Military Operations in Eastern Maine and Nova Scotia during the Revolution; chiefly compiled from the Journals and Letters of Col. John Allan. With Notes and a Memoir of Col. John Allan. By FREDERIC KIDDER. Albany: Joel Munsell, 1867. 8vo. pp. 336.

Little has heretofore been known of the military operations, during the Revolutionary war, in the eastern section of our country; and the importance of those operations has hardly been suspected. To most of the readers of this book, it will be matter of surprise that documents like these have so long been overlooked. The master spirit of these operations was Col. John Allan. Had it not been for his forethought, perseverance and self-denial, it is not unlikely that the Penobscot or some more western line would now be the boundary between the United States and New Brunswick. It was his exertions that attached the great majority of the Passamaquoddy and St. John Indians to the cause of the revolted colonies, and prevented them from yielding to the offers of our enemies. Had they joined the British, they could have devastated our more eastern settlements; and the country having been taken possession of by the English forces, could never have been recovered by us.

The greater portion of the documents here given are comprised within four years, from 1775 to 1778, though some bear date twenty years later. Nearly all of them are by the actors in the events themselves, and most of them are by Col. Allan. His Journal, extending from May 11, 1777, to Jan. 28, 1778, gives a minute diary of his proceedings during those eight months and a half.

A large map, compiled by Mr. Kidder, shows the country between the Penobscot and St. John rivers, and "delineates most of the localities referred to by Col. Allan, particularly the route passed over by him and his Indian tribe in the retreat from Aukpaque to Machias, as detailed in his journal."

The volume bears evidences of untiring industry on the part of the compiler, who has been several years in collecting the materials. It is certainly a valuable addition to the history of our revolution. It also contains much original matter relating to the history of the four remaining tribes of Indians who still inhabit Maine, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. We believe that it will be welcomed by every lover of original American history, and that it will be admitted to deserve a place in every good library.

The book has an excellent index, filling sixteen closely printed pages, which we do not hesitate to recommend as a model for such compilations. It was prepared by Rev. John A. Vinton, of South Boston, who has had much experience in this kind of labor.

The edition, we understand, is a small one, and those who desire the work should secure it early.

Sawin: Summary Notes concerning John Sawin, and his Posterity. By THOMAS E. SAWIN. Wendell: published by the Author. Athol Depot: Rufus Putnam, Printer. 1867. pp. 48.

An honest and painstaking attempt to trace the genealogies of the Sawins in America. More than 1300 names are recorded, yet the author supposes that twice that number still remain to be obtained. Incomplete, however, as the work of necessity is, it bears on every page the marks of that indefatigable antiquarian research and faithfulness, which those only who have devoted the best hours of their lives to genealogical studies can appreciate. We heartily thank Mr. Sawin for this contribution to the history of our New England families, and hope that some member of the Sawin race will accept the offer in the preface, and complete the investigations which the author has thus far, at the expense of so much time and labor, generously made.

Faith White's Letter Book, 1620-1623. Plymouth, New England. Boston: Henry Hoyt.

1866.

This book is written in a lively and agreeable style, and is remarkably well printed, thus doing credit to the excellent house from which it emanates. Had the author, however, studied Morton, Prince, Winthrop and others a little more carefully, we should have had greater veri-similitude and fewer anachronisms in the work. But whatever we may think of the history, the moral is excellent. We hope the author will read Mary Powell," " Margaret Smith's Journal," "Lady Huntington and her Friends," the " Amber Witch," and then "try again." 35

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The Hopes of Hope Castle, or the Times of Knox and Queen Mary Stuart. By MRS. S. T. MARTYN. American Tract Society, 150 Nassau Street, New York. pp. 359.

A well-written, well-printed book-portraying some of the celebrated characters of the eventful times of the great Scottish Reformer, and conveying a most salutary lesson as to the power of simple trust and hope in God. Mrs. Martyn seems to have studied well the period which she describes, and her pictures in the main are drawn with historic verity. Mr. N. P. Kemp is the agent for the above named Society's publications in this city.

History of the City of Elgin [Illinois]: its scenery, residences, churches, schools, business blocks, manufactories, banking institutions, trade, &c. &c. From the Chicago Republican, March 16, 1867. Chicago: 1867. 8vo. pp. 41.

