American Statistical Association. Memorial of Edward Jarvis, M.D. By ROBERT W. WOOD, M.D. Boston: T. R. Marvin & Son, Printers. 1885. 8vo. pp. 24. Memoir of Edward Jarvis, M.D. By Rev. ANDREW P. PEABODY, D.D., LL.D. Boston: Printed by David Clapp & Son. 1885. 8vo. pp. 10. Dr. Jarvis held the office of president of the American Statistical Association for upwards of thirty years, and at his death, October 31, 1884, in his eighty-second year, he was president emeritus. He performed an immense amount of work as a statistician, and was active in the philanthropic movements of the age. The grand motive of his statistical labors was the amelioration of the race. The memoir by Dr. Wood was prepared at the request of the Statistical Association, and was read at its meeting, January 16, 1885. The author, who is a relative by marriage, had the use of the diaries of Dr. Jarvis, and is thus able to show us the incentives of his actions as well as the events of his life. The author of the second memoir, the Rev. Dr. Peabody, was a classmate and intimate friend of Dr. Jarvis. Our readers are already familiar with it, as it is a reprint from the July number of the REGISTER. Dr. Peabody has prepared a fuller memoir for the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Herrick Genealogy. A Genealogical Register of the Name and Family of Herrick. By Gen. JEDEDIAH HERRICK. Revised, Augmented and Brought Down to A.D. 1885 By LUCIUS C. HERRICK, M.D. Columbus, O.: Privately Printed. 1885. Royal 8vo. pp. 516. Price $5 cloth, $6 extra cloth, $7.50 half turkey, $10 full turkey. Sold by the Author, 295 Hunter Street, Columbus, O. Some Early Notices of the Herrick Family. By Rev. W. G. DIMOCK FLETCHER, M.A. Leicester: Clarke and Hodgson. 1885. 8vo. pp. 19. Record of the Bartholomew Family, Historical, Genealogical and Biographical. By GEORGE WELLS BARTHOLOMEW, Jr. Published by the Author. Austin, Texas. 1885. 8vo. pp. xvi.+753. Price $6 in cloth, $7.50 in half calf. Address the Author, P. O. Box 853, Austin, Texas. Seventeen Pedigrees from "Family Memorials." By EDWARD ELBRIDGE SALISBURY. 1885. Privately Printed. Folio, 17 folding sheets. Price $7.50. Suggestions and Inquiries respecting the Ancestry of Col. William Willoughby. 1885. Royal 8vo. pp. 11. Privately Printed. Genealogy of the Descendants of Nathaniel Clarke of Newbury, Mass. Ten Gene rations. 1642-1885. By GEORGE K. CLARKE, LL.B. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Boston: Press of T. R. Marvin & Son. 1885. 8vo. pp. 216. Price $4. A Genealogy and Historical Notices of the Family of Plimpton or Plympton in The Family of William Leete, one of the First Settlers of Guilford, Conn., and Rylands of the Rylands, within West Houghton, co. Lancaster. 8vo. pp. 9. Genealogy of the Townsend Family. Compiled by BENJAMIN D. TOWNSEND, of Lime Spring, Iowa. Alfred Centre, N. Y.: The American Sabbath Tract Society's Steam Print. 1879. 8vo. pp. 33. The Grandchildren of Col. Joseph Foster of Ipswich and Gloucester, Mass. 17301804. Compiled by JOSEPH FOSTER, Paymaster U. S. Navy. Philadelphia: 1885. 8vo pp. 32. The Sambornes of England and America. By V. C. SANBORN, of Concord, Mass. 8vo. pp. 11. Leonard Weeks and Some of his Descendants. By the Rev. JACOB CHAPMAN, A.M., of Exeter, N. H. 8vo. pp. 10. Will of Alice Hayne, 1620, of Semley, Eng. By D. F. HAYNES, of Baltimore, Md. 8vo. pp. 4. Descendants of Rev. Daniel Rogers, of Littleton, Mass. We continue our quarterly notices of recently published genealogical works. It is nearly forty years since Gen. Herrick, of Hampden, Me., published his genealogy of the Herrick family. That book, which was issued in a thin octavo in 1846, is the foundation of the present bulky volume. Having long been out of print, it has been much sought for, and has brought a very high price when offered for sale. The book has much merit, and though it contains only 70 pages, by the use of small print and double columns a large number of families are compressed into it. Dr. Herrick of Columbus, Ohio, the compiler of the present work, commenced his labors thirteen years ago. He has been indefatigable in collecting materials and arranging them for publication, and has added greatly to the number of families in the