of alumni of N. E. colleges: Nathan Weston, of Augusta, Me.; Naphtali Shaw, NEW-ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY. The New-England Historical Svo, pp. viii, 417. Contents: General Index; Memoir of the Rev. Increase Mather; The roll of Battle Abbey; First settlers of New Hampshire; The celebrated glossary of Sir Henry Spelman; Petition of Sarah Gosse [7 April, 1640]; Memorandum concerning Abraham Browne, of Boston, by Charles Browne; List of early settlers of Reading and South Reading, Mass., from 1640 to 1700; Letter of Ezra Badlam, 1777; Ipswich proceedings, 1648; Early records of Roxbury; Remarkable superstitions; How the Jews were treated in early times in England, from Stow's History of England: Some accounts of the Peters family; The first settlers of Barnstable, Ms.; Some old local laws and other regulations; The old graveyard in Middletown, Ct.; Records of Boston; Capen family record ; Genealogy of the Dearborn family, by E. B. Dearborn; John Foster Williams, by Ebenezer Fox; Abstracts of the earliest wills upon record in the county of Suffolk, Ms.; Massachusetts archives; Passengers for New England, 1638; A relic of antiquity-The "Old House" in Deerfield; Passengers for Virginia, 1635; Monument to the memory of the Indians (Farmington, Conn.); Life of Sir Henry Vane, 1612-1662; The importance of preserving original MSS.; Dummer's letter to Sewall, 1720; A liberal bequest-property of Martha C. Hall to the First Parish of Boston, 1847; Copy of a letter sent to Gov. Dudley, giving a list of Quakers in Lynn, 1703; Destruction of Schenectady-a letter in the handwriting of Samuel Sewall, but signed by Gov. Bradstreet, 1633; God's promise to his plantation-note on sermon by John Cotton; The Peabody family, by C. M. Endicott; Individual and family names, by William Cogswell; James Graham, Marquis of Montrose; The Gookin family; Early Ipswich families; Historical sketches of Belcherton, Ms.; Incidents on board the Mayflower, 1620; John Bowles, Esq.-obituary, 1737; Letter from Rev. Samuel Whiting, of Lynn, to Rev. Increase Mather, of Boston, 1677; Obituary-George James Sprague; Proclamation for a Thanksgiving, 1676; Old settlers of New Hampshire, by Wm. Willis; Indian wars-copy of a letter from Noah Wright, 1745, also journal kept by him, 1746-7; Luther Waite, Esq., by L. R. Thayer; Passengers for Virginia, 1635; Epitaphs taken from the old burying-ground in Cambridge, Ms.; Massachusetts archives-note on the collection of manuscript copies of French documents relating to colonial and provincial history of New England; Notes on the will of Richard Hills; Notice of Roger Conant; Bradford's letter to Winthrop, 1631; The Irish donation in 1676, communicated by Charles Deane; First settlers of Hingham, by Andrew H. Ward; Notice of Edward Breck ; Notice of Thomas Hollis, with letter written by same, 1719; Passengers for Virginia, 1635; Notice of Rev. James Fitch, first pastor of the church of Saybrook; Woburn burying-ground-inscriptions on the grave stones; A tragedy of the sea-attack upon Lieut. Tilton by Indians; Narrative poem on the attack upon Tilton, by Indians; Notices of the Cutts family; Biographical account of Dr. John Pomeroy, Burlington, Vt., by Samuel W. Thayer; Genealogical and historical memoir of the Otis family, by Horatio N. Otis; Notes on the Josselyn family of Massachusetts, by T. W. Harris ; Letter of Eleazer Wheelock, 1766, by Charles Deane; Stage-coach and railway statistics, by Fred S. Pease, 1848; Meeting of the Kilburn family, 1848; A genealogical memoir of the Coffin family, by N. W. Coffin Heralds college; Heralds visitations, by H. G. Somerby; Principal events in the life of the Indian chief Brant; The Checkley family; Some ac count of Deacon John Butler, of Pelham, N. H., and of his descendants, by NEW-ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY. The New-England Historical and Genealogical Register. Vol. III. 1849. Boston, 1849. 