USA > Rhode Island > Washington County > Narragansett > South county studies of some eighteenth century persons, places & conditions in that portion of Rhode Island called Narragansett > Part 19
Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16 | Part 17 | Part 18 | Part 19 | Part 20
[ 273 ]
AN OFFICIAL PAPER OF 1727
W IDE-MARGINED, many folded, time-stained, thin-worn and creased with use, but with the good black ink not yet faded from its yellowed sur- face, the old paper has still its voiceless story, not with- out meaning and suggestiveness for the present time. The choice precious relic! The true antiquarian trea- sure ! Hold it up to the full stream of sunlight pouring through the window. Comes into view the faint tra- cery of the elaborate water-mark, bearing the signa- ture of the maker. Britannia, a large lady, with very stern and strongly emphasized features, which are fitly surmounted by the helmet of a Roman soldier, seated in her car of victory, triumphantly points with her sceptre to this no doubt eminently respectable name. But its long forgotten letters, almost obliterated by time, remain a recondite mystery, to the solemn solution of which, Britannia, in her novel character of Sphinx, per- petually invites. The document is drawn up (or shall we say drawn out?) with much prolixity, and is tran- scribed in a large, fair, clerkly hand. On a folded corner of the outer leaf a neatly written endorsement briefly indicates the purport of the contents, dated 1727. Sole copy now existing in all probability. Signed (with true official haste) by Joseph Jencks, Governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
That mighty potentate, doubtless ambitious of a wider rule than fate had allotted to him in the frac- tional colony that owned his sway, seems to have sought a stern compensation in a rigid tyranny over his mother tongue; entering upon such merciless dealings with the
[ 274 ]
South County Studies
King's English as would drive any modern governor, however modest his accomplishments, to absolute de- spair, did he detect similar deviation from literary rec- titude in any paper bearing his hand and seal. In the year of our Lord 1727, the chief magistrate of Rhode Island was a ruler indeed. He speaks (or his secretary speaks for him), and syntax is annihilated; he writes (by the same subaltern), and affrighted orthography retires aghast before him. In truth it must be confessed that the literary execution of this state paper is not such as to inspire much awe for the erudition of the worthy colonial fathers. An examination of this aston- ishing manuscript, totally innocent of punctuation, written as if to be read in a single breath, leaves the bewildered reader plunged in a chaos of melancholy musings upon the confusing variety of opposing in- terpretations of which His Excellency's oracular text might have proved susceptible, had not the individu- als composing the little official circle cherished a loyal willingness to do his respected bidding.
Nor would his contemporaries, in general, think the less of Captain Joseph Jencks, our worthy Baptist gov- ernor in the year of grace 1727-28, for his occasional trifling literary lapses and omissions. Our good colo- nists set but small value on the acquirement of a cor- rect orthography. Many of them would perhaps have scorned an over-careful particularity in such matters, as partaking of the spirit of the infinitely little. A letter more, or a letter less, pray what could it signify ? Had not every freeman the privilege of his own inkhorn? Were he but a true citizen, and a good neighbor, sure he was welcome to spell as he pleased. (Those were the
[ 275 ]
South County Studies
good old times. What a sad abridgment of our sov- ereign prerogatives since then! Est-ce notre liberté? we may well ask, with the French of 1793.) So the flax fields were planted in season, the dismal wood cleared, the hideous swamp drained, and the "Pagan Salvages" kept from the door, above all, so that the roughly squared timbers of the rude meeting-house were se- curely placed, minor matters might be left to care for themselves. Thus thought the fathers of the Colony, under the pressure of sternest cares ; braving the rigors of the climate; struggling with the demands of a newly organized government. They were not posing for effect in the eyes of future ages, after the morbid manner of the Gaul; but were merely plain, God-fearing men, striving in the long enduring courage of patience to acquit themselves bravely in life and serve their king and country well and truly. Learning was good; it would come in time; a happier generation should en- joy the fruition of its benefits. For us (we seem to hear them say) the dreary march, the wasting bivouac, the deadly battle. For you the joy of victory, the glory of conquest, the assured possession of the captured town, the hard-won field,
"The shout of them that triumph ; The song of them that feast."
