Military Operations in Eastern Maine and Nova Scotia during the Revo lution; 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." VOL. XXI. 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 80 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 flampshire, 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 1815. The manufacturing interests early engaged their attention, and for some time prior to 1815, 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 mechanism 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 on 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." INDEX OF NAMES. 378, 381' 41, 281. Ainson, 9 Ada Beiden,'23; 48, 50, 208. 380 Bolter, 3507 Archer, 278 Bland, 316 Blaney, 277, 278 Arnold, 107, 202, 265, 376 Batchelder, 1, 186, 293 Blessing, 15 Bateman, 34, 354, 355 Bliffins, 66 Ashley, 157, 160, 342, 368 261, 336, 338, 370 Blomefield, 12 Battell, 192, 193, 381 Blood, 372, 373, 374,387 Battles, 295 Blue Jacket, 339 Baty, 215 Blunt, 79, 191 Baxter, 45-47, 59 Blyth, 367 Bodwell, 321 Baylies, 39, 246-248 Boen, 277 Boesy, 131 Bogardus, 386 234, 286, 370 Boies, 353 Bointon, 229 Beeby, 251 Bolsugler, 78 Beecher, 318 B Belcher, 46, 48, 50, 208, 380 Bolton, 226 Belden, 232, 235, 236 Boltwood, 37, 317-319 Belknap, 85, 134, 140, 224, Bonaparte, 374 Bond, 89-91, 199, 251, 270, Bell, 1202, 1205, 181, 204 377 Bonnet, 367 Boone, 381 Booth, 63, 64, 160, 175, 254, 255, 257, 347 Baker, 26-29, 32-34, 62, Benham, 166, 191, 331, 336 Boscawen, 253 Boswell, 5 Bennett, 44,74,177, 226, 319 Botts, 115, 280 Benson, 227 Boulter, 84 Bourne, 215, 371, 375 Bentley, 188 Bouton, 86, 143 Benton, 349 Boutwell, 37, 1209, 282 Bergenroth, 386 Bowditch, 149, 278 Bowdoin, 60, 186, 209 Bowen, 42, 66, 67, 382 Beza, 376 Bower, 213 Bowes, 382 Bowles, 14, 74 Bowman, 199, 244, 368 Boyd, 198, 351 270, 317-321, 326, 327' Bigelow, 78, 104, 1209, 183, Boyle, 42, 382 199, 251, 295, 372 Boylston, 146, 199 Boynton, 229, 285 B II, 91, 211, 212, 385, 386 Bracket, 132, 138, 380 Billings, 232, 234, 2 Bradbury, 92, 204, 261 Braddock, 252, 254 Bradford, 60, 70, 148, 209, 246, 251, 328, 387 Bradlee, 78, 106, 107, 285, Bishop, 178, 180, 181, 303 370, 384 Bradley, 234, 373 Bixby, 20, 213, 220 Bra tridge, 367 Bradstreet, 328 Bragdon, 377 355, 387 Bragy, 65 Blackstone, 5 Bragshael, 131 Braman, 248 Blake, 99, 124, 163, 164, Brand, 217 Bartlett, 65, 75, 156, 232, 245, 270, 271, 275, 286, Branker, 331 Blanch, 277 Brattle, 209, 353 Blanchard, 73, 102, 234, Bray, 51, 52, 53 Breck, 235, 284, 318 Brent, 28 Choate, 10, 11, 1203, 251 Coomes, 277 Christionsen, 128, 130 Cooper, 11, 24, 44, 60, 120,3 146, 172, 173 Copland, 368 Copley, 208, 387 Copp, 71 Corbis, 230 Clament, 129 Corden, 368 Campbell, 71, 144, 189, Clapp, 79, 149, 164, 166, Corey, 66, 204, 258 342, 376, 382 183, 244, 269, 272, 275, Corliss, 60, 387 276, 293, 330, 335, 336, Cornell, 265 Cornet, 225 Clarendon (Lord), 101 Cornwallis, 252 Clark, 2, 21, 47, 62, 78, 79, Corser, 300 Capen, 167, 270, 276, 335, 181, 194, 195, 203, 215, Corwin, 75 337, 338 222, 240, 277, 286, 325, Cossins, 47 333, 342, 349, 353, 365, 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 Cousins, 47 Carter, 232, 234, 235, 299, Clay, 0, 87, 116, 194, 378 Coverly, 382 333, 372 Claypole, 177, 178 Cowdery, 310 Cleary, 282 Cowen, 367 Cowles, 207, 234 Cleaves, 226 Cowley, 326 Case, 19, 126, 220, 221 Clement, 129, 336 Cowling, 367 Clench, 216 Cradock, 144, 270, 286 Crane, 38, 60, 91, 172, 183, Clifford, 3, 186, 236 284 Clinton, 197 Crittenden, 1205 Clopton, 217 Crocker, 300 Caverley, 381, 383 Clough, 2, 232, 278 Crommit, 137 Cloutman, 132, 137, 277 Cromwell, 91, 92, 132, 135, Cloyes, 16 177, 178, 264, 297, 380 Coan, 280 Cropper, 367 Chadbourne, 70, 85, 86, Cobb, 14, 79, 212, 328, 347, Crosby, 342 143, 176, 198 370, 379 Cross, 387 Crossman, 226, 227 Croswell, 81 Crowell, 247, 322 Coddington, 181, 251 Crowne, 380 Crowninshield, 370 Cruft, 79 Coffin, 156, 188, 251, 313 Cadworth, 249, 250 Cuff, 226' 301, 373, 374 Cummings, 39, 66, 185 Channing, 375, 376 Cogswell, 242, 388 Cummins, 79 Coke, 5, 95 Cunningham, 176 | 199, 200, 204, 237, 285, Curtin, 75 Curtis, 21, 29-31, 35, 75, Colby, 1, 115 79, 186, 218, 237 Curwin, 52 Charles (King), 77, 230, Cole, 67, 157, 161, 213, 227, Cushing. 