lished himself in Dorchester, and for more than thirty years, was not kept from his business a single day by illness. He spent not a night out of town, except on professional duty. His last sickness, the ship fever, was contracted by faithful attendance on the family of a poor emigrant. On the Sabbath after his decease, his pastor, Rev. Nathaniel Hall, preached an appropriate discourse from the text,"The beloved physician." This discourse has since been published. TIBBETS, Mrs. Sarah, Portsmouth, N. II. 4 Jan. ae. 85; wid. of the late Capt. Richard S. Tibbets. TRASK, Mrs. Hannah, Salem, 9 May, ae. 85; wid. of the late Mr. Benj. Trask. TRASK, Mrs. Martha, Rockport, Mass., 27 Feb. ae. 27 yrs. 6 mos.; wife of Mr. John Trask. On the 26th, Kate, dau. of the above, ae. 6 mos. TREFRY, Mrs. Mary, Marblehead, 18 May, ae. 95 years 8 mos.; the oldest person in the town. TURNER, Mrs. Rebecca, Charlestown, 31 Dec. ae. 90. VIALL, Mr. Nathaniel, Seekonk, ae. 90. VINTON, Mrs. Anne Adams, Braintree, Dec. 18, ae. 95; relict of the late Josiah V. and a descendant of Mr. John Alden of the " Mayflower." WEAVER, Mr. Jacob, Adam, Jefferson Co.. N. Y., 9 March, ae. 94. WEEKES, Mr. Daniel, Ship Harbor, Nova Scotia, 29 Dec. in the 117th year of his age. Mr Weekes was born on Long Island, on the 3d of December, 1735, and served in the British army in which the gallant Wolfe fell, Sepetmber 12th, 1758, at which time he was 24 years old. He adhered to the Royal cause at the time of the Revolution, and received a grant of land at Ship Harbor, on which he has since been settled. He brought up a family of 21 children, whose offspring, to the third and fourth generation, are settled around him, and scattered in many parts of the world, numbering some hundreds. In 1838 he enjoyed his second sight, aud up to a couple of years ago, went daily bareheaded into the woods to cut wood and timber, an occupation he preferred above all others. Even when he became bed-ridden with age and weakness, he retained full possession of his faculties, hearing and seeing, and enduring but slight pain the two days before his death. WELLS, Mr. Perez, Whately, 29 Jan. ae. 94. WENTWORTH, Hon. Ezekiel, Ossipee, N. H. 4 April, ae. about 69. WENTWORTH, Mr. Ashael, Somersworth, N. H. 9 May, ae. 80. He was the last survivor of a family of ten children, whose united ages were seven hundred years. WETMORE, Rev. Oliver, Utica, N. Y. 1 Jan. ae. 77 ; a native of Middletown, Ct, WEYMOUTH, James, Esq., Belmont, Me. ac. 93. He was in the army and navy of the Revolution. WHITE, Rev. John, Dedham, 1 Feb., ae. 64. He was born in Concord, Mass., Dec. 1787,, graduate of H. C. 1805; ord., pastor of the Congregational Society, West Dedham, in 1814; where for nearly 38 years he filled that sacred office with remarkable wisdom, fidelity and singleness of purpose. He was in the pulpit only two or three weeks previous to his decease. WHITING, Mr. Barzilla, E. Abington, 29 Jan., ae. 95. WILCUTT, Zebulon, Chesterfield, Feb. 15, ae. 92 years 7 months; a revolutionary pensioner. WILD, Mr. Randall, W. Fairlee, Vt., 18 Jan., ae. 92; one of the first settlers of the town, having lived in it seventy years. WILKINSON, Mr. William, Providence, R. I., 16 May, in his 92d year, graduate of Brown University, 1783; the oldest living graduate. WILLETT, Mrs. Susanna, Bridgeton, Me., 16 Dec. ae. 77; widow of the late J. Willett, Esq., and daughter of the late Mr. Samuel Appleton, of Ipswich. WILLIAMS, Mr. Noah, Raynham, 18 March, ae. 95. WILLIAMS, Mr. John, Burrillville, R. I., 16 May, ae. 92; a soldier of the revolution. WILSON, Mrs. Martha Brainerd, Marietta, Ohio, 10 Jan., in the 70th year of her age. She was mother of Noah L. Wilson, of M., and dau. of the late Dr. Joseph Spencer of Vienna, Wood Co. Va., who at an early day, after the settlement of the N. W. Territory, emigrated, with a young family, from the State of New York. He was the son of Maj. Gen. Joseph Spencer, a Colonel in the Northern army during the French War-brigadier General in the Continental army, and in 1776, appointed a Major General of the American army of the Revolution, which he resigned in 1778, and was elected a member of the Continental Congress; a man whose character won an expression of high esteem from Washington; and whose deep toned piety, with that of many of his compatriots, contributed much to throw around that fearful struggle the sacred sanction of religion. A near relative of Gen. Spencer, whose name was borne by the subject of this notice, was the mother of David Brainerd, a sainted name in the record of Christian missions. In 1794, Doct. Spencer, who had held the office of surgeon and aid to his father in the army, emigrated to the west, and in company with the late Col. Abner Lord, purchased a tract of land in Marietta, fronting five miles upon the Ohio river. The descendants of these two families, widely scattered and connected through the west, have contributed not a little to impress upon it their own characteristics of enterprise and moral worth. Doct. Spencer left a family of eleven children-six sons and five daughters. Of these sons, three died in comparatively early life, and three still survive,Messrs. William and Brainerd Spencer of Vienna, and Mr. Geo. Spencer of La. Of the daughters, only two, Mrs. Gen. Cass of Detroit, and Mrs. Gen. Hunt of Maumee are still living. To the two deceased, Mrs. Wallace, wife of Rev. Matthew Wallace of Indiana, and the late Mrs. Judge Nye, it is now our melancholy duty to add the name of Mrs. Wilson. She was born at Lebanon, Conn., Jan. 18, 1782, and married in 1798, to Stephen R., son of Col. Benjamin Wilson, an officer of the Revolutionary army and a member of the Virginia Convention to ratify the Constitution of the U. S.