Among these our predecessors were many who were, of necessity, men of action rather than of contempla- tion. Let us follow the artless record of their steadfast purpose, in its original expression. Let it stand con- fessed in the full halo of its serene antiquity. Lay no rash correcting hand, O Printer, upon its innocent ec-
[ 276 ]
An Official Paper of 1727
centricities of diction. Forget, O Proof-reader, the mys- teries of thy craft, nor presume to invade its blank sim- plicities with presumptuous punctuation, unknown to the scribes of those easy-going, uncritical days. In the name of antiquity, in the name of all the antiquarians, forbear! Suffer the "most honored and worshipful Mr. Governor"-or rather, his clerk, for our mind misgives us that we may have spoken ill of gubernatorial dig- nities without just cause, and that the paper in ques- tion may never have passed under His Excellency's revision-suffer his clerk, then, to lay waste the Eng- lish language, "as in his wisdom he shall think prop- per." So prays the humble transcriber of the follow- ing document :
COLONY OF RHODEISLAND
Worthy & Esteemed Friends
FRANCIS WILLETT & WILLIAM ROBINSON These Comes to Jnforme you that wee haue per- suant to ye Gen'l assemblys order wrote to the agent Concerning the affaire which was Laid before ye last assembly as you uery well know Relating [to ] ye young Sachim and John Checkley Wherein they that were the authers of them writing so Unfairly Laid down the state or Surcumstances of the aforeSaid Jndian Sachims & his people upon which wee took occation To lay before our agent at home a true state of the aforesd Indians in this Colony first that ye said Sachim was but a youth of about Seuenteen years of age Sec- ondly that he Speaks tolerable good English thirdly his people ware but few and scattered and lieuest at Seruice by the month or year with English Marsters
[ 277 ]
South County Studies
all which wee haue incerted in our Letter a coppey herewith you will Receive and wee would Send De- positions to Proue the same
These are therefore to authorize you forthwith upon Receipt hereof to go to the Town of westerly in this Colony and there take such and so maney Depositions as you Jn your wisdom Shall think propper in this af- fair only J would aduise you to take majr Joseph Stan- tons Euidence and also Capt John Babcocks and if you Can tak all of such as are willing and free to giue their Euidence Jn the Nature of an oath for that may be more agreeable To those before whome it appear than an ingagement and Likely to giue less Grounds of Dis- afection and you are farther Directed to make all the Dispatch you possiably Can for it is Designed home by Charles Bardin and Capt Joseph Whipple tells me he will undouptedly Sail the begining of the Next week so that time will be Pretieus therefore To Con- clude Shall subscribe yours to serue nothing doubting But that you will do all and Euerything that Shall be by you thought Needfull for the Honneur & Jntrust of this Colony Jn this affair
Giuen under my hand in Newport this
24th day of may anno &c 1727 JOSEPH JENCKS Govr
[ Endorsement, in the handwriting of Francis Willett.] Gov'r. Jenks' Order to take Evidences in Westerly, Concerning Ninigreat.
Who will offer a full elucidation of the facts of minor Colonial history, dimly indicated in the foregoing paper ?
[ 278 ]
An Official Paper of 1727
Who can identify the "John Checkley" inculpated in its vague and uncertain charges? John Checkley, who became rector of St. John's Church, Providence, was in London in 1727, but could hardly have been the author of these indefinite accusations of "ye young Sachim," which so deeply stirred the indignant sense of justice in the minds of his protectors and guardians.
