of many children, and had been married twenty years." We have the authority of Gov. Winthrop, that a sister of Mrs. Hutchinson married a Scott, whom Callender says was Richard. From the foregoing there would seem but little doubt of the existence of such a woman as Katharine Marbury, and that she was a sister of Ann Hutchinson. The first Joseph Scott known in New England (according to Savage) was son of Benjamin, of Braintree, born in 1644, six years after the marriage of Katharine Marbury. The next Joseph Scott was of Newport, admitted a Freeman in 1731, Sheriff of Newport County and Deputy in 1745. The first Joseph Scott of Providence, from any thing I can find to the contrary, was the great-grandson of Richard, born in 1697. It is evident Katharine Marbury could not have married a Joseph Scott. Did she marry Richard Scott? Savage quotes Bishop as authority, that she did; and we have the same authority that Mary Scott, who married Christopher Holder, was daughter of Richard, and Katharine Scott, who received from her father, as her marriage dower, the Island of Patience in Narraganset Bay, the deed of which is recorded in the office of the Secretary of State at Providence. Mr. Staples, in his Annals of Providence, says: "The first person in Providence who adopted the principles of the Friends, is stated by tradition to be Richard Scott; he was one of the early settlers of the town; at first he joined the Baptists, but he remained with them but a short time. His wife Catharine and two daughters, Patience and Mary, were also among the first members of the Friends Society." The ancient records of the Friends in Newport has this entry : "Katharine Scott, aged about 70 years, the widow of Richard Scott, of Providence. She departed this life in Newport, the 2d of 3d month, 1687." Richard Scott died about 1679. She probably was passing her widowhood with her daughter Hannah, wife of the then Quaker Governor, Walter Clark-and this leads me to refer to letters of Roger Williams, intimating that the wife of Richard Scott, before her death, had renounced the tenets of the Quakers, and in this connection, a letter of Richard Scott, written about 1676 (see "A New England Fire Brand Quenched'), says of Roger Williams, "I have beeu his neighbor these 38 years." Roger Williams wrote Gov. Winthrop, Oct. 2d, 1660: “ My neighbor, Mrs. Scot, is come home from England,* and what the whip at Boston could not doe, converse with friends in England, and thear arguments, have in a great measure drawn her from the Quakers, and wholly from their meetings." Subsequently in a letter to Gov. Coddington, Williams says, "Scott was a great entertainer of Quakers against his wife's conscience (intimating that Quakers had become offensive to her), no small persecution-though one of them formerly a sufferer." Although warm friends for a time, it is known that a bitter feud existed between Roger Williams and Richard Scott during the latter part of their lives, hence great allowance should be made for what they wrote in the heat of religious controversy. I would suggest this Query to the Quaker readers of the Register: Would the Society of Friends have made the above record of the death of Katharine Scott at that early day, had she renounced their faith and doctrine? Cleveland, Ohio, Feb. 13, 1867. MARTIN B. SCOTT. THE LETTER "S." The Stationer, a London literary monthly, says: "Mr. Bell, the late proprietor of Bell's Messenger, was the person who originated the exclusive use of the round s in printed books. When this letter was first introduced it met with great opposition. As an instance of this may be noted the circumstance that Messrs. Gilbert having set up three sheets of a work for a late Bishop of Durham, in which the round 8 was used, were obliged to recompose them, as his lordship declined to sanction the innovation. The substitution of the s for the f was made in this country as early as 1804, as may be seen from a copy of Webster's Spelling Book published at Philadelphia that year. The old form of the letter was, however, in some instances used, as in a copy of Watts before me, printed at Sutton, Mass, as late as 1808.