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Discharged in 1863 and '64 :- Thomas B. Walters, Fred- erick Miller, Isaiah H. Rexroad, William M. Skelton, Cap- tain: Ezekiel Sheppard, 1st. Lieutenant; Oliver P. Rolston, Sergeant; Samuel Hatfield, Abner H. Jobes, and F. W. G. Camp. Corporals ; William Bennett, D. F. Bumgardner, Gran- ville B. Cain, George B. Douglass, Nashville Elliott, John Layfield, George Layfield, Wilson Nixon, William Miller, Henry D. McGill, Tarleton Peck, Charles P. Pool, Jesse C. Roach, Levi Smith, Amos K. Steed, William Howard, Wil- liam Black, Daniel Dougherty, John Howard, W'm. S. Kibbee. Alexander Lee, David J. Riddel, Elias Sharpnack, Thomas J. Stout, George T. Walters, and Joseph Wildman.
Transferred :- Phillip Sigler. Esram Arnett, Phillip T. Taylor, David B. Hogue, C. H. Rockenbaugh, and Jasper N. Wilson.
Died :- John S. Rogers, Edward Cunningham, Robert Mullinax, Timothy Tenant, James M. Stewart, James R. Douglass, Wm. J. Hogue, and Jacob \\. Phillips.
Aggregate 145 men.
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RECORD OF COMPANY "E," SIXTH REGIMENT WEST VIRGINIA INFANTRY VOLUNTEERS WHEN MUSTERED OUT IN 1865 :
Larkin Peirpoint, Captain; Charles Dotson and Amos Kendall, Sergeants ; Elmore Prunty, Justus S. Goff, Abraham Exline, and Harrison Wass, Corporals; Martin Overfield, Teamster: Davis Byrd, Daniel W. Cox, John C. Coalgate. Clinton Dotson, John W. Dotson, Lehman Dotson, Thomas A. Douglass, Alexander C. Goff, A. M. Greathouse. George W. Hess, John O. Kelly, E. W. McClain, John McConnaughy. Alex McDonald, Andrew J. Nutter. Wm. J. Overfield, Isaac C. Powell, Davidson C. Riddel, James W. Robinson, B. F. Rollins, Lowman Riddel, Edward Rollins, Elijah W. Sum- mers, E. C. Snodgrass, Robert W. Stuart, Gilbert Smith, Elijah Stevens, Wm. H. H. Sandy, Samuel Treagle. Miner P. Towner, Wm. Towner, George Webb, Joshua Wilson, James W. White, Otho G. Watson, Jasper Ward, Hickman Waldo, Granville P. Zinn, John W. Zinn, Edward D. C. Zinn, and Wm. B. Zinn.
Recruits :- G. M. Ireland, 1st. Lieutenant ; Nicholas Nei- dert, 2nd. Lieutenant ; Perry J. Cunningham, 1st. Sergeant ; Joshua S. Osbourn, Musician ; Marcus Broadwater, John B. Edwards, Elijah C. Goff, B. F. Jaco, Aaron S. Jones, Benja- min C. Powell, Wm. J. Shinn, Lewis T. Silcott, Edgar Trainer, I'm. Trainer, and Marion B. Zinn.
Veterans :- James B. Westfall, and Daniel S. Bush, Ser- geant ; Zebedee Brown, Bartlett Waldo, and J. H. Dougherty, Corporals ; Andrew S. Brown, Silas Braden, Butcher Valen -. tine, Shedrick C. Collins, A. E. Dotson, Garrison Dotson, George W. Dougherty. Robert V. Duckworth, Samuel Knight, John W. McDonald, Wesley McDonald, Reilly Ma- son, Josiah Mitchell, Robert Mitchell, John W. McGill, Wm. Miller, Wm. Phillipbar, Joseph W. Robinson, Linsey M. Stevens, Levi Smith, Jeremiah Seders, James HI. Silcott, Joim A. Thomas, Arthur Wilson, George M. Wade, Archibald B. Wilson, Eli Wilt, Hiram Williams, Jasper Wyatt, and Henry C. Wineburg.
