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1. SAMUEL, son of George, lived near Horse Neck, where he died, 1713, before the birth of his youngest child. He has a gravestone in Quincy. His estate, appraised 1714, at £111,810. He had Samuel, 1696; graduated at Harvard University, 1715; married Rebecca Hinckley. He had the "Great Hill," which, with what was bestowed in his education, was a double portion; also forty acres, the part of his sister, Hannah Lemont, which he bought of her. Daniel, born 1698 ; probably died young. Elizabeth, born 1700; died 1724. Mehitabel, born 1702; married Benjamin Neal, 1727. Dorothy, married Benja- min Veazie, 1726. Hannah, born 1706; married Robert Lemont,
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1729. William, born 1708; married Hannah Penniman, 1730. He had the dwelling-house lately occupied by Joseph Green, and about sixteen acres of land on the site ; also two acres in Penniman's Meadow, and ten acres in Mills's Meadow. John, born 1710; married Mary Arnold, 1736. He had the dwelling-house lately occupied by Mr. Nightingale, barn, and two acres of woodland. Mary, born 1712; mar- ried John Saunders, 1735. She had twenty-six acres of land at Horse Neck. Benoni, born 1714; married Elizabeth Newcomb, 1760. He had twenty-seven acres of his father's land. John Spear's daughter Prudence, born 1737, married Daniel Baxter, in 1755.
2. GEORGE, son of George 1st, married Mary Deerings. She died 1678. They had Mary, 1676. Ebenezer, 1678, who died same year.
3. EBENEZER, son of George 1st, married Rachel Deerings, 1679, and lived in Braintree. They were members of the church in the south parish, in 1711, and many of their descendants have lived there. Hc died, March, 1719. They had Ebenezer, 1680, who married Mary Copeland, 1718, and second wife, Mary Tower, 1727. Mary, born 1682; married Ephraim Jones, 1708. Samuel, born 1684, who mar- ried Rebecca. Rachel, born 1686; married Cornelius Thayer, of Braintree, 1717. Joseph, born Feb. 25, 1688; married Ann. She died, April, 1719. He married second wife, Mary Collier, of Hull, Dec. 12, 1720. He was ancestor of the Spears of Hull. Nathaniel, born 1693. Abigail, born 1695; married Nathaniel Littlefield, 1718. Benjamin, born 1698; married Sarah Niles, 1722. Deering, born 1700; married Jemina Thayer, 1726. Son Nathaniel, administrator.
4. RICHARD, son of George 1st, married, and had seven children, all of whom were baptized, April 11, 1698, in Braintree, viz. : Rebecca, Benjamin, Richard, John, James, Mary, and Deborah.
5. NATHANIEL, son of George 1st, married Hannah Holman, 1689, and lived in Braintree, where he died, leaving a will, Sept. 12, 1728. His wife died 1725. Their children were, Hannah, born 1690, who married Ebenezer Nightingale, 1711. Nathaniel, born 1692; married Thankful. John, born 1694; married Ann Perry; of Milton, 1718. Mary, born 1697; married Lemuel Gulliver, 1717. David, born 1699;
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married Deborah. Joseph, born 1701; married Abigail Cleg. Nathan, born 1703 ; married Mehitabel Brackett, 1734. Margaret, born 1710. Thomas, born 1707; died young. Lydia, born 1713 ; married Richard Bracket, 1733.
