written for the occasion, by the Rev. F. Denison and George W. Pettes, were read. The first number of the R. I. Tracts contains these performances, a list of the officers and men engaged in the capture, and some ballads, epigrams, &c., on the exploit. The second tract, Mr. Farnum's essay on the Northinen in Rhode Island, was prepared originally to be read before a private club of gentlemen in Providence, and subsequently, at the solicitation of the editor of the Providence Daily Journal, was printed in that paper, Dec. 2, 1869. Mr. Farnum expresses the opinion that the Northmen visited Rhode Island, though he places no faith in the Stone Tower at Newport, and the Dighton Rock, as evidences of their residence in New England. J. W. D. The Visitation of Northumberland in 1615. Edited by GEORGE W. MARSHALL, LL.D., Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries; Corresponding Member of the New England Historic, Genealogical Society, etc. London Privately printed for the Editor by Mitchell & Hughes, 24 Wardour Street, W. 1878. [Super royal 8vo. pp. 80. One hundred copies printed. A few copies can be obtained at £1. each of the Editor, 60 Onslow Gardens, London, S. W., England.] Dr. Marshall is the editor of The Genealogist," an antiquarian periodical of established reputation, published at London (ante, xxx. 137, 487; xxxi. 448), and the work before us was first printed in its pages. Northumberland was visited in 1615 by Richard St. George, Norroy King-at-Arms, as were also the counties of Cumberland, Durham and Westmoreland. The visitations of the other counties have been printed, but till now only a few of the pedigrees of Northumberland had been put in type. These were privately printed by the late Sir Thomas Phillipps, and have never been circulated. "No apology need, therefore," says the editor, "be offered for printing in its entirety this visitation. It is copied from Harleian MS. 1448. No copy of any other Northumberland Visitation exists outside of the College of Arms. Though some MSS. in the Harleian collection profess to be such, they will on examination prove to be mere collections of Northumbrian pedigrees, not copies of visitations properly so called." The book is carefully edited and handsomely printed with a wide margin. It has a perfect index of names. J. W. D. Epitaphs from the Old Burying Ground in Groton, Massachusetts. With Notes and an Appendix. By SAMUEL A. GREEN, M.D. [Motto.] Boston: Little, Brown & Co. 1878. [8vo. pp. 271.] A Brief Account of some of the Early Settlers of Groton, Massachusetts; being the Appendix to "Groton Epitaphs. By SAMUEL A. GREEN, M.D. Groton: 1878. [4to. pp. 28. Thirty copies printed.] Groton was incorporated in July, 1655, and was settled soon after. Its Indian name was Petapawag, and the present name of Groton was doubtless given as a compliment to Deane Winthrop, the principal settler of the place, who came to this country from Groton in Suffolk, England. An excellent history of the town, by the late Caleb Butler, Esq., was published, in 1848, in an octavo of 499 pages. The Groton Epitaphs, whose title we give above, forms an excellent companion to that work. Dr. Green is a native of Groton, and has long taken an interest in its history. He has at various times contributed articles, or series of articles, illustrating it, to the newspapers; and contributions on the subject from his pen are to be found in the REGISTER. A series of articles which he furnished for Turner's Public Spirit, published in Ayer, Mass., is deserving of special notice. It was commenced in that paper, Oct. 21, 1876, and continued to the present year. The work before us contains the inscriptions on all the grave and tomb-stones in the burial ground of Groton, from the earliest, in 1704, to 1877, carefully copied for Dr. Green by Arthur B. Coburn, of Charlestown, and reproduced as near the originals as they can be done with type. Besides an historical introduction, Dr. Green has annexed to the inscriptions biographical and genealogical notes; and he has added an appendix devoted to the genealogy of the early settlers of the town. He has bestowed unwearied labor upon this book, not only to reproduce the inscriptions exactly as they are found on the stones, but to authenticate every fact and statement in the book, so that his work may be scrupulously exact. The book is from the press of John Wilson & Son, noted for the superiority of their work. The paper, print and binding are all of a high order. It contains heliotypes of the stones and monuments in memory of James Prescott, the oldest inscription in the yard: Capt. Amos and Mrs. Abigail Lawrence, the Sheple family, and Col. William Prescott, the hero of Bunker Hill, and his wife Abigail. The second work whose title is given above, is a reprint of the Appendix to the former, being principally intended for public libraries. J. W. D. Lieutenant-General John Burgoyne and the Convention of Saratoga One Hundred Years Ago. A paper read before the American Antiquarian Society on the 22d of October, 1877. By CHARLES DEANE. Worcester: Charles Hamilton. 