-WAYBridge. REMARKABLE LONGEVITY. Rev. William Williams, of Hatfield, died in 1741, in the seventy-sixth year of his age and the fifty-sixth of his ministry. His son, Dr. Solomon Williams, died in 1776, in the seventy-sixth year of his age and the fifty-seventh of his ministry. His son, Dr. Eliphalet Williams, died in 1803, in the seventy-sixth year of his age and the fifty-fifth of his ministry. His son, Rev. Solomon Williams, * There must have been some strong motive at this early period of long and uncomfortable voyages, to have induced a woman to leave her family and cross the Atlantic back and forth; may it not have been, to procure some bequest left by her father, or the father of her husband? and may not a will be found at Doctors Commons to confirm the fact? 16 VOL. XXI. died in 1839, in the eighty-third year of his age and the fifty-fifth of his ministry. His son, Deacon Eliphalet Williams, of Northampton, is living and is eighty-six. Mrs. Hannah Littlefield, now residing in East Winslow, has attained to the remarkable age of one hundred and five years. Her maiden name was Hannah Penney. She was born in Wells, Me., July 16th, 1761.-Ex. AN OLD TRIBE AND SINGULAR CUSTOM. The Narragansett tribe of Indians now number 58 males and 75 females, in all 133. They own in all about 3000 acres of land in the centre of the town of Charlestown, R. I. Part of the land is held by individual members of the tribe, and these grants are made in a singular manner. The council go with the grantee upon the lot proposed to be granted. After the lot is marked out and bounded, the council cut a sod, and place it upon the bare head of the grantee, and then, while he is upon the land and under the sod, they administer to him a solemn oath of allegiance to the tribal authority. ANCIENT ELECTRIC TELEGRAPHY. Sir Bernard Burke writes:-"I have just been reading Arthur Young's Travels in France,' second edition, published in 1794, 72 years since, by W. Richardson, Royal Exchange, London; and at page 79, vol. 1, I find an entry in Young's diary, dated October 16, 1787, which goes, I think, a great way towards establishing the fact that a French mechanic, one M. Lomond, had then, A.D. 1787, 79 years ago, in actual operation in Paris, an electric telegraph. Here is the passage to which I allude :—‘Oct. 16, 1787: In the evening to Mons. Lomond, a very ingenious and inventive mechanic, who has made an improvement in the jenny for spinning cotton. In electricity he has made a remarkable discovery. "You write two or three words on a paper: he takes it with him into a room and turns a machine enclosed in a cylindrical case, at the top of which is an electronometer, a small fine pith ball; a wire connects with a similar cylinder and electronometer in a distant apartment, and his wife, by remarking the corresponding motions of the ball, writes down the words they indicate; from which it appears he has formed an alphabet of motions. As the length of the wires makes no difference in the effect, a correspondence might be carried on at any distance. Whatever the use may be, the inven tion is beautiful.' Is it not possible that the poor French mechanic may have perished in the Revolution, and his mighty invention with him?" THE SOLDIER'S WIDOW. Sir Walter Scott has somewhere mentioned that the only time he ever saw Burns, the poet, there was in the room a picture suggested by the beautiful lines by John Langherne, in "The County Justice," given below. Burns was weeping over the picture and the poetry, and Scott, then a lad of fifteen, was the only person present who could tell where the lines were to be found. "Cold on Canadian hills or Minden's plain, DESCENDANTS OF MARTIN LUTHER. Catherine Luther, whose death was reported the other day from Leipsic, and of whom it was said she was the only traceable descendant of the great reformer, was hardly entitled to the dignity of being the last of her race. In the Austrian ministry of finance there is, or there was as late as November of last year, a subordinate clerk who bore the reformer's name, and was thought to be as immediately as Catherine the representative of the family founder. In addition to the particulars which made their way to the press in regard to Catherine aforesaid, the following may be interesting. At the beginning of this century but a single branch of the Luther family remained, and of that little is known. John Michael Luther, born 1763, lived at Erfurt until 1801; was a physician, and went abroad at the date last mentioned. Many years later the Luther-Verein at Erfurt made inquiry, and found at Stocken, in Bohemia, Joseph Charles Luther, a son of John Michael, who had settled at Stocken in 1811; married that year Anna Popischak, and subsequently had by her five children. The family was in the deepest poverty. Antony, the oldest boy, and the brightest of the group, was selected by a wealthy Protestant of Erfurt, and given schooling facilities; but proving brainless, was apprenticed to a trade. Catherine is understood to be a daughter of this Antony. The Vienna offshoot probably came from a brother of his.