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Discharged :- Lloyd Dotson, 1st. Lieutenant ; Joseph A. Summers, 2nd. Lieutenant ; and Thomas Pool, in 1862.
Transferred to Maulsby's Battery in 1862 :- John R. Hol- bert, Corporal; Jacob Barker, W. A. Duckworth, Thomas E. Nutter, and Leroy Rollins.
Died :- David H. Young, Corporal, Christian C. Byrd, George H. Kniseley, John McGraw, Marion Osbourn, Daniel R. Westfall, and George Wilson.
Deserted :-- Alfred W. Flemming, and W. H. H. Goff.
Additional Recruits, Since Muster-out, For the Year '64: -Edward M. Brown, Azariah Bee, John A. Beatty, Christian Bollyard, William Braham, Thomas Braham, Alexander Col- lins, Philip L. Cox, David L. Clayton, Elisha C. Case, Thomas B. Case, Jolin W. Dougherty, John W. Dumire, Ulysses Davis, James P. Eddy, John N. Finnegan, Sylvester Fisher, James E. Gaines, Martin V. Goff, Henry Goff, Andrew Harsh, Till- man H. McDaniel, Eli Mason, John Moore, Nimrod Morris, I'm. McNemer, Andrew J. Nutter, Floyd Nutter, John W. Osbourn, Daniel Powell, Wm. H. Parks, Joshua G. Robinson, David Roberts, Israel T. Summers, Thomas Sanders, Phineas R. Tharpe, Andrew J. Williams, Joseph Wetzel, David L. Whitehair, John P. Whitehair, Thomas G. Zinn, Henry C. Zinn, William Cummings.
Aggregate-159 men.
RECORD OF COMPANY "K" OF THE TENTH REGI- MENT WEST VIRGINIA INFANTRY VOL- UNTEERS, IN DECEMBER, 1864 :
Nimrod Kuykendall, 1st. Lieutenant: Benjamin Moats, 2nd. Lieutenant ; Thomas S. Nutter, 1st. Sergeant; James G. Kee, and A. W. Zickafoose, Sergeants; John H. Kelley. Isaiah D. Ayres, John B. Upton, Nicholas Swadley, Lemuel Furr, junior, Wm. H. Simmons, Francis M. Smith, and Henry F. Stanley, Corporals ; John W. Amos, Lewis Weinrich, Alex Arrowhead, John F. Ayres, John W. Boston, Henry T. Bos- ton, Jacob B. Bowers, Oliver Barker, James Brooks, Uz Barnes, Armenius Buzzard, Thomas W. Bayne, Thomas J. Braden, David Calhoun, J. A. Cunningham, Floyd S. Cline,
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Jesse Coleman, Phillip R. Eagle, Isaac Ellefrit, Lemuel Furr. senior, Enoch Furr, S. C. Foster, Homer Freeman, R. j. Goodwin, John D. Gregory, George W. Hammer, Lewis Hammer, Justus C. Heck. Asa Jenkins, Samuel Jenkins. A. !!. Jeffrey, James Layfield, Felix Moore, F. M. Mitchell, W. J. Mullenax, Jacob Myers. John P. Moats. Samuel S. Malone, Levi Morgan. George J. Newhart, C. N. Nicholson, J. N. Pritchard, William Propst. Isaac Pool, Wirt Phillips, Joseph Ralcy. John M. Randall. Eli M. Stanley, Salathiel Simmons, John W. Simmons, John P. Sinnett, Edward Shifflet. Isaac Williams. Samuel Wiseman, James P. Wilson, Isaiah Welsh, John G. Webb. Michael D. Webb, Marshall L. Warner, and Milton C. Zigan.
Resigned in 1864, Thomas Hess. Ist. Lieutenant.