1878. [8vo. pp. 71.] Tutor Henry Flynt's Journey from Cambridge to Portsmouth in 1754. Written by DAVID SEWALL, who accompanied him. Edited with Notes by CHARLES DEANE, Corresponding Secretary of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Cambridge: Press of John Wilson & Son. 1878. [8vo. pp. 9. Fifty copies printed.] The above two tracts are reprinted from the Proceedings of two societies of which Dr. Deane is a prominent member and an efficient officer. The first tract is a history of the Convention of Saratoga and the action of Congress in relation to carrying out the terms granted to Burgoyne on his surrender. One hundred years were completed last October since that event, and the report of the council of the American Antiquarian Society for the annual meeting, held that month, having been assigned to Dr. Deane, he has devoted a large portion of his report to this theme, in accordance with a custom of the council to discuss in their report some historical question in detail. It is known that Burgoyne accused the Americans of a breach of public faith, and British writers have repeated the charge. Dr. Deane has made a thorough investigation of the subject, and has laid the evidence before his readers. Letters among the Heath Papers, never before printed, throw new light upon some points of the controversy. The author comes to the conclusion that the acts of congress were "not marked by the highest exhibition of good policy or of good faith.” The second tract, Sewall's narrative of Father Flynt's journey from Cambridge to Portsmouth, found among the papers of President John Adams, a classmate of Sewall, was read before the Massachusetts Historical Society, January 10, 1878, and printed with annotations in their proceedings. A small edition has been reprinted for private circulation. It furnishes curious glimpses of the life of the better class in New England just before the Revolution. J. W. D. Memoirs of Several Deceased Members of the New England Historic, Genealogical Society. Published at the Charge of the Towne Memorial Fund. To which is prefixed a Memoir of the Founder of the Fund. With Portraits. Boston: Published by the N. E. Historic, Genealogical Society, 18 Somerset Street. 1878. [8vo. pp. 1 to 18; 95 to 191. Cloth, gilt top. Price $1.25. A discount of 20 per cent. to members of the society.] This volume contains ten memoirs, with portraits, reprinted from the REGISTER, namely William B. Towne, A.M., Williain B. Fowle, the Hon. Chandler E. Potter, the Hon. Samuel D. Bell, LL.D., the Hon. Calvin Fletcher, Miss Frances M. Caulkins. the Rev. Joseph B. Felt, LL.D., Thomas Sherwin, the Hon. David L. Swain, LL.D., and Lucius Manlius Sargent, A.M. The last nine memoirs were reprinted under the supervision of the late Mr. Towne, the founder of the Towne Memorial Fund, and till his death the chairman of its trustees. After his death, the publishing committee, in whose charge the matter was placed, decided to proceed no further with the reprint except to complete the volume by prefixing a memoir of Mr. Towne, reprinted from our January number. It has been decided to commence a series of volumes, of which the present one will form no portion, to contain memorials of deceased members, arranged chronologically in the order of their deaths. A committee, of which J. Gardner White, A.M., is secretary, has charge of the preparation of the first volume. J. W. D. The Man and the Physician. A Sermon preached in the West Church, Boston, Sunday, Dec. 9, 1877. By C. A. BARTOL. Boston: A. Williams & Co. 1878. [8vo. pp. 26.] This sermon was occasioned by the death of Edward Hammond Clarke, M.D., a skilful and conscientious physician of Boston, whose work on "Sex in Education created considerable discussion a few years ago. The character of the deceased is ably drawn. J. W. D. The Diary of Roger Lowe of Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire, 1663-1678. (Reprinted from the Leigh Chronicle.) Leigh: "Chronicle" Power Printing Office. 