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67. WILLIAM TRUMAN⁵ MURRAY (Truman⁴ Ichabod² Jehiel² Jonathan¹), the only surviving son of Truman and Cordelia Angeline (Gillett) Murray, was born at Watertown, New York, 13 September 1844; he died at Peoria, Illinois, 12 May 1924. He resided in Peoria.

He married, 12 April 1869, Julia C. Granger, daughter of Thomas A. and Julia A. (Hubbard) Granger. She was born at Champion, New York, 12 April 1846; she died at Peoria, Illinois, 29 May 1920.

Issue:

i.	William B.,⁶ b. 3 June 1874, at Bloomington, Ill.; he married, 4 Oct. 1913, Emma Ellen Randall, dau.
		of Charles Champion and Elvira (Barstow) Randall. They have no children. Mr. William B. Murray is the compiler of this genealogy.
ii.	George Granger, b. 29 Mar 1886; d. 2 Nov. 1894.

68. HENRY WALTER⁵ MURRAY (William Cogswell⁴ Solomon³ Jehiel² Jonathan¹), the son of William Cogswell and Sarah (Best) Murray, was born at Copake, New York, 29 November 1821; he died at Newark, New Jersey, 20 September 1873. He lived mainly at Newark.

He married, 14 December 1851, Julia Wade, who was born 4 June 1828, and died 17 August 1894.

Issue:

119.	i.	William,⁶ b. at Hillsdale, Columbia Co., N. Y., 14 Aug. 1862.
	ii.	Frank Punderson, b. 17 Nov. 1854; d. unm. 9 Dec. 1922.
	iii.	M. Alice, b. 27 Sept. 1856; unm.
	iv.	Julia Ellen, b. 14 Dec. 1862; d. 27 Apr. 1898; mar. 12 Sept. 1890 John Neal, b. 15 Sept. 1853, of
			Newark, N. J. They had issue (surname Neal): 1. Anna Virginia, b. 23 July 1891. 2. Evelyn, b. 22 Feb. 1893.
	v.	Martha Averill, b. 5 Apr. 1870; d. 5 Nov. 1884.

(To be continued)

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A GENEALOGIST'S BOOKSHELF

Through the kindness of the editor, Mr. Donald Lines Jacobus, of New Haven, Connecticut, we have been permitted to examine a copy of Mrs. Lillian Lounsberry (Miner) Selleck's One Branch of the Miner Family (1928), to which we gave an advance notice in the January issue of the RECORD. It is an admirable piece of work, as we expected it would be. Both Mrs. Selleck and Mr. Jacobus deserve only the highest praise for their work. Anyone interested in the families included (a list of these was given in the previous notice) will do well to examine the book carefully. One obvious criticism, and the only one, Mrs. Selleck has forestalled by stating in her preface that she has not given any references for assertions made, saying that the book was printed for private circulation. Quotations from various sorts of records are indicated in the usual manner, and, as the location of Connecticut and Long Island records are well known, further citations are not absolutely essential.

It is obviously impossible, in this brief note, to take up the various families dealt with in the volume. In many of the pedigrees original, unpublished wills are printed in full, such as the will of Oliver Manwaring, of New London (p. 124-26), and that of Richard⁴ Harris (d. 1751) (p. 112-13). The work on the Bryan family (six generations) is especially well done, as is that on the Rogers line (William Rogers, of Hempstead, L. I.), which compares very well with an article on the same family in the April (1929) issue of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record. Quite naturally the material relating to the Miner, Wood, Lounsberry, and Rogers family predominates.

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In Notes and Queries (London), May 4, 1929 (vol. 156, p. 315-16), there appears a list of passengers "aboard the John and Sarah of London John Greene mr. bound for new Ergland" in 1651. The names are those of Scottish (Cromwellian) prisoners sent to New England in bondage. These lists are valuable and many of them are now being published for the first time, supplementing to considerable extent Hotton's Original Lists (1874).