THE GRAY FAMILY, OF BOSTON. Edward Gray, an opulent merchant of Boston, arrived in this country, from Lancashire, England, in 1686. He served an apprenticeship with Mr. Barton, as a ropemaker, at Bar- ton's Point, then a cow pasture. He hired Barton's Point and ropewalk of Mr. Barton, for ten dollars per annum. He was married to Susanna Harrison, by Pen Townsend, Esq., 1699; had Harrison, 1711; who married Elizabeth Lewis, 1734. Treasurer of Massachusetts Province, and left Boston with the British troops in 1776, as did his grandson Harrison, who died at London, 1830, aged ninety. Harrison senior had also, John, born 1755. Lewis. Elizabeth, 1746; married Samuel A. Otis, father of Hon. H. G. Otis. Edward senior had Edward, 1702; married Hannah Bridge, 1727 ; had Edward, 1728. Sarah, married Jeremy Green. Anne, born 1705; married Increase Blake. Persis, born 1706. Bethiah, born 1710. Susannah, born 1712; married Col. Joseph Jackson. John, born, 1713; married Mary Otis, Barnstable. His second wife was Hannah Ellis, married by Dr. Colman, 1714; a niece of Dr. Colman's wife, who sent for her from England, with a view to this marriage, owing to her warm affection called the lump of love ; and had Ellis, 1716; married Sarah Tyler, by Rev. William Welsted, 1739. Ellis was colleague pastor of Second Church, Boston; had Hannah, 1744; married Thomas Cary, late of Chelsea, one of whose daughters was wife of Rev. Dr. Tuckerman. He had also, Ellis, 1745. William, born 1747. Mary, daughter of Edward, senior, married Na- thaniel Loring, 1739, a grandson of Elder John Loring, of Hull. Also, William, 1724; married Elizabeth Hall, daughter of Captain Stephen Hall. Benjamin, born 1726; married Mary Blanchard. Thomas, a bachelor. Judge Hall, of Boston, married Sarah, daughter of Ellis Gray, Jr. Judge Wilson, of Washington, and Dr. Bartlett, Boston, married Hannah, daughter of Ellis Gray, Jr. Edward, senior, died
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1757, aged eighty-four. Dr. Chauncey said of him, in a funeral sermon, " He was unexceptionable, unenvied, except for his goodness, universally well spoken of, both while living and now he is dead." By his will, dated Feb. 12, 1753 (witnessed by James Otis, the patriot), Mr. Gray gave to his son John the ropewalks, seven hundred and forty-four feet in length, by twenty or more feet wide, a brick warehouse adjoining, with yarn-house, knotting-house, dwelling-house, and land, standing the whole length of the present Pearl-street, and on Cow-lane, now High- street and Atkinson-street, appraised at one thousand pounds. The whole estate was appraised at about £5,500. By the inventory, he had ten colored slaves, appraised at about £246.
William Gray, son of Edward, senior, had Martha Hall, 1760; mar- ried Dr. Samuel Danforth. Stephen H., born 1761. William, born 1762. Edward, born 1764; married Susanna Turell, who had John. Rev. Frederick Turell, who married Elizabeth P. Chapman, and had also two daughters. John, born 1768. Elizabeth Saunders, born 1769; married Jacob Eustis. Rev. Dr. Thomas, of Jamaica Plain, born 1772; married Deborah, daughter of Rev. Dr. Samuel Stillman, 1793 ; had George Harrison, 1795 ; married Ann, daughter of Dr. Terence Wakefield. Hannah Stillman, born 1796. Ann Greenough, born 1800; married Rev. George Whitney. Thomas, born 1806, who was a physi- cian and a poet. -
CODMAN.
THE earliest information we have of this family is 1637. Robert Codman at this time had a family of four persons. In 1641 he had a tract of land granted him. The Codmans in New Hampshire are descend- ed from William Codman, who came from Ireland before 1743, and set- tled at Amherst. The additional syllable was added by his sons, one of whom was Dr. Henry Codman, who died in 1812, aged sixty-eight. Richard Codman, of York, in 1653, was son-in-law of Richard Bonighton. Stephen, Charlestown, about 1680, died in 1706. His son John died in Charlestown, 1755. John Codman, Esq., a merchant in Boston, who died in 1792, was father of the Hon. John Codman, who died May 17, 1803 in his forty-ninth year, and grandfather of the Rev. John Codman, D. D., of Dorchester. Lieutenant William Codman was a deputy for Ports- mouth, R. I., in 1672.
The Hon. John Codman above mentioned was a member of the Mas- sachusetts Senate. He filled the various public stations in which he was placed with integrity and honor. As a merchant he sustained a character of the first respectability. Endeared to his friends by a natural disposition, which rendered him warm in his attachments, he also possessed by the gift of divine grace, a principle of benevolence which drew upon him the blessings of the poor. In his last moments, more anxious for the safety of others than his own, he resigned himself to death with the fortitude, calmness, and triumph becoming the religion which he professed.
FELT.
" Our dying friends come o'er us like a cloud, To damp our brainless ardors ; and abate That glare of life, which often blinds the wise. Our dying friends are pioneers, to smooth Our rugged path to death ; to break those bars Of terror, and abhorrence, nature throws 'Cross our obstructed way : and, thus to make Welcome, as safe, our port from every storm."-YOUNG.
