Judge Dewey was twice married: first, to Frances A. Henshaw, daughter of Hon. Samuel Henshaw, May 16, 1820, at Northampton, Mass. She died July 20, 1821. Their son, Francis Henshaw Dewey, was born July 12, 1821. He married Nov. 2, 1846, at Northampton, Frances Amelia Clarke, only daughter of John and Prudence (Graves) Clarke. She died March 13, 1851. They had one child, Fanny, born Sept. 17, 1849, died next day. Francis H. Dewey married, 2d, Sarah Barker Tafts, only daughter of Hon. George Aaron and Azuba (Fales) Tafts, in Boston, April 26, 1853. Their children are, Fanny Clarke, b. Feb. 11, 1854, d. Aug. 20, of the same year; Caroline Clinton, b. Dec. 18, 1854; Francis Henshaw, b. March 23, 1856; John Clarke, b. May 19, 1857; George Tafts, b. Sept. 12, 1858; Sarah Frances, b. Sept. 15, 1860; Charles, b. April 12, 1862.

Judge Dewey married, 2d, Caroline Hannah Clinton, at Newburg, New York July 28, 1824. She died May 21, 1864. Had children: James Clinton, b. Nov. 25, 1825, d. Dec. 23, 1832; Caroline Betts, b. March 26, 1827, m. Daniel Wells Alvord, of Greenfield, Mass., June 7, 1859 (their children are, Charles Dewey, b. March 26, 1860; James Church, b. Jan. 24, 1862; Mary, b. Oct. 9, 1863; Clinton, b. Nov. 9, 1865). Charles Augustus, b. Dec. 29, 1830; Mary Clinton, b. Nov. 5, 1832; Edward James, b. Nov. 5, 1832, d. May 4, 1836; Henry Clinton, b. Dec. 8, 1834, d. April 18, 1836; Maria Noble, b. Sept. 15, 1837; George Clinton, b. Dec. 6, 1840. This youngest son contracted the ship fever while in the United States service in the hospitals at New York, early during the war, and went home, where he died, April 17, 1864. His malady proved contagious, and Mrs. Dewey, exhausted with the care of her son, died four days after, from the effects of the same disease. This double affliction proved a heavy blow to Judge Dewey, and it is probable that he never entirely recovered from the great bereavement. He continued, however, to discharge his appointed duties as usual, and attended his last session of court in Boston, in the winter of 1865.

DWIGHT, Theodore, a corresponding member, died at Brooklyn, N. Y., Oct. 16, 1866, aged 70; from injuries received at the Jersey City depot of the Camden and Amboy Railroad. He was son of Hon. Theodore and Abby (Alsop) Dwight, and a nephew of the celebrated Timothy Dwight, President of Yale College. He was of the seventh generation in descent from John, of Dedham, Mass., through Timothy, Nathaniel, Timothy, Timothy," Theodore. His mother was a native of Middletown, Conn. His grandmother, Mary, who married Timothy Dwight, was a daughter of the elder President Jonathan Edwards, whose daughter Esther married Rev. Aaron Burr, the father of Vice President Aaron Burr. His father, Hon. Theodore Dwight, was formerly a member of Congress from Connecticut. He published, in 1833, a history of the Hartford Convention, of which he was the Secretary. He edited the Albany Daily Advertiser, which he commenced in 1815. In 1817, he established the New York Daily Advertiser, and was the author of a work entitled The Character of Thomas Jefferson, as exhibited in his own writings. Boston: 1839, 12mo. See Allibone's Dictionary for the mention of other works. He died June 11, 1846, aged 81.

Theodore, the son, was born in Hartford, Conn., March 3, 1796. At the age of fourteen he entered Yale College, where he graduated in the class of 1814. Before graduating he had resolved to study theology, and to devote his life to preaching the Gospel. But this project was frustrated, for shortly after commencing his theological course he was attacked with hemorrhage from the lungs, and was ordered by his physician to stop all study and go abroad. He visited Great Britain in 1818, where he spent a year. In 1821 he again went abroad, and this time visited the greater part of Europe. On his return he wrote his first book, entitled A Tour in Italy in 1820 and '21. In conjunction with William Darby, he edited A New Gazetteer of the United States, published at Hartford, in 1833, 8vo. In 1841, his History of Connecticut, 16mo., pp. 450, appeared; and in 1847, Summer Tours; or Notes of a Traveller through some of the Northern and Middle States. He was also the author of a volume entitled, The Roman Republic of 1849; with accounts of The Inquisition, and The Siege of Rome, and Biographical Sketches. With original Portraits. New York: 12mo. pp. 240.