work, and has corrected and enlarged the details about the individuals, so that there is about three times the matter in this volume that there is in Gen. Herrick's. The only illustration in that book was an engraved coat of arms. The book before us has a coat of arms in colors, ten portraits,-heliotypes, lithotypes and steel engravings,-besides other illustrations. Both books contain genealogies of the English Herricks, but this is more full and is illustrated by portraits. Gen. Herrick's had no index, while this volume has indexes of christian names, of other surnames and of miscellaneous matters. Dr. Herrick deserves great credit for compiling so valuable a book, and for the handsome style in which he has had it printed and bound. The pamphlet by the Rev. Mr. Fletcher is a paper read before the Leicestershire Architectural and Archæological Society. It gives the result of some researches "in the probate courts, the hall books of the corporation of Leicester, and various parish registers," made at the request of the author of the preceding book, to assist him in elucidating the pedigree of the English family. It is a valuable contribution to the genealogy of the Herricks. The Bartholomew genealogy is worthy of a place beside Dr. Herrick's book. Considering that the author resided in Texas, far from the records which contain the materials for the history of the early generations of his American ancestors, and the meagre information that had been collected when he began his work, this may be called a wonderful book. No one under the most favorable circumstances could have produced a more satisfactory one. The New England Bartholomews, to whose descendants the larger part of this volume is devoted, are from William Bartholomew who came to Boston in 1634, and after a short residence here, settled at Ipswich, where he became prominent in colonial affairs. His ancestry in this book is traced back several generations in England. After the genealogy of the New England race is given, more or less full genealogies of other families of the name are printed, among which may be named the descendants of George of Philadelphia, who died in 1689; of John of Germantown, Pa., 1730, and of Daniel and Jacob, who were probably his brothers; of Henry of Zwei Brücken, Germany, and Allen Township, Pa., who died in 1807; and of Claude (Barteleme) of Marseilles, France, and Derby, Conn., who died in 1824. Here are also reports of the several reunions of the Bartholomews in this country, and an account of the early English families of the name. The author has been very successful in his researches, which to our knowledge have been unremitting, and the result is a book that may be pointed to as a model. It is arranged on the REGISTER plan, and is handsomely printed, on excellent paper and with good margins. It is embellished with portraits and other illustrations. The next work is by Prof. Salisbury, of New Haven, a ripe scholar as well as a writer well read in genealogical lore. It consists of a number of large folding tabular pedigrees of families from which he or his two wives, Mrs. Abigail (Phillips) Salisbury and Mrs. Evelyn (McCurdy) Salisbury are descended. Five of the tables are devoted to the ancestry in the several lines of each of these three persons and are indexes to their descent as found in the other tables. The families here tabulated are among the most prominent in New England, such as Salisbury, Sewall, Dummer, Walley, Quincy, Wendell, Phillips and Bromfield. The book shows that a great deal of labor has been expended upon it. Much new matter has been discovered and preserved here, particularly in the English ancestry Book Notices. [Oct. of these families. Those who are descended from one or more of these families, and there are many such in the United States, will do well to secure a copy of this work, of which a small edition only has been printed. The pamphlet on the ancestry of Col. Willoughby, is by Mrs. Evelyn McCurdy Salisbury, wife of Prof. Salisbury. It contains facts concerning Col. William Willoughby, father of Deputy Governor Willoughby of Massachusetts, and the Willoughbys of Kent, and gives reasons for thinking Col. Willoughby belonged to the Kent family. An article on the