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DESCENDANTS OF JONATHAN Towle, 1747–1822, of Hampton and Pittsfield, N. H. By Alvin F. Towle, assisted by his son, Herbert C. Towle, J. M. Moses, A. M., and G. C. Selden, A. B., LL. B., Fel. Col. Univ. Boston, Mass.: C. W. Calkins & Co., Publishers, No. 52 Purchase St. 12mo. pp. 312. Ill. Maps. Price $3.00 net, postpaid.
The four divisions of this work comprise, respectively, first, a series of six tables giving in brief the principal facts relating to Jonathan Towle and his five children; second, a historical narrative, beginning with the O’Toole family in Ireland; third, the genealogy proper; fourth, a part consisting almost wholly of the portraits of descendants of Huldah (Towle) Chase, and Daniel and James Towle, followed by a copious index. The family history involves customs and personages of colonial life in New England more or less worthy of record, and such as a novelist could well utilize. The book is printed and bound in good style, and is well illustrated.
GENEALOGY OF THE Descendants of John Deming of Wethersfield, Connecticut. With Historical Notes. Compiled and edited by Judson Keith Deming, Dubuque, Iowa. Press of Mathis-Mets Co., Dubuque, Iowa. 8vo. pp. VIII.+694. Ill. Price $7.50. Apply to Author or Publishers.
The most noticeable feature of this genealogy is the abundance of biographical matter, in which are embodied the “Historical Notes” mentioned on the title-page. The twelve years’ labor of the author has produced such a mass of information respecting the Demings that, in order not to make too large a volume, the female lines are indicated simply by the record of marriage, with no attempt at tracing them further. The coat-of-arms of the Cole type used as frontispiece, the author himself disclaims as being authentic, and will hardly be regarded by the heraldic connoisseur as wholly in keeping with the other beautiful half-tone embellishments. The book is thoroughly indexed, and printed and bound in superior style.
GENEALOGY OF THE Anthony Family from 1495 to 1904. Traced from William Anthony, Cologne, Germany, to London, England, John Anthony, a Descendant, from England to America. With photographs and biographical sketches of the Lives of Prominent Men and Women. 1904. Compiled and published by Charles L. Anthony. Sterling, Ill. 8vo. pp. 379. Ill.
It is stated in the preface that, though many circumstances render it probable, yet the connection between the German William and the English John Anthony has not been established as certain. John was the grandson of Dr. Francis Anthony, the celebrated physician and chemist, whose “potable gold” was proclaimed by him as a cure for all diseases. Another famous person connected with the Anthony family was Gilbert Stuart, the artist, of whom a biography of considerable length is furnished. Biographical sketches, indeed, are frequent, one of Susan B. Anthony being particularly noticeable. Appended to the genealogy are extracts from the Vital Records of Rhode Island relating to the Anthonys, followed by a chapter on the Nova Scotia branch. The illustrations are chiefly portraits, among them, however, being a coat-of-arms in color. There is a good index, and typographically the volume is fine.
HISTORY, GENEALOGICAL and Biographical, of the Molyneux Families. By Nellie Zada Rice Molyneux. Syracuse, N. Y.: C. W. Bardeen, Publisher. 1904. Square 8vo. pp. 370. Ill.
Robert Molyneux, known as the “Comte de Meulin,” is the ancestor whose descendants are recorded in this volume. “The Lineage of the English Branch,” “Lineage of the Irish Branch,” “Molyneux of the West Indies,” “Staffordshire and Sussex Branches,” and “Unclassified”—these sections together with one entitled simply “Molyneux,” form the principal divisions of the work. The last-named chapter contains the Molyneux of America. The name is associated with aristocracy, and persons and places of high degree are frequently described. The list of authorities preceding the genealogy shows a large proportion of works on the peerage of Great Britain. The genealogy possesses, therefore, much historical interest, the narrative portion of the work equalling in extent that of the vital statistics. The appendix is a specimen of the literary talent of a Molyneux, entitled “Gleanings After a Harvest of Twenty Years in Roman Fields.” The index is full, the print beautifully clear, and the margins wide.
LASHER GENEALOGY. In three parts. Edition of two hundred copies. New York: C. S. Williams. 1904. 8vo. pp. 270. Ill. Map. Price $3.60. Apply to Publisher, 16 Rivington St., New York City.
Of the three parts of this work the first comprises the descendants of François Le Seur, who came from Normandy to Kingston, N. Y., the second, those of Sebastian Loesher, an early German settler at West Camp, N. Y., the third, those of John Lejere, the record of whose marriage in the Dutch Reformed Church, N. Y., is dated 1723. Church and family records, old papers, tombstones, public documents and historical works, and information received from members of the family are the sources of a well-indexed compilation which will be highly prized by those of the name. Heavy paper, wide margins, remarkably clear print, are the typographical features of the volume. Corresponding in quality to these are the illustrations and binding.