In 1833, Mr. Dwight went to Brooklyn, to abide, and for the many years that he was a resident in that city he took a deep interest in its institutions. In the origination and organization of the public schools he was one of the principal movers. He was engaged in several magazines and periodicals, and at one time was publisher and editor of the New York Presbyterian. Through the greater part of his life he was accustomed to write for the leading daily and weekly papers, and for the best periodicals. He was a highly cultivated man, being familiar with most of the lanVOL. XXI.

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guages now spoken, conversing with great ease in French, Italian, and Portuguese, besides Greek and Hebrew. He was also conversant with German and Arabic. For the last year or two he had been much engaged in translating some of our useful books into Spanish, with a view of introducing them into Mexican families, a Society having been previously organized for Propagating the Gospel in Mexico. He was a member of various scientific and philosophical societies, the Ethnological Society of New York and the Long Island Historical Society, of Brooklyn, being among them. He was invited to read a paper before the latter Institution, and consented to give his reminiscences of the early scientific men of Brooklyn and New York and of their labors there. This was the paper which the members of the Association had expected to listen to, from his own lips, on that very night appointed to be read, when his bereaved brethren and associates met to pay their heart-felt tributes to his memIt was anticipated that the paper would have been one of rare interest and value. The copious notes and memoranda on the subject, which he had partially prepared, covered a period of more than thirty-five years.

ory.

He was an earnest student through life. With a frame physically weak, his mind was nevertheless vigorous, and he followed his favorite branches of science and literature with great assiduity. "The study of natural science," he once remarked, "seemed to him like a grand hymn to the Creator."

Mr. Dwight was a genial, earnest and devoted friend, parent and Christiancheerful, contented and trustful.

He married Ellen Boyd, of New York, by whom he had five daughters and one
Their daughter, Ellen, married Capt. Charles H. Kennedy, of Virginia.
He was made a corresponding member of our Society in 1859.

son.

PROCEEDINGS.

Boston, Wednesday, December 5, 1866.-A monthly meeting was held this afternoon, Hon. George B. Upton, Vice President for Massachusetts, in the chair.

John H. Sheppard, A.M., the librarian, reported donations during the month as follows: eleven volumes, forty-nine pamphlets and a number of manuscripts.

Rev. Henry M. Dexter, the corresponding secretary, reported letters accepting membership from Rev. E. W. Allen, of West Haverhill, Mass., and Charles A. Ranlett, Jr., of New York, as resident; and from George R. Howell, of Southampton, L. I., as corresponding.

William B. Trask, the historiographer, read biographical sketches of Thomas Chadbourne, M.D., of Concord, N. H., a life member; and of Hon. James Humphrey, M.C., and Rev. Jonathan Greenleaf, both of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Rev. Henry Steele Clarke, D.D., of Philadelphia, Pa., and Hon. Elijah Hayward, of McConnellsville, Ohio, all corresponding members, who have recently deceased. The latter gentleman was the honorary vice president for his State.

The Directors nominated one candidate for resident membership, who was balloted for and elected.

Frederic W. Sawyer, of Boston, then read a very interesting and instructive paper on the History of the Marshpee Tribe of Indians. He claimed for it a place as an independent State among the nations of the earth. It appears that the tribe early conveyed Marshpee to the Plymouth Colony, and then in 1685 took back a deed, under which it was stipulated that they should never sell any part of Marshpee to the white man, without the consent of all the tribe. They hence hold as a tribe all Marshpee, about twenty-four square miles in extent. According to their historian's account they are quite a people, having a country wonderfully stocked with fish and game-the oldest church and the most famous trout stream in the country-and having had, too, their rebellion, when they tipped up the carts of the whites, and achieved their independence. They now elect their own officers and govern themselves. The number of the Marshpees, a few years since, was stated by Mr. Sawyer to be only between two and three hundred. At the present time the number is 402. The Marshpees have been a very peaceful tribe, there being no more crime among them than among the same number of their white brethren around them. Their property averages two-thirds as much as the average of our race in the State.

