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RECORD 
 
 OF IIIK 
 
 DESCENDANTS 
 
 OF 
 
 VITSCENT MEIG8, 
 
 WHO CAME IHOM 
 
 DORSKTSHI RE. EXfiLAAD. 
 
 TO 
 
 America 
 
 1 (>:5o. 
 
 Men who swayed senates with a statesman's soul, 
 And looked on armies with a leader's eye ; 
 
 Names that adorn and dignify the scroll 
 Whose leaves contain their country's history. 
 
 Hn//ock. 
 
 Hy HEXRY n. MEIGS. 
 
(!^1 
 
 n^^^ 
 \^l' 
 
 THF LIBRARY »r 
 CfrNGRE^", 
 
 Two "^i-'iEs Receives 
 
 APR, \t 1902 
 
 COPVmaHT ENTRY 
 
 cuss a XXc No. 
 
 COPY a 
 
 ■OI'YHIIiHTKl) BY 
 
 1901. 
 
 1- IIKNUV H. MKHiS. 
 
 .PDllN S. HKIDliKS .V < ■ 
 KAI.riM«»RK. MI). 
 
COAT OF ARMS. 
 
 SKK a I'I'KN dix a. 
 
ARMS OF MEGGS. 
 
 ARMS; 
 
 Or. a chev. between three niasdes i-u. on a chief sa. a 
 irreyhound courant arijent. 
 
 CREST: 
 
 A talbofs head erased ar. eared Sa. clhired or. under 
 the collar two pellets fessways. Three acorns erect 
 issuing from the top of the head j.pr. ( Rra.lford 
 Peverel, Co. Dorset.) 
 
 Fro)ii Hmkr's Ciirial . hiiiory. 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 able I!;:: r ^'^^°"°7"^'-— ^-^-sanC histoncal s.H.hes of a„ hon..- 
 
 ab „ce.try has been a most pleasant pastin^e to the con.piler. He claims no credit or 
 Ul for h.s .o.k. The n.enK.r,. of his i.n.d.ate ancestors has been fron, earlv n a 
 hood a contnnious benediction and stnnuh.s to a better life 
 
 and IT '," '"" "7'^ '''"■ '" '""■^' ^'"°^-^ -""' °"^'-^^^'--^ ^here can be no doubt 
 u the onlv excuse he offers is an otherwise too active a bus.ness life to ,ive the sub-' 
 
 ect t e research u deserves. It is believed to be a nntch fuller record than as 
 been heretofore attentpted, and if any .ho bear the honorable na.e of Mei, 
 
 nsptred to a better lif. and to entulate the noble deeds of sonte ancestor whose advr 
 2^ no better, hew. feel paid f,,r the e.^^^^ 
 
 eestion ' "' H " '""" '" "" ""' '" ''""' ''' ^-'^^ ^^'"^^^-- f- ^'~nts, su^- 
 ge.t,ons. and asststance rendered, to Capt. .Sanntel En.len Meigs, of Philadelphia Pa 
 
 Ho. Dante ^shopMei,s. of Farnhant, P. O.. Charles A. Mei.sHf Oran.e, N mL ^ 
 
 H. M ,,s, of New Haven, Conn., Dr. Revnold W. Wilco.., of New ^•ork Ctv". M. Kay 
 
 C HO?' ''"^''■'■^'^°"' '^- C- --' -Peciallv to Mrs. Lucv A. H. Hur^ert of 
 
 Cleveland, Oh.o, w.thout whose encoura.entent and valuable assistance the work^^ u 
 never have been undertaken and ,ompleted. 
 
 _ The Lore! hath wrought great glory by then, through h.s great power front the 
 be.gtnn,ng. There be of thetn that hath left a nante beh.nd then, t at their pra 
 .-g t be reported. And sonte thete be wh.ch have no ..e.ttorial. But with the, ^ 
 shall conttnual Iv re.nain a good inheritance and their children are within the covenant 
 The people w.l, tell of then- wisdont, and the congregation will show forth their praise •■ 
 
'Ami wlui were tlit-y, "ur fatht-rs ? In their veins 
 
 Kail the liest hlocul ol' h'.nghmd's Keiitleiiieii ; 
 Her bravest in the strile on hattle plains, 
 
 Her wisest in llie strife of voice and pen ; 
 Her holiest, teacliing, in her holiest fanes. 
 
 The lore that led to niartyrdoni ; and when 
 On this side ocean slept their wearied sails 
 And their toil-hells woke up oiir thousand hills and dales, 
 
 Shamed they their fathers ? Ask the villai;e spires 
 Ahove their Sabbath homes of praise and prayer; 
 
 Ask of their children's happy honsehold fires, 
 And happier har\est noons; ask summer's air. 
 
 Made merry by youiv^ voices, when the wires 
 Of their school cages are unloosed ; and dare 
 
 Their slanderer's breath to blight the memory 
 
 That o'er their graves is 'growing green to see ! ' " 
 
 Halleck'i Conntutitiit. 
 
MEIGS (;ENEAIA)GY. 
 
 r,0(l siltfil a whole nalioii, llial lli' miglu sciui 
 choice grain over iiitu Ihis wiliierness. 
 
 — ll'iHiam SloiiKhttm, i66S. 
 
 No. .. \'i„cent Meitfs was the sok- .vprcsentativ.- of tin- first <e,R-ratiun uf tin- name 
 m America. According to early histories he came here with suns \'i„cent , 2) lohn , .) 
 and Mark, 4. .(born .609- 2-4 . and the family of John, l,nt 1, is not known wh™ 
 they saile.l, nor from what port in Kn^lancl, nor „n what ship. I, is supposed hn„ - 
 ever from other statements regardin,^ the family that they sailed frum Wevmoulh 
 hngland, about i6;,4-5. 
 
 Vincent was born in i5,s., , App. , -A ) and tradition savs he married a Miss Churchill 
 He was evidently a widower when he came to America. The family are first recorded 
 m tins country as at Weymouth, Mass., in i6:,g. From there thev went with Rev 
 bamuel Newman-s comj.any in ,64., t„ R.-lioboth, Ma.ss., and about ,644 to New 
 Ha\en, Conn. 
 
 \-incent Meios is recorded at New Haven, October o, 1646, as luarlectin. to •'trayn" 
 on June 14, ,646, and was fined 2s. 6 p. •■ Hut if he brin, proof that he travned twice 
 m one fortn■^dn the fine is to be remitted." He is also recorded in the same vear as 
 being "an old man with only two children known to us." 
 
 About 1654, the family of Jolin with his father rem„ved to East Guilford , Ham- 
 monassett) and there Vincent built his home on the propertv later owned and built upon 
 by Sergeant Dame! Meigs, and which later house is illustrated on a subsequent pa.e of 
 this work. Of course the Vincent Meigs house had disappeared long before, but it is 
 .nteresting to know that so long after his ownership, one of his lineal descendants was 
 still in possession of the land earlier occupied by the first Meiers in the New World 
 
 Vincent Meigs died at Hammonassett, Dec. i, ,658. His will, dated September ^ 
 ih^s.and saul to have been written on his death bed, was probated December ^ follow- 
 .ng. and ,t is tra.lition in Madison that his was the first burial in Hammonassett (irave 
 ^ ard. See App. i, B. 
 
 1 • '^"' f \,^^ ^ "'"""" ^^''''^''' J'- '''' ^''^^'^ '"" according to the dates given in the early 
 history of Massachusetts, we have but little to record that can be considered as abso'- 
 lutely belonging tn him. Southampton, L. 1. Town Records say Vincent .Meigs con- 
 tracted to build a mill at Easthampton in .653, and was a resident of North Sea in ,^s7 
 where on June 2 of that year he is recorded as bringing "an action of debt and an 
 'lamage against Philemon Dicken.son, of .Southol.i," ••hut not appearing to his a.-tions 
 nor any legally for him, is non-suited." These records probablv are of Vincent. Ir as 
 that of neglecting to " trayn " may also be. The reference in New Haven to his father 
 as being old in 1646, woul.i indicate that he, \-incent, Sr., would not undertake such a 
 contract in 1653 as that of the Eastham[H,,n Mill. 
 
 hrev,..t,o„s A,,,.e,Mliv.Ap,,. t!„rn. h. Marric.i, ,„. Died, .1. DauRhter, ,la„. P.-,.e, p. 
 
Hut all wc iiavf ..f al)solutt- \>roui as belonging to Vincent, Jr., is the record of 
 admini-stration on his estate given in Appendix No 2. This disposition of his property 
 would show that he left no natural heirs, and presumably he never married. He died 
 November .v 1700, and the Court Record at New I.c.ndon shows settlement of the 
 
 estate Dec. 17, 1700. 
 
 No. 4. t)f Mark Meigs, born 1614, third son of Vincent ( No. 1 ), there is little to 
 record, lie appears to have identified himself closely with the interests of the family 
 until some time after iheir removal to New ll.iven. His name does not appear on Conn, 
 records after 1647. It was probably about that time that he went to Long Island, as he 
 was granted a lot in Easthami-ton, but abandoned it before 1651. From that date to 163S 
 he resided in Southampton, and probablv married his wife. Avis, there, removing about 
 1658 to Huntington, farther West ..n the Island, where he is recorded m 1672, and his 
 will probated there in 1673, leaves all of his pr.,perty after the death nl his wife to 
 Samuel l.um, son of |(ihn Lum, (.f Southampton. See App. No. 4. 
 
 No. 3. John Meigs, 2nd s<,n nf X'incent ( No. 1 •, is .said to have been born near 
 Bradford, Kn'oland, 1612, and marric-d m i(';,2, Thomasine or Tamazin Fry, of Wey- 
 mouth England, sister of William Frv and Mary Fry, who married Walter Harris, (who 
 came to America in i6v^ on the - William Francis" 1. It is conjectured that letters 
 from Walter Harris sent back to Fngland mav have influenced the emigration of Juhn 
 Meigs anil familv, but there is nn proof of this. See App. No. ,v.-\. 
 
 'According to statement in Boston 7>-<7«.v/7/>/, date of August 22. 1900. the eldest 
 child of lohn an<l Thomasine Meigs, ( Marv 1, was Ihtu in England, in i6,vv It is likely 
 that the 'familv K-ft ICngland soon aft,-r, and that .ill of the other chil.lren were born m 
 America. See App. No. i-A. 
 
 CUTLER CORNER, NEW HAVEN, CONN 
 
Mi:iGs Gkxealchiv. o 
 
 AftLT beiny. as already stated in skctcli uf X'incciU Meigs, in Weymouth and Reho- 
 both. Mass.. until about 164;,. we find in 1644, that John is recorded in New Haven as 
 having taken the oath of fidelity, and the same year is admitted a freeman. In K'^.s he 
 bought the lot known today as " Cutler Corner," on Church and Chapel str.ets, frontino- 
 New Haven Green, in the chief business [>avt of the city, ■■the lot .ilong the fronts of 
 which pass daily the greatest number of feet and on which towers the largest private 
 building yet erected in the city." .See illustration opposite page. 
 
 The conveyance of this property is on record and reads in this wise; "William 
 Jeancs jiasseth over to John Meggs his house and house lot lying on the corner over 
 against the house of John lUidd, and the highway." This property [ohn Meigs ownnl 
 for ten years, ceding it to the town in KisS, when he mo\ed away. 
 
 John was a tanner and currier by trade, and pnjbably .ilso a shoemaker, and being 
 active in business accumulated jiroperty. He seems to have bought considerable real 
 estate. March ;,, 1053—4 he was admitted a planter at Guilford on his buying a one 
 hundred pound allotment at Hammonassett. [Hammonassett was a part of the town of 
 Guilford of that day, but soon came to be known as East Guilford, and later its 
 territory was made into the town of Madison,] John Meigs bought from the agent of 
 Thomas Jones, on March 4, 1667-.S, the land on the east side of Guilford Green, known 
 as the "Thomas Jones Place," and in late years belonging to R. I). Smythe, whose 
 researches in and publication of early history of the place, make his name a familiar one 
 to all who know the town of Guilford. 
 
 One event of John Meigs' life shoukl give .satisfaction to the mind of evei-y American, 
 and that is the assistance he gave to the escape of the Regicides, or fudges, Whalley and 
 Goffe. They were in New Haven, early in May, 1661, when the Commissioners sent 
 with authority from Ring Charles to arrest them, made their ajipearance in Guilford 
 with the Ring's orders and a letter from Gov. Endicott. Thev urged ( lov. Leete's 
 
 ■•*5!!fe 
 
 
 '-*»«»^-, 
 
 JUDGES CAVE. WEST ROCK PARK, NEW HAVEN, CONN. 
 
 ^rlic roclc was also siii.l l.. lit- .1 lM,,k,,ul -,t.iti..ii .hiiiiig lli,.. tiiiu- 01 llir Ki_\ ,iluliuu.ir> W.n . ..11 t..|. ..I wlu, li 
 a liiolvoiit was sLilioTu il to irive w.u niiis nl Uie approa. Ii 01 llie Bntisli 
 
MKKiS (iKNKALOGV. 
 
 lO 
 
 n A their intention to 
 „„ Re.icid«, b,.. by .>.'«» be '»-;f t l':,r»„, ,„ove ,» 
 
 p„ce«l .0 New Haven o„ ^ ™^;^,;„,. E.rty =» -l- ""^'v , T'^i ab.=.1 »' 
 ,l,e search be.ng maJe n Hu _^|| ^ ,„ ^e. Have , ^^^ ^^^^^^ 
 
 authorities in defiance of the i 
 independence. 
 
SkcON I ) ( ; IN KKA riO.N. 
 
 SECOND G^ENERATIOA. 
 
 W'liat boots it oil tile lineal true In trace, 
 Tlirough many a braiit-h. the founders of our rare — 
 Tinie-lioiioured cliiels— if, ill their i i^ht, we Kive 
 A loose to vice, ami like low \illaiiis live' 
 
 — Git/onVi Jin'.iial. 
 
 No. ^■^. John Meigs, was clearly not as puritanical as many of the early settlers, 
 and this broujjht him into frequent friction with the authorities of Guilford also. See 
 App. No. ,vl)- 
 
 He must ha\e been a man of education, as his will bequeaths manuscripts and books 
 of a kind only likelv to be owned by a person of considerable culture for those days. 
 He removed to Killint;u'orth several years before his death, which occurred there on 
 January 4, 1672. 
 
 His will, dated August 2S, 1(171, indicates that his uife ,in<l all his children except 
 Elizabeth, sur\ived him. See .A]ip, Xo. 3-E. 
 
 GENEALOGY. 
 
 MARRIED BORN DIED 
 
 idfiJ. No. 3 — John Meigs, son of \'incent (No. 1) m. ihi2. 1671- 
 
 Tamazin Fry, of Weymouth. I-^iigland. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 March 3. No. 5 — Mary, b. in WL-ynioiitli, Enghiiul. 163.1- April 30, 1703. 
 
 111. Willi. nil .Stevens, son of John 
 
 Stevens, of (iiiilford, Conn. 
 1650. No. 6 — l-'lizal)eth, |irol>al>ly liorn in America 
 
 about . 1635. 
 
 111. Richanl Ihilibell, ot' .Stratloril, 
 
 Conn. 
 Xo. 7 — Comurreiice. Oct y, 170S. 
 
 111. Henry Crane, of Killiiii; vv orlli, 
 
 Conn. I.\|i|i. 7.) 
 No. .S — |ohn (at Weymouth, Mass.) Feb. 2S, 1641. Nov. 9, 1713. 
 
 1668. Xo. 9— Pryal. 1646. 1690. 
 
 ill. .Aiiihevv Wanl, of Killiii;_;« orth. 
 
 Conn., who vv.is born in .Stamlord, 
 
 Conn. 
 
 k^-i 
 
Mkigs Gknkai.ci.v. 
 
 THIKD FENERATION. 
 
 Huw poor ate all ht-rciiil.tiN hoiinrs, 
 Those poor possessions from another's deeds, 
 Unless our own just \ irlnes forni our title 
 Anil Eive a snni tion lo our IoihI assumptions I 
 
 -S/iir/n'. 
 
 Tlu' L-xclusivfly Anit-rican brancli uf the Mei.ys family begins with Deacun John 
 Meigs Jiid, (M the cnly s(in of John Meigs ist (3), horn at Weymouth, Mass., 1641, 
 
 died lyi.V , • 1 
 
 Ik- removed from Guilford to Killingworth with his father about i6(xi, and remained 
 
 there until after the latter's death. Having been given the farm at Guilford by his 
 
 father (see App. ,vE) he seems to have returned there about 1671-72, and probably lived 
 
 lipon the place, cultivating the land, during the rest of his life, though his occupation 
 
 was that of a cooj-ier. 
 
 He was one of the twelve patentees in the charter of Guilford, dated December 7, 
 16S5; was chosen leather sealer 1692-93; chosen deacon in the First Church of Guil- 
 ford in 1646, and held ofhce till his death in 17 13. 
 
 He was buried on Guilford Green, which was the hrst burying ground, but about 
 1817 all the graves were removed to the newer cemeteries East and West of town, 
 Alderbrook a'lid Riverside. The gravestone of Deacon John Meigs, as seen in illustra- 
 tion, is now in Alderbrook Cemetery. His wife, Sarah, was buried in Hammonassett 
 uraveyard. See illustration page ih. App. S-A. 
 
 
 
 i~ 
 
 RE 
 
 /I: 
 
 y^ 
 
 T" 
 
 OF 
 
 '' '■■^' - U ,c L. t. 3 fe' L/ 4 
 
 vNOVEMBER. THE- p ,| 
 
 ■ TWEr.TB YEAR- J 
 
 '•"^:- !--r- AGE ■ 
 
MARHI ED. 
 
 Mar. 7, 
 1665. 
 
 iniKi) (jExkra ridx 
 
 No. 8-Deacon J,,hn M,,i.s, of East (;„,lfunl 
 ^"nn., sun of,,,, J„i,„, „f Killin<,Mvorth, Cunu 
 '»■ '^t Sarah, dauglucr ,,f William Wilrux uf 
 ^^tratf.,rci,Con^. ( See App. S-B. ,n. .,u| Lydia 
 trnte.uien, widow of Isaac Crittenden. 
 
 I (.41 
 
 13 
 
 171. 
 
 Nov. 24. ifnji. 
 Dec. 172^. 
 
 Jan. II, 
 16S5. 
 
 Oct. S, 
 1702. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. 10— Sarah. 
 
 ■11. I).ini,_-1 Hartletl. of Giiilfor.l, 
 
 <- mill. 
 No. II— Jolni. 
 No. 12— Janna. 
 No. 13— I-;henezer. 
 No. i4_n.,„|,a|| 
 
 111. Jeremiah Foster, oILoiig Isl.iiul. 
 No. 15— Hester. 
 No. 16— MiniUveil (App. 16.) 
 
 111. .Samuel Crittenden. ofGuihor.l. 
 No. 17— Sarah (App. 17.) 
 
 I^'eh. ,4, 1667. April 8, 16.SS. 
 
 Nov. II, 1670. 
 Dec. 27, 1672. 
 Se|). 19, 1675 
 h'eb. 25, 1678. 
 
 Now R), 16S0. 
 16S2. 
 
 lec. 19, i-|,s. 
 -I'i"e 5. 1739. 
 
 Mar. 31, 1762 
 
14 
 
 MlK.S Cl NlAl.oi.N- 
 
 FOURTH GKNEKATION. 
 
 Superior wuitli \our VAuk idiuhes ; 
 Fi.r that, TiKUikin.l reveres yout sires; 
 If you .lei;eiier^ite Irom your raee, 
 Their ineril hci'^hl.us yuur disi;r;uc. 
 
 f,(ir'.\ l-'(ihlr's. 
 
 July :!o, 
 1694. 
 
 Dec. 
 1734- 
 
 No. ii-Deacon John Mei-s, .yd, of East Guilford, 
 Conn., sun of Deacon John ^nd, ( No. 81. Deacon 
 in the church known as the Second Chur.h and 
 Society of Guilford, from 1707 f' '"^ 'l^"'"''- 
 iSee.Vpl). ID- m- Rebecca Hand. 
 
 1(170 
 
 17 iS 
 
 No. iS— loll". 4th- 
 No. 19— Stephen. 
 No. 20— Recompense 
 No. 21 — Irene. 
 No. 22 — Samuel. 
 No. 23— Phineas 
 No. 24— Sarah. 
 
 111. Beniaii 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 lin Pr.itt, of Saylirook. 
 
 July 
 
 ]0, 
 
 1697. 
 
 Nov. 4, 
 
 1767. 
 
 Oct. 
 
 10, 
 
 1699. 
 
 May 51, 
 
 1759- 
 
 Dec. 
 
 1 1, 
 
 1701. 
 
 Apr. 14, 
 
 1760. 
 
 Mch. 
 
 10, 
 
 1704. 
 
 
 
 Aug. 
 
 22, 
 
 1706. 
 
 Sept. I, 
 
 1751- 
 
 Sept. 
 
 21 , 
 
 1 70S. 
 
 Mch. 19, 
 
 17S2 
 
 Dec 
 
 10 
 
 1713- 
 
 Feb. 6, 
 
 1796 
 
 ' '';--. i-iex? lie^ Intern' liV::^;.. 
 
 
 
 
 CAPT. JANNA MEIGS AND WIFE 
 
MARHrED, 
 
 May 1 8, 
 169S. 
 
 ^""'irRTH Gk\krati()\. 
 
 No. 3 Cap,. Ja„„a Mei^s, rst , son of,S,l).a- 
 -;j ohn, .„.,, Fn-st Magistrate of East (..ilford, 
 and representat.v. tu th. General Assembly of 
 Connecttau several te™s;Ca^ 
 ra band tc • ,see App. .., „, Hannah 
 V d of XV ethersheld. Conn., daughter of losiah 
 ■ul h '"'"'''P^- -^Sec. B., Capt.'lanna 
 
 and h,s u-,fe were both buried in Hannnonassett 
 
 Cemetery, where their .rave-stones are still t,; be 
 -een as m illustrations on opposite ,)age 
 
 n>72. 
 
 ^7MJ- 
 
 "V4- Jan. 4, 174c;. 
 
 1733- 
 
 Xo. 
 No. 
 Xo. 
 Xo. 
 Xo. 
 
 Xo. 
 
 No. 
 
 No. 
 No. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 -5 — Janiui. 
 
 26— Jo.siali. 
 
 27— lehiel. 
 
 2'"i— Haiiiiali. 
 
 29— Retiii M. 
 
 30— Hester. 
 
 m- Stephen Risliop. 
 
 3'— Sileiue. ) 
 
 32— .Submit. )■ '""IS. 
 
 See App. .\o. 3,., 2. 
 
 33— I'iniothy. 
 
 34— Kiinice. 
 
 •\|>r. 17, 1699. 
 
 May 14, 17,,,, 
 .bine 1 1, 1703. 
 ■■^iig- 13. 1705. 
 Mch. 16, i7o,S. 
 Dee. 19, 1709. 
 
 Jan. 5, 1712. 
 jail- 5. 1712. 
 
 •"^ept. 19, 17, 3, 
 < 'et. 19, 1715. 
 
 Feb. 12, 1772. 
 
 "ec. 26, 1774. 
 Mch. 23, 17.S0. 
 
 May 20, 1727. 
 .luiie 22, i7,S2. 
 
 Jan. g. 1712. 
 Jan. 16, 1712. 
 
 Sept. 14, 1751. 
 
 Oct. 7, 
 1700. 
 
 T,^^~!^^'T"" ^^''^'' "^ I-"almonth, Mass., son 
 of (No. ^1 Deacon John, .„d, m. .Mercy Weeks 
 daughter of William and Marcv , Robinson^' 
 Weeks^ of Falmouth, Mass. (a.ilford. Conn 
 Vital Statistics record the marriaqe in these 
 words, •■ Ebene.er .Meigs of Gutlford, and Mercy 
 Ueeks of Falmouth, weare marrved together 
 
 on the 7th day of October, m the year ,700, by 
 Mr. Barker." See App. 13. ^ 
 
 167.S. Before 171. 
 
 •^'o- 35— I'liankful, 
 
 m. Samuel 
 
 Fiskt 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 i>( Falmouth, 
 
 Mass. 
 No. 36 — Ebenezer. 
 No. 37— .Mercy. 
 
 111. John Weeks, of Fahiiouth, .M.iss 
 .\o. 3S— Reuben. 
 
 No. 39— Joseph. 
 
 No. 40— Beriah. 
 
 (See Illustration ne.xt page on the 
 gravestone of Submit and Silence. 
 (See .^pp. No. 40.) 
 
 Sept. 25, 1701. 
 
 June II, 1703. 
 Dec. II, 1705. 
 
 Oct. 21, 1707. 
 Nov. 17, 1709. 
 
 1712. 
 
iHS?s:'' -'s'J-^f -^m". 
 
Fii- 1 11 Gkxeration 
 
 17 
 
 MARRIED. 
 
 April 7, 
 1724. 
 
 Fifth Ueneration. 
 
 \'ie\v them near 
 Al home, where all tlieir worth and pride is placed, 
 
 And there their hospitable fires burn clear, 
 And there the lowliest I'arni-house hearth is graced 
 
 With many hearts, in piety sincere. 
 Faithful in lo\'e. in honor stern and chaste. 
 In friendship warm and true, in danger brave, 
 Beloved in life, and sainted in the grave. 
 
 - Ilallt-rk. 
 
 No. 18 — John Meitjs, 4th, of East Guilford, Conn., 1697. 
 
 son of (II) Deacon John 3rd, of East Ciiiilford. 
 m. Thankful Murray, daughter of Deacon [ohn 
 Murray. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. 41 — John 5th. 
 No. 42 — Ichabod. 
 No. 43— Wailstill. 
 No. 44 — Asaliel. 
 
 Apr. 29, 1725. 
 ( >ct. 3, 1726. 
 July 3, 1728. 
 Feb. I, 1730. 
 
 1767. 
 
 177U. 
 
 Jan. 4, 1727. 
 
 Dec. 22, 1749. 
 
 1750- 
 
 June I. No. 19 — Stephen Meigs, of East Guilford, Conn., 
 
 1731. son of ( 1 1 ) Deacon John 3rd, of East Guilford. 
 
 m. Jane Johnson, daughter of John Johnson, of 
 
 Norwich, Conn. 
 
 I (Syg. 
 
 1759- 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. 45 — Ezekiel. 
 
 Sept. 22, No. 46 — Irene. 
 
 1756. m. Retiben ISartlett, of East Ciuil- 
 
 ford. 
 
 No. 47 — Stephen. 
 
 No. 48 — jane. 
 
 June 21, 1733. 
 June 21, 1737. 
 
 Jinie I, 1739. 
 July 22, 1744. 
 
 Feb. 13, 1816. 
 
 1-61. 
 
 May 3, 
 1727. 
 
 -Sept. 27 
 '750. 
 
 Apr. 13. 
 1757- 
 
 No. 20 — Recompense Meigs, of East Guilford, 1701. 
 
 Conn., son of (11) Deacon John 3rd, of East 
 Guilford, ni. I'hoebe Goodale, of Bridgehanipton, 
 N. V. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. 49— Sylvaiius. Fell. 13, 1728. 
 
 No. 50— Phoebe. Fell, r, 1730. 
 
 m. Aaron Grave, of Walpole, N. H. 
 No. 51— Nathan. Nov. 5, 1732. 
 
 No. 52— Ellas. Apr. 15, 1735. 
 
 No. 53— Abigail. Mch. 12, 1738. 
 
 111. Hull Cranipton, n\ CiiiilUirtl, 
 
 Conn. 
 
 1760. 
 
 Dec. 2(\ 1 77 I. 
 .Apr. 15, 1753. 
 
i8 
 
 Mki<;s ('II^^•^:Al.()l;^■. 
 
 MARRIED 
 
 Nuv. 4, 
 
 173'- 
 Mch. 6, 
 
 1751- 
 
 No. 21— Samuel Meigs, of East Guilford. Conn., 
 son (if (II) Deacon John 3rd. of East (iuilford, 
 ni. 1st, Mindwell Norton, dauiL^hter of Samuel 
 Norton of Cniilford. 2nd, Abigail Judd Evarts, 
 willow of Sidal Evarts, and who afterwards mar- 
 ried Ebenezer Dudlev. 
 
 1706. 1751- 
 
 Sept. 20, 1750. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 Jan. I, No. 54 — Rebecca. 
 
 1767. m. John Ward, of Chester Society 
 
 at Say brook. 
 
 No. 55 — Felix. 
 Sept. 27, No. 56 — Lydia. 
 1758. m. Theliis Ward. 
 
 No. 57 — .Saimiel. 
 
 No. 57 — MindweU. 
 
 Mch. 4, 1733. 
 
 Oct. 12, 1735. 
 Mch. 5, 1S39. 
 
 Mch. u, 1744- 
 June 14, 1747- 
 
 June 14, 1775. 
 
 Apr. 4, iNo4. 
 
 Sept. 6, 1751. 
 Aug. 31, I751- 
 
 CAPT. PHINEAS MEIGS' HOUSE. BUILT IN 1690. 
 
 Laf.syctte lodged here one or tw.i nights during the Revolution. 
 
 Slanilsoii the west side of Wall Street, ne.tr Boston Street, Madison, ConiiectiLUl, 
 
Fifth (', 
 
 i;\KR.\ riox. 
 
 19 
 
 MARRIED. 
 
 Jan. 31. 
 
 Jan. 4, 
 1764. 
 
 CAPT PHIMEAS MEIGS. No 22. 
 
 No. 22— Capt. l'hin,,as .Mci-s. of Hast Cuilfuia, 
 Conn., son of , i i ) Deacon John ,vd,of East Cuil- 
 ford, was killed hy a shot from the British in .i 
 skirmish un the sea sh(n-e in East Cuilfonl. 
 The ulentical cap which he wore at the time of his 
 death is in the State Historical Rooms at Hartfoni, 
 Conn.. ,ind shows where the Inillet passed throui^h 
 It into his head, killins; him instantly. Buried 
 in West Cemetery, Madison. .See illustration. 
 Private 6th R.-ot., Eient-Col. W'ni. r)ou,yla.ss. 
 Capt. Samuel Barker's Co. enlisted Feb. ;,, 1777, 
 discharired Feb. 3, 1780: private (k-n. Daniel 
 Waterbury's State Bri.t;-ade, Capt. Nathaniel 
 Edward's Co. enlisted .Apr. 3, i7.Sr. m. Abioail 
 Dudley. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. 59 — Abigail. 
 
 ni. Capt. Jeliie! Meigs No. 81. 
 
 170.S. 
 
 17.S2 
 
 .Mch. 12, 1742. 
 
 Sep. 
 M(h. 
 
 9. 1S06. 
 2S, i.'S25. 
 
 No. 25— Lieut. Janna Meigs, 2nd, of Salisbury, 
 May 13, Conn., son of Capt. Janna ( No. i 2 ) of East Guil- 
 1724. ford, m. Elizabeth Dudley, daughter of Ebenezer 
 
 Dudley, of Guilford. See illustration of "rave- 
 
 stone page 20. See App. No. 25. 
 
 1699. 
 
20 
 
 MfK.S CiKNKAI.OCiV 
 
 Oct. 2S, 
 
 1749- 
 
 Oct. 
 
 4. 
 
 1749- 
 
 
 Nov 
 
 9 
 
 1757 
 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. 60— .Sybil. 
 
 m. Joseph Bradley, nf Siinderlaiul, 
 Vt. 
 
 No. 61 — Hannah. 
 
 ni. Ebenezer Chitteiulen, of New 
 Haven, Coiiii. See.App. 61. 
 
 No. 62 — Nathaniel. 
 
 No. 63— Elizabeth. 
 
 m. Gov. Thomas Cliittenden, of 
 Vermont. See App. 63. 
 
 No. 64— Esther. 
 
 ni. Ezra Wilcox, of Madison, Conn. 
 
 No. 65 — Prudence. 
 
 Ward. 
 
 No. 66 — Janna. 
 
 No. 67 — Simeon. 
 
 Served in Revohitionary War- 
 enlisted from Salisbury, May 5. 
 1777. for the war— was in Kirtland's 
 Reg't. 
 
 No. 68— Bezai. 
 
 N0.69— Seth, 
 
 BORN. 
 
 .\\n. 25, 1725- 
 
 Nov. 2o, 1727. Feb. 15, T751. 
 
 .Xui,'. 6, 1729. 
 
 I )ct. 17, 1731. Oct. 14, 1817- 
 
 Mch. 19, 1734. 
 Jan. 12, 1737. 
 
 Feb. 17, 1739- 
 July 13, 1741. 
 
 Sept. 25, 1743- 
 Mch. 1 1, i74f'- 
 
 Sept. 8, 1.S09. 
 
Fifth Gkxeration. 2i 
 
 MARRIED. 
 
 No 26— Dt^acon Josiah Meigs, of East (Juil- ,70, "'"i- , 
 
 ford, Conn., son of ,1.^) Capt. Janna of East " 
 
 Guilford. Deacon in the 2nd Church anil 
 Society of Guilford from 1751 until his death. 
 June 14, Deputy to the General Court in 1767. ni. 
 ^IS27. Mary Hand, daughter of Stephen Hand. t)ct. 30, ,704. Aug. 6, ,780. 
 
 (I" tile Hammnnasselt Cimettfry. 
 Madison, Conn.) 
 
 In Mt'iiiory of 
 .I08IAH MEIGS. KSQr. 
 
 Who served his own 
 <>eneratioii not only 
 
 (In IIk- Hanimoii.is^clt Cfnu't<-i\. 
 Madison, Ci.iin.l 
 
 In 9I(>nior,v of 
 
 Mrs. MARV. wif,. of 
 
 in the duties of a i>ri\ sile 
 
 ' *^ l>«'an JOSIAH MKIOS, KS^r. 
 
 eharaeter. hut in the , ... 
 
 who died Aus» 6th. I78<>. 
 
 4»lll<-es of ii C^apl. of the , „, ^^.,. „ 
 
 •^ ^ In the 7«th A'eai- of her Age. 
 
 Nililia. a IH>a'ii of tiie 
 
 riio' Death still ruigns. 
 Church. And Saints d,) die ■ 
 
 Died Mec'r 20lh. 1771. in 
 the 74th Year of hii^ 
 
 Ajje. 
 
 Vet they shall rise. 
 And reipn on high. 
 
 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 
 No. 
 
 70 — Mary. 
 
 
 No, 
 
 71— .^n infant. 
 
 Oct. 30, 
 
 No. 
 
 72— Rachel. 
 
 '750- 
 
 
 m, Elislia Stevens. 
 
 Mch. 16, 
 
 No. 
 
 73— Sarah, 
 
 i/SS- 
 
 
 m, .Martin Kirtl.ind, of Saybrook, 
 Conn. 
 
 ,hin. 8, 
 
 No. 
 
 74— Mary. 
 
 1762. 
 
 
 ni. Deacon Levi Ward. 
 
 
 No. 
 
 75 — Eunice. 
 
 111. Phineas Parmalee, of Durliani, 
 Conn. 
 
 
 No. 
 
 76— Josiali. 
 
 fan 2, 
 
 No, 
 
 77— Lois. 
 
 1771- 
 
 
 ni, .Ambrose Ward, of Kiilinwortli, 
 Conn. 
 
 
 No. 
 
 78— Betty. 
 
 ni. Jereiiiiali Hiibliard, of Middle- 
 touii. Conn. 
 
 Apr, 14, 1728. July 24, 1736. 
 Mar. 16, 1730. .Aug. 5, i7;,o. 
 Feb 26, 1733. 
 
 Jan. 14, 1735. 
 
 Jan. i.S, 1737. Nov. 6, 1806. 
 Feb. 27, 1739. 
 
 Oct. 14, 1740, Nov, 16, 1740. 
 Auk. 2.S, 1743. 
 
 Feb. 3, 174S, 
 
MKKiS ('ii:m AI.ll(;^■. 
 
 MARRIED. 
 
 BORN. 
 
 No. 27— Capt. jchifl Nk-ius, of East Guilfonl, 1703. 
 
 Sept. 27, Conn., son of ( 1 J ) Capl. Janna of Kast (iuilford, 
 iy^6. m. JAicv HartlL-tt, daui;litfr of Danid liartlctt, 171J. 
 
 I.ynn, Mass. Both arc Isuricd in I lammonasst-tt 
 
 Cenifterv. See ilhistration. 
 
 1 7 So. 
 Dec. S, i.Soo. 
 
 Marefii-S- 17 
 
 ■>: o >'•* 
 
 
 CAPT JEHI EL MEIGS. 
 
 "flR- s..l.iici l.illui .il .1 si.lcliei sun. 
 
 
 LUCY BARTLETT MEIGS 
 
 Jlll\ 14, 
 1756. 
 
 Jan. I, 
 
 1772. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. 79— Lucy. 
 
 No. .So — Lucy. 
 
 ni. Capt. Joseph Hand, of East 
 
 Gnilford, Conn. 
 No. Si— Jehiel (2n(ll. 
 
 No. S2 — Lncretia. 
 
 ni. Keuhen Rose, of North I'.ran- 
 
 ford, Conn. 
 No. S3 — Daniel. 
 No. .S4— l':Hhii. 
 
 .No. S5 — Lovisa. 
 
 in. Cajit. Edwaril .Mnlford, of Nortli 
 Branfoid, Conn. 
 
 ,\nt;. iS, 173S. 
 .Sept. 21, 1741. 
 
 July 6, 174;,. 
 July 14. 1745- 
 
 July 24, 1747. 
 Sept. 21, 1749. 
 Dec. 21, 1751. 
 
 Aug. IS. 173S. 
 Jan. 25, 1778. 
 
 Dei . 27, 1776. 
 
 May 12, 1S22. 
 
 Sept. 9, 1S27. 
 
 1S24. 
 
)' II' 111 (;i.:.\|.;KArioN. 
 
 23 
 
 Feb. I, 
 
 I 7 ^2- ^. 
 
 No. 29-Return Md^s, of Middletown, Conn 
 son of , ,.1 Capt. Janna of East Gnilford. Was a 
 atter. In 1745 he was appointed Lientenant of 
 the Second Company or Train-band in th,- f,tl, 
 Connecticut Regiment; in ,747 was Repre.sentative 
 to the General Assembly from Middletown. The 
 I own Records of that place tell us that h.- and 
 Kl.zabeth Hamlin "ware joyned for .Marriacre 
 Covemuu Feby ,st, 17;,,-;,." She was the dau^li- 
 ter of Jabez Hamlin. They had the usual larce 
 family of those days, but the children evidently 
 did not mherit robust constitutions, as of the 
 thirteen children born to them, but four attained 
 manhood, and the greater number died in infancy. 
 Mrs. Elizabeth Meigs died Sept. 17, 1762, and 
 March 25, 1763, Return married a second wife, a 
 widow named Jane Doane, who survived him, 
 and by whom he had no children. He was a little 
 over sixty-seven years old at the breaking nut 
 of the Revolutionary War, and therefore past the 
 age when he could take any active part in that 
 
 1 70.S. 
 
 17.S2. 
 
 ■m^ 
 
 
 
 
 
 RETURN MEIGS AND WIFE 
 
24 
 
 Mki<;s Gkn'kai.oc.v. 
 
 BORN. 
 
 struc;;4lL-. Theit- is no evidence to show what 
 were'his opinions upon the question at issue, 
 . . • _ _ .1 „..f ^f f^,,,,- 
 
 but it is fair to suppose, since three out of fou 
 of his sons took part with the patriots in the 
 struggle then beginning, that he must have been 
 in sympathy with that cause. He died on the 
 22nd of June, 1 7S2, and is buried by the side of his 
 first wife in the old cemetery at Middletown. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. 86— Elisha. 
 
 No. 87 — Janna. 
 
 No. 88— Elizabeth. 
 
 No. 89— Elisha. 
 
 No. 90— Col. Return Joii.ithau. 
 
 No. 91— John. 
 
 No. 92— Capt. (".lies. 
 
 No. 93— Josiah. 
 
 No. 94— Eli/.abetli. 
 
 No. 95— Timothy. 
 
 No. 96— Hannah. 
 
 No. 97— Major John. 
 
 No. 98— I'rof. Josiah. 
 
 Jan. 15, 
 
 1734. 
 
 Oct. 10, 
 
 1736- 
 
 Sept. 29, 
 
 "735- 
 
 Oct. 4, 
 
 1736. 
 
 July 15. 
 
 1737- 
 
 Apr. i6, 
 
 1740. 
 
 Oct. 4. 
 
 1739- 
 
 Dec. 22, 
 
 >739- 
 
 Dec. 17, 
 
 1740. 
 
 Jan. 28, 
 
 1S23. 
 
 Oct. 9, 
 
 1742. 
 
 Oct. 28, 
 
 1750- 
 
 Oct. 29, 
 
 1744. 
 
 Nov. 7, 
 
 1824. 
 
 Nov. 21, 
 
 1746. 
 
 Oct. 29, 
 
 1751- 
 
 Jan. 25, 
 
 1748. 
 
 Aug. 4, 
 
 1753- 
 
 Feb. 28, 
 
 1750- 
 
 Oct. 28, 
 
 1751- 
 
 Nov. 21, 
 
 1751- 
 
 Jan. 28, 
 
 1753- 
 
 Nov. 21 
 
 1753- 
 
 Nov. 24, 
 
 1826. 
 
 Aug. 21, 
 
 1757- 
 
 Sept. 4, 
 
 1S22. 
 
 .Sept. 27, 
 I7,i3- 
 
 No. 33— Deacon Timothy Meigs, of East Guil- 
 ford, Conn., son of (12) Capt. Janna of East 
 Guilford, was one of the most prominent men of 
 that town. He was graduated at Yale in 1732, 
 returned to his native town : was a merchant and 
 farmer. Was chosen Deacon in the ist Congre- 
 gational Church in 1745 and held same until his 
 death. " He was a good man among the sick 
 and the jjoor," is testimony that has come down 
 to us. His untimely death from dysentery, which 
 seized him while at church, brought out a remark- 
 able poem of fifty verses, by an unknown local 
 bard, extracts from which will be found in App. 
 33. as also illustration of his well-preserved tomb- 
 stone in West Cemetery- His marriage publish- 
 ment ( see fac-simile herewith 1 is still preserved 
 by his descendants. He m. Mary French, 
 daughter of John French, and grand-daughter 
 of 1st Rector of Vale College. 
 
 1713- 
 
 1751 
 
1' III II (;i:.\KK.\ Hon. 
 
 25 
 
 Jimoikv cMd^ 
 
 'Cirj WrmcXMcrc:M,f 
 
 mtc^icJ 
 
 Tlla-rna 
 
 'J0i^.€o 
 
 MARRIED 
 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 
 
 J. 111. IS, 
 
 '7i5. 
 
 No 
 
 99— Kuth. 
 
 111. Stephen Bradley, of .Sunder- 
 land, \'t. 
 
 BORN 
 
 '■^lay I, 1737. 
 
 DIED 
 
 Jan. 6, i,Si4 
 
 Dfc. 7, 
 
 '757- 
 
 No 
 
 100— Mabel. 
 
 111. Nathaniel Lee, of .Sunderland 
 Vt. 
 
 Apr. 14, 1739. 
 
 ' >ct. 20, i.Suo 
 
 
 No 
 
 loi— Statira. 
 
 Ill- rir. Klilui Bartlett, of Sunder- 
 land, \-t. A graduate of Vale 
 College. 
 
 Sept. 14, 1741. 
 
 1779 
 
 
 N<,. 
 
 102— John French, 
 (d. .single.) 
 
 Jan. 2u, 1744. 
 
 Nov. 4. 1767. 
 
 
 No. 
 No. 
 
 103— Mary. 
 
 104— Hannah. 
 
 111. Samuel Bartlett, 5th son of 
 Rev. Moses Bartlett, of Chatham, 
 Conn. 
 
 Apr. 25, 1746. 
 Rer. 2, i74,S. 
 
 d. in infancy. 
 
 
 No. 
 
 io,s — Tinioihv. 
 
 
 
 No. 36— Ebenezer Meigs, of Rochester, Mass 
 son of ( i;, ) Ebenezer, of Falmouth. Mass. 
 Rebecca ; 2nd, Bathsheba 
 
 2, 1751- Nov. 13, i,S27. 
 
 '7u,v 
 
 III. 1st, 
 
 July 4, 
 I7.S8. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. 106— Miriam. 
 No. 207— Marcy. 
 No. joS— John. 
 No. 109 — Susanna. 
 
 m. Benjamin Hammond, |r. 
 No. 1 10 — Ebenezer / 
 No. Ill— Joseph )' ' "i"s. 
 
 No\-. 30, 1727. 
 
 Jan. 21, 1729. 
 
 "ct. 31, 1732. 
 
 F'eb. 13, 1734-35. 
 
 Feb. 15, 1736-7. 
 Feb. 15, 1736-7. 
 
25 MkICS ('iKNI-.AHKiV. 
 
 Bv 2NIJ WlKE. 
 
 BORN- 
 MARRIED 
 
 Nov. 23, No. i.2-Mary. Mch. 6, 1739-40. 
 
 j-f,q, m. Ediiiiiister llaniniond. 
 
 No. 113— Nathaniel. 
 
 .See App. 113. 
 
 Aug. 22, No. 114— Rebecca. 
 1764. 111. Robert Clark. 
 
 See App. 114. 
 
 ' /-•>- 
 
 Dec. 3. 
 
 J762. 
 
 Oct. 10, No. 38— Reuben Mei.t;.s of Barn.stable, Mass., son 1707- 
 
 of (13) Ebenezer, of Falmouth, Mass.; m. Rebecca 
 Jones. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. 115-Mary. Sept. 24, 1733- 
 
 iy6u 111- Reuben Fish, of Sandwich, 
 
 Mass. 
 
 No. 116— Hannah. '^'-"■- ^5' iTSS- 
 
 Mar. 25, No. 117-Mercy. J^"- ^9. >7,s6. 
 
 111. William C.oodspeed, of Barn- 
 stable, Mass. 
 
 Mo. ,,s-Josiah. Sept. 3, 1739. 
 
 No. uy-Matthew. Ji'lv '». '74-'. June 7, 1S24. 
 
 No. 120— Ralph. 
 
 No. 39— loscph Meit;s, of Falnimith, Mass., son 1709. 
 
 of ( I ;, ) Ebenezer, of l-alnioutli ; 111. Martha . 
 
 CHILDREN 
 
 No. 121— riLinkriil. "Lt. 6, 1734. 
 
 Apr. 17. No. 122-Marah. Au-. 30, 1736. 
 1760. ui. Josepli 1 liiuniick. 
 
 No. 123— Benj.iniin. *'tt. II, I74i- 
 
 No. I24H"^'-Ph. J"'>' '''• '"^'^■ 
 
 No. 125-labe/. Mar. 9, 1744-5- bine, i79«- 
 
 Feb. 25, No. i_.A-Martha. Sept. 17, 1746- 
 
 lybS. ni. jabe/ Robinson. 
 
 No. 127-Thankrul. J->'>- '4, 1749- 
 
 lu. F.lienezer Hatch. 
 
Meios Genealogy. 
 
 FIFTH GENERATION. 
 
Sixth G km: rati on 
 
 27 
 
 MARRIED 
 
 }^in. 21. 
 
 '744 
 
 Dec. 15, 
 1764. 
 
 Jesse 
 War from 
 
 Sixth UEiXEKATioN. 
 
 Lues 01 giL-at me., all rciii..,! i.s, 
 We can make uur lives sublime, ' 
 AikI, departing;, k-ave beliin.l „s, 
 Footprints on the saii.ls ..|-iime/ 
 
 — Lollglelloiv. 
 
 No.4.-Dr. John M.-i^s, 5th, of H.thlch.n, 
 
 Conn., son of (i.S) John 4th, of E.tst Cuilfonl 
 
 ni, Rebecca Clark, ,it ISethl.Jiem, Conn. See 
 App. 41. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 Xo, 127— Ireii.i. 
 
 111. Elisha Clark. 
 \o. i2,S— Abiier. 
 No. 129— Sarali. 
 No. 130— Waitstill. 
 No. 131— Rebecca. 
 No. 132— I'hineas. 
 No. 133— Jesse. 
 
 t.^:r:i'c::;™-::;:;-„:: -I-;:-:-,:- -■- ■- - -„ , ,, 
 
 172s. 
 
 1726. 
 
 Sept. 21, 1745, 
 
 June 12, 1747. 
 
 IJec, 10, 1750, 
 
 April iS, 1752. 
 
 M'T. 5, 1755, 
 July II, 1760. 
 
 Mar. 7, 1763. 
 
 Alii 
 
 y.s- 
 
 i'S24. 
 
 Jan. 9, 1751. 
 Nov. 16, 1760. 
 
 Mar. 4, 17S2. 
 Aug. 12, 1805. 
 
 Dec. , 
 
 1755- 
 
 Dec. :„ 
 17.^1- 
 
 No. 45— Ezekiel Meig.s, of Killinuuorth and ,Mi,l- 
 dletown, Conn., son of ( 19) Stephen of East Gnil- 
 ford. m. A.senath Seward, daughter of Daniel 
 and Mehetabel i Boreman) Seward, of l^iistol. 
 Conn. 
 
 i/,i.v 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. 134— Jane. 
 
 ■^'o- 135— Pliineas. 
 
 Xo. 136— Sarah. 
 
 No. 137— Stephen (d. single). See A],p. 137. 
 
 Xo. 13S— A daughter b. and d. 
 
 No. 139— A child h. and d. 
 
 No. 140— Thankful. 
 
 No. 141 — Huldah. 
 
 I^ec. 5, 1758 
 
 Jan. 21, 1759 
 
 Sept. 15, 1761 
 
 Oct. 20, 1763, 
 
 •Aug. 14, 1766, 
 
 Nov. , 1767 
 
 April 10, 1769 
 
 (No date given.) 
 
 No. 49— Sylvanu.s Meigs, of E. Guilford. Conn, 
 son of (20I Recompense, of East Guilford, ni, 
 Lydia Franklin, of Rillinoworth, Conn. 
 
 172.S. 
 
 1780. 
 
 Feb. I 
 
 Jan. 
 
 July 
 
 25. t>^20. 
 2, 1S24. 
 
 i75o- 
 
 CHILD. 
 
 No. 142— Sylvanus. 
 
 Nov. iS, 1752. Mar. 24, 177.S. 
 
28 
 
 o. 
 
 M|.,U.S C.KN'KAI.Ol.V. 
 
 BORN °'^° 
 
 No. 5.--Nathan MeiK-s, of East Guilford, Cnn., i;:.-^- Before ,77 
 
 sun of (20) RecomiH-ns.-, of East Guilford, m. 
 Lucy (Starr) Dudk-v, vvid..w uf SiniL-on Du.liey, 
 and dauuhtcr of Jonathan Slarr. She afterward 
 
 „ „.d ^ Hlev.n. : 4-I1 Wilcox, and d. Deu .,„ 1 / K 
 
 Nathan seems to h,.ve left home some time before 
 his death. Our records sav ■■went off an<l died 
 before 1770.' 
 
 CHILD 
 
 No. 14;,— Nathan. 
 
 Feb. I, 175S. May 7. iS'o- 
 
 No. 52 - Elias Meit;s, of East Guilford, Conn., nVr.- 
 
 son of (--o) Recompense, of East Guilfonl. 
 
 The Record and Pension Division of the War 
 
 Department, Washington, D. C, certifies that 
 
 Elias Mei,t;s served as a pri\ate in Captain 
 
 Vaill's Co. of Connecticut Guards, stationed at 
 
 Guilford, Conn., for the defense of tin- sea 
 
 roast in the Revolulionarv War. It is re- 
 
 rorded that he enlisted .April loth. i7^ii. 
 |..n iv and was discharged from service Jan. 1st, ,w ,«- 
 
 ,;;y. ■ ,7s.. m. Rachel I'.ishop. J=^". >.^^. -7,^.9. "ct. ., ■ 7^v 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 ,,, , lulv 7, 1760. Nov. 19, iSi7. 
 
 No. '44-Kl'oda^ ^^ ^ ^^^^ - - ^^^j, ^,^ ,^^g 
 
 Oct. ;iO. 1762. Nov. 13, iS;,6. 
 
 July 19, 1765- Aug. 19, KS43. 
 Oct. 15, i7'57- 
 
 luiie 10, 1770. June 4, 1772. 
 
 Sept. 9, 1772. Nov. 19, 1803. 
 
 April 30, 1775. 
 
 ni. Samuel 1 yler. 
 
 No. 145— Rachel. 
 
 ni. Ashbel Craniptoii. 
 
 No. 146— Abel. 
 
 May 7, No. 147— Olive. 
 
 m. Caleb Fowler, of Burton, ( Huo. 
 
 No. 14S— .Anson. 
 No. 149— riioebe. 
 
 111. Nathan Wilcox. 
 
 No. 150— Hannah. 
 
 ni. liule Smith, of Madison, Conn. 
 , " Oct. 5, 1777- 
 
 Feb. 5. No. 151-lrene. May II, 184S. 
 
 ni, Thomas Shelley. 
 
 No. 55 ^Eeli.x .Mei.^s. of East Guilford, Conn., 
 son of ( 2 1 t Samuel, of East Guilford, m. jerusha 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. 152 — Mimluell. 
 
 Mch. 5, 175^- 
 May 27, 1760. 
 
 .Apr. 20, No. 153— Sylvia. 
 
 ,_,, m. Stephen Cook. 
 
 '"• ,, . Sept. 16, I7'^3- 
 
 No. 154— Maria. 
 
 , Sept. 14, 1770- 
 
 No. 155— Samuel. ^ 
 
Sixth (iKXKKAiTi 
 
 TO\. 
 
 2') 
 
 VIEW IN HAMMONASSETT CEMETERY. 
 
 Reading from Kit lu iiul.t tlK' ^,.,vls are ..I the l..llo«n,s 
 IM. Deacon Josiah Mciss. (I. 1774. 
 
 2nil, Mrs. Mary Meigs, his wife, d. 17S0. 
 ,ud, Capl. Jeiiiel Mei.?s, d. 17S0. 
 
 Itli Mrs. Lucy Meigs, liis wile, d. iSoo. 
 
 MARRIED 
 
 Jan. 2, 
 
 [752. 
 
 No. 02 - Natlianiei Meigs, of .Suiulerland ami 
 (iuillin-d, \"t., son of (25) Janna 2nd, of Salisbury, 
 
 Conn., ni. .Azun.ith Bishop, dauohtt-r of 
 
 Bishop, of E. Guilford, Conn. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No, 156 — Benjamin .Stone. 
 No. 157— I'hineas. 
 Sept. 26. No. 15S— Anne. 
 
 ''''9- '"• Gilbert Bradley, son of .Sybil 
 
 Meigs (60). 
 No. 159— Aznbah. 
 No. 160— Timothy. (Unmarried.) 
 No. l6i — Daniel Bishop. 
 
 1729. 
 
 Oct 
 May. 
 
 Ang. 
 
 Sept, 
 
 • '^ 1753. 
 '9. 1755- 
 lo. 1757- 
 
 26, 1759, 
 1761. 
 I7'i,v 
 
 1755- 
 
 i,S49. 
 
30 
 
 M:;ic.s (iiNKAi.ix.v. 
 
 T'was thus our :itu cslois si'cril Ihcir l.iU)^ wiiilei evuniuKs i" Ntw Euglalld, 
 Willi au ..pen Bil.lf iin.l llu- s|iiTiniiig wlieul. 
 
 MARRIED 
 
 ]an 1 6. 
 ■7<H- 
 
 No. 66— Jaima Meigs ,V(1, of Salisl.ury, Conn., sun i; 
 
 of (25) Janna 2nd, of Salisbury, m. Rebecca 
 Whiting, of Waliin.oford, Conn., daughter of 
 Deacon Benjamin Whiting. All the children but 
 eldest born in Salisbury. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. 162— l.ucina (born at Wallingford). 
 
 ni. David Daniels, of Salisbury, 
 Conn., and biter moved to Deer- 
 field, Ohio. 
 
 No. 163 — Lurania. 
 
 ni. William Palmeter. and moved 
 
 to Vermont. 
 No. 164— Rebecca, (d. at C.reenville, 111.) 
 
 m. Geor.ne Anson Ives, of Norfolk, 
 
 Conn. 
 
 No. 165 — Julius. 
 
 d. at Newburg, (Cleveland) Ohio, 
 m. Elizabeth Wiggins. 
 No Children. 
 
 No. 166— Wbitting. 
 
 d. at l-dizalietli, N. J. 
 
 Mar. S, 1765. Jan. 24, 1S49. 
 
 Jan. 21, 1768. 
 
 Mar. 23, 1770. 
 
 Dec. I, 1771. 
 
 No. 6q— Seth Meigs, of Alljany, N. Y., son of ( 25 ) 
 janna 2nd, of Salisbury, Conn. Recorded in 
 " New York in the Revolution," as in ist and 2nd 
 Regiments of the line. Also in .Sth Regiment of 
 the Militia of Albany County, m. Jemina Von 
 ISoskerk, widow ot Wm.X'an I^oan, of Athens, N.Y. 
 
 1746. 
 
 June 24, 1850. 
 Jan. 31, 1849. 
 
 Sept. 21, 1775. Oct. II, 1855. 
 
 No. 167 — lohu. 
 
 CHILD. 
 
 Dec. 27, 1784. 
 
MARRIED 
 
 Jan. 4, 
 1764. 
 
 No. 8i-Capt. Jchi.-l M,. 
 Con 
 
 iilMH (iKNRRATIOX. 
 
 ig-s 2nd, ni !■;. (n.ilford, 
 
 '.n„.,sonof,.;)Capt.Jehiel. Ensi.„at Lex^ '" 
 
 •f "" •^';!.™' ^^"■^''' 5 days ; Capt. 7th Re^n.^ent 
 
 nnnu.. Co A„.,,-e. Ward, enlisted Mav ,.th 
 '.^'. /^^e App.s,. „,,5y, Al.i,ail, dau,h„.r 
 of Capt. Phineas Mei.-s. ' '-^-■ 
 
 31 
 
 '77'''. 
 
 No. 168— Phineas. 
 No. 169— Lucretia. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 ni. I'-sherConklin, of E. GuiKonI 
 Conn. 
 
 Jan. 22, 1769. 
 
 Jan. 12, 1849. 
 
 No. 170— Fanny ( nnrnairied). 
 
 Mar. 
 
 23. '774- .Sept. 10, 1S45. 
 
 No 83 sergt. Da„,el Meigs, of E. ..nlford, .,„ 
 0f<.7)Capt.Jeh,el,st. Sergt. Le.,„gton .Alarn, 
 !//> ^er«.d 5 davs : Sergt. Capt. i'eter Vails Co • 
 enhsted Apnl ,„, .^.s,, „.,,,,, , ^ -; 
 
 days. m. tst Chloe Seranton. n. .„d, MHlie^t 
 Hopson, of Xorth .Ma.lison, ' o„„. 
 
 April 12. 1S2S. 
 
 ■■':"^:":::"T:::z'-r:v--" 
 
 ■-•<'■: ^1 ■;,",,i,:,,;,.'';.::;:;;,':;:,';,;'-'"''' '■■"- 
 
32 
 
 MKUis Geneai.oi;y. 
 
 M^iy 27, 
 
 I«47- 
 
 Mch. S, 
 1821. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No, 171- Artemisia. 
 
 in. Daniel Hand. 
 
 No. i72^1<)nathan. 
 
 ' ni. Taliitlia .Xntlu.ny, ol .Staunton, 
 Va. No children. See .App. 172. 
 No. 173— Jehiel. See .\pp. 173- 
 No. 174— Daniel. 
 No. 175— A son. 
 No. 176— William. 
 No. 177— Harry. 
 f^TQ_ ly.s— Deborah Hoiison. 
 No 179— Deborah Hopson. 
 
 m. Dr. Reynold Webb, ol E. r.uil- 
 lord, Conn. 
 
 Feb. 25, 1770. 
 Sept. 14. 1771- 
 
 April 6, 1777. 
 
 April 9, 1779- 
 
 l'"eb. 2, 1791. 
 
 April 27, 1792- 
 
 July 5. '793- 
 
 Nov, 4, 1794- 
 
 May 24, 1797- 
 
 Oct. II, 1812. 
 Mar. 25, 1.S53. 
 
 April 3, 1S12 
 Aug. 9, I-S26 
 
 Feb. 2, 1791 
 May 21, 1792 
 Nov. 16, 1793 
 Sept. 12, 1796 
 
 Dec. 7, 1S59 
 
 173. JEHIEL MEIGS, 3BD, 
 Savannah, Georgia, 
 
 No. 84-KHhu Mc-i^s, nf E. Cuilford, Cmn., son 
 of ( 27 ) Capt. Jehiel. m. Klizalxth Rich. 
 
 CHILDREN, 
 
 1749- 
 
 No. 180— r.en.iamin Hart. 
 
 No. 181— John, 
 
 No. it>2 — l.ucy, 
 
 m. f.amaliel Conklin. 
 
 No. 183— lienjamiii Hart. 
 
 No. 184— Elihn. 
 
 >^io 1S5— Lovisa (unmarrieil). 
 
 No. 1S6— Josiah. 
 
 m. Mary Gre,a:ory. 
 
 No. 1S7 — l£dmund. 
 No. 1S8— Flizabeth. 
 
 ni, loseph Frasier. 
 I^Iq^ 1S9— Lncretia (unmarried). 
 No. 190— Bezaleel Ives. 
 
 Jan. 23, 1772. 
 Nov. 27, 1773- 
 Sept. 28, 1775- 
 
 Dec. 28, 1777- 
 Jan. 21, 1780. 
 Jan. 17, I7''^2. 
 May 23, 17S4. 
 
 Oct. 3, 17S6. 
 May 10, 1790- 
 
 Aug. 31, 1792- 
 Au.a:. 4. 1794- 
 
 1S27. 
 Sept. I, 1.826. 
 
 July 6, 1774- 
 
 Aug. 14. 1848. 
 
 Mar. 5. 1852- 
 
 May 23, 1S06. 
 Aug. 15, iSoi- 
 
 .April 20, 1856. 
 
 July 31, 1847. 
 Sept. 26. 1R70. 
 
Six 111 Gkxkkatiox 
 
 3.1 
 
 g^"--^ 
 
 y^ //€^^ *^ fa'/ ■ 
 
 9^ 
 
,^4 
 
 MARHICO. 
 
 Mi;i(.s (iKNi-Ai.iii.v. 
 
 No. 90— Cell. Return JoiKithan Meigs, of Mkidletown, Conn., 
 son of I Jyi Return of Middletown. Ensign, Lieutenant and 
 Captain in Conn. Militia l)efuie the Revolution. Marched to 
 Boston with a Coiiipany of men t)n the Lexington Alarm, and 
 soon became Col. "f the 6th Conn. Infantry. Went with 
 
 BORN 
 
 1740. 
 
 
 
 
 
 ^^■ 
 
 \ 
 
 ■0^' 
 
 M '^ /^j /JY nol S^ Ho uf C to 
 
 ic £ Ir £ c . ■ 
 
 £ 
 
 Arnold on the ill-fated expedition to Quebec, and was cap- 
 tured in the assault on that town, Init was soon exchanged. 
 Was at the capture of Stony Point, and later made a successful 
 expedition to .Sag Harbor to capture 15ritish boats with 
 
 DIED. 
 
 IS 2:, 
 
35 
 
 11111 
 
 Sixth Gknkkation. 
 
 MARRltD 
 
 ■supplies, for whicli l„illia„t exploit, Conuress later vote, nun 
 a handsome sword, which is in his hand in the picture of 
 h.m shown on page ( 33 ). He was also active in quellinp- the 
 msurrection anion, the Conn, troojis in consequence of 
 famine m i-So. Fac-similes of several of his Commissions 
 and letters from Congress, Presidents, etc., photo^^raphed 
 by one of his descendants will he found in App. No. 90, as 
 
 Peb :,, i3o history of his later life as a.^ent to the CherokeL in 
 764. 1 ennessee, etc. He m. ,st Joanna Winborn, of Middletown 
 
 Dec- who d at Middletown. .nd Grace Starr, Middletown, wh.i Oct ,0,7^^ 
 
 1774. d. at Hiawa^sPf. T„.,„ ^'- -^"' '7/,v 
 
 <-)ct. 10, icSoy. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. 191 — Return J,Mialli,,n. v^,. ,. ^ 
 
 Sent •'.S NTn ,r.. I r^ov. 17, ,764. M.ir. 2q, 1824, 
 
 .T>ept. 2,^, iMo. 192 — Joanna. ,-> 
 
 I76r , '-'ct. 21, 1766. 
 
 ' '"• Janii.i Hand, of E. C.niirurd, 
 Conn., Sun of (So) I.ncy .Meigs. 
 
 No. 193— Marv. , 
 
 m.Rev. Mr. .Miner. J^'".i-M769. .799. 
 
 No. i94_John. ., 
 
 !So. 195— I-.Iizabeth. xt„, , 
 
 Nov. 22, 1775. Dec 22 1-7=; 
 
 No. 196-Richard .Montgomery. Oct . ,-•,- 1 , ' ' o 
 
 KT„ -,-■ , » •' uct.4, 1,77. July 22, 178s. 
 
 No. 197— Tniiothv. c , o ,. J - • ' 3 
 
 Sept. 28, I7,S2. 1815. 
 
 No. 92— Capt. Giles Meigs, of Middletown, Conn 
 
 son of ,29) Return, of Middletown, Conn., was' 
 
 like the other members of his family, loyal to the 
 
 cause of American Independence. He is recorded 
 
 as Lieutenant in the State Militia, and marched to 
 
 New London. In the Clerk's office at Killingworth, 
 
 Conn., the record reads, " This A.ssembly do 
 
 establish Giles Mei-s to be Lieutenant of the ist 
 
 Co., or trainband, in the 2:,rd Regiment in this 
 
 State." The date of this entry on the record is 
 
 ^lay, 1777, and is the only record we have been 
 able to discover touching upon his military career. 
 There is some tradition that he served in the 
 United States Army, but this could not be sub- 
 stantiated. He lived most of his life in Middle- 
 town at all events, and died there, flis grave 
 and that of his second wife, Anna,' are in the 
 Mortimer Cemetery, in Middletown, Conn. See 
 illustration. In the old Cemetery, hack of 
 Indian Hill Cemetery, also at Middletown, is the 
 Uct. 13, grave of Experience Allen, his tirst wife, with 
 176S. headstone in a good state of preservation. He , 
 
 Junes, m. ist Experience Allen. 2nd Anna Pinto, wh,, Sent-.--- 
 
 •777- d. aged So. -^cpt. .^.. i , , ^,. 
 
 •^ Sept. 25. i.S^s. 
 
36 
 
 Mi-.H.s Gkm-.aludv. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. 198 — Klizalietli. 
 
 No. 199 — Giles. 
 
 No. 200 — Hannah. 
 
 Nil. 201 — Lucy. 
 
 m. Allen Southniavd, of MitUile- 
 
 town, Conn. 
 
 No. 202 — Anna. 
 
 ni. Josei>li Boardman, "f Middle- 
 town, Conn. 
 
 N". 2o_^ — Giles. 
 
 No. 204 — Hainiah. 
 
 No. 205— Sally. 
 
 ni. Kicliard Rand, of .Middletoun, 
 
 Conn. 
 
 No. 206— Mehitable. 
 
 m. Noah Porter, of FarminKton. 
 See App.2o5. 
 
 BORN . 
 
 Jii!\ 1 1, 1769. 
 F'eb. 14, 1771. 
 April 13, 1772- 
 Feb. 26, 1775. 
 
 Mar. 19, 177S. 
 
 July 22, 1779. 
 
 Sept. 27, 17S1. 
 
 Jan. 23, 17S5. 
 
 Oct. 13, i7-*^fc'- 
 
 I )ct. 14, 1775. 
 July 8, 1779. 
 
 Sept. 12, 1822. 
 
^IXTH Gexkka 
 
 riii.x. 
 
 37 
 
 MAJOR JOHN MEJGS AND WIFE. 
 
 MARRIED 
 
 Jan. i,s. 
 17S1. 
 
 No. 97-Ma|ur juhn Mei-s, of Hartfnni, Cnn, sm, 
 of (29) Return, of Mi,l,lK-town. Conn. In Revo- 
 lutionary War: Ensign Jan. ,. ,--- , Adjutant 
 April 22. 1778: Lieut, in Caleb 
 Bull's Co. May 16, i77,s : Captain 
 in Col. .S. H. Webb's 3rd Rei;!- ^ ' 
 
 nient of Connecticut Line fniin 
 17S1 to the end of iJu- war. 
 Served as Lieutenant, Captain 
 and Brigade Major in Re.>.;ular 
 Army, and was in war of 1 s i 2. See 
 App. 97. Was pensioiieil nndei- 
 the Act of iSiS. m. Elizabeth 
 
 Henshaw. « ho after his death was 
 
 pensioned as his widow. See 
 
 illustrations. ffe was buried ,it 
 
 New Hartford, where his tomb 
 
 stone stands as a monument nf 
 
 simplicity as well as marking the 
 
 grave of an otticer of the Revo- 
 
 lutiiiii. See illustration. 
 
 -f 
 
 1*1 e nil 'r~y of 
 
 JOHN MEIGS 
 
 yin Officer of the fievolution 
 
 yflxn d ied. 
 ^ Tio-r. 24^.1826. 
 
 \S2h. 
 
38 
 
 Mar. 8, 
 
 1S27. 
 Nov. 2, 
 1809. 
 
 1782. 
 
 MkH'.S ("iENK.M.OCY. 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. 207— KeUirn John (iiniii.u ritd) 
 
 No. 20S— Beiijaiiiin Heiishaw. 
 No. 209 — Elizabeth Lord. 
 No. 210— Richard MoiUgoinery. 
 No. 211— Sarah Maria. 
 
 111. ErasUis Wilh.inis, M. 1'. 
 
 No. 212— Esther Lopez. 
 
 111. ist, Solomon Liisk. 
 2nd, Thomas Lee. 
 
 No. 213— Joseph Henshaw. 
 
 No. 214 — George Lonl. 
 
 No. 98-Prof. losiah MeiRS, of Washington, D. 
 C. son of (291 Return of Middletown, Conn.,— 
 b' A. Yale College t7;,S, Later was Professor at 
 Yale-and ist I'resident nf tlic Cniversity of 
 Georgia ; Commissioner (^.eneral uf Land Othce, 
 Washington, D. C, etc. See App. No. gS, and 
 illustration below. m. Clara, daughter of t ol. 
 John Bcniamin, of Stratford, Conn. 
 
 BonN 
 
 
 DIED. 
 
 
 Aug. 30. 
 
 17S2. 
 
 Aug. 10, 
 
 1851. 
 
 
 
 at Augusta 
 
 Ga. 
 
 Mar. 27, 
 
 1784. 
 
 Dec. II, 
 
 1818. 
 
 Dec. 8, 
 
 ■785- 
 
 Apr. 28, 
 
 1792- 
 
 Aug. 8, 
 
 17S7. 
 
 Jan. 12, 
 
 18S4. 
 
 Mar. 28, 
 
 17S9. 
 
 Mar. 25, 
 
 1865. 
 
 Feb. 24, 
 
 1791- 
 
 Mar, iS, 
 
 1S65. 
 
 May IS, 
 
 1793- 
 
 Oct. 21 
 
 18S0 
 
 Feb. 28, 
 
 1796. 
 
 Nov. 23 
 
 1857 
 
 r^ 
 
 T -7 C"7 . 
 
 
 1822 
 
 IMiologKiplied from snuill uil i...vli.ol 111 1 
 
 PROF JOSIAH MEIGS 
 
 „,^,,..M..n ..1 Mrs. WI.Mples, daii. or(2i2) Esther L. Mcig 
 
Six I II {", 
 
 i;\i:i';.\ii()\. 
 
 CHILDREN, 
 
 No. 215 — Henry. 
 
 No. 216— Chira. 
 
 ni. Hun. John Forsyth, ofCeorgia, 
 .Secretary of State under I'resi- 
 dents Jackson and \'an }?uren. 
 
 No. 217 — Julia. 
 
 No. 21S— Samuel William. 
 
 No. 219— Charles Delucena, M. I). 
 
 No. 220 — Sea. (Born at sea.) 
 
 No. 221— Julianna. 
 
 No. 222 — Ezra Stiles. 
 
 No. 223— John Benjamin. 
 
 Oct. 2S, 1782. 
 Sept. iS, 17S4. 
 
 April I, 17X7 
 Dec. I. 17SS 
 Feb. 19, 1792 
 May 19, 1794, 
 July iS, 1795 
 Aug. S, iSoi 
 June, i.SoS, 
 
 Sept. 28, No. 105— Timothy Meigs, of E. C.uilf.jrd, Cunu., 1751. 
 
 1773. son of (3;,) Deacon Timothy, of E. Cuilford. m, 
 
 EHzabeth Stone. 
 
 X- ,, CHILDREN. 
 
 No. 224— .Mary. 
 
 m, Benjamin Hart. 
 No. 225— John French, 
 No. 226— Elizabeth, 
 
 m, John Morse H.ill, See illustri 
 
 tion. 
 
 M 
 
 ly 2. 1775. 
 
 .Aug. 2, 1776. 
 Dec. 25, 177S. 
 
 39 
 
 Dieo. 
 May 20, 1861. 
 
 Oct, 21, 1S41, 
 
 Oct, 26, 17.S7. 
 July 21, iSiS. 
 June 22, 1S69, 
 May — 1794. 
 July iS, iSoS, 
 1S42. 
 
 1S27. 
 May 2;,, 1.S42. 
 
 .'\pril 15, 1836. 
 
 
 ELIZABETH MErGS HALL 
 
40 
 
 MAFIRICD 
 
 Ml'.lGS (iKNKAI.OC.V. 
 CHILDREN CONTINUED. 
 
 BORN 
 
 No. 227-Hannah. M^'>- '^' ''^^^■ 
 
 111. Curtis Wilcox. 
 
 No. 22S-Al,ioail. J^"- 23- 1785. 
 
 , ,. . Feb I7QI. N<.>V. 2, I79I 
 
 No. 22y— Anna Statiia. '^'^"- ■ '/y- 
 
 Mar. 2S, No. 108— J, iliii Mei^s. of Rochester, Mass., son of i7,V^- '79>- 
 
 1761. (361 Elicnczcr 2ini, of Rocltestcr. m. Alice 
 
 Dexter. 
 
 ^""-°''"'- An,.:7,i76.. Inmlancy. 
 
 No. 2:;o — (.ideon. -""n- '/. / 
 
 No. 2;-F.ph,a,ni. Nov. n, .765. Sept. 6, 1S.8. 
 
 No. 2V-Caleb. '-"-b. S, 1767. ■«'4-.5. 
 
 No. 233-J..seph. Sept. 11, :776. Sept. 23, .S46. 
 
 No. 110— El)enezer Meit;s, :-.rd. of Rocliester, 
 
 /.-> 
 
 6. 
 
 Fell. 17. Mass., son of ( ;,6 ) Ehenezer 2iui, of Rochester. 
 1765. m. ist, >fercy Cnnvell, of Chatliaiii, Mass. 
 
 211(1, I'ersis Robinson. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. 2:,4-Rel.ecca. -l-"'- -^'^ '"^• 
 
 ni. Reuljen Tinkliani. 
 
 No. 235-Ehenezer. J"""^ "' '""■ 
 
 No. 236-Robinson. ^'•^'^■- '4. 1774- 
 
 No. 2^,7-Anson. ^^^y^'' '"6. 
 
 No. 23S-Reuben. ^^^'- ='• '779- 
 
 No. 239-John. J""*^ '7' '7S2- 
 
 No. 240-Mary Ann. ^I^""- ^- '784. 
 
 ni. David Lynn. 
 
 No. 24.-Jabez. Dec. .1,1786. 
 
 No. 242-Snsanna. J'l"- 29. '789. 
 
 111. WayuKiulh. 
 
 Oct. No. 113— Nathaniel Mei^s, of Rochester, Mass., 
 
 1764. son of (36) Ebenezer 2nd, of Rochester, m. ist. 
 
 July 23, Lucy Cushint;, of Marshfield, Mass. 2nd, Han- 
 
 1769.' nah' Holmes. 3rd, Mary Wyatt, of Falmouth, 
 
 May 24, Mass. See App. i 1 3-1^- 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. 24^,-Hannah. (See .\pp. 243.) Oct. 17, .778. Oct. 16, 1852. 
 
 ni. Isaac Bra..g. Sept., ,780. Ang. 4, 1844. 
 
 No. 244 — Abigail. 
 
 in. David Lampson. 
 
 No. 245-Nathaniel. M'-"-- ■*• '7S.V 
 
 No. 246-Ebene/er. ^'«^''- '9. '785- 
 
 No. 247— Keziali. 
 
 ni. Brown. 
 
UARRICO 
 
 BOHN. OlEO. 
 
 174-'- 1S24. 
 
 Sixth Gknkkation. 
 
 No. 119— Matthew Mcius, of Sandwich, Mass., son 
 of (,sSi Renhen, of Barnstable, Mass. m. lean 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 .\o. 24,S— Hannah, (l/nniarriecl.) May 2-, 1-6S 
 
 She and her brother, Jonathan, 
 kept honse tosether and lived to 
 be almost one hundred \ears old, 
 dying about 
 
 No. 249— Ansel. ,^ . 
 
 Oct. 22, 1769. _ 
 
 No. 250— Asa. , ■, 
 
 '^P'll 29, 1774- 
 
 .No. 251— Jonathan. (Unmarried.) ,Mar i- ,—6 
 
 No. 252— Rebecca. ' ' " " ' 
 
 ni, .-\bner Hoxie, of Sandwich, 
 
 Mass. 
 
 41 
 
 Jnne i, r7,So. 
 
 No. 120— Ralph Meigs, of Sandui.h, Ma.ss., son of 
 
 (.v^) Reuben, of Barnstable, .^^ass. Was Lieuten- 
 May II, ant in Revolutionary War and War of i,Si2. 
 1769- m. Temperance Crocker, of Barnstable, Mass. Auy i,S- 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. 253— Deborali. 
 
 m. Ezekiel Crocker. 
 No. 254— Zyl|ihia. 
 
 m. Lemuel Jones, of Barnstable, 
 
 Mass. 
 No. 255— Mercy. 
 
 ni. Reuben Crocker, of Barnstable, 
 
 .Mass. 
 
 No.256-Seth. J.S3 j„„e 29, .S62. 
 
 No. 257-Josiah. .Sept. 10, ,851. 
 
 1855- 
 
 
 
 . < '■ i 
 
 -2c,,V,\, 
 
 '^.1 
 
 
 t^ r. . ~j^ „ e; "\^^ 
 
 H 
 
 •a^-'-^^; ■, 
 
 
 
 rVfXrv 
 
 
 Feb. 23, No. 123— Benjamin Meigs, of Falmouth, Mass., 
 1766. son of (39) Joseph, of Falmouth. See App. 12;,. 
 
 ni. Ruth Jenkins. 
 
 1741. 
 
 No 125— Jabez Meigs, of Falmouth, Mass.. son 174s. 
 
 of ( 39 j Joseph, of f 
 1768. Susanna Dimmock. 
 
 Nov 24, of (39) Joseph, of Falmouth. See Apii. 12s. 111. 
 
MEies Oenealogy. 
 
 SIXTH GENERATION. 
 
Si:\H.\rii (;i:xi:k 
 
 \ 1 ION. 
 
 43 
 
 MARRIED. 
 
 '77,v 
 
 Seventh g e n e ration. 
 
 How shall \vi Li<i: those ijohk-, uho dis.i;ra.i.- 
 Their lineage iiroud ofaii illustrious race? 
 Who seek to shine by borrowM lights aloni.-, 
 N,.r wilh their fatlu-rs' s;lories liK-ii.l their own > 
 
 — c'l/r.yti/^ lir.fiial. 
 
 No. 128— Dr. Abner .Meios, of Claremont, N. H., 
 son of 141 I Dr. John 5th. in. Sarah, descendant 
 of Capt. John Chinch, of Hcthlehein, Conn. 
 
 747- 
 
 1.S24. 
 
 CHILDREN, 
 
 Nu. 25,S— Dr. Jdhii, 6th. 
 
 I>. ill Claremont, X. H. .1. in 
 
 I.ynilon, \'ernioiit. 
 No. 259 — Hem.m. 
 
 li. in Claremont. 
 Xii. 260 — Lorenzo, 
 
 of Claremont, N. H,, moved to 
 
 Malone, \. ^■. 
 
 No. 261 — .Vnsoii. / . 
 
 No. 262— Church, iinm,irrieil. , ' "'""• 
 
 No. 263— Sarah. 
 
 No. 264 — Keliecca. 
 
 1774- 
 
 June y, ly.Si. 
 >Iar. I, i7,S5. 
 
 Oct. 9, 1788. 
 Oct. 9, 1788, 
 
 < )ct. 21 , 1.S22. 
 
 May 21, 1.S57. 
 Oct. 16, 1S57. 
 
 All;.;, i.s, i,S5i. 
 Mar. 9, i,S4y. 
 
 i7.Sfi. No. 132— Dr. Phineas .Meigs, son of (41 ) Dr. John 
 
 5th. m. Sarah, dan. of Capt. Isaac Tomhnson, of 
 Woodbury, Conn., who afterward m. Rev. (ohn 
 Griswold of Paulet, V't. Dr. Phineas inacticed in 
 Bethlehem, Conn. 
 
 1 760. 
 
 I7C\S- Dec. 
 
 I !505. 
 I,S56, 
 
 CHILDREN 
 
 No. 265 — loini. 
 
 No. 266 — Benjamin (."l.irk. 
 
 No. 267 — Samuel. 
 
 No. 268— Charles. 
 
 Oct. 26, 17S7. 
 
 Aug. 9, I7,S9. 
 
 April 27, 1791. 
 
 Oct. 25, 179;,. 
 
 J-tec. :;i, i,So2. 
 
 May 12, 1762, 
 
 .April 10, 1 855, 
 
 Aug. ,s. No. 135— I'hineas Meigs, son of ( 45 ) Ezekiel, 
 i7''^,i- of Catskill, \. Y. He also Hved at Fishkill 
 
 and Hamilton, N. Y. m. Susanna Winslow, 
 
 at Hardwicke, Mass. 
 
 I7,S9- 
 
 1S20. 
 
44 
 
 Mr':i(.s G|'.m:ai.()(;v. 
 
 MARRIED. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 About No. 269— Sallie. 
 
 ,80^ m. Keubeii Sanderson, nf Mass. 
 
 d. at Sangerslield, N. ^ . 
 
 No. 270— P^lislia. 
 
 (b. at Middletciwn, Conn.) 
 
 No. 271— Harriet. 
 
 No. 272— Harriet. 
 
 m. Hezekiali Thayer, "f New 
 
 Hampshire. 
 
 April 2S, No. 273— I'olly. 
 
 ,S]0. ni. Peter I.. Donaldson. 
 
 No. 274— Nanc\. 
 
 No. 275— Gilbert. 
 
 No. 276 — W'inslow. 
 
 April 14, No. 277— Snsan. 
 
 1840. ni. He/.ekiali Tha\er. (2nduife.) 
 
 No. 278— F.Ii/.a. 
 
 No. 279— William. 
 
 No. 2S0 — Louisa. 
 
 Jan. 27, 17S5. Jan. 24, iSis. 
 
 Ian. 8, 1786. Sept. 22, 1839. 
 
 April II, 17S8. 
 May 31, 1789. 
 
 June 2, 1791. 
 
 Feb. 4, 1793. 
 
 Mar. 9, 1796. 
 
 -Mar. II, 179S. 
 
 Aug. 31, 1799. 
 
 Mar. 3, 1803. 
 
 Feb. 25, 1S06. 
 
 Jan. 2, 1809. 
 
 .\ui;. 15, 1788. 
 May 25, 1838. 
 
 Jan. 8, 1855. 
 .'Xpril I, 1822. 
 
 Frobablj- in 
 
 (4iildhot)d. 
 
 May 25, 1S39. 
 
 Feb. 25, 1S52. 
 
 Dec. 15, 1857. 
 
 Oct. . 
 1774- 
 
 No. i42^Sylvanus Meii<s, of East Guilford, ("unn., 
 son of (49) S)'lvanus, of E. Guilford. Was in tlio 
 Revolutionary War. — " Connecticut Men in tin- 
 Revolution " says, ■' he enlisted Eeb. 5. 1777, died 
 He m. Sibe Parmalee, but we have not found 
 any children of the marriage recorded. 
 
 Mar. 24. 177S. 
 
 Nov. 
 i7''^,i. 
 
 No. 143 — Nathan Meigs, of East Guilford, Conn., 175.S. 
 
 son of (51 ) Nathan of E. Guilford, has a record of 
 service in the Revolutionuiy war. Imiiiii iV-nsion 
 Office, Washington, and .Adjt. General's of Con- 
 necticut, at Hartford, attested copies of his service 
 have been secured, and will be found in App. No. 
 14'v He m. Mabel Parnielee, who was granted a 
 pension as his widow in iS.^i^- about 175''. 
 
 1810. 
 
 Dec. 12, 1843. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. 2S1 — Joy. 
 
 No. 282 — Isaac. 
 Dec. 28, No. 283— Sallie. 
 1806. ni. Abel Kimberley. 
 
 No. 2S4— F'reilt-rii k. 
 
 July 6, 1785. Dec. 1S43. 
 
 July 3, 1787. April 29, 1S47. 
 
 1789. Aug. 30, 182S. 
 
 1790. 
 
MARRIED 
 
 Skx-kntii G]:\kkati().n. 
 
 No. 146-AbcI Mei-s, of Madison. Co,,,,., su„ of 
 (5-^ I Khas of Ea.st (-.uilfo,-d. Was a pfn.sione,-froi„ 
 -\ew Haven Co., Con,,., and his name is amon.u 
 men «i,o served f,-on, Conn.. i,ui i,i,s service is not 
 foun.i in Pensi.,n Office at Washington. ,„. De- 
 Iioj-ah Carter. 
 
 45 
 
 BORN oiEO 
 
 '7'',S. i,S4;,. 
 
 I7'i7. 
 
 Dec. IS, i,S55. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. 285— ,\nson H. 
 
 No.aS6-An„ Sept. .4, ,796. .Ma, . 24, „S,S,. 
 
 -J|.n,id<;,-isuoM, „rM.,.l,so„, J""<^-'''"99- April, o.,8;8. 
 
 May 29, No. 3S7-Rad!ei' Mar. 4,180,. Jtn.e 9, .874. 
 
 •83'- ".. George W. Pil„i,„ Au,. ,2, ,8,,,. < -C. 30, 1S74. 
 
 M„ ,cc r,- p . ■ l-eh. 27, 18.1. April 9, ,,S7Q. 
 
 .Mo. 2,S8— IJias I'.eniami,,. k- „ ' -> /y 
 
 No. 2S9— Phiiieas. 
 
 Nov. ,;„ i8o,v jail. 3, 1S78. 
 
 No! ;90-Cor„dia. I'-.:, ,805. Ma,. ,9, ,87. 
 
 n,. Houeil. l'el..29, ,So8. z862. 
 
 No. 29i^Nathai,. 
 No. 292— Joseph F. 
 
 I'VIi. 9, 1810. 
 April 9, IS, 2. .Ap,il 30, ,,S9,s. 
 
 No. 15s -.Samuel Mei.^s, of K. Guilfo.d, Co,,,, 
 .son of ,551 Feh.x. of Kast (iuilfo.d. m S ,liv 
 Nash. ^ 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 No. 293— James Harvev. 
 
 .No. 294— Sallie. 
 
 111. Wyllis havitlsoii. 
 
 No. 150 .Seit^l. l!enja,i,i„ .Stone Meigs, of St. Al- 
 lans and Hiyhoate, W.. son of (62) Nathaniel, of 
 Sundei-land and Guilford, Vt., was probai^l^- l„,ri, 
 in Guilford, Conn., as recrd ,,f his hirth is' found 
 there. His service in th<- Revolvtionary War from 
 1777 as a |.,-ivate, to 17.S1 as a Seroeant, is re- 
 corde.i in Pension Office at Washington; and he 
 was also kn,,\v„ lo have shared the privations of 
 the winter at Valley Fo,-ge. (See App. , y>. ) 
 m. Roxalanz B. Chitted 
 
 17.S.: 
 
 len. 
 
 CHILDREN 
 
 i75>'^- No\-. 10, i,S;;6. 
 
 No. 295— Be„ia,iii„. 
 
 X' ,.,;., 1790. Nov. 20, 1856. 
 
 No. 296— Nathan, el. * 
 
 No. 297— Lather. «r r 
 
 ., ' , , May 26, 1792. I.'el,. 6, iSf,,. 
 
 No. 29.S— John. 
 
 No. 299— I.iimas. 
 
 No. 300— Hannah. 
 
 i860. 
 795- ,875. 
 
 „. u A , ■ '^°3- Aug. 4. iSs3. 
 
 ,11. Harry .\sselt,,ie, ol .Suaaton ■ -* 
 
 falls, \i. 
 
46 
 
 Ml:ll.-^ GiNi'-Ai.iii.N. 
 
 Sept. 
 I S04. 
 
 BORN. 
 
 DIED 
 
 N... i6l-l)anul r.ishn,, Mriys, ..f Si. All.ans, Vt., 1 7^,V '^^'>- 
 
 son of (62) Nathanic-1. of (Inilfnnl, \l., was our ..f 
 
 thi- earliest settlers of St. AUians, am! one of ihe 
 
 foremost men of his day. His servi.e in the 
 
 Rt-volutionary War is a matter of record in the 
 
 Adjutant Cen'eral-s othce of the State of \'ermont. 
 
 For this and other facts of interest see A])]). No. 
 
 i(, I. m. 1 Inlda llrownson. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. 301— John. 
 No. 302— Loraine. 
 No. 303 — Guy. 
 
 July 12, 1791. Sept. 4, 186.S. 
 
 No. 304— Brownson. 
 
 ,, ,^ • 1 April 27, i.Soi. Dec. 19. if''''- 
 
 No. 305— Daniel. 
 
 1793- 
 
 1796. 
 
 April 27, i.Soi 
 
 1X54. 
 ]S6S. 
 
 l^^S.s. 
 
 March, iSiy. 
 
 No. 166— Whum- Mei-s, of Shellunne. Vt., son 17: 
 
 uf (661 I.mna .v-d, of Salisl.nrv, Conn. m. Char- 
 lotte Crennell. dau-hter of Daniel Crennell. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 , ,, ,, . ,Mar. II, iSoi. Sept. 15, 1832. 
 No. 306— Marv Maria. 
 
 ,-,. ■ ,^ ,■ Dec. 19, 1.S03. Aug- 29. 1^29. 
 
 No. 307— Khza hnielme. 1 e . y, j , „., 
 
 No. 3oS-Mvroii Marcelhis. ^"8- ^5. ' S ■ 
 
 ni. Lucy 1'. ( Baldwin ) Woo.irutI, July 23, 1807. J-^"- ^ ■■^^=- 
 
 widow of Joseph Woodruff, of 
 Newark, N.J. No children. 
 
 No. 309— Caroline Leinira. 
 
 No. 310— .Mice Acelia. 
 
 No. 311 — Daniel Greiniell. 
 
 No. V2— Alice .Acelia 2ud. 
 
 May 5, 1S07. Jan. iS, 1S71. 
 
 Dec. 12, 180S. In infancy. 
 
 Nov. 18, 1811. Oct. 30, 1850. 
 
 June 10, 1S14. July 27, 1S51. 
 
 Feb. 4, 1816. Mar. 3, 1S96. 
 
 No. 3.3-< -orge Anson 4 ^^_^^ _ ^^^^_ 
 
 No. 314— Alinira Charlotte. 
 
 S, No. 1O7- |ohn .Mei-s. of Alhanv 
 
 ,6g) Seth, ..f Alhanv. Was a prominent man in 
 public affairs for many years; is frequently re- 
 f.rre.l to in Alhanv Annals as High Cimstable, etc. 
 On the first trip of the railway locomotive and 
 passenger cars, Aug. o, iS;,i, as shown in illustra- 
 tion, .\pp. 1(17. Albany history mentions Major 
 |ohn Meigs as one of the guests. He removed 
 from Alhanv about 1S55. and died at Jamaica, 
 Long Island. He m. Hannah Kugler, dau. of 
 Matthew Kugler, of Alhanv, who was born Mar. 
 22. 17S4. See .Api'. l''7- 
 
 X. v., son of 17^4- ''^^S- 
 
S i:\K\rH C 
 
 I'XIl; AlldX. 
 
 47 
 
 MAJOR JOH N MEIGS, 
 Of Albany, N V . 
 
 CHILDREN 
 
 MARRIED- 
 
 
 
 
 i\'o 
 
 315 — Mai\ .\nn. 
 
 Oct, S, 
 
 \o 
 
 .^16— .Sally Anil. 
 
 1829. 
 
 
 ni. Willi. nil .A. Myhtln 
 baiu'. N. \'. 
 
 
 No. 
 
 317— Charles Neuinuii. 
 
 
 No. 
 
 31S— Matthew Kii,u|er. 
 
 
 Xi). 
 
 No. 
 
 31S — Iiiseph. / ... . 
 3I9-lsal,ell.,. ^ '"'"-■ 
 
 
 No. 
 
 321 — .Mai.i^aret. 
 
 
 No. 
 
 322— 1 lenrielta. 
 
 111. ,'\lex. \ati Jiiiren, ot 
 X. V. 
 
 
 No. 
 
 323— John Jr. 
 
 
 No. 
 
 324 — Isaac \an Loan. 
 
 
 No. 
 
 3^5— I'-li^al.ieth. 
 
 111. .\loii/i> Kane, of Mi 
 Wis. 
 
 BORN . 
 
 luiie 19, iSi)5. 
 June 10, 1.S07. 
 
 Sept. 9. 1.S09 
 
 Fell. 5, 1.S12 
 
 M.ii. !••. 1S14 
 M.ir. In, 1.S14 
 
 -M.ir 2,s, 1S13 
 
 .Se|il. I, 1S17 
 
 I )ec. 2S, i,Si9. 
 -April 24, 1.S22. 
 I'eli. 27, 1S26. 
 
 Kv.uikee. 
 
 Oct. th, |,S,S7. 
 .\pril .S. j,S79. 
 
 I )ec. 21 , 1.S9.S. 
 
 Oct. 9, i.S,S9. 
 
 M.ir. Ill, 1.S14. 
 Mar, 29, 1S14. 
 
 .Mar. 2S, 181.S. 
 
 I >ec. 25, i,S7(i. 
 
 .Sept. 2, iSgi. 
 Sept. 9, 1S54, 
 I lee. 21, I.Sgl. 
 
48 
 
 Mki<;s Gf.nkai.()(;v. 
 
 MARRIED. 
 
 Jan. 1, 
 1795- 
 
 No. i68— Deacon Phineas Meigs, of Madison, 
 Conn., son of (Si ) Captain Jehiel 2nd, of E. Cuil- 
 ford, Ct. Deacon in 2nd Church and Society of 
 Cuillonl from Sept. 4, 1806, to his death. Rep- 
 resented Madison in Legislature iS;,5. App. 16S. 
 m. Concurrence Lord. No children. 
 
 1769. 
 
 1S,S'- 
 
 OLD MEIGS HOUSE, BUILT IN 1740. NOW VERMONT HOUSE. 
 
 D.ac.n H,u,.as MCKS ow.uM .l,,-. .u,d .M,l i. al..... ... ^ -..ly-h w ^ ears ag., 
 
 j^Q_. 174— Daniel Meigs, of Augusta, Ga., son of (S;,) 
 
 Sergt. Daniel, of East Guilford ;- Probably 
 the sons of Sergt. Daniel went South with the 
 Hands, (one of whom m. the daughter of Sergt. 
 Daniel,) who were prominendy identified with 
 merchandizing in (^.eorgia for many years. Daniel 
 died from an accident caused by falling from his 
 horse. Hem.inSt. Augu.stine, Fla., Eliza Betsey 
 Seraphina Saunders, daughter of Anthony 
 Saunders, of Charleston, S. C. 
 
 1779- 
 
 1826. 
 
 Nov. 2, 1 85 1. 
 
Skvkxth ('.i:.\ I- ration. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 Bl 
 
 .NO. 326— Kliza .Anil (d. single). 
 
 No. 327— Mary Elizabeth Kvelin.i I'.uilin.i 1 )c 
 
 Graiiimont De Ressij;nan. 
 
 I", ist Rice. 
 
 m. 2nd Arnoiix, 
 
 who d. in Cmifederate Army. 
 No. 32S— John. 
 No. 329— Artemisia. 
 
 No. 330— Julia. j^„ 
 
 No. 331— Consolation. 
 No. 332— Daniel Joseph (blind) nnni.irried. 
 
 49 
 
 
 <l. yoiinj; 
 
 1810. 
 
 Oct. — , 1S16, 
 
 ISI3. 
 
 Jan. — , i,Si3, 
 
 ISI7. 
 
 May — , 1819. 
 
 IN24. 
 
 Nov. 27, i,S45. 
 
 I84S. 
 
 April 2, No. 181-John Mc-io-s. uf E. Guilford, Conn., son ,773. 
 
 i.'^oi. of (,S4) Elihu, of E. (iuilford. m. Mary Field, 
 
 a descendant of John Field, Royal Astronomer. July 27, i.s^.s 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 Nov.LS, No. 33,^-l.ovi.sa. Jan. 5, ,802. 
 
 May 2, 187.S. 
 
 '^^24. m. Heacon Zenas VVilco.x. Oct. 20,' 1791. Mar. 4,' 1S73 
 
 No. 334-1 )avid Rich. Dec. :, ,803. Mar. 26, i.Sgi. 
 
 No. 335-Kdward Morrison. Mar. 25, 1S05. Aug. i, 1867. 
 
 No. 336-Mary Ann. ju,,^ 6_ ,80^ 0^j_ ^^^ ^S 
 
 ni. Lay VV. Pratt, and 2nd VVil- 
 
 loughby Williams of Esse.x, Conn. 
 
 No. 337_Abigail Field. May 14, ,809. Feb. ,6, ,,882. 
 
 No. 338-Emeline. Mar. 8, iSii. .Sept. 25, 1S41. 
 
 No. 339— John Morrison. Mar. 15, 1813. 
 
 No. 340-Flizaheth. April 9, 1S15. Feb. 7, iSSi. 
 ni. Geo. 1.. Post. 
 
 No. 341-Jehiel. Sept. 14, ,8,7. Nov. 18, 1842. 
 
 No. 342— Timothy Alfred. Jan. 29, 1820. 
 
 No.343-HenryJosiah. Oct. 29, 1S23. Fee. iS, 1,897. 
 
 son. 
 
 No. 183 — Benjamin JJart Meigs, of Madist 
 Conn., son of ( ,S4 ) I<:iihu, of E. Guilford, ni. Eliza 
 Clark, of Sayhrook, Conn., ,uid jiul C\iithia 
 Hawley. 
 
 CHILD. 
 
 No. 344— iSFortimer C. 
 
 Sept. 3, No. i84--Elihu .Meigs 2nd. of E. Guilfortl, Conn., i7,So. 
 
 1801. son of (84 I Elihu, of East Guilford, m. Jernsha 
 
 C. Pratt. 
 
 1806. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. 345— Elihu 3rd. Oct. 29, 1803. Feb. 20, 18. 
 
 No 346— Jabez Pratt. Dec. 27. 1S05. Feb. 9, 18S1 
 
 oo- 
 
50 
 
 MkH.S GKNKAl.tW.V. 
 
 MARRIED. 
 Nov. !■ 
 I S I 1 . 
 
 No. 187— Ediiuiiul Mr|.;s, (.f lIcilKirt, N. V., sen 
 (if (S4) Elihu, of E. (kiilfonl. Conn. Was an cn- 
 tL'ipi-isinK and energetic man. A merchant and 
 manufacturer at Hobart and Holland I'atenl, at 
 which latter place he and many of the family are 
 buried, m. Uetsy Ann Foote, a cousin of Rev. 
 Henry Ward Heecher's mother. 
 
 17S6. 
 
 1.S56. 
 
 June 14, i.Ssi. 
 
 Jan. I, 
 1834- 
 Ant;. 20, 
 i8;,4. 
 
 May 14, 
 1S46. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. 347— F.lizabetli A<.\<i. 
 
 111. R. I . Emiiioiis. 
 
 Xo. 348 — Emilia .\iiii. 
 
 [ 111. Dr. Samuel H. Case, of Oiie- 
 oiita, a practitioner there lor over 
 60 years. Their son, Dr. Meii;s 
 Case, served as .SiirL;eoii in 43rd 
 N. ^■. \'ols. in war of the Keliel- 
 lion for nearl\ three years " in 
 (he lielil." 
 
 No. 349~Lucreti.i .\ngnsta. 
 
 111. J. C. Wells. .'\pii. 349- 
 
 No. 350— Beiiianiin Rich. 
 
 No. 351 — Caroline l,o\isa. 
 
 No. 352 — I'.dnnind Foote. 
 
 b. in lloliart, N. ^■. I'.diicated at 
 
 I Delaware .\cadeiiiy in Delhi; 
 
 taushl several years and then 
 
 I published the C.ospel Messenger 
 
 (a iironiineiit ori;aii of the I'rot- 
 
 estaiit Kpiscopal Chun lit. Later 
 
 went to Panama with the Con- 
 
 strui lion Co. of the Railroad 
 
 there, when his health lieconiiiiij 
 
 pernianeiitly impaired, lie came 
 
 back about 1875 and remained in 
 
 Oneoiita until his death. Never 
 
 married. 
 
 No. 353 — Louisa Maria. 
 
 No. 554 — Helen. 
 
 m. I'eytoii R. Slorrs. 
 
 No. 355— Mary. 
 
 No. 356— Cieorge Forsythe. 
 
 ( Cashier in Citizens National Hank 
 J in Fulton for many years, and 
 I held similar responsible positions 
 I elsewhere. <l. at Titusville, Pa. 
 
 Aug. 13, 1S12 
 
 April 19, 1S17. 
 
 Jan. II, 1S19. 
 
 heb. 24, 1821. 
 Sept. 2, 1823. 
 
 .\ug. II, lN25. 
 
 April iS, 1S28. 
 
 May 5, 1830. 
 .-\ug. 16, 1S33. 
 
 Feb. 16, 1S39. 
 
 Mar. 7, 1814. Dec. 11, 1S97. 
 
 Jan. iS, 1892. 
 
 1836. 
 
 Mar. 16, i8y6. 
 
 Jan. 12, 1S3S. 
 
 June 10, 1S35. 
 Mar. 24, 1850. 
 
 April 14, 1850. 
 Oct. I, i86g. 
 
Sf.vknth Gknf 
 
 K.\ I ION. 
 
 MARRIED. 
 
 No. 190— Bezaleel Ives Meigs, of East Berlin. 
 Conn., son of f.S4) Elihu, of E. Guilford, 
 Conn. Was in War of i,Si2, enlisted as 
 private in a troop of Horse, hut obtained a 
 commission as Lieutenant before he was mus- 
 tered out. Service recorded in New Haven 
 and New London, in Elihu Sanford's Regt., 
 Lieut. Abraham Rogers Jr.'s Co. .Sept. 8th 
 to Nov. 15th, 1S14. No further particulars, 
 m. Eliza Dowd, b. in .Albany, N. Y. 
 
 ^o- 357— <-"h'irIes Augustus 
 \o. 358— Nancy .Maria, 
 ^o. 359 — Eihnunil Hand. 
 No. 360— VVilliani Dowd. 
 No. 361— Hiirace Bezaleel 
 No. 362— Benjauiin Hart. 
 No. 363 — Louisa Mari.i. 
 No. 364 — X'inceut Return. 
 No. 365— Elihu l>:i. h. 
 
 1794- 
 
 51 
 
 1.S70 
 
 Ma^ 
 
 '797' 
 
 .Aug. 9, i,S65. 
 
 CHILDREN 
 
 
 
 
 s. 
 
 Oct. 17, iSi.S. 
 
 < let. 6, 
 
 1848 
 
 
 Nov. .s, 182 1. 
 
 -May 15, 
 
 1S22 
 
 
 May 4, 1.S23. 
 
 
 
 
 Aug. 26, 1S25. 
 
 
 
 
 < )ct. 10, 1S29. 
 
 
 
 
 May 15, 1S32. 
 
 .Mar. 
 
 '«3,v 
 
 
 Oct. 3, 1.S35. 
 
 Sei)t. 18, 
 
 1864. 
 
 
 June 24, 183.S. 
 
 Aug. 24, 
 
 1864. 
 
 
 Jan. g, 1S43. 
 
 Jan. 27, 
 
 I.S62. 
 
 R. J. MEIGS. 2nd, 
 
 First Governor of Ohio 
 
 1 765-1 824 
 
52 
 
 Ml:l(,S (iKNKAI.lKlV. 
 
 1788. No. 191 — Gov. Return Jonathan Mei.t;s 2nd, of IJ^S- 1824. 
 
 (Ihio, son of (90) Col. Return J. ist. I^orn in 
 Middletown, Conn. Graduatt-il from Yale College 
 17S3. Admitted to the bar in ijSS. married and 
 went to the wilderness of Ohio, where immediately 
 on the organization of the State Ciovernment he 
 was elected Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, 
 and in 1S04 was made Colonel and Commandant 
 of the upper part of District of Louisiana, and in 
 1805 Judge of the same territory with seat of justice 
 at St. Louis, but his health failing he returned to 
 Ohio in 1S06 and in 1S07 was commissioned Judge 
 of the territory of Michigan. Elected Supreme 
 Judge of Ohio, and Senator of the United States ; 
 twice elected dovernor of the State from 1810 to 
 1814, then Postmaster General in the Caliinet of, 
 President ^L-ldison. See .^ijp. lyi- 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 Al)OUt No. 366— Mary Sophia. Jan. 1,179,5. F"eb. 4, 1.S63. 
 
 1S11-12. Ill- John (i. Jackson, member of 
 
 Congress from \'iri;iiiia. See App. 
 
 366. 
 
 1797- 
 
 No. H)4 — lolin Meigs, of < )hin and Kentucky, son 1771- 1807. 
 
 of (901 Col. Return J. ist. The slight personal 
 history known of him is found in an unfinished 
 letter by his son. .See App. 194. m. Parthcnia 
 Clendenin, of Charles Town. W. \'a. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. 367— Teresa Charlotte. Sept. 17, 179S. 
 
 m. Rev. Fieklins; I'ope, of Marietta, 
 
 Ohio. 
 No. 36S— Ketuni Jon.Uhau 3rd. .April 14, 1801. Oct. 19, 1891. 
 
 Aug. 24, No. 197 — Timothy Meigs, of Charleston, Ten- 
 1806. nessee, son of (90) Col. Return J. 1st. Profjably 
 
 went West with his father in 17.S.S, as he is men- 
 tioned in llildredth's Pioneer History of ( )hio 
 among the residents at Campus .\Iartius, Marietta, 
 Ohio, in the earlv days of its settlement. He 
 
MARRIED. 
 
 S K \- E N T H ( ; I-: .\ I-; K A I- 1 () X . 
 
 was private SL-cretary and/^jntidcntial clerk to his 
 father at South West, 'Tennessee. He married 
 at South West Elizabeth Hoh, daughter of a 
 wealthy farmer from X'irginia, who settled on 
 Sweet Water Creek near Athens, Tenn. Timothy 
 Meigs' family lived on a f,Lrm on Hiawassee River, 
 a few miles above Charleston. 
 
 53 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. 369— Grace Starr. 
 
 111. a. Mr. Calloway, 
 No. 370— Emily StanlieUI. 
 
 Ill, John Walker. 
 Nt). 371 — Eli/a lane. 
 
 111. John H.iwk. 
 No. 372— Return Jonathan. 
 No. 373— Robert Holt. 
 
 Oct. 25, i,So7. 
 
 Oct. 25, i,So8. 
 
 Nov. 19. 1809. 
 
 April 3, 1S12. 
 < )ct. 25, 1S13. 
 
 Aug. 6, 1.S50. 
 Feb. 26, iSg.s. 
 
 Oct. 12, No. 202— Giles Meig.s, of Middletown. Conn,. .s,,n i;;^. 
 
 1805. of (92 ,) Capt. Giles, of Middletown, m. Maod.iJena 
 
 Yates, of .Alb.mv, N. Y. 
 
 1.S22. 
 
 CHILD. 
 
 No. 374— Angelica ^■ates. 
 
 Dec. 3, 1811. 
 
 May KS, No. 208— Henjamin Henshaw Meigs, of New 
 1S09. York, son of (97) Major John, of New Hartford, 
 
 Conn. m. Eleanor \'an Dyke, of New Wnk. 
 
 He was a wholesale druggist in that city. 
 
 17S4. 
 
 iSi.S. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. 375— Jdlin Ausustus \',in Dyke. 
 No. 376 — F-^liza Ann Catherine. 
 
 ni. Ceorge M. Hayuood. 
 No. 377— .Sara ^b^ria. 
 
 ni. Mr. Thoringtiin, of Montguiii- 
 
 erv, Ala. 
 
 May 27, i.Sii. 
 April 19, 1S13. 
 
 Feb. 19, 1.S12. 
 1899. 
 
 Mar, 3, 1815. May 24, 1839. 
 
 Jan. 12, No. 210— Richard Montgomery Meigs, of Albany, 
 1814- N. Y., son of (97) Major John, of New Hartford, 
 
 Conn. m. Maria Keeler, dan. of [ames Keeler, 
 
 of Albany, N. Y. See A|)p. 210. 
 
 18S4. 
 May. i.Sso. 
 
54 
 
 Ml'ICS (iKM-.Al.lxA'. 
 
 Dec. I , 
 
 M-AV. I. 
 IS 27. 
 
 luiie 4, 
 
 I85I. 
 
 RICHARD MONTGOMERY MEIGS. 
 1 787-1 894. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. 37.'^ — M;ina I.ucretia. 
 No. 37y — CaroliiiL- V.. 
 No. 3S0— Aiiiamla Maria. 
 
 in. Isaac C. ( ):.;<len. 
 No. .^Si — |olin llcnshau. 
 
 No. ^■S2 — lanifs Kei-lt r. ( Twins 
 
 No. 5iS;,— Rich. 11(1 .\iii;ustus. \ 
 
 No. 3,S4— Kii hanl. 
 
 Ml. Jane Ilaiul. No chililrcn. 
 
 No. 3.S5— -Sarah M. 
 
 No. 3.S6 — Thaddeiis Ponieroy. 
 
 No. 3S7— Charles Augustus Keeler. 
 
 No. 3.SS — Annie .Spencer. 
 
 No. 213 — Joseph Hcnshaw Meiijs, son of 
 myi Major lolm, of New Hartford, Conn, 
 ni. Harliara I^^. Whiseniant. No chililivn. 
 
 BORN . 
 
 Nov. 14, 1S14. 
 Seiit. 3, 1S16. 
 Jan. 18, iSiS. 
 
 lune i.S, i.Sig. 
 
 June 30, 1S22. 
 June 30, 1S22. 
 
 Mar. 24, 1S24. 
 
 |une 24, 1827. 
 
 Au,n. 6, 1831. 
 
 Aiiril 16, 1.S37. 
 
 luiie 9. 1S39. 
 
 DIED. 
 
 lune 9, 1825. 
 Jan. 31, 1S85. 
 
 May 7, 1865. 
 
 Feb. 24, 1SS8. 
 Feb. 28, 1823. 
 
 1895- 
 
 1858. 
 
 May 18, 179;,. Oct. 21, iSSo. 
 
 No. 214 — Gcoroe fxird ^fei^s. son of {97) Major 1796. 
 
 lohn of New Hartford, Conn. m. Eleanor Holmes, 
 of I\c-\-ii<irt. New jersey. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. 389-|-,lizaheth H. 'M'nl 26, 1S28, 
 
 in. A\ery Dennison. 
 No. 390— Mary Kleanor. J-'"- .?■• '830. 
 
 No. 391 — Kniilv. 
 No. 392 — John 
 
 1857- 
 
 d. early, 
 d. early, 
 d. early. 
 
Si;\E\TH CiKXi:KAII().\. 
 
 55 
 
 HON. HENRY MEIGS. 1782-1861. 
 
 Recording Sen clary uf llic Amtrri, an Institute .ui.l Setiit.iry ol its Karniers' Cluli 
 Member of tlie New \ork Le»isl;Uure : M,-inher ..I Hie ('. S. Congress. 
 
56 
 
 Mkk.s Genkalo(;n. 
 
 MARRIED. 
 
 1 So6. 
 
 No. 215— ludge Henry Meigs, of New York, son 
 of (98) Pnif. Josiah, of VVashinston, D. C. Vol- 
 unteer of the War of 1812; commissioned Adjutant 
 under Col. Willets and served for City defence 
 during entire war ; City Magistrate ; Member of 
 N. Y. Assembly and Member of Congress ; l^resi- 
 dent Hoard of Aklermen ; Secretary of Farmers 
 Club : Recording Secretary of American Institute. 
 See App. 215. m. Julia Austin, of Philadelphia. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. ',9^,— Cl.Lta Forsyth. 
 
 ni. Kichar.l W. Meade. See App. 
 
 No. 394 — Julia A. 
 
 Ml. Walter M. Oddit 
 
 No. 395— Henry. 
 
 No. 396— Theodore. 
 
 No. 397— Cliarles. 
 
 1782. 
 
 1861. 
 
 Api'- .594. 
 
 IS06. 
 
 Feb. 17, 1892. 
 
 IS09. 
 
 1887 
 
 I8I4. 
 
 1893 
 
 IS16. 
 
 1883 
 
 PROF. CHARLES D. MEIGS, M. D. 
 1 792-1 869. 
 
S i';vKNTii G KXf: r a r i ox. 
 
 ^/ 
 
 MARRIE 
 
 Mar. 
 
 1S15. 
 
 April 
 1846. 
 
 16, 
 
 June 
 "1865. 
 
 2.S, 
 
 No. 219— [)r. Charles Dulucena Meigs, of Phila- 
 delphia, I'a., sun of (qS") Prof. Josiah, of \Vashin>;-- 
 toii, D. C. Born in Hernuiila : cciucated in early 
 Hfe in New Haven; >^radnate<l from L'niversity 
 of Georgia and from L'niversity of l^'nnsvlvania 
 in Medicine; a member of the .Medical Society 
 of Pennsylvania; Professor of Obstetrics, etc., 
 in Philadelphia, I^a. See biographical sketch, 
 App. 219. m. Mary Montgomery, dan. of Wilham 
 Montgomery, of Philadelphia. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. 398 — MoiitKoniery Cuiiniiii;liam. 
 No. 399— Charles Dulucena. 
 No. 400— John Forsytli, M. I). 
 No. 401 — William Moiitsoniery. 
 No. 402 — Henry \'incent. 
 No. 403 — Emily .Skinner. 
 
 m. Jonathan Williams i^.iddle. 
 No. 404— William .Montgomery. 
 No. 405 — .Samuel Emien. 
 No. 406— Franklin Haclie. 
 No. 407 — .\hiry Craythorne. 
 
 111. Dr. Harry Carleton Hart, of 
 
 I'hilatlclpliia, Pa. 
 
 1-^)2. 
 
 No. 225 — John French iVIeigs, of Madison, Conn., 
 Feb. 14, son of (105) Timothy 2nd, of Madison, m. ist, 
 1799. Phoebe >forse Hall, .mil 2nd, Prudence, dau. of 
 
 Jose[)h \\'ilco.\. .See .Ap|). 225. 
 
 1.S69. 
 
 May 3. 
 
 1S16. 
 
 Jan. 2, 
 
 1,892 
 
 July 23, 
 
 I.*^i7. 
 
 
 'Sg.T 
 
 Oct. 3, 
 
 iSl.S. 
 
 Dec. 16, 
 
 1.SS2, 
 
 Dec. 31, 
 
 I.S19. 
 
 .Mar. 21, 
 
 1S24, 
 
 June ly, 
 
 I.S21. 
 
 
 1.S97, 
 
 Sept. 29, 
 
 I.S24. 
 
 
 
 .\pril 16. 
 
 1S26. 
 
 Sept. 6, 
 
 1897. 
 
 July 16, 
 
 1S2.S. 
 
 
 
 Nov. 10, 
 
 1829. 
 
 Dec. 25, 
 
 188 1, 
 
 Aug. 9, 
 
 1S3.S. 
 
 
 
 1 8-/1. 
 
 JOHN FRENCH MEIGS 
 1 776-1 836 
 
58 
 
 Mi':ii;s r, F,N'K,Ai.i)(;\'. 
 
 CHILDREN 
 
 MARRIED. 
 
 No. 408 — Sarah Haker. 
 
 111. Rev. Stephen Loper. 
 
 .See App. 4t)S. 
 No. 409 — Timothy Vincent. 
 No. 410 — John Morse. 
 No. 411 — .Saimiel Stone. 
 No. 412 — Mary French. 
 No. 413 — Hannah Ehzabetli. 
 No. 414 — Joseph Josiah. 
 No. 415 — Mary Elizalielh. 
 No. 416 — John I'"reiich. 
 
 Aiij;. 27, iSoo. 
 
 July If), 1S03 
 Se|it. 27, 1.S05 
 
 Jan. 19, 1817 
 
 Dec. 3, 1S13, 
 April 23, i>S2o 
 Sept. 23, iS22 
 
 May 31, 1.S25 
 Jan. I, 1829 
 
 May 17, 1.S26 
 
 Aul;. 21, 1899 
 
 May 6, 1819 
 
 Sept. 16, 1821 
 
 July 24, 1S87 
 
 Jan. 25, 1854 
 
 Sept. 12, 1S29 
 
 Dec. II, No. 231 — I'^phraiiii Meigs, of Rochester, Mass., 1765- 
 
 17^2. soiiof (ici8) |c)hn, of Rochester, Mass. m. Abi- 
 
 gail Snow. 
 
 iSiS. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 Dec. g, 
 1S21. 
 
 No. 417 — .Mice. 
 No. 418— Aliigail. 
 
 ill. Rethiiel l.andis. 
 No. 419 — Sarah. 
 No. 420 — Ephriani. 
 
 No. 421 — .Mary. 
 
 ni. Levi Snow. 
 No. 422 — Joseph. 
 
 Dec. 13, 1793 
 Nov. 3, 1794, 
 
 Oct. 15. 1797 
 
 Jan. 7, 1800 
 
 .Sept. 12, 1S03 
 
 April 28, 1S06 
 
 June 8, iSb2. 
 
 Feb. 2, 1844. 
 
 Oct. 8, 1813. 
 
 April 19, 182S. 
 
 May 2, iSso. 
 
 An^. 31, 180S. 
 
 July 16, No. 232 —Caleb Meigs, of Rochester, Mass., son 
 1798. of (loS) Jc)hn, of Rochester, Mass. m. I'olly 
 
 Parker, tlaii. of William Parker. 
 
 17(17. 
 
 1 8 14. 
 
 CNILDREN. 
 
 Nc. 423— Calel). 
 No. 424 — Amelia. 
 
 Sept. 14, No. 233— Joseph Meigs, of Mattaiioisett. Mass., 
 180S. son of ( io8) John, of Rochester, Mass. .See Ai)p. 
 
 23,;. m. Amelia Loring, of I^embroke, Mass. 
 
 1776. 1846. 
 
 Oct. 15, 1827. 
 
Si- \ I \ I II (', [■'M i; A 1 iio 
 
 59 
 
 JOSEPH MEIGS. 1776-1846 
 
 MARRIED. 
 
 CHILDREN 
 
 Xi>. 425 — Juse|ili. 
 Ni>. 42h — i leliorah. 
 
 Ml. 1 lavid I'lalt. 
 N(i. 427— l.cjrins. 
 N(i. 42S— Chark-s. 
 N'l.). 429 — .Sarah I. mini;. 
 
 111. William W. .Sweat. 
 
 BORN 
 
 .\UU. IN, ISL14. 
 Jan. 7, iSi I. 
 
 Full. 5, 1.S13. 
 
 .'\ii,i;. 2j, 1S16. 
 
 Fell. 2. iSiS. 
 
 DIED 
 ( III. 23. IS4I . 
 
 Fell. 4, kS67. 
 
 hell. 10, iNgg. 
 |ul\ 7, iSiS. 
 
 No. 237 — An.siin Meigs, (if X'assallHini. .Mr., .sdii I77'^- 
 
 of (iio) Ebeiiezer 3rtl, nf Rdcht-stfr, Mass. m. 
 Anna ( Gardner) .Meigs, \\ idtiw ni X.ith.iniel Meigs, 
 (if X'assallHini, Me. 1 .\(i. -451. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 May I, N(i. 4;,o— P.etsy. 
 
 1851. ni. lolin Biiiwn. 
 
 Nci. 431 — Nathaniel. 
 No. 432 — Kdliinson. 
 
 il. at Ke\ West, 1- luriil.i 
 1 'niiiarrieil. 
 
 .\ii;;. 9, i,Sii9. 
 
 Fell. 22, i.Sii. 
 I'eli. 22, i.Si;. 
 
 l.Ss. 
 
 .\.i\. 13, 1.S62. 
 |,in. 2l). 1847. 
 
6o Ml Ids (",i;m:ai,()i.n'. 
 
 MARRIED. 
 
 I7i)i- 
 
 CHILDREN CONTINUED. 
 
 BORN. 
 
 No. 4;,.;— Willi. mi. M:ir. 9, 1816. Feb. 15, 1S91. 
 
 No. 434— Siis.iii. ' 'it. 22, iSiS. 
 
 riiniarried. 
 No. 435^|aiiies. Jan. 24, 1.S21. 1.S47. 
 
 A soldier in Mexii an War. 
 (I. I'nniarried. 
 No. 436— Lydia. l-'el>. 2, I.S24. April 1, ib6o. 
 
 l-'el). 22, No. 437— luiiiiie. Sejit. 16, 1826. Feb. 21, 1.S94. 
 
 1.S4.S. 111. lolin I'erley. 
 
 No. 241 — )alit'Z Wi'iys, (if Windsor, Me., son of 17S6. 
 
 I I 10) MbenezLT ,vi\. of Rorhestcr. Mass. ni. 
 isl, Aliii- Linn. jikI, 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. 438 — lohn. 
 
 No' 439 — n.iiii;hlel who tiled young. 
 
 \\\ Shloni) Wife. 
 
 No. 440 — A son. 
 No. 441 — A son. 
 No. 442 — A son. 
 No. 443 — .A son. 
 
 No. 245- X.ith.micl Mei.us, Jnd. of X'assal- 1783. 
 
 lioro. Ml.'., sun of ( I I ,^ I X.itlianiel, nl 
 
 Kiiciu-ster, Xf.iss, 111. .\iinii- f latrli (j.udncr. Jan. 14, 17S5. 
 
 C HILDREN. 
 
 No. 444— (ddeoii. .I'ily9. '^04- .April iS, 1,890. 
 
 No. 445— Marv Ann, liine 27, 1S06. Aug. 10, 1S77. 
 
 111. Keubeii Hamlin, of.Suutli China, 
 
 Me. 
 
 Jan. 14. No. 24O - l^l)(.iiL'/t.T .\foiiiS, of .Soutli Chiiui, .Mc 17''^5. 1*^45- 
 
 sun of 1 I 1 .1 ,1 Xathaniel, of Rocliostor, Mass. A 
 |)iuiiri-i- in .Simlli ("liina wliile Maine was still a 
 lerritorv lielont;ins; to Massachusetts. 111. Il.in- 
 nali Xortiin. 
 
MARRIED. 
 
 Sl;\ 1 NTH (iKM kATIOX. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. 446— Hannah. 
 
 m. l':iilHi W'ditli, 01 .South China 
 -Mf. 
 
 No. 447— I-~.bene/er. 
 No. 44S— Mary. 
 
 Ne\er married. 
 Ko. 449— Jane G. 
 
 ni. 1st, ICiihiaini l-'aii lield. 
 
 ni. 211(1, Aliner W.eks, hoi h of 
 
 Patten, Me. 
 No. 450— Maria. 
 
 Ne\er inanieil. 
 No 451 — l':ilen iMelin(hi. 
 
 ni. |)a\itl Dnillev, ol I'rescpie Isle 
 
 Me. 
 
 61 
 
 BORN. 
 
 Dec. 2.S, i.Sio. 
 
 I'ec. i,S, i,Si;,. 
 Sept. 7, i.Sis. 
 
 AnK. 7, 1.S18. 
 
 Jan. 24, 1822. 
 Nov. 2, 1827. 
 
 No. 250 Asa Mi-igs, of .San.luich, M.ts.s.. son Mf i;;4. 
 
 (1 19) Matthew, (if Sandwich, ni. P,im(_'ha T:ibt_T, 
 of New Bedford, .Mass. 
 
 CH ILDREN 
 
 No. 452 — .Nancy. 
 
 111. .Arthur Marslon. 
 No. 45.^ — Jean. 
 
 ni. Setli Jones. 
 No. 454— .Ste|iheii Combs. 
 
 111. Roueiia Haii(l\', ol B.ii nst.ilile, 
 
 Mass. No . hihlren. 
 No. 455— .Asa. 
 
 No. 456 — jon.Ltll.Lll. 
 
 No. 457 — H.innah. 
 
 111. 1 1 ii.im Jones. .Slur Iclt siir- 
 vivin.n her se\ en chiklreii; tu eiily- 
 (ine .L;raiKli liiUlren. .iiul twenty- 
 lour sieat grandchildren ; was a 
 woman of wide-spre.ul hospital- 
 it\-, and 111, my were the calls upon 
 i one so willin;;". 
 
 No. 45.S— Rebecca. 
 
 111. Ralph Meigs. (No. 470.) 
 
 July 13, 1.S05. 
 July 16, 1807. 
 Ma\ 17. 1S09. 
 
 .M.iy 19, 1.811. 
 
 July 4, 1813. 
 
 Nov . 2C), 1S15. 
 
 Mar. 18, i.SyS. 
 
 I.S6(j. 
 
 No\ . iS, 1885. 
 .April 15, 1901. 
 
 Oct. 2S, 1S18. 
 
 N()\-. J. No. 256 .Seth .\lcigs. (if .Sandwich, Mass., son of 
 ( 1201 Ralph, (if Sandwich. Was in war of i.Su, 
 and a pensioner for that service, m. Rebecca 
 I-'iiller, of il.irnst.ilile, .Mass. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. 459— florace. 
 No. 46o^Eli/a C. 
 
 I 'nniarried. 
 
 '7'\v 
 
 1862. 
 
 1830. 
 
 I.'^2',. 
 
 .'^epl. 10, I. '535. 
 Sept. 1 1, 1844. 
 
MARRIED. 
 
 1794- 
 
 lMl:U,s (ilCNIAl IM.N . 
 
 BORN. DIED. 
 
 No. 257 — lusiah Mrii^s.of I^'armersvilk-. Mass, son i''^5i- 
 
 of ( 120,1 Ralph, of Saiulwirh. Was a soldier of 
 
 the war of 1.S12, and a pensioner until his death. 
 
 ni. Lydia huller, ..f Falmouth, Mass. April 21, 1846. 
 
 CHILDREN 
 
 No. 461-F.liphalet. 1795- 1716- 
 
 I'nniarried. 
 
 No. 462-Aurelia. A".- -• ■797. M.ir. 15. 1^98. 
 
 111. isl, P.arnalias CliiUls, ui \''.\\- 
 niouth, Mass. iiul. Ciilenum Ful- 
 ler, cif Falmouth. K". Chililreu. 
 
 No. 46;,-Calviu, ■'^ept. 7, iSoo. April u, iSSo 
 
 No. 464 — Love. 
 
 ni. Flliplialet Goodspeed, of Harn- 
 
 stable, Mass. 
 No. 465 — Clarissa. 
 No. 466— Josiali. 
 No. 467 — 1 alnnuiil. 
 
 M.iv 1^. No. 46.S— ,\luura. 
 
 I,S2S. in. John Hol\va\', of Sauilwich, 
 
 Mass. 
 
 No. 469 — Geor;4e Washinuitou. 
 
 No. 470 — Ralph. 
 
 Ian. 10, 1.S02. 
 
 Feb. 7, 1S06. 
 Sept. 19, 1S09. 1S98. 
 
 Feb. 2o.,i.'^ii. .\pril .s. 1S94. 
 
 Oct. II, 1843. 
 
 Mar. 27, 1M4. l-'eb. 27, 1^92 
 
 Nov. I, :Si5. 
 
Meigs aENEALooY 
 
 SKVENTH GENERATION. 
 
Eh. mil G 
 
 i:m-:i-:a iKix. 
 
 6.3 
 
 ElOHTH ai^NKRATION 
 
 MARRIED, 
 
 " Tlu-y throng the sileilue of the he:nt, 
 Wf sfc them as ol' vi>rt; ; 
 The kilnl, the true, the hrave. the sweet, 
 Who t.ilk witii us no more." 
 
 No. 258— Dr. John iMeigs fitli, of Lyndon, Vt., son 
 of ( i-^S ) Dr. Abner, of Claivniont, N. H. m. Abi- 
 gail Weeks. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 ■74- 
 
 No. 471— Anson. 
 No. 472— 1-Ioriiia. 
 
 111. As.iph W'ilniartli. 
 No. 473 — Lorenzo. 
 No. 474— John 7th. 
 No. 475— Liantha. 
 
 111. Larius Harvey, of Boston, 
 
 Afass. 2nd, llwi.t;ht. 
 
 No. 476— .Meroa. 
 
 111. J. I,, Kimball, ol' Janes\ille 
 
 Wis. 
 
 No. 477— Anson (2iid). 
 No. 47S— Attila. 
 No. 479— .Sabin. 
 No. 4.S0— .Attila (211(1). 
 
 '"■ Wager, 01 . Illinois. 
 
 No. 4S1— Luzilla. 
 
 111. Horatio Reed, of Le.xiiiotoii 
 
 Mass. 
 No. 4S2— Sarah. 
 
 ni. Albert Windsor, of Lyndon. 
 
 \'ermont. 
 
 Mar. 7, iSoi. 
 Sept. 20, 1802. 
 
 May 26, 1S04. 
 July ij, 1S06. 
 June 9, i.SoS. 
 
 Jan. I, 1810. 
 
 Aug. 5, iSii. 
 
 .May 10, 1813. 
 
 I'"eb. 2, 1S15. 
 
 July 15, 1817. 
 
 i\Lir. 28, 1S19. 
 
 1S22. 
 
 Oct. ,s, i,S2,:;. 
 
 Oct. 8, iSii. 
 Aug., 1875. 
 
 Oct. 25, 1849. 
 
 Dec, 1862. 
 
 About 18S5. 
 
 Atuint 1885. 
 
 l''eb. 27, 1S23. 
 
 May 14, 1814. 
 
 April 13, 1S22. 
 
 Dec, 18S9. 
 
 Jan., 1868. 
 
 Mar. 2, 1S21. May 18, 1862. 
 
 No. 259— Hcnian Meios. of Clarernont, N. H., son 17S1. 
 
 of (12S) Dr. Abner, of Clarernont. m. Lydia 
 Hunt, of Tnrnbridye, X'ermont. 
 
 iS 
 
 .1/- 
 
64 
 
 Meics Genkal<k,n . 
 
 MARRIED. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. 4.S3— Clnircli. 
 
 tl. in Malcolm, la. 
 
 No. 484— Cha.stina. 
 
 m. Welcome McGuffey, of Lyn- 
 don, Vermont. 
 
 No. 4S5— John (Sth). 
 
 No. 4S6 — Selonia. 
 
 m. Benjamin Franklin raddleford, 
 ol New Hampshire. 
 
 No. 4S7 — Ale.xander. 
 
 No. 48!S — Josephine. 
 
 m. Daviil Kiljliie. 
 
 BORN. 
 
 Dec. 16, 1S04. 
 May 17, 1S07. 
 
 Feb. 16, i8io. 
 Jnly 28, 1815. 
 
 Jnne 14, 1830. 
 
 DIED. 
 
 July, 1865. 
 
 Sept. 7, 1889. 
 
 (I. vouna:. 
 
 1757- 
 
 1, 1821. 
 
 2, 1846. 
 
 Aug. 20, No. 260 — I.orenzo Meigs, of Claremont, N. H. iJ^.S- 
 
 iStKj. and Malone, N. Y., son of (12S) Dr. Abner 
 
 of Ciarcniont. m. ist, Mary Arnold, dau. of Aug. ifi, 1785. June 2 
 April 7, Elisha Arnold. 111. 2nd, Mary Clark, widow of Sept. 11, 1789. Feb. 2 
 1822. Darling Clark, and dau. of Alexander Brush. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. 4.S9— Elisha A. 
 No. 490 — Benedict A. 
 No. 491 — Polly R. 
 No. 492 — Darlins; Cl.uk, 
 
 at lieartlstown, HI. 
 Jan. 29, No. 493 — Sarah Eliza. Dec. 9, 1826. Fell. 9, 1894. 
 
 1846. m. Hiram H. Thompson, of Ma- 
 
 lone, N. "\'. 
 
 May 
 
 15. 
 
 1810. 
 
 .Aug-. 15, 
 
 1 8 10. 
 
 Sept. 
 
 12, 
 
 1811. 
 
 
 
 June 
 
 16, 
 
 1S21. 
 
 June 16, 
 
 1855 
 
 Nov. 
 
 14. 
 
 1823. 
 
 .Sept. 14, 
 
 1863, 
 
 March 8, No. 261 — .Anson Meigs, of St. Johnsbury, \'t., son 1788. 
 
 1809. of M281 Dr. Abner, of Clareinont, N. H. 111. 
 
 1 )onith>- Lea\itt. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 May 5, No. 494— Khoda. Dec. iS, iSio. 
 
 1S33. m. W'iUi.un Kuggles, of L\ndon, 
 
 X'ermont. 
 Jan. 5, No. 495 — Sarah. 
 
 1836. m. Ke\ . U. Z. ^'oung. 
 
 No. 496 — George W. July 25, 1S15. 
 
 J,ni. 15, No. 497 — Zerviah T. Jan. 9, 1S19. 
 
 1840. m.Joel Fletcher, of St. lohnsbiny, 
 
 \'erniout. 
 Mar. 22, No. 49S — l.oanda. June 29, 1822. 
 
 1851. m. h'rank Dudley, of Newport, 
 
 N. H. 
 No. 499 — Ale.xander. Feb. 7, 1S25. 
 
 No. 500 — Dorothy. M,iy 17, 1S29. 
 
 m. Worthing, of Lowell, 
 
 Mass. 
 
 1861. 
 
 Oct. I, 1869. 
 
 Oct. 30, 1812. ."Xug. 27, 1S64. 
 
 .Aug. 15, 187S. 
 
 Dec, 1873. 
 
 i''eb. 17. 1S73. 
 
Kii.ii I li ( ;i:.\i:kA I ion. 
 
 f'5 
 
 M A R H I E D . 
 
 No. 266 -R, -v. liciiiamiii ("lark Mci-s.of India aiul 
 NV-w ^'o^k, son i>f 1 i;,2 1 ])r. I'lnncas, of I'ullilrlirin, 
 Conn. GrailnatL- of \'.ili- ("oUei^c .md .\nilo\cr 
 Theological Sfniiii.uv. ()vir f(jri\- vcars a Mis- 
 sionary in Ceylon, India, i .App. 2(1(1.1 1,,. .Sar.ih 
 Maria Peet. of Hethlrlicm. Conn. 
 
 l.S(i2. 
 
 MARRIED 
 
 REV. BENJArvlIN CLARK MEIGS. 
 1 789- 1 862. 
 
 CHILDREN 
 
 No. 501 — H.iiriet llc-nedirt. 
 d. in India. 
 
 No. 502 — .Sarah Mari.i. 
 d. in Iinli.i. 
 
 Nti. .S03 — Eli/.a Brinsinadr. 
 
 m. Leonard B(.)stu irk. al AiM^iista, 
 <ia. A merchant from .\'ew H.iven, 
 Conn. Li\ed in New York. 
 
 No. 504 — lane I'l.milinsDn. 
 
 l\ducatei-l at Alli.in\, N. ^ . Female 
 Academy, .£;r,idu,ited uitii hiL;li 
 honor. Was a teacher in die In- 
 stitntimi for Deaf and L>nnib. Neu 
 \ork Citw for forty-ti\e years, 
 ani-l then was redretl on an etner- 
 itus salary. Is still livin.t; (1901) 
 in New York Citv. 
 
 BORN 
 
 Now J.S, iMh. 
 |an. 16. iSi.S. 
 Sept. S, 1S19. 
 
 Innr ;, 1S21 . 
 
 .'\ng. 22, i.s.;i. 
 
 M.ir. 6, 1822. 
 
 Nov. 19, iSSg. 
 
66 
 
 Mi:i(;s Gi:n"kal(h;\-. 
 
 MARRIED 
 
 CHILDREN CONTINUED. 
 
 No. 505 — (.".U'lliiie. 
 
 111. a lauytr named Janes, \\]\n 
 |>ractise(l in S.in Francisco, Cal. 
 
 Xo. 506 — Sarah .Maria. 
 
 111. l\duaril lames, a merchant in 
 Alabama. 
 
 No. 507 — Pienjamin Chirk, Jr. 
 
 (unmarried I. For tliirty years con- 
 nected with the Methotlist IJook 
 Concern, in New "S'ork City. 
 
 No. 50S — .Samuel Har\e\ I'eet. 
 