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Mary Lovering Holman has compiled The Marston English Ancestry with Some Account of the American Immigrants of the Name (for sale by George R. Marvin, 596 Atlantic Avenue, Boston, Mass., at $3.00 a copy), which supplements the Mars-

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ton genealogy published several years ago. In addition to the English pedigree (worked out by the late J. Gardner Bartlett, whose careful, painstaking work is so well known as to need no comment), there is "an account of the various Marston immigrants . . . William,⁵ Robert,⁶ Thomas⁶ William,⁶ and John,^" who settled at Hampton, N. H., and John⁶ and William⁶ of Salem, Mass., showing the inter-relations developed by the English work." * * * *

Mr. Reuben Littleton Philips, of Pauls Valley, Oklahoma, has published a short account of his paternal and maternal lines, entitled A Short History of the Philips-Yarborough Families. It is mainly a record of the descendants of Ruben Philips (1777-1856) and his wife Rebecca Watkins (d. 1850), who removed from South Carolina to Alabama early in the nineteenth century; and of Manoah Yarborough (1770-1836) and his wife Mary Cunningham (1778-1840), who removed from North Carolina to Alabama. These family records have a decided place in genealogical libraries, for they contain the records of our contemporaries, about whom material will be difficult to come by in another hundred years.

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It is proposed to publish The Vestry Book of Kingston Parish, Mathews County, Virginia, 1679-1796. Mr. C. G. Chamberlayne, R. F. D. No. 2, Richmond, Va., is undertaking the task of editing it. As Virginia records are so valuable and so scarce, comparatively speaking, it is hoped that sufficient advance subscriptions will be forthcoming to enable Mr. Chamberlayne to proceed with his venture.

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Mr. Henry Sylvester Jacoby has completed his work on the Jacoby family, and hopes to publish it this year. The work not only is a genealogy of the family named, but contains as well preliminary chapters on genealogical research as applied to the Pennsylvania Germans. It should be a valuable book. Mr. C. B. Jacoby, 42 West Elizabeth Ave., Bethlehem, Pa., has charge of the distribution of the book, which is priced at ten dollars.

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Col. Chas. E. Banks has published, through the Grafton Press, his long awaited book on the English connections of early Massachusetts emigrants. It is entitled: The English Ancestry and Homes of the Pilgrim Fathers, Who Came to Plymouth on the Mayflower in 1620, the Fortune in 1621, and the Little James in 1623. Frankly, the book is a great disappointment. Those of us who have known of Col. Banks'

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careful and painstaking work in the English archives have been eagerly hoping for the results of this work. The book really adds comparatively little to our knowledge. Moreover it is published at the absurd price of twenty dollars. The actual space occupied by letter-press would fill not more than two- thirds of the number of pages of the present volume, for frequently more than half a page is left blank, as a single page is devoted to the record of each individual or family, and in some instances there are not more than a half dozen lines of information available. The book exasperates one, for in many cases the writer says that "possibly a search" of such and such a parish record "would yield more information" regarding the family. It is a clue, to be sure, but a very slender clue, and one that requires the services of just such a genealogist as Col. Banks happens to be. We do not want to give the impression that we are belittling Col. Banks' work or knowledge, but we are disappointed in the book, and we do feel that the price is exorbitant.

QUERIES

     To CONTRIBUTORS: Anyone may submit queries to this department provided each query is accompanied by two cents in stamps. The following rules must be observed in submitting queries for publication:
     1. All queries must be plainly written, or typewritten, with dates carefully given, and signed with a name and address.
     2. Answers should contain proof of the information given, with reference to the place where that proof is to be found. They should be signed with the name and address of the contributor and sent to the Editor for publication.

STRATTON-AKIN: - Wanted, the ancestry of George W. Stratton, born somewhere in Massachusetts, lived at Quaker Hill, just outside of Pawling, Dutchess Co., N. Y., removed to Kinder Hook and died there. Also wanted the ancestry of his wife, Patience Akin, of New York, perhaps Johnstown. Their son George L. Stratton was born at Kinder Hook about March 3, 1832. - Mrs. Nathaniel Selleck, 368 Main St., Danbury, Conn.-

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JOHN MAXFIELD, OF SALISBURY, MASSACHUSETTS,
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS

Compiled by Elizabeth Wright, of Fairmont, Nebraska
(continued from vol. 7, p. 47, April, 1929)

28. ONESIPHORUS PAGE⁵ MAXFIELD (Currier⁴ Joshua³ Joseph² John¹), the son of Currier and Polly (Carr) Maxfield, was born at Bradford, New Hampshire, 18 May 1807; he died at Goshen, New Hampshire, 4 September 1874.

He married, 13 November 1828, Abigail H. Cutts, daughter of Charles and Abigail (Hurd) Cutts. She was born 22 [or 27] July 1809, and died at Newport, New Hampshire, 21 January 1896.

