ENGLISH PEDIGREE OF THE FIRST GABRIEL LUDLOW, OF NEW YORK

By the late THOMAS W. LUDLOW, Esq., of Ludlow, N. Y.

Copy of the CERTIFICATE OF BAPTISM OF GABRIEL LUDLOW, of New York.

“Christenings in the years 1663.

“December. The first day of this moneth GABRIEL the sonne of GABRIEL LUDLOW

of froome and of MARTHA his wife was christened.”

Certified a true copy of an entry in the Register of Baptisms for

the Parish of Castle Cary, in the county of Somerset, by

10th day of March, 1883. A. W. GRAFTON, Vicar.

[1]. Smith, Debates, pp. 38, 39.

[2]. Smith, Debates, pp. 37, 38.

[3]. In his message of Oct. 25, 1861, Gov. Shorter made a report showing that the finances of the State for 1861 were in a good condition, and advised against levying a tax to pay the State’s quota of the Confederate tax. He stated that the banks had done good service to the State; that, though in time of peace they were a necessary evil, now they were a public necessity; that all the money used by the State in carrying on the war had come from the banks.—Official Records, Ser. IV, Vol. I, pp. 697–700.

[4]. O. R., Ser. IV, Vol. I, pp. 697–699; Acts of Gen’l. Assembly, Feb. 2, Nov. 27 and 30, and Dec. 7 and 9, 1861; Patton’s Message, Jan. 16, 1866.

[5]. Ordinance No. 33, amending sections 1373, 1375, 1393 of the Code, Mar. 16, 1861.

[6]. In 1861, two banks were chartered, two in 1862, five in 1863, and two in 1864. Several of there were savings banks.

[7]. Ordinance No. 18, Jan. 19, 1861; Nos. 35 and 36, Mar. 18, 1861.

[8]. Schwab, p. 302; Davis, Vol. I, p. 495; Journal of the Conv. of 1865, p. 61; Acts of Ala., Jan. 29, Feb. 6 and 8, Dec. 10, 1861; Stat.-at-Large Prov. Cong. C. S. A., Feb. 8, 1861; Miller, Alabama, pp. 152, 157.

[9]. Journal of the Conv., 1865, p. 61; Acts of Ala., Nov. 8, Dec. 4, 8 and 9, 1862; Miller, p. 168.

[10]. Journal of the Conv. of 1865, p. 61; Acts of Ala., Aug. 29, Dec. 8, 1863; Miller, pp. 186, 189.

[11]. Miller, p. 215; Acts of Ala., Oct. 7, and Dec. 13, 1864.

[12]. Resolutions of Gen’l. Assembly, Dec. 1, 1862; Schwab, p. 50.

[13]. Resolutions, Dec. 8, 1863.

[14]. Confederate Funding Act, Feb. 17, 1864.

[15]. Acts of Ala., Oct 7, 1864; Schwab, pp. 73, 74.

[16]. Acts of Ala., Dec. 10, 1861.

[17]. Acts of Ala., passim. Notes of the State and of State banks were hoarded while Confederate notes were distrusted.—Pollard, Lost Cause, p. 421.

[18]. Acts of Ala., Nov. 9, 1861; Schwab, p. 8. It was considered a matter of patriotism to invest funds in Confederate securities. Not many other investments offered; there was little trade in negroes.—Pollard, Lost Cause, p. 424.

[19]. Acts of Ala., Dec. 8, 1863.

[20]. Acts of Ala., Dec. 13, 1864.

[21]. Clark, Finance and Banking, in the Memorial Record of Alabama, Vol. I, p. 341. Statement of J. H. Fitts.

[22]. Patton’s Message, Jan. 16, 1866.

[23]. The 19th of April is so known in New England, particularly in Massachusetts.

[24]. Although this has been printed in all the histories of the Revolution, it remained for the Massachusetts S. A. R. to make it complete by adding the place where killed, the home, and the age of each of the victims, and I am indebted to Mr. H. W. Kimball, the Society’s Registrar, for the use of it.

[25]. San Saba.

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

  1. Silently corrected obvious typographical errors and variations in spelling.
  2. Retained archaic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings as printed.
  3. Re-indexed footnotes using numbers and collected together at the end of the last chapter.