 Xo. 509 — Charles. 
 
 Nos. 510-11 — Twins. 
 
 il. in India. 
 
 ] Illy 22, 1.S22. 
 
 Nov. iS, i.S2^. 
 
 May 1;,, 1S26. 
 
 .An.U. 10, 1.S2.S. 
 
 .Aug. 18, :!S29. 
 
 Aug. 2, 1S31. 
 
 DIED. 
 
 I )ec. 22, 1877 
 
 Mar. 24, rSSS. 
 l-'eb., 1.S96. 
 
 Mar. 25, 1S95. 
 Sep. 3, 1893. 
 
 1S15. 
 1S28. 
 
 No. 267 — .Saiiiiiel Mt-i^s, nf (jiiakcr Farms, 0.\- 
 tiird. ("unn.. son of ( i,,;) Dr. Pliincas, of Bethle- 
 heni, Conn. Rc|irisciUed ( ).\for(l in the Assembly. 
 W'.is Indite of till- Coiintv Court .md niaii\- \'ears 
 liistice of the I'eace. m. 1st, Loieiia, <l.ui. of 
 lion. l)a\ul Tomhiison, of (Quaker Farms, m. 
 jinl. .Mrs. I lannah H\(le. 
 
 I 79 1. 
 
 '■"i.S.S- 
 
 i7<);v Mar. S, i,S2('). 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 By l-'iKST W'ii-K. 
 
 No. 512 — .S.irah K. 
 
 111. Charles l)ick, of Newtown, 
 
 Conn. 
 No. 51J — Jane C. 
 
 m. Cieorge l.uiii, of Derl.iy, Conn. 
 No. 514 — r>eiijamiii Clark 
 •^"- 515 — David Tonilinson. 
 No. 516 — Charles A. 
 
 Bv Secono WiKH. 
 ^'o- 517 — William Henry. 
 
 May 16, 1816. July 16, i8SS. 
 
 April 14, 181S. 
 
 .Aug. 14, 1S20 
 I'"eb. 21, 1822. 
 Mar. 6, 1S25. 
 
 April 21, 182 1 . 
 July y, l8.St). 
 
 May 25, 1836. Aug. 23, 185a 
 
 June ID, No. 268— C'h.irles .Mci>;s, of Monroe, .Mu h.. 
 
 I.Sj:;. son iif M ,,2 I I)i'. i'hine.is, ol liethlrhcni, 
 
 Conn. 11. in I'lc-lhiehem. I'r.ieticcd l.i\\ in 
 Ro\allon, \'t. some years, then remoxed to 
 .Monroe, Mil h., uheri- ho ,ilso .u liii\ed proin- 
 inciiri' in his prolossK ui, .ind where ho dieil. 
 m. Harriet I.alhiop, of Chelsea, Vt. .She d. .Sep. 
 ,il .Xurur.i, 111., where the famils' nioxed after 
 .Mr. .Melt's' death. 
 
 'jy.v 
 
 1 7i-)('. Sep. 5. iS(i6. 
 
Imi.1i 1 II ( "ii:\i K \ I ION. 
 
 MARRIED 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 Nil. 5iN— CliarluUe. 
 No. 519 — .Sarah ruinlliiMiii, 
 No. 520 — Cliarle.s Phiiieas. 
 No. 521 — lienjamiii Franklin. 
 No. 522— John Griswold. 
 No. 52.:; — Harriet I.athrop. 
 
 m. isl, a Mr. i-lliot. 
 
 I-:ikins, i>l" Ni« N ork. 
 No. 524 — ("ifor.ije SaniUfl. 
 
 2ncl. ha S. 
 
 80RN 
 
 Jan. 17, 1S25. 
 l)(.-c. 29. lS2'\ 
 
 Mar. 6, 1S29. 
 
 June I , i.S;,i. 
 
 Aug. 9. iS.vv 
 April 15, 1S37. 
 
 1S5.,. 
 1SS6. 
 
 May 22, i.SSv 
 
 Aui;. 22, 1^43. Ian. 2,^, iS.S.S. 
 
 Feb. 14. No.27<» I'.iish.i .Mri-L;s, ol C'al^kiil. X. v., soil ly.So. i<''3'-)- 
 
 iSoS. of ( I -31 l^liincas, ol M iildlrtow n, Conn. Was 
 
 iMirn ,it Miilillctiiw 11. ni. F,uni\- Willi, nns. M.i\- ji, 17SN. .Xpril 7, iN'i.v 
 
 dau. ui Ralph Williams, ol (irotoii, Cunu. 
 
 < )ct. 19, 
 ■S4,V 
 
 .\|iril 1 1 , 
 
 1S52. 
 
 Sept. I.:;, 
 iSjS. 
 
 Oct. 
 
 >9. 
 
 1S43. 
 
 
 julv 
 
 1 , 
 
 IS47. 
 
 
 Ian. 
 
 :^^. 
 
 1858. 
 
 CHILDREN 
 
 ^'"- 5-5— Geor.L;e. 
 .\(). 526 — I lenry. 
 No. 527 — Clariiula. 
 
 in. I'.li.is Colborn. ol Il.iuley, 
 
 Mass. d.at \Villiainsbur:<h, N. N . 
 No. 52.S — Frames. 
 
 in. Jacob Backus, ofC.itskill, N. N . 
 
 (I. at Willi. iinsliiir;..;!!. 
 
 111. 2 11 1 1 loliii W. Wood, of luv^land, 
 
 d. New >"ork Cit\ . 
 No. 5.9 — laiiih . 
 
 m. Minor Iliihhell Keith, ol Wil- 
 li. iinsburj^h, N. ^'. 
 No. s.^o — Mary. 
 No. 5;ii — Sarah. 
 
 ill. Aiigelo 1.). Stephens, of I'itts- 
 
 hekl, ^hlss. 
 No. 532 — Flislia Willi.iiiis. 
 
 No. 53;,— John ( dlhert. 
 
 ^bly 21, 1S09. I let. 24, is^i. 
 
 bil\' 7, I.Sii. Sept. 29. 1^77. 
 
 1 )ec, 4, 1.S13. 
 
 Nov. ;,. 1N71. 
 
 Feb. 9, iSifi. 
 
 iSll. .Mar. 24, 1.S42. 
 
 ( >ct. 26, i,S7i. 
 
 M.n-. 23, I.SiS. 
 .Ma\ 29, 1.S17. 
 
 Feb. 13, 1S20. July 5, 1.^35. 
 
 b'eb. I'v 1.S23. M.iy 13, 1.S67. 
 
 M.ir. 17, iSjj, d. al Sf.i 1S31 . 
 Inly 27. 1S27. 
 
 About No. 275- (iilbiai Moiy^s, of Newark. N. j..soii()l 
 
 iSi.S. ( 135 1 I'liiin-.is, of .Miilillrtowii. Conn. Was b. at 
 
 Clavorick, \. N'. 111. isl, at Sanj^ertield. ('1 X. ^■., 
 Lllt^eiio r.l.iiiki'iisbip, of Roidlcster, M.iss. .She 
 d. at rio\-, -X. ^■. ill. 2nd. at I'roy, N. N'., Marv 
 Ann ( )L;dcii. of Now ^'ork. She d. .it .N.-u.ii k, X j. 
 
 ijyi 
 
 |ulv. 1S74. 
 
(>S 
 
 M i;ii.s ( ii ni;ai.i)c.\ . 
 
 MARRIED 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 H\- FiKsr Wii I-. 
 
 No. 534 — H.iniet. 1i at friiy. 
 
 (1. at Columbia, .S. C. 
 No. 535 — Jiili.L. !■. .It 'rniv. 
 
 111. I'.fiTy. ol Coliiniliia, S. C. 
 
 tl. at Columbia. 
 
 R\ SKI.().\1j W'I !■ I: 
 
 No. 536 — C',ill)t-rt. b. at Newark. 
 
 i^'"- S37 — Cliaiies Hemy. 
 
 No. 53S-42 — I''i\c ihililrfii lb in infancy. 
 
 1S20. 
 
 1S22. 
 
 April, 17, 1.S34. 
 I )ec. 23. 1S36. 
 
 Nov. 7, 1S68. 
 
 No. 281 — |(iv Mcjos, of Ciuilfnrd, Conn., scni ul ijS; 
 
 ( 14,^) Nathan, of ICast (iuilfurcL in. MIsr- Riixcs, 
 of Lono jshind. 
 
 I. S3 1. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. 543 — William Henry. 
 
 No. 544 — Har\ey Washington. 
 
 Left home when yiami; — went to 
 Lon.u Islanil — not heard from 
 a;.;ain. 
 No. 545 — .•\ni.iiul,i M.iria. 
 
 111. Horace .Andrns, of Hartford, 
 t'onn. 
 April 29, No. 546 — Mary Ann. 
 
 1S29. 111. 1st. Medad Pmiieroy, of North- 
 
 aniptoii, ^hlss. 2nd, Kbeii K. 
 i:\arts. 
 
 ■'^"- 547 — Nathan fbir.ice. 
 Oct. 15, No 54S— Oli\e Kli/a. 
 
 r.S39. 111. Geori^e <dllett, of Giiilfonl, 
 
 Conn. 
 
 |nl\ 27, 1S04. 
 Dec, 21, 1S05. 
 
 Feb. 25, 1S07. 
 Sept. 21 , 1,809. 
 
 I )ec. 16, i.Si I. 
 j.in. 10, i.'iiS. 
 
 Mar. 26, 1900. 
 
 d. about 1S96. 
 
 .A|)ril 7, iSifi. Nov. 15, 1S9V 
 
 July S- I^o. 282 — Isa.ic Mcios, ol (jiiilfoid, ('onii., smi ol 17S7 
 
 l,Sio. (14.1' Natlian, nl E,ist (diilldiil. ni. H.iiin.ili 
 
 KinihcrK-. 
 
 1S47 
 
 No. 549 — Erastus Kimberly. 
 
 .Mar. II, iSi I. Jan. 6, 1S79. 
 
 No. 284 — Krcdciii k .Mei^s, of Giiilfoid. Conn., 
 son of I 14;,) Nathan, of I^.isl ( iiiilford. He U_-ft 
 hemic uhcn his l.iiiiiK' \\,is \(mno and h,is lu-vcr 
 hc.ird from au.iiii. 111. .Mai\' Stevens. 
 
 1790 
 
MARRIED. 
 
 I-Ii:H 1 II (', I.M KA I loX. 
 
 CHILDREN 
 
 No. 550 — Alfred. 
 Xo. 551 — Mary. 
 
 Ill Ciamnif II, cil .\eu Ha\ en. 
 
 Conn. 
 
 Xo. 552 — .M.iria. 
 
 69 
 
 No. 285— Anson H. Mei-s. of Dnrliani. Conn., 
 .sun of ( 1461 Ahil, of .Maiiison, Conn. ni. Kunirc 
 Lo\(.lanil. of ("Hilton. Conn. 
 
 171/'- i''^''','^. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 July 23, 1S22. 
 111. John Dolph. 
 
 No. 554— Catherine Elizal.eth. l--eli. 9, ,.S27. \„v. 24, 1.S95. 
 
 m. Charles ( ■riswolil, sdu of .\nii Dec. ',0, iSyy. 
 
 Meigs (Xo. 2S6). 
 
 >>'". 535— Harriet Maria. May 25, 1S32. 
 
 m. .\iistiii I oster. 
 
 Xo. 556— John Knt'us. (irt. 31. 1S39. 
 
 iS-^o. No. 288 — Elias Hfiijaniin MciL;-s, of Durham. iSo:;. iSj.S. 
 
 Conn., son of 1 i4(>i Aia'I, of Madison. Conn. 
 Was l^nsiyn 4th Rilfc Co. of hth Kci^iimnt 
 Conn. Militia from .Aui^nst 21. i.SjS to .A])ril 
 :?;,, 1^:52, wlifii he was made Captain of s<unc 
 Compam'. Was nu-mhcr ol Conn. I,ii.;isla- 
 turt' in l.Shy. In jS,Vi he built the house illus- 
 trated on page 70 and it is still ( iqi)! i in the 
 jjossession of his d.iuyhti-rs. .See -App. ;SS. 
 He liad a shoe factory in Durham before the 
 Civil War. and shipj)e(l lartje (piantities of 
 
 shoes to the South. 111. M.iriitt.i I,o\( l.md. .i| I),c. J4, iSo.s. Mar. jfi, ]SX-. 
 Clinton, Coiui. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. 557. — Mary Jane. .Mar. 22, i.S,;i. 
 
 (unmarried) Postmistress of Dur- 
 
 liam Centre, Conn., from Ajiril • 
 
 ist, 1S57, to July 13, 1S70, and In- 
 
 snran<e Agent at that place since. 
 Xo. .sjS — Cornelia .Maria. Xo\ . 25, 1S33. 
 
 ^•o 559 — Ed.^ar l.oveland. July 11, 1.S36 
 
70 
 
 M 1 i( ,^ ( "ilM Al 1 M .^ . 
 
 ELIAS BENJAMIN MEIGS' HOUSE, 
 Durham Centre, Conn. 
 
 MARRIED BORN. DIED. 
 
 Aut.;. j.>, No. 2QO — I'liiiii. ,is .Mri^h. (if I )iirli.iin, Cdiin., 1'"^",^. iSyj. 
 |S:;,V ^'111 "1 (I4'^> AIh-1, iif Madisiiii, Conn. iii. 
 
 M.iiA' C\mi|i. Ni) ihililrrii. ^■^ii;-;- -,v l''^''''^. |:in. 25, iS'i^. 
 
 No. 201 — Xalli.m .Mn-^, nf M.idi^dn, ("(inn., smi i ,S 1 >. 
 
 (if I 14(11 Alicl, (if .Madis.in. in. I.dis C. Dr Wolfe. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 N(i. 560 — \atli.in ludsdii. 
 
 N'(i. 561 — .\\(_'r\ ( ai'lL-i". 
 
 X(-i. 562 — Ann (iiisuolil. 
 
 111. ICIi/nr I'., liililile. (if I'.raufdid. 
 Ciiiiii. 
 
 N(i. s'ljj— Anson fl. 
 
 No. 5')4 — r'.t-or.i^e Whitlield. 
 
 No. 5i>,=; — Mari.i Louisa. 
 
 ill. W-lsoii II. Willi. iins, of .Sey- 
 mour. Conn. 
 
 No. 5^(1— John Wcsk-y. 
 
 ^'"' .S'17— Josi^liliint- nil kerson. 
 
 in. Roht. K. Russell, New Ilaveii, 
 Conn. 
 
 Ort. 29. 183s. 
 Au.^. 10, i.s.;'!. 
 Nov. 15, 1S37. 
 
 Ali.:2. i-S, 1S40. 
 Sept. 5. 1S45. 
 J.iii. 12, nS^.S. 
 
 Jan. 2q, nSji. 
 April 4, 1S54. 
 
 Mar. lu, 1S42 
 
Ki(;nTn Genkka 
 
 ricix. 
 
 MARRIED 
 
 Mar. 25, N'ci. ,=;69— Elizalietli Liiciiula. 
 
 '■"^56. 111. William H. (IdUlsniitli, of 
 
 Grefnport, L. 1. 
 Mar. 29, No. 570— Cornelia Sophia. 
 '■'^S'^- 111. George K. Babcock, ..| .S,,y- 
 
 brook, Conn. 
 Mar. 25, .\o. 571 — ICstlur .Ann. 
 '^S*^- 111- Nathan |i. Hill. ,,( Cuilionl, 
 
 Conn. 
 
 No. 572— Joseph Huliert. 
 June 30, No. 573— Mary Jane. 
 '^^9- 111. Jeilecliah lin.shnell, of Cenlre- 
 
 liriiok, L'oiin. 
 Dec. 22. \o. 574— Martha .Mice. 
 ^^^~- '"■ Charles .S. Butler, ol' Wcst- 
 
 lirook, Conn. 
 • let. 26, No. 5-5_juIia Au.ousta. 
 
 '^"^- 111- janit-s \'. t're, of(.lkl .S.iyhrouk, 
 
 Conn. 
 
 ^•"- 576— Joseph IClton. 
 
 Dec. i,s, 1S34. 
 
 No. 293— J.uiiis Harvey Mci.ys. nf Watcrtowii, 
 N. v., soil uf I 1551 .Samuel, (if East Cuilfdrd. 
 
 111., had one child. Xo. 377, a dau.^hter, who 111. 
 
 ji'hnson, and ivnicvcd (n Pottsdani, -\. ^■.. Imt we 
 could t;et no trace (if tliein at latter place. 
 
 DIED. 
 
 No. 292-J„s, ,,h F. .Meius, .,f M.ulis.in. Cmn.. ", s , , 
 son (il ( 1461 .AIh-I, ,.f Madison, ni. P:iizal. -ih .A. 
 I'il.^riin. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 June 15, No. 56.S-LUCV .M.iri.i. ., 
 
 ^ ■*''• 111- William Henry Coe, of. M,i,li- ' js'^„ , , 
 
 son. Conn. ' ' -' ""• ' 
 
 )t- 
 
 ' ''■'■ '. i'\i'i. ■■'ell. 7, i.Si^7. 
 
 Jan. 15, i.S-,S. 
 
 Nov. 2.S. 1S40. April 24, i.S.si. 
 
 -\u.14. 16, 1S42. 
 
 July I 1, 1S47. 
 
 Mar. ,S, 1S51. 
 
 Dec. 9, 1,852. Mar. 2, i.Sj.s. 
 
 -M.ir, 17, No. 295 -H,-nj,imiii .Mei-s, of .Swanton Falls, Vt. 1790. lS^,,. 
 
 ^^^7- (l>- in -Sunderland, \'t, ) son of 1 1501 Benjamin S,, 
 
 of St. .Alb.ins and I li-h-,itc, \l. m. Zeliiida I.ick- 
 son, of Suanton. 1 li. in Chesterfield, .\, 11, I 1 ,Soo. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 Sept. 9, No, 57S-narriet. j,,,. ,,, „,s. ,\i„. 24, ,847. 
 
 ''Hi- m. 'I heodore B. Marvin. 
 
 No. ,S79-F-:.luin .Smith. ],,„. ,,s, ,«_,,. ,,-^1, .^^ ,.,,ss. 
 
 (*ct, 5, No 580— Sani,nitli,i Koliinsoii. .M.ir. -, i.Sm. 
 
 ■^-*''- 111- 1st, riieo(.lore I!. .M.irvin, 
 
 .Sept. 16, 18S6 2nd, D. I. Corliss. 
 
72 
 
 Mill 
 
 ( il-MsAI.I H ,\ . 
 
 MARRIED. 
 
 Dec. :,. 
 
 IS 16. 
 
 No. 2Q7 Lulllc 1 Mri:^s, iif Hi^liyatc. \'l., son (if I7y,i- 
 
 ( 15'') IJcnjaniin S., of St. Albans ami 1 liyh^atL-.X'l. 
 Lutlier, with his father, wt-re piom-er settlers in the 
 tdun (if Iligh,i;ate, Franklin Co., Vt., where the for- 
 mer li\ ed 4.S years in one iKuise ami (.lied there. For 
 mam' j^ears he ioinniandc(l a C<jm|)anv of Rifle- 
 nien : was at the battle of Platlsburi^, N. \ .: tdok 
 an acti\e and zealous part in the War of iSi J-14; 
 twice represented his town in the State Le,!.;isla- 
 tiiii-, ,ind l(ir inoie than furlv years was alniost 
 continudiish- the I iltni ial ser\'ant in his tdwn and 
 c(iunt\' in some uttiee ol trust. App. -<;7. in. 
 I'hdelie Stockwell, ol lliL;h^ate, dau. of h'.beilezer l.Soo. 
 
 Stdckw ell, arcliilei t and builder. 
 
 1865. 
 
 [ sr-i 1 . 
 
 CAPT. LUTHER MEIGS, '297' 1793-1865, 
 HiGHGATE. Vermont. 
 
 [■".tniiei, MLiiiibU.itc, Scki Uii.m, (.iiiiiil>' Cniniii i ssionel', 
 
 I i'i;isl.ai>i , Soldier War 1S12-1 1. ('.iiit.iin ol Militi.i. 
 
 FriL-iid (jf the I'oui . 
 
 June 21. 
 1874. 
 
 CHILDREN 
 
 \o. 5S1— Guy. May 29, 1S17. 1SS5. 
 
 No. 582 — .Mii. June i, 1819. Auj;. ;,i, 1820. 
 
 ^"- 583 — Minerva Cliitleiiileii. June 28, 1S21. Veh. 25, 1S98. 
 
 No. 5S4 — Kl^eue/er Stockwell. July 25, i82j\. 
 
 No. 5S5 — Roxana. l^ec. 17, 1825. July 16, 1828. 
 
 No. 586— llenian .Allen. July 24, 1S2S. 
 
 No. 587 — Roweiia. Aip^. 31, 1830. 
 
 111. James ll.u riui;t(iu, o( Hi.i^li- 
 
 gate, \'t. 
 
MARRIED 
 
 Oct. 15, 
 
 I.S36. 
 
 ( let. 1 = 
 
 I.S62. 
 
 I*-U.ll I II ( il:.\l RA I lll.N. 
 CHILDREN CONTINUED 
 
 No. 5SS— I'hoelu- Ami. 
 Nil. s-Sg — 1{I\ iiM Hiiier.S(.)ii. 
 
 111. Bailey I'., lirniisdii, ..I .Suaiitiiu, 
 
 \t. Ser\e(l in Co. K. i;,tli \t. 
 
 \ ul. Inlt. in ('i\il War. 
 No. 590— Lucy ISall. 
 No. 591 — .A/uliali I.\ (li.i. 
 
 111. i:i>eiR/cr A. Brooks, ot' Si. 
 
 Albans, \t. 
 No. 592 — Liilher. 
 No. 593— Henr\ Meni.miin. 
 
 BORN 
 
 .\o\ . I, 1S5... 
 Dec. 27, i8;,4. 
 
 .•\|>nl JO, rS;,'). 
 May 24, i,S;,9. 
 
 Anj;. 6, 1841 . 
 Nov. 23, i,S44. 
 
 /\> 
 
 DIED. 
 
 Jan. iS, i,S4S. 
 
 Dct. 20, 1.S69. 
 
 I'ec. ig, 1S47. 
 
 No. 2QQ - l.iinias Mci^s, (if Dunliain. l'ro\incL- 179s 
 
 Oufbec. sdii (if I 1561 lienjamiii .S. of lliylioatc, 
 \'t. m. Aziiliali ]lnir\-. Sec .Apji. j(-jq. 
 
 I«7 = 
 
 CHILDREN 
 
 No. 594 — H,irle\ .Sanderson. 
 No. 593— .Aliel Ilriiry. 
 
 July 17, 1S24. 
 i^2,S. 
 
 an. .S, 1S99. 
 1S92. 
 
 1S17. No. 301— John Mcios. of .St. AHmiis, \'i., son of 
 
 (161) Daniel 1>., of .St. AlKaiiN. Wa.s the fiist 
 while male child Ixirn in the town of .St. .\lbans. 
 l^'roni ,1 sin, ill lieginiiino, with the indi miitalile 
 eneroy wliich he |)Ossessecl, aiui with sterlino 
 inteority, he hewed his own path from iiuh'oence 
 to competency, and left a considerable estate to his 
 wcirthy sons. The only iiictnre he ever had taken 
 in his lile, was the photooraiih fr(.im which the 
 cul was made, as shown on page 74. m. I.ucretia 
 Tuller. 
 
 1791. 
 
 1 .S6S. 
 
 CH ILDREN. 
 
 N(.i. 596 — Cordelia. 
 No. 597 — Loraine C. 
 No. 59S— Sanl'ord. 
 No. 599 — Esllier 1.. 
 No. 600 — .Ann. I I,. 
 No. 601 — Annis. 
 No. 602 — I'.ninia L. 
 No. 603 — Gu\ B. 
 No. 604 — I'.dyar. 
 
 J. in. 2, 
 
 I.SlS. 
 
 July II. 
 
 1S50. 
 
 J, 111. 20, 
 
 1S20. 
 
 Jan. S, 
 
 1.S75. 
 
 tele I.S, 
 
 1S22. 
 
 Sept. 5, 
 
 1S91. 
 
 May 3, 
 
 1S24. 
 
 .Ann. 14. 
 
 1.S27. 
 
 ()(t. I, 
 
 1S26. 
 
 Jan. 24, 
 
 I'^^.v 
 
 .April 19, 
 
 1.S29. 
 
 May I, 
 
 1.S29. 
 
 No\. 14, 
 
 1S3.V 
 
 I'\-b. 26, 
 
 1S61. 
 
 .April 19, 
 
 '■\-.5- 
 
 
 
 .M.iv 2, 
 
 l.S.,2. 
 
 
 
Mf.k'.'^ Gi:x1'^ \i I " A . 
 
 JOHN MEIGS, OF St. Albans, Vt. 
 
 I 795-1 875. 
 
 Ilichlbl « hlU- lii.llu . Ilil.l I". Ill ill lll.il K.UII. 
 
 MARRIED. 
 
 No. 303 — Ciin- NK'ij^s, (jf Malone, N. \'., son nl 
 
 ( 1(11 ! 1 )anii-l li., Ill St. AlKans, W-nnunt. 111. 
 
 1st, I l.in i(.t .Sp.iri'du . 
 
 2nd. Iiilicttr lldvl. 
 
 ,;,i(l, Diusilla .Mien, daii. ul Cul. Tiniutliy Allen. 
 
 I 7M.'v 
 
 i''^.S4- 
 
 I 7i),v April II, I Si S. 
 i.S( ii . Feb. j;, 1.S26. 
 17^3. .Mar. 29, 1862. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 I',\ I-'IKST W'll K. 
 
 Xo. 605 — Harrit.-t. 
 
 ni. Icilm 1!. Iruiii, ITeaion ol I'.ap- 
 tist Chunii, M.iliine, X. N'. 
 
 April 10, iSi.'- 
 
 By .shconu Wim:. 
 
 No. 606 — Henian .Sparrow. 
 
 Xo. 607 — I-^dw'in Lafayette. 
 
 No. 60.S— Juliette. 
 
 m. i;ro(k\vav. 
 
 I82I. 
 
 Mar. 2;,, 1S43 
 
 IS22. 
 
 May 14, 1S65 
 
 
 1897 
 
Kii.in H ( ii \ri;.\ i kin. 
 
 CHILDREN CONTINUED 
 
 1'>V Til IK h U'll 1 . 
 MARRIED 
 
 No. 609— Church Tal.er. 
 Jiine 24, No. 610— Adeline Lonihie. I )ec. 15, i8-i 
 
 '^^51- ill. Henjaiiiiii .S. W. Clark, of 
 
 (Mattsbin-. N. N . 
 No. 6ri — Cornelia .Adelia. 
 
 111. Dwi.i;hl I). (Hiunt-ll. 
 No. 612— Charlotte Maria. 
 
 111. Marshall J. Ahhou. 
 Dec. 22. No. 6,3-I.„da Augusta. Feb. 22. ,836. 
 
 '''•''9- '"• John H. Titus, of lilooniin"- 
 
 dale, N. ^■. 
 
 No. 614— M.irv Orusill.i. 
 
 •A11.14. 12, 1829. d. at Flint Mich 
 
 Jiih 25, 1S32. 
 .Mar. I, iS;,4. 
 
 July 12, i,%i. 
 .May 22, 1S40. .Sept. 19, i,Sj7. 
 
 No. 304 — Hrounson Mei.^s, of Harbottc. .St. Johns. 1 791,. r,s6s. 
 
 f^rov. ( Hic, son of ( 161 1 Daniel 1!., of St. Allians. 
 \'t. ni. Rebecca Tuller. 
 
 INOO. IS71). 
 
 CH ILDREN. 
 .No. 615—1 -ardiier Chilils. 
 
 No. 616— Carlos i:)erious. [.,„_ 2h 18-., 
 
 No. 617— Celia l.ncretia. Mav 17, 1826 
 
 ni. H. D. Chamherlain. 
 No. 61S— Timothy Bradley. | le,-. 17, i!,2S. 
 
 I. eft home when a child, ,ind uas 
 never heard from. 
 Xo. 619— ( ili\'er Car|ieiiter. No\ . 2, 1S-3 
 
 No. 620-Eli lirownson. M,.,,. ^^ ,3,5^ 
 
 No. 621— Byron Noel. .Sept. ,,. ,841. 
 
 No. 622— Florilla. 
 
 m. C.eor.ye I'aruell. 
 
 Sept. 6. 1820. isgj. 
 
 1.SS7. 
 
 Jan. 1,8,89. 
 
 Fell. 3, 1880. 
 
 Au.u. 22. No, 305— Daniel Meigs, of Hedloid, I'nuince i,S,u. i,s6i. 
 
 1.S24. Ouebec, son of ( 161 ) Daniel V,.. of St. Albans, 
 
 \ t. 111. Caroline Laselle. iJau. of Dr. ISin-hani .Xug. 14, 1 ,8,^4. Dec. 26, i.SS.S. 
 
 and ,\nna 1 Powell ) J.aselle. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 ^"'■''- •*• ^'"- 623-Fllen l-;iiza. M,.y. ..s. I.S2J. Sept. 29, ISM. 
 
 '''^4,=i. b. ill .Swantou, \'t. 
 
 111. .SaiiHiel H. Mills, of Slaiil>rid.oe, 
 
 Ptov. (Jueliec. 
 No. 624— .\iin,i. M.o. 17, i,S27. Ian. 23. 1828. 
 
 I', in .Sw. niton, \t. 
 
 No. 625— J,is|,er Bingham. X,,v. 7,1828. |iine 10, 1S72. 
 
 b. in .Sw.inton, \'|. 
 d. in Australi.i. 
 
Mi:i(,s (ii:MAi,()(.\ . 
 
 CHILDREN CONTINUED 
 
 No. 626 — 1 li^on L.iselle. 
 
 Ii. HI Swaiiton, \'t. 
 No. 627— Heniian Oskai. 
 
 I>. in Heiiryville, Vru\ . Ouebec. 
 
 i\. at (~.i-and Rapids, Miili. 
 
 Nil. 62.S — Daniel Bisliop. 
 
 1). in Hrnr\ ville, I'kh. <Jiieliec. 
 No. 629 — Malcdlni Rosroe, M. I). 
 
 I), in Bedlbnl, ri(i\. <J\ieliec. 
 
 No. 630 — Caroline. 
 
 1). in I'lt^illbrd, I'lox. ( Uifli<.'C. 
 
 No. 631— Arthur. 
 
 li. in .Stanl)rid;..;e, Frov. ijuelx-c. 
 
 , Of these six sons, in the 
 
 year, 1S73, four of thcni were oc- 
 cnpying the position of mayor in 
 their own town ; Jasper in .\us- 
 tralia ; Herman in .Arkansas 
 City, Kansas; Dr. Malcolm in 
 Bedl'ord, P. Ij., and 1 )aniel I'.isliop 
 
 I in Farnliain, 1'. <). 
 
 BORN . DIED 
 
 < U:t. 19, 1830. 
 .May 2, 1S33. .Aul;. 17, 1900. 
 
 June r, 1.S35. 
 lune 20, 1.S40. 
 M.ir. 12, 1S42. 
 June 13, 1S46. 
 
 May i.S, i'^7.S. 
 July i.s, i^M- 
 
 No. 311 — Daniel (irennell Mci.^s, nf Vcr- 
 gciiiie.s, \'t., son of ( 166 1 Whiting;, of .Slul- 
 btinie, Vt. in. Mary (Marshj Tappaii, of 
 Veroenm-s. 
 
 1 S so. 
 
 Manii. iSi.v .Sep. ;,, 1S.S4. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 .\'o. 632— Charles O.^len. 
 
 No. 633— l^liza Swift. 
 
 No. 634 — George Washington. 
 
 Enlistetl in the I nil W.ii , d. in 
 
 the ser\ iee. 
 N"- 635— Charles C)gden. 
 
 In Ci\il War, 1 redited to New 
 
 Haven, \'t. <1. at Murph\ sville, 
 
 Texas. 
 No. 636— Daniel Grennell. 
 
 Dec. 31, 1S3S. 
 Sept. 13, 1S40. 
 Mar. 24, 1845. 
 
 |an. 3, 1S39. 
 April 16, 1S62. 
 
 Dec. 6, 1.S47. .Sept. 14, i,S,S2. 
 
 Oct. 3, 1.S49. 
 
 April t), 
 
 No. 312 — Alice Acclia, of Nortli Ferrisburt;, \'t.. 
 tlaii. of iifKii Whitiiiii Mei.>;s, of Shclbitnie. \'t. 
 m. Francis (iiiindon. 
 
 iSo.S. 
 
 i,S57. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. 637 — Irving Meigs. 
 No. 638 — I'ngene Whitinij 
 No. 639 — I'sme Leoline. 
 
 Dec. 28, 1837. 
 
 Jan. 26, 1S41. 
 
 April 29, 1846. 
 
MARRtCD. 
 
 'II 111 <'.i;\i;ra i ion. 
 
 BORN. 
 
 n l-r;m(-i.sco, rSif,. 
 
 No. 313— Georof Anson .Mei,i;s, of ,Sa 
 Cal., and Port Ma,lis,,n. Washington, son ol , ,06 , 
 Whilinu, of .Shellniin.-, \t. m. .>[arv !■;. Taj,pan. 
 See App. ;,!;,. 
 
 I N96. 
 
 GEORGE ANSON MEIGS 1313', 1816-1896, 
 San Francisco. Cal and Pucet Sound, Wash 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 Xo. 64<i— Lillie Charlotte. 
 
 l.ivin.£; at I'ort Madison, Wasliii 
 
 ton, unmarried. 
 No. 641— Gec.r.oe Eiroy. 
 
 Mar. .s, 1.S59. 
 
 i.SiS. 
 
 i-'^y.s 
 
 Jan. 12, No. 314 — Alniii-aChaiiotto.Moiys,of .Xruark, 
 1S42. N. J., dau. of . 106) Whiting, of .Shell. in n.-, 
 
 Vt. m.JohnCulverHerrick.of .\eu,iik, .\. J. .Mav 2.-., iSij. .Mav _-,, i,s67. 
 
 CHILDREN 
 
 No. 642— ICcUvard .Manelliis. 
 No. 643— I.iK-y Amelia. 
 No. 644— Louise Leiiiir.t. 
 
 < ><-t. 2, I,S42. 
 
 J.m. ^2. 1844. 
 I.m. 25, 1S46. 
 
 Dec. 22, No. 317— Chai-les Xcwm.m .Mei.g.s. ,,1 Hlkhorn, 
 i'*^,^,!. Wis., son of ( 167) .M.ijiu- John, of .All.,inv. Re- 
 
 moved to Wisconsin in i,S4:;, and Hved there the 
 rest of his lon.s:- I'fe. " For a time he was foreman 
 
 I S09. 
 
 1898. 
 
.Mi;i(;> (iiM.Ai.oi.N . 
 
 BORN DIED 
 
 (if the Ksterly Reaper Works, located at Heart 
 Prairie. Later he followed the liusiness of Con- 
 tractor and lUiilder, and the honest princijiles of 
 iiliright manhood were manifested in his work. 
 He was one of tlie oldest citizens and one for whom 
 all peo])le had ,i;reat respect." m. in Albany. 
 Phoebe Parsons, sister nf John Parsons, of the 
 Albany Journal. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. 645— Caroline. Oct. r;,, 1832. 1S91. 
 
 No. 646— Charles Ludlow. Oct. IS. 1834. 
 
 No. 647— Anna. I )ec. 17, 1S36. 1.S71. 
 
 No. 64,S— Eli/al>etli. Oct. 2.S, 1S41. 
 
 111. .'\il;inisiiii. 
 
 No. 649— Mary. April .^o, 1S44. 
 
 No. 650 — Melvin I'arsons. Jan. 5, iS47- 
 
 No. 651— Henrietta. April 27, 1.S49. 
 
 No. 652— Isabella. Oct. 4, 1S50. 
 
 No. 653— Stephen \',ni Lcian. Jan. 5. 1S56. 
 
 A|irilii, No. 318— Re\. .Matthew Kn.>;ler .Meit;s, ni 1812. iSSy. 
 
 i,S43. Allxinw N. ^'., and Pcittstow n. Pa., sun of 
 
 (1O7) Major Jnhii, (if .\lliany. Was the 
 
 fotnidcr iif The Hill Sch.Hil at Pottstown, 
 
 Peiina., which celel nates its fiftieth ,inni\er- 
 
 sar\- in loot. See Ap[). ;,lS. ni. Mary M. 
 
 Could. Jan. 27, i.sjo. 
 
 CHILIDREN. 
 
 N(i. 634— William CmiUl. Feh. 13. 1^44 I'eb. 13, rSS9. 
 
 \,,. 6j:;_(ifui-,u,e lluriiehl. .'XnS. 3, 1S43. ,A|>ril, 1901. 
 
 June 24, NiJ. (556— Mary Onihl. Jiil> '7. i84f'. 
 
 186S. 111. j>'hn r". li.i Costa, 1.1" I'hihulel- 
 
 phia. 
 iKc. 10. .\ii. 657— .\nna Kir^ler. July 22, 1S4S. 
 
 1870. 111. Ileiiiv ('. llitiier. of INitts- 
 
 Inu n, r,i. 
 
 Nil. 65,S— i:>hv.ii(l Kirk. July .S, 1850. Dec. 7, 1.8(17. 
 
 N.>. 65y^Jc.lin. Au-. 31, 1S32. 
 
 No. 660— llerniau \ an Loan. Sept. 12, 1.^54. 
 
 No 661 — Rehecc.L. In infancy. 
 
 No. 662— Eli/ahelh W.mkIIh id-e. M.iy 24, 1858. 
 
 No. 66;— leiniie. ( ... ■ 1860. In inf.incy. 
 
 No. 6f,4— Helen. \ """'■ i860. Ill infancy. 
 
THE HILL SCHOOL. 
 
 POTTSTOWN, Pa. 
 
 FOONDED BT KEV. MATTHEW K. MEIGS, 
 
 1851. 
 
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MARRIED. 
 
 Ell.ll I II ( 
 
 111 ( .1 \l- K.\ llll\. 
 
 No. 323— John Mfigs, of Elkhoni, Wis., sun 
 of (167I iMajor J,)hii, ,,f Alliany, N. V. 
 111. 1st, in .\ll).mv, Anu-li,! (\,lbiini. 2n<l, 
 Sept. 5, Ellen Corbiii, c,f CI, , ml,, 11, ( ihi,, 
 
 I. Mil. 
 
 ■Sep. I :;, i.Sj,;. 
 
 79 
 
 IN.) I. 
 
 CHILD. 
 
 No. 665— .\li. t- M.111,1,- 
 
 .Sej.t. -, i,S5.,. D^^-c. ,, iSo.s. 
 
 June 29, No. 324— ls,.;,r \-.,n l.,,,u, Mei.-s, s,,n uf (167, ,S2: 
 
 I.S5-- Majui- jnhn. ,,f .\ll,any, \. V. m. Julia Harps 
 
 .Slatera. 
 
 '•\S4- 
 
 CHILDREN 
 
 1SS3. No. 666— Mary \'an I,oaii. 
 
 Hi. Kieiltric k II. rower. 
 No. 667 — Annii- K.ine. 
 
 (Jet. 1,5, 1S5-. 
 1 lee. iS, i,S54. 
 
 I 'ec. 5, i,Sy4. 
 
 Oet. 14, No. 334— Davi.l Rich Mei-s, of .Madison, Conn., 
 1.N2S. son of ii.Si! John, of I.:ast (uiilfonl. Conn, 
 
 m. Marv Kelse\-. 
 
 I .Sei^. 
 
 I .S9 1 . 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. 668— lohn Henry. 
 No. 669 — E)a\i(l l-iclci. 
 No. 670 — James Rich. 
 No. 671 — N.ithaii Kelsey. 
 No. 672— Mary ]:ii/al>etli. 
 
 111. Joiialli.in .S. llovt. 
 
 Fell. ;,, i.S;,o. 
 
 
 
 Oct. 2, iS;,i. 
 
 Feb. 5, 
 
 1901 
 
 July 9, 1.S3;,. 
 
 
 
 A Hi;. 27, 1S25. 
 
 Oct. 12, 
 
 1S6;, 
 
 Ally. 17, 1.S40. 
 
 
 
 June 5, No. 335— Hthv, 
 
 1.S29. 
 
 April 3, 
 
 1S5C). 
 
 aiil .Morrison .Melius, of .Madison, 
 Conn., son of ( i.Si 1 John, ,,f Kast C.uilford, Conn. 
 111. 1st, Marietta Wilco.x. 2nd. Euranda C. 
 Lee (widow 1. 
 
 jSo^ 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 I^'o- 673— Kicliard S. 
 No. 674— Edward i:. ) 
 
 Twins. 
 
 No. 675— Ellen i;. \ 
 
 Ml. 1st. ICilsnii .S|ifiiier 
 2n(l, Kiil'iis Butler. 
 
 July ,^0, 1S32. 
 
 June 2S, 1S36. 
 June 28, 1S36. 
 
8o 
 
 M I ii.s ( ;i.\i:ai.i)i.v. 
 
 MARRIED 
 
 Mav 21, No. 339 — John Monisdii Mi-ii^s, of Madison, 
 
 1S39. Conn., son of i isi 1 |olin. of Kast ( iuilfoid. 
 
 No\'. 22. ni. 1st. Mar\' Ann llalsr\'. ^nd. Ro.\anna. 
 
 I ,S66. (Ian. of William ( "oe. 
 
 CHI LOREN 
 
 No. 676 — Ilaniel lienianiin. 
 
 No. 677 — lulgar Courtlaiul. 
 
 No. 67,S — Jehicl Henry. 
 
 In Civil War — SL-rvt-d in 27th Kej^t. 
 Conn. \'iil. lull. 
 
 No. 679 — Theodore I'urdliani. 
 
 No. 6.S0 — Charles .Morrison. 
 Dec. II, No. 6S1 — J.ine Idizabeth. 
 187S. ni. I'rank W.itrou-^. 
 
 .\o. 6.S2 — John I.ertinmvell, ne\er married. 
 
 .No. 6S3 — Clarissa I.onis.i. 
 Dec. 23, No. 6.S4 — Carrie Amelia. 
 1880. m. Leroy C. I)oane. 
 
 (lit. 23, N(J. 6.S5 — Aiinis l.aniira 
 
 1S83. m. Walter A. C.r.di.on. 
 
 May 13, No. '186 — Mar\' .\nn Louisa. 
 
 1S91. ni. Willis .S Wa\. 
 
 1 S I ;„ 
 
 1840. 
 
 April lu, 1S41. 
 
 Nov. 3, 1S42. 
 
 .Xu.:;. 14, 1844. 
 
 Aug: 7, 1,846. 
 
 I line 9, 1S48. 
 
 Mar. 25, 1S50. 
 
 July 15. 1S52. 
 
 -April 19, 1856. 
 
 Jan. 2S, 1S59. 
 
 April 6, 1S65. 
 
 July 10, 1SS6. 
 Sept. 19, 1867. 
 
 .M.ir. 9, i88g. 
 Sept. 29, 1855- 
 
 No. 341 — Johiel MeiL;s. of Madison, Conn., son of 
 (i.Sii (olin. ol tvist ("iiiilford. Conn. ni. Ksl.li<;a' 
 Ciih el . 
 
 CHILD. 
 
 Nn. 6S7 — Esther Culver. 
 
 l.Si- 
 
 1842. 
 
 Urt. 21, 
 I 84 1. 
 
 No. 342 — ■rinuitlu- .Alfred Meigs, of M.idison, i.S2j. 
 
 Conn., son of (i.Si 1 John, of East (iuilford. Conn. 
 Was a [)rivate in Co. I, 27th f-lei^inient of Conn. 
 X'olimteers. .See App. ,^42. 111. Lncretia Allington. 
 
 Oct. 3, 
 1864, 
 
 Aug. 30, 
 1S77. 
 
 CHILDREN 
 
 No. 688 — }'aneline F.li/.ihelli. 
 
 in. ist, Charles P. 'rinmipson. 
 2iul, Charles Crawlord. 
 No. 6S9 — Helen Augusta. 
 
 in. ( reorge 1 loaiie. 
 No. 690 — I'rederick Dou'd. 
 No. 691 — Willis Aver\'. 
 No. 692 — Kate Lenora. 
 
 in. VX'ilhur 'leu kslmrx . 
 No. 693 — Nelson Lunelle. 
 
 July 6, 1.S45. 
 
 |uly 12, 1.S47. 
 
 May 7, 1832. 
 I )ec. 22, 1853. 
 Oct. 27, 1855. 
 
 Jan. 24, 1S60. 
 
Kli.ll 1 II ( '.IM-KAIION. 
 
 .Si 
 
 MARRIED 
 
 No. 343— H,,niv J,j,siah Mui-l, ,,I M.ulis,,,., ( -onn., 
 son ,,f , IS; , John. .,1 l.;ast Guilfunl, C,„in, .\pp. 
 ,U,i- 111. .Mii.L^.iii S. Doaiic. of Essex, Conn. 
 
 1.S2:,. 
 
 I.Sy;. 
 
 HENRY JOSIAH MEIGS' HOUSE 
 Madison. Conn 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 Oct. 4, .\'ci. 694— (^ _\ lUlii,, liani.iiis. 
 
 '^9'5- ni. licit. in P.i-flK.- ,Miin,L;i-r. 
 
 N'o. 695 — 1 ).iii I liiaiie. 
 
 Nil. ngh— I ,t-iiri;c Henry. 
 
 No. 1197— In, Is, ,11 ),jsiali. 
 
 No. 69S— Feli.x .Starkey. 
 
 No. 699 — Clarkson Hull. 
 
 Nil. 700 — Sarah l.mis.i. 
 
 Xo. 701 — li-in,i kiith. 
 
 July I.:;, 1.S59. 
 
 .Se|it. J4, i,S6o. 
 
 Mar. 12, rS62. 
 
 Jan. 17, 1S64. 
 
 < li:t. 16, 1S65. 
 
 April 2. i«68. 
 Aug. 14, iS;!. 
 Aug. 24, 1.S74. 
 
 No. 344. -Miirtinier C. Mrij.;:.. of Hiooklyn. \. \".. 
 son of ii,S;,i llcnjamin H., of .Mailison, Conn. 
 111. Kliza I)a\-ton, of C.lastonl)nr\'. No fnilher 
 reianai. 
 
 No 345— 1-^lilin .M<-ii;s,,^r,l.,,f Ashi,iluilaCo.,( )|ii,, 
 sonof,i,S4i l^lijui jiid, III J-:a>t Ciiilfonl. Conn. 
 ni. ll.innah Dalilwin, of Sa\lirook. Cmn. 
 
 I S, . ;. 
 
 ' '^.Vi 
 
 CH ILDREN 
 
 No. 7.J2— J-:iiliu 4th, 
 Xo. 7u3 — Charles R. 
 No. 704— Beiilah. 
 
 HI. \\ illiani .\slile\ , ol I.eilox, 
 
 Aslualiul.i Co.. ( )lno 
 
 1S29. 
 
 June 27, i>S6i. 
 1883. 
 
M i i(,s (ii:M:Ai,<uiV. 
 
 MARRI ED 
 
 1SJ4. 
 
 No. 34(1— J;i1k/ I'imII M(it;s, cif Dl'IIii, N. ^■., iSo.S. 
 
 son (if I 1 ^4 I I'.liliii 2ikI. nf l-",;isl ( "iiiilldrd, ( '(Hin. 
 
 111. I iia IvL-lsey, uf Madisdii, ("imii. Uil. 4, i.Snj. 
 
 1S81. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 luiie J7, No. 705 — Sarah Jenislia. 
 
 ],S4S. 111. 1 liiw .inl 'I'lioiniisdn. 
 
 No. 706 — Titus llcnjaniin. 
 Sr]it. ;,, No. 707 — Laura Mli/abelh. 
 
 i,S=;i . 111. 1'. Mooif Akia ly. 
 
 No. 70.S — Frances lulia. 
 
 No. 709 — l-lclvvaul Kelsey. 
 
 Mar. 4, 1825. 
 
 Dec. 26, 1S24. 
 
 Ffl). 6, 1831. 
 
 I''c'li. 7, 1S33. 
 
 Jail. 26, 1829. 
 
 Sept. 7, 1837. 
 
 May 3, 184U. 
 
 May 4, 18S7. 
 < )ct. 23, 1S61. 
 
 .\ii;<. 5, 18S5. 
 .\i)ril 19, 1853, 
 
 April 
 
 1S47. 
 
 No. 350 — Honianiin Rich Meigs, of Watertowii, iSnj, 
 
 N. \.. scui cii 1187) lulnumcl, ol liolj.irt, X. \'. 
 W'.is li.ink rdler m \\ ateitouii lor iiiaiiv years. 
 111. ().('.! I.iiiiliii. 
 
 No. 710 — Lizzie .S. 
 
 Feb. 21, 1848. 
 
 Mch. tS. No. 357— Charh-s .\iil;us1iis ,Mei-s. of Lal-efieltl. 181S. 
 
 1S4J. .S. ('. I), ill Madison. Conn., son of i l^pn lie/.aleel 
 
 I., of I-.ast llerlin, ("onn. 111. in Iul>;efield, S. C 
 Mai\' ("alter, il.iii. ol 1 )r. Carter, of .Sa\Lroof;. 
 Conn., who d. 111 Can.ida. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 April I, 1843. 
 
 April 13, No. 711 — Louisa Maria. 
 1S63. Ii. in Fd.ueliekl. 
 
 111. Chas. |i. Sliellielcl.otSaybrook, 
 
 Conn., How ol I'tica, N. Y. 
 No. 712 — I'.ustace l\es. Sept. 9. 1846. 
 
 I S48. 
 
 an. iS, I. S3 I. 
 
 .\pril 13, 1847. 
 
 M,i\- (1, No. 35Q— l-alnuind H.ind .Mcies. of Kast lieilin. 182,^ 
 
 1851). Conn. L. in Madison, ("onn.. son ol 1 igo) Heza- 
 
 leel L, of l-,ast I'leilin. 111. in liianford. Conn.. 
 
 Enieline I.ittle, ol I-!ianlord. who d. in I''ast Berlin. Nov. 29. iSc)i. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 June 2, No. 713 — .Allele K. 
 
 1S74. h. in F^ast Berlin. 
 
 111. Lrederick llulili.ud, ol luist 
 
 I'.erlin, ("' 'im. 
 
 J.ni. 12. 1854. 
 
Kicii 111 ( ;i:.\i:ra riox. 
 
 •^S 
 
 MARRIED. 
 
 Sei)t. IS. 
 
 i.S4q. 
 
 April 2fi, 
 
 No. 360— William Dc.ud .Mrit;s, uf I'ittstield, 
 Mass. 1). in Madison, Conn., son of iicjo) 
 Bezaleel 1. of East Berlin, Conn. ni. ist. 
 Frances Miriam Grave, of Madison, and 2nd, 
 Jeannie Amanda Sniylh, of Alhanv. N. \'. 
 d. in Pittsfield. .Mass. 
 
 i.S: 
 
 Ort,, 1.S32. J 
 
 Ani;-, 6, 1.S5 I . 
 nne 24, i S94. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. 714 — Frances fClizabeth. 
 
 li. in Madison. 
 No. 715— Charles Smyth. 
 
 I), in Albany. 
 No. 716— Willi. mi Ives. 
 
 Ij. in -\lbany. 
 No. 717 — Jtihn I .r.ue. 
 
 1). in .Mliany. 
 No. 71.S— Fr.ink Rich. 
 
 I>. in .Mil. my. 
 No. 719 — Je.in l:.li/abith. 
 
 b. in I'ittsliekl, .Mas 
 
 Dec. 17, 1S50. 
 M.ir. 17, 1S55. 
 April 16, 1S57. 
 
 ( )( t. kS, l.S5y. 
 .Sept. 16, i.Sh2. 
 
 Aui;. 9, 1S68. 
 
 July J4, iS.Si. 
 
 M.ir. 21, 1S60. 
 J.m. 10, 1.S63. 
 
 Oct. 27. No. 361 — Horace Uezaleel Meios, of liran- i.S^g. 
 
 1852. fortl. Conn., son ol i loo) iSe/.alecl I, of luist 
 
 ISerlin, Conn. m. Martha 'SI., dan. ol Timotln' 
 Beach. 1-rli. 27, l.S.^2. 
 
 CHILD 
 
 No. 720— Charles I\es. 
 
 b. in IC.ist ISerlin. 
 
 l-'el). 4, 1854. 
 
 Nov. I, 
 I,S25. 
 
 No. 368 -Retnrn Jonathan Meiys ^(1. of Wash- 
 ington, 1 ). C, son of i ig4 • [ohn, ol Kentncky. 
 Was admitted to the bar in Franklort, J\\-.. in 
 1822. then practiced law in 1-asl lennessce for 
 some N'ears, riding the cncuil, as was lh<-n the 
 cnstom. Later moved to .Athens, 'I'eiin., then to 
 \ash\ille. He became .Attiuinv (ieneral fen- 
 Tennessee in l.'^.iN. and u rot( .mil pnfilished 
 Meigs' Reports of Supreme Conrt 1 )ecisions in 
 Tennessee. Memljcr of the State .Senate ; u as 
 the anthor of Meigs' Digest of I,a\vs : organizer 
 of the .SiiprenU' Conrt of the District of Colnmbia,. 
 and its clerk f(n- thirtv years. App. 3(>><. m. .Sall\- 
 Keys Fo\e, d.m. (.)f [ohn Fo\e, ot Washington, 
 Tenn. 
 
 I .So I . 
 
 I Sc) I . 
 
■'^4 
 
 Mi: II is ( iF.M Ai 1 H,\ . 
 
 MARRIED 
 
 RETURN JONATHAN MEIGS 3R0. 
 
 I eO 1 - 1 89 I , 
 
 Washington , DC, 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 X(i. 721 — James I. .mime. 
 
 Ni). 722 — Return joiiatliaii 41I1 
 
 No. 72.:; — jolm. 
 
 Nil. 724 — [lie X'iiueiit. 
 
 No. 725 — I'ieUliiiL; I'lipe. 
 
 BORN 
 
 I'el). 25, 1.^27. 
 
 Aiiiil 2 = , 1S30. 
 
 Xi.v. 2(1, iN;,4. 
 
 Iiiiu- 7, tS40. 
 
 ,\I.ir. 27. 1.S45. 
 
 .Mar. 27, iNS2 
 
 No. 372 Rftuni fiJiiallian Mi/iys sth. oi Kt-ii- 
 luckv, sun 111 I ig; I rininlliw of ( "harleston. Tmn. 
 (1. en riiute to ("alifornia of ('liulrra, alioiit si.\t\- 
 miles West of Salt Lake. Tlali. m. at Cle\elaiiil . 
 Teiin., lane Rnss, dan. nf John Ross, prim ii>al 
 chief of tile (."herokees. ijuhii Reiss was in ail 
 chief of this trilie foi a ])eriiiil nl sunie forty yi-Mrs 
 preceding his death in iMio. 1 
 
 i.^i:?. 
 
 1S50. 
 
 CHILDREN 
 
 Nil. 72A — John Ross. 
 Nil. 727 — HeiH'N Clay. 
 No. 72.S — Eli/ahetli (irace. 
 ijific). ni. Kiiliis (). Ross 
 
 Nil. 724 — Return Rnliert. 
 
 Feb. 9, No. 7311— Sulanit. 
 
 i,S7i m. Jiihn !■'. K\iius. 
 
 N(i\ . ;,o, 
 
 1S39. 
 
 Feb. 5, 
 
 iSyg 
 
 Nov. 1(1, 
 
 iS4i. 
 
 
 
 ■•^ept. 29, 
 
 1S4.V 
 
 Nov., 
 
 I.S82 
 
 June 21, 
 
 I.S46. 
 
 
 
 June ,^0, 
 
 i.S4,S. 
 
 .Ahir.. 
 
 l.S.Ss 
 
I-^lt.ii III ( ii \ [ i; A I It IX. 
 
 MARRIED 
 
 BORN DIED 
 
 No ,573- K"l" n H.>li M, i^s, ..f Tmu.. son (if isj:;. 
 
 1.S36. ( m; I 'riiiiiitliy, of Cliarlc-slMii, ■r,-nii. m. 1st, Mrs. 
 
 1H54. IVniu-lia (Caitrr) liall. 111. Jiid, Sidncv E. 
 
 CartLT. 111. ;;ril, Aliit^ail (".irl.r. 111. 4tli, Mrs. i S 
 
 1.S60. Afari.i II. Ni. Iiols. 
 
 «5 
 
 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 Il\ I'iRST Will-. 
 .\'o, 731— Tinioiliy .M.irsli.ill. |i||v ^h, 1^40. 
 
 li. in Dam illr, Ky. 
 
 .\'o. 732— James Madison. Mar. 12, 1S43. \,,v. 7. 1S76. 
 
 li. ill D.iiu ille I\\ . 
 
 Xo. 732'z-.Siisan Bell. ,847. ,869. 
 
 No. 733— Kii-liai'l liniilap. May ^^ jS;;,. 
 
 Hv .'sKiDNTi Wll-K. 
 
 N'o. 734— I-li/alirth Siilnt-\-. iS.S?. 
 
 111. I'.eiaye ('lodiie, ol l<tiitc:kv. 
 
 \)y 'I'm I R 11 Wii'E. 
 
 ^•'0. 735— f ■'•"I St- Lainliert. 1S57. l.\.h., 1SP3. 
 
 No. 3S1 -jiihn llciish.iw Ml-Il^s, of .Mllu.lllkrc, iSlg. l.SdS- 
 
 Wis., son of (J I,, I Ricliartl M., (if .Alliaiiv, \. \'. 
 
 .Scr\('(l in i'liinl Wisi onsin infantrv in CiniI War 
 
 troiii Milw.uikcc. 1 lied \\ liilc dii furldu-ii .iiid 
 
 sick li-a\f during Shcninn's .M.in-h lo ihc .Sea. 
 Any. I. .Xdjutant 'Hiiid Wis((iiisiii Infantrv at tli.it time. 
 ■ ■"^.t't. 111. jiilia li. M c, of |->cdoiii.i, \. ^■. 
 
 ' , , , CHILD. 
 
 .No. 736— juliii .St.inle\. 
 
 Oct. IS. No. 382— James Kecler .Mci^s, of Ollau.i, 111.. i.Sjj. i.s.s.s. 
 
 1.S59. son of (2to) Richard M., df .Mhaiiv. \. N'. ni. 
 Helen M. Canicnin, of ()tt,i\\a. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 ^'o- 7.57— -\iiiiie .S|ieiKer. Ilec. 2N, iS6i. 
 
 No. 73.S— Isabella .A. Oct. 4, 1.S64. 
 
 i^'"- 7,i9 — I >uii;lit Cameron. Nov. 10, 1.S70. 
 
 Oct. 14, No. 387— Charles .\. Mei^s, of New \'ork .ind i.S;,;. 
 iSfi.s. Orange, .\. J., son of i jkh Ricli.ird .M.. (if .-\lliaiiv. 
 X. ^■. m. Kalherine .A. l;r\,iii, ■ .f .\e\\ Wnk. 
 
 CHILDREN 
 
 No. 740 — Katlieriiie He(-li;es. .Sept. 20, 1.S69. 
 
 No. 741— Alice lleiisliaw. [uly 15, 1^71. 
 
 No. 742- Bryan. Fel>. N, 1.S75. Nov. 12. i.S7,S. 
 
 -^'n- 743 -Oorothy. Feb. 3, 1S.S2. 
 
 No. 744— .Staiile\ \inceiit. All", h i,S,S6. 
 
S6 
 
 M I ii;s (■.im:.\i.i>c.s . 
 
 MARRIED 
 
 No 395 Henrv Mei.>;s, of New \'(irk, smi of 1S09. 
 
 (2ISI lud.m' llciny, of New York. Was I'lfsidi-nt 
 of Nl-w Ndrk Stork I'lxcliaiv^c- in I'^JJ-^- Sre 
 App. 395. 111. 1st, KalhriiiiL- 1'. I'vircll aiul Jiid. 
 Marv NoL-1 M(l)(iiialil, (uiilowj 
 
 1SS7 
 
 ..._J 
 
 1896. 
 
 HENRY MEIGS, 1809-1887, 
 President New Yor^ Stock Exchange. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 B^ l''iKST Wii K. 
 N(i. 74,s — Katlnrine T. 
 
 111. Kiilieit C. l'i-|jliaiii. 
 
 ]'.\ Skconu Wll-K. 
 Nil. 746 — Henry. 
 Nil. 747— Helen Noel. 
 
 in. Ue\ . Hisliiip I'".ilkner. 
 
 June, 1S3S. 
 
 Niiv. 5, 1S49. 
 All.- , 1.S52. 
 
Ek.iiiii (iKxi-i^A riDX. 
 
 MARRIED 
 
 June 1 , 
 
 I .S46. 
 
 N.>. 3Q6--'rh,-iHl()|-f Dentciii Mci^s, ..I Xcu N'dik, 
 son of (2151 Jh'Ik"^' Henrv, of New N'ork. l<dr 
 niany yi/ars Paying; Tcllrr in l^ank of Anifrii-a. 
 1 •mint; tlu' t"i\il War was I.irutenant in a home 
 I'ompany oi>;anizcd Ijy liinisc-lf. I'roniincnt in 
 religious work, etc. Scr Ap]). V)(i. ni. [nlia 
 Tooker. 
 
 .S14. 
 
 '^'V-<- 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 Oct. 16, 
 
 I.S79. 
 
 No. 74S- 
 
 X(i 
 
 749- 
 750- 
 
 
 No. 751 
 
 
 No. 752- 
 
 
 No. 753- 
 
 
 No. 754- 
 
 
 N'"- 755- 
 
 Feb. 14, 
 
 No. 7.s6- 
 
 1SS9. 
 
 
 -.Anna .\iisusta. 
 
 ni. Nr.iel Becl\\ ni. 
 -'I'Ir'ikIoi e Cluinhill. 
 -Kate liistiiia. 
 
 in. Koliert .Sloruiii 
 
 N. \ . 
 
 -James Clark. 
 ■Charles Austin. 
 -Henry Clunehilk 
 I-'retlerick Walker. 
 ■IAani;eline. 
 Jnlia .M.itihla. 
 ni. h'sepli Sawyer. 
 
 if f'.roiikh 11, 
 
 June i.s, rS4.s. 
 
 Jan. 
 Dec. 
 
 12, iS.Se 
 27. I.S:;2 
 
 Mar. 2^, 1S54. 
 
 ( >ct. 22, 1.S56 
 
 July 28, 1.S61. 
 
 Fell, h, rS64. 
 
 fuly 2j, 1.S66. 
 
 Dec. 12, 1.S6.X. 
 
 i-^57- 
 
 ' >cl, 7, 1S64. 
 
 .\ii:<., r.S95 
 -Xul;, iq, rS66. 
 
 No. ,597— diaries Austin Meigs, of New York, 
 son of / 2 I s ) Jtnlge Henrv, of New \'ork. Was 
 Banker and N.iiional Ixmk l{\aniiner. ni, fulia 
 \'anzanelt. 
 
 I. Si ft. 
 
 |S,X;,. 
 
 CHILDREN 
 
 No. 757 — Julia Augusta. No\ , 13, i,S-,7. 
 
 ui. S.iinuel Pool. 
 N". 75S— Sus.ui. Dec. 1. iSj9. 
 
 ni. lieuiamin F. Corlies, of New 
 
 ^■ork. 
 
 N"- 759— Charles lleury. Jan. 20, 1S42. .Mar. 29, nSqi. 
 
 No. 760 — Pe\eril. I"eb. 27, l>>47. 
 
 No. 761 — Mary Louisa. Feb. 9, 1.S56. 
 
 No. 762— Kate. Aug. I, 1S61. 
 
 ni. Warren Weston. 
 No. 763— Clara. ,1. ni inlancy. 
 
 X,,. 764— Walter. ,]. ,„ i„|aiicv- 
 
ss 
 
 M ll( ,s ( "ilM' A 1,1 )l A . 
 
 M ARRI E:D 
 
 May 
 1.S41 
 
 No. .?(>** M.i|()i ( .cul .MiMil-(Hm/r\ C\1nnin.14l1.ini 1S16. 1S92. 
 
 Mt-ins, <i| \\',ishini4lnn, 1 ). ('., son uf 1 J 1 1; 1 Dr. 
 Charl.-s \).. of I'hiladi-lphia, I'a. Was a distin- 
 guished engint-LT, scientist, and ( juailcrniaster- 
 Ceneral of the l'. .S. .\ini\. S<e App, ,V)S. 
 
 ni. Louisa, dan. of ( ■nniniod-iv John Rod-rrs, Nov. 21, 1 Sj.;. 
 
 ['. S. Navy. 
 
 MAJOR GEN L MONTGOMERY C. MEIGS. U. S, ft 
 1816-1 892- 
 
 Mar. 
 
 IS64. 
 
 June, 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. 76.S — iNhijor ]u\u\ Kmli^t-rs. 
 
 Killf<l v\liili- .III olVut-r (if the V. S. 
 A. Sre. App. 7(15. 
 
 No. 766— Mary MuntsiuinerN'. 
 
 111. Colc.nel h'seph H.m<i>t-k Tay- 
 lor, r. .S. A. Si-i- App. 7'^'i- 
 
 -N'o. 767— Charles Deluceiia. 
 
 No. 76S— Montgoiiu-r\ . 
 
 No. 764— X'iiiceiU 1 rou liri(lt;e. 
 
 No. 770 — Louisa K(Kl:.;frs. 
 
 111. AoliilKilil ImiiIil-s, the iioteil 
 I-ar^lisli vv.o- i m resiHiinlent. 
 
 [■eb. 9. 1-^42. 
 
 .\uc 
 
 1843. 
 
 Jan. 5, iS-15- 
 
 Fell. 27, I.S47. 
 
 Sept. 12, 1S51. 
 
 ,\U'.;. 4, iS54. 
 
 ( )it. 5, 1864. 
 
 Mar. 1;,, 1S85. 
 Sept. :,, 1S5;,. 
 Oct. 28, 185;,. 
 
MARRIED. 
 
 IS44. 
 
 ( let 16, 
 
 Kli .11 I H ( "i1,m:i; A I h >\. 
 
 No. 3QQ— C'haiks I )rki(fna .M(it;>, (.1 liuli.m- 
 apolis, Iniliana. .sun of ; j uj 1 1 )r. C'haiiis I)., of 
 I'liiladclphia, Pa. m. F.li/ahclli. dau. of I'unuaii 
 Lianiiiii;, (if I'liilaililphia. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. 771 — Mary Lea 111 in;^. 
 
 Nil. 772 — Cli. nil's l)cluiLn.i. 
 
 Nil. 773 — MoiitKoiiiLTy Ciiiiniii:_;li.ini. 
 
 No. 774 — Louis [.eainiiiL;. 
 
 No. 775 — Heiirx L. 
 
 No. 77h-Eniily I'.iil.lle. 
 
 in. W'arujik II. Kiplrv, nf lern 
 
 Haute, liul. 
 No. 777 — Kli/alieth LeaniiiiL;. 
 No. 77N — .Sarah Thnu kiiuirti m 
 No. 779 — John l'ors\ tl.. 
 No. 7.S0 — .SaniuiLi Mt-rrill. 
 
 l-eli. 25, 1S45. 
 .Sept. 20, i.S4h. 
 
 April I, 1S4S. 
 
 ^Ll^. .S, 1.S5,.. 
 Atii;. 19, I.S57. 
 Au.;. 2.S, i.^j.v 
 
 Sept. 24, 1S55. 
 
 Au.l;. i;,, 1S57. 
 
 J line I, iSr>. I. 
 
 .\pril 5 1.S63. 
 
 «9 
 
 O 
 
 lSy4. 
 
 1850, 
 
 .M.ir. 7, 1S7S. 
 
 Oit. iN, I.S9I. 
 
 I ii t., 1856. 
 
 July 1 1, i.S7y. 
 (.let. 3. IS.S,. 
 
 Urt. 17, No. 400— Dr. John l-ursylh .Moii^s, nf I'lul.iclii- 
 
 ■ ■'>44- pliia. I'a., son of (2191 Dr. ("Iiaiies ])., of I'hil.i- 
 
 (.k-lphia, I'a. Was a skillful .nul (listiiigiiislicii 
 
 l)hysician. 111. .\nn Wih m ks, il.ui. i.if Charles 
 
 j.iri'il Ini^ej-soll. nf I'liilailtiiihia. 
 
 I M.N. 
 
 iS.S: 
 
 CH ILDREN. 
 
 No. 7S1 — Kniily Skinner. 
 
 No. 7S2 — Harry In.^ersoll, 
 
 No. 7S3 — John I-'orsyth. 
 
 No. 7S4— Artluir X'incciU. 
 
 No. 785 — William Monl.>;oiiiei \ . 
 
 No. 7S6 — Alexander Wilmcks. 1 
 No. 787 — .\nn Ingersol. f 
 
 No. 7.SS— .Mary Hope. 
 
 Tv, ills 
 
 July 9, 1S45. 
 
 Fell. 8, 1S47. 
 
 I.)it. 3, 184S. 
 
 Fell. I, 1S50. 
 
 Aug. 12, 1S52. 
 
 Auy. 10, 1N54. 
 Au;4. 10. 1S54. 
 
 1 )er. 20, iH^h. 
 
 Sept. 21, 1846. 
 
 I ii t 4, 1.S60. 
 
 liilx' (1, 
 1.S4;,. 
 
 No. 402 — ilcnry X'incont Miii^s, of ( '.euroia, si.m 
 of (219 I IJ''- Ch.irles D., of I'hiladelphia, i'a. m. 
 flenrietla f larsj rea\ es, dau. nf Charles D. .Stewart. 
 
 i.S. 
 
 1.S47. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. 7.S9 — Charles .Stewart. 
 
 No. 790 — Mar\' .Moiitgouiery. / 
 
 No. 791 — Henriett.t Har<;rea\es. \ 
 m. I.icoh Lyman Cook. 
 No. 792— Theophilus Stewart. 
 No. 793 — FIeiir\ \'incent. 
 No. 794 — Elizabeth Jiarues. 
 
 Twins. 
 
 NLiy II. 1.S44. 
 
 Sept. 24, 1.S45 
 Sept. 24, 1S45. 
 
 Jan. 7, 1.S47. 
 June 10, 184S. 
 July 2S, 1S52 
 
 J.m. 12, 1S45 
 
 July 4. ■S-17. 
 
 Mar. 4, IS,S5- 
 
 Fell. 7. '■'^5,S 
 
 Fell. i,s. 1N55. 
 
9" 
 
 Ml-ICS (iKX|-.\l.<H,\-. 
 
 MARRI 
 
 ED. 
 
 1-Vll. 
 
 26, 
 
 IS7S. 
 
 
 Del. 
 
 18, 
 
 I.S77. 
 
 
 Apri 
 
 i 25 
 
 1882. 
 
 
 CHILDREN CONTINUED 
 
 N(i. 795— l^iuily. 
 
 111. Williiini I'^velyn WuullVilk. 
 
 No. 71)6 — .Anna l-'ursylh. 
 
 111. Malciilm M. FlL-iiiiiis;. 
 No. 797 — George Har.yreax es. 
 No. 798 — Xirginia I lar:<rea\ e.s. 
 
 111. ,\i llinr K . Woolfolk. 
 No. 799 — Sleuarl. 
 No. 800 — Georgia P.. 
 
 BORN 
 
 !• el>. 6, 1S54. 
 
 July 17. '^55- 
 
 I'ec. 25, 1856. 
 .Sept. 24, 1858. 
 
 April 5, 1S60. 
 .Sept. 7, 1861. 
 
 Oct. 23, J859. 
 
 Sept. 15, 1862. 
 Aug. 3. 1S62. 
 
 Alio. J4, No. 404 -Willi. nil .MoiUooniery .Meios, of Lafay- 
 1855. ette-, Intl., .son ol (219) Dr. Charles D., of Phila- 
 
 delpliia, Pa. 111. Jerusha Eliza, dau. of Jc.hn S. 
 
 Tiirin-r. 
 
 1S26. 
 
 1.S97. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. 801 — Mary laiilen. 
 
 No. 802 — Henry Tunis. 
 
 No. S03 — Willie Turner. 
 
 No. 804 — Charles Delucena. / r.,,;,, 
 No. 805 — Mary Craythorne. ) 
 
 No. Sn6 — Eniil\- Biddle. 
 
 No. 807 — lulia Inskeep. 
 
 |une 2, 1S54. 
 
 Sept. 4, 1855. 
 
 .\l)ril 16, 1857. 
 
 -Sept. 4, 1859. 
 .Sept. 4, 1859. 
 
 .\ug. 23, 1861. 
 
 lune 3, 1865. 
 
 .Sept. 29, 1855. 
 
 Sept. 7, 1882. 
 
 No. 405 — Cajit. Sanuicl Enilcn Meigs, of I'hil.i- 1S2S. 
 
 tlelphia, I'a., son of ( Jio ' 1 )r. Charles I)., of Phila- 
 d( Iphi.i. ni. Cornelia, daii. of William E. Roijers, 
 iif I'hihuliliihia. .See A|i|i. 4115. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. 8oN — Henrietta Ruggles. 
 
 111. Roliert Coleman l>r.iytoii. 
 No. S09 — Freilerick Rogers. 
 
 May 12, 1865. 
 May 1 1, 1869. 
 
 Nov. 
 
 No. 409 — Timothy Vincent Mei.tjs, of Mad- 
 ison. Conn., son of (JJ.s' John F., of F'ast 
 Ciiilfoid, Conn. in. ist, Charlotte- M. Judson, 
 and Jnd, Catherine Hridi^nian, of lielcher- 
 teiwn, Mass. 
 
 IS( 
 
 1859. 
 
 Nov. 
 
 1819. IJec. 14, 1899. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. Sio — John. 
 No. 81J — Marshall Timothy. 
 No. 812— Xinreiit Willard. 
 No. S13—CI1, tries Timotliy. 
 
 In mtaney. 
 
 |une 16, 
 
 |.in. I, 
 
 lulv 28, 
 
 1848. 
 1837- 
 
I-.ii .11 1 11 < ii:i\r:KA iKix. 
 
 Sep. 2S, No. 411 -.SanuK-l .StoiiL- .Mci.-s, of Mailison, Conn.. i.Sr 
 
 1^4;,. son iif I2JS1 Jiihn F., of KasI Ciiilfonl. m. Mary 
 
 .Ann .Siniili. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. N14— Kllcn i:ii/a. 
 
 111. I'r.ink W. I lav. 
 No. H15— Cliaiiultt- Jiid.soii. 
 
 111. Cli.irlfs I.. 1 liniiiari. 
 
 June 29, 1.S44. 
 Dec. 5, 1S52. 
 
 91 
 
 1 ^'J'J- 
 
 No. 414 — Di. Ju.scph Jo.siali .M(.i,i;>,. ol iM,i(liL,in, 
 Conn., sun of ( 22^) John K. nf E. Guilford, Conn, 
 ("■raduatcd fnmi tlie Medical Dcijartnunt cif Vale 
 College in i,S4r), and practircd nmst nf thr time 
 alter his L;radnatiiin in Madisun, his nati\i- town. 
 He li\ed and died in the |olin French Meiti.s' 
 hiiuse, illustrated in App. jjs. ni. .Mrs. Filizaheth 
 Coates. No CliildiT-n. 
 
 No. 420— Fphraim .Meigs, nf Rochester, .Mass., 
 son of ( 2,v > I'^piiraim, of Rochester. 111. Clarissa 
 Rogers. 
 
 CHILD. 
 
 .\u. S16 — Lucy I.e ll.inin. 
 
 ni. (lecirse W. Lnl.dell. 
 
 1 Soo. 
 
 l.Sj.S. 
 
 .April 7, 1S26. M.iy 3, if^/y. 
 
 Dec. 1 4, No. 425— jnseph >fei;4s, nf M.ittapoisctt, .M.iss., i ,Soy. 
 
 1833. S(in of (2,V>) jnseph, nf .M.itt.ipoisett. in. Marv 
 
 Holmes. .See App. 4:15. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. S17 — Jcise]ih Lorini;. 
 .\(). Si.S — .Mary |cise|iliine 
 
 July (\ i,S3,S. 
 May 25, 1.S40. 
 
 1 .S4 I . 
 
 Sept. 12, 1.S41 . 
 
 Nnv.17. 
 
 No. 427 — I.nrini; .Meigs, of .Mattapnisett, Mass., i.Si;,. 
 
 son of (23V Jnse|)h, of Mattapnisett. m. .M.iry 
 .S.imsnn. .See .App. 427. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. .S19 — Charles I levveese. Dec. 25, iS4,S. 
 
 .\o. .S2n — Jose|ih Marl. Nov. 2y, I.S49. 
 
 No. ,S2i — M,uy I.oriii;^. TJec. 19. 1N.S2. 
 
 111. ['heron Ames, ol Dedhaiii, 
 
 Mass. 
 
 I Syy. 
 
92 
 
 Miiiis ('ii'NTAiiii ;v. 
 
 MARRIED 
 
 No. 4.5! N.ith.iiiirl Mci-v "f \',issall.nr,,, M,,. 
 son (if (2.^71 Anson, dI X'assallMini. I-.nlistrcl 
 I )ci . V'. l-^^'ii, in ("11. (". 141I1 M.iinc Intantrw 
 I )iril in llic st-r\ii-c ,il ll.itun Kdn:^!-, I..1., .\(i\. i i, 
 lS(i2. 111. .Sarah .Snun;^, of Scuitli X'assalln ii< 1. 
 N'(i ("Inld I en. 
 
 I .S 1 I . 
 
 |S(); 
 
 .m. 14. No. 433 -1 )i. Willi, un Mfit^s. nf West X'ii'^ini.i, 
 
 s^:^. sijii (il I -.i7 ' .\iisiin. Ill \'assall)Oi'i), Mc. K. in 
 
 Ciilninhi.i ("".. N. \'. I'li\'siii,in, tearhrr, lr(tni"iT 
 
 .mil uriti-i". .St'r .-\[i|). 4;, 't. 111. Ijuliic WliiU-lmnsr, 
 
 iif China. Me. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 Xo. N22 — .Syiliu-y. 
 
 No. S25 — An inl.int sun. 
 
 l.Sih. 
 
 1S44. 
 
 1 89 1 . 
 
 1S49. 
 d. .it birth. 
 
 No. 438 -fiihn Mi-ii^s. of Windsur. Me., son nf 
 i:?4i I laliez. Ill Winilsoi-. ni. isl. .Marv .Ann 
 I'.ii kluirsl, of Wiiiilsor. Jml, 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 Nil. .SJ4 — |iilni l-'raiik. 
 No. CS25— M.iltie. 
 Nil. S26— 
 No. S27— 
 No. .S2,S— 
 N... S29- 
 No. .S3U— 
 Nil. ,Sv — 
 
 No, 444 — ("a|it. (lidewn Meii;s, iif Bnffahi, -\. \ ., 
 SI 111 I if ( 24 ^ I N.ith.miel ^iid, of \ .iss.lUh h 1 1, Me. See 
 .■\|i|i. 444. in. l-'liir.i H.iicliiii;. Ill Annir.i. X. \ . 
 
 IN. .4. 1.S7M. 
 
 1 .S 1 ,■-;. Sent. 1 I . l,Si.j6. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. N;,2— Walter Kdmuiul. 
 
 No. ,S;,3 — (/jideon Rdunind. 
 
 N<i. ,'^.^4 — Nathaniel. 
 
 Xo. S35 — Richard MontKumerv. 
 
 No. H;-,6 — Flora Ann \\'ooldriilj;e. 
 
 No. ,s-,7— |ose|ili. 
 
 l-'eli. 14, I, S ;,!-). 
 
 .Mar, 5, 1.S40. 
 
 Ian. 23, 1S42. 
 
 .April 12, 1,^44. 
 
 Mav 6. 1S46. 
 
 July 17, 1.S48. 
 
 Mar. I,;, 1S39 
 
 Jan, 13, 1S96 
 
 .\iis;. 2.S, 1S62 
 
 I U;l. -,i, 1S63 
 
 June 7, 1.S62 
 
 Mar., nScji 
 
I*"ii;ii I H Gi-:mi;atiii\. 
 
 93 
 
 MARRIED. 
 
 I lec. 23, 
 
 lS6y. 
 
 CHILDREN CONTINUED 
 
 Nn. .S;,,s— Henriett.i. 
 
 111. 1st, Jdllll M. W.i,lk-i.i;ll, c.r 
 Biilfalo, N. \., ami 2iul, .Albert H. 
 Cole, of IJiirt'aJo. 
 
 Nil. .S;g — Jonatliaii llardiiii;. 
 
 or these five soils of Capt. (lult-on 
 Mei.ys who lived to attain nian- 
 li(.ioil, four of them eiliistetl ill the 
 Union cause, in the Civil War. 
 (~iiileon i:., at I'.iinsxille, < ). ; 
 Nathaniel, ,it K.uine, Wis. ; Rich- 
 ard .M., in ( )hio ; .md Joseph, at 
 Bnhalo, N. ^■. And two of them 
 i;ave np lite in their countrv's 
 cause — Nathaniel on the battle- 
 held near Washington, and Rich- 
 .ird M. shot on the Mississippi 
 Ruer while on his way to t.lke 
 comni.ind in a Colored Rei;iment. 
 
 EOR N . 
 
 Jul\ I, iNji. 
 
 July 24, 1.S56. 
 
 No. 447— I-:iiciu-zer .Mejos, Jr.. of Soutli 1S13. 
 
 .April Id, ("hiiia. Me., son of 1 J44 1 ICbcnezer 1st. of 
 IS:;5. .Siiiitll ("hill, I. m. I\li/,dirtll ( ",. Ihiwler. Sep. I'l, I.Sid. 
 
 1.S7.S. 
 
 •Aui.;. S, i.Sd^. 
 
 l-'eb. 6, 
 I .S6 1 . 
 
 I'"i35- 
 
 CHILDREN 
 
 No. .S.JO — Helen Mari.i. 
 
 m. John .M. Cook, of North \', 
 
 s.Llhoro, .Me. 
 No. !S4I — .\lfred Eheii. 
 
 IJct. 16, is^6. 
 
 April 21, 1S47. 
 
 Dec. <\ No. 455— As,i .Meii;s, of Xantucket, Mass., son of 
 
 iJ.Siii Asa. nl S.iiidwich, Mass. ni. ist. .Ahbie 
 
 Mar. 12, 11. Kclley. of Centicxille, M.iss. 2nil, C.iroline 
 lS_i.:;. W. Miuey, of X.mtucket. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 11 \' FlKST WlKK. 
 
 No. ^42— Charlotte. A|>ril 15, i.S^fi. 
 
 No. .S43 — Hannah M. Oct. 22, i.S^S. 
 
 No. S44— .Aliliy B. Jul> 20, 1S41. 
 
 li\ -Skconii Wlh K. 
 
 No. S45— Kli/a M. l.iec. 6, 1S44. 
 
 No. ,S46— Caroline A. iisli Sept. 3, i.S4h. 
 
 No. .S47— Caroline .\. ■ '■ ' r .t April 4, i,S4,s. 
 
 '. 111. JoNiah Neucomli. of S.indwich, V -•.V.j,.,^^^, 
 
 Mas 
 
 No. .S4,s— Sulnex W. 
 No. 849 — I-'ranklin 1'. 
 No. S50— Klizaheth M. 
 No. .Ssi — As.i F. 
 
 Se|it. 30, 1.S30. 
 
 Mar. 4, I.S.S3. 
 
 Aug. 29, iS.v"?. 
 
 Aug. 20. 1.S60. 
 
 T.s,S5. 
 
 .\|iril 20. 1S39. 
 Sept. 7. 1S41 . 
 
 Jan. 7, iN47. 
 Jan. 1, 1.S47. 
 :\Iay 9, 1.S91. 
 
 Jan. 10. 1.S52. 
 
 .April 20, 1859. 
 
 M.iv 9, 1S59. 
 
94 
 
 MKUis f"ii-:N:- Ai.iic.v. 
 
 MARRIED 
 \ ^1 
 
 No. 456— l.malhaii Mri-s. of New lU'dlnnl, Mass., iMS- 
 
 son of i2-:^n) Asa, of Sandwich, Mass. ni. I'liocl.c 
 !'i-i,c, of Nrw licdfnnl, .lau. of iMiiiamin I ). I'rice. 
 
 CHILD. 
 
 No. Ss.? — l;.-niainiii ( )li\LT. 
 
 Went 111 sea when .ilxan 14 \eai> 
 old, not heard rroni since. 
 
 1835- 
 
 No. 4O3— C.dvni .\teios, of Sanduicli, Mass., son i Soo. 
 
 ,,1 , J57 ) Idsiali, of Fannri-svilfe, Mass. ni. Susan 
 huller. of liarnslalile, .Mass. 
 
 1880. 
 
 I.in. I, 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. S5,^— Cyntlii.i 1' idler. 
 
 in. .Se.LTs l„i|ihani. of New Bed- 
 lord, Mass. 
 
 No. .S34— l.iz/ie I'. 
 
 ni. Heinan C. Crocker, of Barn- 
 stable, M.iss. 
 
 Dec. I, I«32. 
 
 1835- 
 
 May I, 1S75 
 .\ii;.;. 22, 1S66. 
 
 I.S^.S. 
 
 1S12. 
 
 iSg.'- 
 
 Nov. 14. 
 1S5.S. 
 
 JuK 1.'., 
 1872. 
 
 No. 466— Josiaii Meios, of New Ik-dford, 
 Mass son of (2S7I fosiali, of Faniiei-.sville, 
 Mass. 111. Merry f<elley, .if Harwicli, Mass. July 12, 1.S22. Au^. 12, 1S60. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. S55— Kliphalel. 
 No. .S56— M,ir:.;.iret .Aim. 
 
 ni. VVdhani I'. Soiile, . .f Westport, 
 
 M.i-,s. 
 
 No. Ss7 — 1 lorcas K. 
 
 in. l-aliiniiul lish \Veel<s. 
 
 .\'o. !S,sS — .Sylvia Crouell. 
 
 No. S5g— Henry Knssell. 
 
 No. Sfio— Idlen Jane. 
 
 1S40. 
 
 May 5, I.S42. 
 Dec. 25, 1.S32. 
 
 /Xpril 24, iSj;A. 
 
 .April 17, n'^47- 
 
 Sept. 17, i-S.so. 
 
 1.S54. 
 
 1856. 
 |iine 14, i''^4,3. 
 
 1884. 
 
 July 2, 1S69. 
 
 Nov. 15, 1S87. 
 
 1857- 
 
 No. 467— Edmund Meii-s, of Soutli S.indwich, 
 .Mass., son of . J37 1 josi.di, of I'anner.sville, Mas.s. 
 in. lN.eineinl>er Jones, of Sandwicli, -Mass. 
 
 I ,M I . 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 1 S94. 
 Dec. 27, i''^.S9- 
 
 X,,. ,S6i— Charles \V. 11. 
 No. S62 — Sunnier ( 1. 
 
 lane 1 1, 1840. 
 
 June 19, 1843. C)ct. ih, 1.S4S. 
 
MARRIED 
 
 I'^uiin II (ii xi:R,\ri(>x. 
 
 No. 469 — (",L-orL;\- W'asliinglun Melius, of South 1S14. 
 
 Sandwich, -Mass., son of (257 1 Josiah, of l-'armcrs- 
 ville, Mass. m. Abii^ail \'allcr, of l'l\-niouth, 
 Mass. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. S63— William H. 
 Xo. S64~Liicy. 
 
 m. Jaiiie'i Jones, nt BArnst.il)lr, 
 
 iMass. 
 
 June 12. 1N43. 
 l>ec. S, 1.S45. 
 
 9.^ 
 
 IS., J. 
 
 No. 470— Ralph .MiiL;s, of Ce-ntrexille, Mass., son 1.S15. 
 
 of ( 257 I Josiah, of FaniiLTSv ille, .Mass. m, Reliecca 
 Meigs, of Sandwich, Mass., dau. of Asa .Meigs. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. S65 — Cordelia. 
 
 ni. Thonias llubsoii, ofSanduich, 
 .Mass. 
 
 No. 866— .Adelaide. 
 
 111. Isaac Stur.i.;es, of Barnstable, 
 
 Mass. 
 No. 867 — ( leorge Frederick. 
 
 July 13, 1S40. 
 
 an. I I . I.S43. 
 
 April S, 1.S47. 
 
MARRIED 
 
 NiMH (ilM:kA I Ii)N. 
 
 NIATIT (^KXEKATTON. 
 
 Foiid man ! thmn;li all the lioiiurs <il voMr line 
 Bedeck yonr lialls. ami roiirnl your i;alleiies shine 
 In prouii ilispla\ . yet lake this truth trom u)e- 
 \irtue ainne is trnt.' nni.ililv ' 
 
 97 
 
 l^o- 473 — LiiR-iiZd Mcii^s. of Lvmlun, \'t.. s,,ii ul 1S114 
 
 (J5S1 Dr. |ohn (nh, of Lvnilcin, \'t. 111. Sclina 
 
 I.ihI.I. 
 
 No. 868-1^1, e-lla. CHILD. 
 
 1 'nnianiecl : — luLil in W.ivcrly, 
 Mass. 
 
 BORN . DIED. 
 
 iS4i,. 
 
 No. 474— l>i-. Jnhn Mcios jtli, ,,f Hyde Park, Vt., i,S,,6. ,.S62. 
 
 ^"11 "f 125S) Dr. [dim (.ih. ..f LvikIdii, \'t. 
 111. L.iiir.i W'alcrniaii, of |i ilm^c m. \'t. 
 
 CHILDREN 
 
 Ni>. S6y— John J. ytli. 0,t. .'4, 1S3S. 
 
 No. S70— l.aiira .A. Jan. 4. 1.S44. 
 
 HI. I St. George Downer. 
 
 111. 2iul. L. M. Knight. 
 N... 871 — Geor-e H. Jnly 6, 1S45. Kel). 4, i.Sy6. 
 
 1S70. No. S72— Kle.mor. An-. 2;,. 184S. 
 
 in. ist. H. C. Irish, who ilied 
 111. 2iul. |. \V. Ciistv,orRiim\V( 
 III. 
 
 1 89 1 . 
 
 Oct. I. No. 483— Cliiurli Mcios, i.f Malrom, I,,\va., 1,804. '•'^'VS. 
 
 18-4. soil of (25c)) Hainan, of Claifiiiont, N. II. 
 
 111. Nancy I'aii.h-lfonl. j„nt- 2U. iSi v jinu- j.8, i,s,8(r. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 Jan. I, No. 873-P,,tieiu:e Padcleir..rJ. June 19, 1835. 
 
 '^55- 111. ist, Jolm Wallace. 
 
 .Iii'y 25, m. 2nd, Dr. R. Seans. 
 
 1882. 
 
 No. S74— John. 1^,,,^. ,4 ,3,. 
 
 No. 875— .SyU.tiuis Rand. ill. May 17, 18^,9. 
 
 No. S76-Sinieon I'acUlelf.u,!. Aug. ;,!, 1,841. June 12, 1865. 
 
 No. 877— Church. Dec. 22, 1843. 
 
 No. 878— lielljainin liulloc k I'addellord. Oct. 14, 1,846. 
 
 No. 879— .Austin I'atldeltbnl. April 12, 1850. 
 
 No. 8,80 — Merrill Henian. 
 
 June 22, 1855. 
 
 John. .Syl\ anus, Simeon and Cluirch 
 Meigs, and John Wallace, ist hus- 
 band of Patieiue. were .ill in the 
 army in Cixil War; all in Iowa 
 kegiiiienls, \'oliiiiteer .Srr\ ice. 
 
.jS 
 
 Ml'.K.S ril-.M'.AI.OdV. 
 
 JUIK- 4. 
 
 1 S 1 I 1. 
 
 1 s,S9. 
 
 No. 485 -Dr. Ji'lui .Mri-^ Mh, 'if Sl.iii'.l.a.l, 
 
 1'. ()., son iif (.i.SMl Ill-man, "I Clarrmciiil , 
 
 N. H. 1>. at Wlu-rlnrk. \'l. A prarlilumri 
 
 .if nu-(li(-inc Inr omt fiftv vcars al .StansU-ad 
 
 I'lam. .Sri- Api.. 4S3. 111. Ell/aln-lli Caniliiu- A| .1 il 1 >;. 1 -^- -'■ .Mav l.S, l./jo. 
 
 riKirndiki- Crannis, ilau. of William Craii- 
 
 nis, I'^M|.. "{ Stansti-ad. 
 
 JOHN MEIGS. M. D , Stanstead. P Q. 
 1810-1 889 
 
 CHILDREN 
 
 No. ,SNi— Alice I,\ ilia. 
 
 No. SS2— Elizabeth Siiiiiiier. 
 
 April 26, 1S46. 
 May 20, 1853. 
 
 No. 4g2— Daiiiii- ("lark .M.-i..;>, of 1',. .ii .Istouii, i-^2;v 
 
 111, sdii (if (2(>(il Lcin-n/M, (if Maldiic, X. ^'. m. 
 Harriet llitchcdck, of Maloiu . 
 
 Jan. 10, i«95. 
 
 iSfi:;. 
 
 Jan. : 
 ■ 842. 
 
 No. SS^— Mary. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. SS4— Sarali '1 lioiiipson. 
 (1. in C-ilildrni,!. 
 
 No\-. II. iNbv Jan. 1, 1.SS6. 
 
 No. 4Q()— (■.(-di-d W. Mci-s.df 1 ).ill,is, T(-\.i>, Mill 
 df ( 2(.i i Ansdii, (if -St. Jdhnsliiir;, . \'t. d. lu-ar tlu- 
 City (if Dallas, T(-\.i^. He went Id T(-\,i- in 1S77 ; 
 residt-d .ilidiil i^ miU-s fidin llic CilVdf D.illas. 
 ( )ii .Aii',4Ust IS. i^;-*^. \^a^ iiuird(-r(-(l li\- parties nii- 
 kiiduii. 111. Caiiiill.i VV. W'dddni.iii. (il j.iiK-^- 
 villi , \Vi.. 
 
 1878. 
 
NiMH ('.i:Ni;R.\riii\. 
 
 99 
 
 MARRIED 
 
 CHILDREN 
 
 BORN . 
 
 Jan. 2y, 1845. j.iii. 2, iSyg. 
 
 May, 19. 1.S46. 
 
 Jan. 6. Xo. 8S5— I-;nima L. ])^,., ;i,, i,S4 
 
 '■'■'''.I- ni. James Cnift. 
 
 No. SS6— George W. 
 
 <1. at (JklaluHii.i City, Oka. 
 <>,t. 7, N.,. S.S;— Cclia .\. 
 
 '»'74- m. |). S. Ciininiiii.Lis, .il |.infs\ ille, 
 
 Wis. 
 
 No. SSS— Austin iM-eni.Mit. July 9, 1S49. M^'.v 30, KS91. 
 
 ni. Katiierine !■:. .Stone, of ("oumil 
 Blnlfs, la. 
 
 No. S89— Anson Wcjodnian. Mar. 24, 185-,. 
 
 or .San Francisco, Cal. 
 No. S90— Man|iiis Fayette. Fell. 15, 1S58. 
 
 No. S91— Willie. An-. 10, 1.859. Ano. 17, 1861. 
 
 Jiilv 4. No. 499— Alexander M.i-s, ..f Criiiiirll, Iowa, son 1825. 
 
 184.8. of (261 ) Anson, of St. Jolmsl.nrv, \'t. ni. Lorilla 
 
 Minor. 
 
 CHILDREN . 
 
 June 19. No. 892— Flora L. Ft-|, ,,5^ j.s,^- 
 
 1^87. ni. F. .M. Ward, M. 1).. olMarsIiall- 
 
 town, Iowa. 
 No. ,89;,— .Anson C. Jnlv2i, 1.861. 
 
 I >( V.m Cle\c, Iowa. 
 
 Jtily 2<., No. 508— .SanuK-l Harvey Feet .Mei-s, of New 1828. 18^5. 
 
 1856. ^'ork, sun of ( 266 ) Re\-. Benjamin C. Missionary 
 
 t<i India. Wa.s yradnaled front New York Uni- 
 
 vefsity in 1.850. Devoted his life to te.ichinii 
 
 Latin and Creek. See App. 50.8. m. MarL;ai-et 1828. I,8i)6. 
 
 Allen Ensile, of Colnniln',i. Pa. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. .894— Walter. .\l,,y 10, 1.S58. \.,v. 5, 1.899. 
 
 No. S95— Florence. Au.u. 29, 1859. 
 
 No. .S96— Harriet. July 19, ,861. 
 
 .'\pril 4, N,,. .sgy—jennie. Aug. n,, 1,863. 
 
 '■''■'^9- ni. Wiiliani B.irclay Dnnliam, of 
 
 Brooklyn, N. ^'. 
 April 22. No. .89S— Filith. ( ,,.t. 30, 1865, 
 
 '^'^"-'- ni. Henry C"o/zens Knox, Bank 
 
 Cashier at Patterson, N. J. 
 1- of C. See App. 5c,5, 6, 7 and S. 
 
MARRIED. 
 
 1 S s 1 . 
 
 IS72. 
 
 BOBN, 
 
 No. 5og— Ch.irl.s .^K■l.^^. nl X.u Voik. ^un "t i.^-'^)- 
 
 ,2(.(i> Rev. Mcniaiilin C, nl India. W.is a ron- 
 iraitcir. m. Eli/alu th Krausr. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 Nu. H94— Ella. 
 
 in. Idsei'h McNespic, iifN<u \<iil< 
 
 City. 
 .\ii. 900 — IV-ssie. 
 No. 901 — Ilia. 
 
 1852. 
 
 1854. 
 1863. 
 
 1S94. 
 
 1S58. 
 1S64. 
 
 No. 5l5-l>a\i(l liMiilinscJii M(.-i.L;s, of Ouakcr 1S2: 
 
 1-aini^. Conn., ^.>n ..1 i Ji'7 • SanuR-l, i)l O.xford, 
 (■(inn. m. |anr ll!u^ll. X" ( liiMrcn. 
 
 1SS9. 
 
 Jan. ,:;. 
 iSdj. 
 
 No. 516 - Chailc -. .\. .\l<ii.;s, ,,l VV.iUrbnrv. CMnu., i^-\=,- 
 
 s(in (if (267) Sanin.-l, (if Oxfonl, rimn. ni. ist, 
 Lu( \ Vale, (if Canaan, Cimn. m. Jiid, licinicf. 
 ilau. (it Kluaifzcr Ri.^.^s. nf ( iKfcnl. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. 902 — I laviil Tonilinsdn, 
 No. <-)(i;,— Mary lanx-na, 
 N(-i. (.104— Charles |-;d\vari.l. 
 
 A graduate o( NaK- Colk-^f, Class 
 of '95. .Stiidlfd .It tlu- N ale and 
 Harvard I..1W Schools, and li.is 
 siiK e |ir,ii til ed law in W,iterliur\ , 
 ( '( piiii. 
 
 ( let. 15, 1S67. 
 
 Jan. 15, 1S70. 
 
 |nne I, 1872. 
 
 lS5t: 
 
 Nov. 2, 1S67 
 
 Nov. 25, 
 1856. 
 Nov. 25. 
 1 .s.s I . 
 
 No. 521 .M,L|(ir l-liii|.inini 1- lanklni .\Ioi;^s. nl 
 Monipliis, Ttnn., son of 1 2(iS ) Charles, of Mnnine, 
 Micli. Was a soldier of twc wars, i-nlislini^ in the 
 Me.xiean War \'>v ydiin-,;, .md w .is al the sldiiii- 
 in- iif the Castle .il Che| inlte| lei , Later he ell- 
 listed 111 the Ci\il War as a |in\-ate under Capt. 
 \\'\niaii, .ind was | n ( hik iled li\ siKiessnc slaves 
 
 t,, M.iji.r. lie had ihe - 1 forlnn.' to serve 
 
 ihron-li liiitli w,irs wilhonl re. ei\in- .1 w.iiind. 
 d. .It Tixaskana, hex. is. 111. ist, Sarah lUisliy. 
 111. 211(1, Sarah lanilsa jdhilsdii. 
 
 I 831. 
 
 iSSj. 
 
 CHILDREN 
 
 V,v Sri UN 11 W'li K. 
 
 No. 905 — Pembroke. 
 No. 9o<i — Anita 
 
 Aui;. 7, 1.S82. 
 May 12, 1.S84. 
 
Ni.\ I II ( ;i:xi:i;.\ I KIN. 
 
 lOI 
 
 MARRIED 
 
 April 17, N(j. 524--I)r. Crdi-c Saiiinrl Melius, u( Xcu 
 1.S72. \'(.irk, siiii (if ( 26s I Cli.iiics, (if Mdiirnc, Mich. 
 
 Ser\-ed in the Ci\ il War as a ;iri\alc in ("n. C, 
 ytli Rro't 111. \'.il. lull. lailisK.I Apiil js. 
 lSh{. Was a priinunciit ili mist of .\cw \t>vk 
 Cit\-. Sec App. 524. 111. .Maii^ant Cianc, 
 (if New \'(iik. Xii ( liildrcii. 
 
 1S4: 
 
 Ma)- 3, 1S4S. 
 
 I.S.SS. 
 
 May It), 
 
 Keli. I;„ 
 lS66. 
 
 No. 525— Ge(_)ryc Mfi--s, .if WilliamsliurL;-, N.V., 1 S, x;. 
 
 son (if (2701 Elish.i, iif ("atskill. N. \'. Ii. iK/ar 
 C'atskill, rciiKixcd to Willi, iinsi iurL;li in iS;,7. 
 111. tlu-re Ann ( Willi, iiiis 1 'riiiiiii,is, wuluw nf Cad- 
 wallader Thomas, and f(.iriiKTl\- (if W.ih's. 
 
 No. 9(17 — Emily Kt-ith. 
 
 t). at Willianisliiirgh. 
 111. Samuel Fdster. 
 
 Jan. 14, 1846. 
 
 1S51. 
 
 July ;,!, IS74. 
 April 2u, 1S66. 
 
 A|)ril (), No. 520--ll(iir\ .M(.i,i4,L;s, (if .S.iii l-'i.iiK-iscd, ,ind 
 1S32. IJnia, IV'iu, son (jf (270) E^lisha I\J(.-i.t;L;'s, (if Cats- 
 kill, N. Y. Wfll kiKiwii 1(1 tile entire uaiild as a 
 pl'dllKitei' (if ^ii^antii pnije. ts ,md tile KiilL^' (if 
 Rail\\a\- Builders. Ii. in Catsktil, .\. ^'.. leiiKued 
 til Willianisliur^li in tS;,(i, ijieii Id Calif(irni,i in 
 1.^411. .111(1 td SdUtli Ann Til a in 1 NS4, « here he died. 
 .See App. S2'i. in. 1st, Cieitiude Ilnnis. of Cats- 
 Ocl., kill. 111. 211(1, Caniline I )ii\le, (l,iii. df Duvle, 
 
 i.s;,7. df i;ister Cd., X. ^■. 
 
 1 M I . 
 
 i,S77. 
 
 Ndv. I V i-^.Vv 
 
 Dec. 25, l.Shi. 
 
 HENRY MEIGGS, Lima, Peru. 
 1811-1 877 
 
I (12 
 
 MARRIED. 
 
 MkICS r.F.XKAl.OCV. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 H\ Imkst Wife. 
 
 No. cjO.S— William W.inhvcll. 
 
 liv Skciimi WiiK. 
 No. 909— Carroll. 
 No. 910 — Caroline. 
 No. 911 — I k-ni y Hoyl. 
 
 li. at WilliamslnirKli. 
 
 No. 912. — Manfred l^ackus. 
 
 1j. at \\'illianislan:.;h. 
 
 il. at Santia;^o, Chil. 
 No. 91;,— Minor Keith. 
 
 1). at San Francisco— was one of 
 
 the executors of bis father's will. 
 
 No. 9T4— l-'anny Kip. 
 
 1). at Santiago Chili, 
 m. Alex. K. Robertson, one of 
 the executors of Henry .\lei.a..^s' 
 will. Kesiilin:< in Lima, Peru. 
 
 .Sept. 30, 1850. 
 
 d. before he was 21. 
 d. before she was 21. 
 May, 1S45. 
 
 1848. Oct. 20, 1S75. 
 
 Oct. I.S. IN.S2. i89.^- 
 
 ( )ct. 24. 1S56. 
 
 |ulv 1, No. 532 b;iislia Williams M<'i--s, of Williams- 1S25. 1^5.1. 
 
 1.S4;. buri;h, X. v.. son of uycO Elisha, of Catskill. 
 
 Was lusl at sea. m. Mary Ann Adams, of Metl- 
 
 fulil. Mass. 
 
 CHILD. 
 
 No. 915-Clarence Cnderhill. Ap"' '«4S. 
 
 b. in N. V. 
 
 Jan. JS. No. 533- l"hn (Gilbert Meiggs. "f Loniion, En.o- 1S27 
 
 /s^'s. land, s.m of ( J7..1 Elisha, of Catskill, N. V. b. in 
 
 r.itskill ; inc)\c(l to Williamslmruli, i.S;,7, later re- 
 nioveil to Lima, rem, and then lo England : where 
 he now I H)"i ) resides, m. Mary .\iioiista Eaulk- 
 nrr. of Willianishiiroh, New York. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. 916 — Carrie Faulkner. 
 
 b. at \V'illiamsburt;h. 
 
 d. at 1 -inia I'eru. 
 No. 917-nenry Klisba. M-iy. '^60. 
 
 b. at W'ilbamsburj^h. 
 
 No. 9iS-Marv Kflie. ^''P'- --^' ''^^b 
 
 li. in Briioklyn. 
 No. 9i„-\Villiam Herrirk. April, 1S6-. 
 
 b. in r.rooklyn. 
 No. 920-nelen Crnell. April, 1S6.S. 
 
 b. in I'.rookhn. 
 
 No. 921-John. ^'-"^I'' '^'"- 
 
 b. in lirookhii. 
 
 Dec. 24, 1S5S. Oct s, 1870. 
 
MARRIED 
 
 NlXI'H (.ii:XERAl'l(iN. 
 CHILDREN CONTINUED 
 
 103 
 
 No. 9:2 — Frank. 
 
 b. ill lirooklyn. 
 Nil. 92;, — N'orah Church. 
 
 li. in I.iintlcin, l-;ns;hiTul. 
 No. 924 — Hilda katliliurn. 
 
 li. in l,(.ind<iii, i;n>'land. 
 
 
 BORN 
 
 1.S71. 
 
 J' 
 
 me I, 
 
 1S77. 
 
 A] 
 
 pril I, 
 
 1.S.S2. 
 
 No. 536— CilluTt (),-(k-ii Meiggs, cf l'hil,i(lcl|)hia, 1S34. 
 
 I'a.. sdii cif (275) Cillicrl, (if Newark, N. |. ni. 
 
 CHILD 
 
 No. 925 — Edgar Gleiidenniiig. 1864. 
 
 No. 537— Charles Henry Meiggs, of Newark, 1 ,S yi. 
 
 N. J., son of (275) (iilbert, of Newark, m. fiar- 
 
 riet 
 
 CHILD 
 No. 926— A daughter. 1„ nilancv. 
 
 I Si 14. U), ),, 
 
 Oct. 16, No. 543— William Hemy Meigs, of Hartford, 
 
 1825. Conn., son of ( 2S 1 ) Joy, of Guilford. Scr App. 
 
 543. 111. Mrs. Elizalietli Clark Darling, of Bris- 
 tol, R. I. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 Dec. 27, No. 927— FJizabeth .\nn. Sept. 17, 1.S26. Nov. 27, 1897. 
 
 '847. ni. Rev. Alfred bailey Guodridi, 
 
 P. E. Clergyman. 
 
 No. 92S— William Henry. July, 15, i.S2y. I let. 9, iS,?j. 
 
 Dec. 25. No. 9211— Sarah CI. irk. Feb. 14, 1832. Aug. 25, iSs;,. 
 
 iSi.Si. m. W'ini.nii J. Ihompson. 
 
 No. 9,:;o — Ellen Maria. 
 
 No. 931 — Mary ChiUenden. 
 
 No. 932 — Cieorge Darling. 
 
 No. 933 — Caroline Amand.i. ( 
 No. 934 — Charles Reeve 
 
 No. 935 — .Alice Mary. 
 
 
 .Sept. 15, 
 
 >S'.4. 
 
 May I, i,S3.s. 
 
 
 Oct. 7, 
 
 1.S36. 
 
 Jan. 10, 1S42. 
 
 
 Aug. 21, 
 
 i«39. 
 
 Dec. 7, 1.S59. 
 
 Tu ins. 
 
 ■'^ept. 15, 
 ■^ept. 15, 
 
 1.S42. 
 1S42. 
 
 Jan. 14, iS7,S. 
 M.iy 12, iS-o. 
 
 
 A|iril 7, 
 
 1^45. 
 
 .M.ir. 27. 1S73. 
 
 No. 547— Nath.in Horace Meigs, of Michigan. iSn. 
 
 son of ( 2.S1 ) joy. of C, nil ford, Conn, in, isl. (iilia 
 Halieock, of Michigan, 111. .?ii(l, .M, 111,1 Harms, of 
 Lockporl, N. \'. 
 
 CHILDREN 
 
 No. 936 — Edgar. 
 
 Lived in Lockport. 
 No. 937 — Caroline. 
 
 1.^40. 
 
1 1. 4 
 
 M|-|(.s (ll-.NI-Al.OCY. 
 
 MARRIED. 
 
 May iJ 
 
 Dec. :■,!. 
 iS6i. 
 
 Uec. 25, 
 1879. 
 
 Oct. . 
 IS- 2. 
 
 April 
 
 1^115. 
 
 2S, 
 
 May :v 
 
 I,S(l2. 
 
 No. 549 — Krastus KimKciiy Mci.^s, nf ( ,uil- 
 f,,r,l, (■(inn., sun (if ( 2S2 ) Isaac, m. Julia 
 .Sanianth.i WalklcN . (if Madisdn. Cdim. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 N<i. 938— Ann Eliza. 
 Nd. 939 — ('.eorge Edwin. 
 No. 940— William Baldwin. 
 No. 941— Charles Uenison. 
 No. 942— Clarissa Hart. 
 
 Ml. Kaljih Wheat, of New ^■()rk. 
 
 No. 94-,— S.irah Weld. 
 
 m. Joseph Hull.. •ni.irtlord, Cnn. 
 
 No. 944 — Ki( hard Weld. 
 .\(i. 945— Walter Isaac. 
 
 I Si I. iSytj. 
 
 May S, iSii. Nov. 12, 1SS7. 
 
 Ainil 7, 1834. 
 Aui;. 7, 1836. 
 Ian. 12, 1839. 
 .\pril 7, 1841. 
 M.iy 29, 1S42. 
 
 Oct. 29, 1845. 
 
 I let. I, 1848. 
 Aiinl 9, 1853. 
 
 No. 556— |ohn Rutns Melius, df Durh.mi, ("onn., 
 son of (2S5) Anson H., (if Durham, in. Minerva 
 lanes. 
 
 No. 55Q— I'^d.^ar Loveland Meigs, of Durham 
 Centre, Conn., sdii of ( 2SS 1 Elias Benjamin, 
 of Madison, Cdim. m. Charldttc D. liarnes, 
 (if Xdrthfdrd, (^mn. 
 
 No. 946— Arthur Benjamin 
 Nd. 947^Grace .Amelia. 
 
 111. Willi. 1111 r. C,iiii|i. 
 No. 94S — Ma>' Lo\ eland 
 No. 949— Robert Barnes 
 
 Oct. 2 = 
 
 1836. 
 , 184(1. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 
 
 
 Feb. 2S, 
 
 1S73. 
 
 
 Now 2S, 
 
 1S75 
 
 '.imp. 
 
 
 
 
 |une 12. 
 
 1.S77 
 
 
 April 10, 
 
 1882 
 
 No. 560— Xallian judsoii Meigs, of West 1S34. 
 
 Haven, Cdun., s(in of 1 2i)i 1 Nathan, (d Madi- 
 son, Conn, li, in Lvme, Cdim. m. Sarah j. Jan. i< ■, 1 S41 . 
 Vale, of Branford, Conn. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. 950— Harriet. 
 
 Nd. 951 — Mary Louise. 
 
 .Sept. 23, iSh6. 
 )aii. 12, 1S72. 
 
 July 4, 1867. 
 1.S97. 
 
 l-eb. II, 1874. 
 
 1-eli. 4, 1S67 
 
 Dec. 15, No. 561 — Avery Carter Meigs, (if C.uilfdi-d.Cdnn., 1S36. 
 
 1.S75. sdi) of (2(,i I Nathan, of Madison. Cdim. m. K\'a 
 
 1. I'.varts. _ 
 
Ninth G i-: x k k a r i ( ) x . 
 
 MARRIED. 
 
 Oct. 23, No 564— George Whitfield Meigs, of Newark, 1.S45. 
 
 i''~'7,v •^- J-. son of (291) Nathan, of Madison, Conn. 
 
 m. 1st, Augusta Gillett, of Hartford, Conn. 2nd, 
 
 .Anna ISrown, of Reading, Penna. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 Bv I'^iRST Wife. 
 
 >'o. 952— Kdliert Nathan. Sept. 15, 1S79. 
 
 Now li\in,i; at Cobalt, Conn. (1901) 
 
 llv Sec(.i.\'d VViiK. 
 
 ^'"- 953— '-"is. Jan. 7, 1S92. 
 
 ^'o- 954— N.Uhan. July 5, 1S96. 
 
 May 9, No. 566— J,, hn Wesley Meigs, of Reading, Pa., 1.S51. 
 
 1874. son of ( 291 ) Nathan, of .Madison, Conn. ni. .Sophia 
 
 Drenkle. 
 
 CHILD. 
 
 ^'"'- 955— \\'alter Jiidson. Aug. 7^ 1S75. July 22, 1893 
 
 Jan. I, No. 579— P:dwin Smith .Meigs, of Swanton, Vt., 182,-,. iSSS. 
 
 1844. son of ( 295) Benjamin, of Swanton. m. Clarissa 
 
 Foster, of Swanton, 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No 956— Harri.son .Stc|iheTis. Feb. 8, 1S45. [895, 
 
 ^''J• 957— Isabella. Dec. 15, 1S4S. April 22, iSSS. 
 
 Dec. 20, No. 95S— .Sarah Saniantha. May 20, 1S51. .May 19, 1S94. 
 
 iSy^- ni. George Prouty. 
 
 May S, No. 959— Al.l)y Foster. May 8, 1S53. 
 
 1S76. in. .Aaron Gainbee, of Newport, 
 
 J-ni. 7. .Mich. m. 3, John R. Corliss, of 
 
 1902. St. .Albans, \'t. 
 
 No\-. 8, No. 960— y-'lorence. 1855. 
 
 1877. 111. (,). R. Rice. 
 
 No. 961 — Linda. July 27, 1S61. Oct. 5, 1SS7. 
 
 111. Ciiestt-r W.irner. 
 
 May 4, No. 581— Guy Meigs, of Meigsville, N. Y., son of 1S17. i.^^.s^. 
 
 1842. (297 I Captain Puther, of Highgate, Vt. Founded 
 
 the Village of .Meigsville, Esse.x Co., N. A'. Was 
 
 a pioneer to California in 1S49. See App. 581. 
 
 111. Lavinia Walbridge, of Bedford, P. O. Feb. 22,. 1892. 
 
io6 
 
 MARRI t D 
 
 MkU.S GlsN'EAI.OGY. 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. 962— l.ucy l.aviiiia. 
 
 No. 963 — Julia Henrietta. 
 
 No. 964 — Mary Isabella. 
 
 No. 965 — Adelia Jane. 
 
 No. 966— .Solomon Wallaidse. 
 
 BORN 
 
 Sept. 18, 1S43 
 Au;4. 22, 1.S45 
 Jul\' 20, 1S4.S 
 Mar. 17, iJ^57 
 April 13, 1S59 
 
 Aug. 28, 1S65. 
 
 Oct. 20, No. 584— Khcnezer Slu.kuell .Vleigs. of Mathew- 
 
 iShd. sun, Oklahoma, son of (297) Cai^tain Luther, uf 
 
 Hit;huate, \'t. Went to l-"on-du-lac, Wis., and 
 
 later to .Mathewson. See App. 5S4. m. Mary 
 
 Bahcock. 
 
 CHILDREN, 
 
 iSj;,. 
 
 No. 967— Luther Henry. 
 No. 968 — I^uinas Guy. 
 
 July 17, iS5i. 
 Oct. 14, 1862. 
 
 Ian. s. No. 586— Heman Allen Meis^s, of Mathewson, 
 
 1S54. Oklahoma, son of (297) Cajjtain Luther, of High- 
 
 eate, \'t. m. fane H. Fletcher, of Lowell, Ma.ss. 
 
 1S2S. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 Dec. 24, 
 
 1882. 
 
 Feb. 22, 
 
 No. 969 — Lillian 1-^. 
 No. 970 — Charles L. 
 No. 971 — Liiella A. 
 
 ni. Francis T. Ber<;nian. 
 
 No. 972 — Ida F. 
 No. 973— Charles Walter. 
 No. 974 — William Lincoln. 
 No. 975 — Ida .Stowell. 
 
 ni. Albert L. Byrd. 
 No. 976 — Irx'iiiL; Judson. 
 
 May 19, 1853. 
 Jan. 21, 1853. 
 Dec. I, 1856. 
 
 Dec. 27, 1858. 
 
 Oct. 4, i860. 
 
 Dec. iS, 1862. 
 
 June 20, 1S64. 
 
 July 7, 1S68. 
 
 Mar. 28, 1863. 
 April 13, 1858. 
 
 Au.t;. 27, 1S59. 
 
 A|iril 23, 1895. 
 
 lune 21, No. 587 — Rnwena Meigs, of Highgate, \'t., iS^i 
 
 1874. clan. <if (297) Captain Luther, of Highgate, 
 
 ni. fames I l.irrinijton, of Highgate. 
 
 CHILD. 
 
 Jan. 6, No. 977— F'ark James. 
 
 1897. m. ,Mary F. Phillips. 
 
 Rouena. 
 
 Oct. 7, 1S76. 
 
 CHILD. 
 
Nl\ rn ( il- XI. |;a 1 ION. 
 
 MARRIED. 
 
 Oct. 15, No. 589 -Klvira I-jiicrscn Mt-i^s, uf Suantun, X't.. 
 1.S56. ciau. (if |jt,7) Captain I.nther, nf I lii;h.^atc, \'l. 
 
 111. Haik'V H. Bron.son, ulm .served in Co. K, 1 uh Vl. 
 
 \'nl. Inf. in Civil War. 
 
 BORN , 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 Nov. 14, \,,. 97.S— Ella Louis, I. 
 
 ni. I'liimi.is W. Chainlierlain, cil 
 Minne.iiiolis, Minn. 
 
 i.S.s,. 
 
 .Mar. 16, 1.S5.S. 
 
 No. 97y^M„yd Lnlher. Sept. 6, rS;, Jan. ;,,, ,.S76. 
 
 Allf;. I ], i.S;;,. 
 
 No. 9S0— Hallie .Adella. 
 
 No. 9.S,-H..uard.Selali. M.„ ,,, iNje. 
 
 Seiit. 12, No. 9,S2-Lora Estelle. 1,^,- ,,, ,s-,s 
 
 '5''°- 111. Herbert Elisha laicas, of File h- 
 
 burq;, Mass. 
 
 I. '^7: 
 
 Oct. 15. No. 5QI -.\/ul,ah I.v.li,, .Mri.^s, of .Si. .Xlluns, \t., 1 ,S;,y. 
 
 ^>^<^2. ilau. of (J., 7 I Captain I.utlu-r, nf i 1 i^h^ale, \'t. 
 
 ni. KlH'ne/.er .A. I'.n.nks, of St. .Allians l;.i\-, \'t. 
 
 CHILDREN 
 
 No. 983— .Merton Liilln-r. Oct. 7, i,s6-v 
 
 No. 9S4-Mabel lairy. Dec. 4. i^ii- Mar. 31, ,893. 
 
 No. 985-Carrie .Smith. Nov. 26. ,.873. Sept. 5. 1874. 
 
 N(.. 986— Hezekiah Kibbe. Sept. h, ,Sjj. 
 
 Oct. S, No. 50,5— ll,.nrv Honjamm .Mei^s, uf lialti- 
 
 1.844. 
 
 more. Mil., sun of ,: _n)7 1 Captain I.nther, uf 
 
 Hi.yli^ate, \'t. Raiseil i,n a farm. .Serxcil in 
 
 Co. K, 1 ;,th \'t. \dl. Inft. in the Civil War. 
 
 .After the uai- s)ient si.x years in the far \ve\st, 
 
 followed ])y a residence- uf several years 
 
 in Northern \e\v ^'ork merchandizing and in 
 
 the insurance business. Went to Haltiniure 
 
 in iSSSas .Manager of the Scaith-eastern ])e- 
 
 partni.ait of the .l^tna Lib Insurance Cuni- 
 
 p,niv, where he still resides (igoil. His 
 
 (leiieral Agency is third Lii'gest of thai (^mi- 
 
 panv. and one of the largest in the I'niled 
 
 .States. 111. Mrs. .AKira Stanley I'rvur, d.ui. uf May i<i, 1,84-,. 
 
 Al)ijah Stanley, of I-!angur, .\.Y. Xo children. 
 
 See Ai)p. 59;,. 
 
 FOSTER SON 
 
 No. 9,S7_Henry Leun d'rvorl .Mei.^s. ,Mar. 19, iSh-,. 
 
loS 
 
 Mi:i(,s (ii-:NF,Ai,n(;v. 
 
 MARRIED 
 
 |unL- -'(i, 
 
 184s. 
 
 No 5Q4— HarlfV Sanderson Meii;s, of Mun- 
 sonvilU-, 1'. <-_>.. son of I 2c,g ) Lunias, of Dur- 
 ham, P. t >. ni. I'anily Scott. 
 
 1S24. 
 
 IVHK- 1,1, iS.'iO- 
 
 IS99. 
 
 I^ec. 4. I 89 1. 
 
 Sept. S, 
 1S70. 
 
 July 6, 
 iHSi. 
 July 6, 
 18S1. 
 
 Mar. 27, 
 
 l.Sqo. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. ySS— Celia Chauil.erliu. 
 
 m. William C. Peaboily, "f Cnn- 
 
 rord, N. H. 
 No. 9S9— Alice. 
 No. 990— .\lliert Merwin. 
 
 No. 991 — .Addic Azuliah. / -p^^,;,,. 
 No. 992— Allie Auielia. \ 
 Addie A. 
 
 Ill Charles P. Hunt. 
 
 Allie Amelia. 
 
 111. Fred. A. Willard, Trop'r Suiii- 
 iiier Hotel, North Hatley, 1'. <J- 
 
 No. 99', — Lillian Alberta, 
 
 m. John P. Heath, of Heath and 
 Meigs. (Albert M.) Proprietors of 
 the " Central Hotel," Mat;o:4, 
 P. <). 
 
 Feb. 9. I.S50. 
 
 Mar. 13, 1S54. 
 
 Feb. ,i, 1857- 
 
 Dec. 17, 1S63. 
 Dec. 17, 1S63. 
 
 Mar. 25, 1S68. 
 
 lune 13, 1859. 
 
 No. 5Q5— Abel IJrury Afeigs. of Dunham, I'rov. 
 Out-., son of (:299) Lunias, of Dimham. m. Mary 
 Welk-r, dau. of Ri.-hard Welhr, of llineshur-, \'t. 
 No children. 
 
 1^2- 
 
 1S9J. 
 
 18 = 
 
 No. 598— Sanhird .Mci-s, of St. All.ans, \'l., son 
 of (.vu) John, of St. Alhans. m. Harriet M. 
 lewett, of r,e(U>;ia, \'t. No ( hildrcu. 
 
 [822. 
 
 1891. 
 1900. 
 
 April 
 1807. 
 
 24, No. 603— Gtiy 11 Mei-s. "f St. Albans, \'t., son 
 of John, of St. Albans, m. i'hilcna Sca.^el. 
 
 No. 994— John William. 
 No. 995~Hattie .Sophia. 
 No. 996 — l-rank ( iuy. 
 No. 997— Bertha l.ucretia. 
 No. 998— Sanford John. 
 
 CHILDREN 
 
 I^.VS- 
 
 Nov. 28, 1870. 
 
 Mar. 9, 1S73. 
 Dec. 17, 1874. 
 M,ir. 31, 1877. 
 
 May 28, 18S3. 
 
 Dec. 22, 1SS5. 
 
MARRIED. 
 
 Feb., 
 1 869. 
 
 NiN 111 (_;i-;.\KRAil()\. 
 
 BORN. 
 
 No. 604— Edgar Meigs, of St. Albans, \'t., sen of iS,;.; 
 
 (301) John, of St. Albans, m. Mary I„iselk-. 
 
 109 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. 999 — (it.-(iri;e N. 
 Jan. 1, \o. 1000 — l^niiii.T 1,. 
 
 1^92. 111. Josepli Lapan. 
 
 No. looi — Lottie M. 
 
 No. 1002 — Williiir S. 
 
 .\o. 1003 — .Vniia 1'). 
 
 No. 1004 — Fannie K. 
 
 No. 1005 — Mar\' 1,. 
 
 All.;;. 1N72. 
 May 1.S75. 
 
 July I, 1S77. 
 
 May 4, 1879. 
 
 Sept. iSSl. 
 
 Fel). 18S4. 
 
 Au>;. 1SS7. 
 
 .Se|)t. i.Sg2. 
 
 No. 607— I-.ilwin I,afayette Meigs, of Malone, 
 N. ^'.. son of (,^.3 )Guy, of Malone. 111. Mariett.i 
 Siniiiionds. 
 
 1S27. Sept. 5, iSSo. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. 1 006 — I o 1 1 n ( I . 
 No. 1007 — George E. 
 No. 1008 — Mary Louisa. 
 No. 1009 — William L. 
 No. loio — Eduin. 
 
 1850. IJec. 25, 1875. 
 
 1.S54. .Sept. 27, 1SS2. 
 
 Jan. 6, 1S57. June 18, 18S6. 
 
 No 6oy— Church Taber Meigs, of Flint, Mich., 
 son of I 30;, I ("luy, of Malone, N. V. ni. Elizabeth 
 Ciunmings, of I'"lint. Mich. No children. 
 
 iSjg. at Flint, Mich. 
 
 May 20, No. 615— Cardiu r Childs Meigs, of .Arena. 1S21). 
 
 iS4i.). Wis., S(jn of I 31 '4 I lirownson. of Barhotic. 
 
 P. g. b. at Malone, N. ^■. d. .11 Arcii.i, Wis. 
 
 ni. Efi\-is,i Jane I'lain.ird, of l'"i ankland. Wis. Dec. j;,, 1.833, 
 
 I.Si;; 
 
 CHI LDREN 
 
 June 22. No. loii — (iardi.i Ann. 
 1873. ni. Dr, FL K. Bird. 
 
 Aut;. 20, No. 1012 — l\ebec( a Nancy. 
 1890. ni, r. C. (roniforl , 
 
 No. loi ', — John Hiownson. 
 
 Mar. 28, No. 1014 — Nettie M . 
 
 i^jf'- ni. Hitchcock. 
 
 ^Llr. i.S, i.Ssu. 
 
 I'eli. 15. 1853. 
 
 J.-in. 10, 1855. 
 
 Nov. 17, 1857. 
 
L)ec. 21, 
 1S92. 
 
 May 2u, 
 1S.S4. 
 
 Mi-ics rii-\i:Ai.(H;v. 
 
 CHILDREN CONTINUED 
 
 No. IU15 — Aiiilrfw LMr(ini|itoii. 
 No. 1016 — Kate .S. 
 No. 1017 — Henry Kourll. 
 No. loiS — .\nna F.li/a. 
 
 111. William I'.ird. 
 
 No. 1019— Grace L. 
 No. 1020 — Mabel. 
 
 BOBN . 
 
 Ma\ 2.1, 1S59. 
 June 10, 1.S61. 
 Sept. A, 1.S63. 
 May 17, 1S65. 
 
 ( )Lt. 17, 1S67. 
 Nov. 4, iN77- 
 
 I let. .ii, 1.S65. 
 
 lime 20, iS7,S. 
 
 Fcl.. (1, 
 1 S3, ,. 
 
 No. 616— Carlos 1 )eriou.s Mei.ys, of Au Sable 1824. 1SS7. 
 
 Forks, X. \'., son of ( ,V'4 ' Hrowiison, of Har- 
 
 hutte, I'. • >. 1>. at Maloiie, N, ^'. d. at 
 
 An .Sal.K- Forks, Sec App. (h'l ni. .\nna 
 
 M. I'nr.lv. b. .It I'lattsbtu-. N. Y. il. at An July --7- i^.^^-^- F''''- '• ■■^■>-- 
 
 Sable I'orks, N.^'. 
 
 Au.-. iS, 
 is.So. 
 
 June jS, 
 18.S7. 
 
 I lee. Jo, 
 
 IQOO. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. 1021 — l-'ranees Rebecca. 
 
 b. at Black Brook, N. V. 
 
 111. John !•■. .'\riiolil, ofl'eru, N. >'. 
 
 d. at Peru, N. ^■. 
 No. 1022 — Henry Cli.uiiberlain. 
 No. io2-,^i:ila l.ouisa. 
 
 b. at .\u S.ible borks, N. ^■. 
 
 m. (has. H. Chasmer, of Platts- 
 
 luir.i;, N. V. 
 
 No. 1024 — liniib Abnion. 
 
 b. at An .Salile b'orks, N. ^■. 
 <1, .It .St. (;"iuillaunie, 1'. '.'■ 
 
 No. 1025 — Walter l'uril\ . 
 
 1). at (ir.mtli.ini, 1'. <_'■ 
 (1. at Pierreville MilK. 
 
 No. 1026 — Lucy b'li/alietli. 
 
 1). at .Si . ( .uillauine, ['. IJ. 
 ,1. ,il .\lloona, N. ^■. 
 
 No. 1027 — l''re<lih I'uith. 
 
 1). at St. Cuillauuie, 1'. IJ- 
 No. 102S— l''rauk Ellsworth. 
 
 b. .it St. (.lUill.iunie. P. '_'■ 
 
 No. I029 — Minnie. 
 
 b. at Pierreville Mills, P. O- 
 
 No. 1030 — Mariell.i. 
 
 b. ,it Pierreville Mills, 1'. (J. 
 
 111. Ir\ in;4 1 .. Saiiliorn. 
 No. K131 — Pduiu ( .iilos. 
 
 b. at Pierreville, P. IJ. 
 
 Sept. 15, 1.S52. July 27, 1.S97 
 
 I\biy 2, 1.S54. 
 Feb. 27, i.S,s6. 
 
 Dec. I. i.S.sN. May 4, 1S67. 
 
 Aiuil 24, 1.S61. Nov. 24. 1S72. 
 
 M.ir. 24, 1^63. Jnne 3, 1.S63. 
 
 \pril i.s, iSft4, ,\u.^. 2, 1.S64. 
 
 |uly i.s, 1S65. 
 Aui;. 15, l.%7- 
 Nov. II. iSA.S. 
 
 Oct. 29. 1S70. (let. 29, 1S72. 
 
\l\ 111 ( 'ii:.\KRAT]<)X. 
 
 M ARRI EO, 
 
 Oct. 4, No. 619— Oliver CarpL-nter Mc-igs, ,.f Hudson, 
 
 1859. Wis., son uf ( 304) ]5ro\vns(.n, of Barlxittc, P. (}. 
 
 111. iMar.garct R. Flctclu-r, of Knowlton, Wis. 
 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 \o. i032-nouslas.Art„,l.l. M^,^. ^^ ,,^, 
 
 Nov. 17, No. .033-C-onna E. Oct. ,0, ,.S6v 
 
 '^^4- 111. lohii H. .Stiles, <,( Woo.lville 
 
 Wis. 
 
 \o. 1034-George Wesley. ja„. 25, ,,S65. 
 
 June iS, i,S67. 
 
 Aug. 2, 1S74. 
 Dec. 14, i,S76. 
 
 No. 620— Eli Browiison Meigs, of Arena, Wis., iS.Vx 
 
 April 3, son of (304) Brownson, of Barbette, P. Q. ni. Min- 
 1872. nie Meffert, of Arena. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. 1039— William C. M 
 
 No. 1040— Florilla K. 
 
 12, 1S73. 
 Nov. 23, 1S74. 
 
 No. 1041-Minnie E. No,._ 2g^ JS76. 
 
 No. 1042-EsteIla O. _^pril ^__ jsSo. 
 
 No. 1043-M. Elsie. Xov. 14, iS.Si. 
 
 No. 621 -Byron .\od .Meigs, of Arena, Wis., son i,S4i. 
 
 of (304) Brownson, of Barbotte, P. Q. m. Libbie 
 
 Jones. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. I044-MinnieJ,.uette. Jl,|,. _,^^ ,,^63. 
 
 No. 1045-Gertie Emily. I,,!^. j,^ ,S66. 
 
 No. 1046 — Guy Francis. 
 
 No. 1047— Bessie Moore. 
 
 No. 1048-Elsie Mary. An-. 11, 1S72 
 
 No. 1049 — Susie Edna. 
 
 No. 1050— Paul Jones. 
 
 No. 1051-Loveilay Jennie. Feb. 27, iSSo 
 
 No. I052-Walter .Scott. ji.lv 21, 1S82, 
 
 No. 1053-Celia Lillian. ji,„e ,9, iS.sj. 
 
 .April II, 1900. 
 
 June 7, No. 1035— Laura 
 
 'S^9- m. Henry Fliss, ol" Huron, .S D. 
 
 No. 1036— Hartlev I!. \l.,r -,^ tSs^ c- 1 <: i. ^ 
 
 •"'•r. 23, 1^69. heb. 16, i,S96. 
 
 .No. 1037— Carlos 01i\er. 
 Dec. 14, No. 103S— Grace C. 
 
 ^^97- m. luigene Palmiter, of .Minneap- 
 
 olis, Minn. 
 
 June 25, i.S.Si. 
 
 May 4, 1S6S. i,s69. 
 
 Oct. II, 1S70. 
 
 June iS, 1,874. iSSi. 
 
 Jan. 27. 1S7.S. i.sgo. 
 
 1S.S9. 
 
ii: 
 
 Meios Gf.n'ealoc.y. 
 
 MARRIED 
 
 Ian. \s. No. 625— laspcr Bingham Meigs, of Australia, son 
 "iSsy." ' of I 305 ) Uaniel, of Bedford, P. O. Went to Aus- 
 tralia in 1849, and engaged extensively in mnmig 
 there, m. Catherine Mayhew, of Australia. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 (All Ixirn in .\uhtralia.) 
 
 No. K154— .\nna. 
 
 No. 1055— Mary. 
 
 No. 1056— Catherine. 
 
 No. 1057— Caroline. 
 
 No. 105S— (iertrude. 
 
 an. 22 
 
 "> T 
 
 BORN. DItD. 
 
 No. 626-()rson Laselle Meigs, of St. Albans, Vt., 1^3' 
 
 "is's'r..' ' son of ( 3..5 ) Daniel, of Bedford, P. Q. m. Emily 
 Harris, of Stanhridge, P. O. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. 1059 — Caroline Taylor. 
 No. io6g — Malcolm. 
 
 1S62. 
 
 iS6^ 1SS5. 
 
 May 26, 
 
 No. 627— Herman Oscar Meigs, of Grand Rapitis, iH3.i- ^90o 
 
 1862.' ' Mich., son of (305) Daniel, of Bedford, P. Q. 
 m. Charlotte West, of Clarenceville, P. O. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 Mav 
 
 I,S. 
 
 1900. 
 
 
 May 
 
 15. 
 
 1900. 
 
 
 No. 1061 — Mary. 
 
 111. hihii Cleiulcnin. 
 
 No 1062— .Anna. 
 
 I.. \'. Conilis. 
 
 No. 1063— P^ertraiul H. 
 
 No 11164— Maud Lillian. 
 
 111. William A. llaire. 
 No. 1065— Arthur Ernest. 
 
 >hir. 25, 1.S63. 
 
 Mar. 28, 1S64. 
 
 Fell. 28, 1S67. 
 Jan. 24, 1S72. 
 
 \ ' Jan. 24, 1872. 
 
 No. 1066-Charlotte Aileen. Sept. 27, 1877. 
 
 111. WilHain P. C.il'soii. 
 
NiMii Generation. 
 
 MARRIED 
 
 Mar. 13, 
 iSfi-. 
 
 Alio. I- 
 1S71. 
 
 No. 628 — Daniel Iiislio|) Mci-s, of Fariiham. P. ( )., 
 son of i,:;o5i Daiiirl, of Bedford, !'.(_). 1j. at 
 Henry\ille, P. n. Has hcen for s..'\ t-ral years 
 nu-nilK 1 ol Canadian Parliain(_-nt, now Sfrxin^; his 
 tllird term of fixe years. See App. ()2,S. m. ist, 
 Louise C. .Alsup, of West Farnhani. jnd, Rosa 
 Faulkner, of Monlrcd. Xorhildrcn. 
 
 i^^.i.S- 
 
 J line I ; 
 I S6(i. 
 