They had issue:

	i.	Sanders C.,⁶ b. 26 Dec. 1830; d. at Goshen, N. H., 20 [or 30] Oct. 1834.
	ii.	Marilla, b. 3 (or 9] Feb. 1833; d. 26 Mar. 1856; mar. 12 [or 15] July 1855 at Goshen, N. H., Ira Hurd,
			Jr., of Sunapee, N. H. He mar. (2) her sister, Francina Sophia, q. v.
42.	iii.	Russell, b. 7 Nov. 1836.
43.	iv.	Harvey Page, b. at Goshen, N. H., 29 May 1840.
	v.	Francina Sophia, b. at Goshen, N. H., 13 June 1842; d. at Newport, N. H., in Mar. 1908; mar. 6 Jan.
			1861, as his second wife, her sister's widower, Ira Hurd, Jr. (vide supra), by whom she had issue (surname Hurd): 1. Elber W. 2. Osmer. 3. Jennie. 4. Russell. 5. Lizzie. 6. Bertha I. 7. Eva E.
	vi.	Mary Jane, b. at Goshen, N. H., 11 Oct. 1843; d. at Newport, N. H., 20 June 1923; mar. 2 July 1862
			Benjamin F. Lear, by whom she had issue (surname Lear): 1. Perley H., b. 14 Mar. 1867. 2. Ada Belle, b. 17 Apr. 1871.
	vii.	Eda V., b. at Goshen, N. H., 22 June 1854; d. at Newport, N. H., in Mar. 1914; mar. 24 July 1874 John
			Quincy Emery, by whom she had issue (surname Emery): 1. Fannie, b. in May 1877. 2. Lester P., b. 5 Jan. 1884.

29. JONATHAN CARR⁵ MAXFIELD (Currier⁴ Joshua³ Joseph² John¹), son of Currier and Polly (Carr) Maxfield, was born at Bradford, New Hampshire, 17 February 1809; he died at Plover, Wisconsin, 2 September 1890. In 1844 he came West to Janesville, Wisconsin, and settled at Plover two years later.

He married, firstly, Judith Cheney, who was born 5 June 1805, and who died near Evansville, Wisconsin, 6 April 1846.

He married, secondly, 10 July 1847, Mrs. Anna (-------) Baker, a widow, of Evansville, Wisconsin. She died near Plover, Wisconsin, 13 April 1873.

He married, thirdly, 30 April 1874, at Waupaca, Wisconsin, Sarah James, who died near Plover, Wisconsin, 19 September 1885.

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Issue (by the first wife) :

44.	i.	Almon,⁶ b. 5 Nov. 1829.
	ii.	Elmina, b. 5 Aug. 1832; d. 8 Sept. 1835.
	iii.	Electa Elizabeth, b. 27 July 1837; d. at Plover, Wis., 7 July 1917; she mar. (1) at Plover, Wis., 31 July
			1855, Jacob Harbaugh (who d. 2 Feb. 1866), by whom she had issue (surname Harbaugh): 1. Emory A., b. at Buena Vista, Wis., 9 June 1856; mar. at Van Buren, 0., 16 Apr. 1878, Elizabeth Knox. 2. Ella, b. at Buena Vista, Wis., 19 Mar. 1862; d. at Findlay, 0., 23 Mar. 1891; mar. at Van Buren, 0., 30 Sept. 1880, John Knox, by whom she had issue, four children. 3. Charles I., b. at Buena Vista, Wis., 11 July 1865; mar. at Plover, Wis., 23 Feb. 1889, Flora Bremmer, by whom he had issue. Electa E. Maxfield-Harbaugh mar. (2) at Plover, Wis., 26 Nov. 1868, David Danforth (b. 1 Mar. 1815; d. 5 Mar. 1882), by whom she had further issue (surname Danforth): 4. Eva May, b. at Stockton, Wis., 26 Dec. 1869; d. at Merrill, Wis., 9 Sept. 1897; mar. at Amherst, Wis., 7 Nov. 1886, Jess Welty, by whom she had issue: Arlie Welty and George Welty. 5. William A., b. at Stockton, Wis., 13 May 1872; mar. at Stevens Point, Wis., 25 Nov. 1903, Carrie Newby, by whom he had issue: Eunice Myrna, and a son who d. in infancy. 6. Walter E., b. at Stockton, Wis., 26 Nov. 1876; mar. at Stevens Point, Wis., 25 Jan. 1899, Isabell Campbell. 7. Cora Belle, b. at Stockton, Wis., 9 Dec. 1878; mar. at Stevens Point, Wis., 15 Mar. 1899, Otis McGown, by whom she had issue.* Electa E. Maxfield-Harbaugh-Danforth mar. (3) ----- Patterson, but had no further issue.
	iv.	Leander, b. 25 July 1838; d. 5 July 1909; he mar. in June, 1897, but had no issue.
	v.	Jonathan, b. 18 Nov. 1840; d. 5 Dec. 1840.