8vo, pp. vi, 419. Portraits. Contents: Memoirs of Sir Martin Frobisher, 1536 to 1594; Indian war papers, 1675-89, by Charles W. Parsons; Explanation of term, Indian summer; The Pease family, by Frederick S. Pease; Deaths in Wrentham, 1673 to 1704; The Wyman family, by T. B. Wyman; Records of Boston, by David Pulsifer; Notices concerning the early freemen" in New England; Woburn burying-ground, by N. Wyman; Biographical sketches of the early physicians of Marietta, Ohio, by S. P. Hildreth; Original settlers of Salisbury, Massachusetts, communicated by Mr. Thornton; Principal events in the life of the Indian chief Brant; Marriages in the town of Andover, Ms., from 1647 to 1700; Ancient deeds in Woodbury, Conn., copied by William Cothren; Early records of Weymouth, by Cyrus Orcutt: Some account of Deacon John Butler of Pelham, N. H., and of his descendants, by Caleb Butler; Abstracts of the earliest wills upon record in the county of Suffolk; Refugees in London, 1775; First settlers of Barnstable, by David Hamblen; Description of James the first; List of Freemen, 1630-1691, by Lucius R. Paige; Additional note on the Josselyn family; Memoir of Rev. Benjamin Colman; Will of Brian Pendleton, 1677; Inscriptions at Allyn's Point, the terminus of the Worcester and Norwich Railroad; Inscriptions from the burying-grounds in Salem, Mass.; Letter to Rev. Mr. Adams, 1737; Some materials towards a genealogy of the family of the name of Rolfe; Early records of Brainford, now Branford, Ct., from materials furnished by Charles M. Taintor; Pedigree of the Taintor family; Will of Riard Haffeeld, 1638; The Tully family of Saybrook, Ct., collected from manuscripts, by Samuel H. Parsons; Archives of Connecticut, by Wm. S. Porter; Register of deaths in Northampton from its settlement in 1653 to 1700, by Samuel W. Lee; Ancient wills in Middlesex, 1649-1665, by Wm. F. Stone; Indian deed to John Stone, 1656; Obituary on Rev. Daniel Baker, from the Boston Weekly News-Letter, May 20, 1731; Passengers for Virginia, 1635, by H. G. Somerby; Rev. Joseph Farrar; Notice of Edward Rawson, secretary of the colony of Massachusetts Bay, 1650–1686 ; The New England primer; Sketches of the early history of the town of Middleborough, in the county of Plymouth; Memoir of Charles Frost, by Usher Parsons; Instructions of the town of Malden to their representative in the Massachusetts General Court, passed May 27th, 1776; Genealogical notices of the descendants of Secretary Rawson; Epitaphs from the burying-ground on Copp's Hill, Boston; The Peabody family; Rev. Samuel Brown of Abington, by Cyrus Orcutt; The Deane family, by William Reed Deane; Names of persons who took the oath of fidelity in the year 1652. Index of names and titles. (3361 NEW-ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY. New-England Historical and Genealogical Register. Vol. IV. 1850. Boston, 1850. Svo, pp. viii, 9–388. Portraits. Contents: Memoir of Oliver Wolcott, by George Gibbs; Physicians of Ipswich, by A. Hammatt; Letter from Rev. Thomas Mayhew, [16]78; Records of Saybrook, Ct., by Sylvester Nash; First ancestor of the Chipmans in N. England, by R. M. Chipman; Epitaph on Stephen Farrar; More freemen, 1678; Old French war letters, 1745-1760; In memory of William French; Extracts from old town records of Dover, N. H., communicated by George T. Wentworth: Abstract of the first wills in the probate office, I'lymouth, by Justin Winsor; Epitaphs from