-N. Y. Independent, 23 Aug., 1866. * Martin Luther was the son of John and Margaret (Lindeman) Luther, and was born at Eisleben, Saxony, Nov. 10, 1483, and died 1546. MARRIAGES AND DEATHS. MARRIAGES. EVERETT DEARBORN.-In Boston, Mr. George H. Everett to Miss Helen M. Dearborn. The grandfather of the bride was the first male child born in the town of Wakefield, N.H., 1771. WAY FOBES.-In Paris, France, Nov. 29, Mr. Charles G. Way of Boston, and Lottie E. Fobes, daughter of Edwin Fobes of Roxbury. Mr. Bigelow the American minister was present at the ceremony. DEATHS. ADAMS, Dea. William, West Cambridge, Dec. 18, aged 77 years and 5 months. AIKEN, Hon. John, Andover, Mass., Feb. 11, aged 70 years. He was highly respected. He ALBRO, Rev. John A., D.D., West Roxbury, Dec. 20, aged 67 years. He was born in Newport, Rhode Island, Aug. 13, 1799. His father died while he was quite young, and the family soon after moved to Mansfield, Conn. Early in life he fixed upon the law as his profession, and completed his law studies at Litchfield, Conn., and was admitted to the bar. Very soon however his plans of life were changed, and he gave himself to the study of Theology, graduating at Andover in the year 1826. was ordained for the work of the gospel ministry at Middlesex Village, Chelmsford, in 1827, and after a few years removed to Fitchburg, to take charge of the Congregational church. In April, 1835, he was installed over the Shepard Congregational Church, Cambridge, and in April, 1865, he retired, through failing health, from the pastoral work, so that his ministry at Cambridge lasted just 30 years. He received the degree of A.M. at Yale College in 1827-the degree of D.D. from Bowdoin College in 1848, and the same from Harvard in 1851. AMEE. Gen. Josiah L. C., Boston, Feb. 4, aged 67 years. He was a native of Boston, and was in early life a sail maker, in which line of business his father was engaged for many years in this city. He entered the Massachusetts militia as a private, and went through the various grades until he became Brigadier General, which position he held with honor to himself and to the state. 1861, he was appointed Chief of Police of the city of Boston, and held that position with credit to himself and to the In satisfaction of the city authorities and the police for the space of two years. During the two or three latest years of the war he was in the United States service and held the position of Quartermaster, and was attached to Gen. Sheridan's command. Here, as in the previous positions he had held, he made hosts of friends, and performed his duties conscientiously and faithfully. He at one time held an office in the Custom House in this city. He was ever ready and willing to assist the unfortunate. APPLETON, Isaac H., M.D., Boston, Dec. 8, aged 77 years. APPLETON, Mrs. Mary T., wife of John Appleton, Boston, Nov. 12, aged 88 years. She was the daughter of the late Eben and Hannah Tuttle, of Salem, Mass. BARNICOAT, Capt. Wm., Boston, Jan. 21, aged 78 years. He was connected with the Boston Fire Department 40 years, 18 of which he held the office of Chief Engineer. Since 1864 he has been superintendent of the street lamps. BROWN, Rev. S. W., Groton, Ct., Nov. 9, aged 38 years. He was a graduate of Yale College, and greatly beloved by the people of his charge. CLAPP, Mrs. Ellen C., wife of Francis H. Clapp, and daughter of the late W. B. Fowle, of Boston; Detroit, Dec. 7, aged 38 years. COUSIN, Victor, in France, Paris, January, aged 76 yrs. For a sketch of the life of this distinguished philosopher see Men of the Time, in loco. CUTTER, Wm., Brooklyn, N. Y., Feb. 8, son of the late Hon. Levi Cutter of Portland, Me., aged 66 years. CRANE, Timothy Farrar, at the Edwards House in Southboro', Nov. 20, 1866, aged 23 years 9 months. He was a sou of Edward Crane, of Dorchester, President of the Boston, Hartford & Erie R. R., and was b. at Exeter, N. H., Feb. 8, 1843. His mother is a daughter of Hon. Timothy Farrar, formerly Vice President of the N. E. Hist. Gen. Society. He grad. at Yale College, in 1864, and since his graduation has been in the employ of his father who is engaged in completing several railroad enterprises. He was frank and manly, resolute in purpose, untiring in energy and possessed a genial, benevolent and social disposition. DOUGLASS, Rev. Nathan, Bangor, Me., Dec. 16. He was born at New London, Conn., in 1787, graduated at Middlebury College,. Vt., in 1813, and afterwards at Andover Theological Seminary. GARDNER, Benj. F., Charlestown, Mass., Nov. 