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LUCIUS R. PAIGE, HENRY H. EDES,

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GENERAL INDEX.

Index of Names of Persons at the end of the Volume.

Abbey of Churii, note, 414

Abstracts of \Vi;is and Deeila. (Sae TfatfTs^s Gen- - ealoijical Gleanmss and yVillf and Deeds.) { Adatn-.i, Azaiirih, geavalogical iiuzzle, 90 r Adams, Cti^ir'.es, memoir of, 349 I Address ^P'.iltiumuas) of President Wilder, 141

Agawanv, l'l.U:(;itioD, tbe, 194 I Allen, John, Ilov., of ricdham, 63 ' Allen, queries, "220

I American Genealogical Queries, 1SS7, note, 12'i I Ainericati i;raduat--> in medicine al Edinburgh ITdI- I versify to li;09, 391 I Aaabaplista and Quakers, note, 94 r Ancient Iron \v'orka of Taunton, 33, 2HI I Arms or Armorial BeariLjrs. (See CoaU of Arms.) \ Aa%tin'.-i H. I. Genealogical Dictionary, note, 101 t Autogrujiaa. (.Ses Illustrations.)

! Baptisms and Deaths. (See Records.) Bates, J^imet.note, 84 i3igel':w, query, 413 Biographical Sketches — Allen, Jiihn, 08 Clarke, Samuel Greeley. 347 ^ Durell, tdvTard llecry,'347 N? Ila'nes, Joseph, '243 J Morse, Klijah, 254

f Poore, Ren: Perlev,343

I Short, Charles, 243

f Tame', William, 70

» Blooi Oeiu-alogy, 293 Bloss, James, query, 37 Book Nki.cw —

Ab-Ajtt. Isaac, Jloumfnl Ballad of, 121 Ara'.-riL.ia ^iene.i!' -ji'-'a! Queries, the, 437 Amnrj'i T>" liiain Bla.xtori, llD Arnold's Memoir of Dr. Jonathan Mason War- ren, VS2 Aastin'a <jenea!ogical Diciionary Rhode Isl- and, 'ilt Baker's Charact!-;- Portraits of Washincton, 239 Banker lii-itirical .Macazine, No. YIIl', 240 Bartow's li.irtow F;utiily in Ecsland, 125 Lettune a^d Fa^euil Family, Hi El.jss GeutaloL'y, 125. 343

Boaroniao Siiciety, the Proceedings of, 1SS7, 340 Bcyd'3 Boyd Genealopy, 343 Erair.tr>»e Town Keconl^, 111 Brl:.-?s"i \Ve and our Kinsfolk. 434 Ca'.if^^rria Historical Society, Vol. I., 342 Cambri.lgeT.'mver-iity, fc'nj;., Adinis3lo;is to Gon-

ville aud Caiua Oolle,:^^, 3d;> Carter's Carter Genealoey, 434 CtLvffin's ELlitcTj of ilaat'X-., Mass., 239

Book Notices —

Champlin's Chronicles of the Coach, 113

Chapman's Philbrick Family, 434

Chase's Chase Family, 125

Cheever. Kzekiel, additional notes, 343

Chester's Marriage Licences (Loiidnn;, 242

Colesivor'hy, J^hn Tilestou's School, Bcslon,

and Diary (1761-l"fio), 330 Cregar's Haines Fam-'y, 244 Cutler's Or.iiuaiice of Ju'.y 13, 17S7, 33:! Dawson's Westchester during American iievo-

lution. 106 Dedham Records, Vols. X. and II , 237 Deerfield Memorial Hall Relics 2^7 Doirsinc, William, Journal of (1B4.1-44"), 123 Drake's'jlaking of New Engl.u-.a f 15S0-1543) ,

113 Drake's Old Boston Tavern and Taveru Clubs,

117 Dudley's Dudley Family. Pan T , 124. Part

II., 313 Dyer's Record of an Active Lif-, 241 Eddy's Univevsalism m Amc.^:'t, Vol. U., G41 Enough, Snff 'Ik Co., Parish Rejisters of, oS3 Everett's Addresses on Sei-Tice3 cf Wasuinswn,

lis

Farmer's History Detroit, 329

Farnham's Farnbam Family, 123

Felton's Felton Family, 125

Tenner Familv, Part II., 343

Gammsirs Life of J ihu R. Bartl?tt,115

Green's use of Voluntary Sy-^tem of Mainte- nance of Ministers ot 'c'lymouth and Alassa- chujetti in earlier years of their existence, 243

Oroton Historical Series, 427

Guild's Guild GtL.ealojy, 125

Gculd's Breckin».->rid>.;B Family, 437

Hakes's Hakes Family, 244

Hale's Ti-an3-All;t;hany I'ioneers, 120

Hall's Hy,ll Geneaiot'y. 123

Ham's Localities in Ancient Dover, 340

Haramett's Newport, R. I., Ribi:i.i,ra;.'hy, 435

Haskins's Ralph Waldo Kmerson abd his Ma- ternal Ancestors. 334

Harvard University, 250t''i Anniversary cf, 426.

Hawley Record, 343

Herefordshire, Lnpland, Visitations, 115

Hill's Converge Genealogy, 343

HoUister Family, 244

Hopkins'^ Ht,me Lms of rhe early £eitlei-s of Providerce Plantation.'", C05

Howell's iouti'.ampion, L. I., 341

Huguenot S'>cie:y of Amijrica, Vd, L, 2-13

naiaan Leafiets, 233

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General Index.