GEORGE FELT, born about 1601, lived twenty-one years on a planta- tion at Great Cove, in Casco Bay, from whence he was driven by the Indians. He died at Malden, 1693. George Felt, perhaps his son, was killed by the Indians at or near Mountjoy's Island, in Maine, in September, 1676. He had been more active than any other man in that region against the Indians, and his tragical death was much lamented. Rev. Joseph B. Felt, of Boston, formerly minister of Ham- ilton, Mass., who graduated at Dartmouth College in 1813, is descended from this family. Mr. Felt is well known to the antiquarian world for his " Annals of Salem," and the " Ecclesiastical History of Massachu- setts."
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HERE LYETH THE BODY OF
THE REVEREND FAITHFULL MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL
IN BOSTON, MR. JON BAYLY, AGED 54 YEARS,
WHO DECEASED THE 12 OF DECEMBER, 1697. W. X. W. 1742.
BAILY.
REV. JOHN BAILY was born Feb. 24, 1644, in Lancashire, England. He was one of the ejected ministers in 1662; went to Limerick, in Ireland, and then found it necessary to remove to New England about 1683. He was settled at Watertown, Oct. 6, 1686 ; removed to Boston 1692, and became minister of the First Church, July, 1693, and remained until his death, Dec. 12, 1697, aged fifty-three years. The members of the church were desirous he should settle as colleague pastor with Mr. Allen, but he declined. (His brother Thomas, who came with him from Ireland, was also minister of the church in Watertown.)
From his earliest years his mind was impressed by the truths of re- ligion. While he was yet a youth, his mother persuaded him to lead the devotions of the family. When his father, who was a very dissolute man, heard of it, his heart was touched with a sense of his sin, in the
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neglect of this duty, and he became an eminent Christian. He com- menced preaching at the early age of twenty-two. He spent about fourteen years of his life at Limerick, and was much blessed in his ex- ertions to turn men from darkness to light. While he was a young man, he often travelled far by night to enjoy the ordinances of the gospel privately administered, and for this offence he was sometimes thrown into Lancashire jail. When he was before the Judges, he said to them, " If I had been drinking, and gaming, and carousing at a tavern with my company, my lords, I presume that you would not have procured my being thus treated as an offender. Must praying to God and preaching of Christ, be a greater crime? The recorded answer is, 'we will have you to know it is a greater crime.'" He was discharged from prison only on condition that he should depart from the country in a limited time. He was a man eminent for piety, of great sensibility of con- science, and very exemplary in his life. It was his constant desire to be patient and resigned under the calamities which fell to his lot, and to fix his mind upon things above. But with all his faithfulness he saw many disconsolate hours. He was often distressed with doubts respect- ing himself; but his apprehensions only attached him the more to his Redeemer. His last words were, speaking of Christ, " Oh, what shall I say ? He is altogether lovely. His glorious angels are come for me !" He then closed his eyes, and his spirit passed into eternity.
Of his posterity now living, are great grandchildren, and some of the sixth generation. These are in the female line, and bear the name of Willis or Belknap.
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[Hard sandstone slab, on brick foundation, with slate lozenge, bearing:]
THIS TOMB OF THE
DUMMER AND POWELL FAMILYS
WAS REPAIRED BY
WILLIAM POWELL, ост. 1786.
[And then beneath, on slab itself : ]
JEREMIAH, THE SON OF JEREMIAH DUMMER, ESQR., & ANNA, HIS WIFE, WAS BORN JANUARY YE 28, 16*5 & DIED AUGUST YE 2, 1677.
RICHARD, BORN SEPTEMBER YE 1, 1680,
DIED JANUARY YE 12, 1689.
MARY,
A PIOUS VIRGIN, LYES NEXT HERE, TO PARENTS, BRETHEREN, SISTER, FRIENDS MOST DEAR, RELIGIOUS VIRTUE RIPE IN HER SO SOON, WAS REAPED FOR HEAV'N
NATA EST MARCH YE 11, 167* OBIJT OCTOBER YE 5, 16 **
[Nothing more legible.]
GOVERNOR DUMMER.
LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR WILLIAM DUMMER was born in the province of Massachusetts Bay, but went over to England, and was at Plymouth, holding an office there as one of the Commissioners, when he was ap- pointed, through the interest of Sir William Ashurst, to be Lieutenant- Governor in 1716.