The "Colonial Records,"as published, are silent con- cerning the Assembly at which "this affair" was de- bated and the resolution adopted that full information and suitable instructions be forwarded to Richard Par- tridge, our Quaker agent "at home." He shall set this matter right, before his Majesty's Council, if need be, divesting it of all the falsities wherewith it hath been so maliciously involved, by certain ill-wishers to the welfare of this Colony. He shall prove to their lord- ships that this simple Indian lad is as far from assum- ing any show of sovereignty, on his poor three thou- sand acres, as we, the King's most loyal subjects, should be from sparing so idle a delusion. Mere conjectural hints, these ! little else may be evolved from the record, strangely reticent, with all its affluence of detail. The endorsement of Esquire Willett alone preserves to us the name, or rather title, of the young sachem (since all the descendants of the first Ninegret continued the style of aboriginal Caesars), who speaks "tolerable good English," possibly having enjoyed the freedom of that centre of learning, the office of our worthy Secretary of State. His name might otherwise have remained un- known to later readers of the governor's informal, gos- sippy public order. From Judge E. R. Potter's "History of Narragansett," a work of patient industry, pervaded
[ 279 ]
South County Studies
by a humane and liberal spirit, it appears that the Nine- gret of this period was Charles Augustus, whose guard- ians and trustees were Captain Thomas Frye, William Wanton, Esq., and Major Joseph Stanton, gentlemen known as trusty friends to the interests of the tribe, and regarded by its members with much loyal and faithful esteem. It was this young sachem who gave forty acres of his land as a church site and glebe, to be occupied by clergymen of the English Church: ("For he loveth our nation, and hath built us a synagogue.") The grant was confirmed by his brother, George, who succeeded him in the tribal honors, and who was the father of "King Tom Ninegret," of Charlestown and Newport tradition. The Indians "at service with Eng- lish Marsters" may have been the survivors of the "Great Swamp Fight," with their children. Many of the captives were thus disposed of by the authorities of Rhode Island, but their enforced servitude was for a term of years only. Among minor points of local in- terest, we may note the name of the ship Charles Bar- din, after a Newport merchant of those days, and prob- ably her owner.
The instructions relating to a judicial oath indicate the presence of Quaker belief and education in Wes- terly. The Assembly, therefore, judiciously appoints William Robinson, of South Kingstown, a member of that sect, to take the affirmations of the Friends; while Esquire Willett, of Boston Neck, in North Kingstown, can more fully receive the depositions of the world's people. Such are the implied directions of the governor, who, like editors, kings, and other great men, and in- deed as the representative of the royal authority, em-
[ 280 ]
An Official Paper of 1727
ploys in this paper the majestic plural pronoun; show- ing no false dignity, however, in descending from its heights, as a sudden thought strikes him, and he drops the character of sovereign. The quaint air of homeli- ness and rusticity pervading His Excellency's leisurely style is more readily perceived than its more credit- able characteristics, and the casual statement that time is Pretious," is the sole intimation conveyed by the document that its originators had any conception of that fact.
The personages whose outward presentment and mental habits are so vividly recalled by this old-time paper, which brings them before us in their little round of daily occupations - whither have they vanished? The well-meaning governor; the prolix clerk; the dark, silent Indian youth, and his mysterious accuser; the stout sea captain, who would not delay his voyage for any trifling land affairs when his good ship was tug- ging at her anchor and the breeze set fair for "home"; Willett, the Churchman; Robinson, the Quaker; where are they ?
"Gone like a wind that blew A thousand years ago."
Yet what strange remote influence is breathing forth from these faded lines, traced upon umbered and crumbling paper ! Has some wizard impressed it with the lasting magic of his spell? Some sudden palingen- esis evokes from their sleeping dust these long buried forms, once so active in the busy little drama of their day. The scenes of an obscure past, escaping from the relaxing grasp of oblivion, rise and pass before us. We see the Quaker official, in the traditional garb of his
[ 281 ]
South County Studies
sect; his friend and companion, the Squire, who is of the world's people in dress and manner, both well mounted and amicably pacing together while on their way to execute the commands of the governor, in the ancient township of Westerly - meeting but few per- sons on the quiet road, at the early morning hour of their appointment, unless some of their humbler neigh- bors may be astir, by whom they are greeted, as the poet tersely sings:
" With mute obeisance, grave and slow, Repaid by nod polite, For such the way with high and low, Till after Concord fight."
We watch them drawing a hasty rein at the ever open door of the rude inn of colonial times, dismounting be- neath its swinging sign affixed to the tall buttonwood that overtops the low-pitched roof of the wide, ram- bling building. The halt is no less for their horses' re- freshment than their own. When these have been fed, and led up and down the green by the black hostler, the gentlemen pursue their way within the Westerly boundaries, dutifully seeking the appointed witnesses, not forgetting good Major Joseph Stanton, the tried friend and counsellor of three generations of the short- lived descendants of the first Ninegret, the Nestor of the Narragansetts. Then homeward, to part company at Tangatucket Ford. Friend Robinson has now reached the borders of his estate, and is within easy distance of his own gates. But the Squire has to ride seven miles further, before, seated at his "walnut tree" desk, in the "Haul" (vide town-officers' inventory) of his late hon-
[ 282 ]
An Official Paper of 1727
ored father's house in Boston Neck, he can make out the papers desired by the colonial authorities, directing them, in his flowing and elegant chirography, to "His Excellency the Governor: At his house in the Towne of Newport: These with Speed": or in words of similar import. He delivers them at a seasonable hour the fol- lowing day to a trusty messenger, by whose hands they are committed to the governor, who soon forwards the all important packet to the staunch ship Charles Bar- din, Whipple, Master, who "will undouptedly Sail" by early dawn. In his careful keeping it must surely arrive in safety at the capital of our Sovereign Lord, George the Second-possibly to arouse some slight notice and discussion among the wits and philosophers of his polite court.