 June 4, 
 
 HON. DANIEL BISHOP MEIGS, 
 
 Farnham, p. Q 
 
 No. 629— Ur. .M.ilcolm Roscoe Mei^s, of Bedford, 
 P. O., son of I ;,05 1 Uaniel, of Bedford. Was a 
 .graduate of iMcGill College, afterward settled in 
 his native town, where he always took a promi- 
 nent part in puMic affairs, and was always lar,o-el\- 
 mterestetl in railroading, m. ist, Jane Chandler, 
 of Freleighsburg, P. O. 2nd, Harriet Louise 
 Slack. 
 
 M , , . CHILD. 
 
 No. 1067 — Jessie. 
 
 I.iviiij; ill MeU)iMinie, 1'. (J. 
 
 1 84.0. 
 
 '■^75- 
 
1 14 
 
 MARRIED, 
 
 Nov. 2- 
 
 iSfu). 
 
 P'eb. H). 
 I.Sh2. 
 
 July I 
 1 8m. 
 
 1S94. 
 
 |U1U' I. 
 
 1S71. 
 
 Mi:i(;s Gi-.ni:ai,iiia. 
 
 BORN. 
 
 No. 631 — .\rtlnir Meigs, of Jacksonville, Fla., son iS4r>. 
 
 of (305) Daniel, of Bedford, P. <.}. Has a very 
 extensive lumber business there, ni. Charlotte 
 Godwin, (lau. of William Redmond Godwin. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. 1068— Louisa Caroline. '"-^o 
 
 No. 1069— Daniel Arthur? 
 
 No. 1070— I'.llen. 
 
 No. 1071— Gerda Ellen. 
 
 No. 1072— Delia Godwin. 
 
 No. 1073— Charlotte. 
 
 1.S72. iS73- 
 
 1876. 1S76. 
 
 1878. 
 1S80. 
 
 No. 033^Eliza Swift Meigs, of Eldred, Pa.. l'^4"- 
 
 dan. nf (;,ii) Daniel G., of Vergennes, Vt. 
 
 m. I'.dwin Fuller Waller, b. at Enosburg, Vt. Mar. 17. iS57- 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. iu74-Nellie Alniira. J'l"- 4. '"^^3 
 
 li. at l'.iiosl:iur:j,, \"t. 
 
 ,11. Dr. ).>lin W.illL-r, of Lebanon, Aug, 9, 1S5.S 
 
 Pa. 
 Dee. 16, No. io7,s— Mary I'.li/a 
 1S91. 
 
 |une 5, 1865. 
 
 I), at l-amshurg, Vt. 
 
 ni. Charles lulius Carey, "f ]"h' '3. i^Sg- 
 
 Kldred, I'a. 
 No. 1076— George F.dwni. "-"• '" '■ 
 
 li. at X'ergennes, \'t. 
 Dee. 8, No. 1077— Dwiglit Ldwin. ■''"■-■ '• '■'^72- 
 
 jSg- b. at Sniethiiort, I'a. 
 
 '■ ,11. Sarah .Mice Dnuglass, of July ly, 1S66. 
 
 Eldred, Pa. 
 
 Dec. 6, No. 107S— Harriet Alice. 
 
 .Aug. 21, 1876, 
 
 b. at .Snieth|iort, Pa. 
 
 111. M"S> Merwin Culeniaii, of June N, 1.S66. 
 
 Glens lalls, N. V. 
 
 No. 636 — Daniel Grciin.ll Meigs, of X'ergen- i'"'4')- 
 
 lies. \t..son of I :,i I ' D.miel G.. of \ergennes. 
 ill. l(»c]iliine .Annette Winsluw, ol I'latts- 
 bnruh. N. ^■. 
 
 At. 21, iS4i). 
 
 CHILDREN 
 
 No. ■o7q-Linie i;ii/.i. April 20, 1S74. 
 
 li. at Wrgrnnes. 
 ui. \V. S. birkett, .>f Feirisburg, Keb. 3, 1S72. 
 
 \ 1. 
 
NiXIH Gkxkkaticin. 
 
 CHILDREN CONTINUED. 
 
 No. loSri— ICxa .Alice. 
 
 1). at X'ergeniies. 
 No. loSi— Greimell Daniel. 
 
 1). at \ L'l yennes. 
 No. 10S2 — Mary l-^lsie. 
 
 1>. at Waltliaiu. 
 No. 10S3— ( ieoryt; Arthur. 
 
 b. at Ver"eiiiie.s. 
 
 BORN. 
 
 Aug. 2S, iSSi. 
 
 .Sept. iS, 1SS3. 
 
 June 14, 1S85. 
 
 Aug. I, i.s,S7. 
 
 11 = 
 
 l''eli. 7, i.S,S7. 
 
 No. O37 -Irviiii; .Me-i>;s Cuiiulon, of Port .Madison, 
 W'a.sh., son of ,-iji ,\licf i Meii^s ) Guiiidon. of 
 North Ferrisbtiro, \"t. I^'or manv vcars Captain 
 of Puoet Sonnd Su amcrs, until 1S7;,, when ht- 
 went to California, and starting for a trip tn 
 1 uoluniiu- Cii., w, IS iie\-er heard from ai^ain. m. 
 Nellie Brown, of I'urt .Madison. 
 
 CHILD. 
 
 No. 10S4 — Ir\ang EiigeiK-. 
 
 i'\v- 
 
 May , 
 iiSjo. 
 
 Oct. 6, 
 
 lSy7. 
 
 I S4 1 . 
 
 No. 638— Hu.t^cnf W'hiiin.t; (luindciii, of New 
 
 York, son of ( ;, i 2 i .Alice ( Mei,t.;s 1 (".uin(h>n, 
 
 of North iMa-rishnr-, \'l. iMilisted .April Jy, 
 
 l8(M ; nuistered in .Ma\- Jo, I'^^m : Sero't. Co. 
 
 H, 211.1 .\. J. \-ol. Inft.; iSnvet IJeut. Col. 
 
 Mar. ig, 1.SO5 : rcsit;ned No\'. 15. i>>'is. .See 
 
 .•\])p. 6;,.s. Mcmlier of Fuller's Patterson 
 
 Express Co. for sexeral \'ears. m. .Maroaret 
 
 Moruan 1 X'anhornc- ' Simpson, of Newark fuly 10 i.Si: 
 
 N. I. - - ■ . 
 
 CHILD. 
 
 No. 1085— Louise Whiting. 
 
 111. Williani I laiiilyn 1 iiival, of 
 Xeu ^"llrk. 
 
 .Sejit. 5, 1S71. 
 
 Dec. 26, 
 t,s66. 
 
 No. 639 — Esnic I^eoliiie ("luindon, of North Fer- 
 risbury. \'t., dan. of (;,i2! .Alice (Meigs) Guindon. 
 of North Ferrisljur-. m. Georije Washington 
 Palmer, of Charlolte. \'t. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 Mar. 24, No. 10S6— Alice Mahala. 
 
 '^91- 111. Henry Neuell Rowley, of 
 
 .Shelliunie. \'t. 
 No. 10S7— Eugene Chapniaii. 
 
 I .S4(i 
 
 Feb. 27, 1870. 
 Oct. 27. i,S74. 
 
n6 
 
 .Mi:i(is Gknkai,o(.v. 
 
 MARRIED 
 
 Oct. 22 
 
 lS(,7. 
 
 No. 642- lulward .Man i-llus Hcnick, lA ( )aklaiul, 
 Cal., son of (314) .Alniiia C. 1 Meit;s 1 Herrick, of 
 Nfwark, N. |. VVhcjlcsalc Ltimher Shipping- ami 
 ("oniiiiissi<in Mercliant in .San Francisco, Cal., 
 and foi^ many years Presitk-nt of ihc Pacific Pine 
 Liunljer Association, composed of tlie leading; 
 luml>er mill proprietors of Californi.i and W'.isli- 
 inj^ton. m. Josephine Clifton Johnson, of Mil- 
 w.iukee. Wis. 
 
 1S42. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. loSS—.'Mniira Josephine. /. -i-^^.j^v; 
 No, 10S9 — Clara luigenie. \ 
 
 No. 1090 — Florence May. 
 
 No. logi — J-Mward Lester reckhani. 
 
 No. 1092 — George .^nson Meigs. 
 1). at ( )ak1and, Cal. 
 
 Jan. 7, 1869. 
 Jan. 7, 1S69. 
 
 May 13, 1.S70. 
 
 Mar. 6, 1S72. 
 
 Oct. 18, i8,S3. 
 
 I an. 13, 1869. 
 April I, 1872. 
 
 June 30, 1870. 
 
 |inie 1 , 
 1S76. 
 
 No. 643 
 
 land, 01 
 1 lerrick 
 of Cle\ 
 Dealer. 
 
 -Lucv .Amelia I lerrick, of Cleve- 
 
 110, tlan. of I 3 I 4 I 
 , of Newark. N. J. 
 L-land, Wholesale 
 No children. 
 
 I riie I " 
 
 .Almira C. ( Meigs) 
 m. I.ee Burgert, 
 ISoot and Shoe 
 
 1S44 
 
 Mar. 
 
 iS; 
 
 ■eb. 19, 1SS4. 
 
 ;rt,';it niL-iisure, to the ciltlius- 
 11, orCkvfl,Tii.l. Ohio. The 
 
 .aiMU ul lliis •;eiie.ih»git-ai \oluiiie is <iue, iti 
 i,TSm and iiiiJelMli!;.ihle application ol Mrs, l.iu y A. H. Bu 
 maior poilimi ul the Kenealosii-'al record lutein piesented u .is salliere.l by lier Irom 
 every section of the American Continent, while the compilation ami arraii!<ement are the 
 result olhereHort exclusively. The labor has been tedions ami dilfii:.ult, indeed no one can 
 exactly understand the scope and character ol such an undertaking, except those who have 
 personally perlormed such .service. It has occupied much of Mrs. Bur^eit's time for three 
 years, and stands as a conspicuous record ol her genius lor such work and her patience 
 in its performance. Every one bearing the name of "Meigs" and all descendants of 
 " Meigs " owe her a debt of gratilnde, for, without her assistance, this book wouhl never 
 have been begun and certainly could not have been cmupletcd, in such a busy lile as that 
 of the author's, whose high apiireciati.ui of Mrs. Bnrgerl's attainments, ami prolcmnd 
 thanks bir her contnim.ns and laithfiil ser\ ice he allnnpts to embody in this his personal 
 [ tribute. 
 
 Jan. 25. 
 
 No. 044 — ],oiiise l,(.-mira lli-iriik, cif Clexeland, 
 Ohio, dan. of (314). Almira C\ i.Meigsi Herrick, 
 of Newark, N. J. m. l-"retlerick W. I.eonard, f)f 
 iNewark, N. J., .Attorney. No ( hildreii. 
 
 1.^4(1. 
 
 St'pt. 15, No. 646— Charles I.ndlow Meigs, of New ^■ork, 
 
 1862. son of (.1171 Charles N., fif h^lkliorn. Wis. On 
 
 the etlitorial staff of " Puck," New \'ork. m. ist, 
 
 . jiul, Marv Hartly, dan. of I"'rank ¥.. 
 
 llarilv, of All.anv, N. Y. 
 
 I'^U- 
 
 Oct. 14, 1.86,8. 
 
N I .\ 1 1 1 Ci E x K i< A r I ( ) x . 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. I093-Cha,les Har.ly. July'°ri.S67. 
 
 No. 1094— Arrliibald I.iidhnv. 
 
 117 
 
 No. 650— Melvin Par.sons Mc-ios, of Fergus Falls, 1847. 
 
 Minn., son of (;,i7) Charles N., of Elkhorn, Wis. 
 ni. Anna I>(jr()thy Tressnier. 
 
 CHILDREN 
 
 Xo. 1095— R.ilph Arthur. 
 
 No. 1096 — .Anna. 
 Xo. 1097 — Phoebe. 
 
 l.Ssh. 
 
 Feb. 2-j. No. 653— Stephen Van I,oan .Mei-s, of Wal- 
 
 1.^97- ters, .Minn., son of (317) Charles N., of Elk- 
 
 horn, Wis. m. Isabella Cora, daii. of John Oct. 17, i,S7i. 
 anil Catherine Tiss, of Croohan, New ^'ork. 
 No chiklren. 
 
 May 20, No. 654— William (iouhl Meigs, of Philadelphia, 1,844. 
 
 i'^6q. Pa., son of (31S) Rev. Matthew K., of Pottstown, 
 
 r^a. ni. Margaret i'ollock. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. 109.S— William I'oliock. jii]y ,,^ ,.,.;-o 
 
 No. 1099— Curtis Clay. Oct. 11, 1,^72. 
 
 No. iioo— Edward Kirk. Fph t- is-- ^ , . 
 
 reo. 2^, IS/-,. .Sept. 24, rS^^. 
 
 iSSt 
 
 No. iioi— George Matthew. .Sept. 7, is- 
 
 79 
 
 1S7J. No 655— Rev. George Dntriel.l Meigs, uf Geneva, 1.S45 
 
 N. Y , son of i;,i,S) R,.\. .Matthew K., of Potts- 
 town, Pa. .Studied Civil Engineering and then en- 
 tered the niinistrv. After pastorates of four years in 
 .Mansfield, l^i., and live years in Watkins, N. Y., 
 he was compelled by ill-health to entirely give up 
 the ministry, hut after an extended trip abroad, 
 his health was sufticiently lestoreil to enable him 
 to resume his civil engineering inv a few years, 
 m. 1st, Edith D. Shewell, and Jii.l, Claia ,A., dau. 
 Jan. I, of Rev. I. F. Calkins, of Wellsbon,, I'.i. (Pastor 
 
 1^79- of the Presbyterian Clunrli there inv thirty-five 
 
 yeai-s, and Cli.iplain for four vears in the Civil 
 War. ) 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. iio2-M.ny i,„„ise. j^^„. ,„, ,,,s„ 
 
 Xo. 1103— Frederick Gould. ( l^-t ,^ ,882 
 
 Xo. 1104— Helen Hamilton. Peb. 2-, 1S.V6 
 
 I yu I . 
 
 I,S7(, 
 
I IS 
 
 Ml'K.S (".IM.Allil.N. 
 
 MARRIED 
 
 1 line 
 
 BORN . 
 
 Pa..' '■^.=^2- 
 
 No. 03(J— I'nif. lolin Mi-i-s, nf l',,tlstowii 
 is.Sj. Mill nf (;,lSi Rev. M.ltllKU K.. "f I'uttst.Avn. 
 
 lias l.r.-n for .i\,-i- t\vcntv-fi\.' vcais .it the- 
 h,,ad ..f Tllr Hill Srlu.nl. I'nllsK.xvn.surrr.-.l- 
 in- his lalhrr, tli.' fuiiudLT of it. Src .\\'\>. "SM 
 and illustratidiis precedini; iiai;>-S. ni. M.uu.n 
 BuU.i.ofNcwVurk. Oct. 2,, iS^o. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. 11U5— I'Milli. 
 
 N(i. 1 11)6— Dwiglil Uaynion.l. 
 
 X(i. no-— Maroaret. 
 
 No. 1 loS— .Maritin. 
 
 No. iioq -llfleii l.eis;hlon. 
 
 Feb. 25, 18S3. 
 Aug. 12, 1884. 
 Dec. 14, 1.SS8. 
 
 Oct. 25, 1H91. 
 
 lunc 10, 1H93. Ft-b. 19, 1900. 
 
 K,.l, ,4, No. 660- llcrni,inii\'anLnanMci:^s,uf I'oltstowii, 1S54. 
 
 ,SSi. ' i'a., s.,n nf ,;,lSi Rev. Mattlicu K., nf I'nttstnwn. 
 111. llrltiia E. l-:ckcrt. nf Kradin:..;, I'.i. 
 
 |iinc u), 
 1.S5.V 
 
 No. 068 Inhn Henry Mci:^s, nf M.idisnn, Cnnn., i.\^,o. 
 
 son ..f 1 V,4' I'-'vid K.. "f Madis,.n. Cmporal 
 Co. ("., 14th Rc:.;t. C-. \ . Jiistic- ,:,f the Peace for 
 New Haven Cnvml v for in.uiv vears. See .\pp. 0(iS. 
 111. Sarali jane Puell, ..f Mattapuisett, Mass. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. I no- Walter .\l.insun 
 No. I III — I*"ranf; I'aiell. 
 No. 1112— Nath.in 1 )exter. 
 No. iiij— Mary Joseiiliiiie. 
 
 VcX. 16, 1S34. Aug. 20, i8,S9 
 
 Aug. 7, 1857. 
 June 9, 1.S66. 
 Oct. 28, nSyj. 
 
 No. 66q— David Field Mei-s, nf M.i.lisnn, Conn., 
 son of (.vu- I'.ivid R., nf M.Klison. A sp.ir 
 maker for inanv vears; made sp.us and iig.Uiilg 
 for vess.'ls. an.l eiinippeil maiiv schooners that 
 were huinched from the Cmsslev V.mls at Madi- 
 son years a.^o. m. Nelhe llnrslor.l. of M.ulis,m. 
 Conn. Xo ( hildreii. 
 
 iS;,i. 1901- 
 
 Sept .s No. A70 -lames Rich Meios, of Ma.lison, Conn.. 18;,;,. 
 
 ,Sss. son nf ■:,;.4'l'.ivid K.,of Madismi. Was Town 
 
 Representative and Poslin.ister f..r maiiv ve.irs. 
 
 See App. '17.1. 111. hdi/.a A. (.risunld. 
 
H^ 
 
 
 
 R 
 
 i 
 
 
 1^'^ 
 
THE HILL, SCHOOL. 
 
 POTTSTO-\v^N-. Pa. 
 JOHN MEIQS. PH. D., Headmaster. 
 
Ninth Gixi.raiio.n. iiy 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 MARRIED BORN DIED. 
 
 Mill". No. 1114 — Arabella .\. 1S56. 
 
 1.S76. 111. Henry (.'. Hull, ul tliin<iii, 
 
 •.'mm. 
 Nci. 1115— Willie. Jan. 1S6S. .May 1X69. 
 
 Nov. iTi, No. 673 — Richard S. Meigs, of Madison, Conn., iS;,2. 
 
 I Shy. son of (^i.^sl Edward M., of Madison, ni. Eliza- 
 
 lirtli M . .Snow. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. 1 116— F.duanl M. Oct. 11, 1S70. Nii\. 13, iSyu. 
 
 N'o. 1 117— I'jurdette E. ( )i:t. 5, 1.S72. |iine 1, 1.S7S. 
 
 Nil. iiiS— Clilldrd F. Mar. i.S, i,S75. .Sept. 4, 1875. 
 
 .Sc])t. Ill, No. 674 — Edward E. Meigs, of Madison, iS;,6. 
 
 lSh2. Conn., son of 1 .i.VS ' Eduard M., ul Madison. 
 
 m. Roxanna, dau. of Erastns Dec-, of M.id Die. i, i>'4,S- 
 
 ison. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 I'"el). 12, N'm. 1119 — I'^le.inor Louise. |uiie ih, 1.S63. 
 
 1889. 111. Edward H. W.iterhmise, ul 
 
 Cireeiiport, L. I . 
 
 Nil. 1120 — .Samuel Wells. July S, 1871. 
 
 No. 1121 — iMiltou Morton. Oct. 6, 1879. 
 
 r)ei-. 30, No. 676 — I),iniel Beiijciniin ^feigs. of Madismi, 1 .S40. i,S.S6. 
 
 I S(j,^. Conn., son of ( .^.^g ) Inlin .^^.. nl .Nf.idisun. m. 
 
 I'lmnia C. Stannard. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. 1 122 — Ernest Kdwaril. 1 )ec. 1;,, 1865. 
 
 No. 1123 — John Morrison. Mar. 13, 1873 
 
 July 26, No. 677 — Edgar Coiirtland Meigs, of Madison. 1.S41. 1,86; 
 
 18(15. Conn., son of i p,},q) |ohn M., of Madison. .\ sul 
 
 dier in the Ci\il War 18(11 s- ni. |iilia F. Rnssoll. 
 
 CHILD. 
 
 No. 1 124 — Frances. 
 
,,Q Ml'-.IC.S (iMN'KAI.OGV. 
 
 BORN 
 MARRIED 
 
 Xn\. JS. No. 67g— ("apl.iin 'riuc.dorc Fnnlhani Mrii^s, 1^44- 
 
 iS(-,4. of .M.idison. Conn., son of i 3;,y I John M., of 
 
 Mailison. Captani of coasting vessel fin- sev- 
 eral years, ni. Kniilv A. Kelscy, of Clinton, Nov. lO, 1S4;,. 
 Conn. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 .'\pril ic 
 1890. 
 
 No. ii25-.\iKlrew KL-lsey, N"^ ■ '&. '«6,S. 
 
 No. 1 126— C.eilriule Evaliiia. 1-eli. 23, 1871. 
 
 m. Seymour Sylvester Clianip- 
 
 ion, of So. Lyme, Conn. 
 No. II2T-Kalph Courtlancl. Mar. 13. 1874- 
 
 No. w2S-i:ili..tt Chan,plan,. Oct. 25, .886. Mar, ,3, .888. 
 
 Sept. JS, No. 680— Charles M(irnson Mvi-s, of New Haven, 1 ^4'^- 
 
 i.Sjf.. Conn., son of (,-,.>)) John M., of Madison, m. Cor- 
 
 nelia A. Dickinson. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. 1129-lsabelle Seym. an. Ji"'f 29. ■•'^76- 
 
 No. 113u-.Archil.aia Henry. M-'V ''■ '^7«- 
 
 1S77. 
 
 Nov. -H), No. 690— Fi-ederick Dowd Mei,t;s, of New Haven, 
 Conn., son of ( ,^4:: I Timothy A., of Madison, Conn. 
 Conducts an extensive mercantile business. Has 
 stores at Boston, Brid.>;eport, Springfield, New 
 Haven and De.xter, Mr. m. Hattie F. Hriggs, of 
 I'hoeni.x, R. I. 
 
 |SS2. 
 
 Nov. 2S, No. 601— Willis Avery Meig-s, of Madison, Conn.. iSs,-,. 
 
 187.S. son of I ;,42) Timothy A., of Madison, m. Ma.-y 
 
 v.. Kelsey. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. ,i3i-K.,ni.eMary. l''^''- ■•'^' 'S87. 
 
 No ii32^S.isan i:ii.cal.eth. A^S- ''• '^^^■ 
 
 Aug, ,^,1, No 693— Nelson Eugene Meigs, of Dexter, Me., 1S60. 
 
 ,,s,s^2. son of i.u-^) Timothy A., of Madison, Conn, 
 
 m. Susie M. Wood. 
 
 lulv 14, No. 695— Dan Doane Meigs, of Clinton, Conn., 1S60. 
 
 i.Sy.v son of i.U.V Henry J., of Madison. Conn. m. 
 
 Clara Ashton. only dau. of Henry .Ashton, of 
 
 Clinton. 
 
NiXTH (."jKM:KAT1().\. 
 
 121 
 
 MARRIED 
 
 Aj.nl 20, No. 696— George Henry Meigs, of New Haven. 
 '•^'"'"- *;'•-'""•• SO" of ,34,:;) Henry J., of Madison, Conn. 
 
 See App. 69(1. ni. Annie Elizabeth Doane, dau. 
 
 of Cornelius E. Doane, of Esse.x, Conn. 
 
 IX(12. 
 
 July II, No. 697-Judson Josiah Meigs, of Madison, Conn., ,,sr,4 
 
 iNSy. son of ,;,4;,) Henry J., of Madison, ni. Annie 
 
 * Ellsucirth StronL;-. 
 
 CHILDREN 
 
 No. 1 133— Carol .Stron,s;. 
 No. 1134— Henry Karris. 
 No. 1135— (,l.,,lys liillin:^li.un. 
 
 Jan. 2, i,Sy2. 
 Aug. 10, 1S95. 
 Oct. 12, 1S97. 
 
 July :,i. No. 698-Feli.x- .Starkey Meigs, of Madison, Cnn., .so^ 
 
 1.^95- son of I ;,4,:; I Henry j., of Madison, ni. .\nna L. 
 
 K. Barton. 
 
 CHILDREN 
 
 No. I136— E.sllier. 
 
 N(i. 1 137 — .Marion Louise. 
 
 Oct. 7, 1897. 
 Mar. 7, 1899. 
 
 I 'it. I.., 1,-597. 
 
 Oct. 4. No. OgQ-Cl.uksnn Mull .Mc^s. nf .M.,d,sou, Conn., j.sos 
 
 '^'>^- son ol ,;,4;,) Henry j., ,,| .Ma.lisnn. ni. Harnct 
 
 Munsjer. 
 
 No. 702-Klihu .Mci^s 4,1,, „f Asht.il.ula Co., 
 ^el,. 4, Ohio, son ,,f ,34s ) Klihu ;,nl, of Ashtabula 
 
 '•'^.=^4- Co. ni. .Mar\- Ann IV-ck. 
 
 CHILDREN 
 
 No. 1 13S— Charles Deforest. 
 No. 1139— Leon Elilni. 
 No. 1 140— CliUon i;, 
 
 1'. in !■;. L\nie, O. 
 
 I>i2<). 
 April ,:;, |,S;,;,. I) 
 
 •Sept. 27, rS56. 
 Mar. 5, 1.S59. 
 Sept. 7, r.S6r. 
 
 1S61. 
 
 ec. I I , i,S,SO. 
 
 Jan. 21. 
 1S65. 
 
 No. 7<)3-Charles R. Meigs, of Ottawa, Kansas, 
 son of ,;,45, Klihu ;,rd, of Ashtabula Co.. Ohio. 
 Read law with Senator Benjamin F. Wade, and 
 Hon. Joshua R. Giddings, at Jefferson, O. Prac- 
 tR'ed m Oregon: Mayor of Dalles. Oregon: 
 City Attorney of Ottawa, Kansas, and Prosectuing 
 Attorney of Franklin Co., Kan., at time of his 
 death. See Apj). 703. ui. at Morgan, Ashtabula 
 Co., O., Frances A. Bishop. 
 
 IS.S;,. 
 
 June. 1.^77. 
 
MARRIED 
 
 Jan. 22 
 1890. 
 
 IK96. 
 
 MkIC.S (rENEAI.cHiV. 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 Nu. 1141 — .\inoUl. 
 
 Killed in a- i.iil\v:iy uifik in 
 
 Kansas. 
 Nil. 1142 — Denny. 
 
 <1. in Wakeeney, Kan.sas. 
 Ko. 1143— Ko/ier G. 
 
 DIED 
 
 May 7, 1900. 
 
 .\|iril 20, 18SS. 
 
 May i(>. No 706— Tilu.s Benjamin Meigs, of New York 1831- 
 
 i,s6o. City, son of 1 346 ' Jabez P., of Delhi, N. Y. 
 
 A memijei- of tlie firm of Dodge, Meigs & Co., 
 extensive manufacturers and dealers in lum- 
 ber, m. Lucia Jacobs, of Delhi, N. Y., only Jan. m, 1.S4M. 
 dau. ot Ferris Jacobs, M. D. and Nancy Lasell, 
 •ind direct descendent of Elder Bradford and 
 Ciiv. Brewster of " Mayflower." 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. 1144-Lucia l..,selhr. Nov. 19, 1.S63. 
 
 ni. Ke\. Il(iui;las I'ntnani Birnie, 
 
 (>{ .Siirinulield, Mass. 
 
 No. 1.45- ntus Benjamin. .U'"e 28, 1866. Jan. 3., 1S67. 
 
 No. 1146-Kerris Ja< obs. feb. 5, 186S. 
 
 No. .I47-1' ranees Lyman. .April 28, 187 1. 
 
 p-^.l). m. Oliver .Smith l.yford, Jr., ot 
 
 Chicago, 111., son of iMiver Smith 
 
 Lytbrd. 
 No, ii4S-\Valter. ^ ^^^ • -• ■•'^74. 
 
 .Manager bitematioii.il I'rug Co., 
 
 Montreal, I". <J- 
 
 June 'v No. yog^Edward Kelsey Meigs.of Teiiafly, N.J., 1S40. 
 
 ,S75. son of ( ;,46 I Jabez P., of Delhi, N. Y. An exten- 
 
 sive lumber dealer at Hoboken, N. J. m. Caroline 
 Marcia Frost, of Jersey City. N. J. 
 
 CHILDREN 
 
 No. n49-l.ncy Kelst-y. h'"^ ">■ "S/^ 
 
 No. 1 150— C.rac e P.. 
 
 No. 1 151 — i;duard Kelsey 
 
 No. 1IS2— S.irali Elizabeth. 
 
 ( ic I. 12, 1878. 
 Pec. 4, 1880. 
 May 16, 18S3. 
 
 No. n53-Carrie Frost. Feb. 28, 1SS5. July 28, 1887 
 
 No. ii54-.\llen Frost. Nov. 4, 1889. 
 
 .Sept. iq, No. 715— Charles Smvth Meigs, of Pittsfiekl, iS.SS- 
 
 ',SS4 Mass., son .if >''".i William D., of Piltsfield. 
 
 May';,,, m. ist. I'lla Wright, "f Bionklvn, N. V. 2nd, Sept. 6. 1S04. 
 
 iSgg. Harriet .Sh.iw, of Pittsliehk 
 
N I X r 1 1 G K.\ E K AT 1 ( ).\. 
 
 MARRIED. BORN 
 
 June 2(\ No. 720— Charles Ives Meigs, of Branford, Conn., i,S5_;.. 
 
 iSyy. son of (,^561 ) Horace B., of Branford. m. Nellie 
 
 H. Lintlsley, dan. of John W . Lindslev, of Bran- 
 ford. 
 
 CHILDREN 
 
 No. 1155— \iiicent Ives. Apiil 9, i.SSo. 
 
 No. 1156— Alice I\l. Jan. ig, i.SSS. 
 
 123 
 
 June 6. No. 731 — James Laninie Mi-i-s. uf \\',islunt;ton, ^^-7- 
 
 1S55. D. C, son of (36S1 Return J., ,:;rd, of Washington, 
 
 ni. ist, Catherine Kirkpalriek, of La ('.ranye. 
 Dec. 23, West Tennessee. 2nd, .Mrs. .Mary Dortch, of 
 iNji). La ( irange. 
 
 CHILDREN 
 
 No. 1157— Kelmn Jon.itluui. Nov. 29, 1.S56. |uh 17, iShi. 
 
 No. 115S — .\le.\.LiultT Kirk|i,itrirk. No\-. 32, 1S59. 
 
 N(i. 1 159— James Lainme. June 15, 1S62. July 15, 1.S70. 
 
 No. 1160— Mildred. June S. i,S65. June 27. iNSg. 
 
 May ;v>, No. 722— Return Jonathan Meigs 4th, (if Wash- i.s^o. 
 
 1.^54. ington, L). C, S(jn of 1 .V>,s 1 Retui-n [. ;,nl, of 
 
 Washington. Clerk of the L'. S. Court f(u the 
 
 Distriit (it (^llunlllia; is the fortunate possessor 
 
 of the sword voted to Col. Return 1. Meigs liv the 
 
 L'. S. Cong|-ess ; is the ]5ossessor of a painting of 
 
 Col. R. J. Ii\- I'eclc : • has all (if the coniniissi(ins 
 
 granted b\- the Continental Congress, and by sev- 
 eral early I'residents, as well as the \ery xoluni- 
 
 inous correspondence of Col. R. [. Meigs, ni. 
 
 Elizabeth Martin, of Buchanan, I'.dtetourt Co.. \'.i. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 Max 5, .\(i. 1161— .S.illit- Ldve. April 17, 1856. 
 i«9i- ni. Dr. J. J. .Stalliird. 
 
 No. 1162— Mar\' Ilriscoe. June 27. 185.8. Feb. ig, rSoii. 
 
 Nil. 1163 — Return Jdiiathan, Otii. Sept. 17, i860. 
 
 Nil. 1164— F.li/abeth Martin. Mar. 2, 186-,. 
 
 Nil. 1165— Jane I'.oyd. Feb. 13, 1.S65. 
 
 Jan. 15, No. ii66—Mar.L;aiet Trimble. June 16, 1S67. 
 I'^gi- ni. Henry Navlor. 
 
 April 2, N(i. 1167— M,i\ Clendenin. Ma\- 15, 1S69. 
 i''^9i- ni. Henry W. ( )lds. 
 
 No. 1 16S— Juliet. July 22, 1871. Mar. 22, rS72. 
 
 -Xo. 1169— Oeorge Clendenin. Feb. 22, 1873. 
 
I-M 
 
 Miur.s Gknkai.oi.v. 
 
 MARRIED. 
 
 |nnr 17, 
 
 Dec. 2< 
 
 i.S(i4. 
 
 Oct. r,, 
 185.S. 
 
 No. 723— John Meigs, of Washington, D. C, son 
 ,,f (VSS) Return J. .yd, of Washington. See App. 
 7--,. ni. SaUie Orton, of Columbia, Tenn. 
 
 BORN . 
 
 IS34. 
 
 Jan. ;.i. 
 
 1875. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. 1 170— John. 
 No, 1 171 — < Irton Love. 
 No. 1172— lit-rtha. 
 No. 1 173— Maud. 
 
 Mar. 10, 1S75. 
 
 Jan. 19, 1S77. 
 
 Dec. 19, 1S7S. 
 
 Jan. S, 1SS3. 
 
 No. 724— Capt. Joe Vincent Meigs, of l^,oston, 
 Mass., son of (368) Return J. .^rd, of Washington, 
 D.C. Was Captain of Battery A, 2nd U. S. Colored 
 Light Artillery: Inventor of guns, railway, etc. 
 See A|)i). 724. m. I'Aigenia Beatrice Shaffer, 
 dan. uf Richard Washington Shaffer, of Nash- 
 ville, Tenn. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. ri74— Eugenia Beatrice .Slialler. 
 
 No. 1175— Pr. Joe X'incent. 
 
 No. 1 176— Benjamin Butler. 
 
 No. ,[77_Dr. Return Jonatlian, 7tli. 
 
 1 S4. ,. 
 
 Sept. 24, 
 
 1865. 
 
 |une 22, 
 
 1S67. 
 
 •Sept. 13, 
 
 1 868, 
 
 May 28, 
 
 1S70. 
 
 No. 725— Capt. Fielding Pope Meigs, of Boyds, 
 Md., son of (368) Return J. .vd, of Washington, 
 1). C. Was 1st Lieut, and Captain of Battery A, 
 jnd r. S. Colored Light Artillery. See App. 725. 
 ni. Alice Howard, of Lowell, Mass. 
 
 ■'^43. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. 1 17S— Return Jou.itli.in, 8th. 
 No. 1179 — James Howard. 
 No. 1180— Fielding I'ope. 
 
 J.ui. 9, 1S76. 
 
 .April 27, 187S. 
 
 Oct. II, 18S2. 
 
 No. 726^jolin Ross Meigs, of Tahle.|uah. Ind. 
 Tor., siui of <37-'i Return J. 5th, of Tennessee. 
 Served in the Civil War ( Union > in 3rd Indian 
 ReginieiU Indian llonie Cuards, c(jninianded l.y 
 Col. Will. A. I'hillips, and later has served under 
 Cherokee Ciovernnient ; meniher of ihc Senate ol 
 Cherokee Council: SuperintemleiU ol Cherokee 
 Blind and Insane .\syluni: all of which service was 
 rendered with great credit to himself and country, 
 m. Mary Freeman (a Clierokee). 
 
 l83y. 
 
 Dec. 29, 1883. 
 
 1S82. 
 
 1899. 
 
NixTH Gi-:ni KA I mx. i2>^ 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 """"""^O BORN. DIED, 
 
 No. uSi — l(jhn Henry. Sept. 30, 1S59. 
 
 No. I i,S2— George Parker. .\u,^. 9, i,S63. .1. in infancy. 
 
 No. iiS;,— Anna Ross. Ainil 14, 1865. 
 
 No. 1 184— Pope l'"ielding. No\ . 9, 1867. 
 
 No. 1185— Florian Nasli. April 3, 1S69. 
 
 No. 1186— TiriK)tliy Walker. Feb. 22, 1S72. .Sept. i, 1894 
 
 No. 1 187 — HeiijaMiiii Freeman. .Sept. lo, 1874. 
 
 Xo. iiSS— Mary Jane. Feb. 13, 1882. 
 
 No. iiSg — Coo-wee-scoo-uee. Dec. 19, 188 v 
 
 ni mlancy. 
 ni inlancv. 
 
 Jan. II, No. 727— Henry Clay Mei^.s, of Ft. (".ibsoii, Iiul. 1,841. 
 
 iShS. Ter., soil of (372) Return j. stli, of Tennessee. 
 
 Served one year in the Confederate Army 
 
 in the Indian ResJ-'t commanded by Col. [ohn 
 
 Drew; later ser\ed as Deputy Postmaster at Fort 
 
 C.ibson, Ind. Ter., for the term of fourteen years : 
 
 has had service as Clerk of the District, Circuit, 
 
 and Superior Courts of Illinois District, Cherokee 
 
 Nation, and as District Judi;e for same District. 
 
 m. Josephine La\'inia Bigclow. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. 1190— Willi, uii Ross. .Mar. 30, 1869. 1 iil. 31, 1.S70 
 
 i8c,i. No. 1191— C.irrie Few. June 14, 1871. 
 
 ni. Richard C. .\danis, (a [Dela- 
 ware), representing; ( 1901) tlie I lel- 
 aware Nation at W'ashiimti in, 
 D. C. 
 J^<)^. No. 1192 — Ann, I Stapler. Jane 28, 187:;. 
 
 111. Fr.mk J. ra.ndmot (a Chero- 
 kee). 
 
 No. 1193 — Robert Henry. Mar. 17, 1876. 
 
 No. 1184— Thomas Fields. April 11, 1S7S. |an. 30, 1879. 
 
 No. 1195 — James MacDonald. June 2.s, i^^So. 
 
 No. 1196 — Maude. Feb. 21, 18S-,. 
 
 No. 1197— Josephine. Jime 23, i8S=i. 
 
 Sept. I. No. 72Q- Return Robert Meigs, of Tahleciiiali, 1,846. 
 
 i^7'- Iii'l- Ter.. son of 1 37; 1 Return J. 5th, of J'ennessee. 
 
 Is jirominent in the Cioxcrnmenl of the Cherokees 
 
 in Indian Territory. See .\pp. 7J0. m. ist, Jennie 
 Sept. ]2. Ross (a Cherokee) who d. aged thirty-one years. Sept. 7. i .88. 
 
 1.S.83. m. 2nd, Helen C. Blevins, of Arkansas. 
 
I2(> 
 
 Meigs CiKM ai.cm.v. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 r,\ I'lKST WiFK. 
 
 No. 
 
 No. 
 
 No. 
 No. 
 No, 
 No. 
 No, 
 
 No. 
 No. 
 No. 
 No, 
 No, 
 No, 
 
 1 19S— Inf.iiU il,iu.i;hter. 
 
 l,i\<Lil only a k-u lioui>., 
 1 199 — Milloii 1 )a\'is. 
 12UU — l).inRl Hooiie. 
 T20I — Return JoiKitliaii. . 
 1202 — Suliiiiit. 
 120;, — lnf.\nt son. 
 1204 — Inl'-inl son. 
 
 B\ .Sl-CONI. Wll'E. 
 
 I 2i>5 — Uinif s Ross. 
 12116 — Sil.is I >insinore. 
 1207— Roliert Evans. 
 i2ciN — I-'annv Jane. 
 1209 — Susanna. 
 1 210— Klizabeth Grace. 
 
 BORN. 
 
 Fell. 23, 1872. 
 
 Mar. 5. iN73. 
 Dec. 25. 1S74. 
 
 Jan, 5, 1877. 
 
 Fell. I, 1874. 
 Jan. 20, iS.Sl. 
 .Sept. 5, iSS2. 
 
 Jan. 25, 1SS5. 
 Jan. 18, IS.S7. 
 
 lul\ 10, 1889. 
 June 1 1, 1S93. 
 Sept. 20, 1895. 
 Nov. 18, 1898. 
 
 Oct. 14. '875. 
 
 Ian. 27, 1881. 
 Sept. 14. 18S2. 
 
 Nov. 1,1897 
 
 April 4, 
 
 '/> 
 
 No. 731— Tiiiiuthv Marshall Mei.us. of .Siloam 
 Sprin-s, .\rk., son of (;,73 1 Robert H., of Dan- 
 ville, Ky. One of tile noted Union Scouts of 
 Kentucky tJnriiig the Civil War. See .\pp. ^^l■ 
 m. Martha Bolin:.;. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. 1211 — John Kol)ert. 
 
 No. 1212— Richanl j.anibeit. 
 
 Theolo:.;ic.il Student 1 1901 1 B.iptist 
 Indian Pnixersity, Puicone, Ind. 
 Ter, 
 
 No. 121;, — James M.idistpii. 
 
 No. 1214 — Sar.ili l-'.li/alieth. 
 
 No. 1213— I ir.ue. 
 
 No. 1216— Tad Marshall. 
 
 1.840. 
 
 Feb. 
 No\ . 
 
 27, 1876. 
 
 28. I.S77. 
 
 h'eli. 19, 
 
 1879. 
 
 Nov, II, 
 
 1880. 
 
 |nne 16, 
 
 1.S83. 
 
 Ma\' II, 
 
 1885. 
 
 Nov. 1.8, I.SSy. 
 
 |an. 2'- 
 
 1S70. 
 
 No. 732— lames M.iilison Meiys. of Siloani 
 Springs, Ark., son of 1 ;,7,V Rohert H., of 
 Danville, Kv. Meniher of the loth Kv.X'ol. 
 Inft., appoinlc-d Reoinienlal luisi^n ( )<t. iShi, 
 ami apiiointed Seryt. -Major by Gen. I'.anks 
 after battle of Red River. See A]!]). J.,-", 
 ni. Nannie V.. Chilton, dan. of A. M. Chilton, 
 i>f X'ers.ulles, Kw 
 
 1S4; 
 
 |lll\- I, l84_V 
 
 I.S76. 
 
N I NTH ( i I" N I-^ K A riON. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 MARRIED 
 
 No. 1217 — Wellington Harlan. Mar. 11. 1S71. 
 
 .See -\\iy). 1217. 
 
 Xo. 1218 — Robert Van. Jan. 21, 1873. 
 
 See App. r2iS. 
 No. 1219 — Cirace Kilburn. Mar. 6, 1S75. 
 
 No. 1220 — Mattie. July iS, 1S77. Oci, 17, i'^79. 
 
 Se|it. 25, No. 733 — Richard Dunlap Meigs, of Pueblo, 1S51. 
 
 i.Sg5. Colo., son of (,i7,t) Rol)ert H., of Dam'ille. 
 
 Ky. m. Lessie Vernie Limb, dan. of Joseph Mar. 4, 1.S66. 
 
 anil Cynthi.i Limb, of Ouincy. 111. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. 1221 — Henry Teller. Aug. 15, 1896. 
 
 No. 1222 — George Land. .Inly 22, 1S9S. 
 
 Oct. 26, No. 735 — George Lambert Meigs, of iS,S- 
 
 iS.si. , son of (37,V Robert H.. of Dan\ille, Kv. 
 
 m. X.mnie Charles. 
 
 CHILD. 
 
 No. 1223 — George I.anil.iert. (Ut. 3, 18S2. 
 
 .Sept. 14, No. 736 — |(]hn Stanle\' Meigs, of Chicago, 111., 
 i,s.Si. son of (."iSi 1 John II,, of Mihvaiikei'. Wis. m. Alice 
 
 Freeman. 
 
 CHI LDREN. 
 
 No. 1224 — Charles A. July 25, 1S82. 
 
 Ii. in Chicago. 
 No. 1225 — Inlia l-'reenian. Nov. 11, 1S85, Aug. 4, i.SSfi. 
 
 b. in Chicago. 
 No. 1226 — Robert Pntnain. Ijec. 12, 188A. 
 
 li. in Chicago. 
 No. 1227— Harold. Dec. 28, 1891. M.-ir. Ji, 181,;,. 
 
 b. in .St. Johnslmrv, \'t. 
 Xo. 122S — A\is I'reenian. Aug. 4, 1S95. 
 
 b. in St. lolinsbury, Vt. 
 
 1.S72. No. 746 — Henrv Meigs, of New York, son of 1840. 
 
 (395) Henrv 2iul, of New \'i>rk. m. lunrgia P. 
 hisher. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 Xo. 1229 — Henry. lune 25, 1875. 
 
 Xo. 1230 — .Austin (irahani. leli. 25, 1886. 
 
 No. 1231 — Willis Xoel. Oct. 31, 18S8. 
 
 No. 1232 — Margaretta W'ooil. Dec. 28, i,s,S9. 
 
 No. 1233 — X'irginia Gr.ihani. Mar. II, 1S90. 
 
I2S 
 
 Ml' l(,> ( ". I-.NI AI.DliN ■ 
 
 No. 75<)--rhaiicN llmiv Mti'^s, of New \'.irk. 1.S4: 
 
 .son ol (3Mi>i Charles A., <if Ni'w York. ni. Kate 
 Campbell. Xo children. 
 
 iScjI. 
 
 julv l-\ 
 
 No. 751 
 
 IS; 3. 
 
 Charles 
 
 
 No. r2;,4- 
 
 
 Nci. I2;,5 
 
 Feb. 20, 
 
 No. I2.^h- 
 
 1 91:1 1 . 
 
 
 
 Nu. 1237 
 
 
 No. 123S 
 
 
 No. 1239 
 
 
 No. 1240 
 
 — I'lAeril Melius, uf .\e\v \'nrk., son of 
 .A., of New ^'ork. ni. Rosamond Weston. 
 
 CHILDREN 
 
 — IVveril. Jr. 
 
 — Martin .S( lien( k. 
 
 — Kosanionil. 
 ni. I leriii.ni Hall Eddy. 
 
 — 1 lelen. 
 
 — Louise. 
 — Charles Henry. 
 
 — Leonora. 
 
 April ID, 
 
 1876. 
 
 April 15, 
 
 1S7S. 
 
 Jmie 22, 
 
 1S79 
 
 Sept. '1, 
 
 I,S8o 
 
 Dec. iS, 
 
 i.S.Si 
 
 Dec. 22, 
 
 ,.SS3 
 
 Nov. 4, 
 
 18S9 
 
 No. 750— lames Clark Meit^s, of Jamaica. L. I.. I'^^.Sl- 
 
 son of Co; I Theod(U-e D., of New \'ork. m. Min- 
 nie 1 )arlin!j. 
 
 CHILD. 
 
 Ncj. 1 24 1— I* lorence. 
 
 Jiuie, iSS9. 
 
 No. 701 — Henry Chnrchill Meios, of l',rooklyn. iSOi. 
 
 April 17. N. A'., son of (;ic,7) Theodore \K. of New York. 
 i.sss. m. I'dl.i W'ri'^ht. 
 
 CHILD. 
 
 No 1242 — I larence .Arthur. 
 
 I an. 29, KS.S9. 
 
 IS77. 
 
 No. 708MomL;>>mery Mei.^s, of Keokuk, Iowa, 
 son of ( :,^j>^) C,en. Mont-omerv C. of Washinoton, 
 1). C. Is a Distinguished Civil Engineer eiigaoed 
 l.y thc-l'. S. (iov't in supervising the removal of 
 bars and deepening the Mississippi River and its 
 tribniaries. m. C.race Lynde, of Rock Isl.ind, 111. 
 
 i>S47. 
 
 CHILDREN . 
 
 No. 1243 — Mary .\d,iins. 
 No. 1244 — Louisa Rodi^ers. 
 No. 1245 — ('.race .Si.phrouia. 
 No 1246— .Alice M( l\iustr\-. 
 No. 1247 — Cornelia Lyude. 
 Nci. I 24.S — I'^niilx l-'r.nices l'~ay. 
 
 Feb. 2.S, 
 
 1.S76. 
 
 Oct. 30, 
 
 1S79. 
 
 Aug. 27, 
 
 n'l.Si. 
 
 Mar. 17, 
 
 1SS3. 
 
 Dec. 6, 
 
 1.SS4. 
 
 No\ . 1, 
 
 isSS. 
 
NiN I li ( 'ih .\la<,\ I IDN. 
 
 "'>"'"^°- BORN, 
 
 May 15, No. 772— Charles l)cluccna.\K-ios,.>f Indian, i|i(. lis, iS^h. 
 
 1873. Ind., s(in 111' (,:;i)i)i Charles 1)., of Indianapolis. 
 
 I'roniinent in Snnday School wovk throughout 
 the country, m. .Aim.i, dau. of of Re\ . .Vrdiiliald 
 Cameron .Allen, of Indi,nia|iolis. 
 
 Auo. 2... No. 773— Mont-onierx- Cuiinin-haiii Mei^s, of 
 1^7^- .son of ( 399) Charles 1 ).. of Indianap- 
 olis, Ind. 111. .M,uy Matthews, of San h'rancisco, 
 Gal. 
 
 CHILDREN 
 
 i.S4,s. 
 
 No. 1249 — liessie Lciiinii;;. 
 
 No. 1250— Montt;uiiK-ry Cunnni.i;li<un. 
 
 No. 1251 — Kniily Riplcv. 
 
 June S, 1.S79. 
 
 Sept. 22, 1.8S1. 
 
 .Sei't. ,s, iSSj;. 
 
 April 2-j. No. 779-- Lieul. John Forsvth Mei-s, late ..f llie 
 '•"^■^l- I'- S. Navy, now of the Bethlehem Iron W'cjrks, 
 
 Hethleheni, I'a., son of 14,1,1) Dr. [ohn F., of Phil- 
 adelphia, Pa. See App. 770. m. jane Perry, dau. 
 ol Ciil. Roli'i S. kodgers, of Ha\ re de Crace, iSId. 
 
 1.S4.S. 
 
 CHILDREN 
 
 No, 1252— .Sara Perry. 
 No. 1253— Rohert Rodgerh 
 No. 1254— John Porsylh. 
 
 June 14, i8,S6. 
 
 June 27, iX.SS. 
 
 Mai. 2, 1S90. 
 
 ( )ct. 16, 
 
 I.S-,S. 
 
 No. 784— Dr. .Arlliur X'incent Meiys, of Phil.idel- 
 ])hia. Pa., son of ( 4, k.i 1 Dr. John F., of Philadelphia. 
 111. Mary Roberta, dau. of Edward Browning, of 
 Phil.idelphia. 
 
 CM ILDREN. 
 
 No. 1255 — Eduaril llniwuinu 
 No. 1256 — Jolin Forsyth. 
 No. 1257— Arthur liii;ers,ill. 
 
 .Sept. 10, 1,879. 
 I »ct. 25, 18S0. 
 June 29, 1882. 
 
13" 
 
 Mku.s (".l■:Nl^ \l.(n.^ . 
 
 Mar. 1, 
 
 No. 803— Willie TuiiK-r Mi-i-s, of 1 )cs Mcines. 1S57. 
 
 Wash., son of (404 ' William M., of l.,,lavHtr. Iiul. 
 m. Gt-rtrudc Gilnian, of St. Cloiicl, Minn. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. 125S— Jeiusli.i (.iliiiaii. 
 No. 1259— Charles C.ilnian. 
 No. 1260— Samuel ('.ilinan. 
 
 1 )ec . 14, i^94- 
 Jan. 24, 1S96. 
 Dec. 18. 189S. 
 
 Junt- 14, 
 
 iSSS. 
 
 No. 8i2-\in.cnt WiUanl M.il;s. "f MaM-n, 1.S57 
 
 Mass., son of (400) Tiniothv W.of Ma.lison, Conn. 
 See App. .M:;. ni. Cathninr F. M.I )(rnioU, who 
 was li. in Rome, N. Y. 
 
 CHILDREN 
 
 No. I2(ii — X'incent F. 
 
 Ii. in Malileii. 
 
 No. 1262— Jose|)li M. 
 
 1,. in M.-liose, M.i^s. 
 
 July, 13, 1.SS9. 
 June 10. 1894. 
 
 July 6, 
 1 S64- 
 
 No. 817- Joseph l.oi-in- Mei-s of Mattapoisett. IS.V^. 
 
 Mass., son of 14251 Joseph, of Mattapoisett. See 
 App. Si;, ni. Mai-gai-et I'ennvp.u ker l'llni,in. 
 
 Dec. 10, 
 1S84. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. 1263— Annie Everett. 
 
 m. janies DilUvoitli Hucku. liter. 
 
 No. i26.i^Alii e l.orin;^. 
 
 I''ef). 12, 1S65. 
 lulv 28, 18S1. 
 
 June 2i 
 
 uStS. 
 
 No. 820— Joseph E,irl Mei-s, of lloston. Mass., 
 son of (427' I-"i-in;^, of Malt.ipoisett. Meiiiliei- of 
 the wb.oles.ile tinn of Carter, Carter N: Melius, 
 Boston, Mass., enterin- the .mplov of Solomon 
 Carter, father of the senior ineiiihers of the tirm, 
 in iS(.(., as oIVk e l.ov, .ui-l workiii.t; tip lo ,1 p.irt- 
 nership. m. M" v E. Mem. k. .if Niiii<la. X. \'. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 I.S4y. 
 
 No. 1263— Clarissa ( ll.lfiel.1. 
 N.i. 1266— jose|>liine l-.arl. 
 
 Sept, I. l8,So, 
 lune I", 1883. 
 
NiN 111 ('j1'-.m;i;a mix. 
 
 MARRIED- BORN 
 
 Sei)t. 17, No. 833 — GickMin luliiiuiul I\Irii;s, (if I',uiil-^\ illi-, 1S41 
 
 iM'ti . Ohid, and Chicayd, 111., son ni ( 444 i Ca[it. ( "liciiun. 
 
 Jan. 2, of Buffald, N. \'. M.iym- (if PaiiK'S\-ille, etc. Scl' 
 
 l8S_:;. '"^I'l'- '"".v^- !"■ I'^t. I'.unirc Post. jnil, Mis. M.iii.i 
 
 Pc-n-v. 
 
 [S96. 
 
 GIDEON E. MEIGS. 1840-1896. 
 Painesville Ohio 
 
 CHILDREN 
 
 \\\ I'lKST Wll !■ 
 
 No. 1267— (reorge 1-Aluard. 1864. 
 
 No. 126S— Anna. M.iy i, 1S66. 
 
 m. Justin J. W'ctniore, of Cliicago. 
 
 111., now of W'yncote, Pa. 
 
 By Seciinii Wii-K. 
 
 No. 1269 — John l,i:.;gett. 
 
 Aug. 27, 1SS4. 
 
1.1- 
 
 MkK.S ( ",1 \I.AI,i>l,\ . 
 
 No. 837— fosrpli Mri^s, of Buffalo, N. ^■.. son uf 184S. 
 
 (444) Capl. (lidcon.cif Huffalu. EntcTcdtln- Army 
 Ix'fori' he was (.•itjjhtcen xr.iis of a^-, ami scrvccl 
 thrcf \-fars. m. .Mrs. iVl.n'>- lilonmeisliinc. No 
 ilulilrcn. 
 
 I St; I . 
 
 No. 830-1)1-. jonalhau Hardin- .M(i!.;s, nf Ikach- 185(1. 
 
 iiiont, Mass., son nf 1444) ("apt. ( ".idcini, of Buffalo, 
 N. Y. in. .Sarah 11. .Srliwind. nf .Mrnlor 1 Icidlaiids, 
 ( )hi(i. 
 
 CHILD. 
 
 No. 1270 — Idiiatli.m S(liwiiul. 
 
 ( let. 28, 1S99. 
 
 |uni- 10, No. 841- .Mfrcd Klu-n Mfij^s, of Dclroii, 1847- 
 
 iSSi.. Mich., son of (447) l'-licnc/i.-r, of South 
 
 China, Mr. Connntcd with tin- Western 
 Newspaper I'nion. of Detroit. 111. Ellen 
 Richardson Mooia, of Lislion, Maine. Jan. 26, 1849. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. 1271 — Hikl.i. 
 No. 1272 — Moore. 
 
 Mar. 23, 1S.S5. 
 I Illy 12, 1891. 
 
 Dec. 28, No. 851— As.i hrauk Mei-s. of Boston, .Mass., son l80c.. 
 
 1884. of (4.S5) Asa, of Nantucket, ni. Mary A. li.iwkins, 
 
 of Boston. 
 
 y-^'iz. 
 
 1878. 
 
 No. 85Q d^ienry Russell Mei,i.;s, of New Bedford, 
 Mas.s., sou of i4'>'i I Josiah, of New I'ledford. ni. 
 Catherine Smith. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 luile 14, 1S79. 
 
 No. T 273— Helen Aii.ytisla. 
 
 111. jaiiies v.. Davis, of Weslpurt, 
 
 Mass. 
 No. 1274-Mercy Bella. Jiil.v II, 18S1. 
 
 111. Ilirani Keeii Kiny, of Dart- 
 
 niiiiilli, Mass. 
 
NiN 1 H (;i-.XKUATl().\. 
 
 13.' 
 
 MARRIED. 
 
 Feb. I, 
 1880. 
 
 No. 861— Chail.s W. H. Mrios, ,,f Sduth San. I- 184, 
 
 wich, Mass., son of 14(171 lulnnmd, of South 
 Saiidwicli. m. Octavia P. Crocki 1, of llarnstablt, 
 Mass. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. 1275— Bertha T. 
 No. 1276 — Wilhs Sumner. 
 
 Now 15, 1SN2. 
 June 25, i.SSS. 
 
 June 8, No. 863 — W'ilhant H. Mei-s, of South Sanduii h, 184,^ 
 
 1878. Mass., son of (469) Georye \\'., of South Sand- 
 
 wich, ni. Isatlore Jenkins, of S.uidwich, Mass. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. 1277 — Grace Lee. 
 No. 1278 — Geurj;e Reec'. 
 
 Jan. 9, 1S.S5. 
 .Sept. 23, i.S.SS 
 
 No. 867 — George FrtMk'rick Meitjs, of Centre- 
 ville, Mass., son of (4701 Ralph, of Centreville. 
 ni. .Sarah .Stur^is. 
 
 1 847. 
 
Meigs Genealogy. 
 
 NINTH GENERATION. 
 
MEias Genealogy 
 
 NINTH GENERATION. 
 
Ti:nth (iKxf.ka rioN. i^e; 
 
 Tenth Uenekation. 
 
 Bo.isl not tiK'.SL' titltjs of your ancestors. 
 
 Brave \ouths ; tliey're tlieir possessions, not yi'ui nwn ; 
 
 VVIien your own virtues equall'd ha\e their names. 
 
 T'will be but fair to lean upon their fames. 
 
 For they are strong supporters : Imt till theiL 
 
 The j^reatest .ire but i;ro\vin,i; t;eiillenieii. 
 
 - /.'-■/; /../,„>„//. 
 
 MARRIED BOn^ ^ , j. ^ 
 
 No. 869— Dr. John J. Meigs yth, of Oakland, Cal.. i,x ^.s. 
 
 son oi (474) Dr. John 7th. of Hydt- Park. Vt.. to 
 
 uhiili town hf was civilitctl when he cntrriMi tht- 
 
 Civil War. Aui.;. 11, i.Soj. Was Assistant Surgeon 
 
 of the I I til \'erniont Inft. or 1st Vt. Heavy Artil- 
 lery in the defences of Washington until May ih, 
 
 1864, when they joined the oth .\rmy Cor]is near 
 
 Spottsylvania, Va. Oet., 1.^(14. was promoted to 
 
 be .Siiigcoii of the 3rd Vt. Infantrv. remaining 
 
 with that regiment until the close of thr- war, and 
 
 was at the surrender of Lee at Appomattox C. H. 
 
 Was mustered out in |iilv, 1S65; returned to 
 
 Vermont till iSfi.S, when he went to Nevada and 
 June 24. remained till 1.S92, then to California, where he 
 
 1.S66. now resides. ni. ist, Di.ma Hyde, of Hyde jime i.\. iSfiS. 
 
 Fell. 23. Park, \'t. m. 2nd. Delia Wolf, of .Stockton. 
 iSSg. Cal. 
 
 CHILD. 
 
 Xo. 1274— Jiihii Jerroltl. April 29. i8yo. 
 
 April. No 871— G.-orge H. Meigs, of W'ells, .\evatla, i,S45. i,St,r,. 
 
 ■•'^77- ^o" "f (474' l^r- John 7th, of Hyde Park, \'t. 
 
 m. Elanic Pierson. 
 
 CHILDREN 
 
 No. 12,80— Laura H. Dec, 1S79. 
 
 No. 12S1 — Liiiille. Dec, 1.S.S2. 
 
 No. 12N2 — ALiroaret. 
 
 1S92. 
 
 Jan. 23. No. 874 — John iMeigs, of Malcom. Iowa, son of i''^,i7- 
 
 1S72. i4''^,i> Church, of Malcom. m. Ida l!rown. [an. 7, i()i>i. 
 
 CHILDREN 
 
 No. 1283— .Stella Mae. lime 22, 1873. 
 
 No. 12S4— Jessie Nancy. .May 31. 1S7H. 
 
1 ,Vi 
 
 Mkkis ("ji;ni:ai.i".v. 
 
 S.-pi. jh, No. 875 -Svlvanus Randall Mcins, of Malcom, 1S39. 
 
 ,,SM. Inwa, >uii (il (4S3I ("luiivh, ol Mal.uill. 111. Geol- 
 
 'iaiina liati.'^. 
 
 CH ILDREN. 
 
 N(J. 12S5— SiiiieDii Svlvanus. 
 
 No. 12^6 — Bessie. 
 Feb. 19, No. 12S7 — Zillah. 
 jSyh. Ill- Ch.iilcs H. I'.ancroll. 
 
 May 30, 1S66. 
 July 15. 1S67. 
 Fell. 19, 1S69. 
 
 Oct. S, No. 877— Chiu-rli Mn-s, of Mai. din, Iowa, son of i>^^?,. 
 
 ,S(i7. (4.S;,i Chnrrh, of Malcoin. 111. Julianna S. I5ur- 
 
 rcll. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 .Sept. 23, No. ,2S.S-Viola Frances. N''>v- "S. "868. 
 
 1.S94. 
 
 July -\s, 
 lS(uj. 
 
 Mar. 17, 
 
 1 886. 
 
 Jan. ,:;i, 
 
 1 87 8. 
 
 ni. Kiiliert .Shearer. 
 N.I. I2S4— Merrill C. 
 .\o. 1290— lames I'.urrell. 
 
 Nov. 25, 1S83. 
 Jan 5. 1HS7. 
 
 No. 878 -ilenianiin H. !'. Mfi-s,.if Mai.. 1111, Iowa, 1846. 
 
 son .if (48:^1 Clun.-li, of Malcom. 111. Mary Jo- 
 st/]i]iinc ("haimian. 
 
 CHILDREN 
 
 No. 1291 — Ethel. 
 
 No. 1292 — IVnjaumi. 
 
 No. 1293 — Grace M. 
 
 N.i. 1294— .Arthui Chaimi.in. 
 
 May 27, 1871. 
 
 Sept. 19, I.S7S. 
 
 Mar. I, 1.S.S7. 
 
 Apiil 17, iSy4. 
 
 No. 879— Austin 1'. Meigs, of Malcom. Iowa, son 1850. 
 
 of (483) Church, of Malcom. m. Ia/./,ic Davis. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No i29.s.^NaiR-y ('lOuUI 
 No. I2u6— Frank Pa.Klell.inl 
 No. 1297 — Mai \ L.iuise. 
 
 Fell. 13, 1887. 
 
 |nne 2.3, 1S92. 
 
 June 5, 1.894. 
 
 No. 8S0 -.M.iiill 11. .M.igs, ..f M,il< .1111. low. I, son 1835- 
 
 of (48;^) Chur. h, of M.ili-.ini. in. li.illii' M. Ship- 
 ley. 
 
 CHILDREN 
 
 No. I2q8-ratience M. ^^'-^ ^5. 1^84 
 
 No. ,2.,9-Charles S. I^'ly--- '887. 
 
 No. .3..o-Rayin.uul. l"'^''- 'O' '898. 
 
IX III I .i;XI',KA I ION. 
 
 l.v 
 
 Nov. 15, No. 890 — Marquis P'ayette M(it;s, of O.iklaml, 1.S5S. 
 
 1.S84. Cal.. son (if I 490) (iforge \V., of I^allas, Tc.va.s. 
 
 Wholes, lie Coininissioii Business in .San Praiicisco, 
 Cal. See App. Sqii. m. Mary L. .Siiores of S.m 
 F"ran<-ise(j. 
 
 No. 1301 — Ivoy. 
 No. 1302 — Willie. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 Mar. 1 I, 1S87. 
 Dec. 27, 18SS. 
 
 Oct. 12, No. 894 — Walter Mei.^s, of New \'orl<, son nf i.S3,S. 
 
 '■'^Q.S- (50.S) Samuel H. 1\, of New ^■ork. ISook i'nl)- 
 
 lislier. ni. .Alice Moisjan. 
 
 I ,S97 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. 1303 — Montgomery Benj.anun. 
 No. 1304— Dorothy. 
 
 luiie 20, 1.S96. 
 July II, 1,897. 
 
 1,867. No. 911 - 1 Iriiry Hovt .Mei^i^s, of i.inia, Peru, son 1,843. 
 
 of (5201 Henr\- Mei^i^iS, of Lim,i, Peru. S. .\. 
 1). at Willianisliuri;h, N. Y. d. in I.oiKJon, Eiii;- 
 land. ni. .Mice Heaiifort, of Sanliaijo, Chili. 
 
 1,8,8,8. 
 
 CHILDREN 
 
 No. 1305 — Henry. 
 
 Ii. ni Londun, Eii!.;". 
 
 Now liviiii; (1900) in Costa Rica. 
 No. 1306— .Sophie. 
 
 1>. in Lini.i, Pern. 
 
 Sept., 1S72. 
 
 -Sept. 6, 1874. 
 
 No. 912 — .Manfred fiackus Mei.t;.!L;-s, of Santiag^o, 
 Cliili, son of (526) Henry, of Lima, Peru, .S. A. 
 m. Lucretia Soto. 
 
 1,84,8. 
 
 1,875. 
 
 CHILDREN . 
 
 No. 1307 — l.iK rctia. 
 No. 1308 — ^h^nfredo. 
 No. 1309 — Fannie. 
 No. 1310 — Wilhani. 
 
 il. snl)seipientiy to liis lather. 
 
i;,N 
 
 M in.-- < il M Al in.\ . 
 
 1S.S4.. No. 017 Henry l-llisha Mt_-i,i;.L;s, <i[ Luiuldii. Kn.o- 1 S60. 
 
 land, son (if ( 5;,,, 1 John C. nl I.cnddn. in. (tci-- 
 trucle Santley, of London. 
 
 CHILDREN 
 
 No. i,,i2-C,ladys. ^"^ • '9. iS'^^- 
 
 li. in I.oiicliin. 
 
 No. 1513 — Kt.'gin.dd. 
 
 h. in 1 jiiuliiii. 
 
 .\ii. i;,i4— Cecil. 
 
 b. in l.<ind(in. 
 
 No. 131S — RiinaKl. 
 
 1>. in 1 iiiulon. 
 
 188S. 
 1S90. 
 1S92. 
 
 No. Q25 — Edgar ClendenningMeij^gs, of I'hiladcl- i.^^f^.s. 
 
 phia, I'a., son of ( 536 ) Gillsert ().. of Newark, N. J. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. i;,i6— Sarah Hdicl. '>et'. 27, I.S97- 
 
 No. 1317— Thomas llilfonl. Mar. 3<-', 1900. 
 
 Ian. :^5, No. y.^Q -C^-nv^r lulwin .Meigs, of (.uiUord. 1.S36. 
 
 IS6-V Conn., son of 1 540 1 Krastns K., of (anlfonl. 
 
 ni. .Sarah Fraiii cs Ihidley. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 N,.. i3i9-HerlR-rl rairdell. June 30, 1.S94. 
 
 No. iv<-— Lawrenre Girard. .laii. 2S, 1.S96. 
 
 DIED . 
 
 No. gi3 Mnior K.iili Meiggs, of Lima, 1'i.ru, iS,S2. i'^<i,i 4- 
 
 S. A., son of (52(11 llcnrv, of Lima, 
 m. 
 
 CHILD 
 
 No. 1^1 1 
 
 il. \(Hin;.;. 
 
 1S67. 
 
 CHILD. 
 
 No. i3iS-(-.eorKe I'.llord. Air^. 5. iSf>3- •^''P'' 9. iS^S- 
 
 Sept. I'), No, c>40 -William Baldwin Meigs, of Guilford. iS^g. 1897. 
 
 I,S64. Conn., son (if (54')' F.rasHis K., of Guilford. 
 
 April 1 I, m, isl, jane Se.irs. of GuiUnrd. 2nd, Mary Klla, 
 
 ,,s,,v (l.iu. (if Willi, mi Miirpliy, of Meriden, Conn. 
 
Tin in ('tI-.m:k A riox. 
 
 l,V) 
 
 MARRIED 
 
 April 
 
 iSSs. 
 
 -I), 
 
 No. 944— Rirhiinl Weld MeisJjs, of Ncu York. 
 -son of I 54g ' Kia-slu^ K., of Giiilfdrd, Conn. 
 111. Kdiia Amelia, dau. of Charles Heni\- and 
 Esther Dcliiirah Tih'ston, of (i<-iic\a, N. \'. 
 
 Aut 
 
 1.S4S. 
 
 iS; 
 
 Dec. 25, No. 945 — Walter Isaac Meit;s. ui ( .uillurd, Cuiiii., 
 1.S7.S. son of 1549' lu-astus K.. of ('.uilfcjrd. ni. Aui^nsta 
 
 C. (">ris\vold, of CuillMrd. h. in Leeds, Wis. 
 
 CHILDREN 
 
 I'^i.S.V 
 
 iSv^. 
 
 No. 1321 — Ha/cl i\I;i\. (Adciptetl.) 
 
 No. 1322 — label S( lalUon. 
 
 No. 1323— Grace F,. I Adi.ipted.) 
 
 May 25, 1.S91. 
 
 June 2.S. 1S94. 
 
 July 3, 1SS4. 
 
 M; 
 
 iSgS. 
 
 I let. 30, 1.S92. 
 
 I.S6S. No. 956 — Harrison .Stephen .Meigs, nf Swanton. 
 
 \'t., son of (579) lulvvin .S., of Su.niton. Killed 
 in a railmad wreck near St. [dhnshury, \'t. 
 ni. Margaret .M.Closkv. 
 
 i.S4 = 
 
 i,S.S5. 
 
 CHILDREN 
 
 No. 1324 — Mary Claribel. -Vuy. 23, rSyo. 
 
 in. Morris ColHiis, oiMontpelier, 
 
 \'t. 
 No. 1325 — Edwin Smith. |iily 27, 1S74. 
 
 I .-\ soldier in active ser\ iee ni llie 
 
 Philippine War; mustered in ,it 
 
 Soutli Franiin.i;hani, Mass., as 
 
 6th Ser.yt. of Co. M. 4hth Intt. I". 
 
 S. X'olunteers ; uas promoted to 
 
 1st .Sergt. soon after, .ind was 
 
 hiter ]iromoied to li.ittalion Sergt. 
 
 ^hdor,the highest rank attainable 
 
 as .1 non-commissioned otticer. 
 
 Returned to tlie I'. .S. in May, 
 
 1901, and mustered out in Iiiiu.' 
 
 No. 1326 — P.eniamiu B.iru.ird. .May 20, 1S77. 
 
 < )f r.rouaisMlle. Me. 
 
 Nov. 7, 
 1S97. 
 
 No. 967 — Luther Heiir\- .Meios, of DouoJas 1861. 
 
 City, Wash., son of 15S4) Kbenezer S., of 
 
 Mathewson, ( )kla. m. Mary Ellen Htirk, 
 
 dau. of Eh (iather Hurk, of Henderson, Ky. ( )ct. jo, i.SIkj. 
 
14" 
 
 MARRIED. 
 
 June ,s, 
 iSq.s. 
 
 Mi;i(.s ('. !■ Nl'Al i".N ■ 
 
 BORN 
 
 No. q68 — Lumas Guy Meigs, of Mathewson, Okla., i Mh2, 
 
 sun of ( 5^4 I Ebenezer S., of Mathewson. m. Alice 
 (u-agg, dau. of Charles Craog, of I-riseo, ( )kl.i. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. ,,--EauhLucv. J""^^^8' ■■''9^- 
 
 No. ,3.S-LeoManl. "-'■ '«• '<^«'- 
 
 Mar. 20. 
 
 No. 973— Charles Walter Meigs, of Milan. Okla, iS(x). 
 
 i.ssv son of (5.X6) Henian A., of M.ithewson, Okla. 
 
 I. I'Lphonia, dau. of David Ketti 11. 
 
 CHILDREN 
 
 No. 1329— Claude W. 
 No. 1330— Clarence W 
 No. 1331— Chester W. 
 
 ! )rc. 6, 1S.S4. 
 May 3, 1S87. 
 Nov. 4, i.s.S.S. 
 
 Xo. I332--Freda W. A,,r,l 5, i^^g'- 
 
 No. 1333— Carl W . 
 No. 1334— Eltie M. 
 No. 1335 — Garliiiia M. 
 
 May 2.S, 1S92 
 A|iril 7, iS94. 
 J.ui. 4, i.'^96. 
 
 No. 1336- 
 
 -Clifford W. ^'-'y 5' '^'^T- 
 
 No. 1337— Grace A. 
 
 July 10, 1S99. 
 
 June 2- 
 
 I 01 HI. 
 
 No, Q74— William kinrolu Meigs, of Corning, iSh2. 
 
 Tehama Co., Cal., son of ( 5.S6 ) Heman A., of 
 Mathewson, Okla. m. at Corning. Margaret K. 
 Dav, of Yukon, Okhi., dau. of th<- laic R. S. f^av, 
 of Hampshire Cn.. \V. Va. 
 
 Ainil 17, No. 976— Re\. Irving Judson Meigs, of Hennessy. 
 Okla., son of I 3S''i > Heman A., of Mathewson. 
 Okla. Clergyman of the M. !<:. Chuicli S.iUth. 
 ni. Daisv 1*. Hi.-ks. of Mathewson. 
 
 1 .S6S. 
 
 iSoS. 
 
 Dec. 14, No. 978— Ella I.ouisa Bronson, of Minneapolis, iS.S^- 
 
 [.s.sy. Minn., dau of ( s^o ) Elvira E. ( Meigs ) Bronson. 
 
 m. Thomas C. Chamherlaiu, of Minneapolis. No 
 
 children. 
 
 Sept. 12, No. 982— Lora Estellc Bronson, of I'itchburg, 1879. 
 
 1 900. 
 
 Ma,ss., dau. of ( 5.S0 1 Elvira E. (Meigs) l^ronson, 
 of Swanton, \'t. m. Herbert 1',. l.ucas, of Fitch- 
 bury;. 
 
Ti:\ I II ( ; 
 
 i-M' KA riox. 
 
 MARRIED. 
 
 Mar. 30, No 083- -Mcrtnn /.utlicr ISionks, ,,f Si. AHkiiis, iSh^ 
 
 1884. \'t., sun uf (syi) AziiIkiIi I.. iMci-s) I'.rudk.s, of 
 
 St. .Albans. Is .Selectman of his tuun. ni. Lottie 
 
 F. Chase, il.ui. of Amhruse Chase. 
 
 141 
 
 CHILDREN 
 
 No. i.:;2,S— .Smith .\. 
 No. 1,539— .\hna .'\hiv. 
 
 June 19, 1SS6. 
 J.ni. 15, iSgi. 
 
 Feb. 24, No. 987— Heni-v Leon 1 Pry, ,11 Mei-s. of R.ilti- 
 1885. more, .M<l., foster son of 15031 Henry I!., of 
 
 Baltimore. An extensive clolliin^ m.uuifarturer 
 of that city. m. Hariiel Lor.i W,ilker, dan. of 
 William Walker, of St. Lawrence Co., N. V. 
 No children. 
 
 1 ."^63. 
 
 June JS, No. 990— Albert Merwin Melius, of .Vf.iyo-, P. (.)., 
 
 1877. son of (504) Harley S., of Mnnsoiuill,', P. Q. Is 
 
 of the firm of Heath tV Mei^s, Proprietors of "Cen- 
 
 Nov. .S, tral Hotel," Maoog, P. Q. ,„. ,,st, Adelia Keech. 
 
 1.S.S7 
 
 :nd, Kliza I )illon. 
 
 1857. 
 
 ( )ct. IS, I .S.Ss. 
 
 CHILDREN 
 
 No. 1340— Harle\ .A. 
 No. 1341 — I.ilH.ni A. 
 
 I let. 20, iSyi, 
 Dec. ,S, 1.S93. 
 
 Sept., No. 996— Frank C.nv .Mei.;s, of liellous Falls, V{.. 
 
 lyoo. son of ( (x.;, 1 ( lay H., of St. Albans, \'t. m. fo- 
 
 seidiine Meli.ssa Remini.;ton, of Sheldon. \'t. 
 
 1S74. 
 
 Nov. 7, 
 18.S2. 
 
 No 101.5- |,,hn Hrownson Mei-s, of .Milwankee, 
 Wis., son of ( (115 ) Gardner C.. of Arena, AA'is. Is 
 a member of the firm of Mohr tlolstein Com. Co. 
 m. Anna Cecilia Gee. 
 
 '■\s,s. 
 
 CHILDREN 
 
 No. 1342 — Henry Gardner. 
 N(.i. 1343 — I'loreiice l.ovisa. 
 No. 1344— Oliver Chillis. 
 No. i345_r,ardner lohn. 
 No. 1346— Jeannette Marie. 
 No. 1347— J.inies Gee. 
 
 r)ec. 4, 1.S83. 
 Sept. 6, tS.Ss. 
 
 July 2, 1S.S7. 
 -Sept. 23, 1.SS9. 
 
 ' let. 7, 1S91. 
 i\Iar. 12, 1S95. 
 
 Jnly 19, 1,^93. 
 Seiit. 30, 1SS9. 
 
14- 
 
 1SS4. 
 
 Nov. 7, 
 1S74. 
 
 ISS,,. 
 
 iSSg. 
 
 Mi-.K.s (",i:ni Ai.ii(,\ . 
 
 MAHRItU 
 
 l'\-l). 2-. No. 1015 .Aiidnu I.ardiiiiili.n Mii^s, nf ("hicii^o. 
 
 BORN 
 
 lS5g. 
 
 111., Mill iif i'>i5 ' ''.ariliK-r C".. (if .\rcna. Wis, m. 
 Lizzie I'mkritun. 
 
 CHILDREN, 
 
 Nil, i34.S^Arthui . 
 No. 13,49— Eu;4ene. 
 No. ivv-i— Grace. 
 
 No. 1022 Hem V Chanibdiain Mei.^s, ot I'rru, iS,S4- 
 
 N.\'.,>un of i(>i(ii farlos 1)., of Au SaMe Forks, 
 N. Y. 111. I'.lisr Harrin.^toii. of l.a]iliain. N. N'. 
 
 CHILDREN 
 
 No. ,3,si-Aniia ll.irriet, N'» ■ 7. lS79- 
 
 1), at Saraiuu . 
 
 111. Edward KeatliL-rsoue, ol .\u 
 
 Sable Forks, N, ^■. 
 No. 1 vS-^-('"v llarri.r^ton. J^'"^' 4. ■•'^82. 
 
 h, ,it I'eni, N. ^■. 
 
 No. 1028 iM-ank f^llswortli Mcij^s. of l!uiiin.!.;ton, i^'Vs. 
 
 \-t.. ^,.,11 ol ioio 1 C.irl.is 1).. of ,\u Sable l''orks, 
 N. \'. ill. Lilli.in A. Hull, of Winooski, \'i. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. I353--Aiiiia Cn.lnie. J-'"-'^. ■•^94- 
 
 No. i3S4-l'.l'l"va Hull. .\|iril h, iSqy. 
 
 No. 1032 - Dou-las Arnold Ml-i,->, of Huron, i.S'\v 
 
 S. 1).. son of I'll.)) Oliver C". of Hudson, Wis. 
 
 111. I.otllo M.IN'IH'S. 
 
 Fell. 27, No. 1030— Williaui C. Mei^s, of Arena, Wis., son 1S7.V 
 
 i.s.,7. of (620) Eli H., of Arena, in. Maooie Schlew. 
 
 CHILDREN 
 
 No. 1355— Mary I'dsie, 
 
 Nov. 10, 1897. 
 
 No. i,56-\Veslev. / ,.„,:,,, ^>>^'- f ' 'l^^^- 
 
 N,,. ,357-\VaUer. , '"'"'• ^'^^- '"' '^9'^- 
 
 Jan. S, lyoi. 
 
Ti xiH ( "ii:\i:i;a 1 ION. 
 
 i4.> 
 
 MARRIED. 
 
 BORN . 
 
 Sept. 15. No. 1093— diaries Hardy Meigs, of Cleve- ]S(,-. 
 
 iScju. lanii, ()., sdii of ('1401 Charles I... of New 
 
 ^ oik. Is ,1 nu-nilier (jf the Leon ( ^(jheilie 
 Pattern Works Co., and is wiilely known as 
 a collector and pulilisher of niiiiiatnre books, 
 and has pnhlisheti the smallest hook ever 
 made, a volume a fraction of the si/e of a 
 postage stam|>. that could only he read with 
 the aid ot a strong glass. .As an aiuhor he 
 shows a mastery of the strong, homely forms 
 of versification th.it make the reading charm- 
 ing and tit his theme dclightfullv. His latest 
 imhlication is entitled "( )ld Ezra." one of the 
 most beautiful hooks of \ t-rse that i\ er cuiie 
 from a Cli^veland press, m. Ida llrown, of |.ui. ij, 1 ,n6o. 
 New Il,L\en. Conn. Ij. in Clinton, .\. |..dau. 
 ol 1 )a\ id and Christiana (Kihleri I'.rciwn. 
 
 CHILDREN 
 
 N'd. i;,.sS— n<irotliy Eleanor. Oct. iS, i.Sgi. 
 
 1). ill New Haven, 
 ^'o- i.v=19— •■eorge Ives. Aug. 4, 1,^94. 
 
 1>. in New Haven. 
 
 Ni). 1,^60 — Ida I''n/abeth. 
 
 1 1, ill New Ha\er 
 
 Sept. lS, 1S97. 
 
 No. 1361 — Heatrice Louise. jau. 9, 1900, 
 
 li. in Clevel.ind, ( ). 
 
 May 3, No. 1 1 10— Walter Alanson Meigs, of .Madison. i,Ss4. 
 
 1S80. Conn., son of (66,S) John 11., of Madison, m. Liz- 
 
 zie A. Barker, of Guilford. Conn. 
 
 No. 1362— James Barker. Ma,-, jn. iSSi 
 
 Oct. 27, No. 1112— Nathan De\ter Meigs, of NLidison, i,S(,(,. 
 
 1S9-S. Conn., son of ( (>(),S 1 John IL, of Madison, m. .Sarah 
 
 Rachel Hough, of Madison. 
 
 Oct. S, No. 1120— Samuel Wells .Meigs, of West Haven, 1.S71. 
 
 1899. Conn,, son of (674) Edward E., of Madison, Conn. 
 
 in. Harriette Frances, dan. of Thomas V.. Benedict, 1.S7S. 
 
 of New Haven. Conn. 
 
 l.SSy. 
 lulv III, igoii. 
 
144 
 
 MARRIED . 
 
 ( )ct. 1,^, 
 
 I Stjc ). 
 
 Ian. JS, 
 
 Meigs Genkalihiv. 
 
 BORN 
 
 N... 1123 -ICnu-sl lulwai.l M.m-s, (if Clinton, i.'i''\S- 
 
 Cunn., son of ( (Syf. ) Daniil H., of Clinton, m. 
 
 ist Mary C. FuIUt, dan. of Nathan I'uller, of Jan.- i, iSSy. Dec. 22, i Sy4. 
 
 Hio-o-anum, Conn. ni. 2n(l I.ia Hi-.^ins, dau. Aug. Jo, 1SS4. 
 
 1.S06. of I.ynian lliggins, of Clinton, Conn. 
 
 uni- -\S, 
 
 No. 1123 |ohn Morrison .Meigs, of ("linton, Conn., 1.S7;,. 
 
 ",Se,4. son of (<i7'>) Daniel 11. of Clinton, ni. Emma 
 
 Louis.- Wall, <lau. of Isaac C. W.ill, of Clinton. 
 
 CHILD 
 
 No. i,,6,,-MiKl.e.l Louise. J"ly 29, .^95- Apr,! 7, 1S96. 
 
 Dec 7, 
 1.S92. 
 
 No. 1125 .\n<li-ew Kelsey Meigs, of Fair if^f\S- 
 
 Haven, Conn., son of (679) Theotlore F., <if 
 Clinton, Conn. m. Cora May Nortlirop, ,,f May, 1SO7. 
 
 New Haven, Conn. 
 
 CHILD. 
 
 No. i3b4-Norn,an Kelsey. .l"'v -^5. ■•'^95- 
 
 Nov. 17, 
 
 No. 1138 -Charles Deforest Meigs, of Orwell, 1S56. 
 
 I SSI ' ()hio,sonof (702)Eliha,4th.of .\shtal.ula, ( ). 
 
 m. Lizzie C. A.Flicott. l^'''- -S- ^^<'^- 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. 1',65-Karl Jone. ^•■<^''- -^^ '■'^^■'■ 
 
 July 15, 1SS4. 
 
 Dec. 2L), 1885. 
 
 No. 1366— Clara Jane. 
 
 No. 1367— Lena NLiy. 
 
 No. i36S-Huher Deforest. I'^^- '7' 'SSy. 
 
 No. ,369-Cliaon Rosier. Dec. 22, ,890. 
 
 No. 1370-Henry Ward. ^''i'-- -■'. 1S97. 
 
 No. 1371 — .Mlon Harland. 
 
 July 5, 1900. 
 
 June I 2, 
 
 No. 1139-^Leon Flihu Meigs, of Iconic, Ohio, i>^59- 
 
 son of (7.01 Fhhu 4th, of Ashtabula Co., ( ). 
 m. Sarah Maria Rouse, dau. of Henry K.ouse, Feb. 25, iSt.i. 
 iS.Sy. of Rome. 
 
 CHILD. 
 
 No. ,372-Kutl, r.aldwin. Aug. nS, 1892. 
 
Ti Mil ( 'ii:xi: KA rmx. 
 
 """"^ BORN. 
 
 Ni>. 1140 -Clift.in E. Mc-ios, ,,f I.,-n.,\. Ohi,,, 1S61. 
 
 xin nl .7.121 Klilui 4th. (if Asht.ibula (\i., (). 
 
 •^'■i'- ''I- "11. llattir ( )\\rn, (lau. lit John ( )\v(n, (if (irccn. Oil. uj, i.Sbs. 
 iNS;. '[■ruiiilmll ("(I., ( )hi,i. 
 
 143 
 
 CHILDREN 
 
 N<i. i,:;;,^— Cora iMan<;. 
 
 I>. ill Cliica.L;(., 111. 
 No. 1374 — .\rtluir. 
 
 li. ill Chicajid, 111. 
 ^'"- io7.S— Mary. 
 
 li. ill lelfersdii, ( ). 
 No. 1376 — Waltt^r. 
 
 li. ill l-cno.\. I I. 
 
 .Stpt, 21, 1S91. 
 
 Jan. J 2, 1S94. 
 
 Au;4. 9, 1S95. 
 June 27, 1S99. 
 
 I Line . 
 
 April 
 iSc,7. 
 
 No. 1143 -R(.i.si,T G. .Meios, (if St. I.niiis. 
 .M(i., sun (,f ( Ji.i;, I CharK-s R., of Ottawa, Kan. 
 U'riit t(i .St. L( mis, July (.). iSS^, read law llicrc. and 
 u.is adniittcil t(. [iractict- in Jiiiu-. iS.);,. W.i> 
 a|i]i(iinlcd Assist. lilt Citv ,Att(inu-y nf St. faiuis, 
 Oct. I. i.Si)5, si-rxiiiL,;- until Ma\', i.ScvS, \\li(_-n he rc- 
 M, siiim-d miK-ral |ir,ictiiL-. ni. Ci-cil ( i. Li-uis. (if 
 Jei-sey\ill( , 111. 
 
 I8(n8. 
 
 IS, No. 1146— I->rris Ja(.obs Meius, "i X(.\v \'(,rk 
 City, son (if 1 7(1(1) Titus 1^. nf Nil-w V(irk. in. 
 Louise .A(lL-lt' La\vrunc(.\ of New \'(irk, eldest l^eb. 25. iSj\. 
 dim. of William Van Uuser Lawrence, and 
 Sar.ih Hates. 
 
 CHILDREN 
 
 No. 1377 — l,ucia Lawrence. 
 No. 137S — .Marjorie Lawreiic 
 
 Jan. 24, 1899. 
 .Aug. 20, 1900. 
 
 Oct. 15, No. 1158 -.Alexander Kirkpatrick Mei,^s, of S,in- iS^(^, 
 
 18S0. ford, Fl(iri<Ja. sun (if 1721) James 1,., nf Washin^;- 
 
 ton, 1). C. m. Fldrence na\'v, (if Afcmphis, Ti-nn. 
 
 CH ILDREN 
 
 No. 1379— James S. 
 .No. 13.S0— .Ale.xaiuler 
 
 Sept. 21, rS82. 
 luiie .S. 18S6. 
 
 Sept. JJ, No ii6q. Ceor-e Cleiidcnin Mci-s, (if W.ishinu;- 
 1897. tdii. 1). C, son iif ( 7;; ' Ketiirn J. 4tli, W'.ishino-- 
 
 t(in. Is ,1 law^Ner by professKui. 111. .M.iuiie 
 
 I lii'i^ans, I if W'asliin^tdn. 
 
 i'^7.v 
 
 No. 13S1 — B.isii. 
 
 Dec 7. i,S99 
 
I !'• 
 
 Mi:i<,S (iE.XKAl.lx.X . 
 
 MARRIED. 
 
 Feb. iS, 1175- Dr. joe Vincent Meii;s, 2ncl. of Luwcll, 1.S67. 
 
 i.Sgj. Mass., son cif (7:^41 Ca[)t. Joe Vincent, of Boston, 
 
 Mass. Is a graduate of Jefferson Medical College, 
 
 I'liilaili-lpliia, class of 1 SS9. SeeA[)|i. 117s- ni. 
 
 Sarah Maria I'arkcr, il.m. n{ Col. John M. (i. 
 
 Parker. 
 
 CHILDREN 
 
 Xo. 13S2 — !''iit;enia. 
 
 No. 13S3 — joe \'iiiCL-nt, ^rd. 
 
 No. 1384— Hikircth. 
 
 Dei-. 14, 1S90. 
 Oct. 24, 1892. 
 July 25, 1895. 
 
 1 )cc. S, No. 1177 — l)r. Return )onathan Meij^s, 7tli, of 
 1S07. I.owcll, Mass. .Son 011724) C.ipt.Joi- \'inc ent, of 
 
 Boston, Mass. A t;racluati'ol Har\anl I'nivirsity 
 Medical De])artnient, 1 S04 ; Royal Lomlon ( )|}h- 
 thahiiii Ilospit.il, i^oS; member of the Massachu- 
 setts .Medical Sixietv and ni Har\ard Alumni, 
 m. Carrie Celeste Iluse, dau. 1 if Ihomas W. Huse. 
 
 I>i7 
 
 No. 13S5 — Caroline- I'4i/alielh. 
 
 April 10, 1901. 
 
 Dec. ig, No. 1178 — Return Jcjiiathan .Mei<;s, 8th, of Haiti 
 ic)()o. more, Md. Son of (725) Cajit. I'ieldint; 1'., ol 
 
 Bo\-ds, Md, Manaiicr of Ront; Distance I'ele- 
 plionc, Baltimoii'. m, Roberta Be\'erly Brandcr, 
 dau. of William llairison, .I'ld Anna i Corbin ) 
 Hrander, ol Ru hniond, \',i. 
 
 |87f>. 
 
 I III U11-, iiLii t Uif .hiUkii ik-sirc^i Ui (.-.\;>rvss hi; 
 
 .11 know lediiL infill (<M lav'ors rc'iulurc-d in IIk 
 
 cuininliliK •'' tlii^ liiiiik li\ till' use <it llie \uluin 
 
 ' inons . ..1 ii>.|i..n.k-iii L- nl Col Ri-liiin Ji.ii.itli.ii: 
 
 I Mfi^s, .mil t..i iiinniTuiis |.init(iKUiplis .mhI iI". ii 
 
 I lIR-nts. wllli ll ll.lVr Inrilird tllf tiiCis 1(11 linillN " 
 i tllL- lllustCll ^ of llll^ li.K.k 
 
 ■Sept, J. 1181 |olin lKiir\- Mei^s, of 'i".ihle<iuah, 1859. 
 
 1 8c)o. Indian Territory, son of (7201 |ohn R., ol 
 
 'rahle(|uah. m. I'^iimr Boudinol. (A Ch<i'- Nhir. 8, 1862. 
 
 okec. ) 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. 13S6 — Carrie >hiy. 
 No. 138- — Charles Koss. 
 No. 1388 — F.liuor lioiulinol. 
 No. 1389 — |iihn ((Uiitliiis. 
 
 April 14, 1S93. 
 
 Mar. 25, 1S94. 
 
 April 2b, 1S99. 
 
 Mar. 2, 19111 . 
 
Ti-..\rii rii-:.\i.:KAri()\. 
 
 BORN . 
 
 June 2.S, No. 1185 — Florian Nush Meius, of I'liliLMiuah, i8(x;. 
 
 1H95. Indian Territory, son of (yjO) |(,hn R., ,jl 
 
 'I'ahleiniali. ni. Mollic MrKcc. ( A Clirnil^cc. ) 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 Oct. 27, No 11M7 llcnjamni iMveman Mei,t;.s. of Tahk-- 1S74. 
 
 i>^94- quail, I ndian, Tcrntorw son of ( 726 i |olin R., cjf 
 
 Talilii|uali. m. Plorcnic .McKoo. ( A Clu'idl^cc. ) 
 
 CHILDREN 
 
 Ni>. 1392— John Williain. A\.\'^. 2. 1S99. 
 
 N"- 1393— I ".race. Ve],. 5, lyoi 
 
 Oct. 2. No. 1211 joiin Rdliirl Meii^s, (if Siloani Springs, 1S76. 
 
 ■ ■"igcj. Arl<., soil ,if 17:;] ) Tininthy M., of Siloam .Sprin.i^s. 
 
 in. I.ill\ 1 iclin. 
 
 Dec. 20, No 1218 -Rev. Robert Van Mei^s, of Ouincv, 111., 1S7, 
 
 1S99. son (if (732 I Jame.s M., of Siloani Spriiiirs, Ark. 
 
 .A graduate of tlie I'nixersity of CHiicago in iSyS. 
 
 I'rominent I-'x'angelisl in the West. See A]>\>. 
 
 121S. in. 1(1.1 M. 11(,|, h, „f Gilman, 111. 
 
 No. 1267 — Oeoroe l<;du,inl Melius, df ( ".difdnna, i.S(i4. 
 
 son of (.S;,v) Oidcdii K., of Chiea-d, 111. in. Mdllie 
 Squires, of Chicago. 
 
 147 
 
 No. i390-'riiU(ith\- W'.ilkei, Junes, i-'^Qb- l-^cl. 4, 1.S9.S 
 
 No. 1391— jdsie. June 27, 1.S99. 
 
Meigs Genealogy 
 
 TENTH GENERATION, 
 
Meigs Genealogy. 
 
 TENTH GENERATION. 
 
Meigs Genealogy 
 
 TENTH GENERATION. 
 
E I I \ I N 1 1 1 C, I : 
 
 M K.\ rioN. 
 
 14^) 
 
 MARRIED. 
 
 l),r. ,, 
 
 KlA<A K S T II ( i E X I : U A T I ( ) X . 
 
 Mean wli lie a \ i.tini;f r r.i- ^■, .t it ill u id it .li;.. , 
 
 H;iS risL-ii up In utcupy Ihe btagt. 
 
 Vet oft I lliiiik of r.uilfcirrl with .iL-liglit. 
 
 — /.■<.(, tti. 
 
 No. 1285— Sinu-(in Syhami.s Melius. .,1 Mali, mi 
 low a. sun of ( S75 ) Svl\antis R., ,.l .Malidiii 
 m. AUcf ];. Fdiitc. 
 
 kS()6. 
 
 CHILDREN 
 
 Xo. i:,94— Leslie Wallace 
 No. 1395— Wayne Wilbur. 
 
 Sept. 23, 1892. 
 Sejit. 23, 1.S94. 
 
i.Su 
 
 Ml- 1(,S ( il- Nl AI.IH.S . 
 
 ITNC i.AssiFii:i). No. 1. 
 
 Dili^Liit scarrh aiiiuii- R-,;unls ahvady Lnui-lit .luwn, has fail<-d tu sh.nv aiiv cnn- 
 nc.'tion of the f.illowin.u families with the .arlier l.ranehes ,.f the Mei-s race descended 
 fn.in Vin.eiit ; lail il is li..|,r,l that thcv may vet he identified with some uf those mem- 
 bers \vh..se record in ihis l.ouk is incomplete. We have therefore tried to ^ive all of 
 the information in nur I.osse^sl. m, m the hn|,e that h mav fnrnish .lues for fuller 
 
 in\ <sliL;ati( m. 
 
 The lradili.>ns of th. loll. .win- family say that the M.ihawk \'allev was its Imme 
 l„„n 1.. the kn. .wn hisL.rv. Th.' latl.r, h..u.'Ver, lie-ins with these tw.. names : 
 
 X,.. 1 V)'' l"lni. an.l N... i.Vi; William Meigs. X... I ,v/' J.'hn, was the el. 1.-st, lint 
 the .late of his l.nlh is unkn.uvn 1.. u^. lie live.l m New V.nk City in th.- llarl.-m 
 lo.alitv, and was a lar.^e r.-al .-state .iwn.r, an.l ,ilth. .u-h twi.e married, .lie.l .hiliU.-ss. 
 His sec.Mi.l wih- w,,s a'wi.h.w with s.-ver.il .hil.lien, and she survivcl liim. i.rohahly 
 mh.-ritin.L; his pniperty. ■ .\ s..-.u. h .,f |.uMn r.-.au.ls ..f New V.nk mi.^ht .l.tinil.-lv li.x 
 his place .)f r.-si.len.-e, ami p.issil.ly n-sult in .let.-rminin- his ancestry, i 
 
 Th.- ,-arli.-st kn..un ..f his l.n.lh.r (i.Vjy! Willi.im, is his r.-si.f.-nce in fJel.iware 
 C.iuntv, N. V. He I1V.-.I m l),-p..sit, 1 )el,.ware ( •..., an.l iSr.M.m.- C. until 1S54, when 
 h.- mov.-.l t.. D.hIuv (■..nnlv. Wis. 11. ■ mnsi h.ive l..-.n li.n-n in or aln.nt ijS^.as h.- 
 niarrie.l wh.-n nm.-l.-.-n v.ais ..f a.^.-, Catherin.- K.li.k, ,,f ( .erman .leS.-.-m, wh, , was in 
 h.-r sixte.-mh v.-ar, an.l Imhu April isl, 17S.,. Sh,- .li.-.i in Maivh, iSSS, as she was ap- 
 pr.KtchniL; her nin.-l v-nml h amnversarv. William .li.-<l while ..n .1 pr..spectin- f -nr t.> 
 V,-rn..n (-.,., Wis.. al,.nit iS^g, at se\ .-nt v-lhr.-e v.-ars .,f age, and w.is Imri.-.l at X'lr.Hiu.i. 
 His wife lived in 1 )o.lge Co. until lu-r .le.ilh. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 MARRIED 
 
 Xo. i;;qS— Hem y J. 
 
 X.i. I39y — Sar.ili. 
 
 in. .Mien ,\iislin, .if C.mn. 
 
 X". 14.JU— Mar;.;.ncl. 
 
 111. I van Ki. bar.ls.orW.iles, C.B. 
 
 N.I. 1401 — Willi. Mil. 
 Nil. I4:)2 — Etlieliiul.i 
 
 111. I )li\er Hum. ins, .'f X. ^ . St, He. 
 
 Xo. 1403 — Geor.ije. 
 
 X.i. 1404— Mariali. 
 
 111. hiiiies Miles, of X. ^■. State. 
 
 K(i. 1405 — Tli.iinas. 
 
 N.I. I4.j'i — .M\ ira. 
 
 111. William Sl.i.le, . if Wis 
 
 1804. 
 
 1815. 
 
 iSlQ. 
 
 1 888. 
 
 1897. 
 
rX( I,ASMI- 
 
 M ARRI E D 
 
 I,S V- 
 
 N.-. I3g8— Hfiirv J. Mei.-s, nf l),,d-e C,,., Wis., i S( ,4. 
 
 son III I I ;-,')-' William, (if l)(|i()sit, X. ^'. 111. in 
 New \ 01 k Stall.-, L\ili,t Ann Mom 1)1', ami i\niii\ i.ii 
 to l)c)(li_;(' Co., Wis., in 1N54. 
 
 IS.S.S. 
 
 X(i. 14117 — Eleanor C. 
 Nil. 1408 — Ktriiben. 
 No. 1409 -( leotye !'. 
 No. I4ni — Mary 1. 
 No. 141 1 — Adaliiie. 
 
 CHILDREN 
 
 July .S, 1.S35 
 
 No. 1401- William .Miii;s. jr.. snn i,f 1 i ^,7 1 Wil- 
 li.im. 111 Dtpiisit, i\. \'. Mdvi il tn Wisninsin 111 
 l.'^SJ. m. isl, Julia .\uslin. jud, Miliit.iMr 
 Steplun.s. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 I!\ I'lKsr W'lFK. 
 
 No. 1412— .Alliert. 
 No. 14 13 — Kale. 
 
 in. Willi, nil I.aurtiiLe, oT iiea\er 
 
 1 )ain, Wis. 
 
 B\ .Skliind Wii-'e. 
 
 I. Si 5. 
 
 iSyJ. 
 
 IS5.S. 
 
 No. 1414 — Newell. 
 
 i,S47. 
 
 No. i4<»3.-(;f,,roe Meig-s, of Fo.\ I,akf, Wis., sun 
 iif ( i;,97 ) William, iif Deposit, N. V. Mi, mi] to 
 Wisconsin in 1.SS4. m. Betsy J. Whitakrr, of 
 I 'ikiware Co., N. W 
 
 I s I 0. 
 
 CHILDREN 
 
 No. 141.S — I'raiik K. 
 
 No. 1416 — George Levaii. 
 
 No. 1417— .Melviii B. 
 
 ( - 
 
 V\\ ins 
 
 Nil. 141.S— .Melpia .A. s 
 
 m. Fred Magu, olFo.x L.ike, Wis. 
 No. 1419 — Curtis E. 
 
 May 3, i,S5i . 
 
 Mar. 27, i,S53. 
 
 I lee. 20, 1855. 
 I >ec. 20, 1855. 
 
 Mar. 8, 1858. 
 
 No. 1405 -Thiim.is.Miic.s. of Fo.x Lake, Wis., and 
 later of Warrenshnrii, Mo., son of ( 1397 1 William 
 of Deposit, iN. ^'. m. in Delaware Co., N. ^'.. 
 Kate Miller. 
 
MARRIED 
 
 M I l(,s ( '.!■ NIAI.OGN . 
 CHILDREN 
 
 No. 1420-W1II J. 
 
 li. al I li;.;i;iiis\>ilU^ Mn. 
 
 No. 1421 — I'.i.s'.ic. 
 
 No. 1432— r. irk I'. 
 
 \i. al Oklahoma City, < )kh\. 
 No. 1423— Clyi-lc-. 
 
 1). al .'^.ill L.ikL- Cily, Ulah. 
 .No. 1424 — Coiirtkiinl. 
 
 I), at St. Louis, Mo. 
 No 1425 — Mainir. 
 
 Ir. ,ii ( >kkiliom,i (."ilv, Okki 
 
 No. 1408 -RiuliL-ii .Mcios.iii Hunters Hot .Spriiios, i''^.i5- 
 
 |iini- 14, Mcintaiia, son nt i 1 .V)^ I Ikiiiy |.. n\ Wis. 111. .it 
 iMii. (),\l(ii(l, .\[,ii iiurttc Co., Wis.. Tctiiio Wiariif'. 
 
 LS.Sy. 
 
 CHILDREN 
 
 No. 1426 — l';ils\i ortli. June 12, 1862. 
 
 li. .It I Ixlolil, Wis. 
 No, 1427 — Carlos. Feb. 3, 1864. 
 
 b. at ( )\lor<l, Wis. 
 No. i42.S-Riiby .\, Mays, '■'^7"- 
 
 b. ,lt luileprlldrni f, Wis. 
 
 Ill, al I iiiie|)L-iulen( (_■, Wilh.ini E. 
 ^bl^kllalll. 
 
 No. l4og -(",(•( II or 1'. .Mcios. of Wis., smi nf ( i ^cjx > 
 Henry |., nf Wis. m. 
 
 .No I42C) — (ii'0!i;e .\. 
 
 b. .11 I'LT^'lls I'.llls, .Mini 
 
 No. 1412- .\ll,rrl .Mrios, of I.os .Aiio.-les, Cal., 
 sun (if (141111 William |i.. nf Wisconsin. Has 
 liad sr\rr.il < >i i\ cniniriU |ii isiln ms ; u ,is inr a 
 niiniliri 111 \iais pi istniastci' at .Austin, Minn. 
 111. .inil lias so\'cim1 rhililri-n. 
 
UXCI.ASMI- IKIi. 
 
 May, 
 IS-; 
 
 No. I4l5--Rc\, Frank K. Meigs, of \ankin, 
 China, .son of i i 4...;, i Crov^v, of Fox Lake, VX'is. 
 Renio\e(l to .\fissoui-i in 1^71, and after teaclling 
 .several years, entered the ministry of the Cliristian 
 Church and was ajipointed liy the Foreign Christ- 
 ian Mission. ir\- .Society a Missionary to Ciiina. 
 where he now ( lyoi ) has cli.irge of the Christian 
 College at Nankin, China, ni. Martha A. Red- 
 ford. 
 
 1.S51. 
 
 REV FRAN K E, MEIGS, 
 
 Nankin. China. 
 
 CH ILDREN . 
 
 No. 1430 — Bessie. 
 No. 1431— kiith. 
 
 Ii. in ( liin.i. 
 N". 14.12— Earl. 
 
 b. in China. 
 
 I.S74. 
 .Vu.U. 1S90. 
 
 April, 1.S95. 
 
 187^ 
 
 No. 1416— C.eorge Levan Meigs, of Fox I,ake. i.Ss;,. 
 
 Wis., son of 1140:;) Cieorge. of p'ox f.aki-. ni. 
 Addie Powers. 
 
154 
 
 MARRIED 
 
 No. 1433— Ira. 
 No. 1434— Mae. 
 No. 1435 — Noniiaii. 
 No. 1436 — Cora. 
 No. 1437 — Kiinice. 
 No. 143s— Ihuel. 
 No. 1439 — Aiklie 
 No. T440 — Jessie. 
 
 M I i(,s (ii;xi;.\i,o(;v. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 No. 1417— Melvin B. Mi-igs, uf Fox Lake, Wis. 
 son of I i4'>;ii (".(-■oi-gc. of Fo.x Fake. 111. 
 
 I Ssfi. 
 
 CHILD. 
 
 No. 1441 — Eddie. 
 
 Sept. 
 1SS7. 
 
 No. 142O- l-:ils\vorth Meigs, of Hawk Wood, Park 
 Co., Mont., son of ( 1408) Reuljen, of Hunters Hot 
 Sinings, Mont. ni. Fannie Famphear, of Liv^ 
 insjston, ^^onl. 
 
 iSh; 
 
 No. 1442 — X'ernie K. 
 No. 1443— l-anest Victor. 
 No. 1444 — Keul.)en O. 
 No. 1445— Robert E. 
 No. 1446 — 1 )a\ id K. 
 No. 1447— Carlos 1.. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 May 29, 1SS8. 
 Dec. 29, iSSg. 
 May 30, 1S91. 
 May 8, 1.S93. 
 Nov. 29, 1895. 
 Nov. 19, 1897. 
 
 Dec. 29, 1S99. 
 
lJ^■(■l,A^SIFII 1). 155 
 
 Unclassifiei) No 2. 
 
 Alsii with the naiiU' nl jdhn Mt'ij:;s, mir second unclassified faniilw beijins : 
 
 No.. I44J4 JOHN MEIQS, OF SOUTH CAROLINA. 
 
 There is a tradition in tliis family that they were nf English ancestr)', Imt tliis is 
 probably like other traditions of indefinite dates, and thc're is little reason to doul)t that 
 they belont; in X'incent's line. The number of Mei^s descendants who inimeiliateh' 
 after the close of the Rt'xajlutionary W'.u' soui;ht mwir hekls for their energies than the 
 okl honn'. uciuld allow, makes this theory seeni (juite likely, and as our records show, 
 there are se\ eral ot the rai i- of whom we could learn nn history ])eyoii(i theii- early life. 
 
 From this South Carolina family we learn that " |ohn Meit^s came to this .State 
 ( South Carolina ' and settled near Society Hill, Darlington Co., w hert,- he marrietl .Mary 
 Kolb. said to be a niece of a Col. .\bel Kolb, whcj was in the Re\ DJutionary W'.ir." A 
 sister of John Mei^s, named Frances, is also said to ha\c married I'cter Koll), a brother 
 of Mary. We ha\e made effort to identify Col. Kolb, but so f.ti without success, his 
 name not appearing on records searched in \\'.ishinu;ton. Search for an old local history 
 called the "Old Cheraws," and records of the Kolb f.unily, knouu to ha\ e been owned 
 in the locality, disclosed that the copies hatl been destroyed by hre, but some one may 
 yet lie found owiiint; mpiis of these books, which mnv serye to idrntify this Meigs 
 family. Dates are yery imperfect and indeed almost totally lacking, but as near .is can 
 be learned lohn Meigs had four children, and died while the\' were (juite \dung. 
 Se\eral yeais after, his widow married a .Mr. Derek, of Darlington Co., S. C and died 
 in 1.S67 or i.sri.S. The children of i 144.^) JcjIiu Meigs weri' as follows : 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 MARRIED, aORN DIED. 
 
 No. 1449— .Sarali. 
 
 No. 1450 — Hannah l-'rances. 
 
 ni, Nathan (',allou.i\', of Lytii.i, 
 
 .S. C, and renioveil In .'Vrkansas. 
 No. 1451 — |ohn K(ill), Nov. 1S20. June, 1.S.S2. 
 
 No. 1452— Nancy. 
 
 d. as;ed aliout ■50. 
 
 No. 1451 — lohn KoHi Meit;s, of Society Hill, 1S20. 1SS2. 
 
 S. C, son of 1144S' John, of Society Hill. 
 1-^41. m. Fmeline .Moss. d.ui. of Thomas Moss, of Dec. 17. iSjo. ( )ct. 1. igoo. 
 
 Cheraw, S, C. 
 
i5f> 
 
 MkICS (illXI- AI IH.V. 
 
 July S, 
 I.S66. 
 
 1S67. 
 
 Fell. 
 
 1,S72 
 
 Nov. 
 1X7(1. 
 
 Nov. 16, 
 iS.So. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 ,\1.1. i:i>KN .\ 1 Sdlll-n HIM.. 
 
 No. 1453— John T. 
 
 1 niuanifi-l. 
 
 No. 1454 — (.'atheriiie Millt-r. 
 
 111. William \Va11.i> r Milliktii, of 
 Washburn, .M'v 
 
 No. 1455 — George Wesley. 
 
 No. 1456— Mary K. 
 
 ill. ist, H. .\. Tripp, of .Maine. 
 111. 2ik1, a. H. I'.reedin, of Win- 
 chester, \'a. 
 
 No. 1457 — Henjaniin. 
 
 No. 145S — Hettie. 
 
 No. 1459 — Martha .Anne. 
 
 111. Willi. 1111 II. Bosuell, of Society 
 
 Hill. 
 No. 1460 — .Sanuiel Kolli. 
 No 1461— William .\lleii. 
 
 No. 1462 — Emma E. 
 
 m. fjeor.ue <i. Hawkins, of 
 Soeietv Hill. 
 
 July 24, 1S44. 
 I.iii. 6, 1S4.S. 
 
 N<iv. 16. 
 Nov. 14, 
 
 < )ct. 30, 
 l>ec. 4, 
 
 iS4g. 
 1.S51. 
 
 IS,S3- 
 
 Nov 
 
 . X, 
 
 IS5V. 
 
 Mar. 
 
 i^, 
 
 I.S62 
 
 Oct. 
 
 22, 
 
 1S64 
 
 |une 17, 1.S71 . 
 .April 23, I.S.S9. 
 
 1S5.S. 
 
 No. 1455 — (ieorge Wesley Meios, of Dothan, ■■"^4w- 
 
 Ala., son of ( 1451 ) Jnhn K., of Society Hill, S. C. 
 
 Au.u- l.v 111- Mattie A. Miles, dan. iif Alexander Miles, of 
 
 I .Sy I . Cohinibia, S. C. 
 
 CHILDREN 
 
 No. 1463— .Mice Gertrude. Mar. 7, 1N7.S. 
 
 Ma\ 20, 111. W. M. Ryals, .\l. 1 )., olSpring 
 
 i.Si/i. Hill, Ga. 
 
 No. 1464— Geor-e Wesley. April 13, 1.SS3. 
 
 Fel.. S, 
 1,S,S,S. 
 
 No. l46o---.Sainuel Kolh Mei-s, of .\slilnrd, Ala. 
 son of 114511 |oliii K., of Society ilill 
 
 l.Ssy. 
 
 111. Klta Ivnss. (ian. 
 of North < "arolina. 
 
 s. c. 
 
 f Isli.un and M.ir\' I-',, f^tiss. 
 
 No. 14(13 — rauline. 
 
 No. 1466 — Eclll;l. 
 
 No. 1467 — Kathleen. 
 
 No. 1468 — Daughter. 
 
 No. 1469 — Saiiinel Keiiiietli. 
 
 No. i470^.Mar\ Emma. 
 
 No. 1471 — .Son. 
 
 No. 1472 — Kate Clyde. 
 
 No. 1473 — Carrie Lee. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 Mar. 4, 
 
 I.SS9. 
 
 Mar. 9, 1.8.S9. 
 
 May 6, 
 
 1890. 
 
 
 Feb. 25, 
 
 1S92. 
 
 
 Aul;. 14, 
 
 1893- 
 
 .Aug. 14, 1893 
 
 June 5, 
 
 1S94. 
 
 
 Ian. 16, 
 
 iSgfi. 
 
 Mar. 26, 1S.S9 
 
 May 21, 
 
 1S97. 
 
 y\a\ 21. 1.S97 
 
 |mie I, 
 
 189S. 
 
 
 ' 'ct 5, 
 
 1900. 
 
 
r.\( i.As^ii I II > 
 
 MARRIED. 
 
 Dec. 24, 
 
 I SS4. 
 
 No. 1461— William Alk-ii Mciys. nf Mri-s, 
 Cia., soil of 1 1431 I Joiin K., of SoiiclN' Hill, 
 S. C is ii surccssful (K-akr m lui'|ii.-iitiiu*, 
 etc., and lias gi\en his name to the town in 
 which he lives. 111. .Susan A. Taylor, ihui. of 
 Isaac P. Ta\lor, of (ieori^etiiwn, S. C. 
 
 1.S6: 
 
 .Mar. Ill, I ,S62. 
 
 CHILDREN 
 
 No. 1474 — Daughter. 
 Xo. 1475 — Alma Emma. 
 No. 1476 — Pearl Elizabetli. 
 No. 1477 — John Kolb. 
 
 Sept. 22, 1.S86. 
 
 Sept. 21 , 1SS7. 
 
 May III, i^^S9. 
 
 Fell. 15, iSgi. 
 
 .Sept. 22, 1.S86. 
 
 The author in\ites cunespondence with those- h.i\ uiy inliirniatiun uhirh will < onni'Ct 
 these unclassified lists with the parent stem. 
 
MEIOS aENEAI.OGY 
 
 ei.p:\e\th oenkration. 
 
Meios Genealogy 
 
 ELEVENTH GENERATION. 
 
Meigs aENEALOGY. 
 
 BIRTHS. 
 
Meigs Genealogy. 
 
 BIRTHS. 
 
Meigs Genealogy. 
 
 MARRIAGES. 
 
Meigs Genealogy. 
 
 MARRIAGES. 
 
Meigs G^enealogy. 
 
 DEATHS. 
 
Meigs Genealogy. 
 
 DEATHS. 
 
APPKISDIX. 
 
i.\ riHcxji K I'AR.vrrs. 
 
"S / 
 
 "^ A 
 
 B C 
 
 D 
 
 E 
 F 
 
 A— riie I Ifxter I hiL-l. 
 i;— The Middle Chiel. 
 C— The Sinister Cliiel. 
 1 > — The Ciillai III I loin 1 1 I "11)1 1 
 E — The less |>( lint, 
 F— The Niinilinl |Minil. 
 (,--1 he 1 lexlei Base. 
 H— The Mi(hlle Base. 
 I — The .SiiiisliT I'lase. 
 
 AA — T.dlidt's head thn-c .icciriis 
 BE— (.lilhn's he, id 
 
 I— .Shield. 
 2 — Chevron. 
 3 — Engrailed. 
 
 Mascle. 
 
 ■A/nre-l lilne 1. 
 
 ( 'iiiles-l retl 1. 
 
 Sable-) black ). 
 
 Argent-( siKer ). 
 
 Or-(gold ). 
 
 4— 
 5 — 
 6— 
 
 111 top 
 
i62 Minis ( ".kni;.\i,()(;y. 
 
 it i^ uiily sliallitw niimlL''! iiirtt-iutt i s, \\ lu> citliiT make ilisliiij^ui^hcd in i^iu a 
 iiialti-1 ("tl JH.-I Miiiai iiunl, Ml iilisi 111 l- iM ly ill a inaUi-r uT jn,] s- aial ri-ploai li. 
 
 Appk.xdia a. 
 
 Althiiu^li tlu- i-ailier generations of X'iiirint Megj^s' ilescendants wliii turned their 
 attenlidn In the sulijri t nf his Entjlisb origin, liave used the Arms of the Bradford 
 l'e\erel hraiirli, as fai as llie\ ha\'e used anv. and in consequence we ha\'e liad ijiese 
 engraved im tlic |)ur|Hisc ul the xiiUnne, \-et, in \icw iil its piissihie interest and \alue 
 hitei', we ha\e tluinght it worth ulnle tn inihlish tlie lullnuing inlnrnialiun as gathered 
 from ihe \ariiius lionks on Heraldiw and otlier snurces. 
 
 FKOM BlRKF/S (t7:\F>RAT. Akmorv. 
 
 Meg.L;s (Cambridgeshire anil Kent ) Or, a chev. betwn. three Mascles gu. on a chief of tlie 
 second, a wolfar. Crt'sf — a gre\hmnurs head sa. eared ar. charged on the neck with a gemel!e 
 or. Iietwn three bez.inls, one ami two, issuing oiil ofliis head three oak bram lies p|ir. 
 
 Meggs ( Br,idror(i I'cverel, Co. Ilorset.) Or, a chev. a/, belw. three mascles gii. on a chief 
 sa. a greyhound i uuraiit ar. Crrst — ,i l.dbot's luad erased ar. eared sa. coll.ired or, under the 
 ( ollar txvo [ifllets fesseways, three acorns erci t, issuing fnun the top of the head ppr. 
 
 Meggs. (KeiU) Or, a chev. sa. btwn. three mascles gu. a chief ar. 
 
 iMeggs. (London, (irantetl 4 June, i,S79.) ' '■". a chev. engr. a/, betw. three mascles gu. 
 on a chief sa. a greyhound cour.int ar. f'rrs/ — .A grhlin sejant per pale gu, .ind or. beaked 
 legged, and diically gcjrged of the last, wings endorsed. 
 
 Meggs (Warwickshire) ' ir. on a c hiel sa. a hon p.iss. ar. 
 
 ]-io»i \\'aihboii)')ic' s laDiilv Citxis. Edition 1SS2. /'ai^c J2J. 
 
 Meggs, l.ond,, .A grdlin sejant, per pale gu. .nul or. beaked, legged, (and ducally gorged,) 
 111 the last, wings indorsed. |il. 25, n. 33. 
 
 Meggs, Canib. .mil Kent,,i greyhound's head, sa., e.oedar.,(on llie neck a geuielle or, 
 between three be/ants, one and two, ami the head crowned with three oak-branches, ppr.,) 
 pi. ,^7, n. 12. \'ol. 2, page 322. 
 
 Meggs, Dors., a lalbot's heail er.ised, ar., eared, sa., collared, or. (under the collar two pel- 
 lets in less, three acorns, erect, issuing lioni top of the head, ppr.) pi. 37, u. 7. 
 
Al'IM'NIllX. 163 
 
 /■ram /■.diiioiidsi>)i' s Jlrrtildrv, I 'ol. I. lidit. ijSn. 
 
 Ill that part of lii-^ l)uiik calleil " Glm c is (.>nliiiar\ nf Ai nis," aiiyme-iitfil and iinpro\ a-il p. 40. 
 
 Mes.U<?s: ( )r, a chev. engrailed a/, lit-tu. llin-i/ inasclcs ot" the hrst ; 1111 a 1 hit-t" /a. a grcy- 
 hoiiiul current ar. — Crest, a griHiu sejant parly per pale gu- and or, winged uf tlie /ante, lieaked 
 and giirged with the ducal c ciruiiet or. 
 
 From l:dmoiidso)i' s Heraldry. \ 'ol, II. 
 
 Meggs, I Brai-ll'ord I'everell, in 1 )orsetshire. | 1 )r. a chew a/. i>elu . three nia/cles g\i. on 
 chief./a. a greyhound current ar. — Crest, a t.illiot's heail erased ar. eared /a. c ullaretl or, nmler 
 the collar two pellets fe/"sewa\s, three acorns erei t i./suing tVoni the top of the head pinper. 
 
 Meg.gs, I V\'arwick/ hire.] ( )r, on ,l chiel /a. a lion pa/'sant argent. 
 
 Meggs, [Kent. I Or. a chev./a. hetw. three nia/cles gn. a chiel' argent. 
 
 Meggs, I Kent and Cambridgeshire. | < ir. a chev. ./a. betw. three nia/cles gu. on .1 chief of 
 the /econd, a \\olt ar. — Cre/t, a greyhound's head /'a. eared ar., charged on the neck with a 
 .gemelle betu. three be/ants one and two i/snant out of his head, three oak bran( lies proper. 
 
 THE ARMORIAL BEARINGS OF MEGQS LONDON 
 GRANTED JUNE U, LSI9. 
 
 Or. a chev. engrailed az. betw. three Mascles gu. on a chief sa. a greyhound (ouiaiil ar. 
 Crest. — A grifiin sejant per pale gu. and cu , beaked, legged and ducally gorged, of the last, 
 wings endorsed. 
 
 Motto; .Audaiter et ."-iincere. 
 
 (English. — Pxiidh and .Sincerely.) 
 
 True copy from Painted by John .Stott, 
 
 his collection of Seal and C.ein l-.ngr.iver, 
 
 Heraklry. Heralil I'.iintei, etc., 
 
 March 15, 1839. Iloston, M.iss, 
 
 The lollowino was C(>|)icil iiianv years ayo lioiii tii(.' original |ia])ers liv V^. W. .Mra<le, 
 Rc.ir .Admiral V . S. X., wlicisc mother was ( ^c)^ ) C'lara 1' orsvth Meit;s, il.iuohtcr of (213) 
 Hon. lleiiiN' .Mcios. 
 
 MEGGS OF WHITE CHAPEL. 
 
 ( Extracteil from lliitchins' Ilorset.) 
 
 " There was a family of this name 1 Meggs 1 in the I'arish of .St. Mary's White Cli.i pel, London. 
 In the church are monuments of Judith, widow of Willi, un Meggs, of th.it I'.nish, I'.scpiiie, 
 erected bv William Meggs, Esi|., and |ames Meggs, 1). D., their sons. He died in ih2o, she in 
 1662, .Aet. 83. The arms of (these) -Meggs weie 1 h', a chevron engrailed azure between three 
 mascles gules on a chief sable, a gre\ houml courant argent ; impaling sable on a ihevron be- 
 tween three lions' heads erased or, as many ogresses. 
 
 William Meggs of this Parish died 28th May, 167S, janies Meggs, D. I)., Rector of St. Mar- 
 garet Pattens, London, and Newington Butts, .Snrre> , was son of Willi. im Meggs, of White 
 Chapel. He was admitted to St. .\[argaret's, 1^37. In the Rebellion lie lost both his luings and 
 was ])lnndered and imprisioned in Ely House, but recovered his livings 1660 and resigned 
 St. Margaret's i65i, (See Walker's Sutf'eriiigs of the Clergy, \ol. H, p. 173.)" 
 
I'M 
 
 M 1 Ii^S (il MA 1,1 n,\ . 
 
 megcjS of white chapee 
 
 111 a rare uciik eiililliil "\ isitatiun nl Middk-st-x, i'ihj(' li\ W illiani Kyley, ol Lancaster, and 
 Henry I letliiik l\oui;e ( roix M,ii-,haK and llepiUies to Sir l.duard llvsslu-, 1\ nt . Clai encienx 
 Kiii!^ at Arms," Editimi u\ iSjo, p, ;,9. " Meg<;s of White Chapel." 
 
 Ariii\. < )r, a ihe\r(in en,t;railetl a/nre, between three ni.isc les nules, on .1 rhici sable, .i 
 
 •;re\h<innd ( ouraiit arj;ent. 
 Cfes/ A L;ririin seiant per bend t;nles ami nr, diically i;or.t;ed iir. A I'.iteiU by Claremienx 
 " Kiiii; at Arms " ("ooke to Willi. ini Me.u.;;s, 4 June, 1579. 
 
 Williani Meiigs of 
 Loiulon, I jeiitleman. 
 
 Anne, ilan. >i\ 
 
 \Villiam Meggs ] |uditli, dau. of Sir Thomas Lanipliell, 
 
 Knight sometimes Lortl Mayor of Londini. 
 
 James Meggs. 
 I)octor of r)i\ init\ . 
 
 Margaret, dau. of 
 Auditor Carter. 
 
 I 
 Willian\ Meggs, of 
 
 White Chapel, Co. of 
 
 .Middlesex, Es(]uire. 
 
 William Me; 
 Ivhlesl son. 
 
 Henr\ , 2nd Son. 
 
 Thomas, ;rd son. 
 
 I'he icillnuin.i; account vvitlt rcfri encc tn tlie Cu.it of Arms of tlir Melius faniih-. was 
 cliclalcd l;iv (.'-(o(j) M. F"ayette Mcios, lo a stcnoor.ipJKr in the oftice ot the author, Halti- 
 inoic. Md., Marcli i J, i yoo. 
 
 " Idle Coal of Anns of the Ml i;_;s f.iniilv is to be found in the old manor house, located at 
 P.radford-Peverell, which is sitn.ileil near .Mindsellord. ICngland, a little h. unlet consisting of 
 seven or eight houses belonging to thai parish, and .iin ientl\ known .is the M.iiior of Bradford 
 Peverell. It IS sitiKited a mih- ue-^t on the south b.iiil^ of the lUer h'rome. In 1663, Thomas 
 Meggs, whose estate was niiirh reduced by the n.Lv.d.wars, sold pari of the .\binor estate to 
 W. T.nirnloii. The .Manor u. is partially destroyed b\ lire in one of llu- early wars, but was 
 restored during the llletinn- of j.ine Pe\erell, who married XichoKis Meggs (the name in Engl.md 
 is alw.iys spelleil Meggs). In a north window of the h.ill is the f.iinily Co.it of .\rms, which is 
 ver\ .uicient and accortiing to the records at White Ch.ipel, London, was granted to the family 
 by the Ruling Lowers of L^igland, by an act of Royalty prim to the \e.ir 1500. The Coat repro- 
 dliceil from that window, here pieseilted, is an exact copy in every respect. The Coat of .\rms 
 w. IS issued bv letters p. itent bv Cl.irenceiix Cooke to one Willi. lui Meggs, and is dated the 
 4 ol lime, i,S79. Thi^ William .Meggs, according lo tin- e.irly records to be iound in London, 
 dieil |iilv 22, 1.554, .md in 1 loom's Pay I'.ook there is a notation showing that the date of 1579 is 
 •in erroi , ,ind should read 1479. -Vi conling to the early records the Co.it of Arms was gr.iuted 
 prior to 1500, which proves positive th.il it could not have been .11 conliug to the last tlatc, 1579. 
 
 In 1777, llu- M.iuoi was again sold to John I'auling, one of the I)irectois ol the Last India 
 Cinnpaiu, .iiid it is now owned (1.S96I and occupied by the Middlelon family. There is a church 
 to the esl.ite on the south side of the parish on the Manor side ; in the centre aisle ( See \). 167 1 
 of ihe church 1 .See p 166) there is .1 burying pi. ice of ihe lainilv ; the tmiibs are all sealed with 
 leatl, .and are so old tli.il iht- d.ites (.11 the sides are obliterated. Trior to the time of the Peverells, 
 ihe M.inor was owned b\ William Ow. The next possessors was the I'everells, through whose 
 ilaiighter Jane, the sole heir, brought the Manor into the Meggs tamily, where it remained for 
 nine gener.ilions. The Co.it above represented is exact, as the writer had same m.ide in his 
 jtresence. 
 
Al'l'i:\l)ix, 
 
 i()S 
 
 ■ A)i tliL- wuilil's A slai;f 
 Ami all till.' iiK'ii aii'l w ninrii nui . ! \ pLu ^rs, 
 "riuv li,i\c Ihrii .-Mis and tlini cnli aiirrs 
 A [hi i>in_' man iii his tinir pi j\ s inan\ pai ts," 
 
 No. I. VINCENT MEI(]S. 
 
 In tlu-sr (l.ws wlini llicic is siu h a strmi;^ ilcsin- cxinrcd In loialr tin- (iM Amer- 
 ican families ill laielish lines cif the name, it miylil seem In m.mv nl i mi' re.uleis tli.il the 
 iniblicaliiiji iif this lumk shcjiild ha\e lieen ileleii'ed until liillei iiu cslii^atic m (il i'.nelish 
 reciirds had been m.ide. in Dider tn est.iMisli the prcjol ol u h.it h.is liin;_; Keen traditmn 
 in till' Amerir.in fainil\- ol Mei<^s .is In ihe l(icalit\" nf X'inrent's huiiie in l{n'.^l.ind. In 
 this connertinii we deem it well tn [inlilish the .ic'i im|ian\'iiit;' leileis .iiid extrails, uhieh 
 |ii(i\'ethat linnianv \'cai"s t-ttnrts h,i\e lieeii made l)\' se\(Mal nl his desct'iid.ints In 
 ascertain iiis parental' and \crify the man\' st.itenients th.it h.i\e lueii m.ade .is tn wh.ii 
 has been foniid in English Paiish retjisters. reennls, etc . 
 
 lUit the uncertainties nf lile and n| >| jni tunit\' m.iki' it seem uise in imt del.i\- the 
 pulilication nl this rei nrd nl X'incent's descend. iiits, .mil ue submit the results nl mir in 
 vestiii^'atinn alnno- this line, lail, wish .it the same time In sav thai ellnrts will iint be 
 relaxed tn Inllnw up the iiu'estioalinn still mnre lulK'in l-.iiL^l.ind, .ind, il, within .1 reasnu- 
 
 ablc tinU' alter il.lte ni publicatinll the Inm,; snllLiht e\ idem e nl \'incellt's iPlleiu sh.lll be 
 
 fniind and [irn\en, it is prnpnsed to issue a supplement cnnl.iinine such infnrmatinn. .iinl 
 tn mail this free nf (expense tn .ill subscribers nr piircli.isei s ni the \(iliime. 
 
 1 A. 
 
 E.xtraet frnm llnslnii Tiauscripl. 
 (ieiie.iliii^ic.il 1 lepailnifiil, ,\ii;_;iist 22, IQuu 
 
 We i] II I lie "ii.inies, lumilx rs. il.ites and pi. ices .ue trniii the 1 eseaii lies nl l-'ayette Mark Meii;s 
 nf San l'"r,iii( isc (I, ("al., wlm li.is the Il.inie^ .nid il.ita of e\eiy Meii;s Imrn Irniii is.SQ to 1S9.S. 
 Frnm 14S7 up tn iSq.S he has leiiiul g.S.S ulin hav<' linrne the 11, line. 
 
 " Back of 1559, he s.iys, it would he inipossilile to 111. ike a correct trace, hecaiise the records 
 of the towns of k.iii;laiul were very otu-n destroyed diiriiiL; the 111. my iiitei iiei iiie wars w hieli took 
 place durins those years. 
 
 ■' It is not know n u here X'iiiceiit iMei;:.;s .ind his two lioys laiidnl \\ hen they came to tlie United 
 .States, but he \vas first heard of at IMynioiilh, M.iss., e.ii l\ in i''37, se\ eiiteen years only .ifter the 
 laiidint; of the Pilgrims. He with his two sons, |oliii .ind Mark, settled near Hamnioiiassett Ri\ er, 
 a small stream leailiiig into long Island .Sound, al .ilioiit the centre ol Coinieeticiit. Here he 
 changed the spelling of his n.ime from Meggs to Meigs. 
 
 ".\ line of the Meigs family for .1 period ol \v^- 'lears, or Irciiii 1559 to nSgo, being th.it p.iit (■! 
 this f.unily leiuling to ami from t'olonel Keturii |on.ith.iii Meigs of Revoliition.iry I. line : 
 
 William -Meggs, draper, in Lontlon, died Inly 22. i,=,,si-i; m.irried .\iine . I hey li.id 
 
 inuneroiis cluhlren. One. Willi. iiii Meggs, born at White Ch.ipel in 14.S7, was an alderin.in in 
 London. He m.irrieil liidilh West, sisteraiid heir ol I'lioiins West, bishop ol Fl\. .She w.is 
 born in 1477, and died in 15') 2. 
 
 "Their lifth child, Ihoii 1.1s .Meggs, w ,is born in 1507; he resided in 1 ie\ on, Eiig. , Isle of Kly; 
 he married .'Vmie Coppleston of lOxeter, daughter .ind heir of lohn Copphston, gentleman. 
 
 " kheir first child, Nicholas Meggs, was born in 1527. .md .it the linn- ot his death li\ei-l in 
 I >unham, in the Isle of Ely ; he died Nov. 20. 1579. He married l.me l'e\erell. d.iughter .ind 
 heir of William I'everell of the county of Dorset, Eng. .She died in 157S. Ihe manor of I'aad- 
 loid Peverell in Dorset ('ouiity, I'aig., was held by .\ii hol.is Meggs, .md atterw.irds b\ nine of 
 the Meggs lamily. Ihe inanor Inuise was occupied, I.'s9n, by the Miihlleton l.imily. This house 
 was in the Peverell and Meggs lainilies Irom 1410 to ibio. In the great bampiet hall is to be lound 
 a large illuniinatetl window, representing the coat of arms granted to Willi, im Meggs by a patent 
 dated June 4, 1479, in the reign of Edward the boiulli. 
 
l(l(> 
 
 Mii(,s ( ".i:M' Ai.iH.N . 
 
 ■■Tluir thii.l chiUl, l.iureiue Mrgi^s, l...m in 1551 at llraillord l-fveif 11, ciuiitx nf 1 )oiset, 
 Kl.l;., .lie.l ill 1595. He niarriL->l Amu- Wco.l of Ash.i.lse, daii-lit.-r "f Kichanl Wood of the 
 
 rountv ol' I )e\ 1111, l'',nu. 
 
 ■■ llR'ii l.iurth I hil.l, \ in> rut \le--s. was l.orn in 15S;,, in ISra.Hord I'everell, du-il ■I'lnirsilav , 
 l>e( . I. ih.sS, at 1 laiiini. .nassett , C.nn. llis .L;ravf is marked on the maps of New I laveii County , 
 Conn.' He came t<p Ainerira, and llie Inst re. .>rd that ran l.e loniid ..I him is at I'lyiiK.nth. Mass.. 
 
 Ill the earlv part ol" Ih.^;. 
 
 " His wife died in ljr.;laiid. Wvv m.iideii name is iinknoun. He and his two sons are the 
 uiilv persons ,,l tin- iiame'u ho ever emi.nrated here, \iiic eilt Me:.;:4S is therefore the progenitor 
 of the whole .Meij;s lamilv m the Ciiited Slates ol .\iiieri. a. 
 
 •■ He had three sons; \in.ent, horn in ICni^laiul ill ihoy, and (lied there without issue; John, 
 l.orn in Enulaiid, Wednesd.iv, l'ehnuir\ 29, i(.i-\ who came to America witli his father Vincent 
 and l.rotluM- ; Mark, Iniin in l':n.i;land in 11114 ; lie died in Connecticut and had no issue. 
 