Discharged, in '63 and '64-Hezekiah S. Davis. Alexan- der Hogue. Joseph Jenkins. David S. Pinnell, and Eli Ruck- man.
Transferred, in '62 and '63-C. C. Meservie, Sergeant : G. A. Douglass. Corporal: John J. Clutter, A. S. Davis, and Charles Bryson.
Died :- J. P. Kuykendall, Captain ; Ashbel G. Yeager and Thomas R. Barnes, Sergeants ; Eli Rex Kendall, Lewis Rex- road. Job Arrowhead. Patrick Drake, R. Thomas Barnett. Aaron Barrackman, Joseph G. Carder, James W. Davis. James Drake, Corporals: Abner Fullwider. John Hawkins. Robert Jenkins. M. J. Killingsworth, Benjamin F. Leggett. W. J. Nottingham, William Stanley, William R. Shifflet, John J. Towner and Dudiey C. Wells.
Aggregate-10: men.
RECORD OF COMPANY "D" OF THE FOURTEENTH REGIMENT WEST VIRGINIA INFANTRY VOLUNTEERS IN 1864:
Jacob M. Reitz. Captain: James W. Shrover, 1st. Lieu- tenant: W. G. Lowther. George W. B. Martin, Lewis P. Reitz. John McMullen, and James R. Brake. 1st. Sergeants : James B. Gribble. W'm. F. Griffin, Win. Jett. Jeremiah Snod- grass. Elias Thomas, Zephaniah Martin. T. M. Bolinger. Cor- porals : Thomas D. Baker. Arthur G. Bee. Zedekiah Bolinger.
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Win. B. Crihfield, Silas Cain, Eugenus Calhoun, George H. Campbell, John S. Coulson, Wm. E. Coulson, George W. Cross, John A. Cross, Stephen C. Davis, Wm. S. Drake, Eli B. Dotson. James W. Elliott, Robert L. B. Eider. Jacob H. Fronsman, Wm. C. Glover, George W. Harden, Thomas Hamrick, Simeon Helms, James P. Hess, Elijah Hissanı, Francis M. Jones, Jacob Jett, Wm. E. Lough, Henry J. Low- ther. William Martin, James W. McGill, Alexander McGill. George E. McGill, Gregory McMullen, Addison Osbourn, Lewis Propst, James M. Propst, John Price, John C. Parks. David F. Randolph. Fletcher S. Riddel, Lair Simons, James Q. Smith, George W. Stuart, Amos G. Thomas, Martin V. Taylor. Edmund R. Tibbs, Wm. A. Valentine, John Watson. Wilson Watson, William Wass, Harvey Westfall, and Wm. . W. Wilson.
Discharged :- John S. Vanpelt, and Hiram Dotson, in 1863.
Transferred :- Eugenus Criss. Caleb D. Spencer, and James G. Morgan, in '62.
Died :- James D. Earle, Samuel R. Jones, John Hess, James H. Smith, Jonathan Baker, Amos D. Pritchard. Spen- cer Maley, Wilson A. Gribble, Wm. F. Boehm, James Cain. John Manear, James T. Patton. Charles A. Mahaney, Wmn. Mccullough, George W. Miller, Reason H. Wilson. and George S. Richards. The last two named died in the Ander- sonville prison.
Aggregate-87 men.
RECORD OF COMPANY "K" OF THE SIXTH REGI- MENT WEST VIRGINIA CAVALRY VOLUN- TEERS, (late 3rd. West Va. Infantry) IN AUGUST 1864:
Galelma Law. Captain : John Sommerville, 1st. Lieu- tenant ; Jacob W. Core, 2nd. Lieutenant : George W. Ralston. and Franklin C. Clayton. Sargeants; Benjamin F. Mitchell. Benjamin Starr, and Napoleon Wilson, Corporals; Samuel Ilammer, teamster; John F. Basnett, John Hornick, E. Kirk- patrick, Francis M. Malone, Silas McGregor, Benjamin Mc-
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Ginnis, John Moore, Francis M. Morgan, John Odell, Samuel F. Randolph. Alfred Simmons, John Wricke, John Walsh, and James Woods.
