W'^^u'tM ^ii:<»;,t»» l^i^Mii Cornell University Library The original of this book is in the Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924079745950 Family-Histories AND Genealogies IN THREE VOLUMES— VOLUME SECOND Press of Tutile^ Morehouse fir" Taylor^ Nciv Haven. FamilyHistories AND Genealogies Volume Second CONTAINING A SERIES OF ©eitealoflical anir BiograpJjical ;ftlono3tapi)0 ON THE FAMILIES OF GRISWOLD, WOLCOTT, PITKIN, OGDEN, JOHNSON AND DIODATI AND NOTES ON THE FAMILIES OF DeWOLF, DRAKE, BOND AND SWAYNE, AND DUNBAR BY letrtoatitr Igltirmgr SalfsKittrfi AND 1892 PRIVATELY PRINTED COPYRIGHT, 1892 EY EDWARD ELBRIDGE SALISBURY AND EVELYN MeCURDY SALISBURY " ®ttr calmer fubgnient mill ratl)er tenb to moberate tljon to supprees tl]e pribe of an ancient anir roortlia race. 9[t)e 0atiri0t tnaji langhi tl)^ pljiloBoiiljer mog preacl) ; but reason tjerself aiU res^ject tl)e prejubice anb l)abits tt)l)icl) Ijaoe been consecrateb bg tlie eje^erience of mankinb. . . . 3n tl)e inoesti- gation of past eoents onr curiosita is stimnlateb b^ tlje immebiate or inbirect reference to onrseloes ; bnt in tlie estimate of l)onour xne sbonlb learn to oalue tl)e gifts of nature abooe tl)ose of fortune; to esteem in our ancestors tlje qualities t\)at best promote tl)c interests of societn, anb to pronounce tlje bescenbant of a king less trnls noble tljan tlje offspring of a man of genius, rol)ose toritings mill instruct anb beligl)t tlje latest posteritg "—Edward Gibbon. CONTENTS Title of Volume Second ....... p^^g On the Proper Criteria of Judgment in the Estimate of Ancestry, BY Edward Gibbon ....... iii @;;tffiitt)Oltl (pp. 1-121): PAGE Arms ......... I Sources of the information upon which this Monograph is based ........ i Two brothers, Edward and Matthew Griswold, come to America about 1639 ........ 2 Their sworn statements of 1684, by which is fixed the date of immi- gration ........ 2 A third brother, Thomas, remained in England, as shown by a docu- ment quoted in full from the New London Probate Office . 4 George Griswold is proved to be father of these three brothers by a deposition lately found, here quoted ... 5 His probable descent shown from the Greswold family of CO. Warwick ....... 6 And his probable identity with the George Greswold whose baptism is recorded in the Parish-register of Solihul, under date of April 23, 1548 ....... 8 Account of the three brothers Griswold ... g Edward Griswold the elder of the two emigrants . . . lo His descendants ....... n Matthew Griswold the emigrant ..... 13 Descendants of Matthew and Anna (Wolcott) Griswold . 22 John Rogers, founder of the Rogerenes .... 23 Chief Justice Waite ...... 26 V-2* Matthew Griswold the second . . . • Letter to his future wife .....■■ Letter to Cotton Mather relating what had befallen his son Matthew Children of Matthew and Phoebe (Hyde) Griswold George Griswold's Latin salutatory, Yale 1717 Extracts from one of his sermons . . . ■ ■ His obituary by Rev. Jonathan Parsons . . . • PAGE 27 29 35 38 40 Descendants of George and Hannah (Lynde) Griswold Other children of Matthew and Phoebe (Hyde) Griswold Judge John Griswold . . . . • Descendants of Judge John and Hannah (Lee) Griswold Gen. Samuel Holden Parsons .... Gov. Matthew Griswold and his wife; her Pitkin-Wolcott descent .....••• Extracts from his correspondence . . . . Family-circle of Mrs. Ursula (Wolcott) Griswold Children of Gov. Matthew and Ursula (Wolcott) Griswold Judge Matthew Griswold Gov. Roger Griswold 80 81 Pedigree-Sketch of Descent of Fanny (Rogers) Griswold Descendants of Gov. Roger and Fanny (Rogers) Griswold Capt. John Griswold ...... Other children of Gov. Matthew and Ursula (Wolcott) Gris- wold ......•• Dea. John Griswold and his wife Sarah Johnson Their descendants ...... Mrs. Elizabeth (Griswold) Gurley and her family 114 "5 33 41 46 47 49 SO 52 56 73 80 facing 8 2 105 106 III 117 CONTENTS PAGE Mrs. Sarah (Griswold) Gardiner and her family . . 117 Mrs. Ursula (Griswold) McCurdy and her family . . 120 Judge Charles Johnson McCurdy .... 120 Mrs. Evelyn (McCurdy) Salisbury . . . . 120 Kotefii on tJje iFamils of Be2molt(pp. 123-165): The name, in various forms, common as a surname in various languages ...... Distinguished Europeans bearing the name Early American DeWolfs ..... First notices of Balthasar DeWolf, 1656 and 1661 He and his three sons in the Lyme records of 1668 ; his daughter Mary was the grandmother of Gov. Matthew Griswold Two or three further notices of Balthasar DeWolf and his wife Alice Their son Edward and his wife Rebecca .... Simon and Sarah (Lay) DeWolf ..... The third son Stephen and his family ..... Descendants of Simon and Sarah (Lay) DeWolf . . 133 Only four male descendants of Balthasar now live in Lyme ; their names ....... 135 The DeWolfs of Nova Scotia : a communication from Dr. James Ratchford DeWolf of Wolfville, N. S. . . . 136 Nathan and Lydia (Kirtland) DeWolf and their children . . 139 Benjamin and Rachel (Otis) DeWolf and their children . . 140 Children of Hon. James Fraser who married Rachel Otis DeWolf . 141 Judge Elisha DeWolf and his family .... 142 Hon. Thomas Andrew Strange DeWolf and his family . . 143 Dr. James Ratchford DeWolf and his family ... 144 • 123 • 124 • 125 PAGE 126 127 I2g 130 131 131 CONTENTS Rev. Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton's account of the page Nova Scotia DeWolfs ..... I45 Notes on the Rhode Island branch of the DeWolf family, chiefly by Dr. John James DeWolf of Providence, R. I. . 148 PAGE Prof. John DeWolf of Brown University .... 151 Extracts from letters of Mr. John DeWolf of New York on the same branch . . . ■ • • .154 Capt. John DeWolf, " Nor'west John ; " his voyage to Alaska and his journey through Siberia to St. Petersburg ... 155 Hon. Delos DeWolf of Oswego, N. Y. ; Dr. T. K. DeWolf of Chester Center, Mass. . . • • • 158 Dr. Oscar C. DeWolf, Professor in Chicago Medical College ; Calvin DeWolf, Esq. of Chicago . . . . 159 Dr. James DeWolf of Vail, Ohio ..... 160 Austin DeWolf Esq. of Greenfield, Mass. ... 161 Arms of the DeWolf of Saxony ; and of DeWolfe of England 164 Pftftin=2J2IoUott (pp. 169-214): Wiis\ti\iX (pp. 169-200) : Arms ......... 169 Henry Wolcott of Windsor, Conn. .... 169 His immediate ancestry ....... His wife and children ...... Plenry Wolcott the second ... Simon Wolcott ; Martha Pitkin his second wife Henry Wolcott the third, and others of that generation Judge Josiah Wolcott ; his letter on the Salem witchcraft . . 177 170 171 172 • 174 . 176 CONTENTS Capt. Gideon Wolcott . . . . . . 178 Elihu Wolcott; his son Rev. Dr. Samuel Wolcott author of the Wolcott " Memorial " . . . . . 179 William, son of the first Simon Wolcott, and his descendants 180 Gov. Roger Wolcott, chiefly from his autobiography . . 181 Letter to him from the Assembly of Massachusetts after the capture of Louisburg .... Judge Roger Wolcott ; Gen. Erastus Wolcott . Mrs. Ursula (Wolcott) Griswold ; Gov. Oliver Wolcott the Mrs. Mariann (Wolcott) Goodrich Extracts from her letters .... The second Gov. Oliver Wolcott . When over seventy years of age he writes of himself in his teens Extracts from his correspondence ..... His family ....... Physical traits of the Wolcotts ..... 198 183 186 t the 187 189 190 191 PAGE 192 194 196 ^ttl^fn (pp. 201-214): Copy of an old record of several early generations of Pitkins 201 William Pitkin the first ....... 201 His brother Roger and sister Martha .... 203 Children of William and Hannah (Goodwin) Pitkin . . . 204 William Pitkin the second ; Chief Justice Pitkin . . 204 Children of William and Elizabeth (Stanley) Pitkin . . . 206 William Pitkin the third ; Gov. Pitkin .... 207 CONTENTS PAGE Children of William and Mary (Woodbridge) Pitkin . . .210 William Pitkin the fourth: Judge Pitkin .... 210 Rev. Timothy Pitkin and Hon. Timothy Pitkin . . .211 Pitkins distinguished in military life .... PAGE 211 General summaries quoted from the " Pitkin Family " . 212 Hon. Roger Sherman Baldwin, Gov. and U. S. Senator ; Prof. Simeon E. Baldwin ...... 213 Kotlas on tfje iFamUs of IPtafte (pp. 215-224): Arms ......... 215 The parents, brothers and sisters of Sergeant Job Drake who married Mary Wolcott ..... 215 John Drake Jun. and his descendants . . . . 216 Children of Sergeant Job Drake .... 216 Lieut. Job Drake ; his daughter Sarah marries Gov. Roger Wolcott ....... 217 John Drake the emigrant descended from the Drakes of Ashe in Devonshire ....... 217 Letter from Rev. W. T. T. Drake of Hemel-Hempsted, Eng., on this descent ....... 218 Sketch of the history of this family, condensed from Burke, Prince and Nichols ...... 220 Sir Bernard Drake ; Robert Drake of Wiscombe . . . 220 Sir Richard Grenville ; Sir Bevil Grenville . . . 221 Inscription on the monument of Sir Bernard and his wife in the parish-church of Musbury ..... 222 His wife Gertrude Fortescue and her father Sir John Fortescue 222 CONTENTS Robert Drake, his wife Elizabeth Prideaux, their sons and their PAGE grandson John the emigrant ... 223 Sir Walter Raleigh and the first Duke of Marlborough related to the Drakes ....... 223 Francis Drake of Esher ...... 224 (©fltrett=So|insott (pp. 225-351) : ©flTien (pp. 225-284): PAGE Arms ......... 225 Origin of the early emigrations from New England westward, especially to New Jersey ..... 225 John Ogden of Northampton, L. I., a patentee under Nicolls's grant in 1664 settling in Elizabethtown ; the " Concessions " of the Lords Proprietors ....... 226 Thomas Johnson one of the company from New Haven Colony in 1666 settling in Newark ..... 227 Prominence of the Ogdens in the earlier history of New Jersey . 228 This monograph is largely indebted to the private notes' pre- pared by Mr. Francis Barber Ogden of New York 228 His letter respecting the Ogden arms ..... 229 John Ogden's career ...... 230 John Ogden's brother Richard ..... 233 Children of John and Jane (Bond) Ogden 234 John Ogden and his family ...... 235 David Ogden ; Joseph Ogden ..... 236 Benjamin Ogden and his family ..... 236 Dea. Jonathan Ogden and his family .... 237 CONTENTS Robert Ogden and his family . . . • PAGE Hon. Robert Ogden ....••• 241 Children of Hon. Robert and Phoebe (Hatfield) Ogden . . 243 Robert Ogden ......■• 244 His descendants .....-• 245 Gen. Frederick Nash Ogden ; Abner Nash Ogden . . . 246 Mrs. Mary (Ogden) Haines and her family . . . 248 Mrs. Sarah Piatt (Haines) Doremus and her family . . . 249 Mrs. Sarah Piatt (Ogden) DuBois and her family ... 251 Capt. Cornelius Jay DuBois ...... 252 Col. Francis Barber of Elizabethtown, N. J., who married Mary Ogden ........ 254 Gen. Matthias Ogden ....... 255 Descendants of Gen. Matthias and Hannah (Dayton) Ogden . 257 Col. Francis Barber Ogden ...... 257 His son Francis Barber Ogden ..... 259 Gov. Aaron Ogden ..... Moses Ogden and his descendants Descendants of David and Elizabeth (Swayne-Ward) Ogden 240 259 262 265 Rev. David Longworth Ogden Mrs. Elizabeth (Ogden) Johnson Col. Josiah Ogden Abraham Ogden Thomas Ludlow Ogden . Dr. Jacob Ogden 268 272 272 275 277 282 CONTENTS • 3JoJin!^on (pp. 285-351): PAGE Arms ......... PAGE 285 Three Johnsons, early of New Haven Colony, supposec to be brothers ...... • 285 Their dates in the records ; Robert's claim to the house of his brother John ....... 286 Robert's first appearance in New Haven ; his Will 287 Letter of Rev. Dr. Sanauel Johnson to his son, January 6, 1757 288 The third brother, Thomas Johnson of New Haven and Norwalk 289 Descendants of Robert and Adaline Johnson . 291 Rev. Dr. Samuel Johnson ..... 296 His children ........ 303 Judge Samuel William Johnson .... 305 Thomas Johnson of Newark .... . 306 His epitaph and Will ....... 308 His descendants ....... 310 Eliphalet Johnson ; his Will ...... 311 Nathaniel Johnson ; his Will ..... 314 Descendants of Nathaniel and Sarah (Ogden) Johnson 316 Rev. Stephen Johnson ..... 317 Descendants of Rev. Stephen and Elizabeth (Diodate) Johnson 346 Notes on tfft iFatnilfes of J3ontr jrntr Stoagne (pp. 353-361): Robert Bond ...... . 353 William Swayne ...... 355 CONTENTS BfOtTiltt (pp. 363-412): Anns PAGE 363 Monuments of William Diodate and his relict Sarah removed in 1 82 1 from the New Haven Public Square New Haven Records respecting William Diodate Extracts from his Will Items of his Inventory The record in his Bible, in his own hand 365 366 367 Col. Joseph L. Chester's assistance in tracing his ancestry- Information from the Swiss Diodatis through Rev. Dr. L. W. Bacon ........ Cornelio Diodati of Lucca in 1300; his descendants Carolo Diodati ....... Letter from Madame A. de May respecting the Mei family, allied to the Diodatis ...... Letter from Count G. Diodati relative to the female ancestry of Carolo Diodati Nicolo Diodati and his son Pompeio Descendants of Pompeio Diodati His brother Nicolo's sons Giovanni and Giulio Ottaviano Diodati and his descendants Descendants of Carolo Diodati Rev. Jean Diodati Dr. Theodore Diodati, son of Rev. Jean Rev. Philippe Diodati Rev. Antoine Josue Diodati 384 393 394 395 363 364 368 369 370 374 374 376 377 380 381 382 384 CONTENTS Dr. Theodore Diodati, son of Carolo, and his descendants PAGE Charles Diodati, Milton's friend ..... 396 John Diodati, grandfather of the emigrant William . . . 397 List of Diodati portraits in the Villa Diodati on the Lake of Geneva ...... John Diodati, father of the emigrant William His wife Elizabeth Morton, and Pedigree-Sketch of her Whicker Descent ..... Arms of Whicker ...... Children of John and Elizabeth (Morton) Diodati Elizabeth (Diodati) Scarlett ; the Scarlett arms . William Diodate ; Mrs. Scarlett's Will . Articles which came to William Diodate's granddaughters William Diodate's son-in-law Rev. Stephen Johnson 396 398 400 400 401 402 403 404 408 411 Hescent of Satraij (Uttufiatr) ISiotrate (pp. 413-415) Indexes of Family-Names in Second Volume and Pedigrees (pp. 417-503) 1. By Male Descent 2. By Female Descent 3. By Marriage 1. By Male Descent 2. By Female Descent 3. By Marriage Orieroolb IDetoolf 419 422 428 435 444 446 CONTENTS 1. By Male Descent 2. By Female Descent 3. By Marriage itiokott PAGE 456 457 I. By Male Descent ,2. By Female Descent 3. By Marriage ptkin 464 465 466 1. By Male Descent 2. By Female Descent 3. By Marriage ©gbcit 471 478 480 1. By Male Descent 2. By Female Descent 3. By Marriage foljnson 487 491 492 I. 2. 3. JBontr anb Svoajinc 495 1. By Male Descent 2. By Female Descent 3. By Marriage I. 2. 3. JUiobati tX)l)icker 496 499 500 502 I. 2. 3. ?I1 unbar 503 ttlocns|4iS) Arms : Arg. a /ess Gu. between two greyhounds courant Sa. (Greswold of Warwickshire). OR the following sketch we have been favored with the use of all the family-papers preserved by several generations of the Griswolds of Blackball ; together with some interesting original papers of Rev. George Griswold of Giant's Neck, now owned by Deacon George Griswold of Niantic ; and with some notes for family-history by James Griswold Esq. of Lyme. We have also had several valuable documents copied for us from the Probate Records of New London and the State Archives at Hart- ford, the latter through the courtesy of Charles J. Hoadly Esq., State Librarian. An examination of the collections on the Griswold family made by the late Rev. F. W. Chapman of Rocky Hill, Conn., which were put into our hands by his son Mr. Henry A. Chapman of Hartford, has led to one important discovery ; and a few private letters from the father have given us some valuable hints. Some of the statements respecting Edward Griswold and his descend- ants were furnished by Judge S. O. Griswold of Cleveland, Ohio, and the late Hon. William H. Buell of Clinton, Conn., descended from him. The printed sources of information, so far as known, have been, of course, freely drawn upon. It must be understood, however, that we have not undertaken to write a complete genealogy of the Griswolds ; this monograph has reference, especially, to the male line, and to those of the name most closely associated with Lyme. The earliest English settlements on the Connecticut River were nearly contemporaneous, of the same parentage, being all offshoots from the Bay Plantation, and bound together by many ties of intercourse and I. 2 dependence. It was about the year 1635 that Windsor, Hartford, Weth- ersfield and Saybrook were first settled. The latter had its origin in a fortification built by Lion Gardiner, a military engineer from England (who had served the Prince of Orange in the Low Countries as a brave soldier, and Engineer and Master of Works of Fortification in the Leaguers, and afterwards became, by grant from the Crown, the first Lord of the Manor of Gardiner's Island, or " the Worshippful Lion Gardiner, Lord of the Isle of Wight,"^), and commanded by John Winthrop the younger, under a commission from the Warwick Patentees. This barely secured the site for English occupation against Dutch encroachments. The new cluster of settlements thus formed on the beautiful banks of the Connecticut, winding amid rich meadows ready to the hand of the husbandman, and primitive forests stocked with all sorts of game valuable for skins, and opening an attractive pathway for trade, both inland and abroad, naturally drew the attention of those in the mother-country whom the usurpations and oppressions of the later Stuarts had forced to make new homes for themselves in these western wilds. Two brothers of the name of Griswold, Edward^ and Matthew,^ came to America "about the year 1639," and settled at Windsor, Conn. The date of their emigration being fundamental, and all that relates to it, and to years immediately following, being of interest, we quote from affidavits of these two brothers, sworn to May 15, 1684, as follows: "The testimony of Edward Griswold, aged about 77 years, is that about the yeare 1639 Mr. W™. Whiteing (deceassed) was undertaker for a shipp in England, in ' For a very interesting historical sketch of the Manor of Gardiner's Island, with notices of its suc- cessive proprietors, by Mrs. Martha J. Lamb, see the Magazine of American History. . . . New York, 1885, xiii. 1-30; also. Coll. of the Mass. Hist. Soc. Vol. x of the Third Series. Boston, 1849, pp. 173-85. A "beautiful recumbent effigy in armor" was lately set up, as a monument to Lion Gardiner, at Easthampton, L. L, on which occasion his remains were temporarily exhumed, showing a stature of over six feet, and a "broad forehead."— Id. New York, 1886, xvi. 493-94. The Griswold family of the seventh generation, as we shall see, became allied to the Gardiners by marriage. N. B. All the imprints we give are those of the particular volumes referred to. » Id., p. 366. « Id., p. 418. 14 ©^tfsiuoltr attendance on either side, and Messrs. Griswold and Palmes were in the commission of the peace, and could authorize warrants of apprehension on the spot. As the New London men approached, and, swinging their scythes, began to mow," the Lyme constable attempted to perform his office, supported by his fellow-townsmen, " who came rushing forward waving their weapons ;" he made the arrest ; upon which " a general tumult of shouts, revilings, wrestlings, kicks and blows followed." A warrant was afterwards issued for the arrest of Griswold, " but he was not captured." The noisy encounter was terminated " by an agreement to let the law decide ;" and the General Court ordered a division of the land in dispute, by which the matter was settled.''^ Such, in substance, is the account of this affair given by the historian of New London, on the authority of testimony taken at the trial of the rioters in March 1671-72. Family-tradition among the Griswolds, however, runs to the effect that the rights of the respective parties were finally made to depend upon the issue of a personal combat between champions chosen on both sides, a son of our first Matthew Griswold, the second of the name, who was noted for his athletic form and great strength, being the representative of Lyme ; and that the result was in favor of his town." On the 13"" of February, 1665-66, the articles of separation between Saybrook and Lyme were signed by Matthew Griswold as one of the committee for the east side. In 1666 he and William Waller were ordered by the General Court " w^'in the space of one month to send up to y'' Treasurer a true valuation of all y" rateable estate af the persons that haue estate in that place called Lyme."^' He was a Deputy to the General Court in 1667,^' and again in 1668, his name having then, first, on the colonial records, the prefix of "Mr.," at that time distinctive of a "gen- tleman.""^ This title was afterwards always given to him on the records. '^^ Caulkins's Hist, of New London, ut supra, pp. 166-69. ■" The tradition is alluded to, as authentic history, by Dr. Dwight in his Travels in New England. New Haven and New York, 1821, ii. 522. " The Public Records of the Col. of Conn., 1665-1677, ut supra, p. 48. « Id., p. 70. ^^ Id., p. 83. 15 etifiiUioltr He was chosen Commissioner for Lyme, in 1669, for the ensuing year ;" in 1676 was appointed with others "to signe bills in their respectiue plan- tations, for what is due from the country;"* and in 1677 was temporary Lieutenant of the train-bands of Lyme.* In May, 1678, he was a Deputy for Lyme;''" and the next year was appointed "to grant warrants and marry persons in Lyme for the yeare ensueing."'*' One hundred acres of land were granted to him by the General Court in 1681, "provided he take it up where it may not prejudice any former grants."® He was a Deputy for Lyme in 1685. '^ On the i^'^ of May, 1685 ("in the first year of our Sovereign Lord James the Second of England") the township of Lyme received a patent of confirmation, when it was granted, ratified and confirmed " Unto Mr. Matthew Griswold, Sen'', Mr. Moses Noyes, Mr. Wm. Measure, Mr. Wm. Ely, Ln't Abraham Brunson, Sarg' Thomas Lee and John Lay Jr., and the rest of the said present proprietors of the Township of Lyme, tlaeir heirs, successors and assigns forever." In 1686 the General Court confirmed to him and others a tract of land eight miles square, "lyeing and being near unto Connecticut River, about twelve or thirteen miles up the said River," which had been deeded to them in 1674 by "Captain Sannup (or Sanhop)" of the Niantics.'" The Court chose him in 1689 to be a Justice of the Peace, or Commis- sioner, for Lyme, and he held the same office the five following years, successively.® To these notes from colonial records, mainly showing the public trusts conferred on the first Matthev\^ Griswold, we add a few others from the public records of Lyme and the family-archives, illustrative of the growth of the Griswold landed domain within his time. By published ■" Id., p. 106. « Id., p. 294. -19 Id., p. 317. "> The Public Records of the Col. of Conn,, 1678-1689, ut supra, p. 3. " Id., p. 27. '' Id., p. 93. '' Id., p. 181. " Id., pp. 200-01. "> Id., p. 252 ; and The Public Records of the Col. of Conn. . . . 1689-1706. By Charles J. Hoadly. Hartford, 1868, pp. 24, 43, 66, 92, 121. 16 ^ffsinoltr tax lists of the time of Sir Edmund Andros it is shown that he was then the wealthiest man in Lyme. After his death the landed property of the family was increased yet more, until it came, at length, to be an estate almost baronial in extent, stretching along Long Island Sound and in other directions. So early as in the third generation, as appears from a paper preserved in the family, dated November 2, 1724, Patience Griswold released to her brothers John and George, and to several sisters, her pro- portion of right and title, as one of her father's legatees, to "about four thousand five hundred and fifty acres, be y" same more or less, situate, Lying and being in y® Township of Lyme." From a plea in answer to a charge of trespass, of the year 1781, by Governor Matthew Griswold — which is among the family-papers — we learn that by " the Proprietors of the Common and Undivided Lands in the Township of Saybrook . . . on or about y° Year 1655 . . . were duely Sever'd and Laid out to Matth" Griswold Sen', then of s"* Saybrook, who then was one of s* Propria- tors . . . for him to Iiold in Severalty as part of his Share and Interest in s* Common and Undivided Lands," certain lands including a fishery at the mouth of the Connecticut River, on the east side : " and the said Matth" Griswold Sen'' soon after Enclosed the same in a Good Sufficient fence, and Continued so siez'^ and Possesse* of the place . . . till the time of his Death , . . and the same Lands . . with all the appurtenances to the same belonging, by sundry legal Descents Descended from the s* Matth" Gris- wold Sen'' to his Great Grandson Matth'' Griswold Esq, . . ." There can be no doubt that this document refers to a part of the estate, at the mouth of the "Great River," which has been occupied by the family for seven generations ; and it probably fixes the date of the first Matthew Griswold's beginning to occupy that site as a place of residence. This family-home has been always known by the name of Blackball — a memorial, doubtless, of some familiar EngHsh locality. There are several places of the name in England. Here, then, not in the rich alluvial meadows of Windsor, nor on the breezy, but sandy plain of Saybrook on the west side of the river, did Matthew Griswold fix his home. He 17 ^tfi^toom settled upon the extreme point of land that stretches out between Connec- ticut River and Long Island Sound. It was all "made land," under the slow processes of nature ; the sea had washed up its sand to meet, and be mingled with, the alluvial deposits brought down by the " Great River," in its progress from Canada to the sea. After all these centuries, the modeling of nature's forces still appears in the roll and swell of the ground, the hillocks and the eddies. The land-records of Lyme show an indenture of March 8, 1664, by which the first Matthew Griswold then had deeded to him " A parcell of Land Lying and beeing uppon Blackball point, near the dwelling- house of Matthew Griswold aforesaid" . . . the upland beeing by estimation forty akers . . . with all the meadow or marshlands thereto belonging, part of which meadow is adjoining to the upland, and part thereof is lying and beeing on the southwest end of the Great Island or Marsh. Among the family-papers is an original deed of Thomas Leffingwell to Matthew Griswold, dated February 18, 1674, conveying his "whole accommadations of Lands att Seabrooke, situate, lyeing and being on both sides of Connecticot River, except . . . The p'ticulars of that w'^'' is sold unto the s"^ Mathew Griswell being as foUoweth ; Imp", on the west side of the above s"* River the whole right of Commonage belonging unto one hundred and fifty pound Allottment withe the ox-pastour, house and home-Lott ; Sec"", on the east side of the s"* River the whole accommadations belonging unto a two hundred pound Allott- ment, with such rights. Commonages, priviledges and appurtenances as doe or shall belong thereunto, as also the whole right, title and interest unto and of one hundred pound Allottment which was bought of ffrancis Griswell "... only excepted twenty acers of Land of the first Division where the house stands . . . Resigned unto ffrancis Griswell. . . ." " Showing that Matthew Griswold had a dwelling-house at Blackhall point before March 8, 1664. The original well belonging to it is believed to exist still, within the grounds of Mrs. Charles C. Gris- wold, a little to the south of whose residence the first dwelling of the first Matthew Griswold is said to have stood. " This is, undoubtedly, Francis son of Edward, mentioned above. 18 ^iriistDoltr Another private paper, dated July ii, 1674, records the laying out to Matthew Griswold of " fifty acres more or Less of upland . . . bounded west by the Sea and Bridebrook, East by the land bought of Richard Tousland, south by the Sea, north by the Commons," which seems to be a description of the promontory of Giant's Neck,'' the home of Rev. George Griswold, of the third generation, and of a branch of the family descended from him. On the 28"^ of February, 1676, as Lyme records show, Matthew Griswold gave in a statement of certain lots of land then owned by him, as follows : " Matthew Griswold Senior, his lotts in the first division of upland and meadow, ivhar his new dwelling house doth stand, Containing in Generall about one hundred and fourty aight akers and a half . . . and is bounded Northerly by Blackball river, Easterly by the highway as far as his dwelling house, southerly by Sea, westerly by the Great River. . . ." A touch of portraiture of the first Matthew Griswold is given us in a record which has come to light recently. Until within a few years, in Con- necticut as everywhere else in New England, the property of a wife, unless it were settled upon her before marriage, went by law to her husband, sub- ject to his disposal. The following record, therefore, shows that Matthew Griswold had liberal and enlarged views, very much in advance of his age : "April 23"*, 1663, Hannah Griswold, wife of Matthew Griswold, has a portion of meadow- Land in Windsor, Great Meadow, Twelve acres more or less . . . this comes to her as part of her portion that fell to her by the last will of her brother Christopher Wolcott Dec*, out of his Estate that was to be Devided among his Relations ; and this parcell of meadow is allowed by her Husband Matthew Griswold to be Recorded and made over to Hannah his wife to remain to her and her children, and their Dispose, forever." "" '* This promontory seems to have taken its name from an Indian of the Hammonasset tribe, sur- named the Giant, and bearing the gigantic name of Mamaraka-gurgana, as Miss Caulkins says, wlio once had his home upon it — Caulkins's Hist, of New London, ut supra, p. 170. *' Copied by the Town Clerk of Windsor, from records there, in August 1882. 19 ©^rfstoolTT Of the Church, or Ecclesiastical Society, of Lyme, there are no existing records early enough to show whether the first Matthew Griswold was concerned, or took an interest, in the organization of either. But the First Church of Saybrook possessed, within a few years, a silver com- munion-cup which was his gift, as the inscription on it : " S. C. C. dono domini Matthew Griswold," attests ; though the three initials at the head, probably standing for "Saybrook Congregational Church," would seem to prove the inscription to be of a much later date than the fact it com- memorates.'^ The foregoing sketch of the public positions held by Edward and Matthew Griswold, in the Colony of Connecticut, strengthens the conclu- sions to which one is led by other indications as to their social rank in England. If Matthew Griswold, who had come to the New World in his youth, and married a daughter of the first Henry Wolcott, might be sup- posed to have been trained for public service by the necessities of emigra- tion, or aided by his father-in-law to obtain that prominence in the affairs ™ After what we have learned of the prominence of the two brothers Griswold in colonial affairs, and after what we may so probably conclude, from that and froin other circumstances, as to their social position by birth, it would not be necessary to refer to a current story, if that had not gained credence by repetition. It has been said that the first Matthew Griswold followed the trade of a stone-cutter. This story has arisen, first, from a receipt given by him, April i, 1679, now registered at Saybrook, for seven pounds sterling, "in payment for the tombstone of the lady Alice Bottler [Lady Fenwick], late of Sa3'brook ;" and, secondly, from a tradition that the tombstone of his father-in-law, Henry Wolcott of Windsor (who died in 1655), was obtained by his agenc)' — Caulkins's Hist, of New London, ut supra, PP- 173-74; and Memorial of Henry Wolcott, ut supra, pp. 12, note, and 32. As to the receipt, noth- ing is more likely than that he gave it tor money which he had previously paid out as Agent to Gov, Fenwick, who was then in England ; and as to the Wolcott tradition, that is no evidence that the monu- ment of Henry Wolcott was a work of Matthew Griswold's hands. But if he did sculpture the simply designed monuments of Lady Fenwick and Henry Wolcott, it would seem to have been a labor of love. The supposition that stone-cutting was his occupation or trade, is wholly without support, and is at variance with all that we know of his prominence in the public affairs of his time, and inferable educa- tion, or are led to conjecture, from his large acquisitions of land at an earl)' period, of his having given himself, from the first, to agriculture. Evidently he was skilled in laying foundations, and in sculptur- ing monuments, but it was with materials, and in forms, far more enduring than stone, nay, more lasting than the brass of the mechanic artificer, " Monumentum acre perennius." ^tffiitoom of Connecticut which he had from the first, as has been shown ; his elder brother, who was thirty-two years old at the time of his emigration, and already married, with a family of children, could have had no such prepara- tion for public life, but must have become one of the leading men of the colony, as we have seen he was, by right of birth and previous culture. Both brothers were eminently "men of affairs." In the first settlement of New England, as is well known, the colonists took there the rank which had belonged to them in England, the old English distinctions being rigidly maintained, not only by titles of respect, but by all forms of defer- ence to social distinction, including a preference of men who ranked high socially to fill pubhc offices. Our two emigrant brothers Edward and Matthew Griswold were evidently "born to rule." Besides, if it be a principle of heredity that the characteristics, physical, intellectual, moral and social, of a strongly marked ancestor are repeated in his descendants, so that from the offspring may be inferred what was the progenitor, then, apart from all we know of the first generation of the Griswolds of New England, the qualities developed by succeeding generations of the family have been an accumulating proof that its emigrant ancestors were high- minded, intelligent. Christian "gentlemen." We agree with the late Colonel Chester of London that our emigrant Griswolds came from a younger branch of the ancient heraldic family of Greswold ; although our proofs are only circumstantial, owing to the loss or imperfection of records, the early records of Kenilworth, as we have said, having been destroyed, and no Wills containing the names of the brothers having been found thus far, and no general pedigree of the family having yet rewarded our diligent search. The brief pedigrees given in Visitations being really intended, chiefly, to show the lines of eldest sons, the heirs to landed estates, the lines of the younger ones are not filled out. As we have before said, the early home of the heraldic Greswolds was at Kenilworth ; after a marriage which we have already referred to, they became seated at Solihull near by ; later they acquired Langdon Hall 28 in Solihull, and still later the Malvern Hall estate a few miles distant. So far as we have learned there has been no family of the name elsewhere. There would not be likely, therefore, to be two families of the name there of distinct origin. In accordance with these views, believing that the emigrants Edward and Matthew Griswold belonged to the landed gentry of England, we do not hesitate to place the arms of the ancient family of Greswold of War- wickshire at the head of this monograph. " Matthew Griswold died in his house at Lyme [September 27, 1698], was buried at Saybrook ; his gravestone is not to be found." Mrs. Gris- wold survived him, and was living September 1 7, 1 700, when she and her son-in-law Abraham Brownson were both cited to appear before the New London County Court, as administrators of her husband's estate ; but she had, probably, died before May 22, 1701, when Brownson was summoned alone as administrator, by the same Court. Her age in 1699 was seventy- nine years."' Matthew and Anna (Wolcott) Griswold had five children, named in the following order in a family-record : Sarah^ Matthew^ Johii;" Eliza- beth^ Anna? But neither the family-papers nor the existing public records of Windsor, Saybrook or Lyme (all of which have been consulted) give us their birth-days, excepting that of Matthew, who was born in 1653. This date being given, it is immediately evident that the order of names, at one point at least, should be changed ; for, if Elizabeth was the second child born after Matthew, her birth could not have occurred before 1655, whereas she was first married in 1670 — which is quite improbable. Accordingly, we shall assume an order which seems hkely to be nearer the truth, as follows : I. Elizabeth ;'^ born, according to corrected order of names, not later than 1652, and very likely, from the date of her first marriage " See her testimony of Jan. 5, 1699, in Col. Records, Private Controversies, v. doc. 145, MS. CS^rfstuoltr (early marriages being then usual), in that year ; who married : first, October 17, 1670, John Rogers of New London, Connecticut; secondly, August 5, 1679, Peter Pratt; and, thirdly, soon after 1688, Matthew 29 Beckwith. She had two children by her first husband : i. Elizabeth,'^ born 30 November 8, 1671 ; 2. Johi,'^ born March 20, 1674; by her second hus- 31 band she had a son Peter /'^ and, by her third marriage, a daughter, 32 Griswold.^'^ In 1674 John Rogers, her first husband, departed from the established orthodoxy of the New England churches, by embracing the doctrines of the Seventh Day Baptists; and, having adopted, later, "certain pecuHar notions of his own," though still essentially orthodox as respects the fundamental faith of his time, became the founder of a new sect, called after him Rogerenes, Rogerene Quakers, or Rogerene Baptists. Main- taining "obedience to the civil government except in matters of conscience and religion," he denounced, " as unscriptural, all interference of the civil power in the worship of God."*^ It seemed proper to give here these particulars with regard to Rogers's views, because they were made the ground of a petition by his wife for a divorce, in May 1675, which was granted by the General Court in October of the next year,"' and was fol- lowed in 1677 by another, also granted, for the custody of her children, her late husband "being so hettridox in his opinion and practice."*^ The whole affair reminds us of other instances, more conspicuous in history, of the narrowness manifested b}^ fathers of New England towards any deviations from established belief ; and of their distrust of individual con- science as a sufficient rule of religious life, without the interference of civil authority. There is no reason to believe that the heterodoxy "in prac- tice," referred to in the wife's last petition to the Court, was anything else than a non-conformity akin to that for the sake of which the shores of "' Caulkins's Hist, of New London, ut supra, pp. 203-09. '^ Id., pp. 204-05. " The Public Records of the Col. of Conn., 1665-1677, ut supra, p. 292. " Id., p. 326. 23 ^tfstDOltr their " dear old England " had been left behind, forever, by so many of the very men who forgot to tolerate it, themselves, in their new western homes. Of course, like all persecuted, especially religious, parties, the Rogerenes courted, gloried in, and profited by, distresses. John Rogers always claimed that the Court had taken his wife away from him without reason. Both of his children eventually sympathized with their father, and lived with him. 33 2. MATTHEWS (see below). 34 3. John'^\ who died young, s. p.** 35 4. Sara/i^ \ born, according to corrected order of names, not earlier than 1655 ; who married, probably before 1675, Thomas Colton (not George, as commonly said)"' of Springfield, Mass., by whom she had a 36 daughter Sarah,^ born September 25, 1678,'* a "third daughter" Eliza- 37 beth,'^ whose birth-day is unknown, and probably three other children.® 38 5. Aiina;'^ born, according to the family-order of names, not earlier, and probably, from the date of her marriage, not later, than 1656'° who married, September 2, 1674, Lieut. Abraham Brownson (as he himself spelt his name) of Lyme. With this marriage is connected the memory of an unhappy lawsuit, in which Abraham Brownson and his mother-in- law united against her only surviving son, the second Matthew Griswold. This suit has left its traces in various pubhc records, but need not be recapitulated here. We notice it only for the reference made in an ^^ Anna Griswold and John Griswold appear as witnesses to a deed of sale, among Lyme records, dated April 25, 1681. The association of names and the date identify this John as the son of Anna Griswold — showing that, if not born later than 1654, he lived as long as to his twenty-seventh year. *' Savage's Geneal. Diet., ut supra, i. 438. «8 Id., ibid. " Rev. Mr. Buckingham of Saybrook testified, September 7, 1699, "that Mr. Griswold gave Eliza- beth, third daughter of his daughter Sarah Colton deceased, her one fifth of moveable estate. . . ." See Col. Records, Private Controversies, v. doc. 156. MS. ■"■ Her gravestone, in the Meetinghouse Hill Burying-Ground at Lyme, gives the date of her death (April 13, 1721) without telling her age; but that of her husband, alongside of it, shows that he was seventy-two years old in 1719, when he died. This suits well enough with the supposition that she was born in 1656. 24 CfttstooUr affidavit given in the case, and now preserved in the New London Probate Office, to certain evidences of property in England which were withheld from Matthew Griswold, as follows : " Affid. before W"" Ely, Justice of Peace, November 15, 1699, by Henry Meriom — that Brunson told him he had a trunk of writings that were his father-in-law's, which he said that it would vex his brother Mathew Griswold very much. I told him that I heard so . . . and I told him that I believed that there was some weighty concerns in those papers, for money either in this country or in England ; he answered that there were some great concerns in them, and that there were some papers there that said Griswold never knew of, and never should. . . ." This concealment of titles to property was complained of to the General Court by Matthew Griswold, in 1700, "that all those deeds and writings which doe concern all or any of the lands that did belong to his father Mr. Mathew Griswold in his life -time, both in old England and new, are withheld, so that they cannot be entred upon the publick records. . . ."" Had these papers been recorded, they would, in all probability, have thrown some light upon the English ancestry of the Griswolds. Of course "those papers" involving "great concerns" were the missing " deeds and writings," which the second Matthew Griswold sued to recover. Nor can it be doubted that these papers referred to property in England, because there could have been no difficulty in the son's estab- lishing his father's rights to any real estate in this country of which he had had possession. But the case was different in respect to English landed property. With our system of public records of deeds, then and now, the loss of title-deeds would not be a serious bar to the recovery of property. But in England there were no public land-records, so that Matthew Griswold's loss of deeds was fatal to his claims in that country. Without the papers the son could not even locate and describe the landed property of his father in England. Consequently, the property was irre- trievably lost, and with it all the family-history connected with its trans- mission. " The Public Records of the Col. of Conn., 1689-1706, ut supra, p. 338. 25' (Jftfstooltr Abraham and Anna (Griswold) Brownson had six children, from one 39 of whom, a daughter Mary^ (b. 1680), descends the present Chief Justice of the United States, Judge Morrison Remick Waite, as follows : Mary Brownson married, August 26, 1704, Thomas Wait of Lyme (from Sud- 40 bury, Mass.) ; Thomas and Mary (Brownson) Wait had Richard'° (b. 171 1), who married, Jan. 13, 1757, for his second wife, Rebecca eldest daughter of Capt. Joseph Higgins ; Richard and Rebecca (Higgins) Wait 41 had Remick'^ (b. 1758), who married, in 1786, Susanna eldest daughter of Nathaniel Matson of Lyme, and sister of the mother of the late ex-Gov. 42 Buckingham; Remick and Susanna (Matson) Y'JdSx.h.?^^. Henry Matson'' (b. 1787), who married, Jan. 23, 18 16, Maria daughter of Col. Richard E. Selden of Lyme, and granddaughter of Col. Samuel Selden, a distin- guished officer in the army of the Revolution ; Henry Matson and Maria 43 (Selden) Waite (so he spelt the name) had Morrison Remick^ (b. 18 16), a graduate of Yale College in 1837, and now the highest expounder of American law. Henry Matson (42) Waite was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Connecticut from 1854 till the constitutional limit of age obliged him to retire. " It was ... in questions of law that his strength especially lay ; and his legal erudition, patient research, power of discrimination and terseness of argument, were fully appreciated by an able and learned court."" Matthew (33) Griswold,'''' the second of the name, born in 1653, followed in public life the footsteps of his father — the " Mr. Matthew Griswold" named in the colonial records of 1696, as Deputy and " Conn. Reports ... of Cases . . in the Supr. Court. . . By John Hooker. Hartford, 1870, XXXV. 597-99. Obit. Notice by Hon. C. J. M'Curdy ; and The New Engl. Hist, and Geneal. Register. Boston, 1870, xxiv. 101-05. ■" From this point onward, especially, we have more or less drawn from Chancellor Walworth's treasury of genealogical lore, the Hyde Genealogy. This general acknowledgment is due. But family-papers, monumental records and public archives have enabled us sometimes to correct the Chancellor's statements, though such changes are for the most part made without notice. 26 i^tfstnom Commissioner, and in 1697 as Commissioner," being probably the son, and not the father (considering the age of the latter) ; and the son being certainly intended by the designation of " Mr. Matthew Griswold " as Deputy in 1704, 1707, 1708 and 1710.'^ But his sphere seems to have been more private than that of his father. Not improbably in the spirit of English law, keeping landed property in the male line, and having respect to primogeniture, his father, a few days before his death, deeded to him large estates, to which he himself added others by purchase. On the 21" of May 1683, when about thirty years old, he married Phoebe Hyde, granddaughter of the first William Hyde of Norwich, Conn., and daughter of Samuel and Jane (Lee) Hyde.'" Our most interesting memorials of him are copies of writings of his own. Among these is the following incomplete letter to his sweetheart, revealing much of his character, and worthy to be preserved, not only for its sentiments, but also for its form of expression : " Deare Heart, " Tender of my most unfayned and Intyre Love to you, hoping you are in good health, &c. Although my present Abilities of body and mind will nott allow mee to Write Largely unto you, as I sho"* be glad to do, yet, having this opportunity, I was desirous to trouble you with a line or two- — A Little to Remind you of the unexpected . . . unheard of . . . which I have mett with, In the manage- ment . . . the motion of Marriage mad by mee unto yo''selfe, which ... so very strange that I am att a great Loss ... of mind to think what the good pleasure of the Lord . . . case as to a fynale Issue ; though this I must saye. If I thought you had not Reall Love and Affection for mee I should then think it rather my Duty to desist than to prosed ; but as yet I am nott, nor can not bee, con- vinced that It is so, for, as God and thy owne conscience knows very well, when I was fully come to a conclusion in my own minde never to give myself nor you any farder Trouble in this matter, you'selfe were pleased to tell mee that unexpected ■"* The Public Records of the Col. of Conn., 1689-1706, ut supra, pp. 158-59, 201. " Id., p. 482 ; and The Public Records of the Col. of Conn. . . . 1706-1716. . . . By Charles J. Hoadly. . . . Hartford, 1870, pp. 20, 67, 169. " Hyde Genealogy. . . . By Reuben H. Walworth. Albany, 1864 (one volume in two), i. 10. 27 (though welcome) news, that you could not beare the thoughts of a fynale Separa- tion ; and since, when you were last att ou'' side of the River, you told mee the same thing, besides many things which you have in discourse told diverse of youre owne best freynds, which gave them grounds to conclude that you had special Love for my person. If I had thought that these things had been false, I must have Judged of . . . according to the . . . which would have commanded a period to all proceedings of this nature ; but conf I believed thee, and accordingly concluded that hee which had Incindled this Love in Thee would increase It, and in his good Time bring us together in the Relation of man and wife, and hereupon gave my affections their full scope, concluding not only that I mite, but that it was my duty to, Love her intirely for whose Sake I should forsake Father and mother ; and, as I tould you when I last spake with you, I shall nott att this time Release any promise (and you to mee, I should nott suffer for yo'' Sake) which has past between us, though I cannot desire you should proseed to Joyne yourself In marriage with mee on the account of pittie. I desire to look to God who is able to give mee ... to all his gracious promises which wo'* be matter of comfort . . . (for so they are . . .) I would desire you''' not forgett how willing I have been, according to my Cappacity and opportunities ; so then, in kindness and in way of Requital, faure mee with some Lynes. " I shall not enlarge att present, but, desiring that the Good Lord would gra- ciously guide us to that which may tend to his glory and our own everlasting peace, I take leave and Remain thine, and thine only, in the bonds of Intire Affection, M. G." He also wrote verses, of limping gait, indeed, but which, not the less for that, remind one of hymns by poets popular in his time, as if he might have been not unfamiliar with them. Two fragmentary specimens, inspired, as the foregoing letter was, by his love, must suffice : " And grant me this Token of bliss — Some lynes for to peruse with speed, That may to mee A Token be You doe mee choose in very deed." 28 or i6"> Year of his Age, which is supposed the Begin- ning of the Divine Life in his Soul. Thenceforward it was y"* reigning Care, and Business and Pleasure of his Life, to Serve God, and do Good to mankind. He had early a thirst for Learning, which was now increased in him, and was gratified in a Liberal Education, by which he prepared for y"^ Great Work for which he was de- signed of God. He entered the Ministry under various Discouragements, but was engaged to undertake it from an animating Love to God, to immortal Souls, and to y= Sacred Work, which of Choice he preferred to any of y'' Imployments of this World. He was very vigilant and Diligent and Laborious in fulfilling his Ministry among the People of his Charge and to y^ Nehantick Indians, whom he had y'' Care of for many years. The Chief Subjects of his Preaching were y^ great Doctrines of y' glorious Gospel ; his Manner was plain and Solemn, and his evident Aim to win Souls, and to direct and engage to Christian Practice ; and his Labours were Blessed of God to y« Good of Many. He was an excellent Christian of y'^ Primitive Stamp, of great humility and Guileless Integrity in his Walk before God and Man, a lover of God and good men, fervent in his Devotions, given to hospitality, and very exem- plary in all Christian Duties, both relative and Personal, as a husband. Parent, Neighbour, friend, a Shining Example to y« Believers, in Word and Doctrine, in Conversation and Charity, in Spirit, faith and Godliness, Purity, Peaceableness, Righteousness and every Good Work. Extremely temperate in all things, of eminent Patience and Meekness, which shone out in him, with an amiable Lustre, in the Severe and long trials with which it pleased God to exercise him, especially for many latter years of his Ministry ; and in his Last Illness Christ was all his depend- ence, and had much Peace and comfort in believing, to y^ Last. "A well adapted Sermon was preached at his funeral By y« Rev"* Mr. Jewett to a large and afflicted Auditory, from John i. 47, ' Behold ' etc." 50,51 52-54 He died October 14, 1761. By his marriage to Hannah Lynde he had two sons, George^ and Sylvamis^ (afterwards Rev. Sylvanus), and two daughters ; by Elizabeth Lee he had the same number of children, again divided equally between sons and daughters ; his two younger sons were Samuel^ and Andrew.^ His daughter Elizabeth,^ by the first mar- riage, married John Raymond of Montville, Conn., and became the 41" Cftfstuolti 55 56,57 58 59 60 ancestress of the late Theodore ^ Raymond Esq. of Norwich, Conn. This John Raymond's father had married, for his second wife, Sarah Lynde, a sister of the first wife of Rev. George Griswold. The male line of descent from him branched out widely, constituting what has been called the Giant's Neck branch of Griswolds, from the place of his residence upon a large tract of land which had descended from the first Matthew. His son George was the father of the princely brother- merchants of New York Nathaniel Lynde^ and George'^ Griswold (b. 1773 and 1777);^' also, of Thomas^ Griswold, the father of Mrs. Eltza- beih'' Griswold, now of Lyme, widow of Charles Chandler Griswold of the Blackball branch, to which our attention will be presently given — the Blackball branch, as it may be properly called, that property of the first Matthew Griswold having been mostly held by them ever since his day. The brothers Nathaniel Lynde and George Griswold, at an early age, went into the shipping business in New York, and became eminent and successful merchants. They may well be classed among its merchant- princes. During the latter part of their lives they were largely engaged in the India trade. They were physically as well as intellectually strong men", and Mr. George Griswold was of an elegant person and commanding presence. They were far-seeing, public-spirited, patriotic and particularly interested in every enterprise tending to the prosperity of New York. The younger brother George was an intimate friend of Daniel Webster, and his trusted adviser in matters of commercial importance. They both left children who themselves became leaders in business and society, in the city of New York and elsewhere. One of the children of Mr. Nathaniel Lynde Griswold, the elder of the eminent merchants of New York just named, was Johit Lynde'' Gris- *' The Old Merchants of New York City. By Walter Barrett. . . . New York, 1872, i. 31- 32 ; ii. 158-68. The initials of this firm of brothers, N. L. & G. G., suggested to some humorist the reading " No Loss and Great Gain." 42 ^ri^tuQlir wold, who, after a serene and beneficent life, died at Peoria, 111., January 15, 1883. Of him it was beautifully and truly said by his Pastor : " But the life of JOHN L. GRISWOLD was rounded and full, and a grand success. Its years were many ; running on and on and on, into the wisdom and poise, the serenity and beauty, of old age, but stopping short of its infirmity and decay, its weariness and sadness. . . . As a structure, it was builded and fin- ished, like some solid symmetrical edifice, upon which the capstone has been set, and that Jias received its final stroke and polish and garnishing. " Inherited capability and culture, character and competence, not neglected or squandered, but improved and increased ; business sagacity and enterprise, and thrift ; loyalty and patriotism to the nation in its peril ; attachment to and pride in the city where he dwelt ; social attraction and accomplishment ; fondness for home ; devotion to kindred and friends ; tenderness and sympathy, and generosity towards the needy and suffering ; liberality to the church and every deserving charity ; rever- ence and love for God ; and a desire to glorify Him in all things ; firm faith in Christ, and humbly following in His footsteps — these, in brief, were the equipment and traits and aims of him who, the other morning, went from us to the unfading dawn. " His home was to him an all-satisfying realm, and the wife who shared it with him a more than Queen. Of his love for her — as romantic and gallant, as admiring and enthusiastic, as tender and full, at the end of these forty-two years as in the first flush and thrill of youth, ever growing and eternal — we may not speak." ^' 61 A sister of John Lynde Griswold, Catharine Aim'' (d. 1857), was 62 the wife of Peter Lorillard of New York ; a half-sister, Mary,'' is the widow of Alfred H. Pierrepont Edwards of New York, a son of the late Henry W. Edwards, Governor of Connecticut. - One of the sons of George Griswold, the younger of the two New 63 York merchants, was Richard SUP (d. 1847), whose second wife and widow, Frances Augusta (Mather), now Hves in Lyme. He left three 64 children : i. Louisa Mather,^ now the wife of General Joseph Griswold 82 In Memoriam. Words of Tribute spoken by the Rev. J. H. Morrow, at the funeral of John L. Griswold . . . n. p., n. d. 43' ^^tisilDOltr 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 Perkins of Lyme, whose mother was a Griswold of the Blackhall branch (see below) ; 2. Richard Sill,^ now of Lyme, who married Rosa Eliza- beth Brown of Waterbury, Conn.; and 3. Fanny Augusta,^ now the wife of Professor Nathaniel Matson Terry, of the United States Naval School at AnnapoUs, Md. A daughter of the New York merchant George Griswold, Matilda'^ (half-sister of Richard Sill, Sen"'), is the widow of the late Frederick Frelinghuysen, Secretary of State through the administration of President Arthur ; and a sister of hers by the whole blood, Sarah Helen,'' is the widow of John C. Green of New York, an India merchant of large wealth and great liberality in the use of it, the great patron, in his later years, of the College of New Jersey. Mrs. Elizabeth (59) Griswold, the widow of Charles Chandler Griswold, has two children : i. Elizabeth Diodate^ now the widow of Judge William Griswold Lane, her second and fourth cousin, a descendant of the first Matthew by the Blackhall branch, of Sandusky, Ohio ; and 2. Sarah Johnson,^ now the wife of Lorillard Spencer, and mother of four children, three sons and a daughter : the latter, Eleanora Lorillard,^ is the wife of Prince Virginio Cenci, of Vicovaro, Chamberlain of the present King of Italy, and a Lady of Honor to her Majesty the Italian Queen. The original Griswolds were very tall, large-boned, muscular and powerful. Their physical traits have in a very marked manner descended with the family, even to the latest generation, after two hundred and fifty years. Mr. Matthew Griswold late of Blackhall, and owner of the Gov. Roger Griswold estate, who now lives in Erie, Pa., transmits the tall stature of his father Matthew, and of Gov. Roger and himself, to his own sons. Marvin, the second son, now eighteen years old, stands six feet two and a half inches ; and his brother Matthew (the eighth generation of the name), two years older, reaches nearly to his stature. Wolcott Griswold Lane and Charles C. Griswold Lane, sons of Judge William Griswold and Elizabeth Diodate (Griswold) Lane, do not drop far below them. All 44 <2S^trfsiU)oltr these young men are now (1887) in Yale University. By the marriage of Rev. George Griswold to Hannah Lynde, some of the beauty of the soft and regular features, fine complexions and dark eyes hereditary with the Digby-Lyndes, came into that branch of the family. The Wolcotts were also a tall race, but with fuller forms, black eyes, rich brunette com- plexions, and much beauty of the type which is still marked in the Wolcott family of to-day. This Wolcott beauty has characterized many of the Blackball branch of Griswolds, who are twice Wolcotts by descent. The ancestral property of Giant's Neck fell, in the course of time, into the hands of those great merchants of New York who have been named, grandsons of Rev. George Griswold ; and a stone church which they built on the spot consecrated by the pious labors of their grandfather was lately standing. But, ceasing to care for the old property, they sold it, and a beautiful site near the ancestral dwelling-house is now given up to a large factory of fish-fertilizers. Yet, on all the varied and beautiful shore between the mouth of the Connecticut and New London, there is no spot so picturesque and beautiful as Giant's Neck. The end of the Neck, stretching out into the Sound, is a flat formation of rock, making a natural wharf surrounded by deep water. As one looks out upon the pretty islands that cluster about the rock-bound shore, and into the wide ocean beyond, summer-villas rise to the imagination, with grounds of varied beauty for which nature has well prepared the way, and a group of pleas- ure-boats and yachts, some riding at anchor in the offing, others moored at the natural wharf ; while the rails, a short distance away, connect this charming retreat of one's fancy with the great city. What might not have been made of the site, had it been improved by the wealth of its inheritors ! Having now completed what we propose to say of the Giant's Neck branch of Griswolds — referring only to Chancellor Walworth's " Hyde 45 ^trifiitDOltr Genealogy " for farther particulars — we return to enumerate other children of Matthew and Phoebe (Hyde) Griswold, younger than their son Rev. George Griswold : 72 7. Mary,'^ born April 22, 1694; who married, September 4, 1719, Edmund Dorr; and died February 21, 1776. One of their sons was Rev. li Edward^ (b. 1722, graduated at Yale College in 1742), a Pastor of the 74 First Church of Hartford, Conn., from 1748. Their daughter Eve^ (b. 1733) married, in 1762, George Griffin of East Haddam, Conn., and 75 was the mother of the distinguished clergyman Rev. Dr. Edward Dorr ^ 76 Griffin, and of the great lawyer George ^ Griffin of New York ; also of TJ Phoebe ^ Griffin, who married Joseph Lord of Lyme, the mother of Mrs. 78 Phoebe '^ (Lord) Noyes, wife of the late Col. and Deacon Daniel R. 79 Noyes of Lyme, as well as of the late Miss Harriet"^ Lord of Lyme, 80 yihs Eranees Jane'^ Lord now of Lyme, the late Mrs. Alexander Lynde {Josephine'^ Lord) M= Curdy, and other children. Messrs. Daniel R.^ 83, 84 and Charles P.^ Noyes of St. Paul, Minn., Mrs. E. B. {Caroline Lydia^') 85 Kirby of St. Louis, Mo., the late Mrs. George {Julia Lord^) Loveland of Wilkesbarre, Pa., and Mrs. Charles H. {Josephine Lord^) Ludington of New York City — all children of Daniel R. and Phoebe (Lord) Noyes — are great great grandchildren of Mary Griswold (see JLUXXi)* 87 8. Deborah,'^ born in 1696; who rnarried, October 19, 1721, Colonel Robert Denison of New London, Conn, (his second wife) ; and died between 1730 and 1733, leaving several children. Her husband "was a captain in General Roger Wolcott's brigade at the taking of Louisburgh, and was afterwards promoted to the rank of Major and of Colonel. He removed to Nova Scotia," ^ and was known as " Col. Robert Denison of Horton, N. S.," as early as 1761. Family-papers of these Denisons show that they were royalists. Col. Robert Denison, in his Will, proved at Horton in 1765, bequeathed his "Cape Breton gun and silver-hilted sword," and " the gun brought from Lake George." '* Hyde Genealogy, ut supra, i. 55. 46 CS^tfj^Uioltr 88 "Two sons of Capt. Andrew^"^ Denison, Col. Robert's eldest son, whose Mother was a Griswold, accorhpanied their Father and Grandfather to Nova Scotia; but, not liking the appearance of a wild and unsettled country, or the severity of Nova Scotia winters, would not be induced to remain, and returned after a short stay to their native land." " 89 9. Sanmel,^ born in December 1697 ; who "died June 10, 1727, aged 29 years 6 months," unmarried. 9° 10. Patience,'^ born in 1698 ; who married, between November 2, 1724 and March 28, 1728,^ John Denison, brother of her sister Deborah's hus- band; and died November 8, 1776, having had sons and daughters. 91 II. Thomas,'^ born in February, 1700; who "died July 27, 1716, aged 16 years and 5 months."* JOHN (48), fifth child and second son of Matthew and Phoebe (Hyde) Griswold, through whom descends the Blackball branch of the Griswold family, was born December 22, 1690; married, June 23, 1713, Hannah Lee, his step-sister (by his father's second marriage, to Mrs. Mary Lee — see above, and JJLitt)^ who died May 11, 1773; and died Septem- ber 22, 1764. His gravestone in the Duck River Burying-Ground at Lyme reads as follows : " Sacred to the Memory of John Griswold, who, after having sustained the Public offices of Justice of the peace and of the quorum for many years, departed this life September 22°", 1764, in the 74"' year of his age ;" and in a note to a funeral sermon, preached on his daughter Phoebe's death, it is said that he "was not only a Gentleman of great wealth ; but also was much beloved and esteemed by his townsmen and acquaintance for his superior wisdom and integrity." He is known in the family as *• Private letter of Mrs. Eunice Borden of Grand Pr6, N. S. " Proved by two signatures of hers, as maid and wife respectively, of tliese two dates. *' The birth-months of Thomas and Samuel are determined by inscriptions on their gravestones in the Duck River Burying-Ground at Lyme. A draft of a Will of Thomas, made when he was " very sick and weak in body," is dated 1716. 47 ^tifiitoolU Judge John. As the eldest surviving son of his father, he had, by the law as it then stood, a double portion of the paternal estate ; to which he added by repeated purchases. A few illustrations of the state of New England society in his time, taken from family-papers, may be instructive. Two deeds of negro men, "sold and delivered" to him during his life, have been preserved ; and his Inventory includes a negro girl PhilHs. In all probability these are only a representation of his household-slaves. As Justice of the Peace, presentments were made to him, at different times, for profanation of the Sabbath, " in y*^ Time of Divine Worship . . . in y'^ meeting-House . . . by unbe- coming Carriage (viz.), by continuing to Laugti and provolce others y' sat with him to do so also, by whispering, and by speaking out so Loud as to be heard by several persons, and by pricking y" boys with pins y' sat with him in y'^ seat;" by "going, between meetings, into y' orchard . . . near y'' Meeting-House and beating Down y^ apples off y** Trees ;" and that ". . . Did unnecessarily on Said Day Travil from Said house to one Sertain Called Mason's Pond in Colchester . . . and then and there unnecessarily, In a Canoe, proceed upon said pond, and did and exercised Labour by fishing in said Pond ;" that ". . . Did play Cards in a pri- vate house. Contrary to y** Laws of this Government ;" and " a couple of young fellows" were accused before him "with Lying." What singular manifestations are these, in a land of dearly bought freedom, of an over-weening zeal to enforce religious formalities, to restrain personal liberty arbitrarily, and to treat immoralities themselves, irrespective of the injuries to society which they occasion, as punishable by human law ! We find, also, among the family-papers, a memorandum, dated August 12, 1746, of payment being due from the Colony of Connecticut to John Griswold "for boarding four souldiers that were Inlisted in y" Expedition to Canada" — a memorial of the ■ Cape Breton Expedition in the Old French War ; in which his brother-in-law Denison was an officer of dis- tinction, as we have seen, and Roger Wolcott held an important command, whose daughter had been for nearly three years the wife of his son Matthew. 48 CS^vfstDOltr The home of John Griswold was a house which he built where now stands the house of the late Judge Matthew Griswold (his grandson, 1760- 1842) in the Blackhall Avenue. Judge Matthew is said to have made his house exactly like that of his grandfather, the site of which it occupied, to please his father the Governor. The children of Judge John and Hannah (Lee) Griswold were : 92 1. MATTHEW B (see below). 93 2. Phoebe°^ born April 22, 1716; who married, December 14, 1731, Rev. Jonathan Parsons of Lyme; and died December 26, 1770. Her husband was graduated at Yale College in 1729, and settled as Pastor of the First Church of Lyme in 1731, after having studied for the ministry with Rev. EHsha Williams, Rector of Yale College, and with Rev. Jona- than Edwards of Northampton, Mass. In the days of ""New Light" theology, and of the ministerial methods growing out of it, he being warmly in favor of them, and of Whitefiield, the eloquent preacher of the new views, he encountered opposition, and finally took a dismission, and removed to Newburyport, Mass., where he died ; and where, in his house, as is well known, Whitefield had previously died. Whitefield twice visited him at Lyme, and " preached from a rock on his grounds, near the present meeting-house, since known as the 'Whitefield Rock.'" Of Mrs. Parsons it is said, in a funeral-sermon preached on her death : "The God of Nature was pleased to furnish her with mental endowments to an uncommon degree. In the solidity of her judgment and penetration of mind she shone superior to most of her sex ; in canvassing many difficult points she could dis- tinguish with surprising clearness. " For readiness, liveliness and keenness of wit she appeared to me unrivall'd. The agreeable sallies of that social endowment have often excited my esteem and admiration. Such a degree of penetration and agreable sprightliness seldom meet in the same person. Her ingenious friends, whom she favored with her letters, can >" Reference is to be had to the Hyde Genealogy for farther particulars respecting the younger children of John Griswold, which we here omit— our object being, chiefly, to follow the line ot descent through his eldest child Matthew. 49 6;^tfstt)om 94 testify with what correctness and spirit, with what instructive solidity and elegant vivacity, she could write. " Such was her courage and firmness of resolution as you can seldom find in the delicate sex. . . . " Her indefatigable industry in the affairs of her family was truly remarkable. " Her knowledge of Geography and History, especially her critical acquaintance with Church History, was truly rare. " Knowledge in Divinity enters deep into her character. Comparatively but few of her sex, I believe, have had their minds more enriched with that treasure. . . . " She was a person of much christian simplicity and integrity ; of an upright, sincere and conscientious turn of mind ; a bitter enemy to all unchristian craftiness and sly deceit. . . . " Though she was honorably descended, and lived in an honorable station, yet she could, without the least self-denial, condescend to the meanest of the human race. . . . " She was possest of great sensibility of heart, was much acquainted with the tender and delicate emotions of humanity and sympathy. . . ."" A son of Rev. Jonathan and Phoebe (Griswold) Parsons was Colonel, afterwards General, Samuel Holden^ Parsons (b. 1737); who studied law with his uncle Gov. Matthew Griswold, was made King's Attorney in 1774, and removed to New London. At the commencement of the Revolution he entered actively into military service, was at the battle of Bunker Hill, was made a Brigadier General in 1776, distin- guished himself in the battle of Long Island, and was appointed Major General. After the war he removed to Middletown, Conn., resumed the practice of his profession, and was an active member of the Convention which ratified the Constitution of the United States in Connecticut, of which his uncle Gov. Griswold was the President. Under an appointment as Commissioner of Connecticut, he obtained from the Indians a cession of their title to the "Western Reserve" of Ohio, and was afterwards made the first Judge of the Northwestern Territory by Washington, his confidential friend.® '* A Funeral Sermon . . . occasioned by the death of Mrs. Phebe Parsons . Searl. . . . Boston, 1771, pp. 37-40. " From an article by Hon. C. J. M'^Curdy, in the New Haven Register for Dec. 20, 18 By John 50 ©t(Bto The writer was at this time a Member of Congress. 63 ©tfstooltr sternation through which he marched, and met with no resistance until he arriv'd at Dan river on the borders of Virginia. " Gen'l Greene, with his little army, consisting of but two thousand, was obliged to retreat over the river ; which was done without any loss of Troops or baggage. " B)r a letter come to hand from Gov"' Jefferson, copy of which is enclos'd, it appears that the malitia of the Country are rallied to that degree that Cornwallis is retreating, in his turn, towards Hillsborough, North Carolina, and Gen'l Greene in pursuit of him. "The army under Cornwallis are such a distance from the protection of their shipping, nothing seems wanting but the spirited exertions of the Country in aid of Gen'l Greene to make them all prisoners ; but we must wait tho' with anxiety to know the Event. " I have the Honour to be, with the highest respect. Your Humble Serv' Sam : Huntington." 