30. NATHAN HURD⁵ MAXFIELD (Currier⁴ Joshua³ Joseph² John¹), son of Currier and Polly (Carr) Maxfield, was born 5 August 1811, probably at Bradford, New Hampshire; he died at Newport, New Hampshire, 22 December, 1889.

He married, probably at or near Goshen, New Hampshire, 1 March 1838, Lemira Cutts, daughter of Charles and Abigail (Hurd) Cutts, and sister of Mrs. Onesiphorus Page Maxfield. She died at Newport, New Hampshire, 16 March 1884.

Issue:

	i.	Lestina Maroa,⁶ b. 26 Aug. 1839; d. 14 July 1841.
45.	ii.	Henry Edgar, b. 16 June 1842.
	iii.	Charles Albert, b. 12 Apr. 1847 [1848?]; d. at Newport, N. H., 7 Jan. 1882; mar. at Claremont, N. H., 3
			Jan. 1877, Lizzie M. George, of Newport, N. H. No issue.
	iv.	Ella Melrose, b. at Goshen, N. H., 9 Jan. 1854; living in 1929 at Newport, N. H.; mar. 5 May 1874,
			John W. Johnson, by whom she had issue (surname Johnson): 1. Charles Albert,

*Otis and Cora Belle (Danforth) McGown had issue: 1. Isla B., b. 20 Sept. 1900; mar. 17 June 1919, Raymond C. Kyes, of Cadott, Wis. 2. Vernon, b. at Plover, Wis., 3 Nov. 1908.

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b. 29 May 1875; d. 15 June 1908; mar. 11 Oct. 1905, but had no issue. 2. Cleon Lloyd, b. 11 June 1886; mar. 30 Aug. 1918, and has issue (in 1926), Cleon Lloyd, Jr., b. 27 Nov. 1921; and John Wadleigh, b. 24 Sept. 1924.

31. RUSSELL TUBBS⁵ MAXFIELD (Currier⁴ Joshua³ Joseph² John¹), son of Currier and Polly (Carr) Maxfield, was born. 10 April 1816, probably at Goshen, New Hampshire (his birth is registered at Newbury) ; he died at Goshen 19 March 1882.

He married Mary (E. or C.) Cutts, who died at Goshen, New Hampshire, 16 December 1889.

Issue (all born at Goshen?) :

i.	Melissa,⁶ b. 13 May 1838; d. 4 Dec. 1921; mar. Isaac Hussey,, by whom she had issue.
ii.	Harriet, b. 30 Jan. 1840; d. bef. Feb. 1929; mar. Arthur Ingram, by whom she had issue.
iii.	Emily A., b. 1 June 1842; d. 30 Jan. 1920; mar. Benjamin P. Martin, by whom she had issue.
iv.	Alvah, b. in Aug. 1844; d. bef. Feb. 1929; mar. Maria Hussey. No issue.
v.	Joel Sandress, b. 12 Nov. 1847; d. ca. 1920; mar. Rosill A. Gove, by whom he had issue two children,
		one of whom was Lena C., b. 20 Jan. 1872.
vi.	Belinda, b. 22 Apr. 1850; d. in youth.
vii.	Edwin, b. 25 June 1852; d. ca. 1919; mar. in the West (probably Wisconsin) and had "seven or eight"
		children, of whom five were living in Feb. 1929.
viii.	Eugenia, b. 23 May 1854; mar. Clark Colby, by whom she had no issue.
ix.	Nellie Marilla, b. 15 Oct. 1856; d. ca. 1901; mar. Wilbur Eaton, by whom she had issue.
x.	Elmer, b. 9 Nov. 1859; unm.
xi.	Alice J., b. 1 Mar. 1862; mar. (1) Edward Mullavey, by whom she had issue two sons; after his death she
		mar. (2) Alexander McLeod, by whom she had further issue, a daughter.

32. CURRIER⁵ MAXFIELD (Currier⁴ Joshua³ Joseph² John¹), the son of Currier and Polly (Carr) Maxfield, was born 23 August 1818, probably at Goshen, New Hampshire (his birth is registered at Newbury); he died at Lempster, New Hampshire, 10 January 1890.

