieries and replies to them. Much kind interest has been shown, PREFACE facilities given, and sometimes information sent^ by many private gentlemen and ladies in England: among whom, may be especially mentioned Lady Middleton, wife of Sir Digby Wentivorth Bayard Willoitghby, Baron Middleton of Wollaton Hall, Nottinghamshire ; the late George Digby Wingfield Digby Esq. of Sherborne Castle, Dorsetshire ; J. Edwin Cole Esq. of Swineshead Hall near Boston, Lincolnshire ; Gen. David Elliot Mackirdy of Birkwood, Lesmahago, Lanarkshire, Scotland ; Rev. Charles Evans, Rector of Solihtdl, Warwickshire ; Rev. F. P. DuSautoy, Rector of Ockley., Surrey ; and many other rectors who searched their parish-registers and graveyards for records ; Lieut.-Col. Francis William Newdigate of Allesley Park, Coventry, and his 'brother Lieut.-Gen. Edivard Neivdigate Newdegate, Gover^tor of Bermuda; Rev. W. T. Tyrwhitt Drake ofHemel-Hempsted ; and Sir William Richard Drake of Oatlands Lodge, Weybridge, Surrey. At a late day, through the generosity of 07ir cousin Richard A. Mc Curdy Esq. of New York^ very vahiable docitments mere obtained from Alfred Scott Gatty Esq., York Herald, which opened the way to our final identification of Col. Willia^n Willoughby, as will appear in the Willoughby monograph. Wills and other documents have been sought for in public offces; in fact, 710 sources of knowledge within reach have been neglected, and imich material has been collected. We have thoroughly examined the authorities, careftdly verified statements, so far as possible, and added largely to the materials. We have neglected no means in our power to secure accuracy, yet we cannot flatter ourselves that, with all our efforts, the work is without errors. That would be impossible in a work of such magnitjide and scope. In some cases, a few even in otir most importafit families, no infortnation has bee?i returned in reply to 02ir iiiqiiiries, and vacancies have been left in our histories and charts. We have depended on each family to furnish its own records, and have been able to verify them only in branches near to our own lines. We add with satisfaction that, in ou,r pursuit of family- and individual- history, we have found no families which, so far as we could ascertain, would not bear examination, and to have the restdts published. PREFA CE It is sii7'prishig to find that, among the early New England settlers; few persons who are now known to have belonged to heraldic families transmitted their arms and history through the generations of their descendants. Either the emigrants, on leaving their lands, their social and civil distinctions, in the old country, for the primitive and bare conditions of their life in a new country, cared little for the mere insignia wJiich hadpertained to their former artificial siirroundings ; or their children, in their struggle for existence, took no interest in armorial devices tvhich represented to them so little, and seemed so useless in their changed conditions. Probably few of them brought emblazonments of their arms with them, and in the families of those who brought them they were 7teglected and, after a while, disappeared. The descendants often forgot the name of the tozvn, and sometimes even that of the county, from which their ancestors came. TJierefore, noiv, unless zve can trace an emigrant to his home, and find his place on his fa^nily-trcc, we can 07ily learn his previous social rank by the degree of respect and social or civil honor yielded to him in this country, by the community in zvhich he dwelt / Whatever else belotiging to rank and station the early settlers had left behind, they retained the full strength of their consciousness of these distinctions, and their respect for them. This feeling they carried with rigor into all the regulations of their lives, not only in social relations, but into their places of religio7is zuorship. At the time our early New England ancestors came over, the so-called lower classes in Eiirope had not the education, the knowledge of affairs, or the habit of government, which would enable them to take the lead elsewhere.