1837 d. Oct. 6, 1838. (505) Joseph F., b. March 8, 1839; m. Anna S. Manchester, March 8, 1859. (506) Ellen M., b. Feb. 3, 1841; d. May 16, 1841. (507) William H. H., b. May 21, 1842; d. Aug. 5, 1843. (508) Jonathan B., b. Nov. 6, 1843; d. Sept. 25, 1845. (509) Clarissa E., b. Dec. 18, 1845; not married. (510) Cornelius A., b. Dec. 5, 1847; not married. (511) Keziah M., b. Sept. 3, 1849; not married.

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Nathan the parent was admitted to membership in the Baptist Church at Somerset, August 29, 1829, and the next year was one of a committee to request the ordination of Elisha Slade, Jr.; chosen Deacon Aug. 28, 1834, which office he still continues to hold.

Clarissa the mother was a daughter of John Bowen, of Tiverton, R. I., by wife Mary Tallman, and born Aug. 24, 1810, granddaughter of John Bowen, of Tiverton. She was united in marriage with Nathan Davis Jan. 1st, 1826, and a notice of the event appeared Jan. 2d, 1826, in the first No. of the 1st Volume of the 1st Newspaper published in Fall River, a weekly called the MONITOR. Nathan S., the son, born Oct. 14, 1828, is Postmaster at Somerset, and Master of Pioneer Lodge of the ancient order of Free and Accepted Masons.

321. SIMEON GRANT and wife Harriet' Davis had: (a) William F., b. Dec. 10, 1843. (b) Simeon B., b. June 22, 1846; d. April 28, 1847. (c) Harriet A., b. Feb. 22, 1848. (d) George A., b. Oct. 3, 1849. (e) Ella L., b. May 21, 1853; d. Sept. 3, 1856.

324. PERRY S.

b. Jan. 16, 1847.

CHASE and wife Sybil P. Davis had: (f) Charles F., (g) Genglana F., b. Oct. 15, 1848. `(h) Mary B., b. Jan. 26, 1852. (i) Abby B., b. Nov. 27, 1854. Perry the parent was born Dec. 23, 1813.

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375. ENOCH DAVIS and wife Abby Lee had: (512) Abby M., b. Dec., 1837; d. Feb. 6, 1841. (513) Enoch R., b. Feb. 3, 1839. (514) Abby M., b. Oct., 1841. (515) Elizabeth,' b. Sept., 1843. (516) Sarah E., b. March 12, 1846. (517) Mary F., b. Feb. 3, 1848. (518) Richard W.,' b. Dec. 6, 1852.

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Enoch' the parent resides in Middleborough.

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378. ELAM N. DAVIS and wife Hannah Rounsevill had: (519) Reuel W., m. Ann O. Knap, of Freetown. (520) Amelia. (521) Delia. (522) Hypsabah."

Hannah the mother was a daughter of Joseph Rounsevill and wife Delia Lawrence, and born in Freetown, Aug. 4, 1817, granddaughter of Philip Rounsevill and wife Mercy Cole, great-granddaughter of Philip Rounsevill the immigrant, and great-great-granddaughter of William Rounsevill of Honeton, in Devonshire, Eng.

484. GEORGE W. MARBLE and wife Harriet Davis had: (523) Caroline. (524) Mary J., m. Ezra N. Davis. (525) Abby A. (526) Martha J., m. Levi Patriquin. (527) Rhoda. (528) Elizabeth, m. Bradford E. Marble. (529) Hurriet M.,' m. Joseph I. Brown. (530) George W.1

486. SYLVESTER DAVIS and wife Lois Gibbs had: (531) Lois A.1 (532) George E.' (533) William S. (534) Lloyd E. (535) Daniel B. (536) Waller B.1 (537) Frank E

487. JOSEPH SIMMONS and Ann S. Davis had: (538) Abby." (539) James. (540) Harriet A. (541) George F. (542) David S.*

489. GEORGE W. DAVIS and wife Eliza E. Davis had : Abby E., b. Jan. 9, 1851. (544) David S.1

: (543)

490. HENRY E. MARBLE and wife Lydia B. Davis had: (545) Lydia A., b. March 24, 1849. (546) Elizabeth F., b. July 7, 1858.