LIFE OF JEFFERSON DILLARD Goodpasture; to which is appended a Genealogy of the Family of James Goodpasture. By his sons, A. V. and W. H. Goodpasture. Nashville, Tenn.: Cumberland Presbyterian Publishing House. 12mo. pp. 308. Ill.
Judge Goodpasture was born on Buffalo Creek, near Hilham, Tennessee, in 1824. His extensive law practice and his State Senatorship, though receiving a due share of the biography, are subordinate in interest to what proved to be the principal enterprise of his career, the importation of jacks. The description of his travels in Europe when in search of the animals he had determined to introduce into Tennessee occupies a large portion of the book, and is very interesting reading. The James Goodpasture whose genealogy forms the appendix, was one of the pioneers of Abingdon Settlement, Virginia, whence he emigrated to Tennessee. Though not written for the public, this memoir of an unusually busy man will give pleasure to all who like to trace a career of deserved success.
THE NANCE MEMORIAL. A History of the Nance Family in General, but more particularly of Clement Nance, of Pittsylvania County, Virginia, and descendants, containing Historical and Biographical Records with Family Lineage. By Geo. W. Nance. 1904: J. E. Burke & Co., Printers, Bloomington, Ill. 8vo. pp. XVI.+354. Ill.
The plan of this genealogy being original and very peculiar, we will quote the author’s own description of it: “As far as known to the author no work has ever been published following the plan of this work.... Beginning with the ancestral head of Part I., he is called the trunk. The trunk divides into limbs, the limbs into branches, they into twigs. The twigs bear buds which bring forth blossoms, and the blossoms grow into fruit. So the seven parts of the tree answer to the seven generations of Part I.” While it gives what one must call a bizarre appearance to the page to head its columns of names “twigs,” “buds,” “blossoms,” “fruit,” it may be that such an arrangement, when understood, is as simple as any commonly used. Mr. Nance claims that it has advantages over others. Be that as it may, the genealogy is an excellent one, very abundant in biographical facts, forming thereby a detailed history of the family, profusely illustrated, well printed, and handsomely and substantially bound.
THE TENNEY FAMILY, OR THE Descendants of Thomas Tenney of Rowley, Massachusetts. 1638–1904. Revised, with partial records of Prof. Jonathan Tenney. By M. J. Tenney. Concord, N. H.: The Rumford Press. 1904. 8vo. pp. 691. Ill.
The original edition of this work was published in 1891, containing a little more than half of the material of the present one. The praise which was accorded to it as a full and precise record is in a greater degree merited by this volume. The arrangement of the contents of this is the same as that of the other edition, the opening section being “Our English Home,” to which succeed the ten “generations” of the genealogy, an appendix having been added relating to Deacon William Tenney, brother of Thomas. An index of more than sixty pages is a thorough guide in the use of the book. The letterpress is clear, the illustrations nearly all full-page portraits, and the binding of cloth. A colored coat-of-arms serves as frontispiece.
WOODHULL GENEALOGY. The Woodhull Family in England and America. Compiled by Mary Gould Woodhull and Frances Bowes Stevens. Published by Henry T. Coates & Co., Philadelphia. 1904. 8vo. pp. 366+ LVI. Ill.
The first part of this book, entitled “The Woodhull Family in England,” consists of “A Record of the Descendants of Walter Flanderensis,” otherwise called Walter de Wahulle. The second part is a “Record of the Descendants of Richard Woodhull I., of Brookhaven, Long Island,” to which is added an appendix containing notes on allied families, the work concluding with seventy-eight pages of biographical sketches. The frontispiece is a brilliantly colored copy of an heraldic painting on an oaken panel, called “The Wodhull Achievement,” and now in the possession of the Woodhulls of the State of New York. The few other illustrations are principally portraits. Paper and print are of good quality; the binding is of dark green cloth. The index is full, and in connection with it should be mentioned a long list of “References to the Woodhull Family in America” in books and periodicals. Blank leaves follow the index lettered “Births,” “Marriages,” and “Deaths.”
[1].
THE REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS OF REDDING, CONN.
And the Record of their Services—with mention of others who rendered service or suffered loss at the hands of the enemy during the struggle for Independence, 1775–1783, together with some account of the Loyalists of the town and vicinity; their organization, their efforts and sacrifices in behalf of the cause of their King, and their ultimate fate. By William Edgar Grumman. Hartford, 1904.
