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.”
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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.