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Letter of Directions 
 
 FATHER'S BIRTHPLACE, 
 
 JOHN HOLMES. 
 
 NOTES AND A GENEALOGY BY D. WILLIAMS PATTERSON. 
 
 NEW YORK: 
 Printed for the U. Q. Club. 
 
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 Edition 99 copies 8vo. 
 
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 Press of J. M. Bradstreet & Son. 
 
Miss Frances Manwaring Caulkins, 
 
 THE ACCOMPLISHED HISTORIAN 
 
 OF THE TOWNS OF 
 
 NORWICH AND NEW LONDON, 
 
 IN CONNECTICUT, 
 
 THE FOLLOWING PAGES ARE 
 
 MOST RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED 
 
 AN HUMBLE LABORER 
 
 NEIGHBORING FIELD. 
 
1 
 
WHAT FOR? 
 
 In arranging the Folks Records of Eaft Haddam, Conn., 
 I tranfcribed from the New England Hijlorical and Genea- 
 logical Regifter Vol. X. p. 242, the Letter of DireSiions 
 of John Holmes, wifhing that fome parts of it were 
 clearer, but not doubting its corredtnefs as a copy. 
 
 On the 15th of April laft, through the kindnefs of 
 Mr. Timothy Holmes, and his fon, Silas R. Holmes, 
 both of Hadlyme, in Eaft Haddam, Conn., I was put 
 in pofleffion of the original Letter of DireSfions, with a 
 manufcript copy of it, intended to affift thofe who could 
 not read the original. 
 
 On fliowing this to fome friends and pointing out the 
 variations between the original and that copy in the Re- 
 gifter, I was urged to prepare an exaft tranfcript, with 
 notes, and append to it fuch fadts refpedling the de- 
 fcendants of Thomas Holmes, as I had already collected 
 in manufcript in the work before named. The refult 
 follows. , 
 
 Weft Winfted, Conn., 
 
 May 21, 1864. 
 
Letter of Directions. 
 
HIS Letter of Diredions — 
 from John Holmes^ — in Had- 
 dam — in New England^ — for 
 to find — the place where his Father^ — was 
 Born and — Brought vp In London^: 
 He was Son to Thomas Holmes — 
 Councler^ of Grafe-in® Who Lined in 
 Saint-Tandrs-parrich^ in Holborn^^ — in 
 the Rofon Crown Cort® in Grafen Lain^° 
 upper fite^^ — a Gainft Grafin walks^^ — His 
 
lO LETTER OF DIRECTIONS. 
 
 Mother's Maden Name was Mary Thet- 
 ford^^ Grandfather was Slain in the Time 
 of the Seuel wars — att Oxford Sege^* — 
 Our :Cort:of:arms are the 3 Spord Coks 
 fighting in a Golden feild^^^ — My father 
 Came out of England in the Time of 
 the Grat plage^^ — and he thought to haue 
 gon Down in to Norfolk" — to a place 
 Caled Lyn^^ whare — we — had a Small 
 pece of Land^^ — one Edmond BeeP" — 
 was Tennant and had been for many 
 years before but all places being garded 
 he Culd Not pafs^^ — whear upon he 
 Came for uirjaney^^ — thenking to have 
 Returned — in a fue years^^ — But it was 
 
LETTER OF DIRECTIONS. II 
 
 Other ways ordered — for the Contry 
 proued unhelthy to : him and he was 
 poor and Low in the world — after a 
 while he Recruted — and as It was ordred 
 — Marred — in New york^^ To one 
 Lucrefe Dodly^Dafter^^ to — Mr — 
 Thomas Dodley^® — of London who Keep^^ 
 the tanes Cort^® — in — Clare Streat^^ in 
 Comimon Gardin^° in London. She had 
 Two — Brothers^^ — But She Died — a bout 
 6 — and thirty year a Go^^ — my father 
 Died — in Dec- 12- 1724^^ — Being a uery 
 aged man^* — my father fo long as he 
 Lined he Lined in hopes of Seeing 
 England a Gain — ^But he is Dead an 
 
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 LETTER OF DIRECTIONS. 
 
 Gon and Left but only me his Son 
 being thirty — 8 — years — of age 
 
 36 
 
 ^36 
 
 Thefe Diredions Taken by John 
 Holmes on his father's Death bead^^ 
 
Notes. 
 
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 Note I. The surname Holm, or Holmes, is classed 
 by Lower among those local names "which describe the 
 nature or situation of the original bearer s residence, such as 
 Hill, Dale, Wood." He defines it as follows ; " Holm, 
 Holmes, flat land, a meadow surrounded with water; 
 other islands, like those in the Bristol Channel." 
 
 English Surnames, third edition, vol. i., p. 74. 
 
 " Holmes — a holme is defined by Halliwell as 'flat- 
 land; a small island; a deposite of soil at the confluence 
 of two waters. Flat grounds near water are called 
 holms.' " 
 
 " 'Some call them the holmes, because they lie low, 
 and are good for nothing but grasse'. Harrison." 
 
 In Scotland a holm means both a small uninhabited 
 island, and a detached or insulated rock in the sea." 
 
 Patronymica Britannica, p. 160. 
 
 Note 1. " Haddam, in New England," is a half-shire- 
 town in Middlesex County, in the State of Connedlicut, 
 lying on the Connedticut River. It was originally called 
 " The Plantation at Thirty Miles Island," and, includ- 
 ing the present town of East Haddam, was bought of the 
 Indians, May 20, 1662, for thirty coats, and was settled 
 in the same year, by the twenty-eight proprietors, most 
 of whom were from Hartford. The town was incorpo- 
 
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 rated in Oftober, 1668, by its present name. The ori- 
 ginal settlement was made on the west side of the river, 
 but, as early as 1685, several families were living on the 
 east side, and in Odober, 1700, were allowed by the 
 Legislature to form a church on that side of the river, 
 and to manage their ecclesiastical affairs by themselves. 
 
 Soon after this ecclesiastical division, the town voted to 
 manage town affairs, and keep their records, separately, 
 and, by consent of the Legislature, did so till 1734, when 
 that part lying east of Connefticut and Salmon Rivers 
 was incorporated as a town by the name of East Had- 
 dam. This had been commonly known as "Haddam 
 on ye east side of ye great river." It was originally 
 called Matchamoodus, Machamoodus, or Machimoodus, 
 from the Indian words matchit — bad, or evil — and moodus 
 — noises — , alluding to the subterranean noises and shak- 
 ings which were formerly very frequent, and are still 
 sometinies heard and felt, retaining the old name of 
 "Moodus Noises." The village of Moodus derives its 
 name from the old Indian name. 
 
 The first church in East Haddam was formed May 
 3, 1704, and Rev. Stephen Hosmer ordained as its 
 pastor. 
 
 The second, or Millington Ecclesiastical Society was 
 formed in Odlober, 1733, and the church was organized 
 Dec. 2, 1736, in the east part of the town. 
 
 The third, or Hadlyme Ecclesiastical Society was 
 formed in November, 1742, and includes the south part 
 of East Haddam, and the north-west part of Lyme, 
 taking one syllable of its name from the name of each 
 town. The church in Hadlyme was organized June 26, 
 1745- 
 
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 The residence of Capt. John Holmes was in Had- 
 lyme, about forty rods west of the Congregational 
 meeting-house. The place is still marked by a large 
 willow tree, and the foundation of the old chimney. 
 
 Note 3. Mr. Holmes does not mention the Chris- 
 tian-name of his father, but the records show that it was 
 Thomas. We first find him noticed in Connefticut, at 
 New London, in the record of the birth of his son John, 
 the writer of the Letter of DireSfions, March 11, 1686, 
 in reference to which date. Miss Frances M. Caulkins, 
 in answer to my enquiry, says : " I would observe that 
 March nth, 1686, was probably O. S., an-d should now be 
 reckoned 1687, as the old method of dating was used in 
 other cases by the clerk that made the record." She also 
 says : " There is a deed on record from Thomas Holmes 
 to his son John, of a piece of land in 1709, but I have 
 found nothing further respefting him." He probably 
 removed with his son John to East Haddam, in the 
 Spring of 17 14. 
 
 Note 4. London, on the river Thames, in England, 
 " the metropolis of the British empire, and most popu- 
 lous, wealthy, and commercial city in the world." 
 
 Note 5. Counsellor at Law. 
 
 Note 6. "Inns of court, colleges of common law in 
 England, in which students have lodgings : — the four 
 law societies of the Middle Temple, Inner Temple 
 (formerly belonging to the Knights Templars), Lincoln's 
 Inn, and Gray's Inn (anciently belonging to the earls 
 
( i8 ) 
 
 of Lincoln and Gray), which possess the exclusive privi- 
 lege of conferring the degree of barrister of law." 
 
 Johnson, Whishaw, quoted by Worcester. 
 
 "The Inns of Court, Inner Temple, Middle Temple, 
 Lincoln's Inn, and Gray's Inn, were originally law col- 
 leges, but now only residences for lawyers." 
 
 Geographical Diftionary of the British Empire, by James Bryce, Jr. 
 
 " The Inns of Court are, the Inner and Middle Tem- 
 ple, Lincoln's Inn, and Gray's Inn ; and there are nine 
 others of minor characfter, denominated Inns of Chan- 
 cery. Each of these is composed of large houses, 
 surrounding squares, and divided into sets of chambers, 
 inhabited by barristers, students, attorneys, and soli- 
 citors." 
 
 Thomson's New Universal Gazetteer, 1 85 1, p. 604. 
 
 "To Lincoln's Inn are attached Furnival's Inn, on 
 north side of Holborn, and Thavie's Inn, -nearly oppo- 
 site on south side." 
 
 " To Gray's Inn are attached Staple Inn, near Hol- 
 born Bars, and Barnard's Inn, in Holborn adjoining 
 Fetter Lane." 
 
 " Gray's Inn derives its name from Edward Lord 
 Gray of Wilton, who in 1 505, sold the manor of Port- 
 poole, four messuages, four gardens, and other premises 
 and grounds to Hugh Denny, Esq., from whom they 
 passed into the possession of the prior and convent of 
 East Sheen in Surrey, by whom they were leased to certain 
 Students of the Law. The Hall was completed in 1560. 
 
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 It is a handsome apartment, little inferior to the Middle 
 Temple Hall." 
 
 English Cyclopaedia, vol. iii., of Geography, p. 594. 
 
 " Gray's Inn, north side of Holborn, bequeathed to 
 some students of the law, temp. Edward III, by one of 
 the family of Lords Gray of Wilton. In the hall is a 
 curiously carved oak screen, and some portraits. The 
 garden is spacious, and a great ornament." 
 
 Compendious Account of the Counties of England, by Samuel 
 Tymms, vol. vii., p. 30. 
 
 Note 7. In the New England Historical and Genealogi- 
 cal Register, Vol. X. p. 242, is a very imperfedt copy of 
 this Letter of Directions, in which this is erroneously 
 called " Saintlands parrish," while in a manuscript copy 
 which came into my hands with the original, it is called 
 "Joint Lands parish," but in the original it is plainly 
 written " Saint-Tan drs-parrich," which is phonetically 
 equivalent to St. Andrew's parish, in which stands Gray's 
 Inn, from which, about one fourth of a mile east, stands 
 the church of St. Andrew, on the south side of Holborn, 
 near the foot of the hill, the first building west of Shoe 
 Lane, and nearly opposite Ely Place. 
 
 The church was "eredted in 1687, under the diredtion 
 of Sir Christopher Wren ; 105 feet in length, 6^ in 
 breadth, and 43 in height; the tower is no feet high, 
 and was not completed till 1704; the altar-piece and 
 roof are richly ornamented." 
 
 Compendious Account, vol. vii., p. 60. 
 
 The church built in 1687, was to replace one built at 
 
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 a much earlier date, as in the time of Henry VII, the 
 reftor was fined ^J. by the churchwardens, for driving 
 a cart across the church-yard to the redlory ; and on a 
 map of London, published in the time of Queen Eliza- 
 beth, appears a representation of St. Andrew's church, 
 on the same ground now occupied by the more modern 
 building. 
 
 Note 8. HoLBORN is a distrift in London, containing 
 an area of 196 acres, with a population in 1841, of 
 39,720, in 1851, of 46,621, and in 1861, of 44,861. 
 
 The principal street, of the same name, is about three 
 fourths of a mile long, and lies about half a mile north 
 of, and nearly parallel with, the Thames, and extends 
 nearly due west from Vidtoria Street to Oxford Street, 
 passing over a steep hill, called Holborn Hill. The 
 name Holborn is derived from a stream called the Old- 
 bourn, which formerly ran there. 
 
 "The Olborn, or Holborn, which arose where Mid- 
 dle-row now stands, and flowed down the hill, also fell 
 into Fleet-ditch ; and a few houses on its banks were 
 called a village, and distinguished (as early as 1086) by 
 the name of this rivulet." 
 