 ■■ lohii Meii;s. ist, spelled Ins name Mei:<s ; lu- died Friday, Uiiuiary 4. i<i7-'. 'd Killin.uworth, 
 Conn.', and liis'^rave is to he found in the old H;imnion.issell (Conn.) Cemetery. He married 
 Thimersiiie Ir'ye, d.in-hter of William I-'rve. of W.vmouth, ICnt;. 'niev were married in 
 England in Ifi',2, .iiid had one . hild, M.ny, horn to them in I-:n.i;laiid. 
 
 "■■Their second child, h>hii Melius, 211. 1, was horn ;it W.-vinouth, Mass., .Sunday, heb. 29, 1640." 
 
 F'rniii W'illKini .M. Mcios, .April i^, lycm. 
 
 ■■ l!r;idlord Peverell is situate. 1 m 1 lorsetshire, near the Coiinly tou n of Dorchester, and a 
 family of Me.t;.:.;s lived there lor many \.ars, but 1 am ohli.yed to say that I d.i not think tl'erei;^ 
 a scratch of exi.len. e kiioun to me that the family in this country is a branch of them. * * * * 
 I have been unable to find anythin.^ t.i show the least indication from what p.nt in l-n-land 
 Vincent Mei.gs and his sons came." 
 
 PARISH CHURCH. B R A D FO R D ■ PE V E R E LL, DORCHESTER, ENGLAND, 
 
 IN WHICH HRE BUHIED MEMBERS OF THE M E G G S FAMILY REBUILT IN RECENT YEARS. 
 
AlM'EXDIX. !(,- 
 
 From tliL- sanu- wiilc-i ilalr (if Sipt. 15, 19110. 
 
 ■• I tduiul alisohitfly no trace uhate\a-i- of \inrenl Mei^s in i;nt;laii.l , aiul uu liiiit In. 111 u hat 
 County he came iVcni. whih- I ilul lin.i a nnniher ollhe laniilv name -.ralti red all tlir(>ii,i;h Kll.;;- 
 laiui ; aiul many cir the name x\hiih I Innnd, alUu m ,illcMe.|. that 1 , lor my | lait h .h.l; since sa\c 
 H]i tlie search as iiopeless. 
 
 Fniin Adir.ii-al Meadr. Letter dated Dec. 17, rSi;;,, 
 
 •■ I have the Meigs record ver\ canplete Ijack to i ^S.^, and I have a :<dod deal almnl ihein 
 in England, but have ne\er lieen alile to connect \ inceiit (the emi-ranti with the Enulish lainil\ . 
 who still spell their name Me-gs. ( iramllather Meigs itlie Congressman I told me in anci,-ni 
 limes the name was Meg\s, which I I hmk prohahle ; lie Inrtliermore told me that Xiiuenl's 
 uile was named Clmrc hill." 
 
 1-iiim H. ]!. MidilleUin, Esip. of Hradfi ird-Pe\(-rel], Dorchester. |unc 14, 1900. 
 
 " 1 ,im please. 1 to give \du what intormation 1 i.in. M.iy 1 sa\ liist thai 1 lia\e had a good 
 deal of correspondence at ditterent times with persons of the n.inie of Meigs in the United .States 
 on the same snbject as referred to in \onr letter. 1 nia\ mention .Mr. William M. Meigs, of 
 Philadelphia, Mr. F. M. Meigs, of .San I'rancisco, and Dr. .\rllmr V. Meigs, of r'liila.lelphi.i. 
 The latter 1 had the pleasure of seeing here about three \ears ago. ,\11 li.ue made simil.u 
 enquiries to \ours, .giving- the same information as to X'incent Meggs w ho v\ ent to America in 
 1636 or 1637 with s,>iis John and Mark, John having married 'Pansen Fry, of Weymouth. 1 have 
 never been able to , omiei t any of these names with the Meggs family who owned the pri>perty 
 ol which 1 am now the owner. As far as 1 have been able to .ascertain, the first Meggs here was 
 Nicholas, who m.irried the heiress of the Peverells, and so became the owner of the estate .and 
 
 — -^i^feA-^ /a^.^^/^ /^^e'^^cs aC^ 
 
 ^^o^ ^ o <J y^ of T^Ho'. N^HLOOS 
 ?Vno dr&cJ Ju^i^ fi'^ J 7 ^ (^ 
 
 MAIN AISLE OF PARISH CHURCH AT B R A D FO R D - PE V E R E LL, 
 
 dorchester, england 
 Meggs Tombstones in Floor of Main Aisle 
 
IhS 
 
 M I- K,^ ( il.N I A M M ,\ . 
 
 ilKil .iIh.iU 151.J. His r.ithei i> s:iiil to lia\>.- live. I .it I ii.u iihaiii. near i;iy ill Canilni.li^esliire, and 
 his uraiiiiratliei- at Caiiterlmry. Nichnlas had two brothers, Robert ami Henry, 'litis iiiforma- 
 111.1115 boiii a iH-(li.i;ree in Hntrliiirs history of I )orsetshire, and 1 liave ne\ er been able to liiid 
 aii\ cine ol' tile name in this eoiintr\ belore Nicholas. 
 
 leitainb neither of tlie family meiitioiietl in yonr letter are rei iirded m the registers ol this 
 I'.irish. 1 slionld be liappN to assist yon Uirther ill an>' way I ran. but my former attempts to 
 nnd i.nl anvtliin;-; about \incent Meg:^s and his sons have been .inite nnsnccessfnl." 
 
 l-niiii 11. .MiMile. Ill 1 )(.ivln-stcr, Eiiolaml, Iiine 15. \\)<>i^- 
 
 ■■ Kesear. h was made a U-kv years a-., by IM. Mei:^s in the li..|iethat he mi:j,ht liiul, inter alia, 
 a record ofthe niarria;^eor Mnceiit iMe:.;-s. Dr. and Mrs. Mei.^s aiul two of their sons were 
 here. I showed them all that is s, lid in the County history (Hutchin's) of the Me.i;.ys family. 
 I .dsointrodiKed them to Mr. Mlddlet.m, no» ■ ■ S,|iiire,'- of lUM-lford-Teverel , who showed 
 them e\ erv ;ittenlion. 
 
 I'he resnlt ol then visit was that tlie\ went .iw.iv impressed with the belief that X'incent .ind 
 b.hn MeK:.;s were not ol I'.r.idfor.brev erel . .\fter Dr. Mei:.;s returned to .\nierica he asked me 
 to i;et some one to se.irch ie,i;isters elsewhere .it his expense. 1 employed Willi. im Birkley, Esq., 
 I llruish Mus., London, h'.n.uland,) to search in varions places where the Me.t;.us family had e.xisted, 
 but no \incent Me-.L;s c.iuld he find, and at last the search was -iven up. William B. prom- 
 ised to write me if any cine should .ome to his knowled-e. 1 have never hear.l fr.mi him. 
 however." ^ 
 
 iM-oin Miss M.iiiilc K. Davis, 14 Millxmrne Cruve, The iMiltmis, Lomlnii, S. W'., .I.ttc cd 
 ( )ct. J, 1 giMj. 
 
 ■■ My mother was a Miss Me.i;,s;s, and as far as 1 am ,iw.ire she is the List survivor of the 
 Me,t;.!;s of ISr.idlord-reverel. 
 
 i ,im ileeply interested in the familv history, and have made out our pedi-rec m the Me:.^:4s' 
 str.ir^ht from the present time back to ,1 Willi. im MesRs of Canterbury, Kent, who died m 1519, 
 and th.it without a siii:.;le bre.ik. 
 
 Ills :<r,indson Nicholas married the heiress ol the I'everels. and so becime possessor ol 
 
 llr.idlord-Pe\ erel. 
 
 ;\ll my information is absobitelv .iiitheiitic, ,is it h,is been obt.iined from old l.imily p.ipers 
 m onr possession, as well as from books and m.mnscript in the British M nsemn, "or, like yon, 
 1 strongly object to mere St, itements unless .ibsoliile proofs of them cm .it the s.ime time be-lven. 
 
 I expect th.it Mr. .Middleton h.is told yon that not ;\ vestige of the old buildin- remains, but 
 the window, accor.liiiL; to HiiP Inn's, .ontained no Me.^-s Coat of .Arms, oiilv those of Peverel, 
 b.iidoll ,iiid Kiissell," 
 
 Fnnii llic s.ime wriler d.ilc ul |)ccenil)er 1, ujoo. 
 
 '■ Noiir re. ord st.ites th.it the man..r of I'.ra.lf. .r.l I'everel w.is m the I'everel and Me.>;gs 
 f.umhes fr..ni 1410 to idio. I his is f.ir fr..m the mark. It came in the possession of the first 
 nanie.l lamily somewh.-re between the vears of 1 1 S9 ami 1199 ami .li.l not pass ont of the Me.g.gs 
 l.iniily until the time of niv gr.-at gr.in.llather ll.urv Meggs who getting into diff^cnlties borrowed 
 l,ir..;.-"snins ..f moiiev ,.ml being iin.ible to rep.iy the h.aii, prevailed on his son Thomas to jom 
 with Inm 111 .lilting oil the eiit.iil, .ind the whole estate then p.isse.l int.. the hamls ..f .1 relative 
 of the present ow nei. 
 
 Then with regar.l to the In.iise itself, 1 . annot giv v..n the .late from which the h.. use ceased 
 to exist. Mr. .Mid.lleton t..l.l me th.it it ha.l evi.leiUly been c.ntimi.nisly altere.l. I would say 
 was complet.-b sh..rn ..fits si/e ,ind l.eanty. It was finally taken .loun 111 189;,, and a new farm 
 In, use bnilt on the site. Fh.' ..nIv rem. lining p..rti..n of the old building being .111 ol.l st..ne door 
 wav. There is certainly m... 1.1 win.h.w * ■'' nor can 1 hn.l , my tr.i.e of the .me men- 
 
 tioned by lliilchm's who speaks ..f il existing m his tmi.-, .ibont 1770, but even then it never c.n- 
 tame.l any .Meggs Cat of .Arms, but llie l ..at ..I .\rnis ..f I'everel, Trenchard, ISardolf ,in.l Rus- 
 sell. I feel siir.- that those wlm are .a. Meeting material for yonr b....k w..nhl wish to be as 
 acciir.ite as possil.l.- in every .let.iil." 
 
AlM'KNDIX. I hi) 
 
 By ail iiislin. 1 ..I i.iir iiallni-. wc all I..vl- I., kaiii Uu' pUiit;? ..| .mii lurtli 
 ami tlR' ( hit-rt il I imi?,lalK:es in IIk- Ii\<_'S ot mui |ii (iL;r, iiitin s. 
 
 — /tttfti-_\ Sar'ttiiif. 
 
 I lu- fulldw inn willi ii-fcrcm (• tu the (irii^in (if the Mci^s faniih m AniriirH is lakrii 
 fi-iiiii lli(_- reciirds (if the VaW I )r. 'I'alcntl, (if Cdiincctii nt. 
 
 FIRST AND SECOND (JENERATION 
 
 " Jnhii and Mark Meiys, sons uf \ni(cnl Mt^iys <if 1 )iiisetshire, nr I )t-\(insliire, laiulaiul, 
 came to Plyniuiith, Mass., alioiit 163S, snlise(juentl\ K/nioxt-d t(i anil scltlt-d in (uiillord, Cunn. 
 
 A few years after 1 lie y sent tVir their lather and niii\eil tu ICast Guillnrd, (now Madisim. Cimn.) 
 and settled in Haiiinionassett upon the spot now ( i.s^6l ou neil and oc( upied I. \' Dr. Reynold 
 Weill,. 
 
 \incent Meiys died at [latnnionassett, I lec. 1658. and was linried there. 
 
 John Meigs, ; . . 
 
 M.irk Mei"s (" ' '''^'^' '" '"'Hilford .ind proiialily Imried in H.imnionassett. 
 
 I he " Neu Engl.iiid Historical .mil Ciencilogicd Register," .mil " .Sa\'a.t;e's Genealogical 
 Dictionary," both h.i\e brief records of the early .\miiii .111 line of Mei.gs, and ".American 
 Ancestry" also carries back the lecord of later prominent nninbers of the family to llie original 
 emigrant, X'inceiit Meggs. 
 
 (IB) From (iuilford's Records. 
 
 "At a pticul.ir imirl here held rhnr/ila\ the 2111I ila\ ot December, 1658: 
 
 John IMeiggs pre/ented a p.iper written and sub/cribed with his owne hand wi h he Te/t\ fyed 
 in Conrt to bee the la/t will & a true Inventory of the e/t.ite of his father Xiiu eiit Meggs accord- 
 ing as him/elf did appri/e & declare it on his death Bed at .Ath.imona/sock well the conrt 
 con/ideriiig that no othei proofs was like to be g. lined did ,11 cept it npo' Oath now taken, i\: 
 granted him Admim /ti alion uith the will annexed, reipiiiing hiin to p.i\ .dl ih-bts \- legacys dne 
 fro' til. It e/tate accordingU ." 
 
 Signed, Will l.\M l.HKTE.* 
 
 *William I.eete w.is Go\eriior of the Colony ol N. Haven and after theiolonies of .\. }Ia\eii 
 and [lartf(.ird were united was Governor of the Coloiiv of Coimecti( ut .ind Ihere is no doubt but 
 he was a true repnblii an. for he sei leled for some time three of ( iluci- Cromwidrs ( .eiier.ds. 
 Goff, Di.xwell and Whalley. 
 
 See .Stile's Ilistoi\ of the Judges, [i. 24-42. Leete was elei ted Lieut. ( '.o\ernor, 27 Mar. h, 
 1657. AnA Governor 29 May, i65i. (Coiiy of \'incent Meigs' Will as above is ( (i|iy of inenioramla 
 of Will found in \'ol. .A, but no A\'ill is recorded there, I'robate records not beginning there 
 until 1720.) 
 
 Cni'V. 
 
 I.a/t Will ol X'liKint .Meigs, dece.i/ed, of court ol (.iuilford, Comi. .\ writing P-/ented .is 
 the will and iinentory of Vincent Meigs, as ha\ing been I'-Zenteil and witne//ed in ye court of 
 Guilford, Wediie/(l,iy, Dec. 2, 1658, by John Meigs, as ye la/t will and te/t,imeiit of his f.Lthn 
 X'incenl .Meigs, upon his death at his hou/e at Haninionna/7ett. The court not fmiling othei 
 proof accepted W-t u.is to be had and granted admini/'tration of the wdiole e./tate of ye s-d 
 John Meigs, that ye will anne.x requiring him to do P-I'orme accordingly unle/s better evidence 
 to ye contrary shall appear. 
 
 Dated Sept. 2, 165S, and amounting to ye sum ol sixty-two pounds. .St-i i et.iry lees to be 
 deducted. 
 
 Signed Wii.i.i.xm Lhktk, 
 
 Jndgf. 
 (The last above was furnished by M. Fayette Meigs (No. 890) of this record. 
 
MkKIS Cil- XKAI.IH.N'. 
 
 THE WHITFIELD HOUSE, GUILFORD, CONN. BUILT 1639. 
 
 I fi bu llu- .,|,lr,t In. IIS, 111 llic I inlcil Sl.it. s, L\> ipllli;^ |h,ssi1i1v -.im- -i !«., ill M. Aii^iisliriv, Fli.ncl.i. 
 Riiill loi 111. P., si..!'., H..inu iiM.I .1 h..iis>- ol ifhis;i- in tlie .v.iit ..r..ii .itl.i. k l.» lii.li.iii^, 
 ^is well .IS .1 I'l.i. f "I imbli. w.'i sliM'. 
 
 No. 2. VINCENT MEIQ5 2nd. 
 
 We Id]))- frniii a IcUcr <.l Di. I'llm ML-it;^, wrillen U> I )i . riiarlcs D. Mei.us, of 
 Phihulil|iliia, \\lii( h will |)rcjvc intcicstin^ in the lii;lu i>\ ,n\v discuvi-ry "I tin- \\'ill of 
 X'incciit Mcins, Ir.. pnlilislnd Inr the first tiiiu- in this lonneclion. 
 
 Corv. 
 
 Staiiste.ul, r. IJ-. ''(^l'- -• iI^t>S. 
 liR. Minis. 
 
 I if.ir Sir : 
 
 After receixiiiK ymir t,i\(ir ottlie 291)1 "f Ni>\ . last (f.ir which acce|it iiiv thanks) 
 containin.i; an cxtrarl from a letter whic li y.ui received from Hr. Webb, of Madison, Conn., giv- 
 ing; s<.nie"i<roiint ol llie Mrii^s Cenealo.t;) , ill whi. h 1 noticed th.it \incent Meigs had a son 
 (■/«<<■///, which 1 was not aware of before, I thoii;;ht I would make further in(|iiiries, so I wrote 
 
 to .Mr. Cothren, of Woodbury, Conn., who luiblished a I k of l.imilv reior.ls a feu years ago, 
 
 and 1 u.mted him to ;.;ive me as full ,ind partu ular a liistorv of the Mei:.;s family or families as 
 
.\ ri'l' \l II \. ly I 
 
 the reroi'd in I';^!^! (iuilfoni, Wi.i.dluiry, ;inil I'.i-lhli-hi-in . untainccl. iiml p.irlii ul.irU ilu- niinilier 
 ami iianics ul' X'incent Meigs' family ulm la ml id \\\[h iiiiii in Ann-i ica. He accordingly sent me 
 the list ami luirticulars which I enclose, and in ulmh y<jn will see there ajipears mi X'incent 
 i\Ieigs, Jr. 
 
 Is Dr. Webb snre that julni and M.irk, suns ,,| \ iiK cnt, had ,i hrotli,-r \>\ the name ul 
 rinic'iif, or ,in\ uther n.mie ' I ihi not see that he iln. W'elib) gives an\ riuthei acconnt ot 
 X'incent 2nd, if there was one, Init does of |ohn and Mark. I have taken .1 L;ood deal of |i.dns 
 to olitani this list, and ha\e been assnied bv .XIi. Colhren th.it it is correct. 
 
 ^ onrs truly, JiiH n Mi-nis. 
 
 Ciii'\ 01 \\'i:i, (11 \'i.\( t N I' .Xliaa.s 2.\ii. 
 Att a l'renioati\'e Coiiit liclil at New Lmidiin, l)eceiiiber 17. 17110. 
 
 Daniel Wetliert-ll. b./<ir., Iiidoe. 
 
 Riclianl ( "hri/tunliers, 1 . 
 
 ... . , . . , lii/tices in < 'iKii iini. 
 
 INehemtah .Siiiith, » ' 
 
 .\ii Iineiitoiy cif the E/tate of X'incent .Meoos. late of Keiiilw airth. l)i(ea/eil, was 
 exhiiiited in the alici\e Cottrt, proved acie|ite(l .ind ordered to lie recorded, and this 
 Court (iraiits power of .Admini/tratioii ii|Min the Goods, Chattels anil credits of the 
 abo\e decea/ed unto I.ieiit. Heiir\- Crane and .\li. Willi Stevens, both of Kenilworlh. 
 
 This Court malces distribution <is folhiws, the (kbis that ar<- kimun beiiio deducted 
 out of the E/tate: 
 
 To f.ietit. Henry Crane, _ - . _ 5-2-1 1 '_. 
 
 To Mr. William .S|c|ihens, - _ _ _ 5-2-1 i'_. 
 
 To lolm Meees . . _ _ _ 5-2-11 ' _. 
 
 To Trv.dl Wanl, . . - . _ 5-2-11 ', 
 
 Eieut. Plenrv Crane and Mr. \\ ilii.mi .Stephens of K^eiiilw (irtli do ackuou ledi^e 
 iheni .Selves bound in ,1 liond ul 4iilti |ointl\- .lud severalh' to this Court ol Probate in 
 New London tliat the\- will faithlullv accordiiii; to l,a\\ adniiui/ter upon the goods. 
 Chattels and Ciedits of the .Said X'incent Meggs, late of Kenilworth, Decea/ed this 
 I7tli of Decenib'r, 1700. 
 
 H I- \ K \ C u .\ X 1 . 
 
 \\'ll M AM Si !• \ !■ NS. 
 
 State of Connecticut, ) 
 
 ,- r ^, , , • SS. Sept. Olh. I 1)1 lu. 
 
 ( iiunt\' of .\ew l.oudon, \ 
 
 I, ( icorge 11. Stillnian, Clerk ol the Court of Probate within said Countv, and 
 Kee]ier 111 the- Rccinds and .Seal thereol, liereli\- certif\- that the alio\e .uid loregoing 
 is a trui.' and correct co|)y of records as lound in Probate lournal No. 1, page 7, of New 
 I-onilon. Conn. 
 
 Probate Recorder, 
 
 .Attest. 
 
 G t I ll<l,l p). S I II LM.VN. 
 
 Chr/c. 
 
1-J2 Ml- 1 lis Gkni:ai 1 ii:n . 
 
 Thr liiy hi .irii In s uf m:ni_-;ilo>;iL,il trtrs huai main |ilt_as.iiU ami tiuiims 
 friiils li> tiiosi^ u hn kiiiiw lu.w Ici s./ari;h .ifti-i lluiii 
 
 -//fni r II ai.l li,r, h.t 
 
 No. 3. JOHN MEIQS. 
 
 3-A As priii.it iii 'I'.iniazin I'lv's i i'latiiinshi|i In William Fry, of Weyimmth, 
 Mass., the suli jiiined iciurds ai\' 1 raiisciil nil ; ami fur a furlln-r rL-ason, that tlit\- may 
 furnish mraiis of iincslii^ation alum^ nillalcr.il lines fur possilik- inilicatinns of X'incent 
 Meg^s' ancestry. 
 
 In Boston Transcri|it, Jan. 30, iqor, ijnery 441S — i — Frys — Is this William l'~rv in. Elizabeth, 
 (Ian. of Jonas Humphrey. — J. H. S. S. 
 
 Boston Transcrijit, of Feb. 27, 1901, sives item tYoni Pope's Pioneers as to proof of above, 
 lonas Hum|ihrey, frmn Weiulover, wife Frances, clan. Elizabeth, m. William l-'ry. 
 
 In letter hum Miss M. M. 1 )a\ is, i^f Lomlon, is the lollouiny item: 
 
 " I found wlien last at the British Museum that there was a Will Fry of Panlet, Somerset- 
 shire, whose grandson, William, had sons, John, who was about fourteen in 162,5, William and 
 Kobelt." 
 
 Prom notes of Miss C . I.. .Sands. 
 
 PKV, I KNI'".. I'klF., FRI'.N', M•K1•:^■. 
 
 William, Weyniuutli, ime ol the " passen.<;ers " to wlnxii laud u ,is assij^ned iu 1636, — 1\\ elve 
 acres for two persons. (See Hull, Joseph.) Wife 1 1-dizabeth.) probably tl.ui. of Jonas Humphrey 
 of Dorchester; ch. Elizabeth, b. 20 (10) 1639, im. Nathan Pdske, Jr.,i Mary b. 9 (iil 1641, 
 (m. Phomas Pierce of 1 lorchester). 
 
 He died ( )ct. 6, 1642, (or w. is buried Oct. 26, 1642,) leaviiv.^ nunc. will. Beip to his wife, 
 dans. Eliz.ibeth ,iud Mar\ ; to 'Phomas H.ini>, riiomas Kawlens, and lohn Meggs, his three 
 sisters' youngest children. Phe widow 111. Thoinas hiiggett. (Reg. .\X.\1X, 230.1 (Pioneers 
 of Massachusetts, p. 177.) 
 
 HARRIS. 
 
 Walter, embarked M.ircb 5, 1631, came to Plymouth upon an eug.igemeul with Mr. |ohn 
 Atvvood, ol London, under (ouimand ol Mr. h'hn !)one, ol Plymouth for li\e ye.irs ; was trans- 
 ferred to Henry Howlantl .\pril s, 1633. 
 
 Walter, of P)orchester, Inn. | une 2, 164 1, signed the in v. of John Pope iu 1649. ( P. of M. p 215.) 
 
 MEC'.GS. 
 
 John, Weymouth. He m. a sister of William Fry, who beq. to her sou John in 1643. Ch. 
 |ohn b. 29 ( 12) 1641-2. (P. of M. p. 310. ) 
 
 New I'dig, & Cell. Keg. \'ol. 2 p. 385. I'.ige headed, .Abstr.u is of the earliest wills upon 
 leiiiid in the Co. of .Suftolk, M.iss. 
 
 Willi, Lin Fry.* 
 
 .| — In — ib43 (iu margin. I 
 
 1 his may be to witness and gi\ '■ testiuioiu' under the hands of these whom ha\'e hereunto 
 subscrilied their names that Win. I'ry, of Weymouth, who dyeil the 26th of (Jctober, 1642, being 
 sicke and weake in botly. To his wife after his decease, his house and foure acres of land, being 
 his home lot, &c., after her decease, to his two daughters, Elizalieth and Mary. To his two 
 i-langhters, two acres of meadow and sixe acres of lainl lynig by the mill also to each of them a 
 goate. 'Po 'Phomas Harris, 'Phoin.is Rawlins .ind John Meggs, his three sisters' youngest chiklren 
 each ol them a kid. Ilie rest of estate to wife. 
 
 Thos. BAiLEy. 
 John Bur(;k. 
 
 I )epiised by the above named, be I ore the C ciiirt. the 9th of the 9th mo., 1643. * * He died at 
 Weymouth, 26th Oct., 1642, accortling to I'.irmer, which is all we know of him. Phe inventory 
 of his estate as recorded is 56 /.' 20s iid. .Xppr.iisers were Edward Betts, Walter Harris anil 'Phos. 
 Bailey. Hated (defaced) 10, 1(143. 
 
 (*Xo. I. .Savage Ms. 1 
 
 *No. 2. .See Win. Fry's will iu (ieii. Keg. \'ol. 2 [lage 385. 
 
Ai'i'iM>i\, 173 
 
 rile folli)« iii.i; iVotu ("aulkin's Hist, (il Nc-w Luiulnn. Ct. 
 
 Walter H.iiris dieil Nov. fi, 165.;. .\ vessel i.illeil tin- " Willi. 1111 .uul 1-raiu is " caiiK- ti) 
 .\niirira in i6,p, brin:.;iiisJ: aiiKiiij; its passriit;eis. Walter I I .irris, « ho settli-il in We\niianh. 
 where he remained about twenty years and then c anu- to Fei|uiit llarhor. ( )n his Inst applica- 
 tioii for a house lot he is styled of Dorclusii 1, uhich makes il proliahle that his l.isl irmporary 
 a bid 111;; |>lai e had been ill that town. lie li.id two suns, Gabriel ami I lioinas. 1 lis wife, whose 
 maiden name was .Mary fry. survived him less th.in three months, line in\i-ntiuy .md srttle- 
 iileiit of est.ite siilhced tor both , The ii' in-c np.iti\ >■ wil I of Mrs. ll.irris will bc<;i\i-n at lar;;e 
 omittiiii; only the rusti Hii.ir\" lormul.i ,it tin- c ommemcmeiit. It is miic of ihe ohhst wills e.xl.int 
 ill the County and is rich in .illusions to cosiuim- .iiid liirniture. l-'nim a c l.uisi' in this w ill it m.iy 
 be inferred that Thomas ll.irris h.id bci-n betrothed to Rebece.i. dani^hleidf ( ib.idi.di I'liuen. 
 This yoiiiii; man, a< cordiir< to tr.idilion, h.ul been sent to l'.m;land lo recdver some 
 property th.it had lalleil to the l.imib. ,ind was siipposeil In li.ivi- bcin lost at sea, 
 .is he w.is nc\er he. nil o! alterw.ird. 
 
 "The last Will and Testament ol \l.ii y li.ii 1 iss, l.ikcii Irom her ou m* nioulli, this lylh d.iy 
 of l.iii.. Ih55 ; 1 L'i\e trj my eUlest d,iii;;h(ci , Sar.ih l.,ane, the bit;esl br.iss p.m. .md to her 
 daughter .Mary, a silver spooiie, and tn Ini d.ui;..;liter S.ii.ih.the bi;_;est peutei dish and one 
 silken riboii. Likewise, I :.;ive to her il.iiu^luer .M.ny. a pewter 1 .indlestick. 1 .^i\e to m\ 
 dain;hter, M.iry Lawrence, my Idew mohcri.- peticote .md my str.ivv hatt and ,1 lether boiilster, 
 
 and to her eldest sonne I .L^ive .1 siKc-i s| nc lo her seccuul Sonne a siUer \\ hissle. 1 ;.;i\e 
 
 more to my daughter Mary, my ne.xt br.iss p. inn ,iiid a thrum cushion, .md to lu-i vminLjest sonne 
 1 :-;ive a jjewter Sassen. 
 
 1 .sjive to my yotin,i;est daughter. Kli-'abeth, .i peeie ofred broadcloth, beiiii; .ibout two 
 
 yeartls, alsoe a damask livery cloth, .1 .i;old liu!.;, .1 siUer si>oone, .1 fether beil .md a boiilster ; 
 alsoe I give to my ilaughter Elizabeth, my best h.itt, my gowne, a brass kettle and a woolen 
 jacket tor her hiisbaiul ; .ilsoe 1 gi\e to my daughter Elizalieth. thirtv shillings, alsoe .1 red 
 whittle*, a white apron and ,i new white neck cloth ; .ilsoe 1 gi\e to my three daughters afore- 
 said, a ipiarter jiart to each n{ them of the ilyajier t.ible < loth and ten shillings apeece. 
 
 1 give to my sister Megges. a red petii'ote, .1 cloth i.icket, .i si Ike hud. .1 cpioife I , a cross cloth 
 .lud a neck cloth. 
 
 I give to my cozin Calib Rawlins, ten shillings. 
 
 ! give to my two cossns, Mary and F^lizabeth l<'ry, each of them, li\e shillings. 
 
 I give to Mary Bariiet a red stuff wescote. 
 
 I gi\e to iiiv l>augliter Elizabeth, my great chest. To in\- daughter ^Llry, a ciffer | .ind .1 
 white neck cloth. To my sister, Hannah k.iuliii, my best < ross cloth. To m\ brother k.iwlin, 
 a Used band. To my two kinswomen. I'.li/.ibcth Hubbard and .Mary Ste\ins. fi\e shillings 
 apeece. 1 gi\e to ni\ lirother Meg.ges, his three youngest chihlreii. two shillings, si.xe pence 
 apeece. 
 
 I give to my sonne Thom.is. ten shillings, il he do come home or be ali\e. 
 
 I give to Rebekah Bruen, a ]iyiit pott of pewter, a new petticoate and wascoat, which 
 she is to spin lierselfe ; also an old bible and a hatt which was my sonne Thomas, his hatt. 
 
 I give to my sonne Gabriel, my house, land, cattle and service with all other goodes, real 
 and personal in Pequot or any other place, and doe make him my sole executor to this my will. 
 Witness my hand. 
 
 The mark of (Xl Mvkn H.vrkiss. 
 Witness hereunto 
 
 lollN WiNrHROl'. 
 < lHAOl AH BrI'KN. 
 
 Wii.i. N'nc'Coi.i.s. 
 
 Probate. 
 New London, Ct. Records. Liber ,^. 
 Frmii Caulkiii's Hist, of New London, p. 269. 
 
 * No. 1 Whittle— a kind of short clo.ik. 
 
 f No. 2 Ijuoife — a ca]i. 
 
 t No. 3 Cilfer — some kind of cap or head dress. 
 
 ( luoifs and ciffer are from the I'rench coiffe or couffure. 
 
■74 
 
 M I' l(.^ ( ii;M- All >(,\ . 
 
 I-iciiii iioii-s <>l Miss C. I ,. Samls. 
 
 Supposed Fry, Meigs Ancestry. 
 
 |(jhn limlaiiif ol l.\inf Ke.nis, l'.nL;l,iiiil, •!. I.ill uf 15SS, perhaps aljoiit 65 years of age, and so 
 li, 15J;;, and ni. 1546-4S. lie h,ul \Mle I'liuiiiasine an. I dan. |nditli, say tlau. Judith b. aliout 155". 
 
 Indith Inr.lanie, li. ah't 1550, ni. i ^h^ — 70 James I 111!, also of Lyme Ret;is — li. ali't 1545 — 48. 
 ! hex had dan. |ndith and chin. S.irah Vvy. ii. almnl 1570 and 1572—4. James Hill d. 1621, as'ed 
 aliuni 75 or 7h \-ears ( winch u nnld he all rii;hl, as he had .1 m.irried dan. ,ind prohahly tjraiid- 
 1 hihlrrn). 
 
 s.M-.ih llill. dan lames (al)o\-el li. .diiinl 137J-5, m. almnt 1590-95 a \Vm. fry. We will snp- 
 pose he u.is Wm fry, .Sr. of W'eymoulh, Kn.L;., imlx ,1 little uays from Lyme Regis. 
 
 Willi. im h r\ , Sr. cit Wevmonth, Eiig. (according l.i M. h'ayette Meigs) I), about 156,8-70. 
 prdh.ihlx 111. alniut i5i)o-g5 .Sai.ih Hill of Lyme Regis, d.iii. of James and Jtulith Hill, and graiid- 
 daii. of lohn .iiid riiom.isine |iirdaiii<-. They had (or certainly Wm. Fry had — whether we give 
 him the coirect intonn.ition or noil the follouin;.; 1 hihlreii ,iiul proli.ilily others ; 
 
 d.iii. 11, inn. ill. I>. perhaps ijiji g5. x\ ho m. Wm, Raulins, ,ind emigrated to .'\merica. .See 
 Rawlin's < ieii. 
 
 d.iii M.uy, b, i5C);-97, u ho ni. Walter 1 l.irris and emigrated to America 1632, on ship Will i.iiii 
 .iiid Frames H , We\nnaitli, Mass.. .mil New London, Ct. See Mary Harris' will mi 
 p. 2(19 (".iiilkin's llist.olW. L. 
 
 d.in. I Inanasine. b. .ihonl 1(110-12, m. 163? |ohn Meggs ,iiid emigrated to j\merica, etc., etc. 
 
 son Willram |r., b. .iliont I'.oo, who eniigr.iteil to Weymouth. .M.iss., ami there d. 1642. 
 ('ii\es to I'hos. Raulm's, 'lliomas Harris ami |ohii .Meggs, his three sisters' \inmgest 
 children, e.icli a hid. .See will in N. !•". Reg. \'ol. 2, |i. 3.S5. 
 
 We h,i\e positive proofs iVoni R.iulin's Gen. .iml .Mrs. Walter Harris' will, and William 
 l'i\ 's, |r., will, that the ,ilio\e loin people were Ijrothers .mil sisters. We ha\ e it from Fayette 
 ,M. Meigs, of (ah, th.it rhom.isine or l.tm/in Fr\ Meigs, wife of lohn Meigs, w .is a dan of Wil- 
 liam Frv, .Sr., of We\'month, ICn"l.ind, 
 
 3 B. I\\ trait I'lom the History of' the fudi^cs of k'iiii^ C/iarl<s I: Wlialliv, Goffc and 
 Ptxu/clt. Bv l-.'-ra Stilc\, /'rrs'dt of' )'oti Cottf-i^c. Jjg^./otlo^i. 
 
 riie report to dm ei nor h.mlu olt, r.oston, M.iss , il.ited May 29th, 1661, by Thomas Kellond 
 and riiom.is Kn k . u ho w ere Sent by him under instructions tVom Charles II, to (.'onnecticnt 
 to hnd and .11 rest these three inilges, " Regicides." 
 
 riie\ reported th.il whilst ,it Gnillord. ( 'oiinet ih nl , " To their certain knowledge, one John 
 ■Meggs, was sent a hm'se-back bef ire lis, .iiul li\ his speedy going, so early before day, he ga\e 
 them information, so that tlie\ esca|ied us." 
 
 So im|Mirl.iiit h.is this epis. ule in histor\' .ippeared in our times that at least two mu'els, " 'I'he 
 Regii ides," ,ind " | iidi;es ( .i\ e," Iku e lieeii written within the past two \ ears, in both of w Inch 
 |ohn Meggs figures ,is .1 promineiii ch.iracter. 
 
 3 C. The Inlhiwiiig will serve to illiistr.ite the lc-Li(lenc\- nf jnhii Mcigs tu patnuiize 
 the Ciptirts iif justice. 
 
 In ih|7, while li\ing in New ll.neu, he had a law suit o\er the m.iking of some shoes, his 
 trade being tli.it ol ,1 tanner and cnirier. also a dealer in shoes and doubtless a shoe maker, 
 bilin sued one ('.regoiv, of ihe same li.ide for damage done him from the unworkmanlike nian- 
 iiei ill which sexeral dozen pails of shoes h.id bei-u 111. ide. John furnishing the leather and 
 thread and carrying the shoes " iead\ cut out " to 1 '.regory, agreeing to pay liim one shilling 
 |)er ]iair. (■regory upon testimony was convim ed he had not done his part, but said, " Meigs 
 enci-iurageil slighting the work. ' while .Meigs being called to propound his damage, instanced 
 li\e partiiailars , — isl, d, image to his name , 2iul, d, image to .Mr. l-'vance to whom he engaged to 
 supply with goods ; 3rd, damage in h.iving his wares turned back on his hami ; 4th, hinderance 
 in his trade, peo|>le leaving on account of his trouble, shunned his wares , 5th, money paid 
 se\eral men fir satisf 1. tion. The (.'ourt referred the matter to .a I dmmittee of shoe makers 
 and tanners, who lound both men " fiiilty " and orderid Meigs to pay a ten pound line and give 
 satisfaction to e\ er\ person dam.iged, ,uid tiregory to p.iy ,1 tine of five pounds. 
 
/\ I ■ I ' IM 1 1 \ . 175 
 
 3 D Copy of a Proceedings of a Rejiular Court held in 
 Quilford. Dec. 4, 1657. 
 
 " liihii Meigs beins called tm on 1 iiiii|il.init th.il lit- ( aiiie with his cart t'roiii I laiiiona//rt 
 late in the- iiij;ht on the Ldial's 1 'a\ , niakiiiL; a mil /!■ as In- came, tu the nl'en/e nl mam' uhu 
 heaid it. 
 
 Then appeareil aiul .in/uered that he \\ .l^ iiii/t.iken in the time i>l il.iy. TliiiikiiiL; that he 
 had lime enoii.gh fur the journey. But heiii;..; sniiieu h it more laden than In- .i|i|ii ehenileil, the 
 cattle c.iine nmre slowly than n/\i.il, ,ind so ca/t him hehiiid, it |ii"o\-in:.; to la- imai- late ot" the 
 da\" th.in he had tliiin;_;lit. I'.iit he |in>re//ed to he soi ry for his mi/f.ike, .md the olleii/i- in/tl\ 
 :.;iven thereby, promi/iny to be more carefnl fur the time to come. 
 
 The C<uirt ct)n./idered the pronii/ees did see c.iii/e (seeing; that the matter seemed to lie 
 done throie^h ,1 siiri)ri./sel and not \villini;ly) to p.i./s ito\-er«ith ,1 reindotfor this lir/t time, 
 <;« /;/,v t.'^/j'/;;",'' a pnlilic acknowledgment of his e\ il in so iieL^lectiiiL; tu lememher tile .Sahb.ith, 
 on the next lectnre or hr/t d,i\', with .ill the a:<sr.i\atin;^ circnm/lances in it 
 
 iSi.yned) Wii.i.i.wi l,|. K rK. 
 
 I >clolier ^^i, 1657, we hiul the c.iseuf Mei.gs \s. Chapman ,uid I'arker, "111 .111 .ictioii tor 
 tre/spa/"s." I'he case is interestins;, and the spellin.g snthciently so to entitle it to a |ilace here, 
 lohn Meigs claimed that after he had " iVnceil his land at .•\thaniono./'sook, were snch an orderly 
 fence, .IS u.is sufficient to keep out great r.ittell ; yet the I'elVndants' hog;^s c.ime into his lield 
 ^ destro\ed his corne." lohn claimed dam.iges, .iiid a witness whom he iiitroiliKed testified to 
 bringing out of the corn fifteen hogs belonging to I'.irker .it one time, and to h.iving seen, 
 " siindr\- other times the 1 lef'endants' hoggs in Ciaiie doing spoile." The defendants put in a 
 pile. I that the fence was insufficient and .is the\' — I h.ipm.in and I'.irker — w ere strangers \\holi\ed 
 in .Saybrouk. whence the " hoggs " must li.ue str.ued, the Court despatched viewers to ex.im- 
 ine the fence. The viewers reported to the ( Oiirt tli.it the fence was not "snihcient to keep 
 out great Cattell." Thereupon, the Court decided that it conld not relieve the plaintiff; " but 
 desired the defeiulants uonld con/ider the great lo/se the |)laintiff sti/f.iined by their hoggs i\: 
 that, therefore, in a neighburly wa\ , they should con/ider to .iff'onl s..me supply, as theni./elves 
 would de/ire in .1 like ca/e. Tli.it .iniity .X: good .igreement might be the better maintained 
 betwi.xt the per/oiis tS: Towns of Seabrooke and C.uilford as formerly.'' 
 
 3 E. lohn .Meggs, Senior, this iith .M.i\, iWiS. 
 
 Knoxv All Men by thejt I'ft'jOils : That I. |ohii Meggs, .Senior, of the new plant. ition of 
 I l.imnionna/sett, do tVeely ami fully gi\e, grant, will .md be(pieath .ill inyne lands, tenements, 
 that ever ilid, ilo, may or shall appurtaine unto me on the W'e./f of Hammona/set l\i\er, betwi.vt 
 that and I'atuck/et I'ond, with all of the rights, privileges and conmiages what/oever. I say 1 
 do hereby freely fully give, grant, will and beciueath the said all unto myne only anil beloved 
 son, John Meggs, Junior. 1 sa\ myne only son and heir, to be unto him and the heirs of his hotly 
 forever to their owne iiye and 1 di/po/e to them, tlieir adminiy'trators or a/signs upon tin- de- 
 cea/'e of me the afore./aid |ohn Meggs, .Sen., .md do by they'e pre/ents warrant my .ict .md deed 
 againyt vvhatybever will, docuiiieiits, deeil or deeds di\ers contrary to u h.il is here expres/ed 
 and truly intendeil. That is to say what is expre/sed is what we shall cl.i\nie, and in ca/e he 
 died without heir or hope of heir this, my .lit .md deede to be voii-le and to return unto myne 
 diypo/e and to the true and faithful performance hereof. 
 
 1 have set my hand and seal the seventh of the hr/l nmnth of the ye.ir of our l.onj one 
 
 thon/'and six hundred and sixty-h\e or six. 
 
 loiiN MKia;s. 
 
 Read, signed and sealed and delivered as m\ .ict ,ind deede in the lU'e/ence of 
 ■SAMfKl. Stowk. 
 losEFH WlI.CO.X/ON. 
 ]-"LK..\/Ak 1/llKI.I.. 
 
 This is a true copy of the deed or will pre/ented. 
 Witne/sed : 
 
 Wii.MAM joHNyiiN Clark. 
 Andkku Lkkke. 
 Nathan Uradv. 
 
ijG 
 
 Ml 
 
 ( ll \l \l ( M,S . 
 
 .•\u,i;u/t ye 2.S1I1, 1671 . 
 
 I 111- I.,i/t Will ,inil rr/taineiit of John .Mi/i;^:;s, Seiir , Dece.i/ed. 
 
 1 , I 111 in ML-i;^i;s, Sciir,, liriii;,; III |irrlirl Mi-iiiorv. lliiiii^li Sick of 111 u lie, I 'o here Set tin w 11 my 
 la/I Will .mil 1 e/lanieiU Inr llie mine i|uiett SeUlin;^ iil thai l\/taU- Giul hath j;i\ en me, after 1 
 am ileail. Impt I l'ii\e nnlo My Sun Inlin, lie/iiis m\ farme Hon/es, Harne, iiplaml and 
 meaiUi\i uilh all \1 In me lihuii^s at Haninna/lit nnw railed Ea/'t and in Ciiiilford plantation 
 \\hii h 1 lia\e liirnii-il\ made o\ el' to him liy waie of I leed and payt as my la/t I.agacye, all my 
 \\ 1 iL;hlinL;s. rmoks ami 111,11111 /riipts. al/o m\ limik of Marters Rolls, Ili/tory of ye World, 
 li. 11 oils, riiiiimis liacons, al /o .Simp/on's l'aii;lish iireek I.e.vicon, and 'I'hams Dixonarye. Al/o 
 to my l>.inL;hter Mary Stevens, 1 ;,;ive fuety pnimds in one Mare .iiid |)art in Cattle and other 
 p. lit in Hoii/liolil Stnll ,ill ,it \e pii/es I li.i\ e \, dined them as will appear in a Srhednle here- 
 unto anexed this fi\'el\ pounds, it is my vvill to lie made Snre to my 1 Janghteer .Mar\ , •.K; after her 
 Decea/e, to hi-r Son \,ith,iniil or if lie d\e, to the next 11 rot her, Snck/ee./ i\ely ; if her Hn/ liand 
 Take riiis ly/t,ite into his h,mds, my will is tli.it he Secure so much Lands to-u it : lilty pounds 
 worth for rile end .ifiire/d. Al/o to my 1 ).iiiL;hter I onciir.ince Cr.iiie, 1 (iive m\ new 1 Hvellins; 
 lloii/e 01 hoii/es, Ikirii, home loll with ye p,i/liiic thereunto adjoining as al/o my planting tleld 
 lott, fiiiii <icres .mil h.ill more or le/s, ,is ,il/o m\ l.,i/t Divition, not laid ont though agreed to be 
 on \e Long hill . as .il/o my me.idow ,it the ISridge .it I 1 .immona/et River, both The Lott I had 
 
 from The Town .ind \e l.otl Ph.il w.is ( '■ Im.m W'.ilmen adjoining. .*\s ,il/o my Lott of 
 
 imiulow next my Neck Lott, the pmnt ol Me.idou. .\l/o I Give Iter my Land on ye the great 
 ILiniak, 1\ iiig next tu .\iidreu W'.i 1 ds, .ill w liicli L.md .md Hon/es 1 .So give to my Daughter Crane, 
 as to Rem. line to her dm ing her nalnr.dl Life, and after her 1 )eath to her .Son |olin and his 
 Childicii. not 111 111- allien. ited, if he die (_"hildle/s, to Returne to his si/ter Eli/.abeth, or if .She 
 live Chihlh /s, then to ( oncnr.ince his .Si/ter and not to lie .Sold or alienated from them. 
 
 lo m\ li.ingliler Trv.ill Ward, 1 Give my House and ondiard and my gra/s plott at Guilford 
 ,is ,il/o my Meadow, It the .S.ilt Roles, hlight ,icres more or le/s, lying next atljoining William 
 .Sew.irds. .is al/o \l l/l.ind ul meadovv, lying .it the h.irbour or Mill Creek Nbuitli. That I/land 
 of MiMilinv, lying -It the Harbonrsor .Mill (reeks mouth, \t lormerly Serjent lones's ami the 
 1 1.1 If of yt meadow ing adjoining lo it, her hu/ b.ind h.iving bought 1 he other half all ready of .Son 
 lohji. .As ,il/o I gi\e unto lur Tli,it live acres of upland more or le/s That lyes un ye .Soutli 
 Side of ye sd meadin\ bulling upon il, is .il/o I .give her my la/t lli\i/ion of meadow, lying 
 next l\jcliard Hubbels ,ind ye Norlh Side of the Creek ag.iin/1 p.irt of tint me.idow, her Hu/- 
 band bought of lon.ilh.in 1 immi. a his .Singeltai\ e. La/ tly I give her ,il /o m\ Neck l.otl upland 
 iN Meadow as il is bounded ,inil Reioided, and all this to Remaine lo her I Hiring her natural 
 Life and not to be .dleied or 1 hanged ,iiid , liter her I leath to be her ,Snn .\ndrews, or if he die 
 .iiid h.ixe no Children then lo Reliirne lo his next I'lrother |olm .md his seed. Memorandum. 
 To my Ne|ihe\\ M.iry 1 Inblile, .is her Mother's portion. She being dead, 1 gi\ e I'liirlv- pounds to 
 be p. lid out of ni\ mo\'abells I''./tate, part in Cattle .md part in Hou/ediold /fiiff with this 
 |iro\ i /oil, .She being obedient to her I Irand-^bllhcr, and In ing w illi her to the da\ of her, lo-w it : 
 hei ( I r,indiiiol her 's 1 )e<illi. 
 
 L.i/tl\ none of tlie/e Legacys are to be l)emandei.l as due during the Life of my wife mito 
 w hum 1 gi\e .ill my afore/d E/'tate h'.xcept m\ fore/d farme at Hamona/itt aforemention to her 
 ye with all ye Re/t of my E/t,ile not here mentioned, whom I make mv Sole Executrixs of all 
 my E/'tate for her owne u/e as aforeyd ; but not to gi\ e, .Sell or alter the |iropert>' of the E/f ate 
 
 Witne/s, juiiN Mkigos. 
 
 j(i/iAii Hfi-L. ( h'.xhibited in Court 
 
 loN.\s Wi-/ I <i\ 1- K, ( Inne ye .ith, ihy2, proved 
 
 lu/KIMi V\' ll.i.ci iK /(ix. I .iiiil ordered to be Recorded. 
 
 Tr.iu/cribed out of the original 
 
 and comiiaied and Ivxamined 
 
 B\ iJANiii. We I iiERAi.i., Clerk of ye C'omt. 
 
 This certifies that the above ami within writing is a true copy of the last Will of |ohn Meiggs, 
 Senior, as recorded m \ ol. 2, I'age 62 of Killiugworth Land Records. 
 
 Killingvv orth, Sept. -'stli. ic)iio. 
 
 Haviii I\ . .SrKVKNS, 
 
 Town Clerk. 
 
AlM'l MUX. \-- 
 
 No. 4. MARK MEIOS. 
 
 Junt' 22. I ()5,s. 
 At a Court it was determined witli tlie ccin/fin of A\is, lln- wife (jf Mark Meg_t;s, 
 that the e/tate that is attached shall be sold at ,ui outriw and coniiniuid into tiie cai/tody 
 iif Mr. O.^deii and Samuel Claike. In an/\\t_'r thos that ha\e attached il. which is all ex- 
 cept only his hou/chold stuff, \\liicli is allowed hi-r li\- ihe Court. 
 
 The lia\' mare snuld fur - / ' 
 
 Mr. ( )>;den the s slmtcs 2/' 
 
 - yearliui^ luills and a 1 alf S{ ii's ''d 
 John Scdtt the half a ,:; ycai- old and onedialf (if 
 
 a J year old h /" 1 1 s 1 1 d 
 
 .Mr. ( )t;-dcn 2 ewes and ; lambs and half uf a call 5 {" His o d 
 
 John .Si iitt the h(iu/e and lot 4;,/^ ms (id 
 
 I s 
 
 4^ 
 
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 .Same date an action uf the case entered b\- John CciuiHr. [i.. ]il,iintiff, .i^ainst .\\-is 
 the wife of Mark .Me;^>;s, the defendant. 'I'lie \erdi.l of the jury they " hnd fnr the 
 defendant the steere with im rea/e of Cmut ( harg-es." 
 
 It is granted liy the .Magistrate that |ohn Coopei" "shall ha\e a \iii/c of the abuxe 
 sayd Action at the next Court." SouthamiJton Town Records. 
 
 No. 7. CONCLRRENCE MEIGS. 
 
 Dr. Reginaltl Webb Wilcox, grandson cif l)eli(irah Ibipsun Meigs ( 179) and also uf 
 Lovisa Meigs 1,1,1,1' cumiiiletl a record nf the three ,illied families, Wilcox, Meigs and 
 Webb, in iSy.i. t<i which publicati(jn we .ire indelited lor nianv dali.'s and faniilv lines. 
 It will be interesting to the reader of this lunik to know that I.)r. Webb has in his pos- 
 session some siher spuons belonging to 1 7 > Concurrenii- dan. ui i , ) |ohn Meigs. 
 
 l.t:t us iHiw pi.ii^L- lanious niuii, .iiid -mr Cilliers that be^at us. 
 Till: Loiii li.itli wriiu,i^lit ^iii-.it i;r>r>' b\- Itu-ni tliiuiit;!i iiis '.;ie.it puwer fruni tliL- tiegiiuiiiis 
 
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 No. 8. DEACON JOHN MEIGS. 
 
 At a Comt of piiibate held at New flaxen, Comiecticut. Dec. 2\, 1713. 
 
 Pre/ent. John .\lling, E/ip, [udge. 
 
 Warham Mather, ) „ , . ^ 
 
 ., , ,, ,, f r,./urs., hislice of (>niirum. 
 
 .Abraham Bradley, I 
 
 John .md lanna Meigs, executors of \r la/t will and te/tament uf ye Deak. (ohn 
 Meigs, Late of Guilfonl, ilecea/eil. 
 
 Exhibited the said in/trument which was pro\cd in \q Cmirt and approved for 
 record. The said executors appeared before ye court and accepted ye tru/t. 
 
 The la/t will and te/tament of [dhn Meigs, Sen. of (juilford, in ve coinitx' uf New 
 Haxen anil Colon\' of Connecticut in New England tn wit followeth : 
 
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 Mi-:i<,s ( 'ii:.\i All » ,\ . 
 
 I, ihc said |cihii .\K-iL;^, Ixiiis^ weak nf 1><h1\- ihuiii^li luniiiL; priii-il iiieni(ir\' and 
 rca/on : iKit knowinj; tlu- ^Imitiu/s of ]U\ time he re ; ami ileeniiiit; it iiiv iliity to set iii\- 
 lioii/e in oilier l)efore ni\' ileatli, ilo write anil atte/t tile followini; in/trument : 
 
 In tile lir/l [ilai e 1 ilo ile/ire to i^ive up my soul to ( loil that .^a\e it, m\- l)od\- to 
 thedu/t Iromwhirh it eame, and to be eliri/ tiaiily I iiiiii-d, hoping; through the free 
 t;i'ace of I Hid, oil) Clui/t |e/us, m \' Lord in ve Re/ iirrection, both smil and l)ody shall 
 be hap|i\in \ e iipi i\iuent i.if m\l)le/seil Redeemer for \vhq/e rightcou/ne/s I de/ ire 
 to be li iniid. 
 
 My uiirlilh e/lale I dn i,;i\e, bei|Ui'atli and de\'i/e the same as followeth ; 
 Item, 
 
 1 ,L;i\i til m\ lii\in>; uih- L\ilia liii' mipi o\ eiiieiit dui'ini; her natur.il lite and remain- 
 ing^ a willow. 
 
 What is oi\cn bv jointure m i,lo\\ r\ made to her <it m.irriage to sa\-. 
 Item, 
 
 The u/e of ni\ little Imn/e in (iiiilfiird .mil the u/e of my pa/ture by Thomas 
 ("in / w olds. 
 Item, 
 
 I ,L;i\e to m\- elde.'t son Iiilin Mei',4S, tn him, his heirs, and a/sis,;ns fiir e\er, the/e 
 piei'es ,inil p.iieels 111 laud here, liter n.imed herein, he p,i\in^ 
 
 Six |Hiniidsof mnne\' In llami,ih, \u\ hiving d,ini;hle|- ,mil three pounds lii in\' 
 il,tui,;hler .Sai'\' Mei^^s, to s,i\', 
 
 M\ liiin/se, li,iriis, orih.irds, and liome/te,iil, lontainiiiy eight ,irres, more or le/s, 
 as it l\'eth in Ka/t < "iiiilfiird. 
 
 .\l/o 1 gi\e m\' hiir/e p.i/tiire i-oiitainiuL; eit;lit aeres three i|Uarte]'S and some odd 
 me.i/ nres, 
 
 Al/o one third nf \e mar/ h land thereto ,idiiiiiiing as set out, 
 
 ,\l/ii I gix'e one third of \e lot III \'e phintiU); field, one acre being hr/t taken out of 
 said, lilt (in \'e iiiiilh sidi- Inr ni\- sun laiin.i. 
 Al/o, 
 
 111 ve little plain li\e ,irres and tliirt\- rmls bein<; the E,i/terl\- part nl ni\' lot there. 
 Item, 
 
 Al/ii line I bird p. lit nl iiu ni.ir/ li l.iiid ,it \ i' i / hinil, tour .irres being tir/t t.ikeii onl 
 nf said Inl, 
 Item, 
 
 Al/n iwn 111 said tour aeres I i,ii\e tn in\- s,iiil snn fnhn, ,il/n ni\' swamp lot south- 
 ward of m\- hnme/liMil eiiut.iiiiin;^ l«enl\' ,iries ,inil one ipiarler b\- e/ timalinii, three 
 acres and one i|ii,iriei beiiiL; tii7 t l.ikeii niit ot s,iiil lol. 
 Item, 
 
 .■\l/n(5lh\e .icres of ve third di\i/ioii lot King iiortlierK' of 'bhos. Cnittendeil's 
 lot, on \e side nf m\- lot ne.M to ,SW////// ( "nilteiiden's with the ,illnw,uiie it being sized 
 willl \e re/ t nl 111 \- Int. 
 
 .\l/n nine .iiid llnrt\ ,ii res rii^ht nf \r 4tli divi/inii l.uid. 
 
 Al/ii line third p,irl nl m\' rii;lit in ,ill cnmmnna.i^e .md iindi\iileil binds iKit men- 
 tinned in this Ii7 t.iment. 
 Item, 
 
 I L;i\i tn m\' snn binn.i .Meii,;s tn him .iiiil In his heirs .mil .1/ signs forex'er, the/e 
 pieces and parcels ol l,inil herealter named, he p,i\-iiig six |iiiiinds to my (.laughter 
 Mindwell ,inil three pninids In ni\- ibuc^hler S,ir.ili Mei^s, to sa\'. My two acre lot ,it a 
 
Ari'lMUX. i-g 
 
 place callrd the Cau/e\' a(l)(iiniiiu; In Majdr 'rii(iini>/ nil's lands; Al/n niv Int hciiuKlcil 
 Southerly on the Reedy pond, Northerlv mi idioiiias ("nittcnden's icmtainini; eii^ht aires 
 and eine half more or Ic/s. 
 
 Al/o ye little plain jnu KiiiL; nn ihewe/t side nf ve hinlnvav containing eleven 
 acres and one half more or le/s ; Al/o, one acre of in\' I'lantin^ held lot, uilh a third 
 part ol ye remainder of said lot lyint; on tlu- Xortherlv side of s.iid lot and rnnnini; 
 thiont;h ye Reedy pond. 
 
 Al/o one thiid part of my niai/ h land KiiiL; li\' 1 lanimoiia/ sett Ri\er honndered 
 Northerly on Cruttenden's niar/h, SoutlieiK- on the .Stone Creek, e\erv wa\- el/e as 
 set out. 
 
 -Al/o my 3d di\i/ ion land ad|oinin^ aliout si-\'enteen acres; ,il/o m\' p.irt of ve 
 PiiK; Swamp, al/o one third part of \c mar/ h l,uid ;it the 1 / land ; four ,icies lieint; tir/t 
 taken out. 
 
 .Al/o two acres of s.iid four of inar/h, al/o oik- third part of \a- fonilh divi/ion con- 
 tainini; thirty nine acres rii^ht of which, t\\ent\- four acres is alread\- laid out at the \ve/t 
 lirancli ; al/o one third part of m\- riyht in all i (imnionaL;!- or undi\ided lands not men- 
 tioned in this ai count. 
 Item, 
 
 I .ui\'e to my three grandchildren, Ebenezer, Ruben ami jo/eph .Mei^s, to them 
 their heirs, anil a/signs fore\er, to say: .Six acres of land in ye little pi. tin Ijijunded 
 Ea/ t on the land L;i\en to mv son John and we/t and north on a hit;h\\av. South on the 
 Pine Swamp. .\l/o, three .md one tpiarter acrt's of huid .\l \e in;; roc k lioiindcil 1101 th 
 on ihe commons, we/t on the lands of .Samuel Cruttenden's: Al/o m\' lot ol upland .U 
 Connu Point containing; .iliout four acres ; al/o fourteen acres of .Mar/ li land south oi 
 Connu Point as set out In.' it more or le/s. boundetl P,a/t on m\- son |.uin;i's m.ii/h. ,ind 
 we/t on John, south on Nathan Hrandlev. .Al/o ten a( res ol in\' third di\i/ion ,nid 
 allowance, bounded north on \-e commons. South on the lands i;i\en to nu' son |ohii. 
 which land is bounded on Seward .mil Fowler. .Al/o ig acres right of 4th di\i/ion land 
 to be taki'ii up out of the swam[) land. 
 
 .Ml the .ilio\e said pieces and parcels ol land to be e(|uallv dixided between them. 
 
 M\' will is that in ca/e an\' ot them die belore thev come to age. then their part to 
 pa/s to the survi\ors or sur\i\-ing for equal share as I al/o gi\e to them, their heiis and 
 a/ signs one third part of all commonage or undivided as abo\e expre/ seil. 
 Item, 
 
 I gi\e to m\' two grand daughters, Th.uikful and .Meirv Meigs, for ei]nal share to 
 them and their heirs and a/signs fore\er to s.i\- : ( )ne third part vi my mar/ h land .it 
 ye 1 / land tour acres being rtr/t taken out of said lot. 
 Item, 
 
 1 give to mv daughter-indaw Mercv Meigs for her u/e and improvement onU' .ill 
 the above said mar/ h and lands before gix'en to Ebenezer, Ruben, Jo/eph and 'riiaiiklnl 
 Meigs chiring her remaining a widow or until the\' shall become ol lawful age. 
 Item, 
 
 1 gi\'e be/ides wh.at 1 ha\e alreadv gi\en to my d:iiighter Sar.ih Bartlett, dei-ea/etl. 
 to hei' son Daniel Bartlett, mv grand child, to sav : My pa/ture near ye Ea/t creek 
 containing bv e/timation about five acres which is in full of his mother's poition. This 
 gift not to take j^lace until my wife's death or marriage. 
 
1 Sij 
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 1 i;i\r 111 mv d:in;^lit(_ r Hannah I''(>/tcr lic/icles what I ha\i- fciniieiiy ijivcn ht-r, lu 
 sa\- ; 'Ywit |Minn(ls cmt (if m\ m<i\alilc c/taU- as al/ii six pcjnncls to be paid liy my sun 
 |i ilin as al « t\ v l-\[>i<' I scil. 
 Ili.-m, 
 
 I ;<i\i- III my dan^htcji Mimlwc II ( "rultiinlcn, be/ idcs wlial 1 ha\i.' fuinierlv given 
 her, til sa\ : Six |inunils tn br paiil b\- ni\ sun [anna Meigs as al)o\e Dixleieii. 
 Item, 
 
 I gi\e til my ilaiighter Sarah .NK-igs J/ — I Ss — jil 1 lesides wliat I have formerly 
 gi\en her, this In be |Miil uul ol my mo\-,djle e/tate,al/ii six pininds to be |jaiil in equal 
 shares b\' \w\ suns John and Jamia Meigs. 
 
 idle re/t of m\ mii\ able t;/ l.ih , ju/t debts being tir/t paid, I gi\e to nn- three 
 daughti-rs, ilaiinah, Mindwell ami S.iiah to lie eipialK- dixided among / t them. 
 Item, 
 
 I do b\- the/e pre/i-nts onlain and appoint m\- living son-,, b'hn and [anna .Meigs 
 to lie ni\- exerntors ol this in\" l.i/l will .ind tiVlanu'iil .ind i|i7 ire \w\ li\'ing Con/ in, 
 .\iulri'\v Ward of ('.iiilford, to kcL-p this my la/t will and ti'/tament and after \w\ death 
 to prr/enl to sr (.^jiirl ut probate li ir .ipprobatinn. 
 
 In w itni-/ s In ,dl and e\ i-r\' p.ii I ol I ho aL)o\'e premi/es I I Ic-reuiUo set m\- name ,ind 
 ath.x \\\\ sral lliis thiitiith il,i\' ol M.iv, in \-r \a-ar ol niii I.nid, ( )ni- thnu/and sexeii 
 hnndrril and I u rh c 
 
 JmiN .Mi-.nis, (Seal.) 
 
 Signed, M-aleil ,ind i li-lixeri-d in \-r priVt'ilre of 
 
 ,Ai;ka II \m hi i\\ I i;u. 
 Am ii; I w W'a u i l 
 
 Court of probate, .\ew lia\'cn, l)i.'i;. 2ist, IJI.S. 
 .Vlir.ih.im lowli-r, I'./i|. and (apt. .Xndiru \\',ii"il, appe.ind and matle oath that \-e 
 said b'liii .Mrigs 111 (iiiillord, late drri'a/cd, signed, sealed and pvilili/hed the loregeiing 
 In/triimeiil .is his la/1 will ,md te/tameiit, and th.il he « as of .Minnd mind ,md menior\' 
 ,il \'e lining tlureol aeeording to \-e be/I nl their knowledge. 
 
 .Alle/t. 
 
 1 1 IS. Willi IM,, ((derk I. 
 
 Ihe ^aid h.xhibitors exhibited an imentorv of the e/late ol ve said decea/ed which 
 u as ,ip| II o\ed li ir rerord. 
 
 .\n liueiitorx' ol the e/tate of De.ikii |ohn Meigs, Decea/ed, I'aken this hr/t of I)eceni- 
 ber, 171,1. ( \'ol. 4 [)g. 214 Probate I'lecords at New lla\en. Conn.) 
 
 To his wearing ,ipp,irell . - - . 
 
 to a (/un sword bell |iowder with horn 
 
 to .Xniiinitiiin .SiiIkuiIs .mil Iron Kelle 
 
 to .\ pr 111 tongs a 1 hiin .mil l.irge Rnimel 
 
 to ,1 barells old tub hall an old pipe 
 
 to A w.iler paill walking Cam- two chairs 
 
 to Chairs lii.tle RiiV's ,iiul wedgts 
 
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 t(i A tramell pot hooks old pott and hamnn-r . - . . 
 
 Ill old foiners chi/sell and the annotations - - - - 
 
 to an old Lari;c book a ljil)le and a p/alni Ijuok 
 til a Small book old books anti spL-rtirk-s . - _ . 
 
 to a pr mony scales Ink horn and liour (da/s - - - . 
 
 til a Ci'o/scnt /aw juvnters and hand s.iw - _ _ . 
 
 til 2 Crows trees Iron Coopers Ax ------ 
 
 til 4 lire/t wimbles one Croes Iron a iiuwi-ll and Ronnd shave 
 
 to ad/es ,1 Round shave idiirn sha\i- and C\n sha\'e 
 
 to a liun^ auger tap answer spoke sha\i- and Lathing lianier 
 
 to old pmceis Shoj) Knife making Iron and Seting knife 
 
 to A Small saw Compa/ses iS: Set for ,i Saw - - . . 
 
 to 2 froes 2oIb old Iron old La/ts and box - - _ _ 
 
 to Chirn Co\ers and Hra/s Ketle ------ 
 
 to feather bed bol/ters with |iilliiws ----- 
 
 to bed/tead t.'ord ami -Matt, and old bed - - - - 
 
 to Curtains and Blankett ------ 
 
 to bed lilanki.-ts -----.-.. 
 
 til a (die/t earthen pans and old lioe ----- 
 
 to I'.artheinvare and Gla/s botlcs ------ 
 
 to Sih'cr liuckle earthen Cuj^peiiter ba/ 
 
 to pint piitl lin pan 4 ba/sons all at 
 
 to a lia/son plale bearer and poringer 
 
 to old pewti-r siUer spoon and Chamber pott 
 
 to 4 Spoons Conipa/s Grater ami 'riiimill 
 
 to a [lewter plate and new Checkered pLmkeling 
 
 til o pair Stiiikeiis - . . - - 
 
 to eu/hens wooden ware and small nails 
 
 to Fremers ba/ket and old meal Tray 
 
 to a pr ni-w sheets lieir Ca/k and fork 
 
 to sheets pillow Coats ami Table Linen - 
 
 to wheels T Roes hatchill and old sine 
 
 to (dialk Leather bag and old CluVt 
 
 to Ladle bridli- Spitt Iron and feather ("11/ hen 
 
 to a Small Imat sails with Riging with half tub 
 
 to 2 Ci.iws a two \ear old steir a c.dt and two ]iii: 
 
 to 2 Shri |i ---------- iX) 
 
 to two hundred and twenty nine acres and a (Jiiarter of upland 
 a hou/e barn and orchard and sixt\' I'ight acres of mar/ h 
 all in Ciuilfori,! .ipprized att ------ 5S7 
 
 The within In\i'mor\' was taken b\- us the Sub/cribers the dav and 
 
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 » \i. Di. R<\n..|,| W. Wilc,,.\ in Ins piil.li. ati..n ■' Thf Allied Wilrox, Meigs. 
 W'eMi I'.imilirs, i^ives reconl uf Sarah, wife nf |(ilin, as lollows ; 
 
 William W'ilcoxsoii, i)f Stralfurd, Cl., ixini in ifxii, al Si. Albans, Hertfordshire, 
 Kn;^l.ind. c.inir to this inuntrN when ,^4 yeais iild in ship Planter, liaxing certificate from 
 Minister al .St. .\llians, Ireeman of .Mass. I'l^"". niox'ed to .Stratford in I'l.V*. Representa- 
 tive at Hartford, 1(147, died il>^:. Had nine 1 hildien ol whii li S.irali, the wile of [(jhn 
 Meii^'S, was thr eii^hth child and third d. lighter. 
 
 .And I'ope's Pioneers ol Mass.. at p. 177, L;ives : 
 
 WII.Ci iXSON. 
 
 William, liiieii \vea\er, ae. 34, with Margaret, ae. 24, and son John, ae, 2, cert, from St. Al- 
 liaiis, Herts, Eng. came in the Planter April 2, 1635. Residence unknown. I''rm. Dec. 7, 1636. 
 ( Pin 1 lee IS ol Massacluiselts p 4<-)7. ) 
 
 Willi. un Wilcoxson, (il. Sir, ittord, Conn., Ii. idoi .it St. .Alb.uis, Hertl'ortlshire, iMigland ; 
 came to this connlry u hen 34 years old in ship Planter, having certificate from Minister at 
 St. .Mli.nis; iVeem.ni of M.iss. 1636; mined to .Stratlord, 1639; l\e]iresentali\e at FPirtford 1647, 
 
 d. 165-^- 
 
 I In eld rei iMils the n.iine is spelled Wilco.x, Wilcocks, Wilccexson and Willco.x. 
 
 Copied from the Ancient l.and Records at Klllingworth, Conn. 
 
 3 F. /■///.( IVitncJ seth, that whereas |ohn Meigs, .Sen. and lonathan Diinnin alias .Singletery, 
 both (if the new Plantation of Haniniona/set Ri\er, each of lis a lot being together in the Planting 
 field between Heiirv l'".irniim's let on the P~a/t ,ind the .Mini/ter's let on ihe We/t, have niutiially 
 agreed to exchange, each for other, that is to s.iy, 1, Joiiatlian lliinnin, for and in c on/ ideration 
 nt' a young lieiler with calf in hand recei\ed of the said John .Meigs, Sen., do herel)y alieniate 
 and ]ia/so\er ,dl my said l.ind uilli all my right ami intere/f therein unto the said John Meigs, 
 Sr., to him, his heirs, executors or admini/f rators lorexer, and it shall be hiwful IVji the afore/aid 
 loliii Meigs to eiiioy .ind poyse/s as Ireely and lully lorever as 1, the said Jonathan Ihinnin alias 
 Singletery, have had or might have had. 
 
 /;/ Witneis Whereof, I ha\e hereunto set ni\' hand this 3rd of, April, .\ . I 1 1666. 
 
 |ONA'rH.\N IH'NNIN. 
 Witiie/s : 
 
 'Ph<i.m.\s P.I.oMI I hi. 11. 
 
 S IKIMl ivN' Ke|,/KV. 
 
 l\)io'L< JIl Men hv thru- I'lejeiits : 'Ph.it I, |olin Meigs, .Sen., of Killinguortli, in the Count), 
 of N'ew Poudou and Ciihun of Connecticut, ha\esold unto |ohn Meigs, lim. ol^ the same town 
 .Hid to his heirs, exec liters and .i/sigus all my right in a parcel of land toward goodm, in Wrights, 
 three acres more or le/s. Pegimiing at the We/t side ol a pair ol bars which are between two 
 great rocks and So. going with ,1 Soulhea/f line down to the swamp, bonndeil by my town land 
 Easterly by the Common, Northerly, Wey't and South by the land of John Meigs, Jiin., whicli 
 was Bryan Ro/seters ; for and in con/ideration of making and maintaining all the fence belong- 
 ing to the afore/aid land by him and his heirs l'ore\er, for the true performance hereof, I have 
 set to my hand and seal the nth ilay of December A. D. 1671. 
 
 |onN Meios, Sen. 
 
 .Signed .mil sealed ill the |ue/ence ol 
 HKNk\ Ck.vnk. 
 William I'arkek. 
 
ArrF.NDix. 
 
 iS: 
 
 Tht-n follows another convcyaiue similar t(j the first of Jcjlm Mci.t;s. Sen. tn Jchn 
 iMei.s4"s, Jim., Ui~ i . 
 
 Also a conveyanre b\ Jnhn Mei.L;s, jun. tu JIenr\ Crane, 1671. 
 .Also tlie town ol Killin.nu 01 lli, a i;rant ( a land to |ohn M<-i,>;s Sen., ihji. 
 
 rile town \ote(l llnit John Mei,<;s, Joseph Wilccix and 1 ihadiah Wilcn.x slinnld lia\e the miry 
 su.inip .uiiin.u tt> the nnll. bind them/elves to fence in. 
 
 r. .S.— This was evidentU' ( npird hum llie old rei ord h.idk u hii h \\ as so badlv ucnn it < nnlil 
 init lie ti.iced tuit. 
 
 It is dated I4tli, Ib6 
 
 1 1. K. STh\ K.NS, 
 
 Tow>i Clerk. 
 10-10-19(10. 
 
 Copied from Killinyvvorth Land l\e(iirds, p. 456. 
 
 MEC.G.S ; 
 
 John .Megj;s, .Sen., h.ith by jott tor his I baise l.ott. eii^lit ai res more or less, beiiii; in hre.idtli 
 nineteen rods, in Length on the So.itli side, tonr score on the west side, twenty-three more 01 
 less. Bonnded North by the lii:<li\\ay. l-.,ist by the House Lott of William Kelcey, West by the 
 House Lott of Willi, Mil l'.,irbor, ,ind 1\ ini; .iiiil adjoiniiyi; tlierennto two aiTes more oi' less, bciiii; 
 the most of it marsh and upland at the South end of William Kelcev's houselot, liounded K.ist 
 by the Hioiiw.u- to\\.[nls the H.irljour \: south by Willi, 1111 Wellman's h,dfa( re of land, he ii.itli 
 by .yift from the town for Hi.yhw.iy allowed I'liom. .Stevens lor his me.idou , 
 
 Also in meadow , one ,u re .mil a h, df nnire or less, from the bounds of William li.iibor's 
 ilieailow round as the Indian Ri\er runs and the Ciore tow.ird the einl of his own Inaise lott. 
 
 .\lso <iu the west side of the ludi.in l\i\er iV- on the Nci k tonr acres v\: .1 h.df more or less, 
 upland and meadow loi;etlier lor his whole .dlotmeiit in the creek, bounded easterly as the ki\ er 
 runs, west by ye laud ,md northerly by the land of William Keli'ey and also the meadow at ye 
 southward of ye said lott three acres eS: half more or less bounded South ,\; east by ye River and 
 westerly by ye meadow of William Palmer. 
 
 (Iv\-( lian.ued.i .Also on the east side of the I lid iau hield lour ,u:res \ h.df more or less, bein.u 
 ill leui^th nine rods 111 len.;;tli from the Little HainiiK.ick to the bounds of the llome Lott .dlowilli; 
 a cross w.iy through where most convenient for the resi of ihe l.md on e.u h side .[djoiniiiL;. 
 Bounded I-'.asterly b\' the l,md of Heiiof l-',irmmi ; ursterly b\- the l.uid of |oii,uh.in liunuiu, 
 bein;_; bro.idest ,it the .South end. 
 
 .\lso in iMeadi>u ,ij;aiiist Honiouoset River three .icres .iiul <pi, liter more or less, all the 
 .ini;les rounil as the River & (.'reek runs with .1 sm.dl ipi.Liitilv on tin- |-;,Lst siile of the creek to 
 come to the point of upland l\: Inane to the oiienin.L; of the next mea<lovv , soiiilu-rlv vv here it is 
 bounded by William Wellman's meailovv. .\ortherh by |oliii Kehex 's imadow \- F,.isterly by 
 Willi. nil ILiyton's meadow and the uphiiid. 
 
 .\lso in meadow e.isterly from llir I'l.iiUiiiL;- l-'ield, two acres iVirtv roils m breadth at the 
 upl.ind hve rods more or less, and at llie westerlv' bent of the river addeil in bre.idth eii^lit rods 
 more in leiii^tli from Ihe upland to the river fifty rods bein;^ also allowed within the comiiass four 
 ponds & salt liolr-s boiind'ed by the l.md of P.ryan Rossiter, west b\ the l.md of William Well- 
 man east. 
 
 .Also in the liuh.m .Meadows three acres ,md half more or less, boimdcil bv the hiiul of Geo. 
 .Sanders, Northwest by the land of Mr, Josi.ih Hull, Imi., .Scaith bv llie iivir or -S.ilt Creek, 
 westerly across the common, e.isterly p. issin^ thldu:_;li the North end of llu- Little :_;leail ol 
 ii|il.ind. 
 
 ;\lsi> by |-'.\ch.iu,i;e a p.ircel of me.idow laud behind the two I Limmocks, beiin^ ill width 
 eleven rods more or less, as it lies binnided by the me.idow of | on.itli.m 1 liimiiu, west , to the 
 teamsters iiieailow, e.ist. 
 
 .\lso on the I-'.ist side of the pl.intiii;.; field hve acres more or less, biumdeil southerh in p. ill 
 by a little swamp, in leiijjtii from y<- swamp by the meadow side to\v,irds Ihe highw.iv tweiilv 
 rods at the northerly end by the land of Robert Williams thirlv rods, easterlv liy the nicidow. 
 Leaving a sufficient breadth for the jiai 1111:4 of luiy, also allowiu!.; a Libertv fir |osiah Hull eV Mr. 
 Woodbridg- to cart their hay through his laiul aiul southei 1\ by the Common. 
 
1S4 MiK.S Cl'NI Al.dl .\'. 
 
 Alsii li\ l';\< li.iiiiif ill til"-' ri.DiUii;^ I'iil'l lilt- |i>t uhal u.is loiiatliaii iMiiiiiin's .is u lies 
 liDUiulcd f.isl li\' the land that Inr'iiu-i'U was his own imw lunathan 1 tiiniiin's, west K\' tin; lami tif" 
 William W.. 0,11,11,114. 
 
 Mill. \<- 2(1, 1(172. 
 
 .Also ,111 the I. oils.; Hill, sixteen acres more ,ii" less in len;_;lli. si\ly roils in lirea,lth lorty roils, 
 Ih .uiiile,! south liy the l.iii, I ol' Thuiiias Smith, east li> the C 0111 n 1011, u est In the I li.yluvay, No nil 
 liy the I. ill, I ol losiali I 1 nil. 
 
 .\t the Tou 11 Meelin.t;, May 21, HiSS, The Tou n con/ nleriiii; that it \\ as manif'e/t that there 
 is no ki-ciial III' Ro, k\- I..iiul as it lii-s liuiiiuletl on the laiiil ot" i\lr. Hr\aii Ko/sitter on the Nortli- 
 ue/"t \- on till' 1. .111,1 III |o/e|ih \Vrii;lil on the Soiitluve/st — I'!a/teily liv the l',>miii,in Iroin the 
 lUirch tree to |o/epli W'rii^hls leiice Ov lionnile,! .S,)iitlierh' hy the nie.ulow Lots n,it t,i 
 ilaninily any former .^lant i\: it liein.t; nianile/t that the Town intemleil ^; proiiii/e,l this Lanil 
 sh,nikl lie as a privile.ne i\: apiuirteiiaiu e to |olin iMei;4S, Sen., ,\: His Heirs iS: Succe./sors in jiart 
 ,11 the ( 'on/ iileration for niakiiv.; a lon.n Strin.L; of feme, the town ,1,> mtitiially a.siree that it shall 
 lie Kecoiil,',! t,i lie in tin- (■a|ia,il\' \: So to Do the Same 1 )nl\' of lem e with the other part of 
 jo/ejih 1 iamls was t, i il,i. 
 
 At a town nieetiiis; laiuiaiy q, I'lSy, "it lieiivj, foiiiul that p.irt of the l..in,l tli.it the town ol 
 Keiiilw airlli ent;aL;eil to s,ii,l G,i,i,liiian \le;.4es .in,l his lieii s lor an,l in , oiisiiler.ilion ol his mak- 
 iii.:.; ami iii.iinl.iininL; the liehl leiic- from the linrcli tree to josiali W'ri.nlit's leiice it not lieint; 
 entered on Keconl as it oimht to li.ni' heen, the tiu\n ,lo therefore make ihoice ,if ,ind Impower 
 John Kelcey, I oh 11 Nettletoii and |, ilin 1 .lis wold to .yo .mil lion ml it." 
 
 " I'll. It is to sa\ th.it piece of land laimmonh c, died the (.ireat I'astnre .ind bem.t; formerly 
 :.4iven unto |oseph H.inil, that so it iiiav he eiitereil upon re, ord to the said |ohn Me.yes and his 
 heirs, this \'ote,l .iml Mntu.dU .r_;ree>l on .it the tow 11 nieetiii.^ accordingly, the winch the saiil 
 conimonly dill which s. lid l.iiul is lioiind,-,! s,intlieiiy liy the Meailow I-otts easterly liy Josiali 
 \\'ri;..;lit's Land accordiiiL; to the marked Lrees, 1101 tlierly l>y Commoii accordim,; to ye marked 
 trees, westerly liy Laiiil tluit was I'ornierlv llryan Kossiter's." 
 
 "John Cram- li.ith hy .i.i^reement w itli the town, si.x acres ol laml upon the pl.iin before 
 l'Alwari.1 I'lilty's six acres of land which sd. si.x iicres of land was in lieu of twehe acres which 
 was lielon.yin.L; to his grandfather Me.i.;es Estate in the last division of land bonnded northerly by 
 the lii.i;hway that leads to .Saybrooke, beiiii.; in length there .^2 rods, southerly by the common 
 fence in lenL;th there .',9 rods, westerly by ye common that now is in breadth 28 Rods. Easterly 
 ye common in bie.ulth 32 Rods." 
 
 The low 11 I ..iboiiriiiL; under the .Seii/e of the lo/s of the order of old gentleman Meigs Lot in 
 this pre/eiit lii\i/ion ,if Lan,l have now ,igree,l with tlio/e concerned tli.il they shall ha\e .Six 
 .icres on the pi. 1111 before I'.dward I'litly ; In full fi.u the Lot which is twehe aires — provideil 
 the\' lea VI' .Snfticient Higliw ay .it lea/t 12 Rods — this \ oleil .it a 'l',iw 11 .Meeting .April ye .S, 1697. 
 
 F,ir they iuiii- use, I tin; ulli, <_■ of a ,!,;-m, mi well t,i piir. Ii.isc tlicinst-lVL-s 
 a giiud lit-gl ee, and '.^r.'.it ImliliK-ss in Uil- tailii wIulIi is in Clirist .1,-siis. 
 
 - /!/ I'nnollit ,•-/;. 
 
 No. II. DE.ACON JOHN MEIGS 3rd. 
 
 'Jlic siiliiiiinci! extract from iiiantisi 1 ipt ul R. I '. .Smith's notes, owned liv Prof, 
 lieniaril C. .Slcim-r, ul I^jaltiiiniic, Mil., is all w i.- lia\c liecn alilc- to obtain ul the will 1 if 
 Dcaciin |iilin .yil. 
 
 "Will dated Lcbiuary i.S, 1717-1.S, ap|iro\eil March .^1, 171.S. Imciiturv dated 
 M.iicli J4, 1717, ,{,7,V'- 17.'^, also land at I)iirliaiii, iiiakino the whole inventory /,765, 17s. 
 Ill his will he names his neigro woman llaj^er. .\|i|iointed Benjamin Hand and his wife 
 Ixi-becca executors, and she ap]ioitited ;<iiatdi,in to ihe children .Samuel, I'hiiieas and 
 .Sar.ili. I'hineas not im-ntioned in his will, i \'nl. I\', Siig-sin. — Proli.ilil\- reference to 
 X. 11. Co. Probate Re, urds at New Il.ixen V>. C. ,S. I 
 
AlTl-NDIX. 
 
 IS 5 
 
 Slioiig miiiils. j;ri-;it iKsiits. li ui.- laitli .mil ic.i.ly ii.mcis 
 Mill wild pus^fss opiiiiniis ami a will, 
 
 Tail liK-ii. siiii-t I uwiiL'ii, wllo live alM.\ c liic fni;. 
 Ill pul)li> (liit\- ami in ;.ii\al.' tlimi^itii;. 
 
 -/. (.. Holland 
 
 Nc. 12. CAPT. JANiNA MEIQ5. 
 
 i'lailitioii S" c oiiilaiitiy assotialL-s Ca|.t. JaTiin Mci.ns w rlli llu- I[..iim lici c slmwii lli.il .iltliuiii;li 
 
 w L- i.ni liini no prooforUs ..■M.a iKuing iifi'Hi^ed to liiin, wu ion, Imlc to 
 
 illustrate it it i-. -.till staiuiilii; in Madison, roiiii. 
 
 ('aj)l. janii.i was evidently ;i man nf iMlnratidii, as the iniporttime nf the main- offices 
 lit- hlliil wdiilil indicate; was deaciin in the chunli : i-epiesented his distriri in the les;- 
 islatnic; iif ihi- CdIoiiv of Connecticut in i 7 lo-' i 7-' i S and 172(1; and was f'lsticc of the 
 Peace for NCu Ha\en Cohmv, aiinnalh' fioni 17-- to 17,1.1 inchisi\'e, a position nl 
 greater iinport.ince then than now. In niiht.iry hfe he was Captain nf a CoinptiiU' in 
 the Queen Ann wars. 
 
 Some fstiinate of his chai'acter and position ma\- In- iuund fiom his tiiiieral sernmn. 
 h\' I )r. lonalliaii Tochh a pamplilet of fnrU-four pat;cs, from wlhcli we make consider- 
 alilc c[\iolalion ; 
 
1 86 
 
 M i"ii,s (ii-;NK.\i.(ii;N . 
 
 Exlrallt licim :i ]iiil>li/ lud 
 
 Siiniiiii I'rcach'd at F.a/t (luilforil, on Lonl'.s \>.\\. iniu' Kith, I7,'i9. 
 
 ( )ira/i<jnr(l Kv llic Death <il the 
 
 \\( )l<SIIII'l'n, CAI'T. jANNA MKICS. hLSO; 
 
 \\ liii (hi-<l (ill thi- sih chi\' ul |inir, in the Sixty Scvc-iith ^'^•aI (if liis A<^c. 
 
 ''.v 
 JOXAI'IIAX rnni), A. M.. 
 
 I'a/ln- (.1 ihr ChiiK h n[ CHRIST there. 
 
 llili. \i. ij: rliat ye he lUil Shilhlul, Km !• Hlhiwers of them, who thidugli [-.litli 
 .111(1 l',ilieii( ( inherit the Ihoiiii/es. 
 
 l'hih[i iii. 17 ; Hrethieii, lie hiilhiw crs t( i^ether of me and ni.irk lh('ni \\hi(h walk so, 
 as \'e ha\e 11s liir an En/anijile. 
 
 And hell.-, 1 think. I m,i\' in partieular lecdinmend iiiitd us Im um ImitalKin, the 
 Ex.ini|ile, di,it hath lieeii set l(ir us, li\' tile w (ir/ hi|ilnl .ind much re/|iected l'er/(in, 
 uhdin ( 'i( )1 ) lialh the Week [1,1/ t, di/nii/sed frdiii a State nl 't"ri,d, ,1111(111^; /t ns, .and ad- 
 milled, ,is we (hmlil ikiI, td mhetil ihe I'roini/es. 
 
 1 lia\c lid L;re,it ()|iniiiin dl hiineral P.iKaimuims, unless wlu-n the (il(_ii\' dl ('i()l), 
 ( ir,itilii(h- ,md 1 u/ tice eaU liir the same ; am sen / ilile, that tlley ha\e been sometimes 
 (halt (lilt with tdO la\'i/h a Hand, lint hdwcx'er, when the Cliaracter of the decea/ed is 
 wditliN' dl ,in e\ crla/ tiiii; Renieml ir.im c, and nia\' lie it/efulh' im|ir(i\ed for the Exam- 
 ple and fn/trneti(in dl the Eixiii'^, it Wdiild he a I, mil to pa/s it li\- in SileiKt- and I'dr- 
 yetfulne/s. li wdiild he not diiK' nnwdidn' dl the jii/l Re/pect ,in(l hdndiii"alile 
 Rememlii'.iiK e due t(i sneh (h.parted >;(id(l Men, liut an lninr\- td (iiir/eKcs ,ind Ours. 
 
 TIk l'er/(in, hir the f.d/s dl w lidui wc .ire nidiirmne, was de'/eended lium a pious 
 Fathi.r 111 diir 1 / lael : wlm/e (ira\it\' and l'.xeniplai'\' I'ietv pr(i(ur(_-(l untd him the 
 office dl a deacdii wliK h he u/ed sd well as td pnreiia/e to him/elf a i^odd Decree, and 
 oreat liiildiK-/s in tin lailh, wlii(h is inChri/t )e/us: \\'hd/(,' i'lai/e is in the China lies. 
 
 fie was endued \\ilh lliat n.itiii.il Capacit\'. ne(c/sarv tn make a i^reat .iiid u/i'lul 
 M.in; w liK li w.is inipi(i\('(l li\ ,1 pKuis I'.duealidU under the C.ire ot his Parents, and 
 r(,'(i immende(l liv man\' a^rei.'.ililt' I )iialihe,iliiiiis. 
 
 lie was ihereldl'e t.lkell .\dti(.-e (il , as (ille e.ipalile (il pilhlick Ser\iee .ind I'letin/t- 
 meiits ani(ini4 / t ns ; .And was therefore ]iriimdte(l to Ci\il and ^^ilitar\■ HdiKiurs am] 
 Offices aiiKjng / t lis. ]fe hath lieeii .1 f-athei unid us, the Leader dl (inr I'nlilick Affairs: 
 and ren(.lered Ilini/ill \'er\' 11/elul iintd us: idle C.entleinaii hath lieen Cdn/pi(nous in 
 him — His Cdiiver/atK 111 w;is ple,i/,int ,ind impi (i\in>;, .\nd his natural I'emjier helpi,'d 
 td lecdinmend him td the f,d\c .ind .Mfectidiis (if his .Aeijuaintances, wliK h w,is ihe 
 Seiidiis and the <iia\c temper'd with ihe Cheiiiul. He was a plea/ant Ciimpaninn td 
 tlu' Wife, and a i^enerdiis h riend. 
 
 Cjion the/e .Acediiiils, there is Rea/dii for it, if our friends he.tr us lanientiin,; dur 
 Lo/s and erviniLi, tlie |iiv nf din lleart is eea/ed, the Cidwu is f.illeii Inim mir llead. 
 
 I'liU lliat, whu h f e/peiialh' purpii/e to r(.-mark, is, his l'iet\' .md exempkiry X'ertui'S, 
 Relitjioii w.is wh.il seeni'd tii lie mn't U|ion his Heart : to ajjprin e himself l.iithfiil imtii 
 CiOD, in the I'laces and l-ielations in which divine I'mvideuce had set him, seem'd lo 
 
A I'l'l' MUX. 1 S- 
 
 lir his Ljri'att.-/ t Conri-ni. lie llu-irfun- diliocnlK sHiduil tli. W'.inl n\ (,()!). .iiid mu li 
 l;(i()i1 Hooks as might In- ilini torv ami hil|iliil l.i hini hm-in. IK- was a i nn/Iaiit ami 
 ron/ririitioiis Attfn<laiU upon the Mraiis ol ( ; lai .■ an<l Uic ( )rilinan(X's of ( i( )1 ). -I ha\r 
 thc-icloiT niauN- TiiiU'S taken Xoticc of it, tliat at sik h had Sra/oiis. whiii Ndinig, hail 
 and sprigiitly Men, that li\rd at a h'/scr l)i/taiu;c, would In- detanii-d from ihr llou/e 
 of (ion, tills I,o\er ol I)i\iiK- Ordin.incis would \el lie there. He w.is \ir\- l(.-nder of 
 the I lonoin- of ( j( )] ) ; a zealous Maintainer of the 1 )oetiin of flee ( '.r.K e, \\',i / n .ifraid 
 of all the |n-e\ailiii!L; Doctrines of a 1 )egener,ae .Age, that diiniiii/hed the i'Aniy of free 
 (irace in the Salvation of Souls. He mourned liecau/e of the k)cca\- of vital I'iet)', and 
 lamented the dying Po/ture Religion seemed to be m. And not as some, who make 
 a Moan o\'er tiie Prevalence of Sin, and yet contribute not what should be e.xpected 
 from them towards a Reformation, who seem to take on becau/e of the Prevalence of 
 what they allow in Them/elves : But he e/peciallv watched him/elf : l.iboured to mortify 
 Corruption in Him/elf, to become more holv and pious, that he might nf)t contiibiite to 
 the (irowth of what he so much fiewail'd. He seemed to be a .Man of Praver, to keep 
 up Communion with GOD. He was a li\ely Chri/tian in dull Times; He was Fruitful 
 in good Di/cour/e ; was full of it alnii>/t where-ever he came ; had a liapjiv .Abilitv and 
 Di/po/ition beautifully to introduce the same. He was a thri\'ing Chri/ tian; and not one 
 of tho/e who content them/elves with a little Religion, ju/t so mmdi as they hcjpe will 
 carry them to Heaven; but he seem'd to be zealous of good Works, with Fervency of 
 Spirit to ajiply him/elf to Religion ; This seemed to engage his Soul. He was ;i huml>le 
 Chri/tian ; Notwith/ tanding his Im[5rovements in Religion, he would still be aba/ hing 
 ing Him/elf, lamenting his Imperfection; always retained a low E/teem of him /elf, 
 ready to say with the humble Jacob, I am not worthy of the lea/t of all the Mercies, — 
 shewed unto thy Servant. Moreoxer, his Patience, his Con/ tancy in the Truth and 
 Per/everance in Well-doing is not to be forgotten. 
 
 And if we remember his Conduct in the particular Relations he su/tained, we mu/t 
 not only acknowledge him a Ble/sing in them, liut own the Advantage of Religion, that 
 generally directed and governed Him in them. He was \ery e\emplai\- in l-'amil\- 
 Religion ; His well-go\-erned Family, \viiom lu- endea\-ored to in/tnict in the Knowleilge 
 of GOD, and b\- a good Kxamjile, b\' e:ii"iu7 th' inculcatetl and pious Coun/els, and 
 other propel Means to secure for G( )1), ari /e u|i ,ind e.ill His Xante ble/seil. .\nd ,is he 
 was careful to walk in his own Hou/i- in a peilect W,[\- ; so he diil not loigel tho/e 
 relati\e I )uties he owed to his Neighbours .iroimd him. He was it/elnl to others ,is well 
 .IS his own I'.imily ; w.is ready to incduiMge the ('mod, to refre/ h the Di /eon /ol.ite ,ind 
 eheer the drocjping Spirit, and when he thought it a sea/onaljle Time, woulil open his 
 Mouth to repro\c the X'icious, ami te/ title ag.iin/t the I 'nrighteou/ne/s ol Men. 
 
 Thus he served his (jeneration, lixcd u/elull\ ,imong/t us, and made il his l!u/ine/s 
 to do the Work committed unto him, 'till (i()D saw meet to ha/ ten the luid ol his 
 Labours and Fxerci/es in the World. .\nil though ,it the Setting of his .Sickne/s, his 
 Rea/on was sometimes affected, and he h.id not that full A/surance ol Hope, .is at some 
 Times, yet as his Outward Man deea\ed and Weakened, his inward .M.m re\i\iil ; his 
 .A])prehen/ ions became clearer ; with greater Peace and (romfort he couM ("oinmit his 
 .Spirit ijito the Hands of his Creator ; He then could look upon De.ith as ,i coiKpiered 
 Enemy and tis a Pa/sage to Re/t and Peace. 
 
 To the 1,1/ 1, his Concern for the Intere/ts of Religion, his Ze,d foi the l)i\ ine Honour 
 and l.ove to Souls remained. .And when il seemed that he mu/t in .i little Time take 
 his l,ea\e of his Earthly Friends, he renewed his Caution to his Children g.ifhered 
 
ISS 
 
 Ml'".I(;S Cil-;M- Al,l » .\ . 
 
 ai"ouii(i him, at;ain/t the |irr\ailini4 cuirupt 1 )i>ctrinL-s of tlu- cli-t;ciiei"ati,- A^c; r\[ii\7 sint; 
 his anli.'iit Dc/ircs, thai thcv. as wrll as all his I'rinnis, inij^hl (hi tin- Work ul Life while 
 it la/ts, miiiinliL-iiiiy, that u h</ii a Man dies, ju- shall iinl li\( attain. 
 
 J iiiiu;!!! <-nlari;r in his ("harartc't", Imt that, as he w.is ikjI ,i Sti"aiii,;ri" in iini" I/i'acl, 
 we are imt nii.u (|iiaiiitcil with the (iiaces that shdiir in llini. 
 
 Let not uui' Fi'ieiiils then, that pa/s bv, WMndei", il they behciKI ns tiyhtini;, anil in 
 oiii unnecl l„ini,nt,iti<.n , i yiii-. M\' FATHP:R! MV FATHER' 
 
 lint allhoni^h so tjreat a Fiyhl Ix l.iken fioni ns, tlioui,^!! he is mine, .nul may lie 
 ronilorted with his Pi'e'enee luie no moie, \et let ns follow him in tlu-/e \\'a\s of i'iety, 
 that at 1,1/ t we m.t\" inheiit the I'romi/is tooethei' with llim : Th.it so, althoiit^h we may 
 not hope lor his I'le/ence with us hei'e am' mote, \'et when we ha\'e done oui- Work 
 in this \\^.lllcl. ue ma\' ^i) and li\c' with him in our tjood Ma/ter's ['re/cnce : where ari' 
 I'lihie/sol |o\', .nid l'lea/ui"es lor e\ i-iiiioi e. 
 
 I wiinld now liei,; I,ea\e to eonehide this l)i/(oui7i' with a VVoid ot ("on/olation 
 and 1 lii"ei tiim to the liereaved Widow ,md Children monniinu; loi the l.o/sof ^nch a 
 I'liend ; 
 
 I. To Ih. Wnlou : 
 
 M.\l )AM, We are sen/il.le that the Hand of COD h.ilh tourheil \nu: 
 ,ind uoinlei not, il Noll ,ire pouring lan \'onr He.irt with Te.irs helore the 1-ace ol the 
 FORI): Foi \'on h,i\ (■ lo/ t ,t i^ood ,iinl ,i plea/ant hTieiid, Ndur < luide, \'onr Comlorter 
 ,ind ^'onr < doi'\' in this Woild. We .Ml ha\ e re,i/on with .ilfected He.irts to lament the 
 lo/s ol Stic h ,1 I'lll.ii in (lui l'>nildin;4 ; lint \'onr I,o/s is in some Re/peits i^reati-i' th,ni 
 others: \ (iiir Sta\', \<inr intim,il( ("ompanion, N'onr Head, ,nid so ple,i/anl ,i I'art ol 
 \-oui7elf liein',4 ili\idi'd from yn\[. lint \'<-t con/ider. He is L^one to inherit the Pronii/cs: 
 is cli/ mi/sed li"iini dn- I'r.iwul ,iiid Sorr<i\\s ol the World lidore \-on ; Not let \'onr 
 Heait lieo\ermiieh troubled : for the Time is short; Wait and sufter, strix'e .uid be 
 faithful .1 little loiimi, anil von will be ,ii|mitteil to dwell with him .\L;ain. 
 
 .\nil let the He,irt-ea / in^ ( 'mi / ii leiMiii m. In- mnrh with \' on |- Soul. ( i( )1 ) h,is done 
 it, e\en your own l'i()|) .ind Cii\en,uil h.uher, who doth e\ei"\' Idling wi/ely and well, 
 who means w ell. when he eh.i/ lens his (diildreii and b\- such ] >i /pen/ at ions .is seem lie/ t 
 to his niieriiii!^ Wi'dom, tr.iins uji his CdiiMren lor the enjoNnient of F^lternal .Merev. 
 
 .\nd altlio' \ nu are now thus bei"ea\ed, yet whiF' you are liLiiioanini,; ycuir Allliction 
 and .Mi/ei\-, reral al/o tn \iiui Mind the FORH's Merries ; .mil for^^el not to i^ixe 
 'Idi, inks unto ( it )1 ) lor ih.U ("onilort \oii lia\ (.■ h.id in him; .mil that ^'oll h.i\e been 
 idloued so loni; to rejoice in his Fight .mil I're/ence 
 
 And tlm' \ou weip, let it be in .Me.i/ures; IF- not o\ernuich dejeited as though all 
 was gone .iiiil \ nu enlireh' lor/aken, lint rememlier, tho' ^'llllr Husband is gone, \'oni 
 G()l) li\es. ( )h then' retire to llim . put ^•oul l"rn/l in llim, ea/t ^'our Burden upon 
 Him, ()h, li\e upon him, ,ind comloit \'oni sell m him; He is a good Friend in 
 Ad\er/il\', .mil ;i sweet Portion in .i s.nl ddme. 
 
 When CriMlures tail, ( it d ) can sn/tain .md support thr .Soul' l-,\-eii an alHicted 
 Siiiil, ih.il li\ es iipiiii < i( )1 ) ,ind h.ith ("ommiinion w illi Him. m,i\- sa\' .is, Psal. XCI. 2. 
 He is my Refuge, .mil iiu' lortn/s; .M \ li()|), in Hini will I tru/t .Siiih lind ("i()U's 
 Foving Kindne/sto be e.\i ellent. swi'et and relre/hing; .And while otln-rs are weejiing, 
 piniiii^ .mil bemoaning ihein /(.■Fes i 'Xer their In oken ("i/teriis th;il can hold no Water, 
 the / 1- lind that w illi ( '.( )}) is the h oiint.iin ol li\ ing W.iteis. ( )h then, let \'iiur .AftHction 
 lead \aiu ti ■ take up your .Xbodi iiinlei the Slridnw ol the .\F.M H "ill FW ;iiid seek for 
 your 1-le M in the l-",i\'oni ol ( ', ( l| ) ; sn will the F( )R 1 ) command his lii\ imj Kindne/s in 
 
Al'TRNDIX. l.Sy 
 
 the l)a\- 'rime lor you, and in the Niylit, in Uilu-iui/c sad. solilaiw Milam Imlly lldiirs, 
 his Soni^s and his I'le/ence shall \iv with \(ui : sn that in tho/c sulitaiN- Ilouis, that with 
 a tijoomy hui- pre/fnt thi_-ni / t-K cs lirldic ycju, \'ou will ncil In- alniii-, Kcrau/c (iOl) ihe 
 Conifiirtrr will lie uitli Wiu. 
 
 And nuw I turn iii\-/(df 
 
 2. To tlie bereaved Children: 
 
 \ c)ur Father is taken trimi ^'^n : Inil \'i)ur Fathei's ("i()I) hath ;_;rai ion/ ly 
 incoiiianeil the F*atherle/s to ]iut tlu-ir I'rii/i in lliiii, who is the Father ol the i-'alher- 
 le/s : Unto (".()!) then, as a heaveiih' halln i, a|i[il\ ^-oitr seh'es ; seenre an intere/t in 
 his Fa\ciur lV Lo\e. 
 
 And as \'our decea/ed Parent was earne/ t and solicitous to procme Spiritual Ble/s- 
 ings. Co\enant aind F\-erla/ting Mercies for ^'ou, seek earne/ tlv unto (iOJ) lor tjieni, 
 the more incouia^ed and Fxcited li\ this, that N'mi ha\e so inan\- of his I'lavers and 
 Petitions laid up lor \'ou in Hea\en, 
 
 With <i()I) the f-'atherle/s find Merev : (J seek lliui then with Xnuv whole Hearts; 
 re/ign up \iiur seh es unt<:i his Can-, and ejioo/e vonr Portion in Him. 
 
 .\nil let the K.xample, Coun/els i.\; Cautions ol \ out derea/ed Paicnt .iliidi' with 
 \'iin; liv them, th(.)Ui;h lie is gone, he \et speaks. hUllow him wherein he hillowetl 
 Chri/t. I^aliour to inherit his \erlures iS: (jraces. He has recommended W'i/dom and 
 Piet\' to \n\\ as the Ije/t Thing, and after long Experience h;is gi\en his Te/ tiinonw 
 that the ("il)l), he ser\ed, is a tjooil and I^aithful (lOD ; Clea\ e unto Him then, and 
 Exalt Him all \-uur Da vs. 
 
 T( ) conclude, May \'our Fatlnr's ("i()l) own \ ou in the e\erla/ting Co\enaiU. and 
 ]ead \'ou in the Paths of Peace; prepare ^'ou f' jr ,uid a/si/t vou in <tll lh.it He shall rail 
 \-ou into in the Worhi ; and hnallv giant unto \uu. to sit dow n with Ahr.diam. 1 / .ia( ,md 
 [acoli. ^ (uii I'.ithei .md (Jther ( "lood Men in the Kingdom ot ('dorw A^^*,N. 
 
 12 B Ancestry of Hannah (Willard' Meigs. 
 
 WII.I.AkI). 
 
 Geor.ne, I'l. inter, .Scituate, look oath of alle;-;iaiH:e i Feb. 1(138. In 1 oiirt i liine, 1(141. (h. 
 Deborali ami lianiel bapt. Se|)t. 14, 164,5, loslni bapt. No\ . 2, 1645. (Second (."hh. Kei .1 
 
 Siniiin. (/anibiidge, Pro|)r. 1634. Rem. to Conicinl. .Sergeant; appointeil tu exeiaise the 
 nhlitar\ company 13 (M 1(136. iW.) "A Kentish s(i|ilier; " l].) Was either deputy or .\ssistaut 
 t<ii" aliont fortv vears Major. Had .1 p.iteiit, with asso( iates. in 1(141, tor tr.idint; uithtlie Imlians 
 and colleclm.i; tribute, I rum them. ( 1.. 1 Rem. to Lam aster. Si l; nature in iiu . 1 1| I Imnias .\t kin- 
 son in 1646. .\ man of unusual eiier,s;y, s.i<;ai it\ and ehaiactci. He m. M.iry, sister ul ke\. 
 Henry Dunster, ip \. Ch. [Mary. (in. F'^hiia Kdmniuls.l Elizabeth, 1111. Robert I'.locid.i Josiah, 
 .Sanniel,] Simon, b. 31 (i i) 1639, Sarah, b. 24 (51 or 27 14) 1642, |ni. Natliaiuel Ilow.ird.j Above- 
 hope b. 30(8) 1646. d. at Lane. 1 'ec. 23, 1663, .Simon h. 23 (9) 1649, Mary b. 7 (7) 1653, [m. Cypiiau 
 .Stevens,! Henry b. 4 luiie, 1655, John b, 30 |une, 1(1.57. 1 'aniel li. 26 Lee. 1658, b)se|ili b, at Lam . 
 4(11)1660, I'.eniamin, LLinnali b. 6 (8) 1666, (m. Capt. Thomas Briutuall,) Jon.ithan li. 1 )ee. 14, 
 1669. 
 
 He was hiir. 27 (2) 1676. (S.I Inv. of his est. tiled 6(11 1676-7, by .\Ls. Will.ird. She 
 petitioned the (^ ourt in 1681, (having ineantime married |ose|ili N(i\'es,) lor liirther settlement ol 
 the estate, es]iecially as to lands due him Ironi the liidi.ms. lor the benefit of the si\ yiainger 
 children, some of whom were "very voung." 
 
I go 
 
 Ml K 
 
 ( ■i', \ !■ \ I 
 
 'I'Ik- W'lll.ii (I n If in on slates tli.il .il HnrstiiKHult-n. Kt-nt, I-'.iii;. , tlit re li\ r<l a ku hard Wlllard, 
 wiui hail son Sinicin bapl. .sA|>ril, 1605, and ('icoiLie liapt. .j I)fC., 1614, to whom ht made lit(|. 
 in his will, dated 12 Kel)., iliiii, |H oli. g Man.h IoIl;. It is lie]ie\ ed that these are the aliov e nien- 
 tioneil pioneers. (I'ioneers ol Massai liiisetls, p. |<ih.| 
 
 MaKH-I SiMiiN W'll.l.AkU. 
 
 I 
 h isi All W 11 I Al; |i 
 
 Hannah W'li.i aki 
 
 Hannah Hosmhk. 
 Cai'T. Janna Mkk; 
 
 Major Simon VVillaid, h, 1605, d. 17I17, lonnder ol CoiKord, Mass. Deptity to the Cieti'l 
 Conrt 1636 to 1654; i.o\einors As.s'l 1*154 to 16711; Conimander-in-Cliief of the E.xpedition of 
 tlie I'nited Colonies ai;ainst Ninij;rel 1755; led the reliel at the Battle ol llrooklield ; Com- 
 manded llie .Middlesex, Mass. Resj't in Kini; I'liilliii's War. 
 
 No 13. EBENEZBR MEIQS. 
 
 In \ariuiis ifiord.s sent iis are alnmst as main' datt-s i^uen u[ Kl)i'iHzi.a"'s i.leath, l)iit 
 as tlu-\' aie all sc\(.-ral \ears siibse(|ii(-'iU tn dale ul his fatlni s \\ ill t^niiT.^ |ir(ipert\' to his 
 laiiiilw .iiid nfei iiiii.; to Mercy as a uiduw, \\c imist ((iin hide lluin In Ik.- ern.irs. In a 
 lettrr written b\ 1 444 1 Ca]it. ("jidecm .Miius, tn his half tirnihci and coiisin, (433 1 Dr. 
 William. iiip\' <il whu h we ha\e. 1 n 1 urs a senteairi- : " I su|)|jnst- all tin- Meijjses came 
 fnnii Manh.i ami her three suns. The husband of Martha Meiys wa.s lost on the voyage 
 from Scotland tn Hoston." 
 
 This is piiibable traditinn nf i 131 Ebenezer, and if he met death at sea, it would be 
 a re.ison \\h\ no txait date nl death w.ts recorded, 
 
 Marcy was a frequent ])ronunciatinii nf Mere)', ,uk1 111 this «,iv the name .Martha 
 mi'dit ha\e I'rnwn out nf Mercv. 
 
AlMMMll\. igj 
 
 No. 16. MINDWELl. MEIGS 
 
 Wlu'ii .SamiR'l C'ruttenck-n manicd .Miiulwcll MriL;s. In- |iiis^rs^LMl tlic siilid nak 
 clifsl illustratL-il herewith. This cliest was nuiud l)\thi' Mrit;s lamil\' ut u iiicji 1^4:;) 
 Henry Josiah was a descendant, for se\eral generations, niitil alimn lunr \rars aijo, 
 when, after his death, it passed mil nl tlic Meiys ownersliip. 
 
 No. 17. SARAH MEIQS. 
 
 .Sarah, \<inni;est (huighter of I S ) Deacon |i ihii .Meii^s Jnd, is ikjI iccoidcii 111 ( ,uil- 
 ford Town Kci-nrtis, with the rest of his cliildreii, hut is |ilaced licrc mi the ixiih-nce of 
 her lather's win. Aside from the fact ih.il llicri' is .if>uiiilanl [ironf ihal I\\m 1 fiihh-en 
 were IriHiuently L;i\en the same name in a laiiiih , there is strong; reason lo think that as 
 the elder Sar.ili dic-d in ihSS, it would lie natural that a ihild horn after Minduell should 
 be nanieil fur ihe lost sister: Ijut whichever \\a\ we take it. the fact remains thai the 
 second .Sarah was ,ili\e at makiiii^ ol her father's will. 
 
 An honest iii.iii is tlu' ntil-lfst wnrlc nfCud. 
 
 - /■„/<, 
 
 No. 25. LIEUT. JANNA MEIGS. 
 
 In a liistory of .Adtlison C"onnt\', \'t.. |iiililished in iN.so, at Syracuse, .\. N'. and 
 eflited li\' H. !'. .Smith, Jaiina i\fei.!.;s is relerred lo as Lieutenant, the tide which is ,ilso 
 on his yrax'cstone in Salisbur\-, Conn., .is llie ilhistratiim in iiis ^ene.iloi^ic.il record, 
 paije 2(1, shows. 
 
 ( )ii |i.i,L;e _y^,4 iif the .Vddismi ("ouiity historw it is st.iled that in the Charter fur Mid- 
 dlebiirx', \ 1., dated Xo\-. ;, 1701, the ii.iine of l.ieiil. |.iiiiia Meiys is i^iveii, and mi |i. J4 j, 
 in a list of hits granted by ("iO\'. l-ienniin,; Weill wmtli, of Xew IIani|ishiie, Lot (>;, is set 
 down to [jeut. (anil. I .Melius. .As tin hitler w.is buried in Salisbiirv, Conn., he pinbably 
 was iKit one of the actual settlers, liut both X.ith.miel and |.inna, his sons, wire knuwn 
 to ha\e li\cd in that \icinity, .iiid possilil\- setded that identical hit. 'I'lie first settlers of 
 lioth .Addisiiii and Chittenden Cminties were (|uite i;'i'ni.-rall\ frmii S.ihsliui\-. Cmiii. 
 
 An ai'|ili' rIeU in twn is nnl ni.M . lu in 
 Than llns.- two . icituirs 
 
 Nos. 31 & 32 SUBMIT AND SILENCE MEIGS, 
 
 Twin daiiyhters of ( 12! Capl.tin |, 11111,1 ,Meii,;s. ddie ri-m.irk.ible names t;i\'eii these 
 twins ha\e matle them somewh.it lammis in the l.imilw bihn l'iirts\ili Meigs, .M. \).. in 
 a memoir of his father, I. )r. Charles 1). .Mei^s, read before the Cnlleye uf Physicians of 
 rhil.idilphia, Nox'emlier dth, \'^'2, speakiiii^ of thesi' now lamous twins, ,ind the p.itieiict' 
 aiul submissi\eness of our ancestors to the- decrees oi Prii\idence, referred to them in this 
 wise: "Among nine children born tn my gr.indfathei, he li.id twins born to liiiii mi the 
 5th day of January, 171 i, and hi' luuned them Silence and .Submit. Tin- slor\- goes th.it 
 •on the announcement of tile .irrixal of the first, to check the rejoicing of the fainih', he 
 said ' Silence,' and on that ol the second, moved by his patient spirit, he said ' ,Submit.' 
 The twins were afterwards giyen these names," I'or illustration of their gra\'estone. 
 see |iage Id. 
 
iy2 
 
 M I- i(,s ('Il■:^•I•.Al.cll.^■. 
 
 C'lunl Ilk' Ity \ nines , these wHl last 
 When life's lame, foiled, raee is o'er; 
 
 Ami these, when earthly joys are past, 
 Shall cheer lis on a brighter shore. 
 
 — Ailiniyiiiotis 
 
 No. ,W. TinOTHY MEIOS. 
 
 I )ea. Timntln- Melius, cine "f the most prdiiiintjnt rcsi<k-iUs of East (".iiilfoi d, was 
 1.1, rn then- Sf|)tenibcr nj, i 7 i ;,. and was i-radtiatetl at \a\q in 1732. He pursued no 
 lii-ofession, but settled in his nati\e lnwn, where he died of an epidemie dysentery on 
 September 14, 1751, haviii- liei-n taken sick while attending; divine worship. 
 
 From a " Lamentation " of fiftv verses, written by some nnkiniwn bard, the follow- 
 ing; slan/.as are taken ; 
 
 IV rmil .it last, lleatli seised fast 
 I liir iiiiii li lanieiiteil ileaiiMi. 
 W'licise sickness strolls; first seis'il iipmi 
 Him, when he was at Meetint;. 
 
 15. Till this ilark hour, tliis iii.in (itpia\er 
 ,s;toiul liv in our ilistress, 
 Keaily to run to e\"ery one, 
 When sickness did oppress. 
 
 17. W'liiii we unto God's house did .uo 
 I'll tr\ the force of prayer, 
 In that dark hoiu', in which no power 
 Hilt God's could help and spare ; 
 
 rS. Tins lii\'l\' man, u illi speed he cauie 
 Anil ■n:<sl the tew to pr.iy, 
 Willi were nol yet liy the arrows hit 
 rii.it IliAV In iii-ln anil day. 
 
 ly. .\h ' liou he pray'il, how he plead 
 Ami pour out all his sold ! 
 Ills te.irs did run, thev trickled ilowii 
 And on his 1 heeks ilid roll. i 
 
 26. I'"ur Inm we ,ill did justh' call 
 (liir Isr.iel's sweet singer. 
 And each that heard him sing ,ind re. id 
 .Admired the clu uister. 
 
 B.'ianKatM&iSttA^jglii 
 
 The sermon is next describeti. 
 
 32. He spoke, and then ,111 .irrow keen. 
 
 Shot from the ;\lmii;hty's bow, 
 Strikes to his lie.irt, he feels the smart, 
 .\nd bows and home doth t;o. 
 
 33. In six days' lime, he did resign 
 
 Ihito the late of death. 
 We stood around, in tears were ilrowued. 
 While he resigned his breath. 
 
 35. A heavy stroke that Iniin us took 
 This good and useful man ! 
 How deep the wound, how s.nl the sound, 
 'The lovely Meigs is gone ! 
 
 
 Mire. 38, 
 
 
 ^ 
 
Ai'i'i-Niiix. ic)3 
 
 No. 40. BERIAH HEIOS. 
 
 Beiit-alh tin- rarvid record of Sik-nci- and Sulnnit Mei^s on their gravestone in (Jld 
 Hammonassett Cemetery i see illustration p. i6i is all we know of Heriah, son of Ebe- 
 nezer, but we have recorded him among his (Ebenezer'si children. Deacon John Meigs' 
 will dated May ;,oth. 171 2. refers to only the five children, so that Beriah must have 
 died about the time that Capt. Janiia's twins did. Jan. 171 J. and presumablv was buried 
 in same graxe. 
 
 B\ tiieilHUK life in.iy lif ;>r<iioiim.Mi, 
 Vft lie. nil will SL-i/f tlie DorKir loo. 
 
 No. 41. DR. JOHN HEIOS 5th. 
 
 l^r. John Meigs was contemporary with 1 )r. Uellamy. He was a man of good 
 reputation, skillful in his profession and fa\ ored with a general practice. In his will he 
 gave his medical and surgical books to his son .Abner. C'othren's Woodbury — 3.'^^. 
 
 John .Meigs went from Guilfonl to Woodbury ( hJethlehem 1 October 24, 173.'^, and 
 bought seventy acres of land, which became his homeste.id, on the East side of Bethle- 
 hem ( Woodbury ). .See \'ol. (\ [) I). His brothers W.iitstill and Asabel went later to 
 the same place. John deeded them land .M.iy u, 1747. He took out administration on 
 their estate as the only heir January ist, I75i)-5i. R. 1 ). Smyth notes. 
 
 No. Al. HANNAH flEIGS. 
 
 .. 
 
 Hannah, daughter of IJeut. Janna Meigs, married October J5, 1749. Ejfenezer 
 Chittenden, who was born at East Guilford, Sept. 11, 162(1, died May 11. 1812; settled 
 in New Haven. Possessing great mechanical genius, he invented among other curious 
 machines, one for binding and cutting card teeth in a single movement, but it is said 
 some unscrupulous person obtained knowledge of this invention and patented it in 
 England as his own. 
 
 Eli Whitney had an excellent opinion of Mr. Chittenden's skill anci judgment as a 
 mechanic. 
 
 All Uiat I .1111, 01 he. pi; 111 l.u, 1 iiui- lo nn iiicitlu-r. 
 
 — A. Liiuohi. 
 
 No. 63. ELIZABETH (MEIQSi CHITTENDEN. 
 
 Elizabeth Meigs, daughter of ( 25 ) Lieut. Janna Meigs, of Salisbury, Conn., was a 
 lady trained in the old school. She was plain, simple and kindly in manner and ways 
 of living. Her dignitv being that of moral and intellectual rectitude entirely, not of 
 affectation : of congenial education and haljits and a heart overflowing with kindness 
 
194 MllL-^ ( il'.Nl'AI.I H,\ . 
 
 and L^diid luiiiKH. 1 Ihihii)|i her uliole lile, c\cn while hrr hnsl),iiiil licld llu- niii>l di>;- 
 niticd and n-,s|i( msililc iiffici- in the St.Uc, she paid liul liltic rc^.ird lo distinciicins of 
 wealtli or caste, and treated all as entitled to tile same ritjlits and attentions. Indeed 
 she was a fittint; Mother for deniocratie X'ermont. There is a storv told of a \isit of 
 sonn- highdiorn dann-s fioni .-Mliaiiv tu the Chief Mxeciiti\'e's honie at Arlington that 
 gi\a-s a gliiii|)se of the L;enuine deniociacy of those days in V'ernioiit. W'iien the hour 
 for dinner arri\'ed she went out to the jjiazza and blew the horn for the men at work in 
 the fields. " 1 U< von ha\e your ser\ants eat at the same table with \'ou .^ " in(|uired the 
 visitors, doubtless with sonn- elevation of noses. " \'es," re|ilied Mrs. Chittenden, "but 
 I have been tellint;- the ( "loxernoi that we ouoht not to, that tliey ha\e to work so much 
 hardei' that thev ounhl to eat first." ni. Ihomas Chittenden, ()ct., 1741), a man of roliust 
 constitution ancf strong; mind. Thomas Chiltindeii was b. fan. 6, 1730, at Ciuilford, 
 Conn. At aot' c)f Ji he removed to .S.disburv 1 1751 i then in its first settlement, where 
 he |iros])ered in bnsmess and was a picimmrnl m.m m the communit\', holilini^ im|Hirt.int 
 ci\il ,ind military oflices. 
 
 In I 77,1 he retiioN'ed to the New 1 I .impshire >;rants. now the .State ol X'einiont. f lere 
 he purchased a hu\;e tract ol l.nid nn the ( )nion Ri\'er, which tcMjk the naim- of Willis- 
 ton, and be,L;an there a settlement with bnlli.uit prospects until the war of the Revolu- 
 tion, when he was driven from his home to a place less e\|)Osed to the enemy. He was 
 a leading; man in the measures t.iken Icj torm a separate' yoxernminl for the .State of 
 X'ermont, and in 177^ was chosen its first (io\ernoi-, whi( h office he held with the excep- 
 tion of (jne year, until his death, to March. 17^7. In the Green Mountain .State 
 he is reck(jned as the Cieor>;e W'ashint^ton of X'ermont. i"he\' had ten children — 
 the most of thesi.- were im|)ortant people and the descendants of this marriage ha\'e 
 been distin5.;uished in l.iw. literature and g;overnment to this dav. The late Lucius K. 
 Chittend<-n, a di-sc t-ndant, was Registrar of the TicasuiN' durnii.; th.it imporl.iiU peiiod. 
 the administration oi Abr.iham Lincoln. 
 
 ( )f these ten children ; 
 
 .XLuy, m. bmas Cialusha, b. ,il Noiwiih, Conn l*'eb 11. 1753; settled .it .Shaftsburv, 
 X't., in 17J5 ; was a captain oi one oi the two militia companies of that town, ccjiiinuinded 
 them both at the battle of Hennintjion, .iiid saw mucli active service from 1777 to ',Sm. 
 His first political ottice w,is that of Sheriff ot lienmnt;ton County, Irom 17S1 to 17^7; 
 was St.ite CoiiiK ilor Irom 1793 to i7c)S, inclusi\e, and again from i.Si'i tcj i.Sii5,,ind 
 Judye (il the Count\' Court in 1705. <>, '7, and aij;ain in iScio to iSd), inclusi\c. In 
 I .Sd.S he was elected Ciuxernor. and re-eiecti'd in i.Sici, '1 i .mil 'i;, and a^ain to the 
 same ottice 1S15, Mi, '17, iH, and 'id, ii total serxice of nine years. Thex' had fi\e st)ns 
 and four d,iui_;hlers. Elon became an eminent Baptist Clerg^yman. 
 
 Hannah m. <'ol. Isaac Chirk, a \tter.in oi tlie Revolution, who in the w,ii" ot 1 .S 1 J 
 made a brilliant dasli with a number ol his Re_L;imeiil on a Hritish post ,it .St. Armand ; 
 with lull riflemen he surprised the eiiemx. killed o. wimnded 14 and took nn prisoners, 
 in an ent;aL;emeiil th.it Listed oiiK- ten minutes. This ex|)edition t;a\'e liim the title of 
 " ( )ld Rifii- " wliich solM'iquet sta\ed by him durint; his life time. In XLirch, 1.S14 with 
 i.MKi Green XL)untain bovs lie took possession of the frontier irom L.ike Cliani[)lain to 
 Connecticut, estalilishini,; his he.idc |ii.ii"lei"s ,it Missiscpioi Haw 
 
 lieiilali m. Col. XLittluwv L\on. b. in W'icklow, h'ehind, .ibout 1 74('i, came to this 
 country a poor bo\- b\' indenture for his passaiw;e monev. .Alter st-r\ Iiiil; a few months 
 his appi inticeslii|) indenture was tiansferrt-d for a voke of oxen, and his favorite' oath in 
 later vears was. " ]'<\ the bulls that bmu^ht me ' " He held a Lieuteii.mt's commission 
 
Ai'ri';Niiix. ii)S 
 
 uiuler Caj)!. Fassett in the War cif the R(.'\-(>hui(in in 177I). In 1777 he was appointed 
 pay master l)y Gen. SchuN'ler. After tire liattle of Henninijton, we find him in Arlinj^tcn 
 a laborer on the farm of Gov. Chittenden, who obsers'ing his worth, made him his Sec- 
 retary and clerk of Court of Confiscation until 17S0. He representctl Arlington in the 
 State Legislature from 1774 to i7.Sj:was one of the original grantees of Fair Haven, 
 \'ermont, where he erected an iron mill in 17S5, and a paper mill soon after. In I7,S6 
 he was Assistant Judge of the County t'ourt, and was elected to Congress in Augu.st, 
 1791. In ct)ntesting for the same ottice in 1705, his town (if l-'air Ha\en, which cast 
 376 votes, cast 355 for him. About this time he removetl to Kentucky, and established 
 the first printing office in that State, at what is now known as Eddyville, and here again 
 he was elected to Congress in 1S114, and served until iSin. In i.S20we find him in 
 .Arkansas, and chosen that year the first delegate to Congress, but he died at Little 
 Rock, August ist, i,S2o, without taking his seat. 
 
 Martin Chittenden, a son of this marriage, was in e\'er\' wav an able and distinguished 
 man in the early yeai's of the Green Mountain State, and was its sixth Governor ; was in 
 public life thirty years, as judge, congressman, legislator and governor. 
 
 Col. Giles Chittenden, another son, was an important man in the earlv historv of 
 \'ermont. 
 
 J 1 >L-Iaiilact; .isked nic t>y wli.il .iiiUimiiI\ 1 cIl-iiuiiiiIl-'I it. Ami 1 .iiiswcix-i-i him 
 
 " III tlK_- name of tlic (^.reat Jflu'vali and the Continental Ctinsless." 
 
 — Ethan Allen at Tico>nleroij:a. 
 
 No. 81. CAPTAIN JEHIEL MEIGS. JR. 
 
 Earlv ill the struggle for the indejieinleiice of the .American Colonies, [ehiel .Meigs 
 cast in his fortune with the patriotic cause, fiir he is recorded as having served in 
 April, 1775, as Fnsign in a Company that marched from Connecticut in the Lexington 
 .Alarm. 
 
 On the first call for troops bv the Legislature of Connecticut, General VV'ooster 
 raisetl the P'irst Regiment of Infantrv, in April and May, 1775. This was recruited 
 in New Haven County, ami fehiel Meigs, Jr., ajipears on its list of otticers. The 
 Regiment marched at rec]uest of the New York Provincial Authorities and the Con- 
 tinental Congress, to New York in the latter ])art of Jmie, and encamped at Haarlem. 
 pait being tletailetl for duty on Long Island tiuring the summer. About .Se])temlier 
 jSth, they marchetl under orders from Congress, to the Northern Department (General 
 Schuyler's) and took part in the o])erations along Lake George ami Lake Champlain, 
 and stationed in ]iart at Montreal. Ha\ing been aclojited as Continental, they were 
 eligible for general ser\'ice. Much sickness ]irevailed in the camp, and the ranks of the 
 army being j^robabh- greatly dejileted, Gen'I Wooster, in October and November, 
 organized a pni\-isional regiment from the xaricius other regiments, for ser\ice until 
 the Spring of '70, in (^mada, ipait of the time liefore <Juebec ', until oper.itions were 
 abandoned in Ma v. 
 
 Fdllowing this. Col. .Swift's Connecticut State Battalion was raised for service from 
 July to No\ember, '7(1, and ha\ing been atlopted as Rei^nlar, ser\ c/d under Gen'I C.ates 
 
lyd 
 
 Mer.s Gem:ai.ii(.n. 
 
 and ])articii3aU-d in the 
 \ictorv t>f Ticoniler- 
 oga. In this Hattahon, 
 ]eh\v\ Nk-i.t;s, jr., is re- 
 idi-iK-d as First Lieut- 
 enant. 
 
 Hut meantime he 
 seems ti.) ha\e lieen 
 promoted to Captain, 
 and assigned to duty 
 in the Sexenth Regi- 
 ment of Infantry. This 
 Regiment was raised 
 in Ct)nnecticut on re- 
 <iuest of the Continen- 
 tal Congress, and stood 
 on the same footing as 
 the other Continent, il 
 Regiments of that 
 vear. It joined Wash- 
 ington's .Army at Xew 
 "N'ork in .\ugust, and 
 was stationed first at 
 i''(irt Lee. .Marihing 
 with the troops to 
 White IMains and sub- 
 sequently into Xew 
 lersev. it tt>ok i>.irt in 
 lh(- battles of Trenton 
 ( Dec. 25, '76 ) and 
 i'riiiceton, ( [an. ,;, '77. ) 
 Ihil possilih- as a re- 
 sult of the earlier 
 h.irdships in Canail.i, 
 and certainly from the 
 suffering and pri\a 
 tions e\|)erienced in 
 the f.ill of '76, Cap- 
 tain Jehiel Meigs fell 
 ill and died in camp 
 Dec. 27, between the 
 VVc_'St Cemetery, at M 
 <nd of the stor\'. 
 
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 dales of the two battles. His gra\estone as it stands in the 
 idison, Conn., is illustrated herewith, and its inscription tells the 
 
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 No 83 SERGEANT DANIEL MEIQS, 
 
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 .Alarm '.773 : a Sergeant in Captain Daniel Hand's di.nf the Seventh Cdiiiiecticut Reii-i- 
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 which he served eiyht iiKuuhs ami twcntv da\'s in 17S1. We illustrate on pa^e 197 a 
 [lav roll of his Co. (Captain Hand's) for September, 1776, on the occasion of the Regi- 
 ment being ])aid oft liv Major Svlvanus Craves, while doing service in the State of New 
 York. 
 
 An examination of the p,iv roll will show nuiiu' of the names connected with the 
 Meigs family, by marriage, and notalily the Hand family, from Refiecca Hand who married 
 (II) l")eacon Jt)hn Meigs, down to Daniel, son of the above Capt. Daniel Hand, who 
 marrieil Artemisia, eldest daughter of (S3) .Sergt. Daniel. Among the twelve children 
 of this latter marriage were Dr. William Meigs Hand and Judge George Edward Hand, 
 also Daniel and Jehiel Meigs Hand, who were prosperous merchants of Augusta Ga., 
 and long associated with the siins of St-rgt. Daniel there. 
 
 To tho.se of Meigs descent among our readers who are also of Hand ancestry it 
 may be of interest to know that cpiite a genealogical record of the Hand family may be 
 found in a Histor\' of .Si)uthampton, N. \',, published by the late George Rogers 
 Howell, Archivist of X. "S'. State Library, at Alban>'. Joseph Hand, the early C,nilford 
 settler, having gone there Irom Southampton. 
 
 83-B. The house illustrated on page 31 was probably built by ( 27 ) Cajit. Jehiel 
 Meigs, as Sergt. Daniel was born in 1747. It remained in the family till about 1S6S, was 
 inherited by Dr. Reynold Webl;> Wilcox of New \'<irk from his gramlmother ( 179 ) 
 Deborah H. 1 Meigs) Webb, and during his minorit\' was sold by his guardian to a Mr. 
 I-ewis, its present possessor. 
 
 Ihey iifcti not gold, nor bronze nor stouf, 
 They at^ roheii in glory all Uieir own : 
 'rhe\' iitxil not spcft h nor lien nor soni^. 
 1-or to tin- a,l;i;s tlu-v lifiong. 
 
 N'et grateful hearts caTinot be still, 
 I'lieir niystii- lords with wonder thrill, 
 At ileeds ai:liieved thningli tioble strife, 
 ro lilt the WOl Id to i;l.lTldrr life. 
 
 No. 90. COLONEL RETURN JONATHAN MEIGS. 
 
 Col, Return (nnathan Meigs, son of ( jm ) Return Meigs was born Dec. 17, 1740. 
 l'"rom his \'Oung inanhoo(l he a])pears to have lieen imbued with a military spirit. We 
 illustrate nn ]iage un) his I^oyal Commissions as Lieutenant and Cajitain ol the Militia 
 before the Revohuionary War. At tin; outbreak of that contest he marched with a 
 company of men to the neighborhood of Boston, and this was the beginning of his 
 militarv career in the struggle of oiu- forefathers for liberty and independence. He 
 soon became Major, Lieut, -Colonel, and then Colonel of the 6th Connecticut fnfantry. 
 Copies of his commissions as Colonel of that Regiment are [jresented in the course of 
 this sketch. This Regiment seems to have attained a considerable re])utation iluring the 
 War of the Revolution, and was knr>wn as the I^eather-cap Regiment. 
 
 The War of the Rc\i>lution being concluded, ("ol. Meigs was iloubtless |ienniless 
 and uithout prospects. He soon rcnioxed to ( )hio, where he played a highly important 
 part in the earlv goxcrnment of that settlement. His nephew the late Judge Henry 
 Meigs, of New ^'ork. gi\es .1 gia|)hic account Irom ljo\-ish niemor\- of his L'ncle setting 
 out on his long and wearisome jotnnc\- through the lorests to the ( )hio country. He says : 
 
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 JONATHyVN TRUMBlJiJ, irq; 
 
 Captain-Cicneral and (Commander in Cliict ot ilis Majclly's 
 Colony oi Connctliiut in Nezis-FjigUnid. 
 
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 "^ TOU being by tbc Gcncral^Aflcmblj; ci[,jt'ii;- Colony, 3g-i'l\t'->l t" t.i . X^/f«..-^ 
 Courage and c;ood Conduct, I do," by Virtue of the Letters Patent (roni ilic Crown ok 
 
 'OU being by tbc General Aflcmblv ol tiiii . , , . . 
 
 Kenoling fptcial !\ riift and ConhJCTiee 111 your Loyalty, 
 
 take 
 
 England to. thi% Corporation, Me thereunto enabling, appoint and iiupnwer you to 
 
 the faid \/ri!^"^r<u^- into your Care and Charge, as their ,Jjru/Ma„C. -^ 
 
 carefully and diligently to diRharge that Truft ; excrcifing your inferior Officers and 
 Je^-/ujJ — in the Ufe of their Arms, according to the Dileiplinc o! VVa 
 
 Keeping rficm in good Order and Government, and commanding them to obey you as 
 
 their ^rt-./^/,w(- for His Majefty's Service. And you are lo obferve all fi,ch 
 
 Orders and Direflions as from Time to Time you fliail receive cither from nu, or fioiu 
 other your fuperior OtHccr, purfuant to the Truft >aeby repolcd in yc^u. Given 
 under mv HantJ and the Seah.f this Colony, in. W.%m - ''^^^ ( ? ' '" ~~" 
 Davof L\/'der ^ m the X'J.'^—' Year of the Rcign cTft)ur SovereijiP 
 
 Lord GtoRCE the Third, KING of Great-Britain, 8cc. Arncquc Den,.-,', ,yZ 
 
 " One aftt'i'iioon Col. Meigs with hi.s son R. J." afterwards to become tlie first (".oxenior 
 of Ohio, "arrived at Stratford from Middletown, and after some refreshiiieiits and 
 adieus, thev monnted their horses, which were hardx- Canadian ponies. 1 ueiil cuil ol 
 doors to them with a |)e\vter mng of Fliji (beer, rum ami sugar heated li\' hot irons) 
 they were in their sadtiles ; they drank it off and said good-bye." 
 