At the departure of Shute, Jan. 1, 1723, he was left at the head of the Province, and he continued Commander-in-Chief till the arrival of Burnet in 1728. He was also Commander-in-Chief in the interval be- tween his death and the arrival of Belcher.
His administration is spoken of with great respect, and he is repre- sented as governed by a pure regard to the public good. The war with the Indians was conducted with great skill, the Norridgwocks being cut off in 1724. From the year 1730 Mr. Dummer lived chiefly in retire- ment for the remainder of his life, selecting for his acquaintance and friends men of sense, virtue, and religion, and receiving the blessings and applause of his country. He died in Boston, October 10, 1761, aged 82 years. He preserved an unspotted character through life. Though he enjoyed fame, he did not place his happiness in the distinctions of this world.
He was sincerely and firmly attached to the religion of Jesus, and in the midst of human grandeur he was preparing for death. In health and sickness he often declared, that his hope of the divine acceptance was built upon the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ, whom he adored as the true God and the only Saviour of men. IIe attended with reverence
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upon the institutions of the Gospel ; he was constant in his family devo- tions ; he applied himself to the perusal of pious books, and at stated times he retired to his closet for secret prayer.
During his life his alms were a memorial of his benevolence, and at death he left a great part of his estate to charitable uses.
BLAKE.
" Leaves have their time to fall,
And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath, And stars to set-but all,
Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O death !"-Mrs. HEMANS.
GEORGE BLAKE, of Gloucester, 1649. Ten of the name had grad- uated at Harvard College in 1824. Henry, of Boston, died July 26, 1662, perhaps the Henry Blake made freeman in 1645. James, of Dorchester, freeman 1652, representative in 1677, a deacon and ruling elder of the church, died June 28, 1700, aged 77.
JASPER, in Hampton, died Feb. 11, 1773. John, of Dorchester, freeman 1644, member of the ancient and honorable artillery company in 1642. William, of Dorchester, freeman 1638, member of the ancient and honorable artillery company in 1646; one of the first settlers of Springfield, it is presumed. William, of Milton, freeman 1651, admit- ted a member of the church in Dorchester 1652, representative in 1689. His son Nathaniel was born in 1659.
GOVERNOR HAYNES.
JOHN HAYNES arrived at Boston, A. D. 1633. The next year he was chosen assistant, and in 1635, advanced to the chair of government. He removed from Massachusetts to Connecticut, and was for many years their most distinguished character.
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Had he continued in Massachusetts he would have been a rival to Governor Winthrop. His property, which combined with any consider- able qualifications, will always give a man influence, was equal to a thou- sand a-year in his own country ; but when Mr. Hooker came over to New England he joined the company. They resided at Newtown with a number of families from the county of Essex.
They were most of them farmers, and wanted more land to cultivate. Dr. Trumbull says, " that the growing popularity of Mr. Haynes, and the fame of Mr. Hooker, who as to strength of genius, and his lively manner of preaching, rivalled Cotton, were supposed to have had no small influence with the court, in giving liberty to this Company to remove to Connecticut.
There it was judged they would not so much eclipse the fame, nor stand in the way of the promotion and honor of themselves and friends. Mr. Haynes was chosen Governor of Connecticut; and his great integ- rity and wise management of all affairs, so raised and fixed his character in the esteem of the people, that they always, when the Constitution would permit, placed him in the chief seat of government, and continued him in it until his death. The fathers of Connecticut, according to the historian above named were, Mr. Haynes, Mr. Ludlow, Mr. Hooker, Mr. Wareham, Mr. Hopkins, Mr. Welles, Mr. Willis, Mr. Whiting, Mr. Wolcott, Mr. Phelps, and Mr. Webster. These were the first class of settlers ; and all, except the ministers, were chosen Magistrates or Go- vernors of the colony. Dr. Trumbull says the name of Haynes has be- come extinct in this country.
There are several families of Haynes in Massachusetts, but whether they came from the same parts of Old England, cannot be ascertained. Governor Haynes died in the year 1654.
GREENOUGH.
CAPTAIN WILLIAM GREENOUGH, of Boston, died Aug. 6, 1693. Eight of the name had graduated at the New England Colleges in 1828.