1877. [Sm. 4to. pp. 48. 'Not Published."] Leigh, Lancashire: Diary of Local Events in the District of Leigh, 1852–76. We have already (ante, xxxi. 241, 352) noticed several reprints from the "Local Gleanings" columns of an English newspaper, the Manchester Courier. The Leigh Chronicle has similar columns devoted to antiquarian and historical notes and queries," from which the two works before us have been reprinted. The diary of Roger Lowe has already been brought to the notice of our readers, extracts from it having appeared in the Manchester Courier, and a reprint of these having been noticed in the REGISTER for April, 1877. We have now, in the work before us, "the whole of Roger Lowe's manuscript, so far as it can be deciphered." It is, we are told in the preface, "contained in a small quarto book of about 150 pages, very closely written, and, as might be expected from its age, in some places almost illegible." Those who wish to study Puritan life, will find here some interesting particulars of it, at a time when the Bartholomew act and the persecutions which followed it awakened a sympathy in New England for their suffering brethren, and for a second time turned the attention of the English non-conformists to the wildernesses of the New World. The second work is fully described by the title. It is a chronological history of the district of Leigh, for the quarter of a century ending in 1876. It will be found a very useful compilation. J. W. D. The American Antiquarian: a Quarterly Journal devoted to Early American History, Ethnology and Archeology. Edited by Rev. STEPHEN D. PEET... ... Published by Brooks, Schenkel & Co. Cleveland, Ohio: 1878. [8vo. Vol. I., No. 1, April, 1878, pp. 60.] This is the first number of a quarterly publication devoted to historical, ethnologieal and archæological subjects. The editor, the Rev. Mr. Peet, of Ashtabula, as appears from an advertisement in this number, has already published three books of an historical character, namely, “Pre-historic Antiquities,' "The Antiquities of Ashtabula County," and "The Ashtabula Disaster." "He is corresponding secretary of the American Anthropological Society and of the State Archæological Association of Ohio. The contributors to the April number, besides the editor, are the Hon. Bela Hubbard, A. F. Berlin, Rev. M. Eels, Rev. H. F. Buckner, Horace L. Mason, E. R. Quick, William N. Byers, J. M. Woodruff, E. A. Barber, Dr. Charles Rau, T. W. Kinney, and Prof. J. D. Butler. The articles are- Ancient Garden Beds of Michigan, Discovery of Palaeolithic Implements in Reading, Pa.," "Mounds and Earthworks, their Distribution and Localities," "Ancient Trails among the Rocky Mountains,' "Ancient Trails in Ohio," "Modern Indian Tribes among the Ancient Ruins of Utah and Arizona," " Discovery of Ohio River, a Description of a Collection of Old Maps," "Observations on Dighton Rock Inscription," "Man in America more Ancient than the Mound Builders," and Discovery of a Venetian Medal of 1685" besides editorial notes, correspondence, etc. The "American Antiquarian" promises to be a useful publication. J. W. D. Memorials of the History for a Half Century of the South Congregational Church. Boston. Collected for its Jubilee Celebration, February 3, 1878. Boston: Franklin Press: Rand, Avery & Co. 1878. [Fcp. 4to. pp. 119. Price, 50 cents. Sold by A. Williams & Co., 283 Washington Street, Boston.] The first edifice of the South Congregational Church was dedicated Jan. 30, 1828. During the fifty years of its existence this church has had but three pastors-the Rev. Messrs. Motte, Huntington and Hale, and they are all now living. An able historical discourse was preached Feb. 3, 1878, by the present pastor, the Rev. Edward Everett Hale, in which, besides giving a history of that church for the half century of its existence, the preacher took a survey of the changes in religious thought and life, which those fifty years have wrought in the community through the writings and preaching of Channing and other Unitarian divines. The pamphlet before us contains this jubilee discourse, and another, preached by Mr. Hale one week later, on "The Sermons of our Fathers," in which extracts from those sermons are introduced. The hymns written for this church and sung at its dedications, installations and other occasions have been collected and are here VOL. XXXII. 