The thanks of the Society were voted to Mr. Sawyer for his valuable paper, and a copy of it requested for the Society.

It has been estimated by Mr. Drake, the well-known historian of the Indians, that the whole number of the Indians in New England at the time of King Philip's war

might have been about 15,000. The number at the present time in New England is not probably over 1,500 in all, and but a small portion of these are of purely Indian blood. The Stockbridge tribe and some others, in addition to the Marshpees, make up this number.

Boston, Wednesday, January 2, 1867.-The twenty-second annual meeting was held at the Society's rooms, No. 13 Bromfield street, this afternoon at three o'clock, the president, Hon. John A. Andrew, LL.D., in the chair.

The librarian reported donations during the last month of 11 bound volumes and 263 pamphlets, various newspapers, portraits and photographs. The additions to the library during the past year are 292 bound volumes, 1701 pamphlets, besides manuscripts, maps, photographs and newspapers. The whole nuinber of bound volumes in the library is 7365; pamphlets, 23,207.

The Board of Directors nominated five candidates for membership, namely four resident and one corresponding, who were balloted for and elected.

Rev. E. F. Slafter, chairman of the nominating committee, reported a list of candidates for officers for the current year, all of whom were unanimously elected.* On the announcement of the result of the election, the president delivered the address, which is printed in full in the preceding pages.

The report of the treasurer, William B. Towne, showed that during the past year the ordinary receipts had paid the ordinary expenses, leaving a balance in the Treasury - that the permanent funds had been increased $510, principally by Life memberships, and now amount to $4,741.40, mostly invested in Government securities.

William B. Trask, the historiographer, reported that during the past year twenty-two members had deceased, memoirs of most of whom had been prepared. William B. Towne, chairman of the trustees of the Barstow Fund-which consists of $1000, given to the Society in 1862-3 by the late John Barstow, of Providence, R. I. a year or two before his decease, the income of which is devoted to the binding of books, reported that 230 volumes had been bound from the income of this fund during the past year, leaving a balance of $116.80 of the income unexpended.

Hon. Charles B. Hall, one of the trustees of the Towne Memorial Fund, reported that the income has accumulated during the past year, and the fund now amounts to $1,215.93. The purpose of the income of this fund, in accordance with the wish of the donor, is to publish a memorial volume of deceased members when the Society shall deem it expedient.

Col. A. D. Hodges, chairman of the Trustees of the Bond Fund, a valuable legacy received in 1859, from the late Henry Bond, M.D., of Philadelphia, reported that there was $179.82 on hand, derived from the sale of the Genealogies and History of Watertown.‡

Besides the directors in the list of officers at the end of this number, the board consists of the following directors, ex-officio namely, the president (Hon. John A. Andrew, LL.D., of Boston), the past presidents (Rev. Joseph B. Felt, LL.D., of Salem, Hon. William Whiting, A.M., of Roxbury, Samuel G. Drake, A.M., of Boston, Col. Almon D. Hodges, of Roxbury, and Winslow Lewis, A.M., M.D., of Boston), the secretaries (Rev. Edmund F. Slafter, A.M., and Edward S. Rand, Jr., A.M., both of Boston), the treasurer (William B. Towne, of Brookline), the historiographer (William B. Trask, of Dorchester), the librarian (John H. Sheppard, A.M., of Boston), the chairmen of the several standing committees, viz.: John Ward Dean, of Boston, Frederic Kidder, of Boston, Jeremiah Colburn, of Boston, William Reed Deane, of Brookline, and William II. Whitmore, of Boston.

†The payment of thirty dollars by himself or others will constitute any resident or corresponding member of the Society a life member thereof, and entitle him, without further expense, to all the rights of a resident member during life.

