Genealogy of the Descendants of Gordon Hutchins, for either in the text or in the notes we find complete records, not only of his lineal descendants, but also of many kindred families. Among the families of whom we find particular mention, are those of Ladd, Hannaford, Cooledge and Lund.

A passable portrait of Mr. Hutchins serves as frontispiece to the book, which contains also several neatly executed autographs. A note with which the book cuncludes should by no means be omitted here. After reading it, we regard with renewed pleasure the pages which record the industrious God-fearing lite of the father, edited with conscientious fidelity by the son. It runs as follows: The setting of the types, and the press-work, or printing of this book, were performed by its author, principally evenings, after doing his regular day's work of ten hours.”

The small edition of this book is now nearly exhausted. The remaining copies can be obtained of the author, Mr. Samuel Hutchins, Riverside, Cambridge. Mase.

C.

An Oration, delivered at Bolton, Mass., December 20, 1866, at the Dedi cation of the Tablets, erected in the Town Hall, to commemorate the Deceased Volunteers of the Town in the War of the Great Rebellion. By Dr. GEORGE B. LORING, of Salem. Together with an Appendis containing the other Exercises of the occasion. Clinton: 1867. 8vo. pp. 43.

The Address by Dr. Loring is a vigorous, scholarly, patriotic production, highly appropriate to the occasion; simply and pathetically expressed. The opening address by the President of the evening, S. H. Howe, Esq., is brief and to the point. The reading of the biographical notices of the deceased soldiers of Bolton, by Richard S. Edes, a former pastor and now the worthy Town Clerk of Bolton, one of whose sons died at Chattanooga, in the service, must have drawn tears from many eyes. Their names are recorded on the marble tablets of the town, most fittingly and well, but their memories are more deeply engraven on the fleshly tablets of mourning and bereaved hearts. The twenty-one thus recorded are as follows:- Charles E. Fry, George B. Cook, Thomas Whitman, Thomas Hastings, Albert Clay Houghton, Geo. Herbert Stone, John B. Stanley, Ezra Crocker, Charles Gilbert Wheeler, Josiah Houghton, Franklin Farnsworth, Elijah H. Woodbury, Rolla Nicholas, George W. Pratt, Edward Louis Edes, Edwin Kilburn Holt, Abel James Collins, Geo. Corser, Edwin Barnes, Stephen H. Hunting, Thornton Hayden. The notices by Mr. Edes appear in the pamphlet, as also an ode by Mrs. Mary D. Whitney, of Boston, and a poem by Amos W. Collins, father of the above named Abel James Collins, who died at Andersonville, Nov. 5th, 1864.

The published proceedings at similar commemorations in our Commonwealth and throughout our country, are well worthy of general preservation.

History of Easthampton, its settlement and growth, its material, educa tional and religious interests; together with a Genealogical Record of its original Families. By PAYSON W. LYMAN. Northampton: Trum bull & Gerr. 1866. 12mo. pp. 192. Appendix, pp. 2.

We have read this brief, but well written history of one of our most beautiful and romantic rural towns, with peculiar pleasure, and sincerely congratulate the young author on his success in setting the deeds of the former generations forth in such distinct relief, and animating dull historic fact with such appropriate coloring, shape and form. Though dates are freely given, we should have been pleased to have seen more reference to authorities, and still more copious extracts from the archives of the town; an index, too, of names and places would have added materially to the value of the work. The omission of Massachusetts on the title page was doubtless an oversight and may be rectified in the next edition, but

"Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see,

Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be."

With these few drawbacks, the history is an honor to the writer and the town; and we trust that, remunerated as he deserves to be for this effort, he will continue in the history of some other place, to rescue the evanescent memorials of the past from oblivion, and thus bring the example of the good and great of other days to bear upon the destiny of the present and the coming generations.

The Historical and Genealogical Register is issued quarterly, in January, April, July and October; each number containing about 96 pages, 8vo., making annually a volume of about 400 pages.