He married Lydia T. Maxfield, whose lineage has not been traced.

Issue (probably incomplete, order uncertain)

	i.		Woodbury,⁶ d. in the Civil War.
	ii.		Helen, d. in Calif. about 1928; mar. ------- Shaw.
	iii.		Lenora, mar. (1) ------- Lynch; mar. (2) ------- George.
	iv.		Martha, mar. ------- Thurber.
	v.		Day E., b. ca. 1847; living in 1929; mar. 26 June 1872 at Newport, N. H., Emma M. Dodge.

33. DUDLEY⁶ MAXFIELD (Samuel⁵ Dudley⁴ Samuel³ John² John¹), son of Samuel Maxfield, was born in Kennebec

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County, Maine, and later settled at Argyle, Maine, where he married Sallie Ayers, of Argyle.(Cf. Genealogical and Family History of Maine, vol. 2, p. 605.)

Issue:

	i.	Samuel,⁷ b. ca. 1833; d. the same year.
	ii.	Judith, b. in 1835; resided in Lynn, Mass.; mar. (1) C. C. Spencer, of Greenbush, Me.; mar. (2) Elmer E.
			Brodie.
46.	iii.	Wentworth, b. in 1837.
	iv.	Alfreda, b. in 1840.

34. WILLIAM MCCRILLIS⁶ MAXFIELD (Eliphalet⁵ Nathaniel⁴ Eliphalet³ Nathaniel² John¹), the eldest son of Eliphalet and Jane (McCrillis) Maxfield, was born at Durham, New Hampshire, 25 December 1793; he died 4 January 1867, at China, Maine.

He married, 17 January 1819, Mary Parkman, who was born at Duckstrap, Maine, 9 November 1798; and died at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 17 July 1889.

Issue:

i.	Sarah Jane,⁷ b. at Searsmont, Me., 27 Dec. 1820; d. at China, Me., 12 Nov. 1833.
ii.	Mary Parkman, b. at China, Me., 27 May 1823; d. 17 Feb. 1878; mar. 7 Nov. 1848 the Rev. William
		Chase Stevens, who was b. at Windham 8 Apr. 1819, and d. at Hartford, Me., in Apr. 1896, son of Chase and Joanna (Godfrey) Stevens. He was a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, serving pastorates in Bethel, Lock Mills, Bryant's Pond, Cumberland, Searboro, Peru, Durham, Hartford, Livermore, York Village, and New Portland, Me. He served in the Civil War in Co. E, the 25th Maine Reg. They had issue (surname Stevens): 1. William, d. in infancy. 2. A child, d. in infancy. 3. Ella Frances, b. at New Portland, Me., 27 July 1856; lives at Woodfords, Me.; mar. in Mar. 1902 Lester Pelton Moore. 4. Mary Lugene, b. at Bethel, Me., 7 July 1857; lives in Auburn, Me.; mar. 25 Dec. 1884, Frank Jordan, son of Albert and Jurushia (Plummer) J., b. 3 Aug. 1852, killed in 1912.* 5. Elizabeth (Lizzie) Anna, b. at Dixfield, Me., 1 July 1864; d. at Lynn, Mass., in Dec. 1899; mar. Alexander Galloway, who was b. in Manchester, England, and

Frank and Mary Lugene (Stevens) Jordan had issue:

i.	Ella May, b. at Durham, Me., 1 Nov. 1885; mar. (1) 24 Sept. 1913, John Franklin Hagar, who d. 19 Apr.
		1915. She mar. (2) Willis Leamon Jodrie, son of Thomas, of Milan, N. H., by whom she has issue (surname Jodrie) : 1. George William, b. at Auburn, Me., 21 July 1917. 2. Charles Richard, b. at Auburn, Me., 24 Jan. 1921. S. Willis Leamon, b. at Auburn, Me., 6 Apr. 1923. 4. Kenneth Franklin, b. at New Gloucester, Me., 7 Nov. 1924.
ii.	George Edwin, b. at Durham, Me., 20 Oct. 1888; mar. in Apr. 1917. Isora Hayford, dau. of John and
		Clara (Perry), by whom he had issue: 1. Frank Stanley, b. at Lewiston, Me., 6 Jan. 1921.
iii.	Annie Louise, b. at Durham, Me., 16 May 1902; mar. at Madison, Me., 15 May 1925, Elwin Bridges,
		son of Nelson and Ethel (Lunt), by whom she has issue (surname Bridges) : 1. Ethel Lugene, b. at Auburn. Me., 28 May 1926.