 Pifture of London, for 1 8 14, p. 15. 
 
 Note 9. In the Genealogical Register this is called 
 "Keeper Crown Corte," and in the manuscript copy, 
 " Kasen Crown Court," but the original has it "Rofon 
 Crown Cort," and John Holmes, not being familiar with 
 the localities named, nor with the proper way of spelling 
 their names, took his own way to represent, as well as 
 he could, the names as pronounced by his aged father. 
 
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 who undoubtedly meant in this case the Rose and Crown 
 Court. Perhaps one of the open squares or courts 
 within the Gray's Inn premises, was then known by that 
 name, taking it from some business sign of the Rose and 
 Crown. 
 
 Note. lo. Gray's Inn Lane, which runs north from 
 Holborn to the New Road, passing on the east side of 
 Gray's Inn, from which it takes its name, is part of the 
 chief north line of streets which connects the city of 
 London with its northern suburbs. — " On leaving the 
 city walls, the buildings were even less extensive ; for, 
 though the village of Holborn joined London, the backs 
 of its houses, particularly on the north side, opened into 
 gardens and fields ; a part of Gray's Inn Lane included 
 the only houses that extended out of the main street ; 
 the greater part of High Holborn had no existence." — 
 
 Historical Illustrations of London, p. 2. 
 
 The foregoing description, founded on the map of 
 1560, was probably not greatly out of the way in 1665, 
 not much new ground having been covered with build- 
 ings, as the policy of the government, from 1580, to 
 1674, seems to have been to prevent the increase of 
 London, (see Note 30) several proclamations and orders 
 in council, for that purpose, having been issued during 
 the several reigns. 
 
 Note II. Upper side is probably intended here, 
 though the words " upper fite" are plainly written, but 
 direftly after the word " fite" is an erasure and blotted 
 
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 spot, as if the syllable de had been written after " fite" 
 and then erased. 
 
 Note 12. It is difficult for one personally unacquainted 
 in London to fix upon the exad: spot indicated in this 
 Letter of DireSiions, as the maps do not now show any 
 " Gray's Inn Walks," which were probably within the 
 grounds of Gray's Inn. 
 
 Note 13. The surname Thetford does not appear in 
 Lower's English Surnames, nor in Savage's Genealogical 
 DiSiionary of New England. 
 
 It is evidently one of that class of local surnames which 
 point to the estate or abode of the original assum.er, and 
 which are generally derived from cities and towns. It 
 is derived from the ancient town of Thetford, on the 
 south border of the county of Norfolk, eighty miles 
 north-easterly from London, and about thirty-three 
 miles south-east from Lynn, in the same county, which 
 seems once to have been the home of the family of 
 Thomas Holmes. 
 
 Thetford lies on both sides of the river Ouse, at the 
 mouth of the river Thet, from which it is named, it 
 being the ford at the Thet, or the Thet ford. It is a 
 very old town, having been the winter quarters of the 
 Danes, in the year 870, and was burned by the Danes 
 in the year loio. 
 
 Note 14. It is not likely that we shall ever know 
 whether Thomas Holmes lost his life while fighting for 
 the King, or for the Parliament, but the time was 
 probably in 1646, when Oxford was besieged by the 
 
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 Parliamentarians from May a, till June 24, when, with 
 other places held by the King's forces, it was surrendered 
 by the King's command, which ended the civil war. 
 
 Two efforts at besieging the town had been made in 
 the same war, first in 1644, when "Oxford being nearly 
 surrounded by two Parliamentarian armies under the 
 Earl of Essex and Sir William Waller, who intended to 
 besiege it, the King, on the night of June 3, effe&ed 
 his escape from thence, and proceeded to Worcester, on 
 which the Parliamentarians abandoned their intention 
 of siege." 
 
 Again, in 1645, when "Oxford was left by the King 
 on May 7, and besieged by General Fairfax, May 22 ; 
 but the siege raised June 5." 
 
 Compendious Account, vol. iv., p. 158. 
 
 Note 15. By describing the family coat-of-arms, he 
 evidently intended to help his son to identify the family 
 to which they belonged, which we are unable to do, as a 
 careful search among books upon English Heraldry fails 
 to disclose any such triangular cockfight as he claimed 
 for the family cognizarice. James I, referring to the 
 Inns-of-court, ordered that none should be admitted 
 " into the society of any inn, that is not a gentleman by 
 descent," hence, the fad: that Thomas Holmes was a 
 member of Gray's Inn, is good evidence that he came 
 within this rule. 
 
 "A gentleman, in English Heraldry, taking the largest 
 definition, is a man whose ancestors at a certain time 
 used coats-of-arms, and had a certain rank. This gen- 
 tility of birth being inheritable may descend to a person 
 of any rank ; the proof of the pedigree being all suffi- 
 
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 cient. Of late years, the rule has fallen into negleft, 
 and probably not one quarter of the Englishmen who 
 style themselves gentlemen and use armorial bearings, 
 could establish their rights." 
 The Cavalier Dismounted, p. 45. 
 
 The necessities of a new country, where enclosures 
 were limited and most of the live stock, was pastured on 
 the common or unenclosed lands, led to the adoption 
 of a system which is sometimes called " Yankee Herald- 
 ry" under which, as a substitute for the coat-of-arms, 
 John Holmes, the writer of the Letter of DireSiions, 
 chose a " Mark" which was recorded in the Proprietors 
 Book of East Haddam, as follows : — 
 " John holmes his marke for his Cre- 
 turs is two flits one y' top of y" off 
 eare and a half peny one y" under 
 fide of y° neare eare. Apriell y° 17"": 
 1716." 
 
 As American Genealogies are so of- 
 ten embellished with cutslof the coats-of-arms to which 
 the families are (or wish they were) entitled, I trust I 
 may be pardoned for giving a representation of the 
 substitute, which the descendants of John Holmes may 
 use without fear of having their right questioned by 
 any Heralds College in the world. 
 
 Note 16. From this we learn very nearly the time of 
 his emigration, as the " Great Plague" ravaged London 
 in 1665, or from the winter of 1664, till February, 
 1666. London had often suffered severely from the 
 plague, but never to such an extent as in this last visita- 
 tion. 
 
( ^s ) 
 
 From Tymms's Compendious j^ccount, vol. y, pp. 75-89, 
 we extract the following memoranda of the various 
 plague years: 
 
 A. D. 
 
 " 644. London ravaged by a plague." 
 
 " 1349. 50,000 people buried of the plague on the site 
 of the present Charter-house, which was pur- 
 chased for that purpose. Of this plague, which 
 is thought to have originated in India, Stowe 
 says it so wasted and spoiled the people of 
 England, that scarce the tenth person of all 
 sorts was left alive. The pestilence did not 
 subside till nearly ten years after." 
 
 " 1369. This was also a plague year." 
 
 " 1407. A plague carried off 30,000 inhabitants." 
 
 " 1499-1500. The plague carried off upwards of 30,000 
 citizens." 
 
 " 1 5 13. A plague year." 
 
 " 1525. A plague year." 
 
 " 1548. A plague year." 
 
 " 1563—4. 20,000 persons died of the plague." [In 
 record of " Burials in St. Andrew's Parish, 
 Holborn, Farringdon Ward Without," appear 
 the following entries: "1563, July 23, Here 
 began the great plague." " 1563-4, — Feb. 
 Here, by God's mercy, the great plague did 
 cease ; whereof died in this parish, this year, 
 to the number of 400, four score and ten." 
 Londinium Redivivum, or an Ancient History and Mo- 
 dern description of London, &c., by James Peller Mal- 
 colm, London, 1803, vol. II, p. 22 1.] 
 
 4 
 
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 A. D, 
 (C 
 
 (( 
 
 1574. A plague year." 
 
 1582. Nearly 7,000 died of the plague." 
 
 1592. More than 11,000 persons died of the plague." 
 
 1603. Between 30 and 40,000 persons died of the- 
 plague." 
 
 " 1625. The plague carried off upwards of 35,000 per- 
 sons." 
 
 " 1636. The plague carried off 11,000 persons." 
 
 " 1664-6. This was the period of the great plague, 
 which began at the top of Drury Lane in the 
 winter of 1 664, and continued to ravage Lon- 
 don with unparalleled severity till February, 
 1666. It was at its height in September, 
 1665, when as many as 12,000 persons died in 
 one week, and of them, 4,000 in one night. 
 Defoe, the interesting historian of this awful 
 visitation, declares that 100,000 persons per- 
 ished. It was, at the commencement, the gen- 
 eral opinion of the people that to resist it was 
 to insult the Deity ; and at the end it was 
 thought that all would die, and therefore it 
 was not to be shunned. Fires were burnt in 
 the streets to purify the air, but the rain put 
 them out. It ceased in the beginning of the 
 year 1666." 
 
 Although Defoe estimated the number of deaths in 
 London, during the great plague, at not less than one 
 hundred thousand, and the official reports show the 
 number of burials to have been 68,596, which was prob- 
 ably far below the real number, yet Appleton's New 
 
( ^7 ) 
 
 American Cyclopedia says " it carried oiF nearly 20,000 
 persons, or 4 of the population," a number so very 
 small as to lead to the supposition that the compiler 
 took it by mistake from the account of that visitation 
 of the plague which occurred one hundred years earlier. 
 
 Note 17. " Norfolk, an extensive county of Eng- 
 land, on the eastern coast, bounded N. and N. E. by 
 the German ocean, S. and S. E. by Suffolk, and W. by 
 Cambridgeshire, part of Lincoln, and the Washes. It is 
 almost entirely insulated by the sea, and the rivers which 
 divide it interna.lly from the adjacent counties." 
 
 Thomson's New Universal Gazetteer. 
 
 Note 18. Lynn Regis, or King's Lynn, is a borough, 
 seaport, and market-town in the county of Norfolk, on 
 the river Ouse, ten miles from its mouth, and ninety- 
 six miles N. E. from London. Four rivulets run 
 through the town, over which are eleven small bridges. 
 On the land side the town is wholly surrounded with a 
 deep wet ditch, flanked by a wall formerly defended 
 by nine bastions, but now much dilapidated. The 
 population in 1851, was 15,751, and in 1861, 16,602. 
 
 Thomson's New Universal Gazetteer. 
 
 Note 19. It seems probable that the ancestors of 
 Thomas Holmes had lived at Lynn, and this " Small 
 pece of Land" may have been the remnant of a larger 
 estate. Many families in America have been led to ex- 
 pend large sums of money, in a vain .search after great 
 estates in England, who could not show by one tenth of 
 
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 the evidence here given, that their ancestors ever had an 
 estate there, of any kind, and some of whom could not 
 even show who were their ancestors. The descendants 
 of Thomas Holmes may be thankful that none of the 
 next-of-kin offices have led them on such a wild-goose- 
 chase. 
 
 Note 20. In the Genealogical Register this name is 
 called " Edmund But," and in the manuscript copy, 
 before quoted, it is called " Edmund Bool," but in the 
 original it is plainly written Edmond Beel. It is hoped 
 that his descendants still enjoy the use of the "Small 
 pece of Land," and that they are able and willing to ac- 
 count for the unpaid rents for two hundred years. 
 
 Note 21. Thomas Holmes probably left London in 
 June, or July, 1665, and he had good cause for thanks- 
 giving that his escape was not cut off by sea, as well as 
 by land. 
 
 The following account of the " great plague," taken 
 from the Encyclofadia Britannica, eighth edition, vol. 5, 
 pp. 423—4, will show to what degree the fear of infec- 
 tion led the people of the country to shun those from 
 the city. 
 
 " In the winter of 1664, two or three isolated cases of 
 plague had occurred in the outskirts of the metropolis, 
 and excited general alarm ; but it was not till about 
 the end of May 1665, that, under the malignant influ- 
 ence of excessive heat, and a close, stagnant atmosphere, 
 the evil burst forth in all its terrors. From the centre 
 of St. Giles the infection spread with rapidity over the 
 adjacent parishes, threatened the court at Whitehall, and. 
 