Book Notices —

Ipswich Great PomesUay Book, 123 Jesup'i .Jus-iop Genealogy, 430 Johnson's Poets and Poetry of Cecil Co., Mary- hind, 0-1-2 Kelly's Kelly Genealogy, 436 King's Chapel, 200tb Anriifersary of, 336 Lane's Lace Fajiiily, IJo Lapham's Hiitory Noririy, Me., 337 Lerermore's History llepjulic of New Haven,

431 Little's Ben Hirdin and Times, 431 London (Kngland) Marriage Licences (1521-

1S69), 429 Maine historical Society's Collections, Vol. IX.,

339 Wemoires de I'Academie des Sciences de Tou- louse, t"me VIII., 241 Marsh's Marsh Genealo.-y, 1;25, 244 Marshall's Collectioa on Feath-r Surname, ."43 Marshall's Notrs on the Surnaaio of Uull, i.1.i MattishiiU and Poephan;, co. of SuvT.lk, Genea-

lofical Abstracts, 333 ilonta.ue's Muat?.'.'ue GenealO;:?, 124 Morrill's .Morrill TabuUir Pedigree, 125 Morris Bonteoiu .\r.ce5try, 244 Morris's Jlurris Geneal iL'y, 433 Musical Record, tiie, 343 Neil's Last Preoch Post in the Valie/ of the

Upoer Mii:i'-iipp!, 343 Neil Family Hirtorica! Notes. 123 New Eaf.iacd Jlsthcdi=i HiscoricaJ Society Pro- ceedings. 1S3T, 23* Nev7 Yorli Medical Kegistej-. 430 Nevrton, Linford, leicestersiiira Parish lUgis-

ters. 3.33 Norfolk Visitation Index, 123 Northern Notes and Cju-ries, Vol. I., 119 Our Pumb .inimals, Vol. la, 23S Palmer Genealoiry, 123

Parthemore's Biadnaila Lutheran Church, 342 Patrick's Ludiniiton Family, 125 Perkins's Per'sina Fiimily, Par- li., 2*4 Perthshire, Transcript of Kegi^ters of Eaptiaans

of Muthill,23S Perrj''s OdlLn Family. 437 Peterborou5h, old Ke^:^ster5 of Parish of St.

John Baptist, 124 Phillmore's Fyr.tC're FamCy, 125 Pope's Western B'^undary cf Massachusetts, 23i3 Potter's Old FaDiilieS of Concord, Vol. I., 114 Pitkin QentaloL'y, 244 Rantoul's '•To'jjbury Family, 437 Raymond's Raymond FaBiily, 244 Baymoi,,!'^ Gray Oeaealogy, 432 Eevuoids'i Story of a Concoid Farm, lOS Bobbins, Rev. Ttcmas, Diary, 1796-1554, 110 Eobin's Account oi First Tramway iu America,

and Skstch of Thomas Leiper, -l^S. Hosier's Relation cf \Vevmo-.uh's V.jyr.gs to the

Coast of Maine (1600), 338 St. Botolph, Bishopgat;, Kj^'istfi^ of Voi I.,

112 St. Charles, College de Peri.^ord, 123 Saint Lennard's, Coicheiter, Parish Ke.^iytcr, 333 Stuttoa Parish, CO. JUtToi'v, '••■me acc.uotof. 333 Shackford's Lineage uf President Lincoln, :i43 Shepiird's Shspard G?n?;d.-i2y, 125 Smith's Verge;;nes, Vt., 437 glaUijr.'-.ter's ChristiaiaLy the Key to Character

aad Career of Wishin^rtrn, 2lt) .Stearns's Uisc )ry of -Ashiiryham, 331 StickEOy Fumdy, 'v)n;reTit7 of, ic . 313 Talks with Sjcr.ites a.HH-.t Life. 210 Temple's Iliitcrv of North B>-oi;kfie!d, Mass.,

115, 430 Temple's History of Frarainghsji!. Mass., 428 Terry's Terry F.irnMy, 244 Thomps<in, .MiiS .M;iry P., .Memoir Jud^e ^^•i.xx-

ezer Thompson, ll'J Th'ivaitr's i<:..-.<.i! I'avid Atvrrwnl. Qi3 Universalist Quar.. r'y, Vd. X.^I1I., IJi Upham's L'phara Famiif, 343 Virfiaii Iliatorica! SvXicty Co'lectionr. Vcl. VI.,

332

Book Notices — )

Waddell's Annals Augusta County, Ta., 122 '"

Ware Family, 244

■Way's Way Genealogy, 353

Weldon's Memorial Judge David Davis, 343

Willey's Wiiley Outline" 125

Winchester Record, Vuls. 1. and II., 116

Win;.-ate's Win^ate Family, 436

Winsor's The Mayflo\7er Town, 437

Winthron. Robert (V, AdJres.^es and Spjoche* of (ls:>i-l.?>,6). 121

Wiiod^^ard's Woodward Ta^iiy. fi^j Book-Plates, Heraldic , Early tuuthcrii. 29fl ,'

Boston Cadets, 150th Anniver.^ary oj, note os, 413 i

Boston Epitaphs, Vol. II., ncfe, "220 Ecitou, an Old Landmark, 2'.i3

BjLitwell, Abigail, cjuery. iiO .

Hoyes Antipas. heirs of, query, 92 Bradley, Hezikiab, fiuery, 315 L'ratrle, Capt. Thomas, and Lis Jlea, 275 I'tomin, Major, query, 220 ; r.-piy to, 315 Bio'vn, .^bi.2a.ii. fjuery, 95 ;

Butterworth I'iicily, 191 ;

Candler MS3., note.i, l&O. S2S, 313 ;

Cheevcr, Ezekiel, additiou'jl Notes, 65 '

Chester. Col., and .lohu Harvard. 411

Clariii; U'a.iiei, query, 4i3

Coats of Aims. (Siii Iliiistrntions.)

Coop.-r, Kev. Samuel. I'.ary f.f, 3S>i

Co.x, M2'-g;;ry, geaeali'gical note, 55

Crane Tauuiar Pedigree, 1;~

D'-.ane, Thomas, Boston, eenealogical notes, 260, 34i'

Deaths (current), 248, 347 '■

DeWc.lf, Beltlia2;a-, qaery. 220 ; reply. 221 '

Dcxttr, liniotny, alleged specuLatioa in Condi.ea'.ai !