28, aged 36 years, leaving a family. He was founder of the society known as the "Washington Associates." GLIDDEN, Gen. Erastus, Claremont, N.H., Nov. 14, aged 74 years. GUNNING, Mrs. Minnie S., wife of Prof. W. D. Gunning, Springfield, Mass., Dec. 6, aged 27 years. She was buried at Mount Auburn. HALE, Mrs. Sarah Preston, widow of the late Nathan Hale, Brookline, Mass., Nov. 14, aged 70 years. She was the daughter of the Rev. Oliver Everett and sister of the late Edward Everett. HART, Mrs. Miriam, Union, Me., Dec. 4, at the advanced age of 100 years, 3 months and 10 days. She was born at Sherburne, Mass., Aug. 24, 1766. She had a distinct remembrance of the fight at Lexington, where the first blood of the Revolution was shed, and of her father's taking his gun and going out to join the minute men. She and her husband were among the first settlers of Union, and endured all the labors and privations of pioneer life. HATCH, John, Capt., Falmouth, Mass., Dec. 8, aged 81 years. His highest joy was to render others happy. HAYNE, Gen. Arthur P., Charleston, S. C., Jan. 7, aged about 77 years. He belonged to the distinguished Hayne family of that State, being a grand nephew of Isaac Hayne, and a brother of Robert Y. Hayne, formerly governor of South Carolina. HAWES, Miss Charlotte P., Worcester, Mass., Dec. 6. She contributed frequently to the Atlantic Monthly, the Galary, and other periodicals. HERBERT, Capt. Samuel, Concord, N. H., Jan. 6, aged nearly 88 years. He was the oldest man in that city, and died in the house in which he was born. HOLBROOK, Hon. Amory, Oregon, Nov., aged 46 years. During his residence in Oregon for the past sixteen years, he otcupied a prominent position at the bar, in politics, and in social life. At the bar he ranked among the ablest lawyers. In politics he was a conscientious advocate of what he believed to be right, and as a citizen he was universally esteemed, not less on account of his urbanity of manner than his fast friendship and benevolence of heart. HOLMAN, the Rev. David, Douglass, Mass., Nov. 16. He was the oldest minister in Worcester county. JOHNSON, Levi, Winchester, Mass., Dec. 25, aged 83 years. JOHNSON, Cave, Clarksville, Tenn., Nov. 23, aged nearly 74 years. He was born in Robertson county, Tennessee, Jan. 11, 1793; was a lawyer by profession, earning a fair reputation at the bar, and for several years held the office of Circuit Judge. He was a member of Congress during the entire term of Gen. Jackson's administration, and in 1845 was appointed Post Master General in President Polk's cabinet. LEE, Henry, Boston, Feb. 6, aged 85 years. He was widely known as a writer on banking, cotton, tariff and other commercial questions, and was the unsuccessful rival candidate of Hon. Nathan Appleton in 1830, for Congress from Boston, upon the tariff and free trade issues. He received the electoral vote of South Carolina for the Vice Presidency at the reelection of President Jackson in 1832. MACTAVISH, Mrs. Emily, granddaughter of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, Baltimore, Jan. 26, aged 74 years. MARSHALL, John J., Framingham, Mass., Nov. 27, aged 66 years and 6 months. MASON, Andrew B., Medford, Mass., Dec. 25, aged 81 years. MERRICK, Hon. Pliny, Boston, Jan. 31, aged 72 years and 6 months. For almost half a century he had been a lawyer of great prominence, and for much of the time he was distinguished in politics. He was a Justice of the Old Court of Common Pleas, and in 1853 he was made an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, which position he resigned. He gave to the town of Brookfield, County of Worcester, his native town, the sum of Ten Thousand Dollars, to be appropriated for the establishment and maintenance of a Free Public Library; and has added to it the gift of his valuable miscellaneous library. To the Children's Friend Society in the city of Worcester, known as the Orphan's Home, he has also made a like bequest of Ten Thousand Dollars. MINOT, Charles, Somerville, Mass., of paralysis of the brain, Dec. 9, aged 57 yrs., formerly superintendent of the Boston and Maine and of the New York and Erie Rail Roads. NASON, Leavitt, Pepperell, Mass., Dec. 9, aged 84 years. He was the son of Nathaniel and Abiah (Hartshorn) Nason, of Walpole, Mass., and married Nancy Guild. He was the grandson of Thomas, and great-grandson of Thomas Nason, who m. Sarah Perkins of Ipswich, Mass. OSGOOD, Isaac Peabody, Esq., Roxbury, Jan. 12, aged 73 years. He was a grad uate of H. C., of the class of 1814, and one of the oldest members of the Suffolk bar. PECK, Hon. Lucius