We have been much interested in this pamphlet. The reading of it brings up personal reminiscences. Thirty-two years ago, in the month of August, anno domini 1835, we were standing at the steamboat landing in Cleveland, Ohio, a beautiful town, situated on Lake Erie, and then and there saw them freighting a steamboat for Chicago, at that time an infant settlement of a few hundred inhabitants. The influx of people to that now famous city was so sudden and so great that it was feared unless an immediate supply of food, or its materials, was secured, there would be danger of starvation there. The steamer, therefore, was being loaded with barrels of flour, at fourteen dollars per barrel, with other provisions to supply the pressing wants of a people who are now so multiplied that their exports are sufficient to furnish a large part of the world with the staff of life. In that very year, Elgin, now a city of some 5000 inhabitants, was founded. James T. Gifford, from Yates County, N. Y., with his younger brother, Hezekiah, still a respected citizen of Elgin, on the 16th of April, 1835, stuck their stakes and made their claims." The country had not been surveyed, and the Indians were still possessors of the soil. There were feeble settlements, then, at what is now Batavia, Napiersville, Dixon and Galena. Mrs. Hezekiah Gifford, now living, was for six weeks the only white woman in Elgin. The Giffords were soon joined by their brothers, Asa and Abel, and other settlers; among them the Kimballs, from New Hampshire, arrived. Events follow; the first birth, the first marriage, the first death occurs. On the two former occasions the entire population are joyous, at the latter the whole settlement are mourners. The first school teacher, the first minister, the first lawyer, the first doctor, the first blacksmith, the first harness maker, and so on, are noted. In 1839, the charter for the Elgin Academy was obtained; the old brick school-house was erected in 1847. Robert Blenkiron, a graduate of Cambridge, England, became the first principal of the Academy. The first printing press was established there in 1845. The manufacturing interests early engaged their attention, and for some time prior to 1845. Elgin was the third manufacturing town in the State of Illinois. In 1837, Hezekiah Gifford planted the first apple tree, and in 1840, at an agricultural fair, took the first premium for apples, no competitor, it is said, having appeared against him. The facilities of railroad communication to the different points were effected, which added to the growth of the town, so that its progress has been rapid, and it is now a place of much importance. The great wonder of the West, the National Watch Company's manufactory, is here established. A minute account of its operations and its mechan ism is given in the pamphlet before us. It is an offshoot from the American Watch Company at Waltham, Mass., but with works, according to the description, much improved. They are quite extensive. The "National Watch" is claimed, by its friends, to have, in itself, superior improvements over every other time-keeper in the world. At Elgin, also, is the Milk Condensing Company, a great establishment, where the process, also, of condensing coffee, and the extract of beef, is carried en largely. The manufacture of jellies from all kinds of fruit is soon to be an important branch of their operations. The North-western Chemical Works, the Butt Company, and other establishments are actively engaged, and are doing a thriving business. In closing this already protracted notice, we would just refer to the cemetery, where one of our respected correspondents," Mr. J. B. Newcomb, the city sexton, has been to the pains of locating the resting place of nearly every person interred there, and has prepared a survey of the grounds, and an expensive original register, from which, were every monument and mark obliterated, it would be easy to locate every grave."

Bland, 316
Blaney, 277, 278
Plenkiron, 390
Blessing, 15
Bliffins, 66
Bliss, 38, 196
Blomefield, 12

Blood, 372, 373, 374, 387
Blue Jacket, 339
Blunt, 79, 191

Benham, 166, 191, 331, 336 Boscawen, 253
Benjamin, 367

Bennett, 44,74,177,226, 349 Botts, 115, 280

270, 317-321, 326, 327 Bigelow, 78, 104, 1209, 183,

Binney, 91, 287
Bird, 271

Bishop, 178, 180, 181, 303
Bissell, 175, 387
Bixby, 20, 213, 220
Black, 377

Barry, 19, 74, 79, 248, 319, Blackburn, 208

Blake, 99, 124, 163, 164, Brand, 217
245, 270, 271, 275, 256, Branker, 331
202-294, 366, 381

Blanch, 277
Blanchard, 73, 102,
285, 381

337, 338

Carleton, 299

Carlin, 70

Carlton, 1208

Carnew, 367

Brochael, 129

Carr, 14, 231

Brockway, 71

Carrroll, 184

Bromfield, 382

Carter, 232, 234, 235,

Bronson, 311, 368

Index of Names.