New England Willoughbys by Mr. Greenword of New York city is printed in the REGISTER, XXX. 67–78. The Clarke genealogy whose title we give, is a second and revised edition of the book noticed by us in January, 1883. The book has been greatly enlarged, nearly half as many more families have been added to it, and many additions and corrections have been made to the families before printed. The book is arranged according to the REGISTER plan. It makes a handsome volume, and is illustrated with portraits and has a good index. Mr. Chase's book on the Plympton Family gives a genealogy of the various families of Plympton and Plimpton in America. It is full in its details and precise in its dates. The English family prefixed is traced to Nigell de Plumpton, who died in 1212. The arrangement of the book is clear and it is well indexed. It is illustrated with many portraits and is handsomely printed. William Chittenden, the ancestor of the family to which the next book is devoted, was one of the early settlers of Guilford, Ct., and came to this country in 1639. Dr. Talcott, the author, has been engaged many years in collecting facts concerning the Chittendens, of which family his wife is a member, and in the volume before us, which fully traces that family to the present day, has made a valuable contribution to American genealogy, The book is clearly arranged on the Goodwin or Connecticut plan. It is well indexed. In October, 1882, we printed a notice of a work on the Leete family of England, compiled for Joseph Leete, Esq., of South Norroy, in which the ancestry of Gov. Leete of Connecticut is given. Above we print the title of a book just issued which supplements that work by giving a genealogical record of his descendants. This genealogy was compiled by Dea. Edward L. Leete, of Leete's Island, Ct., who died May 3, 1884, aged 74. He had brought the work near to completion before his death. Dr. Talcott, the author of the Chittenden genealogy, was requested to supervise the work as it passed through the press, which he did, making some additions and adding some notes. It is arranged on the Goodwin plan and is well indexed. The book does credit to Dea. Leete and Dr. Talcott. The Mr. Parthemore, of Harrisburg, Pa., the author of the next book, has given us a very valuable genealogy. "It shows," to use the words of a friend in Pennsylvania, how much can be accomplished, by labor and research, among the Pennsylvania German families in the absence of town records,' which they have not. author states, in his preface, that he found his task a laborious one, and adds: “Had it not been for the courteous, and competent, and widely known historian of Pennsylvania, William H. Egle, M.D., MA., Harrisburg, Pa., we would have given up the effort or hope of ever seeing this book in print." It is well arranged and fully indexed. The pamphlet on the Rylands family, which is carried back to the time of Henry III., is by J. Paul Rylands, Esq., F.S.A., of London, England, honorary secretary of the Harleian Society and the editor of some of its publications. It is a reprint of an article contributed by him to The Genealogist for July, 1880. The next pamphlet, by Mr. Townsend of Iowa, gives the descendants of Jonathan Townsend of New Salem, Franklin county, Mass., who married Hannah Newton about the year 1765. The author is unable to trace the family farther back, but gives a full record of the later generations. were Col. Joseph Foster, whose descendants are given in the next pamphlet, was born in Ipswich in 1730 and died in Gloucester, Dec. 9, 1804. He was a great-greatgrandson of Reginald' (Reginald,2 John, Jeremiah*) Foster (see REGISTER, XXX. 101, Fam. 79) and also of John Dane whose "Remarkable Providences printed in the REGISTER, Viii. 149-56. He was a merchant of Gloucester. A sketch of his life with a record of his descendants will be found in this pamphlet, which is by his great-grandson Paymaster Joseph (Joseph', Joseph, Joseph5) Foster of the United States Navy. The last four pamphlets, on the Samborne, Weeks, Hayne, and Rogers families, are reprints from the REGISTER. RECENT PUBLICATIONS, PRESENTED TO THE NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY, TO AUG. 1, 1885. I. Publications written or edited by Members of the Society. The Union Defence Committee of the City of New York. Minutes, reports and correspondence, by John Austin Stevens. Published by the Union Defence Committec. 