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493. NATHAN R. DAVIS and wife Charity H. Winslow had: (547) William A., b. Aug. 23, 1855. (548) Nathan W.,' b. March 19, 1857. No children were born of Mary W. Pratt, the 2d wife. Charity, the 1st wife, was a daughter of Kanelm Winslow, of Freetown, by wife Sally Hoard, and born Nov. 10, 1826, granddaughter of James Winslow by wife Sarah Barnaby, great-granddaughter of Lieut. Col. James Winslow and wife Charity Hodges, great-great-granddaughter of Capt. Josiah Winslow and wife Margaret Tisdale, great-great-great-granddaughter of Kanelm Winslow, Jr., and great-great-great-great-granddaughter of Kanelm Winslow, Senr., the immigrant.

496. BENJAMIN T. PECK and wife Louisa J. Davis had: (549) Louisa."

498. WILLIAM PERRY HOOD, Esq., and wife Sarah A. Davis had: (550) Mary E., b. July 20, 1844. (551) William P., b. Jan. 15, 1846. (552) Clarence T., b. May 25, 1848, died June 20, 1848. (553) Sarah F., b. July 26, 1849, died Feb. 17, 1851. (554) Sarah F., b. May 3, 1851. (555) Anne A., b. March 8, 1853. (556) Alfred H., b. April 19, 1855. (557) Lydia F., b. May 24, 1856. (558) Helen R., b. Aug. 21, 1860.

William the parent holds the commission of a Trial Justice for Bristol County, and has been a member of the House of Representatives in the Massachusetts Legislature.

499. NATHAN S. DAVIS had no children of either wife. To his industry and enterprise it was mainly attributable that an interest was awakened sufficient to warrant the effort to publish this genealogical record of the Davis family.

501. ELIJAH G. DAVIS and wife Ada A. Wright had: (559) Ada Alice,' b. March 3, 1856. (560) Katie G., b. Nov. 14, 1862. (561) Peter F., b. Nov. 19, 1863. (562) Clara A., b. July 25, 1865. 502. THOMAS S. HART and wife Mary E. that I can learn. He deceased in 1866.

Davis had no children

503. AMOS N. DAVIS and wife Helen Harvey had: (563) Helen A., b. Nov. 8, 1857. (564) Florence I., b. Dec. 9, 1859. (565) Elmer A., b. Nov. 7, 1862.

PALMER.-By Capt. Evers we have a confirmation of the death of that worthy Person and great friend to this country, Mr. Eliakim Palmer, eldest son of the Hon. Judge Palmer of this town.-Indept. Advert'r, 31 July, 1749.

He was our co-agent in receiving our reimbursements for the exped" agt Cape Breton-firmly attached to the dissenting interest, and entirely qualified to serve it, he became distinguished in proportion as that grew respectable-rendered him a mighty suitable agent for a wise New Eng. colony, and entirely justified the choice of Connecticut, &c.-Ibid., 7 Augt.

CURRENT EVENTS.

By Rev. ELIAS NASON, of North Billerica, Mass.

[Continued from vol. xx, page 373.]

SEPTEMBER, 1866.

2. The Atlantic Cable laid and lost last year is taken up.

3. Republican Convention at Philadelphia; Hon. James Speed, of Kentucky, President.

4. Gold 1.46.-William B. Pike, Esq., late Collector of Customs in Salem, now residing in Groveland, is engaged in writing a biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne. 6. The Douglas Monument is dedicated at Chicago. President Andrew Johnson attends the ceremonies.

