Part 6
_2. a._ DERBY—Wanted, the birth and parentage of John Derby, Darby, or Darbyshear, who moved from Dunstable to Groton about 1705, and died before 1725. He married about 1697 Mary Blanchard, of Dunstable, and had children Mary, William, and James.
_b._ BLANCHARD—Mary (Blanchard) married for her second husband Nathaniel Wood. She was the daughter of John^3 (Samuel,^2 Thomas^1) Blanchard and Hannah ——. Wanted: the birth of Mary Blanchard, the maiden name of her mother, Hannah, and the record of Hannah’s birth, parentage and marriage.
_c._ BURR—A certain Samuel Gault, (or Galt, Gaalt, etc.), born about 1780, married about 1810 Mercy Burr, “a Green Mountain girl,” who is supposed to have been born about 1790. Their first child, James Washington Burr Gault, was born in 1812, in or near Smithfield, Madison Co., N. Y. Wanted: birth, marriage, and parentage of Mercy Burr.
_d._ GAULT—Samuel Gault was the son of Alexander Gault, a Scotch-Irish immigrant who has a Revolutionary record. Wanted: birth record of Samuel Gault and any information about his parents.
_e._ WILDER—The “Book of the Wilders,” p. 283, says: “There is a church record in Northampton that states that, ‘Catherine, daughter of Catherine and Aholiab Wilder, was baptized in 1741,’ which is all that we can learn of his [Aholiab’s] wife.” Their children were Catherine, Aholiab, Daniel Witherby, Samuel, and Joshua. Who was Catherine, and when and where did she marry Aholiab Wilder?
_f._ BROWN-SHELDON—The “Index of the Births, Marriages, and Deaths, Recorded in Providence,” p. 109, Marriages, gives: “Brown, John, and Sarah Sheldon, Jan. 3, 1747. 1:18.” Wanted: parentage of John Brown, and of Sarah Sheldon.
_g._ BULLOCK—Who was Comfort Bullock, born in Rehoboth, Mar. 9, 1762, married 1st to Sybil Pierce, of Dartmouth, Dec. 19, 1784, and 2d, in Rehoboth, Dec. 4, 1788, to Bethia Bowen? He was said to have been the son of the Comfort Bullock who was born at Barrington in 1741 and married to Holmes Whitman in 1768, but this Comfort proves to have been a girl, and Holmes Whitman, her husband. The date of birth of the first named Comfort is from family records which do not give his parentage.
B. 1.
_3. a._ MAVERICK—Was Moses Maverick, of Marblehead, a son of Rev. John Maverick, of Dorchester? Is there any known evidence that Moses was a brother of the King’s Commissioner, Samuel Maverick, of Noddles Island? Moses was admitted Freeman at Dorchester in 1633 while Rev. John was minister there, a fact indicating relationship, but I can find no positive evidence. Savage and Palfrey did not believe that Samuel was son of Rev. John, but perhaps some later investigator has found conclusive evidence one way or the other.
S. 1.
_4. a._ QUINCEY—“Col.” Edmund^2 (Edmund^1) of Braintree, b. 1627, d. Jan. 7, 1697–8. He was a Major in the 1690 Expedition. Is there good authority for the title Colonel? Is the date of his commission known?
_b._ COGAN—What relationship existed between Mr. John Cogan, of Boston, who died 27 April, 1658. Henry Coggin, of Barnstable, who died 16 June, 1649, and John Coggin who m. Mary Long, of Charlestown, Dec. 24, 1664? Please give references.
_c._ SLOPER—Proof wanted of the parentage of Mary Sloper who married in Boston, Apr. 3, 1751, Thomas Uran, of Boston. Ambrose Sloper, of Portsmouth, N. H., deeded land, 1758, to his sons Ambrose and Richard, of Boston. Mary (Sloper) Urann’s first child was named Ambrose Sloper and another, Richard; she died in Boston, Nov. 28, 1815, aged 85. Can she have been a daughter of Ambrose^2 Sloper, (Richard^1) b. 20 Jan., 1684, and Mary Pickering?
_d._ ROGERS—Joanna, born Dec. 30, 1722; m. Dec. 30, 1750, Elisha^5 Morse, of Foxboro, Mass. (See Morse Memorial, 1850: p. 57.) Who were her parents?
_e._ LEWIS—Maiden name and parentage of Jane ——, who m. Thomas^3 Lewis (Thomas,^2 George^1) of Eastham and Falmouth, Mass. He was b. July 15, 1656, and d. Mar. 19, 1718.