S. Berwick, &c., by John S. II. Fogg: A genealogy of the Bradford family, by G. M. Fessenden; Abstracts of the earliest wills upon record in the county of Suffolk; Early records of Boston, copied by David Pulsifer: Early records of Weymouth, by Cyrus Orcutt; Passengers for Virginia, 1635, by H. G. Somerby; From Greenwich, Ct., town records, communicated by Horatio N. Otis; The Howe family; Some inscriptions from the Malden buryingground, by Thomas Waterman; Note concerning the descendants of Dolor Davis; Memorials of the Revolution, prepared by Samuel H. Riddel; Past events; Notices of the Greene family, by Wendell Phillips; A new genealogical dictionary, by Edward Armstrong; Anti-tea combination, 1768; Paddy and Greenough family document, 1678; Rev. Daniel Gookin of Sherburne; Early records of Wrentham, Ms., copied by G. W. Messinger; Important ante revolutionary letters, communicated by George Gibbs; A funeral song dedicated to ye memory of Mr Nath Clarke, 1705; The Meigs family; Epitaph on Stephen Farrar; Notes on the Cotton family, by Jedediah Herrick; Answer to the genealogical problem in the Register, Vol. III, p. 344; John Carver, first governor of the colony of New Plymouth, by Nathaniel B. Shurtleff; Inscription from the stone of Thomas Saffin at Stepney, Eng.; Genealogical notice of the descendants of Eleazer Davenport, by Henry Davenport; Notes on the Addington family, by a descendant; Genealogical notice of the family of Elder Thomas Leverett, by Nathaniel B. Shurtleff; Diploma of the crest of Lancelot Manfeld, 1563, communicated by William Tyler; Genealogy of the Otis family, by Horatio N. Otis; Inscriptions from the old burial-ground in Dorchester, 1638-1699, by W. B. Trask The Cutler family-Harvard graduates; Extracts from the register books of Austerfied in Yorkshire, 1561-1631, by H. G. Somerby; Extracts from the Candler manuscript in the British Museum, by H. G. Somerby; Rev. Nathaniel Gookin of Cambridge, by J. Wingate Thornton; Eldest daughter of Peregrine White; Notice of Samuel Gorton, by Charles Deane; Letter from the Hon. John Saffin, of Boston, 1687; The Gilbert family, by J. Wingate Thornton; Epitaph of Elihu Yale; Extracts from Dover town records, by Alonzo Hall Quint; Notes to declaration of ruling Elder John Chipman, by Richard M. Chipman; Plymouth colony rates, communicated by Nathl. B. Shurtleff; Earliest inscriptions from Plymouth burying-ground; List of those able to bear arms in the colony of New Plymouth in 1643, by Nathaniel B. Shurtleff; Letter from Peter Faneuil, 1739, communicated by W. H. Montague; Epitaph of William Camden, the antiquary, from Westminster Abbey; Early records of Middleborough, by Cyrus Orcutt; Letter from John Corbin to Ralph Sprague, 1651; Monument of Sir William Phipps in London; Genealogical memoir of the descendants of Edward Winslow, Governor of Plymouth Colony-from "Genealogical memoir of the descendants of Susanna, successively wife of William White and Edward Winslow," by Lemuel Shattuck; Letter from John Hancock to Henry Quincy, 1779; Johnson, Willard and Sheafe, by Joseph Willard; Marshfield inscriptions from the burial-ground on the hill, by M. A. Thomas; Notes on the Wentworth family; Extract from the records of the Pilgrim Society, Plymouth; Additional notice of Eleazer and Richard Davenport, by Henry Davenport; Graduates of Harvard college born in Dedham, 1692-1845; Genealogical notice of Samuel Wright, of Springfield, by Joseph W. Wright; Genealogical items relative to Gloucester, by Joseph B. Felt; First celebration of the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, by the Old Colony Club, 1769; Index of names and titles. (3362 NEW-ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY. The New-England Historical and Genealogical Register. Vol. v. 1851. Boston, 1851. 