1885. 8vo. pp. 286. Bibliography of Worcester History. Compiled by Nathaniel Paine for the account of the Celebration of the 200th Anniversary of the naming of Worcester, Mass. Worcester, Mass. Privately printed. 1885. 8vo. pp. 18. Remarks on the early appearance of the Northern Lights in New England, by Samuel Abbott Green, M.D. [Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1885.] Cambridge: John Wilson and Son, University Press. 1885. 8vo. pp. 7. General Roger Enos, a lost chapter of Arnold's expedition to Canada, 1775. By Rev. Horace Edwin Hayden. (From the Magazine of American History for May, 1885.) History, Jurisdiction and Practice of the Court of Claims (United States), by William A. Richardson, LL.D. Second edition, June 25, 1885. Washington: Government Printing Office. 1885. 8vo. pp. 34. Rules of the Court of Claims (United States) adopted June 1, 1885, and statutes applicable to the same. Washington: Government Printing Office. 1885. 8vo. pp. 68. The Marble Border of Western New England, its geology and marble development in the present century. Papers and proceedings of the Middlebury His torical Society. Vol. I. Part II. Middlebury, Vt.: Published by the Society. 1885. 8vo. pp. 68. II. Other Publications. Maryland in Liberia. A history of the Colony planted by the Maryland State Colonization Society, under the auspices of the state of Maryland, U. S., at Cape Palmas on the south-west coast of Africa, 1833-1853. A paper read before the Maryland Historical Society, March 9th, 1885, by John H. B. Latrobe, president of the Society. Baltimore: 1885. 8vo. pp. 138. The Maryland Historical Society. Annual Report of the officers and committees for 1884-1885, to which is added the Charter, Constitution and By-Laws, List of Officers and Members, and a Catalogue of the Society's Publications, 1844-1885. Baltimore: Printed by John Murphy & Co. 1885. 8vo. pp. 74. Transactions of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society for the year 1884. Part I. Boston: Printed for the Society. 1885. 8vo. pp. 181. Official Army Register for January, 1885. Published by order of the Secretary of War, in compliance with law. Adjutant General's Office, Washington, January 1, 1885. 8vo. pp. 400. Providence County Court House. Report of the commissioners on decorations and improvements, and proceedings on the legislative visit, February 4, 1885. Published by order of General Assembly of Rhode Island. Providence: E. L. Freeman & Co., Printers to the State. 1885. 8vo. pp. 85. Supplement to the General Catalogue of Dartmouth College and the associated institutions. Hanover, N. H. 1885. 8vo. pp. 56. Obituary Record of the Graduates of Dartmouth College and the associated institutions, for the year ending at Commencement, 1885, by John M. Comstock, Statistical Secretary of the Association of Alumni of Dartmouth College. Hanover, N. H.: Dartmouth Steam Press. 1885. 8vo. pp. 23. Twelfth Annual Catalogue of Drury College at Springfield, Greene County, Missouri, for the year 1884-86. Kansas City, Mo. Ramsey, Millet & Hudson, Printers, Binders, etc. 1885. 8vo. pp. 65. Directory of the City of Malden and Town of Melrose, and Register of the Inhabitants, Mauufacturing Industries, Business Firms, Institutions, Churches, Societies, etc. etc., for 1885, by Charles E. Bruce. Boston: Press of Rockwell and Churchill, No. 38 Arch St. 1885. 8vo. Transactions of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society for the year 1884. Part II. Boson: Printed for the Society. 1885. 8vo. pp. 351.+ii. Contributions of the Old Residents' Historical Association, Lowell, Mass. Organized December 21, 1868. Vol. III. No. 2. Published by the Association, July, 1885. Lowell, Mass.: Morning Mail Print, No. 18 Jackson Street. 1885. 8vo. pp. 215. NOTES AND ANNOUNCEMENTS. EDITORS OF THE REGISTER.