.Mrpcy, rtpiy *.o, 9:S !

L'iary or Rev. Samuel Cooper, of Boston, 3SS i

Di^-'iton Rock -ijferred io,'4l4 j

I.'iabrowe Tabular Pedigree, 360, 3bl '

Documents, discovery .>f rLiaticg to history' of Nsn" <

ilamp':hire, cCS j

Dover, N. H., Church Records, 33, 1S3, 27S '

Durham Visitations, reference to, aote, 414 \

Early Approprialiors for PuV.iio SoliOv^!?, 313 )

Early S'latheru Heraldic Pook-Plates, 21S j

Early Flag's of .N'ew Er^la'.'.d. 133 ;

Jiarly New England Engrav^T, 'jote, 94 «

I'Mdy, Charles, query, 221 j

Ldiiii;iir;;h University Graduates (.\rr,oric\u1 iz ;

Medicine, 391 ' ;

Electric Tt'egr ,ph, t.'ie Icveut.jrs of, queiT, 210 j

EcgUmd. WiV.srs's Geneai'.gical Gieaniags in, 53, j

I5S. 255, 353 '

Episo.jpal Church for Cambridge, note. 412 f

EpisiMiiaiian, query, il3 i

Erraui. o4S, 4U ' |

EiiP.v Co. Probate Kecords, gl-;ania>r^, S2 •

Lulcgies and Klc-ies ou Rev. Joha ivogers. I'.o |

Extracts from P,.-iQC? Ortorgi's County liecorii, ■

Z'larjlaiid, rote on, 3!3 i

Family Mem>rii:'i3, notice of, 221 i

Genea'iOjies —

Blois, 293

Butterworth, I'Jl

Cht-ever, 05

Crine (tabular), 177

Di?browe itiibular;, SoO, 361

Bill, U;bb. Ai-jrj, J2

Li.ic-lu. 1.-3

Litlht' :n, LC4 Geuealo-iea ir I'ressiralio.'

ilrijvrn, I'jJ. 224 Cone, 317 Cults, 102 Lurar.t, Vy. Vv- ■./r,.2-2-4

0.;!i.o. 235, 393

Pring, 80

i;au^-'y. 55

Kc-ers (tabular;, 15?

Savery, Vjj

Tu.-ner. 215

W;inl Ctahular'), 2S3

>^'^-, 21, 3.y4 ■

Weaioc. iSo

Ildrnrei!, 315 flaobaid, 31r! Kingsbury 124 Marston, -ii^ Nor«.hrap. 224 I'en-in, 115 i'lcrce, 3ib

General Index.

QenenloKles In preparation—

J\.rter. -Zli Steere, 224

Price, 224 Taylor, 102

Eampjon, 318 Towle, 313

Shermiiii, 102 >Vight, 102

0<>nealogical Gleanings in Enplauil, 53, 158, 255, 353

OeneiiloL'ica! Queries, 90, 96, 412

0--'nea!ngies of the Principal Roman Catholic faini- li.j in h\'?l.iDU, n.ite, 414

G'K.i M'.vM. i|i":ry, 92

Gralrini or r,,ihn.ed, query, 5*5

Green and Warren, queries, 315

Oroton Documents, 262

Hakes. Solomon, query, 97

Kali, HilarjJ, memoir of, 9

Hampden, query, 221

Harvard College Alumni, official positions of, 300

H:iw!i'V, query, 94

Hill (David) Family Bibls Record, 52

Hiatorioil Societies Pr'xeedir.25 — Chirintro, 104 ;

N. K. Historic Genealogical, lu2, 224, 3iS, 415;

Key Hampshire. 321 ; New London, 322 -, Old

Colony, 220-, Rhode IsUr.d, 103, 226, 321, 41S ;

Viri-Ioia, 226, 322 i Weymouth, 320 ; Western Re-

ssrve, 418 Hu.:lii-ocl: Family, note, 101 Hoadly's Judijes and OiTxevs Court of Connecticut,

note, 100 Hi'rl!)ut, Elisha, query, 311

Hlu'f rat ions — AotOfjvuphs — Manasiah Arrnitage, 85 ; James

Hates, 85 ; Hiland Hal!, 9 ; Frederic Ki-ider,

12S ; >Janninp Leonard, 249 ; Ihomai- Savory,

377,373 ; James Walbrid^e, 85 ; Robert Ware. 23 Faciiiiiil'; fiom the Booke of Records of the Aga-

wrinie l'lai:'.ation, 19 5 In.>.?rip'ion3 — DisbroTV, Samuel, 360: Pisfcrow,

Uoje, 301 ; Wcoclbridge and Jordan of Barba-

d )es, 30'J Fortrails— Charles Adams, 349 ; Hiland H.ili. 8 ;

Fi-ed'.ric Kidder, 12S } Manning Leciard (2),

2 IS Tahaiar Pedigrees— Crane, 17" ; I^iohrcwe, 380 ;

Qmney, 55 ; Rogers, 158 ; Ward, 2S2

Incen Jve to Labor, note, 157

Iron Works at Taunton, the, 83, 2S1

Johnson Family in England, note, 411

Keysar, genealogical note, 55

KiiMiT. Frederic, meiT'/ir of, 129

Ki:';; Philip's War, Sol jiers in, 70, 201, 271, 402

Kin.i^ Marriages, query, 95

Layton, Col., query, 220 ; reply to, 315 Ltiaiid Stanr'urd, Jr., Cniversity, note, 99 Ltttters of—