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 Cnptnii'i-Cicncral and Conimanclcr in Chip ofHis 
 Majcll) sColony o^ Conncftii nf xxxA^cw-i'^.ng/and, 
 
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 Kuppfint^ [pfiid Tnift .iiid r.nii(Kli.'ncc in y<»"r Lcv.ilt v, OmragL and gooi CoihIii^,^ I do, 
 b\ Viiiiict'l i!u L< tfir-. r.ititit lr*ini the C-rouii ol" Envlandy to tliis C(>r|)0] iri6n, Me 
 ilu rtniiUi (.naMiiu;, i|ij»iiiit and iinpowtr you to take the f.iid f ,'.■»/■>■'< • ^^--A 
 
 . [<■ \'uiir C.irt .iiid Civirgc, is llujr / ,■- /...', cai:tfiilly am <iiligcntly tiimf;, . 
 
 vli.ii^;u tliit 'I'rufl; txcrciiinp \oiir iBlVrior tifiittis .ind j/v,,-../ , in the ufe of ihcir 
 
 Anns, ntcording m the Dif^iphiK' <'t War: Keeping tljcni in j',<x)d Order and GovurnmiMt, 
 and conmi;ini!in^; tluni to nluv vo\t as ditir { .•.({ci.'-n . t'lr his Majcft ''s Scn'icc. And 
 you arj to obfiTVc nil fiich Orticrs and Uirciilioiis as from Time to Time r'ou lliall receive 
 cither fiorn me, or from other yo\ir fuperior Officer, purfuant to thcTn ft hereby rcpofcd 
 in you. Giviii urfikr niy Hand and Seal of this Colony* in . i/->(,%T^ the /Vr 
 Da) (.[■ ( f/'^ffn-^ in the // '' , Year of the Reign of Our Sovereign Lord Ggobge 
 
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 Cdl. Melius li;i(l ,i|i]ili((l uitliiiul sill r(.-ss fur (iHirc undtT Frcsii-lent Washington, and 
 apparently niidc-r I'rcsidrnI Adams, Imt rcrcixx-d his hrst appointment in the West as 
 Commissioner to the Clierolcee Indians, within a month after the inauguration of Presi- 
 dent Thomas Jefferson, acrom|)anied hv a \'erv kind letter from Secretary Dearborn, 
 who sii>iis liiiiiself, " \' ■ nld friend an<l humble ser\ant." 
 
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 Col. Meigs was with Ceu'l Montgomery in the unfortunate Ouebe< campaign where 
 he was taken iirisomi. It is s.iid upon good authority that he is one of the figures in- 
 troduced b\' Trumbull in his celebrated painting of the death of Gen'I Montgomery. 
 The figure in thai painting representing Col. Meigs, is one in rifie dress as a Major, his 
 left hand open and raised tn the right (the obser\er's left) of the picture. 
 
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 Tlu- fuilluT stcirv uf Cdl. Mfi.t^s' life is hrsl lold in an olulu.irv iiotirc |,iililislii-(l at 
 the tinu' uf iiis death, ft is as fullows : 
 
 Died JS Jan., i.Sj;,, at the Cherokee Aoeney, aycd I.XXili, 
 (rul. Return Jonathan Meitjs, 
 
 I lie fiilldwinj; sketches of his military ser\ice.s are deemed due td his nieiits and 
 character. 
 
 Ciil, Meii,;s was a native <i\ C< ■nnectn nt. 
 Immediately after the b.itlle of l.exini^tnn, 
 which o|)ened the bloody dr.im.i (if the re\olu- 
 tion, he mail lii'il ,a ciimpanx- uf h;;lit infantry, 
 completc']\- unituinied and ei|ui|j[)ed, which he 
 had jireviously organized ,nid disiipjined fur 
 the en\ir(insof Bnstun. He w .is soon appointed 
 Majiir li\- the .State of ( "oimectii nt , .uid uiarched 
 with ("ol. Arniild in his lediuns ,ind suffering; 
 e-\pe<liti( in til ( \uiada. 
 
 In the liiild enterprise nl stuiniin;^ < Uic-liec, 
 he commatided a liattaliun and, alter peiietrat- 
 im; within the walls uf ihe citw was made 
 prisoner tuo,-thei with I'.ipt.iins Murt^an and 
 I)i-aiiiurn, sim e hecome ( ienerals, and well dis- 
 tini^aiished in American hisliir\-. In 17711, 
 Major .Mei^s w.is e.xchaiiticd, .md leturned 
 home. 
 
 In 1777, <",eii. W'ashiiv^tun .ippuintid him 
 Culiinel, with jauthuritv tu raise a lei^imeiu. 
 Col. Meii;s ha\ iiii; raised a part uf his iei;iment. 
 man lied tu Xew Ha\c-n tu r.in"\- inlu e.\ecutiun 
 a jilaii projected fur the snijnis.il and desliiic- 
 tion of a part uf the eiienn' at S.ii,; ll.iilior, uii 
 Lony; Islanil, where larije i|nanlities uf stores 
 and forage hail been cullected for the .\miv .it 
 New \'urk, the ai cuunt ul which is i;i\eii in 
 "Maish, ill's l.ile 111 Washintjton," .is fuUuus; 
 
 "(ieii'l I '.irsuns intrusted tlu' exerntiun uf 
 this |ilan tu Col. Meigs, a very nallant ufticer, 
 who hail .ireumpaiiied .Arnuld in his meinurable 
 ' march tu Ijnrliec, and h.id been taken piisiiner 
 in the misuccessfnl .ittempt made on that place li\' .MuntL;<:imer\'. He emb. irked with 
 ab(mt 2,^0 men uii bu.ud, thirteen whale buats, and |iruri-e(.led alont;- the cu. 1st tu duil- 
 ford, from whence he w.is to cross the Sound. Hen- he was detained smne lime b\' high 
 wind, and a iiiunh sea: but mi the 2p,ri.] uf Mas', aliuut one o'clock in the afteiiiuon, he 
 reembarked 17110I his detachment, and pruceeded under convoy of two armed sloops, 
 across the Sound, tu the North divisiun uf the Island near Southold. 
 
 The East end of l-mit; Island is deeplv intersecteil bv a Bav, on the North sidi- of 
 which had lieen a sm;ill forayinsy party, against which the expeditiun was in part diiected: 
 but they had marched to New York tw'o days beloii'. 
 
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 Thi- lltleKatLS uf tiiu I'liitL-tl Sl.iU-s ul Niw 
 HanipsliiiL'. Massailiusclts-Bay, Rlioiii Isl.iiul, 
 Coniiectii lit, Nc-wS'oik, Nl-\v jerst^y. l'eiins>l- 
 vaiiia, Hclau.uu, .MaTyl.iiiii. \'ili;iilia, Norlli 
 Carulina. Suutli (■.ii ul ni.i ,iimI Ccorgia. Tu 
 Lieutfiianl Culuii.l K i; T U K N JON.ATHAN 
 MEIGS, 
 
 Wi:- reposni},; fspei ial li list ami Coiihdeiii c in 
 your Patiiulisni, Valour, CuiuUut and Ficli'lil\, 
 Do iiy tlu'St.' plusi'iits constiluti-^ and appoint \ou 
 to hu Coloiicl of a Ri-Kinicnt from ttie Slate uf 
 Coniiuctieiil, ill the mom uf CuIuhl-I Witli.im 
 Douglass dr. t-.isiil, ,ind \uii ,iic tu lanl; as Col- 
 onel from llie I \\Lnl\ luili Ih da\ uf Septeiiitier 
 last, that tieing the il,i\ ul yuui promotion by tlie 
 Governor and CouiKil ul llu- said State in llie 
 Army of the tliiiled Stales, raised for the defense 
 of Ameriean I-iht-rty and for repelling every hos- 
 tile Invasion Ihereof, Von are therefore, eare- 
 fully and dilij;ently to diseharo^e the dnt\ of 
 Colonel b> doiiii; and all inamier i.>l Things 
 there- unto helonging- And we du sir ii It y i ha ige 
 and reijuire all Offuers .ind Soldiers under \oui 
 Command, to lie uli.-dieiit tu \uiir uiders .IS Col- 
 onel. 
 
 And you are tu uhserve and follow siieh ( Irdei s 
 and Direetions from 'time to Time, as you sh.ill 
 receive from this or a future Congress i-if the 
 Cnited Stales, or Coinniittee of Congress, for tlial 
 pniiiose appointed, or Commander in Cliief for 
 the Time heinj,; u( III, Army uf the fnited States 
 or aii\ ulhei \uur superior olfuei, ,ii:i iirding to 
 the Rules and Diseipline ul Wai in I'm snaiice of 
 the 'rrust rejiosed ill \ii\\. I liis Commission to 
 continue in Force until ii\uked lo this ur .i 
 future Congress. 
 
 Dated the Iwilfth d.iy ul .Xii-usl, 177S Iseyelity- 
 ei.«hll. H\ llidei uf the C, ingress 
 
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 ClI-AS, TiluMSON, Se« '\ . 
 
 IlKNky 1.ACKKNS. President. 
 
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 I lia\ r I CLui\'cd \Olll li-lh I <-l I ills 'i.lte, 
 ami am cxceLdmnly son y thai any t:vriil shuiilil 
 cui.iii to r<_'(|uirc you to bL-ahseiit from tlie Army. 
 I am coii\ inri'il thai tliosi- on whii h \ on liave 
 louiiiicil \oiii rL-tjiR'-'l art- of a iK-lhaU' ami 111- 
 tinstill'.; nalilic. or tlial voii hmiiI'I lo.l lia\c 
 
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 liiiiil llu' il.i\- ol \oui itliirn I .1111 pel sii.ukal 
 Ih.il ll « ill lu- ,is iooii .IS , ii,:iiiii-.l.iii. .s u ill ail- 
 1111 1, ami I ha\c- o!il\ lo mhl nn « ishi's tli.il \on 
 may (iml thosr to \k mi, Ii .is to iiislilv it iiiuii. 
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 To Col ci. MH..S, 
 
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 niiiwil Irimi .Sa- llarlinr, uliirli lies in |C 
 llic ilixi^ii in ill the IslantI, .ind lliat a sni.ill 
 >;ii.tril slill ii-niaiiR-tl thcrr Idr tlu-ir tie- I 
 fcnrr. Tile linats were iniiiK-tl Kitcl)' i(in- ! 
 \'f\ (d across the- lam 1. .i ilistamc nf aluuil 
 tiflii n mills, inhi llir l'ia\'. ulurc tin- 
 In M i|)s fr-cmliarki'il, ami i rcissini; tlie I'l.iw 
 laii'liil williin fiiiii' mill's ol S.il; llarlinr, 
 at Iwi) (I'lldik in till.' niiirnint; ; which 
 plai c they i cimi)l('ti-l\ suipriscd. am! cai - 
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 At tile sanu- time a divis- 
 ion ol the iletachnu'iit sccurcil 
 the annetl schooner and the 
 vessels with the forage which 
 had been Cdllectetl forthesup- 
 ]il\- iif tiie Arniv at New ^'ork. 
 I'hese brios and sloops, 
 twehi.' in niiiiiber. were set 
 on fire and (.'iitireh' ronsnnied. 
 Six (if the tnemv were killed 
 and ninet\- of theni taken pris- 
 oners ; a \ ery few escajied 
 under cover (jf the night. 
 
 C(_)l. Meigs returned to 
 Guilford with his prisoners ; 
 having thus completely effect- 
 ed the object of the expedi- 
 tion without the loss of a sin- 
 gle man, and ha\ing mined 
 with such unconimiin celeritv 
 as to have transported his men 
 by land and water ninety miles 
 in tw(nty-fi\e hours. 
 
 " As a mark of their ap- 
 proljation (if his conduct. Con- 
 gress directed a sword to lie 
 presented to hnn and passed 
 resolution expressi\e of their 
 high sense entertained of his 
 merit, and (if the iirudeiice, 
 acti\ity and valdur dis]ilayed 
 
 by himself and his partv in the expedition." i The sword just r(,ferred t(.i as |iresented 
 l:iy Congress, is now the property of Return Jdiiathan Meigs 4th, Washington, 1). C. ) 
 
 In i77<j Col. .Meigs commanded one oi the regiments which stormed and carried 
 .Ston>' Point, under (len'l Wayne. 
 
 He was one of the first settlers of the Wilderness, which has since become the .State 
 of Ohio, having landed at the confluence of the Ohio and Muskingum rivers, with the 
 earliest emigrants. 
 
 A government for the Northwestern Territory had been prepared I))- an ordinance of 
 the Congress of 1786. Governor St. Clair and the judges of the territory had not 
 arrived. The emigrants were without civil laws or ci\il authority. Col. Meigs drew up 
 a concise .System of Regulations, which were agreed to bv the emigrants as the rule of 
 conduct and preservation, until the proper authorities should arrixe. 
 
 To give these regulations publicity, a large oak standing near the confluence ot the 
 rivers, was selected from which the bark was cut off, of suHicient space to attach the 
 sheet, on which the regulations were written, and they wert' l.ieneficially adhered to until 
 the civil authorities arrived. 
 
 /itt f>tA^ .*fittt/iA 
 
204 
 
 Mi-i(.^ ( il■:M■;AL(".^■. 
 
 S/iiii: of Ti-nnr.^ifi- ami Hit' C'lwi oA'^r SWitiini . I 
 Thomas Jkffkkson I'lt-si^lciit ol tin- Utiitci 
 
 St:itcs ot Atiu-i II a. 
 To all whu shall sci' llii.se lUL-stiils, ( ll et-tiiiK : 
 
 Klinw \u'. That III conrorniit\ t<i the Ait ■'! 
 CoTisiess passed on the ,u<l da\ oT Maieli, 1794, 
 entitled "An aet to re^idate trade and Intel- 
 LOUlse with the Indian Tribes, and to preserve 
 peace on the finntlers " and reposing; special 
 Trust and Lontidencc in the ititeixrit\ and Dis- 
 cretion of K KTt'KN ION A THAN MklCS, now 
 Agent of the liiited Stales with the Cherokee 
 nation ot Indians. 1 ha\e nominated and h\ and 
 with the advice and cnisent ot the Senate, do 
 appoint hitli a (."omniissiLniei ul the llniteii States 
 to hold a Convention hctween the State ot Ten 
 nessee and the said Cheiokce Nation ot Indians, 
 on matters ititerestinu 10 the said State ot Ten- 
 nessee : and to conclude and sii;n a Coiiveiiticni 
 touchiiiK the same , traiismiltint; it to the I'resi 
 detit ol the Inited States lor his final 1 atiricalioii 
 b\ and w ith the ad\ ice and consent ol" the Scnalc 
 .li the riiiird Stales 
 
 
 S I- A 1 
 
 T< 
 
 lansed Ih, 
 
 shelcol, 1 h 
 i.ettels to In made 
 
 J ^ ^ t jiatent, and the se.il ot the I'liUed 
 ■ States tr> he hereunto affixed 
 
 (,i\eii under m\ hand at the City o( Washin.i;- 
 Uni, the T weiitv -lirst da> of Mauh in the \eal 
 ol oui Lord one thousand eii;lit hundred and 
 eii;ht ; and ol the hidepeiidence of the Tliiled 
 States of Ainelii.i, the 'Thirty-seeinid . 
 Til lEl-t- HKSO.N, 
 
 By the Tresnieiil. 
 I \Mt-.s M.^insrjN. 
 IReiordedl Secielar\ ot State 
 
 inteTTcd Willi llu- linnius cil wai' iiniiilsl 
 of uniiissenibk-d suttou . \ \ is cicalh u as 
 Alxivc obituaTv imticc was sent us 
 City. Nil. 74I1 ul this tl-cdtiI 
 
 j This \fiirT<il)lr ciak u.is tii the t.-miioTants 
 
 1 mull- useful ami as fTc'(|Uciill v 1 iinsiilti.'<i its tiic 
 urai'le tif ancieiit Dc-lphos by its \otarics. 
 
 I)tiTiuy a lift- time of aftivitv and useful- 
 iR'ss. nci mail f\ i T sustainc-il a chaTacter more 
 irrc'])Toachai)lf tJKui Col. Meijjs. He was a 
 ]jatteru of excellence as a iiatriot, a philan- 
 tliTiipist ami a Christian. 
 
 In all the \icissitudes of fortune, the tfuties 
 of reliiii^ion were strictlv (ibserved and its pre 
 ct.'|)ts strikiiii;l\' txeniplified. The latter part 
 of his hfe was devoted to the amelioration of 
 the condition of the aboriy;ines of the countrv, 
 Idi whu li purpose he accepted the Atjencv uf 
 the Cherokee station ; .mil in the discharge of 
 his tluties he inspiretl the hit;hest degree of 
 eiinhdeiice ill that n.itinn. b\ whom he was ein- 
 ])hatically denominated -The White I'ath." 
 ' In all cases thev re\ereil him as a lather, and 
 nbevt-d his council as .tn uneninm guide. 
 
 His (K-alh was a loss tu the i ciunti\'. .ind 
 
 especialh' In ihal Stiitinn. llis lemains wi-re 
 
 a cidu otiTse nl sintere fru-nds, ,ind in the anguish 
 
 serenely happ\' in the .issurance of Christian hope. 
 
 by Hknks Mt.k.s, 14 So. William St., New \'ork 
 
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 NiiTK. — 'the io|iies olC'ciiiiiuissiciiis .tnd letters illtisli .itiiii; tiie fi>rei;oiii,o are rejirodiiceil 
 f'roiii the originals, hi, tiled lor ill, it ptirinise li\ their |ireseiil nu ner. Return Iniiathaii Meios, 4lh, 
 Washiiiyton, H. t." 
 
Al'IMNDIX. 2')^ 
 
 Crown III yiiiii h..aits llmsc lU.ui !u-i.>es oi oin s. 
 Am' 'OMT them over willi hLatUilul ll'iweis. 
 
 — Il'l/I M. Lai!rl,m. 
 
 No. 97 MAJOR JOHN MEIGS. 
 
 Jdliii .Mi.-ii;^, thr thiid sun of i 2y ) Return Melius and Elizalictli Ilaniliii, was Ijinii at 
 Midiiletown, Conn., Xii\-. Ji, 175,^ He entercil the Arni\' apparently, |an. ist, 1777. 
 when lie was appointed PLnsi^n in Col. .Samuel Hlalchley W'ebli's Regiment ol the Con- 
 tinental Line. He was made .Atljutant, April 2Jnd, \'~^. and was appointi-d Lieutenant 
 Wax i6th. 177^; .Adjutant 3d Ke-gt. 17.S1, and Major 17^,1, when he was n.-tired. 
 
 This was one of the a<lditional Retjiments ol lnfantr\' raised " at lars.;!.- " for the Con- 
 necticut Line in 1777 tu rontinue throutjh the u ar. Recruited mainh- in ll.U'tford and the 
 Eastern part of .State. Went into camp at I'eekskill in spring of '77, and served in 
 Parson's Brigade inidei' Putnam during movements ot the folh.iw im,; summer antl fall. 
 On advance of the enemy .md the loss of horts Clinton ,nid Montiiomery, < )ctober, '77, 
 it crossed to the West side ol the Hudson and served under ('io\ernoi- Clinli^n of Mew 
 \'ork for a time. < )n December loth, tlu- Regiment engaged with other troojis in an 
 expedition against Long Island which met with .icridents, leaving Col. Webb and other 
 ofihcers prisoners in the enemy's hands. Regiment wintered, '77 '7.S, with Parson's 
 Brigade at West Point and assisted in the ((instruction of perm.uient wdrks there. 
 Ri-ilonbt Webb, was doubtless named after Col. Webb. 
 
 In summer ot '7S, the Regiment was attached to X'arnum's Brigade and marched to 
 Rhode Island, engaging in the battle there of .August Jgth, '7.N, where it was ( (immended 
 toi- its conduct. Winteied in Rhode Island, '7.S '7(), and remained there until fall of '74, 
 when it marched to wmtei' (|uarters at Ndrristown. X. J., '74 'Se> — assigned to Stark's 
 Brigade (Lieutenant Colonel Huntington, (. ommanding. 1 Present .it the battle of 
 .S])ringfiekl, X. L, June J,^, 17.S11, aiK.l during the siniimer ser\e(-l with main armv on the 
 Hudson. L'pon ,1 memorial of Col. Himtington, The AssembK- of Connetlicut. on the 
 second Thursday of .May, iS.So, .itlopted the Regiment as one of the Connecticut Line 
 and a Committee of Congress in Camp I^reakness. .X. ],, lune J.yd, I7S(), .ipjiroxed the 
 measure. It was designated the .Xinth Regiment and went into winter (piarlers, ',S(i-',si. 
 with the I)i\ision at Camp " Connei ticut Village" abnut the Robinson House. There 
 it was reorganized for formation of 'Si 'S;,. 
 
 In 1781 the Regiment of Col. .Samuel li. Webb uas merged into the Third Regi- 
 ment C(.)nnecticut Lin( . Third Regiment in second formation of line serving fnuii 
 January 1st, 17S1, to January ist, I7^."v Comjiosed of .Second and Xinlh Regiments, 
 ])re\ious formations consolid.ited. 
 
 Regiment consolidated in 17^2 lor third lormation, |anuar\' Id |une, '.s^, with the 
 Fourth Regiment. .Still retaining its designation ol Third Regiment. Remainded in 
 camp at West Point and vicinity until earl\- in June, 'S;,, when bv Washington's order 
 it was disbanded with the greater [lart i.if th(.' arm\'. 
 
 |ohn Meigs was commissioned Major and retired in 17^,^ having ser\i-il rontinu- 
 oush' si.x vears. He ajijiears on the pension list in iSi.S. His pension st.ites th.it he 
 was wounded, but when ox where does not ap|iear. He was again .i]i]iointe(l C.iptain of 
 Infantrv in the regular arni\' on [anuarv loth, 1700, liv Commission ol President John 
 .Adams. Later he was a Brigade Major. 
 
 In the \'orktown cam]iaign jiart of his Regiment was detached and sei\i(l in 
 Lafayette's Light Division, which held the right of the besieging line at N'orkloun. 
 Whether Meigs accompanied these detachmeiils does not ap|ieai'. 
 
2()6 Mi:i(,s Gi-:ni-:ai.iii,n'. 
 
 Serxed iiiKk-r (ien'l Mont^onuTv on the Otielicc cxpt'dition, in nieniory of wlmni 
 his son Richard Montgomery Meigs was named. 
 
 He was a niemVier of the Order of the Cincinnati. .Said to have serveti in the War 
 of iSij, hut 1 find no record. 
 
 Ileniarrietl EHzabeth Henshaw June iStli, i jSr , by whom he had eight children. 
 He nni\ed from Middletown in 1796 to .\ew Harlfoid at whicli latter place he died 
 No\-eniber 24th, 1.S26. 
 
 M. H. W. 
 
 The above sketch of Maj(n' John Meigs' ser\ice was furnished us by his great 
 grandson, Meigs Haywood W'haples, President of the Connecticut Trust and .Safe 
 Heposit Company of Ilartfoicl, and long identified with that City's interests. .Mr. 
 W'haples is the son of Elizabeth Curtiss Eusk, and Curtis W'haples, hi-r mother being 
 (212) Esther I^opez Meigs, t)f our reinird. 
 
 Mr. Whaples has given us considerable interesting history ot his ancestors, and 
 collateral lines. His mother, still li\ing in 1901 at New Hritain, Conn., has in lu'r pos- 
 session the fine portrait from which the illustration ol I'rol. |osiah Meigs. <in page 3S 
 was copied ; also the original life-size portrait of Col. Return [. Meigs, by Rembrandt 
 Peale, painted for himself by order of the I'nited States Ciovernnient, and gi\en by him 
 to his l.irother, Major |ohn, at the time of his .going to Ohio, about itiocj. 
 
 Through the wife of .Major John Meigs, Elizabeth Henshaw, this family trace their 
 line back to |ohn and I'risciUa .Mden, the famous Puritan lovers, and Mayflower Pilgrims. 
 The father of Elizabeth Henshaw was Benjamin Bass Henshaw, son of IJaniel Henshaw, 
 of Boston, and Elizabeth Bass, of Braintree, Mass., whose mother was Ruth Alden, 
 daughtei' of lohn. 
 
 Wf ) i\ f in dfciis, tiot \'e;Lrs ; in thoui^hts, iii>t liieaths ; 
 
 In ttc-lini;s, iml in fiiiuies on a dial. 
 \Vf slionlil count lime ]^\ lu-art-throbs. Itt- most liVL-s. 
 
 Win. tiniiks most, lfi.-ls tin- noblest, acts 111.- best, 
 
 —A'atVrt 
 
 No. Q8. PROF. JOSIAH MEIGS. 
 
 Son of (Jo) Retiun Meigs, u,ls born in Middletown, Conn. His infanc\', boyhood, 
 and early youth were passed in the atmosiihere of a small New England town. His 
 father was a hatter, ami his home, probably a plain one, even for those simple days. 
 The inventory of his father's estate showed that he died poor, owning one picture, a few 
 books, mostly of a religious character, anil little else sax'e some jilain household furniture 
 and the implements of his trade. 
 
 Josiah was not eight years olil at the time ol the passage of the Stamj) Act, and was 
 not quite eighteen when the first blood of the Revolutionary War was shetl at Lexing- 
 ton, and so he grew up to his young manhocjil at a time when political subjects were 
 constantly under discussion, and when the rights ol the [jt-o])le ,ind the wrongs com- 
 mitted against them by those in aiuhority were eagerly talked of with the utmost freedom 
 and warmth. It is but natural that he should ha\'e been much influenced by the strongly 
 American \iews of his brothers. Return [onathan and John, who were res[)ectively, early 
 in the field, anil who both of them clistinguished themsel\i.-s in the struggle for liberty. 
 
AlTKXDIX. J, 17 
 
 Notliiiio is ri((.i-(l(.Ml of tin- ,mi1v cluraticin of Josiali, and 11 is iiulikcl)' thai his 
 advautayt-s wcr- aiiv hitter than tin- a\.i-a-c hov of the dale and hicahlv. In chic lime, 
 however, he found himself aO'ah- ('..nege, where he oradualed in 177S. m ih.- same 
 class with Noah Webster and Joel liarlow, both of whom aehieved continental and even 
 yet wider f.inie : also in the same cl.iss wei'e Oliver Woleott, Uriah Trary, Zephaniah 
 Swift, .\sliur Miller and Noah Sinilh. all (.f whom atlaim-d prominence at a hiter dale. 
 
 PROF. JOSIAH MEIGS, 
 1 757-1 822. 
 
 In ij.Si he a|ipe,iis to ha\ c been .ipiiointed professor ol .\l,il hematics, N.itui.il 
 Philosophv and .\stronomy at ^"al(■. In his class anionic others who later tiistiiitjuished 
 themselves, were Jediah Morse, who bcc, ime the distinguished oeoi,ra])her of a later 
 date, and John Cotton .Smith, who w.is to become the ("lOxeriKjr of Connecticut. 
 
 Jan. 21, ijSJ. he married Clara lienjamin, dau- hlci- of Col. |ohn benjamin. While 
 ser\ini; \',de College as a Professor, il is probable th.il he was stud\in'.^ l.iw .it the same 
 
2"S MkK^S ( llM- All ii,N . 
 
 time, till' he was adiniltcd In llic New llaxcii 15ar in Ajjiil, lyN.v lluiuyli it is nul known 
 thai lu' ever |)i'artircil law in Xcw Haxx-ii. His ri'sidence in that city was in a frame 
 honse known as llic Slu-rnian liousr, dini tl\' opposite the sonthern end of the ^'ale 
 Ci)llet;e huildins^s. iliie his eldest son, [ud^c Heiirv Meitjs, late of New \'ork, " hrsi 
 saw the li^ht on the jSih of Octotjer, 17^2, in a winter yale of wind." He resigned his 
 tutorship at Yale in >'>^4. aiul established a piinter's ottire where he puhlished the 
 " New Haven dazette," with a partnershijj which he hniiutl with l^owen iS: 1 )ana, Meigs 
 heiny the senior partner, luit after Augnst, 17S7, he appears to have been the sole pro- 
 prietor. An editor's notice published in his paper January |S, 1787 is interesting; in it 
 he ga\e notice that " To accommodate our ctistomers, we are ready to accept in payment 
 wlu'at, rve. Indian corn, Hour, beef, pork, cheese, hog's l.irtl, wood, and flax, ihe last cjf 
 which will be peculiarly agreealjle." The paper seems to have been discontinued in I7S.S. 
 
 He was chosi'ii City Clerk of New Haven, at the first election under the City Gov- 
 enunent, held in h'el:)ruary, 17^4, and was re-elected several terms. 
 
 In 17S1) he took up his residence in the Bermudas, where he followed law. pr.icticing 
 • IS a proctor in the .Adniiraltv Courts, until 1704. when he returned again to the I'nited 
 .States, and in this same vear we hud him once more a professor at ^'ale, reading his 
 lirsl lecture Noveiuber jn. of th.it \iai . Idle following ye.ir I^resident Stiles died, and 
 I'l'ol. Meigs delivi'red ihe luneral oration. 
 
 Thi'ough a pcilitical disagreement with President Dwiglil, who succeeded President 
 Stiles, I'rol. Meigs w.is apparenth' dismissed fi'Mui \',ile. In Noveiuber, 1780, we find 
 him ap])oinled the hrst Professor ami acting President ol the University of Georgia at 
 ■Athens, Ga., and on June 16, i,S(_-ii. was appointed full President, and continued in this 
 capacil\- until 1 S i i . 
 
 He w.is Commissioned .Sur\cvor-(.jener,il in i.SiJ.at Wash- 
 ington, 1 ). C. ; appointed Commissioner of the General Land 
 Office (jf the United States ( )ctobei 11, 1814, which ottice he 
 retained until his death. In the beaiitiinl .National Cemeter\' at 
 .Xilm^tiiu, \'a., ]iist north of the sarcojihagus erected to ( ieii'l 
 M. C. .Meigs, I see illustration -Xpp. .iy8 ' is the monument 
 ire< ted lo Prol. losiah .Meigs, with inscription on it ,is per 
 accompaiuing illusti .ition. 
 
 l<t (li<> .Heiiiory of 
 .lOKIAII ITIKKiiK. 
 
 Itorii 
 '2Iki Aii^'iisI. 1757. 
 
 IMtMl 
 
 nil Sept.. IS'*-*. 
 A;;e<l <>5 Y«':ir>». 
 
 No. 102. JOHN FRKNCH MEIOS. 
 
 1 11 ihe West Cemetery, .Madison, Conn., we tmd the gra\e stone ol ]ohn h rench 
 Meigs, with inscription upon it .is IoIIcjws: 
 
 III ^ltMiior.> ol° Mr. 
 .1 4» II .\ F IS K \4' II 
 
 yi K I <> S ivIk* 4lic4l 
 llli \ov. I7<>7. Ill 
 lii»« Silli Year. 
 
 Ik4i()l(l, see as \(iu pa/s l)\' 
 .As you .u'e now so once was I, 
 .\s 1 am ni>\\ , so you imi/l be. 
 Prepare for lieatii cV IdIIhw me. 
 
 It has been si'd tli.il a local hnmnrist on one occision wrote on ihe stone iust below 
 the ej)ilaph, as fouows : 
 
 I'll InlloW \I1U I 'ill net roillellt, 
 
 t ntil I knew uiiii li w,i\ vmi went. 
 
Al'l'lvNllIX. 
 
 No. IK). EBENEZER MEIGS. 
 
 20iJ 
 
 Fnmi Iftlci- of 1444) ('.i|it. Ciideuii Mcis^s, ln-ldrc ([ikiIciI li.>in (.\|>|i. 1 ;^ 1 uc liiul ;i 
 rt'Cdiil of four ot the sons of ( i 10 I Ebenczer. i j;,5 ' I*.1><--iu-/.it 4th, w enl to M.iiii-lta. ( )lii(i, 
 and liii'd tiiL-re or iH'ar their: ( 2,^(1 ) Rofiinson. died unnianied of ((jiisimipliun ; ij,vS) 
 Reuben fell from a masthead and was killed, and 1 J^g) [ohn, died at sea. 
 
 Ebenezer MeiiJS is on Re\-olutionar\- Rolls of M.iss udiusftts as frcjm Rdihesti-r, fur 
 ser\-ice Rhode Island .\larm. Careful examination of dates leaves litdi- diuibl that it is 
 this I I 10) Ebenezer who is indicated. 
 
 A yoiniii 
 Ml, I wli.. l,,m 
 
 ;in h;i\ ij no itoIilt.T ,i 
 ri liMnct work- I'll. 
 
 estiv tli.iii on,^ inHfle up nf men atid womiMi ulio li.i\f wuikeil 
 iislin. 1 ..r iii.liistiy Mill-, III tliu 1,1. .ml 
 
 /hir„l St.n, A./,/.;// 
 
 No. 113 N.ATHANIEL riEIGS. 
 
 In the letter ,il)o\-e referreil to 1 see .i|>|i. Nn. 1 :; i written tii (4,^.1) 1' 
 Mei^'s. bv his hall-brolher 1444) (iidron, i thev weii' enusms' suns ,is wclli in 
 of their threat grandfather, (iideon s,i\-s ; "Hi.' h.id three sons, the eldest 
 sei-diid Elien. He was your t;raiulfather. X.ith.nnel. his \'<imit;est son w.is r 
 hither. He was half-brother to \'our i;i".uidl,Uher." Idle knowledn'e ot ihis re 
 in the res[)ecti\'e families, estalilishetl bevond dnulit that X.ithanid shunld li 
 recorded as (ine of the chil Ireii bv secund marriage n\ 1 ,V ' F.benczi'r 
 Rochester. 
 113 B. 
 
 To the iiK umplele n/ciird and defecti\'e 
 dates I if the f.imily of 1 1 i ,v' X.ith.iiiiel Melius, 
 as found nn l'.t.i;e 4<i of this book, we can 
 now adil the names nf twii nther il.iu;,;htei s, 
 Rebecca, wild married I)a\id liras^j;, .iiid 
 Mary Hdlmes Mei!.^s. The hitter was bdiii 
 in 1771. married liih' .ri'th, 170-. lames 
 Hinkle\-, of ( ieori;et(a\ n, ( niiw Hath) Maine, 
 and died March 12. i.^^ss. Thi- national 
 reputation ol his son Hnimes Ilinkli\, en 
 titles him In a place in this record of Meigs 
 descendants. 
 
 Hiilnii-s llinkl(.'\' was licirn in 1 lallnu dl, 
 .Me., luiie 25, 170.1. married M,ir\- Drake 
 Holmes, of Stuuylitun, Mass., .Sept. 21. 1.S21, 
 died in Inistiin, M.iss., Feb. .^, I .Soo. In ,1 
 little sketch of his ciwn life he sa\'s : " 1 had 
 to rel\- n|ion mv mother lor snpjiort and 
 protectiiin, as mv lalhcr was lost at sea in 
 1.S04. We were alw.ivs in hnmble circvmi- 
 stances. Ne\'er so poor, th.it hospil.ility was 
 not i>iyen the Indi.ms who came to spend 
 
 >^ ' HOLMESHINKLEY, 
 
 the night bv in\- mother's kitchen tire. 1793-1866 
 
 -. William 
 speakiniJ' 
 John, the 
 i\' t;rand- 
 l.itionship 
 .i\'e been 
 Mei-s of 
 
2IO Mkk'.s Gknkai.oi.y. 
 
 " M\- own liL-il w.is uikIl-i" the caves in the garret. TIil- snow lilcw in upiiii nie 
 thidunh the chinks in the roof. 
 
 "A month before I was fourteen, 1 was apprenticed to learn the carpenter's trade, to 
 u hicli I a[)pUed myself closely initil I was twenty-one years of age. I believe I conducted 
 myself satisfactorily to both ni)' master ancf mistress. They treated and regarded me as one 
 of their family during and after my apprenticeship. 
 
 "I spent one year in Hallowell after f was free, working at mv tratle. which I 
 proposed to give up and follow navigation for a living. 
 
 ■' 1 felt poorly educated. What knowledge I had was gained during a few months 
 schooling u hile an apprentice. I got a captain to give me a slight insight into na\-igation. 
 
 " After an unsatisfactory voyage- to the West Indies, I returned to mv native town, 
 Hallowell, Maine, packed up my carpenter's tools, returning to Boston and working at 
 my trade. 
 
 " In the autumn of rSid I went to Washington, I). C. 1 spent the most of ni\- 
 time at my trade. My last jol) was on the east front of the Capitol Building. 
 
 ■• While in Washington Mr. Dunliar, a planter from near Natchez proposed mv 
 taking some negroes and horses which he had bought in Mar^dand to his plantation. 
 This I readily consented to do. I wanted to see the .Southern countrv. Most of the 
 way was traveled on foot, with the negroes, from Washington to Wheeling on the Ohio 
 ri\er. 
 
 " ( )nr route was through the States, ( )hio, Kentui k\', Tennessee, Alabama, and 
 through settlements of the Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes of Indians. Their cam]) fires 
 were freely offered us, also a share of their Indian meal pudding. 
 
 " We were on horse-back fifty days, which brought us to Mr. Dunbar's plantati(jn. 
 There were no steam-boats on the western waters at that time. Prom this beginning in 
 iSih to 1S2;; most of the time was spent working on tlifferent plantations — the last. Judge 
 Coxiiigton's ne.ir Natchez. Here I had the Yellow Fever and was freely dosed with 
 calomel. This, with the hard wintei's work so reducetl mv strength, that I took passage 
 for home." 
 
 Bv i''^-.i he w.is well encjugh to wurk again and in this work, the impulse was gi\en 
 \\ lii( h led to the (-le\eloj)ment of his mechanical ingenuity. 
 
 After two years the firm that employed him failed in business. He had to accejit 
 tools in payment of his w.iges, and this led him to take the business and carry it on for 
 himsell. In 1.S26 he built the first engine he ever had .invthing to do with. 
 
 From that tinu- he built neari\- all the upright steam engines useil in New iMigland. 
 Business increasing raiiidlv, better facilities were needed, and in 1S31 he took a partner 
 ■md a year or two later a second one, who acted as treasurer. In iN,i,i increasing busi- 
 ness tlemancled still bettei" facilities, and a large tract of laiul was bought and extensive 
 shops built. 
 
 In i,S4() his first locomoti\'e was built juid named " The Cumberlantl " and later the 
 same year a second one was liuilt, both on " venture." C3ne can imagine the size of 
 these earlv locomotives, when it is told that " The Cumberland was taken on a scow 
 from Boston to Scarboro Flats, Maine, and there put on irons." 
 
 It was before the dav of railroads in New England, for the Boston and Worcester 
 roatl had just been completed, and ecjuipped with two English locomotives suftrcient for 
 their immediate needs. They were not leadv to purchase any nu)re, but they offered 
 to store the two Mr. Ilinklev had completed "on \enture " until a purchaser could be 
 found. The)- were bought within the year by the Portland. Saco anil Portsmouth R. R. 
 
Ari'ENDix. 21 r 
 
 Mr. Hinkley would not copy Knt;li,sh niotiels, Imt drafted his oun in Iniild horn, 
 and his contemporaries gave him tiie credit of lieini; tiie pioneer in locomotive l)uildini>' 
 in New En_y;land. 
 
 He lived to see the Hinkley locomotives used on the best ecjuiiiped railroads in the 
 L'nited States and Canada. .At the time of his death in 1.S66, seven hundred and 
 seventy-two locomotives had been constructed, and delivered from his Works. There 
 was not the financial aid offered men of his day, that now new enterjirises c-an readily 
 secure, and it was due to his Inisiness sagacity, and well-known mech.mical aliilit\-, that 
 as early as 1S43 he was able to establish an incorporated companv with a large capital. 
 
 In i,S55 he virtually retired from active business, becoming a silent partner, but the 
 management that succeeded him at The Hinkley Locomotive Works were \\ith(jut busi- 
 ness experience and the "panic of 1.S57 " coming soon after they took control brought 
 too great a responsibility for them, ami after struggling on till 1S59, they failed and all 
 Mr. Hinklev's personal projiertv was lost. 
 
 Hut with his characteristic courage and energv he Ijravely started business life anew 
 at the age of si.xty-se\-en. The Civil War brought out the Government's demand for 
 more locomotives to convey troops and sup|)lies to the seat of war, and helping to sup- 
 [jly this demand gave Mr. Hinkley ojjportunity to make good his business losses. 
 
 This Company also made cannon and shot as well as locomotives for Government 
 uses. 
 
 It was by personal interview^ and not by telephone that business was done in those 
 tlays and the greater credit is due one for a successful fight against disaster. " To rise 
 from a bare-footed boy to the [losititju of Presitlent of one of the thiee largest 
 " Locomotive " Corporations in the United States shows more than average aljilitv." 
 Mr. Hinkley is characterized as "a man of unflinching integrity, plain and unpretending 
 in manner, but impressing all wIki knew him bv his dignitv and sincerity." 
 
 From an oliituary notice puljlished in the Boston Evening Transcripl, Feb. 1 i, i.S6(S, 
 We extract the following: 
 
 " His business dealings were characterized by unflinching integritv', which no greetl 
 of gain could turn aside. He used to say, 'Money is good, but it is not all nor the 
 best.' No one could meet him without being impressed by his probity, wise judgment 
 and sturdv good sense. 
 
 " Plain anil unpretending in his manners, he let the stream of his bcneficience flow- 
 on in unseen channels, and asked only to feel that his contributions were wiselv used. 
 
 " T<jWcU-ds the workmen in his employ he m.iintaineil a paternal relation, and the 
 feeling entert.iined for him by them was akin to hlial affection. Many a man has said 
 to the writer (jf this, ■ Mr. Hinkley has been a father to me. He is a noble man, and I 
 wish there were more like him.' Few outside of his family will cherish a profotmtler 
 grief than the men of the Locomotive Works (if which he was the h<inored .md beloved 
 President." 
 
 i lis children were : 
 
 M.nlha .Ann, 
 
 111. Rl-v. .\(iaiiis H. .Aver, of Boston, .Mass. 
 M.iry, 
 
 111. 1st, Cyrils .Alger, of Boston, 2ii(l, I ir. Muliler, of Montreal, Canada. 
 Anna, 
 
 ill. Thatcher, of Cape Coil. 
 
 Theoda losephine, 
 
 111. AHVed Hill, of Boston. 
 
212 Mi:u;s (iF.XKAI.ni iV. 
 
 ICaincs, 
 
 111. :i Mrs. .Sears, iif I'lOstim, ami hail a son nanieci Holmes for his grand- 
 
 latht-r, anil who was a graduatt- of Har\aril Ciillege, and tutor there for 
 
 some years. 
 .Marth.i, 
 
 (1. unmarried . 
 IClleii, 
 
 111 . franiis I.. Hiillard. 
 
 113 B. B. 
 
 RcK.hestrr, Mass. Town Rorciids contains the f( illow ill" : " ("(iniclius Meio;s and 
 Elizaheth Keen pnlilished lor marriaoo Xciv. J4. iJg.S-" 
 
 The dale leads lis to conjectiii e that this may he annther son (if ( [ i .^ ) Xathaiiiel 
 Meit;s. as all I'ecords s< 1 far found sIkiw no other ianiily of Meins as lieloni;inL; to 
 Roi-liester at ihat time. 
 
 No. lU REBECCA MEIGS. 
 
 While ue ha\e not the same |iroof of Rebecca's place anK.inu; llie ehildrt'ii of (^^^^ ) 
 Ebenezer, of Rochester, as we ha\e of Xathaniel's wt.' think the e\ idem a- sntiicient to 
 warrant us in so recordint> it. The three sons of ( 1 .^ ) FLbeiie/er ol hahiiouth, earh set- 
 tled in a dilTerent localitv .ind the early generations can easily be traced. As our record 
 sh(.)ws, only (36) Ebenezer's descendants were of Rochester, and the date at which 
 Rebecca married Robert Clark ( 1764). leaves lait the one probability of her place in the 
 faniih' liiK- ; which seems conchisivi'. 
 
 No. 123. BEN.I.AMIN MEIGS. 
 
 At the time of makini; up the yeiiealoyical part of our book, it was belie\'ed that the 
 I'lenjamin Meiys who served in the Re\a.ilutit)nar\' .Arm\- finui Massachusetts, was the 
 Henjamin Meii^s abo\e designated, but persistent effort to establish this as a fact, has so 
 f,ir f,iiled. and indied left il ([uite as possible that the record for ser\ice as found in the 
 .Massachusetls .\rchi\es, bi.'liint;s to ( 15(11 Henjamin .Stone Meit;s of \'i rniont. 
 
 We earnestly ho]je that this with main- other unsettled |)<iints oi history in the 
 Meij^s familw ma\- b\- the publication of this book be bronchi to the attention ol possible 
 sill vi\ ill'' desceni-lants, and all doubts settled. 
 
 No. 125. JABEZ MEIGS. 
 
 (("opic'l from the re. iiiils of the Clerk's olhce, K.illiin.;worth, (.'oim.. .M.irch 15, 1901. 
 — I). K. Stevens, Town Clerk.) 
 
 '■ rpon the memorial of |abez Melius, of Falmouth, in the State of l^fassachusetts 
 l^ay, sh'wiiiL; to this Assembly that he and his neighbours were in yreat want of ^r.iin 
 .and provisions for their necessary siipplys, and that in the month ol DecemlH-r last his 
 Excellenc\' till.' C,o\c-rnor of this Slate L;"a\e him permission to piinh.ise and transport 
 
Al'I'I'.NIUX. 21^ 
 
 out ol ihis State se\eiity bushrls of rye, and Indian corn, two liarrds nl pork, tun iKirrds 
 of Hotir, <iin- luindrcd \\ei>,;ht of cheese and tifl\- ponnds of I. utter, ,ind tli.il he h.ith pur- 
 chased j;, linshels ami tjiree pccl<s uf corn and rye a:id fi\e ijushels ami .1 iiaif of wlieat, 
 -'> pounds of ciieese and t\venty-h\e pouncis of butter, which provisions he now lias on 
 board a two-mast lioat in Connecticut Ri\er: pra\in>; for libertv to tr.uisporl said pro- 
 \isions out of this State to Falmouth in tlie State of Massachusetts Bav, as per memorial 
 on lile, i,\:c,: — Resolved by this Assemlily that the said [abez Mei^s ha\e libeiiy. and 
 liberl\ is hiieliy yiven him, to trans|)ort out of this .State in the said lioal j ;, ,ni(l -4 
 bushels ol Indian Cfu'ii and r\-e, ,uid s ' _• bushels of wheat, 70 lbs. of cheese and 25 lb. of 
 buttei- ,nid I w 1 1 b.irrels of pork, which he now has on board said boat: the embargo 
 notw ilhsLuidiiiL;". — .'\pril, 1770." 
 
 W'li.it pil> a 1^ — I li.il we 'he lull MiKe tu ^cr\ (.• our (_oiiiar\ . 
 
 No. 137. STEPHEN MEIGS. 
 
 .SieplHii Mei>;s, of New .Ashlord, .Mass., ap|ie,irs on Re\ olutioiiar\' Rolls in Massa- 
 chusetts ,Arihi\es. as ser\-ing- from M,i\-, i7,S.i to jamiary, 17S1. Reported Capt. M,ii- 
 shall's ("o., Col. Marshall's Re>^iineiit, (ien. Patterson's Hrigatle .Six Months' Town 
 Rolls, V(j1, 4, p. 164. 
 
 rrob,d>l\' Stephen i .^7. 
 
 Wliy .ill Uiib toil lor lrunn|ihs of. in hour ! 
 What tliou,>;li \Vf wade in wi.,iltli oi so.ii ]n f.rine! 
 Earth's higllest station euiU in " Here he lies : " 
 And " Dust to (lust " I ..n. hnles her iiohlesl son..;. 
 
 No. 143 NATHAN MEIGS. 
 
 Nathan Meigs ser\'ed in the W'.ir ol the Rexolution. and we learn from Page 30 
 "Connecticut Men in Rexcilution, " that he was apriv.itr- in the fndependeiit Comp.un' 
 from Ciuilford, Capt Andrew Ward, 1775, hirst Regiment, commanded b\- l),i\id 
 W'noster. h'rom the War fJepartment, Washington. 1). C «e learn that he served in 
 n.iniel I hind's CoiiipaiU' ol Tallcott's Connecticut Regiment, enlisting m same .M.irch J7, 
 I 77(1, and \\ as disidiarged April i ,S, I 77(1. P'rom the same source, we learn that he ser\'ed as 
 a pri\ate in Cajitain Hart's Companv, Ninth Connecticut Regiment, commanded \)\ 
 Col. .Samuel H. Weljb. tlis name appears in the record of that organization with re- 
 marks " Philisted Ajiril 10, 1777, for the War ; omitted .August 17th, 1777." Phe record 
 further shows that he ser\ecl as a corporal in Capt.iin .Stephen Ball's Coni|iain', 7th Con- 
 necticut Regiment, 1 ommanded b\' Col. Ih'man .Swilt ; that he enlisted Ma^• 24th, 1777. 
 to ser\e during the War ; was transferred to Capt. I'^iihraim Chamberlain's Coni])any, 
 same Regiment : was promoted to be a SergeanI July o 1. 17S0, and transferred to Cap- 
 tain Caleb il.ililwin's Company, 2nd. Conmcticut Regiment, commanded by Heman 
 Swift, May iSth, 17.S1. and his name is last borne on the roll in the Pist mentioned 
 organi/ation W.xy 2(-ith, I7.'s3, without remark. 
 
214 MkKIS Gl-.M'AI.cxiY. 
 
 From the Ailjutaiit (ieueral of tliu State of Connecticut \vc learn tliat he participated 
 in the expedition for the conquest of the Forts on Lake Champlain. 
 
 Tlie records of tlie Pension Office, Washini;ton, D. C, siiow that Nathan Meigs 
 married Mabel I'arnu-li-e, in XovemKer, 17.S3, (date not stateti ) ; that Nathan died May 
 i2tli, iSio; tiiat his uidiiu. Mahel. was granted a |)ension in iS:;,S. She was then 82 
 vears of aQe. 
 
 Noll sluuiltl ha\'u SL'fii Intn -is lie slinji! 
 
 fit^titini; r.ir his good laiiii, 
 Willi all tlie iron of soul ami bl.mcl 
 
 rurn'ii lo a sworil in liaii'l. 
 
 — All llie )'<\n k'oiiii.l. 
 
 No 156. SERGT. BENJAMIN STONE MEIGS. 
 
 Benjamin Stone Mri^is, uas the son of i 'u ) Natlianiel Meigs. He was born at 
 (luilford, Conn. In his carh- nianhoinl he migi'ated with others from that State to 
 Ciiiilfiird, VeniKint, when that State was ahnost an unl)roken wiklerness. He married 
 Roxalanz l'>. Chitlcndiii. In his Liter ve.irs he h\ed with his sun Luther. ,it Highgate, 
 Vermont, where he dicil .iiid is Ijuried in the Episcopal churchyard at the Village 
 Centre. 
 
 Benjamin Stone Meigs served as ,1 pii\ate in 1777 under Capt. Josiah Boyden, in 
 Col. Williams' Regiment of militia, on an expeditinn to Bennington, Vt., in 17.S0; served 
 in Capt. Daniel Comstock's Co., and in that of Capt. Lemuel Bradley, in Col. h^a Allen"s 
 Regiment. Was a Sergeant in the same company in 17^1. From this last service he 
 was a pensioner — the Pension Department at Washingtnn records that his service for 
 th.U year was nine months, and we are ad\'ised from the same source that he served for 
 a time under Capt,iin (iates and Cul. Ruliis Putnam. 
 
 Ciii'\ . 
 
 .siA'i'E ov \i;km(.i.nt, 
 
 .Adiitant C.enkrai.'s Offick, 
 
 Montpelier, Marcii 2111! , igoo. 
 
 1 Herkuy Ckktuv tiial the lollowiiit; is a currect transcript from the records on file in tliis 
 office, regarding soldiers who served in the Revolutionary War. Extract : 
 
 Kenjainin .S. Meigs served, as a Private, fifteen days from -'Xiig. 29, to Sept. 12, 1777, in 
 " Capt. losiali Boydeii's Co., Col. Win. Williams' Keg't of Militia, in service of United States 
 on an Ex|iedition to Bennington." 
 
 ■Also, served, as a I'rivate, lour days in Capt. Daniel Comstock's Co., from March 22, 1780. 
 .And served as a Private, twenty days, in Capt. Lemuel Bradley's Co., Col. Ira Allen's Reg't, 
 "in alarms in October, 1780." And served, as a Sergeant, eleven days, under same command, 
 from October 21, 17.S1. And served, as a Sergeant, four days, under same commaiul, "in an 
 alarm," December 16, 17S1. 
 
 SKAL. 
 
 §■; Adiutant General, S* 1 • S- Peck, 
 
 ?f State OF Vermont. ^ Adiutant Oeneral. 
 
Ai'1'i:m>in. 
 
 21 = 
 
 Corv. 
 
 D K P A R T .M E NT O V T H K I N T E K I ( ) K . 
 
 BUREAr OK Pknsions. 
 
 Washington, II. C, Drceinljer 5tli, 11^99. 
 Sir: 
 
 In compliance with your request addressed to Mr. li. C. Bell, 1 have to ailvise you that 
 Benianiin S. Meigs made an application for pension on May 5, iSiS, at uhicli time he was 
 sixty-four years of age and residing at Highgate, X'ermont, .ind his pension was allowed for nine 
 months' actual service as a private in the Massachusetts troops, Revolutionary War. He en- 
 listed at Guilford, X'ermont, and served under Captain Gates and Col. Rufus Putnam. 
 
 There is an afHdaxit on tile in tliis claim signed by his brother, I )aniel B. Meigs, verif\ing 
 
 the above service. 
 
 \ ery respectfully, 
 
 1 1 . (LAN Evans, 
 Mr. H. B. Meigs, Commissioner. 
 
 206 Herald Building, 
 
 Baltimore, Marxlaml. 
 
 .7r 
 
 jhic) 
 
 ERECTED 
 
 ROXALANZB. 
 
 ,Ar died i'-'P' ''f 
 
 /jZ/SS5. Ben J. S. M^i^J 
 
 rf;. sz >fear I'-f"- ^1"'^ 
 
 f Ji is a^e. Nn. 10.' i S 3 6: 
 f» til p 78 ' 11 ear 
 oj tier age. 
 
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:; i6 Mkics ( i i' n i : a i c «.v. 
 
 rh.- i-iml.ushu.l Iri.ii.in, and tin- pioivlin^ l.i.-ai- 
 Siull Wflr tllf lienls lllat llclpfil his >iillth Id tl.llll, 
 
 Roii^li LiiUuiL' lull siii h trees lari;e Iruil may heai. 
 II bill Ih.-ii -,li), ks he ol i-i;^lit givtli anri Kraiii. 
 
 - Taylor. 
 
 No. 161. DANIEL BISHOP MEIGS, SR. 
 
 .As tlie records in (iuillnnl, ('(inn., lontain ihc naniL-s of onlv four of the (;hililn_-ii of 
 I'lj) Nathanifl Mei^s, it is possiliU- that llu- two \-ouii^er ones niav lia\c lircn lioni in 
 VL-rniont. Their parents dvinv; while the lainiK' were ([uite youiii;, their ehijihen were 
 probalih- liroueju up in dilfeient homes, ami we are told that Daniel l^isiiop was thus 
 re.ired in the f.iniil\- ol PIthan Allen, of Tieonch.-roea fame. 
 
 I'roli.ilily .liter his service in the Re\-olntionai\' War, he settled in .St. Alli.ins. Ver- 
 mont, and enu;a,!^i-d in larmiiiL^. His son |ohn (No. 301 ) is recoriled ,is the lirsi whiti- 
 male child horn in th.il town. Of his tour sons, |ohn remained in St. Alhans. ("luv 
 settled in M.ilone, N. \'., lirownson wi'iit to liarliotte, .md D.iniel to liedfoid, Lioth in 
 the l'ro\iiic<- ol <_>uebec. 
 
 hill his si-r\i(e in the Re\'ohitionar\' War, we liaxc the following certificates Irom 
 tlu' Adjutant ( icneral's olhee of \'erniont at Montpeher, and from the Record and 
 Pension ( )tli( c at \\ ashineton, thoiit;h his name appears without the niiildle letter. 
 
 .S r.\ IE I H XI'.K.MON I, 
 
 .\ iijr r.\.\ r CiEnkk.m.'s i_)ri ick, 
 
 Montpelier, .Sept. 17, 19UI. 
 
 I Hkkhi:\ Ci:Krn-N- that the iVillowina is a correct transcript from the records on file in this 
 otiice, re.nanliii!; soldiers w Im served in the Revolutionary War. Extract : 
 
 I i.iniel Mei^s was in ('a|it. Eli I'.ii p\\ nsun's Co., in Col. Ira .Allen's Ke.i;'t of Militia, I lec. 16, 
 I 7S1, in ,111 A 1,1 nil to the WestuMiil. He entered Tliomas .S.uvyer's Co. of Militia, May 41 li, 1779, 
 was disi h,ir;_;eil June 28tli. This Co. was raised for the defence of the Niirtliern I'rontier of the 
 I'. S. 1771-1- He was in Capt. Eli Brownson's Co. in Col. Ira .Mien's Re(;'t ol' Militia for service 
 done in i e-t.ikini; of l.t. Win. I'lLiiu li.ird, taking I'ories. ^;c., Ovc. May 24th. 17.S0. He was in 
 Capt. Eli Brownson's Co., in Col. Ira Allen's Re.i;'t of Militia that marched to Castleton, Oct. 
 JO, 17.S1. 
 
 He was also in h'lrsl Co., in the Sivth l\e.i;'t in .St.ite ot \'l. lor service in the .\larin in the 
 nioiith of (.let, , 17.S0. 
 
 \', ' ' ' ' ' ' r^j 
 
 % '^v-k\.. iq \V. H. Gil. MORI-:. 
 
 '^;.^ AujiTANT (LitNiiKAi., yj A dj u taiit General . 
 
 '^i X'ermont. i}i 
 
 No IE. — In .ippendi.K item 15b on Benjaiiiin Stone Mei:.;s, il will he iioteil that in the cei tilicate 
 from the I )epartinent of the Interior, Wasliini;ton, 1). C, that it is stated, Daniel B. .Meigs, 
 made an .iltid.ivil, which is on tile in that oflice, verifying the service of his hrother, Benjamin 
 Stone. 
 
 RECiiRD AND PENSION OFFICE, 
 
 W'.VK 1 ll..r.\R TMHNT, 
 
 Washiuj;ton, (Jctolier 25, iqoi. 
 
 rile re( urds .if this oflice show lli.it one I laiiiel — Mei^s served in Captain Eli Brownson's 
 ( ompaiiy of Colonel Ir,i Allen's Regiment of \ermont Militia, Revolutionary War. His name 
 appears on the pav roll of that org.ini/.ition with remark showing tint he w.is paid for 23 da\s' 
 
Al'I'KXDIX. 
 
 21- 
 
 ■service in man hiiij,' ti) Castletoii, October 2n, 17S1 ; '.Isd on a pa\-ioll dalnl Jannaiy 7, ijNi, 
 with remarks showing- tliat he was paid lor lour days' ser\ice "In an alarm to tlie Westward, 
 l)ec. 16, 17X1," and on a pay-roll dated at Sunderlaiul, Anniist 26, 17S;,, with reinark showmi; 
 that he ser\e<l li\ed.i\s "in retakini; of I.I. William Ulanc hard, takin" ol Tories etc in Mav 
 17S2." 
 
 i he records also show th. it one I ),iniel Mei.ns served seven days as a pri\ ate in the isl . Com- 
 pany, hth. Ke.^imeiit of \ermont troops, in ahirms in the month of (tctohei, 17S1. 
 
 It is hirther shown that one I laniel Mei^s ser\ed m ( aptain I'liomas .S.ivvyer's Comp.my of 
 Militia, raised lor the delenc i- of Xortiiern fortihcations of the United States m 1779. KeMiln- 
 tionary War. His name appe.irs uu a pay-roll dated at Rutland, Decemher 17, 1779, uilh 
 remarks: " l-'.ntered May JO, 1779, dischar;4ed jniie 2.S, 1779; time in ser\ice one nioMth. 10 
 <lays." 
 
 No fnrthei mlorm.ition heaiini; upon the snliject of >iim- impiiry h.is been found of record. 
 
 By aiithoi ily of the .Secretary of W.ir ; 
 
 I '' . C. A I N S W M K I 1 1 , 
 
 Chief, Record and Tension (Jllice. 
 
 Kcw jH-ij|.lr (hs|..ir.i-.;t^ a tlistni,i;iiislieil ,uii csli \ ex. ept those 
 wlH. li.iv nurif .,li:,,,M own 
 
 No. 167. MAJOR JOHN MEIGS. 
 
 John .Mci^s was horn in .Alliaiiy, 1 he. Jjlh, 17S4, the oiilv diild of his parents, .Sclh 
 Meig.s, (691 and Jeiiiiiiia \'an Loan, born \'aii Hoskcrk, related to the Newmans, I'dhl- 
 inaiis, Ogdciis and Tiffaiiys. of Alliaiiy and .\ew N <irk. lie inherited his father's estalr. 
 which was laii;e. as estates were reckoned in tIioS( d,i\'s. He was educated at home 
 unlike his h.ilt -In 1 itliei . Willi, 1111 Win 1. 0.111, who \v,is educated ahmad and was a man of 
 fine literary and scientific tastes, wliiili his l.ii^e nicms c'liabled him to <^iatif\' freely. 
 In 1S04 he, (John Mei.os) married Hannah Kiiyhler of Albany, fhey had eleven 
 children, three ol whom died in infancy. 
 
 John .\lei.t;s is descriljed as a noble lookiilt; man, of more than six feet in height, 
 •erect, with fine military be-aring- and a genial, winning hice. He was e.\( eeilinglv kind 
 and good to little ( hildreii, and liberal to the point of his own financial disaster lliroiii.;li 
 assisting liicnds. ,\t one time he filletl the office of Higii .Sheriff, of Albany Coiint\- : 
 originally, and until late in life, a Democrat, he was once heard bv a granddaughter to 
 utter his \eheinent disappid\,il ol Hm hanan's adminisli.ition l>\' saving that "he hoped 
 the Lord would forgixc him for votini; for such a fool. " ]. M. 
 
 
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 First lofoinoti\ e ;inil passciij^er tritin ever run in tlic Sliitf i>l New \ ork. 
 
 !• I om Alhuny tu St Iinectady, Aiii; 9, iS;i. 
 
 Major juhn Mei.L;s of AIli.-iii\-, isl |',iss<_-n^er on 1 iulil nisnU- the 2ii<i < .ir. 
 
2lS 
 
 Mkigs Gkneai.ih.v. 
 
 l!ie <li yiiig up a siii^U- tear lias more 
 fit liiitiist la me 111 an slieildiiin seas of ^ore. 
 
 -J!\i„ii 
 
 No. 168. DEACON PHINEAS MEIGS. 
 
 Deacon Fhiiic-as .Miis^s SL-t-ms to have owned considc-ralile real estate, and at least two 
 hoiise.s known to ha\'e l>eloni;ed to him are still in existence : the Farm Island 
 honse below, and tin- one illustrated on ])aL;e 4S of this volimie. 
 
 DEACON PHINEAS MEIGS' FARM ISLAND HOUSE. 
 
 This house was burneii by the British during the War of 1S12, and afterwards 
 re-built on same foundation, and after same general plan. The British landed on the 
 Point and laid a trail uf ha\' from the house to the l)ani intendini; to burn lioth. The 
 owner plead with them, but they were obdurate and burned the house. The barn was 
 filled with salt hay and would not burn. It stands to-day as the picture shows. 
 
 This house stands on the extreme end of Ilammonassett Point, very near where the 
 Hammonassett flows into the Sound, and in plain view. (About three miles away from 
 the Hammonassett House where Captain Phineas was shot during- the Revolution.) The 
 house ground on which the house stands is separated from the main land by a marshy 
 spot which at times is under water. It is known as Meigs Islaml. 
 
 
 I 
 
Ai'i'i.xi iix. 
 
 Men are iud>;ed nut h\ Ihcir iiileiiliuiis, liut Itv tin 
 
 219 
 
 then actions. 
 
 — /../■ ./ Chesl,-r/ielcl. 
 
 No. 172. JONATHAN MEIGS. 
 
 Jonathan Meigs, second chikl and oldest son of (S31 .Sergt. Daniel Meigs and Chloe 
 Scranton Meigs, was born in Madison, ( then East Guilfoixl ) Conn., September 14th, 
 177 1, educated in Madison, and later became a successful merchant in Savannah, Ga.. 
 afterward removed to Augusta, Ga., where as a prominent and highly respected citizen, 
 he lived for si.xty-tive years. He married May 27, i.'^47, Mrs. Tabitha Anthony, 
 daughter of Holt Clanton, of \'irginia. She died in Mercer Comity, .Alabama, March 
 25. 1853, aged 59 years. 
 
 Before his deaili he provided homes among liis nephews for his old and faithful 
 slaves during their life-time, and these homes his nephews continued to these faithful 
 servants, even after they were emancipated, at the close of Civil War. 
 
 Mr. Meigs, died in March 1S61, and was buried at Augusta, Georgia. 
 
 JONATHAN MEIGS, 1771-1861, 
 Augusta, Georgia, 
 
220 Mi:i(is (iixiwi-ocY. 
 
 No. 173 JEHIEL MEIQS. 
 
 The illiisU.ilion on pagr 32 is frimi a |Kn .mil ink skcti h (it an attractive pcirtiait 
 owned li\- l)r. D.miel Meigs W'cbl), of Madisun, Conn., son cif 1 1791 Deborah Hopscm 
 Meigs. 
 
 Tile piirtrait was painted in .Sax.mnah, deorgia, where Jehiel Meigs lived for some 
 \(ars, interesteil in nieich.indizing with his brothers and brother in law. He returned 
 to .Madison, Conn., sDnie time belure his death, and died there at the ciim[iarati\'elv 
 earlv age ot thirty-tive. 
 
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 hiially 1.1 N.iikl.mii. .ui.l VurklvwTi ym.lu.l Ihu roolstups ol yc.iii f.illKrs In M.it iella. 
 
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 III L). Ii..n hiithliil, .mil In hini.iHl <.le.il . 
 
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 No \Q\. RETURN JONATHAN MEIGS. Governor of Ohio. 
 
 I'he iildesl sun nl (ijiii Cnlnnel R, |. Meigs, u.is ()hi(rs first ( loxernnr, R. I. .Meigs. 
 Jr., who was burn in Middh'tow n, Connecticut, in tin- \ ear 1705. He gr.iduated at \'ale 
 College in his twentieth yeai', and was admittetl to the bar iif his nati\e state. In his 
 younger \-ears he was much gi\'eii to writing poetry, but ne\'er hatl an ambition to come 
 before the [jiiijlic as a poet. His compositions were generally of a light character, writ- 
 ten for amusement and recre.itiun. In i7,s.S he married Miss Sophia Wright, and the 
 same year came to Marietta, where he engaged in ])rofessinn.il pursuits and farming. 
 
 After the organization iif the State Government, Mr. Mt'igs was elected Chief Jus- 
 tice iif the .Supreme Court, which consistetl of three judges. This situation was at that 
 time ditticult, .is he was reipiired to hold court in e\ery county in the State once a year. 
 He discharged the duties of this tlistingnished ]iiisitiiin until ( )ct(iber, i .XC14, when he 
 receiveci the appointment ot Colonel and commandant of the upper part of the district 
 of Louisiana, which included the greater part of the Mississippi valley. 
 
 In i.'^05 he was a[)i)ointed one of the jmlges ot the territory, a position mure con- 
 genial to his tastes. 
 
 The seat of justice in Cpper Louisi.uia, was at .St- Louis, It once became the 
 diilv oi judge .Meigs to pronounce sentence of tlealh upon ,in Iiuli.m comicted ol 
 miniler. .After the e.xecution on the same day, a large athletic Indian whom he en- 
 deaxored to prevent injuring some women and children on the street, assailed him with 
 a tomahawk, and struck him several times on the head, cutting through his hat at every 
 stroke. .At last seizing the Indian b\- the arm, he wrested the tomahawk from him ,ind 
 threw it awa\'. Furious at this occurrence, the Indian sprang upon him like a tiger, 
 Mr. Meigs being unable to retain a grip on his nakeil ad\'ersarv. The liuli.in had a belt 
 aroimd him from which in the scuffle he attempted to draw ,1 large knife. A young- 
 gentleman, Mr. Hammond, seeing the knife half removed from its scabbard, and not 
 doubting the pur|K)se lor which it was being removed, a[)proachetl with a pistol and shot 
 the Indian in the back. He let go the knife, started Liack and fell tlead. This is one ol 
 a number of Governor Meigs' pierilous situations. Once during the Indian war he 
 
Al'l'l-MHX. 221 
 
 naiTduiy escaped from an encuunter with a paity nl Indians nn the bank of the Mns- 
 kintjuni. Wliile at Detroit artini; as tiiplomat for ( io\ii nor St. Claii. lie uas one day 
 leisurely stantlini; on a boat. An Indian <in the shore was aimint; his rille. At that 
 instant a white man standing near snatched the t;;nn from the Indian's hands and shook 
 out the ])riniing". L'pon one occasion while re\iewin^' some troops at St. Louis, a salute 
 was fired. A musket was fired loaded with buck-shot, many of which passed thi-out;h 
 his vest, cravat and ruftfes of his shirt, and one of his epaulets was cut .iwav. This 
 occurrence was altogether .ucidental. 
 
 While serving as [udi^e in Louisiana, his health i^ax e wav, ,ind he rt-turned to 
 ^Llrietta in iSob much enfeebled. In April. i.Soy, he w,is commissioned juiige of the 
 territory of Michigan. He resigned his commission in ( )ctober, and accepted the can- 
 didacy for Governor of ( )hio. This was one of the most e.\citing campaigns in the 
 early jjolitics (jf the .State. His competitor was ("leneral Xathaniel .Massie, one of the 
 earliest settlers of the .Scioto \alIi-\-. .Meigs recei\-ed a majority of the votes bin his 
 election was contested on the t;round that he had not Ijcen a resident of the State foiu' 
 years as required b\' the Constitution. The contest resulted in la\iir of Massit-. The 
 contest did not seem to impair his popularity, for ,U the same session of the legislature 
 he was elected supreme jtidge, ,uid in September following was chosen to hll the un- 
 expired term of [ohn .Smith in the I'nited States .Senate. He was subsequently re- 
 elected Senator for the full term. 
 
 The campaign ol i .s k > was one of the most bitter ni ( )liio's politK al history. .\n 
 act of the legisl.iture incre.isiuj.; the jurisdiction ot justices of the pe.u e had been 
 decided unconstitutional by the supreme court. I'olitii i.uis endeavoi'ed to .gain tax'or 
 with the peoi)le by making the discussion appear to li.nc been rendered in favor of a 
 class and in opposition to popul.ir rights. The majorit\- in the legislature p.uidered to 
 prejudice and passed the '■sweeping resolution," a measure intentled to remo\e a ninii- 
 ber of judges that their places might be filled bv members of what was known as the 
 " [jopular " part\-. Tammany societies were organized in different parts of the .State for 
 the pur|)ose of making nominations and controlling the election. These societies were 
 secret, and in order to insure hdelit\' an oath was imposed upon the members. (leneral 
 Wdrtliingtoii was their candidate for ("loxernor. The opposition was sensible ol the 
 necessity of making the strongest possible nominations. Senator Meigs was hnalh' 
 selected to make the race and was elected by two thousand majority. His inaugural ad- 
 dress was reniarkabU- strong. In it he enunciated a ])rinciple of his jirivate life and 
 public policy. " Public excellence ascends from domestic purity and just ])rinciples, 
 extending from families to communities, enlarges the sphere of utility and gives to 
 [xitriotism its proudest de\'otion." 
 
 r,o\ernin- .Meigs' .ulministration extended o\er a trying ,nid ditticult period. His 
 management of aff.iirs during the o])ening period of the War of i.Si j w.is by no means 
 free from criticism, but tin- honesty ot his intentions, aiul tin- wisdom of his general 
 policy were recognized by the people, who a third time elected him to the chief niagis- 
 tr,ic\- of the State by an increased majority. 
 
 l)uring his second term of othce he was called, in 1S14, li\- President .Madison, to 
 the position of postmaster general. He ilischarged the duties of this important position 
 until June. iS;:;;, when he tendered his resignation. It is not surprising that he was 
 accused of mismanagemenl of publii- alfairs. The criticism of political opponents is not 
 necessarily an imputation against the character of an official, (iovernor .Meigs h.ad the 
 confidence of Madison and Monroe. Mr. Monroe observed at tht' time of his resignation : 
 
222 MlCKiS (iE^■F,AI.O(;^•. 
 
 "1 lia\i- iic\ er liad liut oir- iipinioii towards vou since tlie coiiinienccnK-nl <if the 
 war, when you were Governor, and that was friendship. I iieheve you to be an honest 
 man and a friend of your country. I wish you to retain your office as long as I remain 
 l^resident. If \nu resii^n it must lie from considerations pureh' vour own." 
 
 After his resignation, which closed a long term of public ser\ice, (iovernor Meigs 
 retireti to his home in Marietta, where he ilied March 29, 1S25. 
 
 (iO\ernor Meigs was held in high [lersonal regard among the citizens of Marietta. 
 He was the first postmaster, antl is said to have been (juite social among the friends of 
 his youth without regard to their contlition in life. He at one time owned a square of 
 land on which he erected in 1.S06 the first house in town. The house was not completed 
 for several years afterwards. It is now owned by M. 1). FoUett. His land extended 
 from Scammel to below the Congregational church lot on Front street. An old citizen 
 relates an inci<lent which proves him to have lieen largediearted. In 1S16 the corn 
 crop was generally a faihu'e, and those possessing this necessary article for food could 
 command almost any price. It happened that Governor Meigs that year had an ex- 
 ceptionally good crop, for which speculatcjrs offered tempting jirices. He tlirected that 
 the corn should be sold at the low price of former years, and in small quantities, thus 
 giving poor people an opportunity of supplying their families with this sta])le food. 
 
 On the stone erected to his memory is inscribed the following epitaph, written by 
 
 Dr. John Gotten ; 
 
 Here lies llie body of 
 
 I«KTl!K\ .IO\i'rHAX MKICJS. 
 
 Mho Max Uorii al ^liddlelowii. <'oiiiie<'li<-ii(. I7<>5. 
 
 Viid died ai Nai-ielta, Oiiio. IMareli 29, 18S.). 
 
 For many years iiis lime and laleiilH were «levole«i 
 
 To llie ser\ i«-e ol' liis eoiiiilrj . 
 
 He Niieeessively tilled llie disliiiKoislied plaees of 
 
 .liitl^e «»l llie 'rerril4»ry \orlli\vesl of (lie 4klii4». 
 .liKlU'e oi' llie Supreme C'oiirl of llie Slale of Olii4». 
 Seiial4»r in llie ('4Mi^;ress of Hm' I'liiled Stales. 
 <ii4»)erii4»r <»!' llie Stale of <^liio. aiiil 
 Postinaster-<>eiieral of llie I iiiled Stales. 
 To the hoiioretl and rev«"re«l iiieiiHtr.i of 
 An anient I'atriot. 
 A (liitifiil son. 
 An ■ndiiluent F:illier. 
 Ill aileelionale liiisbaiKl. 
 This nionniiieiit is ere<'te«l by his iiKiiirninK witlow 
 Sophia Mei^s. 
 
 .And Inini another source the following has been contributeil concerning Return 
 Jonathan Meigs 2nil, the first Go\'ernor elected in' the peo]ile of ( )hio, and the second 
 to lie installed as Go\'ernor of lliat State. He was born in Middletown, Conn., ij'i.s. 
 When 2(1 years old he graduated at Yale College with highest honeirs of his class. 
 Returning Imnie he studied law and was .idniitted to ])ractice in his 2,vd >'ear, when 
 haxing married .Miss .Sophia W'right, he with his bride, in the same year went to 
 Marietta, ( )., anil in the neighborhood purchased a large tract of land. In 17S8, 
 when .Mr. Meigs and his wife anixed at .M.uietta, the whole region was an almost 
 nnliroken wilderness. .Still, in the little cluster of log huts which were built in the 
 form of a hollow S([uare, called the Camjius Martins, there were those who in intel- 
 lectual culture, in social x'irtnes, and refinement of manners, would have been orna- 
 ments to any community. 
 
Apri:xm\. 22^, 
 
 In 1804 Go\x-rnor Meigs built for hiniscli a stately and niagniticent mansion which 
 he occupied to the time of his death. It is still re.s^arded as one of Marietta's most 
 beautiful homes. On the same street with this mansion is the (juaint old two horned 
 church of the Coni,frei;ationalists, which is now Ohio's oldest church luiilding, it h.i\ ini; 
 been erectetl in the wilderness in iSu6. It is stated that the Mcjund Cemetery, in 
 Marietta, contains the remains of a _i;reater number of Revolutionary soldiers than any 
 other one cemeter\' in the entire country. Here amono them is laid the l)ody of Oen. 
 Rufus Putnam, antl his old residence still stands in that city. ()|i|)osite this ancient 
 buildint; may be seen the Ohio Company's orit;inal [,and ( )ttice — both maile gray by 
 lapse of time. 
 
 De\'oting himself to the culti\ation of his laud, and occasionally as a lawyer 
 settling the ditticulties which occurred among the inhabitants, Mr. Meigs soon 
 gained the confidence of the community, and esjjecially that of den. St. Clair, who 
 in 1790 sent him with dispatches to the British commandant at Detroit, remon- 
 monstrating against the manner in which that functionary was inciting and suijplying the 
 Indians with arms and ammunition to prey upon the defenseless settlers. The remon- 
 strance proyed of no ayail, although Mr. Meigs iserformed his mission to the entire 
 satisfaction of the goxx'rnment, and in doing so met with adventures that would make a 
 bulky memoir if printed. In the winter ot iSo.:, he was by the Ohio legislature elected 
 a judge of the Su])renie Court. The associated judges were Samuel Huntington, subse- 
 quently (jox'ernor of the State, and George Tod, whose son Da\id Tod was the second 
 war Governor, so-called, of Ohio. The U. S. Government having in 1S04 purchased of 
 France, the vast territory then called Louisiana, extending from the mouth "of the junc- 
 tion of the Mississippi with the Missouri river. President Jefferson appointed Mr. .Meigs 
 to the command of the upper portion of that district of country, with the rank of Lieut. 
 Colonel of the U. S. Army ha\'ing also the additional dignity of a judge of the 
 Supreme Court of Louisiana. He performed the functions of judge and commandant 
 for about a year, located at St. Louis, and then his health failing, he resigned and 
 returned to Ohio. Soon after, the President appreciating his abilities as a lawyer, 
 appointed him U. .S. Judge for the district of Michigan, and he had but just entered 
 upon the duties of his office when he was nominated as the first civil Governor of 
 Ohio and elected over his opponent, Gen. Nathaniel Massie, by a majority that would 
 unquestionably have seated him had not the State Senate declared his election \oid, 
 under the assumption that by his residence in Louisiana and Michigan, he had forfeited 
 his citizenshi]!. He never questioned the decision, and was immediately elected judge 
 of the Supreme Court, and soon after elected to the L^. S. Senate to fill the tme.xpired 
 term of Hon. John Smith, w-ho had resigned the seat to avoid impeachment for alleged 
 complication with the conspiracy of Aaron Burr. At the same session of the Ohio 
 legislature. Judge Meigs was chosen for the full term in the Senate from March 4th, i8og. 
 The next year, after a very hotly contested election, he was chosen Governor by a 
 majority of over 2,000 votes. His inaugural address stamped him as a man of extraor- 
 dinary ability and comprehensive mind, and the War of 1S12 found him constantly ex- 
 ercising that ability to defend the frontiers of his .State from the savage enemy. In this 
 he greatly succeeded, and his tireless devotion won him national recognition to such 
 extent that he was called by President Madison to the seat in his Cabinet of Postmaster 
 General. Here he proved that the appointment was an excellent one, and for nine years 
 and until declining health made it necessary for him t(i retire, he discharged the arduous 
 duties of his position in a manner to gain the highest commendation of his fellow citizens. 
 His latter years he spent in his quiet home at Marietta and died March 29, 1S25. 
 
 A! 
 
224 Mkics CtKnI': \i (»,\-. 
 
 lluTlU' I.I (.111 . ilililll..i>ii ' ll..\v jllV-i lidll rlilig^ 
 Anil liovL-is n.iiiiil tliue uilli liur SL-rapli wiiij^s ' 
 i>t.-.irt.-i tti\ hills, ilioiii;li clad in aiiliiniii l.niwii, 
 'lliaii faiiX'sl Miiniiijls w lii< h Lliu ix-dars ci*i.\\n. 
 
 — O. If Holme,, 
 
 No. 1Q4. JOHN MEIQS. 
 
 lust aftt-r his eightv-fiiurtli Liirth(la\'. ( V^''^ ' Return [. Mciys wrote part ol a letter 
 to his name-sake t;randson, which was never finished, hut h)uiiil amiiiiL; his ])apers after 
 his ileath. This letter ]iresents such a \\(.'inl |iictiire of the |iriniiti\e lixint; on the frontier 
 ai tliat lime, we have thoiig'ht it worllu' of a place here. 
 
 " I was lioin within a hall mile, 1 think, ol Winchester, the Coimtv town of Clark 
 County, Kt-ntucky. in a little cabin, a picture of which and some of its surrountlings 
 remains indelilily imprinted upon m\' niemorv ; of this [jicture my father and mother 
 were i^art, and but for this im[)ression, I should have no recollection whate\er of \\\\ 
 father, e.\ceptin,i;' a [)artin,i; scene. .Some se\en miles from this Clark Countv cabin, in 
 the adjoining Count\' of Bourbon, lix'ed m\' Aunt Cynthia, who had married James 
 Lamme, '■' * * *. At his place \n\ lather came to take lea\e of mv mother, mv sister 
 and myself. He carried my sister and myself alternately, across the yard, which was 
 covered with a beautiful carpet of blue grass. That scene is on my memory, and 1 re- 
 p(U"t with jHi'feil confidence of its \erit\'. That was the last of mv father. He went to 
 Ohio on a visit to his father. Col. R.J.Meigs, * * ■ and there he dietl. .My Cncle 
 Lamme had no children and he became, as it were, a father to my sister and myself." 
 
 I-"iiri.ui a,;;L- It-'ariiinj; .mil \-iiliu-. * "'' * ITwi- mem to lia\(- Itcn.es, 
 statcsniL-ii,|aiiil [.liiliis. .jiliei >, \\ c sliuiil.i liaVf leained wi.iiiuii. 
 
 - AhiKiUl A,iami 
 
 No. 206 MEHITABLE i MEIGS i PORTER. 
 
 .She married iii i.So.s, the Re\'. .\oah I'orter, of Farmin^lon. who w.is for sixty vears 
 the pastor of the hirst Chureh ol that place, and u ho w.is descended from Robert 
 Porter, one of the founders of the town m 1'14<-). I'o them were f)orn sexeii children: 
 -Samuel, Noah, .Sarah, (iiles, Rebecci, I^lizabeth and Maria. 'l"he fame of at least two 
 of these, Noah and .Sarah, as educators, and the success of others ol the f.imilv calls for 
 particular notice in this record of Meigs descendants. 
 
 Of iJr. .Xoah Porter, we subjoin this brief biograpln- : liorii December 14. iSii, 
 at I'.irmington, gr.iduated in iS;,i, had charge of the Hopkins School in New Ha\en for 
 two \-e.irs and .is tutor of the College for two more. Then was pastor at New Milford 
 from iS^i to iS4,v and at .Springfield, Mass., fr(.)m 1.^4,", to iS4(). 
 
 .\\ I)i. W'oolsey's assumption ol the Presidenc\- of \'.ilc, 1 )r. Porter was e.dlnl to a 
 new lii.iir ol moral [>hilosophv and metaphysics. In this lii.ini h ol knowledge he \\(in 
 distinction b\- his large work on " The Human Intellect," published in iSbiS, and his 
 widely used te.xt book, " Elements of Intellectual Science," ( 1.S71 ). As showing tluwide 
 ran,g"e ol his thought, we note among his other pulilished works the following : ".\ 1 )is- 
 course on the Two Hundredth .Annixersary of his Native Town " ( 1.S41 ), "A Prize P.ssay 
 on the Kdui ation.d S\slems of the Puritans and Jesuits "( 1 S5 1 1, "American Colleges 
 
Ai'Pi:ni)i\. 
 
 ami th(.- American l^ublic " (iSyo), " Bool<;s and Keaiiing " (1S70), "Science of Nature 
 versus tlie Science of Man" ( 1.S71 ), "Science and Sentiment" ( iSSji, " E\anoelinc, tlie 
 Place, tlie Story and the I'oem "( I. SS2), "Elements of Mural Science" (1SS5), and a 
 "Critical Exposition of Ivant's l''.lhics " (1886). 
 
 He was also chief editor of the revised 
 editions of Noah Webster's Dictionary in 
 1804 and in 1S90. 
 
 The tieoree of D. D. was conferred upon 
 him by the Lhiiversity of the State of New 
 York in 1S5S, and by that of Edinburgh in 
 1 886. Western Reserve L'niversity of Ohio 
 gave him the degree of f.. E. 1). in 1871;!, 
 and Trinity College in 187 i. 
 
 He retained his chair on assuming the 
 Presidency of Yale in 1871. His administra- 
 tion was a period of great prosperity and 
 rapid growth in the University, and lasted 
 till 1886, when he retired from the Presi- 
 dency, but retained his chair of Moral Phil- 
 osophy, although increasing infirmities did 
 not permit many more years of labor. He 
 died in 1892. 
 
 His sister, Sarah Porter, born at Farm- 
 ington, August, 16, 18 13, in her own way 
 exerted an influence as far reaching as that 
 of Dr. Noah. After teaching for some time 
 aw'ay from home, she returned to Farming- 
 ton and began her work there by taking a 
 few pupils into her father's home, ami from 
 
 this small beginning grew up the large Seminary still called Miss Porter's School for 
 Young Ladies, and more widely known than any of its kind in New England, Mt. Holyoke 
 alone excepted. 
 
 She left the impress of her mind on all who came under her teaching, and gave to 
 hundreds of the best born women of the land, "that poise and stability, that combination 
 of learning and good manners which is the mark of the noblest American womanhood," 
 and she merited the last honor that was paid her, that of being borne to the grave by 
 representatives of Yale, Harvard, Columbia and Williams. She died February 17, 1900. 
 
 The Century Magazine for the following July containctl an estimate of her character 
 and work from the pen of Prof. William M. Sloane, and other magazines published 
 articles bearing testimony to the luss the ranks of educators had sustained in her 
 death. 
 
 Another well known member of this distinguished family recenll\- tlied in Wash- 
 ington, D. C, Prof. Samuel Porter, who at the time of his death was fMiieritus Professor 
 of English I^hilosophy and Lecturer on Phonetics in ( iallaudet Ccjllcge, the well known 
 institution for the oral and mental training of the deaf and dumb. 
 
 NOAH PORTER, D. D , L 
 1811-1 892. 
 
226 
 
 Mi-.ics ("i1.:.\kai,()(;y. 
 
 OiiI\' in a tln>ii<4lilk-ss temper wmild an intelligent man dei lare that it 
 matteuii nnlliin'.; tn him wlm weie liis Lincestors, nor what his relatioiisliiii ' 
 
 mi>^lit he- In the lest ot manliind. and ti. Itmse after him. 
 
 Ihmy h'rmliill 
 
 No. 210. RICHARD MONTGOMERY MEICiS. 
 
 Richard Miiiiti;ciiiier\- Mt-i<^s, ihinl sun nf (97) Major |i)hii Meigs and Elizabeth 
 Henshaw, was luirii at MiddlL-towii, Conn. In 1796 he mo\eii with his father and family 
 to New Hartford, Cciiin. In 1S112 he was sent to Albany, N. \'., ami lived for some 
 years with iiis Tncle Daniel Henshaw, on \orth Pearl Street, near .State Street, and w-as 
 a student in tin- ottiic and drii;T store of I )v. Thaddeiis Piimero\-, to whose business he 
 afterward siici xcdid 
 
 RICHARD MONTGOMERY MEIGS. 
 
Appendix. 227 
 
 When he went to Albuny a Ijoy of fifteen, it was a quiet town, of |)iiniitive peo|)le, 
 many of them speal<ing in Dutch. At the souiul of the eight o'clork bell they, the 
 Dutch, went to their homes, and after a sui)per of ".suppawn" and milk, retired for the 
 niijht. 
 
 In October, 1842, he mo\-ed with his familv and a jiartv of friend.s and neighbors 
 of Albany and along the Hudson, to Wisconsin. .Some remaineil in Milwaukee, others 
 bought and took up land between there and the Indian Reserxation, mostly between 
 Waukesha and the Nashota Missions, foiniing a neiiLiliborhood of mostly New York 
 State and New Jersey peo])le. 
 
 In that period wlu-n Chicago had about 2,000 inhabitants and Milwaukee 2,500, 
 the method of travel is worth noting. Mr. Meigs and some of the party commenced 
 their journey at State Street, Albany, by the then Mohawk and Hudson Valley Railroad 
 (the N. ^' Central is now operating under this charter) to .Schenectady, thence by Canal 
 packet to Buffalo, and by high pressure lake steamboat to Milwaukee, a journey of 
 three or four weeks. 
 
 In 1.S59 he returned East, and sjjent the remainder (if his life between New York 
 City and the village of Knox in the Helderbergs. He lived the quiet life of such a 
 town, and was a very congenial man, and known to every one of that Burgh ; held no 
 public position e.xcept as Sergeant-at-Arms of the New \'ork State Senate for some years 
 and as Treasurer of the Albany Female .Academy, a quite noted institution of learning 
 in N. \'. .State and the only institution for the higher education of women existing at that 
 period. From the head of this Academy Prof. I'". W. Crittenden went to establish a 
 similar institution, the Packer Institute in Brooklyn, which now ranks liigh as an educa- 
 tional college. 
 
 Mr. Meigs died at the age of ninety -six, retaining to the last his interest in public 
 affairs. 
 
 Tlitse are lh\ Iionours ; not that licre lli\' hiist 
 Is mix'd with heroes, or witli kings thy dust. 
 
 No. 215. HO.N. HENRY MEIGS. 
 
 Judge Henry Meigs, son of ( 9.S ) I'rof. Josiah, was in every respect an unusually 
 magnificent specimen of an American gentleman. Erudite to a remarkable degree, 
 courtly and brave, he was beloved bv all who knew him, and with all, he was one of the 
 most progressive men of his day. It was he who sought to ha\e a resolution passed 
 while a member of the i6th Congress, to the effect that as fast as the nation sold the 
 public domain ( his father, the Hon. Josiah Meigs, being then Commissioner of the Gt-ne- 
 ral Land Office, the same that is now called Secretary of the Interior, I we should Iniy 
 the slaves from their owners and set them free, or a war between tire North and the 
 South was inevitable. He was dying in 1861 as that war was commencing. 
 
 He was one of the founders of the American Museum, which Dr. Scudder intended 
 to be a depository of natural and other curiosities of scientific \alue, and was one of the 
 originators of the American Institute, designed through competitive exhibitions to 
 develop mechanical and inventive skill, in this way anticipating World's Fairs and Centen- 
 nial Expositions. 
 
22.S Mkigs CiI':nkai,o(;v. 
 
 Occupyins^ his handsome home on the banks of North River, near the foot of 14th 
 St., lie t;athered about him tiistinguished artists, authors and others noted in foreign 
 huuls as well as our own. Lafayette visited him while in this country. His hospitaHties 
 will long be remembered in old Gotham. 
 
 To the last he retained an affectionate remembrance of his native City, New Haven, 
 and it was to him her peo])le were indebted several years ago on the occasion of a grand 
 Fourth of July dt'monstration, for the suggestion which led to the procuring of the 
 miniature frigate (.^institution, ( picked vi|i in the British Channel and borne in procession 
 there in 17^0, on the adoption of the I'. S. Constitution! to form a ])roniinent feature in 
 the display. 
 
 In the New Ytnk World of Seiftember i.^h, r.Shi, there was published an obituary 
 notice of him which we are sure will be of interest to the reader. We publish it here- 
 with in full. 
 
 At a recent meeting o( the Farmei's Cluli of the American Institute, Prof. Mapes 
 read a paper upon the " Life and Character of the late Hon. Henry Meigs," formerly 
 the recording secretary of the Institute, which we are permitted to publish: 
 
 It becomes our painful iluty to record the death of the Hon. Henry Meigs, late 
 recording secretary of the .\meric,ui Institute, and secretary of the Farmer's Club. All 
 who visit this institution will sadl\- miss the late secretary from his accustomed place, and 
 feel with a keen sense of loss that his kindlv glance and words of pleasant greeting can 
 be known on earth no more ; vet tlu'ir sadness may be relieved by knowing that the 
 absent one, having faithfully finished his earthlv task, has started fearlessly and cheerfully 
 on the unknown journey, with the strength of a well-spent life for his pilgrim staff, 
 and the star of faith to guide him oiiwartl. 
 
 It is with these mingletl emotions that we contemplate the death of oui- friend and 
 associate, the Hon. Henrv Meigs. Tried through long years of public and private use- 
 fulness — true as a man, faultless as a gentleman, and in domestic relations judicious and 
 tender, few men ha\'e lelt behind them memories more honored and beloved. 
 
 Mr. M(_igs was born at Nt'W Haven in 17.S2, and died in May last, in the jyth year 
 of his age. He graduated at N'ale College in ijgy, was educatetl for the bar, and jjrac- 
 ticeil as a lawver f(.ir manv \cars. Earh- in his career he won the confidence of man\- 
 prominent citizens, aiul numbered among his friends and clients, John Jacob Astor, 
 Robert Lenox, Isaac Bronst)n, Messrs. I'rinie, Parish and Gallatin, and other wealthy 
 men of the day. Some of these gentlemen were instrumental in connecting him with 
 the United States Bank, three-quarters of whose capital of 5i> >.' " '0,ooo passed through 
 his hands. 1 )uring this time he h.id c)ccupied se\-eral important pulilic [)ositions. In 
 I So- he was appointed one of our city magistrates, and continued in that office for 
 several years. Though exempt from milit.iry duty, he volunteered in the war of 1.S12, 
 and was ap])ointed adiut.int under Colonel Marinus Willetl. of re\'oluti(.>nary fame ; his 
 regiment served for city defence during the entire war. 
 
 In i,Si6 when the construction of our canals was resolved upon, Mr. Meigs puljlished. 
 in the New York " National ;\dvocate," articles recommending railroads, with locomotive 
 sti'ani <'ngiiies, as Iteing capaljle of an average speed of si.xteen miles an hour. The 
 idea was ridiculed as absurd by his contemporaiies, in whose wildest dreams the [:>ossi- 
 bility of so daring a scheme could find lU) place. In those days of slow coaches and 
 post horses the great spider of enterprise had not woven the first thread of the iron net 
 work which was to encompass the land, and on which both Mr. Meigs and his sage op- 
 p(.isers were to be whiiled along at the rate of fortx' niik-s an hour. 
 
Ai'ri-:\i)ix. 229 
 
 Mr. Meigs was characterized throuyhuut his long Hfc by a pure puhhc spirii. His 
 own pt-rsonal interests were but as stublile, tu be trodden (h)\vn whenever thev arose to 
 check him in tiie path of what he beheved to be his dut)-. His career whih- serving in 
 the X\'I Congress amply testifies to this. Elected by the City of New York, and with- 
 out pledge of any kind to man or party, he resolved — in spite of the remonstrances of 
 his friends and clients — to leave a lucrative and growing business and meet the Missouri 
 question, which was then the up|)ermosi theme of the day. How he met it the public 
 have long ago been told. " I found," saitl he in a manuscript now in the possession of 
 his family, " that the battle deser\'ed all my courage, for f was iinmediately and con- 
 stantly threatened with assassination ! 1 felt compelled, in self-defense, to carry my old 
 war pistols all the time in the Hall of R(_presentatives and elsewhere." 
 
 Ne\ertheless he stood firmly liy the side of what he believed to be the right. 
 Though tempered with extreme charity toward his opponents, his words were edged 
 with the keenest of conviction. The Missouri compromise was passed, and he was one 
 of the majority of three that carried it. after he ha(.l addressed the H(juse upon the 
 question with great vigor anci effect. He also introduced the first resolution ever offered 
 to exchange our public lands for slaves, and to send the latter in families, with the Bible 
 and the jilow, to .•\frica as fast as the sale of [uiblic lands would allow, declaring to Con- 
 gress that if the plan was not then adopted the increase of the blacks would soon rentier 
 it ini[)ossible, and a civil war must ensue between the North and South. He lived to see 
 his jircdictions sadly verified, to see with his closing eves our Union, the great beacon- 
 fire of liberty, whose kindling he had known, flicker dimly and fitfully in the ])resence 
 of bewildered nations! Men may not coincide with him cencerning the cause of the 
 great calamity, but none will deny the |)uritv or the boldness of his purpose. 
 
 .Subsequently Mr. Meigs represented New York City in the State Assembly, and in 
 i8;t2 as President of the Board of Aldermen, was a staunch servant of the citv's interests. 
 He, at that time, strongly advocated the introduction, on a grand scale, of the Croton 
 water, and penned the first resolutions which were offered on the subject. 
 
 The .American Institute elected Mr. Meigs recording secretary in 1.^43, and this 
 position, in connection with that of Secretary of the Farmer's Club, he occupied up to 
 the time of his death. The minutes of the meetings and records of the transactions 
 of the Institute bear witness to his indefatigable industry and his devoted attachment to 
 the cause of agriculture. No research was too intricate, no e.xertion too great, proxitled 
 that by any effort ol his own he could add either to its dissemination or to its interests. 
 Day after day in later years he was to be seen faithfully laboring at his [)ost, and keenly 
 at the present time must his co-workers of the Institute feel that the lilank in their midst 
 cannot soon be filled. His collations from the foreign journals of science, particularly 
 those devoted to agriculture, and his published synopsis of the current advancement of 
 the day, are to be found in the " Transactions," and his ojiening .iddresses ,U the \arious 
 fairs in the Institute constitute the best history of the advance of science in ,\meiica 
 that can be found. See his portrait page 55. 
 
 [udge Meigs was a man of extraordinary accpiirements. In additicjn to his knowl- 
 edge of natural law and its useful application, he was a profound and x'aried linguist. 
 His knowledge of oriental literature was beyond that of most scholars iif the da\-, and 
 indeed his familiarity with the best writings to be founil in all mo<lern languages was 
 remarkable. 
 
 He was an intimate friend (jf Dr. S. L. Mitchell, Dr. Da\id Hassack, and other pro- 
 gressive men of his age. At his finur.il the writer met the Hon. Mr. Dewey, the oldest 
 
2,-^o Mi:i(;s (.iK\KAi.i)(;\-. 
 
 li\in.L; c;ra(1iiatt' of \'ale College, iieing- now in his ninety-fifth year. Mr. Dewey spoke 
 of him in the warmest and strongest terms. Judge Meigs has left behind him children 
 well known anil respected in the community. It has fallen to the lot of few men to be 
 more happy than he in their private relations. Blest with vigorous health, he died in 
 the full vigor of a ripened age. His tall, commanding form and benevolent e.xpression 
 of kindh' interest once seen were not to be easily forgotten ; and strangers who have 
 visited the Institute have returned and asked again concerning him. Well might the 
 words of the friar in the old ballad have been recalled to mind, when men wondered to 
 see him out, hale and hearty, on cold winter days without an (jvercoat, or reading with 
 unaided eyesight at the age of seventv-nine. 
 
 " 111 the days of my youth (lather William replied) 
 I remembered that youtli would not stay, 
 And abused not my healtli and my vigor at first 
 That they niii;ht not with age pass away." 
 
 Honour ;i t)hysi(.iaii with tlie honour «iue unto liiiu tor the uses whali ye may ha\x- ot him ; 
 foi the Lord hath created liim. 
 
 For of tite must High LOnieth healing, and he shall receive honour of the King. 
 
 Tlie skill of" the i)hysician shall lift up his head : and in the sight of great men he shall be in 
 admiration. 
 
 — /u'c/mas/tciis v.r.ri'iti, /-,"'. 
 
 No. 219 CHARLES DELUCENA MEIGS, M. D. 
 
 RESoi.irriOiN's OF ruF Phil,\dkli'HI.\ Coi.lkch-: of Physicians. 
 
 The following resolutions, prepared by a Committee consisting of Drs. Stille. Bell 
 and Coates. were ado])ted by the College at a stated meeting hekl July 7, 1S69 : 
 
 A'tso/vt-if, That the College of Physicians have been grieved to learn of the death of 
 their Fellow, Dr. Charles D. Meigs, who had become equally venerable in character and 
 in age, and had crowned with honor an eminent and useful career. 
 
 Rcsok't'd, That of our deceased friend it may be truly said that his heart was as 
 warmly benevolent, and his actions as generous, as his manners were genial, kind and 
 winning. Zealous and conscientious in tlischarging his professional duties, he regarded 
 no sacrifice of time, rest, or comfort too great when its [lurpose was the relief of suffering, 
 and especially when its object were young mothers and their tender offspring, by thous- 
 ands of whom his name is blessed and will be held in grateful rememlirance. Endowed 
 with an enthusiastic love of the beautiful anil true, and with a refined and delicate taste, 
 lioth in nature and in art, he was not the less eager, as a scholar, to appropriate to him- 
 self the wisdom and experience of ancient times and foreign countries, for which purpose 
 he maintained a familiarity with the classics and with se\eral modern languages, and with 
 equal zest enjoyed their scientific and their literary wealth. Thus copiously furnished 
 with thought and expression, anil with the fruits of an extended, varied and well-studied 
 experience, he naturally became a successful teacher of his favorite art, enhancing the 
 attention of his audiences by earnestness of manner, clearness and elegance of diction, 
 and richness of illustration, as well as by many original views in the theory and practice 
 of medicine. 
 
Al'PF.NIU.X. 231 
 
 Resolved. That tlu' personal and iirofc-ssiunal life nf Dr. Meigs cons[)icuously illus- 
 trated the his^h princi]iles which should govern a physician's conduct in his relations 
 to his brethren, his patients, and society, and nvAy be safely appealed to as an example 
 and a guide. 
 
 Resolved, That a copy tif these resolutions, properly attested, bi_' communicated to 
 the family of Dr. Meigs. 
 
 In accordance with the further resolution of che College, ( 40<.>) Dr. John Forsyth 
 Meigs, was a])[)ointed to prepare a biographical niemoii' of their deceased Fellow, and 
 his father. 
 
 The following are brief extracts from the article so prepared, and read before the 
 College of Physicians at a stated meeting held on the oth of November, 1S72 ; 
 
 /■'e/Zou's of the College of I'hysieians 
 
 of Philadelphia. 
 
 Gentlemen : When I accepted the request of the College, made through its proper 
 officers, to prejjare for its archives a biographical sketch of its late member, my father. 
 Dr. Charles D. Meigs, I did so with much diffidence. 
 
 I feared niv relationship might warp my judgment, and my filial love exaggerate 
 his merits. Hut who could know him as 1 knew him? Not only did I pass all the time 
 which a son, reared at home, usually spends under the paternal roof, but, under the 
 power of a great misfortune which occurred to myself, after having been separatetl from 
 him for twelve years, I again took up mv abode with him during, with very few inter- 
 ru[)tions, the remainder of his life. Not only this. We were of the same profession. 
 Our interests, moral, intellectual, social and 'economical, were linked together. The 
 same subjects interested us equally, and 1 came to know him, 01- ought to have known 
 him, better than anv ordinarv or professional ac(]uaintanre 1 nuld have done — better 
 than most sons can know their fathers. 
 
 Should I, in the n(.>tice of his life, whi.h 1 .un .ibout to lead, [)ortray his \irtues too 
 highly, or his defects too lightly, 1 must beg you to excuse me for the reason thai he 
 was mv father. 
 
 He was fond of his genealogical tree, though it was not a \ery tall one, but he 
 insisted that it was most respecta])le, and that it was the duty of all men, when they 
 could, to teach their children theii' famih- iiistory, and to jilace before them the rigid 
 duty incumbent upon them, to do whatexer mighl be in their power to promote its 
 honorableness before men. Many a warning did my brothers and I receix'e \vnm him 
 not to disgrace the stock from which we had come. I belie\e firml)- that these appeals 
 from him, this faith he hatl in the honor and respectability of his ancestors, had a posi- 
 tive influence upon his own children, in lentling them a motive towards uprightness 
 in their walk through life. That such teachings are not more common in our young 
 country is, I think, a misfortune. Not that he e\-er taught us that a man should rest his 
 own foundations on mere traits of famil\' history, but that he should beware lest he 
 disgrace that history. 
 
 At the end of his family Bible he wrote on the 25th March, 1862, at Hammanassett, 
 his country seat, a note addressed to his children, in which he says : " My desire is that 
 you should carefully preserve, each one of you, the record of our family. 
 
 ■• If all men could be induced to preserve their family records, discar<ling without 
 mercy every member of their blood-line whose conduct might stain it, socii'tx' uould 
 derive great securitv, and virtue a strong sup]iort from that course. 
 
2;i2 Mi-:ii;s (iKnkai.oi.v. 
 
 ■' II it shiiultl l)e deemed unlair tu ignore discreditable niemliers of a line, then at 
 li-.ist let a mark of disapprofjaticjn he set opposite their record." 
 
 My father came from lioth sides of the house, from a New England stock, people of 
 very moderate possessions as to worldly goods, who earned, as farmers, the means of 
 living from the cold soil of Connecticut, or who, as small manufacturers, and sometimes, 
 as I have reason to believe, as hatters, were well inured to daily labor, and to habits of 
 simplicity and economy. They were people of strong natures, bringing into the world 
 large families, receiving them with thankfulness and withc^ut fear, and rearing them in 
 habits of honest industry. 
 
 Charles was born in the island of St. (George's, one of the group of the Bermudas, 
 on the ryth of February, 179-!. Mv grandfather ha\ing gone to St. George's to practice 
 as a proctiir in the luiglish Courts of Admiralts'. Thev remained there until May, 
 1796. 
 
 From this beautiful southern home he was taken to the ruiler climate, antl to the 
 very different atmosphere, intellei:tual, social and religious, of New England. My 
 grandfather was made Professor (.)f Mathematics anil Astronomy at ^"ale College, and 
 under the shade of that College at New Ha\en my father passed the period of life be- 
 tween two and nine vears of age. 
 
 The domestic and social atmosphere of a small town in New England, the seat of a 
 great school of learning, with the added influences belonging to the household of a pro- 
 fessor of mathematics, must have had great influence in the formation of his moral and 
 mental character. Here he must haw imbibed much of that strong sense of duty which 
 h<- carried through life. Ilonestv, honor, love of country, inflexiljle uprightness, lil.ier- 
 alily of mind, and lo\'e of knowledge were here im[)lanted in him. His father, a student 
 always, and a teacher ; his home the seat of scholarship and of moderation. No love of 
 monev for money's sake. I cannot but think that these early associations hatl much to 
 do with that thirst for knowledge, that love of science and literature, which he exhibited 
 to the very last dav of his life. 
 
 In iSoi, when my father was eight years old, the family left the cold North for the 
 warm .South again, and he was now removed to the air and moral atmosphere of the 
 -State of Georgia. At Athens, a little town in Clarke County, Georgia, within twenty- 
 eight miles of the bonier, beyontl which still roamed the tribes of the Cherokee and 
 Creek Indians, was to be built up a new institution of learning, the University of Georgia, 
 and my father was to see the very birth and growth of the college which was to be his 
 Alma Mater, and where he was to accjuire that knowledge of the classics, of the severe 
 sciences, and of the French language, which was to aid him in the strife of a long and 
 arduous ])rofessional career. 
 
 Within twenty-eight miles of him was a country still occupied by the nati\-e Indian 
 — the \arious tribes of the Cherokees, Creeks, Choctaws, and Chickasaws — and but a 
 short distance from this great frontier, at Hiawassee, in Tennessee, lived his uncle. Col. 
 R. J. Meigs, his father's elder and best-loved brother, who at this time, and for nianv 
 years after, was the government Indian agent, having these tribes in his care. 
 
 From this time, 1805 to 1809, he resided with his parents in Athens, going on regu- 
 larly with his various classical and English studies in the Franklin College. What kind 
 of a faculty they may have had I do not know, but I tlo know that here was laid for him 
 a foundation of classical knowletlge which he ne\'er lost, and a thirst for learning which 
 he carried literally to the last day of his life. He graduated at the L'ni\ersity of 
 Georgia in 1809. 
 
Ai'pi:.\i>i\. 2i;3 
 
 Hv attended, after leavin- Dr. Feiidall, (if Atlims, two roiuses of medicine in tin- 
 University of I'eiinsylvania, the fust in 1S12-IS. He Irft (ieori^ia in 1S17 to reside in 
 Philadeljjhia. 
 
 In iy_:;i he tr.mslated and jniblished WIpcau s l-'.l, Duiilarv I'rcatise on Mid:,'ij\rY, 
 which was dedicated to Dr. James. The \vnrl< must have been successful, since a second 
 edition appeared in 183S. 
 
 The first independent \v(jrk puljHshed by him was one entitU/d, The Philadi If^hia 
 Practiic of Mid^oifoy. 
 
 It ajipeared in 1S3S, and was a small octavo of ;,70 |jaoes. Tliis must ha\c ha<l 
 some success since it was exhausted in three years, as I find from the preface to a second 
 edition, in the form of a lari<e octavo of 40.S pages, which was issued in 1S4J. The 
 preface bears date December, 1S41, and in it he says : " Three years ago this work was 
 
 issued from the press In the space abo\-e mentioned, ilie work h.is lieen 
 
 exhausted from the book shelves, and 1 have been invited by the bookseller and pub- 
 lisher to prepare a second edition." This work, was as he states in the jireface, "An 
 exposition of the most common \-iews upon obstetric subjects, whether theoretical (jr 
 practi(\al, as hekl .among my medical brethren in this rit\-." 
 
 In 1S41 he was elected to the post of Professor of (Jbstetrics and the disease of 
 Women and Childi'en, in the Jefferson Medii-al College of this cit\-, entering that school 
 with his friends Dr. Franklin Hache, Dr. J. I\. Mitchell, and Dr. Mutter. 
 
 In the si.xth year of his professorship In- published the first independent work he 
 had written since Tlie Philadelphia Prailicc of Midi,- if cry. This was an octavo volume 
 of 670 pages, and was [Hiblished by Lea lS: Blanchard in 1.S47. Its title was, \\'o)nan, 
 her Diseases and Remedies. It was written in the form of letters to medical students, 
 and it is one of the most original medical works of this countr\'. It is based very 
 largely on the piactiial knowledge of woman's diseases he had accjuired by personal 
 e.xperience, during the thirty years he had now been actively engaged in business in 
 this city. 
 
 I doubt whether there is any American medical work which so clearly shows the 
 character of the author as this. The stvle is peculiar and original. It is easv, flowing, 
 gracefid, and often elocjuent. <uid there rims through the whole book a vein of sentiment, 
 a thread of morality, in the form of appeals to the conscience and honor of the student, 
 in his treatment of these diseases, which must strike every one who reads. There is in 
 it a tone of easy familiarity with the subject, and with the reader, which is very agree- 
 able. Its explanations are clear and distinct. The opinions expressed ui)on the nature 
 and symptons of the diseases referred to, ,ind upon the methods of treatment, are full 
 and positive. No man, can doubt, as he reads, that the author has himself seen .ill that 
 he has described, and that he has no douljts as to the proprietv and cc.irrectness ol the 
 plans of treatment proposed. 
 
 In 1S49 he issued the first edition of the work entitled, idx/etries. (lie Seieiice and 
 the Art. which was in fact, a continuation of The Philadelpliia I'raetice of }fid;oifery. 
 This work, was intended to be a treatise upon his special branch. 
 
 In 1.S45 he translated a trt-atise on the P>iseases and Soeiai J/n^ieiie of Fenia/es, liy 
 Colombat de L'Isere. This was a large closely-printed octavo \dlvnne of 720 pages, 
 and it, like the last work, was dedicated to Dr. La Roche. .A second edition was called 
 for and issued in 1S50. 
 
 Besides the preparation of the five original works I ha\e just enumerated, he was 
 obliged to revise several editions of his works. The tirst edition of the Letters on the 
 
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 Mkic.s Gknealocv. 
 
 Diseases i)f Women was ])ulilisheci, as statetl, in 1S47. In 1S50 a second eijiticjn, in 
 1854 a third, and in 1S59 a fourth, were re(|uii"ed, all of wiiieh were ])assed through the 
 press imder his own sole superintendence. 
 
 The work on < )listetrics, first piililishe<l in 1841), passed into a second edition in 1852. 
 a third in iSs*^^'. a Icjurth in iSo:;, and a lifth in iS(t-, and all ni this work was 1)V himself 
 ak)ne. 
 
 These various works, all nf which were written in the midst of most arduous and 
 fatiguing obstetrical and general luedical practice, and while he was in the habit of lec- 
 turing four times a week during the winter, lecture courses, exhibit, I think, a remarkaijle 
 example of what the \ ital centres of the human machine can occasionally accomplish — 
 I say occasionally accomplish, for 1 am cominced there are few men born into this 
 world wlio can do in the way of work what my father did during these years. 
 
 About 183(1, when he was sixty-four years of age, he began to make serious pre])ara- 
 tions for retirement from active life, and with this end in view bought, after looking at 
 several different localities, a spot of land of thirty-seven acres, to which I had the 
 pleasure of directing him in l^elaware County, eighteen miles from the city. He built 
 himself not only a house, but a barn and stable, a tenant-house, a spring house, an ice- 
 house, a work sho[i, and all in the prettiest and most agreeable styles. And when all 
 was hnished, his house and land hid cost him but about fifteen or sixteen thousantl dol- 
 lars. He now sought a name for his new domain, and amcjiigst others, wished to call it 
 Paraclete, the Comforter: but my mother objected to what might seem at least an impro- 
 priety in the use of S(.) holy a wortl, and he chose the Indian name of a small river in 
 Connecticut, hard by which his forefathers had settled, and he called it Hamanassett. 
 
 When all was ready he sent my mother, with such of his children as could go, and 
 ni\' children, to pass the summer at the place ; and in the summer months he would go 
 down himself, returning to town, at first daily or every other day, to attend to such 
 cases as he could not w'ell cast off. After one of these visits he walked down the hill 
 from his house, towards the railroad station, to return to tow n. My mother accompanied 
 him to the gate, which she held open as he ]jassed through, miserable and sad at leaving 
 her and his country home. As he passed through, he turned and said, sadly, " Mary, 1 
 feel now as .\dam must h,i\e felt when he left the garden of Eden, and the angel stand- 
 ing at the gate." 1 found, on looking over this diary, the following passage, of the date 
 of Wednesday, Fel_iruar\' 17th, 1S5.S, he writes : " This day, sixty-six years ago, was I 
 born at St. (ieorge's Bermuda, on the 17th of February, 1792. I aiu now old and well 
 stricken in years, and yet I labor tliligently in my calling 1 How long I " 
 
 In his garden record I find him writing the following words under date of Monday, 
 25th Februai-v, 1801 ; " This afternnon 1 delivered my last lecture at the Jefferson College, 
 and shall ne\er more appear in public as a teacher of obsti'trics, though I am to go on 
 Wednes<Ja\- at 4 p. m. to deli\er an acldiess of farewell t(i the class. I am surprised 
 th.it this fmale of ni\- public life causes in me not the slightest excitement: 1 am simply 
 very glad to get out uf it. I am not mad with joy, but I am serenely cheerful at the 
 prospect now before me ol enjoying a little of the libre arbitre that I never yet tlid know." 
 
 I'erlKips the most remarkable feature of his life was his wonderful acti\ity. He 
 was never idle. I never knew him to go to bed without a book in his hand. This is a 
 literal fact. Unless ill, he always read after going to bed, no matter what the time of 
 night might be. His manner of life for many years was the following : He had a large 
 obstetric business and large general jiractice, neither of which were ever neglected. He 
 was in the streets at work from nine in the morning until usually ten at night. In the 
 
Ai'1'i:n"dix. 
 
 235 
 
 middle uf the day he had from half an hour to an hour for dinner and in the eveniu;^, 
 towards seven or eiyht o'clock the same for tea. His meals were always taken in a hurry, 
 and often interrupted by calls to the ottice, which, to the last, he would seldom refuse. 
 Often up at night, often out all night, and snatching a few hours of sleej) on a sofa or 
 chair. 
 
 In an introductory lecture of November, 1S46, he says: " I acknowledge that 1 am 
 an enthusiastic admirer of my profession. My speech declares it, and my whole ])ast 
 life is a perpetual proof of it. Hut I love that profession as a ministrv, not as a trade. 
 Can any human a\ocation have a stronger tendency to elevate and purify the mind than 
 that of the physician? What other? In what light shall he see the nature of man so 
 clearly and so plainlv ? 
 
 "If you compare the tendency of these pursuits to raise the mind and the heart 
 above the common level of humanity, with the similar tendencies of mathematics or 
 pure physics, or the study of moral science, we find that they alike lift the roiuempla- 
 tion to the throne and glory of God ; that they alike show forth the littleness, \ileness, 
 and fruitlessness of man, his scope and endeavor. The mathematician and the astrono- 
 mer in their in\-estigations of the theory of the universe, in their detecti'in of the laws 
 of planetary and stellar motions, and in the farthest reaches of their thought as to the 
 great cosmic influences and reactions discovered by reason's glance, I)iit the |)ower of 
 numbers, or the magic of their glasses, cannot come nearer to a view of the power and 
 wisdom and goodness of the Most High, than we in our studies of the laws and jdie- 
 nomena of the life force and of mind." 
 
 In November, 1S43, he spoke the f( illov\ing words to one of the large classes of 
 Jefferson Medical College : " Your station is one of the most confidential character. 
 Men, and women too, will open to you the secret griefs and shames that op])ress them. 
 Where is honor, if you betray them ?" 
 
 '■ You will be temptetl to desert the path under some pretence of doing good. Never 
 do evil that good may come. Have a care lest you bring ruin on yourseh'es and dis- 
 credit on all the brethren. The occasions to err are named legion. Be temperate, 
 without reproach ; charitable, charity is a grace to all men — to the physician in- 
 dispensable." 
 
 " The rewarcls of labor are sure, if not large. The fees of the physician are the 
 honoraria — the honorable reward for intellectual labor. Take a just \-iew of the nature 
 antl variety of this compensation." Again he says : " The female is naturally religious. 
 Hers is a [lious mind. Her confiding mind leads her more rapidly than man to accept 
 the proffered grace of the Gospel. If an undevout astronomer is mad, what shall we 
 say of an irreligious woman ? See how the temples of the Christian worship are filled 
 
 with women It is not until she comes beside him, in view of the people, 
 
 that man ceases tii be barbarous, and cruel, and ignorant." 
 
 "She spreads abroad the light of civilization and improvement as soon as she issues 
 from the prison of the harem or zenana, to live with him in the parlor. Who made us 
 human? Whose were the hands that led us to kneel down, ami whose the lips that 
 taught our infant voices the earliest invocations to Heaven? " 
 
 He died just as he had ahvavs wished to die, and passed peacefully away in the 
 midst of a tranquil sleep on the 22nd of June, 1.S69, at the age of 77 years. 
 
 Note. — The foregoing extracts are from eighty pages of memoir of Charles D. Meigs, M.D,. 
 by his si,>n John Forsyth Meigs, M. D. For liis portrait see Page 56. 
 
M !■ :i(,^ ( ii:.M-;Al.oi;\ . 
 
 Wli", UkiI III ilist.iiil l.iihK Ims cliaTuM lo rci.im, 
 Nf'.i tliulUil «itli I'li-asuiL- .It llif iiaiiK- of honii! 
 
 No. 225. JOHN FRENCH HEIOS. 
 
 jdhn Fii-iich Mci,f;s house. illustratL-d (in this ])a<>e, wa.s built liy |ohn P'rench, whose 
 ilaui^htcr, Maiy l-'ii-nch, manird .Sept. 17, 1 j.^s, Timothy Meii^s, irrandfather of |ohn 
 Flench Meij^'s. Mr. J(jhn Henr\' Meigs (6(iSI. writes: " Tliis is a fine representation of 
 tile house as I reuienif)er itsixtN' N'eais .igo. It might he well to state that the |)ost ottice 
 was kepi by John h'reneh Mei;^s in the northwest cornel" of the house. The house 
 stands end to the north and street, near the sonthuist coiner of Madison Green. 'I'his wsa 
 the first post ottice 1 e\er went to. [Jr. Joseph J. Meigs' family was the last to live in 
 the house. 1 think ihe propert\- has nexcr been out ol the Meigs family, and always 
 had a Meigs in it. il am \ cin- sure of this.) I might also sav [ohn h"ren<li Meigs 
 when a Justice ol the Peace a \ery imporlant ottice in those daj-s — used this house as 
 his ottice, and it was much frei)uented b\- town olticials. Mr. Fayette Meigs, of San 
 Francisco, took a picture of this house with .Samuel .S. Meigs, and m}-self standing in 
 front I il it, I think, in 1 Sos- " 
 
 THE JOHN FRENCH MEIGS HOUSE, 
 Madison , Con n 
 Built in 1674. 
 
 • All, . milil 111. mI.I li.nisr t.li us talc 
 
 Ol all llhil It saw ill till' loiisi-Koiu- years. 
 Vet moitat tongue or pen woiilil lait 
 
 'I'o give tlK' ret oiiis i>l leys ami tear^ ; 
 or the Muslurr^ In i.lt-s tli.lt H el e we.l.leil lliele, 
 
 or the sens .iiiil ilaii'.;liters tli.it veais have b.uiislieil, 
 or the .Mlliest 111., anil llie hustlin-.; c.ne, 
 
 That lilie.l the l.us\ , m les. v.inisheil." 
 
AfTEMilX. 2-;- 
 
 Look iii.w .tbioaii -aiiolliL-r r.u e li.is lille.i 
 
 Those lH..piilolis horticis— w hie tllr wimkI leicile^. 
 And tiiwhs slioot up. and tVitilt- rt-alnis aie tilled 
 
 'Mif land IS lull i>\ liai\ests and '.^il-lii iru-ads. 
 
 — />■/ r,j«; 
 
 • No 233. JOSEPH MEKjS. 
 
 In the liistuiN- nl all New Kn-laiid towns there art- a few men wlii) stand (JUt pro- 
 minently. showiiiL; that in their time they exerted a iiowerfiil. far reachiiisJ intUienee. 
 ( )ne ol such was J()Se|)h Meitjs. of Rochester, Plymouth Countv, Mass., the subject of 
 this sketch. He was liorn Sept. ii, 1776, and beijan his life cm .1 farm performing; the 
 duties of such an occiiijation as he L;rew up, but thev weie irksome, and his ambition letl 
 to other lines. The town scIukiIs did not afford him the desired information and he 
 soui^ht to impro\e every moment of leisure l)y easterly seizing upon ,uiv book that 
 woukl ad\ance his desire. conse([uentl\- would take his InKik and lunch to the helil or ,it 
 his work when learniuiJ the tr.ide of calker. dex'otin^ the noon hour or aii\- other interwd 
 in his labor, until he had mastered its contents. .Such application w.is sure to brins; its 
 rew.ird. He liecame an adept in his traile. and with [uide would pcjint out the differeiu 
 parts ol the \essel upon which he \Mirked. This skill bn.iui^ht him more prominentl\ 
 before the Master Builders, th.in his co-workers, thoui^h thev were s^ood workmen. 
 Havin.t; once trained the confidence of the Builders he was fre<iuentl\- consulted li\theiu 
 on many important points in ship Ijuildiny. He w.is frun.d of his e.unint;s. and on .Sept. 
 13. iSo,s, married .Amelia Lorin^, of Pembroke. Socin after he opened an old fashion 
 Country Tavern in the Mattapoisett section of the old town of Rochester, but nd .ic- 
 cumulating wealth as rapidly as he desired, i leavinu; his wife to .attend the Ta\ern 1, he for 
 se\-eral years each h'all went to S.ivannah. ( returnim^ late in the Sprint;. 1 where he 
 engaged in the Commission business, dealing in X.ual Stores, Lumber. .Sugar, Molasses 
 and Cotton, b\- which he gained a fortune. Ide u.is also the trusted agent for the 
 Rotchs, Howlands l\: Rodmans, of Xew Bedfonl, the leading business men of that town 
 at that time. 
 
 Politics seemed for a time to absorb his attention and being eiithusi.istic in this as in 
 all other matters he undertook, in 1S18 was elected to re[ireseiU the old town of Roch- 
 ester in the dreat ami (General Court. He was ,dso Tri.d fustice at this time, his n.une 
 l)eing found on leg.i! dm umeiits of this date. He hekl this position till his death in 
 |84('. .About this time h,i\ing purchased a vast tract of timber l.inti he Ijegan ship 
 Iniilding, and contracted with Cipt. Weir of Nantucket, to build a whaling craft. That 
 one gix'ing satisfaction, others were built for the Cottins of the s.imc Island, and the 
 Howlands and Riidmans. of .\ew Bedford. His example was followed by the Holmes. 
 Cannons (S: Barslows with marked success. He was elected in 1S21 and again in iSjj 
 to re[)resent old Rochester. During this time he embarked in the K.ist Iiidi.i tr.ide with 
 the Barstows & lilossoms ol New \'ork.and in the West Intli.t tr.idc on his (jwii account ; 
 opened a general merchandise store for the sale of any and evervthing " from a needle 
 to an anchor, coarse homespun to the finest silk, or a p(.'nnv whistle to a (ierman tfule " 
 as the aged folks now s.iw In all nf these undert.ikings he was emineiuK- successful 
 ami amassed a foitune. When all business seemed at a standstill he kept his courage 
 and sent his carpenters into the lumber tract to cut limber, then di\idc his force and 
 begin building a vessel for coast wise or whaling tr.ule, thus keeping .1 large number of 
 men constantly employed, and liy this means his iuHueuce in financial .uid |)olitical mat- 
 ters was second to liarc||\- that of any one. In this courageous maimer he built the ship 
 
2T,S MrcKis Gknkai.dcv. 
 
 luscph Meigs (^nained for hiiiiSL-lfl and tlie shi|) Sarali ( nanifd for his daughter) Ijoth of 
 which were successful ventures, though the first was burned full of oil at her moorings 
 in the harbor in 1846. His judgment was sought for as Appraiser and Referee, he was 
 a])pointed administrator of manv estates, and executor to many wills. Again the people 
 of Rochester, appreciating his sterling (|ualities, decided to honor him. for he was 
 elected as their Representati\(.- in i.Sjq-'^o-'.ii . thus showing the hold he had on the 
 community. His decisions as Trial [ustice were ne\'er controverted in apjieals to higher 
 tribimals. which ])lainly demonstrates an analytical mind. As time wore on the financial 
 crisis of 1837 tried some of the strongest firms to the verge of destruction, but he over- 
 came the disastrous effects and helped others to maintain their business standing, and in 
 consequence the district of which Rochester formed a part, expressed its desire for him 
 to make the advance to Senator. He consented anil was elected in iS^S-'^g, filling the 
 position to the satisfaction of the District. He was a Director of several State Banks, 
 trustee of two or three Sa\ings Institutions and on their Board of Investments for years, 
 which gave him the knowledge of the financial standing of a large portion of the con- 
 stituency he represented. His death occurred Sept. 23, 1846, and was considered a 
 very serious loss to the whole country. 
 
 Joseph Meigs as early as the fall of 1834, when thoroughly interested in ship build- 
 ing, caused an Act to be passed by Congress for the erection of light houses and beacons 
 in Buzzard's Bay, but failing to carry with it an adequate appropriation, he persistently 
 urged the matter upon the Congressmen ami Senators until by obtaining the assistance 
 of John Ouincy Adams, he in the latter part of iM.V-^ secured the necessary amount to 
 erect a light house on Ned's Point near the entrance to Mattapoisett Harbor, in the town 
 of Ri:)chester. ami it was built in i>^^~. ■ ]■ L. M. 
 
 The bold .Tie Init the iiistriimeiits of the wise ; 
 Tliey uiuleitake tlie dangers the\' advise. 
 
 No. 243. HANNAH (MEIGS) BRAQQ. 
 
 Daughter of ( 1 13 ) Nathaniel Meigs, of Rochester, Mass. m. Isaac Bragg, of China, 
 Maine. 
 
 ChILDKEN ; ALL BORN IN CllINA, Me. 
 
 BORN. DIED. 
 
 .Sept. 30, 1S02. Ally;. 17, 1S72. 
 
 May 17, 1S08. Jan. 3, 1S46. 
 
 April 24, iSio. l''eb. 19, 1S91. 
 
 \ov. 16, 1S12. I'^eh. 17, 1S91. 
 
 Xuv. 21, 1S15. May 5, 1S67. 
 
 Dec. I, iSiS. Sept., 1898. 
 
 Ian. 4, 1822. Aug. 26, 1876. 
 
 (-1. Isaac Meigs Bragg, son of (24,^1 Hannah Meigs, h'irst settled in Orono, after- 
 ward going to Bangor, Maine, where he entered the West India trade, in which he met 
 with success. 
 
 a. 
 
 Elijah, 
 
 1). 
 
 Caroline, 
 
 c. 
 
 Emeline, 
 
 d. 
 
 Isaac Meigs, 
 
 e. 
 
 Norris Hubbard 
 
 f. 
 
 Emily Ann, 
 
 .?• 
 
 Flavilla Taber, 
 
Appendix. 
 
 2,^9 
 
 Later he became identified with the hiinher Imsiiiess. one of the most prominenl of 
 the Penobscot Valley, and one of the oldest in that section, having- shipped the first carc«i) 
 of timber ever sent out of that port, in the ship Bremen, of Bremen, Germany, in iSsg. 
 
 He also chartered the first two ships tluit were e\er loailed there with deals, one 
 being the Trimountain, for Li\-erpool. He tinalK- retired from active business, occupy- 
 ing his time with the management of se\c-r,il estates left to his care together with the 
 timlier lands and |)ropertv owned \iv himself. 
 
 ISAAC MEIGS BRAGG, 1612-1891, 
 Bangor , M z 
 
 Mr. Bragg served in both branches of the City ("lovernment at different times, and 
 although having many other puljlic offices tendered him, refused them. 
 
 He was a man of sterling integrity, a faithful member of the Hammond St. Con- 
 gregational Church, a trustee of the Bangor Theological Seminary. He was posses.sed 
 of sound judgment, excellent al)ilitv, In'oati-minded vii'ws, thorough unselfishness and a 
 geniality and kindness of heart which endeared him to everybody with whom he came 
 in contact. 
 
 Til scr\,.- witli li.rt\ silts llie Icwly iiui-ils 
 
 C)l Unr jH'oi rat, lor whi, ii the OMil-nuiii ttied. 
 
 Ami <ln il all l.ii l,,\e— oh, tins is K't-'^it ' 
 
 No 266 REV. BENJAMIN CLARK MEIQS. 
 
 Re\-. Benjamin Clark Meigs, .Missionar\- to Ce\-l<in. liulia. This excellent ser\ant 
 of Christ died in New \'ork Cit\' at his residence "W.w i Jth, i.Shj, in the seventy-third 
 year of his age. He was the son of ( 132) Dr. Phineas Meigs, of Bethlehem, Conn., 
 where he was born August 9th, 17N9. lie was fitted for college under the tuition of Dr. 
 Azel Bachus, pastor of the church in ih.it town. He entered Yale College l.Soj. During 
 his collegiate course he became a ho])eful subject of di\ine grace. He received his 
 theological education at the Seminaiy of Andover. Mr. Meigs was married to Miss 
 
J4" • Mi'ii;s ( ;h:M:Ai.()i.\'. 
 
 Sarah Maria IV-ut, of his nati\'c town, a sister nf l)i. Har\(\- I'riiiilli; l^cct, tliL- clistin- 
 >;uished liead of the Asylum for the Deaf ami Dumb iu New \'ork. lie with his wife 
 ill comi.nuiy with four other missionaries, sailed from Newbiu'y Port, Mass., for India in 
 ( )(t. 1S15, under the ausjiiees of the Anieiican Hoard of Foreign Missions. This was 
 the second company of Missionaries from America. He labored o\'er Joiiv years in 
 Ceylon in planting the institutions of learning and religion, and in winning heathen souls 
 to Christ, and was greatly blessed in his work. In 1S34 he sent three of his children to 
 this countiy. .After a residence of o\er twenty-five years in Ceylon, he \'isited America, 
 and brought the rest of his family. The following year he returned to Ceylon, and 
 labored for St'i'i/z/tf// years longer. In lS5,S he was compelled to relin<|uish his wurk 
 and return to America, where he tlied May 12th, i.S()2. lie died as he lived, one of the 
 most perfect of men. and was buried at O.xford, Conn. Sc'c illustration on page 65. 
 
 No. 288 ELIAS BENJAMIN MEIGS. 
 
 Thi' house illustrated on page 70 was built hiy Mr. Meigs at the time of his marriage, 
 and here his brother Phineas ( 200 ) lived also, at the time of his death. Like many 
 another .New England honu', it contains many interesting relics — among them an old 
 siher tea service ; an oki pitch pipe ( useil to [jitch the tune in the ilays before the tuning 
 fork I; one of the glass bottles of early American manufacture with the frigate Constitu- 
 tion blown in the sides ; a silk State Hag 1 liut two other like it known to e.xist >: and 
 others, a list of which was recently sent t(.i the Historical Society of Hartford, Conn. 
 
 rii'iui;!! tniiinphs were to generals iiiil\ thie. 
 Clowns were leseived to grace the soldiers loo. 
 
 — Piifif. 
 
 No 207. CAPTAIN LUTHER MEIGS. 
 
 Capt. Luther Meigs, of Highgate, Vt. (born at St. .Albans, Vt. 1 son of ( 156) Benja- 
 min Stone Meigs, m. Phoebe Stockwell, daughter of Ebenezer Stockwell, Architect and 
 Builder. Luther Meigs and his father were pioneer settlers in the town of Highgate, 
 P ranklin Co., Vt., where Luther lived forty-eight years in one house and died there. 
 (See illustration.) For many years he commanded a company of Riflemen in the 
 Militia ; was at the battle of Plattsburg, New York, and took an acti\e and zealous part 
 in the War of 1.X12 '14, for which a grateful country ga\e him a grant of laiul in the 
 .State of Wisctjusin. 
 
 The following account contributetl by his son Ebenezer Stockwell Meigs, of Math- 
 ewson, < ). T., relates his participation in another and later war: 
 
 "In 1S37 the French inhabitants of Lower Canada ( now the Province of Oueliec) 
 instituted a rebellion wdiich was locally known as the Papineau War. The French ele- 
 ment of which the Province was largely matle up, rebelled against the F^nglish rule, and 
 hoped to establish their independence. A considerable army of them congregated on 
 the Canadian side, opposite Alburg, Grand Isle Co., Vt. B''ig- Gen'l Winfield Scott, of 
 
AiM'i:\i)i\. 
 
 241 
 
 the Unitc-d States Arm\-, came to X'ennuiU and lnoui^lu with him (Uie C(im|ian\- of {' . S. 
 soldiers, commanded by Capt. (later Ceii'l 1 Wool, (ieii'l Scott called njiou ("apt. 
 Luther Meigs, who was then commandant oi the Militia (jf Xorthern Wrmcjnt. for 
 assistance. The latter at once sent out word for all of his men to rendezxcurs at Swanton 
 Falls, X'ermont, within twent>--four hours, and to lie ready for acti\e field ser\ice. The 
 men [irom])tly assembled as directed, at Swanton as Headquarters. Teams were hired 
 of the farmers in the \icinity, to transport the men to (irand Isle Coimlv. 1 w,is a lad 
 of fifteen years, and drove one of the teams, it beint; that of my father, Ca])t. Luther 
 Meigs. We drove to the shores of .Missisijuoi Hay. at a [loint called Hog Island, and 
 from there crossed the Lake to .Alburg, arrixing near the Canada line in .Alliurg. The 
 French and British were already in action, at a place called Nutt's Corner, in the town- 
 shi|i of Clarence\-ille. in Lower Canada, the liritish whipped the F'rench. capturing a 
 great many prisoners. The balance of the French went across the line to .\lburg. 
 
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 Farm House, Highgate, Vt . and rOR more than Forty Years the home of 
 
 CAPT LUTHER MEIGS 
 
 From a Pen and Ink Sketch 
 
 "Alone it stands, so olil ami bare ami .£;ray. 
 
 Its one *inige chniniey looming touarcl the sky ; 
 Lost in g;reat maples that stretch their arms away 
 
 Up towards the heavens ; round about it lie 
 Broun, bleak, desertetl fields, where wheelnig lly 
 
 Sad wrens and swallows with a wisttiil call. 
 In storm and sunshine, through the season's all. 
 
 It stands, a dream ol times now long gone by. 
 
 =^T1k- .iiuluir reincmbers tliu great chiiiiiie\ tit. a stooil in IIk- i triitie ot'llie house lit was renioved altout twcnty-ti\e 
 years ."igo). F"rom its base tliere issued several large lire-plates and a liuge briclc oven, all constructed there het'ore 
 the (lays of stoves and ranges in that community. Beneatti this roof all his brothers and sisters U3' were horn, and 
 from it father, mother, sisters and a brother were borne to tlie church yard ne'er to return. When this house was 
 built the cuunlrv around about was nearly an unbrolcen w ilderness. We may sa\ that it was erecte'l in the lear ol 
 Ciod. and in terror of the Indians. 
 
242 
 
 Mkigs Gexkai.ocy. 
 