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 in spite of every precaution crept into the city. A 
 general panic ensued. The nobility and gentry fled ; 
 the royal family followed ; and all who had the power 
 or the means prepared to imitate their example. By every 
 outlet the tide of emigration flowed towards the country, 
 till it was checked by the lord mayor refusing to grant 
 certificates of health, and by the opposition of the neigh- 
 bouring townships, which rose in their own defence, and 
 drove back the fugitives into the devoted city. The ab- 
 sence of the wealthier class of citizens, and the conse- 
 . quent breaking up of establishments, with the cessation 
 of trade, served to aggravate the calamity ; and although 
 the charity of the opulent seemed to keep pace with the 
 progress of the pestilence, forty thousand servants were 
 left without a home, and the number of artizans and la- 
 bourers thrown out of employment was still more con- 
 siderable. The mortality was at first confined to the 
 lower classes, carrying off^ a larger proportion of chil- 
 dren than of adults, and of females than males ; but, 
 by the end of June, its difilision became so rapid, its 
 virulence so great, and its ravages so destructive, that 
 the civil authorities, in virtue of the powers with which 
 they had been invested by an act of James I, ' for the 
 charitable relief and ordering of persons infected with 
 the plague,' divided the parishes into districts, allotting 
 to each a competent number of officers ; and ordered a 
 red cross, one foot in length, to be painted on the door 
 of every infected house, with the words 'Lord have 
 mercy on us,' placed above it, that the healthy might 
 be warned of the existence of the disease. Provision 
 was also made for the interment of the dead. In the 
 day-time persons were always on the watch to withdraw 
 
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 from public view the bodies of those who expired in the 
 street; during the night the tinkling of a bell, accompa- 
 nied with the lurid glate of torches, announced the ap- 
 proach of the pest-cart making its melancholy round to 
 receive the victims of the previous twenty-four hours. 
 ' No coffins were prepared ; no funeral service was 
 read ; no mourners were permitted to follow the remains 
 of their relatives and friends. The cart proceeded to 
 the nearest cemetery, and shot its burden into the com- 
 mon grave, a deep and spacious pit, capable of holding 
 some scores of bodies, and dug in the church-yard, or, 
 when the church-yard was full, in the outskirts of the 
 parish.' " 
 
 " The distemper generally manifested itself by the 
 febrile symptoms of shivering, nausea, headache, and 
 delirium ; but in some these affections were so mild as 
 to be mistaken for a slight and transient indisposition. 
 The insidious approaches of the mortal foe were not 
 discovered, and the patient applied to his usual avoca- 
 tions, till suddenly faintness seized him, the fatal 'tokens' 
 or plague-spots appeared on his breast, and then his 
 hour was come. In most cases, however, the pain and 
 delirium left no room for doubt. The sufferings of the 
 patients were dreadful, and often threw them into par- 
 oxysms of frenzy, during which they burst the bands 
 that confined them to their beds, precipitated themselves 
 from the windows, ran naked into the street, and plunged 
 into the river, if the patient survived till the third or 
 fourth day, buboes appeared, and when these could be 
 made to suppurate, recovery might be anticipated ; but 
 if the efforts of nature and the physician proved una- 
 vailing, death became inevitable. Men of the strongest 
 
( 31 ) 
 
 minds were lost in amazement when they contemplated 
 the woe and desolation wrought by the pestilence ; the 
 timid and credulous became thedupes of their own imagin- 
 ations and the victims of their own terrors ; whilst fanati- 
 cism scattered abroad its wild predictions and fierce de- 
 nunciations to add to the inexpressible horror of the scene. 
 During the months of July and August, when the weather 
 was sultry and the heat oppressive, the eastern parishes, 
 which had at first been spared, became the chief seat of 
 the pestilence, and the substantial citizens suffered in 
 common with their poorer neighbours. The regulations 
 of the magistrates could now no longer be enforced. 
 The nights were insufficient for the burial of the dead ; 
 coffins were borne along the street at all hours of the 
 day ; and the poor burst from their infected dwellings to 
 seek relief for their families, who were perishing of fam- 
 ine as well as of the pestilence. * London,' says Dr. 
 Lingard, in a passage worthy of Thucydides, 'presented 
 a wide and heart-rending scene of misery and desolation. 
 Rows of houses stood tenantless and open to the winds; 
 others, in almost equal numbers, exhibited the red cross 
 flaming on the doors. The chief thoroughfares, so 
 lately trodden by the feet of thousands, were overgrown 
 with grass. The few individuals who ventured abroad 
 walked in the middle, and, when they met, declined on 
 opposite sides, to avoid the contact of each other. But 
 if the solitude and stillness of the streets impressed the 
 mind with awe, there was something yet more appalling 
 in the sounds which occasionally burst upon the ear. 
 At' one moment were heard the ravings of delirium or 
 the wail of woe from the infected dwelling ; at another 
 the merry song or the loud and careless laugh from the 
 
( 32 ) 
 
 wassailers at the tavern or the inmates of the brotheh 
 Men became so familiarized with the form, that they 
 steeled their feelings against the terrors of death. They 
 waited each for his turn with the resignation of the Chris- 
 tian or the indifference of the stoic. Some devoted 
 themselves to the exercises of piety, others sought 
 relief in the riot of dissipation or the recklessness of 
 despair.' " 
 
 "In September the heat of the atmosphere abated; 
 but, contrary to expectation, the mortality increased. 
 From this time infection became the certain harbinger of 
 death, which followed often within the space of twenty- 
 four hours, generally in the course of three days. An 
 experiment, grounded on the practice of former times, 
 was now ordered to be tried. Fires of sea-coal, 
 in the proportion of one to every twelve houses, 
 were kindled in the streets, courts, and alleys of 
 London and Westminster, and were kept burn- 
 ing three days and nights, till a heavy, continuous 
 rain extinguished them. By the supposed disin- 
 fecting power of heat, it was hoped to dissipate the 
 pestilential miasm, or at least to abate its virulence ; 
 and in fact, the next report exhibited a considerable 
 diminution in the number of deaths. But whilst the 
 survivors were congratulating themselves on the prospect 
 of deliverance, the destroying angel was scattering a 
 fiercer pestilence from his wings. In the following week, 
 ten thousand victims sank under the accumulated viru- 
 lence of the disease, and despair reigned in every heart. 
 Yet even now, in this lowest depth of human misery, 
 deliverance was at hand. The high winds which usually 
 accompany the autumnal equinox cooled and purified the 
 
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 air ; the weekly number of deaths successively decreased; 
 in the beginning of December seventy-three parishes 
 were pronounced clear of the disease ; and in February 
 the court, attended by the nobility and gentry, returned 
 to Whitehall. Upwards of a hundred thousand indi- 
 viduals are said to have perished in London alone ; and 
 as the pestilence extended its destructive sway over the 
 greater part of the kingdom, the fugitives from the me- 
 tropolis carrying the infection with them wherever they 
 found an asylum, the total amount of its ravages must 
 have been truly dreadful." 
 
 Note 11. The copy in the Genealogical Register says, 
 "wherefore he came here unawares," but the writer of 
 the manuscript copy before noticed, made better sense, 
 and came nearer the true reading of the original in say- 
 ing " where upon he came for America." It is not 
 strange that they should mistake the word, as it is an 
 original way of spelling Virginia, and is obscurely writ- 
 ten. 
 
 Note 23. While our sympathy is excited by his ina- 
 bility to return to London as he expected to do, we 
 cannot help thinking that he would have felt as little at 
 home there, two years after he left, as he did in the wilds 
 of Virginia. Nothing in his death-bed story to his son 
 shows that he left any of his kindred living in London, 
 and many of his friends and acquaintances must have 
 died of the plague, while others were driven away ; be- 
 sides which, the appearance of a large part of the city 
 was totally changed by the great fire which happened in 
 the year after he left, beginning on Sunday, Sept. 2, 
 
( 3^ ) 
 
 1 666, and "which lasted four days and nights, and 
 destroyed nearly the whole city." 
 
 " LoNDONs Confumption by Fire." 
 
 " Upon thefecond of September 1666, the Fire began 
 in London at one Farryners Houfe, a Baker, in Pudding 
 Lane, between the hours of one and two in the morning, 
 and continued burning until the fixth of September fol- 
 lowing; confuming as by the Surveyors appears in print, 
 three hundred feventy three Acres within the Walls of 
 the City of London, and fixty three Acres three Roods 
 without the Walls. There remains feventy five Acres 
 three Roods yet ftanding within the Walls unburnt. 
 Eighty nine Parifh Churches, befides Chappels burnt. 
 Eleven Parifties within the Walls yet ftanding. Houfes 
 burnt, thirteen thoufand two hundred. 
 
 cc n f Jonas Moore 1 o > 
 
 ^^' 1 Ralph GatrixjS'^'^^^y°"- 
 
 The above extract is from a scarce pamphlet of 35 
 pages, small quarto, entitled 
 
( 3S ) 
 "A True and Faithful 
 
 ACCOUNT 
 
 OF THE SEVERAL 
 
 INFORMATIONS 
 
 E X H IB ITE D 
 
 To the Honourable Committee appointed 
 
 by the 
 
 PARLIAMENT 
 
 To Inquire into the late Dreadful Burning 
 Of the 
 
 City of London. 
 
 TOGETHER 
 
 With other INFORMATIONS touching the 
 Infolency of POPISH PRIESTS and JE- 
 SUITES; and the I N C R E A S E of P O- 
 PERY, brought to the Honourable Committee 
 appointed by the Parliament for that purpose. 
 
 Printed in the Year 1667." 
 
 This pamphlet, the object of which was to throw the 
 responsibility of the fire upon the papists, was reprinted 
 in 1689, with additions and a different title. "Lon- 
 don's Flames Reviv'd : or an Account," &c. I am in- 
 debted to Mr. Francis S. Hoffman, of New York, for 
 the loan of these pamphlets from his library, as well as 
 for other favors of the same nature. 
 
( 3^ ) 
 
 " An Historical Narrative of the Great and Terrible 
 Fire of London, Sept. 2'"* 1666," by an anonymous 
 writer, was reprinted by Henry G. Bohn, with the fifth 
 volume of Defoe's works, from which the following is 
 extracted : 
 
 " After all examinations there was but one man tried 
 for being the incendiary, who confessing the fact, 
 was executed for it : this was Robert Hubert, a French 
 Hugenot, of Rohan, in Normandy, a person falsely said 
 to be a Papist, but really a sort of lunatic, who by mere 
 accident was brought into England just before the 
 breaking out of the fire, but not landed till two days 
 after, as appeared by the evidence of Laurence Peterson, 
 the master of the ship who had him on board." 
 
 " It was soon after complained of, that Hubert was 
 not sufficiently examined who set him to work, and who 
 joined with him. And iVlr. Hawles, in his remarks 
 upon Fitzharris's trial, is bold to say that the Commons 
 resolving to examine Hubert upon that matter next 
 day, Hubert was hanged before the house sat, so could 
 tell no farther tales." 
 
 " Whatever the unfortunate citizens of London suf- 
 fered by this dreadful fire, it is manifest, that a greater 
 blessing could not have happened for the good of pos- 
 terity ; for, instead of very narrow, crooked, and in- 
 commodious streets, dark, irregular and ill-contrived 
 wooden houses, with their several stories jutting out, or 
 hanging over each other, whereby the circulation of the 
 air was obstructed, noisome vapours harboured, and 
 verminious, pestilential atoms nourished, as is manifest, 
 by the city not being clear of the plague for twenty-five 
 years before, and only free from contagion three years 
 
I 37 ) 
 
 in above seventy ; enlarging of the streets, and modern 
 way of building, there is such a free circulation of sweet 
 air through the streets, that offensive vapours are expell- 
 ed, and the city freed from pestilential symptoms : so it 
 may now justly be averred that there is no place in the 
 kingdom where the inhabitants enjoy a better state of 
 health, or live to a greater age, than the citizens of Lon- 
 don." 
 
 Noie 24. It would be very pleasant to trace his wan- 
 derings during the interval between his landing in Vir- 
 ginia, and his marriage in New York, and gladly, too, 
 would we learn the exact date of this marriage, which, 
 very likely, was as many as fifteen years after he left 
 London. From the record of baptisms in the Dutch 
 Church in New York, as copied in Valentine's Manual^ 
 for 1863, it appears that a Thomas Holmes had a son 
 " Gravo, " baptized there Feb. 10, 168 1, but if he were 
 our Thomas Holmes, the son died young, or at least, 
 before his father, as John Holmes was the only child 
 who survived him. 
 
 Note 25. The words after and daughter, were, " in the 
 olden time," very commonly pronounced alike, thus, 
 arter, darter, so in writing the words, the same rule was 
 applied, and as arter was written after, many persons 
 wrote darter d a f t e r. The same rule was applied 
 still further, so that the name Arthur is sometimes found 
 on the old records, written Arter, and A f t e r . 
 
 Note 26. Two Genealogies of the Dudleys have been 
 
( 38 ) 
 
 published in America; first. The Dudley Genealogies, by 
 Dean Dudley, 1848; second, l!he Sutton-Dudley s of 
 England, and the ■ Dudleys of Massachusetts, by George 
 Adlard, 1862; but in neither of them do I find any 
 clue to the family of this Thomas Dodley, or Dudley, 
 as the family tradition calls the name. Perhaps he did 
 not come to America. 
 
 Note 1-j. Kept, is probably the word which he intend- 
 ed to write, as Thomas Holmes was then " a very aged 
 man," and, if his father-in-law remained in England, he 
 had long since ceased to keep the tennis-court in Lon- 
 don. 
 