This fund consists of the proceeds from the sale of Bond's Genealogies and History of Watertown, the balance of the edition of which in sheets, was bequeathed by the author to the Society (Register XI. 274; XIV. 1-3; and cover Oct. 1859). The money received from the sales is to be invested, and the income used for the purchase of local histories and genealogies. The book is a thick octavo, of 1094 closely printed pages, with portraits and maps. Besides the historical matter, which is interesting and valuable, there are genea logies of a great number of families. The following are some of the larger genealogies: Allen, Barnard, Bemis, Bigelow, Briscoe, Bond, Bowman, Boylston, Bridge, Bright, Browne, Chester, Child, Coolidge (Wigglesworth), Cutler, Cutting, Dix, Easterbrook, Eddy, Eyre, Fiske, Flagg, Fuller, Goddard, Goldstone, Gove, Hagar, Hammond, Harrington, Harris, Hastings, Hoar, Hubbard, Hyde, Jennison, Jones, Kimball, Lawrence, Learned, Livermore, Mason, Mixter, Morse, Norcross, Oldham, Park, Parkhurst, Peirce, Phillips (White, Abbott, Jewett, Spooner, Tillinghast, Quincy, appendices to Phillips), Saltonstall, Sanderson, Sanger, Sherman, Smith, Spring, Stearns (Stone, Talbot, Bellows, Johnson, Redington, Sparhawk, Newcomb, Pratt), Stone, Stratton, Tarbell, Thornton, Upham, Warren, Wellington, White, Whitmore, Whitney, Whittemore, Woodward and Wyman.

Some of these are fuller than most of the Genealogies published separately in book form, and many of them are brought down to the present time. Members and others, who feel that the Society is accomplishing a praiseworthy work, can aid it by helping the sale of this book. The price is $5, which is probably less than its cost to the author.

The report of the Library Committee was made by Jeremiah Colburn, chairman. The report of the Finance Committee was made by F. Kidder, chairman.

The report of William R. Deane, chairman of the Committee on Papers and Essays, showed that thirteen papers had been read at the monthly meetings during the past year, several of which had been published.

The Committee on the preparation of Biographies of deceased members, reported that the work was in progress, and it was believed that at no distant day the Society would have within its archives Biographies of all or nearly all its deceased members. The report of the Publishing Committee was read by the secretary in behalf of John Ward Dean, chairman, stating that in addition to other publications the twentieth volume of the New England Historical and Genealogical Register had been completed, and one number of the twenty-first volume has been issued, since the last annual meeting. The work has been edited by Rev. Elias Nason, and the business of publication has been conducted by the Treasurer, both of whom have gratuitously contributed their services. The number of subscribers is only about six hundred.

In order to place the Register upon a permanent foundation, it is the intention of the Committee to make an effort for its increased circulation during the present year.

Augustus Thorndike Perkins, in behalf of William H. Whitmore, chairman, read the report of the Committee on Heraldry. During the last year the "Heraldic Journal" has thrown new and important light upon the genealogy and heraldry of the Washington, Hutchinson, Dudley, Norton, Lowell, Temple and other families. The Committee intend to continue the publication, and it is hoped the members of the Society will continue to aid the enterprise by furnishing the Committee with examples of the early use of Coats of Arms in this country. The volume for 1867 will be edited by William S. Appleton.

On motion of Dr. Winslow Lewis, the thanks of the Society were voted to the President, ex-Governor Andrew, for his elegant, learned and appropriate address, and a copy was requested for the archives of the Society.

The thanks of the Society were also voted to Rev. H. M. Dexter, D.D., for his services as corresponding secretary, he now retiring on account of the pressure of other duties.

The thanks of the Society were also voted to other retiring officers.

Boston, February 6.-A monthly meeting was held this afternoon, Winslow Lewis, M.D., in the chair.

The librarian reported the donations since the previous meeting, viz., 57 volumes and 86 pamphlets.

The historiographer read biographical sketehes of several deceased members, namely, Rev. William Jenks, D.D., LL.D., of Boston, honorary; Col. Samuel Swett, of Boston, and John S. Howard, of Chelsea, resident; and Hon. Samuel Ames, of Providence, R. I., and Two Stickney, of Manhattan, Ohio, corresponding.

Rev. Edmund F. Slafter, the corresponding secretary, reported letters accepting resi dent membership from George S. Hale, George W. Simonds, and Austin L. Pease, of Boston; Samuel C. Clarke, of Newport, R. I., B. W. Harris, of East Bridgewater, John E. Horr, of Brookline, Albert L. Richardson, of Woburn, and John P. Towne, of Edgarton, Wis.