12. Two men are carried over the Niagara Falls.

14. A terrible accident at Johnstown, Pa. A platform on which many people had collected to see the President, falls, killing four persons outright, and wounding nearly one hundred.-The "auld Clay biggin "in which Robert Burns, the poet, was born,

Jan. 25, 1759, is now offered for sale.

16. A hard frost occurred last night.-The borers of the new artesian well at the Union Stock Yards, Chicago, have, up to the present time, reached a depth of 1,016 feet. They are now working through a sand rock, and have pierced 185 feet of this stratum. Water is flowing from the well at the rate of 15 barrels per hour.

22. The missionary Brig. "Morning Star," is launched this morning at E. Boston. 28. The American Board of Foreign Missions holds its 57th annual meeting at Pittsfield, Mass. Attendance very large. Mrs. Elizabeth Sargent, of Hingham, Mass., celebrates her 98th birth-day. She was born in Gloucester in 1768.

OCTOBER, 1866.

3. The Steamer "Evening Star," Capt. Knapp, from New York to New Orleans, goes down in a gale 180 miles off Tybee Island. Of about 275 persons on board, only about 30 are saved. Among those lost are Gen. H. W. Palfrey, wife and child. 8. A shark, weighing nearly 1000 lbs. is taken off Point Shirley, Boston Harbor, by Mr. Frederick Grant.-Slight eclipse of the sun, visible.

9. The potato crop is abundant.-Destructive fire in Wiscasset, Me., consuming about 60 buildings.-Gold 1.49.

11. The Monadnock Mountain House is destroyed by fire.-The Massachusetts State Teachers' Association holds its 22d annual meeting in Tremont Temple, Boston. Attendance large.

14. The Soldier's Monument dedicated at Stockbridge, Mass.

19. Indian Summer in all its beauty. The sun sheds forth its mellow, golden light upon the forests now gleaming in the richest and most varied tints of autumn. 20.

Steamer Theodore D. Wagner, from Boston to Charleston, is destroyed by fire. 22. Great storm at the West, doing much damage at St. Louis and other places. 23. George Peabody, the London Banker, has made a donation of $150,000 to Harvard University, for a Museum and Professorship of American Archæology and Ethnology. He has also made a donation of the same amount for the establishment of a Museum of Natural History.

25. The Peabody Institute, Baltimore, Md., to which Mr. George Peabody has made princely benefactions, is dedicated.-S. L. Parsons, a carpenter, falls from the spire of the Methodist church in Brookfield, Mass., and is killed.-The venerable Ex-Governor Levi Lincoln, of Worcester, celebrates his 84th birth-day.

28. Madame Adelaide Ristori, the celebrated tragédienne, arrives in Boston. 30. Dr. Joseph Allen completes and celebrates the 50th year of his ministry at Northboro', Mass.-A severe south-west storm, doing much damage on our coast.

NOVEMBER, 1866.

1. The day is clear and splendid. Bar. 30° 12'; Ther. 42° at 2, P. M.

2. The whole number of Churches in the United States of America by the last census, is 54.009; value of church property, over $171,000,000.

6. Two colored men, Charles L. Mitchell, of Boston, and E. G. Walker, of Charles

town, are elected to seats in the Massachusetts Legislature.-The Trustees of the Agricultural College have elected Prof. Paul A. Chadbourne, of Williams College, President of the Agricultural College, in place of Hon. H. F. French, resigned.

7. Deborah Bradford, 93 years old, and who distinctly remembers the incidents of the Wyoming massacre, is now living at Waverly, Pa. She is the sole survivor of the

massacre.

CENTENNIAL AND OTHER CELEBRATIONS.