 Note 28. In the Genealogical Register this is called 
 " the laws court," and in the manuscript copy, already 
 mentioned, it is called " the lands court," but both are 
 incorrect. The original is somewhat obscure, as one of 
 the letters, a, is blotted as if it had been written over 
 another to correct it, but all of the other letters are tol- 
 erably plain, and nothing can be made of it but " the 
 tanes cort," which was undoubtedly intended for the 
 tennis-court. 
 
 " Tennis, a game in which a ball is driven to and fro, 
 by several persons striking it alternately, either with the 
 palm of the hand, naked, or covered with a thick glove, 
 or with a small bat, called a racket, held in the hand, the 
 aim being to keep the ball in motion as long as possible 
 without allowing it to fall to the ground." 
 
 " Tennis-courts were divided by a line stretched in the 
 middle, and the players, standing on each side with their 
 
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 rackets in their hands, were required to strike the ball 
 over this line." 
 
 Penny Cyclopjedia, quoted by Worcester. 
 
 The fact that Thomas Dudley kept the tennis-court 
 in Clare Street, two hundred years ago, will probably 
 help very little in identifying him at this time. 
 
 Note 29. This, though plainly written " Clare Streat," 
 is changed to " Clans Street," in the Genealogical Register . 
 
 Clare Street, in London, lies nearly midway between 
 Covent Garden Market, and Lincoln's Inn Fields ; it 
 is very short, probably not more than one hundred yards 
 in length, extending only from Portugal Street, or Clare 
 Market, to Stanhope Street, crossing which, the street 
 extends, under the name of Blackmore Street, the length 
 of one square, to Drury Lane. Covent Garden, on the 
 other side, as shown in Note 30, formerly came to Dru- 
 ry Lane, so it seems that his location of the tennis- 
 court in " Clare Streat in Common Gardin," may not 
 have been very far wrong, though Covent Garden never 
 included the ground now covered by Clare Street. 
 
 Note 30. By " Common Gardin in London," he in- 
 tended Covent Garden, which " was formerly an exten- 
 sive garden belonging to the Abbot and Convent of 
 Westminster, and thence named Convent Garden. It 
 was granted by Edward VI. to the ill-fated Edward 
 Seymour, Duke of Somerset, on whose attainder it was 
 granted to the Russells Earls of Bedford, who built a 
 house for a town residence near the bottom of what is 
 now Southampton Street." 
 
 Compendious Account, vol. vii., p. 141. 
 
( 4° ) 
 
 In the time of Queen Elizabeth, " Covent Garden, 
 literally such, and so called because it belonged to the 
 Convent at Westminster, extended to St. Martin's Lane, 
 and the fields behind it reached to St. Giles's. That 
 lane ha:d few edifices besides the church [St. Martin's- 
 in-the-Fields] ; for Covent Garden wall was on one 
 side, and a wall which enclosed the King's mews on the 
 other ; and all the upper part was a lane between two 
 hedges, which extended a little to the west of the village 
 of St. Giles's." 
 
 Historical Illustrations of London, p. a. 
 
 " Leicester-square was all open fields ; and St. Mar- 
 tins-lane, had only a few buildings above the church [St. 
 Martins-in-the-Fields] towards the Convent-garden, 
 which extended as a garden to Drury-lane, three build- 
 ings alone existing in that extensive site." 
 
 Leigh's New Picture of London, 1839, P* '^■ 
 
 The above descriptions are founded on the first map 
 of London that was ever published, viz: in 1560, in 
 the third year of Queen Elizabeth. 
 
 " Looking at the present extent of London, it is 
 curious to observe how much anxiety was exhibited in 
 this reign to prevent the increase of buildings and the 
 inconvenience of a too-extensive population. By a de- 
 cree dated Nonesuch, 7th July, 1580, it was forbidden 
 to erect new buildings where none had before existed in 
 the memory of man. The extension of the metropolis 
 was deemed calculated ' to encourage the increase of the 
 plague; created a trouble in governing such multitudes; 
 a dearth of victuals ; multiplying of beggars, and ina- 
 
( 41 ) 
 
 bility to relieve them ; an increase of artisans more 
 than could live together ; impoverishing of other cities 
 for lack of inhabitants. It made lack of air, lack of 
 room to walk, to shoot, &c. And increase of people 
 to rob the queen's customs.' Such were the heads of 
 the lord-treasurer's speech. A proclamation was also 
 issued to the same effect by James I." 
 
 Leigh's New Picture of London, 1839, pp. 10-11. 
 
 " While the civil wars lasted, little new building was 
 undertaken ; but under the Commonwealth it again 
 advanced with rapidity, and, strange to say, a similar 
 proclamation to those of Elizabeth, James, and Charles, 
 was, with certain exceptions, made to impede it. Some 
 of these exceptions were the building of the present 
 Covent-garden by the Earl of Bedford, as also the 
 building of Long-acre, Lincoln's-inn-fields, and Clare- 
 market. 
 
 Ibid., p. 14. 
 
 Note 3 1 . Our thanks would have been freely given to 
 Mr. Holmes if he had given us a more full account of 
 the family of his mother, and very gladly would we 
 learn the names of her two brothers, and whether they 
 came to America with her, or not, but let us be glad 
 that his descendants have no part in the common tra- 
 dition, told by so many people, of their descent from 
 "three brothers who came over together," and who 
 generally lost sight of each other directly after landing. 
 
 Note 32. "The summer of 1689 was noted for ex- 
 treme heat ; this was followed by a virulent epidemic, 
 
 6 
 
( 42 ) 
 
 which visited almost every family, either in a qualified 
 or mortal form, and proved fatal in more than twenty 
 cases. Most of these occurred in July and August. 
 Mr. Wetherell, then the recorder, inserted in the town 
 book a list of the dead, under the following caption : 
 
 " ' An account of several persons deceased by the 
 present distemper of sore throat and fever, which dis- 
 temper hath passed through most families, and proved 
 very mortal with many, especially to those who now 
 have it in this more than ordinary extremity of hot 
 weather, the like having not been known in the memory 
 of man. 
 
 " Those who perished by this epidemic, above the 
 age of childhood, were Philip Bill, senior ; Walter Bod- 
 ington; Edward Smith and his wife, and their son, John, 
 fifteen years of age ; Widow NichoUs, and the wives of 
 Ensign Morgan, Samuel Fox, John Picket, and Mr. 
 Holmes." 
 
 History of New London, Conn., by Miss Frances M. Caulkins, 
 p. 198. 
 
 In a manuscript letter, dated New London, Conn., 
 Oct. 4, i860. Miss Caulkins says : " In a list of deaths 
 from an epidemic disorder that prevailed in the summer 
 and autumn of 1689, is the following — July 5, 'The 
 wife of Homes the brick maker Dyed.' There can be 
 little doubt but that this was the wife oil^homas Holmes, 
 as no other person of the name appears among the early 
 settlers of the town." 
 
 Note 2Z' " Thomas Holmes Sen' of East Haddam, 
 Departted this Life on y° : 12* Day of December in y° 
 
( 43 ) 
 
 year: 1723 — in y°: = 98 — year of his age and the 
 first person in y' beuriing place where he Was Laid. 
 
 And Capt. John Holmes of s"" Haddam, y^ Son of 
 s"* Thomas Holmes, Departed this Life on y^ 29* Day 
 of May in y' year : 1734 ^ in y' : 49 : year of his age." 
 
 Town Records of East Haddam, vol. ii., p. 11 17. 
 
 This was in the second burial ground in East Had- 
 dam, which was laid out in the north part of Hadlyme 
 parish, Dec. 9, 1723, by Joshua Brainerd and Isaac 
 Spencer, town committee, " near or Joyning to Joseph 
 Dutton's house Lot on the west side of said lot near 
 the upper end." It was then by the side of the high- 
 way, which was long since discontinued, a new one being 
 laid nearly a quarter of a mile from the burial ground, 
 which is left in the open pasture field, and for nearly 
 forty years no one has been buried there. 
 
 Although the 'Town Record says that Thomas Holmes 
 was the first person buried in that yard, a grave stone 
 there, records the death in "June — 17 18," of Eliakim 
 Selden, son of Joseph Selden, and tradition says that 
 the first body buried there, was one which the people 
 had started to carry to the burial ground near the Sal- 
 mon River Cove, but being overtaken by a storm, 
 stopped and buried near the roadside, and this was, per- 
 haps, the reason why the ground was afterwards seleded 
 for a public burial place. Thomas Holmes was the 
 first person buried there after the ground was laid out 
 for public use, his death being only three days after it 
 was laid out. 
 
 The inscriptions at his grave, though roughly cut with 
 
( 44 ) 
 
 a pick, on common field stones, are still legible, as 
 follows : 
 
 Head stone. Foot stone. 
 
 Thomas T — H 
 
 Holmes D— D y' 
 
 D — D 12, 1723. 
 Y° 12 — 1723 
 
 Age — 98. 
 
 Note 34 Dr, Savage, in his Genealogical DiSlionary of 
 New England, expresses a doubt as to the age of 
 Thomas Holmes being so great as 98 years, as recorded 
 at his grave, and on the town records. A writing, which 
 I have seen, made as late as 1780, and evidently compiled 
 mainly from the Letter of DireSiions, says that " he 
 Came out of England in the time of the Great Plague 
 — when he was about 17 Years old," but this would 
 place his birth as late as 1 648, which was at least two 
 years after his father was " Slain att Oxford Sege," 
 besides making him only 75 years old at his death, 
 which would hardly justify the expression that he was 
 " a very aged man." 
 
 Note 2S' '^'^^ expression, "But he is Dead an 
 Gon and Left but only me his Son" is well calculated 
 to excite our sympathy for the lonely condition of the 
 writer, but the effedt is somewhat modified by the knowl- 
 edge that he then had a wife and seven children to 
 share his grief. 
 
 Note 2^- John Holmes, as shown in Note 3, was 
 born March 11, 1686-7, ^^^ consequently was thirty- 
 
( 45 ) 
 
 eight years old in 1725. His mother, as shown in 
 Note 32, died July 5, 1689, which was "6-and thirty 
 year ago" in 1725. The paper referred to in Note 34, 
 says "she Died & Left one Son, which is the above 
 Named John Holmes, at which time he was about Two 
 Years old," thus verifying the supposition of Miss 
 Caulkins as to the style used in recording his birth. 
 
 Note 21' From his mode of spelling certain local 
 names it is evident that John Holmes wrote "these 
 diredlions" from the didation of his father, but, they 
 could not have been made up in their present form, 
 while his father lived, for they record the fad; of his 
 death, and the fadts shown in Notes 3, 32, arid 36, plainly 
 indicate the summer of 1725, as the time of writing the 
 copy from which we transcribe. This lapse of time be- 
 tween the death of his father and the writing of the 
 Letter of DireStions, may account for his error in the 
 date of his father's death as shown in Note 23- 
 
 The last paragraph was not written by the same hand 
 as the preceding part of the paper, and I am unable to 
 say by whom or at what time it was written, but suppose 
 it was done after the death of John Holmes, in 1734, 
 as an explanation of the history and authority of the 
 document. 
 
Genealogy. 
 
EXPLANATION. 
 
 The names of descendants in the male line are arranged in generations, the whole of 
 one generation being given before any of the next ; while those in the female line, 
 bearing other names, are given in connection with the names of the parents, in smaller 
 type, and the number of the generation is noted by the small superior figure at the 
 right of the name. 
 
 One number, of a regular series, is given to each person named Holmes, for con- 
 venient reference, and if that person is named elsewhere, the same number follows his 
 name in brackets, thus [ ], to identify him and refer to his record, but another 
 number following his name in parenthesis, thus ( ), refers to the record of his 
 eldest child. 
 
 The Roman numerals before the names of the Holmes descendants, and the Arabic 
 figures before those of other descendants, indicate their order in their respective house- 
 holds. 
 
 ABBREVIATIONS. 
 
 b. BOKN. g. dau. GKANDDAUGHTER. 
 
 bap. BAPTIZED. m. MARRIED. 
 
 d. DIED. Unm. UNMARRIED. 
 
 dau. DAUGHTER. n. p. Sine prole, without issue. 
 
 When frequently repeated in the same connection, names of towns are represented 
 by their initials. 
 
 7 
 
Thomas Holmes,' (2) of whom our only knowledge 
 is gained from the Letter of Directions, written by 
 his grandson, m. Mary Thetford, and lived in Lon- 
 don, England. He was a lawyer, or counsellor, of 
 Gray's Inn, and was killed in the civil war, at the 
 siege of Oxford, probably in May or June, 1646. 
 
 child of Thomas' [i] and Mary (Thetford) Holmes. 
 