Recruits :- Richard E. Bond, John Maloy, and James R. Westfall.
Discharged :-- Moses S. Hall, Captain, (Promoted to Lieut. Col. of the 10th W. V. I. May 20, 1862) Josiah M. Woods, Captain, (Promoted to 2nd Lieut. Feb. 11. 1862 and later to Captain) James Z. Browning, 1st. Lieutenant; Char- les Hewitt, nd. Lieutenant : John McGinnis, Sergeant: John M. Cox, Corporal; T. H. Bircher, Nathaniel Barker, Ishmael L. Clayton, Alexander Deem, James M. Davis. Wm. Jett, John H. Jordan, Wilson Queen, Josephus Reed. Cornelius D. Sniith and Wm. B. Rogers.
Died :- John E. Day, 1st. Lieutenant ; Ephraim Mc- . Clasky, 2nd. Lieutenant: John P. Pew. Corporal; Enoch F. Basnett, Jacob W. Bush, James T. Benton, John G. Culp, Hundem Flesher. Joseph C. Geho, John W. Harris, Peter E. Kerns, James Malone, George W. Moats, James S. Moais, Enes E. McDougal. Zachariah Michaelson, John W. Pool, John P. Pew, James A. Simonton, Thomas A. Simonton, James A. Summers, Anthony Smith, and Wells Wricke.
Transferred :- Benjamin F. Shrieves.
Deserted :- William T. Day.
Veterans :-- Alfred Malone, Porter Flesher, Wm. G. Heaton, Sergeants ; Reuben E. Reed, Edgar W. Tarlton, Rob- ert Costillo, and John B. Gorrell, Corporals: Hervey P. Miller, Bugler ; George W. Brown, Henderson P. Bush. John C. Coplan, Dudley E. Dent. J. E. Dennison, John G. Elliott, Charles W. Frederick, Parker C. Gorrell, Ebenezer B. Griffin, W'm. J. Jordan, Wm. N. Jones, Levi Kirkpatrick. C. Lips- comb, John M. Lownie, james Moats, James Maloy, Jacob Morgan, Francis Nicholson, Mabray Osbourn, Jason H. Pritchard, Phillip H. Pritchard, John C. Peck, Martin Parks, George Richards, Jesse Romine, James A. Rider, Jacob Smith, Daniel M. Smith, Thomas J. Stillings, S. C. Saterfield, Barnett A. Silva, Edwin L. Welsh, Jacob Watson, George Watson. and Joseph Weekly.
Aggregate-111 Men.
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Though Captain Clammer's company, "C" of the 11th. Regiment, West Virginia Infantry Volunteers, was recruited in Calhoun county quite a number of Ritchie men are included in it. Among whom are James F. MacDonald, Martin Smith, Robert H. Rogers, James S. Hardman, John R. Cunningham, Isaac S. Collins, Ezekiel Braden, Alfred Barr, W. L. Cun- ningham, Andrew J. Evans, John M. Evans, Wm. Hamrick, B. F. Hyman, Robert Glover, Nimrod Lough, Wm. B. Modi- sette, A. I. J. Rogers, Barnes N. Smith, Granville Tingler, John Tingler, M. A. Ayres, (who rose to the rank of Major). Morgan Rexroad, Francis M. Smith, and possibly others whose names we did not recognize.
In Company "M" of the Sixth Regiment, West Virginia Infantry Volunteers, which was recruited in Doddridge county, we find the names of the following Ritchians: Alex. S. Lowther, Obadiah Bee, Samuel V. Brown, John M. Brown, Andrew J. Divers, and John M. Gribble.
(Note-Not a few others whose names have been over- looked here will be found in the different biographical sketches throughout the book .- Author.)