But whatever fate attends the unstudied record of official wisdom above transcribed, wherever it may go, whatever company it keeps, at least the honest docu- ment makes no pretensions; resting upon its genuine foundations in truth, justice, and integrity. Its curiously unconscious phraseology is appealingly suggestive of the good provincial folk by whom it was planned and written. Its artless and unpremeditated wording may call a smile to the lips of some merely critical reader. Not thus the historian. With more philosophicalbreadth of view, he marks purport rather than execution; the spirit of the record and not its form. True, this relic of colonial times is not a monument of learning. It is far from being an able state paper. Perhaps it may not be even business-like. Yet, to a loyal reader, the sense is plain, and the diction, if familiar, at least free from the burden of legal circumlocution. Does it not speak
[ 283 ]
South County Studies
with the power of purpose springing from the influ- ences of sincerity and rectitude? Are not its eccen- tricities and provincialisms thus redeemed from ridi- cule ? Did not justice approve the intent; kindness smile upon the words; and grave determination affix the seal? There is a worthy meaning latent in its homely form, struggling with the rude and insufficient terms of expression, now overlaid with the gathered dust and dimness of many years. But these do not conceal the better qualities of this forgotten memorial, this long- silent witness to the justice of the colonial fathers. In their grave honesty of aim we recognize such innate dignity as exalts this poor record of their worthy deeds to a place higher than it could claim by its rough exe- cution, its homely and rustic strain. For there is a higher sphere than that of mere learning; and the most brilliant results of a scholarship or of a statesmanship that has not taken counsel of heart and conscience, are, when weighed in the just balance of Heaven, less than the least of those simple acts prompted by an un- swerving morality. Is not this the lesson taught by this obscure historical fragment, and has not this faint echo from the fast receding spaces of the past a living mean- ing for the present ?
THE END
Index
INDEX
ABOLITION Act, passed by Gen- eral Assembly, in February, 1784, 207, 208. Adams, Rev. Samuel, 114, 240. Alden, Captain (son of John
Alden, of Plymouth), 162. Alden, John, of Plymouth, 162. Allaire, -, 22.
Allen, John, 50.
Andros, Sir Edmund (governor of Massachusetts), 17, 18, 50, 51, 73, 270, 271. Anne, Queen, 57, 160.
Antilles, the, forced emigration to, 11.
Arabella Letter, the, 55.
Archibald of the Hass, 88.
Arnold, Benedict, 171, 172. Arnold, Samuel G., historian of Rhode Island, 31. Arnou, -, 27. Atherton Company, the, 12, 13, 18.
Atherton Purchase, 45.
Aunt Ibby (slave; full name Isabella Remington), 219, 227,228-230. Ayrault, Daniel, 30. Ayrault, Dr. Pierre, 15, 19, 20, 21,22.
BABCOCK, Captain John, 278. Bacon, Deacon, 248. Bailey, Rev. Jacob, 232-246. Bailey, William W., 232.
Baird, Rev. Dr. Charles W., 20,25.
Ballou, -, 24.
Barbut, -, 22.
Bardin, Charles, 278.
Bass, Rev. Edward (afterwards Bishop), 123, 125.
Beauchamps, -, 22.
Beebe, Zaccheus, 249.
Belcher, Rev. Joseph, 15.
Bellamont, Governor Richard, 46, 52, 139.
Berkeley, Bishop, 83, 96, 202. Bernard, Sir Francis (governor of Massachusetts), 98, 116. Bernon, André, 27.
Bernon, Gabriel, 25, 26, 27, 28, 31-34, 36, 159, 160, 173.
Bernon, Mrs. Gabriel (Hester or Ester LeRoy ; first wife), original owner of famous gold rattle, viii, 160.