 2. I. Thomas,* (3) b. in London, Eng.; thence he came 
 during the "great plague," in 1665, to Virginia, 
 and, after a few years, made his way to New York, 
 where he m, Lucretia Dudley, dau. of Thomas Dud- 
 ley, of London, Eng. They settled in New Lon- 
 don, Conn., where she d. July 5, 1689. He re- 
 moved to East Haddam, with his son John, at 
 whose house he d. Dec. la, 1723, aged 98 years. 
 
 Child of Thomas' [2] and Lucretia (Dudley) Holmes. 
 
 L John,' (4) b. New London, Conn., March 11, 
 1686-7; m. N. L., Feb. 11, 1706-7, Mary Willey, 
 b. N. L., Dec. 10, 1685, dau. of John and Miriam 
 (Moore) Willey. They settled in N. L., where, 
 in 1 7 10, the townsmen leased to him "an acre 
 of rocky land by Cedar Swamp, where his father 
 hath planted some apple trees." 
 
( 5^ ) 
 
 About the spring of 17 14, he seems to have re- 
 moved to " Machamoodus alias East Haddam," 
 where he had bought several parcels of land in Dec. 
 1 7 13, and Jan. 17 13-14. His property was listed 
 at "£46, in 17 1 8, and at £128-18, in 1727. He 
 was Town Surveyor in 17 19, and Selectman in 
 1721. 
 
 He d, in East Haddam, May 29, 1734, in the 
 49th year of his age, according to the town record 
 and the grave stone, but if we have his birth record 
 as it should be, he was in his 48th year. 
 
 His widow, Mrs. Mary Holmes, joined the 
 church in E. H., Nov. 3, 1734; and m, (2dj June 
 I, 1736, Samuel Andrews of E. H., whose first 
 wife, Eleanor Lee, died, leaving him with sixteen 
 children, the youngest less than four years old. 
 Mr. Andrews d. Dec. 14, 1758, but the records 
 do not show the date of her death. 
 
 Children of John' [3] and Mary (Whley) Holmes. 
 
 4. I. Thomas,* (13) b. New London, Conn., Dec. 4, 
 
 1707; m. East Haddam, Conn., Jan. 9, 1732, Lucy 
 Knowlton, b. E. H., Dec. 11, 1705, dau. of Lieut. 
 Thomas and Susanna Knowlton. 
 
 Dec. 4, 1745, he sold his homestead in E. H., 
 to his brother John, and then described himself as 
 " Late of East Haddam In y" County of Hartford, 
 now of Woodbury in the County of Fairfield." 
 
 5. IL John,* (20) b. N. L., Feb. 24, 1708-9 ; was 
 
 bap. and joined the church, E. H., June 8, 1735; 
 he lived in E, H., June 16, 1736, and Aug. 16, 
 1739 ; in Saybrook, May 5, 1744 ; again in E. H., 
 
( S3 ) 
 
 Dec. 4, 1745, when he called himself " late of Say- 
 brook," but seems to have again left East Haddam, 
 for on the 27th of January, 1745-6, he called him- 
 self " Late of East Haddam." 
 
 He m. Lucretia Willey, b. E. H., June 7, 
 1 7 13, dau. of John and Elizabeth (Harvey) Wil- 
 ley. They lived in Westchester, Conn., May 29, 
 1748, and a John Holmes, perhaps this one, d. in 
 that parish, Oct. 12, 1766. A family manuscript, 
 written as late as 1785, says that they had two sons 
 and one daughter. 
 
 III. Lucretia,* b. N. L., July 14, 171 1 ; tradition 
 says that she m. a man named Willey, who d. soon 
 after marriage, and that she then m. Joseph. Wil- 
 ley, b. E. H., Ap. 16, 1705, son of John and 
 Elizabeth (Harvey) Willey, and it is verified by the 
 record, which shows that Joseph Willey m. E. H., 
 May 22, 1727, Lucretia Willey; from which it ap- 
 pears that she was less than sixteen years old at her 
 second marriage. The date of her death does not 
 appear. He had a second wife, Rebecca, by whom 
 he had nine children. He d. E. H., Jan. 9, 1790. 
 
 Ciildren. 
 
 I. Elizabeth," b. E. H., Jan. 24, 1728; m. E. H., Sept. 23, 1747, 
 Samuel Cone, bap. E. H., Sept. 3, 1721, son of Ebenezer Cone, and 
 g. son of Daniel Cone, one of the original settlers of Haddam. She was 
 bap. in Hadlyme, May 31, 1752; he d. E. H., Ap. 16, 1791, in 70th 
 year. She d. E. H., Dec. 13, 1814, in 87th year. 
 
 Cii/drtij. 
 
 1. Samuel,' b. E. H., Feb. 20, 1748. 
 
 2. Judai,' b. E. H., July 26, 1753; m. E. H., Ap. 10, 1774, 
 Lydia Cone, b. E. H., Aug. 21, 1754, dau. of Ebenezer and Mary 
 (Brainerd) Cone. He d. Aug. 13, 1832, aged 79. She d. E. H., 
 Oct. 14, 1829, aged 75. 
 
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 Ciildren. 
 
 I. Clara,'' b. E. H., Ap. i, 1775 i ■"• J"'y 9> '79*i Newton 
 
 Marsh, son of Edmund and Eleanor* [23] (Holmes) Marsh, 
 ■J,. Oris,'' b. E. H., July 27, 1777 ; m. Eliphalet Holmes' [48]. 
 
 3. Joufh Olmsted^ b. E. H., Dec. 19, 1756; was a physician. 
 
 2. Maby," b. E. H., Oct. 18, 1730. 
 
 3. LucRETiA,' b. E. H., July 9, 1732; m. Feb. 16, 1756, Nathaniel Ack- 
 ley, b. June 14, 1726, son of Samuel and Bethia Ackley. He d. March 
 14. '794. aged 67. 
 
 4. Joseph,' b. E. H., March 22, 1734. 
 
 5. Esther," b. E. H., May i, 17365 d. Nov. 13, 1736. 
 
 6. Benjamin,' b. E. H., Sept. 6, 1737. 
 
 7. Ephraim," b. E. H., July 18, 1740; d. E. H., , igi6, 
 
 "aged about 74 years." His wife. Prudence, d. E. H., Ap. 3, 1815, 
 aged 69 years. 
 
 8. Grace," b. E. H., Oct. 6, 1742. 
 
 IV. Mary/ b. N. L., Feb. 7, 1712 [17 12-13]; she 
 m. Abel Willey, son of Abel and Hannah (Bray) 
 Willey. They joined the church and she was bap. 
 E. H., June 8, 1735 ; they removed to Westches- 
 ter, Conn., where three of their children died dur- 
 ing the ministry of Rev. Thomas Skinner, before 
 Dec. 8, 1745. {N. E. Hist, and Geneal. Register ^ 
 viii. 367.) From Westchester they removed to 
 Middle Haddam, Conn., where they joined the 
 church Aug. 1, 1747. The following is probably 
 a very incomplete list of their 
 
 Children. 
 
 1. John," bap. E. H., Sept. 29, 1735. 
 
 2. Mary," bap. Westchester, Ap. 10, 1743. 
 
 3. Rhoda," bap. Westchester, March 10, 1745. 
 
 4. Deborah," bap. Middle Haddam, Jan. 25, 1747. 
 
 8. V. Christopher,* (aa) b. East Haddam, June 4, 
 1715 ; bap. and joined the church E. H., June 8, 
 
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 1735; "^- March 2, 1736, Sarah Andrews, b. E. H., 
 Feb. 13, 1715-16, bap. July — , 1725, dau. of 
 Samuel and Eleanor (Lee) Andrews. He was a 
 constituent member of the church in Hadlyme, 
 June 26, 1745, and she became a member soon 
 after. He was chosen Deacon, Jan 18, 1750-51. 
 She d. Aug. 12, 1782; he d. Ap. 12, 1792. 
 
 VI. Grace,* b. E. H., Aug. 4, 1717; bap. and 
 joined the church, E. H., June 8, 1735; m. March 
 2, 1736, Robert Hnngerford, b. E. H., Jan. 3, 
 17 1 5-1 6, bap. March 11, 17 16, son of John and 
 Deborah (Spencer) Hungerford. Their names are 
 on a list of the members of the church in Had- 
 lyme, Sept. 5, 1785. He d. Feb. 11, 1794; she 
 d, Ap. 27, 1798. 
 
 Children. 
 
 1. JoHK,° b. E. H., Feb. 21, 1736-7; m. March 2, 1757, Jane Church of 
 
 Lyme. He d. E. H., Dec. 11, 1760. 
 ». Anna," b. E. H., March 13, 1739 ; d. Jan. 14, 1743-4- 
 
 3. Zachariah," b. E. H., March ao, 1741 ; m. Lydia Bigelow. He d. 
 Nov. I, 1816, in 76th year; she d. Nov. 14, 1820, ae. 78. 
 
 4. Deborah," b. E. H., Oct. 14, 1743 ; m. Uriah Church, bap. E. H., June 
 15, 1740, son of John and Joanna Church. They settled in Hartland, 
 where she d. at an advanced age. 
 
 5. Silence," b. E. H., May 6, 1747; m. Capt. Elnathan Hatch, wrho was 
 lost in a brig which he commanded, while on a voyage to the West 
 Indies. She d. Feb. 7, 1794, (her grave stone erroneously says Feb. 14,) 
 in 47th year. 
 
 6. Anna," b. E. H., Aug. ao, 1749; m. Abishai Church, bap. Hadlyme, 
 May 15, 1748, son of John and Joanna Church. She d. Feb. 24, 1776, 
 in 27th year. 
 
 7. Robert," b. E. H., Jan. 23, ITS^-^; m. Feb. 14, 1776, Lovice Warner 
 of Lyme, dau. of Jonathan Warner; she d. May 22, 1777, in a6th year. 
 He m. (2d) Olive Ely, dau. of Joseph Ely of Lyme He d. Dec. 29, 
 1834; she d. July 20, 1843, ae. 85. 
 
 g. Grace," b. E. H., Jan. 5, 17SS; ^- J»"- '5. '755- , „ „ „ 
 
 o Elijah," b. E. H., Nov. 10, 1756; m. Rhoda Harvey, b. E. H., Dec. 
 
 4, 1758, dau. of Robert and Rachel Harvey. He d. Dec. 8, 1839 ; «he d. 
 
 Jan. 20, 1835. 
 10. Geace," b. E. H., Aug. 16, I7S9 i <1- Nov. 5, 1759. 
 
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 10. VII. Eliphalet/ {36) b. E. H., July 12, 1722; 
 
 bap. May 4, 1735 ; m. Jan. 25, 1742, Damaris 
 Waterhouse. He d. Nov. 30, 1743, and his widow 
 m. (2d) Joseph Comstock of E. H., by whom she 
 had five children. 
 
 11. VIII. Sarah/ b. E. H., June 14, 1726; bap. 
 
 May 4, 1735; m. Nathaniel Niks. 
 
 12. IX. Abigail,* b. E. H., Aug, i, 1729; bap. May 
 4, 1735 ; was a member of Hadlyme church, Sept. 
 14, 1785; d. Aug. 26j 1 8 II, unm. 
 
 Children of Thomas* [4] and Lucy (Knowlton) Holmes. 
 
 13. I. Lucy,' b. E. H., Sept. 26, 1733. 
 
 14. II. Susanna,' (twin) b. E. H., May 26, 1735. 
 
 15. III. Mary,' (twin) b. E. H., May 26, 1735. 
 
 16. IV. Grace,' b. E. H., Sept. 26, 1736. 
 
 17. V. Thomas,' b. E. H., June 25, 1740. 
 
 18. VI. Thetford,' b. E. H., May 17, 1742. 
 
 19. VII. Eliphalet,' b. E. H., July 17, 1744. 
 
 Children of John* [5] and Lucketia (Willey) Holmes. 
 
 20. I. John,' bap. E. H., Sept. 3, 1738. 
 
 21. II. Jesse,' bap. Westchester, Conn., May 29, 1748, 
 
 by Rev. Benjamin Bowers, of Middle Haddam. 
 
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 Children of Cheistophir* [8] and Sarah (Andrews) Holmei. 
 
 22. I. John,' (38) b. E. H., Nov. 18, 1736; bap. 
 
 Feb. 6, 1736-7 ; m. Ap. 22, 1762, Mercy Canfield 
 of Saybrook, Conn. She was bap. in Hadlyme, 
 May 25, 1766. They settled in E. H., but re- 
 moved to Campton, N. H., where they died. 
 
 23. II. Eleanor,' b. E. H., Aug. 3, 1738 ; bap. Sept. 24, 
 
 1738 ; m. Edmund Marsh, son of John and 
 Submit (Woodward) Marsh. She d. Oct. 9, 1792, 
 in 55th year; he d. Dec. 30, 181 1, aged 78 years. 
 
 Children. 
 
