ARMSTRONG, GEORGE WASHING

TON of Boston, Mass., b. Aug. 11, 1836 (m. 1st, Dec. 10, 1868, Louise Marston of Bridgewater, N. H., who died Feb. 17, 1880, 2nd, Dec. 12, 1882, Flora E. Greene, daughter of Dr. Reuben Greene of Boston, ch. Mabelle, Louise, d. 1876, Ethel), was organizer and is president of the Armstrong Transfer Company of Boston, is interested and actively engaged in the management and construction of railroads, and director in various corporations; only son of David of Boston, b. at Windham, N. H., Nov. 8, 1806, d. at Boston, Mass., Sept. 14, 1851 (m. Mahala Lovering, b. Feb. 10, 1810, dau. of John and Elizabeth (Winslow) Lovering of Loudon, N. H., she a lineal descendant of Edward Winslow, governor of Massachusetts in 1633); eldest son of Robert of Windham, N. H., b. April 6, 1779, d. Aug. 21, 1849 (m. July 21, 1803, Alice Park, b. May 22, 1775, d. Nov. 10, 1830, dau. of Alexander and Sarah (Maxwell) Park of Windham); eldest son of David of Windham, b. June 11, 1747, d. June 21, 1836 (m. Jan. 8, 1775, Elizabeth Hemphill, b. Oct. 22, 1753, d. Jan. 2, 1839, dau. of Robert and Eleanor (Clark) Hemphill), signer of the Association List in 1776; youngest son of Deacon John of Windham, b. in County Londonderry, Ireland, 1713, d. at Windham, N. H., May 6, 1795 (m. Janet Wiley, d. at Windham, Oct. 12, 1776), he was a pioneer of the Scotch settlement of Windham, N. H.,

was active in religious and secular affairs and a signer of the Association List in 1776; only son of Charter Robert of Londonderry, N. H., b. in County Londonderry, Ireland, an early settler and proprietor previous to June 21, 1722, in Londonderry, N. H., and one of those to whom the charter of the town was given. (His ancestor emigrated from Scotland among the numerous members of the clan of Armstrong who found a home in the North of Ireland. Their home in Scotland was near the English border in the towns of Canonbie, Castleton and other contiguous places. The most noted chief of the race was Gilnockie Armstrong, the Robin Hood of the Border, whose stronghold, a stone structure called the Hollows Tower, is still in existence.) TWATER, EDWARD E. of New Haven, Conn., grad. Yale College 1836, ordained pastor First Cong. Church, Ravenna, Ohio, 1841 (m. Rebecca H. Dana of Pomfret, Vt.), author of Descendants of David Atwater one of the First Planters of New Haven, History of the Colony of New Haven, and editor of History of the City of New Haven; son of Elihu of New Haven, b. at Cedar Hill, now Hamden, Conn., Dec. 1, 1786, d. Jan. 3, 1875 (m. 1st, Oct. 20, 1811, Julia Thompson, 2nd, Sept. 22, 1819, Betsey Tyler); son of Jared of Cedar Hill, b. Sept. 24, 1758, d. Feb. 28, 1813 (m. Eunice Dickerman); son of David of Cedar Hill, then East Farms, Conn., b. Sept. 15, 1723 (m. 1st,

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Nov. 25, 1746, Elizabeth Basset, who was the mother of his children, 2nd, Mrs. Abiah Cooper); son of Joshua of East Farms, b. Jan. 25, 1686, d. Jan. 29, 1773 (m. Nov. 22, 1721, Anna Bradley); son of David of East Farms, b. July 13, 1650, d. Jan. 10, 1736; son of David, bp. Oct. 8, 1616, came to America with his sister Anne and brother Joshua in company with John Davenport and Theophilus Eaton; son of John of the parish of Lenham, County of Kent, England (m. Susan -). On the probate records at Canterbury the family of the emigrant can be traced as owners of land at Lenham as far back as 1484. Hasted in his History of Kent says they removed thither from Ospringe in the same county.