Bernon, Mrs. Gabriel (Mary Harris; second wife), 160. Bernons, the, of La Rochelle, 26,27,28. Bernonville, 26. Bondet Hill, 21.
Boston Neck, North Kings- town, 46, 69, 80, 135, 141, 142, 144, 148, 283.
Bours, Rev. Peter, 115. Boyle, Robert, 55. Bradstreet, Rev. Dudley, 77.
287 ]
Index
Bradstreet, Governor Simon, 77. Brenton, William, 268.
Bridge, -- , 77.
Bridget (slave; granddaughter of Silvy Tory), 217.
British State Paper Office, 22.
Brown, Anna (wife of Heze- kiah Willett), 135.
Brown, Rev. Daniel, 160.
Brown, John, 107, 132.
Brown, John, 2d, 135.
Brown, Mary (daughter of John Brown and wife of Thomas Willett), 134.
Brown, Moses, 207.
Browne, Captain John, 93.
Browne, Rev. Marmaduke, 115, 116, 180, 203.
Browne, Thomas, 93.
Bull, Jireh, 157. Bull's Block-house, 14, 85.
Bunyan, John, 252.
Burgundy, Counts of, 25.
Burns, Robert, 228.
Burr, Aaron, 135.
Byfield, Judge, 66. Byles, Rev. Mather, Sr., 123, 125.
CADE, Jack, 72. Caesar (slave), 123, 128, 218.
Calvin, John, 7, 9, 21.
Calvinism, 7, 8, 74, 252.
Caner, Rev. Dr. Henry, 117, 232. Carpenter, Ester, 173.
Carpenter, Esther Bernon, vii, viii, ix, xvi, 111 n., 146n., 227 n., 232 n.
Carpenter, Francis, viii, 146 n., 173.
Carpenter, Mrs. Francis (Es- ther Helme), vii, 172. Carpenter, Rev. James Helme, viii, 173.
Carpenter, Mrs. J. H. (Mary Hoxie Hazard), viii. Carpenter, Joseph, 142, 173. Carpenter, Joseph, Sr., 142. Carpenter, Mrs. Joseph (Anne Willett; first wife), 142.
Carpenter, Mrs. Joseph (Mary Willett ; second wife), 142. Carpenter, Willett, 46, 161, 173, 222.
Carpenter, Mrs. Willett (Eliza- beth Case), 173.
Carpenter Place, 148 n.
Carr, Sir Robert, 269.
Carré, Rev. Ezekiel, 21, 22.
Carter, Captain Thomas, 239.
Cartwright, George, 269.
Case, Dr. Benjamin Waite, 164, 173, 262. Case, Elizabeth (wife of Wil- lett Carpenter), 173.
Case, John, 82, 93, 94, 164.
Case, Mrs. John (Phillippa Dickinson), 82. Case, Joseph, 173. Cato (slave), 218. Channing, John, 120, 123.
Charles I, 117, 143.
288 ]
Index
Charles II, 198, 268. Charles IX, 3.
Charles Augustus Ninegret, 280.
Charles Bardin (ship), 280, 283. Checkley, John, 277, 279.
Church, Captain, 157.
Church of England, the, 10, 31, 34,55,92,94,113,117,123. Clap, Thomas, 83.
Coddington, Anne (wife of An- drew Willett), 141.
Coddington, Content, 82.
Coddington, Nathaniel, 155. Coddington, Colonel William, 82.
Coddington, Mrs. William, 82. Coligny's colony in Brazil, 10. Collier, William, 138.
Collin, -, 22. Collins, Mrs. Abigail, 61. Cooke, Dr. Elisha, 69. Cooke, John, 164.
Copley, John Singleton, 115, 124. Cowper, William, 114, 252. Cranfield, Edward, 271. Crassons, Joseph, 27.
Crusaders, descendants of, 6. Curtis, -, 179.
DANFORTH, Rev. Daniel, 57. Davids, the, 22. De Bernon. See Bernon. De Marigny,-, 22. Decatur,-, 24.
Dedford (slave), 80. Deptford (slave), 222. Dickens, Charles, 128. Dickinson, Charles, 82, 155. Dickinson, Phillippa (wife of John Case), 82. Dimmis (slave), 80.
Dinwoody,-, 82.