Deacon Thomas Greenough was born May 1710; May 24, 1750, he was married to Sarah, daughter of Mr. David Stoddard; their children were David, S., born 31st July, 1752, married wid. Ann Doane, 11th May, 1784, (she having then a son, John Doane, who married Persis Crafts. He died 9th April, 1795, aged 22 years, without issue. His widow married - Homes, and died in 1849). The maiden name of widow Doane was Ann Hough. She died 9th July, 1802. David Stod- dard and Ann Greenough had an only child, David S., born 27th March, 1787, grad. at Harvard College 1805. He was Lieut .- Col. of the Inde- pendent Cadets, and married Maria F. Doane, dau. of Elisha Doane of Cohasset, 14th June, 1813. She was born 2d January, 1793. Their children were, David Stoddard, born 10th July, 1814, grad. at Harvard College 1833, and commanded the same company his father did. He married Anna A. Parkman, 10th October, 1843; they had three chil- dren, David S., born 16th July, 1844; John, born 25th March, 1846 ; George Russell, born 28th June, 1849. John, second son of David S. and Maria F. Greenough, born 19th October, 1815, died 8th March, 1842. Anna, born 13th October, 1817, married Henry K. Burgwyn, 29th November, 1838, had eight children; Maria, Henry King, Anna Greenough, William H. Sumner, John Collinson, George Pollock, Alves- ton, - Pierpont. Maria, third child of David S., born 11th January, 1820, died 22d August, 1820; James, born 8th October, 1821, grad. at
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Harvard College 1842, now living; George, born 17th July, 1824, died 22d August, 1824 ; Maria, born 29th September, 1828, died 13th Aug. 1830; Jane Doane, born 26th December, 1830, died 29th March, 1847.
Col. David S. Greenough died 6th August, 1830. His widow mar- ried Gen. William Hyslop Sumner, 13th December, 1836 (his 2d mar- riage). She died 14th November, 1843. William (second son of Dea- con Thomas and Sarah Greenough) was born 29th June, 1756, grad. at Yale College 1774. He was a minister at Newton ; married 1st, Abigail, dau. of Rev. Stephen Badger, of Natick, 1st June, 1785; their children were, Sarah C., born at Newton, 24th August, 1787, married Josiah Fuller, jr., 27th April, 1-, died 20th December, 1815 ; Abigail, born 24th April, 1790, married Robert H. Thayer, 11th June, 1816; Wil- liam, born 14th September, 1792, married Sarah Gardner 23d August, 1817 ; children, William Whitwell, born 25th June, 1818, grad. at Har- vard College 1837. He married Catherine Scollay, dau. of Charles P. Curtis, 15th June, 1841; children, William, born 29th June, 1843; Charles Pelham, born 29th July, 1844; Anna Scollay, born 14th May, 1847, died 21st August, 1847; Malcolm Scollay, born 31st August, 1848; Catherine Margaret, born 12th January, 1852; Ann (dau. of William), born 23d September, 1794, died 1st March, 1816.
Rev. William Greenough married 2d, Lydia Haskins of Boston, 22d May, 1798; children, Hannah, born 6th April, 1799; Martha Stevens, born 22d August, 1801, married Joseph H. Thayer 7th December, 1819; Thomas, born 11th June, 1803, married Mary J. Caruthers, 11th Sep- tember, 1826; had seven children, Fanny, born 17th December, 1805, died at Amherst 15th December, 1837; Elisabeth, born 13th Septem- ber, 1807, married Isaac R. Barbour 7th February, 1838. David Stod- dard Greenough, Esq., died 24th August, 1826, aged 74. Rev. William died in 1831, aged 75. Yeamans and Newman (gemini children of Dea- con Thomas and Sarah Greenough), born 4th May, 1758, died young ; and Chauncy, born 25th July, 1760, died 7th October, 1778. Deacon Thomas died 16th August, 1785, and his wife in March, 1778.
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HERE LIES BURIED THE BODY OF
MR. THOMAS WILLISTON,
. DEC'D FEB'Y 18TH, 1773, AGED 63 YEARS.
ALSO,
THE BODY OF
MRS. SARAH WILLISTON,
WIFE OF MR. THOMAS WILLISTON,
DIED DEC'R 25TH, 1771, AGED 60 YEARS.