 I. Edmund," settled in New Hampshire, 
 a. John,' settled in New Hampshire. 
 
 3. Christopher,' d. young. 
 
 4. Woodward,' m. Jan. 7, 1788, Mary Cone. 
 
 5. Sylvester," m. Phebe Brooks, dau. of Samuel and Rhoda Brooks. He 
 d. at Kingston, N. Y., June 22, 1794, ae. 26; she d. Hadlyme, Ap. Ji, 
 1842, ae. 74. 
 
 Children. 
 
 I. Phebe,'' lives in Hadlyme, 1864. 
 
 •i. Nancy,'' m. Alfred Dean, La Salle, 111. 
 
 3. Fanny,^ m. Denison Babcock of Hamilton, N. Y., both dead. 
 
 4. Vesta,'' m. Warren Fuller, of Olmsted, O. 
 
 6. Newton,' m. July 9, 1792, Clara Cone, b. Ap. i, 1775, dau. of Judah 
 Cone, and great grand daughter of Lucretia Holmes,' [6]. 
 
 7. Sarah,' m. Samuel Brooks, Jr. 
 
 8. Holmes,' m. Keturah Boon, who d. Jan. 12, i8i6, aged 38 years. 
 
 9. Christopher," m. Ann Mack. 
 
 10. A Son,' (name not on record) d. Aug. 13, 1786, aged about 7 years. 
 
 11. Alice,' d. Ap. 5, 1811, in 3istyear. 
 
 24. III. Christopher,' b. E. H., Sept. 17, 1739; ^^P* 
 
 Oct. 21, 1739 ; d. Nov. II, 1760. 
 
 25. IV. Uriel,' (47) b. E. H., June 11, 1741; bap. 
 July 12, 1741 ; m. July i, 1764, Statira Cone, b. 
 
 8 
 
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 E. H., July 9, 1749, bap. Millington, Aug. 6, 
 1749, dau. of Jonah and Elizabeth (Gates) Cone. 
 
 They settled in Hartland, Conn., where he was 
 a prominent citizen, being Justice of the Peace, 
 Representative in the Legislature, Deacon of the 
 Church, and Colonel of Militia. He joined the 
 church in Hartland, May 12, 1769; his wife joined 
 same church Sept. 11, 1774. He gave a bell and 
 communion service to the church in 1776, and was 
 chosen Deacon, March 22, 1779. He d. Nov. 7, 
 1809, according to his gravestone, while the church 
 record says Nov. 6. She d. Dec. 6, 1812. 
 
 26. V. Sarah,' b. E. H., Dec. 5, 1742; bap. Jan. 30, 
 1742-3; m. Nov. 17, 1768, Edmnnd Grindal 
 
 Rawson, b. , son of Rev. Grindal and 
 
 Dorothy (Chauncy) Rawson. He graduated at 
 Yale College, 1759; studied theology, and preached 
 occasionally. They settled in Hadlyme, where she 
 d. Ap. 27, 1821 ; he d. July 21, 1823, ae. 84. 
 
 Children. 
 
 I. Charles Chauncy,' (twin) b. E. H., July 27, 1769; d. in Bermuda 
 June 29, 1788, ae. 19. ' 
 
 I. John Wilson,' (twin) b. E. H., July 27, 1769; d. , aged g 
 
 years, 
 
 3. Thomas Hooker,' b. E. H., Sept. 24, 1770. 
 
 4. Edmund Grindal,' b. E. H., Jan. 26, 1772. 
 
 5. Dorothy Blackleach,' b. E. H., Oct. 17, 1773 jd. Oct. 31, 1774. 
 
 6. Ozias Holmes,' b. E. H., Ap. 22, 1775. 
 
 7. Joseph Pern," b. E. H., Dec. 23, 1776. 
 
 8. Sarah Andrews,' b. E. H., Dec. 31, 1778; m. Feb. 6, 1803, as a 
 second wife, Oliver Usher, b. Chatham, Conn., Sept. z6, 1766, son of 
 Robert and Susanna (Gates) Usher. 
 
 9. Dorothy Nichols,' b. E. H., July 16, 1780. 
 
 10. An Infant,' d. E. H., May 9, 1785. 
 
 11. Catherine Chauncy,' b. E. H., Feb. 4, 1788; m. Dec. 30, i8i2, aa a 
 second wife, George Palmer, b. E. H., May 22, 1781, son of Levi and 
 Elizabeth (Cone) Palmer. She d. £. H., May 14, 1826, aged 38 years. 
 
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 II. Charles Wilson,' birth not on record, m. Mary Shackleford of Gwinnett 
 Co., Ga., and d. leaving live children. (Rawscn Memorial, p. 50.) 
 
 27. VI. Lucretia/ b. E. H., March ao, 1745; d. Feb. 
 
 II, 1760. 
 
 28. VII. Eliphalet,' (48) b. E. H., Feb. 3, 1746-7; 
 
 bap. Hadlyme, March 22, 1746, O. S. ; m. Jan. 
 8, 1772, Anne Gates, b. E. H., March 21, 1750, bap. 
 June 9, 1750, dau. of Joseph and Abigail (Fuller) 
 Gates, shed. Aug. 24, 1828; he d. Feb. 14, 1833. 
 
 29. VIII. Mehitabel/ b. E. H., Oct. 3, 1748; bap. 
 
 Hadlyme, Nov. 6, 1748; m. Dec. 12, 1770, Mr. 
 James Sparrow of E. H. ; he d. Jan. 29, 1774, 
 in 39th year; and she m. (2d) Feb. 28, 1775, Dr. 
 Augustus Mather of Lyme, Conn. Rejoined 
 the church in Millington, from first church in 
 Lyme, June 29, 1777; she joined same church 
 June 6, 1790, and d. Ap. 16, 1810. He m. (2d) 
 May 8, 18 11, Hannah Ransom.* He. d. July 5, 
 1832, in 85th year. 
 
 Children. 
 
 1. Sarah,' (Sparrow) b. E. H., Sept. 15, 1771. 
 
 2. Mehitabel,' (Mather) b. E. H., Nov. ai, 1775. 
 
 3. Augustus," b. E. H., Ap. 6, 1778. 
 
 4. Mary,' b. E. H., Dec. zi, 1780. 
 
 5. James," b. E. H., Dec. 30, 1783. 
 
 6. OziAS,' b. E. H., Jan. 22, 1787. 
 
 30. IX. Samuel,' b. E. H., Ap. ii, 1750; bap. Had- 
 lyme, Ap. 15, 1750; m. Mehitabel Ely of Lyme, 
 
 • Dr. Mather, by this second marriage, had one son, Eleazer Watrous Mather, b. E. H., March 28, 
 1812 i bap. Millington, Aug. jo, 1812 ; m. June 18, 1837, Elizabeth Louisa Foster, and reaidcs at Eait 
 Haddam. 
 
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 and removed to Campton, N. H., where they both 
 d. J. p. 
 
 Si. X. Mary^' b. E. H.. Jan. 9, 1751 ; bap. Had- 
 lyme, Feb. 23, 1752; d. June 25, 1753. 
 
 32. XL Mary/ b. E. H., Feb. 8, 1754; bap. Had- 
 lyme, March 24, 1754; d. Oct. 3, 1754. 
 
 33. XII. Ebenezer,' {t^2)) b- E. H., Sept. 24, 1755; 
 bap. Hadlyme, Nov. 2, 1755 ; m. Sept. 24, 1789, 
 Abigail Gates, b; Sept. 9, 1760, bap. Oct. 12, 1760, 
 dau. of Joseph and Abigail (Fuller) Gates. Capt. 
 Ebenezer Holmes d. Aug. 23, 1833 ; his widow 
 d. Sept. 29, 1838. 
 
 34. XIII. OziAs/ b. E. H. July 24, 1757; bap. Had- 
 
 lyme, July 31, 1757; d. Dec. 24, 1776. 
 
 35. XIV. Christopher/ (59). b. E. H., July 5, 1762; 
 
 bap. Hadlyme, Aug. 8, 1762 ; was a physician, 
 settled in his native place; m. March 14, 1793, 
 Esther Beckwith, b. E. H., Feb. 27, 1776, dau. of 
 Asa and Abigail (Warner) Beckwith. He. d. Feb. 
 I, 1812; she was bap. and joined the church in 
 Hadlyme, May 4, 1828, and d..Jan. 9, 1834. 
 
 Children of Eliphalet* [io] and Damakis (Waterhouse) Holmes. 
 
 36. I. HuLDAH,' b. E. H., Aug. 19, 1743. 
 
 37. II. Patience,' b. E. H., — ■. ; bap. Had- 
 
 lyme, Feb. 23, 1745-6. 
 
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 Children of John* [s2] and Mercy (CANnzLD) Holmes. 
 
 38. I. John,** b. E. H., Feb. 22, 1763 ; bap. Had- 
 lyme, June 29, 1766; settled at Portland, Me. 
 
 39. II. Joel/ b. E. H., Feb. 5, 1765; bap. Hadlyme, 
 June 29, 1766 ; d. at Campton, N. H. 
 
 40. III. Chauncy,* b. E. H., Nov. 15, 1766; bap. 
 
 Hadlyme, Jan. 4, 1767 ;* settled in Belfast, Me. 
 
 41. IV. Mary,** b. E. H., Sept. 11, 1768 ; bap. Had- 
 lyme, , 1768 ; m. Nathan Stearns, and 
 
 settled near Montreal, Canada East. 
 
 42. V. Uriel,* bap. Hadlyme, May 27, 1770 ; d. 
 
 soon. 
 
 43. VI. Uriel,* b. E. H., Jan. 8, 1772; bap. Had- 
 lyme, March i, 1772. 
 
 44. VII. Christopher,* b. E. H., March 30, 1774; 
 
 bap. Hadlyme, Jufie 19, 1774. 
 
 45. VIII. Sarah,* b. ; m. Samuel Stearns, a 
 
 brother of Nathan, and settled near Montreal, 
 C. E. 
 
 46. IX. Samuel,* (68) b. Campton, N. H., July 14, 
 
 1780; another record says, July 23, 1779; "^• 
 Martha Palmer, b. Campton, Oct. 7, 1780; another 
 record says Oct. 19, 1779, ^^"- °^ Joseph and 
 Martha (Taylor) Palmer.f He d. C, Ap. 20, 
 1838, ae. 58; she d. C, May 30, 1836, ae. c^S. 
 
 • The record of baptism has the date 1766, a mistake very commonly made at the beginning of the 
 year, but the calendar shows that Jan. 4, 1767, was on Sunday, and that was, without doubt, the day of 
 the baptism. 
 
 t Martha Taylor was b. Ap. 14, 176}. 
 
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 Child of Uriel' [25] and Statika (Cone) Holmes. 
 
 47. I. Uriel/ (78) b. E. H., Aug. 26, 1764; bap. 
 Hartland, June 11, 1769; grad. Yale Col. 1784, 
 and settled in Litchfield, Conn., as a lawyer, a few 
 years subsequently. He m. Oct. 24, 1794, Esther 
 Austin, b. New Hartford, May 6, 1772, dau. of 
 Hon. Aaron and Sarah (Kellogg) Austin of New 
 Hartford, Conn.; shed. Litchfield, Aug. 30, 1802. 
 He was elected a Representative in the Conn. Le- 
 gislature, nine times, was a Judge of the Litchfield 
 County Court from 1814 to 181 7, and during the 
 latter year he was chosen a Representative in Con- 
 gress, but resigned in 1 8 1 8. While passing through 
 Canton, Conn., he was thrown from his carriage, 
 and so injured as to cause his death. May 18, 
 1827, in the 63d year of his age. He was buried 
 in Litchfield. 
 
 Children of Eliphalet' [28] and Anna (Gates) Holmes. 
 
 48. I. Eliphalet,® (8i) b. E. H., Ap. 25, 1776; m. 
 
 March 14, 1798, Oris Cone, b. E. H., July 27, 
 1777, dau. of Judah and Lydia (Cone) Cone, and 
 g. g. dau. of Lucretia,* [6]. She was bap. and 
 joined the church at Hadlyme, June 5, 1808 ; he 
 d. Dec. 10, 1857, ae. 82; she d. Ap. 14, 1863, 
 ae. 86. 
 
 49. IL Anne,** b. E. H., Jan. 30, 1781 : d. at New 
 
 Haven, Conn., Aug. 31, 1795; buried at Had- 
 lyme. 
 
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 ^50. III. LucRETiA,* b. E. H., Sept. i8, 1785; d. Oct. 
 
 II, I79I. -v- 
 
 -51. IV. OziAs/ (83) b. E. H., Ap. a, 1789; m. Jan. 
 19, 1808, Betsy Tully, b. March 18, 1787, dau. of 
 Elias and Azubah (Kirtland) TuUy. He d. Aug. 
 16, 1845; she d. Dec. i, 1855, aged 68 years. 
 