33* printed. Among them are poems by Pierpont, Sprague and other writers of established reputation, and they embrace hymns now in use by all denominations. Appended is a list of the original subscribers and members, and an "Army and Navy List," containing the names of fifty-four officers and soldiers from this church who served in the war for the union. J. W. D. Cary Memorials. [Arms and blazon.] By S. F. CARY. Cincinnati: 1874. [Royal 4to. pp. 264+xlii. Price, $5. To be obtained of the author, Cincinnati, Ohio.] Proceedings of the Sesqui-Centennial Gathering of the Descendants of Isaac and Ann Jackson at Harmony Grove, Chester Co., Pa., Eighth Month, Twenty-Fifth, 1875, together with the Family Genealogy. [Motto.] Philadelphia: Published by the Committee for the Family. 1878. [8vo. pp. 371.] A Genealogical Sketch of one Branch of the Moseley Family. Newburyport: Printed for private distribution. 1878. [Royal 8vo. pp. 56. “ Forty copies printed."] Bartow Genealogy. Part I. Containing Every One of the Name of Bartow descended from Doctor Thomas Bartow, who was living at Crediton, in England, A.D. 1672. With reference to the books where any of the Name is mentioned. By E. B. Bartow Genealogy. Part 11. Containing the Descendants not bearing the Name of Bartow descended from Doctor Thomas Bartow, who was living at Crediton, in England, A.D. 1672. By E. B. [Baltimore: James & Co., Printers. 8vo. pp. 218.] 1878. Some of the Descendants of Lewis and Ann Jones of Roxbury, Mass., through their son Josiah and grandson James. Compiled for the Family by WILLIAM B. TRASK. Boston Printed for private distribution. 1878. [Fcp. 4to. pp. viii.+75. One hundred and fifty copies printed.] Thomas Newell, who settled in Farmington, Conn., A.D. 1632, and his Descendants. A Genealogical Table. Compiled by Mrs. MARY A. (Newell) HALL. Southington, Conn.: Cochrane Bros., Book and Job Printers. 1878. [12mo. pp. 266.j History and Genealogy of the Trask Family; including the Lineal Ancestors and all the Descendants of Rev. Nathaniel Trask. With a brief mention of other Branches of the Trask Family in New England. By R. D. TRASK. Portland, Me. : F. G. Rich & Co., Printers and Publishers. 1877. [12mo. pp. 36.] Notes on the Families of Holcroft, of Holcroft, co. Lancaster; Holcroft, of Vale Royal, co. Chester; Holcroft, of Hurst, co. Lancaster; Holcroft, of East Ham, co. Essex; Holcroft, of Balderton, co. Notts; Holcroft, of Basingstoke, co. Hants, etc., with an Account of their Arms. By J. PAUL RYLANDS, F.S.A. Leigh, Lancashire: Josiah Rose, Power Printer, Chronicle "Office. 1877. [8vo. pp. 50.] Genealogies of the Families of Culcheth, of Culcheth; and Risley, of Risley: both in the County of Lancaster. [Seal.] Compiled from the Ancient Charters of those Families; from the Herald's Visitations; and from the Parish Registers of Winwich and Newchurch. By J. PAUL RYLANDS, F.S.A. Privately printed. London: 1876. [4to. pp. 12.] 66 Genealogies of the Families of Bate and Kirkland of Ashby-de-la-Zouch, co. Leicester. Privately printed. London: 1877. [4to. pp. 13.] Milton, Minshull and Gouldsmyth. [London: 1878. Folio, pp. 4.] Genealogical, Memorial and Family Record of the Ammidown Family, and a Partial Record of some other Families of Southbridge, Mass. By HOLMES AMMIDOWN, New York. Published by the Author. 1877. [8vo. pp. 54.] Record of the Descendants of Rev. Nathaniel Chase, of Buckfield, Me.; with a brief account of his Ancestors. Also Records of some of the Descendants of Edmund Chase, of Minot, Me. Augusta: T. F. Murphy's Job Printing Office. 1878. [8vo. pp. 18.] Memoir of the Penhallow Family: with copies of Letters and Papers of an Early Date. Compiled by PEARCE W. PENHALLOW. .. Boston: David Clapp & Son, Printers. 1878. [8vo. pp. 22.] Genealogy of the Eustis Family. By HENRY LAWRENCE EUSTIS, A.M., Prof. of Engineering in Lawrence Scientific School in Harv. Univ. Boston: David Clapp & Son, Printers. 1878. [8vo. pp. 27.] The Waite Family of Malden. By DELORAINE P. COREY. Malden: Printed for private distribution. 