BARTOW, EVELYN P. of Providence,

R. I.; son of Edgar John, b. at Fishkill, N. Y., April 29, 1809 (m. 1st, Nov. 13, 1838, Harriette Constable Pierrepont, who died July 6, 1855, 2nd, Oct. 4, 1860, Caroline Gamble), president of the Chelsea Paper Company, Norwich, Conn., the largest at that time in the country, one of the originators of the Union Ferry Company and caused the bridge leading to the Wall Street Ferry to be built at his own expense, founder of the Church of the Holy Trinity, and connected with the origin of all the important institutions of the city of Brooklyn; son of Augustus of Fishkill, N. Y., b. at Westchester, N. Y., 1762, d. at Fishkill, Jan. 18, 1810 (m. 1780 Clarina Bartow, his second cousin), held several public offices of local interest, such as assessor, etc.; son of John of Pelham Manor House, Westchester county, N. Y., b. 1740 at Westchester, d. 1816 at New York city (m. Nov. 1761 Mary, dau. Barnardus Ryder of Bayside, Flushing, N. Y.), vestryman of St. Peter's Church, Westchester, lived in wealth at the Manor House of his grandfather, Lord Pell; son of Theophilus of Westchester, b. Aug. 17, 1711, at Westchester (m. Bathsheba, dau. of Thomas Pell, lord of the Manor of Pelham, Westchester county, N. Y.), vestryman of St. Peter's, Westchester; son of Rev. John of Westchester, b. at Crediton, Devonshire, England, 1672, d. at Westchester, Feb. 9, 1726 (m. at Freehold,

N. J., Feb. 17, 1705, Helena, dau. of Hon. John Reid), grad. at Christ College, Cambridgeshire, 1692, curate Pampisford, Cambridgeshire, 1694, vicar May 28, 1697, sent to America by the Ven. Propagation Society, 1702, founder and first rector of St. Peter's Church, Westchester, 1702-26; son of Doctor Thomas of Crediton, Devonshire, bp. at Awliscombe, 1636 (m. Grace physician, his dau. Mary m. Dr. John Hoskins, one of the earliest surgeons in Guy's Hospital; son of Peter of Awliscombe, Devonshire, bp. there July 9, 1609 (m. Elizabeth -), engaged in the wars in the troublous times of Charles I, on the Royalist side, was heavily fined but pardoned by the joint action of the House of Lords and Commons, and was a man of wealth and influence; son of Peter of Awliscombe, formerly of Ottery St. Mary, buried May 21, 1619, at Awliscombe (m. April 30, 1598, Alice Borrough, dau. of John and Alice); supposed son of General Bertaut of Brittany, France.

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ATTERSON, JAMES GOODWIN of Hartford, Conn., A. M. Yale, (m. June 2, 1851, Eunice Elizabeth Goodwin), architect and sculptor, and HERMON GRISWOLD, Philadelphia (m. Oct. 16, 1866, Sarah Eliza Farnum), rector of St. Clements and the Church of the Annunciation, Philadelphia, author, poet, priest, his works on church music are well-known; sons of Simeon Seeley, b. March 22, 1797 (m. May 28, 1820, Melissa Roberts); son of George (m. Mary Seeley of Weston, Conn.); son of George of Fairfield, Conn. (m. Mary Oysterbanks, of Welsh descent), who with his brother William, are the first of the name found in Connecticut, and supposed to have came from Scotland; son of James of Scotland.

BEEKMAN, GEORGE CRAWFORD,

lawyer, residing at Freehold, Monmouth county, N. J., b. at Middletown in said county, July 2, 1839, grad. Princeton Coll., 1859, receiving degrees of A. B. and A. M., studied law with Joel Parker, the wellknown war governor of New Jersey, and was licensed, by the supreme court of New Jersey, as an attorney in 1863, and as