NOTICES. The Publishing Committee, in their Address to the Readers of the Register for January, 1859, announced their design of confining genealogical aticles to the first four generations in this country, except occasionally bringing down a few lines to the present time. Some families, however, have expressed a wish to have later generations preserved in detail in the Register. The Committee are willing to do this by adding additional pages to the Register, if correspondents or their friends will pay the expense of the same. Our subscribers cannot complain of such additions, as they will not be subject to the charge of them.

N. B.-Subscribers will observe that the Register is in no case sent to them after they have ordered it stopped, unless such order is received after a new volume has commenced, and arrearages remain unpaid, when, according to the rules of periodicals, they are liable for another year.

PAYMENTS FOR THE REGISTER FOR 1866-7.
For 1866.

MASSACHUSETTS. Freetown, Gen. E.W. Peirce;
Stockbridge, Rev. David Dudley Field.
RHODE ISLAND. Newport, Dr. King.
PENNSYLVANIA. Phila., Rachel Wetherill.
ILLINOIS. Quincy, New England Society.
For 1867.

MASSACHUSETTS. Boston, David Clapp, Edw. J. Forster, Mrs. Caleb A. Curtis, J. W. Plimpton, Charles A. Jones; Bridgewater, William Allen; Brighton, Rev. F. A. Whitney; Cambridge, John L. Sibley, Harvard College Library; Dorchester, Hon. Timothy Farrar; East Taunton, Capt. Godfrey Robinson, Job Robinson; Long Plain, Plymouth Co., Col. Abial Peirce Robinson; Myrickville, Job Peirce; N. Middle

borough, Morrill Robinson, M.D., Tyler Peirce;
N. Beverly, Ephraim L. Pratt; Stockbridge, Rev.
David Dudley Field; Taunton, Rev. Mortimer
Blake, John D. Godfrey; West Boylston, James
H. Fitts.

CONNECTICUT. Hartford, Chas. J. Hoadley;
New Haven, F. B. Dexter; Prospect, Rev. F. W.
Chapman.

NEW YORK. Albany, Royal Woodward; New York City, Horatio N. Otis, John J. Latting; Troy, Benj. H. Hall.

MARYLAND. Baltimore, E. H. Perkins, M.D. Ohio. Cleveland, Joseph Perkins; Harmer, Washington Co., Wm. Wakefield; Zanesville, Rev. Addison Kingsbury, D.D.

MINNESOTA. St. Paul, Minn. Historical Soc.

TO AMERICANS.

A Genealogist of experience, possessing valuable MSS. Collections, and a reader at the British Museum, State Paper Office and Doctors' Commons, will be happy to undertake the tracing of Pedigrees, Emblazon Arms, and Illuminate Family Trees. Address (post-paid)

H. A. B., Mr. Lewis, Bookseller, 136 Gower Street, London, Eng.

GENEALOGIES.

The Society has for sale the remainder of the editions of the following valuable well-known works by deceased members:

1. A Historical and Biographical Genealogy of the Cushmans-descendants of Robert Cushman, the Puritan. From the year 1617 to 1855. By Hon. Henry Wyles Cushman.

This is an octavo volume of 666 pages, embellished with numerous portraits and autographs. Price 3.50.

2. Genealogical Register of the Richards Family. By Rev. Abner Morse.

This is an octavo of 243 pages, illustrated with portraits. Only a few copies left. Price 3.00.

3. Genealogical Register of the Willis, Brigham, Hapgood and Frary Families. By Rev. Abner Morse.

An octavo of 238 pages, with portraits. Price 2.50.

A few copies containing the Brigham, price.

Hapgood, Willis, Pettee, and Hewins Families, at the same

4. Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Mass., including Waltham and Weston. To which is appended, The Early History of the Town. With Illustrations, Maps and Notes. By Henry Bond, M.D. Second edition, with a Memoir of the author by Horatio G. Jones, A.M., prefixed.