-[Marietta Intellig'r. WooD, Mrs. Sybil, Chesterville, Me., ae 92; wid. of Capt. Silas W. of Norridgewock. WOODWARD, Mrs. Martha, Wilbraham, 10 Dec.; wid. of the late Rev. Aaron W., and dau. of the late Rev. Dr. Trumbull, of North Haven, Ct. WYMAN, Stephen, Esq., Ashby, Mass. 30 April, ae. 80. Members of the N. E. Historic-Genealogical Society, elected since April 1st, 1852. Jonathan P. Bishop, Esq., Medfield, Res't. Mr. Newhall Sherman, Waltham. Canada, Corresponding. Donations of books, papers, &c., have been received for the Society's Library, since April 1st, from the following sources, viz : John B. Burke, Esq.; J. B. Bright; Pynson Blake; Wm. G. Brooks; C. J. F. Binney; Boston City Government; Francis Brinley, Esq.; Joseph S. Clark; Rev. Preston Cummings; S. G. Drake; Hon. Mark Doolittle; Charles Deane; John Dean; Hon. Edward Everett; Hon. T. Farrar; Stephen T. Farwell, Esq.; Samuel A. Green; Historical Society, Pennsylvania; David Hamblen; John P. Jewett & Co.; Francis Jackson, Esq.; Frederic Kidder; James S. Loring: Rev. Abner Morse; Wm. H. Montague; F. W. Northrop; Rev. Elias Nason; Thos. Ordway, Esq.; Amos Otis, Esq.; Joseph Palmer, M. D.; Hon. C. E. Potter; F. W. Prescott; Moses Plimpton; J. Ritchie; F. T. Somerby; N. B. Shurtleff, M. D.; Henry Stevens, Esq.; N. Sargent, Esq.; M. A. Stickney; Artemas Simonds, Esq.; Rev. Barnas Sears; Mrs. Abigail Shepard; Rev. J. L. Sibley; Hon. Wm. H. Seward, Hon. Charles Sumner; J. W. Thornton, Esq.; J. H. Trumbull, Esq.; J. W. Wright; Rev. Samuel Wolcott; Thos. Waterman ; H. Wheatland, Esq.; T. B. Wyman, Jr.; Joseph Ware; N. Wyman, Jr. EXTRACTS FROM MASS. COURT RECORDS.-Book I. p. 70. May 3d, 1631. "It is ordered that Thomas Grubb shall be freed from the service of m Sam Maveracke, & shall become servt to William Gayllord of dor chester." p. 105. Oct. 3, 1632. "It is agreed that no man shall giue his Swine any corne, but such as being vewed by 2 or 3 neighbors, shall be judged vnfitt for mans meate." ERRATA.—Signature 36, present number, should commence with page 281 instead of 277, and end with p. 288 instead of 284. BY A MEMBER OF THE N. E. HISTORIC-GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY. THE name of Farrar is said to have been derived from the Latin and French word signifying Iron, and was, doubtless, first used to designate a locality, where that metal was found. As a family name, it was first known in England from Gualkeline or Walkeline de Ferrariis, a Norman of distinction, attached to William, Duke of Normandy, before the invasion of 1066. From him all of the name in England and America have descended. Henry de Ferrars, his son, is on the Roll of Battle Abbey, (a list of the principal commanders and companions in arms of William the Conqueror,) and was the first of the family who settled in England, which he did immediately after the Conquest. When the general survey of the realm, recorded in Domesday Book was made by order of King William I. in the 14th year of his reign, this Henry de Ferrars was one of the Commissioners appointed for that great service." That he was a person of much eminency, both for knowledge and integrity, there is no doubt; otherwise it is not likely he would have been entrusted in so high and weighty an employment." He bore for his arms, Argent, six horse shoes pierced, sable.-See 1, Sir Wm. Dugdale's Baronage-6, Collins' Peerage. The family afterwards became very numerous in England, and different branches of it were settled in many different counties. See Peckard's Life of Ferrar. Great diversities are observed in spelling the name, both in this country and in England, by different branches of the family, and often by different individuals of the same branch, and not unfrequently at different times, by the same individual. The vowels are either or both of them sometimes changed to e, and the last to o. The final r is sometimes changed to h or w, followed by s, or even omitted. But in all these and other varieties of spelling, the HorseShoe, as the predominating emblem in the coat of arms, evinces the identity of the race. In this country, at the present time, the name a Agreeable to the spirit of the times, the motto adopted in our branch of the family was, "In Ferrum pro libertate ruebant." |