Chw-rer, F.zel:iel (1651\ 66

Downi'i- Km.lnuel (1636), 183

G.:rd.ji;. Driunpton (16o0), 133

Lt-L'te, Wi!li,tmn'D54\3.66

Rujf. 11, John (1576), 201

Rjete, R'.hert '1625), l62

'Xurntr, WiUiarc (1670), 72; (1C76). 77; (1676), 2Vi i..?<^r.arJ Manning, memoir of, 249 Lincln, VVe'iilcnt, Lineage of, 153 I.i'.tletOM Fiimily of Virgiria, tentative p>.'digree, 304 I/'ivc Letter of a former Governor of >Ja33achuseit3,

311

il»ck. qur;ry, 314

>I.iiiie WW.i, notice, 223

.M.iAMn, (ir.-r.'?, notice of fnrthcomin? memoir, 316

Maa^achii^elts Archive*, Gltarinji. 32

J*;ai,s-ii.-!,u3.'t'.i " ^^<.K:i^;ty for Propagating tl»e Qos-

5>^I," r >(••, S4 ilath.-,-, Ui-riord. note, 413 SI'hl iN '.oc 'j K)d Indians, note, 2TS Jlerii.Kr,-! of the Ne'.v- Koifliinu Hist. Qr;n. Society,

Obiiuio-lea of. (See Hecrotagy )

Memoirs —

Charles Adams, 549

Hiland Hall, 9

Frederic Kidder, 129

Slanning Leonard, 249 Missing Records, query, 313 Morse, Elijah, note, 264

Necrology of the New England Historic Gener^ligi- cal Society —

Chester Alan Arthu'. 231

Francis Walker Bacon, 422

Henry Ward Beecher, 227

Samuel T. Bent, 323

Edward Eaton Bowen, 223

Sidney Brocks, 424

Nah ira Capen, 324

Saniu-'l Trowbridgo Chamnney, 421

Oti? Clapp, 223

CMivtr Rich'irdson Clarke, 326

William Smith Clark, 325

Charle? Francis Conac'c, 233

Francis Grigson, 232

John Lord ilsyes, 425

Charles Dudley Homans, 231

Daniel Thomas Tose lluntooj, 32?

Frederic Jodos, 4'JS

Amos Adams Lawrence, 229

Wil'iam Rii.hard Lawrence, 229

John Sav'oiian Ladd, 327

Ariel L<jT7, 2"'Z

John Bostwicic Moreau, 322

Henry Oadordonk. 227

nor..iio Nelson Otis, 419

George k. Oviatt, 329

Sila^ Keed, 423

Jarres Bardwell Richards, 325

Benjamin SilUrran, 419

Edwin Thompson, 236

George Qt-incv Thorndike. 324

Charles R'jssoii Trt-.;n. 420

Richard CLejevix Trench. 105

Thor^as Rutiierford Trowbridge, 327

Townsond Ward. 420

Frar.cis Minot Weld. 422

William G. Wise. 423

Charles WooUey, 105 New England Gleanings, SO

New Endand Historic Genealogicr.l Society — Aunaal Address, 141 ; Necrology of, :!0o, 227. 322, 418 ; Proceedings of, 102. lV24, 313, 41.5 New Hampshire, discovery of iinportaat Docu.-iieaus

relating to history of, 306 Newspapers in 1SS7, note. 317 New Yo:k Records, query, '.419 Notes and Queries, 90, 219, 311, 411

Obituary Notices, (Sea Necrology and Biog'opM-

cal Sketches.) Odlin Genealog-y, 265, 393 Old Landmark of Boston, 233 Oxford .Matriculation (1715-1336) , note, 4U

Pirker, query. 314

Perlethorne. Nof^, Register of, note, 99

Petivions— Joseph SiU, 410; TurL,cr, Mary (:67fl),

76, 209 Phelps, Gen. John W., Life of, nots, 99 Phiilimore, W. P. W., eeneaiogicai i ivestigator, 101 Pierce, Tboma?, note, 412 Poole, Cape. Jonathan and bis Men, 271 Porter, Elijah, query. 220 Portraits. (Se^e lUustralirm}.) Porrait of the Karl of Ctiatham, note, 100 Pring Family, 35

O.ueries. (See Notes and Qucrit.i.) Q'iin-;y, Kici^ard, gsaeali-gical note and tabular ped- igree, 53

Re<.'ent Pt-bi^caMocs. 227, 217. :115. 43.^

Records— Dove.-, N. U. (Chui-ch). 83. 13S, 278; Es3:x Ci. Uleatiings, 82; Yorii Co., Me., Glean- ings. 33

Remarkable Picture, cote, 213

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General Index.

Revolutionary SolJiers, query, 315 Ridiculous Rec irJs, note, 93 Robins, Oheiliencrf, note, 3€3 Ro?era geneal isry and tabular pediin^e, 155 Rogers, Rev. John, elej^es on, 1S5 Eomaa Catholic families in England, genealogies of, note, 41-1

St. Batotnh, Biahopgate, London, Parish Register,

DNte, 2-23 Savage. Edward, query, 219 Savage, Tboraad, note, 367 Savery Fiimilies in America, 369 ; note, 412 Shepard, No.ih, query, 220 Sill, Capt. Joseph and his men, 102 Slavery in Virgmia, note, 222 Soldiers in Kin,' Philip's War, 70, 201, 271, 402 Southern Historical Society, note, 414 Stoildard Family, query, 97 Suffolk Parish AjcouDt Book, excerpta from, 150

Taunton, Mass., the Iroa Works of, S3, 2sl

Thinfr, a ootifradictioa cleared up, note, 312; reply

to note. 414 Town lli.st'iries io preparatioQ— 7 ratriinzhair". 223;

Kenaeliuik, Me., 99 ; Wells, Me., yQ : Woodbury,

Cocn., 101, 223 Tcwr. Records. (See Records-) Tracy — Bout lU, query, 219 Tubbs, queries, 219

Turner. Capt. William and his men, 70, 201 Turner Family, note, 215

Upham, note, 316

Waite, tabni.ir note, 2S3

Wandsworth, Surrey, Registers, note, 100

Ward Pedigree, 2S2

Ware Genea!'i:zy, 21 ; additions and corrections,

394 ; t:"te on Errata. 315 Warren, Tievi, query, OS Waters 's Geneil jiira": Gleanings —