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HALF-CENTURY ANNIVERSARY, AT HARTFORD, CONN., OF THE FIRST LANDING OF DEAF MUTE INSTRUCTORS ON OUR SHORES.-This semi-centennial celebration was in connection with the seventh biennial gathering of the New England Gallaudet Deaf Mute Association, of which Thomas Brown, of West Henniker, N. H., is President, and W. M. Chamberlin, of South Reading, Mass., is Secretary. The exercises were opened on Tuesday evening, Aug. 21st, with a prayer-meeting in the chapel of the asylum, under the auspices of the Boston Deaf Mute Christian Association. Wednesday a public meeting was held in the Asylum Hill Congregational Church. After opening remarks by the president, Rev. W. W. Turner, for many years Principal of the American Asylum, led in prayer in the sign language. Mr. Clerc then appeared and was received with "loud applause" and enthusiastic demonstrations of interest, the mutes clapping their uplifted hands and waving handkerchiefs in place of Yankee cheers. Amos Smith, of Boston, of the registry of deeds, delivered an extended address in signs to the mute spectators, which was, at the same time, read to the audience by Rev. Dr. Gallaudet. This was a fine production, containing good thought well expressed, with passages of considerable rhetorical beauty. It briefly reviewed the progress of deaf mute instruction in America, and indulged in anticipations for the future. Mr. Smith was followed in brief remarks by Rev, W. W. Turner, Col. Henry C. Deming, and John Carlin, M.A., of New York, a deaf mute artist, distinguished as a miniature painter, an accomplished scholar in at least three languages, and the first recipient of an honorary degree from a deaf mute college. At the close of the forenoon services, the mutes had a dinner in a grove on the grounds of the asylum, which was followed by speeches. In the evening there was a social reunion in the parlors of the asylum. On Thursday, the 23d, the association held its business meetings, in the morning for discussion, and in the afternoon for the election of officers. A service was held at Trinity (Episcopal) Church, in the evening, conducted by Drs. Gallaudet and Clerc, and Mrs. Thomas H. Gallaudet had a reception for the members of the convention, which was dissolved on the next day.

Fifty years ago, Rev. Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, then a young minister of Hartford, had sought in France the mode of instruction for mutes successfully developed by the Abbe Sicard, and having mastered it returned, bringing with him Laurent Clerc, one of Sicard's choicest pupils, a son of the mayor of La Balme, to lay the foundation of the American asylum. Dr. Gallaudet died Sept. 10, 1851, aged 63, but his eldest son, the Rev. Dr. Thomas Gallaudet, of New York, is rector of St. Ann's Church for deaf mutes, the first church of the kind organized in the history of the world, while his youngest son, Edward W. Gallaudet, of Washington City, is President of the National Deaf Mute College, the first college ever formed to secure to that class a complete classical as well as higher English training, and authorized to confer all collegiate degrees. Prof. Clerc still lives, and took an active part in the proceedings of this convention, an eloquent and venerable witness to what has been wrought during a single human life-time. His son, the Rev. Dr. Francis J. Clerc, of Carlisle, Pa., and his sonin-law, Col. Henry C. Deming, took active parts with him, as will be seen, in this jubilee occasion.

150TH ANNIVERSARY IN COLUMBIA, CONN.-The exact date of the formation of the church in Columbia is not known. The ecclesiastical society was formed in 1716, by inhabitants of Lebanon, living at what was known as Lebanon crank. The church was doubtless organized about the same time.

On the 24th of October, 1866, a meeting was held in the church at that place, at which Esquire West presided. The large choir furnished the music for the occasion. Rev. Mr. Willard made the opening prayer. T. D. Avery read the history of the church and sketches of the ministers. Among them was Ebenezer Wheelock, D.D.

(a son of Dea. Wheelock, of Windham), who was a famous preacher and co-laborer with Whitefield, afterward the founder and first president of Dartmouth College, and also father of Rev. John Wheelock, for forty years the second president of the college. The successor of Dr. Wheelock, in Columbia, was Rev. Mr. Brock way. Each of these were pastors at Columbia thirty-five years.

Mr. Avery next read an account of the deacons of the church.

In the afternoon, John S. Yeomans, Esq., read a valuable paper, sketching from the original records the history of the society. Dr. Lyman read one or two poems pertinent to the occasion, and furnished another which was sung in the morning.

