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Other Important Features of Volume IV will be literal transcripts of the Vital Records of Plymouth, Barnstable, Bridgewater, Dartmouth, Duxbury, Eastham, Halifax, Harwich, Marshfield, Middleborough, Plympton, Scituate, Yarmouth; and of Plymouth Wills and Deeds and Barnstable Wills. Volume IV begins with January, 1902. Subscription, $2.00 per year, in advance. Bound Volumes, $3.00 each. Single numbers, 50 cents. Covers for binding Vols. I, II and III, 50 cents each. SPECIAL OFFER TO NEW SUBSCRIBERS. $6.50 Vols. I, II and III, each bound in linen, and $8.00 if Remittance must accompany the order. Address, GEORGE ERNEST BOWMAN, Editor, 623 Tremont Building, Boston, Mass. THE TUTTLE COMPANY, II and 13 Center Street, Rutland, Vermont. Established 1832. GENEALOGIES AND TOWN HISTORIES, under the supervision of an expert proof reader and genealogist. COMPOSITION, PRESSWORK, BINDING at less than city prices. Correspondence solicited. References given and required. 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Communications may be addressed and contributions sent, as heretofore, to JOHN WARD DEAN, Editor of the REGISTER, at the Society's House, No. 18 Somerset Street, Boston, Mass. JOHN T. HASSAM, Chairman. DAVID CLAPP & SON, PRINTERS, 291 CONGRESS ST., BOSTON. Editor, HENRY ERNEST WOODS. CONTENTS-JULY, 1902. Illustrations: 1. Portrait of JOHN WARD DEAN (to face page 223). 2. BRAINTREE (with BOCKING), ENGLAND. Three views (to face page 271). I. MEMOIR OF JOHN WARD DEAN, A.M. By Deloraine Pendre Corey, Esq. Thomas Bellows Peck, Esq. V. GEORGE GRAVE, OR GRAVES, AND HIS DESCENDANTS. (Continued.) . Com. by Dr. Bernard C. Steiner Shepard, Esq. IX. CHURCH Records at StoneHAM, MASS. (Continued.) Bucknam, Esq. 289 X. NOTES ON THE SANFORD FAMILY OF PORTSMOUTH, R. I. By Almon Danforth 294 XI. SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES ON THE JOHNSON FAMILY. Com. by Dr. Bernard C. 297 XII. MEMOIR OF EDWARD INGERSOLL BROWNE, A.M., LL.B. By Edwin Hale Abbott, XIII. A BRANCH OF THE CASS FAMILY. By William Stowell Mills, LL.B. XV. MARRIAGES FROM THE ALMANAC DIARY, 1761-1764, OF REV. SAMUEL CHANDLER XVI. NOTES AND QUERIES: Notes. Harlakenden, 319; Peabody, 320. Queries. Clark; Gridley; Dorr; Franklin; Miscellaneous, 321; Ring; Replies.-Bailey, 322. Historical Intelligence.-Old Kittery, Me., 322; Bernardston, Mass.; Wor- Entered at the Post Office in Boston, Massachusetts, as second-class mail-matter. Committee on Publication. C. B. TILLINGHAST, CHARLES KNOWLES BOLTON, EDMUND DANA BARBOUR. FRANCIS EVERETT BLAKE, DON GLEASON HILL, |