-With this volume I complete ten years-a full decade -of continuous service as editor of the REGISTER, having commenced my fourth term in this capacity in the fall of 1875, on the number for January, 1876. This is a longer term than any of my predecessors served, and much longer than any except Col. Albert H. Hoyt, A.M., and Samuel G. Drake, A.M., the former having edited the REGISTER for eight and the latter for six consecutive years. The next on the list is the Rev. Elias Nason, A.M., who served continuously for two years. The total length of my editorial service on the REGISTER is thirteen years and three quarters, during two of which I was associated with others, as will be noticed elow. The total length of Mr. Drake's service was nine and a half years, of Col. Hoyt's eight years, and of the Rev. Mr. Nason's two and a quarter years. The other editors have been William B. Trask, William H. Whitmore, A.M., the Rev. William Cogswell, D.D., William T. Harris, A.M., LL.B., the Hon. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, M.D., the Rev. Joseph B. Felt, LL.D., the Hon. Timothy Farrar, LL.D., and the Hon. Charles Hudson, A.M. (see REGISTER, XXXiii. 3-6). The whole length of Mr. Trask's service was four years, and of Mr. Whitmore's two years. During two years of Mr. Trask and the whole of Mr. Whitmore's service they were associates of the present editor as joint conductors of the REGISTER. Dr. Cogswell edited the work one year, Mr. Harris and Dr. Shurtleff three quarters of a year each, Dr. Felt half a year, and Judge Farrar and Mr. Hudson one quarter of a year each (see REGISTER, Xxiv. 232; xxx. 184). It will be seen that in the thirty-nine years during which the REGISTER has been published, it has had twelve editors. Of these a majority, seven, are dead. Five only are now living, namely, Messrs. Trask, Whitmore, Nason, Hoyt and JOHN WARD DEAN. CELEBRATION AT NEWBURY, MASS.-On the 10th of June, the completion of a quarter of a thousand years since the settlement of Newbury was celebrated. The exercises in the morning in the City Hall, Newburyport, began at 10.30 o'clock. William Little, Esq., president of the Historical Society of Old Newbury, delivered the address welcoming the sons and daughters of old Newbury and other guests. He then introduced the president of the day, Hon John James Currier, who made a brief speech. A poem, written for the occasion by Mrs. Louisa Parsons Hopkins, was read by her. The Historical Address was by Rev. Samuel C. Bartlett, LL.D., President of Dartmouth College. After the exercises in the City Hall, a procession was formed, which proceeded to the tent where the dinner was served. Speeches were made by Hon. A. E. Pillsbury, president of the Massachusetts Senate; Hon. George B. Loring, Hon. W. W. Crapo, David L. Withington, Hon. Eben F. Stone, Lieut. A. W. Greely, Prof. Benjamin A. Gould, Edward Atkinson, Rev. S. J. Spalding, D.D., Hon. Edward S. Moseley, Hon. John R. Rollins, and others. A poem, written for the occasion by the late Hon. George Lunt, was read by his nephew, Rev. George D. Wildes. Letters were read from John G. Whittier, Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, President Caldwell of Vassar College, and others. In the evening a reception and levee was held in the City Hall, which was appropriately decorated, and where had been collected numerous portraits of men and women connected with Newbury and the towns formed from its territory. SALISBURY CELEBRATION.-On the 17th of June the one hundredth anniversary of the erection of the Rocky Hill Meeting-House, Salisbury, Mass., was celebrated in that venerable building. The president of the day was William H. B. Currier. The historical address was by the Rev. S. J. Spalding, of Newburyport. Addresses were made by Rev. A. G. Morton, probably the oldest active clergyman in that part of the county, and for many years acting pastor of the Rocky Hill Church; and the Hon. Richard S. Spofford. The latter read a poem, written for the occasion by his wife, Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford, which was entitled "At Rocky Hill." Another poem, written for the occasion by Joseph W. Nye, was read by the Rev. O. A. Roberts. After the exercises in the church a dinner was served in a tent near by. The speeches were by Rev. Daniel P. Pike, Maj. Ben: Perley Poore, Rev. J. S. Spaulding of Salisbury, Rev. O. A. Roberts, Rev. Anson Titus, Hon. George W. Merrill, and others. |