Adapjs. Elizabeth (166C), 236

Boyes, M;>tthew (1051), 131

Butcher, Mary (1651), oS

CoDVers, Allen (lri391, 255

Convers, Jnhn (1614), 255

Con.srs, Th"m.is (15 i3'). 255

Confers, William (150T). 255

Crane, R-.hert (165-t). 176 ; (1569), 177

Crane, tamuel (IfiTO), 176

Cox, Margery (lc56;. 55

Die: pier, Thomas (1627), 1S2

Da-< riiport, John, 01

Des -le, Thomas (1633), 260

Dis'>eruTve, Jeffery (1539), 3-53

Disberowe, William (1610J, .353

Disberowe, James (1090). 354

I)i.5browe Sa: (I65U), 355

DoS.^oD, Thoma-H (1627), 61

Downirig, John (1623) , 6 1

DowTiiog, Eaianuel (loOe). 1-S3

Burner. Thi^miis (1650), 56

Dummer, Jeremy (1731j), 57

K^apc.e, -Tohn. 363

Fo.x, Stephen (1663;, 257

Qrcene, John (1623), 63

Waters's Genealogical Gleanings —

Gurdon, Brampton, 133

Hamond, Joane (1212), 167

Hamond, John (1612), 167

Harnguett, Adim (1639), 175

Hawes, John (1613), 173

Hoadly, note, 364

Hubbert. Mary (1665), ISO

UuUon, Natlianie'. (16:^2), 58

Koysar, ISonjaui'ii (1650), 55

Kir':U.nd, John (1617), 60

Leete, William, ietter (1654), 356

Noves, Anne (1653), &4

Pickard, John (1665). 181

Pierce, Mark (1654), 56

Prickett, Mile-i (16:i7). 62

Quiney, Richard (1056), 63

Ra:id, James (loSo'). 61

Ray, John (lOCO), 174

Reunire, Paul ue (1627), f,"

R.-igers, Dor.'thy MulO), 174

Rogers, E.',ekiel (1061) , 178

Rogers, John (1630), 164 ; (1601), IfiR ; (laiSI, 174

Rigers, Margaret (1065), 181

Rogers, Richdrd (1C13), lo-j

Rogers, Thomas (1625), 163

Ryeoe, Robert (16:36). 152

Srtoner, Arthur '1337), 59

Stvie, Sfimuel (1665), 259

E Vines, Mary (i:53), 6;i

Warl, John(15S8), 175

V aters, Thomas (1614), 59

West, John ao91). 259

White, WiUir.m (H22), 63; (10:17), 63

Willi?, Francis (1691), 207

Winthrop, Stephen, 262

Wiseman, Richard (1617), 173 We'rh and Bvown, queries, 220 Wells, Ma., early seule-s or", o.uery, 97 Weptworth, n.ite, 36 Weston Genealogy. 2S5

Why men who could write made their raa/k, note, S5 White, Wilii.'jni, query, 100 Whittington, WllU.--.m, note, 367 Wilrox Rubin, q -ery, 315

Wilder, Marshall P., Po;thumoti3 Adaress of, 141 Wills, Deeds and other Prabnte Records, abstract! of and from. (iSee fVatRTt's Gpnenlo^cal GLean-

Culvsrwel'. Ezekiel (1631), 60

Lincoln, Abraham (1737), l.-o

Lincoln. Moiuecai ii736), 155

Ware, a-i!J-.min (1744), 33

Ware, Beriah (IJD.i), 34

W.-ire, Ebenezer (1734), 23

Ware, Eleazer il'.'iO), T/2

Ware, Jonathan (1740), 38

Ware, John (1715), 23

Ware, Nathaniel (1767), 33

Ware, Robert ri6&s), 23 : (1724), 27

Ware, Samuel (17o0-l). 28 Withi.igton, Henry, note, 413 Wooobridge and Jordan cf Barbados, 309

York County Records. Gleanings, 81 Young, GidsOQ, note, 96

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HISTORICAL AKD GENEALOGICAL REGISTER.

JANUARY, 1887.

MEMOIR OF HON. HILAXD HALL, LL.D.

By Henry D. Hall, Esq., of North Bennington, Yt.

r| -HE subject of this memoir, Ilihmd Hall, ex-Govemor and ex- i member of. Congress, was bom at Bennington, Vermont, ^ July 20, 1795. ilis parents were of Eugjisli descent. The cniigninfc nncestors of each, John Ilall of the fatlier Nathaniel ILill, and Gcorice Hubbard of the mother Abigail ( Hubbard) Hall, aftw be- in'^ o'ver fifteen years at Boston and Hartford, became in 1G50 tbe first settlers and large land-holders in Middletown, Connecticut, where in its ancient burying-ground may no-.v be found tombstijues of some of their early descendants.

His f\ither was a quiet, industrious farmer, coming to reside in Bennington in 1779, and marrying at Xorfolic, Ct., October 12, 179-1, die mother, who ever proved a worthy and efficient iielp- r.ieet. Both were exemplary members of the Baptist Church, of which he was a deacon, and were respected and esteemed members of society. The boyhood and youth of Hiland Hall were spent on his father's farm. He became interested in reading when quite youn"-, and read all the books he could find or borrow in the vicini- ty, hfs taste naturally being for history or biography.

His earlv education was obtained in the common Kchools of his neighborhood, with the exception of nearly three months at an academy in Granville, N. Y. ; which undoubtedly would have been rounded out to the full quarter but for sickness. The wri- ter does not remember of hearing him speak of any other sick- ness in h,is youthful days, tliis being impressed upon him as tak- ing largely from the sum total of his educational advantages, though liJ'liaslold how his good mother, caHing him to her side, when on speaking to tb.e children of getting ready for meeting upon Sunday morning, :u;d he making an excuse that he did not feel well, and (daiming he ought to be permitted to stay at honie, v.'ould reach for the '■ picra bottle," which was very generally kept in those days for woruts, which was the usually considered trouble with children.