counselor three years later, began practice of law at Freehold, where he has since remained, appointed commissioner of supreme court, and master and examiner of chancery of New Jersey, appointed by Gov. Randolph and confirmed by senate of New Jersey law or president judge of the county courts of Monmouth county, N. J., in 1869, served as such for three years, was a delegate from New Jersey to the democratic convention at St. Louis, which nominated Mr. Tilden for president in 1876, was elected senator of New Jersey from Monmouth county in 1878, and served the term of three years in State senate, drew and secured passage of several important general laws, such as existing bribery laws in New Jersey, and advocated and voted for reform measures passed by New Jersey legislature in 187981 (m. Nov. 6, 1878, Laura B. Alston, dau. of Abraham D. Alston and granddau. of David Alston, b. on Staten Island, N. Y. History of Alston family appears in Clute's History of Staten Island. Has three children by this marriage, Alston, Anna C., and Jacob Ten Broeck); son of Rev. Jacob Ten Broeck of Middletown, Monmouth county, N. J., b. April 10, 1801, at Harlingen, Somerset county, N. J., d. April 23, 1875, at Middletown, Monmouth county, N. J. (m. Feb. 12, 1833, Ann Crawford, dau. of George Crawford, b. at Middletown aforesaid, Feb. 22, 1801, and died there, in same dwelling where she had always lived, May 18, 1876), he graduated at Union College, Schenectady, N. Y., was licensed as clergyman of Dutch church by Seminary at New Brunswick, N. J., called to Reformed church at Holmdel, Monmouth county, N. J., preached there ten years, he also founded the Dutch church at Middletown aforesaid. By his efforts and contributions of his private means, the church edifice was finished in 1836, he also did much missionary work through Monmouth co., where he preached the gospel of Christ fifty years; son of Samuel Beekman of Harlingen, Somerset county, N. J., b. on the Beekman homestead, on River Raritan, Somerset county, N. J., September 21, 1766, d. March 4, 1850, at Harlingen, Somerset county, N. J. (m. 1786, at Harlingen, N. J.,

to Helena Ten Broeck, youngest dau. of Hon. Cornelius Ten Broeck and his wife Margaret Louw, b. at Harlingen, N. J., Jan. 26, 1768, d. on the homestead where born and always lived, Feb. 15, 1855), Samuel Beekman was collector of Montgomery township, Somerset county, N. J., 1819-20, captain of a militia company in Somerset county, N. J., served as deacon and elder of Dutch church at Harlingen, N. J., he was well known in Somerset county, N. J., and respected as an upright man, whose word was his bond, and faithful in all things; son of Samuel Beekman of Beekman homestead, on River Raritan, Somerset county, N. J., b. Nov. 26, 1729, on Beekman homestead aforesaid, d. Oct. 19, 1808, on Beekman homestead aforesaid (m. Dec. 5, 1765, Elizabeth, dau. of Samuel Waldron and his wife Anne Delamater, of Newtown, Long Island, b. Jan. 29, 1744, d. April 7, 1806), Samuel Beekman left a last will which was admitted to probate in Somerset county aforesaid; son of Martin Beekman, or as sometimes spelled Beeckman, of Beekman homestead, on River Raritan, Somerset county, N. J., b. 1685, at Schodack on Hudson river, New York, d. Oct. 27, 1757, at Beekman homestead aforesaid (m. June 21, 1724, at Harlem, N. Y., Elizabeth, dau. of Samuel Waldron and his wife Neeltje, dau. of Capt. Frans Jansen Bloetjoet of Flushing, L. I., Samuel Waldron was the son of Resolved Waldron of Harlem, N. Y., Elizabeth his dau., b. in 1700, d. Nov. 27, 1760); son of Hendrick Beeckman of Schodack on Hudson river, N. Y., prior to 1710, b. at Albany, N. Y., date unknown, d. prior to 1735, at Beekman homestead, on River Raritan, N. J. (m. 1685, Annetje, dau. of Pieter Quackenbush and Maritje, his wife), in 1685 he was firemaster of Albany and resided there until 1697, Octavo Coenradts, a merchant of New York city, deeded to above-named Hendrick Beeckman, a tract of 250 acres on River Raritan, Somerset county, N. J., Nov. 13, 1710, this deed and land still (1888) remains in the family; son of Marten Hendrikse Beeckman of Albany, N. Y., d. prior to June 21, 1677 (m. Susanna Jans), came to America from Hamel waard, Hol

land, in 1638 and settled at Albany. He was a blacksmith by trade.