Note .- Grover Cleveland Lemon, the young soldier shown in the group, was born at the little village of Macfar- lan, on September 15, 1884, and is the son of John B. Lemon. In 1905 he enlisted in the Signal service of the United States Army, and is now a member of the artillery corps at Fort Totten, New York. He served in Cuba for near two years and was awarded a bronze medal for good conduct ; and he also has a silver medal which was awarded him for superior marksman-ship at Sandy Hook, in 1907.
Confederate Soldiers in the Civil War .- Through the courtesy of one or more ex-Confederate soldiers. we have a partial record of the citizens of this county, who fought 111 behalf of the Southern Confederacy :
D. M. V. Phillips, Archibald Middleton. Samuel Middle- ton, Alfred Tennant. Jackson Pribble, Siotha Cain, "Sud" Cain, J. W. Cain, Com. Cain, Hiram Cain, J. T. Cain, Bareus Stanley, Daniel Stanley, John Stanley, Joseph Stanley, Daniel Collins, B. J. Collins, Creed Collins, Columbus Collins, A. J. Patton, A. D. Patton, Wmn. Patton, James Trader, Michael
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McGuire, William Lynch, F. J. Mayes, Michael Ayres. Patrick Delaney, James Smith, E. T. Lemon, P. J. Lemon, C. N. Lemon. F. J. Lemon, H. P. Ayres, William Lake. John W. Marshall, Allen Buckner, James Amick, Bart Hickman, Alex Goff. John Goff, James Goff, Philip Goff, L. S. Goff. Mortimer Collins, Nicklin Cline. Allen S. Hall, Leonard S. Hall, John Lafoy, Jack Pribble, Isaac Null, Louis Logue. Daniel Eddy, John Delaney. Packenham Delaney. Cebart Tingler, Cyrus Current, Jacob Dougherty, J. J. Jarvis, J. Alvin Nutter, W. L. Jackson. James Taylor. Isaiah Bee. "Deck" Neal, James Smith. Barnes Smith, P. S. Austin. John M. Patton. Eugene and Marion Tibbs.
Death has made sad inroads in the ranks of these vet- erans, "that once made this old continent trenible from ocean to ocean." Comparatively few of them yet remain. But five commissioned officers of the Union Army are still among us (Major M. A. Ayres, Captains John Sommerville, and G. M. Ireland, and First Lieuts. W. G. Lowther, and Daniel Bush), and only here and there a Confederate veteran is to be found; and to the memory of both alike we pay our tribute, for in many instances they were of the same house- hold-brother against brother, father against son.
And though we are the daughter of a Union soldier, that followed the dear old flag for three weary years, yet we can- not repress our admiration for the courageous man who wore the gray. For though he may have been wrong, did he not love the cause that he believed to be right with the same loyal devotion, and did he not as truly believe in its justice. as his brother who wore the blue?
Some of the best friends that we have known are the sons and daughters of Confederate soldiers. And as we turn from the graves of the past with a rose for the Blue and a lily for the Gray, we thank the great Author of Peace that we are a united people, that-
"No more shall the war cry sever, Or the winding rivers be red;
They banish our anger forever, When they laurel the graves of our dead."
CHAPTER LIV
Some Additional Ancestries1
HE name "Hall" is said to be of Norwegian origin, and its meaning is hero, but its primitive spelling was Hallr-the final letter being silent.
"The old Norse hallr, hals and the Anglo-Saxon haele, haletta have the same significance." Hailett and Henry are dimin- utives of Hall, and Hallse means the son of Henry.
The Norwegians settled quite extensively in Scotland, hence the Scotch Halls.
"The English Manor House is another source of the name. In mediaeval documents the manor house is called "Alle." "Halle," "De Aula," and "Del Hall." The chief apart- ment was the hall proper, which was pressed into service as a petty court of justice, as well as a place of entertainment. Thus the principal survitor or tenant acquired the surname of De Aula, Del Hall or Dela Halle, which was retained by tlie eldest son, and simply became Hall.