 52. V. Joseph/ b. E. H., May 13, 1791 ; d. Oct. 13, 
 1 8 10, "in the last year of his Collegiate life, much 
 regretted by his Classmates and all of his friends." 
 (Grave stone.) 
 
 Children of Ebenezer' [33] and Abigail (Gates) Holmes. 
 
 ■53. I. Abigail,* b. E. H., July 31, 1792; bap. and 
 joined the church in Hadlyme, June 4, 18 15; 
 resides in E. H., with her brother Ebenezer, 
 unm. 
 
 54. II. Luoretia,* b. E. H., March 2, 1794; bap. 
 
 and joined the church in Hadlyme, May i, 18 14; 
 m. Aug. 14, 1830, Daniel Woodworth of E. H.; 
 this was the last marriage recorded by Rev. Joseph 
 Vaill. She d. at Danielsonville, Conn., Sept. 4, 
 1852. 
 
 55. III. Ebenezer,* b. E. H., Aug. i, 1797 ; resides 
 in E. H., unm. 
 
 56. IV. Nancy,* b. E. H., March 11, 1799; bap. and 
 joined the church in Hadlyme, Nov. 18, 1827; 
 resides in New York city, unm. 
 
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 57. V. A Daughter,* b, E. H., Sept. 30, 1801 ; d* 
 
 Dec. 31, 1 801. 
 
 58. VI. Noah/ b. E. H., May 6, 1803; d. at sea, 
 Ap, 28, 1830, was buried in the Mediterranean. 
 
 Children of Christopher* [35] and Esther (Beckwith) Holmes. 
 
 69. I. Sarah,* b. E. H., July 15, 1793; bap. and 
 joined the church in Hadlyme, Aug. 5, 1827; d. 
 March 22, 1863, ae. 70. 
 
 60. II. Samuel,* (85) b. E. H., July 10, 1795; m. 
 
 Mrs. Cornelia (Luther) Buckingham, dau. of Ansel 
 Luther and widow of Aaron Buckingham. He d. 
 Jan. 3, 1852, and she m. (3d) Henry Smith, and 
 removed to South Glastenbury, Conn. 
 
 61. III. Esther,* b. E. H., Sept. 24, 1797; m. Ap. 
 
 8, 1 8 19, Charles Attwood, b. E. H., March 
 19, 1795, son of Capt. Oliver and Dorothy (Chap- 
 man) Attwood. She d. Jan. 17, 1832. 
 
 Children. 
 
 I. Charles,' b. E. H,, Feb. a8, iSao; m. Nov. i8, 1846, Martha Thomp- 
 son Greene, b. Johnsonburg, N. J., Ap. 19, i8a6, dau. of Dr. David 
 and Ann Breckenridge (Thompson) Greene; he resides in New York 
 city, a merchant. 
 
 Children, 
 
 I. Emma Louise,' b. N. Y., March 4, 1848. 
 
 i. Annie Breckenridge,' b. N. Y., June 30, 1 8 50. 
 
 3. Archibald Finn,' b. N. Y., July 10, 1860J d. May la, 1861, aged 
 10 mo. 2 days. 
 
 4. Aline,' b. N. Y., Aug. 7, i86i. 
 
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 ■i. Oliver,' b. E. H., July i, i8zi ; d. Nov. 19, 1845, aged 24. 
 
 3. Christopher Holmes,' b. E. H., May Z2, 1824. 
 
 4. Sarah Catherine,' b. E. H., July 30, 1826; m. Dec. 10, 1849, 
 Amos Stanton Harvey, b. Colchester, Conn., Jan. 5, 1825, son of 
 Elias and Ruth (Edwards) Harvey. They reside in E. H. 
 
 CiilJren, 
 
 1. Kate Russell,^ b. E. H., June 11, 1854. 
 
 2. Mary Esther,^ b. E. H., Sept. i, 1862. 
 
 5. Samuel,' b. E. H., June 22, 1828; d. Dec. 21, 1828. 
 
 6. Mary Eliza,' b. E. H., Ap. 22, 1830, m. Nov. 27, 1862, Ralph Bliss 
 Swan, b. Ap. 17, 1839, son of Diodate Lord and Mary Eliza (Welles) 
 Swan. They reside in E. H. 
 
 62. IV. Mary/ b. E. H., May 4, 1800; m. Nov. 29, 
 
 1832, Capt. Charles Attwood, whose first wife was 
 her sister Esther. She d. May 27, 1837, s. p.; 
 and he m. (3d) Dec. 31, 1837, Julia Ann Chap- 
 man, b. Dec. 12, 1799, dau. of John and Sarah 
 (Hubbard) Chapman, and now lives in E. H. 
 
 63. V. Eliza,* b. E. H., July 14, 1803; bap. and 
 joined church in Hadlyme, Nov. 18, 1827, resides 
 in Hadlyme, unm. 
 
 64. VI. Christopher Columbus,* (88) b. E. H., 
 
 Aug. 8, 1805; m, March 19, 1837, Ellen Eliza- 
 beth Sellew, b. Glastenbury, Conn., May i, 1814, 
 dau. of Russell and Mary (Loveland) Sellew. 
 They reside in Hadlyme. 
 
 65. VII. John,* (91) b. E. H., Jan. 30, 1808; m. 
 Ap. 16, 1840, Marie Antoinette Foster, b. E. H., 
 "Sunday, Nov. 29, 1818, 9 P. M.," dau. of 
 Nathan Lanesford and Azubah Louisa (Cone) 
 Foster. He d. Hadlyme, Nov. 29, 1856. 
 
 9 
 
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 66. VIII. Mehitabel/ b. E. H., Ap. 20, 1810; bap. 
 
 and joined the church in Hadlyme, Nov. 18, 
 1827; resides in Hadlyme, unm. 
 
 67. IX. Joseph Uriel/ b. E. H., July 6, 1812; d. 
 
 Hadlyme, July 17, i860, unm. 
 
 children of Samdei." [46] and Martha (Palmer) Holmes. 
 
 68. I. Almira,7 b. Campton, N. H., May 19, 1803; 
 m. Jan. 31, 1837, TiUotson Pierce, b. July 9, 
 
 1797. 
 
 Children, 
 
 I. A Son,* b. Thornton, N. H., Ap. 3, 1838 ; d. Aug. a, 1838. 
 a. Josephine,' b. Thornton, N. H., May 26, 1839. 
 
 3. Caroline,' b. Sandwich, N. H., May 19, 1840. 
 
 4. Martha Jane,' b. S., Aug. 13, 1843. 
 
 5. Henrietta,' b. S., June 26, 1846. 
 
 69. II. Eliza,7 b. C, Jan. 4, 1805; m. Daniel James. 
 
 70. III. Thirza,' b. C, Sept. 27, 1806; m. Ap. 4, 
 
 1830, Chatincy Beckwith Phelps, b. E. H., 
 June 26, 1802, son of Niles and Esther (Peck) 
 Phelps.* They live in E. H., in Hadlyme 
 society. 
 
 Children. 
 
 1. A Daughter,' b. £. Haddam, Feb. 5, 1831 ; d. same day. 
 
 2. Samuel Holmes,' b. E. H., Feb. 3, 1832. 
 
 3. Esther Peck,' b. E. H., March 26, 1833 ; m. July 23, 1863, Samuel 
 Jones of £. H., b. Chester, Conn., Oct. 25, 1823, son of Ansel and 
 Deborah (Clark) Jones. 
 
 Child. ' 
 1.' Charles Leslie," b. E. H., Ap. 7, 1864. 
 
 * The first wife of Chauncy Beckwith Phelps was Flora Fuller, dau. of William Ward and Susanna 
 (Knowlton) Fuller of E. H. ; she d. Nor. zl, 1829, ae. 28 ; leaving oiie child, William Fuller Phelps, 
 b. Nov. 5, 1S29. 
 
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 4. Martha Palmer,^ b. E. H., Dec. 8, 1834; m. Aug. iz, 1855, 
 Samuel Wilson Gates, b. E. H., June 12, 1832, son of Samuel and 
 Mary (Stranahan) Gates. 
 
 1. Albert fVihon" b. E. H., Oct. 8, 18565 d. July 25, 1864. 
 
 2. Charles Wesley^ b. E. H., July 7, l86a; d. Sept. 5, 1862. 
 
 5. Edwin Haynes,' b. E. H., Feb. 21, 1836; m. March 22, 1863, Mrs. 
 Harriet Diantha (Chapman) Gates, b. Middle Haddam, May 23, 1839, 
 dau. of Reuben and Martha (Rich) Chapman, and widow of Frederick 
 William Gates of E. H. 
 
 6. Joseph Palmer,^ b. E. H., Ap. 26, 1838; m. July 15, i860, Harriet 
 Jennet Gates, b. E. H., July 25, 1840, dau. of Samuel and Mary (Strana- 
 han) Gates. 
 
 7. Maro,' b. E. H., July i, 1840; m. June I, 1864, Alice Geer. 
 
 8. Maeyette," b. E. H., Jan. i, 1843, ""• Dec. 14, 1861, Rufus 
 Giriswold Phelps, b. May 4, 1833, son of Griswold Comstock and 
 Lydia (Chadwick) Phelps. 
 
 Child. 
 I. Arthur Lamsford,' b. July 23, 1862. 
 
 9. Emily," b. E. H., July 11, 1845. 
 
 10. Harriet," b. E. H., March 11, 1848. 
 
 11. Freeman," b. E. H., Jan. 19, 1850. 
 
 71. IV. Emily,7 b. C, May i2, 1808; d. young. 
 
 72. V. OziAS,^ b. C, Ap. 1, 1 8 10; m. Elizabeth Cook; ^ 
 lives in Campton. 
 
 73. VI. Joseph,' (97) b. C, July 28, 1812; m. Han- 
 nah Bump, b. Aug. 30, 1820; lives in Campton. 
 
 74. VII. Caroline,' b. C, Nov. 8, 18 14; m. Leonard 
 Foss. 
 
 75. VIII. Elvira,' b. C, Dec. 7, 1816; m. George 
 
{ 68 ) 
 
 Howell, b. E. H., Ap. 29, 18 17, son of Daniel 
 Kirtland and Hannah (North) Howell ; they live 
 in Hadlyme, s. p. 
 
 76. IX, Elizur,^ (105) t». C, Dec. 30, 1818; m. 
 Martha Blaisdell, b. March 10, 1827; he d. C, 
 May 15, 1850. 
 
 77. X. Drury,^ b. C, June 13, 1822; lives in Had- 
 
 lyme, unm. 
 
 Children of Uriel" [47] and Esther (Austin) Holmes. 
 
 78. I. Henry/ b. Litchfield, Conn., Feb. 14, 1795; 
 grad. M. D. Yale Col. 1825; never married; re- 
 sides in Hartford, Conn. 
 
 79. n. Uriel,^ b. L., Sept. 15, 1796; grad. Yale Col. 
 
 1 8 16; entered Andover Theological Seminary with 
 the class that graduated in 1820, but died July 4, 
 1818, having been in the institution less than a 
 year. 
 
 80. HI. Caroline,^ b. L., May 12, 1799; d. May 28, 
 
 1802. 
 
 children of £li?halet° [48] and Oris (Cone) Holmes. 
 
 81. I. Anne,^ b. E. H., Aug. II, 1799; bap. Had- 
 lyme, June 5, 1808; joined the church in Had- 
 lyme, Jan. 6, 1828 ; resides with her brother, 
 unm. 
 
 82. n. Timothy,' (107) b. E. H., Feb. 24, 1802; 
 
( 69 ) 
 
 bap. Hadlyme, June 5, 1808; m. May 8, 1826, 
 Phebe Howell Rose, b. Bridgehampton, Long 
 Island, Oct. 30, 1800, dau. of Stephen and Phebe 
 (Howell) Rose. They joined the church, and she 
 was bap. in Hadlyme, Jan. 6, 1828. They live in 
 Hadlyme, on the homestead of his grand father, 
 Judah Cone. 
 
 children of OziAs' [51] and Betsey (Tully) Holmes. 
 
 83. I. Mary Ann,^ b. Feb. 4, 1809; bap. and joined 
 the church in Hadlyme, Nov. 18, 1827; m, Nov. 
 8, 1829, Joseph. Warner, b. Lyme, Conn., Dec. 
 
 "" 3, 1792, son of Selden and Dorothy (Selden) War- 
 ner; they settled in Lyme, Hadlyme society, where 
 he d. June 13, 186 1. ' 
 
 Children. 
 