BLOOD, HENRY AMES of Washing

ton, D. C., grad. Dartmouth College, author of the History of Temple, N. H., has passed greater part of his life in Washington, D. C., connected with Department of State (m. Oct. 19, 1880, Mary E., dau. of Col. Ephraim Flint Miller, collector of the Port of Salem, Mass., granddau. of Gen. James Miller of Peterboro, N. H., concerning whom see preface to Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter, Medallic History of the United States, etc., and a lineal descendant of Hon. Thomas Flint, a first settler of Concord, Mass.); son of Ephraim Whiting, b. at Temple, N. H., July 26, 1799, d. at Temple (m. 2nd, Lavinia, dau. of Capt. Jacob Ames, formerly of Hancock, N. H., a desc. of Jacob Ames, who m. Ruth Shattuck, also, through the wife of David Ames, her grandfather, from John Morrison, who d. 1775 at Peterboro, N. H., aged 98, also from the Wallaces and Mitchells of Londonderry and Peterboro, N. H., also from Robert Reynolds of Boston, the Whitneys and Shattucks of Watertown, also from Richard Blood and Capt. James Parker of Groton, Mass. -as did her husband through his grandmother Spalding—also, through her mother Milly Symonds, from John Cummings and his wife Sarah Lawrence, a lineal descendant of John Lawrence of Wisset in Suffolk, Eng., and Watertown and Groton, Mass.); son of at Temple, March 6, 1779 (m. 1798 Martha Whiting, dau, of Oliver Whiting, a desc. of John Whytynge, a mayor of Boston, Eng., and of Rev. Samuel Whiting, first minister of Lynn, Mass., 1635); youngest son of Gen. Francis of Concord, Mass., and Temple, N. H., b. March 18, 1735, d. Oct. 1814 (m. Elizabeth Spalding, a desc. of Edward Spalding, a first settler of Chelmsford, Mass., also of Richard Blood, a first settler of Groton, Mass., and of the distinguished Capt. James Parker of Groton, who d. 1701), Gen. Francis Blood was a lawyer, councillor and holder of many posts of trust in New Hampshire during and after the Revolutionary war; son of Stephen of Concord, b. Feb. 22, 1703 (m.

His sons

on Feb. 3, 1690); son of Robert of Concord, d. Oct. 27, 1701, at Concord (m. 1653 Elizabeth, dau. of the celebrated Major Simon Willard, sister of Rev. Samuel Willard, who bp. Benjamin Franklin and was pastor of the Old South Church, also vice-pres. of Harvard Univ., and one of whose grandsons became pres. of Harvard University); son of James of Concord, 1638, supposed to have come from Derbyshire, England, and d. Dec. 17, 1683. Robert and John sold an estate in Ruddington, Nottinghamshire, England, in 1649. This genealogy is based on facts found in the Whiting-St. John Memorial; Butler's Groton; Hazen's Billerica; Blood's Temple, N. H.; Drake's Boston; Walcutt's Concord in the Colonial Period; Shattuck's Concord, Mass.; New Eng. Hist. and Genealogical Register, vols. iii, p. 120, xiv, xv, xvii, xxiii, p. 488, xxvi, xxviii; Chester Genealogy, vol. xxii; Parton's Life of Franklin; Savage's Gen. Dict., vol. i, p. 507; Spalding Genealogy; Abbott Genealogy; Morrison Genealogy; Willard Genealogy; Palfrey's New England, vol. ii, p. 38, note; Cooke's Life of Emerson; Dana's American Cyclopedia, art. "Henry VII;" Burke's Extinct Peerage, 1883, p. 33; Coolidge and Mansfield's New England, vol. i, p. 664.

TIMOTHY DIX of Washington, D. C., grad. Dwight School, Boston, 1864, U. S. Naval Acad., 1869, ensign, 1870, master, 1872, lieutenant, 1875, at Smithsonian Inst., b. Oct. 31, 1847, at Boston (m. at Baltimore July 14, 1880, Caroline A. Carroll, desc. from Daniel Carroll the Signer); and FRANK BOLLES of Cambridge, Mass., grad. Columbia Law School, 1878, Harvard Law School, 1882, associate editor Boston Advertiser, secretary Harvard College, 1886, secretary Har. Univ., 1887, b. Oct. 31, 1856, at Winchester, Mass. (m. Elizabeth Swan of Cambridge); son of John A. of Boston, b. at Ashford, Conn., April 16, 1809, d. at Washington, D. C., May 11, 1878 (m. Nov. 11, 1834, Catherine Hartwrell Dix, dau. of Col. Timothy Dix)