_f._ BICKFORD-YOUNG—Jeremiah Bickford and Hannah Young were m. in Eastham 26 Oct., 1705. Would like proofs of the parentage of both and any information relating to John Bickford, of Dover, who testified, Mar., 1669, “aged 60 years or thereabouts,” and Samuel Bickford, variously called of Salisbury, Amesbury, and Newbury, who testified 1669, “aged about 21,” and Jan. 9, 1667, “aged 27.” This Samuel (see Hoyt’s Salisbury and Amesbury Families) married Mary Cottle about 1667, and went to Nantucket.
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_5. a._ HALE—Samuel Hale, of Dana and Holland, Mass., cooper, married first (intentions Dec. 23, 1773, Petersham), Elizabeth Green, of Granby; married second, between 1788 and 1790, a widow Abigail ——. Samuel Hale died Sept. 4, 1813, age 67, Abigail, his wife, died March 12, 1820, age 71; gravestones in Dana Center, Mass. Wanted: ancestry of Samuel Hale and his second wife, Abigail.
_b._ PRATT—Wanted, parents’ names and date of birth of Anna Pratt who married July 7, 1747, John Stone, Jr., in Groton, Mass.
_c._ PARKER—Wanted, date of birth and ancestry of Aaron Parker, of Oxford, Mass., who was married to Abigail Covel, June, 1752.
_d._ ELDREDGE—Wanted, ancestry and date of birth of Samuel Eldredge who married about 1804 Sarah Emery, b. Aug. 7, 1785, and lived in Middlebury, Vt.
_e._ OSBORN—Wanted, date of birth and ancestry of Ephraim Osborn, of Fitchburg, Mass., who married Sarah Fisk, November 26, 1759.
_f._ HAZZARD—Wanted, ancestry of Mary Hazzard, born Vermont, 1791, married Samuel Blanchard, who was a soldier in the War of 1812.
_g._ HODGE—Wanted, date of birth and ancestry of Elizabeth Hodge who married in or near Boston, Gen. Robert Earll, who served in War of 1812, from New York State.
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_6. a._ STETSON—Who was Elizabeth, wife of Isaac Stetson, of Pembroke? They were probably married about 1704 or ’5. The eldest child was Abisha.
_b._ RAY-SMITH—Parents wanted of Samuel Ray and his wife Miriam Smith who were married at Wrentham, 1713.
_c._ WATERS—Who was the wife of William Waters, who came early to Boston? Their marital troubles were “aired” in General Court and she finally went back to England. The son, William Waters, was in 1665, or earlier, “Clerk of Writs” at Dameril’s Cove. Whom did he marry?
_d._ LINCOLN—Who were the parents of Elizabeth Lincoln, who married Elisha Bonney, of Pembroke, Mass., in 1728?
S. 2.
_7. a._ ELLISON—Ancestry desired of Edward Ellison, who removed from Uxbridge, Mass., to Chester, Vt., his son Josiah being born there, Nov. 5, 1800.
_b._ LUND—Ancestry desired of Eliza Ann Lund, born Oct. 2, 1805, Philadelphia, Pa.; according to tradition family supposed to be of Nantucket or Martha’s Vineyard.
_c._ HARLOW—Ancestry desired of Levi Harlow, born about 1747; he was of Tauton, Mass., in 1783, and died, Springfield, Vt., June 30, 1832.
_d._ COBB—Ancestry desired of Silence Cobb wife of Levi Harlow, born about 1747 and died, Springfield, Vt., June 27, 1831.
E. 2.
MINOR TOPICS
A COMMITTEE TO VISIT NOVA SCOTIA.
_By His Excellency, Geo. Washington, Esq., Commander-in-Chief of the United Colonies._
TO MOSES CHILD:
The Honorable, the Continental Congress, having lately passed a Resolve, contained in the following words, to wit:—“That two persons be sent at the expense of the Colonies to Nova Scotia, to inquire into the state of that Colony, the disposition of the inhabitants towards the American cause and the condition of the fortifications, dockyards, the quantity of the warlike stores and the number of soldiers, sailors, and ships of war there and to transmit the earliest intelligence to Gen. Washington.”
I do hereby constitute and appoint you the said Moses Child to be one of the persons to undertake this business, and as the season is late and this a work of great importance, I entreat and request that you will use the utmost despatch, attention and fidelity in the execution of it. The necessity of acting with a proper degree of caution and secrecy is too apparent to need recommendation. You will keep an accurate account of your expenses, and upon your return you will be rewarded in a suitable manner for the fatigue of your journey and the service you render your country by conducting and discharging the business with expedition and fidelity. Given under my hand this 24th day of November, 1775.