8vo, pp. viii, 486. Portraits. Contents: Memoir of Hugh Peters, by Joseph B. Felt; Stoddard's journal of a negotiation between the Marquis de Vandreuil, Governor General of Canada, and John Stoddard and John Williams, messengers commissioned by His Excellency Joseph Dudley, Esq., Captain General of Canada and Governor of Her Majesty's government of the Massachusetts, 1713-14, with notes by Sylvester Judd; Ancestors of Rev. Samuel Hopkins, of Newport, and their children, by Sylvester Judd; Old burying-ground at Peekskill, N. Y.; Graduates of Harvard originating from Salem, 1642-1849; Colman papers, 1699-1714-15; Passengers for Virginia, 1635, by H. G. Somerby; Records of Windsor, Ct.; Inscriptions from the old grave-yard of the first parish in York, Me., by John S. H. Fogg; Memoir of the Stebbins family, by Daniel Stebbins; An account of the Varnum family from their first coming to America from England, by Isaac Childs; Inhabitants of Springfield who took the oath of allegiance, 1678; First settlers of Rochester, Mass., and their families, by David Hamblen; Copy of a letter from Wm. Pepperrell, Esq., 1745; Inscriptions from the old burial ground in Dorchester, 1700-1750, by W. B. Trask; Genealogical items relative to Lynn, by Joseph B. Felt; Early records of Boston, by David Pulsifer; Genealogical memoir of the family of Rev. Nathaniel Rogers, by a descendant; Family of Huntington-copy of a letter from Joseph Huntington to his brother, Eliphalet H. Doc. 923, 59–1, vol 2- -29 Huntington; Mss. relating to New England in the State Paper Office; The Frost family, by a descendant of Joseph Frost; Middlesex statistics, 1680, by Lucius R. Paige; Bonner family record, by R. R. Hinman; Charlestown burying-ground, by Thomas Waterman; The Otis genealogy, by Horatio N. Otis; Memoir of Hugh Peters, by Joseph B. Felt; Abstracts of the earliest wills upon record in the county of Suffolk, Mass.; Early records of Boston; Vaughan and Shannon families, by Thomas Shannon; List of freemen of Winsor, Ct., 1669; Will of John Green, of Warwick, R. I., 1658; Saybrook records; Emigrants in vessels, "Bound to Virginia," and memorial of William Clarke, of Watertown and Woborn, communicated by John G. Locke; Waltham graveyard-epitaphs previous to 1720; Note on the Varnum family; Abstracts of the earliest wills in the probate office, Plymouth, by Justin Winsor; Witchcraft in Hingham, 1708-9; A declaration of the inhabitants of Scarborough, 1663; Memoir of Major-General Artemas Ward, by Andrew Henshaw Ward; Memoir of Hugh Peters, by Joseph B. Felt; Ancient family letters, addressed to Mrs. Elizabeth Harris, 1654, 1662; The Ricker family, by G. W. Ricker; Payne family record, &c., 1580–1636; Gleanings in the early history of Maine and New Hampshire [from Mr. Thornton]; The Shapleigh family; Family of Stoughton; Memoir of the Stebbins family, by Daniel Stebbins; Brooks of Cheshire, Ct., by Elihu Yale; Deposition concerning Walter Barefoote, 1676; ̧ Original letters from Roger Hill, 1690, Bellomont, [16]99; Some memoirs of the Rev. Thomas Prince; Old Dorchester-recovery of some materials for its history; Genealogical memoir of the Leonard family, by William Reed Deane; Early letters of John Adams; Who were the Wentworths of Punkapaugue?; Memoir of Hugh Peters, by Joseph B. Felt; Genealogical items relating to the early settlers of Dover, N. H., by Alonzo H. Quint; Index of (3363 names. NEW-ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY. The New-England Historical and Genealogical Register. Vol. VI. 1852. Boston, 1852. Svo, pp. vi, 402. Portraits. Contents: Memoir of the Rev. Cotton Mather, with a genealogy of the family of Mather, by Samuel G. Drake; Customs of New England, by Joseph B. Felt; Genealogical items relating to the early settlers of Dover, N. H., by Alonzo H. Quint; Rev. Samuel Man, first minister of Wrentham, Mass.