Dochmore,-, 57.
Dudley, Governor Joseph, 43, 46, 49, 52, 54, 71, 137, 139, 271,272.
Dummer, Jeremiah, 272. Durfee, Judge, 199.
EAST Greenwich, 12, 13,15,19, 45. Eddy, Mrs. - , 63. Edict of Nantes, Revocation of, 3, 4, 27, 29, 35, 160. Edwards, Jonathan, 200. Eliot, John (son of the Apostle to the Indians), 260.
Eliot, Mrs. John (wife of the Apostle to the Indians), 56. Ellsworth, Mrs. Grace. See Saf- fin, Mrs. Grace.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 254.
FALKLAND, Lord, 55. Faneuil, Benjamin, 160. Faneuil, Peter, 28, 160. Faneuil Hall, 28.
Fayerweather, Samuel, xiv, 83, 94, 98, 99, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 122-131, 146, 165.
[ 289 ]
Index
Fayerweather, Thomas, xiv, 112, 124. " ffones, Sam'l, Town Clerke," 155. Flint, Dorothy (wife of Ed- mund Quincy), 136.
Flint, Rev. Josiah, 136.
Flint, Mrs. Josiah (Hester or Esther Willett), 136.
Florida, colony in, 10.
Foix, Counts of, 6.
Ford, Sir Richard, 266.
Foster, Deacon, 240.
Fox, George, 179, 181.
Francis I, 26.
Franklin, Benjamin, 111 n., 176, 177, 233, 238. Friends' Meeting House, first, in Kingstown, 175, 230. Frontbeck, Rev. Mr., 117. Frye, Captain Thomas, 280.
GAGE, General, 117.
Gambia (slave; full name Sene- gambia), 219, 222, 223, 225,226. Ganeau, -, 25. Gardiner, Colonel John, 83, 94, 107, 142. Gardiner, Samuel, 104. Gardiner, Dr. Sylvester, 83, 92, 93, 104, 105, 106, 108, 232. Gardiner, William, 104, 106, 108, 142. Garfield, President James A., 24.
Garrett, John, 41.
Gedney, Judge, 162.
George (slave), 123, 128.
George I, 110, 272.
George II, 107, 109. George III, 145.
Gibbs, Colonel, 240.
Glebe, the, 83, 85, 92, 95, 96, 98, 99, 145. Goodfellow, Robin, 72.
Gorton, Samuel, 199, 201.
Graves, Rev. John, 123, 125.
Grazillier, -, 22.
Great Swamp Fight, the, 14, 45, 84, 157, 202, 270, 280. Greene, Colonel, 212.
Greene, John, 269.
Greene, "King Richard," 114.
Griffin, Mrs. Winifred, 61.
Grignon, -, 22.
Grimm, Bess, 55.
Grinnell, -, 25.
Griswold, Fort, near Groton, Connecticut, 171. Gurney, Joseph J., 189.
HARRIS, Mary (second wife of Gabriel Bernon), 160. Harris, William, 160. Harrison, Captain Joseph, 104. Harvard College, 112, 143, 232.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 55. Hazard, Alice, 84. Hazard, Edward Hoxie, 227 n.
Hazard, Dr. George, 219, 227. Hazard, Joseph, 84.
290 S
Index
Hazard, Mary Hoxie (wife of Rev. J. H. Carpenter), viii. Hazard, Penelope, 84.
Hazard, Dr. Robert, 116.
Hazard, Governor Robert, 84. Hazard, Mrs. Robert (Esther Stanton) , 84.
Hazard, Sarah, 84.
Hazard, Thomas, 79, 83, 115, 184-189, 207.
Helme, Bernon, 172.
Helme, Esther (wife of Francis Carpenter), viii, 172.
Helme, Gawain, 159.
Helme, Judge James, 129, 162, 165, 166, 167, 169, 170, 171,173.
Helme, James (son of Judge James Helme), 172.
Helme, James (great-grandson ofJudgeJames Helme), 172. Helme, Mrs. James (Esther Powell), viii, 83, 162, 168, 173.
Helme, Mary, 172.
Helme, Nathaniel, 172.
Helme, Powell, 172.
Helme, Rowse, 83, 162, 171.
Helme, Samuel (son of Judge James Helme), 172.
Helme family, the, xii, 156, 161.
Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.