HERE LIES BURIED THE BODY OF
MRS. MARY PHILIPPS,
WIFE TO MR. CALEB PHILIPPS, DEC'D MARCH THE 20TH, 1741,
IN THE 36TH YEAR OF
HER AGE.
HERE LIES BURIED THE BODY OF
MR. MATHEW SMITH,
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE NOVEMBER 6TH, 1769,
AGED 43 YEARS.
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MARGARET PALIERE, 1752.
HERE LIES BURIED THE BODY OF
MR. WILLIAM IRELAND, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE MAY THE 5TH, 1755, AGED 64 YEARS.
HERE LIES BURIED
MRS. ANNE HEWES,
WIFE OF MR. ROBERT HEWES,
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE JULY THE 19TH, 1761, IN THE 36 YEAR OF HER AGE.
HERE LIES THE BODY OF
MR. GEORGE HEWES,
WHO DIED *AY 6TH, 1770, * . * * 68.
HERE LYES THE BODY OF
MR. NATHANIEL SHANNON,
AGED 68 YEARS, DIED AUGUST 27, 1723.
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HERE LYES BURIED * * * BODY OF
MRS. MARY BROWNE,
WIFE TO MR. WILLIAM BROWNE, DAUGHTER TO MR. SAMUEL JACKLEN,
AGED 31 YEARS & 4 MONTHS,
HERE LIES BURIED THE BODY OF
MRS. REBECCA PATRIDGE,
THE WIFE OF CAPT. SAMUEL PATRIDGE,
DIED MAY 24, 1763,
AGED 42 YEARS. ALSO, 6 CHILDREN.
CAPT. SAMUEL PATRIDGE,
DIED MARCH 9, 1770,
AGED 73.
TAPPAN.
THERE is some uncertainty about the country to which this family originally belonged ; and it is increased by the fact that the name is spelled in nearly twenty different ways. Most of the name spell it in one of the following styles : Tappan, Topping, Topper or Tappen.
The Topping family are thought to be natives of France. In an early history of France, mention is made of an officer of some distinction, who bore that name. In Delaware County, N. Y., is a family named Topping, immigrants from Paris, respectable in property and intelligence.
Christoffel Topper was an inhabitant of Amsterdam, and resided in the Sandt Straadt. In a history of Philip II., wherein a recital is given of the war between Spain and the Prince of Orange, it is stated that the Prince had an officer in his army designated as the meritorious General Christoffel Tappen. At the close of the war in 1579, he re- turned to Amsterdam. It is not known when those of this family emi- grated to New York.
By some it is said that Tappan Bay, in the Hudson River, and the village of Tappan, were named after an Indian Chief bearing that name.
It is certain that most of those who spell their name Tappan, at the present day, trace their lineage to some of the early New England Pil- grims, and are the descendants of English parents. They do not boast of ancestors who were distinguished among the heroes, chieftains, or nobles of the earth ; content and grateful that their progenitors were " soldiers of the cross," each of them may say with the poet Cowper :
" My boast is not that I deduce my birth
From loins enthron'd, and rulers of the earth ;
But higher far my proud pretensions rise- The son of parents passed into the skies."
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In the Parish Register of Yarmouth, Norfolk County, England, is the following record :
" Married, 1560, Nov. 28th, John Tappynge to Agnes Jewell."
And the following are abstracts from wills in the Prerogative Office, London :
" Philip Tappan, of Churchill, in Oxfordshire, Husbandman."
The will is dated May 1st, 1631. Wife, Bridget. Sons : Michael and Robert. Daughters : Anne, wife of Edmund Bulline, and Elizabeth, wife of Humphrey Marshall.
" John Tappan, of Churchill, Yeoman." Will dated 1651. Sons : Benjamin, Clement, John and Richard. Daughters : Rebecca, Elizabeth, Anne, and Jane.
" Richard Toppen, the elder, of Brithelmstone, in Sussex, Husband- man." Will dated 1654. Wife, Joan. Sons : Richard, Thomas, John, and William. Daughter : Mary.
" Martha Toppin, of Denver, widow. Will dated Dec. 26, 1638."
" Thomas Toppin, the elder, of Denver, Reedlayer. Will dated Dec. 1, 1638.
" John Toppyng of Rendham, in the county of Suffolk. Will dated Sept. 21, 1508. Desires to be buried in the churchyard of Colton. Gives to his wife Margaret all his lands in Kelshall, &c. &c."
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