The Directors nominated nine candidates for resident membership, who were balloted for and elected.

Rev. Joseph Allen, D.D., of Northborough, Mass., read before the Society a paper containing biographical notices of members of the old Marlborough Association, formed in 1725, and which had an uninterrupted existence of nearly ninety years, having been dissolved in 1814. This Association contained at first but seven members, the ministers of as many towns bordering on Marlborough, the geographical centre. It was subsequently much enlarged, embracing a territory now containing twenty-three incorporated towns, lying partly in Middlesex and partly in Worcester County. In 1762, we were told, a division took place, the eastern part, lying in Middlesex, retaining the name of the Marlborough Association, the western taking the name of the Worcester Association, of which the body that now bears that name is a lineal descendant.

Dr. Allen gave a picturesque description of the appearance of some of these worthies as he had seen them in the college yard on commencement days, dressed in the fashion of the times, standing in groups or walking with stately gait in search of their classmates and college companions, supported by silver or gold-headed canes, and with sil

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ver buckles for the instep and the knee. This was in the early part of the century, when he was a young man.

Some of the men whom he described were eminent in their profession, whose praise was in all the churches. Some had their foibles and faults; but most of them were men of integrity and sterling worth, with classical attainments which will compare favorably with the graduates of our best colleges at the present day.

As they were the ministers of towns, and not, as is now common, of small fractions of towns, their influence was felt through the whole community, and this power was exercised commonly for good and not for evil. Dr. Allen is engaged on a history of the Marlborough Association.

On motion of Hon. Charles Hudson, the thanks of the Society were voted to Dr. Allen, and a copy requested.

David Pulsifer exhibited a copy of the 1624 edition of Capt. John Smith's History of Virginia, and made some extemporaneous remarks with regard to the story of Pocahontas's saving the life of Capt. Smith, which has been recently questioned by one of our well-known historians. Mr. Pulsifer thinks sufficient grounds of doubt have not been found, and that the statement which has stood so many years unquestioned should still be believed.

BOOK NOTICES.

History of North Bridgewater, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, from its first settlement to the present time, with Family Registers. By BRADFORD KINGMAN, Boston: Published by the Author. 1866. 8vo. pp. 696.

Some writer has defined History as "Philosophy teaching by examples." We prefer to define it as a Record of the Government of God, a development of his purposes towards his creatures. In this view, we rejoice in the multiplication of histories of all sorts-civil, ecclesiastical, and even military. In particular, we welcome the appearance of a new Town History, if well planned and executed, especially if it have the advantage, as this has, of a thorough Index: an adjunct, which no history of any kind should ever want.

It

The volume, whose title we have copied, comes nearer than almost any other which we have seen-and we have seen many-to the true idea of a Town History. It gives a pretty full and correct idea of what sort of place North Bridgewater has been, and what it is now; what sort of people have lived in it, and what they have done. goes further; it tells you what people have lived there, it gives you their individual names. The book has many and great excellencies:-we suppose it has faults, also, but if so, we have not found them:-but the great and crowning excellency is, the coThe want of these has been a very serious defect in many of pious Lists of Names. our Town Histories. The first thing sought by one who is moved to consult a Town History, is to know what has been transacted in or by the Town; the next thing is to know who were the actors. It is not enough to give us a few of the eminent names which have figured in the history of a town; we wish a more full disclosure. We want the names of all the passengers in the May-flower. We wish to have the names of all the Freemen of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay. How many wearisome, yet pleasant hours have we spent in ransacking the Muster Rolls of the Old French War, and of the Revolution! How precious to future generations will be a complete list of all who perished in that infamous den at Andersonville! We thank our author, therefore, and the men of North Bridgewater in time to come, if not now, will thank him for his very full Lists of Names. For instance, he has given a list of Graduates, p. 133; of those who have been on the School Committee, p. 115; of those who have served the town in various civil capacities, p. 197; of military officers, p. 210; of inhabitants taxed at various times, making almost a complete list of all who have lived in the town, pp. 211216; and of those who were in the military or naval service of the United States during the late war for suppressing the Rebellion, pp. 249-288. This last especially is a record of which any town should be proud. The portion of our national history just referred to will be invested in future times with an interest of which we now can have but a faint conception.