S. G. DRAKE, 17 Bromfield Street, has for sale a large collection of works on GENEALOGY, TOWN, COUNTY and STATE HISTORIES, and a general collection of works on American His, tory. Also a few complete sets of the REGISTER (15 Volumes) bound in cloth or in numbers. In numbers, $2.50 the Volume; in cloth, $3.

Persons taking the Register can always have their numbers bound in a uniform style, as heretofore, on application to Mr. Drake, as above.

The regular meetings of the New England Historic-Genealogical Society occur on the first Wednesday of every month at 3 o'clock, P. M., at the Society's Rooms, 17 Bromfield Street, and are always open to the public for ladies as well as gentlemen.

Register.

THE TWENTY-FIRST VOLUME,

EDITED BY THE REV. ELIAS NASON, A.M.

THIS periodical is published quarterly, at No. 17 Bromfield Street, Boston, on the first day of January, April, July, and October, at $3 per annum.

The design of the work is to gather up and place in a permanent form the scattered and decaying records of the domestic, civil, literary, religious and political life of the people of New England; to rescue from oblivion the illustrious deeds and virtues of our ancestors; to perpetuate their honored names, and to trace out and preserve the genealogy and pedigree of their families. To this end the REGISTER contains:

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1. Biographies, accompanied with steel engravings of distinguished men. Genealogies of New England families.

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3. Transcriptions of important papers from our church, town, county and court records; deeds, writs, wills, etc.

4. Historical memoranda, as from interleaved almanacs, family Bibles, old account books, etc.

5. Inscriptions from ancient burial places, and from ancient coins.

6. Bibliography-especially of rare American books, pamphlets, sermons, etc.

7. Old ballads and poems, with illustrative notes.

Ancient private journals and letters throwing light upon American

history.

9. Notices of new historical works, and others upon kindred and subsidiary topics.

10. Current events in the country-centennial cèlebrations, etc.

11. Proceedings of the meetings of the New England Historic-Genealogical Society.

12. Necrology of members of the Society.

Notes and Queries respecting curious historical and antiquarian questions; old buildings, music, costumes, coins, autographs, etc.

14. Deaths and marriages.

The whole containing an original and varied mass of information, historical, archæological, genealogical and æsthetic, invaluable to the student of history, the man of letters, the lover of his country, and of the honored names of those who founded it. A carefully prepared index of names and subjects accompanies every volume

Subscribers, by leaving their present or back volumes at the rooms of the Society, can have them bound in cloth, uniform with the early volumes, at 63 cents per volume; or in goat back and corners, with marble paper sides, at 75 cts. per volume.

The Rooms and Library of the N. E. Historic-Genealogical Society. The rooms of the Historic-Genealogical Society, No. 17 Bromfield Street, are open daily from 10 A.M. to 1 o'clock; and from 3 o'clock P.M. to 5 o'clock.

The Library now contains over 7,000 Volumes, and more than 20,000 Pamphlets, many of which are exceedingly rare and valuable. The collection of Town Histories is the most extensive in the country. Visitors are always cordially welcomed to the Rooms and to the use of the Library.

PUBLISHED AT THE SOCIETY'S ROOMS, 17 BROMFIELD STREET.

PRINTED BY DAVID CLAPP & SON.

1867.

$3.00 per Annum.

Postage Two Cents.

NOTES AND QUERIES. Notes.-Oldest Book in New England, 346; Rev. John Stoughton's Works, 330; Gen. Grant's Ancestry, 330; Definition of the word Goyt, 331; Grants to Rev. John Wilson, 333; Meetinghouses in Dorchester, 337; Plymouth Patent on the Kennebec, 353; Early Purchases from the Indians in Maine, 353; Sylvanus Davis's Statement of the Eastern Settlements in Maine, 356; Fort Charles, 358; Roll of Officers and Men of Brigantine Sarah, 367; Records of Maryland, 367; Cure for the Plague, 367; Wentworths, LL.D., 368; More Emigrants Traced, 369. Queries.-Nicholas Upsall's Manuscripts, 365; Genealogical Queries, 368.

NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC-GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY. Necrology.-Rev. William S. Porter, 373; Hon. Ebenezer Lane, LL.D., 373; Solomon Piper, 374; Col. Samuel Swett, 374; Wilkins Updike, 375; Hon. John A. King, 377.

Proceedings.-May 1, 1867, Paper by Hon. John G. Metcalf, 379; June 5, Reading by Samuel Burnham, 381; July 3, Regular Business, 381; August 7, Papers by Samuel G. Drake and Joseph L. Chester, 382.

BOOK NOTICES.-Drake's Old Indian Chronicle; 382; Caverley's Merrimac and its Incidents, 383; Genealogy of the Ripley Family, 383; Glover Memorials and Genealogies, 383; Ellis's Sermon ca Samuel Bradlee, 384; Judge Farrar's Manual of the Constitution, 384; Fire Land's Pioneer, 385; Bill's Pen Pictures of the War, 385; Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, 396; Ab bott's History of the Civil War in America, 386; Gale Family Records, 386; Centennial Celebration at Orford, N. H., 387; Whitmore's Notes on Peter Pelham, 387; Report of the Adjutant General of New Hampshire, 387; Willis's Fitchburg in the War of the Rebellion, 388; Fifth Annual Report of the General Theological Library, 388; Quint's Record of the Second Massachusetts Infantry, 388; Kidder on the Military Operations in Eastern Maine and Nova Scotia, 389; Notes on John Sawin and his Posterity, 389; Faith White's Letter Book, 389; Martyn's Hopes of Hope Castle, 390; History of Elgin, Illinois, 390.

ANNOUNCEMENTS.

THE MACOMBER FAMILY.-Materials for the publication of the history of the Macomber family of the Old Colony, are being collected by Ebenezer W. Peirce, of Freetown, Bristol County, Ms., who will thankfully receive information and reciprocate the favor by answering any question in his power concerning the early settlers of Freetown and Fall River, Middleboro' and Lakeville. Mr. Peirce has a manuscript history of Freetown, prepared with great care and research; also the papers of both his grandfathers, officers in army of Revolution (a Colonel and a Captain), his gr. gr. grandfather, a Captain in Old French War (1745), and a still earlier ancestor, who was one of the Council of War in 1690; added to which he has a diary of four successive generations of his

family, and covering a period of more than one hundred consecutive years; together with the testimony that he has written out, as taken by him from the lips of the oldest and best informed inhabitants of the four towns named, and communicated to him at various times within the last twenty years.

HISTORY OF LEXINGTON, MASS.-We learn that the History of this town, by Hon. Charles Hudson, is now in press, and will be published on or before the first of January next. It will make an octavo volume of 600 pages or more. The reputation of Mr. Hudson as a writer of local history is a sufficient guarantee that it will be an attractive as well as a valuable work.

GENEALOGICAL RESEARCHES.-John A. Boutelle, of Woburn, compiler of the "Burke and Alvord Memorial," who for many years past has devoted much of his time to the examination of public records in New England, and who has also made researches in New Jersey and New York, will continue to make genealogical investigations for those who desire his services.

References.-John H. Sheppard, A.M., Librarian of the Historic-Genealogical Society, Boston; William A. Burke, Esq., Lowell, Mass.; and S. Whitney Phoenix, Esq., No. 22 West 23d Street, New York city.

Address, Mr. John A. Boutelle, P. O. Box 125, Woburn, Mass.

TO AMERICANS.

A Genealogist of experience, possessing valuable MSS. Collections, and a reader at the British Museum, State Paper Office and Doctors' Commons, will be happy to undertake the tracing of Pedigrees, Emblazon Arms, and Illuminate Family Trees. Address (post-paid)

H. A. B., Mr. Lewis, Bookseller, 136 Gower Street, London, Eng.