 Here General Scott ordered Capt. Meitjs and Ca])t. Wool to place their men in double 
 tile and open ranks, tlu'n the Frenrhnien filetl between them and laid down their arms as 
 they passed through the ranks. Thus endetl the Pajjineau War, of only a few days 
 duration. Ca]>t. Meiys after about two weeks of si-rvice returned with his c(jmniand to 
 Swanton and at once ilischars^ed his men, but the V . S. soldiers stayed in the vicinity 
 until the following; spring. The e\ent iif this short u|3risini; created considerable excite- 
 ment, and the peaceful relations of the L'nite<l States with Great Britain, were thought 
 endangered by a great many, because of the sympathy and encouragement received by 
 the rebels from great numl)ers in the .States, huleed it w.is thought a third war between 
 our countiv and Great liritain was narrowlv averted." 
 
 (?a[)tain Meigs wasboin in a remote country tow'ii in the then wilderness of Northern 
 Vermont. He inherited nothing but his gooil name, an honorable ancestry, and the 
 grit of an Anglo-.Sa.\on, With little education but with confidence in himself and high 
 hopes he hewed out for himself a ]iath-way of s<jme distinction. He twice rejiresented 
 his town in tin.' .State Legislature, and for more than forty vears was almost continuously 
 the ofhcial ser\ant of his town and county in s(jme otiice of trust. All of his duties, 
 whether private, ci\il or religious, were performed with perfect htlelit\- and integrity. In 
 his manifold relations to the public he was recognized as a man of marked ability and 
 of the highest honor. His clear and positive convictions and great courage made him 
 one whom his associates could itly upon to supjjort all that w ,is iKJUorable and just. 
 His religion seems moie peculiarly characterized Ijy a broad liberality of Christian 
 grace. It was an old custom in New luigland that gave one who contiibuted toward the 
 erection of a chunh the ownership of one or more pews in [jroportion to his contribution, 
 which he owned the same as a piece of real estate and could sell and deetl in the same 
 manner. In the early days of the town, Capt. Luther Meigs, coiUribiUed largely to the 
 
 VI f; ?■> 
 . -Feb. G, ISC 5. 
 i^. 72i/rf.Sms. <& 10 d.i. 
 
 /i/ec/t' rrnf frr Ae ,', /tp;t/.l na-ffa'//. 
 
 PHEBE. , 
 l/'ff" of 
 LL'THER ME/ OS. 
 
 ' //^/W 2J. /(S 6/. 
 'J^< fier 6/ 
 
 /' 
 
 ra/: 
 
 Pc/ -./- l,\'iu-('f our /Pr-.f; 
 Hon; Arr/fF a /r^vcc In'r /'rt^^-ncfftflef^. 
 
Appendix. 
 
 243 
 
 huililiiii; (if the Episcopal churcli aiul owned a pew in it; when the ('<int;i-e«;ati(inal 
 church was Imilt, he contributed largely toward its erection, and nwmd a pcu ni it ; 
 when the L'niversalist church was luiilt he also contributed liberall\- Inward tin- buildiiii; 
 and owned his pew in it ; and later, when the Roman Catholic chuiih was built he like- 
 wise contributed tn and nwned a pew in it, thoui;h it is ]iossible that he w.is nmer inside 
 of this structure. He also contributed libcrcdl\- to the Methodist church fund, and was 
 a liberal contributor toward the su[jport of the Ciosprl in all these churches. 
 
 To the needy and distressed for miles around, the doors of his !t;ran,ir\- and vegeta- 
 ble cellar were always open. It was a very usual thing to see his hind men go from 
 the larm with a load of wood destined In warm and cheer the heart and linmi- of some 
 unfortunate. And all this without money and without [nice. He w.is nKJurnetl by this 
 class as few in a community have ever Iieen. In his death the\- felt they hatl suffered 
 an irrejjarable loss, but a Father in Israel had gone to his reward. To the suffering and 
 distressed his sympathy was of the kind that costs something. No worthy oljject ever 
 failed to find in him a generous giver, he was ever ready to help his fellow men in need or 
 distress. He was e\er the friend of all that was noblest and best. He possessed the 
 courage of a Crusader temperetl with the gentleness of a woman. 
 
 To the writer of this sketch his memory has alwavs been a sweet benediction and a 
 continued stimulus to better living. Doubtless God might have given sons and daught- 
 ers a better father, the wilderness of Northern X'ermont a better pioneer, Franklin 
 County a better citizen, and the town of Highgate, where he spent almost his entire life, 
 a better townsman and a more incorruptibk- public otticial, but doubtless He never tfid. 
 For jjortrait see page 72. H. B. M 
 
 Mail's life's a Imok ol* histoi>' ; 
 
 Tile leaves thereof are clays : 
 The letters, mercies closely loineii , 
 
 The title is Corps praise. 
 
 No. 29Q. LUMAS MEIQS. 
 
 A soklier of the War of iSi2-'i4. ISorn at St. Albans, Vt. — spent many years of 
 his life on a farm at IJunham, I^rov. One. Like all who were born in northern X'ennont 
 in his time, his earlv facilities for learning left much to be tlesired. Later in his life 
 having means and leisure, he read much ami profited b\' it ; with his own strong hands 
 he hewed a straight path to financial independence. He always struck when the iron 
 was hdt and kejit it hot bv striking ; his frientls and his enemies as well, were never left 
 in doufit concerning the true policv with which he regarded them. Being a man of strong 
 con\'ictions, he sometimes argued with perhaps imprudent heat on political ([uestions, 
 alwavs howe\er, on the side he considered right, reganlless of majnrities. He had an 
 iron will, but happily that will was alwa\s sulijectetl to sober reason — two excellent 
 qualities for conducting the battle of life. The world was the better for his ha\ing lived 
 in it. His strong natural good sense, which no learning coukl supph", carried him s.ilely 
 through life. His character is best described by three words — integrity, sobriet\- and 
 industry. 
 
244 
 
 Mi-:i(;s CiiNi' .\i.< h,\'. 
 
 Wtu'ii ;iii\ ^iL-al flfsi^ii ilujii ilusl intrini. 
 Thitik oil tlic iiiciins. the iii.iniiLr, ami ilu' cud. 
 
 — Sn /. Drnhani. 
 
 No. 313 QKORGE ANSON MEIGS. 
 
 Witli tlu' L'iUcr|.)risL' characlcristic uf the larmL-r boy.s of tlie New England state.s, 
 (ieorge A. Meigs early left his hdinr in Vermont for the city — lived some vears in 
 Newark and Bnjoklyn, and then went to Key West, later to Memphis ami New Orleans, 
 and soon after tln' gold excitement of California in '49, went to .San Francisco, where 
 he was largely interested as a hnnlier dealer and manufacturer. In 1^5,", he hought a 
 small mill on Puget Sound, and moved it to f^orl Madison, Wash., where for many years 
 he carried on one of the largest establishments of its kind on the coast. With his mills he 
 combined ship building, and from his shi[)yard was launched the flr.st shi]) ever built on 
 the Pacific Coast — the Wildwood — some account of which (taken from San P~rancisco 
 dailv pajier of Sejjtemlier, 1S71 1 it has seemed of sutficient importance to insert here, the 
 more especially since the United States Cjox'ernment has within recent years established 
 a Na\y \'ard on Puget .Soiinil, \'ery near the point where the Wildwood tirst dipped 
 Hit( I the \\ ater. 
 
 Till h~ii;si P.\( iiic Hrii/r Shii'. 
 
 " This hue specimen of na\al architecture was designed and constructeil Ijy A. J. 
 Westervelt, (son of tin- famous .New \'ork ship builder, J. Wester\ elt I at Port Madison, 
 Wash., for Messrs. Meigs iS: C.awley, (C.eorge A. Meigs (.il,i) lumber manufacturers of 
 Pier No. I Steuart Street, in this city antl Port Madison, Puget Sound — constructed 
 entirely of Puget Sound yc'llow pine. 'l"he knees are hewn from the roots of the tree. 
 The timbers are iS inches square, the keel, waterwavs, rails, etc., are in jjieces from 9(3 to 
 loo feet in length, and there are some pieces in the ship i 12 feet hmg. .She promises to 
 be a fast sailer, as on her tlrst trip to San Fram.-isco (loaded with limiber for the Pacific 
 R. P..) she logged is'j knots an hour with the wiiul dead aft. The Wildwood, built as 
 she is of Pacific Coast wood, should be sent to New \'ork with a cargo of Pacific Coast 
 produce, and then exhibited to the Na\'y Departmetit and to Congress at the Washington 
 Navy Yards, and (lovernment should demonstrate the advantage of ship building of 
 Puget .Sound lumber, liy entireK' constructing a frigate of it at Mare Island Navy Yard." 
 
 The Wildwood sailed from Port Madison, Wash. Ter., on her first trip September, 
 iSj I , to .San Francisco. .Sailed ,'\pril, 1S72, on her first foreign \ovage from Port Moody, 
 British Columbia (later the first Pacific terminus of the Canadian I^acific R. R. ) for 
 Shanghai, China, loaded uith s[)ars and lumber. 
 
 aI ^ 
 
 
AFrEXDlX. j_^- 
 
 Tliey that be wist- ihall shine as tlie brightness .>t tlie rimiaiiitiH , and iliey turn 
 many to righteousness as tlic stars lore\er ami ".vei. 
 
 — Dant''! ,i ;/ ; ,\ 
 
 No. 318. REV. MATTHEW KUQHLER MEIQS. 
 
 .Matthew Kughler Meiys, son of (167) Joliii and Hannaii Kin^hk-r Meii;.s, was 
 born at .Alb.iiiy. X. V.. on Feb. 5th, iSi 2. Hl- L,'railuate(J at Union College, Schenectady, 
 N. v., in iSv> and in 1S37 entered the Uniun Theological Seminary, of New York, 
 stutlyinL; .Arabic, Persian and other oriental languages with the intt-ntion of de\oting 
 himself to foreign missions, fn 1S39 he accepted a jirofessorship in the L'nixersity of 
 Michigan, remaining there four years, when a call to the Presbyteiian church at Pontiac, 
 Mich., inducted him int(.i the profession he had at tirst intended t(i folldu. His health 
 forced him to resign his pastorate the following vear and in i^\\ he became principal (if 
 an Academy at Winchester, \'a., whence he removed to Newark, Del., where hi- was 
 elected President of Delaware College. 
 
 Associated with him in the 1- acuity at this time were William A. Norton, later, 
 l^rofessor of Civil Engineering at \'ale Collet;e, John .\ddison Porter, also, later, a 
 professor at \'ale, and father of the late John .Addison Pcirter, ISecri'laiN' to President 
 McKinley, and Eben Horsford, later, of the F.icult\- of Harvard rni\crsitv. 
 
 In 1.S51 he resigned the Presidency and purchased a hue propeits' at Pottstown, Pa. 
 Here he founded the Hill Schciol, ( see illustrations between pages ii.Sanil iig) now- 
 conducted by his fourth son, John Meigs, who succeeded to the Principalship in 1S76. 
 The degrees of Doctor of Philosophy and Doctor nf I^aws were conferred upon him 
 by different institutions of learning. P'or a year he was I'nited States Consul to Piraeus, 
 Greece, and resided at Athens. Throughout his life he was eminent not only as a scholar, 
 but as a pulpit orator and a mai-i of great scientitic, [lolitical and general infori-nation. 
 
 His wife was Mary Gould, daughter of William Ri|)lev and I-^unice A'ork Gould, 
 by whom he had eleven children, three of whom died in infanc\'. .She was a woman of 
 rare beauty of person and character, and contribute<l far more than the ordinarv wifely 
 part to her husband's success in all of his professional life. Dr. Meigs tlied Oct. icjth, 
 iS.Sq, and his wife on .Aug. i;4h. i.Sgo. f. M. 
 
 What lieart-lelt praibc stlouUl \vl- iiul ■.;j\ e 
 rc) Uiose who niai-If our couiitr\- li\-t.-' 
 
 — c". D. Bailer. 
 
 No. 342. TIMOTHY ALFRED MEIQS. 
 
 How .\ Cool. Soi.iiii-;k Fi.\ei> His Gix-i.ock. A.\ I-^xi k.xct fro.m Dk. R. W. Wii.co.x's 
 Address to the Veter.\.\s of ,\L\disiin. 
 
 "Company I of the rjth regiment, Connecticut Volunteers, under command of Captain 
 Charles M. Wilco.x, started for the held to form [jart of the hard hghting Second corps 
 in the division with the famous Irish brigade. This was ;i strong indication of the work 
 you were likely to be called upon to do. The i,^th uf December, i,S62, found you in 
 Caroline street at Fredericksburg. The taste of war of the past few days only made you 
 more eager for a great battle. Noon brought you under fire. A'our charge at the stone 
 
2^(1 Mkigs Gknealo(;v. 
 
 wall, frum Ijcyoiul which in rifle pits a superior force kept up a continuous roll of mus- 
 ketry tire with deadly aim ; the mark of batteries, posted on the hill behind, and even of 
 your own batteries, those of the Second corps nearly a mile and a-half away, showed 
 your liravery." 
 
 " While lying on the slopes of the hill, with this tempest of lead falling upon you, a 
 private soldier tnnds it impossible to discharge his piece, the lock having been disarranged. 
 He coolly takes his screw dri\er from his knapsack, removes the lock, puts it in order 
 and replaces it. He uses this musket to good effect — shooting off his full sixty rounds 
 into the enemy. His name is Timothy Alfred Meigs, a worthy descendant of the old 
 Meitjs stock." 
 
 No. ^4^. HENRY JOSIAM MEIGS. 
 
 The house illustrated on page Si was built in iSoS, by his father (iSi ) John Meigs, 
 and it was in this house that the old oak chest belonging to Samuel Crittenden, and 
 illustrated on page 190 (in appendix No. I'l, Mindwell Meigs) was preserved, from long 
 before Mr. Henry |osiah's earliest recollection, up to his tleath in 1897, when it was sold 
 to a Mr. Chamberlain, of New Ha\'en, by wliom it is now owned. 
 
 I'vf wouilered on tliumgii iiiaii\- a clime wheie Hovvers ofttfaut)' ^fcw, 
 Wheru ail was bhbsful to the heart and lovel.v to tlie view, 
 I've seen them in their twili:.;ht pride, and in tlieir dress of morn, 
 RiU none appeared so sweet tu nie .is the spot wliere I was born. 
 
 — .hhin vnioiis. 
 
 No. 349. LUCRETIA AUGUSTA MEIGS. 
 
 1 ).iughtcr of ( 1S7 I Edmiuid Meigs, of Holjart, N. W. was .1 woman (jf m, irked literary 
 ability, and spent much of her time in literary work. Traineil under the refining influ- 
 ences of the old school of teachers, she united with her mental cultm-e the education of 
 the hands to industry, anil to athancetl age she continued to embroider exquisitely. 
 
 The beautiful old home of the famil\- just outside o[ the \illage of Fulton, N. V., 
 suridiinilet.! uith fine trees and Iniilt on a hill that sloped gently to the ri\-er, command- 
 ing ,1 fine \iew of its waters, was destroyed bv a liolt of lightning on the 27th oi June, 
 ICS95. 
 
 " I do ihit tliink a lna\er geiitleni.in . 
 Moie ,ieti ve-\aliant, or more \aUaTitly \oniiy, 
 More darini;. or nnjre nidile, is wow alive. 
 To grace this latter age with tiolde deeds." 
 
 No 361. RETURN JONATHAN MEIGS 3rd. 
 
 Return lonathan .Meigs, the subject of this sketch, was born ,\]>ril 14, iSm, two miles 
 west of Winchester, Clark Co., Kv. See his poriiait page 84, and page 240. 
 
 He was raised partly with his tinrle, |as. L.imme, in Bourbon Co., Ky., ten miles 
 southeast of Paiis, on the road to Winchester, near .Stroud's Creek and the Clark County 
 line. He became familiar with f.irniing work when not at school. He went to school to 
 a .Mr. George Wilson, a man then of about sixt\--fi\'e vears of age, a well known classical 
 
Appenhix. 
 
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 scholar and teacher, whom Col. Gist, some twenty years before, had indnccd to move 
 with liis family from .South Carolina to Kentucky, and whose scholars, many of them, 
 became distinguished men. His residence and school were in [essaniine Co., Ky., about 
 ten miles south of Lexington, and about thirty-fiye miles from Mr. I^amme's place. 
 
 At the hrst session of fiye months he boarded with a Mr. McCamjibell and family. 
 At the second five months' session, Mr. Wilson, who had become much attached to 
 Return, invited him to stay at his house, where he became an apt scholar and very 
 familiar with the Greek and I^atin classics, and would read them with his teacher, rather 
 as a recreation than as a task. 
 
 He studied law, was examined by the eminent Judge I-iledsoe, and was admitted to 
 the bar in Frankfort, Kv., in 1.S2J. He left his home in 1S23 to try his legal fortunes, 
 and rode on horseback to Hiawassee Garrison in East Tennessee, where he stayed with 
 his grandfather. Col. Return [onathan Meigs of Revolutionary fame, until the latter died 
 a few months afterwards in his eighty-third year. Col. Meigs was the agent of the gov- 
 ernment for the Cherokee Indians, ami was named liy them the W'hitr Path, on account 
 of his strict integrity and kindness to them. 
 
 Mr. Meigs [tracticed law in East Tennessee for some years, riding circuits, (as was 
 then the custom) from Court to Court, making a wiile circle of accjuaintances and 
 increasing his law experience. While riding these circuits he often sto[)ped at the 
 hostelry of John Love, where he met his future wife, .Sallie Keyes Ixne, the modest, 
 pious and industrious daughter of a good father and mother. The marriage took place 
 near Washington, Rhea Co., Tenn., Nov. i, 1S25. He afterwards moved to Athens, 
 Tenn., where he lived till October, 18,^5, when he removed with his family to Nashville, 
 Tenn. 
 
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 lie ran lur llu- rennessce Constitiitiunal Coiu'eiitiun in i''^34. but was dck'ated bv 
 (inc \(it(_', a most rcniarkable circunistance, as his object in trying to enter the convention 
 was lo \(>tc /("' an anienclnient aboihkliii; s/ai'ery. His opponent, who was electetl, xotcd 
 iii;iit//.\/ tile aini'ndnuiU, anil it was lost by //ts/ /his o/w :-oti\ thus fastening slavery u|;)on 
 the State lor twentN-eight \'ears longer. 
 
 He became Attorney (jeneral for the State in l.S^S.anil wrote ami published Meigs' 
 r^eports of till- 1 )eiisions of the Su|)reme Coiu't of Tennessee. 
 
 lie v\ as a member of the State Senate, about i>^4,i or 4, but refused to electioneer 
 toi the plact- at all ; but whik- in the legislature ilrop|)ed his legal practice entirelj- so as 
 to .ittend strii tlv to his legislative duties. 
 
 His lau studies and training; were severe and thorough, including the slutly of the 
 ancient Roman Law, the Kni;lish and French lav\s, including the Code Najioleon. fie 
 made <i lhoroui.;h stud\' of I'atiiit l,n\ , and practiced it, at ,i time when little was known 
 of It b\" law\'ers ;^eni-r,dl\\ 
 
 In ("riminal law, one ol the celebrated cases which he had was the defence ol the 
 sl.ive, lake Hratlfortl, foi the killing ol his master who had cruelh' treated him. 
 
 The i.ase excited a \erv widi.- spread attention on account of his \ igoroits defence 
 and justilication of the poor fellow , who was hung. The slaxery debauched mind of the 
 peiipK- I iiuld not lii-ar the idea ol the innocence of a slave who was really defending his 
 own lile. but who dared raise his h.uid against ,\ inastcy. 
 
 In politiis he was a \\ big, and wrote nuich foi the jiolilical journals ol the State 
 capit.d, the XaslivilU If'///;,' and ihc Xaslirille llaiuur. Later when the war of the 
 rebellion canii' on he was a Repnblii an, in the sense of its being .1 ]iart\" which \'oiced 
 the idea ol the |)reserv,ition of the L niiin. 
 
 In l,S4S. alter X'ears ol se\ere mental application, he published his Digest of the 
 Decisions ol the .Supreme Court of Tennessee, in two volumes, invohing the digesting 
 of tw inl\--se\'en vohmies of Reports — i7()i-iS4.s, and o\er ^i^tjoci citations of cases. It 
 met with unixersal laxair and hearty apjireciation from the legal fraternity all o\er the 
 state .ind countr\', anil still retains it. Its phraseology is quoted instead ol that used in 
 the reports themseUes. 
 
 In i''~;33 or 4, in conjimction with Mr. William 1- . Cooper, he [uepared and jjublished 
 the Codr of Tennessee, which also is ipioted as the law instead of the statutes thein- 
 seh'es. 
 
 He was e\'er active in workini; for the moral and material ad\ancenient of the .State 
 ,uid of its cajiital. 
 
 He earh- aihocated the construction of the hue system of macadamized turnpike, 
 which became .in actualit\' in Middle Tennessei.', the finest roads in the cinmtry, and 
 e\en now. 
 
 He wroti; ni the journ.ds and .ulvocated on the platfiirm a thorough system of rail- 
 roads, which were .dterw.irds constructed. 
 
 In his l.iw practice he could ne\er reconcile himself to the habit of many prominent 
 lawyers, of charging excessive fet'S, although for a great series of years, during his whole 
 residence in Tennessee, he had a \ery large practice and was regardetl as the first lawyer 
 of his State, and one of the first of the country. To the great surprise of many seeking 
 litigation, he wimld often ad\ ise nuUual ei.incessic)n or arbitration, and would often throw 
 into the hands of \-ouni; l.iwyers the simpler cases. 
 
 In lS^.S. |mie 11, the gi'eatest sorrow of his life oxertook him in the loss of his 
 dear wife. 
 
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230 Mkigs Geni;ai,(i(,v. 
 
 TliL- war of the rebellion roniiiii; (ui, and lakiiit; a warm [jart in the discnssions on the 
 I'liion side, he determined to Iea\'e the State. The distnrbed condition of affairs caused 
 the loss of the greater part of his property. He removed with his family to Staten 
 Island, N. Y., in May, 1861. 
 
 He took an office on William Street, New A'ork City, and after a desultory busi- 
 ness of two years, he remii\ed in iS(>3 to W'ashinoton, D. C having Ijeen invited to do 
 so by President Lincoln, wlui offered him an .ippointment to Codify the Laws of the 
 District of Columbia, and then at Mr. I^incoln's suggestion, the Judges offered him the 
 Clerkship of the Sujjreme Court of the District of Columbia, a law ha\ing lieen recently 
 ])assed directing its organization, the President a[)pointing the Judges in .May, 1^6;, He 
 forniulaled a new system nf fxulcs and Practice entirely, for this Court, which it has 
 since maintained. His j)(_)sition as Clerk of this Court was an anomalous one, as his 
 legal acumen and attainments were of so high an ortler that both the bar and the bench 
 freciuentlv tuok advantage of his learning ,ind sought his advice, which was frequentlv 
 gi\en to anv ajjplicant, and is gratefully remembered by many. 
 
 President [ohnson offerecl him with much cordiality an ap|)ointment as Associate 
 |ustii-e on the bench of the .Snprenn' Court of the I'nited States, liut untoward circum- 
 stances prevented. 
 
 In his personal intercourse with friends ,uid faniiU' he was unaffected and cordial in 
 manner, full of interesting informatiun an<l eager to learn, and kept pace with all of the 
 wonderfid inventions and discoveries of this great century. 
 
 He was fond of wit in others, and wittv himself almost to the last moment. On the 
 dav of his death, ( )ctober igth. iSiji, in his ninety-tirst year, he arose in the morning 
 apparentlv as well as ever, took a bath and shaxeil himself, as was his daily custom, and 
 was then attacked l)y a syncope, the weakness of extreme old age, and died that after- 
 noon, an ideal death, no tedious or painful antl wasting illness, the tit ending of a life of 
 great usefulness to society, of charities, of duties uell fulfilletl, of good deeds and of 
 great thoughts. 
 
 He was Inn-ied at Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, 1). C. 
 
 His son, lohn Meigs, intlites this with great lo\e and affection. 
 
 |ohn Meigs iJ^^J the writer of the foregoing sketch of the life i)f his \enerable 
 father, mi>;ht have gone much farther and added many interesting and instructive 
 anecdotes of his father's long and eventful career. We cannot conclude this already 
 long article without a reference to April 14, iNgi, his goth birthday, on which occasion, 
 '■ the justices of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, caned their venerable 
 clerk handsc)melv, but not in a public manner," the affair taking j)lace in the consultation 
 room of the Cniu t Ibuise. 
 
 The cane, a handsome ebony stick, surmounted h\ a lieavy carved gold head, 
 seemingly made fur the \enerable clerk's hand. ( )n the side is inscribed "Return 
 [onath.ui Meigs, on his gcith anni\ersary, from his fric^nds the (ustices oi the Supreme 
 Court iif the Distiii 1 ol Columbia." On one eml ol the head nf the cine was the 
 monogram " R. |. M." and on the other the date " .Apiil 14, iS()i- 
 
 When the |ustices, ilagner and James S(.nt lor .Mr. Meigs, he was foimd standing 
 at his desk in the office busily engagetl in looking over the minutes of the General term. 
 He at unci' complied with the request, and Elizabeth Meigs, one of his grandilaughters, 
 accouip.uiieil him. < )n entering the i-onsultatidn room, entireh' ol>li\'ioui- as to what was 
 wanted, the i^iandd.iughter was mtroiluced, and the justices arising, |udge Hagner 
 
Ai'I'1':ni>ix. J51 
 
 hukliiii; the cane in his hand made an apjiropriate adtiress. in \vhi( h he, Inr the Cdurt, 
 contjratulated Mr. Meigs on his robnst heahh at iiis ad\anced age, and e.\|iressing the 
 hojie that he would remain with them for many years. 
 
 The old gentleman was taken by surprise, and pleasanth' remarkeil that a plain old 
 hickory stick woidtl better suit him, that he had ne\er walked with a 1 anr in his ninet\- 
 years of life. 
 
 jtidge llagner suggested that ]>erh.i|)s he would reach such an age as to make the 
 stick useful. 
 
 In the conxersation that fulhiwed tin.' fa< t was alluded to that the hrsl judge ap- 
 pointed in the District for the old Circuit Cnurt, was on March 3rd, iSdi, and that .Mr. 
 Meigs was, therefore, luit a few weeks \'Ounger than the Courts of ihi' District of 
 Cohnulii.i. 
 
 Mr. Meigs then retiretl, hrst asking pleasantly, " Shall I not enter an order in the 
 minutes of the Court, ' In re fxeturn j. .Meigs caned by the Couit,' and ,it m\' time of 
 life, ninety years."' 
 
 ft was a singular cncumstance that one of his friends said that day that on going 
 to Nashyille, directly after the war, one ol .Meigs' cases commenced in the '30's, 
 fell to him, and he recognized the hand writing oi Mr. .Meigs at that date to lie the same 
 as at present in his gc>th year. 
 
 On this same day there was [lublished in one of the Washington papers the follow- 
 ing ]ioeni, which we beliexe is well worth reproducing in this connection. The author 
 of it is unknown. 
 
 " 1801— RETURN J. MEI(iS-l8<)l . 
 
 " He was a man when other men. 
 
 Who know him now, were \et unhurn ; 
 And he tu-tlay, is still a ni.m. 
 Strong in the (lualUies th.U make 
 A man a man among his kinil. 
 The years have .i;ently hiiil their hands 
 Upon his he, id. and in liis hc.ut 
 .^nd in his brain, the tires of youth 
 Have slowly Imrned, to w.iriii 
 .Ami not consume , and in lli■^ eye, 
 The kindly light glovvs with a cheer, 
 That sweetens life, antl leaves in him 
 With ,dl his ninety years, a youth, 
 Which makes the whole world young. 
 He wears his harness yi-l, and uurk. 
 Well done, is to him now uh.it 
 In the long years p.ist it was, 
 .And u h.it h<is made his lile, .1 lile. 
 That those who follow him sli.ill find 
 To be a guide to that pidiid st.ite, 
 Which, when the end sh.dl i onie. 
 Mankind in tears in.iy s.iy : 
 ' Well done, thou good and t'.nthful , ' rest.' 
 
lliiiicii.ilili cleSL-eul l^ 111 all ii.ilidiis KH^'alH L-st..-i-iin;d U IS to In' txpei led tli.il Ih.- 
 L"hiliirt-'n ol nu-ii ol woitli \niII he llkr their pi OKeiiituis ; foi iiohilit\ is tlie viitueol a l.iiiiih 
 
 At I. ■.lull,-. 
 
 No. 366 MARY SOPHIA ,MEI(i5. JACKSON. 
 
 Marv So]iliia ML'it;s. only il.iui^littr ul Rctiiiii lunalhan Mcii^s, Jiul, (Governor 
 of Ohi(_), whcrt- .sIil- ulmU with her parents whrii she was nne year ohl. was carefully 
 trained in the home ol her father until alioiit i ,, years ol age, when she was taken by 
 her father on horse-ijack t(i Bethlehem, i'.i., and educated at the M(ira\ian .Sidiool there, 
 at whieii place she t;raduated She married lohn G. lackson, then a member of Con- 
 gress from Virginia, and lnnneiK" I'niteii .States District |udge lui the Western District 
 of Virginia. He was in e\'ery respect a progressive man and did inucli lur his rnunlry 
 outside the realm of politics by establishing Woolen Mills, Factories, Foiinderies, etc., 
 ami he aspired to ha\a- diiferent sections of his cnnntr\- lumiected by canals between 
 na\igable streams, hail he lived, there being nci railroads in his da\'. |udge fackson's 
 hrst wife was Mary Payne, a sister of Dollie Madison, the marriage oci nrring in the 
 White House, being the first therein. By a curious coincidence, ( governor .Meigs and 
 his son-indaw, [ndge bic'kson, died on the same night, March Js, I'^-S ; and the messen- 
 ger dispatched from Clarksburg, then Virginia, now West X'irginia, the home of [ndge 
 Jackson, to Marietta, Ohio, to inform .Mrs. Jackson's parents of her husband's death, met 
 the messenger coming from Marietta, bringing the information of her father's de.uh. 
 
 The progeny of Mary S. Meigs ,ind John (i. lackson were, tirst, lames .Madison 
 [ackson, who resiiled in Clarksburg, now West X'irginia, who during his life, engaged in 
 the practice ol law. He married Caroline Moore, ,ind their children were Meigs lack- 
 son, now (igiiii deceased, who married Miss Martha liassell, and theii i hildreii were 
 lames and Meigs lackson, now li\ing in I'arkersburg, West Virginia. 
 
 T. Moore lackson and Florence lackson were twin children of |ames Madison 
 [ackson. Florence is now deceased, and T. Moore lackson, R. R. President and Presi- 
 dent of Traders' National Bank of Clarksburg, is now li\ing in Clarksburg, West 'Vir- 
 ginia. He married I-annia Lewis ; their child, now li\ing, hieing named Florence, after 
 a deceasetl .Aunt who died unmarriei.1. 
 
 The secon 1 child of Judge John G. Jackson ami wife, was Sophia Jackson, who 
 married Dr. .M. ( iittings, both deceased, and their children were Maddie, wife of Col. 
 Luther llaymond. John G, Cdttings, Allen Gittings, now deceased, Mary Gittings, wife 
 of H. G. Fernald, and Columbia Gittings, wife of J. W. Thorn, the latter now deceaseil. 
 The ilescendants of the Thorn famil\- are, .Alice, wife of W. 11. Lewis, and the second 
 child, F'lorence. All of the tlesceiidants now lixing of Sophia Jackson reside in Clarks- 
 burg. West Virginia. 
 
 The third child <il |udge fackson was Columbia Madison |,ickson. who spent her 
 childhood days with her ( irandmother Meigs, at Marietta, Ohio. Colnmljia .Madison 
 Jackson was tvyice married, tirst, \o |ames Duncan, ol which marriage one child, |. J. 
 Duncan was born. He marrie<l Maiul Lee, daughter of Judge George H. Lee. of 
 Clarksburg, West X'irginia. Their descendants are George L. Duncan, marrietl to 
 Gertrude Smith, and they ha\e one child, George L. The other children are Collie B. 
 Duncan, Ernest .\. Duman, and Grace L. Duncan. All the members of this family 
 li\ing in Clarksburg, Wt-st X'irginia, 
 
 Columbia Madison lackson, alter the death ol her first husband, married Dr. Wil- 
 liam |. ill.md, who was, lirst, a Cnited .States .\rm\' .Surgeon ; afterwaril a l)i\ision 
 
Ai'I'I':ni>ix. 253 
 
 SurL;e(in in the ConfederatL- States Army, and from iSSo to iSyo, was Medical Su|iriin- 
 tendent of the West \'irt;inia Hospital for the Insane, at Weston, West \"irt^inia. Two 
 children were born of this marriage, Meigs, now a resident of Atchison, Kans.is. lie 
 married Miss Lutie H. Allen, daughter of Judge John {. Allen, of Hotcldurl County, 
 Virginia. ( )ne child was born to them, William I. lUand. The srccmd 1 hild of Dr. 
 Bland was William Thomas Bland, the writer, who has li\ed in Atchison, K.msas. since 
 1SS7, and during his residence there, occupied the |)Osition of County Atloruex', Ma\or 
 of the City of Atchison, and Judge of the District Court of the Second (udici.il Distiict 
 of Kansas, now being engaged upon his second term as such latter officer, lie married 
 Miss Hertha Mcl^ike, of Atchison, Kansas, and (jf this marriage, one < hilil William 
 McPike Bland, was born. 
 
 The fourth child of Judge Juhn Ci. [acksou was Pdoritle Calh(jun [.icksou, v\ ho 
 married Juhn S. Duncan, of Clarksburg, West X'irginia, all now deceased. Their de- 
 scendants were John S. (deceased in childhood), Edwin S. and Ernest A., Imth (l\in>^ in 
 early maidiood, and Gay J. and her mother are now residents of New York C'ny. The 
 lacksons ol West Virginia ha\e always l:)een important people in ci\il and militarv life : 
 governor, general, judges and legislators. William Tiidmxs Hi, ami. 
 
 And llie son of ttial niothur will luvertiiCL- Iili as llie visiblt: expression to liini !■! 
 heavenly power ot] eartli- 
 
 No. 393. CLARA FORSYTH MEIGS) MEADE. 
 
 Clara P'orsyth Meigs, daughter of (215) Judge Henry Meigs, m. Richard Worsam 
 Meade, Ca])taia U. S. N., who was born Mav Ji, 1S07, in Spain, d. April 16, 1S70, at 
 p]rooklvn, N. Y. Captain Meade was a brother ol Major (jeneral George Gordcm Meade, 
 of the L'. -S. A., Commander of the Federal tro(jps at the battle of Gettysljurg, Wikler- 
 ness, and so on through the rapidly succeeiling list of victories to the end at Appomat- 
 to.x, making his name as imperishil)le as history. 
 
 CllII.DI^KX. 
 
 1. Richard Worsam Meade, 1). (.)ct. y, iS,v, in New \'ork City, m. Rebecca Pauld- 
 ing, daughter Admiral Paulding, U. S. N., June 6th, 1.S65. (Admiral Paulding was the 
 Midshipman Paulding of Miss Sewcll's story). Rear Atlmiral R. W. Meade had a re- 
 markable career and retired from service in Mav, I''^s1.T' lifter fortv-four years of actual 
 naval service, having been appointed a midshipman from California, October j, 1850. 
 His record is remarkable for the number of events and hard service it encomjiassed. He 
 was present at the celebrated " Koszta " affair in .Smyrna in 1S53, as a midsliipnian. He 
 received his warrant as master in 1S5S, and received his commission as lieutenant later 
 in the same year. In iShj he joined the North .Atlantic blockading squadron, thus 
 beginning his war service. In the same year he recei\'ed his commission as lieutenanl 
 Commander His first command was the ironclad Louisville of the Western tfotilla. 
 employeil in breaking up guerilla warfare on the upjier Mississippi, for wdiich he was 
 commended by Admiral Porter. He commanded the n.u'al l)attalion during the cele- 
 brated July, 1864, riots in New \'ork, being stationed in the lower part of the city from 
 Monday to Saturtlay. 
 
-'54 Mkigs Gkn'i:al()(;v. 
 
 h (IV I eniark,il>lf cni^atjenient while in command uf ihe MaiijlcliL-ad at StoiK- i'i\tT, 
 S. (".. hr was lint onK- iiimmended by his immediate superior, hut was officially thanked 
 in iithcial orders by Admiral Dahlgren, and recommended for promotion by the bcjard 
 of admirals for "gallant conduct in the face of the enemy." In this case with the 
 se\enty men (jf the Marblehead's crew he repulsed an attack by vastly superior force of 
 infantry and artiller\-, the purpose of which was to drive (jen. Gilmore's forces out of 
 Stone inlet, .\lthouyh the Marblehi'ad was struck thirty times in the hull, he drove off 
 the enemy and subseciuently led a landing party which destroyed their batteries, ("om- 
 manding the Chocura in the West (iulf he cajitured and destroyed seven l)lockade run- 
 ners in the tall ol ''>4, and a few months later again earned official thanks by cutting out 
 of the Calcasieu r ri\er and (.lestro)-ing in the face of a greatly superior force the block- 
 ade lunner Delphina. .As a commander in 1S70 he made a comprehensive report on 
 the gun lactories of the country, and then in the same vear commanded the schcjoner 
 vacht America in the famous race with the British yacht Cambria. Fronr 187 i to 187,1 
 he ,;ommanded the Narragansett ami made one of the most remarkable cruises on 
 r(rord, sailing under caiu'as alxjut 0(_),i««) miles, visiting all parts of the Pacific ocean, 
 siirxeving harbors and islands, collecting indemnities from the Polynesian savages, anti 
 last, but not least, negotiating the celebrated Samoan treaty, for which he was officialh' 
 commended Ijv the .Secretarv of the Navv. He received his commission as Captain in 
 18.S0, and on relinquishing the command of the Vandalia, his admir.d reportetl to the 
 department "that as a cumm.uiding otiicer he has no superiiir." .After service on a 
 numl)er of Ijoards he ttiok C(.)mmand of the W'.ishington navv vard in 1SS7, and trans- 
 formed that \',ird inln the great naval ordnance shop it now is. He was a member of 
 the goxernmeni board at the 1 Chicago 1 World's l<'.iii, and that novel craft " the brick 
 ship " was his own design. He became a commodoie in 1892, and his last commission as 
 re,ir .uimiral bore the d,ite nl .Aug. 1st, 181)4. His princi[5al service after that date was 
 in command of the .\orth .Atlantic s(|uadron in its cruise of e\c)lution through the West 
 Indies. He was a member of Lal.i\ettc Post No. 140, IDepartment of N. Y. Grand 
 .Arnu' 111 the Re]uiblii in i8i)() until his death. May 4, 1807. 
 
 I'he .Admir.il beloie his ile.ith prepared a number ol lecliires, which his daughter. 
 Miss .\miii- Paulding Me.ide, delu'cred after his death, as follows: " Caribean .Sea, tin- 
 Mediteii .iniMn 111 iiiii Wistern Wurkl," " ,A Winter \'ovage through the Straits of 
 iM.igelLiii, " and " Cummndiiii- Paul [ones, the Sponsor of the Stars and Stripes of the 
 Ocean. " 
 
 II. Henr\' 1 Hal i .Meigs Meadi.', born laiuiarv 4, 1840, at Brooklyn, N. A'. 
 
 HI. Roliiit l,earn\- .Meade, bnrii I )ei inilier 2h. 1841, at Washington, 1). C, m. 
 Mai\-, d.iiighler ol .Xdmiral P.iulding, \ . S. X., I'eb. 6, 18(15. At this writing ( 1901 I is 
 Brigadier General l'. .S. Marines, stationed at the l-Smoklvn Na\'y A'ards, N. A'. 
 
 I\'. lAIai\' Kli/abeth Ingraham Meade, Ijorn l)ecemlier 22. 1845, in New A'ork 
 Cit\'. married |ames 11. .Sands, son of .Admiral B. F. .Sands, I'. S. \., (let. JS, i8()i), 
 
 \ . Clai.a hiiisNlh Mi.idc, born |,iii. <>. 1841), at Brooklyn, N. A'., m. C. K. Landis, 
 X'inelanil, N. j., ( )i t. 14, l8h,S. 
 
 \'I. C.itheiiiic G. Meade, b. May 18, 1851, in Brooklvn. N. A"., d. Jiilv 11, 1851, at 
 Brooklvn. N. A'. 
 
 \'II. J.imes M, W. Meade, li. M.inh (., 1^54, ,it W.ishingli m. D. C. d. May 27, 
 i8s8, at Biooklvn, X. A'. 
 
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 The lutme .li-stniy ol llif . lilM is ..lw;ivs llu- w.nk ..r tlu- inc.lliur, 
 
 A'lJ/'"'''""- 
 
 No. 394. JULIA AUSTIN ( MEIGS i ODDIE. 
 
 l)auL;htii- (if (2151 Judge Henry Ml-I^s, ni. Walter Mason (Jddie, N. A. Landscape 
 Arti.st. Horn in Whitehall Street, New \'(irk, mi Cluistmas IJav. iS.if,, and died in 
 Brooklyn, N. Y., February iS, i.Sqj, in her eighty-si.\th year. She was a woman of 
 more than ordinary culture and ac(|uirements, retaining her music 1 piano and guilar i .and 
 famili.uit\' with the literatuie n{ the day to an unusual extent up lo the tune of hei- 
 tlealh. .She was an Episcopalian in relit; ion. 
 
 ("11 1 ;.i iRi':x. 
 
 I. Agnes, wife of Dr. John Stark, late Surgeon U. S, A., Ci\il W.u'. 
 
 II. • )rville Oddie, banker anil broker, formerly and for t\vent\--l\\o \ears member of 
 New \'ork .Stock Exchange. Was elei'ted menilier of the late Cit\- (iuard of .\eu \'(uk 
 in 1859, and is an active member of the ( )ld (".uard of New \'ork, was elected in 1.^71 : 
 was elected a life meniljer of the .St. (.".eorge's .Society in iSoi. His grandfather, lohn 
 W. (Jdtlie, was English, came to this 1 ciuntry afuiut iSoo, and married the eldest of two 
 children (daughters) of iMajor Mason Wattles, nf the .A.rmv of the Re\cilution ( .Sixth 
 Massachusetts) and after the war Major Commanding State Troops. 
 
 HI. Henry Meigs Dddie. deceasetl, l^anker and broker. Wall .Street, N. \". 
 1\', Rosalie, widow of Christopher Robert .St. George, late banker and broker, and 
 member of New York Stock Exchange. 
 
 V. Clara, tleceased, wife of Edwd. T. (ioodliffe, banker and broker, formerU- member 
 of New York Stock Exchange. 
 
 VI. John Ward (Jddie, broker, formerly meinbi.r of New York .Stock Ivxchange ( was 
 youngest child ). Was Master Mate in the Navy for two years during the Civil War, 
 and afterwards a member of Twentv-third Regiment, State Militia, also memlier of ( )ld 
 Guard Veteran Battalion. 
 
 Statesman, yet friemi to trutli ' of sniil siiirere. 
 
 In artion faithful, and in honor Lle.ir , 
 
 Who broke no promise, ser\e(i no pm ate emi, 
 
 Who ,^ain'd no title, and who tost no friend , 
 
 Ennobled by himselt". by all approvcil, 
 
 And prais'd tinenviud, — Pii/'f. 
 
 No. 395. HENRY MEIGS, of Bayonne, N. J. 
 
 Early in life entered the service of the Merchants' Bank in New ^'ork, in uhich he 
 became Assistant Cashier, and later was Cashier of the Metropolitan Bank. In 1S5S 
 became a member of the Stock Exchange, ami formed .1 partnership with William Alex- 
 ander Smith, wdiich continued until iSO(), when ha\ing attained financial independence, 
 he retired from active business. In iSyy-.s was elected President of the New York .Stock 
 Exchange ; was trustee of a number of estates, incliuling that of the late J. R. .Schuyler, 
 of Bayonne. He was an active member of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and when 
 living in New York was Treasurer of the I'^piscopal Fund. Was frequently a delegate 
 to diocesan conventicjns, and several times a deputv ti.i the Triennial General Convention. 
 His counsel had much weight in church matters, .ind he often showed himself a force 
 able speaker on those topics. 
 
;5(> 
 
 Mkigs Gknkal()(;v. 
 
 \lv was a resident of l'>a\'oniH- fur thirty years, was the fust Mavor of that ("ity, 
 ha\iiii4 lieen elected April i;,th. i.S'>g. ami was re-elected fur four consecutive terms, 
 hokling the oftice for ten years, discharijint; its duties with ability, dignity and fidelity 
 to the trust imposed in him. He was an upright and honorable, high-minded gentleman 
 of the old school, and was esteemed and honored bv the citizens while lixing. .md his 
 ilr.nh was uni\ i.-rs.dh' .md sincereU' lamented. St-e portrait, Jiage .SO. 
 
 I vciit-ralf Ihf man wIiusl- iK-arl is w.mii, 
 Whose liaiuls are pure, whose iloi limes .tiui wliuse life 
 Coirieident. exhiliil luei-l piuol 
 rhat he is h.iiiest in the s.iueil lailse 
 
 -C-.-e/.^-. 
 
 No. 306. THEODORE DENTON MEIQS. 
 
 Theodore Denton .Meigs was liorn soon alter the War of i.SiJ, in which man\- of his 
 an estors took so active a p.nt. His father ga\'e him the Greek name of Theodore 
 ((iift of (iod) in \'iew of ]ieacc just [)rorlaimed. 
 
 He was educated for the ministrv b\ 1 )r. Hawkes, of Flushing, T. I., where he taught 
 in his ,Ac.idem\ lor a number ol \e,irs, luit his e\'esight failing, he was comiji.-lK-d tn 
 
 THEODORE DENTON MEIGS 
 
Api>i-:ni)1\. 257 
 
 give up the dearly cherished ministry, and entered mercantile life with .Messrs. Center 
 & Co. This firm was among tlie few N. V. merchants who paid one hundred cents on 
 the dollar through the terrible panic of iS;,;, and they were aided largely to this satis- 
 factory result, by the quick foresight and sound judgment of this \-oung man. 
 
 Soon after this he found his way into the banking business in which ])ursuit he spent 
 the larger part of a Inisy useful life, retiring as Paying Teller of the Bank of America, 
 Wall St., having faithfully served for twenty-five years. 
 
 His characteristics were a high sense of honor, an Lmswer\ing integrity, together 
 with a deeply developed religious and moral temperament. These made their impress 
 on all w-ith whom he came in contact. Cduscientious, to a sensitive degree, he chose to 
 spend his whole life, and largely of his substance, in doing church work, and being an 
 instrument under (iod's Providence of turning many souls to righteousness. 
 
 For forty years he was a de\oted teacher of youth in Sundav School, where he 
 worked «ith Dr. Uiller, and Dr. Johnson, in laying the foundation of the l-"ree Church 
 System by means of envelopes, which is now in uni\ersal use, and which Theodore D. 
 Meigs, deserves the credit of planning and first putting into practice in St. Mary's 
 Church of Brooklyn, and finally when his life's work was done at the ripe age of 79 
 years, the last rites of the Church were administered liy his life Icuig friend antl pastor 
 Dr. Morgan Dix. 
 
 I quote one of his own \'erses, from the many he was so fond of writing — as best to 
 express his hope ; 
 
 " And when my poor hte shall finished be. 
 May 1 at last thy Kingdom see. 
 And learning there to love and Mess 
 My gracious God in Holiness." 
 
 He left a widow and five children, all of whom are marrieii, and twelve grand- 
 children, to honor and esteem his good name. The eUlest grandson bearing his name, 
 Theodore Meigs Bedwin, is at present a Junior at New York University, studying for 
 the profession of medicine. He was the object of his grandfather's love and solicitude 
 for .his future. We certainly feel that the Meigs name promises to be honored through 
 his career. A. M. B. 
 
258 M F. K ;s G KN K A r.O( iv . 
 
 He <li'i womicrs ill Ins I ilc, and at his tieatli WL-ie his works marvelous. 
 
 — luct/'siasticus xlriti . //. 
 
 No. 398. MAJOR-GENERAL MONTOOMERY CUNNINGMAM MEIGS. 
 
 The history of the Hfe of this tlistiiiguished soldier, engineer, architect and scientist, 
 is most comprehensi\'ely told in the following letters, orders, official reports antl nevvs- 
 pajjcr accounts, all written or published during his life-time, or inmiediately after his 
 death, viz : 
 
 ExECi'TivR Mansion, 
 (Private) June 5th, 1.S61. 
 
 LiKi'T. Gf.nisRai, Scott, 
 
 Mv Dear Sir : r3oulitless y(3U begin to understand how disagreeable it is for me 
 to do a thing arbitraril)-, when it is unsatisfactory to other associates with me. 
 
 I very much wish to appoint Colonel Meigs Ouartermaster-General, and yet General 
 Cameron does not quite consent. I have come to know Colonel Meigs quite well for a 
 short acquaintance, and so far as I am capable of judging, I do not know one who com- 
 bines the qualities of masculine intellect, learning and experience of the right sort, and 
 physical power of labor and endurance so well as he. 
 
 I know he has great confidence in you, always sustaining so far as I have observed, 
 your opinion against any differing ones. 
 
 You will lay me under one more obligation if you can and will use your influence 
 to remove General Cameron's oltjections. I scarcely need tell yon I have nothing per- 
 sonal in this, having ne\'er seen or heard of Colonel Meigs until about the end of last 
 
 March. 
 
 Your obedient servant, 
 
 A. LiNC'OI.N. 
 
 When (}eneral Meigs was granted a leave of absence on account oi sickness, 
 William H. .Seward, Secretary of -State under President Lincoln, and later under Presi- 
 dent [ohnsiin, ga\'e him a letter from which the following is an extract; 
 
 Di-i'AK rMi;.\ r (U- .Statk, 
 
 Washington, D. C, May 2Sth, 1S67. 
 
 To I hi' Ministt-is, Consii/s-dfuera/, Consii/s 
 
 c!i/(/ Consular .lo;t-iits of the I 'niicd States : 
 " The pre\-ailing; opinion of this country sustains a firm conviction which I enter- 
 tain, and I in all occasions cheerfully exin-ess, that without the services of this eminent 
 soldier, the national cause nuist either have been lost or dee[)ly imperilletl in the late 
 Ci\il War." (Signedl William 11. .Si'warh. 
 
 To the ( 'iff'ircrs of the (hiartor))ia^tcr' s Pcpartiitt-ut : 
 
 Un this daw lia\ing passed the .ige at which .in otiicer may \>v retired at the discre- 
 ticiii of the l',xe( uti\ e, I am relie\ed by Execulix'e 1 irder and retire from the military 
 service into uhich I entered as a cadt-t 41) veais and 7 monlhs since. 
 
 (Jf this time nearlv Ji years have bi-en spent at the heatl oi vour department, to 
 which 1 hatl the honor lo be called by Presitlent Lincoln in iShi. 
 
Appkndix. 
 
 259 
 
 MAJOR-GENERAL MONTGOMERY C. MEIGS 
 Quartermaster-General U S a. 
 
2Co MeICS GKNKAHKiV. 
 
 Till- c.iiiis has S(.'cn ofcat changes since I entered it. It has been e.xpaiuhil till 
 leavcncl l>y the knowledge and spirit, and integrity of the small l>ody "f otiicers who 
 composed it early in 1.S61 ; it showed itself competent to take care of the supplies and 
 transportation of a great army during four years of most active warfare. It mo\ed \ast 
 bodies of soldiers over long routes: it collected a fleet of over i,ouosailof transport 
 vessels u|)(in the great rivers and upon the coast ; it constructed and equipped a squadron 
 of River Iron-Cl.ids, which bore an important part in the operations of the army in the 
 West, and after having ])roved its practical power and usefulness, was accepted bv the 
 navy, 1. 1 which such vessels properly belonged ; it supplied the army while organizing 
 and while actively campaigning over long routes of communication by wagon, by rail, by 
 river, and by sea, exposed to hostile attacks and frequently l)ruken up liy the enemy, 
 and having brought to the camps a great army, it, at the close of the hostilities, re- 
 turned to their homes o\er a million and a quarter of men. 
 
 It is now reduced to the proportions of a peace e.stalilishmeiit, containing onl\- 04 
 officers of the staff and about 200 Acting Assistant Quartermasters, who hold their com- 
 missions in the line. 
 
 During this time the corps has ajiplied to the wants of the army over nineteen 
 hundred and hfty-six millions, six hundred and sixteen thousand dollars, and has used 
 this vast sum, nearly 2.000 millions, with less loss and waste from accident and from 
 fnuid than has ever before attended the expenditure ol such a treasure. 
 
 lis work and its success have lieen th<' study and admiration of military nations. 
 On only two occasions during the four years of w.ir did any Army of the Republic 
 suffer from w.mt of supplies. * '.eneral Rosecran's Army, after the check at Chickamauga, 
 lost control of ils long line of communications, men lived for a time on scant rations and 
 many horses and mules of the cavalry, the artillery, and the trains perished. On taking 
 Savannah, upon his march to the sea. General Sherman found it inqjossible at once to 
 open the river, whose channels had been tluring four years laboriously obliterated by 
 the enemy. Thus I he (Quartermaster's Heet, laden with all military supplies, which 
 awaited at the moulh of the river the opening of navigation to satisfv all the wants of 
 his army, was detained for a few days. ,ind some animals perished in the Southern 
 Savannahs. Hut vessels and machines |irovided by the Quartermaster's Department 
 opened the channel and soon restored plenty. 1 am happy that I was able on these two 
 only occasions of want to be with the troops. 
 
 15elieving that should .mother great war arise you will be able again to (|uickly 
 infiise into the officers who must be called from civil life to reinforce you, the siiirit, the 
 integrity, the exact methods (]f business and of prevention of i-oi)lKry and waste which 
 did so much in that war, I muv bid you each and all farewell, with hearty wishes for 
 your continued piosperit\- ,ind honor. 
 
 M. C. Mek;s, 
 Hre\et Major General, 
 Date Quartermaster fieneral U. S. A. 
 g. .!/. Cencral's Office. 
 
 February ()th, i.s,S2. 
 * * % * * Such is the slor\- of the Department during the Ci\il War, which in its 
 expenditure of life and treasure is unparallelled in history ; and in this connection it is 
 well to (piote also the closing sentence of the report of General Robert Allen, Chief 
 Ou.irtermaster of the "Dep.irtiiient of llie Mississippi," which supplied the armies of 
 Grant, of Sherm.in, of Sheridan, ,111. 1 of 'fliomas, whilst camp.ugning in the West and 
 South. 
 
Ari'KN'DIX. 261 
 
 (it-iu-ral Allen was one of the t^eniuses of the army. He said: " In i niiclu^ioii, 1 
 must \)v |K rmittetl to remark that history furnishes few. if anv, examples ot armies so 
 great, tra\ersing- territories so wide, and having had every want, and everv step, sup- 
 plied. It demonstrates how \ital tii the success of militar\' o])erations is an elfici<-nt 
 quartermaster's de])artment ; a dep.irtment tluit it has long since heccime a hahil to 
 abuse. Everv officer and every private constitutes himself its accuser and judge. No 
 failure in this department escapes the argus eves of censure or the |)rolitic tongues of 
 reproof. It is not (inlv accoiintalile for its nwu sins, but it is the great scapegoat upun 
 which lilunilering generals pack their own errors. In view of these facts, it is a proud 
 reflection for the department in the West that its faults subject to this ordeal, were ' jiast 
 hndini' nut.' " 
 
 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 
 
 Eel), gth, I.SS2. 
 
 Gexek.xl Miin r(i(>Mi:Kv C. Mkics. 
 Mr. -McCiiok, from the Committee on Militarv ,-\ffairs, sulnnitted the fulhiwiiig 
 
 Ri:f(M;r: 
 (To acc(,)mpaii\' bill H. R. ,v'^75.) 
 
 The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the bill ( II. R. .V'^T.S) for 
 the retirement of (General Meigs, (with rank uf Major-! jeneral LI. S. A.) sulimits the fol- 
 lowing rej)ort : 
 
 (ieneral .Meigs entered West Point in June, iS^j. Oraduated and was commissioned 
 as a Eieuteii.int in the Army in 1836. 
 
 Lieutenant of Corps of Engineers ist July, iS:;^!. 
 
 Ca[)tain of Engineers 2nd March, i-'^s,,. 
 
 .As Lieutenant and Captain of I'Lngineers, he designed anil built the Washington 
 Atjuetluct ; built the wings or e.xtensions and the tiome of the Capitol, and the northern 
 half of the General Post-otlice Huilding, u]) to 1.S61. 
 
 On the inauguration of President Lincoln, in March, 1.S61, he w.is tlirecteil by him 
 to prepare a project for the relief of Fort Pickens, then in imminent peril, anci as engineer 
 accompanied that expedition to its successful completion. 
 
 .Shcirtiv after his return to Washington, he was appointed and commissioned 
 Ouartermaster-General, with the rank of Brigadier-General in the Army. 
 
 In Inly, 1.^04, while commanding a di\ision in the defenses of Washington, when 
 threatened 1)V the enemy, he was ap|)ointed a brevet Major-General V. .S. .Armw and on 
 the T,n\ October, 1S64, was assigned to duty according to this brevet rank, and h,is con- 
 tinued on dutv as Major-General thus assigned to this time, a perioti of more than 
 se\'enteen years. 
 
 .As Ca])tain of Engineers, he constructed public works costing ten ir.illions three 
 hundred and thirteen thousand dollars. .As Ouartermaster-General, he has directed llu- 
 use and application of ap[)ro[)riations intrusted to him .miounting tcj nineteen hundred 
 and fifty-si.x millions six hutidred thousand dollars. In addition to which. In- h.is iiixes- 
 tigated and adjudicated, under the special authority and duty imposed upon him by the 
 law of Jidy 4th, 1S64. over ,,,1,900 claims of citizens in the border States for fort\- mil- 
 lions of dollars, upon which, upon this report and recommendation. Congress h;is alk)ued 
 
262 Ml U,s (il-:NKAI,< H,N'. 
 
 and paid .iIkjuI i i .ijuu of them, tu the aniuunt of about four millions live hundred 
 thousand dullais. 
 
 Your Committee, while indisposed to establish the rule of retiring ofificers with a 
 grade hi^lu-r than their actual rank, do not hesitate to recommend it in the case of 
 General Meigs. His long service in the Army, but especially as Quartermaster-General 
 for nearly twenty years, covering the whole period of the war for the suppression of the 
 rebellion, entitles him to some especial mark of distinction by the Congress of the United 
 States. And vour C<immittee therefore recommend the passage of the bill, with an 
 amendment. 
 
 Ill the (iliituary ordered published from the headquarters of the Army is given the 
 fiilldwing tribute to his services and ehaiacter : 
 
 * * * * ■' (k-neral Meigs was itersonally a man of kind and amiable character, 
 
 of strict probity and sense of right, and of great breadth of intellect. The army has 
 rarely possessed an officer who combined within himself so many valuable attainments 
 and who was entrusted by the Government with a greater variety of weighty responsi- 
 bilities or who has ])roved himself more worthy of confidence. There are few whose 
 character and career can be more justlv recommended or whose lives are more worthy 
 of resi)ect, admiration and emukition." 
 
 FyoDi " The London Times," Janmuy ^/h, /Sq2. 
 
 Major-General Montgomery Cunningham Meigs, a prominent military figure on the 
 Northern side in the great Civil War, died in Washington on the morning of Saturday 
 last, after a useful and honourable lifetime of seventy-six years. Graduating at West 
 Point in iS;i6, he became a member of the Corps of Engineers, in which capacity for 
 several years he was engaged chiefly in the construction of military works for the pro- 
 tection of the coasts and the frontiers. For eight years, from 1S52 to 1860, he devoted 
 himself to the great work of supplying the national capital with water from the Potomac 
 river ; The Washington Aqueduct, including a bridge with its largest stone arch in the 
 W(.irld, was designetl and constructed under his ]jersonal direction. When the Civil War 
 began, the strength of the United States army was under 20,<»o men : when it ended, 
 four years later, the North had a million of men under arms. The principal officers of 
 the headciuarter staff had throvvn up their commissions and positions and taken service 
 in the Confederate .^rmy. General Meigs had not so much to strengthen as to create a 
 department, and that without e.xperience or [precedent to guide him, for the organization 
 devolving on him from the first needed to be on a scale of greater magnitude than the 
 military world had ever yet seen. He chartered transports, he established conveyance- 
 conventions with railway chiefs, or if occasion demanded, took over the lines bodily and 
 ran them himself : he built new lines and repaired others wrecked by the enemy ; he 
 clothed the armies, provided and supplied them with tents, forage and fuel, camp and 
 garrison equipment : he furnished horses for cavalry and artillery, and beasts for the 
 transport wagons and ambulances which he too supplied : he built barracks, hospitals, 
 storehouses, and bridges ; set up telegraph lines ; and he so copiously yet so scrupu- 
 lously disbursed the money of the Repul)lic that he e.xpended some 2,000 million dollars, 
 vouched for pmictiliously to the last cent. To his realization that his ])ro]>er post was 
 at the national capital, he sacrificed his longing ardour to sh.u'e the fortunes of the 
 
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264 Meigs Gexealocy. 
 
 fioluiniL; nicii : yet iluty occasionally offered him tiie ojiportuiiity of |iarticii)alin<; in 
 active warfare ; and he was in Chattanooga throughout its investment, was present at the 
 l)attles of Lookout Mountain ("the battle above the clouds") and of Missionary Ridge; 
 was with (irant during the desperate fighting of the Wilderness; and when Early 
 suddenly threatened the capital, he mobilized and commanded a division consisting of 
 the people of his own department. Sent to Europe in iSy^^ on special service to study 
 the organization of Continental military staffs, General Meigs was treated with great dis- 
 tinction by the Em])eror William i, and had many interviews with Moltke and with 
 Podtrelski, the Prussian Quartermaster-General. In iS<S2, after a service of 5" years, 
 he retired from active service, but so great was still his energy that he sul)se<iuently 
 liuilt the great structure in the Citv Park of Washington, known as the Pension lUiilding. 
 
 General Sheridan said that whilst with Germanv's troops, during the F"ranco-Ger- 
 m.in war, he several times saw them so situated in regard to their supplies, that had they 
 met with such reverses as our army sometimes met with during the Civil War, they 
 would have Ijeen destroyed ; and General Schofield, says, in his Ijook, " Forty-six years 
 in the ,\rmy," he was presented to the Emperor of the French, and while conversing 
 with him, Napoleon "asked to know something of the operations of the armies, and 
 especially their mar\elous methods of supply at great distances from a base of Ojjer- 
 ations." 
 
 General Abbott, luigineer Corps, United States Army, read before the National 
 Academv a meuKiir of General Meigs, who had been a member of it (he was also a 
 regent of the Smithsonian Institute ), in which he said: " General Meigs, as engineer, 
 was engaged in several minor works of coast defense, devised and constructed the 
 Washington A(|ueduct, constructed the extension of the N.itional Cajiitol, with its new 
 wings and iron dome ; extended the General Post Office Building, at Washington, D. C, 
 prepared in conjunction with Professor Baird, the plan for a new national museum, and 
 after his retirement acted as architect of the Pension Office Building during the entire 
 process of its erection." 
 
 The Washington Aqueduct is eleven miles long, with a capacity of seventy millions 
 of gallons a day. On its line is the Cabin John Bridge, with its single masonary arch, 
 220 feet span, the largest stone arch in existence. (See illustration on page 263.) 
 The story that the name of Jefferson Uavis, Secretary of War, when this arch was built, 
 was erased from it by General Meigs' order, is a mistake. This was done whilst he was 
 absent from Washington on other duty. General Meigs thr)ught it should have re- 
 mained there, being a historical fact, which no man could change. 
 
 Few men were more consulted in those times by the high officials, and he had great 
 opportunities for obser\'ing the inside history of the war. He closes a ])aper written in 
 1 888, which was never published, concerning the relations of Lincoln, Stanton and 
 McClellan to the military contluct of the war, by saying : 
 
 " Many military names from this war will li\e in history, Init Lincoln's and Stanton's 
 will outlive all but Grant's. These three are the three great men of the war. I knew 
 them all during its course. They differed in talents, and in temperament, and in manner. 
 
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 Appendix. 265 
 
 Lincoln is easily first, Grant, with Stantun, occupied the second place. I will not attempt 
 to say which of these two should l)e first. But all won my regard and such revcrenc 
 as 1 have felt called on to give to no other man in the course of a long life, in which I 
 have shaken hands with every President since Adams, that is with sixteen of the twenty- 
 one men who have held that high office." 
 
 ■■ Between Lincoln, Stanton and (".rant I believe there was never a dispute." 
 
 Grant, in a letter dated May i, \Sh^, acknowledging Lincoln's letter to him n{ the 
 day before, says : 
 
 V f V * !f ., f. ,-(,,-,^ „^y fjj.gj t_-ntiance int(_) the volunteer service of the country to 
 the present day I have never had a cause of complaint, have never expressed or implied 
 a complaint against the administration, of the Secretary (if War, for throwing aiiv em- 
 barrassment in the way of my \-igorously prosecuting what api^cued t(j be my duly." 
 
 General Meigs was buried with the honor of a military funeral in the National 
 Cemetery at Arlington, which Secretary Stanton, at his 1 Gen'l Meigs) suggestion, in 
 1864, had consecrated for all time to that [nirpose by using it as a resting place for \ic- 
 tims of the war for the I'nion. 
 
 General Meigs was a f'hiladelphian, forthough born in Augusta, Ga., in 1816, he was 
 brought to Philadelphia when but one year old, where he remained until 1832, he 
 left the University of Pennsylvania for West Point, having been appointed a cadet, 
 as from Georgia, by reijuest of his uncle, John Forsyth, then United States Senator from 
 that State. His mother was born in Philadelphia, and his father, Dr. Charles D. Meigs, 
 resided there for quite fifty >-ears. 
 
 From " Tlw Scientific America))'' faiiuarv joi//, /S(^2. 
 
 This distinguished officer was of illustrious ancestry. His father was Dr. Charles 
 Dulucena Meigs, one of the ablest physicians of Philadelphia and long Professor of 
 Obstetrics and the Diseases of Women and Children at Jefferson College in its palmiest 
 days. His grandfather was a class-mate of Noah Webster and Oliver Wolcott, at Yale 
 College, and a famous educator in his time, being the first professor and acting president 
 of the University of Georgia. 
 
 He was born in Augusta, Ga., on May ,V'd, iSifi, where his father was then prac- 
 ticing Medicine. A year later he was taken by his |)arents to Philadelphia. He left the 
 University of Pennsylvania where he was a student, having received an a]ipointment to 
 the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, and he graduated at that institution in 1836, 
 when he was commissioned a second lieutenant in the first artillery ; he resigned on 
 July ,iist, is.ij, to accept the rank of lirevet second lieutenant in the corps of Engineers 
 on August 1st, 1837. 
 
 His first engineering work was the improvement of the Mississippi River, under 
 Captain Robert E. Lee, U. .S. E.; the repairing of F'ort Mifflin, on the Delaware River, 
 and subsec[uently he was occupied in the building of P'ort Delaware, and in the improve- 
 ment of harbors in the Delaware River and Bay, also on other similar work for short 
 periods of time at various places along the Atlantic Coast. He became first Lieutenant 
 on July 7th, 1838. 
 
266 Mi'-.Kis Genealocv. 
 
 In iN4i liL- hrcame a sujit-rinteiuling L-nt^incL-r, with charge uf the- cunsUiicliuii ut 
 Forts Wayiu-, Porter, Nia_t;ara and Ontario, antl so continued until i.S4g, when he was 
 called to Washin,t;t"n, and spent a year in the office of the engineer corps there : in 1.S510, 
 returned to his work of superintending engineer, with charge of the building of Fort 
 Montgomery, at the outlet of Lake Champlain. In November, 1852, he returned to 
 Washington, under orders to take charge of designing and constructing the Potomac 
 aqueduct. His plans ha\ing been accepted by Congress, he constructed that work, 
 including the Cal)in |o]in and Rock Creek Hridges. His work on this |:)iece of engineer- 
 ing gave him a high name as an engineer. He was advanced to the rank of Captain of 
 Engineers in March, 1S33, ha\-ing served for fourteen years in the next lower grade. 
 His other work included the superintending of the construction of the wings of the 
 capitol and of its great dome and the halls of Congress, also of the extension of the 
 U. .S. General Post Office Iniilding in Washington, and of the completion of Fort Madison 
 near Annapolis, Md. 
 
 During the aiUiunn of 1 S60, he was sent to Florida, to take charge of the construc- 
 tion of Fort lefferson, at Tortugas, Init he was recalled to Washington in time to be 
 present at the inauguration of President Lincoln, under whose order he jjlanned and 
 accompanied as its engineer the expedition for the relief and re-inforcement of F"ort 
 Pickens at Pensacola, Fla., then threatened bv the forces of the Confederate States. He 
 rescued Fort Pickens and saved the imjiortant harbor of Pensacola from falling into the 
 hands of the Confederacy. This was the first active effort on the part of President 
 Lincoln to stop the tide of Confederate aggressions which was sweeping from the con- 
 trol of the llnited States Southern military posts and harbors. 
 
 He retiuned to Washington, and on May 14th, was promoted to Colonel of the 
 eleventh infantrv, and a day later was matle quartermaster-general of the U. S. Army 
 with the rank of brigadier general. 
 
 Of his long and able services during the Civil War only the briefest summary is 
 possible. His duties consisted in directing the equipment and supply of the armies in 
 the field, generally from headquarters in Washington, although he was present at the 
 battle of Bull Run in July 1S61, and during 1S63 and 1864 was specially engaged in 
 ]M-oviding transportation and supjjlies for the forces at Chattanooga, being present dur- 
 ing the investment and bcjuibardment of that city and the subsequent liattle in Novem- 
 ber, iS6,v During the o\erland campaign of General Grant, in 1S64, he had personal 
 charge of the base of su])plies of the Army of the Potomac, at Fredericksburg and 
 Belleplaine. During the threatened invasion of Washington, in July, 1S64, he com- 
 manded a brigade of quartermaster's men and other troops. 
 
 Subseijuently he visited Savannah, Ga., with Edwin M. Stanton, .Secretary of War, 
 when that place was captured by the armies inider General Sherman, in order to supply 
 and refit the armies with the necessary supplies, also shipping to their proper destination 
 the captured stores. .Still later he met General Sherman at Goldsboro, N. C, where he 
 refitted the armies with everything needeil, including " a new canvas cover for every 
 wagon." 
 
 At the close (if the ci\il war he returned to the administrati\e duties of the quarter- 
 master-general's office in Washington, and in connection with these he inspected the 
 workings of the department under his control in Texas and the Southwest in i.S69-'7o, 
 in California and Arizona in i.S7i-'2, the Western posts and railroad routes in 1S72, and 
 in California and Columbia in i87,v'4. He visited Europe in iS67-'S for his health, and 
 again in iS7s-'6 on special service to study the constitution and government of the 
 
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 armit's abroad, and was then made a nn/mbt-r of the commission for the reform and 
 re-organization of tiie armv in 187(1. 
 
 General Meigs also served on the board appointeti to prepare plans and s]iecitica- 
 tions for the war department building erected in Washington in iSdd, and the Iniilding 
 for the U. S. National Museum in 1S76, also in iSyS he submitted a plan for the Hall of 
 Records in Washington. 
 
 In August, iS.Sj, Congress ap])ropriated money for the erection of a new fn\.--proof 
 building ot biick and metal lor the Pension Bureau at Washington with the condition 
 th.it it should be erected under his su[ier\ision. This occupied his attention until its 
 completion in 1887. Since then he livetl in retirement at his home in Washington. 
 
 He was regent of the Smithsonian Institute and in T.S65 he was chosen a member 
 of the National Academy of Sciences, an honor accorded to him in consideration of his 
 great abilit\- displayed as chief of the (juartermaster's department. He took consider- 
 able int<'rest ill science, and was a member of other scientific organizations in Washington 
 and elsewhere. 
 
 ( jeneral .Meigs was held in high esteem bv his military associates, and it is told that 
 when Cieneral Sherman was the commanding officer ol the U. .S. .Army, a report from 
 the (luartermaster's department, in ( 'icneral Meigs' handwriting, was submitted to him. 
 It recei\e(.l the following endorsement. "The hamlwriting of this report is that of 
 GeiU'ral Meigs, and 1 therefore appro\e of it, but 1 cannot read it." 
 
 His funeral took place on the morning (jf |aiui,irv 5th, and he was buried at Arling- 
 ton, that be.uiliful hi.nne for the ileLid, where so many of the distinguished heroes of the 
 Civil War are buric'd. From St. lohn's Church to the Cemetery his remains were 
 esi (irted b\' a detail of soldiers fidiii the Washington barracks, commaiuled by the 
 senior olticer ]iresent. His p.ill-beaiers were : General John M. Schoheld, the ranking 
 oftici-r of the U. S. Army ; General Thomas L. Casey, chief of the U. S. Engineers ; 
 General Holabird, General Hoi-atio C. Wright, and Colonel Vincent, re]n-esenting the 
 army; f-'rofessor Samuel 1'. I.angle\', representing the National Acadeiiu- of .Sciences; 
 and 1 >r. (. C. Welling, representing the Smithsonian Institution. 
 
 Soliiiers love Iht'ir Kind hecau-^e it is their own. 
 
 .Ami scoiii to gi\f aiii;lit other reason why ; 
 W'oulil shake hands with a kilii; upon Iiis throne, 
 
 And Uiink il kiniiness lo his Maiesty. 
 
 No. 405. CAPT. SAMUEL BMLEN MEIG5. 
 
 1'i:rs()N.\i, Rr'.coii.F.t rid.Ns oi' S. E.mi.k.x Mi:1(;s. 
 
 I was born in rS28 in Philadelphia, Arch Street above Si.\th .Street; my father was 
 (2U)> Charles \). .Meigs. M. I)., a distinguished physician there; m\' mother, Mary 
 Montgomery daughter of \\'illi;im ,Moiitgomer\', .1 [jrominent merchant (if that city. 
 Vox the history of my father's family, set.' the life ot Josiah Meigs, by his great-grand- 
 son, W. M. Meigs, and the life of ("harles 1). Meigs, M. D., by his son Ur. [ohn Forsyth 
 Meigs. 
 
 I was often annoyeii liy hearing my family, who were of New England descent, 
 siiokeii of as ■■ Georgians," merely because my father when eight years old was taken 
 
Appkniux. 269 
 
 l)V his parents from Connecticut to rieorgi;i in iSoi, when his father became the Presi- 
 dent of the University of Georgia at Athens; and because my brother, ("leneral Meigs, 
 was born in ( ieorgia. He, however, was brought when one year old to I'hiladel- 
 phia, by his parents, where he resided until he was appointed to West Point as a cadet 
 from (jeorgia. When a friend belonging to a first ( or second?) famih- nf X'irginia 
 called on me. shortly after the Scandal about Secretary of War Balknap, which ca\ise<l 
 his resignation, had occurred, and de]jlored the general corruption, as he thnught, at the 
 North, and even intimated that the women at the North were not, as a rule, as pure as 
 those of the South, — this, too, annoyed me. and when he exclaimed , " Reallv, mv dear 
 Sir, it must be a comfort to you, in these times, to be able to rt.'flect that vou are a 
 Georgian." I answered. " (ieorgian ! Thunder! If there is one thing I am more 
 grateful for than another, it is that I was born north of Mason and Dixon's Line instead 
 of south of it." 
 
 Mv mother had ten chiklren, one of whom died in infancy: the rest, seven sons 
 ,incf two slaughters, li\ed to past middle life. Memoirs of two of these sons, General 
 Montgomerv C. Meigs, L'. S. A., and ol I'l'. |c>hn I-'nrsvth Meigs, show the\' attained 
 distinction in their resjiective professions, and the dthci' chiMren letl usefid and respected 
 lives. 
 
 My father was an industrious student in manv liianches of learning, master of nianv 
 languages, with a beautiful imagination and charming manners antl with great energy 
 and aijplication. A conscientious practitioner and teacher of medicine, he died at 
 seventy-seven years of age, honoretl and resjjected b\' those who knew him. 
 
 My mother had great intellectual jjowers and common sense, with a strong lo\'e of 
 justice and was very obedient to her sense of duty ; she was an admirable wife, mother 
 and friend. 
 
 At the time of my birth Philadelphia contained about 120,000 inhabitants ; and her 
 people mostly li\-ed \-ery plainly. One could from Broad and Arch .Streets have a view 
 of F.urmount uninterrupted by any buildings. I:)roa(.l Street was unpa\ed ntulh of \'ine 
 and south of Lombard Streets; Anthracite coal was unused, and the people depended 
 on wood for fuel. Gas was unknown. Food was chielly supplied by farmers, who 
 firought it to the city in wagons. There were no railroads, and a snow storm often 
 meant a blockade for some days of the city's supplies, which almost caused a famine 
 for fuel, which, with many articles of food, would double in price in a day or twci. 
 
 The route to New 'S'ork was 1>\- steamboat to liordentown on the Helaware thirty 
 miles north, thence by railroad to Perth Aml)oy, thence by steamboat to New \'ork, this 
 meant eight or ten hours to a trij). The well-to-do used sperm oil lamps and sperm 
 candles, and the poorer classes used tallow dip candles. Coal oil was miknoun. The 
 country people used to produce fire by flint and steel, as there were no matches. 
 
 I remember when Presidents' messages were brought down Arch Street on horse- 
 back. Ocean steamships were unknown, and in those days we were fre(|uently twenty 
 or thirty days without news from Euro]:)e. 
 
 When twelve years old I was sent to the classical academy of Samuel Crawlord, a 
 rigid Scotch l^resbyterian minister, with implicit faith in the virtues of his rattan, fie 
 sometimes flogged me eight times a day. and sometimes 1 thought chiefly for his own 
 exercise. He was celebrated as a tfogger. even in those days ; and was, happily for 
 later generations, one of the last of the great race of floggers. He w.is, however, an 
 excellent teacher, and whilst some boys hated him, others loved him, mvsell amongst 
 the number 
 
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 It was then thiiu<;ht host for boys to live in fear of the rod and " per aspera ad 
 astra " was beHeved to be the true way to rise. In fact, it was thought good for one to 
 be miserable. Manv of niv classmates did rise, amongst them were S. Wier Mitchell, 
 the eminent ph\-sician ; John d. Parke, a distinguished Major-General, in the U. S. A. 
 in the Civil War ; Richard IS. Hrock, a successful business man ; Francis A. Jackson, 
 Professor in the Universitv of Pennsylvania; and Professor Edward Goodfellow, U. S. 
 Coast Survey Oltice, Washington, in 1^44, ] entercil the University of F'ennsyhania ; 
 but left it in 1^4(1 to enter the counting house of a ilry goods commission firm in this 
 city, which I left in 1S5.S to begin business for myself, and during a career of thirty-two 
 years I never failed or was emljarrassetl financially. 
 
 In 1S61, I offered my serx'ices to the Government, and by the advice of my brother. 
 General M. C. Meigs, 1 applied for and receivetl from President Lincoln, a commission 
 as Captain and Assistant (hiartermaster of Volunteers and was ordered to report for 
 duty to General Halleck in the Dejiai'tment of Missouri, when I was assigned to duty at 
 the Headquarters at .St. Louis. My partnership in the firm was continued, however, 
 during my absence fnmi I'liil.idelphia. 
 
 CAPTAIN SAMUEL EMLEN MEIGS. 
 
Apri:.\i)ix. 271 
 
 In Aiiril, 1863, I resigned from the service and was honorably discharued. While 
 in the Army, United States money and other jiroiierty passed through my hands to the 
 value of about twenty millions of dollars, for all of which I accounted satisfaclorilv to 
 the government, except for a shortage of one hundred and thirty dollars, resulting from 
 the mistakes of others, which was charged to me jiersonally. When this was referred 
 at the suggestion of the Auditor of the Treasury, to General Grant, then acting Secretary 
 of War, he directed it should be cancelled, although as I then stated, I was perfectly 
 willing and able to pay it. 
 
 I resigned at that time because my firm's liusiness was suffering greatly from my 
 absence when I was engaged to be married, and because I felt confident that with New- 
 Orleans already taken and Vicksburg about to fall, thus opening the Mississippi River, 
 that the attempt at secession must certainly fail. 
 
 In the following month. May, i.s6,^, I married Miss Cornelia Rogers, tlaughter of 
 the late William E. Rogers, Esq., of Philadelphia, and our married life was a most 
 happy one. She died in 1S96, leaving those who knew her well to think as I liid, that 
 she was an honor to her sex and age. She left a daughter, Harriet Ruggles Meigs, wife 
 of Robert C. Drayton, Esq., of Philadelphia ; and a son, Frederick Rogers Meigs. 
 
 No. 408. SAR.AH BAKER MEIGS. 
 
 A little parody referring to Sarah was furnished us by a correspondent, who in 
 childhood frequently heard it sung to an old Psalm tune ; it runs as folk 
 
 lows : 
 
 " Joy to the world, l,o]ier has come, 
 Let .Sally receive her King ; 
 Let Graiuiy Meigs prepare the rooin. 
 And Hannah and Nabby sing." 
 
 Nabby is colloquial for Abigail, and this and preceding name refer to Nos. 22~ and 22S, 
 while Granny Meigs was Prudence, wife of (22^) John h'rench Meigs. 
 
 I howed ilown my eai a little, .iiul i^al nuiLh k-arriuii;. 
 
 — IiLLlfsiastnus [J : 76. 
 
 No. 425. JOSEPH MEIGS, JR. 
 
 The first issue of (233) Joseph Meigs and Amelia Lormg was born August iS, 1809. 
 His early youth was spent on the old " Mead P'arni." He quickly displayed a decided 
 inclination for greater information other than was offered or obtainable in the town 
 schools. As his father was in circumstances to permit of greater expenditure, he was 
 given the opportunity to cultivate this inclination, and was sent to the "Old Bridgewater 
 Academy," where he took a four years' course in two years, and was considered the 
 brightest pupil that had ever entered its portals up to that time. There he made his 
 mark as a historian, provincial, colonial and general, and was looked upon as authority 
 in that time. Being of a mathematical tendency, he devoted much of his time to that 
 branch, acquiring higher attainments at each step until he arrived to the distinction of 
 being consulted by very much older mathematicians on very difticult and complex prob- 
 lems. He was a man of exceptional executive ability. His father reposed the greatest 
 
272 Mkics Genkalouy. 
 
 confidence in his management of the large farm, the ship huilding business and the 
 store, of which he was the first partner, and remained sucli till his death, October 25th, 
 1.S41, at the early age of thtrty-two. 
 
 I'leing of a literary turn, was a great reader, and accumulated the largest private 
 Hlirary of standard works in the town, and which he freely loaned, but greatly to his loss 
 and that ol his famiK*. 
 
 I. L. M. 
 
 'rlieru is a tide in thu alTairs of nlLMi. 
 
 Tlial, takt-TI .11 till; ll(."il, liM.ls .Ml to fnrtuilu. 
 
 No. 427. LORINO MEIGS. 
 
 He did not take kindly to ei.lucational pursuits. Imt was sent to " ( )ld tiridgewater 
 .■\cademy," where he remained a short time, when his father took him in the store as a 
 clerk to learn the business, at which he was more successful. He was maile a member 
 of the firm of Joseph Meigs & Son, when the firm became Joseph Meigs & Sons in 1.S40. 
 The influence antl political power his fatiier had was wielded in his liehall, and in 1 S4;i-44 
 he was elected to the Legislature as Reijresentative from Rochester, Mass., but having 
 met the disapproval of his father, was not continued. He was a first Lieutenant of the 
 .State Militia about this time. At the (leath of his father he administered u])on the estate 
 and conducted the business of the firm in its various enterprises, carrying it through the 
 crisis of '47 succossivelv, and marrieil Marv Sampson, of Assonet Village, okl town of 
 Freetown, Mass., September 7, i.'^47. He became an important factor in all business 
 undertakings, especially in \hc building of the I''airhaven Branch R. R., of which he 
 was a Director. He was agent of whaling vessels from this ])ort and builder of vessels 
 till the panic of '57. when he went to tlie wall, and from this he never recovered. He 
 died Feliruarv mth, iSgc), aged eight\'-si\ vears. 
 
 J. L. M. 
 
 Ill litis world llie one tliiiti; stiprcmcly woitli having is tlie opporttmitv', coiiiiled willi tlie 
 cai'acity, to do well aticl will tiiily a |iie>e of wi'ik the doiiii; of wliicli is .if \-ital consenueiicc 
 
 to the welfare of TnalikiM'l. 
 
 -~Tlu;Ki,ii,- Kmistl;-tl. 
 
 No. 433 DR. WILLIAM MEIGS. 
 
 Although graduated in medicine and having practiced some years in Maine, he 
 seems to have found his best success in teaching, and from 1S54 he followed this pro- 
 fession in several places in Ohio, and West Virginia, New Jersev, and North Carolina. 
 
 At one place in West Virginia he taught French, Latin, Algebra and Geometry with 
 the commoner liranches. Fnjm 1S68 he was for some time Superintendent of .Schools 
 at Clarksburg, W. Va., and at the same time was Principal of thi' Linion School in that 
 place with five assistant teachers. 
 
 But from the happiness and prosperity of this work, his wife's failing" health took 
 them to Vineland, N. J., where in addition to his teaching he embarked in grape culture. 
 This had been a source of much wealth to Vineland prior to that time, but soon after a 
 rot attacked the vines and Dr. Meigs found it a losing venture. After a few years he 
 removed to French Creek, W. Va., where he was called to take charge of the " Normal 
 
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 School " frdiii where he wrote to a sister, ■' Tliey have a scarcity of i^ood teachers in 
 this County, and they want me to make some t^mn] teachers and help elevate the schools 
 of the County." 
 
 A sluilent always, he found opiioitunit v to publish se\-eral hooks, an arithmetic, 
 geometry and others, some of which were (|uilc successful and rennuier.itive. Letters 
 of his which we have read, give inteiesting accounts of his work and observations of 
 nature and men. 
 
 Reino\ing after some years to Ouiet I)ell, in Harrison Co., W. \',i., he died there 
 in i8gi. 
 
 No. 444. CAPT. GIDEON MEIGS. 
 
 He ran away to sea at an early age, because farm work in .Maine was distaslclul : 
 shijiped as cabin l)oy and later before the mast on whalers. (.)n one voyage he helped 
 an infirm old sailor in his duties, who in turn taught him navigation. With this advant- 
 age he gradually worked himself u\) to the command of a vessel. On one of his \'ovages 
 from I.i\er]jool he had as passengers the familv c)f Walter Haiding — wife and leu 
 children, one of whom the oldest. Flora, afterward became his wife. His last ship was 
 the Montpelier, now used as a Sailor's Bethel in New York. 
 
 His life at sea was full of the adxentures and dangers common to the sailor on sail- 
 ing vessels. Soon after his marriage he forsook the water antl became a saw-mill 
 proprietor at Aurora, N. Y., where his father-in-law had settled, and here and in Buffalo 
 the rest of his life was spent. To an inteiesting letter written by him Dec. 14. iShS, to 
 his brother (4,1,^' Dr. Williatii Meigs, we are indebted for much of our early knowledge 
 of the iMassachusetts branch and for our brief items regarding the children of 11 to.) 
 Ebenezer Meigs, of Rochester, Mass. 
 
 I,ivi;s of Ki'e:it men all reniinil us. 
 
 We may make i>ui li\es sublime, 
 And, departing leave tiehind iis 
 
 Focitpriuts on the sands of time. 
 
 — I.'itii^fenozL'. 
 
 No. 485. JOHN MEIGS. 7th M. D. 
 
 Oi'.i I r.\K\ . 
 
 MEUiS — In .Stanstead, P. O., on the 7th inst., John Meigs, M. D., in the eightieth 
 year of his age. 
 
 Dr. .Meigs was born in Wheelock, \'t., Felj. I'S, i,Si,j. He studied medicine with 
 Dr. Phinias Spalding then of Lyndon, \'t. In iS:;6 he came to " ^Lirlow " Stanstead, 
 remained there a few months, then removed to Derby Line and iS;i7 came to Stanstead 
 Plain, where he was associated for a time with Dr. M. Y . Colby and where he lived for 
 over fifty years. He seemed almost to have inherited medicine as a profession, there 
 having been seven doctors in five generations, five of them bearing his own name. 
 
 As a man. Dr. Meigs sustained an unblemished character for honesty and u[)right- 
 ness in all business relations. Possessed of sound practical knowledge of the affairs of 
 
274 Mki(;s Gkneal()(;y. 
 
 every-day life, his opinion and advice in such matters were always reliable and safe. He 
 was a strong- thinker, sturdy and resolute in expression. Although sometimes plain and 
 outspoken, he was genial and often humorous in conversation, a pleasing companion 
 and staunch friend. He was interested in public affairs and discharged the duties of a 
 magistrate and other civic offices intelligently and well. As a physician, he was cautious 
 and deliberate in judgment and faithful in his care for the sick. Cool and courageous 
 in the face of doubt and danger, he contested the inroads of disease with a persistence 
 anil fertility of resource that in many a critical case won successful results and secured 
 to him the grateful regard of those to whom he thus ministered. A personal acciuain- 
 tance (jf more than forty years has only confirmetl this estimate of the character and 
 ability of one who has now passed from all participation in the battle of life. In the 
 most intimate professional associations the same honoralile and candid spirit has ever 
 been manifest. To any call for counsel or assistance he readily resjionded, exercising a 
 skill derived from careful investigation and long experience. 
 
 lint words cannot express the sorrow or weigh the loss felt Ijy a community when 
 one so prominently identified with its interests is taken from its midst. His life and 
 deeds will not soon be forgotten. G. VV. Cowles. 
 
 Stansteatl, .SL-|it. 17, l.SSg. 
 
 In Mkm(.)riam. 
 
 He who was laid to rest in Crystal Lake Cemetery on the afternoon of September 
 gth, was almost the last of a generation. Very few of those who were of the age of 
 maturit\- when Dr. John Meigs first settled in Stanstead still sur\ive. Since the loss is 
 still fresh in our minds, it may not be amiss to recall some of the characteristics of him 
 whom we mourn. As a physician, he was attentive and honorable. The details of his 
 patients' ailments were sacred to him and ne\'er made the sulsject of discourse with out- 
 siders. He might appear to strangers somewhat bruscpie in manner, but this wore off 
 on ai(|uaintance, and the confidence which his patients reposed in him is well known, as 
 is also the respect in which he was held by his brother practitioners. As a citizen he 
 ever sought the welfare of the community amongst whom he livetl. He was Mayor of 
 Stanstead Plain for some time and a member of the Municipal Council till within a year 
 or two of his death. He was ever deeply interested in the welfare of Christ Church, 
 .Stanstead Plain. With his family he attended the first Church of England services held 
 in the \'illage by the Rev. H. G. Burnage. When the church was organized he was one 
 of its first wardens, and at this time was baptized and confirmed and became a com- 
 municant of the church. Up to the time of his death he was one of the most liberal 
 and svstematic supjiorters of the church. 
 
 We dare ndt u|ilift that \-eil which hides a man's family life from the vulgar gaze of 
 a curious world, but this we can say: That no husband, no father was more kindly 
 loved and revered, nor his advice more imiilicitly followed than was the subject of our 
 remarks. As a man, he was honest antl upright in the extreme. He scorned a lie. 
 " Whatever record s])rings to light he shall never lie shamed." Honorable in his ileal- 
 ings with others, he expected others to be so with him. He was kind ami considerate 
 to all who were in any way dependent upon him. He hated all manner of cant and 
 ]iritcnce, ne\'er iirt-tending to know more than he did, iKir ]iromising more than he was 
 able to accom])lish. A featiu'e noticeable in him was his charitableness in judgment of 
 others, thinkini; im e\il. 
 
Appendix. 275 
 
 We shall miss his laniiliar form in uur streets. His hunie will seem desolate by the 
 silence of that voice, hut strong in the Christian hope, we cut lca\e him in the care of 
 the Father who giveth rest to the weary and re-nniles in his home al)o\c, llmse families 
 divided on earth. 
 
 " God accept him. Christ receive him," H. 
 
 " His life NVM.s gentle ; and the elements 
 5i> inix'd in him, that Nature might slainl up 
 And sav to all the wuld, ' This was a man ' ' " 
 
 No 508. SAMUEL HARVEY PEET MEUjS. 
 
 Samuel H. P. Meij^s, son of Rev. Benjamin Clark Meigs, iMissirjnary tcj India, was 
 born at Till[)ally, a missionary station in Ceylon, India. At the age of 12 he came to 
 this country, and Ijegan his education at Hadiiam, Conn. He entered the New \'ork 
 University in 1.S46, antl graduated with high honor, tenth in his class of forty, in the 
 year iSscj. His life was devoted almost entirely to teaching young men, and prejiaring 
 them for college. His charming personality and his delightful conversational powers 
 were a never failing source of pleasure to his many friends. He was a musician of some 
 ability, and composed many jaart songs. He also ])0ssessed a beautiful voice anil sang 
 in many prominent churches in New York City. His nature was a most kindl\- one, 
 and many acts of charity were renilered during his life. 
 
 He died very suddenly, seemingly in the best of health, of heart tlisease, March 
 25th, 1S95. Was burietl with Masonic rites ir<jm the Masonic Temple, New York City, 
 and laitl to rest in the family plot at Mt. Hope. 
 
 Sleep, soldiers ! still in Iionored rest 
 
 Your trust and valor wearing : 
 The bravest are the teiiderest,— 
 
 The loving are the daring. 
 
 - A'arai.l Taylai . 
 
 No. 524. DR. QEORQE SAMUEL MEIGS. 
 
 At the early age of eighteen years he enlisted in the Civil War, from Aurora, Illi- 
 nois, on the first call of the President of the United States, for seventy-five thousand 
 volunteers, and was mustered into Co. C. 7th Regt. Illinois Infantry, April 27, 1861. 
 
 After leaving the Army he chose dentistry as his life work, and g;raduated from the 
 Maryland Dental College in 1S77. He stood high in the profession almost from the 
 first, and was often called upon to operate at the Clinics to demonstrate the use of 
 platinized gold, and various other scientific appliances in coiuiection with denistry. He 
 settled to practice in New York, and was prominent in his profession there mitil hi> 
 death. 
 
 About two years ago his witlow marrietl the Rev. Dr. Thomas Douglass, of New 
 York City, and to her we are indelited for most of the information regarding Dr. Meigs' 
 family, she having preservetl old records and other papers of interest, which she placed 
 at our disposal. 
 
276 Mi-:i(;s CiENKAi.()(;v. 
 
 He left ,t nanit; :il wliiuli the worM •^rcvv pale, 
 lu point a moral, 01 aiiurn ;i lak-. 
 
 — !>} . Julmsiiii . 
 
 No. 526. HENRY MEIGQS, of Lima, Peru. 5. A. 
 
 Thf !stiii"\' (if tlu- lifc-vvoi'k ul this rcniarkal^lc man is best told in tlir Inlluuin:.; 
 extracts from ina'^azines ami newspapers printed at the time of his death anil since, viz; 
 
 The followiiit; is taken from T/ic A^nr "^'ork IVt'iklv IVitness o{ October iS, 1S77. 
 
 " The death of Henry .Meig's^s, at Lima, Peiai, on the 2gth of .Septemljer, brings to 
 an end one ol the most remarkable c.ireers the world has ever witnessed ontsiik- the 
 pages cjf a idmanre. Meiggs was born in Catskill, N. \'., on the 7th of [ulv, iSi r. .After 
 acquiring snmc knowledge of the himber trade in his native place, he eniliarked in busi- 
 ness, but, tniding his field nt acti\it\' tuo limited, remnxed te> this city about the \'ear 
 /.V ,"',"' I .•' ). lie was regarded b\' all whu had dealings with him as a young man of un- 
 common executive abilitx' ui busincs;,, and it was ncjt long befdre he becauK- a leadiin' , 
 figure among iiui' merchants and cuul r.ulors. lb' was, moreox'er, a patron of the fnie 
 arts ; he encour.iged p.iinliug and sculpture \)\ lilici'al oi'dei'S for his private galler)-, and 
 organi/.cil ,1 musical associ.iliou which lloni'ished huelv as long as he rem.ained at the 
 he. id ul il. In the ])auic iif iN,i7 he laiKcl. but was on his feet again within twn years, 
 not wilhstaiidmg the cdUtinuiiJ tin.uici.d drpressiiin. In 11^42 he failed again, ami from 
 th.it time till 1 S4.'^ his l.irlunes were uncertain. The bri'aking out of the California gold 
 fe\'er suggestetl to .Meiggs the noticin nf ti'ansferring his business to the Pacific coast. He 
 loadei-l .a X'essel with lumber and set sail for the diggings. In the port of San P'rancisco 
 he sold his cargo for tvviiit\' times the sum he had [laitl for it. and with the capital thus 
 obtained he beg. in building saw mills and cutting timber in the interior. .At one time he 
 had hve hundred men at wink cutting trees in a single county foi" a single mill. The- 
 brisk business, atmos])here nf the new centre of commerce agreed wondci'fully well with 
 his ad\ x-nturoiis s|)irit, ,uid it was not hmg before he was the owner of a fleet of sloops 
 and si-hiiuners : .\ cnntract lor siip|)lving most ol the lumlier for San Frain'isco's muni- 
 cip.il works, ,1 magnificent dwelling on the chief street of the city, any nvunln-r of houses 
 for rent, and a large debit account at several banking liouses. 
 
 Tradesnuai. lalxjrers, washerwomen, clerks — almost every one in fact who had a 
 little money to invest — would bring their i)ursefuls of gold to " honest Harry Meiggs," 
 for safe keeping, as he was considered quite as responsible as the savings banks, and 
 gave higher interest than any. A half-dozen shrewtl souls there were in the whole city 
 who predicted that this state of things could not last forever, and one morning the rest 
 of San h'rancisco woke up to fintl the |)rophesy fulfilled. 
 
 When Meiggs was ne.xt heard from he was on the high wave of prosperity as a rail- 
 way i-ontractor in Chili. The Valparaiso and Santiago Railroad, which had l:)een in 
 progress of construclion for many years, had ruinetl every contractor who had under- 
 taken to build It. .\ |iart of the route lay through a country of rocks and chasms 
 which seemed well-nigh im]iassalile, and the engineers who had been consulted estimated 
 the cost of laying this thirty-three miles of road at not less than twenty-seven millions 
 of dollars, and the shortest time at seven or eight years. Meiggs offered to do the work 
 for twelve millions of ilollars and finish it in four years. He received the contract, exe- 
 cuted it in two years, -.wvX cleared one million, three huiulred and twentv thousand 
 dollars on it. 
 
Ai'i'Kxiiix. 277 
 
 The (iovernment u[ I'ciu also liad railways in hand and Meii^i^s's snccess in Chili 
 easily led him into otlier fields of lailway enleipiise. The people of Chili would have 
 made him one of the many princes of the realm, Init he preferred to retain his Anuii- 
 can citizenshiiJ, although he forfeited many of its privileges. In |S()7 he Kegan to huild 
 the railroad between Arequipa and Mollendo, a distance of ninet\- miles from the interior 
 to the Pacilic coast. P'our \-ears afterwards the line was finished, and the constructor of 
 it brought together at a dinner the representati\es of almost every nation. That dinner 
 is said to ha\e rivalled Nebuchadnezzar's, and to ha\e cost two luuidred thousand 
 dollars, 'file Archbishop of Arequipa publicly blessed the locomotives ; medals in 
 honor ol the event were distributed among the guests, and Meiggs pocketed his profits 
 of four millions <jf <lollars. 
 
 Kac-siinilt- ol Medal, of wliicli Henry .Mei>;ijs disli ibute'i j^o.O'J" wmUi in Gold, Silvi-r and Hronze 
 
 on tile octasion of his famous $200,000 dinner i;i\en to celehiate the cornpUlit-n .d a 
 
 Ji2,ooo,ocio contiact for building a Railroad in Ciiili, South America. 
 
 .At this time he had already signed contracts to complete si.x other railways in Peru 
 at a cost of Si 25,000,000. tdis object was tc) open the regions at the foot of the .Andes 
 to the commerce of the Pacific ( )cean. The moiiev for all these jiiildic works had come 
 for the most part from the cipit.ilists of Creat Iiritain, bin, owing to ihe fact that the 
 works were fur the most ].iart in advance of the lime, the dividends ri'ceix'ed by the 
 British lenders were not es|iecially satisfactory — indeed, in 1.S74 the Peruvian bonds in 
 London were sold at 55. ami in 1.S76 at i,v A ivw months afterwards llu'y were [iracli- 
 cally worthless. 
 
 Meiggs was a man whose face imi)ressed one at once, and who in an\- gathering 
 would have been consjjicuous. He was gentle in manner, foml of hospitality, a good 
 liver, and a wonderfully successful maker of friends. Nobody knows how much money 
 he left, and nobody can predict the fate of his great enterprise in South America. Two 
 sons and one married daughter survive him." 
 
27S 
 
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 (;i:.NF.AI,l)(,V. 
 
 A ICKMNAXT ill' liAUiiY MK.KiCS' TKHAiMA I' 
 
 There still stands in San Francisco ( 1894) what remains of the Old Tehama House, 
 the place of the early minint;- times ; is situated at the North-west corner of Kearney and 
 Broadway Streets, San Francisco. I^ike many other pioneers, it came around the Horn 
 in a ship from the East, having- been built in sections, then taken apart, shipped to San 
 Francisco, and rebuilt there. It was originally at the corner of Sansome and California 
 Streets for a first-class hotel, and was known as the House of Balconies. The roof 
 extended far over the eaves to form a cover for the lop balconies, which went all around 
 the house on each of the three floors. The walls were still without any shelter except- 
 ing the simple balconies, but now onlv the pillars are left. This is the last of the old 
 land-marks that was brought around the Horn in the early tiiues antl rebuilt in San 
 P rancisco. 
 
 M. F. M. 
 
 HENRY MEIGGS' FUNERAL. 
 
 Thh Railroah Ma<;nate BfRiEn <in the Anidics, and ix Sight of the P.\cific. 
 
 Torches, In(-exse, Majestk" Mi'sir and ali, the 
 
 Pomp of a TRoruAi. Coi'ntrv. 
 
 Panama, October 25th, 1877. 
 
 Our southern despatches are almost wholly taken up with the accounts of the funeral 
 
 of the late Henry Meiggs. The ceremonies were the most imposing ever witnessed in 
 
 Peru. After the body had lieen carefullv embalmed it was deposited in a superb casket, 
 
 richly ornamented, and this ])laced in one of the spacious saloons of the mansion, hung 
 
Ai'Im:ni)i\. ,--q 
 
 with black and silver, ami fraorani with the prilumL- of bcautilul trupical ticiwers. Rest- 
 ing on a velvet-covered base, the casket was surrounded with lighted candles, and l",,r 
 twelve hours c,ruarded by men from the Lima Fire Coni|,an>-, of wiiich Mr. Mei,>i^s was 
 an honorary member. The scene was solemn. The sombre hanoinus of the room, 
 relieved by the scarlet uniforms of the guards and the numerous liuhts. the varied forms 
 of the floral tributes scattered in profusion not only on the coffin, but in ,dl (piarters of 
 the extensive house, the immense crowd of people of all ranks and (jualities who thronged 
 the chamber where the remains were resting, all contributed to the impressive i hara.■l.■r 
 of the occasion. This was on the second of this month. It is the custom in I'eru lo 
 remove the body from the house to the church, where the requiem mass is to ln' sung 
 the night before the day fi.xed for the funeral, and as the hour approached for the trans- 
 lation of the remains to the spacious Church of Our Lady of Mercy, one of the grandest 
 temples in South America, the concourse of people steadily increased, the tide setting in 
 from even the most distant suburbs of the city towards the streets through which the 
 cortege was to pass. At ten o'clock the signal was given, and the massive coffin lifted 
 on the shoulders of a number of the operatives of the Oroya Railway, who insisted on 
 this tribute of affection. 
 
 Proceeding slowly down the wide marble staircase of the house, in order to gain the 
 main street, the spectacle presented was worthy of the weird pencil of Salvator Rosa, 
 the coffin itself co\'ered with white flowers swaying to and fro on the shoulders of the 
 bearers, whose heads were hitlden almost by the floral wealth. On either side was 
 gleaming the gaudy uniforms of the firemen, red, blue and green, for the Lima Company 
 had been re-inforceil by the English, French and Italian Brigades, all bearing torches, 
 whose light was strangely reflected back from the dead whitewalls. The sombre garb 
 of the priests and acolytes who lined the st.iircase, giving a mystical liack ground to the 
 stream of color that was passing down, and the chorus of lamentations arising from 
 many dependents on the bounty of the dead man — women, children and invalids, who 
 from the court-vard of the house lifted up their voices in distress — the whole scene was 
 one to tie remembered for a life-time. With difficulty was the line of march continued 
 to the church, some six squares distant. At every few paces the great weight of the 
 coffin rendered a change of liearers necessary and the thronging crowd, eager to be 
 near the remains of their friend, often impedeti the forward movement. At last the 
 portals of the Merced were reached, and the community, robed in black vestments, 
 sallied forth to meet the guests. The stately chants, plaintive yet noble in their cadence, 
 ere sung, and the body deposited under guard in the principal nave of the church, 
 where it was to remain until the next morning. The crowd slowly dispersed, and diffi- 
 culty was experienced in traversing the streets immediately adj.icent to the church, so 
 denseh' were they occupied. The continuous glare of the torches cast a brightness 
 like that of sunlight on the scene. 
 
 At ft o'clock on the morning of the '^rd the aisles of the temple were already 
 rapidly tilling with people anxious to witness the last rites of the church over her great 
 son. .At lo, when the family of the deceased arrived, represented bv his sons, ami by 
 several ol his most jirominent associates, the entrance was nearly blocked up, the guards 
 of firemen were placed at the doors to a\-ert all danger. The church was sumptuously 
 draped with black veh'et hangings, relieved by silver ornaments representing tears ; the 
 altar and sacristy were strewn with beautiful flowers, and the coftin, high on its pedestal, 
 surrounded with lights. The best musical talent in Lima had been engaged to lake 
 part in the ceremony, and the critics assert that never has the melody of the requiem 
 
 w 
 
2^0 Mkh.s Gknkai.ohv. 
 
 nv.ss ..I M.i/ai-t hren uunx- skillfully rrndered in 1^'ru ihan en this occasion. High up 
 in the dome of the chuixh appeafc.l the American and I'efuvian banners, interwoven 
 and appropriately dra,,ed. Presidino oyer the ceremony xvere th.^ Minister of the 
 United States, Ri-har.l Cihbs ; Minor and Henry Meiggs, the only surviving sons of the 
 deceased and \V. Rol:)ertson, to %vhom his only daughter was recently espoused. (.>reat 
 tact was shown in the selecthm of those who were to he honored with the position of 
 palld)earers. His most trusted, associated and c. -workers were chosen, led, as was 
 natural by the representatives of his nation, Mr. (^ibbs. The pall was supported by 
 Messrs. Cilley, Rand, Thorndike, Malinowski, l)ul„,is, Sartori and Garcia-Calderon, all 
 men of prominence and intimately connected with his wonderful enterprises. 
 
 Ihirin.. the service no eulogvvvas pron.mnced, it being usual hereto make such 
 utterances in the cemetery itself, as indeed was done most elo(iuently over the cottin. 
 Th,. President r,l the Republic sent his aides to represent him, the ministers of .state, 
 foreion envoys and consuls, men who are leaders in Lima and Caliao, and many of the 
 f.neinost ladi'es of the capitol (and women are seldom seen at funerals here ), came to 
 join in the lamentation and at the same time congratulations of the church. When the 
 strains of Stradella's '■ Per pieta, Signor " rang through the vaulted arches of the temple 
 there were none present who did not unite in the supplication. One of the most affect- 
 in., inci.leiits occurred wli.-n the attempt w.ls made .after the conclusion of the mass to 
 place th,. b.Klv in the heai'se destined to convey it to the cemetery, some two miles dis- 
 tant The p.,pul,ice, crowding the plaza in front <,f the Merced Church, absolutely 
 refused to alhnv the casket to he conducted save on their shoulders, and taking posses- 
 sion of It led the procession for nearly a mile, when, after strenuous representations, 
 it bec-ame apparent that their mode of conveyance would delay the ceremony until an 
 unreasonably late hour. Then the people consented to allow the coltin to be placed on 
 a beautifully ornamented truck belonging to the hi-emen, but insisted on drawing it to its 
 destination. Two hundred carriages followed the re.n.iins and at least 20,00c. people 
 were in line. The trains of the On.ya Railway conveyed i)eople gratis as far as the 
 Panteon, as the cemetery is termed, and were crowde.l. Business throughout the city, 
 was suspended until the return of the cortege, which took place at 2::,o P. M., and on 
 many houses flags were displayed at half mast. 
 
 One of the'most eminent members of the Peruvian Par, Dv. Luciano Cisneros, sug- 
 gested that the Gox'ernment should address the representatives of the American States 
 at present in Lima, to the effect that Peru regarded the loss of Mr. Meiggs as a misfor- 
 tune to America, and that they should attend the funeral as mourners. The idea was 
 well timed, for Chili, Peru, Bolivia, Costa Rica and Nicaragua are witnesses to the 
 triumphs of his genius and power. Hut the indication was not followed, not from any 
 want of ap]u-eciation, but from probably some exaggerated notion of etiquette or 
 punctilio. The municipality of Lima, however, instantly adopte.l a resolution calling for 
 a national subscription to c^rect a monument U> the memory of Mr. Meiggs, and the 
 matter is w.ll in hand, even at this early day. In Caliao also it is proposed to raise 
 funds by private contributions for the same laudable object. 
 
 The remains were only left temporarily in one of the chaj.els of the Panteon until 
 such time as the preliminary work might be completed for their reception at Villegas. 
 This is a beautiful estate belonging to the family, only two miles from Caliao, and on the 
 hue of the Oroya Railway. By a hajipy circumstance, from the mound where the body 
 of the dead is to be finally laid, one sees at his feet the blue waters of the Pacihc and 
 ga/ing up the valley of the Rimac can discern in the far distance the peaks of the 
 
AlM'l- NI>I\. 2S1 
 
 mighty Cordillera over wliosc precipices aiKJ rocks now speeds the loconiotixr. So, 
 standing beside the grave of Meiggs, can be seen the two points he joined togetlier, the 
 ocean and the Andes, a success which is the beginning of the great future await- 
 ing Peru. 
 
 The following is an extract from the will of the late Mr. Henry Meiggs : 
 
 In the name of Almighty Goti, I, Henry Meiggs, born in the town of Catskill, 
 Greene County, .State of New York, U. S. -A.., on the seventh day of July, i,Sji, but 
 resident in the City (jf I.ima, capital of the Republic of Peru, now being in my full senses 
 and desiring to avoid any question among mv heirs, in case of m\- sudden decease, have 
 determined to ni.ike my sealed will, which I ikjw do, as follows; 
 
 Firstly — That my legal obligations be i)aid. 
 
 Secondly — I declare that I was legally married to my first wife, Gertrude Pjurns, 
 who died November i^;, iS,W From this marriage there was but one issue 1 male ) 
 named William Wardell, wIkj died in .September, 1S50, without issue. 
 
 Thirdly — I declare that on the seventh day of September, 1.S35, I was married to 
 my second wife, Caroline I)(jyle, who died in Santiago, Chili, on the twenty-fifth day of 
 December, 1S61 By this marriage there were si.x legitimate children born, \iz ; Carroll, 
 Carolina, Henry Hoyt, Manfred Backus, Minor Keith and Fannie Kipp. The two first- 
 named children dietl beftire becoming of age and without leaving descendants. i\Ianfred 
 died in Chili in 1X76, anci the other three chilren are li\-ing, whom I declare to be my 
 legitimate heirs. Manfred left at his death four legitimate children, viz : Lucretia, Man- 
 fredo, Fannie and William, born in lawful wedlock, contracted with Lucretia Soto de 
 Meiggs, and Willuim died subsequent to his father, lea\'ing three living, whom I declare 
 to be my legitimate grandchildren. 
 
 (Clauses four to twenty-six inclusi\-e refer to pri\ate and family matters.) 
 
 Twenty-seventh — Inasmuch as mv death may occur Ijefore the conclusion of the 
 contracts which I have entered into with the Supreme Government, or before the same 
 may be sublet to another [lerson or company, it becomes necessary to make arrange- 
 ments for the carrying on of said works. For this pur|)ose I direct that all contracts 
 pending at date of mv decease shall be finishetl by a Directory composed of my legiti- 
 mate sons Henrv H. and .Minor K. .Meiggs, my son-in-law, .Alexander R. Robertson, 
 Mr. Charles Watson, Mr. Jacob Backus, and Mr. William H. Cilley, whom 1 name as 
 e.xecutors and legal representati\'es for the completion of said contracts. If any or either 
 of the said mentioned six indi\iduals tlie or leave this republic, the vacancy or vacancies 
 caused shall be filled by one or more of the following gentlemen, viz ; William M, Bush, 
 John L. Thorndyde, Charles S. Rand, in the order above named. The decisions of saitl 
 Directory shall be determineti by a majority of votes, not only as regards the execution 
 of the contracts, but with regard to their transfer to any person or comp.uiv. if such 
 course be deemed best : and for the determination of these questions I give them full 
 powers. .Mr. Charles Watson shall be President of said Directory, and will represenl it 
 as such, signing in the name of the Directory. In case of the death or disabililN' ot 
 Mr. Charles Watson, the presidency of the Directory shall devolve ui)On my son llenry 
 H. Meiggs; and in the further case of his disability, then to my other son, .Mmoi K. 
 Meiggs. The President of the Directory shall receive for com|iensation the sum of 
 2,000 soles monthly, and the other members shall receive the sum of 6,ono soles each 
 per annum. This salarv, however, shall not lie [laid for their services as directoi's, in 
 case they receive salaries as emplovees of the Public Works and Inipi'mement Company. 
 
282 iMl'.K.S (ilCNEALO(;Y. 
 
 T\vciUy-ei>^lith— The profits resulting from the conclusion of my contracts shall be 
 distrilnited amony; my heirs. 
 
 Twenty-ninth — On all business matters connected with my will and the completion 
 of my contracts, my executors will consult Mr. P'rancisco Garcia Calderon, whom I name 
 for this ol:)iect, and who will intervene, as heretofore, for the proper direction of my 
 affairs. 
 
 Thii'tielh — For the settlement of niy will and the carrying out of its provisions, ex- 
 cepting that which relates to pending contracts, I name as executors and custodians of 
 my property my two sons, Henry H. and Minor K. Meiggs, and my son-in-law, Alex- 
 ander R. Robertson, who will act jointly in the discharge of their duties. In case of the 
 disability of either of them, the others shall execute the will, and for this purpose I 
 authorize them to keep my estate unsettled beyond the time prescribed by law, in case 
 further time is found necessary. 
 
 Thirty-first — I declare my legitimate heirs to be Henry H. Meiggs, Minor K. Meiggs, 
 and Fannie K. Robertson nee Meiggs, and my legitimate grandchildren as the repre- 
 sentatives of their deceased father, my son Manfred. 
 
 Thirty-second — If the effects left by me should be insuthcient to pay all my debts 
 antl to cover the legacies referred to in the preceding clauses, I order the preference to 
 be given to my debts, and the legacies will remain null and void. And in case there 
 should be only sufticient funds to pay some of the legacies, I desire the preference to be 
 given those mentioned in clauses 19, 20, 21 and 22. 
 
 Thirty-third — All these payments must be made in the money current in the repub- 
 lic at the |)eriod of the payment, with the exception of those expressed in Chilian 
 money. 
 
 Thirty-fourth — 1 revoke all other wills made by me heretofore : and I desire that 
 this be fulfilled as my last will and testament. 
 
 (Signed) Hf:\RV Meigc.s. 
 Lima, August 10, 1S77, 
 From the Nf?,' )'oik Hor/d. No\-. 4, 1.S77. 
 
 The following additional account was taken from .4//ts/t'c-'s Mao^aiine, for Novem- 
 ber, lyo<i ; 
 
 No tale of the fortunes which have been built up by North Americans in the 
 repuLilics of Latin .America wouhl lie complete without reference to the career of Henry 
 (Harry) Meiggs. His operations in Chili and Peru form the most spectacular story of 
 finance which South America has ever furnished, and beyond a doubt had he been 
 granted but a few more years of life, W would have died one of the richest, if not the 
 richest, man in world. To him the amount or money involved in a transaction cut 
 no figure, and he dealt in millions with le.ss worry than ordinary operators handled 
 thousands. 
 
 In October, 1S54, Meiggs left San Francisco not only a ruined man, but a fugitive 
 del)tor. 
 
 For several years his wherealjouts were unknown, .uid then word came \\\) from the 
 South Pacific of the gigantic operations then being engineered by a daring speculator 
 named Meiggs. Investigation showed this to be none other than Henry ( Harry) Meiggs, 
 the man who had fled from debt in California. Then .Meiggs' creditors began to hear 
 from him, and one by one the California debts were wiped out. Even a washerwoman 
 
Appendix. ,X, 
 
 to whom he owed a few dolhirs was souc.ht out by his agents, who were instructed not 
 only to pay the long-standing hiundi-y bill, but to add enough g,,ld to place the po.u" 
 woman fofever beyond want. One lot of debts, Meiggs declined to pay until by a re- 
 adjustment the full amount of the claims might be passed to the original creditors. 
 These were claims which had been inirchased for a song by speculators' when the rtrst 
 rumor of Meiggs' South American success reached the California coast. To the clam- 
 orous brokers he turned a deaf ear, but declared himself ready at anv time to meet the 
 full obligations with interest, if he could pay the sum claimed into the hands of his 
 original creditors. For a time the brokers held out, but as Meiggs was safe from attack 
 they finally were obliged to yield, and the money for thousands of Meiggs' debts was 
 thus forced by him into the possession of its rightful owners. 
 
 Meanwhile the South American fortune had grown. Meiggs cleared ,i full million 
 from a contract for the building of Chili's first railway, between the port of X'alparaiso 
 and Santiago de Chili. 
 
 Ne.xt came the construction of Peru's original railway line between Mollendo and 
 Arequipa, which doubled Meiggs' fortune. Every contract was made directly with the 
 government of the republic wherein the road was to be built. Scheme after scheme, 
 each more gigantic than the other, was successfully carried out. Meiggs at one time 
 offered to build a break-water at the mouth of X'alparaiso's harbor if the Chilean go\-- 
 ernment would give him a ninety-nine year lease of the sheltered side. Forty millions 
 would this venture ha\-<- cost, but the iirincipal harbor of Chili would have been ren- 
 dered safe for all time. The Chileans feared Meiggs' rapid strides to wealth, and 
 demanded a large price for the rental of the sheltered side of the bi-eakwater, even 
 should the work be done without cost to the repulilic. Consequently, the project failed, 
 and to-day the wind-swept bay is without protection. 
 
 In 1S70 the tniancial world was amazed by the magnitude of a contract entered into 
 between Meiggs and the Peruvian government. This called for the construction of a 
 complete Peruvian railway system, even to a line crossing the summit of the Andes. 
 Meiggs was to deliver the lines ready for operation and receive the sum of one hundred 
 and twenty-five millions in gold, payable in installments, as the work jn'ogressed. 
 
 At first the money came promptly, then Peiu was forced to borrow to meet the 
 Meiggs contract, and finally when European loans could not be effected, Meiggs accepted 
 the obligations of the Peruvian government until he practically owned the Republic. 
 Even the assassination of his friend, Col. Balta, then President of Peru, failed to interfere 
 with the railway plans. 
 
 Finally Peru could do no more, and Meiggs' own fortune was tied uj) in the build- 
 ing of the railways. So for lack of money the work was stopped. Negotiations for a 
 further loan from Europe, with Meiggs' assistance, were almost consummated when in 
 1S77 death cut off the most remarkable career of any Yankee in South .\merica. With 
 his death the loan negotiations failed, and then followed Peru's unfortunate war with 
 Chili. Until 1.SS4 the Meiggs railway operations slumbered. In that vear when peace 
 came to the two Republics the firm of W. R. Grace c^ Co., New York, took up the 
 Meiggs contract, and the work has since been pushed intermittently. 
 
 In spite of his success, Meiggs never revisited the State of California. His trials 
 there seemed to have created in him an aversion for the place. PLven a resolution 
 passed by the California Legislature asking him to return, failed to influence him to 
 visit the State. 
 
284 Mi;i(,s (ii-;xKAH)GV. 
 
 (Jne ol tlic pL-culiarities which characterized this IjiilHant operator was that he 
 always worketl alone. There iie\ cr was a partner in his dealings, and he never sought 
 advice. He looked into the futures through no mind save his own, and when once his 
 course was shaped he never changed it. 
 
 His personality was most attractive, his manner never changing no matter what the 
 provocation. His lightest speech inspired confidence, antl to this fact is due in a great 
 measure the success he achieved in the manipulation of his gigantic speculations. 
 Neither of the American continents will e\er show another career exactlv [)aralleling 
 that of this dariiiL; oper.itor. 
 
 Tut" Gi<A\K ot HKxm MF.i(i(;s. 
 
 A correspondint to the /'.voiiiig /'os/ thus describes the surroundings of the tomb 
 of 1 lenry Meiggs : 
 
 " A brief flight of steps brings me on to the great porch, twenty feet wide, that 
 sweeps roimd the house. The latter, a one storied building' of some twenty rooms, is, 
 therelore, built u]ion a lofty terrace, one of the Indian mounds scattered o\'er tiie 
 country so profusely, and has consequently a magnificent view in every direction. To 
 the .South and West stretches the blue F^acihc, to the .South and East the long ranges of 
 the Andes pile up one l)ehiiid the other; on our right glitters the towers of Lima, 
 only five miles away, and to our left frown the fortresses and batteries of Callao. The 
 Southern trade-wind blows steadily all day, and a more delightfullv cool, breezy spot I 
 don't know. The green \allev ol the Rimae is before us, the river itself winding like a 
 ribbon of silver ilown to the sea, and every half hour the cars from Lima or Callao glide 
 past, giving the landscape the one element it would otherwise lack — life and motion. At 
 the angle of the terrace on which the house is built are lour towers, battlemented and 
 pierced for musketry, so that the gates once closed a dozen men could defend the house 
 against an army. These precautions are taken in all ' haciendas ' here against the 
 possible uprising of the Chinese, ft is such a relief to get away from I^ima, the former 
 brightness and cheerfulness of w hich are now obscured from me b)' the shadow of a 
 ■'{^ tomb. For here, near the ' hacienda,' in a little meadow, inclosed by most white palings, 
 
 rises a simple mausoleum cjI lirick where, obeying the wishes of our great and good 
 friend, Mr. Meiggs, we have laiil him, surrounded by flowers that he loved, within sound 
 of the sad cadence of the sea : with the magnificent mountains whose ravines he had 
 sjianned, in lull siyht, and the murmur of the train on the road he had immortalized, 
 audible every half hour, lies the cottin that encloses all that was mortal of him. There 
 is nothing sad in the surroundings of his tomb — it is not a cemeterv, but a garden. The 
 sadness is in tin- knowledge of how nnich of his great work is unfinishetl, and how 
 feeble are the hands that remain to coni|)lele it." 
 
Arri'-.xDix. 2S5 
 
 He fiileirii in liis liousf — lii^ Imnic iki iiiotc, 
 For without liearls tln-ie is im lionu — iHiul telt 
 Tlie solitiKle of passiiiK his nwii thmi 
 Without a welcome. 
 
 — fiviim. 
 
 No. 543. WILLIAM HENRY MEIGS. 
 
 Mr. .Mt-iys was Windsor's oiliest resident, hiixiiiL; been born inCiuilliird |iil\- jj, 
 lS(j4, thus making him nearly 96 years of aye. When a young man he went In Hart- 
 ford and was for a number of years connectetl with the Hartford Hospital, being its first 
 superintendent. Later he entered the employ of the New York, New Haven and Hart- 
 ford Railroail and for twenty-five vears was employed as storekeejier at the car shops 
 of the railroad in Hartford. 
 
 For many yeai's he had been .1 member ol (irace Church and when in Hartford 
 was an active and dexoted member cif Christ Chinch. 
 
 Mr. Meigs outlived his nine children spending the last years of his life with a grand 
 child Mrs. R. L. Down, at Windsor. It is a remarkable fact that Mr. Meigs's mother 
 li\ed to be more than a centeniirian, dving in (juilford a few \-ears ago at the age of 
 loj \-ears. Two sisters sur\i\e Mr. Meigs, Mrs. Mary Ann Evarts, who livt-s in (juil- 
 ford and is y2 years iild. and Mrs. Olive Gillette of Helchertown, Mass., who is over .So 
 years of age. 
 
 .\llll>ltl'>li IS .ill iilol nil wll'ise Wllli^S 
 
 i^reat miiuls are i:an \ M (itiI\- to extreme 
 To be SLiliIimely great, or to lie iiothin.n. 
 
 No, 581. GUY MEKjS. 
 
 Guy Meigs founded Meigsville, Esse,\ Co., N. V. where he carried on an extensive 
 lumber and iron business. Was a pioneer of California in 1S49 — operated extensively 
 in placer gold mining on Feather River, Cal., where he amassed a considerable fortune, 
 but lost it again. 
 
 " In iiiiiiiiiij speciihitioiis 
 
 There ale in, my nactiiatioiis." 
 
 He next operated very extensi\el\- on Clear Creek, Cnl. Here again he met with 
 success for a time, emplo3'ing" hundreds of men. In iS()5 tortime went against him once 
 more. Thereafter he was engaged for a few years in ranching on Lodge Pole Creek in 
 Col., from there he went to the Sweetwater mines, Wyoming Territory, where he again 
 engaged in mining, in which occu])ation he continued intermittently until his death. 
 
2S6 Meigs Gexeai.ocv. 
 
 How (itai til this hcarl are tlie scents (il my Lhililhcmd, 
 When fond i ucollection recalls them to view :— 
 The orchard, the meadow, the deevi-langled wililwood. 
 And every lov'd spot which my infancy knew. 
 
 — li'oodwoytli. 
 
 No. 584. EBENEZER STOCKWELL MEIGS. 
 
 SOME PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS 
 
 OF Farming in New England in the First Half of 
 THE Nineteenth Century. 
 
 In tlie forceful phrase of one of our country's most vigorous writers, the early life 
 of New England was a "strenuous " life. If it be true that " America is another name 
 for opportunity," it is equally true that New England is the maker of America. And it 
 is just as true as either that the New England Farmer made New England what it was, 
 what it is and what it stands for to-day, in conscience, in country ami in commerce. 
 When the Puritan fathers felt that their destiny was driving them beyoiul the limitless 
 ocean to the shores of the New World, they accepted that destiny with grim stoicism, 
 as to act and appearance,— but with faith in high heaven and a confidence in their own 
 plans and purposes, which appears well-nigh sublime, even with this far-away point of 
 
 view. 
 
 The descendants of such jjeople could not be otherwise than like them ; and as 
 patterns of honesty and earnestness, of industry and integrity, of reliance and persever- 
 ance.— the farmers of the early part of the nineteenth century and their families are 
 entitletl to no small measure of honor in the making of our Republic. Theirs was not 
 a trivial task. Even prime\al nature seemed to be against them, as one would think in 
 surveying the boulder and gravel-covered fields on which scarcely a dandylion could 
 sprout, vvith any hope of a reasonable support, even for its modest and unpretentious 
 life, ^'et these farmers turned their gravel areas into grain fields, their marshes into 
 meadows, their forests into orchards,— and, by an industry which never counted the 
 hours, nor anticipated rest and ease, kept the acreage growing in area, the crops increas- 
 ing in size, the flocks and herds fast multiplying, and each succeeding year's prosperity 
 greater than that of its predecessor. Laziness was unknown, ease unsought and the 
 habits of life conservative, so established by practice that the influence of such living is 
 yet a vital power in agricultural New England. 
 
 l-kit a change has been wrought in the ways and means of New England farming, 
 especially during the past fifty years. This change has been an e\-olution rather than a 
 revoluti(Hi, although the results, to an observer, would seem to be the issue of a crisis 
 rather than those of a cause. To discover the cause is not so ditticult ; to prescribe the 
 remedy would be hard. The transfer of the New England boy from the farm to the 
 factory and counting room, and by emigration to the greater West, very certainly and 
 successfuUv provided for the extinction of the prosperous and intelligent New England 
 farming class, of the early century as the farm began to send its best blood to the 
 counting rooms and offices of the city, and to the broad and fertile western farms, this 
 withdrawal hafl to be met in later years by foreign help,— good, so far as it went by 
 comparison,— but not comparable to the brain and brawn of that class of men, who 
 swung the scythe and worked the farm of seventy years ago. For. be it remembered the 
 "hirol hands" of that earlier day were the young men of the soil. " born and raised 
 in the countrv." and often niarrietl men, who ■' hired out on time " and who earned good 
 
ev are 
 ic. 
 
 API'EN'DIX. ,j^_ 
 
 waues. And these '•hands- proved their worth by their service. Edurated in the 
 school of self-rehance, an<l tau.t;ht to use the hand l,v the mind's ijuidanre their skill 
 and ntgenu.ty swept the whole circle of far„, industrv. and nKulc- them not only good 
 farmers but mechanics of more than averaue attainment and skill an<l men of '" all- 
 around " service such as are to-day, almost unknown in farm life. Naturally th.-ir 
 ceaseless mdustry, economical habits, and simplicity of livint; fnrced th,-m onward 
 towards prosperity, and many of these farm laborers became in their turn and time 
 successful land owners. True those distant davs were not the times of labor-savin.r 
 machinery, like the present. Steam plows had not been even dreamed of; st.-am har- 
 vesters and all the other apiiliances which cut down labor were yet the '■ children of the 
 mind •• of some thouohtful man or two, leaking beyond " his day and generation " and 
 so the volume ol " wnrk bv han.l " was much greater, and the issue had to be met more 
 earnestly and seriously than the farm tasks of to-day. when steam an,l electricity are 
 lightening life's work and burdens so greatly. 
 
 Simplicity in the way of living made household expenses much less than th. , .. 
 these days, when everything must be paid for in money, the coin of the RepubL. 
 Trading was the recognized way of supplying household and personal wants, except 
 possibly cost for ta.xes or other relative-extraunlinarv <lemands. Farm products were 
 e.xchanged with the village merchants for sugar, tea, coffee, etc., and sometimes for cloth- 
 ing, boots and shoes, although these were frequently produced at home. Naturally the 
 commercial instinct of getting the "money's worth " of an article, le,l to that sharpening 
 of one's wits in bargain driving which made many a future merchant right there on the 
 farm, and laid the foundation for vast fortunes by the keen developnient of the com- 
 mercial instinct. 
 
 Under the conditions of ceaseless work and the nece.ssitv of ■• doing one's own 
 thinking," the New England farmer of the tlrst half of the century was a notable exam- 
 ple of independent and .self-reliant manhood, one who could be depended on in the 
 field, on the thrashing floor, in the church and everywhere else for '■ holding up his end 
 of almost any argument ' Not that he was broadly or deeply cultured, for he was not, 
 but his own patient and persistent consideration of problems political, and economical! 
 supplied ill a measure at least, the deficiency of e.xtensive knowledge. Education, how- 
 ever, was widespread, and impartetl not on the basis of scientific methods, (for these are 
 of comparatively recent adoption), but on the plan and i,lea of practicality. The three 
 " R's" " 'ritin', readin' and 'rithmetic " were deemed of more importance than the mat- 
 ters of higher education, and the hojjes and aims of the studiously inclined were not 
 allowed to soar beyond the limits of the immediately useful and beneficial. But even 
 with the limitations, what men and women the times raised I 
 
 Work, ceasele.ss and universal was deemed a cardinal virtue, and laziness the " un- 
 pardonable sin." Everything on a New England farm " earnetl its living." Work was 
 never ended ; but each jMece of task was fitly finished and in the time set, in order that 
 a fresher task could be commenced immediately thereafter. So the work of the season 
 was taken up and pushed in its regular order. " Making ready," " fi.xing fences," " sprin- 
 plowing," "seeding," " sheep shearing" and "soap-making" were the spring allotment'^ 
 Haying, harvesting and the usual summer w. irk followed. " Clearing up '' woodland, 
 "cleaning the farm," " killing and curing the meat," "candle-dipping," preparing gen- 
 erally in time for cold weather, was the Autumn's share,— while indoor work, care of 
 the stock and keeping busy generally was the task set for themselves by the older 
 folk,— the juniors taking their opportunity to attend the District School, an institution 
 peculiar to the time and place. 
 
,j^,^ Mkics Genkaloi.v. 
 
 It would be a most pleasin- thin- indeed to live over, for a summer at least, one's 
 Hfe on a New England farm. The -reat occasion was haying season. Every man who 
 entered the t^eld was a master of the scythe, armed for yeoman service, and equipped 
 by nature and skill to do distinouished service. The ethics and customs of the held 
 were as clearly defined and as punctiliously adhered to, as the rules and etiquette of any 
 social function, and to violate such was to provoke scorn or disgrace, if not tempora.y 
 ostracism from the strong and strenuous set of workers. The day would arrive and the 
 men appear -f.,r men had been '■ hired '■ to help '• cut the grass." The held has been 
 measured The workers have placed their scythes, handle downward, while each man 
 sweeps his whetstone along the ringing blade to the measure of some rhythmic song or 
 iinole, making a pleasant melody, and presenting a scene worth going far to behold. 
 R.^ulv ' and the leader advances ; swish,--swish,-goes the scythe, and the opening has 
 been made. The line enters; the held begins to show what work can do. Good 
 natured rivalry manifests itself, onward the line goes, changing leaders as each cornel is 
 reached. The noon time sees the end of the cutting for the day. Then raking together 
 and cartin>.,-so as to be readv for the next morning's work. And this was the order 
 day after dav until the whole of the crop had bec-n cut and gathered,-w,th speed, yet 
 with svstem and plan for every detail. . . 
 
 The life of a boy on an old New 1-ngland farm was a very busy one,-esi,ecially i 
 he belonged to an industrious and '■ thnfty " father. What he did not have to do could 
 be written m a line. What his duties were would require a small volume for enumera- 
 tion. ,\n.l yet, with ,t all, he had time for his fun, and he managed to get a great deal 
 
 of fun out t>f his time. 
 
 A child who has missed l.vmg his tirst ten or twelve years on a arm has been 
 deprived of very much of the beautiful, and of the real happiness of hfe. What Ne|^.v 
 En>dand boy does not remember the sugar-making season ? Memory goes :.ack to the 
 days when the children would begin to reckon the period and almost the hours when 
 suoar time would come. The anticipation was one of happiness, the realization full of 
 ha^d work,-but the whole matter, ■■ a ,ov forever." The utensils must be gotten out 
 and readv, an,l away to the woods. N,.w the trees must be tapped, the sap gathered 
 and boiled do.n ui,- syrup and the svmp int„ sugar, and such -^--' °h there u^s 
 pUmtvof hard un.k m the various parts of Maple Sugar-makmg, but the days to the 
 bovs were filled whh gladness, and the nights with dreams of joy, even ,f the muscles 
 were stiff and sore. By way of unhappy contrast our memory reverts to the process of 
 manufacturing home-made clothing. M..s, of the clothing and household furmshmg-s 
 wer.. made at home, from wool grown on the sheeps back, or from flax that was raised 
 from the soil. Both of these were farm products and went through all the processes to 
 the finished cloth in our sight. It was especially distasteful to us children, when the 
 cold and wmtry days came, that we men and boys all had to assemble m the farm-house 
 sheds to break, swhigle and hatchel flax. It did not please us one b.t,-and all our 
 experiences and recollections of the work were the ,lirect opposite to our impressions 
 ,,;, ,.„,.;nibrances n[ sugar-makmg. Af„-r the flax and wool had been cleaned and 
 carded, ,t was ready for spinning, an,l then prepare.l for weaving. When the cloth so 
 produce.1 came from the loom and was carefully and pains-takmgly dyed, "-11 hands 
 were measured, and the material was made mto suits by the mother and the older 
 sixers --^or it mi-ht be that ,a tailoress w.aild come into the house and assist in making 
 up clothing for the men and bovs of the household. In the same way once a year a 
 shoemake^ would make h,s appearance bnnging wi.h him Ins - kit , shoemakmg tools) 
 
Al'PKNUIX. jSg 
 
 and supply of luatlu-r and " tinilings," anti rL-niain muk-r (uir vmii lor a few davs, during- 
 wliich time he would make up hoots and shoes for the entire household, consisting of 
 father, mother and a numerous lot of children as well as for the " hired men." An<l it 
 was on such an occasion that every farmer's boy resolved to be a shoemaker. 
 
 Another and ha[)py recollection associates itself with goinu- to bed. The houses of 
 those days had no way of being warmed except from hre-places built into the large 
 chimney-stack, in the centre of the house (see page 241 ). As a conseiiuence, most of 
 the sleeping rooms were unhealed, and amazingiv uncomfortable, for it was not unusual 
 then as now for the thermometer to reach twenty or more degrees below zero in mid- 
 winter. Crawling into bed without it being warmed was like sandwiching one's self 
 between two cakes of ice. To (jbviate this, warming pans were in demand, a large 
 copper pan with cover, at the end of a handle three or four feel in length. The pan 
 would be filled with hot coals, the l)ed covering raised, the piin inserted and mo\ed 
 around the bed, and we were jolly children when our good but tired mother had per- 
 ffjrmed this loving service for us on our retiring at night. 
 