-his advice to his children who were to enter into the married state, written in 1704; First settlers of Eastham, Mass., by David Hamblin; William and John Crowne, by Samuel Jennison; The Swett family; Will of Major André, 1777; Ipswich grammar school, by Abraham Hammatt; Samuel Sewal's diary, 1685-1698; Captain Kidd, by Joseph B. Felt; Material towards a history of Billerica, by Frederic Kidder; A list of Canada prisoners, 1695, by Frederic Kidder; Abstracts of the earliest wills upon record in the county of Suffolk, Ms.; Abstracts of the earliest wills in the probate office, Plymouth, by Justin Winsor; Memoir of the Rev. Francis Higginson, by Joseph B. Felt; John Shepard, by John Daggett; Expedition against Quebec, 1775-journal kept by Joseph Ware, of Needham, with a short genealogy of the Ware family, by W. B. Trask; Oates of Yarmouth, Ms.; Metcalf family, by Luther Metcalf Harris; Alice Craft-who were her parents?; Inscriptions from the old burial ground in Dorchester, Ms., by W. B. Trask; Early records of Boston, by David Pulsifer; Subscribers to Prince's chronology; Brief memoirs and notices of Prince's subscribers; Oaths of freemen, allegiance, &c., in old Norfolk county, 1668-78, by Alonzo H. Quint; Early settlers of Essex and old Norfolk, by Joshua Coffin; An address to the members of the Society, by Wm. Jenks; The Hampton Brown family, by Asa W. Brown; Historical reminiscences, by Jeremiah Smith Boies; Material towards a history of Ashbypetition of John Fitch to the general court, in 1749, by Frederic Kidder; Letter from Rev. Arthur Brown, Portsmouth, 1741; A record of marriages, births, and deaths in Westfield prior to 1700; Pearce, of Gloucester, Mass.; Ancestry of the Jones family, Stockbridge, Mass., by Electa F. Jones; The Wentworth family; A genealogical memoir of the Doolittle family; Early voyagers to Newfoundland and Cape Breton, 1536: A petition from Rev. John Eliot against selling Indians for slaves; Memoir of the Farrar family; Early Malden records from county returns at Cambridge, by Francis G. Flagg: Material toward the history of Hull--Hull petition presented 3 March, 1675; Marriages from the early records of Marshfield, by M. A. Thomas: The Johonnot family, by Andrew Johonnot; Petition of Peterborough for defence in 1750, communicated by Frederic Kidder; Petition of Ipswich, Canada (now Winchendon, Ms.), 1755; The Dutch house of Good Hope at Hartford, by Sylvester Judd; Petition of Capt. William Traske to the general court in 1661; Index of names. (3364 NEW-ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY. New-England Historical and Svo, pp. viii, 388. Contents: General index; Memoir of Benjamin Pierce; The discovery of America by the Northmen, by Charles C. Rafn; Memoir of the Lindall family, by John A. Vinton; Inscriptions from the most ancient burial ground in South Reading (MS.); A list of freemen, from Middlesex county court records; Abstracts of wills of the early settlers of New England, by W. B. Trask; Will of Thomas Appleton, 1504; Pedigree of the Adams family, originally located at Braintree, Mass., by William Downing Bruce; The farm of David Henshaw; Genealogical items relating to the early settlers of Dover, N. H., by Alonzo H. Quint; Copy of the diary of Noahdiah Russell, tutor at Harvard college, 1682; The adventures of Capt. Lovewell, by Frederic Kidder; Marblehead town meeting petition, 1673-4; Brief