Calhoun, 9, 194, 288
Callender, 181

Callecott, 274-276, 338

Brett, 226, 228

Brew, 367

Brewer, 1, 207

Briant, 347

Calvert, 367

Camberlain, 8

Bridge, 52, 199, 295

Camp, 1208

Bridges, 16, 367

Bridgham, 188

Brewster, 286, 387

Bride, 290

Bridgman, 43

Brigham, 317

Briggs, 14, 64, 105,

114, 1204, 225, 265,

Bright, 199, 251
Brimmer, 104

Bump, 226

Brinckle, 110

Brinley, 286

Briscoe, 90, 199

Britton, 277

Campbell, 71, 144, 189, Clapp, 79, 149, 164,

342, 376, 382

Candler, 204

113, Canney, 132, 138, 142
370 Cannon, 265, 266

Canedy, 157, 160, 348, 349

Canute, 13

183, 244, 269, 272,
276, 293, 330, 335,
380, 382, 383

Clarence (Duke of), 87

Clarendon (Lord), 101

Coomes, 277

Cooper, 11, 24, 44, 60, 120,3
146, 172, 173

Copland, 368
Copley, 208, 387
Copp, 71
166, Corey, 66, 204, 258
Corbis, 230
Corden, 368
275, Corliss, 60, 387
336, Cornell, 265

Cornet, 225
Cornish, 226
Cornwallis, 252

Capen, 167, 270, 276, 335, 181, 194, 195, 203, 215, Corwin, 75

Clark, 2, 21, 47, 52, 78, 79, Corser, 300

222, 240, 277, 286, 325, Cossins, 47
333, 342, 349, 353, 355, Cottington, 277
356, 366, 370
Cotton, 179, 251, 258

Clarke, 14, 38, 84, 85, 93, Coulseh, 367

155, 197, 198, 200, 204, Courthorpe, 287
209, 252, 274, 276, 295, Cousin, 183
296

299, Clay, 9, 87, 116, 194, 378

Davis, 37, 38, 41, 65-68, Dove, 217

75, 84, 125, 126, 133, Downies, 353

185, Downing, 36, 107, 110, 251, Endicott, 36, 242, 352, 380 Force, 145, 264, 325

354-Drake, 39, 40, 43, 46, 48, Enno, 333

Emmons, 103, 156, 238

Deane, 91, 92, 173, 199, Dryden, 91

200, 204, 221, 249, 270, Duane, 204

Evans, 141. 288, 350, 366

281, 296, 328, 330, 349, Dudley, 74, 125, 200, 388 Everard, 251
383, 386

Everett, 5, 11, 12, 39, 104. Foulsom, 230, 233
106, 113, 114, 117, 1203-Fowke, 189
120, 153, 156, 167, 183, Fowle, 74, 79, 183
184, 196, 238, 240, 243, Fowler, 14, 93, 114, 231,
244, 286, 295, 301, 325,
247, 248
Fowley, 210

Durfee, 160, 196, 242, 317 Fairbanks, 106, 251, 291, 368, 376

Demick, 333, 335, 336, 338 Eames, 1207, 288

Farmer, 39, 40, 145, 154, Frederick (King), 305

Farrar, 31, 183, 384, 385
Farsaidh, 180

Fay, 237, 282, 293

Eaton, 41, 56, 93, 1205, 348
Eddy, 64, 66, 150, 156, 161,
196, 199, 251, 326, 376
Edes, 42, 300

Derby, 43, 144, 277, 370, Edgar, 8, 254

Felt, 36, 39, 199, 247, 270, Fry, 225, 270, 276, 284,

Fessenden, 103, 105, 110,

Field, 71, 72, 126, 225, 226, Gage, 151, 248, 270, 296,

228, 239, 240, 248, 347,

198, Eerts, 131

Gale, 236, 281, 324, 386
Gallaudet, 70, 285
Gallop, 124, 166

Filer, 271, 273, 276, 330, Gannet, 154
332, 334-337