In Welsh the name means salt and a worker in salt is a haller. A dwelling near salt works on low marshy ground near the sea is a "hallam," "hall, or halle." Hence the origin of the name of the ancient castle Halla, now city Halle, in Saxony.
The name of "Hall" is said to surpass that of any other name in point of number with the exception of Smith. Brown. Jones and Robinson, and it is even more numerous in England than in America.
Among the prominent members of the family who have written their names in the world's history are Edward Hall, an eminent English historian of the sixteenth century : Joseph
"This data was received too late to find a place in the earlier chapters.
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Hall, a bishop of Norwich and Exeter, who died in 1656: and Dr. John Hall, who married Susannah Shakespeare. At Strat- ford-on-Avon, the ring that he placed upon the finger of Susannah when she became his bride, is still to be seen ; and in the old Stratford church by her side with the ashes of the immortal William Shakespeare, he lies in his last sleep.
John Hall, who was born in County Kent, England, in 1584, was one of the earliest of the name to cross to America. he having arrived at Boston in 1633, where he proved himself to be an important personage. His wife. Esther, is supposed to have died on the other side of the water. No fewer than ten "John Halls" were identified among the pioneer settlers of the New England colonies and all of them were supposed to have hailed from sunny England. Most of the family of the first generation belonged in Connecticut. The first notary public in that colony was a Hall, he being appointed by the Archbishop of Canterbury : and the first marriage that took place at Wallingford, Connecticut. was that of Thomas Hall and Grace Watson, on June 5, 1623. An old record shows that Thomas Hall received fifty acres of land in recognition of his father's service in the Pequot war in 1632. This same John Hall-father of Thomas, and soldier of the Pequot war, married a young English maiden by the name of Jeanne Wollen, who was of high birth and well educated, her family being entitled to bear the crest. a demi-lion. An old relic now in the hands of the New Haven Historical Society is the long wooden-handled spear used by John Hall in the Indian wars. This weapon was called a "spoontoon," and was used by the officers to direct the movements of the troops. If placed upright in the ground, it signified halt. If pointed for- ward, advance : if backward, retreat.
The Revolutionary war brought the Halls into prom- inence in various ways. Dr. Lyman Hall. the Governor of Georgia, was one of the signers of the Declaration of Inde- pendence. and in the Wallingford cemetery, in Connecticut, a monument stands to his memory; and another, in Augusta, Georgia, marks his resting-place.
( The many different families of Halls in this county will
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doubtless find interest in this brief account of the early history oi their name. )
Harris .- This name in its original spelling was "Haara," but it became Harry then Harris or Harrison. So Harris signifies of the family of Harry. Haara is the Anglo-Saxon for lord or master. Some of the different spellings are "Her- ris." Herries, Harries and Herz.
In England there are branches of the family in every county and village ; and about the dawning of the nineteenth century the name Harris held the twenty-fifth rank in the number of deaths, and the twentieth. in the number of mar- riages in Great Britain, and in Wales the family ranks in number with that of Williams and Jones.
Thomas Harris, son of Thomas and Elizabeth Harris. was the first of the name to cross the water to the Occident. And William Harris, another member of the family, assisted Roger Williams in the founding of Providence, Rhode Island.
Four of the name, John, Thomas, William and Danie !. who were supposed to have been brothers were among the early settlers of Rowley, Essex county, Massachusetts; and as each possessed a two-acre house-lot they are supposed to have been men of some importance.
John Harris, an Englishman, was the first settler at Har- risburg, Pennsylvania, he having made his improvement or the very site that is now marked by the city in 1126, and when the town was founded, in 1985, it took his name.
Lieutenant James Harris took part in the Colonial wars. as did Thomas Harris, who was one of the twenty men who were sent from Ipswich as soldiers against the Indians in 1643. Members of the family also served in the American Revolu- tion, and William Harris, who was a sergeant, saw service in the battles of Brandywine and Germantown. In 1811, he was commissioned as Brigadier-General and was called into ser- vice in the war of 1812, but died before the army took the field.