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lie would generally feel better and soon tccovct, without taking a dose, so as to make his scanty toilet, and go to hear the sermons of at least an hour or more in length, which were preached twice on the Sabbath.

Mr. Hall became interested in politics at an early age, favoring the republican in opposition to the federal party. During the war with England, early in September, 1813, a ^iCw weeks after he be- came eighteen years old, he was actively engaged in the formation of a young men's society in Bennington for a vigorous prosecution of the war, styled the "Sons of Liberty," and was one of a com- mittee of tliree to prepare and report a constitution for the Society. The well-bound book of records of the Society is still preserved, the minutes of its proceedings covering over sixtv pages of foolscap size. The Society held regular meetings, at which political Cjuestions were debated. Among its patriotic acts was the procuring from the ladies in tlie town and vicinity of 158 pairs of mittens and 42 pairs of socks, which in the name of the lady contributors were presented to the 11th Regiment of U. S. soldiers stationed at Platts!)urg, N. Y., in January, 1814, which regiment had been largely recnrt- ed in Vermont. The Society continued in active life until after tlie close of the war, the last record of its proceedings being an accoiirit of its celebration of the Fourth of July, 1815, at which there were an address, procession, dinner and eighteen toasts, in aecord;ince with the number of States of the Union at the time.

After the close of the war in 1815, there was a lull in party pol- itics, and by 1820, the federal party, as a national organization, had ceased to exist, jNIr. ]\Ionroc, the republican candidate, being elect- ed president by a vote of all the states, the vote of only a single elector in Xew Hampshire being cast against him. At the elec- tions in 1824 and 1828, Mr. Hall, in common with most oi the New England republicans, voted for John Cuincy Adams. The supporters of Gen. Jackson, who was elected in 1828, assuming the name of Democrats, their opponents took that of National Re- publicans, which was afterwards changed to Whigs, to whicii Mr. Hall belonged until it became merged in 1856 in the new repui)iioan party, a name under which he began his early political life.

He studied law and was admitted to the bar of Bennington Coun- ty in December, 1819 ; established himself in practice in his native town, \\-hicli he represented in the general assembly of the State in 1827. In 1828 he was clerk of the Supreme and County Court for Bennington County, and the year following was elected State At- torney for the County, and reelected the three succeeding years.

Mr. Hall being naturally of a generous disposition, and easily turned aside ^\hen collecting his own bills, and thinking little of money for its own sake, but using it freely for the necessary comfort of liis family, at this ti;ne increasing in nr.mbers, as well as answer- ing the claims of the needy and unfortunate ; he early became in-

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volvcd in liis pecuniary relations, and for years lived in a home wliic'h -ivas heavily mortgaged, but which he was enabled to clear up in middle life, having never settled a debt at less than one hundred ' cents on the dollar.-

^\nother characteristic which tended to lessen h.is yearly income, was the conscientious expression of Ins opinion to his clients as to i their just and legal clalnis wliCn advised with as to tlie bringing of f suits, or of continuing litigation after they had been commenced. A strict regard to right and justice often witldield the prosecution of suits, which in the hands of some would have brouglit returns in fees, adding much to the income of an attorney ; but it gave confi- dence to those having right upon their side in employing him, as they never had reason to fear that he would be tampered with by o[)j)osite counsel, or their cases in any way be jeopaidlzed by him for want of integrity. Thus the opinion obtained, to quite an ex- tent, that the side upon which he was engaged would prevail, from t!ic inherent justice it was undoubtedly possessed of. In after life he luid the satisfaction of not being straitened in his pecuniary cir- cumstances, thougli his magnanimous nature would have found ways to dispose of large possessions in the way of benevolence.

In January, liSBo, he was chosen a representative in Congress to supply the vacancy occasioned by the death of Hon. Jonathan Hunt, and took his seat on the 21st of that month, during tlie extraordina- ry excitement growing out of Mr. Calhoun's South Carolina nullifi- cation ordinance, and witnessed the failure of that first serious effort at disunion. At the same election Mr. Hall was chosen a member of the 23d Congress, which commenced its first session the follov*"- ing December. Tiie disti'ict then comprised the two counties of pjcnnington and AVindliam, with seven towns in Windsor County, viz., Andover, Baltimore, Cavendish, Ciiester, Springfield and Weston. This district he represented in Congress for ten successive years, receiving as a National Republican and AViug, fi\ediircrent elections by large majorities. His congressional service terminated the 3d of ilarch, 1843, he having declined being longer a candidate. In Congress Mr. Hall was a working rather than a talking mem- ber, though he occasionally made political speeches, among them one in 1834 against Gen. Jackson's removal of tl;e governnient de- posits from the United States Bank, and another in 183G in favor <^' the distribution of the proceeds of the public lands among the states, which measure was in effect consummated at tliat session in the ilistrilnition of the surplus revenue, by v»-hich nearly seven iiun- drcd thousand dollars were received by the State of Vermont, and adi|,d to the school-funds of the several towns. Both these speeches were printed in pamphlets and extensively circulated liy his ongres- sicn.il associates and others, and the former was repiinted in New ^ork jirior to the succeeding State election, and circulated as a cam- paign document.