 Among the farming ctimmunities of New England during the first half ol the 
 century, naturallv would be found \-.irious types of character, some so pronounced in 
 indivitlualitv as to be irresponsible, but all ot them interesting to an unusual degree. 
 .Among such, memory calls up the Ca[)tain of .Militia, Country Doctor, the Deacon, the 
 Squire, the Store-keeper, the .Spinster, who was e\eryl)ody's friend, the MajiM' and 
 others. We can onlv refer to one or two of these. 
 
 " With deep alfection 
 .'\nd fond recollection" 
 
 W'e think of the Countrv Doctor. Once he was voung, l>ut he is remembered as 
 " getting old." IDignified yet tleferential to those of his own age and the elder ones, 
 polite and pleasant to men and women younger than himself, coaxing* anil gentle to the 
 younger children, but positive with us Ijovs, — will we ever see his like ? And can we 
 ever forget the night when with horse a gallo[)ing we sped for him to come ([uick to her 
 whom we loved. Mother had been sick, and seemed to grow worse, the fever grew 
 hotter, and a strange Ijrightness flashed from her beautiful blue eyes : she was speaking 
 of things we knew nothing about, and with her thin white hands extended towards the 
 ceiling was beckoning, as if to call some one from a distant shore. How we rode for 
 the doctor, and how the doctor rode back. The clouds scurried quickly over the face 
 of the skv, even as the storm clouds of grief burst upon our hearts. At the house, 
 into the room, quickly, quietlv, resourcefully, he goes to work. His remedies react ; the 
 fever breaks : the poor sick bodv. weaker than ever, begins its convalescence, slowly 
 traveling backward from the side of the gra\'e ; and after a season of faithful attention, 
 the patient comes back to the full enjoyment of perfect health, and the ciedit is the 
 countrv doctor's. We refer to him thus personally, out of a grateful heart, because he 
 was alwavs doing gootl for his people, we will ever remember the doctor as one of 
 earth's best friends, and his kind deetls as among life's sweetest memories. 
 
 The Deacon was a prosperous member of the farming commmnty, a very strong 
 pillar in the church, an exam[)le to his brethren, a terror to evil dcjers by his sternness 
 of visage anil sharpness of speech, who brought uj) his children in the way they should 
 go, and who fullv ami faithfullv obeyed the scriptural injunction to s|.)are not the rod 
 lest the child be spoiled. If weekly doses of "Solomon's Panace.i " would make 
 healthy children, the Deacon's boys should ha\e been of the highest t\pe : but they 
 
29' 
 
 M 1 i( .s ( ; INI : A 1.1 H,\. 
 
 wcrr alxiiil as luniKin as all ollu r Ixjvs ; .iiid \\hclli< r il was tn " sneak " to the circus 
 and gt'l " lluaslu-il " foi' it, or sec the < hickeii tii^ht, oi any other diversion, thev could 
 he depended upon to In- there. The Deacon was j^dod, if se\(.'re ; was kind hearled, if 
 austc-'re : was a uorlln' and lionoraMe nieniliei of the Coninionw ealth ; and helped by his 
 ])ersonalil\- and inlluence to mold .i senlinient and make a nation. 
 
 The country stoie-keeper was a character of New l'ait;l,nid of the early century, 
 lie sold snoods, hnl more gossip than i.;iiods was retailed at his store. In fact it was the 
 district clearing house for all news from discussing; the weitjhtv theme of theology, to 
 ])assing the whispers oi modified scantlal. The store-keeper was everybody's confidant 
 and everybod)' was his,- sue h lieing the harmonious relations e.xisting- and such the 
 commnmty of social interest. The store itself was the centie of commerce and discus- 
 sion, as well as ihc tradmt; depot lor merchandise and farm products. It has gone, and 
 the huge depaitment slon- ol the ( it\' and titl\' mile-an-hour liains to take people there, 
 now in a great nu-asure, occupies the place ol the country stcjre and the " carryall." 
 
 .-\nd IS il in the recollection ol e\er\' one, that in almost evir\- section of the older 
 New h.ngland, there was a geiitk- spirit, who was ixviselessly t-ndeavoring to do good to 
 or hn somebody .'' .She was generally called " Miss," was ncjt alw.iys handsome, — some 
 called her " old ni.iid," — but .ill looked mi her, in time ol trouble, or sickness, or sorrow 
 or sadness, ,is a messenger ol men \ and kindness and lo\e. Peculiar!'' ^'es, as is 
 e\ery one who has a little more esseiiti.il wdrth and less com eiltionalitv' than the crowd : 
 but hci distinguishing peculiarity was the utter loss of self in the effort to benefit others. 
 .She might have been <lifferent and h,id things different ; but not a few New England 
 f.imihes of ihe older gi-neiation lelt the guiding hand aiul the inhuence of the gentle 
 spirit of s(jnie "spinster" rel.uive. 
 
 I he N'illage pastor (th.it iisuall)' lovable char. icier i was another imp<ntaiit personage 
 in all of his ministrations, and as my years lengthi-n out how fondK- my memory goes 
 bai k lo the dear old country church whither wi' all repaired religiously each recurring 
 Sniida\ . No need that a caretaker be left with the larni buildings, for there were no 
 tramps in the land in those (lays. I can see the old larm wagon now, how like a modern 
 stage co.ich, loaileil up with amwhere from ten to fifteen, consisting of the whole 
 family, f.ither. mother, children ,ind hired help, all gaih' deckeil out in our best .Simday 
 clothes — clothes that grew from the soil and were manufactured b\' the loving hands of 
 a fond mother on the larm. and thus we rode aua\' o\er hill and dale to the \illage 
 centre and to tin- little church. 
 
 "Oft the aisle (if that old church We trod, 
 
 I .uiileil tlutlu-r li\- ,in ,inL;el niiither. 
 Now she sleeps lieiicilh the sml, 
 
 .Sire, si.sters aiul a hruthei. " 
 
 l-lut why continue these personal reminiscences i" ( )ne could spi-ak or write of them 
 by \ohimes. Who can forgel the annual spring drill of the militi.i when tin- Ca|:)tain. 
 ihe M.ijor and the Colonel and all the soldiers looked their fiercest and their best : while 
 lh( older lolk gazed solemnly at the maneuvres and the boys munched gingerliread, 
 and the girls giggled, and e\er\dioily was happy. And how also in the Spiring, the boys 
 ■.^loi y day of the \ear came around, when the swamps were to be cleaned by lieing 
 burned o\ir. .Sometimes these swamps were ol such e.xtraordinary size a.s to make the 
 burning ol one, of .i i"eall\- spectacular wcirth, and such a burning was sure to have an 
 interested and excited audience. And how interesting and full a day it was for a whole 
 
Al'l'l M>I\. 
 
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 district when their was 1.. I„. a l.,irn ,.t limis.- raisin-. Ncu-a-.lavs, a Ik. us,- is ,i,a<l,- m 
 a mill, the parts an,l |>.,rti(,iis all laliel,-,! an.l numlurcl, shipped by rail .,r ImmI and scl 
 up by written uv priiUe<l inslru( ticiis, l.y mailer .if fart means and \v,-ll |,ai,l m.-, lianies. 
 In the early years of the ceiiturv. in the New lui-land euunlry, the ^real lives weie eiit 
 and hewed Ijy axe ami sized l.v s,|iiare an, I le\,-l i„r sill ami post and .-verv .letail, ami 
 all the parts made ready for union earh with the other part, until l.v r.iisin- lime vy,-ty 
 thinu- was ready for the imseltish work of the siroiiy .nid \-i-orons men, who would put 
 the bam or house into its hrm .ibidm- plaee ; for those old New h,n-lan<lers built lliin-s 
 to last for a lont; time. Then the him h or fe.ist followed, no limit b,-in- sei upon either 
 pnnision or ^uest. Then the athleties of the oceasion would be m.hil-rd m, iinlil In- 
 pleasant rivalry the lead.'rship w.is won bv some strong, imis.iil.ir man, who would we.ir 
 his honors until a-.iin .mother one nii-lit plu. k them from him by m.nn strm-lh .md 
 nianh' powers. 
 
 And so the life of the earh' New lui-landei w.is hlled with \,irietv <-ven if th.il 
 variety be deemetl monotonous as seen from the standpoint ..f the new Uventieth 
 century and verv ra|.id oeeurrenees. Their vear was filled out with its work and its 
 worries even as all years .ire filled out. Th<-ir wav of hvin- h.i.l abun.lant compensation, 
 in that they liveil truer, strom^er. more thoii-htful .ind more natur.il lives tluin ihe 
 farmers of to-day live. Prosperity came to them by the natural l.iw of increase. 'ldi<v 
 worked industriously, lived economically and husbanded s.i\ in^s liv iinestmi-nt in land, 
 or loaned on morti^a.i^e, until by incre.isc in wilues an.l by .id.litions .if interi'st lluv 
 fouml themselves better off at the eii.l of ea.h year. They w./re of a reli-i.nis turn ; 
 and conscience, and responsibililv had Us pla.e an.l p.iwer in an e\-erv flay r.-li.^i.uis life 
 which, while it was impressive in its seriousness, ilem.inded and won the respe. t of every 
 one, even those wh.i .liffered radically fr.im them on reliyi.ius principles. 
 
 The New England farmer .if the earlv half of th.- nineteenth century has \'.uiisim.l 
 from the earth, the old farm is too .iften .iver-t;r.iwn with briar ami weed : the fen. a- is 
 down : the trees have fallen ov been cut .iw.iv ; ,in.l the ver\- kind re-rets and mourns 
 the absence of the n.ibl.- and industrious soul. The same sun shines on the old f.irm ; 
 the same stars look .lown .m the uncultivate.l fields : the rains w.iter the old homest.-,i.l, 
 as of yore but the laml resp.m.ls not. .^nd ovt-r in the village churchvar.l, there are a 
 few tombstones, beneath w hi. h ■the rii.le forefathers of the hamlet slee(),' — sle.p, the 
 old farmer and his wih-. ami perh.aps a go.idly numlier iif relatives, .[uite likelv a num- 
 ber of generations of his f,imil\-. Idle sn.iw makes its covering of purilv b>r these 
 silent graves in the winter, and th.' bir.ls .if spring ,uid summer sing their sweet mel.idies 
 unheard by the loved ones ben.Mth th.' sod. ISui memory goes back to the sa.-re.l sp.it, 
 and while the tear .if l.iv.- ,m.l .iffeiti.in falls for those at rest, a pride of such anc.-slrv 
 fills us, as we bl.-ss (i.i.l f.ii th.' lix-.'s .if ihe New Englaii.l farmer of .iv.-r ,i half 
 century ago. Eisknkzi-r S i cm k\\ i;i.i. .\Iku;s. 
 
 
293 
 
 Mi'.K.s Gknkalcx.y. 
 
 \Vc iolii uni selves to no parly Unit ilois not lariy tl 
 keep step to the imisit ol tlie Union 
 
 e Mag anil 
 A'K/n.v Lhoiilr 
 
 No. 593. HENRY BENJAMIN MEIGS. 
 
 Hiiiry H. Meii;s, of Baltimore, Md., the 
 Miliject (if the ilhistratitin which appears as a 
 fruiUispiere of this volume, was born at 
 Hi.tihi^ate, Franklin d.i., Vermont, Novem- 
 liLr J.yil, 1S44, bein.i; the ninth in descenl 
 from X'incent Meij^s, who, with his son John, 
 settled at (luilford. Conn., on March 3, 1653. 
 He is the son of the late Captain Luther 
 Meiijs, a soldier in the war of 1812-14, and 
 the i^rantlson of Benjamin Stone Meigs, a 
 soldier of the war of the Revolution, both 
 pioneers in the earl>- settlement of Northern 
 \'i-rmont. 
 The earl\- life of Captain Meigs was that lommon to boys reared on a New England 
 farm. I'xliu .itinnal oppnrtunities were, of course, exceedingly limited and, like many 
 other of the strong men of the nation who have come down to the cities from New 
 England farms, Captain Meigs was compelled to [irepare himself for his work in life 
 with little .litl Iriim school or college. He, however, possesseil an unquenchable desire 
 for knowledge, antl thrnughiuit his busy life he has ever found time t.i cultivate his 
 
 miniJ .ind increase his store nf learning. 
 
 Eike his ancestors for many gener,itions. Captain Meigs was a soldier and fought 
 for his c.iuntry during our unfortunate Civil War. Captain Meigs is intensely loyal to 
 his natiiin, with a loyalty extending beyond the limits of any state, yet he has a tender 
 place in his heart for his own native C.reen Mountain State, and though engaged in busi- 
 ness nearly a thousand miles from the scenes of his lioyhood, returns each summer to 
 his old home to spend a mnnth or twii of well-earned rest 'mid the scenes hallowed by 
 the memories of childhood lile. He lakes a l.iutlable pride in his long line of always 
 hininrable ancestors, and has the greatest pleasure in making research into the things 
 they have accomplislietl In make the world better and wiser. It was his interest in the 
 history of his family and his desire to see that history [ireserved and handed down tn 
 future generations, which ]iriimpted him to undertake the work of compiling this vol- 
 ume, a work in wlmh he h.is been ably assisteil liy several other equally interested 
 kinspeople. He h.is found much pleasure in this associated labor, which has brought to 
 him many new friends and acijuaintances. 
 
 Captain Meigs has for a tjuarter of a century past been engaged in the held of Eife 
 tnsur.tnce wnrk with most gratifying success, and one of the most comforting thoughts 
 of his life is the fact that he has been able to bring thousands of men to the appreciation 
 of insurance, and that he has lived long enough to see by his instrumentality hundreds 
 (if witlows provided with homes who otherwise would have been left desolate, and 
 thousands of nrpli.tn children clothed, fed and sch(3oled, and thus prepared to lead useful 
 .Did hajjpy livt-'S. 
 
 Mr. Edward E. Smith, wlm has known him since he has been oUl enough to know 
 any one, and who has been for many years cashier and conhdeiitial clerk 111 the othce of 
 C.tpt. Meigs, has this to say : 
 
Appendix. 293 
 
 " In his business life, Capt. Meij^s puts intu practice the L;ni(icn rule of doing unlu 
 others as he would that they should tlo unto him. All his transactions and relations 
 with men are conducted with energy and the strictest integrity and justice, yet, withal a 
 kindliness and charitableness which inspires the confidence and respect of those with 
 whum he comes in contact. In those immediately associatecl with him in his ofhce, and 
 whom he is pleased to affectionately refer to as his ' ofhce family,' he takes a most keen 
 and kindly interest, and the warmest attachment exists between him and his employees. 
 Although ever occupietl with the cares and problems incident to the management of an 
 extensive and constantl\- increasing business, he is ne\er too bus\- to give a willing ear 
 and :> helping hand to those in distress, or counsel and advice to those who conhde in 
 him their trials and tribulations, (jenerous and charitable to a fault, he has come to be 
 regarded by them as a father or brother to whom they go with their joys and their soi'- 
 rows, and know that he will sympathetically join with them in their smiles or their tears. 
 He has so enileared himself to them that it has been often remarked tli.il should his life 
 work be terminated and he be removed liy Divine Providence from llu-ir niitlst, it uuuld 
 be a great personal bereavement and loss to each member of his ' office family,' as 
 though the father had been taken away, so strong has the attachnienf become betwix-n 
 them, like unto that ol parent and chiklren. He wins the respect, and admiration, of 
 those with whom he associates, because he is endowed with that touch of nature which 
 makes all the world kin, and this is largely the secret of his success in Ijusiness." 
 
 Captain Meigs has been sinct- early manhood a consistent membei' of the Haptist 
 Church ; is also a lifedong member <if Masonic and other fraternities. He was the 
 organizer and for many years the Commander of Brennan Post No. JS4, G. A. R., at 
 Malone, N. Y., and upon his remo\al to Baltimore from that town, the Post he hatl so 
 long commanded unanimously voted him an honorary nieml)er of it for life, and pre- 
 sented him with engrossed resolutions of esteem which are highlv ( lierished and have 
 an honored place among the adornments of his ofhce. He is ,1 nu'mber of Custer 
 Post No. 6, Department of Maryland, C. A. R. ; a inemfier of the .Merchants' Club: a 
 member of the Pennsylvania Society of the Founders and Patriots of America, and of 
 the Maryland Society of the Sons of the American Revolution; is also connectetl with 
 various charitable organizations of his adojited city, and is one of the Directors of the 
 Florence Crittenton Mission in Baltimore, and a member of the Baltimore Reform 
 League. 
 
 " () wliat a t;fory ilutli this world put on 
 I''or liim wlio, witli a fervent heart goes f'ortli 
 Under the briglit and glorious sky, and looks 
 ( )n duties well perturined, and days well spent." 
 
 The following further facts concerning the life of Captain Meigs are gleaned from a 
 brief history of his life and ancestry which ai.i])ears in a historv of noted " Men cjf 
 Vermont," published a few years ago. 
 
 E. \V. 11. 
 
 Fi^oM " Men oi'" Vi'.kmont," PaI'! f 3, P.\(;e 106. 
 
 " Henry B. Meigs, of Baltimore, Md., son of Ca]Hain Luther Meigs, and grantlson 
 of Benjamin Stone Meigs (pioneers of that town), was Ixirn in Highgate, Nov. 23, 1S44. 
 
 " Remote from the district schools of the locality, his education was very limited, 
 but upon attaining the years of manhood, he became a great reader of current literature 
 
294 
 
 Ml i(;s Cii^Ni .\i,i»;v. 
 
 anil substaiuial siaiidaul umks almost exclusive of liistorv, liioi^raphy and travel, and 
 has iHirsued all ihrou-h life a self diivrted coins.- of studv and readino of standard and 
 classical authors. riiiis slorin- his niemr)ry with facts that have unconsciously but 
 adniiraliU- lilted him for a life of usefulness. 
 
 Tlu i.lenlHiil 1.1(1 > ..iMiU\ mIiociI Ik. use ;il wlii, li Ins caily eiluL.iliuii w.is n.-Cfive<l. 
 Prolli a ].Ii'.logra|.ll t.lk.'li m iQnl 
 
 " In lS(o he enlisted as a priv.ite soldier in Co. K. i.'.th \'t. \'ols.. Col. h. V. Ran- 
 dall commanding, and w.is with his command and in the ranks until the muslenn.>; out 
 of the reoimeiit, ,ind | ),irnciiiated m .ill ol the vai vuil; e.xperiences of his retjiment dur- 
 
 iui^ its service. 
 
 ■■ I'pon the conclusion of tlie w,ir, Ca|il.un .Mei^s emigrated to the wilds of the far 
 West and for six ve.irs w.is en;.;.it;id in i.unhine. merchandising, oold-minin.ti and 
 freiehtino .icross th<' ]ilains in the davs when Indians were numerous and railroads were 
 unknown in that eouutrv. In iSji he ntiirned e.ist .ind en-aoed in the manufacture of 
 lime, and merchandising until iSys in Northern New \'ork. 
 
 " In politics Capt.iin Mei^s has never been inleresteil .is an active partisan, with the 
 single exct-ptioii 111 h.ixim; been .1 member of the City Council of Julesburi;, Col., in 
 iShj. While residing in northern New \i>vk, C.iptain Meios or;<anized the first 
 (',. A. R. I'ost 1 William 1 >. I'.ienn.ui- .il Malone, in Franklin County, and was its com- 
 mander five successive terms, diiriii- which time ihe I'ost erew to be th<- laryesl in all 
 northern New Wnk. \\'\u\r m command of his own I'osl. he was continuously serving" 
 in some cajiacilv upon ilie st.ilf of the 1 )i| i.irlment Comm.mder. or of the Commander- 
 in-chief, and diiriie.^ ihose vears Mreani/ed nine posts and personally mustered into the 
 Crand .\rmv more ih.iii one thousand members. Wln-n .1 vouul; man he became uleiiti- 
 hed with Ihe li.iplisl denomin.ition .iiid has .ilways been a> lively inti'rested in the church 
 ol his choice. 
 
Al'l'l.NDIX. 
 
 295 
 
 "Special WDi'k in life requires special preparation, and scimelinies llie Uainiuij henins 
 ^'er\• earlv. It ui.iulil seem sn ni the case of Captain Mei^s, whose earl\- life and sui 
 roundings adniirahl)- litted him for the wmk he was to aiconiplisli in ihe general field 
 of Life Insurance. In iSjo, Captain Meigs adopted l.ile Insurance as his life's work, 
 and has since tollowt d it with increa>nig success, hrst m New \ drk ,ind hitci in ISalti 
 more, until the present time. 
 
 " He went to B.dlimore to take' idiarge of the South-eastern Department of the 
 -L.tna Lite Insurance Compan\' in i.S.S.S, ,uid the suci ess of tliis Department has been 
 phenomenal. From ,t small beginning" he has built up one of the l.irgesl general agt'ncies 
 on the continent, the teiritor\' ( cim|irisiiig the .States ul Maryland, X'irginia, West 
 Virginia, Delaw.iieand District ol Columbi.i. llv his own endeavors he has steadilv 
 pushed to the front and now stands among the loremost in his chosen iirofession. Is a 
 member of the Iv\e( iiti\e Committee, lialtimore Lile 1 nderwriters' Association. ,nid is 
 V^ice-President ol the National Asso<iation <il Lile Cndei writers. 
 
 " It is a treat to be in compaiu' with (r.i|itaiii Meigs w h<n he is in a reminiscent 
 mood: frrjm his memor\' flows a stream ol huiiKuous stones ,ind interesting personal 
 history which entertain, instruct and benefit." 
 
 or love, of loy, ol pe;iLu, ,niil plcnl\, wlit^io, 
 Siipi)orliti.i; and suppni ic*l, [mli^licii hiciids. 
 Anil dear ifl.ilions niini^lc into l)Iiss 
 
 No. 610. CARLOS DERIOUS MEIGS. 
 
 At the time of his marriage in i.Ss'c he was in the emplo\' ol • The Ilartwell and 
 Winslow Foundr^■ and Machine Co.," in Plattsburg, N. \'. .Soon after his marriage he 
 entered the employ of "The ]. & ], Rogers Iron Co.," as millwright, ^it their works in 
 Black Brook and AuSable Forks, N. \'., where he remained until aljout i.S^.s when he went 
 to Canada and engaged in the lumbering business at .St. Guillaume, F. O., building and 
 managing a large saw-mill for Meigs iV Wilson, .ind known as " The Empire Mills." 
 Later he bought and conducted on his own account a mill some distance further uj) the 
 ri\er. In isoy he went to Pierre\ille, P. (_)., and in company with se\eral others estab- 
 lished the lumbering- business now known .is " The Tourville Mills." In iSj^heleft 
 Pierrexille for Malone, N. ^'., engaging in the foundry and machine-shop business under 
 the firm-name of Whittlesey iV Meigs, until iSjS, when he went to .\ltona ("Ptirdy's 
 Mills,") N. ^'., and in i.'s.So he again engaged with "The |. ili J. Rogers Iron Co.," as 
 master-mechanic. Their works then being at Black Brook, Palmer Hill Mine, ]ii\ and 
 AuSable Forks, N. V., in which capacity he remained until his (k-ath in iScSj, indirectly 
 causetl by an accident at their works in AuSable Forks, N. Y. 
 
 He was a devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal church, always ready to 
 respond to the varied calls, and was for many years a Superintendent in the Sunday 
 -School. 
 
 Mr. Meigs was an inxentor of se\eral lab(jr-sa\ing ilevices, among them being an 
 improvement in moving machines, granite sawing machines, an automatic car cou|iler. 
 ,self-dum|iing ore car, cK'c., and was granted [latents on all for which he applied. 
 
296 MKitis Gi;ni;al()(1y. 
 
 statesman tliat arc wisi'— sliape a 
 Necessity as siiil|it"r .lay- to tlii-ir own nio<iel. 
 
 — l\ ftn y-on . 
 
 No. 628. DANIEL BISHOP MEIGS. 
 
 Soon after his birth his father removed from Heiiryville to Bedford, W O., and 
 settled permanently to farniin- and the lumber business. P'rom there at the atje of 
 twenty-one, the subject of our sketrh went to F'arnham in the same Provmce. and 
 enyagini; in the lumber business for himself conducted it successfully for over thuty 
 
 years. 
 
 In I S;;^ he was mayor of his town and in 1.SS7 he was elected to represent his 
 county, Missisquoi, in the Canadian I'arliament, where \\v has been returned successively 
 till he is now ( 1401 1 servin.i; his third term of five years, and where his efforts have 
 been particularly directed toward legislation for the liest mterests of his own section. 
 
 No. 638. EUGENE W. GLIINDON. 
 
 Enlisted .April -9, mustered in May 2g, isoi : Sergt. Co. H., 2nd N. J. Vol. Inf.: 
 2nd Lieut. Feb. j6, i,S62; ist Lieut. Nov. 27, 1S62; resigned May o, 1S63, to accept 
 commission as Major and \. I). C, on staff of Ceneral H. W. .Slocum, commanding oth 
 Armv Corps, to rank from May 7, 1^03. Hrevetted Lieut. -Colonel March 19, 1S65. 
 
 Saw service from ist Hull Run, July 21, iSOi, with Army of Potomac and Army of 
 Virginia to Gettysburg, etc.; assigned to duty in Dist. of Vicksburg, April i<i, Inspector- 
 General of Department of Miss., to July 30, 1864; at occupation of Atlanta, Army of 
 Sherman's " March to the Sea." At surrender of Johnson, April 26, 1S65 ; assigned to 
 duty in Dept. of Mississippi, at Vicksburg, June 22, 1865. Resigned Nov. 11, 1865. 
 
 I li-aniLMl .liliguiilly. .iml 'lo Loinnuniicate liberally. 
 
 — Sl'lOHIi'H I'll, I i*. 
 
 No. 650. JOHN MEIGS, Ph. D. 
 
 iM-om the finely illustrateil [prospectus of The Hill School, at i'ottstown. Pa., Prof. 
 Meigs generously sent us a sufficient number of the beautiful pictures of the School and 
 its surroundings ( found at pages 118 and 1 19 ) to illustrate this entire edition of our book. 
 
 The comjiletion of Prof. Meigs' quarter of a century as Head Master of the School, 
 and of the 5. .th year since its founrling by his father, (:,i8) Rev. Matthew K. Meigs, 
 w.is the occasion of an unusual anniversary celebration of Founders' Day, May 20, 1901, 
 •It which addresses were delivered by President Hadley, of Vale University, and Rossiter 
 W. Raymond, I'h. D., of New Vork. 
 
Ai'i'i;.\iii\. 
 
 If vvc work upon „KU 1,1., U will per.sh ; if w. work u,,o„ l,„„s. t,,,,. w.il ellace ,t ■ ,f w. 
 
 them w.th pr,nc.pk-s. w.th tl,e i„st fear of Go.l :uul love o( our fellow- 
 those tablets somethinK which will brighten to all el.-i ruly. - ;(>^,/y, 
 
 297 
 
 ■iiifti. we fiiKra\t 
 
 No. 668. JOHN HENRY MEIG5. 
 
 John H. M,.,.c,s, the fust son of , ,,34 ) Davi.l R. .Mt-i^.s, was burn ,n Madison Feb 3 
 1830. Educated ,n the district schot.l and Lee's Acatieniv. In business, a small 
 farmer: taught school winters, and has been connected with schools as scholar, teacher 
 and committee from the age of four to seventy years, continuously, with the exception of 
 three years of the Civil War, when he served in Co. (.; ,4th Regiment Conn. Volun- 
 teers. He has held town offices as Grand Juror, Assessor, Collector of Taxes, and first 
 Selectman, having been repeatedly elected by his townsmen. Has held the ottice of 
 Justice of the Peace for New Haven Count v over thirtv vears, until debarred by 
 age ; was elected Representative to the C.eneial Assemblv of Connecticut f<,r the session 
 of 1S99, of which he was a member of the Committee on Education. 
 
 He was for a number of years Superintendent of the First Congregational Sunday 
 School. He IS a Past Master of Madison Eod-e F. \- A. M. 
 
 JOHN HENRY M EIGS, 
 Madison , Ct. 
 
29S Mkh;s Cil■:^■l•:AL()^.^ . 
 
 We Iicrc liislily icbolvc tliat tliesc- deaci sliall iir)t have <iiL-'i m v.iiti , tliat this iiatn'ii. 
 under Gtid, shall have a new liirth of Ireedoin ; aini that ^overnnu-iit ol tlie people, by 
 the people, and for the proplu, shall not pt-ri^ili Iiuin tlu- earth. 
 
 — .-i . Lineal}! . 
 
 No. 670. JAHES RICH MEIQS. 
 
 James R. Mei,i;s, the thinl sun i>f (3,14) I)a\iil R. Meigs, was horn July 9th, 1833, 
 in Madison. Educatt-ci at liic district schoul and Lee's Academy. Was appointed 
 Postmaster iSiii, under Lincciln's administration and lielti the office four years : elected 
 Representative to tlie General Assembly of Connecticut, for the session of iSgi, and 
 re-elected in iSg^, : re-appointed Postmaster under McKinley in iSyy. 
 
 He was one of the [jrime movers and largest contributors to the beautiful and sub- 
 stantial "Soldiers' Memorial Hall." Being so situated that he could luit volunteer for 
 the Civil War of 1861, he, at his own expense, |irocured a substitute and sent in his 
 place to defend and sustain his coimtry's flag and preserve the Union! h'or forty years 
 a successful merchant in his nati\'e town. He has taken great interest in public improve- 
 ments, contributing largely of time and money ; he has made a mark in history which 
 will long remain, ami for which his native town should be proud of and grateful for. 
 
 Tliere are only two powers JTi tlie worM, Uie swniil .nnl the pen ; aii'l in the elui the 
 forinei is always eoiMiueied by the latter 
 
 — Napolron. 
 
 No 703. CAPTAIN CHARLES R. MEIGS. 
 
 Charles R. Meigs, of Ottawa, Kan.; — born in Ashtabula Co., O. Studied law at 
 Jefferson, O., with Hon. Benjamin F. Wade, U. S. Senator, and Hon. Joshua R. Giddings, 
 and was admittetl to the bar at fefferson, April 21, 1S54. Went to Oregon and was 
 admitted to practice there in 1855. Was Commissioned Captain of Militia of Oregon, 
 on July 23rd, 1863, and served on the staff of Brig. Gen'l O. Humason. Was Mayor of 
 The Dalles, a large city on the Columbia Ri\er in Oregon ; was a member of the Consti- 
 tutional Convention when Oregon was admitted into the Union. 
 
 He participated in many battles with the Indians in Oregon and Washington Terri- 
 tory while in the army. Later he returned to Ohio for a time, and then in 1870 located 
 at Ottawa, Kansas, where he was elected City Attorney three terms, and in 1881 was 
 elected Prosecuting Attorney of Franklin Co., Kan., which position he held at the time 
 of his death, in 18.S3. 
 
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 Mil. h f\|Kl K-lirt- IS llif tmwn ..f ,,l.l 111. 11, ,111.1 llic li:n i.| Co. I is llu-u ,i;l.ny, 
 
 — /u'< '''SHishciii .f.tr. '>. 
 
 No. 723. JOHN MEIGS. 
 
 jnliii M(iu;>, iif W'.ishini^tiin, 1). C, h. in Alliens. Trnnrssec, N()\ . Jolli, i.S,:;4. 
 i\In\('(l wilh Ills parents fnmi .'\tiu-ns tn N.islivillc, Ti-nn., l.S,-,,s, whcix- tlu-\- icsiilcd until 
 iSCii, wlu-n npon the opening > if tlit- ("ivil War, tlicv moved to Clifton, .Statni Isl.uiil, .\. 
 v., anil then to \Vashin,t;ton, IJ. C, i.Sd-. II,-, John, moved to Washington m i.Soi; clerk 
 in I'ost Office. 
 
 Has for many years been a student of Meigs genealogy and collector of news])aper 
 clippings, all ot which were generously [placed at the disposal of tlie .inthor. See 
 portrait page 2\i). 
 
 Keigii ami Itutp life in this our dct-ii li.siie. 
 Our ..iih i;UMliiess is liial we aspiit.- 
 
 Iran I'li^flii'.t' 
 
 He ts of good stoik, .111.1 weli icconiiiieiMitMi person. lily. 
 
 -A. Uh..iI,i 
 
 No. 724. CAPTAIN JOE VINCENT MEIGS. 
 
 Captain Joe Vincent Meigs, ol j-loston, .Mass., son of Return |on,ithan .Meigs, ,^rd. 
 anti .Sally Keys ( Love) Meigs, was born at Nashville, Tennessee, June 7th, i ■S4. 1. 
 
 15efore his maturity and throug]i<:)ut his life he has been a ])rolific iiuentoi' .mil 
 frequent patentee. He entered the Lawrence Scientific School at Caml)ridge, InU on 
 account of his mother's serious illness was called home, and immediately following came 
 on the War of the Rebellion which was fatal to the continued education of many of the 
 young men of the South. 
 
 His father was a staunch loyalist and stumped the State of Temiessee from one nid 
 to the (jther, against holding the proposed con\'ention to consider the question of the 
 secession of the .State Iroiu the I'nioii. He llcjated the stars ,md stripes o\er his house, 
 and several tiuies large mobs of men asseiuliled in front of it. threatening to te,u' it dou 11 
 and hang him. They did not do it, it was too serious an luniertaking I ( )n the stli of 
 June, i.Sdi, till- whole l.uuily, being all boiii in the South, left Nashville for New ^'ol■k. 
 Joe, who would becoiue of age on the 7th, reiuained behiml, with two purposes in \iew 
 — one, to saw up the flag staff, so that it could not be iiseil, and the other to cast his 
 maiden \ote, .igainst holding the comention. The people of Tennessee \oted 64,000 
 majority against such a idiuention ,in(l j>nt ,ii,i)Oi) men in the " Federal " ami)". In 
 I'^fi.i, Joe having joined the f,imil\- ,it .Stateii Island, eiilered the War Office at Wash- 
 ington, becoming a cleik in .Mr, Si, niton's ottice under the immedi.ite diiection of .Mr. 
 Peter Watson, Assistant .Secretary, and afterwards of Mr, |ohn I'otts, Chiel Clerk. 
 Here he continuously urged the organization, and arming ol the negroes; Cuii'l Loren/o 
 Thomas was detached fioni the ,\il jut,int-( "leneial's ( Itlice and put in ch.irge of such 
 Work. It was commener'd at once in Teiuiessee. C.ipl. Meigs resigned his clerkslii|i, 
 and went into camp of instruction, wilh Ca|)t, Geo, T. .\ntliony ol the 17111 N. \'. Bat- 
 tery, ( ,Susan Anthony's biDther), and fitted himself for the war. lie was in charge ol 
 an amlnilaniH', sent out liy the War De|)artment, and w.is in the- second b.ittle of i!ull 
 Run. He went to Tennessee and was commissioned bv 1 Ciovernoi- ) .\ndre« |olinson. 
 
300 Mkii;s Gk.\i-;ai.iii,\ . 
 
 2n(.l Lic-uteriant (if Hattci'y C, ist Regiment uf Tcniu-ssri' ArtillL-iN', with power to raise 
 the battery. He was mustered in under this eommissidu. l)ut up to this day was never 
 mustered out. 
 
 After traxersini^ the m<uuitains of Tennessee in this eifeirl, he returned to Washing- 
 ton where, with a letter from the "Commissioner oi ( )rt;anization of L'. S. Colored 
 Troops " informing him that they had no authority to raise flatteries, he, in company 
 with his friends. Judge I,)a\id K. Carter and the Hon. Horace Maynard, went in quest 
 of such authority from Mr. l^incoln that would enable him to raise a battery of colored 
 men. Recei\ ed the letter ot which this is a facsimile : 
 
 ly'x^^^^ — -O /i^=^U^j:i «^ />vi 
 
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 Upon this letter Mr. Stanton ordereil the raising of the battery and Capt. Meigs 
 proceeded at once to d(i so, and in due time, not many weeks, he and the men were 
 mustered in, first as llattery " A," ist U. S. Colored Artillery, and afterwards changed 
 to Battery " A " jnd V. S. Colored Artillery (Light). They rendered a great deal of 
 service under Gen. Gillem, who commanded tiie forces of Andrew Johnson, Military 
 Governor of Tennessee, being sent here and there, as the exigency required. They 
 confrontetl Gen'l I^oriesl of Hood's army at fohnson\ille, Tennessee; from that point. 
 
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 they were ordered to Nasliville and came into llie Army of the Cumherhmd umh-v C.vnl 
 George H. Thomas. At the Battle of Nasliville they occupied Reservoir Hill, tiie Mur- 
 freesboro road and Fort Meigs (a fort named after Capt. Meigs, covering Bosley's fields), 
 and were opposite Cheatham's division of Hood's army. Here he liad two ritle guns 
 of an Indiana battery under his command.— his being " light twelves." 
 
 Before the Battle of Nashville Capt. Meigs had had his lungs ruptured, and could 
 not speak above a whisper, and was compelle<l to leave the service. His brother, ist 
 Lt. Fielding I^ope Meigs, was made Captain and remained so until the battery was mus- 
 tered out in iS'i5- 
 
 In 1S65 Capt. Meigs was employed, by his father, in the Clerk's Oilier of the 
 Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. He had in his hands many files of papers, 
 all tied up with red tape ; Capt. Meigs invented the '• pit^con hole stoop paper hoxr ami 
 fitted up the Court file rooms with them. He did not patent it, and it was at once copied 
 into all of the offices in Washington. Then various persons took out patents on some 
 variation of it. and it went into use throughout the world. He invented a magazine rifle, 
 with 50 cartridges in its magazine. This he fired before the Emperor of Austria. 50 
 well directed shots in 16 seconds. 
 
 His invention of the method of making solid head cartridges, made it possible to 
 fire a magazine gun without clogging, as the heads did not break off, and to make it he, 
 with Gen'l Benj. F. Butler, established a cartridge works at Lowell, Mass. 
 
 He appeared first before the Legislature of i.Sjy to ask to be |.ermitted to build a 
 railway of his invention, which was outlawed in every .State of the Union by the gauge 
 laws, as his road had no .gauge, and during the jjcriod of 15 years he olitaincd four 
 enactments, only one of which was material, that of 1S94. Under the requirements of 
 one of them he built an experimental road of full size of about five times the capacity 
 of an ordinary railway, increasing the speed and safetv, and which is unaffected by 
 storms of any kind. 
 
 Twice the Legislature went into Committee of the Whole to hear Capt. Meigs 
 describe his railway in the Legislative hall. He was one of the Commissioners of 
 Ma.ssachusetts to secure the exhibit of the State at the Centennial Exhibition of 1S76 at 
 Philadelphia, and was a Commissioner of the United States to the World's Fair in 
 Vienna, Austria, in 1.S7S. ( See pcu'trait page J49. ) f. \'. M. 
 
 Ill peace theie's iiulliini; so licconies .a man 
 As modest stillness and Inilllilit>- ; 
 But wlien the blast nf war blows in oiii eais. 
 Then imitate the at tinn of the tiger. 
 
 No. 725. CAPT. FIELDING POPE MEIQS. 
 
 Captain Fielding Pope Meigs, was burn in Nashville, Tennessee, March 27th, 1845, 
 being the youngest of five brothers, the sons of Return Jonathan Meigs, 3rd. 
 
 At the breaking out of the rebellion, though a mere boy in [)oor health and sur 
 rounded by rebel influences, he entered the United States service as a master's mate in 
 the navy, under the late Capt. R. W. Meade. In that capacity he was sent to China 
 
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 will, ,v,nlnn, nicnls I,m the f. S. naval forces stat,un<-,l thnv. Returning, he lesiKned 
 fn.n, the navv. havuu^ become r,,nv,nc,-,l that he eoul.l hetter serve his country m the 
 .,rn,v an,l wen, l.aek t., Nashville, where he assisted liis brother, J..e \ mcent Mei.os. in 
 the o,-a,n/at,on of the first battery of e,,ln,-e.l ,nen nnseci bv ,he rn,te.i States, to a,d 
 in (•riishi,,t; ,he ,ebell,o,i. 
 
 •rh,s ,M-,,nizati,.n was known as - C. A. U. S. Colored Anillery ( I.ii;ht," . Joe W 
 Mei-s. belli- ma.ie Caiitain, an<i the subject of this sketch, Lieutenant. 
 
 While stationed at Nashville he was sent with two sections of the battery to jolm- 
 sonville, for the i.nr|,ose of |,r,.ventin^< l-orrest froiu crossing tin- Tennessee nver and 
 destrovm- the supplies of th.- Anuv of the Cumbe,la,id. He silenced the guns of 
 Forrest. 
 
 After rapt.iin [oe Vincent Mei-s was injured at Nashville, Lieutenant Meigs was 
 prom..te,l t., the command of "Meigs Batte.-y " and served in that capacity until 
 mvistered out lat.nary . ub. i.^'"^ earning much praise for the fine .ond.tton of his com- 
 m.md, th,- co,;iness of himself .md men under fire, and the soldierly manner ,n which 
 he handled them. 
 
 On >L,rch Jsth. is;,,, he was apponUed V. S. Consul at Montevideo. Uraguay, S. 
 A., by Presi.lem Cram, but resigned May ,2th, i,S7i,on account of poor health and 
 business considerations. 
 
 Li December, 1S74, he married Miss Alice Howard, of Lowell, NLiss.. and they 
 i-esided in Washington, until Nfaich, i,s-,,. when they removed to Boyds, Md. C apt. 
 Meios died at H.n-ds, .\L,rch 27th. ■■^•^-^- tl^'^' :^7th .uu„ve,-sarv of l„s b„-th. ( See portrait 
 ^ ■ R. J. M., 8TII. 
 
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 ■ris SWL-I'I t,. l,i-at llie vval,h ,t"f;'s 1i„i,l'sI bark 
 Kay dL-i-p-m..m,i<-,l «fl,unK- ,is we Craw near Honu 
 ' 1 ,s swcit 1,, k,i,,w t,iert is an eye will iiiark 
 (1111 ,,,111,11!;, .,,,,1 l,"ik hrmlitei ulieii wi- com,.'. 
 
 —Brum 
 
 No 720. RETURN ROBERT MEIGS. 
 
 Return Rob.al Meigs, of Tahleiiu.di, Indian Territory, s,m of (372) Retnm 
 |„„ath.,n, sth, was raised on a farm, having the usual experience of boys raised ,n a 
 (,„n„ersettle,nen,. His father died when he was .|uite youttg. Retu,-n Robert hved 
 „n the far,,, w,th h,s ,uother, an.l helped to support the younger ch,ldren of the family. 
 Th.. Civil War coniing 0,1, a par, of thr- l„,lia„ nat,o,t, of which lie was a member, took 
 p.,r, w,th th.- Confede.ates, an.l others remained stea.lfast to the I nion. Retu.'n 
 R.ib.rt was on.- of the 1 itter. ( )n one occasion the house of his step father, Mr. Andrew 
 N-^ve was surroun.l,-,! bv Confe.lerate soldiers aud the gun shots that awakened him, k,lled 
 l„s s„-p-father. Return Robert made his escape on this occasion bv h,.ling ,11 a .lumney 
 ,„ .,„, ,,f the roo,us of ihe hotlse and remaini^ig there umil after the soldics ha.l gone 
 uvav He s.-rve.l in ihe Cnion Armv, as he savs, without k,llmg anv one, or getttng 
 k,ll..l hiniself, bu, was c..pt,„.-,l once ,.nd strippe.l of his blouse, over-coat a.id hal. 
 
Al'I'KMilX. 
 
 n March, j.Sb^, after having suffered bv the scourge of war and passe.l through 
 small pox and the coldest winter of his recollection, he went to Pennsylvania and lived 
 at Bethlehem, where he obtained work in the rollin.^. mills and worked to help his 
 mother and sisters. He received S..50 per day for his services and went to school one 
 hour a day from four to five p. m., using just half of his daily wages to pay the teacher 
 25c. a day for himself and two other members of the family. 
 
 He returned to the Cherokee nation in 
 the fall of 1866, and worked a while in the store 
 of Mr. I. W. Stapler, but the work not suiting 
 him, he went to the farm of his mother to aid 
 her in getting a support. The family had lost 
 all they had in the war except the bare land. 
 His brother John had two ponies and a yoke 
 of o.xen, but one year later John went to make 
 a home of his own, and Return Robert became 
 bo.ss farmer, mechanic, and all that pertains to 
 the head of farm life, until he married in i,s-i 
 and began to make a home for himself. Here 
 again he had a hard time in getting a start, 
 sickness came, chills and fevers abided with 
 them throughout the winter: his horses sick- 
 ened and died ; without money and no one to 
 help him get a start, except his good wife. 
 His brother Henry Clay loaned him a horse 
 in the spring, so he managed to start again. 
 From this small beginning, year after year, he 
 has improved his estate and added to it until 
 now he has a very attractive farm home, and has prospered as one should who exhibited 
 such perseverance and kindness of heart to his mother and her orphan children. 
 
 He has received many favors from his people, the Cherokees. Has had the honor 
 to serve them as councilor on two different occasions, being elected both times by a large 
 majority, and was elected Speaker of the House one term. He is now serving a term 
 as Captain of Kee-too-wahs of Tahlequah District. This is a Cherokee organization 
 of full-blood Indians, and we are assured that he is the only half-blood that has ever 
 been elected to serve in this position. The object of the organization is to defend the 
 Cherokees in the full enjoyment of the property they have bought and paid for from 
 the United States. These head men or captains over all, are elected every four years, 
 and they serve as executive officers of the Cherokee nation. 
 
 RETURN ROBERT MEIGS, 
 Tahlequah, c. N., Ind. Teh. 
 
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 Not thnik llie iliirerctiLe nii.i;lity as it seems 
 Between life's moniiiig and its evening dream; 
 Four-score like twenty has its tasks and toys ; 
 In earth's wide s. honl liouse all are girls and hoys. 
 
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 No. 731. TIMOTHY MARSHALL MEIGS. 
 
 Imbued with the mihtary spirit of the great majority of those of the name he Ijore, 
 and his sympathies being with the cause of the Union in the Civil War, Timothy Marshall 
 entered the service of the United States early in the year of 1861, as Provost Marshall 
 of Danville, Ky. In lune of 1862, he entered the Secret Service, and serving during 
 the entire war under (ienerals Runkle, Gilbert, Thomas, Burnside and Huel, won the 
 high praise of all these Generals for his work. Was one of General Buel's earners at 
 the battle of Perryville, Ky. Much might be written of his important service, but he is 
 modestly reticent on the subject, though it is to be hoped a fitting account may some 
 time be published. 
 
 Ah! who can tell how hard it is to climh 
 
 rhe steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar. 
 
 —BriUti,. 
 
 No. 732. SERQT. JAMES MADISON MEIGS. 
 
 At the commencement of the Civil War, James Madison entered the service of the 
 Union as a member of the 19th Kentucky Vol. Infantry, and was appointed Color 
 Sergeant Oct 1S61. Was recommended by General Banks after the battle of Red 
 River for Sergeant Major, and was so appointed. At this battle he was the first one to 
 raise the flag of the Union over the Confederate breastworks. He was in a number of 
 battles, notably, Atlanta, Lookout Mountain, Red River, etc. After the war he with his 
 brother Timothy M. removed to Fort Gibson, Indian Territory, and later to Siloam 
 Springs, Arkansas, where he engaged in the drug business until his death in 1S76. 
 and where Timothy M. is still living. 
 
 No. 746. HENRY MEIGS, 3rd. 
 
 Mr Mei-s is a true scion of the old stock, in his love of and pride in the family 
 name and attainments, and we are indebted to him for several interesting letters bearing 
 
 on the subject. 
 
 He writes us that the crest of "a talbofs head with three acorns growing on top, 
 (Which is that of the Bradford Peverel family,) was used in his grandfather's family as 
 early as 1S4S, and is engraved on his silver, etc. 
 
 'Mr Meigs has in his home in Bayonne, New Jersey, interesting portraits of his 
 oreat-grandfather. Prof. Josiah Meigs, and of Return Jonathan Meigs, ( governor of Ohio 
 and Post-Master General. These portraits hung for a long time in old Harnum's Museum 
 in New York City. He has several original letters written to Prof. Josiah Meigs, from 
 Thomas Jefferson, President James Madison, Mrs. Dolly Madison. Henry Clay, Damel 
 Webster "Aaron Burr, (-governor George W. Clinton, John Ouincy Adams, and others. 
 
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 305 
 
 Tile story as jL;tMiLTally known of tht original of Retain [onatlian NtciLis' nann- is 
 told in the subjoined copy of a clip])ini4 sent us by Mr. Mei^s, and is sui)plcnu-iitcd by 
 another item sent to the W'as/iingloii /-'n-ui/ti; S/iir. of October 21st. i.Siji.liy Rear 
 Admiral R. W. Meatie. 
 
 "The original Return Jonathan Meigs was a native of Connecticut, achie\-ed dis- 
 tinction as an otticer in the Revolutionary Army, and subsecjuently became a pioneer in 
 Ohio. His father, when a young man, became enamored of a yoving (Quakeress, and 
 though he was re[)eatedly rejected he persistetl in his suit. On his last visit, as he 
 slowly mounted his horse to ride away, dejected, the lady, relenting, beckoned him to 
 stop, crying out, ' Return Jonathan, Return Jonathan.' These words which gave him 
 so much happiness, he gave as a name to his first born son." 
 
 " Janna Meigs of East Guilford, Conn., the fathei' of Return Meigs and grandfathei' 
 of Col. Return J. Meigs, courted Hannah Willard, of Wethersfleld. Hannah was not a 
 Quakeress, but a Puritan damsel, the daughter of Josiah and Hannah (Hosmen 
 Willard, and granddaughter of Major Simon Willard, the most famous Indian fighter of 
 his day, in the Colony of Massachusetts Bav." 
 
 " Hannah refused Janna Meigs' suit, but as he mounted his horse anil turned to ride 
 away, she repented her refusal and called after him, ' Return Janna, return ! ' Janna did 
 return. They were married May 16, 169S, (O. S.I and had ten children, of whom 
 ' Return ' the father of Return Jonathan ' was the fifth child i not the eldest son as the 
 legend has it." 
 
 "This is the true story as given in the famih- records. It may now with propriety 
 be asked how 1 know all of this. My rejily is, that my mother's grandfather was 
 Josiah Meigs, a professor in \'ale College, and younger brother of Col. Return Jonathan 
 Meigs, the first owner of the Puritan name." 
 
 Ricii.\]<.ii W. Mi-:ai)E. 
 
 Captain l\ S. A\t2'v. 
 
 Washington, (Jet. 20, iSyi. 
 
 How can 1 see the lira\'t: .^lui yuuii,.; 
 
 Fall ill tilt.' cloud of w.ir. .iiid (.ill luisung^ 
 
 —AJdis.m. 
 
 No. 765 BREVET MAJOR JOHN RODGERS MEIQS. 
 
 Lieut. John Rodgers Meigs, son of Major-General .Montgomery Cunningh.im .Meigs, 
 graduated No. i in his class at West Point Military Academy, and was assigned to the 
 U. S. Engineer Corps in 1S63. He was Chief Engineer of the Department of West 
 "Virginia, and aid-de-camp to Major-General P. H. Sheridan. He was killed by guerillas 
 in the Shenandoah X'alley. near Harrisonbin-g, \'a., Oct. 3, 1S64. During the short term 
 of his active service in the field, he had conducted himself with such gallantry as to be 
 twice brevetted. Captain and Major. 
 
 From the personal memoirs of P. H. .Sheridan, \'ol. ist, fol. 467, we quote as 
 follows : 
 
 " At Harper's Ferry 1 made my headcptarters in the second story of a small and 
 very dilapidated hotel, and as soon as settled sent for Lieutenant John R. .Meigs, the 
 chief engineer officer of the command, to study with him the map of my geographical 
 
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 MhIC.S (llCMCAI.OItV. 
 
 division. It always came rather easy tn me to learn the i;eot)raphy of a new section, 
 and its im|)ortant ti)|)o<;ra|ihiral features as well ; therefore I found that, with the aid of 
 Mela's, who was most intelligent in his profession, the region in which I was to operate 
 would soon be well fixed in my mind. Meigs was familiar with every important road 
 and stream, and with all points worthy of note west of the VAuc Ridge, and was partic- 
 ul.irly well equipped with knowledge regarding the Shenandoah Valley, even down to 
 the farm-houses. He imparted with great readiness what he knew of this, clearly 
 pointing out its configuration and indicating the strongest points for Confederate defense, 
 at the same time illustrating scientifically and forcibly the ])eculiar disadvantages under 
 wdiich the Union Army had hitherto labored." 
 
 
 ^?>^' 
 
 ' rom Vol. 
 
 fol. so. 
 
 " It was during this period, aliout (lusk in the evening of October 3rd, that between 
 Harrisonburg and Dayton my engineer otticer. Lieutenant [ohn R. Meigs, w'as murdered 
 within my lines. He had gone out with two to]M)graphical assistants to plot the country, 
 
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 and late in the evening, while ri,lino along the ,u,l,lic n,ad on his return t„ ran,,, he 
 overtook three men dressed in onr nniform. Hnnn their dress, and also he.-ause the 
 party was immediately behind our lines and uithin a mile-and-a-half of mv headquar- 
 tersMeigs and his assistants naturally thought that thev were joining friends and 
 wholly unsuspicious of anything to the contrary, rode on with the three men some 
 little distance ; but their perfidy was abruptly discovered by their suddenly turnino upon 
 Mejgs with a call for his surrender. It has been claimed that, refusing to submit he 
 hred on the treacherous party, but the statement is not true, for nnr „f the topouraphers 
 escaped-the other was captured-and reported a few minutes later at ,ny head'^|uarters 
 that Meigs was killed without resistance of any kind whatever, and witlunit even a 
 chance to give himself up. This man was so cool, and related all the circumstances of 
 the occurrence with such exactness, as to prove the truthfulness of his statement. 
 
 The fact that the murder had been committed inside our lines was evidence that 
 the perpetrators of the crime, having their homes in the vicinity, had been clandestinely 
 visiting them, an<l been secretly harbored by some of the neighboring residents. De- 
 termining to teach a lesson to these abettors of the foul deed-a lesson they would 
 ne\er forget-I ordered all the houses within an area of live miles to be burned. 
 General Custer, who had succeeded to the command of the third Cavalry Division 
 (General Wilson having been detailed as chief of cavalry to Sherman's army., was 
 charged with this duty and the next morning proceeded to put the order in execution. 
 The prescribed area included the little village of Dayt.,n, but when a few houses in the 
 immediate neighborhood of the scene of the murder had been burne.l, Custer was 
 directed to cease his desolating work, but to fetch away all the able-bodied males as 
 prisoners." 
 
 F/v»/ the "Official Ga-.cttc, ]]'ashin:^lon, Oct. 7, /,SV,./." 
 
 " A despatch reports an officer of General Sheridan's staff just arrived," * * * 
 -This officer brought in the remains of Lieutenant John Rodgers Meigs, of the 
 Engineer Corps, and son of Brevet-Major-General Meigs, Quartermaster-General, who 
 was killed by bush-whackers while making a military survey. In the death of this 
 gallant officer the Department has occasion to deplore no ordinary loss. Last year he 
 graduated at the .Military Academy, West Point, with the highest honors, at the head of 
 his class, was commissioned as a lieutenant of engineers, and immediately sent into the 
 field.^ He performed meritorious and dangerous services during the last year on the 
 fortifications at Baltimore, at Harper's Ferry and at Cumberland, and was made Chief 
 Engineer in the Army of Shenandoah. In the campaigns, he accompanied the army 
 under Sigel, Hunter and Sheridan, In every position he gave proof of great profes- 
 sional skill, personal courage and devoted patriotism. One of the youngest and 
 brightest ornaments of the military profession, he has fallen an early victim to murder- 
 ous rebel warfare." Enwi.N- M. Sr.VN-ro.x, 
 
 Secretary of War. 
 
 On page 267 is the sarcophagus marking the bivouac of Major-General Mont 
 gomery Cunningham Meigs. In the foreground is another erected to his son, the subject 
 of this sketch, Lieutenant and Brevet-Major John Rodgers Meigs. It is of iron about 
 two feet high, and made in imitation of Italian marble. On top of it is a full length 
 figure in bronze— the figure is a likeness of the Lieutenant, and represents him just as 
 
-oji Mi'K^s (;i-:n1'AI,o(;v. 
 
 he \v;is fouiul in the Shenandoah Valley, and ni his uniform, eyes closed, face composed, 
 head incUned to the rii;ht, left arm across his breast, and the ri.i^ht arm extended at his 
 side with the hand open ; a short distance from his right hand lies his revolver where it 
 fell, and around are horse tracks. Tradition says that when the body was found his 
 horse was standing over him as thovigh to shield his body. 
 
 r.nU iiRii never liave ureal sons unless tlie iirotllers are gifted witli superior uuncls. 
 
 -Dr. Clmih-i P. Mngi. 
 
 No. 766. MARY MONTGOMERY MEIGS) TAYLOR. 
 
 Mary Montoomery Meigs, daughter of Major-General Montgomery Cunningham 
 Meigs, married Col. Joseph Hancock Taylor, of the United States Army, who graduated 
 at the Military Academy at West I'oint, in |S5(.. During the Civil War, for faithful 
 and meritorious services, he attained the rank of Major, Assistant Adjutant-General and 
 a brevet Colonel of U. S. Volunteers. 
 
 A son, John Rodgers Meigs Taylor, Captain 14th U. S. Infantry, marched with 
 Gen. Chaffee of the U. S. Army to the relief of the ministers besieged at Pekin, during 
 the summer of igoo. Gen. Gasellee, the British Commander, in his dispatches referring 
 to the operations for the relief of Pekin, among half a dozen other officers mentioned 
 for special services, includes two Americans who " gallantly supported our fighting line, 
 viz: Major Ouinton, and Capt. J. R. M. Taylor," both of the 14th U. S. Infantry. 
 Capt. Taylor has since been breveted a Major in the Army. 
 
 Another son, Montgomery Meigs Taylor, Lieutenant U. S. N., commanded a bat- 
 tery of rapid firing guns on Admiral Dewey's Flagship "Olympia," at the liattle of 
 Manila. May ist, 189S. 
 
 Titles of liouor .idti uot to liis wortli, 
 Wlio IS an lioniir to liis title. 
 
 No. 779. LIEUTENANT JOHN FORSYTH MEIGS, U. 5. N. 
 
 Lieutenant John P'orsyth Meigs, South Bethlehem, Pa., is the son of John Forsyth 
 Meigs, M. D., of Philadelphia, Pa. Lieutenant Meigs entered the United States Naval 
 Academy at Newport, R. I., October ;,rd, 1S62, the 14th anniversary of his birth. After 
 graduation he served continuously in the United States Navy until July, 1891, at which 
 time he reached the head of the heutenants list in the navy. On examination for pro- 
 motion, it was ascertained by the Board that he was color lilind. in consequence thereof 
 he was retired in i,Sgi. 
 
 After his retirement from the navy he went with the Bethlehem Iron Co.. in the 
 capacity of ordnance expert, with whom he has continued since that time. 
 
 He resigned from the retired list in the navy in 1893. In i,s8i he married Mi.ss 
 lane Perry Rodgers, daughter of Col. Robert S. Rodgers, who commanded a Maryland 
 Regiment during the Civil War. It will be interesting to note furth.-r that Mrs. Meigs 
 is a^-randdaughter of Commodores John Rodgers and ^L C. Perrv of the I'. S. Navy. 
 
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 No. 812. VINCENT WILLARD iVlEIQ5. 
 
 Mr. .Meigs has in his homr in Makk-n, Mass.. interesting juirtraits of 1227) Hanjiah, 
 and (22S) .Abigail Meigs, taken when tliey were children. ,Alse^ a portrait of his father 
 (409) Timothy Vincent Meigs. 
 
 Who'er amidst the sons 
 01' reasuii. valour, liljerty and virtiiL-, 
 Displays distingutsli'd merit, is .1 iiohle 
 Of nature's own treating. 
 
 No. 817. JOSEPH LORING MEIGS. 
 
 In town schools in winter and [private schools in summer, he fitted himself for the 
 old Rochester Academy, which he entered when 12 years of age, walking the long 
 distance, between si.x and seven miles, both ways; having finished there, "he took a 
 course at Marion Academy, and fitted himself for Brown University ( part of the time 
 tutored by Rev. Charles Livingstone, brother of the African Explorer) and finished the 
 full course ni two years ; read law, but chose a business career. At the breaking out 
 of the Civil War, after his first business disaster, he turned his attention to the iron 
 mdustry, perceiving its great importance in the future, accepted a position in the office of 
 the Phoenix Iron Co,, of Phoenixville, Pa.— steadily rising from clerk to Assistant 
 General Manager, with which Company he remained at intervals until 1.S70, when he 
 erected the plant of the Edge Moor Iron Co., at Ellerslie, Del., meantime having served 
 in the 34th Pennsylvania until 1S63, when he was discharged after the battle of^Gettys- 
 burg. In 1865 he returned back to the home port where since he has taken an occasional 
 dip in town affairs; elected on the School Board in 1982, served six years; appointed 
 Notary Public by Governor Greenhalge in 1894 for seven years, and reappointed 1901 
 by Governor Crane. 
 
 Hre.itlKs tliere the man with soul so dead, 
 Wlio Tjever to himself liatli said 
 Tliis is my own. my native land ! 
 Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd 
 .\s home his footsteps he hath turned 
 From wanderinj! on a foreign strand. 
 
 —ScMl. 
 
 No. 833 GIDEON E. MEIGS. 
 
 Gideon E. Meigs, b. m Auror.i, N. Y., March 5, 1840, removed to Buffalo, N. Y., in 
 184S. He entered the common schools there and later the McGarra High School, from 
 which he graduated in 1856 with high honors. Then went to PainesviUe, Ohio, as an 
 apprentice to a harne.ss maker, but .Mr. George Steele, the banker, becoming interested 
 in him, secured his release from his employer and gave him a position in his bank, 
 where he remained until the Civil War broke out, when severing his business relations 
 
31" 
 
 MkIGS GEN'KAI,0(iV. 
 
 he enlisted in Co. D 7th ( )hii.i X'olunteers, and served in that (irs^anizaticjn until the close 
 of the war. 
 
 His Regiment was ahnusl obliterated in the earlier engagements of the great 
 contlict. 
 
 His companions speak most highly of his bravery, intelligent judgment, kindness of 
 heart, and chi\-alric enthusiasm for the cause for which they were battling. 
 
 At the close of the war Mr. Meigs returned to his old home and entered business, 
 but was not successful. Spending no time grieving over his losses, he sought and ob- 
 tained employment as traveling salesman ; after several years he returned to Painesville, 
 and though not legally held, paid every dollar of his indebtedness. Hut few men have 
 been so conscientiously honest with their creditors. 
 
 In 1S76 Mr. Meigs connected himself with Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company, 
 and was closeK' connected with the establishment. His territory embraced the States of 
 Illinois, Intliana, Ohio, Michigan, West Virginia and Pennsylvania. For many years he 
 received a ].)rincely com])ensation for his services, but he was generous to a fault. Many 
 unworthy people took advantage of this trait, and he died insolvent. 
 
 It was his aim toward which he worked untiringly, to see the Liggett & Myers 
 Toljacco Company at the heatl of tobacco manufacturing in the world, and he lived to 
 see his hope realized. 
 
 He died suddenly of apople.xy in the Chicago otfice of the firm. January 13th, 1896, 
 at the age of 56 years. His remains were taken to Painesville, his former home. He 
 hail been Mayor of Painesville, and the City's flag was at half mast, a large pan of the 
 population attended the obsequies under the charge of Dyer Post G. A. R. Great grief 
 was e\-inced by the citizens of that city as he had promoted and helped to establish most 
 of the industries of the city. 
 
 Mr. Meigs was a typical and model American Commercial Traveler, brave, patriotic, 
 companionable, full of energy, enter]>rise, commercial progressiveness, and possessed of 
 indomitable persistency and intlustrw l(_i\'al to the interests of his firm and enthusiastic 
 in its behalf, kind antl courteous not onl\- t(j friends and customers, but to his competi- 
 tors as well. Thoroughly imbued with the princi|)les of honesty, and integrity. Was 
 for many years a member of the Western Commercial Tra\"elers' Association, of St. 
 Louis. He was modest and unassuming as to his ouii merit and abilities; his heart and 
 hand were alwavs open to relie\-e a fellow traveler in distress in any form whatever. See 
 portrait [lage 131. 
 
Al'I'KXDlX. ,jj 
 
 Without genealogy, the study of liistory is i ..inpai :iti v.ly lifeless. 
 
 —John l-iikr. 
 
 No. 890. MARQUIS FAYETTE MEIQ5. 
 
 The name of F. M. Meigs— as he usually writes it— is famihar to almost every 
 branch of the Meiys family, as his indefatigable zeal and work have been the means of 
 collecting a great amount of family history and connecting family lines previously in 
 doubt. 
 
 We desire here to record our obligations to him for inf,,rmation on manv points 
 contamed in this book, and we most heartily hope that he will soon give to the world 
 the results of his investigation on points we have not found. 
 
 " Sing me the son.!vs that to me were so dear. 
 Loui;. lung ago ; long, long ago." 
 
 Nos. 895 6 7 8. THE •MEIGS SISTERS." 
 
 Harriet, First Soi)rano. Edith, First Alto. 
 
 Jennie, Second So])rano. Florence, Second Alto. 
 
 The reputation of the Meigs Sisters' Quartet is National. No quartet has ever been 
 held in such high esteem by the music-loving public, and no quartet has ever justly 
 received such flattering testimonials from every part of the country. 
 
 Their father, Samuel Harvey Peet Meigs, so trained them from childhood that they 
 could sing without accompanist and from memory over 300 quartets. So charming and 
 perfect was their art, that Mr. Henry Krebiel, Musical Critic of the AWr York Tiibune 
 and an authority in the musical world, said : ■■ These young ladies have the perfect 
 understanding that comes from constant intimate association and practice and their joint 
 performances are as if directed by a single mind." 
 
 The timbre of their voices was alike, with an unmistakable afhnity of tone color. 
 This made their singing the most delightful ever heard in ensemble. 
 
 Henry C. Timm, for nineteen years President of the N. Y, Philharmonic Society 
 wrote many part songs for them, and one evening at a concert in Chickering Hall after 
 they had sung his arrangement of that old song, •• Oft in the Stilly Night," arose in the 
 audience, saying : " Bravo, I thank vou for paying me such a compliment." 
 
 Another critic said of their singing : •• The blending is so perfect it is impossible 
 to detect the different voices except by watching them in solo passages. It is the perfect 
 finish of a string quartet. The perfecting of art itself." 
 
 The voice of the whole press throughout the country was unanimous in praising the 
 sweet-voiced four. They drew the largest audience of the Chautauqua Assembly 4 000 
 persons being m attendance at their last concert. Henry Ward Beecher who heard 
 them insisted upon engaging them for Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, where they sang 
 for a year and where Jennie and Edith married. 
 
 The Rev. Charles D. Shaw, of i'atterson, N. f., wrote the following poem after a 
 concert given by them in I^atterson to raise money for a new organ in his church : 
 
MkIUS (ilCNKAl.lX.Y. 
 
 AFTER THE CONCERT. 
 
 Last night we s<U beneath the spell 
 Of music lireathed by voices rare ; 
 
 Sci strange tlie charm, we scarce coiiUl tell 
 If life were sad, or life were lair. 
 
 For deep u ithin our hearts there woke 
 N'ague memories of departed years, 
 
 Their Ions hushed ac cents weirdly spoke 
 In tones that shook the rup ..f tears. 
 
 Head hopes seemed risen from the toml), 
 For.L;otten visions shone anew^ 
 
 l,ost treasures glimmered from the "loom. 
 Pale faces beamed with rosy hue. 
 
 Kemt-mbermi; was not all a iiang— 
 And life was not a ruined void, 
 
 .Still a clear note of promise sans; 
 Of pleasures yet to be enioyed. 
 
 Memory and hope went hand m hand, 
 As wiien the dawn and starlight blend— 
 
 We dwelt in an enchanted land. 
 
 Reluctant that this spell should end. 
 
 They were four sisters of one race 
 That round us cast this mai^ic spell. 
 
 Music hath crowned them with her grace 
 .\nd bade them in their art excel. 
 
 Blest is the household can .illord 
 A treasure such as here is known. 
 
 Four voices in a perfect chord. 
 Solemn and sweet as organ tone. 
 
 So rich, so deep, s< . imre, so true. 
 Their voices were together lilent. 
 
 We thought they sang as angels do 
 And hea\en to earth a choir liatl lent. 
 
 FLORENCE 
 
 Snig on, sweet voices, let us hear 
 Again that harmony sublime 
 
 That helps our weary way to cheer 
 And lights the sombre brow of time. 
 
 Sing on, and take from grateful hearts 
 The tribute of their cordial praise. 
 
 We crown you " Mistresses of Arts," 
 And wish you years of golden days. 
 
Ai'iMiNDix. .^i ;^ 
 
 A wise pli>"siciaii, skiilt^'i, <>\i\ wfiiimls to lical. 
 Is imin.' than armies to Iht- [nililic ut.-.ii. 
 
 No. 1175. DR. JOE VINCENT MEIQS. 
 
 Several members (if the .Meit^s faniih' ha\e attained pniniineiice in the medical 
 profession. It is out of such intellectual soil that some nf the most cons[)icuous profes- 
 sional ability has ^rown ; anil it is not surjtrising that Dr. iMeiys now occupies a position 
 in the surgical and medical field far beyond what, ordinarily, would lie accorded him 
 if gauged bv his years (if serxice. 
 
 Dr. Meigs passed through all the gra(-les of the [juLilic schools of Lowell, Massa- 
 chusetts, and was graduated from the Lowell High School in i,S,S_i.. 
 
 After his graduatidu he entered the otiice of 1 )r. John C. Irish, a prominent 
 surgeon nl Ldwell, ALiss., for the [lurpose di receiving medical instruction, which 
 inspired him with a decide(.l preference for the bro<i(l held of gynaecology, etc. He 
 then attende(_l the fefferson Metlical College, Philadelphia, Pa., from which institution he 
 was graduated in .\pril, l.'^Sg. ]\r inimediatelv located in Lowell, Mass., and engaged 
 in the practice of his clidsen pr(.ilessicin, taking charge of the Out-patient Surgical 
 Service of .St. [ohn's fbjspital, which [losition he held for se\'eral years. He is now 
 ( 1901 ) Visiting Surgeon to St. |dlin's Hos|>it.d, ,uid also t(i Lowell < K-neral Hospit.d since 
 its inception. 
 
 As an operator Dr. Meigs, is cool, prompt and decitleil ; cautious, (left-handetl, antl 
 fertile in resources With no appearance of hurry or excitement, his work results in a 
 gO(Hl percentage of recoveries, and secures to him the friendshi]i of manv \\ ho appreciate 
 his kind and skillful treatment. He is in thi-\igor of vouth, .iiul tlK- field is broad 
 hef(.ire him for usefulness, which will afford him ,in opportunitv f" put into (■\ecuti(;in his 
 skill as a surgeon. 
 
 Dr. Meigs is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, and Associate ^ledi- 
 cal F^xaminer of Middlesex County, Massachusetts. 
 
 Dr. Meigs married Miss Sarah M. Parker on Fetiruar\' iSth, iSgo, and they have 
 three children, — Eugenia, Joe V., ;,rd, and Hildreth. Tile grandfather of Mrs. Meigs, 
 Dr. Israel Hildreth, was a noted surge(_)n and plnsician of Dracut, Mass.. before Lowell, 
 -Mass., became a city. The family is an old ,nid prominent (jiie, well known as among 
 the pioneers of Massachusetts. 
 
 No. 1178. RETURN JONATHAN MEIGS 8th. 
 
 On November 5th, io(ji, there was born in Baltimore, Md.. to Return J. Meigs, 
 and wife Roberta, a son who was named Return Jonathan. He is the eleventh to bear 
 the time-honored and peculiar name, and the tenth of Col. Return |. .Meigs' descendants 
 to be so designated, although there have been several Returns in different br.uiches of 
 the family who have not had the Jonathan as a second name. 
 
Mku.s Gf.nkahka-. 
 
 No. 1217. WELLINGTON HARLAN MEIGS. 
 
 Wellington H-arlan Mc-i-s, of Wa-on.T, Ind. Ter., born at Ft. Gibson, In.l. Tc-i., 
 son of (7^.2) lames M., of Siloam Springs, Ark.: graduated from the Law Department 
 of Missouri State University, at Columbus, Mo., with degree of L. L. H.. June 5, i^95- 
 Is Secretary of the Wagoner League of Single Statehood Promoters, an organization to 
 advocate the union of Indian Territory and CJklahoma into one State, when it enters the 
 Union. 
 
 At . huvcli Willi meek and uiiaflei-tecl grace, 
 His looks adorTi'd the venerable place ; 
 Truths from Ins li|>s j.revailM witli double sway 
 ,\ml fools, who ■ aine lo scolT, reiiKiiiiM to pray. 
 
 — Giikhmilli. 
 
 No. 1218. REV. ROBERT VAN MEIGS. 
 
 Robert Van Meigs was born in Pineville, Missouri, m 1S7;,, his parents having 
 come from Kentucky a few years before, lie was the second of four children. When 
 less than a year old his parents moved to Siloam Springs, Arkansas. I lis father. (732 I 
 limes M Meigs, was Sergeant-Major of Company F, lyth Regiment Kentucky Vol. 
 Infantry and died in 1876. His mother married again, and again was left a widow 
 when he was eleven years old. Th,. family was left wholly without support, e.xcept 
 a wagon team, house and lot. Mr. Meigs ami an older brother did various sorts 
 of work With the team he hauled freight thirtv miles distant from Hentonville, there 
 being no railroad at his home then. He worked at odd jobs around the town and ,n 
 the country until he was si.xteen. going to school in the winter time, three to hve months. 
 
 As a boy he was not ideal bv anv means, but otherwise, and a good deal so. He 
 ha.l a -ood mother who tried to make hmi ideal, but it took a power even greater than 
 a mother's and after he had worked a summer in the dairy business at the age o 
 seventeen, m Muscogee, Indian Territory, there he had an opportunitv to go to a school 
 called the Baptist Indian Universitv (working aroun.l the dauv nu.rnmgs and evenings) 
 where he was converted and was baptized into the Baptist Church. .Soon there- 
 after he accepted a position at the college as general hustler and hreinan of the 
 furnace of the steam pUuit that heated the buildin.;, which pos,ti.,n he held until his 
 .nuluation m '04 with the degree of A. H. In August, ',4. he went to the Umversity of 
 Chicago and began his divimiy course, serving from March ist, iSc,, until his gradua- 
 tion as student-pastor. He was ordained to the Baptist Ministry September 29. I'^V^. ^'t 
 Cillnvm 111 Dr. Geo. B. Foster of the Universitv of Chicago preaching the sermon. 
 The Gillman Baptist Church, March 1st, 1895. when he took charge of the work, num- 
 bered 46 members; when he closed his work September ;,o, 189S. the church numbered 
 ,24 members, an<l #i,oon improvement had been made upon the church. I he pastoi 
 received $400 a year when he came and S'"". when he left. 
 
 In December 1S07, knowing that the Gardner Baptist Church which was in the 
 . Association had been pastorless for sometime and discouraged, he determined to 
 them He found 4 ', members, an interesting Sunday School, began a meeting there 
 b-M.ti/ed 40. Leaving a brother to supplv the Gardner Church, he continued his 
 - in (-.illman until iS^.s, when he took charge of the Gardner Church for one year 
 
Ari-ENLIIX. ;, 13 
 
 uith the pii\ilt.-t;e of (loins; uvanuclistic work, [uly ist, iScjS, In- icieixcil ficjiii the 
 |)i\inity School of the L'niversity of Chicai;(i the decree of 1!. 1). Aftei" spindiiii; ihe 
 one year at (iardner, 111., as past(jr, securing a iM'otlni- to continue the work as perma- 
 nent pastor, who liegan the Sunday after he left, Rc\-. R. V. Meigs decided to give his 
 entire time to evangelistic work which he helieved to he his special calling, and sjient 
 one year as e\-angelist in Minnesota, \-isiting some of the iirincijtal towns outside of the 
 twin cities, as Mankato. Faribault, Pipestone and others. Previous to this he had done 
 some evangelistic work in Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin, and everv meeting was at- 
 tended with lasting results and many ailditions bv liaj)tism — two weeks meetings generalh' 
 held in each place, from three t(.) hfty people in each place baptized — as well as additions 
 b\- experience and letter. He rashly o\-er-taxed himself in this wmk, criiipling his heart 
 action to such an extent that he was forced to <juit the evangelistic work in lime, 1900. 
 November, 1900, he took charge of the First Baptist Church, Quincy, 111., a city of 
 411,000 inhabitants, third in size in the State of Illinois. The church numljered 225, 
 greatly run-down attendance- .S5. The attendance has reached as high as (100, axerage 
 attendance 250 to 400. Has dismissed 20 members and recei\-ed .S2. Had a glorious 
 rexival meeting winter of ujoo-'oi, and now mu-nber ,iboiu ,^00. He is better contented 
 in the pastorate than in the e\-angelistic work and is humblv hoping in 1 )uin( \' to build 
 up Christians, save souls and develop his own character. 
 
 December 20, 1S99, he married Miss Ida Holch of (iillman. 111., a graduate of 
 Ciillman High School and the Kankakee Conser\-atory, Kankakee, 111., in 1.^97, and in 
 1S99 she graduated from the American Conservatory of Music at Chicago, receiving 
 honorable mention. She has been of great assistance to Mr. Meigs in the musical part 
 of his evangelistic service. She is in every way a valuable helpmate and church worker, 
 teaching the young people's class in the Sabbath School which she started at the begin- 
 ning of her husliand's |iastorate with one i)U|m1 — the class now i Mav i, ujoi ) 
 numbers 42. 
 
 " Aiui il iluill I (Jim; to pass III till- last >iays. sailli God, I will |iiiin out ni> S|iinl ii|i..ii .ill llesli .itul 
 your sons ami your daughttis shall prophesy, and your youni; niuii shall see \ isioiis, .iiid your old men 
 shall dream dreams." — Ac/.\ n: /- 
 
 RETROSPECT AND PROPHECY. 
 
 August 16, 1S27, a Mr. Daniel Henshaw, of W'inchendon, Mass., a relative of the 
 wife of 197) Major John Meigs, wrote to another relative, Dr. Joshua Henshaw Hay- 
 ward, a letter containing considerable genealogy and biography and s[)ecuIation of the 
 "Looking Backward" kind. A copy has been sent us by (,"1^7) Charles Augustus 
 Meigs, of New York, from which we make the following extracts, that seem to us of 
 general interest to this generation. 
 
 After recording the names of sevei-al large families, some numbering thirteen and 
 fourteen children, he says : 
 
 " In looking Kiack on these past generations, the mind is struck with tlie chanoes of various 
 kinds which time seems to have wrouglit. It is a mystery to me how tliesc matrons managed to 
 take care (jf their ten to fourteen children, do all the cooking, washing and housework, lieside 
 doing everything appertaining to a dairy, ami, wli.it is now obsolete, manufacturing ,u home .ill 
 the clothes of various kinds for this numerous Liniil y, e\en to the pulluig of the Max in the heh' 
 
and all without lured 1k.1p in n,any cases, vvlnle n, ihese days, with all the advantages of labor- 
 i "machines and n,„dern in,proven,ents, Tor n.an has sought out many ntvenfons. tt s 
 h • rJtin. along wkh one, two, or three children or none, help or no help, wUhout a fortune to 
 he 'in wi »• * -^ * * * DkI the females of the past employ nu,ch Imte n, nms.c, pamtmg, 
 dam- ,.., aitending cotillion parties, oratorios, theatres, lectures ' * -^ * Inste.Kl ol playn-g 
 he iaTto and dancing the minuet, they played the distaff .n.X dancn,g the reel. Bes.de, there 
 uere the spinning wh^el, the loont and the churn, wUh the nu.su: of winch every tarnter s house 
 was made to echo, long since my remembrance." 
 
 •■ I an, an antiquarian and like an, lent things. 1 hke the good old curled wigs and cocked 
 h us and stiver buckles ; they look or d,d look venerable, noble and r,ch. or the same reason 
 ike the o-ambrel roof house, and 1 dislike the man,-no-l abhor the ,n„n„nn ,nonsUr^-^.o 
 h 1 the hard.hood to cut down the old 'White Horse ' sign post, (on the arn. of w-h.ch n y 
 ; he s' Uncle Bill ' once sat with his feet resting on the snow beneath, alter clnnl.ng over the 
 ; ,„ks one stormy winter), when 1 consider that everybody in the conntry who conld walk alone, 
 ;: 'n.L 'double'- on horseback, or drive a teant, reu.embered with ^hecfon t e Red Horse 
 T .vern at Sndburv, the ' Pun, h liowl ' at Brookline, and the Wh.te Horse at Boston. 
 
 " I write for posterity hke other great folks, and yuur great grand-children may value these 
 
 „1.1 thinc^s and a 1 1 ask of you sir, is, Iha, you emoin U upon your chddren to be han,led down 
 
 to ir posterity that when my great grandchildren an hnn.lred years hence shall con.e iron, 
 
 b^Rocly Mountains, or the grand con,mercial ctv of Oregon, .he ^^^^^"r^^^'Z^::: ^s^e 
 
 ,„ ,.1 cars the last three thousand in .-anal boats and stean,ers, to see the ( > hi Town (as the 
 
 nu.ves c'dl Boston,, and to search out ihe.r relations, none of whom pera.Kenture may ,n- 
 
 I, ,e to reco..m.e them, I say I wsh vour .lescendants to recetve m.ne on such an occasion w, h 
 
 ,e atten ion .u„l politeness character.stic o. the present Bostonians, and that ,nstrnct,ons be 
 
 h",de.i dou n to then, accordingly. K ven now 1 an, look,ng down an,l wtness.ng an ,nterv,ew 
 
 ,,t this kin.l, having le,ipe,i in imagination the humheil years. 
 
 Hei-e follows too detailed a desciiption of the interview between the said descen- 
 dants of b,>th. for ottr space, l3t,t after the Westerner has been reccved by the old 
 Hostonian, the latter arranges to show the stranger about the city. 
 
 .. urn as ,t is .M n,iles in circumference, for the sake of convenience and despatch we wdl 
 step i, to mv ■ Ste: n, Flyer ' (a light coach „,oved bv stea.n, and proceed to the south pa.t o 
 1 e c t . We wll bear a little to the southeast that we n,ay pass over and v,ew that part o 
 Sll^d d,e • Boston Flat.' That extensive ,-ange of elegant hmldings ^; ^ ^^o^-;. -;^ -^, ^ 
 buildin-s at a considerable distance in every direction, stamls on nuute hnd. F.f > yea.s s ce 
 
 a :il water. The enterprising inhabitants first threw across a brtdge n,ore than a ce, tu 
 to and ,n a few years another, building out with lan<l a little each „me, .,11 alter a lapse of hItN 
 :;:;r vears the grand pr^ect was conceived of taking down the ^^^^^''^ ^^J^;^ ^^^ 
 fillino- up the whole, except a narrow , hannel hu the passage ,..t vessels. 1 1 ,s P " '^'-t "^^ 
 Hd cul .u,d oppos;d bv .uanv as vis.onarv an,l nuprac.icable: but notl,n,g ^"^^^^ ^^l^^^"^^;^ 
 bold perseveri,!g sp.rU win,., then p.evaile.l, and the w.,rk was eventuallv -rnple d^ Let u 
 now proceed Here vou see a gentle rise ,u the land ; here was ,mce a l,gh steep h,ll, or 
 peha7severalhills,'forme,-ly called -r.orchester Heights,' and belonged then to a separate 
 U "a, cal ed Dorchesier. It Jas on the top of the hill where we stan,l that our -'-s ors ,,, e 
 K:;.olutionary War, who were full of notions, placed themselves one ■"^"': j; ':;'^;^^;; ^^^ 
 we.-ein possession of the , -A/ ,.art of the citv, and enclosing themselves with a breas wo k 
 hhed hogsheads with san.l to r,.ll down upon the enemv should they attem.n to approach^ KiU 
 the British chose P. withdraw then.selves altogether frou, the \ ankee Country. • ■ ■ V\ e 
 
 ow piss one or two miles farther south to the most beautiful an.l ,n,e,-est,ug part of he citv , 
 an l^^v,m observe a great number of plain but most beautiful buildings al apparently of one 
 ki^l They are appn.pr.ated to the ■ ..l.ure and manufacture of silks, and the immense rows and 
 oarcW mulberry Irees which you everywhere see are devoted to ^'^ ^-u.h and operaUo 
 „r the silk wornts. This par, of .he town is called Galhoper.i, or 1- ren, li W ,.rks, haMig bee,, 
 St led bv French emigrants, who can,e over to this conntry in a bo.ly about the time when the 
 n 1 nnicu.re of silks l^-came a subiect of general attention. A little west o, us are vineyauK 
 i e pi^sses, also muler ,he u,anagement of French emigrants. Leaving the central pa 
 
 I c. .^,r an;ther dav, we pass on to the ' Nor.hern Liberties ' lormerlv a par. ,.l .he ancient 
 
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 tDun of Cluniestown, and famous for beini; iIk- place where the hrst LOiisitleralile l)attle was 
 fought in the Revolutionary War, and called ' Bunker Hill Battle, to perpetuate the memory and 
 events of which, a monument was erected, which you see near by, about fifty years after the 
 event, but it can be of no interest to us except by reminding us of the happiness of our times 
 compared with those old dark ages and barbarous times, when wars, fighting and lield murders 
 were considered lawful and proper, and even necessary ! They prayed even in time of war that 
 the time might come when 'swords should be turned into ploughshares and spears into reaping 
 hooks, and tlie nations learn war no more,' but they diti not dream that they had .mything to do 
 but to prav, yet some of them more than a centuty ago had the \irtue ami loresiglit to lay the 
 fiiundation, by their peace societies, for the univeisal peace now enjoyeil the uoiid over. They 
 had no idea, however, of the means now employed for maintaining peace by a Universal 
 Congress composed of delegates from every nation in the world. This plan was not conceived 
 till long after." 
 
 " This you perceive is the business part of the city, which is in consei|uence of the immense 
 trade carried on with the States of Canada, (which you recollect formerly belonged to the 
 British Government,) by means of the great Northern Canal, passing through \ew Hampsliire 
 anil X'ermont." 
 
 " We will now go to the western wing of the citv, formerly called Cambridge, and famous 
 chielly lor the very ancient and wealthy seat of learning there established. That large enclosure 
 is a Botanical Garden, said to be one of the largest in the world. These beautiful groves were 
 once mowing lands, and the twenty or thirty large and elegant buildings you see are .appropriated 
 to the usual purposes of lodging rooms, dining halls, library, &c , ^:c. The librarv contains 
 100,000 volumes. The College 500 students, thirty professors and instructors. The w hole city 
 <jf Boston containing 300,000 inhabitants and 300 churches." 
 
 " But I will no longer confine your poetical imagination to my dull prose route, but leave 
 you to form cities, people, laws and customs for a hundred years to come, tci your own liking 
 and better fancy. 
 
 I am, .Sir. with Respect and Esteem, Your Friend and .Servant, 
 
 llANIKL HkNSHAW. 
 Ill I'K. lOSHUA HeNSHAW HaVUARIi. 
 
 No. (3S-) Mr. Charles A. iMci^s, who [iirnisheci us the abo\'e, has also (]uite an 
 e.xtensive genealogy of the Meigs family in manuscript, which he generously sent us for 
 comparison and addition to our own. His record contains many names of descendants 
 in female lines, which would have lieeii interesting to make a part of this book, but that 
 we could not e.xtend our work to cover anything like a complete record of the descen- 
 dants in other names than Meiefs. 
 
 COPIED FROM THE ARCHIVES IN OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATE 
 FOR THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS. 
 
 llenjamin Meigs appears in a list c)f mustereil men in Worcester County — Captain Co. 
 
 Col. Ward's Regiment by return made by Tlios. Newball Agent. Place of residence Petersham 
 — term of enlistment nine months. Remarks, see lienjamin Meigs — raised to serve in R. I. 
 Mustereil May 15, year not given. (Books enlisted men, etc, \'ol. 42, p. 45.1 
 
 No. I. Henjamin Meigs apjjears among a list cif men dated May :•;,, 177S, and 
 subscribed by Capt. Asa How and Capt. Wing .Sjiooner. See Henjamin Meggs. 
 (Mass. Muster and Pay Rolls, Vol. 42, p. s''- 1 
 
 IJeniamiii Meggs appears among a list of men, raised for the term of eight months, 
 to fill deficiencies in tjuota cjf three years, and during War men. Town engaged for — 
 Petersham — Joined Col. Putnam's Regiment, arrived at P'ishkill, June 13, 177.S — (Mass. 
 Muster and Pay Rolls, Vol. 28, p. 164.) 
 
, , s; MkIi.S ("iKXKALOC.N . 
 
 Henianiiu Me-os appears in a ccrtiticatc dated Petersham, May -\v i77'^. signed hy 
 Capt. Asa How and Capt. Wino Spooner, statint,^ that said Meggs and others had been 
 enga.ged and mustered to serve the Continental Arniv for the term of eight months to 
 th^ credit of the town of Petersham. , Mass. Muster and I'ay Rolls, \'ol. 42, p. 56.) 
 
 Henjamin Meiggs appears in a descriptive list of men enlisted from Worcester Co. 
 
 fortermof eight months, from the time of their arrival at Fishkill, age stature 
 
 complexion Town, from Petersham, Col. Putnam's Regiment. Time of 
 
 arrival at Fishkill, Jime I :v Rem.irks, see Benjamin Meggs. ^Books, Militia Officers, 
 ttc, \'<.)1. 2.S. p. ii>4. ) 
 
 No. 2. Bcati Meggs appears with the r.mk ..( private on a retinn of Capt. (Late) 
 Isaac Warren's oth Co!, Col. John Baily's Regt., in service before August 15. 1777- 
 Died April o, 177S. (Mass. Muster and Pay Rolls, Vol. 71, p. 92.) 
 
 No. V Bezai Meggs appears with a grade of private on a return of Capt. Isaac 
 Warren's Co., Col. lohn Baily's Regt., in service, Camp Valley Forge, Jan. 24, 177S. 
 Remarks— Residence, Great Barringt.m. Name meant for Meigs. ( Soldiers' Orders, 
 \'ol. 10, p. ^^'">. i 
 
 No. 5. Bezai Meggs appears in a statement of Continental balances with rank of 
 
 in Col. John Bailev's Regt. Time engaged for, during war. Remarks— Not 
 
 given. Certified May 29, 1784. (Mass. Muster and Pay Rolls, Vol. 6S, p. 9.) 
 
 No 4 Bezai Megs a].pears in a return ol men raised to serve in the Cimtmental 
 
 Army from Co. '- of Regt. . April .3, 1779. I'-'wn belonged to 
 
 unknown. Town engaged for, Murrayhehl. Term three years or durmg war. Jomed 
 Capt. Warren's Co., Col. Bailey's Regt. Remarks-Regt. not given. Prol.ablv meant for 
 Meigs. (Mass. Archives, \'<il. 14(1, p. 510.) 
 
 No. V Bezai Meigs appears with grade of private on a return of Capt. Isaac War- 
 ren's Co., Col. John Bailey's Regt. in service. Camp Valley Forge, Jan. 24, i 77S. Remarks. 
 Residence Great Barrington. .See Meggs. (Mass. Muster and Pay Rolls, X'ol. 10. 
 p. S5-6.) 
 
 No. 4. Bezai Meigs appears in a return of men enlisted into the Continental Army 
 
 f,,,„, Co. of Regt., dated April i;,, i779- Town belonged to unknown. 
 
 Town enlisted for, Murrayfield, term of enlistment three years or during war. Joined 
 Capt. Warren's Co., Col. Bailey's Regt. Remarks, written Megs on rolls. (Mass. 
 Archives. \'ol. 146, [>. 51". ) 
 
 No ^, Bezai Meigs appears in ,i list ni men mustered in Berkshire County to 
 
 serve in Capt. Co., Col. Regt. by a return made by Trueman 
 
 Wheeler, Muster Master. Place of residence . Term of enlistment three yeans 
 
 „r during war. Muster between Jan. 20, 1777 and June ist, i77'^- 'Mass. Muster and 
 Pay Rolls, Vol. 25, p. 250.) 
 
 N.I. V Bezelat Meggs appears as a private on an account rendered the United 
 States by the Commonwealth of Mass. for amts. pd. officers and men of Col. John 
 Bailey's Regt. on acct. of depreciatmn ,.f their wages for the first three years' service 
 in the Continental. 
 
AlM'l-;.\I)IX. ^ig 
 
 Bezclat cont'tl. Aniiy fi(.>iii 177710 i7Si.>. Account c.xhiliited b)- Committee on 
 
 claims in liehalf of Mass. against L'. S., Sept. 21, 17.^7. Remarks (Mass. Archives. 
 
 Dejjreciation Rolls, \'iil. :;i, p. t)6. ) 
 
 Xo, s- Bezaleel Meggs appears with the rank of private on Continental Armv ]iav 
 
 accounts of Capt. Co., Col Baile^-'s Regt. for service from April g, 1777 to 
 
 April 9, 1778. Credited to town .Remarks, Residence not gi\-en. Reported 
 
 as 6th Co., no Captain gi\en. Reported liieil April q, 177^. (Continental Armv Books, 
 Vol. 2, pt. I , p. I 57. ) 
 
 Xo. 6. Ebenezer Meigs appears with rank of pri\ale i.ni Mustei- and Pay Roll of 
 Capt. Xathaniel Hammond's Co., Col. Ebenezer Sprout's Regt. for service at Rhode 
 
 Island on the alarm of . Time of enlistment . Time of tlischarge . 
 
 Time of ser\ice months, fifteen days. Town to \\ hich soldier belonged . 
 
 Remarks; In Dec. 1776, Re[iorted Co. Marchetl from Rochester. (Rhode Island 
 Ser\'ice. \'ol. 2, p. g^. 1 
 
 Xo. 7. Meigs ajjpears among a list of Field Officers of the Continental 
 
 Arnu'. 177(1, as Major in Col. Wvley's Regt. in Major-Cien'l Spencer's Di\-. Remarks: 
 F'irst name not gi\'en. (Mass. Muster and Pay Rolls, \'ol. 59, |). 901.) 
 
 No. S. John Meigs ap|iears in an order dated Rochester, Mav 2, 1778, for bonnt\-, 
 signed by said Meigs and others for ser\'ice in Cai)t. Samuel Brigg's Co., Cnl. Cotton's 
 Regt. at Rhode Island. Order pavable to Lt. Solomon Young. Autograi)h signature. 
 (Mass. Muster and Pay Rolls, \'ol. 17, p. iiS.) 
 
 No. 9. John Meiggs appears with the rank of pri\ate on Lexington Alarm roll of 
 
 Capt. Nathaniel Hammond's 2nd Co., Regt., which marched on the alarm of Ajiril 
 
 J9' '775' from Rochester to Marshheld. Town to which sr)ldier belonged . 
 
 Length of service four tlaj's. Remarks: April 20. 1775. date of .Marching (Lexington 
 Alarm, \'nl. 1 2, p. i 32. ) 
 
 Nci. U). Ial>ez Megs ap[)ears with rank of Sergeant on Muster and Pav Roll of 
 
 Capt. Josejih Palmer's Co., Col. F'reeman's Regt. Time of enlistiuent . Time 
 
 of discharge . Time of ser\ice months, eight days. Remarks : Service 
 
 at Falmouth and Dartmouth, Sejit., 1778, on alarms. Meigs. (Sea Coast Defence 
 Muster Rolls, \'ol. ;,6, [). 196. f 
 
 No. 10. Jabex Megs appears with rank of private on a Pay Roll of Capt. Josejih 
 Palmer's Ci>., Col. Freeman's Regt. Ser\ice four days. Companv marched on alarm 
 at Falmouth, Feb. 4, April 2, and May 16, 1779. Roll sworn to in Barnstable County. 
 (Mass. -Muster and Pa\- Rolls, \'ol. 36, ]). 221.1 
 
 No. II. Jaljez Megs appears with rank of Commissar^ on a Council Warrant 
 dated Council Chambers, June 2, 1770, drawn for ,/" 1,300 to be paid said J. Meigs on 
 acc<_)vmt of bread and other stores purchased for troojjs stationed at P'almouth in 
 Barnstable County. (Muster and Pay Rulls. \'ol. 05, p. 38.1 
 
 No. II. Jabez Meigs ajjpears with rank nf Commissar)^ on a Council Warrant 
 dated Council Chamber, Sept. 21), 1779, drawn for ,{3,000 to be paid said Jabez Meigs, 
 to enable him to discharge sundry delits in |)rocuring supplies for tlie troops at Fal- 
 mouth, (Mass. Muster and Pay Rolls, \'ol. 63, p. 40.) 
 
Mhh.^ ("jKNKAi.iic.v. 
 
 Xo . ^ labez Meigs appears on a petition dated Boston, May 4. l7«-^ .^iven 
 loseph l.unn.ock and others asking for the commission of the above as commanded .. 
 'he boat named ■■ The Dolphin.- Approved in Council. May 6. ,7X3. Wr.tten Me,gs 
 
 on roll. (Mass. Arclnves, \'ol. i7-\ 1'. 1 5"- ' 
 
 No. , . Matthew Meigs appears whh rank of private on a Pay Abstract o Cap 
 Simeon Fish's Co., Col Freeman's Regt. for service two ,lays. Remarks : >I^- -<;.'^" 
 alarn. at Falmouth, Sept. > 779. by order of Brig. < .tis. , Books, Abstracts of Rolls. \ ol. 
 
 .VS. P- -^74-) 
 
 No . ^ Matthew Meigs appears with rank of [nnvate in Muster and Pay Roll of 
 Capt! Snneon Fish's Co., Col. Freeman's Regt. Time of enlistment ^^pt^t ■ .77.- 
 Time of discharge Sept. ... ■77.- Time of service --mo two days Remarks . 
 Service on alarm at Fahnonth. , Coast Defence Muster Rolls, \ ol. .VS. !-• -^'- » 
 
 Nathaniel Meigs appears with rank of private on Lexington Alarm Roll 
 
 as Cotton's Regt. wh 
 . Town to which soldier belonged - 
 
 No. 14 
 
 ,f Cant. Farl Clap's Co., Col. Theophilus Cott.Mt's Regt. which marched on the alarm 
 
 -to- 
 
 probably Rochester. ( Lexington Alarms, Vol. i j, p. ss. ) 
 
 No ,4- Nathaniel Meggs appears with rank of private on L.-xmgton Alarn> roll of 
 Cant' Farl Clap's Co., Col. Theophilus Cotton's Regt. which marched m consequence 
 
 ' ' ., I ,,, Town to wdiich soldier 
 
 „f the alarm of April ig, .77s. from to • to , ,. • ^„ 
 
 belonged ■ Length of service twelve days. Remarks: Place not given, 
 
 prSly Rochester. Probably meant for Meigs. Not given. Company of Mnintc Men 
 (Lexington Alarms, Vol. 12, p. SS.) 
 
 No, ,4. Nathaniel Meggs appears with rank of Corporal in Co. Return c,f Capt. 
 Clap's Co. Col. Cotton's Regt. dated Oct. 7. .775- Town to which soki.er belonged, 
 Roilister; Remarks: Probablv meant for Meigs (Coast Rolls, Eight Months 
 Service. \'ol. .s'^, p- 77- ' 
 
 No 14. Nathaniel Meggs appears with rank of Corporal on Muster Roll of Capt. 
 Farl Clap's C,>., Col. Theophilus Cotton's Regt. date.l Aug. t, .77S. Time of en ist- 
 m tVav ^ .--s. Time of service three months and six days. Town to which soldiei 
 l^donged R;.ci:J^er. Remarks: Probablv meant for Meigs. , Eight momhs service. 
 Vol. 14, p. 49- ' 
 
 No .4 Nathaniel Meigs appears with rank of Corp.)ral on Muster and l^^V 1<"'1^ 
 of Capt. Nathaniel Hammond's Co., Col. Ebenezer Sprout's Regt. for services at Rhode 
 
 Island on the alarm of • Tune of enlistment —. Tn- of discharg^— -- 
 
 Time of service fifteen days. Remarks. Reported Co. marched fiom Rochester. 
 (Rhode Island Service, Vol. 2, p. o,V) 
 
 No IS. Phineas Meiggs appears with grade of Colonel Regt. 
 
 in service nine months. Raised by Order of General Court, April --, 
 (Greenfield, Sept. 2., 177^- ( "rders, etc.. Vol. 4-. P- 9«- > 
 
Ai'i'Kxnix. 7,21 
 
 No. lb. .Stc|:)hen Meij^s a])|)L-ars in a l'a\- Rnll for six months. Mc-n raised l)v the 
 town of New Ashford for service in the Continental .Ainiv, .Mav, 17SU. When niarclieti. 
 
 June .^, 17S0. When dischar,y;ed, Jan'y ,^rd, 17S1. Time in service six months davs. 
 
 Remarks; .See Stephen Meig. Reported Capt. Marshall's Co., Col. Marshall's Regt. 
 Gen'l Patterson's Brigade. 1 .Six months Town Rolls. \'ol. 4, |i, 164.) 
 
 No. 17. Reuben .Meigs ajjpears with rank of ])ri\ate on Muster and Pa\- Rolls (jf 
 Capt. Simeon Fish's Co., Col. Freeman's Regt. Time of enlistment .Sept. 11, 1770. 
 Time of discharge Sept. 15, 1779. Time of service five days. .Service in .Alarm at 
 Falmouth. (Sea Coast Defence Muster Rolls, \'ol. ;,5, \>. 2S1.) 
 
 Reuben .Meigs, rank private vn Pay .Abstract of Capt. Simei;>ii Fish's Co.. Col. 
 Freeman's Regt. for service, five days. Remarks: .Marched on alarm at l-'almouth, 
 Sei)t., 1779, by order of Brig. Otis. ( Books, Abstracts of Rolls, \'ol. ^^s, p. 279.) 
 
 .All of these names are taken from the index cards of Revolulionarv Soldiers — 
 .Archives Division of Secretary of State's Office, State House, Boston, Massachusetts, 
 May 4, 1901. 
 
 FROM MASSACHUSETTS TOWN RECORDS. 
 
 In the copies of Plymouth and Barnstable Comity Records sent us from .Massa- 
 chusetts, were several names we could not definitely locate. We insert thcni here 
 hoping this may bring us, from possible survivors of the families, or other sources, 
 information that will establish their places in the line of descent from X'incent, or prove 
 them of later Fnsjlish origin. 
 
 From Rochester Town Records we Iiave already noteci (on page 212) Cornelius 
 Meigs, as possibly a son of ( 1 1,^) Nathaniel, but we find nothing concerning him of later 
 date than this of his published notice of intention to marrv Elizabeth Keen, November 
 
 -4. 1795- 
 
 Rochester Records also have ; James .Meigs. Jr., luarried Mary liolmes, November 
 -4. ''"^.vV 
 
 Falmouth Town Records have the following : 
 .Mary .Meigs and Tlieodore Fisli, published |iily 5, 1.S00, ni.irried Nuveiiilicr — , iSoo. 
 
 Rebecca Meij^s and Thomas .Shivrick, luiblislied August 7, , married .September 4, 1790. 
 
 Tliankful ;\Ieig.s and Nathaniel Haiiuuoiid, published March 16, 1806, married June 27, 1S06. 
 Thomas Backhouse and Abigail Meigs, of Sandwich, entered for marriage November 17, 
 
 .M.iry Meigs died Noveinlier 15, iSoi. 
 
 Kuth Mei^s died .\iigiist 4, i.'Sii. Age, 66 vears. 
 
 Barnstable Records at Osterville, have Ijeside several of the above b'almouth 
 entries, the followintr : 
 
^22 Mi:i(,s Gf.nkai.o(;v. 
 
 Reiil)en Mei-s and lliaiikriil Caiiiiuet, l.olli o( tliis town, entered for nian-ia.u;e October 20, 
 1786. Reuben .Meigs and Thanklnl Camniet married Marcli 19, 1787- 
 
 John Meigs of Sanilwich, and Lydia 1 linikley of Barnstable, entered tor marriage March 
 6, 1807. 
 
 Ansel Meigs and Abigail Crocker, both of llarnstable, entered October 6, 1812. (I'ossibly 
 No. 249 of our recoril.) 
 
 John Goddspeed to l.ydia Meigs, married April — , 1719. 
 
 Sotith Sandwich Town Recortls h,i\e : 
 Ansel Crocker of Barnstable, and M.iry Meigs of Sandwich, were married November 12, 
 I Ho I . 
 
 Daniel Bennett and Nancy .Meigs were married March 20, 1S30. 
 Charles Folger and Carrie A. Meigs, married Novemlier 19, 1866. 
 
 We also some months sine e received a letter of inquiry regarding a Hannah Melius 
 who married Noel Handy, and hail daughter Lydia, who was born in 1762 and died 
 May 17, 185.S, and married Jonathan Southwick, of Newport, Rhode Island. 
 
 We conjecture that ( 116) Hannah Meigs, daughter of (38) Reuben, is probably the 
 above, laut we hoi)e this may yet be settled absolutely. 
 
 ADDITIONAL RELATIVE TO FRY ANCESTRY. 
 
 The following has been sent us by Miss C. L. Sands, in addition to the notes already 
 quoted fr.nn on pages 172-3. It opens up a wider held for investigation regarding the 
 ancestry "f Thomasine or Tamzen Fry who married John Meigs. 
 
 It will be noted that the John Fry referred to in liritish Museimi Records 1 see p. 
 172) would be about the right age for the John Fry of Basing, who came to America in 
 I (138. But a communication to the Boston 70<r«,vr;7>/ Genealogical Department. Feb. 
 27. urn. signed C. H. A. says John Fry of Andover (who according to the authorities 
 was the John Fry who came from Basing) had wife Anne and children, John b. 1633, 
 Benjamin b. 1635! Fli/.abeth b. 1637. Sarah b. i(>4-\ Samuel b. K^g. James b. 1652, and 
 that eldest son John m. Funice Potter, Jr., of Conconl, in idho. 
 
 To ([uote Miss .Sands notes; 
 
 " I'rom Bunker's Long Island Genealogies, p. 132." 
 
 ■•Hutton says ; ' In May, 163S, shipped for New England horn Southampton, l-aigland. John 
 I'ly of Basing, a wheelwright, with his wife and three children.' " 
 
 "Monthly Meeting Records, at Westbury, I.. I., give us ihe marriage in 1707 of Mary Fry, 
 daughter of William and Tamisnn Fry, from 1 Hd haigbind, to William Gladding, l>y Friends' 
 Meeling." 
 
 'AVilliam b'ry died 1717." 
 
 "In 16.S6 John Frv, lr..(son of John and Frances I'ry) came from luigland, and married 
 Mary Willets, of Hanipstead, 1.. 1., dau. of Richard and Mary." 
 
 "(On p. 73, under Willets, we hud; Mary Willets 2, born 2nd mo. 1663, m. 16S6 John Fry. 
 She died 1687.)" 
 
Al'TKNlilX. ^,n 
 
 Then p. i,:;2 again, says, "A scm John Im y ;,, born 16S7, m. 171 1, Marv rninhart, .lau. of |olin 
 (John L'rquhart and Ii>hn Fry the elder, had both removed to New Jersey). The little daughter 
 (.Mary Fry 4) b. 1712. left an or|ihan by death of" both parents 1714, was given a Bible by Frances 
 I-'ry, her great grandmother." 
 
 "P. 16. Witnesses to a marriage 1690 at Huntington, L. I ., (tli.it of Richard Willets. lr..{or 
 2ndi ami Abigail I'ouell.i were Tamison l'"rv, and William l-'ry." 
 
 "P. 17. Witness to a marriage 1691 at Bethpage, L. 1., was John Fry and at same time ,in<l 
 place, another wedding, there signed, first William Fry, then John Fry." 
 
 "P. 27. The first purchase of Huntington, L. I., was made 1646, by Cov. Theophilus Eaton, 
 of Xew Haven, land New Haven was where our Pamzeii or Tliomasine (Fr>) Meigs was about 
 that time.)" 
 
 "P. 125. 'Phe Willis Family: Henry Willis, of Wiltshire, Kngland, had son Henry 2, li. 1628, 
 who emigrated to New England in 1675, settled first in Philadelphia, then at Oyster Bay, L. [.[ 
 and later at Westbury. 1.. I." 
 
 •'.Samuel Willis 4. b. 1704, ison of William 3, Henry 2, Henry i,) m. 172.S .M.iry Fry, b. 1713, 
 d. iSoo, dan. of John l-"ry, and had nine .hildren, one of whom was n.imetl l-"ry Willis, b. 1744. 
 He lived at Oyster Bay. L. I." 
 
 ■'P. 177. i665 Mark Meggs sells to Nathan I'.urch.im, 5 acres at Matinecock, on which 
 
 N. Burcham do now live. N. IS. was at New Ha\en .ind there married 1640-50 Temperance 
 Baldwin 3 (dau. Richard 2). He w.is one that settled Killingu cirth. Oyster Bay, L. 1." 
 
 We commend the foregoino to those who have searched the I-:nwiish fecoids for 
 traces of our Meigs antecedents, for the definitely locating the John Krv who m. Frances, 
 might afford ckies to solve the perhaps harder problem, as it seems more than a coin- 
 cidence that this family shoukl have the same names, as the Williain and Tamzen Fry 
 iilentifieil with the [nhn Meigs of W'evmoiith, Mass. 
 
 As a possible further hel]> in estalilishing our family's location in luigland, we add 
 the following from a letter written us by a Mr. Moses Meigs, of Xewark, N. |. 
 
 " I was born in a village called Tiverton, two miles from the city of Path, .Somersetshire. It 
 is now called ' Tiverton-on-Avon, Bath.' I came to this country in 1H69. Juh- 6tli." 
 
 " My mother's maiden name was Biggs. She belongeil to Bradford, Wiltshire, about ten 
 miles east of Bath. My lather l.ielonged t(.) Tiverton, and we were all born there. I have three 
 sisters living, but am the only son of three." 
 
 In an inter\-iew Mr. Meigs says his lirothers came to this country when thev were 
 young men, and they all had families, but they were all scattered, and he did not know 
 where they were, if living. 
 
 This Mr. Meigs has one son only, .\lbert H. Meigs, a druggist, of Xewark, and two 
 daughters. 
 
 It is perhaps wmthy of note here, that this family is the (.)nlv one of known Fnglish 
 birth among the in.iny whom we have been in correspondence with, or traced in other 
 ways, and they ha\'e adopted the American spelling of the name. 
 
, , I MeIC.S (JI'.M AliH.N. 
 
 ,■1-4 
 
 JAMES AITKEN MEIUS, M. D. 
 
 We copy verbatim a conskierable article from the " National Kncyclop.edia of 
 American Biosraphy," \'ol. VIII. For a sj.ace of nearly two years we have endeavored 
 to ascertain who Dr. Aitken James Meigs was descended from, and other particulars with 
 reference to his family, hut all of our efforts in this direction were fruitless. 
 
 ■• lames Aitken Mei^s, i>hysician, was l.uni in Philadelphia, I'a., julv 3'. '•"'-^V- He began 
 his education under private tutors, and contiuned it at the Mount Vern.m Craunuar School, an.l 
 the Central High School of Philadelphia, being <;r,.duated at the latter in i,S48. He then began 
 to study medicine in a physician's ollice and at the school of anatomy, entered six months later 
 the leHerson Medical College, and there obtained the degree of M. P. in 1S51. lie entered 
 iuunediately upon a medical practice in Philadelphia, which was continued throughout his life. 
 Besides his'private practice, he was prominent in various other branches of activity in connection 
 with liis profession. For several years he assisted the professor of physiology in the Pennsyl- 
 v.inia College; from 1S54 to 1S62 he served as lecturer on climatology and physiology at the 
 Franklin Institute tor the Promotion cf the Mechanic Arts, and lectured frequently before 
 various bodies on physiological and etlmologh al subjects. 1-roni i.Sss t.. 1868 he was visiting 
 physician to the Howard Hospital and Infirmary for Incurables. In 1856 he became Librarian 
 of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Pliiladelphia, He was iirofessor ol institutes ot medi- 
 cine in the Philadelphia College of Medicine from 1S57 to 1959, and filled a similar chair in the 
 medical department of the Pennsylvania College from 1859 until that institution suspended 
 lectures on the outbreak of the Civil War. In this last position he made a departure new in 
 Pennsylvania by delivering two svstematic courses of lectures on physiology, illustrated by 
 \ i\ isectional demonstrations. In 186S he was elected professor of the institutes of medicine and 
 medical iurisprudence in the Jefferson Me.lical College. Throughout his career Dr. Meigs wrote 
 n.quentlv on medical subjects, elalioratiug his own important discoveries. He treated the 
 subject of human crania with great originality and exhaiistiveness, in a number ot important 
 works. The first of these was a catalogue, which, in his position as ehairuKui ol the committee 
 on anthropologv of the Academy of Natural Sciences he made of the collection of human 
 crania, arrayed and classified bv himself in 1S57. In that year he also contributed to Nott and 
 Glidden',. 'Indigenous Races of the Earth,' an essay on the 'Cranial Characteristics of the 
 Races of Men,' and he subseciueutiv published iuxarious magazines original articles entitled, 
 ■ Hints to Craniographers upon the Importance and Feasibility of Establishing some Uniform 
 System by which the Collection and the Exchange of Duplicate Crania may be Promoted;' 
 'i)escriptiouof a Deformed Fragmentary Human Skull Found in an Ancient Ouarry Cave at 
 Jerusalem ;' ' ( ibservations on the Form of the Occiput in the Various Races of Men ;' ' ( m the 
 Mensuration of the Hmuan Skull ; and '( H.servations ,ui the Cranial !• orms of the American Abo- 
 rigines," Dr. Meigs was also, at various times, connected editorially with 'The Medical Examiner' 
 and other publications, and edited several important scientific works. His original scientific 
 in\ estigations caused him to be widely known in Europe as one of the leaders of the profession 
 in America, and an unusual tmmber of honors were accorded him both in the New World and 
 the Old. He was a member of the Philadelphia County Medical Society, and was elected to 
 various minor offices before becoming its president in 1S71 ; and his name was on the rolls ol the 
 Franklin Institute, the Academv of N.itural Sciences, the State Medical Society ol Pennsylvania, 
 the American Medical Associati.ai, the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, the biological 
 department of the Academy of Natural Sciences, the American Association lor the Advance- 
 ment of Science, the Medico-Legal Society of New York, the Numismatic and Antiquarian 
 Society of Philadelphia, the New York Lyceum of Natural History, the Liima-an Society of the 
 Pennsylvania College, at ( .etlvshnrg, the Society d'Anthropologie de Paris, the Ethnological 
 Society of London', the Authri.|>oU.gical Society of London, and the Societas Medicorum 
 Svecaiue of Stockholm. He w.is a member of the International Congress of Prehistoric 
 Archa-ology, and a delegate to the International Medical Congress held in Philadelphia during 
 the Centennial Exposition. Dp to the time of his de.ith he was visiting and consulting phvsu lan 
 to many of the leading Philadelphia hospitals. He dietl in Philadelphia m 1879." 
 
Al'I'KNlUX. 325 
 
 Among the niaiiuscii[)t paiiers of the late Fiekhng Pope Meigs, was a clipping froni 
 some newspaper, of which the following is an exact cop\-. The inference would be that 
 Dolfus Meigs was a French manufacturer; 
 
 tRENCH JACOM-.T I. AWN'S. 
 
 TWO HALES 
 
 FIXE FRENCH LAWNS 
 
 OF THE MANIFACTUKE OF 
 
 DOLFUS MEKiS & CO. 
 
 AT THIRTV-ONI-: CENTS t'i:K YARD. 
 
 USIAL RETAIL LKKF MFTN CFNTS. 
 
 J. C. STRAWBR1U<;E .\; CO. 
 
 N. W . CORNER EIOHTH ANh NL\RKEr, 
 rHlLAUFLrHLV. 
 
 COUNTIES, TOWNS. ETC., NAMED AFTER MEIGS. 
 
 Uhio and Tennessee each ha\-e a Count\- named for Col. Return (. Meigs. 
 
 Fort .Meigs, at the Rapids of the ri\'er Maumee, near Toledo. Ohio, was built b\' 
 General William Henry Harriscm, during the War of 1S12-14, and named in honor of 
 the Governor of Ohio, Return Jonathan Meigs, jnd. and was for some time the head- 
 (juarters of General Harrison's .Army. 
 
 .Mount Meigs in Montgomery County, .Alabama, was first named ^^ound, then a 
 military [lOst was there established and nameii Ft. Meigs, for Col. Return |. Meigs. 
 Afterwards the two names were combined .uid Mt. Meigs was the result. 
 
 Camp Meigs at Canal Dover, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, was used during the Civil 
 War. the Soth Ohio and other regiments camping there. It was [probably named for the 
 ■Ouartermaster General of the Army, Montgomery Cunningham Meigs. 
 
 Meigs Island has been previously refei-red to on [lage 21S. 
 
 Besides these the following have come to our notice ; 
 
 Meiggs, 
 
 Surry County. 
 
 N. C. 
 
 Meigs, 
 
 Thomas 
 
 Ga. 
 
 Meigs, 
 
 Morgan 
 
 Ohio. 
 
 Meigs, 
 
 Meigs 
 
 Tenn 
 
 Meigs Creek, 
 
 Morgan 
 
 Ohio. 
 
 Meigsville, 
 
 ,. 
 
 " 
 
 Meigsville, 
 
 Jackson 
 
 Tenn. 
 
 Meigsville, 
 
 Essex 
 
 N. Y. 
 
 The last named for (s^'^i ) CiU\' Meigs. 
 
,-,5 Meics C.i:m-.ai.<ii.\. 
 
 BATTLE MONUMENTS AT SAG MARBOR. 
 
 Al the lereiU annual meeting of the Sag Harhc.r (N. V.) Historical Society, a com- 
 mittee was appointeil to have charge of the marking of historic sites, of which there are 
 several in the village. Stones will lie erected to mark the site of the old Revolutionary 
 f,,rt. A monumenMvill mark the spot occupied by the defences of iSi 2, and another 
 will m,uk the landing place of the Meigs expedition at I.ong Beach. 
 
 The monument marking the site of the old Revolutionary fort, the outlines of which 
 are still visible, will stand on the highest point of what is now the old buryiirg ground, 
 • ind bear this inscription, '■ A British fort stood on this site during the Revolutionary 
 War. It was captured bv the Americans under l.ieut.-Colonel Meigs at the battle of 
 Sag Harbor, Mav j;., 1777." The one marking the Meigs exi.loit, given in history as 
 ,,neuf the most brilliant achievements in Revolutionary times, will occupy the site on 
 Brick Kiln road, about two miles out of the village, known as the old Polly Payne 
 place, with the inscription ; " A British outpost was captured by Lieut.-Colonel Meigs 
 ma house .m this sitc^ May 23, 1777-" The one marking the site of the American 
 defences in 1.S12, will be located on Sleighfs Hill, overlooking the bay with ,m inscription, 
 "Site of an ,\merican fort 1S12." 
 
 These monuments will be both uniciue and appropriate, and consist of natural 
 boulders of from three to f.iur tons in weight, fac<-(l and inscribed <.n one side. 
 
 MAJOR SIMON WILLARD. 
 
 It is a matter of record that more than twenty per cent, of all the male descendants 
 ,,f Vincent who have borne the name of Meigs, who have lived in America and have 
 reached the age of maturitv, have been soldiers in all her wars, from i(\so down to the 
 
 present time. 
 
 As proliably a majority of these have also descentled from the noted old Indian 
 Fighter, Major Simon WiUard, we feel sure the following sketch taken largely fr.mi 
 Dodge's ■• Soldiers in King Philips's War," will be of interest as perhaps indicating 
 where some of their military spirit was inherited. 
 
 •• ()t all the names that stand upon the pages of New EnKland History, none are more holl- 
 ered than that of Major Simon WiUard. His biography has been written in the ' Willard 
 Memoir,' and therefore only a brief outline will be necessary here. He was born at Horsinon- 
 den County of Kent. England, baptized April 7, 1605. He was the son of Richard and his 
 se. iHid wife Margery. Simon married in ICngland, Mary Sharpe, of Horsmonden, who bore 
 hmi l.efore leaving England ( probably ) three children, and six in New England. He married 
 for a second wife Elizabeth Dunster, * who died six montlis after her marriage ; and a third 
 wife .Mary Dnnster, who bore him eight children, between the years 1649 ami 1669. Simon 
 Will'ard arrived in Boston, in May, 1634, and settled soon after at Cambridge. He was an en- 
 terprising merchant, and dealt extensively in furs with the various Indian tribes, and was the 
 ■ chiefe instrument in settling the towne ' of Concord, whither he removed at its first settlement 
 in 1635-5 and remained for several years a principal inhabitant of that town. On the organiza- 
 tion of that town he was chosen to the office of clerk, which he held by annual election for nine- 
 teen years It is said upon reputable authority that he had held the rank of Captain before 
 leaving England, and in Johnson's 'Wonder Working Providences,' he is relerred to as 
 
 triiis is .|uesti....f.l bv v.nR- ^u,lhu,il,,,s. it .- f.iUy .Us. Mssi-l in Uic ■ Mcin..ii,' .ind See also Register, vol. iv. p. 
 309; also Dr. Page's ' Hisli.iv ..f Caniln iilge.' uikUt Htiiry nmisler. 
 
Al'I'KN'DIX. -1- 
 
 .1- / 
 
 ^ Captain Simon Willard being a Kentish Soldier.' In ,637 he was con.nnssiuned as the l.ieu- 
 tenant-Comnuuidant ot the first military company in Concord. At the first election, December 
 1636, he was chosen the town's representative to the Ceneral Court, and was re-elected and 
 served constantly 111 that oftice till 1654, e.xcept three years. In that year he was re-elected 
 but was calle.l to other more pressing duties ; and afterwards to his death was Assistant of tlie 
 Colony. In 1641 he was appointed superintendent of the company formed in the colony for 
 promoting trade in turs with the Indians, and held thereafter many other positions of trust 
 cither by the election of freemen or the appointment of the Court ; too many to admit of separate' 
 mention here. In 1646 he was cho.sen Captain of the military company which, as Ser-eant and 
 Lieutenant, he had commanded from its organization. For manv years he was a celebrated 
 surveyor, and in 1652 was appointed on the commission sent t.. establish the northern bound of 
 Massachusetts, at the head of Mernmac River, and the letters S. VV. i n the famous Bound- 
 Rock (discovered many years ago near Lake Winnepesaukee) were doubtless his initials, cut at 
 that time. (Reg. 1. p. 311). In 1653 he was chosen Sergeant-Maj,,r, the highest military ofiicer 
 of Middlese.x County." 
 
 " In October, 1654, Major Willard was appointed commander-in-chief of the military expe- 
 <luion against Nimgret, Sachem ,,f the Xyanticks, for the details of which see the 'Willard 
 Memoir,' page 193 and onward. In the settlement of the town of Lan.-.ister Major Willard lia.l 
 heenol great service to the inhabit.ints, and their appreciation was shown when, in 1658. the 
 selectmen wrote him ,111 earnest invitation to come .ind settle among them, otierin 
 
 ;enei oils 
 
 share in their lands as inducement. This invitati.m he accepted, sold his'l.irge estate in Con- 
 coid, and removed to Lancaster, i.r,,bably in 1659, and iheiice to a large lanii he had acpiired 
 in (.roton, about 1671, at a place called Nonacoicus." 
 
 _ "At the oi,ening of ' Philip's War,' Major Willard .,s chief military officer of Middlesex 
 C.ninty, was m a station ol great responsibility, and was very active in the organization of the 
 colonial torces. His first actual participation in that war was in the defence of Brookfield We 
 must admire this grand old man of seventy, mounting to the saddle at the call of the Court and 
 ruling forth at the head of a frontier force for the protection of their towns." 
 
 "I'lom a paper which was presented to the Court after Major Willard's death, in state- 
 nieiil ol his unpaid services and expenses for the government, it appears th.it, 
 
 ' I-rom the 2olh of September (1675) till the i.Stli of April (1076), the .Maior was employed 
 about the country's business. Settling of Garrisons in t.,uiis, and settling ol Indians at Con- 
 ccnd and C helmslord, and other business, ^;c.' " 
 
 "The paper is given in full in the 'Willard Memoir,' and shows that this was a time of 
 voustantanxiety and activity in those towns, and that the Major's house at Nonacoicus (in tlie 
 town of Groton, now within the town of Ayer) was a place of frequent rendezvous, for the troops 
 passing hither an. I thither, and of entertainment to those who came to the Major on the 
 €ountr\' s business. ' 
 
 " At this time Major Willard was so busy or.lering the defences of the towns that he was 
 unable to take his seat m the Council, and sent them .i letter of explanation. This letter is not 
 touiid m the archives, but the answer of the Council is as follows, giving some idea of the , on- 
 tents : 
 
 . ' ^."' ■ '''"^ CouiKil received your letter and are sorry for your excuse for not coming to the 
 nuncil by reason ot the state of Lancaster, which we desire von to endeavor to the utmost of 
 your power to relieve and succour. We are using our best endeavors to prepare more fi.nes to 
 send to distress the enemv. Vou shall hear more from us speedily, and in the interim we desire 
 you to be in readiness if you should ha\e .. full command over the forces to be sent forth Iron, 
 ■the Colony.' 
 
 II Feb., 1675. ,, ., ^. 
 
 " F. . R., .Secy. 
 
 "Tfie Cuncil's letter was written the day after the attack upon Lancaster, of which 
 evu ent y they had n.,t heard. Major Willard was probably at this time at Groton or Chelms- 
 ford, where an attack was daily expected, doing ,,11 m his power with the small force at his 
 
 m,ln!rx-'l!nHlr'*'"r,"' ''"= l-^."". "'^.V f l'°" i" «!>•" I">:1' estc.n, Ma, ur Willard was hdJ by the Council, both as a 
 w 1, he et 1 ' T " '"""""'-■ "'"""" "" P"''"" '^'^ "'""■' '^" -"ether he declined the command 
 
 si o nlW^h ^''T ?" ProportuMis and involved h,s wi.h.lraual from the towns near his home, but 1, is 
 
 Ihl Ivn r "" '^o"si.lera.,ons either way did not signily w,.h bin, when the Conncil demanded his service. 
 
 I e expedition was nut ready nnt.l Fehrnary ..St. and then Major Savage was appointed ,„ command, and Ma.or 
 Will. ird was present at the Council :U tli.it lime. 
 
,,j^ Mkic.s Gkxkai.o<;v. 
 
 conuuand to protect tliese towns from surprisal. Alter th. attack upon Lancaster, a Ur^e party 
 ' rds I'lvn.outh Colony, taknig Medhekl on the way, h ebuiary 
 
 of the Indians swept down towards Plvniouth Loiony, laKu.g mc....c,.. .^ ...-. ■■- 
 
 st . d for the tinte distractn.g attenfon ,r„n, the- n.un hody, which as so,,nt,ecante evulen . 
 ;:; still in the vicinity of ■ Wachasett Hills.' n,, Kehrnary .9th, ''T' C^^ U^tt'a 
 Pn-ker in l.ehalf of the people of Croton, send an earnest appeal to the Conned lor help and 
 
 , • K.. ,„-. thAlaior was present at the sitting of the Court at Boston, and remained 
 
 He was at Cambridge on March 4tli, ^'hI certainly did not retnrn to Groton 
 
 dvice. I )n the 21st the Major was present at the sitting: 
 
 the session. He was at Cambridge on March 4tli- - , , 1 , uic 
 
 ,,11 after March 7th, as on that day he was at the Conrt of .Assistants. It was probably h> h>s 
 
 during the session. 
 
 endeavors that a lew was ordered to be .nade on Norfolk and Esse.x counties (fortyeight fron, 
 Fs ex ami ortv fron Norfolk,. These forces were hastily collected, and under the stress o the 
 S::^rthe attack up„n Grot„n, were placed under the command of ^: "^^^J^^;^:^ 
 Cambrid-e and ordered to report to Major Willar.l, at Croton, at once. Tins a, t.o, was take, 
 bv Maior G;,okin and Thomas Danforth. tw„ n,end,ers of the Cnncil lun^g at Cambrulge, and 
 w'as appr,>ved bv the Council at then' ne.xt meetmg, March i6th. 
 
 ■• < )n March yth the Ind.an.s agam appeared at Ciroton, doing son,e m.sch.el, and agam on the 
 ,,t|, ,„ full force, an.l destroyed all the houses in town except the Garr,s,.n houses, and one even 
 u( these, from which, however, the people had escaped." 
 
 ■• -l-he Indians were greatly elated at their success at Gruton, and threatened to attack and 
 destrovdl the towns, including even Boston, and Ma.ior Willard's orders were alter relieving 
 r'oton, to scout back and forth to protect the neighboring towns, especially Chelmsford and 
 Marlljorough." 
 
 That these instructions were faithfully earned out will be seen by the lullowi,i«- 
 account, prepared l:,y him, of his movements from March 21st to the 29th. .Mass. Ar- 
 chives, Vol. Ci.s, p. 186. 
 
 what 1 ha\e ateiided ui , 
 
 75-76, 1 went to Concord, and divided the troope committed unto me from 
 
 •A short narrative „f what 1 have atended unto by the Council of late, since I went to relieve 
 (;roatton. The ., : . : ..-.■, '-;;-—--,^^^,,,, ,,,,,,,, from Sudbury, one pt for ye 
 
 Essex S: Norfolke into three pts. one to garoe tne cane pies^eu nu... -> >...., "•- , - . 
 
 fai-te pressed from concord, both to Lancaster, one pt for ve carte that went Iron, Charlestowne 
 & Wa tertowne that went volintiers or wear hiered when 1 had sent them t„ tl-"— P'-^ 
 Mmedowne being the..: .: 75-6 :& went to concord the .5: ...75, when -- /^^^ 
 ni.niired how it was with Lancaster the answer was they weare m distresse, I . sent > sent 4 
 .e thither to fetch away corne, and 1 went that night to Chellmsloord to se "w , «- -' 
 ,hem thevcomphnned, Billerikye Bridge stood in great need ot beinge ortitied, I o, de ed , 
 o be done allsl> they told me, that the Indian, made two great ra.te o. '-ard ^: n, e. hat 
 thev had ..ott that lav .it the other svd of the ruer, 1 ordered 20 sonldiers to go me, .V take 
 em & t:,we them downe the Kiver', or p'serve them as they se cause, the 27 o. tins instant . 
 went from Chellmsford to concord agayne when 1 came there, the troopers that I ent to 
 ancaster last had brought away all the people there, but had le.t about So bushel s of wheat & 
 ^ian corne, vesterday 1 sent 40 : horses or more to fetch i, awav .. -''^ ;'";- ;-^ ""^"^ 
 this dav 1 e.xpect thev will be at concord, Some of the troope 1 released when t 1 1'- -"' ^^ 
 vas don, the other I left word to scout abroad until they heare from me agayne, ' "ug U 1. 
 meet to relese men, when we stand in need of men, my desire i.s to know^ wh.it '^'<>' '- 
 heTein in , on. ord .^t dielmsford look every day to be fired, and wold have more men but know 
 „.., „.,. to keepe then,, nor paye them, your humble servant. ^_^^^^ ^^^_ _^^^^ ^^ ^ _ ^^ , 
 
 ••On March .^U^ Ma,or Will.ird was in his seat at the Court of Assistants, and his family was 
 then living at Charlestown. He was also at the session of the County Court at Cambridge at 
 its session beginning April 4tli." 
 
 .'On the nth he was re-elected as Assistant, having the highest number ol votes cast or 
 
 aiiv magistrat 
 
 e except 'the governor and deputy governor. He u as constantly engaged in his 
 
 public duties until April i.th, when he retired to his home and was struck down 1 - "'-sht l^ 
 ',„ ■e,.iden,i,al cold' which w,,s then raging, and on April 24th, 167b, 'died m his bed ot peace 
 „,,,„'.h God had honoured him with several signal victories over our enemies m war, says a 
 contemporary historian. No man u as ever more fully or more deservedly honored m life and 
 death than Nhi.jor Will.ird." 
 
AlM'EXDlX. 
 
 " His funeral at Charlestowii on April 27tli uas an occasion ol^reat pomp lor that time six 
 military companies parading under command of Capt. Henchman, and his death created pro- 
 tound sorrow tar and wide. There are numerous references to his death and funeral in the 
 literature, records and MS. .journals of that day. His family was reimbursed for his .^reat e.x- 
 pense and service, m 1677, and aKain in 16N1 a ;4rant of land of one thousand acres was set aside 
 tor his si.x youngest children when they should come of age." 
 
 " He left a numerous posterity, many of whom have held honorable positions in succeeilinc. 
 generations. His widow married Deacon Joseph Xoyes of .Sudbury, |ulv 14th, 16S0, and died in 
 that town, December, 1715." 
 
 On Decoration Day, May ;,>.th, 1901, there was unveiled in the Chapel of the Naval 
 Academy, Annapolis, Md., a Memorial Tablet to Rear Admiral Richard Worsam Meade 
 presented by Lafayette Post No. 140, Department of New York, G. A. R., of which he 
 was Commander at the time of his death. 
 
 As Admiral Meade was a descentlant of Major Simon Willard, as well as of dis- 
 tinguished Meigs and other noted ancestry, we feel justified in quoting from the address 
 of presentation of this tablet to the Xaval Academy. 
 
 •• Richard Worsam Meade was not of his own creation. He inherited an ancestry collateral 
 and direct, whose lives were enunent indeed and whose positions were illustrious Pa^es are 
 needed to list their names, and volumes to record their deeds. Centuries back they were'nromi 
 neut aud true, standing forth for the right. Their fortune was honor ; their profession knio^htlv ■ 
 their nature, truth. For more than fifty years-from Cadet to Rear Admiral-our comrade 
 stood on the alignment 01 duty, always at ■■attention," readv for the command to strike for 
 his country's honor. His^ patriotism was sensitive and sublime. His courage unhindered by 
 the knowledge of fear. His loyalty superb. His judgment keen. His faculties rare Inherit 
 mg a character bestowed along the years that centuries cover and history applauds he was the 
 embodiment of loyalty and the casket of honor. And in enduring marble and resi^tful bronze 
 we establish a record ol him whom we remember with love ; whose deeds it is impossible .0 
 lorget." * ■ ■ 
 
 And now m closmg this volume of genealogy and biography of a family that has in 
 all periods of American history given men from its ranks for the nation's needs in 
 Colonial, Revolutionary, and all her later wars, as well as in legislative and civil office 
 we think it but fitting tribute to their memory to say, , with slight paraphrase of one of 
 our country's poets : ) 
 
 " Who fought, bled, died, for justice and for right. 
 
 Their names are graved with history's pointed style 
 In fadeless characters of living light. 
 
 And leal descendants, mindful of their debt, 
 
 Thus in the whirl and stress of modern life. 
 Speak to //;<'/;■ countrymen lest they forget 
 
 The whys and wherefores of the nation's strifes." 
 
Lnokx t<i Ii.i.i 
 
 STRATION'S. 
 
 Index to Illustrations. 
 
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 Portrait of Henry Ik-niaiiiiii Mc-igs 
 
 Meggs Coat of Arms 
 
 Cutler's Corner, New Haven, Cunn, 
 
 Judges Cave .... 
 
 Judges Cave Inscription 
 
 Tomb Stone of Deacon John iMeigs 
 
 Tomb Stone of Capt. Janna Meigs 
 
 Tomb Stone of Hannaii, wife of Capt. fanna Meigs 
 
 View of old Hammonassett Cemetery, showing in the foreground grave 
 stone of Sarah, wife of Deacon John Meigs, and of the famous tWins, 
 Silence and Sulmiit, 
 
 Phineas Meigs' House, built in 1690 at Madison, Conn. 
 
 Tomb Stone of Capt. Phineas Meigs 
 
 Tomb Stone of Lieut. Janna Meigs 
 
 Inscriptions on Tomb Stones of Deacon Josiah Meigs and his wife M 
 
 Tomb Stone of Capt. Jehiel Meigs .... 
 
 Tomb Stone of Lucy Hartlett, wife of Capt. (ehiel 
 
 Tomb Stone of Return Meigs 
 
 Tomb Stone of Elizabeth Hamlin, wife of Return Meigs 
 
 Marriage Publishment of Timothy Meigs and Marv French 
 
 Mew of Old Hammonassett Cemetery 
 
 Evening Scene, Ve Olden Time .... 
 
 Sergt. Daniel Meigs' House, built in i 
 
 Portrait of Jehiel Meigs 3rd 
 
 Portrait of Col. Return Jonathan Meigs 
 
 Map of .Arnold's Route to Quebec 
 
 Tomb Stone of Capt. Giles Melius 
 
 Tomb Stone of Anna Pinto, wife oi Capt. Giles Meigs 
 
 Portrait of Major John Meigs, of New Hartford, Conn. 
 
 Portrait of Elizabeth Meigs, wife of M.ijor John, of New Hartford, Conn. 
 
 Tomb Stone of Major John Meigs .... 
 