B., at Lowell, Mass., Friday, Dec. 28, 1866, at about 3 o'clock in the morning, aged 62. He was found in an insensible state three weeks previous at the Merrimac House. He was born at Waterbury, Vt., in 1804, being the son of Gen. John and Mrs. Ann (Benedict) Peck of W. and a grandson of John Peck (author of a Descant on Universalism, in rhyme, of which a number of editions have been printed), who was born at Rehoboth, Mass., Feb. 4, 1735, and died at Montpelier, Vt., Mar. 4, 1812. The family is descended from Joseph Peck, who came to this country in 1638, and is the ancestor of those of the name known as the Massachusetts Pecks. He entered the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, where he remained two years, and then studied law with Hon. Samuel Prentiss of Montpelier and Hon. Dennison Smith of Barre, Vt., and was admitted to the bar in 1826. He became a partner of Mr. Smith, and soon after his death he removed to Montpelier. He was a representative to Congress, 1847-51, and U. S. District Attorney for Vt., 1853-57. At his death, he was President of the Vt. and Canada Railroad, which position he had held several years. He was a democrat in politics, and once ran as a candidate for governor, but declined a renomination. He m. May 10, 1832, Martha, dau. of Ira Day of Barre. Mrs. P. died 12 or 15 years ago, leaving' one child, a dau., now Mrs. Wm. M. Mallory of Towanda, Pa. He was a man of few words, and owed his success at the bar more to a clear statement of his case than to fancy or wit. He was well grounded in the general principles of the law. RUTLEDGE, the Right Rev. F. A., Bishop of Florida, Tallahassee, Fla., Nov. 6, in the 68th year of his age and 44th of his ministry. He was a native of South Carolina, and the earlier years of his ministry were spent in that State. He was educated at Yale College. His father was the venerable Chancellor Rutledge. SARGENT, Emeline Augusta, in Centre ville (Barnstable), Dec. 18th, 1866, aged 19 years, 9 months, 27 days; eldest child of Aaron and S. Maria Sargent of Somerville. STEARNS, Jesse, New Ipswich, N. H., Nov. 18, aged 82 years, 2 months and 20 days. He was born in Ashburnham, Mass., Aug. 29, 1784; married Lucinda Davis, VOL. XXI. 16* of New Ipswich, N. H., June 6, 1811. His father, Isaac Stearns, was a sergeant in the Revolutionary army, and his grandfather, Hon. Isaac Stearns of Billerica, was a member of the Massachusetts Senate. Lucinda Davis, his wife, was born in New Ipswich, Feb. 19, 1791. They had seven children: Jesse George Davis, born in Ashburnham, Feb. 24, 1812; entered Amherst College 1832; graduated 1836; Principal of Hopkins Academy 1836-1838; entered Andover 1838; Tutor in Amherst College 1839 (two years); returned to Andover 1841; graduated 1842; ordained in Billerica, May 10, 1843. Emeline Lucinda, born Ashburnham, Feb. 16, 1814; married Rev. S. S. Tappan, of Boston, Nov. 4, 1835; died in Conway, N. H., March 27, 1850. Josiah Milton, born in Ashburnham, June 17, 1818; graduated at Mercersburg College, Penn., 1844; graduated at Lane Seminary; married F. McIntire, May 24, 1847; ordained at Lunenburg, Vt., June 6, 1849; died at Brentwood, N. H., June 12, 1853. Isaac Crosby, born at New Ipswich, N. H., Feb. 28, 1820; married Nov 27, 1845; is a farmer in Zumbrota, Minnesota, a member of the Legislature and a Trustee of the College recently founded in that State. Abigail Mary, born in New Ipswich, July 24, 1822; married Rev. Seneca Cummings, of Antrim, N. H., Oct. 28, 1847; missionary to China. Mr. Cummings died Aug 12, 1856. Lucy Estabrooks, born in New Ipswich, April 13, 1827; married Rev. Charles Hartwell, of Lincoln, Mass., Sept. 6, 1852, missionary to China. John Newton, born in New Ipswich, May, 24, 1829; married Feb. 9, 1854; Editor of Merry's Museum, Publisher of the National Temperance Advocate and the Youth's Temperance Banner; Past Grand Worthy Patriarch of the Sons of Temperance in Eastern New York, and now Most Worthy Patriarch of the order of the Sons of Temp. of N. America. (V. Kidder's Hist. N. Ipswich. STILL, Thomas, Sandgate, Vt., Dec. 19, at the remarkable age of 100 years and 6 months. SULLIVAN, Hon. George, at Pau in the South of France, on the 14th December, 1866, aged 83. He was born at Boston, 22 Feb. 1783, the sixth son of Gov. James Sullivan by his first wife Hetty, daughter of William and granddaughter of Judge Jotham Odiorne of New Hampshire. He graduated at Harvard College, in the class of 1801, of which he was the last survivor. After completing his studies for the bar, he accompanied, as Secretary, to Europe, Hon. |