38, 60, 74, 106, 358, 367, 380 132, 140, 191, 192, 251, 295, 348, 369, 270, 381 Coleman, 281, 368 Cushman, 281, 347 320, 366, 370 Collicott, 274–276, 329, 335 Cutler, 42, 51, 199, 231, 318, 319, 370 Collier, 278, 368 Cutt, 209 Chauncy, 46, 60, 144, 147 Collins, 14, 219, 300 Cutter, 183, 285, 369 Cutting, 199, 370 Cutts, 204, 208 Conant, 76, 155, 167, 225, 227, 228, 369 Daboll, 79 Cone, 187 Daggett, 38 Dailey, 74 Dallas, 101 Dalton, 188 363, 382 Converse, 177, 361 Dame, 132, 141 Cook, 15, 103, 107, 231, Damon, 321 235, 266, 281, 295, 300, Dana, 238, 322, 328, 387 380 Danforth, 209 Cooke, 274, 276, 335 Daniel, 265, 278 Daniels, 129 Coolidge, 75, 90, 98, 199, Danielse, 130 "Danielsen, 129, 130, 131 Dante, 10 Flanders, 230, 233 Fletcher, 8, 75 Flint, 46, 48, 240 Flood, 335, 336 Ely, 302 Fobes, 183, 228–228 Emanuel, 367 Foeer, 336 Emerson, 41, 55, 241, 279, Foley, 91 282, 292, 325 Folsom, 251 Douglass, 105, 184 Emery, 3, 4, 39, 244, 247, Fonda, 130 327 Fookes, 335 Emmet, 254 Foot, 152 Emmons, 103, 156, 238 Forbes, 317 English, 278 Ford, 166, 168, 226, 227, 272, 273, 277, 329, 330, 332-337, 369 Foreman, 256 Forsyth, 9 Fort, 130 Esty, 15, 16, 20, 369 Fosdick, 1209 Eustis, 186' Foss, 141 Evans, 141, 288, 350, 366 Foster, 34, 71, 94, 219, 221, 277, 326 Everett,'6, 11, 12, 39, 104, Foulsom, 230, 233 106, 113, 114, 117, 1202- Fowke, 189 358 | 184, 196, 238, 240, 243, Fowler, 14, 93, 114, 231, Duncan, 167,275, 333, 334, 244, 286, 295, 301, 325, 247, 248 336, 337 370 Fowley, 210 Fox, 145, 148, 245, 351, 372, 373, 388 Foxcroft, 40, 51, 209 Foxwell, 35 Francis, 14, 48 Frankland, 44 F Franklin, 8, 43, 187, 288, Durfee, 160, 196, 242, 317 Fairbanks, 106, 1368, 376 Fransen, 129 Frazier, 375 Frederick, 282 388 Frederick (King), 305 Freeman, 38, 39, 151, 155, 213–215, 239, 244, 246, 337, 365, 381 Farnsworth, 300, 373 247, 289, 319, 835 Farnum, 21 French, 2, 17, 20, 70, 80, Farquhar, 256 82, 103, 108, 117, 160, 166, 228, 229, 232, 233, Farrar, 31, 183, 384, 385 276, 371-373 Frost, 71, 74, 79 Fay, 237, 282, 293 Frothingham, 42, 43, 150, 237, 238, 241, 282, 301, 261, 280 325, 375 Eaton, 41, 56, 93, 1205, 348 Fellows, 229, 237, 375 Froude, 297 Eddy, 64, 66, 150, 156, 161, Felt, 36, 39, 199, 247, 270, Fry, 225, 270, 276, 284, 300, 347 Felton, 149 Fuller, 14, 43, 74, 77, 78, Fenn, 367 96, 128, 199, 250 Edgerly, 132, 137 Fenwick, 237, 255 Fulton, 96 Funda, 130 Fessenden, 103, 105, 110, 191, 206, 293 Gael, 131 Edson, 225-228, 347 Field, 71, 72, 126, 225, 226, Gage, 151, 248, 270, 296, Edward (King), 13, 61, 210, 228, 239, 240, 248, 347, 324, 387 287 366 Gale, 236, 281, 324, 386 Gallaudet, 70, 285 Fifield, 230 Gallop, 124, 166 Filer, 271, 273, 270, 330, Gannet, 154 332, 334-337 Gardiner, 34, 35, 150, 216, Filley, 176 287, 365, 376 Fillmore, 10, 115, 204 Gardner, 92, 117, 1203, Finotti, 295 126, 152, 184, 220, 277, 1 324, 352, 367, 371 Garland, 140 Eliot, 41, 44, 45, 48, 154, Fisher, 34, 39, 204, 281, Garnett, 255 Garrett, 75 Fiske, 14, 78, 162, 199, 251, Garvey, 285 Elliot, 178, 367 Gates, 141, 252-256, 339, 372, 373 Gay, 191, 285, 320 327, 384 Fitz, 18, 20, 222, 322 Gaylord, 166-168, 175, 271 Flagg, 18, 199 -274, 334-338 |