 1. Nancy Holmes,* b. Lyme, Sept. 12, 1830; bap. May 29, 1831. 
 
 2. Elizabeth Ann,' b. L., March 21, 1834. 
 
 3. Joseph Selden,^ b. L., Feb. 22, 1837. 
 
 84. n. Joseph,' (io8) b. Dec. 17, 1817; m. May 21, 
 
 1844, Maria Kirtland Selden, b. Greenfield, Erie 
 Co., Penn., Ap. 21, 1824, dau. of Joseph and 
 Mary Ann (Kirtland) Selden. She d. Lebanon, 
 Conn., Dec. 30, 1859 ; and he m. (2d) June 19, 
 i860, Sarah Eliza Morgan, b. Ap. 26, 1838, dau. 
 of Griswold Edwin and Eliza J. (Saxton) Morgan. 
 (See Morgan Genealogy, p. 14.) He lives in 
 Lebanon. 
 
 Child of Samuel" [6o] and Cornelia (Ldthee) Holmes. 
 
 85. L Samuel Thetford.'^ 
 
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 86. II. Thomas Benton.^ 
 
 87. III. Mary Eliza.' 
 
 Children of Chsistophzk Columbus' [64] snd Ellen Elizabeth (Sel- 
 LEw) Holmes. 
 
 88. I. Esther Elizabeth,' b. Aug. i, 1839; d. Oct. 
 
 20, 1857, 
 
 89. II. Christopher,' b. May 25, 1844, 
 
 90. III. Charlemagne,' b. Feb. i, 1847. 
 
 children of John" [65] and Marie Antoinette (Foster) Holmes. 
 
 91. I. John,' b. Oct. 14, 1841. 
 
 92. II, Henry,' b. Dec. 3, 1842. 
 
 93. III. Reginald Heber,' b. Nov. 19, 1845; d. May 
 31, 1862. 
 
 94. IV. William Cone,' b. Jan. 22, 1848. 
 
 95. V. Mary Louise,' b. Oct. 20, 1851 ; d. Ap. 4, 
 
 1854. 
 
 96. VI. Charles Attwood,' b. Ap. 7, 1855. 
 
 Children of Joseph' [73] and Hannah (Bump) Holmes. 
 
 97. I. Orlando Martel,* b. Campton, N. H., March 
 
 6, 1842. 
 
 98. II. John Southmayd,* b, C, Oct. 2, 1843. 
 
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 99. III. Drury Ervin/ b. C, June 24, 1845. 
 
 100. IV. Joseph Alphonso/ b. C, Aug. 2, 1847. 
 
 101. V. Benjamin Southmayd.* 
 
 102. VI. James Eber.^ 
 
 103. VII. A Daughter/ (twin). 
 
 104. VIII. A Daughter/ (twin). 
 
 Children of Euzur' [76] and Martha (Blaisdell) Holmes. 
 
 105. I. Alfred F./ b. Campton, N. H., Ap. 3, 1829. 
 
 106. II. .' 
 
 Child of Timothy' [82] and Phebe Howell (Rose) Holmes. 
 
 107. I. Silas Rose/ (117) b. E. H., Aug. 9, 1827; 
 bap. Hadlyme, Jan. 20, 1828; m. June 9, 1851, 
 Emily Adeline Rose, b. New York City, Jan. 31, 
 1833, dau. of Silas and Eliza (Fordham) Rose. 
 He represented the town of East Haddam, in the 
 Legislature of Conn., in 1861 ; resides with his 
 father. 
 
 Children of Joseph' [84] and Maria Kiktland (Selden) Holmes. 
 
 108. I. Mary Selden/ b. E. H., Dec. 23, 1846. 
 
 109. II. Elizabeth Kirtland/ b. E. H., Nov. 19, 
 1848. 
 
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 110. III. Harriet Tully/ b. Colchester, Conn., May 
 13, 1850. 
 
 111. IV. Josephine,* b. Lebanon, Conn., May 31, 
 1852; d. Dec, 26, 1852. 
 
 112. V. Adelaide Maria,* b. Leb., Sept. 27, 1854. 
 
 113. VI. Joseph Selden,* b. Leb., Ap. 19, 1856. 
 
 114. VII. Caroline,* b. Leb., July 13, 1858 ; d. Dec. 
 16, 1859. 
 
 children of Joseph' [84] and Sarah Eliza (Mokgan) Holmes. 
 
 115. VIII. Georgiana Morgan,* b. Leb., Aug. 22, 
 1862 ; d. March 8, 1863. 
 
 116. IX. Howard,* b. Leb., March 15, 1864. 
 
 Children of Silas Rose* [107] and Emily Adeline (Rose) Holmes. 
 
 117. I. Annie Maria,' b. E. H., Dec. 19, 1852. 
 
 118. II. Phebe Eliza,9 b. E. H., July 5, 1855. 
 
 119. III. Mary Lucretia,' b. E. H., Oct. 28, 1858; 
 d. Ap. II, 1859. 
 
 120. IV. Stephen Eliphalet,' b. E. H., Nov. 28 
 1862. 
 
Index. 
 
 HOLMES, CHRISTIAN NAMES. 
 
 ^But one reference is made 
 
 the name may occur several times on a page,'\ 
 
 Abigail, 56, 63. 
 Adelaide Maria, 72. 
 Alfred F., 71. 
 Almira, 66. 
 Anna, 62. 
 Anne, 62, 68. 
 Annie Maria, 72. 
 
 Benjamin Southmayd, 71. 
 Betsey, 69. 
 
 Caroline, 67, 68, 72. 
 
 Charlemagne, 70. 
 
 Charles Attwood, 70. 
 
 Chauncy, 61. 
 
 Christopher, 54, 57, 60, 61, 64, 70. 
 
 Christopher Columbus, 65, 70. 
 
 Cornelia, 69. 
 
 Damaris, 60. 
 Drury, 68. 
 Drury Ervin, 71. 
 
 Ebenezer, 60, 63. 
 
 Eleanor, 57. 
 
 Eliphalet, 56, 59, 60, 62, 68. 
 
 Eliza, 65, 66. . 
 
 Elizabeth Kirtland, 71. 
 
 Elizur, 68, 71. 
 
 Ellen Elizabeth, 70. 
 
 Elvira, 67. 
 
 Emily, 67. 
 
 Emily Adeline, 72. 
 
 Esther, 64, 68. 
 
 Esther Elizabeth, 70. 
 
 Georgiana Morgan, 72. 
 Grace, 55, 56. 
 Gravo, 37. 
 
 Hannah, 70. 
 Harriet TuUy, 72. 
 Henry, 68, 70. 
 Howard, 72. 
 Huldah, 60. 
 
 James Eber, 71. 
 
 Jesse, 56. 
 
 Joel, 61. 
 
 John, 9, 12, 17, 20, 24, 37, 41, 43, 44, 
 
 45. 51. 52. 53. 56. 57. 61, 65, 70. 
 John Southmayd, 70. 
 Joseph, 64, 69, 70, 71, 72. 
 Joseph Alphonso, 71. 
 Joseph Selden, 72. 
 Joseph Uriel, 66. 
 Josephine, 72. 
 
 Lucretia, 53, 56, 57, 59, 62, 63. 
 Lucy, 56. 
 
 Maria Kirtland, 71. 
 
 Marie Antoinette, 70. 
 
 Martha, 66, 71. 
 
 Mary, 52, 54, 56, 60, 61, 65. 
 
 Mary Ann, 69. 
 
 Mary Eliza, 70. 
 
 Mary Louise, 70. 
 
(• 74 ) 
 
 Mary Lucretia, 72. 
 Mary Selden, 71. 
 Mehitabel, 59, 66. 
 Mercy, 61. 
 
 Nancy, 63. 
 Noah, 63. 
 
 Oris, 68. 
 
 Orlando Martel, 70. 
 
 Ozias, 60, 63, 67, 69. 
 
 Phebe Eliza, 72. 
 Phebe Howell, 71. 
 
 Rebecca, 53. 
 Reginald Heber, 70. 
 
 Samuel, 59, 61, 64, 66, 69. 
 Samuel Thetford, 69. 
 Sarah, 56, 57, 58, 61, 64. 
 Sarah Eliza, 72. 
 Silas Rose, 71, 72. 
 Statira, 62. 
 
 Stephen Eliphalet, 72. 
 Susanna, 56. 
 
 Thetford, 56. 
 
 Thirza, 66. 
 
 Thomas, 9, 17, 22, 23, 27, 28, 37, 38, 
 
 4a, 43> 44i 51. 52. 56- 
 Thomas Benton, 70. 
 Timothy, 68, 71. 
 Uriel, 57, 61, 62, 68. 
 William Cone, 70. 
 
I NDEX 
 
 NAMES OTHER THAN HOLMES. 
 
 [Bar one reference is made though a name occurs several times on a page.^ 
 
 Ackley, 54. 
 Adlard, 38. 
 Andrews, 52, 54, 57. 
 Appleton, 26. 
 Attwood, 64, 65. 
 Austin, 62, 68. 
 
 Babcock, 57. 
 Beckwith, 60, 64. 
 Heel, 10, 28. 
 Bigelow, 55. 
 Bill, 42. 
 
 Blaisdell, 68, 71. 
 Bodington, 42. 
 Bohn, 36. 
 Boon, 57. 
 Bowers, 56. 
 Brainerd, 43, 53. 
 Bray, 54. 
 Brooks, 57. 
 Bryce, 18. 
 Buckingham, 64. 
 Bump, 67, 70. 
 
 Canfield, 57, 61. 
 
 Caulkins, 3, 17, 42, 45. 
 
 Chadwick, 67. 
 
 Chapman, 64, 65, 67. 
 
 Charles I., 41. 
 
 Chauncy, 58. 
 
 Church, 55. 
 
 Clark, 66. 
 
 Comstock, 56 
 
 Cone, S3, 54. 57i 58. 62, 65, 68, 69. 
 
 Cook, 67. 
 
 Dean, 57. 
 
 De Foe, 26, 36. 
 
 Denny, 18. 
 
 Dodley, 11, 38. 
 
 Dudley, 37, 38, 39, 51. 
 
 Dutton, 43. 
 
 Edward III., 19. 
 Edward VI., 39. 
 Edwards, 65. 
 
 Ely, 55. 59- 
 
 Elizabeth (Queen), zo, 40, 41. 
 
 Essex, 23. 
 
 Fairfax, 23. 
 
 Farryner, 34. 
 
 Fitzharris, 36. 
 
 Fordham, 71. 
 
 Foss, 67. 
 
 Foster, 59, 65, 70. 
 
 Fox, 42. 
 
 Fuller, 57, 59, 60, 66. 
 
 Gates, 58, 59, 60, 62, 63, 67. 
 Gatrix, 34. 
 Greene, 64. 
 
 Harrison, 15. 
 Harvey, 53, 55, 65. 
 Hatch, 55. 
 Hawles, 36. 
 Henry VII., 20. 
 
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 Hoffman, 35. 
 Hosmer, 16. 
 Howell, 68, 69. 
 Hubbard, 65. 
 Hubert, 36. 
 Hungerford, 55. 
 
 James I., 23, 29, 41. 
 James, 66. 
 Johnson, 18. 
 Jones, 66. 
 
 Kellogg, 62. 
 Kirtland, 63, 69. 
 Knowlton, 52, 56, 66. 
 
 Lee, 52, S4-'- 
 Leigh, 40, 4 
 Lingard, 31 
 Loveland, 65. 
 Lower, 15, 22. 
 Luther, 64, 69. 
 
 Mack, 57. 
 Malcolm, 25. 
 Marsh, 54, 57. 
 Mather, 59 
 Moore, 34, 51. 
 Morgan, 42, 69, 72. 
 
 Nichols, 42. 
 Niles, 56. 
 North, 68. 
 
 Palmer, 58, 61, 66 
 Peck, 66. 
 Peterson, 36. 
 Phelps, 66, 67. 
 Picket, 42. 
 Pierce, 66. 
 
 Ransom, 59. 
 
 Rawson, 58, 59. 
 
 Rich, 67. 
 
 Rose, 69, 71, 72. 
 
 Savage, 22, 44. 
 Saxton, 69. 
 Selden, 43, 69, 71. 
 Sellew, 65, 70. 
 Seymour, 39. 
 Shackleford, 59. 
 Skinner, 54. 
 Smith, 42, 64. 
 Sparrow, 59. 
 Spencer, 43, 55. 
 Stearns, 61. 
 Stowe, 25. 
 Stranahan, 67. 
 Swan, 65. 
 
 Taylor, 61. 
 Thetford, 10, 22, 51. 
 Thomson, 18, 27. 
 Thompson, 64. 
 TuUy, 63, 69. 
 Tymms, 19, 25. 
 
 Usher, 58. 
 
 Vaill, 63. 
 Valentine, 37. 
 
 WoUer, 23. 
 Warner, 55, 60, 69. 
 Waterhouse, 56, 60. 
 Welles, 65. 
 Wetherell, 42. 
 Whishaw, 18. 
 WiUey, 51, 52, 53, 54, $6. 
 Woodward, 57. 
 Woodworth, 63. 
 Worcester, 18, 39. 
 Wren, 19.