GEORGE WASHINGTON.
Moses Child, born Waltham, Mass., Apr. 6, 1731; died Feb. 8, 1793.
He was appointed Special Agent of the United Colonies by virtue of the above commission.
The original of the above is in Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Mass.
[Where can any full account of the results of this mission be found?—ED.]
BOOK NOTICES
DESCENDANTS OF REINOLD AND MATTHEW MARVIN, OF HARTFORD, CT., 1638, AND 1635. SONS OF EDWARD MARVIN OF GREAT BENTLEY, ENGLAND. By GEORGE FRANKLIN MARVIN, of New York, and WILLIAM T. R. MARVIN, of Boston. T. R. MARVIN AND SON, Publishers, 73 Federal Street, Boston, 1904. 8vo. 659 pages.
Not many families can expect the publication of their genealogies under more favorable auspices. Mr. William T. R. Marvin, the joint-author, printer and publisher of this book, inherited the traditions of his art, and his taste for genealogical studies from his father, who, nearly half a century ago, printed a genealogy of the Marvins. A comparison of that little duodecimo of 56 pages with this later volume shows the marked progress made during the last half century in the arts of compiling and printing family histories. The vital details of all branches of the family, beginning with the English ancestry and extending through nine generations in America have been gathered with scrupulous care, and the biographical memoranda presented have been selected with discrimination. The arrangement of the data, the illustrations, the complete index, and all of the details of book-making are such as one would expect from an educated man, having a deep interest in the subject and a lifelong experience as a genealogist and a printer. This book may well be taken for a model by anyone contemplating the publication of a genealogy....
THE STEBBINS GENEALOGY
BY RALPH STEBBINS GREENLEE AND ROBERT LEMUEL GREENLEE. In two volumes. Chicago, Illinois. Privately printed, 1904. 4to. 1386 pages.
These two magnificent volumes are devoted to Rowland Stebbins (who died at Northampton, Mass. December 14, 1671), and his descendants. A study of the name in England is presented, but no positive connection of the immigrant is shown. The compilation was made under the direction of a Chicago genealogist, Mr. Edward A. Claypool, and the work was printed in Chicago. Both compilation and printing seem to be very well done. One of the first genealogies printed in New England (1771) was of a branch of this family. The paper used is of an excellent quality, and, while the size and weight of these massive volumes is against durability, it is probable that they will long survive many of the genealogies of recent years where little or no care has been exercised in the selection of paper.
All of the descendants of the hardy pioneer settler of the Connecticut Valley, whose race furnished a pioneer genealogist, have good reasons to be thankful to the Messrs. Greenlee for their splendid history of the family.
ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR 1905
I expect to publish within the coming twelve months several interesting items of Americana, viz:
I.—THE HISTORY OF THE SECOND COMPANY, GOVERNOR’S FOOT-GUARD of the State of Connecticut; by Jason Thomson, Esq., of the New Haven Bar (a member of the Company). This was originally issued as a pamphlet, but has long been out of print. The Company is the third oldest military organization in the United States, beginning its history with service in the Revolution when Benedict Arnold, its first captain, took the Colony powder by force from the hesitant Selectmen of New Haven, and marched to Cambridge, accompanied by Israel Putnam, to join the patriot forces there. It has since served in the War of 1812, the War of the Rebellion, and the Spanish-Cuban War. The history of such an organization is obviously well worth preserving and enlarging by illustrations, as I have done. It will contain:
1. A rare plate of Benedict Arnold, in uniform, as he appeared before _Quebec_.
2. A colored plate, showing the present uniform of the Company.
3. A most interesting reproduction of a document of unique interest—the original manuscript petition to the Assembly of Connecticut, praying for the incorporation of the Company. This is signed by all the original members of the Company, including Arnold and his brother-in-law, Pierpont Edwards, who afterwards, by the irony of Fate, became the executor of his estate, at the discovery of his treason.
The original is owned by the New Haven Colony Historical Society, and will be reproduced, not by engraving, but by an actual photograph—folding to fit the size of the page. The edition will be limited to 250 copies, of which 248 will be for sale.
200 will be octavo (6 × 9) gilt top, bound in cloth. $3.00.
50 will be large paper, bound in boards, 8 × 11, untrimmed edges, gilt top, special paper. $5.00.
_Postage extra on each._
The printing will be from type, distributed as soon as the work has been done, and this edition will never be duplicated.