Mr. Avery read brief sketches of the ministers who had been born in Columbia. One of these, Rev. Charles Little, formerly missionary to India and now minister in Woodbury, Conn., was present and made an address, as also, Rev. W. H. Moore, Secretary of the Conn. Home Missionary Society, Rev. S. G. Willard, and Rev. F. Williams, of Chaplin. The latter made the closing prayer. A bountiful collation was served at the Town-house. It was voted to have the proceedings of the day published in a pamphlet form.

CROYDON, N. H., CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.-The town of Croydon, N. H., was settled in June, 1766, by a few families from Worcester county, Mass. On the 13th of June, 1866, commemorative services were held. A gathering of more than 2000 was had in the open air on the spot where the first immigrants rested after a long and tedious journey into the unbroken wilderness. There were tender reunions of hundreds who had been widely scattered, all the way from Maine to Wisconsin, a privilege not in this life to be repeated. The President of the day was the Hon. William P. Wheeler, of Keene, whose address of welcome was appropriate and impressive. After suitable religious services, the special address, previously provided for, was delivered by the Rev. Dr. Stow, of Boston, whose first eight years were passed in that town. It was not an oration, but a description from memory of the place and the people as he knew them in his boyhood. He gave reminiscences of the fathers and mothers and children whose personal appearance and character he distinctly recalled; of the schools; of the one church, the first minister, the venerable deacons, the one physician, the tything-men, the cemeteries, the employments and the customs of the people. He gave the names of nearly all the families then residing in the town, and sketched their character as an independent, hardy race. He brought out also from the treasures of memory the traditions which he heard in childhood of the adventures and sufferings of the pioneers and the whole of the first generation; and closing with an appeal to all present to act worthy of the better conditions under which they are living.

After a bountiful collation that fed the whole assemblage, the services at "the stand" were resumed, and other speakers gave their reminiscences, some grave and some mirthful, of their respective families.

SEMI-CENTENNIAL BAPTIST SUNDAY SCHOOL ANNIVERSARY, BOSTON.-The semicentennial anniversary of the First Baptist Sunday School, Somerset street, occurred Oct. 29, 1866. The church was appropriately decorated. The exercises consisted of singing by the Sunday school children, addresses by past superintendents, the usual reading of the Secretary's report, and the customary religious services which were conducted by Rev. Rollin H. Neale, D.D., the pastor. The report of the Secretary, Mr. William H. Foster, contained an interesting sketch of the history of the school from its organization fifty years ago. The library of the school numbers one thousand volumes. Among those who made addresses were Mr. William Manning, the first superintendent, and Mr. John N. Barbour, the fourth superintendent.

QUARTER OF A CENTURY CELEBRATION IN CHELSEA.-The church and society of the Winnisimmet Church on Chestnut street, Chelsea, celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of its organization in the afternoon and evening of Sept. 20, 1866. In the afternoon Rev. Isaac P. Langworthy, the first pastor of the church, delivered an historical discourse before a full and interested audience. Rev. Thomas Laurie, D.D., of West Roxbury, Rev. Joseph A. Copp, D.D., of Chelsea, Rev. Geo. W. Blagden, D.D., of the Old South Church, Boston, and the Pastor, Rev. Albert H. Plumb, took part in the exercises.

Addresses by Rev. Dr. Laurie, Rev. Dr. Blagden, Rev. Mr. Plumb, Rev. Mr. Langworthy, and Dea. Jeremiah Campbell, Dea. Hosea Ilsley, Chas. E. Field, Rufus S. Frost, John H. Osgood; Horace E. Smith, Esq., of Johnstown, N. Y.; Francis D. Ellis, of West Roxbury; James H. Prince, of Winchester; and Jairus Pratt, of East Boston, all of whom are at present, or have been, connected with this church.

The discourse by Rev. Mr. Langworthy has been printed (8vo. pp. 47). It is truly