1878. [8vo. pp. 11.] The Waite Family of Boston, Mass. By HENRY E. WAITE, of West Newton, Mass. [8vo. pp. 4.] The Woodbridge Family. By Miss MARY K. TALCOTT, of Hartford, Ct. [8vo. pp. 7.] Robert Campbell and his Descendants. By HENRY F. DOUGLAS, of Providence, R. I. [8vo. pp. 8.] Above we give the titles of nineteen recent genealogical publications. The first work, the "Cary Memorials," is by the Hon. Samuel F. Cary, of Cincinnati, well known as a public speaker, who held a seat in the fortieth congress of the United States. It is a large quarto volume, and contains the records of upwards of three hundred families, descendants of John Cary, said to have emigrated from near the city of Bristol, England. As early as 1634 he settled in Duxbury, and when Bridgewater was settled he removed there, was the first town clerk, and held the office till 1681. The author has shown commendable diligence in the collection of materials and the arrangement of this work, and good taste in bringing it out in so elegant a style. A good index is furnished. Only a limited number of copies of the book can now be supplied, and those who desire it should lose no time in ordering it. The volume relating to the Jackson family gives the proceedings at the celebration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the landing in 1725, at Newcastle, Delaware, of Isaac Jackson, the emigrant ancestor of the family to which this book is devoted. He was born in Ireland in 1665, and was a son of Anthony Jackson, who with his brother Richard emigrated in 1649 from Lancashire to Ireland. The marriage certificate of Isaac, and the letter which he brought from the Friends' Monthly Meeting at Carlow, Ireland, are preserved by the family, and copies of them and other early documents are printed here. The exercises at the celebration were appropriate and interesting. The genealogy here given is fully carried out and clearly arranged. The book is handsomely printed and bound. It has an excellent index. The volume on the Moseley family is also an elegant specimen of typography and binding. It is by the Hon. Edward S. Moseley, of Newburyport, and was intended to preserve for his children the facts he had collected concerning their ancestors. It contains notices of the families of Maudesley or Moseley in England, and of Joseph and Henry Maudesley, or Moseley, supposed to be brothers, who settled at Dorchester, Mass., in the early part of the seventeenth century. Mr. Moseley has gathered many particulars concerning the lives of these two men, from the former of whom he is descended. His own line of the descendants of Joseph is given in detail, with biographies of some of the more prominent persons. Many interesting facts are here preserved, which but for the timely care of the author would have been lost. Henry Maudesley, of Dorchester, has no living descendants bearing his name. His son, the well known Capt. Samuel Mosley, of Boston, was distinguished for his martial courage and capacity while an officer in king Philip's war. His connection with the important affair of the Dutch in Acadia was wholly forgotten till discovered a few years ago by Charles W. Tuttle, Esq., and fully set forth in his paper on "The Conquest of Acadia by the Dutch," read before the Maine Historical Society and printed in the Boston Post, March 28, 1877. See REGISTER, xxxi. 337. The author of the Bartow Genealogy, the Rev. Evelyn Bartow, of Baltimore, issued three years ago a pamphlet of sixty pages relating to this family, which was noticed in the REGISTER for January last (ante, p. 112). That work was preliminary to a fuller work on which Mr. Bartow was engaged, and which we now have before us in a beautiful volume of 218 pages. It is designed to be, says the author, extent, the carrying out of what I have intended from my earliest years." The book is well arranged and fully indexed. "to some The next volume, the Jones Family, is by William B. Trask, Esq., formerly editor of the REGISTER, who has had much experience in genealogical investigation and in compiling works of this kind. No one is more thorough in research, and no one has more taste in the arrangement of his matter. This book is devoted to a branch of the Jones family found in that model compendium of genealogy, Bond's Watertown; but Mr. Trask, besides adding many names not found in the history of Watertown, has gathered many details concerning those given by Dr. Bond. He has furnished much information relative to the origin of the name, the history of the family in Great Britain and the life of the emigrant ancestor. The book has been prepared for Messrs. Josiah M. and Frederick Jones, of Boston, and Nahum Jones, of Warwick. It makes a neat and attractive volume. |