II.—THE POEMS OF EDWARD COATE PINKNEY. With a biographical sketch of of the poet, by Eugene L. Didier, author of a “Life of Edgar A. Poe,” “Life of Madame Bonaparte,” etc. The original edition of these poems is now one of the rarest items of Americana. It was published in 1825, and won the admiration of the chief American critics, Poe among them, who pronounced Pinkney to be “the first of American lyrists,” and his poem, “_A Health_,” (of which I give two verses herewith) “especially beautiful—full of spirit and brilliancy.”
A HEALTH
I fill this cup to one made up of loveliness alone, A woman, of her gentle sex the seeming paragon; To whom the better elements and kindly stars have given A form so fair that, like the air, ’tis less of earth than heaven.
Her every tone is music’s own, like those of morning birds, And something more than melody dwells ever in her words; The coinage of her heart are they, and from her lips each flows As one may see the burthened bee forth issue from the rose.
Only Pinkney’s untimely death—before he was twenty-five—prevented his becoming one of the foremost poets of our country. The _North American Review_, then the highest literary authority in the country, said: “If the name of Thomas Carew or Sir John Harrington had been attached to these poems, we should, in all probability, like others, have been completely taken in.” Another critic declared: “Some of his poems are not surpassed by any similar productions in the English language.” I risk nothing in saying that Pinkney’s readers of 1905 will re-echo these praises—and I trust all who have heretofore sustained me in my historical publications will give as hearty support to this, my first effort in the field of American poetry. The edition will consist of 250 copies, of which 200 will be in octavo (6 × 9) form, gilt top, uncut edges, at $3.00.
50 copies, on special paper, large paper (8 x 11). $5.00.
_Postage extra on each._
EACH STYLE WILL HAVE A PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR, from an authentic original.
III.—ADVENTURES IN THE WILDS OF AMERICA AND THE BRITISH-AMERICAN PROVINCES. By Charles Lanman, author of _A Dictionary of Congress_, _The Private Life of Daniel Webster_, etc., etc. With an Appendix by Lieut. Campbell Hardy, Royal Artillery.
2 vols., octavo. 500 pp. each. Illustrated. Portrait, and memoir of the author by William Abbatt. Price $10.00.
Large paper (8 x 11) 3 vols. (consecutive paging), special fine paper. Only 15 copies. $20.00.
Originally published in 1857, this most valuable and interesting work has long been out of print and scarce, and hence not known to the present day as its merits deserve.
While other books on similar subjects have been issued since, I think none of them—or all combined—equal this, as a record not alone of sport, but of travel, description of scenery, literature and legend (for the author has recorded many most beautiful Indian legends). The range of his journeys was from Florida to Labrador, and from the Atlantic to the present St. Paul and Minneapolis. His style needs no encomium from me. I prefer to quote from letters to him from WASHINGTON IRVING and EDWARD EVERETT:
MY DEAR SIR:
I am glad to learn that you intend to publish your narrative and descriptive writings, in a collected form. I have read parts of them as they were published separately, and the great pleasure derived from the perusal makes me desirous of having the whole in my possession. They carry us into the fastnesses of our mountains, the depth of our forests, the watery wilderness of our lakes and rivers, giving us pictures of savage life and savage tribes, Indian legends, fishing and hunting anecdotes, the adventures of trappers and backwoodsmen; our whole arcanum, in short, of indigenous poetry and romance: to use a favorite phrase of the old discoverers, “they lay open the secrets of the country to us.”
I return you thanks for the delightful entertainment which your Summer rambles have afforded me. I do not see that I have any literary advice to give you, excepting to keep on as you have begun. You seem to have the happy, enjoyable humor of old Izaak Walton, and I trust you will give us still further scenes and adventures on our great internal waters, depicted with the freshness and skill of your present volumes.
With the best wishes for your further success, I am
Very truly, your obliged
WASHINGTON IRVING.
EDWARD EVERETT wrote:
I fully concur with the opinions expressed by Mr. Irving on the subject of a collective edition of your narrative and descriptive writings. While I am not familiar with all of them, from those which I have read and from his emphatic and discriminating commendation, I am confident the series would be welcomed by a large class of readers. You have explored nooks in our scenery seldom visited, and described forms of life and manners of which the greater portion of our busy population are entirely ignorant.
Wishing you every success, I am
Very truly yours,
EDWARD EVERETT.