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But the speaking of :\Ir. Hull in Congress ^as In general of a business character, made to influence the votes of members on pend- ing questions, rather than for the country. His work on commit- tees, first on that of the post-office and post-r.jads, and afterwards on that of revolutionary claims, was onerous and severe, his printed reports covering several volumes of puhlic documents. In l^ob, j while a member of the post-office committee, h-: presented a report

I in opposition to the mcssai^e of the President and the report of the

I Post-Master General, which had recommended the enactment of a

i law making it a penal offence to transmit by mail into any of the

I southern s'tates, printed matter against the insiitutlou of slavery,

! termed "incendiarv publications." The report, which was by a rni-

l nority of the committee, was in answer to one that had been made

1 to the Senate bv :Mr. Calhoun, and of which five thousand extra

copies had been ordered bv that body. Besides showing the great difficulty and danger of such legislation, the report of Mr. Hall took the ground that Tt would be an Infringement of the liberty of the press, and a violation of the constitution, which had conferred no power on congress to look into publications and prescribe what opinions should and what should not be admitted into the mada, or be the subject of mail transmission. The report was signed [ by Mr. Hall and the Plon. George N. Briggs, afterwards gov-

! ernor of Massachusetts, but as the mojorit.y of the committee failed

1 to make their report, that of the minority did not become a public

i document. It was, however, printed in the Xaticaal Intedigencer

at AVashinrrton, and in New York and other papers.

Mr. Hafrs services were especially important in committees and also in debate, in opnosiog wasteful and extravagant expenditures. While on the post-othce committee he took an active and prornment I part in framing and procuring the passage of the act or_ Juiy id,

i 183C, which made a radical chanixe in the organization of tne post-

I office department, and provided an etfectual system tor the settie-

1 meut of its complicated accounts, by which an alarming series ot

1 frauds that had caused a very great drain on the treasury, was bro-

1 ken up, and an honest and economical administration ot its afiairs

I inaugurated and secured. .

Mr. Hall's successful efforts in rehition to one class of claims de- serves a more particular notice, as well for the large amount mvolv- i ed in them as for tlie powerful influence and bitter opposition he

! was obli'^ed to overcome in exposimr their unfounded and iraudu-

1 ulent character. For several vears there had been pa=smg througfi

conirress, with little opposition, numerous ohv.ms founded on a..eged j promises of the legislature of Virginia, or of the Continental Con-

f gress to A'ir-inia offic'.r^ of the revolutionary army, some of diem

I denominute(f Commutation Claims, some Ilaif-pay and some Boun-

\ ty-land Claims, but all depending upon similar evidence to sustain

I them. In satisfaction of these claims there ha<I already been drawn

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from tlie treasury over three millions of dollars, nearly all of Avliieh hail been paid for supposed services of deceased Virginia officers, and there were still pending before congress claims to the further 'amount of more than another million, and their number and amount were continually increasing. By a patient and laborious examina- ti.,.ii of the revolutionary arcluves in the department at Wasliington, with some information derived from the public records at Kichmond, Mr. Hall became satisfied that the great mass of the claims already paid was wholly unfounded, and tku those that were still pending were, if possible, still more worthless. In order to bring the sub- ject fullv before conirress, he obtained the appointment of a select CL>!umittee, of yhich'he was made chairman. He prep,ared a report unfavorable to the claims, which was approved by the committee and presented to the Huuse on the 27l1i of February, l<^o9, with the usual niotlon that it be laid on the tal>le and printed. Contrary to the uniform practice in such cases, the printing of the report was vehemently opposed by the Virginia delegation. After obstructing the actionof die House during the morning hour of that day, by dilatory morions and debate, they found the members impatient to order the printing under the previous question, upon which, as a last resort, INIr. Wise of Virginia calh-d fur the reading of the report, which' by strict rule he had a right to require before voting upon it. The reading of the report was commenced, and was continued through the^morning hours of February 2Sth and March 1st, with- in two days of the close of the session, when the pressure of other business prevented its being finished.

:\Ir. AVise's unexampled hostile call for the reading, therefore, had its desi^^ned effect of smothering the report for that congress. The next s'ession of congress Mr. Hall became a member of the committee of Revolutionary Chums, and soon afterwards its chair- man. Oi the 24th of April, 18 iO, he made a report from that committee on the Bounty Land and Comn^utation Claims of the Virginians, similar to the one which had been suppressed at the closl of the previous congress, whicli sliowed by authentic docum^en- tary evidence that every one of those allowances was unfounded. ; Tlie efforts of the Virginians to oijtain revolutionary allowances, esneciall', for officers' bounties under an old law of their state, bemg stiil contirmed, Mr. Stanly, of North Carolina, on the lOth of June, l.Sii), offered a resolution directing the committee of Eevolutionary Claims to examine and report on their validity, which resolution he aikrwnrds modified by substituting a select committee for that on Iv.^volutionury Claims. This was done on the connnaint that .Air. Hall, tlie chairman of the standing committee, was unreasonably and unin-tlv prejudiced, and w.nild not give the claimants a fair i^caring'. On the IGth of June :^Ir. Hall, having obtained thf flour, sjioke an hour in vindication of his course in regard to the claims, showing by undoubted documentary evidence that they

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were all, collectively and incliviclually, either wholly fraudulent or clearly unfounded on any revolutionary service to sustain them ; and he closed his remarks by presenting- a list of the names of sixty-four claimants, whose claims amounted in the wliolc to over two hun- dred thousand dollars, and comprised ail of the latest of those claims that had been recommended for payment by the executive of Vir- ginia, and were included in the bill then pending iu the House.

He said every one of them was bad, and offered to abandon his opposition to the claims if any member would satisfy tlio House that any single claim was well founded. His remarks were comaiented upon by many of the A'irginians, and among tliem ^Nlessrs. Goggin, Goode and Gilmer, in speeches of an hour each, which were all highly laudatory of the patriotism of Virginians and her revolu- tionary heroism, but none of them ventured any attempt to show the validity of a single claim. The sp/cech of ]\[r. Gilmer in par- ticular was of an aggressive and extremel} personal character to- wards Mr. Hall, and was sharply replied to by him, in which his attacks were effectually repelled.