[2]. See Magazine of American History, 1883–84.
[3]. Jones, Diary, Vol. I, p. 114. North Carolina alone had contributed more—$325,000.
[4]. Clark, Education in Alabama, p. 90.
[5]. Acts of Ala., Dec. 7, 1863.
[6]. The State authorities considered it inexpedient to levy heavier State taxes. The people had always been opposed to heavy State taxes, but paid county taxes more willingly. So the gift of $500,000 to the Confederate government in 1861, and the $2,000,000 war tax of the same year were assumed by the State and bonds were issued.—Stat.-at-Large, Prov. Cong., C. S. A., Feb. 8, 1861; Acts of Ala., Nov. 37, 1861.
[7]. Another measure aimed at the speculators.
[8]. Acts of Ala., Dec. 8, 1863.
[9]. Acts of Ala., Dec. 13, 1864.
[10]. Pub. Laws, C. S. A., 1st Cong., 1st Sess., Apr. 21, 1862.
[11]. Pollard, Lost Cause, p. 427.
[12]. Pub. Laws, C. S. A., 1st Cong., 3d Sess., Apr. 24, 1863.
[13]. See, also, Curry, Confederate States, p. 110.
[14]. Pub. Laws, C. S. A., 1st Cong., 4th Sess, Jan. 30, 1864.
[15]. Pub. Laws, C. S. A., 2d Cong., 1st Sess., June 10 and 14, 1864.
[16]. Miller, Alabama, p. 190.
[17]. New York Times, Feb. 2, 1864.
[18]. Fitzgerald Ross, Cities and Camps of the Confederate States, pp. 237, 238.
[19]. Miller, p. 230.
[20]. Acts of Ala., Nov. 19, 1862.
[21]. Acts of Ala., Nov. 17, 1862.
[22]. Acts of Ala., Oct. 31, 1862.
[23]. O. R., Ser. II, Vol. III, p. 933; G. O., No. 86, A. and I. G. Office, Richmond, Dec. 12, 1864; Miller, pp. 198, 199, Beverly, Hist. of Alabama; A. C. Gordon, in Century Magazine, Sept., 1888; David Dodge, in Atlantic Monthly, Aug., 1886.
[24]. Pub. Laws, C. S. A., 1st Cong., 3d Sess., Mar. 26, 1863.
[25]. A Conference of Impressment Commissioners met in Augusta, Ga., Oct. 26, 1863. Among those present were Wylie W. Mason, of Tuskegee, Ala., and Robert C. Farris, of Montgomery, Ala.—See O. R, Ser. IV, Vol. II, pp. 898–906.
[26]. Schwab, p. 202; Saunders, Early Settlers. Schedules were printed in all the newspapers, and many have been reprinted in the Official Records.
[27]. Jones, Diary, Vol. I, p. 194; Miller, Alabama, pp. 198, 199; Pollard, Lost Cause, pp. 487–488.
[28]. Acts of Ala., Nov. 25, 1863.
[29]. Jones, Diary, Vol. I, p. 301.
[30]. Pub. Laws, C. S. A., 2d Cong., 1st Sess., June 14, 1864; Saunders, Early Settlers.
[31]. Resolutions of General Assembly, Nov. 26, 1864.
[32]. Ball, Clarke County, p. 501.
[33]. May, Constitutional History II, p. 103.
[34]. Collier, Essay on the Law of Patents, and General History of Monopolies.
[35]. 12 Eliz. 15 Eliz. 18 Eliz. 21 Eliz. 25 Eliz. 26 Eliz. 31 Eliz. and 43 Eliz.
[36]. 11 Eliz.
[37]. 25 H. VIII, c. 15, Sect 1.
[38]. 1 R. III, c. 9. Sect. 12.
[39]. State Trials, Vol. I, p. 1263.
[40]. Mar. 9, 1642; June 14, 1643; Sept. 21, 1647.
[41]. Areopagitica, II, 55.
[42]. 13 and 14 Car. II, c. 33; 16 Car. II, c. 8; 16 and 17 Car. II, c. 7; 17 Car. II, c. 4.
[43]. Carr’s Case, State Trials VII, 929.
[44]. Macaulay, Hist. Eng. Chap. xxi.
[45]. Rex v. Sullivan, II Cox. C. C. 52.
[46]. A. V. Dicey, The Law of the Constitution, p. 242.
[47]. Read before the Am. Scenic and Hist. Pres. Soc’y. N. Y.
[48]. Robert Morris.
[49]. Illegible.
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- Silently corrected obvious typographical errors and variations in spelling.
- Retained archaic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings as printed.