 Portrait of Prof. Josiah Meigs ... 
 
 Portrait of Elizabeth (Meigs) Hall 
 
 Portrait of Major John Meigs, of .Albany, N. V. 
 
 Old Meigs House, jjuili in 1740, now " Vermont House' 
 
 Portrait of (tov. Return Jonathan Meigs 
 
 Portrait of Richard Montgomery Meigs 
 
 Portrait of Hon. Henry Meigs 
 
 Portrait of Prof. Charles D. Meigs 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Frontisijiece 
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 at Madison, Conn. 
 
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 tomb 
 
 Puitrait (if John l^'icnch McIljs ..... 
 
 Portrait of josc])h .Meigs ....... 
 
 Portrait of Re\'. Henjamin Clark Meigs .... 
 
 Elia.s Benjamin Meigs' House, Durham Centre, Conn. 
 
 Portrait of Capt. I.ulher Meigs 
 
 Portrait of John Meigs, of St. Albans, \'t. 
 
 Portrait of George Anson Meigs ..... 
 
 Henrv fosiah Meigs' House, l>uilt in i.'SuS, at Madison, Comi. 
 Portrait of Return Jonathan Meigs :;r^l .... 
 
 Portrait of Henry Meigs, late President N. Y. Stock Exchange 
 Portrait of Major-General Montgomery C. Meigs 
 Portrait of John Meigs, M. D., late of Stanstead, P. O. 
 Portrait of Henry Meigs, R. R. Magnate, Soutli America 
 Portrait of Hon. 1 )aniel Hishop .Meigs, of Farnham, P. O. 
 The Hill School — north front ...... 
 
 The Hill School — west view ...... 
 
 Portrait of (jideon E. Meigs ...... 
 
 Portrait of Rev. P'rank E. Meigs ..... 
 
 Parish Church Bradford Peverel, Dorchester, Englanil 
 
 Miilille aisle of Parish Church Bradford Pe\x'rel, showing Megg^ 
 
 stones in flocir of main aisle ...... 
 
 Okl Whitfield House, built in ih^tj, Guilford, Conn. 
 Capt. Janna Meigs' House, Madison, Conn. 
 
 Old Oak Chest. 1696 
 
 Tomb Stone of Deacon Timothy Meigs .... 
 
 Tomb Stone of Caj)!. Jehiel Meigs ..... 
 
 Revolutionary Pay Roll ....... 
 
 Commission of King George 3rd to Lieut. Return Jonathan Meigs 
 Commission of King George 3rd to Capt. Return Jonathan Meigs 
 Letter of John Hancock, President of Continental Congress, to Lieu 
 
 Return Jonathan Meigs ....... 
 
 Commission of Henry Laurens, President Continental Congress, t( 
 
 Return Jonathan Meigs ....... 
 
 Letter of George Washington to Col. Return Jonathan Meigs 
 Letter of George Washington to Col. Return Jonathan Meigs 
 Commission of John Jay, President Continental Congress, to Col. R 
 
 Jonathan Meigs ......... 
 
 Letter of [ohn Knox, .Secretary of War, transmitting Sword voted liy 
 
 tinental Congress to Col. Return Jonathan .Meigs 
 Commission for holding a Convention between the State of Tennesse 
 
 the Cherokee Nation. President Thomas Jefferson to Return Jon 
 
 Meigs 
 
 Commission by James Madison, President, to Return Jonathan .Meigs 
 Portrait ot Holmes Hinkley ....... 
 
 Tomb .Stone of .Sergt. Benjamin Stone Meigs .... 
 
 Tomb Stone of Roxalanz B. Chittenden, wife of Sergt. Benjamin .S. Meigs 
 F"irst P^xcursion Train, .Albany to .Schnectatly, N. ^'. ... 
 
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InHKX to Il.I.l'STRATIONS. 
 
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 78 Farm Island House of Deacon Phineas Meigs, Madison, Conn 
 
 79 Portrait of Jonathan Meigs, of Augusta, Ga. 
 So Portrait of Noah Porter ....... 
 
 Si Silhouette of Richard Montgomery Meigs 
 
 Sj John P'rench .Meigs' House, built in 1674. Madison, Conn. 
 
 S:; Portrait of Isaac Meigs Bragg ...... 
 
 S4 p'arm House of Capt. Luther Meigs, Highgate, \'ermont 
 
 85 Tomb Stone of Capt. Luther Meigs ..... 
 
 86 Tomb Stone of Phoebe Stockwell, wife of Ca|it. Luther Meigs 
 S7 Commission of John Tyler, President, to Return Jonathan Meigs f^rd 
 
 88 Return Jonathan .Meigs 3rd, and sons James Lamme, Return Jonathan 4th 
 
 John, Joe \'incent and P'ielding Pope — a family .grou[) 
 
 89 Portrait of Theodore Denton Meigs .... 
 
 90 \'ie\v of Cabin John Bridge, built by .Major-General .Muntgomer\- C. .Mei 
 
 91 Monument of Prof. Josiah .Meigs ..... 
 q2 Sai'cophagus of Major-General Montgomery C. .Meigs 
 9,; Monument of .Major John R. Meigs 
 
 94 Portrait of Capt. Samuel Kmlen .Meigs 
 
 95 P"ac-simile of Henry Meiggs' S. A. Railroad Medal 
 
 96 Tehama House, built by Henry Meiggs, San Francisco, Cal. 
 
 97 The .Author at Work ..... 
 
 98 Country School House ..... 
 
 99 Portrait of John Henry Meigs .... 
 100 Fac-simile endorsement of Presiileiit Lincoln — Joe V. .Meigs 
 loi Portrait of Return Robert .Meigs 
 102 Portrait of Major John Rodgers Meigs 
 10,3 The .Meigs Sisters — Florence, Harriet, Jennie and Edith 
 
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A W^ORD OP' EXPLANATION. 
 
 It has been dt-iiiii il iinulvisal'li: (o iiid( \\ tnuoi/i; tlir 
 names of I'iiift'nl's dcscciii-iaiif^. the Jew rcprcscniativcs 
 of the earlier Ii>t)^/is/i faiiiilies mentioned in this volume, 
 as no eonneetion l<et:eeen tlieni has heeii esta/dished. 
 
 He a'on/d also add here, that the ■:'ar]'int; statements 
 lohieh afifear in the earlier fa^^es oj our Appendix have 
 been (/noted literdllv, and therefore names oJ plaees and 
 individuals appearing m them have not even been eor- 
 reetcd to any uniform slanda) d of spellino. 
 
IXMEX. 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 CHRISTIAN NAMES OF THOSE BEARINC THE SURNAME OF MEIGS. 
 
 (This iiiclu'ks all hearing the iiaiin^, witlioLU itgani lo ortlio.L;ra|>li\ .) 
 
 The figures placed after the names denote the consecutive numbers of the individuals 
 in the genealogical record. Where the name of the individual occurs in other parts of 
 the book than the family to which he ]>elongs, the ]>ages are indicated by p. or ])p., and 
 -u'htu tu-o of tlu- naiiic have intermarried, the numbers are connected with a hyphen. 
 
 The spelling of names in the body of the work is mosdy in conformity with that of 
 the reporters of the \-arious families. 
 
 
 A 
 
 
 
 No. 
 
 
 Abby B. 
 
 S44 
 
 
 " F. 
 
 959 
 
 
 Abel 
 
 .46 
 
 P- 45 
 
 •• D. 
 
 595 
 
 p. loS 
 
 Abi 
 
 5S-^ 
 
 
 Aljigail 
 
 53 
 
 
 ' ' 
 
 59-^' 
 
 P 31 
 
 " 
 
 228 
 
 
 '* 
 
 ^44 
 
 
 F. 
 
 3^7 
 41S 
 
 
 Abner 
 
 12.S 
 
 P- 43 
 
 Addie A. 
 
 991 
 '439 
 
 
 Adelaide 
 
 S66 
 
 
 Adele E. 
 
 713 
 
 
 AdeHa J. 
 
 965 
 
 
 Adeline L. 
 
 610 
 1411 
 
 
 Albert M. 
 
 990 
 
 
 Albert 
 
 1412 
 
 P- 152 
 
 Alexander 
 
 499 
 
 
 W, 
 
 7.S6 
 13S0 
 
 
 K. 
 
 I 15S 
 
 P- 145 
 
 Alfred 
 
 550 
 
 
 E. 
 
 N4I 
 
 P- 132 
 
 Alice 
 
 417 
 989 
 
 
 ■• A. 
 
 310 
 
 
 " *' 
 
 312 
 
 p. 76 
 
 " G. 
 
 1463 
 
 
 " H. 
 
 741 
 
 
 ■' L. 
 
 SSi 
 
 
 
 
 No. 
 
 Alice 1. 
 
 
 12^4 
 
 " M 
 
 
 663 
 
 " M 
 
 
 935 
 
 ■■ M 
 
 
 1 156 
 
 ■• M 
 
 
 1246 
 
 Allen F. 
 
 
 "54 
 
 Al!ie A, 
 
 
 992 
 
 Alma E. 
 
 
 1475 
 
 Almira C. 
 
 3 '4 P- 77 
 
 
 
 46S 
 
 Alton H 
 
 
 1 37 1 
 
 Alvira 
 
 
 1 41 16 
 
 Amanda 
 
 M. 
 
 3S0 
 
 " 
 
 .M. 
 
 545 
 
 Amelia 
 
 
 424 
 
 Andrew 
 
 K. 
 
 1125 p. 144 
 1015 p. 142 
 
 -Angelica 
 
 V. 
 
 374 
 
 Anita 
 
 
 906 
 
 Ann 
 
 
 2S6 
 
 " E. 
 
 
 938 
 
 •■ G. 
 " I. 
 
 
 562 
 
 787 
 
 Anna 
 
 
 202 
 624 
 
 647 
 1054 
 1062 
 1096 
 1268 
 
 " A. 
 
 
 74S 
 
 " B. 
 
 
 1003 
 
 " C. 
 
 
 1353 
 
 " E. 
 
 
 1018 
 
 " F. 
 
 
 796 
 
MeKIS GoNEAI.iHiV. 
 
 Anna H. 
 " K. 
 " L. 
 " K. 
 S. 
 S. 
 Anne 
 Annie E. 
 K. 
 " S. 
 S. 
 Annis 
 
 1.. 
 Ansel 
 Anson 
 
 C. 
 H. 
 
 H. 
 
 \V. 
 Aral.ella A. 
 Archibald H. 
 1.. 
 ArnoUl 
 Artemisia 
 
 Artluir 
 
 C. 
 E. 
 
 Asa 
 
 Asahel 
 Attila 
 
 Aurelia 
 
 Austin 1'' 
 ( , 
 P. 
 
 Avery C. 
 
 A\is F. 
 
 A/ubah 
 
 Basil 
 Beati 
 Beatrice L. 
 
 No. 
 
 J35I 
 
 657 
 
 600 
 
 11S3 
 229 
 
 1192 
 15S 
 
 1263 
 667 
 38R 
 737 
 601 
 6S5 
 249 
 14S 
 -37 
 261 
 
 47' 
 477 
 S93 
 563 
 2^5 
 8S9 
 
 Benjamin 
 
 59 
 64 
 
 P 69 
 
 1114 
 1130 
 I ciy4 
 1 141 
 171 
 
 3 -"9 
 
 631 p. 1 14 
 
 134« 
 1374 
 946 
 1294 
 1065 
 
 1^57 
 7S4 pp 129-167 
 250 p 61 
 
 455 P- 93 
 S51 |i. 132 
 
 44 P- 193 
 47S 
 480 
 462 
 SS8 
 I 230 
 S79 p. 136 
 
 561 p. 104 
 122S pp. 8-177 
 
 159 
 
 591 p. 107 
 
 B 
 1 38 1 
 
 B 
 B. 
 B. 
 
 C. 
 C. 
 C. 
 F. 
 
 " 
 
 H 
 
 " 
 
 H 
 
 •• 
 
 H 
 
 
 H 
 
 ■ • 
 
 
 
 " 
 
 R 
 
 " 
 
 S. 
 
 Beriah 
 
 
 Berth.i 
 
 
 P.3'8 
 
 1361 
 
 Bertrand H. 
 Bessie 
 
 •• L. 
 
 ISetsey 
 
 ■• A. 
 Bettie 
 Betty 
 Beulah 
 Bezai 
 Bezaleel 
 Bezaleel 1. 
 P.rownson 
 l!ryan 
 Burdette E. 
 Byron N. 
 
 Caleb 
 
 Calvin 
 Carl \V. 
 Carlos 
 
 " n. 
 
 ■• L. 
 O. 
 Carol S. 
 Caroline 
 
 NO 
 
 
 123 pp. 41-212 
 
 295 P- 71 
 
 1292 
 
 
 1457 
 
 
 II76 
 
 
 1326 
 
 
 87S 
 
 1. 136 
 
 266 
 
 'P- 65-239-240 
 
 507 
 
 
 514 
 
 
 521 
 
 p. 100 
 
 1187 
 
 
 I So 
 
 
 183 
 
 P- 49 
 
 362 
 
 
 208 
 
 p. 53 
 
 852 
 
 
 350 
 
 p. 82 
 
 156 
 
 pp. 45-212-214-2IS 
 
 40 
 
 P- 193 
 
 1172 
 
 
 997 
 
 
 1275 
 
 
 1063 
 
 
 900 
 
 
 12S6 
 
 
 1421 
 
 
 1430 
 
 
 1249 
 
 
 430 
 
 
 553 
 
 
 1458 
 
 
 78 
 
 
 704 
 
 
 68 
 
 P- 318 
 
 
 P- 319 
 
 190 
 
 P- 51 
 
 304 
 
 p. 75 
 
 742 
 
 
 II17 
 
 
 621 
 
 p. Ill 
 
 232 p. 58 
 
 423 
 
 463 p. 94 
 
 1333 
 1427 
 616 pp. 110-295 
 
 1447 
 1037 
 1133 
 
 505 
 
 630 
 
 645 
 910 
 
Im>k.\. 
 
 339 
 
 
 
 No. 
 
 Caroline 
 
 937 
 
 
 
 1057 
 
 ' 
 
 A. 
 
 846 
 
 ' 
 
 A. 
 
 847 
 
 ' 
 
 A. 
 
 933 
 
 ' 
 
 E. 
 
 379 
 
 ' 
 
 E. 
 
 1385 
 
 ' 
 
 L. 
 
 309 
 
 ' 
 
 I.. 
 
 35' 
 
 ' 
 
 T. 
 
 'C59 
 
 Carrie A. 
 
 684 
 
 ' ' 
 
 F. 
 
 916 
 
 " 
 
 F. 
 
 1191 
 
 '* 
 
 F. 
 
 i''53 
 
 " 
 
 L. 
 
 1473 
 
 *' 
 
 M. 
 
 1,^86 
 
 Carrol] 
 
 909 
 
 Cath 
 
 ariiie 
 
 1056 
 
 * 
 
 E. 
 
 534 
 
 ' 
 
 M. 
 
 1454 
 
 Cecil 
 
 
 1314 
 
 Celia 
 
 A. 
 
 887 
 
 * ' 
 
 C. 
 
 988 
 
 " 
 
 L. 
 
 105', 
 
 ' ' 
 
 L. 
 
 617 
 
 Char 
 
 es 
 
 26S p. 66 
 
 428 
 
 509 p. 100 
 
 " 
 
 A. 
 
 357 P- 82 
 
 ' ' 
 
 A. K. 
 
 387 pp. 85-315-317 
 
 ( i 
 
 A. 
 
 516 p. 100 
 
 *' 
 
 A. 
 
 1224 
 
 " 
 
 A. 
 
 752 
 
 ** 
 
 A. 
 
 397 p. 87 
 
 " 
 
 D. 
 
 219 PP- 57-230 to 235 
 
 " 
 
 D. 
 
 399 P- 89 
 
 ' ' 
 
 D. 
 
 767 
 
 " 
 
 D. 
 
 772 p. 129 
 
 * ' 
 
 D. 
 
 804 
 
 '* 
 
 I). 
 
 S19 
 
 *' 
 
 D. 
 
 941 
 
 " 
 
 D. 
 
 1 138 P- 144 
 
 " 
 
 E. 
 
 904 
 
 ' ' 
 
 G. 
 
 1259 
 
 ' ' 
 
 H. 
 
 537 V- 103 
 
 ' ' 
 
 H. 
 
 75" P- 1 28 
 
 *' 
 
 H. 
 
 1093 P- 143 
 
 ' ' 
 
 H. 
 
 1239 
 
 " 
 
 I. 
 
 720 p. 123 
 
 ' ' 
 
 L. 
 
 646 p. 116 
 
 
 L. 
 
 970 
 
 * ' 
 
 M. 
 
 680 p. 120 
 
 * ' 
 
 N. 
 
 317 P- 77 
 
 ' * 
 
 O. 
 
 632 
 
 " 
 
 o. 
 
 635 
 
 
 p. 
 
 520 
 
 Charles R. 
 
 703 
 
 |lp. I2I-2C 
 
 R. 
 
 934 
 
 
 R. 
 
 1387 
 
 
 S. 
 
 715 
 
 p. 122 
 
 S. 
 
 789 
 
 
 S. 
 
 1299 
 
 
 T. 
 
 813 
 
 
 W. H. 
 
 .861 
 
 P- 133 
 
 VV. 
 
 973 
 
 p. 140 
 
 Charlotte 
 
 518 
 
 842 
 
 1073 
 
 
 A. 
 J- 
 
 i.>66 
 Si 5 
 
 
 M. 
 
 612 
 
 
 Chastina 
 
 484 
 
 
 Chester W. 
 
 1331 
 
 
 Church 
 
 262 
 
 
 
 4S3 
 
 1'- 97 
 
 T. 
 
 609 
 
 p. 109 
 
 ' ' 
 
 877 
 
 p. 136 
 
 Clara 
 
 216 
 
 763 
 
 
 •• F. 
 
 393 
 
 pp. 253-25. 
 
 " J. 
 
 1366 
 
 
 Clarence A. 
 
 1242 
 
 
 L'. 
 
 915 
 
 
 VV. 
 
 1330 
 
 
 Clariiula 
 
 527 
 
 
 Clarissa 
 
 465 
 
 
 H. 
 
 942 
 
 
 L. 
 
 6S3 
 
 
 0. 
 
 1265 
 
 
 Clarkson H, 
 
 699 
 
 p. 121 
 
 Claude \V. 
 
 1329 
 
 
 Clifford F. 
 
 1118 
 
 
 W. 
 
 1336 
 
 
 Clifton E. 
 
 1 140 
 
 P- 145 
 
 R. 
 
 1369 
 
 
 Clyde 
 
 1423 
 
 
 Concurrence 
 
 7 
 
 pp. 176-177 
 
 Consolation 
 
 331 
 
 
 Coo-wee-scoo-wee 
 
 1 189 
 
 
 Cora 
 
 1436 
 
 
 " I\I. 
 
 1373 
 
 
 Cordelia 
 
 595 
 S65 
 
 
 Corina 
 
 1033 
 
 
 Cornelia 
 
 290 
 
 
 A. 
 
 611 
 
 
 L. 
 
 1247 
 
 
 M. 
 
 55S 
 
 
 S. 
 
 570 
 
 
 Courtland 
 
 1424 
 
 
 Curtis C. 
 
 1099 
 
 
 E. 
 
 1419 
 
 
34' 
 
 Cviilliia I'- 
 F. 
 
 Mi-:uis Gkneaiax;'*'. 
 
 Dan D 
 
 
 
 Daniel 
 
 A. 
 
 B. 
 
 B. 
 
 B. 
 
 B. 
 
 G. 
 
 G. 
 1 
 
 
 Darlin 
 
 1 ■ 
 
 
 D.uiil 
 
 K. 
 R. 
 K. 
 T. 
 
 
 Dfl.oi 
 
 T. 
 ah 
 
 1! 
 II 
 
 Delia 
 
 G. 
 
 
 Deiini 
 
 
 
 Dorcas K 
 
 
 Dorothy 
 
 
 Doir^las A. 
 Dui^ht C. 
 R. 
 
 Earl 
 
 Ebene/er 
 
 Edd 
 
 e 
 
 
 F-Jg 
 
 ar 
 
 C 
 
 G. 
 
 I'Mith 
 
 No. 
 
 694 
 853 
 
 695 p. 120 
 83 PP- 31-197-198 
 174 p. 48 
 
 305 P- 75 
 1069 
 
 161 pp. 46-216-^17 
 
 62S p. 113 
 
 676 p. 1 19 
 1200 
 
 311 ]! 76 
 
 636 [1. 114 
 
 332 
 
 492 p. 9S 
 
 669 p. liS 
 
 334 P 79 
 1446 
 515 P- 100 
 902 
 
 25.? 
 426 
 
 17S 
 
 179 
 1072 
 1142 
 
 857 
 500 
 
 743 
 1304 
 135''^ 
 1032 p. 142 
 
 739 
 1 106 
 
 1432 
 
 13 PP- 15-190 
 36 p. 25 
 
 I Id ]ip. 40-209-319 
 
 235 
 
 246 |>. 60 
 
 447 P- 93 
 
 584 pp. I06-2S6 to 21)1 
 1441 
 
 604 p. 109 
 936 
 
 677 p. 119 
 
 925 p. 1 38 
 
 559 P- 104 
 
 89S lip 31 1 -31 2. 
 
 1327 
 1 1 05 
 
 Fdiiuiiid 
 
 
 .. 
 
 F 
 
 " 
 
 H 
 
 Edna 
 
 
 Edward 
 
 B. 
 
 " 
 
 K. 
 
 " 
 
 K. 
 
 " 
 
 K. 
 
 Edwin 
 
 C. 
 
 1.. 
 
 S. 
 
 .s. 
 
 Ethe .M. 
 Eldora H. 
 Eleanor 
 
 B. 
 
 C. 
 
 I.. 
 Eh B. 
 Elias 
 Elias B. 
 Elihu 
 
 " R. 
 
 Kliphalet 
 
 Elisha 
 
 A. 
 
 \V. 
 Eliza 
 " A. 
 " A. C. 
 •■ B. 
 " C. 
 " E. 
 
 " J- 
 
 " M. 
 
 " S. 
 
 Elizabeth 
 
 50 
 94 
 
 p. S2 
 
 p. 119 
 
 p. 109 
 p. 105 
 
 No 
 
 1S7 
 
 467 
 352 
 
 359 
 1466 
 
 1255 
 
 674 
 
 65S 
 
 709 p. 122 
 1 100 
 
 1151 
 1 1 16 
 1010 
 1 03 1 
 
 607 
 
 579 
 1325 
 1 334 
 1354 
 
 872 
 1388 
 1407 
 Illy 
 
 620 
 
 52 
 2,SS 
 
 84 
 1S4 
 
 345 
 702 
 
 365 
 461 
 
 SS5 
 86 
 
 89 
 270 
 
 4Nm 
 532 
 
 27S 
 
 1 1 1 
 
 28 
 69 
 32 
 
 P 49 
 p. 81 
 
 p. 67 
 
 |i. 102 
 
 326 
 376 
 503 
 460 
 
 307 
 371 
 
 845 
 
 633 
 
 6 
 
 63 
 
 88 
 
 94 
 1S8 
 
 195 
 1 98 
 226 
 
 325 
 
 340 
 
 p. 114 
 
 pp. 193-194 
 
Index. 
 
 341 
 
 
 
 No. 
 
 
 
 Eli/alieth 
 
 A. 
 A. 
 B. 
 G. 
 G. 
 H. 
 L. 
 L. 
 L. 
 M. 
 M. 
 S. 
 S. 
 W. 
 
 547 
 927 
 
 794 
 
 72S 
 
 1210 
 
 589 
 209 
 
 569 
 777 
 .S50 
 1 164 
 
 734 
 
 .SS2 
 
 662 
 
 
 
 Ella 
 
 
 899 
 
 
 
 Ella L. 
 
 
 1023 
 
 
 
 Ellen 
 
 
 1070 
 
 
 
 " E. 
 
 
 623 
 
 
 
 •• E. 
 
 
 675 
 
 
 
 ■• E. 
 
 
 SI4 
 
 
 
 " 1. 
 
 
 S60 
 
 
 
 " M. 
 
 
 451 
 
 
 
 ■• M. 
 
 
 930 
 
 
 
 Elliott C. 
 
 
 1 1 28 
 
 
 
 Ellsworth 
 
 
 1426 
 
 P- 
 
 154 
 
 Elsie M. 
 
 
 I.. 48 
 
 
 
 Elvira E. 
 
 
 5«9 
 
 P- 
 
 107 
 
 Emilia A. 
 
 
 .US 
 
 
 
 Emily 
 
 
 391 
 
 529 
 795 
 
 
 
 " H. 
 
 
 776 
 
 
 
 " R. 
 
 
 806 
 
 
 
 " F. 
 
 F. 
 
 1248 
 
 
 
 •• K. 
 
 
 907 
 
 
 
 ■• M. 
 
 
 1024 
 
 
 
 S. 
 
 
 370 
 403 
 
 7S1 
 
 
 
 Emma i{. 
 
 
 1462 
 
 
 
 L. 
 
 
 602 
 
 
 
 L. 
 
 
 8S5 
 
 
 
 " L. 
 
 
 I coo 
 
 
 
 i'jiinif line 
 
 338 
 
 
 
 " 
 
 E. 
 
 6SS 
 
 
 
 Eiiliraim 
 
 
 231 
 
 P- 
 
 58 
 
 ' ' 
 
 
 420 
 
 P- 
 
 91 
 
 Erastiis K. 
 
 549 
 
 p. 
 
 104 
 
 Ernest 1'^ 
 
 
 1122 
 
 P- 
 
 144 
 
 ■■ V. 
 
 
 1443 
 
 
 
 Estelle C 
 
 
 1042 
 
 
 
 Esther 
 
 
 64 
 1 136 
 
 
 
 A 
 
 
 571 
 
 
 
 C 
 
 
 687 
 
 
 
 " L. 
 
 
 212 
 
 
 
 ■■ L 
 
 
 599 
 
 
 
 
 No, 
 
 
 
 Ethel 
 
 1 29 1 
 
 
 
 Ethel S. 
 
 1322 
 
 
 
 Ethelinda 
 
 1402 
 
 
 
 I'^ugeiie 
 
 1 349 
 
 
 
 Eugenia 
 
 1382 
 
 
 
 B. 
 
 1174 
 
 
 
 Painice 
 
 34 
 
 437 
 
 1437 
 
 
 
 M. 
 
 "31 
 
 
 
 Eustace I. 
 
 712 
 
 
 
 Eva A. 
 
 loSo 
 
 
 
 Evangeline 
 
 755 
 
 
 
 Ezekiel 
 
 45 
 
 P- 
 
 43 
 
 Ezra S. 
 
 222 
 
 F 
 
 
 
 Fanny 
 
 170 
 1309 
 
 
 
 E. 
 
 1004 
 
 
 
 " J- 
 
 1208 
 
 
 
 K. 
 
 914 
 
 
 
 I'elix 
 
 55 
 
 P- 
 
 28 
 
 Ferris J. 
 
 1 146 
 
 I^- 
 
 ■45 
 
 Fieldin- P. 
 
 725 
 
 P- 
 
 124 
 
 P. 
 
 I iSo 
 
 
 
 Flora A. W. 
 
 836 
 
 
 
 " L. 
 
 892 
 
 
 
 Florence 
 
 S95 
 
 960 
 
 1241 
 
 P- 
 
 311-312 
 
 Florence L. 
 
 1343 
 
 
 
 Florian N. 
 
 1 185 
 
 P 
 
 147 
 
 Florilla 
 
 622 
 
 
 
 E. 
 
 1040 
 
 
 
 Fiorina 
 
 472 
 
 
 
 Frances 
 
 52« 
 
 1 1 24 
 
 
 
 E. 
 
 714 
 
 
 
 ■' J. 
 
 70S 
 
 
 
 L. 
 
 1147 
 
 
 
 R. 
 
 1021 
 
 
 
 Frank 
 
 922 
 
 
 
 ■' B. 
 
 III I 
 
 
 
 •■ E. 
 
 1028 
 
 P- 
 
 142 
 
 " E. 
 
 I4I5 
 
 
 
 " G. 
 
 996 
 
 
 
 " P. 
 
 1296 
 
 
 
 •• R 
 
 7IS 
 
 
 
 Franklin B. 
 
 4oh 
 
 
 
 P. 
 
 ,S49 
 
 
 
 Freda \V, 
 
 1332 
 
 
 
 Freddy P. 
 
 1027 
 
 
 
 Fretlerick 
 
 2S4 
 
 P- 
 
 68 
 
 D. 
 
 690 
 
 P- 
 
 120 
 
 G. 
 
 1 103 
 
 
 
 R. 
 
 S09 
 
 
 
342 
 
 Mp:i<;s GE.NKALo(iv. 
 
 
 
 G 
 
 
 
 
 No 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Gladys 
 
 '3'-' 
 
 
 
 
 
 No 
 
 
 
 " 1). 
 
 "35 
 
 
 
 (JarbiiK 
 
 i 
 
 1335 
 
 
 
 Grate 
 
 1215 
 
 
 
 Gardia 
 
 A. 
 
 101 1 
 
 
 
 " 
 
 1350 
 
 
 
 Gardner C 
 
 6i5 
 
 !'■ 109 
 
 
 ■' 
 
 1393 
 
 
 
 
 J- 
 
 1J45 
 
 
 
 " A. 
 
 947 
 
 
 
 George 
 
 
 5^5 
 1403 
 
 p. 101 
 P- '51 
 
 
 " C. 
 
 " E. 
 
 1038 
 1 1 50 
 
 
 
 ' ' 
 
 A. 
 
 313 
 
 PP- 77- 
 
 244 
 
 " E. 
 
 ':-:^i 
 
 
 
 " 
 
 A. 
 
 loS^ 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 K. 
 
 I2I9 
 
 
 
 * ' 
 
 A. 
 
 1429 
 
 
 
 " L. 
 
 I0I9 
 
 
 
 ' * 
 
 C. 
 
 1 169 
 
 P- 145 
 
 
 •• L 
 
 1277 
 
 
 
 " 
 
 I). 
 
 655 
 
 p. 117 
 
 
 ■• M. 
 
 1293 
 
 
 
 '• 
 
 1). 
 K. 
 
 932 
 641 
 
 939 
 
 P- 1 38 
 
 
 ■• S. 
 
 " S. 
 Grennell D. 
 
 1245 
 1 08 1 
 
 
 
 " 
 
 E. 
 
 1007 
 
 
 
 Guy 
 
 303 
 
 P- 
 
 74 
 
 
 I-:. 
 
 E. 
 
 ]267 
 
 P- 147 
 
 
 " 
 
 5'^' 
 
 PI 
 
 ■ 105-285 
 
 
 13 iS 
 
 
 
 •• B. 
 
 603 
 
 P- 
 
 108 
 
 " 
 
 K. 
 
 356 
 
 
 
 •■ F. 
 
 1046 
 
 
 
 
 F. 
 
 867 
 
 p. 133 
 
 
 " H. 
 
 1352 
 
 
 
 ' ' 
 
 H. 
 
 696 
 
 p. 121 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 " 
 
 H. 
 
 797 
 
 
 
 
 H 
 
 
 
 
 H. 
 
 I. 
 
 871 
 1 359 
 
 !'• 135 
 
 
 Hannah 
 
 '4 
 28 
 
 
 
 
 L. 
 
 735 
 
 p. 127 
 
 
 " 
 
 61 
 
 P- 
 
 193 
 
 " 
 
 L. 
 
 214 
 
 P- 54 
 
 
 ** 
 
 96 
 
 
 
 •• 
 
 L. 
 
 I.. 
 L. 
 
 1222 
 1223 
 I416 
 
 P- '53 
 
 
 (4 
 
 104 
 116 
 150 
 
 
 
 " 
 
 M, 
 
 iior 
 
 
 
 ** 
 
 200 
 
 
 
 " 
 
 N. 
 
 999 
 
 
 
 " 
 
 204 
 
 
 
 " 
 
 P. 
 
 1182 
 
 
 
 " 
 
 227 
 
 
 
 " 
 
 P. 
 
 1409 
 
 P- '52 
 
 
 " 
 
 243 
 
 P- 
 
 23« 
 
 ■' 
 
 R. 
 
 1278 
 
 
 
 I 4 
 
 24S 
 
 
 
 " 
 
 S. 
 
 5^4 
 
 p. lOI 
 
 
 *' 
 
 300 
 
 
 
 " 
 
 w. 
 
 469 
 
 P- 95 
 
 
 " 
 
 445 
 
 
 
 " 
 
 vv. 
 
 496 
 
 p. 98 
 
 
 " 
 
 457 
 
 
 
 " 
 
 \v- 
 
 564 
 
 P- 105 
 
 
 E. 
 
 413 
 
 
 
 " 
 
 w. 
 
 634 
 
 
 
 F. 
 
 1 45c' 
 
 
 
 " 
 
 vv. 
 
 886 
 
 
 
 M. 
 
 S43 
 
 
 
 " 
 
 vv. 
 
 1034 
 
 
 
 Harley A. 
 
 '340 
 
 
 
 " 
 
 vv. 
 
 1455 
 
 1' 156 
 
 
 .^. 
 
 594 
 
 P- 
 
 108 
 
 " 
 
 vv. 
 
 1464 
 
 
 
 Harold 
 
 1227 
 
 
 
 Georgia B. 
 
 Soo 
 
 
 
 Harriett 
 
 271 
 
 
 
 Gerda 
 
 E. 
 
 107 1 
 
 
 
 " 
 
 272 
 
 
 
 Gertie E. 
 
 1045 
 
 
 
 " 
 
 534 
 
 
 
 Gertrude 
 
 '"5« 
 
 
 
 4 4 
 
 578 
 
 
 
 " 
 
 E. 
 
 r 126 
 
 
 
 4 4 
 
 605 
 
 
 
 Gideon 
 
 
 230 
 
 444 
 
 pp. 92- 
 
 190-209 
 
 ■■ 
 
 S96 
 950 
 
 PI 
 
 • 3II-3I2 
 
 
 !■:. 
 
 •^33 
 
 PP- 131 
 
 -309-3 ro 
 
 B. 
 
 501 
 
 
 
 Gilliert 
 
 
 275 
 
 p. 67 
 
 
 L. 
 
 523 
 
 
 
 " 
 
 o. 
 
 536 
 
 p. 103 
 
 
 M. 
 
 555 
 
 
 
 Giles 
 
 
 92 
 
 P- 35 
 
 
 Harrison S. 
 
 956 
 
 p; 
 
 139 
 
 
 
 '99 
 203 
 
 P- 53 
 
 
 Harry 
 " ' 1. 
 
 '77 
 782 
 
 
 
Index. 
 
 i4.i 
 
 
 
 
 No. 
 
 
 HartI 
 
 syB. 
 
 I. .36 
 
 
 Harvey VV 
 
 544 
 
 
 Hattie S. 
 
 995 
 
 
 Hazel 
 
 
 ■43S 
 
 
 " 
 
 M. 
 
 1,^21 
 
 
 Helei 
 
 
 354 
 
 
 
 
 
 '-^37 
 
 
 
 
 A. 
 
 6S9 
 
 
 
 
 A. 
 
 1273 
 
 
 
 
 C. 
 
 920 
 
 
 
 
 H. 
 
 1 104 
 
 
 
 
 L. 
 
 1 109 
 
 
 
 
 M. 
 
 S40 
 
 
 " 
 
 N 
 
 747 
 
 
 Henian 
 
 259 
 
 P-63 
 
 
 A. 
 
 5.S6 
 
 p. 106 
 
 " 
 
 S. 
 
 606 
 
 
 Henrietta 
 
 322 
 
 
 " 
 
 
 651 
 
 
 . c 
 
 
 S38 
 
 
 " 
 
 H. 
 
 791 
 
 
 Heiiriette R. 
 
 808 
 
 
 Hciir\ 
 
 
 215 
 
 pp. 56-227 t(.i 230 
 
 
 
 
 395 
 
 p. 86-255-256 
 
 
 
 
 526 
 
 p. 101 
 
 
 ( 
 
 
 746 
 
 pp. 127-204-304 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 1229 
 
 
 
 
 
 13^5 
 
 
 
 
 B. 
 
 393 
 
 p. 107-292 til 295 
 
 
 
 C. 
 
 727 
 
 P- 125 
 
 
 
 C. 
 
 753 
 
 
 
 
 C. 
 
 IU22 
 
 p. 142 
 
 
 
 E. 
 
 9'7 
 
 P IS'"^ 
 
 
 
 F. 
 
 1 1 34 
 
 
 
 
 G. 
 
 1342 
 
 
 
 
 H. 
 
 911 
 
 P- 137 
 
 
 
 J- 
 
 343 
 ' 39^ 
 
 p. Si 
 P- 151 
 
 
 
 L. 
 
 775 
 
 
 
 
 L. P. 
 
 9S7 
 
 p. 141 
 
 
 
 R. 
 
 ■^59 
 
 P- 132 
 
 
 
 T. 
 
 S03 
 
 
 
 
 T. 
 
 1221 
 
 
 " 
 
 V. 
 
 402 
 
 p. S9 
 
 Herbert B. 
 
 1319 
 
 
 Heriii 
 
 in O. 
 
 627 
 
 p. 112 
 
 
 V L. 
 
 660 
 
 p. 118 
 
 Hester 
 
 15 
 
 
 ' ' 
 
 
 30 
 
 
 Hilda 
 
 
 1271 
 
 
 " 
 
 R. 
 
 924 
 
 
 Hiklreth 
 
 '3^'^4 
 
 
 Horace 
 
 459 
 
 
 Hiibe 
 
 r D. 
 
 136S 
 
 
 Hi 
 
 Ida 
 
 h 
 
 141 
 
 
 
 No. 
 
 
 Ichabod 
 
 42 
 
 
 Ida 
 
 901 
 
 
 " E. 
 
 1360 
 
 
 ■' F. 
 
 972 
 
 
 ■■ S. 
 
 975 
 
 
 Ira 
 
 1433 
 
 
 Irena 
 
 127 
 
 
 Irene 
 
 21 
 
 46 
 
 151 
 
 
 Irnia R. 
 
 701 
 
 
 Irving J. 
 
 976 
 
 p. 140 
 
 Isaac 
 
 2.S2 
 
 |i. 68 
 
 " V. L. 
 
 324 
 
 P- 79 
 
 Isabella 
 
 652 
 957 
 
 
 A. 
 
 738 
 
 
 S. 
 
 1 129 
 J 
 
 
 Jabez 
 
 125 
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 130 
 
 Willis A, 
 
 691 p. 
 
 120 
 
 •• N. 
 
 I231 
 
 
 Winslow 
 
 276 
 
 Z 
 
 
 Zerviah T. 
 
 497 
 
 
 Zillah 
 
 1287 
 
 
 Zylphia 
 
 254 
 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 SURNAMES OP' THOSE WHO HAVE INTERMARRIED WITH MEIGSES, 
 
 AND THEIR DESCENDANTS. 
 
 Thf numliL-rs imlicatc iiuliviLluals, /n>/ pages. 
 
 ABBOTT 
 
 
 
 A NOR US 
 
 
 BACKUS 
 
 
 M.ushallJ. . 
 
 612 
 
 Horace 
 
 
 545 
 
 Jacob 
 
 52S 
 
 ADAMS 
 
 
 
 ANTHONY 
 
 
 B.'\L1>\V1N 
 
 
 Mary A. 
 
 53 = 
 
 Tabitha 
 
 
 172 
 
 TLmnali 
 
 345 
 
 Richard C. . 
 
 1 191 
 
 
 AKN(.)LD 
 
 
 BALL 
 
 
 ADAMSON 
 
 64S 
 
 Jobn F. 
 Mary 
 
 
 1021 
 260 
 
 Pernielia (Carter) 
 
 BANCROFT 
 
 373 
 
 
 
 ADDICOTT 
 
 
 
 ARNONX 
 
 327 
 
 Charles H. . 
 
 12S7 
 
 Lizzie C. . . . 
 
 1 1 38 
 
 
 
 BARKER 
 
 
 
 
 
 ASHLE^■ 
 
 
 
 
 AKI•:kL^• 
 T. Mocire 
 
 707 
 
 William 
 
 ASHTON 
 
 704 
 
 Lizzie A. 
 
 BARNARD 
 
 1 1 10 
 
 ALLEN 
 
 Anna .... 
 Diusilla 
 
 77 = 
 
 Clara 
 
 ASSEL'TINE 
 
 695 
 
 Lovisa J. 
 
 BARNES 
 Charlotte L. 
 
 615 
 509 
 
 ICxperience . 
 
 9? 
 
 Harry 
 
 
 300 
 
 Maria 
 
 547 
 
 ALl.INGTON 
 
 
 
 AUSTIN 
 
 
 BARTLETT 
 
 
 Lucretia 
 
 342 
 
 Allen 
 Julia 
 
 
 1399 
 215 
 
 Daniel 
 I'lihu 
 
 10 
 
 lOI 
 
 ALSOP 
 
 
 ' ' 
 
 
 1401 
 
 Lucy 
 
 27 
 
 l.onise C. . . . 
 
 62S 
 
 
 BABCOCK 
 
 
 Reuben 
 Samuel 
 
 46 
 
 104 
 
 AMES 
 
 
 George 
 Julia 
 
 F. . . . 
 
 570 
 547 
 
 BAR'TON 
 
 
 Theion B. . . . 
 
 82 1 
 
 Mary 
 
 
 584 
 
 Anna L. B. . 
 
 698 
 

 
 I.MlKX. 
 
 
 
 .S5I 
 
 HATKS 
 
 
 BDARIJ.MAN 
 
 
 BROOKS 
 
 
 Georgianna 
 
 8-5 
 
 Joseph 
 
 202 
 
 Carrie S. 
 Ebenezer A. 
 
 9S5 
 591 
 
 BEACH 
 
 
 BOEING 
 
 
 Hezekiah R. 
 
 9S6 
 
 Manila M. . 
 
 36' 
 
 Martha 
 
 731 
 
 Mabel E. 
 
 984 
 
 
 
 
 
 Merton L. 
 
 983 
 
 IlEAl'I'ORT 
 
 
 P.OSTWICK 
 
 
 BRcnVN 
 
 
 Alice .... 
 
 911 
 
 Eeonard 
 
 503 
 
 Anna 
 
 564 
 
 BEDWIN 
 
 
 I'.dSWEEL 
 
 
 Ida 
 
 ■"74 
 
 Israel .... 
 
 74S 
 
 VVniiani H. . 
 
 1459 
 
 John 
 
 1093 
 247 
 
 BENEDICT 
 
 
 
 
 " 
 
 430 
 
 
 
 BOCDINOT 
 
 
 Nellie . 
 
 637 
 
 ll.miette F. 
 
 1 120 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Eleanor 
 
 iiSi 
 
 BROWNING 
 
 
 BENJAMIN 
 
 
 Frank J. 
 
 1 192 
 
 Mary R 
 
 1263 
 
 Clara .... 
 
 98 
 
 BOWLER 
 
 
 r.R(jWNSON 
 
 
 BERC.MAN 
 
 
 Elizabeth G. 
 
 447 
 
 HuKlah 
 
 i6r 
 
 I'raiicis T . . . 
 
 971 
 
 r.RADI.EV 
 
 
 BRUSH 
 
 
 BERRY 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Gilbert 
 
 1 58 
 
 Jane 
 
 315. 
 
 
 ,S.i3 
 
 [(jseph 
 
 60 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 .Stephen 
 
 99 
 
 BR\-.\N 
 
 
 BIDDLE 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 BR.AGG 
 
 
 Citherine A. 
 
 3S7 
 
 Jonathan W. 
 
 403 
 
 
 
 
 
 BIGELOW 
 
 
 Isaac 
 
 243 
 
 BL'CKW.M.Th: 
 
 < 
 
 
 
 tSee page 2,;S.' 
 
 
 James D. 
 
 1263 
 
 Jiise|ihint L. 
 
 727 
 
 David . 
 
 (Stf page 209.) 
 
 
 BLELL 
 
 
 BIRD 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 BRANDER 
 
 
 Sarah J. 
 
 668 
 
 H R 
 
 lOI I 
 
 
 
 
 
 William 
 
 1018 
 
 Roberta B. . 
 
 1178 
 
 BIRGERT 
 
 
 BIRKEPT 
 
 
 BREEDIN 
 
 
 Lee 
 
 . 643 
 
 W. S 
 
 1075 
 
 A. H. . 
 
 1456 
 
 BURK 
 
 
 BIKNIE 
 
 
 BR IDG MAN 
 
 
 Mary ICIlen . 
 
 967 
 
 Dou.ulasP. . 
 
 1 144 
 
 Catherine 
 
 409 
 
 ISL'RNS 
 
 
 BISllor 
 
 
 BRIGGS 
 
 
 Gertrude 
 
 526 
 
 Asenath 
 
 62 
 
 
 
 BURREl.l. 
 
 
 Frances 
 
 703 
 
 Hattie F. 
 
 690 
 
 Juli.inn.i .S. 
 
 877 
 
 Rachel 
 
 52 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 BROEKWAV 
 
 
 
 
 Stephen 
 
 30 
 
 
 6oN 
 
 BLsnv 
 
 Sarah . 
 
 
 BLANKENSHIP 
 
 
 521 
 
 Lngene 
 
 275 
 
 BRONSON 
 
 
 BUSH NELL 
 
 
 BLEXINS 
 
 
 Bailey B. 
 Ella Eonisa 
 
 5S9 
 97S 
 
 979 
 
 Jedediah 
 
 573 
 
 Helen C. . . . 
 
 729 
 
 Floyd L. 
 
 BUTLF.R 
 
 
 BLOOMI-.R.SHINE 
 
 
 HalUe A. 
 
 9S0 
 
 Charles S. . 
 
 574 
 
 
 
 Howard -S. . 
 
 981 
 
 Marian 
 
 559 
 
 Mary .... 
 
 S37 
 
 Lora E. 
 
 9S2 
 
 Ruins 
 
 ^75 
 
352 
 
 Meigs Genealogy. 
 
 li^ Ki) 
 
 
 CHILDS 
 
 
 CO,\H3S 
 
 
 Albert S. . . . 
 
 975 
 
 Barnabas 
 
 462 
 
 L. V. . 
 
 1062 
 
 CALKINS 
 
 
 CHILTON 
 
 
 COl\H''ORT 
 
 
 Clara A. . . . 
 
 655 
 
 Nannie 1^. 
 
 732 
 
 T. C. . . . 
 
 1012 
 
 C ALLOW, \V 
 
 369 
 
 CHITTENDEN 
 
 CONKLIN 
 
 
 
 Ebenezer 
 
 DI- 
 
 C.amaliel 
 
 182 
 
 CAMERON 
 
 
 Ro.xalanz B. 
 Thomas 
 
 156 
 63 
 
 Usher . 
 
 COOK 
 
 l6g 
 
 Helen M. . . . 
 
 3S2 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 CHRISTY 
 
 
 
 
 CAMP 
 
 
 
 
 Jacob L. 
 
 79' 
 
 
 
 J. W. . 
 
 872 
 
 John N. 
 
 . S4U 
 
 I\Liry .... 
 
 290 
 
 CHURCH 
 
 
 Stephen 
 
 '53 
 
 VViliiani P. . . . 
 
 947 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Sarah 
 
 I 28 
 
 COR BIN 
 
 
 campbi:ll 
 
 
 
 
 Kate .... 
 
 750 
 
 CHLRCHILL 
 
 
 Ellen 
 
 3^3 
 
 
 
 I 
 
 CORLIES 
 
 
 CAREV 
 
 
 
 
 
 CLARK 
 
 
 Benjamin 
 
 ■ 75S 
 
 Charles J. 
 
 1075 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 CORLISS 
 
 
 CARTPIR 
 
 
 Benjamin S. W. . 
 
 610 
 
 
 
 
 
 Ehsha . 
 
 127 
 
 n. T. . 
 
 580 
 
 Abii;ail 
 
 373 
 146 
 
 Eliza . 
 
 I S3 
 
 
 
 Ijelxirali 
 
 Mary (Brush) 
 
 260 
 
 CRAMPTON 
 
 
 Mary .... 
 
 357 
 
 Rebecca 
 
 41 
 
 Ashbel 
 
 145 
 
 .Sidney E. . . . 
 
 373 
 
 Robert 
 
 114 
 
 Hull 
 
 5-1 
 
 CASE 
 
 
 CLENDENNI> 
 
 
 CRANE 
 
 
 Meit;.s .... 
 
 34S 
 
 John 
 
 106 1 
 
 Henry 
 
 7 
 
 Samuel IL . 
 
 34S 
 
 Parthema 
 
 174 
 
 Margaret 
 
 524 
 
 CHAMBERLAIN 
 
 
 COATES 
 
 
 CRAWFORD 
 
 
 H. D 
 
 617 
 
 Elizabeth 
 
 414 
 
 Charles 
 
 688 
 
 Thomas \V. 
 
 97S 
 
 COE 
 
 
 CRITTENDE.N 
 
 
 CHAMPION 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Ro.\anna 
 
 339 
 
 Lydia . 
 
 8 
 
 Seymour S. 
 
 1126 
 
 William IL 
 
 56S 
 
 Samuel 
 
 16 
 
 CHANHLICR 
 
 
 COLBORN 
 
 
 CROCKER 
 
 
 Jane .... 
 
 629 
 
 Elias . 
 
 527 
 
 Ezekiel 
 
 253 
 
 
 
 
 
 Herman C. 
 
 S54 
 
 CHAPMAN 
 
 
 COLBURN 
 
 
 Octavia P. . 
 Reuben 
 
 861 
 255 
 
 RLiryJ. 
 
 878 
 
 Amelia 
 
 3,23 
 
 'Peni|)erance 
 
 120 
 
 CHARLES 
 
 
 COLE 
 
 
 CROFT 
 
 
 Nannie 
 
 735 
 
 Albert H. . . . 
 
 S38 
 
 James . 
 
 885 
 
 CHASE 
 
 
 COLEMAN 
 
 
 CROWKI.L 
 
 
 Lottie E. . . . 
 
 983 
 
 .Moss .M. 
 
 1078 
 
 Mercy . 
 
 Cl!M MINGS 
 
 1 10 
 
 CHASMER 
 
 
 COLLINS 
 
 
 D. S. . 
 
 S87 
 
 Ch.irles A. . . . 
 
 1023 
 
 Morris 
 
 1324 
 
 l-lizabeth 
 
 6uQ 
 
I.ucv 
 
 John C. 
 
 David 
 
 GUSHING 
 
 DA COSTA 
 
 DANIELS 
 
 DARLING 
 
 Elizabeth (Chukl 
 Minnie 
 
 DAX'IDSON 
 
 Wvllis 
 
 James E. 
 Lizzie 
 
 Florence 
 
 DA\MS 
 
 DA\V 
 
 DAY 
 
 Frank VV. 
 Margaret S. 
 
 DAYTON 
 
 Eliza 
 
 DEE 
 
 Roxanna 
 
 Avery 
 
 Lois C. 
 
 Alice 
 
 DI'.NNISON 
 
 DE WOLF 
 
 Di;x'ri-;R 
 
 DIl'.BLE 
 
 Elizur B. 
 
 DICK 
 
 Charles 
 
 113 
 
 656 
 
 162 
 
 543 
 759 
 
 294 
 
 1273 
 S79 
 
 1 1 58 
 
 S14 
 974 
 
 344 
 
 674 
 
 3S9 
 
 291 
 
 108 
 
 Joseph 
 Susanna 
 
 I M 1 1 : \ . 
 DIMMICK 
 
 DdANE 
 
 353 
 
 Abigail S. 
 Annie E. 
 George 
 Jane 
 Lerov C. 
 
 DOLPH 
 
 John 
 
 Peter 
 
 Mary 
 
 DONALDSON 
 
 DOKICH 
 
 DODGLASS 
 
 Sarah A. 
 
 liDWn 
 
 Eliza 
 
 Georare 
 
 D(.)VVNHR 
 
 DOYLE 
 
 Carohne 
 
 DRANTON 
 
 Robert C. 
 
 Soiiliia 
 
 Aziibah 
 
 dri;nkle 
 
 DRL'RY 
 
 DUDLEY 
 
 Abigail 
 David . 
 
 5^^ Elizabeth 
 I Frank . 
 Lucv (Starr) 
 
 512 Sarah F". 
 
 DICKINSON 
 
 DUVAL 
 
 Cornelia 
 
 Eliza 
 
 680 : William H. 
 
 DILLON 
 
 DWIGHL 
 
 1 22 
 125 
 
 343 
 696 
 689 
 29 
 6S4 
 
 553 
 
 273 
 
 990 
 
 1077 
 190 
 870 
 5^6 
 S04 
 566 
 299 
 
 22 
 
 451 
 
 25 
 
 498 
 
 5t 
 939 
 
 1085 
 
 475 
 
 ECKERT 
 
 
 Helena S. . . . 
 
 660 
 
 EDDY 
 
 
 Herniaii H. 
 
 1236 
 
 EDICK 
 
 
 Catherine 
 
 1397 
 
 ELKINS 
 
 
 Ira S 
 
 523 
 
 1:LL1(_)TT 
 
 
 
 523 
 
 
 1-MMONS 
 
 
 R.J 
 
 347 
 
 ENGLE 
 
 
 Margaret A. 
 
 508 
 
 EVARTS 
 
 
 Abigail 
 
 21 
 
 Eben R. . . . 
 
 54b 
 
 Eva I 
 
 561 
 
 FAIRFIELD 
 
 
 Ephraim 
 
 449 
 
 FAI.KNER 
 
 
 Bishop 
 
 747 
 
 FAR WELL 
 
 
 George 
 
 622 
 
 FAL'LKNER 
 
 
 Mary A. . . . 
 
 533 
 
 Rosa .... 
 
 62S 
 
 FEATHI'RSTONE 
 
 Edward . . . 1351 
 
 FIELD 
 
 Mary . . . . iSi 
 
 FISH 
 
 Reuben . . . 115 
 
 FISHER "x 
 
 Georgia P. . . . 746 
 
 FISKE ^____^ - 
 
 Sam .... 35 
 
354 
 
 
 Mkigs Gene.\i,o(;.v. 
 
 
 
 kla(;g 
 
 
 I'TLIJ.K 
 
 
 Gori.i) 
 
 
 Kie.l .... 
 
 HiS 
 
 Coleman 
 
 462 
 
 Mary M. 
 
 3-S 
 
 I'I.EMl.XG 
 
 
 Lvdia . 
 Mary C. 
 
 257 
 
 II22 
 
 GRAGG 
 
 
 .M.il<.iliii M. 
 
 796 
 
 Rebecca 
 Susan 
 
 463 
 
 Alice . . . . 
 GRAHAM 
 
 968 
 
 Kl-F/ICHF.K 
 
 
 GAI.I.OWAV 
 
 
 Walter A. . 
 
 6S5 
 
 loci .... 
 Jane H. ... 
 
 497 
 586 
 
 Nathan 
 
 145" 
 
 GR ANN ISS 
 
 
 Margaret R. 
 
 619 
 
 GAMBEE 
 
 
 Elizabeth C. T. . 
 
 4S5 
 
 M.ISS 
 
 
 .Aaron . 
 
 959 
 
 GRAVE 
 
 
 Henry 
 
 1035 
 
 GAMMl-L 
 
 
 Aaron 
 
 5" 
 
 Fl H rVK 
 
 
 
 551 
 
 Frances M. 
 
 360 
 
 Alice E. . . . 
 
 12S5 
 
 G.XRDNl'.R 
 
 GREC,(_>RV 
 
 
 Betsey Ann 
 
 1S7 
 
 .\nnie H. 
 
 245 
 
 Mary 
 
 1 86 
 
 FORBES 
 
 
 " " . . 
 
 237 
 
 GRENNELL 
 
 
 Archibald 
 
 770 
 
 GEE 
 
 
 Charlotte 
 
 166 
 
 FOR.SVTH 
 
 
 .Anna C. 
 
 IU13 
 
 GRINNELL 
 
 
 John .... 
 
 216 
 
 GIBSON 
 
 
 Duight 1). . 
 
 611 
 
 FOSTER 
 
 
 \Vm. P. 
 
 io56 
 
 GRLsWOl.l) 
 
 
 .\nstin 
 
 .S.S5 
 
 GU.LErT 
 
 
 Augusta 
 
 945 
 
 Clarissa 
 
 579 
 
 George 
 
 54S 
 
 Charles 
 
 554 
 
 lereniiah 
 
 14 
 
 
 
 I)aniel 
 
 2S6 
 
 Samuel 
 
 907 
 
 GILLETTE 
 
 
 Eliza E. 
 
 670 
 
 IMJUI.ER 
 
 
 .Augusta 
 
 364 
 
 GUI N HON 
 
 
 Caleb . . . . 
 
 147 
 
 (ULMAN 
 
 
 Esnie L 
 
 ^^39 
 
 
 
 
 
 Eugene W. 
 
 6-,S 
 
 
 
 Gertrude 
 
 803 
 
 
 
 FRANKLIN 
 
 
 
 
 Francis 
 
 312 
 
 
 
 (.ODWIN 
 
 
 Irving E. 
 
 10.S4 
 
 Fydia . . . . 
 
 49 
 
 
 
 Irving M. 
 
 ''37 
 
 FRA/IER 
 
 
 (_ h.irlotte 
 
 G(JLI)SM1TH 
 
 631 
 
 Louise W. . 
 
 IUS5 
 
 Joseph 
 
 ISS 
 
 WiUi.ini H. . 
 
 569 
 
 HAIRE 
 
 
 FREEMAN 
 
 
 GOOD 
 
 
 William A. . 
 
 1064 
 
 .Mary . . . . 
 
 726 
 
 
 
 HALL 
 
 
 Alice . . . . 
 
 7,^6 
 
 George 
 
 734 
 
 lohn M. 
 
 226 
 
 FRENCH 
 
 
 GCjODALE 
 
 
 Phebe .M. 
 
 225 
 
 Mary . . . . 
 
 33 
 
 Phebe . 
 
 GOOHRICH 
 
 20 
 
 H.VLSEV 
 Mary -\nn 
 
 
 FROST 
 
 
 
 
 339 
 
 
 
 Alfre.l B. 
 
 927 
 
 
 
 Carobne M . 
 
 709 
 
 GOOUSPEEI) 
 
 
 H.V.MLIN 
 
 
 !• K ^• 
 
 
 
 
 Elizabeth 
 
 29 
 
 
 
 William 
 
 117 
 
 Reuben 
 
 445 
 
 Taniizen 
 
 3 
 
 F.liph.ilel 
 
 464 
 
 0. C. . . . 
 
 350 
 

 
 Ixiu X 
 
 
 
 
 355 
 
 HAMMOND 
 
 
 HELM 
 
 
 Hdl.T 
 
 
 Pieiijiuniii 
 
 109 
 
 Lilly 
 
 1211 
 
 Elizalieth 
 
 197 
 
 Edminster 
 
 112 
 
 HENSHAW 
 
 
 Hi ILWAV 
 
 
 flANlJ 
 
 
 Elizabeth 
 
 97 
 
 John .... 
 
 468 
 
 Daniel 
 
 171 
 
 H E R R I C K 
 
 
 Mary D. ... 
 (See pase 209.) 
 
 
 Janna 
 
 192 
 
 
 
 
 
 Jane 
 
 384 
 
 AlmiraJ. 
 
 icSS 
 
 HO MANS 
 
 
 Joseph 
 
 So 1 
 
 Clara Eugenie 
 
 
 10S9 
 
 
 
 Mary 
 
 26 
 
 Edward L. P. 
 
 
 1091 
 
 Oliver .... 
 
 1402 
 
 Reliecca 
 
 II 
 
 Edward M. 
 Florence M. 
 
 
 642 
 1090 
 
 HOPSON 
 
 
 HANDY 
 
 
 George A. M. 
 
 
 1092 
 
 Millicent 
 
 83 
 
 Rdwena 
 
 454 
 
 John C. 
 Louise L. 
 
 
 314 
 644 
 
 HORSFORD 
 
 
 HARDING 
 
 
 Lucy A. 
 
 
 643 
 
 Nellie .... 
 
 669 
 
 Flora . 
 
 444 
 
 HE^WddD 
 
 
 HOLGH 
 
 
 HAKDV 
 
 
 George M. . 
 
 376 
 
 Sara R. ... 
 
 1112 
 
 Mary C. 
 
 646 
 
 HICKS 
 
 
 HOWARD 
 
 
 HARRINGTO: 
 
 \' 
 
 Daisy P. 
 
 976 
 
 Alice .... 
 
 725 
 
 Elise . 
 
 1022 
 
 
 
 HOWELL 
 
 
 James . 
 
 • 587 
 
 H1G(.INS 
 
 
 
 
 Park James . 
 
 977 
 
 Ida ... 
 
 1122 
 
 .... 
 
 290 
 
 HARRIS 
 
 
 Mamie 
 
 1 169 
 
 HON IE 
 
 
 Emily . 
 
 626 
 
 HILL 
 
 
 Abner 
 
 252 
 
 HART 
 
 
 Nathan D. . 
 
 571 
 
 HOVT 
 
 
 Benjamin 
 
 224 
 
 HINKI.EV 
 
 
 Juliet . . . . 
 
 3'-'3 
 
 Harry C. 
 
 407 
 
 lames 
 
 
 HLBBARD 
 
 
 HARVi:V 
 
 
 iSee page :ou.) 
 
 
 Frederick 
 
 713 
 
 Darius 
 
 475 
 
 HINMAN 
 
 
 Jeremiah 
 
 78 
 
 HAICH 
 
 
 Charles L. . 
 
 S15 
 
 HUBBELL 
 
 
 Ebeiiezer 
 
 127 
 
 HITCHCOCK 
 
 
 Richard 
 
 6 
 
 HAWK 
 
 
 Harriet 
 
 492 
 
 HLLI. 
 
 
 John 
 
 371 
 
 HriTNER 
 
 
 Henry C. 
 Joseph 
 Lillian A. . 
 
 1114 
 943 
 
 HAWKINS 
 
 
 Henry C. 
 
 • 657 
 
 102S 
 
 George G. . 
 
 1462 
 
 H(.)HSON 
 
 
 Hl'NT 
 
 
 Mary A. 
 
 . S51 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Thomas 
 
 465 
 
 Charles P. . . . 
 
 991 
 
 IIAWI.KV 
 
 
 IIOLCH 
 
 
 Lydia . . . . 
 
 259 
 
 Cynthia 
 
 183 
 
 Ida M. . . 
 
 121S 
 
 HUGHES 
 
 
 HAVT 
 
 
 HOLMES 
 
 
 Carrie C. 
 
 1177 
 
 Jonathan S. 
 
 . 672 
 
 
 
 HYDE 
 
 
 hi:a TH 
 
 
 Eleanor 
 Hannah 
 
 214 
 i'3 
 
 Diana . . - . 
 
 <S69 
 
 J..hn I'. 
 
 993 
 
 Mary . 
 
 
 425 
 
 Hannah 
 
 267 
 
356 
 
 INGERSOLL 
 Ann \V. 
 
 IRISH 
 
 H. C 
 
 IRWIN 
 John B. . . . 
 
 IVES 
 George A. . 
 
 JACKSON 
 John G. 
 
 (See pp. 252- J53.) 
 
 Zelinda 
 
 Ed wan 
 
 I A COBS 
 
 JAMES 
 
 JANES 
 
 JENKINS 
 
 Isidore 
 Ruth 
 
 JKWETT 
 
 Harriet M. 
 
 JOHNSON 
 
 Jane 
 
 Josepliine C. 
 Samuel L. 
 
 JONE 
 
 Hiram 
 
 James 
 
 Lemuel 
 
 Lilibie 
 
 Rebecca 
 
 Remember 
 
 Seth 
 
 JTDSON 
 Charlotte M. 
 
 KANE 
 Alonzo 
 
 400 
 
 .S72 
 
 605 
 
 164 
 
 366 
 295 
 
 706 
 
 Meics Genealocy. 
 KI-ECH 
 
 Adeiia 
 
 990 
 
 KEELER 
 
 Maria 
 
 Hannah 
 
 KrOI.ER 
 
 LADD 
 
 Selina 
 
 Ki:iTH 
 
 Minor H. 
 
 Abbie B. 
 Mercy . 
 
 Emily A. 
 Mary 
 Mary E. 
 Una 
 
 KELLEV 
 
 KELSEV 
 
 KETTELL 
 
 Ephonia 
 506 KIBBEE 
 
 David . . . . 
 505 ' KIMBALL 
 
 J- I 
 
 KIMBEKLEV 
 
 S63 
 123 
 
 59''^ 
 
 19 
 
 Abel . 
 Hannah 
 
 529 
 
 455 
 466 
 
 679 
 
 334 
 691 
 
 346 
 
 973 
 
 4.SS 
 
 476 
 
 2S3 
 2N2 
 
 David 
 
 LAMI'HEAR 
 
 LA.NLSON 
 
 LANHIS 
 
 Bethuel 
 
 Sears 
 
 Jose|>h 
 
 LAPHAM 
 
 LAPPAN 
 
 LASELLE 
 
 Caroline 
 Mary 
 
 LATHROP 
 
 Harriet 
 
 LAWRENCE 
 
 Louise A. 
 William 
 
 409 
 
 325 
 
 KING 
 
 Hiram . . 1274 
 
 KIRKPATRICK 
 
 721 
 KIKTLANI) 
 Martin ... 73 
 
 KNIGHT 
 
 1.. M 870 
 
 KNOX 
 
 Henry C. . . . S9S 
 
 KOLB 
 
 LEAMING 
 
 Elizalieth 
 
 642 ; Catherin 
 521 
 
 577 
 
 457 
 S64 
 254 
 621 
 
 3'^ 
 453 
 
 Dorothy 
 
 LEA \ ITT 
 
 LEE 
 
 Mary 
 Peter 
 
 (See page 15s.) 
 
 KRALSSE 
 
 F.lizaljeth 
 
 144.S 
 
 509 
 
 Luranda 
 
 Nathaniel 
 
 Thomas 
 
 LEONARD 
 
 Frederick W. 
 
 LEWIS 
 
 Cecil G. 
 
 LIGHTHALL 
 
 William A. . 
 
 LIMB 
 
 Lessie V. 
 
 167 
 
 473 
 
 1426 
 
 244 
 
 418 
 
 •\53 
 
 3"5 
 604 
 
 26.S 
 
 1 146 
 1413 
 
 399 
 
 261 
 
 335 
 100 
 212 
 
 644 
 
 1143 
 
 ^6 
 
LIXIISI.ICV 
 Nellie H. 
 
 LINES 
 Minerva 
 
 LITTLE 
 EninieliiK' 
 
 LOBDELL 
 George W. . 
 
 LOTER 
 Steplieii 
 
 LORD 
 Concurrence 
 
 LORING 
 Amelia 
 
 I.OX'E 
 SallieK. 
 
 LOVE LAND 
 
 Kiinice 
 ^Llrietta 
 
 LUCAS 
 
 Herbert E. 
 
 < ieorge 
 
 Solomon 
 
 LLM 
 
 H'SK 
 
 Oliver S. 
 
 Grace 
 
 Alice 
 David 
 
 lohn K. 
 
 LVEORD 
 
 LVNDE 
 
 LYNN 
 
 LYONS 
 
 MARKHAM 
 
 556 
 
 359 
 
 816 
 
 40S 
 
 1 68 
 
 ^ii 
 
 368 
 
 2«5 
 
 288 
 
 9S2 
 
 513 
 
 1 147 
 
 768 
 
 241 
 
 240 
 
 Indkx. 
 
 MARSTON 
 Arthur 
 
 ^L'\RT1N 
 Elizabeth 
 
 MAK\'1N 
 Theodore B. 
 1!. 
 M ATI' HEWS 
 Mary . . . . 
 
 MAYHEW 
 Catherine 
 
 MAVNES 
 
 Lottie . . . . 
 
 McCLOSKEY 
 
 Mary . . . . 
 
 McDERMoTT 
 
 Catherine F. 
 
 McDonald 
 
 Mary N. . . . 
 
 McG^'l••FE^■ 
 
 Welcome 
 
 McKEE 
 
 Florence 
 
 Mollie . . . . 
 
 McNESBIC 
 
 I MILLER 
 
 1452 Kate 
 
 I MII.LIKEN 
 
 722 William ^L . 
 
 MILLS 
 578 I Samuel H. 
 580 MINOR 
 
 773 
 
 625 
 
 Joseph 
 
 MI'.ADE 
 
 Richard W. 
 
 (See pages ^53-254.) 
 
 956 
 
 812 
 
 395 
 
 4S4 
 
 1187 
 1 185 
 
 S99 
 
 393 
 
 Lorilla 
 
 MONROE 
 Lydia .... 
 MONTGOMERY 
 Mary .... 
 
 .MORKY 
 Caroline W. 
 
 MORGAN 
 Alice .... 
 
 MOORE 
 
 Ellen R. 
 Julia B. 
 
 .M( iSS 
 
 Emmeline 
 
 MLLFi I 
 
 Edward 
 
 MLNGl: 
 
 Barton B. 
 Harriet 
 
 •:r 
 
 Mary 
 
 Thankfid 
 
 MLRPHN- 
 
 MURRAY 
 
 Minnie 
 
 Mary E. 
 
 MEFFERT 
 
 MERRICK 
 
 MILES 
 
 620 NASH 
 
 , Sallie 
 
 NAYLOR 
 
 820 
 
 Henrv 
 
 :-,5i 
 
 1405 
 
 1454 
 
 62-, 
 
 193 
 499 
 
 139S 
 
 219 
 
 455 
 
 S94 
 
 841 
 
 3«i 
 
 1451 
 
 William 
 
 I James 
 1428 j Mattie A. 
 
 1404 
 
 1455 I Josiah 
 
 NEWCOMR 
 
 S5 
 
 694 
 690 
 
 940 
 
 18 
 
 155 
 
 1 166 
 
 847 
 
35'^ 
 
 Meigs Genp:alogy. 
 
 NICH< >LS 
 
 
 PECK 
 
 
 PRATT 
 
 
 Maria B. . . . 
 
 373 
 
 Mary A. . . . 
 
 702 
 
 Benjamin 
 
 Havid .... 
 
 24 
 426 
 
 N(.)krilR()P 
 
 
 PEET 
 
 
 Jerusha C. . . . 
 
 1S4 
 
 Cora M. 
 
 1125 
 
 Sarah 1\L . . . 
 
 266 
 
 Lay W. ... 
 
 336 
 
 NORTON 
 
 
 PERLEV 
 
 
 PRICE 
 
 
 Hannah 
 
 246 
 
 |ohn .... 
 
 437 
 
 Phoebe 
 
 456 
 
 .Miiidwell 
 
 21 
 
 PERRY 
 
 
 PROUTY 
 
 
 ODDIE 
 
 
 Maria .... 
 
 833 
 
 George 
 
 95.^ 
 
 Walter M. . 
 
 (See page 255.) 
 
 394 
 
 PHILLIPS 
 
 
 PRYOR 
 
 
 t.)Gl:)EN 
 
 
 Mary E. 
 
 977 
 
 Alvira (Stanley) . 
 
 593 
 
 Isaac .... 
 
 3S0 
 
 PIERSON 
 
 
 PURDY 
 
 
 Mary Ann 
 
 275 
 
 F.laine .... 
 
 ,S7i 
 
 Anna M. . . . 
 
 616 
 
 oI.Ii.S 
 
 
 PILGRIM 
 
 
 RAND 
 
 
 Henry \V. . 
 
 1 167 
 
 Elizabeth A. 
 
 292 
 
 Richard 
 
 205 
 
 OR'I'ON 
 
 
 George W. . 
 
 2.S7 
 
 REDFORI) 
 
 
 SaIHe .... 
 
 723 
 
 PINKF.RTON 
 
 
 Martha A. . . . 
 
 1415 
 
 OWEN 
 
 
 Lizzie .... 
 
 1015 
 
 REED 
 
 
 Hattie .... 
 
 1 140 
 
 PINTO 
 
 
 Horatio 
 
 4.S1 
 
 PADPLICFDRU 
 
 
 Anna . . , . 
 
 92 
 
 RF i:\-ES 
 
 
 Benjamin F. 
 
 4N6 
 
 POLI.DCK 
 
 
 Elsie .... 
 
 281 
 
 Nancy .... 
 
 4^i 
 
 Margaret 
 
 654 
 
 RI'MIXGToN 
 
 
 PALMER 
 
 
 POME ROY 
 
 
 Josephine M. 
 
 996 
 
 Alice M. 
 
 10.S6 
 
 Medad 
 
 546 
 
 
 
 Eugene C. . 
 
 1087 
 
 
 
 RICE 
 
 
 (ieorge W. . 
 
 639 
 
 POOL 
 
 
 
 327 
 
 
 
 PALM ITER 
 
 
 .Samuel 
 
 757 
 
 RICH 
 
 
 Eugene 
 
 103.S 
 
 POPE 
 
 
 h'.lizalieth 
 
 »4 
 
 Willi. mi 
 
 163 
 
 Fieldnig 
 
 367 
 
 RICHARDS 
 
 
 PARKER 
 
 
 POPHAM 
 
 
 Evan .... 
 
 1400 
 
 Polly .... 
 Sarah M. . . . 
 
 23-' 
 1175 
 
 Robert C. . 
 
 PORTER 
 
 745 
 
 RIGGS 
 
 
 PARKHL'RST 
 
 
 Noah .... 
 
 206 
 
 Bernice ... 
 
 516 
 
 Mary .... 
 PAR mi: LEE 
 
 43« 
 
 POST 
 Eunice 
 
 •^33 
 
 RIPLE^• 
 Warwick 
 
 ROBINSON 
 
 776 
 
 Mabel .... 
 Phinea.s 
 
 143 
 
 75 
 
 POWER 
 
 
 Jabez .... 
 
 126 
 
 Sibe .... 
 
 142 
 
 Frederick P>. 
 
 666 
 
 Persis .... 
 
 no 
 
 PARSONS 
 
 
 po\vi-:rs 
 
 
 rohi;rtson 
 
 
 Phebe .... 
 
 317 
 
 Addie .... 
 
 [416 
 
 Alexander 
 
 914 
 
RODGERS 
 
 Jane P. 
 Louisa 
 
 ROGERS 
 
 Clarence 
 Cornelia 
 
 Rf uben 
 
 Jane 
 Jennie . 
 Rufns (J. 
 
 Sarah U. 
 
 ROSE 
 
 ROSS 
 
 ROUSE 
 
 ROWLEY 
 
 Henrv N. 
 
 RUf.GLES 
 
 William 
 
 Etta 
 
 RUSS 
 
 RUSSELL 
 
 Julia K. 
 kobert R. 
 
 RYALS 
 
 W. M. 
 
 Marv 
 
 livint; 
 
 SAMF'SON 
 
 SAXBORN 
 
 SANDERSON 
 
 Reuben 
 
 SAN TLI'-.Y 
 
 Gertrude 
 
 SAl'NDICRS 
 
 Eliza B. 
 
 Joseph 
 
 SAW^'ER 
 
 779 
 39« 
 
 420 
 
 405 
 
 .S2 
 
 372 
 729 
 
 72,S 
 
 "39 
 
 10,86 
 
 494 
 
 1 460 
 
 677 
 567 
 
 1463 
 
 427 
 
 1030 
 
 269 
 
 917 
 
 174 
 
 756 
 
 Philena 
 
 Maggie 
 
 Emily 
 
 Chloe 
 
 Index. 
 SCAGEL 
 
 SCHLEW 
 
 SC( )TT 
 
 SCR ANTON 
 
 SEARS 
 
 SEWARP 
 Asenath 
 
 SHAFFER 
 Eugenia B. . 
 
 SHAW 
 Harriet 
 
 shi:arer 
 
 Robert 
 
 SHEFFIELD 
 Charles D. . 
 
 shi:lley 
 
 Thomas 
 
 SHl'AVELL 
 Edith D. 
 
 shipli:y 
 
 Hattie N. . . . 
 
 SHORES 
 Mary L. . . . 
 
 SIMMONS 
 Marietta 
 
 SIMPSON 
 Margaret (\'aiih<irne) 
 
 SLACK 
 Harriet L. . 
 
 60.^ 
 
 1039 
 
 394 
 
 ■S3 
 
 940 
 S73 
 
 45 
 724 
 
 715 
 
 I 2.S,S 
 
 711 
 '51 
 655 
 ,S,So 
 Sgl 
 607 
 63S 
 629 
 
 Williar 
 
 lulia H. 
 
 Robert 
 
 SLADb; 
 
 SLATI'.RA 
 
 SLOCUM 
 
 SMITH 
 
 Catherine 
 
 Jude .... 
 
 Mary A. 
 
 SYMTHE 
 
 Jeannie 
 
 SNOW 
 
 .Abigail 
 Elizabeth M. 
 Levi 
 
 S( I'll 1 
 
 Lu( retia 
 
 SOUTH MA^■D 
 
 Alien . . . . 
 
 SPARROW 
 
 Harriet 
 
 SPENCER 
 
 Edson .... 
 
 SQUIRES 
 
 Mollie . . . . 
 
 STAFFORD 
 
 J J 
 
 STANNARD 
 
 Emma C. . 
 
 STARR 
 
 Grace .... 
 
 STEPHENS 
 
 Angelo D. . 
 
 STEX'ENS 
 
 Ehsha . . . . 
 Mary .... 
 Mehitable 
 William 
 
 359 
 
 1406 
 
 324 
 
 750 
 
 S59 
 150 
 411 
 
 360 
 
 231 
 
 673 
 421 
 
 912 
 
 303 
 
 675 
 
 1267 
 
 1161 
 
 675 
 
 90 
 
 531 
 
 72 
 
 284 
 
 1 401 
 
 5 
 
;,6o 
 
 
 Meigs Gknealocjy 
 
 
 
 
 ST F. WART 
 
 
 THORINGION 
 
 
 VAN DXKP; 
 
 
 Heiniella H. 
 
 402 
 
 
 377 
 
 lileanor 
 
 20<S 
 
 * * 
 
 
 SriLKS 
 
 
 TILKSTON 
 
 
 VAN LOAN 
 
 
 Joliii H. ... 
 
 1033 
 
 i'dna .... 
 
 944 
 
 Jemima (\'on Boskerk) 
 
 69 
 
 SroCKWKl.I. 
 
 
 TINKHAM 
 
 
 \'AN ZANDT 
 
 , 
 
 Phelie .... 
 
 297 
 
 Reuben 
 
 234 
 
 Julia . . . . 
 
 397 
 
 STONR 
 
 
 TISS 
 
 
 WADl.l-.lGH 
 
 
 lUizabetli 
 
 105 
 
 Isabella C. . 
 
 653 
 
 John ^F . . . 
 
 ,S3S 
 
 Katherine E. 
 
 STORKS 
 
 sss 
 
 TiTrs 
 
 John H. 
 
 613 
 
 WAGER 
 
 4.S0 
 
 
 
 Peyton K. . 
 
 STRONG 
 
 Annie .... 
 Sarali .... 
 
 354 
 
 697 
 
 431 
 
 T( IMI.INSON 
 
 l.orena 
 
 Sarah .... 
 
 267 
 132 
 
 WALBKIDGE 
 Eavinia 
 
 WAEKER 
 
 S'^ii 
 
 STL'RGI':S 
 
 Isaac .... 
 Sarali .... 
 
 866 
 S67 
 
 looKF.R 
 Julia .... 
 TRKSSMKR 
 
 396 
 
 Harriet L. 
 John 
 
 WAEKl.l'A 
 
 987 
 370 
 
 SWI'.AT. 
 
 
 Anna D. 
 
 650 
 
 Julia S. 
 
 549 
 
 William W. 
 
 429 
 
 TklPP 
 
 
 WAEE 
 
 
 lAlU'.K 
 
 
 H. A 
 
 1456 
 
 Emma E. 
 
 1123 
 
 Painelia 
 
 250 
 
 Tl'LLKR 
 
 
 WAEEACE 
 
 
 TAPPAN 
 
 
 Lucretia 
 
 301 
 
 John 
 
 >^73 
 
 Mary K. 
 
 313 
 
 Rebecca 
 
 304 
 
 WAEEER 
 
 
 (Marsh) . 
 
 3" 
 
 Tl'KNl'R 
 
 
 Dwight E. . 
 
 1077 
 
 TA^"l.oR 
 
 
 Jeruslia K. 
 
 404 
 
 F^dwin F. 
 George E. . 
 
 1076 
 
 Joseph H. . 
 
 (Sec page ,VjS.t 
 
 766 
 
 TWAiK 
 
 
 Harriet A, . 
 Mary E. 
 
 1078 
 1075 
 
 riAVKSBrm- 
 
 
 Samuel 
 
 144 
 
 Nellie A. 
 
 1074 
 
 Wilbur 
 
 692 
 
 '^^■RR^,l.L 
 
 
 WALTER 
 
 
 THA^■KR 
 
 
 Katherine T. 
 
 395 
 
 John 
 
 1074 
 
 Hezekiah 
 
 272 
 
 Ul.LMAN 
 
 
 WARD 
 
 
 ... 
 
 277 
 
 Mary P. . . . 
 
 S17 
 
 Ambrose 
 
 77 
 
 THOAIAS 
 
 
 URF. 
 
 
 Andrew 
 l'-. M. . 
 
 9 
 892 
 
 Ann (Williams) 
 
 
 James \'. . . . 
 XAl.l.KR 
 
 575 
 
 Levi 
 
 74 
 65 
 54 
 
 TIK )MPS( iN 
 
 John W. 
 
 Charles 1 >. . 
 
 6.S,S 
 
 Abigail 
 
 469 
 
 I'helus 
 
 56 
 
 Hiram H. . 
 Howard 
 
 493 
 705 
 
 \AN HlKl-.N 
 
 
 WARNl'k 
 
 
 William J. . 
 
 q-'9 
 
 Alexander 
 
 322 
 
 Chester 
 
 961 
 
VVATEKHorSK 
 
 Edward I'. . 
 
 WATERMAN 
 
 Laura .... 
 
 WAT ROUS 
 
 Frank .... 
 
 WAV 
 
 Willis S. 
 
 WEARLNG 
 
 Teeiiie 
 
 WEBB 
 
 Reyiu.lil 
 
 WEEKS 
 
 Abigail 
 
 Edmund F. 
 
 John .... 
 
 Mercy .... 
 
 weli.i:k 
 
 Mary .... 
 
 WEELS 
 J.c 
 
 wi-:sT 
 
 Charlotte 
 
 WESTON 
 
 Rosamond 
 Warren 
 
 WEl'MoRl-: 
 
 Justin J. 
 
 WEVM( H'TH 
 
 1119 
 
 474 
 
 6S1 
 
 6S6 
 
 140.S 
 
 179 
 
 258 
 
 857 
 
 37 
 
 13 
 
 595 
 
 349 
 
 627 
 
 751 
 762 
 
 Ln'de.k. 
 
 WHEAT 
 
 Ralph .... 
 
 WHISICNEANT 
 
 liarbara E. . 
 
 WHITE HOUSE 
 
 Hulcie .... 
 
 WHITING 
 
 Rebecca 
 
 WIGGINS 
 
 Elizabeth 
 
 WII.CO.X 
 
 Curtis .... 
 
 Ezra .... 
 
 Sarah .... 
 
 Zenas .... 
 
 WII.I.ARl) 
 
 1268 
 
 242 
 
 Fred A. 
 Hannah 
 
 WILLIAMS 
 
 Erastus 
 Nannie 
 Nelson B. 
 Willoughbv 
 
 WILMAKTH 
 
 .Asa|>h 
 
 942 
 
 213 
 
 433 
 
 66 
 
 165 
 
 227 
 
 64 
 
 8 
 
 333 
 
 992 
 12 
 
 211 
 
 270 
 
 567 
 356 
 
 472 
 
 Delia 
 
 WOLI'- 
 
 W( II >l) 
 
 Elihu 
 
 WORTHING 
 
 Ella 
 Ella 
 Sophia 
 
 Mary 
 
 WRIGHT 
 
 WVATT 
 
 VALE 
 
 361 
 
 869 
 
 .lohn W. 
 Susie .M. 
 
 528 
 693 
 
 WO(.)l.)MAN 
 
 
 Canulla 
 
 496 
 
 WOODRUEI'- 
 
 
 Lucy ( Baldwin 1 . 
 
 308 
 
 W(.)OLF( )LK 
 
 
 Arthur R. . . . 
 William 1-:. . 
 
 798 
 795 
 
 WORTH 
 
 
 446 
 
 500 
 
 715 
 
 761 
 
 191 
 
 "3 
 
 WlNBoRN 
 
 
 Lucy 
 
 
 516 
 
 loanna 
 
 90 
 
 .Sarah 
 
 J. . . . 
 
 560 
 
 WINDSOR 
 
 
 
 ^•ATES 
 
 
 Albert . . . . 
 
 482 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Ma.-d 
 
 dena . 
 
 202 
 
 WINSLOW 
 
 
 
 \()VNC, 
 
 
 It)sephine A. 
 
 636 
 
 
 
 
 .Susanna 
 
 135 
 
 U. Z. 
 
 » 
 
 495 
 
 SURNAMES UNKNOWN. 
 
 Avis 
 
 Bathsheba 
 
 Jean 
 
 Jerusha — 
 
 Martha 
 
 Rebecca — 
 
 m. Mark Meigs (No. 4). 
 ' Ebenezer Meigs (No. 36). 
 ' Matthew Meigs (No. 119). 
 ' Felix Meigs (No. 551. 
 ' Joseph Meigs (No. 39). 
 ' Ebenezer Meigs (No. 36). 
 
o6-^ 
 
 Meigs Genealogy. 
 
 INDEX OF SUBJECTS. 
 
 NUMBERS IN PARENTHESIS REFER TO INDIVIDUALS, 
 OTHERS TO PAGES. 
 
 Academy — Alliaiiy Ft'inalt-, N. ^'. 
 
 E. \V. Crittenden, Priniipal 
 of, .... 227 
 
 Jane T. (504) };radnate of, 65 
 
 Ricliarti M. (210) Trea.s. of, 227 
 " Marion, Mass. 
 
 Jose]ih l.orini; (S17) grad- 
 nate of, . . . 309 
 
 " National, of Science. 
 
 M. C. (398) nienilier of, 26S 
 
 " Natnral Science, Phila. 
 
 lames Aitl<enMeiys, I.ilirar- 
 ian of, . . . . 230 
 
 " Naval, at Anna|)olis, Md. 
 
 Memorial taljK-t to Admiral 
 Meade, . . . 329 
 
 " Naval, Ne\v]>ort, 1\. 1. 
 
 lolin F. (779) gradnate of, 30.S 
 " Old Bridgewater, Mass. 
 
 Joseph, jr. (425) graduate of, 271 
 West Point. 
 Jolin R. (765) graduate of. 305 
 Col. |oseph H. Taylor, 
 gradnate of, . . 30S 
 
 Richard \V. Meade, grad- 
 uate of, ... 253 
 Admiralty Court in Bermuda 
 
 [osiah (9S) l'ro( tor in, . 20S 
 
 Alarms — Falmouth. 
 
 Jaliez (125) service in, 319 
 
 Matthew (119) service in, 320 
 
 Reuben, (38) service in 321 
 
 " Le.xington. 
 
 Daniel (83) Sergt. at, 31-197 
 
 Jehiel (81) Knsign at, 3i-'95 
 
 John (108) service in, 319 
 
 Nathaniel (113) service in 320 
 
 Return 1.(90) service in, 34-19S-201 
 " Rhode Island. 
 
 F^benezer ( 1 10) service in, 319 
 
 X'ermont. 
 
 P>enjamin .S. (156) service in, 214 
 Daniel B. ( 161) service in, 216-217 
 
 Page 
 
 Albany 
 
 Annals, Maj. John (167) frequent- 
 ly mentioned in, . . 46 
 Major John (167) High Constaljle 
 
 of ... . . 46 
 
 and Schenectady Railroad. 
 
 Maj. John (167) on first excursion 
 train, ..... 46 
 
 .American Institute, N. ^'. 
 
 Judge Henry (215) Record- 
 ing Secretary of, . 56 
 Museum, Judge Henry (215) 
 I'oimder of, ... 56 
 Ancestry— Fry, . . 172-174-322-323 
 Meggs, 8-163 lo 16S-172 to 174 
 Wilco.x, .... 182 
 Willard, . 1 89- 190-326-327 
 Andover, Mass. 
 
 ]oliu Fry, I'asing, Fug., an 
 early settler in, . . 322 
 
 Theological Seminary, Benj. 
 C. (266) graduate of, . 65 
 
 A(|ueduct, Washington, D. C. 
 
 Constructed Ijy Maj. Gen'l 
 Montgomery C. (39S) 262-264 
 Archives. Mass. — Maj. Willard's account 
 
 of his service, . 328 
 Rev. War Records in, 
 
 317 to 321. 
 Arei|uipa and ^Tollendo Railroad. 
 
 Built by Henry, (526) . . 277 
 
 Arkansas City, Kansas. 
 
 Herman (627) Mayor of, . . 76 
 
 Arlington Cemetery. Monuments there to 
 
 Professor Josiah, (98) . . 20S 
 
 Montgomery C. (39S) . . 267 
 
 John R. (765) .... 307 
 
 Arms of Meggs, .... 3-4 
 
 Bradford I'e\erell, 4-162-163 
 
 Cambridgeshire, . 162-163 
 
 Kent, .... 162-163 
 
 Lomlon, . . 162-163 
 
 VVarnickshire, . . 162-163 
 
 White Chapel, . . 163-164 
 
Index. 
 
 3^^ 3 
 
 Army, U. S. 
 
 Meade, George Gorilun, Major- 
 
 General, .... 253 
 
 Montgonierv C. (39S) (J 11 a r t e r- 
 
 Master General, . . . 25S 
 
 John (97) Hrigade-Major, . 37-205 
 
 John K. (765) Brevet-Major, . 305 
 
 Taylor, Jolin R. M., Captain, 308 
 
 Taylor, Joseph H., Colonel . 30S 
 
 Return J. (90) Lieut. -Colonel, 201 
 
 Return J. (191) " " 223 
 
 ArnoUl's Expedition to (Juebec, 34-200 
 
 Map of Rovite, ... 34 
 
 Col. Return J. (90) accompanied 
 
 it, .... 34-200-201 
 
 Major John (97) accompanietl it, 206 
 Artillery, Tenn. ist Regiment. 
 
 Joe V. (724) l.ieut. of, . 300 
 
 " U. .S. P'irst Colored. 
 
 Joe V. (724) Officer of, . 300 
 
 '■ L'. .S., Fielding I'ope (725) Cap- 
 
 tain of, .... 302 
 
 Assembly. See Legislature. 
 Asylum — Cherokee Blind and Insane. 
 
 John R, (726) Stipt. of, . 124 
 
 Deaf and Dumb, N. \. 
 
 |)r. llar\ey 1'. Feet President 
 
 <il 240 
 
 Jane T (504) Teacher in. 
 Atchison, Kan. — William V. F)laiid,.\lavor 
 
 "'■ ■ ■ ' 253 
 
 Australia. — Jasper li. (625) Mayor of town 
 
 in, .... 76 
 
 Baltimoie, Md —Home of Henry 15, (593) 
 .Author of Meigs' Gen- 
 ealogw . . 107 
 
 Barnstable down Recorils, . 321-322 
 
 Battles— Benningtim, Benj.nnin .S. (156) 
 
 at, 214 
 
 Lookout .Mount. iln. Major-Gen- 
 eral Montgomery C. (398) par- 
 ticipated in, . . . 264 
 •Manila. Montgomery M. Tay- 
 lor, commanding battery on 
 Flagship "Olympia," in, 30S 
 Pekin. John R. M. Fayloi at 
 
 Siege of, .... 308 
 
 Quebec. Return J. (90) taken 
 
 prisoner at, . . 34-200-201 
 
 Red River. James M. (732) not- 
 able conduct at, . . 304 
 Sag Harbor. Col. Return J. (90) 
 
 Commander m, . 201-202 
 
 Stony Point. Col. Return J. (90) 
 
 at capture of, . 34-201 
 
 Ticonderoga. Jehiai (81) in vic- 
 tory at, ... . 196 
 
 Bayonne, N. J.— Henry (395) Mayor of, 273 
 Bedford, P.O.— ^Lllcolm R. (629) Mayor of, 76 
 Bennington, \'t. — Expedition to, . 214 
 
 .Sergt. Benj. S. (i56)accompanied it, 214 
 Bermuda.— Charles D. (219) boin in .St. 
 
 George's, ... 57 
 
 Josiah (98) Proctor in .Admir- 
 alty Court, ... 57 
 Bland descendants of Meigs, . 252-55^ 
 Bradford Peverell, luigland. 
 
 ArmsofMeggs, . . 4-162-163 
 
 Meggs Manor at, . . 16410168 
 
 Parish Church, . . . 166-167 
 
 Bradford, Jack, slave defended by Re- 
 turn J. (36S) .... 248 
 Bragg descendants of .Meigs, . . 2^8 
 Brick Ship at Chicago Fair, 1893. 
 
 Designed by Rear Ailiuii al Meade, 254 
 Cabin John Bridge. 
 
 Largest .Stone Arch in the world, 
 
 262 to 264 
 Built by Montgomery C. (398) 262-264 
 Campus Martins. 
 
 Early fortilication near Marietta, O. 52 
 Canadian Parliament. 
 
 Daniel B. (628) Representative to, 
 from Missiscpioi Co., 113-296 
 
 Capitol, Washington, D. C. 
 
 r)ouu' and wings constructed by 
 Montgomery C. (39S) 261-264 
 
 Cave, Judge's in West Rock Park, New 
 
 Haven, ... 9 
 
 Inscription, . 10 
 
 " " John (3) concealed Regi- 
 
 cides there, . . 10 
 
 Ceylon, India. 
 
 Benjamin C. (266) Missionary 
 
 there 65-240 
 
 Centennial Exposition. 
 
 Joe \'. (724) Commissioner from 
 Mass. to, .... 301 
 
 Cherokees. 
 
 Henry Clay Meigs (727) Clerk 
 ofthe District, Circuit, and 
 Superior Courts of Illinois 
 District, Cherokee Nation 
 and District Judge for same 
 district, . . 125 
 
 John Ross, Principal Chief of, .84 
 " " " Meigs (726) mem- 
 
 ber of the .Senate 
 of Cherokee 
 Council, . 124 
 
 (7 26) Sii pt . of 
 Cherokee Bliiul 
 and Insane .Asyl- 
 um, . . 125 
 
o('4 
 
 MKK;S GKNEALOf^'. 
 
 Page 
 Cherokees. 
 
 Return J. (90) Aseiit lo, 34-:20o-2O4 
 Return R. (729) Member of 
 Council, Speaker of llie 
 House, and Captain of Kee- 
 too-wahs, . ■ 303 
 
 Chicago— World's Fair. 
 
 Richard W. Meade, memlierol 
 
 Govt. Board at, . . 254 
 
 Richard VV. Meade, desi.yner 
 of " Brick Ship " there, 254 
 
 Chili. 
 
 Henry (52<i) Railway contractor 
 
 there ^1^ 
 
 Chittenden — Gdes, prominent in \'er- 
 
 mont's early history, '95 
 
 " Lucius E., Registrar I'. S. 
 
 Treasury, ... I94 
 
 " Martin, 6th ("■overnor of Ver- 
 
 mont, ... 195 
 
 " Martin, Memlier of Congress 
 
 from Vt , . . . 195 
 
 Thomas, ist Governor ol 
 Vermont, . . ■ i94 
 
 Cincinnati, Order of— John (97) member ot, 206 
 Clark— Col. Isaac, Commander of Green 
 
 Mountain Boys, . • i94 
 
 Col. Isaac, known as "Old Ritle," 194 
 Clarksburg, W. Va.— William (433) Supt. 
 
 of Schools at, 272 
 " " llonie of Sophia 
 
 Meigs' descend- 
 ants, . . 252 
 Colonial Wars— Account of Major Simon 
 Willard's service in, 
 
 326 to 329 
 College— Christian, Nankin, China. 
 
 Frank E. (1415) President of. 153 
 " Delaware, Newark, Del. 
 
 Matthew K.(3i8) President of, 245 
 " Gallaudet, Washington. 
 
 Samuel Porter, Professor at, 225 
 lefferson .Medical. 
 
 loe V. (1 175) graduate of, 313 
 
 Charles I). (219) Professor in 
 
 233 to 235 
 James Aitken Meigs, Profes- 
 sor in, .... 324 
 " McChII, Toronto, Can. 
 
 Malcolm R. (629) graduate 
 " of Medicine, Phila. 113 
 
 Charles D. {219) memlier of 230 
 lames Aitken Meigs, Profes- 
 sor in, ... 324 
 Physicians, Phila. 
 John Forsyth (400) address 
 to ... 2i\ to 235 
 
 "5 
 
 245 
 
 65 
 228 
 
 24 
 224 
 
 52 
 15 
 
 College of Pennsylvania, Medical De- 
 partment, 
 
 James Aitken Meigs, Profes- 
 sor in, .... 
 " Trinity, Noah Porter given de- 
 gree of L. L. D. of . 
 Ciiion. Schenectady, Matthew 
 
 1\ . (318) graduate of 
 \ale, Benjamin C. (266) grad- 
 uate of ... . 
 Henry (215) graduate of, 
 Josiah (98) graduate of 
 Noah Porter, President ol, 
 Return J. (191) graduate of 
 Timothy (33I graduate of 
 Comnnssioners — Kelland and Kirk, Ironi 
 
 King Charles 2ud, 9-10-174 
 Josiah (98) Commission- 
 er of General Land 
 Office, . . 20S 
 
 Joe V. (724) U. S. Com- 
 missioner to World's 
 I'^air, X'ienna, 187S, 301 
 Joe V. (724) Mass. State 
 Commissioner to Cen- 
 tennial, Phila., . 301 
 Commissions — Copies ol. 
 
 Return J. (90) T99-201-202-204 
 " J. (-,68) . 247 
 
 Congress, U. S.— Henry (215I mendier of, 56 
 John G. Jackson, mem- 
 ber of, 
 Martin Chittenden, 
 
 member of, 
 Matthew Lyon, mem- 
 ber of. 
 Return |. (191) Senator, 
 
 52-221 
 
 Consul, U. S— Matthew K. (318) at Pi- 
 raeus, Greece, . 245 
 Fielding P. (725) at Mon- 
 tevideo, L'ruguay, S. A. 302 
 Cutler's Corner, New Haven, Conn. 
 
 John Meigs (3) bought in 164S, 9 
 
 Dalles, The 
 
 Charles R. {703) Mayor of, 
 Danville, Ky. 
 
 Timothy M. (731I Provost Marshal 
 
 of, 
 
 Digest of Laws. 
 
 Return J. (368) Supreme Court De- 
 cisions and Code of Tennessee, 
 District of Columbia. 
 
 Return J. (36S) Clerk of Supreme 
 Court, . . . ■ 
 Duncan descendants of So]ihia Meigs, 
 
 252-253 
 
 252 
 195 
 195 
 
 -iS 
 
 3°4 
 
 24S 
 
 250 
 
Index. 
 
 365 
 
 Page. 
 
 Easthainptoii, L. I. 
 
 Mark (4) and X'incent (2) on Records 
 
 there 7-S 
 
 East India Trade 
 
 losepli (233) engagetl in, 237-23S 
 
 Envelope system in free cliurclies. 
 
 Tlieodure D. (396) originator of, 257 
 
 Epitaphs. 
 
 Jehiali (27) and wife, . . 22 
 
 John F. (102) .... 25-208 
 Josiah (26) and wife ... 21 
 
 Lnther (297) and wife . . 242 
 
 Pliineas (23) .... 19 
 
 Return J. (igi) . . . 222 
 
 Timoth\' l^^) .... 192 
 
 Estates. 
 
 Asahel (44) administration on, 193 
 
 Waitstill, (43) administration on, 193 
 \'incent (2) administration on, 171 
 
 I'air Haven, \'t. — Mattliew Lyon, orginal 
 
 Grantee, . . 195 
 
 Fair Haven Brancli Railroad. 
 
 Loring (427) 1 )irector of, . . 272 
 
 Falmciuth. Mass. — Alarm at, 319-320-321 
 
 " Town Records, 62 
 
 Farm Islantl Honse, Matlison, Conn. 218 
 
 Farmington, Conn. 
 
 Miss Porter's .School for Young; 
 
 Ladies at, .... 225 
 
 Rev. Noah Porter, pastor of First 
 Church at, ... . 224 
 
 Farrihani, P. O. 
 
 Daniel B. (62S) Mayor of, . 296 
 
 First Ship built on Pacific Coast by 
 
 George A. (313) ... 244 
 
 l'"ranklin Institute. 
 
 Dr. James .Aitken Meigs, lecturer at, 324 
 I-'ry Ancestry, • • 172-174-322-323 
 
 " Miss C. L. .Sands, notes 
 
 on, . . . 174-322 
 
 dalusha, Jonas — Governor of Vermont, 194 
 " at Battleof Bennington, 194 
 Gasellee, Gen'l, British Commander. 
 
 Commendation of J. R. M.Taylor, 308 
 Gittings descendants of Meigs, 252-253 
 
 Gough and W'halley, Judges, or Regi- 
 cides, .... 9-10-169-174 
 Guilford, Conn. 
 
 Charter. John (8) patentee in, 12 
 
 Church, John (8) Deacon 
 First, 
 John (11) Deacon 
 
 .Second, . . 14 
 
 losiah (26) Deacon of, 21 
 Phineas (168) Deacon 
 of First, . . 48 
 
 ol 
 
 of 
 
 Page. 
 
 Guilford, Conn. 
 
 (East), X'incent (i) first home at, 7 
 .Skirmish, Capt. Phineas 
 (23) killed at, . 19 
 
 Green, John (8) originally bur- 
 ied there, . 12 
 " John (3) bought Thomas 
 
 lones' place on, 9 
 
 lohn (8) farm at, . . I2 
 
 (3) admitted a planter, 9 
 
 " (8) inherited property 
 
 there, . 12-175-176 
 
 Capt. Janna (12) Magistrate anil 
 
 Captain of Train Banil, 15 
 
 King Charles' Commissioners 
 
 at, . . . . . 90 
 
 Records, John (3) law suit in, 15 
 
 " Marriage of Ebenezer 
 
 (i.l) ... 15 
 
 Hammonassett, Conn. 
 
 John (3) admitted planter 
 there, ... 9 
 
 " Vincent (I) home there, 7-9 
 
 " Cemetery. 
 
 X'incent ( 1 ) first burial 
 there, ... 7 
 
 " Penn. 
 
 Country home of Chas. 
 D. (219) there, . 234 
 
 Hartford. — Hospital. 
 
 William H. (543) Supt. of, 2S5 
 " State Historical Society at. 
 
 Has military cap of Capt. Phin- 
 eas (23), .... 19 
 Harris, Walter, came to America 1632, 8 
 " married Mary P"ry, . S 
 Mary P'ry, Will of . . 173 
 Hiawasse Garrison. 
 
 Col. Return J. (90) V. S. Agent to 
 the Cherokees there . . 247 
 
 Highgate, \'t. 
 
 Benjamin .S. (156) early settler in, 214 
 
 Summer Home of Henry B. (573) at, 292 
 
 Luther (197) jnoneer Settler, . 240 
 
 Hildreth's I'ioneer History of Ohio, . 52 
 
 Hill School — Founded in 1851 by Rev. M. 
 
 K. .Meigs (318) . 78-245 
 
 Founders' Day Celebra- 
 tion, 1901, . . . 296 
 Prof. John (659) Present 
 Master, . . . 296 
 
 Hinkley Locomotive Works. 
 
 Holmes Hinkley Founder of 211 
 " descendants of .Meigs. . . 211 
 
366 
 
 Meigs Gexeai_<_" 
 
 Huniington, L. I. 
 
 Taniizen and WiHiam Fry 
 
 there 52; 
 
 Home of >Eark i4> . . §-335 
 Purchase of, . . . 523 
 Records, . . - 323 
 
 Instituie — Anie"can. 
 
 judge Henry o-;' Record- 
 ing Secretary of. - 56 
 Franklin. 
 
 lanies Akken Meigs. Lec- 
 turer in. - . . 524 
 S:ni:hsoosan. 
 
 Maj--Gen'l Montgomery C. 
 • ^oSt Regent of. - 264 
 
 Invemtories. 
 
 Deacaa John l(Sii Estate. . iSo-:Sr 
 
 Vincent n> "" . . 105 
 
 It2l " . . I-I 
 
 Jackson. 
 
 John C nietjiber of Congress 
 from Va., . . . 252 
 
 John G.. District |udge. . 252 
 
 descendants of >teig>. 35--253 
 
 Jefferson Medical CoHege. 
 
 Chas. D.. Professor at. . 230-235 
 
 Foe V. 1:75 gradtiaie of. . 313 
 
 lames Aitketi Meigs, graduate o". 321 
 
 itisiices of Suprenise CO'Uri:. 
 
 Presente-i cane to Rettim J. 136S 250 
 Kiilirsgworth Lar.c Records, 176-152-153 
 
 King Charles Coniniissioners. 
 
 Keilond and Kirk, . . 9-10-172. 
 
 Lafayette — Lodged at Capt. Phineas >22. 
 
 house during Rev. War, iS 
 
 Guest of Jiadge Henry ■|'2I5» on 
 
 second \-:s!t to .\rnerica. 225 
 Post G. -A. R.. Richard \V. 
 .^leade. Comiaiaiider of, 254 
 
 Leather Cap Regt. Sixth Conn. Infantry. icS 
 Letters, and Extracts from : 
 
 Capt. Gideon »,; ; 'J< to Wm. 
 
 H. C. Evans to H. B. Meigs 593 2:5 
 
 L". S. Grant to A. Lincoln. 265 
 
 Daniel Henshaw v Rrtrosrect and 
 
 Prophecy . . 315103:7 
 
 .■\. LincOiis to ]o6 V. 17241 Fac- 
 
 Sinrdie of. . . . .•;oo 
 
 .\. L:r.co".n to Lietit-Gen. Scott 
 
 rega-ding Montgomery C. jy? 255 
 \V. H. Se-.vards ■' •■ •' 25S 
 to Return J. 'OO" from George 
 
 Was ungtort. . . . 202 
 
 to Retura I. 'OO''. f-otn .\ttv. Genl. 
 
 KnO'X. .... 20'^ 
 
 Page. 
 
 Lima. Peru. 
 
 Henry 1526* celebrated banquet at 
 which were distribnied $50,000 
 worth of Medals, . . 277 
 
 Loweli. Mass, 
 
 Cartridge works established there 
 by Joe V. (724* and Benjamin F. 
 Butier, .... 3C0 
 
 Lyon — CoL Matthew. 
 
 In Battle of Bennington. . 195 
 
 Original grantee of Fair Haven. 
 
 Vt 195 
 
 Elected to Congress from Ver- 
 mont. Kentucky and Arkansas. 195 
 Madison. Conn. 
 
 Soldiers Memorial Hall, James R. 
 >67oi one of its Founders. . 29S 
 
 Malone. X. V. 
 
 Henry B. 1 503* Commander of W. D. 
 Brennaa Post. G. A. R. . 253 
 
 Massie. Gen!. NathanieL 
 
 Seated, though not elected, as 
 First Governor of Ohio. . 221 
 
 Marb'tehead. U. S. Steamship. 
 
 Richard W. Meade. Commander of. 
 in Stone River engagement, 254 
 
 Marietta. 
 
 Gov. Return J. t, loi n Pioneer Settler. 220 
 Gov. Return J. I, iQii NEansionat. 222-223 
 Massachusetts General Court. 
 
 Major Simon Wiifard, Representa- 
 tive for 15 years to. . . 327 
 M?-ssachusetts Archives. . 217 to 221-31S 
 MattapO'issrtt Harb«>r Lighthouse, . 23S 
 >[ayors — Arkansas City. Her an 6271 
 
 Atchison, Kan., Wni. T. Bland. 
 Australia. Jasper B. 162511 of 
 
 ton^n in 
 
 Bayonne. X. L. Henry (395) 
 Bedfo-d. P <J . Dr. .Maicoim. 1.6291 7° 
 Farnham. P. O., Daniel B. i62St 76 
 Painesville. O.. Gideon E. 1S331 310 
 The Dalles. Oregon. Charles 
 R. i703» .... 2gS 
 Nteade. Ma;. Gen'I George Gordon. Com- 
 mander of L". S. Troops at Get- 
 tysburg. .... 253, 
 Robert Leamy, Brigadier Gen'I 
 
 of L". S, >farines. . . 254 
 
 Memorial Tablet to Admiral R. 
 
 W. at .\nnapolis .Academy. 329 
 
 Samoan Treaty, negotiated by 
 .Admirai R. W. . . . 254 
 "' descendants of Meigs. . 253-254 
 
 76 
 
 76 
 
 296 
 
Index. 
 
 367 
 
 Medical College. lel'fersoi!. 
 
 1 >r. |. .Aitken Meigs, graduate 
 of, . . . ', . 324 
 Society, Phia. Co. 
 Jame.s .Aitken Meigs, Presi- 
 dcin of, .... 324 
 Meggs faniilv in White Cli.i|jel, Lon- 
 don, .... 163-164 
 Manor, . . . 164-166 to 16S 
 Meigs Arms, . . 3-4- 162- 163- 164 
 Ancestry, . S-163 to 16S-172 to 174 
 Battery, roninianded by Capt. 
 
 Joe \'. (724) .... 300 
 Battery commanded bv Fielding 
 
 P- (7251 302 
 
 Connties, towns, etc., named for, 325 
 Deeds, John (31 to John (8) . 173 
 
 English family in Newark, X. | , 323 
 Epita[ihs, 19-21-22-25-192-20S-222-242 
 
 '■'"Its 301-325 
 
 Houses — 
 Charles D. (219) Hammonas- 
 
 sett. Pa 324 
 
 Sergt. Daniel (Sil .Madison, Conn. 31 
 Klias B. (288) Durham. Conn. 70-240 
 Farm Island House, Haniman- 
 
 assett, . . . . 21.S 
 
 Henry (215) N. ^■. City, . 22S 
 
 " J (3431 .Madison, Conn. Si 
 B. (593) Highgate, \'t. 292 
 " (526) Tehama House, .S.I'\ 27S 
 " (526) X'illegas, .S. A. . 2.S4 
 Janna (12) East Guilford, Conn.. 185 
 John F. (225) Madison. Conn. 236 
 Lucretia .A. (3491 F'ulton, N. ^■. 246 
 Luther (297) Highgate, \'t . 241 
 Mark (4) .Southampton, I.. I. 174 
 
 Phineas (23) ^Lldison, Conn., i.s 
 
 (1681 ■' " 4.S 
 
 Ktrturn J. (191) Marietta, ( )hio. 222 
 R. 1729) Tahlequah, In- 
 dian Territory, . 303 
 Newspaper clipping referring to, 325 
 .Sisters, Ouartette, 311 
 
 " Poem on . . 312 
 
 Wills- 
 Henry (526) . . 2S1-2S2 
 John (3) . . . 175-176 
 ■' (81 . . . 177 to iSo 
 " III) . . . . 1S4 
 \'incent (i) ... 169 
 (2) ... 171 
 Methodist Book Concern. 
 
 Benjamin C. Jr. 1607) connected with 66 
 Mexican War. 
 
 Major Benj. F. (521) at storming of 
 Chepiiltepec .... ico 
 
 Page. 
 Minnesota. — Robert \'an (121S1 F^^vange- 
 
 list in ... 315 
 
 Mississippi Ri\er Improvements. 
 
 Montgomery C. I398) first engineer- 
 ing work under Robert E. Lee 265 
 Montgomery (76S) {' . S. Engineer 
 in charge of work . . 128 
 
 Missist|uoi, Canatla. 
 
 Daniel B. (62S) Member of Parlia- 
 ment tVom .... 296 
 Monuments — ."Xrlington Cemetery, 
 
 20S-267-307 
 of .Sag Harbor Battle, . 326 
 
 Montevideo, S. A., F'iekling P. (723) Con- 
 sul at . . . ■ . 302 
 .Moravian .School, Bethlehem, F'a., Marv 
 
 .S. (366) educated at . . 252 
 
 .Mounil Cemetery, Marietta, O. 
 
 Largest number of" Revolutionary 
 Officers burietl there. . . 223 
 
 Xarragansett, The I'. .S. S. 
 
 Richard W. .Meade Commander in 
 60,000 miles cruise under canvas 254 
 Xaval .Academy . . . 30S-329 
 
 ■^'avy 253-301-308 
 
 .Vational .Academy of .Science . . 268 
 
 New H.uen — Cutler's Corner. 9 
 
 Gazette, losiah I9S) F'ditor 
 
 of, . . . 20S 
 
 John made freeman in 9 
 
 Judges or Regicides se- 
 creted there 9-10-169-174 
 Records, 7-43-51-177 to 1S1-1S4 
 Xinigrct, Sachem of the .\"yanti<s. E.\pe- 
 
 dition against, .... 327 
 
 Xonacoicus, Home of .Sinmn WiUartl, 327 
 Normal School, W. \'a.. Dr. Win. 1433) in 
 
 charge of, .... 273 
 
 North .Atlantic Sijuadron, Richard W. 
 
 Meade first and last service in, 253-254 
 ( )ddie descendants of Meigs . . 255 
 
 Ohio. — Return L '90) Pioneer of, . 19S 
 
 Return |. I1911 Governor of, 
 
 52-220-221-222-223 
 Old Guard, Orville < )ddie, member of 255 
 Old Oak Chest, date 1696 . 190-191 
 
 Olympia, Admiral Dewey's Flagship, 
 Montgomery .M. T.iylor commanded 
 battery on . . • . 30S 
 
 Oregon Constitutional Cunveiitiun u hen 
 
 admitted to Union . . 29S 
 
 Oroya Railroad over .Andes, .S ,A., built 
 
 by Henry 1526) .... 2S0 
 
 Painesville, O., Gideon E. 1S33) Mav or of'. 310 
 Panama Railway Construciion Co. 
 
 Edmund F. (352) ... 50 
 
368 
 
 Mf.igs Genealogy. 
 
 I'apiiifaii War. 
 
 Captain I.uther (297) commanded 
 Militia in ... 241-242 
 
 Pay Roll — Captain Hand's Co. Fac-Sini- 
 ile of. Sergt. Daniel (S3) 
 named in . . 19S-199 
 
 Pensioners. 
 
 Aliel(i46) 45 
 
 Benjamin S. (156) . . 145-215 
 
 Daniel H. (161) . . . 216-217 
 
 Elizabetli, widow til John (97) 37 
 
 John (97) 37 
 
 Josiah (257) .... 62 
 
 Mallei, widow ol" Nathan {143) 44 
 
 Seth (256) 61 
 
 Pigeon-Hole Scoop Paper lio.x, invention 
 
 of Joe \'. (7241 .... 301 
 
 Plattshnrs;, N. \'. Battle of . . 72 
 
 Plymoutli, Mass , Cocinty Records . 321 
 
 Poems. 
 
 Parody referring to Sarah B. (408) 271 
 On Mei,gs .Sisters, by Charles Shaw 312 
 A Lamentation for 'riinothy (33) 192 
 Port Madison, VV^ash. — George A. (313) 
 
 pioneer, mill owner and ship bnilder 78 
 Ship Wildwood built there . 78 
 
 Porter descendants of Mei.;^s 224-225 
 
 Postniaslcr-tieneral, Col. Return |. (191) 223 
 Pottstown, Pa., Hill School of . 81 
 
 Pro|ihecy, Letter by Daniel Henshaw 315 
 
 Punch Bowl Inn at Hrookline, Mass. 316 
 
 Public Buildings, Washington, constrnct- 
 
 ed mider Montgomery C. (39S) 264 
 
 Ouebec. 
 
 Col. Return J. (90) taken prisoner 
 
 there .... 34-200-201 
 
 TnnnbuH's painting of (.ienl. Rich- 
 ard Montgomery's death 200 
 Major John (97) ser\ed under Genl. 
 Montgomery at, . . . 206 
 Railway — Albany and .Schenectady, 46 
 Arecpiipa and Mollendo (Oroya) 277 
 P'air Ha\eii Branch, 272 
 Panama, .... 50 
 Valparaiso and Santiago, 27S 
 Recorils. 
 
 Barnstalile, .... 322 
 
 British Museum, , . 172-322 
 
 Conn. St.ite, .... 214 
 
 Falmouth, .... 321 
 
 Guilford, . . . 15-169-175 
 
 Huntington, L. I. . . . 323 
 
 Killingworth, . 35-176-182-183-212 
 Massachusetts (Archives) 
 
 212-213-317 to 321 
 
 Records. 
 
 Middletown, .... 23 
 
 New Haven, 7-45-51-171 to 1S1-1S4 
 
 New London, . . . 51-171-173 
 Pension, . . 28-44-45-213-215-216 
 Rochester, Mass. . . 212-321 
 
 .Southampton, L. I. . . . 7-177 
 South Sandwich, . . . 322 
 
 Suffolk Co , Mass. . . . 172 
 
 Talcott manuscript, . . 169 
 
 Vermont .State, . . 46-214-216 
 
 Westbury, L. 1 . . 322-323 
 
 Red Horse Tavern at .Sudlniry, . 316 
 
 Registrar of U. S. Treasury. 
 
 Lucius E. Chittenden, . . 194 
 
 Rehobeth, Mass. Early Meigs Familv 
 
 recorded in, . . . . .7 
 Representatives. 
 
 Canadian Parliament, Daniel B. 
 
 (628) 296 
 
 Cherokee Council. 
 
 John R. (726) .Senator to, 124 
 
 Return R. (729) Member of, 
 and .Speaker of the House, 303 
 [I. S. Congress. 
 
 Henry (215) . . 56-227-229 
 Ji-ihn G. Jackson, . . 252 
 
 Matthew Lyon, . . 195 
 
 Return J. ( 191 ) Senator, 221-223 
 General Assembly of Conn. 
 
 Elias B. (2S8) from Durham, 69 
 Janna (12) from East Guilford, 15 
 James R. (670) from Madison, 298 
 John H. (66.S) from Madison, 297 
 Phineas (168) from Madison, 48 
 Return (29) from Middletown, 23 
 .Samuel (267) from O.xford, 66 
 
 General Assembly, N. ^'. 
 
 Henry (215) from New ^■ork, 56 
 General Assembly, \'ermont. 
 
 Luther (297) from Highgate, 72 
 General Court, Mass. 
 
 Joseph (233) from Rochester, 237 
 Josiah (26) from Fast Guilford, 21 
 Simon Willard, for 15 years, 327 
 Tennessee .State Senate. 
 
 Return J. (368) ... 248 
 Retrospect and Prophecy. 
 
 Daniel Henshaw's Letter, . 315 
 
 Return Jonathan. Origiri of name, . 305 
 ■Ailniiial Me.ule's version of, . 305 
 Ross, John, Principal Chief of Cherokees, 84 
 Sandwicli (South) Records, . . 61 
 
 Santiago and Valparaiso Railway, . 278 
 
 San Francisco, Cal., Henry (5261 promi- 
 nent investor there, . . . 276 
 
Index. 
 
 369 
 
 Secret Service, U. S., 'I'imotliy M. (731) 
 
 connected with. . . • 304 
 
 Seminary, Theological, Andover, Mass., 
 
 IWnj. C. (266) graduate of, . 65 
 
 Seminary, Theological, Union, N. V., 
 
 Matthew K. (318) graduate of, 245 
 
 Shaw, Cliarles I). I'oeni on Meigs Sisters, 312 
 
 Sherid.in, Major-Genl. K.xtracts from Per- 
 sonal Memoirs, 305-306-307 
 
 Sherman's " March to the Sea," Eugene 
 
 VV. Guindon in. . . 296 
 
 Silence (31) and Submit (32). Story of 
 
 their names, .... 191 
 
 Grave at Hammonassett, . 16 
 
 Slocuiii, Genl. H. \\'., E. W. Gumdon 
 
 Au1e-de-Cam|) to. . . • 296 
 
 .Smithsonian Institute, Genl. Montgomery 
 
 C. (39S) Regent of. ... 264 
 
 Southampton, L. 1. — Mark (4) recorded 
 
 there, . S-177 
 
 " . " V i n c e n t, law suit 
 
 there, . . 7 
 
 " " Records, . 7-177 
 
 Spoons, silver, belonged to Concurrence 
 (7) now owned by Reginald \V. Wil- 
 co.\, N. V. .... 177 
 
 .St. Albans, \'t. John (301) Eirst male white 
 
 child Ijorn in 73 
 
 Stock Exchange, X. V. 
 
 Henry (395) President of, . 255 
 
 (_)rville Oddie, member of, . 255 
 
 JohnW. ■• •• •• . 255 
 
 Stony Point, Return J . (90) at capture of, 34-201 
 
 Supreme Court, U. C, Return J. (36S) 
 
 clerk of 250 
 
 ludge of ( >hio. Return J. (191) 223 
 
 Tahlequah— Return R. (729) Captain of 
 
 Kee-too-wahs there, . 303 
 
 Talcott— Manuscript records of Meigs by, 169 
 
 Tehama House, S. E., owned by Henry 
 
 (526) (House of Balconies) . 278 
 
 Tennessee — Return J. (368) Attorney Gen- 
 eral of ..... 24S 
 
 Ticonderoga— Battle of, Captain Jehiel 
 
 (81 ) at capture of, . . . 196 
 
 Todd — Rev. |onalhan, [(reached funeral 
 
 sermon of Capt. Janna (12) . 1S6 
 
 Tyler, John— Return J. (368) commission 
 
 as .'\ltorney from, . . . 247 
 
 U. S. Army — see Army V. S. 
 
 U. S. Navy— 
 
 Eielding Pope (725) Master Mate in, 301 
 John F. (779) at head of Lieuts. 
 
 list in 30S 
 
 Montgomery M. Taylor, Lieul. in, 308 
 Richard VV. Meade, Rear-Admiral, 253 
 
 U. S. Secret Service. 
 
 Timothy M. (731) connected with, 304 
 University — Baptist Indian. 
 
 Robert \'an ( 1218) graduate 
 
 of 314 
 
 Brown. 
 
 Jose()li I, . (S17) graduate of, 304 
 Chicago. 
 
 Robert \'an ( 1218) graduate 147 
 Edinboro, Scotland. 
 
 Noah Porter given degree 
 D. D. by, ... 225 
 
 Georgia. 
 
 Charles I). (219) graduate of, 57 
 Josiah (9.S) First President of, 
 
 37-208 
 Harvard. 
 Dr. Return J. (1177) grad- 
 uate of Medical de|)t. . 146 
 Michigan. 
 
 Matthew K. (318) Profes- 
 sor in, .... 245 
 Missouri State. 
 Wellington H. (1217) grad- 
 uate of law there, . 314 
 New ^■ork State. 
 
 Noah Porter given degree 
 n. I), by, . . . 225 
 
 V\'eslern Reserve. 
 Noah Porter given degree 
 L. I.. I). l)y ... 225 
 Valparaiso and Santiago Railway built 
 
 by Henry (526) .... 276 
 
 X'ermont. Thomas Chittemlen, hrst 
 
 (jovernor of, . . 194 
 
 House at Madison, Conn., 
 home of Deacon Phineas 
 (16S) .... 48 
 
 Legislature. Luther (297) 
 member of, . . 72 
 
 Vienna. World's Eair, 1878. 
 
 Captain Joe Vincent (724) Commis- 
 sioner to, .... 301 
 X'illegas. H(-}me of Henry (526) at, 280 
 Mausoleum of Henry (526) at, 279 
 Wagoner League of Single Statehood 
 Promoters. 
 
 Wellington 11. (12 17) .Secretary of, 314 
 Washington, D. C— Land Olhce at. 
 
 Josiah (98) Commissioner flcneral 
 of 38-208 
 
 Washington Aqueduct. 
 
 Major-Cienl. .Montgomery C. 
 
 (398) Engineer of. . 264 
 
 Navy Yard. Richard W. 
 .Mea<le in Command ol, 254 
 
370 
 
 Mei(;s Genealogy. 
 
 Page. 
 
 VVestlmry, L. I. Fry records there, 322-32^^ 
 Weynioiith, Mass. John (3) first recorded 
 
 tliere, . . 7 
 
 Whalley and GolTe. 
 
 Judges or Regicides, 9-10-169-174 
 
 Wliite Chapel. Meg.sis family of, . 163 
 
 Arms of MegjiS, . 164 
 
 Wliitficld House. Guilford, oldest in 
 
 Connecticut, 170 
 
 Wilco.N, Ancestry 1S2 
 
 Wilcox, Reginald W. 
 
 Compiler of " Allied Families Wil- 
 
 co.x, Meigs, Webb," . 177-182 
 
 Extract from " Address to \'ete- 
 rans," .... 245-246 
 
 Wilcox, Reginald W. 
 
 Present owner of Concurrence (7) 
 
 spoons, .... 
 
 Wildwood. l'"irst I'acific-built slii| 
 
 Willard Ancestry, 
 
 Wills.— William Fry, 
 Mary Harris, 
 Henry Meigs (526) 
 
 John 
 
 • (3) 
 
 •• 
 
 • (S) 
 
 
 ■ (II) 
 
 \inceiit 
 
 (I) 
 
 
 • (2) 
 
 Winchester, Ky. 
 
 Frontier home of John (194) 
 
 • 177 
 
 244 
 
 189-190 
 
 172 
 
 173 
 281-2S2 
 
 175-176 
 
 177 to 180 
 
 184 
 
 169 
 
 171 
 
 224 
 
Errata et Cokkhienua. 
 
 ERRATA ET CORRIGENDA. 
 
 If any one upon examining; the book discovers any errors which are not noted here, 
 and will kindly report the same to the compiler, lie will esteem it a great favor. Man\- 
 typographical errors appear in the book, which are not noted here, being deemed much 
 less ini[)ortant than errors in names and dates, or misstatements of facts. 
 
 /'^•.'■(•ii. /. i HI' iS, /or i6j I ^ ;•('<!(/ 1672. 
 
 II. " 22, ddif 1653 inii/fr M,ir. 3. 
 
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 Hand." ' 
 
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 rt-ad " iKillin.nwortli." 
 
 read 1739. 
 
 31- 
 
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 )i-ad 1751. 
 
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 " Ap|i. 102." 
 
 " d. .April 13, 1739." 
 
 read 1756. 
 
 read 1 )ec. 2S. 1S16. 
 
 read 1.S25. 
 
 1735- 
 
 read Whitiiiy. 
 
 "d, 1S65." 
 
 " \>. 1747, d. 1S22 " 
 
 insert "see App. 83." 
 
 read '■ Hmise proliabh liiiilt by (27) Capt. Jehiel Meigs." 
 
 read 1797. 
 
 read " |iily ih " 
 
 read 22. 
 
 " ''■ i''^75-" 
 
 " New " before H.irtloid. 
 
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 80. 
 
 Lineal, add "b. 1781, d. Sept. 11, 1843." 
 
 42, " "b. 1775, d. Jan. 26, 1859." 
 
 46, rfrti/ " 111. John Brown." 
 
 To this record of the family of \io. 113 add the names Rebecca, ni. David Braj;g. 
 
 Mary, b. 1771, d. 1854, ni. James Hiiikley, )uly 20, 1793." 
 fo record o/No. 135, add after Phineas Meigs "of Catskill, N.Y.," and after Ezekiel 
 add " Middletowii, Conn.," and erase "Catskill, N. Y.," and after 
 Susanna Winslcnv, add "b. July 13, 1764, il. |an. 1809." 
 Line g.for^S read ^g 
 
 " 12. " June 2 read ]une i 
 
 " 16, " March rfiz;/ January 
 
 " 27, add quotation marks after 1778, 
 
 38, /or 1843 
 15, " Dec. 19 
 
 11, " 318 
 
 12, " 319 
 
 18, ajter " .App. 191 ' 
 
 24, for 1807 
 
 36, add 
 
 jS, for 202 
 
 18, to Theodore 
 
 ig, " Charles 
 
 add 
 
 read 1831 
 
 read Sept. 22 
 
 read 319 
 
 320 
 
 "rii. .Sophia Wri.>;lit.' 
 
 read 1808 
 
 b. 1782. d. 1S15 
 
 read 203 
 
 add "Denton 
 
 ".Austin 
 
 28, after Hall ///.9<';'/"of Walliiigford," ami add date of her death," }i\u 29, 1813. 
 
 34, add 
 
 14. for Linn 
 
 42, under No\'. 2 add 
 
 7, for 1716 
 
 15, " 1757 
 25. 
 
 31, " Feb. 13, 
 10, add to Gilbert, 
 26, for " I'uMieroy" 
 34, add 
 
 8, frcfix date of marriage 
 for No. 290 
 
 2 , " 1 830 
 
 31, add 
 
 34, " to Kdson .Spencer, 
 4, after M. A. Halsey, 
 7, preceding 1840 insert 
 ii, for A|iril ro, 
 
 9, add 
 
 19, " 
 21, " 
 
 23. " 
 
 32, /■<?;• l.ucretia, 
 35, //vyi.r 
 
 36, " 
 
 read 
 
 d. "Oct. 16, 1827. 
 read " Lynn. 
 "1819. 
 read 1816 
 )(■(((/ " 1857 
 read " d. at Beardstovvn, III 
 read March 3 
 "Ogden 
 read " Ponieroy 
 d. "June 26, 185S 
 " Sept. 26, 1821 
 read 2S9 
 read 1858 
 " i^i- Aug. 5, 1893 
 "d. Dec. 13, 1S62 
 read"b. Feb. 12, 1821, d. May 23, 1S65 
 
 "Feb. 19 
 
 read April 19 
 
 " of Ivorton, Conn. 
 
 " of Ivorton, Conn. 
 
 " of New Haven. 
 
 " of Madison. 
 
 Mary Lucretia, b. l'~eb. 18, 1825, d. 1898. 
 
 " Jan. 27, 1S71. 
 
 " ni. Dec. 3, 1889. 
 
Errata et Corrigenda. 373 
 
 Pag^e S4. /.as/ /i/u-, /or '• Eyons." rend •' Iaous." 
 
 86. Line \2, " "Pephani," rfao' " Popham. " 
 
 S/- " -6, rcflfl' " Van Zaiidt." 
 
 88. Nos. 765 ««(/ 766, rci!^ '■ I'. S. Arinv." 
 
 90. /./«!' 29, /or " Henriette," >V(7(/ " Harriet. See p. 271." 
 " 91- " 10. add b. 1S22, d. 1887. 
 
 91. No. 427, /<;;• ".Samson," re-iif/ ".Sampson." 
 
 92. Line 30, a/Vd'r Aurora, N. Y., (N/rf " b. in England." 
 94- " 22,, to \^\o prefix "Jan. 31." 
 94- " 25, <;//(•;•" William," rfa;/ " Penn Soule." 
 9.S- " \2, before "Rebecca" insert "(458)" 
 99. Last line, for ^i)^. read 8^5. 
 
 100. /.///(■ 36, /or " Texaskana," rffirf " Te.xarkana." 
 
 1^4 " ^i, " "Madison," " "Durham." 
 
 10^- " 3. " "Dnrham," " "Dunham." 
 
 " iio- " 15. " I'>1>- I, 1832, " Feb. I, 1882. 
 
 120. No. 6S0, rf(7(/ " m. 1873 " 
 
 " 121. No. 699, to record, add " chiiti Sherwood Clarkson, b. Oct. 3, 1901." 
 
 " 122. L.ine 1,7,, add " b. July 10, 1850." 
 
 125. For No. 11S4, read 11^4. 
 
 123. Add to last line, d. " June, 1901." 
 
 127. Line 2.T, add ".App. 746." 
 
 128. /-"or No. 750 read T^g. 
 " 128. " " 751 " 760. 
 " 1=8. " " 759 " 751. 
 
 128. " " 761 " 733. 
 
 136. No. 1293, /o/- "M" read "Kmrn-.i." 
 
 I4"- " 132S /ead 133S. 
 
 146. Lo record of No. I lyS, add " child Return Jonathan ( i ith) h. Nov. 5, 1901." 
 
 150. /-/«<■ 10, /or " eldest," rt-(7(/ " elder." 
 
 152. .Substitute "o(" for "b." after each of the names of the children of Vhoinas. 
 
 155. Line b, omit commn after •• home " and add " ont;s." 
 
 164. " 12, /or " sometimes," rt'iji/ " sometime." 
 
 167- " "9. " "Tanzen" rt-o^z' " Tamzen." 
 
 170. L^ast line, for "ami" at beginning- of line, read "l\)-,\i." 
 
 172. /-/nif 35, <z//i'r "New Eng." insert "Hist." 
 
 174- " 14. ./or "information" read"w'\(e." 
 
 177. Prefi.v " 8 A." to tenth line from bottom. 
 
 " 182. .Section "3 F" zvas intended to follo7v page 176. 
 
 154. Onotation from Bible over App. of No. 11 should read " For they that have used 
 
 the office of a deacon well, purchase to themselves, etc." 
 
 184. ( hint parenthesis mark before Vol. IV, 509-510, and put it after. The note, " Prob- 
 ably reference etc." should have period after New Haven. I'he letters 
 B. C. .S. being Mr. Bernard C. Steiner's initial •:. 
 
 155, Ihird line from bottom for "iound" rci^i/ " formed." 
 193. Line 22, for 1626 read iy26. 
 205. " 24, r^-c?;/ Morristown. 
 
 " 207. " /th from bottom, rci?!/ Jedediah . 
 
 " 209. " 14, add "also" rt/Ar "see " 
 
Mei(;s Genealogy. 
 
 I''jge 209 
 " 213 
 
 21 
 
 ^1.^ 
 -I.? 
 21.S 
 
 224 
 234 
 234 
 246 
 
 253 
 253 
 254 
 254 
 254 
 254 
 255 
 266 
 266 
 266 
 269 
 269 
 272 
 
 273 
 2S4 
 286 
 2S6 
 2S7 
 294 
 297 
 297 
 297 
 
 298 
 305 
 305 
 305 
 309 
 309 
 31S 
 319 
 
 321- 
 324- 
 326. 
 
 Line T,2,/oy "his" 
 " 27, " "independent" 
 
 3". 
 
 
 " 2-\.\\" 
 
 35. 
 
 " 
 
 " Ball's" 
 
 40, 
 
 " 
 
 " in " 
 
 17. 
 
 
 " liouse s;rou[id ' 
 
 6, 
 
 
 " soldiers " 
 
 9. 
 
 
 " weird " 
 
 9. 
 
 a/ti 
 
 •r " winter " t>;«; 
 
 y-' 
 
 /'"' 
 
 " this " 
 No. 361 
 
 read ' 
 
 25. 
 
 read ' 
 
 read "her," 
 
 " 2nd." 
 
 read " 22nd. " 
 
 " "Hall's." 
 
 "of." 
 
 hi;<hcr f;ronnd." 
 
 read "officers." 
 
 " " vivid." 
 
 >ea(f " Ins." 
 
 36S. 
 
 ['. .S. Army." 
 
 "imperishable." 
 
 ' Commander." 
 Commodore." 
 
 read " Leamv. 
 
 " 12, ( \i[>ital C /'/ 
 
 " 25. 
 
 26, Capitals in ' Rear Admiral 
 " ^^6, for " Learny " 
 
 II, read " U. I-i. Army." 
 " 2T,, after "States " insert eoiiinia. 
 
 " 25, Capital letters for " Eleventh Infantry" and "(Jnarter-Master General." 
 " 26, C"i7/>/A;/i /"or " Hri,<;adier General." 
 " 27, after " coidd " 
 " 35, " " New \'ork 
 
 21, /<)>-" successively " 
 " 16, " " oldest " 
 " 29, " " most " 
 " 25, " " dani.lylion" 
 
 " 7 from hottont, put semicolon after "century 
 " 10 " " for "of" 
 
 " I, for " e.\clnsi\'e " 
 " 9, add " man " after 
 " II, Capital V for ¥\rs\.. 
 J'o the sk-etcli of (6(1^) ]ohn H, Meigs, (rn'i/ " Is Dele.s;ate from Madison to the Con- 
 stitutional Convention of Connecticut, now (March, 1902) beins; held at 
 Hartfortl, to revise the Constitution of iSiS." 
 /.iiie 16, o>nit " for " after " anil." 
 
 I, /or " original " rf(?(/ " origin." 
 
 First tivo paragraphs should be separated from the one beginning " |anna Meigs, etc." 
 I^ast Hue of fifth paragraph for " Puritan" read " peculiar." 
 
 Line 23, omit the wo>d " back." 
 
 " 24, /"or " !9,S2 " read " \Hq2." 
 
 Paragraph 3, and in all subsequent ones, the title Private should have capital letter P. 
 J'arai^rafh 1 should be a pat I of last paragraph <)//>. 318, and the -cords " Bezelat 
 
 cont'd " should be omitted. 
 Line i, rci;;/ " Six Months \\e\i," omitting pcrioil betzceen. 
 
 " 2, /«/ " May " rt'iK!' " during." 
 
 4, correct to "James Aitken Meigs." 
 
 Last line should read " History of Cambridge under Henry I)unster." 
 
 insert " then." 
 
 insert "semi-colon." 
 
 read " successfully." 
 
 read " eldest. " 
 
 "neat." 
 
 read " dandelion." 
 
 read " or." 
 
 read " exclusively." 
 
 " Committee." 
 
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