memoirs and notices of Prince's subscribers; Early affairs of Marblehead, 1673; Materials for the history of Ipswich; Ipswich burying-ground inscriptions; First settlers of Chatham, Mass., by David Hamblen; Early settlers of Essex and old Norfolk; Burial inscriptions, Milton, Mass.; Philip's war in Maine-Major Waldron's letter to the governor of Massachusetts, 1675; New publications; Marriages and deaths; Correction for the Paine pedigree, by Caroline Whiting; An address delivered to the members of the New England Historic-Genealogical Society, by William Whiting, president; Material for the history of Groton-a copy of an ancient deed; Early records of New Hampshire families; Brief notice of the Honorable Orin Fowler, with a sketch of the pedigree of the family, by Horatio N. Otis; Descendants of Richard Smith, of Ipswich, by William Smith; Inscriptions from the old graveyard in Wells, Maine, by John S. H. Fogg; First town incorporated in Maine, by Wm. Fogg; On changes in surnames; Letter from Jabez Delano, of Dartmouth, 1727; Memoir of Gen. John Sullivan; Groton in 1675-document; The Johonnot family, by Andrew Johonnot; Pedigree of the family of Boylston, by Thomas B. Wyman, Jr.; Materials for the history of Salem; Early records of Boston, copied by David Pulsifer; Abstracts of the earliest wills in the probate office, Plymouth, by Justin Winsor; A record of births, deaths, and marriages on Nantucket, beginning in 1662; Names of the early planters of Wrentham, by Abner Morse; Blanchard's journal, 1725-from the Mass. archives: Memoir of Rev. Edward Turner, with a pedigree, by T. Larkin Turner Original letters to Gov. Bellingham-from the Mass. archives; Materials for the history of Lynn-documents, 1661; Expenses of ancient functionaries, by Joshua Coffin; Biography of General John Stark; New England chronology; A narrative of New England's deliverances, by Thomas Cobbet; Letter of Gov. Wentworth on Indian affairs, 1725; Notes on the iron mines in Salisbury, Ct., collected by the Rev. Mr. Crosman, 1805; Wadsworth monument; Will of Edward Dillingham, 1666; An elegy upon the death of the Rev. Mr. John Higginson, pastor of the Church of Christ in Salem, who dyed December 9th, 1708, by Nicholas Noyes; Researches among funeral sermons and other tracts for the recovery of biographical and genealogical materials; Naming of Lake Dunmore, by J. M. Weeks; Paul Wentworth and his familyextracts from Norwich records; Early settlers in Morris county, N. J.; Indian affairs-letter to Gov. John Leverett [1676?]; Letters from old Englandfrom Massachusetts archives; A few facts in the early history of the town of Marshfield; First settlers of Eastham, by David Hamblen; New England and the west-letter from Ephraim Cutler, 1850; Indian deed of Medfield, 1685; Will of George Fairbanks, of Yorkshire, Eng., 1650; Early settlers of Salisbury, Mass., arranged into families, by Asa W. Brown; Notes on the Danforth family, by William Thaddeus Harris; Will of Elizabeth Woodbury, 1689; Massachusetts courts of election, 1629-1686; Material for the history of Hull-documents, 1641, 3; Materials for the history of Newbury-from the Ipswich records; Adams and Boylston genealogy, by John A. Vinton; Capt. Hardy's journal, 1787, (Shays' Rebellion); Index of names. (3365 NEW-ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Vol. VIII. 1854. Boston, 1854. 8vo, pp. viii, 388. Portraits. Contents: General index; Notice of Samuel Appleton, Esq.; New England chronology, 1684-90; Abstract of the will of Daniel Denison, by Augustus D. Rogers; The Cradock family, by Francis Brinley; Researches among funeral sermons and other tracts for the recovery of biographical and genealogical |