Among the men of letters of this name was the Rev. Dr. John Harris (born in 1667), author of "The Lexicon Tech- nicum," one of the earliest of the many English Encyclope- dias. James Harris, a well-known writer, was sent to Brins- wick to seek the hand of the unfortunate Princess Caroline
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for the Prince of Wales, it being arranged for him to marry her by proxy and then conduct her to her husband, in Eng- Jand.
Anne Harris, a beautiful belle, was the daughter of John Harris, who came to this country early in the eighteenth cen- tury. In her youth she had the honor of being the partner of General Washington at a ball given by the financier of the Revolution, Robert Morris, whom she was visiting. And here at this ball she met her fate in Dr. Shiell, an Irish gentleman of means, and when he offered her his hand with his heart her mother vehemently protested, as she wished her daughter to retain her maiden name; but the love that has laughed at locksmiths all down the centuries did so in this instance, and they were married.
Another pretty little romance in the family traditions is that of Timothy Harris, of the second American generation, who lived in Brookline, Massachusetts. He had reached the age of thirty-two and being still "heart whole and fancy free." was considered in the light of a confirmed bachelor. But on going to the house of a neighbor by the name of Morey, one morning, and receiving no response to his knock, he opened the door and entered without farther ceremony, and by so doing aroused a sleeping infant, who at once began to cry, and Timothy set himself about hushing it to sleep by rocking the cradle. In the meantime the mother entered and jokingly remarked. "Good heart! old bachelor, I have some hope of you, yet." "Aye, good wife," replied Timothy, and not with- out reason, "for I am determined to claim this little damsel for my wife, as soon as she is old enough." And true to his promise, he waited for fifteen years and claimed her in less than a month after her sixteenth birthday. This was near the year 1697, and their daughter, Abigail, married Samuel Newell.
(Notice the similarity of names here and in the Har- rises of this county. No doubt they all sprang from the same common ancesters.)
Phillips .- Eleanor Lexington, in her Colonial Families ci America, says, "Emperors and kings, princes and dukes have
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borne the name of Phillips or Philips, and the family has a rich heritage in its tradition."
The name is of Greek origin and comes from philos or hippos, meaning a lover of horses. Phillips has been a sur- name in Great Britain for five hundred years, and the family can be traced back in continuous line to the year 1200; and Stratford-on-Avon has been the seat of a branch of the family which spell their name "Phillippo," for centuries.
It would be no slight task to keep trace of the various spellings, but in Wales where the family have been prominent Phillipse is the customary form of the name, and the oldest coat-of-arms is that granted to the Welsh branch. Phylppe, Pphillipps, Philopoe, Phillot, etc., are other spellings of the name.
The Phillipses of Staffordshire descend from Francis Phylyppe, of Neyther Teyne. He lived during the reign of Edward VI. Grace Dien Manor, in Leicester, was the home of the Phillippses. The king's sergeant during the reign of James II was a "Phillips."
Westminster Abbey guards the silent dust of the poet. John Phillips, who is distinguished as being the first individual to manifest genuine literary appreciation of Milton.
The Reverend George Phillips, the emigrant pilgrim, who came over with Governor Winthrope, is said to have been an especially gifted and godly man. This same George Phillips was a son of Christopher Phillips, of Norfolk, Eng- land, and was graduated from the college at Cambridge. His salary as the first pastor of the church at Watertown, Massa- chusetts, was three hogsheads of meal ; one hogshead of malte ; four bushels of Indian corn ; one bushel of oat-meal ; and fifty pounds of salt fish. He also had thirty acres of land. Ilis wife died soon after their arrival on these shores, and he (George Phillips) married Elizabeth, who was probably the widow of Captain Robert Welden; and his family in all con- sisted of nine children. One of his sons, the Rev. Sammel Phillips, had eleven children, and his (George's) daughter, Elizabeth, who married the Rev. Edward Payson, had twenty children.
The founder of the Long Island family was Zerobabel,
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