Pie not only made a further exposure of the claims, but siioued that Mr. Gilmer, who had been governor of Virginia, had ori- ginated them by inducing the legislature of the state to recom- mend their payment by congress, when they w^ere well known to be entirely worthless ; that he had as agent of the Half-pay Claimants, whose claims were equally invalid, first presented them to congress, and that he was by a law of the state entitled to one per cent, on all that should be paid by the United States, on which he had already received over twelve thousand dollars, and was entitled to a like allowance on all future payments. This do- bate occupied the morning hours of several days, and having the nuTierous delegation of Virginia on one side and a single member from another state en the other, and being in a great degree of a personal character, attracted very general attention. The vindication of Mr. Hall, w-hich was full and complete, and overwhelming to his as- sailants, was listened to with unusual interest, and was also the subject of general newspaper notice and comment. Ex-President Adams, who was a member of the House at the time, notices the debate in his Diary publisiied by his son, as follows :

.June 16th, 1S42. Stanly moved the appointment of a select committee to investigate the expeiulitures on account of Virginin Military F.ounty land warrants, from wliicli sprung up a debate, and Hiland Hall opened a hideous sink of corruption until he was arrested by the expiration of the morning hour.

June 21st. Gilmer growled an hour against Ilall for detecting and expo=;iug a multitu'le of gross frauds, perpetrated iu the chums relating to the Virginia land warrants.

June 22d. Goggin scolded an hour ag&inst Hiland Hall, and W. 0. Goode took the tioor to follow him.

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T.HU' -Mth W. 0. Goode followed the Yir>zmia pack against Hall. Tar - Coope'r moved the previous question, but withdrev.- it at the request of IIull to give him opportunity to reply to the Virginia vituperation

June 23th. IHland Hall took the morning hour to tiay Gilmer and the Virginia Military land warrants.

T\i\< thorou-h exposure of tlicse claims, and the marked rebuff and discomfiture of their cliampions, followed as it soon after was bv a full history and condemnation of them m detail ni a renort'by Mr. Stanly's select committee, operated as a final ex- tin.^uisher of them. :^Ir. Hall was a member of the select com- miuee, and the rcnort had, bv direction of the committee, been pre- nared and made to the Hou.e by him. Gov. Gilmer, the leading I chami-ionof the claims, was subsequently feecretary of the Navy under President Tvk^r, and lost his life, with several others, by the bur^tin- of the Stockton cannon on board the Steamer Princeton in \ VArnxvj 1844. Bv the act of congress, passed m 1«32 on the anplication of the Vi'rginia Assembly, under the lead of Gov. Gd- mor, con-ress had a,-umcd tiie payment of certam half-pay claims which res'ted on alleged promises of tliat state to her ofhcers and bad i^rovided for their adjustment by the war department ihese are the claims before mentioned, for the allowance ot which by the United States Mr. Gilmer was entitled to receive a percentage. Thev were purely state claims, and there was no legal or equitable ^ rrrotind for making the United States liable for them, mose intend- ed to be provided 1-or had not only been allowed and paid, but the act had been so looselv and inconsistently construed by lurmer sec- retaries of AVar, that":.rr. Hail, from his examination, felt able to show, bevond doubt, that allowances to the amount of several hundred thousand dollars had been made under color of its provisions, which the act in no wise warranted, and which were clearly untounued and unjust. .\s other claims of like character were still pcndmg m .he department, ^Ir. Hall felt it his duty to call the attention of the then recentlv appointed secretary to the lax manner in which previous allowances iiad been made, and he accordingly addressed a letter to him on the subject, in which he respectfully suggested the propriety of his reconslderiuiT the construction which should be given to the act. The secretary did not take the suggestion kindly, and rataer a .picv correspondence ensued, the purport and spirit oi whicn may be gathered from the two concluding letters, which were as follows :

Department of War, Feb'y 25th, 1842.

^""'in answer to your letter of the 24th, I iransmit herewith a copy of vour tormer letter of the 2l3t inst., as you request; and have to state that i cuul.l not perceive the object of it, if it were not to induce a suppression of oi...ralions in the class oi cases to whicli you allude. I am extremely ob!i-r,| to vou for the information you -avo, and will be still further obliged \i y.n ca!rp"i''t out a mode in which the erroneous coustructiou you sup-

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pose to hpvve been given can be corrected, without violating the indispensa- ble rule of iidheriug to former decisions.

Very IJespectfully your obd't Sv't, Hon. Hiland Hall. J. C. Spencer.

House of Representatives.

House of Representatives, Feb'y 2Gth, 1312. Sir:

I thank you for the copy of my letter of the 21st inst., iiiclosed iu yours of yesterday. In your letter you say you are extremely obligt-d to me for the information I gave you, and will be &tiil further obliged if I can point out a mode in which the erroneous coustruction I suppose to have lieen given the act of July 5th, lSo2, "can be corrected w;:hout violating the indispensable rule of adhering to former decisions." I would be glad to oblige you in t!ii; pai'ticular, but it is out of ciy power. Under au indispensable rule to adhere to erroneous decisions, I know of no mode in which they can be corrected.

You are doubtless unaware of the ani'^unt of labor this "' indispensable rule of adiiering to former decisions " will save in the ucijustment of these half-pay claims. There will be no necessity of reading tiie law or the evi- dence in any case. You may safely allov/, without examination, all ckiims that are presented. I v.il! engage to furnish you a precedent from " for- mer decisions " for any allowance you may make.

I am, Sir, very resjiectfuliy yours, Hilaxd Hall.

Hon. J. C Sjjencer, Secretary of ]Var.

For an account of the claims and tlie correspondence in full, see report Xo. 485, second session 27th Congress. It is believed there Avere few' or no further allowances by the department.

]\Ir. Hall was Bank Commissioner of Vermont for four years from I8-I0, Judge of the Supreme C'uri; for tlie like period until 1850, when he was appointed Second Com[itroller of rhe IJjiited States Treasury, his duties being to- revise and '' finally adjust " all ac- 001' Its with the