'The Hon"'" Judges of the Sup' Court in Connecticutt." The next two letters which we give are from Roger Sherman : "Sir, "Philadelphia, Aug. i4'\ 1781.' "A ship arrived here last Sabbath day from Cadiz, and brought Letters from our Minister and his Secretary at the Court of Spain : they mention that about 8000 Troops are ready to Embark on a Secret expedition, and coniirm the accounts we have had from the London Papers of the resignation of Mr. Neckar, Financier of France, Occasioned by some Discontent. — The President received a Letter last Satur- day from Gen'l Green, dated July 17"", giving account of the operations of his Army for about a month — he mentions the evacuation of Ninety Six by the Enemy, that they retired to Orangeburgh, about 80 miles from Charlestown ; that they also occu- pied a Post at Monk's Corner, about 26 miles from Charlestown ; that they have no Post in Georgia except Savannah ; that Georgia has resumed civil Government ; That a party of our men took three waggons and stores from the Enemy on a march from Charlestown toward Orangeburgh — that Col. Lee had taken a party of horse consisting of one Captain, one Lt and one Cornet, and 45 privates, with their horses and Accoutrements. It is expected that civil Government will soon be re-established in South Carolina. Mr. Jay wrote that he expected a Safe conveyance in about a fortnight from the time he wrote (May 29'), when he should send a long letter — I 64 CStffiitoolir enclose a Copy of resolutions respecting the State of Vermont, which will prepare the way for a settlement of that controversy ; they passed very unanimously. "The enclosed papers contain the news of the day. . . . Should be glad to be informed whether any provision of money is made for support of Government ; I have about ^loo due for service in the Sup"^ Court which I should be glad to receive. I wrote some time ago to the Gov'' and Council of Safety for some money to be sent to bear my expences here : if I don't have so??ie soon, I shall be totally destitute ; it is very expensive living here, and no money can be obtained but from the State. There are many refugees here from South Carolina and Georgia, lately redeemed from Captivity : Congress have recommended a loan and a Contribution for their relief. " I am, Sir, with great Regard, Your Honor's obedient and humble servant Roger Sherman." "The honorable Matthew Griswold Esq"^." "New Haven, July 12*'', 1784." " Sir, " I received your Excellency's Letter of the 6*'' Instant, with the papers inclosed. The public service requires that the men should be furnished as soon as possible to take possession of the western Posts, which are expected soon to be evacu- ated by the British Garrisons, as also to Aid the Commissioners in treating with the Indians. The Secretary in the war office ought to have Informed Your Excellency what number and kinds of officers besides the Major are to be furnished by this State ; as the States are not to be at any expence in raising the men, I should think it would be most for the Interest of this State that your Excellency, with such advice as you may think proper to take, should appoint the officers, and order the men to be inlisted. I should think it would be well for your Excellency to take the opinion of the Hon. Oliver Wolcot who is one of the Commissioners to treat with the Indians : there seems to be a defect in the Laws as to the powers of the Supreme Executive authority in the State, or they are not sufficiently explicit in all cases. " I have no doubt but that the Assembly would have desired your Excellency to have executed this requi'sion if they had known it would have been made. " Your Excellency will be best able to Judge what will be expedient. " I am, with Great respect, Your Excellency's humble Servant Roger Sherman." " His Excellency Governor Griswold." •65 ®^tfstDoltr We give one more of Governor Grisvvold's own letters " Sir, "Lyme, August i, 1784." " I understand that our Delegate is Detain d from Congress only for want of money; how far the want of Representation in that Important Body may affect the Interest and Safety of this State I know not— it is Certainly a very Dangerous Threatening Situation for this State to be in— I Inform'd you before that the Assem- bly had order'd Drafts to be made on the Sheriffs for that purpose, that those Drafts were made accordingly, and Directed you to lay by the first money for that use you cou'd Collect. I now Repeat the same Requi'sition in the Most Pressing manner, and Desire you will push the Collection with all Possible Dispatch, till you receive your part of the ^200 ; and what money, more or less, you can obtain send forthwith to Stephen M. Mitchel Esq"' at Weathersfield, who has the order, and is appointed one of the Delagates— It's but a small sum that is Required of Each of the Sheriffs— The Delay may be more Injurious than ten times the value of the Money. " From S'r your most obedient humble Servt Matth^ Griswold." " Elijah Abel Esq." The last letter to be given here, from Oliver Wolcott, Governor Gris- wold's brother-in-law, though partly private, closes this series appropriately, by its reference to the retirement of the governor from public life : "Litchfield, Nov' 22^ 1788.' " Sir, "Your Excellency's Favour inclosing Mr. Worthington's Sermon on the Death of my Sister has been rec''. The Object of this Sermon (without Partiality) most certainly deserved all the Eulogium which the Preacher has bestowed upon her personal Virtues. — By her Death I am sensible you have lost a most Valuable Com- panion, and her other Relations and Acciuaintance a Person who was most dear to them. — " But such is the Will of God, and it becomes us to Acquiesce in the Divine Dispensation. May we be prepared to meet her in that State of Happiness which will admit of no Separation ! All our Injoyments are fleeting and insecure ; that which you mentioned relative to your discontinuance in publick Office evinces the Truth of the Obseiwation. — But this event, tho' disagreable, was not effected by false 66 ^ffstuoltr and insiduous Insinuations to the Injury of your moral Character (which others have most unjustly supposed), but from an Apprehension that your want of Health would render the office very burdensome to yourself, and less beneficial to the State, than your former Administration had been, however ill-founded this Opinion might be. Yet the Consciousness of your own Integrity, and the Universal Opinion of the State in this respect, must render the event far less disagreable than it would otherwise have been. — That you may finally be Approved of by that Being who cannot err is the Devout wish of, Sir, " Your most obed' humble Serv' Oliver Wolcott." " Mrs. Wolcott presents to you her sincere Respects." Other letters have been preserved, from William Samuel Johnson, Col. William Ledyard, Roger Sherman, Stephen Mix Mitchell, Charles Thomson (Secretary of Congress), Oliver Wolcott, Samuel Huntington, Governor Treadwell, Jonathan Sturgis, James Wadsworth and Erastus Wolcott. On his retirement from pubHc life in 1788 Gov. Griswold devoted much time to farming-operations, which indeed seem to have always inter- ested him. Professor Dexter of Yale University has kindly called our attention to the following curious entries in the manuscript " Itinerary " of a journey from New London to New Haven, in October 1790, by Pres. Stiles : "Gov' Griswold now aet. 76, born at Lyme 1710,'" fitted- for College, settled a Farmer : studied law proprio Marte, bo't him the first considera' Law Library in Connec', took Att° oath and began practice 1743 — a great Reader of Law. " Has a fine Library of well chosen Books, 140 Fol. and 400 other Volumes, or about 550 Volumes, now left in his Study, besides a part of his Libr'' given to his Son in Norwich — about 200 Law Books, the rest Hist'' and Divinity. " On leaving the chair of Gov" he went to Farming. He has a Farm of 400 acres, stock 100 Head of Cattle, cuts 100 Loads Hay, Eng. besides Salt, 22 acres Ind° corn, and 80 Bush" Wheat, and 400 Bush" oats Raised this year. Hires 6 or 7 men ; 38 and 40 cows. Dairy 3m "^ cheese, 400"' Butter Fall Sales. In perfect Health of '"' A slip of the pen for 1714— the true date— as he gives his age as 76. 67 ^i^tfsibiolir Body and Mind. Lame yet vigorous. Cart^ 400 Loads Dung, sea weed &c., last year. At close of Gov' had 40 Head Cattle, and cut 40 or 50 Loads Hay only. Has 50 acres Salt Marsh ; 18 or 20 stacks Hay now round his Barn, 3 or 4 Tons each." On a subsequent leaf is the following Memorandum : "Gov'' Griswold's Farm Stock, 1790. 23 Hogs, 8 yoke Oxen, 17 Fat Cattle, 25 Cows, 3000'" cheese, 400'" Butter, 8000'" Beef sale or 17 Fat Cattle, 400 Bush' Oats, 500 do. Ind. corn, 100 Loads Eng. Hay, 80 do. salt do., 500"^ Flax, 45 Bush' Wheat, 120 do. Rye, 105 sheep." The Griswold family-archives also contain a paper entitled " Remarks on Liberty and the African Trade," by Governor Griswold, dated July i'' 1795, and apparently intended for publication. Domestic slaves appear to have been owned in the Griswold family from the earliest times, as was the case in most New England families of the higher class. But the oppor- tunity is a rare one to know by his own words, in a somewhat lengthy argument, how the subject was viewed by one of the Revolutionary patriots of New England. There are several drafts of this paper, differing slightly ; we use that which seems the most finished. The whole course of thought will be made clear by the following abstract and quotations : Man was created in absolute dependence upon the Almighty, and, for his good, was originally placed under laws, obedience to which " fixes the subject in the highest Liberty." But he willfully disobeyed, whereupon, instead of exacting the full penalty, God allowed "fallen man to Incor- porate into 'a state of Civil Government ... as the Circumstances of Each Common Wealth sho'd Require . . ." the power of the State being limited to temporal rights and properties, exclusive of " matters of Conscience and a Superintending Power. ..." " So that upon the ground of Creation, Preservation and Redemption every man is Born under the most Inviolable Subjection of obedience to the Divine Law, and also under Subjection to the Civil Laws of the Common Wealth where he happens to be, that are not Contrary to the Divine Law. . . . Nothing is more injurious to Civil Society than using a Licentious Liberty. . . ." 68 ^vin^oltf Natural right to absolute liberty is a fallacy."" " In regard to the African Trade, to set the matter in its true light, it is necessary to Consider the state of those People in their Native Country, constantly at war with one another, and liable to be put to the sword by the victor. . . ." " The question arises whether Transporting those Captives from their Native Country can be warrantable. Any suppos'd wrong must arise from one of two things : either from a Tortious Entry into the Territories of a foreign State, tramp- ling upon their Laws, Disturbing the Peace ; or from Personal Wrong done to the Individuals Remov'd. In Regard to the first, as the Captives, by the Laws of that Country, are made an Article of Commerce, to Enter for Trade cannot be Tortious; Respecting the Latter, it's nessasary to Compare the state of those Persons before and after their Removal ;" being in their native country in heathenish darkness, and under despotism, whereas in Connecticut they become "plac'd under the Government of a master who is bound to Provide nessasaries sufficient for their Comfort in Life, are Protected by Law from Cruelty and oppres- sion, if abused have their Remedy . . . against their own master. . . . " T/ie notion of some that Slavery is worse than Death is a most Capital Error. For, as a State of Trial and Probation for Happiness thro' an Endless Eternity is the greatest favor that was ever Granted to a fallen Creature, as Death puts a final End to that State of Trial, so Life must be of more Importance than any other Enjoyment can be in this world. . . . " Those held in service may be Divided into five Classes : The aggressor in War seems to take the first Rank : he, by taking a part in a Bloody War, forfeits both Life and Liberty together, may be slain ; as Liberty is only a part of the Forfeiture, the Captor, by taking a part for the whole, does the Captive no Injusti^ce : the Instance of the Gibeonites is a voucher for " holding such to service. ..." The next Class to be Considered is the Innocent Captives who have taken no active part in the war ... to purchase those Captives, and bring them away, is to Save their lives, is a meritorious act, Entitules the Purchaser, by the Laws of Salvage, to the Purchase- Money by the Labor of the Captive. . . . The next Class . . . those sold for Adultery or other Attrocious Crimes. . . . there can be no Doubt but they ought to be Punished," and by the Laws of Moses were punished even by death. ". . . The next class is those Kidnapped by Gangs of Private Robbers. . . . Many of those Poor Children are bro't many hundred miles, and if they were Releas'd on the ""^ The italicizing is ours. 69 Sea Coast there is no Chance they woii'd ever arrive at the places of their Nativity . . . if the Purchase was Refus'd, those Abandoned Villains who Committed the fact wou'd probably put all to the Sword — what then sho'ld hinder the Laws of Sal- vage from taking place in such case of Life and Death, but that the Purchaser ought to Step in, and Redeem the Poor Prisoners, take the part of a kind Guardian to them, hold them in Reasonable service till they have paid the Purchase-money, then Release them if they behave well ? . . . As to those Born here, tho' some hold that the Son must be Considered in the likeness of the Father, that, if the Father be in Bondage, the Son must be so too . . . that seems carrying the point too far ; but it seems those Children cannot be considered entituled to the Priviledges of free Denizens, for, as the Father was an Alien, and that Disability not Remov'd, the Son must be so too. . . . Political Priviledges are Hereditary. . . . Therefore, upon the Ground of Debt, the Son may be Rightfully held till he has paid that Debt for his Support, Education, Schooling, etc. . . . "By a Sovereign Act to set them all free at one blow, and Dissolve the Legal Right of the Masters to their Service, luhich the Masters Purchased with their own money, under the Sanction of the Law, wou'd be Rather using the Law as a Snare to Deceive the People. . . . "The master ought to learn his servant to Read and understand the Bible. . . . Supply him with the nessasaries of Life in a Reasonable Manner, in Sickness and health, speak kindly to him. Encourage him in his Business, give him the Praise when he does well, Chear his Spirits, but not with fondness or Familiarity ; let him know his Proper Distance, at the same time give him Moral Evidence of Sensere Friendship, frown upon vice. . . . Govern him with a steady hand, not with Undue Severity. ... If those measures were Properly Pursued, it wou'd be lay- ing the ax at the Root of the Tree, and I sho'd hope for better times. . . . " I am sensible that the Idea of being Commanded at the will of another is Dis- agreeable to the feelings of the Humane mind under its Present Depravity ; but that Lmpression is merely Imaginary. . . . Those Servants in Connecticut under the care and Guardianship of kind masters, and contented where they are well Provided for, without any care or anxiety of their own, are some of the Happiest People in the State . . . but such is the Misery of the fallen Race that many of them cannot bear Prosperity : Preferment, Wealth, Respect and kindness Inflame their Pride and Haughtiness. ... I wish that every Person was Possess'd of the Virtue, Industry and Prudence that Quallifies a Person for Freedom, and Proper Measures were taken to make all free; But to set such free as ought to be Restrain'd wou'd tend to sap the foundations of Civil Government. ... I wou'd Query whether the same Prin- ciples which Induced the . . . Society [for emancipation] to undertake to Relieve 70 ^i^trfstnom against the Tyranny and oppression of Cruel Masters does not Equally oblidge to Endeavour, if Possible, to Relieve these Poor People against the Soul-Ruining advise of some bad People, and also against the Excess of their own Misconduct. . . . " I hope for wise Reasons the future Importation of Slaves into this State will be Effectually Prevented — it seems the foundation for it is laid already. No Common Wealth can hardly be more hurt than by bringing bad People into it, or making them so that are in it already. Some men of Sensibility seem to hold that holding those People in Service is one of the Crying Sins of the Land, while others Congrat- ulate them upon their Deliverance from Heathenish Darkness ; many appear Ignorant of the True Principles upon which natural Liberty is founded, which can consist in Nothing Else than in a Spirit of Obedience to the Divine Law. . . . July ist, 1795." To the foregoing a few sentences should be added with respect to Governor Griswold's personal character. We quote from a funeral-sermon preached on his death, by Rev. Lathrop Rockwell of Lyme : " In this, and in all the offices which he sustained, he distinguished himself as a faith- ful servant of the public ; and the whole tenor of his conduct was happily designated with fidelity, integrity, uprightness and a high regard for the good of his constituents. " But, if we descend to the more private walks of life, and view his character as a private citizen, we shall find the social sweetly blended with the Christian virtues. He possessed a benevolent disposition, which rendered his deportment truly engaging in all the domestic relations. Having a frank and open heart, he was sincere in all his professions of friendship. . . . He was truly hospitable, and abounded in acts of charity.'"" Governor Matthew Griswold survived his wife a few days more than eleven years. In the Family Bible of Deacon John Griswold, their son, it is recorded that she died in the night "in a very sudden and sur- prising manner;"''" and Rev. John Devotion, minister at Saybrook, in preaching her funeral-sermon, chose for his text : " And at midnight there was a cry made. Behold the bridegroom cometh, go ye out to meet him " — Matth. XXV. 6. '"' A Sermon delivered at the funeral of his Excellency Matthew Griswold Esq. ... By Lathrop Rockwell. . . . New London, 1802, pp. [4-15. "* Her mother Sarah (Drake) Wolcott had died in a similar manner (see JSitftinsfflSFoIcott). 71 CS^tffiitDoltr Near the end of this sermon the preacher addressed Governor Griswold : " That your Excellency has been blessed with a consort well versed in frugality, industry and ojconomy ; one who feared God, reverenced his sanctuary, loved his ordinances, bare testimony against vice, was a friend to order, virtue and religion, and exemplary in the duties of the christian life,— Has your Excellency enjoyed such a blessing so long, and shall not your soul glow with gratitude to the great disposer of all events ? ". . . She adorned her profession, and evidenced the truth and sincerity of it, by a love of truth, righteousness and divine things ; by alms (directed not by a weak fanciful fondness, but) to such as she judged God's poor ; whereby it becomes evi- dent that she viewed herself accountable to her great Lord, even as to her choice of the objects of her charity. Skilful as a nurse in sickness, she ministered to the poor in sickness, and under distress." "' Governor Matthew Griswold and his wife both He buried in the Duck River Burying-Ground at Lyme. The following are their epitaphs : " This monument is erected to the memory of Matthew Griswold Esq., late Gov- ernor of the State of Connecticut, who died on the 28*'' day of April in the year 1799 — aged 85 years and 28 days. " Sic transit gloria mundi." "Sacred to the memory of Mrs. Ursula Griswold, the amiable consort of Matthew Griswold Esq., late Governor of the State of Connecticut. She departed this life on the s"" day of April 1788, in the 64'" year of her age." The marriage of Governor Matthew Griswold and Ursula Wolcott re-united two of the leading families of Connecticut by a new tie of blood. We have already alluded to the two marriages between these families. '"* A Sermon preached April S"", 1788, at the Interment of Madam Ursula Griswold. John Devotion. . . . New Haven, 1788, pp. 24-26. By 72 CS^tfstoQiir But by the descent of Sarah Drake, wife of Governor Roger Wolcott, from a daughter of the first Henry Wolcott of New England, the Gris- wolds and Wolcotts now became akin to each other by a triple tie. Nor was this all. The two families were also bound together by a singular identity of official position : for Ursula (Wolcott) Griswold was both daughter, sister, wife, aunt, and, as we shall presently see, mother, of a governor of the State of Connecticut. This coincidence led one of the authors of this work to discover the still more remarkable fact that around the name of this lady could be grouped, as all belonging in a sense to her family-circle, sixteen Governors of States, forty-three distinguished Judges (most of them different persons from any of the governors), and many other eminent men. Some of the particulars have been already briefly stated in a separately printed paper,'* which we here reproduce with additions. Family-Circle of Mrs. Ursula (Wolcott) Griswold. Ursula Wolcott was born in Windsor (now South Windsor), Connec- ticut, October 30, 1724; married Matthew Griswold of Lyme, Connecticut, November 11, 1743; and died April 5, 1788. I. GOVERNORS. 1. ROGER WOLCOTT, her father, was Governor of Connecticut. 2. OLIVER WOLCOTT Sen., her brother, was Governor of Connecticut ; also Signer of the Declaration of Independence. 3. OLIVER WOLCOTT Jr., her nephew, was Governor of Con- necticut ; also Secretary of the Treasury under Washington. 4. MATTHEW GRISWOLD Sen., her husband, was Governor of Connecticut. '"* In The New Engl. Hist, and Geneal. Register. Boston, 1879, xxxiii. 223-25. 73 ©visUJoltr 5. ROGER GRISWOLD, her son, was Governor of Connecticut; also was offered by the elder President Adams, but declined, the post of Secretary of War. 6. WILLIAM WOLCOTT ELLSWORTH, her first cousin's grandson, was Governor of Connecticut. 7. WILLIAM PITKIN 3d, her second cousin, was Governor of Connecticut. 8. WILLIAM WOODBRIDGE, her grandnephew, through her husband, was Governor of Michigan. 9. JONATHAN TRUMBULL Sen., her third cousin through the Drakes, was Governor of Connecticut. 10. JONATHAN TRUMBULL Jr., fourth cousin of her children, was Governor of Connecticut ; also Speaker of the United States House of Representatives ; also United States Senator. 11. JOSEPH TRUMBULL, her remoter cousin, was Governor of Connecticut. 12. FREDERICK WALKER PITKIN, of the same Pitkin blood as herself, was lately Governor of Colorado. 13. JAMES MATHER ALLEN, her great great grandson, was the first Governor of the Territory of Dakota. 14. ROGER SHERMAN BALDWIN, Governor of Connecticut, married Emily Perkins, also of the same Pitkin blood as herself. 15. WILLIAM ALFRED BUCKINGHAM, Governor of Con- necticut, was of the same Lee descent as her husband. 16. GROVER CLEVELAND, of the same Hyde and Lee blood as her husband, was Governor of New York — since President of the United States. II. JUDGES. 1. ROGER WOLCOTT, her father (I. i), was Judge of the Superior Court, Connecticut. 2. ROGER WOLCOTT Jr., her brother, was Judge of the Superior Court, Connecticut ; Lieut. Gov. and ex-officio Chief Justice. 3. ERASTUS WOLCOTT, her brother, was Judge of the Superior Court, Connecticut. 74 ^tffiituollr 4. OLIVER WOLCOTT, her brother (I. 2), was Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, Connecticut. 5. OLIVER WOLCOTT, her nephew (I. 3), was Judge of the United States Circuit Court. 6. JOSIAH WOLCOTT, her first cousin once removed, was Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, IVIassachusetts. 7. MATTHEW GRISWOLD Sen., her husband (I. 4), was Chief Justice of Connecticut. 8. MATTHEW GRISWOLD Jr., her son, was Judge of the Supreme Court, Connecticut. 9. ROGER GRISWOLD, her son (I. 5), was Judge of the Supreme Court, Connecticut. 10. OLIVER ELLSWORTH, who married her first cousin's daughter Abigail Wolcott, was Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court ; also United States Senator ; also United States Envoy Extraordinary to the Court of France. 11. WILLIAM WOLCOTT ELLSWORTH (I. 6), son of Abi- gail (Wolcott) Ellsworth, was Judge of the Supreme Court, Connecticut. 12. SAMUEL HOLDEN PARSONS, her nephew through her husband, was appointed by Washington the first Chief Justice of the Northwest Territory. 13. CHARLES CHAUNCEY, son of her husband's third cousin Mary Griswold (great granddaughter of Edward Griswold), was Judge of the Supreme Court, Connecticut. 14. ELIZUR GOODRICH, Chief Justice of the New Haven County Court for thirteen years ; and State Representative, State Senator and Member of Congress, for twenty-three years continuously, was a grandson of Mary Griswold. 15. STEPHEN TITUS HOSMER, who married her husband's grandniece Lucia Parsons, was Chief Justice of Connecticut. 16. THOMAS SCOTT WILLIAMS, who married Delia Ellsworth, daughter of Abigail (Wolcott) Ellsworth, was Chief Justice of Con- necticut. 17. WILLIAM PITKIN 2d, first cousin of her father, was Judge of the Superior Court, and Chief Justice of Connecticut. 75 CS^rfSJtDOlU 1 8. OZIAS PITKIN, brother of the former, was Chief Justice of Connecticut. 19. WILLIAM PITKIN 3d, her second cousin (I. 7), was Chief Justice of Connecticut. 20. WILLIAM PITKIN 4th, third cousin of her children, was Judge of the Supreme Court, Connecticut. 21. MATTHEW ALLYN, who married her second cousin Eliza- beth Wolcott, was Judge of the Superior Court, Connecticut. 22. JONATHAN TRUMBULL Sen., her third cousin (I. 9), was Chief Justice of Connecticut. 23. LYMAN TRUMBULL, Justice of the Supreme Court, Illinois, also United States Senator, is of the same Drake descent as herself. 24. JAMES LANMAN, who married her granddaughter Marian Chandler, was Judge of the Supreme Court, Connecticut. 25. LAFAYETTE SABIN FOSTER, who married her great granddaughter Joanna Lanman, was Judge of the Supreme Court, Con- necticut ; also United States Senator, and Acting Vice-President of the United States. 26. NATHANIEL POPE, who married her husband's grandniece Lucretia Backus, was Judge of the United States Court, Illinois. 27. HENRY TITUS BACKUS, her husband's grandnephew, who married her husband's great grandniece Juliana Trumbull Woodbridge, was Judge of the United States Court, Arizona. 28. WILLIAM WOODBRIDGE, her grandnephew (I. 8), was Judge of the Supreme Court, Michigan. 29. EBENEZER LANE, her grandson, who married her grand- daughter Frances Ann Griswold, was Chief Justice of Ohio. 30. WILLIAM GRISWOLD LANE, her great grandson, who married her great granddaughter Elizabeth Diodate Griswold, was Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, Ohio. 31. CHARLES JOHNSON M^CURDY, her great grandson, was Judge of the Supreme Court, Connecticut ; also United States Charge d' Affaires in Austria ; also Member of the Peace Congress of 1861. 32. SHERLOCK JAMES ANDREWS, who married her great 76 (JS^tiistuom granddaughter Ursula M'^Curdy Allen, was Judge of the Superior Court of Cleveland, Ohio. 33. JOHN HENRY BOALT, her great grandson, was Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, Nevada. 34. CHARLES ALLEN, late Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Massachusetts, was of the same Pitkin blood as herself. 35. AARON HACKLEY, who married Sophia Grisvvold, her grandniece (a granddaughter of her brother Dr. Alexander Wolcott), was Judge of the Supreme Court of New York. 36. JOSIAH HAWES, descended from her brother Roger, was Circuit Judge, Michigan. 37. WILLIAM LITTLE LEE, Chief Justice of the Sandwich Islands, was of the same Hyde and Lee blood as her husband. 38. REUBEN HYDE WALWORTH, Chancellor of the State of New York, was of the same Hyde and Lee blood as her husband. 39. SAMUEL LEE SELDEN, Judge of the Supreme Court of New York, and 40. HENRY ROGERS SELDEN, Judge of the Court of Appeals of New York, were of the same Hyde and Lee blood as her husband. 41. HENRY BALDWIN, son of her second cousin once removed Theodora Wolcott, was a Justice of the United States Supreme Court. 42. HENRY MATSON WAITE, Chief Justice of Connecticut, and 43. MORRISON REMICK WAITE, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, descended from her own and her husband's ancestor Henry Wolcott, the first of the name in this country, and from her hus- band's ancestor the first Matthew Griswold. NOTES. Most of those above named as Governors and Judges held, also, other high offices. All those mentioned as connected with Mrs. Griswold through her husband were also related to her by Wolcott blood, her hus- band and herself having been second cousins. 77 CS^tiisUioltr Rev. Dr. Trumbull, in his " History of Connecticut," i. 227, note, says : " Some of the [Wolcott] family have been Members of the Assembly, Judges of the Superior Court, or Magistrates, from the first settlement of the colony to this time — A. D. 1797 — during the term of more than a century and a half." According to Mr. J. Hammond Trumbull, LL.D., Governor William Pitkin " belonged to a family in which the honors of office seemed to have become hereditary. A Pitkin sat at the Council- board for three-quarters of a century, six or seven years only excepted." A similar remark might be applied to the public life of the Griswolds and Trumbulls. Among the connections of Mrs. Griswold, not mentioned, have been many men eminent in the learned professions, judges of other courts, mem- bers of both Houses of Congress, eminent merchants, militar)^ officers of high rank, etc. PROFESSOR JOHN STRONG NEWBERRY, of the School of Mines in Columbia College, is a great grandson of her sister Elizabeth Wolcott, who married Capt. Roger Newberry of Windsor, Conn. PROFESSOR SIMON GREENLEAF, the distinguished Profes- sor of law in Harvard University, was her grandnephew through her hus- band. Mr. GEORGE GRIFFIN, the eminent lawyer of New York, and the famous REV. DR. EDWARD DORR GRIFFIN, were of the same Wolcott and Griswold lineage as herself and her husband. CHRISTOPHER PARSONS WOLCOTT of Ohio, who was Attorney-General of Ohio, afterwards Judge-Advocate-General, and died when Assistant Secretary of War, was her great grandnephew. Governor Roger Wolcott, Mrs. Griswold's father (I. i), was Major- General second in command of the Connecticut troops in the expedition to Cape Breton, and in the siege and capture of Louisburg, in 1745. Judge Erastus Wolcott (II. 3), and Governor Oliver Wolcott (I. 2) her brother, were Brigadier-Generals in the Revolution. ROGER NEW- BERRY, son of Captain Roger and Elizabeth (Wolcott) Newberry, General in the Revolution, and long a Member of the Governor's Council, was her nephew. Judge Parsons (II. 12) was Major-General in the Revolution, and was a member of the Court Martial selected by Wash- ington for the trial of Major AndrcJ. 78 CE^rfi^ttiollr COMMODORE ISAAC CHAUNCEY was a great grandson of her second cousin, a Wolcott by descent. MAJOR-GENERAL JOHN POPE, U. S. A., son of Judge Pope (II. 26), was distinguished in the late civil war ; as were many of her young descendants, one of whom, the heroic Captain John Griswold, gave his hfe at Antietam. GENERAL JAMES S. WADSWORTH of Geneseo, N. Y., killed in the battle of the Wilderness, was descended from several branches of her Wolcott family. Gen. Wadsworth's sister Elizabeth married Hon. Charles Augustus Murray, son of the Earl "of Dunmore. Mary daughter of the late Robert and Mary Jane (Lucas) Reade of New York, of the same Hyde and Lee blood as Governor Matthew Griswold, is the wife of Byron Plantagenet Cary, Viscount Falkland and Baron Cary. Her elder sister, Katharine Livingston, married Sir George Cumine Strahan, formerly Governor of several British colonies ; who lately died in England, while waiting to be invested with the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael and St. George, before proceeding to take the post of Governor of Hong Kong. Alice Starr Chipman, the wife of Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley, C.B., K.C.M.G., late Minister of Finance, Canada, is of the same DeWolf descent as Governor Matthew Griswold. The present Countess of Erroll, Lady-in-Waiting to Her Majesty Queen Victoria, is also of the same DeWolf descent. Mrs. Ursula (Wolcott) Griswold's great great granddaughter Eleanora Lorillard, daughter of Lorillard Spencer and of her great granddaughter Sarah Griswold, married Prince Virginio Cenci of Vicovaro, etc., Cham- berlain to the reigning King of Italy. Princess Cenci is now one of the Ladies of Honor to the Italian Queen. It may be noted as somewhat remarkable that, though not in the blood of Governor and Mrs. Griswold, yet in their immediate family- connection there had been another group of Judges. Governor Matthew Griswold's uncle Rev. George Griswold had married Hannah Lynde, who was a granddaughter of Judge Simon Lynde, a daughter of Judge Nathaniel Lynde, a sister of Judge Samuel Lynde, a niece of Chief Justice Benjamin 79 CS^tCstDOltr Lynde Sen., and first cousin of Chief Justice Benjamin Lynde Jun. Governor Matthew Griswold's brother Thomas married Susannah Lynde, niece of Hannah, who was one generation farther removed. By a singular coincidence, Sarah Johnson, the wife of John the eldest son of Governor Matthew and Mrs. Ursula (Wolcott) Griswold, being of Ogden blood, through her paternal grandmother Sarah (Ogden) Johnson, was related to all the high Judges, Governors, Generals, etc., who have made the Ogden name one of the most distinguished in this country. It is also remarkable that Judge M'^Curdy (II. 31), being of Wolcott, Griswold, Lynde and Ogden descent, could be counted among Judges of Lynde and Ogden, as well as of Wolcott-Griswold, lineage. The children of Governor Matthew and Ursula (Wolcott) Griswold were : iio-ii I. JOHN ^ (see below). 112 2. Matthew,^ born April 1 7, 1 760 ; graduated at Yale College in 1780; who married, September 4, 1788, Lydia daughter of Deacon Seth Ely of Lyme; and, having settled in Lyme, died there, June 10, 1842, .y. p. A letter from his father to him while in college, now lying before us, is too characteristic of the times to be left out of this record : "Lyme, Nov. 8"", 1779. " Dear Son, "Thro' Divine Goodness wee are all in usual health — I have herewith Sent You a Thirty Dollar bill to purchase a Ticket in the Continental Lottery in the Third Class: / suppose they are to be had in New Haven of Deacon Austin; I wish you good Sicccess with it. If they are not to be had in New Haven, you will Enquire and purchase one Elseiuhere. — If there be no Chance to purchase one, lay up )four Money, and keep it safe. — I hope you will pursue your Studies with Dilligence and Industry — But above all keep Holy the Sabbath Day, iWid pay all Possible Regard to Religion : a vertuous Life is the only Foundation upon which you can Depend to be Comfortable here and Happy in the Coining World — the Joy of your Friends and a Blessing to the world. " From your affectionate Father Matth'^ Griswold." " Matth^' Griswold Jun^" 80 ^^^rfj^tooltr He learnt the science and practice of law from his father ; became, in time, Chief Judge of the County Court of New London ; and some of the men of later times most eminent in the legal profession studied law under his direction, together with that of his more distinguished brother Roger, including Judge James Gould, afterwards at the head of the famous law-school of Litchfield, Conn., Chief Justice Henry Matson Waite and Judge Hungerford. He met all his duties with dignity and ability, and passed a serene life, apparently undisturbed by ambition. He and his wife had the kindest of natures, and their hospitable house, built on the site of his grandfather's, was the resort of relatives from far and near, many of whom still remem- ber his stately form, the beauty of his regular features, their calm and sweet expression and the cordial courtesy of his manners. 113 3. Roger,^ born May 21, 1762; graduated at Yale College in 1780, in the same class with his brother Matthew. His inherited nature, the example of his father, the atmosphere with which he was surrounded, and, above all, the inspiration of his high-minded mother's words, united to form his life, and develop the noble and brilliant man that he became. A few words of tradition bring down to us a suggestion of his veneration for his mother. The late Chief Justice Henry Matson Waite said that he had often heard Governor Roger Griswold say that it was the delight of his boyhood to hear his mother and General Parsons talk of the memorable events in which they had taken part, and the eminent persons with whom they had been familiar. No wonder that the son's young heart was stirred with noble impulses, which it became the purpose of his hfe to fulfill ! He studied law with his father; and was admitted to the bar of New London in i 783. On the 27*'' of October 1788 he married Fanny daughter of Col. Zabdiel Rogers, a prominent Revolutionary patriot and officer, of Norwich, Conn., by his first wife, Elizabeth Tracy, whose ancestry, as is well known, has been carried back, through several English sovereigns, to Egbert the 81 ^^tfsituollr West Saxon King, and, through the First Count of Flanders, to Charle- magne. Governor Griswold's affectionate confidence in his wife, as evi- denced by his letters to her, shows her character better than any words of ours could do. She survived him, as his widow, for more than fifty years, fitting for useful and prominent positions her large family of ten children. She lived to the age of ninety-seven years, in her husband's house and in the family of her son Matthew, affectionately ministered to by her children and grandchildren. Her death occurred Dec. 26, 1863. A sketch of her regal ancestry is here inserted (see folded sheet opposite). In 1794 Governor Griswold was chosen to be a Representative in Congress, which place he filled for the ten following years. In 1801 he was appointed Secretary of War by President Adams, but declined the honor, having previously requested that the nomination might be with- drawn. He was a Judge of the Superior Court from 1807 to 1809; was elected by the Legislature Lieut.-Governor of Connecticut in 1809, and continued to hold that office till 181 1, when, by popular vote, he became Chief Magistrate of the State. He died in the chief magistracy, October 25, 1812. In all positions he proved himself a born "master of men." Of his early career as an advocate it is related by an eye-witness that on one occasion, when only twenty-six years old, being called to argue before the Supreme Court an important case "involving many intricate ques- tions," in company with another " gentleman of the first rank in his profession," he did his work so thoroughly well that his associate was constrained to acknowledge " that, after the very able argument of the very ingenious young gentleman who had just sat down, any observatioris from him could answer no other purpose than to injure his client's cause.""" A very handsome man, with large flashing black eyes, a com- manding figure and majestic mien, as described by one still living who often saw him,'* he seemed even by outward presence born to rule. '»' An Eulogium ... of His Excellency Roger Griswold. ... By David Daggett. . . . New Haven, 1812, pp. g-io. '»' Hon. Charles J, M'Curdy. 82 From Walworth's "Hyde Genealogy" (one vol. in two) i. 129; ii. 1160-64, 1175-78 1 Egbert, the West Saj m. Lady Redburg^i 2 Ethelwulf ucester 1368 and 1369 m. OsBURGA dau. of 3 Alfred the Great m. Alswitha dau. I 4 Edward "theEldej m. Edgina dau. of 5 Edmund VV <^ouncil of Henry vi. 1431 m Elfgiva ("the p'^"'^ °f 'he Manor of Coughton, co. Warwick "l 6 Edgar " the Peacej145o m. Elfreda dau. ol 7 Ethelred ii. "the ' m. ElfledA dau. 01 S Princess Goda (you''° *^*' ""^ °f '^^ ^^^^ '" embrace the Reformation m. Dreux Count < as Count of Ve: 1 I 9 Rudolf DE Mantes, , ,. t • o, ,, .. j m Gethe who hel'^^P^^"^^ ^ Justice bliallow, desc. (rem Hugh I ' ied Alice dau. of Robert ii. King of France. I ' Barbara Lucy was descended from the Emperor ._ ' ,, ■ OF Flanders, she was descended from Alfred 10 Harold de Mantes m. Matilda, dau. J r 11 John de Sudely m. Grace, dau. an( .,» J TTT T J Wethersfield, Conn.; removed to Saybrook, Conn. 12 Sir William Tracy, ' ' ■' ' 13 Sir Oliver Tracy m. 14 William Tracy of * ra. Hawis de Bor r 15 Henry Tracy of Ti 16 Rev. Henry Tracy m. 17 Sir William TracI m. 1§ William Tracy of Sheriff of Glouci ^tfsUJOltr The National Hall of Representatives was the chief field of his influ- ence. Here, during part of President Washington's administration, the whole of that of President Adams, and especially during a part of the administration of President Jefferson, when he was in the opposition, he stood forth as the fearless yet always courteous, the uncompromising though cautious, champion of the political principles of the school of Washington. Though commanding, he was never arbitrary. His opinions were always respectfully heeded, even by his opponents, however they might argue against them in frank debate, or seek for vulnerable points at which to assail him secretly, or endeavor to pierce his armor with shafts of raillery, as did John Randolph of Roanoke, his frequent antagonist in the discussion of important questions. Most of the great public questions of his time have either passed out of the minds of the present generation, or assumed new aspects through the onward rush of events — " tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur cum illis " — so that a detailed review of the political life of Roger Griswold, except in an elaborate biography, might be out of place. But justice requires that this family-memorial should recognize his profound loyalty to principle, his supreme and unswerving regard to what he thought to be right, irrespective of considerations of expediency, which caused it to be said of him : " There is no duty he will not be found adequate to, nor any one from which he will shrink,"'* and which " extorted even from his political adversaries an affection for his worth, a reverence for his pre-eminent talents."™ The secret of his power lay, as has been said, in the "wonderful promptness" of his mind, which " penetrated every subject presented to it," and " saw it clearly and in all its connections. What others gained by study and reflection he attained by intuition. Having no obliquity of intention, he went directly to his object.""' No one can read the Journal of Congress during his member- "" Letter of Chauncey Goodrich to Oliver Wolcott Sen., dated Mar. 26, 1796, in Memoirs of the Administrations of Washington and John Adams. . . . Bj' George Gibbs. . . . New York, 1846, i. 324. "" Daggett's Eulogium, ut supra, p. 12. '" Id., ibid. 83* ©rtstoolir ship in the House without noticing how invariably he viewed every subject brought up as it was affected by the fundamental law of the land, the Constitution, and by constitutional interpretations. As expressive of the trust reposed in him by others of the eminent patriots of his day, a fact not generally known, perhaps, may be here recorded — that some of the leading Federalists who met, after his death, in the famous Hartford Convention, had had their attention turned to him for President in the possible contingency of a separation of the New Enoland States from the rest of the Union. This fact was communicated o to us by the late Mr. Frederick H. Wolcott of Astoria, L. I., as he heard it from his father, a brother of Governor Oliver Wolcott, who often spoke of Governor Griswold, says his son, "in terms of affection, and profound respect for his eminent qualities," though he was not in sympathy with the poHtical opinions of the Old Federalist leaders. Here it is proper to speak of the personal violence committed on Mr. Griswold by Matthew Lyon in 1798, and Mr. Griswold's resentment of it. We relate the occurrence in the words of a son of a fellow Congress- man and political as well as personal friend of Mr. Griswold, the late Josiah Quincy of Massachusetts : "In 1797 he [Lyon] went to Congress, where he inaugurated, in Jan. 1798, the series of acts of personal insult and violence which have disgraced Congress, from time to time, from that day to this, b}^ spitting in the face of Mr. Griswold of Con- necticut, on some occasion of offense he took at him. The House refusing to expel him by a strict party vote, Mr, Griswold took justice into his own hands, and caned him in his seat a few days afterwards, for which singular process he too went scot- free, also by a party vote, neither the Administration nor the Opposition commanding the two-thirds requisite for the expulsion of a member." '"^ The motives which actuated Mr. Griswold in the course he took in this affair will be best understood from a private letter to his wife, dated Philadelphia, February 28, i 798, in which he says : "' Life of Josiah Ouinc)' ... By his son Edmund Quincy. Boston, i868, p. 327. 84 dfristMOltr " After the decision of the house which retained the wretch in his seat, I found but two courses which (in my opinion) I cou'd possibly take— either to address a letter to the House, and in severe language criminate the conduct of the minority in the House, and resign my seat, or to pursue the course which I have taken — chastise the rascal in his seat, and by that act chastise both him and the party, and in defiance of them all let them know that I knew how to avenge my own wrongs, and that I was not to be driven from my seat by any villainy of theirs. To the first of these measures there were very great objections— I did not feel willing to return into Connecticut, after the insult I had received in so public a manner, without taking satisfaction ... in addition to whicli circumstance the idea of being driven from the House by a minority, when a majority were giving me every support in their power, and were prepared to vindicate every step which I should take, seemed to carry along with it a certain meanness of spirit and want of resolution which was wholly inadmissible ; the other course, although attended with difficulties, was in my opinion much to be preferred : it look'd like going forward, conscious of the injury which I had received, and at the same time with a determination to punish it, in defiance of faction, and a resolution to maintain my situation without fearing the efforts of villains to discourage me. The events have completely justified the meas- ure, and, although my enemies may condemn the harshness of the remedy, yet my friends will approve of it : the newspaper squibs which have and will appear on the occasion are of no consequence — they may tell lies as usual, but they cannot take off the beating." The same views are expressed in a letter to liis father, dated March 19, 1798, as follows : "I have no idea of committing any further violence myself; the violence which I committed by chastising the Vermonter had become absolutely necessary — I was reduced to the necessity either of leaving Congress with disgrace to myself, and, in addition thereto, to leave a stigma on the State which wou'd be constantly thrown at our Representatives, or to wipe off the stigma by inflicting a public chastisement. I chose the latter, as I believe every man who possess'd any spirit wou'd have done ; and, although I regret the occasion, yet I believe I shall never lament the measure." This is the inner history of the much talked of "affair" between Roger Griswold and Matthew Lyon. 85 €;^ttfiitooltr It will be seen that Mr. Griswold's course was not prompted by any spirit of private revenge ; he shrank from the act of personal violence, and only resorted to it in behalf of. others, because no other redress could be obtained. In accordance with the spirit of the times, "honor must be maintained." If he had been a Southerner, he would have promptly chal- lenged Lyon to a duel ; being a Northerner, accustomed to self-control, and attaching a high value to human life, he did but stand on the defensive in a manly use of nature's weapons. The power of the old Griswold champion, his ancestor, came over him ; the sense of right and an indignant revolt against the gross injury he had received added strength to his tall, athletic form ; and in the presence of the Congress before which he had been insulted he vindicated his cause, and silenced his opponent. "As a judge," to quote again the words of another, "that sincerity, that incor- ruptible integrity, which adorned his life, eminently appeared. His very respectable associates on the judgment-seat, and the suitors and advocates who witnessed his deportment, will testify that all the vehemence and ardour of the advocate were left at the bar, and that candour, patience and deliberation governed his conduct. His discernment and virtue were a protection to the innocent ; the oppressor and the fraudulent, like the wicked, were scattered with his eye.""' During the brief time he occupied the gubernatorial chair, though already suffering from mortal illness, he was unsparing of himself in his devotion to the interests of his native State, amid unusual perplexities arising from national events, as well as from the settlement of delicate questions which they called for, concerning the relations of State to National authority. He was a dutiful son, an affectionate husband and father. He was of a social nature ; warm in his friendships, gracious of deportment in the general intercourse of society, sympathetic towards all objects of public utility, and a benefactor of the needy. '" Daggett's Eulogium, ut supra, pp. 13-14. 86 ^tristuollr The following extracts from his speeches are given as specimens of his style of argument and modes of expression in public debate. They are from speeches delivered by him as Member of Congress in 1802 and 1803, on a call for papers relative to the Louisiana Treaty, on a proposed amendment to the Constitution respecting the election of President, and on the constitutional right of Congress to unseat Judges by repealing the law regulating their appointment. Discussing the first of these subjects, he said : " I am one of those who do now believe, and always have believed, that the exclusive right of forming treaties resides in the President and Senate ; and that, when ratified, it is the duty of every department of the Government to carry them into effect. This treaty, then, if fairly and constitutionally made, is a law of the land, and we are bound to execute it. But it is necessary to know its nature and effects, to carry it into execution. If it is a mere dead letter, there is no necessity for any laws whatever. ... In my judgment the treaty is uncertain. ... If we have acquired the country and people, it is certainly proper to pass laws for the preserva- tion of order and tranquillity ; but if we have acquired neither, whence the necessity of passing such laws? It would be improper; it would be usurpation. We contend that the treaty does not ascertain these points ; gentlemen differ from us in opinion. But I beg them calmly and seriously to attend to its language. By the first article it appears that Spain promised to cede Louisiana to France on certain stipulations. She promises to cede. Gentlemen cannot mistake the import of the language ; it is a promise, not a cession. Will it be said that France acquired any title by this promise? . . . The terms of the treaty are, ' Whereas, in pursuance of the treaty [of Ildefonso], and particularly of the third article, the French Republic has an incontestible title,' &c. Will gentlemen say that this assertion on the part of France gives her a title ? It gives her no title. An assertion by France cannot affect Spain. . . ." And again : " By this article it is declared : ' That the inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated into the Union of the United States, and admitted as soon as possible, according to the principles of the Constitution, to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages and immunities of citizens.' It is, perhaps, somewhat difficult to ascer- 87 ^trfsUlolK tain the precise effect which it was intended to give the words which have been used in this stipulation. It is, however, clear that it was intended to incorporate the inhabitants of the ceded territory into the Union, by the treaty itself, or to pledge the faith of the nation that such an incorporation should take place within a reasonable time. It is proper, therefore, to consider the question with a reference to both con- structions. " It is, in my opinion, scarcely possible for any gentleman on this floor to advance an opinion that the President and Senate may add to the members of the Union by treaty whenever they please. . . . Such a power would be directly repugnant to the original compact between the States, and a violation of the prin- ciples on which that compact was formed. It has been alread}' well observed that the union of the States was formed on the principle of a copartnership, and it would be absurd to suppose that the agents of the parties who have been appointed to exe- cute the business of the compact, in behalf of the principals, could admit a new partner without the consent of the parties themselves. And yet, if the first construc- tion is assumed, such must be the case under this Constitution, and the President and Senate may admit, at will, any foreign nation into this copartnership, without the consent of the States. . . . " The government of the United States was not formed for the purpose of distrib- uting its principles and advantages to foreign nations. It was formed with the sole view of securing those blessings to ourselves and our posterity. It follows from these principles that no power can reside in any public functionary to contract any engagement, or to pursue any measure, which shall change the union of the States. . . . The President, with the advice of the Senate, has undoubtedly the right to form treaties, but in exercising these powers he cannot barter away the Constitution, or the rights of particular States. . . . The government having been formed by a union of States, it is supposable that the fear of an undue or preponderating influ- ence, in certain parts of this Union, must have great weight in the minds of those who might apprehend that such an influence might ultimately injure the interests of the States to which they belonged ; and, although they might consent to become par- ties to the Union, as it was then formed, it is highly probable they would never have consented to such a connection, if a new world was to be thrown into the scale, to weigh down the influence which they might otherwise possess in the national councils. . . .""■* "■■ Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States. . . . Eighth Congress. . . . 1803-04. Washington, 1852, pp. 404, 461-62. In the debate on the proposed amendment to the Constitution, mainly to the end that only one person should be voted for as President, instead of two, by the Electors of each State — which was adopted, and has been ever since in force — he said : " There is another view of this subject which furnishes to my mind a conclusive argument against the proposed amendment. In all governments which have hitherto existed, in which the elective principle has extended to the Executive Magistrate, it has been impossible, for any length of time, to guard against corruption in the elec- tions. The danger is not an imaginary one in this country. The office of President is at this time the great object of ambition, and, as the wealth and population of this country increase, the powers of patronage of the President must necessarily be extended. We cannot expect to escape the fate of other republics. Candidates for the office of President will arise who, under the assumed garb of patriotism and disinterested benevolence, will disguise the most unprincipled ambition. Corruption will be practiced by such candidates whenever it can be done with success. " It is therefore an object of the first importance to regulate the election in such a manner as to remove, as far as possible, both the temptation and the means of cor- ruption. If gentlemen will attend to the proposed amendment with reference to this point, they will find that the means and the temptation to corruption must be increased. As the Constitution now stands, the man who aspires to the office of President can at best but run the race on equal terms with some individual of his own party. In order to succeed he must not only obtain for himself and his associate a greater number of votes than his own political opponents, but he must obtain more votes than the associate himself. The chances of success are by those means rendered more remote, and, however desirable the office may be, the temptations to enter the list, or to make individual exertions, are diminished. The means of corruption must generally be found in the offices at the disposal of the President ; and these, it is well known, constitute a fund of great extent ; and, when the election is brought to such a point as to rest with two candidates only, this fund may be used with great success. . . . But so long as your elections remain on this present footing, the means of corruption are diminished, because the aspiring candidate can only promise this corrupt distribution of offices upon eventually succeeding to the Presidency ; and, as his chances of success are diminished by the mode of election, his promises are of less value to the Elector, and of course will be less frequently made and more generally rejected. . . . cs^tffiitDoltr " But there is one important lesson which the experience of that election [the election of Jefferson by the House of Representatives] has taught the people of the United States— it is this, that it becomes the great and solemn duty of Electors, upon all occasions, to give their votes for two men who shall be best qualified for the office of President. The Electors do not — they cannot— know which of their own candi- dates will succeed. They are therefore called upon by every sacred principle to select the most eminent of their fellow-citizens. They will be stimulated, on all future occasions, by the experience of the last election, to do, what I trust they have heretofore done — to give their votes for two men in either of whom they are willing to confide the Executive power of the Government. What then can induce us to change the form of our elections ? Some gentlemen have said a great deal about the voice of the people, and declared that the people demand the alteration. This is a language too frequently used within these walls. The purposes for which it is used I leave to others to explain ; but it must be perfectly understood that the clamors of designing men are too often mistaken for the voice of the people. The people are rarely disposed to seek for changes, whilst they feel and enjoy the blessings of their old establishments. Be this as it may, we have been sent into this House to obey no voice but that of our own consciences and judgments. . . ." '" One sees in all these speeches the qualities of his mind and character. But the most clear, terse, compact, conclusive and exhaustive of all his arguments was, probably, that which he delivered in 1802, on the question whether Congress has the power to remove Judges, during good behavior, by abolishing their offices — a question which arose in the first session under Jefferson's presidency, with reference to appointments made at the very close of the administration of his predecessor. This argument has been considered one of the very ablest ever made in Congress ; yet its power so much depends upon its completeness that full justice cannot be done to it by extracting single passages. We venture, however, to quote the following : " There is another strange position which has been advocated upon this occasion, and which deserves some attention because it has been often repeated. It is that, although you cannot remove the judge from the office, you may remove the office "' Debates and Proceedings in the Congress, ut supra, pp. 749-52. 90 Ctffiituolir from the judge. To this extraordinary assertion I answer that the words of the Constitution admit of no such construction. The expression being that the judge shall hold his office during good behaviour, necessarily implies and secures a union of the office and the officer, so long as the officer shall behave well; and a removal of the office from the judge destroys as effectually this union as the removal of the judge from the office could do. ... If constructions of this kind can be admitted, there is not a crime which was ever perpetrated by man which cannot be justified. Sir, upon this principle, although you may not kill by thrusting a dagger into the breast of your neighbor, yet you may compel your neighbor to kill himself by forcing him upon the dagger; you shall not murder by destroying the life of a man, but you may confine your enemy in prison, and leave him without food to starve and to die. These may be good distinctions in the new system of philosophy, but they can never be admitted in the old school. . . . " The power given to the courts to pronounce on the constitutionality of laws would be entirely defeated in those times when the exercise of that power becomes most necessary, if the judges are not placed beyond the power of the Legislature. The idea of giving this power to the courts, and at the same time of leaving the courts at the mercy of that department over which the power is to be exercised, is rather too absurd for gentlemen even in these days of extravagance ; and gentlemen aware of this have had the confidence to deny that this power resides in the courts. . . . " Sir, if there is no power to check the usurpations of the Legislature, the inev- itable consequence must be that the Congress of the United States becomes truly omnipotent. All power must be concentrated here, before which every department and all State-authorities must fall prostrate. Admit this principle and nothing can resist the attacks of your national laws upon our State-sovereignties. Here is an end of your Federal government. A consolidation of the States is the immediate effect, and in a few short years these sovereignties will not even obtain the name. . . . " I should now close the observations which I had to submit to the Committee upon this interesting question, had not the gentlemen on the other side of the House thought proper to involve in this debate a discussion of several topics not necessarily connected with the subject . . . and, although I cannot see their application, yet I am not disposed to set up my discernment as the standard of infallibility, and shall therefore now pay due respect to the path which these gentlemen have marked out. . . " The gentleman begins his remarks by saying that two parties have existed in this country from the commencement of the present Government : the one what the 91 maviuiaoirf gentleman has been pleased to denominate a party of energy, and the other a party of responsibility ; the first, disposed to go forward with the affairs of the Government with energy, as they deemed right and expedient, and the other only in submission to the public will. Sir, it can be no news to the members of this Committee that two parties exist in this country, nor can gentlemen be ignorant that two parties did exist in the nation at the adoption of the Constitution ; the one consisting of its friends, and the other composed of its enemies ; nor is it necessary for me to say how the present have grown out of these original parties. It is sufficient for my present pur- pose to say that the parties alluded to by the gentleman from Virginia are character- ized by prominent features, and cannot easily be mistaken. . . . One great feature which has characterized those whom the gentleman has been pleased to denominate the party of energy, has been their strong attachment to the present Constitution ; and a determination not only to leave each department to the exercise of its proper functions, but to support them in it. Their opponents, to say nothing of their attach- ment to the Constitution, have on the contrary been disposed to bring all the powers of the Government into the House of Representatives, and in that way to strip the other branches of their constitutional authority. . . . "Again, this party of energy was disposed to establish and support public credit, in which their opponents did not agree. This party of energy was likewise deter- mined to defend their country against the hostile attacks of the enemy, and to support the interests, the safety and honor of the nation ; their opponents, on the contrary, were disposed to prostrate everything that was dear to the will of the enemy. One party was disposed to build up and support, while the others were, and still are, determined to pull down and destroy. . . . " The public debt has been spoken of, and it has been charged as a crime that these solemn engagements, which were the price of our independence, and for the discharge of which the national faith was pledged, have been provided for by the old Administration. Sir, are we to understand that this crime is to be ultimately atoned for by wiping out the debt with a sponge.? . . . "The Indian war has also been alluded to in very extraordinary language, as an event which was greedily seized to enlarge the field of Executive patronage. Sir, the gentleman cannot intend to insinuate that the Indian war was excited by the Administration ; the causes which produced that war are too publicly known to be forgotten or misunderstood. And has it indeed, at this time, become criminal for the Government to defend the inhabitants of our frontier from the attacks of the savages ? " The gentleman has likewise told us that the depredations upon our commerce, 92 ^viniuoirt by the Barbary Powers and by the French cruisei's, were made a pretext for com- mencing a Naval Establishment, and in this way of extending this bugbear of Exec- utive patronage. Sir, this remark gives me no surprise. I know perfectly well that there is a party in this country who are opposed to our commerce and to our navy. I shall long recollect the depredations which were made upon our commerce by the French, and the difficulty with which gentlemen were persuaded to repel those depre- dations. I cannot forget that, before they would consent to our first measure of defence, the cruisers of France were capturing your ships within the Delaware Bay. It is certainly true that the old Administration was neither the enemy of commerce nor of the navy ; and it is as certainly true that they were equally disposed to defend your citizens against Algerine slavery and the depredatious of France. And to mer- chants and seamen of this country, and the community at large, I am willing to refer the question whether it was proper to surrender our commerce to the enemy, and give up our seamen to slavery, or defend both by an adequate Naval Establish- ment. . . .""° The representatives of some of Governor Griswold's confidential correspondents have been applied to for letters of his which might enrich this record, but time and the indifference of younger generations have rendered the application fruitless. Only one letter of this sort has been found, which is among the family-papers at Blackball. Nor have many important letters addressed to him been handed down in the family. The one confidential letter of Governor Griswold here referred to was addressed to Judge Elias Perkins of New London, Conn. It is highly worthy of preservation, both for its subject and its tone. As will be seen, it was called forth by the failure of the negotiations of the special envoys to France — Pinckney, Marshall and Gerry — in the time of the French Directory, under Talleyrand as Minister of Foreign Affairs, in 1797-98, respecting depredations on American commerce committed in pursuance of the war then going on between France and Great Britain."' The letter is as follows : "^ Debates and Proceedings of the Congress. . . . Seventh Congress. . . . 1801-02. Wash- ington, 1851, pp. 779. 783, 791-93- "' History of the United States of America. By Richard Hildreth, New York, 1855, ii. 95 AT.; and Gibbs's Admin, of Washington and Adams, ut supra, i. 558 ff"., and ii. 2 ff. 93 CtrffiiUjoltr " Philadelphia, June 20th, 1798." " Dear Sir, "I have the pleasure to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 12th instant. " The impressions which the reading of the dispatches from our Envoys have made on your mind, are such as every man must feel who is alive to the honour and interests of this Country ; the only apology which I can form for the feeble display of spirit, which appears in their note to the minister of foreign relations, arises from the c d situation into which they were thrown. Without knowing the real temper of this Country, Marshall and Pinckney were connected with a New-Englander who was supposed to represent the feelings and wishes of the New-England States : to disagree with such a man, placed in so important a situation, and representing at best a divided people, appeared like rushing on destruction : if by such a step they shou'd lose the confidence of the Northern States, the Country must have been lost. From this consideration only can I account for their subscribing to expressions which must have put their pride and sentiments on the rack : the thing certainly admits of pallia- tion, but after all I can hardly excuse these Gentlemen, as highly as I respect them, for the manner in which they consented to discuss the question of a Loan. But the business has gone past, and the mission is at an end, and we may rejoice that it has terminated so well. Marshall is here, and a description of what he and Pinckney have suffered. . . ."° is sufficient to render even their faults virtues. " Your sentiments respecting the want of decision and spirit in this government correspond with my own : if Heaven did not take better care of us than we take of ourselves, we shou'd sink never to rise again. " The history of the world, in every page, demonstrates that no nation ever gained anything by forbearance or timidity — a bold, decided and manly administra- tion allways has and allways will be crowned with success; even war itself, which the feeble-minded so greatly dread, can only be avoided by boldness ; indecision and pusillanimity only invite aggression, and the neck that submits will allways decorate the gibbet. These truths have been exemplified in the progress of our disputes with France. Mr. Marshall now declares, what a great many preached two years ago, that, if this government had acted with spirit and decision one year ago, there wou'd have been no difficulty in bringing the late negotiation to a fortunate issue. But what cou'd be expected for a people who were kneeling at the footstool of French "' The imputations cast upon Gerry, in connection with this celebrated mission, have been fully set aside by a plain statement of facts, with documentary proofs, in the Life of Elbridge Gerry. ... By James T. Austin. Boston, 1829, ii. 190-295. 94 C!^trfstiiollr despotism ? Justice has but little to do in the adjustment of disputes between nations, and, so long as America appeared willing to put on the chains of servitude, the Gallic Tyrants were willing to supply them. Wou'd to God that our experience even at this time taught us wisdom ; but an unaccountable spirit of timidity and weakness still prevails among a certain class of persons who are strongly attached to the Gov- ernment ; this conduct is gradually undermining the main pillar of our existence — it is sapping the foundation of that confidence on which alone our nation can rest ; the truth really is that no one measure has been adopted by the Legislature for the national defence which has not been forced upon it by the pressure of public opinion ; and the Government, consisting of all its departments, which ought by its united energy to give a tone to the public mind, and point out the path of honour and Inde- pendence, has been driven like chaff before a torrent of public spirit which cou'd not be entirely resisted. "I hope the return of Mr. Marshall will bring along with it new spirit and energy ; and those honest men who have heretofore sought for peace with meekness and humility, will at last learn that it is only to be found in firmness, energy and honour. " Mr. Marshall declares that, in his opinion, the French have taken their ground in respect to this Country, from which they will not, without a new revolution in Paris, recede— that we are to expect nothing but War or Tribute, that we have our choice of these alternatives ; and I trust that the choice has been long since made in the breast of every American. " I remain, with esteem, Your friend and very Humble Serv' R. Griswold." Of letters addressed to Governor Griswold, preserved in the family, the following are all which it seems worth while to use for this memorial : "New London, January i8th, 1800." "Dear Sir, " I most sincerely concur with you in your sentiments on the death of Gen"' Washington. The citizens of this town joined last week with the garrison in paying funeral honors to the memory of the illustrious deceas'"— the proceedings were indeed solemn, and calculated to make a strong impression. May the honorable sensibility excited in this and other places have the effect to allay the envy and malignity nat- urally arising in narrow minds towards the authors of great and noble actions, and 95 turn the whole attention on the distinguished merit of the mighty Chief ! Happy will it be for this Country if his moral and political virtues should be the criterion by which the American character shall be formed. " The concourse of people upon this mournful occasion, from this and the neigh- boring towns, was immense ; an address was delivered by Gen'' Huntington and an oration by Lyman Law, which do honor to the performers. It must be wisdom in the friends of order to improve the present sensibility of the nation to our political advantage. And may the Hero, like Sampson, slay more of his enemies at his death than in his whole lifetime ! Nations as well as individuals are governed by habit ; most people are willing to take the general opinion upon trust, if they can be freed from the trouble of investigating its propriety. Hence the importance of establishing right modes of thinking as well as acting. Let the principles of Washington be the rule of faith and practice, and our children be taught that his ways were pleasantness, and his paths peace. " Your remark that the exertions of the Jacobins, this Election, would be power- ful and violent, begins to be verified. We have had a specimen of it here within a few days. Our mechanics received a communication through Holt the Printer from the same body at New Haven. The ostensible object was to form mechanic societies through the State, and to have a general meeting at New Haven, to consult on meas- ures for the benefit of the craft. You will readily see that this is no other than a different name for democratic societies. Few but Demos were invited to the meeting. By accident it became public, and the more respectable mechanics attended and voted the business down. . . . " We have lately had a flood of political wickedness poured in upon us from Virginia. But I am perfectly confident that Connec' has too much sense and integ- rity to become the contemptible tool of democratic cunning. " I am, Sir, your friend &c. Elias Perkins." "New London, Jan'' 28"", rSoi." " Dear Sir, " Since it has been ascertained that no Federal President has been chosen, there seems to be, so far as my observation has extended, an almost perfect apathy on the subject of politics. The Democrats seem in a state of apprehension at their own success. They dread the idea of responsibility. Not having it in their power to grumble, it has given time for those that can reflect, and, having something to loose by a convulsion, to view with alarm the dangers that may arise from the ferment 96 ^tffiitDQltr which they have occasioned. They dare not complain, but are wofully agitated lest Con'" Burr should supplant their favorite ; but it is replied by the old school that 73, according to the most approved rules of arithmetic, is equal to 73 ; and that, accord- ing to republican principles, there is no way of ascertaining what is right and wrong but by the votes of the sovereign People. " The most reflecting part of our State, and, I believe, all that would prefer a federal President to Mr. Jefferson, expect that the federal States will vote for Mr. Burr. I am decidedly of that opinion, and, admitting the Candidates to be equal in point of integrity, I believe that some very good reasons may be offered in favour of Mr. Burr which will not apply to Mr. Jefferson. "Mr. Burr is from a State which is under a very powerful commercial influence ; his connexion and speculations are subject to the same influence. It is, I believe, an undeniable fact, there is very little Jeffersonian theory and republican fanaticism in either of the leading parties of the State of New York. It is, I believe, wholly a contention for power that has induced certain Chiefs to join the opposition. If Mr. Burr is supported by the federalists, it may be an additional inducement for him to pursue federal measures, and probably unite the powerful State of New York in the New England politics. I can not in conscience express any regret that Mr. Adams is not chosen — it would be an up-hill business to support his administration. " Whatever course you shall take, it will be presumed that you have acted from the best motive, and a full and adequate investigation of the subject. This will doubtless be the sentiment of Connecticut. We shall be anxious to hear the event ; pray let us know as soon as it is determined. . . . " I am, dear Sir, your friend and Humble Servant E. Perkins." "Philad. 3 Nov. 1801." " My dear Sir, "... But what have we to say but to lament the downfall of federalism, and the triumph of democracy — a triumph more compleat than its most sanguine partisans dared to hope for. In this State more than f""' of the lower house, and a great majority of the Senate, are of the Party. Delaware has one of the same stamp for Governor, and Bloomfield reigns in New Jersey. Our City Elections were car- ried against us by a very small majority, and by a manoeuvre that we hope will not again succeed. " Do you keep stedfast in the faith, or do you, like the Eastern inhabitants of another region, worship the rising sun ? The line of conduct which the president in '97 ^tifiiiooltr his answer to the Merchants of New Haven professes his intention to pursue, and the character wlrich he attaches to the Persons turned and to be turned out/'" must, I should think, make considerable impression on the Public mind, and the Practice itself will have a most pernicious effect. " We must wait for the next meeting of Congress, to be made acquainted with the system intended to be pursued ; a majority of both houses will support the present Administration, and I cannot suppose that the talents of our federal Gentle- men, however exerted, can stem the torrent ; so that none of their schemes will be abandoned from an apprehension of their being rejected. After the next apportion- ment of the representation, the Eastern States, unless firmly united, must lose their weight in the ballance. The great increase of population, altho' a subject of great exultation to many, ought, in my mind, to excite serious apprehensions — a new Interest will soon predominate, and will not that Interest clash with our own in some essential points, and be indifferent to many others which we esteem of the greatest importance ? " You see that, tho' no longer a public servant, yet, like many other private Men, the weight of public affairs still lay heavy on my shoulders, and that, not content with bearing my share of present Evils, I am looking into futurity for an addition to the burthen. . . . " Sincerely Yours, Rob. Walsh." "Norwich, 21 Feb^ 1802." " My dear Sir, "... I regret extremely to find the Judiciary system destroyed, fearing and believing it done with evident marks of contempt for the Government of our country — this great barrier being removed, there is no restraint to the passions of the now governing characters in Congress ; and when publick opinion, or rather the voice of the mob, becomes the law of our country, anarchy and confusion must follow ; and I believe the supporters of that sentiment will, at some future day, when too late, mourn in bitterness the hour they promoted it, to the destruction of order. I have my fears that confusion is fast ripening to the state it was in in France, not that I expect a Guillotine, but a sepai-ation of the Union, a rising of servants against masters, and Virginia begging aid of the Northern States. "« Alluding to the removal of Elizur Goodrich from the office of Collector of the Port of New Haven. CS^tfstuoltr " By reports of the debates, or rather the rapid passage of every favorite measure of the Virginia Interest, it appears there is no use in our northern federal members remaining there — would it not be as well for you all to return home, and leave them to themselves? I think it probable some might feel the force of Mr. Morris'" obser- vation, and want the protecting force of the Judiciary to save them ; it is said here that your business in the House of Representatives is finished to your hands before it comes into the house, and without the knowledge of about -J- of its members— if so, that one third can only experience a mortification by being present at the passage of the business ; if they have fortitude enough to bear it, and to stand ready to defend their own principles, much is due to them. . . . " I believe it is well known to you that the French spoliations were more severely felt by the commercial interest of this town and vicinity, in proportion to our mem- bers and capital, than almost any town or place that is within my knowledge, except Alexandria ; a great proportion of our traders have been totally ruined, and others are great sufferers. We are now preparing a memorial to Congress, praying com- pensation for the claims we had against the French Government, which for some purpose have been bartered by our Government, and left us no other hope but in the justice of the Government. . . . Should justice be refused, I fear ruin will be attached to many, and bye and bye the commercial interest will be less tenacious of their sacred regard to the revenue. . . . We hope for the best, but, if driven to a pointed enmity to the revenue-system, it appears to me they could as effectually ruin it as the Virginia interest have ruined the Judiciary, not by a majority of only one, but by a unanimous vote. I feel a pride in the belief that our Connecticut Members of both Houses know the true interest of their country, and that it has a warm place in their hearts, which principle, united with their desire of justice, will secure them to us as advocates in this cause. . . . " ¥"■ friend and serv' J. Howland." "Hon"'' Roger Griswold Esq." "Knoxville, Dec. 26"", 1803." " Sir, " The Exertions you have made to stem the torrent of Democratic Delusion, and to support the constitution of our country against the insidious attacks of the Demagogues who now rule, have induced me to address you on a subject which, if my opinions are correct, every Friend to the Constitution is interested in. I allude to the late requisition of the militia of this State by the General Government. 99 Altho' we can not here obtain the Documents relative to this business, yet I believe no doubt can exist but that they were called on to assist in taking possession of Louisiana. The requisition has subjected a number of the People of this State to great inconvenience in hiring substitutes, and a large proportion of those who have been drafted have been fined for refusing to muster in. I see no Power given to the General Government by the Constitution to require the services of the Militia on such occasions, or to march them out of the United States ; and, believing that the measure was illegal, I was determined not to submit to it, and have been fined 25 Dolls., as have also a number of the Inhabitants of this County ; tho' I do not regard the sum, yet, as I am unwilling to support the present Administration further than my Duty as a citizen requires, I feel an Inclination that this business should be examined into. If you are of opinion, with me, that the requisition was unconstitutional, I hope you will endeavour to procure an investigation. If it has no other Effect, it will con- tribute to open the Eyes of the People of the Western Country, and discover what reliance can be placed on the hypocritical professions of attachment to the Constitu- tion which the ruling Party are and have been so much in the Habit of making. The signatures of a large proportion of the People can easily be obtained to a remonstrance, if necessary. Trusting you will excuse the Liberty I have taken, I remain, with sentiments of the Highest Esteem and Respect, " Your Most Ob' Serv' Tho ; Emmerson." "Hartford, 25 July, 1812." " My dear Sir, " I left home with an intention of visiting the seaboard, pursuant to an arrangement partially made when I took my leave of you at this place. Not having learned whether the orders you issued to the Major Gen' on the coast were executed, hearing nothing from you or our friends who accompanied you, and receiving intel- ligence that a British fleet had come into our waters, I felt it a duty to visit the region in and about Lyme at least, for the purpose of ascertaining the condition and the feel- ings of the good people in that quarter. Just as I was taking my departure, a letter was received from the Secretary of War, in answer to the despatch I forwarded immediately on my return from the session of the council. Copies of both are enclosed. Of the Secretary's letter I shall say nothing — it will speak abundantly for itself. My letter to him followed very closely the reasoning, and indeed the lan- guage, of the council. Their result having met your approbation, I did not feel (S^tffiiinoltr myself at liberty to depart essentially from it. You will perceive, my dear Sir, the evident propriety that the reply to the Secretary should, if possible, proceed from your hand. Aside from this consideration which is in some degree personal, a new question arises out of the declaration of the President ' that the United States are in imminent danger of invasion,' and one perhaps which the council did not particularly consider. Altho' there is no difficulty in resisting this renewed requisition, on the ground that our second objection remains in full force, still I see not but the question above mentioned must be met. " Mr. Dwight has just returned, and informs me you are on your way to Connec- ticut. I despatch an express, not for the purpose of hastening your journey, which for the sake of your health I beg you not to do, but to learn your wishes as to the course to be pursued. Shall the council be convened ? This measure I had resolved to take by the advice of our friends here, and should have issued letters missive on Monday, if no intelligence had been received from you. " Whatever directions you may please to forward shall be scrupulously obeyed. . . . " I am, my dear Sir, in haste, but most sincerely and affectionately yours, J. C. Smith." " His Excellency Governor Griswold." The foregoing letter from Lieut. Governor John Cotton Smith is a valuable missing link in the correspondence between State-authorities and the General Government, on the subject of Secretary of War Dearborn's requisition for troops of the militia of Connecticut, to be ordered into the service of the United States, on the breaking out of the War of 1812. It does not appear among the letters and other documents, relating to this subject, published by Dwight in his " History of the Hartford Conven- tion." But more important and interesting, in the same connection, is the following draft of a letter written by Governor Griswold, on the 4**" of Auo-ust 18 1 2, to Secretary Dearborn, which, it is beheved, has never appeared in print, and was, perhaps, never sent. Being found among the family-papers, it is put on record here as an additional tribute to his mem- ory. The date of the letter is the same as that of the meeting of the ^tfistooltr General Assembly of Connecticut, fully referred to by Dwight, in which Governor Grisvvold's conduct in this affair was entirely approved.™ " Hartford, Aug. 4*', 1812." " Sir, " His Honour Gov. Smitii has put into my hands your letter of the 14''' of July, and it is with surprise I notice the construction you have put on my letter of the 17"" of June. The unusual and exceptionable terms, also, in which your letter is expressed, have not escaped notice ; I shall not, however, descend to any comment upon its particular expressions, but perform my duty to the General Gov'nt in giving the explanation which appears proper. " When you communicated the request of the President, that any future requisi- tion from General Dearborn for a part of the drafted militia might be complied with, it was uncertain whether such requirement would be made, or, if made, under what circumstances it might take place. Confident, however, that the President would authorize no requisition which was not strictly constitutional, and particularly that the order would not exceed the conditions of the Act of the lo"" of April to which you had referred, I felt no hesitation in giving a general assurance that such requisi- tion as the President might make through General Dearborn would be complied with. I then thought, as I do still, that decency and a due respect to the first Magis- trate of the Union required that my assurance should be general, and that no expres- sion should be used which carried with it a suspicion that the President might transgress the Constitution in the direction he might give. I also expected that this early and general assurance would be considered as evidence of a disposition which has been uniformly felt in this State to execute every constitutional requisition from the general gov'nt. In whatever light, however, my expressions may have been viewed, I trust I shall be now understood, when 1 assure you that I did not intend, or expect to be understood, by the general language of my letter, or any expression it contained, to engage that I would execute any order which I thought, on considera- tion, to be repugnant to the Constitution, from whatever authority it might emanate. The light in which I have viewed the requisition now made through General Dearborn has been already communicated by Gov. Smith ; and it is only proper to add that my opinion of its unconstitutionality remains unchanged, and is happily confirmed by the unanimous opinion of the Council of this State. " The new light in which you have presented the subject in your letter to Gov. "" History of the Hartford Convention. ... By Theodore Dwight. . . . New York and Boston, 1833, pp. 237-67. ^tfstiioltr Smith has received every attention, but cannot, in my judgment, change the opinion already formed. The war which has commenced, and the cruising of a hostile fleet on our coast, is not invasion, and the declaration of the President, that there is immi- nent danger of invasion, is evidently a consequence drawn from the facts now disclosed, and, I am compelled to say, is not, in my opinion, warranted by those facts. If such consequence were admitted to result from a state of war, and from the facts now mentioned, and which always must attend a war with an European power, it would follow that every war of that character would throw the militia into the hands of the National Gov'nt, and strip the States of the important right reserved to them. But it is proper for me further to observe that I have found difficulty in fixing in my own mind the meaning of the words imminent danger of invasion, used by Congress in the Act of the 28''' of Feb'' 1805, and now repeated in your letter, as no such expression is contained in that part of the Constitution which authorizes the President to call the militia into service. Presuming, however, that some definite meaning, thought consistent with the Constitution, was at the time annexed to the expression, I have rather inferred that the Legislature must have intended only to include an extreme case, when an enemy had not passed the line of the State, but was evidently advancing in force to invade our country. Such a case would undoubtedly come within the spirit of the Constitution, although it might not be included in its literal expression. But whether the Congress of 1805 was justified in the expression, or not, is unimpor- tant, there being no difficulty in the present case, as none of the facts disclosed permit anything more than slight and remote danger of invasion, which the Constitution could not contemplate, and which might exist even in time of peace. " Whilst I regret this difference of opinion, upon a question of serious impor- tance, I cannot doubt that the President will perceive that a sense of duty leaves no other course to pursue, and that the general government will speedily provide the troops deemed necessary for the defence of the coast of this State. " I have the honour to be, &c." "Cambridge, 3 Sept. 1812. "Dear Sir, " It is with great concern that we find your health so much impaired, espe- cially at this perilous crisis. We do hope, however, that your long journey and the mineral waters, with the blessing of Heaven, will restore it. Could your Excellency visit Boston during the autumn, would not the journey be salutary to yourself and to our sickly Commonwealth ? I am sure it would give the highest pleasure to our 103 €;^tf!9tuoitr statesmen in Boston, and have no doubt it would be of good political effect. Should you do us this honour, any attentions of mine that might contribute towards the objects of your visit would be at your command ; for, while your public services entitle you to such attentions from every citizen, they are peculiarly due to you from one who cherishes a very grateful sense of your early patronage, and who is, " With great respect and regard, " Your Excellency's humble servant A. Holmes." " His Excellency Gov. Griswold." Years before this, in the midst of Mr. Griswold's greatest activity, a disease of the heart had suddenly manifested itself ; but, though he was thenceforth hopeless of cure, his activity never ceased. The letter last quoted — written by Rev. Dr. Abiel Holmes, author of "American Annals," and father of our poet Oliver Wendell Holmes — is only one of many proofs of a really tender solicitude manifested by the public as Mr. Griswold's health continued to fail. When death had come, a Httle over a month after the date of this letter, the common admiration and mourning found expression upon his tombstone, in the burial-ground of the family overlooking Blackball River, in an epitaph by which it is still echoed, and will be transmitted to later generations : "This monument is erected to the memory of his Excellency Roger Griswold, LL.D., late Governour of this State. He was born at Lyme, May 25th, 1762 ; and died at Norwich, Oct. 25th, 1812. " He was the son of his Excellency Matthew Griswold, who had been Chief Justice of the Sup' Court. His mother was daughter of Roger Wolcott Esq. of Windsor, who was for many years Gouvernour of this State. "Gov. Griswold graduated at Yale College in 1780, and in 1785 entered upon the profession of law. At the age of 34 he was elected into the Congress of the United States. In 1807 he was appointed a Judge of the Sup'' Court, in 1809 Lieut. - Governour, and in 1811 was elected Governour; upon all these eminent stations he conferred dignity and honour. " Not less conspicuous by honorable parentage and elevated rank in society than by personal merit, talents and virtue. 104 — " ^tisituoltr 114 115 116 " He was respected at the University as an elegant and classical scholar ; quick discernment, sound reasoning, legal science and manly eloquence raised him to the first eminence at the bar. "Distinguished in the National Councils among the illustrious Statesmen of the age. Revered for his inflexible integrity and pre-eminent talents, his political course was highly honorable. " His friends viewed him with virtuous pride. His native State with honest triumph. His fame and honors were the just rewards of noble actions, and of a life devoted to his Country. " He was endeared to his family by fidelity and affection, to his neighbours by frankness and benevolence. His memory is embalmed in the hearts of surviving relatives, and of a grateful people. " When this monument shall have decayed, his name shall be enrolled with honor among the great, the wise and the good." The children of Governor Roger and Fanny (Rogers) Griswold were : (i.) AtcgustMs Henry ^ born in 1789; a shipmaster; who married Elizabeth daughter of Thomas Lansdale of Boxhill, co. Sussex, England, and had by her two sons and a daughter. He was a man of brilhant natural parts, inheriting much of his father's genius. His eldest son is Roger,^ now of Lyme, who married Julia A. daughter of Joshua Wells of East Windsor, Conn., and has two sons and a daughter. (2.) Chmdes^ born in 1791 ; graduated at Yale College in 1808; a lawyer, but commonly distinguished as Col. Charles Griswold ; Deacon of the First Church of Lyme from 1829 ; and a man active in all relig- ious and other public enterprises. He travelled in England in his early years, at a time when few Americans went abroad, and had much interest in intellectual and scientific pursuits, especially in mineralogy and in the collection of specimens for his cabinet. The present Congregational church at Lyme, built in 181 7, indirectly after a design by Sir Christopher Wren in London, is a monument to his taste and public spirit. He married Ellen Elizabeth daughter of Judge Elias Perkins of New London, I05"- <2S^tifiiU]0ltr Conn., by his wife Lucretia Sliaw Woodbridge,^' and had several children. 117 A daughter, Fa^tny Rogers,^ married: first, Dr. Shubael F. Bartlett of East Windsor, Conn.; and, secondly, Daniel Bartlett, a brother of her first husband ; and is now living at East Windsor : a son of hers is 118 Charles Grisivold^ Bartlett, now Principal of the very successful Blackball School for boys at Lyme. 119 Two of the sons of Col. Charles Griswold are {\^ James^ Griswold Esq.; graduated at Yale College in 1848 ; a lawyer of Lyme, and a much trusted legal counsellor ; who married his maternal cousin Mary Richards Perkins, a lady of great loveliness of character and person : she died, leaving one daughter, Ellinor Shaw,^ now the mistress of his house ; and (2.) Charles Henry, ^ a farmer of the same place, whose wife, Eva Morley, is a descendant of Rev. Sylvanus Griswold of the fourth generation of our Griswold family in New England (see above) ; and who has one son. Another son of Col. Griswold was {j^.^ Joseph Perkins,^ born in 1831 ; graduated at Yale in 1851 ; who, having studied law and been admitted to the bar in New London County, in 1853, began the practice of law in New London, but, after about a year, removed to the Sandwich Islands. Here he resumed the practice, and was soon after appointed Judge of the City Police Court of Honolulu. Thi-s office he held until compelled, by failing health, to resign it in 1859. He then returned home, and died of consumption at his mother's house in Lyme, June 7, i860. He was fair, had finely cut features, was very refined in person and manner, and reserved in character. 123 Another son was {a,?) John, ^ born April 24, 1837; graduated at Yale College in 1857; a gallant Captain of Volunteers in the late civil war, killed in the battle of Antietam. We are favored by his brother James with the following beautiful sketch of his brief but noble life : 120 121 122 "1 The Woodbridge Record. . Haven, 1883, p. 108. . . By the late Louis Mitchell. Privately printed. New 106 ^ttniaoltf "After graduation, in 1857, Capt. John Griswold studied civil engin- eering at home, and was afterwards for some time engaged in surveying public lands of the United States in the far West. In i860 he sailed from New London to the Sandwich Islands, in the service of Messrs. Williams and Haven ; who employed him in making voyages of discovery in the Pacific. On hearing of the beginning of the Civil War, he returned home in September, 1861, by the way of San Francisco, and across the plains by stage. His first impulse was to go into the army as a private, but by advice of friends he saw Governor Buckingham, who at once promised him a commission, telling him to return to Lyme meanwhile, to recruit men for his company. While thus engaged, in December, 1861, he received a sudden telegraphic order to take the Hartford boat that night to join the ii"" Regiment Connecticut Volunteers as Captain, and went on board after only four hours' notice. He served with Burnside through the Roanoke Island and Newbern expedition, was several times in action ; and was for a time on Gen. Foster's staff as Commissary. When his regi- ment was ordered to the North, with the prospect of active service, by his own special request he was transferred back to the II*^ and was in the battle of Antietam. There he was mortally wounded by a ball through his body, while fording the river near Antietam bridge at the head of his company. He died near the field the next day, September 17*^ 1862. He was little more than twenty-five years of age. His remains were sent North by the express order of Gen. Burnside, and are buried in the family- graveyard on Blackball River at Lyme. 'At home he was always the life and joy of the family, and abroad he gained very many warm friends, some of whom remember him vividly and lovingly after all these years. He was singularly active, energetic, adven- turous and fearless. His handsome face was full of quick intelligence ; his form almost perfect, at once powerful and graceful ; and his carriage and bearing so erect and poised, yet so easy and light, as to attract attention everywhere. He was a skilled athlete, swimmer, swordsman and draughts- man. From his Pacific wanderings he sent home many charming, spirited sketches of the coral and volcanic islands. For his age his acquirements were extensive. In addition to his classical knowledge he had studied mineralogy and chemistry, and read French and Spanish with ease. He IQ7 Cl^tiSiUioltr carried a Spanish testament habitually with him, and his last words (indis- tinctly heard) were in Spanish. " He was a constant reader, and his memory held a store of classical literature. One of his comrades writes that, once on a dusty march, com- ing suddenly on a spring of fresh water, he repeated from Horace : ' O fons Bandusiae splendidior vitro ' — "giving the whole ode from memory. "Among his favorite books were Charles Kingsley's novels, especially 'Amyas Leigh ' — the heroic manliness of Kingsley's heroes was all his own. " The pati'iotic sentiment was always strong in him. To die for the country and the old flag — this seemed to him better than living to grow old. Major Davis tells of walking with him during the Newbern expedi- tion to the grave of the gallant Capt. Lee of the ii* who had been killed a few days before. They had gathered some wild flowers and dropped them on Lee's grave. ' Poor Lee,' said Davis. ' Not so,' said Griswold, ' I say happy Lee, fortunate Lee. What life could he or any of us lead better than to die for our country ! Fortunate Lee !' " The same feeling was supreme when his own death came. General Burnside went to him a short time before the end, as he was lying in a tent. As he knelt down beside him, Capt. Griswold took one of his hands, and said : ' General, do you remember when I asked you at New- bern to transfer me back to my Regiment, that I might again see active service, that I told you I then gave my life to you and to my country ? General, you have it.' General Burnside, deeply affected said : ' Captain, I thank you for myself and for our country. You have done your country noble service ;' and, on the latter asking if he had any request to make, he desired that if convenient when the General went North he would see his mother and tell her he died while fighting for his country. After- wards, seeing many of his brother-officers standing about in sorrow, all mourning that his death was near, he said with a smile : ' Why, what is the matter ? You do not feel sorry for me, do you ! I am just as I wished to be — I die for my country.' " Though there were very many heroic deaths during the war, his last hours left an unusually deep impression on those who were present. Burn- side spoke of it with much feeling, years afterwards, when in New London." I08 ^rfstuoltr 124 125 126 127 128 129 When news came that he was wounded, the mother and eldest brother, James, set out to join him, taking lint and bandage for his wounds. His mother, refined, cultivated, high-minded, romantic, saw in him the "con- quering hero " who would return to maintain the honors of his name and blood ; she went out full of hope, seeming to have no thought that he could lay down forever a life so full of gifts and promise. She did not find him living. The sad party came back with only the mournful privi- lege of burying him with his kindred. (3.) Matthew^ born in 1792 ; who married Phoebe Hubbard daugh- ter of Col. Seth Ely of North Lyme, and settled as a farmer on the ancestral estate of Blackball, in a house built by his father ; where he lived to his eighty-eighth year, dying in 1880; and left his widow with several daughters at home. To these ladies we are chiefly indebted for the loan of family-papers used in this memorial. He occupied the house built by his father, and owned most of his large farm. He was a domestic man, took care of his mother, who lived to extreme old age, devoted himself to his family, who cherish his memory with much respect and affection, and was always ready to give a cordial welcome to the many persons of Griswold descent, near or remote, who came to see the family-seat at Blackball, and to renew their intercourse with their kindred. His only son, Matthew,^ is now of Erie, Pa., and has six sons and one daughter, by two marriages. One daughter, Lydia Maria,^ married John C. Selden of Erie, Pa.; and another, Fanny Rogers,^ married Horace S. Ely of New York. (4.) Frances Ann^ born in 1 795 ; who married her cousin Chief Justice Ebenezer Lane (see below) of Sandusky, Ohio, graduated at Harvard College in 181 1, made LL.D. there in 1880, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio, a learned lawyer and scholar ; and had a son, William Griswold^ Lane, the accomplished and amiable Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the Fourth Judicial District of Ohio, who was born in 1824, graduated at Yale College in 1843, ^"d died in 1877. WiUiam Griswold Lane married his second cousin Elizabeth Diodate (69) 109 ^rfsiooltr Griswold, a descendant of our first Matthew Griswold, on her father's side, through a brother of her husband's grandfather Governor Roger Griswold (see below), and, on her mother's side, through Rev. George Griswold of Giant's Neck (see above). She survives her husband with four children. 130 (5.) Roger Wolcotl,'^ born in 1797; graduated at Yale College in 131 1818; a lawyer; who married his third cowsm Juliet'^ daughter of Thomas (58) Griswold, niece of the New York merchants Nathaniel Lynde and George Griswold above mentioned ; settled at Ashtabula, Ohio ; had several sons and daughters ; and died in 1878. A daughter of Roger Wolcott Griswold is Mrs. Joseph Badger (Juliet Elizabeth^ ) Hall, now of Chicago, 111. Her son Roger Griswold'^ Hall married Mary Louise daughter of William A. Patrick of Rutland, Vt, a brother of the mother of Frederick W. Gookin of Chicago. (6.) Eliza Woodbridge,'^ born in 1799 ; who married Charles Leicester Boalt of Norwalk, Ohio, a lawyer of high position ; had several sons and two daughters; and died in 1878. One of the sons is John Henry,^ Judge of Common Pleas in Nevada, now a lawyer of distinction in San Francisco, Cal. One of the daughters, Frances Griszvold Lane,^ is the wife of Jay Osborne Moss, a wealthy financier of Sandusky, Ohio. (7.) ]\'Iarian,^ born in 1801; who married Thomas Shaw Perkins, a lawyer, son of Judge Elias Perkins of New London, Conn.; and had eleven children. A daughter, Cornelia Leonard,^ was the wife of David Hubbard Nevins of New York City, late of Waterford, Conn. A son, Roger Griswold,^ was a physician of New York, and afterwards lived on a plantation near Camden, S. C, belonging to the family of his wife, a cousin of his on the Perkins side. She survives him, without children, and is now living on an ancestral estate of her own in South Carolina. 140 Another son of Mrs. Perkins is Qtx\. Joseph Griswold^ Perkins of Lyme, brevetted General for gallant services in the late civil war, whose wife Louisa Mather Griswold descends from both the Giant's Neck (see above) 141 and Blackball branches of the family. A third son is Professor Maurice^ 132 133, 134 135 136 ^n 138 139 CS^tfiSluoltr Perkins, Professor of Chemistry in Union College, who married Anna daughter of Rev. Dr. Potts of New York. The only surviving daughter 142 is Lucretia Shaw Woodbridge,^ a lady of unusual acquisitions and varied accomplishments, which she has made useful to others by private teaching. 143 (8.) William Frederick^ born in 1804 ; a captain in the China trade ; who married Sarah daughter of William Noyes of Lyme ; had two sons, 144 of whom the one now living is William Noyes^ of New York, and two daughters; and died in 185 1. He improved the leisure of his long voyages for much study and reading, by which he became a man of high culture. 145 (9-) Robert Harper^ born in 1806; a shipmaster; who married Helen daughter of Edward Powers of Guilford, Conn., by whom he had three daughters and one son, the latter not now living. He was a favorite commander of packet-ships of the John Griswold Line, saiHng between New York and London, a man of much reading, and, in his prime, of elegant manners and great personal beauty. H^e died in Lyme in 1882, after years of lingering infirmity and pain. His daughters, with their mother, now conduct a Family-School for young ladies in their father's fine old house in Lyme, devoting themselves more especially to instruction in the elegant branches, in which they are proficient. 146 (lO-) James ^ who died in infancy. We now return to follow out the succession of the children of Gov. Matthew and Ursula (Wolcott) Griswold : 147 4. Urs7ila,^ born in i 744 ; who died an infant. 148 5. Hannah,^ born in 1746; who died in childhood. 149 6. Marian,^ born April 17, 1750; a very handsome woman; who married : first, September 29, 1 769, Charles Church Chandler of Wood- stock, Conn., an eminent lawyer, " frequently a member of the State Legislature and elected to the Continental Congress,"'^ who died in 1787 ; by whom she had several children. One of her daughters by this first "^ Hyde Genealogy, ut supra, ii. 8g2. ^trfsitooltr 150 marriage, Mary Ann,'' married May 18, 1794, James Lanman of Norwich, Conn., United States Senator and Judge of the Supreme Court of Con- necticut ; and had, with many other children : 151 I. Charles Jamcs,^ born in 1795 ; graduated at Yale College in 1814; who married Marie Jeannie Guie, and had nine children, among whom 152 were: (i.) Charles,^ born in 1819 ; of Washington, D. C; an author; 153 and (2.) Maria7ine Chandler,^ born in 1826; who married John 154 De Peyster Douw, and had, beside other children, Mary Lanman}'^ now the wife of Morris Patterson Ferris, a son of the late Chancellor Ferris of the New York University. 155 2. Eliza,^ born in 1800; who married Amos Hallam Hubbard of Norwich, Conn., and had, beside other children who died young : (i.) 156 Mar ianna Lanman,^ now the widow of John F. Slater of Norwich, the founder of the Slater Fund for education at the South ; (2.) Thomas 157 Hallam,^ who married his cousin Sarah Coit daughter of Charles James 158 Lanman ; and (3.) James Lanman,^ who married Charlotte Learned of 159 Norwich, and had Charles Learned}-^ 160 3. Harriet,^ born in 1804; who married Jacob Wyckoff Piatt, and 161 \v2iA John Henry ^ (Y. C. 1855), Brevet Major in the late civil war, who married Julia Goddard. 162 4. Joajina Boylston,^ born in 1808 ; who was the first wife of the late Hon. Lafayette Sabin Foster of Norwich, Conn., at one time acting Vice President of the United States. 163 <^. James Henry, ^ born in 1812; the tenth child of his parents; a lawyer, and for some years a successful writer ; author of a history of Michigan, and of articles in " Hunt's Merchants' Magazine." Marian (Griswold) Chandler married, secondly, Capt. Ebenezer Lane 164 of Northampton, Mass., and had by him one child. Chief Justice Ebenezer'' Lane (b. 1793) above mentioned. After the death of Capt. Lane in 1808, his widow married, thirdly, Justin Ely Esq. of West Springfield, Mass., whom she survived, without ^tCsituolTr 165 children by him; and she herself died June 17, 1829. An obituary of Mrs. Marian (Grisvvold) Chandler-Lane-Ely, published at the time of her death, says of her : " She was a woman of strong and vigorous intellectual powers. The earlier part of her life had been spent at a time when female education was considered (compar- atively speaking) as of little or no consequence ; of course, her advantages for mental improvement were not like those enjoyed by young ladies of the present day. Yet, by the judicious instructions of an estimable mother, subsequent reading and an extensive observation of men and things, combined with a very retentive memory, her mind had been stored with such a fund of general information as rendered her not only a very agreeable, but a very useful, companion— one whose society was courted by people of all ages. Remarkably active in her habits, and a great econo- mist of time, she was ever, during the successive years of a protracted life, diligently employed in something to benefit herself or others, regarding it as an imperative duty to consecrate every moment, and every faculty she possessed, to some useful employment. Entitled by birth and family-connections (numbering among her nearest relatives five Governors, and many men of acknowledged talents, occupying the highest offices in the State) to an elevated rank in society, and placed by three successive marriages in a commanding sphere in life, she never cherished any of those contracted feelings of self-importance which too often characterize people of wealth and influence ; but ever held up the idea, and acted upon the principle, that intrinsic personal merit was all that could entitle a person to respect and esteem ; and under the influence of this principle her affable and conciliating manners endeared her to all classes of her fellow-creatures with whom she was in any degree connected. She had lived through a long period of time, and been deeply interested in many eventful scenes, but amid them all had been heard to exclaim 'It is the Lord, let Him do as seemeth Him good.' . . . We trust that she died in the faith of the Gospel. . . .'"" 7. Ursula,^ born April 13, 1754; who inherited the Wolcott beauty; married, November 22, 1777, her third cousin, by Hyde descent, Lynde M'^Curdy of Norwich, Conn., son of John M'^Curdy of Lyme (see '^' For farther notices of Mrs. Marian (Griswold) Chandler-Lane-Ely, and of her several husbands see The Chandler Family. . . . collected by George Chandler. . . . Worcester, 1883, pp. 131, 279-82. In this book it is said that, "when first asked to become Mrs. Ely, her grief and surprise were manifested in her reply : ' Oh ! I can't think of burying another husband !' " 113 1 66 JWatCtttJfff ) ; had two sons and one daughter, Ursula;'' and died November 27, 1781. The daughter Ursula, a beautiful woman, married Hon. John Allen of Litchfield, Conn., one of the great lawyers of the State, and Member of Congress, and was the mother of Hon. John 167 William^ Allen of Cleveland, Ohio, formerly State Senator and Member 168 of Congress; and of Ursula M'Curdy^ Allen now the widow of the late Judge Sherlock James Andrews of Cleveland (see IWacCttttrtrg)* JOHN (iio-ii), the eldest child of Governor Matthew and Ursula (Wolcott) Griswold, was born April 20, 1752 ; was Deacon of the First Church of Lyme from 1797; married, November 5, 1772, Sarah daughter of Rev. Stephen Johnson of Lyme, by Elizabeth daughter of William Diodate of New Haven, Conn., of the ancient and highly disdnguished Diodati family of Lucca in Italy (see (!^6tr(n=^0t)n!$0n and 19fOTra(ti)« A portrait of him taken in his old age shows a very large man with a fine head, handsome features and the large black eyes of the family. He was offered public offices of distinction, but preferred to remain in private life; and died November 22, 1812. The epitaphs of him and his wife in the Duck River Burying-Ground at Lyme are as follows : "Deacon John Griswold was born at Lyme the 20th day of April 1752, and died on the 22d day of November 181 2. He was the eldest son of the first Governor Griswold, and Brother of the second. As a friend and neighbor he was hospitable and generous, honest and honorable as a man, and in his faith and life exemplary as a Christian. To tell those who knew him the place where he was buried, and to offer his character for imitation to those who knew him not, this stone to his memory is erected." " Sacred to the memory of Mrs. Sarah Griswold, the amiable consort of Deacon John Griswold, who died Jan>' 4th, 1802, aged 53 years, 10 mos. and 26 days." " Sleep on dear friend till the last morn shall come. When Christ shall summon all his children home. Then may we meet in realms of joy above, And join in bonds of everlasting love." 114 ^trifiitDOltr A funeral-sermon preached on the death of Mrs. Sarah (Johnson) Griswold, by Rev. William Lyman of East Haddam, Conn., says: "She was a pattern of humility, gentleness, patience, tenderness and affection." Their children were : 169 (i.) Diodate Johnson^ born December 16, 1773; graduated at Yale College in 1793; who married Sarah Colt of Lyme, Conn.; and died March 17, 1850, s. p. It was natural that Mrs. Griswold should call her eldest son Diodate, and give him every privilege to which his birth and other circumstances entitled him. The traditions and interests of her family were associated with Yale College, of which her father had been a graduate and Fellow. Diodate Johnson entered Yale in 1 789. Not only his name (Deoda- tus) but all his surroundings expressed God's bounty. When he was born, and afterwards for eleven years, his grandfather Griswold was Deputy- Governor and Chief Justice, and the last year of his office as Governor was when Diodate was thirteen years of age. Eight years later, his uncle Roger Griswold became a Member of Congress, and his distinguished career did not end till nineteen years after the nephew had been graduated. His near relatives the Wolcotts were in the midst of their eminent careers. His family on all sides, before him, and his brothers and sisters were staid, sensible and thoroughly correct in all their conduct. Into such a circle was Diodate born — gay, debonair, pleasure-loving, pleasure-seeking — like a bright bubble rising on a deep and solemn sea. From what strain there came that erratic, irresponsible nature which was his destruction, we cannot learn. Perhaps it was some current of his Italian blood which gave him his gay and thoughtless temperament. At the close of the Revolution, owing, perhaps, somewhat to the examples of French officers, there was a low state of public morals in many high places. New Haven was affected by the taint. His personal attractions were remarkable ; old New Haven ladies have described his beauty to the writer, and have spoken of his superb "5 Ci^tfstDoltr voice for singing, his great talent for acting, mimicry and dancing. An old lady has described his appearance when she danced with him at a Com- mencement ball : during the ball he appeared in two different costumes, which showed his elegant form to perfection — one a complete suit of black satin, with small-clothes and silk stockings, the other also of satin, but in light, fanciful colors. He had passed middle age when the writer first remembers him, in her childhood. He was then still a man of fine figure, slender, erect, very graceful, elastic and full of movement, with a finely shaped head, handsome features and large brilliant black eyes, but pale and hollow-cheeked ; and entertaining, witty, and quick to use his wit to the discomfiture of the relatives who disapproved of him. He was always kind to the writer, and she recalls no unkind or bitter word, or reproach, of himself or others. In due time he became the owner of his father's house, and the estate belonging with it, at Lyme ; and married the lady who was his wife — of the good family of Colts of Lyme, from which sprang the Hartford family. She was educated in Hartford, and Mr. George Griffin of New York, as good a connoisseur of fine women as he was Judge of good law, used to say that, for elegance of person and manners, he had never known a lady who was her superior. But Mr. Griswold's wife did not bring to him her heart ; and habits begun in the convivial society of his youth became con- firmed in domestic life. She finally left him, with the consent and respect of all his family, and Hved to old age in Wilkesbarr^, Pa., a life of refined, literary seclusion. His property gradually fell away from him, and for years he was supported by his brothers. For many of his last years the Hartford Retreat was selected as his boarding-place. After his death Dr. Butler wrote to the writer that, in his late years, there had come over him a great change, which he believed to be a religious one. What a life to recall in old age ! Seventy-seven years of lost oppor- tunities, of failure to do life's work ! Yet we hope he was received at last, entering the vineyard at the eleventh hour. We give his history with the Ii6 Cfi^tffiJtUOlTf more fulness because he was the only one of his race who has left reproach with his memory. 170 (2.) Ursula'' (see below). 171 (3-) Elizabeth,'^ born October 15, 1778; who married, March 28, 1802, Jacob Barker Gurley of New London, Conn., graduated at Dart- mouth College in 1 793, a man of very astute mind and high character ; a lawyer. State's Attorney and President of the New London Bank ; and died a widow, June 22, 1857, having had ten children, all of whom except one she survived. She bore her great griefs with an almost stoical composure, and to her last days met her friends with a calm and cheerful mien. Her only living 1 72 descendants are Mrs. Elizabeth ^ (Gurley) Merrow, and her three children, 173 daughter of her daughter Ellen^ who married her cousin Charles Artemas 1 74 Gurley ; three great granddaughters, children of Mrs. Ursula Wolcott ^ 175 (Noyes) Grosvenor, daughter of her daughter Sarah Griswold^ who married Joseph Noyes of Lyme, Conn.; and a great grandson, son of 176 Mrs. Mary Gurley^ (Noyes) Selden. 177 (4-) Sarah^ born August 12, 1781; who married, March 4, 1803, John Lyon Gardiner Esq., the seventh proprietor of the Manor of Gardiner's Island, N. Y., by whom she had five children ; and died February 10, 1863. Mrs. Gardiner was a lady of much strength of mind and dignity of character. During a long widowhood she had the management of a large estate, and administered its hospitalities as a true "lady of the manor." At the time of this marriage the original charter of Gardiner's Island, which made it an entirely independent and separate plantation, with no responsi- bility for laws civil or ecclesiastical, was no longer in force ; and the lord- ship, with right of advowson, and to hold a court leet and a court baron, which had been subsequently created, was extinguished by the establish- ment of the Republic of the United States. But the property was still entailed on the eldest son. The eldest son 178 of this marriage, David Johnso7i,^ was the last who received the property 117 ^tffiitDOltr 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 I by entail. Later, there were of course changes in the tenure. The island has been retained, however, in the family down to the present time, the present proprietor. Col. Jolui Lyon,^ being the twelfth of this ancient manor. His immediate predecessors were his elder brother David,^ the eleventh lord, his father Samuel Buell,^ the tenth lord, diVL^John Griswold,^ the ninth, the last two both younger sons of this Griswold marriage. Col. John Lyon Gardiner married Cora Livingston Jones, and has four children, of whom the eldest bears the name of the first Lord of the Manor, Lion.^^ One of the children of this marriage was Sarah Diodate^ now the widow of the late David Thompson of New York. Mr. Thompson was a gentleman well known and respected in New York. He was President of the New York Life Insurance and Trust Company for nearly twenty- five years. No one of his day was more honored for personal worth, and high character in every respect. He was the son of Hon. Jonathan Thompson, whose integrity is also remembered as Collector of Direct Taxes and Internal Revenue during the war of 181 2, Collector of the Port under Monroe and John Quincy Adams, and President of the Manhattan Bank. The family of Thompson is descended from Mr. John Thompson who came to Long Island in 1656, and was soon a large owner of property there, a man of importance in those times. The family have ever since been among the large land-owners on Long Island. The estate of Jona- than Thompson, which he inherited from his father Judge Isaac Thompson, is known as Sagtikos Patent, and is still owned by the family. Mary Bri-ell ^ Gardiner, a younger daughter of this marriage, was very refined, lovely and interesting. She died young. One of the children of Sarah Diodate (Gardiner) and David Thompson is Sarah Gardiner,^ now the wife of David Lyon Gardiner of New Haven, Conn., of the same Gardiner ancestry as herself, her mother being his third cousin. Mr. Gardiner's father was one of that distinguished company, invited by President Tyler to an excursion on the "Princeton" in 1844, who were killed by the explosion of a gun on board. His beautiful sister Julia soon afterwards became the second wife of President Tyler. 118 ^viuiaoltt 187 (5.) John^ born August 14, 1783 ; an affluent Shipping Merchant of New York, head of the famous old line of London packet-ships which bore his name. He was a tall, finely formed man with a very noble hand- some face. He married: first, May 16, 1814, Elizabeth Mary daughter of General Zachariah Huntington of Norwich, Conn.; and, secondly, in 1826, Louisa Wilson of Newark, N. J., an English lady, who survived him ; and died August 4, 1856, j. /. In memory of Mrs. Elizabeth Mary (Huntington) Griswold the following lines were written by Mrs. Sigourney : " She was as a rose Gathered in loveliness 'mid perfumed flowers, And warbling birds of love, yet drooping still For the pure breath of that celestial clime Where summer hath no cloud. She with firm hand Grasped the strong hope of everlasting life, And then, in trembling yet confiding trust. Did dare the waves of Death's tempestuous flood."'" (6.) Mary Ann^ born February 25, 1786; who married, November 6, 1809, Levi H. Clark of Middletown, Conn., a lawyer; and died January 189 31, 1812. Mrs. Elisabeth Brainerd^ (Clark) White, widow of Bushnell White Esq., a lawyer of Cleveland, Ohio ("a very brilliant man and a igo magnetic speaker"), and mother oi John Griswold"^ White, is her daughter. 191 (7.) Charles Chandler^ born November 9, 1787; who married, July 10, 1822, his third cousin Elizabeth daughter of Thomas Griswold of the Giant's Neck branch (see above) ; by whom he had, with other children, Elizabeth Diodate (69), who married Judge William Griswold Lane, and Sarah Johnson (70), who married Lorillard Spencer; and died January 27, 1869, leaving a widow who died, in Lyme, December 19, 1888. In early life Charles Chandler Griswold was in business in Savannah ; but he returned to his family-property at Blackball, where he removed his father's house, and built a large modern mansion, retaining near it, for his "* Hyde Genealogy, ut supra, ii. 88.V 119 €^ti0tD(i(tr own use, the well that had been dug for the first Matthew Griswold. There he spent the rest of his life, being a silent partner of his brother John in New York, in his large shipping-business. By the Will of his brother he received the greater part of his estate. Ursula (170), second child and eldest daughter of Deacon John and Sarah (Johnson) Griswold, was born December 2, 1775 ; married, Septem- ber 10, 1794, her third cousin Richard M^Curdy (see J^aC^tttJrg) ; and died May 25, 181 1. Mrs. M'=Curdy was of a warm and enthusiastic nature, and perhaps the Italian (Diodati) blood in the family-veins most fully expressed itself in her. She was affectionate, overflowing with kind words and deeds, devoted to her husband and children, and above all a devout Christian, leaving behind her, on her death at the early age of thirty-five, many religious writings. Rev. F. W. Hotchkiss of Saybrook, Conn., said of her, in a funeral- sermon : "As a daughter, sister, mother and wife she was a worthy descendant of an illustrious line of ancestors, and justly viewed as a woman of exalted spirit. . . ." 192 One of their children is Judge Charles Johnson'^ M'^Curdy of Lyme, who, having served his country in various conspicuous and important posi- tions at home, and as representative of the United States in Austria, retired from the bench of the Supreme Court of Connecticut in 1867, on reaching the constitutional limit of age ; but still retains (1888) much of the sprightliness and vigor of youthful years, to the delight and profit of all who come into the sunny atmosphere of his society (see JHacCUf iTg), His only child, 193 Evelyn,^ is one of the authors of this work. Another child of Richard 194 and Ursula (Griswold) M^Curdy was the late Robert Henry ^ M^Curdy of New York, a leading Merchant and public-spirited citizen, one of the first and most influential movers in support of the Government in the late war ; ^i^visUiotlr 195 whose eldest son is Theodore Frelinglmysen^ M'^Curdy of Norwich, Conn., 196 dXi^ stcowA sow, Richard Aldrich'^ M'^Curdy, is President of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York. Mr. Robert Henry M'^Curdy 197 had three daughters : the eldest of whom, Gertrude Mercer,^ is the wife of Hon. Gardiner Greene Hubbard of Washington, D. C, and mother of 198 Mabel Gardiner}^ now Mrs. Alexander Graham Bell ; and the two others, ■^99 1 Sarah Lord^ and Roberta Wolcott,^ are married, respectively, to Dr. Elias Joseph Marsh of Paterson, N. J., and Charles Mercer Marsh Esq. of New York (see i^at©ttr?ri>)« The fifth son of Richard and Ursula (Griswold) 201 M'^Curdy was Alexajtder Lynde^ M'^Curdy, lately deceased, of Santa Barbara, California, who left two daughters (see if^ac^ttt*5fg). The youngest child of the Griswold-M^Curdy marriage was the late Mrs. Sarah 202 Ann^ widow of Stephen Johnson Lord of Lyme. She was admired in her youth for her great beauty, and in later years for the refinement, dignity and symmetry of her character. Two sons, now of Kansas City, 203 Mo., survive her; and a daughter, Gertrude M'Ctcrdy,^ the wife of Dr. Edward Dorr Griffin of Lyme, who is himself, also, a Griswold by descent, through the eminent lawyer George Griffin of New York, above mentioned (see ILOVtf), Here the writers finish their sketch of the history of the descendants of the first Matthew Griswold, covering a period of nearly two hundred and fifty years. The male descendants have not been very numerous. It is the record of a family that has been unusually free from those vicissitudes which, in the case of many families, are so apt to be found, in the lapse of several generations, to have lowered the social standing of some of their members or branches. This family has numbered among its members, by blood or marriage, many individuals of distinction ; while with only few exceptions all have been worthy in character and highly respectable in position. The foregoing monograph is a reprint from "The Magazine of American History. Edited by Mrs. Martha J. Lamb. New York, 1884," xi. pp. 120-55, 218-38, 310-34. But important additions and other changes have been made. Notes on tije iFatniflff of Mt Wiolf Following the suggestions of Dr. James Ratchford De Wolf of Wolfville, Nova Scotia, who has most efficiently cooperated with us in the preparation of this paper, we may begin by saying that " Wolf," with or without prefixes, or its equivalent, is found very extensively used as a surname, in different nations having different languages. Not being taken from any name of place, but suggested by the intimate association of primitive man with other animals, and by fancy's seeing,, of resemblances in nature between the higher and the lower, we might, indeed, expect the name to be ubiquitous. One distinction of usage, however, must be noticed here — that, while in all Teutonic languages the name is traceable back to a Teutonic original, the Romance languages have equivalent derivatives from the Latin. "Among the Romans," says Dr. De Wolf, "Lupus stood not only for the beast which suckled the mythic founders of the State, but also designated individuals of the human family. In the earliest records of Saxon England we find Wulf, Beowulf, Cuthwulf, Ethelwulf and Eadwulf as names of men of renown. The house of the Guelphs is traced to a German family of Welf or Wolf. The German Wolfensbllrgher, i. e. Dweller in Wolf's Fort, and Weissenwolf, i. e. White Wolf, are surnames. The Spanish name Lopez, and the Portuguese Lopes, both have relation to Wolf ; at all events, the Lords of Biscany, whose family-name is Lopez, bore wolves on their shield. The Scandinavian form of the same name is Ulph, Ulv. " But to follow out this attractive research would carry us too far from our subject. 123 'Sottu on tJje iFamilff of IBt WioU " Many Europeans of this wide-spread name have been very distin- guished men. In 1370, as we learn from ' Genealogien und Wappen von Deutschland,' vol. 3, there was in attendance on King Charles the Fifth of France a Louis de Saint Etienne, who took the name of de Loup, it is said, from his defence of the King when he was attacked by a wolf. In 15 1 7 Frederick Baron de Wolf, grandson of Louis de Loup, was chosen Commissioner on the part of the Prince of the House of Saxe to settle the boundaries of the various principalities with the Imperial Diet. The Emperor Maximilian was so well pleased with the Baron's wisdom and talent that he made him Baron of the Holy Roman Empire. This celebrated statesman left several collections of state-papers, and manu- script histories of his diplomatic and other negotiations, which are now preserved in the muniment-office at Dresden. From him descended many men of note whom we must pass by. " From Baron de Wolf were also descended the Counts de Wolf and Barons de Wolf of Prussia, through his grandson Frederick, who, in 1658, concluded the negotiations acknowledging the independence of Prussia, was created Count by Frederick the Great, and had the Grand Cross of the Black Eagle conferred upon him. He died in 1670. "There is, or was, another line, of Barons de Wolf of Belgium, descended from a son of Frederick Baron of the Floly Roman Empire, named Maximilian, who had lands near Ghent conferred upon him by the Emperor Charles the Fifth, and took up his residence in Belgium in 1534. Joseph de Wolf, grandson of Maximilian, went into the service of Charles the Ninth of Sweden, in 161 1, and was the founder of th* families of Counts and Barons de Wolf of that country. Charles the eldest son of Maximilian joined the seven revolting provinces in throwing off the yoke of Philip the Second of Spain; and in 1714 the great grandson of that Charles went to Holland, and took up his residence at ITaarlem. His great great grandson Joseph Baron de Wolf was an Admiral in the Dutch service, and Captain General of the Dutch possessions in the East Indies from 1 75 1 to 1757, and also Commander of the Batavian fleet in those seas. "All these families carried the wolf in their coats of arms. " Nor has the family of Wolf been distinguished only on the Continent. A deed of transfer of property made about the year 1066, which I found in an old English book giving the history of the house of Stanley, was signed 124 Notes on tJje iFamds of mt molt by William de Wolve as one of the witnesses. Right Hon. Sir Henry Drummond Wolff, G.C.M.G. (son of Rev. Dr. Joseph Wolf, a converted Jew), lately a leading Member of the British Parliament, Envoy Extra- ordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Turkey, and High Commissioner to Egypt, bears arms similar to those of the German patent. There is also a Sir James Weston Wolff of county Hants, England, who was authorized to assume the arms given with the German patent. Burke's ' General Armory ' gives a Be Wolfe coat of arms, showing a family of that name now existing- in Engfland." Such is the prestige of the family of De Wolf in its European homes. It would be highly gratifying if a relationship could be traced between any European branch of the family and those who have inherited the name, and honored it, in this western hemisphere. This, however, is not as yet possible. All we can do, therefore, is to record what we know of the beginnings of the history of those De Wolfs of America in whom we have a family-interest, to disentangle, so far as we may be able, some ques- tions of descent, and to notice some of the distinguished men of the name in our family — leaving it for others, hereafter, to complete both the genealogy and the biography. In the early history of this country we have been able to find but three persons of the name of De Wolf, beside our ancestor. One was Abraham, of whom we know only his name and that he was in New Amsterdam in 1661. The earliest found was Abel De Wolf, whose appli- cation for a mining-license in the Catskill Mountains was granted by the authorities at Amsterdam 25"' April 1659. "In 1661 Dirck De Wolf obtained for seven years the exclusive right of making salt in New Netherland, having secured from Gysbert op Dyck his grant of Coney Island. Owing to the hostility of English settlers in the immediate neighborhood he was obliged to abandon this enterprise, notwithstanding the military aid rendered by Governor Stuy- 125 l<^oitu on tlje jFamfls of 3ie Wiolf vesant.'" Abel De Wolf seems to have been concerned with Dirck in the salt works. When in 1664 the town and colony fell into the hands of the British, and received the name of New York, the privileges which these Dutch settlers had received from their government were lost. It is supposed that Dirck and Abel De Wolf returned to Holland : for a suit which they brought against the people of Gravesend was carried on by agents. Queries in regard to these De Wolfs, inserted in several of the principal American historical and genealogical magazines, have failed to bring any reply, and it does not appear probable that they left descendants in this country. We have made special search, thinking that these Dutch De Wolfs might be of the family of our Balthasar. No such connection, however, can be found, and the dates seem to contradict any theory that they were even associated in this country. For instance, Abel De Wolf received from Amsterdam, April 1659, his license to mine in the Catskill Mountains ; while we find Balthasar's name in the Court-records of Hart- ford in 1656, when he had appeared in Mattabesick, now Middletown. Dirck De Wolf obtained from Amsterdam, in 1661, his right to make salt on Coney Island ; and by 1664 his works were broken up. In September 1 66 1 Balthasar's family must have been living in Saybrook, where a child of his was "bewitched to death." In 1664 he was in Wethersfield (perhaps only casually, as his name cannot be found in the Wethersfield records). It seems probable that Saybrook was the residence of the family from 1661, and perhaps Balthasar had already settled there in 1656. He probably always resided in East Saybrook, which in 1664-65 was set off as the separate town of Lyme. Our first notices of Balthasar ^ De Wolf were found by Charles J. Hoadly Esq., State Librarian, in the previously lost second volume of "The Records of the Particular Court of Connecticut" (from January 1650 to June 1663). The first of these notices is from the record of "A Perticular Court in Hartford" March s*"" 1656 : it gives among "the ' Broadhead's Hislory of the State of New York. 2d ed. New York, 1859, p. 694. 126 TSrotes on tiie iFatnilff of "Bt Wlolt names of those p''sented for smoaking in the street contra to law . . . Baltazer de Woolfe, p^'sented by Will Marcum, constable for Mattabesick." The second is as follows : " Hartford Quart. Court Sept""' 5 : 61. The Inditement of Nicholas and Margret Jennings : Nicholas Jennings, thou art here indited by the name of Nicholas Jen- nings of Sea Brook for not haueing the feare of God before thine eyes ; thou hast enterteined familiarity w"" Sathan the great enemy of God and mankind, and by his help hast done works aboue the course of nature to y'' loss of y" liues of severall p'sons and in p'ticuler y« wife of Reynold Marvin w"" y" child of Baalshar de Wolf, w**" other sorceries, for w""" according to y" Law of God and y'' Established lawe of this Comon Wealth thou deservest to die." This child is spoken of as "bewitched to death." Balthasar de Wolf is first mentioned by Mr. Savage, in his "Geneal- ogical Dictionary," in 1664, when, as we have said, he was in Wethersfield, Conn. He is first spoken of in Lyme records in 1668 ; at which time he 2,3)4 and his three sons, Edward,^ Simon ^ and Stephen, ^ joined with him as members of the town train-band in a petition. The fact that the sons were members of the train-band shows that they had reached the age of sixteen years. The age of Edward appears by the dates on his tomb- stone still existing in Lyme. He was therefore in 1668 about twenty-two, and Simon and Stephen from twenty to sixteen, years of age. Balthasar may be supposed to have been at the time about forty-five years old, in full strength, and able to serve in the same military company with his sons. This is the only formal record of the children of Balthasar De Wolf and Alice his wife. From the records of the Lee and Griswold families we learn that Mary^ De Wolf (born about 1656), who must have been a daughter of Balthasar, married Thomas Lee, as his second wife, between 1677 and 1680; and that after his death she became, in 1705, the second wife of the second Matthew Griswold of Lyme, taking with her to his home her daughter Hannah^ Lee, who married Mr. Griswold's son, afterwards known as Judge John Griswold, and became the mother of Governor Matthew* Griswold. 127 Kotffii on t^t iFawfls of ^tWiolt But we have recently learned from the Lyme probate-records that Henry Champion (son of Henry Champion the first settler) married Susannah 2 DeWolf in April 1684, who, from a comparison of dates, could not have been a granddaughter of Balthasar, but must have been 8j4 his daughter. Susannah had ten children, among whom was Alice,^ the only namesake of her mother whom we find mentioned among her descend- ants. After his death (in July 1704) his widow married John Huntley. That Balthasar had had another child who was "bewitched to death," by or before 1661, is shown by the records of the witchcraft-trial above referred to. In May 1671 Balthasar was made a Freeman by the Court at Hartford. He is mentioned in the Lyme records for the second time in 1674. In 1677 he was chosen "Committee of the town." His wife Alice is mentioned in a deed from him to his son Simon, March 5, 1687, acknowledged 19''' February 1689-90. In 1688 he sold Calves' Island in Connecticut River to Richard Lord. In the same year we find him and his three sons on a roll of tax-payers omder Governor Andros's adminis- tration, and he was made again "Committee of the town." There is mention made of him in May i6go, in a deed of gift to his son Edward ; the last notice found of him is in town-records of 1695. From the time of their coming to Lyme Balthasar and his sons appear to have taken a respectable, though not prominent, part in the town-affairs, as having a common interest with the other settlers. Mr. Hoadley sent to the writer the autographs of Balthasar DeWolf and his son Edward, written thus : " Baltasar de wolf " " Edward dewolfe" The date is Lyme, May 1678. Both are very well written, especially Balthasar's ; the letters are round, firm, even, and show the habit of writing. This, at a time when a large proportion of the English settlers " made their mark," conveyed an evidence of education which it is difficult to comprehend at the present day. The characters are in the style of the 128 "Nott^ on tf^t iFamil» of mt smolf handwriting of the best educated English settlers of the period, as is shown by autographs in the Colonial Records of Connecticut 1636-1665 ; and are unlike the autographs of early Dutch and Huguenot settlers of New York, given in the second volume of O'Callaghan's " History of New Netherland." Neither in the handwriting nor the spelling is there a trace of anything continental. Nor is there any such trace in the baptismal names, which are those found in our English Bible, and in common English usage— Balthasar, Alice, Edward, Simon, Stephen, Mary, and Susannah. We have made our investigations with more care, and make our state- ments with more precision and detail, because the name De Wolf, in its form and sound, has given rise to many theories, pointing to a continental origin of our family, though no two branches of the family agree in any one of them : for instance, different branches of the descendants of Balthasar have supposed that he was a Huguenot ; that he was Dutch ; that he was German ; that he was a Jew ; one that he was a Pole ; and one, giving his family-tradition in more detail, says : " I have always under- stood that the origin of the De Wolf family was Russian — from Russia into Germany, thence into Normandy, and from Normandy into England with William the Conqueror !" We are ready to accept this tradition so far as to believe that Balthasar's family was well established in England before he came over with other English settlers ; though they were with little doubt of more or less remote continental ancestry, as were a great part of the English people.^ Of Balthasar De Wolf and his wife AHce we find but two or three ' The writer inquired of the late Rev. Dr. Charles W. Baird, author of History of the Huguenot Emigration to America, whether Balthasar De Wolf was probably a Huguenot. In his reply, dated Rye, N. Y., May 14, 1885, he says : " Have j'ou not been misled by the prefix De, common to both French and Dutch cognomens, and meaning, as you know, 'of or 'from' in the former language, and, as you may not know, 'the' in Dutch? Thus you will find, in the Dutch nomenclature of old New York, De Graffs, De Hooges, De Milts, De Riemers, and so on. . . . I have a strong impression that the De Wolfs were Dutch, and I see no ground whatever for the surmise that they may have been of Hugue- not extraction." Dr. Baird, knowing nothing of the facts concerning Balthasar De Wolf, of course refers only to the form of the family-name. 1 29 TSrotes on ti|t iFatntlff of mt Wioli passing notices other than those detailed above. We do not know where they were buried. Their eldest son, Edward (2), was born about 1646, and was twenty-two years old, as has been said, when a member of the train- band in 1668. He married Rebecca , by 1670, and had five sons, of whom all we know will be found in our Pedigree of De Wolf. He is spoken of in the Lyme records as " Edward de Wolf, carpenter," being so designated in deeds of land given by him. That his high standing, integrity and good judgment were well known and relied upon, is proved by the fact that, about 1682, after long delays and difficulties between the people of New London and their carpenters, relative to the building of a church, "John Frink of Stonington and Edward de Wolf of Lyme were called in to view the work, and arbitrate between builders and people." '^ It is noted in Lyme records that in May 1686 twenty-two acres of land were laid out by the town to " Edward de Wolf, upon the account what he had engaged to do for the town about the meeting-house." This refers, doubtless, to the second house built for religious worship upon the top of Meeting-house Hills, actually built in 1689. About a year before the time set for building it, liberty was granted to four persons, among whom was Edward De Wolf, to build a saw-mill at Eight-Mile River,"' they agreeing to saw the timber for the meeting-house. In 1677 an agreement was made between the town of Lyme and Mr. Thomas Terry, by which liberty was given him by the town to "setup a saw-mill on Mill Brook, upon the place called the Lieutenant River, provided the saw-mill doth not damnify the corn-mill." Balthasar De Wolf was one of the two witnesses. In 1688 ' Caulkins's History of New London, p. 192. That in the exigencies of life, in a new settlement, the useful trades were sometimes taken up by men of good family, education and superior social station, is shown by the fact that, in 1642, Richard and John Ogden, then of Stamford, Conn., contracted to build a stone church within the fort of New Amsterdam, a famous work for the time. The great political and social prominence of John Ogden, who afterwards founded towns, and governed all the English settlements in New Jersey, under Dutch rule, as Burgomaster, will be seen in our Ogden-Johnson monograph. ^ Eight-Mile River is in the north quarter of the town, several miles from the center of the village of Lyme. 130 Notes on tJie iFamilff of "Bt Wioli Thomas Terry assigned this right to Edward DeWolf. In 1701 the town gave " liberty to Edward De Wolf to set up a corn-mill upon Town land somewhere near the saw-mill, d_y his house." The locality here referred to is supposed to be the site now owned by the family of the late Mr. Oliver Lay in what is now called Laysville, about two and a half miles from the center of the village of Lyme. It will be seen from these records that Edward De Wolf was a millwright, a builder and operator of two saw-mills and a grist-mill, as well as a carpenter, and living near one of the mill- seats ; he was probably assisted in his business by his sons. In July 1696 Edward signed a deed of gift to " my son Charles ;" and, on the 26**' of July 1709, another to "my son Stephen, his wife Elizabeth and my grand- child Gideon." His tombstone in the Duck River Burying-Ground at Lyme is the earliest one which now exists belonging to the DeWolf family. The inscription reads : " Here lieth the body of Mr. Edward DeWolf who died March y' 24'^ 1712, In y« 66 year of his age." His wife Rebecca survived him. Of Balthasar's second son Simon (3) DeWolf (born about 1648-50) only the records of his marriage and his death remain, except that it is recorded that he had land laid out to him in Lyme in 1687, 1688 and 1689. He married Sarah daughter of John Lay Jun. and , and had five sons and two daughters. He died 5*^ September 1695, aged about forty-seven years. In regard to Stephen (4) DeWolf (born as early as 1652), third son of Balthasar, there is even less knowledge to be obtained. By his first wife (name unknown) he had a son Edward 3 born in 1686; and by his wife Hannah he had four sons and three daughters. In December 1776 he had a lot of twenty-four and a half acres laid out to him "on Lefftenant's River," bounded westerly by lands of Edward DeWolf. He died in 1702, and his Will was proved in 1703. 131 Notes on ttje iFainflff of "Bt WLoU A family of the early De Wolfs, probably one of the sons of Balthasar and his descendants, lived near the upper end of " the Street," on the east side. Their well still exists in the lot between the houses of Mr. J. P. Van Bergen and Mr. W. B. Tooker. Other members of the family owned all, or part, of the Meeting-house Hills, and hved on or near them. One of these was a Benjamin, probably the same as "Benjamin DeWolf" who in 1730-31 "acted as Society's clerk," and who "belonged to the committee to make arrangements for building a new Meeting-House in 1737 ;" who was also selected "to entertain the committee of the General Court to ascertain the place whereon to erect a new Meeting-House." In 1744 Rev. Mr. Parsons registers a vote of the church that the council agreed upon by the church and certain brethren may be entertained at Mr. Simeon De Wolf's, "provided he will take the trouble of it." These persons would not have been selected to entertain some of the leading men of the State, members of the General Court and pastors of churches, if they had not been men of good social standing, living in good-sized and well provided houses, in the vicinity of the meeting-house. In 1771 Stephen DeWolf, great grandfather of the present Lyme family, built a house four or five miles east of the village of Lyme, on land which belonged to his wife Theody Anderson ; and till recently the homes of the Lyme family have been in that house and another in the same neighborhood. It is impossible now, and probably always will be, to learn more than the few facts we have given in regard to Balthasar De Wolf and his imme- diate family. They were not among the large landholders, though the sales and bequests made by Balthasar and his sons and grandsons, of lands which had belonged to him, show that they had a good landed estate ; nor, so far as appears from the records, were they conspicuous in the affairs of the town. But there was some condition or quality, either in education, character, family respectability, personal attraction, or other " unknown quantity," which enabled them to marry into some of the best famihes in Lyme and the neighboring towns. The early settlers of Lyme brought 132 Notes on U)t iFamtlj? of mt miolf lO II 12, 13 with them English traditions and habits of social life : differences of social grade between the families were accepted from the first, and have been maintained ever since. This is another strong proof that Balthasar was not of any other nationality than their own : with their strong insular prejudices it is difficult to conceive that these families should have so soon received as one with themselves a foreigner and his family. Lieut. Thomas Lee, who by or before 1680 married Mary daughter of Balthasar De Wolf, was next to the first Matthew Grisvvold the largest landholder and most leading man in Lyme. As we have already said, she, when left a widow, became the second wife of the second Matthew Griswold, a man of good family and large estate, the principal man of the town. His son, afterwards Judge John Griswold, married her daughter Hannah Lee, who became the mother of Governor Matthew Griswold, and ancestress of all the Blackball line of Griswolds. The family-names of the wives of Edward and Stephen De Wolf and those of their sons are not recorded, except in one case, in which it is stated that Edward's son Benjamin^ married Susannah Douglass of New London, daughter of one of the most respectable early settlers. Fuller records of the names in Simon's family are given than of the other two brothers ; which may be accounted for by the fact that his mar- riage to Sarah Lay daughter of the second John Lay, one of the great landholders of the town, established his branch in easier circumstances than those of the other brothers. His daughter Phoebe ^ married Joseph Mather, son of Richard Mather of Lyme, great grandson of the dis- tinguished scholar and gentleman Rev. Richard Mather of England, who settled in Dorchester, Mass. Simon* son of his son Josiah^ married Lucy Calkins daughter of Deacon Hugh Calkins, a Deputy to the General Court and an influential man in New London. Simon's son Josiah married Anna daughter of Serg. Thomas Water- man, one of the original proprietors of Norwich, Conn., a man of sub- stance, whose wife Miriam Tracy, daughter- of Thomas Tracy, a wealthy 133 Notes on tfje iFamils of lie WioU and prominent original proprietor of Norwich, was of the same high descent which we have given in our Griswold monograph as that of Fanny Rogers wife of Governor Roger Griswold. 14' Simon's son DanieP married Phoebe daughter of Capt. Reynold Marvin, grandson of Reynold Marvin the first, from England, who belonged to one of the wealthiest of the early leading families in Lyme. He died very soon. His young widow afterwards married Nathaniel Kirtland of Saybrook, son of John Kirtland who was one of the principal early settlers of that town. This second marriage of Daniel's widow led to those of Nathan and Simeon DeWolf of the next generation, after- wards of Nova Scotia, who married two sisters of the Kirtland family. 15 John^ DeWolf, second son of Simon, gave his share of " the land from [his] honored grandfather Balthasar and [his] honored father Simon to [his] brother Josiah ;" and probably died unmarried. Josiah's marriage to Anna Waterman brought still other property to 16 him. His eldest son, known as "Josiahf*^ Jun.," married Martha daughter of William Ely, the social standing of whose emigrant grandfather Richard Ely, who married the widow of Major John Cullick, a sister of Col. Fenwick, and held a high position in the colony, is well known. Josiah's wife seems to have brought with her, as the natural effect of 17 her good blood, a higher ambition; her youngest son, Daniel,* was sent to Yale College, and graduated there in 1 747 ; and she may be supposed to have influenced the father of Nathan De Wolf, who was graduated at Yale in 1743, to give his son a college-education. Daniel son of Josiah married Azubah Lee, whose father William Lee was a grandson of Lieut. Thomas Lee, the important first settler of Lyme of whom we have sj)oken. He died very soon after his marriage, leaving 18,19 two little boys, Elias^ and Daniel. ^ He lies buried next to his mother, near the Griswolds, in the Duck River Burying-Ground at Lyme. Their epitaphs are as follows : "Here lies the body of Mrs. Anna the wife of Mr. Josiah DeWolf, who died Dec. 21" 1752, In the 63'' year of her age." 134 Notes on tJjr jFawtli? of mt Wiolt "Here lies the body of Mr. Daniel De Wolf, A.M., died Oct. lo"^ 1752, In his 26*'' year." 20-22 As the tree is known by its fruit, we are left to draw our chief infer- ences in regard to the traits of mind and character of Balthasar De Wolf and his children from what we can learn of their descendants. Never rich, the divisions and subdivisions of their lands among successive generations would soon have made them poor. But it does not appear that any of them waited for that fate. Very few graves of the earlier generations can be found, and nearly all their descendants, in all the generations, went away from Lyme. Of all the large families of Balthasar's three sons, and of his many grandsons, only four male members of the family of his name now live in Lyme — Messrs. John Anderson, Roger Williams, George Winthrop and Jeremiah E., De Wolf, prosperous and respectable business-men, and useful in the town. There must have been an early energy and ambition in the family, which carried them away from their birthplace in search of adventures, or to better their fortunes, and made them always ready for ventures by sea or land, in war or peace. In the old times, before business became centralized in the large cities. New London was a thriving shipping- port, and in Lyme vessels were built which went out to many markets, chiefly in the West Indies, and brought back cargoes to its wharves. Probably by these means Charles De Wolf made his "venture" to the island of Guadeloupe, where he finally married, and, prospering, became the founder of the wealthy and distinguished Rhode Island family of De Wolf. Others going out to new regions for war, returned to them afterwards in peace, to make new homes. Among these were the founders of the Nova Scotia branch. Simeon De Wolf having been appointed, in March 1745, "an armourer" in the expedition for the capture of Louisburg, under Maj. Gen. Roger Wolcott, he and others of the family were easily led there again by the special offers of the British Government after the removal of the Acadians from Nova Scotia.^ Their For a farther account of the Lyme emigration to Nova Scotia see our Introduction. 135 :t] family. Although I am not," he continues, " one of those who regard everything beyond the smoke of their own chimneys as marvellous, I think my expedition to the Northwest Coast was made a little remark- able from the circumstance that I met at Norfolk Sound his Excellency Baron von Resanoff, to whom I sold my vessel, and then crossed the North Pacific in a little craft of twenty-five tons burthen, and after an overland journey of fifty-five hundred miles returned home by the way of St. Petersburg. This was a voyage and travels more than half a century ago, and I was probably the first American who passed through Siberia. I know that others have claimed to be the first, and have pub- lished descriptions of the country; but I had gone over the same route before any of these claimants were born." This is not the place for even an abstract of the narrative. But no one can read it without regarding the narrator as a typical American youth, when, at the age of about twenty-four years, he took command of the "Juno." His courage united with caution, his spirit of adventure, remind- " The title is A Voyage to the North Pacific and a Journey through Siberia more than half a centur)' ago. By Captain Jolin D'Wolf. Cambridge, 1861. We have used the copy presented to Harvard Universitjr in 1861 by the author. 156 Notes on tfie iFawflff of 3ie Wiolf ing one of the gallant Spanish and English explorers of the sixteenth century, without rashness, his adaptability to new conditions making the best of everything, his self-possession and self-respect without assumption, his modesty, and his hardihood of nature, softened by a tender sensibihty which manifested itself now in a strain of humor and now in tears of affec- tion at the remembrance of his far-away mother — formed a character which his family may be justly proud of ; while his experiences by sea and land, from 1804 to 1807, in regions then but little tried, form a tale which later explorers must look back upon with special interest. The De Wolf descent of the Griswolds is so remote that, beyond collecting all the facts which could be learned of the earliest gene- rations, it was never intended to give a full account of the De Wolf family. But the writer has been for several years in pleasant occasional correspondence with prominent members of the Nova Scotia and Rhode Island branches of the family, and would have expected to give some statements with regard to these, in any notes upon the descendants of Balthasar. It has been found very difficult to reach other descendants. They are scattered through the United States, and have only been found as some name in print gave an opportunity to write for information. From such chance-sources enough has been learned to make us interested to know more, but we have not time for farther search at present, nor would the scope of this work allow us to give more space to the subject. From the fragmentary statements that have reached us we can add some interesting facts. The general family-characteristics are found to be alike everywhere. The ancestors of all the branches left Lyme with few resources for their future careers except what they carried within themselves, in their own integrity, and the strength of their energetic and adventurous natures. We find them in our wars by sea and land, in later years active in abolition, and in other Christian movements, "ready to every good work." They 157 KoUs on tJje iFamdff of IBt Wiolt 169 170 171 172 have followed many trades and avocations, and have been, so far as we can hear, respectable and useful in all their pursuits. In the imperfect records we have received, we hear of two college-professors, several lawyers, and more physicians, all men of active usefulness and good standing in their professions. A few individuals among these may be here noticed by name : The late HON. DELOS ^ De WOLF, a prominent citizen of Oswego, N. Y., was born at Columbia, N. Y., in 181 1, and died in 1882. He was a great grandson of Josiah and Martha (Ely) De Wolf, through their son Samuel ^ and their grandson Jabez.^ Samuel De Wolf was for a number of years engaged in trade between Lyme and the West Indies. His son Jabez was born in Lyme, and removed, in 1806, to Herkimer county, N. Y., and later settled at Bridgewater in Oneida county. The education of Delos was acquired at the common schools and the Academy of Bridgewater, and in this town he began business at the age of twenty- two. From 1844 to 1846 he was called to fill various public positions, on the Democratic side of politics. In 1850 he removed to Oswego, where he established the City Bank, of which he was the President from 1865 until his death. DR. T. K. De WOLF, now of Chester Center, Hampden county, Mass., was born, in 1801, in Berkshire county of Massachusetts. "At 85 years," he wrote in 1886, "my sun is almost down, but I have the con- sciousness of not having lived in vain. In my professional life I have graduated eleven students, my son last, but not least, of whom I am very proud, as carr3nng on my name and professional honors when I am in sleep which knows no waking." In a letter of the present year (1887) he says: " Now I am happy to inform you that I have a nice mountain-home, carriages and horses — everything to make my friends comfortable and happy, and if any De Wolf blood is in your veins, no matter how near or remote, my doors will open to you and yours, and thrice welcome. I 158 Notes on tfie iFamilp of "Bt Wiolt have given up the practice of my profession entirely, and because I do not need it. I have therefore nothing to hold me from devotion to my friends when they call." 173 Of his son, DR. OSCAR C. De WOLF, he writes thus: "My oldest son, Oscar C. De Wolf, M.D., now one of the professors in Chicago Medical College, and Health Commissioner in that city, I sent to Paris, two years after his graduation, for instruction in the French schools ; and during those years he travelled more or less in Switzerland. He was a surgeon in the Massachusetts service in the war of the rebellion." A copy of a learned paper on the disease called Glycosuria, by Dr. Oscar De Wolf — reprinted from the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal — now lies 174 before us. Another son of Dr. T. K. De Wolf is Homer B. De Wolf, a successful lawyer of Cleveland, Ohio. 175 CALVIN DeWOLF ESQ., born, in 1815, in Braintrim, Luzerne (now Wyoming) county. Pa., is "one of the oldest lawyers of continuous practice in Chicago, one of its strong characters, a bond between the early and the present city. He was a pioneer-abolitionist, one of the fathers of the municipal laws, and a popular and respected Justice of the Peace for more than a quarter of a century. . . . re-elected term after term without regard to party-politics. " Up to his majority he passed his time in working upon his father's farm and in obtaining an education. With the assistance of a private tutor and his father Giles Meigs De Wolf, who was a good English scholar and a superior mathematician, he gained a fair knowledge of Latin, the higher mathematics and surveying. He also taught school in two different places before he was twenty-one years of age." In October 1837 "he arrived in Chicago, poor, friendless and courageous." The next year he "engaged in teaching and studying law, and other occupations, till he was admitted to the Bar in May 1843, ^'"'d commenced practice. For eleven years he held closely to the duties of his profession, obtained a fair business, and hosts of friends. ... At the October term of the U. S. Circuit Court for the 159 'Moitu on m iFawflff of mt Wioli ^ Northern District of Illinois, in i860, an indictment was found against Mr. De Wolf and four others, for the supposed crime of ' aiding a negro slave called Eliza to escape ' from . . . her master in Nebraska ; and his bail was fixed at $2,500. The case was dismissed in 1861. After the expiration of his office as Justice of the Peace, in 1879, Mr. De Wolf resumed the practice of his profession, in which he is still engaged, with 176 his son Wallace L. De Wolf." In one of his letters he writes of the physical traits of his line of the family as follows : "Of my father's brothers, Amasa, Wyllys, Elisha and Clement were rather short, well built, with light complexion, high cheek- bones, rather broad faces and large heads. ... I do not possess these peculiarities, though two of my brothers do." 177 DR. JAMES DeWOLF, now of Vail, Crawford county, Iowa, a brother of Calvin De Wolf, was born, in 1819, in Cavendish, Vt. "His boyhood and youth were spent in helping to clear up and cultivate a farm of heavily timbered, hilly and rocky land " in Pennsylvania. But his thirst for knowledge carried him through all difficulties in the way of obtaining an education, until he at length began the practice of medicine on the banks of the Susquehanna, "enduring the hardships and exposures to which doctors in those days were subject, going upon horseback, day or night, through storm and cold, on the rugged roads and stony bridle-paths of that mountainous region," for ten years. After this, "going west," he settled upon the wild prairie in Carroll county, Illinois, " where he threw off his coat and went to work breaking prairie and building up a home ;" and "soon became well-known, one of the prominent and reliable men of his neighborhood, where he assisted materially in school- and church- matters, and was for years Justice of the Peace, and looked upon as both legal and medical adviser." In 1858-59 he was a member of the Illinois Legislature. During the late war he was an active patriot, organizing and maintaining militia and home-guard companies, raising funds for bounties, 160 Kotes on tlje iFamflff of "Bt WioU gathering and forwarding supplies for the Sanitary Commission, etc. In 1871 he became one of the first settlers of Vail, and here, too, "has taken an active part in schools and churches, and all public interests," and, " wherever living has been, for many years, an Elder in the church, and an earnest worker in the sabbath-school, ever recognizing and appre- ciating Christian character, wherever found, without reference to sectarian lines. His family are in sympathy with him." 178 AUSTIN 8 DeWOLF ESQ., now a lawyer in Greenfield, Mass., was born in 1838, in Deerfield, Mass. He is the great great great grandson of Josiah and Anna (Waterman) De Wolf, through Simon son of Josiah, 179-81 Elisha^ son of Simon, Simon ^ son of Elisha, and Almon,'' son of Simon, who married Elvira Newton and had Austin. Mr. DeWolf writes of himself as follows : " Modesty forbids me to write much of myself. I have been in practice here in Greenfield since 1863. I am not a graduate in course from any college. I received an honorary A.M., in 1881, from Trinity." Rt. Rev. Bishop Williams of Connecticut, a native of the same town, is a friend of his. Beside those individuals of the family of whose useful and honorable lives we thus catch glimpses, by the fragments of information which reach us, there may be grouped together several others, whose special distinction has been that they served their country in military offices. The military career of the family began with Balthasar and his sons serving in the train-band, or militia, of Lyme ; and there is a tradition that a De Wolf of the third generation — said to have borne the name of Simon — died of "the plague" (probably yellow fever), in 1741, in service under Admiral Vernon in the West Indies. Nathan DeWolf of Saybrook, afterwards of Nova Scotia, was, in 1755-56, Commissary in Col. Elihu Chauncey's regiment, in the expedition to Crown Point. Simon son of Josiah and Anna (Waterman) DeWolf served in the old French War, and died in the army, in 1756, at the age of thirty -six, leaving a widow and four children, from one of whom 161' tt^otes on tJje iFatnflff of mtWiolt I»2 Austin DeWolf Esq., named above, is descended. Stephen De Wolf of Lyme, great grandfather of the present Lyme family, served in the Revolu- 183 tionary War, and was a pensioner. ' Rev. Erastus DeWolf, an Episcopal clergyman, died of disease contracted in taking care of the sick in the late 184 civil war. Thomas E. DeWolf of Salem, Mass., a member of the iS*"" Conn. Regfiment, died of wounds received in the late war. As has been mentioned, Dr. Oscar C. De Wolf was a surgeon in the service of Massa- chusetts in the same war; and Lieut. William DeWolf, son of Hon. Frederick William, laid down his life in the battle of The' Wilderness. 185 Capt. David O. DeWolf of Sackett's Harbor, N. Y., an active and successful business-man and inventor, on the first firing upon Sumter, left all to engage for the war, was largely instrumental in raising a company, and then, after devoted attentions to the sick, was placed over the Quarter Master's Department. Having had a shoulder dis- located by an accident to the train which was carrying his regiment into service, and been carried to New York for surgical aid, he allowed himself but one hour for the setting of it, then escaped from his nurses and rejoined his regiment. On the battle-field of Manassas he assumed the responsibility of drawing off and thus saving Pope's train with material for 30,000 men. Sherman's army, up to Atlanta, was provided for largely by his care, the money which passed through his hands often amounting to millions in one month. A brother of Capt. David O. DeWolf is Professor 186 and Colonel Daniel DeWolf, now a planter in Georgia, formerly professor of modern languages in Western Reserve College, who served through the late war, and commanded a regiment at its close. A former college- associate of his has favored us with the following sketch : " Early in life he taught school and studied law ; he was a young lawyer in Toledo, Ohio, at the outbreak of the civil war. He served through the war, and was in command of a regiment at its close. He then became Superintendent of Schools in Toledo. He received the honorary degrees of A.M. and Ph.D. He went abroad in 1871. In 1876 he went to Western Reserve College as Professor of Modern Languages. He resigned in 1880, and was elected 162 "NoUn on tJie iFatnilff of Be WLoU 187 188-91 192 193 State Superintendent of Public Instruction. I think he was re-elected, and served until 1884. He has a fine physique and is a ready, popular speaker. He is a practical man of affairs, rather than a student. He has had considerable influence on the public schools of Ohio, and his judgment on matters pertaining to them has been respected." Another brother of the same family is Henry H. De Wolf of Logans- port, Indiana. The latter writes that his father Daniel died when he was six years old, leaving six children, who were sent hither and thither among relatives, getting homes as best they could. " The only legacy " he " ever heard of was the Family Bible and Josephus." He adds "we were left to paddle our own canoe, which, sometimes upstream and sometimes down, has brought us to respectability and usefulness among our fellow-men, but not to wealth." Thomas,'' James,'' John '' and George,'' De Wolf, four sons of Edward,^ a great great grandson of Stephen, son of Balthasar, by his second wife, were in the late war for the Union. The two eldest died of wounds received in the service. James De Wolf, son of Mark Anthony, son of Amasa, son of Charles of Pomfret, Conn., Assistant Surgeon in the U. S. Army, was slain in battle with the Indians under Gen. Custer. Robinson De Wolf, son of Amasa, enlisted in the 5 2d Pa. Vol., early in the war, and was captured, and in Libby Prison over a year. We have written to all persons of the name whom we could hear of. With the exception of one or two in New York, of immediate Dutch descent, all with whom we have communicated are descendants of Balthasar of Lyme. Their traditions, records and family-names assure us of this, though in some cases the connecting link has been lost. We shall still seek in all directions for fuller information ; and our Pedigree of DeWolf, which will accompany this paper, will give our latest results. We shall there sketch the earlier generations as completely as we can trace 163 Sottn on tJir iFawflfi of Wt WioU them out ; and, at points where our information fails, shall give our own theories, if we have any, or leave it to others to make the connections with full certainty. At the request of Dr. James R. De Wolf of Nova Scotia, we give here a paragraph which was omitted from his notes introductory to this paper : " The arms of the De Wolfs of Saxony are said to have been : Or three ivolves heads erased Sa., borne on the breast of an imperial double- headed eagle, sable-beaked, Or ; a coronet of Baron of the E7npire ; Crest : oiit of a dtical coronet a demi-wolf Gji., holding in dexter paw a fleur de lis Or; Motto: vincit qui patitur." The arms of De Wolfe of England, as given by Sir Bernard Burke (" General Armory," ed. 1878, p. 283), are : Or a lighter boat in f esse Gu. Similar physical traits seem to exist in different branches of the family. The writer met a few years since a Miss De Wolf of Horton, Nova Scotia, was struck with her marked resemblance to the present Lyme branch, and mentioned it in a letter to a correspondent of the Nova Scotia family. In his reply he said : " It is interesting to know that the facial resemblance to the Lyme family is so marked. The features and complexion of the present generation in this province vary considerably. Many have the hatchet face and prominent nasal organ, while others are broad featured ; the latter are of dark complexion and stoutly built, while the former are tall, with light hair and fair skin." Another correspondent belonging to another line of the Nova Scotia family writes : " My branch of De Wolfs resembles the others in features. The De Wolf characteristics are very marked and seem to perpetuate themselves." The Rhode Island branch are said to have had "high aristocratic features." A lady of the Rhode Island family writes: "The men of the De Wolf family have had, with 164 Notes on t^t iFaftnflff ot mt Wiolt much character and expression, strongly marked features. The older gen- eration were nearly all tall and well formed." Another member of the same branch writes : "The women of the family have been distinguished for their beauty, the men for gallantry and generosity, and both for hospitality." Here end our De Wolf notes. We have been unexpectedly beguiled into a much fuller sketch than we could have anticipated, finding it a new and interesting field for the genealogist and historian. To many of the widely scattered descendants of Balthasar De Wolf of Lyme we furnish the missing link which proves their descent from him ; and to all we present the first tabular pedigree ever made of their family. 165 1 66 1 67 i68 ^l^loUott tlttfein-^olcott Woltntt Arms : Arg. a chevron between three chess-rooks Ermines ; Crest : a bull's head erased Arg., armed Or, ducally gorged, lined and ringed of the last ; Motto : 7iullius addictus Jurare in verba magistri. HE materials of this monograph are drawn from the "Memorial of Henry Wolcott . . . and of some of his Descendants," I by the late Rev. Dr. Samuel Wolcott of Longmeadow, Mass., printed in 1881 for private distribution. This beautiful and elaborate memorial-volume embraces all that was known of the male line of the family, up to that time ; and must remain, for generations to come, the chief authority on the subject it treats of. The following paper is, there- fore, mostly an abstract of Dr. Wolcott's volume. We had his kind permission to make it ; and it was submitted to him and met his approval. The distribution of that costly book was necessarily so limited that to provide for a wider acquaintance with its contents seemed to be desirable. All our quotations are in the words of Dr. Wolcott, unless otherwise credited. From the facts given in this book we have drawn up a Pedigree of Wolcott, the first that has been made in tabular form, which we add as our contribution to Wolcott genealogy. HENRY 3 WOLCOTT, a first settler of Windsor, Conn., to whom most of the Wolcotts of New England trace back their descent, emigrated from Tolland, co. Somerset, where the family is found to have been Hving as early as 1525, all the earlier generations being as devoted Papists as our emigrant Wolcott ancestors were distinguished for their adherence to the principles of the Reformation. They were of the class of English "gen- tlemen ;" the eldest brother of the emigrant Henry held, in 1618, under i6g' pUfe(n=S2l0lC0tt the Great Seal of England, the ancient Manor of Galdon, Garldon, or Garmildon, which was the principal estate in Tolland, and two Wolcott monuments still stand in the churchyard of the old parish-church of that place. This manor-house was seen by the late Mr. Henry G. Somerby, who described it as being of great antiquity and extent, originally a splendid mansion, designed for purposes of defence as well as for a family-residence ; richly ornamented with carved work, which, if unassailed, will still stand for ages ; the motto of the family appears on its walls. Mr. Somerby believed that he had traced the family, through a titled branch in Shropshire, back to the eleventh century, in Wales, " basing his argument on the identity of the family arms [the use of which in our family dates, traditionally, from the emigration in 1630] and names;" and pre- pared a genealogical table of this descent. As yet, however, our Wolcotts have not been certainly connected with the ancient family of Walcot ^ of Shropshire. Although this connection is accepted in the family, on Mr. Somerby's authority, the actual connecting link must be regarded as still missine. The chess-rooks of the arms are said to have been " introduced, o early in the fifteenth century, through a knight of whom it is recorded" that he checkmated King Henry V. with the rook. But of the immediate ancestry of our first Henry Wolcott we know only that his father was named John ^ Wolcot (or Wolcott), whose Will, 3,4 dated 1623, mentions his three sons Christopher,'^ Henry (^i) ^luA John,'^ and several grandchildren. His grandfather is believed to have been 5 John^ Woolcott (or Woolcot), whose Will, proved in 1572, mentions his 6, 7 wife Agnes, two brothers Henry'^ and Roger} his son John (2) and 9 two daughters, Alice"^ and Mary.''' It was during those troublous times, in the reign of Charles I., when so many of the best men of England were cast out for their staunch loyalty to truth and righteousness, that Henry (i) Wolcott, in 1630, turned his ' In the family-papers the name appears in the forms of Woolcott, Woolcot, Wolcott, Wolcot, Wollcott and Wallcott. 170 J3ftttfn=saoUott back upon fair possessions in the old country", and selling "about ^8000. worth of estate in England," as Trumbull the historian of Connecticut says, with wife and three sons, sought a new home, for conscience sake, as one of the Dorchester Company, in the infant colony of Massa- chusetts. He was a member of the first General Court of that colony. When the Dorchester people had begun to move to the valley of the Connecticut, he too, as one of " the principal gentlemen " (to use the words of the historian Trumbull) interested in this new enterprise of colo- nization, wandered through the wilderness; and in 1636 was settled at Windsor, on the Connecticut River. In 1637 he was a member of the Lower House of Assembly; "in 1640 his name stands first in the Hst of inhabitants in Windsor. In 1643 he was elected a member of the House of -Magistrates . . . and was annually re-elected during life. ' He was probably, after the pastor, the most distinguished man in Windsor.' " He died in 1655. By the death of his brother Christopher in 1639 he had inherited Galdon Manor ; and in his own Will he bequeathed all his land in England to his eldest surviving son Henry.' But his whole estate, at his death, exclusive of English property, amounted only to ^764. 8. 10. — showing how much he had sacrificed for his principles. Henry Wolcott married, January 19, 1606, Elizabeth daughter of Thomas Saunders of Lydiard St. Lawrence, co. Somerset, and had children by her as follows : JO I. John,'^ baptized October i, 1607; who "was living in England in 1 63 1, and apparently never emigrated." He had died, without issue, before 1655. ' Beside his lands in Tolland he had an estate in Wellington, in the same countj'. Prof. F. B. Dexter has recently pointed out that both these Somersetshire villages arc commemorated in the town- names of Tolland and Willington (originally Wellington) in Connecticut, of which Gov. Roger Wolcott was the chief patentee. See Proceedings of the Am. Antiq. Society. . . . April 29, 1885. Wor- cester, 1885, p. 432. A fac-simile of the royal licence by which Christopher Wolcott held Galdon Manor — issued under the chancellorship of Lord Bacon, and having the Great Seal of England appended to it — is one of the many valuable and beautiful illustrations by which the Memorial we draw from is enriched. 171 mt^in=mLoltoit 11 2. A7ina,-^ who married, October i6, 1646, Matthew Griswold, then of Windsor (see ©ftlStUClllr)* 12 3. Hemy,^ born January 21, 1610-11; who married, November 18, 1641, Sarah daughter of Mr. Thomas Newberry, "from a Devonshire family, 'one of the earhest settlers and largest landed proprietors of Dorchester;'" and died July 12, 1680. His widow died July 16, 1684. From Stiles's "Ancient Windsor"^ we learn that, according to tradi- tion, the Newberrys were of county Devon, that they became involved in the civil war between the Parliament and Charles I., and acted a conspicuous part as Cromwellians ; and that Hon. J. H. Trumbull of Hartford, some years since, found old letters of the family, pasted into an old book, in which mention is made of an " Uncle (or Capt.) Newberry " Hving at Morchard (now Marchard Bishop) fifteen miles from Exeter, in Devonshire. Thomas Newberry, the emigrant, we farther learn, becoming a Freeman of Dorchester in 1634, had many and large grants of land as one of the Dor- chester Company, and, says Stiles, " laid out a large farm in Squantum, and built a house there." But he became "early engaged in the Connecticut enterprise, sold his Dorchester property," and would have removed, had not his death in 1636 prevented him. His family migrated to the Connec- ticut. His Will, dated 1635, has been printed in "The New England Hist, and Geneal. Register." The Inventory of his estate, including land in England to the value of ^300., amounted to ^^1520. 4. 7.^ In Win- throp's " New England " is given a letter from " Your loving friends," H. Vane Jr., John Winthrop and Flugh Peter, "to our loving and much respected Friends Mr. Ludlow, Mr. Maverick, Mr. Newberry and Mr. Stoughton, and the rest of our Friends engaged in the business of Connec- ticut Plantations in the Town of Dorchester. . . ."' ' The History of Ancient Windsor. ... By Henry R. Stiles. . . . New York, 1859, P- 720, and note f. Burke's General Armor)' gives three Newberry coats of arms. ■* The New England Hist, and Geneal. Register. . . . Boston, 1853, vii. 2g, and note. ' The History of New England. ... by John Winthrop. . . . With notes. ... By James Savage. . . . Boston, 1853, i. 477-78. 172 mt^in=^moitou Lechford's " Manuscript Note Book " " gives articles of agreement between John Warham, Pastor of ttie church of Windsor, and Jane his wife, executrix of the last Will and Testament of Thomas Newberry, Gent., deceased, and Richard Wright. The editor adds the following note : " This instrument discloses a fact not previously ascertained, that Jane, the second wife of Rev. John Warham, and the mother of his children, was the widow of Thomas Newberry of Dorchester. Mr. Warham's first wife died in the autumn, or early in December, 1634 (VVinth., i. app. A. 55). Mr. Newberry was early engaged in the movement for emigration to Connecticut, and had sold a portion of his Dorchester property with a view to removal, when prevented by death in December 1635, or January 1636. By his will, made December 12, 1635, he gave his wife Jane ^200., and constituted her his sole executrix ; and the rest of his estate was left to his chil- dren. . . . Mr. Warham and Mr. William Gaylord were named overseers of the will (Geneal. Reg., vii. 29 ; History of Dorchester, p. 69). It is not certain whether Mr. Warham married the widow at Dorchester, or after the removal of the family to Windsor ; but the former is the more probable. . . . [T.] " The second Plenry (12) Wolcott was an importing merchant, but much engaged in public affairs both of State and Church, having been " one of the nineteen gentlemen prominent in the Colony who were named in the Charter of Connecticut. He was elected a member of the House of Deputies in 1660, and of the House of Magistrates in 1662, and suc- cessively after until his death." By a codicil to his Will he devised his houses and lands in Tolland and Wellington to his eldest son Henry and his heirs male, on certain conditions ; or, in default of such heirs, to the heirs male of his other three sons and their heirs forever. It was plainly his wish and intention to follow the Enghsh law of inheritance of land ; but, on the death of his eldest son Henry, without male issue surviving him, there arose a disagreement in the family, and the English law was finally set aside by a colonial Court. ' Archaeologia Americana. Transactions and Collections of the Am. Antiq. Society. Cambridge, 1885, vii. 124-25. 173 13 4- George ;'^ who settled in Wethersfield, Conn. 14 5. Christopher ;^ who inherited the family-homestead in Windsor, and died September 7, 1662, unmarried. 15 6. Afary;'^ who married, June 25, 1646, Sergeant Job Drake of Windsor (see NOtCS Ott tJ|t iFStUUff Of 3ita1fer at the end of this monograph). 16 7. SIMON,* born between September 11, 1624, and September 11, 1625 ; who, having been seven years old at the time of his father's emigra- tion, joined the family in New England at a later period, not exactly known ; married : first, March 19, 1657, Joanna daughter of Aaron Cook ; and, secondly, October 17, 1661, Martha Pitkin, '"a woman of eminent good sense, virtue and piety,'" "sister of William Pitkin Esq. of East Hartford, Attorney-General and Treasurer of the Colony." Simon Wolcott, with others, in 1667, received a grant of land in Sims- bury, Conn., and removed there in 1671. But this investment proved unfortunate, and he returned to Windsor, and afterwards settled at South Windsor. He died September 11, 1687, under gloomy apprehensions of sufferings to come to the colonists from the administration of Sir Edmund Andros. Says his son Gov. Roger Wolcott, in his autobiography : " It was generally expected persecution for religion would soon ensue ; it filled him with agonizing fears, and excited his fervent prayers for deliverance, but God took him away from the evil he feared to come." Martha Pitkin, second wife of Simon Wolcott and the mother of all his children, had been left in England by her brother William, together with a brother Roger who was an officer in the Royal Army ; but she followed the former to America, with a view, it is said, to induce him to return to England. " This girl [about twenty-two years old at the time] put the Colony in commotion. If possible, she must be detained ; the stock was too valuable to be parted with. It was a matter of general consultation what young man was good enough to be pre- 174 mtUin=WioUoti sented to Miss Pitkin. Simon Wolcott of Windsor [who had been about four years a widower, in his thirty-sixth or thirty-seventh year] was fixed upon, and beyond expectation succeeded in obtaining her hand. Her brother favored the pro- posal. . . ." Thus wrote the late venerable Rev. Dr. Robbins of the Connecticut Historical Society. Her son Gov. Roger Wolcott, in his autobiography, says : " ' She was a gentlewoman of bright natural parts, which were well improved by her education in the City of London, She came to New England in 1661 ; the same year was marryed to my father. The rest of her useful life she spent in this wilderness, in doing good and setting an example of piety, prudence, charity and patience.' " She died October 13, 1719, in her eightieth year, as Mrs. Martha Clark, having, after Simon Wolcott's death, married Hon. Daniel Clark, " one of the first settlers, and a man of much influence and position, at Windsor,"' whom she also survived. The wise heads of the colony seldom showed more wisdom than in their plan to retain, in this country, Martha Pitkin, who had come over from England with no thought of remaining. Their selection of the young widower Simon Wolcott as the most fit person, and the most likely, to induce her to stay, was the highest compliment to hmi ; and the result proved this to be one of the many cases where the sagacious interposition of friends brings about the most successful of marriages. The late Rev. Dr. Samuel Wolcott told the writer that, though the early Wolcotts ' Stiles's Anc. Windsor, ut supra, p. 569. " He was a distinguished lawyer," says a record of the Pitkin family which we shall give later as a part of this monograph, " was Secretary of State before the Charter, and one of the Magistrates named in that instrument, and was afterwards elected Secretary of the colony." He was also a Judge of the Particular Court, the highest judicial body in the colony, and a member of the Governor's Council— The Mem. Hist, of Hartford County . . . Ed. by J. H. Trum- bull. . . . Boston, i886, i. 109 ; ii. 278. On the elevation of Mr. Clark to the magistracy, the following vote was passed at the Town Meeting in Windsor, May 5, 1651 : " ' Mr. Clark was appointed to sitt in the greate pew ' " — the wainscoted church-pew appropriated to the magnates. 175 mt^in=mLoUott 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 were men of good intellect and real ability, the Pitkin marriage brought in a more brilliant strain of talent ; and that, ever since, it had been in their lines of Pitkin descent that the chief talent of the Wolcott family had appeared. We now come to the third generation of the Wolcott family in New England, and to the eldest son of the elder branch of that generation, Henry, ^ born in 1643. He married, in 1664, Abiah daughter of Edward Goffe Esq. of Cambridge, Mass., and had a son Henry, ^ who died early, unmarried. Another son of his was Capt. Samnel,^ born in 1679, the first Wolcott graduated at Harvard College. This Samuel Wolcott took his degree in 1698, under the presidency of Increase Mather, and died, unmar- ried, in I 709. Thus the line of the eldest son of the eldest son of the Wolcott family became extinct in the male line. One of the daughters of Henry and Abiah (Goffe) Wolcott, named Sarah,^ married Rev. Charles Chauncey of Stratfield, Conn, (his second wife), a grandson of Rev. Dr. Charles Chauncey, President of Harvard College, through the President's youngest son Rev. Israel Chauncey of Stratford, Conn.^ The second child of the elder branch, John,^ was born in 1645 ; mar- ried : first, in 1677, Mary daughter of Capt. John Chester and grand- daughter of Governor Thomas Welles; and, secondly, in 1692, Mrs. Hannah Nicholas of Stamford, Conn.; and died in 1711-12. One of his daughters, Mary,^ married John Eliot, a son of John and Elizabeth (Gookin)' Eliot. He had five sons, one of whom was Charles,^ born in 1681, dead in 1754; at whose death this branch of the family became extinct in the male line. 8 Memorial of the Chauncej'S. . . . B)' William Chaunce)' Fowler. Boston, 1858, pp. 206, 213. ' For her Gookin descent and relationships, see Family Memorials. . . . B)' Edward ElbVidge Salisbury. Privately Printed, 18B5, pp. 375-456. 176 mtmn=WioUoU The seventh child, and fourth surviving son, of the third generation of 24 the family in New England, of the elder branch, was Smmiel,^ born in 1656;, who married, in 1678, Judith daughter of Samuel Appleton of Ipswich, Mass.; and died in 1695. 25 A younger brother of the last named Samuel was Josiah,^ born in 1658 ; who married : first, in 1685-86, Penelope daughter of Capt. George Corwin of Salem, Mass., " ' of the ancient knightly family of the Curwens,' " says Camden, " ' descended from Gospatrick Earl of Northumberland,' " and granddaughter of Governor Edward Winslow ; and, secondly, in 1694, Mary daughter of John Freke Esq. of Boston, Mass. He settled himself in Salem, and was engaged in mercantile business there; but "in 1722 . . . was appointed a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, in which office he continued until his death" in 1729. We make the following extract from a letter of his to his brother Henry, as illustrative of the pre- vailing sentiment of the times of the Salem witchcraft : " ' Salem, July 25, 1692.' " " '. . . but the unheard of Calamety of the Witch Craft Continues, and further discoveryes made, the 6 have already been Executed. Since w'^'^ (about 11 weeks since) 5 more, of Andover, viz' G[oodwi]fe fforster, her Daughter Laury, and her Daughter of the 3'' general', a Comely Ingeinous young woeman of about 17 years old, and 2 Brothers, one about 19 Years old and the other neere 16, Sirnamed Car- riers, boath likely, Ingenious, m'anly and hardey Young men. Yet all these following, and about Seaven before have Confest, and made a wonderfull Relation of there Compacts and pranks w" the Devell. Soe we have yet, here, at Ipswich and Boston, about 60 accused persons in Goale, of which 12 are Confessors, and of them good Mr. Higginson's daughter is one, who has long been melancholy and Seemed Crazed. It appears that y° Devell has not (as formerly) Gained a fiew discontented and Revengefull persons, but was making a CoUony to set up his kingd" by force of Armes. . . .' " The third generation of the family in New England was also repre- sented by the children of George (13) Wolcott. But all that is called for respecting them and their posterity, in this brief abstract, may be found in 177 mt^in=mioltoU our Pedigree. We proceed, then, to the line of descent from Simon (i6), the youngest son of the emigrant Henry Wolcott. This Simon had nine children by his second wife, Martha Pitkin, of whom five were sons. The 26 line of Sinion'° son of Simon, born in 1666, became extinct on the death 27, 28 of his son James^ in 1748. The Hne of Henry^ son of the first Simon has been continued to the present time. We need not, however, here 29 speak of any of his children excepting Capt. Gideon.^ 30 Capt. Gideon Wolcott was born in 171 2; married: first, Abigail daughter of Samuel Mather of Windsor ; and, secondly, Naomi daughter of Dea. Joseph Olmsted of East Hartford, Conn.; and died June 5, 1761. He "commanded one of the companies raised by the colonists in 1760 against the French and Indians. We have only this tradition of him that ' his contemporaries and those who knew him best regarded him as one of nature's noblemen.' " One son of Capt. Gideon Wolcott, by his second wife, was Samuel^ born in 1751 ; who married, in 1774, Jerusha daughter of Gen. Erastus, and granddaughter of Gov. Roger, Wolcott, his second cousin. He was, says a contemporary obituary of him. " 'distinguished for incorruptible integrity, beloved by a numerous acquaintance, a most judicious counsellor of the many who sought his assistance, and the poor man's friend.' " His robust frame and great manly beauty, in his youth, were remarked 31 upon. Of Samuel Wolcott's children one daughter, Naomi,^ born in 1777, married James Wadsworth of Geneseo, N. Y., and had, with other 32 children : i. Harriet^ who married Martin Brimmer Esq. of Boston, Mass.; ■1,1 2. Elizabeth,'^ who married Hon. Charles Augustus Murray, British Consul-General in Egypt, a son of the Earl of Dunmore ; and 3. James 34 Samiicl,'^ who left his large patrimonial estates to offer his services to the Government on the breaking out of the late civil war, was made a Major- 178 mtUin=mioUott General, and fell in the battle of The Wilderness in 1864. Another 35 daughter of Samuel and Jerusha (Wolcott) Wolcott was Sophia,^ born in 1786; who married Martin son of Chief Justice Ellsworth, her third 36 cousin. The eldest adult son of the same parents was Elihu,^ born in 1784; who married: first, in 1806, Rachel McClintock daughter of Rev. Dr. David M'^Clure of South Windsor, and granddaughter of Rev. Dr. Benjamin Pomeroy of Hebron, Conn.; secondly, in 1823, Juliana daughter of Erastus Wolcott, his third cousin; and, thirdly, in 1835, Sarah C. daughter of Dea. John Crocker of Derry, N. H. Elihu (36) Wolcott, in his forty-sixth year, removed to Jacksonville, 111., then a settlement of pioneers of civilization, but already selected as the seat of Illinois College; and there he lived till his death in 1858. " Moral questions which have since convulsed the nation were then pressing for discussion, and Mr. Wolcott occupied no doubtful position. He never stood in fear of his fellow-men, and his sympathy with the cause of freedom and humanity was earnest, practical and outspoken ; the oppressed and the weak found in him a steadfast protector and benefactor." The late Rev. Dr. Sturtevant, President of Illinois College, said of him at his funeral : " From the very infancy of this place he has had his home among us, and his strong and peculiar character has made its impression upon this community. He came with his interesting family. ... In all this period, approaching the lifetime of a human generation, he has evinced a uniformity, steadiness and consistency of character seldom surpassed. Three traits of character seem to me to have distin- guished him : intuitive insight and discernment of principles ; the power of giving to his convictions a concise, lucid and often irresistible expression in language ; and an inflexible steadfastness in adhering to his convictions." The eldest son of Elihu Wolcott, by his first wife, was our friend the 37 late Rev. Dr. Samuel^ Wolcott, the author of the memorial-volume of which this monograph is an abstract. After many years of useful labor in the vineyard of his Lord, not long before his death, he retired to Longmeadow, 179 38 Mass., to rest for the remainder of his days in a beautiful home provided for his old age by filial affection in that quiet village, on the banks of the river which the earlier generations of his family had closely clung to as an ancestral stream. But he had scarcely settled himself there before death called him to a better home. The names of all his children are entered in our Pedigree. One of them, Hon. Henry Roger}^ is conspic- uous in civil affairs in Colorado, his adopted State, has been candidate for the office of governor, and seems hkely to receive the gubernatorial honors which have been bestowed on so many of his family and connections. 39 40 Of Gov. Roger Wolcott we shall speak presently. Meanwhile, we take up the line of William^ son of the first Simon Wolcott. Born in 1676, he married, in 1706, Abiah Hawley of Windsor; and had, beside other children, a son William,^ born in 1711, who was taught Latin and Greek by Rev. Timothy Edwards of South Windsor, father of the great metaphysician Jonathan Edwards ; was graduated at Yale College in 1734 ; a Tutor in Yale 1735-36; married, in 1747, Abigail daughter of Abiel Abbott ; and died in 1799. " He took an active part, as a civilian, in the stirring discussions which preceded and attended the War of the Revolu- tion ; was chairman of the Town Committee of Correspondence, and of the County Committee of Observation." As his epitaph says He possessed an enlightened mind, Aided by a liberal education, And in early life" dedicated himself To the service of God and mankind. 41 By his marriage to Abigail Abbott he had, with other children, a ^■m^t^r Abigail^ born in 1756; who married, in 1772, Hon. Ohver 180 mtnn=miouott Ellsworth of Windsor, a Member of the Continental Congress, of the Convention which framed the Constitution of the United States, and of that which ratified it in his native State ; Senator and Chief Justice of the United States ; and Envoy Extraordinary to France in 1 799, appointed in compliance with overtures of the Directory, under Talleyrand, for the renewal of diplomatic relations. One of the sons of Oliver and Abigail 42 (Wolcott) Ellsworth was Governor William Wolcott^ Ellsworth, whose 43' 44 daughter Elizabeth'^ married Hon. Waldo Hutchins. Julia Sterling""^ the only daughter of Waldo and Elizabeth (Ellsworth) Hutchins is now 45 the wife of her mother's fourth cousin Henry Goodrich'^ Wolcott (see below). A daughter of Chief Justice Ellsworth, named Frances Eliza- 46, 47 beth,"^ married Hon. Joseph Wood, and had a daughter, Delia,^ who married Rev. Prof. Chester Smith Lyman of Yale University. 48 For the outline of our sketch of the life of Gov. Rosier^ Wolcott we shall depend chiefly upon his autobiography. " ' The youngest child of [his] hon*^ father Mr. Simon Wolcott, tender and beloved in the sight of [his] mother Mrs. Martha Pitkin,' " he was born in 1679. His father's pecuniary embarrassments, to which we have alluded, and some natural inertness, or tardiness of development, in him, seem to have interfered with his early education. He says that his " ' parents took care and pains to learn their children, and were successful with the rest, but not with [him] by reason of [his] extreme dullness to learn.' " When he was in his ninth year his father died. The dangers for his country anticipated by Simon Wolcott in his last days had passed away, on the accession of William and Mary to the English throne ; and under a new stimulus Roger Wolcott's mind began to exert itself. He writes under the year 1690 : " ' My mind turned to learning, and I soon learned to read English and to write.' " 181 mt'^in=m?olton It is probable that his highly educated mother's influence had at last made itself felt, for family-tradition says that he was educated by her. From about his fifteenth year till the time of his marriage, December 3, I 702, to Sarah Drake, his cousin's daughter by descent from Mary Wolcott who married Job Drake (see above)," he was in business as apprentice and principal. Then, beginning a very happy married life, he settled himself on " ' [his] own land,' " on the eastern side of Connecticut River. In 1707 he took " ' [his] first step in preferment,' " as Selectman for the town of Windsor. The year 1 709 found him representing his tov^rn in the General Assembly, and in 1710 he was raised to the Bench of Justices. In 171 1 he "went in the expedition against Canada, Commissary of the Connecti- cut Stores." His promotion to higher and higher stations was constant: a Member of the Council in 1714, a Judge of the County Court in 1721, and of the Superior Court in 1732, Deputy-Governor and Chief Justice of the Superior Court in 1741, the year 1745 called him to another sphere of activity, in which he won new distinction. He was commissioned by Governor Shirley of Massachusetts to take the second command, as Major- General, under Pepperell, in the all-important expedition, then being fitted out, for the capture of Louisburg." The Governor wrote thus to him : " ' And from my personal Knowledge of you, and the general Character you bear of those Qualities which make you at least equal to this Trust, I do with the utmost Chearfulness commit it to you. . . .' " This trust was not misplaced, for history testifies to the great part he bore in securing the happy results of the expedition. Not a little did he contribute, it would appear, to inspiring and keepmg alive that religious " The mother of Sarah Drake was Mrs. Elizabeth (Clark) Cook, a daughter of Hon. Daniel Clark of Windsor — so tliat all descendants of Gov. Roger Wolcott are also descendants of that distinguished Magistrate and Colonial Secretary. See Stiles's Anc. Windsor, ut supra, pp. 583-84. " Hildreth says that Roger Wolcott was " appointed /y stipulation of the Connecticut Assembly!' in connection with their vote of five hundred men, " second in command of the expedition" — The History of the United States. ... By Richard Hildreth. New York, 1856, ii. 396. 182 33itft(n=2moUott spirit which made the expedition to Cape Breton a sort of crusade, nerving the arm of military power, and animating with a more than earth-born courage and spirit of self-sacrifice. We must make room for the letter of acknowledgment which Major- General Wolcott received, after the capture of Louisburg, from the Assembly of Massachusetts, in these words : " ' Boston, February i^', 1745-6.' " " ' Honourable Sir, " ' We are very sensible Virtue carries its own Reward, and doubt not of the Solid and lasting Pleasure you have from your own Consciousness of the good Prin- ciples which have excited you to, and carried you thro, the many useful and publick Services you have performed, and by your Example and Address influenced others to do ; And how little soever the wise and virtuous are aflEected by such remote Consid- erations as the opinion and Sentiments of others, yet we could not but think that common Justice and Gratitude required Our Acknowledgements of the large Share you had in the Reduction of Cape Breton ; to you our eyes were more particularly turned, on our first Application to your Government in this Affair, and we happily found Our Selves hot mistaken, by their generous Assistance in that successful Expe- dition, more particularly obtained by your Care and Influence ; for this publick Ser- vice, and for the just and kind Sentiments you have always had towards this Province on other Occasions, We now publickly profess our Esteem and Obligations, which we shall ever be glad at all Opportunities to Acknowledge. " ' In the Name and by order of the Council, Josiah Willard, Secr'y. " ' In the name and by order of the House of Representatives, Thomas Cushing, Speaker.' " " ' The Hon"' Roger Wolcott Esq.' " ■ - " 'On the 21 of January 1747 ' " he says in his autobiography, " ' God took away the desire of my eyes with a stroke. My wife for a long time had been out of health, but constantly attended her business, and rose this morning not well, but took care of and went about the business of the family. About two hours after she was up she was taken with an apoplexy, and in a short time expired in the 61"' year of her age. Upon consideration of her life and sudden death my thoughts burst out in the following reflections : 183 mtuin=^moU(iU " 'This bird of Paradise upon the wings Of flaming Seraphs mounts, she sitts and sings, And sees as she is seen her God above. And in the armes of Jesus drowns in love. Me ah ! bereaved ! me now left alone My lovely turtle ever to bemoan ; So long my morning star whose beaming eyes Did never open but my day would rise ; So long my constant help to give relief, Double my comfort and divide my grief ; So long my loving wife, of thee bereaven I have no friend so good unless in Heaven ; I'll not forget thy kindness nor thy charms. But love thee dead that long lay in my arms.' " From 1750 to 1754 he was Chief Magistrate of Connecticut. At the end of that time occurred one of the violent reactions of public feeling which often come to popular servants of the public. In the sudden out- break of misapprehension and misrepresentation he " ' was,'" as he says in his autobiography, " ' dismist by a great majority of voices. I had now the common fate of discarded favorites.'" But "time" which "makes all things even " soon restored the confidence of the public in his guileless character, the disinterestedness of his motives, and his good judgment, sagacity and foresight in public affairs. " ' I am now stript,' " he says, " ' of all public trust and business, and )'et have lost nothing that was my own, or that I had a right to claim a continuance of, or anything that, considering my age, it is not better for me to be without than to have. Ma)^ I not then take this as a benefit, and, since my mother's Sons have discharged me from keeping their vineyard, apply myself more closely to the keeping of my own. . . .' " We may here appropriately quote a graphic word-picture of his personal appearance in public : " ' Several times a week he rode out on horse-back [to Wethersfield], and never appeared abroad but in full-dress. mtUin=W^oltoU " ' He wore a suit of scarlet broadcloth. The coat was made long, with wide skirts, and trimmed down the whole length in front with gilt buttons, and broad gilt vellum button-holes, two or three inches in length. The cuffs were large and deep, reaching nearl)- to the elbows, and were ornamented, like the sides of the coat, as were also the pocket-lids, with gilt vellum button-holes and buttons. The waistcoat had skirts, and was richly embroidered. Ruffles at the bosom, and over the hands, were of lace. He had a flowing wig, and a three-cornered hat with a cockade ; and rode slow and stately a large black horse whose tail swept the ground.' " " In raising the men for the campaigns of the subsequent years, the expeditions against Nova Scotia, Ticonderoga, Crown Point, Niagara and Quebec, for which Connecticut provided more than her quota of troops, the influence of her former chief magistrate was efficiently exerted." Gov. Wolcott has told us of his slowness, as a boy, in the acquisition of learning. When at last his natural powers were awakened, he was '"unalterably determined not to remain in a state of ignorance; he borrowed such books as he could get, and read with attention ; and, having a retentive memory and solid natural judgment, what he read he retained, digested and made his own. He got an acquaintance with men of the best abilities of his time, and by an indefat- igable industry and application got acquainted with most branches of literature; for he was an exact chronologer, well acquainted with history, ecclesiastical and civil, and geography, both ancient and modern, and with the Newtonian philosophy, and most of the curious discoveries of the moderns. "'He had a taste for the £en£s Lettres ; and some poetical pieces he has left behind, to show that, had his Genious been well cultivated, he might have made a considerable figure among the Sons of the Muses. " ' But the law and arts of government were his favorite study. . . " ' His body was strong and well proportioned ; his countenance and deportment peculiarly adapted to command reverence and esteem ; his wit ready and uncommonly bright ; his method of reasoning (free from sophistry) was clear, nervous and manly, as became a generous inquirer after truth, and not a noisy wrangler for victory only. . . . He was a true friend to regular and firm government, and was an equal enemy to tyranny on the one hand, and licentiousness on the other. . . . " ' He was a wise legislator and an able statesman. While he was a judge he held 185 mt^in=Wioltott 49 50 51 the balance of justice with a steady, unwavering hand ; and being far superior to venality, or the influence of personal, family, or party, connections, he pronounced the law impartially, on all the causes brought before him. As a governor he appeared to advantage ; this was his proper element, for he seemed originally formed to govern. He was a kind and provident husband and parent. His moral character was unblem- ished, his religion and piety were unaffected. . . .' " These last extracts are from an obituary published in the " Connecticut Courant" soon after his death. He died May 17, 1767, in his eighty-ninth year. The eldest child of Gov. Roger Wolcott, born in 1704, bore his father's name of Roger, ^ and rivalled him in eminence. " He was a Representative of the town [of South Windsor] in the General Assembly, a Major of the Connecticut troops, a Member of the Council, a Judge of the Superior Court, and one of the Revisers of the laws of the State. His premature removal by death defeated and disap- pointed the general desire and purpose of the freemen to elevate him to the highest office in their gift." He died, suddenly, in 1759. His pastor, in a funeral-sermon on the death of his father, several years after his death, spoke of the son in these words : "'This gentleman was universally esteemed for his distinguished accomplish- ments, natural and acquired. He was an able statesman, a most reliable friend and an exemplary Christian. By his death not only his bereaved family and near relatives were put into tears, but the town and government also gave expression of deep resent- ment and bitter grief.' " Our space will not allow us to give here the branching lines of his descendants. Their names will be found in our Pedigree. The two youngest sons of Gov. Roger Wolcott were Gen. Erastus ® and Oliver,^ the last a Signer of the Declaration of Independence. The former of these two brothers, born in 1722, though without ambition for public office, " was repeatedly a Representative of the town in the General 186 mtuin=mi0Uou Assembly, and also Speaker of the Lower House, Justice of the Peace, Judge of Probate, Judge and Chief Judge of the County Court, Repre- sentative in Congress and Judge of the Superior Court ;" and in a funeral- sermon preached on his decease in 1 793 ^ we read : " ' He possessed a strong and penetrating mind, a quick discernment and solid judgment, beyond what is common to men. And these gifts of the Universal Parent were united to great integrity.' " He was familiarly known as "Old Long-Head." In 1790 Yale College conferred on him the honorary degree of Master of Arts. Midway between the birth-years of Erastus and Oliver Wolcott, in 1724, was born the youngest daughter of Gov. Roger, his thirteenth 52 child, Ursula ; ^ who married, November 10, 1 743, Gov. Matthew Griswold, her second cousin's son (see ^trf!SiU)Oltr)» By this marriage the descend- ants of Gov. Matthew Griswold became trebly Wolcotts, he himself having been a Wolcott by descent from Matthew and Anna (Wolcott) Griswold, and his wife having been a Wolcott on her mother's side, as stated above, as well as on her father's. Ohver (51) Wolcott, so named, it appears, for the great English Protector, was born in 1726, and graduated at Yale College in 1747. We abridge for our record a sketch of the principal particulars of his public life copied from family-documents. " ' On leaving College he received a commission as Captain in the Army, from Gov. George Clinton, and . . . marched to the defence of the Northern Frontiers,' " where he served till the peace of Aix-la- Chapelle. When the county of Litchfield was organized, in 1 751, he was appointed the first Sheriff, and he thenceforth made Litchfield his home, which town he represented in the General Assembly. From 1774 to 1786 he was annually elected a Member of the Council, discharging, at the same time, the office of Chief Judge of the Court of Common Pleas. " By Rev. Dr. David M'=Clure of South Windsor, Conn. 187* mtUin=mioUoU " ' On all the questions preliminary to the Revolutionary War he was a firm advocate of the American cause.' " He drew up an eloquent preamble and resolutions which were adopted by the town of Litchfield, in 1774, with reference to the Boston Port Bill. He was a Member of the Conti- nental Congress in 1775, and performed an important service for his country in the pacification of Indian tribes of the North, and the settle- ment of disagreements about boundaries, between certain of the colonies, which threatened to alienate them from one another. He was, as is well known, one of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence in 1776.^' In 1777 he was made Brigadier-General, and "'aided in reducing the British Army under Gen. Burgoyne.' " In 1779 he was in the field in defence of the sea-coast. From 1781 to 1783 he occasionally attended Congress ; in 1 784-85 he was a Commissioner for Indian affairs. " ' His military services, his known probity and judgment, his ardent attachment to the Republican cause, and his social standing, all contributed to give him an extended influence, which was faithfully exerted for the public good. From the beginning to the end of the Revolutionary War he was constantly engaged either in the Council or in the field.' " In 1786 he was chosen Lieut.-Governor of Connecticut, and for the next ten years, until he became Governor, he continued to hold that office. In 1 788 he was a Member of the Convention for the ratification of the Constitution of the United States by Connecticut. In 1796 he was a Presidential Elector, voting for John Adams and Thomas Pinckney. Yale College conferred upon him the honorary doctorate of laws in 1792. He died, the Chief Magistrate of his native State, in 1797. From a funeral-sermon preached on his death " we also make the following extracts, the purport of which is amply verified by letters of his printed in the " Memorial " before us : " During the session of Congress of this year he made a visit to Connecticut, and took with him from New York the broken pieces of a leaden statue of George III., which three of his children and some other persons in Litchfield made into cartridges for the American army. " By Rev. Azel Backus of Bethlehem, Conn. 188 mt^in=WioltoU " ' In the discharge of these several offices, Integrity and firmness were the leading features of his character. He was an eminent exemplification of the ' Vir tenax pro- positi ' of the bard of Venusia. Although he possessed a strong mind, capable of deep and thorough investigation, his abilities were not of that brilliant cast which have often ruined men in popular governments. He always seems to have aimed more to do his duty than to shine ; to be useful than to dazzle. By his death the true interests of science have lost a strenuous defender ; Virtue, religion and good men, a sincere friend. Like good Hezekiah, he reverenced and loved public worship and divine ordinances ; was a tried, but not an ostentatious, friend of the gospel ministry. He sensibly felt every attempt to depart from puritan practice and morals. He set his face like a flint against all the specious sophistry of new political theories, and the madness of infidel fanaticism. . . .' " We add only a single paragraph from one of his letters, to illustrate that fondness for domestic life and rural quiet of which his public engage- ments must have been a constant sacrifice. Writing to his wife from Philadelphia, in 1776, he says: " ' It is now a long time which I have been here, and I do most sincerely wish to return to the Pleasures of a domestick rural Life — such a Life as Poets and Wise men have always with so much Propriety praised. Here I see but little except human Faces which I know not, and numerous Piles of Buildings which have long since satiated the Sight, and the street rumble is far from being musical. But, as I was not sent here to please myself, I shall cheerfully yield to my Duty, convinced of this Truth, that the Noise and Bustle of this World are the best Lessons to teach a man how few are its Enjoyments.' " By his marriage, in 1755, to Lorraine (or Laura) daughter of Capt. 53 Daniel Collins of Guilford, Conn., he had Oliver,'^ the second Wolcott 54 Governor of Connecticut of that name ; Laura,'' who married William 55 Moseley of Hartford, Conn.; Afariann,'' who married Hon. Chauncey 56 Goodrich of Hartford ; and Frederick^ Mariann (55) Wolcott, born in 1765, was one of the most beautiful women of her time. When she was in her thirteenth year, her father i8g wrote to her mother from Philadelphia, referring to the recent inoculation of herself and the children for the small pox : " ' I perceive that Mariana has had it bad — he [the Dr.] writes, very hard. I am heartily sorry for what the little Child has suffered, and very much want to see her. If she has by this lost some of her Beauty, which I hope she has not, yet I well know she might spare much of it and still retain as much as most of her Sex possess. But I hope the Small Pox will give her no Uneasiness, tho' it may have a little hurt her Complexion, as there is no valuable or lasting Beauty but what exists in the Mind ; and if she cultivates these Excellencies She will not fail of being beloved and esteemed. . . .' " How much, if at all, her beauty was thus impaired, we are not told ; but her celebrity in maturer years acquits her father of having been led by parental fondness to estimate her attractions too highly. Her sprightliness of mind, also, added to her charms. We venture to quote, in full, a letter of hers written, in her twentieth year, to the lady who afterwards became the wife of her brother Oliver, as follows : " ' Litchfield, July 5*", 1784.' " " ' My dear Eliza : " ' You want to know ' what we are about on this Western Hill.' Since you will not be so good as to come and see, I will tell you that our Sister Laura is think- ing and dreaming of her Beloved. As my soul was not made to be puffed away in sighs, I spend many an hour of dear comfort in the Grove, the Bower and my Cham- ber. At this delightful season, when all Nature is singing, I think it best to dismiss all our cares, or give them a parole till sullen Winter returns, when we can think of nothing else. And I believe after all, Eliza, that there are few of us who have not our pensive moments — and at every season. For myself, I will confess that I have often, this very Summer, retired to the brink of a purling stream, and thought how convenient a place it was for a despairing Lover to end his days ! I have recom- mended it to two or three, but they are not yet far-gone enough to be willing to take the leap. " ' I shall despatch Zephyr (who loves to reside in L d) with a particular command never to quit Col. Wyllys's Arbour; and thither, my dear, I advise ye all to repair from the sultry hours of Noon. But I cannot accompany him — my presence 190 mi^in=mioUoU is indispensably necessary at home this summer ; but I thank you from my heart for your friendship, and from my heart I love you for it. But methinks that you, my dear one, are sadly to blame; these short excursions that my Brother makes — it cannot be inconvenient (I believe) for you to come with him — come then, my dear Eliza, and see how delightfully we look on this Mountain. Laura sends love, and so does Mr. Wolcott (I could tell you something else), and so does thy Mariann.' " " ' Miss Stoughton.' " The following pleasantry we find in a letter to her brother Frederick, written after her marriage : New Haven folks, especially the women, are most terribly angry at Mr. G. for quitting Miss W. ... I had several reasons for taking the gentleman's part, which I did with some zeal. I told them it had always been an established practice with the Litchfield ladies to steal the hearts of all the Gentlemen who came there, and that I thoxight a New Haven Lady must have a degree of modest assurance to expect to keep her sweet-heart after he had seen the Litchfield beauties !' " The second Oliver (53) Wolcott, born in 1760, having been at an early age called into the Cabinet of Washington, and been all his life a conspicuous adherent of that political party which represented the prin- ciples, and illustrated the character, of the great founders of our General Government, it would be out of place for us, here, to attempt any minute statement of the events of his life, or characterization of him. Yet we are loath to leave out of this family-record, which we seek to make a sort of gallery of likenesses, imperfect though they be, such a portrait-sketch as may do some justice to the subject, and so help a little to spread and perpetuate the light of a bright example. We begin by transferring to our pages an exquisite picture of his boyhood in the rural retirement of Litchfield, just before the Revolution. When over seventy years of age Oliver Wolcott wrote thus of himself in his teens : 191 " ' Sunday was to me the most uncomfortable day of the Week, from the confine- ment in dress and locomotion which it imposed on me. After Prayers and Breakfast I was taken by my Mother to a Wash Tub, and thoroughly scrubbed with Soap and Water from head to foot. I was then dressed in my Sunday Habit, which, as I was growing fast, was almost constantly too small. My usual dress, at other times, was a thin pair of Trowsers, and a Jacket of linsey-woolsey ; and I wore no shoes, except in frosty weather. On Sunday morning I was robed in a Scarlet Cloth Coat with Silver Buttons, a white Silk Vest, white Cotton Stockings, tight Shoes, Scarlet Cloth Breeches with Silver Buttons to match my Coat, a close Stock, Ruffles at the Breast of my Jacket, and a cocked Beaver Hat with gold lace Band. In this attire I was marched to the Meeting House, with orders not to soil my Clothes, and to sit still, and by no means to play during meeting-time. . . . " ' I liked loud preaching, and suffered only from the confinement of my Sunday dress. ... As I was not allowed to sleep during meeting-time, my sufferings were frequently extreme. " ' After service, new toils awaited me. ... In the interval from the end of services in the Meeting House till Sunset, my Father read to the Family from the Bible or some printed Sermon, and when he had done I was examined by my Mother in the Assembly's Shorter Catechism. I learned to recite this, in self-defense ; and I comprehended it as well then as at any time afterwards. When this task was ended, I was allowed to resume my ordinary Habit. It exhilarates my spirits, even at pres- ent, to think of the exstacies I enjoyed when I put on my Jacket and Trowsers, and quit my Stockings and Shoes. I used to run to the Garden Lawn or into the orchard ; I would leap, run, lie down and roll on the grass, in short, play all the gambols of a fat calf when loosened from confinement.' " He entered Yale College in 1774 — having been frightened away from its halls the year before, when he had gone there for admission, by the awful sight of silk-robed and bag-wigged Professors, and by not less awe- inspiring student-gownsmen, strongly contrasting with other students who had no gowns (all college-men will readily identify these luckless ones), "who walked but never ran or jumped in the yard." After graduation, in 1778, he at once began the study of law with Judge Reeve of Litchfield, though frequently inteiTupted by the state of the country. Arduous duties 192 33ftWn=2molcott were often required of him, either in company with his father away from home, or at home in his father's absence. These had an important " influ- ence in forming and ripening his character." Leaving Litchfield in 1781, to establish himself as a lawyer in Hartford, he was so slenderly provided with means of living that he "accepted a clerkship in the office of the Committee of Pay-Table." This seems to have been his first initiation into public financial business, an augury of what was to be the great work of his life. He rapidly rose to higher stations in the same field, until in 1788 he was made Comptroller of the State of Connecticut, and the next year Auditor of the National Treasury under Hamilton. In 1791 he became Comptroller of the Treasury of the United States, and in 1 795 Secretary in place of Hamilton, which office he held for about six years, until the approach of the great change made in the Administration by the accession of Jefferson to the Presidency. Thereupon he received from President John Adams the appointment of Circuit Judge of the United States, and was confirmed ; but he never discharged the duties of that office, owing to an extraordinary triumph of poHtical sophistry which made Judges chosen for life removable by the abolishment of their offices. It was against this measure that Oliver Wolcott's cousin Roger Griswold delivered the great speech of his public life (see above). Thus cut off from preferment, and retiring from official station in honorable poverty, he turned to mercantile business for the support of his family. But in 181 7 he was recalled to public service as Chief Magistrate of Connecticut ; and in that office his next ten years were passed. In 18 19 he received the honorary degree of LL. D. from Yale College ; the same doctorate had been already given to him, in 1799, by Brown University and the College of New Jersey. He died in New York in 1833. The " Memorial " before us is enriched with many pages of Oliver Wolcott's correspondence, extracts from his official papers and tributes to his memory. Our purpose will be best served by quoting some words of his own, interspersed with a few from thoroughly congenial correspondents, the pointedness and force of which entitle them to be specially remembered 193 mmin=WioltoU as apothegms of personal virtue and of political honor and sagacity. We give these without farther introduction, only adding to each a date : Any considerable degree of affluence is not attainable in public service, consis- tent with integrity ; my prospects on that head are therefore very limited ' " — 1789. " ' The favours I have received I am very happy to mention to you [his father], as I am certain that they have been bestowed upon me under the auspices of your repu- tation ' " — 1790. " ' We must have a government, and this is the last that can be settled in the United States, by the general consent of the present members' " — 1794. " ' The people here [in New York] are driving at their private occupations, and seem plunged in the mire of commercial avarice. They attend to nothing else; they seem to consider themselves as having no kind of connection with the affairs of the nation, and no interest in it !' " — 1798. " ' I know what vexations you will experience while in your present place ; you can't hold it with any satisfaction, and no other man could on the terms you must, without at least being entangled in some ugly snare ' " — Chauncey Goodrich, 1800. " ' At the same time I request that, if the liberty I have now taken to invite their attention to a matter of personal concern should be deemed in any degree unsuitable, the errour may be attributed to a just and reasonable desire that my conduct and character may, on proper evidence, appear to have deserved their approbation ' " " ' A government which cannot tolerate the virtues which have been exhibited in ours, cannot long enjoy the confidence of the wise and good. It cannot long be pre- served pure, and will soon be thought not worth preserving ' " — 1800. " 'The success of governments depends on the selection of the men who admin- ister them. It seems as if the ruling system would rob the country of all chance, by excluding the only classes proper to make the selection from ' " — Fisher Ames, 1800. " ' You, Gentlemen, are all witnesses that the publick suffrages have not been influenced by my solicitations or exertions ; neither ought I to attribute the invalu- 194 mtUin=WioUott able proof of the confidence of my fellow citizens, which at this time demands my grateful acknowledgements, to personal favour. If, indeed, my countrymen have been in some degree influenced in their choice by a favourable estimate of the services I have performed in various stations, still it is my duty to acknowledge that those services were commenced and continued under the guidance of illustrious men who were among the founders of our Nation ; and that to the wisdom of their precepts whatever has appeared to be most meritorious in my conduct ought chiefly to be referred. It is sufficient honour for me to have obtained their confidence and appro- bation. Disclaiming all pretensions to participation of their Glory, I cannot omit to express the reverence I entertain for those sages whom no artifices could deceive, no temptations seduce, no dangers intimidate'" — 1817. " ' The principles which you have advocated in the Council, and defended in the Field, have been here triumphantly established, and by the favour of Heaven we hope to transmit them, unimpaired, to the latest posterity. " ' These principles are now diffused on every side, from the ocean to the high Plains of Missouri, and from the Lakes to the Bay of Mexico. Over this great region our sons and our daughters, parents of future millions, are rapidly extending science, religion, industry and all the arts which perpetuate and embellish powerful commun- ities. Literature and commerce augment our strength and resources. We are united with elevated spirits from every country, who have come here to enjoy all that free- dom of opinion and of action with which our own minds are imbued. . . . and in every class you will find an interesting proportion of Frenchmen, including num- bers of the descendants of those early immigrants who imbibed the liberal and gallant spirit of your Fourth Henry '" — 1824, addressed to Lafayette. " ' When I review the incidents of my own life, I am compelled to acknowledge, with sincere and reverential gratitude, that many of the most important, in relation to my standing in society, my health, my fame, my family and my children, have occurred without my contrivance, and have terminated contrary to my expectations and wishes. I have suffered severe afflictions ; yet on the whole my life has, so far, been happy and fortunate ' " — 1829. But to these personal utterances of principle, character, fears and hopes we must allow ourselves to add a summary, by one of his political associates,'^ which touches on some traits not yet distinctly brought into view : " The late Hon. Joseph Hopkinson of Philadelphia. 195 mtum=miouott 57 58 59 " ' Mr. Wolcott was a man of a cheerful and even playful disposition. His con- versation was interesting and earnest, but gay, unless the occasion was unfit for gaiety. He enjoyed a good joke from himself or another, and his laugh was hearty and frequent. He delighted in the discussion of literary subjects and the works of distinguished authors, and was particularly fond of poetry. Indeed, I understand that in his younger days he was a poet. . . . His domestic life was most exem- plary ; his greatest happiness was in his family, with the friends who congregated there. His devotion to the business and duties of his office was severe and unremit- ting. He possessed, in a high degree, a very rare qualification, the capacity for con- tinued hard work, and was in everything systematic and orderly. His attachments to his friends were strong and lasting, never taxing them with unreasonable exactions, nor subjecting them to unpleasant caprices. He was open and direct in all his deal- ings, without duplicity or intrigue in anything ; his sincerity was sure, he deceived nobody. His political opinions were the honest convictions of a man of undoubted integrity, of distinguished intelligence and high attainments, and, above all, of a true and sincere lover of his Country.' " By his marriage, in 1785, to Elizabeth Stoughton, the second OHver Wolcott had seven children. His third child and eldest daughter was Lmira,^ who married Col. George Gibbs of Newport, R. I., and whose son George^ was the author of the "Memoirs of the Administrations of Washington and Adams," largely made up from the papers of his grand- father the Secretary of the Treasury. Another son of Col. George and Laura (Wolcott) Gibbs is the eminent Rumford Professor Wolcott^ Gibbs of Harvard University. The youngest child of the first Oliver Wolcott, Frederick (56), born in 1767, was graduated at Yale College in 1786. "' The younger brother . . . the last of our Family who sat in the Senate of Connecticut, or bore a part in its public affairs, was a worthy representative of the succession which terminated with him.' " But his life was more retired than that of either his distinguished brother, or his father or grandfather. 196 mtmn=mniUott '". . . the charms of his character were most attractively unfolded,' " to use words quoted by our memorialist from a contemporary obituary, " ' in the peaceful and retired scenes of private and social life.' " We must hasten on to close our abstract with brief allusions to some of his children and grandchildren. To these we are prompted by recollec- tions of friendly meetings, or correspondence, or by other specially inter- esting associations. ^° His eldest son is /os/ma Huntington,^ now of Boston, Mass., formerly a prominent merchant of that city, of the late firm of Amos and Abbot oi Lawrence ; whose son Roger,^ a man of scholarly tastes and acquisitions, and active public spirit, and a lawyer of prominent position, married a grand- daughter of our classic historian Prescott. When we saw him Chief Mar- shal of the lawyer-graduates of Harvard on her two hundred and fiftieth anniversary in November 1886, we could but think that the mantle of the old Wolcott leadership had fallen upon him. The son next in age was 62 Frederick Henry ^ — now dead — whose many letters on the family-history, addressed to one of the authors of this volume, are a pleasant and valuable memorial of his antiquarian enthusiasm, as well as of his modest pride of ancestry. The second daughter of Frederick Wolcott the elder was Eliza- 63 betli,^ a lady distinguished, as was said of her on her decease, by "sweet- ness, firmness, warm love for humanity, ardent patriotism and domestic devotion ;" she married John P. Jackson of Newark, N. J. These three, with others whose names will be found in our Pedigree, were the children of the first marriage of Frederick Wolcott, in 1800, to Betsey daughter of Col. Joshua Huntington of Norwich, Conn. It was at the expense of these three brothers that the valuable "Memorial" of which this paper is an abstract, was prepared and printed. A child by the second marriage of Frederick Wolcott, in 181 5, to Sally Worthington (Goodrich) 64 Cooke, is our friend Charles Moseley^ of Roseneath, Fishkill-on-Hudson, N. Y., a genial and agreeable gentleman, and much interested in the history of his family, who himself has been twice married. His present wife, the 197 66 mother of all his children, is Catharine A. daughter of Henry Rankin Esq. of New York. The only surviving son of Charles Moseley Wolcott 65 is Henry Goodrich,'^ whose marriage, in 1879, to Julia Sterling daughter of Hon. Waldo Hutchins of New York, again united the families of Wolcott and Ellsworth, which, in an earlier generation, became allied by the marriage of Chief Justice Oliver Ellsworth, as already stated (see above). The first child of this marriage, born in 1880, and named Oliver'^^ "is the lineal descendant of the following seven Governors, namely: WiUiam Bradford, one of the Pilgrim Fathers and the second Governor of the Plymouth Colony, Thomas Welles, John Webster, William Leet and Roger Wolcott — who were Colonial governors of Connecticut ; and Oliver Wolcott and William Wolcott Ellsworth, who were Governors of the State of Connecticut." The eldest daughter of Charles Moseley 67 Wolcott is Katharine Rankin,'^ whom we name, in conclusion, to express our appreciation of her sweet intelligence, warmth of affection and gentle, yet firm, dignity of character, making her a not unworthy living represen- tative of many noble and attractive women, of her family and name, who preceded her. We will here add a few words in regard to the physical traits of the Wolcotts, as understood by us. As a family they have been, so far as tradition brings testimony, and still are, tall, well formed, stalwart and powerful to an unusual degree. The second Matthew Griswold, the athlete, chosen for his strength as one of the champions of Lyme against New London, had a Wolcott mother. The early generations are said to have been dark. Within the memory of tradition, they have had very rich, clear, but not always brunette, complexions, and full faces, good, thouo-h not in general finely chiselled, features, and much effective beauty. The member of the Boston branch of the family who bears the name of his distinguished ancestor the first Governor has the noble face and tall figure of his ancestors, as well as their power and activity of usefulness in public life. Beside those bearing the name, we have been led to believe mtuiix=miouoH that the handsome family of Judge Lanman of Norwich bore in their faces a decidedly Wolcott type. Mr. John M^ Curdy, eldest son of Mr. Richard M^^Curdy, was, also, in face and figure, a Wolcott, strikingly resembling Mr. Charles M. Wolcott of Fishkill-on-Hudson. In disposi- tion and manner, so far as we can learn, the Wolcotts have been warm- blooded, joyous, affectionate in their families and to their friends, and, generally, social, cordial, ready-witted, entertaining in conversation and agreeable. In connection with our papers on the Wolcott, Pitkin and Griswold families, we are led to speak of the contrast between life and society in the times which they chiefly describe and those of the present day. High offices are now so often given to those whose money can control elections, and so often men of the highest character and acquirements either are not selected, or cannot afford to leave profitable business to live upon official salaries, that the offices bring no longer the high distinction of former times. It is therefore not easy, especially for our young readers, to under- stand the social and public environment of the men who in the early times held the highest offices in the State. The Connecticut colonists brought with them their English political and social ideas, which continued after the Revolution. Having selected, as their representatives, men from their best families, the men of the highest character and abilities, and the best educated, to make their laws and administer them, they left the adminis- tration of government in their hands. With these colonists there was little "rotation in office." They had not learned to pay debts for party- service with political offices. No offices were given to a party, or to men, because it was "their turn." Government was then administered for the best good of all the people. When they had chosen such men, and found them capable and faithful, they continued to entrust to them the care of their public interests. They were accustomed to a " government-class," and to hold its members in high respect. They were accustomed to 199 " hereditary legislators," and such by their continued acts they constituted for themselves. From the time of the founding of the Colony there had been a " privileged class," not intentionally seeking this pre-eminence for themselves, but accepting it as the natural result of their conditions. From the first there had been a few leading families, of whom were the Wolcotts, Pitkins, Trumbulls, Griswolds — all in one family-connection — to whose wisdom and public spirit the government of the Colony and State had been chiefly intrusted. These became hereditary legislators here, almost as much as if, living in England, they had had a hereditary right to exalted places. Bringing with them from England a sense of the highest respect for " persons in authority over them," the colonists extended it to their own high officers. It was their delight to surround them with all the pomp, pride and pageantry within their power. No public occasion could now be so impressive to us as the Governor's inauguration, in its solemnity, its stateliness, its gorgeous attire, its military and civic display, was to them. A prestige followed the governing families, and they and those nearly con- nected with them were treated with a deference which is little seen in modern society. These families on their part received this respect, and these tributes, with calmness and dignity ; they were not elated by dis- tinction, but, with a deep sense that "the powers that be" are of divine institution, they discharged their duties in the fear of God, seeking wisdom and strength from Him. All the leading men of the families we describe " served God in their generation," and left high examples to their descend- ants and to the people whom they guided. mtMn=miouou After the publication, during the past winter, of the " Pitkin Family of America,"''' by Mr. A. P. Pitkin, covering the whole field of the gene- alogy of the family, from its first progenitor in this country, William Pitkin, down to the present time, it would be superfluous to go over the same ground again — especially as the Pitkin-Wolcott aUiance was in the very first generation of the American Pitkins. This alliance, however, proved so important to both families that some farther recognition of it seemed to be called for. We are happy, therefore, to preserve here an old record of several early generations of the Pitkins, drawn up by some unknown hand in the family, and kindly copied for us by Mr. James Sherwood Pitkin of New Haven. All important discrepancies between this record and the statements in the "Pitkin Family" are marked by the initials A. P. P. " Having since my former memoranda concerning the Pitkin family obtained much information, particularly in relation to WiUiam Pitkin who emigrated to Connecticut in 1659, and his son and grandson of the same name, I, in November 1843, committed the same to writing, and here, for more safe preservation, now transcribe the same. " JFz7//«;«w Pitkin, the first, was born in the city of London" in 1635, without the walls, and, as is supposed, at a place called Mary-le-bone, where he lived at the time of his emigration, and where he received an >« Hartford, 1887. " Other Pitkin papers give Lincolnshire as the county from whicli William Pitkin emigrated — Pri- vate letter of Prof. S. E. Baldwin, Nov. 25, 1886. Miss Mary K. Talcott of Hartford, on the other hand, writes (February 8, 1887) as follows ; " Berkhamstead in Hertfordshire appears to have been the English home of the Pitkins. Cussan's History of that county states, in vol. iii. p. 76, that the name of Pitkin occurs frequently in the records of Great Berkhamstead, and I found the name of William Pitkin as living there circa 1620-40. The Lincolnshire origin does not appear to be anything more than tradition unsupported by facts." mtUin=moltoU excellent English, as well as law, education. For a short time after he arrived and settled at Hartford, being an unmarried man of about the age of twenty-five, he was on account of his superior education employed as an instructor in that place, and was in part paid for his services out of the treas- ury of that town. His superior law-education soon became known, and in 1662 he was appointed by the Assembly of Connecticut as a prosecutor for the colony in a particularly important case, and, doubtless from the abihty with which he conducted this prosecution, he was in 1664 appointed the Attorney-General for the colony. Such was the confidence placed in him that he was much employed, also, in the civil affairs of the colony. From 1675 to 1690, with the exception of the time of the usurpation of Sir Edmund Andross, he was annually one of the Representatives of Hartford in the Colonial Assembly. In 1676 he was chosen Treasurer of the colony, was often appointed a Commissioner of Connecticut to the meet- ings of the United Colonies of New England, and in 1690 was elected a member of the Council, and so continued until his death. In addition to the above general public employments, in 1683, on the arrival of Duncan as Governor of New York, he with Nathan Gould and John Allen was sent to New York to congratulate the new Governor on his arrival, and with him to settle the boundaries between the two colonies ; and by them the principles in relation to these boundaries were adjusted ; and in 1693, when Fletcher the New York Governor was commissioned to command the militia of Connecticut, Gov. Winthrop was sent to England to adjust this business with the King ; and William Pitkin, at the same time, was sent to New York to make terms with Fletcher in regard to this subject, till the royal pleasure should be known. " He was indefatigable in his private as well as in his public business. He was no doubt one of the most able lawyers in the colony at that period. And the records of the Courts, particularly the High Courts, show that no one was more generally employed in cases of importance, the records of the High Court then giving us, at large, the written pleas of the lawyers in the cases before it. "The loss which the colony sustained in his death . . . was long felt, as appears by a funeral sermon preached by the Rev'^ Eliphalet Adams at the death of Governor Saltonstall in 1724. In this sermon the preacher said ' In this colony particularly the Lord's hand hath been heavy upon us mtnin=WioUoU in silencing and removing our Chief Rulers and Magistrates,' and, men- tioning among them Richard Christophers, he adds ' Another of them was soon removed by death, the worshipful William Pitkin, a gentleman of great worth, wisdom and piety, whose loss we feel and lament even to this day.' " From the last expression we conclude the first Wilham Pitkin was meant, as the death of the second William Pitkin had happened only in 1723. "The great attention he paid to religion- is evidenced by the manu- scripts he left behind him on religious subjects, which are now in my hands. These manuscripts fill a very large folio volume of about six hundred and fifty closely written pages, in a hand plain for that period. They embrace one hundred and sixty-three essays, of different lengths, on various texts of Scripture.''* " The first emigrant, it is believed, left no parents living in England, and only one brother, by the name of Roger p-'^^'^ and one sister named Martha?^ The former was a military officer in the royal army; and the latter, strongly attached to her brother William, in the year 1660, or early in 1 66 1, crossed the Atlantic for the purpose of finding this brother, and inducing him to return to England, not supposing that he really intended to remain in the wilderness. " A tradition has always prevailed in the family, that Martha Pitkin, at that time a young lady of twenty or twenty-two, of no ordinary natural talents, and improved by an excellent education, having by accident found her beloved brother, at their first meeting, feeding his swine, she (after their first salutation) said to him ' I left one brother in England serving his king, and found another in America serving his swine.' "The reception his sister met with in the colony was very flattering, as has lately been given me by the Rev* Thomas Robbins, for some years '* Mr. A. P. Pitkin says : " it might be inferred that he was educated for the ministry." " A letter of Walter Barnesley of London (November 4, 1667) to Mr. William Pitkin, quoted in The N. E. Hist, and Geneal. Reg., xxxiv, 195, says : " Since the dreadfull fire I live not above a stone's cast from y' brother Roger pitkin" howse in Helmet court, but on the other side of London wall, whither I pray you direct your letters to me At the next house to the signe of the George in the Posterne street, neare little morefields. This day I saw y' brother Roger and his wife who are in good health (through mercy) and theyr little son Roger. Litle Will : died in the great sicknes time. They desire to be kindly remembred to your self and wife, together with your brother and sister Woollcott." 203 a minister at East Windsor, where she resided the greater part of her life, a gentleman well versed in family antiquities and anecdotes. . . . [see above]. "In 1661 William [i] Pitkin married Miss Hannah Goodwin, a lady of a very respectable family in Hartford, by whom he had the following children, viz : 4 I " Roger, ^^^ born 1662. 5 1 " William^^ born 1664. 6 I " Jolin,^^ born . ] [A. P. P. says: Hannah, b. about 1666. 7 " Nathanielp''^ born . \ John, b. about 1668. 8 " Hanjiah,^^'^ horn . ) Nathan2el,h.dho\xti6'jo.'\ 9 I " George,'^^^ horn 1675. 10 I " Elizabeth ^^ born 1677. Ill " Osias,^^^ born 1679. " His son Roger [4] married a daughter of the Hon. Caleb Stanley in 1683. He had some military appointment ; and died November 24*, 1748, at the advanced age of eighty-seven. " Wilham [5], the second son, married, in the year 1686, Elizabeth a daughter of the Hon. Caleb Stanley; and died April s**", 1723. "John [6], the third son, died unmarried. " Nathaniel [7], the fourth son, married Esther daughter of Stephen Hosmer ; and died in 1733. " Hannah [8] married Timothy Cowles [of East Hartford, Conn.]. " Osias [11], the fifth son, first married Miss Elizabeth Green of Boston, and, after her death, Mrs. Elizabeth Caldwell [Esther Cadwell — A. P. P.]. "The first emigrant William Pitkin died on the 16*'' of December 1694, aged fifty-nine; and though, for the greater part of his life, he had lived on the east side of the Connecticut river, he was buried in the burial- ground on the west side of that river. His wife survived him until Feb- ruary 1724, when she died at the age of eighty-six. "William [5] Pitkin, the second son of the first William, was educated by his father as a lawyer, and like him was distinguished in his profession. 204 mt^in=Wi0ltott and like him also was much employed in public business. In his profes- sional practice he was not less able and happy in repartee than in argument. He was often opposed by a brother lawyer of the name of Eels. His opponent, supposing that, in a particular case, he had got much the better of Pitkin in argument, said ' The Court will perceive that the Pipkin is cracked.' ' Not so much so, may it please Your Honoi-,' was the reply, ' but that you will find it will do to stew Eels in yet.' "As to his public employments, he represented the town of Hartford in the General Assembly in 1696 ; and from 1697 until his death, a period of twenty-six years, he was annually elected by the freemen to the Council of the colony. From 1702 until 171 1 he was a Judge of the County Court. In 1703 he was appointed a Judge of the Court of Assistants. " Upon the establishment of the Superior Court, in 171 1, he was made a Judge of that Court, and in 17 13 he was made Chief Justice of the same.* " In addition to these judicial duties, he was also employed in other important business of the colony. In the great Mohi case, to decide upon which Royal Commissioners were appointed in 1705, he was the first of the agents of the colony. In 1707 he was one of the Council of War; and for many years he, together with John Chester and William Whiting, was employed in the settlement of the boundary line between Massachusetts and Connecticut. I have in my possession a statement, drawn up by Wil- liam Pitkin in his own handwriting, containing a brief account of the proceedings under this appointment. He states that they went to Massa- chusetts on this subject, and, after debating three weeks with Governor Belmont, intrusted with the power of adjusting the line, all that could be obtained was an Act of Massachusetts to appoint certain persons to find out the line run by Woodward and Safifory. "After a long controversy Massachusetts, though proven to be wrong, utterly refused to begin the fine at any other point than a certain designated station. So Connecticut finally yielded, and in 1713 the line was run by Pitkin and Whiting, and struck the Connecticut River seven or eight miles »o "William Pitkin the second was chosen a Judge of the Superior Court in 1711, and subsequently. In 1712 he was appointed Chief Judge in case of the absence of the Deputy Governor " — Private letter of Charles J. Hoadly, State Librarian of Hartford, Mar. 6, 1879. See List of Judges of the Superior Court, in " Connecticut Reports," Vol. 53, p. 595. 205 mthin=WioUoit north of ' Bissel's house,' claimed by Massachusetts to be within her juris- diction. By this new Hne, which was run by a large instrument made for that purpose, a large tract of land was added to Connecticut, including (what at that time was considered to be of great importance) the copper mines at Simsbury. "Though William Pitkin the second was so much engaged in his profession, and in public business, as above stated, yet prior to the year I 706 he was the owner of the famous mill seats on a certain river in East Hartford, and at the Upper Falls so called had built two fulling mills, and had also erected a clothier-shop, in which the clothier-business was carried on to a large extent. This was done probably for the benefit of his two oldest sons, William and Joseph, to whom by his will he gave these two fulling mills, and all his right in the Upper Falls, and who after the death of their father carried on the clothier-business. "This was probably the only clothier-business of much consequence carried on in Connecticut at that period, as Trumbull in his History informs us that, in answers made to certain questions put by the Board of Trade and Plantations, in the year 1710, relative to the manufactures of Connec- ticut, it is stated 'There is but one Clothier in the Colony.' This clothier was probably William Pitkin the second. "In the year 1686 he married Elizabeth daughter of the Hon. Caleb Stanley, by whom he had the following children, viz : 12 '' ElizabetJt,^'''^ i'*, born in 1687 ; died in infancy. 13 '' Elizabeth,^'^ 2"", born in 1689. 14 " Mart ha, ^'^ born February 28, 1692. 15 " Williain,^^ born April 30, 1694. 16 " Joseph^^ born May 16, 1696. 17 '' Sarah}^-'^ i"\ born March 1698; died in 1701. 18 " Thoinas^^ born June 18, 1701 [1700 — A. P. P.]. 19 '' Sarah,^"^ 2'"', born November 28, 1702. 20 ''John}'^ r"*, born July 18, 1706; died in infancy. 21 "John,^^ 2'"^, born December 13, 1707 [Dec. 18— A. P. P.]. 22 '' Jeriisha,^''^ born June 22, 1711 [Jan. 22, 1710 — A. P. P.]. " Elizabeth [13] married the Rev'^ Benjamin Colton of West Hartford. "Martha [14] married Col. Thomas Welles of Glastonbury. 206 J3ftftfn=2moUott "William [15] married Mary daughter of the Rev'^ Mr. Woodbridge, Minister at Hartford. "Joseph [16] married : first, Mary daughter of Richard Lord of Hart- ford [great great granddaughter of the first Thomas Lord of Hartford], by whom he had seven [nine — A. P. P.] children — she died October 10, 1740, aged thirty-eight; secondly, Eunice daughter of John Chester of Wethersfield ; and, thirdly, Mrs. Law, the widow of Gov. Law of Milford, who survived him. He died November 3o'\ 1763 [1762 — A. P. P.], aged sixty-seven. "Thomas [18] married EHzabeth [Rebecca — A. P. P.] daughter of Capt. [Samuel — A. P. P.] Welles, and removed to Bolton, which town he frequently represented in the General Assembly. By his will he gave three of his slaves their freedom at his decease, which took place July 20*^ 1 766, when he was at the age of sixty-six. "Sarah [19] married Col. Eleazur Porter of Hadley, Mass. "John [21] married Miss Ann [Elizabeth — A. P. P.] Olcott. After being employed in many civil and military affairs, he died June 5'^ 1790, aged eighty-three. " Jerusha [22] married: first, Samuel Edwards of Hartford ; secondly, the Rev** Ashbel Woodbridge of Glastonbury, by whom she had seven sons and one daughter [two daughters — A. P. P.]. Her husband served as a Chaplain in the expedition in 1 745 and 1 746, and died August 6*-^, 1758. She survived, and died July 31'*', 1799, aged eighty-nine.^^ "William [15] Pitkin the third, eldest son of William Pitkin the second, was more distinguished both in public and private life than any other of his father's numerous family. " The advantages of education in the colony at that time were very small. His early education, therefore, was quite partial. Few in Connec- ticut at that time, especially those who had large families, were able to educate their sons at Harvard, and Yale College was then in an embryo state. Few young men, therefore, in the colony at that period had the advantages of a collegiate education. Their parents, however, were fully sensible of the importance of having their sons brought up in habits of industry, and in some steady and regular employment ; and, in case of " The Woodbridge Record. ... By Louis Mitchell. Privately Printed. New Haven, 1883, p. 29. 207 mtUin=mioUott their want of capacity or inclination for either of the learned professions, they must be either agriculturists, manufacturers or mechanics ; nor did they deem it disreputable or degrading to place them in a state of appren- ticeship to enable them to learn the manufacturing or mechanic arts. Roger Wolcott, afterwards Governor of the colony, was at the age of twelve placed as an apprentice to a mechanic ; and the first William Pitkin, leaving at his decease three sons under age, in his will directed his wife to put one to a trade in case he should desire it. " William Pitkin the third was employed in the early part of his life, by his father, in the business of a clothier. Possessing a mind naturally stable, active and energetic, he no doubt profited much by the education of his father, particularly on the important subject of the laws of policy of the colony at that period. This, with his natural courtesy and ease of manner, placed him in the public station he afterwards held. "He commenced his civil career in 1728, when he was elected a Representative of Hartford in the General Assembly ; and he continued thus to represent that town until 1 734, when he was elected into the Council. In 1732 he was chosen Speaker of the House; and, while he held this station, a question of no little importance, that of repealing the charter of the ' New London Society, United for Trade and Commerce,' and declaring the paper-money issued by that Society unauthorized, came before the House ; and finally depended upon the casting vote of the Speaker, which was given in favor of repealing the charter. This greatly displeased his colleague Mr. Thomas Seymour, who was largely interested in the Society, who told him that this vote would destroy his popularity in Hartford, whose Representative he would no longer be. It so happened, however, that in the spring following the Speaker was again elected for Hartford, and Seymour was neglected. Neither by this vote did he lose his popularity in the colony at large, as in i 734 he was chosen an Assistant, and from 1735 to 1752 was a Judge of the County Court for Hartford County." "In 1754 he was elected Lieutenant Governor, and to this office he This is not quite correct ; tlic third William Pitkin " was appointed a Judge of the Superior Court in 1741 and after. The office of Chief Judge was ordinarily annexed to, or held in connection with, that of Deputy Governor, and Mr. Pitkin held these olBces 1754-1766 "—Private letter of Charles f. Hoadly, ut supra. 208 mtUin=mioUon was .annually elected till 1 766, when, in the manner I shall hereafter partic- ularly state, he was elected Governor in the room of Fitch. " In May 1754 he was appointed one of three Commissioners to rep- resent Connecticut at a convention held at Albany, by the request of the British Government, in order to form a more perfect union between the colonies, to meet an expected war with France, and at the same time to secure the friendship of the Northern Indians. The plan drawn up and recommended was principally the work of Dr. Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, and was called the 'Albany Union.' It has generally been stated that all of the Commissioners present approved of this plan ; those from Connecticut, however, were not in favor of it, particularly of a part which gave the veto power to a President General to be appointed by the Crown. The plan itself, as is well known, was afterwards rejected, not only by Connecticut, but by all the other colonies as well. " William Pitkin the third was also very strongly opposed to the cele- brated Stamp Act passed by the British Parliament in March 1765, to take effect upon the i'* day of November of the same year. It became a very serious question whether the Governor and Magistrates should take the oath to carry the same into execution, as required by the Act. Thomas Fitch, then Governor, and I believe four of the Council, deemed it proper, and probably considered it their duty, to take the oath required. But William Pitkin, then Lieut. Gov'', Jonathan Trumbull and the other Councillors refused to take it. The two former in fact retired from the Council Chamber, while it was being administered.^ This proceeding of Gov. Fitch rendered him very unpopular throughout the colony, of which he had been Governor since 1754, and in May 1766 Lieutenant Gov. Pitkin was chosen Governor in his stead, by so large a majority of the votes of the freemen that the same when separated (as the actual votes then given by the freemen were returned to the Assembly to be counted by that body) were noi in fact coimted. "The 'Connecticut Gazette' gives the following brief account of this election : " 'General Election 8" of May 1766. Hon'"" William Pitkin, Governor. Majority so great, votes not counted.' "'Hon'""* Jonathan Trumbull, Deputy Governor.' " As did, also, Matthew Griswold (see ffiiistDolt)). 209 mt^in=mioUott 23 24 25 26 27 " The records show that WilHam Pitkin was annually elected Governor from May 1766 to the time of his death, which took place October i"', 1 769, when he had reached the age of seventy-six, and that during that period Jonathan Trumbull was chosen Lieut. Governor. The Assembly which met in October, soon after the death of Governor Pitkin, chose Trumbull Governor for the remainder of the year; and in May 1770 he was elected Governor by the freemen, and was afterwards annually chosen to the same office until 1 783, when he publicly declined a re-election. "The wife of Gov. William Pitkin died in 1766, by whom he had the following children, viz : " lVi//mm,^^^ born in 1724-5 ; died in 1789, aged sixty-five. ''Timothy}^^'^ born January 15 [Jan. 13 — A. P. P.], 1727; died July 8, 18 1 2, aged eighty-five. "George}-'^'^ born in 1729; died April 8 [April 18— A. P. P.], 1806, aged seventy-seven. "Epap/iras,^^^ born in 1733 ; died in 1801, aged sixty-eight. "Ashbel}'^^ born in 1735 ; died in 1802, aged sixty-seven." A private letter from Miss Talcott enables us to add to this record that the fourth William (23) Pitkin was "appointed, in 1758, Major of the Connecticut forces raised for the expedition to Canada under Gen. Abercrombie ; was a Judge of the Superior Court [from 1769], and a member of the Council of Safety during the Revolutionary War." He was also a Judge of the Supreme Court of Connecticut in 1 784-85, as James Griswold Esq. of Lyme informs us. See List of Judges of the Supreme Court of Errors, in Baldwin's "Connecticut Digest," Vol. I. p. ix. William Pitkin the fourth "was Col. in the militar3^ Sheriff of the County, and Assistant, and Judge of the Superior Court " — so writes Prof. S. E. Baldwin of New Plaven, from a record by his mother Mrs. Gov. Baldwin. Fie ^ held the office of Sheriff from 1749 to 1767, and that of Judge of the Superior Court from 1769 until his death in 1789. See "Connecticut Reports," Vol. 53, pp. 595, 611. J3ftltftt=2!moltOtt The first graduate of Yale College of the Pitkin family was Rev. Timothy (24) Pitkin of Farmington, Conn., the second son of Gov. Pitkin ; he was graduated in 1747. From him descends Miss Talcott. A granddaughter of his was the late Mrs. Gov. Baldwin of New Haven. Hon. Timothy Pitkin (Y. C. 1785), Member of Congress and author of " A Political and Civil History of the United States of America," was a grandson of Gov. Pitkin. Our friend Mr. James S. Pitkin, to whom we owe the record given above, is a great grandson of Elisha Pitkin (Y. C. 1753), a nephew of Gov. Pitkin. Gov. Frederick W. Pitkin of Colorado descends from the second William Pitkin, through his son Joseph, and his grandson Richard, who was the Colorado Governor's great grandfather. Miss Talcott also informs us that " Gov. Pitkin had a seal ring with a coat of arms," which she never saw, but which the Governor's great grand- daughter Miss Charlotte Perkins of Hartford copied in colors. As thus represented, " the field is blue, bearing two white swans, with a fess between Arg., and on the fess two or three mullets." But an enlarged copy of this device, without tinctures, given us by Mr. James S. Pitkin, enables us to correct the description thus: " Az. a bend Arg. between tivo swans Arg., 071 the bend- a crescent between two mtdlets." A later note from Miss Talcott makes the mullets to be Gules. These arms are not given either by Burke or Papworth ; and we have no means of testing their authenticity. The foregoing part of this paper speaks of those of the Pitkins who have been most distinguished in civil life. But it should be mentioned that, in all its generations, the family has contributed its full proportion of men whose distinction has been that they have served their country, faithfully, in mihtary stations, — from Captain Roger Pitkin, of the second generation, who was appointed by the General Assembly, in 1698, Captain of the first militia-company of Hartford, on the east side of Connecticut River, and "was actively engaged with his company in defence of the town against the Indians in 1704, and in other troubled times;" Col. John Pitkin, mt^in=m^oUoU of the third generation, commissioned as Colonel in 1756, who, as Lieut.- Colonel, "led his command in the expedition to Crown Point in i755'>" Major WiUiam Pitkin, of the fourth generation, who was in the expedition to Canada, in 1758, under Gen. Abercrombie ; and Richard Pitkin, of the fifth generation, who, "though but sixteen years of age, served in the Revolution as driver of an ammunition-wagon ;" down to Colonel Edward Powell Pitkin, of the seventh generation, who was "promoted to Adjutant on the field of Fredericksburg in 1862," and received other promotions, for his services, in later years of the war of the rebellion, — together with many others whom we cannot stay to name, but whose names will be found recorded with honor in the " Pitkin Family." Nor should we omit to refer here to Capt. Roger Pitkin, the brother of the emigrant William, who was a loyal officer of the British Army, in the old mother-country of the family. We quote the following general summaries from the " Pitkin Family," pp. xxiii-xxiv : " Among the descendants by the name of Pitkin may be found a United States Senator, three members of Congress, and State Senators, a Speaker of the House, forty members of the House and Senate, two Attorney-Generals, three Judges of Supreme Court, and several Judges of County and Probate Courts, several D.D.'s, an LL.D., several Colonial Commissioners, a trustee of the Hartford Theological Seminary, Fellows of College Corporation, a founder of the Western Reserve College, thirty clerg)'men, and numerous deacons ; two Generals and a Quartermaster-General, six Colonels, and numerous Major Commanders ; three graduates of West Point, an Engineer-in-Chief, a United States Marshall, two Governors, a Lieutenant-Governor, five members of the Governor's Council, several on Councils of Safety and Councils of War. One historian of the United States, mayors, water commissioners, and bank presidents, surgeons in the U. S. Navy and Army, a number of physicians, lawyers, and college graduates, — not to mention here many other important trusts conferred upon various members of the family. . . " From William's sister Martha Pitkin Wolcott are also descended five Governors of Connecticut, and other eminent men. . . mt^in=mouou ". . . twenty of the daughters of Pitkins married clergymen, and ten of the sons of Pitkins married daughters of clergymen ; adding to these thirty ministers be- fore mentioned, we find sixty clergymen directly or nearly connected with the family. "Mr. J. O. Goodwin, in his 'History of East Hartford,' says (p. 225) : 'Seldom is it the fortune of any family to have numbered so many individuals raised to places of distinction in the affairs of a State, by their own abilities, as in the case of the Pitkin family of Hartford, East Side. No other family in our commonwealth stood so con- stantly and for so long a time in the front of current events, unless it were the Wolcott family of Windsor, which was also remarkable for its number of prominent men.' "From the charter of the Connecticut Colony, in 1662, to its formation as a State, in 1776, and the adoption of the Constitution of the United States, in 1788, until 1812, a period of one hundred and fifty years, the Colony was annually repre- sented by a member of the Pitkin family in the Assembly of the Colony, or the Governor's Council, or in the Governor's chair, and the State, in the House or in the Senate, and in the Speaker's chair. This representation continued with but few omissions till 1842, a period of one hundred and eighty years. We question if a parallel case can be cited in the history of any family in any State." One of the most prominent families of Pitkin descent is that of the late Hon. Roger Sherman Baldwin, Governor of Connecticut and United States Senator, whose wife. Miss Emily Perkins by birth, a granddaughter, as we have said, of Rev. Timothy Pitkin of Farmington, Conn., was a noble, very talented and most excellent woman, whom we shall always remember as one of the most valued friends of our lifetime. Her son Simeon E. Baldwin Esq., Professor of Constitutional and Mercantile Law, etc., in the Yale Law School, one of the foremost lawyers of his native State, and deserving of any official position in the gift of his fellow-citizens ; her other surviving son, Mr. George William Baldwin, who, having left the practice of law with honor, has been, for several years, gathering riches of knowledge and culture by travels all over Europe, and in lands of ancient civilization in Asia and Africa ; her daughter Mrs. Elizabeth Wooster Whitney, the wife of our foremost American orientalist and linguist Prof. William Dwight Whitney of Yale University ; and her other daughter 213 Mrs. 'Henrietta Perkins Foster, the widow of Hon. Dwight Foster, a distinguished lawyer of Worcester and Boston, Mass., are all prominent illustrations of Pitkin qualities of mind and character, as well as worthy representatives of many other Hues of eminent ancestry. Mrs. Baldwin's brother Thomas Clap Perkins Esq. was for many years one of the most distinguished lawyers in the State, and the succession of distinguished talent has been kept up by his children — Charles Perkins, who followed him in the legal profession ; Frederick Beecher Perkins, a literary man ; and Mrs. Emily Hale, wife of Rev. Edward Everett Hale of Boston, inheriting and transmitting more than ordinary mental power. A similar mention may be made of her brothers the late Rev. George William Perkins, and Henry Perkins an astute financier of Hartford, Conn. It is believed among the descendants that there is a versatility of talent, a special wit and sprightliness of mind, which brings those of them who were previously strangers to each other into rapid and easy relations, and makes companionship delightful. One of the family, who fully exemplifies all the qualities mentioned, sends us the following sketch of family-traits : " The Pitkins have been an active, shrewd, quick-witted race, with a good deal of dry humor, and a keen way of 'putting things.' Tlieir tendencies have been towards the conservative side in most social and political movements. The men are generally thought to have a good head for business, and the women are known to be ready in conversation, frank and hospitable." 214 'BvuUt Kotrs on tJje iFamfls of WvnUt Arms : ^rg-. a wiverii with wings displayed Gu. 3 4-7 The father of Sergeant Job^*' Drake, who married Mary Wolcott, was the emigrant JOHN^ DRAKE, believed, by Mr. Savage, and other antiquaries, to have come in the fleet with Winthrop. In October 1636 he requested to be made a freeman of Boston, Mass. He was of Windsor in 1635, and was a purchaser of land at Taunton, Mass., in 1639. His wife was Elizabeth Rodgers, as we learn from a manuscript statement, dated in 1731, by his great grandson Dr. Matthew Rockwell, a physician and clergyman. He was evidently a man of substance ; his family took rank, and intermarried, with the best of the Windsor settlers ; his sons left estates large for the period. John Drake Sen., according to an old Windsor record, was killed, August 17, 1659, by his oxen taking fright and running away; he trying to take hold of the leader, a mare, was thrown down, and the cart wheel went over him. " He was taken up for dead, being carried into his daughter's house had life come again, but dyed in a short time, and was buried on the 18"' of Aug. 1659." The Windsor church-record states that his widow, Mrs. Elizabeth Drake, "died Oct. 7, 1681 at 100"' y'' of age, having lived a widow 22 years." After the death of her husband she lived with her son Jacob. Most, if not all, of the children of John Drake and his wife were born in England. Savage says there were three sons : Job, John and Jacob, and one or more daughters. His Will now in the office of the Secretary of State at Hartford, Conn., shows that he had four sons, in the followinaf order : John^^ (a document filed in Hartford says he was born in 1612), Job (i), Jacob'^^ and Timothy}'^ and two daughters, Mary'^'^ and Elizabeth}-'^ 215 Hi^ottn on i^t iFatnUfi of mvaUt 8 9, lo 11,12 13. 14 15- 16 17, 18 19 20 21 22, 23 24 I. JOHN (3) DRAKE J UN., who married, November 30, 1648, Hannah Moore, daughter of Deacon John Moore who came from England as deacon of Rev. Mr. Warham's church, and held high official station in the colony, was one of the first settlers of Simsbury, Conn. His Inventory was presented September 12, 1689, showing Simsbury property to the amount of ^393. 15., and Windsor property amounting to ;^223. 2. He had a son John (afterwards of Danbury) who in 1708 chose a guardian. His wife died February 16, 1686. His children were: John}'^ born September 14, 1649 ; Job}'^ born June 15, 1651; Hatmah}'^ born August 8, 1653; Enoch}'^ born December 8, 1655; Ruih}'^ born December 8, 1657; Simon}'^ born October 28, 1659; Lydia}'^ born January 26, 1661,; ElizabetliP- born July 22, 1664; Mary}'^ born January 29, 1666; Aliiidivell}'^ born November 10, 1671; Joseph}^ born June 26, 1674. H^annah (10) Drake married Capt. John Higley, and had Hannah ;'^'^ who married Capt. Joseph Trumbull, and was the mother of the first Gov. Jonathan^^ Trumbull. Enoch (11) Drake married Sarah Porter, and had Sarah, ■'^'^ who married Capt. Benoni Trumbull, younger brother of Joseph, and had Benjamin ;'^'^ who married Mary Brown, and had Rev. Dr. Benjamin^* Trumbull, the historian of Connecticut. Hon. Lyman ^^ Trumbull, late United States Senator, is a grandson of Dr. Benjamin. 2. SERGEANT JOB (i) DRAKE married, June 25, 1646, Mary daughter of Henry Wolcott Sen. He died August 6, 1689. His widow Mary died September 11, 1689. His estate was ^583. 4. His !5, 26 children were: Abigail}^ born September 28, 1648; Mary}'^ born 17 December 12, 1649, who married Thomas Marshall in 1685; Job}^ born 28,29 March 28, 1652; Elizabeth}'^ born November 14, 1654; Joseph}'^ born 30,31 April 16, 1657; Hepsibah}'^ born July 14, 1659; Hester}'^ born October 10, 1662 ; who married Thomas Griswold (see ^trf!SU)OlXl)« 216 Kotes on tije iFamilff of MvaUt 3. JACOB (4) DRAKE, of the tenth generation, married, April 12, 1649, Mary Bissell. They had no children. LIEUT. JOB (27), son of Job of the tenth generation, married widow Elizabeth Cook (daughter of Hon. Daniel Clarke), September 13, 1677. He died November 9, 1 71 1, in his sixtieth year ; she died December 32 22, 1729, aged seventy-eight. His children were: Job}"^ born January 26, 33' 34 1678; Mary}''- born April 29, 1680; Jacob}''' born January 29, 1683; 35 Sarah, 12 born May 10, 1686, who married Gov. Roger Wolcott, December 36 3, 1702; Job}''' born in 1705.' John Drake the emigrant is believed to have been the "John Drake, my cozen William Drake's sonne," to whom Francis Drake Esq. of Esher, CO. Surrey (of the family of Drakes of Ashe in Devonshire), in his Will, dated March 13, 1633, and proved May 7, 1634, gave ^20., ''to be sent vnto him into New England, in comodityes such as my Executor shall thincke fitt."^ " The family of Drake," says Dr. Stiles in his " History of Ancient Windsor," "has been distinguished in England from the earliest ages, by a long array of noble men — soldiers, navigators, clergymen, martyrs and authors. ... It is sufficient for our purpose to say that, among the .many noble families of the name in Great Britain, the family who held their seat at Ashe were ever prominent, and from them it is supposed that the Drakes of New England were descended."^ Henry FitzGilbert Waters Esq., in a private letter to the writer (April 22, 1887), says of the John Drake referred to in the Will of Francis of Esher: "who could it be but your ancestor ?" ' These particulars respecting the sons, grandchildren and great grandchildren of the emigrant John Drake are taken from The History of Anc. Windsor. ... By Henry R. Stiles. . . . New York, 1859, pp. 583-84. The generation-numbers accord with the descent of the emigrant John Drake as set forth later in this paper. ' A full abstract of this Will has been given to us by Henry FitzGilbert Waters Esq. ^ Stiles's Anc. Windsor, ut supra, p. 583. 217 tKotes on tJje iFamtls of mt^Ut During the last ten years the writer has printed " Queries," and has made, besides, active personal inquiries for any John Drake who was in New England at the early period when the Will of Francis Drake Esq. of Esher was dated, 1633-34, but has obtained no trace of any person of the name except John Drake of Windsor. As his social position and apparent pecuniary resources correspond to the belief of genealogists and others that he is the only person who could be the one named in the Will of Francis Drake Esq. of Esher, and as he is accepted as such by learned genealogists of the English family of Drake of Esher, we feel that we may consider the fact established, and shall therefore proceed to give some account of the family and pedigree of our John Drake as having branched off from the Drakes of Ashe and Exmouth. As to his particular line of descent, the antiquary S. G. Drake, late of Boston, said, in "The New England Histor. and Geneal. Register" for 1870, that, in an extensive pedigree of the Drakes of Ashe in Devonshire he found "but one John who could be meant in the will of Francis Drake of Esher, and he was a son of William Drake of Yardbury, [great] grandson of John Drake Esq. Sheriff of Devon." This conjecture, however, has been disproved by infor- mation lately received from Rev. W. T. Tyrwhitt Drake of Hemel-Hemp- sted, England, with an accompanying letter as follows : " Great Gaddesden Vicarage, " Hemel Hempsted, England, June, 1890." " Dear Madam : " In reply to a communication of yours of May 2'' which has been forwarded me by one of my cousins, I enclose you a pedigree which Sir William R. Drake of XII. Princes Gardens, London (the author of a 'Notelet on Richard Drake of Esher, London,' privately printed 187S), has kindly furnished me with, and which he says he believes correctly answers Mrs. Salisbury's enquiries. There were none of the Tavistock Drakes at the date of Francis Drake's Will, 1633, who had migrated to New England, though some went to the West Indies. " The Esher Drakes were Puritans. Joan D. (nee Tothill) to wit : so was the great Sir Francis, and the New England Francis was no doubt called after his (Sir Francis's) godson Francis Drake of Esher. 218 Notes on f^t iFawCls of IBvaUt "If I can be of any further use to you or Mr. Salisbury in elucidating any points connected with our pedigree, pray command me, as it will give me great pleasure to be useful in the genealogy of the American branch of the family of Drake. " The difference between the pedigree I send and yours is that John Drake is the great nephew, w/ //le great grandson, of Sir Bernard Drake. This agrees better with Richard Drake's bequest of ;^io. 'to my nephew William Drake's second son,' and Mr. Francis Drake's bequest 'to John Drake, my cousin William's son.' Hoping this will be of use to you, I remain Yours faithfully, W. T. Tyrwhitt Drake." We are also favored with a later note to us from Sir William Richard Drake himself, giving pedigrees of the Prideaux and Dennis families, which, as will appear, were in the line of ancestry of John Drake the emigrant. Sir William writes that the Prideaux pedigree is taken " from the notes contained in Westcote's 'View of Devonshire in 1630,'" and that of the Dennis family "mainly from the Herald's Visitations of 1564." Sir William has kindly sent us also the very interesting " Notelet," men- tioned in the Rev. W. T. T. Drake's note, printed on the occasion of the removal, in 1878, of the monument of Richard (53) Drake Esq. of Esher, of the time of Queen Elizabeth, from the old church of St. George at Esher, to a more modern Esher church. Among other interesting items, including full copies of Wills, the "Notelet" gives particulars of Richard Drake's taking part in the defence of England against the Spanish Armada, and informs us that the manor-house of Esher became the place of entertainment, under guard, of certain Spanish prisoners of high degree who were in the Armada. The pedigrees here referred to present John Drake the emigrant to New England as a great grandson of the Sheriff of Devon by a line derived from Robert of Wiscombe, a brother of Sir Bernard and Richard Drake Esq. of Esher. The fact that a John Drake Esq. and Raleigh Gilbert Esq. — both relatives of this John Drake (see his Gilbert descent in our Pedigree) — 219 tt^otes on m iFatnflff of mvuUt were members of the Council of Plymouth, may have influenced him to emigrate to New England ; and the Puritanism of the Drakes of Esher doubtless encouraged his emigration. We will first sketch the history of the Drakes of Devonshire, and then give, with more precision, the place in it of the emigrant John Drake. We condense what is to be found in Burke's " Landed Gentry,"^ Burke's "Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies,"' Prince's "Worthies of Devon"' and vol. VIII. of Nichols's " Herald and Genealogist."' " Sir William Pole makes mention of Robert le Drak who in the thirty-first year of Edward I. [1303] held Hurnford cum Terra de la Woode of Dertington, and prior to that of others of this family who were 37 possessed of several lands in Devonshire." John^ Drake Esq. of Exmouth, CO. Devon, described as " a man of great estate and a name of no less antiq- uity," married in the time of Henry V. [1413-22] Christiana daughter and coheir of John Billet Esq. of Ashe, by which aUiance the estate of Ashe, in the parish of Musbury, came to the Drake family. The heir of this family was always called John, with one exception, for ten genera- tions following. From John Drake above mentioned descended, in the 38, 39 seventh generation, Sir Bernard'' Drake, his brother Robert'' of Wiscombe, 40 and Richard (53) Drake Esq. They were sons of John^ Drake of Ashe and Exmouth, High Sheriff of Devon in the fourth year of EHzabeth (1561-62), by his wife Amye (or Ann) " daughter of Roger Grenville Esq. of Stow, CO. Cornwall." Sir Bernard Drake Knt., of Mount Drake and Ashe, " was a very distinguished person and 'employed in several great offices at sea,' being much in favour with Queen Elizabeth, who conferred the honour of ^ A Geneal. and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland. By Sir Bernard Burke. London, 1879, i. 475-76- ' A Geneal. and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland and Scotland. By John Burke . . . and John Bernard Burke. . . . Second Ed. London, 1844, pp. 167-68. " Daumonii Orientales Illustres, or The Worthies of Devon. ... By John Prince. ... A New Ed. . . . London, 1810, pp. 328-31. ' The Herald and Genealogist. Edited by John Gough Nichols. . . . London, 1874, viii. 310-12. Kotes on ttie JFaiuU» of mvuUt knighthood upon him in 1585." Prince, in his "Worthies of Devon," says of him : "I find him to descend down to us under a very honorable character, That he was a gentleman of rare and excellent accomplishments ; and as well qualified for a soldier as a courtier : he was in great favor with that illustrious princess of immortal memory Queen Elizabeth ; and of high esteem in her court. ..." That Sir Bernard Drake . . . came to Newfound-Land with a commission ; and, having divers good ships under his command, he took many Portugal ships, and brought them into England as prizes.' And for his great undertakings this way he is ranked the 2d among the most famous sea captains of our country in his time (than whom no age before or since can boast of greater), to wit Sir Humphrey Gilbert, Sir Francis Drake, Sir John Hawkins, &c." We return for a moment to the parents of Sir Bernard Drake and Robert of Wiscombe, in order to quote from Prince's "Worthies of Devon " that a cousin of theirs on their mother's side, was the father of "the famous Sir Richard Grenvil Kt., vice-admiral of the royal navy of England in the days of Q. Elizabeth ; who performed the noblest sea action of that kind ever was made by man . . . who in her Majesty's ship the Revenge maintained a battle, for twenty-four hours, against fifty of the Spanish galleons, with but two hundred men whereof eighty were sick on the ballast . . . he at last yielded upon honorable terms ; but died within two days after. . . ." His last words were ; " Here die I Richard Grenville, with a joyful and quiet mind ; for that I have ended my life as a true soldier ought to do, fighting for his country. Queen, religion and honour : my soul willingly departing from this body, leaving behind the lasting fame of having behaved as every valiant soldier is in his duty bound to do.'" A grandson of Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Grenville was Sir Bevil Grenville, the leader of the Cornish gentry in the cause of Charles I. at the opening of the Civil War, "'the generally most loved man,' says Clarendon, 'of that county,' a leader whose mild and conciliatory character, joined to an indefatigable activity, and ardent courage, peculiarly qualified him to direct the exertions of such a body in times of civil contention." He gave up his life to win a battle for the King's cause in 1643. * Prince's Worthies of Devon, ut supra, pp. 442-44. Notts on tiir iFainflff of UtaiKe "'That which would have clouded any victory, and made the loss of others less spoken of, was the death of Sir Bevil Greenvil ; who was indeed an excellent person, whose activity, interest and reputation was the foundation of what had been done in Cornwall ; and his temper and affection so public that no accident which happened could make any impressions in him ; and his example kept others from taking any- thing ill, or at least seeming to do so. In a word, a brighter courage and a gentler disposition were never married together to make the most cheerful and innocent conversation.' " ° Sir Bernard Drake's last exploit was that, England being at war with Spain, he took a Portugal ship and brought her into the harbor of Dart- mouth. He died in his house at Ashe in 1586. He is believed to have "nobly expended . . . for the honor and safety of his country, in the discovery of foreign regions, and such other vertuous achievements as purchase glory and renown" — so as "greatly to have exhausted his estate." He was buried in the parish-church of Musbury, co. Devon, where is a large stone monument to his memory, divided by pillars into three com- partments, each of which contains two figures (male and female) kneehng to altar-desks in prayer, the centre division containing the effigies of Sir Bernard and his wife, underneath which is the following inscription : " Heer is the Monvment of S'' Barnard Drake K', who had to Wife Dame Garthrud the daughter of Bartholomew Fortescue of Filly, Esq'., by whom hee had three sonnes and three daughters, whereof whear five living at his death, viz. John, Hugh, Marie, Margaret and Helen. He died the x"' of April 1586, and Dame Garthrude his VVief was here buried the xii'^'' of Februarie 1601. Unto the Memorie of whome John Drake Esq', his sonne hath set this Monument. Anno 161 1." There is also a monument of Sir Bernard in the present Filleigh church, built after the demolition of an older edifice. By his wife Gertrude Fortescue, of the great old Norman house of Fortescue, a descendant in the fifth generation from Sir John Fortescue, Chief Justice of the King's Bench under Henry VI., and Lord Chancellor, ' Prince's Worthies of Devon, ut supra, pp. 445-47 ; and the History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England. ... By Edward Earl of Clarendon. . . . Oxford, 1827, iii. 1229, 1430. Kotes on tijt iFamflu of Wvakt daughter of Bartholomew Fortescue Esq. of Filleigh near South Molton 41 in Devonshire, Sir Bernard had a son John ;^ who, by Dorothy daughter 42 of WilHam Button of Alton, co. Wilts, had Sir John^ of Ashe, and 43 "William^ Drake of Yardbiry, in the parish of Culliton near adjoyning." S. G. Drake in his "Genealogical and Biographical Account of the Family of Drake in America"'" speaks of "Robert of Wiscomb, the ancestor of 'a generous tribe of Drakes,' inheriting there in Prince's time." Robert (39) Drake of Wiscombe married Elizabeth daughter of Humphry Prideaux of Theuborough, co. Devon. They had, with other 44, 45 children, " Robert^^i and Henry, i^^^ both distinguished military men ; the elder a Colonel, the younger a Captain, who fell in the defence of Ostend."" 46 William^ Drake of Wiscombe, son of Robert and EHzabeth (Prideaux) Drake, married Philip (or Phillippa) daughter of " Sir Robert Dennis of Holcombe, Knt." Their son John (2) emigrated to Nev^^ England. Here we may notice that John Drake's grandfather Robert of Wiscombe stood in the relation of first cousin to Sir Walter Raleigh ; 47 for a sister of his father, named Joane,^ was the first wife of Walter Raleigh of Fardell, co. Devon, father of Sir Walter, though she was not Sir Walter's mother.'" John Drake himself was second cousin to the grandfather of the great Duke of Marlborough, thus : his second 48 cousin Sir John (42) of Ashe had a daughter Elizabeth,^" who married Sir Winston Churchill of Standish, co. Gloucester, and was the mother of 49 John^i Churchill, first Duke of Marlborough, whose birth was in the 50 mansion of Ashe. Sir Bernard's great grandson Sir John^^ Drake of Ashe was created a Baronet by King Charles II. in 1660. The Baronetcy 51 became extinct on the death of Sir William ^^ Drake, the sixth Baronet, who died s. p. in 1733. '»p. 18. " A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland. . . . By John Burke Esq. . . . London, 1836, i. 581. " Nichols's Herald and Genealogist, ut supra, p. 313. 223 "Sottn on tije iFamiln of WvuUt 52, 53 Francis^ Drake of Esher was a son of Richard' Drake of Surrey, a brother of Sir Bernard, whom Sir Francis the circumnavigator, in his Will, calls his "cousin." " Sir Francis," says the writer in the " Register" above referred to, " appears to have taken him (Richard) under his patronage, and introduced him to Elizabeth, in whose household he had a station until his own and the Queen's death, which both happened in the same year." Sir Francis, however, belonged to a branch of the family which had not been prominent before his time. The emigrant John Drake was, therefore, son of a first cousin to that Francis of Esher who made him one of his legatees. Of Francis Drake of Esher it was said some years ago that there is a "strong presumption that he resided for a short time in New England, and that his family, at least himself and wife, were Puritans." « The Puritanism of the Drakes of Esher is now confirmed. The Will of Richard (53) Drake Esq. of Esher, dated 1603, contains a bequest of ^10. to his " Nephewe William Drake's second [surviving] Sonne John Drake" (John son of William of Wiscombe— see Pedigree). The whole Drake descent of John Drake of New England, and the collateral relationships which we have alluded to, together with his Prideaux and Dennis ancestry, and the Gilbert, Grenville and Plantagenet ancestry of his great grandmother Ann Grenville, are given in our Drake Pedigree. It will^be seen that both in the male and female lines his ancestry can be traced from many of the most ancient and honorable families of England. Little information has reached us concerning the descendants of our John Drake, many of whom have been distinguished ; and we have not attempted to trace them out, except in our own line. " N. E. Histor. and Geneal, Register for 1870, p. 329- H '= an interesting fact, which has only lately come to light, that the Puritan Rev. Thomas Hoolcer, afterwards of Hartford, Conn., was from about 1620 to 1626 the Rector of Esher, residing in the house of Francis Drake, the patron of the living, for the special benefit of Mrs. Drake who was a hypochondriac invalid. Mr. Hooker's daughter Johanna, to whom Francis Drake left a legacy, is supposed to have been named for Mrs. Drake, whose baptismal name was Joan-History of the First Church of Hartford. ... By George Leon Walker. Hartford, 1884, pp. 34-36 and notes. 224 ©3iren-3cif)nson Arms : Gyronny of eight Arg. and Gu., in dexter chief an oak-branch fructed ppr. Crest : an oak-tree ppr., a lion rampant against it (Ogden-Oakden). HE families of Ogden and Johnson, which became alHed to each other, by marriage, at an early period, were both intimately concerned in the settlement of EHzabethtown, Newark and other towns in New Jersey, in the seventeenth century. It is proper, therefore, to begin this monograph with a sketch of the origin of those pioneer- emigrations by which New England blood, and the influence of the insti- tutions and habits of New England, so early spread themselves westward. The grant of a Charter to Connecticut by the restored King Charles II. gave the first impulse to renewed emigration. That patent, by swallow- ing up the Colony of New Haven, awakened jealous fears of the loss of liberties which had been dearly cherished here. The Restoration itself, also, aroused anxious apprehensions in the minds of all colonists of New England. The Dutch Government in possession of New Amsterdam, controlling the very fertile region between Hudson River and Newark Bay, and claiming jurisdiction even as far as Virginia, saw its opportunity ; and in 1661 issued a general invitation to "all Christian people of tender conscience, in England or elsewhere oppressed, to erect colonies anywhere within the jurisdiction of Petrus Stuyvesant in the West Indies, between New England and Virginia in America." This invitation was at once taken up by residents within the bounds of the New Haven Colony ; but the conditions for which they stipulated — substantially on the principle that "the saints shall rule the earth, and we are the saints" — were not agreed to. Not long after this, in 1663-64, the Duke of York obtained from his royal brother a grant of the sovereignty of a vast domain, including 225 ©fltren=3loDttson Connecticut and all of New Netherland ; and sent out Col. Richard Nicolls, as his Deputy-Governor, to take possession, and establish his authority. New Amsterdam then became New York ; and English colonists of Long Island renewed the project of removal westward, obtained the approval of Nicolls, extinguished the Indian title to the tract between the Raritan and the Passaic by purchase, and received a Patent of leasehold of the same from Nicolls. This was in the year 1664. The double title thus secured engen- dered a contest for eminent domain which lasted till all British sway was aboHshed by the American Revolution ; we need not detail the particulars. "Cap* John Baker of New Yorke, JOHN OGDEN of North- hampton, John Baily and Luke watson of Jemaico on Long Island and their associates, their heirs, Execu", admin"'', and assigns " were the patentees under Nicolls's grant. But before the proposed settlement was made the Duke of York sold all the territory "west of the Hudson's River and east of the Delaware," to John Lord Berkeley and Sir George Carteret, to be known thence forward as Nova Csesarea, or New Jersey, in memory of the island of Jersey off the English coast, where Carteret had his home, and had held vantage-ground for the exiled king during the period of the Commonwealth. The agreements entered into between "the undertakers" and Deputy- Governor Nicolls were acknowledged and respected by Capt. Philip Carteret, a ixlative of Sir George, in behalf of the Lords Proprietors ; and Gov. Philip Carteret even associated himself with the new planters as one of them. Elizabethtown took its name from Lady Elizabeth wife of Sir George Carteret. Now first were published the " Concessions " of the Lords Proprietors, which became a sort of charter of freedom to the adven- turers, and contributed much to induce others to share in their enterprise. " The largest liberty of conscience was guaranteed, with the assurance that the settlers should never be disturbed or disquieted for any difference, of opinion or practice, in religious concernments, 'any law, usage or custom in the realm of Eng- land to the contrary notwithstanding.' A General Assembly was provided for, one branch of which was to consist of representatives chosen by the inhabitants in their 226 I 8 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26, 27 28 29 30 I. JOHN (4) OGDEN (b. 1640, d. 1702) married Jemima daughter of Samuel Plumb of Newark, N. J., and had four children : i. Joseph ; ^ who married daughter of William and Sarah (Whitehead) Browne of EHzabethtown ; and had : 1. Joanna;'^ who married : first, John Meeker Jr. of EHzabethtown ; and, secondly, John Ailing. 2. Joseph^ (b. 1700, d. 1761) ; who married Esther . 3. Daniel^ (b. 1737, d. 1809); who married Ann ; and had: (i.) William Ltidlow^ (b. 1759, d. 1815) ; who married ; (2.) Eliakim^ (b. 1761, d. 1790) ; {^.^ Noadiah^ (b. 1763) ; (4.) Stephen^ (b. 1765); (5.) Theodore^ (b. 1768, d. 1790); (6.) Sarah^ (b. 1772, d. 1848); who married Aaron Ross of EHzabethtown; (7.) Benjamin^ (b. 1783). ii. Isaac ; ^ who married daughter of William and Sarah (Whitehead) Browne of EHzabethtown ; and had : Thomas^ (b. 1684, d. 1760); who married: first, Dinah ; and, secondly, Jean ; and had : (i.) David^ (b. 171 1, d. 1777) ; who married Anna ; and had David.^ (2.) Thomas^ (b. 171 3, d. 1731). (3.) Stephen ;^ who married ; and had, beside three daughters whose names have not been ascertained : \. Jonathan ;^ 2. Isaac.^ (4.) Abigail^ (b. i725,d. 1777) ; who married, in 1745, Thomas Price of EHzabethtown. ■ iii. Dorothy.^ iv. Jemima.^ II. JONATHAN (5) OGDEN (b. 1647, d. 1733) married Rebecca , and was the progenitor of a branch of the family which distin- guished itself in Revolutionary times (see below). 235 III. DAVID (6) OGDEN (d. 1691) "married [in 1676] Mrs. Elizabeth widow of Josiah Ward. She was a daughter of Lieut. Samuel Swayne, who died in 1681. Lieut. Samuel Swayne and Josiah Ward came from Branford, Conn., and were members of the original company that settled Newark, N. J., about 1666" (see below, and Notes on the Families of Bond and Swayne at the end of this monograph). IV. JOSEPH (7) OGDEN (d. 1691). V. BENJAMIN (8) OGDEN (b. 1654, d. 1722) married, in 1685, Hannah daughter of John Woodruff of Elizabethtown, N. J.; and had three children : 31 i. John'^ (d. 1759) ; who married Mary . 32 ii. Benjamin'^ (b. 1688, d. 1730). 33,34 iii. fFzY/zaw? / ^ who married ; and hady^tc^* (d. 1790); who married ; and had : 35 I- George.^ 36 2. Isaac.'° 37 3. Benjamin ; ^ who married Charity daughter of Matthias Ogden, his 38, 39 third cousin's child ; and had : (i.) Benjamin ; ^ (2.) Isaac ; ^ (3.) Elizabeth 40-44 Ann;^ {^.) Chariiy ;^ {<~^.) Rachel ;^ {6.) Han7tah ; ^ {j.') Margaret.^ 45 4. Jacob'° (d. 1800); who married -^. 46 5. Enoch.^ 47 6. Abigail ; ^ who married William Milvern. 48 7. Mary Ann ;^ who married : first, Lyman Edwards ; and, secondly, Benjamin Brown. 49 8. Elizabeth.^ We now return to the other sons of the second generation, and find that Jonathan (5) the second son of " Old John Ogden " had, by his wife Rebecca , five children : 236 ®fltrfn=3loJ)itson 50 i. Jonathan'^ (b. 1676) ; who married ; and had : 51 I. Jonathan.^ 52 2. John'^ (b. 1 701, d. 1780); of Sodom, N. J., and thence called " Righteous Lot ;" who married Mary ; and had : 53> 54 {\^ Jonathan ;^ who married ■ ; and had Ezekiel'^ (b. 1765, d. 1822) ; who married his second cousin Abigail daughter of Matthias 55' 56 Ogden ; and had : i. Abraham '' (b. 1787, d. 181 2) ; 2. Ichabod'^ (b. 1789) ; 57-59 3- Ezekiel'^ (b. 1791); \. James Kilbotirn'^ (b. 1793); Abby'^ (b. 1795); 60-62 6. PhcBbe'' (b. 1796); 7. Hatfield'^ (b. 1798, d. 1817); 8. Phoebe'^ (b. 1799) ; who married, in 1827, Hon. Elias Darby of Elizabethtown, N. J.; 63,64 9. John"^ (b. 1801) ; who married ; 10. SamtieP (b. 1803); who 65 married ; 11. Joseph Meeker'^ (b. 1804); Rev. Dr. Joseph Meeker 66 Ogden of Chatham, N. J.; who married ; 12. Theodore Hamilton'^ 67 (b. 1806); 1-2^. Jonathan'^ (b. 1807) ; who married . 68 (2.) Mary'° (b. 1728, d. 1757); who married Michael Meeker of Elizabethtown, N. J. (3.) Phoebe ;^ who married John Magie of Elizabethtown. 70 (4.) Abigail ; ^ who married Pierson. 71 {^.^ John Jr^ (b. 1733, d. I'j'j'j); who married: first, EHzabeth ; and, secondly, Joanna . The second child of Jonathan (5) Ogden of the second generation was : 72 ii. Samuel'^ (b. 1678, d. 1715); who married : first, Rachel Gardiner of Gardiner's Island; and, secondly, Joanna ; and had, by his first marriage : y, I. Rachel.^ 'jA 2. Joanna.^ yc 3- Rebecca^ ^5 4. Sainuel^ (b. 1714, d. 1775); who married Hannah daughter of Matthias Hatfield of Elizabethtown, N. J.; and had: 2S7 ©fltren=3^oJi«so« "n (i.) Matthias^ (b. 1.743, d. 18 18); who married Margaret Magic; 78 and had: i. Abigail^ (b. 1765, d. 1820) ; who married her second cousin 79, 80 Ezekiel Ogden ; 2. Lewis ^ (b. and d. 1766) ; 3. Phcebe^ (b. 1769, d. 1830) ; 81 who married Benjamin Jarvis ; 4. Charity^ (b. 1771, d. 1852); who 82 married Benjamin Ogden, her father's third cousin ; 5. Lewis'^ (b. 1775, d. 181 8) ; who married, in 1799, EHzabeth daughter of EHhu Bond ; and had 83,84 Charity;'^ who married, in 1828, Daniel Price; 6. Samuel'^ (b. 1777, d. 1821). Samuel (84) son of Matthias and Margaret (Magie) Ogden married, in 1807, Esther daughter of William Brown ; and had, beside one child whose 85 name has not been ascertained : (i.) Phoebe ; ' who married Thomas Bird ; 86-88 (2.) Willi am ;'' (3.) Charily;'^ (^/\..^ Job ; ^ who married, in 1844, Henrietta 89, 90 Woodruff; (5.) Mary ;'^ (6.) Margaret M./'' who married, in 1840, John 91 M'^Cord ; (7.) Susan ;'^ who married, in 1842, Caleb Camp; (8.) 92 Matthias ;'^ who married The seventh child of Matthias {j"]') and Margaret (Magie) Ogden was : 93 7. Haiijiah^ (b. 1779). 94 8. Hatfield^ (b. 1781, d. 1793). 95 9. JoJin M.^ (b. 1783, d. 1834) ; who married Nancy . 96 10. Matthias^ (b. 1785, d. 1821); who married Rachel . 97 i-i. JosepJi^ (b. 1786, d. 1827); who married Hannah daughter 98,99 of Henry Insley ; and had: (i.) Catharine ;'' (2.) Matthias Henry;'' 100-03 (3.) James Laiurence ; "^ (4.) Isaac Crane ; '' (5.) Elizabeth ; "^ (6.) Albert ; '' 104-05 {j.) Albert;'' {^.) Hannah.'' The second child of Samuel (76) and Hannah (Hatfield) Ogden was : 106 (2.) Joanna.^ 107 (3-) Elizabeth^ (d. 1803); who married: first, Uzal Woodruff of Elizabethtown, N. J.; and, secondly, Joseph Periam of Elizabethtown. 238 .) Newton ;'' (^q.) Lotiisa.'' 5. Henry Warren^ (b. 1800, d. i860) ; Capt. Henry Warren Ogden, U. S. N. 6. Thomas Anderson'^ (b. 1802); who was graduated at the College of New Jersey in 182 1 ; a clergyman at the South ; and died in i< xiii. Jonathan'^ (b. 1765). We now return to the fourth generation, and proceed to follow out the line of MOSES (135) OGDEN (b. 1723, d. 1768), fifth child and 262 <©fllren::3loJ)nfiion second son of Robert (128) and Hannah (Crane) Ogden. He married Mary Cozzens of Martha's Vineyard ; and had : 301 i. Frances^ (b. 1750, d. 1800) ; who married, in 1769, Judge Pierpont Edwards of New Haven, afterwards of Bridgeport, Conn., youngest son of the elder President Jonathan Edwards ; and had children as follows : 302 I. Susan,^ born in 1771 ; who married Judge Samuel William Johnson of Stratford, Conn, (see 3^0))H!$0U part of this monograph) ; and died in 1856. 303 2. John Stark,^ born August 23, 1777. Born soon after the battle of Bennington, the name of its hero was given to hira. He was graduated at the College of New Jersey in 1796 ; studied law at Litchfield, Conn.; went to Ohio in 1 799, and settled in Trumbull county as a lawyer, where he was both useful and popular. He was a Colonel in the military organization of the county, and in 18 12 was elected a Member of Congress, the first one from his District ; but died, before taking his seat and oath as such, in Huron, Ohio, February 22, 1813. He married, February 28, 1807, his cousin Louisa Maria, daughter of Gen. Lewis B. and Mary (Dwight) Morris of Vermont." OQ . 3. Henry Waggaman,^ born in i 779 ; Governor of Connecticut and U. S. Senator ; who married Lydia daughter of John Miller, and died in 1847- ■205 4. Ogden,^ born in 1781 ; Judge Ogden Edwards of New York ; who married Harriet Penfield ; and died in 1862. ,q5 5. Alfred Pier p07it,^ born in 1784; who married Deborah Glover ; and died in 1862. -,(-,7 6. Henrietta Frances,^ born in 1786; who married, in 181 7, Eli Whitney of New Haven, Conn.; and died in 1870. 308 ii. JoJm Cozzens^ (b. 1753, d. 1800); who married Mary daughter of Major-General David Wooster of Stratford, Conn. He was '■■ From notes by his son William Johnson Edwards of Youngstown, Ohio. 263 "graduated at Princeton in 1770, ordained by Bishop Seabury, suc- ceeded Mr. Browne in Portsmouth, N. H., from 1756 to 1785. He died at Chestertown, Ind., in 1800." His children were : 309 I. Mary Wooster'^ (b. 1776, d. 1839). This daughter was never married. She spent most of her Hfe in New Haven, Conn., and bequeathed considerable property to the Parish of Trinity Church in that city, where is a tablet to her memory bearing this inscription : " ' This Monument is erected by the Parish of Trinity Church as a grateful tribute to the memory of Mary Wooster Ogden, who died on Easter Sunday, A.D. 1839, aged LXIII years. " ' Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.' " 310 2. David.^ 311 3. Aaro7i.^ The third child of Moses (135) and Mary (Cozzens) Ogden was : 312 iii. Barnabas^ (b. 1755); who married: first, Nancy daughter of Obadiah Sale of Elizabethtown, N. J.; and, secondly, Nancy Smith. 313 iv. Nancy^ (b. 1757, d. 1825); who married, in 1778, Col. Francis Barber of Elizabethtown, N, J., on the death of her cousin Mary Ogden his first wife. 314 V. Mary Cozsens^ (b. 1759). 315 vi. Moses ^ (b. 1768, d. 1780); Lieut. Moses Ogden, whose epitaph is as follows : " ' In memory of Moses Ogden, who was killed at Connecticut Farms 7"' June 1780, in the 20"^ year of his age. " ' This lovely youth, Adorned with truth, A brave commander shone. His sovil, emerging from the dust, With his progenitors, we trust. Shall shine in realms unknown.' " 264 ®fllrtn=3JoJ|uson 316 vii. Aaron} 317 viii. David^ (d. 1789). Family-tradition says that he fell in love with his niece Susan Edwards, which, being a hopeless attachment, caused him to become deranged. " He was just ready to be admitted to the New Haven Bar, ordered a full suit of black, dressed himself in it, and shot himself." His Will, dated 1789, in the Probate Registry of New Haven, commences with these words : " In the name of God, sole Governor of all Worlds, Jesus Christ, the Holy Ghost, the Twelve Apostles, Saints, thrones. Powers, Virtues, Angels, Arch Angels, Cherubim and Seraphim — Amen." His principal legatee was his sister-in-law Mrs. Mary (Cozzens) Ogden, to whom he bequeathed all his "worldly Concerns, as Goods, Chatties, Lands, Tennements and Hereditaments, which I, whilst an Inhabitant of this Planet, was in Possession of . . . she first paying . . . Also paying to Susan Edwards, my Lovely Niece, the sum of ^25., New York money, to be lain out for a Mourning dress for her the said Susan, by her the said Susan." All the descents from JONATHAN (5) OGDEN of the second generation, son of "Good old John Ogden," having been thus set forth, with as much of detail and exactness as our information rendered possible, we have next to give the hues of descent from DAVID (6) OGDEN, next younger brother of Jonathan, by his wife Elizabeth (Swayne) Ward. The eldest child of David and Elizabeth (Swayne-Ward) Ogden was : 318 i. David^ (b. 1677, d. 1734) ; called Captain David Ogden, though a lawyer by profession ; of Newark, N. J.; who married Abigail . In the porch of Trinity Church at Newark is the following inscription : " Here lieth interred the Body of Capt. David Ogden, who died July y" ii"", A. D. 1734, aged 56 years." 265* 319 320 321 322-23 He had : 1. Sarah ;* born November 2, 1699 ; who married Nathaniel Johnson of Newark, N. J. (see 3)0i)n!S0n part of this monograph). 2. John* (b. 1708, d. 1795); Judge John Ogden ; who married Hannah daughter of Capt. Jonathan Sayre of Elizabethtown, N. J., descended from Joseph Sayre, one of the founders of Elizabethtown ; and by her had, beside other children not named: [}.) John ;^ Capt. John Ogden; {2.') Aaron ;^ (t^.) Hannah^ (b. 1737, d. 1780); who, in 1763, married Rev. James Caldwell of EHzabethtown, N. J. 324 325-26 327-28 " Mr. Caldwell was a Virginian. His father John Caldwell, of Scotch ancestry, came to this country from the county of Antrim, Ireland. Located on Cub Creek, Va., a branch of the Staunton river, in what is now Charlotte Co. Here in the wilderness, James, the youngest of seven children, was born in April 1734. He graduated at Princeton College Sept. 1759, and pursued his theological course of study under the tuition of President Davies. He was licensed by the Presbytery of New Bruns- wick, July 29, 1760. He was ordained, Sep. 17, 1760, by the Presbytery of New Brunswick, and appointed by the Synod to supply the southern vacancies, particularly those in Carolina. He received a call from the Presbyterian church of Elizabethtown in Nov. 1761, which he accepted. . . . At various times, through the long years of the war . . . Mr. Caldwell served not only as Chaplain of the Jersey Brigade, but as Assistant Commissary-General. . . . After the murder of his wife (Connecticut Farms, June 8, 1780), he purchased a small house at Turkey (New Providence), and resided there until his decease. At the fall election of I 780 he was chosen by his fellow citizens, in testimony of their high regard, a member of the State Council. He was shot by a soldier 24 Nov. 1 781." A niece of his (brother's daughter) was the mother of John Caldwell Calhoun of South Carolina. Rev. James and Hannah (Ogden) Caldwell had ten children : \. Margaret,^ born in 1764; who married Isaac Canfield of Morristown, N. J.; 2. Joh7i Dickinson,^ born in 1 765 ; who died in infancy ; 3. Hannah,^ born in 1767; who married, in 1790, James R. Smith of New York; A,. John Edwards,^ born in 1769; who died in 18 19; ^. James B.^ born 266 <©0iren=SoJ|tiBon 329 in 1771 ; 6. Esther Flyjit,^ born in 1772; who married, in 1798, Rev. Robert Finley, afterwards President of the University of Georgia ; 330-31 7. Josmh F.,^ born in 1774; 8. Elias Boudinot,^ born in 1776; who died 332 in 1825 ; 9. Sarak,^ born in 1778 ; who married Rev. John S. Vredenburg 333 of Somerville, N. J.; 10. Maria,^ born in 1779; who married Robert S. Robertson of New York." The third child of David (318) and Abigail ( ) Ogden was: 334 3- David"^ (b. 1710, d. 1750); a lawyer of Newark, N. J.; who mar- ried his cousin Catharine daughter of Col. Josiah Ogden. He had children 335-36 as follows : {i.) David ^ (d. 1813, aged 79) ; {2.) Abigail^ (d. 18 14, aged iZI 75) ; {,Z-^ Jacob, ^ born November 10, 1749 ; who married J erusha daughter of Capt. Joseph Rockwell of Colebrook, Conn.; and died in New Haven, Conn., March 30, 1825. Jacob (337) Ogden " was a successful merchant in Hartford, Conn., where he amassed quite a fortune. Being one of two parties to build the State House at Hartford, he was paid in lands the title to which proved defective, and, as Connecticut never made good the loss, Mr. Ogden became seriously embarrassed. . . . Subsequently he moved to New Haven, where he established a hotel, known by the name of the ' Coffee House,' which became the most fashionable and popular resort in the city," both for the excellence of its larder and for the buoyant, genial disposition, the kindness of heart and the fondness for humor, of its host — still remem- bered by many who once shared its hospitalities. 338-39 340 341 " 'Jacob and Jerusha (Rockwell) Ogden had nine children : i. Cath- arine,^ born April 26, 1773 ; who died May 1 1, 1852, unmarried ; 2. Anna,^ born Jan. 10, 1775 ; who married Judge WiUiam Wetmore of Middletown, Conn., afterwards the first settler of Stow in the State of Ohio ; and died June 20, 1825 ; t,. Jerusha,^ born March 17, 1777 ; who became the second wife of Judge Wetmore, her sister's husband, and afterwards married Jabez Burrill of Sheffield, O.; and died Aug. 9, 1854; 4. Clarissa,^ born May 5, 267 342 1779; who died March i6, 1794; <^. Jacob, ^ born Jan. 12, 1781 ; and died 343 in infancy; 6. Jacob,^ born April 2, 1782; who married Harding of Boston, Mass.; and died at sea, on a voyage from Carthagena, S. A., 344 to Havanna, about March 1812, leaving a daughter Sarah;'' who married 345 Dr. Silas Reed of Ohio, and left an only child Isabella Ogden ; ^ 7. Eliza- 346 beth M.,^ born May 17, 1784; who died Feb. 19, 1841, unmarried; 347 8. Abigail,^ born Oct. 22, 1786; who died Sept. 4, 1862, unmarried; 348 9. David Longworih ;^ Rev. David L. Ogden.'" Rev. David Longworth (348) Ogden was born October 6, 1 792 ; and " ' at the age of sixteen years united with the First Church of New Haven, then under the care of Rev. Moses Stuart. ... In early youth he evinced a fondness for books, and, having completed his prepara- tory studies in the Hopkins Grammar School, entered Yale College in 18 10. He was graduated in course, with honor ; spent four years in the study of theology, at Andover and New Haven; and in 182 1 was ordained and installed Pastor of the church in Southington, Conn. Here he labored with marked success for fifteen years. As a Pastor he was faithful and affectionate, sympathizing with every form of suffering and with every condition of life — frank, artless and childlike in his feelings and expressions. As a preacher, he was rich in thought, and distinguished for clearness and force. In 1836 he removed to Whitesboro', N. Y. ; and while there was highly esteemed and honored. He was elected a Member of the Corpora- tion of Hamilton College, and a Corporate Member of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. After leaving Whitesboro' he had for a while the pastoral care of a church in Marlboro', Mass. This last charge he resigned in 1850, and retired to New Haven, to pass the remainder of his days in the bosom of his own family and in a wide circle of friends, especially of those who like himself had given up the duties of public life. He died, after a short illness, Oct. 31, 1863. " Mr. Ogden was for several years a frequent contributor to the ' Christian Spectator,' and to the ' New Englander ;' published a number of sermons by special request ; and was the author of a volume of ' Dis- courses on Baptism and Close Communion.' 268 0Q^tn=3oW^on 349 " I. 350 " 2. 351 "3- 352 "4- 353 "5- 354-55 " He married, Jan. 14, 1824, Sarah Amanda daughter of Daniel Judson of Stratford, Conn., who was a descendant of WiUiam Judson, one of the first settlers of Stratford ; and had five children : Catharine Amanda,^ who died in childhood. Julia Elizabeth ; '' still living, unmarried. Abbie ; "^ still Hving, unmarried. Sarah Judson ; '' who died in infancy. David j7idson ;'' graduated, with honor, at Yale College in 1861 ; and at the Yale Theological Seminary in 1868. He was ordained and installed Pastor of the Congregational church of East Lyme, Conn., May 19, 1882."^ (b. The fourth child of David (318) and Abigail ( 4. Uzal'^ (d. 1 780) ; who married ; and 1744, d. 1822) ; Rev. Dr. Uzal Ogden. — ) Ogden was : had : (i.) Uzal^ " 'Mr. Ogden was chosen, June 8, 1784, one of the Assistant Minis- ters of Trinity Church, New York, with a salary of ^500. a year ; with leave of absence for two-thirds of the year, for four years, and to receive one-third of the salary. The remaining portions of the year he preached here [at Elizabethtown] and at Newark, with an occasional visit to Sussex county. " 'This arrangement continued to the close of 1787, was renewed in 1 788, and terminated in the spring of 1 789. During the latter part of this period, in 1 788, he had become the Rector of Trinity Church, Newark, serving there one-half of the time, and receiving from St. John's, for the other half, ^120.; his residence being at Newark.' "* Dr. Ogden has been characterized as "a preacher of great power and effect." He afterwards became a Presbyterian minister. . He married Mary Gouverneur ; " The foregoing record of Jacob Ogden of the fifth generation, and his descendants, is from notes preserved in the family of his son Rev. David Longworth Ogden. " Hatfield's Elizabeth, ut supra, p. 546. 269 (!^fltren=3JoJmson 356 357 358 359 and had : 1. Nicholas Gouverneur ;^ called "' Canton Ogden ;' a leading mer- chant in Canton, China, and very extensively mixed up in business- transactions with the late John Jacob Astor.' "* 2. Samuel Gouverne^ir^ (d. i860). " ' For a number of years [after 1800] his name was prominent in the community as that of a successful merchant. He was the capitalist of the celebrated Miranda expedition, which was designed to liberate South America. Col. Smith (the son-in-law of President Adams) and Mr. Ogden were prosecuted for having fitted out an expedition against a power in amity with the United States. The trial was a highly interesting one. Thomas Addis Emmett, Cadwallader D. Colden, Josiah Ogden Hoffman and Richard Harrison were their counsel. The defendants were honorably acquitted. Although this expedition failed, it was the first blow struck for liberty, and led to the subsequent independence of South America. Bolivar himself made this declaration, and expressed a readiness to compensate Mr. Ogden for his heavy losses.' "^ After this failure " ' Mr. Ogden con- tinued on in his business in the city of New York, for some years . . when he went to France, and established himself in commercial business at Bordeaux. . . . He left Bordeaux for New York in 1825, and became agent for several large houses in France. . . . His private residence was at No. 41 Warren Street, a large house, where he entertained in the most magnificent style.' "*' Samuel Gouverneur Ogden married : first, Eliza " daughter of Francis Lewis, and granddaughter of the Signer of the Declaration of that name ; and, secondly, Julia daughter of Major James Fairlie, a distinguished officer in the Revolutionary army." By his first marriage he had: (i.) Charlotte Seton ;'^ who married : first, Lewis Yates; and, secondly, Isidore Guillet ; (2.) Samuel Gouv- erneur'^ (b. 1804, d. 1877); who married Louisa M. Hemmeken ; 2" The Old Merchants of New York City. By Walter Barrett, Clerk. New York, 1872 ; ii. Pt. I, 214. " "Mrs. Mowatt's Autobiography." 2' The Old Merchants, ut supra, ii. Pt. i, 212. 270 ^Qtftn=3oW^on 360-61 (3.) Lavmza/'^ (4.) Morgan Lewis;'' who married Eliza Glendy 362 M<^Laughlin ; (5.) Louisa W.;'' who married Dr. William Turner; 363 (6.) Charles William ;'' who married : first, Amelia Shaler; and, secondly, Mary daughter of Dr. William P. Dewees of Philadelphia ; (7.) Gabriel 364-66 Lewis ;'' {^.^ Thomas Lewis ;'' (9.) yJ/a^'27rt'« 6^./'' who married William A. 367 Wellman ; (10.) Emma Frances ; '' who married : first, Henry Mecke ; and, 368 secondly. Levy S. Burridge ; (11.) Anna Cora ; '' who married : first, James Mowatt ; and, secondly, William Fouch^ Ritchie of Richmond, Va. : she was the celebrated actress Anna Cora Mowatt; (12.) Mary Gouv- 369-70 erneur;'' who married Cephus G. Thompson; (13.) Gabriel Lewis;'' 371 (i4-) Julia Gabriella ;'' who married J. Kennedy Smyth. 372 By his second marriage he had: {\.~) Emily Fair lie ;'' who married 373~74 Alfred Nelson; (2.) Grace Priscilla ;'' (3.) Florence;'' who married 375 Charles Tighe Henry ; (4.) Virginia? The third child of Rev. Uzal (355) and Mary (Gouverneur) Ogden was : 376 3. Mary^ (d. i860, in New Haven, Conn.). 377 4. Aleda;^ who married Rev. Anson Roode of Danbury, Conn., afterwards of Philadelphia, Pa. The second child of Uzal (354) and Ogden was : (2.) Moses ; ^ 378 379 who married, in 1759, Mary Johnson; (3.) Charles ;^ who married: first, Hannah Gouverneur ; and, secondly, Ann Clark ; and had by his first mar- 380-82 riage : i. Alary ;^ 2. Elizabeth ;^ who married Louis Sachs; 3. Maria ;^ 383 who married Henry D. Merritt of Mobile, Ala.; 4. Catharine ;^ 384 5. Charles C; ^ who married Anna Maria daughter of Capt. William Wade, 385-86 of the British Army ; and had : (i.) Charles Hyde ;'' (2.) Anna Maria ; '' 387 who married Reuben Leggett of New York ; (3.) Robert Wade ; '' who mar- ried Maria Antoinette daughter of Dr. Joseph Biamonti of New Orleans, 388-89 La.; 6. Henry Merrill;^ 7. Uzal ;^ who married Harriet E. Jackson. 271 The fourth child of Uzal (354) and Ogden was: (4.) Eliza- 390-91 beth ; ^ who married Robert Johnson ; (5.) Lewis ; ^ who married Margaret 392 Gouverneur; and had Mary^ (d. 1854); who married, in 1816, Samuel Dwight Southmayd. 393 394 395 The other children of David (318) and Abigail ( ) Ogden were : 5. Elizabeth ;'^ who married Capt. John Johnson of Newark, N.J. (see ^OijItfiiOtt part of this monograph). 6. Abigail ;'^ who married Joseph Tuttle of Whippany, N. J. 7. Martha ; * who married : first, Caleb Sayre ; and, secondly, Thomas Eagles. We now return to the third generation. The second child of David (6) and Elizabeth (Swayne-Ward) Ogden was : 396 \\. John'^ (b. 1678, d. 1732); who married Elizabeth daughter of Nathaniel Wheeler of Newark, N. J.; and had : 397 I. Charles Jo hn}" 398 2. Hannah ; * who married David Williams of Elizabethtown. 399 3. PhoJmsott is shown by two circumstances : first, that the records of Yale College refer to a call to the ministry at Newark which was given to Rev. Samuel Johnson in 1716, about the time when he became a Tutor in the College — when New Jersey was a province remote from Connecticut, and Yale College had no continental reputation ; and, secondly, that (as we learn from the late Dr. Woolsey Johnson of New York*) Rev. Stephen Johnson of Lyme, a great grandson of Thomas of Newark, is known to have been a correspondent of Rev. Dr. Samuel Johnson of Stratford, as well as of his son Dr. William Samuel Johnson, second President of King's (or Columbia) College— this correspondence being the more significant because the writers differed so widely from each other, both in their religious and political views, that only ties of blood would seem likely to have brought them into correspondence. To this may be added the farther consideration that Rev. Stephen Johnson was younger by a generation than Rev. Dr. Samuel. We hoped to print one or more of the letters of this correspon- dence; but, though Rev. Dr. Beardsley remembers having seen one of them, at least, among the papers of the Johnsons of Stratford, a diligent search by him, recently, has failed to bring any of them to light. We are not informed of the precise year, or years, of the emigration of the three brothers of the first generation. Rev. Dr. Beardsley only states that Robert "with his wife Adaline and four sons, Robert, Thomas, John and William, came from Kingston-upon-Hull, Yorkshire •,""' with which accords the circumstance that his residence and principal landed property seems to have been in "the Yorkshire Quarter" of the rising town of New Haven (now represented by York street of the present city). From the fact that both he and his brother John entertained the idea of removing to the Bay Plantation, which John carried into effect, there is little doubt that both of them first touched the soil of the New World in Massachusetts. ™ In a letter to Mrs. E. E. Salisbury, March 26, 1874. " Beardsley's Life and Correspondence of Samuel Johnson, D.D., ut supra, pp. 1-2. 2 go 2> 34 35-37 38-41 Samuel (27) son of Dea. WiUiam Johnson, born June 5, 1670, was himself a Deacon of the Congregational church in that town. He married, November 7, 1694, Mary daughter of David Sage of Middletown, Conn., and died May 8, 1727, having had eleven children : 1. William,'^ born September 4, 1695 ; who died October 18 of the same year. 2. SAMUEL* (see below). 3. Mary,^ born March 8, 1699; who married Ebenezer Chittenden of Guilford ; and was the mother of Gov. Thomas^ Chittenden of Vermont. 4. David,^ born June 5, 1701; who married, settled in Durham, Conn., and had children David,^ Abigail,^ and Mary.'° David son of David Johnson married, and had TimotJiy,^ Abraham,^ Nathaniel,^ Samuel,^ and "one or two daughters." He afterwards joined the Shakers of New Lebanon, N. Y.; but about 1783, with all his children, removed to Gran- *^ Our principal authority for the descents, in the first and second .generations from Dea. William Johnson of Guilford, is a private letter from Dr. Alvan Talcott of Guilford. 294 ©fltren=SoJ)nson ville, N. Y. Abigail daughter of David Johnson of the fourth generation married Dea. Coe of Meriden, Conn.; and died s. p.; her sister Mary " married William Johnson from England," and died childless.'® 42 5. Elizabeth,^ born October 19, 1703; who died September 28, 171 2. 43 6. Nathaniel,'^ born April 17, 1705; who married: first, Margery daughter of John Morgan of Groton, Conn.; and died at the age of eighty-seven. He "lived and died in Guilford," and "was one of the founders of the First Church" in that town. His children were: 44 (i.) Margery;^ who "married David Camp, and settled in Bethlehem, 45 Conn.;" (2.) Samuel^ (b. 1729); of Guilford; who married Margaret 46 daughter of Samuel Collins of that town ; and had : i. Samuel^ (b. 1775); 47~49 2. Gurdo7i^ (b. 1759); 3. Clarissa;'^ and 4. Margaret.^ Samuel (46) son of Samuel Johnson married Huldah daughter of Nathan Hill of Guilford ; and had three sons and a daughter. Gurdon (47) son of Samuel Johnson married Esther daughter of Daniel Brainard of East Haddam, Conn.; and had three sons and three daughters. 50-53 The third child of Nathaniel (43) and Margery (Morgan) Johnson was: (3.) Timothy ;'° (4.) Nathaniel ;^ (5.) William;^ (6.) Rachel.^^ The seventh child of Dea. Samuel and Mary (Sage) Johnson was : 54 7. Abigail,^ born April ig, 1707; who married George Bartlett. 55 8. William,'^ born April 19, 1709; who settled in Middletown, Conn., and died in old age, i-. /. 56 9. Mercy,'^ born December 19, 1710; who died young. 57 10. Elizabeth,'^ born February 20, 1713 ; who died young. 58 II. Timothy,'^ born October 9, 1715; who died May 29, 1732. *' Most of these particulars respecting David son of Dea. Samuel Johnson, and his posterity, are taken from notes sent to us by a descendant of Rev. Stephen Johnson of Lyme, Conn. " Facts communicated by the descendant of Rev. Stephen Johnson referred to in the preceding note. 295 (!^QXtm=3o'^n&on Samuel (31) Johnson, second son of Dea. Samuel and Mary (Sage) Johnson, was born October 14, 1696; and graduated at Yale College (then the Collegiate School of Saybrook) in 1714. He was twice married : first, September 26, 1725, to Charity (Floyd) NicoU, daughter of Col. Richard Floyd of Brookhaven, L. I., and widow of Benjamin Nicoll ; and, secondly, June 18, 1761, to Mrs. Sarah ( ) Beach; and died January 6, 1772. Rev. Dr. Johnson, in his letter of Jan. 6, 1757, to his son, wrote thus of his first wife's family : "And now as to your mother's ancestors. Floyd is doubtless originally Lloyd, LI being pronounced in Wales, wence they came, like Fl. All I can learn is that your grandfather was born at Newcastle on the Delaware, that his Father and mother came from Wales, and that when he came and settled at Long Island they came with him, and lived to be old. His wife was Margaret Woodhull, whose Father was an English Gentleman of a considerable Family, cousin German, by his mother, to Lord Carew, Father to the late Bp. of Durham, whose niece was mother to the present Earl of Wallgrave or Waldgrave. This is all I know. . . ." The very conspicuous position of Rev. Dr. Johnson, Rector of Strat- ford, Conn., and first President of King's (Columbia) College, especially in connection with the introduction of episcopacy into Connecticut, and the early efforts of its advocates for its extension and firm establishment in America, by the institution here of the order of Bishops, has made the story of his life somewhat familiar. Rev. Dr. Chandler of Elizabethtown, N. J., in the last century, and Rev. Dr. Beardsley of New Haven, thirteen years ago, wrote his biography in full. But this memorial would be imper- fect without some more particular notice of the position he held, and of his sentiments and character. As is generally known, he became a Tutor in the College, where he had been graduated, in 1716 — just when the first steps were being taken for the removal of that institution to New Haven — and continued to dis- 296 agtretf=3)oi^n!SOtf charge the duties of the tutorship till 17 19. In that year Rev. Timothy Cutler was made Rector of the College. Johnson had early devoted him- self to the study of theology, and in 1720 was settled as Pastor of the First Church of West Haven, Conn. Meanwhile his theological studies were pursued, with the aid, chiefly, of books in the College Library ; and ere long he " was unable to find any sufficient support for the Congregational form of church government, or for the rigid Calvinistic tenets in which he had been educated." '" Even before this he had conceived a dislike for extempore prayers in public, and had used forms of prayer prepared by himself for his own use as a pastor. In a letter written to President Clap, many years later, he said of the Church of England : " I have been long persuaded that she is, and will eventually be found, the only stable bulwark against all heresy and infidelity, which are coming in like a flood upon us, and this, as I apprehend, by reason of the rigid Calvinism, Antinomianism, enthusiasm, divisions and separations which, through the weakness and great imper- fection of your constitution (if it may be so called), are so rife and rampant among us. My apprehension of this was the first occasion of my conforming to the Church (which has been to my great comfort and satisfaction), and hath been more and more confirmed by what has occurred ever since. And I am still apt to think that no well- meaning Dove, that has proper means and opportunity of exact consideration, will ever find rest to the sole of his foot amid such a deluge, till he comes into the Church as the alone arJi of safety — all whose Articles, Liturgy, and Homilies . . . accord- ing to their original sense, shall ever be sacred with me ; which sense, as I apprehend it, is neither Calvinistical nor Arminian, but the gOlden mean, and according to the genuine meaning of the Holy Scriptures in the original, critically considered and understood." °° We see that the fluctuations, the ebb and flow, of theological opinion around him were "the first occasion of [his] conforming to the Church," '^ Beardsley's Samuel Johnson, ut supra, pp. 13-14. «' Id., pp. 204-05. 297* Id., pp. 18-19. " Id., p. 37- 0QXftn=3ot^nnon missionary work for the "organizing and settling the Church of England in Connecticut." ^ He early made a point of asking only for "equal privi- leges and protection."" Before the law, however, which, in his native colony, and, in general, throughout New England, required rates from all tax-payers for the support of the Congregational worship and ministry, a Church of England man could not stand on an equal footing with his Congregational neighbor. Nor was there anything more inequitable in this than in the reverse condition of things in the mother-country. Congregationalism was, indeed, "established" in New England; and those who did not conform to it were truly, in the Anglican sense, Dissenters. Moreover, if there were rules made, in the course of time, for the internal government of the infant College of the colony, which tended to exclude Episcopalians from sharing its privileges, what could an Anglican churchman then have to say against this, without at the same time condemning the exclusiveness of the Universities of the mother- country, which shut out those whose consciences forbade their signing the Thirty-nine Articles ? If, indeed, we leave out of account all consid- erations of legal status, there is no denying that there was an illiberality of feeling, on the part of both clergy and laity of the established Congregational order, which ought never to have existed. Yet what wonder was it that they found it hard to bear the coming among them of men who even in New England did not hesitate to call all non- Anglicans by the name of Dissenters and Separatists, as, for example, when Johnson himself, in 1742, reviewing his missionary work, wrote as follows : " Upon the whole I can truly say, and thank God for it, my prudence has always directed me and always shall, to avoid anything that could show the least favorable disposition towards the separation as such, or to obstruct the growth of the Episcopal Church." " In later years the Anglicans of America took yet higher ground. " Id., p. 54- " Id., p. 98. " Id., p. 114. 299 Under favor of Royal Governors, with the known approval of George III. himself, they appear to have aimed at establishing their Church in America, under American Bishops, in such a position as should destroy the preponderance of Congregationalism. There were those, on both sides of the Atlantic, who looked to such an establishment as a counterpoise to the restless agitations of American patriots for political liberty. Thus, Dr. Johnson could write to the Archbishop of Canterbury in the year 1 764, when one of his own name and blood, as we shall see, was about to argue earnestly against the obligation of passive obedience to arbitrary power, that " Episcopacy is really necessary towards the better securing our dependence, as well as many other good political purposes ;" " and in 1763 had written to the same dignitary : " Is there then nothing more that can be done either for obtaining Bishops or demolishing these pernicious charter governments, and reducing them all to one form in immediate dependence on the King? I cannot help calling them pernicious, for they are indeed so, as well for the best good of the people themselves as for the inter- ests of true religion ;" " and the Archbishop wrote to Dr. Johnson, in 1766, that the King was " thoroughly sensible that the Episcopalians are his best friends in America." " iVIoreover, Dr. Johnson's foreign correspondence distinctly reflects the theory that the Anglican Church might be established in America by virtue of an extension to the colonies of the principle of royal supremacy in ecclesiastical as well as civil affairs.^ ■" Id., p. 295. ■" Id., p. 279. " Id., p. 304. '* A recent writer on Religious Tests in Provincial Pennsylvania says : " There was indeed always a large party in England which maintained, up to the time of the Revolution, that the principle of Royal or Parliamentary supremacy was equally applicable to ecclesiastical as to civil affairs in the Colonies. 300 ®fitren=3Jot«fiiOtt These remarks may suffice to set forth the aims of Dr. Johnson and his friends, and their relations to fellow-christians of other denominations, in America. We cannot here, of course, go farther into particulars. Undoubtedly, as was natural, feelings grew narrower the longer the conflict for pre-eminence continued ; until, at length, the breaking out of the Revolution placed matters on new ground, and opened the way for complete toleration, on both sides, as included in liberty and independence. Dr. Johnson had early entered into correspondence with eminent men of the English Establishment. This was continued through life, and enriches his biography. Soon after the coming of Dean Berkeley to this country Dr. Johnson visited him at Newport, and thenceforth corres- ponded with him as long as he lived, and afterwards with his son. In the interest of theism, against materialistic infidelity, he became a convert to Berkeley's philosophy ; '" and to his honor it should be remembered that Yale College owed its earliest special endowment — the foundation of the Berkeley Premiums — to Dr. Johnson's filial loyalty (he having, it would seem, satisfied the Dean that the College was so far forth, at least, liberal as to be not unwilling to admit the writings of Hooker and Chilling- worth into its Library !)." Dr. Johnson seems to have been always a loyal son of Yale : in Prof. Dexter's recently published volume of " Biographical Sketches" attention is called to his " Introduction to the Study of Philos- ophy," which was bound up with the Catalogue of the College Library in 1742-43, "as showing how that staunch Churchman was still helpful to By this party it was assumed more and more distinctly, as time went on, that the English Church Estab- lishment, by virtue of the Royal Supremacy, necessaril}' extended to all the Colonies as dominions of the Crown, and that those who there dissented from that Church were not entitled to any other legal toleration, no matter what might be the Provincial legislation on the subject, than that accorded to Dissenters in England." See Relig. Tests in Prov. Pennsylvania. . . . 1885. By Charles J. Stills, pp. 55-56. " This bearing of Berkeley's philosophy is very clearly stated by President Porter in his recent Discourse on the Two-Hundredth Birthday of George Berkeley. New York, 1885, pp. 20 if. ™ Beardsley's Samuel Johnson, ut supra, p. 75. 301 ©fl5fen=3Jo|)nson his Alma Mater, and how even rigid Rector Clap was willing to accept help from such a quarter." **' The degree of Doctor of Sacred Theology was conferred upon him, to his great gratification, by the University of Oxford, in 1743, "ut incred- ibili Ecclesise incremento summam sui expectationem sustinuerit plane et superaverit." Dr. Johnson was, from his youth up, a zealous student in all those departments of knowledge, open in his day, which connected them- selves with theology, but especially in the department of philosophical speculation, and read every book he could obtain relative to them. His latest biographer says : " Had he lived in these times, he would have been distinguished among men of learning, and recognized by them as an honest and patient lover of truth and justice. That he attained to such excellence under all the disadvantages of the period in which he was a conspicuous actor, is remarkable. He dared to think for himself, and, if his keen penetration discovered defects in theological and philosophical systems, he was careful not to accept any new views until he had fairly examined the opposing arguments and tested them by the strongest proofs within his reach." " The fullest list of his published writings which we have seen is to be found in Prof. Dexter's book just referred to.** We have purposely left to the last to record his election to be the first President of King's (Columbia) College. He removed from Stratford to accept the presidency in 1754, and retired again to Stratford in 1763. During these nine years the new College was largely dependent for support upon contributions from England, but had not sufficient from this source to raise it above a precarious existence, in striking contrast with its present affluence, and its eminence as a seat of varied learning. Of the year suc- *' Biogr. Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College with Annals. ... By Franklin Bowditch Dexter. . . . New York, 1885, p. 723. *' Beardsley's Samuel Johnson, ut supra, p. 354. '^ Dexter's Biographical Sketches, ut supra, pp. 126-28. 302 ©Btren=aJoJ)nBon ceeding the third Commencement he himself said that it " ' was remarkable only on account of hard services, which made him more and more weary of his station.'"" He, however, continued faithful and earnest in the discharge of his duties as President, while, at the same time, pursuing the religious objects still dearer to him, and especially that great aim of his whole life, to secure the institution of the order of Bishops in America. Rev. Dr. Samuel and Charity (Floyd-Nicoll) Johnson had two children : 59 I. William Samuel,^ born October 7, 1727; graduated at Yale College in 1 744 ; made Doctor of Civil Law at Oxford in 1 766 ; made LL.D. at Yale in 1788. He represented Stratford in the General Assembly in 1761, and again in 1765, and was a Member of the Governor's Council in 1 766 ; was appointed, in the latter year a special agent, on busi- ness of the colony, at the British Court, where he spent four years ; was elected to the American Congress of 1774, but declined to serve; "and not being able conscientiously to join in a war against England he lived in retirement in Stratford until the conclusion of peace ;" from 1784 to 1787 served as a Member of the Continental Congress ; was an important Member of the Convention for the formation of the Federal Constitution ; first Senator from Connecticut to the United States Congress, in 1789-91 ; was chosen President of Columbia College in 1787, and continued in that office till 1800; and died Nov. 14, 18 19. In Rev. Dr. Johnson's letter of January 6, 1757, written soon after the lamented death of his second son, he expressed his hopes with respect to the elder brother in these words : " And indeed, my dear son, as I had set my heart on this, both with regard to you and him, that you might be as extensive Blessings to mankind as possible, you in Temporals and he in Spirituals — since he is gone, now both are devolved on you. I therefore desire you will laye out your views to do all the public Good you possibly can, for promoting the Interest of Religion and Learning, as well as Justice and the affairs of the State." " Beardsley's Samuel Johnson, ut supra, p. 250. 303 The father's hopes were amply fulfilled by the high distinction in professional and civil life which the second Dr. Johnson attained, while sacrificing none of his conscientious scruples regarding the course of public affairs.® 60 2. William,^ born March 9, 1730; graduated at Yale College in 1748 ; prepared for Holy Orders; ordained Deacon "in the Chapel of the Palace at Fulham," in 1756; the same year made Master of Arts at Oxford and Cambridge ; who died in England, of small pox, June 20, 1756. He was unmarried. The line of Dr. Samuel Johnson was continued only through his eldest son, Wilham Samuel (59), who was twice married : first, November 5, 1749, to Ann daughter of William Beach of Stratford, Conn.; and, *' This sketch of Dr. William Samuel Johnson's career is abridged from Prof. Baxter's Biogr. Sketches, ut supra, pp. 762-64. For fuller particulars see Life and Times of William Samuel Johnson, LL.D. . . . By E. Edwards Beardsley, D.D., LL.D. . . . Second Edition revised and enlarged. Boston, 1886. We here give extracts from a note of the late Dr. Woolsey Johnson of New York, great grandson of Dr. William Samuel Johnson (November 12, 1885), in which he refers to his supposed English kinship : " My great grandfather W" Samuel Johnson, LL.D., Pres't of Columbia College, etc., when residmg in England circa 1765, resumed the relations of kinship with the parent branch of the family, and they have never been interrupted since his time. When I was last in England, in July 18S4, an interesting reunion of the family was held on the occasion of the celebration of the Ter-Centenary of Uppingham School, at Uppingham, co. Rutland, founded in 1548 by Rev. Robert Johnson, D.D., Archdeacon of Leicester, to whom the arms were granted temp. Elizabeth. "The then head of the familj' was Charles Augustus Johnson, an invalid residing at Brighton, son of the late Lieut. Gen. W" Henry Johnson of Wytham-on-the-Hill and Uppingham. . . . " Towards our branch they always manifest cordial and warm feelings of kindred, which after nearly 250 years is unusual in English folk." The arms here referred to are those used by Rev. Dr. Samuel Johnson, and now borne by the Johnsons of Stratford — described by Burke thus ; "Ar. a chev. Sa. hetw. three lions' heads couped Gu., langued Az. and crowned Or. (Gen. Arm., ed. 1878, p. 544). Dr. William Samuel Johnson, however, in a letter to his father from England, in 1767, after visiting Kingston-upon-HuU, says that the arms then borne by the Johnsons of that place " are not the same with those we have assumed "— Beardsley's Samuel Johnson, p. 320. 304 #0?ren=3oJ|nson secondly, December 12, 1800, to "Mrs. Mary Beach, of Kent, Conn., widow of a kinsman of his first wife." By his first marriage he had : 61 (i.) Charity,^ born July 2, 1750; who married Rev. Ebenezer Kneeland, Associate-Rector with her grandfather after his retirement from the Presidency of King's College. 62 (2.) Sarali,^ born April i, 1754; who died June 23, 1762. 63 (3.) Gloriafina,^ born March 7, r757; who married Roger Alden ; and died in 1785. 64 (4-) Mary,^ born April 19, 1759; who died December 23, 1783. 65 (5.) SAMUEL WILLIAM,8 born October 23, 1761; Judge Samuel William Johnson; who married, November 27, 1791, Susan daughter of Judge Pierpont Edwards (see ©fltTett part of this mono- 66,67 gr^ph) ; and had : \. Ann Frances ;'^ 2. William Samuel;'^ who married Laura daughter of William Walton Woolsey of New York ; 3. Sarah 68 Elizabeth ; ^ who married George Pollock Devereux of North Carolina ; 69 4- Edzvards ;'^ who married Anne Johnson Doudall of Stratford, Conn.; 70 5- Robert Charles.^ Judge Samuel WiUiam Johnson died October 25, 1846. 71 (6.) Elizabeth,^ born December 13, 1763; who married, October 29, 1785, Daniel C. Verplanck of Fishkill, N. Y. 72 (7-) Robert Charles,^ born May i, 1766; who married Katharine daughter of Nicholas and Katharine (Livingston) Bayard. Respecting arms borne by the Johnsons of Hull, the following paragraph of Rev. Dr. Johnson's letter of January 6, 1757, may be quoted : " N. B. Mr. Pownall told me he was bred at the noted Gram- mar School at Hull, where he said he knew several Gentlemen of note of my name, who doubtless are of the same family, one of whom, you may have observed, has solved some of the mathematical prob- lems in some late Magazines. He told me he intended, when he went to England, to visit his Friends in the north, and would enquire for the coat of arms of those Johnsons for me ; but I believe he is so deep in politics that he will hardly remember it. . . ." In the line of Rev. Stephen Johnson of Lyme, Conn, (see below), there has come down a coat of arms as follows : '* Az. a chev. Or, i}i chief two eagles volant, in base a sun, of the second'^ (Comp. Burke's Gen. Arm., ed. 1878, p. 544.) The copy from which we obtained these arms was made by Ann daughter of Stephen Johnson and granddaughter of Rev. Stephen Johnson, and is now owned by her son Joseph Selden Huntington in Lyme. It is very nicely painted in colors, and may be supposed to have been copied from an older painting in the familj'. We know no more about it. Possibly, this is the coat of the Johnsons of Hull, which appears never to have been obtained by Rev. Dr. Johnson or his descendants. 305 ■ #fl;tren=3>oJjitson Having thus followed out, as far as our information goes, the line of descent from Robert Johnson of New Haven, we now come to his brother Thomas of New Haven and Newark, N. J. THOMAS (3) JOHNSON of Newark, to use the words of Dr. Stearns, was a " most active and useful settler " — prominent in affairs of Church and State in his new home. He "became one of the most prominent men in the settlement. He was one of the eleven chosen at the preliminary town meeting [see above] and during his life occu- pied successively nearly every gradation of office. His residence was on the north- east corner of Broad and Walnut streets, the site now occupied by Grace Church." In mentioning him with several others of the early settlers "Dr. Stearns says : ". . . the records of their corporate acts and the works they accomplished point them out as men of no ordinary excellence. Strict Puritans we have already called them ; and they seem to have possessed all the virtues of the Puritan, with scarcely one of the faults alleged against that ancient race." Samuel Swaine with Thomas Johnson and three others were a com- mittee from Newark who met John Ogden, Robert Treat and others from Elizabethtown, to settle the boundary between the two towns ; when Robert Treat led in prayer " that there might be good agreement between them," and on the conclusion of their business "John Ogden prayed among the people, and gave thanks for their loving agreement." In 1670-71 "'the town chose Mr. Thomas Johnson' for the keeping of the ordinary, or public house for the entertainment of travelers and strangers, ' and prohibited all others from selling any strong liquors by retail under a gallon, unless in case of necessity, and that by license from the town magistrate.' " 306 <^0tren=Soi)nson The records of the New Haven Colony also present to us Thomas Johnson as a trusted colonist, and as a man of rare independence and courage of opinion. A very striking illustration of this is the recorded fact that a certain Mrs. Goodman, accused of witchcraft in 1655, and committed to prison for it, but afterwards released in consideration of her health, " though warned at her peril to appear at the court of magis- trates," " was suffered to dwell in the family of Thomas Johnson, where she remained till her death, October 9*^ 1660."*"' .That Mr. Johnson was entrusted by the magistracy with the custody of a person under such suspicion, and that he was willing to brave suspicion of himself by thus sheltering a forlorn, persecuted woman, are facts to be remembered to his honor.^ '« Records of the Colony ... of New Haven. ... By Charles J. Hoadly. . . . Hart- ford, 1858, p. 152, note *. " Stearns's First Church in Newark, ut supra, pp. 37, note *, 38, 40, 41 and note *, and 81, note f. With our present somewhat complicated political system, and with our sicilled labor and division of industries, we cannot easily adjust our ideas to the period of the Colonies. Among a people where there was "a Church without a bishop, a State without a King" there were few high public offices. They had few learned professions, and very few men in those. To the offices they had they gave the greater honor, and all officers being selected by the people became honorable. Our older people now can remember when to be a seL'ci-md^n, was to hold a dignified and highly honored ofBce, though it brought no salary, and often many cares. Offices were not appraised at their money-value, but as evidence of the respect and good will of the people. Hinman says ; "Men were selected to fill every office, high or low, with a single eye to the fact that men who held the offices should be of such standing in society as the men should honor their offices, and not the offices the holders of them " — Puritan Settlers of Connecticut, 1846, p. 10. In the new country, in the emergencies of pioneer-life, ingenious men took up trades and employments that they would never have thought of attempting in the mother-country. It is said that Rev. Ephraim Huet, who had been rector of Wraxall in Warsvickshire, England, a man of high attainments, who came to Windsor in 1639, was so busy in building a bridge there — " its reputed master-workman " — that when his friends Rev. Messrs. Stone and Hooker came to see him, he was so " much occupied with his work " that "he failed to pay them as much attention as usual." After watch- ing his labors they turned to go, Dr. Stone pleasantly remarking to Dr. Hooker "Ephraim is joined to his idols, let him alone" — Stiles's Anc. Windsor, p. 49. We cannot suppose that a man with the masterful mind and character of John Ogden had followed the trade of stone-mason at home ; but he was able to do anything that the public good demanded, from building a stone church to planting and ruling a colony. In the case of Edward DeWolf of Lyme it is recorded that the town assigned to him timber-lands 307 <»^fltren=3Joijnson Thomas Johnson died November 5, 1694-95, aged sixty-four years — for which we have the authority of his epitaph, as follows : "Here lyes the body of Mr. Thomas Johnson, who died November the 5, 1694, aged 64 ;"" together with his Will, proved November 21, and recorded December 5, 1694, as follows : " Newarke, Novemb : y<^ 2* Anno Dom : 1694. " Be it known that I Thomas Johnson, inhabitant of Newarke in the province of East Jersey, being now about sixty foure years old, of perfect memory and of good understanding (thanks be to Almighty God for it), though in body weak and full of paine, waiting for ray change and dissolution by death, which shall be I know not how soone : doe make and declare this my will and testament in manner and form as followeth, revoking and annulling by these presents all and evry testament and testaments, will and wills, heretofore by me made and declared, wether by word or writing, and this to be taken only for my last will and testament, and in the name of God Amen. " Imprimis, I comit my soul imortal to God who gave it, to glorifye him and to be glorified by him forever ; my frail and corruptible body, made of the dust, to be in compensation for his services to the town with his sawmill and gristmill. Under these circumstances the fact of a man's office or avocation, taken alone, did not show his social station. To ascertain that, his life in other relations must be studied. Millwrights, innkeepers, " chimney viewers," &c., being necessary for the very existence of the people, were elected as public officers. We need not therefore be surprised to learn that Samuel Swayne " Gentleman " was chosen a " millwright " (though he appears never to have acted as such), and that Thomas Johnson, also a leader in public afifairs, was for years chosen keeper of " the ordinary." Even down to the memory of our oldest men " the tavern," as it was then called, was the great gathering place of the town: there its balls and other entertainments were held ; the landlord was frequent!}' the most prominent man in the town, and, from seeing many trav- ellers, the most intelligent and entertaining of companions. We may therefore infer, in connection with what we know otherwise of Thomas Johnson, that in his election to keep " the ordinary " at Newark his fellow-townsmen were paying a high compliment to his character for integrity, efficiency, and general agreeablencss, and to the good management and good housekeeping of his wife. The same explanation is to be given of the first Robert Johnson's appointment to be hayward for the town of New Haven : that complaints and conflicts might be avoided, the office required discretion and dignity of character, and public confidence. *■* Stearns's First Church in Newark, ut supra, p. 8i, note f. 308 (f^StKn=3o'^nnon decently buried in hope of a glorious resurrection by Jesus Christ my Redeemer and only Saviour, who shall change, in his time, this vile body of mine, and make it like unto his glorious body, when I shall be ever with the Lord, which is best of all. Morover, as for my worldly estate which I am now possessed of, I order and dispose as followeth, all just and lawfuU debts with funerall charges being first paid by my Executours. " I will and bequeath unto my youngest son Eliphalet Johnson by Name my wholl estate real and personall, lands, medow, housing, orchard, barn building or buildings, and improvements made thereupon, within the bounds and limits of Newarke abovesaid, that I am now possessed of, for him the said Eliphalet to have and to hold, possess and enjoy, as his absolute right and propriety, to the sole use, benefit and behoof of him his heirs and assignes forever after my decease, if it shall pleas God to take me away by this present stroke of his holy hand : I will also and bequeath unto my said son Eliphalet all my movable estate, goods, chattels, stock and household furniture at my deceas, obliging him hereby and provided that he pay or cause to be paid, within two years after he shall be possessed of my estate, fourty pounds apiece in contrey pay as it passeth between man and man, according to the vallue and estimate of two indifferent men, I say fourty pounds apiece to each of my sons his Naturall Brethren [i. e. brethren by ties of blood, not natural in the equivocal sense], viz : Joseph, John and Thomas Johnson, or theirs, in manner and specie as abovesaid. " Morover I doe nominate, make, ordain, constitute and appoint my son Eliphalet abovesaid my Executour of this my will, requiring and impowering and authorising him hereby to act, doe and performe all and every thing or things that may be need- full for or unto the accomplishment of this my will and testament, in manner and forme as is therein expressed : " In Witness wherof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal the day and date above written. " Thos. Johnson [l. s."] " Signed and sealed in the presence of us, John Prudden, John Curtis." He was three times married. The births of four of his children previously to 1663 are proof of one marriage, though we know not to whom it was ; the New Haven Registry, recording the marriage of Thomas 36g #fltri:n=3JoJ|nfiion Johnson Sen"', in September 1663, to Frances Hitchcock, makes probable a second marriage ; and an epitaph at Newark to the memory of his wife EUena, as follows : " Here lyes the body of Mrs. Ellena. Johnson, who died November 2, 1694, aged 61 "'° shows that, if married twice, he was married a third time. By his first marriage, he had children as follows : ^2> I. Joseph,'^ born, according to New Haven Town-Records, November 30, 1 65 1, and baptized February 8, 1656, as the Records of the First Church of New Haven show; who married Rebecca daughter of Rev. Abraham Pierson, and sister of Rev. Abraham Pierson Jr., first Rector of Yale College ; by whom he had : 74 I. JosepJiJ' 75 2. Margaret ;'^ who married Joseph Brown. He died March 11, 1733; one line of descent from him is farther drawn out in our Pedigree of Johnson. 76 II. John,'^ born April 27, 1654 (New Haven Town-Rec), and baptized February 8, 1656 (First Church Rec). 77 III. Abigail,'^ born January 19, 1657 (New Haven Town-Rec), bap- tized February 21 in the same year (First Church Rec); who died in childhood. 78 IV. ELIPHALET2 (see below). 7g V. Saving,"^ born November ^5, 1659 (First Church Rec). 3q VI. Abigail,'^ born January 14, 1662 (New Haven Town-Rec) ; who died before November 2, 1694, the date of her father's Will. By his second or third marriage he had : 81 VII. Thoiiias,'^ born July 11, 1664 (New Haven Town-Rec); who married Sarah daughter of Capt. Samuel Swayne, and sister of Elizabeth (Swayne) Ward, wife of the first David Ogden (see #05t1T part of this 89 Id., ibid. 310 ^atitn=3of\nnon monograph) ; by whom he had several children, as shown in our Pedigree of Johnson. He removed to Elizabethtown, N. J.* We have seen that the Will of Thomas Johnson, father of the four sons here named, speaks of Eliphalet as his " youngest son," although he names Thomas. It follows that, at the time of the making of the Will, Eliphalet was his youngest surviving son, Thomas, if not John, having died previously. He gives most of his property to Eliphalet, on condition of his paying Torty pounds, within a certain time, to each of his other sons "Joseph, John and Thomas, or theirs." ELIPHALET (78) Johnson was born in 1658; married: first, Deborah daughter of John Ward, who died after 1700; and, secondly, Abigail ■; and died April 20, 1718. With regard to him our chief source of information is his Will, which we therefore give in full ; it has never before been printed : " In the name of God Amen, this twenty-seaventh day of August Anno one thousand seaven hundred and seaventeen. I Eliphalet Johnston [sic] of Newark, in the County of Essex and Eastern Division of New Jersey, Yeoman, being in perfect mind and memory, thanks be given unto God, but calling unto mind the frailty and mortality of my body, and knowing that it is appointed unto man once to die, do make and ordaine this my last will and testament (that is to say). Principally and first of all, I give and recommend my Soull unto the hands of God that gave it, hoping that thorough the alone merits of Jesus Christ to have Eternall Life, and my body I recomend to the earth, to be buried in decent Christian manner, at the dis- cretion of my Executors, nothing doubting but at the Generall Resurection I shall receive the same again through the Mightie Power of God ; and as touching such worldly estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me in this life, I give, devise and dispose thereof in the following manner and forme : Imprimis, I give and bequeath unto Abigaile, my dearly beloved wife, after just debts being paid and dis- charged, one equall third part of all my personall estate that I shall die possessed of, '" Some of our data respecting the descendants of Thomas Johnson are drawn from Collections of the New Jersey Histor. Society. Volume vi. Supplement. Newark, i866, pp. 121-22. 3IT together with the use and improvement of my dwelling house and half the homestead, with halfe the barn, y'= s'd halfe to lye on y^ sou-west side, with the liberty and privi- ledge of cutting so much hay in the meadow as to keep her owne cattle and the pasturing of three or four cows, if she see cause to keep them. All the above mentioned to be injoyed by her so long as she remains my widow and no longer, excepting y" personall estate to be for her and her heirs forever. " Item, 1 give, bequeath and devise unto my two sons, Eliphelet and Nathaniell by name, those two lotts of land called the new lott and Wakeman's, their being so many apple trees planted in the one as in y" other, to be equally divided as to quantity, and then Eliphelet to have his choice. Also I give unto y" s'd Eliphelet and Nathaniell y*^ equall halfe of my salt meadow at y^ two mile brook, on that side next the upland, to be equally divided between them. Item, I give unto Eliphelet my lott of meadow at y° bound Creek which I bought of Wakeman. Item, I, give to Nathaniell that piece of salt meadow lying at y" Lower tide pond, the above mentioned tracts of land and meadow to be to them, their heirs and assigns forever, with the improvement of y"* remaining halfe of my homestead five years after my decease. Item, I give and devise unto my son John all that tract of land and pasture lying at y"* two mile brook, with y^ one halfe of y° lott in y"* Little Neck, with y'= halfe of y" remaining halfe of y"' meadow at y" two mile brook, and halfe my lott of meadow at Morishes Creek, y* above parcells to be to him y'^ s'd John, his heirs and assigns forever. Item, I give and devise unto my son Samuell all that one Lottment of Land called the Pattent Folsome Milstone, together with the remaining halfe of y" Lott in y" Little Neck, and y° remaining fourth part of y'= meadow at y'^ two mile brook. Also, liberty for y'^ s'd John and Samuell to cart cross y"^ other halfe given to Eliphelet and Nathaniell ; also I give to the s'd Samuell y° remaining halfe of my lott of meadow at Morises Creek, y^ same to be and remaine to him y" s'd Samuell, his heirs and assigns forever, together with y'' Improvement of y" halfe of my homestead untill my son Timothy shall attain to y'^ age of one and twenty years, after y" expiration of y*^ s'd five years already given to Eliphelet and Nathaniell. Item, I give and devise unto my son Timothy my whole homestead y'' one halfe thereof not disposed of to my wife, for him to possess and enjoy when he shall obtain to y" age of one and twenty years, and y' remaining part thereof at her death or remarying, together with all my land and meadow over y" Great Swamp, not before disposed off, with y« mendment lott of meadow at Plums poynt, y° same to be for him, his heirs and assigns forever. " Item, all my out land and right of land, not yet disposed of in this my last Will and Testament, I give, devise and dispose thereof unto my s'd five sons (viz.) Eliphelet, Nathaniell, John, Samuell and Timothy, to be equally divided between them, and to 312 otinfiion be and remain to them, and each and every of them, their heirs and assigns forever. Item, I give and bequeath unto my two daughters Deborah and Phebie the other two thirds of my moveable estate, to be equally divided between them, and my will is that each of my said sons pay to them, equally between them, my s'd daughters, tenn pounds a piece, which is fiftie pounds the whole, the said tenn pounds to be paid by each of my said sons within one year after each of them shall possess his estate. " Item, I do hereby ordaine, constitute and appoynt my two sons Eliphelet and Nathaniell joynt Executors of this my last Will and Testament, and do hereby utterly disallow, revoake and make voyd all and every other former testaments, wills and legacies, and executors before by me named, willed and bequeathed, ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last Will and Testament. " In Witness whereof I have hereunto sett my hand and seal the day and year first within written, and I desire my loving friends Mr. Jonathan Craine and John Cooper to be overseers of this my s'd Will and Testament, that it be duly executed according to y^ true intent and meaning thereof. " Eliphelet Johnson " [l. s.] " Signed, sealed, published, pronounced and declared by y" s'd Eliphelet Johnson as his last Will and Testament in y'^ presence of us y"^ subscribers : Joseph Peck, John Ogden, John Cooper." This Will was proved August 13, 1 718. It is the Will of a substantial farmer, as is farther shown by the Inventory, dated November 8, 1718. The testator is there called Ca/>t Eliphalet. The amount of personal property sworn to by the Executors was ^258. 15. 7. * By his first marriage Eliphalet Johnson had : I. Eliphalet ;'^ Col. Eliphalet; who died November 13, 1760, aged sixty- four years — therefore born in 1696. 83 2. NATHANIELS (see below). He had also (whether by his first or second marriage is unknown) four other children, as follows : 84 3. John;^ Capt. John; who is said to have died October 4, 1752, aged thirty-seven years,"' but was probably an older man, inasmuch as his father's Will makes him the third son, so that he must have been born " Id., p. 122. 313 between 1698, the date of Nathaniel's birth, and 1706, the date of the birth of Samuel, the fourth son. He married Elizabeth daughter of Capt. David Ogden of Newark (see #fltren part of this monograph), and sister of Sarah who became the wife of his brother Nathaniel. The line of his descendants is drawn out to the third generation in our Pedigree of Johnson. 85 4. Sarmiel;'^ who died March 14, 1777, aged seventy-one years— therefore born in 1706. Children of his are named in our Pedigree of Johnson. 86 5. Timothy;'^ not twenty-one years old in 171 8, the date of his father's Will; of whom little is known. He married, and had: (i.) a !;, 88 daughter Sm^ah;'^ who married Caleb Camp ; (2.) a sonjabes^ 6. Deborah.'^ 90 7. Phcebe.'^ NATHANIEL (83) Johnson died April 6, 1765, aged sixty-seven years — therefore born in 1698. He was entitled "Esquire," and is said to have been " a Magistrate of respectability and wealth." But his Will, like that of his father, is our chief source of information respecting him. The following is a copy in full : " In the name of God, Amen. I, Nathaniel Johnson of Newark, in the County of Essex and Province of New Jersey, being of sound Mind and Memory, do this twelfth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty-four, make my Last Will and Testament in manner following, Viz. Imprimis, I give to my beloved Wife Sarah Johnson the sum of Two hundred pounds Current Money of New Jersey at 8/ pr Oz., to be paid out of my Personal Estate, and also the use and occupation of the room we now live in, and the furniture, and also the use of the kitchen, during her natural life. Item, I give and Bequeath unto my Son Stephen Johnson, his heirs and Assigns forever, all that Orchard and Lott of Land which I bought of my Brother Eliphalett Johnson, and likewise that my Executors hereafter Named doo pay him out of my Moveable and Personal Estate the sum of one hundred pounds New Jersey Money as aforesaid. Item, I give to my Grand Son Josiah Ward the sum of Fifty pounds Jersey Money as aforesaid, to be paid out of 3'4 ©Btren=3>otinfiion my Personal Estate when he comes of age. Item, I give to my Grand Son Jacob Jamison Banks the sum of Fifty pounds Jersey Money afores'd, to be paid to him out of my Personal Estate when he shall come of age. Item, I give and bequeath the equal remaining half part of all my personal and Moveable Estate to my Daughter Martha Ward, the use thereof during her Natural Life, and then to be equally divided between the Heirs of her Body. Item, I give and bequeath the other equal Remaining half part of my moveable and personal Estate to my Daughter Catharine Banks, the use thereof during her natural Life, and then to be equally divided between the Heirs of her Body. Item, I give, Bequeath and devise to my Grandson Stephen Johnson, his Heirs and Assigns, all that house, Barn and Lott of Land which he now lives upon, which I bought of Capt" Nathaniel Wheeler, he allowing his Mother the use of one Room in the house, and of one 3* part of the Land during her Widowhood. Item, I give. Bequeath and devise to my Grandson Nath*^' Johnson, his Heirs and Assigns, that house and Lott of Land which I bought of Zophar Beach, containing Eight Acres. Item, I give. Bequeath and devise to my Grand Son Jotham Johnson, his heirs and assigns, all that lott of Land Lying above two Mile Brooke, which I bought of Coll. Joseph Tuttle. Item, I give. Bequeath and devise unto my Two Grand Sons Nathaniel and Jotham Johnson, to them, their Heirs and assigns forever, to be equally divided between them, all the two several Lotts of fresh Meadow and Upland which I bought of Deacon Tuttle in the Neck, and likewise that which I bought of Josiah Lyon, they paying my Grand Daughter Mary Johnson the sum of Sixty pounds Jersey Money af *, on her coming to the age of Twenty one years. Item, I give. Bequeath and devise unto my Son David Johnson all my house and Homestead, together with all the rest and remainder of my Land and Meadow, with all my Right of Lands that I now have, or ought to have, that is [not] otherwise devised, or shall hereafter be devised, together with all my Farming Utensils, with the Cyder Mill and presses, and all the Casks belonging to the house, to him, his heirs and Assigns for- ever ; and my will is that my Son David shall freely use and Occupy the before devised lot of land to my son Stephen Johnson, for one year after my decease. I likewise give and devise unto my son David Johnson, his heirs and Assigns, that lott or piece of salt Meadow lying below Indian Corner. Item, I give. Bequeath and devise unto my Children, viz. David Johnson, Stephen Johnson, Martha Ward and Catharine Banks, and to my Grandson Stephen Johnson, son of Thomas Johnson deceased, to them, their heirs and assigns forever, two equal third parts of all my right. Title, property and Claim whatsoever which I now have or may hereafter have of, in and to all the Lands and real estate lately belonging to my Brother Eliphalet Johnson deceased, to be equally divided between them, share and share alike, and the 315 ©fltfen=3iofntson 91,92 93 94 95 96 97 remaining equal third part thereof I give and devise unto the Children of my Brother Timothy Johnson, viz. Jabez Johnson and Sarah Camp, and to the Children of my Brother John Johnson deceas^ (viz.) Eliphalet Johnson, Uzal Johnson and David Johnson, to them, their Heirs and Assigns forever, to be equally devided betvireen them, share and share alike. Item, my Will is that my Executors hereinafter named shall pay all my Just Debts and Funeral Charges. Lastly, I do nominate and appoint my son David Johnson and my two Sons in Law Uzal "Ward and James Banks to be the Executors of this my last Will and Testament, hereby revoking and annulling all other and former Wills by me at any time heretofore made. Ratifying and Confirm- ing this only to be my last Will and Testament. In Witness whereof I have hereunto sett my hand and seal the day and year above written." "Nathaniel Johnson [l. s.]" " Signed, Sealed, Published and declared by the s* Nathaniel Johnson as and for his last Will and Testament, in Presence of us, Timothy Bruene Jun', Theophilus Pierson, Daniel Ball." " Proved April 15 and July 5, 1765. Nathaniel Johnson married Sarah daughter of Capt. David Ogden (see d^QXftn part of this monograph), and sister of Elizabeth the wife of his brother John Johnson, by whom he had : (i.) Thomas,'^ born February 5, 1719 ; who married ; and had Stephen^ and Mary.^ He removed to Hanover, N. J.; and died November 11, 1759. (2.) David,'^ born August 11, 1721 ; who died in 1776, in his fifty- sixth year. He married Eunice Crane ; and had several children who are named in our Pedigree of Johnson. (3.) STEPHEN* (see below). (4.) Martha,'^ born June 19, 1728; who married Uzal Ward; and had one or more children. (5.) Sarah,'^ born November 2, 1731 ; who died January 14, 1760. (6.) Catharine,^ born January 23, 1737; who married James Banks; and had one or more children. " The Wills of Thomas Johnson, Eliphalet Johnson and Nathaniel Johnson are on file in the office of the Secretary of State of New Jersey. We are indebted to the courtesy of Hon. H. C. Kelsey for copies of them, with the accompanying Inventories. 316 * Memoirs of the Rev. Eleazer Wheelock, D.D. ... By David M'=Clure . . . and Elijah Parish. . . . Newburj'port, 1841, p. 68. 346 Id., iii. 267. " Id., iii. 281. A cruel witticism, even, is attributed to Diodati, on the occasion of the execution of Barneveldt— that the canons of Dort had been the death of him ; but such words seem very unlikely to have come from Ills lips. 390 Bfotratf Beside his Italian version of the Scriptures, Jean Diodati also made a French translation, from his Italian, the publication of which, though discouraged for years, was finally permitted in 1644 ; and he is said to have undertaken, to what end does not appear, a version in Latin. The family- archives also intimate that a Spanish version was made by him, though it is hardly to be believed that this could have been more than a translation, by some other hand, of his so highly reputed Italian. In 1 62 1 there appeared at Geneva a French translation, by Diodati, of a History of the Council of Trent, written in Italian (" Istoria del Concilio Tridentino "), in the interest of Protestantism, and ascribed to Fra Paolo Sarpi. He also translated the Psalms into "rimevulgare Italiane," pub- Hshed at Geneva in 1608 ; and was the author of " Annotationes in BibHa" published there in 1607, substantially identical with the notes which Casaubon speaks of in his letter above quoted, and with the notes which accompany his French version. A later edition appeared in 1644, under the title of " Glossae in Sancta Biblia." Other valuable works, and many single dissertations on various theological and ecclesiastical subjects, which it is needless to specify here, were also written by him. The chief occupation of the last third of Diodati's life, beside his duties of instruction in the Academy of Geneva, there is reason f o believe, was the revision and recasting of his notes on the Scriptures, in connection with his translations.'^ From Masson we learn, farther, that " Besides his celebrity as professor of theology, city preacher, translator of the Bible into Italian, and author of several theological works, Diodati was celebrated as an instructor of young men of rank sent to board in his house. About the year 1639," Masson adds, "there were many young foreigners of distinction pursuing their ^' In the Fourth Report of The Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, Part i. . . . London, 1874, p. 159, among " Papers relating to John Durj'e's Mission to the Continent, with the Object of effecting a Reconciliation between Lutherans and Calvinists," is mentioned, under date of August 28, 1633, "Copy of a letter of John Diodatus to [John Durye], expressing cordial approval of John Durye's scheme for a reconciliation between the Protestant churches, but warning him of the danger of selecting unfit persons for negotiating so great a work. Dated from Geneva." 391 19to9atf studies in Geneva, including Charles Gustavus, afterwards king of Sweden, and several princes of German Protestant houses ; and some of these appear to have been among Diodati's private pupils." ^° We only mention, farther, as included in this period, that Milton in 1639, on his return from Italy, to use his own words, was "daily in the society of John Diodati, the most learned Professor of Theology,* from whom he probably first heard of the death of his friend Charles, the nephew of the divine. The death of Rev. Jean Diodati occurred in 1649. This distinguished divine married, at Geneva, in December 1600, Madeleine daughter of Michel Burlamaqui ; ^' by whom he had nine children, five sons and four daughters. Of the sons, who alone concern '» Masson's Life of Milton. Cambridge, 1859, i. 778. » Id., ibid. " A granddaughter of the Francesco Burlamachi who conspired to liberate the republics of Italy in 1546, and sacrificed his life to his patriotism— Sismondi's Hist. d. Rfepubl. Ital., ut supra, xvi. 128 ff., and Schotel's Jean Diodati, ut supra, pp. 11-12. She had a sister Renfee— so named by the celebrated Renfee Duchess of Ferrara, who was her god- mother—who married, first, Cesar Balbani, and, afterwards, Theodore Agrippa d'Aubignfe, grandfather of Fran9oise d'Aubigne Marquise de Maintenon— Schotel, pp. 12, 92. Jean Jacques Burlamaqui, author 01 the well-known " Principes de la Loi Naturelle et Politique," was a cousin of the wife of Rev. John Diodati, and appears to have married a sister of his. The Burlamaquis were " one of those noble fam- ilies of Lucca," says Nugent, the English translator of that work, "which, on their embracing the Protestant religion, were obliged, about two centuries ago, to take shelter in Geneva." Between them and the Diodatis there were several intermarriages. Schotel (pp. 85-95) gives from family-archives a touchingly simple narrative of dangers and escapes, privations and succors, experienced by the family of Michel Burlamaqui, father of Madeleine and Renee, in passing from Italy, by the way of France, to their final resting-place in Geneva, which was written in the French language by Ren6e " 6tant dans la retraite en men bien du petit Saconnex, et meditant les graces que le Seigneur m'a fait." At one time they were sheltered in a palace of the Duchess of Ferrara at Montargis, where Renfee was born. Again, being in Paris during the Massacre of St. Bartholomew, the very palace of the Duke of Guise, through the intervention of some Roman Catholic relatives, became their place of refuge. Afterwards, in the house of M. de Bouillon, temptations to a denial of their faith, by conformity to the usages of the old Church, beset them ; but from these, too, they escaped unscathed. Finally, after years of moving from place to place, they reached Geneva, stripped of all earthly goods, but rich in the treasure of a good conscience. 392 lifotratti 34 us here, one was Tkdodore ;'^^ made Doctor of Medicine at Leyden, Feb- ruary 4, 1643 ; and admitted Honorary Member of the Royal College of Physicians of London in December 1664; who resided in London, though not, as it seems, in the practice of his profession, but as a Merchant : in the Letters of Administration on his estate, granted July 24, 1680, he is called " Doctor of Medicine and Merchant." He had no children, and bequeathed most of his property — including two estates " in the bailiwick of Gex, one in the village and parish of Fernex, the other in the village and parish of Verin, within a league of Geneva " — reserving a Hfe-interest 35, 36 in the real estate to a sister Rent^e'^^ — to three nephews named Philip}'^ 37.38 John'^'^ and Ralpk'^'^ (order of names in his Will), with these provisos : that " if either revolt from the Reformed Religion in which he was brought up, I disinherit him ;" and "if all said nephews die without issue, then my estate to go to build a hospital for poor strangers at Geneva." The real estate was to pass, eventually, to whichever one of his nephews should go to Geneva to live, of whom he mentions Ralph as most likely so to do ; and the property must not be sold, but kept in the family. We also find the following item in his Will : "There is also at Geneva, in my sister Renee Diodati, her keeping, a copy of the French Bible of the translation of my deceased father, revewed and enlarged by him with divers annotations, since the former copy which was printed before his death, which I doe esteeme very much, and I will that it be printed," etc. Legacies were also left to the poor of the French and Italian Churches of Geneva, the French Churches of London and the Savoy, and the Italian Church of London, and those of Fernex and Verin. 39 Another son of Rev. Jean Diodati was Charles ;'^^ who also went to England; on whose estate, on the 13* of August 1651, Letters of Administration were granted to "Theodore Diodati next of kin" — evidently his brother Theodore — styling him " of St. Mary Magdalen, Old Fish Street, London, bachelor." 393 monKti 40 Another son, named Samuel}'^ "became a Merchant in Holland,' whither he went in 1648 ; he lived single and died in 1676. 41 Another son was named 3/(2r lo II 12 13 From Hingham records we learn that " John Dunbar married, July 4, 1679, Mattithiah daughter of George and Catherine Aldridge (or Aldrich) of Dorchester 1636, of Mendon 1663." Savage's "Genealogical Dictionary" states that "George Aldridge (or Aldrich), Dorchester, freeman 7 Dec. 1636, by wife Catherine had Mattithiah born 10 July 1656." John and Mattithiah Dunbar had at Hingham, according to the records, Susannah,^ Lydia,^ and two sons bearing the name of John.^ Several years intervened between the dates of birth of these children. The last mention of the father is in May 1697; and the Town-Clerk writes: "The record of John Dunbar's family stops here in the Hingham records, and the inference would be that he removed." He no doubt removed to New Haven, Conn., as a John Dunbar is mentioned in the New Haven records July 24, 1700. It has been accepted by Prof. Charles F. Dunbar of Harvard University, and other members of the Dunbar family, and genealogists, with whom the writer has corresponded, that he is the same person as the John Dunbar of Hingham. This is now confirmed by the names of his children given in the New Haven records. By Elizabeth Beecher, his second wife, he had several children, among whom were James 2 and Joseph, ^ twins, born in 1703, evidently named for the two brothers next to himself, his boyhood's playmates in Hingham. After the death of these boys, he repeated the name of Joseph^ in 1704, and of James ^ in 1708. He also repeated the name of Lydia who was born in Hingham, by giving it to a child Lydia ^ born in 1714 in New Haven. The late Henry White who kindly searched the New Haven records for the purpose, found that John Dunbar married Elizabeth Beecher July 24, 1 700. From a comparison of the date of this marriage with the dates of birth of the children born of it, as given in the New Haven records, and the fact that the widow Elizabeth Dunbar gave her property to her own Dunbar children, and nothing to John Dunbar Jun. and Sarah (Dunbar) Diodate, who are both mentioned in John Dunbar's Will as his children, Mr. White concluded that they were children of a former wife. 414 ^tmtnt of Satali (25tmfiat) moXmtt This corresponds with the record at Hingham of his marriage in 1679 to Mattithiah Aldridge (or Aldrich). John Dunbar had a good estate. It is interesting in this connection to trace the long continuation of family-names. Robert Dunbar had a daughter Sarah. John Dunbar gave the name to his daughter Sarah, afterwards Mrs. Diodate, who gave the name Sarah to a child of hers who died. Her daughter Elizabeth gave the name to her daughter Sarah who became Mrs. John Griswold ; who in turn gave it to her daughter Sarah, Mrs. Gardiner ; who gave it to her daughter Sarah, Mrs. David Thompson ; who repeated it to her daughter Sarah, Mrs. David Gardiner ; who gave it to her daughter the young Sarah Diodate Gardiner, to whom we are indebted for a copy of the Diodati arms. Of these eight generations the last six of the name are in the direct line of descent. The name Ehzabeth has come down in the Whicker, Morton, Diodati, Griswold, Lane, and Moss families for nine generations in the direct line, with only three breaks. Each of the two names has been borne, also, by others of the descend- ants of Sarah Dunbar and Ehzabeth Whicker. 415 4i6 INDEXES OF FAMILY-NAMES IN SECOND VOLUME AND PEDIGREES (See First Volume for General Notes on all the Indexes) 417 4I8 ^ristXTjcrl^ tnUt^ I— BY MALE DESCENT Abiel'— m. I. Pinney, Deborah^— m. Buell— (20), 12 2. Moore, 3. Easton— (12), 12 and Pedigr. Deborah^— m. Denison— (87), 46 Addis McEvers' — Pedigr. Deborah' — m. Jewett — (107), 52 Agnes Wolcott*— m. HoWister— Pedigr. Diodate Johnson'— m. Colt— (169), 115-17 Alexander Viets' — (15), 12 Dwight To&ks.y''— Pedigr. Amos' — Pedigr. Edward' — m, i. Margaret , Andrew'' — (53), 41 2. ( — ) Bemis — (i), 2, 10, 11 Ann Mati-lX)A''— Pedigr. Edward Lansdale' — Pedigr. Anna^— m. Brownson— (38), 24, 26 Edytii G.' — Pedigr. Augustus Henry'— m. Lansdale— (114), 105 Elihu«— m. Wolcott— (27), 12, 13 Augustus Henry' — Pedigr. Elihu Marvin' — Pedigr. Benjamin^— m. CooV— Pedigr. Elisha'— m. W\e\.s— Pedigr. Benjamin^— m. G3.y\ord— Pedigr. Eliza Woodbridge' — m. Boalt — (134), no Catharine' — Pedigr. Elizabeth'' — m. i. Rogers, 2. Pratt, Catharine Ann'— m. Lorillard— (61), 43 3. Beckwith — (28), 22, 23 Charles' — m. Perkins — (116), 105 Elizabeth^- (45), 34 Charles*- m. Vorajoy— Pedigr. Elizabeth'— m. Raymond— (54), 41 Charles C* — Pedigr. Elizabeth' — m. Griswold— (59), 42, 44, 119 Charles Chandler' — m. Griswold — (191), 119 Elizabeth'— m. Gurley — (171), 117 Charles Henry*— m. Morley— (121), 106 Elizabeth* — Pedigr. Charlotte Yov^o^'—Pedigr. Elizabeth' — Pedigr. Charlotte Young* 2d— m. l.diX'km— Pedigr. Elizabeth Diodate*— m. Lane— (69), 44 Clarissa' — (105), 51 Ellen Elizabeth* — Pedigr. Clarissa' 2d— m. Elliot— (io6), 51 Ellinor Shaw' — (120), 106 -Cornelia W.' — m. Haven — Pedigr. Ely'— /'^^), 12 Frelinghuysen, Matilda Cummings' — m. Gray —Pedigr. Frelinghuysen, Sarah Helen' — m. Davis — Camp, Alexander' — Pedigr. Pedigr. Camp. Fanny' — Pedigr. Frelinghuysen, Theodore' — m. Coats — Pedigr. Camp, William' — Pedigr. Gardiner, David'" — Pedigr. Cenci, Beatrice Eleanora Virginia'" — Pedigr. Gardiner, David Johnson' — (178), 117 Cenci, Beatrice Fiorenza Alessandrina" — Gardiner, David Johnson' — {180), 118 and Pedigr. ' Pedigr. Cenci, Eleanora Lorillard" — Pedigr. Gardiner, John Griswold' — (182), 118 Chadwick, Anne Maria' — m. Brainerd — Pedigr. Gardiner, John Lyon'— m. Jones — (179), 118 Chadwick, Catharine DeWolf' — m. Noyes — Pedigr. Chadwick, Daniel' — m. Noyes — Pedigr. Gardiner, Jonathan Thompson' — Pedigr. Gardiner, Lion'" — (183), 118 Chadwick, Walter' — m. Lay — Pedigr. Gardiner, Mary Buell'— (185), 118 Champion, Angeline' — Pedigr. Champion, Israel' — m. Wilkinson — Pedigr. Gardiner, Mary Tpiompson' — m. Sands — Pedigr. Gardiner, Robert Alexander'" — Pedigr. Champion, Susan' — m. Avery — Pedigr. Gardiner, Samuel Buell* — m. Thompson — Chandler, Mary Ann'— m. Lanman— (150), 112 (181), 118 and Pedigr. 423 ©tistoollr mxftv Gardiner, Sarah Diodate' — m. Thompson — (184), 118 Gardiner, Sarah Diodate'" — Pedigr. Gardiner, Sarah Griswold' — m. Tyler — Pedigr. Goodrich, Elizur' — 75 and Pedigr. Gray, Elizabeth Woodmull' — m. Morris — Pedigr. Gray, George Griswold' — m. Irwin — Pedigr. Gray, Henry Winthrop' — m. Frelinghuysen — Pedigr. Greenleaf, Charlotte Kingman' — m. Fuller — Greenleaf, Simon'' — m. Kingman — (96), 51, 78 and Pedigr. Griffin, Augusta* — Pedigr, Griffin, Caroline' — Pedigr. Griffin, Caroline Lydia'' — Pedigr. Griffin, Charles' — m. DeForest — Pedigr. Griffin, Charles* — Pedigr. Griffin, Charles Ferdinand* — Pedigr. Griffin, Edmund Dorr' — Pedigr. Griffin, Edmund Dorr* — Pedigr. Griffin, Edward Dorr" — (75), 46 Griffin, Edward Dorr* — m. Lord — Pedigr. Griffin, Ellen' — Pedigr. Griffin, Ellen* — Pedigr. Griffin, Emily Seton* — Pedigr. Griffin, Francis' — m. Sands — Pedigr. Griffin, Francis Butler* — Pedigr. Griffin, Francis Butler* 2d — Pedigr. Griffin, Frederick* — Pedigr. Griffin, George" — m. Butler — (76), 46 and Pedigr. Griffin, George' — m. 1. Neilson, 2. Cooke, 3. Benson — Pedigr. Griffin, George* — Pedigr. Griffin, George Butler* — Pedigr. Griffin, Josiah" — m. Gates — Pedigr. Griffin, Lydia Butler* — Pedigr. Griffin, Phcebe* — m. Lord — (77), 46 Griffin, Phcebe' — m. Olmstead — Pedigr. Griffin, Sophy Day' — Pedigr. Griffin, Theresa* — Pedigr. Grosvenor, Ellen Gurley'" — Pedigr. Grosvenor, Harriet Ely"" — Pedigr. Grosvenor, Sarah Elizabeth'" — Pedigr. Gurley, Anne Eliza* — Pedigr. Gurley, Charles Griswold* — Pedigr. Gurley, Elizabeth' — m. Merrow — (172), 117 Gurley, Elizabeth Griswold* — Pedigr. Gurley, Ellen* — m. Gurley — (173), 117 Gurley, Hannah Brigham* — Pedigr. Gurley, John Griswold* — Pedigr. Gurley, Mary Brainerd* — Pedigr. Gurley, Sarah Griswold* — m. Noyes — (175), 117 Gurley, Ursula Wolcott* — Pedigr. Hall, Francis Joseph' — m. Griswold — Pedigr. Hall, Grace Griswold' — Pedigr. Hall, Roger Griswold' — m. Patrick — (133), no Hall, Samuel Holden Parsons* — m. Bulkeley — Pedigr. Hall, Theodore Parsons' — m. Godfrey — Pedigr. Hart, Elizabeth' — m. Warner — Pedigr. Hart, John Alexander' — m. Edgerton — Pedigr. Hart, Louise Ely' — m. Whittlesey — Pedigr. Hart, Mortimer Edgerton'" — m. McCurdy — Pedigr. Haven, George Griswold* — m. i. Martin, 2. (Arnot) Palmer — Pedigr. Hewitt, Nathaniel Augustus* — Pedigr. Hewitt, Sarah E.* — m. Bowen — Pedigr. Hillhouse, Augustus Lucas' — Pedigr. Hilli-iouse, Charles Betts* — Peaigr. 424 CttrfstDOltr MXttv HiLLHOUSE, Cornelia Lawrence' — m. Hill- Hubbard, Marianna Lanman" — m. Slater — house — Pedigr, (156), 112 HiLLHOUSE, David"— m. Poxlei—Fedigr. Hubbard, Mary Sullivan' — m. Turrill — Pedigr. HiLLHOUSE, Francis' — Pedigr. Hubbard, Thomas Hallam" — m. Lanman — (157), HiLLHOUSE, Harriet'' — Pedigr. 112 HiLLHOUSE, Isaphene' — Pedigr. Jewett, John Griswold" — m. Lay — Pedigr. HiLLHOUSE, James" — m. i. Lloyd, Johnson, Julia '^?— Pedigr. 2. Woolsey — (103), 51 Kernochan, Catharine'— ra. VeW— Pedigr. and Pedigr. Kernochan, James Lorillard' — Pedigr. HiLLHOUSE, James' son of James Abraham — Pedi£r. Kip, Editpi' — Pedigr. Kip, Lorillard' — Pedigr. HiLLHOUSE, James' son of William — Pedigr. Lane, Charles Chandler Griswold' — Pedigr. HiLLHOUSE, James Abraham' — m. Lawrence — (104), 51 and Pedigr. Lane, Ebenezer' — m. Griswold — (164), 76, 109, HiLLHOUSE, John" — m. Mason — Pedigr. 112 Lane, Ebenezer Shaw' — m. Andersen — Pedigr. HiLLHOUSE, John' — Pedigr. Lane, Elizabeth Griswold'— m. Moss — Pedigr. HiLLHOUSE, Mary" — m. Prince — Pedigr. Lane, Sarah Spencer' — Pedigr. HiLLHOUSE, Mary' — Pedigr. Lane, William Griswold' — m. Griswold — (129), HiLLHOUSE, Mary Lucas' — Pedigr. 76, 109 HiLLHOUSE, Oliver" — Pedigr. Lane, Wolcott Griswold' — Pedigr. HiLLHOUSE, Rachel* — m. Raymond — Pedigr. Lanman, Charles' — (152), 112 HiLLHOUSE, Rebecca' — m. Hewitt — Pedigr. Lanman, Charles James' — m. Guie — (151), 112 HiLLHOUSE, Samuel" — m. Comstock — Pedigr. Lanman, Eliza' — m. Hubbard — (155), 112 HiLLHOUSE, Sarah' — Pedigr. Lanman, Harriet' — m. Piatt — (160), 112 HiLLHOUSE, Sarah Ann' — Pedigr. Lanman, James Henry' — (163), 112 HiLLHOUSE, Thomas" — m. i. Hosmer, Lanman, Joanna Boylston' — m. Foster — (162), 112 2. Ten Broeck — Pedigr. HiLLHOUSE, Thomas' — Pedigr. Lanman, Marianne Chandler' — m. Douw — HiLLHOUSE, William" — Pedigr. (153). "2 HiLLHOUSE, William'— m. i. Hillhouse, 2. Betts — Pedigr. Lanman, Mary Louisa' — Pedigr. Larkin, William' — Pedigr. HOLLISTER, Griswold' — Pedigr. Lord, Frances Jane'— (80), 46 HOLLISTER, Wolcott' — Pedigr. Lord, Gertrude McCurdy' — m. Griffin — (203), Hubbard, Charles Learned'" — m. Mather — 121 (159), 112 and Pedigr. Lord, Harriet' — (79), 46 Hubbard, J AMES Lanman' — m. Learned — (158), 112 Lord, John McCurdy' — Pedigr. Hubbard, Mabel Gardiner'" — m. Bell — (igB), Lord, Josephine' — m. McCurdy — (81), 46 121 Lord, Phcebe'— m. Noyes — (78), 46 425 ©ftcfijtooitr mntv Lord, Robert McCurdy' — Pedigr. LoRiLLARD, Augusta' — m. Sands — Pedigr. Lorillard, Beekjian' — Pedigr. LORILLARD, Catharine^ — m. Kernochan — Pedigr. Lorillard, Emily' — m. Kent — Pedigr. Lorillard, Ernest' — Pedigr. Lorillard, Eva* — m. Kip — Pedigr. Lorillard, George' — m. , — Pedigr. Lorillard, George "L?— Pedigr. Lorillard, Jacob' — m. Ulhorn — Pedigr. Lorillard, Jacob' — Pedigr. Lorillard, Louis L.» — Pedigr. Lorillard, Louis Lasher' — m. Beekman — Pedigr. Lorillard, Mary' — m. Barbey — Pedigr. Lorillard, Maud" — Pedigr. Lorillard, Nathaniel Griswold' — Pedigr. Lorillard, Pierre' — m. Taj'lor — Pedigr. Lorillard, Pierre' — m. Hamilton — Pedigr. McCuRDY, Alexander Lynde' — m.Lord — (201), 121 and Pedigr. McCuRDY, Alice Josephine' — Pedigr. McCuRDV, Charles Johnson' — m. Lord — (192), 76, 80, 120 and Pedigr. McCuRDY, Evelyn' — ra. Salisbury — (193), 120 and Pedigr. McCuRDY, Gertrude Griffin' — Pedigr. McCuRDY, Gertrude Mercer' — m. Hubbard — (197), 121 McCuRDY, Richard Aldricu' — (196), I2i McCuRDY, Robert Henry' — m, Lee — (194), 120 and Pedigr. McCuRDY, Roberta Wolcott' — m. Marsh — (200), 121 McCuRDY, Sarah Ann' — m. Lord — (202), 121 McCuRDv, Sarah Lord' — m. Marsh — (199), 121 McCuRDY, Theodore Frelinghuysen' — (195), 121 McCuRDY, Ursula' — m. Allen — (166), 114 Mather, Nancy' — m. Hart — Pedigr. Merrow, John Griswold Gv&i.i.y'^''— Pedigr. Merrow, Paul Gurley'"— /'crf'/^n Merrow, Pauline" — Pedigr. Moss, Augustus Lester' — Pedigr. Moss, Cornelia Emilie' — Pedigr. Moss, Elizabeth Diodati Griswold" — Pedigr. Moss, Emetine Knapp" — Pedigr. Nevins, Anna Louisa' — Pedigr. Nevins, Cornelia Leonard' — Pedigr. Nevins, Frank" — Pedigr. Nevins, Henry'" — Pedigr. Nevins, Marian Griswold' — m. McDowell — Pedigr. Nevins, Russell'" — Pedigr. Nevins, Russell Hubbard' — m. Browne — Pedigr. Nevins, William" — Pedigr. NoYES, Caroline Lydia' — m. Kirby — (84), 46 Noyes, Charles P.' — (83), 46 Noyes, Daniel R.' — (82), 46 Noyes, Josephine Lord' — m. Ludington — (86), 46 Noyes, Julia Lord' — m. Loveland — (85), 46 Noyes, Mary Gurley' — m. Selden — (176), 117 Noyes, Ursula Wolcott' — m. Grosvenor — (174), 117 Olmstead, Harriet Griffin' — Pedigr. Parsons, Lucia' — m. Hosmer — Pedigr. Parsons, Lydia' — m. Greenleaf — (95), 51 Parsons, Margaret' — m. i. Hubbard, 2. Lathrop — Pedigr. Parsons, Mehetable' — m. Yi.2\\— Pedigr. Parsons, Samuel Holden' — m. Mather — (94), 50, 75, 78 and Pedigr. Perkins, Alice' — Pedigr. Perkins, Cornelia Leonard' — m. Nevins — (138), no Perkins, Edith Green' — Pedigr. 426 ®r(BUjoitr mntv Perkins, Frances Griswold"* — m. Camp — Pedigr. Perkins, Frederick yN?— Pedigr. Perkins, Griswold* — Pedigr. Perkins, Joseph Griswold* — m. Griswold — (140), 43, no Perkins, Louisa Griswold" — Pedigr. Perkins, Lucretia Shaw Wooddridge*— (142), III Perkins, Marian' — Pedigr. Perkins, Maurice'— m. Potts— (141), no, iii Perkins, Nathaniel Shaw' — Pedigr. Perkins, Robert Griswold' — Pedigr. Perkins, Roger Griswold' — m. Perkins — (139), no and Pedigr. Perkins, Roger (Jriswold' — Pedigr. Perkins, Rose* — Pedigr. Perkins, Thomas Shaw' — Pedigr. Piatt, John Henry" — m. Goddard— (i5i), 112 Pierce, Matthew G." — Pedigr. Pope, John' — 79 and Pedigr. Pratt, Peter* — (31), 23 Raymond, Theodore' — (55), 42 Rogers, Elizabeth'- (29), 23 Rogers, John''— (30), 23 Selden, Grace Cxvjd'^— Pedigr. Selden, Grosvenor" — Pedigr. Selden, Marian Griswold' — Pedigr. Selden, Mary'" — Pedigr. Slater, William Albert'"— /'(fai'j^r. Spencer, Carolina Sara" — Pedigr. Spencer, Charles Griswold"— /'^Ai^'r. Spencer, Eleanora Lorillard" — m. Cenci — (71). 44, 79 Spencer, Lorillard"— m. Berryman- /'fu'zVr. Spencer, Lorillard'"— /'frf;>r. Spencer, Nina G-lkdy's^''— Pedigr. Spencer, William Augustus"— m. Desmouget — Pedigr. Terry, Fanny Griswold"— /'^a'/^^-. Terry, Louisa Griswold"- -P^^/z^n Terry, Nathaniel Matson" — Pedigr. Thompson, Charles Griswold" — Pedigr. Thompson, David Gardiner" — Pedigr. Thompson, Elizabeth" — Pedigr. Thompson, Frederick Diodate" — Pedigr. Thompson, Gardiner" — Pedigr. Thompson, Mary Gardiner" — Pedigr. Thompson, Sarah Gardiner" — m. Gardiner — (186), n8 Wait, Betsey Burnam' — m. Champion — Pedigr. Wait, Elizabeth' — m. Mather — Pedigr. Wait, Horace'' — m. Raymond — Pedigr. Wait, Horace Frederick' — m. i. Taylor, ' 2. Garfield — Pedigr. y^KYY, John Turner'— m.(Rudd) \i3x1\i— Pedigr. Wait, Marvin" — m. i. Jones, 2. ( — ) Saltonstall, 3. Turner — Pedigr. Wait, Marvin' — Pedigr. Wait, Marvin' — Pedigr. Wait, Nancy' — m. Chadwick — Pedigr. Wait, Remick"— m. Matson— {41), 26 Wait, Richard' — m. i. Marvin, 2. Higgins — (40), 26 and Pedigr. Waite, Christopher Champlin" — Pedigr. Waite, Edward Tinker" — Pedigr. Waite, Henry Matson' — m. Selden— (42), 26, 77 Waite, Henry Selden" — Pedigr. Waite, Mary Frances" — Pedigr. Waite, Morrison Remick' — m. Warner — (43), 26, 77 and Pedigr. Warner, Caroline" — Pedigr. Warner, Charles" — Pedigr. Warner, James" — Pedigr. Warner, Wilhelmina" — Pedigr. White, John Griswold" — (190), 119 White, Mary Elizabeth" — Pedigr. Whittlesey, Louise Hart'" — m. Atwater — Pedigr. Woodbridge, William' — 74, 76 and Pedigr. 427 -BY MARRIAGE , Bathsheba (— ), — m. John (17) Grisvvold— Pedigr. , Hannah — m. Samuel^ Griswold — Pedigr. , Margaret— m. Edward (i) Griswold— 11 , Sarah — m. Samuel (21) Griswold — Pedigr. Adams, Ellen — m. Roger Wolcott' Griswold— Pedigr. Allen, H. S.— m. Adeline Champlin' Bartlett— Pedigr, Allen, John— m. Ursula (166) McCurdy— 114 Alley, Lydia— m. George Catlin' Griswold— Pedigr. Andersen, Pallas E.— m, EbenezerShaw^Lane — Pedigr. Andrews, Sherlock James — m. Ursula Mc- Curdy (168) Allen — 76, 114 Atwater, C. J.— m. Louise Hart'" Whittlesey— Pedigr. AvERV, John— m. Susan' C\\3.m^\on— Pedigr. Backus, Elijah — m. Lucia (loi) Griswold— 51 Ballintine, , — m. Frederick" Frelinghuysen — Pedigr. Bareey, Henry L— m. Mary* 'LonWdiXi— Pedigr. Bartlett, Daniel — m. Fanny Rogers (117) (Griswold) Bartlett — 106 Bartlett, Shubael F. — m. Fanny Rogers (117) Griswold — 106 Beckwith, Matthew— m. Elizabeth (28) (Gris- wold) Rogers-Pratt — 23 Beekman, Katharine — m. Louis Lasher** Loril- lard — Pedigr. Bell, Alexander Graham — m. Mabel Gardiner (198) Hubbard — 121 Bemis, (— ), — m. Edward (i) Griswold— 11 Bemis, Mary — m. John (17) Griswold — Pedigr. Benson, Elizabeth Frances— m. George' Grif- fin — Pedigr. Berryman, Caroline Suydam— m. Lorillard* Spencer — Pedigr. Betts, Frances Julia — m. William'' Hillhouse — Pedigr. Bingham, Abigail — m. Francis* Griswold — Pedigr. Boalt, Charles Leicester — m. Eliza Wood- bridge (134) Griswold — no Boalt, John Mulford — m. Frances Ethelind* Griswold — Pedigr. Bock, C. — m. William Lane' Boalt — Pedigr. Booth, Harriet — m. Henry' Griswold — Pedigr. Bowen, William S. — m. Sarah E.' Hewitt^ Pedigr. Brainerd, Davis S. — m. Anne Maria* Chadwick — Pedigr. Brown, Rosa Elizabeth — m. Richard Sill (65) Griswold — 44 Browne, Katie — m. Russell Hubbard' Nevins — Pedigr. Brownson, Abraham— m. Anna (38) Griswold— 24, 26 Buckingham, Thomas — m. Margaret (9) Gris- wold — II Buell, , — m. Lucy" Griswold — Pedigr. BuELL, Samuel — m. Deborah (20) Griswold — 12 Bulkeley, Emeline M. — m. Samuel Holden Parsons* Hall — Pedigr. BusHNELL, Benaja— m. Hannah (100) Griswold —51 Butler, Lydia — m. George (76) Griffin — Pedigr. Calkins, Ethelinda— m. Thomas (58) Griswold — Pedigr. Camp, Jacob A.— m. Frances Griswold* Perkins —Pedigr. Cenci, Virginio — m. Eleanora Lorillard (71) Spencer — 44 Chadwick, Daniel— m. Nancy' Vi2dl— Pedigr. Champion, Reuben— m. Betsey Burnam' Wait— Pedigr. 428 etrlstooltr mxttv Chandler, Charles Church — ra. Marian (149) Easton, Dridania — m. Abiel (12) Griswold — Griswold — m Pedigr. Chandler, Dorothy Church — m. James* Edgerton, Louise — m. John Alexander' Hart — Backus — Pedigr. Pedigr. Chauncey, Elihu— m. Mary (22) Griswold— 12 Edwards, Alfred H. Pierrepont — m. Mary Clark, Levi H. — m. Mary Ann (188) Griswold (62) Griswold^43 — iig Elliot, Nathan — m. Clarissa (106) Griswold — Coats, Alice — m. Theodore" Frelinghuysen— 52 Pedigr. Ely, Harriet L. — m. William Noyes (144) Gris- Collins, Mary— m. Sylvanus' Griswold— /'ffl'j;^^ wold — Pedigr. Colt, Sarah— m. Diodate Johnson (169) Gris- Ely, Horace S. — m. Fanny Rogers (127) Gris- wold — H5 wold — 109 CoLTON, Thomas— m. Sarah (35) Griswold— 24 Ely, Justin — m. Marian (149) (Griswold) Chand- ler-Lane — 112 COMSTOCK, C. E. — m. George' Griswold — Pedigr. Ely, Lydia — m. Matthew (112) Griswold — 80 Comstock, Sarah — m. Samuel* Hillhouse — Pedigr. Ely, Phcebe Hubbard — m. Matthew (124) Gris- wold — 109 Cook, Elizabeth — m. Benjamin* Griswold — Pedigr. Emmet, Jane— m. John Noble Alsop' Griswold — Pedigr. Cooke, Mary Augusta — m. George'' Griffin — Pedigr. Farwell, Thomas Baldwin — m. Martha Tyler' Brainerd — Pedigr. CuMMiNGS, Maria M. — m. George (57) Griswold — Pedigr. Ferris, Morris Patterson — m. Mary Lanman (154) Douw — 112 Darling, Abigail — m. Charles (23) Chauncey — Forbes, J. Murray — m. Minnie Emmet* Gris- Pedigr. wold — Pedigr. Davis, John — m. Sarah Helen* Frelinghuysen — Pedigr. Foster, Lafayette Sabin — m. Joanna Boylston (162) Lanman — 76, 112 Deforest, Pastora — m. Charles' Griffin — Pedigr. Frelinghuysen, Frederick — m. Matilda (67) & Griswold — 44 Denison, John — m. Patience (go) Griswold — 47 Frelinghuysen, Matilda Cummings* — m. Denison, Mary — m. Sylvanus* Griswold — Henry Winthrop' Gray — Pedigr. Pedigr. Fuller, Samuel — m. Charlotte Kingman (97) Denison, Robert — m. Deborah (87) Griswold — Greenleaf — 51 46 Gardiner, David Lyon — m. Sarah Gardiner Desmouoet, Marie Eugenie — m. William Au- / rf^ \ T*! w i- (186) Thompson — 118 gustus' Spencer— Pedigr. Garfield, Jane Eleanor— m. Horace Frederick** Dorr, Edmund — m. Mary (72) Griswold — 46 Wait — Pedigr. Douw, John DePeyster — m. Marianne Chand- ler (153) Lanman — 112 Gardiner, John Lyon — m. Sarah (177) Griswold — 117 Drake, Hester — m. Thomas (16) Griswold — Pedigr. Gates, Dorothy — m. Josiah* Gx\&n— P edigr . DziEMBOWSKi, Maximillian — m. Lillie' Gris- Gaylord, Abigail — m. John (10) Griswold — wold — Pedigr. Pedigr. 429 ^trffittuoltr M^tv Gaylord, Elizabeth — m. SamueP Griswold — Pedigr. Gaylord, Esther — m. Benjamin' Griswold — Pedigr. Gaylord, Mary — m. Joseph (24) Griswold — Pedigr. Gillette, Agnes — m. Charles Griswold' Boalt — Pedigr. GoDDARD, Julia— m. John Henry (161) Piatt — 112 GoDFROY, Alexandrine Louise — m. Theodore Parsons' Hall — Pedigr. Goodrich, Elizur — m. Catharine* Chauncey — Pedigr. Gray, George Winthrop — m. Maria' Griswold — Pedigr. Gray, Henry Winthrop* — m. Matilda Cum- mings' Frelinghuysen — Pedigr. Green, John G.— ra. Sarah Helen (68) Griswold —44 Greenleaf, Moses — m. Lydia (95) Parsons — 51 Griffin, Edward Dorr — m. Gertrude McCurdy (203) Lord — 121 Griffin, George — m. Eve (74) Dorr — 46 Griswold, Charles Chandler (igi) — m. Eliza- beth (59) Griswold — 42, 119 Griswold, Elizabeth (59) — m. Charles Chandler (191) Griswold — 42, iig Griswold, Elizabeth Diodate (69) — m. Wil- liam Griswold (129) Lane — 44, 109 Griswold, Frances Ann (128) — m. Ebenezer (164) Lane — log Griswold, Juliet (131) — m. Roger Wolcott(i3o) Griswold — no Griswold, Louisa Mather (64) — m. Joseph Griswold (140) Perkins — 43, no Griswold, Prudence Anna' — m. Francis Jo- seph' Ba.U— Pedigr. Griswold, Roger Wolcott (130) — in. Juliet (131) Griswold — no Grosvenor, Samuel Howe — m. Ursula Wolcott (174) Noyes — 117 and Pedigr. Guie, Marie Jeannie — m. Charles James (151) Lanman — 112 GuRLEY, Charles Artemas — m. Ellen (173) Gurley — 117 GuRLEY, Jacob Barker — m. Elizabeth (171) Griswold — 117 Hall, Francis Joseph'— m. Prudence Anna' Griswold — Pedigr. Hall, Joseph Badger — m. Juliet Elizabeth (132) Griswold — no Hall, William Brenton — m. Mehetable' Par- sons — Pedigr. Hamilton, Caroline — m. Pierre' Lorillard — Pedigr. Harris, Elizabeth (Rudd) — m. John Turner' ^xA— Pedigr. Hart, John — m. Nancy* Mather — Pedigr. Haven, Joseph Woodward — m. Cornelia W.' Griswold — Pedigr. Haven, Prudence— m. Nathaniel Lynde (56) Griswold — Pedigr. Hewitt, Nathaniel — m. Rebecca' Hillhouse — Pedigr. HiGGiNS, Rebecca — m. Richard (40) Wait — 26 Hillhouse, Cornelia Lawrence' — m. William' Hillhouse — Pedigr. Hillhouse, William — m. Sarah (102) Gris%vold —51 Hillhouse, William' — m. Cornelia Lawrence' Hillhouse — Pedigr. HoGUE, Cornelia — m. Nathaniel Lynde' Gris- wold — Pedigr. HoLCOMB, Mary — m. George (6) Griswold — Pedigr. Hollister, Edward P. — m. Agnes Wolcott' Griswold — Pedigr. Hosmer, Harriet — m. Thomas' Hillhouse — Pedigr. HosMER, Stephen Titus — m. Lucia' Parsons — 75 and Pedigr. Hubbard, Amos Hallam — m. Eliza (155) Lan- man — 112 430 ^viniiJoVti MXttv Hubbard, Gardiner Greene — m. Gertrude Mercer (197) McCurdy — 121 Hubbard, Ruth — m. Thomas' Griswold — Pedigr. Hubbard, Stephen — m. Margaret' Parsons — Pedigr. Huntington, Elizabeth Mary — m. John (187) Griswold — 119 Huntington, Susannah— m. Samuel^ Griswold — Pedigr. Hyde, Phcebe — m. Matthew (33) Griswold — 27 Irwin, Susan — m. George Griswold' Gray — Pedigr. Jewett, Nathan — m. Deborah (107) Griswold — 52 Johnson, E. W. — m. Mary Gibson' Griswold — Pedigr. Johnson, Sarah — m. John (no) Griswold — 114 Jones, Cora Livingston — m. John Lyon (179) Gardiner — 118 Jones, Patty — m. Marvin* Wait — Pedigr. JosLYN, Elizabeth— m. John Henry (135) Boalt — Pedigr. Kent, William — m. Emily' Lorillard — Pedigr. Kernochan, James P. — m. Catharine' Lorillard Kingman, Hannah — m. Simon (g6) Greenleaf — Pedigr. Kip, Lawrence — m. Eva' Lorillard — Pedigr. Kirby, E. B. — m. Caroline Lydia (84) Noyes — 46 Lane, Ebenezer — m. Marian (149) (Griswold) Chandler — 112 Lane, Ebenezer (147) — m. Frances Ann (128) Griswold — 109 Lane, William Griswold (129) — m. Elizabeth Diodate (6g) Griswold — 44, 109 Lanman, James — m. Mary Ann (150) Chandler — 76, 112 Lanman, Sarah Coit — m. Thomas Hallam (157) Hubbard — 112 Lansdale, Elizabeth — m. Augustus Henry (114) Griswold — 105 Larkin, William — m. Charlotte Young' Gris- wold — Pedigr. Lasher, Catharine — m. Nathaniel Lynde (56) Griswold — Pedigr. Latham, Abigail — m. Isaac" Griswold — Pedigr. Lathrop, Alfred — m. Margaret' (Parsons) Hub- bard — Pedigr. Lawrence, Cornelia Ann — m. James Abraham , (104) Hillhouse — Pedigr. Lay, Adeline W. — m. Walter' Chadwick — Pedigr. Lay, Lee — m. i. Louisa* Griswold, 2. Mary Lay — Pedigr. Lay, Lois — m. John Griswold* Jewett — Pedigr. Lay, Mary — m. Lee Lay — Pedigr. Learned, Charlotte — m. James Lanman (158) Hubbard — H2 Lee, Elizabeth — m. George (49) Griswold — 34 Lee, Elizabeth — m. George (50) Griswold — Pedigr. Lee, Gertrude Mercer — m. Robert Henry (194) M c C u rdy — Pedigr. Lee, Hannah — m. John (48) Griswold — 47 Lee, Jason — m. Jane" Griswold — Pedigr. Lee, Mary (DeWolf) — m. Matthew (33) Gris- wold — 33 Littleton, A. W. — m. Mary Gibson' (Griswold) Johnson — Pedigr. Lloyd, Sarah — m. James (103) Hillhouse — Pedigr. LooMis, Elizabeth — m. Francis' Griswold — Pedigr. Lord, Gertrude McCurdy — m. Edward Dorr' GrifBn — Pedigr. Lord, Joseph — m. Phcebe (77) GrifBn — 46 Lord, Josephine — m. Alexander Lynde (201) McC u rdy — Pedigr. Lord, Sarah Ann — m. Charles Johnson (192) M.cQ,\ix&j— Pedigr. Lord, Stephen Johnson — m. Sarah Ann (202) McCurdy — 121 431 LoRiLLARD, Peter — m. Catharine Ann (6i) Gris- wold — 43 Loudon, Samuel — m. Lydia (log) Griswold — 52 LovELAND, George — m. Julia Lord (85) Noyes — 46 LuDiNGTON, Charles H. — m. Josephine Lord (86) Noyes— 46 Lynde, Hannah — m. George (49) Griswold — 34 Lynde, Susannah — m. Thomas (g8) Griswold — 51 , McCuRDY, Alexander Lynde — m. Josephine (81) Lord— 46 McCuRDY, Alice Josephine — m. Mortimer Ed- gerton'" Hart — Pi'dv.;r. McCuRDY, Lynde— m. Ursula (165) Griswold — "3 McCuRDY, Richard — m. Ursula (170) Griswold — 120 McDonald, William Henry — m. Cornelia Elizabeth* 'Qo2i\i—Pcdigr. McDowell, Edward — m. Marian Griswold' Nevins — Pedigr. Marsh, Charles Mercer — m. Roberta Wolcott (200) McCurdy— 121 Marsh, Elias Joseph — m. Sarah Lord (199) Mc- Curdy — 121 Martin, Emma Warlton — m. George Griswold* Haven — Pedigr. Marvin, Elizabeth — m. Richard (40) Wait — Pedigr. Marvin, Elizabeth — m. Sylvanus (51) Griswold Pedigr. Marvin, Mary — ra. Samuel (52) Griswold — Pedigr. Marvin, Sarah — m. George* Dorr — Pedigr. Mason, Elizabeth — m. John' Hillhouse — Pedigr. Mather, Catharine Frances — m. Charles Learned (159) Hubbard — Pedigr. Mather, Frances Augusta — m. Richard Sill (63) Griswold — 43 Mather, Harriet Caroline — m. John William (167) Allen — Pedigr. Mather, Louisa Griswold — m. Richard Sill (63) Griswold — Pedigr. Mather, Mehetable — m. Samuel Holden (94) Parsons — Pedigr. Mather, Samuel — m. Lois (gg) Griswold — 51 Mather, Sylvester — m. Elizabeth'' Wait — Pedigr. Matson, Susanna — m. Remick (41) Wait — 26 Merrow, George W. — m. Elizabeth (172) Gur- ley — 117 and Pedigr. Moore, Chloe — m. Abie! (12) Griswold — Pedigr. MoRLEY, David — m. Hannah* Griswold — Pedigr. MoRLEY, Eva — m. Charles Henry (121) Griswold — 106 Morris, James — m. Elizabeth Woodhull' Gray — Pedigr. Moss, Charles H. — m. Elizabeth Griswold' Lane — Pedigr. Moss, Jay Osborne — m. Frances Griswold Lane (136) Boalt — no Neilson, Ann Augusta — m. George' Griffin — Pedigr. Nevins, David Hubbard — m. Cornelia Leonard (138) Perkins — no Noyes, Daniel R. — m. Phcebe (78) Lord — 46 Noyes, Ellen — m. Daniel* Chadwick — Pedigr. Noyes, Joseph — m. Sarah Griswold (175) Gurley —117 Noyes, Richard — m. Catharine DeWolf Chad- wick — Pedigr. Noyes, Sarah — m. William Frederick (143) Gris- wold— in Olmstead, Augustus — m. Phoebe' Griffin — Pedigr. Olmstead, Sarah Lucy — m. Matthew (125) Griswold — Pedigr. Palmer, Fanny (Arnot) — m. George Griswold' Haven — Pedigr. Parsons, Jonathan — m. Phoebe (93) Griswold — 49 Patrick, Mary Louise — m. 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Elijah* Backus — Pedigr. Turner,. Nancy — m. Marvin* Wait — Pedigr. TuRRiLL, Joel — m. Mary Sullivan' Hubbard — Pedigr. Tyler, John Alexander — m. Sarah Griswold' Gardiner — Pedigr. Ulhorn, Fanny A. — m. Jacob' Lorillard — Pedigr. Van Rensselaer, Schuyler — m. Marianna' Griswold — Pedigr. Viets, Eunice — m. Elisha* Griswold — Pedigr. Wait, Richard — m. Lucy* Griswold — Pedigr. Wait, Thomas — ra. Mary (39) Brownson — 26 Waite, Edward T. — m. Anna Chadwick' Brain- erd — Pedigr. Warner, Amelia Champlin — m. Morrison Reraick (43) Waite — Pedigr. Warner, William H. — m. Maria Matilda" Gris- wol d — Pedigr. Warner, Wyllys — m. Elizabeth' Hart — Pedigr. Webb, Hannah ( — ), — m. Sylvanus* Griswold — Pedigr. Wells, Julia A.— m. Roger (115) Griswold— 105 White, Bushnell— m. Elizabeth Brainerd (189) Clark — 119 Whittlesey, William — m. Louise Ely' Hart — Pedigr. Wilkinson, Harriet — m. Israel' Champion — Pedigr. Wilson, Louisa — m. John (187) Griswold— iig Wolcott, Anna — m. Matthew (2) Griswold — 13 Wolcott, Mary — m. Elihu (27) Griswold — 12, 13 Wolcott, Ursula — m. Matthew (92) Griswold — 52, 73—80 Woodbridge, Dudley — m. Lucy* Backus — Pedigr. Woodbridge, Juliana T. — m. Henry Tytus' Backus — Pedigr. Woodhull, Elizabeth — m. George (57) Gris- wold — Pedigr. WooLSEY, Rebecca — m. James (103) Hillhouse — Pedigr. Wooster, Charlotte Elizabeth — m. Frederick Harper' Boalt — Pedigr. Young, Charlotte — m. Matthew' Griswold — Pedig7 . 434 ge^jcrlf %n&c^ pp. 123-165 I— BY MALE DESCENT Aaron' — Pedigr. Andrew' — Pedigr. Abby' dau. of Levi — Pedigr. Andrew Curry' — Pedigr. Abby' dau. of William — Pedigr. Ann' — Pedigr. Abby' — m. Gibson — (153), 153 Ann Eliza' — m. Harrington — Pedigr. Abby Bradford* — m. Guild — Pedigr. Anna' — Pedigr. Abby Kane^ — m. Bartlette — Pedigr. Anna' — m. liie.^e,-[— Pedigr. Abdi' (or Abda) Dolph — m. Coleman — Pedigr. Anna Cecilia' — m. Swett — (154), 153 Abel' — m. , — Pedigr. Anna Elizabeth'— m. Middleton— (150), 152 Abigail' — (122), 149 Anna Maria' — Pedigr. Abigail' — m. i. Howe, Anna Spaulding' dau. of Calvin — Pedigr. 2. Ingraham — (124), 149-50 Anna Spaulding' dau. of James — Pedigr. Abigail' — m. Bradford — (134), 150 Anne Ratchford' — m. i. Woodward, Abner Ames' — Pedigr. 2. Randall— (60), 142 Achsah' — Pedigr. Annie WkyiVi''— Pedigr. Ada Isabella' Dolph — Pedigr. Apphia' Dolph — Pedigr. Al.BEV.T^~Pedigr. Augusta A.' — Pedigr. Albert' — Pedigr. Austin' — m. Oviatt — (178), i6i and Pedigr. Alexander Viets Griswold' — (152), 153 A ZUB ah' — Pedigr. Algernon Sidney' — m. Diman — (147), 151 and Azubah' — Pedigr. Pedigr. Balthasar' — m, Alice , — (i), 126-33 Alice' — Pedigr. Barney Adams' — Pedigr. Allen Munro' — Pedigr. Benjamin' — m. Douglass — (10), 133 Almon' — m. Newton — (181), 161 Benjamin-' — m. Margaret , — Pedigr. Amanda' Dolph — Pedigr. Benjamin'' — m. C\\2.-n\-p\on— Pedigr. AmASa' — Pedigr. Benjamin' son of Edward — Pedigr. Amasa' — m. Robinson — 160 and Pedigr. Benjamin' son of Elijah — Pedigr. Amelia' — m. Sparr — Pedigr. Benjamin' — m. Otis — (26), 139-41 Amelia' — Pedigr. Benjamin' — m. Rockwell — Pedigr. 435 mt wioif Mxitv Benjamin'' — Pedigr. Charles U.^— Pedigr. Benjamin^ — Pedigr. Charles Harding' — Pedigr. Benjamin Otis«— m. i. Marsters, Charles Henry' — Pedigr. 2. Lusby — Pedigr. Charles Thomas' — Pedigr. Benjamin V.' Dolph — Pedigr. Charles W.' — m. , — Pedigr. Bertha Mar' Dolph — Pedigr. Charles William' — Pedigr. Betsey^ — Pedigr. Charlotte' — m. i. Brown, Betsey''— Pedigr. 2. Vanderpoel — (93), 146 Betsey* — Pedigr. Charlotte' dau. of Colin— Pedigr. Betsey Northrup' — m. Bda-aes— Pedigr. Charlotte' dau. of John "B.— Pedigr. Byron Diman' — Pedigr. Charlotte' dau. of William — Pedigr. Calvin'— m. Kimball— (175), 159-60 and Pedigr. Chester' Ttoi^vn—Pedigr. Caroline' — m. i. Robinson, Chester Valentine' Dolph — m. Steele — Pedigr. 2. Foster — Pedigr. Claka^— Pedigr. Caroline Amelia*— m. i. Crane, Clarissa' — Pedigr. 2. Hills— (78), 143 C athari ke'— Pedigr. Clement'— m, Kasson — i6o and Pedigr. Clement' — m. Beecher — Pedigr. Catharine H.' — m. Dodge — (162), 154 Catharine Ketura* — m. Randolph— /'^a';;^'?-. Colin' — m. Neary — Pedigr. Colin' son of Colin — Pedigr. Charles'— m. Prudence , — Pedigr. Charles' — Pedigr. Colin' son of Simeon — Pedigr. Cyrus' Dolph — Pedigr. Charles* — m. Potter — (114), 148 Charles' — m. i. Harding, Cyrus A.' Dolph — m. Elise , — Pedigr. 2. Miner — Pedigr. Daniel' — m. Marvin — (14), 134 Charles"— m. McDonald— /'^a'^Vr. Daniel"— m. Lee— (17), 134 Charles'- m. i. Ta3'lor, D A ni el' — Pedigr. 2. Rogerson, Daniel' — m. Andrus — Pedigr. 3. Greene — (iig), 149, 150 Daniel' — m. Fowler— (ig), 134 and Pedigr. Charles" — m. Walbridge — 163 and Pedigr. Daniel' — m. Harris — (88), 146 Charles' son of Charles — Pedigr. Daniel' son of Daniel — Pedigr. Charles' son of Colin — Pedigr. Daniel' son of EMsha— Pedigr. Charles' son of Simeon — Pedigr. Daniel' son of John — Pedigr. Charles' — m. Goodwin — (136), 150 Daniel' son of Samuel — Pedigr. / Charles' son of Amasa — Pedigr. Daniel' — m. Hills — 163 and Pedigr. Charles' son of Charles W. — Pedigr. Daniel Fowler' — (186), 162 and Pedigr. Charles'— m. Taylor — Pedigr. Daniel French' — m. Witridge — Pedigr. Charles Edward Bartlette' — Pedigr. Daniel Myner' — Pedigr. Charles Frederic' — (76), 143 YiA^m''— Pedigr. 436 mtwioitmntv David Osborne'— (185), 162 and Pedigr. Eliza' — m. Wren — Pedigr. Deborah^— m. Yi\i^\\^y— Pedigr. Eliza Ann*— m. Stone — Pedigr. Delos''— m. Mott— (169), 158 and Pedigr. Eliza Anne*— (73), 143 Delos' — Pedigr. Eliza Viets*— m. Andrews — (145), 151 Desiah' — (65), 142 Elizabeth' — Pedigr. DeWitt Clinton' — Pedigr. ElizabethI — Pedigr. Ebenezer Harding* — m. Lovett — Pedigr. Elizabeth* — m. Tucker — Pedigr. Edward' — m. Rebecca , — (2), 127, 130-31 Elizabeth'^ — m. hndtevis— Pedigr. 'E.Vi^KH.-o'^— Pedigr. Elizabeth" dau. of Jehiel — Pedigr. Edward' — (9), 131 Elizabeth' dau. of John — Pedigr. Edward* — Pedigr. Elizabeth" dau. of Matthew — Pedigr. Edward"" — m. Ely — Pedigr. Elizabeth" — m. Shaw — Pedigr. Edward=^ son of Y.i.vi2,x&— Pedigr. Elizabeth' — Pedigr. Edward' son of Matthew — Pedigr. Ellen'— /'t'rt'zfr. Edward" — m. , — (29), 139 Ellen' — m. Ketchum — Pedigr. Edward" — m. Latimer — 163 and Pedigr. Ellen'— m. Axchex—Pedigr. Edward' son of Edward— /'ca'z;^r. Ellen'— m. BeW— Pedigr. Edward' son of John B. — Pedigr. Ellen Maud' — (80), 144 Edward Austin' — Pedigr. Emily" — Pedigr. Edwin' — Pedigr. Emily' dau. of Benjamin — Pedigr. Edwin'— (68), 143 Emily' dau. of John B. — Pedigr. Edwin' — Pedigr. Ephraim' — m. Wood — Pedigr. Eleanor'— Pedigr. Erastus' — m. Pearse — (183), 162 and Pedigr. ' Eli W.^— Pedigr. Esther*— m. Wheeler — Pedigr. Elias'— (18), 134 Esther'^ — Pedigr. Elijah*" — m. Wilcox — Pedigr. Esther" — Pedigr. Elijah' — Pedigr. Esther" — m. i. Rice, Elisha" — m. More (or Moore) — (179), 161 and 2. Goodenough — Pedigr. Pedigr. Esther Prudence" — Pedigr. Elisha"— m. Allis— Pedigr. Eunice* dau. of Edward — Pedigr. ' Elisha" — m. Ratchford — (27) and (31), 139, 142-43, Eunice' dau. of Jabez — Pedigr. 147-48 Elisha' — (63), 142 Eunice' — m. Forsyth — (90), 146 Eunice Ann' — Pedigr. Elisha' — m. Allen — 160 and Pedigr. Evelyn McC.''— Pedigr. Elisha Ratchford" — (77), 143 ^zkkikV— Pedigr. ElAZA''— Pedigr. EZRA^— Pedigr. Eliza'— m. Vernon— (139), 150 Fanny" — Pedigr. 437 mtwiou mxKv Fanny' — Pedigr. Fanny Woodbury' — m. Brink — Pedigr. Fitz-Henry' — Pedigr. Fitz-Henry' 2d — (151), 153 Florence Griswold' — Pedigr. Frances Amelia' — Pedigr. Frances LeBaron' — Pedigr. Frances Mary* — (41), 140 Francis LeBaron' — m. Post — (158), 153 Frank S.' — Pedigr. Frederic' — Pedigr. Frederic Augustus' — (67), 143 Freeisorn' Dolph — Pedigr. George* Dolph — Pedigr. George' son of James — Pedigr. George' son of James Isaac — Pedigr. George' — m. Goodwin — (135), 150 George Almon' — Pedigr. George Henry' — Pedigr. George Henry Horsfall' — (81), 144 George P.' — (191), 163 George Samuel' — Pedigr. George Walbridge" — Pedigr. George Winthrop* — m. Champion — (22), 135 and Pedigr. Gideon* — Pedigr. Giles Meigs' — m. Spaulding — Pedigr. Giles ^.'^— Pedigr. Grace Giddings' — Pedigr. Gurdon* — (33), 140 Gurdon' — m. , — Pedigr. H alsey' — Pedigr. Hannah' — Pedigr. Hannah'' — Pedigr. Hannah* — m. Bartlett — (94), 146 Hardin g' — Pedigr. Harriet' — Pedigr. Harriet'— m. Hall— (161), 153 Harriet Prescott' — m. Aspinwall — (165), 154 and Pedigr. Harriot Sophia' — m. King — (43), 140 Harvey* — m. Woolsey — Pedigr. Harvey' — Pedigr. Hattie' — Pedigr. Helen May' — Pedigr. Henrietta Elizabeth' — Pedigr. Henry* — Pedigr. Henry'— m. Marston— (148), 152 Henry Champion* — Pedigr. Henry Dabney' — Pedigr. Henry Farish' — Pedigr. Henry Farish' 2d — Pedigr. Henry Huntington' — m. i. French, 2. Keep — (187), 163 and Pedigr. Henry Perkins' — Pedigr. Hepzieah Champion' — m. Champion — Pedigr. H ESTER'' — Pedigr. Homer Bingham' — (174), 159 and Pedigr. Horatio' — m. Palmer — Pedigr. Isabella Amelia* — m. McKay — (42), 140 Israel' — m. Dodge — Pedigr. Israel Harding' — Pedigr. Jabez' — Pedigr. Jabez''— m. Calkins — Pedigr. Jaf.ez* — m. I. Adams, 2. (Fairchild) Stoker — (171), 158 and Pedigr. James' — m. i. Calkin, 2. Lawrence, 3. Parker — Pedigr. James* son of James — Pedigr. James* son of Matthew — Pedigr. James' — m. Bradford — (130), 150, 153, 155 438 wt wioit mntv James* — m. i. Morris, John"' — m. , — Pedigt. 2. Mitchel—P edig-r. John' — Pedigr. James' son of Benjamin — Pedigr. John' — m. i. Hatch, James' son of Benjamin Otis — Pedigr. 2. Graham — Pedigr. James' son of Colin — Pedigr. John' — m. Wright — Pedigr. James' son of James — Pedigr. John' — Pedigr. James' son of John B.— Pedigr. John' — (39), 140 James' — m. Ames — Pedigr. John' — m. i. Amsden, James' — m. Post — (156), 153 2. , 3. ( — ) Graves — Pedigr. James' — Pedigr. John' — m. Megs — Pedigr. James^— m. Horton — (177), 160-61 and Pedigr. John' — m. Reynolds — (127), 150, 151 James'— (192), 163 John' son of Benjamin — Pedigr. James Andrews" — Pedigr. J ^ John' son of John B. — Pedigr. James Boyd' — Pedigr. John' son of Simeon — Pedigr. James E.'— (189), 163 John' — m. i. James, James Edward' — Pedigr. 2. Griswold — (143), 151-52, 154-55 James F.« — m. Dabney — Pedigr. John' — m. Melville — (167), 155-57 James V.^— Pedigr. John'— (146), 151, 154 . James Isaac' — m. Fitch — Pedigr. John Anderson* — m. i. Rowland, James Israel' — Pedigr. 2. Pratt — (20), 135 and Pedigr. James Otis' — Pedigr. John B.' — m. Rudolph — Pedigr. James Ratchford'— (57), 142 John Clark* — (74), 143 James Ratchford' — m. Sandifer — (66), 143, 144- 45, 147, 164 John F.' — (190), 163 James Yeaton'— m. Owen — Pedigr. John Horton' — Pedigr. Jane' — m. Bohnan — Pedigr. John James" — m. Winthrop — (144), 151 Pedigr. and Jason' — Pedigr. John Langsdorf* — (168), 156 Jehiel^^ — Pedigr. John Lawrence' — Pedigr. Jehiel* 2d— m. Cobb— (25), 137, 145 John M.* — Pedigr. Jehiel'— m. I. Martin, 2. Witter— (85), 145-46 John M.* Dolfh — m. Van Etten — Pedigr. Jeremiah E.' — m. Haines — (22'^), 135 2SiA Pedigr. John Oviatt" — Pedigr. Jeremiah Winthroi^' — m. Chadwick — Pedigr. Jonathan'— (35), 140 Jerusha' — m. Martin — (89), 146 Joseph' — m. , — Pedigr. Joel' — m. Batcheler — Pedigr. Joseph'' — m. , — Pedigr. JoHN^- (15), 134 Joseph' — m. Berry — Pedigr. John* — Pedigr. Joseph' Dolph — m. Norton — Pedigr. 439 mtwioifmntv Joseph' — m. Gibbons — Pedigr. Lucy* — m. Phelps — Pedigr. Joseph" — Pedizr. Lucy* — m. '^fteA— Pedigr. Joseph Norton' Dolph — m. Mulkey — Pedigr. Lucy Ann' — m. Eaton— Pedigr. Josephine Maria' — m. Lovett — (i66), 154 Luther' — Pedigr. Josiah' — Pedigr. Lydia' — m. I. Starr, JosiAH" — m. I. Waterman, 2. (Comstock) Lord — (13), 133-34 2. Peck, 3. Stevens — (gr), 146 JosiAH'' son of Simon — Pedigr. Lydia" Dolph — Pedigr. JosiAH* son of Stephen — Pedigr. Lydia'— m. I. Allison, 2. Seaman — Pedigr. JosiAH'* — m. Ely — (16), 134 Lydia«— m. Atwood— (128), 150 JosiAH* — Pedigr. Lydia" — m. ha.y— Pedigr. JUDITPI* — m. Carter — Pedigr. Lydia Ann' — Pedigr. Juliana* — m. Cutting — Pedigr. Lydia Kirtland' — (53), 142 Lafayette' — Pedigr. 'LYUKfi'^— Pedigr. Lavinia' — Pedigr. Lyman E.' — Pedigr. Lawrence H.' — m. Boswell — Pedigr. Lyntha' — Pedigr. Leonora' — m. Northrup— i'ct^r. Lyntha Elvira' — m. Root — Pedigr. . Levi* — m. Smith — (131), 150 Manasseh' — Pedigr. Lewis^ — m. , — Pedigr. Margaret' — m. i. Witter, Lewi s"* — Pedigr. 2. Brown — (86), 145 Lewis' — Pedigr. Margaret' — Pedigr. Lewis' — Pedigr. Margaret' — m. Dimond— (121), 149 Lewis Francis' — Pedigr. Margaret' dau. of Charles — Pedigr. Lewis Henry' — Pedigr. Margaret' dau. of James — Pedigr. Loran* — (30), 139 Margaret'— m. Hamilton — Pedigr. Lorin' — Pedigr. Margaret' — m. Williams — Pedigr. Louisa' — m. Moore — Pedigr. Lucia Emilia'— m. Brownell— (138), 150 Margaret Maria' — m. i. Calkin, . 2. Starr — (62), 142 Margaret Maria' — m. Smith — (71), 143 Lucilla" — m. Harris — (28), 139 Maria' — Pedigr. Lucilla' — Pedigr. Maria' — Pedigr. Lucilla' — Pedigr. Maria' — m. Rogers — Pedigr. Lucretia" dau. of Ephraim — Pedif^r. Maria Grisvitold' — Pedigr. Lucretia" dau. of Simon — Pedigr. Mark Anthony' — m. Potter — (118), 149 Lucy' — Pedigr. Mark Anthony' — Pedigr. Lucy' — m. Wilson — Pedigr. Mark Anthony' — m. Martin — (120), 149 Lucy' — m. Allis — Pedigr. Mark Anthony' — m. Chappotin — (159), i 53 440 mtwimmtftv Mark Anthony*— m. Clap— 163 and Pedigr. Matthew*— m. (?) Patience , — Pedigr. M.A-R.Tllk^—Pedigr. Matthew' — m. i. Baker, Martha" — Pedigr. 2. Burchard — Pedigr. Martha' — Pedigr. Matthew" — m. Highly — Pedigr. Martha' T)oi.vr— Pedigr. Matthew* — Pedigr. Martha' — m. Warren — (133), 150 Nancy" — (126), 150 Martha* — Pedigr. Nancy" — m. Eaton — Pedigr. Martha Greene' — m. Hazard — Pedigr. Nancy' — (59), 142 Martha Noble"- m. Pingree (or Pengree) — Pedigr. Nancy' — m. Fisher — Pedigr. Nancy* — m. Downing — Pedigr. Mary' — m. i. Lee, 2. Griswold — (5), 127, 133 Mary* — Pedigr. Nancy Allison* — (75), 143 Nancy Bradford' — m. Homer — (163), 154 Nathan" — m. i. Kirtland, Mary* dau. of James — Pedigr. 2. (Prentis) Witter — (24), 137-40, Mary' dau. of Simon — Pedigr. 148, 161 Mary' — m. Dana — Pedigr. Nathan" — (32), 139 Mary''— Pedigr. Oliver" — m. Bishop — (87), 145 Mary' Dolph — Pedigr. Olivia' — m. Barss— (55), 142 Mary'— (132), 150 Orin" — Pedigr. Mary' — m. Haines — Pedigr. Orpha' Dolph — Pedigr. Mary* dau. of Samuel Allen — Pedigr. Orson' Dolph — Pedigr. Mary* dau. of Vfyllys— Pedigr. Oscar Coleman' — (173), 159, 162 and Pedigr. Mary Ann* — Pedigr. Ovid' Dolph — Pedigr. Mary Ann' — m. i. Perry, Parnell" — m. Allison — Pedigr. 2. Sumner— (157), 153 Parnell' — Pedigr. Mary Anne" — Pedigr. Patience" — Pedig r. Mary Chadwick* — m. Swaney — Pedigr. Peter" — Pedigr. Mary E' — m. Strong — Pedigr. Peter' — Pedigr. Mary Eliza' — Pedigr. Philo* — Pedigr. Mary Elizabeth* — m. Chipman— (113), 148 Phcebe' — Pedigr. Mary Frances' — m. Kellogg — Pedigr. Phcebe* — m. Mather — (ii), 133 Mary Louisa* — Pedigr. Phcebe* — Pedigr. Mary Lucilla' — (64), 142 Phcebe* 2d — Pedigr. Mary Sophia* — m. Smith — (70), 143 Mary Sophia Ratchford' — m. Harrington — (82), 144 Phgebe" — m. Cadman — Pedigr. Phcebe" — m. Comstock — (84), 145 Phcebe' — m. Webster — Pedigr. Mary Taylor* — Pedigr. Polly" — Pedigr. 441 Polly' — m. Stearns—Pedigr. Prudence'' — Pedigr. Prudence' Dolph — Pedigr. Prudence* — (ii6), 149 Prudence' — Pedigr. Prudence* — m. Jayne — Pedigr. Rachel' — m. Strong — Pedigr. Rachel Hersey' — (37), 140 Rachel Otis' — m. Fraser — (38), 140-41, 148 Rebecca' — Pedigr. Rebecca Eliza' — Pedigr. Rebecca Maria' — m. Eaton — Pedigr. Rebekah^ — Pedigr. Robinson^ — (193), 163 Roger Williams' — m. Smith — (21), 135 and Pedigr. Rosalie G.' Dolph — m. Ross — Pedigr. RuFUs' — m. Bishop — Pedigr. RuFUS' — Pedigr. Russell' — Pedigr. Ruth' Dolph — Pedigr. Sabra' — m. Taylor — Pedigr. Sabra' — m. Durkee — Pedigr. Samuel' son of Josiah — Pedigr. Samuel' son of Matthew — Pedigr. Samuel' — m. Keeny — (170), 158 and Pedigr. Samuel' son of Mark Anthony — Pedigr. Samuel' son of Samuel — Pedigr. Samuel' — (125), 150 Samuel' — Pedigr. Samuel* — Pedigr. Samuel h?— Pedigr. Samuel Allen' — m. Durkee — Pedigr. Samuel Chesley' — Pedigr. Samuel Isaac' — Pedigr. Sarah' — Pedigr. Sarah' — (117), 149 Sarah'— m. Augur — Pedigr. Sarah' dau. of Simon — Pedigr. Sarah' dau. of Stephen — Pedigr. Sarah' — m. i. Perkins, 2. Farnsworth — (34), 140 Sarah' — Pedigr. Sarah A.' — m. Gamwell — Pedigr. Sarah Elizabeth'— /'(?^), 128 Champion, Henry^ — Pedigr. Champion, Joshua^ — Pedigr. Champion, Samuel' — Pedigr. Chipman, Alice Starr' — m. Tilley — (iii), 148 Chipman, Laura' — m. Rowland — Pedigr. Colt, LeBaron Bradford' — (141), 151 and Pedigr. Colt, Samuel Pomeroy' — m. Bullock— (142) 151 and Pedigr. Dana, Abby Geeen' — Pedigr. Dana, Charles Field' — Pedigr. Dana, Jane Talman^ — Pedigr. Dana, John James* — Pedigr. Dana, Kate Salome' — Pedigr. Dana, Lucy Maria' — Pedigr. Dana, Mary Matilda' — Pedigr. Dana, William DeWolf' — m. Green — Pedigr. Eaton, Anna' — Pedigr. Eaton, Anna Morton' — m. Leighton — (106), 147 Eaton, Arthur Wentworth Hamilton' — (104), 147 Eaton, Clement B.' — Pedigr. Eaton, Eliza Jane' — Pedigr. Eaton, Emily Maria Hamilton' — (iio), 147 Eaton, Frank Herbert'— (105), 147 Eaton, George William' — Pedigr. Eaton, Harry Havelock' — (108), 147 Eaton, Joseph Henry' — Pedigr. Eaton, Leonard' — Pedigr. Eaton, Leslie Seymour' — (log), 147 Eaton, Rufus William' — (107), 147 Eaton, Susannah' — Pedigr. Fraser, Amelia Isabella' — (48), 141 Fraser, Benjamin DeWolf' — (50), 141 Eraser, Catharine' — m. Suther — (51), 141 Fraser, Frances Mary' — (49), 141 Eraser, Harriet Amelia' — m. Dixon — (47), 141 Eraser, James DeWolf' — m, Prescott — (46), 141 Eraser, Mary Hulbert' — (52), 141 Fraser, Sarah Rachel' — m. Gore— (44), 141 Gore, Adelaide' — m. Kirk — Pedigr. Gore, Charles Clifford' — Pedigr. Gore, Eliza Amelia' — m. William Henry Hay, Earl of Erroll — (45), 141, 148 and Pedigr. Gore, Frederic C — m. Ticherley — Pedigr. Gore, James' — m. Bazalgette — Pedigr. Griswold, Matthew^ — (7), 127 Hamilton, Anna Augusta Willoughby' — m. Eaton— (103), 147 Hamilton, Henry Starr' — (99), 146 Hamilton, Josephine Collins' — m. I. Eaton, 2. Hamilton — (102), 147 Hamilton, Margaret Maria' — m. Harris — (100), 146 Hamilton, Minetta Bath' — (98), 146 444 mtwioitMntv Hamilton, Otho'' — (loi), 147 King, William' — Pedigr. Hamilton, Susan Eliza' — (97), 146 Lee, Hannah^ — m. Griswold— (6), 127 Hare, HobArt Amory" — Pedigr. Pingree (or Pengree), Charles DeWolf' — Harrington, Eliza Caroline' — m. Wadsworth —(92), 146 Pedigr. Pingree, Delia Lydia' — Pedigr. Howe, Alfred Leighton' — Pedigr. Pingree, Elizabeth' — Pedigr. Howe, Arthur' — m. Denckler— /'I'a'zfr. Pingree, Ellen Lavina' — Pedigr. Howe, Edith'" — Pedigr. Pingree, Frederick Judson' — Pedigr. Howe, Elizabeth Amanda'" — Pedigr. Pingree, Henrietta' — Pedigr. Howe, Elizabeth Marshall' — m. Allen — Pedigr. Howe, Frank Perley' — m. Woodward — Pedigr. Howe, Gy.kq.y>'>— Pedigr. Pingree, Laliah Burpee'— /'t'rfz^fr. Pingree, William John' — Pedigr. Seaman (or Allison), Amelia' — Pedigr. Howe, Herbert Marshall*— m. Fell — Pedigr. Seaman (or Allison), Nancy' — Pedigr. Howe, John' — m. Smith — Pedigr. Starr, Henry* — (96), 146 Howe, John Fell'" — Pedigr. Starr, Maria* — m. Hamilton — (95), 146 Howe, Mark Anthony' — Pedigr. Strong, Charles William' — Pedigr. Howe, Mark Anthony DeWolf' — Strong, David Eaton' — Pedigr. m. I. Amory, 2. Marshall, 3. Whitney — Pedigr. Strong, Edward' — Pedigr. Strong, Hannah' — Pedigr. Howe, Mary Amory' — in. Hare — Pedigr. Strong, James DeWolf' — Pedigr. Howe, Mary Herbert" — Pedigr. Strong, Lydia' — Pedigr. Howe, Reginald Heber' — m. Adams — Pedigr. Strong, Mary Ann' — Pedigr. Howe, Reginald Heber'" — Pedigr. Strong, Rachel' — Pedigr. Howe, Rkotia^''— Pedigr. Howe, Sarah Bigelow'" — Pedigr. Howe, Wallis Eastburn' — Pedigr. King, Benjamin' — Pedigr. King, Yi.ASX^''— Pedigr. Strong, Stephen' — Pedigr. Strong, Susan' — Pedigr. Thomas, Charles Wentworth' — Pedigr. Thomas, Sarah Rachel' — Pedigr. King, John Otis' — Pedigr. Vernon, Eliza DeWolf* — m. Thayer— /"^o'if?-. 445 "Bt wiou mxftv 3— BY MARRIAGE , Alice— m. Balthasar (i) DeWoIf— 127-29 Andrus, Mary — m. Daniel' DeWolf — Pedigr. , Elise— m. Cyrus A.^ 'Doli—Pedigr. Archer, Archibald — m. Ellen' DeWolf — , Hannah — m. Stephen- DeWolf — Pedigr. Pedigr. , Hannah— m, Stephen (4) DeWolf— 131 , Margaret — m. Benjamin* V)€^o\i— Pedigr. , Martha — m. i. Simon^ DeWolf, 2. Nathaniel (or Nathan) Clark —Pedigr. Arnold, Margaret Padelford — m. William Frederick (149) DeWolf — 153 Aspinwall, Lloyd — m. Harriet Prescott (165) DeWolf — 154 and Pedigr. Atwood, , — m. Lydia (128) DeWolf — 150 , Patience — m. (?) Matthew" DeWolf — Augur, George — m. Sarah' DeWolf — Pedigr. Pedigr. , Prudence — m. Charles' DeWolf — Pedigr. Bachelder (or Batcheller), Lydia — m. Simon (180) Oe^oM— Pedigr. , Rebecca — m. Edward (2) DeWolf — 130-31 Baker, Eunice— m. Matthew' DeWolf — Pedigr. Adams, Ellis (or Alice) — m. Jabez (171) T)e,- Wo\i-~Pedigr. Barnes, John — m. Betsey Northrup' DeWolf — Pedigr. Adams, Susan — m. Reginald Heber' Howe — Barss, Joseph — m. Olivia (55) DeWolf — 142 Pedigr. Alleine, , — m. Simeon'' He^ffoU^Pedigr. Bartlett, Jonathan — m. Hannah (94) DeWolf — 146 Allen, Clarissa— m. Simeon' DeWolf — Pedigr. Bartlette, Enoch — m. Abby Kane" DeWolf — Allen, George Pomeroy — m. Elizabeth Mar- Pedigr. shall' Howe — Pedigr. Batchelek, Polly— m. Joel" DeVioM— Pedigr. Allen, Lucy — m. Elisha'' DeWolf — Pedigr. Allis, Eunice — m. Elisha" DeWolf — Pedigr. Allis, John B. — m. Lucy" DeWolf — Pedigr. Bazalgette, , — m. James' Gore — Pedigr. Beckwith, Abel— m. Lucy (Calkins) DeWolf— Pedigr. Allison, Joselh — m. Lydia" DeWolf — Pedigr. Beckwith, Aeigail^ — m. Stephen (182) DeWolf Allison, Joseph — m. Parnell" DeWolf — Pedigr. —Pedigr. Ames, Naomi — m. James' DeWolf — Pedigr. Amory, Julia Bowen — m. Mark Anthony DeWolf* Howe— Pedigr. Beeciier, Frances C— m. Clement' DeWolf— Pedigr. Bell, Robert B.— m. Ellen' T)fi\i oli- Pedigr. Amsden, Mary — m. John'' DeWolf — Pedigr. Anderson, Hepzibah — m. Winthrop Jeremiah'' Benham, CorreliA— m. Thaddeus Kingsley (172) DeWoM— Pedigr. T)e\No\i— Pedigr. Berry, Mary H.— m. Joseph" Dii^oM— Pedigr. Anderson, Thodey— m. Stephen (182) DeWolf — Pedigr. Andrews, Robert Shaw — m. Eliza Viets (145) DeWolf— 151 Bishop, Amy— m. Oliver (87) DeWolf— 145 Bishop, Mary Ann— ra. Rufus" V)€^ o\i— Pedigr. BoiiNAN, Tracy — m. Jane' DtV^ o\i— Pedigr. Andrews, William — m. Elizabeth'' DeWolf — Pedigr. Boswell, Jane — m. Lawrence H.» DeWolf — Pedigr. 446 mt WLoif unntv Bradford, Ann (or Nancy) Bowman — m. James Chipman, Zachariaii — m. Mary Elizabeth (113) (130) DeWolf— 150 DeWolf— 148 Bradford, Hersey— m. Abigail (134) DeWolf— Clap, Achsa — m. Mark Anthony* DeWolf — 150 Pedigr. Brewer, Charles D. — m. Anna* DeWolf — Clark, Nathaniel (or Nathan) — m. Martha Pedigr. (— ) De'SNoU— Pedigr. Brink, David— m. Fanny Woodbury' DeWolf — Cobb, Phcebe — m. Jehiel (25) DeWolf — 145 Pedigr. Coleman, Mary — m. Abdi' T)o\';}h.— Pedigr. Brown, , — m. Charlotte (93) DeWolf — Pedigr. Colt, Christopher — m. Theodora* DeWolf — Brown, James — m. Margaret (86) (DeWolf) Witter Pedigr. —145 Colt, Samuel Pomeroy (142) — m. Elizabeth Brown, Waity— m. Wyllys' Xi^^oM— Pedigr. Mitchelson' Bullock — Pedigr. Brownell, Pardon— m. Lucia Emilia (138) De- COMSTOCK, EzEKlEL — m. Phcebe (84) DeWolf — Wolf— 150 145 Bullock, Elizabeth Mitchelson' — m. Samuel Pomeroy (142) Colt — Pedigr. Crane, T. Aubrey — m. Caroline Amelia (78) DeWolf— 143 Bullock, J. Russell — m. Susan Amelia* DeWolf —Pedigr. Cutting, Robert L. — m. Juliana* DeWolf — Pedigr. Burchard, Elizabeth — m. Matthew^ DeWolf — Dabney, Ellen — m. James F.* DeWolf — Pedigr. Pedigr. Dana, Josiah — m. Mary" DeWolf — Pedigr. Cadman, John — m. Phoebe*^ DeWolf — Pedigr. Denckler, Mary Williamson — m. Arthur' Calkin, James — m. Margaret Maria (62) DeWolf Howe — Pedigr. —142 Diman, Clara Anna — m. Algernon Sidney (147) Calkin, Keturah — m. James' DeWolf — Pedigr. De^oU— Pedigr. Calkins, Eunice — m. Jabez"* DeWolf — Pedigr. Dimond, Royal — m. Margaret (i2i) DeWolf — Calkins, Lucy (or Lucia) — 149 m. I. Simon (12) DeWolf, Dixon, Col. , — m. Harriet Amelia (47) Era- 2. Abel Beckwith — 133 and Pedigr. ser — 141 Carter, , — m. Judith'' Xi€^o\i— Pedigr. Dodge, Eunice — m, Israel* DeWolf — Pedigr. Chadwick, Mary — m. Jeremiah Winthrop* V)Q- Dodge, Joshua— m. Catharine H. (162) DeWolf WoM— Pedigr. —154 Champion, Henry — m. Susannah (8) DeWolf — Douglas (?), Elizabeth — m. Stephen'' DeWolf — 128 Pedigr. Champion, Henry A.— m. Hepzibah Champion* Douglass, Susannah — m. Benjamin (10) DeWolf V>eVlo\l— Pedigr. —133 Champion, Lena — m. George Winthrop (22) Oe- Downing, , — m. Nancy* DeWolf — Pedigr. V^oM— Pedigr. Durkee, , — m. Sabra' DeWolf — Pedigr. Champion, Lucy — m. Benjamin* DeWolf — Durkee, Sarah — m. Samuel Allen'' DeWolf — Pedigr. Pedigr. Chappotin, Sophia C. D. — m. Mark Anthony Eaton, , — m. Rebecca Maria'' DeWolf — (159) DeWolf— 153 Pedigr. 447 Ur Wiolt mxitv Eaton, Henry — m. Lucy Ann" DeWoIf — Pedigr. Eaton, John Rufus — m. Josephine Collins (102) Hamilton — 147 Eaton, William — m. Anna Augusta Willoughby (103) Hamilton — 147 Eaton, William — m. Nancy' DeWolf — Pedigr. Ely, Hannah — m. Edward*' DeWolf — Pedigr. Ely, Martha — m. Josiah (16) DeWolf— 134 Erroll, Earl of. See Hay, William Henry Farnsworth, Joel — m. Sarah (34) (DeWolf) Perkins — 140 Fell, Mary W. — ra. Herbert Marshall" Howe — Pedigr. Finney, Charlotte — m. William (129) DeWolf —150 Fisher, , — m. Nancy'' DeWolf — Pedigr. Fitch, , — m. James Isaac" DeWolf — Pedigr. Fitch, Amelia — m. William (54) and (112) De- Wolf— 148 Fitch, Simon — m. Sophia Henrietta (58) DeWolf — 142 Forsyth, Caleb — m. Eunice (90) DeWolf — 146 Foster, , — m. Caroline'' (DeWolf) Robinson — Pedigr. Fowler, Polly — m. Daniel (ig) DeWolf — Pedigr. Fraser, James — m. Rachel Otis (38) DeWolf — 140, 14B French, Mary M. — m. Henry Huntington (187) Tm^oM— Pedigr. Gamwell, Harlo — m. Sarah A.» DeWolf — Pedigr. Gibbons, Sarah — m. Joseph' DeWolf — Pedigr. Gibson, Charles Dana — m. Abby(i53) DeWolf —153 Goodenough, Abner — m, Esther'' (DeWolf) Rice — Pedigr. Goodwin, Charlotte — m. George (135) DeWolf —150 Goodwin, Mary — m. Charles (136) DeWolf — 150 Gore, Charles Stephen — m. Sarah Rachel (44) Fraser — 141, 148 Graham, Elizabeth — m. John' DeWolf — Pedigr. Graves, ( — ), — m. John* DeWolf — Pedigr. Green, Mary Elizabeth — m. William DeWolf Dan a — Pedigr. Greene, Abigail — m. Charles (rig) DeWolf — 149 Greenfield, Sarah — m. Stephen (182) DeWolf Pedigr. Griswold, John — m. Hannah (6) Lee — 127 Griswold, Matthew — m. Mary (5) (DeWolf) Lee — 127 Griswold, Sylvia — m. John (143) DeWolf — 151 Guild, William — m. Abby Bradford' DeWolf— Pedigr. Haines, Eunice — m. Jeremiah E. (22j4) DeWolf — Pedigr. Haines, Henry — m. Mary'' DeWolf — Pedigr. Hall, Jonathan Prescott — m. Harriet (161) DeWolf— 153 Hamilton, , — m. Margaret' DeWolf — Pedigr. Hamilton, D. Stuart — m. Josephine Collins (102) (Hamilton) Eaton — 147 Hamilton, Otho — m. Maria (95) Starr — 146 Harding, Sabra — m. Charles' DeWolf — Pedigr. Hare, William Hobart — m. Mary Amory' H owe — Pedigr. Harrington, C. Sidney — m. Mary Sophia Ratchford (82) DeWolf— 144 Harrington, Daniel — m. Ann Eliza" DeWolf — Pedigr. Harris, Brenton Haliburton — m. Margaret Maria (100) Hamilton — 146 Harris, Lebbeus — m. Lucilla (28) DeWolf— 139 Harris, *Lydia Kirtland — m. Daniel (88) De- Wolf— 146 Hatch, Susannah — m. John' DeWolf — Pedigr. Hay, William Henry, Baron Kilmarnock and Earl of Erroll — m. Eliza Amelia (45) Gore — 141 and Pedigr. Hazard, Samuel — m. Martha Greene* DeWolf — Pedigr. 448 mt WLolf Mtitv Highly, Esther — m. Matthew* DeWolf — Pedigr. Latimer, Jane — ra. Edward' DeWolf — Pedigr. Hills, Benjamin — m. Caroline Amelia (78) Lawrence, Nancy — m. James' DeWolf — Pedigr. (DeWolf) Crane— 143 Lay, John — m. Lydia' V)€S^o\i— Pedigr. Hills, Rachel — m. Daniel' DeWolf — Pedigr. Lay, Sarah— m. Simon (3) DeWolf — 131 Homer, Fitz Henry — m. Nancy Bradford (163) Lee, Azubah— m. i. Daniel (17) DeWolf, DeWolf-154 2. Joseph Sill— 134 and Pedigr. HORTON, Anna — m. James (177) DeWolf — Lee, Thomas— m. Mary (5) DeWolf— 127, 133 Pedigr. Leighton, George Albert — m. Anna Morton Howe, Perley — m. Abigail (124) DeWolf — 149 (io6) Eaton — 147 Howland, William — m. Laura" Chipman — Lord, Abigail (Comstock)— m. Josiah (13) V)e- Pedigr. WoU— Pedigr. Huntley, Aaron — m. Deborah'^ DeWolf — Pedigr. Lovett, Charles Walley— m. Josephine Maria (166) DeWolf— 154 Huntley, John — m. Susannah (8) (DeWolf) Champion — 128 Lovett, Maria— m. Ebenezer Harding' DeWolf —Pedigr. Ingraham, Jeremiah — m. Abigail (124) (De- Wolf) Howe— 150 LusBY, Hannah — m. Benjamin Otis' DeWolf — Pedigr. James, Elizabeth— m. John (143) DeWolf— 151 McDonald, Mary — m. Charles' DeWolf — Jayne, , — m. Prudence* DeWolf — Pedigr. Pedigr. Jenks, Abigail (Johnson)— m. Simon (180) \i&- McKay, John — m. Isabella Amelia (42) DeWolf y^oM— Pedigr. — 140 Kasson, Nancy — m. Clement'' DeWolf — Pedigr. Marshall, Elizabeth Smith — m. Mark Anthony Keeny, Susannah— m. Samuel (170) DeWolf— DeWolf Uovie—Pedigr. Pedigr. Marsters, Sarah — m. Benjamin Otis' DeWolf Keep, Caroline P. — m. Henry Huntington (187) —Pedigr. -DeVfoXi— Pedigr. Marston, Anna Elizabeth — m. Henry (148) Kellogg, Milo G. — m. Mary Frances' DeWolf DeWolf— 152 — Pedig r. Martin, Elizabeth — ra. Jehiel (85) DeWolf— 145 Kelsey, , — m. Theody* Vxi^oM— Pedigr. Martin, Elizabeth — m. Mark Anthony (120) Ketchum, Woodruff — m. Ellen' DeWolf — DeWolf— 149 Pedigr. Martin, Peter — m. Jerusha (89) DeWolf — 146 Kimball, Frances— m. Calvin (175) DeWolf— Pedigr. Marvin, Phojbe — m. i. Daniel (14) DeWolf, 2. Nathaniel Kirtland — 134 King, W. C— m. Harriot Sophia (43) DeWolf— 140 Mather, Joseph— m. Phoebe (11) DeWolf — 133 Kirk, George Whitworth Talbot— m. Ade- Maxon, John — ra. Sophronia'' DeWolf — Pedigr. laide* Gore — Pedigr. May, Hannah — m. Simon (123) DeWolf — Pedigr. Kirtland, Lydia — m. Nathan (24) DeWolf— Megs, Caroline — m. John' DeWolf — Pedigr. 139, 148 Kirtland, Nathaniel— m. Phcebe (Marvin) De- Melville, , — m. John (167) DeWolf — 155 Wolf— 134 Middleton, Nathaniel Russell — m. Anna Kirtland, Parnell— m. Simeon (23) DeWolf— Elizabeth (150) DeWolf— 150 Pedigr. Miner, Sarah — m. Charles' DeWolf — Pedigr. 449 MiTCHEL, Elizabeth — m. James" DeWolf — Pedigr. Moore, , — m. Louisa' DeWolf — Pedigr. More (or Moore), Lydia — m. Elisha (179) \i&- ^o\i— Pedigr. Morris, Elizabeth — m. James" DeWolf — Pedigr. MoTT, Emily — m. Deles (169) DeWolf — Pedigr. MuLKEY, Augusta — m. Joseph Norton* Dolph — Neary, Harriet — m. Colin" DeWolf — Pedigr. Newton, Elvira — m. Almon (181) DeWolf — i6i NoRTHRur, George W. — m. Leonora* DeWolf — Pedigr. Norton, Elizabeth — m. Joseph" Dolph — Pedigr. Otis, Rachel — m. Benjamin (26) DeWolf — 140 Oviatt, Frances O. — m. Austin (178) DeWolf — Pedigr. Owen, Abbi — m. James Yeaton'' DeWolf — Pedigr. Palmer, Harriet — m. Horatio' DeWolf — Pedigr. Parker, Jake — m. James" DeWolf — Pedi^^r. Pearse, Hannah — m. Erastus (183) DeWolf — Pedigr. Peck, Cyrus — m. Lydia (91) (DeWolf) Starr — 146 Perkins, Eli — m. Sarah (34) DeWolf — 140 Perry, Raymond H. J. — m. Mary Ann (157) DeWolf— 153 Phelps, , — m. Lucy" DeWolf — Pedigr. Pingree (or Pengree), Job — m. Martha Noble" H&^oM— Pedigr. Post, Ellen — m. Francis LcBaron (158) DeWolf —153 Post, Julia — m. James (156) DeWolf — 153 Potter, Abigail — m. Mark Anthony (118) De- Wolf— 149 Potter, Margaret — m. Charles (114) DeWolf —148 Pratt, Irene — m. John Anderson (20) DeWolf — Pedigr. Prescott, Catharine — m. James DeWolf (46) Eraser — 141 Randall, Charles — m. Anne Ratchford (60) (DeWolf) Woodward — 142 Randolph, FitZ' — m. Catharine Ketura' DeWolf — Pedigr. Ratchford, Margaret — m. Elisha (27) DeWolf — 142 Ratchford, Nancy — m. Thomas Andrew Strange (61) DeWolf— 143 Read, Eliza D.—m. William V.* Dolph — Pedigr. Reed, , — m. Lucy" DeWolf — Pedigr. Reynolds, Susan — m, John (127) DeWolf — 150 Rice, Moses — m. Esther" DeWolf — Pedigr. Robinson, , — m. Caroline' DeWolf — Pedigr. Robinson, Diantha — m. Amasa' DeWolf — Pedigr. Rockwell, Ann — m. Benjamin" DeWolf — Pedigr. Rogers, Robert — m. Maria' DeWolf — Pedigr. Rogers, Sarah Ann — m. William Henry (160) DeWolf— 153. Rogerson, Sophia — m. Charles (119) DeWolf — 149 Root, Asahel W. — m. Lyntha Elvira' DeWolf — Pedigr. Ross, James N. — m. Rosalie G.' Dolph — Pedigr. Rowland, James A. — m. Sophronia' DeWolf — Pedigr. Rowland, Mary Abigail — m. John Anderson (20) Yi^'^oM— Pedigr. Rudolph, Eliza— m. John B." DeWolf — Pedigr Sandifer, Eleanor Reade — m. James Ratchford (66) DeWolf— 144 Seaman, Jeconiah — m. Lydia" (DeWolf) Allison — Pedigr. Shaw, Samuel — m. Elizabeth" DeWolf — Pedigr. Sill, Joseph — m. Azubah (Lee) DeWolf — Pedigr. Smith, Ciiipman W. — m. Margaret Maria (71) DeWolf— 143 Smith, Julia- m. Roger Williams (21) DeWolf — Pedigr. Smith, Louisa — m. John' Howe — Pedigr. Smith, Lydia— m. Levi (131) DeWolf— 150 450 mtJS&olf HnXitv Smith, W. Howe— m. Mary Sophia (70) DeWolf Vanderpoel, -, — m. Charlotte (93) (DeWolf) —143 Brown — 146 SoLEY, Mary Russell — m. William Bradford Van Etten, Anna Eliza— m. John M.' Dolph (164) DeWolf-154 — Pedigr. Sparr, William— m. Amelia' DeWoU—FmHgr. Vernon, William — m. Eliza (139) DeWolf — 150 Spaulding, Anna — m. Giles Meigs' DeWolf — Wadsworth, Samuel B. — m. Eliza Caroline (92) Pedigr. Harrington — 146 Starr, Joseph— m. Margaret Maria (62) (DeWolf) Walbridge, Elizabeth — m. Charles* DeWolf — Calkin — 142 Pedigr. Starr, Samuel— m. Lydia (91) DeWolf — 146 Warren, Thomas — m. Martha (133) DeWolf — 150 Stearns, Abijah— m. Polly" DeWoH—Pedigr. Waterman, Anna — -m. Josiah (13) DeWolf — Steele, Elizabeth Vanderbilt — m. Chester 133-34 Valentine' Dolph — Pedigr. Waters, Cynthia R.— m. Willard' DeWolf— Stevens, Moses — m. Lydia (91) (DeWolf) Starr- Pedigr. Peck— 146 Webster, John S.— m. Phoebe" Vxt^oM— Pedigr. Stoker, Thankful (Fairchild) — m. Jabez (171) Wheeler, —,-, — m. Esther^ Yi€^a\i— Pedigr. V)e^o\i— Pedigr. Whitney, Eliza — m. Mark Anthony DeWolf* Stone, William — m. Eliza Ann' DeWolf — H owe — Pedigr. Pedigr. Strong, Albert L. — m. Mary E.' DeWolf — Wilcox, Submit— m. Elijah* DeWolf — Pedigr. Pedigr. Williams, , — m. Margaret' DeWolf — Pedigr. Strong, Peter — m. Rachel" DeWolf — Pedigr. Wilson, Jonathan — m. Lucy' Xyti^oVi— Pedigr. Sumner, William Hyslop — m. Mary Ann (157) Winthrop, Annette Halsey — m. John James (DeWolf) Perry— 153 (144) V)€^o\i— Pedigr. SuTHER, Thomas George — m. Catharine (51) Witridge, Jessie — m. Daniel French' DeWolf Eraser — 141 -Pedigr. Swaney, John — m. Mary Chadwick* DeWolf — —Pedigr. Witter, Anna — m. Jehiel (85) DeWolf — Pedigr. Witter, Anna (Prentis) — m. Nathan (24) De- SwETT, John Barnard — m. Anna Cecilia (154) DeWolf— 153 Wolf— 139 Taylor, , — m. Sabra" DeWolf — Pedigr. Witter, Samuel — m. Margaret (86) DeWolf— 145 Taylor, Clarinda — m. Charles' DeWolf — Pedigr. Wood, Elizabeth — m. Ephraim" DeWolf — Pedigr. Taylor, Mary — m. Charles (119) DeWolf — 149 Woodward, Catharine Scott — m. Frank Thayer, Thatcher— m. Eliza DeWolf' Vernon Perley" Vlovi&— Pedigr. — Pedigr. Woodward, Thomas — m. Anne Ratchford (60) Thomas, Nathaniel Ray — m. Sarah Hersey DeWolf— 142 Otis (36) DeWolf— 140 WooLSEY, Cornelia — m. Harvey" DeWolf — TiCHERLEY, Alice — m. Frederic C Gore — Pedigr. Pedigr. Wren, — — , — m. Eliza' DeWolf — Pedigr. TiLLEY, Samuel Leonard— m. Alice Starr (in) Chipman — 148 Wright, Huldah — m. John" DeWolf — Pedigr. Tucker, , — m. Elizabeth^ Tlft^oM— Pedigr. Yeaton, Julia— m. Stephen" DeWolf — Pedigr. 451 pp. 169-200 I— BY MALE DESCENT AbiAh' — m. Stoughton — Pedigr. Abiel' — ra. Tudor — Pedigr. Abigail' — m. Ellsworth — (41), 180-81 Abigail' — m. Keep — Pedigr. Abigail' — m. Rockwell — Pedigr. Abigail' — m. Stoughton — Pedigr. Abigail' — m. Waterhouse — Pedigr. Abigail' — m. Holton — Pedigr. Abigail Marsh^ — m. Gaylord — Pedigr. Agnes'" — Pedigr. Albert' — m. Loomis — Pedigr. Alexander* — ra. i. Atwater, 2. (— ) Allyn, 3. Richards — Pedigr. Alexander' — Pedigr. Alexander' — m. i. Burbank, 2. Waldo— T'rt^r. Alexander* — m . K i n zi e — Pedigr. Alexander* — m. Paull — Pedigr. Alfred' — m. Craig — Pedigr. Alice- — (8), 170 Amelia' (or Emily) — m. Lord — Pedigr. Amelia* — m. Russell — Pedigr. Anna** — m. Griswold — (11), 172 Anne' — m. Bancraft — Pedigr. Arodi' — m. Pitkin — Pedigr. Arthur' — m. i. Morrison, 2. Belknap — Pedigr. Benjamin' — m. ( — ) Gilhampton — Pedigr. Benjamin' — m. ( — ) Adams — Pedigr. Benjamin* — m. Finney — Pedigr. Benjamin* — m. Rockwell — Pedigr. Caleb' — m. Price — Pedigr. Catharine* — m. Hinsdale — Pedigr. Charles' — m. Hawley — (23), 176 and Pedigr. Charles Moseley* — m. i. Goodrich, 2. Rankin — (64), 197-98 and Pedigr. Charlotte Augusta'" — Pedigr. Charlotte Bosworth' — m. Bishop — Pedigr. Christopher* — m. , — (3), 170 Christopher* — (14), 174 Christopher' — m. i. Parsons, 2. GKWfM.— Pedigr. Christopher Columbus* — m. Blinn — Pedigr. Christopher Parsons' — Pedigr. Clara Gertrude'" — Pedigr. Cornelius* — m. Williams — Pedigr. David" — m. i. Buck, 2. Loomis — Pedigr. David'- — m. Munsell — Pedigr. Deborah" — m. Taylor — Pedigr. Edward* — m. i. Twining, 2. Squiers — Pedigr. Edward Cowles' — ra. Fuller — Pedigr. Edward Kitchen* — m. Sewall — Pedigr. Edward Oliver'" — Pedigr. Elias* — m. Howe — Pedigr. 452 2J2i[oUott Mtftv ElihuS — m. I. McClure, 2. Wolcott, 3. Crocker — (36), 179 Elisha' — m. Nott — Pedigr. Eliza* — m. Harding — Pedigr. Eliza' — m. Smith — Pedigr. Elizabeth'' — Pedigr. Elizabeth' — m. Cooley — Pedigr. ElizAbeth=^— m. Coxmsh— Pedigr. Elizabeth"— m. AUyn— Pedigr. Elizabeth*— m. Newberry — Pedigr. Elizabeth'— m. Seymoui— Pedigr. Elizabeth'' — m. Wolcott — Pedigr. Elizabeth* — m. Bissell — Pedigr. Elizabeth* — m. Jaclcson— (63), 197 Elizabeth* — m. Marshall — Pedigr. Elizabeth* — m. Wolcott — Pedigr. Elizabeth Ann' — m. Perry — Pedigr. Elizabeth Stoughton* — m. Gracie — Pedigr. Elizur' — m. Wolcott — Pedigr. Elizur' — m. Dwight — Pedigr. Emily' — m. Rose — Pedigr. Epaphras' — m. Burnham — Pedigr. Ephraim' — m. Kellogg — Pedigr. Ephraim' — m. I. Bissell, 2. Bissell — Pedigr. Ephraim* — Pedigr. Erastus* — m. Wolcott — (50), 186 and Pedigr. Erastus'' — m Bissell — Pedigr. Esther' — m. Treat — Pedigr. Esther* — m. Dickson — Pedigr. Esther* — m. Hall — Pedigr. Esther* — m. Smith — Pedigr. Esther Beldino* — m. Noble — Pedigr. Eunice' — m. Olcott — Pedigr. Eveline* — m. Bissell — Pedigr. ' Fanny*— m. Leach — Pedigr. FlaviA' — m. Grant — Pedigr. Frances* — m. Haskell — Pedigr. Frances* — ra. i. Homans, 2. Magill — Pedigr. Frances Caroline"— m. Robbins — Pedigr. Frances Jane'— m. Lewis — Pedigr. Frederick' — m. i. Huntington, 2. (Goodrich) Cooke — (56), 189, 196-97 Frederick Henry* — m. i. Howland, 2. Merchant — (62), 197 and Pedigr. Freke" — m. Kitchen — Pedigr. George* — m. Treat — (13), 174 and Pedigr. George' — m. Curtis — Pedigr. G^ORGE^— Pedigr. GeorgeI^ — m. Hartwell — Pedigr. George' — m. Nott — Pedigr. George' — m. Rowland — Pedigr. Gideon" — m. i. Mather, 2. Olmstead — (29), 178 Gideon' — m. Woodworth — Pedigr. Giles' — Pedigr. Guy'— m. AUyn — Pedigr. Hannah" — m. Burnham — Pedigr. Hannah' — m. Loomis — Pedigr. Hannah Huntington* — m. Freeman — Pedigr. Hannah McClure''— m. Y^'iihy— Pedigr. Harriet Agnes'" — m. Vaille — Pedigr. Henry' — (6), 170 Henry'* — m. Saunders — (i), 169-71 Henry"" — m. Newberry — (12), 172-73 Henry" — m. i. Allyn, 2. Talcott, 3. (— ) Wolcott— (28), 178 and Pedigr. Henry'— m. Goffe — (17), 176 Henry" — (18), 176 Henry" — ra. Cooley — Pedigr. Henry' — m. Allen — Pedigr. Henry* — Pedigr. 453 Smoltott MXttV Henry' — m. Starr — Pedigr. Henry Goodrich' — m. Hutchins — (45) and (65), 181, 198 Henry Griswold" — Pedigr. Henry Roger'"— (38), 180 Hepiizibah* — m. Strong — Pedigr. Herbert Walter^" — Pedigr. Honor'— m. Baxter — Pedigr. Honor* — m. Loveland — Pedigr. Hope' — m. Drake — Pedigr. Horace' — m. Smith — Pedigr. Horace" — m. Winchell — Pedigr. Horace Butler' — Pedigr. Hugh* — Pedigr. Huntington Frothingham' — Pedigr. James«— (27), 178 James' — in. Case — Pedigr. James' — m. Munsell — Pedigr. Jane Allyn' — m. Chapin — Pedigr. Jane Catharine' — m. Russell — Pedigr. Jemima' — m. Steele — Pedigr. Jeremiah' — m. Goodsell — Pedigr. Jerusha' dau. of Erastus — m. Samuel' Wolcott — Pedigr. Jerusha' dau. of John — m. Erastus^ Wolcott — Pedigr. Jerusha' — m. Bissell — Pedigr. Joanna' — m. Colton — Pedigr. JOHN'^m. Agnes , — (5), 170 John' — m. , — (2), 170 John' — m. , — (4), 170 John* — Pedigr. John*— (10), 171 John' — m. 1. Chester, 2. ( — ) Nicholas — (21), 176 John' — m. Newberry — Pedigr. John' — m. Papilion — Pedigr. John' — m. Hawley — Pedigr. John Stoughton' — Pedigr. John Stoughton' 2d — Pedigr. Jonathan' — Pedigr. Joseph' — m. Bosworth — Pedigr. Joseph' — m. Hills — Pedigr. Joseph' — m. Twining — Pedigr. Joshua' — m. Belding — Pedigr. Joshua' — m. Dean — Pedigr. Joshua Huntington' — m. i. Frothingham, 2. Frothingham — (60), 197 and Pedigr. Josiah' — m. I. Corwin, 2. Freke^25), 177 Josiah' — m. i. (White) French, 2. , — Pedigr. Josiah' — m. i. Campbell, 2. ( — ) Jenison — Pedigr. Josiah' — m. Goodrich — Pedigr. Josiah' — ra. Warner — Pedigr. Josiah' — m. Cowles — Pedigr. Josiah Bissell' — m. Belden — Pedigr. Julia Ann' — m. Cz.x^.itx— Pedigr. Juliana' — m. Wolcott — Pedigr. Justus' — m. i. Bidwell, 2. (Loomis) Scott — Pedigr. Katharine Ellen'" — m. Toll — Pedigr. Katharine Rankin' — (67), 198 Laura' — m. Moseley — (54), 189 Laura' — m. Bement — Pedigr. Laura' — m. Gibbs — (57), 196 Laura' — m. i. Mather, 2. Halsey — Pedigr. Laura Maria' — m. Rankin — Pedigr. Lois' — m. Blinn — Pedigr. Lucia' — m. Olmsted — Pedigr. Lucretia' — m. Law — Pedigr. Lucretia' — m. Mowery — Pedigr. Lucy' — m. Robbins — Pedigr. 454 Wioltott Kntrer Lucy*— m. Deming—FeiH^r. Nancy Green' — m. Bartholomew — Pedigr. Lucy' — m. i. Drake, Naomi' — m. Robinson — Pedigr. 2. Strong — Pedigr. Naomi' — m. Wadsworth — (31), 178 Lucy' — m. i. Talcott, Nathaniel* — m. Bissell — Pedigr. 2. Waterman — Pedigr. Oliver"— m. Collins — (51), 186-89 Lucy'— m. 1\\i7iW— Pedigr. Luke' — m. Diggens — Pedigr. Oliver' — m. Stoughton — (53), 189, 191-96 Oliver' — Pedigr. Lydia' — m. Austin — Pedigr. Mabel' — m. Richardson — Pedigr. Oliver'"- (66), 198 Oliver Stoughton' — Pedigr. Mariann" — m. Williams — Pedigr. Parmenio' — m. Ballard — Pedigr. Mariann'' — m. Goodrich— (55), rSg-gi ". «i^^ ^ ■-"■^^ Penelope' — m. Colton — Pedigr. Martha' — m. Allyn — Pedigr. Martha* — m. Chapin — Pedigr. Peter* — m. (Hamlin) Cornwell — Pedigr. Peter' — m. i. Bissell, Martha" — m. Stoughton — Pedigr. 2. Root — Pedigr. Martha' — m. Mather — Pedigr. Philip' — m. Marshall — Pedigr. Martha'— m. Stoughton — Pedigr. Rachel* — m. Hunt — Pedigr. Martha' — m. Reynolds — Pedigr. Rachel'— m. l^ooxms— Pedigr. Martha'— m. Treat — Pedigr. Redexelana' — m. Loomis — Pedigr. Mary* — (9), 170 Rhoda' — m. Burbridge — Pedigr. Mary* — Pedigr. Richmond' — m. VanVechten— /'t?a';;^o-r. Mary* — m. Drake — (15), 174 Roger" — (7), 170 Mary' — m. Russell — Pedigr. Roger'— m. Drake— (48), 181-86 Mary* — m. Eliot — (22), 176 Roger* — m. i. Newberry, Mary' — m. Stillman — Pedigr. 2. (Colton) Ely— (49), 186 and Pedigr. Mary' — m. Barnes — Pedigr. Roger' — m. Burnham — Pedigr. Mary' — m. GooA(t\\— Pedigr. Roger' — m. ^\&€\.e— Pedigr. Mary' — m. Griswold— /'(fa'/^fr. Roger' — m. Prescott— (61), 197 and Pedigr. Mary' — m. North — Pedigr. Rosanna' — m. Warner — Pedigr. Mary' — m. Bliss — Pedigr. Samuel* — m. Appleton — (24), 177 Mary' — m. Davis — Pedigr. Samuel* — (19), 176 Mary' — m. Grant — Pedigr. Samuel* — m. Collins — Pedigr. Mary' — m. Loomis — Pedigr. Samuel' — m. Wolcott — (30), 178 Mary' — m. Manwaring — Pedigr. Mary Ann Goodrich' — m. Whitehead — Pedigr. Samuel' — m. i. Wyatt, 2. (Sherman) Boardman — Pedigr. Mary Frances'— m. Frothingham — Pedigr. Samuel'— m. i. Wood, Mehitable' — m. Russell — Pedigr. 2. Pope — (37), 179 and Pedigr. Miriam' — ra. Mills — Pedigr. Samuel Adams'" — Pedigr. 455 smouott mrftv Samuel Tudor* — m. Stewart — Pedigr. Sarah' — m. Price — Pedigr. Sarah* — m. Chauncey — (20), 176 Sarah' — m. Hollister — Pedigr. Sarah" — m. Treat — Pedigr. Sarah* — m. Wells — Pedigr. Sarah'' — m. Bissell — Pedigr. Sarah'' — m. Blinn — Pedigr. Sarah' — m. Steele — Pedigr. Sarah' — m. Harrison — Pedigr. Sarah' — m. Pomeroy — Pedigr. Sarah' — m. Smith — Pedigr. Sarah Goodsell' — m. Norton — Pedigr. Seth' — m. Gay — Pedigr. Sidney Hastings' — Pedigr. Simon'' — m. i. Cook, 2. Pitkin — (16), 174 Simon' — m. Cliester — (26), 178 and Pedigr. Simon'— m. G'\\\fi{X— Pedigr. Simon' — m. i. Rogers, 2. (Woodbridge) Mumford — Pedigr. Simon* — m. i. Sadd, 2. Stoughton — Pedigr. Solomon' — m. Hastings — Pedigr. Solomon' — m. Butler — Pedigr. Solomon Belding' — Pedigr. Sophia* — m. Ellsworth — (35), 179 Susan Amelia' — m. White — Pedigr. Theodora' — m. Baldwin — Pedigr. Thomas* — m. i. , 2. Loomis — Pedigr. Thomas' — m. Sackett — Pedigr. Thomas Goodsell* — m. Hoffman — Pedigr. Tryphena' — m. AUyn — Pedigr. Ursula* — m. Griswold — (52), 187 Ursula* — m. Skinner — Pedigr. William* — m. Hawley — (39), 180 William* — m. Abbott — (40), 180 William' — m. Stevens — Pedigr. William Edgar'" — Pedigr. William Frederick* — m. Bryant — Pedigr. 2— BY FEMALE DESCENT Baldwin, Henry* — Pedigr. Barhuydt, Grace Griswold'* — m. Franfois- Pedigr. Barhuydt, Kate Wolcott'" - Pedio-r. ■ m. Drisler - Barhuydt, Maud Wolcott Griswold'" — m. M arshal 1 — Pedigr. Barhuydt, Parish Hackley'" — m. Baldwin — Pedigr. Chauncey (or Chauncy), Isaac' — Pedigr. Chauncey (or Chauncy), Robert' — m. Wheeler — Pedigr. Chauncey (or Chauncy), Wolcott* — m. Brown — Pedigr. Drake, Job* — m. (Clarke) Cook — Pedigr. Drake, Sarah* — m. Wolcott — 182 Ellsworth, Delia* — m. Williams — Pedigr. Ellsworth, Elizabeth' — m. Hutchins — (43), 181 Ellsworth, Frances Elizabeth* — m. Wood — (46), 181 Ellsworth, Martin* — m. Wolcott — Pedigr. Ellsworth, William Wolcott* — m. Webster — (42), iSl and Pedigr. 456 amouott nnxitv GiBBS, Alfred'— m. Blaii—Pedigr. Lyman, Chester Wolcott'" — Pedigr. GiBBS, Eliza Wolcott'— m. Tuckerman— /'^o'^;^;-. Lyman, Delia Wood'" — Pedigr. GiBBS, Francis'— m. Hosmei—Fedi^r. Lyman, Elizabeth Ellsworth'" — m. McCand- GiBBS, George'— m. Gibbs— (58), 196 and Pedigr. liss — Pedigr. GiBBS, Laura' — m. d'Or^miculx — Pedigr. Lyman, Oliver Ellsworth'" — Pedigr. GiBBS, Oliver Wolcott' — m. Mauran — (59), 196 and Pedigr. Griswold, Sophia*- m. Viz.c^\e.y— Pedigr. Moseley, Charles' — Pedigr. Newberry, Henry* — m. Si\.xo-a%— Pedigr. Hackley, Sophia E.'— m. 'Qzx\i\xyA\.— Pedigr. Newberry, John Strong' — m. Gaylord — Pedigr. HuTCHiNS, Augustus Scksi^^^"— Pedigr. HuTCHiNS, Julia Sterling'"- m. Wolcott— (44), 181, 198 Newberry, Roger' — m. i. Allen, 2. YAj— Pedigr. Wadsworth, Elizabeth' — m. Murray — (33), 178 HuTCHiNS, Waldo'" — Pedigr. Wadsworth, Harriet'— m. Brimmer — (32), 178 HuTCHiNS, William'"— i'i'.jfz^r. Wadsworth, James Samuel'— (34), 178 Jackson, Laura Wolcott'- m. Vz.iyLftr— Pedigr. Wood, Delia'— m. Lyman— (47), 181 2— BY MARRIAGE , Agnes— m. John (5) Woolcott (or Woolcot) Atwater, Lydia — m. Alexander* Wolcott — —170 Pedigr. Abbott, Abigail — m. William (40) Wolcott — 180 Austin, Samuel — m. Lydia' Wolcott — Pedigr. Adams, Mary ( — ), — m. Benjamin' Wolcott — Baldwin, Emily M. — m. Parish Hackley'" Bar- Pedigr. huydt — Pedigr. Allen, Dorcas — m. Henry' Wolcott— /"\>s— Pedigr. Blinn, James — m. Lois' Wolcott — Pedigr. Blinn, Jonathan — m. Sarah' Wolcott — Pedigr. Blinn, Susan — m. Christopher Columbus' Wol- cott — Pedigr. Bliss, Moses — m. Mary' Wolcott — Pedigr. Boardman, Sarah (Sherman) — m. Samuel' Wol- cott — Pedigr. Bosworth, Elizabeth — m. Joseph' Wolcott — Pedigr. Brewster, Joseph — m. Mary Kane(Gibbs) Gibbs — Pedigr. Brimmer, Martin — m. Harriet (32) Wadsworth -178 Brown, Ann — m. Wolcott' Chauncey — Pedigr. Bryant, Lois — m. William Frederick' Wolcott — Pedigr. Buck, Eunice — m. David' Wolcott — Pedigr. Burbank, Frances — m. Alexander' Wolcott — Pedigr. Burbridge, Charles — m. Rhoda' Wolcott — Pedigr. Burnham, Dorcas— m. Roger' Wolcott — Pedigr. Burnham, Mabel — m. Epaphras' Wolcott — Pedigr. Burnham, William — m. Hannah* Wolcott — Pedigr. Butler, Abigail B. — m. Solomon' Wolcott — Pedigr. Campbell, Isabella — m. Josiah' Wolcott — Pedigr. Carter, William C— m. Julia Ann' Wolcott— Pedigr. Case, Huldah B. — m. James' Wolcott — Pedigr. Chapin, Joseph — m. Jane Allyn' Wolcott — Pedigr. Chapin, Josiah — m. Martha' Wolcott — Pedigr. Chauncey (or Chauncy), Charles — m. Sarah (20) Wolcott — 176 Chester, Mary — m. John (21) Wolcott — 176 Chester, Sarah — m. Simon (26) Wolcott — Pedigr. Clarke (or Clark), Daniel — m. Martha (Pitkin) Wolcott— 175 Collins, Abigail — m. Samuel' Wolcott — Pedigr. Collins, Lorraine (or Laura) — m. Oliver (51) Wolcott— 189 CoLTON, John — m. Joanna' Wolcott — Pedigr. CoLTON, John — m. Penelope' Wolcott — Pedigr. Cook, Elizabeth (Clarke) — m. Job' Drake — Pedigr. Cook, Joanna — m. Simon (16) Wolcott — 174 Cooke, Sally Worthington (Goodrich) — m. Frederick (56) Wolcott — 197 CooLEY, Abigail — m. Henry' Wolcott — Pedigr. Cooley, Daniel — m. Elizabeth' Wolcott — Pedigr. Cornish, Gabriel — m. Elizabeth' Wolcott — Pedigr. Cornwell, Susanna (Hamlin) — m. Peter' Wol- cott — Pedigr. Corwin, Penelope — m. Josiah (25) Wolcott — 177 458 sziouott mx(tv CowLEs, Amelia Minerva— m. Josiah* Wolcott Fuller, Jane D.— m. Edward Cowles' Wolcott —J'fdigr. — Pedigr. Craig, Margaret— m. Alfred" Wolcott— /'^a'!;^?-. Gay, Lois — m. Seth" Wolcott — Pedigr. Crocker, Sarah C.—m. Elihu (36) Wolcott— 179 Gaylord, Flavel— m. Abigail Marsh" Wolcott Curtis, Elizabeth — m. George' Wolcott — — Pedigr. J'eiiigr. Gaylord, Sarah Brownell — m. John Strong' Davis, Aaron— m. Mary* Wolcott— /'^<%r. Newberry — Pedigr. Dean, Esther— m. Joshua' Wolcott— Fedtj^r. GiBBs, George — m. Laura (57) Wolcott — 196 Deming, Simeon— m. Lucy* Wolcott— /'(?a'z;§-?-. GiBBS, Mary Kane— m. 1. George (58) Gibbs, Dickson, Gaston— m. Esther" Wolcott— /'fa'z;^?-. 2. Joseph Brewster — Pedigr. Diggens, Jerusha— m. Luke' Wolcott— I'edigr. Gilhampton, Jone ( — ), — m. Benjamin* Wolcott Drake, Francis— m. Lucy" Wolcott— /'f(/;;fr. —Pedigr. Drake, Job— m. Mary (15) Wolcott— 174 GiLLETT, Amy — m. Christopher' Wolcott — Pedigr. Drake, Nathaniel— ra. Hope" Wolcott— i'^a';;^-?-. GiLLETT, Mary — m. Simon' Wolcott — Pedigr. Drake, Sarah— m. Roger (48) Wolcott— 182 Goffe, Abiah — m. Henry (17) Wolcott — 176 Drisler, Herman— m. Kate Wolcott"" Barhuydt Goodell, Jesse — m. Mary' Wolcott — Pedigr. —Pedigr. Goodrich, Chauncey — m. Mariann (55) Wolcott Dwight, Martha Lyman— m. Elizur' Wolcott — iSg —Pedigr. Goodrich, Lois — m. josiah' Wolcott — Pedigr. Eliot, John— m. Mary (22) Wolcott— 176 Goodrich, Mary E.— m. Charles Moseley (64) Ellsworth, Martin— m. Sophia (35) Wolcott— Wolcott — Pedigr. 179 Goodsell, Sarah Goodrich — m. Jeremiah' Ellsworth, Oliver— m. Abigail (41) Wolcott— Wolcott — Pedigr. t 80-8 I Gracie, William — m. Elizabeth Stoughton* Ely, Eunice— m. Roger' Newberry— /'^o'/^r. Wolcott — Pedigr. Ely, Eunice (Colton)— m. Roger (49) Wolcott Grant, Abiel — m. Mary" Wolcott — Pedigr. —Pedigr. Grant, Roswell— m. Flavia' Wolcott — Pedigr. FRANgois, J. W. R.— m. Grace Griswold'" Bar- Griswold, Elihu — m. Mary' Wolcott — Pedigr. huydt — Pedigr. Griswold, Matthew — m. Anna (11) Wolcott — Freeman, Frederick— m. Hannah Huntington" 172 Wolcott — Pedigr. Griswold, Matthew — m. Ursula (52) Wolcott Freke, Mary— m. Josiah (25) Wolcott— 177 -187 French, Lucy (White)— m. Josiah* Wolcott— Hackley, Aaron— m. Sophia" Griswold — Pedigr. Pedigr. Hall, Nathan — m. Esther" Wolcott — Pedigr. Frothingham, Cornelia — m. Joshua Hunting- Halsey, Henry — m. Laura" (Wolcott) Mather — ton (60) Wolcott — Pedigr. Pedigr. Frothingham, Harriet — m. Joshua Huntington Harding, Timothy — m. Eliza" Wolcott — Pedigr. (60) WoXzott— Pedigr. Harrison, Philemon — m, Sarah" Wolcott — Frothingham, Theodore — m. Mary Frances' Pedigr. Wolcott— Pedigr. Hartwell, Mary — m. George* Wolcott — Pedigr. 459 smoUott Kntrer Haskell, Harris— m. Frances'' Wo\cotl— Fedtgr. Lewis, Barbour — m. Frances Jane' Wolcott — Hastings, Abigail — m. Solomon'' Wolcott — Pedigr. Pedigr. LooMis, Abigail — m. David" Wolcott — Pedigr. Hawley, Abiah— m. William (39) Wolcott— 180 LooMis, Catharine — m. Thomas* Wolcott — Hawlev, Elizabeth— m. Charles (23) Wolcott Pedigr. — Pedigr. LooMis, Elijah— m. Rachel' Wolcott — Pedigr. Hawley, Mary— m. John' ^o\co\.x.— Pedigr. LooMis, Hannah— m. Alberf Wolcott — Pedigr. Hills, Lucy— m. Joseph^ Wolcott— /'^t/zV;.. LooMis, John — m. Redexelana' Wolcott — Pedigr. Hinsdale, Daniel — m. Catharine* Wolcott — LooMis, Uriah — m. Hannah' Wolcott — Pedigr. Pedigr. LooMis, Warham — m. Mary* Wolcott — Pedigr. Hoffman, Lucy — m. Thomas Goodsell' Wolcott —Pedigr. Lord, Marvin — m. Amelia' (or Emily) Wolcott —Pedigr. HoLLiSTER, Timothy — m. Sarahi^ Wolcott — Pedigr. LovELAND, Asa — m. Honor* Wolcott — Pedigr. HoLTON, John — m. Abigail* Wolcott — Pedigr. Lyman, Chester Smith — m. Delia (47) Wood — 181 Homans, Thomas— m. Frances* Wolcott— /'(.•u'z;^?-. McCandliss, Charles Dickerman — m. Eliza- HosMER, Eliza— ra. Francis" Gibbs — Pedigr. beth Ellsworth'" Lyman — Pedigr. Howe, Belinda — m. Elias* Wolcott — Pedigr. McClure, Rachel McClintock — m. Elihu (36) Howland, Abby Woolsey— m. Frederick Henry Wolcott — 179 (62) Wolcott— /"ft/iVr. Magill, Arthur W.— m. Frances* (Wolcott) Hunt, Joseph — m. Rachel" Wolcott— /'^n';;o'r. Homans — Pedigr. Huntington, Betsey— m. Frederick (56) Wol- cott — 197 Manwaring, Christopher — m. Mary* Wolcott —Pedigr. Hutchins, Julia Sterling (44) — m. Henry Good- Marshall, Emily — m. Philip* "WoXcolt.— Pedigr. rich (45) and (65) Wolcott— 181, 198 Marshall, Thomas — m. Maud Wolcott Gris- Hutchins, Waldo— m. Elizabeth (43) Ellsworth wold"' BSitliuyH— Pedigr. —181 Marshall, Warren — m. Elizabeth* Wolcott — Jackson, John P. — m. Elizabeth (63) Wolcott — Pedigr. 197 Mather, Abigail — m. Gideon (29) Wolcott — 178 Jenison, Naomi ( — ), — m. Josiah' Wolcott — Pedigr. Mather, Ellsworth — m. Laura* Wolcott — Pedigr. Keep, Matthew — m. Abigail' Wolcott — Pedigr. Mather, Increase — m. Martha' Wolcott — Pedigr. Kellogg, Mary— m. Ephraim* Wolcott— yWz^'?. Mauran, Josephine — m. Oliver Wolcott (59) Kinzie, Eleanor M.— m. Alexander* Wolcott — Gihhs— Pedigr. Pedigr. Merchant, Sarah Elizabeth Chase — m. Fred- KiRBY, William— m. Hannah McClure' Wolcott erick Henry (62) Wolcott — Pedigr. — Pedigr. Mills, Stone— m. Miriam' "^olcotl-Pedigr. Kitchen, Edward — m. Freke" Wolcott — Pedis^r. Morrison, Sarah Ann— m. Arthur" Wolcott— Law, Richard— m. Lucretia* Wolcott — Pedigr. Pedigr. Leach, Daniel — m. Fanny* Wolcott — Pedip: Moseley, William— m. Laura (54) Wolcott— 189 460 S^SoUott Kntier MowERY, Bedford — m. Lucretia' Wolcott — Pedigr. MuMFORD, Charlotte (Woodbridge) — m. Si- mon' Wolcott — Pedigr. MuNSELL, Hannah— m. David' ^oicoXX.— Pedigr. MuNSELL, Miriam— m. James'' Wolcott— P^rf/^r. Murray, Charles Augustus— m. Elizabeth {33) Wadsworth — 178 Newberry, Hannah — m. John" Wolcott — Pedigr. Newberry, Marah — m. Roger (49) Wolcott — Pedigr. Newberry, Roger — m. Elizabeth" Wolcott — Pedigr. Newberry, Sarah — m. Henry (12) Wolcott — 172 Nicholas, Hannah ( — ), — m. John (21) Wolcott — 176 Noble, Daniel— m. Esther Belding' Wolcott— — Pedigr. North, Jonathan — m. Mary' Wolcott — Pedigr. Norton, Charles R. — m. Sarah Goodsell' Wol- cott — Pedii^ r. Nott, Elizabeth — m. George' Wolcott — Pedigr. Nott, Sarah — m. Elisha' Wolcott — Pedigr. Olcott, Benoni — m. Eunice' Wolcott — Pedigr. Olmsted, Naomi — m. Gideon (29) Wolcott — 178 Olmsted, Stephen — m. Lucia* Wolcott — Pedigr. Or^miculx, T. d'— m. Laura Wolcott' Gibbs — Papilion, Elizabeth — m. John^ Wolcott — Pedigr. Parker, Charles H. — m. Laura Wolcott' Jack- son — Pedigr. Parsons, Lucy — m. Christopher' Wolcott — Pedigr, Paull, Joanna — m. Alexander" Wolcott — Pedigr. Perry, Carlton H. — m. Elizabeth Ann' Wol- cott — Pedigr. Pinney, Abi — m. Benjamin' Wolcott — Pedigr. Pitkin, Martha — m. i. Simon (16) Wolcott, 2. Daniel Clarke — 174 Pitkin, Ruth — m. Arodi' Wolcott — Pedigr. PoMEROY, Ebenezer — m. Sarah" Wolcott — Pedigr. Pope, Harriet Amanda — m. Samuel (37) Wol- cott — Pedigr. Prescott, Edith — m. Roger (61) Wolcott — Pedigr. Price, Jerusha— m. Caleb' ^ a\co\.\.-— Pedigr. Price, John— m. Sarah^ ^oXco'^i— Pedigr. Rankin, Catharine A. — m. Charles Moseley (64) Wolcott— 198 Rankin, Robert G.— m. Laura Maria" Wolcott — Pedigr. Reynolds, Hezekiah — m. Martha" Wolcott — Pedigr. Richards, Mary — m. Alexander* Wolcott — Pedigr. Richardson, John B. — m. Mabel" Wolcott — Pedigr. Robbins, George — m. Frances Caroline" Wolcott — Pedigr. Robbins, Samuel — m. Lucy* Wolcott— /'^o'^o-r. Robinson, William — m. Naomi' Wolcott — Pedigr. Rockwell, Abigail — m. Benjamin" Wolcott — Pedigr. Rockwell, Charles — m. Abigail' Wolcott — Pedigr. Rogers, Lucy — m. Simon' Wolcott — Pedigr. Root, Elizabeth— m. Peter" "^ oXcoXX— Pedigr. Rose, HEATON^m. Emily' Wolcott — Pedigr. Rowland, Alithea — m. George' Wolcott — Pedigr. Russell, Ellis — m. Jane Catharine' Wolcott — Pedigr. Russell, James — m. Mary" Wolcott — Pedigr. Russell, Jonathan — m. Mehitable' Wolcott — Pedigr. Russell, Willis — m. Amelia" Wolcott — Pedigr. Sackett, Catharine — m. Thomas' Wolcott — Pedigr. Sadd, Eunice — m. Simon" Wolcott — Pedigr. 461 Wiouon mntv Saunders, Elizabeth— m. Henry (i) Woolcott (or Wolcott)— 171 Scott, Edify (Loomis) — m. Justus' Wolcott — Pedigr. Sewall, Hannah — m. Edward Kitchen* Wolcott — Pedigr. Seymour, Elias— m. Elizabeth' ^oXcoU.— Pedigr. Skinner, Newton— m. Ursula" Wolcott— P^^/zf?-. Smith, Daniel— m. Esther* Wolcott — Pedigr. Smith, F. B.— m. Eliza* WoXcon— Pedigr. Smith, Francis B.— m. Sarah' Wolcon— Pedigr. Smith, Lucy — m. Horace* Wolcott — Pedigr. Squiers, Maria— m. Edward* 'VJoXcoit— Pedigr. Starr, Mary Almira — m. Henry* Wolcott — Pedigr. Steele, Elisha— m. Sarah' VfoXcoit.— Pedigr. Steele, James— m. Jemima* ^N o\co\X— Pedigr. Steele, Mary— m. Roger* Wolcott— /"^i/zg-/. Stevens, Esther— m. William' Wolcott— /"ftft^-?-. Stewart, Maria— m. Samuel Tudor* Wolcott— Pedigr. Stillman, John— m. Mary'' Wolcott— /'^fo';;?-'-. Stoughton, Elizabeth — m. Oliver (53) Wolcott — 196 Stoughton, Elizabeth- m. Simon* Wolcott — Pedigr. Stoughton, Joseph — m. Martha' Wolcott — Pedigr. Stoughton, Samuel — m. Abiah* Wolcott — Pedigr. Stoughton, William — m. Abigail' Wolcott — Pedigr. Stoughton, William — m. Martha' Wolcott — Pedigr. Strong, Elizabeth — m. Henry* Newberry — Pedigr. Strong, Erastus— m. Lucy* (Wolcott) Drake— Pedigr. Strong, John— m. Hephzibah* WoXcoXt— Pedigr. Talcott, Henry — m. Lucy* Wolcott— /"«%?-. Talcott, Rachel— m. Henry {28) Wolcott — Pedigr. Taylor, John— m. Deborah' y^oXcon— Pedigr. Thrall, Linus G— m. Lucy' y^oXcotK— Pedigr. Toll, Charles H.— m. Katharine Ellen'" Wol- cott — Pedigr. Treat, Elizabeth— m. George (13) Wolcott — Pedigr. Treat, Samuel— m. Esther' '^oXcoXi— Pedigr. Treat, Samuel— m. Martha* '^oXcoXl— Pedigr. Treat, Samuel— m. Sarah" VfoXcoXX— Pedigr. Tuckerman, Lucius— m. Eliza Wolcott' Gibbs— Pedigr. Tudor, Ursula— m. Abiel' 'VJoXcotX— Pedigr. Twining, Ann— m. Joseph* VfoXcoXl— Pedigr. Twining, Susan — m. Edward* ^olcoXl— Pedigr. Vaille, Frederick O. — m. Harriet Agnes'" Wolcott — Pedigr. VanVechten, Jane — m. Richmond' Wolcott — Pedigr. Wadsworth, James — m. Naomi (31) Wolcott — 178 Waldo, Lucy — m. Alexander' Wolcott — Pedigr. Warner, Levi — m. Rosanna' Wolcott — Pedigr. Warner, Prudence — m. Josiah' Wolcott — Pedigr. Waterhouse, Abraham — m. Abigail' Wolcott — Pedigr. Waterman, Elijah — m. Lucy* (Wolcott) Talcott — Pedigr. Webster, Emily Scholten — m. William Wol- cott (42) Ellsworth — Pedigr. Wells, Robert — m. Sarah" Wolcott — Pedigr. Wheeler, Hannah — m. Robert' Chauncey — Pedigr. White, Horace C. — m, Susan Amelia' Wolcott —Pedigr. Whitehead, Asa — m. Mary Ann Goodrich* "^oXcoXX— Pedigr. Williams, Margaret — m. Cornelius* Wolcott — Pedigr. 462 Wioitou mrttv Williams, Thomas — m. Mariann* Wolcott — Williams, Thomas Scott — m. Delia* Ellsworth — Pedigr. WiNCHELL, Rebecca R. — m. Horace' Wolcott — Pedigr. Wolcott, Elihu (36) — m. Juliana' Wolcott — Pedigr. Wolcott, Elizabeth' — m. Elizur' Wolcott — Pedigr. Wolcott, Elizur' — m. Elizabeth'' Wolcott — Pedigr. Wolcott, Erastus — ra. Elizabeth' Wolcott — Pedigr. Wolcott, Erastus (50) — m. Jerusha' Wolcott — Pedigr. Wolcott, Hannah ( — ), — m. Henry (28) Wol- cott — Pedigr. Wolcott, Henry Goodrich (45) and (65) — m. Julia Sterling (44) Hutchins — 181, 198 Wolcott, Jerusha' dau. of Erastus — m. Samuel (30) Wolcott — 178 Wolcott, Jerusha' dau. of John — m. Erastus (50) Wolcott — Pedigr. Wolcott, Juliana*"— m. Elihu (36) Wolcott — 179 Wolcott, Roger — m. Sarah" Drake — 182 Wolcott, Samuel — m. Jerusha' Wolcott — Pedigr. Wolcott, Sophia' — m. Martin' Ellsworth — Pedigr. Wood, Catharine Elizabeth — m. Samuel (37) Wolcott — Pedigr. Wood, Joseph — m. Frances Elizabeth (46) Ells- worth — 181 Woodworth, Hannah — m. Gideon' Wolcott — Pedigr. Wyatt, Mary — m. Samuel' Wolcott — Pedigr. 463 pp. 201-214 I— BY MALE DESCENT Albert P.'' — m. Hastings — Pedigr. Anna Hubbard'' — m. Denio — Pedigr. Anne' — m. Perkins — Pedigr. AsHBEL* — m. Forbes — (27), 210 and Pedigr. Catharine' — m. Perkins — Pedigr. Denison p." — m. Turner — Pedigr. Dorothy^ — m. Roberts — Pedigr. Eleazur' — m. Cone — Pedigr. Eli' — m. Torrey — Pedigr. Elisha^ — m. Pitkin — Pedigr. Elisha' — m. Kingsbury — Pedigr. Elizabeth'' — m. Marsh — (10), 204 and Pedigr. Elizabeth^ — (12), 206 Elizabeth^ — m. Colton — (13), 206 Elizabeth' — m. Allen — Pedigr. Epaphras* — m. Hills — (26), 210 and Pedigr. Ezekiel' — m. I. Chapman, 2. Chapman — Pedigr. Frederick Walker' — m. , — Pedigr. George' — (9), 204 George'' — m. Church — (25), 210 and Pedigr. Hannah' — m. Cowles — (8), 204 James Sherwood'' — m. Sherman — Pedigr. Jerusha^ — m. I. Edwards, 2. Woodbridge — (22), 206, 207 John'— (6), 204 John' — (20), 206 John" — m. Olcott — (21), 206, 207 Jonathan' — m. Smith — Pedigr. Jonathan'' — m. Steele — Pedigr. Joseph' — m. r. Lord, 2. Chester, 3. (Hall) Andrew-Law — (16), 206, 207 and Pedigr. Martha' — m. Wolcott — (3), 174-75, 203-04 Martha'— m. Welles — (14), 206 Mary Hubbard' — m. Norton — Pedigr. Nathaniel' — m. Hosmer — (7), 204 OsiAs' — m. I. Green, 2. (— ; Caldwell (or Cadwell) — (11), 204 Richard'' — m. Hills — Pedigr. Robert James' — Pedigr. Roger' — (2), 203 Roger' — m. Stanley — (4), 204 and Pedigr. Samuel' — m. Parsons — Pedigr. Samuel Leonard" — m. Lewis — Pedigr. Sarah' — (17), 206 Sarah' — m. Porter — (19), 206, 207 Thomas' — m. Welles — (18), 206, 207 Thomas Clap' — m. Starr — Pedigr. Timothy'' — m. Clap — (24), 210, 211 and Pedigr. Timothy' — m. H ubbard — Pedigr. William' — m. Goodwin — (i), 201, 204 William' — m. Stanley — (5), 204-06 William' — m. Woodbridge — (15), 206. 207-10 William'* — m. Church — (23), 210 and Pedigr. 464 mt^in MXitv < 2—BV FEMALE DESCENT Allen, Charles' — Pedigr. Hale, Robert' — Pedigr. Baldwin, Elizabeth Wooster' — m. Whitney — Kingsbury, Dorothy^ — m. Allen — Pedigr. Pedigr. Perkins, Anna' — Pedigr. Baldwin, Florence Winchester' — Pedigr. Perkins, Anna Pitkin' — m. Campbell — Pedigr. Baldwin, George William' — Pedigr. Perkins, Catharine' — m. Seymour — Pedigr. Baldwin, Helen Harriet' — Pedigr. Perkins, Catharine'— m. Gilman — Pedigr. Baldwin, Henrietta Perkins' — m. Foster — Pedigr. Baldwin, Roger Sherman' — Pedigr. Baldwin, Simeon E.' — m. Winchester — Pedigr. BissELL, Champion'— m. Wales — Pedij>r. Bissell, Charles' — m. West — Pedigr. BisSELL, George Perkins' — m. Da.y— Pedigr. Bissell, Josiah' — m. Hooker — Pedigr. BissELL, Mary Ann' — m. Parlcer — Pedigr. Perkins, Charles Enoch' — m. Adams — Pedigr. Perkins, Charlotte" — Pedigr. Perkins, Edward Henry' — m. Dwight — Pedigr. Perkins, Ei.i.kn''— Pedigr. Perkins, Emily' — m. Baldwin — Pedigr. Perkins, Emily Baldwin' — m. Hale — Pedigr. Perkins, Frances Ward' — Pedigr. Perkins, Frederick Beecher' — m. Westcott — Pedigr. Foster, Alfred O^ifJiGwc^— Pedigr. Perkins, George Clap' — m. Roberts — Pedigr. Foster, Burnside' — Pedigr. Perkins, George William" — m. Dickinson — Foster, Elizabeth Skinner^ — Pedigr. Pedigr. . Foster, Emily Baldwin' — m. Thacher — Pedigr. Perkins, Henrietta" — m. Bissell — Pedigr. Foster, Henrietta Baldwin' — Pedigr. Perkins, Henry Augustus' — m. Emmons — Pedigr. Perkins, Thomas Clap'— m. Beecher — Pedigr. Roberts, Dorothy'' — m. Kingsbury — Pedigr. Foster, Mary Rebecca' — m. Gilman — Pedigr. Foster, Reginald' — Pedigr. Foster, Roger Sherman Baldwin' — Pedigr. Seymour, Mary' — m. Talcott — Pedigr. Hale, Arthur' — Pedigr. Talcott, Mary Kingsbury' — Pedigr. Hale, Charles' — Pedigr. Whitney, Edward Baldwin' — Pedigr. Hale, Edward Everett' — Pedigr. Whitney, Emily Henrietta' — Pedigr. Hale, Ellen V)k\^— Pedigr. Whitney, Margaret Vtv^iGwi'^— Pedigr. Hale, Henry' — Pedigr. Whitney, Marian Parker' — Pedigr. Hale, Herbert' — Pedigr. Whitney, Roger Sherman Baldwin' — Pedigr. Hale, VwaAAi^— Pedigr. Whitney, Williston Clap' — Pedigr. 465 3— BY MARRIAGE Adams, Lucy — m. Charles Enoch'' Perkins- Allen, George — m. Elizabeth* Pitkin — Pedigr. Allen, Joseph — m. Dorothy'' Kingsbury — Pedigr. Baldwin, Roger Sherman — m. Emily' Perkins — Pedigr. Beecher, Mary — m. Thomas Clap" Perkins — Pedigr. BISSELL, JosiAH — m. Henrietta' Perkins — Pedigr. Caldwell (or Cadwell) Elizabeth (or Esther) ( — ), — m. Osias (ii) Pitkin — 204 Campbell, Henry F. — m. Anna Pitkin' Perkins — Pedigr. Chapman, Euphemia — m. Ezekiel' Pitkin — — Pedigr. Chapman, Hannah — m. Ezekiel' Pitkin — Pedigr. Chester, Eunice — m. Joseph (16) Pitkin — 207 Church, Abigail — m. William (23) Pitkin — Pedigr. Church, Jerusha — m. George (25) Pitkin — Pedigr. Clap, Temperance — m. Timothy (24) Pitkin — Pedigr. CoLTON, Benjamin — m, Elizabeth (13) Pitkin — 206 Cone, Mehitaeel — m. Eleazur' Pitkin — Pedigr. CowLES, Timothy — m. Hannah (8) Pitkin — 204 Day, Julia Seymour — m. George Perkins' Bissell — Pedigr. Denio, Hiram — m. Anna Hubbard'' Pitkin — Pedigr. Dickinson, Mary A. — m. George William" Perkins — Pedigr. Dwight, Mary — m. Edward Henry' Perkins — Pedigr. Edwards, Samuel — m. Jerusha (22) Pitkin — 207 Emmons, Sarah — m. Henry Augustus' Perkins — Pedigr. Forbes, Sarah— m. Ashbel (27) VSxYixx— Pedigr. Foster, Dwight — m. Henrietta Perkins' Baldwin — Pedigr. Oilman, John Bradley — m. Mary Rebecca' Foster — Pedigr. Gilman, William C. — m. Catharine' Perkins — Pedigr. Goodwin, Hannah — m. William (i) Pitkin — 204 Green, Elizabeth — m. Osias (ii) Pitkin — 204 Hale, Edward E. — m. Emily Baldwin' Perkins —Pedigr. Hastings, Jane Ann — m. Albert P.' Pitkin — Pedigr. Hills, Dorothy — m. Richard'' Pitkin — Pedigr. Hills, Eunice — m. Epaphras (26) Pitkin — Pedigr. Hooker, Julia Wolcott — m. Josiah' Bissell — Pedigr. Hosmer, EsthePv — m. Nathaniel (7) Pitkin — 204 Hubbard, Elizabeth — m. Timothy' Pitkin — Pedigr. Kingsbury, Elizabeth — m. Elisha' Pitkin — Pedigr. Kingsbury, Lemuel — m. Dorothy* Roberts — Pedigr. Law, Eunice (Hall) Andrew — m. Joseph (16) Pitkin — 207 and Pedigr. Lewis, Mary A, — m. Samuel Leonard" Pitkin — Pedigr. Lord, Mary — m. Joseph (16) Pitkin — 207 Marsh, John — m. Elizabeth (10) Pitkin — Pedigr. Norton, John Treadwell — m. Mary Hubbard' Pitkin — Pedigr. Olcott, Ann (or Elizabeth) — m. John (21) Pitkin — 207 466 mtmn unntv Parker, Willard — m. Mary Ann' Bissell — Pedigr. Parsons, Sarah— m. Samuel'^ V\iWn— Pedigr. Perkins, Enoch— m. Anne' VX^Wn— Pedigr. Perkins, Nathan — m. Catharine' Pitkin — Pedigr. Pitkin, Hannah— m. Elisha* ^xWm— Pedigr. Porter, Eleazur— ra. Sarah (ig) Pitkin— 207 Roberts, Benjamin — m. Dorothy^ Pitkin — Pedigr. Roberts, Mary — m, George Clap' Perkins— Pedigr. Seymour, Charles — m. Catharine* Perkins — Pedigr. Sherman, Louisa— m. James Sherwood' Pitkin — Pedigr. Smith, Rebecca — m. Jonathan' Pitkin — Pedigr. Stanley, Elizabeth— m. William (5) Pitkin— 204 Stanley, Hannah — m. Roger (4) Pitkin— 204 and Pedigr. Starr, Harriet L. — m. Thomas Clap" Pitkin— Pedigr. Steele, Lucy— m. Jonathan-* Vyi'&.m— Pedigr. Talcott, Russell Goodrich — m. Mary' Sey- mour — Pedigr. Thacher, James Kingsley — m. Emily Baldwin* Foster — Pedigr. Torrey, Hannah M. — m. Eli"* VaVvcl— Pedigr. Turner, Phcebe Dunham — m. Denison P.* VWWrC^— Pedigr. Wales, Josephine — m. Champion' Bissell — Pedigr. Welles, Elizabeth (or Rebecca) — m. Thomas (18) Pitkin— 207 Welles, Thomas— m. Martha (14) Pitkin— 206 West, Julia — m. Charles' Bissell — Pedigr. Westcott, Mary — m. Frederick Beecher' Perkins — Pedigr. Whitney, William Dwight — m. Elizabeth Wooster' Baldwin — Pedigr. Winchester, Susan— m. Simeon E.' Baldwin — Pedigr. WoLCOTT, Simon— m. Martha (3) Pitkin — 174 WoODBRiDGE, AsHEEL — m. Jerusha (22) (Pitkin) Edwards — 207 WoODBRiDGE, Mary — m. William (15) Pitkin — 207 467 pp. 215-224 I— BY MALE DESCENT Abigail" — (25), 216 Acton' — Pedigr. Amy' — Pedigr. Amy' — Pedigr. Bernard' — m. Fortescue — (38), 220, 222-23 Elizabeth'" — m. Churchill — (48), 223 Elizabeth'" — m. Gaylord — (7), 215 and Pedigr. Elizabeth" — (15), 216 Elizabeth" — (28), 216 Enoch" — m. Porter — (11), 216 Francis' — m. i. Tothill, 2. Davy — (52), 224 and Pedigr. Francis^— Pedigr. Gertrude' — Pedigr. Gilbert" — m. i. , 2. Shearman — Pedigr. Hannah" — m. Higley — (10), 216 Henry' — (45), 223 Hepzibah" — (30), 216 Hester" — m. Griswold — (31), 216 Humphrey' — Pedigr. Jacob'" — m. Bissell — (4), 215, 217 Jacob" — (34), 217 Joan' (or Johan) — Pedigr. Joan" — m. Collins — Pedigr. Joane' — ra. Raleigh — (47), 223 Job'^" — m. Wolcott — (i), 215, 216 Job"— (9), 216 Job" — m. (Clarke) Cook— (27), 2i6, 217 Job" — (32), 217 Job" — (36), 217 John' — m. Billet — (37), 220 John' — m. Antage — Pedigr. John' — m. Cruwys — Pedigr. JoHN^ — m. Keloway — Pedigr. John' — m. Cole — Pedigr. John* — m. (Auert) Martyn — Pedigr. John" — m. Grenville — (40), 220-21 John' — m. Button — (41), 223 John' — m. Boteler (or Butler)' — (42), 223 and Pedigr. John' — m. Rodgers — (2), 215, 217, 223 John'" — m. Moore — (3), 215-16 John'" — m. i. Yonge, 2. Strode — (50), 223 and Pedigi. John"— (8), 216 Joseph" — (18), 216 Joseph" — (29), 216 Lydia" — (14), 216 Mary' — Pedigr. Mary'" — m. Gaylord — (6), 215 and Pedigr. Mary"— (16), 216 Mary" — m. Marshall — (26), 216 Mary"^33), 217 Mindwell" — (17), 216 Nicholas' — ra. Tothill — Pedigr. 468 Uralte MXftv Richard'— m. Stafford— (53), 224 and Pedigr. Timothy'"— (5), 215 Robert'— m. Prideaux— (39), 220, 223 M&wy.k''— Pedigr. Robert*— (44), 223 Ruth"— (i2), 216 Sarah"— m. Trumble (or Trumbull)— (21), 216 Sarah''— m. Wolcott— (35), 217 Simon" — (13), 216 T^OUki^— Pedigr. William* — m. Dennis — (46), 223 William" son of Francis— /"^t/z;^?-. William' son of William — Pedigr. William' — (43), 223 William"^— (51), 223 2— BY FEMALE DESCENT Churchill, John", first Duke of Marlborough —(49). 223 HiGLEY, Hannah"— m. Trumbull— (19), 216 Silliman, Julia"— m. G\\xaz.-a.— Pedigr. Silliman, Maria Trumbull" — m. Church — Pedigr. SiLLiMAN, Benjamin" — m. Forbes — Pedigr. Trumbull (or Trumble), Benjamin'^ — m. Brown SiLLiMAN, Charles^<* — Pedigr. — (22), 216 SiLLiMAN, Edward" — Pedigr. Trumbull, Benjamin'* — (23), 216 Silliman, Faith Wadsworth" — m. Hubbard Trumbull, Harriet'^— m. Silliman — Pedigr. —Pedigr. Trumbull, Jonathan'^ — m. Robinson — (20), 216 Silliman, Harriet TmsM-&xi\.\}^— Pedigr. and Pedigr. Silliman, Henrietta" — m. Dana— /'lo'/^r. Trumbull, Jonathan" — m. Backus — Pedigr. Silliman, Jonathan Trumbull" — Pedigr. Trumbull, Lyman"— (24), 216 3— BY MARRIAGE Antage, Christiana — m. John' Drake — Pedigr. Button, Dorothy' — m. John (41) Drake — 223 Backus, Eunice — m. Jonathan'"" Trumbull — Pedigr. Champernon, Katharine — m. Walter Raleigh— Pedigr. Billet, Christiana— m. John (37) Drake — 220 Church, John B. — m. Maria Trumbull" Silli- Bissell, Mary — m. Jacob (4) Drake — 217 Boteler (or Butler), Elenor (or Helena)— m. John (42) Drake — Pedigr. Brown, Mary — m." Benjamin (22) Trumbull (or Trumble — 216 man — Pedigr. Churchill, Winston — m. Elizabeth (48) Drake —223 Cole, Margaret — m. Johni^ Drake — Pedigr. Collins, Robert — m. Joan' Xix'dV.e.— Pedigr. 469 "mvnUt MXftt Cook, Elizabeth (Clarke) — m. Job (27) Drake — 217 Cruwys, , — m. John^ Drake — Pedigr. Dana, James Dwight — m. Henrietta" Silliman — Pedigr. Davy, Philadelphia — m. Francis (52) Drake — Pedigr. Dennis (or Dennys or Denys), Philip (or Phillippa) — m. William (46) Drake — 223 Forbes, Susan H. — m. Benjamin'* Silliman — Pedigr. Fortescue, Gertrude — m. Bernard (38) Drake — 222, 223 Gaylord, , — m. Elizabeth (7) Drake — Pedigr. Gaylord, , — m. Mary (6) Drake — Pedigr. Oilman, Edward W. — ra. Julia'" Silliman — Pedigr. Grenville, Amye (or Ann) — m. John (40) Drake — 220 Griswold, Thomas — m. Hester (31) Drake — 216 Higley, John — m. Hannah (10) Drake — 216 Hubbard, Oliver P. — m. Faith Wadsworth'* Silliman — Pedigr. Keloway, Agneta — m. John'' Drake — Pedigr. Marshall, Thomas — m. Mary (26) Drake — 216 Martyn, Margaret (Auert) — m. John" Drake ^Pedigr. Moore, Hannah— m. John (3) Drake— 216 Porter, Sarah — m. Enoch (11) Drake — 216 Prideaux, Elizabeth — m. Robert (39) Drake — 223 Raleigh, Walter— m. i. Joane (47) Drake, 2. Katharine Champernon — 223 and Pedigr. Robinson, Faith— m. Jonathan (20) Trumbull— Pedigr. RoDGERS, Elizabeth — m. John (2) Drake— 215 Shearman, Catharine — m. Gilbert* Drake — Pedigr. Silliman, Benjamin — m. Harriet" Trumbull — Pedigr. Stafford, Ursula — m. Richard ^53) Drake — Pedigr. Strode, Dionvsia — m. John (50) Drake — Pedigr. ToTHiLL, Joan — m. Francis (52) Drake — Pedigr. Tothill, Katherine — m. Nicholas* Drake — Pedigr. Trumble (or Trumbull), Benoni — m. Sarah (21) Drake — 216 Trumbull, Joseph — m. Hannah (19) Higle)' — 216 WoLCOTT, Mary — m. Job (i) Drake — 215, 216 WoLCOTT, Roger — m. Sarah (35) Drake — 217 Yonge, Jane — m. John (50) Drake — Pedigr. 470 ®QHtn %nHt^ pp. 225-284 I— BY MALE DESCENT Aaron'— (316), 265 Amos' — (iii), 239 Aaron'— (322), 266 Ann' — (108), 239 Aaron'- m. Chetwood— (259), 259-61 Ann' — m. Hopkins — (423), 275 Aaron' — (311), 264 Ann Euretta' — (415), 275 Aaron'' — m. Travers — (272), 262 Anna'— m. Spencer— (149), 243 Abbie''— (351), 269 Anna' — m. Wetmore — (339), 267 Abby'— (59). 237 Anna Cora' — m. i. Mowatt, Abigail'' — m. Tuttle — (394), 272 2. Ritchie — (368), 271 Abigail'— (336), 267 Anna Maria'— m. Creighton— (548), 282 Abigail'— m. Milvern— (47), 236 Anna Maria' — m. Leggett — (386), 271 Abigail'— m. Pierson— (70), 237 Anne Meredith' — (508), 281 Abigail'— m. Price— (28), 235 Barbara C. S.' — (490), 2S0 Abigail'— (347), 26S Barnabas' — m. i. Sale, Abigail'— m. Ogden— (78), 237, 238 Abner Nash'— m. i. Smith, 2, Smith — (312), 264 Bayard' — (462), 277 2. Scott — (159), 245, 246-48 Benjamin'— m. Woodruff- (8), 234, 236 Abraham*— m. , — (567), 284 Benjamin^— (32), 236 Abraham' — (568), 284 Benjamin'— (rg), 235 Abraham' — m. Ludlow — (436), 275-76 Benjamin'— m. Ogden— (37), 236, 238 Abraham' — m. Barnwallt— (475), 279 Benjamin'— (38), 236 Abraham''— (55), 237 Beverly' — (295), 262 Abraham'' — (465), 279 Caroline'— m. Johnson — (531), 281 Adelaide Victoria*- m. Manson— /'c^%r. Caroline' — m. Ogden — (474), 279 Albert' — (103), 238 Catharine'' — m. i. Ogden, Albert' — (104), 238 2. Longworth— (406), 267, 273 Aleda' — (536), 282 Catharine' — (514), 281 Aleda' — m. Roode — (377), 271 Catharine'— m. VanCortlandt— (545), 282 Alfred' — m. Ogden — (483), 279 Catharine' — (338), 267 471 ©fltren Kntreir Catharine' — (383), 271 Catharine' — m. Andrews — (412), 274 Catharine' — m. Parker — (527), 281 Catharine''— (98), 238 Catharine' — (467), 279 Catharine' — (482), 279 Catharine Amanda' — (349), 269 Catharine D.' — (460), 277 Catharine F.' — (495), 280 Catharine H.' — m. Ogden— (444), 276, 277 Catharine L.' — m. Hammond — (449), 277 Cecilia' — m. Ymser^Fedigr. Charity' — (119), 239 Charity' — (41), 236 Charity' — m. Ogden — (81), 238 Charity'— (87), 238 Charity'— m. Price— (83), 238 Charles' — m. i. Gouverneur, 2. Clark — (379), 271 Charles' — m. i. CofBn, 2. Clark — (432), 275 Charles' — Pedigr. Charles' — (291), 262 Charles'— m. Meyer— (428), 275 Charles C— m. Wade— (384), 271 Charles Griffen' — Pedigr. Charles H.'— m. Ogden— (472), 279 Charles Hyde' — (385), 271 Charles John* — (397), 272 Charles L.'— m. Meredith— (450), 277 Charles LeRoux' — (452), 277 Charles William' — m. i. Shaler, 2. Dewees — (363), 271 Charlotte S.' — (491), 280 Charlotte Seton' — m. i. Yates, 2. Guillet — (358), 270 Christine* — m. Hamilton — Pedigr, Clarissa'— (341), 267 Cornelia' — m. Bainbridge— (561), 283 Daniel*— m. Ann , —(12), 235 David'— m. (Swayne) Ward— (6), 234, 236 David''— m. Abigail , —(318), 265 David*— (566), 283 David* — m. Gouverneur — (407), 273-74 David*— m. Ogden— (334), 267 David* — m. Woodruff^i36), 240 David'— (317), 265 David' — (335), 267 David' — m. Anna , — (22), 235 David'— (23), 235 David' — (310), 264 David'— (535), 282 David' — m. Richardson— (414), 275 David' — Pedigr. David'— (430), 275 David A.' — m. Edwards— (437), 276 David A.' — m. Lanfear— (448), 277 David B.'— m. Ogden— (517), 281 David Bayard' — (525), 281 David Judson' — (353), 269 David Longworth' — m. Judson — (348), 268-69 David N.'— (538), 282 Dayton' — m. Gracie — (274), 262 Dorothy' — ^29), 235 Duncan C — m. Cox — (447), 277 Edward' — m. Callender — (479), 279 Eleazer'— (569), 284 Eliakim' — (14), 235 Elias' — m. Anderson — (278), 262 Elias' — (no), 239 Elias' — m. Gordon — (288), 262 Elias Bailey Dayton' — m. I. Beasley, 2. Ford, 3. de Hart — (269),26i-62 472 ®0tren HnXttv Elihu* — (134), 240 Ezekiel' — (57), 237 Elihu' — m. Price — (109), 239 Florence' — m. Henry — (374), 271 Elihu" — (115), 239 Frances" — m. Edwards — (301), 263 Eliza DuLuze' — (523), 281 Frances Blanche' — m. Defau, baron de Pon- Elizabeth^ — in. Johnson — (393), 272 Elizabeth* — m. Nutman — (402), 272 Elizabeth" — (49), 236 Elizabeth'^ — (546), 282 Elizabeth^ — m. Johnson — (390), 272 Elizabeth*— m. McKee— (547), 282 Elizabeth" — m. Price — (140), 240 Elizabeth' — m. i. Woodruff, 2. Periam — (107), 238 talba — (248), 257 Frances L.' — (524), 281 Frances L.' — m. Holmes — (499), 281 Frances S." — m. Lawrence — (513), 281 Francis' — (160), 245 Francis Barber" — m. Pownall— (253), 257-59 Francis Barber' — (255), 259 Francis L.' — (473), 279 Frank' — (293), 262 Elizabeth* — (112), 239 Frederick' — (481), 279 Elizabeth" — (127), 239 Frederick Beasley' — m. Ford — (271), 262 Elizabeth* — m. Giles — (556), 283 Frederick Nash' — m. Lopez — (158), 245 Elizabeth" — m. Sachs — (381), 271 Frederick Nash* — {162), 246 Elizabeth' — (102), 238 Gabriel Lewis' — (364), 271 Elizabeth'' — (457), 277 Gabriel Lewis' — (370), 271 Elizabeth' — m. Henderson— (275), 262 George"— (35), 236 Elizabeth' — m. Wilgress — (424), 275 George B.' — m. Ogden — (477), 277, 279 Elizabeth Ann" — (40), 236 George Montgomery" — m. Merieult — (247), 257 Elizabeth Chetwood' — (264), 261 George Parish' — m. Craft— (496), 280 Elizabeth M." — (346), 268 Georgiana Blanche'— (254), 259 Elizabeth Martha*^ — Pedigr. Gertrude" — (539), 282 Elizabeth Platt" — m. Jackson — (152), 245 Gertrude" — m. Meredith— (516), 281 Emilie' — m. Ogden — (484), 279 Gertrude G.' — m. Briggs — (505), 281 Emily Fairlie' — m. Nelson — (372), 271 Gertrude G. W.' — m. Gordon — (494), 280 Emma Frances' — m. i. Mecke, 2. Burridge— (367), 271 Gertrude Gouverneur" — m. Waddington — (486), 280 Emma Seton' — (421), 275 Gertrude S." — (541), 282 Enoch"— (46), 236 Gertrude W.' — m. Harison — (469), 279 Euphemia" — (528), 281 Gouverneur" — m. Seton— (487), 280 Euphemia'— (522), 281 Gouverneur' — (492), 280 Euretta'— (485), 279 Gouverneur M.' — m. Evans — (520), 281 Euretta Mary' — Pedigr. Grace Priscilla' — (373), 271 Ezekiel" — m. Ogden — (54), 237 Hammond' — (464), 279 473 #flt»eu Hvcatv Hammond'' — m. Berthude — (459), 277 Hannah^ — m. Bond — (3), 234 Hannah'— m. Meeker — (129), 239 Hannah*— m. Williams— (398), 272 Hannah*— m. Winans— (131), 240 Hannah' — (122), 239 Hannah' — (277), 262 Hannah'— m. Caldwell— (323), 266 Hannah*— (43), 236 Hannah'— (93), 238 Hannah' — m. Lyon— (116), 239 Hannah'— (105), 238 Hannah Amelia J.'— m. Ryerson— (237), 254 Harriet S.'— nn. i. Ogden, 2. Harison— (488), 276, 280 Harriett' — m. Evans— (431), 275 Harriett" — m. Young — (560). 283 Harriett Evans'— (419), 275 Hatfield'— (94), 238 Hatfield' — (61), 237 Henry'— (564), 283 Henry' — (240), 254 Henry' — (252), 257 Henry'— m. Seton— (416), 275 Henry'— (281), 262 Henry'— (294), 262 Henry'— (420), 275 Henry'— (427), 275 Henry * — Pedigr. Henry D.'— m. Waggaman— (258), 259 Henry H.'— m. Kennedy— (478), 279 Henry Merrill'— (388), 271 Henry N.'— (537), 282 Henry Warren' — (298), 262 Henry Warren'— m. Lautermann— (286), 262 Hermann T.'— (540J, 282 Ichabod' — (125), 239 Ichabod'— m. Mary , —(126), 239 Ichabod' — (56), 237 Isaac'— m. Browne— (20), 235 Isaac*— (404), 272 Isaac'— (36), 236. Isaac'— (408), 274 Isaac'— m. i. Browne, 2. Hanson— (410), 274-75 Isaac'— (27), 235 Isaac' — (39), 236 Isaac'— m. Meredith— (504), 281 Isaac'— m. Walker— (422), 275 Isaac'— (426), 275 Isaac'— m. M-Z-vvsov.— Pedigr. Isaac' — Pedigr. Isaac Crane'— (ioi), 238 Isaac Edwards'— m. i. (Merieult) Ogden, 2. Hannah, 3. Chamberlain— (438), 276 Isabella'— (530), 281 J. Gordon'— (289), 262 Jacob*- m. , — (34)> 236 Jacob*— m. Bradford— (544), 282 Jacob'— m. , —(45), 236 Jacob'— m. Depeyster— (552), 282 Jacob'— m. Rockwell— (337), 267 Jacob' — (342), 268 Jacob'— m. Harding— (343), 268 James Depeyster'— (553), 282-83 James Kilbourn' — (58), 237 James Lawrence' — (100), 238 James Lennox'— (458), 277 Jane Chandler'— (256), 259 Jemima' — (30), 235 Jemima* — m. Pierson— (400), 272 Jeremiah'— (202), 251 474 evexi.\n..— Pedigr. Katharine Bayard* — Pedigr. K EZ I A* — Pedigr. Laura Woolsey* — m. Carmalt — Pedigr. Lillie' — Pedigr. 488 3}oi)n0on MJitv Louise' — m. Campbell — ■Pedigt. Lydia' — m. Thomson — Pedigr. Margaret' — m. Brown — (75), 310 Margaret' — -(49), 295 Margery' — m. Camp — (44), 295 Martha* — (23), 294 Martha'' — Pedigr. Martha*— m. Ward — (96), 316 Martha' — m. Day — Pedigr. Mary* — m. Stone — (22), 294 Mary* — m. Chittenden — (32), 294 Mary' — (93), 316 Mary' — m. Johnson — (37), 294, 295 Mary' — m. Leak — Pedigr. Mary' — m. Noyes — (116), 350 Mary' — Pedigr. Mary' — (64), 305 Mary' — m. Bulkeley — (113), 349 Mary Ann Bayard' — m. Hogg — Pedigr. Mary Anne' — Pedigr. Mercy' — m. Scranton — (25), 294 Mercy*— (56), 295 Moses* — Pedigr. Nathan' — Pedigr. Nathaniel* — (28), 294 Nathaniel* — m. Ogden — (83), 313, 314-16 Nathaniel* — m. i. Morgan, 2. , — (43), 295 and Pedigr. N ATHANI el' — Pedigr. Nathaniel' — (51), 295 Nathaniel'— (118), 351 Nathaniel' — (40), 294 Nicholas Bayard' — Pedigr. Ogden' — Pedigr. Phcebe* — (90), 314 Phcebe* — Pedigr. Phcebe* — m. Atwood — Pedigr. Phoebe' — m. Johnson — Pedigr. Pholbe' — m. Carter — Pedigr. Pierrepont Edwards* — m. Austin — Pedigr. Rachel'— (53), 295 Rachel' — m. Lemon — Pedigr. Rebecca' — m. Cole — Pedigr. Robert^ — m. Adaline , — (2), 286-90, 291 Robert' — (17), 292-93 Robert* — Pedigr. Robert Charles' — m. Bayard — (72), 305 Robert Charles' — (70), 305 Ruth* — m. Dorman — (9), 292 Sally Banks' — (no), 349 Samuel* — (5), 291 Samuel* — m. , — (85), 314 Samuel* — m. Sage — (27), 294 Samuel* — m. i. (Floyd) NicoU, 2. ( — ) Beach — (31), 294, 296-304 Samuel' — m. Collins — (45), 295 Samu el' — Pedigr. Samuel' — m. , — (41), 294 and Pedigr. Samuel' — m. Hill — (46), 295 Samuel' — Pedigr. Samuel Collins' — Pedigr. Samuel V.' — Pedigr. Samuel William' — m. Edwards — (65), 305 Samuel William' — Pedigr. Samuel William' — m. Sanderson — Pedigr. Samuel William* — m. Verplanck — Pedigr. Sarah* — (26), 294 Sarah* — m. Canfield — Pedigr. Sarah* — m. Wolcott — (8), 292 Sarah* dau. of Ebenezer — Pedigr. Sarah* dau. of John — Pedigr. Sarah* — (97), 316 Sarah*— m. Camp — (87), 314 Sarah' — m. Griswold — (100), 346 489* 3)oi^nfiion KnTrer Sarah' — m. Wilmot — Pedigr. Sarah«— (62), 305 Sarah Alexander' — m. i. Rutgers, 2. Birch — Pedigr. Thomas*— m. , —(91), 316 Timothy'— m. , —(86), 314 Timothy*— (58), 295 Timothy'— (50), 295 Sarah Bryan' — Pedigr. Timothy"— (38), 294 Sarah Elizabeth' — m. Devereux — (68), 305 Timothy C!'— Pedigr. Saving'' — (79), 310 Uzal*— m. , — Pedigr. Sidney Law' — m. Covington — (15), 292 and UzAl' — Pedigr. Pedigr. William'— m. Bushnell— (iq), 293 Solomon' — Pedigr. William' — Pedigr. Stephen'' — m. i. Diodate, 2. (Gardiner) Blague, 3, Leverett — (95), 316, 317-46 Stephen' — (92), 316 William* — (30), 294 William* — (55), 295 William' — Pedigr. Stephen' — m. Lord — (105), 349 William'— (52). 295 Susan Edwards' — Pedigr. William' — (60), 304 Susan Edwards' — m. Hudson — Pedigr. William' — (115), 350 Sybil' — m. Pardee — Pedigr. William' — Pedigr. Theodore Woolsev' — Pedigr. William Jarvis McAlpine' — Pedigr. Theodores' — Pedigr. William Samuel' — m. I. Beach, Thomas' — m. i. ■ , 2. Hitchcock, 3. Ellena , — (3), 286, 306-10, 311 2. (Brewster) Beach — (59), 303-05 William Samuel' — m. Woolsey — (67), 305 Thomas'— (18), 293 William Woolsey' — m. Batcheller — Pedigr. Thomas' — m. Swayne— (81), 310-11 Woolsey' — m. Robertson — Pedigr. Thomas^ — Pedigr. Woolsey McAlpine' — Pedigr. 490 Soiinfiion Mtftv 2— BY FEMALE DESCENT Banks, Jacob Jamison'^ — Pedigr. Devereux, Katharine' — m. Edmonston — Beaton, Grace Bulkeley' — Pedigr. Pedigr. Beaton, Minnie Luana' — Pedigr. Devereux, Mary'— m. CXtliYh— Pedigr. Bellamy, Arthur Muirson' — Pedigr. Devereux, Sophia' — m. Turner — Pedigr. Bellamy, Margaret Bayard' — Pedigr. Hogg, Thomas'— m. , — Pedigr. Bellamy, Robert 'Qkyk'Kd'^— Pedigr. Huntington, Anna Lord' — Pedigr. Bellamy, William Woolsey' — Pedigr. Huntington, Curtis Diodati' — Pedigr. Birch, Margaret Rutgers* — m. VanRensselaer Huntington, Helen TowNSEND'-^/'fo'j^f?-. —Pedigr. Huntington, Joseph Selden'— m. Curtis— (112), 349 and Pedigr. Birch, Robert DeWitt' — m. Vreeland — Pedigr. Huntington, Joseph Selden' — Pedigr. Brainerd, Elizabeth* — (103), 347 Matson, Anthony VanBergen' — Pedigr. Brainerd, Hezekiah" — (102), 347 Matson, Charles' — Pedigr. Brainerd, Mary' — (104), 347-49 Matson, Clarine VanBergen'— /'^fl'?;^?-. Bulkeley, Mary Ann'' — m. Brandegee — Pedigr. Matson, Xi^k-KL^— Pedigr. BuLKFTFY, Mary Ann' — m. Beaton — Pedigr. Matson, Lucy' — Pedigr. Bulkeley, Sylvester'' — Pedigr. Matson, Nathaniel' — m. Glover — Pedigr. Bulkeley, 'William Johnson'' — m. Belden — Pedigr. Matson, Peter' — Pedigr. Carmalt, Ethel' — Pedigr. Matson, Stephen' — Pedigr. Carmalt, Geraldine 'Woolsey' — Pedigr. Matson, Stephen Johnson' — m. "VanBergen (109), 349 and Pedigr. Carmalt, Laurance Johnson' — Pedigr. Matson, "William Buckingham' — Pedigr. Carter, Phcebe'' — Pedigr. Mezes, Carmelita C — m. "Wynne — Pedigr. Chittenden, Thomas' — (33), 294 Mezes, Isabel C.^— Pedigr. Devereux, Elizabeth Johnson* — Mezes, Sidney Edward' — Pedigr. m. I. Umsted, 2. ^\2iV^— Pedigr. Morris, Charlotte J.'— m. Uou^hion— Pedigr. Devereux, Elizabeth Pollock' — m. Jones — Noyes, Mary Ann* — (117), 350-51 Pedigr. Rutgers, Charles Johnson' — Pedigr. Devereux, Frances Ann Johnson' — m. Miller — Rutgers, Cornelia VanRensselaer'— m. Har- Pedigr. denbergh — Pedigr. Devereux, Georgina Pollock' — m. Townsend Rutgers, Elizabeth' — m. Baldwin — Pedigr. —Pedigr. Rutgers, Gerard' — Pedigr. Devereux, Honorah' — m. C-s.msan— Pedigr. Rutgers, Katharine' — m. NeiXson-Pedigr. Devereux, John' — m. Mordecai — Pedigr. "Ward, Josiah' — Pedigr. 491 SloJinson Kntrer J— BY MARRIAGE , Abigail — m. Eliphalet (78) Johnson— 311 Blake, Grenfill — m. Elizabeth Johnson' (Dev- , Adaline — ereux) \ims\&A— Pedigr. m. I. Robert (2) Johnson, Brainard, Esther— m. Gurdon (47) Johnson — 2. Robert Hill, 295 3. John Scranton — 288, 290, 291 Brainerd, Hezekiah — m. Elizabeth (loi) John- , Ellena — m. Thonnas (3) Johnson — 310 son— 347 , LiLLIE — m. John* Johnson — Pedigr. Brandegee, John — m. Mary Ann' Bulkeley — Alden, Roger — m. Glorianna (63) Johnson — 305 — Pedigr. Atwood, , — in. Phojbe'' Johnson — Pedigr. Brown, Joseph — m. Margaret (75) Johnson— 310 Austin, Alvira — m. Pierrepont Edwards' John- son — Pedigr. Bulkeley, Sylvester — m. Mary (113) Johnson —349 Baldwin, Henry — m. Elizabeth' Rutgers — Pedigr. BusHNELL, Elizabeth — m. William (19) Johnson —293 Banks, James — m. Catharine (98) Johnson — 316 Camp, Caleb — m. Sarah (87) Johnson— 314 Bartlett, George— m. Abigail (54) Johnson— Camp, David — m. Margery (44) Johnson — 295 295 Campbell, Henry — m. Louise' Johnson — Pedigr. Batcheller, Susanna Leverett — m. William Camson, Dr. , — m. Honorah' Devereux — Woolsey' Johnson — Pedigr. Pedigr. Bayard, Katharine — m. Robert Charles (72) Canfield, , — m. Elizabeth' Johnson — Pedigr. Johnson — 305 Canfield, , — m. Sarah' Johnson — Pedigr. Beach, Ann — m. William Samuel (59) Johnson — Canfield, Abigail — m. John'' Johnson — Pedigr. 304 Canfield, Joseph — m. a dau. of Samuel (85) Beach, Hannah — m. Jotham' Johnson — Pedigr. Johnson — Pedigr. Beach, Mary (Brewster) — m. William Samuel Carmalt, William Henry — m. Laura Woolsey' (59) Johnson — 305 and Pedigr. J oh n so n — Pedigr. Beach, Sarah ( ), — m. Samuel (31) Johnson Carter, Caleb — m. Phoebe' Johnson — Pedigr. — 296 Chittenden, Ebenezer — m. Mary (32) Johnson Beaton, Charles Henry — m. Mary Ann'Bulke- —294 ley — Pedigr. Clarke, William — m. Mary' Devereux — Pedigr. Beecher, David— m. Esther' }o\i-ason— Pedigr. CoE, Dea. , — m. Abigail (36) Johnson — 295 Belden, Luana — m. William Johnson' Bulkeley —Pedigr. Cole, , — m. Rebecca' Johnson — Pedigr. Bellamy, William — m. Anna Muirson' Johnson — Pedigr. Collins, Margaret — m. Samuel (45) Johnson — 295 Birch, Robert — m. Sarah Alexander' (Johnson) Rutgers — Pedigr. Covington, Cornelia — m. Sidney Law (15) Johnson — Pedigr. Blague, Mary (Gardiner) — rn. Stephen (95) Crane, , m. Elizabeth* ]ohxi?,oa.— Pedigr. Johnson — 317 Crane, Eunice — m. David (94) Johnson — 316 492 3o'^nnon M^tv Cravat, , — m. Elizabeth' Johnson — Pedigr. Curtis, Sarah Elizabeth — m. Joseph Selden (112) Huntington — Pedigr. Day, Aaron — m. Martha' Johnson — Pedigr. Devereux, George Pollock — m. Sarah Eliza- beth (68) Johnson — 305 Devereux, Thomas Pollock — m. Katharine Ann' Johnson — Pedigr. Diodate, Elizabeth — m. Stephen {95) Johnson —317 DoRMAN, Benjamin — m. Ruth (9) Johnson — 292 Doty, E. Marcia — m. Alfred VanCleve' John- son — Pedigr. Dowdall, Anne Johnson — m. Edwards (69) Johnson — 305 Edmonston, Patrick — m. Katharine* Devereux — Pedigr. Edwards, Susan — m. Samuel William (65) John- son — 305 Elliot, Richard R. — m. Catharine (114) Johnson —349 FooTE, Joseph — m. Abigail (10) Johnson — 292 Fowler, John — m. Ann (20) Johnson — 294 Francis, , — m. Fidelia' Johnson — Pedigr. Gilbert, Sarah — m. Abraham (12) Johnson — 292 GiLLEY, Harriet — m. Ebenezer Alfred (16) John- son — Pedigr. Glover, Anna — m. Nathaniel* Matson — Pedigr. GouvERNEUR, , — m. Experience* Johnson — Pedigr. Grannest (or Granniss), Mabel — m. John (7) Johnson — 292 Griswold, John — m. Sarah (100) Johnson — 346 Hall, Samuel — m. Elizabeth (29) Johnson — 294 Hardenbergh, Warren — m. Cornelia VanRens- selaer' Rutgers — Pedigr. Hill, Huldah — m. Samuel (46) Johnson — 295 Hill, Robert — m. Adaline ( — ) Johnson — 288 Hitchcock, Frances — m. Thomas (3) Johnson — 310 Hogg, Gavin — m. Mary Ann Bayard' Johnson — Pedigr. Houghton, William A. — m. Charlotte J.^ Morris — Pedigr. Hudson, William H. — m. Susan Edwards* John- son — Pedigr. Hummerstone, Samuel — m. Hannah (6) Johnson — 291 Huntington, Selden — m. Ann (iii) Johnson — 349 Jacobs, , — m. Hannah' Johnson — Pedigr. Johnson, Daniel' — m. Phoebe' Johnson — Pedigr. Johnson, Phcebe' — m. Daniel' Johnson — Pedigr. Johnson, William — m. Mary (37) Johnson — 295 Jones, Thomas F. — m. Elizabeth Pollock' Dev- ereux — Pedigr. Keen, , — m. Hannah' Johnson — Pedigr. Kneeland, Ebenezer — m. Charity (61) Johnson —305 Law, Sarah Bryan — m. Ebenezer (14) Johnson — 292 Leak, , — m. Mary' Johnson — Pedigr. Lemon, , — m. Rachel' Johnson — Pedigr. Leverett, Abigail — m. Stephen (95) Johnson — 317 Lord, Ann — m. Stephen (105) Johnson — 349 McAlpine, Elizabeth Jarvis — m. Charles Fred- erick' Johnson — Pedigr. Matson, Israel — m. Catharine (108) Johnson — 349 Mezes, S. M.— m. Juliet C* ]o\in50-a— Pedigr. Miller, Henry — m. Frances Ann Johnson' Dev- ereux — Pedigr. Mordecai, Margaret — m. John' Devereux — Pedigr. Morgan, Margery— m. Nathaniel (43) Johnson —295 Morris, DeWitt C. — m. Charlotte Augusta' Johnson — Pedigr. Mott, Laura— m. Alfred VanCIeve' Johnson — Pedigr. 493 3ofinnon Mtttv Neilson, Theodore — m. Katharine' Rutgers — I'edigr. NicoLL, Charity (Floyd)— m. Samuel (31) John- son — 2g6 NoYES, Matthew — m. Mary (116) Johnson — 350 Ogden, Elizabeth — m. John (84) Johnson — 314 Ogden, Sarah — m. Nathaniel (83) Johnson— 316 Pardee, , — m. Sybil'' Johnson — Pedigr. Parmelee, Caleb — m. (?) Abigail (80) Johnson — Pedigr. Parmelee, Hannah — m. John (4) Johnson — 291 Peck, Stephen — m. Elizabeth (107) Johnson — 349 Pierson, Rebecca — m. Joseph (73) Johnson — 310 Pringle, Edward J. — m. Cornelia Letitia' John- son — Pedigr. Punderson, Esther — m. Ebenezer (13) Johnson — 292 Roberts, Sarah — m. George Dowdall' Johnson — Pedigr. Robertson, Katharine — m. Woolsey' Johnson — Pedigr. Rutgers, Anthony — m, Sarah Alexander' John- son — Pedigr. Sage, Mary — m. Samuel (27) Johnson — 294 Sanderson, Frances A. — m. Samuel William* Johnson — Pedigr. Scranton, John — m. Adaline (— ) Johnson-Hill —288 Scranton, John — m. Mercy (25) Johnson — 294 Smith, , — m. Deborah' Johnson — Pedigr. Stone, Thomas — m. Mary (22) Johnson — 294 Swayne, Sarah — m. Thomas (81) Johnson — 310 Terry, Ellen Frances — m. Charles Frederick* Johnson — Pedigr. Thomson, , — m. Lydia' Johnson — Pedigr. Townsend, John — m. Georgina Pollock' Dev- ereux — Pedigr. Turner, Josiah — m. Sophia* Devereux — Pedigr. Umsted, F. G. Q. — m. Elizabeth Johnson* Dev- ereux — Pedigr. VanBergen, Esther — m. Stephen Johnson (109) Matson — Pedigr. VanCleve, Margaret F. — m. Ebenezer Alfred (16) ]o\va.?,o-i\ — Pedigr. VanRensselaer, James Henry — m. Margaret Rutgers* Birch — Pedigr. Verplanck, Daniel C. — m. Elizabeth (71) John- son — 305 Verplanck, Mary — m. Samuel William* Johnson — Pedigr. Vreeland, Delia — m. Robert DeWitt* Birch — Pedigr. Ward, Deborah — m. Eliphalet (78) Johnson — 311 Ward, Uzal — m. Martha (96) Johnson — 316 Wilmot, , — m. Sarah' Johnson — Pedigr. Wolcott, John — m. Sarah (8) Johnson — 292 WooLSEY, Laura — m. William Samuel (67) John- son — 305 WooLSEY, Sarah — m. Charles Frederick'' John- son — Pedigr. Wynne, Ernest ■ Pedigr. ■ m. Carmelita C* Mezes — 494 ^jcru£ atx£ ^wague Itxiljea^ pp. 353-361 , Joanna — m. Samuel Swayne — 357 Bond, Elizabeth — m. Robert Swaine— 361 Bond, Sir George — 354 Bond, Hannah — 354 Bond, Jane — m. John Ogden — 353 Bond, Joseph — 354 Bond, Joseph son of Joseph — 354 Bond, Robert (living 1431) — 354 Bond, Robert — m. I. Hannah Ogden, 2. Calkins— 353-54, 357, 361 Bond, Robert — m. Mary Hody — 354 Bond, Stephen — m. Bethia ( — ) Lawrence — 354 Bond, Sir Thomas — 354 Calkins, , — m. Robert Bond — 354 Crane, Jasper — m. Joanna Swayne — 357 Johnson, Stephen — 357 Johnson, Thomas — m. Sarah Swayne — 357 Lampson, Eleazer — m. Abigail Swayne — 357 Lawrence, Bethia ( — ), — m. Stephen Bond — 354 Ogden, David — m. Elizabeth (Swayne) Ward — 357 Ogden, Hannah — m. Robert Bond — 353 Ogden, John — m. Jane Bond — 353, 357 Rose, Dorcas — m. Daniel Swayne — 356 Swain, Samuel — 359 Swaine, , — 359 Swaine, Robert — m. Elizabeth Bond — 361 Swayn, William — 359 Swayne, Miss , — m. Symonds — 360 Swayne, Abigail — m. Eleazer Lampson — 357 Swayne, Caroline Ann — 359 Swayne, Christiana — m. Nathaniel Ward — 357 Swayne, Daniel — m. Dorcas Rose — 356 Swayne, Deborah — m. , — 356 Swayne, Dorcas — m. i. Taintor, 2. Wheeler — 356 Swayne, Elizabeth — m. i. Josiah Ward, 2. David Ogden — 357 Swayne, George — m. , — 360 Swayne, Henry — 360 Swayne, Henry James Fowle — 359 Swayne, Joanna — m. Jasper Crane — 357 Swayne, John — m. , — 356 Swayne, Nicholas — 359 Swayne, Robert — 360 Swayne, Samuel — 360 Swayne, Samuel — m. , — 360 Swayne, Samuel — m. Joanna , — 356-57, 361 Swayne, Sarah — m. Thomas Johnson — 357 Swayne, Thomas (alias William) — 359 Swayne, William — 359, 360 Swayne, William — m. , — 355-356, 358 Swein, , —359 SwEYN, Thomas — 359 Symonds, , m. Miss Swayne — 360 Taintor, , m. Dorcas Swayne — 356 Ward, Josiah— m. Elizabeth Swayne — 357 Ward, Nathaniel — ra. Christiana Swayne — 357 Wheeler, , — m. Dorcas (Swayne) Taintor — 356 495 pp. 363-412 I— BY MALE DESCENT Abraham" — m. Tronchin — Pedigr. Abraham Trouwers'' — Pedigr. Avolfhe"— Pedigr. Adolphe'* — Pedigr. Agatha" — Pedigr. Aldegonde"" — Pedigr. Alessandro^ — m. Guinigelli — (3), 371 and Pedigr. Alessandro' — m. i. Noceto, 2. Balbani — (y), ■^■^2 and Pedigr. Alessandro' — Pedigr. Alessandro' — m. Bernardi — Pedigr. Alexandre" — m. Minutoli — (21), 380 and Pedigr. Alexandre'^ — Pedigr. Alexandre Am:^d£e fiDOUARD" — m. Vernet — (48), 395 and Pedigr. Am:6lie^'' — Pedigr. Andrea* — Pedigr. Angelica' — m. Bernardi — Pedigr. Angelica'" — Pedigr. Anna'" — Pedigr. Anne" — m. Burlamaqui — (15), 374 and Pedigr. Anne Marie'^ — m. Roodt — Pedigr. Antoine Josue" — m. Rilliet — (46), 395 Antonio* — (6), 372 Antonio' — Pedigr. Antonio' 2d — Pedigr. Arrigo' — m. , — Pedigr. Arrigo'" — Pedigr. Artemise'" — Pedigr. Artemisio'" — Pedigr. Arthur' * — Pedigr. Bartolommeo'' — m. di Venezia — Pedigr. Benedetto'" — m. -, — Pedigr. Camilla' — m. Cenami — Pedigr. Carolo' — m. I. Miqueli, 2. Mei — (10), 374 and Pedigr. Cassandra'" — Pedigr. Caterina' — m. 'QMOTwxA'^Pedigr. Caterina'— ra. Arnolfini— /'^<2'/;j-r. Catharine Anne" — m. Du Hamel — Pedigr. CifesAR" — m. I. Patac, 2. de Wulson — Pedigr. Cesare' — Pedigr. Charles"— (39), 393 Charles'^ — (54), 396-97 Charles'" — Pedigr. Charles" — Pedigr. Charles Aloys" — m, Eynard — (51), 395 and Pedigr. Chiara"— ra. \i\oAz.\.\— Pedigr. Cornelio' — m. , — (i), 370 Diodato'* — Pedigr. DiODATo'" — Pedigr. DiODATo'" — m. I. Miqueli, 2. de Bud6 — Pedigr. DioDATo" — m. 1. de Marlines, 2. de Domestrel — Pedigr. DoROTH^E^' — Pedigr. 496 Hfotratf HnXttv itDOVA.RD^'^—Pedigr. Geronimo" — Pedigr. i^LIE'"— (20), 380 Giovanna' — Pedigr. ijusABETH'" — m. Offredi — Pedigr. Giovanni'' — Pedigr. i)LI SABETH" — Pedigr. Giovanni'"— (26), 381 :6lisabeth" — m. Lejeune— /"^(/zfr. Girolamo" — Pedigr. ElisABEth^^ — Pedigr. Giuditta'" — m. Burlamaqui — Pedigr. Elisabeth"— i'^(/!>r. GlULio'"- (27), 381 Elisabeth" — Pedigr. GlULl ' * — Pedigr. idlLlSABETH RENiE" — m. Hurgonje — Pedigr. GlULlo Cesare'" — Pedigr. Elisabetta* — Pedigr. UtiJkn^'^''— Pedigr. Elisabetta'' 2d — Pedigr. H^Li;NE'8— m. 'LeForl— -Pedigr. Elisabetta' — m. Buonvisi — Pedigr. Henriette" — Pedigr. Elisabetta'" — m. Miqueli — Pedigr. Isaac" — Pedigr. Elizabeth" — m. Scarlett — (60), 402, 403, 404-08 Isaac" — m. Chapius — Pedigr. Elizabeth" Diodate — m. Johnson — (61), 404 Isabella Cornelia'^ — Pedigr. Emma" — m. Sarasin: — Pedigr. Jacoba" — Pedigr. Esther" — Pedigr. Jacoba" — Pedigr. ive'' — m. Correard — Pedigr. Jacobus" — m. Nolthenius — Pedigr. EwALDUS van Ewout'^ — m. L'Estevenon — Jacobus" — Pedigr. Pedigr. Jacqueline" — Pedigr. Fabio^— Pedigr. Jacques'^ — Pedigr. Fabio^O— Pedigr. Jacques'^ — Pedigr. Ferrando' — m. Diodati — Pedigr. Jacques Am^d^ie" — m. i. Pasteur, Filippa'" — Pedigr. FrANQOIS" — Pedigr. Gabriel"— m. Mestrefat — (23), 380 and Pedigr. Gabriel" — Pedigr. Gabriel Charles" — m. Plantamour— (49), 395 and Pedigr. 2. de Morsier — (47), 395 and Pedigr. Jean" — m. Burlamaqui — (13), 374, 384-92 Jean" — m. Patac — (22), 380 and Pedigr. ]ean^^— Pedigr. Jean'' — m. Trouwers — (37), 393, 394 Gabrielle" — m. Gautier — Pedigr. Jean'2 son of Gabriel— /"i-i/zVr. Geertruida'* — m. van Stipriaan Luis9ius — Jean'' son of Rudolphe — Pedigr. Pedigr. Jean'^— (24), 381 Geronimo' — m. Noceto— (8), 372 and Pedigr. Jean" — Pedigr. Geronimo* — Pedigr. Jean Louis'- — m. Sarasin — Pedigr. Geronimo' — m. Bernard! — Pedigr. Jeanne Marianne" — m. Mass6 — Pedigr. Geronimo' — m. Arnolfini — Pedigr. Johanna Aldegonda" — m. van Schoolen — Geronimo'" — Pedigr. Pedigr. 497 John" — m. i. Underwood, 2. Sarah , —(53), 3<)6, 400, 402 and Pedigr. John" — m. i. Tilney, 2. Morton— (57), 400 John'* — m. Trouwers — See Jean John" — Pedigr. John" 2d — Pedigr. John" — (58), 402 Joseph"- (11), 374 Judith'^ — m. Rilliet — Pedigr. Judith" — Pedigr. Judith" — Pedigr. Letro'" — Pedigr. Lorenzo"— m. Arnolfini— (29), 382 and Pedigr. Lorenzo!'- m. Bellet— (31), 382, 383 Lorenzo'*- (33), 382 Lucrezia' — m. Cenami — Pedigr. LUISA* — m. Dati — Pedigr. Madeleine" — m. de Pellissari — (17), 374 and Pedigr. Magdalena" — Pedigr. Manette Columbine'' — m. Baraban — Pedigr. Marc^^ — (41), 394 Marc^' — Pedigr. Margherita' — Pedigr. Margherita* 2d — Pedigr. Marguerite'8— m. (je CaadoWe— Pedigr. Maria' — Pedigr. Maria' — m. di Nobili — Pedigr. Maria^" — Pedigr. Maria Elisabeth" — Pedigr. Maria Elisabeth'" — m. van Stipriaan Luisgius — Pedigr. Maria Magdalena"— /"(ff/zf?-. Marie'"— m. OfFredi— (16), 374 and Pedigr. Marie"- dau. of Alexandre— /"^^aV- Marie" dau. of Jean — Pedigr. Marie''— m. Flamand— /'^rf'- yiksis^''— Pedigr. Marie Antoinette" — Pedigr. Mario' — Pedigr. Martin Jacob" — m. Verviers — (45). 395 and Pedigr. Martino' — Pedigr. Martino'"- m. , —Pedigr. MatthAus Emanuel" — Pedigr. Mercy'^ — Pedigr. Mercy" 2d — Pedigr. Michele"— m. Luppi— (2), 370 and Pedigr. Michele' — m. Buonvisi — (5), 372 Michele' — m. Buonvisi — (9), 373 Michele'" — Pedigr. Nancy'-* — m. Maurice — Pedigr. Nicolas" — Pedigr. Nicol6'— m. di Poggio— (4), 372 Nicol6«— m. Arnolfini— (18), 377 Nicol6»— m. Buonvisi— {25), 381 and Pedigr. Nicol6" — Pedigr. Nicolosa" — Pedigr. Octavie^' — m. Pictet — Pedigr. Olympia'" — Pedigr. Olympia'" — m. Diodati — Pedigr. Orazio'" — Pedigr. O RTEN SI a'" — Pedigr. Ottaviano' — m. di Casa Nuova — (28), 382 Ottaviano" — m. Cavallari — (30), 382 and Pedigr. Ottaviano" — m. , — (32), 382 and Pedigr. Ottavio" — Pedigr. Paolina" — Pedigr. Paolo" — Pedigr. Paolo' — m. Nieri — Pedigr. Petronella'' — Pedigr. Philadelphia" — (52), 396, 397 498 motiati Mtftv Philip" — m. Blanker! — See Philippe Sebastiaan Philippe" — m. Francken — (42), 394 Philippe" — (43), 395 Philippe Sebastiaan"— m. Blanker! — (36), 393, 394 PlERRE^^ — Pedigr. PlETRO^ — Pedigr. Pomp^e" — Pedigr. PoMPEio' — m. I. Calandrini, 2. Balbani — (19), 377, 380 and Pedigr. Ralph'* — m. Saaijmans — See Rudolphe Ren^e"— (35), 393 Richard"— (55), 397 Rudolphe*' (or Ralph) — m. Saaijmans — (38), 393, 394 Salomon" — m. Slott — (44), 395 Salomon" — m. Dejean — Pedigr. Salomon Th^iodore" — m. Rigaud — (50), 395 and Pedigr. Samuel*" — (14), 374 Samuel" — (40), 394 Samuel" son of Gabriel — Pedigr. Samuel" son of Rudolphe — Pedigr. Samuel" — m. de Jeude — Pedigr. Sara" — Pedigr. Sara Lydia" — m. Verelst — Pedigr. Sarah" Diodate — Pedigr. Scipione'" — Pedigr. Simon" — Pedigr. Sophie" — m. LuUin — Pedigr. Susanna' — m. Barlolommeo — Pedigr. Susanna'" — m. de Saussure de Domptmartin — Pedigr. Susanna" — m. Hoytema — Pedigr. SusANNE" — Pedigr. Teodoro* — Pedigr. Theodore'" — m. i. , 2. Abigail , — (12), 374, 396, 397) 398 and Pedigr. Th^iodore" — (34), 393 Theodore" — (56), 398 ViNCENZO' — m. Buonvisi — Pedigr. VinCEN^'" — Pedigr. ViNCENZo" — Pedigr. William" Diodate — m. Dunbar — (59), 402 404 and Pedigr. 2— BY FEMALE DESCENT Candolle, Genevieve" de — Pedigr. Candolle, Jeanne" de — Pedigr. Gautier, Rachel" — Pedigr. Johnson, Sarah" — m. Griswold — (62), 412 LeFort, Jeanne" — Pedigr. LeFort, Marguerite" — Pedigr. LeFort, Mathilde" — Pedigr. LeFort, Ren:^e" — Pedigr. SarAsin, Cv.kb.'LS.s^'^— Pedigr. Sarasin, Madeleine" — Pedigr. Sarasin, Marguerite" — Pedigr. Sarasin, Marie" — Pedigr. Stipriaan Luisgius, Abraham Gerard" van- m. Diodati — Pedigr, Stipriaan Luisgius, Jacoba Elisabeth" van- m. Seelig — Pedigr. Stipriaan Lu.isgius, Jacobus" van — Pedigr. Verelst, Jean" — Pedigr. 499 iBiotratf mntr^ J— BY MARRIAGE -, Abigail — m. Theodore (12) Diodati — BuoNvisi, Mario — m. Elisabetta' Diodati — I^ei^i^r. Pedigr. , Sarah — m. John (53) Diodati — Pedigr. BuRLAMAQUi, Fabrizio — m. Giuditta'" Diodati — Arnolfini, Caterina — m. Lorenzo (29) Diodati Pedigr. —Pedigr. Burlamaqui, Jacques — m. Anne (15) Diodati — Arnolfini, Elisabetta — m. Nicolo (18) Diodati Pedigr. —377 Burlamaqui, Madeleine— m. Jean (13) Diodati Arnolfini, Francesco — m. Caterina' Diodati — —392 Pedigr. Calandrini, Giuliano — m. Elisabetta (Arnolfini) Arnolfini, Laura — m. Geronimo' Diodati — Diodati — Pedigr. Pedigr. Calandrini, Laura— m. Pompeio (19) Diodati Balbani, Angela — m. Alessandro (7) Diodati — —377 372 Candolle, Lucien de — m. Marguerite'* Diodati Balbani, Sara — m. Pompeio (19) Diodati — —Pedigr. Pedigr. Casa Nuova, Eleanora di — m. Ottaviano (28) Baraban, J. Andr:^ — m. Manette Columbine" Diodati — 382 Diodati — Pedigr. Cavallari, Lucrezia — m. Ottaviano (30) Diodati Bartolommeo, Vincenzo — m. Susanna' Diodati —Pedigr. —Pedigr. Cenami, Bartolommeo— m. Camilla' Diodati — Bellet, Isabella — m. Lorenzo (31) Diodati — 383 Pedigr. Bernardi, Angelica — m. Alessandro" Diodati Cenami, Pandolfo — m. Lucrezia' Diodati — — Pedigr. Pedigr. Bernardi, Maria — m. Geronimo' Diodati — Chapius, Jeanne E. — m. Isaac" Diodati — Pedigr. Pedigr. Bernardi, Septimio — m. Angelica' Diodati — Pedigr. CoRREARD, , — m. %i(p Diodati — Pedigr. Dati, Lorenzo— m. Luisa' V>\odi2A\— Pedigr. Blankert, Lydia — m. Philippe Sebastiaan (36) Dejean, Elisabeth — m. Salomon^'' Diodati — Diodati— 394 Pedigr. Bud:^, Jacqueline de — m. Diodato" Diodati — Diodati, Chiara" — m. Ferrando' Diodati — Pedigr. Pedigr. BuoNvisi, Anna — m. Michele (9) Diodati — 373 Diodati, Fabio— m. Olympia" V)\oAzX\— Pedigr. BuoNvisi, Caterina — m. Michele (5) Diodati — Diodati, Ferrando' — m. Chiarai" Diodati — 372 Pedigr. BuoNvisi, Filippa — m. Vincenzo** Diodati — Diodati, Maria Elisabeth'* — m. Abraham Pedigr. Gerard'* van Stipriaan Luisfius — Pedigr. BuoNVisi, GiULiA — m. Nicolo (25) Diodati — Domestrel, Anne de — m. Diodato" Diodati — Pedigr. Pedigr. BuONVisi, LuDOVico — m. Caterina' Diodati — Du Hamel, Barth^lemi— m. Catharine Anne" Pedigr. Diodati — Pedigr. 500 monm mxttv Dunbar, Sarah — m. William (59) Diodate — I'eiiigr. Eynard, Hilda — m. Charles Aloys (51) Diodati — Pedigr. FlAmand, Dr. , — m. Marie^' Diodati — Pedigr. Francken, Elisabeth — m. Philippe (42) Diodati —394 Gautier, Edmond ^ m. Gabrielle^* Diodati — Griswold, John — m. Sarah (62) Johnson — 412 GuiNiGELLi, Isotta — m. Alessandro (3) Diodati — Pedigr. HoYTEMA, , — m. Susanna" Diodati — Pedigr. HuRGONjE, Daniel — m. :6lisabeth Renfee'^ Diodati — Pedigr. Jeude, Lith de — m. Samuel'' Diodati — Pedigr. Johnson, Stephen — m. Elizabeth (61) Diodate — 404 LeFort, Henri — m. Helfene" Diodati — Pedigr. Lejeune, Pierre — m. Elisabeth" Diodati — Pedigr. L'EsTEVENON, , — m. Ewaldus van Ewout'' D iod ati — Pedigr. LuCHASiNi, Marchese — m. a dau. of Benedetto"' Diodati — Pedigr. Luisgius — See Stipriaan Luisgius • LULLIN C. — m. Sophie" Diodati — Pedigr. Luppi, NicOLosA — m. Michele (2) Diodati — Pedigr. Martines, Jacqueline de — m. Diodato" Diodati — Pedigr: Mass:^, Jacques — m. Jeanne Marianne^' Diodati — Pedigr. Maurice, Fr^d^ric — m. Nancy" Diodati — Pedigr. Mei; Marie — m. Garolo (10) Diodati — 374 Mestrefat, Judith — m. Gabriel (23) Diodati — Pedigr. MiNUTOLi, Maria — m. Alexandre (21) Diodati — Pedigr. MiQUELi, Flaminia — m. Carolo (10) Diodati — Pedigr. MiQUELi, Maria — m. Diodato'" Diodati — Pedigr. MiQUELi, PoMPEio — m. Elisabetta'" Diodati — Pedigr. MoRsiER, Sophie de — m. Jacques AmSdfee (47) Diodati — Pedigr. Morton, Elizabeth — m. John (57) Diodati — 400 NiERi, Camilla — m. Paolo' Diodati — Pedigr. Nobili, Cesare di — m. Maria' Diodati — Pedigr. NocETO, Ginevra — m. Geronimo (8) Diodati — Pedigr. NocETO, Giovanna — m. Alessandro (7) Diodati — Pedigr. NoLTHENlus, , — m. Jacobus" Diodati — Pedigr. Offredi, Giulio — m. Sisabeth^" Diodati — Pedigr. Offredi, Paul — m. Marie (16) Diodati — Pedigr. Pasteur, Charlotte — m. Jacques Amfedfee (47) Diodati — Pedigr. Patac, Anna — m. C6sar" Diodati — Pedigr. Patac, Sara — m. Jean (22) Diodati — Pedigr. Pellissari, Jean Antoine de — m. Madeleine (17) Diodati — Pedigr. PiCTET, J. Marc Jules — m. Octavie^* Diodati — Pedigr. Plantamour, AniiLiE — m. Gabriel Charles (49) Diodati — Pedigr. PoGGio, Francesca di — m. Nicolo (4) Diodati — 372 RiCHTER, , — m. Elisabeth (Francken) Diodati — Pedigr. Rigaud, AMiiLlE — m. Salomon Theodore (50) Diodati — Pedigr. Rilliet, Marie Aim^e — m. Antoine Josue (46) Diodati — 395 Rilliet, Samuel— m. Judith'^ Diodati — Pedigr. Roodt, Gabriel — m. Anne Marie'' Diodati — Pedigr. 501 liiotra^tf mtttv Saaijmans, Catharina Diodati — 394 Sarasin, — Pedigr. m. Rudolphe (38) — m. Jean Louis^' Diodati — Sarasin, Edouard — m. Emma'* Diodati — Pedigr. Saussure de Domptmartin, Jean BItiste de — m. Susanna'" Diodati — Pedigr. Scarlett, Henry — m. Elizabeth (60) Diodati — 403 ScHOOTEN, J. F. deAVitte VAN — m. Johanna Aldegonda'^ Diodati — Pedigr. Seelig, Hendrik Gerard — m. Jacoba Elisa- beth'* van Stipriaan Luisgius — Pedigr. Slott, Geertruida — m. Salomon (44) Diodati — 395 Stipriaan Luisijius, A. van — m. Geertruida"' D io dati — Pedigr. Stipriaan Luisgius, Abraham Gerard van" — m. Maria Elisabeth" Diodati — Pedigr. TiLNEY, Mercy — m. John (57) Diodati — 400 Tronchin, Anne — m. Abraham" Diodati — Pedigr. Trouwers, Aldegonda — m. Jean (37) Diodati — 394 Underwood, Isabel — m. John (53) Diodati — 397 Venezia, Beruccia di — m. Bartolommeo* Dio- dati — Pedigr. Verelst, Dirk Hubert — m. Sara Lydia''' Diodati — Pedigr. Vernet, Susanne — m. Alexandre Amfedfee ;6douard (48) Diodati — Pedigr. Verviers, Elisabeth Stephnez van — m. Martin Jacob (45) Diodati — Pedigr. WuLSON, Catharina de — m. Cesar" Diodati — Pedigr. \{\t\tx pp. 400-402 i—B Y MALE DESCENT Adrian' — m. Jane , — (i), 400 Elizabeth' — m. i. Crandley, 2, Morton — (3), 400 John- — m. Jane , — (2), 400 2— BY FEMALE DESCENT Morton, Elizabeth'' — m. Diodati— (6), 401 Morton, John Whicker^ — m. Medlicott — (4), 401 Morton, Theodosia* — (5), 401 3— BY MARRLAGE , Jane — m. Adrian (i) Whicker — 400 , Jane — m. John (2) Whicker — 400 Crandley, Richard — m. Elizabeth (3) Whicker — 400 Diodati, John — m. Elizabeth (6) Morton — 401 Medlicott, Elizabeth — m. John Whicker (4) Morton — 401 Morton, John — m. Elizabeth (3) (Whicker) Crandley — 400 ' ■ 502 pp. 413-415 I— BY MALE DESCENT James'— (4), 413 James* — (9), 414 James' — (12), 414 John'— m. i. Aldridge (or Aldrich), 2. Beecher — (2), 413, 414-15 John'- (7), 414 John'— (8), 414 Joseph'— (3), 413 Joseph' — (10), 414 Joseph' — (11), 414 Lydia' — (6), 414 Lydia' — (13), 414 Robert' — m. Rose — Susannah' — (5), 414 ■ — (i). 413 2— BY MARRIAGE , Rose — m. Robert (i) Dunbar — 413 Aldridge (or Aldrich), Mattithiah— m. John (2) Dunbar — 414 Beecher, Elizabeth — m. John (2) Dunbar — 414 503 504