A selection of a few of Mr. Lanman’s chapters will give a slight idea of the variety of his book:
Legends of the Illinois—Lake Winnipeg—Fish of the Upper Mississippi—Down the St. Lawrence—The Saguenay River—The Hermit of Aroostook—The Falls of Tallulah—The Valley of Virginia—The Cheat River Country—Tombigbee and Black Warrior Rivers—Accomac—A Week in a Fishing Smack—A Virginia Barbecue—Esquimaux of Labrador—The Western Pioneer.
IV.—GARDEN’S ANECDOTES OF THE REVOLUTION (both series). The author, Alexander Garden, was Major in Lee’s Legion—and his work is one of the best on its theme. The first volume was published at Charleston, in 1822; the second in 1824. Each is scarce and valuable, the second particularly so. I propose revising the text, to eliminate errors, and to issue my edition in two octavo volumes (6 x 9) with a number of illustrations, including one or more of the author, and one each of the brothers Pinckney (not heretofore published), and a number of landscapes.
The edition will be limited to 200 copies (6 × 9) and 50, large paper (8 x 11)—the former in cloth, gilt top, with paper label; the latter in charcoal boards, gilt top, and untrimmed edges. The prices will be $10.00 and $15.00 respectively.
N. B.—All these works will be printed in large type (Small Pica, same as this line) on fine paper, well bound and produced in the general style of my other publications. Address, William Abbatt, 281 Fourth Ave., N. Y.
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Footnote 1:
In all probability that bullet saved Quebec. Had Arnold not been disabled, his energy and daring would have successfully carried through the attack on the second barricade.
All his subsequent history shows this.
The attack on Quebec failed from four causes: the extraordinary inclemency of the weather, the death of Montgomery, the precipitate retreat by order of Lieut.-Col. Campbell, who was next in rank, and the disabling of Arnold.
The first was contributory only, and the second would not have been conclusive but for Campbell—an officer of whose subsequent career absolutely nothing appears of record.
The fourth was the deciding blow. Even Morgan lacked the decision which would have led Arnold to carry the (second) barricade at all hazards—and that carried, the third must have fallen and with it the city. Had Arnold so much as suspected Morgan’s inaction, it is certain he would have remained in the field, and personally directed the assault in which he could not join.
It was his first and last failure. Valcour Island, Saratoga, Ridgefield—all exhibit the vigor of him of whom Mr. Codman justly remarks: “Arnold, with the exception of Ethan Allen, seems beyond all others, to have understood the value of rapid action at the beginning of (he might have said, throughout) a war.—ED.
Footnote 2:
The official reply to the governor’s message expresses this shrewd inference in prose thus: “But we hope Great Brittaine & the other Powers of Europe may mediate and divert the War with which we are alarm’d & conclude it in a happy and lasting Peace, and this we believe in as much as your Excell^y doth not mention in your Speech that the advice you rec^d in the last ships was from the ministry of Great Brittaine who this House apprehends would have sent forward their Directions had they conceived any immediate Danger of a War.”
Footnote 3:
Polls and Estates.
Footnote 4:
December 3, 1730, the House passed acts for raising £6000 for the repair of Fort William and Mary and for building a state house, and for removing three of the courts of general quarter sessions of the peace and the inferior courts of common pleas from Portsmouth to Exeter, Hampton, and Dover. The same day the governor in council approved the act for removing the courts, but no action was taken on the money bill.
Footnote 5:
The same day, March 10, the governor, in anger, dissolved the assembly, intending thereby “to give his Maj^{ties} good subjects an opportunity of sending such to represent them in the next Assembly as will do all in their Power to retrieve the Injustice you have practiced in not paying the Publick Debts; and those that will promote peace & a good agreem^t amongst all Branches of the Legislature.”
Footnote 6:
This refers to the disputed boundary between New Hampshire and Massachusetts, which had been in controversy for many years, and was then in an acute stage. See the governor’s message, _ante_.
Footnote 7:
Capt. John Rindge was appointed by the House to be agent of the province to present the boundary line controversy to the home government in England, but the appointment was not recognized by the council.
Footnote 8:
Anthony Walton White, Major and Aide-de-Camp to General Washington, October, 1775; Lieutenant-Colonel Third Battalion, First Establishment, February 9, 1776; Lieutenant-Colonel Fourth Regiment Light Dragoons, Continental Army, February 13, 1777; (this regiment appears to have performed its services mostly in the South, where the commanding officer achieved a national reputation as a brilliant cavalry leader); Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant First Regiment, Dragoons, December 10, 1779; Colonel, February 16, 1780.—_Official Register, N. J. in the Revn._ Stryker.
Footnote 9: