Page 37— Fourth line, third word IGGl read 1629 
 
 38 — Top line, second word, Joseph read Jonathan 
 
 41— Twentieth line from top, 1G89 read 16S7. 
 
 44 — Twenty-first line from bottom, fourth word, Lonstreel 
 
 read Longstreet. 
 52 — Fifth line from bottom, Wm. C. read \Vm. A. L. 
 
 Sibley 
 57 — Sibley Home, Soochow, China, not indexed. 
 90 — Confederate Certificate for R. P. Sibley signed by 
 
 Capt. Geo. T. Barnes not indexed. 
 90 — Twenty-second line from top have lsy'5 read l!i08. 
 96 — Catherine Elizabeth Sibley not indexed. 
 103 — Second line from top, second word T.onstreet read 
 
 Longstreet. 
 103 — Fifteenth line Ulysses Maner read Ulysses Maner 
 
 Erwin. 
 103 — Seventeenth line, fifth word Allen read Allan, 
 111 — Thirty-fourth line from top sixth word 1678 read ;6S7- 
 m — Thirty-fourth lir.e from top eighth word Zerniah read 
 
 Zeruiah. 
 114 — John Sibley omitted acciiientally from index. 
 114 — Third line, sixth word Zerniah read Zeruiah. 
 115 — Twenty-second line, second word widow, read wife of 
 Gen. Chas. E. Smedes, C. S. A. 
 118 — Eighteenth line from bottom, first word, Francis, rend 
 Frances. 
 118 — Twenty-seventh line, first word Francis read Frances. 
 120 — Twelfth line Constance Maxwell Cooper should be 
 Couper accidentally unindexed. 
 
 Josiah Sibley, of Augusta, Georgia, born April 1st, Ib'Jb. 
 
 (Joel '', Stephen '', John "*, John '•\ Joseph -, John '.) 
 Gen'l Henry Hastings Sibley, of Detroit, Michigan, born 
 
 February 20th, ISll (Solomon'^, Reuben^, Jonathan', 
 
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 NATHANIEL WEST, D. D. (1889; 
 
HENRY HASTINGS SIBLEY 
 
 Henry Hastings Sibley was born in the city of Detroit, Feb- 
 ruary 20th. 1811. He was the fourth child and second son of 
 ^n honorable sire. Chief Justice Solomon Sibley, of Detroit, 
 whose wife Sarah Whipple Sproat, was the only daughter of 
 Colonel Ebenezer Sproat, an accomplished officer in the Con- 
 tinental Army, and the granddaughter of Connnodore Abraham 
 AVhipple, of the Continental Navy, an illustrious connnander, 
 the first who fired upon the British flag on the high seas, dur- 
 ing the Revolutionary War. and the first to float the star- 
 spangled colors from his masthead in the Thames at London. 
 Judge Solomon Sibley was born in Sutton, ^fassachusetts, 
 October 7th. 1769, and Avas the third son of J^'ubcn Sibley, 
 born in the same place, February 20th, 17-l.S. who was the 
 second son of Jonathan Sibley, born in the same place, Sept. 11, 
 1718, Avho was the fourth son of Joseph, son of Joseph Sibley 
 II., born in the same place, November f)th, 16S4, wlio was the 
 first son of Joseph Sibley I., born in the same ]^lace. 1()55, who 
 was the third son of John Sibley I., of Salem. ^lassachusetts, 
 the brother of Richard Sibley I., of Salem. Tradition vibrates 
 somewhat as to the precise time when these two brothers first 
 appeared in America. One account states that. ''In the year 
 1637, John Hamj^den, Oliver Cromwell and John Pym, and 
 others, weary of the tyranny of Charles Rex and Archbishop 
 Laud, determined to emigrate, in a body, from England to 
 America, with the purpose of establishing themselves as the 
 nucleus of a free community; but the king prohibited their 
 embarkation. Among the many young men who were thus 
 balked in their purpose were two Sibley brothers, natives of 
 Middlesex Count}^, near London ; John and Richard Sibley, 
 who contrived to escape, however, and safely landed in that 
 part of America, then known as "North Virginia," but now 
 as "New England," locating themselves in Salem, Essex 
 County, Massachusetts. Both these brothers were unmarried. 
 The date of their arrival is somewhat conjectural, one authority 
 fixing it at 1614. another at 1620. still another at 1624; Der- 
 rick Sibley, of Cincinnati, saying his record is at 1632. The 
 precise fact is not yet decided. On the other hand, the later 
 and larger number of authorities, so far as accessible, place 
 the appearance of the Sibley brothers, John and Richard, 
 about, or at the time of the" "Winthrop Fleet," 1629, only 
 nine years after the landing of the Pilgrims from the May- 
 flower, 1620, at Plymouth Rock, and the settlement of "New 
 
Plymouth." the first permanent civil foundation ever laid in 
 New iMifrhmd; Charles I. bein<>' Kiny of Kn<i'hiiid. Cahieulated 
 from whiehever date, the g-enerations of the Sibley family in 
 America, from John I., of Salem, to Henry Hastings Sibley, 
 of Detroit, are seven generations, and, including his children 
 and grandchildren, are nine generations, covering a period of 
 two centuries and a half. 
 
 Ogilsby, in his early classic "History of America," published 
 1671, narrates that, between 1620 to 1G50, a i)erio(l of thirty 
 years, or one generation, the English had planted forty-five 
 chief toAvns in "New England," the first one. after the "loca- 
 tion of Fort St. George, being "New Plymouth;" the second 
 being "Salem," called IMahumbeak by the Indians, and ])uilt. 
 in the year 1628, by "merchant adventurers;" the third being 
 Charlestown, or Mashawmut; the fourth, "Dorchester, in the 
 form of a serpent;" the fifth, "Boston, the metropolis of all 
 the rest, in the form of a heart;" the nest, "Roxbury. Avhich 
 resembleth a wedge, situated between Boston aiul Dorchester." 
 
 From the early records, it appears that a "John Sibley" 
 resided at Charlestown, Massachusetts, in 1684, while another 
 "John Sibley" resided at Salem, Massachusetts, 1634 also. 
 From these two Sibleys, with "Richard Sibley," a brother of 
 John of Salem, all of Puritan stock, have decended the wide- 
 spread connection of Sibleys, not only in New England, but 
 throughout the whole Pnited States. From the Salem Sibley, 
 John I. of Salem, came Henry Hastings Sibley of St. Paul, 
 through the line of Joseph I., son of John I. of Salem, Joseph 
 II., son of Joseph I., Jonathan, son of Joseph II., Rueben, son 
 of Jonathan, and Solomon son of Reuben, as already stated. Of 
 the first two John Sible,ys, the one at Charlestown, the other 
 at Salem, we shall speak inore hereafter. It is enough for our 
 present purpose to state, that in the lines of both John and 
 Richard Siblej^ of Salem are found a multitude of men and 
 women of high distinction, adorning the annals of the nation,, 
 in all the various Avalks of private and public life. 
 
 The name "Sil)ley" is a name of long standing in English 
 history, as it is of various orthography, betraying differences 
 as marked in its development as are the differences between 
 our p]nglish now and that of the times of Spenser and Chaucer. 
 In the successive genealogies, heraldries and public records 
 of English history, it assumes a multitude of variations; as, 
 "Sibell," "Sibille." "Sible," "Siblie," "Sibile," "Sibili,'' 
 "Sibilie," "Sibely," "Siblev," "Seble," "Svblv," "Sybele," 
 "Sybeli," "Sybyle," "Sybely," with an "alias Sybery." the 
 liquid "r" being interchangeable with the liquid "1." and 
 moreover drawn into close relation with "Sileby, " by means 
 of the marked agreement between the armorial bearings of the 
 
families of "Sileby" and "Sybly. " The etymology of the name 
 is somewhat conjeetural. It is certainly not of Greek deriva- 
 tion cognate with "Sibyl" from the Doric genitive of "Zeus" 
 (Sios), Jupiter, and "Boule," the counsel or oracle of Jove, 
 which the ancient Sibvl professed to be, even though we find 
 the names "Sibyl," "Sibley," and "Sibylla" in the published 
 pedigrees. It can hardly be of Norman derivation, meaning 
 a "field of wheat," "Si," and "ble," since this violates the 
 syllabic division of the word. It is doubtless true that some 
 of the family were found in England at the time of William 
 the Conqueror, but the genealogies do not favor a French 
 origin. The word is clearly Anglo-Saxon, from "Sib," which 
 means "alliance," "relationship," "peace," and "leagh," 
 contracted to "lea," contracted to "ly, " which means some- 
 thing laid down, and, therefore, either a "law," or a "land," 
 i.e. territory. The line in Gray's Elegy, "The lowing herd 
 winds slowly o'er the lea." gives us one of the senses plainly. 
 The other sense, cognate to that of the German "legen," to 
 lay, and hence, a rule laid down to go by, a law, is familiar 
 to all. The meaning of the word "Sibley" is, therefore, 
 either (1) Law of Peace, or Peace Law, or (2) Land of Peace, 
 or Peace Land, i.e. Alliance Land, Union Land, the idea being 
 that of rest, or cessation, from strife. The Rev. John Langdon 
 Sibley, many years librarian in the University of Harvard, 
 regards the name as a synonym for "Kinsmen's Land," reject- 
 ing the primary sense of the "lea," or "ly," viz., a "law," 
 and of "Sib," viz., "peace," — these two senses giving us 
 "Peace Law," as "conjectui^al." On the contrary, it is an 
 established rule in philology, and respected by all the later 
 lexicographers, that the primary sense must run somehow, 
 and be seen somewhere, in all the subsequent variations. We 
 cannot reject it, but must hold to both senses in their fulness 
 of historic usage. The combination "Siblev" is the same as 
 in the words "Dudley," "Horsley," "Morley," "Huxley," 
 "Shipley," Beverly," and seems to express the fact of peace 
 and brotherhood enjoyed after times of discord and war. 
 The variations in the form of the word do not affect its root 
 meaning. These are common to all words in the progress of 
 their development. In the New England Genealogocal Dic- 
 tionary the forms "Sibly," "Sebley," "Sybley" are given 
 as among others of the same name, and found everywhere in 
 the history of the family, preciselv as we find the different 
 forms of the name ' ' Selby" " " Selebi,"" ' ' Selebe, " " Silibie, ' ' and 
 "Silby;" a circumstance which, in connection with the close re- 
 semblance of the armorial bearings of the two families, has led 
 to the supposition that the name "Selby" is only a variation of 
 the name "Sibly." In the town records of Sutton, Mass., 
 
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 from 1718 to 1876. avo find "John Sible," "Samuel Sible," 
 "Joseph Sibly." ".Martha Sible^'/' all of the same family, a 
 variation frequent both in Old and New England in the six- 
 teenth and seventeenth centuries. 
 
 The armorial bearini^s of the different branches of this 
 ancient and widespread family ar<^ diversified, representing 
 both peace and war, a necessity in the national liistory of 
 any family. In the "Collectanea Topographica et Genea- 
 logica.'' London, 1837. the arms of the Poynes and Sibells 
 are given as copied from an old worn stone below the east 
 door of the chapel of St. Dunstan's in Ihe west of London. 
 The inscription reads, "Amies of the I'oyiics and Sibells; 
 Barry, oi- and gu., in chief a muUetf, imi)aling-: Gyroiniy of 
 eight az.. and or; four martlets in lozenge counterchanged." 
 In "Fairbairn's Crests of Great Britiaiumd Trcland," we have 
 still another heraldry, (1) "Sybells,'' five halberds in pale, 
 az., corded together, of the first and gn.." and (2) "Sybele," 
 Engl.; out of ca ducal coronet, or, a swan's head between 
 wings." Another coat of arms we find described as "per pale, 
 az., and gn.. a griffin l)etween three crescents, ar.," and this 
 is given as "the arms of the Sibley family of St. Albans, cer- 
 tified to their decendants in this county (Hertford) by the 
 present officers of the Herald's College." This is the crest 
 George E. Sibley, Esq., of New^ York City, has published as 
 the crest of the Sibleys from whom came the first Sibleys of 
 Charlestown and Salem, Massachusetts, and is also given by 
 Burke, in his General Armory, — "per pale az. and gu., a 
 griffin passant between three crescents, ar," — as the arms of 
 the same family, — the griffin or half lion and half vulture 
 symbolizing swiftness, ferocity, and readiness for attack; a 
 a heraldry assumed, doubtless, at some period of the family 
 history, by one of its great branches, to commemorate some 
 important achievement, or mark some new distinction. This 
 in no way conflicts with the more peaceful heraldry of the 
 ducal coronet and swan's head with wings, as given in Fair- 
 bairn's Crests, a coat of arms believed by the Sibleys of St. 
 Albans to be the true crest of the family, the one question 
 being whether it is the crest of the Sil)leys from whom canu^ 
 "John Sibley, Mayor of St. Albans," or from whom came 
 Henry and Thomas Sibley, High Sheriffs of Hertfordshire. 
 
 There is still another coat of arms belonging to the Sil)ley 
 generation, and of marked historic interest. If is that ol 
 John Sibley of Gray's Inn, London. In Dugdake's celebrated 
 "Origines Juridicales," a rare historical memorial of the 
 ancient English law courts and forms of trial, we find the 
 record "lohannes Sibile, 1559," his coat of arms described 
 as fixed "in Borealibus clictae Aulae Ilospicii Grayensis 
 
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 Fenestris," that is, "on the north window of the hull called 
 Gray's Inn," one of the most renowned seats of Phijj;]isli legal 
 learning. The coat of arms of this distinguished man is a 
 shield, quarterly; in first and fourth a tiger, gules, viewing 
 himself backward, in a mirror, az. ; in second and third a 
 chevron, gules, l)etween three eo^vs' heads, eahoshed, fable." 
 Burke, in his General Armory, gives "the tiger looking back- 
 ward in a mirror, en reguard," as the heraldry of the Sibells 
 of Kent county, this "Sibell (County Kent), ar., a tiger look- 
 ing down in a glass, reguard, az." This accounts for the 
 first and fourth quarters of the shield, and identifies the 
 "John Sibile" of Gray's Inn with the "Sibells of Kent," 
 famous in defense of the nation. The explanation of tlie 
 second and third quarters is given by Hasted in his "History 
 and Survey of the County of Kent." Writing of Axton 
 Hundred Kent, he describes the estate of the "SibilLs of 
 Little Mote" as one which, in 22 Henry, Vol. VHI, was greatly 
 increased, and subsequently passed over, through Anne, 
 daughter of "Lancelot Sibill," to John Hope, in the time of 
 Charles I. At the time of the survey of Domesday, the estate 
 became the possession of Odo, bishop of Baieus. and half- 
 brother of William the Concpieror, and was unquestionably 
 reclaimed in some late period of English history; an estate 
 which, held, at first, by its Saxon owmers, either from Harold 
 or Edward the Confessor, 1042, was, doubtless, confiscated in 
 1066, and given, like others, by the Conqueror to his relatives, 
 nobles and friends. The explanation of the three cows' heads 
 is that the manors of Little Motes, possessed by the Sibells 
 were increased by tlie nuirriage of one of the Sibells to the 
 heir of CoW'dale," and the heraldic emblem, commemorating 
 this accession, is the "three cows' heads" in the third and 
 fourth quarters of the combined escutcheon. Among these 
 Kentish "Sil)ells," in the time of Henrv VII. we find "Thomas 
 Sibell," and "Nicolas Sibell" in the time of Edward VI., 
 both men of distinction. 
 
 The coat of arms, therefore, of "John Sibile, 1559," of Gray's 
 Inn, connects him with the Kentish Sibells, and commemorates 
 the increase of their estates by the marriage referred to. The 
 names with which the name of this eminent and "utter bar- 
 rister" of Gray's Inn is associated are second to none in 
 English history, being those of Spelman, Sackville, Lovelace, 
 Walsingham, Lord Bacon, Yelverton and others, all fellows 
 of the same renoAvned hospice. As to the St. Albans branch 
 of the family, authoritative history has preserved the name 
 of "John Sibley, Mayor of the Borough of St. Albans, 1557, 
 1569, 1578," and, among the contemporarv mayors of St. 
 Albans, "William West, 1535; William West, 1568, 1576, and 
 
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 Kichard West. 1813." The conteinporaneons association of 
 these names in the same county and city in Old England, and 
 the contemporaneous appearance of the same names in Charls- 
 tow7i and Salem, in New England, with others similarly asso- 
 ciated and in lioth places, go far to establish the fact of "^a com- 
 mon geographical origin and relation of the Sibleys of New 
 England to the Sibleys of Hertfordshire, and of Kent also. 
 They were numerous, and occupied prominent positions on 
 both sides of the Avater. Among the high sheriffs of Hert- 
 fordshire we find "Henry Sibley, p]sq.. of Yardley," and 
 "Thomas Sibley, Esq., of Yardley," dui-ing the reign of George 
 I., and "Edward Sibley of the JMonastery of St. Albans, pen- 
 sioned in the reign of Queen ^lary after the dissolution of the 
 religious houses in the (county of Hertford." 
 
 That the Sibleys of Hertfordshire and Kent were of the 
 same family is indisputable to anyone who understands the 
 English history. What the relation of "John Sibile, 1559," 
 of Gray's Inn — the Kentish Sibley — was to "John Sibley, 
 mayor of St. Albans, 1557," is a question of interest. What- 
 ever the solution as to the special branches of the family and 
 their various heraldries, there is no doubt that from these 
 descended the "John Sibley" of Charlestown, and the "John 
 Sil)ley" of Salem, ]\Iassachusetts, the last the blood progeni- 
 tor of the Henry Hastings Sibley of St. Paul. JMinnesota. In 
 one of the most painstaking investigations of a portion of this 
 vast connection, found in the work entitled "Wells of South- 
 hold," the result of the study is thus stated: "John Sibley I., 
 of Charlestown, Massachusetts, was a lineal descendant of 
 the Sibley family of St. Albans, Herts, England, where John 
 Sibley was burgess and mayor in the time of Edward VI." — 
 a monarch who ruled on the English throne from 1547 to 1553, 
 the patron of Crammer, whose catechism was called the 
 "Catechism of Edward VI." Only one and a half generations 
 lie between the John Sibl(\ys of Hertford and Kent, on the 
 one hand, and the John Sibleys of Charlestown and Salem, on 
 the other, and less than one generation between their im- 
 mediate descendants and the Sibley immigration to America. 
 English history seems to give us no other contemporary "John 
 Sibley" outside the John of Gray's Inn, and the John of St. 
 Albans, the one 1559, the other 1557, and if these were the 
 same person, seen under different relations, then we have but 
 one "John" known to history whose name the Johns of 
 Charlestown and Salem could have borne. The traditions of 
 the Sibley family from its earliest intimation near the time 
 of the Conqueror; then, later still, siding with the Duke of 
 York against the king in the battle of St. Albans, A.D. 1455, 
 where the first blow was struck between the houses of York 
 
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 and Lancaster; their hereditary love of freedom and hatred 
 of religious oppression; the fact that, not only among the 
 Cavaliers but also among the Puritans in still later times, the 
 sons of men of distinction, some competent as merchants, some 
 less affluent than others, sought a home in Western Wilds; 
 the conspicuous prominence of the Sibleys in New England 
 affairs so soon after their arrival ; the identity of the proper 
 names in the family on both sides of the sea, and of associated 
 families also ; all seems clearly to determine the whole ques- 
 tion of family affiliation. The two following letters, however, 
 recently communicated to General Henry Hastings Sibley, by 
 his relative, a gentleman of high distinction in the city of 
 London, must be conclusive in the judgment of reasonable 
 men: 
 
 "32 St. George's Square, S. W. 
 "London. January 1, 1888. 
 "General Henrv Hastings Sibley, 
 "Dear Sir: 
 
 "I have always regretted that the ties between 
 Old and New England were allowed to slacken and almost 
 die off. Now, however, there is a new spirit, and as the 
 main body of the English speaking races are now on 
 your continent, so I hope the intercourse will be better 
 kept up. I am. as you are aware, descended from Elizabeth 
 Sibley, one of the main stock in our county of Hert- 
 ford. In the course of events it has fallen to my share, in 
 association with my Sibley connections here, to assist in eluci- 
 dating the genealogy, as I informed you. through the help 
 of the authorities of St. Albans, and I have been enabled to 
 settle for your American tribe the filiation from that branch. 
 
 "It is, therefore, as a simple tribute to a national and family 
 feeling that, on the occurrence of new year, I salute, in your 
 person, one of those who have conferred high distinction on 
 the Sibley family. It may be that it will not be my lot to do 
 so for many more years. 
 
 "We have our General Sibley here, also, my associate in his 
 boyhood, who joined his family in India, and has now retired 
 from the service. His brother, George, holds the Indian 
 decoration. Faithfullv vours. 
 
 "HYDE CLARKE." 
 
 The second letter, written a few months later, is equally im- 
 portant and interesting : 
 
 "32 St. George's Square, S. W. 
 "London, April 23, 1888. 
 "General Henry Hastings Sibley, 
 "Dear Sir: 
 
 "I had the pleasure of receiving your kind letter 
 
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 of February 6th In the north window of the great hall of 
 (rray's Tnn, in London, one of onr aneiont law colleges, stood 
 the arms of John Sibile, 1559. 
 
 "These arms are recorded by the famons Dngdale in his 
 'Origines Juridicales.' They are not the same as those after- 
 ward gr;m1(>d to the Siblcys. the sheriffs. It appears, there- 
 fore, tliut tlie Sibleys had their arms, at least, in the sixteenth 
 century. This Sibley was most probably yonr forefather, John 
 Sibley, the mayor of St. Albans, although there may have been 
 some other John. The Gray's Inn Silili^v was a man of con- 
 sideration. An event in the history of our family is the part 
 it plaved in New England. It has not, however, been without 
 a share in our Indian empire. Besides the Sibleys, mostly in 
 the military s(u^vic(\ the Rivett-Carbacs (Burnetts), a great 
 civil family, descended, by marriage, from a Sibley. The 
 great civilian, Sir Richard Temple, baronet, and grand com- 
 mander of the Star of India, who was lieutenant governor of 
 i^cngal and ruled 1,000,000.000 of the human race, was also 
 descended from the Rivett (.'arnacs. AVc have sent you some 
 colonists to the Pacific. My cousin, Arthur Clarke, is, for the 
 time, in Santa Barbara, California, beaten out of New Zea- 
 land by the climate, and ray cousin Gertrude, married to Cap- 
 tain H. A. ]\Iellon, of Vancouver, British Columbia, is taking 
 shelter there from the cold of Winnipeg, together with her 
 brother Frederick Clarke and family. So we spread out. 
 
 "Yours faithfully, 
 
 "ilYDE CLARKE." 
 
 Few pedigrees of three centuries and a half are better estab- 
 lished. That the Sibleys, of Hertford, were of the same family 
 as the other Sibleys of Somerset, Kent. Northampton, Middle- 
 sex, Essex, Sussex, Leicester and Huntingdon, is attested by 
 various genealogies. Everywhere, wherever their intermar- 
 riages are found, some are among those of the highest culture 
 in the realm. In "jMarshall's Genealogist." the entry is made 
 that Richard Sibley of Cogenhoe. Northampton, married, 1711, 
 Elizabeth, daughter of William Dodington, of London, son of 
 George Dodington. of Ilorsington, Somerset, son of the cele- 
 brated Christopher Dodington. Esq.. of Lincoln's Inn, who 
 married the daughter of the Rev. William Gouge, D.D., — one 
 of the most eminent divines of the Westminster Assembly. 
 This pedigree is attested by E. S. Bendy, the Chester herald, 
 and G. W. Callcn. the portcullis pursuivant of arms. Richard 
 Sibley was thus great grandson, by marriage, of the eminent 
 counselor of Lincoln Inn. who was the son-in-law of Dr. Gouge. 
 Mrs. Sibley was thus the great-granddaughter of the same 
 eminent counselor. These relationships are samples of many 
 
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 that crown both sides of the house with distiiietion, and show 
 the high social position of tlie Sibleys in great part, during 
 the memorable times of the Stuarts, Cromwell, and James; 
 in fact, from the time of Edward to Queen Atme, a period of 
 over a century and a half, 1547-1714. 
 
 That the Sibley family is of great anticiuity there is no 
 question. From Charles I. to William the Conqueror is a long 
 road, but the Sibley line runs the whole w^ay. retrograde from 
 the landing of the"" Winthrop Fleet," 1629-80. to the time of 
 the Plantagenet Henry II., if not to the battle of Hastings, 
 1066. Eminent as were the Kentish and St. Albans Sibleys, 
 in the time of the Tudors, when "John Sibley" was mayor 
 and burgess of the city, sixty years before the Mayflower 
 sailed, we find them no less so during the times of the "Wars 
 of the Roses." and memorable battle of St. Albans, where 
 Somerset died on the field, and of Northampton, where the 
 roval forces were routed and Henrv VI. himself was captured, 
 1460. In "Willis' Cathedrals of Eiigland" we find the follow- 
 ing: "John Sibley, 1459, succeeded Roger Mersham as pre- 
 bendary of Lincolf. " In the age of Henry V., we find the 
 name spelled "Sibyle." in the reign of Richard II., son of 
 the Black Prince, the time of Wat Tyler and the peasants' 
 rebellion against taxation, the name is written in the record 
 commission, "Sibille." Far back as the time of Wallace and 
 Bruce, and Edward I., we meet it ever recurring in various 
 forms. In the "Rotuli Hundredorum." 1807-1272. it stands 
 in the lists of the owners of lands in the counties of Kent, Ox- 
 ford, and Suffold, written as "Sibeli." "Sibili," "Sibli." "Sy- 
 bli," and so, in other rolls or registers preserved in the Tower 
 of London. In the "Rotuli Litterarum Clausarum," it appears 
 as "Seblev," and Svblv," just as Ave find "Selebi" and 
 Selebie" for "Selby," and "Wynthroop" for "Winthrop." 
 Beyond the "Magna Charta," back to the time of Richard 
 the Lion Heart, the Crusades, and the Conquest of Ireland, 
 we find it, 1201-1189, in the "Rotuli Chartarum," again spelled 
 with two "ll's" as before; "ex dono Sibille de Rames cum 
 Cloucestre." As in later times, so here, in the heart of the 
 Middle Age, Ave encounter the name in the feminine form, 
 "Sibilla, " from Avhich doubtless the combination, "Sibilla Sib- 
 ley," and "Sibly Sibley," of more modern date, have sprung. 
 Whether the combination Avas made in deference to her who 
 muttered from the tripod of Cuma, and the authority of whose 
 interpolated Avords Avas great in the IMiddle Age — -"teste 
 David cum Sibylla" — Ave have no means of knowing. Romance 
 gives to Charlemagne's queen the name "Sibilla." So, also, 
 we find the name "Fitz-Sibly. " the saxonized form of "Filius 
 Sibillae," a name occurring in the parishes of Essex. In the 
 
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 "Rotuli Clausanim," 1201, we meet with "Sifilla, filia Roberti 
 Filii Ilugonis de Sibbet'ord"; — Sibilla, daughter of Robert 
 Fitzhugh of Sibford, and in the same Rotuli we find "Sibilla 
 filia Agnetis de Lasceio," and again "Sibilla uxor Jordaui."' 
 So in the Rotuli of Patents, we find "Sibilla mater Wilhelmi 
 de Fulbrok," standing in eonection with such phrases as 
 "Sutton litteris attestata," "Sumerst custodia portium," 
 "Siimest foresta," "Somerst in terra," and "Somers." And, 
 in the rolls of patents in the time of King John I., 1186, after 
 the conventional "Sciatis quod," we find a grant made to 
 "Rieardus de Sibton," — the Sib-town being simply the Sib- 
 lea, inhabited; — another to "Sibilla uxor Arsic," and another 
 to "Sibilla, Priorissa et Abbatissa P]lecta de Berking." 
 
 One step more concludes our backward journey. We have 
 reached the twelfth century, A.D. 1186, covering a period of 
 nearly four centuries and a half, dated backward from 1029, 
 the time of the "Winthrop Fleet," or seven hundred years 
 from the present day.. It is but a step to William the Con- 
 queror, A.D. 1066, the eleventh century. The "Domesday 
 Book" (Liber Domes Dei) is the oldest national record in the 
 archives of England, the record of the "Great Survey" of Eng- 
 land at the time of the Conquest, made in order to ascertain 
 who were rightful holders of lands and estates under Kings 
 Edward and Harold, whether as allocial or under tenants. 
 That no record of Sibley estates or lands is here found is no 
 proof that none existed; for, first of all, the survey was in- 
 complete, and next, it is well established that William, bent 
 on punishing those who dared resist his invasion, confiscated 
 their estates, giving the same to his Norman knights, while 
 their Saxon owners were left to shift for themselves. Never- 
 theless we find ancient traces of the "Albani," "Salebi," 
 "Siboldas, " and "Sybton," which taken in connection with 
 the history of the Sibley family in England, justifies the rea- 
 sonable conclusion that the ancestral line of Henry Hastings 
 Sibley of St. Paul, Minnesota, extends backward, from the 
 present moment, to the eleventh century, the time of the Nor- 
 man Conquest, A.D. 1066, a period of over eight hundred 
 years. 
 
 If, now, we start from the same epoch that formed the base 
 for our backward search, namely, A.D. 1629, and come for- 
 ward to the present time, our labor will be no less richly re- 
 warded. As a preliminary word, it is proper to say that, while 
 the Sibley family seem in English history to side with the men 
 who fought for civil and religious liberty and against the 
 oppression of tyrants and kings, yet some in the line seem to 
 have been of opposite views. In Rvmer's Eaedera we find the 
 following: "For John Sibley. The king, May 26, 1632,. 
 
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 granted to John Sil)ley et al., the office of clerk and clerks in 
 the star chamber, during life;" and in the famous Dngdale's 
 "Warwickshire Knightlow Hundred," the record, "Thomas 
 Sibley, clerk." This, however, is offset by history of another 
 hue. In Besse's "Sufferings of the Quakers," we find that 
 "Thomas Sibley, 1684, and William Sibley, 1685, were sent to 
 gaol for being at an unlawful meeting, a conventicle in Somer- 
 setshire." In the same volume, "William Sibley" is chroni- 
 cled as a prisoner in 1685 in Leicester, for like offense, this 
 place being the town where the Rev. Iligginson was settled as 
 pastor before he sailed in the "Winthrop Fleet" to Massa- 
 chusetts, 1629; the time about which the first Sibleys came to 
 the New World. This piece of history illustrates the period. 
 The "Camera Stellata" and the "Conventicle" were but 
 obverse sides of the same historic epoch, adorned with the 
 face of Charles on the one side and of Cromwell on the other, 
 and it was but natural that then, as now, in every great 
 national question, families were represented on both sides. 
 The burden of record, however, goes to show that the Sibleys 
 were of Puritanic stock, men of the same mind with those who 
 accompanied John Robinson to Holland, or Winthrop to Salem. 
 The same counties from which the sires came are the counties 
 in which, today, their children are enrolled as "Owners of 
 Land in England," the counties of Kent, jMiddlesex. North- 
 ampton, Essex, Sussex, Hertford, Somerest, Leicester, Lincoln, 
 Warwick and Devon. 
 
 The epoch of history when the "Winthrop Fleet" bore 
 "John Sibley" to Massachusetts, was, next to that of the 
 great Reformation of the sixteenth century, and of which it 
 was only an echo, the grandest in modern times. It was a 
 time when the spirit of Liberty rekindled her torch, and a 
 Hampden, S.vdney, and Pym were abroad in the majesty of 
 popular rights ; a time when the commons in Parliament dared 
 to affirm the freedom of speech as their ancient right, and the 
 watchwords "Petition of Right," and "Freedom to Worship 
 God," sounded from Puritan tongues. Both denied by king, 
 lords, star chamber, and high commission, the eyes of thousands 
 were turned to where the Pilgrims, but nine years before, had 
 made their home. A remarkable circumstance, scarce known 
 to the American people, is that the Winthrop expedition was 
 conditioned on a fact which bore in its breast the germ of the 
 whole American Revolution and the absolute independence 
 of the colonies in 1776. That fact was the surrender of the 
 charter and the transfer of the whole government of the 
 colony and company of Massachusetts Bay to the company 
 itself; a present, absolute, and total release of the colonists 
 from a foreign jurisdiction, forever. Certain men of learn- 
 
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 ing and wealth, witli wide influence over others, and who, for 
 several years, had discussed the matter, met, August 26th, 
 1629, under the shadow of the walls of the University of 
 Cambridge, in Old England, and "having weighed the great- 
 ness of the work in regard of its consequences, God's glory, 
 and the church's good," offered to the general court of the 
 Massachusetts company, to cross the high seas under God's 
 protection," and make a new and firm plant in the New 
 World, taking with them their families, friends and all things 
 needed, "provided the whole governincnt. together with the 
 patent for said plantation (the Plymouth company's plant) 
 be first, by order of court, legally transferred and established 
 to remain with us and others who shall also inhabit said plan- 
 tation." Xot as mere adventurers they came, but to stay for- 
 ever; yet only upon condition that the "whole government" 
 go with them to Salem, and the company be free forever from 
 subordination to a foreign jurisdiction. The immensity of that 
 proposition was felt by the general court, but the splendor 
 of the otfer extorted assent, and "Winthrop's Fleet" was the 
 result. Tradition relates that in one of the vessels of that 
 fleet of fourteen sail, came "John Sibley," the ancestor of 
 Henry Hastings Sibley, of St. Paul, Minnesota. It was a fleet, 
 departing from different ports and landing at different dates, 
 "furnished with men, women and children, all necessaries, 
 men of handicrafts, and others of good condition, wealth and 
 quality, with two hundred and sixty kine and other cattle to 
 make a firm plantation in New England." Godfearing men, 
 among whom were "merchants and capitalists of London, and 
 others also who mingled hopes of profit with a desire to do 
 good and advance the cause of religion;" men like Governor 
 Winthrop, Sir Henry Kosewell, Sir John Young, Dudley, 
 Humphrey, Sibley, Saltonhall, West, Coddington, Southcoat, 
 Johnson, Lothrop, Thorndike, with some fifteen or twenty 
 ministers, such as Pligginson, Davenport, Skelton, Nye, Ward, 
 Maverick, Bright, and Smith, a company, in all, of nearly 
 two thousand souls. 
 
 The difference between old and new style reckoning has 
 caused some confusion in the early records, embarassing, on 
 some accounts. Of this. Prince and others have complained. 
 The fact is that the "Winthrop Fleet" is so called from its 
 chief personage, John Winthrop, first governor of the colony 
 under its surrendered patent. Its preparation began in the year 
 1628-1629, and was in progress during the consideration of 
 the proposal to bring the government of the colony, this time, 
 along with the emigrants tliemselves. As early even as the 
 autvnnn of 1628, six vessels, bearing two hundred English emi- 
 grants, entered the harbor of Salem in Massachusetts Bay,. 
 
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 their governor, John Endicott, selecting for them the place of 
 their settlement. This was the advance guard of the "Win- 
 throp Fleet." The Plymouth company, March, 1628, having 
 granted to Endicott and twenty-five others the territory from 
 three miles south of the bay to three miles north of the ex- 
 tremest point of the ]\[errimac. Endicott sailed from England 
 and landed at Naundvcag (Salem), where Conant welcomed 
 his arrival. In June, 1621), Rev. Francis Higginson, with an- 
 other large comi)any, arrived in Salem, and July 4, 1629, 
 founded Charlestown, the charter already alluded to being 
 assigned to the colonists, August, 1629. This, a purely mer- 
 cantile company, became an independent provincial govern- 
 ment, Winthrop being elected as the first governor of the 
 colony under its new regime, one detachment of vessels bear- 
 ing 406; another, in June, 1630, bearing 800, and another, in 
 July, 700 more emigrants to the New World. In short, Endi- 
 eott's and Winthrop 's fleets were parts of one vast emigra- 
 tion, in the years 1628-1630, impelled by the "new idea of an 
 independent existence on the transatlantic side," the vessels 
 departing at different dates, and from different ports, and 
 arriving at Salem at different times. The great movement, 
 of which the "Winthrop Fleet" was the main body, included 
 all who sailed immediately before and innnediately after the 
 the main body. In the absence of complete shiplists of emi- 
 grants, port records being either lost or not accesible, room 
 exists for some latitude of conjecture as to the precise date 
 of the arival of certain persons. All the more is this so, 
 inasmuch as a number of the ships of both Endicott 's and 
 Winthrop 's fleets continued to sail under their charters, re- 
 peating their trips, to and fro, for several years after 1628- 
 1630. The date of the arrival of the Arabella, or admiral 
 ship, of twenty-eight guns, bearing Winthrop, is, however, 
 well ascertained, being June 24th, 1630, the vessel landing 
 at Naumkeag, or Nahumkeik (Salem), named from the 
 Hebrew "Nahum-keik," "Haven of Comfort," and from 
 Psalm 76:2, "In Salem also is His tabernacle." We read that 
 "some of the company moved to ]\Iishawum, to Avhich Governor 
 Endicott gave the name of Charlestown, on Massachusetts 
 bay, and which received the company of Winthrop," the Pil- 
 grims being now saluted by the newcomers as an "independ- 
 ent colony," the fleet having borne both charter and sover- 
 eignty into their hands. 
 
 In "Felt's Annals of Salem" the entry is made, like that 
 of so many others, "Sibley, John, mr. c. fl., 1629;" — that is, 
 "John Sibley, married, came over in the fleet, 1629; — an en- 
 try made when enumerating the "first settlers in Salem, many 
 of whom came from Northampton, the north of Scotland, and 
 
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 south of England." In Drake's "History of the Antiquities 
 of Boston," the name "John Sibh\v" is enumerated in the 
 list of names known to have been in Salem before and in the 
 year 1629." Of this John Sibley (of Salem), John Langdon 
 Sibley, librarian of Harvard University, says, that "he took 
 the freeman's oath September 3, 168-t; was the sixteenth on 
 the list of members of the First church, Salem; Avas select- 
 man in 16.36 at Salem; had a grant of land of fifty acres at 
 Manchester, 1636; was selectman there also in 1636; an ex- 
 tensive land owner; died in Manchester. 1661; had nine chil- 
 dren, four boys and five girls; aiul his widow. Rachel, brought 
 the inventory into court, and 'ye court doe order that ye 
 estate be left in ye widoe's hands to l)ring up ye children till 
 ye court take further order'." Hanson, in his "History of 
 Danvers," says of this same Sibley, that "he had land near 
 Salem village, now probably Danvers." Savage, president of 
 me Massachusetts Historical Society, says of this Sibley also 
 that "he took the freeman's oath September 3, 1634; was 
 selectman, 1636; had land at Manchester and Jeffrey's creek, 
 1637; died at IManchester, 1661; his widow, Rachel." And 
 Barber in his "Massachusetts Historical Collections," says 
 that the church to which he was admitted as a member, "was 
 the first Protestant church formed in the New World." The 
 early records, however, make mention of a John Sibley, of 
 Charlestown, impossible to be identified with the "John Sib- 
 ley, of Salem," inasmuch as though bearing the same name, 
 yet they took the oath, and united Avith the church, at differ- 
 ent dates, died twelve years apart, their families, the names 
 of their w^idows, and inventory of their estates being differ- 
 ent, also. Of the Charlestown John Sibley, it is recorded by 
 Wyman, in his "Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown, 
 :\Iassachusetts," as follows: "Sibley, John, adm. with wife, 
 December 21, 1634. 5; mr. Sarah, who mr. Francis Chickering, 
 (1) (3) John Bowles (1) died November 30, 1649. Issue, 
 Sarah, mr. Francis Dwight. Estates: 4 acres planting ground; 
 home 2 acres; 4 acres at Linefield; 1 acre at South Mead; 21/0 
 acres cow common; 10 acres woods; 28 acres Waterfield." 
 Of this Charlestown Sibley, Felt also says, "John Sibley, wnth 
 Sarah, his wife, united with the church at Charlestown, Mas- 
 sachusetts, December 21, 1634, and died at Charlestown, No- 
 vember 30, 1.649. His name is spelled "Sibilie" in 1650, in 
 the record of his estate." The inventory differs from that 
 given by J. Langdon Sibley, as also does the record that 
 John Sibley, of Charlestown, was married, and had issue, 
 although tlieir names are not produced. In the inventory in 
 the probate office, East Cambridge, are mentioned things other 
 than are found in Wyman 's account, as, for instance, this en- 
 
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 try, "Amies, a corslet, headpiece, sword and pike." This 
 looks much like the costume of the "Hew-Agageiii-pieces" 
 kind of men, who lived just before and during the Cromwel- 
 lian times; men of the "Caput Rotundum," who always prayed 
 before making a cavalry charge, then plunging, "with the 
 high praises of God in their mouth, and a two-edged sword in 
 their hands," dashed through the foe, and doxologized loud 
 on the other side, shouting, "Such honor have all saints; 
 Praise ye the Lord!" At any rate, it was the sort of stuff 
 of which the stalwarts of yore were made; men who know 
 how to take off the head of a king, demolish a throne, dis- 
 miss the commons at will, clear the seas of pirates, and de- 
 mand cessation of persecution against the Piedmontese, the 
 guns of Cromwell threatened to pulverise the castle of St. 
 Angelo. Of such stuff', doubtless, were the Ncav England 
 Sibleys. 
 
 Plainly, the Salem Sibley and the Charlestown Sibley are 
 different persons. That they were of the same connection, 
 there can be no doubt. That they crossed together, at the 
 time of the "Winthrop Fleet," is admitted by all writers ex- 
 cept Savage, whose doubt is based simply on the fact that he 
 had not seen the original record. He does not question Felt's 
 statement that "John Sibley, Salem, came over with Iliggin- 
 son, 1629," but simply intimates that he has "not seen the 
 evidence." He adds this, however, "John Siblej^, Charles- 
 town, 1631, Avife, Sarah, freeman May 6, 1634, spelled with 
 'e' in first syllable, died November 30, 1649." The evidence 
 we have, therefore, is that of contemporary history, official 
 records of churches, courts, and colony, and uncontradicted 
 universal tradition. It is certain that two Sibleys are found 
 as early as ]634, or within three years of 1630, the one at 
 Charlestown, the other at Salem, both uniting with the church 
 the same year, and one declared to be the sixteenth on the 
 list of members in the first church at Salem, the earliest 
 Protestant church in the New World. Official records furnish 
 public notices of both. This, and facts that both were select- 
 men so soon, land owners in many different places, prominent 
 and influential in public affairs, argue their association with 
 the 2,000 who came over in the fleet to make a "firm plant." 
 And the universal tradition, uncontradicted for more than 
 two and a half centuries, is more than enough to establish a 
 claim, which, were its evidence applied to the investigation 
 of an ancient title deed, would be deemed conclusive. The 
 testimony of Prince, that some of the company made Salem 
 their home, while others made Charlestown, is not without 
 significance for our inquiry. The questions of importance 
 are: (1) the relation of the Charlestown to the Salem Sibley, 
 
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 (2) the inuncdiate links hotwoeii the English and American 
 Sible.ys in lf)29, or even in 1634. To detect the immediate 
 link that existed, in times of eivil Avar, disturbance of the 
 archives, and exchange of an Old World for the Nevr, in a 
 genealogy extending baek nine generations, is a work of spe- 
 cial difficulty. Like difficult it is to detect the immediate link 
 in the line, still backward among the St. Albans Sibleys, fifteen 
 generations ago. That such links are recorded, somewhere, 
 no reasonal)le antiquarian or archaeologist can doubt. 
 
 That the "Salem Sibleys" are the blood progenitors of the 
 "Sutton Sibleys," Massachusetts, is indisputable history, a 
 history that rests npon the nniversal tradition and collateral 
 proof that "John Sibley" of Salem crossed the high seas in 
 the "Winthrop Fleet" 'of 1629. In the standard and pains- 
 taking "History of Sutton," a large volume of rare interest. 
 the record is made by official action of the "ToAvn of Sutton," 
 thus: "The first Sibleys in this country came over from Eng- 
 land in the fleet, A.D. 1629 — only 9 years after the settlement 
 of old Plymouth, — and settled in the town of Salem. They 
 are supposed to be brothers, and their names were John and 
 Richard. They both had wives. They nnited with the church 
 December 21, 1634, and John Sibley took the freeman's oath 
 May 6, 1635. He was a selectman of the town of Salem and 
 went to the general court at Boston. He died, 1661, leaving 
 nine children, five daughters and four sons. His sons' names 
 were: John, born March 4, 1648, a captain and selectman; 
 AVilliam, born July 8, 1653; Joseph, born 1655; Samuel, born 
 February 12, 1657; Joseph Sibley, the son of John was born 
 1665. This Joseph was the father of the Sutton Sibleys, his 
 Avife's name Avas Susanna. They had seven children, one 
 danghter, Hannah. Avho married Ebenezer Dagett. Angust 10, 
 1722. The sons Avere Joseph. John, Jonathan. Samuel. William, 
 lienjamin. Three of these, Joseph, John and Jonathan, all 
 brothers, Avere among the thirty families aa'Iio Avere entered 
 as settlers in the 4.000 acres. Samuel's name appears, soon 
 after, as occupying a place Avith Joseph, and, in the seating 
 of the meeting house, in 1731, the names of William and Ben- 
 jamin Sibley are found assigned to the fifth seat on the loAver 
 floor." This clear record tells the story of the pioneer 
 family, and reveals the Sutton ancestor of Henry Hastings 
 Sibley, of St. Panl. That ancestor is Joseph Sibley, of Sutton, 
 third son of John Sibley, of Salem, his Salem ancestor being 
 scA'en generations distant from him. 
 
 The toAvnship of Sutton, Avhere these six Sibley brothers 
 began their pioneer work, was a tract of land eight miles 
 square, embracing an Indian reservation bought from John 
 Wampus by a company called the "Proprietors of Sutton," 
 
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 and consisting of thirty families, pledged to improve the same. 
 In 1704, or seventy-five years from the time (tf the " Winthrop 
 Fleet," it was fonnded. The deed conveying the land is 
 quaint enough. It passes the right and title to the 
 thirty families, of which the Sibleys were six. "together with 
 all and singular the pastures, soils, swamps, meadows, rivers, 
 pools, ponds, woods and underwoods, trees, timber, stones, 
 fishing, fowding and hunting rights, members, hereditaments, 
 emoluments, profits, privileges, and appurtenances thereto be- 
 longing or in any way appertaiiung; the same to be called 
 Sutton; to have and to use and to hold, to exercise and en- 
 joy; yielding to our sovereign lady. Queen Anne, and her 
 successors, forever., one-fifth part of the fold, silver and 
 precious stones, from time to time and at all times, which 
 forever hereafter shall happen to be found, gotten, gained or 
 obtained in any of said lands and premises, or witliin any 
 part of parcel thereof, etc. Dated at Boston. .Alay 15th. in 
 the year of her ^Majesty's reign. Anno Domini 1704: — 1. Dud- 
 ley, Esq." Such the land, and the deed of the land, each 
 bonafide settler and head of family having a "thirty-acre 
 lot" and a "five hundred-acre right." Among the chief 
 *' ponds" are mentioned "Dorothy pond," "Ramshorn pond," 
 and "Crooked pond;" and among the chief caves, "the cav- 
 ern commonly called 'Purgatory,' where the icicles hang from 
 the crevices of the rocks, and even solid bodies of ice are 
 found, although the descent is to the south ; a stupendous 
 place that fills the mind of the beholder with exalted ideas 
 of the infinite power of the Creator." 
 
 Like the early Puritan stock, the Sibleys w^ere all a religious 
 and God-fearing people, as w^ere the Whipples with whom 
 their names are always associated. At the town meeting, 
 whose government was simply that of selectmen, chosen by 
 the people, it was "voated," IMarch 5. 1717, that "the carry- 
 ing on of the worship of God and building a meeting house 
 shall begin from this day, and twenty pounds be raised to be 
 paid into the clerk's hands for that use," an enterprise 
 prosecuted with vigor, the church edifice being completed 
 within the following year, "40x36 feet, folding doors 
 in front, lighted by two windows, of diamond glass, at 
 each side and end of the lower floor, one of the same size for 
 each end of the gallery, the seats ordinary benches, with 
 hacks; the minister to receive a yearly salar^y, and a com- 
 mittee to acquaint Mr. John McKinstree that the town has 
 voted him a call to the ministry, and to ask his acceptance, 
 and that he be ordained Wednesday, November 9, 1720." 
 How thoroughly in earnest these Puritans were, with religion 
 as the chief thing, and their "acres" of second importance, 
 
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 the world knows. ''It coucerneth New England." says one^ 
 "to always remember that it is a religious plantation, and 
 not a commercial one. The profession of pure doctrine, wor- 
 ship, and a godly discipline is written on her forehead. 
 Worldly gain was not the end or design of the people of New 
 England, but religion. If, therefore, any man among us 
 shall make religion as twelve, and the world as thirteen, such 
 a one hath not the spirit of a true New England man." Such 
 was the tone not only at Chelmsford, where these words were 
 spoken, but also at Sutton. In mui-als, the town of Sutton. 
 under the rule of selectmen, such as the Sibleys and Whipples, 
 seemed faultless. The only crime that appeared to disturb 
 the conscience of the upright was the appalling outburst of 
 luxury in connection with the town's increasing prosperity, 
 as seen in the atrocious custom of "drinking tea with a silver 
 spoon out of a china cup." It had already come to this in 
 1720, that "the tradesman's wife sips tea. for an hour at a 
 time, out of chinaware, morning and afternoon, and there is 
 a silver spoon, silver trays, besides other trinkets; the chief 
 blame falling on Madame Hall, who had the first tea-kettle 
 ever brought to Sutton, and Deacon Pierce's wife, the second: 
 holding a pint each ; and there has been no birth in our town 
 for some time!" The times were changing. ]\Iarch 4, 1723. 
 it was "voated," in view of the progress of the town, "to 
 seat the meeting house so as to please the town," and also "to 
 have respect to persons," especially inquiring "w^hat charges 
 they now bear, and what they are likely to do in the future," 
 a wordly compromise with those of the teapot and silver spoon 
 brigade against which Mr. Jonathan Sibley deemed it his 
 duty "to dissent." To appease the rising indignation, Mr. 
 John Whipple and Mr. Sibley, with others, were made a 
 "comitty" to consider the matter, dispose of the pews right- 
 eously, assigning to each man his place, the pews not to be 
 longer than four or five feet, nor deeper than about four, the 
 "proper persons" to be seated therein. Upon the report of 
 the "comitty" all things were satisfactorily adjusted, John 
 Wliipple's pew being "5 foot 3 inches long and 5 foot 6 
 inches deep;" Jonathan Sibley's "about the same," Joseph 
 Sibley's "4 foot 3 inches long," and John Sibley's "3 foot 3 
 inches long;" — and so the "aflares of the House of God 
 were settled," the church commending the diligence and wis- 
 dom of the "comitty." In view, however, of the dangerous 
 tendency to luxury, fulness of bread, and pride, it was deemed 
 "expedient that there be a day of fasting and prayer." The 
 town continuing to prosper, and a rearrangement of seats again 
 becoming necessary, and social relations having somewhat 
 changed, another "comitty" was duly appointed, whose re- 
 
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 port, although adopted, was apparently not as satisfactory, in 
 all respects, as could, b^^ some, have been desired. It pro- 
 vided that "In ye front seat shall sit Mr. Samuel Sible and 
 six others. In ye fifth seat "William Sibly, Benjamin Sibly and 
 four others. In ye second seat, in side galery, Joseph Sibly 
 and ye widoes Rich and Stockwell. In ye fore seat, in ye 
 front gallery, ye Widdoe Mary Sibly, by herself; and it is to 
 be understood that all .ye wimmin that have husbands of their 
 own are seated equal with their own husbands, in their own 
 pews." 
 
 If the pew system and its patrons required attention, not 
 less, as even now is always the case, did the "music of the 
 House of God" need special supervision. The young people, 
 among whom were "Joseph, John, James, Elizabeth," and 
 many other "Sibleys," were somewhat progressive in their 
 tastes, and fond of "novelties." The worship, hoAvever, was 
 simple and devout, the singing led by a precentor, the hymn 
 or psalm being "lined out" that all might "take part in this 
 important branch of divine service." The tunes were few 
 and good, it being "voated that the old tunes, like old wine 
 are ye better, and be studied and learnt, as Old Hundred and 
 Canterbury, and that David Town and John Harl)ack be help- 
 ful in this service, and don't set the tune called the 84th 
 psalm which so luany are offended at; and the following tunes, 
 Buckland, Bangor, Funeral Thought, New York, Little Marl- 
 borough, Plymouth, St. IMartins. Colchester, Windsor, Am- 
 herst, Trinity, and Aurora be sung, provided there be no ob- 
 jection made?" Tradition relates that things went on har- 
 moniously till, one Sunday, the old puritan blood got some- 
 what the better of the grace that was in it. the singers run- 
 ning a competing race while singing, with Deacon Tarrant 
 while reading the hymn, both trying to see which of the two 
 would first reach the end of the verse, both landing at the 
 same goal, about the same time, the harmony not quite as 
 Sabbatic as it should have been. The congregation were con- 
 founded, and the pastor, Mr. Hall, standing up in the pulpit 
 and saying "he had no hand in the matter," was replied to 
 by the free remark of one who instantly rose in the audience, 
 Baying "David Hall, you lie! Sail}', it's time for us to go 
 home!" — the irate saint henceforth absenting himself from 
 the stated means of grace. 
 
 What prominence the Sibleys had in early New England 
 history the records abundantly show. They appear foremost 
 in every good work. As selectmen they seem to have been 
 perpetuated in office through all their generations. As leaders 
 in the church, they are not less eminent. Their names stand 
 .among the founders of the church in Sutton. Their children 
 
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 fire recorded as "themselves entering into covenant with God, 
 their ])arents presenting theni for admission to the church."' 
 It is Jonathan Sibk'v who is on "ye comitty" to build the 
 church, and seat the people. It is Samuel Sibley who, with 
 others, are to "vu the meeting house and. with Reverent Mr. 
 Hall, join iti loaning out the ministerial land." It is Captain 
 Joseph Sibley who "treets with ye ^Minister about ye Deficience 
 in sallery." recommends "in vu of ye general run of Provis- 
 ions and Clothing that we apprehend One Hundred and Fifty 
 pounds." and "])ring ye sallery up to ye standard." and again 
 sees "whether ye Town hath fulfiiletl its original agreement 
 with ye minister Cording to ye true intent thereof." And as 
 to beautifying the town, and providing a "public Parke" it 
 is John Sibley Avho appears in the foregr'onnd. and. because of 
 his love for aninuils and law-abiding character, it is "voated 
 that John Sibley, Junr., be a nuui to take care of ye Dear in 
 ve Provence that thev be not killed Contrarv to law." Everv- 
 
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 where in all matters of importance relating to the common 
 weal, in church or state, in agriculture, commerce, education, 
 law, finance, order, politics, religion, war or peace, the Sibleys 
 stand out as foremost figures in the history of New England. 
 Their name is "Legion." They swarm. Sutton is their hive. 
 In West Sutton we find Rufus. Nathaniel, Frank, Freeman. 
 Levious, Almon, Darius, ]\Ioses, Sarah, Aaron, Gideon Sibley. 
 In the Putnam Hill district are Elijah, Daniel, Stephen, Tar- 
 rant, Abner. Simeon. Elihu. Joseph, Jonathan, William, Ben- 
 jamin, Samuel, Paul, Reuben, Francis, Nahum. Peter, Arthur, 
 Timothy, Oliver, Hannah. Susanna, Huldah, Mary Sibley. In 
 the "Eight Lots" district are Jonathan and Timothy. In the 
 Centre district, Jonas, Jonas L.. Pierpong. John M., Gibbs. 
 Nehemiah, Elijah, Caleb. Sylvester, Mary Ann. And all are 
 interlaced and intermingled in a net work of intermarriages 
 crossing and recrossing with the Putnams and Whipples, the 
 Bigelows and Summers, the Pierponts and ^Morses, the Lelands 
 end Wheelocks, the Tarrants and Baiu-rofts, the Dudleys and 
 the Spragues, and, later down in the fiow of their generations, 
 with the Wellses and Conklings, the Livingstons and Chases, 
 and other influential families; a remarkable conection, found 
 in almost every rank and profession of civilized life, artisans, 
 farmers, merchants, business men of every description, minis- 
 ters, elders, deacons, church wardens, rectors, canons, bankers, 
 physicians, surgeons in the army, the navy, at the bar, on the 
 bench, in academies and colleges, and in the halls of the Conti- 
 nental and the late National Congress; graduates of Harvard, 
 Yale, Union, Williams, Dartmouth and Princeton colleges. 
 Traced through their affiliated lines, and their various connec- 
 tions appear names of high distinction in the annals of several 
 
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 states, cind of tlK^ nation; Captains Nathaniel and Jonathan, 
 noted in Revolutionary times; Samuel Sibley, raising money 
 "to relieve Boston and Charlestown suifering under the Boston 
 Port Bill," and "reporting approval of what the Continental 
 Congress had done;" Colonel Timothy Sibley, securing "five 
 thousand pounds sterling," after the battles of Lexington and 
 Concord, "to pay the Continental men sent to Rhode Island," 
 and, after the close of the war, "incorporating his own estate, 
 with those of others, into the First Congregational Society of 
 Sutton;" Hon. Jonas Sibley, Jonas L. Sibley, Esq., "a man of 
 fine presence, pre-eminently a public-spirited man. a true law- 
 yer, with a docket of cases no less than eighty for a single 
 term of court;" Hon. Mark H. Sibley, of Canandaigua, a man 
 of rare national distinction; Hon. Sumner Cole, of Sutton; 
 Rev. John Langdon Sibley, librarian of Harvard, and full of 
 literary labor; Rev. J. AVillard Morse, of Sutton, "ojie of the 
 finest of men, and ablest of preachers," a son of Huldah Sib- 
 ley, "one of the noblest women of the West," and cousin of 
 Henry Hastings Sibley; Chief Justice Solomon Sibley, of De- 
 troit; the celebrated Dr. Henry Wells, "Henry of Montagae," 
 a young graduate bearing away the honors of Princeton, re- 
 honored at Yale and Dartmouth with two separate degrees ; 
 the not less distinguished Dr. John Sibley, of Natchitoches, 
 Louisiana; Oscar E. Sibley, of Albany, New York; the brilliant 
 lawyer and monumental benefactor in the cause of education, 
 Hiram Siblc}^, of Rochester, New York ; George E. Sibley, Esq., 
 of New York City; Brevet Major General Caleb Sibley, of the 
 United States army, a first cousin of Henry Hastings Sibley. 
 To these must be added the names of Septumus Sibley, M.D., 
 London, England; Hon. Henry Hopkins Sibley, of St. Louis, 
 and Major General Henry Hopkins Sibley, of the Confederate 
 army, with the distinguished name of Josiah Sibley, of Au- 
 gusta, Georgia, at whose recent decease it was said, "He was 
 one of those temperate, liberty-loving. God-fearing people 
 whom they, who rise up after, call blessed; the leading elder 
 in the First Presbyterian Church of Augusta, a man of vast 
 wealth, large family, high public spirit ; among the most 
 esteemed of Augusta's citizens, giving stability to all her 
 enterprises, and whose name has been associated with Augus- 
 ta's progress for nearly fifty vears, 'an honest man, the noblest 
 work of God'." 
 
 Nor are we to forget Richard Sibley, of New York, who 
 married ]\Iary Wessels, 1744, and Richard Sibley, of Stamford, 
 Connecticut, who married Mary Pett, of New York, 1792, both 
 noted in their day. The names of Huldah, Elizabeth, Catherine 
 Whipple, Sarah and Mary Ann, are among the shining ones 
 in this vast connection. Many, indeed, occupied more humble 
 
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 walks of life, but in whatever sphere, it is recorded as the 
 "bright particular star" that beamed on the forehead of each, 
 so far as tradition's tonfrne can speak, that "personal integrity- 
 was the family characteristic of all the Sibleys, from the high- 
 est to the lowest." The name "Sibley" became a "synonym 
 for justice, honesty, and truth." not less than for "benevo- 
 lence to men." "It has never been known," says the Rev. J. 
 Langdou Sibley, "that any of our family Avere ever hanged, 
 however much they might have deserved to be, nor to have 
 been punished for any civil offense." 
 
 How thoroughly l^iritanic this celebrated stock Avas, is seen 
 ill the names transmitted to the children, generation after gen- 
 eration. Adam, the great progenitor, we do not find. But 
 among the antediluvians, Noah stands prominent as ever. 
 Among the patriarchs are the three great stem-fathers of the 
 Hebrew race, Abraham. Isaac and Jacob, and among the sons 
 of Jacob we find Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Joseph and Benjamin. 
 xVraong the prophets are Moses, Elijah, Joel, Amos, Jonas, 
 Nathan, Nahum, Jeremiah, Isaiah, Ezekiel and Daniel. Among 
 the old generals and judges, Joshua, Caleb, Barak, Gideon, 
 Jephtha and Samuel. Among the kings, David, Solomon, 
 Josiah, Hezekiah and David's friend, Jonathan. Among the 
 old reformers and restorers, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Zerubbabel. 
 Among the evangelists, Matthew and ]Mark : and among the 
 apostles, Peter, Andrew, James, John, Philip, Thomas, 
 Nathaniel, Thaddeus, Paul ; with their helpers, Silas, Stephen, 
 Timothy, Rufus. Nor less prominently do we find the names 
 of Israel's women of renoAvn ; Sarah, Rachel, Hannah, Huldah, 
 Tamar, Ruth, Naomi, Abigail, Azubah, Avith Esther, and Vashti, 
 of Persian fame. Also, of Ncav Testament names, Mary, Mar- 
 tha, Elizabeth, Anna. Joanna, Susanna, Lydia, Dorcas, Persis, 
 Eunice, Priscilla, Phoebe. And not to be utterly restricted to 
 Scripture names, avc find Scripture Avords used as names, Par- 
 don Sibley, Experience Sibley, Temperance Sibley, Patience 
 Sibley, and Prudence Sibley. And. in memory of distinguished 
 family connections, avc read of John Pierpong. Sumner Cole, 
 KdAvard Livingston, Franklin Sunnier, Alexander Hamilton, 
 John Hopkins, John Whipple Sibley, etc., family nomenclature 
 crowned with Darius, Alexander, Augustas and Horace, 
 Archelaus and Pliny, Frederick and Oliver, Luther and Calvin. 
 True to their environment, heredity, and genealogy, some 
 curious stories are told by the Sibleys, reflecting no more the 
 color of the times than the individuality of the persons, im- 
 I)ossible to be of neutral hue. A stone Avail nine miles in cir- 
 cumference is a monument to the untiring diligence of Cap- 
 tain Samuel Sibley, of West Sutton, and his utilization of the 
 streams of "Purgatory" for saAvmill purposes attests his 
 
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 shrewd practical character. The roots of pond lilies, phmttnl 
 by another, in Union, send forth their stalks and bloom to this 
 day. The same love of beauty, however, was not without its 
 sterner side. It is a well-authenticated fact that the very man 
 who planted these lil}' roots, Jonathan Sibley, fourth son of 
 Samuel and Sarah Sibley, of Sutton, "whipped his beer bar- 
 rel because it worked on Sunday, and his eat because she 
 caught a mouse when he was at prayers." While nothing is 
 recorded as to what punishment was inflicted on those who 
 frequented the spigot, or examined the bung, on the first day 
 of the week, it is a breath of comfort, in our modern days of 
 agitation upon the temperance question, to know that the 
 original Pilgrims and children of the Puritans gave to the 
 "beer barrel," at least, a sound trouncing for its Sunda^^ trans- 
 gressions, and that even mice were not exempt from accounta- 
 bility to Colonial Laws. It is related, further, concerning the 
 same Sibley, that, when married to Sarah Dow, himself short 
 of stature, his bride tall beyond ordinary height, "he stood 
 upon a wooden oven lid," in order to overcome the inequality 
 between them, and secure the tying of the knot more firmly. 
 The length of his bride, was, moreover, of great advantage in 
 the days of their pioneer life. Accustomed to carry, on horse- 
 back, his corn to the mill, nine miles distant, and bring his 
 salt from Exeter, — his nearest neighbors three miles away, — 
 his practice was to secure the courtesy of Mr. Benjamin Per- 
 kins, as protector of his wife in "keeping the bears off the 
 corn patch," during his absence. It happened one moonlight 
 night, "fair Cynthia smiling over Nature's soft repose," that 
 a terible crash was suddenly heard in the corn-stalks. Leav- 
 ing her four children, and calling Perkins to her aid, Mrs. 
 Sibley hastended to the scene of depredation, Perkins firing 
 his gun, and wounding but not disabling the bear. With long- 
 stepping motion, swiftly pursuing the game, "she caught the 
 bear, at last, by the hind leg, as he was climbing over a log 
 and "held on," with the grip of a tar at the ship's rope, until 
 Perkins came up and dispatched the animal by "cutting his 
 throat with a jack-knife." Such brides and mothers are rare 
 in our times. It is also stated that "the last wig" worn in 
 Sutton was worn by Colonel Timothy Sibley, A.D. 1800. 
 
 The wife of Samuel Sibley, son of the first John Sibley, of 
 Salem, 1692. was clearly a devout woman, yet of a keen inven- 
 tive genius and withal deeply interested in devising some 
 means whereby to detect "witches," whose love of Salem as a 
 place for their equestrain broomstick aerial performances was 
 proverbial. "She lived in that unhappy village," says her pas- 
 tor. The Rev. Mr. Paris, "where she raised the devil by advis- 
 ing John, an Indian, how to make 'cake'." It seems the cake 
 
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 was made — perhaps ratlier indigestible — a part of wliicli Mrs. 
 Sibley (Sister Mary) sent, in kindness, to the pastor's man- 
 sion. The result was, according to the pastor's testimony, that 
 the whole village was "immediately and sorely vexed with the 
 Devil, and amazing feats were done by witchcraft and diaboli- 
 cal operations; na}'. it never broke forth to any consider- 
 able extent until by this cake-making under the direction of 
 our sister Mary; since which time apparitions have been exceed- 
 ing much; so that, by this means, the Devil hath been raised 
 among us, and when he shall be silenced the Lord only knows; 
 and that our dear sister should have been instrumental in 
 such distress grieveth us much, and our godly neighbors." As 
 a matter of course, Sister Sibley was "suspended from the 
 communion of the church," because she taught Indian John 
 how to make cake. "But. inasmuch as our honored sister doth 
 truly fear the Lord, and did what she did ignorantly, and 
 while we are in duty bound to protest against this cake-mak- 
 ing as being indeed a going to the Devil for help against the 
 Devil — a thing contrary to nature and God's work — we do, nev- 
 ertheless, continue her in our holy fellowship, upon her serious 
 promise of future better advisedness and caution." So Sister 
 Mary's case was happily terminated. "Brethren," said the 
 pastor to the church, at the close of the Sacrament, on the 
 Lord's day, "if this be your mind, manifest it now, by the 
 usual sign of lifting up your hands. The brethren voted uni- 
 versally. Then the pastor said, Sister Sibley, if you are con- 
 vinced that you herein did sinfully, and are sorry for it, just 
 let us hear now a word from your own mouth. And Sister 
 Sibley did manifest sweetly to the satisfaction of all, her 
 error and grief for the same. Brethren, if you are satisfied, 
 continued the pastor, just testify by lifting your hands. And 
 a universal vote was had, none excepting." 
 
 In our days of modern progress and religious culture, we 
 alTect indignation and greet with contempt what we call the 
 "superstitions of the Puritans." It would be more to our 
 credit, could we ever attain to their downright earnestness in 
 religion, fear of God, and respect for his word, notwithstand- 
 ing their mistakes in many things. In language the most ex- 
 press he had legislated, saying, "Thou shalt not suffer a witch 
 to live," Exod. 22:18. He sent a king of Israel into fetters 
 and a dungeon, because he "used witchcraft and dealt with a 
 familiar spirit, and with a wizard," 2 Chron. 38:6, that 
 "sorcery" and "witchcraft" which an apostle has placed 
 among the "works of the flesh," and whose doom is "the 
 lake of fire." Gal. 5:20, Rev. 21:8. Before condemning the 
 Puritans too roundly, it were well to remember that, not only 
 the Witch of Endor, the Gadarene demoniac, and the Pytho- 
 
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 ness who followed Paul, and ancient history, sacred and pro- 
 fane attest the reality of the commerce of "evil spirits" with 
 mankind, but that, from the fifteenth to the seventeenth cen- 
 tury, their influence overspread all Europe. Already, in 1317, 
 Pope John XXII. complained that his courtiers had "made a 
 compact with hell, demanding of the demons speech and 
 answer." Papal bulls were issued in 1404, 1448, against "the 
 increase of sorcery, and seeking to the dead." In the fifteenth 
 century, not only the Maid of Orleans was burned as a witch, 
 by order of the Earl of Bedford, but 100,000 in Germany, 
 1,500 in Switzerland, 1,000 at Como, and 900 females at Lor- 
 raine, suffered at the hands of the executioner, for witch- 
 craft, the jails being insufficient to hold, and the judges too 
 few to try them. In the sixteenth century, Bishop Jewell ap- 
 pealed to Queen Elizabeth to enforce the laws, severe as they 
 were. No less than 30,000 were executed in England, among 
 whom were the Maid of Kent, the Duke of Buckingham, the 
 Duchess of Gloucester, and Lord Hungerford. Bibles were 
 I)urned as a pledge of fealty to the new faith, and the truths 
 of Christianity began to be rejected as irreconcileable with 
 the new revelations made. It was the same influence that 
 afflicted the Puritans of the seventeenth century, the demonic 
 spiritism that afflicts our own age, to an extent not realized, 
 a form of satanic manifestation of which it was predicted, 
 that, "in the last times, some shall depart from the faith, 
 giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of demons, 
 speaking lies, in hypocrisy," I. Tim., 4:1. Witchcraft is no 
 unsolved phenomenon, and modern media conversing with 
 "the spirits of the dead," are but the reappearance "of Bessie 
 Dunlop interviewing Thomas Reid. killed in battle, and of 
 Miss Throgmorton speaking with Pluck Hardman, deceased." 
 We must give the Puritans the benefit of this. The Salem 
 pastor, were he living, would rebuke our modern necromanc- 
 ing with familiar spirits. As for "Sister Mary," her awful 
 crime was that of teaching Indian John how to make cake, 
 wholly indigestible. That was certainly an atrocious offense, 
 more due, however, to the character of the ingredients, the 
 condition of the fire, or want of experience, than to the im- 
 mediate influence of Satan, and all historians of the circum- 
 stance rejoice at her escape so easily, from a sentence which 
 only was averted by the goodness of those whose love of jus- 
 tice and tenderness of heart were equal to their fear of God 
 and hatred of the Devil. Say what we may of these God- 
 fearing men and cake-making women, who whipped their 
 beer casks for working on Sunday and punished their cats 
 for catching mice during prayer, and "raised the Devil in 
 Salem," they were yet the stock whose offsprings were the 
 
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 founders of our institutions, and bulwark of our civil and 
 religious liberties, and whose descendants now tread the con- 
 tinent from the Atlantic to Pacific, and from the Southern 
 Gulf to the Frozen Zone. It was of them Berkeley sang in 
 his ode on the "Planting of Arts and Learning in America;" 
 a race of men 
 
 "Not such as Europe breeds in her decay, 
 But as she bred when fresh and young, 
 
 When heavenly flame did animate her clay, 
 By future ages to be sung. 
 
 "Westward the course of empire takes its way. 
 
 The first four acts already past, 
 A fifth shall close the drama of the day, 
 
 Time's noblest offspring is the last." 
 
 The Sibleys have a proud record in Colonial and Revolu- 
 tionary times. In civil life, they appear continuously as 
 selectmen, assessors, moderators of council, lawyers, repre- 
 sentatives and physicians in one unbroken stream, ever widen- 
 ing and deepening as it flows to the present day. In military 
 life thej^ seem to be ubiquitous, holding every rank, from tlie 
 lowest to the highest, save that of supreme commander of 
 the forces of the nation : private, drummer-boy, ensign, cor- 
 poral, sergeant, captain, major, lieutenant, colonel, general, 
 major-general, promoted, brevetted and praised by legisla- 
 ture and by Congress for their meritorious service. From 
 1755 to 1761 we find the names of Ensign Jonathan, Drum- 
 merboy Elijah, Captain John, Captain James, the son-in-law 
 of the renowned General Israel Putnam, and Privates John, 
 Jonathan, Elihu, David, Joseph, Sr., Joseph, Jr., father and 
 son, side by side with shouldered musket in the same com- 
 pany. William, Sr., William, Jr., Stephen, Jonas, Samuel, 
 Henry and Frank. In the Revolutionary Army is Captain 
 Nathaniel, Captain Jonathan, Captain Solomon, Corporal 
 David, Colonel Timothy and Privates Daniel, David, Richard, 
 Stephen, John, William, Joseph, Abner, and others too many 
 to name. Among the "Minute Men," who marched "on the 
 Alarm" from Sutton to Concord, August 19, 1775, when 
 Putnum left his plow in the furrow, and Paul Revere struck 
 fire from the hoofs of his bounding steed, and the "first 
 blood for independence" was shed, were Joseph, Daniel, 
 Elihu, Gideon, Peter, Samuel, Tarrant, William, Jonathan, 
 John, At Ticonderoga they fought under Colonel Jonathan 
 Holmes of the Fifth IMassachusetts, brother-in-law of Joseph 
 Sibley. From the days of the infamous "Stamp Act," 1764, 
 
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 passed by Parliament to tax unrepresented men for revenue, 
 and support the crown in its purpose to oppress, down to the 
 time of the "Boston Port Bill," and thence to tlie close of the 
 war for independence, the Sibleys were among the first, in 
 the ranks of the army, on the sea, in colonial councils, and 
 in the Continental Congress, battling for freedom, serving 
 their country, enduring all manner of self-sacrifice, and earn- 
 ing a name that will not pass away. 
 

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History of Josiah Sibley, Joel Sibley and Stephen Sibley 
 of Revolutionary War to landing of John Sibley at 
 Salem, Mass. 1661. 
 
 The first Sibleys in this country came over from England 
 in the fleet, in A. D. 1629, only nine years after the settle- 
 ment of Old Plymouth, and settled in the town of Salem, 
 Massachusetts. They were supposed to be brothers, and their 
 names were John and Richard. They both had wives. They 
 united with the church at Charlestown, December 21, 1634, and 
 John Sibley took the freeman's oath May 6, 1635. He was a 
 Selectman of the town of Salem and went to the general court 
 at Boston. He died in Manchester, 1661, leaving nine children — 
 five daughters and four sons. His sons' names are: John, 
 born March 4, 1648, was a captain, selectman, etc. ; William, 
 born July 8, 1653, was a yeoman, butcher, etc.; Joseph, born 
 1655, was a fisherman; Samuel, born February 12, 1657. His 
 wife's name was Mary of Salem. 
 
 Joseph Sibley, the son of John, who was born in 1655, on 
 his return from a fishing voyage, was impressed on board a 
 British frigate, put to hard service for seven weeks, then re- 
 leased and sent home. This Joseph Sibley was the father ot 
 the Sutton Sibleys. His wife's name was Susanna. They had 
 seven children — one daughter and six sons — viz. : Joseph III, 
 John III, Jonathan III, Samuel III, William III, Benjamin 
 III, and Hannah, who married Ebenezer Dagget, August 10, 
 1722. 
 
 All these brothers settled in this town ; three of these : 
 Joseph, John and Jonathan, were among the thirty families 
 who were entered as settlers in the four thousand acres. 
 Samuel's name appears soon after as occupying a place with 
 Joseph. In the seating of the meeting house in 1736 the names 
 of William and Benjamin Sibley are found as assigned to the 
 fifth seat on the lower floor. 
 
 Stephen Sibley V, (John IV, John III, Joseph II, and John I) 
 went to Rutland about 1792, and purchased the farm owned 
 by General Rufus Putnam. He was a soldier in the Revolu- 
 tionary war, and was at the taking of Burgoyne, in 1777. Very 
 little is known of Benjamin, or of his descendants. 
 
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 Of Joseph, one of the original six brothers, very little is 
 known. Plis name is entered as one of the thirty proprietors 
 of the fonr thousand acres, owning "lot 7 in the eight lots." 
 He probably left Sutton at an early date. 
 — :>-.Stephen Sibley V, in Colonel Jonathan Holman's regiment, 
 known as the "Sutton Regiment," had a very severe and long- 
 continued service of nearly two years, during which it was 
 engaged. in many battles w4tli the enemy, and finally, if we 
 accept the evidence of a high British authority, in the great 
 ^^ ' decisive battle of the w^ar — the battle of Saratoga. This regi- 
 
 ment returns, made September 11. 1776 is found in Force's 
 Archives, fifth series, volumn two, page 327 of the Army in 
 the Service of the United States, this regiment was ordered 
 to join the army of General Gates, then massed near Sara- 
 toga. In the battle that ensued. Colonel Holman's regiment 
 Avas actively engaged, and that they acquitted themselves 
 bravely may be justly inferred from the fact that after the 
 battle this regiment was designated "to take possession of 
 Fort Edward and to hold it, until the dispersion of Burgoyne's 
 army," which they did. The regiment was then honorably 
 discharged and the men returned to their homes. The sur- 
 render of Burgoyne and his whole army, virtually ended the 
 war in New England. 
 
 Colonel Holman was born in 1732, and was 43 years of age 
 when the Revolutionary war broke out. He embraced the war 
 freedom, with great ardor. He had been in the British ser- 
 vice during the French war. He married for his first wife, 
 Hannah Sibley of Uxbridge, Mass., sister of Stephen Sibley V, 
 bv whom he had six sons and three daughters. — Extracts from 
 History of Sutton, 1704-1876; pages 717. 718, 724, 726, 721, 
 773, 775 and 785. 
 
 Stephen Sibley was the brother-in-law^ of Colonel Holman, 
 who not only devoted his services, but much of his fortune to 
 the Revolutionary cause, and is the father of Joel Sibley, 
 born April 25th, 1766, who is the father of Josiah Sibley, born 
 April 1, 1808, the subject of this sketch. The family feature, 
 generally speaking, of all the Sibleys, is blue eyes, including 
 the ninth lineal descendants of John I, with the exception of 
 Robert Pendleton Sibley's children, only one of whom. Profes- 
 sor Rol)ert Sibley, of Montana, has blue eyes. Neither do we 
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Biographical Sketch of the Late Josiah Sibley, Born at Ux- 
 bridge, Massachusetts, April 1st, 1808 — Died at Augusta, 
 Georgia, December 7th, 1888— By Boiling Sibley, of Mem- 
 phis Tenn., Grandson of Josiah Sibley. 
 
 As will be seen from the chapter on the origin of the Sibley 
 family, the first Sibleys to settle in America were John Sibley 
 and his brother, Richard Sibley, who were born at or near 
 St. Albans in Hertfordshire, England, and were among the 
 early settlers of New England. In 1629 the ''Winthrop Fleet" 
 set sail from England, carrying a large number of the best 
 and most sturdy men of that day who were the earliest set- 
 tlers of Massachusetts. From these early settlers have de- 
 scended some of America's greatest men. These settlers were 
 for the most part men and women of distinction, and above 
 all a God fearing and an upright people. 
 
 Among this distinguished company were the two Sibley 
 brothers (John and Richard) mentioned above. These broth- 
 ers settled at Naumkeag (Salem), Massachusetts, in 1629. 
 
 John Sibley died in 1661, leaving nine children. There was 
 a John Sibley, born September 18, 1689. This John had a son 
 (born November 13th, 1714) named John, who had a son (born 
 at Sutton, Mass., July 12, 1741) and named Stephen. Stephen 
 had a son named Joel, who was born at Grafton, Mass., April 
 25th, 1766, and died at Grafton, Mass., April 10th, 1839. 
 This Joel was the father of Josiah Sibley, of Augusta, Geor- 
 gia, the subject of this sketch, who was born April 1st, 1808, 
 at Uxbridge, Mass., being the seventh in lineal descent from 
 John of Salem. His mother was Lois, a daughter of Colonel 
 Ezekiel Wood, of Uxbridge, Mass. Josiah was the third of 
 four sons (Royal, Amorj^ Josiah and George.) Until 1821 
 Josiah lived with his parents in Uxbridge. His early educa- 
 tion was acquired in the district school of his native town. 
 
 In the year 1821, when only thirteen years of age, he left 
 the parental roof and began life's battle at this tender age, 
 joining his brothers, Amory and Royal, who sometime prior 
 to this had located in Augusta, Georgia. His first employ- 
 ment was a clerk in his brother's store. His compensation 
 was small, being his board and clothes and whatever he could 
 realize in cash from the sale of fishing tackle and pocket 
 knives. Later he was permitted to deal in oranges and ap- 
 propriate to his own use whatever pecuniary profits might 
 accrue from the sale of this fruit. The dealings begun in this 
 
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 modest way developed in after years to large and profitable 
 transactions covering the staple commodities of this region. 
 When he located in Augusta, Ga., it was a frontier town of 
 six thousand inhabitants. Its trade, however, exceeded what 
 might have been expected from a town of that size. Royal 
 Sibley dying in 1822, Josiah continued with his ])rother Amory 
 until 1828, when he was admitted into partnership with him, 
 to begin business as A. & J. Sibley, Hamburg, S. C. One 
 year thereafter he purchased his brother's Amory 's interest 
 in the busines for the sum of ten thousaiul dollars. This was 
 a wholesale and retail merchandising house, doing a cott(jn 
 business in addition, and was located in Hamburg, S. C, across 
 the river from Augusta. Hamburg was a thriving town in 
 those days, being the terminus of the South Carolina railroad. 
 Taking advantage of the situation he transacted for several 
 years a large and lucrative business at that i)oiiit. In 1853 
 he admitted into partnership with himself his eldest son, 
 William C. Sibley-. The firm was then known as J. Sibley & 
 Son. In 1855, the town of Plamburg being on a decline, the 
 firm moved to Augusta. In 1857 his son Samuel H. Sibley 
 was admitted and the name changed to Josiah Sibley & Sons. 
 
 As they respectively attained their manhood, George and 
 Robert (sons of Josiah Sibley) were successively admitted to 
 the firm. The firm was for a time known as Josiah Sibley 
 & Sons, and later, when William C. Sibley withdrew and 
 removed to New Orleans, it was J. Sibley & Sons. 
 
 The firm did a large and profitable cotton business. No 
 mercantile house in Augusta stood in higher repute. By none 
 were more important commercial transactions conducted. 
 
 Although the subject of this sketch came from a long line 
 of New England ancestry, and although he voted in 1861 
 against secession, he gave the Confederacy his best moral and 
 financial support. The Mechanics Bank of Augusta, Ga., of 
 which he was a director, became a Confederate States depos- 
 itory and, after the war closed, he had to redeem $90,000 of 
 bank bills for $30,000 stock he owned in the bank. 
 
 He foresaw that the Confederacy could not succeed, but, 
 notwithstanding this, he encouraged his five sons to volunteer 
 in the Confederate army, and later, when those entering the 
 evening of life were called upon to defend their firesides, he 
 enlisted for the defense of Augusta. At the outlireak of the 
 civil war, with wonderful business foresight, his firm, Josiah 
 Sibley & Sons, chartered a sailing vessel and shipped 1,200 
 bales of cotton to England, instructing his British agents, 
 Guion & Co., and Baring Bros., to hold an accounting of the 
 shipment until the close of the war. 
 
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 As stated above, his five sons (William, " Henry- Josiah," 
 Samuel, George and Robert) volunteered in the Confederate 
 army. William was a member of Oglethorpe Infantry, and 
 afterwards Commissary for General John K. Jackson's bri- 
 gade. Henry Josiah, joined the Clinch Rifles; at the evacua- 
 tion of Atlanta, in attempting to save a comrade's baggage, 
 he fell from the top of the train and sustained such serious 
 injuries that he died on the fourth day afterwards. Samuel 
 at first volunteered with the Georgia Light Guards; later he 
 became a member of Cobb's Legion of Hampton's division, 
 stationed in Virginia. 
 
 George R. was Assistant Quartermaster in Heath's division 
 of General Kirby Smith's command in Kentucky and Ten- 
 nessee. 
 
 Robert P., on March 9th, 1864, being just sixteen years of 
 age, became a member of the Augusta Volunteer Artillery. 
 This battery was better known as "Barnes Battery of Artil- 
 lery. ' ' 
 
 In 1864 the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta railroad was 
 incorporated and Josiah Sibley became a life long director. 
 He was also one of the earliest directors of the Port Royal 
 and Augusta railroad, and for years prior to his death was 
 a director of the Georgia Railroad and Banking Company. 
 
 The Sibley Manufacturing Company, one of the largest 
 and handsomest cotton mills in the South, was organized in 
 May, 1880. The promoters of this enterprise called on him 
 and requested that this factory be named in his honor, be- 
 lieving if it became known that he was interested in the un- 
 dertaking the six hundred thousand dollars capital (which 
 was afterwards increased to one million) could be more easily 
 raised. His son William was made president, being also 
 president of the Langley Manufacturing Company, of Lang- 
 ley, S. C. (Near Augusta). He and his son William were also 
 the foremost promoters in the Langley Mill. Josiah was also 
 a director in the Iron Steamboat Compan}^, whose boats plied 
 the Savannah River. He was also the prime mover in many 
 other enterprises. His counsel and advice were often sought. 
 In 1865, when the City of Augusta was in need of financial 
 assistance, he, acting under authority of the City Council, 
 went to New York and borrowed one hundred thousand dol- 
 lars for the City at a reasonable rate of interest. 
 
 He was one of the few men in Augusta in 1865 and 1866 
 who could and did sell his check at par on New York for 
 sums as high as one hundred thousand dollars. 
 
 In 1874 he retired from active business. After that time 
 until his death in December, 1888, he gave his personal atten- 
 tion to the management of his large estate. Besides being 
 
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 largely interested in numerous corporations, he left large tracts 
 of land, having forty-four thousand acres in Georgia and six 
 thousand acres in Ohio, besides other real estate in small 
 amounts. As wo liave seen from the foregoing, he began life 
 with practically nothing, yet he was a man of so much busi- 
 ness capacity and frugality that his executors have since his 
 death divided among his heirs something like four hundred 
 thousand dollars. 
 
 We have covered the business career of our subject and 
 will next take up his domestic and religious side. Josiah was 
 twice married. On July 25th, 1831, he married Miss Sarah 
 Ann Crapon, daughter of William (merchant) and Hannah 
 Crapon, of Providence, Rhode Island. Eleven children were 
 the fruit of this marriage, viz. : William Crapon, born May 
 3, 1832, died April 17th, 1902 ; Henry Josiah, l3orn November 
 19th, 1833, died July 25th, 1864; Samuel Hale, born Septem- 
 ber 9th, 1835, died December, 1884; Sophia Matilda, born 
 October 16th, 1837, died 1897; George Royal, born July 19, 
 1839, died July 1887; Fannie Maria, born October 13, 1841, 
 died December 20, 1842; Mary Lois, born September 3, 1843, 
 died February 23, 1864; Alice Maria ,born February 9, 1846; 
 died July, 1907; Robert Pendleton, born February 17, 1848; 
 Amory Walter, born June 19, 1852, died July 28th, 1899; 
 Caroline Crapon, born Februarv 21, 1850, died November 
 16, 1858. 
 
 Josiah 's second wife was a daughter of Gilbert Longstreet — 
 Miss Emma Eve Lonstreet — of Richmond county, Georgia, to 
 whom he was married August 4, 1860. To them were born 
 four children : John Adams, born September 1, 1861 ; James 
 Longstreet, born August 4, 1863; Mary Bones, born IMarch 
 29, 1865; Emma Josephine, born February 23, 1867. 
 
 Josiah was a kind and affectionate husband and father. 
 His chief aim in life seems to have been making those around 
 him happy. His family, though large, was given every ad- 
 vantage. In 1879 he made a tour through Europe, being ac- 
 companied by his wife and five of his children. On Christ- 
 mas and other occasions he would have his sons and daughters, 
 nieces and nephews and their husbands and wives and chil- 
 dren assemble at his home, corner Bay and Elbert streets, in 
 Augusta, and the event was always a most notable one. On 
 Christmas he would have his numerous grandchildren (under 
 eighteen years of age) sit on a large joggling board, and each 
 was presented with a silver dollar and a package of fire crack- 
 ers as his ])ersonal gift. 
 
 In 1859 he gave his heart to God and united with the Pres- 
 byterian Church in Augusta, and was a consecrated Chris- 
 tian the remainder of his life. When the Second Presbyterian 
 
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 Church of Augusta was organized, he gave his support to it 
 and in later years voluntarily cancelled a mortgage of several 
 thousand dollars held by him on the church property. He 
 served as an elder in both of these churches. 
 
 His sterling integrity, kind and gentle disposition and his 
 love for God and his fellow-man were an inspiration for all 
 who knew him. He was a leader in the religious and charit- 
 able organizations of Augusta. The distinguishing traits of 
 character were absolute integrity, inflexible honesty, tireless 
 industry, and generous philanthropy. His influence was 
 always on the side of justice and right, and he left an in- 
 delible impression on his family and his fellow citizens. 
 Although it has been a score of years since his death, the in- 
 fluence of his majestic character still lingers among his de- 
 scendants and friends. He truly left his impress for good 
 upon his own and succeeding generations. It was said of him 
 shortly after his decease by a distinguished friend who knew 
 him intimately for many years, "In his domestic relations, in 
 his intercourse with his fellow man, in his business transac- 
 tions, and in his association with church and community, Mr. 
 Sibley's conduct was marked by purity, probity, liberality, 
 public spirit, and Christian integrity. He was emphatically 
 a just, an honest, an influential and a God fearing man." 
 
 The subject of this sketch appears to be the first Josiah 
 named as a descendant of John Sibley, landed at Salem, Mass., 
 1629. 
 
MR. JOSIAH SIBLEY. 
 A Handsome Tribute to the Memory of an Honored Citizen. 
 
 The session of the Second Presbyterian Church has adopted 
 resolutions embodvinff a handsome tribute to the memory of 
 the late ]\Ir. Josiah Sibley. He was an honorable and honored 
 citizen of Augusta, and a valuable and valued officer in the 
 Second Presbyterian Church. 
 
 The resolutions are as follows: 
 
 "WHEREAS, It has pleased our Heavenly Father to trans- 
 late from the labors of the church on earth and the sufferings 
 of this life to the fellowship and rest of the saints in heaven 
 Mr. Josiah Sibley, on the 7th of December, 1888, in the 81st 
 year of this life, and 
 
 "WHEREAS, We desire to place on record our esteem for 
 his life and labors, 
 
 "Resolved, That in his life and death has been fulfiilled 
 the word of God, which saith : 'Thou shalt come to thy grave 
 in a full age : like as a shock of corn cometh in his season. ' 
 Job 2:26. 
 
 " 'The hoary head is a crown of glory if it be found in the 
 way of righteousness.' Prov. 16:31. 
 
 " 'The memory of the just is blessed.' Prov. 7:31. 
 " 'The righteous shall be had in everlasting remembrance.' 
 Paul 112:6. 
 
 "2. That we recognize in Mr. Sibley a man of pure life, 
 staunch integrity, and an amiable disposition, a citizen w^ho 
 was an honor to this, his adopted city, who ever held near his 
 heart its welfare, and who constantly prayed, labored and 
 hoped for its material advancement; 
 
 "A Christian gentleman in whom there was no guile; 
 
 "An elder in the church of Christ, trusted and beloved, 
 ever faithful in the discharge of every duty devolved upon 
 him as an officer called to bear rule in God's house, and zeal- 
 ous for the advancement of the Presbyterian church, but al- 
 ways rejoicing in the welfare of Christ's kingdom in every 
 denomination. 
 
 "3. That we cheerfully bear our testimony to his ardent 
 love, zealous labors, and liberal gifts in behalf of the Second 
 Presbyterian Church, and to his firm faith, and godly but 
 
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 unostentatious walk in our midst. We feel this church has 
 sustained a heavy loss in his death, and we have need to pray 
 with the Psalmist : ' Help, Lord, for the godly man ceaseth ; 
 for the faithful fail from among the children of men.' Ps. 
 112:1. 
 
 "4:. That while we bow into submission to the King and 
 Head of the church, we also give thanks for the grace that 
 enabled him so to live that, in all the relations of life, he set 
 us an humble, pious and godly example that is worthy of 
 imitation. 
 
 "5. That a page in our sessional records be set apart to 
 his memory, these resolutions be spread upon the minutes, 
 and a copy sent to the family and offered to the city papers 
 and The Christian Observer for publication. 
 "By order of the Session, 
 
 ''T. M. LOWRY, Pastor. 
 ''C. A. ROWLAND, Clerk of Session. 
 "December 16, 1888." 
 

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Telegrams received at the Josiah Sibley 
 Centennial Celebration. 
 
 At 11:38 a.m., Missoula, Mont., 4-1-08.— Mrs. Albert Gard- 
 ner, "Cottage Hill," Marietta, Ga. — Montana contingent sends 
 love, best wishes to all the family. 
 
 ROBERT, CATHERINE AND ELIZABETH SIBLEY. 
 
 Augusta, Ga., April 1, 1908.— Mrs. A. S. J. Gardner, Mari- 
 etta, Ga., Here's to the memory of my Grandfather. It is as 
 strong and fresh with me today as was my love for him in 
 life. May we emulate his many virtues. 
 
 MACPHERSON B. WILLIAMS. 
 
 7:40 p.m., Glendora, Cal., April 1st, 1908.— Mr. R. P. Sib- 
 ley, Care A. S. J. Gardner, Marietta, Ga. — Mother, sister, 
 Adeline, and myself send greetings this Family day. 
 
 JOSIAH SIBLEY. 
 
 April 1st, 1908. — Birmingham, Ala. — Mrs. A. S. J. Gardner, 
 Marietta, Ga. — Owing to Grace's sickness she and I regret 
 being unable to attend father's centennial. 
 
 MRS. JANE E. SIBLEY. 
 
The Celebration of Mr. Josiah Sibley's Birthday. 
 
 By JENNIE HART SIBLEY. 
 
 The ceh^bration of Mr. Josiah Sibley's centennial birthday, 
 April 1st, 1908, at his former snmmer home, "Cottage Hill," 
 Marietta, Ga., was the occasion of a delightful family gather- 
 ing. It was a happy thought that came to the fertile brain 
 of Prof. James L. Sibley, one of the grandsons, in suggesting 
 this Juliilee Memorial, and the ever responsive devoted 
 daughter j\Iary — ]\Irs. A. S. J. Gardner — after some consulta- 
 tion with others, immediately chrystalized the idea and 
 sounded the tocsin — calling the loyal clans, his lineal descend- 
 ants from the North, from the South, from the Atlantic to 
 the Pacific to meet in reunion, to reverence and give praise 
 to the name of Father. Grandfather, Great-grandfather and 
 Great-great-grandfather; yea, from the first to the fourth 
 generation. 
 
 The occasion was so rare and the pleasure experienced by 
 those in attendance so exquisite, it was a matter of much 
 regret that distance, family cares, and illness prevented a 
 full reunion; there being present only twenty out of a family 
 of one hundred and ten — sons and daughters, natural and 
 in-law — of the two sets of children of the first generation, 
 which at one time numbered fifteen. Today only five remain. 
 Of these Mr. Robert Pendleton Sibley, of the first set of chil- 
 dren ; James Longstreet Sibley, Mary Sibley-Gardner, Josie 
 Sibley-Cooper and John Adams Sibley, of the second set. All 
 were present save the last, who Avas away in old ]\Iexico; but 
 was represented by his son. Prof. James L. Sibley, more 
 recently of the Philippines. Alice (Mrs. W. T. Williams) 
 deceased, a daughter of the first set of children, was charm- 
 ingly represented by her daughter Emma — Mrs. John Harper 
 Davison. The second son among the first set of children, 
 Samuel Hale Sibley (deceased), was represented by his wife, 
 Jennie Hart, and their two sons, Samuel Hale Sibley, Jr., and 
 James llar-t Si])ley. Among those present were Albert S. J. 
 Gardner, liusband of IMary, and IMattie Erwin Sibley, wife of 
 James L. Sibley, with their sons Josiah Sibley and William 
 C. Sibley, as well as Constance Couper, daughter of Josie Sib- 
 ley-Conper. 
 
 Many are the memories that cluster about "Cottage Hill." 
 Some historic, some sad, and many joyous. All these com- 
 
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 bined make an ideal spot — a complete background for the 
 setting of this delightful day of social and joyous reunion, 
 freed from formality of any kind whatsoever. Whilst old 
 "Cottage Hill" has undergone an entire renovation — in fact 
 it is a new and beautiful structure — its old battle-scarred 
 portals still do duty in swinging wide its door in the lavish 
 hospitality of its incumbents — Mr. and ]\Irs. A. S. J. Gardner 
 and their four lovely children, Emma, Charlie, Jordan and 
 Lois, as was evidenced in the Jubilee feast on this occasion; 
 which, it may be truly said, was indeed peerless, baronial in 
 abundance, beautiful in appointment, and every viand tooth- 
 some and delicious, prepared by the masterly hand of the old 
 cook "Aunt" Ophelia. Recounting the pleasures of the past, 
 visiting the old familiar places, calling up memories of the 
 loved and lost, this long happy day was nearing its close : the 
 sun, sinking behind old Kennesaw, and in the western glow 
 long golden fingers of light pointed across the fields, through 
 the tree tops and stole up through the parted lace curtains 
 of the great hall, to a picture, a family circle, illuminating in 
 it a benign lovely face that beamed out from the canvas, and 
 gilding each bent head in this sacred hour of thanksgiving 
 and praise to God for the gift of this our father and his rich 
 life that now falls in blessings on his descendants. These 
 services were conducted by James Hart Sibley. He read from 
 the XXI Chapter of Revelations those beautiful words de- 
 scriptive of the home-going of the church, Avhere there will 
 be no need of the sun "for the Lamb is the light thereof," 
 and where there will be no more parting, for God will wipe 
 away all sorrow and tears from our eyes with a napkin of 
 love. The closing prayer was touching, earliest, and beautiful. 
 We would that its burning words might have been perpetu- 
 ated. Then followed Judge Samuel Hale Sibley in a brief 
 life sketch of his Grandfather from data furnished by a 
 granddaughter, ilary Sibley, ^Irs. Oswell R. Eve, which 
 sketch will be herewith given. In the interval remaining was 
 held a symposium, each child giving his first impressions and 
 recollections of Father and Grandfather. 
 
 The sun had sunk to sleep and the candles were lit — we hied 
 to the banquet hall, where for two hours a "feast of reason 
 and fiow of good cheer" reigned supreme. After which in 
 the great hall, young and old alike, rolled back the years, and 
 games and frolic filled the wee small hours, till the whistle of 
 the outgoing train reminded us we must say good bye to this 
 happy day, that could not return but to memory dear. 
 
A BRIEF SKETCH OF JOSIAH SIBLEY 
 
 Read on His Birthday, April 1, 1908, at a Family Gathering 
 
 at the Home of Mrs. Mary S. Gardner. 
 
 The poetically religious do declare unto us, that the tender 
 human relationships of husband, wife, father, mother, child, 
 and the lesser ties of kinship that radiate from these, were 
 Providential inventions to instruct and to aid mankind in all 
 their genei-ations in the divine art of loving. It is unques- 
 tionably true that the best we get from earthly life is insepa- 
 rably connected with these relationships; and one is dear to 
 us, who is of our blood, though personally unknown to us. 
 "The Sibley family," as we know it in our circle, has always 
 been remarkably clannish, and no doubt those of us who meet 
 here for the first time feel the impulse of loyal affection for 
 one another born not of personal association and acquaint- 
 ance, but of our common blood. The prosy law writers tell 
 us that our collateral kindred are bound to us by no direct 
 tie between person and person ; but that the tie consists at 
 last only in a descent from a common ancestor, whose blood 
 actually flows in the veins of each; and that the nearness or 
 remoteness of the relationship depends only on the nearness 
 or renoteness in the line of descent of the common ancestor, 
 with the consequent less or greater admixture of other blood. 
 The unsentimental law therefore makes the whole of our re- 
 lation.ship to consist in the identification of our common ances- 
 tor; and Avhile we know how greatly that foundation may be 
 budded upon in personal association and the development of 
 sincere personal affection and admiration, we readily perceive 
 that among blood kindred the logical origin of the tie lies in 
 the fact that in the not remote past the ancestors of each 
 called one man "Father." The kinship which we recognize 
 by marriage, rests on the beautiful theory, often happily 
 realized in fact, that husband and wife are each adopted into 
 the family of the other in all its ramifications, each thus claim- 
 ing the kindred of the other by that title by which alone 
 heavenly joys and possessions are held — adoption. 
 
 Disregarding the numberless other ties that may bind us 
 today, that which brings us together AS SIBLEYS lies in our 
 common descent from him the centenary of whose natal day 
 we celebrate, Josiah Sibley. Bearing, many of us, as an in- 
 heritance from him his name, is it then one of which his life 
 need make us ashamed? Having, all of us, his blood, is it an 
 
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 inheritance of evil? Having had his example, is it one that 
 we may follow? 
 
 Children of the third generation who never knew their 
 great-grandfather Sibley, and some of the second who cannot 
 recall him as their grandfather, mnst needs be told what man- 
 ner of man he was; and may listen with the assurance that 
 the knowledge may and should be one of the treasures of the 
 sacred past. 
 
 As has been said, this is the one hundredth anniversary of 
 his birth. The family in which on that occasion he took chief 
 place for the time being, was that of Joel Sibley, a farmer of 
 Uxbridge, jMassachusetts. Joel Sibley could count back eight 
 generations of Sibleys to John Sibley, who had lived at St. 
 Albans in Hertfordshire, England; and probably because of 
 the quality of his religion, had followed the Mayflower to 
 Massachusetts in 1629, becoming thus one of the early set- 
 tlers of the colony, and no doubt taking a proper part in the 
 trying contests with nature and the natives which ensued. 
 In 1808, however, Josiah found a much more modern Massa- 
 chusetts, and we cannot surround him with the halo of the 
 heroic age of America. There were his older brothers, Amory 
 and Royal, to teach and to tease him : to instruct his budding 
 curiosity in all the wonders of INIassachusetts "chores," and 
 then to see that the youngster was kept in constant practice 
 by doing as much of them as possible. The then INIrs. Sibley 
 had been Lois Wood, a daughter of Ezekiel Wood, and from 
 the influence a mother usually has on sons, we may imagine 
 her to have been a model of the exact and frugal Puritan 
 housekeeper. 
 
 Perhaps farming was not the natural hereditary occupa- 
 tion of the Sibleys. Certainly it did not pay — Massachusetts 
 farming never did. Amory and Royal Sibley by some chance 
 got to Augusta, Georgia, and started a thriving little business 
 there. This point was the head of navigation of the Savan- 
 nah for the larger boats; and as in the case of every other 
 river before the days of railroads, that fact determined the 
 location of the emporium of trade for the country on the 
 headwaters. After some years of schooling at home, young 
 Josiah Sibley, then 13 years old, followed his brothers south, 
 and with one dollar as his fortune arrived at Augusta, Geor- 
 gia. He served his brothers as clerk for his food and clothes, 
 and the profits realized on a line of fishing tackle and pocket 
 knives which was put under his especial care. This limited 
 income, depending for its existence as well as its size upon 
 his own efforts, does not indicate so much a want of liberality 
 and affection for the younger brother, as a shrewd and long- 
 sighted policy of throwing him on his own resources, and 
 
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 developing what was in him. And while we have extant no 
 inventory of the stock of Hibley J^ros., remembering that the 
 savage was then a principal inhabitant of the upper waters 
 of the Savannah, and all the people who came down to trade 
 were sons of the forest, this line was by no means an unim- 
 portant or limited one. And the young merchant soon won 
 his mercantile spurs, being permitted to undertake also a trade 
 in fruits, especially oranges, from Savannah, where a Mr. 
 Padelford represented his interests. This enterprise proved 
 a success, and attained considerable proportions. In 1822, 
 ]Mr. Royal Sibley died, and in 1828, at the age of twenty, 
 Josiah Sibley took his brother's place as the partner of Amory 
 Sibley, the firm name being A. & J. Sibley, at Hamburg, S. C. 
 The business was now specialized to the handling of cotton, 
 and became both extensive and remunerative. It was done 
 at Hamburg still, though Augusta w^as rapidly growing, and 
 was soon to take the commercial scepter from Hamburg, and 
 later to take its commercial life. (Since Georgia "went dry," 
 however, it may be remarked, the Hamburg side is coming 
 to the front again as a place where "business may be done.") 
 Mr. Amory Sibley died in 1849, having previously sold his 
 interest to his partner. 
 
 But meanwhile some very interesting things were happen- 
 ing at home. On July 25, 1831, the young merchant of 23 
 had induced Miss Sarah Ann Crapon — I think my father used 
 to tell me his mother's name was Sarah Ann Sophia, a name 
 that he spoke with affection and reverence, though not a 
 euphonious one to my boyish ears — to leave the home of her 
 parents, William ancl Hannah Crapon, in Providence, Rhode 
 Island, and become Mrs. Josiah Sibley. William Crapon Sib- 
 ley was the first born of this union. Following him were 
 Henry Josiah, Samuel Hale, Sophia Matilda, George Royal, 
 Fannie Maria, Mary Lois, Alice Maria, Robert Pendleton, 
 Caroline Crapon, and Amory Walter — eleven in all. Several 
 of these died in infancy or youth. Others, as we know, lived 
 useful and honorable lives. All save one have joined their 
 father and mother on the other side of the river, whose dim 
 mists may be penetrated by the eye of faith alone. 
 
 In 1853, W. C. Sibley, the oldest son, became a member of 
 the firm of J. Sibley & Son, and two years later the business 
 was transferred to Augusta, turning in no slight degree the 
 scale of commercial importance in favor of Augusta. In 1857 
 his son Sanniel II. Sibley was admitted to partnership, forming 
 firm of Josiah Sibley & Sons. Soon after the war W. C. Sibley 
 began business on his own account in New Orleans, and for 
 distinction's sake, when firm of Josiah Sibley & Sons Avas dis- 
 solved, and firm of J. Sibley & Sons formed, consisting of him- 
 
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 self and his sons Samuel H. and George R. Later R. P. 
 Sibley became a member of the old firm. But through all 
 changes of membership or name, the firm stood synonymous 
 in middle and east Georgia for unvarying fairness and in- 
 tegrity, and easily ranked first in the largest and most im- 
 portant of business in Augusta — the cotton business. 
 
 In 1860, the first Mrs. Sibley having died, Miss Emma 
 Longstreet, of Richmond county, Georgia, became Mrs. Josiah 
 Sibley. She became the mother of John Adams, James Long- 
 street, IMary Bones, and Emma Josephine — the always jolly, 
 loving and loveable "Uncle John," "Uncle Jim," "Aunt 
 Mary," and "Aunt Jo" of present times. This, the "Grand- 
 ma Sibley" that I knew was in every way fitted to fill the 
 place of prominence in Augusta which she occupied, and not 
 less to be the mother of her husband's household. The chil- 
 dren of the former marriage were nearly all grown when she 
 entered the family, but joined her own children, and later 
 the grandchildren, in the respect and love that was universally 
 accorded her as her just and lasting tribute. If space per- 
 mitted, I would like to tell at length of her character and 
 accomplishments, of her charities, her consuming zeal for for- 
 eign missions, at least one monument to which is the "Sib- 
 ley Home," in Soochow, China, built most largely through 
 the prayers and efforts of jMrs. Sibley and IMrs. Werner. 
 
 In 1874, Josiah Sibley retired from active business, but, 
 having accumulated much wealth, gave his time still to his 
 private business affairs. He had always been interested in 
 public affairs. One of the early mayors of the city, Mr. 
 Samuel Hale, who figured so prominently in many of the de- 
 velopments of the city, was so warm a friend as to give name 
 to the third son of the first marriage. In 1867-8, Josiah 
 Sibley served upon the city council. In 1870, he was a hearty 
 mover in the establishment of the Langley Manufacturing 
 Company. In 1880 his activity in organizing another, the 
 most beautiful of the Augusta cotton mills, was rewarded by 
 having it called for him the "Sibley Manufacturing Com- 
 pany." He was prominent in the building and early manage- 
 ment of the Georgia Railroad, and in my childish estimation, 
 for many years in the early eighties the greatest honor that 
 my grandfather had ever shown him, or that the family was 
 ever likely to boast, was that locomotive of heroic build. No. 
 36, bore the title, "Josiah Sibley." He was a director in 
 several financial institutions, besides the Georgia Railroad 
 and Banking Company, was identified with the building and 
 enlargement of the Canal, and with the administration of the 
 Augusta Orphans' Asylum. 
 
 This last leads naturally to emphasize the fact that his wis- 
 
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 dora was not all of this world, and that there was no neglect 
 to lay np treasures in heaven. Besides the countless charities 
 of the right hand of which the left hand knew nothing, and 
 the public charities not strictly religious, Josiah Sibley's name 
 and money were always identified with the church. As a 
 young man, when not even a member, it is said that his at- 
 tendance Avas so regular upon services, and his conduct so 
 exemplary, as to lead to his being pitched upon as a deacon 
 under the mistake that he was a member of the church. He 
 soon became a member of the First Presbyterian Church. We 
 may imagine that the call to higher duty may easily have 
 accentuated a sense of neglect of the lower, and the neglect 
 was promptly remedied. For many years he was an elder in 
 that church, that highest dignity in the spiritual common- 
 wealth, as the Presbyterians see it. He practically sustained 
 the little church known as the "Sibley Mission" for many 
 years. When the Greene Street Presbyterian Church was 
 struggling for existence, he readily threw such aid and sup- 
 port, as his membership meant, to it; though farther removed 
 from him, and though breaking old church ties, and leaving 
 most of his sons in the other congregation. 
 
 He was called to his eternal reward from Summerville, Au- 
 gusta, Ga., on December 7, 1888, when in his eighty-first year. 
 
 For most of the facts here related, we are indebted to the 
 accurate research of our cousin (or neice, as the case may 
 be), Mrs. ]\Iary Lois Eve. While my own recollections of 
 "Grandpa Sibley" are limited by the horizon of a boy of 
 eleven or twelve years — for I was not older than that when 
 I last saw much of him — I feel that some effort to picture 
 the real man around this skeleton of fact, is appropriate and 
 excusable. 
 
 I recollect him as of medium height, inclined to be stout, 
 erect even in old age. His face was clean-shaven, except for 
 some beard allowed to grow in front of the ears and upon 
 the cheeks, of silvery whiteness. His face was one of the 
 kindest and gentlest I remember. I recall wrinkles about the 
 eyes that come from smiling. I remember none of those on 
 the brow that are the children of the frown. I do not call 
 to mind his ever giving away to temper, or harsh or rough 
 or coarse language. The only instance of impatience that I 
 remember were occasioned by the laziness or carelessness or 
 indifference to duty of people about him. 
 
 Contact in later years w^th his business investments has 
 taught me his farsightedness and sound judgment. Even as a 
 boy I was impressed that he was pre-emiently a business man, 
 and that the first business principle he followed was "hon- 
 esty and accuracy." I have often heard him refer to the 
 
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 duty to make one's "word as good as one's bond." I have 
 often heard exactly that thing said to be true of him. What 
 a relief to meet such men in this day, when refuge from some 
 bad bargain is so often taken in a claimed "misunderstand- 
 ing," so that "bonds" alone are commonly esteemed safe 
 and binding! And in the matter of accuracy, the slightest 
 deviation from correctness worried him, regardless of the 
 amount involved. He desired every one in a business trans- 
 action to render to him his full and exact due, not as a matter 
 of graspingness, but for the sake of accuracy, and his desire 
 was equally as apparent to render to every one else their 
 exact due. And I have yet to hear of a single instance in 
 which he did not render it. Considering that in commercial 
 life of ordinary duration, statistics show that 95 per cent, 
 fail, what a record is a career of 67 years on the treacherous 
 shoals of finance, paying dollar for dollar in every vicissitude 
 of business. 
 
 And Grandpa believed in redeeming the time, and looking 
 after the dimes. I well remember going to walk with him, 
 and his requiring me to bring home some old iron that had 
 lain around for years, as being worth so much per pound. 
 At Marietta, whither often he would have his grandchildren 
 come to visit him and eat apples, at this very homestead, T 
 remember the severest reproof he ever gave me. Mac Wil- 
 liams and I were in need of something to do, and he told us 
 to gather into piles the rocks in the grove, down towards the 
 gate, and he would give us each a quarter. There were a 
 good many rocks there, and we decided it was worth about 
 two dollars, and struck for higher wages, or rather declined 
 the job. His pointing out to us that it was better to work 
 for nothing than to be idle, and that to do a dollar's worth 
 of work for twenty-five cents was preferable to doing noth- 
 ing and earning nothing, and that one's time was worth only 
 what one could then get for it, and nothing if one did not do 
 something with it then and there, because it would otherwise 
 be gone beyond recall — I will never forget. 
 
 With all his business strictness, he was generous when it 
 came to giving. Satisfy him of real need, and his response 
 was ready and bountiful. And he loved his family. I sup- 
 pose there must have been then thirty grandchildren, but not 
 too many to come to see him, in installments, or all at 
 once. Each Christmas we were expected in force, and after 
 dinner were ranged on the back porch of the Riverside Home 
 on the joggling board and elsewhere, and each given a round 
 silver dollar; often with the remark that such a dollar was 
 the capital on which he began life. We children had fifty- 
 cent uncles, and twenty-five-cent aunts, and ten-cent other 
 
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 kins folk — that was the way we rated them on Christmas — 
 but only one dollar Grandpa ! Those dollars were so mar- 
 velously large ! and while we did not start life on them just 
 as he did, we made them at least contribute some to life for 
 a few days. 
 
 The 3^ear after my father died, Christmas with us was spent 
 away from Augusta. Before me now lies a letter to me in 
 Grandpa's own handwriting, dated Christmas day, telling 
 me that he would miss us, and that a five-dollar bill was en- 
 closed for us four children ! I prized the enclosure then, I 
 fear. I prize the letter now, and its thoughtful love, the most 
 precious though unspoken enclosure. 
 
 I trust that we may take as the most lasting and valued 
 heritage from this our common ancestor, his example and 
 character. Nothing can surpass as a possession that good 
 name, which is to be chosen above great riches. What trait 
 in our contact with the world more desirable than scrupulous 
 honesty and integrity, and unremitting industry in business! 
 What manifestation more lovely of the inner man than gen- 
 erosity guarded by judgment, and an abiding love for those 
 around and about us ! I trust that the common blood of this 
 ancestor may continue in all generations, as it has in the 
 first, to find expression in lives of honor led by his descend- 
 ants, and in a living affection one for another. 
 
 SAMUEL H. SIBLEY. 
 
 ''Augusta, December 25th, 1884. 
 "Master Sam'l H. Sibley, 
 
 "My Dear Grand Son: 
 
 "I was sorry to learn by your mother's letter that 
 it was not convenient for all of you to spend Christmas with 
 us today as usual. 
 
 "I have no doubt but what you will have a nice time at 
 Union Point. Enclosed you have five dollars to divide out 
 with your brother and sisters, with much love to your mother 
 and your grandma and all. 
 
 "Your Grandpa, 
 
 "JOSIAH SIBLEY." 
 
WAWT m. 
 
 Lives of Wm. C. Sibley, Samuel H. Sibley, George R. 
 
 Sibley, Robert P. Sibley, John A. Sibley 
 
 and James L. Sibley. 
 
MAJOR WILLIAM C. SIBLEY. 
 
 Georgia. 
 
 William C. Sibley, eldest son of Josiah Sibley, was born in 
 Augusta, Ga., May 3d, 1832. He received his education at 
 private schools, and was prepared for college at the Rich- 
 mond County Academy, Augusta ; but being destined for a 
 mercantile career he decided to forego a collegiate cours*^. 
 and entered his father's store in Hamburg, S. C, in 1848, 
 being then sixteen years old. He commenced in the most sub- 
 ordinate position, but in the following year had made such 
 progress as to be intrusted with the books of the firm. At 
 twenty years of age, during a somewhat lengthened absence 
 of his father, he had the sole charge of the business, and 
 acquitted himself with great credit. Inl853 he was taken into 
 partnership with his father under the style of J. Sibley & 
 Son, and in 1855 the business was removed to Augusta, Ga. 
 In 1857 his brother, Samuel H. Sibley, was admitted into the 
 firm and the name changed to Josiah Sibley & Sons. In 1859 
 he became a member of the City Council of Augusta, in which 
 he took a prominent part in advocating and subsequently in- 
 augurating the Augusta water works, which now supply the 
 city with an abundant quantity of water. In November 1861, 
 he enlisted as a private in the Oglethorpe Infantry, Company 
 B, and served for six months on the coast of Georgia. Their 
 term of service having expired, he then volunteered in Caper's 
 Battery of Artillery, but before he could join his Company, 
 he received a telegram from Brigadier-General John K. Jack- 
 son, of Augusta, then at Tupelo, Miss., offering him the posi- 
 tion as Brigade Commissary on his staff with the rank of 
 Captain. Accepting this appointment, he accompanied the 
 expedition of General Bragg through Kentucky, and, although 
 at times the army was under half rations during that cam- 
 paign, he managed through his individual exertions to keep 
 General Jackson's brigade on full rations, besides issuing 
 rations from his supplies to several other brigades on the re- 
 treat from Kentucky. On their arrival at Knoxville, he had 
 a wagon-load of wheat and some 2,800 pounds of bacon still 
 on hand. His arduous duties and the exposure during this 
 campaign brought on an attack of chronic diarrhoea, not- 
 withstanding which he attended to his duties as usual, keep- 
 ing the brigade well supplied with provisions. In this cam- 
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 by this attack, and at its conclusion, being too ill to remain 
 in camp, was transferred to the hospital at Angusta. Rejoin- 
 ing his command the day after the battle of Murfreesboro, he 
 was again prostrated by the disease and confined to his quar- 
 ters for some weeks at Bridgeport, Ala. On his recovery, he 
 was transferred to Chattanooga, where he was on duty until 
 that city was evacuated; he remained in the field until the 
 army fell back to Dalton, when, being broken down by a re- 
 turn of his old disease, he was furloughed and sent home, and 
 finally retired from active service in 1863. In 1864, at his 
 own request, he was placed on duty at Augusta as Post Com- 
 missary, with the rank of Major, dating back to General 
 Bragg 's Kentucky campaign, and filled that position until 
 the close of the war. For several weeks after the surrender, 
 at the request, first of General Upton and afterwards of Gen- 
 eral IMolyneux of the United States army, he continued to 
 act as Commissary, issuing rations to the Confederate soldiers 
 returning from Lee's and Johnston's armies en route to their 
 homes and to the hospitals in Augusta. 
 
 In 1865 he withdrew from the firm, George R. Sibley being 
 admitted in his place, and removed to New Orleans, where 
 he became a member of the firm of Siblej^ Guion & Co. This 
 firm was dissolved January 1st, 1868, and Mr. Sibley con- 
 tinued in the shipping and commission business on his own 
 account in New Orleans until the spring of 1870, when he 
 was unanimously chosen President of the Langley Manufac- 
 turing Company, then just organized. He consequently re- 
 moved to Augusta where the financial business of the com- 
 pany was conducted and at the same time was associated with 
 B. S. Dunbar as buyers of cotton on commission, under the 
 firm name of Dunbar & Sibley. This firm was dissolved in 
 April, 1878, and from that time Mr. Sibley gave his whole 
 time to the interests of the Langley Manufacturing Company. 
 This Company was organized in March, 1870, the factory 
 being situated at Langley, S. C, about eight miles from 
 Augusta, Ga., where the general management was conducted. 
 
 Mr. Sibley was a director of the Commercial Bank of Au- 
 gusta, and a director of the Augusta Land Company. He was 
 a member of the Presbyterian Church and an elder of the 
 First Presbyterian Church, Augusta. 
 
 He married November 7th, 1860, Jane E. Thomas, daughter 
 of Judge G. E. Thomas, of Columbus, Ga., and had nine chil- 
 dren — six boys and three girls. One boy, Josiah, and daugh- 
 ter, Annie, dying in infancy. 
 
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 $5,805.50 
 Out of which City of Augusta charged a Tax 11/2%, or... .$87.00 
 
 Paid Drayage of $10.00 a barrel $50.00 
 
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MEMORIAL— WILLIAM CRAPON SIBLEY 
 
 In the Early Morning of April 17th, 1902, William Crapon 
 
 Sibley, Senior Ruling Elder of This the Presbyterian 
 
 Church of Augusta, Ga., Entered Upon His Reward, 
 
 Aged Seventy Years. 
 
 The Session of the church would memorialize his inspiring 
 example and make submissive but painful record of our sense 
 of loss at his departure. His was an unblemished record. His 
 life was lived to the glory of God and the blessing of his 
 fellow man. In every relation of life he was faithful. In 
 character his strength was rugged as the granite cliff; his ten- 
 derness was soft as the perfume of the flower; he was unob- 
 trusive in spirit, unconventional and simple in manner; direct 
 in speech and independent in action. He was afraid of noth- 
 ing on earth but to do wrong, he trod the path of duty and 
 seemingly feared no evil and dreaded no consequences; he 
 feared God and kept His commandments. 
 
 He loved his native State as a child loves its mother; and 
 when, she, affrighted and distressed, during the civil war, cried 
 to her sons for defense he gave her the patriotic service of the 
 strongest years of his manhood. In times of peace he was no 
 less devoted. Intelligently and with zeal he worked for her 
 material and intellectual development; he was ever zealous for 
 the moral and spiritual uplift of her people. As a citizen he 
 was public spirited, intelligent and courageous, he shirked no 
 duty, he shared every responsibility. 
 
 In business he was a pleasant man to have dealings with ; — 
 he was so just, so honest, so correct, so straightforward, that 
 whatever he said might be implicitly relied upon. 
 
 In benevolence his life abounded, and many were the hun- 
 gry he fed, the naked he clothed, the unfortunate to whom 
 he ministered. In the support of his church and her benevo- 
 lent causes he was abundant in his liberality. He had learned 
 the lesson of his Master, "It is more blessed to give than to 
 receive." A truer, kinder heart or one that leaped with more 
 generous impulse to every cry of need will not be found. 
 
 He was the soul of hospitality, and few knew how better to 
 dispense the comforts of a luxurious home than he. The 
 preacher of righteousness seemed especially welcome; and our 
 brother never seemed more happy than when entertaining such 
 
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 messengers as they went about doinu: their Father's business. 
 
 He was the father of nine children, seven of whom survive 
 him. He Avas devoted and indulgent to them; and to see them 
 grow up in morality, temperance and piety and take their 
 places as useful, worthy and religious citizens was his suprem- 
 est wish. We rejoice that his heart's desire was gratified; 
 and that in all of his children he has left society an heritage 
 that remains to his honor; and that through them his name is 
 still honored in the active membership, the eldership and the 
 ministry of the church of God, 
 
 For nearly forty-two years he had been united in marriage 
 to a noble wife. With peculiar and sensitive care he had 
 watched over her, blessed and protected her; and it is hers to 
 bear the heaviest weight of this great affliction. She shared 
 with him his vicissitudes and our tenderest sympathies go out 
 to her as she bends under this stroke which calls upon her 
 now in the evening of life to travel, without his supporting 
 arm, the remainder of life's way. As a man among men, in 
 every relation of life, we can say of him : 
 
 "He was a man, take him for all in all, 
 I shall not look upon his like again." 
 
 Above all and beneath all else, our brother was a Christian 
 man. In every place, under all circumstances, he gave unmis- 
 takable evidence of his sonship. He gave heed to the com- 
 mandments of the law, and in a day of laxity was conspicuous 
 in his observance of the Sabbath as a holy day unto the Lord. 
 His charity was broad, his faith so strong that no variation of 
 fortune could shake it; his testimony so unqualified that men 
 paused and said as he passed, "he w^alks with God!" In faith 
 he "was an uncompromising Presbyterian. He loved and was 
 loyal to his mother church because he understood the scrip- 
 turalness of her doctrine and government. Whether in the 
 local church or in the wider field of presbyterial or synodical 
 work he was dutiful in service, and most sadly will his wise 
 counsels and his active endeavors be missed as we study the 
 things that make for the peace of Zion. His regular attend- 
 ance upon the worship of the sanctuary was characteristic and 
 often in the prayer circle have we been reminded of the beloved 
 John as this second patriarch would pray, "Give us more 
 love to Thee and more love to one another." 
 
 He died as he had lived; w^ith the opening of the day, a 
 radiance not born of earth rested upon his face, and while 
 looking steadfastly at the things which are eternal, he whis- 
 pered, "Its all right," and fell on sleep. Thus passes away 
 another of the honored Ruling Elders of this venerable church, 
 full of years, as full of honors; his life a ministry, his memory 
 a benediction ! 
 
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 "I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, 
 Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth ; 
 Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors; 
 while their works do follow them." 
 
 GRTGSBY T. SIBLEY— 
 
 Grigsby T. Sibley first engaged in the cotton factorage busi- 
 ness in Augusta, Ga., and after a number of years turned his 
 attention to the study of life insurance, starting at the bottom 
 of the ladder and has served a number of the leading com- 
 panies of America, but for the past seven years has been with 
 the Equitable Life, having charge of the agency at Wilming- 
 ton, Del., and then at Philadelphia, and for the past three 
 years has been general manager of the Equitable for the State 
 of Alabama with headquarters at Birmingham, Ala. 
 
 As a result of his efforts and influence with the Home Office, 
 the Equitable has made large loans for the development of 
 real estate in the larger cities of Alabama and the Equitable 
 building at Birmingham is a monument to his successful work. 
 
 REV. JULIAN S. SIBLEY— 
 
 Rev. Julian S. Sibley spent several years in the mercantile 
 business in Augusta, Ga., but felt and answered the higher 
 call to the ministry of God's word, so took the regular course 
 at Theological Seminary of the Southern Presbyterian Church, 
 at Louisville, Ky. His first pastorate was at Lawson, Mo. 
 From thence he went to the Wallace Memorial Church, in At- 
 lanta. Ga.. thence to the First Church at Winchester, Va.. and 
 for the past four years has been pastor of the First Church at 
 Pensacola, Fla. 
 
 Under the blessing of God during his ministry the Church 
 at Pensacola has made greater progress in all departments 
 than for any similar period of its history. Many additions 
 have been made upon profession of faith, and the universal 
 love and support of his people is a high testimonial to the fact 
 that his faith is being justified by his work. 
 
 JOHN W. SIBLEY— 
 
 John W. Sibley, after a few months service for his brother. 
 Grigsby T. Sibley, in Augusta, Ga., w^ent to Coaldale, Ala., in 
 the celebrated Birmingham district, and engaged in the brick 
 manufacturing and coal mining business. He has continued 
 in same for the past twenty years. 
 
 Under his management the Coaldale Vitrified Paving Brick 
 was perfected and put on the market and many miles of streets 
 and road-ways of the South are paved with this durable brick. 
 
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 In 1904, he sold out his interests in the Coaldale plant and, 
 with his associates, built the magnificent plant of the Sibley- 
 Menge Press Brick Company, of which he is President, at Sib- 
 leyville (about two miles from Coaldale) for manufacturing 
 high grade press brick in various colors. 
 
 These brick have been extensively used in residences, 
 churches, sky-scrapers, court houses, etc. all over the South. 
 
 He has been treasurer of the National Brick Manufacturers' 
 Association for sixteen years and was appointed by President 
 Roosevelt a member of the National Advisory Board on Fuels 
 and Structural Materials. 
 
 He is president of the Sibley Bros. Coal Company, miners of 
 the famous Black Creek Steam Coal, with mines near Sibley- 
 ville. 
 
 For the past eleven years has resided in Birmingham, Ala., 
 and is an elder in the South Highlands Presbyterian Church 
 and superintendent of the Sunday School. 
 
 DR. B. DUNBAR SIBLEY— 
 
 Dr. B. Dunbar Sibley served in the mercantile business with 
 his brother Julian, at Augusta, Ga., for a while, then went to 
 Coaldale, Ala., and was superintendent of the brick plant for 
 a few years. 
 
 Like Julian, he felt called to a professional life and took a 
 course in medicine at the University of Georgia, and then at 
 the Birmingham Medical College. 
 
 He began his practice at Warrior, Ala., where he w-as Com- 
 pany physician for several mines and the brick plant at Coal- 
 dale and did general practice besides. 
 
 After several years, he decided to confine his practice to 
 special work on eye, ear, nose and throat, and took a course 
 at New York and Philadelphia, where he enjoyed the privileges 
 of the leading hospitals. 
 
 For the past three years, he has practiced in a most suc- 
 cessful manner at Birmingham, Ala., and has handsome and 
 well appointed offices in the First National Bank building. 
 
 He has read several papers before the Medical Association, 
 which have been published in their journals. 
 
 WILLIAM LANGLEY SIBLEY— 
 
 William Langley Sibley, immediately after leaving college, 
 accepted a position with his brother, John, at Coaldale and 
 began a persistent study of brick manufacturing and coal 
 mining. He stuck steadfastly to his chosen work and by his 
 energy and capability rose rapidly to the general management 
 
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 of both enterprises at that end of the line, and may be truly- 
 said to fill the position of the "INIan behind the gun." 
 
 He, not only has under his grasp every detail of the opera- 
 tions but in the handling of employees has shown such splen- 
 did executive ability and wisdom, that not only is a strike 
 unknown, but "Mr. Lang." has the affection of all employees, 
 both foremen and laborers. 
 
 To his research and experiments the building public is in- 
 debted for many of the beautiful color effects in the Sibley- 
 Menge Press Brick. 
 
 His method of mining the coal and clay at the Sibley mines 
 has established a reputation without a peer for the Sibley 
 Black Creek Coal. 
 
 He resides in a picturesque bungalow of his own design at 
 Sibleyville on the Highlands overlooking the plant. 
 
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 GEORGIA 
 
SAMUEL HALE SIBLEY 
 
 Georgia. 
 
 Samuel Hale Sibley, third son of Josiah Sibley, was born in 
 Augusta, Ga., September 9th, 1835. He received his educa- 
 tion in private schools finishing it at Worcester, Mass., in 
 1856, and in 1857 was admitted into co-partnership with his 
 brother, William C. Sibley, and his father, Josiah Sibley, under 
 the firm name of Josiah Sibley & Sons, Augusta, Ga. 
 
 On March the 4th, 1862, he enlisted in the Georgia Light 
 Guards of Augusta, under Captain Joshua K. Evans, at Au- 
 gusta, Ga., known as Company "C" 48th Georgia Infantry 
 C. S. A. He fought in the battle of Malvern Hill, Virginia, 
 and with some others of his Company became cut off from his 
 command, subsisting for days upon roots and barks, and drink- 
 ing water through his handkerchief from a wallow from which 
 he had driven an old sow, returning home in broken health, 
 he put in a substitute in the army, after learning that his sub- 
 stitute had been killed in the battle of Sharpesburgh, he pur- 
 chased a horse at Augusta, Ga., and rode on horse-back all 
 the way to Richmond, Va.. where he joined Cobbs' legion of 
 cavalry in Hampton's division, under General Stonewall 
 Jackson. He was engaged in the battle of Chancellors- 
 ville and many encounters around Richmond, and especially 
 the Seven Days' Fight, in one of w^hich he was in the 
 battle of Seven Pines. He said when returning home, that it 
 was one time he had gone ten days without taking off his 
 boots, he was wounded in the side in one of these engage- 
 ments, and his bad health at the time of General Lee's sur- 
 render found him sick at home from his wounds. 
 
 In 1857 the firm of Josiah Sibley & Sons was formed, consist- 
 ing of Josiah Sibley, William C. Sibley and Samuel H. Sibley. 
 In 1865 it was disolved and the firm of J. Sibley & Sons was 
 formed — consisting of himself, his father, Josiah Sibley, and 
 his brother George R. Sibley. They did a wholesale grocery 
 business and a cotton business, being, probably, the wealthiest 
 firm in Augusta, Ga. 
 
 He w^as a member of the Presbyterian Church, at Augusta, 
 Ga., and w^as always noted for his love and kindness to others ; 
 being a devoted husband and father. 
 
 He married Sarah Virginia Hart on November 15th, 1865, 
 daughter of James B. Hart. Rev. Joseph R. Wilson, pastor of 
 
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 the First Presbyterian Church. Augusta, officiating. They 
 had six children, three sons and three daughters. Josiah Sib- 
 ley, Jr., died at the age of 12 years, in 1879, and Grace Pen- 
 dleton, aged 2 years, died July 31st. 1870. 
 
 JUDGE SAMUEL HALE SIBLEY— 
 
 Judge Samuel Hale Sibley, born at Union Point, Ga., July 
 12th, 1873, is a first honor graduate of the University of Geor- 
 gia. He is an elder in the Presbyterian church at Union Point, 
 Ga., and none stands higher than he as a devoted Christian, 
 husband, father, brother, son or friend. His future is indeed 
 bright, as he is at this time considered among his brother law- 
 yers one of the ablest at the bar. 
 
 JAMES HART SIBLEY— 
 
 James Hart Sibley, born at Union Point, Ga., September 
 25th, 1875, is a model Christian gentleman of many shining 
 virtues, being a dutiful son and a promising business man, 
 being general manager of the Union Point Cotton Seed Oil 
 Mills, as well as the Ogeechee Brick Company, at Union 
 Point, Ga. 
 
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 GEORGIA 
 
ri^t^'^M^n 
 
HON. GEORGE R. SIBLEY, 
 Deceased. 
 
 As a citizen and public man, the record of the late Hon. 
 George R. Sibley, of Augusta, Ga., is worthy of all the praise 
 and honor which man can bestow on man. His ability was 
 universally acknowledged, and he was known and loved by 
 all Born and reared in Augusta, he made that city his home 
 for nearly fifty years, and in business matters and public 
 affairs he was ever regarded as a leader and a sound adviser. 
 Successful in private affairs, he was even more successful in 
 the public trusts which he was often called to administer. 
 Full of public spirit and enterprise, the friend of the strug- 
 gling young man and of the children, George R. Sibley easily 
 took rank as the foremost citizen of Augusta. In the home 
 circle, in the great world of business, he was esteemed and 
 beloved for his grandeur of character and the spotless 
 purity of his life. The most touching incident, possibly, in 
 the entire life of this nobleman of God was his connection, as 
 president of the Augusta Orphan Asylum. His visits, almost 
 daily, to that charity were hailed with enthusiasm by the 
 childish inmates, and the great love and charity he there dis- 
 pensed were as lavish and substantial as they were beautiful. 
 He treated the young orphans as he would his own little ones 
 and completely won their love and respect. His beloved wife 
 and children idolized him as husband and father, his own 
 brothers and sisters regarded him as a leader and counselor, 
 and his aged and honored father rejoiced in the achievements 
 of so noble a son. George R. Sibley was born in the City of 
 Augusta. Ga., June 19. 1839, and passed the full term of his 
 useful life in that community. At an early age he gave decided 
 evidence of that strong will and resolute determination to suc- 
 ceed, which in after years, was so abundantly illustrated by 
 the places of honor and trust he filled to the entire satisfac- 
 tion of his constituency. Beginning his manhood with the 
 benefits of the liberal education he had received from the old 
 Richmond Academy, and Yale College, New Haven, Conn., he 
 devoted himself to mercantile affairs and became, in all that 
 characterizes such a calling, a model of wisdom, sound-judg- 
 ment and commercial honor. 
 
 Mr. Sibley was happily married during his twenty-second 
 year, on January 21, 1862. to INIiss Emma, the lovely and highly 
 accomplished daughter of Judge Daniel R. Tucker, a leading 
 
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 and prominent citizen of Baldwin county, Georgia. Soon after 
 he began his business career in Augusta. Mr. Sibley attracted 
 the attention of the business talent of that municipality. His 
 thorough knoAvledge of men, his firm, yet courteous demeanor, 
 his extended information in reference to improved business 
 methods, his industry and close attention, soon attracted not 
 only the endorsements of his associates, but marked him in 
 the eyes of the public as a citizen upon whom distinction as 
 well as wealth could be W'Orthily bestoAved. The natural results 
 of such a disposition, combined with such talents and qualities 
 of head and heart, were soon witnessed by his friends and 
 neighbors in the rapidity with which wealth and public duties 
 came to him. 
 
 j\Iany years ago, when the enterprise of xVugusta's mer- 
 chants found a substantial exhibition in the organization of 
 the Exchange, he willingly became a charter member and was 
 several times called to the presidency of that body, in whose 
 prosperity he felt a profound interest, manifested by judicious 
 counsel and pecuniary aid whenever either w^as required. It 
 may be declared without reflection upon the living, that the 
 memory of the dead holds high place in the history and pro- 
 gress of what today is a fitting monument of the liberal and 
 public-spirit which actuated his life and conduct. 
 
 When the war betw^een the States called for defenders of the 
 South, ]Mr. Sibley entered the army as a Confederate private, 
 in 1862, and was subsequently made quartermaster-sergeant, 
 serving until the close of the war. In 1877 when the people of 
 Georgia called to their assistance the intelligence and man- 
 hood of the State, to prepare a fundamental law in keeping with 
 the needs of the hour, he went into the deliberations of the 
 Constitutional Convention as one of the delegates from this 
 district, fully armed to meet all the necessities of the occasion, 
 and the record of his labors will demonstrate that his practical 
 sense, firm judgment and progressive spirit found expression 
 in many of its provisions. And when the Constitution received 
 the endorsement of the people he was called to the halls of 
 the General Assembly as a representative from Richmond 
 County to enforce its requirements by appropriate legislation. 
 In the matter of public education he was fully abreast of the 
 most advanced thought on that important subject, and he 
 placed himself in sympathy wntli the cause, exhibiting a vigor 
 and zeal which tired not, even in the moment of his sudden 
 taking off. He was for several terms the distinguished presi- 
 dent of the board, and gave, as the system needed it, the 
 amplest proof of how near to his large and generous heart was 
 the education of the masses. Nor did his restless purpose to 
 serve his day and generation cease with these important 
 
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 offices of public service. The homeless and the orphan found 
 ready sympathy and substantial help at his hands, and when 
 he accepted a call, unanimously made, to the presidency of 
 the Augusta Orphan Aslyum, he entered upon a work most 
 congenial, and to Avhich he brought a liberal mind, coupled 
 with a tender heart. The orphans miss his regular visits, in 
 which he was ever the bearer of kind words and attractive 
 gifts that made gladness come to the little ones whose pleas- 
 ures follow from footsteps of the good and charitable. 
 
 In municipal affairs he ever felt a deep concern and inter- 
 ested himself in all matters which tended to promote the ad- 
 vance of the city's Avelfare. As chairman of the finance com- 
 mittee of the council he rendered valuable service in promot- 
 ing the credit of the municipality at a time w'hen the utmost 
 care was needed to protect its good name and credit, and en- 
 joyed the satisfaction of seeing its bonds become a much sought 
 for security in the markets of the country at a price that indi- 
 cated a financial strength most desirable. 
 
 In the membership of the Presbyterian church, and as one 
 of the most constant contributors to all the good works in 
 which it is engaged, he came up to the full stature of a Chris- 
 tian man — and while the charities of his right hand were care- 
 fully concealed from the knowledge of his left, the blessings 
 which follow them rise up today in eloquent commendation 
 of the generous giver, who sought not applause so much as he 
 did the relief of suffering and want. 
 
 lie was a valued counselor in the board of directors of the 
 Augusta Factory, and National Exchange Bank, and filled 
 most acceptably the high and responsible position of President 
 of the First National Bank, whose interests under his care and 
 guidance were well protected, while at the same time the 
 accommodations afforded the public were constantly enlarged. 
 His administration of the duties of this and other offices, though 
 well and faithfully performed, did not prevent proper atten- 
 tion to a large private busines, the successful management of 
 which commanded the best care and talent. In the very 
 meridian of his mental and physical manhood, on July 15, 
 1887, he died in the faith of his Father's and entered into the 
 rest promised the faithful. The death of George R. Sibley 
 was felt throughout the City of Augusta, and his late associ- 
 ates in busines commemorated his death in a most fitting 
 manner. 
 
 "His life Avas gentle, and the elements 
 
 So mixed in him that Nature might stand up 
 And say to all the world. 'This was a man'." 
 
 — From JMemoirs of Georgia. 
 
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 GEORGIA 
 
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ROBERT PENDLETON SIBLEY, 
 
 Georgia. 
 
 Robert Pendleton Sibley 8, (Josiah 7, Joel 6. Stephen 5, John 
 4, John 8, Joseph 2, John 1), being the fifth son of Josiah Sib- 
 ley and his wife Sarah Ann Sophia Crapon Sibley, who was a 
 daughter of William (merchant) and Hannah Chafee Crapon, 
 of Providence, R. I., and first cousin to United States Senator 
 and banker Amos C. Barstow, of Providence, who told G. T. 
 Sibley the first time he met him, when speaking of his grand- 
 father, Josiah Sibley, "that he was a man whose word was as 
 good as his bond." His mother and father were both Chris- 
 tians and at their death were members of the Presbyterian 
 church. 
 
 He received his education at private schools and was a 
 scholar at the Richmond Academy in 1864, when Governor 
 Joseph E. BroAvn, of Georgia, on jMarch 1st, issued a procla- 
 mation on account of General Wm. T. Sherman's army invad- 
 ing Georgia, called out the Georgia militia between 16 and 
 18 and 48 and 50 years of age to defend their homes. He 
 having reached his 16th birthday on February ITtli, 1864, 
 on March 9th, 1864, volunteered and was sworn into the Con- 
 federate army by the late United States Congressman George 
 T. Barnes, as a member of the Augusta Volunteer Artillery, 
 being at that time Captain. After the battle of Chicka- 
 mauga this Company acted at times in Augusta as infantry 
 to guard and take charge of prisoners so as to relieve the 
 guards, so they could rest for a few hours. On one occasion 
 they were on continuous duty about thirty hours. 
 
 When the battle of xVtlanta, Ga., was being fought they were 
 ordered to Atlanta on about a four-hour notice, to take with 
 them their battery consisting of four 12-pound Napoleon brass 
 cannon and four Cassions of amunition, leaving with about 
 60 men and 34 horses. On reaching Macon, Ga.. they were 
 ordered back to Augusta, as the battle had been fought. About 
 October 1st, 1864, they were mustered into the active army 
 of the Confederate States, having 54 men rank and file. The 
 officers were: George T. Barnes, captain; Chas. E. Spaeth, 
 first lieutenant; Robert Phinizy, second lieutenant, and Lark- 
 ham, third lieutenant ; Chas. H. Sibley, orderly sergeant. They 
 were then ordered to Jonesboro, Ga., but arriving at Griffin 
 they went into camp as the battle of Jonesboro had been 
 fought. 
 
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 On the march to Savannah, in November, owing to the 
 scarcity of cavalry horses at Macon, Ga., they were ordered 
 to turn their horses over for cavalry service, and Avere ordered 
 to Savannah, Ga., via Albany and Thomasville, having a dis- 
 tance of 52 miles to march between Albany and Thomasville. 
 Arriving at Albany about sunset, at 7 p. m., they took up the 
 line of march, reaching Thomasville about 3 p. m. the next 
 day, having halted for three hours at Mr. Wm. Turpiu's 
 plantation, who was living in Augusta and a member of 
 Barnes' Battery of Artillery, the name our Company was 
 commonly called. This was a forced march of 52 miles in less 
 than fifteen hours of actual marching time. Reaching Savan- 
 nah, Ga., they were stationed in the center of the front of 
 Lieut. General Hardee's line, at Lawton's farm, 6 miles out 
 of Savannah. Ga.. on the Ogeechee Shell road, which is near 
 the Central railroad, where they finished building a dirt bat- 
 tery around two 50-pound seige cannon and had a 12-pound 
 howitzer. They had been at work only a few hours filling up 
 sand bags, when some member of Barnes Battery hollowed, 
 "Look out Sibley, that cannon ball might hit you!" He had 
 seen it ricocheting on the ground and the subject of this 
 sketch was helping to fill the sand bag, to place around the 
 cannon for protection when the battle should come on. He 
 paid no attention to the warning as he too could see the ball 
 plowing up the soil. The second shot came much nearer and 
 when the next one was fired the command was given to cease 
 work and lay down, which was obeyed. 
 
 Finally night overshadowed the army. When scarcely day 
 light the Company went on completeing their breastworks, 
 and by 10 o'clock it was finished. General Sherman did not 
 renew the cannonading but he did demand the surrender of 
 the city of Savannah several times, which had only an army, 
 estimated, including the Georgia militia, at about 11,500 sol- 
 diers for its defense, whilst General Sherman's array was esti- 
 mated at 55.000 soldiers. His demand for surrender was not 
 acceded to till about the Saturday before Christmas, in Decem- 
 ber, 186-4. Before leaving, Barnes' Battery, the Thursday night 
 before, were practically up a whole night to attend the Com- 
 pany' 's roll call every three hours, expecting a battle at any 
 time the next morning. 
 
 At 9 a. m. the Confederate pickets were driven in, the Com- 
 pany's bugle called them to arms rtt which time Private Rob- 
 ert P. Sibley was seen to take a handful of tin canteens to a 
 spring about 200 feet to the right of the battery entirely ex- 
 posed to the United States troops' fire. There were no trees 
 there, but an open field. He had scarcely filled a canteen 
 with water, when a rifle ball came near him. He stopped, 
 
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 stood straight up, soon saw the smoke from the rifle and 
 heard the singing noise of bullets passing him on all sides. 
 He felt water was essential in battle and believing that he 
 would not be hit, he filled his five canteens and went to the 
 battery, and as soon as the Confederate pickets got in the 
 lines, as they had only one road to come on, which was imme- 
 diately in front of the battery. The first shell fired, to his 
 delight, fell where the Federals had fired at him, while he 
 was getting the water and he thinks that General Joseph 
 "Wheeler, who happened to be passing along the line at that 
 time, asked permission of our Companj^'s officer to let him 
 direct the first shot, Avhich was done and every expectation 
 happened, bursting over the place where he last saw the firing, 
 which place was covered with sage brush waist high, and he 
 believes that it was fatal as no more shots came from that 
 direction. 
 
 Gen'l Sherman did no more firing on Barnes' battery, and on 
 Friday night Barnes' Battery had spiked their guns before re- 
 treating. By Saturday night they had marched to Hardyville, 
 S. C. ; having crossed the Savannah river on a pontoon bridge ; 
 suffice it to say, they then had a ration issued to each man 
 consisting of three crackers, commonly called "hard-tack," 
 and a strip of bacon about the width of two fingers and four 
 inches long and a quarter of an inch thick, with the under- 
 standing that they would be rationed on Mon,day. But 
 Wednesday found the army at Adams Run, where they got a 
 light ration — having gotten potatoes through the country 
 they were marching. Staying there several days without tents 
 or houses, sleeping in the open air at night by the fire of a 
 large pine tree, cut down into three lengths, then piled, fired, 
 and the Company distributed on each side with their feet to 
 the fire. Their next camp was at Wiltown Bluff on the 
 Edisto river. South Carolina. 
 
 Becoming unwell, Robert Avas sent to a hospital at Augusta, 
 Ga., after a month's stay Dr. W. H. Doughty, in charge of the 
 Board of Surgeons, pronounced him unfit for field service. 
 He was then assigned to the Post Commissary, at Augusta, 
 Ga., under his brother. Major \Vm. C. Sibley. He stayed in 
 the Commissary after General Lee surrendered some two 
 weeks, issuing rations to the Confederate soldiers without 
 receiving any thing whatever from the United States, notwith- 
 standing they had been in charge since about May 1st. He 
 was paroled at the Richmond county court house about ]\Iay 
 8th, 1865. 
 
 Be it stated whilst several pay rolls were made out for 
 Barnes Battery to the Confederate government, he never re- 
 ceived any pay, Avhich was to be $16.00 per month in Con- 
 
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 federate money ; and only remembers getting a blanket and one 
 pair of shoes from the government for his entire enlistment; 
 frequently rations were beef and a few turnips and corn 
 bread, which was expected to last tAvo days, in order to make 
 it do so, soup Avas made for the first day and Avhatever was 
 left was used the next day 
 
 In July, 1865, he w^ent to the University High School, at 
 Athens, Ga., under a Mr. Carroll and Prof. Charbonnier. In 
 1867 he Avent regularly to work for J. Sibley & Sons without 
 compensation until he reached his 21st birthday, and in Sep- 
 tember folloAving Avas admitted into the firm, Avliich, in July, 
 1874, Avas dissolved. 
 
 At the age of 26 years he was chairman of Finance Committee 
 of Board of Directors of the National Exchange Bank, of Au- 
 gusta, Ga. ; Avas offered the Presidency of the Round Mountain 
 Coal and Iron Company, Avhich he accepted but, OAving to bad 
 health, resigned a feAv months after. He is noAv in (1908) 
 President of the Southern Slate Company. 
 
 In 1891 he moA^ed to Los Angeles, California, there joined 
 Camp No. 770 U. C. V., and received from a committee of ladies 
 of United Daughters of the Confederacy, from Atlanta, Ga., 
 the Southern Cross of Honor. Returning to Georgia in 1893 
 to attend U. C. V. meeting at Augusta, Ga. 
 
 On the 4th of September, 1872, he married Susie Wheless 
 Boiling, daughter of Robert P. Boiling, of Memphis, Tenn., and 
 had six children — five sons and a daughter. 
 
 He and his father, Josiah Sibley, Avere charter members in 
 organizing the Second Presbyterian Church of Augusta, Ga., 
 and served as a deacon. He and his friend, Wm. J. Cranston, 
 having paid for the expense of the Church Charter. 
 
 Confederate Certificate. 
 
 Augusta, Ga., May 10th, 1898. 
 Mr. R. P. Sibley, 
 
 Los Angeles, Cal. : 
 
 This is to certify that you Avere a member of 
 the Battery, knoAvn as Barnes Battery, Avhich Avas mus- 
 tered into the Confederate States army in October, 1864; 
 that the said battery Avas an independent company, forming 
 no part of any regiment or brigade, but attached from time 
 to time to different commands; said company served during 
 Sherman's march through Georgia, in Georgia, Avith the Con- 
 federate army, and during the siege of Savannah Avas attached 
 to the brigade of General :\Iercer, of General Hardee's com- 
 mand, at LaAvton Farm, seven miles from Savannah. After 
 the evacuation of Savannah by the Confederate troops under 
 
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 General Hardee, the said company served on the coast of 
 Sonth Carolina until withdrawn and placed at New Savannah, 
 on the Georgia side of the Savannah river, where it remained 
 until the close of the war. I further certify that at that 
 time you were about sixteen years of age, and that you served 
 as a member of said company. 
 
 GEO. T. BAKNES, 
 
 Former Captain of Barnes Battery of Artillery, of Augusta, 
 Georgia, and Ex-Member of United States Congress from 
 Georgia, Being a Member of the 49th, 50th and 51st Con- 
 gress. 
 
 Atlanta, Ga., December 11, 1907. 
 Dear Mr. Sibley: 
 
 I have carefully filed your letter of Dec. 10, '07, giving 
 account of Barnes' Battery in the Confederate war. The letter 
 is now with E-Gov. A. D .Candler, Supt. in Ga. Confederate 
 records, at State Capitol, Atlanta. 
 
 Thank you for the letter and copy of Certificate of Maj. 
 Barnes, May 10, 1898. 
 
 Yours truly, 
 
 CLEMENT A. EVANS. 
 
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 Badges Presented to Robert Pendleton Sibley. 
 
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 BOLLING SIBLEY- 
 
 Bolling Sibley, eldest child of Robert P. and Susie B. Sib- 
 ley, was born in Augusta, Georgia, August 20th, 1873. Pie 
 graduated at the Richmond Academy before he attained the 
 age of sixteen. Shortly after graduation he secured a position 
 in Memphis, Tennessee, where he has resided ever since. 
 
 For many years he held a responsible position in one of the 
 Memphis banks, which he voluntarily resigned several years 
 ago to embark in the life insurance business. He is now a 
 member of the firm of Sibley & Erskine, representing the Penn 
 Mutual Life Insurance Co., of Philadelphia, as general agents 
 for West Tennessee. 
 
 When fourteen years of age he united with the church, 
 and at this time is a member of the First Methodist Church, 
 of ^Memphis. 
 
 He was married September 17th, 1903, to Miss Harriet Erie 
 Beasley, of LaGrange. Tennessee. The ceremony was per- 
 formed by his brother, the Rev. Josiah Sibley. One daughter, 
 Dorothy Leigh Sibley, born March 24th, 1905, has been born 
 to them. 
 
 REV. JOSIAH SIBLEY— 
 
 Rev. Josiah Sibley, second son of Robert P. and Susie B. 
 Sibley, was born in Augusta. Georgia, May 12th, 1877. He 
 graduated from Pomona College, California, in 1899, and de- 
 ciding to enter the Presbyterian ministry, he took his theo- 
 logical course at Yale Divinity School, New Haven, Conn., 
 graduating in 1902. Prior to graduation he represented Yale 
 on the debating team against Princeton and won for Yale the 
 decision of the judges, Avhen upholding the negative of the 
 question of the justification of the 15th amendment to the 
 United States Constitution. 
 
 He married ]\Iiss Adeline Webb, daughter of W. R. Webb, 
 of Bell Buckle, Tennessee, September 4th, 1906, who was 
 born in Murray county, Tennessee, May 31st, 1879. 
 
 He is now pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Long 
 Beach, California, which has over seven hundred members. 
 This congregation under his leadership is now erecting a 
 handsome church, costing eigthy thousand dollars. 
 
 GEORGE ROYAL SIBLEY— 
 
 George Royal Sibley, third son of Robert P. and Susie B. 
 Sibley, was born in Augusta, Georgia, January 8th, 1879. He 
 received his education in the public schools of California. 
 As he decided to follow a mercantile life, he declined a col- 
 lege education, and at this time is a stockholder and general 
 
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 manager of the largest plant of the Pacific Coast Condensed 
 Milk Company, of Seattle. "Washington, which nses the milk of 
 over twenty-three thonsaud cows, and their annual sales, at 
 wholesale,. was over three million dollars in 1907. 
 
 He was married by Rev. Josiah Sibley, of Long Beach, Cali- 
 fornia .in Westminster Presbyterian Church, at Chehalis, 
 Washington, on September 4th, ]9()7, to J\Iaud ]\Iaynard, born 
 in Olymphia, Washington, Angnst, 3 882, daughter of Chas. 
 Warren Maynard. The groom's mother and his sister, Francis, 
 from Augusta, Ga., were among those present. 
 
 He is a member of the Presbyterian church in Chehalis. 
 
 ROBERT SIBLEY— 
 
 Robert Sibley, fourth son of Robert P. and Susie B. Sibley, 
 was born in Round IMountain. Alabama. j\Iarch 28th, 1881. 
 He graduated at the University of California in 1903 with the 
 highest honors as an electrical engineer. While at the L^ni- 
 versity he received the rank of colonel in the battalion of 
 cadets, attaining 147 points out of a possible 150 in his mili- 
 tary record. He was offered a commission in the United 
 States army as firist lieutenant, which he declined, as he pre- 
 ferred to follow his profession. Later he accepted the chair 
 of engineering in the University of ]\Iontana, at Missoula. 
 After holding this position for several years he voluntarily 
 resigned to practice his profession. At this time he is making 
 an important survey of seven hundred miles for the United 
 States government in Montana. 
 
 He was married by Rev. Josiah Sibley, September 5th, 1904, 
 to Catherine Stone, born in Oakland, California, September 
 23d, 1883, daughter of George A. and Ella Sherman Stone. 
 Their daughter, Catherine Elizabeth Sibley, was born in Mis- 
 soula, Montana, April 20th, 1907. Both parents are mem- 
 bers of the Episcopal church. 
 
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 GEORGIA 
 
JOHN ADAMS SIBLEY. 
 
 John Adams Sibley, eldest son of Josiah Sibley and Emma 
 Eve Longstreet, was born September 1st, 1860. He attended 
 the Virginia IMilitary Institute three years. Engaged in farm- 
 ing, life insurance and real estate. 
 
 In October, 1890, elected member of the legislature from 
 Cobb county, Georgia, as a democrat, serving two years. In 
 1892, nominated by the Populist Party for congress from the 
 7th Congressional District of Georgia. In 1896, while resid- 
 ing at Tifton, Georgia, was the nominee of the same party 
 for the Second Congressional District of Georgia. In 1904, 
 was a candidate for elector from the state at large on the 
 Populist ticket. 
 
 During the Spanish-American war was commissioned in 
 July, 1898, by President McKinley. first lieutenant "E" Com- 
 pany, Third United States Volunteer Infantry (known by 
 many as Ray's Immunes), sailing from Savannah, Georgia, 
 August 13th, landing at Santiago, Cuba, August 17th, was 
 appointed Regimental Quartermaster Commissary and Ordin- 
 ance Officer, stationed at Guantanomo, Cuba. January, 1899, 
 promoted to Captain and assigned to command of "M" Com- 
 pany, Third United States Volunteer Infantry, then stationed 
 at Baracoa, Cuba ; was mustered out at Macon, Georgia, May 
 2d, 1899. 
 
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JAMES LONGSTREET SIBLEY, 
 
 James Lonstreet Sibley, the eighth son of Josiah Sibley, 
 and second son by his second wife, Emma Eve Longstreet 
 Sibley, was born at the "Cottage," six miles south of Augusta, 
 Georgia, August 4th, 1863. 
 
 He was named for his mother's first cousin, James Long- 
 street, Lieutenant-General of the Confederate States army. 
 He was a student of Richmond Academy ,Augusta, Georgia; 
 Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Va., and Washington 
 and Lee University, in the same state. 
 
 Soon after leaving college he engaged in farming in Bald- 
 win county, Georgia, and, at the age of twenty-one, married 
 Mattie Erwnn, daughter of Ulysees Maner Erwin and Mary 
 Tucker Erwin, of said county. Ten children was the result 
 of this union, namely : Mattie ; John Adams ; Ulysses Maner, 
 James Longstreet, Josie King, Mary Eve; Josiah, William 
 Augustus Longstreet, Marion, and Allen Bowen, all of whom 
 were living when this sketch was written. 
 
 James Longstreet Sibley was commissioned as Postmaster 
 of the City of Milledgeville, Georgia, in 1901, by President 
 McKinley, and again four years later by President Roosevelt. 
 
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 Robert P. Sibley, Esq. 
 Rockmart , Ga. 
 Dear Sir:- 
 
 Your letter of the 23rd instant, requesting a certificate 
 of the Revolutionary V/ar eervide of the Stephen Sibley who marched 
 from Sutton to Saratoga and of the younger of the two men bearing 
 the name Ezekiel Wood \,vhose recorde appear here, was duly received 
 find the certificate in the case of Stephen Sibley, is herewith en- 
 closed. 
 
 The eige of the Ezekiel Wood, of llorthamton, is given as 
 48 years in 1781, but as the age of the Ezeiiel Wood, of Soutxi- 
 ampton is not given, there is no way of determining xiaich of the 
 two men is the younger. 
 
 The tv/o dollars remaining to your credit are accord-- 
 Ingly herewith returned. 
 
 Yours respectfully, 
 
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 Secretary, 
 
Comm'onlvinlff) of Ulassaclnisclts 
 
 OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY. 
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 I certify the foregoing lo he a true abstract 
 from the fRecord Index to the Revolutionary War 
 Archives 'deposited in tKis office. 
 
 Witness the Seal of the Commonwealth. 
 
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Extract from Letter of Assistant Librarian of Harvard College. 
 
 WILLIAM C. LANE, Libarian 
 
 W. H. TILLINGHAST, Assistant Libarian. 
 
 A. C. POTTER, Assistant Libarian. 
 
 LIBRARY OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY. 
 
 Cambridge, Mass., June 16, 1908. 
 
 Mr. Robert P. Sibley, 
 
 Southern Slate Company, 
 
 Rockmart, Ga. 
 
 Dear Sir: 
 
 Your letter of June 10th, inquiring in regard to cer- 
 tain members of the Sibley family, was duly received. 
 
 The history of the town of Sutton, Massachusetts, by W. A. 
 Benedict and H. A. Tracy, Worcester, 1878, contains a gene- 
 ology of the Sutton Sibleys and their ancestors. I have ex- 
 tracted from it the names of the children of John Sibley, the 
 immigrant; of his son Joseph, and of Joseph's son John, which 
 I enclose. 
 
 John Sibley died 1661. 
 His sons names are — 
 
 John, born March 4, 16'18. 
 
 William, born July 8, 1653. 
 
 Joseph, born 1655. 
 
 Samuel, born February 12, 1657, 
 
 Joseph Sibley 2, born 1655; married Susanna Follet, Febru- 
 ary 4, 1684. Their children : 
 
 Joseph, born November 9, 1684. 
 
 John, born September 18, 1687. --x 
 
 Jonathan, born ]\lay 1, 1693. 
 
 Samuel, born 1697. 
 
 William, born September 7, 1700. 
 
 Benjamin, born September 19, 1703. 
 
 Hannah, . 
 
 John Sibley, born September 18, 1678, married Zerniah 
 Gould. Their children : 
 
 John, born November 13, 1714. 
 
 Ebenezer, born February 28, 1717. 
 
 Stephen, born October 1, 1720. 
 
 Bethiah. born October 2, 1724. 
 
 Timothy, born November 2, 1727. 
 
 Be glad to answer any other specific questions so far as our 
 books will enable me to do so. 
 
 Yours very truly, 
 
 WM. H. TILLINGHAST, 
 
 Asst. Librarian. 
 
GENEALOGICAL. 
 
 V 
 
 1629— SIBLEY— 1908. 
 
 It has been truly said, 
 
 "If you would know who you are, 
 Learn whence you came." 
 
 Some speak of genealogical study as dry and unprofitable; 
 and they do this from misapprehension of its importance and 
 interest; but even these have some pride in being considered 
 as belonging to "good families." 
 
 We often hear of families dying out altogether, or ending 
 in females, that we come to think that such a fate is the 
 eventual end of all families. Every man living could, if he 
 only knew the date, count up from son to father, from father 
 to grandfather, from generation to generation, until he came 
 to Adam himself. This is the great difference between good 
 families and families of all other kinds. The members of a 
 good family can tell who their forefathers were ; where they 
 lived and whom they married ; while those w^ho belong to no 
 families in particular are classed in a body, as those who 
 don't know their own grandfathers, or who, perhaps, never 
 had any to know. 
 
 John Sibley, the immigrant, landed at Salem, Mass., in 
 1629, and died in Manchester. 1661. His wife's name was 
 Rachel. They had nine children — five daughters and four sons. 
 
 Their sons were : 
 
 John Sibley, born at Salem, ]\Iass.. JMarch 4th. 1648. 
 William Sibley, born at Salem. Mass., July 8th, 1653. 
 Joseph Sibley, born at Salem, Mass., 1655. 
 Samuel Sibley, born at Salem, Mass., February 12th, 1657. 
 
 Joseph Sibley, born at Salem, INIass., 1655, married Susanna 
 Follet, born at Salem, Mass., February 4th, 1684. The chil- 
 dren of Joseph and Susanna Sibley are : 
 
 Joseph Sibley, born at Salem, Mass.. November 9th, 1684. 
 John Sibley, born at Salem, Mass., September 18th, 1687. 
 Jonathan Sibley, born at Salem, Mass., May 1st, 1690. 
 Samuel Sibley, born at Salem. Mass., 1697. 
 William Sibley, born at Salem, Mass., September 7th, 1700. 
 Benjamin Sibley, born at Salem, Mass., September 19th, 1703. 
 Hannah Sibley. 
 
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 John Sibley, born at Salem, Mass., September 18th, 1687, 
 married Zerniah Gould, born in Salem, Mass., April 20th, 1694. 
 The children of John and Zerniah Sibley are : 
 
 John Sibley was born in Salem, Mass., November 13th, 1714. 
 Ebenezer Sibley, born in Salem, Mass., February 28th, 1717. 
 Stephen Sibley, born in Sutton, Mass., October 1st, 1720. 
 
 Bethial Sibley, born in Sutton, Mass., October 2, 1724; mar- 
 ried Samuel Trask, November 3, 1743. 
 
 Timothy Sibley, born in Sutton, INIass., November 7th, 1727. 
 
 John Sibley, born in Salem, Mass., November 13th, 1714, 
 married Abigail Towne, who was born in Topfield, Mass., April 
 2nd, 1715. The children of the above John Sibley and Abigail 
 Towne Sibley are : 
 
 Stephen Sibley, born in Sutton, Mass., July 12th, 1741. 
 
 Hannah Sibley, born in Sutton, Mass., September 26th, 1742 ; 
 married Col. Jonathan Holman. 
 
 Lydia Sibley, born in Uxbridge, Mass., June 28th, 1745. 
 
 Peter Sibley, born in Uxbridge, Mass., September 16th, 1749. 
 
 Mary Siblej^, born in Uxbridge, Mass., June 20th, 1751. 
 
 Stephen Sibley who was born in Sutton, Mass., July 12th, 
 1741, died August 25th, 1828, in Grafton, Mass., married 
 Thankful Sibley, born in Grafton, Mass., 1745, died October 
 26th, 1837, in Grafton, Mass. The children of Stephen and 
 Thankful Sibley are : 
 
 Lydia Sibley. 
 
 Joel Sibley, born at Grafton, Mass., April 25th, 1766; died 
 April 10, 1839, in Grafton, Mass. 
 Hannah Sibley. 
 
 Joel Sibley who was born in Grafton, Mass., April 25th, 
 1766, and d[ed at Grafton, Mass., April 10th, 1839, married 
 Lois Wood, who was born June 24th, 1767, daughter of 
 Ezekial AVood, died November 21st, 1832. The children of 
 Joel and Lois Sibley are : 
 
 Amory Sibley, born at Uxbridge, Mass., June 20th, 1792; 
 died in Augusta, Ga., June 22, 1849. 
 
 Royal Sibley, born in Uxbridge, Mass., November 30th, 1793 ; 
 died m Uxbridge, Mass., September 28th, 1822. 
 
 Elmira Sibley, l)orn in Uxbridge, Mass., October 26th, 1797; 
 died in Grafton, ^Mass., February 13th, 1835. 
 
 Abigail and Nancy Sibley, born in Uxbridge, Mass., July 
 29th, 1799, and Xancy died at Uxbridge, April 2nd, 1800; 
 Abigail Sibley died at Providence, R. L, 1876. 
 
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 Mary L. Sibley, born in Uxbridge. Mass.. December 28th, 
 1802; died in Oxford, Mass., July 17th, 1847. 
 
 Martha Sibley, born in Uxbridge, Mass., December 31, 1804; 
 died at Grafton, Mass., February 11th, 1838. 
 
 Josiah Sibley, born in Uxbridge, Mass., April 1st. 1808; died 
 in Summerville, Augusta, Ga., December 7th. 1888. 
 
 George N. Sibley, born in Uxbridge, Mass., August 12th, 
 1810; died in West-Boro, Mass., June 17th, 1858. 
 
 Josiah Sibley who was born in Uxbridge, Mass., April 1st, 
 1808, married Sarah Ann Crapon, born at Providence, R. I., 
 October 24th, 1809, (first wife) daughter of William and Han- 
 nah Crapon, died in Augusta, Ga., May 17th. 1858. 
 
 The children of Josiah and Sarah Ann Crapon Sibley are : 
 
 William Crapon Sibley, born in Augusta, Ga., May 3rd, 1832; 
 died April 17th, 1902, at Augusta, Ga. 
 
 Henry Josiah Sibley, born in Augusta, Ga., March 19th, 
 1833; died at Bear Creek, near Griffin, Ga., July 25th, 1864. 
 
 Samuel Hale Sibley, born in Augusta, Ga., September 9th, 
 1835; died in Atlanta, Ga., September 11th, 1884. 
 
 Sophia INIatilda Sibley, born in Augusta, Ga., October 16th, 
 1837; died in Mississippi City, Miss., October 29th, 1897; being 
 the widow of General Chas. E. Smedes, C. A. S. 
 
 George Royal Sibley, born in Augusta, Ga., pJune 19th, 1839; 
 died in Summerville. Augusta, Ga., July 15th, 1887. 
 
 Fannie ]\Iaria Sibley, born in Augusta, Ga., October 13th, 
 1841 ; died in Augusta, Ga., December 20th, 1842. 
 
 Mary Lois Sibley, born in Augusta, Ga., September 3rd, 
 1843; died in Augusta, Ga., February 23rd, 1864. 
 
 Alice Maria Siblev, born in Augusta, Ga., February 9th, 
 1846; died in Augusta, Ga., July 13th, 1907. 
 
 Robert Pendleton Siblev, born in Augusta, Ga., February 
 17th, 1848. 
 
 Caroline Crapon Sibley, born in Augusta, Ga., February 
 21st, 1850; died in Augusta, Ga., November 16th, 1858. 
 
 Amory Walter Sibley, born in Augusta, Ga., June 19th, 1852; 
 died in Augusta, Ga., July 28th. 1899. 
 
 Children of Josiah Sibley and Emma E. Lonstreet (his sec- 
 ond wife), the daughter of Gilbert Longstreet, of Augusta, 
 Ga., are : 
 
 John Adams Siblev. born in Augusta, Ga., September 1st, 
 1861. 
 
 James Longstreet Siblev, born in Augusta, Ga., August 4th, 
 1863. 
 
 Mary Bones Siblev, born in Clarkesville, Ga., March 29th, 
 1865. 
 
 Emma Josephine Siblev, born in Augusta, Ga.. February 
 23rd, 1867. '§ 'I'-^ri 
 
GENEALOGICAL TREE— WM. C. SIBLEY. 
 
 William Crapon Sibley— Born, May 2, 1832— Died, April 17, 
 1903— Married, November 7, 1860, Jane E. Thomas. 
 
 1. Annie Sibley— Born, March 11, 1862; died, June, 1863. 
 
 2. Josiah Sibley— Born, Jany. 10, 1864; died Ang. 11, 1866. 
 
 3. Grigsby T. Sibley— Born, Dec. 21, 1865; married, Feby. 16, 
 
 18*87, Mary Hinson Smith. 
 Hinson S. Sibley— Born, Dec. 6, 1887. 
 Jennie Tliomas Sibley' — Born, Jany. 10, 1889. 
 Rosina Sibley— Born,' Aug. 30, 1890. 
 Annie Siblev— Born, Dec. 29, 1892. 
 Mary Smith Sibley— Born, Nov. 18, 1895. 
 Grace Sibley— Born, Oct. 23, 1897. 
 
 Wm. C. Sibley— Born, Oct. 4, 1899; died, Apr. 19, 1900. 
 Lillian Pearl Sibley — Born June 15, 1901. 
 Dorothy Sibley— Born, Nov. 9, 1904; died, Nov. 24, 1904. 
 Grigsl)y Thomas Sibley, Jr. — Born, ]\Iarch 2, 1906. 
 
 4. Rev. Julian S. Sible^^— Born, Aug. 27, 1867; married, Oct. 
 
 31, 1888, Gora B. Haddon. 
 Warren Sibley— Born, Apr. 28, 1891. 
 William L. Sibley— Born June 13, 1897. 
 John Carey Siblev — Born, Aug. 23, 1901. 
 Marjorie Sibley— Born Sept. 6, 1903 ; died July 16, 1905. 
 
 5. John W. Sibley — Born Jany. 5, 1869; married, Jany. 9, 
 
 1890, Ilattie Alma Cole,\vho died Oct. 24. 1890; mar- 
 ried second time, Nov. 10, 1892, Willie Richards Casey. 
 Hattie Camiele Sibley— Born, March 20, 1894. 
 
 6. Barney Dunbar Sibley — Born, Oct. 18, 1870; married, Nov. 
 
 10, 1892, Carrie 'Harris. 
 Marguerete Sibley — Born Aug. 7, 1895. 
 Campbell Sibley— Born Dec. 2, 1896; died May, 1905. 
 Wm. Langley Sibley — Born, July 7, 1906. 
 
 7. W. Langley Sibley— Born. :\larch 13, 1872; married. May 
 
 7, 1907, Kate' Davis Marshall. 
 John Davis Sibley— Born, Febuary 7, 1908. 
 
 8. Lillian Pearl Shivers Sibley — Born, January 17, 1875; mar- 
 
 ried John A. La^v. 
 Jennie Thomas Law — Born, Jany. 28, 1902. 
 Annie Elizabeth Law — Born, June 25, 1903. 
 Margaret Adger Law — Born, Feby. 8, 1905. 
 John Adger Law, Jr. — Born, March 30, 1907. 
 
 9. Grace Isabel Sibley — Born, April 1, 1877. (Easter Sun- 
 
 day, and anniversary of birthday of her grandfather, 
 Josiah Sibley.) 
 
FAMILY REGISTER OF SAMUEL HALE SIBLEY I. 
 
 Samuel Hale Sibley, third son of Josiali Sibley, was born 
 in Augusta, Georgia. September 9, 1835. Died in Atlanta, 
 Georgia, December 11, 1861. His wife, Sarah Virginia Hart 
 (Jennie Hart), born in Augusta, Ga., October 22, 1846. ]\Iar- 
 ried November 15, 1865, by Rev. Joseph R. Wilson, First 
 Presbyterian Church, Augusta; the first large wedding after 
 the close of the civil war; special train, next day, carrying 
 wedding party of a hundred to Union Point (the home of 
 the bride) for grand reception, other special trains bringing 
 guests from neighboring towns. 
 
 The Children of This Marriage: 
 
 1. Josiah Siblev, Jr. — Born, Union Point, Greene countv, 
 
 November "29, 1866; died, August 29, 1879. 
 
 2. Grace Pendleton Sibley— Born, May 26, 1868; died, July 
 
 31, 1870. 
 
 3. Jennie Hart Sibley — Born, December 28, 1869. 
 
 4. Katherine Collier Siblev — Born, Augusta, Ga., January 
 
 14, 1872. 
 
 5. Samuel Hale Sibley, Jr. — Born, Union Point, July 12, 1873. 
 
 6. James Hart Sibley — Born, Union Point, Sept. 25, 1875. 
 
 Marriages of the Children: 
 
 Jennie Hart to Harold Lamb, of Charleston, S. C, January 
 7, 1891. No issue. 
 
 Katherine Collier to Robert F. Bryan, Union Point, Ga., Feb- 
 ruary 20, 1896. 
 
 Issue — Francis Sibley — Born, September 2, 1897. 
 Sara Virginia — Born, May 14, 1900. 
 Harold Lamb— Born, October 10, 1902. 
 Robert Francis, Jr. — Born October 24, 1904. 
 
 Samuel Hale Sibley, Jr., married Florence Weldon Hart, April 
 19, 1898, of" Union Point, Ga. 
 
 Issue — William Hart Sibley — Born August 4, 1898. 
 
 Lucy Bentley Sibley— Born, June 22, 1900; died 
 
 at birth. 
 Sara Virginia Sibley— Born, August 9, 1901. 
 Florence Weldon Sibley — Born, August 20, 1906. 
 
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 FAMILY TREE— GEORGE ROYAL SIBLEY. 
 
 George Royal Sibley — Born in Augusta. Ga.. June 19, 1839. 
 Married, January 21, 1862, Emma Tucker in (Midway) Mil- 
 ledgeville .Ga. 
 
 Their children are : Alice Reese, ]\Iary Lois. Anna Belle and 
 George Royal Sibley. 
 
 Alice Reese Sibley married Asbury Hull, in Augusta, 
 Ga. Their children are Emma Georgia, Jephthah 
 Rucker, Alice Sibley and Asbury (the last died in 
 1902.) 
 
 Emma Georgia Hull married Andrew Claudius Perkins, 
 and their children are Alice Hull and Andrew Clau- 
 dius, Jr. 
 
 Mary Lois Sibley married Oswell Roebuck Eve, and 
 their child is Mary Lois Sibley. 
 
 Anna Belle Sibley married James Hampleton Brinson. 
 
 George Royal Sibley (son of Geo. R. Sibley born June 
 19, 1839) married Margaret Belle Schweigert. 
 
 FAMILY TREE— ROBERT PENDLETON SIBLEY. 
 
 Robert Pendleton Sibley — Born in Augusta, Georgia, Feb- 
 ruary 17, 18-48; was married, by Rev. Warner T. Boiling, in 
 Memphis, Tenn., September 4, 1872, to Susie Wheless Boiling, 
 daughter of Robert P. Boiling, born in Nashville, Tenn., Jan- 
 uary 19, 1851. 
 
 Their children are : 
 
 Boiling Sibley, born in Augusta, Ga., August 20, 1873. 
 
 Francis Wheless Sibley, born at Memphis, Tenn., Jan- 
 uary 2, 1875. 
 
 Josiah Sibley, born in Augusta, Ga., May 12, 1877. 
 
 George Roval Sibley, born in Augusta, Ga., January 
 8, 1879. ^ 
 
 Robert Sibley ,born in Round Mountain, Ala., March 
 28, 1881. 
 
 Herbert Sibley, born in Augusta, Ga., October 13. 1885. 
 died at Memphis, Tenn., August 6, 1904, by drowning 
 when learning to swim. 
 
 FAMILY TREE— ALICE MARIA SIBLEY WILLIAMS. 
 
 Alice Maria Siblev — Born in Augusta, Georgia. February 9th, 
 1846; died July 18th, 1907. Married William Thorne Wil- 
 liams, of Savannah, Georgia, 1865. 
 Their Children — 
 
 Emma Wilhelmina, born in Augusta, Georgia, October 
 6th, 1867. ^larried John Harper Davison, of Belfast, 
 Ireland, February 6th, 1889. 
 
119 
 
 Mary Lois, born in Augnsta, Georgia, September 10th, 
 1869. Married James Bishop Alexander, of Angiista, 
 Georgia, November 14th, 1894. 
 
 Maepherson Berrien, born in ^Marietta, Georgia, August 
 10th, 1872. ]\Iarried Julia Sanders Carmichael, of 
 Augusta, Georgia, November 20th, 1900. 
 
 FAMILY TREE— JOHN ADAMS SIBLEY. 
 
 John Adams Sibley — Born September 1, 1861. ]\Iarried, 
 June 1, 1882, Sarah Louisa Chandler, born January 11, 1859; 
 died, April 8, 1905, daughter of Isaac C. and Sarah Thomas 
 Chandler, of Juniper, Ga. 
 
 Children — James Longstreet, born June 7, 1883. 
 Eugene, born May 29, 1885. 
 Frank Chandler, born February 17. 1888. 
 Marled, January 26, 1907, Susan Cunningham McPherson, 
 of Detroit, Mich. ' 
 
 FAMILY TREE— JAMES L. SIBLEY. 
 
 James Longstreet Sibley — Born August 4. 1863. Married, 
 November 11, 1884. to IMattie Erwin. daughter of Mary 
 (Tucker) and Ulysses Maner Erwin. 
 Their Children— 
 
 Mattie (Sibley) Case, wife of I. C. Case; born Februry 
 
 13, 1886 ; married September 5, 1905. 
 John Adams Sibley, born January 4, 1888. 
 Ulysses Maner Erwin Sibley, born April 9, 1890. 
 James Longstreet Sibley, Jr., born August 29, 1891. 
 Josephine King Sibley, born May 13, 1893. 
 Mary Eve Sibley, born November 28, 1895. 
 Josiah Sibley, born September 16, 1898. 
 William Augustus Longstreet Sibley, born February 
 
 12, 1901. 
 Marion Erwin Sibley, born January 12, 1902. 
 Allan BoM^en Sibley, born September 22. 1903. 
 
 FAMILY TREE— MARY B, SIBLEY GARDNER. 
 
 Mary B. Sibley— Born in Clarksville, Ga., on March 29, 1865. 
 Married December 28, 1887, by Rev. D. L. Buttolph, at Au- 
 gusta, Ga., to Albert S. J. Gardner, w^ho was born at "Ingle- 
 side," near Augusta, on September 22, 1863. 
 
 Their Children — 
 
 Albert Gardner — Born at "Cottage Hill," near Mari- 
 etta, Ga., on September 21, 1889; died June 7, 1890. 
 
 Emma Eve Gardner — Born at "Cottage Hill," near 
 Marietta, Ga., on November 1, 1890. 
 
120 
 
 Charles Sehlev — Born at "Cottage Hill," near Marietta, 
 
 Ga., on August 9, 1892. 
 Jesse Jordan — Born at "Cottage Hill," near Marietta, 
 
 Ga., on March 17, 1894. 
 Mary Lois — Born at "Cottage Hill," near Marietta, Ga., 
 
 on January 11, 1899. 
 
 FAMILY TREE— EMMA JOSEPHINE COUPER. 
 
 Emma Josephine Sibley — Born February 23, 1867. Mar- 
 ried Butler King Couper, born March 20, 1851, on May 27, 
 1891, at Marietta, Ga. 
 
 Their Children — 
 
 Constance Maxwell Cooper — Born August 12, 1897. 
 Butler King Couper, Jr. — Born January 1, 1906. 
 
m 
 
 Sibley 
 115. 
 
 Sibley 
 115. 
 
 bley 
 bley 
 bley 
 bley 
 bley 
 bley 
 bley 
 bley 
 bley 
 bley 
 bley 
 bley 
 bley 
 bley 
 bley 
 111, 
 Sibley 
 Sibley, 
 lir^. 
 Sibley 
 Sibley 
 Sibley 
 Sibley 
 Sibley 
 Sibley 
 Sibley 
 Sibley 
 Sibley 
 Sibley 
 115. 
 
 bley 
 
 bley 
 
 bley 
 
 blej^ 
 
 51. 
 
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 blej^ 
 
 bley 
 
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 blej^ 
 
 bley 
 
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 bley 
 
 bley, 
 
 61 
 
 Amory Walter, 44, 
 Alice Maria, 44, 52, 
 
 5G, 
 
 Andrew, 26. 
 Abigail, 26, 114. 
 Azubah, 26. 
 Anna, 26. 
 Abraham, 26. 
 Amory, 41, 42, 55, 56, 114 
 Amos, 26. 
 
 Allen Bowen, 103, 119. 
 Alice Reese, 118. 
 Anna Belle, 118. 
 Annie 64, 116. 
 Borak, 26. 
 Boiling, 95, 118. 
 Dr. B. Dunbar, 72. 
 Benjamin, 20, 24, 26, 37, 
 113. 
 
 Bethiah, 111, 114. 
 Caroline Crapon, 44 56, 
 
 Chas. H. 87. 
 Gen'l. Caleb, 24, 25, 26. 
 Catherine Elizabeth, 96. 
 Daniel, 24, 26, 30. 
 David, 26, 30. 
 Derrick, 5. 
 Dorothy, 116. 
 Dorcas, 26. 
 Dorothy Leigh, 95. 
 Emma Josephine, 44, 57, 
 
 Edward, 10. 
 Elijah, 24. 26, 30. 
 Ezeikel, 26. 
 Elizabeth, 11, 23, 25, 26, 
 
 Ezra, 26. 
 Experience, 2o. 
 Eunice, 26. 
 Esther, 26. 
 Ebenezer, 111, 114. 
 Fanny Maria, 44, 56, 115. 
 Frank, 24, 30, 119. 
 Frances Wheless, 118. 
 Florence Weldon, 117. 
 Gideon, 24, 26, 30. 
 George, 11, 41, 42, 43. 
 George Royal, 43, 56, 57, 
 64, 77, 79, 81, 82, 83, 95, 
 
 115, 118. 
 
 Sibley, Grigsby Thomas, 71, 8^ 
 
 116. 
 Sibley, Geo. E. 8, 25. 
 Sibley, Grace, 51, 116. 
 
 Sibley, Grace Isabclle, 116. 
 
 Sibley, Grace Pendleton, 78, 117. 
 
 Sibley, Herbert, 118. 
 
 Sibley, Hezekiah, 26. 
 
 Sibley, Hannah, 20, 24, 26, 37, 
 
 38, 111, 113. 114. 
 Sibley, Huldah, 24, 25, 26. 
 Sibley, Henry Josiah, 43, 44, 56. 
 
 115. 
 Sibley, Gen. Henry Hastings, U. 
 
 S. A., 5, 6, 10, 11, 14, 16, 20, 25. 
 Sibley, Henry, 8, 10, 30. 
 Sibley, Hiram, 25. 
 Sibley, Hon Henry Hopkins, 25. 
 Sibley, Gen. Henry Hopkins, C. 
 
 _S. A. 25. 
 Sibley, Hinson S, 116. 
 Sibley, Isaac, 26. 
 Sibley, Isiah, 26. 
 Sibley, Josiah, Jr., 78. 
 Sibley, James, 23, 26, 30. 
 Sibley. Joshua, 26. 
 Sibley, Jephtha, 26. 
 Sibley, Joanna, 26. 
 Sibley, John Whipple, 26, 71, 116 
 Sibley. John Adams, 44, 52, 57, 
 
 61, 97, 99, 103. 115, 119. 
 Sibley, James Longstreet, 44, 52, 
 
 57. 61. 101. 103. 115, 119. 
 Sibley, James Hart. 52. 53_, 78. 
 Sibley. Mrs. Jennie Hart, widow 
 
 of S. H. Sibley, 52. 
 Sibley, Josiah & Sons, 42, 56, 
 
 63, 77. 
 
 Sibley, J. & Sons, 42, 56, 63, 77, 
 
 90. 
 Sibley, Jonathan, 5, 6, 20, 22, 24, 
 
 25. 26, 27, 30, 37. 111. 113. 
 Sibley. Joseph, 5, 6, 20, 22, 23, 
 
 24, 26. 30, 37, 38, 87, 111, 113. 
 
 Sibley, John, 5, 6, 8. 10. 12. 13, 
 
 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 23, 24. 
 
 26, 27, 30, 37, 41, 45, 55, 72, 
 87, 111. 113. 
 
 Sibley, Rev. John Langdon, 7, 
 
 18, 25, 26. 
 Sibley, Jonas, 24, 25, 26. 30. 
 Sibley, James L, 5. 119. 
 Sibley. Josiah, 25, 26, 38, 42, 43, 
 
 46, 51, 52, 54, 55, 57, 58, 60, 63. 
 
 64, 77, 87, 90. 99, 103, 115, 116, 
 117, 118, 118. 
 
 Sibley, Jacob, 26. 
 
 Sibley, Joel, 26, 38, 41, 55, 87, 
 
 114. 
 Sil^lev, Tercmiah, 26. 
 Sibley, Rev. Julian S. 71, 72, 116. 
 
II. 
 
 Sibley 
 
 Sibley 
 Sibley 
 Siblej^ 
 Sibley 
 Sibley 
 Sibley 
 Sibley, 
 Sibley 
 Siblev 
 Sibley 
 Sibley 
 Sibley 
 Siblej' 
 Sibley 
 Sibley 
 Sibley 
 
 29. 
 Sibley, 
 Sibley 
 Sibley 
 
 115, 
 Sibley 
 
 119. 
 
 Jennie Hart, 117. 
 Jennie Thomas, 116. 
 John Carey, ll!,'. 
 John Davis, 116. 
 James Hart, 117. 
 Josie King, lO:^, 119. 
 Rev^ Josiah, 95, 96. 
 Katherine Collier, 117. 
 Lois, 41. 
 Lyclia, 26, 11-i. 
 Levi, 26. 
 
 Lillian Pearl, 116. 
 Lillian Pearl Shivers 116 
 Lucy Bentley, 117. 
 Moses, 26. 
 Martha, 8. 26, 115. 
 Mrs. Mary, (widow 
 
 RLithew, 26. 
 Mary, 24, 26, 114. 
 Mary Lois, 44, 53. 
 118. 
 Mary Bont.-^, t-i, 57. 
 
 28, 
 
 56. 
 
 11. 1 
 
 bley, Mrs. Mattie Krwin, 5:.:. 
 
 bley, Mary Smith. 116. 
 
 bley, Marjorie, llo. 
 
 bley, Mattie, 10.3, 119. 
 
 bley, Mary Eve, lO.-]. 119. 
 
 bley. Marion. 103, 119. 
 
 bley, Mark H, 25, 26. 
 
 bley. Nehemiah, 24, 26. 
 
 bley, Nicholas, 9. 
 
 bley, Capt. Nathaniel, 24, 25, 
 
 30. 
 
 bley, Naomi, 26. 
 
 bley. Noah, 26. 
 
 bley, Oscar E, 25. 
 
 bley, Peter. 24. 26, 30, 114. 
 
 bley, Philip, 26. 
 
 bley, Paul. 24, 26. 
 
 bley, Persis. 26. 
 
 bley. Priscilla. 26. 
 
 bley, Phoebe, 26. 
 
 bley. Pardon, 26. 
 
 bley. Patience, 26. 
 
 bley. Prudence, 26. 
 
 bley, Rueben, 5. 6. 24, 26. 
 
 bley, Richard. 5, 6, 12, 20, 25, 
 
 30, 37, 41. 
 Sibley. Rachel, 18, 26, 113. 
 Sibley, Rufus, 24, 26. 
 Sibley, Ruth. 26. 
 Sibley. Royal. 41. 42. 44, 55, 114. 
 Sibley, Robert Pendleton, 38, 43. 
 
 44, 51. 52, 56, 57. 61, 85, 87, 88, 
 
 95. Ill, 115. 118. 
 Sibley, Robert 38. 42. 43, 96. 118 
 Sibley, Rosina. 116. 
 
 Sibley, Septimus. M. D.. 23. 
 
 Sibley, Simeon, 24, 26. 
 
 Sibley, Solomon, Chief Justice, 
 
 5, 6, 25, 26. 
 Sibley, c.amuel, 20. 24, 25. 26, 27, 
 
 30, 37. 43, 111, 113. 
 Sibley, Silas, 26. 
 Sibley, Stephen, 24, 20, 30, 37, 
 
 38. 41, 87, 109, 111. 114. 
 Sibley, Sarah, 18, 19 24, 25, 26, 
 
 27. 
 Sibley. Susanna, 24, 26, 37, 113. 
 Sibley, Samuel Hale, 42, 44, 52. 
 
 56, 57, 60, 61, 63, 75, 77. 115, 
 
 117. 
 Sibley. Sophia Matilda. 44, 56, 
 
 115. 
 Sibley, Sara \/'irginia, 117. 
 Sibley, Judge Samuel Hale, 53, 
 
 78. 
 Sibley, Timothy, 24, 25, 26, 27, 
 
 30, 111, 114. 
 Sibley. Thomas, 8, 10, 15, 26. 
 Sibley, Thaddeus, 26. 
 Sibley, Tamah, 26. 
 Sil^le,-. Temperence, 26. 
 Sibley, Tarrant, 24, 30. 
 Sibley, Thankful, 114. 
 Sibley, Ulyses Maner, 103, 119. 
 Sibley. Vashti, 26. 
 Sibley. William, 15, 20, 24, 30, 
 
 37, 43, 111, 113. 
 Sibley, Warren, 116. 
 Sibley, William Hart, 117. 
 Sibley, William Crapon, 42, 44, 
 
 52, 56, 61, 63, 69, 77, 89, 115, 
 
 116. 
 Sibley. William Langley. 72. 116 
 Sibley, William Augustus Long- 
 street. 103, 119. 
 Sibley. Zeribbebel, 26. 
 Sibley Coat of Arms. 33. 
 Sibley Mfg. Co., 40, 43. 57. 
 Sibley Home in Sou. Chou. 
 ■^"tton Sibleys, 20, 111. 
 Alexander, Marion. 
 Alexander. Bishop, 119. 
 Aurrusta Orphan Asylum. 57. 
 Arms of the Sibley Family of 
 
 St. Albans. 8. 
 Anne. Queen. 13. 21, 
 Domesday Book, | 
 Liber Domes Dei. $ 14 
 Barnes. Capt. Geo. T. 87. 91. 
 Boiling .Robert Peyton, 90. 
 Boiling, Susie Wheless, 90, 95. 
 
 118. 
 Rrvan, Robert, F. 117. 
 Bryan, Francis Sibley, 117. 
 
111. 
 
 Bryan, Sara Virginia, 117. 
 Bryan, Harold Lamb, 117. 
 Bryan, Robert Fracis, Jr. 117. 
 Brown, Gov. Joseph E. 87. 
 Barnes Battery of Artillery, 43, 
 
 88, 89. 
 Brinson, James Hampleton, 118. 
 Couper, C K., 120. 
 Crapon, Sarah /\.nn, 44, 56, 87, 
 
 115. 
 Couper, Emma Josephine Sib- 
 ley, 52, 1:^0. 
 Cromwell, Oliver, 5. 
 Cole, Hattie Alma. 116. 
 Casey, Willie Richards, IIC. 
 Commonwealth of Massacliu- 
 
 setts, 107, 109. 
 Charles I, King of England, 6, 
 
 9, 13. 
 Case, I Clark. 119. 
 Clarke, Hyde. 11, 13. 
 Dunbar & Sibley, G4. 
 Dow, Sarah, 21. 
 Dudley, J., 16, 21. 
 Davison, Mrs. John Harper, 53. 
 Davison, John Harper, 118. 
 Doughty. Dr. W. H., 89. 
 Dnl-e of York, 10. 
 Dudley, T. A. Jr., 66. 
 Evans, Clement A. 91. 
 Eve, Oswell Roebuck, 118. 
 Eve, Mrs. Oswell R, 53. 
 Evans, Capt. Joshua J., C. S. 
 
 A., 77. 
 Endicott, Gov. John. 17. 
 Erwin, Mattie, 103, 119. 
 Edward VI, King. 
 Elmore, E. C, 67. 
 Fairburns, Crests, 8. 
 Gardner, Albert S. J., 51, 52, 53, 
 
 119. 
 Gardner, Jessie Jordan. 120. 
 Gardner, Mrs. Mary S., 53. 53, 
 
 54, 119. 
 
 Gardner, Emma Sibley. 
 Gardner. Char'es Schley, 120. 
 Gray's Inn, 8, 9, 10, 12 
 Gould. Zermiah, 111. 114. 
 Holman. Col. Jonathan. 114. 
 Hart. Florence Weldon, 117. 
 Hope. John 9. 
 Higgingson, Rev. Francis, 17. 
 Hamnden. John, 5, 15. 
 Hull. Asbury, 118. 
 Hull, Emma Georgia, 118. 
 Hull, Jeptha Rucker, 118. 
 Hull. Asbury. Jr.. 118. 
 Harvard University. 7. 18. 111. 
 Hart, Sarah Virginia, 77. 
 
 Jackson, Brig. Gen'l. John K, 
 
 C. S. A., 43, 63. 
 
 Land, Arch Bishop, 5. 
 
 Law, John Adger, 116. 
 
 Law, Jennie Thomas, 116. 
 
 Law, Annie Elizabeth, 116. 
 
 Law. Margaret Adger. 116. 
 
 Lamb, Harold, 117. 
 
 Longstrcet. Gen'l. James, C. S. 
 A., 103. 
 
 Longstrcet, Emma Eve, 44, 57, 
 99, 103, 115. 
 
 Langley, Mfg. Co., 43, 57, 64. 
 
 McKinstrec, John, 31. 
 
 Morse, J. Willard, 25. 
 
 Maynard, Maud. 96. 
 
 Massachusetts Historial Socie- 
 ty, 18. 
 
 Marshall's Genealogist, 12. 
 
 National Bank of Augusta 83. 
 
 Olin. Wm. M. 107, 109. 
 
 Padleford, E. 56. 
 
 Putnam, Gen. Isreal, 30. 
 
 Pym, John, 5, 15. 
 
 Perkins, Andrew Cludius, 118. 
 
 Perkins. Alice Hull, 118. 
 
 Rex, Charles, 5. 
 
 Schweigert, Margaret Belle. 118 
 
 Stone, Catherine. 96. 
 
 Sproat, Sarah, W. 5. 
 
 Sproat, Colonel Ebenezer, 5. 
 
 Sherman, Gen. Wm. T.. U. S. 
 A., 87, 88, 89. 
 
 Smedes, Gen. Chas. E., C. S. 
 A., 115. 
 
 Towne, Abigail, 114. 
 
 Tucker, Emma. 81. 118. 
 
 Thomas, Jane E, 64, 116. 
 
 Temple. Sir Richard, 12. 
 
 Whipple. Commodore Abraham 
 5. 
 
 Whipple. John. 22. 
 
 West, Williams, 9. 
 
 West, Richard, 10. 
 
 Williams, Mrs. Alice M. lis. 
 
 Williams, Macpherson Berrien. 
 
 51. 59, 119. 
 
 Williams, Emma Wilhclmina, 
 
 52. 118. 
 
 Williams, Mary Lois. 119. 
 Wheeler, Gen. Joseph, C. S. A.. 
 
 89. 
 Wampus. John, 20. 
 Winthrop Fleet, 5, 13, 14, 15, 16, 
 
 17. 19. 20, 41. 
 William the Conquercr. 7. 9, 13, 
 
 14. 
 Webb. Adeline. 95. 
 Wood, F/ekiel. 41, 55, 114. 
 Wood. Lois, 55. 114. 
 
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